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WOODALL (John) i556?-i643. 
 
 4273. The Surgeons Mate or Military & 
 Domestique Surgery. Discouering . . . y e 
 method and order of y e Surgeons chest, 
 y« vses of the Instruments . . . w th y e exact 
 Cures of wounds . . . with A Treatise of y e 
 cure of y e Plague . . . sm. fol. Lond., pr. by 
 R. Young for N. Bourne, 1639. 
 
 Title-page engraved with 9 portraits of worthies, 
 from Aesculapius down to the author ; frontisp. 
 of K. Charles I ; and plates. Contains also his 
 ‘ Viaticum . . . containing chirurgical ^ instructions 
 for the yonger sort \ p. 277, and ‘ Treatise of 
 gangrena, and sphacelos \ p. 377. These and the 
 treatise on plague, p. 319, have sep. title-pages. 
 Bk.-plate of Fred. Symonds. Pres, by H. P. 
 Symonds. 
 
 The Surgeon's Mate was published in 1617 and 
 the Viaticum in 1628. . This is the first edition of 
 
 his collected works, of which four editions ap- 
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 THE KINGS MOST EXCEL- 
 
 T E NT MAJESTIE, 
 
 CHARLES, 
 
 the grace of God,King of England, Scot- 
 
 land,France,and Ireland^Dcfender 
 
 of the Faith j &c. 
 
 Ourpoore Subject in all humi¬ 
 lity hath hereby prefumed to 
 profrate h as at the feet of your 
 [acred MajcHy ffor protecti¬ 
 on^) thefc his unworthy worlds 
 in Surgerie , which containe in 
 them the method and [cope of 
 the militarie Surgeons Chef 
 with all the neceffary appurtenances that are ufe full 
 in Swgeriefor the wanes • which hee tender eth , as a 
 poore exprefsion of his duty and ^ eale , for the ufe of 
 your aSwfdjefltes fcrvice upon all military occafions 
 for Surgerie either by land or fea • exprefsing 
 therein the eafiesl and fafeH waies andrneanes of 
 healing the wounds and other great infirmities and 
 difeafes that wane ufually produce th, for thebe > 
 nefit , comfort 3 and betterfafety of your t5Mlajcflies 
 
 A z Valiant 
 
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 The Epiftle Dedicatorie. 
 
 valiant Captmes, Souldiers, and bardie Sea^men • 
 H he which his pocre labours 3 if the ?jf uthor 
 may bee fo bappie as from your moil pious and 
 unlimited benignitie to find a gracious acceptance , 
 he Jhallwitha joy full heart efteemehis endeavours 
 to be highly dignified[ 
 
 Your Md)e flies mojl humble 
 
 fubjett and fervant , 
 
 John Woodall, 
 
 Surgeon ofyour Highnefle Hofpitall of 
 St. Bartholomews,and Surgeon gcne- 
 rall of the Ealt-India Companie. 
 
tAn Epiftle Congratulatory\ 
 
 To tlie Right V Vorihipfuil Sir C H IIS TO- 
 
 - P H E R C litherowK 1 and ancient -Alder* 
 Governourof the Company of Merchants of London 
 
 tradingtothc Eaft.Indirs, Henry Camay AW. ani Deputy 
 Governour, M r Robert Bateman Trealurer, 
 with all the reft of the prelent 
 Committees 
 
 Namely , 
 
 To tbe Tight Honourable, S r c CMC orris Mbbot 
 
 Knight, Lord STlaior. 
 
 Sir IamesC^bell, Knight, 
 
 Senior Alderman. 
 
 Anthony Abdy. 
 John High lord. 
 John CordaU. 
 John Gayer . 
 
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 Aldermen. 
 
 K4 1 
 
 ~ Fficholas Cr$ e ' 
 Rowland W ilfon. 
 
 < William Gar way Senior. 
 I Thomas Styles. 
 
 [John Holloway 
 
 C Thomas Munn. 
 
 John Langham. 
 
 ■ William Cokayne. 
 William Afhwell. 
 
 M r < William Spur/low. 
 Matthew Cradock. 
 George Franklin* 
 
 Abraham Raynardfori. 
 Tjchard Bateman: 
 
 Thomas Kerridge. 
 
 Right Honourable,Right Worfiiipfull, 
 
 and Worthy 
 
 Cfelfebavifrg for twenty fixeyeares pafl been, and 
 To for theprefent, being your fervantand Surgeon ge¬ 
 neral! for your publique oceafons , concerning Surgery 
 by Sea and Land , held it my duty in putting in Print 
 
 tbefe 
 
thefe my enfueing worket, to exprefie my congratulatory thankful* 
 
 nejfe unto you (my Honourable AMaflers and Patr ons) in rcjpcft of 
 your Lo<-vtng fay ours heretofore exprejfed and fill continued un¬ 
 to me, acknowledging further, that your good acceptation of my 
 willing endeavours, together with your fufficient and extraordi¬ 
 nary allowances from time to time of Medicines for the health of 
 your [eruvats inthofe remote parts of the world, whereyou trade, 
 did heretofore incite me in accompli/bme'nt of the truft by you impo~ 
 fed in me, to reduce your Surgeons fjbejis, and allyourproyifions 
 for Surgery, in a plain e Method (as in my enfuing Preface is fur¬ 
 ther demonstrated) A worke ’necejjarily tending to the fafety of your 
 few ants and F adders in thofe far re remote parts of the world, the 
 which (although of necejfary confequence)was neyer before attemp¬ 
 ted by any, neither could it well then haue beetle effected',bad I not ta¬ 
 ken it in hand in thefulnefje of your Trade, and in the hightb of your 
 occafion, when you annually employed many Surgeons together , 
 but being once fimfhed, it is now ready for allyour Mareene employ¬ 
 ments: fince which time, upon my further experience in bit Majefiies 
 Jeruice, where, and when my felfe had the whole ordering, making , 
 and appointing of His High nejfe Military prouifons for Surgery,both 
 for his Land, and Sea feryice , l hay enow, as well for the benefit of 
 your forrain affaires, as other imployments, colie tied and publifbei 
 certainefollowing Treatifesjn this Volume mentioned, which is and 
 will be many wayes Wery ufefullfor jour feruice. And jo hoping 
 that thefe my prefuming lines, fubjeft to err our and mifeonflruttion 
 (yourfavours confidertd,)will no way be offenfiuely taken. lcra<vt 
 pardon,and will e<ver reft to your Honour sand Worfhips,allinpsr- 
 © ticular, and to that famous fociety in generally 
 
 Yours, and their Faithfiill Ser¬ 
 vant ever to bee commanded, 
 
 I o h n WoodaV 
 
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TO THE WORSHIP FULL THE' 
 
 Masters and Governors ofthe myftery 
 . : of Barber Cbirurgions of London for 
 
 the time being,W;^, 
 
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 To William Clowes Efquire, Sergeant,Surgeon 
 to his Majeftie, and (at prefent) Matter: 
 
 M.William Lin^banij Matter George Dun, and 
 Matter Henry Watfon, Wardens. 
 
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 To Richard Watfon and Michael jfnirewes ,both Fiquircs, 
 Surgeons in ordinarie to his Majeftie, and ancient 
 Matters j together with the reft ofthc Afsiftants, 
 Examiners of Surgeons, the Liveric and 
 whole fraternity ofSurgeons 
 of London, 
 
 Iohn Woodall, an ancient Matter of that my- 
 ftery,the Authour of the enfuing Treadles, 
 
 fendeth greeting in our Lord God 
 everlafting. 
 
 Eloved Brethren, publicke and pri^ 
 vate falutations are Chriftian duties 
 
 impofed upon all men by the holy 
 Apoftle SjPaul, the time or fre< 
 quency thereof unlimited: VVherefore my felfe, 
 even now upon the putting forth of thefe my en¬ 
 fuing workes, by that precept am taught,and doe 
 
 A 3 hereby 
 
 
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<tAn Spittle of Salutations . 
 
 hereby fend you a falutation, greeting you in the 
 name of the Almighty,giving you thanks for the 
 loving fociety I have found and refpeftively en- 
 joy ed amongft you, for forty yeeres paft and 
 more, till this prefent. 
 
 As alfofor your good likings and weliappro- 
 vingsofmy former workesand editionsyetex- 
 tant with you • namely, my Surgeons Mate and 
 Viaticum ,which now revifed, I have here(with my 
 other works) again publifhed • which were by me 
 penned in my love to you, for the ufe of the 
 younger fort of Surgeons, your fervants • who 
 when they had received their firft rudiments 
 from you as Apprentices • yet neverthelcfle (as 
 mightbeconceived) were wanting of fome fur¬ 
 ther helpes for their proficiencies in Art, to the 
 leading them on in knowledge ; as namely, firft, 
 to know the office and duties ofa SurgeonsMaie, 
 which my felfe firft penned and publifhed , for 
 their inftruftions * and having therein propofed 
 unto them the methode of a Surgeons Cheft, and 
 alfo opened to their view the compofure and or¬ 
 der of the firft methodicall Surgeons Cheft, for 
 their further incouragement in way of Art, I 
 then gave them a help to the faidSurgeonsCheft. 
 namely,1 publiihed for them a Viaticum ( a book 
 focalied)in *Anno idz8Jortheir journying, after 
 which fas folio we tb) I have explained unto them 
 fuch other documents as may be prefumed that 
 by their diligent endevours and carefull putting 
 them m practice, they may in fhort time become 
 
 good 
 
±An Spijlle of Salutations. 
 
 good proficients in military and domeftick Sur¬ 
 gery • men fit and able for the fervice of his 
 Majeftie, and the Common-wealth,in their fci- 
 cnce, upon all occafions. 
 
 And moreover, forafmuch as that contagious 
 and noyfome difeafe of the Plague hath of late 
 yeers fpread it felfe into many parts of this King- 
 dome, which, though now ceafed, may returne at 
 Gods pleafure, none knoweth how foon • my felf, 
 as fome of you know,having in my younger daies 
 lived in P rance, Germany,Polonia,and other for- 
 reigne parts, for divers yeeres together,where for 
 want of better and more beneficiall imploiments, 
 I was forced for my maintenance to follow the 
 practice of the cure of the Plague rand having 
 emboldened my felf thereby, ever as in an allured 
 hope, that God who had called me to profefie 
 the myfterie of healing, would furely protect me 
 therein • I perfifted in my endevours,and having 
 kept my papers of receipts and experiments toge¬ 
 ther, which I made in the cure of that dreadfull 
 difeafe, at my returne for England I begun and 
 pradtifed in London the cure thereof • firft, in the 
 yeereof the great Plague at the firft entrance of 
 Kingfames ofblefted memorie, and left not the 
 Citie when the difeafe was at the higheft- neither 
 then did 1 omit to vifit dccure any that defiredmv 
 helpe, and ever fince in fome fort I have beene 
 helpfull to the curing thereof: neither will I de- 
 fift from affording my medicines to the difeafed, 
 whileft God fpares me life and ability. And fur¬ 
 ther. 
 
* An SpiJUe of Salutations* _ 
 
 ther, lhave here for future publick good, al¬ 
 though by my own deare experience,fearcbed in¬ 
 to the fupernaturall and dreadr r ullcaufes,fymp^ 
 tomes, crifis, and cures thereof; the particulars 
 of all which I have in one of the following I rea- 
 tifes published, to the help of my younger bre¬ 
 thren ; nothing doubting but that fome of them 
 will by their better educations and farther expe¬ 
 riences therein, furnifh the followingages with 
 better documents then my flerdernelfe can un¬ 
 fold : Fn the meane time, fince that for divers 
 yeersladpad, no other Surgeonof our Nation 
 hath publidied any book of the true practice of 
 Surgery, to benefit the younger fort, thefe my 
 meane Treati/es only excepted,! defire you to ac¬ 
 cept of my good will in dead of good deeds, at 
 the lead: not to re je<d it, till better comes in place 
 by fuccefsion of time. 
 
 And fo not omittingthe continuance of my 
 good affection to all my brethren, the fons and 
 fucceflors of AEfculapius profelTed Surgeons, I 
 commend you to the tuition of the moil Higheft, 
 reding dill yours in brotherly affedion, 
 
 John VVoodall. 
 
 TH8 
 
Benevolent Readei*, 
 
 THB T^SFJCS, 
 
 THriftian duty inciteth Cvery man to extol Gods gfeat 
 1 mercies toward mankind, and namely, (which is 
 the fcope of this enfuing T reatife ) for his bleffing 
 concerning the gift of healing,and for the original! 
 or firft finders out of the Science. In the arguing 
 
 __whereof,many ancient and moderne Writers have 
 
 takengreatpSncs in fearching out and deferibing (for memories lake) 
 unto pofteritie, who were the firft difeoverersofthat noble Science 
 or Myfterie of the healing mans body; but not without feverall and 
 different opinions, and ftrong contradictionsYet, giving venerable 
 and due refpeCt unto all, I will crave leave for my felfe to thinke and 
 beleevc that the originail foundation of Medicine proceeded from 
 God alone; being more than fufficiently explained fo to be by Mofes 
 that divine Hiftoriographer, inhisfacred Hiftoryofthe firft creation 
 of heaven and earth: Forhe witnelfeth that before man was created, 
 all herbs and plants fprang out of the bowels of the earth, with their 
 infinite varieties of flowers and feeds, with different odours, fapours, 
 colours and formes,endued (no doubt) with many and great vertues, 
 
 Solum ex fr*fctcntia.Dei f onely of the fore-knowledge of God. 
 
 Wherefore, to attribute fo great excellencies, fo many waies in ufe 
 for the health and wel-being of mankinde,to any other than to the di¬ 
 vine bounty of God alone, would feeme (in my apprehenfion) not 
 much lefle than blafphemy; for it could never bee, that humane rea- 
 fon could have found oit the knowledge and vertues of thefe things, 
 unlelfe God himfelfc by his fecret prefcience had Ihewed them to 
 man. 
 
 For God, the ArchiteCtor of the world, when in the beginning he 
 created Adam> and infpired him with the fpirit of life,made him not on¬ 
 ly a living creature, but alfo endued him with fuch underftanding,that 
 he knew the natures, theforces, the proper faculties, vertues,and dan • 
 gerous effects of all things which the faid univerlall world then con¬ 
 tained or produced: fo that the glory of the invention of the myfterie 
 of healing of mans body, came from God himfelfe,and may not be fo 
 much undervalued as to be aferibed tohumane ingenuitie. Yet never- 
 theleffe (under favour) wee may fofarre venture to conceive,that the . . . 
 
 fame gift of God, namely, the gift of healing, might by his holy Spi- 
 rit be, and was tranfeendent fucceflively on thofe whom he had pre- lefle then one 
 ordained, andchofen into the medicinall function, to the end that 
 
 they 
 
The Preface 
 
 
 they might bee the better enabled to fearch out and apply wholfome 
 medicines in due feafon, according as they were inipired or taught; 
 for all excellent knowledge commeth from above : And this opini¬ 
 on is alfo aflented unto by holy Scriptures in fundry places. 
 
 But withall, complying with our Anceftors as much as may bee, 
 touching the firft generall profeflors of this art of Medicine ; The 
 mod Writers affirme the Grecians were the firft that tooke upon 
 them to profeflethe art of Medicine, and they likewife utter fpeechcs 
 to the fame effed, affirming eApolio to bee the firft Inventor of Me¬ 
 dicine; and by i^Apollojt is fuggefted,that they either underftood 
 the Sunne, which through the penetrating heat thereof, produceth, 
 comforteth,tempereth and cherifheth all creatures,as wel animal and 
 vegetable, as minerall : Or they meant, under that name of Apol¬ 
 lo , fome Noble man, who was inftigated thereunto through an ex¬ 
 cellent and divine power (no doubt by Gods fore-knowledge) and 
 alfo endued with learning and diligence in that noble art of Medicine, 
 who performed fome excellent cures : alluding whereunto , Ovid 
 fpeaketh thus of tsipollo ; 
 
 Inventum medicina metm ejl, opiferqueper or hem 
 Dicor, & her bar urn fubjetfa potentia nobis. 
 
 Medicines Inventor and Artift I 
 Through the maffie orbe am ftil'd to be: 
 Fame this attributes to my Deity, 
 
 That force of Plants are liibjed unto mee. 
 
 And after <_Apollo , the fucceeding Inventor is faid to bee v£(cuLt- 
 pus , which fome Writers ftile to be his fonne, brought up in learning 
 by him,who did fomewhat more fee forth and poliffi this Art, being 
 as then rude and ruftick, and therefore,hee was reputed as one of the 
 Gods. Not long after thofe times (as Writers report) didflourifh 
 termed the Centaur e, who alfo excelled in the knowledge of 
 the medicinall plants. D 
 
 This lAfcuUpiui (as other ancient Hiftories witnefle) had two 
 tonnes, vt\. Pcdalyrtus and CMacbaon, who followed their fathers 
 fteps, and profdfed the art of Medicine, and cured the wounded foul- 
 diersin the Trojan Warres ; anq thefe chiefely pradifed that part of 
 nealing which is now called Surgery. After them the knowledge 
 of the art of Medicine greatly mcreafed, though for a time ic was ina 
 ereditary way left by them to their pofterity ; and through their ftu- 
 dieanddffigencewasthat part called Phyfick which cufethinward 
 dileafes, alfo by a more prudent and diligent fearch found out. 
 
 And further. Authors witnefle, that out of this moft learned 
 
 his '^^k)did fjmngby Herachda'mthe lie of 
 Prince of all the Phyficians that ever were before him,who per- 
 feded the art or myftery of Medicine or Healing, and digefted it into 
 itiethod in the Giecke tongrie. And after him fix hundred yeares 
 followed Galen, a man not onlyexquifite in the knowledge of Me¬ 
 dicines, 
 
The Preface. 
 
 dicines, but alfo in many other fciences. And what was left in the wri¬ 
 tings of Hippocrates obfeure and intricate, Galen faithfully interpreted 
 and illuftrated it, and put it into many Volumes,and eftablifhed univer- 
 fal precepts,and methodicall roles,and reduced the Science into a more 
 perfe&Art. j v _ • 
 
 And further,wee read in Hiftories,in the infancie ofthis Arc, that k 
 was a cuftome amongft the Babylonians and Ajfyrians, who then wetc 
 very ignorant in the art of healing, to appoint the ficke languifhing 
 people to be carried and laid in Porches & Galleries, or to carry them 
 intothe Market places and croffe Streets, that palfengers might coun¬ 
 fell and exhort them to thofc things, by which they might efehue the 
 like difeafes,or had known fome to be recovered : and it was not law- 
 full for any one to pafte by the ficke with filence, but hec muft utter 
 ibme words of comfort at the teaft. 
 
 Strabo alfo( a Greek W riter ) witnefleth, that it was of old a cuftome 
 amongft the Grecians for the ficke to betake thcmfelves unto the Epi. 
 dfiurian Temple of fculapiu* , that fleeping there,they might be ad- 
 monifhed by the gods in a dreame what was good for their healths: 
 and being freed from their difeafes, they caufed thofe remedies, by 
 which they were recovered, to bee written in tables and faftned to the 
 pofts of the Temple. Such was the zeale and fuperftitious blindnefte of 
 the heathen people in former ages, and the ceremonies which they 
 performed in a gratefull remembrance for future times- 
 
 Alfo Hippocrates is reported to have copied out all thofe things, and 
 fo from them firft to have amended the medicinal art. And it is likewifc 
 by the Ancients reported, that brute creatures have bin much conduce- 
 able unto the firft finding out of fome particulars in this Art: fo that 
 man not onely from man, but alfo from brute beafts and birds, hath 
 learned many good tilings, which by them have been demonftrated, 
 as namely ,the vertues of divers herbs, by which they did preferve 
 themfelves from difeafes, through the meere inftineft of nature, (as the 
 blindnefte of the young Swallowesis faid to bee removed by the herb 
 Cclcdona, &c.) 
 
 'Seeing therefore fo great and fo many good helps have concurred 
 together to the perfection of this excellent art of Medicine, for the 
 health and wel-being of mankinde, who then needs to doubt thereof, 
 or may fay that it did not proceed , as from the beginning, de prafci- 
 entia Dei ? feeing that man, the mod noble of all the creatures of God, 
 and for whofe fake all other earthly creatures were created,receive* 
 fuch unfpeakable comforts thereby ; which caufed Herophtlm hereto¬ 
 fore to terme the medicinall Science to bee the hand of God: for( faith 
 he) as we having got a fail, doe with our ftretched out hand endevour 
 to free our felves out of that dirt or pit wee were fallen into ; even lb 
 we, being at the point of death by the aftaults of ficknefte, doe fuccour 
 our felves by the falutiferous remedies of good Medicines, and doe 
 thereby, as it were,draw our felves out ofthe jawes of death; fo as Ho- 
 mer, the Prince of the Greek Poets, doth affirme in his verfes, that one 
 good man that can heale well, is more worth than divers other men ig¬ 
 norant 
 
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The Preface. 
 
 norantin that art : for what pcrfon is, or can bee more neceftary,or 
 more ufefull in any common-wealth or place, then the expert Artut, 
 skilfull in the divine fcience of healing < which fcience bringeth a man 
 in favour with men of all degrees, yea, to bee acceptable to Princes, 
 Kings and Emperors, being both profitable and commodious every 
 where to Prince and people for the preferving of health, and repelling 
 ofdifeafcs from them and their fubjedts, which alfogainethtohim- 
 felfe honour and riches : for, as Hiftories record, unto Hippocrates by 
 King Abderas (for healing of Democritus hismadneflej was given an 
 extraordinary great reward j and moreover the heathen nation, men, 
 women and children,gathered themfelves together, and in a trium¬ 
 phant manner proclaimed him ( with a loud voice) to bee the faving 
 god, and honoured him with the name of Pater Patria , the father of 
 their Countrey. And the {^Athenians,becauk hee had freed Athens 
 from thepeftilence, celebrated playes with triumphant pompe to his 
 honour, placing on his head a crowne of gold weighing a thoufand 
 crovvnes, and honoured him with the great magnificence ofa King; 
 and likewife built him a ftatue for a perpetuall eternizing of his wife- 
 dome and learning. 
 
 It is alfo reported by ancient W riters,that one Erafifiratus,Arijlotles 
 nephew, received by a voluntary contribution from King Ptolomie , 
 an hundred talents of gold, as a reward, for that hee reftored his fonne 
 to health from a defperate difeafe i and likewife, that \^dugujlus the 
 Emperor appointed rich ftatues to be fet up to the honour of ^Antoni¬ 
 ns Mufa : and that one guintus s ter twins received yearely for about 
 5 o. years together, out of the Emperors treafury at twelve thou- 
 
 land crovvnes for his great skill in the myfterie. of healing : and that 
 if any ficke perfon of fort did call him out of the Citie for his advice, 
 he did pay him 5 o. crovvnes a day for his skill. Moreover, it is faid, 
 that for curing Pope Honorius the third, he every ponth received foure 
 hundred crovvnes out of the Treafurie of Rome. 
 
 Ancient Hiftories make mention, that in former times the moft no¬ 
 ble and honourable perfonages (yea, Kings and Princes) were greatly 
 delighted in the ftudy thereof, efteeming themfelves much graced and 
 dignified thereby; and thereupon, being greedy of getting renowne, 
 have given plants denominations from their owne names, as Gentian 
 from Gentius King of the ffyrians j Lyftmachia , an Englifh water- 
 willow, from Lyfimacbus King of the c Macedonians ; the compofition 
 of Mithridate from Mitbridates King of Pontus and Bythinia $ the herb 
 Achillea from Achilles j Centauri from Chyron the Centaure ; Arthema- 
 fia from Cana Queene of^ArtbemaJta. And further. Writers doe 
 aflBrme, <_Attains Kingo ^Pergamus, Solomon Kingofthe Jewes,Evax 
 King of the Arabians , and Juba King of the Moores , with infinite 
 more (too long to recite) did as it were burne with a defire of learning 
 the medicinall art, fomeinthe hcrballpart, others in the fearching 
 the vertues ofdrugs, others of mineralls, and did alfo write and com 
 pofe whole volumes in that Myfterie, for the benefit of pofterity vet 
 extant, wherein are contained infinite falutiferous Antidotes, by the 
 
 x mixture 
 
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 mixture of many litnplcs into one medicine. 
 
 And whereas there hath beene a queftion amongft fome of the An¬ 
 cients by what name they may moft properly call the Artift • the 
 more learned fort are juftly ftiled by the title of Phyficians, and the 
 more experienced fort are called Chirurgions, or Surgeons 5 by means 
 whereof, fometimes there hath growne difference and offence; which 
 I doe ad vi eeach difcreet Surgeon to avoid, and that they give the 
 1 hyfician his due honour and precedence, comparifons being odious 
 and unmannerly amongft good men. Alfo the Artift of old" before 
 the art was diftinguifhed, was called amongft the Grecians Jatros and 
 amongft the Latmes^Medtcus, and in our countries ancient language by 
 report, hee was termed a Leech , and all thofe denominations f&nifie 
 no other tmng but one and the fame, vif. A Curer of difeafes, (ickneffes 
 wounds, apejlumes, ulcers, &c. J J •>) JJ > 
 
 And whereas all men may judge fuch infirmities cannot bee cured 
 without fit inftruments, which arefirft and chiefely by the hand of 
 n j n ’. (who doth make ready fit medicaments and applications^ to bee 
 admmiflred to the forefaid difeafes in due order and time •. Thefirft 
 inftrumc ntall part of Medicine was,and is, that which both the ancient 
 and later writers terme Chirurgia, or the Handy part of healing. 
 
 The fecond is Bieta : a fpeciall inftrument to cure, without which 
 neither wounds, apoftumes, ulcerations, nor tumors againft nature fas 
 Hippocrates and Galen doe affirmej can well bee cure*! ; for that diet 
 muf. bee prefcribed according to the temperature of the body, and na¬ 
 ture of the wounded part: and Galen alfo preferibeth a diet for thofe 
 that have ulcerations, whether cancrous or orherwife proceeding. 
 Wherefore I conceive him to bee no juft and charitable judge, that de* 
 nyeth this inftrument, namely dyct, to belong to a Chirurgion as well 
 as to a Phyfician: for, that reafon and experience both doe allow and 
 
 approve thereof, as an unlimirable inftrument, fne mibusefe nectuit 
 And whereas Galen faith, in lib. 3. Be mtthodo rnedendi , all arts are 
 
 grounded upon experience and reafon : ifanyonecandeclare.eitherbv 
 experience or reafon, a way how to cure ulcers, tumors, wounds, fiftu- 
 laes and other like difeafes incident to mans body, as the French Pox 
 the Plague, &c. the cures of which difeafes by ftatute lawes are ap¬ 
 pointed to Surgeons, and to doe it without the ufc of dyet, and other 
 both inward and outward helps, which thefe learned men (as Hit. 
 pocrates and Galen) ufed , and have with no fmall labour found 
 out by reafon and experience ; then I will eafily yeeld, and bee glad 
 to lcarne, and will not only learne, but highly extoll it: but if on the 
 contrary,no man can fhc w mee any other way to healc the former reci¬ 
 ted difeafes ; then I fee no juft hinderance, but that each true Artift be- 
 Hig legally a Mirgeon expert, may and ought freely to make ufe of diet 
 to performe his cures. 
 
 The third generall inftrument ufed in the curing of difeafes, is Thar- 
 in Medtcamentum, or Medicine, granted tobeeoffeve- 
 ra orts. Each man will conceive that medicine is a principall part of 
 healing and curing of fores, difeafes and fickncfles: for who is hee that 
 
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 can cure a wound, a tumor, an ulcer, yea, but an ague with his hand on¬ 
 ly,without fitting medicines < Surely no man: Then it muft nectllanly 
 follow,that Cbyrurgia^ Dieta t & Pharmacur»,viz> . Surgery,Diet andMe- 
 dicinesU meane both outward & inward)are unleparable companions, 
 and therefore all to be ufed inthe art of curing mans body; and that in 
 the perfon of one man,and why not then inthe Surgeonrhat pra&ifcth 
 in military occafions,as in (hipsand camps more efpeciallyc’ where nei¬ 
 ther his Majefty nor the Merchant alloweth Phyficians nor Apotheca¬ 
 ries any place, and there the whole fcope of healing the bodies ot the 
 braveft and mod valiant warriours and hardie fea-men,are upon all oc- 
 cafions wholly referred to the skill of the Surgeon. Wherefore it were 
 a very ungodly thing, and in reafon moft un|uft,to forbid a Surgeon to 
 learne all° or any thing that concerneth his calling : and all thofc that 
 are ofopinion to hinder a Surgeon from ufing outward and inward me¬ 
 dicines,have quite mifeonftrued Hippocrates and Ga/en,(hewing them- 
 felves enemies to art, reafon and true experience,for that it is manifeft, 
 each oE thefe aforefaid three branches or healing, doe mightily further 
 the other, to make the Surgeons cures perfect j for by thefe three to¬ 
 gether,and not by anyone of them Amply of it felfe and alone, we may 
 boldly conclude to have healed well and honeftly, and as wee fhould 
 doe. 
 
 I have, I confefle, too long infifted upon this argument, but the 
 caufe is, there bee fome at this day that doe indcavour to fever the in- 
 ftruments of healing afundcr, againft the publike good, for their owne 
 private lucre , and would have inward medicine pra&ifed onely by 
 themfelves, and confine the Surgeon onely to outward medicine, and 
 outward healing, as one Tragus an ancient Writer maketh mention, af- 
 firming,that there were certamc forts of men in his dayes which did ufc 
 the art of curing feverally; namely, fotne by inward medicines onely, 
 and fome by outward, and fome by dycc only, every one according to 
 hiseducation and profeffion of curing: all thefe three contending, 
 and each one affirming his way the belt ; inconclufion, their errours 
 were confuted by Hippocrates , who gave to each of them (as learned 
 Writers affirmc ) a patient to cure, whom all ofthem endeavouring to 
 recover , failed in their performance : not withftan ding, afterward 
 by the wifdome and skill of Hippocrates , they all were reconciled and ' 
 united ; for hee, having well weighed and confidered each of their 
 weakneffes and errors , willed them apart to fet downe how long 
 time hee, or they would take, to cure his or their appointed difeafed 
 patients j whereupon he and the reft agreed on a fet time: which being 
 expired, Hippocrates found that although each Artifthad ftiewed his 
 utmoft skill, yet their patients were not accordingly cured. Hereupon 
 hee w ith much mildnefle and kind perfwafions (as is recorded) fo ap- 
 peafed and inftru<fted them, that each of them by the very fame means 
 and medicines they formerly tooke, being all ufed together to each 
 partie. quickly and pcrfe&ly cured their feverall patients. Whereby 
 alfo it is manifeft, that it is not juft nor fafe for the common-wealth, 
 neither can it bee approved, that the beft of the ancient Fathers in Phy- 
 
licke and Surgery did, or indeed could divide or feparate thefc three 
 parts of healing. 
 
 But it may bee that fome will obje<ft"that Vderioltis , Tagaultitu , 
 and fome others fay, that a Surgeon ought not to give inward me¬ 
 dicines, without the counfell of a Phyfician. To cleare this, I anfwer 
 
 firft, it is expedient and juft, where learned counfell may bee had, to* 
 
 make ufeof it, for that by much counfell there is fafety: neverthelefte 
 know, that it is uncharitable to forbid an expert Surgeon at any time, 
 or in any place,the ufe of the inftruments and medicines which are ne- 
 ceflary to his art, for the curing of his patients: for certainely 7V- 
 gadtm and Vderiolus meant it of them that pra&ifed the art of Sur¬ 
 gery inthofe times, being impoftors and illiterate, and fuch as did not 
 underftand the principles of their art, nor the differences ofdifeafes j 
 and thofe were juftly to bee inhibited, as in every well governed com¬ 
 monwealth it is fit it fiiould bee. But as concerning worthy Artifts, 
 vi\. Surgeons approved by the lawes of the Realme, they ought to be 
 free to exercife their art 5 And as the lame Author concludes with M r . 
 Gdes comparifon (who was a late good Writer in Surgery) which up¬ 
 on the like difference heethen made of a Shipwright and a Carpenter 
 who were both of neceffity to ufe one and the fame inftruments to per- 
 forme their feverall workes withall: even fo muft every honeft Artift 
 legally bred in the art of medicine, bee tolerated to pra&ife, by what 
 title foever you pleafe to call him. Then, if fo, hee muft by confe- 
 quence have the free ufe of all fuch inftruments and means as may beft 
 and with moft cafe perfeft what hee intends, to wit, the cure of mans 
 body: for although the Carpenter may fay unto the Shipwright,Thou 
 artnotto ufe the Axe, the Adds,theSaw,theHammer,nor the Plane, 
 &c. for that all thefetoolesappertaine and are proper to mee for my 
 Art, and I cannot build without them ; even fo might the other 
 make a like faire anfwer, and fay, They arc alfoas proper for my Art, 
 and without them I cannot build. In like manner might the Joyner 
 and other Tradefmen fay. And no leffe may it bee faid of the art of me¬ 
 dicine : for whether he be called Phyfician,Surgeon or Leech,or what 
 other name men pleafe to impofe upon him, if they admit, yea and ap¬ 
 point him to cure wounds, tumors againft nature, ulcers, erifipelat rr, 
 herpes, the French pox, the peftilence, or whatfoever other difeafeis 
 incidentto mans body, it is but fitting that hee be free to have the pro¬ 
 per ufeof all medicines and inftruments,moft apt and meet to bring the 
 fame his intended fcope to paffe, yea, and that without offence of the 
 Law, norwithftandingany by-law made by any, for private lucre, to 
 hinder the profecution of the well-healing of the difeafed people. For 
 who is fo fit, or to whom doth the whole ufe of all good medicines 
 fo juftly appertaine unto, as to the Surgeon that is expert,who by his 
 Majefty is preft, and thereby commanded, as well as by chriftian duty 
 tyed, upon all occafions to heale wounded and other difeafed perfons ? 
 
 Gden in his third and fourth bookes Be met ho do medendt , doth 
 name the Artift Medicus that doth cure ulcers and wounds, &c. and 
 many ancient Writers call him ^Medlpus cbirurgns: whereby it ap- 
 
 B 2 peareth 
 
The Preface. 
 
 peareth, that the Surgeon is Medicus a medendo , and retaines the name 
 Chirurgus by performing the art of healing in a pradtick way, namely, 
 by the hand j and therefore is rightly termed c JMedicus Chirurgus , 
 and thereby is capable to ufe all medicines for healing. And if fo, of 
 neceflity he muft not bee forbidden lawfull pra&ice, other wife how 
 fhall he well performe his fcope of healing, when hee is either in Ship, 
 in Campe, or but any where in the Countrey, where Phyficians ci¬ 
 ther are not at hand, or will not come i as when and where contagi¬ 
 ous difeafes happen, namely, the fmall and great pox, or the peftilence, 
 &c. Now here in all confidence the Surgeon is to bee admitted to 
 fhewhis utmoft skill for healing mens infirmities,without danger of 
 any Law, if hee be a man lawfully called, as aforefaid, to the exercife 
 thereof: otherwile it were very unreafonable that the Surgeon alone 
 fhould bee preffed out to the healing of his Majefties fubje&s, where 
 no Phyficiannor Apothecary is admitted to advife, aflift or dired him, 
 and yet to pra&ifc fhould bee held unlawfull for him, when hee 
 perfor'meth his beftinany a ft ion or part of healing for his patients 
 good. But God be thanked, there are both ancient and modernegood 
 lawes, orders and ordinances, which doe manifeftly enable a Surgeon 
 to exercife his fcience, and to breed up fervants to bee expert therein 
 for the better continuance of the art, and for the future encreafeof 
 good and able Surgeons,for the fervice of his Majeftie, and the com¬ 
 mon-wealth. And to manifeft the fame, his Highneffe not onely al- 
 loweth the ufe of inward and phyficall drugs and medicines to the Sur¬ 
 geons for his owne fervice, but is further gratioufly pleafed (out of 
 his owne Coffers)topay for them,as elfcwhcrein thisTreatifemore af 
 large will appeare. 
 
 Thus much in generall by way of Preface. Now the Authour 
 in this following Treatife defires to excufe himfelfe, by way of Apo- 
 logic, to the Chirurgicall Reader, for his over-forwardnefTe in the 
 unfolding to the vulgar what hee hath hereafter done by his explain 
 ing of a Surgeons Cheft; which hee never intended,untill [nolens vo. 
 lens) he was put upon it, who, havingin hisyounger daies fpent di¬ 
 vers yearesin travel 1 inforraigne nations,for the gaining of knowledge 
 and experience in his calling, feded himfelfe in London] where, accor¬ 
 ding to the weake talent of his education, hee endeavoured to obtain? 
 .me anlwerablc perfetfion therein, that fo by doinggood hemight 
 give the better account of the duty of his calling, by curing of fuefas 
 committed themfelves to his weake skill 5 in which endeavours be¬ 
 fore hee was (in his owne opinion) worthie thereof, it pleafed the ho¬ 
 nourable Socieue of Merchants trading totheEaftIndies, in thebe 
 girrnmg of the Trade to make choice of him, and toappotehin 
 
 ££Z*F*&* th ” ""Plants, as well by fra as land*! 
 repofingin him alfothe credit and truftfor ordering add appointing 
 
 fit and able Surgeons and Surgeons Mates for their fhipsand fervf 
 ces, as alfo the fitting and furnifhing their Surgcrie Chefts with me- 
 dicines, inftruments, and other appurtenances thereunto. Which 
 ere j and vvcightic charge, fo nccrely concerning the lives oftheir 
 
 fervants, 
 
The Preface. 
 
 fervants, repofed in him, inftigated him to imploy all his endeavours 
 to anfwer their fo great truft impofed on him : For the effe&ing 
 whereof, heehad no way better to recompence them , then by re¬ 
 ducing their Surgeons Chefts, with all the particulars thereof, into 
 an order and method : which was never undertaken before by any, 
 although very requifite : but being once done, it would not onely be¬ 
 nefit them, but alio bee a perpetuall good for the fervice of his Ma- 
 jeftie and the common-wealth: for by want hereof, the faid Eaft In¬ 
 dia Companies and many of their fervants, as alfo many other pub¬ 
 like adions abroad of great confequence, have fuffered much ; and 
 namely , by unworthy impoftors under the names of Surgeons ,(to 
 the difhonour of God , and fcandall of the true profelfors of the 
 art of Surgcrie , by many miferies undergone both by the hardie 
 fea-man and valiant fouldier ;) For remedie whereof, and in want 
 of fome more learned and expert then himfelfe, hee undertooke the 
 worke; the faid honourable Companie being ever moft willing, with¬ 
 out limitation or grudging, to beare the rcafonable charge thereof, 
 and to give approbation of the Authours weake endeavours, (which 
 otherwife could never have beene done ) who (through Gods mercy 
 and their favourable acceptance thereof ) hath performed the faid 
 charge, and continued their fervant (to their contents,) for full twen¬ 
 ty foureyeares already : Yet notwithftanding, his dutie (by reafon of 
 the truft repofed in him by his faid honourable Matters) was not 
 therein fulfilled j for hee was (if hee would fabricate a new invented 
 Surgeons Chcft} alfo tyed in confidence to inftruft all and every Sur¬ 
 geon (that was to m ike ufe thereof in their fervices) in the know¬ 
 ledge and ufe of allfuch medicines and new inventions as were of his 
 prrxluiftion and induction. And although it well might bee conceived 
 divers of them in knowledge otherwife exceeded him, yetneverthe- 
 leflfc, in the true ule of new medicine, how good foever, which hee 
 had intruded upon them, not being within their owne former breed¬ 
 ing and practice , hee was obliged alfo to ioftrudl them in the 
 ufes and dangers incident by miftakes, ( fit to bee forefeene) and 
 that by writing. As alfo hee was further tyed ( for his owne reputa¬ 
 tion fake) to performe the fame in fome methodicall and plainc 
 wsy* 
 
 And becaufe untill that time no W ritcr (that hee could poffibly finde 
 out) had ever handled or written any thing worthy of note of that 
 fubjeift , namely, of the methodicall compofure of a militarie Sur¬ 
 geons Cheft ; hee was put upon the toyle and ftudie of new inventi¬ 
 ons, for the fit compofure of medicines and inftruments, and that 
 without the helpeof Authours, yea, and without the helpc of the 
 Surgeons themfetves , that were to ufe the faid Chefts, who (efpe- 
 cially the more ignorant fort of them) for their owne private ends, and 
 in part to cover their imperfeftions and abfurdities, forcibly with- 
 ftood him. Yet notwithftanding all fuch difcouragements, after he 
 perceived in himfelfe any hope or abilitie of effecting the worke, hee 
 
 B 3 proceeded 
 
The Preface. 
 
 proceeded on with courage, being confident of the goodnefle and ufe- 
 fuhefle thereof, for the preferving of mens lives and limmes; and 
 would alfo in time to come prove profitable both for the lervice of 
 his Majeftie and the whole common-wealth, as at this day is ma- 
 nifcft. 
 
 For this Worke hath already turned the whole compofure of the 
 Surgeons Cheft into its owne forme and method, both plaine and ea- 
 fie, being free from all exceptions of abfurd fraud orcollufion, and 
 alfa free from the former obfeure, imperfect and ridiculous errours, and 
 impertinent intrufions, whereby every unworthy ignorant impoftor 
 (as under a vizzard of hidden skill) made ufe of the art of Surgery, and 
 thereby put up whatfoever they pleafed into their Chefts, under pre- 
 terce of extraordinary skill, great fecrets, unvaluable, unfearchablc, 
 and not to bee prized treafures, (which long time they had concea' 
 led) but being fearched into, appeared for the moft part faulty, frau¬ 
 dulent, and full of poo re blinde ignorance: whereby (as i-s (aid,) di¬ 
 ves unskilfull perfons intruded themfelves, not oncly to bee enter¬ 
 tained into the Merchants belt (hips, but alfo into his Majcfties fer- 
 vice, yea and that into His beftlhips, as great Surgeons, without either 
 judgement, found medicines, or once viewing of any their provisi¬ 
 ons, and without examining any their abilities in their callings ; ma¬ 
 king their abbettors beleeve that thofe which fought to view their 
 Surgeons Chefts, came but to learnefomc of their (no) skill, or for 
 force of their (lefle) money at the faireft. 
 
 Finally, though the worke might feeme never fo commodious , 
 yet not onely to fuch as before are rehearfed, but even to fea-Sur- 
 geensin generall, it feemed harfli and unreafonable; and namely, 
 (wicreinin part they were to beeexcufed ) for that their exceptions 
 had a good Shew of reafon, in that they held it not fit that one Sur- 
 gecn Ihould make ready a Cheft for another Surgeon, and the ab- 
 fent Surgeon not verfed in the practice of the things made and ap¬ 
 pointed for his ufe : And this was held not onely unjuft, but ridicu¬ 
 lous; and that joftly, had not inftruCtions, namely, the Surgeons 
 Ma:e beene written. And it hath fince beenc obferved (the inftru- 
 tfiens being put forth) that the fame abfent Surgeons, after better 
 informing themfelves ( by the Authors directions fet forth in Print) 
 of tie integrity and innocent way thereof, with the fairenefle of the 
 Worke alfo, and the utilitic of the faid Treatife, have commended 
 it, md approved thereof: fo that by a few ycares practice of the 
 yornger fort of Surgeons, it is now brought into common ufe and 
 generall good liking ; fo that it hath gotten credit, and is with 
 all Surgeons common in ufe, yea even in his Majefties fervice be 
 ingfirft made ufe of in the Rochcll Expedition , the Authour then 
 hav ng the charge ofprefling, furnifhing, and ordering of his Highnefle 
 
 rti Wlth S “ s “" s and Sur S < ‘ onsM ««, 
 
 This prefent Worke,being now the third Edition, as it were, of the 
 
 method 
 
 
The Preface. 
 
 method of the Surgeons Cheft, the Authour entreates ( as the 
 former hath had) may receive a charitable conftru&ion upon the 
 egrefiTe thereof j and albeit the benevolent Reader (no doubt ) 
 may fee and apprehend divers errours and meane paflages there¬ 
 in ( difcovering thereby the Authors many weaknefles) yet that 
 hee of his clemency would either amend them, or in love cover 
 them, confidering that Farihus eft invents* adder e, quam nova, tnve- 
 nire. 
 
 And further, if any Reader of his owne calling , condemne or 
 conremne him , for fo farre explaining the hidden myfteries of 
 the art to the vulgar, faying , By your rules every young youth 
 may proceede, not onely to furnilh , but alfo to make fomc 
 ufc of a Surgeons Cheft , though hee never truely ferved for 
 it j The which the Authour will confeflc to bee an errour and 
 weakenefle in him, and therefore craveth pardon j but withall 
 ( for his defence) alledgeth, That hee had an earned ddire by fuch 
 an errour to doe a publike good, not onely for the benefit of e- 
 very worthy young Surgeon , but chiefely , and indeede for :he 
 common- weale, and fatety of the lives and limmes of many ofhis 
 Majefties loving lubjedis .* £uta non nobis folum nati[umus : 
 
 Nafrit Hr indigne per quern non nafritur alter. 
 
 Now, unlefle the Surgeons Cheft had beene reduced into a 
 method , how could one Surgeon at fea well have fucceeded an¬ 
 other, in the ufe of a practice unknowne unto him < For by death 
 all mens thoughts perifn, and fo doth every mans private inventions 
 and pradhfes j and by confequence, his death might have produ¬ 
 ced much dammage upon ( otherwife ) a hopefull defigne, the 
 want whereof many a worthy and valiant fea-man, by lamentable 
 experience, hath felt, before the Surgeons Cheft was thus dige- 
 fted ; becaufe then every unworthy Surgeon (how weake, as is 
 faid, or deficient loever ) had power, if hee pleafed, to pra< 5 bfe, 
 to the difhonour of God , the fcandall of that moft laudable 
 myfterie of healing , and the great danger of mens lives , pro¬ 
 cured by their ignorance and errour: for things knowne may bee 
 judged of, but unknowne things ftand by hazzard and chance: 
 
 Cognita judirio conftant, incognita caju. 
 
 Likewife the explaining thereof hath not onely much enrich- 
 . ed the Profeflion of the Apothecaries , by undertaking the ma¬ 
 king, felling at their Shops, and tranfporting beyond the feas of 
 many Surgeons Chefts, for perfons ( unknowne to them ) inha¬ 
 biting in forreigne parts j but alfo enabled them at their plea- 
 fures to have for fale, and for his Majefties fervices, complete, 
 (or in part) Surgeons Chefts ever readie : unto all which faithfull 
 
 Apoihe- 
 
 
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ThePR E FACE, 
 
 Apothecaries the Authour wifheth profperitie and happinefle. 
 
 And laftly * it hath divers wayes brought advantage and 
 good to the whole Society of Surgeons ; in fo much that his 
 Majeftie, by the Lords of his Highneffc mod honourable Pri- 
 vie Councell, hath taken notice thereof , and , obferving the 
 utilitie that it produccth to the common-wealth for the laving 
 of the lives and limmes of his HighneiTe fubje&s in time of 
 Warre , hath beene gracioufly pleafed to allow a free benevo¬ 
 lence , out of his Coffers, towards the fame, for all fhippes im- 
 ployed in his fervice : which allowance was never granted 
 before by any of his Highneffc noble Progenitors , the Kings or 
 Queencs of England : the particulars and order of which allow¬ 
 ances , more at large appeare in the Preface of the Authours 
 Viaticum herewith imprinted, unto which, for brevities hee re¬ 
 ferred! the Reader; hoping thefe his indeavours will bee well 
 accepted of the judicious and better difpofed fort of Readers. As 
 for the reft, hee regardeth not j and the rather, for that hee is 
 hafting to the grave, where envie hath no power : And on 
 the other fide, hee is not ignorant, that a large broode of preg¬ 
 nant wits, fraughted with Jeers, (and good ones , as they termc 
 them, fuch as thefe times affoord ) will fnarle, though themfelves 
 either cannot, or (beeitfpoken inthebeft fenfe) will notfpare time 
 from their pleafures or profits to advantage otliers j yet are they 
 fo fharpe of wit, and can fo well d fpute, and fo wifely reafon, 
 that they will eafily make 
 
 Candida de nigris, & de candentibus atra. 
 
 Their words filming as oracles to their owne applauders, in whole 
 opinion they onely have the keyes of art at their girdles. But to any 
 fuch, I fay as one of the learned lately did to the like 5 
 
 Cum tua non edits, carpts mea carmim Lcli: 
 
 Carpere vel noli nojlra, vel ede tua , 
 
 Sloth fits and cenfures what the induftrious teach: 
 
 Foxes difpraife the grapes they cannot reach. 
 
 Some have already accufed the Authour to have loft time in 
 writing of the cures of divers difeafes, farre better written of by 
 others. Which although hee cannot deny, but that the accufation 
 is juft , yet anfwertth , That if each Surgeons Mate had experi¬ 
 ence , with a Library and judgement to ufc it, his labours were 
 then in vame and idle : and to fuch as have thefe helpes, or that 
 perfe&ion, the Authour intends not thefe his labours; and to that 
 party in particular, hee anfwereth, That if one wife man in former 
 ages hath commended and well approved of another in writing 
 
 both 
 
_ The Preface. 
 
 both of one ariti the fame fubjeft, hee conceiveth it is as eafie for 
 
 °r C *°i| in C ^ 1S a 8 e to winke at anothers faults and weaknefles, 
 elpecially, iuchtooles as have neither wit nor will to write better. 
 As tor wile men they will judge like themfelves : but who can 
 facisne a foole 1 And lb hee concludes, with thefc following verfes, 
 taken out of a German Writer, as a loving anfvver to all fuchas ftaU 
 hereafter finde fault with his book : 
 
 memg ghbt^efett, btiD niitj Cetti t»tcD, 
 
 Bemfclwg’n Cep eg pzepatttt; 
 wtt abet ontDiii bat oatbon, 
 
 Bet b'balt fetn gelt,bnD la(j eg flan. 
 
 In Engliihthus. 
 
 Who likcs,approves,and ufefull deemes 
 This work, for him ’tis wrought: 
 
 But he that light thereof eftcemes 
 May leave the booke unbought* 
 
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 To his very worthy and entirely refpe&ed friend and Brc 
 thereafter John Woodall , in due eommendation 
 and atteftation of his work and worth. 
 
 A Lthough that Proverbe hathfor currentfa ft, . » 
 
 Let not the Coblcr goe hey end hi *Laft ; 
 
 And'that it may to Jo rue fee me ft mew hat ftrange 
 T hat I fhotild thus out of my ftation range , 
 
 ^And of a Surgeon act a Voas fart 
 ^And feme to fir ay from my moreproper aft ; 
 
 Tetferioufly conftdering in my minde . 
 
 That th ihistaske which 1 m y'felfe afsign'd, 
 
 Thefukett whereunto my thoughts J bent x ,, 
 
 Was vehciy verf d in mine owne element , 
 
 Chyrurgery’s mofl ancient noble Art 5 
 I could not chufe bat fteiv my, ready heart , v . . 
 
 To found (dear friend ) thy high deferred prat ft 
 In thefefew Pan -like, pldlnepoeuckelayes ; 
 
 ndtherein to the worldto domoftrate, / 
 
 What too long filence once did inhumate , , 
 cAnd bane tn Oblivions grdvef 
 
 Thy farts (I mean) in cArjff andvdlaur bravef. 
 
 Who forty eight yeers ftnee , or there abfut 
 In thofe renowned battels bravely fought , 
 
 Francis, Fourth King Henry; Surgeon went 
 r,nder Lord Willowbics flout regiment• 
 
 Forty y ecres fince lived in Poloni a 
 A Traveller, his practice to difflay ; 
 i-After that liv y a atStoadin Germany, 
 
 In the EngHfh Merchants fioeet fociety ; 
 i-And by them highly honoured for his Art 
 ^And well experienced(lout heroick heart, ' 
 
 Employed alfo (whiles he abroad abode ) 
 
 Byfome Ambaffadours fentorc to Stoad, 
 
 By Queen Elifabeth, them to afift . 
 
 As their interpreter, acute linguift : 
 
 V th'Germane language. And returndagain 
 cAfter that bleft Queenes death. Andin the raigne 
 Of late King James was i,oPolohiafent, 
 
 There to negotiate bufinefte of moment 
 Touching the common wealthy, Jndfor the (pace 
 Offoure and twentyyeers enjoy'd the place 
 <?/Surgeon Generall to the Eaft Indies , 
 
 And B off t Ml of Bartholmc w likewife: 
 
 Was alfo CM after of his Company : 
 c And laftly to his dateleffe dignity 
 Bath tearnedly corhpofcd andfetforth * 
 
 This his Chyrurgeons CM ate, a worke ofworth 
 And high eft teme, of which I well may (ay, 
 
 Be hath fo skilfully jhowne the right way 
 
 r ,,' • . -to 
 
 
T» all young Tyro's of this noble Ait * 
 
 And ft cxaftly doth to them impart 
 Theproper ufeofour Chyrurgcons Chtfl „ 
 
 How all there Patients mufi be dnlj dr eft 
 With inflruments of curious variation 
 Tlafiersand plat-formesfor ft applications 
 of potions,medicines fir each maladie. 
 
 Tor each health hindring (knowne) infirmity 
 As ulcers, wound,fractures, the fifiula, 
 
 Apofiumes,flaxes, pafsio-Iliaca, 
 
 Exitus Ani, and the Calenture, 
 
 Tcnafmus,andthe Scorbuc’s carefuU curt 
 Thecollicke and allvarious difiocations ; 
 
 Theca fiefl fafeft waiesofamputations. 
 
 Or joynt difmembring,yeathe Tefiilcnci - 
 *-All theft with fuch approv'd experience 
 That he deftrvespractitioners high prasfe. 
 
 And to be Crown'd with never.withering hopes. 
 
 And(ince the heavens have fo much honoured him 
 With all theft fore recited trophies trim . 
 
 Of dignity, at home,in firraigne parts , 
 
 / could not chufe, but found thy high defer to 
 Tairefriend, and brother, and thine honour brave. 
 
 One this my plaint Pyramidis engrave : 
 
 And (thus) to leave unto pefierttie 
 
 This monument of theflrme amtit . Yours G.DtuV 
 
 EodemAmco, 
 
 Tjr Set bat a long-lived, flreight-limb’d, work* intendr tt frame, 
 JTlC^^livc-longjfr/f, Mufihave <• judgement found,*#* kmc. 
 Our laft iug fo Bid Perman’s Autumnifruit, Weefo* 
 
 That Summon early Birth Syfooue ripefoono rtttenhe, 
 
 Thor* where Experience, with a fettled judgment jtreats } 
 
 With thefe u happy Third, Perfection, ever meets, 
 
 A rare Concurrence 'tis,yet withallJhsCC,yen't hlefi 
 As they k?owwell,wko dot know moft, and know Ton's hefi. 
 
 O thus, who viewy onr leaves, and tafi their pleafnr fruit 
 MnH fay, the Tree it good, that Good it ahfolnto. 
 
 A Tree ^/Knowledge, TVood-all of Life, and jet more 
 Whofe very Letres doe Cures, fofarre at Sea or (here, 
 
 Tave madeyour Cheft, an Arke sfPrefervation, 
 
 Both to your owne, and to each forraint Tfation, 
 
 l 0t l w New,both tb‘indeis Tafi andWefi, 
 Both World Sy both feefe and findHcshh, ,flowing from ronrChck, 
 Without that cb eRof Tours, WhatJhip fo fir onfto hoi/ 
 ix f} lc flWarrts,Sa c f Sugar,Silke,?earle, Silver , Gold t 
 osfU thefe and more to you Great Britain’s I land ew’th. 
 
 f ! 0W fi r,atst J he f ir debtftb* were this Kingdoms Cloath f 
 ffuth us , both we and they , and this whole Globe did want 
 
 recant. 
 
 vlltl Al h{ *}kfi"i#mJhod need out Mate, 
 
 Welter ave r t*"’/* Fa,nc WBroken^tA 
 
 rj et ? J r? Anili tkeri but one line remaines. 
 
 He thaedares Check your Mar e,wa»tt either Brower Btaincs. 
 
 G.Dw 
 
- 
 
 THE 
 
 OFFICE AND DUTY OF THE 
 
 SURGEONS MATE. 
 
 Av'tng an intent to fet dotrne InftruElions for 
 Surgeons Mates, out of my loVeto them , I 
 thought it meet in a T rord or Wo to put them in 
 minde al/o of their duties . The of fit e and duty 
 of a Surgeons Mate,may (in my opinion) Well 
 bee divided into three parts, thereof the firfl 
 concerned his duty to God , who feeth not as man feeth, and 
 Vrho is the fearcher of the heart, and knoweth mens thoughts long 
 before, whom if bee and I have the grace to honour With our 
 whole hearts andfeare,he trill direB our trates aright. 
 
 The fecond duty of the Surgeons Mate, is concerning the 
 chiefe Surgeon, towards "whom hee muft bee care full to behave 
 himfelfewifely ,lovingly and diligently : and in many refpe Els he 
 is obliged to his Mate as the wife to her husband ; for hee ought 
 to bee to him in every point readie to obey his reafonable will, 
 I meane onely in things concerning his calling, dutif ull, diligent, 
 willing, care full, fecret, and loving, yea, and to fhew his hire in 
 covering his Mates Weaknejfe: hee oughtalfo to bee gentle,and 
 kinde in fpeech and aBions towards all: pit (full to them that are 
 di/eafed, and diligent in minifiring to them fuch fitting reme¬ 
 dies as he [hall receive, or bee direBed to give from his Mate . 
 but none trithout his order, for that his Mates order,1 meane the- 
 Surgeons order, is his dijcharge or tr arrant, whatever happen r 
 yet let him privately lend his heft advice to his Mate, the prime 
 Surgeon,upon every need full occafion , kindely, fubmifsively and 
 lovingly, ever as under correction; for if comparifons or oppofitu 
 on take place betwixt them, it is not onely dangerous to all the 
 ShipsCompany, but alfo a difgrace to themfelVes , anda great 
 Jcandall to tbeir catting : for arvoyding which, it is fit that the 
 
 younger 
 
c fhe Ojfice and dutte 
 
 younger obey the elder and beware of the contrary, left it be ere-- 
 pented too late . S. Paul adviftth ferVants to obey freward 
 Mafters, fo I advtfc Surgeons Mates to doe the like to froward 
 Surgeons : for it Jheweth no excellent thing in a young man to 
 pleafe an boneft quiet man, but to live in loVe with an ambitious 
 or otherwi/e a ftoward /vicious man, fheweth wifedome in the 
 fuff ever, I Would not fo ftand upon this point, but that my ex¬ 
 perience hath knowne too much the great harm that hath enfu- 
 edbythe diffention of the Surgeon and his Mate in long/voya¬ 
 ges, the which With diferetion and love might have beene pre¬ 
 vented, if but one of them both had beene wije, The Surgeons 
 Mate ought alfo daily toVifit the Cabins of men, to fee w ho hath 
 any fickneffe or imperfeBion : alfo to have ready again ft occa - 
 Jion Lint made, Tlaifters fpread , Splints armed, TS.ee dies prepa¬ 
 red for ftitching Wounds, fowlers and Boulfters, T) or ft Is y 
 Tents, Buttons, Qappes, Tledgents, 7 ape, rcwlingTSfeedles, 
 and Threed prepared, and each other needfull thing for his cal- 
 ling,readie in their convenient places, fitted againft occafionbe. 
 Ukewije his care muft bee to keepe all the inftruments of the 
 Che ft, and of his owne Boxe,cleane from rufling, and to Jet his 
 Lancets and Rafors as oft as need is. It may bee hee will Jay 
 to himfelfe, it is a bafe office, belonging to metre Barbers and 
 Grinders, I never gave any minde.to it, (yc. But let mee friend¬ 
 ly tell the Surgeons Mate, it is the credit of a young Artift to 
 take a <veine fmoothly and neatly,as alfo to jhave Well is praife- 
 Worthy: wherefore Iwifh him to praBife to doe it,andtobe ever 
 learning . for lam fure hee fhall never know hal/e hee ought to 
 know,though he doe his heft. 
 
 Thirdly, if hee enter into confideration wherefore heegoeth to 
 Sea and ha^ardeth his life, Ifuppofeitis togaine,or hee is un- 
 wife : if to game, the chiefe game hee can intend, being a Mate 
 is knowledge in his calling,Then let him confider wifely how hee 
 may heft apply himfelfe to effeB fuchgaines, namely, byobfer- 
 <vtngtbc thole pafiages of the difeafed people, confidering both 
 then they began to beefitke,asneere as hccan,the caujes there¬ 
 of,that bath been applycd either inwardly or outwardly, wbat 
 operation the medicine bad, and fo of every di/eafed perfon, and 
 every medicine given. and to keepe a 'jour nail in tritino of the 
 daily pafiages of the wage in tbatkinde, and that aTtell of 
 the mjuccefnve applications, as of the/uccefiive, hee /hall finde 
 
 gnat 
 
of the Surgeons Mate, 
 
 great benefit in both : Like wife TV hat alterations of operations 
 befindeth in each medicine,and Tvhat medicines keeps their force 
 longefe,and TV bat per if? fooneft } MlfoTvhat Variety the climate 
 canJetb ? of the Dofes as Tvell of the laxative as opiate Medicines ; 
 I heartily Tvifh each Surgeons Mate Tv ere care full in thefe points. 
 Another good Tvay for him to leartie is, to read much , lmean in 
 Chirurgery and Bhyficke, and Tv ell to confider and heart in minde 
 TV hat he reades, that as he hath needeoftbe helps of his boohs,hei. 
 may againe finde the thing he once read,which tvil turn much to his 
 profit'. J or other wife Tv hat ufe hath a man of reading, if he forget it 
 prefefitly? If a SurgeonsMate/pendhis timeTvifely in thepremifes, 
 he may doe good JerVice to God, his Country, and himfelfe , and the 
 benefit wilt be bis, namely,Gods favour, perferment,credit and re¬ 
 putation in the TVorld Tvill bee gained thereby, Tvhich Tbill bring a- 
 bundance of good things Tvitb it,TvhichGod grant for his mercy fake* 
 */$nd TVere it not that l have intended this plaint Treatife TV holly to 
 the Surgeons Mate, I 'ivould in a Tvord or two put the young Sea - 
 Surgeon him/elfe in minde of his charge, by admonifbing him of 
 Jome err ours too groJJe, Tvhich I have obJerVed to have beene com¬ 
 mitted by Jome, that bee might avoide the like in himfelfe . 
 
 The firji errourfeme youngSurgeons are pojfefhvith,from which 
 infinite others grow,is the TV ant of the JerVice of God, the example 
 Tv hereof to their Mates is Very infectious: and this bringeth Tvith it 
 a blafpheming the name of the Almighty f a generall deboift and 
 bafekinde of habite on them, ready for all unprofitable, idle, and 
 mfeemly actions, and unapt for to profeente any good thing, either 
 ui their callings,or other wife: And if they feerne to be any thing, it 
 is in boafling and brave phrafes, cenfurmg other men in many 
 things,but not perceiving theirownTVretcbedneJs at all.’Being given 
 and dedicated to the 'Pot and Tobacco-pipe in fuch an unreafonable 
 meajure, that thereby they become in themfelves bafe, deJpiJingVer- 
 tue and commending vice; and to tkeirMates they Jhew themjelves 
 mofi unkind,keepingthat little knowledge they have from them , 
 not inferuCiing them at all in their Science, and holding them in 
 more bafe Jubje Elion then their Mafeers ever did in their Ap- 
 prentifhips. Alfo of a proud lafie difepofifton, commanding them 
 (Without due inftruElions) to doe the Tv hole bitfemeffe, when indeed 
 themfelves ought to put their hands, even to thofee parts of Surgery 
 which they efteeme bafefe; for the moft lamentable difeajes of poore 
 men require the moft care of the Surgeon, as for example, thedee- 
 
 (J ration? 
 
C I be Office and dutie , 
 
 rations and [tidings downe of Ani or the Arf gut, which jo?nein 
 di/daining to doe their offee of fomenting, comfoi ttng^anrefo- 
 ring thereof to the due place rnoft inhumanely have cu ’ l f °tfi [ n 
 mith as good a con/cience they might have cuttntr , auetit ns 
 throat : and the fame 1 Jay to him that is negligent , nn J utter et) 
 fuch to periJJ) in their infirmities , without doing Ins utmoj i t - 
 genet, 1 could name fome of the parties "toho have inuodif 
 graced them[elves and the noble Science : hut I will he charitable, 
 hoping they will amend ; and conclude with an old G rammer Verje , 
 worthy the remembrance of all men : 
 
 % 
 
 Fcelix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautunw 
 
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 Thin tfJV. 
 
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 TO 
 
 THE CHIR11RGICALL 
 
 Reader, 
 
 Loving brethren, 
 
 F you pleafe to take notice thereof, within this Vo¬ 
 lume, you may eafily difeover the Surgeons Cheft 
 three times to bee repeated; or rather three fevcrall 
 proportions or explaynings of a Surgeons Cheft,or of 
 Surgery provilions for Military ufes.-The firft whereof 
 puts the Reader onely in minde,by way of inference, 
 of particularMedicines,Inftruments,and other materi- 
 alls & needfull additament$,ufefulfor a Surgeons Cheft,for Sea or Land, 
 to be provided with; as alfo fuch neceflaries as by the fhip Barbers are 
 fit to be had in readinefte. In the fecond view of the Surgery Cheft,is 
 deferibed ( and as it were fet open to be viewed ) a Cheft fitted for a 
 great Ship upon a long Voyage for Sea fervice; as fuppofe foranEaft 
 India Voyage. And wherein this fecond is not fufficiently explained, 
 the firft (if you pleafe to repaire unto it ) (hall give you further fatisfi idti- 
 on. As for the third proportion, it is a Surgeons Cheft epitomized, or 
 a fparing proportion,as fuppofe chiefly ordained for the curing of wounds 
 either with Gun-(hot or other cafualties, and accidents, in his Majeftics 
 fervice for a Voyage on a fudden,to ferve upon or neere our own Coaft, 
 where additions f if occafion be,) cannot be wanting in every Port town. 
 Unto all which proportions as each occafion ofufe (hall urge, relation 
 may be had, in regard each one of them differ in many and divers 
 refpe&s from the other. In which my indevours, if any of the more 
 (harpe witted fparkes of the time, I meane any of my younger bre¬ 
 thren , (hall (hew his greater skill, and fay, I can yet adde many more 
 needfull particulars, which the Author hath in his nefcience omitted; as 
 an acute verball youth did not long fince in my hearing, he not knowing 
 me to be the Author: to whom I made a (hojt, though it may be not a 
 refpedtive anfwer, that a foole could doe as much. For who that hath 
 wit, and is expert in Surgery, can be ignorant,that all medicines that Art 
 hath ever devifed or invented from the beginning of times for the health 
 of Mankind, or can any way be produced for the healing of the bodies 
 of men, the fame may be found ufefull in a Surgeons Cheft; whether the 
 medicine becompofedby a Chymicall,Methodicall,or Empericall Sur- 
 
 C 2 geon. 
 
To theChirurgicall Reader. 
 
 geon, and whether made of an Animall, Vegetable, ora Minerall fub- 
 ftance, the Artift may doubtlefle make good ufe thereof for Sea or Land 
 fervicein his Cheft: but nevertheleffe, the Author by way of introducti¬ 
 on held it fitteft for him to zx'pvtffcpartem pro toto^a part for the whole, 
 (Nam verbumJ,at fapienti ) leaving juft liberty, with roome fufficient, 
 forfucceeding times to (hewtheir inventions and excellencies, as al¬ 
 luding to the wile laying of Hippocrates in his firft and fecond Aphorif- 
 mes, Fita brevis efl: Mans life is Ihort, zsirs longa eft. Arte is long. In 
 which regard the difereet young Artift, that hath time enough before 
 him, is hereby deliredto forbeare hiscenfureof the weake endea¬ 
 vours of the Author, untill he have effected a better 
 of his ovvne, and more ufefull in Surgery 
 for the Common-wealth. 
 
I 
 
 A note of particular ingrediences for a Surge¬ 
 ons Cheft, and of other neceflary Appendixes 
 
 ferving for Chirurgicall ufes, whereof thefe next reci¬ 
 ted may be placed on the liddc of the Cheft to open view, to 
 manifeft he hath them, if the Surgeon will have it fo, or he 
 that is to pay for them defire to fee them in view. 
 
 I Ncifion knives. 
 
 Difmembring knives. 
 Catlings. 
 
 Rafours. 
 
 Trapans. 
 
 Trafine. 
 
 Lavatories. 
 
 Heads awes. 
 
 Difmembring Sawes. 
 Difmembring Nippers . 
 eMallet and Chizell. 
 
 Speculum Oris. 
 
 Speculum orts with a ferew. 
 Speculum Lingua. 
 
 Speculum ni. 
 
 Cauterizing irons. 
 
 Storks bills. 
 
 Ravens bills. 
 
 Crowes bills. 
 
 Terebellum. 
 
 Incifion fheers. 
 
 Probes or flamules. 
 
 Spatulaesgreat and fmall. 
 Spatulum Mondant. 
 
 Paces. 
 
 t Pullicans. 
 
 Forcers or punches. 
 For teeth. ^ Crowes bills. 
 
 I Flegmes. 
 
 I Gravers. 
 
 \Smallfiles. 
 
 One bundle of fmall German infiru- 
 ments. 
 
 Gltfier Strings. 
 
 Small Strings. 
 
 Cathetor. 
 
 Wax Lights, 
 
 Thefe for the lidde of the Sur¬ 
 geons Cheft, till the Surgeon 
 feecaufe to remove them. 
 
 The reft that follow are no lefle 
 neceflary then the former for 
 their particular ufes : 
 namely, 
 
 The Salvatory furnijbed with fuch 
 Unguents as hereafter in their 
 places are named. 
 
 The Plafier box furnijhcd with the 
 due inftruments and medicines 
 thereunto belonging. 
 
 The inftruments for the Plafier box 
 areas followeth ordinarily, 
 
 Sciffers. 
 
 Forceps. 
 
 Spatula. 
 
The particulars of the 
 
 c A c apt all injlrument. 
 Probe. 
 
 Stitching quill and needles. 
 Lancet. 
 
 Burras pipe. 
 
 Lavatory* * 
 
 Vvulafipoone , See. 
 
 Cupping glajfes. 
 
 Brajfe bafon. 
 
 Bloud porringers. 
 
 Diet pot. 
 
 Skillet. 
 
 Chafing-difk. 
 
 Gltfier pot. 
 
 Fttnnell. 
 
 * 
 
 Cups to give potions in. 
 
 One board to fpread plaifiers. 
 cMorter andpefiell. 
 weights and [tales. 
 
 Sives. 
 
 Searces. 
 
 Strainers. 
 
 Splints. 
 
 Juncks. 
 
 Tape. 
 
 Tome. 
 
 Spunges. 
 
 Clouts. 
 
 Bowlers. 
 
 Gray paper. 
 
 White paper. 
 
 Empty pots. 
 
 Glajfes. 
 
 Thred and needles. 
 
 Wax lights. 
 
 Lanthorne. 
 
 Tinder-box JurniJhed. 
 
 Jnke and quilles. 
 
 I Clofefioole. 
 
 I Bed fioole and a brajfe paile. 
 Bricks to heat upon occanon. 
 Pipkins. 
 
 Empty bags. 
 
 Skins of lether. 
 
 The particulars of fuch Eraplai- 
 fters as arc moft common in 
 ufe by fea Surgeons. 
 
 f Stipt: Paracel ft. 
 Diachilum cum g'lmmis. 
 Biachilum [implex. 
 Diachalcitheos. 
 Oxicrotium. 
 
 CMelltlotum pro fplene. 
 Mellilotum [implex. 
 
 Be Lapide Calaminari. 
 
 Be CMinio. 
 
 jCallidum or fpicedplaifier. 
 
 S 
 
 2 
 eti 
 
 •S < 
 
 C-* 
 
 £ 
 
 W 
 
 £ 
 
 • 3 
 
 C 
 
 <U - 
 
 3 
 OX) 
 
 c 
 
 D 
 
 Unguents moft in ufe in the Sur¬ 
 geons Cheft. 
 
 i ’ Baftlicon. 
 i^Apoflolorum. 
 
 K*/iureum. 
 vEgyptiacum. 
 dibit Camphor at it. 
 Diapompholigos. 
 
 Petforale. 
 
 Refarum. 
 
 Nutritum. 
 
 Populeon. 
 
 Be Melle <jr Sapo. 
 
 — Contra Ignem. 
 
 Contra S cor but um. 
 Bialtheacompofita. 
 
 Bialt hea [implex. 
 
 Potabile. 
 
 Mercurii. 
 
 Linamcntum arcei. 
 
 ^dragon. 
 
 Marttatum. 
 
 Axungin porcine. 
 
 I dxungU Cervi. 
 \J-Melfimplex. 
 
 Waters or liquors fitting a Sur¬ 
 geons Cheft. 
 r Compo(ita ex [pirituvini. 
 Calefiis 
 B. Stevens. 
 
 Aqua Refit folis. 
 
 Cinmon . 
 
Surgeons Cheft. 
 
 I Cinamon. 
 
 ^ Limoniorum. 
 Aqua Rofemary. 
 Sajfafrat. 
 Ami feed. 
 of bfinthii. 
 Melliffie, 
 Angelic*. 
 Minth*. 
 
 Car dm fan cli 
 {Theriacalis. 
 Rofie llama ski, 
 
 Rofa Rub. 
 odorifer*. 
 
 Plantaginis. 
 
 Falopit. 
 
 Virtdis. 
 t_ Aquafortis . 
 
 Lotion. 
 
 Lixivium forte, 
 dr Commune. 
 Acetum Rofarum. 
 x^Acctum Vtni. 
 Vcrfucc. 
 
 CFini. 
 
 Spiritus^F/ttw/r. 
 
 <- Tcrebinthina. 
 
 CauJHc 
 
 Simple. 
 
 Compounded. 
 
 'A bfinthii. 
 
 Gemm*. 
 
 I Nitr*. 
 
 ■ Lapidts inf emails. 
 
 Sal* 
 
 r Rofirum. 
 Anethinum. 
 Chamomeli. 
 Lumbncorum. 
 Liliorum. 
 
 TOW 
 
 ..w ’ 
 
 IV 
 
 Hipericonis fimplex. 
 Hipericonis cum guntniU. 
 Raimi Artifcialis. 
 
 OlflUtn «! Sambticorum. 
 
 Ol-’ Lint. 
 
 Ovorum. 
 
 Lourt nl. 
 
 Abfinthii. 
 
 Pap aver is. 
 Petroleum. 
 
 S corpionis. 
 
 ! Amigdalartim dut. 
 j Amtgda:amara : 
 \Balfiimi naturalis. 
 
 Chymicall Oyles. 
 
 Fitrioli. 
 
 Sulphuris per campartum. 
 Gariophilorum. 
 Cinamome. 
 
 Macis. 
 
 Philofophorum , 
 
 Annif*. 
 
 Terbinthin*. 
 
 Zfuniperrt. 
 
 Spic: 
 
 Antimonii. 
 
 Succini. 
 of bfinthii. 
 
 Ohgani. 
 
 Syrrups. 
 
 r Abfmfhtt. 
 Limoniorum. 
 Papaveris. 
 Ctnamomi, 
 Rofarumfimplex. 
 Solutiim. 
 Fiolarum. 
 Oximell fimplex. 
 Mel Rofarum. 
 Diamorum. 
 
 Syrru- i 
 pus. 
 
 I 
 
 Raphana filvefl. 
 Prunellorum. 
 
 r Rofarum. 
 
 Anthos, 
 
 r i Berber or uni. 
 Conferva j citoniorum. 
 
 J Luiul*." s 
 iPrunellofum. 
 
 EleduarLas 
 
 
The particulars of the 
 
 ‘C 
 § < 
 
 u 
 W 
 
 ^ Extracf.catbolicon purgance. 
 Extracl.rudii. 
 
 Biacathohcon. 
 
 Biaphcnicon. 
 
 Biapruntm. 
 
 Conf. Hameck. 
 
 Befucco Rofarum. 
 Biatrionpiperion. 
 TheriaceiLondwi. 
 
 Conf, ^dlkcrmes. 
 
 Be ovo. 
 
 CMithrldatum dame. 
 
 J The. 1 <_ Andromace. 
 
 [ \JThe: Biatejfaron, 
 
 Succus 
 
 Biaphorettcon Atirum vita, 
 f Laudanum Paracelf. 
 
 i Biafcordium. 
 Biacodium. 
 
 ~ r—•«* Philomum Romanttm. 
 
 I P erf cum. 
 
 Tarfenf. 
 
 \yAurie ^Alexandrini. 
 •K_sibfwtba. 
 
 \<^Acatie. 
 
 'Licorice. 
 
 ' Limoni, 
 
 -Pulpa Tamarindarum» 
 
 • '-Agaricum. 
 urea. 
 
 Pil; < Chochta. 
 
 I Be Euphorbia. 
 
 De Camborla. 
 
 I Puff i. * 
 
 Puluis Csanf/us. 
 wxativus \ydrtbreticus . 
 rAbfnthia. 
 
 T rochifcu S < ° iflhmdal1 - 
 p Be Spodio. 
 
 C Be UWiniot 
 
 Simpfcs, 
 
 Foliorumfena. 
 
 Rbabarbara, 
 dgaricum. 
 
 ScamonU, 
 
 Aloes. 
 
 HcrmodaiUls. 
 
 Polipodium, 
 
 Bens Elephantis. 
 Cornu cerui. 
 Euphorbii. 
 Turbith. 
 
 <JMirabnlanorum 
 Cambogia. 
 
 Cafsiaffula. 
 
 Certaine other Simples* 
 
 Crocus. 
 opium. 
 
 China. 
 
 SarJJaparilU. 
 
 Saffafras. 
 
 Guiacum. 
 
 Cortexgttaiaca. 
 
 Cortex gr anatortm. 
 Licorice. 
 
 Hordiacom: 
 
 PI ordia gallic-. 
 
 Semen amfg. 
 
 Feniculi dulcesi 
 Feniculi comun. 
 
 Car raw ay. 
 
 Cumini. 
 
 Petrocelini. 
 
 Lint. 
 
 Fenigrece. 
 
 Anetha. 
 
 Papaveris. 
 
 Plant agmis. 
 
 APinoris. 
 
 Race arum, 
 c^migdalarum. 
 
 Uva pajja. 
 cAmillum. 
 
 t-APacis. 
 
 r .‘5 
 
Surgeons Cheft. 
 
 Piper, 
 
 Cloves. 
 
 Nuces UMufcatx. 
 
 Gummes. 
 
 Guaicum. 
 
 Opoponax. 
 
 Bdellium. 
 
 C A moniacum. 
 
 Sagapcnum, 
 
 Galbanum, 
 
 Myrrh*. 
 c Jttajlicbe. 
 
 ■Laudanum, 
 
 St or ax calami nth*. 
 
 Liquid*. 
 
 Beniamtn. 
 
 Tragagantum. 
 
 Fix navalis. - 
 
 Rejina. 
 
 Succinum. 1: 
 
 Other needfull Simples of 
 divers kindes. 
 
 Ccracitrina. 
 
 CMummia. 
 
 Sperm* ceti. 
 
 Sanguis Draconis, 
 
 Lupmis. 
 
 Cantbarides. 
 
 Camphor a, 
 
 Spodium, 
 
 Sumach. 
 
 Galls. 
 
 Bolus vera. 
 
 Bolus communis. 
 
 Minerals. 
 
 dntimonium Stibium. 
 
 Sulphur. 
 
 Alumen rochx <jr ujlum. 
 Vitriolum commune. 
 Vitriolum album. 
 Vitriolum ujlum. 
 
 Lapis pr until*. 
 
 Cerufa venetix. 
 Lithargyrnm auri. 
 
 Vir ideas. 
 
 Tutu, 
 
 Fermi 
 
 : Tritici. 
 
 ; Fabarum . 
 
 Hordei. 
 
 ? Furfuris. 
 
 I Volatilis. 
 
 jyjuitmnille. 
 
 Herbs moft fit to be 
 carried. 
 
 ! r Rofmarims. 
 
 Major anus. 
 Mentha. 
 j Melilottm. 
 
 ■ Salvia. 
 
 Herb# <; Thymum. 
 
 ^Mbfmthium. 
 Carduusbe-nedictus. 
 Me Hi (fa. 
 
 Sabina. 
 \Scordium. 
 j~ Althea. 
 j Raphani ftlvefires. 
 Radices < Peritrum. 
 j l.A ngelica 
 \JSonfolida. 
 
 Ibum grecum. 
 

 If the Surgeons Mate cannot 
 trinime men, then by due confequence 
 there is to be a Barber to the (hips Com¬ 
 pany, and he ought not to be wanting 
 of thefe following neceffaries. 
 
 One Barbours cafe, containing. 
 
 Rafoursfoure. 
 
 Scijfers two pain. 
 
 Combes three. 
 
 Combe-brujb one . 
 
 £ nr e-picker one. 
 
 Curling injlruments. 
 
 Turning Injlruments and Spunges. 
 Mullet one. 
 
 Gravers two. 
 
 Tlegmeone. 
 
 Raring knives two. 
 
 Lookingglajje one. 
 
 aprons three. 
 
 Shaving towels twelve. 
 
 Water-pot one. 
 
 Sweet water one. 
 
 Wajhing-bals lejfeerniore, 
 Hoaneone. 
 
 Wket-Jloneone. 
 
 Bafons two. 
 
 And what elfe is neceflary to 
 the Barbers profeflion, as the 
 expert Barber better know- 
 eth. 
 
 \ 
 
 - 
 
 -- 
 
 Certaine 
 

2 Of the Inftruments, and their ufes< 
 
 cite. Onely in conclufion note, that it is very fit and ncedfull for the Sur- 
 Two incifion geontohaveat the leaft two incifion knives, one greater, one Idle, and 
 
 k«* v ‘ s wedfuiu that k them fh ar p e anc j c l ean ; but let them not be fo thmne gro vvnd 
 
 in the edge as the Rafour, for then they will deceive the workman, when 
 he hathmoftnfe of them. Thus much at this time of the mcilion kmre. 
 
 of the difmembring knife, and of the Catling. 
 
 T Hefe two inftruments are to be ufed in difmembring 5 as namely, 
 they are to amputate, or to take off any offenfive member or part of 
 mans body: I meane all the flefhie part, or whatfoever maybe incifed 
 ea even to the bone: And alfo in difmembring of the legge or arme below 
 mdifmembring the knee or elbow, you (hall have occafion to ufe the incifion knife to 
 cut afunder betwixt the bones or elfc where, whatfoever the Catling or 
 difmembring knife cannot come at by reafon of their greatnefle or un- 
 fitnefTe j and then proceed to the (awe. To conclude, one of each kinde 
 may ferveforone Cheft, fo they be fharp and fitly grownd, and not 
 toothinne edged. They are both very needfull inftruments to be at 
 hand upon all occafions in the Surgeons Cheft. 
 
 Their ufe. 
 The incifion 
 
 The ufe of a 
 Rafour. 
 
 Aboane and a 
 'ivhetftonc is 
 vay necejfary . 
 
 Germane Sur* 
 gconspraife- 
 tvonby for Ra- 
 fours and 
 Launcets. 
 Inftruments 
 kept clean is 
 commendable 
 tvilhall . 
 
 Negligence 
 
 blameworthy. 
 
 $ of the Rafitir. 
 
 T Hereneedeth little to be fpokenof the ufe ofthisinftrument,for 
 that all men know well the ufe thereof, which is chiefly to fhave a- 
 way haire where need requireth: onely let me put the Surgeons Mate 
 in minde, that if he forget to take in his Cheft a goodHoane, as alfo a 
 good Whetftone, he may eafily lack the neceflary ufe of a good Rafour, 
 when he hath moft need of it at fea; yea, though he carry ten Rafours 
 with him. In Germany it is a principall proof-peece of mafterfhip in 
 Surgerie, for a young man to take a bafe and ordinary knife, and to fit it 
 to (have a beard 5 and alfo to make a Launcet hirafclf which will enter 
 fmoothly: and it is a very great commendation in a young Artift to have 
 tharp and clean inftruments of all forts, and to keep them fo, and chief¬ 
 ly Rafours and Launcets; and it is as great a grace to young Artifts to 
 have good Rafours and Launcets, and the contrary may do great hurt. 
 Wherefore I advife each young Artift to be pra&ifing often with the 
 worft of his knives and Launcets, till he be able to make them fer- 
 viceable. 
 
 But I finde that pride and (lothfulnefle hath taken fuch hold of many 
 young Artifts, that they difdaine and negle< 5 t the meaneft parts of their 
 calling, as things of too bafe account for them, which indeed are as bc- 
 hovefull often times as thofe which feeme of more confequence. I (hall 
 never for my part account him a fit fea-Surgeon, which cannot, or will 
 not amend his Launcets and Rafours, which I hold to be an efpeciall cre¬ 
 dit to him, and noleffe advantage to his Patient. Thus much at this 
 time of the ufe of the Rafour. 
 
 of 
 
Of the Inftruments, ttnd their ufet. 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 Of the Trapa/t. 
 
 rj-fHe Trapan is an inftrument of great confequence,where there is juft 
 X oceafion of the ufe thereof j but it is feldomc well ufed, and it 
 only attendeth the fra&ures of the Crawumjmd yet fcarce one in ten have 
 juft oceafion of the ufe thereof. For we fee daily many grievous fra¬ 
 ctures healed without k, and many more would be if no fuch inftru- 
 mentswere; fince the perfect ufe thereof is not every mans work, nei¬ 
 ther in every fra<fture ( as I have faid) needfull to be ufed , becaufe of 
 many dangers attending theunskilfull or untimely ufe thereof. I advife 
 the y ounger Surgeons toconfider well afore they fet the Trapanj whe¬ 
 ther it may not be forborne: but if a fraCture happen in the Cranium , 
 with contufion and deprdfion of both the tables thereof, fothatby o- 
 therconjoyned and apparent accidents, as want of fomeof the fenfes, 
 great vomiting,wich contraction of finewes, convulfions, or the like juft 
 reafons appeare, thou be enforced to ufe the Trapan, proceed warily as 
 followeth. 
 
 Firft, be fure the inftrument of it felf be good, and of the beft ma¬ 
 king, and that it be cleane from ruft, and perfed without faults j for 
 thofe Trapans which arc brought from Germany are not to be ufed, 
 nor yet to be tolerated. 
 
 Further, of the place were it is to be ufed or placed upon. It is notal- 
 waies direCtly where the blow lighteth, but fome times afraCture is found 
 a great diftancc off: wherefore this work requireh no fmall diferetion in 
 the attempting thereof. Your direction therefore, the skin being not 
 broken, muft be according to the apparent indication of the part, the due 
 confideration of the complaint of the Patient, together with your own 
 feeling with your fingers well refpc&ed. The place therefore found 
 where the fraCture is, it then followeth that the haire muft be firft (ha- 
 ved away, or at lcaft (which is not fo good) cut clofe for a good diftance 
 about the grief, 4 fingers broad or more; which done, have ready your 
 medicinestobindeupthewoundagain,as namely, your fpunge, your 
 ligature,with hot water, and each other things ncceffary for a dreffmg fit, 
 which in another place I intend to fet down. And if fo be that the flux 
 hinder not,ufe wine and hony to foment the grieved part after the incifion 
 
 V. A MM «*Tk 1 I A 1 <!•««. m /l* . M ll —1 ... 1 f' . O * D * 
 
 TbeufL 
 
 An advertife- 
 ment 'whether 
 the Trapan be 
 necejfary te be 
 *pd. 
 
 1 if it be reqttl- 
 fite obferve firft 
 the inftrument 
 itfelfi 
 
 2 The place 1 
 where it is to 
 be apply ed. 
 Great care re¬ 
 quired in the 
 ufe of the in* *- 
 ftrumnt • 
 
 3 The haire 
 muft be Jhaved 
 of 
 
 4 Have all 
 medicines in a] 
 redekneffe, 
 
 5 Obfirve the 
 
 flux. 
 
 butan egge in the reftriCiive will make it the better. And further, if that 
 the flux will nor be flayed by an ordinary kinde of reftriCiive, then take 
 theftrongcr reftriCiive powder which in due place is to be mentioned. 
 And for prefent applications unto the wound, you have good choice of 
 two forts; namely, Oyleofxofes , and Mel Rofarum mixed warme, or 
 the Linamentum <^Arcti , which in fpeaking of wounds of the head, 
 I will touch ( God willing) more largely. 
 
 All things therefore in readineffe, and the Patient placed clofe and 
 warme from the aire, and having two appointed to ftay his head, the in¬ 
 cifion is either to be made dire&ly croffe,or in the forme of a Romane 
 
 T :and 
 
 6 Care oft the 
 Patient in drefi 
 flag needful/. ■ 
 
 7 Incifion muft 
 be. 
 
Of the Inftrument s> and their ufes . 
 
 8 The Pericra¬ 
 nium remove, 
 
 Thefctringof 
 the Trapan* 
 
 The piercing 
 with the Tra- 
 pan. 
 
 Nature much 
 belpctb in this 
 wor{. 
 
 A caution in 
 ft trine the 
 Trap an. 
 
 A Rift ary* 
 
 Speciall slfilL 
 required in the 
 operation . 
 
 Note* 
 
 Note wherein 
 
 citation of 
 fractures con- 
 jijls. 
 
 The ufe. 
 
 T*. and when the cutis is divided, together with memhranacarmfa^ or 
 flclhie membrane, the Verieranium or Panicle , covering,thc lcull, is alio 
 to be taken away, that the fractured part be bare; then Jet the Trapan 
 thereon, but the pin thereof is alwayes to be fet on the whole part 
 of the Cranium , whereby the moft part of the T rcpan (by conlcquence; 
 ftandeth on the whole bone, but fo that almoft half may ftandon the fra¬ 
 ctured part of the bone. This being thus warily fet, begin ealily to turn 
 about the inftrument, till all the teeth have taken good hold round, then 
 take up your Trapan againe, and take out the pin in the midlt, and let on 
 the other part again as before 5 piercing and turning ftill^till you have pier* 
 ced through both Tables, which is ealily to be felt by the piercer : then 
 gently take out the piece which commonly cometh away in the midlt of 
 the inftrument,not regarding that all the fraiftured part be taken out, or all 
 coming away: Neither lhall it alwayes be necdfullthat thedeprelfed 
 part be prcfently elevated, except it may very fafely and eafily be done; 
 for nature will admirably bring to palfe the elevating and lealingofthe 
 reft of the fra&ured or deprefled bone in due time, if thou follow onely 
 a good method of applying comforting and convenient medicines to the 
 wound, with apt Ligature. Neither ftrive in fetting the Trapan, with¬ 
 out good reafon, to ufe the greateft head of the Trapan, which hath com¬ 
 monly three or foure heads: for if nature onely have a breathing, it will 
 wonderfully help it felf by purging the contuled bioud through the ori¬ 
 fice, by way of matter or excrement. Many worthy Artifts there are at 
 this day living, which have performed great cures in fra&iues of the Cra¬ 
 nium, and yet never knew the worthy ufe of this inftrument. I have 
 my felf with a Ihort carving knife twife made as good Ihift as if I had had 
 a Trapan ready, and thereby cured two dangerous fractures, by cutting 
 as much of the Cranium away, as that the contufed bioud had onely vent. 
 The Germane Surgeons ufe no Trapan,that ever I could fee in my eight 
 yeares living among!! them, though they both fpeake and write of it. 
 But forafmuch as it is apparent, the work of a Trapan is very good, I 
 therefore would advife a young Artiftto make fome experience firft up¬ 
 on a calves head, or a Iheeps head, till he can well and eafily take out a* 
 piece of the bone; fo lhall he the more fafely do it to a man without er- 
 rour when occalion is. 
 
 Note alfo,that where a fracture is accompanied with a wound, it lhall 
 not be needful to inlarge farther then will ferve to fet the Trapan; for, as 
 too little breathing is dangerous, foare too great wounds; making the 
 Artiftto be efteemed Butcher-like and hatefull, and is often alfo very 
 dangerous and deadly. 
 
 Further note,the good fuccefle ofthe curing of the fra&ures in the Cra¬ 
 nium, as alfo in all other fra&ures, ftandethvery much in good Ligature 
 and eafie medicines, which I wifti each young learner with diligence to 
 pra&ife. Thus much of the Trapan. 
 
 of the Lavatorie. 
 
 r pHe Lavatory is a necelfary inftrument to elevate the deprefled Cr*- 
 * ninm , in which work, as I have written in the former Chapter 
 
 of 
 
5 
 
 Of the Inflruments , and tbeir ufes . 
 
 of the ufeof theTrapan, I advife no young Artift to be too curious or cmionsto6e 
 hafty to force the deprcffedbone too much, where there is no evil lym- obftrwd. 
 pcomes: for adeprefled bone will often times help it felf, by rifwg and ltU ^ 
 fealing, admirably j and yet it is many times of very necelfary ufe, and a 
 fit inftrument in the Surgeons Cheft. 
 
 T He Head-fane is an inftrument with which a vent may be given The ufe. 
 
 fometimes through the Cranium, and thereby the ufe of the Trapan 
 maybe happily forborne: and for that reafon this inftrument may have 
 a place in the Surgeons Cheft: fometimes alio afmall ragged piece of 
 the Cranium may fohang, that this inftrument may be ufed to faweit 
 away. But I wilh young Artifts not to be over bufie in [awing, pluck- 
 ing away, or railing the fractured Cranium , as is faid, more then of ing . 
 meereneceflitie they are urged unto, left fearfull and fudd iin accidents 
 follow, not to be avoided nor ftayed: If ought be meerlyloofe,and in 
 fight, take that away i if not, forbeare to pluck much at firft, for na¬ 
 ture is exceeding beneficiall in ejecting unnaturall things in that part, and 
 very froward if thou ule force whilft Ihc is weak her lelf. 
 
 of the difmembring Save. 
 
 T His great and terrible inftrument, onely ordained for amputation or 
 
 difmembring, is fitting to be alwayes ready and clean kept in the rnflrmen;;' 
 Surgeons Cheft, with two blades thereunto, though one good blade 
 well ufed will ferve an Artift for his whole life: but forafmuch as it is kept clean. 
 onely appointed, as is faid, for the work of difmembring, I referre the 
 Reader to a fubfequent Chapter of difmembring, where I lhall at large 
 recite the ufe thereof, and (having fmall leifure) will now hafte to the 
 next. 
 
 s- ^ of the difmembring Nippers , and of the CMallet and 
 
 j* ■ ChiTfLl for difmembring. 
 
 * ^ ' f \ * J S ' * 
 
 T Hefe inftruments having coherence with the precedent, namely, the 
 
 Satve^ are mecrly invented, as the former, for amputation chiefly,and The ufe. 
 are appointed to the fingers and toes, as the other is to the leggesand 
 armes. I need fay no more of them in this place, but that they are good 
 neceflaries upon occafions in the Surgeons Cheft, being kept well. Ne- 
 vcrthelefle, in want of fuch a^fea, the Ship-Carpenter for a need can al- 
 wayesfurnilh the Surgeon in a Ihort warning; and therefore they may 
 as well be forborne as any other I know in the Cheft, if allowance grow 
 fcant. 
 
 of the Speculum oris plaine. 
 
 T His Speculum oris is that which taketh hold on the tongue and un¬ 
 der the chin at once, and is very necdTary to hold open the mouth rheu f' 
 for the better applying medicines to the throat: and this inftrument 
 
 is 
 
Of the lnflruments , and their ufes . 
 
 TbUkvcrync- is of no other ufe at all in the Surgeons Cheftj yet becaufethe worke 
 is frequent at fea, there is much need of fuch an inftrument in the Sur¬ 
 geons Cheft. 
 
 Of the Speculum oris with a [crew. 
 
 r T'Hi s Speculum ferveth to ferewopen the mouth, which is often very 
 needfuli at Sea,as well in the cure of Lethargie and Scurvie, as in ma¬ 
 ny other dangerous cafes; and namely,fometime for conveying nourilh- 
 ment into the mouth of the Patient: fometime aifo for the brin<nn» 
 in medicines offeverallkindes, too long to write of 5 wherefore it mav 
 not well be miffing in the Surgeons Cheft. Y 
 
 Frequent in 
 ufe, and very 
 profitable. 
 
 of the Speculum lingtct. 
 
 r J’ 1 His Speculum littgtu'is a fmall inftrument which may be carried in 
 
 fiSmufgu* Ivit is hollow and cutVh l° n V cd,ik . e a f P ! f cr ? r f P atllla at <>ne end, one- 
 y * Iy111S nollow and cut through, and the other being formed for fennina 
 
 Tbcufe thereof, the tongue, is very fitting in fevers, and furring Sf the tongue Th? 
 
 broad end lsufed to hold down the tongue at fome times as you defife 
 either to Hijeft any liquor into the throat, or to apply any other medk ne 
 
 Thecommcnda. ^iJlLoL fplatte^y" 
 
 Cm of it, L'n* ? 11 ? ta L rrc “eddier, better, and cleaner; and being through 
 
 tay ’ 3515 the tongue is not apt to IJipor rtideftoo, 
 
 The ufe. 
 
 Fea font for the 
 xccifsiti: of it. 
 
 I 
 
 An advert} ft- 
 mnt for the 
 right ufe of the 
 inftrument* 
 Note 1. 
 
 of the Speculum 
 
 brought to the grieved nhr/» J xuJ ^ crat on 1 then can nothing better be 
 be lefn^ wkhoufk : t he m n ’ ? u Y thlS the grief 
 
 with needs not to be defenbed f For7hn&°* the / linda ^ nt there ' 
 cannot make ufe thereof F 1 h ? ld nonc fo witlcfle which 
 
 yet let not the young Artift bp tn ,7 r ° CC ^ r ^. c jhftrument 5 and 
 ourgoodreafon Forifbvmiction udr, §°^ c ^ s inftrument with- 
 
 is much better fo to do and much 10Ut u can CDre ^fienbit 
 inftrument. One principal! reafon is to ufe the 
 
 to help himfelfby giving way to the " n aIwayes P ower 
 
 Sphingtures or gathering mnicies of thl c ^ thlS inftrument > for the 
 felves without refiftance h f undarnent > will not of them- 
 own will make fuch unexpected ° ftcn ' Vl113 § ain fi the Patient his 
 
 lateth give not back, he may brffil^fhe 3 ^^ dlc ^which di- 
 ncwwoik; for icought well tobe hod - mu f c . cs> anc ^ hereby mike 
 the life or health of the Patient to tife needlcil^fercc inthat pwtl S ^ t0 
 
 Of 
 
 r 
 
7 
 
 Of the Inftruments, and their ufes. 
 
 of the cauterizing Irons. 
 
 r pHe ancient Chirurgions of former ages ufed thefe inftruments farre 
 A more then in thefe our times : ThenecefTarieufc oftheminmany 
 cures is now ior borne, by rcafon the tcrrour thereof to the Patient is Tbc u f c ' 
 great, yet the ufe of them is very needfull, as namely, to cauterize any 
 veine or Arterie in ftrong fluxes of bloud, which cannot otherwife be 
 ftaied. And in the Epilepfie or falling ficknefTe they are often ufed with „. hen& nhere 
 good fucceflc: alfo they aregood to makeafuntanell or Iffue inthehin- thcuftitrequi- 
 der part of the head, or in the necke; fo likewife in the cure of the rcl 
 Lethargieor Apoplexie, if upon learned and good advice there be held 
 juftcaulefotodoe. But they have beene ufed commonly by the ancient 
 Surgeons of former ages for the opening of Apoftumes; and furelythey 
 are better in my judgement for the good of the Patient in many Apo- 
 ftumes then the Launcet: yeti confefle I make no ufe of them my 
 fclfeinthat kinde, becaufe of the feare they put the Patient into, and 
 for fpeech of people, who are ready to fcandalize an Artift upon each T t ^tTr!lmL 
 light occafion. Thefe inftruments have likewife beene commonly ufed femwdftL- 
 by the ancients in difmembring, namely, to cauterize fometimes the ddl h ^ erclh - 
 whole end of the ftumpe, and fometimes onely veines and arteries, and 
 doubtlcfle with good warrantthey may yet be foufed j but in that cafe 
 they are wholly now forborne, for reafonsaforeiaid,and for that a more 
 pleafant courfe is knowne both for the Patient and the Artift; yet I con¬ 
 clude it is very fit the Surgeons Cheft be furnifhed with diver* forts of 
 them, if the allowance of the Surgeon will admit it. 1 
 
 of Storkes bits, Ravens hits, Crowes bits, Goofe hi Is, and 
 the Tertbellum. 
 
 npHefelaft recited inftruments have their feverall ufes, to draw out The ufe. 
 
 bullets, arrow heads, broken bones, orwhatfoever elfeofunnatu- 
 rall things are gotten into any part of mans body. In the ufe of each of Care in their 
 them great care and refped is to be had, not to ufe extreme violence on f e V a bchad 
 the fudden to draw out the offending thing, for it is not alwaiesneceflary 
 to draw it forth by the way of the firft wound, but perhaps it may with 
 farre kfle danger bee thruft quite through the member, and taken out 
 on the other fide. Sometime alfo the offending thing, as a bullet, 
 may be fo fixed in a bone, or otherwife betwixt bones, that it is farre 
 better not to move it, then to offend the part where it is fixed or feated: 
 fometimes alfo Nature will better caft it out then thoucanft by art de- 
 
 vifetodoe, and over for wardnefle doth often as much hurt as good. It The driving 
 
 happeneth alfo fometimes, that the orifice of the wound is to be dilated, 
 or inlarged to draw out a loofc bone, or other thing. In fuch a cafe if it 
 be mecrely loofe,itis beft to take it outthe firftdrelfing; but if it be loofc 
 at one end onely and faft at the other, except thou without flux of 
 bloud or danger of the member canft remove it, forbeareand givena- 
 turc leave to doe her office, and have patience. For otherwife young 
 
 E Artifts 
 
8 
 
 Of the Inftruments, and their ufeSi 
 
 T Here is in every Art or Science aduerefpeeft to obferve the having 
 of fome things for forme and order fake 5 and if any inftruments in 
 arc rather far ^ s urgeons cheft may be termed for forme fake to bee placed there, 
 clffaryufi. m the Incifion flieeres are of that kinde: for they are generally dcfiied, 
 r but fcarce once in a mans life worth the ufage. For admit there were 
 oftheittjiru - an occafion to dilate or inlarge a wound ; it is farre better done with 
 mem. the Incifion knife , which juftly will obey the Artifthis will, without 
 
 aa incifon moreor lefte doing then need requireth: and this inftrument is no way fo 
 fyufewuiex- juftly to be limited. Wherefore though I have here nominated it, I 
 fejbcen™ 1 ^ f°rbeare any perfwafive words to urge the ufeofit, but leave the Ar- 
 tift to his will therein. 
 
 of the ufe of Probes of feverall fezes. 
 
 He ufe ofa Probe, can no way be forl>orne in the Surgeons Cheft: 
 for no Chirurgicallworkeiswelland artificially effeded, without 
 
 needfuu. y fome occafion of the ufe thereof, moreor lefle; as namely, oftentimes 
 Thedhcrs mn it is to be armed with dry foft lint to cleanfe a wound: fometimes again, 
 mof, their'ufe. asis aforefaid, armed with drie lint, and dipped into fome lotion, pile 
 or liquor, therewith to mundifie, corrode, or heale the griefe, according 
 r . . , to the due occafion thereof, and will of the Artift: fometime to inquire 
 
 their uje- 1 the depth of a wound, ulcer, or fiftula; in which worke many times 
 
 great wrong is done by unconfcionable or ignorant Surgcons,to their Pa- 
 
 Grem dancer tients, by forcing too far the Probe, thereby to ; make the griefe appeare 
 in the ui uje of deeper, which I advife young Surgeons to make a confidence of: for by 
 the Probe. f U ch abufe, the Patient is many times greatly indangered of his life. Fur- 
 
 Tbcttfcofa ther, fome ufe the longer fort of Probes, with eyes like needles, in 
 
 wounds that penetrate through a member; yea, fome are fo hardy they f 
 
 To draw the will put them through theT runk of the body,the Patient being wounded 
 probe thorow through the body; all which I hold to be very idle; for certainly it muft 
 
 * llUUU^ll UlL L/vvijr j dii W UAdl X 11VJAU IV7 UL Vvljf lUlv j lUl v vl liliJL II y 11 I11LJLI. 
 
 dedisto™ m ' be both very painefull, fearefull, and dangerous to the Patient; and 
 
 the cuftome of fuch Artifts is to draw laune or a fine linnen cloth, being 
 put into the eye of the Probe, (or ftamule as fome terme it) and dipped in 
 fome artificiall balme, thorow the member; yea, and fome are fo 
 wife in their owne conceits, that they leave the faid laune or linnen 
 cloth in the wound from onedreffing to another, which for my part 
 I utterly miflike;for I know in all wounds nature ftriveth to make unition 
 of the parts divided, & whofo keepeth afunder the parts by fuch courfes, 
 
 it 
 
Of the Injhuments , and their ufes, 
 
 itftwll repent him, except hec be gracclcfT^M^lfeha^chadrca^ 
 fonable experience in piercing wounds, both through thetrunkeofthe 
 body, and through the outward members, and have ever contented my 
 felfe,in putting in to each orifice a fliort and eafie tent, which I common¬ 
 ly make of mplajlrttm ftipticum Paracelfi , or fome other good plaifter ’ 
 
 Ipread on a clout, and rolled gently tentwife, and foapplied dipped in 
 Balme, the tent being but of halfe an inch or an inch long at the moft: of 
 which I never yet repented me,except a broken bone be to come out and 
 then I alter my intention according as the occafion enforceth,with o’thcr 
 anfwering and methodicall courfes due to healing in be obfervediwhich 
 in their places (as time will permit) lhall be touched God willing. No 
 more at this time of the ule of Probes. 
 
 of Spatulaes great andfmall . 
 
 OPatulacsorfplatters, as they commonly terme them, are moft need- 
 °full inftruments to fpred unguent, and emplaifters withall, andalfo Thirufi. 
 to ftirre about,and the better to compound any medicine on the firej and SpUt!m 
 to this latter worke the Artift may make wooden fplatters, which will food 7fmii a{ 
 be farre fitter and cleaner then thole of Iron: The Surgeons Cheft °f ir0n ^€^ 
 cannot well be without both forts, and variety will doc well j where- w * 
 fore they cannot be forborne in the Cheft. 
 
 Spathula mundani, 
 
 nPHis inftrumentis newly devifed by my felfe, to ferve upon any oc- 
 1 cafion of extreme coftiveneffe, which often hapnethtofeamen, fo A 
 that no purging medicine neither upward nor downeward adminiftred or ***’ * 
 taken, will worke j which my felfe have more then once fecne, in which Thc 
 cafe the fundament, with the fpeculum am aforefaid, if occafion urge, is * *' 
 to be opened, and thc fpoone end of this inftrument put in, and the hard 
 excrements therewith drawne out; which in fome bodies are fodrie 
 that they rhay be poudered. This difeafe killeth many, and may by cojuvmjjk 
 the diligent Artift bee eafily cured as aforefaid. This recited inftrument, dangerous; 
 may be eafily forced into thc fundament without thc Jptculum am to con- 
 dud it, being annointed or greafed, and firft warmed a litde.Thisgriefe 
 commeth now and then to men which have the feurvie, and it often 
 foinflameth, and cxcoriateth; yea, and fometime putrifieth the Arfe- 
 gut or Longanum, that the partie either dicth thereof, orthelharpe hu¬ 
 midity proceeding by reafon of the inflammation and excoriation thence 
 mentioned, maketh palfage for the aforefaid hard excrement,after which 
 followeth a moft extreme and painefull flux of bloud, which for the 
 moft part killeth them: and yet is it often feenc, that the party being in 
 time diligently attended (by God his mercy) may have comfort and re- Great care ta fa 
 medy for it. Thefe hard excrements taken away, thc body rcturneth 
 to the naturall former habit againe,&c. 
 
 2 * * J ‘ . ..*• r r h ■. ,. r . : 
 
 E J tacit 
 
IO 
 
 7heUft . 
 
 Styll in draw 
 ing of teeth re¬ 
 quired. 
 
 The manner 
 how to draw 
 a tooth aright, 
 
 Theuje ofa 
 Phlegme. 
 
 The ufi ofthe 
 Pulhcan ♦ 
 
 Thcufeofthe 
 
 Vaeiu 
 
 Theufe of the 
 Forcers and 
 Punches• 
 
 Refpett in pU 
 cingthc Inferu - 
 went to be had. 
 
 How to place 
 this infer ament. 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 O f the Infernments, and their ufes. _ 
 
 tacts, Pullicans,Punches or Forcers, Crorvts bils^Ugmes, 
 GvA'vwt Afld Files for teeth • 
 
 ■ A LI thefe recked inftruments, and cad 
 
 x\ Surgeons Cheft, and cannot bee well forborne for the drawin 0 of 
 teeth,forafmuch as the clcanfing of the teeth andgums, and the letting of 
 the gums bloud are often no final things for keeping men rn at Sea, 
 and fometimes doc favethe lives of men both at Sea and Land : For we 
 fee that from an Apoftumc begun under a rotten or hollow tooth, for 
 want of drawing of the fame, fometimes proceeded! great fweUings in 
 the face, or in foe amygdals and throat, and the party is fufrocated and 
 dieth: Likewife by undifereet drawing of a tooth, either the jaw is bro¬ 
 ken, or fome other bad accidentis provoked. Wherefore I hold none 
 worthy to goe for a Surgeons Mate to Sea, who is ignorant or tooth 
 drawing ; and I efteeme him an unworthy Surgeon (how high foever hee 
 beares his head Jthat can draw a tooth well, and will upon need at Sea 
 
 fcorneordenytodoeit. 
 
 For drawing of teeth, the true manner is, firft well to divide the gum 
 from the toothj-in which worke if you be wary, you neede not launch or 
 cut the gum at all, but onely with the round lharpe pointed end of the 
 phlegmc, to compafle the tooth clofe, piercing by little and little frill 
 fomewhat deeper, but ever keeping round and clofe to the tooth till 
 you feele your phlegme be as iowas the jaw bone,in which time you may 
 do well then to confider what kinde of inftrument you will take to draw 
 it, and ifit be the furtheft tooth ofthe jaw either above or below, or that 
 it be a ftumpe, except it bee of the foremoft teeth, the pullicans are the 
 fitteft inftruments to draw with; if it bee any other ofthe great grinders, 
 and that there bee reafonable hold on the inner fide, be it on the upper 
 or lower jawdt is beft done with the pads ; but you muftbewary you 
 draw not a large tooth with a narrow pads, for fo you hazzard the brea¬ 
 king thereof; wherefore two forts of pacts at lcaft arc needfull in a Cheft, 
 and the like oipullicatts.de punches ox forcers fat you muft fita large tooth 
 with a large inftrument. Concerning the foremoft teeth and the eye 
 teeth they arc fafeft done with the Forcers, or punch, provided that they 
 be upon the upper jaw, and for them of the lower jaw being ftrong, with 
 narrow pads. Note further, that as well the eye teeth as alfo the foreteeth 
 are very aptto breake in drawing, for that they alwaies are deepc, where¬ 
 fore there is great care to be had in the placing your inftrument, of what 
 fort foever it be, and you muft in railing the tooth bee very careful! 
 for feare of breaking the fame, or offending the jaw. Wherefore for one 
 general rale ere you draw a tooth, forget not to thruftdowne your in¬ 
 ftrument as low as you can poffible towards the root ofthe tooth, and 
 that you gripe it fteady and faft, that as you leeme fomewhat to wrench 
 your hand, you may more intend to pluckcthe tooth upward, accor¬ 
 ding to the fituation of the tooth, for faving the jaw. Alfo when your 
 inftrument hath hold on the one fide of the jaw, you muft with your 
 other hand take hold and ftaythe jaw. Beware alfo you be not too fud- 
 
 Af>t\ 
 
II 
 
 Of the Jnftruments, and their ufes . 
 
 den or rafh in railing or drawing the tooth, but that you feele as it were 
 the fonne of the fituation thereof in your plucking out of the fame 5 
 for fome great teeth,being farre wider in the lower end then ellewhere, 
 if you bee too ralh in railing them from their place, you are fure either 
 to breakethem or to damnifie the jaw bone. And in truth in that I have 
 often wondered at the goodnelfe of God, when I have viewed a tooth 
 with three large ftradling roots or fangs, forced out at a round narrow Gods mercy i* 
 hole; which fangs are no way flexible: fo that it mull follow of necefli- working that 
 tie the jaw bone hath opened it felfe (though by force) to let them out; 
 and yet without harme to the Patient, or helpe of Art, clofed again, and 
 in three daies perfe&ly whole. Concerning the metall your inllrument rhemndiof 
 ouohtto be made of, the Forcers or Punches, are bell to be made of the the injiruments 
 hardeft fteele; the pacts and fullicons offtcele foftened, that they may be re ' 
 
 not pinch too lharpe: My felfe have (to my paine j proved experience in A rcafon drawn 
 my owne head twice; namely, the harme of Heeled hard facts: which frrmexpen- 
 pinched off the heads of two of my owne teeth, and left the roots be- c ,Xatftt»be 
 hind; which maketh me the more to commiferate others in that behalfe. done after the 
 After the drawing of teeth fome put vineger, and fome put other liquors teeth be drawn. 
 into the mouth , but vineger I utterly millike: I never ufe other thing 
 but fait betwixt my fingers, thruft into the place where the tooth Hood, 
 and then with my fingers clofeagaine the gum eafily together: For in 
 my opinion vineger is hurtfull in fuch cafes; but if fometimes the party 
 benot in eafe prefently ,then I ufe to heat a little of my ordinary lotion, 
 and give it the party to keepe hot in his or her mouth, holding it on that 
 fide where the griefe is, which for the moll part bringeth prefenteafe. 
 
 Concerning the Crowes bils, they are only ufed to take hold of any rbcufetftbt 
 fnaggof a tooth or bone loofc in the jaw, or elfewhcre in the body where cm»a bus. 
 
 occafion may urge. . - , r r 
 
 phlegmes have not only their ufes in teeth drawing,butalfo to launch 
 a pd cut the gums to let them bloud, or to cut oftentimes the fuperfluous 
 flefh of the gums away, it being too ranke, as in cafes of thefcurvie,the 
 cure whereof( God willing) lhall in another place befpokenof. 
 
 And for Gravers they are ufed to take feales off,being a hard fubftance The ufe of 
 which ufe to fix thcmfelves to the teeth,caufing them to become loofeand . Gntww * 
 flink, or be black in the mouth; or to help to ferape or clcanfe a bone in 
 
 any other part of the body, as juft occafion is offered. 
 
 The fmall Files arc ufed either to file a fraall fnagge of a tooth,which 
 offendeth the tongue or lips, or to abateany end of a bone elfe-where 
 in the body which is fra&ured. 
 
 One Bundle of [mall Injiruments ufually brought from Germanic con - 
 teining divers kinds , as Mullets , Forcefs , Hamules , 
 or Htokes^Eare-fickerSy Sikes,Small 
 
 fpatula’s } (jrc. < 
 
 TTOrafmuch as the unexpected cafualties that hapneth to a man arcin¬ 
 g-numerable, I fee not how the Surgeon can by hiswitdevifeinftru- 
 ments or remedies for all. 
 
 Where- 
 
i 
 
 II 
 
 Of the Infiruments , and their ufes. 
 
 The ufc of the 
 
 Germaine 
 
 infiruments 
 
 i rhenccefsitieof 
 this Siring. 
 
 The ufe thereof. 
 
 The warmer of 
 keeping the Si- 
 ringe. 
 
 More pipe r then 
 one mith a croo¬ 
 k'd mice nced- 
 fdl. 
 
 Nccejfary rules . 
 
 fir ft of the tervo 
 in the Siringe. 
 
 i*Ofthe G lifter 
 pot . 
 
 $ Of putting in 
 the Gliftcr into 
 the Siringe • 
 
 4. Of flopping 
 theSiringe fil¬ 
 led. 
 
 UVut on the 
 pipe. 
 
 6 . Anoint it 
 Tvith cyle or 
 Axttngia. 
 
 Wherefore for that a haire or a mote in the eye, a ftonc in the eareor 
 noftrels, a pin or a bone inthe throat, a fpill in the finger, and divers like 
 cafualties unfortunately happen on the fudden, it is very ncceflary for 
 the Surgeon to be furnifhed with fuch like needfull infiruments, as are 
 commonly conteincd in the Bundle mentioned: for this Bundle conrein- 
 ethat the leaft 2 o.fmall infiruments of flrange formes, at ijrft deviled 
 . (no doubt)by learned and diligent Artifls, and doe wellgarnifhand fee 
 out the Surgeons Cheft, and are many wayes very needfull for any the 
 occafions mentioned. 
 
 of the large Siring* contcining one winepint , commonly 
 called the Glfjlcr Siringe. 
 
 T His worthy and well devifed inflrument fo needfull in the Surgeons 
 . Cheft, I wifh each Surgeons Mate were perfed in the ufe thereof: 
 for it is fo neceflary andfo comfortable an inflrument to him that hath 
 need thereof, and fo ready, neat, and cafiefor the workeman, as 
 
 furely no inflrument in the Surgeons Cheft,in my opinion, is like to it. 
 For there are two principall and capitall evils, which chiefly haflen the 
 ends of many of our ovmg Countreymen at Sea, not onely in the Eafl 
 Indies, but alfo m all hot Countries: thefirft and principall is extreme 
 loofmcffi and weakneffc ofthe ftomacb, and intralls, caufing a flux of 
 the belly ; the other is extreme coftiveneffe: in both which this in- 
 ftrument is moftnecd&ry. Provide therefore that yon bee hire to have 
 one at hand, and that it be alwaies ready : alfo that you have fevc- 
 rail pipes thereto; that you arme it well with good tow; that what 
 you have ufed it, you wipe it clcane, and hang it up in your Ca bin in two 
 
 pans being drawne out ; nameIy, the ftaffe and the bariell each by it feife 
 
 for ifitbeekcptclofe,itwill be muftie and the tow rotten. There is 
 
 5* l “ d,ni,incflia "eckc much like an elbow,bdong- 
 5 * “ a* famc how crooked foever the Patient Ivf 
 
 the medicine may bcadminiftred to him : and therewith alfo any man 
 maygive h.mfefe a Gliftcr very eaffly,without the helpeof anot&r 
 The principall dungs to be ohferved infttingthe inflrument hihat 
 
 £**“"?> rr ' he even and full and clofe’p® c£ 
 
 that no drop of liquor can come out behind at the fluffs end; which fcS 
 eafie to doe as in a fmall Siringe. And you muft alfo haw a Gliftcr 
 pot of pewter, but one of braffe were better, for ftare of mel tins. Your 
 fndahSf te ma * ® ith afnoutorlip, and contcining one pint 
 
 your Gliftcr, which putin, “H, 
 
 are 
 
Of the Injhuments, and their ufes m 
 
 arc ready, having fome towe about the head of the faid pipe, wringing 7 Put towe * 
 it hard in, thruft it to the head, laying the Siringe in an even poiition 
 if it may be, and then put it from you till all be in the gut: then let the the delivery of 
 party turne himfelfeon his backe, forcing himfelfe by all poifible fftfff *' 11110 
 meanes to retaine the medicine given him for one houre if hce can. ? ‘ ouy 
 Sometimes alfo it falleth out, that by meanes of the hardnefle of the 
 excrement in the gut, the holes of the Siringe pipe is like to be choaked Excrement 
 and hindered from the delivering of the medicines in fuch a cafe (the faid p^hthepafge. 
 excrement being onelyclammie and not folly hardned) put upon the 
 end of your Siringe pipe that firft entreth the gut over the holes of the 
 fame pipe, a thin oily clout that {nay cover all the holes, and fo put it 
 in, clout and all, thrufting the fame up to the head or thick part of the 
 Pipcj then a very little (as it were) draw backe your hand,and deliver 
 your Glifter with fome reafonable good force, thrufting the Pipe in the 
 delivery clofe up to the body, that nothing comcbackes the Siringebe- 
 ingdrawneoutletitbewaihed, wiped, and drawne outofthebarrell, 
 as l have faid, and fo in two parts hung up to be ready for the next occa- 
 lion. Butifyou find fuch refinance in the gut,that your medicine by the 
 aforefaid meanes will not enter, then with the afore mentioned Spat it- 
 la mundana , draw out part of the hard excrements which hinder, and 6 lifer cannot 
 then proceed as beforelaid to give a Glifter. Moreover, many are very Jg 
 weake and unfit to hold in their bodies any fuch medicine, except you ifihcbody 
 with fome towe, clout,or the like, will hold it in,they can take no benefit 
 by a Glifter: wherefore in fuch a cafe, you muft be foil of hurnanitie and X ' 
 
 Chriftian commiferation 5 not to be fine fingered, fqueami(h,'or difdain- 
 foll, but confider your brother by your felfe. Concerning, the fubftance 
 of a Glifter,the quantitie to be given, and other neceflary obferyations, 
 of that kinde,in the Chapters of the cure of the Fhxe and Scurvie I 
 have writtens to which place I referre the well defpofed Surgeons Mate: 
 and looke what for brevities fake I have omitted, the young pra&itioner 
 muft as I have done before him, either by reading, inquiring, orpra&i- 
 fiog, and fometimes even by erring finde it out : and if he know more 
 then my felfe, thanke God for it.and let him impart fome to others, and 
 notfeorne this5 for to fuch I write it not, but to the .young and wtfi 
 ling learner. Some may marvell,I multiply fbmany words concerning 
 the Glifter Siringe , and forget to mention the Glifter Mg and Pipe , fey ms k 
 good and ancienta work, and fo long in ufe before the other.TowhichU preferred before 
 anfwcrs this worke is cleanlier for the Surgeon, eafier for the Patient, 
 and may bee delivered with greater or leffer force, as the Artift pjeafeths 
 and this inftrument will laft,when the other will ftinkeandputrefie ; and 
 yet I deny not the other to be good, but not to be trufted to at Sea. - 
 Thus much of the Glifter siringe , - 
 
 ; ; » *X > ’*AW^A r imwnoD . 
 
 of the [mail Siringe* w .-wi c*. ■■■iV-iiz 
 
 I T might feeme a thing vaine to mention inftrudfions herein : for what ^ - 
 Barbers boy is not pradtifed in the ufe erf thefitodt Siridge £Truely 
 few, and yet many Mafters to my know ledge erre groftelyin the ttue 
 
 tifes 
 
Of the lnjlruments, and their ufes. 
 
 ufcs thereof divers waies, all which were frivolous in thefc briefe notes 
 inftruciions for to touch-Firft therefore obferve that when you ufe aSfringe,let it be cleanj 
 ‘f'us^irre *^ iat ^ cc f moot h at the end for gauling; that it be even armed with 
 
 ' ma tu * ’ tow jthat it go not by jumps nor too ftiffejand that you carry a fteady and 
 even hand in delivering it, and force it not over ftrongly, except upon 
 great reafon. And if the griefe be in the paffage of the yard, as in cafe of 
 Gonorrea , often times there are excoriations , then in the putting in thejV- 
 ringe it is needfull to reft thy armes in the delivery thereof on the Patient 
 histhighes, hee fitting fomewhat high,or Handing bowing forwards,and 
 now to ufe tbit ftrive not to fill the Sirin gt too full at once, for then thou canft not eafily 
 siringetn the and fteadily reach it to deliver it: an$l the firft time thou prefenteft it, 
 yard. thou mayeft if thou pleafe make fhort worke,and deliver it betvvixt^/4w 
 
 and praputium^ that is betwixt the skin and the head of the yard, hold- 
 ing the forepart ofthe prxputtum clofe together, if it may be held toge¬ 
 ther , which ferveth only to waih without the paffage. The fecond time 
 ti<m to deliver deliver into the paffage fo farre as well thou canft reach; namely, to the 
 ** lnyaion ‘ end ofthe Pipe, if without great painc thou canft effed it, refting thy 
 armes, as it is faid, and holding with the one hand the yard fas it were) 
 in the midft thereof,or behind the former part of the Pipe ofthe Siringt\ 
 namely, not mecrely to the head of the yard, nor ftreyning nor preifing 
 thy hand too hard, onely that the water inje&ed may be kept in; for by 
 that holding of the left hand clofe,the water being artificially put in, will 
 come to the neck of the bladder; which done,keep it fo in till thy String 
 being drawn out, can be filled once againc , and deliver it as the other 
 was, without removing the hand that holdeth; and that fecond time the 
 water will come into the bladder; and obferving ducly this forme of in¬ 
 jection j thou flialt caft in as much water as thou pleafe into the bladder 
 Errors is me- without paine, with onely an oi dinary Strtngc-, whereas calling it in and 
 Cling mamfe- holding the pr*puti*m clofe as is ufuall, afliire thy felfe the water will 
 
 Mer curtail in- 
 jeElions to be 
 reje&cd. 
 
 Th evils the 
 cafe. 
 
 Injeftions not 
 proper onely to 
 theyard . 
 
 The necefsitie 
 •f the Siring. 
 
 nwvti euuic at me ucckc or me Diadder, nor further then the pipe is put 
 in; whereas, often the defed is in the necke ofthe bladder ,and thy me¬ 
 dicine commetb not there. Alfo,let not thy medicince be too hot which 
 thou injedfeft, for that is dangerous, and cold is alfo bad; fo hot as piffe is 
 the true temper, or a little warmer. Beware alfo of Mercuhall lotions I 
 meane any which have Mer curie fublmatejrectpatate,ot otherwife pre¬ 
 pared in them/or though they have good qualities,yet they are(uponmv 
 knowledge and experience.) dangerous, ufed byway ofinje<5iion into 
 the yard ;for they will utterly alter and overthrow the naturall faculty of 
 
 n a t!li W1 ^ nd the erc u aionof ^ 4 > and fo calcine the fame, 
 that it fliall become impotent to his naturall worke. Iknowit, andyet 
 
 they may be with good fuccefle ufed in curing malignant ulcers Jbtt 
 glam &jrsputtum , or elfe-where upon theyard, as. daily ufe of them 
 
 annrl, reth *i Co " ccrnin S r^wns or Injeltions, they fhall, God willing in 
 another place bee mentioned. Alfo, concerning the generall ufcs’of 
 the Strtnge, they are not alone limited to ^4 or the yard, nor to ve- 
 
 f h 7 me ° f d P cciaI1 § 0( ^ «fcin wounds, 
 
 mav W nrilf 0 ! • 8n f CS c m *** moitth and thr oat, and 
 
 may not therefore be omitted in the Surgeons Chcft : wherefore I 
 
 advife 
 
Oftbe Inftrumtnts, md their u#s) 
 
 *5 
 
 advife. at the leaft two if not tbrete>ead with three pipd;to be read?" 
 ib d# Cheft upon any occafiocfi. -jdo [ i >. \ -jolJbd w {-.)i! • 10 
 
 -: // ’i rlgij/aci hnn f j»I wj xuvr sthoy't x;,wsiiifto mq bdlbiqal ^i ° .. ,;A.. 
 
 - ch of the Catheter, together with vd# lights to fedrth the «- 
 v. ! *> ' conduit of the bladder, :i - ■■ gnivarl n.-j ~ny 
 
 nragnirb' r, ' dmoqmi Alnm wo-{ idfe bns;oi^g ’61 obbnCjWoii*yit 
 
 rr^He Catheter may well be flumbred one anfongft the n&kfull inftrhi 
 • i- 'ittents in the SWgeons Chfeft^ifobfifuaiotii' happen,' cither ~m rheuft. 
 the paflage of the urine, or neck of the bladder, through dime, graved 
 the fibne, or like ^ttidenc, whiefyby fhcartificall ufe of aftfinge cannot 
 be removed, then is this needfifll mftrutrerit toi be ufed, as alfo to malic 
 fearchfor the done in the bladder. 
 
 If therefore there be occafion to ufe it, put it in gentlyaSfolloweth,’ n mta ufeiu 
 namely, with the crooked or dependent part thereof downward, fo far 
 as it will be putin, being fir ft anointed wth a little oyl of Almonds, or 
 fome frefh greafe, or oyl for want of the firft rehearfed; and being put 
 in as farre as you can without much force, then feele by the root of the 
 yard ncare the fundament with thy forefinger, anointed wirh butter or 
 oyl (or the middle finger of thy other land) where the end of the Ca¬ 
 theter refteth or beareth out, then putin the 'Cktheter yetfurther toward^ 
 the fundament, prefling or bearing down, as it were, a little the lower 
 part of the faid inftrument with thyt^per hand which ftayeth the Cathe¬ 
 ter, then (together with the helpof the bWerftneer of the other hand) 
 turn the Catheter upwards, putting jt alfo Withalf forward a little, and 
 it will flip into the bladder ; then draw ait the'inner wycr, and the urine 
 will come forth , ftill keeping the inftrument carefully within the 
 bladder till all be runne out that gently will come without forcing. 
 
 Moreover, you may by putting in the firft or longeft finger into ano of 
 the fuhdament, the 'Cathcterbttig in the bladder, and the Wiftfr drawn 
 out, feele eafily if any ftone be in the bladder, the party grieved ftarid- 
 ing and bending his body likewife forward, x 
 
 . v jTi'taewa. \ }\;\\ v 
 
 ialvV*. 
 
 i 35Tib t 
 
 Of the [carding tandlc. 
 
 "He fearching candle is chiefly to be ufed when there is acarlmcle The ufe. 
 or ulceration in the neck of the bladder, or paflage of the urine, and 
 then it is ufed both to finde out the place where the faid grief is,and alfo 
 to bring apt medicines to the place grievedjbut that work requireth good 
 deliberation well to^ffeft it:fcran ( expert workman may eafily erre here¬ 
 in, except he take gbod reigkdJ Wherefore when by the candle you have The right end 
 found the certainc place of the grief, which is commonly done by the candle is 
 ftoppes or ftayes which the faid candle findeth in the paflage, be care- t 9 J^ d TiJ e he 
 full to obferve the juft length to the further end of the faid flop OF and right paf- 
 
 nlace and fhereif vnrimnrV^ * 7 /->n fl™11 fage thereunto. 
 
 faid light or candle, fatten your medicine which you intend to heal the The time when 
 grief with; as namely, if the difeafe be a Hndc of fpungic flcfli, as often * 
 
 ■ r.q: f it ’ 
 
( 
 
 1 6 
 
 The right man¬ 
 ner of applying 
 medicines . 
 
 Of the Instruments, and their ufes. _ 
 
 it is,a very little allumett uftumjst vitriolum «/?«w,wil be fitting medicines, 
 or what elfe you know beft for fuch occafions, and print it according to 
 thedepreffed part of the wax into the wax candle, and conveighit wa¬ 
 rily to the pla^e, and let the wax light remame for a lhorttitncin the 
 yard,then having a care youkeep it not till the wax melt too much,draw¬ 
 ing it out,and do fo againjand alter your medicine upon the fetching can¬ 
 dle, asyoufee caufe, and forget not to ufe good injections alfo, which 
 help much. Thus much for this time concerning the catheter and fearch; 
 ing candles. 
 
 Thefe former recited inftruments may be placed on the Chefthd, ex¬ 
 cept the Glifter pot. Their neceflarie ufes being briefly touched, it refts 
 now to fpeake next of certaine other chirurgicall Inftruments andne- 
 ceffariespertaining to chirurgery. 
 
 T 
 
 ) L >• . - ii 
 
 The Salvatory and the necejjary appurtenances. 
 
 six divers m- r T“ , He Salvatory if it contain fix feverall Unguents, it is fufficientfot 
 guems at the A an y p re f e nt ufe, fo that they be fuch as are found and good, and 
 Xfmyfi moft in common ufe: fuch 3 re < 
 
 /?«. j ('Bafilicon.) 
 
 [ Ksfpoflolorum. * 
 
 mentum J . 7 
 
 Ilnguentum <^ ureuM , 
 
 | Diapompholigos. 
 
 \JDialthea . 
 
 Eight roomes But if the Salvatorie have eight roomes,thca two more as neceflary as the 
 in a saivattry) former may be added 5 as namely, unguent urn Populeon , and unguentum 
 not amjji. y . concerning the feverarll ufes of thefe unguents, in their places 
 fomewhat (hall be fpoken, God willing. 
 
 ,/oy- 
 
 Of the Plaifter-box , and what helongeth thereto : 
 And firjl of the Employers. 
 
 what Emplai- 
 fterstbePlai - 
 fter-box JhouLd 
 have at all 
 times readie. 
 
 CStipttcum Paracelji. 
 
 EmplaJlA Diachalcitheos . 
 
 KJDe lapide calamtnari . 
 
 For want of Diachalcitheos , Emplafl. De minto may fcrvc. 
 
 The ufes of the Inftruments due to the Plaifter-box follow n ryf, 
 and are thefe, ' 
 
 Speculum lingua;. 
 
 Flegme. 
 
 Onccapitall inftrumenf. 
 
 A dire&oric for inlarging a ftrift orifice. 
 Scifters. 
 
 Forceps. 
 
 Spatula. 
 
Of the Inflruments, and their ufe s % \j 
 
 Spatula. 
 
 Probes. 
 
 Stitching needles and quill. 
 
 Launcet. 
 
 Burras pipe. 
 
 Lavatory. 
 
 Uvula fpoone. 
 
 There belongeth to the Surgeons Mate acarefull and efpeciall re- 
 fpe<ft to be had concerning Sciffers; namely,that he have at the leaft two 
 pairc of good Sciffers for to cut hair, that they be well grownd, and kept 
 cleane 5 as alfo in his plaifter-box onepaire, and that they be at all times 
 kept well. The manner of ufing them were loft labour to be taught any Sur g°fh”*- 
 Surgeons Mate: for if he be therein unskilfull,he is unworthy of his place, 
 
 Wherefore I onely recite them for remembrance fake, and likewife for Scijfm and 
 order, having already fpoken fomewhat of the fevcrall ufes of each one 
 of the recited inftruments. and puce. 
 
 * of the F dr ceps. 
 
 T Hc For cep are onely ufed to take off medicines from difeafes, Me ufe. 
 
 or fometimesto take out a fpill, a haire, or a loofe bone, or ought elfe 
 which is offenfive, from a wound, or to draw out ought that may by 
 chance come into the eare,noftrils, the mouth, or throat, to the danger 
 of the Patient. Wherefore it is an inftrument ofcontinuall ufe, and hath 
 many offices in Chirurgerie. 
 
 Of the Spatula. 
 
 T He ufe or abufe of the Spatula , as it hath his office to take out an un¬ 
 guent and fpreaditon lint, can do no offence to the Patient greatly. 
 Wherefore I will pretermit to lofe time in 'declaring ought thereof. 
 
 of the Probe. 
 
 T He Probe hath already been mehtioned in another place j.but the T heupi 
 fmall Probe, being a neceffarie meerly belonging to the plaifter box, ' ' * 
 ferveth not onely for the aforefaid ufes, but alfo to cleanfe wounds, ul¬ 
 cers,fiftulaes,&c. and is a very neceffary inftrument which cannot well be , 
 miffed: but there is much abufe of this inftrument oftentimes by making The abufe of 
 probations the phrafe isjj for fome, to fhew a wound deep, having got- tbis t^omenl 
 ten once within the cutis , will, by thrufting it fometimes betwixt the 
 coats of the mufcles , fometimes otherwife, ignorantly.eitherindatiger Note. 
 the part, and thereby occafion evil accidents to follow, or otherwife 
 break the coat ofaveine or artery, to the overthrow of the Patient, or 
 his great hazzard. . '. y .. • ' " 
 
 6 / 
 
 ft y. 
 
18 Of the Instruments, and their ufes . 
 
 oft heJlitcbing quill, and pitching needles. 
 
 rpHe ditching quill, and fticching needles, have their due place in the 
 A plaider box: wherefore, that they may be the more ready on a 
 now many fuddain, as occafion is offered, forget not to have at the lcaft three ready 
 
 needle*needful, needles well armed and pointed of feverall fiezes, I mean threded with 
 of what fiezes. ft ron g coloured filk,well waxed: and when you ftitch, beware you draw 
 inftruXiom not the orifice awry, oblique or deformed, but that you have great re- 
 forpitching, fpedt to the true beauty and former conaelincfle of the wounded part, 
 neither let your flitches be too neare one unto another , neither 
 tie your filk too clofe, which will occafion the flitches to break be. 
 fore their time;for nature will not be forced. Alfo when you would flitch 
 a wound, let the hole ofyour ditching quill not be forgotten to be fet to 
 the one fide of the lips or fides of the wound which you intend to pierce, 
 fo that it may give a day to the part when it is to be pierced through with 
 the needle; and it mud be judfo placed, that the needle piercing through 
 the wound, may alfo come within the faid hole; which drawn through, 
 take away your quill, and fet it fo to the other fide. Sometimes alfo it hap¬ 
 pened in ditching the fides,that the fides of the wound lie fo near each to 
 the other, that both fides may at one time be taken up without drawing 
 out the needle at all: in fuch a cafe the ditching quill mentioned is notto 
 be removed from the fird place. A double coloured filk is bed to ditch 
 with, being waxed, next that, thred will ferve. It is alfo convenient to 
 wax the thred or filk, ortoufefomeemplaiderto rub it with in place 
 df wax. Note alfo, that rolling needles be put into the faid ditching quill 
 to be ready: alfo thred to fow rollers together for making the readier 
 and more convenient Ligature in wounds and ulcers,as occafion is. There 
 is alfo a forme of drie ditching of hew wounds, which at this time I o- 
 mit forbrevities fake. Thus much of the ditching quill, and ditching 
 needles. 
 
 of the Launcet. 
 
 A Lthough at the fird it might be imagined that little Weretobefpo. 
 X A ken to the Surgeons Mate concerning the Launcet, for without que- 
 dion each Surgeons Mate knoweth a Launcet as well as my felf; yet 
 when I confider the weaknede of young men concerning the true ufe, and 
 theabufesofthe fame, and that I call to minde how many good men 
 daily hazzard, ifnot loofe their lives by the undifereet ufe thereof-1 am 
 at a paufe with my felf,to confider in thefe few lines I have to write what 
 inflruRitnt I might fay for to fumi (lithe Surgeons Matewithbed and mod needful 
 
 ST* in u few L cft words -. F ; tft thererefore.me thinks, it is not amife 
 
 to adviic him, that he carry with him at the lead fix of the bed fort, be- 
 fides fix more common ones, for an ead Indie voyage: that he oy le them 
 or anoint them with Axungie. , and fo wrap them in oylie clouts, that 
 they rud not: and that he onely bring forth into the aire one at 
 once. Alfo that he have ready convenient bands to tie thearmc; a 
 
 band 
 
Of the Inflruments , and their ufes . 
 
 band made of wafted gartering is the beft, or of a ftrong fine lift; for all 
 bands made of (ilk or linen, will Hide back. Let him remember alfo that 
 hetie not two knots upon theband,for that requireth too much trouble 
 ingivingtheveincvent:ifheufea wollenband, one Aiding boe-knot 
 willferve, which isealieto be loofncd or fattened, where you would 
 caufe it to bleed more or iette. Note alfo, that the band be turned twice 
 about the arrae ere you tie it: alfo that this knot lie aloft on the top of 
 the arme, and on the o itliie of the elbow, and not too neare the joynt 
 or the place where the veine is to be opened : that heneveropenaveine 
 butfirft he have ready a band and bolder to make it up again: that 
 his Launcets be not too fpear pointed, I mean fmall pointed; for the 
 broadeft pointed Launcets make the beft work : likewife that the orifice 
 be large, not deep, yet not overlarge, for it is overlarge when the bloud 
 tumbleth out without a ftreame, for that fpendeth too much the fpirits; 
 and it is alfo too narrow when the ftream is fmall, and the veine is 
 puffed up with winde. N ote alfo,that if your Patient incline to faintnelfe 
 or fwounding ,you caufe him betimes to thruft his longeft finger of the o- 
 ther hand into his throat, and a little provoke hitnfelfe to catting, it 
 helpeth prefently ; let him reiterate the fame worke if occafion be. 
 But ifhe chance on a fuddain, as ofc it happeneth,to be gone ina (wound, 
 beware you lay him not on his back with his head too low, as it is ufuall 
 with fome to doc, for fo you may chance to loofe him. I have feen 
 the like once done by an ignorant bloud-letter: wherefore remember 
 it, but rather bend him with one arme forwards, and with your other 
 hand (lop very clofe his mouth & noftrils,andin very (hort time you (hall 
 perceive wind to come, and it will gatherto his mouth,and he will drive 
 for breath, then let go your hand, and all is well; and as often as he faint- 
 eth doe fo This is a fafe courfe , which v? ith good fucceffe I have ufed 
 from my youth to this day. 
 
 Further note, that at fca, efpecially where fre(h food or good nouri(h- 
 ment is not at hand, it is good to be fparing in the quantity of bloud to be 
 taken away, and rather often take bloud away, then too much at once, 
 except bloud abound too much; which is not eafily judged by every 
 young Artift. For fometime the party is idle headed by diftemper ofthe 
 bloud,which by cooling broths and julips ought rather to be tempered; 
 providing alfo, that he have the benefit of nature, I mean a loofe body, 
 or be provoked thereto by art; and by this meanes rather feekeo cure, 
 then by rafli Phlebotomic ; for you mutt confiderthat in the bloud con- 
 fifteth the life of m an: wherefore, be not ralh in that work; and as is faid, 
 hold ever this rule, that if the Patient neither on the day thou wouldeft 
 open a veine, nor on the day before have had a ftoole, that thou at¬ 
 tempt not to let him bloud before firft he hath had one ftoole procured 
 him attheleaft, if not more; which is fooneft and fafeft done by a 
 fuppoficory:the next fafeft and better way is by a glifter.The vcines com¬ 
 monly opened are fix in nutnber;namdy, one in the forehead, one under 
 the tongue, three in the arme, and one in the foot: The three in the 
 arme 3re moft in ufc, whofe names are Cephalic a the uppermofl, or head 
 vein, fo called of the Greek word cephale , which fignifieth a head, and 
 
 *9 
 
 Concerning 
 blond letting 
 necc/fary admih 
 nitions . 
 
 Of the Launcet 
 points . 
 
 Of the veine 
 opened . 
 
 Of faintnelfe 
 in blond-letting 
 with aremedie . 
 
 Of founding 
 in blond-letting 
 the rcmcdie 
 approved « 
 
 The quantity of 
 blond to be 
 taken cway at 
 fca* 
 
 Remedies for 
 i diene fan the 
 head through 
 dificmpcrature 
 of bloud . 
 phlebotomie 
 not alrvaycsto 
 be ufed* 
 
 Ob ferve well. 
 
 Of the veine* 
 be opened• 
 
n 
 
 20 
 
 A (peciallob- 
 feivation cofa 
 cerhing the 
 liver veins. 
 
 Caufis of blond- 
 Idling in the 
 fore-bead. 
 Under the 
 tongue. 
 
 In theftphane 
 veine «, 
 
 Of the Injl rumentSy atd their ufes . 
 
 is commonly opened in all griefs of the head where it can be taken, in 
 want whereof, it is almoft as good to takethe middle veine. 
 
 The next is the median or the middle veine, it is the fecond principal 
 veine, which is generally taken as indifferent for the whole body. 
 
 The third is the Bafilica^ox the liver veine, being the 1 q weft in the 
 arme, and more refpe&eth the liver then tie two former. But hold this 
 generall rule, that if thou intend the opening a veine to help the liver,and 
 that the liver veine will not be well taker, then take the median veine • 
 for thou muft know that all veines have :heir originall in the liver. 3 
 Some armes have but one faire veine appeiring; then it followeth of ne* 
 ceflitie, thou muft take that: for many leaned Phyficians are of opinion 
 that generally thefulleft veine in the armeisbeft and fitteft to be taken’ 
 except fomefpeciall caufe alter their mindes: for their words areoften 
 qua majus target, majusurget , which may ac englifhed, the veine which 
 fheweth moft, is raoft faulty. 
 
 The veine in the fore-bead is alfo often tiken for paines in the head, as 
 
 rheumes, diftillations of humours, and the like. S 
 
 The veines under the tongue in thefquisancie or angine, inflammati- 
 ons,and fwellings of the Amygdals ot tie throat, or of the root of the 
 tongue,the liver vein called Jap/janCjChiefi) is taken for womens ficknef 
 
 fes, not often feen at fea, though fome nectflary occasions chanceoftt 
 taking thereof m men at fra. fnr a \ or tne 
 
 From whence 
 it hath its orrU 
 gina.lL 
 
 The ufe of the 
 Burras Pipe. 
 
 The danger of 
 the ah ufe of it. 
 
 An errouv in 
 bailing of a 
 wound 
 riferved* 
 
 Dire ft ions for 
 the cure of a 
 wound. 
 
 Incifwn knife. 
 
 T His Inftrument is mentioned in the beginning of fhi° ufe*. c • n • 
 
 ments under the title, lnafwn kmfe. £ S h f 5 of inftru • 
 The Burras Pipe , 
 
 THisInftrument thus named, doubtlelff was bv i c,™™ , 
 
 . at firftfrom fome Gold or Silver frith w ? g n j° rrow ' 
 game; for the Gold-finiehs ufe it daily,and’dSro?~T yd h ™?‘ 
 works without a Burras Pipe but tl 1( * ° 1 Can f ot P'-rforme their 
 
 (namely, for the moft pmUo ren;n " g 0n ? makc othcr ^thereof, 
 trioll , burnt ^Allom precipitate j and firh'nri? P ° wderS in > as Vt * 
 which well ufed performe very much in h ^ hcr £ auft,cI<: medicines, 
 bringeth ihametothe Arti/hand often unrA ^ alf ° thcir « 
 tient. For it is common with many Artifts ITS dama § e to the Pa- 
 to mi xprecipitate either with a dlgefivcUndent hca ln P, of wo »nds 
 Dorfell orplegents laid on tents, fccordh^n^* c* mi ^<‘^on ,and 
 toputitin, af they fay, Z wound ’™d 
 
 ftion,to takeaway proud fldli to mnnwJ ' h f , w °“ nd > or to help dkje- 
 
 tate, then muft they be bufie with VitrkU^Zn* J® 5 and if not 
 cauftick medicine m that kin^! Bu^woil^ld^T Ul i ne c’ ° r ^ Po ™ e 
 
 noito Ufe any corroding 
 
Of the Injlmments , and their ufei t 
 
 let the flelh grow as proud as it will,the ground being clear from whence 
 it groweth, namely, if it be from a wound wherein is no putrefied 
 bones, and if fo be that the wound be full of flelh, and then will not ci¬ 
 catrize, a little burned or VitriollwiW do well, and then to your 
 former drefling again, remembring that each third or fourth drefling be 
 meerly drielint, you (hall ffode good therein; and ifyou oncly take lint 
 and wet itin a Coperat water,and let it dry again , and lay that lint dry 
 upon the proud flelh, fometimes for a drefling or two, and then againe 
 toyeur former method, doubt not, it will without painc very well cica¬ 
 trize any new wound: I write this, for that by the unskilfulnefle, yea, and Sltrgem 
 fometimes by the idleneflc of evil minded and bafe Empericks, I fuiwffe aswdi 
 havefeen men lamed by theneedleffcufe of cauftick medicines, even in ?. uni b l f ul *f s 
 flight wounds; to which, if an old wife had oncly applied her one falvc ' mcwtK h 
 for all fores, no fuch thing had happened: yet I am not fo Ample to de- 
 nie the juft ufe of fo noble medicines in wounds, ulcers, and fiftulacs, or 
 otherwife where need is; but I oncly here advife the young Artift, 
 that he may not be too ralh in the ufe of them,and likewife do advife him Notc ‘ 
 that havingufed them once, he firft paufe againe at the leaft eight dayes, 
 namely,till the firft Bsker be fallen, and certaine dayes after,ere henfe T *’° evils 10 Lt 
 any cauftick powder againe; for with the ufe of corroding medicines, av0lded% 
 one immediately after another, many Ulcers are made more painfull and 
 rebellious then they were, and the bones fometimes made foule which 
 were otherwife dcane; which fault is too frequent nowadayes: anda- 
 mongft many grofle faults daily committed by unexpert Empericks, 
 this one is to be lamented, namely, the ufe of keeping open penetrating 
 wounds too forcibly and too long by the ufe of hard tents, armed with 
 cauftick powders, whereby nature can make no true unition, but is for¬ 
 ced into much difordcr; which I ivilh young men to make a confidence 
 of, and to becarefullnotcoerre inthatkinde. 
 
 The LavAtorie . 
 
 This Inftrumentisfetdown elfe where. 
 
 of the Uvula fpoone, 
 
 T Hisinftrumentismadcto put pepper and fait in, or fine bole, pep¬ 
 per , or fait, or fome other the like medicine, and to hold the feme 
 right under thcllvula, which is for to blowup into the concavity be¬ 
 hind e the fame; and no other great or cfpeciall ufe I know it hath in Sur- 
 gerie, except it may be ufed to warme a medicine in. 
 
 Thus much ofthofeneceflaries which properly deferve the names of 
 inftruments in the Surgeons Cheft. Now a word or two of fuch 
 other Appendixes, which ia their kindes are asneceffary as the former. 
 
 The 
 
21 
 
 Of (be Instruments, and their ufes. 
 
 :,h 
 
 nit 
 
 > ^ . nuoi'* *y. * ?n b. 
 
 The Cupping-glafleser fcntofes. 
 
 The ufe is di¬ 
 vers. 
 
 T 'Here arc many neceflary works in Surgery performed by Cupping. 
 
 Sj a JJ es t namely, fometimes they are ufed to fet upon a Bubo or botch 
 to bring it forward, and therein they are very good. Sometimes alfo to 
 fet in the nodell, and on the upper partofthc fhoulder-blades, to draw 
 back humours which oppreffe the head, the eyes, or teeth: or againft 
 Lethargic^ or on the thighes againft aches,or paines there j or for the cure 
 of the sciatica , they are very good; or fometimes to draw blond and fpi. 
 .rits to a member withered or benuramed: in all thefe and divers more 
 griefs the Cupping-glaJJes are very needfull. Sometimes alfo they are 
 fet without fcarifying onely to attract humours to the place. Another 
 time(it may be) in other cafes they are ufed with fcarifying, to take a- 
 way bloud and choler, which offendeth the part. Some let them on with 
 towe, fome with a ftnall wax light fet under them * fome onely with the 
 flame of a great candle, which my felf ufe, and is not offenfive nor paine- 
 full at all: whereas the other waies the flame excoriateth often the part, 
 and maketh new unfeemly worker for the better doing whereof, I ufe 
 to place my candle clofc to the place where the Cups fhould be fet, the 
 place being firft wet and rubbed well with hot water and a fpunge,and 
 the Cupping-glafles alfo wet. Hold your Cuppwg-glaffes over the flame a 
 little, and then clap it quickly on the place whileityetthefteeme of the 
 lightisin it, and it will be faft, and draw hard; but you muft have your 
 Cups fit, and not too wide for the place you would fet them on, or elfe 
 they will not take any hold. Further, when you perceive they have 
 drawn well, which by the blackncffc and riling of the skin you may ea- 
 .y > _ thcn Of you hold it fitting) you may lightly and quickly fcarifie 
 
 it with a fine Launcet, which truly isthebeftand profitablcft inftrument 
 for that ufe 5 and then wetting your Cupphg.gUJfes againe, with the 
 flame onely of the candle fet them on where they flood before, fating 
 as many cu Pjt and drawing as much bloud as you fee good: and when no 
 morc bfoud will come, and that you thinkeit time to take them away, 
 which is knownby a yellow water which cometh atthelaft :then(I fav) 
 5 MC ‘ mct0 wafti the places with faite water where the cups flood, and 
 ry them with a fpunge or cloth, and onely anoint them with tine - Al. 
 bum once, and they will be whole. The overdeep fcarifying it is not 
 only dangerous,but alfo painfull,and notart-like :for ifyou note well the 
 it hath many capillar vcines in it* yea, and fome great veines, 
 
 mayby force draw humidity fuffidem 
 
 Sorfct °° th " higbCS> fodH 
 
 ' Of the BraJJe Bafin. 
 
 TntMkarnt T Have nothing to write concerning it, but thatatthelenft Cur 
 ***** ^gcons Mate have one if not two ; and if he finde no ufe for it, let 
 
 hjq? 
 
 The end toby 
 they arc fet 
 Without fcari - 
 
 Why with fca- 
 rifying. 
 
 The divers fit - 
 ting of them . 
 
 Thcbcfl man - 
 ner of fitting 
 them . 
 
 Note* 
 
 Scarification 
 txuft be light, 
 andfidain, and 
 with aLaunccu 
 
 When to taly* 
 the cupping * 
 glafes away, 
 what to be done 
 after they be 
 fatten away* 
 Veep fcarifying 
 evift. 
 
0/the Inftruments , and their ufes. 
 
 The quantise ] 
 of blond. ' 
 imiteuionmth - 
 m* diferetion is 
 idle. 
 
 Blond par in- 
 gen neceffarie* 
 
 The confutati¬ 
 on of the body 
 is to be regar¬ 
 ded in Phlebo¬ 
 tomy. 
 
 him fell it for good liquor at Bant ham , as a Surgeons Mate lately did one 
 of mine. 
 
 ofthe Bloud Poringers. 
 
 "DLoud Po ringers areneceflary at Sea, to be the more certaine of the 
 -■-'quantity of bloud which is let; for fince the bloud of man is fo 
 precious, it is to bee well weighed what quantitie is taken. And although 
 the German Surgeons, doe ever let bloud into a Bafpn, yet I hold 
 it not good for the Surgeons Mate to imitate at fir ft, except hee be of 
 good judgement indeed,to judge of the quantity. The bloud Poringers, 
 which are made for that purpofe being full, hold juft three ounces, 
 and fomewhat more. For myowne pradice I hold thiscourfe; if one 
 chance to come to me of hmifelfc, or by advice of a Phyfician to be let 
 bloud, though he have a ftrong body, I never take from him more then 
 two poringers,and a halfe at the moft,but often lefle. If the party be not 
 ftrong, except it be in cafe of a Pleurifie , or fome like urgent caufc, I take 
 lefte .For in that worke except my reafon give mee good fatisfadi- 
 onto doe the contrary, I will rather offend in too little, then in too 
 much taking of bloud away ; for I have feene much hurt to have enfued 
 by great quantity of bloud taken away at one time: 7. or 8. ounces 
 I hold a ftrong body may beare to lofe, having good nourifhment to 
 recover it agaioe , and that without harme: but if you grow to ten 
 ounces, you maymany waies doe harme in the body, except your war¬ 
 rant be good. I fpeake not this to difeourage young Surgeons from a 
 worke fo behovefull, but admonifh them to warineffeinp point fodan- 
 gerous. , 
 
 Ojthf Dyet Pot. 
 
 'T' He Dyet Pot is not alpn^to be ufed in cafes of dyet drinke, teething Thc u(i 
 for the pox,& not otherwife; for as a learned Dodor upon occafion 
 lately reafoned, there is difference betwixt the Dyet, and a Dyet , though 
 in both kinds there is ex’cn.gttot homines, tot fententt* , fo many men,fo 
 many minds. Wherefore concerning defcriptions,of feveral Dyet drinks 
 for the pox, I will referre the Surgeons Mate to other Authors: for in 
 truth I muft deferre that point till fitter opportunity .; I mean? till 
 I write touching the cure of that difeate. And yet ( mee thinkts ; to 
 fpeak fomewhat of a drinke in the cafe of the Calenture, or any other un ■ 4 decocTlon 
 naturall hot fever,to be made atSea to qualifie the heat ofthe bloud,were ibt uunme. 
 not amifte ; which may be donees followeth, 
 
 Too little rather 
 then too much 
 bloud is to bee 
 taken cavay* 
 
 till d 
 'Mu 
 fjftrfvv 
 
 9:. French barley § iiij, 
 Frcftiwater 2 .gallons 
 Licodcef j. 
 
 Cloves nv 12. 
 
 
 to 
 
 b 
 
 fo want of Licorice, take juice of Licorice halfe ah ounce. In want of 
 Trench barley takeother barley, or for a-tteedc v wheat flower ;;boyle 
 this gently to 4.or 5.quarts,then cleare it, and if if may be, keepe it nor in vm to 
 
 G the 
 
 
z+ 
 
 Oftbe Injhuments, and their ufes* 
 
 The compofition 
 §f thia drink? if 
 the heat be ever 
 peat y cau. - 
 feth head-ach. 
 rte colour and 
 tafte of the 
 drinkers to be 
 obferved • 
 
 pofed for a 
 Laike. 
 
 the brafle pOt.but in fome earthen or glafle veflell j and if the party his heat 
 be great, and have painc in his head, adde thereto fo many drops ofoyle 
 or fpirit of Vitrioll 5 s will a little change thetafte & make it fowenft>,but 
 not too tart in any wife*, and if into all this drinke, youputoflvofc 
 water.of wifte vinegcr,or Rofe vineger,and Cinamon water,of each only 
 one fpoonefull, ifyou have it, it will doc well to mend the tafte; if not, 
 thematterisnotgreat: let the Patient drinke often hereof. Further you 
 may, ifyou think good, adde firrupe or juice of Limons 4. If it be for 
 one which is loofe in his belly,you may infufeofyour fuccus ^ cat ia here¬ 
 in fome 2. or $. 3 ,and (being clearedj let him drink ofthe drink plenti¬ 
 fully as he hath thirft; but you mnft cut your Matt a firft,and diflolve it in 
 a little of the drinke warmed , and fo put it into the reft. Alfo, in want of 
 %_sfcatia, ifyou put therein Galls in powder a little, it will do well. 
 
 n fother 
 
 
 'T’He next inftrumcnts,in order to bee remembred, arc thefe follow- 
 ing,viz. 
 
 Skillet. 
 
 Chafing dipt, 
 
 G lifer pot. 
 
 Funnell. 
 
 Cups to give potions in. 
 
 One Board & knife tofpreadplaftrs. 
 M or ter and Pefell. 
 
 Weights and feales. 
 
 Srves. 
 
 Sources. 
 
 Strayners. 
 
 Splints. 
 
 Junks. 
 
 Tape. 
 
 Tome. 
 
 Spunges. 
 
 Clouts. 
 
 Howlers, 
 
 Gray paper. 
 Whitepaper. 
 
 Empty pots andglajfes. 
 Threedandneedles . 
 Wax Candles. 
 Lanthorne. ' 
 
 Tinder box furnifhed. 
 lnke and quills. 
 
 One clofejloolc. 
 
 One bedpan. 
 
 One brajfe paile. 
 20.well burned bricks. 
 Pipkins. 
 
 Empty baggs. 
 
 I (hall not need to fpend much time, to fet downe the ufes of all thefe ne- 
 cefTarie implements, only two or three of the mod needfull to be noted, 
 I will remember, and then to the ufes of the medicines within the Cheft. 
 
 of Weights and Scales 
 
 \KT Eights and Scales are neceffary things, often times lightly regar- 
 * * ded, and yet how many mens lives hang in the ballance, it is 
 The uft is H- plaineenough. For Sea-Surgeons familiarly give Stibium by the graine, 
 tw * namely,from 4-to 8.graine$,yca, and to 1 a. graines by your leave , when 
 
 a peat ftuit in truth few of them have weights & feales which can weigh one graine. 
 ftp” ani It is a dangerous thing for a Surgeon at Sea, to bee unprovided of neat 
 weights and feales which will turne with halfc a graine : for how can 
 they give either Laudanum Paracel ft, Stibium , or other Chimicall me- 
 
 > dicines 
 
*5 
 
 Of the Injhuments , and their u[es % 
 
 dicines fafely,or almoft any medicine inward without fmall weights and 
 feales' Wherefore two pairc of weights andfeales, are very needfull 
 for the Surgeons Cheft; namely, one for ounces, and another 
 for graines 5 for larger feales the (hip is furnifhed. It is alfo to be under- 
 flood here, for inftru&ion of children in Art, that xvj. ounces, make 
 a pound; each ounce B.drammes, each dramme j.fcruples, each fcruple a dinSHmin 
 a o. graines: for the graine,a full barley corne will well ferve, or a good wights. 
 wheat corne, though a large wheat corne be fomewhat too big ran or¬ 
 dinary pepper come will alfo ferve for a graine. 
 
 of the Cleft-ftoole , with the Paile of'BraJfe , and 
 the Bricks, 
 
 A Lthough I know before hand, that I amtoundergoe many witty 
 and eloquent flouts from young gallants of my owne profeflton,for 
 mentioning fo bafe an inftrument to belong to theSurgeons charge,as this Meant things 
 laft mentioned Clofe-ftoole,with his appurtenances, yet let them know, 
 that neither can my booke blufli, neither lhall my felfe, I hope, have mm. 
 caufej for I nothing doubt to yecld each honeft young Artift a fufficient 
 reafon for to fatisfie him herein: and ( in a word ) my realon for ap¬ 
 pointing to each (hip,bound for the Eafl-Indies,at the leaft one of thefe, 
 isbecaufethebloudy,or other flixes , arefo dangerous difeafes, and None why 
 fo deadly amongft our men, that I hold it my duty to advife even the 
 good ufe of a Clofe-ftool : and I have caufed the ftoole to have one door daine themc*- 
 on the one fide, that thereby either things to foment, fumigate, or other- TheirfrJfefm 
 wife to comfort the weake part, might be the better applied, the Patient The ufe of the 
 fitting at his cafe thereon. c Jf . 
 
 Alfo one efpeciall reafon, why I have appointed it, is, that a poore 
 weake man in his extremities, fhould not continually goe to the fhrouds, 
 or beake-headtoeafehimfelfe; nor be noyforae to his fellowes, but 
 might by the help of his Mate through this meane infWnent finde com¬ 
 fort in his moft pitifull diftrefte; whofc miferies I heartily compaflionate. obferve this if 
 Wherefore, I admonilh the Surgeons Mate in generall, in the feare of thmhafiatoL 
 God, not to be fine fingered, fiothfull,orfcornefulltoufeeverykinde f wncc ' 
 of good manuall and other help, to fave mens blouds in this fea refull dif- 
 eafe > for the omitting of their duties in helping men thus diftrelfed, 
 bringeth the blouds of thofe men without doubt upon their heads; and 
 thoughperadventure they may carry it away for a while with men, yet the 
 AImightie,who feeth not as men fee, will furely finde them out. 
 
 The paile of brafTc , under the ftoole chiefly appointed for neatnefle, Thcbraffe-mu. 
 cleanlinefTe,ftrength,and othergoodufes it hath, was ahvaies to belong 
 thereto, and not to any other ufe: It may alfo fometimes be whelmed 
 downe , and on the top thereof a hot bricke be fet, or thcbricke (if fhe ufe of 
 you finde it too neerjmay ftand lower,or be put into the paile; which hot tru k e - 
 brick with wine and vineger, or any other like fitting medicine of expe- 
 rience,raay be fprinkled to comfort the part agrieved withall; tor it is 
 found by experience that the fteeme of wine vineger, fprinkled on a hot 
 brick doth much availe in the cure of the flix,& that fimple remedy alone V 1 * cm °f‘ he 
 
 Ga hath 7 "’ 
 
t 
 
 2 6 Of the Injlrum mtSy and their ufes* _ : 
 
 hath cured many; but when the Patient rifeth from the fa id fume,if then 
 a claoth be well heated over the faid fume or over a fire, and put dole 
 to the part, it availeth much; and if you then likewife lay the Patient to 
 reft, giving him three or foure graines of Laudanum , you fhall do the 
 better, and by Gods hclpe,with other anfwerable good regiment of 
 diet, make a quicke and perfect cure of his difeafe. But I am not igno¬ 
 rant, that there is ufe for twentie clofe ftooles at once, in fbme one 
 fhip, which worke the Cooper and Carpenter fhould take care of. 
 
 Thus having briefly runne over the moft neccflhrie ufes of the parti- 
 The tmiufun. cular Inftruments, and other neceflarie appendixes to the Surgeons 
 Cheft 5 it followeth next to begin with medicines Phyficall and 
 Chirurgicall,afwcll Ample as compound, within the Cheft; name¬ 
 ly, fbmewhat, though very briefly,to touch their moft 
 common ufes and vertues, for the helpe of 
 young Praditioners. 
 
 AN 
 
a;,-., r u MU^UM 
 
 ■7: it ^'mvoqi;;;. ’••nirbhnai>m' -1 €fi 
 v "rrU;iv.-{ „? /voKimvo^ri; .iiJninai 
 
 A FILM Oils DL i stEk. 
 
 I r * > ►. 
 
 
 oi fc, Jttoqinirrt b q 
 
 «p 
 
 .ooj3*nh;> x 
 
 fa 
 
 r 
 
 ;; d rr 
 
 i r mv 
 
 aH% 
 
 Art of givit.gaQliftcrof{ino,W, 
 
 wind, any dnepowdCTwhitfow er .in:fMbtoncc,iiw 
 
 y.mansbody, very convenient inmany occaiions, 
 “ra tCd ’| , 0 r bre »yM butalfo moft 
 
 saSEtt&dSS 
 
 not common, the AiSourWttobgtt fe SdtEy" m«lS 
 
 . . . < ■ W • - ' 
 
 The Autbmr to bis brother , o irnilitari ! 
 
 'Surgeon. • 
 
 . !' ' j isii.i.it . 
 
 .,, l mher {*&**> ^ing here fo well met, I efteemeit wilt not' Lthr£ 
 ill fpent that I cxplaine unto thee for thy experienceaTudE JfJ ^ 
 
 £SSfl£. "-for fnndry oct^S 
 
 and it is made of Grange, SiSS 
 in ™ ter ^lJ > extra marine, domeftiefc fubftance, or fubiettcoii 
 
 ifSr'F 
 
 * r n §> and urefuli in Surgery and Pfrvfidte ™*w 
 
 being a vegetable plant nnr^i f ° raany} thc ^bftunce wheredf 
 
 G 3 of 
 
 
of, and cafily oifpcrfcd by every motion of vvindj yed, ahd fo 
 from Nation to Nation, of a vagrant, not fragrant, olent, notred- 
 dolent fmell, being a volatile unccrtainc ayrie fubftancc 5 no fo«ner 
 taken into the body, butcaft out in a fuming manner yet as an Idol, 
 magnified by not a few, taken for health, folacc, eafe, pleafure, profit, 
 Comfort, wantonnefle, and good fellowfhip; being efteemed fit for all 
 focietics, as alfo received in for alcmenr, nutriment j yea,and for ef- 
 peciall food in fcarcity, ufed every way, and any way received into the 
 body (to wit) inwardly, outwardly, upward, downward, backward, 
 forward, without limitation of time, or advice ofthe learned, being alfo 
 approved ofby very many for other noble great and marvellous ver- 
 tues, as for the enriching, impoverifhing,fupporting,endowing,undoing, 
 maintaining, overthrowing, and railing againe of inumcrable perfons 
 and whole Families at home and abroad, as well oftraders as other oc¬ 
 cupiers by Sea and Land ilikevvife, for the ufes and arbufes thereof, ex- 
 pofed, and tranfported to each City, Townc-Corporate, Hamlet, 
 Village, Innc, Taverne, Tipling houfe, Goaile, and where not beloved, 
 or abhorred, but here I defire to concladc, fearing to be held overtedi- 
 ous, if I fhould further proceed inarogating or derogating, amplifying, 
 or ecclipfiug of that undoubted, excellent mcdicinall fubjedt, of heathen 
 produdiion and extramarine importation, and firft birth, becomes native 
 with us, and therefore fhould not be obnoxious , wherefore here my 
 riddle is put forth and is at an end. 
 
 And perceiving that you my Brother Surgeon expedt with defire, that 
 I fhould unfold this my riddle to you 5 we will for the purpofe ftep afide 
 in private, where we may accomodate our felves with a fmall Gallon of 
 Sacke,and a Pipe of the beft fmoakc, and there we will further difeourfe 
 of our occafions, and I will unfold the riddle. 
 
 the Military Surgeon, 
 
 OIr, I like Well your motion, and here at the figne of the mouth you 
 _ may be accomodated,for 1 long to come to the opening of the riddle, 
 with alfo wur imparting to me your colledlions, experiences, and inftru- 
 dions, arifing thereby in military fervice according to your formcrftru- 
 pofition. 
 
 The Antiwar, 
 
 \ , 
 
 JD Rother SurgconJ am ready fo anfwer your defire,and that as brief as 
 P°fsible; for we arc come to the period,here you fee the choice ma- 
 enallsbefore us the Wine and the Tobacco the latter, of which unfold 
 
 the r!fr h^ U P ' PC °. fTobacco > take it as your fhare and 
 
 the fubjediofthe riddle j the operative part whereof is but fmoakc, and 
 
 therefore fmoakc it to the purpofe, and I will anfwere you in the good 
 
 hquour which fimfheth the firft end of our meeting; namely jor the 
 
 brief! deflWt^ dk b r? g fimni , cd: . Now 1 doe in «nd to fall upon a 
 brief e declaring to you, of fome mcdecinall ufes of the fo long fpokenof 
 
 pep- 
 
pipe of good fmoakc, by feting forth thegiving of it Glifterwife ind 
 fume to a patient reverfed in the lime* wherein it exceileth as al- 
 
 fo for many other obftru&ions, gripings, Portions, Hiatal, stifl otherdi- 
 ftempers ot the bdwtl'i. 
 
 And firft for the time arid manner of the giving thereof, kisbefttb 
 be given if occafion bee by tortions, a fap * former ordinary djitter 
 hath been given \ that hath emptied the? .great guf blled : fhirh hiiurk 
 rettum, for , fo it may have the freer place % Inflatkfof* fo force up the 
 fame thereof forthcopening the obftrudta* ' a for the Better etfe- 
 ifting, wherof if the Artift that adminiftri^the famous (Sifter pat the 
 pipe prepared into the fundament as far as it vtfll'or dan go<*^ with the firft 
 Ihortpipc ferewed to it, and depending thereonremdi^bfihg ere h<e 
 put the pipe into the patience body, he putdthinnefieeeofa wet bldtfl 
 der, or oylcd paper, or a fine ragge only on over the head , I meane 
 or over the holes of the Cud Glifter pipe, foe which pipe befog fo armed 
 put into the body to the utmoft, that it may bo parted ifttvichout offence^ 
 the Arteft Being firft ready with his pipe, prepared cither of fmoakc 
 lighted, or of powder put into the fockct or appointed place, within the 
 Inftrument,let him that is to adminifter the famous dr bfofcf faedicine, 
 withdraw the pipe that is placed within the body a (ittle backe, fome 
 halfc an inch, that the fmall piece of bladder or paper, that covers the 
 pipe, may bee thereby put afidc, that fo the Glifter famous may by in* 
 flation be the better forced up for to performe foe duty Required of ~ik 
 namely,to difchateeitaUwifoifttHe ip.. 
 
 The Glifter Inftfaracrtc, & for the eiadi gving of a Vaporous ; fa¬ 
 mous, or dry Glifter ought to Confiftof feven parts ? in order to bee put 
 together (hereafterexplained) which iti tfieirordcr and places effedfed, 
 the famous medicine by inflation is to be driven uptofooa grieved part 
 If pofsible, but ho wfoever nought to be put upand ro lx: difeftarged into 
 the intefinumrefium-, which*is afafeand benificiall pourfc, efpeefolly 
 whentheinfirmiticisinthaegut fas isfaid:) This excellent inftrument 
 Hath a doubble fcopcin his office ofhealing, the one way m the delive¬ 
 ring intotbe body by inflation, any torrifiedor dry powdered medi¬ 
 caments irithtir powders, the other in delivering thereinto any vapo. 
 fous medicaments as isfaid, and namely, the vapours of Tobacco, of 
 Hutmegs, Arini-fecd, Colts-foot, Bay-berries Mirrha,Aloes, or what; 
 clfe, Art or experience Cap produce in the one forme or fo foe<>fo*r, by¬ 
 way of inflation to be caft into mans body for eafe or cure thereof But 
 the Artift muft in this manner of curing obferve fome gefoeftdl raids,with 
 alfo fome caveats In the adminiftring of Glifters by mfljtlorywhetber 
 they be famous or maferiall fubftanccs; namely, firft note that if they bp 
 intended for dry medicines or fames that they be given ihtothc body, 
 where loofenerte of the belly by a flux or otherwife hath proceeded l 
 whereby xhc lnttflimm rtcium i may be hoped to be empty, the better 
 to reteive with effoft the dry or vaporative medicine, that it be not im- 
 pediatecJ by hard excrements, but fuppofe ii be,andthat there be noo- 
 ther preventions ready then as aforefaid, the ufeofanoyled paper or 
 wet bladder will doe well, which fo put up, and the iniftruincnt fbme- 
 
 G 2 Wtart 
 
u 
 
 
 w^drawbadte^and then by inflation < or blowing itin with fitting eo'rfl 
 t^ncyvcdforcei^wiUcfe^^jy defur^Uor stsi* 
 
 Much more plight be added of the facility,(pleafure, and benifif 0 f 
 this infafive device iftime would give leave, butxhe whole workebfmv 
 Tneatifes,beipgplmoft pi?Qt«sdoff before ,1 had.refolved to cxplaincthw 
 
 iorje^th mec toufcallbrevitictherein,where T 
 pad intended, thcprofecution thereof further; namely y!byfbmed<4irJ 
 bfiArttol^ye ordered,the,parts of the tnftrutncrfly fochata tnan rhkS 
 have given himfelfc a Glifterin that way, which ! -willnot quefiion on* 
 D 9r.another will finds OWUiuad no.doubt vvfll adde m this invent^ 
 yea,,andqucftienlcflc will invent other poorl nffiret rU-i* 
 
 . ; i > ' 
 
 r rhe ^Mwlrfrumentt fir the ming hfafitmts medicine or othh ' 
 
 . 1 d eh ivfdidiptj wttbio the capacity thereof. ■■ * > : or-" 
 
 . p: id , \ t I to • 
 
 */u The Stopples thereof atcountcd as parts thevW.VoMi >: 
 mall arc fevea in number, tvift . 5 ,1C evidableparts 
 
 i The firft is the Glifter pipe whioh bught to be in lenarh 
 
 or according to art, a greater afidiaiieirer as th8 f! L^M^^^ , 
 
 *^yWgfi*nj})-iot.’i. t ;; n;vo' -• I'llno:' (vnd^ior:ffiO v ® ••<, cc ^ on 
 
 ^.■oTg/^ th ' ft0pplcto * ^ cfewct l upon the head thereof, 
 
 lassfe *«assusii» 
 
 2 
 
in kindling 5 andlaftly, which (hould have beene firft mentioned, is 
 the ingenious Artift, for the dew adminiftration thereof in time and 
 place convenient. Thus much of Enema Fumojum j and 
 I conclude, only thus I fay in dew com¬ 
 mendations thereof* 
 
 A Rttfciofifimum hoc injirumenti gems utihfsimum d'^oc irposct n] •7riara, 
 d-^mul\trumquepragnantium morbis fecretis , altifque uteri languoribus 
 uvamen ajfert multifarium^prxfertim in muliebribus obflruBtonibus , ha~ 
 monotasjuxibus , abertionbius y tortionibus , alitfque id genus irfrmiu- 
 tibns, Jicut ratio & experientiajlne omni dubio mamfejlumfaciet in future, 
 
 « 
 
/' 1 
 
 I 
 
<1 
 
 Electuariu YPulvis re- 
 Diatrion firing. mi. 
 piperion. | nus. 
 
 Ung.con- 
 tra ignem. 
 
 Ungiten- 
 turn Mar- 
 tiatum. 
 
 Vng.Dia- 
 pompho- 
 ligos. 
 
 Tber'taca 
 
 Diateff. 
 
 Vngtientum 
 
 Dialthea. 
 
 ^Axungia 
 
 Cervi. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 vEgyptia 
 cum. 
 
 Elelt: 
 Diafcor- 
 dium. 
 
 mid 
 Depur a- 
 turn. 
 
 '■S' . 
 
 fl 
 
 a 4 
 
 Vng. Au 
 reum. 
 
 Theriaca 
 
 Lend: 
 
 Vnguentum 
 Album. 
 
 Axungiit 
 
 Porcina. 
 
 Con 
 
 Ro, 
 
 infer. 
 
 ifarum. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 Potabile. 
 
 Linam. 
 
 Arcei. 
 
 Terebinth. \Vnguentum 
 Venetia. I Populeon. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 An agon. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Pettorale. 
 
 Confer. 
 Bar bar: 
 
 i 
 
 Rhubarb 
 elect .__ 
 Confer. 
 PruneL 
 lorum. 
 
 oleum 
 
 Lauri. 
 
 Confer. 
 
 Cidenio. 
 
 Tam arm 
 donum, 
 
 Mel Sa- 
 ponis. 
 
 Conf ell. 
 Hamech. 
 
 Ill 
 
 5.5 
 
 st 1 
 
 * 
 
 l*§ 
 
 !<j 5 
 
 The Ioweft part of 
 the Cheft. 
 
 the Cheft, with the or¬ 
 der of every Medicine 
 as they are placed, 
 is here demon- 
 ftrated. 
 
 Acatu. 
 
 
 Lixivi. 
 
 . urn capi¬ 
 tate. 
 
 Syrttpus 
 
 Rofarum. 
 
 Balfit- 
 
 mumar- 
 
 tific. 
 
 r oleum 
 \ Lilio- 
 rum. 
 
 Oleum 
 
 Limoni. 
 
 J 
 
 Mel 
 
 Rofarum. 
 
 Acetum 
 Rofarum■ 
 
 Oleum 
 
 Terebint. 
 
 Ol. Ltim- 
 
 bricorum. 
 
 Oleum 
 
 Scorpio. 
 
 Oleum' 
 
 Petre- 
 
 oli. 
 
 Syrupus 
 
 Abfinthii. 
 
 Diamo - 
 ron. 
 
 Oleum I 
 Vitrioli. 1 
 
 Oleum 
 
 Suecmi. f 
 
 Oximel, 
 
 ketum 
 
 loftrum. 
 
 Aqua Ab¬ 
 finthii. 
 
 AquaRefa. 
 rum rub. 
 
 oleum cha- 
 momtli. 
 
 Oleum 
 
 Rofarum. 
 
 _ 
 
 K_Aqua 
 
 Angelica. 
 
 Aqua 
 
 Plantag. 
 
 Oleum 
 Sambuci: 
 
 oleum 
 c Anethi. 
 
 Aqua Ly- 
 moniorum. 
 
 Aqua Car- 
 dui bened: 
 
 Oleum 
 
 Abfinthii. 
 
 AquaCi - 
 nmorni. 
 
 Succus Ly- 
 moniorum. 
 
 Aqua 
 
 CMentha. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Bafilicon. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 i^Aureum. 
 
 Syr, 
 
 Vnguentum Befit - 
 uEgyptaic; 
 
 Axungia 
 
 Porci. 
 
 rum. 
 
 Syr . 
 Viola- 
 rum. 
 
 Syr. 
 Papa - 
 *! veris. 
 
 Syr. 
 
 Lique 
 
 ntite. 
 
 CM el 
 Rofia. 
 rum. 
 CM el 
 
 rofit- 
 
 rum. 
 
 Mi- 
 
 thri- 
 
 dat. 
 
 Theri¬ 
 
 aca. 
 Ven: 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Al.Camph. 
 
 ~DtaP 
 
 cordi. 
 urn. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 nutritum. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Dialthu 
 
 Conf. 
 
 Ha. 
 
 mech. 
 
 Crocus 
 
 Mart. 
 
 Pilula 
 
 Cochia 
 
 Axungia 
 
 cervi. 
 
 Syr. 
 
 Limo- 
 
 nior. 
 
 Syr. 
 
 / runel. 
 
 Syr. 
 
 Diam. 
 
 Theri¬ 
 
 aca. 
 
 _Londi: 
 \Laud. 
 
 Dia- conf. 
 phoni- 
 con. 
 
 Pilula 
 
 ctmbo 
 
 fia, 
 
 Vnguentum Wnguentum 
 Populeon. \cont.igne. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Pectorale. 
 
 Alker. 
 
 mes. 
 
 Pilula 
 
 Agrcg. 
 
 Uffi. 
 
 Species Di¬ 
 atrion pipe, 
 rion. 
 
 Eica. C“°-1 D i“- 
 
 <Wrf“ H'o- 
 
 \Parac.\ licon. 
 
 Species Di- 
 
 Terebinth : 
 
 atefferon. 
 
 Clara. 
 
 Conferva 
 
 Rofarum. 
 
 Elect. 
 
 Diatr. 
 
 Pipe. 
 
 Conferva 
 
 Anthes. 
 
 Note that the particulars 
 mentioned on each fide this 
 place,are ufually to be found 
 in the upper part of 
 the Cheft* 
 
 The middle part, which 
 cannot bee here «xprefled,I 
 leave to the Surgeons 
 experimental! or¬ 
 dering and 
 view. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Linamcn - j. 
 
 Potabile. 
 
 Arragon. 
 
 Martiatum. 
 
 turn Arcei. J 
 
 nis. 
 
 Rba -* 
 barba. 
 
 Aga. 
 
 nciim. 
 
 Mum * 
 mi a. 
 
 Cam- 
 
 bogia. 
 
 Aloes. 
 
 Scamo. 
 
 nium. 
 
 Sper¬ 
 
 maceti. 
 
 Terra 
 
 Sigil- 
 
 lata. 
 
 Stibi¬ 
 um. 
 
 Opium, 
 
 Crocus. 
 
 Conferva 
 
 Conferva 
 
 Conferv.Ci- 
 
 larhtroru. 
 
 Prunclloru. 
 
 doniorum. 
 
 Bolus 
 
 verus. 
 
 Myr- 
 
 rha. 
 
 Maf 
 tick. 
 
 Cam- 
 
 phora. 
 
 1 — ■ 
 
 Troch: 
 
 Alha n - 
 
 dal. 
 
 pul: 
 Lique- 
 rttia. 
 
 Vnguentum 
 
 Diapom- 
 
 pholigos. 
 
 Mercu. 
 Sub h- 
 mat. 
 
 Pr&ci - 
 pit. 
 
 Ett- 
 
 phorbi- 
 
 urn. 
 
 Pul. 
 Bene- 
 dtclus, 
 
 Argen 
 
 turn 
 
 . vivi*. 
 
 — ■ -> 1 
 
 Vng.contra 
 
 fcorbutm. 
 
 Cina* 
 brium. 
 
 Hiera- 
 
 picra. 
 
 - 
 
 Sal Ni- 
 tri. 
 
 Sal 
 
 Abfn. 
 
 tbit. 
 
 Tutia. 
 
 T.T. 
 
 Pul.reflrin - 
 
 Puluis 
 
 PttlpA 
 
 Succus 
 
 gens major. 
 
 Arthreticus 
 
 Tamarind, 
 
 Liqueritifi v 
 
 Mithridat. 
 
 Loving Reader,this explanation is more for putting the Artift in memory 
 of what may be,then of what rauft be in his Cheft; for although there 
 may feeme many particulars, yet there wanteth at the leaft forty 
 more, that may not in true method be omitted in a due pro¬ 
 portion; as namely, all theinftruments for manuall 
 ufes and operations, allthemoft ufefull of which 
 areexprefled in an Index following the Pre¬ 
 face in the beginning of the booke. 
 
 Place this Cheft, betwixtFoL 26 and 27, 
 
AN 
 
 ABRIDGMENT OF THE 
 
 vertues of certaine Emplaisters 
 mentioned, which are moft ufaall in 
 the Surgeons Cheft. 
 
 Emplafrum ftipticum Paracelfi . 
 
 His compofition, devifed by the famous Philofophcrs 
 PhtltppusfTheopbrastus 3 and Paracelfus , excelleth in the 
 cure of piercing wounds & (tabs j as alfo in the cure of' 
 all dangerous wounds whatfoever : it hath the prece¬ 
 dence as well for contufed as incifed woundsj for it af- 
 fwageth paine, defendeth from accidents, difeufleth, 
 mollifiethjattradethjincarneth , digefteth and confoli- 
 dates: and is alfo good for an old ach proceeding of a cold caufc.lt is fur¬ 
 ther efpecially good for ulcers on the legges, or elfewhere in any part of 
 the body: it is of temperament warme,and very comfortable. 
 
 For approbation whereof you may lee Paracelfus his ownc 
 words, which I have here inlerted. 
 
 Hoc Emplastrum eft magis 'virtutis divina quam humana. Valet ad 
 tmnes plagas, novas & antiquas. K^4bflergit 3 mundificat , carnembonam 
 generate confolidat ex fun do plus una feptimana, quatn aliud quodcunque in 
 menfe, neepermittitfieri aliquant putrefatfionem & corruptionem, neema- 
 lam carnem generate Valet omnibus nervis incifs , ut conquajfatts & mu feu. 
 Its. Valet omnibus inftaturis 3 abftrahit ferrum& lignum plumbum de 
 plaga } eidem fuppofttum. Valet contra omnes morfuras cujufcunque morfura 
 beftia venenofa, & puncluras Serpentis j maturat,fanat omne generatum cu. 
 jufcunqae yipoftumatis , fuperpofttum. Valet in membns generations ft ibifit* 
 erit corruptio. Valet contra Cancrum,fftulas y contra ignemper(icum- y fedat 
 dolor es cujufcunque plag*. HacTheopbraft. Bombaft. 
 
 Diachilon magnum cum gumm'ts. 
 
 f-F-'His Emplafter dilfolveth, maturateth, and mollifieth hardnelfes, 
 X and is principally good in Apoftumes: it is of temperament warme, 
 
 and 
 
28 Of the Medicines, and their ufes • 
 
 " and moift. It was firft dcvifed by a ccrtaine Artift named Straps. 
 
 'vicenna (as fome thinke) invented it 3 but others judge that Mefues was 
 the inventor thereof. 
 
 Diachilon parvum. 
 
 T His Emplafter is very good to dilfolve fchirras , tumours of the 
 liver,fplene, reines, belly, or elfewhcre 5 it is wholly compofed of 
 mollifying and difeufling ingredients; it ferveth generally for hot 
 or cold caufcSjbut chiefly for hot:For I hold it to be of temperament cold, 
 the rather,by reafon of the much Litharge in it, which, if a minerall may 
 be called either hot or cold Litharge,cold it is without queftion. It was 
 devifed by Mefues. 
 
 . Diacalcitbcos . 
 
 T His Emplafter mitigateth paine jit isagooddefenfativeagainftall 
 venemous humours, and will very well induce a cicatrice in 
 wounds and ulcers: alfo it hath an efpeciall good qualitic to aflwage 
 the paine in the fmallofthebacke, proceeding from diftempered kid- 
 nies, by hot caufes, afwell concerning the ftone, andgravell, as in the 
 Gonorrea: and diftolved or relented with oile of roles or eiders, or of 
 linfeed, it is a very good medicine to heale burnings, and foaldings. It 
 was devifed firft by Gdenus : of temperament it is cooling and drying. 
 
 Empl. Oxicrocetm. 
 
 T His is a very ancient compofition,but aferibed chiefly to NicoUus an 
 ancient Writer as Author thereof: it is of quality anodine, at¬ 
 tracting, mollifying, and comforting j alfwageth paines in the 
 gout proceeding of a cold caufe, and is good in cold Aches, and by that 
 attracting vertue it hath, it draweth out vapors per per os cutis , or the 
 fweat vents in theskinne, whereby it often uniadeth the body of vi¬ 
 cious and noifome humors,which otherwife might indanger the Patient: 
 of temperament it is hot and moift, &c. 
 
 Empl. MeUlotumper fplen. 
 
 T His Emplafter mollifieth all hardnefle of the liver, fplene, and 
 ventricle; diffolveth windineffe, ceafeth vehement paines pro¬ 
 voked by winde 5 as namely, in the difeafe cz\kd flatus hiper ondri - 
 acus, which is a flatious or windy paine gathered neere unto the Splene: 
 it is alfo generally good againft the gathering together of any congealed 
 cold fubftance in the ftomach or liver : of temperament it is warme, 
 and comforting cxceedingly:It was devifed by CMefues an ancient writer. 
 
 Empl. (JMelilotum (implex. 
 
 '"pHisis goodin greenc wounds, for it drawerh and healeth well: alfo 
 A * attra&eth and bringeth forward a cold Apoftume,and is an cfpecial 
 
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 fccret, and the beft thing lever knew in curing kybedheeles and chil- 
 blaincs: itisoftemperamenthotand moift, and wasdcvifedby Mefues. 
 
 Emplajirum de lapide calaminarifit Griftum. 
 
 T His Emplafter ( I may fpeake of my ownc experience) is a good 
 healer of ulcers which are hard to bee cicatrized, and hath an ef- 
 peciall vertuc in curing of buboes , as well venercall as peftilcntiall: 
 It is alfo the beft incarnative of all the Plafters that ever I ufed. 
 
 Emplajirum de Mime. 
 
 T His Minium- plafter is a good difcufler of hot humors , a good 
 fwagerofpaines,mollifiethwell, rcpellcth fomewhat, and is very 
 commodioufly ufed upon wounds and ulcers, to further good hea¬ 
 ling :it induceth alfo a good cicatrice. In the tumour of fcrotum,or rather of 
 the Tefticles, called Hernia humor alts , commonly following the fudden 
 (topping of Gonorrhea, it is a very convenient anodine and difcufling 
 Plafter This Emplaftcr likewifcis very good to fwage painc,in any cafe, 
 where fafely an anodine Emplafter is required j as namely, incontufed 
 or diftorted joints: only note^that this Emplajirum de Minio is meant of 
 the compolition fet downe by that reverent Matter Gallc in his Di£ 
 penfatorie, for I make mine according to his defcription. 
 
 Emplaftrum calidum , 
 
 r T“ , His Emplajirum jlomacht or calidum , is a compofition defcribcd 
 . J|[ by Johannes Jacobus Weckerus , under that name,pag. 953. of his 
 Difpenfatorie: it is only ufed where a comforting Emplafter of a 
 very warme temperament is required: it is a needfull Emplafter in the 
 Surgeons Cheft 5 for it comfortcth much the liver or ftomake debilitated 
 by cold humours, and helpeth well digeftion; yet in want thereof Para- 
 celfus Plafter,though not fo fitly, may fcrvc. 
 
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 venues of certain Unguents, moft ufuall 
 
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 Vnguentum Baft lie on. 
 
 \ HiS'unguent doth digeft and incarn wounds and ulcers; 
 9 and will alfo prepare and bring to fuppuration an Apo- 
 ftume either hot or cold,being fomewhat thick fpread 
 on towe or leather and applied thereto: it alfo mitiga- 
 teth the paine and pulfation thereof, and is likewife 
 vs*** W4*g**r> very fitly mixed either with precipitate^ Unguentum 
 Bgyptiacttm , or the like medicine, the more eafily and 
 better to mundifie and cleanfe an ulcer: this unguent is of temperament 
 warme, and it is aferibed to have been devifed'by Galen: it is alfo good 
 for burnings and fealdings. 
 
 Unguentum t^ApoJlolerum. 
 
 T*His unguent ferveth well to cleanfe and fcower ulcers and fiftu- 
 1 la ’ s > and to make a good ground to healing: it is of temperament 
 hot and dry: it was devifed by Avicen •, named Apojlelorum, for that it 
 confifteth of twelve feverall ingredients joyned into one body. 
 
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 Vnguentum Aurtum. 
 
 T’His unguent ferveth well to incarne wounds and ulcers, being firft 
 1 well mundified: it is alfo to be ufed as a balm to them to heale them 
 and is a good healer of burnings and fealdings, the fire firft taken out! 
 The compofition which I doe make , is of the pra&ice of JofepJjus 
 guercitams, whofe good ufe I have made triall of. - ’ 
 
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 V,nguentum Egyptiacum. 
 
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 His unguent fetveth to fcower; it mundifieth all rotten foule ulcers 
 * and is beft to be put into thegriefe fealding hot, forthenthe ufuall 
 painc and corrofion it procureth will be quickly pafhin likemanneritis 
 to be ufed in any venemous wounds,made either with poifoned thOf, 
 
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 or bitten with mad dogges , or any other venemotis or great contufcd 
 wounds, wherein, for preventing them from feare of a Gangrene, it ex. 
 cellctb. It ferveth alfo well to be ufed alone, or mixed with any lotion 
 for ulcers of the mouth and throat, efpecially in the fcurvie .This unguent 
 drieth vehemently ,and is abfterfive: it is of temperaoent hot and dry, 
 and was devifed by Mefues. 
 
 Vnguentum album Camphor at um. 
 
 T His unguent is very good to cool and heale any hot moift puftles : 
 it cureth excoriations of the skinne in any place, but chiefly in the 
 yard betwixt glops and premium: it alfo healeth burnings and 
 fcaldings very well, and is good to dc applied to any painfull ulcer; for 
 it affwageth paine, and healeth well. It was invented by ^Aviccn: it is 
 of temperament cold, anodine, mollificative, and attndlive, and there¬ 
 fore of very good confequenceinthe Surgeons Chef. 
 
 Vnguentum Diapompholigos. 
 
 T His unguent is good to heale painfull ulcers in my partofthe bo¬ 
 dy, efpecially of the yard, or betwixt glans and praputinm, as al¬ 
 fo any fretting or painfull ulcers of theiegge$,or elfewhere. I 
 have found it good before all other unguents in ulcers of the yard; indeed 
 againft virulent, painfull and corrofive ulcers, fcarce a better compofition 
 is knowne: in Noli me tangere in the face, I have had good experience of 
 it; and in many other occafions I have found it a very ufefull unguent: of 
 temperament it is cold and dry. Nicolaus i^Alexandrims was the author 
 of it. 
 
 Vnguentum Fell or ale, 
 
 TT fwageth the paines and flitches of the breaft anc fides, eafeth the 
 cough, helpeth expectoration: as alfo to digefl groiTe humours, and 
 to attenuate them: it warmethand comfortetha cold ftomacke. This 
 compofition is fet downc in the Difpcnfatory of Augujia. 
 
 Vnguentum Rofatum. 
 
 T His is ufed againft inflammations , Jgnem ferum , and all hot 
 paines of the head: it affwageth the paines of the liver, kidneics, 
 and belly,* proceeding of heat, and hath vertue ;o corroborate. It 
 was invented by Mefues. 
 
 Vnguentum Tripharmacon , or Nutriturn, 
 
 'THis ferveth well to cure an EryftpiU , excoriation or bladderingsof 
 , the slun 5 fuch alfo as are termed the Shingles: it is alfo good for to 
 take the fire out of burnings and fcaldings ; and for any moift hu- 
 mow flowing toanyulcers in any part of the bodying fnrod upon cap 
 paper thin, and laid ova the whole diftempered part” alfo againft any 
 
 fleight 
 
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 be over dry, adde vmeger and oyle thereto, and it will be as good as 
 
 THis ferveth well to aiTwage the paines of the s cur vie , by anointing 
 
 7 ’ 1 mayjuftly fay, upon the experience 
 
 ofdiversskilfullSurgeons,and my owne alfo,that as well in hotasin 
 cold countries, it hath beene found fo exceeding comfortable and behove- 
 full, that fcarce any compofition of an Unguent in the Surgeons Cheft 
 may compare with it: which fome may thinke is a very abfurd affirma¬ 
 tion in reafon, but that experience will have it fo. It is good alfo to an 
 noint the Temples, to provoke reft in hot fevers 5 as alio thepalmesof 
 the hands and foies of the feet. It is likewife good to be applied for fwa 
 ging of paine in any part of the body, and being applied cold upon a Pk- 
 gtnt where you have laid any corrofive, it eafeth the dolour of the cau- 
 fticke medicine. Of temperament it is cold and moift ; it was deviled by 
 
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 Mel Saponis. 
 
 A/T El Scents is honey and fope mixed ana, partes acjuales , and is a me- 
 a dicine appointed to be firft applied (upon a burning or fealding) to 
 take the fire out. It isalinament of ancient ufc amongft our countrey 
 Surgeons, and good: but I finde it not mentioned in ancient Writers; in 
 want whereof ufe Tripbarmacon, or an infufion of Vineger and Litharge : 
 namely,!* Lithargeoi gold in powder 54. wine Vineger lib.j mixe them 
 well, and boile them very gently a little on the fire, and the Vineger will 
 become fweet as fugar, and very anodine: foment the griefe therewith 
 and you ihall finde prefent eaic to the party. Or take Populeum and un- 
 guentum album mixed, and apply it on fofc cap paper, firft being well 
 rubbed with your hand to make it fo: or take Biacalcithios or Minium 
 plafter, and mixe it with Linfced oyle,or oyle ofElders,till it be a gentle 
 unguent, and fo apply it: or Tripbarmacon alone will doe well: alioHoi 
 ney alone is a good medicine. 
 
 Ungucntum contra ignem . 
 
 ^pHis compofition vfed to that purpofe, you ihall finde in Johannes 
 A Weckerus his Dilpenfatory, pag. 1174 .1 have found it very good a- 
 gainft burnings and foldings, as alfo againft burnings with gunpowder. 
 Where I write thecompolitionsof my medicines in generall, that alfo 
 ihall be expreifed. In want of this compofition, the Vng. album , either 
 alone, or mixed with Tripbarmacon, will doe very well ; which if it be 
 too hard or dry, you may mixe oyle of Rofes or Linfeed with it: and for 
 wantofthis,you may take Dtacalctthios otMwium mixed or relented with 
 
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 any of the faid oyles,or any other fitting oyle,as oyle olive fimple: alfo 
 unguentnm Bafdicon is very good in burnings and fealdings. 
 
 Ungucntum contra fcorbutum. 
 
 T He compofition of this Unguent is recited in the cure of the Scur* 
 vy. I have had the practice thereof , and found it very good to at¬ 
 tenuate grofle tumors oithtS curvy p.o aftwage the paines ofthem, 
 and by the ufc thereof to dilfolve fuch tumors. I u(e this Unguent in cold 
 caufes,andin want thereof,##^' Martiatumot oleum Laurint or Dial, 
 thu: but in hot griefes and very painefull I ufc populeum. 
 
 Unguentum Dialthex compofitum . 
 
 T His Unguent Nicolaus an ancient writer feemethtobe the Author 
 of. It is profitable againft paines of the breaft proceeding of a 
 cold caufe, and againft the Plcnrtfte : it warmeth, mollificth, and 
 comforteth all the parts of the body, which are evill difpofed through 
 cold infirmities: it is alfo good againft ftiffnefs and pain^ of thejoynts 
 in the Scurvy. 
 
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 hath the properties of the former, but the former is bet- 
 
 Ungucntum potabile. 
 
 T His Vnguent is a fure Balfame for wounds of any fort, or in any 
 part of the body, either penetrating or not penetrating j in wounds 
 penetrating cither inje&itwarme, or poure it into the wound. 
 Alfo upon any occafion, it is to be drunken ). or ij. at once, or 
 foradofe. It healeth wounds within the body. Alfo it healeth burnings 
 and fealdings without any fcarre. And further it cureth the winde 
 chollickedrunkewithfackc:the dofe is to beef j. withoutfeare:but I 
 give ufually but one dram or ij. 
 
 Ungentum de Mer curio. 
 
 T Have elfe-where faid, and it is too much apparent ,* that for healing 
 2nd killing , Mercuric hath no fellow $ and where I recite c jMer- 
 curie in any of my inftru&ions, you muft underftand raee Mck- 
 filler , for lb it is truly ftiled by the Learned, and not without good 
 realon. This Unguent , j«yne with it what other ingredients you pleale, 
 yet itMercuriebe one,it wil Ihew his valour in defpight ofthe reft,though 
 it have 2 o. for one odds againft it j fo puifTant is that Volatile and excel¬ 
 lent fprnt of his,which (I may boldly lay) could truly never be tamed: & 
 yet many worthy medicines are made thereof, which in their feverall 
 places I meane to explaine as I {hall have time, God willing. You mav 
 
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 vtvus, or qmckfilver 5 n. oleum [pice oxTereb. if you have them, mu 5 fs. 
 
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 and if you fee caufe in very cold bodies you may adde of Euphorbium’in 
 powder 5 ii. This unguent is good to provoke a fluxe. You may make it 
 of one of thefe ungums alone for need. But I wifh not the Surgeon to 
 carry any of this unguent ready made to the Eaft-Indies} fortheQuick- 
 filver fit is to be feared ) will fall to the bottomerbut if hee will needs 
 have it ready made 5 let him adde to the compofition, waxe,a fufficient 
 quantity} but itmuft be made as followeth. The waxeand unguent 
 muftbe melted together, which being yet warme, R Tercbintbina cUra 
 | i. being put into the bottome of the woodden bowle,or brafle bafon,nof 
 a pewter bafon} and ftirringit fo long till all theQuick-filverbecleane 
 loft, and turned into a blew falve, no more to be feene; then by little and 
 little mixe it with the former, and being almoft coagulated (I meane al- 
 moft cleane cold, neither liquid through heat, nor altogether cold,) 
 vvorke the Terebintbina with the Mercury altogether ftrongly till it be 
 cold. Youmuftufe it cold, and either let the Patient himfelfe chafe it 
 in till it be warme, or (which is better,) let the Patient ftand before the 
 fire and chafe it in. But note, he which anointeth others therewith, If 
 he ufe it too often, let him put a bladder on his hands} for the oftert ufe 
 thereof caufeth many evils. This unguent hath as many vertues as vices, 
 and as many vices as vertues: a whole weekemaybeeafily fpent ,with 
 good profit to the Reader, in writing of Mercury : I heartily wilh fome 
 learned and worthy man would take in hand truely to anatomize that 
 fubjeft: I am perfwaded, yea and know well, he might thereby fave the 
 lives of many an innocent foule, who with great infamy perilh through 
 the inordinate ufe of this unguent } notwithftanding the medicine is good* 
 But I referre the Surgeons Mate, for the ufe of this unguent ,to Mr Clones 
 his booTce of Surgery. ...... .r 
 
 But concerning the ordinary ufes thereof, if you anoint the joints 
 therewith.it killeth the itch} but ifyou anoint too plentifully it provoketh 
 a fluxe, fometimes upward, fometimes downeward. If you anoint the 
 feames of his fhirt which is lowfie therewith, it driveth away all the lice i 
 the fame it doth to the lice of the eye-brovves and lecre't parts, where, 
 with many are troubled. Alfo far the piles it is a very good medicine# 
 I ufe it in that cafe, firft to purge the Patient, and after to anoint him 
 with Unguentum album , wherein Quick-filver is mixed j namely, of the 
 unguentuml i. of Mercuries i. mtfee , and anoint therewith daily three 
 times, and keep the place very warme, 
 
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 T Cannot but reverence the Author of this precious phhelinamentl 
 whofe defert is highly to be efteeraed of by the Commonwealth :,for 
 it is as fufficient a Balmc for new wounds, efpecially in the head, as that 
 a better can fcarce be found out by art. It doth all the intentions of heal¬ 
 ing a wound in the head mecrelyof it felfe^ the fluxe being flayed: 
 For it digefteth, mundifieth, incarneth, and cicatrized), it aefendeth, 
 from accidents, and is very anodine : it may alfo fitly bee. applied to 
 painefull ulcers and fiftula’s upon occafion. The Author or manifefter 
 
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 of this Ltnament was Franajcus i^Arceus , as is manifeft by a fmalltrca- 
 tife of his, tranflated by M r John Reade a Surgeon. It is of temperament 
 hot and moift. 
 
 Vnguentum dragon. 
 
 T His unguent is numbred amongft the foure hot unguents. It profi 
 teth generally againft all cold affetfsof the outward parts of the 
 body: it much warmeth and comforteththefinewes: it is good a 
 gainft convulfions and cramps: it is good to annoint the ridge bone of the 
 backe, and the partsneere the kidneys againft the paines thcreofrand alfo 
 to anoint the ftomack and belly upon any cold griefe: it is good to anoint 
 the body of them which have the quartane fever, the falling ficknefte the 
 paines of the joints : and alfo it is good to be ufed as a Morbus ointment 
 (according to the common phrafe) adding the due quantity o f Wercun 
 
 whcreforc 1 
 V,nguentum MartUtum . 
 
 T His «»?*», as it is compofed of many ingredients, fo it isfaid to 
 ft-rhrnu ” 1 r f ° r - : for ( faith Authour; it difeuf. 
 
 from the teaft and fcrackepr^cdin^'Smcolder * ra !J ov , et * 1 P“J 
 convulfions: it helped, the ISrfSSSMM 
 them that are troubled with the Sciatic* nr f!;" ! 3 ^ P aI % and 
 
 hands, feet, and other joints of the body itmoUileth h* A ^°n m ^ 
 tumors in the flelh : it alTwageth the LrdSr ^ b hard pufcles and 
 
 fpleenejcafeth the pain in the fmall guts • itcureth th/zrh the [ lvcr . and 
 It hath his name (Jsalaritanus faithfirfiESE* h adlC ,n , the reines * 
 is more probable; &ith,of Mmmu{ a iS|Pl,S (wl, fll 
 to be the inventor thereof: and it i< 2" 1 iJyficwn, fuppofed 
 
 colons Alex andr inns • who alfo defcrihrrh rh 10 ^ d P en & tor y hy Ni¬ 
 ls here fet downe. dc ^ribcth the vertucs thereof, in effeft as 
 
 Axungia Porcino. 
 
 flowing like oyle with warmth • it hath?? u (j it to this day. It is liquid, 
 and therefore it is not unprofitablv ufed f eni ft in S and anodine qualitie, 
 affwaging ofpaine, healing ofbur^gs^wiS'fif 31100 ^^^ 131 ^' 0100 ^’ 
 with Couflafmes appointed for thofedfofts! &5 ^ VCry fitIymixcd 
 
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 is found very good, adminiftred in Glifters, to heale the excoriations of 
 the iMtflimm reclunt\ for it is anodine and very fanative. The manner 
 to ufeit, is fomewhat touched in fome other my inftru&ions elfewhere. 
 
 Mel Jimp lex. 
 
 p Nglifh honey being yellow, the favour and odour pleafant, ftarpe, 
 ■ Ly pure, iincere, cleare, faft or ftifFe, yeelding little fpume in decoding, 
 is good and very profitable for thofe that are coftive, as alfo for the fto- 
 macke if one drinke it with water: it helpeth the bladder and reines: it is 
 good for the eyes: it mundifieth, openeth, and healetfo As for burnings 
 and foaldings, it cureth them without foarre, and is very good to heale 
 ulcers of the earesj and (faith Diofcorides) drunke with water iswhole- 
 fome for the belly and ftomacke: it helpeth fuch as are pained in the kid- 
 neis and bladder. It is alfo good to anoint the eyes with, to cleare the 
 dimnefle of fight in them: it hath an abftcrgent or cleanfing force: it 
 openeth the mouths of veines, whereby it alfo draweth out fordid matter 
 or quittur from fetide ulcers. But the beft honey of all other, is that 
 which is gathered in LycaonU, a Province of Polonia , where the Bees 
 breed onely in high trees, and gather their honey from a ccrtaine flower 
 growing on trees, called in Latine Flos Tiluor Tilt, in the Germane 
 tongue linden holt* * This honey is white,hard, and very fragant or 
 odoriferous. 
 
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 WATERS. 
 
 Orafmuchas compound cordiall waters ,truely made 
 of the Spirit of wine, with the addition of divers efpe- 
 ciall coftly and medicinall fpices,drugs, and other pre¬ 
 cious additaments now much in ufe, have been found 
 very availableand comfortable by many experiences, 
 not onely at tea, and in the very remoteft pans of 
 the eanh, either hot or cold, to our nation, and others 
 in their travels; but alfo here at home, upon many occafions, have mi- 
 niftred great helpc and comfort, both in preferving the body in health 
 from difeafes,aod alfo in Curing many great infirmities, efpecially when 
 they have proceeded of cold caufe^ I thought it a thing not unneceffary, 
 briefly to fet down the vertues and ufes of fome ofthe principall of them, 
 for the benefit of young Surgeons. 
 
 Aqua Cwlejlis. 
 
 "\/f Athiolusm his Commentaries upon DiofcorMes, fettethdownethis 
 excellent water, as a principall Antidote or prefervative againft all 
 poyfons, or poyfbned and infectious aircs whatfoever , for that either re- 
 ceived into the body ,or but onely fmelled unto, it helpcth very much 
 againft infc&ions^and that it doth very admirably rcftorc againe one fal- 
 len either of the dead palfie, or falling ficknefte ;and is alfo good either 
 in the collicke or any gripings of the guts, as alfo in any the weakness 
 of theftomacke , and againft any cold fluxes of the guts or belly , two 
 fpoonfuls thereof given inaglifter,and hath many more efpeciall good 
 ufes and vertues there fet down, which for brevity I muft pafTe over. 
 
 D r Steevens his water. 
 
 r T“ , His Water needethno man to deferibe his vertues, being a thing fo 
 c ° mmon and ancient in ufe, compofed by that learned Phyfician of 
 worthy memory fo named. Experience hath found it to be a notable cor- 
 dial water-for comforting the head and heart, yea, and all the principall 
 
 ™r?H° ft 5% b ^ y ’i b0th “ff’ViuU.snd naturall if it be trucly 
 Bella iterf. thlS th " C DCC qUcftion > if y° u wiU but belceve 
 
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 Rofa Solis . 
 
 « ^sssa. a^^Tsssssa^tK 
 
 moreprecious; for it comforted, theftomackeandbriinehel^hd- 
 gcftion (irengthnnh the appetite, openeth obftru«ons, is goo/aeainft 
 the palfie and falling fickneffe, and hath many other venue? 8 ™ 
 
 Cynamon Water. 
 
 T His Water dotli comfoi t and ftrengthen the ftomackedhe liver the 
 fil'hr K l un g5,the heart,thebraineand the finetvess fliarpneththe 
 tt good againft venoms, asalfo the ftineinas andbitin 2 s of 
 venemous beafts ; helpeth a bad or trill favouring bS i 3nft 
 loathing of thertomacke : and whercyoude^tow. me^J, 
 attenuate, digeft or corroborate, in all fnch cafes this pwious RS 
 excellttiiv.'itneiTe JthamtsJmim WrW.il ledging’v.u/W,,, ? v „ 
 and divers other famous Writers, befidc Experience it felfe. V 
 
 Limon Water. 
 
 T “ tfncW and chiefe efTence (drawnc t>y the fpiritof wine 
 from the nodes of Limons ) which is a great reftorative to mans 
 
 the ft t’ a i nt 3 pr , eC n 0liS Cordiall > which not onely aromatizetli 
 the ftornacke, but much ftrengthneth the feebled Spirits and is as an 
 
 healing balfame to all the inward parts of the body, and doth open ob- 
 ftru&ions and breake the winde in the ftomacke exceedingTy Ce of 
 Limons is touched elfe where in the cure of the Scurvie • 7 J 7 
 
 Rofcmary Water. 
 
 T 'His is a great comforter of the braine, fharpneth thefight, helpeth 
 the weakneffeof the ftomacke, preferveth from vomiting, is very 
 good againft^thcdifcafeZ)^^/^,orthcblotki^ flixe ( the caufc 
 proceeding of cold ) either drunke, or three fpoonfuls taken in a Glifter 
 whenyou areready toadminifterthefame. It hath very many other good 
 properties too long here to recite. ° 
 
 Sajfafras Water. 
 
 T He Spirit ofthis precious root is agreat opener of all oblations 
 or ftoppingsm the body; namely, of the liver, the lungs, the kid- 
 mes,and of the fplene; and thereby it is found by many experiences 
 
 cxccllcntagainll the Scurvie, the French difeafe, and the yellow jaum 
 
 ne for ,h^ ap fT rcra ^ lf °^>in(tcoIdfevers, and thedropfie, 
 fof wl,,ch ,” e aiming thereto; for it ptovoketli urine and 
 ' ’ \ very mild andnaturall manner, and driveth out many dif- 
 
 eafes by the pores of die skin. It hath infinite more vertues aferi- 
 
 bed 
 
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Of the 'Medicines, and their ujes. 
 
 bed unto it: the belt ot t 
 Monardus of the vertues 
 New Spaine. 
 
 /itfe-feed water. 
 
 Werme-woed Water. 
 
 N O water whatfoevcr more gratefull to the ftomacke, then is 
 Worme wood water truely compofed; for it is as balfame thereto. 
 It confumeth and breaketh winde mightily, killeth the wormes, where- 
 imto our Nation are fubjeSinthe £4>/W*«,hindereth vomiting, pro- 
 vokcth appetite, is very good againft paines in the head proceeding of a 
 cold caufe, and is very Cordiall. 
 
 Balme Water. 
 
 T His water hath a great refpeto the heart,for of all other but the 
 former, no herbe is cfteemed more cordiall then this, and is of a 
 gratefull fmell and tafte j yet I hold it more proper to women then men, 
 for it much refpe&eth the infirmities of the Mother, and is, in the tunes 
 of their paines, very comfortable to take a little of it forthefaferand 
 fooner provoking of fpeedy delivery. 
 
 Angelica tvater. 
 
 r A Ngeltca watcrjT&y ferve well in ftead ofTreaklc or Mithridate , for 
 preservative againft the plague or any infe&ious ayre,for there is ho 
 one thing more commended by ancient and moderne Writers in that 
 kinde, then Angelica is, whereof there is good experience: it is alfo very 
 ftomachicall and cordiall, and,being truly madc,will retaine hfsftrength 
 and vertues forty yeeres and more. 
 
 oMint Water. 
 
 A chta CMentha. doth warme and ftrengthen the ftomack, liver /plenp 
 or milt, helpcth conco<ftion,ftayeth vomit, and is very Cordiall. 
 
 qua Car dm Benedict. 
 
 f^t^irduui Benediflui Water, doth eafe the paine of the head, confir- 
 meth the memory, cureth a Quartanc, provoketh fweat, and com- 
 forteth the vitall Spirits. 
 
 The 
 
U 
 
 Ofthe <£\4edtcines,and their ufes. ^ 
 
 TheConclufion . 
 
 V 
 
 A LI thefe waters and fpirits rehearfed, though in themfelves they 
 + * be good, yet if any ofthebeft ofthembeabufed, and immoderate¬ 
 ly taken, they may as foone doe harme as profit: I advile therefore no 
 man to make a common ufe of them, or any of them, which hath 
 a young able body, and may have a good diet at his pleafure: for 
 they are chiefly to bee ufed at fea, where mens bodies ( by variety of 
 the venemous vapours and evil difpofitions of the aire,or unkind diet Jarc 
 in hazzard; or where there is a weake ftomackc, evill digeftion, with a 
 loathing difpofition to meat,evill appetite,and too much loofneffc of the 
 belly; alfo where by extreame heat and fweat, the fpirits of the body 
 are exhaufted and fpent, or where (through the extreame cold of the 
 fame) the body is muchannoyed and endangered : In all thefe,and infi¬ 
 nite more evils incident to mens bodies abroad and at home, thefe pre¬ 
 cious liquors minifter prefent comfort. They alfo are very behovefull to 
 aged people after their meats to help digeftion,or them which have weak 
 ftomacks, or that are of fad and melancholy difpofitions j for it muft not 
 be denied, that wine comforteth the heart of man; and thefe waters 
 having their originall and whole force from the fpirit or life of the wine, 
 doe thereby exhilarate mans heart, and give him courage, as well as 
 cure his infirmities. 
 
 If therefore thefe waters be truly made, they ought alfo to be ftrong 
 of the fpirit ofwine,otherwife, they will not keep long good, neither 
 are they profitable nor wholfome, and being good, one fpoonefull at 
 one time is fufficient,or two fpoonfuls at the moft, for the preferving of 
 health: they are beft to be taken falling, onehoure or two after dinner, 
 and laft at night, either alone, or with beerc or wine'; fome make a 
 tofte fading, and drop the fame full of cordiall water and fo eat it, and 
 that is very good. 
 
 In gripingsoftheguts, collike or flixes of the belly, proceeding of 
 cold caufes or much crudity, three fpoonfulls or fouremay be ufed at 
 once in a Glifter; but you muft not boyle it therein, only put it in when it 
 is ready to be adminiftred; for if you do otherwife,the fpirits will evapo¬ 
 rate and be of no force. 
 
 JquA Rofarum Damafcenarum. 
 
 D Amaske Rofe-water doth refrigerate and comfort the heart,is good 
 againft fwouning, and caufcth fleepe. 
 
 uiqttA Rofarum Ruhr arum. 
 
 O Ed Rofe-water doth refrigerate, bindeand corroborate thevitall 
 and animall faculties, benefiteth the head, eafeth the pained eares 
 and eyes, and doth good in Inflammations, and is profitable in medi¬ 
 cines againft By fernery. 
 
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 x^iquA 
 
Of the Medicines, and their ufesi 
 
 t^Aqua odorifera. 
 
 \ , ' 'J2 1 
 
 C Wcct water is very neceffary and profitable to aromatize the body, 
 ^and refrefiithe fenfes 5 it fweetneth the garments, taking all offenfive 
 favours away, and doth much exhilarate the fpirits 5 being well compo- 
 fed of true Aromaticke Ingredients. 
 
 i^Aqtta Plant aginis* 
 
 P Lantane water, is aftringent andfanative, good to them that are in a 
 confumption of the lungs, in a dropfie,or that have the bloudy flixe, 
 good alfoagainft thequartaneague : it cqreth the ulcers of the reines, 
 bladder, and excoriations of. the paffage of the yard,and being drunk, 
 helpeth againft ardent urine, or the marpnefle of the water. 
 
 i^Aqua Falopi . 
 
 TT Or this water, if you defire the compofition thereof, I referre you to 
 X the Authour; namely, Gabrielus Faloptus, in this Treatife DeMor. 
 bo Galileo: but hereafter I meane to fet downe fome fcverall compofiti- 
 ons thereof j for the Authour hath divers. 
 
 It is a water propcr,and is made chiefly of Mercury fublimed,I fay chief. 
 bSor that though the other things for quantity be ten for one, yet fubli- 
 med Mercury will carry no coales,but will ever fhew his valour in healing 
 or fpoiljng: I put not this compofition ready made into any Surgeons 
 Cheft,but rather leave the Jngredients,and let the difereet Surgeon make 
 it to plcafc himfelfe 5. for if I my felfe fhould find fuch a compofition 
 made by any, I fhould much feare to ufe of it,and fo I wifh the Surgeons 
 Mate to doe in all Mercuriall Lotions 5 but rather let him ufe fuch other 
 good Lotions, as are fet down in the cure of the Scurvy 5 unto any of 
 which hec may adde fublimate, and terme it if he pleafe Jtaua 
 Falopi: but I fay let him well underhand himfelfe both in the compo¬ 
 fition, and adminiftration of any fuch medicines,or let him crave advice 
 or rather forbearc them, and-ufe other fafer medicines, though their 
 vertues or vices perhaps be fewer. b 
 
 f^yfqua viriais. 
 
 ^His Greene wateKwhich is held aroaxitne by feme Surgeons) hath 
 A h.sunaure fi-om Vmd, or ^ro.and likewife hisaftring?nt tafte and 
 venue. His chirfe ufe b concerning the cures of onfiatmU in the 
 aes, and alfoagainft divers rheumes, or diftiftations if humours trou. 
 
 Aqua 
 
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 Of the Medicines, and their ujes. 
 
 4 ? 
 
 Aqua forth4 
 
 A gtia forth or ftrong water, I have, to fatisfie fome Surgeons, pun 
 £ 1 into their Cherts; but for my felfe, I fee no rcafon for it, nor doc I 
 know any Chirurgicall ufe it hath, which is not much better performed 
 by oyle of vitrioll ; whereunto I referre you rather, for that it is a farre 
 fweeter and furer medicine, as at large fhall be fpoken of in his place. 
 
 Ferjuce. 
 
 \7“Eruife or Verjuce, made of the juyee of Crabs, is a good cooling 
 * medicine to be given in drinkes againft burning fevers; it helps di- 
 geftion,caufeth appetite, relliflieth well meates and drinks, and is cor- 
 diall, familiar, ana plcafing to the tafte; but it will not live above one 
 ycere in good force at Sea,yet I give way to the putting it into the Chert, 
 for that it is often defired by Surgeons. 
 
 Lotion. 
 
 A 
 
 V 
 
 T His word Lotion ,is a generall phrafe with many Surgeons,as if there 
 were no difference in Lotions , whereas their differences are infinite: 
 but here I will ufe it as the vulgar fort doc. A Lotion compounded 
 of vulnerary hearbs gathered in their prime, and decoded with A tinmen 
 and met in aqua fur a , I confeffe may retaine a name generall as well as 
 any one outward medicine I know j for if well prepared, good ufe 
 maybe made thereof; as namely, it is all in all to bee ufed as an in. 
 jeftion generally for griefes of the yard , as well within the paflage 
 as alfo twixt glans and prxgutium , and in Gonorr&a\ which though it 
 cannot cure the difeafe, yet it healeth the excoriations thereof, and 
 ftrengthneth well the parts; and fodoth it in all exulcerations of the 
 fame, remcmbring,that if you ufe it within the paffageoftheyard, if 
 you find it bee too tart of the Allome, you rnixe it with Plaintane water 
 ifyou have it, or for want thereof with faire water. Note, that the fir ft 
 time you begin injection, it be very gently done, then you may fortifie 
 it as you fee caufc; namely,give it of it felf,or with the addition ofa little 
 well dulcified Mercuric where occafion is, but that warily; namely, 
 feldome or never within the paffage, but twixt glans and prnputium dai¬ 
 ly (if you will)upon juft occafion;and adminifter no Lotion within the paf¬ 
 fage of Virga cold, but warme ever .Further it hath the prime place, for a 
 Catholike medicine in exulcerations and excoriations of the mouth and 
 throat, both in Towne and Country, and is become in fuch cafes eve¬ 
 ry old wives medicine: I have touched it in the cure of the Scurvy, where¬ 
 fore here for brevities fake, I crave pardon: Onely, let me tell the Surge- 
 oncs Mate, that in wantoffucha£«vw», though it be not in all points 
 anfwerablc thereto, yet he may make a good Lotion at fea of frefli water, 
 Allome, and Hony, provided he be wary not to bee too plentiful! of the 
 Allome. 
 
 Lixivium 
 
44 
 
 Ofthe ^Medicines, and their ujel. 
 
 •N 
 
 Lixivium forte. 
 
 T His is tobe underftood of Capitall lees, a very neccCTary medicine 
 to be at hand in the Surgeons Cheft, to mollific the liquid or white 
 tauftikewhen itgrowethdry, aad alfo it need be, by decodion/^y? to 
 make up a lapis inferndis , as Tome terme it,or a hard caufticke (tone: the 
 liquid caufticke is made only of unflaked lime and ftrong Capitall lees, 
 by deco&ion together to the thicknefle of an unguent , and when occafi- 
 on of application thereof is, lay on the griefe a CMinmm^ orfome other 
 cleaving Emplafter, with a hole cut therein, fo big as there fliall bee oc* 
 cafion to make an orifice, and fpread thicke the white caufticke thereon, 
 and foletit remaineatthc lcaft two hourcs, having a care to defend the 
 fame, that it doe not fpread. 
 
 The caufticke ftone if you boile it to a juft confidence, and having 
 put it out (being yet warme) fmooth it over with an iron fplatter,& then 
 with a knife cut it into pieces, fo you fliall have it ready to make incifion 
 after your ownc will 5 for any caufticke laid on an Apoftume may fpread 
 further & broader then your will,to the dammage of the Patient,but this 
 kinde of caufticke you may hold in your hand wrapped in fome clout or 
 piece of plafter fpread, and fo you may rule it at your owne defire,and 
 yet it maketh greater fpeed with lefle paine then the other. Somewhat 
 of this manner of incifion I have mentioned in the cure of Apoftumes, 
 and elfewhcre, to which I referre you. 
 
 Lixivium commune . 
 
 T70 r this medicine I referre you to tire Treatife of Salt in ge- 
 ncrall. 
 
 yyicetum Rofarum . 
 
 11 Nderftand that vinegcr of Rofes is, or ought to bee vineger of wine 
 ^firft, and then by the infufion of choife red role leaves ,it becomes 
 the more fragrant and cordiall, fo that it is the better to aromitize 
 the ftomack, and to refrefh nature weakened, and againft the fainting and 
 great wcakneffe of the fpirits, wherein the tin&ure of rofes hath a great 
 vertue comfortative. 
 
 Yet let not the Surgeons Mate bee difeouraged though he have not 
 t^icctum rofarum , for acetum vint , or wine vineger, will ferve well in 
 place thereof; and yet ’tis better if you have Rofe-water to infufe there¬ 
 in upon occafion of ufing the odour thereof j or for to be applied to the 
 ftomacke againft vomiting, or imbecility of the fame. In other cafes 
 the one may ftand for the other very well, as alfo for thofe griefes. 
 
 Acetum'vini. 
 
 * 
 
 TT7’Ine Vineger helpeth the unnaturall fwellings of the belly, as alfo 
 v v v cureth the fluxes of the ftomack. the parts grieved being fomen¬ 
 ted 
 
Of the ^Medicines 3 and their tifet. 
 
 ted therewith: it ftayeth the inordinate menflruall fluxes, the region of 
 the liver or the bearing parts fomented therewith warme; namely with 
 (} upes wet therein. It isgoodagainft vomiting, the ftomack outwardly 
 fomented with warme Jlupes wet therein: It alio difcufleth and diflipateth 
 violent hot tumors in their beginnings; yea,even thofe which are named 
 Pamritu, or,as fome terme them, fellons. Good wine vineger excelleth, 
 ufed in CatatlaJ’mes, as alfo in fomentations where anodine Medicines are 
 to be ufed, provided the place be not excoriated; as namely, in Her mo. 
 humordi. With beane-meale, and oyleof Rofes,itis aprcfenc help being 
 well applied,with apt truflings,and good care had. In the falling downe 
 of the fundament it is approved good, fometimes with wine ufed warme 
 to foment the part withall, as alfo to bee call on bricks to receive the 
 fume thereof. In the hot Gout, and in all inflammations, as the Rofe^ ot 
 lank facer fix (as fome call itj Saint Antonies fire, by way of fomentation 
 with wine vineger,it is a precious helpe ; as alfo made into a firrupe with 
 bony then tearmed Oximell ; or with Sugar,then rearmed Oxifaccatum: 
 it is very convenient to a weake ftomacke; for it cauleth appetite, and 
 is a helpe to digeftion, given si- orsij-at once, for it cutteth away 
 fle^me aridrefreflieth nature, and corroboratcth the ftomacke^ alfo by 
 wav of a Gargerifme,it is an approved remedy aguinft Squinantta angina 
 or any the fudden inflammations of Columelle , or the Amygdulcs of the 
 - throat; and \lRo(csbe put therein, it is good for all the aforefaid ufes, 
 vet more better, and maketh the vineger much more Cordiall : It is 
 very queflionable, whether wine vineger bee of temperament hot or 
 cold considering the different effects thereof, for I fliould not doubt to 
 cive reafonable content to any unpartiall Artift, that it doth both the ef¬ 
 fects of a hot and cold medicine, proving it both by authority and pra¬ 
 ctice to be hot and cold; yea, even by Galen himfelfe, Tejlc cap. 6.ho, 
 prim.fmpl: wed & cap, 20. ejufdcm lib, 
 
 Spiritus vini. 
 
 S pirit of wine of all vegetables is the moft precious thirig; if is the 
 trued of all Cordialls : the paiticular vertues whereof, to be duely 
 handled,would fill a great Volume; It is called, asis Inspirit us vtm, 
 auaCi Spiritus viui and the (acred Scriptures tedifie that wine makes 
 clad the heart of man, wherefore there needs no further argument to ex- 
 prefTe it to be a true Cordiall' It is odoriferous and of a pleafanttafte: 
 
 It extradeth out Tinctures from every medicinallfubjea. 
 
 It preferveth the body from putrefaction, and in every’cold opprel- 
 fion of Nature it is a true helper; for the cough, and all didillations of 
 rheumes and fluxes, it is a perfect helpe: It comforteth the domacke,and 
 
 ^ r Tt helpctlTdiofe^vhich are thicke of hearing, one drop daily put into 
 
 It pveferveth a man in health, if every morning and evening hce take 
 certaine drops thereof; and defendeth the body that takethit, rom 
 the oppretfion of infectious aires, and (being ficke) almod in any diieaK. 
 it may fafely bee given as a true redorative medicine. All lores or 
 

 Of the Medicines, and their ufest 
 
 the Cordiall ftrong waters recited, for fo much as they conraine of spirit 
 ofvetne in them, asisfaid, become thereby (if not other wife) Cordiall 
 indeed; for take from them the Spirit of wine they containe and the 
 remainder is not worth the roome in a glade. Much might here to p 0 M 
 purpofc be taught of the true ufe ofSpirit of wine for the cureof wounds 
 ulcers, nftulacs, and many other infirmities, if time would ferve which’ 
 
 for brevities fake, I purpofely pretermit at this time. 
 
 Sprit of Vitrioll. 
 
 "L Or this medicine I referre the Reader to the generall Treatife of Salt 
 fhalTbc (atisfied.' 33 " Wh ‘ Ch ,Wntioncth 0 1 h *f where hre 
 
 Spirit of Ttrebinthine. 
 
 pP int Tj r et>inthine is a fubtile, vo!atiIe,pure and a Chrvfial 
 
 u C / F ‘r‘! -T ' ed ? om T,, ' hmh '™, which how much the more 
 noble the tub,eft is, fo much the more excellent will foe fpir bre 
 
 hath many precous venues medicinable contained initi &rit k wSl! 
 combuffiblc, penetrative, ofa wanning and comfonfoific a.,, v • y 
 good mcnftrtm to draw Tindures bv either from C ^ I 1C isa 
 
 medicines, and chiefly it is ufed to ° r 
 
 which Tmdiure is a Angular good medicine many waye^ ^ s fo 5 !?”’ 
 
 per place I meane to touch. This laid fpiric is a true 5, ““ i pr0 ‘ 
 of all new wounds,efpecially of the finevves Tr rnmf^ ba f aDa . e J n cure 
 partsofthe body afiteed with any cold impreffion^om , 
 
 Scurvie, orthe like. Itprovolcethurinevery welliffn 
 
 taken in wine faffing, and drives out gravell Ind the r ■' re r0ps ^ 
 
 to confolidate any inward wound Denerr^rinn- • 5* Itisalfogood 
 
 drops thereof daily drunke It is i frr n Hrlv ^ r int0 t le k° d y> a few 
 
 for‘a cold difeafem amend the tall™Terving 
 caufe it to penetrate the better Itharh m , n b ^rce thereof, and'to 
 
 which for brevitie I muft pafle over. 7 ° thcr fingular 2 ood ufo > 
 
 % 
 
 The white Caufiicke . 
 
 ^ Jj" His kind ofCauftick taketh his vertue from riv» < < r 
 * containes, and may well be carrieHJn^ ^ the vegetable fait it 
 laft well an Eaft-India Voyage with ffom ?* C fort hatit will 
 
 littlecapitalllees, asneedlall JeS' ( n ? T*i theaddition ofa 
 hard. It is altogether as fafe and fure as th^ Cauftid!^ ft * gr< ? wcdl t0 ° 
 fwiftin working, neither fo well to be ruleH fo - k ft ,? ne ^ but notfo 
 three times as wide as it is intended if ,v j d 5 for K Wl . U oftetl fptcad - 
 which thing is dangerous to the Patient an/rfT* 'n! y Prevented: 
 Wherefore if I hadcapitall to che 
 
 ftone; butthenagaine^ X cep«heCmo?M rb 7 IcUf>thc Caufticke 
 
 one 
 
Of the Medicines , and their ufes. 
 
 °ne of tnc laid pieces held in his one hand can perforate the apoftume 
 otherwife it is all one with the former white Caufticke; for being laid on! 
 it will become liquid as the other. It is not fufficientlyfife tocuuholS 
 fas the ufe is j in a Ipread emplafter, of the bignelfe he would have his ori¬ 
 fice and fo lay it on, and cover it with a like emplafter j for that this 
 
 Xfr f n °n thindC t r the thereof 5 but if he will worke furcly 
 
 after that hifluon I meane with any potentiall caufticke medicine let 
 him cut from a roll.of fomefoft emplafter that will cleave well, a piece 
 ol one ounce in weight, or thereabout, and make of it two long rolles 
 laying one on each fide the place of the apoftume appointed tobe pier! 
 ced,bringing them at each end together,for the ends oFa cauflick incifion 
 
 twl^ as telT 5 the S r dc ? broad ’ ifit be artificial!; at leaft 
 twice as long as bioadis a good forrfie, and rather more. Regard alfo 
 
 be made (as neare as may be) according to the length 
 ofthe fibics and mufcles and alwayes that it be fo made, that one end 
 
 t f Cn / hC u° thCr: But in Bubo ’ s of 1 *c emun&ories, it 
 will feldorae fall out fo, for that you arc conftrained to follow the forme 
 
 of the tumour, which commonly lieth thwart, chiefly in venereall 
 Bubo s ^ tngmne , or the groine. Likcwife if the turnout be full, and 
 the Patient m great paine, you fliall doc him great eafe by piercing the 
 
 Ztfr nt p^ lddC £’ C ° r ° 0 ™ *?,“ ? made > *° dfchagcfoaic ofthe 
 matter. But note this as a generall rule, never prefle out the matter too 
 
 » r , or wkc ro ° much at once out. Forhowfoever you may juftly 
 alledgc and conceive, ltisputnd and offenfive matter, yet know it con 
 taineth naturall calour,and fome fpirits,and any fudden evacuation there¬ 
 of will weaken and perhaps overthrow your Patient. Wherefore ex. 
 cept fome extraordinary caufc urge you thereto, force not much matter 
 from a fuppurated Apoftume, but leave that worke to nature oneiy,ard 
 hinder not the due courfe thereof, by the foolifh ufe of ftopping the ori¬ 
 fice with a tent; for fo thou (halt become an enemy to thy Patient, and 
 notonely hinder his naturall help (fore abovethy artificial! helpe) butal- 
 fo uncharitably thou wilt choke him up in his owne excrements; which 
 beware of. And for the furthering the fall of an Esher in any Apoftume, 
 where nature hath a breathing it is meere folly, as I have faid in other 
 place. The longer it lyeth on, the better I like the work,and if you would 
 ure all the art you can, you cannot keep on an Esher at your will: where¬ 
 fore forget that worke till it be done to thy hand. 7 
 
 I have much (in my good will) to write of this fubjefl, namely of the 
 
 mannerof preparation, keeping, and ftuidry forts of application ofthe 
 
 fame caufticke, and divers other nccelTary inftruSions ofthe fcverall ufes 
 of the lame medicine in divers parts of Chirurgery,as well as in the open¬ 
 ing of tumours, but my hafte callcth me to the next: Wherefore auhis 
 time I crave pardon. * 1015 
 
 Sal^bfwtbii, Gemm^<&Nitri t 
 
 W Hat Icifurc hath not here permitted mee to fpeake of them 
 or any Salt elfe, I have rehearfed in my Treatife generall of 
 
 K Salt 
 
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+8 
 
 Of the Medicines , and their ufes. _ 
 
 Salt in their particular places, to which I refcrre the friendly Reader. 
 The Index will guide him thereto. 
 
 oleum Rofarum. 
 
 O Yleof Rofes is anodine , and doth refrigerate and corroborate, 
 and therefore is good againd hot difeafes, as Eryfifelai. Allb 
 with Mel Rofarum it is a good Balm for new wounds ofthe head, 
 and elfewhcre j and hath divers other worthy ufes in Chirurgery. 
 
 oleum \yinetheninum. 
 
 O Yl of Dill is anodine andcomforting,it concofteth crude tumors, 
 caufeth fleepe,mitigateththe head ache, refrefheth the wearied 
 members, drengtheneth the finewes, difeuffeth windc, is profi¬ 
 table for convulfions, and affwageth aches, eafeth paines, and hath many 
 other good ufes. 
 
 Oleum Chamomelimm. 
 
 O Yle of Chamomillrefolveth moderately and calefieth,by anoin¬ 
 ting the parts grieved: is good for the collicke, ftonc,wearinefTe, 
 and for aches, fevers, and for all other things with the former. It 
 is alfo very convenient in Gliders for all gripings and tortions of the 
 guts, and yeeldeth great comfort to the intrails by the good odour and 
 warmth thereof. 
 
 oleum Lumbricorum . 
 
 O Yle of Earth-wormes helpeth the aches of the joints in any part 
 of the body, and doth drengthen and comfort well the finewes 
 weakned and pained, and is good againd convulfions & cramps; 
 it is alfo a good Balmc for finewes wounded. 
 
 Oleum Liliorum. 
 
 O Yle of Lilies doth moderately warme andrefolve, affwageth 
 paine, mollifiethhard tumours, doth much mitigate the violence 
 of difeafes, and is very effcftuall againd paines of the bread and 
 domacke, and allayeth the inordinate heat of the reines and bladder. 
 
 oleum HlpericonisJimplex . 
 
 O Y le of St.Johns wort fimple is of a thin eflence: it is of tempera 1 
 ment dry and anodine, healing finewes pricked or wounded. Al¬ 
 fo it is very profitable to them that have the Sciatica to anoint 
 them againd the fwcllings in the Temples, Belly, and Legges through 
 Melancholy: and it is of very good ufe for cold aches and convulfions, 
 cramps, burnings, fealdings, and good to cure new wounds. 
 
 Oleum 
 
0/ the Medicines > and their ujes m 
 
 Ji io ,.cC[£ij j yru. 
 
 •02!. 
 
 V 1 
 
 bufid 
 
 t-^jnlwdiio c ’' sft$(b io ::jo ^TirHrs-it •?* 
 
 oleum' Hi peri corns eemfejltu^ 
 
 Oleum Aparici^ or, * 
 
 &*/«* »♦ so 
 
 T£i£different medicinewccordina 
 ... tot ^ at . I in.end in the Surgeons Cheft, arc but one and the fameme- 
 diane. teeter Balme then which, to heale new wounds, the' Sur»eons 
 Mate need not deflre to learnc orknow. Some Writers call it by the 
 
 MvdAwo^riifomeS 
 compofitton whereof (with the reft ) tail follocv’ 
 
 Jn B ^n‘? bt 1' n r Unds ’ ashot3sthcPati ™ a n™d^it,and 
 (otthe firft time rather hotter. It is afurc medicine for all venmous 
 
 wounds, all bmngs of maddogges orof venemous wormes^ho 
 
 applied, and the pa rts about anointed therewith warme; remembring in 
 
 all venemous gnefesa Cordiall is alfo requifite. In my ownepralfe 
 
 itisalmoftallthe una,ous medicine I ever ure,fd r thecreingofwou“ds 
 and contufions s and I neverrcpented my felfe ofthe ufe tbetlpf. In pier 
 cingwoundsandjlabs it isamedicinea Surgeon’may well feli-e on • it 
 will not diigracc him. It isa vety comfortable medicine agaiidl all pained 
 aches, and withermgs of the outward limbes proceeding of cold aufcs 
 
 ufing ,t warme with good friaion, and a plafter of Burgundy pitch fpread 
 
 on leadier and applied thereon j or rather Em f l.st,pmm iw/ 
 
 I fpeakc thisof pradice, and I could fay much moreofmyowne ex¬ 
 perience, touching the praifeof this worthy medicine, if time would 
 
 ferve: but for this prefect accept of this abridgment. Vr>r- r ■ 
 
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 Oleum Sambucinum. 
 
 Yle of Elder- flowers doth lenifie and purge the skin, is good for 
 ■the obftrudlions ofthe liver, helpfcll for the joints and nerves « 
 f pained, the parts grieved beinganointed therewith: given in gli- 4 
 fters, it procureth ftooles, healeth.the yellow Jaundife,amcndethbeFl v - 
 ache, and eafeth the griping paines thereof. 3 
 
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 Oleum Lint. 
 
 ry , Ji.* * ■ ^ y ' , • . -j 
 
 Yle of Linfeed isanodine, cureth convulfions, mitigateth the 
 hardneiTeofthearteries, mufcles,and nerves, atfWageth the pain 
 °f die Hemoirhoides: andhelpeth the unnaturall clefts, chaps, 
 ananflurcscrthcfundaiiicnt* r * 
 
 ■y^n rc . r-(f j,T 
 
 A" oleum dvorum. ‘ 
 
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 O Yle of Egges cleanfeth the skip, taketh away the filthinefle, and 
 
 ? n. 1C 25 l°^‘^ oned by cuts orbitings, or at the 
 
 lcaft muc h dimimflieth them, fo that they can hardly be feene: it 
 cureth burnings,killeth ring-worms,healeth' excoriations,andis prevalent 
 
 K 2 againft 
 
Of the AiedictneSydnd their ufes . 
 
 againft any ulcer, chaps, or ill matter arifing out of the fie fh, either in the 
 
 hands,feet, armes, legges, or in any other part of the body. 
 
 oleum L aurinum 
 
 lVb Y v 
 
 vOto' 
 
 rvyie of Bayes is a medicine calefying, mollifying, opening and dif- 
 V-'cuffing i it doth much mitigate the Collicke, delivered into the bo- 
 dy by glifter; it is a prefent remedy againft cold griefes of the hraine, 
 nerves, arteries and loines, the parts anointed therewith 5 it reprefleth the 
 violence of a fever, the fpip* dor ft, or region of the backe bone anointed 
 therewith j it is good forthePalfie,Sciatica, the hardnefle and paines 
 pf the fpleene, and is much ufed,as well to cure the fcab and ring-worme, 
 asthcScurvie. - • 
 
 oleum Abfintbu. 
 
 nr.q. 
 
 Yleof wormewopd doth calefie and corroborate,efpeciaUy the fto- 
 ^-Arackc,railfthan appetite,concotfeth crude humours, diffipateth 
 and difperffthwinde, kilfeth wormes, apd taketb away obftru&ions pro¬ 
 ceeding from a cold caule, the parts grieved being anointed therewith 5 
 and’ like wife it is good in gjifters fprthe like occafions. 
 
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 Oleum Pap averum. 
 
 oleum Petreoli. 
 
 Yle of Peter is hot and dry, and by the tenuity of the cflence thereof, 
 ^doth penetrate and digeft all excrementall matter: itisufed with 
 profit for the falling ficknefle, palfie, giddinefle of the headj and is good 
 for many other griefes arifing from cold caufes. 
 
 Oleum Scorpiomm. ' 
 
 f\Yle of Scorpions is of efpeciall ufe to breake the ftone in the reines 
 ^-^and bladder 5 and Mahay dut commendeth it againft the pcftilence, 
 all contagion and fevers, but chiefly in expelling poyfon. It is likewife 
 good to aflwage the paines of the backe, proceeding by diftempered 
 kidneyes. 
 
 O leum Amygdulanm dulcium. 
 
 /~\Yle of fweet Almonds doth lenifie the roughnefle of the breaft and 
 ^■* , throat,as alfo the hardnefle and drinefle of the joints, is goodagainft 
 theconfumptionof the lungs : it is alfo of good ufe to be drunkeinthc 
 he&icke fevers: it ftayeth the cough, aflwageth the heat of urine, healeth 
 
 ■ ulcers 
 
VJ 
 
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 Of t \$ke Medmrns, and their ujes 9 
 
 ulcers by injediori, is very good in Coiica otjliaca Pafsio , to be drunks 
 andadminiftredin glifter*^^ ;wrt \ 0 
 
 fciibbb arii <T;o •/*'%. 
 
 QYle of bitter Almonds doth open obftrudions, difcuffetlfWlc 
 and vapoury but chiefly, fr-bealeth deafasfle, the hiding and paine of 
 the eares, Iemheth the hardnefle of the finewes, and raafceth the face and 
 hands faire, &c. 
 
 Balfamm Naturale. 
 
 Oleum Vitrtoli. 
 
 ^AYle of Vjtml is exceeding hot and cold,mixed in waters,decodions, 
 Vf 7 firupes or conferves,maketh them intaftc,tart or fow.eriih; and In co¬ 
 lour, purple-Tike, delighting them that are fick of fevers.; fxeeth obftru¬ 
 dions, recreateth the bowels, and is very efFediuall iixtfte peftilerrce, fab 
 ling ficknefl‘e,palfie, and flopping erf - urine. See more hereof in the trea- 
 tifeofSak. 
 
 Oleum fulphuris per Campanam. 
 
 QYle of Sulphur, made from the bumide vapoursthereof, is good to 
 ' v -' , make the teeth white, to take away the morphew ; cureth venereal! 
 ulcers, expelleth difeafes arifing from windeor cold ,isgood againft the 
 falling ficknefle , fhortnefle oi breath, 'evill atfedions of the lungs, 
 cafeth the tooth-ache, and is, being well prepared, a true cordiall me¬ 
 dicine. 
 
 oleum G ary ophilorum. \ 
 
 .vsdtttdj ffi fol < ~- 
 
 O Y lc of Cloves not unlike to Opohalfamum in ftrength , doth fweeten 
 the breath, driveth away putrede humours, difeufleth winde, open- 
 eth the pores of the liver, digefteth cold humours, diflipateth the melan- 
 cholicke humours, healeth old and new ulcers, ftaieth the putrefadion of 
 the bones, and aflwageth the paine of the teeth proceeding from a cold 
 caufe. 
 
 Oleum Mads. 
 
 O Yle of Mace doth calefie and digeft cold humours, roborate the fto- 
 macke,lielpcth concodion, raifeth an appetite, and procureth many 
 other benefits to him that ufeth it. 
 
 oleum 
 

 Of the Medicines , and their ufes. 
 
 Oleum Philofophorum. 
 
 >*n 
 
 •ns 
 
 O Yle of Philo:ophers, or oftile-ftones or bricke-bats, the cldcftis 
 the beft: ver/ like it is to oleum Petreoleum ; in vcrtue it (loth at¬ 
 tenuate and penetrate upward,digefteth and confumeth allexcrc- 
 mentall matter, and is profitable for cold affe&ions of the fpleene,reines, 
 bladder, nerves, worabe and joints 5 for the Lethargie, Apoplexie 5 and 
 falling ficknefle, and many other the like griefes. 
 
 oleum 
 
 (^Yleof Anif 'feed; prevailcth againft the collick arifing from wind and 
 v - / cold, againft the Tympanic, inflation, and crudity of the ftomacke 
 againft the gripingsand the Crying of the inteftines, &c. 
 
 if »r{ ;n ‘ ■* - -, • -*i 
 
 oleum Terebimbin<e. 
 
 OYle of T urpentin: is taken inwardly for fhortoefle of breath the ptv- 
 W ficke, againft theftone, the collick, cold and windy affe&ionsof the 
 breaft: it is outwardly ufed for toheale finewes wounded, or troubled 
 with any intemperature j alfo to fill ulcers with flefh, and knit them ud 
 leaving no cicatrice inrhem. ‘ ’ 
 
 Oleum Juniperitium, 
 
 Q Ylc of Juniper i! commended for the cure of the moiphewofthe 
 skin,it provokeih urme,and agreeth with the cureofdifeafesofthe 
 reiness it is good to betaken certaine drops thereof againft any peftilenti. 
 all vapours; for theftone it is alfo good, and to be drunkccename drops 
 againft penetrating wounds. ** 
 
 Oleum Spica. 
 
 OX? .? lefie > attenuate, difcuOi, and is very profitable 
 
 to them that have the gout proceeding of a cold caufe, or to com¬ 
 fort any member benmmed: alfo it is good againft the falling ficknelt 
 and convulfions, the temples and nape of the necke, yea andfhe whole 
 head to be anointed therewith, is very profitable. 3 
 
 Oleum i^intimomi. 
 
 ssassas,"!^^ 
 
 oleum 
 
Qf the Medicines, and their ufcs. 
 
 
 oleum Succin't Chimice, 
 
 O Tic of Amber helpeth the paine in the head, refolution of the 
 finewes and falling evill, if one drop ort\70 be taken with, water 
 of Betony or Lavender, or in faire water: it preferveth alfo 
 from poyfon, and (mixed with Parfley water or Malmelcy ) is a Angular 
 remedy in difeufling difeafesof the reines and bladder, bringing forth 
 the (tone, and opening the paffages of the urine; itprofiteth in the col- 
 lick and ftrangullion. Poure drops put into a little Angelica water, and fo 
 given to a woman in travell, refrefheth all the wcake faculties of the 
 Body, confirmeth and openeth the braine. 
 
 Oleum bfinthii Chimice. 
 
 (^)Yle of wormewood is good for the ftomacle ,to ftrengthen it, to 
 '^ftay vomiting, to kill wormes,alTwageth the paine of the teeth, and 
 is ufed in agues. 
 
 oleum Origmi. 
 
 mum curcth melancholy, helpeth the dropfie,and cu- 
 
 reth the cough, the quartaine fever, and the tooth-ache. 
 Syrupus Ahjinthii 
 
 wormewood is faid to corroborate the ftpmackt 
 
 _r* _ • i»r» nr • * « • 
 
 OI wormewood is faid to corroborate the ftpmacke, hclpe con- 
 ^coction, caufc an appetite, difeuffe wind, open the veines,and to move 
 urine,kiU wormcs,&c. . 
 
 Syrupus Limonum. 
 
 'Clrupe of Limons is cordiall and refrigerating, and I may fay calc¬ 
 ifying too jit doth pleafe and profit the appetite, and comforteth all 
 thatarefickeofthepeftilence,contiouall and contagious fevers, as alfo 
 all difeafes on which exceeding great heat attendethj cheareth up the 
 heavie heart, and difpeljcth forrovv therefrom, and,againftall obftructi¬ 
 ons of the fpleene it is a good helpe, and alfo well approved in the cure 
 of the Scurvy. 
 
 Syrupus Papaverum. 
 
 white Poppies hath an aftringent quality 5 it procureth fieep, c- i 
 
 ifaelpeth the cough, hindereth the humours which diftill from the head z 
 into the throat tickling , and is of precious ufeagainft the Palfie, if it bee 
 ufed in the beginning thereof. 
 
 Syrupus Cinamomi. 
 
 C* Irupe of Cynamon is commended to be very good to old men that 
 iare cold and weake, and to them whofe vigour,humidity, and natural 
 heat diminifheth: it nourifheth much, begetteth bioud, and quickcneth 
 all che vitall parts. 
 
 Syrupus 
 
54 . Of the Medicines, and their ufes. 
 
 Syrupus Rofarumfimplex. 
 
 C Irupe of Rofcs firoplc doth quench thiift, efpecially in fevers, mitiga- 
 ^teth their heat, refrigeratech the ftomacke and liver being very hot. 
 
 Syrupus Rofarumfolu$ivarum. 
 
 C Irupe of Rofcs folutive, is ufed as a gentle and fafe purge both to old 
 ^and young, when they are molefted either, with burning orpeftilent 
 fevers, or any hotdiftemperature of the body. 
 
 Syrupus Vtolarum. 
 
 C Irupe of Violets doth breakc the,acriraony of melancholy, temper^ 
 ^eth the heat of the bowels, bringeth downethe belly by purging it, 
 helpeth the difeafes of the throat, as hoarfeneffe and the dry cough, and 
 is a chiefeaidcto the curing inflammationsof the breaft, againft the plcu- 
 rifie, and qucncheth thirft in fevers, and is cordiall. 
 
 Oxime l (implex, 
 
 (~}Ximel limpleis in great ufe for the cure of inflammations of the 
 ^-''lungs, and throat, helpeth expectoration and difficult breathing, cut- 
 teth and attenuateth thickeand flimie humours.purgeth the entrails with* 
 out trouble, and is good both in cold an hot affections. 
 
 Mel Rofarum. 
 
 QR Honey of Rofes, ftrengtheneth and cleanfeth the ftomacke,pur* 
 ^^geth clammy humours, helpeth concoCiion with the temperate heat 
 thereof, allaieth and ftoppeth hot fluxes-, the phlegmon of the mouth 
 gums and jawes, isfinguiar good with oyle of Rofes for wounds in the 
 head : Thefe two (with Jqua •vita) are very good to cure wounds in 
 joints, where the joint-water gleeteth out. 
 
 Diamoron (implex. 
 
 QR Diamtfon /implex , not unlike Mel Rofarum , is profitable in Gar- 
 garifmes, againft the eating ulcers of the mouth, as aforefaid,cutteth 
 away flegme, and cleanfeth the mouth and throat * and by rcafonofthc 
 plcafing tafte thereof is the more comfortable to the difealed. 
 
 Syrupus raphanifylvejtris. 
 
 Q R Sirupc ofwildc Radiffi, breaketh the ftone, mundificth the reincs, 
 ^provoketh urine, is profitable for the Kings-cvill,and is anapproved 
 medicine for the Scurvic to be drunk daily. , 
 
 Syrupus 
 
Of the aSMedkines/tndtheir ufes. 
 
 Syrupus pruneRorm . 
 
 Gonf: Roforum Rub Arum. 
 
 • V/^vAO.' V V>T<ViV^Vi 
 
 O R Conferve of Rcd-rofcs is good for the heart and hcad,ftrength- 
 ning and comforting both - y as alfo thcbowclk, mitigating their 
 heat, and ftoppeth fluxions, and is much the more profitable in 
 any griefe if a few drops of oile of vitriol! be mixed therewith , but be¬ 
 ware oftoo much. 
 
 Confer: ^nthos. 
 
 O R Conferve oixAnthos , or Rofe-mary flowers r i$ of much ufe in 
 phy ficke, becaufe of the forccit hath in comforting the braine,and 
 corroborating the finewes, and it is given with good fuccdfe for 
 the falling fickneflc, Apoplexie, Lithargic,dead and fhakmg Pabtc,butit 
 will not keepe long at Sea in hot Countries. 
 
 A * yy „ • ' \ 
 
 Rob* Berberies'* 
 
 O R Conferve of Barberies doth refrigerate', and is aftringent , it 
 quencheththirft, and the heat oftheftomack, and bowells, it 
 caufeth appetite,remoovedi the waterifh humour of choIcr,curcth 
 the bloudy flix, the flux of the liver,the often gnawing and wringing of 
 the gutscaufedby choler, heaieththe frnall pox, and refifteth drunken- 
 nefle. 
 
 Rob*Citemorum* 
 
 O R Conferve of Quinces dothbind, comfort the ftomaeke, is good 
 for cholcr, ftoppeth all kindc of btoudy fluxes, andhclpetn di~ 
 geftion. 
 
 Confer : Lutult. 
 
 O R Conferve of wood-loneli doth recreate and comfort the 
 heart,removeth putredchumours,refrigeratethand profiteth much 
 in continual! and contagious fevers, bang very cordiall j but will 
 perilh in hot Countries: greatftorcof this herbeis foundin Soldmeon 
 the Capeof Good-hope as I aminfarmed. 
 
 Confer: Brunelkrum* 
 
 O R Conferve of Sloes is oftreomforting ftiprickc force, very pro¬ 
 fitable to comfort a weak ftomack opprelfcd’with crudities,good 
 againft all fluxes of thcbeily s and alfo good to heale all inflamma¬ 
 tions or excoriationsoccafioned by the fame, eithcrtakenon a knife in 
 forme of a Bolus > or given in Glitters. 
 
 L Ele&iumm 
 

 5<S 
 
 »:V Of the Medicines x and tbeitufesi 
 
 Eletfiiarium DiaCathblkon. 
 
 . o'js.f!'; ••rrJv: * r,* j •‘j- ){# \ 
 
 npHis Eleduarie Diacatholicon doth purge gently all humourist Js 
 I conveniently ufed in fevers, and other difeafes .which arife from 
 acertaine evill difpofition of the fplene and liver: the dole is I j. 
 
 . ' 
 
 Eltttumum Dtaphtn'tcon. 
 
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 T^\Iaphcriieon purgeth eafily and fafely flegme and melancholy: it 
 LJ helpeth thebeliy-akCjCollikc, continuall burning fevers, and all e- 
 vills proceeding of choler and flegme: the dofc is % j. 
 
 Diaprunum (trttple. 
 
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 T^Iapranum fimplex is commended for a gentle laxative, not only a- 
 •L'gainft continuall and hot intermitting fevers, but alfo againft all hot 
 difeafes, and againft the vices of die lungs, throat, reines, and bladder,: 
 the dole is $j. 
 
 Cenfectk Hamech, 
 
 /^Onfedio Hamech purgeth choler, melancholy, and fait flegme j 
 ^'and is therefore witn.great benefit ufed againft difeafes arifing from 
 the fame, the Canker, Leprofie, or drieScurfe, Madnefle, Ringworme, 
 Itching, Scabs and the like: the dofc 5 vj. 
 
 Eletiuarium defueco Rofarum. 
 
 T He Eleduary of juice of Rofes ispowerfull in purging of yellow 
 _ cholej;,: thedofe is $ j. 
 
 * Extract. Catholkon pur gam. 
 
 'TpHis extrad is aLaxative medicine(being drawn from the moft excel- 
 * lent of vegetable laxative ingredicnts)ntting to be ever ready at hand 
 in a Surgeons Cheft, or elfe where in Surgery. The dole is fmall,name¬ 
 ly 1 y .graines at the moft: the tafte pIeafant,notnaufeous nor bitter at allj 
 neithercaufing tortions,norgripings inthc bowells.Ttis a medecinethat 
 will keepe good for feven yeeres without putrefadion, the vertues 
 whereof have beene by the Author (for many yeeres well experienced) 
 both at Sea and Land approved of. Now for that it is the honour of 
 every expert Artift Cito, tute , & jucuttde fanare ; that is, quickly, fafely, 
 •and pleafantly to perfbrme his fcope in the comforting and curing 
 of his patient, I have therefore thought fit to recommend the ule 
 hereof to the Surgeon, to bee pradifed by him, as well in military, as 
 Domcfticke occauons. 
 
 And 
 
Of the <£\4 edicines 3 and their ufet. 
 
 And this medicine that here I commend to the reader anfwereth 
 fitly thofe fornamed attributes , by reafon of his gentle and ealie ope¬ 
 ration in fafe purging perfecejjum , or downward; It c xceedetl Mo¬ 
 ther purgatives therein, the dofe being duly obferved; for it pi r. ctn 
 the head, the ftomack, the belly and liver of aUgrofle offendinghu- 
 mours, either flegmatick, cholericke, or melancholy; alfoit purgeth 
 watry and flimie humour$,and taketh away the collick or gripings oi'thc 
 bowells; and withall,it comforteth the ftomack; yea,any chilcf, or wo¬ 
 man with child, may fafely take hereof. Itisbeftto betaken faftin^in 
 a morning, and not to eat in three homes after the receipt thereof 
 onety the partie may take drinke, or rather (which were beft) warme 
 broth* or in want thereofpoflet drinke, or becre for a need fomewhat 
 warmed; and the party that taketh it, were beft hee keepe within his 
 Chamber, and not to fleepe in the time of the working of the medi¬ 
 cine; butifhegoethour, urged by his necdlities, being carefull to 
 keepe himfelfe warrae he is in no danger thereby, although I confefle 
 to keepe in were better. 
 
 And whereas Paracclfus faith, that every good laxative medicine, 
 ought to conteine in general! three operations or faculties as proper to 
 it; mvlely, Firft, that it purge nature without offence or danger; Se¬ 
 condly that it ftrengthen nature being debilitated or weakned; Third¬ 
 ly ,tha, it doe comfort nature; yet thefaid Author is ofopinion, and that 
 juftly, rhat the excellence of purgative medicines is not alwaies to bee 
 judged of by the numbers of ftooles it provoketh,bnt much more for the 
 K_sfrcanum thereof, or hidden fpecificail power it hath in the curing and 
 rooting out of difeafes, although they be inveterate. 
 
 And moreover this medicine is very lafe to bee given in cafes ofthe 
 plague, or fraall pox, where, and when, by advice a purge is fitting to be 
 given. 
 
 Diatrm riper con. 
 
 D Iatrion Pipereon doth helpe the ftomacke, and is good againft 
 belching, quartans, cold, and all flatious difeafes, or wounds: of 
 the fpecies thereof you may pi $ i, hony 5 v; put them together be¬ 
 ing well mixed, and keepe the fame to give uponoccafiontoa wcakc 
 ftomacke falling, or at any time, it will warme and comfort him much: 
 when menfeele their ftomacks opprefled with obftru&ious by reafon of 
 cold, now and then a little thereof given them will much comfort them, 1 
 and preferve them well from fluxes of the belly. 
 
 Tbertace Lond'mi. 
 
 nPHis compofition was heretofore appointed by the Doilors of 
 A thePhyficians Colledge in London, as a thing very requifite,for 
 that the price (hould be reafonable for the poorer fort, the ingredients 
 thereof being neverthelefife Cordiall,and yet fuch as are eafie to get. It 
 may bee ufed well in place of Mithridate: and in truth I had rather put 
 
 JL z my 
 
58 
 
 IjftbeMedicms , and tbeir ufes. 
 
 mvfclfeupon it, as a good CordialiTbong freihmade, then upoii the 
 
 Mkhridate we buy from beyond the Seas; font is by the Hollmdm Co 
 
 uncharitably fopbiflicated that a man may feare to take it m his need: my 
 felfe chanced m Holland into the houfe of a Bore (as they tetme hmi) to 
 lodge who lived by making Mithridate and rrcakell > he corbelled to 
 rare, his Mithridate had but nine fimples in it: hce had alio pewter botes 
 _i’ j ^r-;oiit7 -jc nn mm could difeover them to be other then 
 
 ^hlvcaroointed to the Surgeons Cheft fome of the Species of the 
 London Treakell ready poudered and dry, that the diligent Surgeon at his 
 will may compote a London Treakell at Sca^ namely,by taking hony 5 iii, 
 and of this powder 5 i.and heat them together, ftirring them well till all 
 be incorporated, and give it as ncede (hall require. 
 
 Confeclio AlkermU . 
 
 C Onfeciio Alkerm'n preferveth from Apoplexies arifing from cold 
 and melancholy humors, doth very much comfort the braine and 
 heart, and is fometimes ufed very profitably for them that languiflia- 
 way through long ficknclfe, and arefubjed to fwoundings. 
 
 Electuaritimdcovo. J 
 
 E Lettuarium deovo is very much commended for prevention, and 
 cure of the plague, -and all peftilenciall difeafes,in expelling the 
 infedion from the heart. 
 
 Mithridatum Dawocratis» 
 
 A /! Ithrid ate of Damocrates is in quality and vertue like to Treakell,but 
 JLV 1 more hot and forcible againft the poyfon of Serpents, mad 
 Dogs, wildeBeafts, creeping things, being ufed as a plafteror drunk; 
 ltCUreth all the cold aftedions of the head, helpeth the melancholick, 
 or thofe that are fearefull of waters, them alfo that have the falling fick* 
 nelTe, Megrum, paine in the bowels, cares, tooth-ach, and weeping 
 cies,healeth the evils of the mouth and jawes being plafterwifc laid to 
 the temples jby difeuflion giveth eafe to the troubled with theSquinancie, 
 Apoplexie,cough, fpitting of bloud,Impoftumcs,or inflammations of the 
 lungs, or any griefes within the body, and is good againft the bloudy 
 flix fluxe of the ftomack,obftrudion of the guts, & againft wringing and 
 tortions in them, being taken with aqua vita and the decodion of bau- 
 laftians, it remedicth convulfionsand palfie, helpeth the middriffe flatus, 
 Hy pocondria, the paines of the reines and bladder, breaketh the ftone, 
 provoketh urine and monthly flowers 4 expclleth other vices of the 
 matrix, yeeldeth a Angular benefit for the Gout, profiteth not a little 
 in quotidians and quartanes, a quantity drunke in wine being firft war¬ 
 med, and then taken an houre before the fit. 
 
 JhcrUthi 
 
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 Of the Medicines , and their u[es 9 
 
 Jheriacha Andromach't, 
 
 A Ndromachus Treakell doth the effects of Mithridatum Damocra- 
 -L±tisy and is alfo good againft the hoarfnefle of the voice, againft the 
 Jaundife, Dropfie, for wounds of the inteftines, to bring forth the 
 young birth dead, to expell and take away the Leprofie, and meafles, 
 to revive every decayed fenfe, to confirme wounds healed, to kill all 
 kinds of wormes, to dilfipate winde, to comfort the heart and ftomacke, 
 and to keepe the body uncorrupt and found. 
 
 Theriaca Diatejferon Me fins. 
 
 'T'His Diatejferon is an ancient compofition devifed by the ancient 
 1 Grecians, and had beginning from ^Avicen , and UMcJues, or one 
 of them; and, according to the Greeke word fo named, for that it 
 is made of foure fnnples, viz. Gentian roots, Bay-berries, Myr ha, and 
 njlolochia rotunda , foure precious and very Cordiall fimples, full of 
 inedicinable vertues. And for that I would Have it kept in time of need, 
 I have thought meet to have ready powdred the faid 4. fimples together 
 to becompofedinto a Treakell as occafion flnll move thee. Only note 
 this, that to one ounce of the faid jpecies 5 3 . of hony is to be added, and 
 well mixed on the fire, and fo it is ready for ufe. By fome Writers this 
 compofition is called Theriaca adpauperem, the poore mans Trakelh 
 The vertues of Diatejferon are faid to be as follow. 
 
 It is good againft poyfon drunken, and againft the bltings of vene- 
 mous beads or wormes. It is alfo good againft all the cold aflx&s of 
 the braine, as convulfions, refotutions of the finewes jnorbum Comitidem, 
 the Spafme or Crampe, the inflation of the ventricle or ftom ick, a- 
 gainft defeft ofconco&ion therein, and againft venemous wounds both 
 inv;ardly drunke, and outwardly applied. Alfo it openeth the obftru&i, 
 ofts of the liver and fplene, thereby preferveth the body from the difeafe 
 called Cachexia ocftomacace , which is the Scurvic. Tejie Pharmacopeia, 
 Augufiana, (Jr altis. 
 
 Dentes pephantini. 
 
 T~\Ens Elephantims , or Elephants tooth hath ah aftringent force , 
 •*-^healeth fellons, and is good for white fluxes of women, the Itteri- 
 tia F lava or the yellow Jaundife, Morbus Regius, wormes, and continual! 
 obftru&ions. 
 
 Laudanum Paracelji Opiatum. 
 
 I N theTreatife of the fluxes of the belly, it is handled at large, to' 
 which I refer the friendly Reader. 
 
 Diaftcordiuitf 
 
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 60 
 
 Of the edicines, and their u/es. 
 
 Diafcorditm. 
 
 T~~\Iafcordium is helpfull in fevers, as well contagious, as peftilentiall: 
 J-^goodforthehead-ach, and univerfall plague, whofe dofeis from 
 halfeadram, to one dram and a halfe, according to theoccafion or 
 ftrength of the Patient. 
 
 Diacodion. 
 
 T ~\lacodion removeth fubtle Catarrhes, which diftill from the head to 
 J '- >/ the bread, helpeth the cough,and procureth reft, the dofeis from 
 d i. to 5 i. 
 
 Philomum Romamrn. 
 
 T)Hilomum Rom. magnum is given for the Pleurifie, Collickeandany in- 
 ternall paine or griefej it caufeth fleepc, ftayeth Haimorraa or the 
 flux of bloud in the inward parts, and fneefing, allaieth the griefesof the 
 belly, fplene, liver, and reynes caufed by cold, wind, and crude hu¬ 
 mours , and takech away the hicket: the quantide of 3 i. is the ufuall 
 cofe, and it is augmented or decreafed as theyeeresand ftrength of the 
 Patient is. 
 
 Philonium Perftcum, 
 
 T}Hilonium Perficum is invented againft the abundance of bloud of 
 A womens monthly termes, of the hemorrhoides, and for the over- 
 much flux oftheir courfes, the flux of the belly,againft vomiting and (pit¬ 
 ting of bloud: it doth alfo confolidate ulcers and veines. 
 
 Hilonium Tarfenfe is of the fame facultie as Philonium Roma- 
 
 AlexmdrmA is effeduall againft the cold defluxions of the 
 head: good for weeping eyes, the tooth-ach, and head-ach, con* 
 lumption, collide, cough, and (pitting of bloud: it eafeth the paine in the 
 reines, and profiteth intermitting fevers. But the caufe whv T h™* nor 
 
 Sue cut 
 
 Succus 
 
Of the Medicines, and their ufes 9 
 
 61 
 
 SUCCHS 4 { 4 t(Jt,.\ 
 
 VTcctu ^Acatie is a forreine medicine], for ff%h.wee ufe the juice of 
 ^ Sloes : it doth refrigerate., binde, and repcll fit ftayedi all fluxds 
 of the belly, healeth excoriations of the intrall$,ftrengdinetb much the 
 domackyhclpeth appetite, healeth ulcerations in the intralls^ithcrufed in 
 Gliders, or eaten in. a. gelly. The dole whereof may fafety be| j. at 
 one time, or *. % cannot offend; but t hold the infufion thereof, or the 
 decodtion of it,to bee the apteft medicine,becaufe ofthe groffnefTe of the 
 fubdance thereof. 
 
 Succus Ghcirrhfte. 
 
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 S Vccus Glycirrbty, or juyee of Licprice in all his-cjualities is temperate, 
 but exceeding in heat: fomewhat it ; doth lenifie the throat, and 
 mitigate the afperitiesofthearteriessdeanfeth the bladder: and is good 
 for the cough: moveth expedoration, and is very profitable againd all 
 vices of the lungs and throat. 
 
 Succus Limonum. 
 
 t^Fccus Limornwy or juice of Unions expelling and refrigerating, clea- 
 ^reth the skin of morphew,killeth handwormes 5 and is of fpeciall ufe 
 to bridle the heat of melancholic: tohelpe fharpe and contagious fe¬ 
 vers : is good to caufe a pleafant tafte in potions, &c. and cotdialls. It 
 is verycordiall ofitfelfe, and the mod precious helpe that ever was 
 difeovered againd the S cur vie to bee drunke at all times; for it mightily 
 
 openeth all obdrudlions, and refrelheth and redoreth nature. ' 
 
 Pulpa Tamar indorum. 
 
 T)Vlp* Tamarindorum\ the pulpe or juice of Tamarinds is amedica- 
 ment excellent and well approved of againd Scurvie ., as well for ope¬ 
 ning the obdrudions of the liver and lplene, as for comforting and 
 refrefhing the bloud and fpirits decayed pr dopped. Alfo, it purgeth 
 choler: allaieth the heat and furie of bloud: cureth fharpe fevers, and 
 the Kings evill: extinguifheth third,and all heat of the domackeand 
 liver: doppeth vomiting, and is good for the Collicke. 
 
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 Pilule Aggregative. 
 
 ~VyiluU <_ Aggregative , fo called either from the o dgaricum or theag- 
 gregation of many vertues that are faid to be therein: for they are 
 profitable for many affe&ions of the head,domack,and liver: they purge 
 flegme, choler, and melancholy 5 and therefore are of very good 
 ufe againd continuall fevers, and inveterate difeafes. It isdeferibed by 
 tjli.cf'uesjf whole dole is from two fcruples to a dram and a halfe. But be¬ 
 ware oftheufeofthefe oils where the flux raigneth; for ^Agaricum y 
 in fuch bodies as are incident thereto, is' a dangerous medicine. I fpeakc 
 this of experience, wherefore remember it. 
 
 PtluU 
 
Of the qSM edicines, and Mr ufes. 
 
 *• Piltth Juru. * 
 
 P jluUauren, or golden p 3 s, being in colour iike^w,or gold,be. 
 
 caufe of the faffton in them , they are cholagogall, attra&ingcho* 
 ler, yea, andflegmeto, from the inferiour and (uperiour venter5 and 
 therefore purge tnehead, fcnlcs and eyes, andreftorc the eye* fight. 
 They were firft made knowne bypcolaus Myntfus , who was the firft 
 inventer of them 5 their dofc is like thatofthc piis Aggregative. 
 
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 A/m/* Coe hi 4. 
 
 P jluU Cochi a deriving their name from a Greeke wordKww^agraine 
 fpils being formed fmall and round like graincs of Ciccrs) doe purge 
 both choler and flegme from the head, the liver, and from all other 
 parts whereinfuch humours are contained, and arc founddeferibed, 
 firft, by D r . Rhafis y who is their fuppofed Authour. The dofc is divers 
 as before, foraetimes great, fometimes fmall, but 5 j. is the ordinary 
 dofc. 
 
 piluU de PttprbtQ. 
 
 TflluL deEuphrobio , pilsof Euphorbium (receiving Mefues for their 
 Patron ) arc vertuous againft tne dropfic and Scurvie, for they calefie 
 the ftomackeand entrailcs, purge water abundantly, prevaile alfo in 
 removing the caufe of tumours, and bring aide for the paine of the 
 loines and gout, proceeding from too much humidity: they areeffeda- 
 all in the quantity of one fcruple, or halfc a dram, and may be mixed 
 WithP/ 7 #Ae Cochin, 
 
 PiluU Cambogix. 
 
 P Ils of Cdwbogia^te good to cleanfc the head and refrefh the fight, to 
 x purgecholcr,flegme or melancholy from the ftomack or fplene,they 
 open obftriHftions,and thereby profit well in the cure ofthe dropfic and 
 fcurvie,andforthe cure of Ittcritiaflava or the yellow jaundife,they are 
 very good.ThisOfw%/4 is much ufcdinHolland &Germany:&Dodor 
 Harvey of St. Bartholomews Hofpitall, calleth it purging faffron, and gi- 
 
 if in mle -he* f* in mliirK monn^t* nriirA^ 1__ 1_• r 
 
 PiluU Ruffi. 
 
 T)lluU Ruffi fix PefiilentUles Ruffi (fubferibing to Ruffus their inventor, 
 a famous Phyfician, and fitting for the pcftilence and plague) doe ra¬ 
 ther prevent infe&ion, then cure the infedted : forbyreafon ofthe aloes 
 the body isfreed from excrements,by myrrhafrom putrefadion^nd by 
 Saffron the vitall faculties are quickened; but infediononce poffeffed, 
 
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Ofthe^M.edicmes > and theirufeu 6^ 
 
 is not alwayes by fuch light cordialls and gentle laxatives removed rtheir 
 dofe agreeth with that of PduU Attrc* , they are very ftomachall ,for 
 they refrdli mucli the ftomacke, and in any opprefiions of theftomacke 
 where gentle purging is required, they excell. 
 
 Benedict a laxativa. 
 
 TyEnedicta laxativa,ox the bleffed laxative, doth mightily open ob- 
 - L 'ftrudtions, purgeth choler, flegme, and all clammy humours from 
 the joints, reines, and bladder: and is Rearmed Benedict a , becaufe it be- 
 nignely loofeth the belly. The dofe is 2> ii. 
 
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 Prtlvis Artbriticus Paracelji. 
 
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 HTHis is a laxative powder, made onely of foure vegetables, and one 
 A Animal [implex , with the addition of fugar, to give it the more 
 gratefull tafte: the dole is to 3 i. at the utmoft, befides the fugar: I can 
 f peake of the pleafure and profit I have had by this meane purging pow¬ 
 der; I lay pleafure, for that itisfopleafant and eafietobce taken; and 
 profit to me many wayes; for it is my generall purging medicine, when 
 I would purge downwards upon any repletion of the body, or generall 
 caufe of evacuation downwards; and I findc it indifferent in purging any 
 offending humour, according to the commendations the Authour gi- 
 veth of it; I can no more miffc this plaine and harmcleffe ready purge, 
 then I can miffe my Salvatorie. ofwaldm Crollitts , a moft learned 
 late Writer, hath fetdowne this onely purge for the cure of the Poda¬ 
 gra, giving it this briefe commendation, It puigeth fafely and gently all 
 podagricall deflu&ions: and in truth, whofoever fhall have occafion of 
 the ule thereof, will have caufe to commend it,and knowing it, will finde 
 fmall need of Pufais HoUandtcus or Pulvis fancius , whofe dofe at lea muft 
 be at the leaft two dragmes, being naufeous and unfavoury, whereas 
 3 fs. of this will doe as much with great facillity, and without tortions or 
 gripingsofthe guts, which other compofitions caufe. I ufe to give it to 
 ftrong bodies in white wine, to weaker in facke; but at fer fora need it 
 may be given in faire water, and fome firupe to helpe thetafte thereof, 
 
 which nevertheleffeis not ungratefull of it fclfe. 
 
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 Trocbifcus dc i^ibftnthio. 
 
 r p Roc hi feus de Abfmthio or of wormewood (faith Mefucs) taketh away 
 the obfir unions of the ftomacke and liver, and intermitting or chro- 
 nkall fevers fprung thereof, ftrengtheneth the bowels, and caufcth an ap¬ 
 petite. 
 
 Trocbifcui de AlUndall. 
 
 Rochifci Colocynthidoi , or Alhandall (as the Arabians fpeake) doe 
 1 bring away thicke flegme,and all glutinous jaices from the braine, 
 nerves, and other more remote parts, they helpe the collicke proceeding 
 
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 Of the Medicines , and their ttfes. 
 
 from aglaflictough flegme, the Apoplexie, Squinancic/allingficknefle, 
 fhort breathing,cold and gouty difeafes, which fcarce give way to com¬ 
 mon medicaments, and is deferibed by Mefuesy the dofeisgra.4. 
 
 Tro chi fit de Spodio. 
 
 rn Rothifit de Spodio , faith Mefues,havcthcit ufe in bilious fevers,which 
 A bmgalfo afluxe of the belly, they allay the inflammation of the 
 ftomaae, liver, and continuall thirft. 
 
 Trochifii de Mlnie. 
 
 r J i Rothtfii de Miniojyt the Trochisks of Minium,confume proud flcfli, 
 A mmdifie fordid ulcers, as alfo callous or hard flefh, anjd wonderfully 
 cure fiflula s: looke more thereof in Johannes de Vigo. 
 
 Folia Sen*. 
 
 T 7 olia sen* are hot and drie in nature, they are an excellent raedica- 
 x mertfor purging the belly jit fcoureth away flegmaticke,tough, and 
 melancioly humours from the brainc, lungs, fpleene, liver, ftomackc 
 and bowels, as alfo deanfeth the body from aduft and fait humours. 
 
 Rhabarbarum. 
 
 O Hdarbarum or Rubcrbe, is hot in the firfl degree, and dry in the fc- 
 ■*-^cond,of an aftringent nature,and is good for the ftomacke and liver 
 and aganftthebloudy flixe, purgeth downward cholericke humours and 
 therefore very profitably^ifed againft hot fevers, inflammations’and 
 ftoppings of the liver,&c. ? i. is the foil dole. 
 
 Kysgmcttm. 
 
 A Gaticum or Agarickc, is hot in the firft degree,and dry in the fecond 
 ^purgeth flegme, freeth from ( obftrudions, attenuated,cleanfeth, and 
 diflipatcth winde,and helpeth all difeafes which fpring from grofle,cold 
 and raw humours: the dofe is 3 i. But beware of the ufe thereof in the 
 curing any fluxes of the belly. \ 
 
 Sc ammonium. 
 
 C Cammntttm is hot and dry in the fecond degree, purgeth downward 
 
 •T?r C T nt ^ ann " cholcricke humours, and therefore is good a- 
 gainft diTcafes anfing from the fame, but if it be taken either too much in 
 quantity, out of time, place, or unprepared, it is very dangerous, excori- 
 atmg tht guts, provoking bloudy excrements, procuring Dyfenteria, 
 caufing wmde, offending the ftomackc, and diftempering the heart and 
 liver: the dofe is eight graines. 
 
 Aloes 
 
Of the Medicines , and their ufes t 
 
 loes CicQtrinx. 
 
 A ^ oes ' s hot in the fecond degree, and dry in the third degree, 
 Z r emoveth cold, flegmaticke and cholericke humours, by purging’ 
 digefung, and driving them out: it is a foveraigne medicine for thefto- 
 mack, 
 
 Hermodaclili . 
 
 H ErmodaBils are hot and dty in the fccond degree, they doe effedtu- 
 ally draw away flegme, and other flimie humours from the Joints, 
 and therefore are very profitable for the Gout in the hands and feet, and 
 the Sciatica. 
 
 • Polypodium. 
 
 P Olyfodtum is dry in the fecond degree, openeth the body, and bring- 
 eth away blacke choler and flegme, helpeth the eollieke and the gri¬ 
 ping of the belly, and alfo the obftru&ions of the fpleene. 
 
 Cornu Cervi. 
 
 T-T Arts home is to be numbred among Cordiall fimples Inthehigh- 
 . place, it is given in want of Unicomes home, and net unfitly^ 
 t * le i s good againft poyfon, provoketh urine open- 
 cth obftrudions, eafeth the eollieke, difperfcth winde, kiUeth wormes 
 in the body, is good againft paines of the reincs, or bladder, and be : na 
 taken upon each occafion in liquors proper to the former griefes,itis 
 much the better in force: Thus much is meant of Harts home inburned; 
 And being burned, the pouder thereof is very good againft the bloudv’ 
 or any other fluxes of the belly. 1 9 
 
 Euphorbinm. 
 
 j VUpborbiumxs hot and dry almoftin the fourth degree;"afidbefides 
 his extreme heat and notable acrimony 5 it hath a certaine faculty of 
 
 purging, whereby tough and cold flegme, with choler and water arc ta¬ 
 ken away. 
 
 Turpethum Catbapfarts, 
 
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 'T'Urbith is hot in the third degree, is good to purge flegme, cholc- 
 1 » ricke and thicke humours from the ftomackc, breaft, joints, and o- 
 ther remote parts, and helpeth the eollieke and cold aches. 
 
 Mirabclancs. 
 
 M"f' / ^u W i ,CKO f five kinds » the Citrine, India.!, Belle, 
 ncke, Cbebule, and Hmoiickey have peculiar vertucs: fomc purge 
 
 M 3 choler^ 
 
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 Of the Mcdtcmes , and their ufes . 
 
 choler, others melancholy, others flegme ; but as they purge, fo they 
 binde againe, comforting and ftrengthening the heart, ftomacke, and lj. 
 ver, and therefore are fit purgers of the body in dyfenterte upon any oc¬ 
 casion : their dofc is? ii. 
 
 
 
 Cambogiee, or Guttigambe . 
 
 f~ y Amhogia is a purging medicine,newly found out in the Eaft-Indies, 
 '^'and thence brought to us; it is not much unlike Stibium in working* 
 it is already in ufe by divers reverend Phyficians, amongft which,D 1 ##. 
 vie ufeth it in Saint Bartholomews Hofpitall,and callethit Crocus put gam, 
 I find by my pradice it purgeth well the head, and that it is good to open 
 obfirudions, that it is alfo good againft the yellow Jaundife: It openeth 
 well the fpleene and liver, and purgeth more downwards then Stibium 
 doth :thedofeis i3.graines. T he recited Dodor giveth it in pills: my 
 felfe, for that I fee it purgeth the head, have mixed it with pills for the 
 head $ and I fo give it, and it worketh gently downward onely. 
 
 .*• .CafsiajiJluU. 
 
 Ajsia fifiula is hot and moift in the firft degree, tempereth immode-' 
 ^rate heat, purgeth gently cholericke humours, and is good for the 
 reines and kidnies, driving forth graveil and the ftone. 
 
 ui 
 
 Crocus . 
 
 f ^Rocus, or Saffron, is hot in the fecond degree', and dric in the firft, Is 
 ^good for the brain,quickeneth the fenfes, cheereth the heart caufeth 
 digeftion, helpeththe difeafes of the breaft, lungs, and liver,it mollified] 
 all hardncftcs,and ripeneth all tumours. 
 
 . 
 
 Opium.' 
 
 O f T ? ? ld a " d df y ■" the fourth degree, aflwageth inward names, 
 caufeth fleep, ftoppeth the flixe, and requireth care in the ufe [here¬ 
 of, for otherwife it is a deadly poyfon. 
 
 Radix Chyna. 
 
 13 Aiixchnt, Chyne.rootsprevaile much in the cure of 
 
 • g T fo f'he gttWinelTe of the head, taketh awaythe 
 
 paine oftheftomacke,andI obftru&ons,and are profitable for the drofie, 
 co heke,andgnpingsofthebelly,moveth urine.caufeth fweat,arable 
 
 helpfullagamft convulfions,thepalfie,andpainesofthe joints Mdafu- 
 gular remedy againft a confumption. joints, ana alio 
 
 Sarfdpnrilltt. 
 
 C ArUpmlU isofahot quality, caufeth fweat.efpecialiyextineuilbetli 
 °theheatof venereouspoyfon, and is good for the articular difeafes, 
 
 ulcers, 
 
Of the Aiedtcmes, and their ufes % 
 
 Trench pockes^” 1 ^^ ^ umours * an ^ principally it is good againft the 
 
 . Satfafras. 
 
 is of a hot and dry temperament in thefccond degree, com- 
 mended in taking away obftru&ions, corroborating the inward parts 
 iielping the Afthmaticke and Nephretike, cleanfing the reines from gra- 
 yel^difcufhngwinde, good for womens difeafesiandagainftany kinde 
 or fluxion,and in the Morbus Gallicus or French pocks, it is a good medi¬ 
 cine* 
 
 Gnaiacum. 
 
 Ignum Gnaiacum doth exficcate,attenuate, open, purge, move fweat, 
 rdifteth contagion and infe<ftion,and doth wonderfully cure the mor¬ 
 bus GaLlicus , old ulcers, fcabs, and ring-wormes; the beft ufe thereof is 
 by decoaion in faire water. 
 
 Cortex Gnaiaci . 
 
 C ^J? rt f x , Gnat “ a the fame vertue as the Ltgmm Gnaiacum 
 hath, but exficcateth much more. 
 
 Cortex Granatorum. 
 
 £\)rtexgranattrumjeu malicorium , is aftringent, ftoppeth the laskc 
 
 teethToof °ft dy flU rh C h h ki lct ?- the § UmS moift and weakc >fafteneththe* 
 teeth loole, ftoppeth the bleeding of greene wounds,and helpeth the cor- 
 
 theouts° f thC ftomacke> bowels, and the hurfting or falling downcof 
 
 Liquiritia. 
 
 Zgr«//W4 1S in all qualities temperate, yet enclining more to heat, it is 
 -^agreeable to the lungs and breaft, rotteth flegme, moveth expe£ 
 
 ration,cureth the cough,helpeth breathing,and is profitable for the reins, 
 
 thC ftone > andhMl «'>*e 
 
 Hordeum. 
 
 **Barley)is cold and dry in 
 the firft degree, digefteth/ofteneth, and npencth all hard fwellirKS 
 isgood for inflammations, cxcelleth againft the forenefle of the throat’ 
 
 refrigerate*, comforteth, ftrengtheneth, is abfterfive, and provoke* 
 
 unne* 
 
 Hordeum Gallicum. 
 
 i~^u r ‘ilTr>h 4 r U “ m ’ mor J ure<i inwardlythen the herdamcmmuK 
 astheotlieris ofthe fame nature and vertue 
 
 Semen 
 
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 Of the Medicines, and their ufes . 
 
 Semen Amp. 
 
 O-i Emen y^Anifi or Anife-fecd, is hot and dry in the third degree, doth 
 ^difcufle the windineffcof the ftomack and bowels,ftoppcth the bloo¬ 
 dy flixe, laske of the belly, moveth urine and monethly termes, breaketh 
 andbringethaway theftone,helpeth obftru&ions of the liver, amend- 
 eth the breath, and is good for the falling ficknelfe. 
 
 Semen ftern cull. 
 
 C Emen fcenicull or fennell feed,is hot in the third degree,drie in the firft, 
 ^corroborated! the ftomacke, openeth the obftruftions of the lungs, li¬ 
 ver, and kidnies, and caufeth abundance of railke in womens breafts. 
 
 Semen Curl. 
 
 G'Emcn Carl or Caraway feed,is ofthe fame nature and vertue as Semen 
 KJ ^Anife aforefaid. 
 
 Semen Cumini. 
 
 tumours, and is good againft the collicke and timpanic. 
 
 S etnen Petrofelini. 
 
 CEmen Petrofelini or Parfley feed , is hot in the fecond degree, and 
 dry in the third, is given to them that have the (tone or I aundife, 
 as alfo to provoke urine. 
 
 Semen Lint. 
 
 OEmcn Lim 01 Linefeed, is hot in the firft degree, temperate in moi- 
 *^lturc and drmefle,foftcneth all cold tumours,ripeneth,& breaketh im- 
 poftumes, draweth out thornes flicking in the body, expelleth winded 
 gnpmgs of the belly, and cleanfeth the flelh from fpots. 
 
 Semen Fenigr*ci. 
 
 CMmtnfemgrm or Fcnigrcce, is hot in the fecond, and dty in the third 
 egree, doth molline, difeufle, and mundifie: helpeth cold, hard 1 
 fwelhngs impoftumes,and gout in the feet: wafteth & lenifieth the hard- 
 nefle ofthe milt, mitigateth heat, is profitable for the matrix in women, 
 
 d thdik thC SkinnC ft0m many CvilS5as itch) kurfe,pimples,wheals, 
 
 Semen 
 
Of the Medicines, and their u/es. 
 
 Semen Anethi . 
 
 Qe men A net hi or Dill-feeds, are hot and dry in thefecond degree 
 provoke urine, prevaile againft the eripingsofthe belly, and inflations 
 
 gefthuiour?'^ ** miIke > attenuatc »rcfolve, and di- 
 
 Semen pap aver is albi. 
 
 Sf. ahot white Poppy feds, are cold anddryinthe 
 
 ‘-'fburthdegree , provokeflecpe,take away fubtill humours,ca 4 rh«, 
 rheumcs diftillmg from the brains upon the lungs, and help the cough 
 
 Semen plantaginis, 
 
 CJ Emen plantaginis or Plantane feeds, arecold and dry in the fecond 
 ^degree, flop the fluxe of the belly, and any fluxe of blood, arc good 
 alfofor catarrhes, old and new ulcers, either of the body or mouth 
 
 Semina quatuor frigida major a . 
 
 TpHe foure cold feeds, named S emina quatuor friqida major a {viz Cu~ 
 f curbtt *i C^umms, citrulli,Melonis) arecold and moift in the fecond 
 degree. The firft whereof extinguiflieth the fervour or heat of bloud 
 choler,and fevers. The two following are profitable to the ftomacke’ 
 move urine, helpe the ulcers of the reines and bladder, extinguifh thirft 
 and choler. The fourth and laft hath all the vermes of the former. 
 
 Semina quatuor frigida minora. 
 
 C x Emina quatuor frigida minora or the foure cold feeds, (viz. LaCluc <r. 
 
 Portulaea, dehorn, Endivia) the firft whereof is dry and cold in the 
 third degree, refrigerateth the head, liver, fpleene, reines, bladder, and 
 limbs, prevaileth againft the Gonorrea , and heat of Venery, moifteneth, 
 lenifieth, llaketh thirft, and caufeth fleepe, Ren Wick. 
 
 Saccharum . 
 
 C Accharum , Sugar is hot in the firft degree, loofeth the belly, is conve¬ 
 nient to the ftomackc, doth cleanfe,digeft, take away theafperity or 
 roughnefle of the tongue, and ficcity, thirft, or drought in fevers, helpeth 
 the reines and bladder, and is profitable for eyes dim of fight. 
 
 Amygdala amara. 
 
 Mygdala amar& or bitter Almonds, are hot in the firft degree, dry 
 in the fecond, they are abfterfivc more then fweet ones : they doe 
 
 open 
 
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 open and purge the lungs, liver, fpleene,kidnies,and paflages of the reines, 
 
 and bowels, and are good againft {pitting of bloud. 
 
 dulces. 
 
 \ Myedah dulces or fweet Almonds, are hot and moift inthefirftdc- 
 "^*gree,doe extenuate, purge,and cleanfe the bowels, draw lpittle from 
 the breaft ar c! lungs* are good for the cold and dry ftomacke 5 clearethc 
 skin from fpots, pimples, and lentiles, flop fpitting of blood, and ingen¬ 
 der choler. 
 
 U V<ej>ajf<efeti connthi»<t , or Currants, are hot in the firft degree, or 
 rather of a temperate quality jand by a fpeciall faculty they have,they 
 prevaile againft the vices of the breaft and liver, move and purge the bel¬ 
 ly, ftrengthen the ftomacke, purge the head,lcnifie and cleanfe the breaft 
 and lungs. 
 
 A Mylum or white ftarch, is moderately hot, levigateth the parts exaf. 
 
 perated , it is effectual! againft the defluxions of humours into the 
 eyes, againft puftles and hollow ulcers, it filleth with flelh, ftoppeth fpit¬ 
 ting of bloud, helpeth the roughnefle and forenefle of the breaft and 
 throat, and eafeth the cough: It is very good in the fluxes of the belly to 
 be given in glifters, againft inflammations and excoriations in the intrails, 
 
 Ctnamomtm. 
 
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 C lnmomum or Cinamon, is hot in the fecond degree,warmeth, com- 
 forteth, concodeth , mollifieth, and wonderfully chearcth up the 
 heart, and all the faculties of the body, as well animall, as vitall and na- 
 turall. It is very good againft the fluxes ofthe belly. 
 
 TDlpcr nigtr orblacke pepper, is hot and dry in the third degree, ex- 
 pelleth winde, is good againft all cold griefes of the breaft and lungs, 
 againftpoyfon,agues,and fquinancy, diflolveth and wafteth hard tu¬ 
 mours , caufeth digeftion, and aromatizeth meats. 
 
 Cariophilli. 
 
 Ariophilli or Cloves, are hot and dry in the fecond degree, and 
 arc Aromaticall, and beneficiall to the heart and braine,helpe the 
 
 liver, 
 
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 li v er,and ftomack,make the breath fweet,are good for digeftion, quicken 
 the fight,ftirre up luft,and take away obftru&ions. H 
 
 Hux CMufehata. 
 
 Nfl M “[ ch "-‘x or Nutans arc ofthe fame complexion with Mach- 
 nelpcth the ftoppmgs of the liver, milt, ftomack, windineflh of the 
 Mly , laske, weakrteftc of the kidnies, and flopping of the urine: com- 
 forteh the heart, and aromatizeththe ftomack. 
 
 Zingiber, 
 
 "Zj!f lkr l 0r l Ging , c I is , hot ^ the third degree, helpcth concoCfion, 
 ^ftrengthneth a cold and weak ftomacke, breakethwinde, andpre- 
 venteth fowre eructation. r 
 
 Gumrtii Guam. 
 
 C^Vmmi Guaict, the gum ofthe Gaacum hath the fame vertue as the 
 ^ wood and barke aforefaid called Lignum Guaicim , and drunk in 
 powder is approved a good remedy in Gomrrxa. 
 
 Opoponax* 
 
 (fXPeponax, is a gum hot in the third degree, and dry in the fccond(if 
 ^-'oitter, white within or yellow, fat, tender, eafily difTolving, and of 
 a ftrong fmell,it is good) it doth molKfie, digeft, attenuate or aftwage^ 
 diftipate or difperfe winde, and is laxative. 
 
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 pedum doth warme and mollifie hard tumors inthe throat, and 
 difeuffeth Hernias in their beginnings, provoketh urine, and 
 is good againft the cough. 
 
 i^imoniacum. 
 
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 A Meniactm fagumme fo called) is hot in the third degree, hath 
 ■*^the force of mollifying fo tfffe&uall, that it diftolveth Tophoes 
 or hard ftones growne in the flclh, eafily difeufleth other puftles, 
 healeth the fplene hardned, anti, being given indrinke, takethaway 
 many obftruttions, provoketh the monethly courfes and urine, dri- 
 veth out the ftone, diftolveth the Kings evill, is very profitable for 
 aches occafioned by cold: that which is pure therof is formed like 
 7hd) , and in tafte like Cafiorcum. 
 
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 Sagapenum. 
 
 S Agapem/n ,or Serapimm is hot in the third degree, dry in the fecond, 
 bringeth downe womens courfes,is profitable againft the fuffocarion 
 ofthe Matrix^ refolveth, attenuated!, dilfipateth, movcth,difTolveth,and 
 purgeth (though flowly J thickeflegme, and claramic humors: it 
 cfteemed excellent, ifcleare, yellow in colour without,but white with- 
 in, quicke in tafte, light in fubftance, and eafie in dilfolving. 
 
 Galbanum. 
 
 t ~'Albanum\% hot in the fecond degree: it is good ifit be full of drops 
 ^ pure like frankincenfe, fat, not full offticks, ftrong in fmell,neither 
 inoift nor dry in fubftance : it extra&eth, difculTeth, bringeth a way the 
 courfes ftopt, and the birth, takes away biles, hard kernels, and knots in 
 the body, and helpeth the cough, fhort breathing, convulfions,and rap. 
 tures. 
 
 CWyrrka, 
 
 1V/T Yrr /j4,chofen,fragill or brittle, light, fpendent, of little drops,bit- 
 1V1 ter , fharpe, which fmelleth fweet,full of whitifh veines being bro¬ 
 ken, is hot &’dry in the fecond degree :Ic openeth the wombe,procureth 
 the courfes, bringeth forth fpeedily the birth,and is good for the cough, 
 flitch, fluxe, and bloudy flixe: it killeth wormes, amendeththe breath’ 
 clofethup wounds, confirmeth the teeth loofc, and ftayeththehaire 
 from fhedding. > 
 
 , Majlicke. 
 
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 A/T Afticke fweet in fmell, white, fpendent, brittle, old, and very dry, 
 L brought from the Ifle Chio, is hot in the fecond degree :It helpeth 
 concoftion, ftoppeth vomiting, confirmeth the power of reteining 
 fuftcnance, isdbfterfive: it is profitable alfo to them that fpit blond, or 
 that are troubled with a cough, it attra&eth flegme from the braine, 
 and is good for the breath. 
 
 JUuuAflHrW* 
 
 L .f/" ^ hot and dry in the fecond degree, doth calefie, and mol- 
 
 rr ; °Pf 1K thc u p P r ? the vcincs > kce P cth the haire from falling 
 offthe head, ftoppeth the Iaske, provokes urine: it is ufed feldome iathe 
 Surgeons Chcft, except in making a gratefull odour,-as when a fumcof 
 Cmabrmm is to be prepared, for the cure of the pox. ' 
 
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 Styrax , 
 
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 3oe difcufle hard cold tumors, the knots of the finewes, and the ftruma. 
 The beft commeth from Cyprus Jiden^ and Pifidia : the Calamita Styrax 
 
 is yellow, fall, rofenlikeinglifteringfragments,continuingitsfmell 
 
 though old; and (being diflolved) of a hony- like colour, if commenda¬ 
 ble. 
 
 Bel\oin. 
 
 T)El\oiti , called vulgarly Benjamin , is hot in the fourth degree, 
 - L 'comfortech the heart, and all the faculties thereof, and hath 
 the fame power as Styrax Calamita aforefaid: the reddilh, cleere 
 full of white drops like frankincenfe, and ofafweetfmellas Xi haloes 
 burnedjischofen. 
 
 Tragacantbum. 
 
 Hr Ragacamhnm^ temperate hot gum, is good for the cough, roughnes 
 ofthe Arterie or wind-pipe, hoarfneffe and defluxions, being taken 
 with honey, or with Sugar, and is commended to be good for the eyesj 
 alfo it is good to be (wallowed downe whole, or eaten in powder a^ainft 
 the fluxe. • ° 
 
 Fix Bnrgnndia, of fomc Fix Qr&ca and Colopboma. 
 
 C ohphonia or Pix Graca, is all one thing, and is a kind of Rofin ofthe 
 Pine tree: it is hot and drie, cleanfing and healing new wounds, 
 mollifying hard tumours or fwellings, and is very ptofitable againft 
 aches of the limbs, proceeding of a cold caufe. ' 1 i : 
 
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 IxNavahs, or ftone-pitch, is hot and drie in the fecond degree : it 
 difeuffeth, conglutinateth, mollifieth , maturateth, fuppleth the 
 hardnefleof the matrix, and hard tumqurs * cureth ulcers, filleth them 
 
 that are hollow up with good flcih, and frclpeth cold achek:' 
 
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 O F.fina is hot, mollifying, difeufling anckleanfing, and (being taken 
 inwardly) is good againft the cough, mendeth the breaft, provo- 
 keth urine, conco&eth crude matters, loofeth the belly [ ettpelletfi’ th<| 
 ftoae and gravel!, and is excellent for the cure of green and'freih wounds- 
 
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 Succimm. 
 
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 \Mbracitrinafeu fuccinum is hot and dry, prevalent againft the 
 * ,; vhlt£ «uxe ofthe wombe, fluxe of blotfd, running ofthe kidneyes, 
 diftillations ot the head, flopping ofthe matrix, monethlytcrmes,dif- 
 cuky of urineibeing powdered and drunk, helpeth immoderate' ebugfi^ 
 and ftirngtheoetii theinteftincs, & is good to oecdftOt£drtO«d!oi«wire 
 
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 the fumethereof, to comfort the Arfc-gut fallen, as alfo to fumeafhip 
 or houfe in time of infedious aires,as the plague,or when generall fluxes 
 are to be feared. 
 
 Cera Citrina . 
 
 C Era citrina, or yellow wax, doth mollific and heat, moyftneth 
 temperately: it is good to amend the milke in the nurles brcftsco 
 agulated, itfwageth paine, hcalcth wounds and ulcers, and hath com¬ 
 monly a place in all good unguents and plafters: It is a good medicine to 
 bedrunkeoreaten, and fofwallowed downe for to cure the exulcerati¬ 
 ons of the ftomack or intrailes in fluxes,where inward exulcerations arc 
 to be feared. 
 
 Mummia. 
 
 M Vmmia is aftringent, helpeth fluxes of bloud, the bladder ulcera¬ 
 ted, and the inward diftempers of the yard; as alfo it provoketh 
 urine, and is very good to be drunk in powder againft great contufions 
 or coagulated bloud within the body. 
 
 • - r Spermaceti. 
 
 S Perma Ceti , or Spuma marts , or the fpawne of the Whale, is fowre 
 in tate v fpungie and whitejn (hew, unfavoury in fmell, and weighty, 
 having a (harpe quality : It is of a cold faculty, cleanfeth, and digefteth, 
 andisiometimesufedcfwomentoclearetheskin from (pots and mor- 
 phew: It is good alfo againft bruifes inwardly, taken with the former, 
 namely, c jMummia , and alfo outwardly warme, to annoint the parts 
 contufed therewith, and a Paracelfus empUJler , or of Pix Grecum put 
 thereon, r i. j <' ' , f 
 
 o h r A . Sangttis Draconis. 
 
 O- Angttis Dfaconis is cold,and drieinthefirft degree, it is ofana-- 
 ^ftringentquality, itclofeth up wounds, and confirmeth the weakc 
 parts, and ftayeth the fluxes of outward wounds. 
 
 mir- . '-/}) hnn . '-r ' opines. 
 
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 Tv-Fpittes are hot and drie in the fecond degree, digeft, make fubtill 
 -Inland cleanfc,. killwormes, drive away the freckles and (pots like 
 lentils in the face, aflwage impoftumations and fwellings, the fciatica 
 paine; digeft, confume, and diflolve Morbtim Regium ; ripen and open 
 wens, botches,biles and pcftilcntiall fores. 
 
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 t ?ov ■ • dilo v. Cantharides . 
 
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 4 nthari<lesMe ufed outwardly tocaufcablifter, and fometimes in- 
 V-»3yardly to move urine 5 but fo they arc raoft dangerous, for they will 
 :* bring 
 
Of the edicmes,and tbeirufes. 
 
 bring the difeafe Priapt/mus upon thePatient in a violent mannenToncc 
 knew it given, but it killed the parry the third day. 
 
 Camphura. 
 
 f^ampbura or Camphor a of a mixt quality, refrigerateth and calcfieth 
 ^affwageth the paineofthe head, inflammations of ulcers, wounds’ 
 cureth Eryftpelas or St. Anthonies fire, is effeduall againft the GonorrJ 
 the white flowers of women, bleed ing of the nofe: it is alfo good againft 
 venoms and poyfons, itpreierveththebody from putrefaction, Sid is 
 commended for many othervertues, for brevity here omitted. 
 
 Spodium. 
 
 K? podium an aftringent Ample, is cordial! and good for fainting or 
 ^fwounding, inflammations of the ftomack, trembling, melancholy 
 and other affections arifing thence. 3 * 
 
 Sumach. 
 
 C Vmtch is wonderfully aftringent, dric in the third degree, and cold 
 °in the fecond: it is good for the Dyfernery , all bloudy fluxes, and 
 womens fluxes, efpecially the white, and the Hemorrhoides, prefer- 
 vethalfo ulcers from inflammations and cxulccration. r 
 
 GaIU. 
 
 f~lAlU or Galles are cold in the fecond degree, and dry in the third • 
 ^ they cure fluxions ofthe gums, helpe the ulcerations of the mouth’ 
 flay the fluxes menftruall, and helpe the mother falling downe’ 
 make the haireblacke, confume proud flefli in wounds and ulcers and 
 induce a good healing to them. 5 
 
 Bolus verus. 
 
 Tlolus Armenia vel Orient alts vertis is very dry, and aftringent: it is 
 -^agood medicine in refilling the fluxes of bloud , helping the Ca- 
 tarrhe, Dyfentery,and ulcers ofthe mouth,prevailing againft pdlilence 
 and all other like infections. 
 
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 Bolus communis. 
 
 B olus communis , common Bole, hath the lame effects as the former 
 Bolus. 
 
 Stibium . 
 
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 A Ntimonium^feu Stibium, ufed in due time and place, produceth very 
 x ^good effects, wrcllling well with many kinds of llrong difealei: 
 
 commonly 
 
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 commonly it is given in a Tertian, as alfo to the troubled with collicke 
 paine, it purgeth upward and downeward forcibly, and caufeth 
 fwcat,it is a good medicine,givenwith carefull refpedjbut it killeth many 
 by the violence thereof, unadvifedlyadminiftred : I lament to call to 
 minde what fearefull accidents I have feene follow the ufe thereof; 
 wherefore I advife the Surgeons mate to adminfter it with great care. 
 The dole 'being five graines) is beft taken by infufion. It cureth fevers, 
 is good againft peftilentiall fevers in their beginning: For it cureth fuch 
 at once taking j and in any other fevers it may be given, the body being 
 ftrong. 
 
 Sulphur. 
 
 C vlphur or P rimftone is hot, concoding and refolving, it profiteth the 
 ^afthmaticall, cough, collicke, griefe, and refolution of the members: 
 taketh away itch, breaking out of all the body, cureth tetters orring- 
 wormes,and the fcurffe, and cureth rheumes and diflillations: Seeke 
 further hereof in Sal , Sulphur md Mercury . 
 
 x^illumen. 
 
 r A Llumcn , or Allum, is aftringent and yet purging,mendeth putrefied 
 JL\ ulcers,drieth the moift,confumeth proud fuperfluous flefh, taketh 
 away the itch, and. cureth the fcab, and is very profitable in lotions for 
 ulcerations of the mouth, throat, or clfe-where. 
 
 Vitrielum. 
 
 \T Itriolum feuCalcanthum , or Coperas, is hot, aftringent and drie, 
 * killeth the wormes of the belly, helpeth againft poyfon, keepeth 
 the flefh moift and from putritude, confumeth, contradeth and purgeth 
 ulcers. Seeke more of this fubjed in the Treatife of Salt. 
 
 Vitriolum alburn. 
 
 CEeke in the Treatife of Salt, in the end of Vitrhlum for white Co¬ 
 pperas. 
 
 1 Ceruf.k. 
 
 f^Erufa, or Venice ferufe, refrigerateth, drieth, bindeth, extenuateth, 
 ^gently reprefleth excrefcences,and bringeth deepe wounds to a skar 
 orciccatrice, and is very good to bee mixed afmall quantity at once 
 with Plant ane againft the heat and excoriations of the yard,I mean 
 
 within the paffage of the yard. 
 
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 Plumbum Album. 
 
 T^Ltmbum Album , or white lead, is cold in the fecond degree, it is an 
 excellent remedy againft inflammations,ftiffeand hard ulcers,cankcrs 
 and fluxions of the articles. 
 
 Minium 
 
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 11 
 
 Minium . 
 
 "V) Lumbago, or red lead, hath the force of bidding, mollifying, filling 
 x U P hollow ulcers with flefh,bringing down proud flefli,reffigctateth, 
 clofeth up wounds, and induceth a cicatrice. 
 
 Plumbum ufium. 
 
 TS aftringent, filleth up wounds,eateth away their cxcrefcences,ftayeth 
 J the r rheume of the eyes, and is profitable againftthe ulcers of the 
 fundament, hemorrhoides, and their inflammations. 
 
 Lithargyrum. 
 
 T Jtbargyrus, or Lithargyrum anri & argmi, & flumbi, Litharge either 
 J -'of gold,filvcr, or leade,doe all refrigerate,bindc, reprefTe,flop,fill up 
 hollow places, cleanfe, induce a cicatrice or little fcarre, and prevaile a- 
 gainft the galling of the thighes. The litharge of gold, of filver and 
 ofleade, are all but one thing .though they are of feverall names,colours 
 and differences of operations, by reafon of their different preparations: 
 they are as Minium is, all the fonnes oiSaturne, and arc even lead and no 
 other thing. 
 
 *y£j Viride. 
 
 /JT^SviridcyOr vtrdigrccc ,hath a (harp quality,digefting,attracfing, 
 / I ^ extenuating, corroding and is abfterfive, ftoppeth fretting and 
 *• .‘T^’Tpreading fores, and eateth the callous hard flefh of fiftulacs, 
 good in ulcers and Ophthalmies of the eyes. It is the ruft eitflenof cop¬ 
 per or braffe. 
 
 Tutia. 
 
 *Y*U:ia is a gentle drier, good againft the dift;illations of the eyes,aftrin- 
 A gent, cooling,cleanfing, flopping, and filling up. It is thefeumof 
 brafle in boiling. 
 
 ^Arfenicum. 
 
 WJ Hite and yellow Jrfcnicum, called Arfenicum Album dr Citrimm , 
 * * are enemies to the life of manor beaft: Taken into the body, this 
 minerall killeth any living creature,& is of a Corroding quality, outward¬ 
 ly applied , it caufeth a hard crufted fcab with vehement burning, eateth 
 away fuperfluous flc(h,and taketh away haircs.' : It cureth the morphew, 
 the skin annoynted with water of the infufion thereof. 
 
 Argentum vivum. 
 
 A Rgentam vivum doth corrode,killethithe itch and lice,woundeththe 
 ^•inteftinesjfupprclfeth urine, fwelleth the body, hurts the ftomacke 
 
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 Of the Medicines , and their nfes. 
 
 and belly, refolveth, penetrateth and purgeth. But of this fee more in the 
 particular Treatife of CMercwy. 
 
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 Mercarius fublimatus. 
 
 A/T Er curias fublimatus , made of Argentum vivum, is excellent againft 
 - LV - L the Morbus Galhcus.Jhis medicine truly prepared, is a Laxative a 
 Diaphoretice,a Diauretice, a vomitive, andthebeftand worft corrafive 
 medicine that can be deviled.the Treatife of CMercary. 
 
 tJMer curias Prxciyitatus, 
 
 M Mrc " r ‘!f “ VW to father digeftion in ulcers 
 
 ,7 V i ldlf ^ fcd > a "^° dtO’ofe them r° better healing, by clcanlin. 
 and digeftmg them; and becaufett is Mercury orQuick.filver, I have™ 
 ume for it in this plane, but mull refetre you to my Treatife of it trim. 
 
 Cinabrium. 
 
 aftHngent,hot,extenuating,and hath thevertuesor vices 
 \~j 0 ( Menurms or cdfewftm vw„.lt is oftwo kinds, either naS 
 
 Elores Anthos . 
 
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 Ff ^t,or Rofeaury flowers, are hot and drie in the fecond *. 
 
 comfort the brame, heart and memory, and other fenfes a 
 mend the fpeech,helpe digeftion.mollifie.cleanfe, and cut away fl^e 
 
 Flores Balaujliarnm. 
 
 cure the bloudy flixe blcedinn ofo W l C 5 5 u Pj an( ^ R°p 5 they 
 
 tions for moiftand wcakegums, kill wmmes" and&ftcS^°' 
 
 ' Eoferubrx, 
 
 R °fi ruhr * or Rcd-rofes are cold and drie in thr fird c • 
 
 AX tate, and are aftringent thev num,. *1 i . , degree, mfnge. 
 ward, open, ftrengthen” and cleanfJrh 8 ? ch ® lenqJce bumors down- 
 fort the head* ftomack^and h«rf C ifcWaff^nft ^ ron J.°^ ru< ^ lons J com ' 
 flammations,caufe deep, and flop fpitongof bbud/” m ^ a ° nS ’ and 
 
 Elores chamomilU. 
 
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Of the ^Medicines,and their ufeu 
 
 nefle, the collicke,gravell, (tone, aches, fevers proceeding from obftruT 
 dions, cure wearied parts, alfo they open, loofc, mollifie die hard-fwol- 
 lenand ftopt parts of the intrails. 
 
 Flora Me Uiloti. 
 
 V Lores CMclltlott or flowers of Mellilote, are of a dry and hot oualitv 
 1 digeft, confutne, diflolve, and maturate, prevaile againft all hot fwe? 
 lings, provoke urine, breake the ftone, affivage the paine of the kidn^ 
 bladder, and belly, ripen flegme, and cleare the eye fight. 
 
 Flores Centaurii. 
 
 ^ Lores Cenuurn or flowers of Ccnrory, are of a hot and dry comple- 
 x ! on in the fecond degree, purge cholcr and grolTe humours down¬ 
 ward, open the obftrudions of- the liver, kill wormes, caufe the courfe of 
 flowers, are good againft the Jaundice, hardnefleof thefpleen eriefesof 
 the finewes, cleare the eyes, heale wounds, and drive forth young fruit 
 
 Flores Hyperici. 
 
 'CLor',H J p,r,c> w flowers of Saint Johns wort, are hot and dry in the 
 * third degree, breake the ftone, provoke urine, bring downe womens 
 
 cure old and^ftulattcUbres! 6 CVCTS ’ aK S°odfbr hurnings.and 
 
 Flores Sumbuci. 
 
 Tu Lores Sumbuci or flowers of Elders, arc hot and dry in thetlurdde- 
 A gree, open the belly, purge flimie flegme, and cholericke humours, 
 and are good for hot fwellmgs and tumours, and for the aftWaging the 
 pameofthegout. & 5 
 
 Baccx Junipert. 
 
 Juniper berries » afe hot in the third degree, drie in 
 5 hc firft, and aftnngent,arc good for the ftomack, coughf windinefTe, 
 gnpings of the belly, venemous bitings, infection, contagion of the aire, 
 helpe the lungs, liver, kidnies, and bladder, and provoke urine. 
 
 Bacc/e Lauri. 
 
 Bw-n f'“? y h S T i£hotanddry in the fecond degree, they 
 
 -•^teflft poyfon, helpc deafhefle, comraSed and wearied parts, and the 
 paine of the breaft, cut up flegme, and take away the feurfe. 
 
 O 
 
 FArinA 
 
8 © 
 
 Of the Medicines, and their ufes. 
 
 Farina Tritici. 
 
 F Arina Tritici or Wheat flower,is hot inthe firft degree,ftoppeth fpit- 
 ting of bloud, diftillations of fubtill humours, helpcth the cough, 
 roughnefle ofthe fhnrpe arterie, diflblveth tumours,and cleanfeth the face 
 from lentils and ipots, appeafcth hanger and third, and is the principall 
 naturall upholder of the life and health of man. 
 
 Farina Falarum, 
 
 p Arinafalarum or Bean meal ,is cold and moift,diflblveth all fwellings, 
 1 is very good for ulcers, evills, and Mailings of the genitories, and ta! 
 keth away inflammations of womens paps. 
 
 Farina Hcrdei . 
 
 p Arina Ftordcacea or Barly meale, is cold and dry in the firft degree, 
 A diflblveth hot and cold tumours, digefteth, fofteneth, andripeneth 
 hard fwellings, floppeth the laske,and humours falling into the joints, 
 difeufleth winde, is good againft the feurfe and leprofie, and allaieth the 
 
 inflammations ofthe Goutes. 
 
 * 
 
 Furfur Tritici. 
 
 the hard fwellings of womens Breads, and the decodlion thereof is £ 
 gular good to cure the painefull exulccrations in the intrails, givenby <4 
 ftcrs,as is mentioned in the cure of Dyfcnteria. 
 
 Farina Volatilis. 
 
 CArina volatile or Millduft, isufed in compofitions to day fluxes of 
 A bleeding wounds. 
 
 Rofcmary, 
 
 D Ofcmaryishotanddry inthefecond degree, cureth the Jaundice, 
 and the Rtgtus morlns or Kings evill, comforteththe braine,memo¬ 
 ry, and inward fenfes, and redoreth the fpeech lod or broken. 
 
 c JMtntha. 
 
 A/f Entha or Mints, are hot and dry, doc profit the domacke, appeafe 
 r i l ii 0 j flop vomiting,cure chol^icke paflions, gripingpaine 
 of the belly, and the inordinate courfe of mendruall i/Tue, eafe women 
 in their travell of childe-bearinp, foften breads fwolne with milke, and 
 keepe the milke from crudding therein. 
 
 MclliltW, 
 
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 Of the Adedtcines, and their ufes, g i 
 
 Mellihtus. 
 
 TV/f Ellilotus or Mcllilotc, is hot andaftringent,it doth aflwage and 
 iV - A mollific hot fwcl lings of the eyes, matrix, fundament, and genito 
 ries, healeth the fcurfe, and putrefied ulcers, diifolveth apoftumes of the 
 ftomacke, is good for the head-ache, provoketh urine, breaketh the 
 ftone, helpeth the paine of the kidnies, bladder, and belly, and taketh a- 
 way the webbc and pearle of the eye. 
 
 Salvia< 
 
 * 
 
 Qyf/w4 or Sage is hot and dry in the third degree , and fomewhat 
 ^aftringent, ftoppeth the bleeding of wounds and bloudy flixe, open- 
 eth the ftoppings of the liver, cureth the cough, breaketh the ftone pro¬ 
 voketh urine, comforteth the heart, afTwageth the head-ache, and paine 
 in the fide. * 
 
 Thy mum. 
 
 'TP Hymum or Thyme, is hot and dry jn the third degree, is good to 
 X cleanfethe breaft, ripen flegme, and for the purgeth chole- 
 
 ricke humours, corrupt bloud, bringeth to women their naturall termed 
 expelleth the fecondine, provoketh urine, difeufleth winde, extenuateth 
 cold fwellings, and helpeth the cure of the falling ficknefle. 
 
 ^bfmth.um. 
 
 A or Wormewood is hot in the firft degree, and dry in the 
 
 7 . th,rd 5 “ « bittcr > ,har P e > ilftringent, .eanfing, purging, and com 
 fortmg, excellent to purge the ftomacke, liver, and reines from chole 
 rreke humours, andtoftaythe weake ftomacke from vomitin^ cureth 
 the Jaundice, refifteth peftilent infedion, helpeth the dropfie andVplene- 
 ticke, and killeth wormes in the body. ‘ 
 
 Carduus benedteius. 
 
 C'jrduus benedteius or the blelTed Thiftle is very bitter, and hot,com- 
 forteth the heart and I vitall parts, moveth fwear, refifteth poyfon, is 
 of much ufe in peftilent difeafes, mitigateth the paine of the reines and 
 
 Scrpems ^^ W ° rmCS of thc bdl y » and P^vaileth againft bitings of 
 
 Meltjfa. 
 
 Mf /# 0r J Ba i 1 ^. 1 th ‘ s hcrbe is hot in thc r «ond, and dry in the firft 
 degree, doth bring down womens termes, helpeth againft venome 
 of lcorpions, fpiders, and dogges, comforteth the head, increafeth thc 
 memory, and refrefheth thc vitall faculties. 
 
 Oa 
 
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 Sabina. 
 
Of the <£\Aedicines, a nd their ufei. 
 
 Sabina. 
 
 C^i.»aot Sawnis hot anddiy in the third degree.provoke* ms 
 3 with bloud j moveththe flowers, driveth forth thelecondinc,living 
 and dead birth,;cureth ulcers- and'eating fores, and clcanleth the skinneof 
 
 lentils, 
 
 R Adix alt hex or Hollihocke roots, are hot and dry in the firft degree, 
 they are profitable for the gravell, (tone, bloudy flixe, tooth-ache, 
 Sciatica, and cough: they cure new wounds, diffolvc cold tumours, 
 Rennes, hard kernels, impoftumes, fores of the mother, and chaps ofthe 
 fundamcnt,are good for cramps,burftings,and trembling of the members. 
 
 Radices raphani fylvejlris. 
 
 r f 
 
 | 1 A dices Raphanifylvejlris or Horfe-redifh roots , are hot in the third 
 •^-degree, drie in the fecond, are good for the ftomacke eaten before 
 meat ,caufe winde , and defire to vomit; but after meat, digeft, purge 
 flegme, provoke urine, breake the ftone, helpe the dropfie, liver, fick- 
 neffe,old cough, flopping of the reines, lithargie, collicke, and hardneffe 
 of the fpleene, flay fretting, and feftring ulcers, caufe haire to grow, 
 and cleanfe the face from fpots. 
 
 Radices Pyrethri. 
 
 R Adicts pyrethri orPellitory roots, are hot and dry in the third de¬ 
 gree, good for old cold difeafes ofthe head & brain,falling ficknelfe, 
 and apoplexie, mitigate the tooth-ache chewed, bring forth much 
 vvaterilh flegme, helpe the refolution of the finewes, and caufe falivation 
 ora fluxeof fpitting. 
 
 Radices yingelica. 
 
 R Adices angelica or Angelica roots, are hot and dry in the fecond de- 
 giee,thcy doe open, attenuate, digeft,cut anddifeuflegroffehu¬ 
 mours , they arc adverfary to poyfon, helpe peftilent difeafes, caufe the 
 flowers,comfort the heart and vitall powers. 
 
 Radices confolida major is. 
 
 13 Adix fymphiti magni y feu Confolida majoris, orComfrey roots, arc 
 *-^hot and dry in the fecond degree^ they doe helpe fpitting of bloud, 
 the breaft and lungs, cure inward wounds and nipTures, are glutinative, 
 mitigate hot tumours, and healc frefh wounds. 
 
 Calx 
 
* 
 
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 Of the <z5Ad edicineSyitnd their ufcs. 
 
 Calx viva. 
 
 f~'Alx viva ox ud flak’d lime,is hot and dry in the fourth degree,having 
 fiery, fliarpe, and burning force: it conco&eth, mollifieth, diflipa- 
 teth,and cureth corrupt {linking ulcers, very hard to be cured, and bring- 
 eth them to a cicatrice or skarre. 
 
 alburn Gracum, 
 
 C Tercus canmm,feu Ibum Gracum , is hot and aftringent, ftaieth the 
 ^laske, cureth the Squinancy,helpeth thePyfenteria,and driveth away 
 fevers that comebycourfe, and is very good to ftrew theTfundament 
 fallen withall,forit cureth the flipperineffe thereof, and caufeth it being 
 gently put up to (lay up j and being mixed and^boyled with fallctoyle 
 to the thicknefleof an unguent, is very good to cure the painfull Hemor- 
 rhoydes. 
 
 The Conclufion, touching what hath beene 
 jfpoken of the vertues of Medicines, Simple 
 or Compound, for the Sur¬ 
 geons Cheft. 
 
 T He vertues, ufes, and dofes of all the precedent medicines here 
 noted, have beene gathered from fuch Authors as either were the 
 Inventors of them, or formerly have taken them upon them; to 
 whofe workes I referre the Reader: which thing if any well difpofed Ar- 
 tift upon good ground {hall queftion, I doubt not to fatisfie him. The 
 Authors I have ufed herein,arc thefc following. 
 
 Galenas. 
 
 Oiit[ties.' 
 
 Avicenna. 
 
 Tagaltius. 
 
 Vigo. 
 
 Paracelfus. 
 
 Jofephus guercitanus. 
 
 Renodeus. 
 
 Johannes Jacobus yyeckerus. 
 
 Dodoncus. 
 
 Valerius Cordus. 
 
 Rtolanus. 
 
 Rulandus. 
 
 Ofivoldus Crollius. 
 
 Dorncrtllius. 
 
 Auguftatws , 
 
 /- 
 
Of the Medicines, and their ufes 
 
 84. 
 
 1^4 ttguj} anus. 
 
 Mont anus, 
 Matheolus. 
 Fernelius. 
 Diofcorides. 
 
 Fr and fens t^Arceus. 
 
 Monardus. 
 
 Nicolaus Alexandrims. 
 Serapius. 
 
 Andfomeothers,whofc names fometimts I have remembredand 
 noted, fometimes for hafte pretermitted: wherein I confcffe I have done 
 them hard meafuredike him which in hafte fleighteth his good friends - 2 
 fault too common. - . 
 
 OF 
 

 OF WOUNDS. 
 
 Wound is a recent folution of a continuity ; or a Definition of a 
 divifion of that which was knit together, without wound ' 
 putrefaction 3 and is common as well to the foft 
 and organick parts, as alfo to the harder: it may 
 (though feldome it doth) arifefrom an internail 
 caufe) as the malice of bad humours j but more 
 commonly it comes from an externall caufe, 
 namely, by the violence of fome indrument. 
 
 For which caufe a wound is faid to differ in his The divers ap. 
 denomination: for fometimes it is called a thrudorpunCiion , which is feUatiom »f 
 made by (tabbing with any thing fliarpe pointed, as a Dagger, Rapier, 
 or the like: fometimes it is named a Contu(ion,whenbya weighty thing 
 offending (as timber) felling do wne, or violently caft downe(as a (tone) 
 the flefli is bruifed and broken : fometimes alfo it hath the appella¬ 
 tion of Incifion, or an incifed wound, for that it is done by an edged in- 
 ftrument, as a knife or fvvord. And thefe wounds are either Ample or 
 compound: the Ample are onelyin the upper skin orflefh, without 
 detriment or Ioffe of fubdance, which alfo have their feverall fpeciesor 
 kindes , becaufe of their divers formes5 fome being greater or fmaller, 
 profound or fuperficiall, long or little, (freight, round or crooked, of a 
 facile cure, or difficile, or mortall. And for the founder judgment and 
 bettercure of all wounds, ( which are either externall,or intern 11 and pe¬ 
 netrating) there are feverall Agnes (of ancient tradition) with much dili¬ 
 gence to be had in remembrance, which daily practice alfo veriAeth. 
 
 The feverall differences of all externall wounds are difeerned by Aght 
 or handling. 
 
 Thofe which are termed intemall and penetrating wounds, are either The places of 
 in the head, bread, or inferiour venter, and are difeovered likewifeby 
 Aght, by feeling, or by fearching with an indrument into them. 
 
 The hurt or ruption of the membranes or braine is accompanied with 
 fneeAng, vomiting, bleeding at the nofe or eares, raving,and the like : but 
 if the fubdance of the braine be hurt, thofe Agncsareencreafed,anda 
 bilious or (harpe vomiting is feene 3 alfo a fever, dull undemanding, with 
 alteration of favour and countenance doe enfuejdupidity alfo and dumb- 
 nelfe AgniAc the braine contufed. 
 
 The bread is obfefved to be wounded and penetrated, whenairecom- 
 meth forth of the wound, or when the perfon Acke hath in his mouth a 
 fenfe of the things applied to his griefe. 
 
 It appeareth that the lungs are hurt, if the refpiration be difficult, 
 
 a ratling 
 
f 
 
 &6 
 
 Of Wounds. 
 
 Wherein the 
 cure of wounds 
 in general doth 
 confijl. 
 
 a ratling found in breaching be heard,and the excrement which is voided 
 from the mouth be fpumous, pale, and crude. 
 
 The Pericranium hurt hath fometiraes fudden and often fwounding for 
 a figne, though fome nevexthelelfe having the Pericranium wounded or 
 contufed, have no evil lymptomes extraordinary toother meane wounds 
 of other parts. 
 
 The Heart wounded hath the refrigeration of all the parts, extin&ion 
 ofnaturall heat, and death attending thereon. 
 
 If the great Veines and Arteries in the breafl: be offended, an immode¬ 
 rate fluxe ofbloud, defection of vertue in all the faculties, a cold and an 
 unfavoury fweat doth enfue, and death within a few houres. 
 
 The folution of continuity in the finewie parts of the Diaphragm 
 caufeth convulfion, difficile refpiration, an acute fever, raving, and death: 
 but if the flefhy part onely be agrieved, it is capable of remedies, and fuf- 
 fereth not fuch dangerous lymptomes. 
 
 Ifthe recurrent Nerves be wounded, there followcth Ioffe offpeecli 
 immediate motion and lenfe alio is fupprclfed,and that without recovery! 
 
 In the wounds of the Livcrappeare vomiting,bloudy dejetf ions much 
 paine, a continuall fever j and if they be deepe, fainting, refolution ofthe 
 /pints, cold fweat and death follow. , • 
 
 The Spleene offended is as the Liver affeded, favc that the lymptoms 
 are in the right fide, the other in the left. 
 
 The Ventricle is demonftrated to be wounded by the voiding of ck. 
 Ins, frequent vomiting, fwounding, fainting, and death. 
 
 When the excrements are retained in the belly, and ifluc out of the 
 wound very unfavoury and putrefied, and not by thenaturallplacc,itis 
 plame that the mteftmes are hurt. r 
 
 The figne ofthe Reins or Kidnies wounded,is the fupprelfion of urine 
 which caufeth a fore paine in the groine and tefticles, with inflation o 
 fwelhng even to death. 
 
 The accidents of the Bladder offended are one with thereines, unleffe 
 the finewieparts thereof be grieved, and then diftention ofthe belly, pif. 
 fing of blond, vomiting, voidingof urine at the wound, fupprelfion ofdic 
 faculties, doting, and death follow. m 
 
 When Spina Medulla , or the Marrow ofthe backe bone is hurt there 
 
 reb>l ^ u f on . oftllefi “'''« | 'whic h hinder«hthcfundiionof 
 the lenleand motion; voluntary evacuation of excrements aDDcarc and 
 for the moft part death is the immediate conclufion PP ' ^ 
 
 fubSn“ Uti ° n ° faVei ” C “ k00Wn£bybl0ud ofrcdco,our andthicke 
 
 ™ ny °$1" Art0y burt > is bloud fofewhat yellow, fubtle 
 ttan.hor.bcanng and leaping,or violently iiruing,and as it were by jumps. 
 
 theTamcfyrnptomes^thcNervKdw^^ W ° lIn ^ C ^ 0rinC *^ 
 
 The Cure. 
 
 y nature, the ftnfe is at an end, the Artift may favc a labour: if 
 
 by 
 
Of IVounds, and their Cure # 
 
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 by medicine their cure confifteth both i^7^ u ai^T^^ 
 
 J yned and diflocated to union, and in cofolidation and true conf?lurina 
 non of them: therefore it Ihall be neceflarv to confider 
 mder confolidation it be removed: that redudion be rightly and^kif 
 
 ft a ir V 7 U k 8ht5 Cft th ^ 3rtS ad J^yned fall into relaps, a£d that the ftt 
 nee of the part with his naturall temperament be conferved- and laftlv 
 that the fymptoms be prevented,and carefully cured as theyarife V> 
 
 nerves difplaced,that the beauty and due office of the member be not di 
 
 tTrffn ^“Wcongiutitiatethceaficr, and being united keepe 
 them fo by Ligature,future, and other due,and artificial! mean« P 
 
 It is requisite a fo that the naturall temfiramentofthepartTe* careful 
 
 7 P ^ C h fei 7 cd: d . nd ls donc b y a certainc carefull regiment of the bo 
 <ly, which is univerfall or particular. 5 
 
 rhe univerfall regiment, confifteth in purging medicines as Potions 
 
 Glifters, a fober and frugall dyer, abftinence from wine, ven^rie aS 
 
 inds ofmeats which may move or attenuate humours, and moderate ufe 
 
 8 7 
 
 nuxioo: iucn are Unguent urn Nutntum diapalma I mcin r niZ7/?L 
 convulfions/pecially where a finew is wounded ’ ^ ^ f h heart} 
 
 A Tumour is an unnaturall increale, exceeding the naturall ft a p« m 
 
 ■^^®35ass*asgssjf 
 
 * he Acc,den.s common to the wounded heart, as is laid are fwoun- 
 dmg,pa]puaaon thereof, a hot burning fever, and many other. 
 
 P Syncope 
 
88 
 
 OfWounds, and their Cure. 
 
 Syncope is a folution of the fpirits which forfake the heart, whofe re* 
 
 medy is Cordi ills, if God have appointed ire. 
 
 A F.-vciis a I.cat in the heart mote then natural!,.nfufed and difperM 
 through the whole body, whofe cure is by purging, bleedmg, and good 
 
 S °A coSon is a dangerous dileafe of the brainc, which oftentimes 
 
 is a fore- runner or a mdfenger of death. 
 
 Thedrfeafes in the braine are either in the membranes, iubftance,or 
 vent rides,and pafTages thereof; whofe fpecies and iymptoms are many, 
 and for the moft part very dangerous, and of difficult cure. 1 or if the fub- 
 fiance ofthebraine bee offended, the fundions theraif are impcdi- 
 ted, whence proceedeth doting, mel-inclioly,foolifhnefle, flothfulnefie, 
 LithHrgicjfrenzie, madnefTc, lofle of memory ,deadi(h fleepe, giddineffe, 
 apoplcxie, Paralyfis, and divers other like accidents formerly recited. 
 And if the ventricles of the braine be wounded, then the motions and 
 fenfes thereof be grieved. Wherefore for the better cure of thefe wounds 
 in the braine,deficcation and cicatrization in due time is needfull, either 
 by fimple medicaments, fas Spiritus vim, Bolus Armenia Terra fip/lata, 
 Litbargirum,Cerufa, Tutia, Adufl lead. Burnt paper, llom water, Bum 
 
 Vitrioll) or by compound medicines,(as Vng:deftccans rub: Diapompho- 
 Diapalma.) 
 
 Divers Am -. And as you fee the accidents of the wounded are divers,fo the rerae- 
 
 dents will hive dies are not all alike: but fome are generall, others more peculiar. 
 mm. m:dlCA ' Thofe that are only in the skin or flefh have no difficile cure: foroft- 
 times Nature with dome eafie remedy, or a Ligature only doth helpe 
 them: but thofe that are compound, offending many parts, needeame- 
 thodicall and convenient order of curation, which is divers, as is faid, ac¬ 
 cording to the 4iver(ity of the parts affe&ed : for ifeontufionorruption 
 be ontTy of the flefh voder the sHn, there is required confolidation by ca- 
 fie comfortation, and deficcation s and no fuppuration^ which is effected 
 onely by nourifiiirig and preferring the naturall heat or humidity of the 
 member, 3S in other wounds. 
 
 But a contufed wound, if it be great, requireth purging Gliflers, po¬ 
 tions,or pils,phebotomie 3 a wholfome dyet,perfect evacuation of the hu¬ 
 mour that commeth from the veynes, and fuppuration of the contufed & 
 livid flefli *, whlch' two lafL are ctfcdkd at the hrft by mean remedies j as 
 
 - 1 ■ r C — O - ! ..^1 O . Ar ki r *1 r* MAS m** ml ft, r r>l T *■ ..till A X. Yf* 
 
 allO luppuwllUlj' liicuiLiiiCD) uiv gicaiiK 5 <uiu uaiiuv ui uic cumuix- 
 
 on. It may be healed in the manner of an apoflume^and if put re fusion be 
 feared,theufe ofa good Lixivium,of cuppingGlaffes,and light fcarifica- 
 tion,is rnofl neceflary,that the humour about toputrefie may beevacuar 
 ted, fo fliall the wound be better cured: but when the wound fhall bee 
 with Ioffe of fubftance, then let thy endeavour be(by renovation and rege¬ 
 neration of the fubftance diminifhed, or the intemperature) carefully by 
 convenient digeftive medicines to produce laudable quitture,and that the; 
 paft afftdledbe kept in his naturall temperament and faculty, for thereby, 
 it doth concodl and digeft the matter flowing unto its as alfo confute 
 diligently the excrements of the wounds, their fubftance, quality, and, 
 
 Another note 
 for the re mo - 
 ving of that 
 which is be¬ 
 tides nature in 
 * 'waimcL 
 
Of IVoundi, and their cure . 
 
 8 P 
 
 quantity, thcfc will ftiew thcc what is fuperfluous , not naturall, and what 
 hindercth the action and duty of nature, that it may be corrected and ta¬ 
 ken away by fit and convenientiinaedie^.jrhemedicamentsincarnative, 
 or for regeneration of flefli, are the floweroF Barley, Beane s,Lupfnes! 
 or Orobus, Myrrhe, Aloes,with Ariftolochia and Ireos, which are 
 ufed cither by themfelves, or mixed with turpentine, eJliel Rofarum 
 Syrupeof dry Rofes, the yolkeof an egge, or the like: alfo Bafilicnm] 
 
 Unguentum incar natrium , are good incarnatives , the EmfUfirum 
 gratia Dei , made of juice of hcrbes,the Emplafterof Eetony, difiolved 
 with Axungiafordna: and follow the gencrall rule. Let the dry be more 
 humeCted, and the humid more deficcated. 
 
 The cure of wounds caufed through the biting of venemous beafts Hotvto cm 
 (as mad dogges, fcorpions, vipers, ferpents, bees, fillies, vvafpcs,hornets, wouxdtjvbich 
 fwine, or other the like, is performed firft by taking away that which is aye either inter - 
 virulent,extracting,diffipatingandconfumingthepoyfon;whichworke 
 requireth internal 1 as well as externall medicaments. Theinternall muft 
 be Inch as comfort and confirme the parts difeafed (asTheriaca AurUtn 
 vita?, ConfcCtio Alkermes, Bole Armenick, Confcrve of Borage, Bu- 
 gloffe,Rofemary floweis^an d the like) that fo the virulent vapour may 
 BeaboiiUied, which otherwife will-infeCt the whole body. The externall 
 •muft alfo intend to extinguilh the venemous vapour(and fuch are cupping- 
 glaftes and fcarification, alfo all hot medicaments attracting,as Galba- 
 num. Ammoniacum, Bdellium, Emplaftrum Diachilon and Divinum,a 
 Fomentation made with the herbe Dragon and Mugwort boiled in wine, 
 
 Treakle, Garlicke, Onions, Fimuscolumbinus, and the like,) which be¬ 
 ing done,the cure fhall be after the manner of other wo unds of the fame 
 magnitude: but in mine own praCticejheat Balmeartlftciall feethin^hoT, 
 and app ly' it for the firft drefljngjf I fcare venomc: and if I fearea Gan- 
 grene,I ufe vEgyptiacum as hot as may be, and over the wound I apply a 
 Lixivium : Render and wholefome diet is alfo good,that may neitlier in- 
 creale’melancholy, nor heat much the bloud5 and abftaine from bleeding, 
 unl'effe the noble parts be tainted,and then thou maift not fafely purge,but 
 raherfweat,which is beft known when the animall faculties are offended. 
 
 The wounds in the Veines and Arteries, bring with them commonly The cure of 
 afluxeof bloud, which to ftay is a fpeciall bnfineffe, confiftin^ chief ' mm f nd>iHtbc 
 ly of aftringent remedies, good application, future, ligature of a veine or 
 artery, if it may be done conveniently, and fometimes caufticke me¬ 
 dicaments ; yea, incifion , phlebotomy, the ufe of cupping glaffes and 
 ligature on the parts oppofite; which three laft are not alwayes to be pre¬ 
 fumed upon as fafe courfes, but upon need, if fo be the veine or artery 
 wounded be great: many things are of force put in practice, which other- 
 wife feemevery harfh.JTheaftringentsftmplesto make compounds,are 
 Bole “Armenick, Terra figillata. Thus, Aloes, Maftick, My rrha, Sanguis 
 ,/Draconis, Flower of wheat, barley, mill-duft, and divers forts: likewife 
 Alliirn, Vitriol Precipitate, Mans bloud dryed.and fundrymore,lome- 
 time to make a ligature upon the veine, wound, or artery, which is the 
 binding of each end thereof, being firft caught and holden with fome fit 
 inftrument, and tied with a fureandftrong filke thread: but oft-times it 
 
 P 2 happeneth 
 
 
9 o 
 
 Of Wounds>andtheir Cure . 
 
 The cure of 
 murids in the 
 verms undh- 
 tfirwuu 
 
 happeneth that the ends of the vetoes or arteries wounded cannot bee 
 found, in which cafe an adhiill cauftick remedy, ora potential cau (tick 
 medicament, which induceth an csker, and ftoppeth and covereth the 
 orifice oftheveine, is convenient: tome alfo lay their thumb on it fo 
 long, untill it bee fomewhat of its felfe flayed, and then bind it up, 
 which is good in means fluxes: I have often prevailed fo. Now after 
 that the flux ofbloud is flayed,let the ficke party bee contained in a place 
 neither too hot nor too cold, and darke, fpeaking little, that the cure 
 may bee accomplifhed with moreeafe to the patient. 
 
 The wounds made in the nerves, tendons and ligaments, whether by 
 incifion long or overthwart, a thruft profound or fuperfidall or by contij. 
 lion, great, little, or raeane, require a good diet, fuch as is, meat cafie 
 of digeflion, refrigerating and caufing little bloud; but the choice 
 offuch things at fea muft be forborne: alfo that the body be kept open 
 by Glifters, mollifying and cleanfing, and (if need be)by potions cafie 
 and gentle, that the humours be not too much ftirred to inflammation; 
 bloud letting is fometimes needfull, likewife anodinc medicines which 
 rcfolve and extras corruption by the pores of the skin, ftrengthtfnthc 
 part affe&ed, andhavean affinitic, or a certaine property t o com fort the 
 finewes : fuch are Turpentine andThe oyle thereof, oyleof HupEoSP 
 urn. Rue, Wormcs, YolkcsofEgges, Rofin,Pitch,aslfl5T& 
 j)lalme made_of breadcrums^ milke, and a little Saffron, thelike made 
 ofAlthea roots two ounces, Mallowesand Sorrell of each an h-indfull, 
 ofBcanes, Lupines and Orobus, of each two ounces and an half, 
 red Role Ieaves__povvdcrea halfe an ounce, common honey two 
 ounces, Chamomileoyleoneounce, all madenito acata phfmcaccor- 
 utog to r A?t* But lfpaine and toflammation be in fiich wounds neerc to 
 an article or joynt, apply a cataplafine made of bread crums, with the 
 juyee of ttjofchjami ,or coole hearbes, or Ung. mtrltumjtouUtn Sum, 
 or fomepfehofe, that the burning heat maybeccxttoguiflicd 5 or bFoat-' 
 meale fodden in wa^ with aJittle oyle lBuc ifconvulfionhappentoa 
 finew wounded or pricked, cut off all the finew, for if the nerve (lull 
 be wholly abfcifcd, leffer fymptomes, through impotency and deprivati¬ 
 on of a^ion cnfuc then if the middle or anyparc bee wounded: the 
 cure in Art wrU not be fo Cafe to fow it up together,as fome thinkc, be- 
 cauie his adunation is unccrtainc. 
 
 uni*entur? 1 ^ a ?. ncw contufed without any wound, let it be corroborated 
 ; By medicaments lengthening and artringent. Thecure of the wounds 
 of the head is not ahvaies to bee prefuraed upon, though fall, 
 
 no . r y. n dc fif ed °C> though great. Confidcr therefore diligently 
 whether the brainc it felfe bee hurt or no; if the brainc be offended, 
 
 “£££“ b V the inflammation, dolour, apoftumation 
 52SSS T? i° n : 0r of thc fun&ionsof the fenfes, and 
 
 fr S f? r lS fuf P e< ^ d P rcfcntI y>or Within a few dayes to follow: and 
 
 Ilnnbrfn! fic thc W C l tc P m > it being found and whole, it is 
 
 fym P athlc of P ms will caufe oft-times an abfeeffein 
 
 wff^rn^l!1| C ? Cnter Ti a ? U ltcm pcraturc of the vitall faculty, 
 with a conunuall fever and death. It (hall therefore be necefftry for £ 
 
 wife 
 
 Tit cure of a 
 
5” 
 
 Of IVounds, and their Cure % 
 
 wife Artift to know the manner of the hurt,that he may wifely prognoftT 
 cate the danger for it onely the Pencramumbc hurt by incifion, without 
 any contufion, and far.fronithe commifluresor feames , it is not dangfe 
 rous at all to t>c cured, and the cure to b.e wrought, is as inof her wounds:' 
 but if it bee much wounded by pun&ion or contufion,^ fymptomes arife 
 with a tumour ip the head, then dilatation is needful], that the confuted 
 bloud which is bctweenc the J ranium and the Pericranium may be ex* 
 traded; and let it be quickly done, fo (hall the fymptomes ceafe and the 
 cure will bee cafie :but and if the offence of the Per ter am ttmhcm the 
 future or feame.,it is more dangerous,becaufe the braine doth fympathize 
 with it. If the Fibres patting through the futures of the Pericranium^, irom 
 Dura mater be woun Jed or cOntufed,it exceeds the other in danger; ther- 
 foreto refift putrefedion , let the wound be mundified: and if no fea¬ 
 ture of the bone be (tire wound appearing onely in the flcih, without 
 any offence of the Pericranium) the cure.fliall be as in other wounds, 
 r ut if a fradure in Cranium chance , there is required great care, name- spcciaU obfer. 
 ly, let the forme and magnitude thereof bevvellconfidered > obferving vat ion if the 
 alfo diligently what bone it is, and in what part it is hurt, and whe, 
 ther the fragments are greater little, or fharp, pricking the Mem¬ 
 branes or not which,of whafifortfoeverthey be, they are diligently 
 to be drawee out with as mudh eafe as may be to the Patient; and if 
 they cannot,being broa'den within then without, let the Trapan be care¬ 
 fully u fed;tfj e ufe whereof is touched in the booke of inftruments, under 
 tire name Trapan. Sometimes there isonely a depreffion, and then a Le- 
 vatorie inftrument wiH cxcufe tbeufe of a Trapan, and take away the 
 fpils & fragments which are upc» the membrane,& the bloud alfo which 
 ihall iffue out upon the fame may by a fpunge be taken away: keep it like- 
 wife from cold, and of a temperate heat, aMthe place hurt heuigWell 
 cieanfed, poure melrofarum warme into the wound, or two parts of Ho¬ 
 ney, and one part of oykor fyrupe of drieRofes, or common Honey 
 withTurpentine,with thcyolkeofanegge, which are remediesmundi- 
 Fying, and gratcfull to the Membranes,and ought to be applyed warme; 
 but above all others the linamentof Arcem is the chiefcft Balfame for 
 wounds in the head. The generall remedies for wounds of the head 
 muft neither overmuch refrigerate,nor overmuch calefie,but be of a mo¬ 
 derate or temperate calour. The generall manner to proceed to thecure 
 of wounds in the head, is as followeth . 
 
 Firft let the haire be fhaven away; the next, if any loofe bones be, 
 take them out; the next to be done, is, if a depreflion of Cranium be, 
 drive with the elevatorie to raife it; the next is,to flay the flux of bloud 
 if any be, leaving of the griefe und refled for two dayes, that the veines 
 may knit; then inquire of the Patient if he have the benefit of nature, if 
 not, procure him one, not many ftooles , and onely fee he have naturall 
 ftools once a day, or in two dayes, not by potion nor pills, but rather by 
 glitter or fuppofitorie. At the fecond opening of the wound, if occafion InfirHcliow vc* 
 ferve,u(e the Trapan,or take out any fpils or bones that feeme to offend, ry . n fff™ 
 if they be very loofe, not elfe ; force nothing out of the wound, except dcdthTfZnd 
 the Patient his great neceflitie force thee thereunto; for nature is kind, time opened. 
 
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Of Wounds, and their Cure, 
 
 and ready to do wondrous helpe in the cure of the hcad._For the fccond 
 application,have ready of the noble linatnent of^rm^neveruffiacnty 
 conunended,and being foraewhat hotter then the partte would willingly 
 beare it,annoint the wound therewith in each place, with a little loft lint 
 on a Probes end,leaving the faid lint therein,& with plegcnts ot lint drie 
 fill iip the orifice,& after annointing about the edges of the griercj apply 
 Splatter,either of EmplaJl.Betonica^StipticumParacelft,Minium } Mellilote^ 
 or VUcalfit he os :ln want of Arcens linament you may take oleum rofarum , 
 and me l rofirum^ which are not much inferiour to the former^being warm 
 applyed; Some ufe therewith alfo a digeftive of Turpentine, & the yolk 
 of an egge well mixe d^ alike quantities wherewith they fpread pic- 
 gents, ancTthen dip them in thewarme mel and oyje mentioned, and fo 
 apply them , which is very good, and the moil ancient practice in curing 
 
 wounds of the head. _=.—- r 
 
 In want of oyle of Rofes oyle of Olive will do well, and common 
 honeyfor mel rofarttm^ though not fo well: and if caufe be,fome Artifts 
 mix fpirlt of wine, or good aqua viu with the former medicine, and it 
 comforteth well the braine, and very much furthereth good and fpeedy 
 healing: good bowlftring, and ligature doe much availe to the cure of 
 the head: alfo it is good to keepe the party lying and in a darke place,till 
 the greateft danger of accidents bee part, remembring withall that the 
 overftridl keeping him in, m3y alfo be very offenfive to the ficke. 
 
 Let good diet ftridtly bceobferved,'if occafionbe, and the ufe of 
 Glitters likewife upon good reafons is alfo to be approvedjand it is good 
 to open the Cephalike vaine if the braine have been long uncovered, or 
 yeeld afpumous white and thicke excrement, which feemesto bee a 
 portion of the fubftance of the braine: likewife to purge the body,mim- 
 difie the wound, and corroborate the braine with Cordials,and fomen¬ 
 tations fitting, the chiefett is good wine and hony to foment with; 
 but I feldome ufe any fomentations my felfe, having cured divers fra* 
 dures in the Cranium without any fomentations at all; for the ufe of 
 them at Sea, I know is troublefome and dangerous, except great caufe. 
 Diligent obfer- Be carefull alfo to obferve the danger of the wound according to the ac- 
 vation of the c id ents thereof j for if it be little and fuperficiall,it is cured as an other 
 ““mdrcfui- wound, but if it pierce the fecond table, it mutt not be patted lightly o- 
 reT" ‘ ver i for if you bee occafioned to ufe the Trapan, it is to be applyed the 
 third,fourth, or fifth day after the hurt at the fartheft; but the choice of 
 the day is not material], as fome fuppofe, where there is apparant neccfli- 
 ty, except on the day of the full of the Moone, and then there is danger 
 more then at other times, but neceflity hath no rules. 
 
 The cure of wounds in the face , would if it were poflib'cb: done 
 without a cicatrice, but that cannot bee performed without a drie flitch, 
 with alfo a mod artificial!, and convenient binding the lips of the wound 
 together, with alfo a furc naturall balme : wherefore I will not ftand 
 to teach the drie flitch here,for it is not proper at Sea, it fits the land bet¬ 
 ter. In the worke of future or Hitching, take heed that the skin and flelb 
 benotoverthicke which you take up with your needle, and letnotyour 
 Bitches bee tooclofc. A true ligature of the face is fomewhat diffi¬ 
 cult 
 
OfWounds , and their Cttre % 
 
 cult to be performed, becaufe of the cavities thereof, which arc to bee 
 filled with linnenclothes,ortow, or lint,the better to keepethe ligature 
 to the wound. > 
 
 TheNofeand Eare wounded require good and carcfull ligature, and where ligature 
 Emplafters that will cleave faft to the griefe. " 
 
 The wounds of the eyes are dangerous by reafon of their affinity,as well 
 with the Pericranium asthe other Membranes of the braine, fo that they 
 are for the mod part full of bitter painc, caufing lofle of fight: wherefore 
 by Glifters, bloud letting, cupping Glaflfes, Purgations, and fober diet, 
 the accidents are to be ftayed. Th e medicines outwardly which I have 
 ufedever with good fucceffc,are the artihcTall Balmc with fine lint warm 
 applyed on the eyelids, and a Paracel [ us plafterover that, and therewith 
 I have done great cures in wounds of the eyes jbut I never droptany 
 medicine into the eye it fclfe. 
 
 The wounds of the neck arc healed as other arc, unlefle the hinder* 
 part thereof be hurt, which hath like fymptomes to the braine. 
 
 If the (houlder be wounded, it is cured as other wounds, except the 
 wound bee in the joint-bone,ligaments, and nerves, which ncedeth a 
 future jand if it be overthwart,a convenient Fafcia,or Ligature for the fu- 
 ftentation of the arme is to be carefully provided, for without good liga¬ 
 ture thofe wounds doe not well: For ought elfe their cures are com¬ 
 mon to other wounds. 
 
 The cures of the arme are fometiraes dangerous, chiefly if the bone, 
 and ligaments, or the mufclcs with veines and nerves be incifed thwart; 
 let the remedies therefore be fuch, as are proper and agreeable to the 
 nerves; as namely, the artificialfBalmc very vvarmc appiyed, and a 
 Pa racel fus p lafter with ligature fitting. 
 
 But if the hands be wounded, and the tendous ligaments,and finewie 
 parts thereof oflfendedjdivcrsabfceflfes in many places, with Inflammati¬ 
 ons appearefometimes, and exceeding fore: Sometimes painesarife, 
 which may occafion the ufe of purgations, bloud-letting, anodine me¬ 
 dicaments, and a fparewholfomediet. In thefe cures theartificiall bea¬ 
 ring up of the arme is a chiefe part of the cure thereof, and keeping the 
 hand in one even pofition. 
 
 The wounds of the Thorax externall, fuffer to be covered with flefh, 
 and to be healed asother wounds; but wounds that penetrate the inward 
 parts are dangerous; namely, if any great quantitie of bloud lie in the 
 capacitie of the Thorax, which cannot bee evacuated by the wound; 
 but if it can be evacuated there is hope, otherwife it is difperate. Aifo, if 
 the bloud may be extra&ed, and no internall part feeme hurt, healeup 
 the wound,and be carefull theaireget not into it; but if the externall ori¬ 
 fice be little, and the internall great, and wide, the Membrane being 
 burft, and a rib uncovered, as it oft. times fiftieth out,it is to be judged in¬ 
 curable, and a Fiftula will remainc there continually. And if the former 
 part of the Thorax be ftrook thorow even to the latter, but not 
 thorow both, ifthe wound be little and {lender there is feme hope of 
 cure,otherwife not,but it is commonly pad cure,yet ncgled not thy duty, 
 nor defpaire, for God is mercifull: Let thy cure be attempted with good 
 
H 
 
 Of Wounds., and their Cure. 
 
 diet, as is faid, clyfters, bleeding/ lyrupeofViolets, and Hyfope arid the 
 like, nngutntum fotabtle drunke failing ?: ii* or 3. for a dofe, and 
 fuch locall Medicines as are mentioned ; but if paine or the like accident 
 fhall be in any part of the Thorax, ufc anodine medicaments as well as 
 fanative, left paine hinder reft, and overthrow all. 
 
 The outward wounds of the belly doe nothing differ from the gene, 
 rail method of other wounds, touching locall Medicines, onelyin 
 ftitching they differ much, but the inward differ, as the parts offended 
 may be divers; as namely,when the omentum commtth out,with all haft 
 put it into its place left it corrupr, and the aire alter it: if it fliall bee 
 put in cold,it will putrefie, and bring grievous Symptomes; it vverebetter 
 to make a ligature about fo much as is out, and cut it off, being carefull 
 of the guts: If the inteftines pafle out by a wound, the wound being very 
 little they will hardly be reduced, unleffe they be pricked, for they will 
 fwcllwith winde : but if the fubftance of a gut be wounded, fow it to¬ 
 gether and confolidate it; and if the liver, fplene, ftomacke, kidneis, or 
 bladder be wounded, let nature work e its part, for there is fmall hope 
 by Arttoprevailc. 
 
 T he wounds of the Scrotum are cured as other wounds of the finewie 
 parts. 
 
 The cure ofthe Hyppe wounded agreeth with that of the fhoulder afore 
 mentioned. 
 
 The Knee wounds alfo arc cured as other finewie parts wounded are. 
 Theancle,foot,and foie thereof wounded are hard of cure,becaufe there 
 are many bones,ligaments,tendons,and finewie parts among them: they 
 are alfo placed in the lowed part of the body, and therefore are fubjeft 
 to deflufftion of humours. 
 
 
 bounds by 
 Jhot atc com 
 found. 
 
 Of Gunjbet wounds. 
 
 1£r< jj ... , ;\ r 
 
 Gun X A/"Ounds made by Gonfhot are alwaies compound, never fimplc, 
 *■ an d arc the more difficult of cure by reafon of a certaine humour 
 
 without the veynes found ne'ere them,inclining to corruption; the quality 
 thereof being changed by the fudden violence of the blow. The 
 compofition of which wounds for the raoft part confifts of Ioffe of fub¬ 
 ftance, contufion, fradhon of many finewie fibres, veynes, arteries, 
 BSE** membranes and bones; yea, often (hivered into divers peeces, being in 
 Cunjhot. ' form different,as fome round, narrow,and wide,and in figure cuniculm, 
 triangularquadrangular , fJlulous,&c. at the firft bringing with them no 
 Hemerrea or fluxe of bloud, although the veines be broken and open, 
 the blood returning backe through the fearefull violence of the ftroke. 
 Tire firft curative intention of thefe wounds is dilatation, whereby the 
 enemie to nature may by an open orifice be expelled.The fymptomes of 
 luch wounds are Hemerrea, furtive, ora dealing fluxe of bloud trick¬ 
 ling out by little and little. Gangrene unawares aflaulting the part: al¬ 
 io apofturaation, dolour, and the like. Wherefore as an entrance 
 to the cute, let an univerlall regiment of the ficke bee carefully obfer- 
 
 ved, 
 
Of Womd$ > and their Cured 
 
 vcd 5 namely, that as much as is partible hee uft vvhoUb^^T" 
 fu ch as rcfift putr C fadl io n (as Tower and tare things; and whTchfrc 
 gratefiill tothe vicallfaealues: and when hceuteth, let it be fparingand 
 often: ethrni drink very httle wineJTyou Teare venemo m vapouSy 
 becollcaedjgiye him ofgoo 
 
 ^^ajs^rhdc rules at Sea are not To well to be obftrved as at Land • 
 wherefore let the Sea-Surgeon therein doc his beft.let his ordinary drink 
 
 •' r aCeih from hiai che magnicudeofhis 
 keepehuntoolcondywithGlifters, orfuppofic 5 rics,lethim 
 bloud ifn.ed be, and yet but a little, left poyfon or venome fetied in 
 tl coutward parts, be thereby drawne in backe into the more noble 
 
 ?y at the fir ft! 1 " 102 C ° ^ ““ rCmedieS Cdldyins thc hu;n our,efpccial- 
 
 In theft: wounds often appeare exudations ofclammic humours, fup- 
 pofed by fome to proceed from membrans, and finowie Ligaments 
 .^ U1 r e ^ anc broken,being changed from found to unnaturall and vicious; 
 thofc humours arc to be evacuated, or their dangers prevented by good 
 alterative remedies; namely, abfterfive medicines, asa good'Lixivium 
 or by fuppurattve, mtmdificative, and depecative things having faculty of 
 confirming and lengthening the parts affafted. Therefore die feare of a 
 w being taken away, fuppuration muft be intended in the rtdh 
 contufed, but if in the parts contufed there be a vicious humour and thc 
 
 with a^l fpeed . PUCrCHC * 10 fucllcafcsitiscove;iic nt to helpe fuppuration 
 
 Butfirftof all let a good LAltxiphxrm.icm or Prefervative againft 
 poyfon bee givenjhehcke, if you feecaufti namely, a littlefe^ 
 Wri/or other W^/onthe point of a knife,ifit be right and good • 
 bunF^u do feare the vertue ehereofto be doubtfull, as often it is, give it 
 dilTolved or goodapjviu, whereunto 
 
 addecertairulrops oexfeedingly refifteth pucrefa? 
 (ftion.You may fora neeTgi viu g.g r.or Duttfcron 
 
 alone: or if the party be of a coIiCTHTtion, then giv? hmWUr 
 &***g g° 0 , d R °[if otts a \gde. And if hec be ftrong, after he is dref- 
 Yr you may lay lum to bedtofwcat, and procure him thereto by a 
 dofc oti^DfaphorcticongiycaiaTreakelorMitbridjUjceardim as is Aid 
 that the fickeiuve^he benefiTSHnatuHlfopen bodt jye? not mi! 
 ny laxative ftooles for feare of danger. Let care alfo bee h ad of his dyct 
 
 as is laid, jo much as the time and place can permit. Which cfFc&cd in 
 
 the next place confider by the view of the wound, what manner of lo- 
 call medicaments arc mod fit. And for che firrt intention ofcurin» 
 it were fit the Surgconat Sea were never wanting of a good TwvitwT 
 to foment the parts percufted or contufed j let it be fuch iLixivtdmd%l~ 
 hayed^cn^djr^i^^u^ but fomewhat Ihurper; to 
 
 whichfor brevitie_Ircferre the Surgeons Mate. Alfo have ready 
 AgjptucHm , and thc CauJFlckflane , ifnccdbc.-alfothc AnifiJl 
 Balmj^ode of Vitriole y a good Reftri<ftivepowder,good Ligatures of all 
 forts,ftikching needles ready, with all other fit inftruments not farreort' 
 if occafion rtiould bee, as tents, fplints, dorfels, fpunges, clowts, 
 
 roller^ 
 
Directions h ow 
 to prevent pit* 
 refaction to 
 great wounds 
 incident by 
 Gunjhot, 
 
 Of Wounds y and their cure . 
 
 rollers, tape, tow, lint, plafters ready fpread, and the like, that when 
 an occafion happeneth,he might be ready to performe his du y. 
 
 The moft notable differencesi have ever oblerved betwixt wounds 
 made with Gunfliot, and other contufed wounds, is onely a furtive Hc- 
 morrage, and a dangerous difpofition to a Gangrene; which tvvo acci- 
 dents warily prevented 3 the cures of luch wounds differ nothing from or¬ 
 dinary wounds contufed. - r 
 
 In the curing of wounds ofthe head, as is faid, Caucus Zwament isthc 
 chiefcft Palme :the next thereunto in common ufe,js MelRojarum ^04, 
 um Rofarum mixed , then Honey and M el mixedj with good Sy.yini^ if 
 the partvBee not 'tooTibt ofconftituttbn. Ungu entum Tufihcon is a good 
 healing Balm; alfo the Unguentum jncarmtiVumfixUnguentum am turn, is 
 generalTy’a good healing Balmjyou fliall find it no lefie. 'Ung.Necouanum 
 is alfo a good healer of new wound s; but the beft is th zArtijjciall balmt. 
 For dangerous wounds, oylTotTefelfnt^iniis very good 5 but Venice 
 Terebin tbinc alon e is much bette rrand common Tcrcbinthine is not to be 
 defpllt'd 5 and no more is the ordinary IJigeJHve of feFcFintJme and the 
 yolke of an e gge. of each a like quantity well mixed together 
 
 And^ttTvvould not doubt at all without all thefcTrecited medicines, 
 to finde fufficient healing medicines in the Surgeons Cheft for double 
 the occafion that can bee imagined, which if time would permit me, I 
 
 would write of. 
 
 And whereas putrefaction, as is mentioned, alwayes attendeth great 
 wounds made with Gunlhot, all care in time is to be had to prevent the 
 fame. Let therefore your firft locall application, if you teare putrefaction 
 be Vnguentum F.gyptiaeum mi xed wit h_ Wine oiSyVim ^gv alone j be¬ 
 ing alfo very hot injcCted into thelvound, or appliedorTfintT And if you 
 feare it will require yet more exficcation or cauterization, adde fome 
 burnt Vitriol , and foment fomewhat the outward parts of the grief with 
 a hot Lixivium , and apply a hot ftupe wet in the Lixivium , and wrung 
 out round about the member: but if the outward parts about the wound 
 be altered in colour, or grow either ftinking or infenfible, make fcarifica- 
 tion and foment well with ftrong hot Lixivium , and inje& thereof into 
 the wound very hot; and after fuch fomentation, fcarification , and 
 injection ufed, as is faid, then if you yet fee caufe, you may life the 
 former mentioned Egyptiacum with a hot ftupe, and remove not that 
 drefling without extraordinary caufe,I meanc the Egyptiacum, inlelfe 
 then 48 . houres, but rather,if you have caufed a good Esker. The next 
 drefling after the Esher procured by the former drefling, it is likely you 
 fhall finde digeftion though imperfeCt , namely durty and foule, and 
 the wound will alfo be very tender and fenfible, and fubjeCt to alteration 
 bytheayre, if care be not had. Wherefore all things for your next in¬ 
 tention of application being firft ready, ere the wound be opened makea 
 very fliort drefsing, and of as gentle medicines as may be. I have ufed an 
 ^yir ceus Limment warme, and with foft lint applied , and the edges or 
 partsneere the wound anointed therewith^ and gently filled the wound 
 with lint,the n over that f ParaceI]uspEKcr& moreover a large hot ftupe 
 wet in a goodXwww^and wrung out, with alfo convenient, foft, and 
 
 warme 
 
Of Wounds, and their Cure 9 
 
 warmc Ligature, which is a great help to healing. 
 
 T he third d re ffing j would leave \_Arceus Lin ament, and betake me to 
 the CAruficufflBalme j which Balme I would apply warme, annoynting 
 the parts about therewith ; applying alfo the r eto fome go od emollent 
 dilcufling,and a nodine plaher^a s namely fdracdj^sJUfter I hold chiefej 
 next that I hold Tmp.Betontca d elcribed by Arceus ; then Dticalftthtos , 
 
 Minium'Gra.ita £>e/,or MellUou . any of wliich,as thy difcrction and (tore 
 affords, is proper The reft of the Cure 1 referre to bee proceeded in 
 with balme and plafters, as isfaid, inordinary forme: and if any loofe 
 bones bee, remove them ; oncly force none out before their time with-, 
 out great caufe: if no bones be imagined, ftrvve nottokeepethc wound 
 open, neither keeps any hard tents within the wound open. Many by a 
 cuftomc keep tents to the bottome of the griefe fo long, till they make 
 the difeaic incurable : you need not bee too vigilant in keeping new 
 wounds too long open; for thefeare of putrefaction being once put 
 away,and digcftfon procured, and no bones to come out, thefooner you 
 canhe.de,the fafer. Many Surgeons alfo have.a groHe cuftomeof ar¬ 
 ming tents, as they terme it, witFTprecipitated Mercurie^m other the like 
 Cauftickc medicines,and put them into wounds to mundifie, and alfo 
 the better to digeft them, as they imagines but I may boldly affirme,thac 
 ( as is faid ) if neither feare of a Gangrene be, neither broken bones to be 
 taken out, there is no caufe of any Cauftick medicines to be applyed for. 
 the curing of a new wound at no time. And I finde by practice plainc, 
 thatCaufticke medicaments within ulcers or fiftulaes have no other ufe 
 but to take away a callous fubftance commonly in them,to alter the 
 vicioufnpffe, of the humour, and difpofc the griefe to a good healing; 
 which healing after followethchiedy by the benefit of nature,.together 
 with gentle and fanative applications, for (fitblMacaufa ttllitur ejfefius) 
 the caufe removed, the effeCt ecafeth, and fo of wounds. 
 
 It is a fhamefull errour of many fooljfh Empericks ftill to be too bufie An admonition 
 with Cauftick medicines: for how apparent is it that thereby they lame 13 Surgeons. 
 many, through ignorance 1 They will not fee a wound incarne and red, 
 and good flefh to grow , but ftraightthey flander it of ‘pride, and 
 cal lit-proud flefh, like their own?, and then mu ft at the faireft Precipitate, 
 or Vitriole burnt goe to worke ; yea, though the Patient be lame for ir, 
 or at the leaft the griefe put backe againe. Truely the abufe of 
 good Caufticke medicines bringeth much Hander to the Arte of Sur¬ 
 gery. In the cure of Ulcers and Fiflulaes , and elfc where,I have noted 
 dowqe my opinion of the true ufe of Cauftick medicines,to which I refer 
 *he Rlader. 
 
 II therefore wounds happen with Gunfhot, which givenocaufcto 
 feare a Gangrene, then begin the firft dreffing with Balme ArtificiaUvzry 
 hot applyed, the next drefling reafonable hot, and fo to the end of the 
 cure,ufing Emplajkrs and Ligatures convenient. 
 
 Of 
 
98 
 
 Of Wounds, and their Cure • 
 
 of Buntings. 
 
 % 13 Urning by Gun- powder (which wanteth no grievous accidents) of. 
 ifeaffitryRuiet -*~^ten-times is incident in Armes to Souldicrs and others j therefore be 
 for the cure, ready at all rimes with remedies fit and effeCluatl to afiwage them. And 
 beginning thy worke with Lotions , as namely,either a fomentation made 
 with oyle and water, or with adeco&ion of the feeds of jQuincesfoxof 
 Mallowes^March-mallowes^Violets ^ and a little PurJUine feed jthcfcand 
 the like take away all the powder that fticketh intheflefh, for it hinde- 
 reth the cure. And to afiwage both the dolour thereof, and the vicious 
 humours, MelSaponis is an approved remedy,for it taketh thefirc outrAnd 
 to make it more eafie for fuppuration, ufe Anodint c Medicaments (as Ce- 
 ratumrefrigerans Galeni, Populeon mixt with a third pait oilinguentum 
 Album , or a third part of Tnapharmacon and Oyle ofRofes^ or Oyle of Eggs. 
 or oiRofes mixt with the white of an egg c,Axungiaf>orcina wafhed in the 
 juyee of Plantane , or the juyee of Solamrn or in water; alfothe fat of 
 ruftie bacon wafhed in Role-water, or the like, j Alfo a deco&ionof 
 wine vineger lib.i. Litharge inpowder 3s,and gently fomenting the part 
 therewith, taketh away all paines. But to perfecS the cure, let good fa. 
 native medicines be applied;as the Unguentum contraignem , let downein 
 the Cheft,whofc compofition (hall be manifeft hereafrer. 
 
 Obferve alfo, if occafion be,that bloud letting be ufed, which is very 
 requifite to avert fluxiorts, and to avoide putrefactions of humours. But 
 abftainc from purging potions, and the like atthefirft. Withthefcrc- 
 cited helps ,adminiftred in their due time and place,with alfo a 
 good dyct,the Surgeons Mate fhallperformc much in 
 fhorttime, to the praife of the Al¬ 
 mighty and hisowne 
 comfort. 
 
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The Cure of .Apoftumes. 
 
 Fir ft what an ^Apoftume is, 
 
 N Apoftume is a tumour compoled of three ryeDtfinit'mcf 
 kindesol difeafes, as Avicen affirmeth, namely, an A M tnme ' 
 Intemperature, Incommoderation, and Solution 
 of continuitie,all gathered into one magnitude: 
 and Tagaltim in his inftitutions affirmeth, every 
 tumour again ft nature is an A poftume: The dif¬ 
 ferences of tumours arc many, and are by many 
 learned writers handled at large , of which my 
 lcafure will not permit me now to write. 
 
 The times of Apoflumes are alfo at large handled learnedly by The times of ait 
 M r . Gale , Iohartncs de Vigo , Ambrofc a Paris , and divers other good are 
 
 Writers, and are noted to be in number foure, as namely. Beginning, °“' e ‘ 
 Augmentation, State and Declination. 
 
 The beginning of an Apoftume is noted to be the firft collection nut the 
 of humors, extraordinarily intruding into any one part of the body, w -apt- 
 
 at which time with the Chirurgions care, the proceeding of the difi 
 cafe is eafily hindered,according to that old Poeticall xerfc,Principiis 
 cbfta,&c. The next time of an Apoftume is the Augmentation>hen 
 the difeafe hath taken root,and is not fo well to be put backe, neither 
 is it alwayes necelfary nor fall* to attempt it: for it may be nature 
 hath determined to fend it out, and this lecond degree Or time of an 
 Apoftume lsfomctimes knowne by heate, and puliation increaieth a 
 diltemper generally of the body, and an inclining to a feaver,e/peci- 
 ally if the Apoftume be hot, oj nave malignitie therein: but the aug¬ 
 mentation of colde Apoftumes have often no other fignes notabler 
 but onely an appearance of increafe, without any other diftemper of 
 the body for a long time together. 
 
 The third time or degree, which is the ftate or ripenelfe of the ivhatlb* ftate of 
 griefe is well to be knowne divers \vayes,as namely, the Apoftume by an f p J* u r me “» 
 this time is come to perfed maturitie, and the paine is either wholly lhwo * ' gw 
 or partly alTwaged, and the matter being neere the skin, each childe 
 in Chirurgery may judge what is next in Art to follow,by the bearing 
 outand difcolouring of the skin,foruluaIlyit is difcolourcd blacker. 
 
 Or is very loft, and if the Apoftume lie deep by feeling, you Hull alfo 
 fenfibly perceive whether there be perfedion of maturation or no,al- 
 fo by depreiling the cutis a little with your finger. 
 
 Marke alio out of the words of the Ancients, to know when an A- wimaH ap*- 
 poltume will proceed to fuppuration. Hypocrates lib. 47. cap. 2. hath fi ume wiu M- 
 thele words , that whileft Pus is in making, paines and feavers doe n^ppocrat.cap, 
 afflid: but Pus being made, paines and feavers doe decline: And to 1. lib. 47. 
 
 A a confirme 
 
1^2, Of <tApo/lttwes , and tbei: Cures , 
 
 Tagalt.inftit. rn nfir me the former words, Tagaltius in his Imftitutions, cap. 3. hath 
 thefe following verfes. 
 
 Durities tonga pulfut dolor & color aucti 
 Signant put fieri: fedfacto dicta remfja 
 Sub digit if undons alb efee ns pars & aatta. 
 
 The fmth time The declination of Apoftumes,I cannot flaidto amplifie,but I re- 
 
 of an Ajnfiume, ferreyou, as before, to M '.Galles Inftitution oft Chirurgion,as alio to 
 lobannes Vigo, and other good writers, lor a rroie ample doctrine in 
 that point,onely note that when the tumour o: apoftume is ripe,mine 
 opinion is rather it be opened by a potential! ciuftick medicine, then 
 by aduall incifion,whenit may be as conveniently effe<3ed,anc[that 
 for many good rcafons, and one liifficient rcafon in mine opinion is,if 
 youufe incifion, you muft needs put in tents, doifels or the like with 
 medicines, to keep open the orifice, and alfo D enlarge it, which do¬ 
 ing you flop the paffage of natures true evacaation twixt each drefi 
 fing, offending the parts adjacent, and hindei the unition of the dif- 
 joyned parts, agai nit confidence, detrading good healing: yea, and 
 thereby hazard divers evill accidents to follov,as fiftulaes,&c. from 
 CauftUk intiftm all which by caufticke incifion you are freed, and feare not at all the 
 commended, application of a convenient potentiall cauftick medicine in due time 
 
 and place, cfpecially the impoftume being ripe, and the skin thin, for 
 you can pierce no further then thorow the cutis, though you would 
 for being onelythorow the skin, the matter will choaKe your cau¬ 
 fticke or corrafive medicine,neither doubt at ill, that your work lhall 
 fucceed otherwife then well, for nature will p o vide remedic fpeedi- 
 ly, eafily and fafely to heale your patient, provided you be alfo care- 
 full to ufe your endeavour with good warme nedicines duclyapply- 
 ed, and with alfo the ufe of good ligature, vhichis one principall 
 good helpe, good diet and other reafionable neanes likewife had,for 
 1 have ever obferved in my pra<ftife,that a hottumour in any outward 
 part of the body, growing either by repletion, obftrueftion, fever, or 
 by the evill difpofition of the bloud, for the moft part: yea, even in 
 peftilentiall and venemous fevers in good bodies, not being pockie 
 nor too too old, are eafily healed by any undtrftanding Artift, that 
 can joyne reafon and experience together, many feverall wuyes, 
 namely for one, if you perceive a beginning,a gathering of humours 
 together in any part of the body, confider wlat might be the caufe 
 thereof as neere as you can: if you finde it tc be fuYnefle of the bo¬ 
 dy, or coftivenefle, you have divers prefent remedies that way to flic 
 . unto, viz,, at the firft make the patient a fuppofitory, then give him a 
 tiSjSL. glyfter if need be and a Laxative medicine, alia according as you (hall 
 
 fee caufe, regarding the^quaUtie and quantitie of the humour a- 
 bounding: butTemember where the body is poftive fyouwerebeft 
 to begin, as is laid, with a fuppofitory firft, andthat having caufed one 
 ftoole, proceed with a purge, if you fee furthe- caufe, or a glyfter, for 
 often onely one fuppofitory doth what you recuireiaifo good fomen¬ 
 tations that may by the pores of the skin heipe to breath fomc part 
 
Of pojlwnes, and their Qures, 
 
 
 ?L the T tter ’ and fo the reft by difeuffing and mollify.' 
 
 ing medicines the eaher be cured. It the griefe begin in the he >d or 
 throat you may ufe phlebotomy either under th£ tdngue,6n the for£ 
 lead, or on the armc in the head vcine, or median veinebut if you 
 perceiyetliat by emoting the body artificially,and cooling tfe bldhd ' 
 witn convenient medicines asalioanfwerable ilender diet and open 
 mg a veine that the collected peccant humors will not be difeuffod 
 nor put back, then nay you proceed toattra&ion and fuppurajion as 
 youleecaufe •, for it were molt grolTe to feeke to detaine that which 
 •Nature hathrefolvei to caft forth: wherefore if you fee caufem 
 brmglorwardany Apoltume, youmaythen confider by the q ulitie 
 thereof what epurfe to take, namely, byattradive alterative or fup- 
 purative Medicines j as touching attradive medicines, goodatti- 
 elii esatoea to behal arc Cum Elemm'bi itlelfe, fpread on lether «• 
 and applied • and Gabanum alio is very good, provided it be diifol’ ** 
 ved in wine,and not ii vineger: Me lit lot plalter wilLwell bringibr- 
 waid an Apoltume hot or cold, and helpeth fuppuration: Common 
 pitch is a good attradive: Burgundy pitch is alio good : Of thefe 
 the difcrcet Chirurgions Mate may ule the fitteftm his diferetion 
 and .f he dehre violent attraction of any flothfull cold tumour let 
 him let a large cuppirg glaITe thereon. Maturatives or alterative Me- „ « ,• 
 dicines m the cheit ard Ship to be had are very many, yea more then 
 I can call to minde at this time,wherfore to be bridgempUflZnTDu ~ 
 chylon cum G,mmi S \p lt for the principal!, for it is for that purpofe.on- 
 ly .* Pdrace tfa Plaltenapplied thicke fpread, the place firft anointed 
 withoyleof Lillies, villdowell. But where time and place is conve¬ 
 nient in my opinion, a meane Cataplafme warme and thicke annl.Wl 
 f uppurateth belt and eafi eft.w*. makca deletion of Althaea root.' or 
 Line feed s_, and the caule being cold adde Fenigre'ekeTTittleto this 
 decodhon adde Bean or Barly mcale, oyle of Camomill, Dill and Lil¬ 
 lies of each a finall quantine, Dtaltbta a little,or Axunru porcina and 
 apply it warme, an dfhift it twice in twentiefoure hoiires. Or ii flow- 
 ers oTCamonulf MelldoTFihd ofLlders an a M.f, WormwoofoM. !5, 
 
 Althea roots bruifed \&,make a decoCtion thereofin faire water a fuf- 
 ncicnt quantitie, adding of Bean meale or Barly meale M.i. and being 
 ®°y. l ! dinto A atIue forme ofa Cataplafme adde oyle of Camomill or 
 M 1 - i i UJ -^A^Uj gi apo r c 1 qa 5 i|. In want offome one of thefe flowers 
 another for need willferve, and if none of them were to be had yet 
 there is many other meaner helps to bring forward an Apoftume 
 which time will not now permit mee to rehearfe. When you have ari 
 intent to bring any tumor to fuppuration, you mult neither purge nor 
 y° ur Patient,nether appoint him a thin diet. When you would 
 an Apoltume fhould go back, if ft.be above thenavill in the breaft, 
 hacK^orheaHthen let your purg mgMedicincs befuc h aspurge down¬ 
 ward oneIy,but if it be below thenavill,or in the amis, or legs, vomi- 
 uve Medicines do befl, except feme efpeciall hinderances, as Afibma 
 or t ie like: And to thefe ufes none are lo effectuall as thofe which are 
 o Met i to y truely prepared, for that they do not onely duly evacuate, 
 ir.ca o diveit and draw back the humours from the place offended 
 
 A a 2 which 
 
 
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 144 
 
 Of ajpoflumes, and their Cures. 
 
 which in truth is a great help to nature. Alfb bloud letting where oc- 
 cafion is, maybe ufedfor diverting and mitigating a ftubboroedif- 
 eafe,but alter the ufe of Mercuriall purges it is held ol many not to be 
 good to open a veine, of which opinion I am, without extraordinary 
 reafon urge the contrary. And further if you intend to rep ellan Apo- 
 ftume you may make ufe of this following Cataplafme of Bean mea£ 
 or wheat meal boyled with water and vineger a convenient quantitie 
 that it be not over lharp,adding alittle Terebinthine and very warme 
 apply it,with alio good dole ligature,and fhift, renuing the medicine 
 every lix t or eight houres , but obferving as it is rehearfed, that to 
 repellan Apoftume flender diet with convenient evacuation of the 
 belly, and Phlebotomie are as principals to be uled. Alfoj lafe Cata- 
 plafme to repell an Apoftume in the beginning is, li farina, fabaruiitot 
 Bean flower and caftle fope . ana$j. wine vineger as much aswillfuf- 
 fice,boyle thele one quarter of an houre together, ancfyou may mixe 
 a little water withi he vineger for feare it break the skin, and apply it 
 warme. Note further that to an Apoftume brokenbya cauftickeI 
 commonly ufe no other thing then unguent um bafihcon warme, from 
 the firft to the epd of the cure, or my artificiall balme which I much 
 rather commend qpon my long experience, except fome dreflings 
 now and then I apply to it onely dry lint, and if nature be not benefi- 
 ciall to in earn# and help healing to my defire,I ufe a gentle abfterfive 
 medicine, namely a little precipitate mixed with the laid baftltconot 
 elfe mguentum Aegyptucum very hot , but that only for one drefling Sc 
 oneTime,and then to my former courle again for certaine daies toge¬ 
 ther, namely, till the Esker befalne,and at the leaft three dreflings af¬ 
 ter,which if it give me not good content in hope ofamendment fthen 
 I proceed ftithef one degree', "namely, I ufe for one drefling of oleum 
 fulp hurts per campanarn, or oleum Vitrioh , with which I onely touch the 
 Vlcer within: I alfo give a purge, thereupon if the Patient be ftrong, 
 and then to my old forme agame, till nature be at reft, I meane as is 
 laid,till the Eskar be cleanegone, and yet five or fixe daies further: 
 but if then I fee it be ftill ftubborn, I proceed to the next ftep or de¬ 
 gree,and crave help from my honeft old friend Mercuhe who ifhe fail 
 me j udicioufty applied,then \ confeflfe I am almoft to feek, but he fel- 
 dom failed me pertormance if my Patient were not the caufe, the dif- 
 eafe being by Art curable. The mercurial medicine I moft ufe in fuch 
 cafes you fh<il find to be rehe«irfe<J in the cures of F1ftul3.es ^od Vlcers. 
 
 If an Apoftume be opened by a caufticke medicine the Apoftume 
 of it felfe being concavous, I meane having a great hollownefle go¬ 
 ing deep this way or that way, ftrive you not at all, either with tents, 
 plegents,or dorifels to fill the faid concavities,and to divide the parts 
 afunder which defire unition butpnly drefie thou the outward or fu- 
 perficiall part with warme bajtticon > artificiall Balme or the like con¬ 
 venient medicine, putting it a little within the entrance of the orifice 
 ofthe Apoftume upon a little lint on the end of thy Probe, untill the 
 h™ 5 fcGond, andthird drefling after the opening be paft, and ifthou 
 naveany of thy Cataplafme remaining with which tliou didft ripen 
 the Apoftume, apply the fame very warme, if not, apply fome good 
 
 Empiafter 
 
Of <tApo{tumes,and their Qures. 
 
 *45 
 
 s ■ - d 
 
 thoamakei„jea,o„ 4 otheCcavS^heA^’' 
 
 f.ui"i m t UndifiCati M C | 0r abftetfoe medi ‘-‘>ment , P amely witha™ 
 
 fesss^iSS 
 
 mes It may be alfo thou maift thinke how (hall a good healine lol 
 ,Al W i 1 u r u the uV S Bottore hed,and with tents,ami like medlioes •*** 
 
 caufe of the difeafe? 
 
 divine worke, for nature intends healing without thvh+h^e ai* 
 little and little Iheavoydeth thedreps of i-heHif c ^ j* Srfiby 
 fait within bv Gods providence incarnLa up a e *, an< * . ever as 
 outwardlyaLded.nUy mean oft 
 
 whereon I advife thee not to truft alheir ,Z f 1 T" tdl J thee . 
 
 #* 
 
 Some Artilts have in ufe long hard tents thiswav rV^#. a 
 
 diet-. Iw P nfeei S e Sd E r PCt d al1 “ApoftuTe.for % 
 
 ay be in luch a part of the body,as namely, in the corner of the eve 
 healingmeanes, a? bfforc 6 ™“'^ W ‘ th *" M[ ’ Scntle - aDd f P red y 
 
 anolpTXnb^^ 
 
 wreftleth not with Nature as great mafters^doe^ an^Naturepleafcd 
 
 with 
 
 
Of 'Jpo/lmnes,anJ their fares. 
 
 df'ne. 
 
 tmr 3 in Chi- 
 regions worthy 
 ycfroo/e. 
 
 they have made worke: Some by error tor want or judgement, o- 
 thers for bafe lucres fake,prolonging and aggravating withthings not 
 onely contrary, but alio dangerous to nature oftentimes, lay mg bare 
 the bones, and by fowling them with their cauftick medicines when 
 there is no need, preiaging wickedly before hand upon unpeifed 
 grounds, bones to be fowle, when to their fhames they have made 
 them fo themfelves, as is faid, either forwant ot honeftie, or want^of 
 true judgement to coniider: wanting charitable and Cbriftianrea- 
 ions,or not being capable what the benefit and force of Nature is able 
 toeffedt, wherqas if they would proceed mildly, and with Height Me¬ 
 dicines they might oftentimes eft'edt farre more then they do,or can. 
 Nam natura pattern contenta , & fublata causa, tollitur effecttts : Nature is 
 content with fmall things , and thecaufe removed the accidents or effetts 
 ceafe. I wifh rather a Chirurgion Ihould heale gently, yea though he 
 fliould hazard the breaking out againe of the grief e, which will not 
 eafily be if he rationally follow the precedent method, rather then 
 by keeping the griefe open long too give occafion of deformitie, 
 lamenefle,Ioffe oflimbes,fiftulaes or the like,which very many in die 
 height of their great conceited skill procure-, which were it but oncly 
 the guilt of confidence, if they feared Gcd, they fl ould not dare to 
 do. Thefe and the like groffe errors, unexcufable before God and 
 man,have brought to the Art afcandall, and a fenfible feeling of want 
 upon many vertuous Profeffours hereof, fothat the guiltie andun- 
 guiltie are cenfured both alike by the common fort, and the one 
 f'marteth for the others fault. But thofe which for gaine or otherwife 
 will prolong the health of thole that commit their lives,or limmes to 
 their mercy, or approve of it, the Lord pay them tenfold as much to 
 their fhame: ana fo for this time I conclude concerning^poftumes, 
 onely let me give thee this caveat concerning Precipitate mercury, or 
 of any Imid^of JPurbitlyn^iin^rall^iile them not mu ch n eere any bare 
 bgnesjyilJlPutver y gr eatj udgement, for they will blacke thejboncs, 
 jieirher ufcany of them in_any new wounds, as is faidT ^orif you doe 
 they are very apt to procure lamenefle, orfhrinkingof the finewes. 
 Allfwift heal ing innew wounds I e iteem e beft, yea without any cau- 
 fticke medicines at all if itmayTBe, which the Artift need not doubt 
 of where neither bones broken, nor other juft thing of like kindc 
 hindereth the worke. Thus much concerning the generall curing of 
 tumours, to the praife of God. 
 
 Of 
 
Of the Cure of Vleers, and Fiflulaes. 
 
 O K hafte I have mixed Vleers and FtftuUes together, 
 for that they are of affiniticin fhew and cure: whofe 
 feverall definitions Ialfoforbeare for want of time 
 and enter into the Cure at the firft. Wherefore note 
 asfolloweth. If you chance to have in Cure anA- 
 poftume, that by the malignitie of the humors, or 
 other cvilldifpoutian of the body changethitfelfe 
 into a rebellious Vlcer, cohcavous ,ji(luUes, or into any the like height 
 of malignitie * or that fuch an Vlcer come to thy hand from an other « „ 
 
 Artift benotoutof hopeto cure the fame. Forif nature benotut- '* 
 terly thy enemy, the member being not pierced thorow in the joynt, Tregupuatm, 
 and fo the ligaments rotten, and perhaps the ends of the bones alfo 
 or fome other apparent token of incurabilitie, proceeding as follow- 
 etb,tboufhaltbe able tocurethedifcafe, by the helpeof God. 
 
 Firft , therefore entringinto due confideration of the age and 
 ftrength ofthe Patient, with other reafonable refpeds had, give him 
 a dole of 3 ij. or of ^ j of pttlvis Artbrcticus and 3 daies after of 
 Attrum vtu a dole, viz: grains 8 .which he (hall rake whileft he is vet 
 m bed,and cover him warme, and yet but ordinarily, and it will caufe 
 him gently to fweat fome 2 or 3 houres: then let him wipe hiinfelf 
 and rife, and afternoone he will feele him felf very muchrefrefhed 
 Then the next day or two daies after apply to the vlcer a little 
 AquabencdictA,that it may come to the bottom & into each part ofthe 
 Vlcer, namely with a little linte on the end of a Probe wet only there- 
 in,and fo leave the linte ftickipgii uhe i nouth ofthe orifice fa two 
 daies, drefling it only with oyleofrofes till the Esker remove with 
 a!fo zMtmum plafter over it this will caufe fome paine, and produce 
 a ftrong Esker, which being fallen, fill the orifice full with dry linte 
 
 for the firft and feconddrelling, putting the fame very jjentlv ini for c , , ~ 
 
 it will be exceeding tender. 1 am of opinion that it is meere idlenes 
 to apply any medicine foddainly to provoke the fall of an Esker as I 
 have mentioned elfe-where. For I dare affiripe it iurthereth nothing^ 
 good healing: for when the time of nature is come it will fall without 
 thy helpe , thou canft notkeepe it on. And I hold it as a hopefull 
 iigne of good healing, when the Esker is flow in removing. Where- third de-faz 
 fore the third dreflmg after the naturall fall ofthe Esker, having for 
 two dreflings as is faid, ufed only dry linte, take of the white AquUbT 
 ^fggg£alfttlj e ? _ I me ane jor^graines, and mix with it 'PlantAtnc or 
 taire water, or an ordinary Lotion, onely that it be as a very thin 
 nguent ,and wet well the wound therwith warmed,and fillit with dry 
 Iinte,and give the party in to drinke of A quill a viu 4 grains upon the 
 point of a knife. 1 his will caufe him to vomit, and make a ftrong di- 
 \ erfion of the humors, and then proceede in the cure with drying or- 
 
 dinarie 
 
iij.8 Of the QureofVicers and F tslulaes. 
 
 dinarie medicines,namely dry linte onely feme fouredreffings and 
 M *4k- fomc one drelfing now and thenwith a little 
 
 any linte, onely to touch the rfcet within: this cauleth no pains at 
 all, or little fome dreflings. Alio I apply Bglum, either alone 
 wanne, or fometimes mixed with a little ot the powder of A^tU 
 Laxativa ftrewed thereon. And when I ule this dreffmg, l let. the 
 drefiing remaine tor 24 houres at the lead:, and then to my dry linte 
 acaineT and perhaps if 1 perceive the F leer or FifiuU to have any o- 
 tlier fecret cavities, and lee that it be not fully touched in the bot- 
 tome, I ule once more my Aqua benedict a, and give a lecond vomit of 
 
 other rules fi>t Alfo I obferve it for good in the conclusion of each lure cure, to 
 ti>- finifhing *t give liich a vomit, where the ltrength of the Patient will beareit. 
 the cm. Furthermore I preferibe the Patient a drift drying dyet, where I lee 
 good caufe, not otherwife. But remember this principall rule, that, 
 what day he either taketh vomiting, purging, orfweating medicine, 
 that the fame day he forbearehis dyetdnnke. Further beware that 
 you preferibe not over tlender dyet, to him which is already pinched 
 with weake dyet, either at Sea or Land: or whofe dyet is of bad nou- 
 rifhment, as too often times it happeneth amongtt poore Seafaring 
 men in long voyages. Thus ufing this afore-preferibed medicine ju- 
 dicioufly, you may cure any pockie Fijlula, or inveterated Fleer what- 
 foever, if they by Art are curable. And for any pockie Fleer on the 
 •virga, I meane either upon glans, or praputium, ortwixtboth, onely 
 touch it but once with the aforelaid Aqmbenedifta , and give the par- 
 tie one dofe of the Aquitla vita , and without quell 1011 you fhall cure 
 it afterwards as if it were a greene wound, but remember it will caufe 
 Ftrga to tumific fometimes much, but be not afraid, for by the ufe of 
 Lotions mixed with Plantane or faire water daily warmc, andcaft itin 
 twixt CIans & Praputium, it will toone amend. It cureth alfo any warts 
 of the virga by onely touching them,and that if they be touched but 
 ▼ery gently: for it is a ftrong medicine, and procureth fome paine,but 
 not in warts, yet honeft it is and fure, for it will not faile: and if once 
 you acquaint your felve with the parts thereof, you will never after¬ 
 ward ufe Trojfes of minium nor Mercury fu blimate againc y and yet let 
 me Ipeake my Confcience, both Trojfes of minium and Mercury lubli- 
 mate are worthy Medicines, their whole force and healing veitue be¬ 
 ing indeed onely the quick-filver and fpirits of fait, and no other 
 thing, whole companion was never found out for healing and killing. 
 I have often cured delperate Fleers , yea and FifiuUes with Trojfes of 
 Minium , as alfo fometimes with onely a Tent made of CMercury fubli- 
 mated , and put into the orifice. And how excellent it is inwardly gi¬ 
 ven being truly prepared, I will for this time forbeare to Ipeake, till I 
 write of the preparation of luch medicines, as I have here divulged 
 under ftrange names. Thus much of Fleers and Fijhdaes to God his 
 glory, and the helpe of the weaker fort of young Practitioners. 
 
 ' 
 
 Tie 
 
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 I+? 
 
 Tie Qure of FraBures. 
 
 H E firft Intention in the Cure of Fra&ures is per¬ 
 formed by rettoring the bones difioyncd, and ta¬ 
 king away any loofe peecesor fragments of bones 
 if any be. 
 
 Thefecond Intention is performed by keeping 
 the parts together, namely, the ends of the bones 
 formerly displaced andfradtured by violence. 
 
 The third Intention to be done, is the curing of the wounds or 
 contufions incident to fractured bones. 
 
 The fourth, to prevent or remove the accidents. 
 
 The firft part of this worke, namely, the reftoring or rather bring- 
 ing to their places, the fradhired ends of the bones, is performed by 
 extention,and a skilfull and ready hand touching the extention: let it 
 be done paulatim , by little and little, as the tearme is, with even mfijl work? 
 hands, not by jumps or on the Hidden, and yet with as much force as 
 isrequifite, namely, till the Artift Handing by with his hands upon 
 the griefe, perceive he is able to fet the ends of the bones into their 
 place ^ which done, it is then required that they be kept fo. 
 
 The fecond curative intention of fra&ures, is performed by 
 keeping the ends of their bones placed in their right forme and 
 place. 
 
 This part is chiefely done by good ligature, wherein I am willing 
 to impart to young Artifts my Pra&ile in curing fractures in the 
 thighes and legges, and underftand I ufe no rowlers at all, but 
 clowts, fplints armed and tape, my rcafon is, it is a great difeafe and 
 difquiet to my Patient, yea though I have two afliftants to hold 
 the member, to come fo oft about the member as torowleit, and 
 endangereth much the difioynting of the bones againe, and caufeth 
 paine. 
 
 And it is manifeftthat infimple fractures,the placing of the bones 
 and keeping them fo, is the moft worke of the Cure, and nothing 
 cureth a fradured bonefo much as reft: wherefore when a bone is 
 newly placed, and fhall be troubled much with lifting and rowling, it 
 cannot but hinder unition, and procure fome accidents offenfive, my 
 forme of ligatures in fractures is to have next the member one four- 
 double clowt in length, Imeaneabove and below the fradure, fb 
 long that the ends of the fplints I intend to u fe, may have a refting 
 place on the clowt. And if I intend to cure the Patient by a Lixivium 
 I apply it Onthisfaid clowt, appointing the medicine ever to bee 
 next to the griefe , then I have another like great cloth to come o- 
 ver that asaine under the fplints', which being dole and fmooth 
 
 Bb brought 
 
 

 150 
 
 Of Frallures 3 and their Cures • 
 
 The Cure. 
 
 brought about the member,I then put under the firft fplint of a good 
 bredth and length well armed with tow, and under that I layfoure 
 or five ftrong tapes, then I tye one of the faid tapes gently,and thruft 
 all the reft of the fplints under the lame tape, namely,’ lo many as 
 may eompalTe thefradured member, lyingclofe, but with fome 
 linall diftance, that they touch not oneanother, then I tye the reft 
 of the tapes, drawing them clofe, till the partie lenfibly feele them 
 to beare mall places, thelplintsl appoint commonly folongas the 
 member can beare without galling or troubling the next joynt: thefe 
 things fo done, it either the legge or thigh be frabfured, I appoint 
 mm junckes, asfometearmethem, namely, bents rcwled up in ean- 
 vafle to come above his knee, anddowne to the foot, yea though 
 onely t he legge be fraiftured, iris fit thefe bundles of junckes be a 
 
 fen?> **£ !? 1 ? Cr then the mei , uber f «<ftured, for that they may de^ 
 tr ® mwron S> and they are gently to beboundto the 
 member, that they may turne with it if occafion be, to thefe junckes 
 alio a cloth may be fattened, which may be brought under the foot 
 to ftay the fame up, to his due pofition, which is a great eafe to the 
 patient, and beleeve me, if once vou be but oerfe/} .n «-iv c t0 th ^- 
 ligature you will never defire a rowler in th e P Cure of afo&Te'l 
 
 conu aay, a natural l Itool or an artificial! help by fuphofitories or X 
 fters,,f there be great ncceffitie not otherwise,Ld Fever ha^en" 
 
 give him a Barley water, with a little oyle of Virriol I rhi PP I- 
 tnathelpnot,openaveineontherr>nrror, ca ri ?.!- therein, andii 
 febhon of humors, feare P utri ’ 
 
 date,or the like, iflfe complaine muSofthe^,e f ^ ^r' 
 
 namely, fee that the ends of the bones lie rfcrh? ’ ^ tbe r c f fe > 
 
 gall him not, alfo that there be no wrmcklcf in rh^ t | hat thc f ft S 
 and that it be not too hard or too foft bound all rl^ rTf-* app ! ye f 
 . . . confidered. The medicines Iufeare as aI the ^ things duely 
 
 ftri<^vc ftuffe, which is as followeth. toll ° weth ’ ^herlufeart- 
 
 the manner of Rt Bole jiij. 
 
 Alumina. 
 
 Thus an*. 
 
 Radix Conjolid* in powder &ii. 
 
 Tti r .. La P^ Zabulofus |iiJ. 
 
 whites of cwoeggesto^che?Jftheymayb^ha { j W1 a t jj t * le ^ 0 ^ ccs ant * 
 
 ger, and mixed as much as will ferve rn I5 T adding wine vine- 
 forme of aCataplafme, andinwant ofegis^^L H 61 " 10 '^ 
 onely io much as is needfull, alfoif Com I? ulc wa ter and vmeger 
 
 **" 5 “** “T ‘^orue, ^ 
 
 though 
 
Of Fractures^nci (heir Quycs. 
 
 though not fo very well ufe Bean-meale, I have done very well many 
 times,onely with AlIum,Bole,Egges,water and vineger,though Bean 
 flower is alio very good or Wheat flower, and as for the medicine cal¬ 
 led Lapis ZaI?uIoJus heere recited, it is a medicine found out in the 
 Arch Duke of Brandenburg his Countrey, named in the Germane 
 Tongue, ioeine b;oucUe, which in our language is a broken bone,being 
 in fubftance like chalke and in forme like a bone, Ionic peeccs like 
 ribs,other like fingers, others like legges or armes, bones of nature fo 
 growing. This medicine I know to excell many other in healing fra- 
 dtures both outwardly applyed in Cataplafmes, and inwardly taken 
 daily the quanritie of &j. in fine powder in wine, beere, or water, the 
 patient fafting for two houres after the taking thereof. In great fra- 
 dtures the Germane Chirurgions, preferibe this aforefaid medicine 
 daily to betaken for twentie fouredayes, if they fee caufe folong 
 to ufe it: The other forme of application to fra&ures ufed and com¬ 
 mendable , as I have laid, and trom which I am digrefled is a good 
 flrong Lixivium made withfrclh water and allies till it beflipperie, 
 namely, let the water made feethinghot ere the afhes be putin* 
 adding if they by ready, or may be had in the Ship thefe hearbs fol¬ 
 lowing : S . lob ns wort, W'ormewood,Centaury,Rofemary,Sage, Ca¬ 
 momile and Mellilote flowers, orattheleaftloineof them, alfoyou 
 may adde Lupines thereto:but howloever though there be no!hearbs, 
 adde fait good ftore when it is cleered, but not before and then 
 though you have neither hearbs nor lupines, it will be of good force, 
 for it is the vegetable fait in the afhes, which is the beft healer, the 
 next beft is the minerall or Sea-lalt,wet the clowts rehearfed therein, 
 & wring them out hard,and apply them linooth,clofe &hot about the 
 member binding it fo up: this fecond forme is efteemed of moft Ar- 
 tifts thefafer.for avoyding Gangrenes,whichfradturcsarc much inci¬ 
 dent unto, byreafonof great ftore ofcontufed bloud gathered, that 
 can hardly be difculTed on the inftant, which thereby caufeth obftru- 
 <ftions, whereupon followeth inflammation and painc, and confe- 
 quenly a Gangrene,and furely the firft is not inferiour to this: for by 
 the meanes ol the Allumaud the vineger it Iwageth paine, tempereth 
 well the parts, andyetrepellethanddifcufleth the bloud gathered, 
 and being once baked to,it fortifieth mightily the member, by flick¬ 
 ing clofe and hard to it, I have ufed it long without repentance, and 
 the other fometime:but for that it helpeth ofit felf to keep the mem¬ 
 ber to his ftraightnefle,I the rather ufe it. 
 
 Thefe things ready, I meane the one or the other forme, fuppofe 
 then the greater foflillorboneof the legge were fratfrured, make 
 true extentiou (as is laid,) that both ends otthe bones meet together, 
 namely, let one ftrong man take the one end of the fra&ured limbe’ 
 and another the other end, thy felf Handing free, and let them draw 
 out the member,dire(ftly when thou art ready,and not before,neither 
 byjumps,but leifurcly and together: likewife if they beare their hands 
 too high or too low in drawing, they caufe great paine to the patient, 
 and hkewale caufe the bone to lie unapt to thine hand to reduce it. It 
 is knowne wheD the ends of the bones meet, for that not onely 
 
 Bb 2 the 
 
 1 5i 
 
 Obfcrvations fur 
 the cure of the 
 gre^t bone of iht 
 l ige ffAftu)cd* 
 
 hoTV to brnw 
 when the cmi\ < f 
 ih bo ies med 
 eight. 
 
152, 
 
 Of praBures , and their Cures. 
 
 the member is returned to his former beautie againe: but alfo bv it 
 muchot the paine is eafed, for itisafurerule, it the paine abate not 
 ali is not well: The bone, I fay, firft well reduced, bring your ftuffe 
 formerly rehearled and put it under the legge, the parties that exten¬ 
 ded, not forfakmg their hold,and lap it about fmooth and clofe as you 
 can, without wrmckles, lumps or feames, and that the ends may alfo 
 fould fmooth one over the other, wrapping it double and fmooth o 
 verthe flunne bone, thecaufewhyl ufe to fould it double on the 
 lhinne bone, leaving it there to be opened, is that if it chance there 
 be a wound it may be drefTed the better without undoing all: butifho 
 wound be, yet it fortifieth the bone the better, by the doublenefTc 
 thereof being fmooth, then lay your next cloth broader and longer 
 then the firft,over the firft, being wet in water and vinegerff there be 
 caufe,and wrung out. Let the fecond cloth, I fay, as alfo the firft be 
 ongei then the fplints, that the ends of the fplints may reft thereon 
 and not on the bare legge, placing the fplints in their order about the 
 Iegge,t,llyou have compared the legge,laying them (as is laid) not 
 too clofe together, that they ride notone overanother,neithertouch 
 each other, nor come upon the joynts, remembring to put all vour 
 tapes under together, in number it were fit to have five or fixe, name¬ 
 ly, two on each end, andtwo for the middefh Alfo if there be a 
 wound, you muft fo order the matter, thatyou may daily apply to the 
 wound necefTary medicines whereas otherwife if there 6e no great 
 caufe, namely, through much paine orthelike,you may well forbearc 
 lxe daies or ten dayes, provided that you fee the legge be ftraight 
 and well laid man even pofi non or forme 5 and thatrt may lye the 
 filer, it were good to be provided with the aforefaid bundles of reeds 
 or oents as thicke as the legge or thicker, to come from the foot and 
 one hand breadth over the knee, which lhould be wound and wrap¬ 
 ped in can vaffe, and boundtoeachfideof the legge artificiallvS 
 
 ng K a ? CS ! atScay ° Uma y takcfora A®twobilletsbum- 
 
 greatcare muftbe hS" °that dT 
 
 ment and hazard of a fudden Gan^euc and death l aftonlfl, i : 
 faul: ofd.versyoL.ng Ch.rurgions ,L manythi„ke t hevhavf«ver 
 
 roTnded”ndUdf,fe “e/tXok^ 
 
 daies by Nature and Art have a ftoole r , e 5 kir ? once 111 two 
 crouble.ic is nor hard for Idm'rl.at wid be^carefi^ nIeS 
 
 for indeed as is mentioned, the bone reftored reft - - ^ *l a ^ lire ‘ 
 dicine to cure a fracture,yea it will effedf it al molf ^ V C c ne ^ llie ‘ 
 the member bemg oneiyart.hc.alIy 
 
 the 
 
Of Diflocations^ and their { ures • 
 
 Vi 
 
 Cau~ 
 
 the inward medicines for fradures I fay need not to be many on civ 
 
 T m i 1cere daiI >} in wl,le or water, as thy difcretionfhall 
 . e .p ce > C * 1C mentioned Lapis Zabtthfm &j. for tenne orfourteene 
 
 <-s i youhaveit.-fomctimesif neede fo reqnire, a lenitive glvfter 
 may be given : Alfo the beft locall medicine to wounds wifhfra" 
 curebin my opinion is good Baft hewn or Arceus Liniment beino- 
 w^e applied tb f reto lometimcs as you fee caufe ; Alfo you may ufe 
 an Abfteriive or Corroding medicine,as A flume n Combufium-.AcJmi -- 
 
 S- JP'FT”' ° r l he llke: buc in thefe thin g s «*fon m41n- 
 ftrud the Am ft more then precepts, but beware ofthe ouer-ufe of 
 
 larpe medicines neere the bone, for thereby often a bone is made A r 
 
 foule, which before was cleere, this error is too frequent both in 
 young, yea and many olde Surgions alfo,who apply fhame medicines ’ 
 
 S ten without true Judgement, not only in fradures, but alfo other- 
 wi c, and as for hmple fradures, I have cured them often with onely 
 aftare doth made of waxe^iij. rofin and fheepes fuet, of each’j. dip 7 
 p ngacourfe canvas'therein in forme of a fparrowdrope, and fo have 
 
 * war i ,lc and , dofe ^out the limme, that it might reach at 
 *e leaft three fingers above,and as much below the fradure,with apt 
 r2V s 1 Jl avc recited in the manner of the application of the 
 Cataplafme: This in fradures of the armesis as good as any and ^»™f*ryrua 
 rom the firft to the Iaft this fearccloth may be ufed Remember alfo { orhe * te o/ 
 
 diltemperatiue of any medicine or itching humour excoria- f'* ffuredl 
 "°" appear,that you apply next the greifc foronedreffine 
 
 w. Tnapharmacon fo red vpon p ;! per, and your other ufuall medicine 
 thereon , and it will become well with one onely dreffing, being ta¬ 
 ken ere it grow too farre. b ^ 
 
 Thus much concerning fradures, not writ from any mans authori- 
 
 
 Concerning the Cure of 
 
 Dijlocations . 
 
 Lthough I have feene diuers skillfullmenper- 
 forme good workes in Diflocations, and resde 
 fomewhat, and for many yeeres pradifed my 
 felfe, yet know I not in this part of Ghirurge- 
 rie by words to deferibe ought to the purpofe, 
 which might ferve at all aflayes,or upon all occa- 
 - - — fions forthchelpe of young men, for as much as 
 
 fo many unexpected obfertiations and flrange occurrcnts happen in 
 and by Diflocations, as would aske much timetoexplaineorbutto 
 touch all, yet in a w ord or two,I hold it not unfit to advife them fom- 
 
 what 
 
154. Of'Diflocations and their fares. _ 
 
 what concerning Luxations orDiflocations. Firlt therefore it is a 
 gesierall rule that you muft ufe extention almoft to euery Difloca- 
 tion, efpecially in the Ihoulder, in the huckle bone, in the knee, and 
 intheankle,forl may boldly fay, where the Artift findeth a member 
 longer then his due forme, hee (hall hardly doe good on it, namely if 
 it proceed by evilldifpolition of nature, or that by the abundance of 
 vicious or vifeous humors it have extended it felfe, or that it have 
 beene over much extended and thereby is longer. Iixtention is 
 therefore to be carefully made, I meane as I have (aid in the Cure 
 of fradtures, not on the fuddaine, nor too forcible, but yet with 
 ltrong and fteddy hands, for in the extention is exceeding great re- 
 fpedt to be taken, and it is the principall worke yea and much Chari¬ 
 ty is to bee ufed therein, for too farre extending weakneth much, 
 if not overthroweth the true ufe of the member, even fo too little 
 extended, produceth not the effed intended, I meane it ferveth not 
 to reftore the bone diflocated; even fo the extendors railing their 
 hands too high, or putting them downe too low, hinder the com- 
 ming of the bone into his due place, and caufe greater paine to the 
 ferta'ne rules party : furthermore it were good when the Artift taketh view of a 
 member Diflocated, that the other fide alfo were uncovered, that 
 thereby the true forme and fituation of the difeafed limme, being 
 well regarded and compared together with the whole ioynt, the bet- 
 > ter iudgement, and truer indication might be taken: I meane ifone 
 Ihoulder or elbow be out of ioynt, let the Artift make bare the other 
 hde alfo,for that thereis often greate difference m the naturailpropor- 
 tion or fituation ofmens Ioynts: having therefore firlt viewed, and 
 then alfo fufficiently extended , and the forme of the other fide 
 alfo, as is faid, feene and kept in remembrance : then feck to reduce 
 or place the bone by thole meanes, which in thy owne reafon feemc 
 firteft couiidering and well weighing the naturall forme, and true fi¬ 
 tuation of the Diflocated bone, as is faid,which in truth is unpoffible 
 iu my opinion by letters to explaine: this done, for the moft part, yea 
 and in very greate diflocations, the work thou maift account is 
 done, and the lcarc at an end. 
 
 My felfe have fet divers ftrong mens bones, I meane the fboulder 
 bones chiefly, which have done labour the lame day, neverthelefTe 
 J denie not but it is good and very neceflary to apply to the place 
 things difcuffing,anodine,and mollificative as reafon fhall induce the 
 Artift unto: you may therefore anoint the place with oyle ofRofes, 
 Camomill, Dill, or Earth-wormes as you (hall fee fitteft, and apply 
 thereon a Plafter of diacolon diacalfiteos , Par ace If us plaftcr or the like, 
 and fo rowle and binde up the member artificially as fhall be moft fit, 
 and let it have reft: if thou feare further accidents thou maift alfo 
 give the partie fome laxative. The bone I have laid is never truely 
 reftored,ifthe paine continue. Againe, if there be a great tumour in 
 the place diflocated, fo that thou canft not therefore well reduce the 
 bone, then maift thou lay the partie to reft, and the member alfo to as 
 good reft as thou canft,and by things mollifying,anddifcufling feeke 
 to affwage the tumour, in which cafe a good Lixivium deferibed in 
 
Of T)t/locations, and their Qures • 
 
 *55 
 
 the Cure of fra&ures were good to foment it with-ii , 
 
 Catapfafme made of Oatenfeale and Linfeeds boykd’in beeKM 
 
 water, with a little oyle of Elders would doe very well but take this 
 
 for a rule that il thou be called toany diflocation where a tumour 
 
 is if itbce but a tumour of one, or two, or three daies gathering 
 
 attempt thy belt to reduce the bone notwithftanding thftmnou?- 
 
 , if by extention and pames taking thou canft get the bone ml 
 
 jo hi S place, thou needefl. not to feare the tumour , g forit will quick" 
 
 ly be gone: whereas on the other fide if by thy other aZliclt nv. 
 
 thou canft not in realonable time dilTolve the^umor a^aflowor 
 
 trange fubftance may be fixed in the place that thou (halt never bea- 
 
 bletodiflblve, alio the ligaments and heads of the Mufclcs will h^> 
 
 grown hard and Ihrunke, and thou mailt feare a lamenelTe and witlier- 
 
 timi'fhrke i- OW C 13t m ^ mber \ wherefore with a carefull conlidera- The 
 non Iceke to reduce any bone, the looner the better. tenth* u 
 
 I ufe an iuftrument in dillocations which I learned t-h- nM A-r r ^ rou i h “ b 
 inw^whileftl lived there, which Icall by 
 
 rnander/or that rightly placed and tiled it wiU ihrcly command ■ and 
 
 1 luveufed that one felle fame infttument to the Ihoulder wrift 
 Huckles bone knee, and ankle with good fucceffe. 1 may trilWhv I 
 have fet with it above foo.iovnts at times, and neucr once repented 
 mee of the ufe therefore rand to Ihew thee how I ufe it markeh Uttlt 
 my words, for I nnift be briefe : If I fee iuft caufe ofthe ufe thereof 
 and with my owne hands and fome others to help me I cannot without 
 much paine tomy patient bring the diflocated bone to his feat J if this 
 diflocation, I fay, be m his Ihoulder I place thebuttenoftheinftr 
 ment being fomewhat flatte on both fides, not round iuft into 
 arm-pit, or hollow place, I meane under the upper round end of the 
 adjutory bone or betwixt the faid bone and the body, and dirtaiv 
 under the os humeral,s or os Scapula as clofe as I can, Ihe end offhe 
 recited button being well armed with tow bound on with a dome 
 which done I put on the Iron ginne which belongeth thereto at the 
 JSJJf! r nd th ^ Commander where are certaine holes with one Iron 
 for d JX er fities of lengths oflirames to be extended, this ginne 
 having P ] ace for to ftay it to the pmue recited, and another 
 
 of rS dff °ft- he end of a loft towell to be tied about the wreft 
 
 of diflocated arme, which wrift bound about, and the lower part 
 
 waies be exSde f f!i t0 the § n ? ur,d > butbecaufethat cannotal- 
 under fet rhemft ’ Ct tlie P art,e difeafed ftand in that order, orfo 
 
 may fall out fo: and underftand fur- 
 
 ding whileft k 3 7 A OD f ? ft ^arme diflocated muttbeftan- 
 
 Havingnlaced ^ t ^ le t bigh, knee, or ankle lyiDg. 
 
 * t J and faftnedthe parts together, as is faid, letone 
 
 for 
 
ij6 
 
 Difmembring. or^AmpetMon^ 
 
 for thee ftoptotume the extending inftrument, and turneitgent y 
 ”u all bee feafonable ftiffe, the commander Handing vp right dole 
 
 bv the Patient his legge: and let feme one llrong man Hand on the 
 other fide of the Patient, with hisarmes about the Patient his necke 
 to keep him upright, to the bufines: thefe things ordered astsfaul. 
 With thy owne nands feeke to reduce the bone: I have often found 
 when 1 have extended but to aiuft length, the bone hath of it felfe 
 returned to his place, thou wilt wonder at the racilty thereof, it thou 
 proceed orderly, I nor no man elfe can teach thee by written words 
 Life fo well, as by pra&ife, with once ufing it, thou wilt frnde it out. 
 
 And when thou wilt ufe it to the huckle bone, note the button on 
 the top muft be taken off, and a cufhion bound on the place thereof 
 the party muft alfo be fo placed lying that his huckle bone, thigh and 
 legge muft hange over the beddes feet free from the bedde, or lo laid 
 on a table that all thofe parts may bee free,and 5 his legge below the 
 knee muftbe gently bound to the Commander, as is laid of the arme: 
 Inallthiswork neat ligature ,true extentionand a carefull indultri- 
 ous hand muft performe the bufines, and pra&ife muft be the meane ; 
 for myfelfe I have no time to amplifie further:this which is faid is 
 pra&ife, for the which if thou finde profit by it, give God the praife. 
 
 Of Difmembring or Amputation. 
 
 firta'nc rules 
 beftre the worl^t 
 to he pYoftifcd 
 of the Patient. 
 
 Other rules 
 tv hie h concern e 
 the Surgeon hu 
 preparation for 
 ihe W0‘ fe. 
 
 
 Mputation or Difmembring is the moft lamenta¬ 
 ble part of chirurgery, it were therfore the ho¬ 
 nour of a Surgeon never to ufe difmembring at 
 all ifit were pofliblefor him tohealeallheeun- 
 dertakethjbut neceflitie hath no law the: Patient 
 _ will declare in his naturail defire to live,the com- 
 
 fort that hee hath by it.Since therefore itis ofne- 
 ceflary ufe, let the difereet Surgeon be ever prepared for it, and to 
 that end let the Difmembring faw be alwaies in a readineffe, well fi¬ 
 led, and cleane kept in oyly clowts to fave it from ruft, let it alfo have 
 two blades well filed ere you put it into your Cheft,for that one tooth 
 inaSawmaybreake. If you be conftrained to ufe your Saw, letfirft 
 your Patient be well informed of the eminent danger of death by 
 the ufe thereof*, preferibe him no certaintie of life, and let the work 
 be done with his owne free will, and requeft *, and not otherwife. Let 
 him prepare his foule as a ready facrifice to the Lord by earneft pray¬ 
 ers, craving mercie and helpe unfainedly: and forget thou not alfo 
 thy dutie in that kinde, to crave mercie and helpe from the Ahnigh- 
 tie, and that heartily. For it is no fmall prefumption toDifmembcr 
 the Image of God. This done, have thy other Inftruments ready, 
 namely, a good Diftnembring-knife, afmallIncifion-knife,two great 
 fquare Hitching needles armed with very ftrong thred waxed, which 
 
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Of Difmembring, or ^Amputation, 
 
 157 
 
 foine ufe, but may alfo be forborne, and one needle alfo and thred of 
 the ordinary fort to low rowlers: like wife have ready long clouts, 
 lefler clouts plegents of tow greater and fmaller, dorffels, and but¬ 
 tons of tow, three broad ftrong rowlers or foure, of fbure yards 
 long each, with alfo a forme convenient for to place the Patient 
 on, with a large boule and fome afhes therein to receive the bloud, 
 let it be fet under the end of the forme, then wet your clouts, I 
 meane your beds or boulfters in water and viricger, and wring them 
 out hard, which done, make ready your medicine, I meane your 
 reftri&ive powders of both forts: have alfo ready ftrong wine-vi- 
 neger, or other good vineger, and the white and yolke of an egge 
 together mixt if it may well be had, or elfe vineger only, Ipread 
 your plegents ready with the reftridfive ftuffe or Gataplafme fol¬ 
 lowing,have ready the ftronger reftribtive powder mentioned,name¬ 
 ly, the ordinary reftribtive $j. and of burn’d Allum sj. Vitriol! 
 burn d and of Precipitate ofeach 5 if>. all thefe mixed together: This 
 mixture I have termed the ftrong reftribtive powder, for that it for¬ 
 cibly reftraineth Fluxes, and maketh an Eskar: have ready alfo one 
 plegent made no bigger then the end of the member ; let it be Ipred 
 with this recited ftrong Rellritftive, mixed with an egge and a little 
 vineger, which done, itrew it thick with feme of the laid ftrong pow¬ 
 der mentioned, having another plegent ready, broader then the for¬ 
 mer Ipred with the ordinary reftri&ive mentioned and mixed with an 
 egge as the former: alfo, take of the buttons of tow fome foure or five, 
 wet them in the ftrong reftri&ive to be laid on the ends of the great 
 veines and arteries when they are abfized: This done and ready,place 
 the Patient on the mentioned forme with one ftrong mall fet behind 
 him,and another to ftand before him, beftriding his thigh clofe to his 
 body, compafling ftrongly with both his hands the member which is 
 to be taken off, and holding it exceeding fall lome two fingers above 
 the place where you intend to take it away, and let another hold up 
 his foot. It were not amiffe allb to have ready a Swines bladder which 
 hath been fomewhat wet and dried off againe: which after the ftuffes 
 the firft bed and firft long rowlcr is fpent, draw on the Bladder, and 
 proceed to rowle ag^jne to the full end of the worke, in the name 
 of the Almightie., the iliarpe Inftruments being as neere as you 
 can, ever hidden from the eyes of the Patient; the two minifters or 
 helpers alfo being ready, and having hold on the member one above, 
 another below,and alfo one fitting behind,, as is faid on whom the Pa¬ 
 tient may leane backward, and reft on: then take your difmembring 
 knife,and with a fteddy hand and good fpeed,cut off flelh,finewes and 
 all,to the bone round about the member, which done, take a fmaller 
 incifion knife and divide the panicle called the pentftcon , from the 
 bone, it is a tough thin skin, covering all the bones of the body; 
 allb thruft your laid incifiou knife betwixt the foffels or bones, cut¬ 
 ting away whatloever is to bee found there with like expedition t 
 the partie that holdeth the upper part of the legge with all his 
 ftrength, griping the member together to keepe in the fpirits and 
 bloud:It were alfo very good that the faid party holding the member, 
 
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 Saw. 
 
 Tbtmnntt of 
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 filing 
 
 A Camion, 
 
 Of c Difmembring i or <*A mputation. 
 
 the flefh and finewes being cut afunder, fhould immediately draw or 
 ftrip upward the flefh fo much as he could,keeping his hold, that ther- 
 by the Saw may come fo much the neerer, which would occafion a 
 quicker and better healing, the flefh being thereby made longer then 
 the end of the bone: then if you approve of that courfe of Hitching, as 
 fome good men do, take the two ftrongfquare needle & threds men¬ 
 tioned, and prefently after the member is taken away, flitch the skin 
 thorow on the one iide,'and juft over on the other fide,and with the o- 
 ther needle doe likewife as it were croffe over the member the other 
 way, & draw the laid threds lo dole as you think convenient, the bar¬ 
 ter to flop and choake the great veines & arteries, then tye them faft* 
 and prefently put buttons to the heads ofthe veines and arteries then 
 apply the reft native Plegets together, the leflferfpred with the ftronv 
 reltndive lying on the broder,lpred with the ordinary ftuffe this bro- 
 der plegent mult come at the leaft three fingers over the flump and, 
 lumen bed with them prefently following, layinga flat hand dofl on 
 the end of the flump, and holding it fo till an other Handing by draw 
 up the laid plegents with the laid bedfmooth & clofe. then let a third 
 mangoonwiththerowling, tillthefirftrov/lerbefpent, thenifyou 
 will, draw on a Swines bladder,which is no evill courle, for being once 
 dry, you need not feare any fluxe of bloud, my felfe have ufedit and 
 found it good,but your rowling muft be very Artificial! in fuch a cafe 
 or all will not ferve, for it exceedeth all medicines. And there is a fe- 
 cond great care to be had in the holder, that he hold well-alfo remem- 
 ber ever in rowhng to keep a hand to th 9 end of theftump , thrufting 
 p c medicines dole and keeping them lo, excepting ever as the 
 mwler pafieth by to make way warily for it,and flay i t again, and ever 
 where you fee the bloud fpnnging out, there lay a flenderdorfellof 
 nn r ’ 1C a £ ain ; continui "g cowling till the bloud appearc 
 
 h I a n efllUg ^ cin g ended, lay the party to bed with the 
 
 n rt P n i gh, i anJ f pi ° W UDt i er ,r > a PP oinc him a flender diet namely 
 no flefh: let him have a comfortable Caudle for the firft if-you fee him 
 
 weak; and afterwards Broths and Pannadons and light dungs andm 
 mall quantitie. It fhall not be amifle to defer the fecond dreffiogue- 
 till the forth day & no longer,onely vifit the Patient daily and eafe or 
 
 T* 7 fo !f e i ° ne fOW Cr> ° r as y° u ^ fee caufe - Moreover in dif- 
 membnng the legge you are tounderftand that though the footone- 
 
 y be corrupted it is belt to take off the leg fome four* niches belm^ 
 the lower end of the rotulc,or round bone of the knee the painc i ail 
 
 confefleth the fame in finall joynts to be good, but not in the kne/ 
 Note alio it is convenient if the occafion of difinembrino <>-ow 
 
 ot'bloud in difn,ending, bccaiii it ls to >t 
 
Of Difmembring, or <tAmputation . 
 
 V9 
 
 in a fpent weak body, who hath had a long pining difeafe, preferve his 
 bloua and fpirits as carefullas if they were thine own,and yet remem- 
 bring this one rule, which all the London Hofpitall Chirurgions hold 
 there is more hope in a weak fpent body,then in a full body: note fur- 
 ther,that if the legge be taken off above the knee, there i s the more 
 danger,alfo there is great care to be had to the great veine and arte- 
 r\, namel) ,that thou take then! up, & pierce them thorow, and make 
 ftrong ligature about them,which mult be fpeedily done,if thou canft 
 do it: but at firft I feare thou wilt miffe, yet be not difeouraged, nor 
 Hand too long to feek them,but go on with like hope: Alfo if the oc- 
 cafion of difmembring proceed of a Gangrene, by reafon of an inward 
 caufe, it were reouifite to cake the member off foure fingers above 
 the Gangrene at the La ft, if the member will beare it, and let the Pa¬ 
 tient have fome cordiall potion: furthermore in difmembring,where 
 there be two bones, as namely in the legge, it is not amifle tofetthe 
 Saw firft on the outward part of the legge, that both the bones might 
 be cut at once, for the lefle thou fhalt fhake the member, the better 
 and the more cafe to the Patient: moreover concerning the fecond 
 drefling, M . Gall teacheth thi> unguent following, if occafion be, as a r f e J n p tl \f n 
 good remedy to fwage paine and caufe the Eskar to fall, but for my mg*f and 
 part, except paine did caufe me, 1 fhould never refped: the halting of ifo %podnfi of it. 
 the Esker to tall,tor I am ofopinion,as I have (aid in other places, that 
 itis frivolous to haften the fall ofany esker whatfoever, which esker 
 was forced by caufticke medicines, and yet I deny not this or the like 
 unguent may be found to be of good ufe, to fwage paine, therefore I 
 ha\ e fet it down, and it is as fohoweth, Jv Terebmthme jjij, Butyri recen- 
 tis fiiij .Cera $ifi. Vng.Populeon lib.fi. melt thefe together and it is made, 
 then being warmed, dip plegents therein,and apply them ; but in want 
 of this unguent a good digeftive of Terebinth me & the yolk of an egge 
 is as good, Emplaflrum d: minio mollified with a little oyie of Roles, 
 
 Vng. Bafthcum or Arcens Liniment are likewife good remedies : the 
 reft ofthc cure differeth little from the ordinary cure of ulcers,onely 
 a great care muft be had that all your dreflings be warme, and keepe 
 the cold from the end of the ftump as much as you can, and chiefely 
 from the end of the bones,to which purpofe warme oyle of Rofes dai- 
 ly applied on the ends thereof, will do w'ell ■, further to foment it with 
 a good Lixivium,wherein is ftrong wine,is good after fome fourteene 
 daies, fometimes alfo it will do well to make one drefling with Aqua 
 'i'/M,wherein a ftupe hot wrung out of the fame,may be warme apply, 
 ed to the grief,and then warme clothes and convenient rowlings, and 
 fometimes alfo one drefling with dry lint, or of foft tow is likewife 
 good, and fometimes unguentum rnixtum, viz, Bafilicum & Aegyptia- 
 cum ana. partes actual. 
 
 Thedefenfative Cataplafrne or ftuffe often mentioned, is made of The compnfim 
 the ordinary reftriblive powder preferibed inthecheft, mixed with CaU ~ 
 the white of an egge and wine vineger: the ftrongeft reftribtive of all 
 isaheady let downe, but in ordinary fluxes in wounds Bole may ferve 
 very well. Thus much for this time touching difmembring, being ac¬ 
 cording to mine owne pra&ife. 
 
 Cc 2 
 
 Of 
 
&1arlnW too ft 
 [ub^ett to the 
 
 Sturvy. 
 
 ThU Treatife 
 molt amemeth 
 
 Sea men. 
 
 Of the Scurvy called in Latine 
 Scorbutum. 
 
 The Preface. 
 
 His lamentable difeafe, which hath fo long and fo fiercely 
 a(J,ailed Saylers and Sca- men of all forts more then Land, 
 men y It is fir ange in fo many ages pafi,ihat no one Chi- 
 rurgionof our countrey men, hath out of his experience 
 taken in handfwcerely to fet downe topoJlerities,the true 
 caufesffignes and cure thereof \ neither left any infiruch¬ 
 ons , caveats or experiences for the prevention or cure of 
 the fame,yet it may befome may fay the cure thereof is common,and we have 
 in our mne countrey here many excellent remedies generally knowne , ai 
 namely, Scurvy-graffe, Horfe-Reddifh roots , Nafturtia Aquatica, Worm¬ 
 wood, Sorrell, and many other good meanes: the truth is we have fo,but marke 
 howfarre they extend, only to the Cure of thofe which live at home,or el ft it 
 may be faid, they alfo helpe fome Sea-men returned fromfarre, who by the 
 onely natitrall dtfpofttion of the frefh aire and amendment of diet, nature her 
 felfe in effect doth the Cure without other helps, as daily it is feene. 
 
 This thing therefore being fo, what fhould 1Jp end my time in teaching 
 that Method, or thofe medicines totheChirurgions Mate, which will noth 
 had at Sea, neither if they could be had, willfiifficc for the Cure thereof 
 where the difeafe raigneth fiercely > 
 
 Having therefore very [mailtime,I muff conftraine my felfe to go briefc- 
 ly to the bufineffe in hand, namely, to enforme the Chirurgions Mate how bet 
 jh on id aemeant him felf to comfort his Patients at Sea in that mof dangerous 
 difeafe, neither will I heerefirive to give the curious Reader other content 
 then this, that if he like it not, let him amend it him felfe, which I fhould 
 heartily rejoyce to fee any good man doe, knowing mine owne weakne ffe. A 
 learned Treatife befits not my Pen, and to declare thofe good medicines, 
 which cannot be had at Sea, is but time lef. 
 
Ilshat the 'Difeafe called the Scurvy is. 
 
 H e Scurvy is a difeafe of the fpleene,whereby it is fome- 
 times wholly Hopped, fometimes onelydiftempered, 
 fometimcs alfo appearing with hard Scyrros, fwellings, 
 beginning and fliewingthemfelves in divers parts of tlie 
 body, but more particularly on the thighes and legges, 
 caufing them tofeeme of a Leady colour, the fharpuefle of which in¬ 
 fectious humor oft off cndcth the mouth and gummes ofthe difeafed, 
 and caufeth the flefli thereof to rot and ftinkc. 
 
 The names of the Difeaf r. 
 
 T He Scurvy is called of fomc Cachexia tin: verfalls , of other Sttle- 
 tyrbe, and of ionic Stomacacen , it is a’Chronicalldifeafc,notfiMple 
 but compound of many other difeafes. 
 
 The caufes of the bifeafct 1 - ' 
 
 ■id s .J 
 
 ■pirft the Difeafc comes, as is faid s by obltruCtiods of the fpleene, 
 -*■ and by the thickneffe of the humour, not the multitude. 
 
 Some judicious Writers doe affirme this fickneffetocomebythe 
 multitude of Melancholike humors gathered in Vena Porta, by which, 
 itisfaid, the Milt doth draw unto it Melancholly humours, andfo 
 tranfporteth it from the Miltinto the Ventricle. 
 
 But truly the caufes of this difeafe are fo infinite and unfearchable, 
 as they farre pafTmy capacity to fearch them all outcome men con¬ 
 nive this difeafe hapeueth to fea-men onely, through long being 
 at fea without touch ofland, as it is feeue in haft India uoyages: our 
 men have it betm&tEngland, and the Cape de bonJperanze, as they 
 terme it, and at their coming on the land there they prefentiy grow 
 ftrong againe, & are by the very frelh ayre and frelh food cured with¬ 
 out much other helpe*, and hkewife twixt the Cape and the Indies, 
 they are touched with it againe, and as aforefavdthe frelh air^ofthat 
 land, the next they come on and good diet together, cureth them 
 with fmall phyficall helps, and the fame againe home-w r ard hound. 
 The chiefe caufe whereof is the continuance of fait diet, either £fh 
 or flelh, as porke and the like, which is not to be avoydedatlea,asI 
 fuppofe by the wit of man^ another caufe is want offufficient nourifb- 
 ing food, and of fweete water, and allb for want of Aqua vits , wine, 
 beere, or other good water to comfort and warme their ftomackes, 
 which by contrary windes men are too much incident unto in long 
 voiages howfoevor the Marchants are careful 1, provident, and bcun- 
 tifull in that points 
 
 An 
 
 Definition of the 
 Scurvy , and the 
 nature thereof 
 
 The divert ap- 
 pellatms thereof 
 
 Aire and frefk 
 food hclpcth well 
 this difeafe in 
 Sea men . 
 
i6z The caufes of the Scurvy . _ 
 
 An other caule of this dileafe to the ordinarie lort ofpoore men,is 
 want of frelh apparcll to Ihift them with, which indee amongft 
 poore Sailers, elpecially a fort of them that are care telfe and lazieof 
 dilpofition is too frequent, partly alio by the not keeping their ap- 
 parell Iwcete and dry, and the nor cleanfing and keeping their Cabins 
 fweete, this alfo ingendreth and increafeth the infection. Some 
 charge Bisket as a caufe of the Scurvie, but I am not of their opinion.- 
 Some lay inordinate watchings are caule thereof: Some fay extreanie 
 labour wanting due nourifhment: Some alfo affirme cares and griefe 
 to be (bine caufe thereof, others affirme the very heate ofthe ai rev¬ 
 olving the Ipirits ; but what (hall I amplifie furtherrfor it is alfo true 
 thatthey which k have all the helps which canbehadiormony, and 
 take asmuch care as men can devife are even by the evill dilpolition 
 of theaire,and the courfe of nature,ftrook with a Scurvie, yea and die 
 thereof at lea and land both: yet this giveth no warrant to the Sur¬ 
 geon, orhis Mate to leave their duties unperformed,for the blouds 
 of thole men which either by their wilfullnelfe or flouthfulnefle 
 perifh under their charge will lurely be required at their hands. 
 
 But it is plaine that this griefe is a lazic foule difeale with obftru&i- 
 ons ofthe li ver,or lpleene,or of both,as alloitappearcth that the head 
 is much difealed, and that there is great obftrudtionsin the braine, 
 for that the eyes not onely look evill coulored, but alio the gummes 
 putrifie,and the teeth grow loofe,and all the linewie parts ofthe body 
 beare their part in the difeafe, for the fhrinking and withering ofthe 
 finewes with the great paines the party hath ,declareth no lelfe 
 
 Of the Scurvie or Scorbutum thejignes. 
 
 He fignes of the Scurvieare many, as namely, a general! 
 lazinelle and evill dilpolition ofall the faculties and parts 
 of the body,laving the ftomacke and the appetite, which 
 oftentimes is greater then ordinarie with them along 
 time. 
 
 Adifcouloring ofthe skinneasifwere fouler then ordinary, with 
 ffiots darker coulered then the reft, and lomtimes alfo darkilh blew 
 Ipots. 
 
 A fever at fea commonly ends in the Scurvie, wherefore by the 
 way beware oftoo large purging, or phlebotomie, which increafe oft 
 the griefe, and make it incurable: I lpeake this becaufe I have noted 
 there is a fault in young Surgeons of forwardnelle in taking too much 
 bloud atSea. 
 
 Alio itching or aking ofthe limmes are lignes of the griefe. 
 
 Sometimes the legges falling away, and drying the calves ofthe 
 growing hard and drie, as alfo immoderateIwellingsofthe 
 
 " legges 
 
Thefigries oftheScurvit* \ 
 
 i 6 t , 
 
 l(:gges : alfo the leggesand thighes difcoloured into frekells o 7 
 Ipots of a durty browne lad colour much like the colour of a gaimre- 
 uated pr mtyfpfiqd menibejy b ® 
 
 Stinkingpfthe breath. 
 
 Crcat obftrndious of the liver, orfplpene, or both, and in the ex- 
 eremng of thqir bodies their limmes, and their /pint tailing them. 
 
 Shortnefle and difficulty of breathing , eipecially when they 
 moove themfel ves, but lying ftili finde little gnefe or painc. 
 
 Pheir eyes oi a leady colour, or like darke violets. 
 
 Great fwellings in the face, legges, and ouer all the body • pale- 
 nefle, or a foule pale colour in the face. Swellings of the gums rot- 
 tennefleof the fame, withtheifluingof muchfiithy bloud and other 
 fanking.corruption thence, Ioofendfe of the teeth: Alfo fome are 
 troubled with an extreame coftiveneire that tor 14 daics together 
 tney go not to ftoole once, wherefore the Chirurgion is contained 
 vvuh an Initiuin^nt to t*ike out the excrements toavoide death, after 
 which extreme cofhveneffe often followeth a great flux of blond and 
 a painfull: alio many have Hoppings of the urine , or at the leaft ma¬ 
 king ldie water in two daies then the partie drinketh in one day. 
 
 A ccldndTe and ftifFeoefle of the finewy parts, chiefly of the legs. 
 
 Some alfo have their Mu.fcles, yea andftnewes of their thighes, 
 armes, and legges fo wafted away that there feemeth to be left only - . 
 
 the skin covering the bones. 7 cflbeSefrvk 
 
 Alfo it is mamfeft that divers of thofe which have been opened af- h ****** 
 
 ter death, have had their Livers utterly rotted. . ofuudjifavt* 
 
 Others nav e had their Livers lwolne to an exceeding greatnefle 
 fome the Spleen extreamly fwolne,others have .been full of water o- 
 thers their Lungs putrified & flunkc whilft they have lived,thefe and 
 divers other iignes,too many for to be mentioned here,do afflid poor 
 Sea-men, which of teijaie paftmans help, in fuch place and time as 
 they happen, the Cure whereof refteth only in the hands of the Al- 
 nughtie. And yet ro any man of judgement it mayfeeme a wonder 
 how a poore miferable man, comming on Land from a long Voyage 
 even at the point of death,namely, f'wolne fometimes to an unreafoii- 
 ablc greatneffe not able to lift a leg over a ftraw, nor fcarce to breath 
 by reafon of ftrong obftrudion, yet in a few daies (hall receive the ful- 
 nefle of former health,yea with little or no medicine at all. 
 
 The Cure of this dileafe, as a famous Writer named lohannes Ecb- 
 thiiH in a Treatife De Sw-fw^affirmeth, coufifteth chiefly in fonre 
 
 things, namely, in opening obftrudions, evacuating the offending 
 humors, in altering the propertie of them, and in comforting and 
 corroborating the parts late difeafed. 
 
 lohmnes Vierm another famous writer afenbeth the whole cure of 
 the Scurvie to the lieTbe Spoone-worte. One oLvaras a Sweden ZTsZ’r 
 writer, m his fifteenth booke, and fffitie one Chapter, mtreating of * 
 t is gnefe attributeth the whole cure thereof to be in Abfmtino or 
 worm-wood namely, to drinke muchoftheinfufion thereof and alfo 
 or the fait of the fame: and one chiefe part of the cure of the Scurvie 
 ( aiJi he) coniuts in good diet, but the lea-men are inioyned to that 
 
 onely 
 
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 1 6\ 
 
 Of the Qure of the Scurvy. 
 
 onety the Ship affordeth, which the better and founder their pro- 
 vifions ofvi&ualls are, the more their men ftand to health ; and the 
 contrarie notonely bringeth many difeafes, but maketh the difeafes 
 which happen very hard to be cured, therefore I may (pare labour in 
 writing what broths or herbs ferue belt where no frelh food can be 
 The chimgms gotten: the Surgeon audhis Matemufttherefore, feeingheisatfea 
 dun cm this tf- deprived of one priucipall help in that cure, namely, frelh meat and 
 cafe at sea. g 00C j cjfinke, be diligent to callfor fuch comfortable things as are by 
 
 the great care andbountieoftheMarchants provided for lick men, 
 or thole which incline thereunto, whereof in each Shippe is a good 
 i mmm the proportion both ofwine, fugar, fpices and other comfortable things, 
 aud to * ee the Y have ic in due timc and mca ^ ur 9 : aud hkewife to com- 
 C'JVfWC. plaine to the Governours if they be withheld from the fame, or if any 
 
 manabufo himfolf by mif-diet : yea and the Chirurgion ought mor¬ 
 ning and euening to feeke for weake and poore men in their Cabins, 
 or fo foone as they are miffing at their melfes to inquire for them,and 
 to fee their Cabins be fweet, and their provilions according, or to 
 move and intreat the Matter, or Governour of the Ship for redrelfe 
 in fuch cafes, for feare of a generall infection. And whereas the firft 
 part of this Cure is in the opening of obftru<ttions,it is therefore fit in 
 the beginning of the grief to give a lenitive glyfter,then the next day 
 if the partie be ftrong open a veine,butbeware,as is faid,of taking too 
 much bloud away at once,efpecially where the Liver is weake or ftop. 
 ped,and where men want good nutriment,for many evils enlue there, 
 by. The next day following his bleeding if he can’beare it, and ifthat 
 hisdifeafe be withalwellingorfulnelTe, give him a dolle of the pills 
 of Euphorbium or otherwife of pibula ruffi,or of Cambogia,and make 
 him fome comfortable fpoone meate, fuch as you can make at Sea- 
 namely,an Oatmeale caudle would not be a milfe of a little beerc or 
 wine, with the yolkeol an egge,and a little Sugar made warme and 
 given him to driuke, or any comfortable broath made with Currants 
 and other fruit, or Spices moderately taken,or with Sugar, or as the 
 Ship can afford,a Barley water for his ordinarie drink were notamilfe, 
 with fome few drops of Cinamon water therein, and alfo fotpe iuyee 
 or Syrupe of Lemons therein,or a few drops of oyleofVitriorf, and 
 fome Sugar, and give him in hisdrinke byway of infufion, dried 
 Wo rmwood good ftone, for it is very wholefome. 
 
 Further the Chirurgion or his Mate muft not faile to perfwade 
 the Governour or Purler in all places where they touch in the Indies 
 and may have it, to provide themfclues of juice of Oranges, limes, 
 or lemons, & at Banthame of Tamarinds: Alfofometime thoughaman 
 be well, a comfortable caudle made with fome Wine, Spices, Sugar, 
 and the yolk of an egge were very good *, for thefe are helps in that 
 cafe as well to prevent the difeafe,as alfo to helpe it when it comes. 
 
 And further experience teacheth which I have oft found true, that 
 Theexceiiencie where a difoafe moft raigneth,even there God hath appointed the belt 
 tcmnlTilt rcmedics f° r tlie ^ ame gbcf, if it be his will they lhould be difeovered 
 Oranges, and f ’ an d ufod: and note for fubftance,the Lemmons,Limes, Tamarinds, 
 Tamar nds. Oranges, and other choice of good helps in the Indies which you 
 
 lhall 
 

 Of the Cure of the Scume. 
 
 16s 
 
 jhall finde there do farre exceede any that can be carried thither from 
 England, and yet there is a good quantitie of Juice of Lemmons fent 
 in each flnp out of England by the great care of the Marchants, and n* 
 intended onely for the reliefe of every poore man in his neede which & s “"'n- 
 
 is an admirable comfort to poore men in that difeafe: alfo I finde we 
 have many good things that heale the Scurvy well at land but th- Sea , , 
 Cbirurgeon (hall do little good at Sea with them, -neither wiil "they Ai* 
 lndure.The ufe or the juyee of Lemmons is a precious medicine and 
 well tncd.bemg; found and good,letir h^e the chiefe place/or i twill 
 deferve it, the ufe whereof is: ft istobetakeneich*rnorning: twoor 
 three/p°°nfuls,andlaft after it two houres, & if youadde one fpoon- 
 tiill of Aquavit* thereto to a cold ftomack,it is the better. Alfo if you 
 take alittle thereof at night it is good to mixe therewith fome fugar 
 or to take ol thefyrup thereofis notamifle. Further noteit is good to 
 be put into each puree you give in that difeafe. Some Chirurgeons al- 
 Jo give ofthis mice daily to the men in healthas aprefervative,which Thimtof 
 courle is good if they have ftore, otherwife it were beft to keep it for 
 need.I dare not write how good afauce it is at meat, leaft the chiefe 
 in the Ihips wafte it in the great Cabins to lave vineger.In want where- 
 ol ufe the juice ofLimes,Oranges, or Citrons, or the pulpe of Tama¬ 
 rinds: and in want of all thele ufe oyle ofVitrioll as many drops as 
 may make a cup of beere,water or rather wine ifit may be had,oneIy a 
 very little as it were fower, to which you may alfo adde fugar if you 
 pieafe,or fome fyrups, according to your ftore & the neceffitie of that 
 dileale,for of my experience I can affirme that good oyle ofVitrioll is* 
 an efpeciall good medicine in the cure of the Scurvy, as alfo in many 
 other griefes, the which in another place is noted. Further a deco&i- 
 on of Biskct & therein Almonds ground, adding Cinamon and Rofc 
 water a little, and fome fugar,were very comfortable now and then to 
 be taken torefrefh the ftomack. And as touching the Tamarinds 
 brought from the Indies they are to be eaten of themfelves as the 
 fubftance of them is,namely to eat them as you would prunes, and be¬ 
 ing made into conferves, eat them as other Conferves,on the point of 
 akmf<jJWking out the fubftance, and putting forth the ftalkes or 
 ltones tnereqfj fome diflolve them in wine or water,and work out the 
 fubftance of them therein, and caft away the reft, taking onely that 
 whichispure: one mayule this medicine lb oft as he pleafe without 
 or harme, onely if he feare a flux ofthe belly, or have a weake- 
 nefle in the reines, let him not eat too much ofthe Tamarinds. Alfo 
 the Electuary Diatrienpipcnon given each morning a little on the rei ** * **' 
 point of a knife falling, and laft, namely at the party his going to bed Eial : DuUrm ~ 
 is a great prefervative ; for it doth warme 8c corroborate the Itomack 
 and preferveth from the Scurvy, and is very comfortable to be given 
 to any one that is difeafed with the fame, or fubjed thereto. And the 
 Theme a Diatefferen is yet better, for it hath an efpeciall vertue in cu¬ 
 ring that difeafe. b\io Venice Treakle, Mnhndatc, and London Treakle 
 preferve well from this difeafe daily taken falling, and fo doth con- 
 lerve of Roles and Berberies mixed with a little oyle of Vitrioll, aud 
 given on the point of a knife. 
 
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 Greene 
 
1 66 
 
 Of the Qwc of the Scttryit. 
 
 Wcaveatfor 
 the deft. 
 
 * -s 
 
 Hoiv to compofc 
 the mind fit con¬ 
 fidence if they 
 it cover-fife. 
 
 Tofiv&at U an 
 other fingular 
 rtmedie. 
 Meanes to pro - 
 ewe five at. 
 
 Greene Ginger isalfo very good to comfort the ftomack and fo 
 are all forts of CWyraboUns Condite , and alfo all forts of ftrong 
 Cordiall waters, but chiefly good Rofafolv and good wormwood wa- 
 ter, yea and very good Aquavit* helpeth well. Currants and Reyfons 
 
 ofthe Sun are likewife very good. . . 
 
 Alfo allkinds of Spices moderately taken are good, and fo is good 
 wine a very good preferver ofthe body from this difeafe, with alfo the 
 continuance offrefh diet,which is hard to be gotten at fea,toe cxceffe 
 o/HdiiclvgoQd things U as daugerpus. . 
 
 The principall Laxative medicine which I would advife m tins cafe 
 is pills of Eufborbium wherewith the body being fwolne and watery, 
 you may at your pleafiire make evacuation thereof: the/e purge alfo 
 by urine very well the dofle being or at the moft 9ij. Thefe 
 are the fitter for that difeafe, becauf e they purge not alone water, but 
 alfo by their great warmth, they comfort and warme the ftomack 
 and intralls. 
 
 Thefe I advife the Chirurgions mate to ufe, as it is faid, where the 
 body aboundeth with overmuch cold and crude humiditie, but let 
 your dofle alwayes refpedt the ftrength of the patient, for any ftrong 
 purging is not good in the Scurvy: all Hidden and ftrong evacuations 
 are to be avoided. Alfo AyuilU Laxative is a very good purge in this 
 cafe, namely eight ortennegraines thereof takeninacuu of wine. 
 It cureth alfo all wormes ofthe body, and killeth them wherefbever 
 they be. But ifthe ftomack onely be opprefled with the griefe in this 
 difeafe, I firft give a dofe ofpills called Pillule Ruffi , namely 5 j: you 
 flhallfinde them to be very good. j 
 
 Note further, that if any dofe or any whole mafle of pils in the 
 Chcft, fuch time as you would adminifter them be growne too hard, 
 then you may diffoive them with any fyrup you have , or with good 
 honey a very little, namely one onely drop will ferve to diuolve 
 one dofe at once,if the mafle proove too liquid, you may roll it in 
 fome of the Pulvis Arthrcttcvs till it be hard enough. Alfo the mode¬ 
 rate ufe ofVerjuice, Vineger, or Oxymel hath been found very good 
 in this cafe. . 
 
 Furthermore, ifyoufeecaufe, certaine dayes after you nave gi¬ 
 ven of any your former Laxatives,you may give a fweat to the patient 
 in his bed, namely you may give him afcrupleof eJMithridate, Venice 
 Treakle , or London Treakle or Diatejjeren , and mixe therewith if you 
 have it eight grains of the Auru vit <e Diaphoretice , & being but ordina- 
 rily covered, he (hall fweat fiifficiently if he ftirre not too much. Al- 
 fo the fweating in moift bathes I confefle to be good medicines in 
 this cafe, though not well to be performed at Sea for the ordinary 
 men. And whereas one accident dangerous in this difeafe is extreme 
 Coftivenefle as is'mentioned, with alfo flopping of Urine: the reme¬ 
 dies forthe Coftivenefle,isfirftthatyouattempttomoove the belly 
 by a lenitive glyfter as is faid, made rather of a llimy deco&ion or me¬ 
 dicine which might leave no fharpe Aftringent or deficative qualitie 
 behind it, yea though it purge not much, for the fharp Purgers after 
 their working caufe often a more Coftivenefle then was before, or by 
 ' their 
 
¥ 
 
 their violence caflfe a weaknefTe in the ftomack and intrals whence 
 followeth a flux, wherefore for glyfters at Sea in great Coftivenefle 
 where the Apothecaries (hop and Cheape-fide is not at hand ' ma l tein 
 ilimy decodion of Alt he a rootes or Comfery rootes.or in want there- , 
 
 ofR° f n I - nfeed l ai ^ Ven ?F e ? k bru ‘ fed > °feachp: in want thereof’ 
 
 deco&ion bein g framed, adde o fjpecies Hiera Piara th ' 
 
 5 JJ* °* lalt halfe a fpoonfull, of honey as much, ofoyle twofpoonfuls- Stmj ‘ 
 a thefe put together, let the decodion mentioned be fo fitted that 
 _afl maybe^but one wine pint, and adminifter it with the Siring being 
 ofa juft temper in warmthTbut if you intend not to have it pure? 
 much, leave out th ejpectes Hiera Pigra, and it will giue 2 . or 3 ftooles 
 You may for an ordinary glyfter well alfo take one quart of the broth 
 horn the beefe kettle,adding thereto ofLinfeed Jij. com fry roots and 
 March mallow roots if they may be had, a fmall quantitic of Anifeed 
 and fennelfeed, ana ;ij. boylethefe halfe an houre, then adde honey 
 and common oyle of each a fpoonefull, and give one wine pint of this 
 01 a glyfter: but if you lee it work not but come away without excre 
 ment, the former recited will doe well, or make another ftronger 
 namely ad colaquintida sij. in the beginning of the decodion to the a- 
 torefaid decodion,provided there be no inflamation in Loneranum or 
 intejhmmrectum, nor any excoriation, which by the patient his com- 
 plaint is known.- this decodion being boyled and ready to be admi- 
 niltred, you may yet adde of the fpectcs Hiera ~ij. thereto, or of the 
 Pulvts Arthreticta 5). rather, for itinflameth not, it were belt in my o- 
 
 j - j - 7 j - ,, r vu JIU UWlllg ui it. AJIO Ox 
 
 pills of Euphorbium , have a care you give them not where there is an 
 inflamation or inward heateinthe guts, in fuch a cafe, the A quilt a Forbutei* the 
 Lax at tv a will be a better medicme,which will both temperthe inward “f» 
 
 heate and help to healc the intralls, and yet will purge him well and W 
 dot 1 not binde him againe prefently, and provoketli alfo urine very 
 well,for • AquillaLaxattva will often caufe naturall loofeneflTe,certaine 
 daj^es after the taking thereof, and will purge water very much both 
 by Itoole and urine : and becaufeasis laid,extreme coftivenes is great 
 hurt to the body, the Chirurgion muft by his beftcareto the patient 
 leek to prevent it, both by teacliing him to doe his belt for his own? 
 health,and to amend the fame by obferving good cuftomes and diet : 
 by cuftomes, namely that he faile not daily, once a day at the leaft to 
 offer himlelfe to ftoole, and doe his belt to urge lome excrement to 
 come, and lomewhat to force his body thereunto ifoccalion be, and 
 to keep one and the fame houre daily as neer as he can: I know by 
 proofe it helpeth much,and for diet to ufe allb as neer as he can thole 
 things which he findeth procure an inward flipperinefle and loofenes 
 '. n j le g u ts,pcale,oatemeale, and rice dofomewhat thereunto, provi- 
 • ct | r , y bc ver y web boyled, and the adding currents thereto ^ Ctn 
 is the better, and oyle and butter are good helpes, but at land ‘ 
 
 W r Cr j ni . a ^ b f bad > a ^ binds of frefh diet almoft are are good in that Tfc third met 
 tale, for by the leaving onely Sea diet, thcbodyrefrelhethitfelfe ti* 
 
 Dd, ' fuddenlv 
 
 it turn. 
 
168 
 
 Of the (fare of the Scurvy. 
 
 fuddenly through benefit of nature and the frefh aire, and eafily be- 
 cometli naturally loofe, and then the difficulty is ended. The eating 
 ofEaft India Tamarinds is likewife a good thing in that cale. 
 
 What I have written here plainly, touching mean and fimplegly. 
 fters ^ I would not be miftaken, asit'Idid it out of ignorance or dif- 
 daine of better medicines, fori were worfe then toolilh it I would re¬ 
 ject, detractor difiwade from the good ufe ofdeco&ionsoi hearbes, 
 feedes, &c. with the additions of Electuaries, Laxative Syrups and 
 the like which I have in daily ufe at home uponeachjtift occafion: 
 yet many ofthe ancient Artifts of worthy memory which I could re. 
 hearfe, have in former ages ufed for glyfters otiely water and fait with 
 oyle, and fome others have added honey, and it is maniieft that new 
 milk alone is a good comfortable glyfter with the yolke of an egge, 
 and a little courfe fugar added. 
 
 And you may alfo many times fave a labour of giving a glyfter by a 
 fuppofitory, which is either to be made of a long peece of Alium 
 feraped finooth, or of a candles end, or of a piece of hard fope, or of 
 honey andfaltfodden till it be fo hard that it wilt break being cold, 
 which being yet hot may be rolled and made up of the greatnefleofa 
 finger, and aaminiftred: ofanyofthefe, I fay, you may make a fuppo¬ 
 fitory as long and big as a finger or leffe, and thruft it up into Am, and 
 let the partie keep this medicine one houre at the lealt in his body (if 
 °f he poflibly can.) Further note this generall rule concerning Glyfters, 
 let a Glyfter never exceed the quantitie of one wine pint, let it rather 
 want one quarter, efpecially when you give it to a coftive body, ora 
 full body, hefhall be much the abler and the willinger to keepitthe 
 time. Further beware it be not too hot nor too cold, for the 
 be admitvjlicd. guts are tender parts, lo hot as piflfc new made, or a very little rathet 
 warmer i s the true temper. But if you percei ve the Intcjlimm rectum 
 or Arl'e-gut, to be excoriated or inflamed, infuehacafeufenofalt, 
 nor fait broathes,nor ftrong Laxatives,as £ uphorbtum, Agaric um, Hieu 
 HwteMvera Pigra, Coloqnintidu, or the like. If you finde the Lmgumm or Arfegut 
 Loimntm be to he clung, or hard flopped with excrement, you may put a fmall 
 greafie or oily clout on the end of yourglyfter-pipconely over the 
 holes thereof, when you put it into the body , and thruft it i nr o the 
 head of the pipe,then draw back a little your hand and deliver in your 
 medicine, and if you fee caufe, and that it will not eafily dilircr, force 
 itfomewhat. Alfo when your medicine is all in, and that you would 
 draw out your inftrument again, do it quickly, and let the party turne 
 him on his back,and he fhallkcep the medicine in the better. In cafes 
 of excoriations orinflamations oftheintrailes, in Glyfters ufe Deere 
 fuet |ij.for one glyfter,& in want thereof, Axungia ovim velporcini , I 
 meane{heepeorfwinsfat,andletthe decodtion whereof the glyfter 
 is niade,be onely of branne,and without any other addition, and give 
 now and then filch a glyfter,I mean once a day, for two or three daics, 
 after you may adde thereto fome fmall aftringent medicines,as Succus 
 Acatitl j. or Gales %ij. orBalultians $6. or Myrabolans, %iij. even as 
 you fee caufe, for thde helpe to heale the guts well. 
 
 The quantitie 
 a glyfter to be 
 regarded. 
 
 flopped. 
 
 glyftvfor in - 
 
 fiamafm and 
 excoriation in 
 the guts. 
 
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Of tbs Qure of the Scurvy . 
 
 1 69 
 
 Of Lotions. 
 
 ^Onccrning Lotions to the mouth and throat of the difeafed they 
 'Ymuft be (harpe and very aftringeot, I meane them efpecially 
 which conccrne the cure of the gummes in the Scurvie: if the gums Uecmofthe 
 thereiore befwolue, that they hange over the teeth, ftink or be nu- i ummuch ■ 
 trified,they muft be very well lanced or fcanfied, and after’ hard rub- 
 bed with a linen orwollencloth, wrapped about the fore finger and 
 wet in fomc ftrong reftringent or Stiptick Lotion very hot, as is the 
 ordinary Lotion of Allum, Honey and Hearbs,adding thereto a dou¬ 
 ble quantitie ol Allum, and a little falt-peeter, or gun-powder fora 
 neede is good, and ifit be notlufficiently llrong, make a ftronger de- 
 codtio of coperas in water,adding fait peeter with a little honey,if you 
 have it,or Met Rofarum, with alfo a little ftrong vineger, you may alfo 
 put oyle of Vitriollalittle thereto,but that it hath one evill quality in 
 hurting and foftningthe teeth, wherefore beware ofit, and if you ufe 
 it, do but onely touch the gummes with it once and no more, and it 
 will do much good: and if youpleafe, alfo Aqua F allopt e is good, but 
 becaufe it is made with fublimed Mercuric, itis not without danger 
 andisalfoofaloathfometafteandfinell, and offendeth theftomack 
 very much, but I know it to be held by many for a great fecret, but as 
 formyfelfefor reafons rchearfed, 1 ufeitnotbut advife rather that 
 which is ftrong either of the Coperas, Allum, or Salt-peeter,for they 
 hurt not the teeth at all as doth the oyle of Vitrioll, and fo doth Aqua, 
 fonts very much, or you may make a Lotion thus: $ Coperas, white, 
 green or blew ?ij. water one pound or there about. Honey one fpcom 
 full, boylethefe to the confumption ofone third orhalfe, then take 
 of Lapis M edicamentofus, or falt-peeter and if you have no honey 
 
 take Sugar, orjuyce of Licorice, or Licorice boyled therein for to 
 make it pleafant in tafte,or without for a neede you may well ufe it, or 
 the Lapis Medic ament of us diffolved into fane water, maketh an excel¬ 
 lent Lotion for the putrified gums. 
 
 Touching good outward remedies for the cure of this greefe, oii*«d n m - 
 bathes, fomentations, with alfo good oyles, unguents, cerates cata* ^ je 
 plafines, oremplafiers, areegch neceftary m their due times, provi- 
 ded they be ofcomfoitable ingredients, namely thole which minifter 
 warmth and nouriflimentto the difeafed parts,and open the pores ob- 
 llruCted, all fuch, Ifay, are molt fit, provided they be alwaies apply- 
 edverywarme, andthepartie be laid and kept warme upon it. Fur- 
 ther if it be a fwolne member, then this following bathe to foment 
 the member, will be good, namely a Lixivium made of frefli water LlxrJlum ^ 
 and allies, and being onely but realisable fliarpe, (for too fiiarpe of &,* the 
 the allies will overheat, yea and excoriate) this done and clecred, Lixivium ii 
 boile 1'ome hot hearbes, flowers and feedes fitting therein, fuch are n ‘ adt ' 
 camomile, Mellilote, Dill, Worniewood,Balme,Rofemary,Thyme, 
 Sage,Bay-leaves, Bay berries, Juniper-berries, Anms-leede,Veiinell’ 
 
 Coriandei, Carraway, Dill feedes, or the like : thefe ingredients, 
 or thofe of them which may be had ufe, & let them be boyled a little 
 therein , and either ftupes of woollen or linen clothes wet therein 
 
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17 o Of the Qurc of the Scurvy* _ 
 
 or put the ingredients into bagges after the decoction is made with 
 
 them, and the place well fomented therewith, and lo bid to fweat 
 
 withfomeofthe hearbs in the fame bagges well wrung om and hot 
 applied, till the next drefling. But ifthe difeafe proceed with ltiffenes 
 and hardneffe of the finews, then forbear the Lixivium, I mean put 
 no alhes thereto, and make the decoction of the mentioned ingredi¬ 
 ents, boyled in the broth of the beef-ketle, in wine, beer, or water 
 for a need, adding fome fait, and likewife, ifyou have it, Linfeed oyl, 
 neats-foot oyle,{heeps-footoyle, or oyle of Almonds, oyle ofCamo. 
 mile,Dill or earth-worms, of Bays, of Lillies or fome one of them. 
 bath of blood Alfo where you can have it, a good bath of the blood of beafts, ei- 
 verygood. ther cows, horfes,alfes, goats, orfheeps blood is exceeding good, 
 Themwurhow namely, to put the legges of the patient, yea and his bodie too, if it 
 to bathe in this may be, into a tub made fitting, and the blood kept warm,part there. 
 hth if blood. { 5e j n g p-j ji kept j lot on t h e an( j renew therewith the bath ftilJ, 
 
 as it cooleth with the warm blood, for fome reafonable time, this re- 
 ftoreth and comforteth mightily the decayed Ipirits. Milk of it felf is 
 u bath of milk- alfo good to be uled in that kinde where it may be had. 
 
 Of Of Is thereto. 
 
 oyis good out- Yls good to anoint, which are oleum ChamxmilU, Laurini, Ane - 
 
 V-/ thiox Lumbricorum, with a little Spike oyl, oyl of Turpentine, 
 woat tKji c. Q p]\jQttnegs prefled out, oyl of Peeter, oyl of Exitor or oyl of Ju- 
 
 Much and had niper, or one ofthe fame mixed with them, or fome good Aqua, vita, 
 anc ^ to ufe ftrong frication with warm foft hands long continued, 
 helpeth much. 
 
 Vnguents. 
 
 whatvngu-nts /^Ood Unguent^ to helpthefe griefs, in myopinion, are everie 
 ate hmm help- VJwarm and comforting unguent in ufein the Chirurgeons cheft, 
 f‘ iU ‘ but I have had efpeciall triall of an Unguent,the compofition where- 
 
 Two principal/ oflhall be hereafter deforibed, which is named Contra Scorbutum , as 
 VKguents of (o- alfo of the Vngtientum Populeon , I mean the lame compofition Valerius 
 fmftixscw/- c ordui hath deferibed, for I finde it to be very good: but you may 
 ■Cy. well lay, how doth he contradict himfolf, which even now advifetn 
 
 warming Unguents, and prelentlyreciteth Populeon for one, which is 
 known to be cold, but though I have hafte, let me I pray thee anfwer 
 Many medicines ^ or m Y fohm that one point, which I know to be a principali Arcanum 
 in pin* that in healing not looked into: many a medicine hath a foeming fhew to 
 which miffed be cold, and yet doth contrarie effects,witnefle Quickfilvcr,juyceof 
 Lemmons, Vitrioll, oyl of Vitrioll, Salt peeter, Alium, Sorrell, and 
 divers others which I could recite, all which may eafily be proved, 
 either hot or cold, by their foverall ftrong operations and effeCts 
 "(tlhifLv wl l icl1 the Y P er form: as for example, to begin with Quickfilver, it is 
 and in effect. m affirmed to be extreme cold of infinite writers, and his repercuffive 
 quality fheweth the lame,as alfo in repelling and cooleth hot tumors: 
 with alfo the varietie of cold difeafes and contractions Podagricall 
 
 and 
 
ind Chirurgicall, procured thereby to divers Artificers which work 
 much therewith, as namely to Guilders, Foilers of looking-glafles 
 and thelike Tradef-men, which fiieweth the lame to be cold. It alio 
 fteweth it fell to be hot diverlly, as namely in that it is fo extreamc 
 lubtili and penetrative, lo invifible to enter the body ( per poros cutis) 
 and being in the bodie,fo volatill and bufie,fo cauftick and corrofive 
 lo extreame Laxative, fo diaphcrretick, fo diaveritick, fo mundifica- 
 uve, foincarnative andfoligillative or ficcatrifcing, as the like medi- , . 
 cine by the^art or wit of man was neverfound out: juyce of Lemmons 
 
 was ever reputed a ccild medicine, prelcribed and given daily bv the The ^ tr:M 
 
 Phyficians in burning and peftilentiall fevers,and that with good rea, 5X 
 ion, and good fcccefle even to this day, and yet to that notable, and mm% *' 
 cold, and terrible difeafe of the Scurvy, how excellent hath it been 
 approved, how then in thefe two recited medicines holds the old 
 Axiom, Stmilia confervantur firm libus fa contr ana contrariorum remedia 
 funt? even as true as voxpopuh vox Dei, or pepper is hot in the mouth 
 and cold in the maw ; if I woulddefire truly to cool and temper the 
 boylmgofthe blood inwardly, which I i£y fe 1 f ^IdTak^e^^ 
 it upon the lafeguard of my own life, I would take five or fix drops of A f m V Aar and 
 good oylof Vitrioll in a draught of fair water with a little fugar,a drop 
 or two of Rofe-waterandasmuchwinevineger,markwellmy words temper the boiu 
 if thouknoweft not thele medicines they are worth knowing, or ir g°f blouA - 
 b j of laltniter, which is alfo called Lapis prunella, in the like li¬ 
 quor, and for want ofthefugar, Role-water orvineger of it lelf, or 
 with the water onely lor a need: I have often proved them fo true Toftcp bleeding 
 coolers that they have ftayed the Hemoragie or bleeding at the nofe at no f e 
 the latter whereof lhall feldome fail if you by outward means pro- "*** 
 ceed rationally by applying to the forehead cold and aftringent 
 things, as alfo to the nape of the neck: alfo a large fpunge wet in cold 
 , water and applied to his fecret parts is good, or let him hold or put 
 his members intoaboul of cold water, alfo binding hard the arras 
 and Iegges is very good to ftay bleeding at the nofe ; and one of the 
 fureft remedies but laft to be attempted in Hemoragie or bleeding at 
 the nofe, is to open a vein in the arm on the fame fide. Thus it may * 
 plainly appear that two of the recited medicines are cold: now to 
 prove thole two hot, I will not fpend many words, call to rainde that 
 of Vitrioll and Salt-peeter Aqua fortis is made, which by his heat and u/t r 
 
 penetrating force, teareth to pieces and diflolveth the ftrongeft me- vertueT&ot, 
 talsprefently, devoureth and utterly deftroyeth cloths woollen and ^it-p et er,and\ 
 linen, or put but good oylofVitrioIl into an ulcer, or to the whole ‘P'fi** 6 **- 
 skinne, and tell me half an hour after what a cold fever the patient ThetitehSafr 
 had: or put fire to crude fait niter alone and mark the conclufion, *fcr. 
 namely, it will prove it felf wholly combuftible, and therefore liott 
 as I fuppofelikewife the hearbe Sorrell, it is a cold hearbe efteemed 
 at leaft in the firft if not in the fecond degree , and yet confider well 
 i f you lee^ quickly to ripen and bring to luppuration an Apoftume, ai alfo tpe df- 
 you mail fande itamoft excellent fpeedie remedie: I conceive there- firentoperation 
 fore that it is not by his coldnefle it doth that effe<ft, for that is not Swf ^' 
 common nofrationall, and therefore to conclude mydegrefiion as 
 
 Ozwaldiu 
 

 A faying qf Of- 
 waldus Qrollm. 
 
 Gods providente 
 to be obfaved in 
 Vh'ifii^s opera¬ 
 tion. 
 
 where the un¬ 
 guents are to be 
 applied. 
 
 what outward 
 med/cinn tbe 
 liver and flo - 
 mack require. 
 
 Two ftrange ef¬ 
 fects the S curvic 
 eanfethy the firfl 
 an Hydropicall 
 inflation of the 
 whole body. 
 
 Afccond'is con- 
 fumptm of the 
 body. 
 
 Of the (jure of the Scurf ie. 
 
 ozo>ddtu Crolluu, a late learned writer faith in his Preface Admoni. 
 toric to his book called Bazilhcx chymicx Simphcium: qualitates non 
 fern per cenjideranda fed ear urn arcanafThe Jimple And apparent qudlitics of 
 c Medicines Are not dlwayes Alone to be rejpeffed, but rather their myjleries or 
 hidden vertues. 
 
 Thus much in defence of the temperament of fome private Me¬ 
 dicines working ftrange andfeverall effects, wherein the myftcrics 
 of our God in his divine providence farre do excel whatfoever things 
 elfe, (hewing mans wifedome meer foolifhnefle, wherefore to him for 
 evermore be praife. Amen. 
 
 The warm Unguents aretobeufed where you fee apparant need 
 byreafon of the coldnefle of the part, thePopuleon where there is 
 pain though no manifeftfigne of a hot difeafe appear, and doubtlefle 
 it will work good cffc<St to your comfort, yea though you think the 
 difeafe be not cold, and therefore need a more warming Medicine, 
 Vnguentum Dialthea is one of the bell Unguents, and MArtiAtum is an- 
 other, oleum Uurini is alfo good, and if you lift to adde fome more 
 califying oyls, take of oyl of Speek, of Terbinthine, or Petreolura, 
 but good warm application and ftrong frication is the means, and 
 warm keeping. Of medicines to be applied to the Spleen, Liver, or 
 ftomack outwardly, the unguent peftorale deferibed is very good 
 warm to anoint thofe parts, whofe defeription with the reft you (hall 
 finde, and to lay alfo over the whole part agrieved the Emphftrm 
 melltloteprofplene, whofe defeription is expreffed in the Dilpenfetory, 
 for want of which plafter Emplafirum cumim is good. Alfo the well 
 anointing with oyl of Nutmegges, or Mace adding a few drops of 
 oyl ol Cloves Ch) mi call doth much comfort, keeping the grieved 
 partextraordinarie warm. 
 
 0f r 0 leers in thofe that haye the Scur vie. 
 
 He Fleers which happen to them which have this 
 difeafe are many wayes different from the gene- 
 rail forms and differences of ordinarie ulcers in 
 bodies not touched with this difeafe, the feverall 
 definitions of all which I have here no time to 
 amplifie.But becaufe this difeafe hath two gene- 
 rail and principall differences of appearance, 
 namely, fome men difeafedwith theScurvieare 
 fwolne exceedingly,even as in the droplie: & others have their out¬ 
 ward limbes withered, confumed, and dried up, their finews fhrunk 
 and grown hard, though the ulcers in the one and the other fliould be 
 like in (hew, yet doubtlefle the healing of thefe Ulcers will be found 
 very much different, wherefore for one generall note remember that 
 the Ulcers in the full and hydropicall bodies will require more de- 
 
 ficcative 
 
* 7 } 
 
 Of the Qure of the Scurvy . 
 
 ficcativc medicines,as namely the Vnguentum diapompholigos ,dc minio , 
 
 Vnguentum album Camphor at um and the like: And the other kinde the 
 Vnguentum baftlicon incarnativum , and the Arcevts liniment and the 
 like to thofe. Some Sea-Chirurgions have commended to me of their 
 praCtife the ufe of Vejicatory medicines •, namely, Canthandes in pain- Experience tht 
 fiillfwolne limmes, which I leave to the pradtife of others further to b 4 paijir. 
 commend the fame, myfelfe having received it as a great fecret 
 from a Chirurgion my friend, but made no Inch experiences thereof 
 my felfe. 
 
 And further touching the Cure of Ulcers in this difeafe untill the obputtims <f 
 obftruCtions of the Liver and Spleene be removed,thofe Ulcers give ^ nmvtdit 
 no place to good healing; wherefore fince notwithftanding they firetbtvkm 
 mult be carefully attended for confcience fake, I advife that all fharpe CMbe curetL 
 and violent medicines be Ihunned, and all loft and anodine things ap¬ 
 plied that you know or can leame, provided they be warrantable me¬ 
 dicines , for otherwife they not only ftrive againft a ftreame, but Acgvta. 
 put your Patient to needlelfe difquiet, and thereby increafc this 
 difeafe. 
 
 I have here in part {hewed the Chirurgions Mate my opinion con¬ 
 cerning the Cure of the Scurvie, to which he may joyne his owne 
 and other mens experiences, where he can gaine inftruCtions worth 
 following, together with his own daily pra&ife, which, if he be wife, 
 he may likewile fet down, onely let me advife the young practitioner 
 that fometimes (as my fel fe have experienced) the Scurvy produceth 
 fuch extreame coftivenelTe,as neither f tppofitory , glyfter,or any Laxa- hZJftbrZf 
 tive medicine whatfoever will availe, but that the excrements muft tbeScuny. 
 bedrawne out of the Longanum, or the Intefiimtm rettum with anin- 
 ftrument, for they will be like dry lumps of clay, or hard Sheeps trec- 
 kles, as they terme them, the which inllrument I have invented and 
 is an cafie and a fit inftrument, called by me Spatula Mundani , which 
 inftrument being a little warmed, is then to be anointed with oyle, 
 and fo gently put into Ano to draw out the excrements, and to make 
 way for the glyfter-pipe, which, when it hath cleanfed fome foure 
 inches, or five inches, you may allay by a glyfter againe. Further¬ 
 more it fometime happeneth, that by the long remaining of the ex¬ 
 crements in the Longanum, the gut is either excoriated,or at the leaft 
 inflamed. In fuch a cafe you may take notice that you forbeare lalt, 
 as is faid,and alllharpe heating things in your glyfters, as Coloquinttda, what mufl be 
 11 ierapigra,Scammony,Agartcum,Euphorbtum ,and thelike^and content theci>rt 
 
 your felfto adminifter for the firft, a glyfter made onely of a decoCt i- ^ gyjkr. 
 on of Bran alone,or of Mallowes,or of Comfry roots fmall cut,or Lin- 1 
 
 feeds bruifed with $ij. ofDeerfuet, Vnguentum Diapompholigos, or as ^luitlauxa- 
 much populew or Vnguentum album, asisfaid , and rather if youfinde uva ‘ 
 that helpe ftot, give a dole of Aqw.lla Lax at tv a which will purge eafily 
 without any offence at all,and help to heale the gut, and this courfe is 
 better then by lharpe glyfters to purge,which will offend the gut, and 
 aftefthe laid purge it will not be amifle if you fee occafion, to give a 
 like glyfter again as before, and note that if in the glyfter feme of the v 
 
 Ee ingre- 
 
 - .y _. 
 
f 
 
 *74- 
 
 Of the (jure of the Scurvy . 
 
 rh-CHrc if the 
 bodi be confu- 
 tried by the 
 Scurvy. 
 
 wherein the 
 value of A- 
 quilla Laxotiva 
 tonjijli. 
 
 (z'jphfinti ex¬ 
 celled in this 
 cafe. 
 
 How to mal(Cthe 
 CdUiplafme. 
 
 Snvre things 
 better then fiatje 
 in this dfeufc* 
 
 (ounfcU d re- 
 fling what to be 
 Hone ifmeanes 
 my be had. 
 
 (V’P? 
 
 ingredients ftiould bee wanting, you may never the lefle proceed 
 with the reft with good profit, provided if you have better you ufe 
 them, neither doe I here intend ftridtly to enjoync the Chirurgions - 
 Mate to my rule, but if he have better, let him ufe it, aud forget mine 1 
 ia the name of God. 6 
 
 Moreover,if the Patient his difeafe be in the forme of a Confump- 
 tion, the body being dried up as it were, or with fhrinking of the Si- 
 newes: then if you intend to purge the party,give him pills called Pil. 
 InU Ruffi for the firft remedie, but if he complaine much of painesin 
 his joynts,then a dofe of Pelvis Arthreticiu will do beft, or purge him 
 with AquilL Laxativajt is alfb a generall good purge at all times, and 
 almoftin all cafes, though beft in the French Pox and Dropfie. And 
 though I have formerly touched the formes offome Cataplafmes,yet 
 for that there hath been much good found in the application of this 
 Cataplafme made, being of warming, comforting and anodine medi¬ 
 cines, I thought good to note it, which is as followed!. & the flowers 
 of Cammomil,MelliIot flowers, Wormwood alfb Hipericon & Balm 
 ofeachM.j,BranM.j.ij. Linfeed,Fenigreek,ofeach$tf. Comfreyand 
 Mallow roots,of each $is,Barley meale fij.bruife the hearbs,and boyle 
 thefe in milke, beere,or water, then adde of oyle of Camomill, Dial- 
 thm,oyle of£)ill,ofeach ;ij, Axungu $ij , apply it warme: note Iike- 
 wife, that where you have not all thefe recited ingredients, yet that 
 you take fo many of them asyouhave, and try their force, for if a 
 few will do the bufineffe, as fometimes it will, it were vaine and wafte 
 to ufe many. 
 
 Sometimes for a need you may make good ufe of a dccodtionof 
 Bisket in Wine or Beere, wliich warme applied will wonderfully com- 
 foit a weakelimnje, and aflwage the paine, for fometimes the very 
 good warmth with good ligature availeth much: fattie things muft 
 be forborne in fome cafes* namely, when the paine is fharp and quick, 
 Ieaft you caufe putrifadiion and fuppurationof humours againftyour 
 will,yea and rather ufe Acetofous medicines,and Anodine fometime, 
 alio mufslagy medicines are to be forborne, for like reafons: in all 
 which cafes , couferrewith other Writers: aske counlellof thyEl- 
 ders, and keepc ever in writing thy owne good obfer various from 
 time to time. 
 
 A word or two to conclude for the young Chirurgions concerning 
 the cure of this difeafe, when they come upon a coalt where they may 
 lave ome helps, let them ufe fome one of thefe following, they fhall 
 nnde them good upon triall. ° J 
 
 K: Abfimhu Jumper Berries of each M.j, Goats milke, lib. 4 . boyle 
 this together, the hearbs and berries wellbruifed till a third part be 
 confumed, thenftraineit, and adde of Saffron inpouder 5 j. ftirreit 
 
 re i n 1 ' C rT b ° yled 3 V j ry little > and ^ to cleeae, and give 
 
 the ficke thereof three times a day at the leaft, vi*. morning,no?ne, 
 
 d night, this dnnke hath cured many in great diffreffe: if you 
 
 have no Goats milke, Sheeps milke, or fora need, Cowes mill# will 
 
 Another, 
 
Of the Qure of the Scurvy, 
 
 Another. 
 
 Ffe Water CrefTcs, Sorrell, and Wormewood, of each one handfull, 
 hruife them well, andboyle them in three quarts of Whey or new 
 Milk, and adde thereto a little Sugar and Saff ron, and let the ficke 
 drink thereof as often as he will. 
 
 Whey drunken of it felfe is very good , but better if the juyces of 
 Scurvy-graffe,Sorrell,Coclaria, Wormwood, WatercrefTes,the grea¬ 
 ter or lefler fort, Brooklime, Scordium, Spoonwort, water Jerman- 
 der orof fomeof them be mixed therewith, for that they are all ap¬ 
 proved good medicines, and doubtlefle lome of them are to be 
 found in other Countries andcoalh, as well as in England. 
 
 Alfo an infufion or gentle decobtion of the roots of the hearb 
 JR hap hart* filvejlris , or Horfe-reddifh in vineger, or mixed with beere 
 and drunk, is exceeding good,or eaten of it felf with bread. 
 
 Bay-berries,and Juniper-berries are alfo wholfome boyled in Whey 
 ag iinft this difeafe, for they open obftrubtions: likewife from thefe 
 former hearbs may many other good compound medicines be made. 
 
 And generally note, that bitter and fower medicines prevaile moft 
 to the cure of this griefe, amongft which fower medicines you have 
 tW ire anDrovcd good thereto, thefe that follow as chiefe, juyee of 
 Lemons, of Limes, Citrons, and Oranges. 
 
 Oyle of Vitriol,oyle of Sulphur,fpirit of Salt, vineger of Wine,and 
 the fpirit thereof: alfo the Syrups thereof, fo many as arc in ufe, and 
 the rather, for that they cut away the tough aud grofTe flegme, and 
 have power alfo to open obftrubtions. In like manner, the juyee or 
 pulpe of Tamarinds hath a great acetofitie,and is found a precious re¬ 
 medy againft this difeafe,the ufe whereof is noted already. 
 
 Alfo note further that there arc few difeafes at Sea happeneth to 
 Sea-men, but the Scurvy hath a part in them, the Fluxes which hap¬ 
 pen chiefly proceed from the Scurvy, and I fuppofe if Sea-men could 
 be preferved from that difeafe, few other difeafes would indanger 
 
 them. , , . 
 
 The Conclujm. 
 
 Another good' 
 dr'mke. 
 
 ivkeyfodd'.n 
 n>itk divers 
 hearbs very po¬ 
 rtable. 
 
 Bay-berries alfo 
 and lumper- 
 banks arc good. 
 
 Sertvw medicines 
 very good . 
 
 An obfiYvmion, 
 
 T Hcfe recited medicines for Chriftian charity I thought not a- 
 mifle to publifh, admonifhing young men to be wife and carefull 
 j-q make rmht ufe of them, and as neere as they can, to refpebt in the 
 ufe thereof, Time, Place, Age, quantity, quality, temperament, «£»***« 
 ftreneth, climate,caufe, aud what elfe is fitting to be regarded for the "W.«- 
 good of the lick, and credit of themfelves, and let them avoidc floth - Vfiydcd, 
 fulneffc, avarice, envy, fcare, pride, or what elfe may hinder thefe 
 duties, that God may give a blefling to their labours, and then the 
 praife and comfort fhall returne to themfelves,which God grant. 
 
 ^ And few the elder fort of grave Artifts, I crave their charitable 
 cenfures of my wcake or undigefted inftrubtions, which I no way 
 meane to them, but to babes inGhirurgery, and fo I conclude to the 
 hoi*>ur ofthe Almightie, concerning the Scurvy for this time. 
 
 E e 2 Concerning 
 
nfyj* Lekmctia 
 v t 
 
 The caufci of 
 Lcicmeria. 
 
 Cruditit a caufi 
 
 A vomit at fir ft. 
 
 To corroborate* 
 
 An opiate. 
 
 Stomach com- 
 farted. 
 
 Ptfto all ififr 
 g*ent. 
 
 Cordials. 
 
 Concerning the Fluxes of the "Belly . 
 
 nr He principal! Fluxes of the belly by a common content of di- 
 . * vers ancient W riters,are chiefly referred to three kinds, namely: 
 
 cLeienteria. 
 s Diarrhoea. 
 
 DyJenteria. 
 
 Leientcria is diftinguilhed to be that Fluxe which either pafTeth the 
 luftenancetaken, wholly digefted, and that without any bloud at all 
 and without great pame, or as it were halfe digefted. The true caufes 
 ot Leiemerta proceed chiefly through imbeciilitie and weakeneife 
 oi the ftomacke, which may be occafioned manywaies, wherebv 
 the vertue retentive is weakened ; yea andfometimes theftomacke 
 bylomc Apoftumation is either wholly weakned, and cold or bro- 
 ken , or otherwife by crade humidities is opprefted, and muftbe 
 ltrengthned both inwardly and outwardly,by things that corroborate 
 and warme the fame as is Syrupe de ahfimhu, , or oleum Mnthii . Chi- 
 mice three or foure drops thereof in wine, or beere for need, ’and I 
 
 toallr ° n S body, atfirft, namely, in the beg,n- 
 nmgof the dileafe to give him a vomit of the infufion of (tibi m. or 
 rather of Salvitnolt ten graines if it may be had, or of Aquila vita 
 
 vina C K ineS ’ f r ° [ C ? m t°Z la tw ^ Ive g raines > and f o the medicine ha- 
 n vflhmX°H r 8 ’ et llm prclently fleep falling, , the can, if not, 
 give him a little Cinamon-water, or a little f.vmm prmtcllorum if you 
 
 anHIWi 3 d / aUg ht of g°°d Aligant.or conferve ofSloes.ot Quinces, 
 
 him^hre!. y / fter ’ na “ e 'y , threc hour “. tfhe cannot take his rdf, give 
 him three graines of Laudanum in a pill, and fo appoint him to reft • 
 
 HnVnT r C T’,° r [ eare the'Weafe to proved of 
 
 tion in the ftomack, then beware of giving any vomit before oerfedt 
 
 ^jp^ UI j!£ 10 n °f the ftme,for it is deadly, but outwardly youinay appW 
 the to the ftomacke, a bag, with Wormwood, Mints, or fweetMam- 
 ram, and warme being fprinkled with Rofe water and vineger or 
 elfe a bisket bedued well with Rofe water and vineger being lfeeped 
 muft be applied to the ftomack-or anoint the ftomfck’with L rucltw 
 of Nutmegs made by expreffionaho Tl,m,u m- 
 dromacht or thcnaca Lor.dmi Sifi. is verv good given him uoonthe 
 
 ^^d"'^ armalad °^" nCeS " alfo l* d ' MuhXe is 
 
 \ ery fit and appi oved,or grated Nutmegs is very good and Cinamon 
 in powder taken m meats ot drinks is good hkewhe, ,'f thefc thhigs 
 
 anfwer 
 
Of the Fluxes of the "Belly. iyy 
 
 anfwer not thy defire, thou maift proceede to medicines more aftrin- pimyrn md*. 
 gent, fuch as follow in the cure of Dyfentery, one very familiar and cim ' 
 good Medicine is [unguis prune llorum aforefaid, the dofe is sj. or yj. 
 with Mint or wormwood, or Car duns water, taken going to reft, or 
 taken of it felfe. Butyour mentioned Laudanum in ail Fluxes judici- fadiaU mm. 
 oufly adminiftred is the only fure helpe, neverthelefTe in this griefe 
 trie other good things: Hrft all Aromatized ftrong waters are conve¬ 
 nient in this cafe, moderately ufed as well to avoide further Fluxes 
 asalfointhefefluxees to comfort the ftomacke,ftiptikc wines feme 
 well forit: likewife,T henace diatefjcron jj. now and then, alfo ek£t- 
 uarinm dia.trion p/perion on a knifs point given is very good, D utmnp-pe- 
 
 for it mightily warmeth and ftrengthneth the llomacke.Butfome- r,0 *‘ 
 times it happeneth that not onely the meat pafleth away by ftoole,but 
 alfb other undigefted matter with it, in which cafe Petrus Bayne *in his 
 Vent me cum folio 273.advifeth to ufethings,lbwrewithineateasVer- 
 juice or the juice offowre Pomgranats and the like, in want whereof 
 the juice of Lemons is good,or rather fyrmp of Lemons, or fyrup de $yr „ pe ^ Lf _ 
 Agreftispt oyle,or fpirit ofVitrioll taken infome fitting dnnke.as mm. 
 
 Car dim water,or fair water wine,or Barly water, the oyle of Vitriol!. 3. °i le °f P ltilaS - 
 droppes taken with con-ferve of Roles is alfo good in this difeafe • 
 
 Alfb keep warme the region of the ftomack and Liver, and inwardly 
 as is faid,it is good to ufe all good comfortable helps that warme. 
 
 Of Diarrhoea. 
 
 * . ' / 
 
 D iarrhoea is a Flux of the belly wliich is either meerely watrifn, or 
 with humors and withflime mixed, forthefignesof the difeafe 
 are manifeft,the caufes too many for my leifure to note unto you, con¬ 
 cerning the cure of Diarrhceaxi you fee that the Patient be ftrong, 
 there is no great haft of itopping this difeafe, for that it is many times Sup Pcm e , 
 a benefit of Nature,wheiby file avoidethfuperfluous,or vcnemous,or fifl. “ " 
 
 otherwife vicious and offenfive humours: but when you fhall perceive 
 that it hath continued certaine daies, and that the partie is weakned 
 thereby,then begin the cure as followeth: Firft give him 9ij. ofRu- ^ ipur r 
 barb dried as they ufe to drie Tobacco, and poudered either in wine * 
 orCarduus, or faire water, or the infufion thereof without rhefub- 
 ftance,and after the working thereof, a gentle glyfter will doe well, 
 which may likewife leave a ltipticke qualitie in the guts, but not too 
 ftrong, fuch as hereafter fhall be mentioned, and let the partie be laid 
 toreft very warme covered, and warme clothes applied to the belly mrmihisvaj 
 and fundament of the party ; and if that helpeth not .you may give him i ood - 
 within three houres three or fbure graines of Laudanum , and let him 
 againe incline himfelfe to reft, and by Gods helpe he fhall be cured: 
 but if he have a Fever give him an opiate firft,I meane the Laudanum. Laudanum. 
 Good helps to the cure of this difeafe & all Fluxes of thebelly,are 
 thefe following, firft to refraine and refill asmuch as is poflible the 
 motions of going to ftoole,not to ftraine or force the body being at 
 ftoole, not to fit long being at ftoolc, in riling to remember to put up 
 
 the 
 
»?8 
 
 n orth the ob- 
 fining' 
 
 Manua l lot Ipc. 
 
 To fit hot. 
 
 ^4 fume. 
 
 Care to be had. 
 
 A (hngcrniiso. 
 eccidifit . 
 
 Admomtimt 
 young Artfls. 
 
 .Ambiguity \m- 
 feninentl 
 
 Of the Fluxes of the‘Belly. 
 
 the fundament with a clout, andthat tf.tmay bewitha watmeloft 
 clout: to fit as hot as the party can namely if it may be often to 
 fit upon an oaken bord hotisvery good, hot trenchers, orpeeces of 
 boros heated and applied tothebellyare very good.and to take the 
 fitmeofwinevinegcrIprinklcd on allot brteke, otiton, and fito- 
 vent on a clofe itoole is approved very good and to fit over the 
 fume ofFrancki ncenfe or Amber with a chafing ch(h,and a tew coales 
 in aclofe itoole islikewifeverygood: this diieafeinourclimatefor 
 the moftnart by skilfull Phificians and Surgeons is well and fpee- 
 dily cured, but in the Indies it is every hardly cured, in fo much that 
 many have died ofit,partly by the great wilfulnefle & di (order of the 
 Patient,and by your leave alio by the ignorance of the Surgeon being 
 a thing they had not becne warned of before, nor practiied in,and by 
 not having good remedies and inftrumenrs fit at hand to give men 
 helpe, wherefore let young Artifts haue a care to thefe afore menti¬ 
 oned rules and medicines, not looming them. 
 
 And among orher needfull inftruments for poore Sea-men in 
 fluxes, never be unfurniflied in the Ihippe of one or two dole ftooles 
 with doores to them, andBraffe pailes,thatpooremifeablemenin 
 their weakenes may be eafed thereon •, and not to be con drained to 
 goe to either the beake-head,or fiirouds (as they terme it) for thatnot 
 ondy increafeth the dileafe, but aifo cauieth the falling downe of the 
 Am or Arfe-gut,a fearefull accident,except the furgeon be very care- 
 full,diligent, and ready handed,in which cafes all nicenes,lazines,and 
 difdainfulndVe (too much cleaving to fome young men) muft belaid 
 afide,for the very omitting of his duty in reducing the gut fallen,may 
 eafily be the death of the patient-, whole blood willcry to God lor 
 revenge : Wherefore young Artifts that profefle to feare the Al¬ 
 mighty, ought to be compafiionate to the meaneft creature in this 
 difeafe,as they would others fliould do to them in the like cafe,and not 
 even otherwife. 
 
 Petrus B^erius an ancient learned writer, alleadging Galen in his 
 fecond book, dc loeisaffeefis, defineththis difeafe asfolloweth.-ltis, 
 faith he, tearmed Dyfenterium , whereas variety of fubftances are fent 
 out with the excrement, producing excoriation with dolour & paine, 
 as if fomewhat were fhaven from the fmall guts, and that (haven, faith 
 he, proceedeth from choler and turneth to ulceration of the guts, 
 and is compleat in two weekes,or proceedeh ofa glaffie coloured iub- 
 ftance, and liath his termination in foure weekes: or proceedeth ofa 
 Melancholy humour, and is in perfection in forty daies: firft begin- 
 neth the Jfluxc, then followcth the excoriation, &c. But to trouble 
 the reader much, or my felfe with long definitions, eytherof the 
 caufes or fignes of this difeafe,my leifure will not permit me, and the 
 rather will I not infill thereon, for that in reading I finde divers lear¬ 
 ned and reverend writers that haue entred into long dilcourles of the 
 fignes & caufes of this griefe, preferring divers methodicall rules ; & 
 yet they conclude of the cure of Dyfemery, for the moft part of them 
 with a kind of Empericall forme of curing,namely fome reciting one, 
 fome another medicine for the generall cure of this difeafe: many of 
 
 them 
 
Of the Fluxes of the ‘Belly . jnp 
 
 them ending without any rationally methodicall forme at a If which 
 
 argueth in my opinion, that it is importable either to finde out all tie 
 
 caules thereof, ortoprefcribeany one true forme for the gencrall 
 
 cure of the lame , but the difcreet Chirurgion muft be armed with 
 
 judgement in thele following principles •, namely, that if he perceive 
 
 it to proceed by fulneffe of bioud or humours, to feeke the health c»f ~ Adviftto tbi 
 
 the Patient by lundry the moll rationall and fitted evacuations 5 cs 
 
 namely, bleeding, purging,and llenderndfe ofdiet: then aifo,to pro- 
 
 ceed to medicines which take away the acrimony, and hcale the ir- 
 
 ward parts, then to thole which are Anodine, and doe caufe reft. A 
 
 learned French Chirurgion named Gmllemeau , writingaTreanlecf 
 
 this difeale,in his concliifion faith asfoI!oweth:The Emperike allMc- 
 
 dicainents which the methodicall Phyfitians lo difdaine and efteeme 
 
 of little worth, are thole which we through our experience, anl 
 
 through the diutumall ufe of them, have found to be molt excellent, 
 
 which being ufed with Iudgement, are not to be dildained, feeing 
 
 that Ga/e»hitnfelfe teftifieth , that the Phyfitian muft be eftablilhed Cro;ml ,r Vt 
 
 on two foundations, to wit, reafon and experience, whereof realbn is ” '. 
 
 as it were the lbule of the lame, which mealureth and pondreth all 
 things ,& experience the body as a provident tutor &fchool cmaft ei ? 
 wherefore feeing that experience teacheth us that Rubai b in what 
 manner loeuer we adminiiter the lame, ( but elpecially the infulioa 
 thereof) is very commodious & profitable in this difeale, as likewife i> atari pmfut. 
 Spiritus vitrioli with Role-water, and Plantane-water, and alio being 
 adminiftred with Cinamon-water, faith Guillemeau , there is a fugar- 
 like dulcor or IweetnelTe extracted out oflead, which never deceived 
 the hope of the right reverend Mailer Duion a very learned Phifiti 
 an,where of I have attained the bell ofthefe difeourfesrthe tin&ure of 
 Corail and of yellow Amber, extracted with Aquavit*,is in operatior. 
 admirable, allb Crocus M art is , or fhs Stdp hurts being in leafon admi¬ 
 niftred with the ConlervesofRoles,Marmalet, Citron riudes,witho* 
 ther fuch like things are very commodious, becaufe among natural! Sacchifhn 
 things I know nothing exficcateth more, andoppoleth it felfe more smarm. 
 againft all corruptions. To conclude, there are innumerable lorts of 
 remedies which we muft Co compound, that they may have one fimi- 
 litude,orone Analogy with the aifeale: finally,we muftinextreame 
 Dyfentery for the lalt remedy indeavour to mitigate the paine with 
 narcoticall things , as is the Oleum Iufquiami mandr agora , the cold 
 feeds, the Philomttm reqrnes Nicolai , ana many other fuch like compo- 
 fitions which are unto this dileale uled, and which may not be admi¬ 
 niftred except great judgement and advil'e had thereon. T hus much 
 out of Guillimeau. This difeafe chiefly afflidleth Souldiers in Wars, 
 and Sea-men in long Voyages, and namely in hot countries, chiefly tfij{e } and* 
 when after ihort ana hard allowances they ihall happen on the fudden 
 to get great ftore ol raw fruit, frefli meat, flelh or fi(h,or any other 
 greate change ofplealant dyet,in which cafes realbn and Iudgement, 
 as the principal! helps are to be uled, as for inftatice this dileafe is in¬ 
 cident much to fuch as change the place of their abode for a fiirre 
 
 hotter 
 
180 Of the Fluxes of the "Belly. 
 
 hotter or a farre colder country, but chiefly into hotter, witoes the 
 mortality through that difeafe w cl ' hath often befallen our Souldiers 
 in the warres in France,&c. AsaKonow at Bantham, how much doth 
 it affliCt them that live there. Moreover as is laid, it it proceed of re¬ 
 pletion, evacuation , and thinne dyet, is the meane to proceed in 
 the beginning of the cure thereof: ifit proceed of an acrimonious 
 fretting humor, then one of your firft helps muft be a prefent purge, 
 ifftrength will bcare it, namely ofRubarbe, as is faid in the cure of 
 Diarrhoea, or a DecoCtion of myrabulans and alio a good Barly-water: 
 the fecond good help is a Glifter, which may be proper againft lharpe 
 humors: and after to conclude the cure witn a dole of Laudanum Pa- 
 
 if the Patient racclfi, but if the party be in great weakenefle and want ofreft, give 
 IbiTJa/iifer* ^ ome comfortable glyfter firft, next that an Opiate, I meane the 
 Laudanum one dole: you may begin in weake bodies firft with opiate 
 medicines, in that there is moft need of eafe, and if you find after 
 reft it helpe not, ufe a Glyfter or a purge as you fee caufe, for though 
 the Laudanum at firft cure not, yet it giveth reft, whereby the party 
 afterwardes, it is likely, will be thcftrongertoindurecureby other 
 reafonable medicines, which done, if that anlwere not thy defire, 
 rbt oft repeat- t ^ lou ma Y e ft returne to Laudanum againe and againe,alwayes remem- 
 mof Lauda- bring, as is fayd, there bee foure houres at the leaftdiftance, be- 
 2- twixt each dole, and if the difeafe proceede of heate, feektocoole 
 n ‘ the bloud by a decoCtion of Plantane and coldehearbes or leedes if 
 they be to be had, or at fea with luch medicines as are ufed to quench 
 heate,and are not meerely fharp,and yet oyle of Vitriol is much com¬ 
 mended to be taken certaine dayes together in any kinde ofdiftilled 
 waters either plantane, Sorrell,Straw-berries or the like, whileft the 
 fayd waters are good and fweet, or with Aqua SparnoU, if it beat 
 
 7 / hand, alfo a barley water with a little A Hum or Galles in powder is 
 
 Angular good, lb Bole, butthe finer the Bole is the better,and Terra 
 S i gill at a. Syrup of Quinces is good alfo in that cafe, and fo are all the 
 medicines made of floes, after fomedue evacuation, as in thy difcre- 
 Laudaoum tion thou lhalt fee reafonable, but to conclude, a dofe of Laudanum 
 Jaude dignum. opiate, is beft to finifh the worke, for that goeth before, or rather ex- 
 ceedeth all other medicines in fluxes, for that fwageth all paines and 
 caufeth quiet fleepe, which often even alone is the true perfection of 
 the cure. And further,ifit fhalappeare,that this difeafe have fo gotten 
 Hm to report t ^ e upper hand that the Patient is growne very feeble,his bloud being 
 t\*patieai very wafted, appoint him a diet that may warme and comfort the ftomack, 
 Difn ' namely,at land ifit may be had,Brothes of Chickings or the like, with 
 fome Spices therein,and Egges and Sugar,and a little Rofe water,but 
 not Honey, for that increaleth gripings,and cawdles with egges,wine * 
 and fpices, according to good difcretion will doe well, if they may be 
 had,and give him,ifthou fee caufe,a glyfter, if there be feare of exco¬ 
 riations in the guts, namely, a decoCtion of Barley or Bran, or of Bran 
 ^ glifter againft oneI y with Deer fuet 5 ij. let not your decocftion be too flimy of the 
 ixuriation. Bran, and adde ifyou can get it, the yolk of one egge,for egges com¬ 
 
 fort much and fwagc pain, the yolk of the egge muft be well beaten 
 
 onely 
 
Of the Fluxes of the F elite. 
 
 181 
 
 vith the deco&ion by little and little, fo taken very warm, or i f the 
 partie have gripingsin his guts, make this glyfter following, and for 
 vantof Bran take a little wheat flowre,and with Camomile Centaury 
 Vorm-wood, St. lohns wort, or fome ofthefe, make adeco&onad- 
 ding alio Anif-feed, Fennell, Dill or Cummin-feeds, or the like or 1 
 
 feme of thefe at the leaft, adding after the boy!ing,fome two or three 
 boonfuls of Rofafolis, or good Aqua vita, or fome ltrong cordiall wa¬ 
 ters, if you fee there be caufe to comfort and warm, and adding alfo 
 as is faid, Deer fuet 5 ij. with wax 5 £• ' 
 
 Alfo glyftersofmilk and eggesonely are very good tofwage gri- Another^. 
 pngs and pains, where they may be had-, alfo as is faid, warm clothes 
 0 the belly and fundament applyed are very good, and note ftill that 
 reft procured is a principall help in curing all fluxes. 
 
 For excoriations of the guts, make a glyfter with a deco&ion of dmtbnM* 
 try Centaury,Hipericon, Worm-wood or Balm, with Barley,adding 
 of Deer fuet 5 ij. and a little dried Galls in powder, or cut indices,or 
 Jvcctts acatu or Cortices granatorum, or dried red rofes, if you have 
 them, or Balaufties, which are flowers of Pomegranates: Note what 
 powders foever you giveinglyfters, let the be exceeding finely pow- 
 cered, otherwife they are very dangerous, and fear not toadmimfter 
 an opiat, as I have faid, provided that there be four or five houres 
 ciftance of time twixt each dole: alfo you may give a dole of Rubarb, 
 tamely, $ ij. or & fl. parched and powdered fine, for fo it doth beft* 
 tiken either alone, or with Sanguis prunellorum one fhiall fpoonfull in 
 vine, and a little Cinamon water, or in any other convenient drink, 
 astheprefentftateof the lick (hall caufe thee ; or for want of wine' 
 beer, or water, you may give the fick alfo conferveof rofes or quin¬ 
 ces} after which, if caufe be to give the Laudanum again, you may 
 ftfely do it. Furthermore in this cafe^as alfo in all kinde of fluxes, fu- 
 nigations are very good medicines,namely,fitting over a clofe 5ool, 
 provided the fick be very warm kept, and not too hot, to which pur- 
 jofe a well burned brick heat very hot and put under the ftool, laying 
 nvo cold bricks under it,for burning the ftool,and then fprinkle often 
 the hot brick with vineger if the difeafe be hot, or with vineger and 
 Jqua vita mixed ifit be cold,and for want of bricks fome great pieces 
 cfold iron willferve, as it is alreadie rehearfed, alfo a decocftion of 
 cinamon or cloves, or both together, or nutmegs let under the ftool, 
 that the warm fteam of the fpices may come up into the bodie of the 
 patient, is very good. Note further, that where you fear a flux of the 
 belly may follow, that you purge not the partie with Coloquinttda, 
 
 ‘Lroc bis de Alhandatt , Agaric um^ nor Diagredion. And remember ever 
 vhen you give Rubarb, that you give cinamon, or ginger, or Anif- ^ 
 beds, a little therewith, which corre&eth the flatuous difpofition ~ 
 thereof. Ifthis difeafe of the flux (hall Ihew it felf to proceed of any 
 contagioufheffe of the aire, as fometimes it doth,this is certainly the 
 noftfearfull of the reft, for although all difeafes have their origina 11 
 from the hand of the Almighty, yet then we have all realbn to call ASdfiafts pr§* 
 Dour remembrances, the word* which the Prophet David fpeaketh 
 
 F f in 
 
18 2, Of the Fluxes of the $ elite. _ _ 
 
 Oodmfi be in the .Whither fall ffliefrom iheeO my God? when therefore 
 
 W* „m. t hc aire which we are forced to receive into our bodies (hall threaten 
 us.then ifever, it is high time for Chirurgion and patient to crie un- 
 toGod for his help and mercie, and yet not to miftiuit, but touu; 
 
 ^u t.ficiall means, referring thefucceffe to the Almighty. V/heieforc 
 
 in thjs cafe I hold nothing better then a good purge of Rubai b, and 
 
 r then.to take three or four grains of Laudanum Par ace If, then after 
 flux 7 ho\hthc there may be given him one f cruple of the belt Treacle 01 Mithri- 
 contagion of the date, or London Xrcaclc, or mccrly Laudanuiw alone* x ou may give 
 M,e - . the partiealfo a little Cinamon water, or Aqua Theriaults, or Cardans 
 
 water laying him to reft : It were alfo to be confidcred whether the 
 body flandeth in need of bleeding, purging, or a glyfter: blit when as 
 thedifeafe proceeds from contagious and veuemous aire, and is 
 fierce, 1 hold it the fafeft courfe to forbear bleeding or purging, for 
 Jf the flix be fear of drawing back the venome to the principall parts, and rather 
 fierciand fuddm to die to Alexipharmacons or Preservatives, as Venice Treacle, Mi- 
 What to be done, ^date, Diateiferon, London Treacle, or the like: And prefently 
 after, or immediately with it,as is laid,give a dofe of Laudanum,'which 
 of itfelf is a perfect cordiall, and a good preservative. 
 
 The fix through Many learned writers are of opinion that this difeafe is infe&ious, 
 
 ‘niTs" an< ^ t ^ lat the breath and excrements of the fick man may eafily infed 
 a found man, affirming alfo that from putrified anddifeafed bowels, 
 infectious vapours do afeend and defeend, and partly the rather by a 
 kinde of Sympathy our bodies have each with other,but left that opi¬ 
 nion of mine uttered may perhaps offend the courage of young Ar- 
 yr n :0 „ ki tifts, whom 1 kck by all poflible means to embolden, let them take 
 m'daZt (Z this rule from me, in the fear of God, I hold no difeafe infectious to 
 rurgennscalled mej j n t hat I have a lawfull calling, and I am therefore bound to yifit 
 IZf'tfalydf thedifeafed, which who fo negleCteth, God will finde him out with 
 caft whatfoever . that difeafe or a worfe. Nov? a word or two of fuch medicines as are 
 belonging to the cheft found in the {hip, or at the utmoft may be 
 found in the Eafl lndieSjOr that are likely to be found there, I intend 
 to let forth feme inftruCtions for the Chirurgions Mate: and firft 
 The cm of Dyf- noie I have cured many, both in Dyfenterie and Lienterie, with 
 eme,y atfea, & burned Harts-horu, or in want hereof, I have found that onely the 
 ofLuraery . hard bones of Beef or Pork calcined or meerly burned till they be 
 
 wlite, for fothey rnuft be, and it may eafily be done in any wood or 
 coal-fire, being not a fire of fea-coal, and then being powdered fine, 
 anc given continually in the ordinarie drinks, during the time of the 
 fickneffe it helpcth much, and you may allure your felf, that if you 
 tafo much or little ofit,it can do no harm to be taken, and with fome 
 few drops of cyuamon water, if it maybe had, it is the better, ora 
 little Nutmeg and Cynamon in pow'der therein, alfo I have given it 
 (oq^tisoewith Rofa folis and fair w'ater mixed, of each twofpoonfuls 
 and& j. of the powder of bones. 
 
 Another ft’.cret which hath cured many of the fix. 
 
 1* Wheat flowre, and thruft it very clofe together into an end of a 
 ^ clowt, 
 
Of the Fluxes of the ‘Bellie. 
 
 ill 
 
 ■ ■ ■ ~ w ~ ~ w * 
 
 clout, and fobindeituphard, and clofe like a buli«~^d ™7T~~ 
 boybng water, and boilit three hot.res or more and von n,K^ 
 will be very dtie and hardas chalk, and powdeHt rS ml ‘ rf it’' ' 
 powder 31;. or more in any liquid fubftance fitting 1 f f hls 
 good medicine for any flux of the belly either w h,> i j tls T a vcnc 
 
 dKine hath been oft 'roved, »d 
 
 nelpeth the vertue of the medicine well if the vehicle 1 
 
 you give it in be alfogood, namely, if you give it with ^1^“"! 
 medicine proper to the grief.alfo <L«, jtfj 5 * 3 j. e , 
 
 Aligant or French wine,or with beer or water ,, mDC > 
 
 taw drops of Cinamon water, it isa very goodradidne 
 
 alfois given with Venice TrearJr nr r i -r , Ulc - The lame 
 
 thndare is likewile very good.but to a weakperfMgive naMilcmd,* 
 
 Sugar ,t w.“ pleale his tafte better then withothe, I ong liTcine ’ 
 
 But if you perceive the difeafe proceeds ofworms as Jien it dor h 
 then give the patient a glyfter ofadecodtion of •?’ if* 
 
 acrimoniouspainsin thefuts tallhe«t£l11 ,*"*1” D ° 
 
 eafe: alfo almoft all bitter things kill worm's asU/lls'll C f’ re,c . nt J* ““® » 
 
 c^mmida,tV«rm--vood,lk the like^iutprincipally AauiiuLT^l™’ ^ 
 
 it lhre,and,fafe tobeg,ve„,the dl by^ o^Cis 
 
 Mr. Edwards hu medicine for the Flux 
 
 5 .£ red ’™ fe ^ er iJ- lp°ons full, Cinamon = i j. Almonds of valient 
 5 m,. unblanched, the Cinamon is to be bnnfcd and bo Sin 
 g^unds ofwater till lj. pounds be confamed, then referve that deco* 
 d:ion, and adde three pounds more ol fair water to the former Cum Vv 
 mon,atid boil it as afore, referve both the waters together then h™ 
 or rather grind well your Almonds,and being well ground and beat e „ ^ 
 
 the A j herct ,° httle quantitie of the water m^udoned ^rindine 
 
 hearts fr nds th ,f rewith [ and a g ain bca t the faid Almonds, often 
 
 f:,M>ftrain them with more of the faid liquor or water till all the 
 
 «£»“ ill" b T, the decoaion »Wchwill be hi theform"fail 
 to fwlctellthe fafd n f dd f rofc ' # ' a fU-%»nfi.ls,;andasmuchfugaras 
 ]“ plealhl h < d d k 1 gU ' e the 1 ' at ' ent thereof to drink Co okas 
 
 Let luch as fear the flit not overgorge themfelves for the over Gim *' • 
 
 charging and fttaming of the ftomack oft bringeth this licknefle" 
 chiefly when the body is weak as alfo if rhe cT V l 1C , e " e » m *' 
 not well boyledor toLd^dm^riyfr^Sfvflk MhZ 
 
 S aithough their ver- 
 
 g«d ,nd P ecd V g fr ° m dlC San * i r unrc P r °veable and very 
 r bt 2 The 
 

 Of the Fluxes of the Felly. _ 
 
 =£ f 
 
 aboutthe navill, but it it be in tne gu * , “ u .„ nr Aintr m Vu„i, 
 the chief pain is in the lower parts ot the belly, according to their 
 
 »«*«• P ‘TWs difeafe ptoceedeth fomet.mes by Apotamarionloftfaefigl 
 fi*x with the s an j t h e u it is exceeding paintul before it come to a F lux neither 
 
 fisHts Of death. S ’ auo dine glyfter prevail at all to give eafe till ^ ful1 lu PP ura ’ 
 
 riomofthe guts be perfected, and that the Apoftumc be broken. 
 
 If this difeafe proceed from a former great obftrudbon either of the 
 liver,of the lungs,or the Spleen,there is fmall hope of life to be had. 
 
 Afowhenconvulfionsofthefinews,fingultas } andvomiting,orany 
 
 one of thefe fignes, efpecially the two firft appear, then commonly 
 
 d One learned Writer rchearfing Hippocrates for his Author faith,that 
 ufuaUv before death in this difeJfe aWk orblewi^fpotwillappearc 
 behincie the left eare of the lick, which I alio have feen obferv mg it of 
 late-von (hall find Plantane water to be a very good liquor to give any 
 drie medicine infer the flix, efpecially where there is any complaint 
 of heat or excoriation, Plantane feeds are alfo good ,and fo is a deco- 
 SSrHS* dion of the roots of Plantane very good tor that ufe, or for g y er» 
 roots, are very u cre [ t ma y be had. The purging medicines which are called Diau- 
 t/ Wtht 5 S provoke urine are 9fo praifed by Writers: but I leave 
 P them to be donc with great judgement,onely it you ufe any medicine 
 
 to caufe urine,the powder of yellow Amber is a fure one,and without 
 
 anymanifeit hot or oftenfive quahtie, fo is the powdei of the Sea- 
 
 hoVfe peezell and the morfe tooth, of any of which if you give ^1. for 
 one dole you may fafely do it, but a B is fufficient at once. Oyle ot 
 Terbinthine and of Amber are good diaurcuck medicines, and much 
 ** more forcible then the former, but not fo fit in this difeafe,but rath 
 good to drive graved from the kidnies, and ferve well touching the 
 cure of many cold and fiothfull difeafes, as the Dropfie, Scurvie Le ; 
 ^ .. , rhargie and the like. A vomitive medicine is not ami fie in Fluxes 
 
 2T2?X whilft the party hath ftrength, but the young Artift may eafilymake 
 pea' care and a an error ,fmall in (he w,which notwithftanding may quickly coftama 
 good judgement. ^ whcrefore jf he attempt in fuch cafes to caufe vomit, as one 
 
 principle let him have great care to the true dole of his medicines; 
 Lt firft let him have good confutation, whether it be convenient 
 to ufe any fuch medicine, or no, for where eafier remedies will cure, 
 never attempt greater; but miftake me not, I (peak thefe things o 
 love onely to children in Art, and not to grave Artifts, from whom l 
 would gladly learn my felf. Further, I advife theyounger Artifts, not 
 toftriveto ftay aFlux, asisfaid, in a full body, till naturebe firft un- 
 
 burthened, partly by the difeafe, and partly by medicines fit. 
 
 But as concerning Phlebotomie rehearfed as neceffane m the cure 
 of this difeafe, do it not without great diferetion, and judgement 
 
Of the Fluxes of theFelhe. 
 
 forthePatienc weakned formerly with fotcrnble a licknefle and fit 
 P ' rltS . Pgnt H e . e fe b y a »ot advifedly done may ftddenlv 
 
 nor generally! kl blm ’ y ct a S alne ImuftconfelTe that rule holder^ 
 
 »8f 
 
 CERJAINE SIGNES, PRO- 
 
 gnoilications, and inftrudlions which I hope 
 
 will not be unprofitable for YOVTH 
 
 concerning Fluxes. 
 
 He Signes of the difeafe are alwayes manifeft offheftmpre. 
 themlelves, the lignes afore-running or demon • {cd:n & ,/;f fi¬ 
 ltrating of the inftant difeafe are thele following: 
 
 I aine and torture of the inteftines, or ventricle, 
 
 Galen teftifieth cap. 2. locorum affellorum , in the 
 very beginning ofa Flux, faith lie, (harpe chcrfer 
 ”7? islentforth, wringings, and as itwere off.fcou. 
 ting, or oft-fliavings of the inteftines appeare,then after there follow¬ 
 ed! a little blond and then beginneth thedifeafe Dyfenterie and bv 
 the relation of the Patient it will often appeare if the paine be abovh 
 or below the Navill A painfull flow expulfion of the excrements of 
 the belly with fmall fragments bloudy and fatty doe argue the hielier 
 r ft ,Tff >bCafrea f d ’ bUt,fthe S- feteI °w«'. »P»ne belowthe „ 
 
 fraemems STf ^ ’ t =” much fatnelTe with 
 
 ragments, and thole fi agmeuts of the lower inteftines will be more fatfaeritb. 
 
 grofTe and lefle mingled with the excrements. A Dyfenterie flavine 
 
 popularly and killing many, may be adjudged contagious, and is 
 
 thought to follow a pelhlentiall conftitution, aud if in die times ofa 
 
 generallinfection by the difeafe Dyfenterie, or Lienterie, a white 
 
 Flux called Diarrhea with Tenafmus appeare in the Patient, that par- 
 
 tie a little after fliall be afflided with the Dyfenterie. The Ulcers 
 
 of the fmall inteftines are more dangerous then the ulcers of the 
 greater. 
 
 Difficultie of the inteftines, if it proceed from a black choler is 
 held mortall: Aph. 24. Seel. 4. 
 
 Long difficulties of the inteftines, hunger and wearinefle are evil! MtruUfipiethi 
 
 lignes ,and it is fomuch theworfeif it be with a fever: Apb.x.Setl.6. ,btD * mnt - 
 
 r if r n^* UX ef P, e , CI fy ^ Dyfentericall, happening after a long 
 ficknefleis mortall,, but chiefly if it be hidden, becaufe it arguethf 
 fudden corruption of humors aud great debilitie. ° 
 
 A Flux drawing to a languifhing dropfie i $ mortall. 
 
 if 
 
 
i $6 
 
 Of the Fluxes of the belly * 
 
 A good figne, 
 Ai 
 
 Another good 
 figne. 
 
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 t Ten* i 
 
 teac 
 
 Gem all rules 
 for the cure of 
 the flux. 
 
 IfhiaDyfenrcriaablew fpot appeare behindtheeare, the Patient 
 
 “he Fluxes that are front die beginning waterilh and afterwards 
 
 ‘'^InaUpfuses ofthebel'ly, and in all other difeafes, of weaknelTe of 
 thi appetite inconltancieofthe minde, heavineffe m fleepe.imbecil- 
 li tie of the lcgges, a hoatfe and barking voyce, a weak pnlle beating 
 often Sn the whole body.chieHy about the belly, b acknefle 
 of the face, or ofa deadly or leadly colour, and coldnefle in all the ex- 
 wearae partf: thefe afore-faid fignes foretell ev.ll, but the Agues con- 
 
 ‘^Thefficke^enffi immoderate ftuxeofthebel^ , mortall 
 
 Belching following a Flux of the belly is good, becaufe it is a figne 
 that nature hath received, or againe begun concodtion. 
 
 A flux of the belly which is not appeafed by fit remedies is per- 
 
 pettilent flux of the belly beginning with UenterU Bmrbu, or 
 .nafmttt is worfe in children then in antient men, as experience 
 
 ^chcth 
 
 If that’bythe difficultie of the Inteftines, the excrements come 
 forth like peeces of flefh, it is a deadly figne, Aph.z 6 , Sett. 4. 
 
 Influxes of the belly, changes of the excrements is a principal! 
 C ood ficne, unlefle the change be made worfer, Jpb. 14- Sect. %. 
 
 ° In perturbations ofthe belly and voluntary vomiting, if fuch things 
 are purged thereby that ought to be purged, it is good: but otherwile 
 
 choler is not altogether 
 mortall as Clcn affirmeth in his fecond book of naturall facuk.es 
 that many are cured of it. L,m<r, e after Mmmt tsmorulf: di^ 
 Canons following belong to the particular cure of any fluxot the 
 
 bC No flux of the belly before the fourth day if the patient be flrong, 
 
 is to be reft rained. ... 
 
 Tire ulcers of the higher inteftines are to be cured with medicines 
 taken at the mouth, butthofe ofthe lower with Glyfters chiefly: and 
 if ulcers be in both, then are they to be cured both wayes. 
 
 To fuch as cure a Dyfcmerie,\et adftnngent thingsbe given belore 
 other meates that they may the better be retained. 
 
 Hot ftiptick things are good in fluxes proceeding ol a co d cauie - 
 And on the contrary, if the conco&ing facultie fhall be weak, theufe 
 
 ofhot things is like wife good. fl • 
 
 If there be a cough with the flux ofthe belly, the patient (hall ab- 
 
 ftaine from allftarpe ftiptick things. n^nill 
 
 Sweating medicines and frications with oyle ot Camomill and Lmi, 
 by ojiemng the pores, and plucking back the matter to the opponte 
 part^ire good in fluxes. 
 
 Cupping-glafles faith Avicent applied foure houres to the belly 
 flay the fluxes ofthe belly. ^ 
 
Of the Cure of the Sarnie. 
 
 187 
 
 All ftiptick fruits by,ihccounfellof Avnaum tobe^idta 
 'Amhor affinnecli? nocwlI ^ 1 ^ ant ^ Dg CteftnucsJjurt pot, v the fame 
 
 Sleepe among other things is good fora fluxe, and fo is any quiet- „ 
 
 rhrame^ re ^^°°^ Un ^l ef Te the flux proceed/rom ionic Catanhe or 9 
 
 Touching the particular cure ifthe difeafe come of a hot caufe, let 
 there be a lenitive glyfter adminiftred before the fourth day, which 
 is this ft Aqua bordei ;xi ) McllUrofatt 5ij.mingle it, and let it be made 
 a Glyfter , twife reiterating it afterwards, let the choterick matter be 
 purged thus: 91. Rofarum rubearum vidarum, a. a. 51, let themboife ^Glyfter. 
 onely one walme and in the (training, infufc them the (pace of fix 
 houres then adde thefe things: ft. Cortices mirabal: cu. *j. tragae.fri. a Purge. 
 
 raine the medicine, and let it be fo given.; notwithftanding warily 
 tor mdeede many ot our ancients did abftaine altogether from purg¬ 
 ing medicines influxes: whereupon Avicenc\\. capite 2. faith that it 
 
 is dangerous to loofe the belly upon a former loofenefle. ' * 
 
 Ifthe matter be fanguine, and the fick ofretfoqabie ftrength you 
 may let the lower veine be opened, to reprefle the acrimony of the 
 humour, to pluck back and code the boyling of the liver witnefle 
 Avicena 4. prim chap. 20. Phlebotomy doth binde the belly very 
 much, and amongft many is held for a greatfecret: fora certaine man 
 ot 7 o. yeers of age labouring with the Dyfeuterie the fpace of a 
 moneth, when no other means would help him he was cured by let¬ 
 ting of bloud, yet I,confefle my felfe (hould not eafily doe the 
 like. 
 
 Ifthe excrements begin to grow thicker, and the gripings begin to 
 ceafc, the token is good : if in the excrements feraping as it were of 
 the guts feeme toappeare, it is no token of death. 
 
 I reade tlut the ancients uled cauftickGlyftersot Arfenicum,asve- 
 Alumen & Calx wrww, but thele latter Phyhcians ufe rather a- 
 ftringentand narcotick medicines as thefe. Cortices Tburis, Mahcis 
 Bolt Armenia Sarcocolla , and the like. 
 
 The ulcers ol the (mail guts are worle to receive healing then 
 thofe of the great guts, for the greater are flefhie and therefore they 
 receive confolidationfo much the eafier. The ulcers of Iejunum, or 
 the hungry' gut are of al the word, becaufeit is fmaller then the other 
 and becaufe (harpe choler doth fuddcnly happen into it, it hath more 
 veines in it then the reft, and is next to tiiat noble part the Liver, and 
 fuithei one leafon of doubt is, for that medicines taken to binde 
 and confolidate, cannot long remaine therein. 
 
 In the Tenajmm and th eDyfentene coming after it, the patient tn AtPfi^k 
 mult abftaine from all (harpe, fait, and bitter things, 5 becaufe by vhamufibe 
 ufing of fuch things, the excrements become (harpe, andcaufe ex- nfu[ed ' 
 coriation. 
 
 Hot things reftraine the flux of the belly becaufe they make the 
 meat digeft, penetrate,caufe urine and provoke (weat, which is found 
 in the drinking moderately of pure wine, as Avicene witnefleth, be- 
 
 fides 
 
i8 8 Of the Fluxes of the Nellie. 
 
 lides that, it provokes fleep and helps digeftion, notwithstanding it is 
 to be abftained from in fevers, and when the fluxproceedes from hot 
 and cholerick humors. 
 
 A Dyfenterte proceeding from obftruchons will never be cured 
 with Aftringent medicines, but rather with penetrating medicines, 
 by adding anttle vineger which openeth more forcibly then wine, 
 and mollifieth obftru<Stions: for if Aftringent medicines be mingled 
 with deficatives, they increale the obftnnftion. 
 
 Although fome fay that in the Lientcria the meat taken in doth 
 come forth in the fame colour and quantitie as it was when it was ta¬ 
 ken in : this notwithftanding is to be underftood that the forme and 
 colour ofit is of neceffitie changed, but it doth not wholly alter it,for 
 they are altered fomewhat according to the majus fr minus , becaufe 
 it is an impoftible thing that the nourilhment being conveighed 
 thorowfo many inteftmes,fhould come forth without any alterati¬ 
 on at all. 
 
 There are lome alfo which judge the Dyfenteria and the Tenaf- 
 • mus by motion of the pulfe, that the patient hath a fever if the pulfe 
 
 be moved fwift; yet it feemes to me the contrary .although there is an 
 over heating or boyling in the bloud by reafon of the hot humours, 
 the great motion of the body, want of fleep and abftinence: yet with 
 the Sux onely ftayed, the fever hath an end. 
 
 It is formerly/aid that the ulcers of the great inteftines are to be 
 cured with Glyfters, and the ulcers of the /mail inteftines to be cured 
 with medicines taken at the mouth: notwithftanding it profiteth to 
 ye,wtes for take fit medicines at the mouth for ulcers of the great inteftines, and 
 yteers in the in ulcers of the fmall guts to injedt glyfters, which fometimes afeend 
 inteftines. to both the ventricles, as experience teacheth: and fo alio are ulcers 
 in the great guts fometimes cured by medicines taken at the mouth ; 
 wherefore let no convenient helps be omitted in cafe of neceffitie. 
 
 And though Avicena faith, it is dangerous to purge the belly upon 
 a loofeneflfe thereof, yet the fame Avicena, Gerardus , Creme, Serapio, 
 Iordanus , de Turra and other lat^r Phyficians of found judgement pre- 
 fcribeinthecureoffluxes Purgative medicines-, therefore they ap¬ 
 point things according to the patients ftrength, when a Dyfenteria 
 Ga'em rule if proceeds of many humours • or having an ill qualitie,the cure as Galen 
 theDyfe/uma witnefleth, hath one chiefe and molt common intention, to that 
 h unw m. which is contrary to the difpofition to be taken away : Therefore let 
 
 there be given Myrabolans, which in this cafe are moft excellent, for 
 they correct the acrimony of the humours, and ftrengthen the ven¬ 
 tricle, and the inteftines ; in want whereof Rubarb may be as well gi¬ 
 ven, being dried a little. But if the flux be peftilentiall, let the mat¬ 
 ter be purged prefently by fweatign,as is laid,not relpedting the con- 
 co&ion of humors. 
 
 Of 
 
i8p 
 
 --- — ------ 
 
 Of Laudanum Opiat Taracelji, and the 
 
 Vcrtues thereof. 
 
 Here are many difeafes which can hardly be cured 
 without Anodine medicines, therefore in the Cure 
 of fuch difeafes, 1 mean where want of reft through 
 extreame paine or other the great difquiet of na¬ 
 ture doth foretell an imminent danger of death, if 
 reft be not fpeedily procured, in allluch cafes Ano¬ 
 dine medicines may doubtlefle with great reafon 
 and good warrant be inwardly given. To procure therefore fafeand 
 quiet reft, fiieweth great skill in the Artift, and to the Patient is more 
 precious in his grievous infirmitie then much treafure, but in no one 
 infirmitie have fiich medicines more fhewed their admirable vertues, 
 then that noble medicine called Laudanum Opiat Par ace Ifi hath done Thtcbifew- 
 in the cure of that lamentable difeafe called Dy(enteric, ortheblou- 
 dy Fluxe, as witnefleth divers of. our Nation commingfrom the Eaft 
 Indies upon good proote, as alio being no lefle approved of, not 
 onely by ancient and Moderne Writers, but by every expert Chirur- 
 gion comming from thole countries of their owne, too many experi¬ 
 ences thereof have beenjmade. ' ^ 
 
 The vertues of this precious Anodine to be,I meane-here recited, 
 as they are noted and let down very learnedly by that famous Writer 
 ofrvalaus Crolhns , late Phyfitian to MUtthiast he third Emperour of 
 Germanie in his booke called Basilica Chymica , and not by him one- 
 ly, but alio by divers good Authors of credit, which have written of vertues of Lau- 
 the fame medicine before, which vertues being very many, may 
 feeme almoft incredible,though many ofthem my felf am witnefle to 
 be true, out of my daily pradhle onely they are meant by the true 
 compolition, according as Theophraftus. Paracelfus hath preferibed it, 
 and is the fame compofition which the faid Writer mectioncth. 
 
 Touching the vertues of the Medicine. 
 
 T His Laudable medicine (faith Ozxvaldus Crolhus ) deferveth right- ozwaldmw*- 
 ly his name, although thou call it Laudanum , for in alllharpe enmngLauda- 
 paines whatfoever hot or cold within the body or without the body, Wtm " 
 yea,even when through extreamitie ofpaine, the parties are at deaths 
 doore , or almoft mad with the vehemencie of the fame, this preci¬ 
 ous medicine givetheafe prefently, yea and quiet fleepe, and that Laudanum wo (t 
 fafely, but much better the body being firftfoluble, either by nature fff 
 
 CX ir nr • ' 1,4 * 
 
 
ipo Of the verities of Laudanum Opiat "P ar accl/i. 
 
 or Art, and you may give it fafely, provoking firftonely one ftoole 
 by a fuppofitorie , or a glyftcr were better: in the colhcke with 
 Mint-water, it eafeth the gripings forthwith. In the paines and 
 gravel! of thekidnies, likewifeit giveth prefent cafe. In the pluri- 
 iie it prefently and lately giv eth eale. In paines ol thejoynts it is 
 very good. In the Haying of rheumes, in the head and otherlike 
 defluxions in the beginnings, it is a lingular good medicine, as name¬ 
 ly in the tooth-ach, diflolve foure graines thereof in Plantanc water, 
 and put itintotheeareontheaking lide, and take three graines into 
 the body,and lie to reft,it is a fure help. In all fluxes of the belly,whe¬ 
 ther they proceed of fharpe or flippery humors, or whatfoever elfe of¬ 
 fending caufe taken with maflicke. Terra Sigillata, fine Bole, or with 
 any other appropriate good medicioe,it is exceeding fure,for it forti- 
 fieth the other medicines, and doubleth their forces, adding hisowne 
 alfo thereto. In extreame watchings and want of reft, either inward¬ 
 ly or outwardly taken, it is profitable, if outwardly you would ufe it, 
 take foure or fixe graines,with three drops of oyle of nutmegs, which 
 is prefled wellmixed together, and binds it in two little clouts, and 
 put it into the noftrils,it will marvclloufly afiwage paines in the head, 
 and caufe quiet reft. In the extreame bleedings of the nofc called 
 Hcmorhage, it is an approved fecret,that fixteene graines thereof di¬ 
 vided into two pils, and thruft up into the noftrils, into each noftrill 
 one part, helpeth the fame. In altkmdes of fevers it is good to be 
 given with w'ater of Worm-wood, or pill-wife alone, and if the heat 
 remaine after fixe houres, you may give it the lecond time, and 
 after that againe in like time fafely, not exceeding the dofc : yet let 
 your owne experience leade you, that where you fee three graines 
 will not caufe reft, in the next potion you give one graine more, and 
 fo increafe paulatim,but increafe not but uporft>ood deliberation. 
 
 In burning Fevers it aflwageththirft , and provoketh lleep chiefly 
 in thole Fevers, in which the partie feemeth to have fomefhewof 
 reft,with tedious dreames and flumbrings mixed. 
 
 In the difeafe called Afthma,and in the Tyficke, ifit be ufedin wa¬ 
 ter of Hyflope, it will preferve the dileafed Patient a long time. 
 
 It conferveth the naturall heat, ftrengthneth the fpirits, repaireth 
 ftrengthloft: It is alfo effedhiall to be given to melancholy people 
 which are voyd of reafon, and are troubled with the paflions of the 
 heart. It is likewife ufed with good eftetft againft vomiting, and the 
 Hickocke proceeding of winde, faintnefie or debilitie or the Ven¬ 
 tricle. 
 
 In the fuperfluous defluxions of the excrementallor menftmall 
 bloud, it istan excellent remedy with Crocu* Martisan red corail. 
 
 In phrenfies and madnefle, both inwardly and outwardly it is good 
 mixed with Aqua vita, and the temples anointed therewith. 
 
 In the falling licknefle with fpirit of Vitrioll, or the quinteflence of 
 Camphire,with alfo oyle of Almonds,it is ufually taken. The dole of 
 this opiat medicine, is two, or three,or foure grains, ifthere be loofe- 
 liefle of the belly, as is rchearfed, it worketh much the better. Note 
 
 that 
 
Of the vertuescf Laudanum Opiat Taracrfji. ipi 
 
 thatinlome parts of the world this medicine in the mentioned dole 
 will doe no eafe, wherefore when you finde that by experience, in the 
 next Patient give more, but not to the fame Patient without great 
 reafon. It is belt given in any occafion accompanied with waters or rh , 
 other medicines,which are moft appropriate to the difeales, and parts admfpfl 
 dileafed,and yet may very well be given alone in apil,which I willing¬ 
 ly do,for that the Patient then is leaft troubled with the tafte thereof. 
 
 But beware you'ufenot this medicine to any, which are feeble 
 through a great cough being opprefled with tough phlegme and rm i :abk - 
 Ihortnefle of breath,for there it is not good: if the difeafe be violent, 
 as I have faid,one dole may be given after another,with fixe houres at 
 the leaft diftance, very fafely.but Ozwddns Crollius laith,within foure 
 houres, as is Paid in the Cure of Dyfentery. 
 
 In a word this Laudanum paffeth all other medicines in the cure of 
 Dyfenterie, forwhichcaulel have publilhed it to the benefit of the 
 youngerfortof Chirurgions, which adventure their lives toward the Uudamm. ‘ 
 Eaft Indies $ I know it is prefumption in my felfe and deferves blame, 
 that I Ihould handle medicines of this nature focopioully, for which I 
 crave pardon from that grave and learned Societie of Phyfitians of 
 London , whom of right I ought to reverence,and doe: excufing my 
 lelfe that I have done it meerely for the benefit of young Sea-Chi- 
 rurgions in the remote parts of the world, where they otherwile have 
 uled Of mm in common, without underftanding the danger or dole 
 thereof, to the lofle of many mens lives. It behoovcth young men to 
 be carefull to carry with them luch ballance, as the beanie will turn at 
 one halfe of a grain,with weights and grains fitting , and to keep them 
 warily and alwayes ready at hand for all occafions, for he is an unwor¬ 
 thy Chirurgion , which is at any time unready with luch needfullin- 
 ftruments. This Laudanum I eltceme fo fufficient a medicine truely M*.; 
 prepared in all caufes, where an Opiat medicine is required, that if I 
 were upon my life to morrow to undertake a Voyage to the Eaft In¬ 
 dies in any great Ship, I would renounce all other compofitions of 
 that kinde whatfoever, rather then milfe it: yet am I not ignorant of 
 divers other good compofitions of Opiat medicines in daily ule, as 
 namely Philonium Perfieum Romanum , me. & mef. Roman feu Tarcenci , 
 
 Athanafica magna , A urea Alexandria, Trifiera magna me. Diacodion, Di- 
 afcordion,Sc many more: before all which I onely would take the true opiau* ^ 
 Laudanum Opiat Par ace lft fox when the reft had fully fermented at Sea, 
 and were voyd of all their fuppofed vertues, which their preparers 
 had challenged them to have had, yea and had been turned to craw¬ 
 ling Animals,even then and twentie years after their deaths, may any 
 man relie upon the aforelaid Laudanum a true medicine-,which me- r ,. 
 
 dicine notwithftanding, I know it is unpoflible for the Chirurgions dkmtH ' 
 Mate to prepare at Sea, yet for that he fliould be the better latisfied, 
 when he liath occafion to ule it, I thought it not amifle to let downe 
 the ingredients, with allb the true forme of the preparation thereof 
 hn verbis, out of Qzwaldm Crollius being one of the beft I ever found 
 or read. « 
 
 Gg i 
 
 Lauda- 
 

 0f the vertues of.Laudanum Opiat Taracelfi\ 
 
 Laudanum Paracelfi Laudatiflimum , and the true 
 preparation thereof. 
 
 Opii Thebaici unci as tres. 
 
 Sueci Hyofcyami debito tempore colletti, &inSole prim infpijj'att unci - 
 am unam & fem.Jpecierum Diambra & Diamofchi, fideliter dijpcnfatartm 
 ana uncias duos cum dimidio mnmmia tranfmarina dr feleff* unciam fern. 
 Said perlarum. 
 
 Corallorum ana drachm, iij. 
 
 Licjuoris Succmi Albi per Alcohol Vini extracts. 
 
 0 ([U de corde Cervi ana drachmam j. 
 
 Lapidis Bez,oartici. 
 
 Vnicorni anirnalis vel mineralis drachmam unam. 
 
 Mofchi. 
 
 Ambraana fcrupulumj. 
 
 In dcfeffu genuini auripotabilis null is corfofivis inquinati addantur, 
 
 n Amfi. 
 
 Carui. 
 
 Arantiomm 
 
 Canophyllorum. 
 Cmamomi. 
 
 _Succim ana gut t a jz. 
 
 Fiat ex his fccundum artem chymicam, majja,f eu extraftum, ex quo ad 
 cejfarios ufm,poJpnt pilluUejformari. '» v 
 
 necejf'arios ufm,poJpnt pilluU efformari. 
 
 Obferyations in the preparation of this medicine. 
 
 IJi The roots and rindes of the younger Hemlocke, calling a- 
 way the inward woody part thereof: the time of the gathering there¬ 
 of is the Summer, the Moone being in the figne Aries or Libra, and 
 before the full of the Moone, and if it might be done it were bell to 
 be gathered in the very hourethe Moone is entredinto one of the 
 faidflgncs: thisoblerved, let the Juyce thereof be prefled out, and 
 
 The preparing of filtered, and rnacmlated^ then let in the Snnne tn harden which 
 
 to be purged in fome diftilled water, as of Hy Hope or the like, as^- 
 loes is ufed to be purged, and after, the tindlure thereof to be extra- 
 
 IfthcSpuics° n < ^ e< ^ P er fptritum vim, the tindture of the Species Diambra is to be ex- 
 
 The juyce of Hiofcyami, or Henbane with the extra# of opium min¬ 
 gled, together with the fpirit of wine, whereinto they are extracted 
 before, is to be evaporated from them ere that they be mixed with 
 
 the 
 
Observations in the preparations of this medicine . j 9 j 
 
 the reft of the ingrediences. Alfo the opium and juice ofHenbane 
 muft bee digefted in chymicall manner for a month at the leaft, that 
 thereby their fulphurous, venemous, and dangerous vapours they 
 have may be well corrected, which vapours have ayellowifh froth or 
 feumme feene in the fuperfioall parts of them, and are very obnoxi¬ 
 ous and dangerous, which I thought not am life to advife the ftudious 
 and induftrious Chymift of. 
 
 Let all the extractions be done in the true fpirit of wine well re¬ 
 ctified,and then the longer the extract remaineth in the digeftion,the 
 better willbe your medicine. 
 
 Hee that intendetTiany part of this compofition for women, muft 
 forbearerhe muike and amber-greece, and ufe with it rather foure 
 graines of good cajloreum , I meane in that one dofe he intends to give 
 the women •, but in this I digrelfe from my fcope of the Sea-praCtife, 
 where women in long voiages are rare creatures. Wherefore to the 
 bufineffe in hand :the feces ofthe opium hioffpecierum ambra& c. 
 after their tinCfures are extracted from them, are to be calcined and 
 brought intofalt,namely by infufion in fome fitting liquor, after cal¬ 
 cination, with all due Alteration* evaporation, ana coagulation with 
 Cohobs convenient, and ad to the reft ofthe compofition. 
 
 And concerning the tinCtures mentioned to be extracted in fpiritu 
 vini ,after one month digeftions the fpirit tu vim is by balneum maria to 
 be evaporated till the refidence be almoft ofthe thickneffe of honey: 
 which done and gathered cleane into one convenient glaffe, porrin¬ 
 ger, or the like inftrument, then adde the fait corallorum, perlarum, 
 M umja beaten fine,and alfo the Bezar, and the cornu ccrvi,mufcus and 
 ambr a all in fine powder, and well mixed with the (aid extracts, then 
 adde thcaforefaid fdts of the recited feces , and alfo the former 
 recited oyles,all of them firft mixed together with the Liquorice and 
 Succini fiiakcn well together in a glaife-violl with a few drops of 
 Jpintus vini , for that the laid fpirit ofwinecaufeth the recited oyles 
 well to incorporate, which done, and that they are mixed all in one 
 and added to the former, the Laudanum is ready, oncly if you could 
 forbeare your medicine fo long that it might afterwards ftand in a 
 fmall Alimbecke of glaffe, with a blindc head one month, it would 
 be much the better. 
 
 This medicine though it would put many that -profeife much 
 knowledge in the Art ofthe Apothecary to their trumps tritely to 
 prepare it, yet to an Artift which is a true Preparer of medicines it is 
 plaine and pleafant to be done, and once done,it is for his whole life a 
 lure medicine, and will doe the worke-maltcr credit that ufeth it. 
 
 I have the rather explained this medicine for that fo manygroffe 
 and daqgerous compofitions are daily hatched up,and uttered abroad 
 for currant under the name of Laudanum Paracel ft Opiatt, to the ex- 
 treame hazard of the lives of very many,and to the great prejudice ©t 
 the Commonwealth, from the danger whereof God deliver each 
 honeft Chriftian. And for that the younger fort of Artifts (hquld not 
 eafily be deceived with falfe compofitions, though I confelfeitii 
 
 not 
 
 A (ptcie’lob. ' 
 favation. 
 
 A digejfm 
 
 Extraction. 
 
 Calcination 
 
 Evapcrat'c#. 
 
 The manner ft 
 fin'Jh the com - 
 puftm* 
 
 To Comepofe th'.i 
 Opiate aright 
 is bard to a 
 
 Bungler. 
 
\6\ 
 
 Mark's to dif 
 cerne the {alfe 
 f,um the true 
 Laudanum* 
 
 Horn of the true 
 Laudanum. 
 
 ^ fear if nil vi¬ 
 tiation* 
 
 lMaca and Co* 
 lie a. dff'er in 
 place. 
 
 IliacaTajfio. 
 
 not poflible to e/pie feme cunning deceits which maypaffeinfarre 
 plainer compolitions then this is, yet take thefe few notes following 
 when you would buy it, for remembrances. Firft note,that the medi¬ 
 cine is falfo if it be uneven, I meane if it have any courfe or grolfe 
 thing in it, fo that it will not all clearely diffolue as a juice of Liquo¬ 
 rice well made will. 
 
 For this is an infallible rule, extracts are the pure parts of things. Sc 
 will wholy diflolve, or bejdiflfblved. Further note, that if either bony 
 or fugar be found iu the medicine, it is falle. 
 
 Alfo if it more liquid then the ordinary balls of Liquorice made up 
 in London , it is falfe or foolifhly made, and will not keepe. 
 
 Alfo if it retaine the lothlome fmell of Opium , it is not tobe 
 trufted 
 
 Alfo if it be not meerely ofone colour fo that you fee nothing of the 
 ingredients appeare at all, it cannot be good. 
 
 For affure thy felfe this compofition truly made muft befmooth 
 and well fmelling of fuch an indifferent hardnelfe that without 
 additions you may roule it into pills, and is not greatly ponderous 
 or heavie, but it is of an unpleafanttafte,I muft tell thee, and there¬ 
 fore I ule to give it, as I have laid, in a pill,except necellity by weake¬ 
 ned of the Patient when he cannot fwallow a pill, urge the contrary, 
 or that I ule it in outward griefes, as toothach &c. 
 
 lime a Paff/o, 
 
 I Lion or IliacaPaffio is a moftpainefulldifeafe, proceeding from an 
 obftruCtion of the fmall guts, which fuffering nothing to paffe 
 downewards caufeth a great wringing and paine, fo that many which 
 are oppreffed with this difeafe doe perifti, and die a very milerable 
 death, ending their daies.with their feces, or their owne excrements 
 iffuing out at their mouthes, and it is many times noted for a difeafe 
 infectious. 
 
 This wofull kinde of belly-ach or///Wo* paffio, differeth from the 
 collick in thefituation, in that it hath his place, and being in the 
 fmall guts, and the chollicke onely in the greate guts, fo that a vomit 
 fometimes giveth eafe herein - but glyfters feldome or never give 
 any helpe, lor that feldome any thing wil] be brought forth down¬ 
 wards though the glifters be never lb ltrong: but herein the helpe 
 that is to be hoped for by glyfters is farre better effected by the 
 glyfter firing, then by the glyfter bagge, for one may deliver it with 
 that inftrument with as greate force as you pleafe. 
 
 Caufes. 
 
 T He caufes of this difeafe are almoft one with the chollicke, both 
 which are obftruCtions in the fmall or great guts, and proceede 
 chiefly of three caufes as faith Dominic us Leo : namely 
 
 i The 
 
Iiiaca pafito. 
 
 '91 
 
 1 The drinefle of the ordure, or excrements. 
 
 2 Abfceflus, or a bile, or a botch in the guts. 
 
 3 Thickeanddriehtunoiirs. 
 
 Alfo this difeale fometimes commethby diftemperature ofthe 
 ayre being very cold, alfo by a blow or bruife upon the gut Ihon , the 
 inward caufes may be very many, namely by drinking ofpoylon, or 
 cold water, meates of hard degeltioti, binding of the belly, and fuch 
 like. 
 
 S'gnes or tokens 
 
 T HE fignes or tokens whereby this difeale is knowne, are as Galen 
 affirmeth, 7. Aphorifiy. an intolerable paine and wringing in 
 the upper part of the guts,and no excrements defeending downward. 
 
 Sometimes it mooveth heavy and fore vomits, fo that the very feces 
 are vomited upward, of which difeale or griefe icarce any in that AfcofuB v »- 
 kinde doe efcape,as Galen witnefleth, lib.6.cap.1 .1 have feene the like m “ ng 
 in a Rupture by reafon of a part of the gut I lion that was fallen 
 through the Peritoneum into Scrotum that could not be reduced, the 
 ficke vomited his excrements, and died the fccond day. Alio much 
 watching fometimes caufeth great paiue in the fmal guts or Ihon , al¬ 
 fo ftrong Convulfions, by cold in the extreame parts, and ifany feces me 
 be gotten forth of the fundament by any meanes they being put in- 
 to water will fwimme aloft. Item if this griefe come of poyfon 
 drunke,then the Patient willfuffer Tremor Cordis,foundings, dilabi¬ 
 lity ofthe faculties ofthc bo dy by vomit,which commonly goeth be¬ 
 fore the pangs, and allthele aforefaid fignes are ulnally more vehe¬ 
 ment and ftronger then in the Collicke. 
 
 Prognojhca. 
 
 W Hen the difeafe cometh wirh diftilling or dropping of urine* 
 the party dieth within feven daies, Galen aphonj. 44.except an 
 Ague happen, fo that in the meane time fufficient quantity ofurine 
 doe come. 
 
 Item, vomit, the Hicket, Delirium or ftrong convulfions are eviil 
 
 _ * } , » A deadly (me. 
 
 fignes, Avicen x^onthe 7.aphor.io. 
 
 The vomiting upward ofthe excrements, are deadly,yet young 
 folkes efcape in this difeafe fooner then olde tolkes. 
 
 The llion , where the paine doth change from place to place, is of a good fern t 
 leaft danger : becaufeitdependethorprooceedethofwinde, winch 
 is eafily relolved. 
 
 The breaking of winde upward or downewards,and ftinking much, Another. 
 is evil and deadly: as alfo the excrements much Itinking is the like. 
 
 Cure 
 
 I N the cure of this difeafe no Phyfician or Chirurgion,relpedHng his 
 
 Credit, will take vpon him ablolutely the cure thereof, efpecially Tromlp nocurt. 
 if the Scurvy be cofinned in the patient, without he be ignorant 
 
Iliac a Tajjlo. 
 
 196 
 
 ifthe patient doe vomit the feces or excrements upward, but if the 
 tj wmftno erirt. s curv y be not yet confirmed in the Patient, then the cure ofthis 
 difeafe differeth little from the cure of the Collick, and may be 
 differently ufed,and is all one,but that onely the ftronger medicines, 
 and greater diligence is to be ufed in this lhak , then in the Collicke: 
 cbfavaimi. which if it were on fliore or land, much more good might be expect¬ 
 ed, where aire, diet, place, and many other heIps,oblervations, and 
 confiderations according to the quality of the difeafe, with advice 
 alfo of the learned Phyficians obferued, all which the Seaaffordeth 
 not. 
 
 Certaine briefe andfpeedy notes for the Chirurgions Mate at 
 his neede, when neither Doff or, Chirurgion, nor 
 Apothecary is to be had. 
 
 Jlkca ofpojfon. 
 
 Of pot'm and 
 tfyfters. 
 
 Fomentations . 
 
 teuplafines, 
 
 ftrangc 
 
 duiw. 
 
 F irft, if the difeafe come ofpoyfon exhaufted, a vomit with warme 
 water and then warme oyle, or fbme fat broth is to be adminiftred, 
 and after a day or two fbme good treakle to be ufed. 
 
 If the caufe come of crude meats remaining in the ftomack, or.that 
 the difeafe come of crude and raw meats, a vomit is to be ufed. 
 
 But if there be no crude meats yet remainingin the ftomack, then 
 all means muft be ufed to difperfe the winde, and to draw the excre¬ 
 ments downward, either by potions, glyfters, and fuch like: and firft 
 with glyfters to fupple the guts, and to evacuate the obftrudrions of 
 the lower parts: make therefore a glyftcr of common oyle, or Lin- 
 feed oyle,and give him,or a decoction of March-mallow roots,Com- 
 frey roots, Linfeedsand Fenigreek, adding Bay-berries and oyle of 
 Dill,and Pulvis Arthreticus,orfpeciesHierse Pigra? %ij,give thisgly- 
 fter with the great Siring, and put it up with good force, remembring 
 toaddefalt, one fmallfpoonfull thereto. Alfo you may ufeSuppofi- 
 tories,and all other helps which are proper in the cure of the Collick: 
 or amixaure of honeyandfalt-Peeter, or Niter to anoint the funda* 
 dament therewith, & ufe foments with fpunges,&c. as in the Collick. 
 Alfo Phlebotomy may be ufed, efpecially in young men, and that in 
 Sommer,or warme Countries, efpecially where the difeafe commeth 
 of an Apoftume, or botch: Purging potions are alfo good, as Fulvis 
 Arthreticus 3 j,in wine or beere,or Aqmtla Lax at tv a i2.graines in a pill 
 or in beere diffolved. Moreover, Refolution of the matter is to be 
 made with foments, with cloth or woollen ftupes wet in oyle, wherein 
 Dill,Camoraill,Rew,Hollyhocks,&c. have been boyled,and applied 
 very warme. Alfo Cataplafmes made ofBarley-meale,Cummin,Rew, 
 Linfeed, Fenigreeke, Dill-feeds, Anni-feeds, Fennell-feeds. Bay- 
 berries, and the like, are very convenient. 
 
 AI fo the Patient is to fit in a Bath made of oyle and water, wherein 
 are boyled Camomill, Mellilot, Dill, Althea, or Hollyhocke, Rew, 
 Bayberries and the like, are good helps. 
 
 Not a S ter cut Lupmum is a remedy in the Iliacke paffio, even as album 
 Crxcurn is in the anftna, 
 
 Alfo 
 
Qollica p'lfsio . 
 
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 Alfo old Treacle and Mithridate are good helps for thofe which 
 cannot hold their meat, and you muft give them to drink the powder 
 or Thus or I/rankenfencc,aiid Cummin feeds in warm oxymcl 
 
 To conclude thefe brief notes, l wifli the young Artift in this mi 
 lerable difeafe, to try by ftrong glyfters and purges, and every other 
 good means which is warrantable, and not ftrirStly to reft upon thefe 
 ihort inftrudtions, in cafes difficult and dangerous. 
 
 Collie a, pafsio. 
 
 C** P a f sl0 ) s called in Englilh the Collick, and it is called a paf- rhtf , ■ - 
 ^fion, becaufe the pain thereofis fo great and vehement, thatma- WJT 
 ny times the patient defireth rather to die then to live in that vehe¬ 
 ment pain. This difeafe hathhisnameofagutcalled CW<w,and hap¬ 
 pened very often when the excrements are retained beyond their 
 naturall times aud cuftomes. 
 
 This mfirmitie is engendred of ventofitie, or winde in the gut Co- „ ■ u „ i 
 Ion, and cannot get out, fometimes it proceedeth of colerick hu- M ' 
 mours, and untemperate heat which drieth up excrements, and hin¬ 
 dered the due evacuation: alfoit corned fometimes of cold and drie 
 diftemperatures with increafe of fatneffe, making ftri&the pafTages 
 or evacuation of the excrements, and weakneth the expulfive fa¬ 
 culties. Alfo this pain proceedeth fometimes from the humours of 
 the ftomack, gathering wind? from the liver and milt, fometimes 
 from the reins of fuchas have the ftone. Alfo from an Apoftume in 
 the wombe, and fometimes it proceedeth from all the parts of the 
 whole body of man, as in fevers, where the humors are expelled from 
 the veins to the guts, and proceedeth of hot and dry, or cold and drie 
 diftemperatures, but never of moift, as faith Dorn. Leo. 
 
 Signes. 
 
 XHe fignes or tokens of this paffion are both generall and fpeciall. « 
 
 Generali fignes are vomiting, lothing of meats, great pain,re- /%«.' & 
 tentton of the excrements, unreft, griefe or paine m the fore-part of C oHM. 
 the belly conftipation fo great, that it will go neither upward nor £. F 
 downward. r 
 
 The fpeciall or proper accidents that do alwayes accompany the 
 Collick are continuall thirft, vomiting ofcholer, watchings, by loofe CamhutaUth}rlL 
 or cholerick excrements, a draining or wringing pain, though not ^ 
 
 long enduring, and young perfons in the Sommer are moft fubjetf: to 
 a loofe collick: but the tokens or fignes of the ftate of a cold body 
 in old age, are flothfulnefle and lazinefle, much defire after grofle 
 and cold meats,rawnefle,2V4»/of, or quefinefle of the ftoraack, ready 
 to cart, but cannot, Phuojitie or flimie vomits, little thirft, the paine 
 more remiffe, but longer continuing. Rumbling of the bcllie, de¬ 
 filing to drink cold water, or fmall drink. Longing after all man- Kewmof cold 
 nei of fruits, and white meats. The paine changing from place ^ rm ^- 
 
 Hh to 
 
 
ip8 
 
 QMicq pafsio. 
 
 to place, and the feces to fwiinme, being put in water, and very many 
 fuchlike fignes too tedious to trouble the Chirurgions mate withal] 
 at this time. Avicena faith,that amongft outward fignes of this difeafe, 
 iftlie patient fick of the Collick have certaine fmall whelks orpulhes 
 arising upon his belly , about the bignefle of a beane, ulcerating 
 and continuing above two dayes, it isaligne the patient will die of 
 the difeafe: Alfo when the Chollick doth not give place to Glyfters, 
 Foments, Motions, Cataplafmes, and fuch like good remedies: you 
 .AMbi/rhy. may then with Galen 12. CM. cthodi CMedendi, judge that biting hu¬ 
 mours doe poflefle the tunicles of the guts, but if the difeafe yeeld or 
 give way thereto, then the matter of the difeafe is contained in the 
 cavitie orhollownefle ofthe guts. 
 
 The Collick ftill continuing with vomiting, cold fweats, often 
 fobbing or the hicket, and not giving way to remedies adminiftred 
 is deadly. 
 
 A peftilentiall Collick, or contagious Collick, doth almoft alway 
 kill. 
 
 A Collick with feces voyding flirny fubftances, though an Apo- 
 ftume be in the greateft guts, yet it is curable. 
 
 The Collick proceeding ofwinde is eafily cured. Anealie or good 
 breathing, or taking breath is a good figne in the patient that he may 
 be cured, but difficult breathing fheweth the contrary. 
 
 T He manner of curing the Collick is effected by renewing and 
 t.ikiugaway the caufe, and then the paine vanilheth: But to re¬ 
 move the caule, many things are to be put in pradife, as preparing 
 the humours by evacuation, remiffion and refolution, all which re¬ 
 quire fome long time, and therefore other meanes are firft to be 
 ufed to takeaway the paine, or at lead; to mitigate the fame with 
 
 Anoints firft. Anodine medicines, and the due application of convenient helps of 
 
 warme and moift temperatures, which not helping, you muft a- 
 
 NecrofraU me- gaine have recourfe to Necroticall and Stupifying things, which in- 
 dicimt ifmde. deede arc not to be ufed, but in great extremities to give the patient 
 
 fome prefent eafe. 
 
 Anodinc medicines are to be adminiftred fo well inwardly as out¬ 
 wardly, as firft inwardly, namely in glyfters confiding of moift and 
 fatfubftance, as the decodion of Camomill, Dill, JLinfeed, Melli- 
 
 lot, Maiiowes, htoiliiiocK, i'emgreek, Baybenes, or fome of thefe, 
 with one ounce ofthe new extrad of CsfrU ,and fome fugar, with Lin- 
 feed oyle and butter adminiftred. Outwardly, thefe are to be apply- 
 ed, either Undions, Cataplafines, Fomentations,Baths, orfbme fuch 
 like convenient medicines, as time and place beft fitteth. 
 
 But if thefe fhould not helpe, then in great extremities, you are to 
 flie yetagaineto Necroticail or ftupilying medicines, as namely Lath 
 danum which exceedeth all Necroticis: or Philonium Mem- 
 
 mm is alfo a good medicine: thefe are onely to be ufed in caufes pro¬ 
 
 ceeding 
 
 
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 ceeding of hear, and never ofcold caules ; form cold caufes that were 
 rather to confirme the difeafe, and yet in the judging whether the 
 caufebehotorcold, lometimes a good Artift deceives himfelfe. If 
 the Collide come ofwinde, then you muft apply warme refolving me¬ 
 dicines, I meane diflolving and difperfing medicines. 
 
 Notes to be confidercd of by the Chirurgion in beginning of 
 the Cure of the Collick. 
 
 Clrft,whileft the meat is yet crude in the gut, I meane before it be r 
 A digefted and turned into excrement, noloofing medicines are to a caveat. 
 be adminiftred, but rathera fmall and (pare diet, and in the beginning 
 to begin with mollifying glyfters, and then afterwards to proceed? 
 with more (harp and itronger. But before all things, if the patient 
 haveafullftomack, and withallqueafie, afeeraglylter, then a vomit r, n 
 is pricipally to be adminiftred. ?£ 
 
 Repletion or over-fulnefle, as well as too much falling is to be 2 
 avoided. 
 
 Thirdly, no Agarickistobcufc&inany of your medicines forthe 3 
 Collick, becaule that cleavcth to the guts, and bringeth inoft 
 terrible paine and torfions , yet Stokinu* a Iearned^Germane 
 writer , doth highly extoll the fame to be put in Glyfters to give 
 it prelent eafe. 
 
 Fourthly, you muft by cordials have a care to preferve the Liver, 4 
 Heart, and Head, leaft they be hurt or offended by the vapours, and 
 over-much heat of the oyntments, cataplafms, and fomentations 
 which are ufually applied to the parts agreeved. 
 
 Fifthly, in the beginning over vehement warmings are to be avoi- y 
 ded, efpecially,ifthc Collick proceed of the dry feces ; for thereby A(avt *- 
 they be the more dried. 
 
 Sixthly, cold water is to be avoided, and not any waics to be per- a 
 
 mitted to be uled to quench thirft withall, but rather let the patient A fuond caveat* 
 ufefomeftewedprunes, Julipof Violets, conferves, and fuchlike ; 
 or a barley water, with a lew drops ofoyle of Vitrioll and fome licoras 
 are good. 
 
 Specificall things that cure the collick are very many,as horle-dung 
 drunk in wine , lures-dung or henne-dung drunke in Oxicratium, 
 where luch may be had. Alfo the powder of Harts-horne, corrall, s P le 'fi c * u h”** 
 cockell-fhels burnt, or fwines hooles burnt or Calcined till they be ^ 
 white, and fuch like, according to the diverlitie of the caules. Fur¬ 
 ther in the particular cures oi this difeafe, there are very many things 
 obferved by the learned Phyficians, according to the diverlitie of the 
 caufes, which were too much to trouble the Chirurgions mate with- 
 all at this prefent, as the ayre, diet,and divers other good helps to the 
 cure of this griefe, which cannot be obfervedat lea, onely fifh and 
 and water-foules are to be avoided as much as may be. 
 
 To cure the Collick which cometh by meanes of the feces remain- 7be fa*. 
 ing, and being dried up, which happeneth molt commonly at the lea 
 
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 QtUica pafsio. 
 
 in long voyages, and efpecially in hot countries: there are three fun- 
 dry intentions to be obl'erved. 
 
 The firft, to raollifie the feces, and fupple the guts. 
 
 Secondly, in Evacuating, to difeharge the belly. 
 
 Thirdly, to remove or take away the caufe of exficcation, or dry. 
 ing up of the feces orexecrements. 
 
 The firft is performed with glyfters made of common oyle or 
 butter, with the deco&ion of Mallowes, Violets, Beets, &c. and by 
 drinking oyle offweet almonds, or a decodtion of Poly podium. 
 
 The lecond thing which doth bring forth the mollified feces or 
 excrements is Cafsta fijlula, or Manna, or Diaphenicon, or Hiera, or 
 fharpe glyfters. 
 
 The third intention curative, ifit could be attained to at lea, were 
 to remove firft the externall caufes of the dileale-as over-warme ayre, 
 over-falted dry meats, and fmall quantitie of food, falling .watching, 
 melancholy, and the like, and inwardly to help the weaknelfe of the 
 expulfive faculty, with Treat:le , CMithndate, Conferva rofarum, or the 
 like cordiall helps, helping alio the expulfive facultie with glyfters 
 and fuch like good things: For further inward remedies you may ufe 
 the aforelaid glyfters, or halfie a drachme or &j. of Sulphur vivm 
 drunk in warme wine, and the belly well covered with warme clothes 
 helpeth fomewhat. 
 
 Item, Carraway-fecds made warme in wine, butnotboyled there¬ 
 in, being drunk helpeth.___ _ _ _ .__ 
 
 Item, a glyfter made of Sopc and Honey is a prelent remedy. 
 Item,a bag Huffed with bran, and made very warme fprinkled a lit¬ 
 tle with vineger,and applied to the belly is good. 
 
 Item, Goats milke, or other milke, boyled with honey, and 
 applied to the belly withafpunge , or cloth warme, inmaner of a 
 foment, healeth the Collick, and driveth away wormes, andeeafeth 
 the paine. 
 
 Item, the gall ofa bullock, Salgem, Aloes, common oyle, ana par¬ 
 tes equates, mingle them, and make an oyntment thereof, wherewith 
 annoint the fundament before the fire, that loofeth the belly, and 
 bringeth forth the hard feces. 
 
 Tenafmus. 
 
 The definition of "T' Enefmus oxTenafmw, as Hippocrates calleth it in his fixth Aphf 
 Tetu/mus. X rifme & in the leventh book, isadifeafe,ofextention,orftraining 
 out of the right gut called tntejltnu rectum, being oppilate or Hopped, 
 and of Ibme of Englilh writers it is called Collivenes. This dileafe as 
 Galen faith in his lecond book De methodo medendt is when a man bath- 
 an extraordinary provocation, lull,or defire,and a vehement (training 
 to go to the ftoole,but cannot void any thing at alfexcept fometiines 
 fome fmall quantitie of llimy matter, which now and then is mixed 
 with bloud, or a bloudy fubftance, and the extraordinary defire of 
 emptying or going to the ftoole not ccafing. 
 
 This 
 
201 
 
 Tenajf 
 
 mm. 
 
 This difeafe proceedeth of divers caufes and accidents, both out¬ 
 wardly, and inwardly. 
 
 Outwardly by cold, coming accidentally to the hinder parts, or 
 arfegut,as the long fitting upon a cold ftone,upon iron, a boord, upon 
 the cold ground,or any hard thing,whereby the Sphin&ure, or round 
 mufcie compafling the ftraight-gut is prefled, or bruifed. It cometh 
 alfo by intemperate heat, and drought, and cori uptneffe of the aire 
 and weather: fometimes by long bathing in cold water, and fome- 
 times by much ufing narcotiall ointments, and fuch like Alio inward¬ 
 ly this difeafe proceedeth of fait biting humours abounding through¬ 
 out the whole bodie of man: alfo by means of fome hot or cold hn- 
 poftume,or after aDyfenterie,or Flux, whereas fome cholerick mat¬ 
 ter remaineth behinde in the right-gut yet unevacuated. And fome¬ 
 times to happeneth here in our Countrey,as fome F.qghfh Writers af¬ 
 firm, by little drinking of beer or ale, and fometimes it cometh by 
 drinking too much wine, and by eating of coftive meats, andfuper- 
 abundance ofcholer aduft.This difeafe is ofthe nature, or difpofuion 
 of a Dyfenterie or Flux, but that the Dyfenterie paineth the Patient 
 with grievous tortions through all the guts, but Tenafmus paineth the 
 Patient ufually in the right-gut onely, as appearcth by Galen in his 
 third book De caufis Symptomat. And Trajanus in his fixtn Chapter,and 
 eighth book, who affirmeth the fame, faying, Tenafmus reclt intejhm 
 e(l effetfus, &c. The fignes and tokens of this difeafe are chiefly to be 
 known by the Patients relation of the temperature of the body, flen- 
 der diet, and egeftions, whether it be hard or coftive, or elfe thinne 
 or liquid. 
 
 In Tenafmus the pain doth not afeendfo high as thenavell, but is 
 chiefly felt with heat,pricking,and burning with a defire of emptying 
 in the end of the fphindture, the excrements being ofa yellowifh co° 
 lour in young men (like their ftarching now adayes ) but in old per- 
 fonsthe excrements are of a more pituos, flimie and bloodiefub- 
 ftance. 
 
 If the difeafe proceed of an Impoftume,the Patient will feel a con- 
 tinuall pain,and the more augmented and grievous when he goeth to 
 the ltoole. 
 
 The caufes of 
 Tenafmus out - 
 wa>d and in - 
 ward. 
 
 Outward as , 
 Cold. 
 
 Heat. 
 
 Drought. 
 
 .A (orrupt airs. 
 Batbmg m cold 
 water. 
 
 Necrotkall oint¬ 
 ments. 
 
 InwarMy as fait 
 hiimo/s. 
 
 Toe much drink¬ 
 ing of wine. 
 Tfjtue of Te¬ 
 nafmus . 
 
 Gal.de caufis 
 & fympt.Iib. 
 Trajan, cap. 8* 
 lib. 6. 
 
 The fignes of 
 Tcnaf/rus. 
 
 The fain de- 
 feribed. 
 
 ,Another figne. 
 
 Progneflica. 
 
 Tenafmus after a Dyfenterie is molt hard to be cured. 
 
 Tenafmus in a woman with childe caufeth oftentimes abortion,fob- Neaffirk ^ 
 bing, vexing, or the hickoke and is very pernicious, and betokeneth vatim. 
 much drinefle. 
 
 Tenafmus long continuing, bringeth the Collica and Uiaca Paflio 
 or: Sounding anddifeafesofthehead. 
 
 Tenafmus is not numbred amongft long nor fharp difeafes, for that 
 it is foon cured j and if the Patient do eat and drink well, there is no 
 danger. 
 
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 Of the fallingofthe fundament. 
 
 The cure . 
 
 HIM to cure Te- Tenafmus is cured by taking away the caufes thereof, from whence 
 
 nafmus proceed- it doth proceed •, as if it come by outward cold, then let there be ap- 
 ingfromeo’d. p]j ec j to t h e Os pubis, and hippes warm, refolving fomentations 
 and applications, as bagges of m: Ilium with fait, being rofted or fried, 
 or facks with branne fodden in wine, or water, and fo applied as hot as^ 
 may be fuffered, and the fundament and parts anointed with oyles of 
 Rew, Lillies, Bayes, Vnguentum martiatum, and luch like: Alexander 
 in his^xth Chap, and eighth book faith, Tenafmm is cured with fo¬ 
 menting with Fenegreek and the roots of Altheas,being boiled &in- 
 je&ed into the belly, andalfothe Patients hinder parts wellfuflumi- 
 gated with the fame decodion, the Patient being compafled about 
 clofe with clothes, and fo fet over it, and then the fundament after¬ 
 ward anointed with oyle of Rofes,fre(h butter, or goofe greafe, with 
 wax diffolved, Beares and Capons greale, and fiich like. 
 
 Item, AfumeofFrankenfenceaud pitch, being calf upon burning 
 coals,and the Patient fet clofe over the fume, helpeth prelently. 
 
 Item , To give prefent eafe to that pain, let two bags be filled with 
 -'wheaten-bran, and fteeped in boy ling vineger, and the Patient to fit 
 thereon fo hot as may be fuffered, and to change them continually, 
 as the one cooleth to take another. 
 
 Note that in this difeafe of Tenafmus , no cold things are to be ap- 
 AfeiaUk. plied at all. 
 
 mni^agy Item, fuch glyfters as are ufed in this difeafe fhould not exceed half 
 
 Jitr for Ttttaf- a pound, and the glyfter-pipe to be put into the gut not above two 
 fingers bredth at the moll in length within the gut. 
 
 Concerning exit us, vel pr ogre (Jus, vel procidentia Ani, in 
 Englijh, the falling of the fundament. 
 
 
 mus. 
 
 T His difeafe for the molt part is accidentall to our Nation in hot 
 countries, and that chiefly after or in the time of a great flux of 
 blood or humours, although it is manifeft it alfo happeneth in all 
 Children more countries and places, both to young and old, but chiefly to children 
 ’dStbeno'd u P on divers feverall occafions,which I lift not here to amphfie,having 
 ‘people. 1 >Cn 0 ' C no intent to fet out my work in painted phrafes, forlwould onely 
 arme the Chirurgions Mate how to proceed in the cure thereof at 
 Sea, and yet I know the fame will take good effect alfo at land where 
 that difeafe happeneth. 
 
 The Caujes. 
 
 Cauftofth: fal- 
 lingofihe fun* 
 dametu. 
 
 T He caufes of this griefe.aretoo many to be named , thefigne 
 thereof is manifeft, that it is a refolution or a relaxation of the 
 mufclesof thofe parts: whereby the gut flippeth or flideth down 
 lower then the naturall place thereof, namely, out of the body. 
 
 The cure of this griefe is for the molt part fhort, and likewife if 
 
 the 
 
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 Of the falling of thefundament . 
 
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 the Patient at Sea be carefull and go not out to the (hrowds or Beak- 
 headot the (hip to ftool, neither in going force the expulfive vertue 
 of his body over much, it will not ealily fall down again. 
 
 It is curedas follow^th jumdy, at thefirft going out, ufe no other The cm 
 remedie then a warm foft clout ancTthy hands, "and gently return it 
 into his due place, and let the party after it is reduced, fit on a hot 
 board, or have a very hot napkin doubled and appliedto his funda¬ 
 ment, and another tojiis belly: but whereas this difeafe for the molt T/ 
 part proceeded! from the fluxes of the belly, in fuch cafes you mult 
 proceed to the cure of fuch fluxes, and that effeded, you fhall bear ft uxes of the 
 no more of this accident. but if it ufually fall outfit is the more dan- ^ 
 gerous, then you may proceed asfolloweth,lettnepartie over a dole The cm if it 
 itooie, and fume the place as warm as he can fufl'er it, with a fume of ^ often to ftS 
 Thus, maffick, amber, rofin or pitch, or anyone ofthefe, and being 
 fumed well and very warm, beftrew the gut fallen down with Album 
 Grxcum well powdered,and fine, for this is precious though a homely 
 medicine, but therewith this difeafe is cured, and many other infir¬ 
 mities alfo-but there is a great care to be had to the powdering and 
 wellfearfing of the fame, for that it is often full of fharp pieces of 
 bones very dangerous: I fay therefore this being carefully prepared ** • > 
 
 an <J applied with warm foft clouts and warmed hands put it up,and let l up**”**' 
 the party as it were endeavour to draw in his breath in the* doin^ ThPrinu 
 thereof, for it will with eafe be brought up: and being thus put up in- hcl * u ‘ l ™ ti ' 
 to hisplace,_it falleth not eafily outagam^e fame effed hath burned 
 Harts horn powdred,or any other hard bones burned into white pow¬ 
 der, are very good, powder of Gall-apples or Gals is thereto a good 
 medicine ftrewed on as the former-,Pomegranate Pits powdered doth 
 the like, and Balaufties or Sumach is alfo good, being powdered and 
 ftrewed thereon. Alfoa fomentation very warm of ffiptick drying 
 things arc good, as for example. Bt freth water, heat andquenchpie? 
 ces of iron or fteel often therein, if it can conveniently be done • if 
 not, onely faire water, a convenient quantitie about a quart boyle 
 therein the quantitie of one large Gall, put to it a little Allum about 
 
 lcffe, cynamon ifit may be had 
 j _u have them,orBaulaufties a little, 
 
 - -- well the part, and after fomentation let it be 
 
 very gently put ftp to his place, but French wine or Aligant were 
 better then water for the fomentation.Further, have a great care that ^ 
 whatfoeveryou ufe by way of fomenting or otherwife, each thing be gr ¬ 
 
 adually very warme you apply, or they will endanger him. It will 
 likewde not be amilfe, if you adde a little good Aqua vita or Rofa folia 
 to your fomentation after it is boyled, e fpecially if your decodion be 
 water. Bean flowre is^alfo good to ftrew thereon when you go to put 
 it up, but Album Gracum is the beft thing you can ufe,'Maffick in pow¬ 
 der is alfo a very good medicine to ftrew thereon, ufe as little force 
 
 as may be, in putting it up, and have ever readie a Chaffendifh with 
 fire, when you go about th*at work, to warm clouts, and your hands 
 alfo. And if you finde it difficult to be reduced, let the partie be fet 
 
 on 
 
 
 
Of the (fallenture. 
 
 204. 
 
 Tbt Pati’Ms on his head and hands, with his Iegges abroad, and it will help fonie- 
 
 htip very wed w ] lat> but beware he Hand not fo too long, but rather let him reft and 
 begin again, or kneeling on his knees and elbows is alfo good, onely 
 Let. the Patient let him remember that he draw in his breath, as 1 have laid, for that 
 beware. av aileth much,and let him not feek to clofe or draw together his fun¬ 
 dament as little as he can, till the gut be reduced to hisplace. If upon 
 occafion of the flix you be conftrained to ufe confortative or reftrin- 
 Howto prevent gent glyfters> with alio your Laudanum, you (hall not need to fear, 
 U ^ but h will keep U P : or d thefe things help nothing, I fear he is hardly 
 
 tbefltx k e cure( j } but they have never tailed me, and lo I conclude to the 
 
 honour of the Almighty concerning this difeafe. 
 
 ofthe Callenture. 
 
 T He Callenture by all my experience, or what I can gather from 
 others, is no other thing then a contagious fever, for the molt 
 me u. part fuddenly aflaulting Sea-men,fometimes it is with paroxyfmes, 
 The quality nfk. fometimes continuall, and hath fits hot and cold in lome, and that 
 very violent, even to the Ioffe of fenfes and life alfo. 
 
 The cau/es 
 thereof 
 
 lb: fanes. 
 
 The Caufes. 
 
 T He caufes thereof are divers,as namely, the intemperatUre ofthe 
 Climate, or degree of the world caufing an evill habit in the bo¬ 
 dies ofmen, when they come into fiich contagious aires, The evill 
 nutriment the Sailers have at Sea, ftrong obftru&ions, the abufe of 
 themfelves in diet and cuftomes,and divers other reafons too long to 
 intilt upon. 
 
 The Sjgnes. 
 
 T O be briefe,the fignes are a ftrong fever, a generall and fudden 
 diftemper oft times both of body and minde at one inftant, or an 
 inclination thereto. 
 
 The Cure. 
 
 T He Cure confiftethchiefly in Cordials, Alexipharmacons or pre- 
 fervatives, that the animall, vitall, and naturall parts maybede- 
 wbneott.it cm- fended from the venemous danger of the difeafe in evacuation, and 
 et ' in regiment ofdiet, all the fe being as fuddenly put in pra<ftife as time 
 
 will ferve, the difeafe being fudden and fierce in it felt. An excellent 
 remedie thereunto is a dofe of Aurum vite , and fweat upon it alfo. 
 
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 of Cordials. 
 
 a cmdiaii pttl . A Prefent Cordiall medicine fitting to be given in the Callenture 
 onfartbeuuen- is Venice Treacle or Mithridate 9 j.or London Treacle,or Dia- 
 
 tefferon % tf. with Syrupe Ltmoniorum 5 j. Plantane water or fair water, 
 5 iij. oyle of Vitrioll fix drops, or fo much as to make the drink tart, 
 and one houre or two houres after give him another dofe thereof,and 
 forthwith alfo let him have fuppofitory or glyfter given him, and fo 
 foone as he hath had one ftoole therewith , let him blood reafonable 
 
Of the (fallenture. 
 
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 largely it his ltrength will beare it, let him alfo have for his diet no 
 other thing for two or three daies but thin broathes, pannadaesor 
 the like; and if it be thought fit to take it, after the fuppofitory, a 
 glyfter were not amilfe to be given him, namely , a deco&ion of 
 March Mallow roots in water, adding in the end of the deco&ion of 
 Salniter%iiij. of Species Hiera&j. oleum Sambuc *%ij. thefewill coole 
 him well and cleanfe him. 
 
 And iffurther need of purging be,give him a dole of AquilU Laxx- 
 tiva, or AquilU viu, a dole,which in this difeafe hath been approoved 
 very good. 
 
 The AquilU Laxativa is ufually given in $iij. of Plantane or faire 
 water with Syrupe of Violets or Lemmons ^j. the Aquilla vita with 
 Conferva Rofarum, with Diatejferon, Liquorice-powder or alone. If you 
 fee thefe courfes reafonably put in pra&ife, doe not give content. I 
 meane the body being open, then in the name of God give him a dole 
 of Laudanum, you (hall finde it often to procure perfed: health with- ordinary 
 
 out further helpe. For his drinke lethim have a decoction of French ilf 
 
 or common Barley, whereunto Co much Liquorice , or Suec us Ltqno- ZZtuumfdti 
 rica may be added, as to make it of a gratelull tafte, as alfo for the 
 fmell, a fmall quantitie of Rofe or other vinegcr, and Rofewatera 
 little, and thereto Co much oyle of Vitriol j as to give it a talle fome- 
 what tart, but not too much: Syrupe or juyee of Lemmons is alio 
 very fitting to be put thereto if it be to be had in any plentie. But 
 let me advife the Chirurgions Mate in all the precedent courfes, that Gqdchjwgm 
 he ule good dilcretion and moderation, for over purging, bleeding, u ^ >utlce -‘ 
 and much thin diet will be very dangerous at Sea, and will furely T m prkeipall 
 turne your Patient into the Scurvy: For note this for a generall rule, •tfavumi. 
 that almoft every fickneffe at Sea ends in the Scurvy, andtheScur- ?• 
 
 vy oft-times unlades her lelfe by a Flux with death attending there- 2. 
 
 on, without Gods mercy, and the Chriftian commileration, 
 dihgence and skiifullhand of the Chirurgions Mate, 
 which that he may the better be enabled in all 
 difficult cafes to pra&ife and performe 
 his dutie,the God ofall glory 
 affifthim with his grace. 
 
 Amen. 
 
 ty Gods mercy 
 miferici are pre¬ 
 vented, and Art 
 in curing bhjjedi 
 
 ii 
 
 A 
 
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 A 
 
 TREATISE OF SALT IN CIE-. 
 
 NERALL: AND FIRST OF 
 the Antiquitie thereof. 
 
 Alt was created with the world in the beginning, 
 for that it is eafie to he prooved, that neither 
 hearb, bud, nor tree whatloever growcth, which 
 containeth not in it felfea proper and peculiar 
 Salt, which iscafily and apparently byArttobe 
 feparated from the other iubftances thereof and 
 through the wonderfull providence of our Al- 
 mightie Creator, each Salt hathfbme ueedfull 
 dme. ‘ vertue contained in it for the benefit of his creatures. A further tc- 
 
 ftimony of his Antiquitie, the Sea which tooke his beginning, as 
 Scriptures tcjii- Scriptures teftifie, before mankinde, doth produce the fubftance 
 Th: Sea ml ail thereof being wholly fait. And not onely the Sea, but alio all o- 
 C (T'e 7 a!t Cm ' t ^ ler crcatures of God whatibever under the whole heavens, whe¬ 
 ther they doe confift of Animall, Vegetable or Minerall parts, can¬ 
 not, nor ever did fubfift without a naturall inbred fait in them, whole 
 nourifhmentand increafeproceedeth from the earth, water, or ayre, 
 where the laid creature breedeth and groweth. Therefore linceit 
 challengeth a place with the molt ancient and firft creation of all 
 things,! need ule no more demonftrations,but conclude that the An¬ 
 tiquitie thereof, is as undeniable, and as cleere, astheSun-fhineisat 
 mid-day: thus much of the Antiquitie thereof. 
 
 Of the kindes and differences of Salt. 
 
 T O intreat of all the kindesand differences of Salt, isaworke fo 
 difficult and long, that no man whatfoever in the whole time of 
 Fnvtkvsto this ffiortlife, can make fufficient relation thereof, wherefore to a- 
 wne ofaiifaits. vo id e tedioufnefle,I will take a fhorter com fe: namely,I mcane to doe 
 fomething therein, and leave the reft for others of better capacitie, 
 that Ihall come after. Note therefore that there are three kindes of 
 Jhrc kinder Salts in generall.to wit,animall Salt,vegetable Salt,and minerall Salt, 
 and ere I digreffe or go any further,let me interpret my felfein plaine 
 tearms,to young practitioners in Art, whom alone I defire to benefit. 
 The animall lalt is underftood to be that fait which proceedeth 
 r atpy"J aUs ^ rom f reatures that beare life, and have fenfe & feeling, or mooving, 
 wliatloevcr, under which are comprehended all beafts, fifii, foule, aifd 
 
 worme. 
 
Of Saits and thiir virtues. 
 
 207 
 
 worme, &c. under the name of vegetable fairs, are comprehended 
 the falts of trees and hearbs, and whatfoever elfe may grow by fowino- 
 or plauting, or any other induftry of man, as well the feed as the fruit* 
 or the plant it felfe, or any part thereof. And under the name of mi ’ 
 nerall fait is comprehended the falts of all metals, as of Saturnc, lupi- 
 1 er, Mars , Sol, Verm .Mercuric or Luna: as alio tile fairs ofall ftoncs 
 with alfo all earths and their juyees and extra&ions, as likewife all o’ 
 tiler Minerall and Terreltriall fairs whatfoever,without name. 
 
 Thus much in briefe for explaining the three principal! kindesof 
 Salts, each of which have a three-fold feverall fubftancc contained in 
 them, viz. A volatile fait, a fixed fait, and a Caput mortuurn, named alfo 
 Terra Damnata , otherwife it may be rearmed to containc aFlegmc, 
 afpirit, an oyle,which againe is called,5a/, Sulphur , and Mercury each 
 devideable plainly,& eafily by Art: Some may here objed, that they 
 will draw more then three fubftances, each being a good medicine 
 from any one fubjed, either Animall, Vegetable, or Minerall, as for 
 an inftance from Mercury,yon may extrad infinite feverall medicines, 
 inwardly, and outwardly lerviceable, as namely, you may have from 
 Mercury Laxati ve, Vomitive,Diaphoretick,Diaureticke,cor<Jiall,pre- 
 ^fervative, and l'undry other needfull medicines to be miniftred with 
 great fafetie and comfort to the difeafed, aselfowhere of Mercury is 
 noted: which fpeech may feeme very ftrange to fome that all thefe, 
 yea and many more varieties and diverfities are found in any one Mi’ Ar.fatr. 
 nerall: but though one fubftance make many medicines, yet it con- 
 foundeth nothing the tria principal , for every medicine is notone 
 . principall, neither is there any principall tied to make but one medi- Salts geodin 
 cine.But to returne being digrefled,! fay the kinds of Minerallfalts u- fnealei are of 
 fed at tables, and for feafoning meats, are to be efteemed three in 
 number: one kinde is the Bay or Sea fait,dried nicerely from fait Sea¬ 
 water by the heat ofthe Sunne. The fecond fort is that fait which we 
 have from the Sea coolt, or from fait Springs at home, made by deco¬ 
 ction. The third is the fait that groweth concrete, hard and pure in 
 the bowels ofthe earth, fuch is the Sal Gemma,and this laft is held the 
 beft,both in meate and medicine,it is in colour like Chryftall tranfpa- 
 rent,and groweth in great quantity in Polonia,neerc the Citie of CVa- 
 eovia, my felf having gathered ol it in the Mines there. 
 
 ofthe necefsitie offait, and of the gen :r all utilities thereof 
 
 VTO one thing which the Almightie Creator hath made for mans nemejptjeor 
 nfe,excelleth Salt: as well for the fundry and molt neceflary ufes fait in auihl% s . 
 it hath, as alfo for the aboundant vertues thereof, without the which, 
 nothing which is created under the Sunne, as is laid, could fub/ifi in 
 his kinde, beautie or vigor: as for example, man the excellenteft of 
 Gods creatures,without fait prefently putrifieth.or at the leaft lalleth Example, 
 into fome extreamedifeafe, yeaafmalldiftempcrin the Animall fait 
 of man is able to kill the ftrougeft man, which the fimpleft may in his 
 owne reafon comprehend and know. And who liveth which at fome 
 time or other hath not tailed his owne bloud, either from his 
 
 I i 2 gums 
 
210 
 
 Of Salts and their vert Ms, 
 
 be with a fait 
 bath bathed. 
 
 Th : ve, tuesff 
 this Lixivhm 
 
 but this is racerely harmeiefle to any, provided withall before the 
 7 b* body t» be u f c 0 f t his bath, a due preparation and purgation of the bocy be 
 
 thought upon. ... , , 
 
 Moreover, there is an ordinary Lixivium, made by expert Chtrur- 
 gions, for the healing of Ulcers,which is Mundificative, Abfterfive, 
 Difcuiffivc, and very Sanative, performing much in Chirurgery the 
 chicfe ingrediences whereofis vegetable and mmerall lalts made by 
 decodion with vulnerary herbes in faire water to a luft confidence: 
 this Lixiviumia Tumors, Ulcers, Fradures, Diflocations, as alfo in 
 great Contulions, Obftrudions, Gangrenes, and many other like 
 infirmitieSjis a very good and ready medicine,the defenptien where¬ 
 of is let downe in the cure of fradures. 
 
 Tbs cMficke Alfo the caufticke ftone, called commonly Lapis Infernalis, is up 
 fione 'n madetf ^ t j ier thing, then meerely a vegetable fait, the vertues and making 
 whereof, is not proper in this place tobefpokenoftbutfiiallinui} 
 other place be mentioned, Thus much at this time concerningcoin- 
 moii fait, 
 
 of FitrioH or Copperas in Generali : Andfrfi 
 what is Vltrioll. 
 
 TT/fr/W/called in Lstmc t falcanfhum,m Enghlh Copperas or Vitriol! 
 V but more commonly called Copperas, is a minerall fait, whichfor 
 the worth and Vertues thereof doth farre excell many other kinds 
 of halts, fo that not without great reafon, that worthy Theophraflus 
 Paracelfus, who had truly anatomized that fait, affirmed and often re¬ 
 peated, that the fourth part of Phyfick was contained in this Minerall 
 lalt, from whence the lame author alfo, not unfitly, doth compare it 
 a comparipi* to ^ood, of which divers formes may be formed, and divers inftrn- 
 MdZood° Pl ’ m ments alfo may be made for divers operations and effeds for out of 
 this fait many fubftances may be extraded & prepared,& many good 
 medicines maybe compounded, quite contrary in operation, and ut¬ 
 terly difagreeing in effeds from eachother,as for example out of tins 
 mfofco'^' Minerall lalt, medicines of great efficacy may be made, as well in 
 bothifpvard and purging, as alfofiidorifefoui ordiaphoretieks, Coruialls, Anodincs, 
 outnwd. Narcotick, Stupefadive,Stifticke, Corrofive, Abfterfive, Rcper. 
 
 cuflive, Mundificative, and Sanative medicines, as alfo againit the 
 EpUepfie, or falling ficknefle and fuffqcations of the Matrix, good 
 medicines are to bee prepared thereof, and how thefeorfbmeof 
 them may be made by Art, and of their vertues, as time lhall ferve by 
 Gods helpe I have determined brietiy to declare heareafter 
 But I confefle I am not able to difeover the fourth part of the great 
 vertues of this worthy fait, for I daily meet with fome new medicine 
 therein worth the noting. 
 
 of the different kindes ofVit ri oil. 
 
 Xfltrioll or Copperas we may have in England of fixe, or at the 
 * leaft of five kinds, namely Vttriolum veneris , or Copperas made 
 of Copper , which in difeafes of the head farre exceedeth others 
 
 
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Of faits and their vertves. 207 
 
 as writers affirme, and this kind may eafily be prepared aud cheape, 
 as hereafter (hall be let downe. 
 
 The next thereto in vertueisthat kind of Copperas which grows 
 in Hungaria, which to my knowledge wee cannot well have in Eng¬ 
 land, though Ibme will affirme they have ofit. 
 
 The thirdefort ofCopperas that is praifed is the Roman Vitrioll 
 or Copperas, in a place whereof we doe buy a kinde of blew Cop¬ 
 peras in Loudon, which is not the true Roman Vitrioll. 
 
 The fourth kinde is brought from Gofler, a Towne in Germany 
 lieere to the City of Brunlwich. 
 
 The fifth kind is commonly brought from Dansk and is fomewhat 
 yellowilh. 
 
 The fixth and lad, or worft, is our owne common Englifh Cop¬ 
 peras.Thefe are all the forts ordinarily to be bought. 
 
 Though indeed many waies,and of many colours copperas may be vmZfJu 
 made, yea and of many lubftances, rs well from munerales ftoones 
 as earthes which if time would ferve,and that it were to the purpole, 
 
 Ihould be further (hewed;but to bee fhort the Copperas I would chufe 
 for my ule, is that which cometh from Gofler in Germany, it is to be 
 had in London, and is not dear, and is fufficicntly good to draw a 
 fpirit or oyle from, or to make any medicine for inward ules, but for 
 outward ordinary ules, the common fort ofCopperas will lerve well , ivhat ceppr.n 
 and fo it will doe reafonable well for oyle,but not yeeld lo much. H 
 
 Note that the belt Copperas as is faid,is made of Copper,or of the “ n ? " 
 Minerall of CoPper. Note further that all copper and brafle will 
 wholly be converted into Copperas, yea & turne againe into his owne 
 firft fubltance,namely into copper or brafle againe,though with lofle. 
 
 Alfo iron and filver will makegood Copperas, fo will divers forts of 
 ftones and earths be converted into good Copperas, and fprings 
 neere Copper mines,they doe m ike Copperas of,much after the man¬ 
 ner that fair peeter is made. 
 
 The way to make Vitriolum Veneris,tr Copprai of Copper, 
 is asfolloweth 
 
 R'T*Hin plates, or rather filings of Copper, what quantity you 
 pleafe,and Brimftone of each a like quantity, powder the Brim- 
 ftone, and mix it with the Copper, put thefe into an earthen pan un- 
 glazedj and place them in a Char-coale fire in a Chimny and let them 
 gently heat together till the Brimftone take fire. Then with an iron, 
 rtirre it a little to and fro till all the Brimftone be confumed: then 
 take it from the fire, and being cold call it into a gallon or lefle quan¬ 
 tity of faire water, and it will make the water greene, andintafte 
 like Coppras-, pourc off that greene water, filter and keepe it, and fet 
 the lame Copper to be made drie againe on the fire,which done, mixe 
 it with more Brimfton.andburneit, & quench it as before, continuing 
 fiich worke, till all the Copper bee confumed and turned into a plea- 
 f.uit blew or greene water: then mix and boyle the waters till halfe or 
 
 more 
 
112 
 
 Of Salts and their verities* 
 
 A me of the 
 true height of the 
 de coition* 
 
 The rules in this 
 Wur^e. 
 
 The venues of 
 Thlegma yi- 
 fiioh. 
 
 The Author his 
 
 experience 
 
 thereof 
 
 Rules in the 
 IVOify* 
 
 Ibsefcfts* 
 
 more be confumed, and fet them to code, and being cold, if it be 
 fufficientlyboyled, you {hall finde Coppras therein ; if not boy le it 
 more, and the Coppras willappeare: then take away the laid Cop¬ 
 pras which you finde,and lay it to dry, and boyle the remainer of the 
 water againe, and there will be more Coppras: take Hill the Cop¬ 
 pras each time out, laying it to dry, and doing fo till all be m^de into 
 Coppras. This is the belt kinde of Coppras, it is in colour of a plea* 
 fant blew, and is eafily to be made, and will yeeld a good quantise, 
 namely, one pound of Copper, if it be artificially prepared, will make 
 three pounds of Coppras. 
 
 of Phlegma. Vitrioll , or of the firft water drarvne 
 from Coppras. 
 
 P Hlegma Vitrioli is made as followeth: R. Coppras,put it into an A- 
 limbecke , and place it according to Art in the higheft degree of 
 B. M. namely , inaboyling water, drawing thereby from it all the 
 humiditie which byB. M. willbeexhaufted, provided youfillyour 
 Alembecke but two third parts full of Coppras, when ye put it to di- 
 ftill. This liquor as Jngetus Sains a late Italian Writer affirmeth, is 
 good againft paines ofthe head,proceeding of heat, namely,the dole 
 being two drachmes takenfafting for certain daies together. It fwa- 
 geth alfo the burning and boyling of the bloud. It ftrengtheneth all 
 the bowels. It confirmeth the braine weakened with fuperfluous heat 
 by the daily ufe thereofin the Spring time,the ftomack being purged 
 a little before. Alfo it maketh a moill braine temperate. Th is firft 
 medicine of Coppras was by the Ancients notknowne: myfelfe I 
 muftconfefle have made no great ufe of this medicine, onelylhave 
 ufed it as a cooling water againft the heat of the ftomack, and fome- 
 times have found it good,as alfo to foment warme with it for any hid¬ 
 den inflammation in any outward part of the body, due Evacuations 
 firft confidered of. The laid Author aferibeth many more vertues to 
 this firft Phlegma, or water of Coppras, which, for that I would be 
 loth to wafte time, I will not trouble the Reader with. 
 
 of the preparation of the fee end water of Vitrioll, commonly 
 called Spirit of Vitrioll. 
 
 'T’His firft recited water being well re&ified, feparated, and kepta- 
 A part: then take the glafle, Alembeckmentioned,containing the 
 Vitrioll, from out ofthe B. M. and place it in Arena,or a furnace with 
 fand according to Art, the Vitrioll within being firft made into fine 
 powder, and diftill it therein fo long till all the reft of the Humiditie 
 fhall be drawne from it which the B. M. had not force to exhale. This 
 fecond water,vou fhall perceive to be a cleere and odoriferous water, 
 onely remember that thou force not the water over ftrongly,but doe 
 it by a gentle fire. 
 
 This liquour is good to purge the reynes: itappeafeth inward fret¬ 
 ting 
 
Of Salts and tbeir^ertues . 
 
 
 ting and gnawing pains, taking one drachme thereof in the morning 
 falling with flelh broth. b 
 
 It alfo c&deth ftore of urine, and moderately provoketh fweat. It 
 ceafeth the inflamations proceeding of blows or ftripes taken in 
 warm broth, and mittigateth the pain thereof, but if your fire be too 
 ftrong, your liquor will come over fo ftrong, that your dofe rnuft not ^ Cmm. 
 exceed 3 j. at the molt: wherefore be wane thereof, for a good me¬ 
 dicine evill handled, may do much hurt, and fo will this if you want 
 judgement to ufe it. In times paft they were wont to calcine Vitrioll 
 till it was red, whereby it was deprived ,not onely of the firft, but alfo Htnv tht 4na 
 of this his fecond moift and moft fpiritfull fubftance,but that was ufed entsprep^JS, 
 by them chiefly, when onely they intended to prepare the fharpeft rwriaUfinbe 
 fpirit, or ftrongeft oyle of Vitrioll,which ftrong oyle of Vitrioll hath ^ 
 all the vertues hereafter recited and many more. 
 
 The vert tics ofthe frongejl oyle of Vitrioll. 
 
 I N 
 
 
 I T helpeth the infirmities of the Lights, with the water of Fennell 
 orfumitorie. It cutteth away the melancholy humours from the 
 ltomack, with Balm water, and comforteth the ftoinack after a won¬ 
 derful! manner, and doth defend the whole body from inward Apo- 
 ftumes and inflamations, and therefore it is ufed with good fuccefle 
 in the Plurefie,as alfo in vulnerarie drinks it is approved good, for it 
 attenuateth the blood wonderfully, and defendeth the parts grieved 
 from fear of Gangrene or putrefaction of the blood. It conglutina- 
 teth ruptures as well of bones as veins, and doth exceedingly corro¬ 
 borate and comfort all the parts of mans body, and may well be num- 
 bred as a principall amonglt cordiall medicines. It is alfo a very good 
 medicine not onely in preventing the Scurvy taken inwardly, but al- n beipety the 
 fo in the cure of the Scurvy many wayes, both inwardly taken with 
 any comfortable wine, or with beer for need, or to make a Beverage 
 therewith, and daily to ufe it in linall quantitie, 'namely, foure drops ' 
 for a dofe. In the Callenture it excelleth allothef medicines taken 
 in Plantane, Sorrell, or any other good cooling water, or onely in * > 
 faire water. Other convenient courfes judicioufly held,as name!y,to 
 procure to the party by fuppofitory,glylter or potion fomeloofenefle A C ‘ 
 of body, with alfo phlebotomie in due feafon, and quantitie accord¬ 
 ing to judgement. 
 
 And likewife obferving that a dofe of Laudanum is in fuch cafes a fit 
 help,laying the partie to reft: aloolenes of the belly, I fay,firft had by 
 nature or art. Moreover, for the overgrowings of the gummes in the 
 Scurvy, Vitrioll or Coperas hath no fellow, namely, a ftrong deco- 
 Clion of Vitrioll, with a little mel, or mel rofarum , and the gummes 
 after they are let blood well rubbed therewith very hot,helpeth well. 
 
 Al/o ifa ftronger lotion be required, you may touch the rotten gums 
 warily once with the oyle it felf, but beware you touch not the whole 
 skinne with the oyle recited or ftrong fpirit, for if you onely but rub 
 the teeth therewith, it is hurtfull,forit will offeud and much decay ACiHmn - 
 
 Kk them, 
 
 tver - 
 
zi4- 
 
 Of Salts and their vertues. 
 
 Vlteratms of 
 the mouth and 
 throat. 
 
 A Caution . 
 
 V 
 
 them, although I confeffe it maketh them white, 1 have had the ex- 
 perience thereof, as well by making black teeth white, as alfo in loti¬ 
 ons for the teeth: wherefore I know that the much life thereof con- 
 fiimeth the teeth, in ulcerations of the throat or mouth that re lift or- 
 dinarie cure,by other good lotions ufuall; touch the ulcerated part 
 warily but once therewith, and then the ulcerations will heal very fall 
 afterwards with any ordinarie medicines and helps, remembringas 
 caufe fhall require, to ufe due evacuations or phlebotomy. Alfo this 
 ftrong fpirit is good for inflamationsol the throat, namely, againft 
 inflamtt'wns ofSquimncie or Angina ufed certain drops in a fit Gargarifme or Lotion, 
 the throat. ' namely, to make it fomcwhat Tower, and then gargarize warm there¬ 
 with, for it mightily quencheth inflamations,and tempereth well the 
 bloud, and being likewiTe a little thereofgiven to drink, namely, fix 
 .4 caution. drops in fuch a cafe, it is much the better, alwayes remembnng 
 
 s,J ~\that all fuch difeafes require loofenefle of the belly, and fometimes 
 ^ phlebotomie. 
 
 „ ,,, ^ Moreover in ulcers and fiftula's fcarce a better medicine is found, 
 
 la’f. to enlarge a ftricSt orifice, remove a callow, or truly to corrcCt and 
 
 prepare any inveterate Ulcer to good healing, onely by touching it 
 with lint on the end of a probe, thereby putting the medicine to the 
 place where the caule is.This ftrong tart fpirit or oyle of Vitrioll is al- 
 moft generally in all purgative medicines, a notable corrective, and, 
 as it were, a good help to them to do their office, for it comforteth 
 the whole body,and it giveth a grateful tafte almoft to any medicine. 
 It is alfo good to a weak ftomack oppreffed with phlegme or ilime, 
 , and helpeth appetite taken in conferve of rofes, it hath infinite other 
 
 vertues too long here to relate, and indeed above my reach to fearch 
 out. 
 
 Tefidtmkii fi. There is no medicine more precious in peftilentiall fevers, then 
 vm, J this ftrong oyle or fpirit is, my lelf have often ufed it to others iu that 
 cafe, and taken it my lelf with good fuccefte. 
 
 The true and utmoft dofe is onely fo much thereof, as may make 
 'the vehicle or medicine wherein you give it fbmewhat lower, but not 
 too tart, for no man can fay juftly, give five, fix or feven drops, for 
 that one fort is five times ftronger then another: but when either your 
 purge or other medicine is ready to be adminiftred, adde certain 
 drops thereof to alter onely verie little, the tafte lower like, but in 
 the Callenture, ftrong fevers, or peftilentiall fevers, a greater dofe 
 may wellbe taken,according to aiferetion and judgement; but take 
 this caveat for a fare-well in the ufe thereof: note that if you put it 
 into a medicine liquid, it will fink down to the bottome, fo that when 
 you give it lhake it, otherwife you may leave the molt of it in the 
 glafle behinde, and when you mix it with a quantitie of Barley water 
 or Julep, whereof you intend to make many dofes, deceive not your 
 lelf, for if you never lhake and ltirre it, the laft dole will be unreafon- 
 able to be taken, and dangerous. 
 
 Turgm* medir 
 cines. 
 
 ^4 had appetite. 
 
 of 
 
Of Salts and their yertues . 
 
 of white Coper as. 
 
 W Hite Coperas is eafily made of other kindes of Coperas it is ff ' hereo f<ndbr» 
 generally called Vitrioli, or white Vitriol! in Enghfh,as if it “ “ made ' 
 were worthie a higher or more particular name, or refpedt, when in 
 truth,as white wax is made of yellow wax, by the bleaking it in the 
 aire, and walhingitoft: fo is white Coperas made of green Coperas, 
 and is thereby, in my conceit, the weaker, onely the fuperfluous hu- 
 midity is thereby evaporated,and it begetteth a new kinde and lhape, ~ 
 in alllotions it may fervein place ofthe other kindes ofCoperas,but 
 to draw fpirits from,it is weaker then any other coperas that 1 know. 
 
 The chiefufes I have made thereof, is for Collyriums or Lotions The venues 
 for the infirmities ofthe eyes, namely,again It itchings,akings,fmart- tbevtfjo^ the 
 ings, defluxions, and ophthalmia's ofthe eyes, wherein Ifindeit to ZIJmdt m 
 exceed either Lapis Calaminaris, Tutia., or Camp litre. The fait thereof uttn£ - 
 maketh alfo a lingular vomitive medicine,which 1 firft learned out of The Salt isvd • 
 the daily pradtife of that Worthie and famous Phyfician Dr. Peter Tur- mtivt - 
 ^dwelling in St. Hellens , who highly commended it to me, and I 
 have found it worthy his commendations in many great infirmities, 
 the dole is from 91 ?. to £15. and to jij. it isfafely given. 
 
 It may very well be taken in Betony water with lugar, or in want The effects of 
 thereof, in faire water with Rofe-water, one fpoonfull. it is good th ‘ ■ 
 againft the falling lickneffe , and in divers occafions ofpurging the 
 head, alfo in fevers proceeding of crude and undigelted humours. It Ftv m. 
 provoketh appetite. One receit of my experience for outward infir- Stomac l- 
 mitiesof the eyes, I will here beftow upon the^Chirurgions Mate_ 
 made ofwhite Coperas, which is as followeth. fTvttriolum Album in Amekfm the 
 powder £j. one new laid egge, or found egge,boyle the egge hard, 9« M-*jft£Ld. 
 ihellit, and cleave it through, and take out the yolke, and in place 1T^> 
 thereof put the powder of coperas mentioned, and let it fo remain 
 doled together two hours or more,then put it into a clean foft ragge, 
 being ftill lo doled together,and ftrain it hard,and a water will come 
 out which is green in colour, keep it in a glalfe dole Hopped, and 
 when occafion is, drop one drop or two at once into the grieved eye. 
 
 It is good in many infirmities ofthe eyes, and it will keep leven yeers 
 without putrifying. It cureth all itchings, fmartings, immoderate 
 rheumes, the Ophthalmia’s in their beginnings, with many other in¬ 
 firmities happening to the eyes, and it ltrengtheneth well the fight. 
 
 Thus much for this time of white Vitrioll or Coperas. 
 
 of burnt Vitrioli. 
 
 and alfo in all reftridtive powder for-ftaying of fluxes, and it helpeth 
 well with other fitting fimples to ficcatrize, and alfo in Lotions and 
 Gargarifmes; as is faid, it is of good ufe. 
 
 Kk 2 
 
 of 
 
xi 6 
 
 of Liquor, or rather Mel Vitrioli. 
 
 T His Liquor, or rather honey prepared from Coperas, fo called, 
 becaufe it is in thicknefle and colour not unlike honey ; Itisan 
 The virtue, excellent remedie again ft any lacrymous or weeping ulcers, or nltu* 
 
 la’s, to flay defluxions of humours in them, for it is very aftrmgent, 
 whereof it it and doth well fortifie a weak member, it is made ot calcined Vitrioll 
 
 “ infufed in fpirit of wine, and the tintture of the Coperas thereby 
 
 orberefeGt. drawn out, and then the fpirit ofwine evaporated per B. M. and foit 
 
 is excellent for to cure rotten gummes, or any purred or corralivc ul¬ 
 cers of the throat or mouth, or ellewhere, and hath many other ipe-- 
 ciall vermes, which when 1 fet down the preparation and ufe ,of my 
 other chimycall medicines fhall be further handled. 
 
 of Colkethor or Dead-he ad. 
 
 F Or want of time 1 here come to the laft medicine of Vitrioll ere I 
 have touched the fourth part. This Colkethor is of two different 
 kindes, the one is from the leces of Aqua fort is, and the other from 
 coperas, after the ftrong oyle is cxtra&ed from it. The firft is moftin 
 ufe amongft Chirurgions, and indeed is moft forcible, becaufe there¬ 
 in is a great part of the fixed fait of Salt-peetcr, and of Allum mixed 
 
 with the coperas; it is a medicine aftringent by reafon of the coperas 
 The force or tf- an( j a n unij an d abfterfive by realon of the Salt-peeter, and therefore 
 fid 0/colkethor. . g g QOC [ p or to prepare ftubborn ulcers to aficcatri7.e. Thus for this 
 
 time I conclude ofCoperas. 
 
 Sal Abjitithii. 
 
 S AItofworm-woodis a cordiall medicine, and isveryneceflariein 
 the Chirurgions cheft. It is very good againft the heat of a burning 
 fejhhnt fiver. anc j conta gi ous fever, % 6. thereof’ taken in a deco&ion of Centaury 
 
 i n • t C # _ — ^ L. 1 An /1 n A o IrP 
 
 bell, or in Plantane, or faire water, to which for to amend the tafte, 
 you may adde fugar a little: give the partie at the lealt three doles of 
 the medicine at leverail times, and fweat thereon:you fhall finde it an 
 excellent helpalfoin thedropfie or fwellings ofthe Scurvie,9j.ther- 
 of given firft & laft on a piece of tolled bread for five daies together. 
 
 It is good and fit to adde a few grains thereof into every cordiall, 
 
 Tbequaiidt. for it is Diaphoretick, Diauretick and partly Laxative. If is a very 
 The doftfir a good medicine againft a quotidian fever, Z j- thereof taken in Cen- 
 Qmidtm taury-water, or rather in a deco&ion of Centaury and fweat thereon. 
 pmgoohJtmai * n ft°ppi n g s urine,it is a Pure good medicine taken in wine.Thus 
 fafjget' m much for this time for Sal Abfwthtt. 
 
 Sal Gemma. 
 
 S 
 
 Earch in the differences and kindes of common Silt (of Sd 
 Gemma. , 
 
Of Stilts and their tenues. 
 
 Sal Nitri 
 
 knowtt tO purity, 
 
 being alfo 
 
 - - cold, as-is 7 **"" 
 plainly feen by his office and vertue : do I fay vertue ? yea and vice 
 both, I may fay, for in truth for wounding and killing fait goeth be¬ 
 yond Mercury , this is the dangerous part ofgun-powder, which giveth 
 it the force ofpiercing to the heart, which God deliver all Chriftians 
 from feeling it, and accurfed be that helliih Germane Monk which 
 taught it firft in Europe. This Sal nitri is either animall or vegetable, IZTdoS 
 or both, and may alfo not uufitly be tearmed minerall, growing in nitricf two 
 
 mines, and it is everywhere, for every creature living may be faid to f,lt ' 
 have a part thereof : man and bead, lam fure hath a great part of it. T , „ * 
 
 It is a mod medicinable fubjedt as any is in the world,and no man can s*i 
 
 live without it,for our blood and urine hath it in it, yea, and our very Nitri • 
 excrements are mixed therewith, it is alfo in caves, in mountains and 
 plains, and where not? 
 
 But to leave fuch difcourfe, whereto I have not appointed this little 
 time, I fay, Sal mtri in the Chirurgions ched is a worthie medicine, The ' m ’ ird 
 and the purer it is, the better itisfor allufes: Touching the inward Nitri! 
 ufes thereof, it is good againd Hemoragia,or bleeding ofa vein,wlie- The Weft* He - 
 ther it be by the nofe, or any inward vein of the body,taken 5 j'.diflol- 
 ved in Plantane or faire water. 
 
 In the Callenture disapproved good to coolethe boyling of the »***«. 
 blood taken as arorelatd, the dole for a need, if the heat be great,may lenluYc. 
 be given every four houres, or the partie may have a barley water ra¬ 
 ther made, wherein two drachnies or more may be diflolved to drink 
 at will, it will not offend him,onely if he take too great a dole at once T hs dfe - 
 it may caufe him to vomit, but it will not hurt him.lt is the bed thing 
 I do know for the furring of the mouth and the throat in fevers, the 
 place gently wafhed therewith diflolved in water, it prefently bring- 
 ethawayallthewhitenefle and furring, without offence. Itis notun- mZhfmcd, 
 gratefulloftade: butfo foonas you have taken fuch furring away, I WM in water. 
 advife you that you have readie fomc gentle fanative lotion to inject, T f* T, uth 
 to take away the acrimony thereof, for it is abflergent, and yet with- tmmdfjf. 
 out violence or danger, you may ufe therefore the ordinarie lotion 
 one part, faire water two parts, and fo in je& to cleanfc the mouth af¬ 
 ter the ufe thereof. I have expreffed other ufes of Sal Nitri proper in 
 the cure of the Scurvy, to which I referre the Reader. 
 
 ; ... 
 
 CERTAIN 
 
CERTAIN PLAIN VERSES 
 
 fortheufeof young Chirurgions by the 
 
 Author gathered, in fraife of S alt. 
 
 S Alt with the world did begin, 
 whole endexceedeth time: 
 
 In it lie hidden lecrets rare, 
 which no tongue can define. 
 
 Our Saviour his difciples deere, 
 to Salt did oft allude: 
 
 Who by their blefled voicesfili’d 
 the earth with fpirituall food. 
 
 Salt many jewels farre exceeds; 
 
 fait guideth health and life: 
 
 Salt Author is ofallincreafe, 
 
 'gainft f^lt there is no ftrife. 
 
 Salt and hisforce, his place, his time, 
 his power in life and death. 
 
 His choice, his change, his a&ions ftrange 
 admire we may on earth. 
 
 What living creature can want fait? 
 
 what plant or tree may grow? 
 
 What metal 1 perfect doth endure 
 if fait it do forgo ? 
 
 His fcverall kindes are infinite, 
 his vertues without number: 
 
 His quantitie fb large in all, 
 as to man feemes a wonder. 
 
 The aire, the earth, the Ocean deep, 
 with fait are feafoned fo: 
 
 As wanting it fowl, beaft, norfifh, 
 nor man could breath I know. 
 
 And 
 
Of Salts and their verities. 
 
 And for one inftance, doe but note, 
 
 in bloud what talte you finde: 
 
 Note urine eke how fait it is, 
 ifit digreffe not kinde. 
 
 Yea fweat and fpittle though they be, 
 but excrements irideede. 
 
 Have ftore of fait, which thing we finde 
 by nature fo decreed. 
 
 The earth produceth fait in all 
 her creatures more and lefle: 
 
 Yet different each in fome degree, 
 experience dothconfeffe. 
 
 Both hot and cold, yea moift and dry, 
 is fait in temperament: 
 
 Yea volatile and fixalfo 
 obferving each intent. 
 
 Some fowre, feme fweet, fbme lharp is found 
 fome bitter eke in tafte: 
 
 Yealiquid, folid, corrafive, 
 and purging fait thou haft. 
 
 All colours ftrange in fait are feene, 
 true healing therein ftands: 
 
 And poyfon ftrong abounds in fait, 
 fait lofeth metals bands. 
 
 The fpiritoffalt makes liquid Sol, 
 and Luna at thy will: 
 
 That potable they may be wrought, 
 a work of worth and skill. 
 
 By fait are cured many griefes, 
 though hidden and profound, 
 
 Ye * ” ^ thereof 
 
 Salt doth preferve the food of men, 
 that travell farre by fea, 
 
 And feafoneth well our meates at home, 
 which elfe would foon decay. 
 
 Of gaine that doth thereby arife, 
 all people have apart: 
 
 It maketh barren land beare fruit, 
 
 which cheercs the Plough-mans heart, 
 
zzo 
 
 u 
 
 Of Salts and their verities. 
 
 The Marchant is enricht thereby, 
 and all that fifli in lakes: 
 
 Great ftore of food is gain d by ialt> 
 all things it favory makes. 
 
 In Phyfick and Chirurgcrie, 
 it hath the greatell part: 
 
 It doth contain an eflence true, 
 which glads the f ainting heart. 
 
 It caufeth appetite at need, 
 it quencheth thirll at will: 
 
 It ceafeth pain of raging gowts, 
 it fevers hot doth ftill. 
 
 Thereby are bleeding wounds made well, 
 and that without delay: 
 
 Yea, fordid Ulcers it makes found, 
 and tumors takes away. 
 
 For meat and medicines there s not ought, 
 with fait compar'd may be. 
 
 Wherefore lie ceafe to praife a thing 
 above capacitie. 
 
 God grant we all may feafbned be, 
 with fait devoid of ftrife. 
 
 That while we live we may do good, 
 and gain eternall life. 
 
 Sal metallorutn , ejl lapis fhtlofophortm. 
 
OF SVLVHV^ 
 
 Vlphur is generally taken for every fattie,oylie,or - ,, . , 
 any way combuftible part of any creature, whe- 
 therit be Animall, Vegetable,or Mineral!,name- “1 wits. 
 
 ly, in Animal l it comprehends Adeps , Axungia, 
 
 Ptnguedo , and what elfe is combuftible. In Vege¬ 
 tables it includes Refine, Terebinth we, Gum, Oyle, 
 
 Waxe,F,imm Ardens,or Aqua vitd. Touching Mi¬ 
 nerals or Mettals, ft. includes all forts of Bitu¬ 
 mens, with alfo the oyles of Mettals, as of Gold, Silver, Iron, or any 
 other, together with all forts of Brimftone. Alfo it comprehends all 
 lorts of Minerall falts, I meane their oyles, as the oyle of Vitrioll, of A.ficeku 0 bf< r . 
 Allom, or of common fait, &c. And further it ; is to be confidered, Vatm - 
 that every Animal-1, Vegetable, or Minerall fubftancc whatfoever, is ExaM P le - 
 faid to containe his owne peculiar and different Sulphur, as for exam- A &em<tU ,u!e ’ 
 pie, in wine or beere, or any other liquid thing Vegetable, thatfpiri- 
 tuall part which is combuftible, though it be liquid,is termed the Sul¬ 
 phur thereof, viz. Aqua vita is the Sulphurous part of Wine, and fo al¬ 
 fo of Beere is to be underftood. 
 
 of Sulphur in particular. 
 
 S Vlphur in particular is that ufuall Sulphur or Brimftone which with 
 
 us is common, of which Artifts make divers excellent medicines, ivhatnu ' 
 viz : Flos, Oleum, Lac, Arcanum, and JBalftmum Sulphurises alfo Fjfen- 
 tia Sulphur is, with many other profitable preparations. 
 
 This Sulphur or Brimftone is tearmed the Balfam of the Earth, of The divers «p- 
 fome others it is tearmed a Minerall Terbinthine, of other Ionic a p J lUt T °f 
 llofin or Gum of the earth, and is plentiful! in all the world,for if you Su '* w * 
 but note for one meane inftancc, the Sea-coles, as we terms them, Thcpitmkof 
 which we burne,even they are full of Brimftone, whereby they kindle S! *’ pb,i * 
 fo fooue, and burne fo noylbme, that were they not burned in Chim- 
 nies, none could live and indure their Sulphurous fume. As alfo the 
 Turfes in fome places ufed for fuell, and generally, all the earth is re- 
 pleniflied with Brimftone. 
 
 Moreover note, that there is no Mettail, whatfoever it be as is faid, 
 but containcs a naturall Sulphur in it, otherwife it were no Mettall/or 
 in truth many of the ancient Writers doe affirme that Sulphur is the /( 
 
 Father of all Mettals, and notwithftanding all Mettals containe a tUoffuidf 
 
 L 1 part 
 
Of Sulphur and his vertues. 
 
 part of Brimftone or Sulphur in them*, yet we fee Sulphur orBrim- 
 ilone alfoto be an ordinary fubftanceot it felfe without the helpe of 
 any Metall to it. Further it is apparent that Sulphur or Brimftone is 
 of many different kinds a&is (aid, and thus much briefly of Sulphur 
 or Brimftone. 
 
 WiPW 
 
 
 In praifc of SVLTHV%^ or 
 
 ‘B'RJMSTOV^E. 
 
 O ,;vv : ’.icti. ■ . ... '.i'&.i 
 
 P=S®^&His Sulphur from the Horrid deep, 
 dame Nature did ordaine, 
 
 A fearefull fcourge for finne to be 
 as Scripture doth explaine. 
 
 A tafte whereof we may perceive, 
 for hiS infernall fire 
 
 Hath millions flainein towne and field, 
 by M'jtrs his furious ire. 
 
 Yet though it feeme mod mercilefle, 
 our God will have it fb, 
 Thatfromthefelfe-fame fubjedt fhall 
 great choice of medicines flow. 
 
 Yea it one chiefe mongft three is held 
 in all that live and breath. 
 
 And Vegetables it maintaines, 
 yet bumes in Caves beneath. 
 
 A Father it is of Minerals, 
 
 Philofbphers fay fb. 
 
 By help whereof they ’re made concreat, 
 from Chaos whence they grow. 
 
 The Sulphur that’s in Animals, 
 in farnefle chiefly Hands, 
 
 Each odor be it good or bad, 
 islinck’t in Sulphurs bands. 
 
 The Vegent Sulph’urs many are, 
 eachanfwering to his kinde. 
 
 
 Some 
 
0/ Sulphur and bis yertuts* 
 
 ill 
 
 Some Gummy, Q^c^ watecyif > , . r, l 
 
 and Ayry eke inclin'd. l vr t hr; t tu bio ,1 j ' 
 
 bi I 
 
 Yea Sulpbur vim glads mans, heart, * ; : 
 
 his courage it doth whet. 
 
 And many a ftrongman itpulsdowne, .ao^r. 
 it can inebriate. 
 
 jvi£j ooj jort 
 
 IlDlrf/7 
 
 I meane the fulphrousfpirits of wine, orli 1 
 
 Sir Barly-corne alfo 
 Hath fliewed him&lfe* man at Armes n r : , , 
 each plow-man that doth khow. > L;uo 
 
 
 hr 
 
 X 
 
 But to returne being wide digreft 
 from what I have in hand. 
 
 The minerall Sulphur was my 1cope, ■ 
 
 well knownc at Sea and Land. 
 
 ■. . • o 'rr'Vtv/c' 
 
 Which Brimftone crude ’gainft itches tri’d , r r x 
 in countrey and in towne. 
 
 And to ki 11 wormes in man and bcaft 
 is us’d of every clowne. 
 
 The oyle of Sulphur well prepar’d, 
 ajewellisof price: 
 
 His Ballam precious is alio, 
 thefe are no new device. 
 
 The quinteflence thereof is pure, 
 and cheeres each vitall part. 
 
 Yea being prepared faithfully, 
 it doth revive the heart. 
 
 The flowres lerve 'gainft peftilence, 
 
 ’gainft Aflhma. and the Murre , 
 
 Gainft Fevers and 'gainft Plurifics 5 
 to appetite a Ipurre. 
 
 Unto the Lungs a Ballam ’tis, 
 the Collicke it dothture. 
 
 From falling ficknefle it defends 
 and is bothiafe and fute. 
 
 In Phyficke and Chirurgerie 
 great helpe it doth produce, 
 
 To him that hath it well prepar’d, 
 and righly knowes his ulc. 
 
 LI * But 
 
Of Sulphur and his venues* 
 
 But Chimicke medicines aretofooles 
 like fwords in mad mens bands. 
 When they fliould aide,oft times do kill, 
 
 fiich hazard in themftands; 
 
 .torlv/ da< 
 
 Let Surgeons Mates to whom I write, 
 be warn’d by me their friend. 
 
 And not too raflily give a Dofe, 
 which then's too late to mend. 
 
 oils onrv>: 7lu*T 
 
 For many a good man leaves hi s’life, 
 through errours.of that kindej ' 
 
 Which I wifh young men would avoid 
 and beare my words in minde. , 
 
 bn*:rlmoved ) 
 
 Though Sulphur and Metturie 
 have healing medicines ftore. 
 
 Yet know th’have poyfon and can kill, 
 prepare them weU therefore. 
 
 
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 rf fiiip 
 
 p. 
 
 i 
 
 
In praife of Mercury 
 
 My ftiape and habit ftrange you fee, 
 my a&ionsbeft can witnefle me: 
 About the world I take my way, 
 with Sol in circuit once a day. 
 
 From earth to skic with oft returner, 
 from fubftance to a blalt 
 From good to bad and good againe, 
 hence wing'd, Iflyeinhaft. 
 
 Of 
 
216 Of ercury and hu vertues . 
 
 of me%c vcr }e 
 
 in Generally 
 
 MctC/'rie com- 
 mended and dif- 
 
 f'rayfid. 
 
 Er curie is generally taken by Chymifts for one of 
 the three principles whereof each compleat crea- 
 . ture is framed by nature, and it is alio the firft 
 which foriaketh his fellows, being affailed by 
 Vulcanejt is in truth a fugitive vagrant fubftance, 
 which in the preparing of divers , firnple medi¬ 
 cines, is fearce to be efteemed worth the glaffe 
 which containes it; it being alfo the fainted and 
 weaked part of the three, for performing any good thing it felfe,yet if 
 you pafle higher in Art then to a fimple worke, & that you would 
 make a true eflentiall medicine, in fuch a cafe it isworthy of equall 
 refpedt with the reft: namely either with the Salt or Sulphurous part 
 of the medicine. It is of feme Artifts tearmed a Phlegmia, k water 
 or a dew, as being the watrifh part of a medicine , it is foeafieto 
 beexhauftedfrom his fellowes, that the.wery warmth of the Sunne 
 will raifeit,yeawarme aire without fire or other helpe in fome fim- 
 ples isfufficient to dry their humidity, though not alwaies wholly: 
 but note this that all the humidity, in medicines is not to be termed 
 Mercuriall or Mercury : for ahy humidity,though it be not oyly,yct 
 ifitbecombuftible,it is termed Sulphurious, to wit. Aquavit* as is 
 faid, even fo much thereof as will burne is held Sulphur vini. Thus 
 much of Mercury in generall. 
 
 nr/ ■sQfUnft fidtal liiii: oqiafl yl 4 
 
 of Mercury in particular, yrn 
 
 t -j -{iu ojftl 1 Id':o 't ;>di liipdA 
 
 M Ercury is a fpeciall name which wife Philofophers of ancient 
 time have thought meet to grace Quick-filver withall, the rea- 
 SukkSn fon whereof in my opinion was, for that Quick-filver is an uaftable or 
 J " uncertaine Metalline fubftance fugitive , and not well aiiy way to be 
 made fixe or faithfull, as triall will teach thee to kriow. '< And yet of 
 ., Quick-filver is made many feverall forts of medicK#£, n £ach in their 
 
 ‘f tedLin*. names and operations much differing, adcording to theirVertues, fe¬ 
 te. verall ufes,and effects which they performe: Sublimed Mercury is cal- 
 
 Mercwy fnbii- led onely by the name of Mercury,Sc by the vulgar fpeech, feme call it 
 mate white white Marcary and Markry. This corrofive medicine is made of Quick- 
 
 Ti'lr -• fiiver, fait,and the Colcother of Vitrioll only by lublimation or diftil- 
 
 'md°‘ “ " ling them together with the Quickfilver, wnich Quickfilver flieth up 
 
 to 
 
 ebfer* 
 
 vation « 
 
Of \ 4 . ereuric and bis vet tues . 227 
 
 to the top of the hehne or head of the Still, together with thefpirits 
 of fait, leaving the fubftanceofthcfaIt,asalfotheColcotherinthe rhcfnbtle qua* 
 bottome of the glafle whichis therby faid to be fublimed,yet never- !j! } f 
 theles though it feemc eafilytobe tirade, let none attempt to make *' 
 this medicine without good dire&ion or experience, for there is no 
 fmall danger in the working thereof, and yet it is a good medicine 
 well ufed<,and hath much helped the Surgeon in the outward cures of 
 defperate difeafes, as namely fiftulaes and rebellious ulcers. 
 
 of Precipitate. 
 
 P Recipttate is alfo Quick-filver diftilled in Aqua fort it, which by rea- how Tredpi- 
 * fon of the ftrong fpirits contained in the violent and feirce uapors 
 of the Aqua fort is or ftrong water,it is coloured red, or glittering, or 
 (yellowifh, as experience fliewethj the vapors proceeding from this 
 kind of preparation are alfo dangerous Sc fo are the medicines made 
 therewith being often without due refpedt adminiftred, yea §j. of 
 Precipitate one doff often Pill-wife by. Empencks Aud againe fbme 
 others which would bee fteemed more excellent forinvention have 
 this medicine a little removed. And then they ftyle it Turbith miner- 
 all,attributing theretothe perfect cure ofthe Pox, perfwading them- 
 felues none can doe like wonders to themfelues, but they are chil¬ 
 dren in underftanding, and know it not, onely they are opinion¬ 
 ated and bold, and more often kill or ipoile, then heale, as their 7 he f ubill }°f 
 confciences know •, for mercury is a fox, and will be too crafty for 
 fooles, yea and will oft leave them to their difgrace, when they re¬ 
 lying upon fo uncertaine a medicine, promife health , and in the 
 ftead of healing make their Patient worfe then before. 
 
 ofSinabar. 
 
 Qlnabar which isufed in fumes for the Pox, is a deadly medicine 
 *^made halfe of quick-filuer, and halfe ofBrimftone by Art of fire, I t ^o*i‘SaMS 
 ineane by diftillation: I know the abufe of thefc three recited med’i- jj TffdS* 
 cines hath done unfpeakeable harme in the common-wealth ofEng- ibcZp ' 
 land, and daily doth more and more, working the utter infamy 
 and deftrudion of many an innocent, man, woman, and child, which 
 I would my wits or diligence knew to helpe • for every liorfe-leech 
 aud bawd now upon each trifle will procure a MercurialIfluxe, yea 
 many a nitifull one, whereby divers innocent people are dangeroufly 
 deluded, yea perpetually defamed and ruinated both of their gcod 
 names, goods, healths and lives,and that without remedy. Me thinks 
 I could Ipend much time if 1 had it, evenininfettingdownethe 
 good and bad things of quick-filver, and yet I confdle I am too 
 weak to deferibe the tenth part of his wonders. 
 
mmrnzMm 
 
 In Laudem zPvIercurii: 
 
 OR IN PRAISE OF 
 
 Qujckjifaer or zHAIercuric^. 
 
 \7WHeretofhall I thy worth compare, 
 
 ▼ ▼ whole actions lb admired are? 
 
 
 ~ ' LU LUCCj 
 
 inftrength, in vertue and degree. 
 
 
 Thoa to each Artift wife art found, 
 a fecret rare, ye fafe and found, 
 
 A nd valiantly thou plai'ft thy part, 
 to cheere up many a dolefull heart. 
 
 
 Yet makeft thy patient feeme like death, 
 with ugly face, with ftinking breath: 
 
 But thou to health him foone reftores, 
 although he have a thoufand fores. 
 
 . 
 
 The perfeftft cure proceeds from thee, 
 for Pox, for Gout, forLeprofie, 
 
 For fcabs, for itch, of any fort, 
 
 Thefe cures with thee are but a fport. 
 
 
 Thou humors canft force to fu blime, 
 and them throw down when thou feeft time. 
 
 Yea from each end difeafes flie, 
 when thou art preft thy force to try. 
 
 
 Sweat to provoke, thou goeft before, 
 and vrine thou canft move good ftore. 
 
 To vomit for diverfion beft, 
 
 in purging downe thou guid’ft the reft. 
 
 
 Mans body dry thou canft humeckt 
 performing it with due refpedt, 
 
 And being too moyft thou mak'ft it dry 
 who can that fecret caufe defery. 
 
 
 
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Of Mercury and bis vertues . 
 
 22 ? 
 
 Quid non men terme thee, wot’s thou why ? 
 
 thou canft be faithful!, yet wilt lye : 
 
 Thy temperament unequal! ftrange, 
 is ever fubjed unto change. 
 
 For thou art inoift all men may fee, 
 and thou art dry in th’higheft degree : 
 
 Thou'rt hot and cold even when thou pleafe, 
 and at thy wi 11 giv’ft paine iji eafe. 
 
 Yet thou haft faults, for I dare fay, 
 thou heal’ft and kil’ft men every day. 
 
 For which I will not thee excufe, 
 nor hold them wife that thee abufe. 
 
 But for my felfe I doe proteft, 
 as trully friend within my breft, 
 
 Thy fecrets rare jnoft fafe to hold, 
 efteeming them as fineft gold. 
 
 And why ? thou art the Surgeons friend, 
 his work thou canft begin and end : 
 
 For tumors cure, yea hot or cold, 
 thou art the belt, be it new or old. 
 
 For recent wounds who knoweth thee, 
 hath got a peereleffe myfterie : 
 
 A Cauftick thou art ftrong and fure, 
 what callous flefh can thee indure ? 
 
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 In Maturation where *tis dew, 
 thou art the beft I ever knew: 
 
 For repercuffion thou win'ft praife, 
 by diflolution thou giv'ft eafe. 
 
 What’s virulent thou do’ft defie, 
 and fordid Ulcers doft defcry : 
 
 Yea fiftulaes profound and fell, 
 thou fearcheft out and cureft well- 
 
 No ulcer can thy force indure, 
 for in digeftionthou art fure : 
 
 Mundification comes from thee, 
 and incarnation thou haft free. 
 
 To figillate thou do'ff not faile 
 and left ftrange fymptoms fhould aflaile 
 
 The griefe late heal’d, thou canft convay, 
 th'offendingcaufe another way. 
 
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0 f Mercwy and bis vertues. 
 
 The Alchymift by Vulcan fought, 
 
 from volatile thee fixtt’have wrought: 
 
 But thou defied his trumpery, 
 and changed him to beggery. 
 
 Had I but all thy healing Art, 
 
 it would fo much idvance my heart, 
 
 I fhould not doubt equall to be 
 
 in wealth to Lords of high degree. 
 
 But from thy venemous vapours vile, 
 thy corrofive ding that bones defile. 
 
 Thy noyfome favor: full ofpaine, 
 
 God give mee gnee free to remaine. 
 
 For when thou rageit,Bird, nor Tree, 
 norfilh, nor fowlc can withdand thee: 
 
 What mine rail fo dout can lay, 
 
 (he can withdandthy force one day > 
 
 In Saturn bred thot fee in d to dwell, 
 by tuf iters foyle tiou dod excell. 
 
 Thou Lion-like furprifod dtars, 
 rich Sol thou mak’d as pale a s afh. 
 
 Thou Venus beauty cand allay, 
 thou Hydrarge dod Elipfe Luna : 
 
 And though thou feem’d to wrong all fixe, 
 not one without thee can be fixe. 
 
 Thou art their Mouer, fo faies Fame t 
 
 which gives then caufe tadore thy name: 
 
 Ready thou art as women be, 
 to helpe poore iren in mifery. 
 
 Humble } to dud,ard afhe at will 
 water and oy le from thee men dill: 
 
 Tod up and down in fire thou art 
 yet lubtill Mercune plaies her part. 
 
 Meek as a Lambe, manly eake, 
 foftas the Wool..Tiger like: 
 
 Millions in one,one in a Million, 
 
 Male and Female in thy pavillion. 
 
 Thou Hermaphrocite as Fathers know. 
 Teeming folid, tiucly not 1b: 
 
 Thou’lt be in all, none reds in thee, 
 thy boldnefie brings Calamitie. 
 
 Thou 
 
Of sJvLercury and bis y>ertues. 
 
 Thou Idoll of the Chymifts old, 
 who fhall thy fecrets all unfold > 
 
 Swift is thy wing, none can thee ftay, 
 when thou feem’ft dead,thou’:t flown away. 
 
 If thou be in all things as men far, 
 dai ly produced and fled away, 
 
 Up to skye, down to the grave, 
 
 a wonder like thee, where fhall men have ? 
 
 But mend thy faults or thou fhall heare, 
 lie blaze them out another ye ere: 
 
 For many a guiltlefle man thou haft lam’d, 
 and many a modeft wight defin’d. 
 
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 And yet ’tis finne to wrong a thiefe, 
 th’Impoftors fault therein was :hiefe: 
 
 For he that would be bold with thee, 
 
 ’twere meet he knew Philofopay. 
 
 For thou to fuch art known and trae, 
 but hateft fooles that men uncoe. 
 
 Handling thee without due caufe, 
 thou being not fubjeCt to theiilawes. 
 
 Now to conclude,one boon gran: me, 
 
 I will requite it gratefully: 
 
 If th’old wife kill thee with fading fpittle, 
 furvive to make her patient cripple. 
 
 For well I know it is in thee, 
 to caufe difgrace effectually: 
 
 His throat and nofe fee thou defib, 
 for thou thy Father canft begu le. 
 
 Force out his teeth,clofe up his jaw, 
 and leave fcarce entrance for aftraw: 
 
 Yea deafe, or dumbe fee thou him make, 
 with ache and woe, withpalfiefhake. 
 
 Regard not thou though he fhouli curfe, 
 
 whole griefs th’haft chang’d from ill ta worfe. 
 
 It’s known by theether’s many fkepe, 
 for whom ’tis now too late to veepe. 
 
 I’le leave thee left thy anger rife, 
 thy favours let no man defpife: 
 
 For as fword drawn, I knowthou’rt preft, 
 men to offend, or yeeld them reft. 
 
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Of the foure Elements . 
 
 To any mov’d at thefe mean rimes, 
 
 I anfwer ’twas my idle times. 
 
 And love to youths in Surgerie, 
 urg’d me c'unmask old Mercuric. 
 
 If Zoyliu deeml ftretch too wide, 
 in praifing thee what heer’s defcri’d, 
 I nothing doubt to prove each line, 
 to him that quarrels, in due time. 
 
 A word or two touching the foure Elements. The foure Elements 
 are Fire, Aire, Water, and Earth. But the divilion which the Chy- 
 mifts of thefe times plead for touching the Elements, Iofephtes o) ue r- 
 citAntes expreffeth in thefe words following: faith he,The whole world 
 is divided into two Globes, to wit, into the fujteriour Heaven, which 
 The whole is /Etheriall and aene,and into the Inferiour Globe which containeth 
 
 world cammed the water, and the earth. The fuperiour Globe which is iEtheriall, 
 m tmglobes, j n i c fl rCj lightning, and brightnefle,and this fiery Heaven is one 
 v’bMh compre. formalland eflentialTElement ; the water and earth are the other 
 hand'd in tbs two Elements: fo he concludes, there is but three, and with him all 
 HuZtfL, the Chymifts of latter times fubferibe, affirming that number moft 
 conuinttb. perfedt which agreeth with the everlafting Trinity. 
 
 PAracelftts inaTreatife of his, called Meteor urn, cap. i. mentioning 
 the difference betwixt foure and three Elements, hath thefe words. 
 Touching fire ; faith he, fire which is efteemed one of the foure Ele¬ 
 ments, can ftand with no reafon fo to be: but as touching the Earth 
 the Water, and the Aire, they are truly Elements * for they give ele- 
 ment to man ; but as touching fire, it giveth no element, it hath no 
 part in the breeding of man-kinde, for it is well poffible for a man to 
 be bred, and to live without fire •, but neither without aire, water, nor 
 earth can man live,for in truth from the heavens,by help of the other 
 two elements doth proceed Sommer and Winter, cold and heat, and 
 all nourilhment and increafe* whatfoever without the help of fire. 
 Therefore are the heavens the fourth Element, yea and the firft, for 
 the facred word fheweth us that in the beginning God made heaven 
 and earth, fliewing that heaven was the firft made, and in the outward 
 heavens are included the water and earth,which,faith Paracelffts, may 
 be compared to wine contained in a veflell, for wine is not gathered 
 and prepared without a veflell firft had and readie, proving Jfo many 
 vvayes that the fire is included within the Element of Aire, and is no 
 Element of it felf. To prove the like opinion,touching the four ele¬ 
 ments, I could rehearfe the names of many famous Writers if Iliad 
 leifure, and that the occafion were worth it, but the queftion little 
 concerneth the cure of difeafes by young Chirurgions, wherefore I 
 will conclude this point my felfe, intending neither to quarrell for to 
 prove three, nor four, let there be four or three, either of both fhall 
 content me. 
 
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 To 
 
Certain Fragments concerning Chirurgerie 
 and <iA Ichymie. 
 
 To the Qhirurgicall Header. 
 
 Oving Reader, I held it not altogether imperti¬ 
 nent to acquaint thee as by the way with fome 
 cuftomes which I have obferved concerning Chi- 
 rurgions in forraignc parts in my younger dayes 
 travels, and chiefly in the Germane Empire, as 
 touching their manner of allowing or approving 
 of Chirurgions in thole parts, if by accident any 
 young Artift (hould afiebtto make triall by travell 
 thither for his better experience, as I my felf have done,he may take 
 notice hereby for his inttru&ion. 
 
 Imprimis , their orders there generally are, that everie City, Town 
 Corporate, or place priviledged, hath a conftant rule, as by ancient 
 tradition of the allowing of onelyau uluall accuftomed number of 
 Chirurgions thereunto appertaining, fo that for one inftance if the 
 Citie ofHamburge hath twelve Chirurgions belonging thereto, al¬ 
 though a thoufand pound fhould be tendered in any way to produce 
 afreedome for a thirteenth Chirurgion, it could not prevail, nor 
 would be taken there; as likewife generally it is 1b all over Germany, 
 and each Chirurgion is bred and muft be a Barber, and lo are all Bar¬ 
 ber-chirurgions; and if anyone die,his office, Art, and place rells 
 in the power or dilpofing of his wife, to the ule of her and hers, lo 
 that wholb marrieth her, or compoundcth with her, of what Nation 
 or countrey foever he be that fhall exercife the place, it is alike pro¬ 
 vided he be brought in by the widdow, as her husband or Agent for 
 her, he is capable of a place void, having firft made his matter-piece, 
 and performed fome Manuall exercifes ufuall with them in his Art 
 of Chirurgerie, thereby to give a lufficient teftimony to the world 
 of his anfwerable skill in bis Art or Science, as namely, either by 
 grinding, and fetting a delicate lancet, and therewith opening leve- 
 rall veins fmoothly, for the more manifeft effecting whereof to the 
 brethren of his calling, one will lend him his veine, namely, one on 
 the thumbe, one on the foot, and one on thearme, one other on 
 the forehead, as alfo by the neat and exabfc making an artificial! 
 Emplufter, Unguent, or the like: which done, being by the reft of 
 the Matters of the Citie approved of, and fome other rites and cere¬ 
 monies anlwering to his calling by him performed, according to the 
 cuftomc of the place that he inteudethtorefiue in,heis then being 
 
 efteemed 
 
Of Qhimrgme and Alchymie. 
 
 efteemed a Regular perfon, and alfo having made the Brotherhood 
 of the place and himfelf well drunk once, twice, or thrice, he is,I lay, 
 (ij>fo facto ) admitted to be a Brother, and freely to ufe his function, 
 and is ftyled by the name and honour of a Matter of his profeihon. 
 Thus much of their cuftome. But ourcuftomes are different from 
 theirs, and are farre better, namely, our Companic of Chirurgions 
 of the Citie of London, in the Hall of the Society, have a more com- 
 mendable cuftome, for we not onely examine Chirurgions, and try 
 their skils in that way, as being of ancient time ufed and pra&ifed 
 amongft us, but alfo we have profitable, learned and experienced Le¬ 
 ctures read amongft us, having two laudable ends and effects in 
 them, the one in teftifying their own, I meane the Readers fuffici- 
 encies *,the other in feafouing and inftruCting of their auditours, 
 namely, the younger fort of practitioners in the Art they profeffe: 
 and yet they have a third good end, namely, they ferve for the pub- 
 lick good of the whole Common-wealth, by training up, ana breed¬ 
 ing of able Chirurgions upon all occafions. 
 
 Non Medicos tantumfacit experientia dottos: 
 guifacit artifices , ufus ab arte venit. 
 
 Aud of thefe our laudable cuftomes and exercifes in our Hall, my 
 felf have been both an eye and eare witnefle to divers worthy Artifts 
 at their LeCtures there, that have (hewed themfelves Matters indeed 
 in their Arts to their due commendations ( Virtue laudatur ab illis J as 
 alfo at the Lectures of divers learned Do<ftors in that place: butas for 
 my felf, although 1 have there as I may not deny exercifes by publick 
 reading of Ledtures in my turn and place, yet my ambition at the 
 higheft hath been onely to deliver my folf to the world to be Chirur¬ 
 gions Mate, as afpiring to foar no higher ( Nefutor ultra crcpidam.) In 
 which being, firft I have explained to the world aModule of the Mi- 
 litarie Chirurgions cheft, with theinftrumentsand medicines fitting 
 thereunto,as elfewhere is recited, thereby to intimate to the younger 
 Chirurgions in fome fort how they may make ufo of them in all pub- 
 lick forviccs for the better performance of their duties in their cal¬ 
 lings, upon all militarie occafions, for the more fpeedie curing of 
 fuch infirmities as Sea-men and fouldiers are moft incident unto, and 
 having finifiied my intent therein, at the intreaty of fome of my good 
 friends, I thought it fit, though in briefe, to write foinewhat byway 
 of addition to my former edition of Sal , Sulphurs and Mercury , and, 
 namely, how they are made the more known and ufefull unto us by 
 the Chymick Art, or the Art of Alchymie which the Chirurgions 
 ought to be verfed in, and which in briefe is thus defined. 
 
 De definitione Alchymia. 
 
 Alchjmta eft ars corpora naturalia mifta fohendi , & foluta coagulandi 
 ad medicament a gratiorafalubriora & tutiora conctnnanda. 
 
 The 
 
Of (fbirurgme and Icbjmie. 
 
 The definition if Alchymie. 
 
 Alchymie is an Arc diflolving natural! congealed fubftances, and 
 again congealing fubftances dilfolved, for the more gratefu 11,whole- 
 fome, and fafe preparing of medicines for mans bodie. 
 
 Secunda definitio. 
 
 Alchjmixeft ars perficiendi magifierii (fi efientias pur as (fi mifias t fepa~ 
 rate corpore extrahendi. 
 
 A fecond definition thereof. 
 
 Alchymie is an Arc which produceth magifteriall and eflentiall 
 medicines from mixed bodies. 
 
 The parts of Alchymie. 
 
 The parts thereof by ancient Writers are accounted two, namely, ubrnkt. 
 
 Encherix, 
 
 Alchymix. 
 
 Encherix is faid to be that part which performeth the operative 
 parts of the Art. 
 
 Alehy mix is tearmed the mixing and finifiiing part of the faid Sci¬ 
 ence. 
 
 Of the antiquitie, the firft inventers , and worthineffe of the ex¬ 
 cellent Art of Alchymie. 
 
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 I T is recorded by ancient Writers that the firft in venter thereof was 
 tubal Cain , fpoken ofin the holy Scriptures, who, as fome Writers 
 fay, was called Vulcan , Is enim primus in metallurgy laborafie fenbitur. 
 
 That he did firft of all men work in Metals* which is within the fcopc 
 of Alchymie, and not the leaft part thereof. 
 
 After him as Records witneiT t,Hermes alfo called 'JMercurius Trif- 
 me^iflus, an ^Egyptian king, was a worthie Inventer or founder ot Al¬ 
 chymie, being famous in lus dayes for the tranfmutation of metals, 
 whereby certain inftramentall parts belonging to the hidden myftery 
 of Alchymie bear their names, that is to fay, Vos Iiermctis, Pelircanus 
 Her metis-, Sigillum Hermetic, (fic. This Hermes as is laid by Hufius an 
 ancient writer lived king in ./Egypt about the yeer ofthe world 264.6. 
 fo alfo in the learned Mefies works is mentioned Pill. Her mat. Hiera 
 Hermetic , (fie. 
 
 The Art of it felf is alfo called Ars Hermetic , and for the tranfmu¬ 
 tation of metals that is alfo underftood with Gebrcus Mauritania to 
 have proceeded from Hermes , the which in this work the Author in¬ 
 tends not at all to handle,but onely of the inventers ofthis Art:fome 
 
 writers fay, the Arabians, and others the Perfians, are thought to be 
 
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 Of Cbirurgerie and <tAlchymie . 
 
 the firft that have prepared metals fit for medicines, and alfo have 
 pradtifed the diftilling of Liquors: whence Avicen o fSanfano isfaid 
 to have ftudied Alchymie, and he maketh mention of Sublimation 
 aud precipitation. Alfo many otherJPrinces and Philolbphers moved 
 thereunto no doubt deprafcientia Z)<?/,cfteemed thcmfelves exceed- 
 iugly graced by the works they performed in that Art for the curing 
 of many infirmities. 
 
 Amongft which one of the moil famous and fo molt truly worthie 
 was that excellent Philofopher for art and experience Philip pus iheo - 
 fradus Bombajl, otherwile named Paracelfus , who defeended from a 
 princely familie in high Germany, in the countrey or Province of 
 Helvetia, commonly called Switherland ^ upon whofe monument to 
 hisperpetuallfame is ingraven the verfes following. 
 
 Divinus tali ejl Paracelfus in arte monarcha , 
 
 Secula cui fimtlem nulla tulere virtwi . 
 
 And whofe engraven Motto was: 
 
 Alter ins non fit qui funs ejfe potefi. 
 
 And Bazillim Valentinus feconded him, who having his lights from 
 the former exceedingly beautified the Chymick Art, by compofing 
 medicines of unlpeakable worth to future ages, farre exceeding their 
 worthy predecenors as is manifeft ; for what companion can tnere be 
 betwixt medicines made of vegetables, decoded, contunded or 
 mixed how artificial foever,ifcompared with Elixers,QuintelTences, 
 Tindtors, and like extracts of price, which are not onely dureable 
 for many yeers without change, eafie and pleafant to be received into 
 mans bodre in his greateft weaknefle, but alfo they excell all Galeni- 
 fticallcompofitions for the eradicating inveterate maladies, as expe¬ 
 rience more thenfufficientlymanifefteth. For example, fuppofea 
 fweat provoking medicine were to be ufed of fourc, fix , or eight 
 grains, being a Diaphoretick of gold, or fuppofe but of Sulphur in 
 or with a fitting vehicle given, as, namely, in a little Mithridate, 
 Conferve of Roles, that by caufing a gentle fweat would extinguiflia 
 peftilentiall fever: were it not farre ealier for the fick to receive into 
 his body then a deco&ion made offudorifick hearbes, as Carduus An¬ 
 gelica, or Centaury with Mithridate and fyrups juftly compofed, as in 
 that form is ufuall, or that an Extradl being a Catholicon purgm 
 ten or fifteen grains whereof being extracted from a vegetable,which 
 without any offenfive naufeous tafte, or bitternelle at all, doth 
 work effectually to the defire of the Artift, fuppofe you it fhall not 
 be as much to the reputation of the Artift, and to the content and 
 profit of the patient, as ifhe had taken a dofe of Diaphenicon, or con- 
 fectio Hamech , with the ufuall additaments of Dicodtons or fyrups 
 thereunto as vehicles added. 
 
 Or that a dole of a Panchiagagon of' 20 . grains be not farre more 
 gratefull to afick ftomack, then an ounce of Dtacatholtcon de fucc. Ro- 
 
 farm, 
 
Of Cbirurgerie and zAtcbymie. 
 
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 far urn, Confecfio Hantech, or the like, it being daily manifeft that the 
 very light oflarge doles of medicines, although good, are naufeous, 
 and abhorred of the weak ftomack, yea that many Patients will en¬ 
 dure the dileale rather then the medicine •, whereas on the contrarie 
 true prepared Chymick medicines are not onely gratefull to be re¬ 
 ceived into the body, but alfo; as is laid, farre excell the others in 
 vertue and potent operation: and whereas the Chirurgion cannot 
 at all times ad vile with the learned Phylitian, as fitting andmoftre- 
 quilite he fhould in cafes ofphylick, where fuch may be had for the 
 health of his patient, as namely, the Chirurgion being at Sea, and up¬ 
 on long voiages, oratland in the Camp or countrey, where learned 
 advice cannot readily be had, they have efpeciall realon if they be 
 men provident to be furnifhed with fuch medicines as are finall of 
 dole, and light of portage, being alfo fuch as do not putrifie, nor 
 in one yeer change their accuftomed natures and vertues, no nor in 
 any voiagehow long foever:all which Chymick medicaments dd 
 well perform, yea though they be carried inlhipsand paflethe line 
 more then once. 
 
 Whereas few medicines made of vegetables that are in common 
 pra&afe, though found from the Apothecaries fhops, will be found 
 ferviceable upon juft occalion it they go but a fix moneths voyage, 
 as daily experience Iheweth, and as the Reader may ealily conceive: 
 wherefore then how needfull, precious, and how truly valuable fuch 
 medicines be, let any indifferent perlbn judge y that being truly 
 made, duely admimftred, and their dofes and ufes obferved and 
 known. 
 
 A further explanation of Ale hj mi e containing a divifon ofNatures 
 whole works into three parts, viz. Animall, Vege¬ 
 table, and Miner all. 
 
 O S wild ns C rolli ns a learned writer, as alfo Segiiinus, and divers 
 others with him of that fort do affirme that tot a natura inferior 
 fub Sole in tres partes dividitur, viz. Animalia, Vegetabilia, & Minera- 
 iia. The whole inferior work of Nature under the Sunne is divided 
 into thefe three principles, viz. into Animall, Vegetable, and Mine- 
 rail creatures. The animall creatures are tearmed or laid to be all 
 whatfoever containeth life: the vegetable creatures aretearmed or 
 meant to be all that which groweth. And under the minerall part is 
 included all metals, ftones, minerals, and whatfoever it be that nei¬ 
 ther vegetateth upon the upper face of the earth,not liveth. and from 
 each ofthefe three, by learned Authors is taught, and by experience 
 is found out, that there is again a threefold fubftance to be extra&ed, 
 and perfectly to be made apparant in every of thefo creatures; and 
 thele threefold fubftances are called Sal, Sulphur, and Mercury, and 
 beginning with the laft firft, their further definitions follow, 
 
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 2i$ Of Cbirurgery and <tAIchymie . 
 
 A brie ft definition ofCMercury. 
 
 M Ercury is a liquid fubftance lower, or {harp, volatile, penetrable 
 ayrie, and moll pure, from which all nouriflbment proceeded/ 
 as alfoallfenfe, motion, ftrcngth,and colour, and the keeping back 
 old age from man, chiefly next the divine operations of God relteth 
 therein, and it agreeth well with the elements of aire and water , for 
 to the former it is fubjedt upon every offered occafion to vanilh into 
 the foft aire: to the latter, in that it is very difficultly contained in 
 anyftraight or certain bound, but eafily in a vafte or wide capacitie 
 Likewife there are that define Mercury to be a liquid fubftance, that 
 is Eger, Porous, alwayes moveable, often mutable, and eafily pene¬ 
 trable, and a body that is molt pure and heavenly, moft fubtile and 
 ofa lively and fpirituall fubftance, being the food of life, and vet a 
 fhape, that is alio moft mutable, concerning his feverall fhapes of all 
 other creatures-, whereupon Phalopiu* tearmeth tMercury , Mtraculum 
 naturAmundo, The miracle of Nature in the world. In which defini¬ 
 tion, if the Reader may fuppofe I fpeak this of the vulgar Mercuric 
 viz., guickfilver, and the wonderful! Imps of his produdion,he takes 
 me off too fhort by figure. W herefore I here conclude the definition 
 of Mercury , and paffe to Sulphur. 
 
 L - * , ; - ! f t : X* . J 
 
 A briefe definition of Sulphur. 
 
 S Vlphur by the ancient Writers is faid to be the balfam ofNature, 
 it is fweet, oyly, and clammy, preferving the naturall heat of the 
 bodic, being the inftru mental caufe of all ftrength of all increafingor 
 generation of all tranfinutation, and the fountain and well-fpring of 
 all fonts both fweet and ftinking: and it is compared unto fire, by rea- 
 fonof the flame which it eafily gathers, as other gummy and oyly 
 bodies do, and this one thing is proper to it, that it hath force of ma¬ 
 king fit and conglutinating the greateft contraries. and Begmntu a 
 famous late writer, giveth an example thereof: For, faith he, thou 
 canft never make a fit clay with water and land, unleffe thou mingle 
 Lyme orfome other conglutinating body with it, fo neither fleeting 
 Mercury, nor fixed Sal, canbyaDymeanes be forced into one fub¬ 
 ftance, and framed into one body,but by a band and fetter of Sulphur, 
 which participates through the clammie and vifeous fubftance there¬ 
 of with both the natures of Scl, and Mercury, and fo joyneth them 
 into one, to wit, it maketh a true accord betwixt the dnneffe o fStl 
 and the moiftnefle of c Mercury, by the thicknefle and vifcoufheffe of 
 Sulphur\ and fo conjoyneth them both joyntly into one body- neither 
 may this Sulphur be taken to be meerly brimftone, but rather which 
 in truth it is,the fatty and combuftible parts of the body, or fubftance 
 from which it is drawn, be it of what qualitic foever. 
 
 A 
 
Of Cbirurgerie and <• Aichymie . 
 
 A briefe definition of Salt. 
 
 CAlt hath a body that is drie, favourie, and bitter, defending both 
 *pthe mixed and unmixed parts fromputrefa&ion - itexceedeth in 
 the faculties of diflolving, and difeufling, coagulating, evacuating 
 and feewring j and yet from ^4/t is all the vertue of the two laft reef * 
 ted principles borrowed, with their taftes, and infinite other cxcell 
 lent properties it hath,fo as the anologie of it anfwereth the earth 
 not becaufe it is meerly cold and dry, for in truth Minerals generally 
 have no certain temperaments, nor can be confined truly under the 
 attributes,hot, cold, drie, or moift, for that a Minerall is an elemen 
 tary body that is of it felf firme and fixed, and therefore lor his ope- 
 ratire excellency is unfearchable, fpecifical 1, and incomprehenfible 
 not to be limited or fubjugated to any one temperament, neither to 
 
 . endC l Wlthmhun ? aneCa P acitie - This ma Y Peeme unto 
 the Reader but a ftrange paradox, except by a plainer definition it be 
 
 P a * uet l, as namely, whether that the Salt here mentioned is reallv 
 Salt,fuchas is commonly ufed for faking meat, and alfo to declare 
 t at Sulphur is really Brimftone, and that Mercury hath the name of 
 Quickfilver generally: Unto all which I anfwer. They are • And vet 
 as is laid, they are not meerly fo, for that as concerning Salt each 
 creature hath his peculiar fait, and each peculiar his appropriate and 
 diftei ent facultie and vertue. And here 1 delire to inform the youneer 
 men that are Chirurgions, byway of digreffion, for their better 
 knowledge in avoiding ot dangers, that they be exceeding cautulous 
 and wane m the inward ufe of all Minerall medicines, whofc preoara 
 tions they are n ° t truly verfed in, but chiefly of that great andwon- 
 dcrfull Idoll Mercury, not in regard of the great good it daily doth by 
 the judicious ufer thereof, for it is a gracious good thing. bht rathef 
 Upeak mrefpearof the great hurt and mifehiefeit daily produceth 
 by the abulive preparation and adminiftration thereof; but for as 
 much as Mineral medicines have their due denominations according 
 to thefeven Planers, ltwilinot be impertinent for the younger fort 
 of Chirurgions that in briefe I write lomewhat of the feveh prime 
 Metalsafenbed tothefeven Planets. ‘ ' r f 
 
 A briefe C by mi call narration c/mccrningthe [even principle Metals. 
 
 denominated according to the f even Planets . * 
 
 A/f An y °P the prime Authors of the Chymick Art have, and that 
 not unfitly, aferibed the feven principle Metals unto the feven 
 Planets, as namely, they have aferibed Gold unto Sol, Silver to Luna 
 Copper to Venus, Iron to Mars , Tynne to fupttcr, CMercurs to Quick! 
 Iilver, and Saturne to lead, arid have nominated them accordingly- 
 and fo in the generaH explanations of all the learned Chymifts they 
 ftand to this day known by the aforefaid attributes. The ancient Phi- 
 lofopher^ Chymifts alio have aferibed to eachof thefe /evenMetals 
 or rather to the medicines made of them, a certain fpecificall or 
 
 Nn 2 more 
 
 
more peculiar operative power, orfacultic in the curing of thedif- 
 eafes of l'ome one part of mans body more then of another, and 
 namely, unto Sol or Gold and his medicine, isafcribed a fpecificall 
 facultie or hidden vertue, more excjuifite in the cures of thedifeafes 
 of the heart, unto Luna or Silver, the cures of the infirmities of the 
 head, and chiefely of thebraine are afcribed* and to Jupiter or Tin, 
 is referred the helpeof the difeafesof the Lungs* unto Mercury, or 
 Quick-lilver, is afcribed an efpeciall priviledge in the cures of the 
 difeafesof the Liver* unto Saturnc or Lead, is appointed the healing 
 of the infirmities ofthe Spleen* Mars or Iron, is faid to cure the griefs 
 of the Kidneys beft, and unto Venus or Copper, is left toheale the 
 defeats of the Genitalis, and this is not onely fo efteemed, butalfo 
 pradlifed accordingly, and that by Authoritie of many famous Wri¬ 
 ters ratified, as of Iofepbua J$uercitansM, Tho : Mujfetus, lucobut Smn- 
 glerns, and very many other worthy Authors in that Art, the number 
 of which it would be tedious to repeat, in regard that all and each of 
 thefe Minerals have their feverall medicines proceeding, or made 
 out of them, which although they all doe not alwaies beare the pro¬ 
 per name of the Originall Metall from whence they proceed, yet 
 in feme fort they doe, and namely, from Sol or Gold proceedeth, 
 Lltxer vita, Aurum Potabile, Aurum Tinclura. 
 
 Aurum Soluti'Vum , 
 
 Aurum vita Meum. 
 
 Aurum vita Theophrajlri and many more* 
 
 And from Saturne or Lead proceedeth oleum Saturni, lac vir¬ 
 gin is, Saccarnm Saturni. , 
 
 Vnguentum Muni. 
 
 Emplajlum de Msnio. 
 
 Lithergerie Ann Argents & Plumbs Saccarnm Saturni . 
 Plumbum album. 
 
 Cerujf r, and many other good Sanative medicines. 
 
 And the like of the reft of the feven Minerals in ufe,toolongto re- 
 peate:and here as by the way you may take notice concerning Saturne 
 or Lead, that all forts of Lithergie, they are no other thing then 
 Lead meerely, and to be reduced into Lead againe •, even fo Mercurj 
 or guick-filver, which hath thefe following medicines, and many o* 
 ther profitable preparations defeending from it. viz. 
 
 EIJentia de Mercurio. 
 
 Sturbith Miner ale. 
 
 Mercurstu vita, which is vomative. 
 
 Balfamum Mercstrii, afanative. 
 
 Mercttriiss Diaphoretic : provoking Sweat. 
 
 Mercuriut Diaureticssi, provoking Urine. 
 
 Mercuritts Laxativut, purging perfecejjum. 
 
 Beazor Miner ale, which is r - r^ axance » 
 different two wayes. ' Z '^ Vomatil , e . 
 
 ,.t, 
 
 Mercuritu 
 
Of Qhirurgerie and<iAicbymie . 
 
 Mercurias Dale is , Specificall in operation. 
 
 Mer cun us cum love. 
 
 Lac Mercurii, 
 
 Sublimatum, in it felfe Corrofive, deficcative, 
 
 Fracipitatum , fufpedted to have been the death of ma- 
 , nyaman. 
 
 Aqua Mercurii ex CMercur: Sublimate & ex prxcipitat. 
 
 Ablatio Mercurii vita. 
 
 Oleum Mercurial: Sinabrinm: and divers other prepa¬ 
 rations. 
 
 And yet to all thefe apparantly in ufe may be added divers waters, 
 oyles, liquors, dec. proceeding from this wonder bf nature. Mercury 5 
 and yet neverthelefle there is lcarce one of thefe medicines,but may 
 be reduced or turned againe in his prtma Subjlantia, that is to lay,thofe 
 that are really of Argentum vivum into plaiue Quick-filver,in defpite 
 of the old wife that killed it with farting fpittle; And Sinabrinm is a 
 Dog of the fame Mercuriall kinde, being made of Brimftone and 
 Quick-lilver fublimed together, and therefore a Coarfe and farre 
 more dangerous medicine then the medicines of meere Quick-filver 
 inmyapprehenfion, for by the onely once fubliming thereof with? 
 Sulphur it begetteth a Corrofive or venemousqualitie, as all experi¬ 
 enced Artifts well know Mcrcunusfubltmate doth, & that a fierce one: 
 therefore though fbmehave counfelled to themfelves, thatfuppo- 
 fed fate but molt pernitious medicine, that they have found aS a rait 
 deviled fecret by the mutation of Mercury into Sinabrinm , lettherri 
 know, be they old or young Artifts,that it is adivellilh,dead!y,coarfc 
 medicine, no way fafe nor fitting to enter in , ortbbeput intomans 
 body. 1 feare I may trouble your patience in dwelling too long upon 
 this f'alfe fellow Mercury, whom fully to difeover with all his miracu¬ 
 lous effeefts , efpeciallyif Ifhould unfold all his'perfidious elufions 
 and treacheries againft thepoorc patients that are under his domi¬ 
 nion , that onely fubjed: would fill a large volume, and yet I muft 
 everconfefle, as I have laid elfewhere, 1 have found him my good 
 friend many times at a pinch; yet let no Artift that truly feareth God 
 be too bold with him: tor that Mercury (under the Role be it fpoken ) 
 is 3 cruell man-flayer, and hath wounded, defamed, yea, and mur- 
 theredthoufands in corners, yea and doth play the devill daily both 
 in Citie and countrey ; and that under a vizard of vertue, yea and 
 iometimes under the Rofe doth it Cum pnvilegio Magi fir alts , upon 
 whole guiltlefle corps fb transferred into Abrahams bofbme no earth¬ 
 ly jury pafleth. For it is then too late to call tominde whether Art 
 or Nature were too blame, or by which the errour proceeded: for, 
 under favour be it fpoken, fometimes it i$ caft upon the knave Mer¬ 
 cury, which then he ever retorts it upon the Impofor • and he the Irrt- 
 poftor, like a Jugler, blames poore Venus with the caufe,but how true 
 God knoweth • yet (he, pretty poore fhamefaft foule, being amazed 
 and abafhed, knowing her felf to beafinner, yet conceiving it un¬ 
 merciful l 
 
Of Chyrurgery and Alchymie. 
 
 Frov. 7 . 6. to 
 tbe end. 
 
 mercifullthat her fweet lover and friend fhoulddie by the cruel! 
 hand of a murthcrer Mercury, for a little fweet pleafure ; !he hath no 
 wit to lay it where truly it fhould be, but plead Ignoramus, conceiving 
 yet dares not fay that lome of the greater Planets, as Sol, or Luna, by 
 their gliddering fliews wrought with fome body that perhaps igno¬ 
 rantly put that Idoll Mercury by Vulcans means, to play the Dragon. 
 And fo no more ol that, Fcelix cjuemfacmnt altena pericula cautum,frc. 
 leaving fuggeftions, and conceits, and may be’s. 
 
 We will again to our intended fcope, namely, to fpeak of better 
 things, concerning the fecrets of the Art, and leaving the erroursof 
 Impoftors with all their bafe and dangerous elufionsand abufes.and 
 proceed to the information of the well difpofed younger Artifts.And 
 in this place confidei ing that Mercury is appointed and appropriated 
 as formerly is exprefled, to the cure of the difeafes of the Liver. I 
 cannot but put the Reader innundeto admire the exceeding deep 
 wifedomeol that molt prudent King Solomon, as appeareth in the 
 Provubs, in his description ol the whorifh woman, who alter his let 
 ting forth of her dangerous wiles and cunning enticements for the 
 mtrappingof the foohfh young man, he thus concludes: The young 
 man goeth after her as an Ox to the daughter, or as a foole to the 
 flocks, till a dart ftnke through his liver. or as a bird hafteth to the 
 fnare, not knowing it is for his life; and concludes, her houfe is the 
 way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. In which atm- 
 butes oi Mercury, asaforcfaid, to the healing the Liver, it feemes to 
 me Mercury is as it were by God and Natures appointment prefigured 
 and enjoyned lor the healing ol thefoolifh young man that had the 
 dart ftrucken through his Liver-, for I am confident that dart was by 
 
 Solomon meant the cotagious difeafe of the French pox,which by con* 
 velcomaclu the poor fool gained byhis folly from the whonlh woman: 
 lor that the learned and expert Artift, not onelv by the DuJfeand the 
 urine, but by the complaint of the Patient, yea and by Ins very coun- 
 tenance may gather his difeafe, and that Solomons Dart hath ftricken 
 hisXi ver.even with the pox.For in the perfect cure whef oT.the'lheS 
 is firft.tobe verified, lor the which workl had almoft faid Mercury is 
 beyond companfon, lfhe bewellguided by the experienced Artift: 
 Lut it otlid wife. Mercury is a Dragou who for healing and killing hath 
 no fellow, as 1 formerly have denoted more then once. And whereas 
 it is vulgarly alledged that Cfaymick medicines prepared of Minerals, 
 aud namely of Mercury,gXe dangerous and deadly, it is. not denyed 
 but that they arelo, ll that by ait (purum abtmpuro) the purefrom the 
 impuie be not leparated but this advantage the true Chymift faith 
 he hath, that in the preparing of his medicines he can take the pure 
 from the impure. Whereaseven by the books o { Hippocrates, Galen, 
 Biafcortdes, and very many of the molt reverend ancient Writers it 
 is Anti dour turn M trjpitum, and many other works 
 
 and difpenfatories which teft.fie that they themfelves have not at all, 
 
 T ^ C ° n Parat , e t UrHm * b ^ro,but have made and 
 
 admmiftred many Mmerall medicines being of crude and unpurified 
 
 fubftances, 
 
Of Qrirurgerj and Alcbjmie. 
 
 fubftances amongft the reft. Rondeletius ufed to give crude Mercury 
 in pils to robuft bodies to kill wormes, and for the pox rand Crate a 
 famous PhyficiantothreeEmperours,isfaidto have ufed to admi¬ 
 nister Zimbnum for the giddineffe of the head. Iuhus Alexandnnus, 
 Matthiolm and Gefnems, thefe all ufed to give crude Copperas ill 
 Fluxes, as witneffe and Falopius ufed crude filings of Iron 
 
 in menltruous obftru&ions, alio in the Jaundife • and crude Sulphur 
 in the affe&s of the Lungs.The premifes therefore confidered, judge 
 then it the true prepared Chymick medicines given with judgement 
 be not farre more noble and worthy in themfelves then theyafore- 
 faid,aud the rather to be embraced, inthatitisdailymanifelt, that 
 the Galenifticall preparations of vegetable medicaments fail much 
 in their aferibed or preferibed vertues, efpecially with our Sea Chi- 
 rurgions, as is laid in forraigne parts, to the danger, yea, and to the 
 Ioffe of many their patients-,yet not in the leaft excufing of the abufes 
 by falfe prepared Chymick medicines,and the harm they produce by 
 their unskilfull preparations, and the abfurd adminiftration of them, 
 alluding whereunto divers worthy and famous Writers have menti¬ 
 oned caveats, and namely, Laurentius Hof manes, a learned Germane 
 Chymift in his book entituled De vero ufu & fero abttfu tnedicamento- 
 rum Ch) mi corum . he ufeth thefe words following as an inftance of the 
 danger of a falfe Chymick medicine. 
 
 A falfe Chymick medicine prepared unduely, and fo given (faith dnHijlnf. 
 he) may not unfitly be compared to certain dangerous fubtill Rats in 
 India, which by nature doe watch the Crocodile of thofe parts, which 
 ufually fleepe with his mouth wide open, and thefe Rats being 
 fmooth and foft in their entrance, doe not awake the poore Crocodile 
 at all, but goe in at his mouth very fmoothly, and eafily without trou¬ 
 bling him by tafte, touch, or fmell • yet nevetthelefle, after they are 
 gdt quietly into his bowels, forthwith they with their divellifh fharpe 
 lmall teeth, begin to bite the poore Crocodile, and in a fraall time they 
 doe fo corrode his entrals, that they make their owne way out at 
 f their pleafure, by the killing the poore creature, and that if not im¬ 
 mediately, yetbya languifhing deadly difeafe, they performe their 
 divellifh end by perforating hisentrals, and fo that improvident crea.- 
 ture dyeth. 
 
 The occafion of the aforefaid Author, his alledging this compiri- 
 jfon, proceeded by reafonfuch an Indian Rat, or rather in truth by a 
 falfe Min erall medicine put into the body of a Brother of his, as he 
 affirmed,which very fmoothly went in at his mouth, but within afhort 
 time had cruelly effeded the killing of the partie. Alfoto the fame 
 purpofe, on q Fore ft us of Paris a learned Writer affirmeth upon his 
 knowledge,that thoufands ctfpeople in that citie,have dyed by taking 
 of dangerous, and not well prepared Minerall and for the molt part 
 Mercuriall medicines, and one Crate an ancient Writer alfo affirmeth, 
 that tie kept a note of above eightieperfons, which to his knowledge 
 had been tilled abfolutely in oneyeare in the Citie where he-dwelr, 
 byonelmpoftor, and that by theonely giving of Turbith Mineral!., 
 
 and 
 
H4- 
 
 Of Chirurgcry and Jlchymie. 
 
 and yet of thefe but very few, but become or feemedfor a moneth or 
 two, to have been well cured of their difeafes, and yet afterafmall 
 time they languilhed away and dyed, fome of confumptions, o- 
 thers of more fearefull accidents by that mofl peftiferous Indian Rat, 
 be it for Sal, Sulphur , or Mercury, unduly prepared. 
 
 And Cardanus t an ancient worthy Writer, reporteth of a woman 
 fometime his Patient, who dying of a vehement paine in her head, 
 after the receiving of divers Mercuriall medicines,which beingdead- 
 himfelfe tooke out $ij. of crude Mercury, from within her fcull. 
 
 And he alfo relateth of another, who after a Mercuriall undiion ta¬ 
 ken , vomited up Argentum vivum indrops at the mouth and dyed 
 thereof, and my felfe mSamtBartbolomcws Hofpitall having been 
 there a Chirurgion 23 years, have obferved very many, to have mofl: 
 
 E itifully been abufed that way by Emperickes foolifh, women, and by 
 afe Impoftors who after in fhort time have dyed by bad Chymicke 
 medicines. 
 
 It is reported of Cardanus , that in his time he would fay, he was 
 confident, that if he might have for every man, woman, and childe, 
 that precipitate had killed, the value of one (hilling, he fhould be 
 richer then any living man, in the Citie where he lived. 
 
 And Andreas Libavius, doth report of acertaineMedicafterof his 
 time, which gave his Patient two pils of Mercury , of the firft he fell 
 into an Appoplexy, and of the fecond into a Lethargie, audio dyed 
 immediately. 
 
 He alfo fpeaketh of another, who had the winde Collicke, unto 
 whom a Barber gave three Mercuriall pils, who purged thereby con¬ 
 tinually untill he dyed. 
 
 Alfo Adurpita , a Phyfitian of Straufburge reports of another Phyfiti- 
 an dwelling in Straub urge in upper Germany not farre dilfant from 
 
 him, who in one yeare was knowne to have killed 80 Patients, which 
 had been under his Cure, by theufe of Mercuriall medicines. 
 
 Ailb of medicines of Antimony evill prepared, and worle taken; 
 infinite many have ended their dayes untimely: and here I cannot o- 
 mit to deplore the unchriftian audacious boldnelfe of the wicked 
 Importers in thefe dayes, who without any feare of God,or compani¬ 
 on to mankinde, doe rafhly rufhupon the cure of any infirmitie (how 
 incurable loever) promifing cure, taking money in hand, and thereby 
 engaging themlelves to the Patients to cure them 5 but yet when 
 with the belt ordinary meanes they know, they have not elfeded 
 their defires, I will judge charitably fo farre, but then they boldly 
 proceed further, and put the Indian Rat to worke, which as aforefaid, 
 goeth fmoothly downe into the ftomack, but when it is in, then it be¬ 
 gins to fhew what houfe it came of. 
 
 Now a word or two touching the true preparing ofexellent medi¬ 
 cines by this arte wherein I admonilh all men who have not conveni¬ 
 ence, I meane a convenient houfe and roome convenient for the 
 worke with learning, Iudgement, Leifure, wealth and other addita- 
 ments fitting 5 as alfo an able body and afpirit to goc through there¬ 
 with 
 
Of Cbirurgerie and aAichymie . 
 
 with that he or they refraine from the preparing of minerall medi¬ 
 cines as alio from their vapors for avoiding the burtheningof 
 his ioule with the guiltines ofbloud.yea and perhaps ofhis owne bloud 
 by evill vapors proceeding from Mineralls in their preparations, but 
 for the man that is fitly qualified let him in the name of God* goe 
 on, the worke is good,unto which to encourage him I intend to fhew 
 the producing of Sal, Sulphur et Mercury from Animal!, vegetable 
 and Minerall creatures byamoft plaine and true Arte and that at 
 eafy rates. 
 
 The way to draw Sal, Sulphur and Murcury 
 from an animall parte. 
 
 ^•Cranium hommis altcuiut lufiipcate jxij. (more or Lefle) rafpe it final!, 
 put it into an Alembicke of glafle well luted S. A. with a receiuer 
 loyned thereunto* place it in Arena (vtmos eft) diftill it firft, lento 
 igne, and there will be found in the receiver a pure water for the firft 
 which by Artifts is called the flegma or mercuriall part thereof, 
 which when by a gentle diftilling no more wilbe had change the re¬ 
 ceiver and increafe the fire, and a fatty Oyle which the Artifts tearme 
 the Sulphur thereof will appeare $ and when by fire no more fatnefle 
 will come over, all things being firft cold of themfelves, take out 
 thatwhichisinthebottomeof theftill, I meane the feces •, and cal¬ 
 cine them, and after inbibe and filtrate them, and having cleanfed the 
 fait thereof, evaporate the humiditie, orflegme therefrom, S. A. in 
 Balnea, and you (hall finde in fundo a perfed fait, then redifie the Mer¬ 
 curiall and Sulphurous parts, each perfe and put all the three medi-- 
 tines fo purified together, and you have ready a perfed; good medi¬ 
 cine for the Epilepfta , and divers other infirmities: & by this infallablc 
 rule, you may make true and perfed: medicines from any mem¬ 
 bers or parts of an Animall creature, either of the fle(h,the bloud, or 
 bones thereof. But if you faile in your Att, and namely, in the Arti¬ 
 ficial! proceeding, in the aforefaid proceffe, then blame not him that 
 fheweth you a plaine way, but begin againe, and beware amongft the 
 reft, of thatmifery which commonly attend the poore Alchymift, 
 namely, that his glafle breakes, left you loofe the firft labour and be 
 to begin anew. 
 
 The way to draw Sal, Sulphur, and Mercury , 
 from a Vegetable fubftance. 
 
 *k. Lignum Guaicum made into grofle powder,or fmall chips, three 
 
 f iounds or thereabouts (more or lefle) put it into a retort of glafle, 
 ikewife well Luted place it, S.A. in a furnace in Arena, thenaddea 
 fitting receiver of glafle, likewife well Luted to it as aforefaid, let it 
 have a gentle fire, for fome eight or ten houres, in which time an o- 
 doriferous cleare flegma, or water will come over,bcing the moft vo¬ 
 latile part of thatfubjed, which by Artifts is tearmed the Mercuriall 
 part: thereof* which being come of, change the receiver, and increafe 
 the fire, and a fattie oyle will appeare and come over, being wholly 
 
 O o combuftible. 
 
Of Cbirurgerie and dAlcbymie . 
 
 combuftible , which is the Sulphurous part thereof, all which being 
 drawne of, and. the furnace and all being cold, take out the feces and 
 calcine them a little, then put faire warme water thereto, and extra# 
 the fait per filtrum , the which fait water being purified, filtrated and e- 
 vaporated, you fhall have inf undo a perfect white fait, and if you then 
 pleale toredtific the Mercuriall, and the Sulphurous parts, each^r fe, 
 and joyne them all three together, you have a true good medicine in 
 the cure of CMorbtts Galltcus } and divers other dileafcs. 
 
 An example to take Sal, Sulphur e , and Mercury , from aMinerall 
 Body, and namely, from Salt it felfe, which may per¬ 
 haps feeme ftrange,though true. 
 
 r. Sal , Communis , fixe pound more or leffe,the ftronger the fait be 
 the better, put it into an earthen pot made to endure ftrong fire, 
 and let it have a narrow mouth, and be incapacitie three quarts, or 
 more, putin the fait, and put a receiver 5 . A . thereto, Lute them 
 both together, place that in a ftrong reverberating Furnace, and put 
 fire thereunder, firft gently untill all the Mercuriall, volatile,and fub- 
 tile parts thereof be drawne over, which done, change the receiver, 
 and increafe the fire gradatim to the fourth degree as the Artifts 
 tearme it, but by order paalatim ,and you fhall draw over a ftrong oyle, 
 fattie in feeling, and forceable and fierce in operation, which is able 
 to difiblve and open the pureft, and molt principle Minerall, even Sol 
 dr gold it felfe to make it potable, and after all the aforefaid ftrong 
 fpirits be drawne forth that will be forced out by the ftrength of the 
 fire, withdraw or decline the fire, and all being cold, gather your firft 
 liquor by it felfe, then the fpirit,or rather the oleum falls into a fecond 
 glaffe by it felfe, the which is a molt excellent medicine, and in the 
 bottome of the earthen Inftrument, you fhall finde the true fait; of 
 fait though but light in fubftance, and fmail in quantitie, which ha¬ 
 ving each part: then if you pleafe to make ufe of thefe medicines, 
 each perfc not joyned •, for fo it is the better, for that each of thefe 
 particulars have different vertues in the Art of healing as experience 
 will teach. And amongft the reft the fpirit of Salt, willdif- 
 folve Gold to make it potable, it is alio fingular 
 in Fevers, for the quenching of thirft, 
 and refrefhing the fpirits , and 
 for the curing of many 
 
 otherdileafes. v *'° 
 
 ¥ 
 
 A 
 
 jdi 
 
A 
 
 PREFACE TO THE 
 
 TREATISE OF THE QUA- 
 
 RACtERS and tearmes 
 
 OF AltT FOLLOWING. 
 
 Vrtcous Reader > confidering with my 
 lelfe that young men in long Voyages are 
 full of leifure,! thought it not loft labour 
 to adde thcle Trcatifes to the former, for 
 that they not onely containe profitable 
 inftrutftions for youth, but by their novel- 
 tie and varieties doe partly rcfrefli the minde of thole Rea¬ 
 ders as delight themfelves in that part of Pra&ilc. It was 
 part of my gleanings in the time of eight yeares travell by 
 Land in forreine Regions. If the matter and forme there¬ 
 of be not worth the acceptance, yet I pray thee accept the 
 good will of the Giver. 
 
 ■--\\L 'X 'X* , 
 
 i; n r A: ' '—7 — , , ' l 
 
 o o t c HA i 
 
CHARACTERS AND THEIR 
 
 INTERPRETATIONS. 
 
 •j4nd firfi of thefevm'Tlattets. 
 
 li-fc 
 
 
 
 Saturnus. »*« . *K , d ^°' d ' <kfecative 
 
 Plumbum Tl * It ^ 
 
 dine, fanativc, laxative, mundificative, and yet full ofdeadly vapors, 
 lupittr Q> . O/T Ti „ D,a Phoremk> 
 
 s— • TlH 
 
 M f s *«vr aJS&J?S2 
 
 . u . a f d ‘- a lure medicine 
 ror fluxes of bloud,and a great opener of obftrudHons 
 
 *l. ©■© »•" %v? 
 
 , , , .. , comforteth the 
 
 heavy hearted, and is reputed the belt iiedidne. 
 
 Venus. - Q Q „ Maketh fundry 
 
 Cuperum T ^ *fyp*r needful! medi- 
 
 ^^yfieaHandChirn^all, viz; oleum , fiinm, &ter^m 
 
 Mercurius. If ♦ V Mtk, ftiend.’af^hea? 
 
 pelling, attrading, corroding,^ qu,d ml > lmg ’ killl ‘ Jg ’ ““ 
 
 Luna. (C^ <\ ... A medicine ne. 
 
 Argentum * **** 1 ° t0 ° of f Cn , 
 
 . c ,, 7 ken,a good reite¬ 
 
 rative, a corafortable,and an anodine niedicine,&c. 
 
Cha\acte%§. 
 
 24.0 
 
 
 Other Qarafters ±AIphabetically* 
 
 Good againft in¬ 
 flammation, dif- 
 of Beere cuflive, defenia- 
 
 -n-i f— r>— t TMfiirj Is a vehlcle that 
 4 4*1 openethmineraU 
 
 *F 1 inegrr. bodies and ex- 
 
 Aer. 
 
 Acetum. ) |I, | | ( ♦ HH Vineger 
 
 ^ ^ of Bare 
 
 five, comfortable, anocine, &c. 
 
 Acctum I A er d , ir a U hS“°a 
 
 ^ ini * Vineger piercer, anodine, 
 
 a cotifumer, a caufticke,and a veficatory medicitie,&c. 
 
 Acetum * 
 
 Diftillatum. 
 
 tra&ethtin&ures, &c. 
 
 fl*«/^4whS th n °”„l e 
 
 ^Elements ture fubfifteth. 
 
 Alumen (> O 
 
 tive fanative, refrigerative, &c. 
 
 Alumen 4^ 
 
 Combuftum. V-' * ^ 
 
 alfo induceth a good cicatrix. 
 
 Alumen ♦ 
 
 Piumofum. — — 
 
 taine hiddenfpecificall vertue it hath. 
 
 Albumen . 
 
 Ovorum. 
 
 good in reftraining fluxes, &c. 
 
 Amalgam*. ^..TES Ap^things 
 
 A Hum 
 
 Burnt 
 
 A Hum 
 
 Flutne 
 
 ^ v tIA § 
 
 Deficcative , a- 
 ftringent, corro- 
 live, mundifica- 
 
 .An eafie and a 
 good corrofive 
 medicine,which 
 
 Afecret in reflo- 
 ring a withered 
 member byacer- 
 
 fwri •. ' Cold , defenfa- 
 
 Whites tive> mollifica . 
 
 V £ is es ti ve, healing, and 
 
 together', or a 
 . . terme of Art for 
 
 putting together ,viZ: fiaj Alm*g <*>«,*,but more particularly it is meant 
 of Mercury, with any other metal 1. 
 
 .... 4< 4* . . Vomitive, laxa- 
 
 Antimonitim. a * /r\ Antimony tive, fanative, dh> 
 
 ^ Vy —^ aphoretick, diaUa 
 
 reticke, anodine, catrflicke-, and ftrlf of deadly vapours, if it be 
 not prevented, yet exceeding precibus in healing, being dilcreet- 
 Iy ufed. 
 
 Antimonii 
 
 >S\ 
 

 CHA%ACTE%S. 
 
 i_T-* fiCSf . . A forbidden 
 
 T 4 A G M e °fA" U * medicine, and 
 
 St iblit. 
 
 Antimonii 
 
 Vitrum. yet in common 
 
 ufed, and praife-worthy, if not abufed. 
 
 . . .. iJU . . This is buthalfea 
 
 Antimonii T 4 T Antimony me di c inc, which 
 
 Rcgulus. v_7 vL/ precipitate afterward is ufed 
 
 to be converted to flores, Tin<2urc,or fome other good medicine. 
 
 From March the 
 
 Annus. 
 
 Aq 
 
 ua. 
 
 Aqua — - 
 
 Fortis. * 
 
 peeter, and diverfly other waies. 
 
 Aqua \ iy Ry 
 
 Regis. Vt ♦ \7 
 
 fait, or rather Sal Armniackc. 
 
 Aqua 
 
 Vita. 
 
 One ye ClVe 2jr • till the return 
 of the fame. 
 
 One of the foure 
 elements of qua¬ 
 lity cold&moift. 
 Made by Vulcans 
 Art of Coppras, 
 Allome,and Sak- 
 
 Water 
 
 -i Jjaui 
 
 Strong 
 
 Water 
 
 A water to This * s made as 
 
 divide Gild. **“ former - 
 
 ding common 
 
 Aquavitar diftil- 
 
 Aquavitar diitil- 
 AquaVtt* led out of Wine is 
 of Wine. Q f excellent ufe 
 
 . f* y-o° 
 
 for healing,and the chiefecordiall in cheering the heart of man 
 
 Arfcnicuin. 
 
 good outward healer many waies. 
 
 Auripigmentu, 
 
 In tafte not un- 
 Arfnick pleafing, in triall 
 deadly, yet a 
 
 . /y , _ _ In tafte deadly, 
 
 « r\ o Orpiment yet ufed of fome 
 
 inwardly for the 
 cough, by fume with amber mixt, and outwardly ufed in many me¬ 
 dicines profitable. 
 
 a /\ ^ _ _ Or as it were an 
 
 Autumnus. v » * *' O Hdryeft entrance to the 
 ^ Winter quarter. 
 
 ry 1 jT f ~7 Aebalhetbat Alfogold calci- 
 Aunculum. Lj v /7 contames ld nedintopowder 
 
 6 being an en¬ 
 trance to Aurum fotabile. 1* y 
 
 •ss m -m m 
 
 dulterated, which being true, is precious. 
 
 A Principall cor- 
 diall medicine * 
 but very oftena- 
 
 ^Eftas. 
 
C H A\AfTEllS. 
 
 ./Ellas. 
 
 X -X 
 
 fometimcs forheate. 
 
 ./Es. 
 
 and prepared by Vulcms -Art. 
 
 ^rajfe 
 
 This character is 
 fometimes ufed 
 for Sommer and 
 
 This is but Cop¬ 
 per mixed with 
 LapisCdUmirmru, 
 
 Balneum 
 
 Maria?. 
 
 M 5 -BM 
 
 Balnea Is an Artificial! 
 CMarut diftilling by a 
 glafle Still let in¬ 
 to a furnace in a Kettle of water, by the boyling of which,the fubjedt 
 contained in the glalfe is diftilled. 
 
 Bolus © . ££) 
 
 * . Is cordial!, de- 
 
 Fine bole ficcative, reftrin- 
 . gent , fanativei 
 _ refrigerative, &c. 
 
 Imitating the for¬ 
 mer i but farre 
 weaker* 
 This is a great o- 
 pener of obftru- 
 
 women, and is excellent to lute glafle$,and as afecond hand to Gokl^ 
 fmiths. 
 
 Armenus. 
 
 Bolus 
 
 Communis. 
 
 Borax 
 
 Venetian 
 
 SA-Si 
 
 T- 
 
 Commit 
 
 Bole 
 
 C Borax 
 
 ■ . . 
 
 Calidus 
 
 Calx. 
 
 Calx 
 
 Ovorum* 
 
 X . Y 
 
 X-w 
 
 nn 
 
 Or rather 
 
 Wurme 
 
 ■« ■ • 
 
 Lime 
 
 Lime of 
 
 BggejbeU 
 
 Calx 
 
 Vive. 
 
 CV-4, 2 " 
 
 Chalybs." 
 
 
 dtions, and ftayeth the fluxes, &c. 
 
 Calor. 
 
 A* A. Htau 
 
 for great heate. 
 
 \ 
 
 Neither hot nor 
 cold. 
 
 Is abfterfive, de- 
 ficcative , cau- 
 fticke, fanative. 
 Is lbmetimc ufed 
 in ftrong rcftri- 
 diives, &c. 
 Chiefly ufed in 
 Caufticke medi- 
 cinesi 
 
 The molt valiant 
 fonne otMars, it 
 openeth obftru- 
 
 This Charadfer 
 ferveth not only 
 for fire, but alfo 
 
 Calcinarc, 
 
25X 
 
 C,HA%A CT E<F ^ S ' 
 
 Calcinare. 
 
 I *1*— . . Sometimes to 
 
 * -4 To Calcine burne to powder, 
 
 and foinetiiripc 
 
 C 
 
 ^ and fbmetimes 
 
 to prepare by fire to a certaine height and colour. 
 
 Ccmentare 
 
 a„ < 4 , 
 
 Is by a mixture 
 To.Cement corrofiveto adde 
 
 to any metall 
 pure, as Gold or filver, a higher tin&ure, and alfo to purifie the fame 
 yet further. 
 
 Ceruflfa * > p ~D Venice of r t i le off ‘ 
 
 Venctix. C^-C^ C "““ Lxl'.cSg, 
 
 anodine, deficcative, &c. 
 
 -r y t y A blefled medi- 
 
 Cera. V Wax* cine outwards & 
 
 X a X X inwards,of a tem¬ 
 
 per neither exceedingly too hot, nor too cold, mollificative, fana- 
 tive, &c. 
 
 Cinnabrium. ^4^E§2j Cinnabar and^^Tom- 
 
 * * pounded of Sul¬ 
 
 phur and Quick-filver, and ufed in Fumes, it Ipoyleth many, and hea- 
 leth by chance fome one in killing tenne. 
 
 Cineres 
 
 Ligni. 
 
 
 iJfies of Herc ° f are P re ; 
 
 Wood 
 
 pared many dif- 
 ferent medicines 
 
 of value, inPhyfickeand Chirurgery, amongft which the caufticke 
 ftone, the ordinary Lixivium, &c. 
 
 Corallus \LT \I7 r . .. * c °f . «o- 
 
 Corallus Albus. A /S CorallwhtU hng, drying, and 
 
 ^ A beeing prepared 
 
 Chymically,hath wonderfull vertues comfortative. 
 
 Corallus . This is as the for- 
 
 Rubeus. /tvp X** ** CoraI1 mer ’ bu ; ,n ver - 
 
 * A tues it farre ex- 
 
 ceedeth it. Paracel ft*s aferibeth vertues infinite and wonderfull to red 
 
 Corail, ifit be perfe&ly red. 
 
 "Burnt Fitrtody . ^ g°°d cau- 
 ♦ IjfJ orColcotbcr. fticke medicine, 
 
 and alio cooling. 
 
 Colcothar. 
 
 cxficcating, fanative, mundificative,&c. 
 
 Crocus tpf ^ Jpj safron 
 
 Martis. tN Qfr % of iron., 
 
 and generally all fluxes. 
 
 Good again ftdif- 
 entertum , Conor- 
 rea , Diarrhaa , 
 
 Crocus 
 
 Veneris. 
 
 (B~^ 
 
 Safron 
 
 of Copper 
 
 truly is refined JEs Ultum,it expelleth,drieth,mundifieth,& healeth 
 
 Deco&io. 
 
 Or refined Verdi- 
 greale,as fome af- 
 irme, but more 
 
CHARACTERS. 
 
 Dccodtio. 
 
 Is the boyling 
 ‘Hoy ling or decoding any 
 - ' — 5 medicine. 
 
 Good digeftion 
 
 ~X T X T Good digeftion 
 
 Digeitio. >< ♦ >< Digefting prefageth good 
 
 ♦ healing, but Chy* 
 
 micall digestion,eft grains [pagynctts firm Its vcnmC%lo,ptr quern gradum 
 materia coquitur melius ut pun ab impure feparatio fieri pojpt• 
 
 Dies /Cr\ • f 0aie Containing £ 
 
 Etnox. i& W Night houres. 
 
 1 r\_ HuTU ^ Is the fepara- 
 
 Diftillatio, T\ * -iy DifliHing tion of the pure 
 
 U from theunpure, 
 
 performed by fublimation, and precipitation, but alter many kindes 
 and falhions. 
 
 
 Elements. 0+ Of* ^ymiS^Art 
 
 out ofany good thing either Animall, vegetable, or mineral!, quere 
 Labavii, lib. 2. Alchym.cap. 49. . r 
 
 -- 
 
 - : —- 
 
 3£- 
 
 Filtrum. 
 
 This filtring with 
 J felt * a felt,is a kinde of 
 preparatio of me¬ 
 dicines liquid,to purge them from their terreftriall parts. 
 
 Fimus 778-7® H r fe - 
 
 Equinus. // Jl W 4 U *S \ cines in Horfe- 
 
 dung to putrifie, and is an ancient and worthy worke rightly ufed. Vi- 
 carius ej’us ejl, BM . Balm a Maria. 
 
 tr fy T?iv4*ttr This is that all 
 Fixatio. H" 1 O 4? good Chymickes 
 
 dcfire in their 
 
 workes, butfewtruely attaineit, butinfteadof fixatio, they finde 
 vexatio [atis, dr ultimo mendiiatum tr e . 
 
 l 1 'JJ Called common- 
 
 Flos ris. J25 _ * £5 Vcrdizreafi ? ly virile as, and 
 
 * I ™ Verdi greafe be¬ 
 
 ing the raft of Copper, it is a good aftringenc, dificcative, and corro* 
 five medicament. 
 
 2*3 
 
 P P 
 
 Gradtfs. 
 
*5* 
 
 QH A %AC T E %S. 
 
 Grad us. 
 
 Gummi.’ 
 
 dfcerismoftufed. 
 
 fJ\i vTU )-A-( 
 
 Q iGZQS 
 
 
 A degree firft, fecond, or 
 third, as you fee them de- 
 fcribed with their feverall 
 c figure^ 
 Oi any kinde is 
 Gumme io deferibed, blit 
 the Angle Chara- 
 
 Hyems.'' 
 
 HI- 1 t| 
 
 Winter 
 
 Ignis - A 
 
 but the firft is raoft in ufe. 
 
 Fire 
 
 This Character is 
 alfo ufed for cold 
 by fome Writers. 
 
 As well naturall 
 as artificialfadu- 
 all as potentiall. 
 
 Lapis A ' A The Load- Ajewelpredom, 
 
 cAocAo 
 
 mond > ofthe tribe ofMarsjn qual itie attradive and fanative. 
 
 Lues ^ IheDenere- ?, llls \ s a Catll0 ‘ 
 
 Venerea. ft* ft oHdtfe.fe 
 
 difeafes in one, being feldome perfectly healed. 
 
 Luna The Moone 9f mmI , 
 
 Crefcens. V • V inerttfirg the McSne"'™ 
 
 A 
 
 Luna 
 
 Decrefcens, 
 
 Lapis 
 
 Prunella. 
 
 The Me 
 
 A TV Met mo tile tWD 
 
 lbe Moone quarters of the 
 
 (■VT* decresftng Moone. 
 
 •* ^ ^ fl one wade This J s 8°°^ 
 
 4: S: of S aimer ag^unft tooth- 
 
 crr aclle 9rV * ,0 " 
 
 flammations, and for lores of the mouth and throat, and alfo againft 
 
 hot fevers inwardly taken. 
 
 Lapis M . 7$ Calamim Is u a *ooe which 
 
 Calaminaris. ‘~T~ I L ^h‘ Store changed. Copper 
 
 , _ , * into Brafle, it js 
 
 denccative,and excellethin Lotions for the eyes, &c. 
 
 Lapis ® | This ftone is ufed 
 
 Hematites. ffi Bloud-flone to ftench blee- 
 
 ^ ^ ding inwardly and 
 
 outwardly, and hath many other vertues medicinable. 
 
 Tapis 
 
CHATUCTE%S. 
 
 Lapis 
 
 Sabulofos. 
 
 CO0COD 
 
 This is a great fccret 
 in coring a fra&ure be¬ 
 ing daily given the par- 
 tie, %j. and alfo mixed with the outward medicine, and applyed to 
 the griefe. 
 
 Lapis 
 
 Granatus. 
 
 TheGranat JeMl 
 
 precious in me- 
 
 Smc dicine. 
 
 commonly uled. 
 
 Lateres. 
 
 Lateres 
 
 Cribrati. 
 
 but not 
 
 4 j.jj 
 
 HO 
 
 Stones 
 
 Powder of 
 
 OrBrickes for 
 farnafis or other- 
 waies. 
 
 It is often ufed in 
 
 Brickes P re P arin g Inedi “ 
 Brlckes ernes as well to 
 
 make good Lute, as alfo for divers other needfull ufes. 
 
 Loxivium or . £§=* Lye made is rr ' aii y 
 
 Lixivium. C) Z? ofMjhes ^ofitable in he^ 
 
 ling outwardly and inwardly, and for cauftick medicines it is the beft" 
 
 Limatura O Filings of Ufed for the 
 
 Martis. “ J Iron making of Crocus 
 
 w , CMartis. 
 
 Lutum .N Lute ufed of Janartifici- 
 
 Sapicntia >•**> C?V the Philosophers al J mixture of 
 
 CJiiy for tlic* 
 
 making of furnafes, and luting glalfes and pots for diftillation. 
 
 Lute Made of good 
 Common cI fy»withtheflox 
 
 Lutum 
 
 Commune. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Miimw ^ d f'T” 
 
 commonIy,but there is as many feverabLutes that Chymifts do know 
 
 Lythargirus C+O CHFp Litharge of ° r ne of the fons 
 Auri. 'f) ' *9 Gold of Saturn, ahdis 
 
 “ partly fo tear- 
 
 med, for that the tefts which refine Gold through Lead, after are 
 made into Litharge,I meane the Saturne into them. 
 
 Lythargirus “ty Litharge of 9 nc °f th^.foiis 
 
 Argenti. D • P SU.'r 
 
 Luna as aforefaid, but indeed this and the firftare lent daily, from 
 Holland, made onely of Lead. t 
 
 Lythargirus H ■£ Lilians of ° ne other of the 
 Plumbi. P * P Lena fcnnea ofiA)few* 
 
 . and is made by e- 
 very Plumber out of that part of Saturne which wafteth to a hardnefle 
 in melting. • 
 
 Pp 2 <M»bha(- 
 
 255 
 
2 16 
 
 £ H A%A CTE %S. 
 
 1 T T Vnbrepared an f. * Iin ^ e ■ Js 
 
 * l * JJ 1 vulgarly fay 
 
 Silver oare , or 
 
 Marchafita. 
 Head oare, &c. 
 
 Mercurius. 
 
 The hotteft, the 
 Ver coldeft , a true 
 *’ * healer, a wicked 
 
 murderer, a prcious medicine, and a deadly pcyfon, a friend that can 
 flatter and lie. 
 
 Mercurius ftsW*" 
 
 Sublimatus. 1 1 1 T jubhmed. praife and dif- 
 
 praile, as till more (cope I omit, for he hath done me both credit and 
 
 fhame. 
 
 Mercurius *1TcL^'lTt 
 Pracipicatus. * + preapluu. tiftstathpraifen- 
 
 led, of Empencks lhamefully abufecl, for healing and killing he is 
 
 knowne. 
 
 Mcnw) rf *' c 
 
 ..- 7 J pM : quoa (upu 
 
 Gold me nihil ad me, 
 
 Mercurius 
 
 Solis; - t.-xiH 
 
 . —' - ; 
 
 true Philolbphers onely are capable of this myftery. 
 
 Mercurius £ . £ 
 
 •f' unaj * ^ , Silver wa y of preparati¬ 
 
 on, or not greatly different, but are paft my reach. 
 
 Mercurius | 
 
 eneris. •,. § ^ Copper medicine, and to 
 
 be precious, but^ never could fee it, &c. 
 
 Mercurius <f J* 
 
 Mams. 0 r' inn cine, the.venue 
 
 of the Load-ftone is ftrengthened above mealure. 
 
 Mercurius $> .$> 
 
 Jovts, jT *T* rmt - Lead,Tinnestat 
 
 Ihaye not feeneit. 
 
 Mercurius. £ . £ Mercury of d 
 
 o c Lead* in a good quanti¬ 
 
 ties/*, onely by Art of fire, as Writers affiraic. 
 
 X x ;j > T 7* T T , Containing 28 , 
 
 MexUlS. . \ /. 4 \ /. Om monetb daies , and zS. 
 
 nights, or foure 
 
 whole weekes. & * 
 
 Minium. 
 
CHARACTERS. 
 
 Minium. 
 
 9 Is one of the 
 
 Or red Lead ions of Saturne, 
 ~~ cooling, drying, 
 
 filling, healing, mollifying,difcufling, &c. 
 
 <£•<& One Minute 
 
 Minutum. 
 
 Mei. M/M 
 
 tive, fanative, &c. 
 
 The fixtieth 
 part of one 
 houre. 
 Honey is Laxa- 
 Honey tive, mundifica- 
 tive , mollifica- 
 
 2*7 
 
 Oleum. 
 
 ©•< 
 
 ft n ,1 And fometimes 
 
 ^ Oylecf taken forSnlphur, 
 
 O O any in e j s a$ y ou wou l ( j 
 
 fay, take from Guaiacum his Sal, Sulphur, and Mercury, by nis Sulphur 
 you muft underftand his oyly part, &c. 
 
 Phlegma. 
 
 Spirit, as Rofe water, 
 
 Y \ ■ ■ / It isufedforany 
 
 4-* *\/ A'Tlegma diftilled water 
 
 which is void of 
 
 4 
 
 An indrument 
 Slow Hemic k for diddling, lo 
 called, for his 
 
 Piger 
 Henricus. 
 exceeding flowneflc 
 Plumbum Philofothers ™ s preparati- 
 
 Philofophonua. J J JJ Z‘ S Zlc^y 
 
 reach, the fame Character is alio ufcd for the Philolbphers done. 
 
 Pulvis. 
 
 X-X 
 
 Powder of Abyfinepowdc,; 
 .. J and fometimosat 
 anything i$ taken f or 
 
 1 T 
 
 Either bvltibli- 
 
 till flores, and fin e fpirits of any medicine. 
 
 b O O O O iiitner byiuon- 
 
 Purificare. To'Turifie mafibh~,orbypre- 
 
 ^ cipitation, or&ny 
 
 kindeof purifying or cleanfirig. * f .• : : rj ;r> 
 
 T, . T. Is dilfolvipg pr 
 
 Putrefactio. ** p ‘Tutrifie opening ofmix- 
 
 \ , edMineralsWr 
 
 diesbyanaturall, warme, andmoidputrefudion, namely, by fopeq 
 'fmme.vdimrUmm.m. , , 
 
 Quinta 
 
2*8 
 
 QHA%ACTE%S. 
 
 ?r a €£■§£, ~r m,a 
 
 Eflentia. ■ V= ’v'-'- V **' fted mcdici £ ( 
 
 without grofle fuperfluities, drawne from any fubftance either Ani- 
 mall. Vegetable, or Mineral!. 
 
 Quinta /^C-c T The §)uint- i7j is / sa ^° 
 
 Eflentia vini. V e(fence of Wine e fl tta ' v *- 
 
 ^ j j J u, and Aqua, 
 
 CcelefHs^ndi Alcole w»/,and Aqua Ardens t with many other names. 
 
 Realgar. Q 
 
 times ufed in Alchymy* 
 
 Reverberatio. Tt-Tl 
 
 Retorta. 
 
 A kinde if ^ t . hin 8 ( dd , ome 
 
 JUHUnt uf ? d ln . he ! lin 8> 
 though lome- 
 
 o 
 
 /n> A retort of 
 
 U U Glajje 
 
 A preparation 
 Chymicall by 
 fire. 
 
 Sublimare. 
 
 hAh 
 
 Or to caule to 
 Tofublime afeend by fire or 
 Art of diftilling 
 
 very many waies. 
 
 r . . /\ i+i Difcuflive, lana- 
 
 Sulphur, ♦ /\ r Brimftone tive, deficcative, 
 
 ^ t* ' anodine,repercuf- 
 
 • five, &c. 
 
 Philofophorum A * £ f ’** ** 
 
 i nilolophorum. /]\ ^ pbur vtx cogmtum and i uniycr . 
 
 lallmedicamentoutof Sol. * 
 
 Sal u^.<- O. Common Difcuffive mundi- 
 
 Communis. p 
 
 ^ and molt preci¬ 
 
 ous for the life of man. 
 
 tf-o- a ““* 
 
 lt f CLhr yJt*i l growing in mines 
 InPolonia,neeretheCitieof Cracovta/-&a' Q-c 
 
 Sal /tv ST\ A Salt of a won- 
 
 p (I) r CD \ af derfull kinde and 
 
 “*■ fetter breeding, with ef¬ 
 
 fects admirable both good and evill. 
 
 Sal 
 
CHAXACTFJUS. 
 
 Sat 
 
 Amoniacum. 
 
 I 7 K 1 71 s 
 
 Solucio. kw^-l’ct^X Opening 
 
 tans Art. 
 
 Sigillum 
 Hermetis. 
 
 excellent manner. 
 
 Hermes 
 
 hit Seale 
 
 Akipdeof ku| 
 ting or lealing of 
 Glafles by a more 
 
 T-19 
 
 Sat* Crowes naturally 
 
 Ammact eonmon? 
 of Sal Alkali } common Salt, IJrin, Tefe Andrea libavio. 
 
 Sal a Salt of an Akinde ofvege- 
 
 Alkali. J~\ * VX7—I heard citted tabic Salt, but Pd- 
 
 Kali racelfm termeth 
 
 every vegetable Salt Alkaly. 
 
 Sal -r 4 P fait out of £ Sih , drawne 
 
 Colcotharis. \/ ' V7 ZWW ftom the c V" 
 
 ^™ only caI1 ed Deadhead, which is exceeding Tlinngent and 
 
 Sal ife, i. A Salt of The Salt of Tar- 
 
 Tartari. * 3 ; ^P* Argali tar or w ‘ ne Lees 
 
 , „ 6 ^medicine of ma¬ 
 
 ny great vertues, both ofitfelfe,nnd alfoformakingothermedicir.es. 
 
 Succinum rv\T. AsJT White* Lommcth from 
 
 Album. £a Amher duU a medKme r ‘ 
 
 diaureticke, diaphoreticke, laxative, and generally opening all ob^ 
 
 Sue inum Qtl* * Cftyi feOo» Like former, 
 
 Citrinum. p'C Amher but not fo good, 
 
 it I , /- • r „ - yet from this is afl 
 
 excellent oyle drawee, ferving for many efpeciali medicines inward 
 and outward. 
 
 Spiritus O O ♦ ♦ Spirit of A pure and effen- 
 
 Vini, 0*4 Wine tial * fubftance , 
 
 cordiall, and of 
 
 infinite other vcrtues,Liquid, yet wholy combuftible. 
 
 c /\ /X- Agoodmedidng 
 
 ^ a P°* Sope attractive, molli- 
 
 ficative, &C. 
 
 Stratum (?.ft., (VVf Trv ° mcdicincs AtermeofArt 
 
 Superstratum, %/t Mpp Manenp- often ufed, viz: 
 
 r on another fat fratum , /«- 
 
 perfratum, that is, firft put in of the one, and then of the other till all 
 be in. 
 
 The opening of 
 minerall bodies 
 diverlly by Vut- 
 
 
 Terra, 
 
16 o CHA%ACTE%S. 
 
 —X 
 
 Terra. 
 
 Earth 
 
 Commonly takes 
 for potters earth 
 J ' : to make Lute of. 
 
 A melting A pot wherewith 
 pQt Gold-lnuths and 
 ' “ other Artifts ufe 
 
 to melt metals or medicines in, called alio a Crucible. 
 
 This minerall is 
 fcarce well known 
 yet, the oyle ther- 
 
 Tigillum. Y v 
 
 Talcum. xx Talke 
 
 of is much extolled for beautifying the sklune. 
 
 Turn. 7“ Jg[ Tutty 
 
 fcum of Copper, or of Copper by combuftion. 
 
 Tartarus. Argali 
 
 - y ■ - • 
 
 fitable medicines, ar tificia llyprepared. • 
 
 JHPL Tl. V* ■ And alfo any A- 
 Tumores. ‘ f union poftum or fwel- 
 
 ling, wherefoever 
 
 in mans body. ► - 
 
 Turbith r-Orr^l Turhhh f, his with Tome 
 
 Minerall. Ht"* Minerall ndd it aments arti- 
 
 . . r , nciall, well prepa¬ 
 
 red, is precious in the cure ol the French pox. 
 
 A medicine com¬ 
 monly knowne, 
 and is made of the 
 
 Is the Lees of 
 wine dried, which 
 makes many pro- 
 
 ^r- 
 
 . This is the anci- 
 
 •An Vlcer ent Character for 
 
 Vlcus. ic-k. 
 
 Authors, have ufed the fame for a wound. 
 
 Vitriolum. Q) Co PP ra * is made e of W cip 
 
 o- -k 
 
 an Ulcer, &fome 
 It is beft which 
 
 Vitrum. 
 
 kindeof glafle. 
 Vrina. 
 
 ,P er - 
 
 It is ufed for a 
 Glajje Glafle Still, and 
 alfo for any other 
 
 Q- <§> 
 
 Mans urine or 
 V\Tine childrens urine, it 
 
 ..... is commonly ufed 
 
 in Alcnymie, and fome ufe it in fomentations, and otherwife in Chi- 
 rurgeryandPhyfickc. 
 
 CER- 
 

 Vv 
 
 I6i 
 
 K nt>1f 
 
 t - *--* u 
 
 •i anmii all aiabaA 
 
 CERTAINE GHIMICALL 
 
 •V-M <-; .L 
 
 VERSES, OR GOOD WILL TO 
 YOUNG ARTISTS, FROM 
 THE AVTHOR. 
 
 > IlJi. 'MO j _» • ' ?. i 
 
 QOmc verfes plaine at vacant times, , 
 
 O I fram’d and laid ifide: 
 
 Intending youths which leifure have, 
 might view what I havctride. r 
 
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 And as occafion them Ihouldleade, 
 might learch, yea finde andkftow 
 
 The principles which follow hcere^ 
 from which great treafu&s flow. 
 
 Three principles the Chymifts hold. 
 
 Each creature doth containe. 
 
 And foure the Methodifts have taught, 
 and learnedly maintaine. 
 
 
 Three mull I needs confeflc I finde, 
 confirmed all by reafon: 
 
 And yet from foure to vary ought, 
 
 I doubt ’tis pettie treafon. 
 
 Upon this Theame two fchoLIers might, 
 wellleven yeares good time fpend: 
 
 Continuing ftill in argument, 
 untill the time had end. 
 
 Wherefore ambiguoufly to wade, 
 within a fea of ftrife, 
 
 I like it not for feare of knocks, 
 
 I love a quiet life. 
 
 All worthy Artifts I adore, 
 and dutie bindes mefo: 
 
 Yea thankfully lie learne of each, 
 the thing I doe not know. 
 
 And 
 
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 Qkymicall verfes. 
 
 And ere lie feerae once to contend, 
 my will (hall be fo even: 
 
 I know there’s three,I yeeld ther’s foure 
 to make the furnme up feven. 
 
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 But wiliyou know why Chymifts call 
 their principles but three ? 
 
 With heavenly number it agrees, 
 from allEternitie. 
 
 A Trinitie in Deitie, 
 
 moft facrcd and nioft furc: 
 All (hould confeffe in unitic 
 is, was, and (hall endure. 
 
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 From which as from a perferft guide, 
 each man his worke (hould frame. 
 And in his conversation true, 
 alwaies re(pe<ft the lame. 
 
 In honour of which Deitie, 
 true Chymifts daily finde 
 A tripart fubftance for to be 
 of all things following kinde. 
 
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 mrio 
 
 Which in the earthly fphearc are found, 
 each one in his degree. 
 
 And thefe by Artifts ftiled are 
 Sal, Sulphur, Mercuric, 
 
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 Who calling unto reckoning all 
 that Animals doe feeroe. 
 
 Of Vegetables in their kindes. 
 
 They make nofmalleftecme. 
 
 Likewife from minerals each one, 
 great medicines they derive; 
 
 Which do root out inveterate griefes 
 and keepe men long alive. 
 
 The Mercuric that’s volatiH, 
 the Sulphur burnes likefire: 
 
 The Sal in f, undo to remaine, 
 as Chriftal’s their defire. 
 
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 Each of thefe three to three againe. 
 
 The Artift can produce. 
 
 Which done and joyn’d the medicines pure, 
 aad (it for each good ufe. 
 
 
 Thus 
 
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_ Chymicall Verfiu 
 
 Thus have I in one Period 
 anatomized plaine : 
 
 True medicines how thou maift prepare, 
 if thou wilt take the paine. 
 
 But if that any further feeke, 
 in true Philofophie: 
 
 The Minerals fix and pure to make 
 that is no worke for me. 
 
 I to my Latchet will returne, 
 and reft me in a meane; 
 
 Good medicines onely to prepare, 
 
 I hold fufficient gaine. 
 
 And unto young men that have minde, 
 in Alchymie to venture: 
 
 He (hew them to the Labyrinth^ 
 which who fo lift may enter. 
 
 Fowle hands and face he muft not fcorne, 
 if ought good he would finde : 
 
 With coales and fime to be befineer*d, 
 it is the Chymift kinde. 
 
 The trowell, brickc, with hammer oft, 
 and (hovell he muft nfe. 
 
 The cliftes, the tongs, and bellowes eke, 
 he no way may refufe. 
 
 His grates of iron he muft fit, 
 his rings to cut his glafle: 
 
 With pots of iron, braflc or clay, 
 his furnace he muft pafle. 
 
 The Retort and the Alembicke fafe, 
 with lute he muft defend: 
 
 And vaprous ventils have in care, 
 thofe muft he often mend. 
 
 And why, in vaine he makes a fire, 
 whicn cannot rule the fame: 
 
 For therein rcfteth all the Art, 
 the pleafurc, gaine, and fame. 
 
 Yet that’s not all he ought to know, 
 that would a Chymift be. 
 
 A thoufand things are yet behinde, 
 as he (hall finde and fee. 
 
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 But 
 
16^ Qhymkall Ver/es. 
 
 But he thtt takes delight in ought, 
 regardcth not the paine: 
 
 So he may have the thing he feekes, 
 although it be but vaine. 
 
 A Chymif: that would duely worke, 
 muft readily define 
 The charzders, which he fhall read£, 
 and fpels of ancient time. 
 
 E^ch Minerall lie ought to know 
 his malice, force, and might, 
 
 Or he may loon befhrew himfelf, 
 if he miltake the right. 
 
 The twelve fignes of the Zodiack, 
 he ought to know by heart, 
 
 . Conjundion, Oppofition too 
 
 of Plansts, though in part. 
 
 The Sextile> T rine, and Quadrile eke, 
 the Dragons head and taile. 
 
 The Planets orders how they raigne, 
 and where their force may faile. 
 
 In termes of Art which divers are, 
 intruded he muft be. 
 
 Amalgamate, alcolizate, 
 and cohobate muft he. 
 
 To calcine and for to cement, 
 to circulate alfo. 
 
 To colliqi ate, coagulate, 
 and congeIate,I trow. 
 
 I o colorate, to corrodate, 
 conglutmate likewife : 
 Coagmentate, coadunate, 
 whereby to win the prize. 
 
 Sometime digeftion needfull it, 
 and deliquation too, 
 
 Divaporation is a worke, 
 the Chynift wife muft doe. 
 
 Where diftillations doe prevaile, 
 Diftradion takes the head. 
 
 Then by Elaboration, 
 
 «7 wife met may be miflead. 
 
 Eledion 
 
Chymkall Verfe 
 
 Election ncedfull is in all, ', . ; 
 
 evaporation too, 
 
 Expreffionandextractionax;^ , -_ u , r 
 two things that he muft dbe..' )rt ft 
 
 In exhalations he mult ftrive, 
 and Ebullitions make. 
 
 His fermentation oftentimes 
 will caufe him to awake. 
 
 His Alterations many are, 
 
 Hisfumagations eke, v ' 
 
 And moft in his fixations, 
 
 the good man is to leeke« j 
 
 Gradations then ate thought upon, • 
 and granalation more. 
 Incorporation hath his time, 
 Ignifion pincheth fore. 
 
 And Levigation hath his place, 
 and Liquefaction ufe: - 
 
 Then to Lutation have a care, 
 therein be no abule. 
 
 For all mortification 
 can doe, or elfe can lay, 
 
 I hope multiplication, 
 
 the colt and paines will pay. 
 
 He fuffers Malaration, 
 and Maturation both. 
 
 Embracing putrifactiqn fowlc, 
 which many a man would loth. . 
 
 Precipitation was forgot, 
 purgation goeth before. 
 
 And by projection he lhallfindc, 
 if he be rich or poore. 
 
 But if his hopes yet chance to faile, 
 Reduction thought upon, 
 Reftrinction, Reverberation, 
 and Refolution ftrong. 
 
 Then Repurgations often had, 
 with Segregations fifle. 
 
 Some Sublimations duely us'd, 
 may well become the time, 
 
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 Qbymicall Verfes . 
 
 Stratifigations in due place. 
 Solutions eke in time. 
 
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 Subdu&ion never wanting is, 
 a Chymift to define. 
 
 Of Torrefa&ions he hath ft 
 Vivifications hope. 
 
 But findes vitrification, 
 or vanifht all in fmoke 
 
 What fhall I fay ? this is not all 
 the Chymift mull abide 
 This Labyrinth out,his glafle then breaks, 
 his patience there is tride. 
 
 Yet grant to this although t’were more 
 there’s no man never knew, 
 
 A worke fb flight and cheape as this, 
 fuch rare eftetfts to fliew’. 
 
 In gaining health to ficke and fate, 
 
 ® r • r < r - 
 
 prelerving men from woe: 
 
 Yea ftmdry waies expelling griefes, 
 which in mans body grow. 
 
 By true Elixers of much price. 
 
 
 And many famous medicines more, 
 which I for hafte pafte by. 
 
 Though once a Galenift ill led, 
 devis’d a flanderous rime. 
 
 Which he in Latin verfe put foorth, 
 I know not well the time. 
 
 And this it was that followethnext, 
 which if it prove a lie, 
 lie no way feeme him to excufe, 
 you have’t as cheape as I. 
 
 Ale by mi a efi ars fine nrte t 
 
 cujus fubjefium efi firs cum parte, 
 Pr opr mm ejus probe mentiri, 
 
 & ultimo mendicatum iri . 
 
 But left I ihould be deemed one, 
 ’mongft birds that file their neft, 
 lie leave this doubtful! verfe as ’tis, 
 and hafte to end the reft. 
 
 Common 
 
Qhjmicall ytrfes. 
 
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 Common it is with Chymifts true, 
 their houlc-doves them withftand: 
 
 Fearing all will be fpent in fmokc, 
 time, goods, yea houfe and land. 
 
 A noyfe domefticke fhrill I heare, 
 ana I dare ftay no longer: 
 
 Good friends adieu till further time, 
 
 I muft obey the ftrongcr. 
 
 You Chymifts wife that wived are, 
 be warned here by me. 
 
 Search not into this myfterie, 
 except your female, gree. 
 
 For I have found to my great fmart, 
 when (he lift to contend. 
 
 Then downe goes pot, yea glafle and all* 
 and I vow to amend. 
 
 And need fayes yeeld, there's fault in him* 
 that ftubbornly ftands out, 
 
 TiU breech andjacket all be tornc, 
 by fearching fecrets out. 
 
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 TEARMES OF ART 
 
 RECITED FORMERLY IN 
 
 VERSE, ARE HERE AGAINE 
 repeated Alphabetically, and more 
 plaioely interpreted. 
 
 hbat'iim is the abflra&ion of duft moths , gret, 
 adhering to a thing with an Hares foot, feather, 
 father, knife, or thp like. 
 
 Ablution is exaltation, cleanfing unclean things 
 by often infufion, reducing them to puritie. 
 
 Alcolifmus is an operation by calcination, ribel. 
 lation, and other mearies, which reduceth a mat¬ 
 ter into Alcool, the fineft powder that is. 
 
 Amalgamation is the putting together, folution, Or calcination of 
 familiar metals, by Argentum vivum^c. 
 
 Aromattz,ation is an artificiall manner of preparation, whereby me¬ 
 dicaments are made more fuaveolent and odoriferous for the oble- 
 dbation and ftrength of the palate, and vitall facultie. 
 
 Attrition is a certaine manner of preparation, like grinding on a 
 convenient ftone with fotne humiditie, whereby Lapis ludaicus , Colly- 
 ria, and the like are prepared. 
 
 Buccellatio is dividing into gobbets, or by peece-meale. 
 
 Calcination is folution of bodies into Calx or Alcool, by defecati¬ 
 on of the native humiditie, by reverberate Ignition, by Amalgama¬ 
 tion, by Aqua fortis , the fpirit of fait vitrioll, Sulphur, or the like. 
 
 Calf action is a certaine manner of preparing fimpleand compound 
 medicaments, not by boyling or burning, but by the moderate heat 
 of theSunne, fir e,fimus equinus,vel ejus vicarius. 
 
 Cementation is gradation by cementing. 
 
 Cementum is a minerall matter like lute, and penetrating, where¬ 
 with metals fpred over are reverberated to cement. 
 
 Ceratio is the mollification of an hard thing, untill it be like waxe 
 at the fire. 
 
 Cmefaction is ignition converting Vegetables and Animals by a ve¬ 
 ry vehement heat into Cineres , 
 
 Circulation is the exaltation of pure liquor, as fpirit of Wine by 
 
 circular 
 
Termes of rt. 
 
 circular folution,and coagulation in a Pelican,a moderate heat force- 
 ing it. 
 
 Clarification is the expurgation of fordid grofle matter from liquid 
 medicaments. 
 
 Coadunation ( fometimes termed by the name of a more excellent 
 fpecies. Coagulation) is a perfect and skilfull working, whereby difa- 
 greeing things are united. 
 
 Coagmentation like to gIutination,is by liquate things,on which dif- 
 folving powders are caft, and afterwards are made concrete by laying 
 them in a cold place,or by evaporating their humiditie. 
 
 Coagulation is the coaCtion of things agreeing in nature from a thin * 
 and a fluid confiftence into a folid mafle, by the privation of moi* 
 fture. 
 
 Cod ion is the alteration or commutation ofa thing to be boyled. 
 
 Cobobation is frequent abftrattion of liquor oftentimes affuled up¬ 
 on a dead head or dne feces by di (filiation. 
 
 Colation is the tranfmiflion of that which is humidthorowaftrai- 
 ner, that the liquor may be had feparated from the dryer fub* 
 itance. 
 
 Colliquation , or Colhquefaction, is the Conjunction of many fufils of 
 liquables to make one compound by eliquation on the fire. 
 
 Coloration is, whereby the perfeCt colour of gold, filver, Philofo- 
 phersLead, &c. obfeured by any fiilphurious vapour, is renovated 
 and illuffrated by maceration, frequent ablution, in fharpe liquor as 
 Salt, Argal, fpirit of wine, winevineger, or by an acute pafte laid on 
 the laid metals. 
 
 Combufiion is ignition, converting bodies by burning them into 
 
 Calx. 
 
 Comminution is the reducing of any matter into fiich fine powder 
 by dilution, Alteration, exiccation , 1 contufion calcination, cri- 
 bration, or any other meanes, that no roughnefle of corpulency be 
 felt, as Alcool. 
 
 Complexion is the nature of a part hot, cold, moyft, or drie. 
 
 Compofition is the coadunation of divers things. 
 
 Concretion is divaporation of humiditie in fluid things, by gentle 
 decoCtion on fire. 
 
 Confrittion is a certaine light Attrition, by which pulverablc things, 
 with the rubbing of the fingers, or a more lolid body, are quickly le* 
 vigated,as CeruJJ'a Amjtum, &c. -.o 
 
 Confufion is properly a mixture of foch liquid things as are fluid, 
 and ofone and the fame nature(as of divers waters bythemfelvesjand 
 fo of oyles:) liquid things (as waxe, rofinipitdh,&Ct ) may likewifo be 
 confuted, but by Eliquation. ' - • 
 
 Congelation is often performed by a precedent decoCtion of things 
 to a certaine height or juft confiftence 1 ; which after fet into a Cel¬ 
 lar or cold place, doe congeale into a tranfparent fubftance, not 
 unlike ice, as is leene in the makingof Copperas, Salt-peeter, or 
 
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Termes of rt. 
 
 Conglutination is the ferrumination or companion of metals, jew¬ 
 els, glafles, &c. by gummes,glue, whites of egges, and the like, the 
 nature of the conglutinated remaining. 
 
 Contufion is the beating of grofle bodies into fmaller or very fubtill 
 parts. 
 
 _ Corroften is calcination, reducing things coagulated, by the corro¬ 
 ding fpirits of fait, fulphur, wine-vineger diddled, Aqua fort is c.in- 
 
 to Calx. 
 
 Cnbration is the preparation of medicaments by a five or fearce. 
 
 Deliquation is a preparation of things by melting on the fire. 
 
 Deliquitm is the liquation of a concrete (as fait, powder ca'cined, 
 &c. fet in an humid and frigid place (externall humiditie, refolving 
 the ficcitie) that it flow, having a watery torme, asisapparantin the 
 preparation of fait of Tartar. 
 
 X>f (ccnfion is when the cflentialljuyce diflolvcd from the matter to 
 be diddled, is fiibdudted and doth detcend. 
 
 Defrunwion is when fpume or froth floating on the top, is taken a- 
 ivay with afpoone, feather, or by eolation. 
 
 Diflillation \ s, whereby an effence is extracted in the forme of li¬ 
 quor, and being coagulated , is carried by the JlilLcidium tranflated 
 cut of the yeffell of the matter, into the excipulium fublocated. 
 
 DtfRation is >t when through heat, fpirits arifing, arc with a kinde 
 of folles blowneinto the adverfe camera, and there are found coa¬ 
 gulated. 
 
 Digejltonxs fimple maturation, whereby things unconcodted inar- 
 tificiall digeftory heat (as food by a uaturall heat in the ftomacke) is 
 digededi- / . 
 
 Difjolution is a preparation of medienmeuts fimple, and compoun- 
 d^d.by feme convenient Uumiditie to a certaine confidence. 
 
 ptjlr action is a certfiine diyulfion or difunition of divers things be¬ 
 fore united and agreeing together ( no refpeCt of one exiftiug or 
 comprehended in an other had ) every one remaining in its owne 
 nature. ' ' . 
 
 Divaporation is exlialation by fire of vapour, remaining in liquid 
 fubftances, till all aquofitie be confumed, or in more drie but fumed 
 by torrefaCtion. 
 
 t Dulcideation is the correction of minerall medicaments by abluti¬ 
 ons, and the like. • ; 
 
 Duration is either when things mollified at the fire are fet in a cold 
 place to harden: or by boiling to an high confidence or admixtion 
 of dry powder with them, doe waxe hard. 
 
 Elaboration is a manual! operation, whereby we extradfc from a fub- 
 dance the mod excellent matter, the ignoble parts remooved. 
 
 Election is of fimple s according to time and ieafon wherein they are 
 gathered, aud according tpthprqgion wherein they grow, thatfothe 
 pelt may be had ,& their vigor appear in ufe according to expectation 
 a. - . Elevation is fubtiliation, when fpirituall parts from the corporall, 
 fubtill from the grofle, the not fixt from the fixed, like Imoake 
 . t by 
 
Terme$ of *Art. 
 
 by the force of fire are elevated, and adhering to the cold concaves 
 of the Alembecke, doe thicken and convert into water. 
 
 Elixation is coition in humido by a moderate heat. 
 
 Elation is the preparation of common Bole, Talcum, Crocus Mart is s 
 Terra Lemnia,8cc. by pulverization, calcination, lotion; &c. 
 
 Evaporation , See Divaporation. 
 
 Exaltation is an operation, whereby a medicament changed in his 
 affedions by gentle difiblution, is produced to an higher dignitieof 
 fubftancc and vertue, and a greater degree of puritie. 
 
 Exhalation is when the fpirit of any matter lolid, or in powder (be¬ 
 ing put into a platter, or any other convenient veflell fet on coales) is 
 elevated through heat, and vanifheth into the aire. 
 
 Exprefsion is extraction by a preffe, wherein hearbes, amigdaleSj 
 &c. comprefled, powrefoorth theirfubftances (asjuycesandoylej 
 in a liquid forme. 
 
 Extinction is the fuffocation ofa matter fiery and hot into fome hu- 
 miditie. 
 
 Extraction is a fegregation of an eflence from a corporeous concre¬ 
 tion, by digeftion in Balneo, his feces left in fundo, as Rhabarbarum in 
 fpirit of Wine infufed,manifefteth. 
 
 Fermentation! s the exaltation of amafliefubftance,bytheadmifli- 
 onof Fermenttm , which doth penetrate it wholly (his vertue diftri- 
 buted by a fpirit) and inverteth it into his owne nature. 
 
 Ferrnmination is the joyning together of a fradure in one and the 
 lame Metall, or of divers Metals, by aMinerall flux. 
 
 Filteration called percolation , by Filtrum a Chymicall columis 
 fubdudion of thin aquofitie in humid tilings, the thicke and oyly fub¬ 
 ftances refitting. 
 
 Fijjion, fee Section, 
 
 Ftxationisthe afluefadion of volatilland lpirituall bodies to fire 
 by calcination, gentle and continuall decodion, frequent fublimati- 
 on, folution, and coagulation often iterated, or by addition ofa mat¬ 
 ter fixed, that fo they may endure fire and not flie away. 
 
 Fraction is the breaking offome matter with ones hand, or with an 
 inftrument. 
 
 Frtxion is the preparation offome medicaments, with oy!e,butter, 
 wine, vineger, &c. in a convenient veflell, for the correcting of bad 
 qualities in them. 
 
 Fulmination , derived of fulmen a Latin word, fignifying fire brea¬ 
 king out of the clouds, cauiingafuddenlight great and bright, is a 
 metallicall gradation, with excodion to an abfolute perfedionin Ci~ 
 nerition, whofe puritie is declared by an effulgent fplendor. 
 
 Fumigation is calcination of metals,by the lharpe corroding vapour 
 of Mercury, Philosophers Lead, Sec. boyling in a crucible, the metals 
 cut into plates, ana either laid over the Orifiaurn of the crucible, or 
 hanged over the fume. 
 
 Fufion is liquation by heat violent or moderate, for thefeparation 
 of the pure from the impure. 
 
 kr 3 , Gradation 
 
Ter me s of rt. 
 
 Gradation is an exaltation of Metals in the degree of affedtion?, 
 whereby waight, colour, and conftancy they are brought to an excel¬ 
 lent meafure, butthefubftance unaltered: foGold is rubified, fixed, 
 and purified. 
 
 Gramlation^ro^ev to Metals, byinfufion on fire, andeffufion into 
 water is their comminution into granula 4 or very fmall drops like Gra- 
 na Paradtfi. 
 
 numeration, fee Irrigations 
 
 Ignition is calcination, the fire reducing Violent bodies into Calx. 
 
 llltquation is the commiftion of terrene bodies with Metalline (as 
 of Lapit cadmia with cuprum ) but fo as each retaines his ownefub- 
 ftance. 
 
 Imbibition , a Philofophicall operation is ablution, when liquor 
 adjoyned to a body is elevated, and not finding vent, doth fall 
 backe upon the fame, and often wafheth it with Humedfations, fo 
 long as it being coagulated,can no more afeend, but remaineth whol¬ 
 ly fixt. 
 
 Jmbutien, fee Infufion and maceration. 
 
 Inceration is the mixture of humiditie with that which is dry, by a 
 gentle and not hafty combibition to the confiftence of mollified wax. 
 
 Incineration , fee CinefaCtion. 
 
 Incorporation is a hidden addition of fo much humiditie to exiccate 
 matters as is required in the true confiftence of a mixt body, paft, or 
 a maffe. 
 
 In fufion is the preparation of medicaments, cut or bruifed in fome 
 humiditie convenient for the purpofe,a leffer or longer time,whether 
 it be an houre, one day or many, a weeke or a monetb,&c. 
 
 Inbumattonis the fettingof two pots (the head of the uppermoft 
 being very well covered and luted, with his bottome boaredfiillof 
 little pin-holes, and fure fattened to that which is underneath in the 
 ground, and burying them with earth to a certaine depth, having a 
 circular fire made for diftillatory tranfudation per defeenfum. 
 
 Inflation is the preparation of fimple or compound things by the 
 heate of Sunne in the Summer,or a gentle fire in the Wmter,or in Bal- 
 neo, or in fimo equino. 
 
 Irrigation not much unlike immerfion is an afperfion of humiditie 
 upon things that are to be diffolved, that fo they may the more eafily 
 deliquate. 
 
 Lev igationis the reduction of any hard and ponderous matter by 
 comminution,and diligent contufion into fine powder,like Alcool. 
 
 Limation proper to Metals fas Steele, Iron, BrafTe, Lead, 8cc.) is a 
 preparation with a file,whereby they yeeld duft for divers ufes. 
 
 Liquation is when as that which (hall be made into one body, is dif¬ 
 folved, that it can flow abroad like waves. 
 
 Liquefaction is the diffolutiou of a Minerall body, by the force of a 
 very gentle fire. 
 
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 Termes of *Art. 
 
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 Ltlim it a preparation of medicament j by water, or fome other li¬ 
 quor to remove home evill and hurtfcll thing, and to procure fome 
 good and profitable qualitie in them. 
 
 Lutatton right worthy the name of Sapientia , is a medicine thin or 
 thicke according to the heat and continuance of the fire whi h 
 ftoppeth moft exadfcly the onfcitm of the vefTell , that no vapour 
 paffe out. 1 
 
 Maceration is preparation of things not unlike to Humectation in the 
 manner of working, but in time, for fome are infufed three foure or 
 moe moneths, and fome a fhorter fpace. * * 
 
 Maturation is exaltation of afubftance, rude and crude to that 
 which is mature and perfeft. 
 
 OMiftt on isfuch a compofition of bodies, as inceration, incorpora¬ 
 tion, colliquation, and contufion doe declare. 
 
 Mollition is the beginning of liquation , yet fome things are molli¬ 
 fied (as cornu cerui , Corrall, Ivory, Ucgula?, &c. j which cannot 
 liquate. 
 
 Multiple at ton by projection, is of a body amalgamated from 7. to 
 10. from 10. to yo. from ^o. to an 100. &c. according to the force and 
 quantitie of the tindture. 
 
 Mundificatton is the purgation of any matter by few or many op era- 
 tions from that which is fordid and vicious, that onely the molt ex¬ 
 cellent may be admitted to theworke in hand. 
 
 Nutrition is the parmiftion of humiditie by little and little, for the 
 alteration of the qualitie of the medicament. 
 
 Precipitation is when bodies corroded by Aqua fort is, or Aqua Regia, 
 and diffolved into water,Salt Armoniacke or Mercury call upon them* 
 either by the abftradion of the corroding vapour, are reverberated 
 into Calx, they are made perfect medicines. 
 
 Probation is the examination of any matter, whereby we difeerne 
 what is excellent and perfect, and what corrupt. 
 
 Projection is an exaltation chiefelyin Metals, by a medicine caft 
 upon them, which will fuddenly penetrate and transfigurate them, 
 giving them another tindfcure. 
 
 Protect ation is extraction by attenuation of fubtill parts, fo that by 
 the inclination of their ratified nature, they may be altrcd from the 
 more groffe parts. 
 
 Purgation like to feparation , is the clarification of impure liquor, 
 having a thicke fedemeut and fpume by deco&ion. 
 
 Putrt faction is the refolution of amixtbodyby a naturallputritude 
 in calido hunndo, or [into equine, &c. whereby it may be made more ex¬ 
 cellent. 
 
 Quart ation is the feparation of Gold and Silver mixt together, by 
 foure unequall parts. 
 
 Quanta effentta is an abfolute, pure and well-digefted medicine 
 drawn from any fubftance,either animall,vegetable,or minerall. 
 
 Rafion is the feraping or paring of a thing, either for expurgation of 
 that which is unprofitable, or for eafier pulverization. 
 
 
 Reduction 
 
T'ermes of ^Att. 
 
 Reduction common to many operations doth reftore a thing chan, 
 ged to his former eftate and condition. 
 
 Repurgation is, whereby metals and other fubftances are purged 
 from fuperfluities of another nature, adhering to them. 
 
 Ref,olutton (the way to molt excellent operations of Alchymie, cau- 
 fing both elements and coeleftiall eflences to feparate from their ele- 
 mentarie compolition) of things commixt, is when the part one with 
 another. 
 
 Refiinction is a gradation, whereby metals or the like, candified by 
 fire,are reftinguifhed in liquor of exaltation, and thereby made more 
 noble, by how much a more excellent tinCture and glofle is let upon 
 them. 
 
 Reverberation is ignition reducing bodies (the fire quick reverbe¬ 
 rating and reflecting ) into a very fubtill Calx. 
 
 S eft ion is the cutting of things great intolefler parts, forthepre- 
 fent occafion. 
 
 Segregation is the folution of that which was whole and perfeCt in¬ 
 to parts dividedjW'hichflow not together as colliquables diflolved. 
 
 Sepamion is, whereby parts di (traded are feparated every one alike 
 having his (overall being in himfelfe. 
 
 Stccation is the drying up ofexcrementall humiditie in bodies, be¬ 
 fore the fire,Sunne,in the fhade,or the like convenient place. 
 
 Solution , aprincipall part of Chymicall pradice, whereby the in¬ 
 corporation of things coagulated, is diflolved and attenuated. 
 
 Subduttion is an abftradion of juyees, oyles, and other liquid mat¬ 
 ters downeward by percolation,filteration, and the like. 
 
 Sublimation is when that which is extracted is driven to the fublimc 
 part of the veflell, and there fubfifteth, or when as betweenethat 
 which is fublimed,and the dead head an aery (pace doth intercede. 
 
 Subtiliation is diflolution, feparating the fubtill parts from the 
 grofle. 
 
 Stratification, or firatum fuperflratitm well knowne to Chymills, and 
 ufed in cementation, is ftrewing of corroding powder,or the like,up¬ 
 on plates of metall by courfe. 
 
 Torrefaction like ficcation,but more violent,is an operation drying, 
 fpeedily, parching andfcorching that which is to be dryed before, or 
 overthenre. 
 
 Transmutation is the mutation of a thing infubftance colour or 
 qualitie. 
 
 Tranfudation is when in defeenfory diftillation, the eflence provo- 
 ked, fweateth through, and is carric dguttatim into the receiver. 
 
 Vitrification is Combufiion , converting Calx and Cineres into tranf- 
 parantglafle. 
 
 Vfiion is a preparation of things for eafier pulverization, mutation 
 of colour, facultie, &c. by burning them in a crucible,or in the fire. 
 
THE ETILOqVE. 
 
 Entle Reader, I had intended much more 
 in my love to young men, to have writ- 
 ten by way of inftru&ion, namely, a 
 Difpenfatory touching the precedent par¬ 
 ticulars, with fomewhat alfo concerning 
 the Cure ofthe French Difeafe,with fym- 
 ptomes thereof, namely, the Gonorea , the Bubo Venerea, 
 the Hernia Humoralu, &c. But time hath overtaken me 
 io that now lam forced to conclude, having run through 
 the cares of fixtic nine yeares. old age being an enemy°o 
 itudy , for my fight being weakened , my memory much 
 impaired , and my capacme utterly unable to performe fo 
 hard a taske which willaskc both large time, and much 
 jtudieto fulfill, and other occa/ions bed knownetomy 
 clfe, and fome Ipeciall rcafons elfe-where exp reded in my 
 precedent and fubfequeneworke, to which Ireferrevou 
 tor the further fausfaftion, I reft ready to doe o 00 d fo’ 
 long as the Almightiepleaieth willing to be, 
 
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 THE PATHWAY TO 
 
 THE SURGEONS 
 CHEST. 
 
 Containing, 
 
 QHl\V<RqiCAL f^STKVCTIO^S 
 
 for the yonger fort of S u r g e o n s, imployed 
 m the Service of his M a i e s t i e , or 1 
 
 for the O O M M O lJ-W E A L T H unon 
 any occafion whatfoever. 
 
 Intended chiefly for the better curing of WoiiNDs made 
 
 by Gunshot. 
 
 Firft publifliedby Authority, Anno l«i8 s andnowrevi. 
 fed and inlarged by the Author , Joh Woo» lu M' ' 
 
 in Surgery. 
 
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THE 
 
 PREFACE- 
 
 O VIN G Brethren, for as much as 
 in times of war, as well as of Peace, 
 men of our calling fhouldbc ready 
 M omne quarejo r the /ervice of their 
 King and Countrey : W ee and our 
 Countrey have beene Jong happy in 
 a blefled peace 5 and yet even now 
 having rumors of warre, it is not a- 
 mifle to be prepared for the contrary : Wherefore from 
 the wife heathen Philofopher , letusalllcarneas follow¬ 
 ed (Jam tua res a&ittir far a cum proximui ardet:) Our neigh - 
 bouring nations are and have beene long in combuftion; it 
 is therefore wiledomcforusto be ready,and the rather we 
 ought to take it into our better confideracion, becaufe at 
 the firft compofing and writing hereof, namely in luh\ 
 162.6. when as I publifhed it,there were then,and noware 
 rumors of wars, and our Company of Barber Surgeons 
 were then commanded by His Majefties .Authority forth-* 
 with to provide fixteene of the befl Surgeons as the then 
 time afforded for hisefpecial fervice by land,.fudi as were 
 men mod expert in the healing of wounds made with 
 Gun (hot j and generally for themoft part, by rcafon of 
 that long and happy peace that our nation had enjoyed, 
 many good Surgeon being put to it at the firft, were like¬ 
 ly to have beene found lomewhat to feeke therein ; how 
 much more then our younger men? wherefore thecharge 
 of providing, preparing, and fleeing His Majefties whole 
 fcrvice by land and lea, being by his Highnefle referred co 
 our Corporation and our Company, having for that time 
 made choyce of my felfe, and deputed me to the worke, 
 
 5 x. I held 
 
 
The Treface . 
 
 I held my felfein confcicnce and duty tied to do fomewhat, 
 although I confefle it was little,to the better enabh'ngand 
 encouraging of our younger men unto their duties in that 
 point. But here under favour I mull defire pardon for a 
 little digrelfion; namely that before my entrance unto 
 any further difeourfe, I acquaint the younger fort of Sur¬ 
 geons my Brethren with thofe efpeciall favours, which it 
 then plealed our mod gracious King Char l e s, to be¬ 
 llow upon our Corporation in particular, above and be¬ 
 yond his ever blefled Ancellors, for the good of hisScul- 
 diersand Sea-men, and our encouragements thereby to 
 animate and inable us the more heartlully to ferve him: 
 And namely. 
 
 Firll His Highnefle was gracioudy plealed, whenalfo 
 he incrcafed the Sea-mens wages,to augment the moneth- 
 ly wages of each Surgeon and Surgeons Mare in his fer- 
 vice by lea and land , to above a third pefiny from former 
 cuftomc ; namely from nmeteene fhiliings- foure pet ce 
 a monerh to thirty {hillings He hath allobecne graciouf- 
 ly pleafed to give a free benevolence to the Surgeons in all 
 His fea fervices, which never was given them by any ofthe 
 former Kings nor Queenes of this Land before,as follow- 
 eth/w'^.To all Surgeons that ferve in His Highnefle own 
 fhips, X meane towards the furnifhing of their Surgeons 
 Chefls with Phyficalldrugs and medicaments, I fay for 
 each of them ten pounds; and to each Merchants /hip 
 five pounds,and to each new Cadle-fhipor Colliars-lhip 
 ferving in his Highnefle his affaires threepound. And, 
 neverrhelefle all the Surgeons in His Highnefle icrvice 
 have as formerly by the head of all men that are in pay 
 in any of his Ihips or Land-lervice twopence of each 
 man by the moneth : And for the Surgeons in his Land 
 fervice,heealloweth to the Surgeon Major 6 f the whole 
 Campe five (hillings a day.; and for his two Mates or fer- 
 vants foure (hillings a day. Alio Hi$ Majeftie allovveth 
 to each Surgeon two (hillings and fix pence the day, 
 which is three pounds and fifteene (hillings the moneth, 
 and to each Mate three pound a moneth , and moreover 
 
 allowed 
 
The p^ef^ce. 
 
 allowed,and gave to each Surgeon appointed to l ^o.meri, 
 a furgery Ched of 17. pounds vaiew, free df account: 
 And moreover Kis Maiedieallowech to the Surgeon Ma- 
 iora ftoreChcd or Magazeen ( hell of 48. pounds vaiew, 
 for a fupply to furnifh upon al warlts and occafionS: And 
 His Hignneflc was yet further wel pleafed to give autho¬ 
 rity unto the Matters and Governors of our Society,for to 
 have the making, compounding, fitting , and orderingof 
 all the medicines, as well phyficallaschirurgicall, toge¬ 
 ther with all other provifions belonging to the Surgeons 
 Chelt. And further His Highnefle hath referred to the 
 ancient Mailers and the Governors of our Society, the 
 prefling of all Surgeons and Surgeons Mates or fervants to 
 Surgeons and Barbers; with alio the taking up of any in- 
 llrUments, Chelts, Or ready made medicines in His High¬ 
 nefle name for his lervice, if occafion be not ocherwife* 
 Thefe favours and priviledges our Corporation have recei¬ 
 ved from His Highnefle, together with a new Charter, 
 wherein he hath likewife gracioufly beene pleafed to con- 
 firme all our priviledges formerly granted unto usj and 
 hath given us divers new priviicdges for the better fubfi- 
 Itance of our faid Corporation in future times ; as alfo we 
 have never beene denied as formerly, to have monies im¬ 
 pelled before hand,for the providing ached with furgery 
 infirumencs and faives. Inregard whereof, and for chat 
 Surgeons fhouid with the better courage be indigaced 
 faithfully to performe their duties; I have prefumed in this 
 preface to explaine his Highnefle former favours,as afore- 
 faid, whereby our younger brethren may from age to age 
 the better keepeic in remembrance 5 and to that end l have 
 alio further under favour I hope without offence prefu- 
 med to let downe the effect of the order of the then Lords 
 of his Highnefle mod honourable Privie Councell with 
 the day and year in which fbmeof the recited priviledges 
 were granted and ordered, as alfo in part the forme and 
 order how his Maiedies officers of his Navy have inter¬ 
 preted, difpenfed.& difpofed of hisMaiedies laid free-gife, 
 according to the feverall burthens,ranks, and orders of the 
 fhipsof his Highnefle his nauy refpe&ively,which are as 
 folioweth. f 3 A 
 
A Lift of the different rates of feverall of his 
 
 Ma jellies Ships, concerning his Highnefle free gift 
 and impreft, to each of them, namely as they were here¬ 
 tofore rated by the Officers of his Highnefle 
 Navy> in the yeere i 626* 
 
 T Mer. Honour 
 Triumph 
 Anne Royall 
 Saint Andrew 
 Saint George 
 lames 
 '\epulfe 
 Charles 
 Defiance 
 
 Great Ships of the firft ^ one ( uc h 
 and iecond rancke were< r Unicome 
 
 "Free gift so.li.—o~o 
 ' I mpreft—7. li.-i o- 0 
 'In all-17.li10.-o 
 
 rated all alike, viz 
 
 Vtftory 
 Hen. Solaria 
 Vanguard 
 ^ainbowe 
 Sieififure 
 Red Lyon 
 Con. Reformation 
 
 With the reft of the 
 like. 
 
 it 
 
 Ships of the third 
 rancke. 
 
 ~ 4 jjurance 
 
 Cfuardland 
 
 Bonarventure c Free gift-7 li.- 10*0 
 
 Entrance ^Impreft—5-0-0 
 
 *j Leopard 
 Conner tine 
 
 And foof the reft of 
 the Lift. 
 
1~Free gift—5 li.o— 
 
 11 mpreft 3-jto 
 k 
 
 ? nox$ 
 
 ,. „ c Adventure 
 
 •g?** .ianrxii 
 
 i_Blake George 
 
 Great Merchant men in His Majefties fervice at the rate 
 ° f his Majefties gteat (hips,viz.io li. and 7 li.io.s.ordin ar y McrcW 
 men at the rare of his Majefties (hips of the fourth ranckc afore, 
 Jaid, namely 5 pound free gift> and 3 pound 1 o s»impreft. 
 
 Ships of the 5 
 ranckc. 
 
 Pirfl Wbelpe 
 Second Wbelpe 
 Each Lyons <j Fourth Wbelfi 
 
 whdpc.viz. Fifth lyfjelpe 
 
 j Tenth Wbelpe 
 X 
 
 03 
 
 j ot 
 
 wEree gift-3 W- 0-0 
 .Impreft 3—00 
 
 His Majefties 
 Pinaces, 
 
 f Greyhound 
 Roe-Buck 
 
 Or any of like ac- 
 ^-account, 
 
 rFree gift 3 li. 0--0 
 'impreft % li.-„io-o. 
 
 New-Caftle Ships or Colliers, at the fame rate with 
 
 His Majefties Pinnaces. 
 
 The 
 
THE 'PREFACE. 
 
 The day of the grants of the aforefaid order touching bcncvo- 
 fences, vras to my beft remembrance the: tenth of inly* \ 6 z 6 ztWhiit- 
 ball* by the Lords of his Majefties Privie Councell, being then by 
 them ordered to be paid unco the Matters and Wardens of theSur. 
 geons, ever from time to time before hand, and upon all lesvices for 
 his Hiffhneflej and for the better performance thereofithe aid Noble 
 Lords were pleafed to pray the Lord Treafurer to take knowledge 
 thereof, and tocaufe the monies accordingly to be forthwith lflued 
 as aforefaid, as for a fupply for the providing of Phyficall drugs and 
 medicaments. And further the faid Honourable Lords were then 
 pleafed to order, that all fuch other monies as ufually had beene al¬ 
 lowed by way of impreft to any Surgeons in His Maiefties (crvice, 
 towards the providing and further fitting of their Surgery-Chcfts, 
 fhould together with the former monies be likewife paid inro the 
 hands of the faid Matters and Wardens, ever for the time being in 
 dew time and before hand j who for the better effeding of the in¬ 
 tents and ferviceaforefaid, wereordered to fee the faid monies faith¬ 
 fully and frugally beftowed, and fhould for the lurcr performance of 
 it, orderly have the making, ordering, fitting, and com pounding of 
 all the medicines, as well phyficall as chirurgicall; as alfoall other 
 provifions belonging to a Surgeons Chcft 5 or to appoint fuch others 
 for the effecting the worke, as they fhould at their perils anfvverfor 
 their faithfull performances : All which Chcfts and provifions what* 
 foevertherein fo fitted and provided as aforefaid, being*ready, the 
 Matter and Wardens are by the faid order commanded to fee every 
 of them to be fafely delivered under locke and key > unto His Maje¬ 
 fties officers whom it may concernc at Twer-Wharfe - that all things 
 therein provided and inclofed might the fafelier come on board the 
 fhips, for which they are defigned: All which Allowances, Injuncti¬ 
 ons, Priviledges and Commands, were then by the faid mod Honou¬ 
 rable Lords thought fit to be for ever hereafter continued to al (hips 
 or Fleets in his Highneffe future fcrvices,as is more plainely manifeft 
 by the faid order $ the which no doubt is extant, and untowh.cbif 
 occafionrequire, relation may be had. 
 
 Thus loving Brethren, having acquainted you with thefe His Ma- 
 jeftics favours unto our Corporation, icfolloweth in my duty that I 
 fliould acquaint the younger fort of Surgeons with the ufc of the 
 Surgeons Cheft,I meane the medicines in this Viaticum contained; 
 in fome methodicall manner,according to the infuingjcxprcffions of 
 the following Treatifc, were it not that time hattens tnc to an end, 
 before I begin : Yet neverthelelTe I have {trained of time to 
 lend the younger fort a word or two in this Viaticum f not to all as a 
 Teacher, but as a loving remembrance to the elder, which l pray you 
 to perufeand ufeas you have occafion. And fo in Gods name with¬ 
 out painting of phrafes or colle&ing of great Authors for my Vou¬ 
 chers $ my Method you may know by the plairenefle of the ftile; the 
 which Method is no other then the old beaten Path-way ofal Surge¬ 
 ons , wherein each Artift ought to be experienced. And if any Artift 
 
 by 
 

 
 
 The Preface] 
 
 by forgetfullnefTeerre, I defirc to informe his memory : And as for 
 
 the younger fort, I know it is charity to fhew them, for they have 
 need, and ought to defire and feeke knowledge, according ro an 
 old Doftrine of that fweet Lillie, in his Grammatical! inftru&ion* 
 
 videlicet, J 
 
 gui dubitat , qui feperogatjnea did a tenebit^ 
 
 Is qui nil dubitat y nilcapit node bom. 
 
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 In Engliih to this effect. 
 
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 who doubts, enquires , and knowledge fcekcs\ 
 doth Lillies rules make good - 
 While it he that's "wife in his owne conceit , 
 puts on the Idiots hood. 
 
 And to conclude, I well knowing you could not alwayes havethe 
 a vice of the graveand learned Artiftsathand, in military affaires I 
 therefore prefumed to the utmoft of my Iatchet, hereby to afford you 
 my following helpcs, which I hope by the friendly Reader will, if he 
 want better, be taken in friendly part. 
 
 
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 time, or different orcafion , upon any 
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 Cap paper. 
 
 Leather skins. 
 
 Splints and Tape. 
 
 Skillet large. 
 
 Clouts and Revelers. 
 
 Inftruments. 
 
 D Jfmembring Save, 
 Difmembrvtg knife. 
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 Head Same, 
 
 Trefine. 
 
 CPet. 
 
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 t^Pipes. 
 
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 Speculum oris. f 
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 Cupping GlaJJes, 
 
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 Spoone large. 
 
 Tome. 
 
 Funnels. 
 
 Emplaftra. 
 
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 Met,loti. 
 
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 Firidc. 
 
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 Album. 
 
 Triapharmacum, 
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 Mgyptiaci. 
 Linimentum Arcei, 
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 Mel Saponis. 
 Axurtgi Porcini. 
 
 Cqjlicitm Liquiium. 
 
 Olea. 
 
 Catulorum. 
 
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 C^lkermes. 
 Biatrion Pypcrion. 
 Biacatholi conit. 
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 Lohocb Sanum. 
 
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 Limonum . 
 
 Mentha, 
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 Biamoren. 
 
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 Mel kofarum. 
 
 Hiper\cents cumgummi. 
 kofarum. 
 
 Chamomilla, 
 
 Anethi. 
 
 Lilliorum. 
 
 Lint. 
 
 CReftringens majw . 
 Pulvis ^ 
 
 ^Befenfat. 
 
 siiaplicia. 
 
 •So/iw t>er«i. 
 
 Majlich. 
 
 Myrrhe. 
 pix Greea. 
 
 Lap u Calaminarifo 
 Bolus. 
 
 Pracipitatum. 
 
 Sublimatum. 
 
 Lupines. 
 
 Cantharides. 
 
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 Vitriolu <riride. 
 
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 Hearbs, 
 
 woormevtood. 
 
 Mint. 
 
 kofemary. 
 
 Time, 
 
 Centaury, 
 
 Hiptricon. 
 
 Scordium. 
 
 Elc&uaria. 
 
 Be Ovt. 
 Difcerdii. 
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 HELPE TO THE 
 
 SURGEONS Chest. 
 
 The firjldrefing of W ound s > made '** 
 
 by Gu n s H o t. . 
 
 F T E R cxtra&ion ofunnaturall things,for¬ 
 ced into the wound with the Bullet, which 
 ought with al circumfpc<ftion, care,and pof- 
 fibTe cafe ;o the patient^o be effc&ed for fear 
 of hurting the offended Arteries,vcines and 
 nerves &c. And alfoallfuqh fra&urcd bones 
 greater or leffe broken by force of the buller, 
 be taken out • I fay of ail fuch of them, as dwm fnttu 
 may without danger of Life or L imb be im- redionts turn 
 mediately removed fa the firft dreffing, 
 wherein note that a fra&ured bone, though wholy divided from the 
 greater fixed part thereof, is not as by a generall rule alwaycs to be cut 
 or forced out at the firft dreffing, except it doth apparantly endanger a 
 Gangrene or other fcarefull accidents by pricking of Nerves or the like, 
 for by amooving it, a Flux maybe induced, or fome other offence,but mei 
 
 you i"hould doc well rather to forbeare fuch bones for the firft dreffing btipe™ 
 at the leaft,and until nature,or other juft reafons ir. the true Art of hea¬ 
 ling doe compell, and to proceed to the dre fling. 
 
 In the more fimple fort of Gun-fhot wound, as followeth, I meane 
 in wounds, where no Gangrena maybe fufpe&ed, neither immediate 
 
 A-a a Flux, 
 
 
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 'Em pi fitting. 
 
 Order in cu¬ 
 ring- 
 
 Spirit of wine- 
 
 ~Flux, nor furtive hemorrhage, drefle the Patient either with Artificial 
 Bdtnmtbtchejl. Balme, or Oleum Hypericon: cum Qmfnisde Apericij,OleumCmvlorum, 
 or Arceus Linamrn , or one of the fe, and apply itwarme, and iormvhat 
 warmer then the Patient would willingly fuftcrit,and cover the wound 
 with an Emp. of mellilot ftiptic: Paracelft,Minium, or any other good 
 Emplaiftcr, that is according to Art, and namely according to the 
 temper of the griefe, ever to make choyce of hotter or colder Emplai- 
 fters, not omitting convenient bandage, I mcane due ligature, and fo 
 proceed in Gods name, as in all oontufed wounds is moft convenient 
 to the end of theworke, that is to fay, firft to fuppurate and digeft, 
 then to mundifie, and then to incarne, and fo on to figillate, or licca- 
 trizc with due refped, if occafion be, by Laxative or other remedies, 
 to temper and fit the body by good Regiment of dyet,as by purging, 
 bleeding,&c. And for one par ticular,obfef\e that in Gun-fihot wounds, 
 almoft in all dre (Tings, thefpiritof Wine doth vyell with fomeof the 
 aforefaid balmes, untill the wound be well mundified ar the lcaft. 
 
 But in wounds, where gteat danger of a Gangrtna is to be feared, the 
 vrfjfingef gnat Surgeon hath nothing more fafe, for the firft drefling^then l/n<r. 
 mrndi. tiacum , and a little fpiritof Wine, fome what toowjitme, purim pon 
 
 foft Linte, or finetowe pledgents, or by a Sirring to bee carrvedmat 
 firft, into thebottome of the wound: which done, with fome good 
 afiringent defenfative medicine, and fit bandage, let it bee bound up, 
 and if the Surgeon be not forced thereunto, let not the wound be ope¬ 
 ned againeuntill 48 houres be part, upenthe firft dreffing, and foalfo 
 upon every Caufticke application. Thcaatthe next dreffing, if Fluxes 
 hinder not, have ready, (if it may be) white wine and honey, for a fo¬ 
 mentation,or faire water, and Mel for neceffity,if better cannot be bad, 
 and with a little Aquavit* added, if youthinke fit, with ftupes, very 
 warme, foment the wounded part a? pretty fpace, then apply untill 
 full digeftion , one of the aforenamed Balmes , warme, or with the 
 ordinary digeftive of Terebinth , vitelltmovortw&c. and cover it with 
 an emplaiftcr, and erhbrocate the part about, with Oleum RoflarumCa- 
 mom. Aneth . or the like, and bind it up, and after drefle rhe wound but 
 Time of duffing- once a day, without urgent ncceflity, but faile not to drefle it once eve¬ 
 ry day, and more, if the Surgeon fee caufc. 
 
 But I hold it fit that the Surgeon leave ofi&letm Hypericon.cum Cum- 
 i ' mis in time, forthat it hath oleum Terebinth: therein, andfomaybe 
 
 too quick,and rather change from that^nd ufe Arceus Liniment, Olcrn 
 Cattulorumpr fome digeftive of your owne pra&ice, untill perfect di¬ 
 geftion. And if accidents chance not, the Surgeons Method may be 
 to proceed as in all contufcd wounds, onely as is (aid, I advife the Sur 
 geontomakeufeof pure Aquavit*, or rather fpiritof fvyne, vvitht^* 
 fyptiacum, where he fiodeth not a juft caufe to the contrary. 
 
 Cemint 
 
Qautions, Advices , and fnftruBions for the 
 
 younger fort of Surgeons , in Wounds 
 
 of Gun* (hot. 
 
 Onceale from the Patient the great danger of the wound, 
 except juft caufe urge thee to acquaint him with it. 
 
 Fomentations are very good medicines in Wounds 
 with Gun* fhot, but foment not at any time, except you 
 canhave convenient fire at hand,and let ever your Fomen¬ 
 tations be very warme applyed. 
 
 Foment not too long at any one time, neither ufe it but upon urgent 
 occafions. 
 
 Embrocate often, if no GMgrembeax hand, whether you have fire embrocaun. 
 or not. 
 
 Let all your Vehicles for your Medicines, as tents,dorfells,plegents.; 
 
 &c. befoftandpleafing to your Patients, as much as intrueArtmay 
 be, and cram not the wound too full at any time, efpecially Wounds 
 incited for hindring unitionof parts. 
 
 Alfo, if you can conveniently come to the work,inlarge not,efpecially uimgmitf 
 in contufed wounds, where danger may be feared,otherwife doe it wari- wounds. 
 ly. obferving that you doe it not to thwart any member, neither any 
 Veine, Artery* Nerve or Mufcle,as ncare as you can poflible. 
 
 No wound of Gun-fhot can be faid to be a fimple wound, neither Gw ^ hot 
 ever was there any Artift, that could truely fay,that he healed any gun- ever compound* 
 foot wound by the firft intention of Vnition, without due fuparation, 
 no nor any contufed wound whatfoever • forthecompofition of Gun- 
 foot wounds, are ever reall and very fubftantiall,witne{fe the poore pa¬ 
 tient, where Fibres, Nerves,Membranes, Veines, Arteries, Bones, & 
 quidnon, fuffer together fo,that fuch wounds, in their recency they re¬ 
 ferable Vleers rather then wounds • and the difference of thefe from o- D ^ ame ofl0 ^ 
 thcr contufed wounds is, That other contufed Wounds for the mod tvfid wounds* ^ 
 part fuffer but by way of contufiononely, and thefe by contufion and 
 dilaceration, if not fraction of bones &c. whereby all the whole 
 member fuffereth together,and alfothe parts adjacent,and that in a high 
 
 degree. . 
 
 If difcolouriag bliftering or other apparant fhewes of a G a *grena 
 appearc, give the patient a Diaphoretickecordiall, then fcarifie gent¬ 
 ly at the firft, and deepely afterwards as caufe (hall urge,and have ready 
 aL/x/w»wmadeof water and afhes, to the height of anordinary Lee, 
 that women ufe to drive bucks with, and put a reafonable quantity of 
 common Salt into it, and when it is cleared, if you have hearbes , as 
 . J Aaa 2 Scordumj 
 
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 jS'cordrtnt, wormcwood , Cemayry, Hypericon,Cammil, Melilotpx the like 
 dj -Lupnies, nwke Ufe of them according to Art, it will bee much the 
 better, if nOtj .ufe it Without, and apply kVery warme, With ftt)pes,bf- 
 ten Hiifeed^ahd wrung out, and if that eannot behad,:a1FFalfvvatcf for 
 » a,fpn\ei^jtippveryvvarm, rather then want a Mfcdicft#f- 
 
 alfo precious in all Lixiviums againft Gangrene, bur’you muft.aofboyle 
 the' Aqiiariltcz without errour, for the fpirits will evaporate'^tndphe ver- 
 
 tuerencthinthem. *. ' j-l ^ 
 
 Obferve in great lacerated wounds, as followeth, viz.' ff you findfe 
 by the wound, the one halfe of the member to be taken away, there is 
 ' no hopjetoTave on the reft, but you are rather to make prefent Arapu- 
 luii'amfeofam - tation, efpecially if the patient upon information of his danger bee 
 'futatim. willing, for that thereft is contufed, and muft therefore admit by con- 
 v fequenr, fomc Ioffe of fubftance, by fupperation fever in a tfontufed’, 
 wound, and then the remaining part can doe no fcrviee to fhe hody,but 
 -. will much endanger the life of the patient, by- the expfence' 6 f blood 
 and fpirits in the driving to fave it, and be but a hindrance: and I dare 
 fay, that if but halfe of any member be taken away,with the fra ft tire-of 
 ^ thebone, it isimpoffibleto fave the reft of kon^to-dpeaijy-fervite.-lf 
 
 you have h x morrage, t meane bleeding, or filrrive gleeding, of Wee-* 
 ping of veines or arteries, in your worke,fearch for t hat veine or arte-' 
 ry that bleedcth or gleeteth, and trylfydu can make ligature on it, if 
 you cannot, make ligature, which feldome or never you can in Gun¬ 
 shot wounds, then apply to the ettd of the veine thatweepeth, ana&H- 
 all cautery, a fmall one will fefte,- but apply it like it felfe, very hot > 
 and apply it not allayer the ^ WoUnd, onely to that veine, if you can, 
 that bleedcth, you may if the Flux be not great,ulfe burning hot Egyp- 
 tiacum , upon a button of lint dipt,and quickly and neatly brought to 
 the place, whilft it is hot, and then Well boulftted. 
 dtiuaic*nttry. Buta a&uall cautery is the fafer, and maketh betterVvorke, or 
 ■» .the Surgeon may ufe reftri&ivepowdcr, adding thereto burnt Vitriol 
 Rcfiiiftivt pcm. a little, or burnt allum, and precipitate mixed which maketh a ftronge 
 eskar, and often5 reftraineth a great Flux, being applied thereon ar¬ 
 tificially,lonely precipitate will finely make bones fowle in contufed 
 wounds, for which oaufe I affed it not. 
 
 •To tajft heed of, But ever take heed to avoid the old received errour of unwife pra&i- 
 
 4 noidarMr, tioners, whole ufe is to cram the wounds bee they incifed wounds or 
 contufed wounds, as is laid full of bole or reftringent powder, or fbnae 
 other ftuffe, and then thru fts in pledgents or dorfels into each corner 
 of the wound, yea fomerimes forgetting to take all out at the next dref- 
 fing) yet thinke they have done all vvorkeman likeand very artificially , 
 not confidering the harmc, that often enfueth thereby. I dare fay that 
 in contufed wounds ofGun-fh©t,by fuch err ours, they forccatid draw 
 a Gangrena, if not death thereby, by hindering naturallunition, by 
 ooftru&ingthe parts, and grieving the patienr, in keeping the woun¬ 
 ded parrs from healing. It is a fafe and faite Wayatthe firft dreffing, • v 
 ever to ftrive fo foyne together the parts of all recent wounds,' and u- 
 nite fhe wounded j^arfs ifdtmay be with this caution, to order rhacift 
 
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 breathing be left tcimcMte?tbejffcceanr humour* k whereof there is 
 fmall feare in lacerated wounds yand then to apply ape r and fitting 
 aftringent wiedic/nttentS outwafrdly over ail, together with apt and 
 due ligature f^nd by that courfeto flay a fluxe, bur in coritufed and 
 laceratedAYQunds of Gunfhot, the Surgeon hath not that benefit, >buc 
 muft truft to other helpes not fo ready •> gamely, as is faid in the Jeter 
 wounds jtO'veryvvacme Bahios r a ftriflgejj c ; de ten fat ives, and good li-y 
 gatureand in greater wounds; y to cauftick® medicaments , Caute-; 
 ties and fbrceable helpes to ecpellfiuxesj&t.i .<■» '• -> • j- 
 But in* the Surgeon his cane hill defpe eo reftrainefluxes, Jet him 
 ever bewarepfiover hajcdJigature, ,as much as- is poffible, which is ah. 
 fo a common,dangeirousierrouri and eeftadnely draweth onevill acci¬ 
 dents, as [phlegmon Gsngvntj&s. as daily experience telleth. -jrf? f , 
 
 Likewtfeofl the other fidejover^flack binding is alfo bad,due comly. 
 and,fmooth; ligature, with the due compofing the parts wounded, > 
 with fofeand fmooth boulftring, greatly honoureth the Amite and 
 cureth the patient almoft as much as the medicines doe. » 
 
 - Obfcrv£$fo,>chAt yon put never one Cauftickdor Efcaroticke me¬ 
 dicine affter auothef too foone ^namely, not until! tire firft eskarre 
 hath beenegonat the leaft throe.dayes. If in a contufed wound of 
 Gunfhot any .(lough or putrid part,; as proceeding from the heads of 
 the musklcs, alteries,u/eines,or the like^appeare in a contufed wound, 
 which.ncedeth an Efcaroticke medioine^and the Surgeon doc defire 
 to cleaned that part, let himufc an artificial Caufticke medicine, 
 namely, hot Bgiptiacum , or an afluall Gautery j -if you can apply it 
 onely in that place,and not allover the wound j for in truth the ufc of 
 them is very good incontufed wounds made by Gunfhot, and yet y on ova.jjbg me* 
 arc to confidcr, that as too much gleeting, weeping, or ex pence of dicires cta ”!> e ' 
 humidity from wounds of Gunfhot is dangerous many wayes, fo too 10M ' 
 much u(e of drying medicaments in wounds made with Gunfhot, is 
 nolefle dangerous by flopping the pores and repelling the peccant 
 humours, by reafon of the contufed blood collefled, being choaked 
 in the wound,aptly endangering a Gangrena, and other deadly acci¬ 
 dents incident thereuritOi " • ■O'' 
 
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 Now a word or two in want of the grave Phyfician, how the 
 young Surgeon may in part demand lumfelfebeing put to it 
 for the more happy performance of the cures made with Gunfhot , gmenttjmun* 
 which are very much regulated by the government of the Patient , dcdmen ' 
 touching his dyer, as alfo in the cavefull keeping his body in temper vytu 
 from much coftrvencffe, and alfo to flay inordinate fluxes,thereby to 
 prevent accidents, as Feavers,&c. -c 7 
 
 And further alfo tomeet with an helpe -to cure evill accidents 
 when they happen to the effe(fling whereof, good dyet and other fit¬ 
 ting helps are to be wifhed,might attend valiant men, which fight for 
 their Countries honour and defence, which failing, much with brave 
 Sou!diers,and valiant Sea-men,at Campe and Ship,there the Surge¬ 
 ons muft take it, as they can have it,and make ufc in necefliry of what 
 
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 rhe Surgeons cheft affordeth viz. If the patientbefore his w ou nd had 
 
 nota loofc body,let the Surgeon give him a Suppofitory or Glifter,& 
 if hefeem difpofed toafeavcr,though he hathbled by his wound,yetif 
 Supporter) or jjis ftrength be anfwerable,open a vcine on the contrary fide of his grief, 
 GliJlt1 ' but purge him not being wounded without very juft caufe, rather 
 keepe him by gentle mcanes, to have the benefit of nature, cither by 
 Glifteror Suppofitory, if once intwoday es hee have not a ftoole ; 
 and further, if hebediftemperedwithheat, make him a Barly-water, 
 viz. Water two gallons , Barley 6. ounces , Liquorifh one ounce, or 
 Trefl tf'aier eft j u i ce of Liquorifh t wo drams , boyle it gently a little , then caft 
 ” mtmg<u 5t y away the firft waters, if water be plentifull, elfe not, and boyle it in 
 0 p .frefh water,till one third part be fpent,and being boyled and clarified 
 to the faid decodion,add fome few dropsofoyleofVitrioll,tomake 
 it fomewhat fowre in tafte, but not too much, but if to this 6-graines, 
 of ConfeBie Mkermcs,* ithone fpoonefull ofRofc-waterwerc added, 
 the drinkc would be much the more grateful! ia tafte, and more profi¬ 
 table* 
 
 I conceive it will be necdlefletourgea courfcforafparingdyec 
 for Souldicrs, or Sea-men at Sea, for I feare gluttony will not be 
 their finne. But if fulnefle of body be a hindrance, the Surgeon hath 
 meanes to evacuate, as for a vomit by stibium , the infufion of 4 
 graines,if fucha medicine be thought fitting, as in able bodyes may 
 be borne, or by laxatives, as ConftBio Hamech , fixe drams for a dofe, 
 Diapbenicon or Diacatholicon , the dofe to an able body is a full ounce. 
 The Pills in the Invoyce in this Surgeons Cheft , upon their feverall 
 pills. occafions, one dram is a dofe of any fort of them. Alfo of Pulvis 
 SanBw may be given two drams, of pulvis Artbrittcus one dram; and if 
 Cordials be required, the Surgeon hath in his cheft to provoke reft in 
 Feavers feverall ones, as more particular, there is Diafceraium , which 
 he may give to the full of two drams for a dofe to a ftrong body,either 
 in wine or water, as he pleafe, or in a ^tltu or lumpc of it felfe. 
 r/f of Lands- Alfohehath Landtnum , which he may fafely give ?.or4.graines 
 
 mm to affwage paine in painefull wounds; to give reft in Feavers, to ftay 
 fluxes and in divers other caufes being ufed with judgement,andprovi«; 
 ded,that the party which taketh it be not coftive. 
 
 Likewife in fluxes of the belly, accompanied with crude naufeeuf- 
 nefleofthc ftomach, as alfoagainft venemous or peftilentiall infe- 
 dionofthe blood , there is in the cheft Phylonitim Perficum, of which 
 the Patient may take fromoncfcrupletohalfc a dram, and to one 
 dram fafely in a reafonable body, and this is a fafe medicine, which 
 cau feth reft and corroborateth the ftomach, and mightily prevaileth 
 toftayafluxeofthe belly, and doth alfocorred venemous and ma- 
 ligne humours, and is therefore very fit to be ufed in fluxes that be 
 contagious or peftilentiall, after fome fitting evacuation if occafion 
 be. What I here write, it is of mine owne pra&ice, you may take it 
 on my word for truth, for you fhall find it to be fo, if with due cau¬ 
 tion you make ufe of them. Thefe three Cordials as is faid, aflwage 
 paine (viz.) Diafcordium , Laudanum, and P by Ionium , or either of 
 t ' them 
 
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 them alfo theyferve well cocoole or con temperate the blood. cordmitiojmgi 
 
 The Surgeons cheft containethalfodivers other Cordiall medici- ofardiiisin 
 oes, which may be profitably adminiftred, each upon due occafion, gpw*u> 
 viz, ConfeRio Alkermes^ either given alone, or to arromatize any purga¬ 
 tive or Cordiall med icine, from 4. graines to a fcruple for a dofe. 
 
 -Aqua Coelefiis ,and Cinamon water torefrefn the Spirits, halfe a 
 fpoonefullorafpoonefull fora dofe, and fo of Spirit of wine ; and 
 alfo Aqua vita made of wine, which fo much as it conraineth of the 
 fpirit of wine, is qu 4 fi fyiritm vitdi. Alfo the Surgeons cheft hath 
 againft contagion,and the Plague, Mitbridate^ibcr- Londinenf. Dia- 
 teff'ar. EleR. de O10 } as alfo Vi a (cord. Aurum vita , and Lauda, 
 vum mentioned, all thefe being proper for Peftilentiall occafions,the 
 ufes and vertues of which 1 defire to touch, though but in aword. 
 
 And for example, if the Surgeon defire a Cordiall to be made to 
 caufe reft,it is made either of Laudanum to three grains, or to 4 grains 
 as it is faid, or Diafcordium 2 drams, or Phylonittm to one dram, men¬ 
 tioned. And note that Laudanum is beft to be takenina Pill, becaufe Vote. 
 of his ungrateful! tafte, and Pby Ionium in a Bolus or lumpe, fdr the like 
 reafon,and foalfomay Diafcerd. beufed well,and especially in warre* 
 where neither theadvife of the learned Phyfician ,nor the hclpe of the 
 expert Apothecarie is at hand , but if the Surgeon be occafioried f 
 and that he would have Diajcor, to be given in a potion , then letbim 
 takeof Diafcor. 1 dram ofwhitc wine or faire water jounces or foure, 
 of Sirrup of Violets, halfe an ounce ConftR. Alkcrmes eight graines; 
 
 Oleum Vitrioli gutt. quatuor , and let the patient drinke that potion 
 and ipclinehimfelfetoreft. 
 
 Alfo ifa Cordiall to comfort the fpirits be required, then the c . 0,di ‘ l!s ccm f° fr ~ 
 aforefaid Cinamon water, Aqua coelcftts , or Aqua vita of wine is at " ve ' 
 hand, without mixture or addition, or with fome addition, halfe a 
 fpoonefull, or a fpoonefull for a dole. 
 
 I f againft the malignity of the blood, or any peftilentiall conta¬ 
 gion be feared, then in fuch a cafe the patient may take as followeth, 
 
 R. Diatejjar. two drams, Adit hr id. one dram, EleR de oxo one fcruple, 
 dilfolve or mixe them together, and take it in white wine,daret, or 
 facke,orin Carduus, orfairewater forneed, ofany theaforefaid-, to 
 the quantity of foure ounces, and fweat thereupon, and if the conta¬ 
 gion be fierce, the patient may reiterate fuch a fweating medieine 
 each eight houres, fafely for three times, or Aurum vita gr. 8 
 
 Thefe or any of thefe other Cordials, may be given in other wa¬ 
 ters, and other mixtures, according to the diferetion of the Sur¬ 
 geon, the time, place,and different occafion confidered, and forneed, 
 the aforefaid Cordials or any of them , may be taken in a Bolus or 
 lumpe. Likewife Mitbridate or Andromacbes Treacle adram or two 
 drams of eithei of them, inwhite wine, in water or in beare, 
 
 or water fpr a need, may fafely be taken for a Cordiall, or in a Bolus , 
 if the patient like it fo. FsAmimtt 
 
 Alfo Theriaca Dhtcfaron , three drams for a dofe may be taken, ^ p Jf h u j r Lbe 
 Either as it is in a Bolus or lump to be fwallowed downe, and even fo bmjh • 
 
 taken 
 
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 308 
 
 taken, it is an excellent Cordiall to provoke fwcat, to remove tor- 
 tions, ftitches or gripings of the ftomach or lower belly, or agamft 
 anypaines therein, alfoitrefiftcthall putrifa&icns,andpeftilcnriall 
 vapours ,and is the mod antient Triacle of all others, my felfc have 
 had very much, true and good experience of it, and w ould truft my 
 life upon ic though not before the two aforefaid Alexifarmi^t } and 
 the London ’Crude in like manner is to be ufed, and is a very good 
 Cordiall: EleB.de Ovojs alfo of it felfe a lure good Cordiall,a fcruple 
 I meanc, twenty graines thereof in a Bolt* or lumpe, or in wine given, 
 itrefiftcch peftilentiali venome, and refrefheth the fpirits ,and either 
 A ctrikV. alone,or as aforefaid mixed with other Cordials; Aureumvit a is alfo 
 
 a true Cordiall, for it comfor teth theheart, prevoketh fwcat, and by 
 the pores of the skinne, expel lcth poyfonous vapours, I have had 
 good proofe thereof upon my owne body, when 1 was ftrucken with 
 the Plague. 
 
 Confer. Rofarum , is ufed to refrelh and ftrengthen the ftomach, 
 a contt mp t r* - c i f hcr alone, or if you intend to code and contempcrate the blood, 
 tivecorduB. to purpofc, addc a few drops of oyle of Vitrioll, to alittle thereof, 
 and if to warme the ftomach,mixe Mitbridate 01 Treacle, one part,and 
 Confcrvc of Roles two parts ^nd give it fo in a Btltt*. 
 
 Confer. Barberies may be profitably kept, either to mixe with 
 effoeknglukpu coo j j n g Barley waters, or Juleps to refrelh the appetite and the 
 feebled fpirits in Feavers, or fometimes to give little of ic in a Bolus 
 or lumpe, to give a relifti to the mouth, to caufe appetite in Feavers, 
 andtoexpell naufeous diftempers. 
 
 There is alfo in the cheft Oxymelfimplex t which 1 ule in the Surgeons 
 cheft, in want of firrop Diamor .as being nothing inferiour thereunto, 
 for Lotions in the mouth & throat orderly ufed,it cealeth inflamma¬ 
 tions,as alfo for the other vertues it hath exceeded Oiamoron ,as name¬ 
 ly , in the fwaging of tumours and paines, this is a Angular medicine, 
 bwneriS*!* 1 * an ^ a ^° Hernla burner aIu , being tumours of the telticles and [cm- 
 
 turn , it excelleth them, if it be mixt with a Cataplafme of Bcane- 
 mealeboylcd inbeare, with a little oyle of Elders or Rofes, and2 
 little wax, fo that the whole quantity of the Cataplafme being by 
 guefle two pound, if fo th*n, put about fixe, or feven,or eight ounces 
 o(Oximel thereunto and boyle it to a body, and it is an admirable 
 good medicine ,foritdifculTethand fafely repelleth fuch tumours in 
 their incrcale, with the helpc of Phlebotomy and a vomit, where the 
 patient is ftrong, which tumours by the patient his delaying of time, 
 or by errour of the Surgeon, will otherwife come to fuppuration, and 
 prove fiftulacs incurable, but hee that will cure fuch tumours, muft 
 haveanartificiall fackc-trufle,and befure that thegriefebe truly and 
 cafily borne up at all times of the whole cure, and Oximel inwardly 
 adminiftred, purgeth the ftomach and intrals,openeth obftru&ions, 
 and yet without any manifeft figne of heat, and thereby helpeth much 
 in feavers ingendred ofgrofle phlegme. 
 
 Of Lotions generally ufed in the Surgeons Chefte, the moft com¬ 
 mon is of Sd/M/iWhcarbs made in the Summer with water or wine or 
 
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 both, and honey, but at Sea if a laxative or waflung lotion in need be Lolion 1 
 required, faire water with as much Allum therein, as will make it fxfij cramc *‘ 
 and fo much honey as will give it a gratefull tafte, and there is a lotto n 
 for a fhifr, or if in thcdifeal'esof the Scurvy a lotion be required, then 
 ufe Copperas inftead of Allum, orfometimes Vnguent. E^yptiacum , 
 whichisamoft fit medicine for Ulcers of the mouth, or throat, the 
 grieved part being touched very hot therewith, and being applied with 
 a Probe armed with Linte. 
 
 And to wafhand coole the mouth in feavers, I often take faire wa¬ 
 ter, foure ounces, of Rofe watcrhalfea fpoonefull, a little (irrup of 
 Violets, or Mel for a need, and a few drops of Wine Vinegar, or Ox¬ 
 ime/, or Oyle of Vitriol, a few drops onely to make the Medicine tart, 
 
 I mcane the Lotion. I havebeene taxed that my proportion hath not 
 fufficient medicines conteined therein for wounds with Gunfhot, but 
 if anypleafeto looke into the particulars, and well cotlfider them, hee 
 will findethat thewholefcopeof the Surgeons Che ft, is of purpofe Atruede/criptm 
 contrived to that end, and that there is not any one Medicine therein, °f a mund wi,h 
 but upon the maine, or upon the by, tendeththat way: fora wound 
 of Gunfhot at the fir ft view reprefentetha wound, an ulcer, a Fiftula, 
 yea and fometimes a fra&ure, and a diflocation, and by accidents caj- 
 leth unto it a feaver, an Apoftume, a Gangren, & quid non, yea with¬ 
 out Gods Mercy joyned, and the great care of the difefeet Surgeon, 
 death followeth. Judge then ifought be in the Surgeons Cheft, which 
 in fuch a wound upon fome occafion may not be found ufefull. 
 
 And for an inftance, the Cheft containeth for the firft intention cu¬ 
 rative of burnings wirh Gun- powder, Vng. Populeon, Album triaphar- 
 Mac. Diapompbol. Mel. Saponis , Oleum Lint , Cerufa , Mel depiirat. being 
 alldire<ftly fitting for the firft intention, namely for taking out of the 
 fire, and yet the Che ft hath diverfe other helpes • as for an example: a 
 linament may be made of Minium, or D iacal(i:heos, and Oyles either of 
 Linfeed, or Roles, very profitable for that ufe. ' 
 
 And for all the reft (as is faid) of wounds of Gun-fhot, fo I fay of 
 ulcers made by Gunfhot, the whole fcope of all the Sanative Medi¬ 
 cines io the Cheft, accordingtotheirfeverall intentions, and times, 
 fute fitly to finifhthe cures. 
 
 But fay fome others, the proportion is very much wanting of re- 
 ftridiveor aftringent Medicines, to ftay Fluxes, or to amputate upon 
 occafion, wherefore to fatisfiethe young benevolent Surgeon defirous 
 to be informed; I anfwer firft, that there is Pulvis re(lringens Ma 'tris, a 1 
 
 fufficient proportion, alfo Bole, Wine vinegar, Mirrh, Al lum,Crude 
 Vitriol, Vitriol combuft. Mercury Precipitate , fublirrrare Beane am, 
 and Barly Meale, Gaules, Pomigranate Rindes, and whites of Fgges.. 
 
 Bcfides good Ligature and bfoulfters ready, all which with Iudge- 
 ment anddiferetion ufed, I dare fay are fufficient; and for one inftance 
 namely,' that three pound of the ftrong reftri&ive powder is fufficient 
 in quantity for a teafonable Sea-Cheft. Vpon the 2 4 of Inly 1628, I 
 tooke off two members,being both legs, whereof one above the knee, 
 with one ounce and a halfeofthe powdertoboth,and had a fourth part 
 
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 ' to fpare of the made medicine. There is alfoan aftringent defenfative 
 
 powder, prepared and made ready for ufe, as hereafter followeth. 
 
 And if all what is faid, with alfo the helpeof Phlebotomy ligature 
 a&uall and potential! cauteries, will not fuffice, then I am I confelfc 
 miftaken. 
 
 common panice Note, in burnings with Gun-powder, that if the face or hand bee 
 
 burned, I have found it belt from thefirft to the laft , namely, to the 
 end of the cure, to ufe Vng. Album, either mixed with Populeen ,or with 
 Linfced Oyle, or mg. Diapampholl , is fully as good made into a very 
 nTofburninu thin linament,and warme,laid on the face with a feather, and no clouts 
 in tbefice. at all, nor ought elfero cover the face, this healeth excoriations or 
 
 fcorchings beft : or that the Surgeon take Cerufc, grown d in a mor¬ 
 tar, with linfeed oyle, and apply it as the former, I have approved it to 
 be be very good, Tripbarnuc . is alfo very good lo ufed. 
 
 I fpake but now of honey for burnings, and who (hall prove it (hall 
 finde it lafe totakeout the fire, and after toheale the griefe,but is fom- 
 what more painefull then fome other medicines are, it is onely once 
 a day to be applied upon browre paper, the paper being firft rubbed 
 foft, and the Medicine fpread thereon, and in that manner applied, it 
 healeth without any fcarre very quickly. Alfo Mel Saponis and alio.- 
 ther medicines appropriate may be applyed upon paper at Sea, partly 
 for fparing Linnen. 
 
 of the Moreover j I find a great weakenefle in younger Surgeons,that I have 
 
 te a&L(Zf S i uft occafion to queftion, in that their Matters that bred them have 
 not taught them the true knowledge of our ufuall weights and mea- 
 fures, but chiefly they fade in their weights, which doth bring great 
 danger to their poore patients, whofe lives hang dangeroufly inthc ba¬ 
 lance by a graine too much given, where the Surgeon knoweth not 
 how many graines are in a ferapje, or in a dram, no nor fcarcc,tbat there 
 is a weight fo cafled : wherefore young Surgeons note as followeth. 
 The Phyfitians, Surgeons and Apothecaries have two forts of weights 
 in ufe, namelyTroy-weights, which likewife are the Gold-finiths 
 weights, and that containeth twelve ounces to the pound, and Haber- 
 de-poif weights, which containeth 16 ounces to the pound, and is that 
 common weight which the Grocers andall other Tradef-men ufe,and 
 indeed which we moft ufe, for- though my felfe fometimes buy Musks, 
 Civet,or Ambcr-greece, and other forts of Drugs, by Troy-weight, yet 
 Idifpence and adminifter all by Haber-de-pou, which is 16 ounces to 
 the pound: fo much I will onely for brevity lake fpeake thereof. 
 
 A pound of Haber-de pops weight hath 1 6 ounces, an ounce hath 8 
 Drains, a Dram hath three fcruples, a fcruple hath twenty graines, and 
 by that accomptadram hath two graines, and a full graine of Barley 
 is a reafonable Graine, and a pepper Come or wheat Come may tec 
 ufed. Jj. i. •/. • fi 
 
 And our meafuresagreeing with our weights moft ufuall are as fob 
 loweth,a wine Cajlon of water containeth 8 pound, a pottle 4 pound, 
 a quart 2 pound, a pint 1 pound, and of ordinary falletoyles, 7 pound 
 and a halfe is accounted a Gallon. 
 
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 O F all other neceflaries in tb e Surgeons Che ft, I confefle my 
 Jeficiencie therein ; for I ought to have had dryed hearbes 
 of all forts fitting, fome (lore : but I pray you accept of my 
 excufe. For at the Edition of this Ex tempore, I had Surgeons Chefts 
 and parts of chefts, 60 at once to prepare, and had but ten dayes 
 refpit admitted me to make and to fit them all; and yet notwith- 
 ftanding, the faid Chefts contained hearbes of diverfe forts, asalfo 
 Beane and Barly-mcalc, Linfeed, Fenugreeke, Camomile flowers. 
 
 Cumin feed, Fennell feed, and diverfe other things, that are hclpes 
 that way. But what (hall I fay ? To fome foolifh contentious vain¬ 
 glorious perfons,my beft things fall too (hort for them; but to bene¬ 
 volent underftanding Artifts, they can make and finde many wayes 
 and helpes of fitting things in a Ship, and not alvvayes charge the 
 Surgeons Che ft. Viz. If my felfe were at Sea, and put to it, I would lftsurgmik 
 finde wafte crummes of Bisket, and I would boyle them in Ship - fKt 19 lt ' 
 Beere, and with fome fat of the Beefe Kettles,or of the Porke Kettle, 
 
 I would make up a fupperative Cataplafme ; and if it had not a fit 
 confidence or body, I would deale with the Steward for a little 
 Meale,or take fome of my ownc (lores; and according to my (lore* 
 enrich that with other helpes from the Che ft : And if I need a dif- 
 cutient Cataplafme, and the Che ft had not tb heipe me to my will, 
 being put to it, I would jas I faid, make my ground of the Medicine 
 to be of crummes of Bisket or of foft Bread decoded in Beere; 
 adding, when it had well fod, Vineger and Honey, a fit quantitie: 
 thefe things,with other rationall additions, according to fcvcrall oc- 
 cafions,doe much comfort the weake patient,and alfo grace the Amft: 
 
 N&m fruftra fit per plura quodfieri poteft per pandora. 
 
 And to put young Surgeons in mind, what other Supperative Me- 
 dicines are in the Surgeons Che ft, there are cithefllnguents, Oyles, or 
 Emplaftick Medicaments diverfe, which my time Will not admit me 
 to informe you of, though I confefle I fhould advife young men in 
 their neceflities. But to be fhort, they (hall finde Vnguent. Bafiiicon SkppinuwtMi 
 fpread thicke and applycd to an Apoftume, doth well heipe to fuppe - tllcm ' 
 rate j and the better, if the griefc were fir ft embrocated with (oime 
 Oleum Lilliorum, lint, or the like : and you fhall finde, that Greens 
 JLinaracnt is right good to fupperate a tumor, and likewife Empl. 
 
 Meliloti: and who knovveth not,that Ship-pitch and a little fat mixed 
 ripeneth a tumor,daily applyed ? or Pix Grxca,w ith fat or Turpentine, 
 and diverfe other the like good things maybe found, where the dif- 
 creet Surgeon is put to his fhifes. But no more of that • for where as 
 Bees may fucke Honey, even there Spiders will convert a plains ftile 
 into Poyfon and Gall. 
 
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 A ready defenfative powder to be applied, where Iuft caufe is for 
 a defenfative, either for wounds with Gunfhot, or other Wounds, 
 which I have made ufe of, and will impart the fecret to youog practiti¬ 
 oners, and is as followeth. 
 
 R. Terra, figillat. 
 
 jilumin. 
 
 Vitriol. 
 
 Tartar. 
 
 Ceruf. ana i Ii. 
 
 Bol. Amen, z li. 
 
 Aqua I \i. jf. 
 
 Take a new earthen pot of almoft a Gallon and a halfe , put the wa¬ 
 ter into the pot, and thereunto put the Allum and the Copperas, then 
 powder the Tartar, and put that inalfo, and then have ready the other 
 ingrediences in powder, put them in by little and little, ftirringthem 
 very well, untill all be incorporated, and without feething keepc the 
 Medicine on the fire till it be hard, and if you cannot make it hard e* 
 nough in that manner, fo that being cold, it will powder, then put it 
 into fomc dripping Pan, or the like, and into an oven, when the bread 
 is drawne, and it will be bard, then being cold powder it, and keepe it 
 to your ufe, for it will not decay, nor alter his Vertue in many 
 yeeres* 
 
 And when you would ufe it for a defenfative, take of this powder,' 
 about halfe an ounce of Pofea, I meane water and Vinegar mixed,foure 
 ounces, put the powder therein, which will almoft melt, then dippe 
 eloutstherein, and apply them. This medicine with moderationufed, 
 isa true and excellent defenfative, and a very anodine. 
 
 Alfo it healeth all itchings, fmartings, gaulings, or any Erifipelas or 
 otherexcoriationsfpeedilyandfafely,anadryeth it mightily, preven¬ 
 ted! from accidents, either in great wounds, or fradures, and being in 
 fmall quantity ufed with faire water to ulcers, it cleanfeth them wel and 
 healeth them. 
 
 And if you have whites of Egges, mixed withtPofia, it were the 
 better, or in fra&ures with yolkes and whites together it is very good, 
 onely let the care of the Surgeon be, that he apply it in his true nature, 
 namely as a defenfative in fit time, and touching the reft of theufes 
 thereof, he may prefume he hath a very good Medicine, and fo for this 
 time I take my leave. Vale in Cbrt'fio lefu. 
 
<iA ‘Defcription of the ,T rafine,' and the necejsaiy 
 
 ufes tbertof, ej}ecuIly/or ;Min4ry occefms 
 
 for young Surgtms. -.V.'.• ••. 
 
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 Avinghad lufficient tryals bf the facility and fafetdS 
 of the Trafine ,1 have thought fit to commend it arid-tlje 
 ufe thereof, for the future, to the younger Artifts, upon 
 fome of their requefts, not detraaing" ought from thb 
 worthinefie, and due commendations of the Aurhoure 
 of the Trap an , concerning that excel lent invention,yet by way ofad- 
 dition to my former Edition, I thought fit here to deferibe the 
 Trafine, it being an Inftrnmcnt of my o^ne compollng-, which expe¬ 
 rience will fhew, is more compendious and of more facility in the' 
 ufe thereof, for young practitioners in Surgery then is the Trapan, 
 the which Inftrument, although it may be laid- to be a derivative or 
 Epitomyof, or from the Trapan, yct/well obferved,tt performed! as 
 much as the Trap an in every degree and more , and for that it was lb 
 falhioned,and firftpra&ifed by-my felfe, I thought- fit to put the 
 name of aTrafine upon it ( a tribiufinibm )from thethreeends thereof, 
 each beingof feverall ufes, and being as ii may appeare triangular or 
 three cornered, each corner thereof performing the-par fit feemeth 
 to undertake, fo that it fully fupplyeth & maketh good all thculcs of 
 aTr/iftf»,vvith the oneend,and that with more facility as is faid, and 
 fafety then the Trapan doth, or can doe, and it fupplyeth with the le- 
 condendall the ufes of a fmooth Levacory, and fupplyeth thehecef- 
 fity of a Jagged or toothed Levatory,wich the third end,the faid Leva- 
 torics being all neceflary ad jutors in helping to make and finifh the 
 Trafineot ( tresfinis) and who fo fhall pleafe to make a judiciall ex¬ 
 perience thereof, notbeing prejudicated, will find that it far excec- 
 deth the Trapan in all his ufes ; in the Wmpendious and fafeperfor¬ 
 mance of the workes , as well of the two Levatories as of a Trepan re¬ 
 cited which the former can no way be faid to do. 
 
 Secondly, the Trapan cannot bewell managed without both the 
 hands of the Artift, viz. the one for the workcoferofion by the Ar¬ 
 tificial! motion thereof in turning it ever round for the better pene¬ 
 trating of the Cranium, the other hand muft be uled to keepe it fteddy 
 upon the affedied part,and yet theupperpart of the Inftrument,muft 
 ncvcrthelefte, as of necelfity reft upon the Surgeons breft, yea & the 
 Surgeon muft for that purpofe order his body in a fic pofture, and 
 further yet, the Surgeon muft have afecond man foranafliftant of 
 necelfity, that muftbeimploycd to ftay the patients head,whereas 
 
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Of the Trafine. 
 
 with this Inftrument (I racanc the Trafine ) the whole vvorke is per. 
 formed by the two hands of the Surgeon onely, and with farre more 
 dexterity and quicker, then with the Trapan as is laid, yea, and that 
 with much mote comfort, both to the patient and to the Artift, as 
 the pra&ice therewith will plainely (hew: and agame,there is no fuch 
 danger attending that Inftrument as doth the Trapan^ for the heads of 
 the Trafine are made all taper, to wit, wider above then beneath, and 
 alfo cut both wayes, and cannot therefore eafily be faid to offend the 
 {DuraMater) by anerrourtobe fuggefted , to happen intheufe 
 thereof, without ftupid ignorance in the Artift* 
 
 Thirdly, the Tr apart of old had ever the heads as wide above as be¬ 
 neath, which heads were many wayes both very dangerous and un- 
 certaine , efpecially when the Inftrument, by turning round, had 
 cleane pierced through the Cranium , and thereby after the fame head 
 had fully perforated the Cranium round, it was very apt on the fud- 
 daine to flip downc upon the (Dura Mater) byerrour and improvi¬ 
 dence of the Artift, either upon oblivion or omiffion divers wayes, 
 as namely for one, if the Artift did not truely, equally , and ftrongly 
 Men the fmall ferew, being an iron or rather a fteelc pin, that ftay- 
 eth and faftneththe faid head of the Trapan , which the Artift pier- 
 ceth with for the gaging thereof, cither by haft, which though 
 otherwife he might be adjudged a carefull Surgeon, yet upon his ea¬ 
 ger proceeding on his workc,might unhappily be omitted, and even 
 that fmall errour might caufe danger to the life of the patient, and 
 fometimes proved the irrecoverable caulc of his death j whereas this 
 Inftrument, the Trafine , hath all the heads thereof made taper, as is 
 faid, namely, wider above then below, piercing every way alike, and 
 therefore there needeth no rule or gager, efpecially in the being per¬ 
 formed without turning it round about ,but is done by the onely mo¬ 
 ving or agitating of the hand to and fro, yea, with the onely mooving 
 of the wrift of the hand, and which is another manifeft benefit there¬ 
 of, it can goe no lower then it is, by agitating and extreame preffing 
 urged, and when it hath penetrated through it, for the moft part de- 
 teincth and bringeth forth the peecc of the bone with it, and putteth 
 the patient to no paine nor danger thereby, no, nor colour of danger 
 or paine at all. 
 
 Fourthly, by reafon that the Trafines taper heads are made and 
 framed, to cut every way alike, as is laid, the workc iseafierandfoo- 
 ner performed therewith, then with the Trapan , as by the proving it 
 upon a Calves head youeafily (hall make the experience, provided a* 
 is fitting in the time of piercing, you fometimes take out the Inftru- 
 ment, and wipe the teeth thereof that it furre not too much, and 
 thereby hinder the due penetration: alfo thereby you eafi ly may coti- 
 fider how farre you have penetrated, and what remaincth unpierced, 
 that you may doe what is juft in theworke of penetration, and n® 
 more. 
 
 Yet I will never deny, but doe acknowledge, that the Trapan hath 
 diferved great praifes from former ages, for that it hath beene an In¬ 
 ftrument 
 
Of the Trafine. 
 
 ftrument that hath prefcrved many a man, woman and cbifds life 
 from thcemmcnt danger of death, and whereby they have bcene re- 
 ftored to good and perfca healthagaine, andifthatany by omiffion 
 orcrrour in the ufe thereof have dyed, they are at reft by it - and if 
 the younger Amft doe by his experience, find that thi/rtiy additi¬ 
 on deferve ought, let God have the prayfe in his mercies to wcake 
 men, for the comfort they find thereby in their vvofull diftrefles, and 
 as for this my Addition of invention, Imuft confefle is not much 
 onely good wih, for all men may well conceive, that it is moreeafie 
 to addc to another mans invention, then to invent a new thine of his 
 
 The next obfervation confiderable in the fitting of the 7 rafincdue- 
 Jy to the worke is, for the regulating the center or point of this orbe 
 or circumference, Imeaneof thisr^chead, it isfirft to be well 
 coniidcred , that the pin thereunto belonging being placed truly in 
 the center be artificially made of good fteele, and that it be triangu¬ 
 lar, alio that it be fharp each way well pointed, and ftand faft in the 
 n tramcnr > and alfo chat it ftand no lower jbutalwayes fomewhac 
 higher then the circumferent teeth of the head of that Inftru- 
 mentdoe, forbecaufe the laid pinnein the center guideth thccir- 
 cum ferent tooth-head- faw, to the beginning of the worke, and in the 
 agitating and mooving of the Trafine with the hand to and fro in this 
 worke, the laid pinne may firit take hold, ere the teeth of the In- 
 llrument touch the fcull, for that the faid pinne is not onelyappoin- 
 ted as a rule and guide, but alfo as theftay to the worke, which done 
 namely, when the tooth-bed orbe or faw, hath taken hold round’ 
 then the fooner the better the Artift is to take up the Inftrument, to 
 wipe and cleanfe the teeth thereof, and draw out the faid pinne in the 
 center, the which he may no wayes omit, which done heeisbythe 
 agitation of his hand onely to & fro to pierce, and halving pierced as 
 it were halfcthrough, hec is againe to take up his Inftrument and 
 cleanfe it, and then againe to proceed in pierring by the motion of 
 the hand to and fro, untill hee have in all parts gon through the Cra- 
 nium^ which if he diligently regard in the tender obfervant motion of 
 his owne handsel meane he that picrceth fhall fenfibly feelc when the 
 bone is penetrated through on each part, which confidered, then 
 drawing offhis Inftrument, hec fhall findthepeeceoftbe Craniumfo 
 remooved, fixed within the head of his Inftrument as is faid. 
 
 But note neverthcleffe, there is great care to be taken by the Ar¬ 
 tift in the manner of the piercing and taking out the pecce of the fra*- 
 ftured bone diverfe wayes. 
 
 And firft, let him be fure ever to place the broding bead of the In¬ 
 ftrument that piercethfo that the triangular pinne in the center 
 thereof be fet upon a firme part of the Cranium or fcull, yet a 1 wayes 
 provided it be neare the fra&ured part thereof as may be. 
 
 Secondly the Artift is to confider, that as he which pierceth the 
 Cranium with a fmall ftreight head, fuch as the frapan/were accufto- 
 naed to have as is faid by the giving way of the fmall ferew that faft- 
 
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 ncthtbc bead of tbe Trahan, the patients life may be ir.dangcred, 
 nan ely if the Cranium being thorowly phrcid, the Inftrument ca# 
 fually (bould flip downeupon the ( Dura mater, ) as my felfe to my 
 griefe once law, even in like manner he that uieth a ragged taper- 
 head of a Trafine , how fafe* foever,may be guilty of mdangering his 
 patient, if he be notcarefullinthe manner of his piercing, namely, 
 that after tbe Inftrumenthath taken hold round with the teeth, if 
 he either leave the pinne untaken out, the faid pinne being longer 
 then the teeth of the Inftrument, hee may wound the Panicle ( Dura 
 Mater) before the peece intended to be taken out, be pierced 
 through in each part,or that he doe not at the leaft twice or thrice in 
 the time of his piercing the Cranium , take up & cieanfe the teeth of 
 the Inftrument with a clout,thereby as it were to miftruft himfclfe, 
 as fearing whether it have in all parts pierced through or not, or how 
 much or in which part he is wanting for feareof going toodeepe, 
 otherwise he may kill his patient ere he doth find or perceive hee is 
 through,for a workefo feldomeufed, and the errours thereof being 
 offo dangerous a confequent, the Artift, although otherwife dif- 
 creet, by omilfion, oblivion, or other improvidence be wanting in 
 fomeobfervation, highly worthy of regard, wherefore it bchoo- 
 veth him to fufpe& himfelfe and be cautious,for that a man can ne¬ 
 ver be too wary in fuch a bufinefle, for although the peece everyway 
 may be pierced & removed out of his place,yea,and conteined with¬ 
 in the Trafine head, yea, and fticke in the fame, yet the Artift may 
 by his hand be miftaken , and thinke it not to be through, for that 
 tbe Inftrument ftickethas firmely,and asfaft in the place, when the 
 peece is out and within the orbe of the Trafine , as it did ere it was 
 divided,and as if it had not gone through: hereby if the A'tiftob- 
 ferve not his intermiflions,by forbearing now and then bis piercing, 
 as is faid, and fometimes view his worke, and cfeanfe the teem 
 of the Inftrument ere it be through, he is fub jed to goe too deepe, 
 and wound the ( Dura Mater ) by the continued motion of his 
 hand, notwithftanding thepeece ofthe Cranium is compleatly rc- 
 mooved,and refteth within the head ofthe faid Inftrument: where¬ 
 fore all thefe obfervations as I conceive, under favour, are but 
 neceffary for the young Artift to have, in regard, Namnimis cauieh 
 nonnocet: To be exceeding wary is not hurtfull. 
 
 And further,let the Artift be fure that his Trafine be truely made of 
 good fteele, I meane the head of the pinne or center, and rh? ends 
 ofthe levatories, and that the pinne ftand fall on, and diredfly in 
 the middeft of the head thereof, namely in the true center of the In¬ 
 ftrument , and alfo that the Artift have three heads of fevcrall fizes 
 in readinefle by him is likewife very fitting, with alfo an Inftrument 
 called a Lenticular at hand, to cieanfe away all ftnall fhivers and ra. 
 fpings of bones, juftly proceeding in the operation of excifion, 
 as alfo for the remooving whatfoevet elfe may feeme by confe- 
 quence to offend the Dura Mater , or that way elfe might hinder hca- 
 
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Of the Trafine. 
 
 And further, I advifc that every young Artift take feme conve¬ 
 nient time before hand, to make tryall of his Trajine i as is (aid, upon 
 a CalveS'head , or the like fubjeft, before he put it in pr a dice upon 
 a man, for a good Surgeon may erre , even in a fmall omiffion in 
 fucha bufim.ite tohis griefeand reproach, ifhee be not exceeding 
 cautious-and for that caufe I advifc every young Surgeon (as is fa id) 
 tofufped himfelfe , and warily to confider that the precious life of 
 manfo dependeth upon the care, wifedome, and artificiall skill of 
 the Surgeon in his worke, as that upon a fmall omiffion or errour of 
 forgetfulnefle, orbuta very little miftakc, a man is in a moment 
 flaine by art, for want of arc, when it will be too late for the Artift 
 within himfclf,to ruminate of the things that mod conduced to the 
 mifehiefe, and upon all occafions, or omiffions whatfoever befalling 
 the Artift, let him ever be fearefull and carefull of entring too 
 deepe, for fearc of wounding, or but fcratching of the ( Dura Ma¬ 
 ter ) for thofe tranfgrelfions often produce fearefull accidents and 
 deadly. # 
 
 Againe,asinfpeaking elfe.whereof the ufeof the Trapan I have 
 mentioned , let every Artift be very wclladvifed and fully rcfolved 
 of the juft neceffity ofthe ufeof the Trapan , and fo of this Inftrii- 
 jnent,before he attempt to ufeit, and not lightly upon fuggeftions 
 or for vaineoftentation fake , nor above all, for bafe lucres fake, to 
 put his patient upon the ule of cither of them, for that it is ap¬ 
 parent, many great concuflions, depreffions, yea and fomc fra- 
 &ures are cured without any fuch Inftrument • I have fometimes al- 
 fo obferved, that young Surgeons upon a rafhhefle of their opini- 
 on^nd now and then Jot fooliftivaine glory and oftenration fake, 
 havebeene overforward in that point, ofputting themfelves upon 
 the worke of piercing the Cranium , not attending the true time of 
 nature, and by wayting to fee what fhe can or will performc of her 
 felfe,as in truth he ought to doc, for that the Surgeon being na¬ 
 tures hand-maid, not her guide, ought judicioufly to attend her 
 Crips , and to proceed by the advifesofantient grave Artifts, that 
 are experienced Surgeons in thofe workes ; for fometimes there are 
 dangerous fymptomes that ceale, without the ufe of the Trapan or 
 7rafine, by making of a wound, or by the only competent enlarging 
 ofthe wound,in which work it is good to be very fure in the making 
 incifion upon the head, that he doe well divide the Pericranium fo 
 farre as he intends to fet his Trafine , at the lead wherelbever there is 
 Caufe of enlarging or inciting any wound of the head for the Trajine* 
 or otherwife for the cnely dividing that Membrane , is in many cafes 
 fufficient, andfervethin fteed of the intended worke of piercing the 
 Cranium * and further touching incifion obferve, that as too fmall 
 incifion is not good, that the Surgeon eveT have regard topreferve 
 the beauty of nature as much as may be ^ as fuppofe it were in any 
 part ofthe face,to make too large an incifion there,cfpecially when 
 ft faileth out to be neere thetemporall mufdes,or on the forhead. 
 
 Now a word or two more, and an end of that bufinefle, conccr- 
 
 C cc ning 
 
^1$ Of the Trafine, 
 
 ningthe rrajine^ nd I will conclude, there is yet a needfary Inftru- 
 raenr, which of a kind of neceflitie, ought to be at hand whensoever 
 the frafirte is put to worke, for that there may be unexpe&cdiy ufe 
 of it 3 and it is as formerly named a Lenticular , or a cicanfer, which 
 immediatly after the eroding part of the Trajifi? , hath performed 
 ins fitting office and isremooved: this Lenticular or Smoother, being 
 a little warmed, is to be put into the wound, where the eroding pare 
 flood , and with a gentle fenfible hand to be palled to and fro upon 
 that moft tender panicle, I meanethe (DuraMater) thereby to 
 bring away any Small erofions, Scrapings, duft, fpills of bones, or 
 what elfc-fccver might be imagined, could give offence to that moft 
 fenfible and noble Panicle. 
 
 This, with the premifes well had in regard, I leave the young Ar- 
 till to Gods blelfing,and conclude this Chapter vrich a loving a 5 mo* 
 nirion to the younger fort of my brethren, for their imitations; that 
 like as our blefled Saviour faidto hisDifciples,ia his fpirituall Dis¬ 
 cipline to them, when he fent them forth into theworld, to preach 
 the glad tidings of falvation, headmonifhed them* and nodoubt 
 infufed power Sufficient into them, to be wife as Serpents, and in¬ 
 nocent or harmelefle as Doves,and withall, willed them to beware 
 of men j and even the like premonition doe I give to my Brethren 
 of the younger fort, concerning the great truft of the precious lives 
 and limmes of men, referred to their skill, truft, and care, and 
 namely, that they with the utmoft that in them is, and even as they 
 would anfwere it before the living God, whofeethnot as men fee, 
 that with innocent hearts, they without any finifterends, truely 
 and faithfully performe their charge, in healing thole whom 
 they take into cure, and charge, and that in the obedi- 
 encc,and in the feare of God, their innocence may 
 appeare before God, and be witnelfed 
 by their workes. 
 
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A 
 
 TREATISE 
 
 FAITHFULLY 
 
 PLAINELY DECLARING 
 
 the way of preventing, preferving from, and 
 
 curing of that mod iearefull and contagious 
 
 Difeafe called the Plague. 
 
 and other the fearefull Symptomes and acci- 
 
 According to the long practice and experience 
 of 1 o H n W oodaii, Matter 
 
 in Surgery, 
 
 Surgeon of his Maie sties Hofpitall of S r BartbolomerveSy 
 and Surgeon Generali to the Easl-India 
 Company: 
 
 But »#<&rbenedicite (namely) as imploring and afiribing all the 
 
 Honour and Praife unto God alone, for his favour 
 andracicyes, touching the lalubriatc effefts 
 thereof. 
 
 Chirurgi peperere manus , Iovis aSa falubres y 
 ex cu/utpendet no fir a favor efalut: 
 
 Stn Detu auxilio morbu languentibuf abjit y 
 frujlratur medictUy deficit artis oput. 
 
 L o n d o N, 
 
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THE PREFACE. 
 
 Ourteouj Reader, Such is Gedt manifeft miraculous 
 hand in his various and unfearchable wayes of affixing man¬ 
 kind in that most rnyfome difeafe of the Peftilence, that it is 
 not onely wonderfullfbut alfo impojiibltfor the wit of any matt, 
 how wife or learned foever he may efleeme himftlfeyr by others 
 be efleemed, to give afufficicnt reafon, with alfo a getterall and methodical 
 Cure for that mo ft contagious, myforne , and killing difeafe of the Peftilence, 
 for that it is apparent it paffeth mans wit to comprehend or to avoid the mofl 
 fubtile invafions and affaults thereof as having in it (aliquid divinum) to 
 be confidered of it being one of the three great and terrible Arrowes of the 
 Almightie, whereby according to his Divine will hee hath ufually cut off 
 firmers from of the Earth almoft in all Ages, and in all Nations, as we may 
 gathered is at large read in holy Scriptures, and in the writings of good 
 men, and dayly experience declares no lejfe . all which, for brevitie, l will 
 omit here to repeat. 
 
 And his mofl ufuallgreat and fearefull Arrowes declared, are Warres, 
 Famine, and Peftilence ; and the mofl mercifull of tbefe three, which 
 the Prophet David chofe , was the Peftilence: which, although his mightie, 
 fearefull ’ and terrible hand be in it-, yet for as much as his mtrtie is ex¬ 
 ceeding great,yea, overall his worker, and that he hath not forbidden, but 
 given m leave, with underftanding, and fome judgement, to make ufe of all 
 lawfull meaner to preferve ourfraile bodies in health by atl our btfl endevour, 
 fi long as we trufl chieftly on his mercie, in the ufe of the meaner. 
 
 In regard whereof l weighing with my felfehewjufland needfull a thing 
 it is set all times, but chiefely in contagious times, for all men, efpeciaUy for 
 men of my calling , to fhe» their endevours fit the helpe not onely of them- 
 fllves, but alfo of their Chriftian Brethren, as well by direBions as by prefer- 
 vative and curative Medicines. I efteemed it not amiffe, by this following 
 weake Treatife,to fbew forth the fruits of my man v yetres experience,touching 
 the generall knowledge of this difeafe,as alfo the beft meaner l had experienced 
 both for the preventing and curing of the fame, when and where occafion may 
 be offered, either Dome flick, Marine,or Militarie. And firfl, as by the way, 
 take it into your consideration, that this difeafe hoideth not one certaine rule, 
 figure, nor order in feizing on mans body,no, nor in one and the fame houfe or 
 family j neither are men generally taken fick alike, no, nor direBly,as in other 
 times of the Plague they have beene , but each time of Contagion hath dif¬ 
 ferent affaults and difference in the fymptomes. For in Anno 1625, we had 
 many flgnes contrarie to the Plagues in other times $ yea,and many did dye 
 dayly, without any flgnes or market oh their bodies at all: and alfo fometimes. 
 
The Preface. 
 
 ffsistoo manifest, the Plague beginneth in Winter ,ar.d that as well with us 
 as wn hour neighbour Nations , as namely i Germanie, France, the Low- 
 Countries, and. other farts of the world it hath done: whereas, for tie moft 
 fan foretof'ore the Plague tetth w hath begun in Summerrand was commonly 
 7*oft fierce,predominate,and mtraP.able to Medicines in the heat of Summer, 
 and chiefely in Harvest,which is the unfeafonable time that wee doe ufualiy 
 call the Canicular oi Dog-day es. 
 
 But the fdnejje of the ytere 1 6%6, held not that rule, but enercafedin 
 fomc Jownes in winter : wherefore jince it is evident, that the Almightie 
 hath the ordering thereof.\and calleth ttt unto him,as is faidjby extraordinary 
 formes, when,where, and how he pleafeth-, 
 
 Let us with unfair ed humihtte of heart profit ate our felves with true 
 repentance and heartie prayers, jbewing lively fruits thereof tn a ChriBisn 
 converfation . and then,without all queftion,kts Rod wiU be taken away from 
 ta and our Land. And alfo l advife all fuch as it may or fhall conceme, to 
 repaire unto fuch good meanes and learned Counfell as at the infant may be 
 had, for the preferving of their lives, and for the curing this fear efuS diftafe, 
 and that without dangerous prefunction,by delayer,over-much timoroufrefle, 
 or fearing, for in both theft extremities we offend God and our neighbours. 
 And know, that all fief) isfubjeB to this difeafe,for it fiareth no agtfeex, 
 nor degree of mankind what foyer. 
 
 And amongft many evils, this one great miferie attends it,and is incident 
 to the vulgar people feck of this difeafe, that when the difeafe rcigneth, the 
 Learned and moft sk'ilfull men, together with the befl Divtr.es and mo ft able 
 men of. efiate, which with their, relfefe fhould comfott and administer unto 
 them both fimtuall and. bodily comforts,as alfo many of their moft neett uni 
 chief ft friends, are wanting and fled,and in their places firing up unworthy, 
 unskilfull, impudent,yea,and vagrant wretches,as / may terme feme of them, 
 that in fob times, ufually take 'upon them impudently the charge of many (>ood 
 mens lives i who alfo then ire incident to be committedto the hands of wicked 
 and unskilfull Nutfey,andl had almofl fetid mercileJJ'e Keepers,which make 
 their cafes yet more lamentable; of which,my felfe have had full experienct i 
 when I had the difeafe. ,v - . . . ■ • • 
 
 And for as much as in thofe times very many of the chief eft Traders of our 
 Citizens of London, < 3 * alfo of other remote parts of the Countrey,flyefrom 
 the Citie, which commonly fet the peore on worke, the cafe Of the poorer fort is 
 made yet more mifer able: aUrthich miferies, with many more attending this 
 no )feme difeafe,is no way to be diverted from mankind, but by the tender 
 mercie of God: So that each man for him felfe and his neighbour, 
 effect ally in fuch times, is juBly obliged to call unto 
 *•>,- ;ii God, and fay, Lord have mercy upon us: 1 • 
 
 And fe in briefe , / conclude 
 my Preface. 
 
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DE PESTE. 
 
 O R 
 
 THE PLAGVE. 
 
 Jnd fir/l what the blague is . 
 
 He Plague is a difeafe venemous and contagious, TbsDtfmtm 
 
 jlothfome , noyfome , fearefull, and hatefull to 
 Mankind, yea, and deadly for the moil part, being 
 accompanyed with variety of grievous fores, as 
 Carbuncles, Botches, Blaynes, and alfo producing 
 fpots and difcolourings of the skinne, by Antient 
 veflitics , and vulgarly with us, although unproper- 
 Jy, called Gods token, for that the peftilentiaH Bubo and Carbun¬ 
 cle are by farre more manifeft fignes of the Plague then the fpots are, 
 for that the like fpots are feene in fevers,which cannot trulybe called 
 peftilentiaH. 
 
 The difeafe may fitly be called, ( VltLgtUum Dei propeccatis mun- 
 di ,) The rod of God for the finnes of the world; and even rhe word 
 Plague, if derived from the La tine word which is a wound, a 
 ftripe,aftroakcorahurt, is a juft definition of this horrid difeafe, 
 for who fo hath this difeafe, hce is wounded, hce is plagued, hee is 
 ftrucken, yea,and that by the Almighty. In briefest is a killing dif¬ 
 eafe, fearefull to Mankind, for that at unwares , it feafetb upon, 
 invadeth and pofleffeth mans body, as well fleeping as waking, and 
 being once entred in, it produceth diverfe fearefull and deadly acci¬ 
 dents , and that with great celerity: fo as Tbeopbrafitu parace/fuiy 
 amongft others a learned Writer ,deferibing this difeafe, calleth it 
 ( Bafitifeuf elementorum) alluding it to that (Bafilifeus Oljmphi) whoas ThePL-gue com- 
 the Latine Maximchathit, Solovifu interficit hominem, onely by his ^f toaEl ^ • 
 fight killeth mankind, but,faith he,with a limitation,as not fimply " 
 dotic yAttualitcr per fe t &perfl>eciem vijibilem , notby the aft it felfe, 
 
 and 
 
 Writers called 
 
 
$*+ 
 
 Of the Tlague. 
 
 "and vifibic fpeciesof the creature, but by reafon of the aqueous ;and 
 
 humid fubftance thereof. , A , a , 
 
 Moreover,the body of the Creature, being as the Author affirmeth 
 very porous and hollow j there arc fent out of it fuch vapours, as in¬ 
 fect the ayre,which infeCted ayre, fo fooneas it is drawne into mans 
 body, it doth immediately kill him j in like manner,this Monftirin 
 mankind the Vlarue, killeththofe whom it breatheth upon, fothat no 
 man can account himielfefafe, the difeafe proceeding horn the influ¬ 
 ence of the Heavens, as many of the moft learned W riters teihfie it 
 doth, fothat by their great diftemperatures, the ayre being poyfoned 
 and infe&ed, which we are enforced to receive into the fecret clofets of 
 our bodyes, which undoubtedly hath its originall, DePrtfcitMta Dei. 
 
 What fafety have we then, or what can be a more fearefu 11 enemy to 
 mankind thenPeftilentiall Vapours, which feaze upon mankind as a 
 aThiefc, and invade him at unawares, which lurke in every corner of 
 thehoufe, yea in his moft fecret chambers, threatning to take away his 
 life when he leaft miftrufts, yea when he is in his quiet fleepc,as is laid? 
 fuch is this horrid difeafe, from the which God of his infinite Mercy 
 deliver us and our land. 
 
 Of the parts of CMam body, that this Difeafe chiefly 
 i/rvadeth. 
 
 ofihe parts of The parts of the body of man that this Difeafe chiefly delighteth 
 
 mtnmoitjubjeft t Q invade or feaze upon, are the three prncij all and moft noble parts 
 toinjcflint. 0 f man , v iz.the Animal,vital and the natural 1 faculties which have their 
 
 Three font fcvcrall leates in the braine, the heart,and the liver, upon one or al 1 thefe 
 
 tfpecUU;. principall parts, this infe&ionufeth to take hold, and beingoncecn- 
 tred therein, as it were in a moment of time, it furprifeth, fubjugareth, 
 captivateth, yea and triumphethover the whole body of man, and over 
 all the faculties thereof, to his utter ruine and deftru&ion, if God bee 
 not the more mercifull unto him in his prefervation, and howfoever, 
 asitisfaid, that the difeafe chiefly doth fca/e upon the three princi¬ 
 pal! parts of mans body aforenamed, yet having firft fo done, it feareth 
 nottofhew his fubtill fury all over the body, and fets its marke every 
 where, without order or controule. 
 
 Whether the Plague may bee called a Feaver or not. ' 
 
 There hath bin much difpute amongft ancient writers, whetherthe 
 Piaguebeea Feavcror no, by reafon of the fubtility and unequality 
 thereof, but for what I can gather by my experience,I am out ofdoubr, 
 that he which hath the Plague is not without a Feaver, neither is hee 
 ever freed from the danger of that Feaver,untill one, or more then one 
 Cryfis happen, for untill either Botch, Carbuncle, Blayne or Spots, 
 called peflities, doemanifeftthemlelves, no juft indication canbehad 
 what will become of the patient, but that he is alwayes in expectation 
 of Death, the diftemper continuing. 
 
 The Plague a. 
 Feaver. 
 
of the Plague, 
 
 
 But if upon the pjoduttion of any the former Symptomes, a dige+ 
 ftion in nature follow (as is (aid) namely the Feaver ceafc, the (icke 
 perfon take moderate reft, a Botch come to good fuppuration, a Car¬ 
 buncle to reparation, or a Blayneto yeeldhis ufuall indigefted <]uit- symptomatfu- 
 ture, with mitigation of rhe dolour, or that the Blayncs drying and 
 withering by Gods mercy, through cordiall Diaphoreticks or the like, 
 that a chearefulnefle in the fickc appease, or but fome one of thefe 
 good (ignes (hewing it felfe in a favourable manner, there is great hope, 
 and the feare is almoft part. 
 
 And yet let no man fo much flatter himfelfe, in his owne conceit, 
 in the time of contagion, whenhee perceiveth the ayretobe mani- 
 feftly infedted, the difeafe being popular, as tothinkewith himfelfe 
 that becaufe the Difeafe perhaps at the firft, beginneth llovvly, 
 and the diftemper yet dull and not much outwardly apparent upon 
 the patient, that he hath no feaver nor danger, and that hee may take 
 time till the next day to confider whether he will ufc remedies or no Jet 
 no wile manfo prefume, for I have fecnevery many ftruckeneven at the 
 heart, when the difeafe could not be adjudged dangerous, neither by 
 thepulfe, urine, nor any other cerraine indication, faveo.cly by the 
 complaint of the patient, who under favour in that difeafe, is not al- 
 wayes fenfiblc of his owne danger; and againe, how many have at the 
 very firft, an apparent fierce Feaver, which can no way be removed,but 
 by lbmc of the former waves of digeftion, or by Death, whereby it is 
 manifeft, the Plague is never without a Feaver, and fo all men will ad¬ 
 judge it, that either have had it, or that ha've followed the cure thereof 
 in others. 
 
 Of the fupernaturallcaufes of this Difeafe. 
 
 The materiall caufes thereof, as is already declared, are in pact, and 
 in the prime placeeftecmed to be our finnes, which draw Gods,wrath sm. 
 upon us, as witnefTes the Prophet Amof , where he faith, Shall there bet 
 cvill in a City ., and the Lord hath not done it t &c. Whereby we may juftly 
 
 f ather, thatwhenthe Almighty will fhew himfelfe-in his fury,againft 
 uftand afhes, he can put rhe Hoaft of Heaven in his order to fight a- 
 gainft us, in which cafe we have no way toefcape his judgement, but 
 by Prayer, orunfainedRepenrance, and as for all other natural!, or ef¬ 
 ficient caufes, they have as their fubordinated dependances and cf- 
 fe<5ts from the former, and are con deflated, put on, and put off by 
 Divine Providence, \h,ex Prafcientia Dei, by the fore-knowledge of 
 God. 
 
 Namaftraregttnt homines, regit &aflraDetts. 
 
 As the Poets fay*'and the very Heathens concludfe no Icflc, that the 
 ftarres governe mans body, and God governes the ftarres; and allocx- 
 periencetelsus, that when any of the foure feafons of the ycere prove 
 unnaturall, mens bodies accordingly become unnatural 1, as fome- 
 times bvpeftilentialldifeafes: whereforeto multiply words further of 
 
32,6 Of the Tlague. \ 
 
 the primitive caufes of this difeafe, were but to detraft good time,and 
 the truth thereof is manifeft to all men, in that this furious difeafe as it 
 were disdaines any generall Method or order of cure, after mans inten¬ 
 tion as it is faid, when it is in his Rage. 
 
 JjPuicquid facimui mm ale gentu^ 
 ghucquid patmur, venit ab alto . , \ 
 
 Which may be thus Englifhcd. 
 
 That whatfoever man doth, or whatfoever man fuffereth,all procee- 
 deth from above. 
 
 Of the mm all caufes of the Plague , by the judgement of the mofi 
 ancient and moderns Wtiters. 
 
 The terreftrial caufes thereof, are by common confent of moft wri¬ 
 ters,as follovveth: Venemousand ftincking vapours arifing from Fens, 
 Handing ponds or pooles, Ditches, Lakes, Dunghils, Smckes, Chan- 
 nels, Vaults or the like, as alfo uncleane flaughter-houfes of Beads' 
 dead car kafles of men, as in time of Warre, and of ftincking fifli, 
 fowle, or any thing that hath conteined life, and is putrid, as alfo more 
 particularly ingreat Cities, as in London, the uncleane keeping of hou- 
 fes, Lanes, Allies, and ftreetes, ftomthofe recited and the like infe¬ 
 ctious venemous vapours, by warmth of the Sun exhaled, are apt and 
 able to infett the living bodies of men, and thereby to produce the 
 Plague, which once produced,is too apt by infe&ion to fpread it felfc, 
 and become popular, as experience too muchfheweth: andasbycor- 
 2SS/ ru P c meats and drinkcs > mens bodies arc corrapted and infefted, even 
 tte,acaue. ^ (^y C orruptayre(as I have laid) which we can no way avoid, to draw 
 into the fecreteft parts of our bodies j the fpiritsare likewife infefted 
 and poyfbned, to the produftion both of ficknefle and death (if God 
 benotthemoremercifulluntous) for where the difeafe once begin- 
 neth, there are many unhappy evils incidentals caufes conducing to the 
 encreafe thereof 5 befides Vapours, and one not of the leaft is, it bring- 
 ZZft. tod * eth fcarcity of food with it, and that brings emptinefle of the belly,and 
 where emptinefle is, there evill aire is not wanting, and that aboundeth 
 too much with the poorer fort 5 and allb where food is wanting, all 
 kindcsof food, how infectious or pernitious foever, isufed in necef- 
 fity, namely all rawe fruits, as plums, peaches, yea mufty Come, 
 and many things of farre wilder condition, and foby confequent,lack 
 of food, is a great caufe of the encreafe of the Plague, fo that in the 
 Vitwheijbme fond fickenefle time, it is by experience daily found, that farre more of the 
 * tufa poorer fort ufually have d y ed, then of the richer- for where emptinefle 
 
 and unwholfome food is inufe, as is repeated, there the corrupt ayre 
 doth the raoft lnrme. 
 
 And likewife generally obfervc,that where warre is for the moft part, 
 there is famine, and tliofe two conclude to make up a third evill,name¬ 
 ly 
 
Of the ^Plague. 
 
 ly the peitilence, which God be praifed we have bin long freed from 
 the twofirft. Thus much in briefe of the Terreftriall caufes of the 
 Plague. 
 
 Of the precedent a*d dcctdentallfignes of the Plague. 
 
 The precedent and accidentall fignes notable in the Difeafe of the 
 Plague, are various and uncertaine, becaufe in truth they are feldome 
 in any one perfon as in another, buttofpeake,asof the raoft <renerall 
 firft appearance ofthe Plague, itbeginneth cold,and with paine in the 
 , head, and ftomach, and fometimes in the backe, and if fo, then it is 
 commonly taken for an Ague, and therefore at firft little feared. 
 
 Agamefomebeginnetocomplaineof painein the backe, and fiicft 
 kindes of beginning,are more generally hopeful! of healing then, when 
 it beginneth hot (in my opinion) in fomealfo it beginneth hot’ with 
 paine and giddinefle of the head, and paine in the ftomach: others at 
 the firft ftroake or touch, findea generall difeouragement and weake- 
 nefle over all their whole body, others at the firft being taken in the 
 head, their fences are ftupified and dulled: in others it beginneth with 
 a raging and fierce fcavour, fo that their countenance is changed, their 
 fpeech fayling, or fainting, their eyes ftrangely turning to and^fro, in a 
 fearefull manner. 
 
 Againe others complaine of an extraordinary paine, with extreame 
 heat, inward in the ftomach and intrals, when the outward parts are chil 
 and cold, and ready to lhakc: againe fome in the beginning complain 
 of great thirft$ others complaine of fhortnefleof breath , & and paine 
 in breathin g* others fwellingand forenefle o f their throats which be¬ 
 ing fought into, no caufe appeareth : Others have the Almonds or 
 Glandul’s of their throat much fwelled and inflamed. 
 
 Alfo many are taken with great defire to fleepe, and with frequent 
 yawnings, and it is unfafe, in my judgement, to permit fuch to fleepe 
 before a Diaphoreticke or fweating Medicine have by the patient bin 
 taken, and that it hath breathed out fome of the venemous vapours bv 
 fweat, with keeping them waking, till the medicine have wrought his 
 effcift. 13 
 
 Others are fubjeft to great watchfulnefle, and commonly thole are 
 in their (lumbers opprelfed with grievous and fearefull dreames and 
 fantalies. Others it beginneth with fweatings, with paine of the back, 
 and a ftmking of the breath, and fuch are ever of very doubtfull cure’ 
 and in my opinion fuch have inward Carbuncles. Others have fwel- 
 lingsintbebreaft, fome alfo have lofle of appetite, evill digeftion, 
 and faintnefle, and fome are troubled with deepe hickcoks andhoftow 
 belchings. 
 
 Others from the beginning to the end of their fickneflc, and till 
 death, have neither fwelling lores nor fpots: alfo upon fome at firft 
 there appeare diver fe fpots of aduskifh colour, their countenance of 
 anunequallafpeift, the one cheeke red, the other pale: Others with 
 fweat drops on their nofes, a fierce countenance with grinding of the 
 teeth. 
 
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 3*8 Of the ‘Plague. 
 
 And to be briefc, touching lignes and accidents in this molt 
 fcarcfull difeafe, 1 perfwade my felfc, that no man can fpeake of any 
 NoCytufimeof terrible fymptomc, figne, or indication of any difeafe whatfeever 
 mtd!m‘»ihe U that bath befallen any man, but that the like hath beene feenc and 
 tnfedtd of the obfcrved in fomc one perfon, or more, lick of the Plague: for the 
 Fkgue. fierceneffe thereof in fome perfons,force th Hemorrhage both from the 
 greater and leffer vcines • and fome it affli&eth with a DjJJ'cKtcria 
 Diarrhea, Lienteria y all thefe from the belly, and from the head, it 
 produccth Apopltxia^Paralyfis^ Ljthergi , Vertigo^ Mania, with diverfe 
 other fymptomes alfo from the throat, Squinancia f Angina^ & c . Alfo 
 obftru&ions of the Bowels, retention of Urine, Colic a and lliaca 
 f afftOj Singnltui Gangrena^ Convulfions, Contraftions of Nerves, and 
 whatnot,this fierce difeafe produccth todevoure poore mankinde 
 by: and furely, for that caufc 1 am perfwaded it is vulgarly called 
 the Sicknefle, as comprehending and including all other ficknefle 
 in it felfe. 
 
 ■Ac client all jignes ) trhich in this difeafe commonly prefage death 
 to the partie , are theje that follow. 
 
 Signet thatpre - 
 fce death. 
 
 7he commence 
 of the Care. 
 
 Namely, when the Patient is poffeflcd with founding and fain- 
 tings, with cold and clammie fweats, often changing of the counte¬ 
 nance, vomiting of flymie, fharpe, and ill-coloured flegme, either 
 grccnifh, yellcwifh,blackifh, or bloud-coloured fanies- or avoiding 
 of Excrements difordered,and difcoloured, either fattie,blackifh° 
 un&ious,or unnaturally (linking, Convulfions,Contraftions of the 
 Nerves, graveling and pidling with the fingers, plucking up the Bed¬ 
 clothes j a fudden flux of the belly of ftinking matter, of ruftie or 
 grccnifh colour } a fudden going back of an Apoftume, Carbuncle, 
 or Bubo . alfo when the Patient is infenfible of the departure of his 
 Urine, and Ex cremcnts. 
 
 And yet to Gods glory I here affirme, that notwitb(landing the 
 aforefaid figncs,or fome one of them, I have feene,I fay, fome one 
 or more of the afore-named fymptomes appeare, and that the fickc 
 hath even m mans judgement becneas at the point of death • and 
 yet ncverthelefte, by breathing of a Veine, or giving of a good DU. 
 pmrettek Cordiall, the partie hath beene recovered,and lived. Where¬ 
 fore I would advife the difereet Surgeon, that dare adventure his 
 per.on m fuch cafes, not to leave doing of good to his Patient by 
 
 all rational! admimftrations and applications, fo long as life an* 
 pcareth. ^ D 1 
 
 . A nd comf ™, is ? the Patient and Surgeon in this difeafe 
 
 b u y< ?r d a r 0 f h T.’ C u at having oncc overcomc the Feaver, 
 tv-frnfr ft bIe f n g of health but appeareth, by appetite and com- 
 
 !i kG che 5 c f u11 fi S nes s no Sores healc faftcr then 
 Pettilcntiall Sores doe. And yet per contra , I have alfo had too 
 
 much experience m the curing of thedifeafed of the Plague, that 
 
 is generally the ungratefullcft recompcnced of all ocher difeafe* 
 
 to 
 
Of t he T lague, 
 
 to the poore and hardie Surgeon : Namely, for that hee, when hee 
 hath recovered his Patient, for the moft part is loathed, ftiunned, 
 and avoided, not onely of his Friends and Patients, but for his ha¬ 
 zard,coft,and care, is fo under-valued, that fometime, but for prelu- Theinmuni 
 ming to tell, his Patients, after lice hath recovered them, that they me - 
 had the Plague, hee hazardeth the future Ioffe of their favours, yea, 
 and fometimes, under favour, hath his ovvne houfe fliut up, to make 
 him amends withall. 
 
 Wherefore fuch ungrateful nefle hath made me, in my old age, 
 to call to mindc the Motto of Paraccljm , that moft famous Art 
 tift, formerly repeated:. 
 
 Alteriui non /it, qui fum ejfe foteft . 
 
 yII ^ j : • ju Xji-' v * 
 
 Let him not be anothers, that can be his owne. 
 
 And yet I confefle, I neither can nor will refraine in one good 
 way,or another, to be doing good in my Calling, by Medicines or 
 Advice, both in general 1 and particular, in that or any other difeafe, 
 fo long as God doth give me life and health, with ftrength there¬ 
 unto, maugre the ingratitude of the unvvorthieft fort of men. 
 
 J%)uia nos non nobis nati futnu ?. 
 
 Becaufe we were not borne for our felve3. 
 
 And it is juft and laudable for every worthy Surgeon to be 
 kndwne, by walking fairely and blamelcftc in his Calling, and 
 namely, by doing good at all feafons, although with fome perfd- 
 nall hazard now and then, for that hec is therefore ordained by the 
 Altnightic to be ever readie, ad omne quart } upon every occafion; 
 which,who fo truly obferveth, fhall be blcffed. 
 
 For to this end every Artift, yea, and every Chriftian man is 
 ordained, and alfb commanded by the holy Apoftle S. Pauly in 
 thefe words, to doe goody and distribute ■ Forget not, for with fuch 
 Sacrifice the Lord is well pleafed : and S. lames faith, that it is true 
 Religion, to vifit the patherlejfe and widow in their aehierfities , &c„ 
 
 And even the exccllencie of the Calling of Surgeons fhould incite 
 them to zeale where they can, as well without reward as for reward,- 
 where povertie is, and need requireth. 
 
 Of 
 
 
Of the three chief e and mofl principall 
 
 outward fignes or indications of this difeafe, 
 vulgarly called the Plague : and 
 of a fourth. 
 
 T Herc are onely but three mod notable certaine externall 
 fignes of the Plague apparent to all, and thofe faile not to 
 teftifie the truth of the difeafe: and by thofe, each old Wife 
 §il‘ 5 uf tbe by her experience, may maintaine her report of the difeafe,as amply 
 ^ UC ' and well as the skilfulleft Dodor, in times of contagion 5 and they 
 
 are as followeth. 
 
 Of the firft outward figne of the Plague . 
 
 r he fir/l figne T Bfprmis, the Bubo Peffilentialu ; which,as I may ever juftly affirme 
 B“bo. Xof mine owne experience, was to me the happie Botch, fent upon 
 my owne body by Gods mercie, and was the fparing of my life; 
 for I had it twice, namely, at two feverall Plague-times, in my 
 Groyne. 
 
 Thefe Buboes , Boyles, or Peftilentiall Botches commonly happen 
 Thefirflplace in the Emun&ories, fincks, or cleanfing parts of the body, as the 
 where the plague Artift tearmes them , and feldome elfewhere (if they be peftilentiall) 
 fhewcsnfei/e. nan?c iy } they come in the glandulous parts, under or behind the 
 TbcBrame, e are, if the Braine be opprefled , which is the place by which the 
 Braine, if Nature be able,driveth out and difehargeth her felfe of tho 
 Vcnome or poyfoned Infedion,which otherwife would kill the ani- 
 mall fpirits, and by that,the whole body alfo. 
 
 Or it commeth fub axiltis, under the arme-holes, as it is ufually 
 called, where alfo are certaine fmall Glandules,or Kernels; and to that 
 part the heart fendeth out the venemous vapoursjor offending matter, 
 either by force of Nature,or Art,which fuddenly groweth there to an 
 Impoftume,Botch,or Boyle. 
 
 The third and laft place , where commonly a Peftilentiall Bubo 
 commeth, is in the Groinc, which the Artifts calleth Inguen j where, 
 when the Liver is opprefled, and Nature ftrong, fliee fendeth forth 
 the difeafe or Botch thither 5 and that is the third part where the 
 Botch appeareth : And, as by the way, to the Artifts of the younger 
 fort a word or two of my pra&icall obfervations, by way of diftin- 
 guifhing the difference betwixt the Vcncriall and Peftilentiall 
 Bubo ♦ wherein a young Artift may be miftaken, to his preju¬ 
 dice. 
 
 Wherefore, 
 
 The feccnd place 
 The Heart. 
 
 The third place 
 The Ltver. 
 

 Of the T l ague. 
 
 Wherforeletthe Artift obferve,as common pra&ice fhewcth,that 
 the Vencriall-^M^, although it ever appear in the Groyn,itis flower in 
 his progrelfe then the Peftilentiall Bubois,for the Peftilential com - 
 meth for the moft part with a Feaver: and although the Veneriall 
 fometimesinhisaugmentationinyoungerperfons hathafmall fea¬ 
 ver for a day or two, when it is almoft at ftate,it being alwayes thwart 
 upon the dependant part of the Belly, called Imsn venter^ or the low¬ 
 er belly, namely in Inguin upon or over Os pubis j But the Peftilentiall 
 Bubo or boy le commeth ever furioufly on,and as in a rage of a Feaver, 
 and as being in hafte,fometimes it lighteth oil or near Inguen thwart, 
 but more often lower upon,the thigh, pointing downeward with one 
 end, the upper end towards the belly, being commonly the biggeft 
 or the fullcft part of the Bubo, the whole thigh being alfo inflamed, 
 which if it doth not hold, ever to come right in the place where the 
 veneriall Botch doth as is faid, but as necre the Emun&orics as it 
 may, yet . : t . . 
 
 Howfoever by the fury and uncertaine feat thereof, the peftilential 
 isevertobeknownc from the vencreall, and the more certaine by his 
 furious comming, or when the Plague raigneth, and it happeneth to 
 children, which cannot be faid to be venereall, and yet nevcrthelefle, 
 even in contagious times, A venerial Pubo is not to be forbidden by 
 any Surgeon to happen, if his patient pleafe to have it lo. 
 
 But to conclude this point, the difcrcet Surgeon at the firft light, 
 the other forenamed circumftances well weighed, may eafily know to 
 make a true diftin&ion fufhciently,if he be a man of judgement: and 
 thus much of the firft outward figne of the Plague, viz. The Bubo, 
 Botch, or Peftilential Boyle. 
 
 
 Of the fecond outwardJigne of 
 
 the PLAGV E. 
 
 3* 1 
 
 f-pffie (eeond outward figne intheDifeafeis, that moft fierce bur- 
 JL ning Carbuncle called Anthrax^ or the burning coalc, which 
 happeneth hie & ubique^ namely in every part of mans body, without 
 Order, rule, or controulc, within the body, as well as without, 
 and at the firft appearance thereof (if vifible) it doth appeare com- A** 
 
 monly inflamed and hard, and in the middeft thereof, with a bur- Am rax * 
 ning payne, affii&ing the ficke , like to burning fire, yea and will 
 fometimes blifter, even with the ardent Fervour thereof, and in o- 
 thers it will itch very much, which if it bee feratebed, there will tbtttftdifti. 
 come forth a fharpe reddifti yellowifh, or fometimesa dusky co¬ 
 loured Ichor. 
 
 And to Come again, the paine is fo fierce and great, that the Pati- rfcj . . cf 
 
 ent will grow to be mad with extremity thereof. u.' ‘ * 
 
 ." 7 . The 
 

 Of the Plague 
 
 The dcfcripli* n 
 tf it. 
 
 The fhape or figure of this Difeafe is raoft commonly fomewhat 
 round, and the colour uncertaine, according to the predomination of 
 the humour infe&ed or infe&ing, for fometimes it is pale, though the 
 party be in a feavour, fomerimes reddifh, fometimes blacke or pur¬ 
 ple, orgreenilh, and the two laft colours are mod fearefull, and this 
 difeafe is feldomc healed, without fomuch lofle of the oiufculous 
 * flefh and skinne,as it taketh firft hold of, in what part foever it happen, 
 
 except by fvvearing medicines in the beginning of the difeafe, the fu¬ 
 ry thereof be changed* but it is a very good figneof life whenitfepa- 
 rateth it fclfe fo, that the Feaver ccafe,for the Carbuncle commeth fel- 
 dome or never to fuppuration as doth the Bubo: But it will admit fe- 
 paration, and come toa kind of unperfe& digeftionraany times, and 
 after will come to falloutasagangrenated part doth, where Nature is 
 ftrong, anditufually will feparate and come away in one entire piece 
 from the found,butifit grow black and feparate not, norany circular di- 
 geftion be, and the Feaver abate not ,then it may be feared Death is 
 at hand, for little hope of recovery is in the Patient. 
 
 The darker of it. And againe if it appeare grccnifh, the Party commonly dyeth-al- 
 
 foyou (hall fee fome Carbuncles fmooth as fglafle, and of a blacke 
 Aiming colour, notunlike pitch 5 with intolerable paine, and the 
 member whereon they are fixed, will be ponderous and unwildy to 
 move to and fro, and feemingtothe patient, as if it were heavily 
 overburthened, or as though it fufferedby hard ligature, and I have 
 feen Patients that have had Carbuncles within the body, whereof one 
 hath bin within the Stomach,and fome have it in their Liver, and o- 
 ther principal parts,but fuch live not many dayes.I have taken out the 
 whole eye from one, by a Carbuncle feated therein , who recovered, 
 and from another the halfe nofe, from another the halfe of the beard, 
 with alfo the lippe whereon it grew, which of it felfe fell offby fe pa¬ 
 ration, and from the third, one of his tefticles, I meanc one of his 
 Hones, with the purfe and all, and that man was with the halfe of his 
 Scrotum, living at the writing hereof, as in my other Treatife elfe- 
 whereis mentioned. Thus much of the fecond principal figne or 
 apparant Demonftration of the Plague, namely the Carbun¬ 
 cle. 
 
 
 Of the ISlaine . 
 
 The third few ,« 
 
 VeftilcntkU 
 
 Blaine, 
 
 The difiripticn 
 
 of it. 
 
 T He third manifeft and demonftrative figneof this Difeafe is 
 the Peftilentiall Blaine, whereof fome infe&ed have many, 
 and diverfe have not one: and this Difeafe is a painefull angry 
 pufh, fomewhat like the fmall pock , but yet in colour more red or 
 cloudy, feldomc tranfparent,as a fmall pock ufually is,but farre more 
 painefull: fome have them fomewhat lefle, fome bigger, with a fmall 
 headjof an angry blew or reddifh colour > fometimes of a lead colour, 
 
 , and 
 
_ of the Plague. ??? 
 
 and fomewhat hardor flefhy, and as it were growing upon a large ioor, 
 or ftoolc, this Difcafe is found in every part of the body, buc this 
 Blaine feldome killeth, or hindrcth the cure of the difeafed, but it ra ¬ 
 ther fervcs for a demonftrative figne of the Difeafe> then othenvife, 
 and helpeth to breathe out the venorae , as I gather, Tor . if by verrue 
 from above, or of good Medicines, or by ftrength of nature, the fca- 
 vour be overcome, the Blaine dryeth away,and requireth no other cure: 
 
 For as I conceive, it onely proceeds {exebulUtione Smgutnu Venemfi) t becaafe of it. 
 of the ebullition or boy ling of vcoeroous blood, which being thru ft 
 out, either by the immediate workeof God, or Art, or Nature,hca!th 
 eafily followeth, and the blaincsvanifh,unlcfleby natures weakenefle, 
 or through the undue ufe or want of Phlebotomy or .of purging medi¬ 
 cines, or for want of following the cure , by Diapboreticke medica¬ 
 ments in feafon, the venome be repelled from the fuperficies to the 
 center, as too oft in the cure of that difeafe it happenet h, and in fuch 
 a cafe, eminent death is to be feared: Apd conclude of the third 
 notable figne, the Blayne. 
 
 Of the Maries or JpQts* commonly, though 
 
 neither properly tier alvoayes truely called y 
 
 Gods tokens. L 
 
 - ? r - ' • 9 ' . ♦ - r t 
 
 npHc fourth apparent outward figne of the Plague, isthemarkes or The fourth font, 
 1 fpots appearing upon the skinne, ufually called Gods' tokens, but Gtixt 0 K m ' 
 not as being cvcrcerraine tokens of the peftilence, and fo of death to 
 the patient, as vulgarly they are taken to be, by Ignorant people m their of the ipmni!} 
 unexpert conje&ures and opinions, for that it is daily manifeft, many 
 have fpots of fcverall formes and colours- when venomous feavours 
 raigne, and yet have not the Plague: and againe many have fufpitious 
 and fcarefull fpots, which the vulgar tearme Gods tokens, and reeover 
 and live many yeeres after ; my felfe have cured not a few in that kind, 
 that are now, to Gods glory, living; thefc fpots are upon fome bo¬ 
 dies like Flea bitings", in others larger, in fome againe as big as a 
 penny. 
 
 In fome bodies there are very many, and fometimes they are like - 
 frecles, and they are moft commonly found upon the breaft, and fom- 
 times upon thebacke, armes, and legges of the patients 5 they are in 
 fome of a colour blewifh, or of a fad red, and fome arc like lead co¬ 
 lour, and others purple, fome are of a pa!e-blew, and thefe fpots 
 are ever without paine : but the very appearance of any fpots, ro 
 any in the Plague, caufe Hidden feare to the Patient; which, though 
 the markes be infcnfible, yet through fudden feare, they produce fain- r , . £ * 
 
 tings, fwoundings, trembling of the heart, and death following there- 
 upon, although neither the patient feele paine, as is faid, neither al- 
 
 Eee waves 
 
I 
 
 Of the T lague, 
 
 wayes the Artift can judge, by reafon hee Teeth juft caufe of fudden 
 death tohis patient, the reafon being fccret with God, as inwardly af- 
 fli&ing mankind, de Pr<efcientia Dei , namely of the fore knowledge of 
 God: fo much of the rnarkes, fpots, or tokens, in feme appearing, 
 in the Difeafe of the Plague. 
 
 Qertaine Qaveats by way of advice, for 
 
 tbe preyenting of tbs (ickncjfs. 
 
 A Mongftwhich Cu6,Longe,Tarde, Are by many good writers 
 prescribed and much infilled upon,as in the firft place,and their 
 meanings are, that people fly quickly, fly farre, and tarry long 
 tame nmedie. f rom t { x danger of the infe&cd a ire, where it raigneth. And I deny 
 not but they are-good rules- but even they, daily experience fheweth, 
 arealfomoft unccrtainc, Quia Dew ubtque eft, for our God is every 
 where, and returneth fome home (I will not fay with a vengeance) nei¬ 
 ther can all men make ufe of thofe rules, how good Ibever, neither is it 
 fit that all men Should flee, for many reafons too loDg to bee infilled 
 upon. 
 
 And let him that flyeth, for the firft, wherefoever hee lives, 
 beware of provoking God , by Surfeiting, either by fulnefleof ea¬ 
 ting or drinking, even in the beft aire, how got d foe- er the Meat or 
 Drinke be, for fulncflc in contagious times menaceth danger, 
 
 Omne nimium vertitur in vitium . 
 
 Every fullnefle is uneafie for nature to digeft, and therefore may 
 ohm mean t» prove vitious : Alfo, in contagious times let him beware of raw 
 beavoM. Fruits, of Oifters, Mufcles, new Wines, or the like novelties, as 
 
 Melons, Muske-Melons, but chiefcly avoid the cxceffeof them. 
 scafonabi.times Alfobeware of being abroad too early ortoo late, in times ofcon* 
 toveabjaved. ta g lorij andobferve a goodcuftomc with yourowne bodie:docnot 
 Suffer your body to be too coftive, or over-much bound neither is it 
 bofm ° >der th f to kcepc a mans body dayly in purging,no,nor in dayly loolenefle, 
 
 inftoLn™ ° f°r extreamc loofeneffe is not good, nor Safe, in contagious times: 
 
 neither bleed but by good advice (if it may be had) neither before 
 nor after the time of the Sicknefle, for th.it fearefull dangers enfuc 
 often by unadvifed bleeding or purging in contagious times; for there¬ 
 by, in feeking to avoid danger, contagious and venemous vapours arc 
 often dravvne from the fuperficies , or outward parts of the body, 
 to the Center j and namely, to the Liver, Heart, or Brame, or to one 
 of them. 
 
 Alfo 
 
of the Plague. 
 
 
 AHo if any purge or bleedby advice, lettbeblood be removed,and 
 put away inftantly,and likewife his clo(e-ftoole have cold water there¬ 
 in, and not be kept in the roome, wherein the patient lodgeth, longer 
 then neceflity conftraineth. 
 
 Beware alfothat no manthat hath any Peftilentiall tumour or rifing, 
 be it Botch, Carbuncle, or BPine, doc open a veyne without very 
 found advice, nor purge, and if he doe want ftich advice, then let the 
 vewe be opened on that fide he mo ft conaplaineth of, and not other- 
 wife, as hetenderetb the patients life: it i^ ajfo good not to be thinne 
 clad in contageous times, for that the fickoefie, with the raoft begin- 
 neth cold, neither to lye too cold in bed, fweating is farre fafer for any 
 man in health, for preventing difeafes, thenquakings. 
 
 Alfo beware of tooviolent exercifesin fuch times, for taking of 
 fudden cold,& beware of all provocations to the extremity of feare.carcj 
 anger, griefe, watching, extremity of rfawluft, or extremity of heat 
 or cold, and alfo of delaying of helpe indue time, which hath cod 
 many a man deare, as elfewherc hath bin certified. 
 
 \ 
 
 
 
 Refervativcs are put before curative Medicines in the Difcafe of 
 the Plague, by mod good Writers; the reafon I take it, is as 
 well concerning the ficke, as alfo their friends and attendants , 
 wherefore I hold it not amide to begin with thofe things which are fit¬ 
 ted to prelerve from the infection, and one is as much as may bee to 
 correct the evill difpofition of the ayre in houles, as namely for one 
 cheape remedy. . <i 
 
 Take Bayberries grofly beaten, and laid upona hot fire fhovell,and xtceiti of pvt. 
 carried u p and dawnc each roome of the houfe, is very good, and ffe& 
 ped alfo in wine Vinegar,bcing flrewed upooEtpbers in a chafingdifh, 6 a ' 
 and catryed to and fro in roomes: or take FisaiKkinfence, ctf pitch, or 
 tarre,or Rodion wood, or Cedar, or Iuniper, and doe in like manner, 
 or any one of the aforefaid, or the fouall dud or fragments of amber, 
 fo tiled, I meane the wade of fuch as is ufed for beads^aod knife hafts, 
 i? very good again ft any infectious aire, and mod panticulsrly a- 
 gainft the Plague, alfo Iuniper or the berries thereof, or pay leaves, La¬ 
 vender, Sage, Rofemary, or any one of thefe dryed, and laid upon a 
 hot fire (hovell, and carryedtoandfroma Roome: Alio let thehou- 
 fes be kept clcanc, where the fick are, and no lefle where the whole are, 
 to preferve them in health • Alfo wine Vinegar, wherein Rofes, Rue, 
 
 Angelica or Wormewood, or one of them hath bin deeped, or wine 
 Vinegar, with Role water therein,taken and fprinckled upon a hot fire- 
 
 Been 
 
 (hovell 
 
33<s Of the T lague. 
 
 fhovel, and carryed up and downe the roomes of the houfe, all thele 
 
 or any of them, are very profitable to corre&thecvillaire, and where 
 it may be done, let the calement or windowes of houles, opening to 
 the South or Weft, but chiefly the South lightbekcptfhut,orforthe 
 moft part, and rather open the North and Eaft lights, for they bring in 
 the purer and fafer ayre. 
 
 ether recent »f Alfo for the wealthier fort,to make a Fume of Storax Labdamtm^Mtu 
 
 Fum*. ftich, Beniamin , Cloves, Cinamon , Mirrbe, or of Lignum Aloes , all,or any 
 
 one or more of thele together, are very good for thole that willgoe to 
 the price thereof, and are cordiail ftnels, and doe refill putrifo&ion, 
 and the evill difpofition of the Aire , and thereby prevent from the 
 Plague. 
 
 ji cheaper, and yet a leery good Fume , to fume 
 
 roomes in contagious times. 
 
 T Akc fmall coales dryed,and powthered,three ounces, Storax, Cals- 
 mint, two ounces, Beniamin , one ounce, Cloves in powder halfe an 
 ounce, rub or beat the Gums, and make the reft into powther, and mix 
 altogether,and with Gum water make it up like pa fte,then divide itand 
 make itupinto fmall, but long pieces, that will ftand alone, and dry 
 it, and wnen you will take occafion to fume your houfes, kindle one 
 of thefc pieces at the upper end, and it will bume of it fclfe, and laft 
 necreonehourej and the competition will burne the better,if youaddc 
 thereto of fmall coales in powther, one ounce. 
 
 ^ ^ si? si? & & a 
 
 Prefervatives for the fuming of apparell. 
 
 F Or fuming of apparell to them that arc of meanes, and willgoe 
 to the price of it, there is no better Fume, thenasis faid, the 
 Fume of Lignum Aloes , Cloves , Storax, Beniamin, Labdanum , Afyrrhe, 
 Majlich , Cinamon , Amber , or fome one or more of thefe , for 
 they are all go r d and very fitting, and correct the ayre well, and 
 refift venemous Vapours, and thereby they prevent the infe&ionof 
 the Plague, alio the Fume of the faw-duft, or chips of Cedar- 
 wood , which ate in London to bee had, and are cheape and lingu* 
 lar good for the fuming of roomes, or of apparell. 
 
 A 
 
Of the ‘Plague . 
 
 Ill 
 
 A good, comfojitm for fuming Beddings Apparellyr the like > 
 and the whole Heufc, if they fleafe j and 
 it not very deare . 
 
 T Ake Bay-berries, Juniper-berries, of each 3.4. courfe Myrrhc 
 and courfe Aloes, of eacbf.j. of theTurncrs chips,orfh3vings 
 of Lign.viu, Juniper,or Cedar,and of white Saunders.of each §.j.fe. 
 Frankincenfc,Storax,Calamint,Tyme,La£d 4 «u*»,of each^.ij. make 
 
 all theie into groffe powder, and lay thereof upon the imbers, and 
 fume with them . 
 
 <*yf Qayeat concerning fuming of Houfes, 
 
 Qhambers , or Garments , With 
 Brimstone. 
 
 T His one Caveat I de fire the Reader to take notice of, and to 
 be warned, touching a groffe Errour by many ufed in their 
 Fumes for Houfes or Apparell, which I have often obferved, 
 namely, by the burning of Brimftone to fume Houfes and Apparell 
 with i which,in my opinion,as well they.might preferibe the fuming 
 with Cinaber, Mercuric, Arfenick, Rialger, or Antimonie j for I 
 am fure, and can maintaine it, that the vapours are all venemous and 
 deadly, the one as well as the other. 
 
 And I can fpeake it of pra&ife and proofe, that I my felfe have rbtfme of 
 feene killed Cocks, Hennes, and diverfc other Birds and living 
 creatures,as Bees, Gnats,Flyes,&c. with the onely fmoakeofBrini- 
 ftone and upon good grounds, I will not let to fhew any man the 
 praaife for his learning: and that it molt artificially killeth Fleas, 
 
 Flyes, Lice, Gnats, and Bees, I need not prove. 
 
 Wherefore beware of it, for the fume of Brimftone is venemous 
 and deadly, I know it; and that it is an enemie to the Braine, and 
 will quickly confound the animall faculties. My felfe have bcene 
 from my youth delighted in Alchymib, and have opened the bo¬ 
 dies of diverfe Minerals and familiarly of Sal, Sulphure, and Mer- 
 curic, to my no fmall coft, and now and then lome danger j and 
 therefore I with all wife men to beware of them : But if any one 
 will teach his Neighbour the prattife of fuming his Houfe with 
 Brimftone, let him firft fume his owne Bed-chamber well with it 
 ccrtaine nights together, and fhut hisdooic,the Roome bemg filled 
 with fume,and goe to bed5 or any fmali Roome that is clofc, where 
 be would have the true force of the fume,then brag how he likes it- 
 it uerhaps may coft him too deare. \ , 
 
338 Of the Plague. 
 
 And for his Apparell,if it be eitherof Woolfor Silkc,orofLin- 
 nen, it will furely doe hurt to it,as well by rotting them,as by ftaining 
 them. 
 
 There are fome parts of the world, where there are great Mynes 
 and mightic Mountaines of Brimftonc perpetually burning : and it 
 is affirmed, and for truth obferved,that no Man,Beaft,Bird, nor other 
 living creature can live neere them, nor within the compalfe of the 
 vapour of them. Therefore, I beleevc the author of the invention of 
 fuming with Brimftone, can never be able to make it good, that the 
 vapours of Brimftone are fafe,nor fomuch as friendly to the life of 
 man : vvitnefle all the workers in like fulphurous Metals, whofe very 
 countenance will witnefle, that though the fubftances of Metals are 
 moft fcrviccable to be ufcd,yet their fulphurous,Mercurial!,and Arfe- 
 nicall vapours of them are often proovcd to be moft deadly ; yet 
 will I nottlenic,but that Brimftone is many wayes medicinable,and 
 fo isQpick-filver, to betaken into mans body, duely adminiftred 
 and prepared artificially . but not their crude vapours, by way of 
 fuming. Thus much of Brimftone, by way of fuming Houfes or 
 Apparell. 
 
 Trefervatives to he carried about a man 
 in hu pocket , or in bu hand. 
 
 T Ake an Ivorie or Wooden Box, with holes in it, and fit i 
 Spungc into it, wet in VVine or Role Vineger, wherein fome 
 cordiall hearbes or fpints have bcenc firft infufed or fteeped; 
 as Angelica, Rofemaric, Sage, Rue, Wormewood, Balme, or at the 
 leaft,fomeonc or more of thefe • and when the Wine Vineger in 
 the Spungc waxeth drie, wet it in the fame Liquor, and put it into 
 the Box againe,weekely renewing the aforefaid Liquor. 
 
 Or if a Limon ftucke with Cloves alone, be carryed in the pocket 
 or hand of a man or woman, it is very good to preferve from conta¬ 
 gious ayre. 
 
 - is fit to have fomething cordiall ajnd prefervative in a mans hand 
 or in his pocket, to fmell unto, for the refreiliing of his fpirics and 
 his imelling fences, or at the leaft in the corner of an hand-kercher; 
 as namely, Myrrhe, Angelica Rootes, Enula Campan. Rootes, Oyle 
 of white or yellow Amber, Zedoarie Rootes, Calam, Aromat. 
 
 OTinew^d, Rofemarie, Tyme, Balme, Germander, Rue, or any 
 o thele things, is good againft the venemous difpofition of the 
 
Of the ‘Plague. 
 
 VP 
 
 A good Pomander to be trorne, to preferve from 
 PeffilentiaU vapours, for men of 
 abilitie. 
 
 R. Storax, Calamint, Zabdanum, Beniamin , Trios, Calam. Aromat. vnftmtm 
 Zcdoarie,of each §. ij. make this into powther, then take Camphir ^ <w ’’ the ln b - 
 and Storax liquid,of each §.j .and mixethefcwcll together,adding <W3 ‘ vr<r ' 
 
 in the end Muskeand Ambcrgreecc, of each 4 gr. and with Rofe- 
 wacer and Gurntnc Arabick,or Dragag. as much as is fitting,make 
 it into Balls, and if yon pleafe, put it into a Box with holes, to 
 fmell unto it : Alfo a good Sivill Orenge ftucke with Cloves, and 
 worne about a man or woman, is a good Cordiall to be fmclled 
 unto. 
 
 ' \i b.:C u r.r.vy,::. . r ■ - 
 
 An excellent preparation of Wine fineger, to prevent 
 from inf eft tom Ayre. 
 
 crjjiiW j • ' ' 
 
 R. Myrrhe and Aloes, of each f. j. fe. Card. Benedict. Marjorum, 
 
 J * ■’ sjf * _ / / 
 
 Zedoarie, Cinamon, Calam. Aromat. Penny-ryall, wilde Tyme, Rofe 
 leaves, of each three handfuls, white Saunders f.j.fe. Juniper berries 
 fe. lib. Camph. 5. fe, Let all thefe be beateh into groffe powther, 
 and fteeped in about three gallons of Wine Vincger, and the fame 
 made wartne twice a day for three dayes, then ufc it, to wet the face 
 and nofthrils fometimes, and carry thereof in a Spunge in fome Box, 
 to fmell unto often. 
 
 Alfo the fmelling unto Oyle of Amber, is very good j I meane 
 not Ambergreecc, for that were too deare for rhe meaner fort, and 
 not fo well warranted by authoritie,for that ufe: But of that Amber 
 which in Latine is called Succihum , and is that whereof Beades arc 
 made, and is gathered in the Seas,in Pru(Jia , in the Eaft Countries 5 
 X fay, the Oyle of fuch Amber, whereof fome is white, fome is yel¬ 
 low : But that of the white is more excellent, and precious. If a rbewmecfibt 
 Spunge or any other fit thing be wet in Vineger, and ccrtaine drops °J^ whM 
 of the faid Oyle added . or onely a drie Spunge, and certame drops 
 of this Oyle dropped into the Spunge, ana put intoa Box,and fmcl¬ 
 led unto, it preferverh from any infe&ious ayre, dnd comfbrceth the 
 animatl faculties of the body exceedingly, and is likcwifc good 
 againft Apoplexies, and other Cephalickc difeales. It being held 
 one of the moft precious remedies againft the Plague of all other, 
 and is not deare to be bought: And the fame Oyle, one, two, or 
 three drops taken falling, cither in white Wine, or Beere, is a very 
 excellent Prefervacive againft the Plague. 
 
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 Of Plague. 
 
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 Sweating Me< 
 dicines the bc[i 
 
 Of an( l prefersative ^Medicines 
 
 v inrttrdly to be taktn. . „ 
 
 He feverall Medicines in this Treatife to be taken into the 
 body forPrefervatives, are alfo Cordials, being indeed fuch 
 Cordials as have vertue to open the pores of the body, and 
 by fwcating to give breathing to nature, and thereby to defend mans 
 body from Contagion, being fuch alfo as heretofore have beene pre- 
 feribed to be taken by men of the beft judgements in Phyficke, for 
 the defending, curing, and driving out the difeafe from the principall 
 parts by fwcat: for without all doubt, no Medicine can be generally 
 fo fafe, for the firft intention and entrance upon this cure of the 
 Plague, as is a true Diaphoretick or fweat-provoking Cordiall Me¬ 
 dicine, whether it be taken by way of a Prelervative, or as a Curative 
 Medicine, as ancient Writers tcftific. 
 
 Galen s opinion And namely, Galen, the Prince of Phyficians, attributeth unto 
 
 Medicines. tes the whole Cure of the difeafe of the Plague } and by An¬ 
 
 tidotes,he meaneth Medicines Cordiall and Prefcrvatives,fucb as by 
 opening the pores, provoke fweat. 
 
 But as there is no gencrall rule,but may admit an exception • even 
 u 1 r 1S cour ^ e may not be alwayes fafe and warrantable at 
 
 the firft, in refpe<ft of the wondcrfull varieties this fearefull difeafe 
 produceth, as well in the beginning as in the progrefle thereof. 
 
 For it may upon occafion, as ol fulncfic, or of obftru&ions of the 
 body, fo come to pafte,that evacuation generall or particular muft as 
 in due courfe precede, cither by Bloud-letting, Vomit, Purging, 
 Ghfter, or Suppofitorie, or fome one or more of thefe 5 I fay, where 
 juft caufe is,they may as of needfitie precede: for which cauftyt will 
 ever be fafe to ufe expert advice,if fuch may be had- onely remember 
 by the way,what is faid of purging Medicines^md tlxeir danger, if firft 
 taken, in the Cure of the Plague. 
 
 ^ erc following,I meane to fet downe feverall forts of thcchiefeof 
 the compound Cordiall Medicines mentioned in this Trcatife fol¬ 
 lowing,or otherwife in frequent ufe, which are inwardly to be taken 
 into the body,to preventthe comming of the difeafe; or being recei- 
 ved by Hvcating,beft for the expelling of the Venome fo received into 
 the body with the dofe or quantitie reafonable of each of them to 
 he taken by way of Prefcrvative, to prevent the difeafe before it com- 
 metb ; as aifowhat quantitie may be fitly taken,for the fafe provoking 
 of fweat,when any one fceleth himfelfe cvill difpofed.and vehemently 
 iufpedcth himfelfe to be fallen, orentring into the difeafe, by any of 
 the lymptomes or fignes before exprdfed,or otherwife. 
 
 Smatmgfome• 
 time to be omit¬ 
 ted. 
 
The cbiefe Qordials in general! ufc , are tbefe 
 
 tbst follow. 
 
 T Her'tAc. Andromsch. ortlic true Venice Treacle, and not infe¬ 
 rior to it is Mithridatc. Democrat, both of which are no 
 truely made in London. 
 
 Alfo London Treacle is a very good Antidore or prefervativewcll 
 approved, and Ele8uar. de Ovo, or the Electuary of the Eggeisalfo 
 avefy furegood Cordiall: alfo Theme. Diatejftr. by the ancient 
 writers, called the poore mans Treacle, by my felfe much experien¬ 
 ced, and approved to be good, all thefe and every of them in their 
 natures, either mixed or given each per, or by it felfe, are very 
 good, being Diaphoreticks, or Medicines provoking*fweat, more or 
 Idle, and thereby opening obftru&ions, and by evaporation expur* 
 ging venomc, and refreshing nature, and fo by confcquent, curing the 
 Plague. 
 
 Hereunto may alfo be well added, fome appropriate purgatives Purgatives ufi. 
 to be taken, both as preservatives, and as curatives, where juft occafi- f ul1, 
 on is, namely Pilul. Pcftilentialu , Ruff. & Pil. Prtfetvdns. lob. Ba- 
 hint, one dramme of any one of them, for a purge, is a juft quantity 
 for an able body, and he or She may fafely take it at any time, cither 
 at night or morning, when there is juft reafon, and for thedofcor 
 quantity, by way of prefervative to be taken at one time, is one pill 
 about the bignefle of a Pcafc, or in weightabout 12 or 14 graincs, or 
 at the moft a o gr. which is tearmed a fcruple, once in aday, or once 
 in two or three dayes, either at evening,or in the morning, but I con¬ 
 ceive it is beft to bed-ward, and he or fhe who taketh it, ought to ob- 
 ferve, that if it make him or her have but one loofc ftbolfc, it is fuffi- 
 cicnt. 
 
 For it is not fafe for any perfon to keepc his body loofc al- Muchkx]tU 
 wayes, in times of generall infection or contagion ,!for that that fife. 
 is recited elfewhere 5 for where emptinefle is, evill vapours have 
 place of entrance : Alfo , as touching the firft of the afore¬ 
 named Cordials, one dramme for a Dole, and namely, of Art. 
 dromdcb. Treacle , or Venice Treacle, and a like Dole of any the 
 other three fpecified Prcfcrvatives, to be taken by way of a Cura¬ 
 tive courfc, but by way of a Prefervative, at any one time, for a 
 ftrong body, 20 graincs may fuffice,and may be taken without 
 offence, which is one fcruple $ or a leflc quantitie to a weaker 
 body: and to'a ftrong body infected, to provoke him to fwea't, 
 
 0. j. and fe. or 5 . ij. by a ftrong man, of any of them,either in Cor¬ 
 dial i waters,or Wine,as is laid, may be fafely received into the,body. 
 
 Fff Except 
 
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Of the Tlague. 
 
 Except of the Ele&uaric of the Egge , the Dofc whereof is one 
 Drach. at the utmoft. 
 
 And whereas diverfe Writers preferibe fuch Antidotes to be 
 taken in diftilled waters, as of Cardutu , Angelica , Dragon water, 
 or the like, which in time of contagion arc notonely lcarcc, but 
 fraudulent, and feldome, or by few, truely made : But yet I mull 
 fay , being truely made, they doe excell many other Liquors. 
 now to oimirn- Yet for reafons aforefaid, in their wants, I hold it fafeto admmifter 
 fi-r preftrv*- Methridate, London Treacle, or DUtefaron , or any fuch Medicine, in 
 * vts ' good French wine,and fometimes in Spanifb wine, if the difeafebegin 
 
 cold j or in poflet drinke, made with wine, or without wine, as rcafon 
 fhall guide. 
 
 And note, that it would ever be fitteft to give thefe Medicines 
 or any of them, in the moft cordiall Liquors that may be had • 
 but if the ficke will as willingly take them in a Bolus, 1 meane in 
 a lumpe, namely, as it is of it felfe, hec may fafely doe it • yet if 
 the ftomach of the ficke will not fo admit of it, then it may not be 
 1 atnifie, to give him a draught of warme poflet drinkc, made with 
 Carduut BenediBm , Burrage, or Buglofle, or Sorrell water, and a 
 little Sugar boylcd therein, or in want of thole hearbes, a plaine 
 poflet, and three fpoonefuls of Spamfb wine added thereto, where 
 the Artift fhall lee it fo ncceflary, which may time enough bead, 
 ded, when the Poflet is taken from the fire, if the patient betaken 
 cold, as is faid $ but if the Difeafe begin burning, then let Sonell 
 or Violet leaves or Strawberrie leaves, or fome other cordiall rootes 
 Hearbes, or Flowers, as is alreadic rehearfed, bee put into the > 
 poflet, and fome fitting firrup, as of Sorrell, or Wood-forrcll, or 
 three or foure drops of oyle of Vitriol, if it may bee had, be ad¬ 
 ded thereunto, in fuch a cafe being very Cordiall, and good; and 
 in want thereof, plaine poflet drinke, alone reafonablc warme, will 
 doe well, where the recited arc not, and for a need give it in white 
 wine as is laid , or in Beere to the poorer fort j or if the party 
 take this Medicine alone, being in hafte, in want of meanes, it 
 will doe well, by Gods Mercy, if hee bee not too much doubt- 
 full. 
 
 And for the dilcreet Artift, or the attenders of the ficke, let 
 them take what they have ready prefently, and let the ficke bee 
 laid downe to fweat, and where you can have learned counfcll, 
 refufe it not, as is faid, and delay not, for by want of advice now 
 and then,able men dye, to fave charges, which is a lamentable 
 folly. 
 
of the Plague, 
 
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 An approovcd Cordiall Medicine again# 
 the Plague, of the practice of Dodlor Burgit, 
 
 Verbatim, or in the rerj wards as he terit it in his 
 Eooke : with alfo his addition in the com¬ 
 mendation thereof. 
 
 1 Hi 
 
 Ake three pints of Muskadine, and boyle therein a handfull 
 of fage, and a handfiiUof &ue, till a pint be wafted, then ^ ur ^'» ***& 
 ; ftraine itj and fet it'over the fire’againe, then put thereto a 
 pemiworth of long pepper, halfe an ounce of ginger,a quarter of art 
 ounce of Nutmegs,all beaten together, and let it boyle a little more , 
 thet put thereto i penniworth of Treacle, fourc penniworth of Me-^ 
 thridate, and a quarter of a pint of the heft Angelica water you can 
 get. O.' o: .: I ' 
 
 Kecpc this as your life, above all worldly treafure, take of ital- 
 wayeswarme, both morning and evcningafpoonefullot two, if you 
 be already infedied, and fwcat thereupon, if not, a fpoonefull a day 
 is fafficicnt, hajfea.fpoonefullin the morning, and halfe a fpoone- 
 fulhtnight, all the Plague time: under Godtrufttothis, forthere 
 wasnever man, woman, nor childe, that this deceived. 
 
 Ihis is not onely for the common Plague, which is called the 
 fickcnefle, but for the fmall pockes,meafeb, and furfeits, and diverie 
 othtrdifeafes. 
 
 Ihis Medicine as you may read, is praifed to the full, and no 
 doiot may well deferve praife, and yet were I to put my life upon a 
 medicine, I would not chufe the aforefaid Medicine for many rea- 
 fops. Firft that the compofition thereof is uncertaine, namely by 
 penaiworthes, and the Angelica water doubtfull whether it bee of 
 it felfe fimple, or drawnof Wine, the Treacle not declared whether 
 coirmon or no, and further in my judgement, take it in the be ft fence, 
 the compofition is rude, and too hot, fitter rather to inflame, then 
 cure. But yet I leave it for them that have tried it, or that lift to try 
 it, tD make it up and ufe it in the name of God, whogiveth his blef- 
 fings beyond meafure to mcane things. 
 
 Fff a 
 
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 A Compofition of an Ele&uarie De On>o i of mine 
 
 Qtrrte long experience and pra&ife , which I knots to be 
 very goad , and is not dearc. 
 
 7he ampofttion 
 §f Elc8,dc 
 Ovo, 
 
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 k 
 
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 T Akc Saffron 3 ". 5. and a Scruple undryed ; then teafe it, I 
 meane, pull the parts thereof afunder : then take one rcafo- 
 nable fmall new-layd Egge, and make a fmall hole in the 
 top of it, and let the white run out ; then fill up the Egge with the 
 faid Saffron, putting it in by little and little, till it be almoft full, 
 ever gently mixing the yolke with the Saffron; and in that manner 
 of doing, one reasonable Egge will containe all the preferibed Saf¬ 
 fron : This done, with part of the white of the Egge mixe a little 
 Wheat flower,to make a pafte; then breake another larger Egge onely 
 for the fhcll, which you may ufe as followeth. 
 
 Firft ftrike off the toppe as whole as you can, to cover the hole in 
 the toppe of the former mentioned Smaller Egge, and with the pafte 
 aforefaid pafte up>the hole, and fet it ncere the fire, onely rodrie; 
 and after that, fpread a fine ragge with fome of the faid pafte, and 
 againc cover the hole and the piece of the fhcll lying thereon, and 
 drie it before the fire; then put this Egge into a wider Egge-(hell, 
 namely, that which was emptied before.and fo let it up to the toppe 
 in an Earthen Pot filled with Sand on a gentle fire, till the Sand be 
 fo hot, that the Saffron in the Egge fmell; then for feare of bur¬ 
 ning intake the Pot or Pipkin from the fire, and take the Egge out 
 of the hot Sand, and put it to coole; if you finde it be but reafo- 
 nable drie, and not burned, then need it not be put any more to the 
 fire, for it will eafily burne, without great care had: then being well 
 rolled, take all that pafted away, and take all the iubftance con¬ 
 tained therein, beat it, and worke it fo long together, untill no 
 part of the Saffron appeare, but be all into one body; then weigh 
 what the whole fubftance weigheth, which will be about one ounce. 
 Which done, take of Diptam . Alb. of the rootes of Tormentill, of 
 Butter-burre, called Petaeitis } of Angelica and Zcdoarie rootes, of 
 each -5. j. of Myrrhe and Juniper Bcrryes, of each 3 . jj, all thefe 
 being made into fine pouther before, and readie 5 then take of Mu 
 thridate of the bcft,§. ij.of the fineft purified Honey,5. ij. make 
 this up, according to Art, into a ftiffe Etcauarie; which is done by 
 ftrongand ftiffe beating and working of it altogether, at the Jeaft 
 three or foure houres: And if there want humiditie to worke it up 
 into a juft confidence, adde Sjrrop. Limoniorum , qua. fa. eit. 
 
 1 he Dofe of this, isat the moft 3 . j. fe. But for that it bath an 
 unplcafing tafteunto fome delicate pallates,when I have it readie, 
 l ufe to take thereof 3 ,f c . and of Ther.Diatejfaron , or London Treacle, 
 
 or 
 
 
of the Plague. 
 
 W 
 
 or good Mitbridate, of any one of thefe, 3 . j. fe. aid mixe them in 
 white Wine, with alfo a few drops of Oyle of Vitriol, namely, foure 
 or five drops at the moft,with alfo one ounce of fane Cordiall Syr- 
 fup 3 as of Buglofle, or Sorrell, of Citrons, or Lirnons, orWood- 
 Sorrell, when it is to be appointed to delicate perfens. And all that 
 I give at once to a man or a woman, and lay the partie to fvveat 
 gently at the leaft for three hourcs. Or in want thereof, I put onely 
 a quarter of a pint of white Wine, with a little Sugar to it, either 
 mixed as is faid, or 5 . j. fe. of the laid Elc&uarie alone in a bole or 
 lumpe to fomc, for it ncedeth no other mixture forthc adding vertue 
 thereto, for it is a moft excellent Cordiall alone. ' 
 
 ' ' ' j ’ f > s r * t » 
 
 And I would advife thole which cannot have all the ingtediencic 
 of this compofition, as namely in the Countrey, that tney make 
 readie the Egge and Saffron (as is faid) and tak: onely a double 
 weight of good Muftard-fced thereto, and with ibout one ounce 
 of good Honey workc it well into an Elc&uariq and ufc thereof 
 
 j. fe. at a time, in Poflet-drinke,or Wine, according as the fick- 
 nefle taketh men : if it take them cold, I hold it better given in 
 Wine, or Poflet-drinkc made with Wine, if it maybe had, then 
 with the ufuall Cordiall Waters , which is but a meere Flegma 
 diftilled from the bare hearbe at the beft, and ofen not truely fo 
 good : for I well know, that Wine is a true Cordhll,and gladdeth 
 the heart of man j which I muft beleeve to be fq, for that the Book? 
 of God doth fo teftific of it. And I know alfo it refifteth pi||ri- 
 fa&ion, in the very nature thereof. j| 
 
 Wherefore, in my opinion, if it were not in Tome who appa¬ 
 rently have a fervent burning Feaver, where reafen it felfe would 
 advife me to forbeare Wine, I would ufe Wire before eyther 
 Angelica, Carduus, Dragon Water, or any of :he like kindcs, 
 in the cafe of the Plague , as I have diverfe rimes clfe-where '* 
 
 recited. 
 
 This Medicine either taken alone, a Drach. oi foure Scruples, "rbt v tfi *f 
 to a ftrong gerfbn difcafed, is excellent, if it be tdeen with Syrrup Ele<a * de0rd ' 
 of Citrons, . j. White or Claret Wine, f. iij. oliiij-f. and foure 
 drops of Oyle of Vitriol, and thedifeafed layd to fwcat upon it, 
 being orderly attended, it is a moft precious Medicine, by my felfe 
 very often tryed; I having often made the aforcfaidReceit,and ufed 
 it out with good fuccdfe. 
 
 Another Compofition c/EleduariumDe Ovo, being 
 plainejcheape^nd good. 
 
 E LeBuarium de Ovo, or the Ele<ftuarie of the Egge, as it was 
 made and preferibed for publiaue ufe in Germnie, bythePhy- 
 ficians of the Emperour Maximilian , in the time of a great 
 Plague there, in -Anno Domini 1600. being a moft excellent Prefer- 
 
 vative 
 
 
Of the Plague. 
 
 vativeagainft the difeafe, and alio a good curative medicine, as fol- 
 
 lovveth. . hi - i 
 
 Take a new Egge and make a hole in the toppe, put out the white, 
 and fill the place with Saffron undryed onely teafed, and the flakes 
 opened afunder, mingle it in the fhcll that it be like a pafle , the yolke 
 of the Egge and,the Saffron together,and ftoppethe hole being filled, 
 and boyle or flew it, or rather bake it gently m the Imbcrs, till it may 
 almoft be brought.into powder but without burning of it, then adde 
 unto it of the rootes of Tormentill Morftu Diab. Angelica, Pimper- 
 nell, and Z edoarie of each 3 i). make this into powder, then take §ij. 
 of old Venice Triacle,and in want thereof fo much Mttbridate, and with 
 water of Scabious, make it into an Ele&uary, and give at onetime for 
 the largeftdofeor quantity,one Drach.and a halfc to a ftrong body to 
 provoke him to fweat, if he have the fickenefle. It will provoke fiveat 
 plentifully, but if it be by way of a prefervative to prevent fickenefle, 
 then give him but the weight of 3 d. or 4 d. or 6 d. at the moll at one 
 time, and let the patient upon the rcceit thereof be layd to fwearefor 
 3 ®r 4houres, and it will produce anadmirableeffed ol health, if it 
 be with good order and diferetion adminiftred. 
 
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 'the empojitton of the ancient Treacle, Tberiac. Diateffar.or 
 the foote mans triacle. 
 
 I Ake chofen Mirrhe, good Bayberries,hulled well, AriHolgcbia 
 rootes, and Genu an tootes, of each 1 § , diffolve thcMirrhcin 
 facke> and gently evaporate fome of the facke away, and make 
 the other ingrediences into fine powder, then take § xij. of pure honey, 
 and according to Art, incorporate it, and mixeall the aforefaid things 
 L with it, make it boyle a little gently, and make an Eleduary thereof 
 Xr and give a S j. f. or $ ij. ofthis F.ledu. at a time to a ftrong body, yea a 
 ^ ftrong perfon may fafely take ^iij. 
 
 TbtdofeofTbtr. And lay the party to fvveaf • you may give it in white wine or claret 
 
 vutefii or p ac i^ if t h e dif ea f e begin cold,or in Beare, A le, or poflef drink, and I 
 
 have found by much pradife, that it is a fure good Cordiall, and chil¬ 
 dren may take it. 
 
 This medicine I my felfe would take upon the defence of my own 
 life, as foonc as one of the greateft and deareft compofitions in the 
 Apothecaries (hop. 
 
 rbtpticetfrha- And I furrherwell knovv,thatthe Apothecary may honeftly afford 
 ouiteff. t bis kind of DiateJJar. truly made for 4 d. an ounce, and that an ounce 
 thereof may be fumcient at feverall rimes, given to cure a man difeafed 
 of the Plague, God giving his bleffing to the meanes, and by way of 
 prefervatives given, it may defend many from it: But Iconfefleitis 
 fome-what a bitter medicine,and fo (as I have laid ) are moftall good 
 - medicines in pra&ife for that difeafe, wherefore vvhofoever m ifl 1keth'® 
 a good medicine for the bitternefle by his nice rcfufall, may finde his 
 difeafe farre more bitter. 
 
 Kant 
 
Of the Plague. 
 
 W7 
 
 Nam child a non meruit , qui non gujlavit amor a. 
 
 This medicine is alfo excellent good againft paines and gripings rhtvtnutofit 
 ofthe ftomachor belly, talcing the quantity aforefaid, or lefle, and for foroUxitfufa. 
 the difeafe of the Collicke, or any windy paines or gripings of the 
 fmall guts, it is the bed medicine that ever I knew. 
 
 But beware it be not given to women with child, for to fuch it is not ■ „ ^ 
 
 gratefull nor very fafe,bccaufe of theMinhe,but to any woman which m \ n mrtngef 
 wants the due Gcknefle of her feafons,it is an excellent medicine j and Thtr.oiauf 
 otherwile, for any perfon di lea fed with the Plague. 
 
 A Cordiall ConfeBion or prefers curve fir women with child ,, 
 children , infants and tender people, 
 
 T Ake chofen rootes of Set-well called Zedoary, the pureftofthem Thirteen. 
 halfe a pound, put them one whole day to infufe in Role-wa¬ 
 ter and wine-vineger mixed, then let them dry gently, which -re¬ 
 done , with fine Suger and Role-water preferve them, and give a fmall £ 
 quantity of the lame,halfe an ounce or thereabout falling, the like you ' 
 may doe with Angelica rootes ,or with Enul. Campan. rootes ,or with Thtput virtue 
 arootecalled Butter-burre, whichisoneof the moll excellent rootes iuuer.Tmt!* 
 for the aire ofthc Plague that ever was found outby Art, this rootthe 
 Cermanes name Peftilenceroote, as being held the beftprefervativc, 
 and alfo cure for the difeafe of the Plague or Peftilenee. 
 
 Another good Cordiall for women with child k children £ 
 or delicate people, 
 
 :• ^ . ::!l HudlTnlh " VI “iKl 
 
 T Ake a Lemon or a good Citron, dew it in Role*water and Tberuth. 
 Sugar cloven firft into fourc parts, and when it is halfe Hewed, 
 adde fome Cmamon in powder thereto, it is a lingular good 
 Cordiall fo taken, and for a prefervative for tender women with childe, 
 and dainty people, the quantity of a Nutmeg thereof in a morning, for 
 ftich as are delicate and tender ,and cannot take medicines well that are rbedife ifit, 
 bitter. Alfo for women with child, if they take fometimes a tolle 
 fprinklcd with rofe vineger,or ordinary wine vinegar,then fpred it with 
 butter and ftrew a little powther of Cinamon thereon, and eate it fa¬ 
 ding, it is a Cordiall and a very good prefervative for them. 
 
 And amongft the reft of good prefervative Cordials Ptl, PefHlem. PU.RulfLvepl 
 Ruff, is not the lead, for it is a prefervative and purgative, yea, and a 
 curative medicine of great vertues, and very highly commended by 
 diverfc antient and moderne Writers, and which of mine ovvne Iorig 
 experience, I have found lingular good. 
 
 ^.Ofwhichtake fading the quantity ofa fcruple, which is aograi.or t btJtftefit. 
 ^eare the weight of 3 d. as aprefervative, andthe ingrediences thereof ff? jTf 
 are but' Aloes^Merrhe and Saffronby Ait made into Pills, and thcreafon rbtrM r mt f^ 
 that the learned doe aferibe fo great vertues to the aforefaid ingredi - vcnuti 
 
 enccs. 
 
Of the Plague. 
 
 . , . -——— -, - - -- - Mate t- " 
 
 cnees is for that they fuffer not the body of man to putrifie,for Mirrhe, 
 
 as Galerts Avtcen ,and many other antient Writers affirmc, and expe¬ 
 rience fhevveth them ,rclifteth putrifaftion, fo that a dead corps pre- 
 ferved in Mirrhe y neither altreth nor ftinkcthinalongfcafon,andaJfo 
 .Aloes hath an excellent quality in purging Choller, and eomfor- 
 ting and corroborating tie Ventricle, and in prefervirg it from putrify. 
 ing, and Saffron, by the confent of all the learned is a true cordiall me¬ 
 dicine, arid as Avtcen :eftifieth,it never altereth humours to the 
 worft, but refrefheth, smendeth, and purifieth the putrid, and con¬ 
 vey eth with it other medicines to the comfort of the heart, and other 
 princi pall parts of the body. 
 
 And one lobannes Hanmannw an antient reverend Writer, in his 
 Treatife of the Peftilence ,'writeth in commendations of thefe Pills, 
 thefe very words following. 
 
 Non immerito his Ptllulis magnam adbileo fidem , injeptem conjiitutmi- 
 bw Pefitlentialibw , qujs tempore meo yidt , nemo ipfts uftts , Pejle in- 
 teriit. , 
 
 In Englifh thus. 
 
 Not unworthily doe I put great truft in thefe Pills, for (even fea- 
 fons of the Plague, which my felfe in my time faw, there was not one 
 man dyed that ufed them, meaning the faid Pills, and the quantity 
 preferibed b y the fame Author, to be taken by way of prefervative, 
 as is recited, was 2 o grain, which is about the weight of 3 d. and I my 
 felfe upon my owne experience affirme, that in curing the difeafe 
 where a purge is required ., there is no purgation wirhin my praftice, 
 fafer nor furer then this Pill is, and to purge, the dofe is 3 j. which al¬ 
 though I confefle in fomebodyes itpurgeth but (lowly, yet in the dic¬ 
 tate of the Plague generally it ismoft requifite andfafe, to be very 
 fparing, and indeed wclladvifcd in giving way to any purging medi¬ 
 cines at all. 
 
 Agoodfafe medicine /or any whofe complaints begin voith a fulnejje in 
 theirflomacb, with naufeoufnejfe and defire to vomite. 
 
 ; taken, the fir fl day that a man findeth himfelfe fo to be in- 
 tfe&ed, and to fuch the medicine hath at once taking perfc&ly cu¬ 
 red many, and it is a medicine which my felfe would as foone take at 
 the firft as any medicine, if 1 felt my body upon fulnefle difeafed, for 
 it purgeth away the venome, both upwards and downewards, before 
 nature be overcome thereby: but I muft crave your pardon to deliver 
 the medicine in Latine, for that I hold it not fit for any to undertake 
 the making or preparingofthcingrediences thereof, for the avoyding 
 danger ^ But the difcrcet, faithfull and underftanding Surgeon or Apo¬ 
 thecary. 
 
 Rec. 
 
of the Plague. 
 
 
 Rcc, Arttimonii clarijicat. Hiacinth. r/iotio Pellticidi , gr. 4. Confer, 
 fiores Borag. 3 . (/. Specter. Liber an. 3. Je. Maftiik. gr. 5. My'fee & 
 fiat bolui. 
 
 Satis txami- 
 nata. 
 
 Give this whole quantitie to a ftrong man at once : but I hold it m btfa 
 beft,at the time of the taking of it, that hee lye on his bed in his 
 clothes, I meane, till the Medicine have done working, and that hee 
 drinke warme Poflct-drinke after each Vomiting; and then, and not 
 before, if hee finde himfelfe not well, let himgoc to his naked bed, 
 and tailing, take a nap (if hee can) and then when hee awaketh, give 
 him fome fmall Cordiall,as namely, 3 . j. of Mitbridate^o? o f 
 tejfaron , or of London Treacle, in Poflet-drinke, and gently provoke 
 him to be in a fweating manner, not to fiveac too itrongly, and that 
 for three or fourc hourcs. Which done, there may be given him a 
 cup of Bcere, with a tofte, if he defire to drinke, and give him to cate 
 fome light digefting food, and 1 doubt not hee will doe well very 
 quickly* 
 
 But this kind of cure is onely for the beginning of the difeafe, 
 and to be given, as is faid, to a full body, which hath a complaint 
 of fullncife of his ftomach. And fo herewith I will conclude fur¬ 
 ther repetition of Purgative Medicines, in cafes of the Plague; ad- 
 vifing all difereet Artills to ufe them with all poflible care, caution 1 , 
 and counfell of the Learned, where it maybe had, as they tender the 
 lives and healths of their Patients, well weighing the following 
 Inftru&ions and Caveats. 
 
 Qautio e Tetri Sihyllenij ^XTedico infigni 
 
 Germania in ufum fMedicinarm Qatharti- 
 carum in curanda Pefie. 
 
 A Caveat in the ufe of Purgative Medicines, 
 
 principio bujus acutijlimi morbi convsnire, iff Bjeneno- 
 jam materiam eorum Vi, iff calore c corpore educendam 
 efje horum fententia Galcni iff Avicennte tcftiMonia iff firma 
 argument a fupra expoftta >valde adverfaatur, quorum autborita- 
 tern Hippocrat. Lib. 4. de rations <-viBm in morbis acutu 
 confirm at aim mqitit: n^bi in morHo mena feBio iff [olutivd 
 fMedicamenta rteceffaria funt , <uena incifio prxeedere debet . 
 
 G g g gatid 
 
 
Of the‘Plague. 
 
 gdtio aliqua pucipiatur, ut fiat evacuatio uniy erf alts, isf hoc cum 
 phlebotomid isfc. Et quia SMedicamentorum laxamium in hoc 
 caju ufwgravity infenjut is? periculofus propter multas eyidentes 
 caujcu, corpori ejfe folet, Eapropur imperitorum , b dr bar or um, 
 & 5 circumfotaneorum Medicorum curam,qut violemifiimis Phar¬ 
 macy caufam morbi expellere opinantur,utpote Mercutio pre- 
 cipitato quern rubicundum pufoeremfalfo prdftantem predicant 
 hue dialeiio modo adferibam . Qatbart'tca fiye purgantia CMedi- 
 camenta , magnammim caloris in je continent , qua <vclociter at- 
 trahunt, is? bumores in •vents commonent , fimulque expeVunt 
 qudque commotions natura regetiya totias corporis in Jua Crifi 
 & conatu obtunditur is? profternitur,isf plerunque eyemt expul bo 
 Symptomatic a tnorti <vicina quare non conducunt in bujus *T eflis 
 initio,prater e a omne Catbarticum moyet materiam ad interiora, 
 hoc eft, a [uperficie ad Centrum* quod eft Cor: In ommautem 
 rvenenoja materia hoc improbatur , materia enim <venenofa a 
 Centro ad Juperficiem expellt debet . ideirco Pnarmaca in initio 
 morbi exhibit a plus incommodi quam commodt adferunt. 
 
 Hue acctdit quod Cathartica hujujmodi JMeaicamenta qua 
 fortia is? acuta \mt per je venenofa cenfentur , non eft autetn 
 ‘venenum <veneno adponendum , omne enim tale additum fuo tali 
 (ut eft communis Regula) facit ibud magis tale. 
 
 SHajorprobatur ex Joh. Mefue de confolatione Medici- 
 narum, ubi inquit ,omnis Medicina laxatiya eft de genere venc- 
 nojar urn rerum,cujus excefium Natura non pautur,nuUo propterea 
 Cathartico Pettis tempore cor pore <vacuatida (unt. Quandoquidem 
 Median pro fuo officio is? dottrina quam profitetur y minfter y cuftos 
 is? imitator Nature dicittrr, Natura autetn in Pttte h Centro ad 
 Juperficiem conatur venenum pell ere, eigo Medicos rite imitatur 
 Tsfatur* duttum juxta pborifm . Hippocrat. Libr. it- 
 Aphorilm. i. quo Natura <vergit ad loca conferentia eo due ere 
 oportet is?c. 
 
 Et quia Qatbartica imata,jua <vi is? crudelitate Natttram 
 regetiyam totias corporis profternunt,qua ob Pettis quoque acui - 
 totem is? impetum languida isf infirma eftyVirtus veroboc tempore 
 conferyanda qua proftrata periclitatur *ger, ergo nullum Phaf r 
 macum dandum eft. 
 
 The 
 
of the Plague, 
 
 ■ I 
 
 
 The precedent Caveat touching purging Medicines 
 
 Etglijhed is in effeS as foliotretb. 
 
 O Ne Petrus Sthjlkmtu^ learned Phyfician of his time,in his Trea- 
 tifc De vesie doth write touching the ufe of Catharticke or 
 purging Medicines, ir the cafe of the Plague .as folIoweth,and recitcth 
 his rcalons and authcritie for the fame in thefe words.. 
 
 Concerning the opinion which fome Phyficians hold,that folutive SoimwfhrbU. 
 and purging Medicaments are convenient in the beginning of this ^”/”ptV“ re 
 moft fharpe fickncflethe Plague,and that the vencmous humour is to ° * * ^ 
 be driven out of the bodies infected with the Plague, by their force 
 and heat: The cenfues of Galen and Avicenfay ftrong arguments, are 
 repugnant to their opinions. And Hippocrates con fir me th their au¬ 
 thorities in his Lib. p. de Dicta , or of Diate , which is to be ufed in 
 fharpe fickneflcs •, wlere hee faith, when in any fliarpc fickneflc the 
 opening of a Vcine or folutive Medicaments are ncccflarie,the Vcine 
 is firft to be opened. And Azenfoar in the Lib.^.dc Theifir faith , be- But in mcR. 
 fore any jkirgation be, hee would advife that a generall evacuation natetim Rule a 
 might be made 5 meaning, that letting bloud is fit to be done. 
 
 And becaufe,faith her, the ufe of laxative and purging Medicaments fofitoccapmand 
 arc ill, hurtfoll, and cangcrous to the body, by reafon of many evi * dut timt ‘ 
 dent cafes; therefore hec likewife condemneth the error of the un¬ 
 learned and barbarous Phyficians and Mountebankes of his times, 
 which would drive avay the caufe of the difeafe by violent purging 
 Medicines,as namely with Mercuriiu precipitate^ which red pouther 
 they call falfely a precious Cathartick or purging Medicine; which 
 having a great force of heat inthcm,theydoedraw forcibly and fwiftly 
 both the bloud and humours which arc in the Veines,and doe drive 
 them out,to the prejudice of Nature: by which commotion, Nature 
 which governeth the body, is difabled, ftupified,and beaten downe in 
 her endevour,touching her Cr/Jir,her working and contending with the 
 poy fonous vapours, fo as for the moft part it hapneth,that thereupon 
 proccedeth a fymptonaticall expul fion.which is not farre from death 
 it lelfc. And thercforefuch Medicines arc not fit to be ulcchin the be¬ 
 ginning of the fickncfc, namely, the Plague. Moreover, all purging 
 Medicaments draw the humours to the inward parts, that is,from the 
 fuperficies or outward parts to the center of the body, which is the 
 hcart^nd the effects follow deadly j for in vencmous difeafes, the ve- 
 nomc ought to be driven from the center to the outwards: therefore 
 Cathartick or purging Medicines being miniftred in the beginning of 
 this ficknefte,doe moc hurt then good. And in this further is to be 
 added,that fuch purging Medicines as are ftrong and fharpe,are eftce- 
 med to be vencmous <f tbemfelve$,and there is nQ venome or poyfon 
 to be put to poyfon; for every fuch thing as is added to his like,as the 
 generall Rule faith,maceth that more fuch. r 
 
 G g g s The 
 
The Office of a 
 Tbyficuou 
 
 The helpe of 
 Nature in the 
 Vlague. 
 
 A reafon of the 
 danger of laxa - 
 live Mediant!* 
 
 Of the‘Plague. 
 
 The Major is prooved by lob. Mefues de confolatione Medicinarum, 
 where he faith,that all laxative Medicines are of the fort of venemous 
 things, vvhofc exceflc nature cannot endure: therefore in time of the 
 Plague,the difeafed bodies are not to be made emptie by Purgati¬ 
 ons , feeing that a Phy fician is called, by reafon of his Office and 
 Learning which he profefleth, a minifter, a kee per, and an imitator of 
 
 Nature in the Plague,endevours as much as in her is, to expell the 
 venome to the fuperficies of the body : Therefore a Phyfician ought 
 to follow the trad of Nature, according to the Aphorifme of Hippo, 
 crates ,21 Lib. 1 Aphorif. Where Nature aymes his courfe, thither it 
 behooves the Phyfician to intend his artificial! helpe. 
 
 And becaufe Catharticke meancs, by their innate force and cru¬ 
 elty doe overthrow Nature, the ruler of the whole body, which 
 alfo is made weakc, by reafon of the (harpenefle and force of the 
 Plague, Nature is to be preferved , and no laxative Medicine to be 
 given, 
 
 Of varictie of particulars for Brothes to be 
 made for the ficke, according to mens fcverall 
 
 abilities or nece/itics,and as the time and place 
 hath to be added morejr in part forborne, 
 upon each juft occajion, 
 
 A Nd firft,for hearbes fitteft to be ufed in Brothes in this difeafe, 
 they are Bugloffe,Borage,Endive,Succorie,Strawberrie leaves, 
 
 _ Marigolds, Parfely, Betonie, Violet leaves, Sorrell, Wood- 
 
 Sorrell,Plantane, any of thefe are very good,and fo is Rofemarie and 
 Tyme,fothat you take not too much of any of them, remembring 
 alfo for the feafoningand relifhingof Brothes,as alfo for Sawce,yoo 
 may fafelymake ufe of Sugar, Cinnamon, Cnrrans,Citrons,Orenges, 
 Limons, juice of Limons, ripe and unripe Grapes, preferved Barber¬ 
 ries, Cherries,and Prunes,Wine Vineger,Verjuice,Mace,Cloves,Nut¬ 
 megs, Saffron,and Wine, if occafion be, to refrefh the fpirits j for as I 
 have faid, I efteeme it farre above any the fimple waters of hearbes for 
 a Vehickle, in the difeafe of the Plague.. 
 
 ?{ece[fme mats Alfo you may make your Brothes either of a Cock, or rather of a 
 
 J *f b, J ,cd in Cock Chicken,or of Mutton or Veale.or for the meaner fort,of what 
 elfe their meanes will reach unto j for many things that be held un- 
 favourie, naufeous, yea,and dangerous to the daintie, are found to be 
 very convenient, wholefome, comfortable and precious to the poorer 
 fort; as Garlidc, Leekes, Onions, Chyves, Wormcwood, Centurie, 
 Angelica,Bay-berries,Gentian,and diverfe others, whofe taftes are 
 , harili. 
 
 A 
 
Of the Tlague. 
 
 
 A Cordiall drinke to coole andcontemperate 
 
 the blood , being a China broth, if the patient 
 
 pleafe to beat the eojle. 
 
 .. . • j y 1 i • 5 * * ' , t \ • * 
 
 T Aketherootes of Cbwa,c ut into fmall fliccsj iij , info fe them Tbtrecchtfk. 
 izhouresat thefeaft in five quarts of iaire water, adding of 
 Burrageand Bugloflc/>feach half a handful!,of cloves in num¬ 
 ber three, with a like weight of cimamon, and mace, boyle thefe gen¬ 
 tly, till one third part be conlumed : and if you pleale, ad one fpoon- 
 fullof Role-water, and fome little Sugar to make it grateful! inrafle, 
 andalfo threefpoonefuls of juyceof Lemons, and in want of juyee 
 of Lemons, fo much good Wine vineger ^ you may give the patient 
 at onetime, to a quarter of a pinte, and he may takeof this deco&ion TbeVcfii 
 foure fundry times in a day fafely at the Ieaft, andoftner if he like it. 
 
 Alfo remembring that the fickehave fome other Cordiall prepa¬ 
 red for him, if need be, to provoke him to fweat, the fecond or third 
 time, and fome odoriferous thing in his hand, or neare at band by 
 him, often to fmellunto, luchasareelfewhere fet downe, or fome o- 
 therof the like nature. 
 
 And in want of Cbinaxootcs, take the double part of Sarfapar/tU, 
 and in want of that, a large cruft of the beft bread of wheat, for the 
 poorer fort,this alfo is good tocontempcrate the blood after fwcating, 
 and further it is of ancient Writers efteemed, as a very good Cordiall 
 medicine to give the party the quantity ofadrach. or S'.i.). of the 
 fineft Bolus Jrmcit. in a cup of white Wine, withhalfe a fpoonfull 
 of Role-water, and a little Sugar if you pleale, and in want thereof 
 give it in poflet drinke. 
 
 Moreover if you lee occalion, and can have them in your poflet 
 drinkes ordiftilled water,that you ufe as vehicles or Iiquours,in which 
 you give your medicines,you may put the quantity of one or two oun¬ 
 ces of Sirrupof Citrons, or of Lemons, or of Sorrell, or Wood- 
 forrell,or of fower Pomegranates,alfo it is very good in every fweat pro¬ 
 voking Cordiall drinke, that youaddeoyle of Vitriol, three or foure 
 dropsto a dole, but no more for offending, yea in all Iulips,a lew drops 
 thereof are both cordiall and warrantable, and in want thereof, in a 
 cooling Julip may be added Sal prunellc , fo that the quantity exceed 
 not 5 . ij. per hafltm nnum. 
 
Of the Plague. 
 
 
 Another Iulip for the Difeafed of the Plague. 
 
 Thereceit. * "W™ * Ake French Barley, or in want thereof, Englifh Barly, about 
 I one goodhandfull, faire conduit water, or lpring water, three 
 quarts, boyle the Barly about halfe an houre in the warer, and 
 then caft away the water, then take about three quarts of water againe, 
 and of Mace and Cloves, of each halfe a fcruplc, or a o graines,which 
 isaferuple, and boyle the faid Barley, and the reft, one houre or more, 
 till one third part of the liquor,or thereabouts, bee confirmed $ then 
 cleereof this Barly water into a glafle: and to each quart of water,if it 
 may be had, addeof Sirrupof Wood-forrell,oi Citrons, of Limons, 
 of Violets, or of any oneofthefej iij.of rofe water one fpoonefull, 
 of Wine vineger two fpoonefuls, of oyleof Vitriol ten drops, and if 
 youcangetnofirrups at hand, ufe Sugar to make it pleafantof rafte, 
 and in want of oyle of Vitriol, ule two more fpoonefuls of Wine vi- 
 a caution in u- neger, and note that whenfoever you put oyle of Vitriol into any li- 
 foojieofn qu 0r) an d thatyouwould give it the patient, that you fliake the glafle 
 tm1, • ever, when you put out any, for the Oyle will fall to the bottome, 
 and the laft draught will bee very dangerous, and too fharpe to be 
 drunke. 
 
 toiverji qualify 
 cations of tbirft « 
 
 Againf TbirftineJJe. 
 
 W ’Atcr and vinegar mixed, and often held in the mouth, and 
 put out againe is good, juyceof Lemons, and water fo uled, 
 letting fome part downe, isalfo very goodj alfo preferved cherries, 
 and ftewd Pnines are good to hold in the mouth, and to be taken in 
 Quinces,or confcrvc of Barberries, or Tamarinds from the Easl'lndia, 
 or it were good the patient had by him, often to luck from a liquorifh 
 flick fomecordiall firrupin a glafle,as of W ood- forrel l,of Citrons,Li- 
 mons, of Violets, or firrupof Vineger, or of fome fuch like, alfo as 
 is repeated, Sal Prunelle 3 ij, and fome 3 ounces of Plantaine,or ftravt- 
 berry water doth well coole thirft, and is cordiall. 
 
 Againft famines and foundings , which happen in the fickneffe. 
 
 L Et the fickehavefomething tofmelJunto, that hath Rofe-vine- 
 
 ... . 1 —/gar, with a few drops of Rofe water in it, alfo give t 
 
 * fome Treacle water, or fome good Bezar, or Cinamon 
 
 I* ____*_1 * n *ii 1 m • iv « 
 
 Ange* v 
 
 : the fick, either 
 water 
 
 lica water, or Mint water,diftilled with wine,or a little good Aqua vitte % 
 or a little good claret wine, mul’d with a few cloves, and roferaary,and 
 
 . , Sugar 
 
Of the 'Plague . $ 5 ' 
 
 fugar therein, any of tin fe arc good Cordials, or let him hold a Limon 
 ftucke with cloves,as is faid in his hand, or have fome cordiall Poman¬ 
 der in his hand, and to wet his temples and forehead with wine vine¬ 
 gar, and a little Rofe-water mixed,where it may be had. 
 
 xAgood 'Tofftt drinkein thef,ckneffe 3 ifthe 
 
 difeafe begin hot. 
 
 M Akean ordinary poflet with AIeandmilke,purific it from the 
 curd , and boyle gently therein (if you deftre to have it coo¬ 
 ling) Yorrcl I, ftrawberrie leaves, plantaine leaves,VioIet leaves, 
 or fome of them, adding a little Wine-vmeger, and fome Sugar, and 
 a little Rofe-water, if you pleafe,, and this will bee a good drinke for 
 the patient to continue with in the time of his fickneue. 
 
 A Ho the juyee of Lemons or Orcnges, wrung into the PofTet-drink, 
 is likewife very good, andthebeftof all to make it tart, and not over 
 fowrc therewith, is a little oyle of Vitriol, for that no medicine is fo oju of rum. 
 precious againft the peftilentiallFeaver,as the oyle of Vitriol, it being 
 warily adminiftred. 
 
 Iv eating Medicine 
 
 Mi 
 
 Another good Poffet drmke to give a heating 
 in, if the parties ftcknefje begin cold, 
 
 'Ate a Poflet firftwith Ale and milke, in an ordinary manner, 
 JL V iunto which adde Marigolds, Burrage,Bugloflc, or fome of them, 
 and Gently boyle them in the drmke, and to a quarte thereof, adde of 
 sood fackca quartet of a pint, and to a draught of this drinke put any 
 cordiall medicine, to provoke fweat,and giveitvvarme, ifthed.feafe 
 hpain mid as is faid\ but if it begin hot, leave out the facke, for as I 
 in this bookehave oft repeated, I holdwinebetter and 
 cordiall with in the plague, then any fimple water diltilled, although 
 it were diftilled,either from Angelica, Dragon, Centorv, or Cardtms 
 
 Beneditfw , 
 
 
 . .1 • • . . 
 
 A oaetd Cordiall medicine for the poorer fort, though it veere 
 to women with Childe.for they may take ufafety. 
 
 / 
 
 i AkeBavberrieSjcleanfethe huskes, and dry them, untiil they vvil rberewt , 
 l * be made into powder, then powder then, or for a need grate them, 
 
 A* v'oudoe Nutmess, and give a fmall fpoonefull thereof m a draught 
 ©f rfhicewi^ C aI^l r becre^ and lec the party be laid to to, and for- 
 
} 5 6 Of the Plague. 
 
 r be order mad. k carc fleepe, it is a good and a fafe Cordial, to which may be added 
 mintsiriug of it. Sugar, or cordial firrups at pleafure,and note that even Galenjthc Prince 
 of Phyfitians, as I fa id, attribureth unto Antidotes, meaning rhepre- 
 fcrvatives,that open the pores, and provoke fweat, the whole cure of 
 the Plague, which this mean medicine, mightily and fafely doth. Ital- 
 tuc!of?t.~ fo ls cxc eeding good againft the wind Collicke, and all tortions and 
 difturbances of the bowels. 
 
 ■^n other good cord/allfor tie poorer fort. 
 
 7 be rudufiti f | *Ake of the beft Walnuts in number 2 o, chofen figs' 1 6 , Rue, § i. 
 
 X fe. Wormewood leaves, and feedes pickt,halfe a handfull,Genti¬ 
 an rootes § ij. round ^rtftolochiaxootcsg iij. long Ariplochia rootes 
 $ j* ’Torment. Dipt am. rootes, of eath halfe an ounce, Bayberrics,balfc 
 an ounce, common fait | iij, Methridate 5 ij. mix all artificially to¬ 
 gether, except the methridate, then weigh the whole lumpc, and take 
 three times lb much pure honey in weight, as all the ingrcdiences are, 
 and being firftall well wrought together, adde the Methridate, and 
 mix it alfo. 
 
 The dofe of it. Keepe this clofe covered, and give fora prefervative, the quantity of 
 a Nutmeg, but by way of cure to provoke fweat, give as much as a 
 ^'"’’Walnut thereof, and fweat well upon it : this is an approoved 
 / / S°°d Medicine, and not much uijfavovry to bee taken, if it bee 
 / truly made. 
 
 , £ut an y P er fon > for the unfavourineffe of a medicine, will refufe 
 jfj helpe, let him forbeare, and expert, and take of what followes: and 
 
 further note that it will not be amide, as I have (aid, that after any cor- 
 diall medicine be fwallovved downe without liquor, that a cup of good 
 wine bee given, or in want of it, warmepoflet drinke, or Beere. ~ 
 
 7 'bereet'u. 
 rbtdofc. 
 
 . . « - ) 
 
 Another good Cor diall for poore people at a meane price 
 to bee had. 
 
 T Ake the kernels of Walnuts, of the hearb Rue, and of chofen 
 "gg es j of each 5 i, of common fait? i j. of Saffron ? i. let all 
 this be \cry well beaten together, wirh as much wine vinegeraswill 
 workc them up into the forme of an Ele&uaryand take thereoffafting 
 
 daily the quantity of two Drachmes. 
 
 CertaineV 
 
of the Plague. 
 
 5*7 
 
 Ccrtaine Rules and Qbfervations to be 
 
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 regarded , concerning the curing of the 
 infeBed of the Plague. 
 
 I N which, the firft point is, that hee be put in mindc of h isDmUMsfer 
 dutie to God, and that with penitent hearc hce crave mcrcie tbt "W'*- 
 of him. . : 
 
 Secondly , that hce take the advice of the beft learned hee can 
 have, and that hee follow their directions : but if hee want better 
 counfell, let himobferveas followeth. 
 
 Fir ft, if his body be very coftive, namely * if hee have had no Httrv to order tb- 
 ftoole in twodayes, or at the leaft the day before hee falleth ficke, bodiu of the in - 
 let him in the firft place take a Suppofitorie; and if it procure 
 him not a ftoole,Iet him take another within one halfe hourc; and 
 if that doe no good, let him take a very gentle Glyfter: but beware 
 of taking any Purgation or Laxative whatfoever, by the mouth to Tur$ngdM& 
 be received, as I have in feverall places laid, at the beginning of«#». 
 tbedifeafe; but open a Vcine rather, if learned advice order it: 
 or, which is fafeft, take a Medicine to caufe fweat j and if hee 
 be fcanted of time, fweat firft, and take a Suppofitorie after the 
 fweating Medicines have done, for it is dangerous to delay fweating Sn , clt i„ g „ ot)B 
 any time. And if hee have it , let his Cordiall be Aurvm zit<e } be delayed. 9 . 
 eight Grairies. 
 
 But in cafe the difeafe proove to be the Plague, if the partie 
 be full of bloud, and the ficknefie begin with him hot, and have 
 but newly taken hold of him, and alfo that hee be couragious uuingUoudm- 
 and willing thereunto, open him the fuileft Vcine you can finde “fc™ in f lime 
 in his armc, on that fide hee moft complaines on, and take 
 leven, or eight ounces, if no rifing appeare, and lay him to fweat 
 within one houre after , forbidding him to fleepe, as hee tendrech sleeping d*tge- 
 his life : but if hce be fearefull, dull, flcepie, lhivering, or ya 
 ning, or have any fuch fignes before the bleeding, or that any 
 Tumour appeare, then forbeare Phlebotomie at the firft , and " 
 prefendy give him a Diaphoreticke, or fvveat-provoking Medi¬ 
 cine, or Antidote, one of thofe formerly named; and let him obfmzum in 
 be layd in Bed, and well covered over head and all, and fo pro - 
 yoked to fweat, by all the reafonablc meanes that may be : And 
 in any cafe , let him not be fuffered to fleepe, during the 
 of his fweating, no,.not in two houres after the taking of his /n:M “" £ * 
 firft Cordiall, without you fee extraordinarie good fignes of health 
 in him. 
 
Of the T lague. 
 
 ■ s And you may continue him (Wearing gently three or fourc boures, 
 freaurZlw or leflfe time,according to his ftrength, and then withdraw the clothes 
 long. by little and little: but yet keepe him in a breathing manner warme, 
 
 ZVrmrn* though not fweating much, fomewhat longer 3 which docc,drie him 
 and lhifc him with irerti clothes, well warmed: And if he keepe his 
 Medicine, and fweat well, there is very good hopes, or rather little 
 feare of him at all; but if hee caft it, there is not fo much hope : 
 yet give him another fweating Medicine, and a third, if hee caft the 
 fecond, ftriving to pleafe his tafte in what >ou ir>ay with his Medi¬ 
 cines 3 and when hcc hath fweat well, and is rcafe nably cooled, 
 then may you let him fit up in his bed, and give him icme Pcftet- 
 drinke,or a fmall cup of Beerc warmed,or fc me Broth, or leme few 
 ftewed Pruincs, or fome Confcrves, as of Quinces, or Barberries: 
 then if you findehim not lightfome, and bis head-ache and cem- 
 plaints not cafed,give a fecond like fweating Medicine to the former, 
 after foure or fivchoures diftance, and keepe him lying in bed,and 
 in a breathing or gentle fweating manner alrroft hallt a day after: 
 and about ten or twelve h'ourcs after bis Cordiall given, or looner, 
 if you fee reafon, you may fuffer him to fleepc 3 but firft, it is 
 
 not amifTc to give him feme warme Broth, as is (aid, to reftefh 
 him. 
 
 Meaner to pro* And if the Patient be unapt to fweat, let Bottles of very hot 
 
 voktfmat. water b e filled, and put to his one fide, and at his feet 3 or hot 
 Brickes, fomewhat quenched with water, and then wrapped with 
 wet clothes, and layd to his fide and feet, covering as well his face 
 as any other part, leaving him but a tufi cient breathing piaci onely; 
 and be furc he lweat lying on the one lide, and not on bis backe: and 
 hee muft be very catefull to lyeftill, and keepe his armes in bed all 
 the time of his fweating j or that hee have warme fleeves to defend 
 them from cold. 
 
 a frond Dia- And yet againe, if any cvill fignes appeare to you, give him as 
 fi’ore’M 10 be a f orCi morc Diaphoretick or fweating Medicines , untill you fee by 
 y e TJ the lightncflc, chearcfulnefTe,and good fignes in the fick,with good 
 mutdfeare be perfwafion, that the venemeus vapours which caufed the difeafe,be 
 Tr'ZnZZt almoft or altogether lpent 3 or that the Botch, Blaine, Carbuncle, 
 tmg Medium or fpors come forth : For if the outward fignes appeare upon his 
 tooqueii. fvveatings, or that hee be cbearciull,and that no outward markes doe 
 
 appeare, in either of thefe two cafes there is great hope of his well¬ 
 doing. 
 
 Wherefore I wifli, as is often rehearfed , that all men begin 
 
 Remedies not to 
 be delayed. 
 
 betimes to ufe Remedies, whilcft ftrength of Nature is rcadie at 
 hand. 
 
 For thofc which doe take a good Cordiall, that caufcth fweat at 
 the very firft, feldome have any outward Sores ormaikesatalP, and 
 if they have, they are light, fmall, and eafily healed : and when you 
 find the danger of the perfon paft,or vcncm.e of thefickneffe is fpent, 
 and the partic chearefull; then, and not before 9 may you, having 
 
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 good advice, purge j but I hold it fafer to forbeare Laxatives even 
 then alfo. 
 
 For you rauft note, that if you purge, if there be any venemous a me of the 
 qualitie in the body at all left, as is laid, you draw it to the center dM °~ er °f 
 oi the body, namely, to the heart, and fodouble the danger, and ^* 
 for the rell ot .the cure, no man can preferibe what in each body fhall 
 be fitting by any one gcnerall rule, for that one perfon is feldome 
 taken as another, in that fearefull difeafe*. 
 
 Onely take this one thing for a rule of comfort in generall, that 
 this dileale commonly is fwift,and is lnorti and doth begin and end 
 in a moncth commonly at the utmoft , for it is tearmed but the 
 difeafe of one Moone : if the partie be likely to live, and the 
 danger of death for the time over, no Apoftumcs, Boyles, or Sores of the fodder. 
 whatfoever doe heale faftcr, nor fooner, then thofe of that difeafe curc °f lht 
 of the Plague doe, when the furie of the Feaver is once pad. For P/ ^ w * 
 the difeafe is a Feaver, like to a furious ftorme, fhort and terrible; 
 but the furie once over, it is the calmed of all contagious difeafes 
 whatfoevcr,and the eafied to be healed, farre better then the French 
 Pox. 
 
 And moreover, note one thing elfewherc mentioned • inall cor- 
 diall Medicines and Julips, there is not a fafer nor better thiftg to 
 refift the putrifa&ion and venome, to comfort the head and the 
 flomach, and to quench third, then is Oyle of Vitriol, fo you ufe of the good u[o 
 it warily • but you mud be very warie, that to one draught of 
 Prinke, or Julip, you put not above foure, or rather but three 
 drops ; and ufing it but a very little at a time , you may ufe 
 it the ofccner, and the fafer ; otherwife, there is fomc danger 
 therein. . 
 
 , You fhall know the goodnefie of this Oyle, by the clearenefle Tbechoifeofu. 
 thereof, and by the weight thereof ; for if it be as cleare as Rocke- 
 water,and ponderous almoft as Lead, then is it very good. By my 
 will, I would never give any Purge nor any Cordiall without it, if 
 1 could have it; for I have found it, by much pra&ifc, to be very 
 precious. 
 
 . Alfo, if you doe take the quantitic of one oQnce of conferve of 
 Roles, and about eight fmall or fingle drops of Oyle of Vitriol, 
 and mixe them exceeding well, and give the Patient a little thereof 
 to cate, or at the lead to keepe in his mouth now and then, in the 
 time of his licknelte, it is exceeding cooling and comfortable for 
 him,and quencheth third fingular well. 
 
 And you fhall fiodc much the more profit in it, if you adde Salt The virtue of 
 of Wormewood thereto (as is faid elfewhere) either one Scruple 
 oj halfe a Djachme for a Dofe , according to the drength of the rbe 
 ficke,and vehemencieof the difeafe; for it mightily cncreafeth the 
 force of the other Medicine, in provoking of (weat, and refrefheth 
 the fpirits. Sal-Niter is alfo good, if the difeafe proceed of a hot 
 caufc,a like Dofe given. , 
 
 H 2 And 1 ' 
 
Of theTiagite. 
 
 And note further one obfcrvation generally to be had in minde 
 Things t» be cb- by the attenders of the ficke, that they give the Patients leave ever 
 undmlnbe' freely to put thcUarmes out of the bed both night and day, except 
 pdf ° in the times of Sweating j and to that end, be carefull to provide 
 them Waftcoates, Sleeves, or, at the leaft, the legges of old 
 Hofe, or any meane thing to the poorer fort, to keepe their armes 
 warme. 
 
 For my felfe know by experience of my owne body, when I had 
 the Plague, and fo fince of many others that have beene under my 
 cure, how comfortable a freedome it is for a ficke man to have leave 
 to fpread and call; out his armes, and how uncomfortable a thraldome 
 and imprifonment it is for a poore weake man, by his Keeper, to be 
 forced to keepe his armes in the bed, or in any one certaine por¬ 
 tion : Wherefore the attenders of the ficke ought to have judge¬ 
 ment and commiferation, I meane, a fellow-feeling of the infirmi¬ 
 ties of the fleke, and chiefely, in this moft fierce difeafe of the 
 Plague. 
 
 1. Note aifo, that in Summer, when the Sicknefle beginneth hot 
 or burning, in the Drinkes that you give your Patients, whether 
 Antidotes or Cordials, that you ever ufe Wine Vineger a fpoone- 
 full or two, where you doc not ufe Oylc of Vitriol; but if you 
 have Oyle of Vitriol, it farre exceedeth Vineger, as is often 
 fayd. 
 
 2, Alfo note efpecially, in the Houfe where that a Childe is in- 
 fc&ed, great care be had to keepe the rell of the Children from 
 him : for there is a farre greater fympatheticall danger betwixt 
 Children, then betwixt Men and Women ; which dayly experi¬ 
 ence fhevveth. 
 
 3» Note alfo, that for Infants and tender Women, Mdromach. or 
 Venice Treacle is a good Medicine, as it is made, by the view and 
 order of the Colledge of Phyficians of London . and in want of 
 it, which my felfe would as foone take, good London Treacle, if it 
 be alfo truely made, according to the prefeription, and by the view 
 of the faid reverend Do&ors of the Colledge of London : I hold 
 it a moft fit Medicine • and the rather, for that it is of taftc cafie 
 to be taken in: but the quantitie at a time to be taken of it, muft 
 rht Do/e •/ be as is faid •, to the ftrongeft may fafely be given, 5 . ij. which is 
 Theriac. An- about the weight of 18 pence in Money at a time 5 and to a Child, 
 fSST >0 a b° ut 3 pence, or 6 pence, or 9 pence weight, according to their 
 feverall ages and capacities: and alfo, if you can, and that you have 
 convenience, it is good that you remove the ficke Patient fometimes 
 from one Bed to another,where convenience, meanes, and abilitie is; 
 and that you ufe fprinkling the Roomes with Wine Vineger fome- 
 times, as is faid, where it may be had* 
 
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Of the Tlag ue. 
 
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 IfffffS 
 
 Of fuck Dja as is fitting for the ficke of the 
 
 Plague to take. 
 
 F Irft note, that a very fparing Dyet in gencrall is the mod fir, if 
 the Patients have fuljl bodies, but in this dileale,commonly all 
 appetite is forgotten with the Patient: yet when you finde, 
 that the danger of death by thedifcafe is over, and that the Patient 
 amendeth, then good refrefhing and nouriflung food is beft,ufing it 
 fparingly. 
 
 And firft, for the delicate, and they which may have it, let them in Mmiti 
 the name of God eate Phcafant, Partridge, Qpaile, Chickens, Rab. the 
 bits, Capons, Vealc, Lambe,or Mutton ; any of thele are very good 
 taken with moderation. And fo are all field-Birds, which are ufed 
 to be eaten, excepting thofe which live upon the Water, as the 
 Swan, Goofe,Duck, Plover, Wigion, &c. Alfo generally the tnoft 
 kinde of freOi-water Fifh may well be eaten of, except the Ecle, 
 the Tench, and the Salmon: Playce, Flounders, Whitings, Soles, a UatifmMm* 
 Smelts,and fuch like, are good, moderately taken ; alfo Pearch, 
 
 Roche, Stone, Gudgeons, Breamcs,Trouts. Frcfh Becfc and Porke 
 are excepted againft ; and I thinke it fit to avoid it, where there is 
 no want of other things. But on the contrarie, where there is fcar- 
 citie, let thy abilitie be thy guide; and in the name of God, in 
 want of others, let none be fo unwife to refufe Bcefe, nor the 
 Broth or Pottage thereof, for experience fufficiently approoveth 
 them good ; neither Eggcs poached, nor foft fodden; no,nor Bread 
 and Butter, when their ftomachs will beare it; for thefe all nourifh 
 well, very moderately taken. 
 
 And remember, that if your Patient begin to amend of his dif- 
 eafe, and that his appetite grow, denie him not competent food 
 in a fparing manner, and let him have, as neere as may be, that 
 which is of light digeftion,and not too much at once, but give it 
 him often. 
 
 For underftand, that after once the mafie of bloud hath beene 
 corrupted, and that Nature,by Gods mercie,with the helpe of good 
 raeanes, hath againc gotten the upper hand, the body will require 
 good nourifhment,andoftentobe fupplyed. 
 
 The ufe of Verjuice is very wholefome in the difeafe with Meats, 
 and alfo in Poflcts, where inward heat is, and thirft withali, but not 
 where cold is : And the ufe of Goofe*berries,of unripe Grapes, pre- 
 ferved Cherries,Pruines,fowre Pomegranats.and the like, are very 
 good,as is clfewhere mentioned; and no leflegood is theufcofOran- 
 ges,Liraons,Porne-Citrons,and Pomegranats. 
 
 The 
 
Of the Plague. 
 
 Phltbotomie 
 vccdfutl . 
 
 The quamitic of 
 blond to be ta - 
 fyn. 
 
 Ordering of Gar* 
 £ arifmes• 
 
 j- 
 
 The cure of Angina endofa 9 or a falfe S qui- 
 nancy, being a fpecies of a contagious touch 3 hapning 
 ypben the Plague ragneth. 
 
 Being a paine in the Necke or lower parts of 
 9«/4, or of the Mufclesof the Neck and throat, 
 in which ficknefle there is gei erally fmall or no 
 Externally nor Inter/tall appearance, al¬ 
 though there fomettme is in both, and 
 therefore is called Angina 
 -j Mendofa. 
 
 ■m jf Any begin the difeale of the Plague with the aforefaid com* 
 »\/l plaint, for whichone good Tcmedy is phlebotomy at the firft, 
 XV-it not under the tongue oncly in that cafe, for that it you doe it, 
 fufficeth not in fo fierce a dileafe, but • that you muft alfo be forced to 
 open a veine in the arme : Wherefore let rhe Surgeon, if he be urged 
 thereunto, take the fullcft vc ine of the arme of that fide, which the 
 paine or complaint inclincth moft unto, but concerning genetall eva¬ 
 cuation by Phlebotomy,in Peftilenriall Feavours, never doe it whena- 
 ny indicationof a Chry fit,by the dileale appcareth,for feareof offence j 
 and if fo be that one fide duffer not more then another, then take 
 it on the right arme, and take a reafonable good quantity of blood, 
 namely from a man, 6 or 8 ounces or ten ounces,not more, for feare of 
 deje&ing the (pints, and a Idler proportion to a weaker patient, and 
 make a reafonable 1 rge orifice, which in fuch a cafeis beft, and if after 
 apparent need be,which feldome is, open the veines under the tongue: 
 but howfoever I would begin wirh the arme. 
 
 And fora Gargarifme, ule Barley water, with Di amor on, anda little 
 .of Sirrupof Vin' ger, ora little S aim ter, is very got d, and for outward 
 application, take a final 1 handful 1 of Camomill flowres 5 ofcleanc afhes 
 of wood without coales or drofle, a handfull, anda few role leaves, 
 and two fpoonefuls of oyle of roles, with as raaahofiiwne vinegar, 
 boyle it with fmall beere into a Cataplafmc, and very warme, apply it, 
 and fhift it morning and evening, if the role leaves be not to be had,or 
 the f amotnil flowers,ule elder leaves in place, it will doe well, and 
 ordinary oyle or butter for a need will ferve, where oyle of Rofes is 
 wanting, or the old Medicine of Mel, and Album Grtecum, with a lit¬ 
 tle Vinegar mixed, is right good : and the next morning after Phlebo¬ 
 tomy, give the patient a Diaphoreticke of Aurum vita , eight graines, 
 and appoint h im to five at foure houres • and no doubt but the difeafe 
 will be therewith foone at an end . 
 
Of the T lague. ^ 
 
 Of theufe of Phlebotomy in the aforelaid diieafe, I have had experi¬ 
 ence oftentimes this yeere, and even upon my ovvnc fontm, who.being 
 in a violent burning Feavour, with an Angina cjifendpfa, and being ycry 
 Umvillingtobe let blood under the tongue, firft for (earcof lofteof 
 time, I caufcd to give him a fuppofitory,then afrec within rhree houres 
 I gave him a Cordiall Diaphoretick, Gr.&. of Auyum vit ar, which hee 
 did fweat upon for three oralmoft fourchoures very plentifully , and 
 was fomewhat revived, andreafonablechearefull, neverthe le fife he fti 11 
 finding a great fulncfle of blood, entreated me to open a veine for hint' 
 in the Armc, the which I did, and tooke from him, as I conceived, ten 
 ounces of blood, he being ofa full able body, and about twenty yceres 
 of age, and without any more medicines, or time of complaint, by 
 Gods mercy, he came to his perfed health againe the fecond day from 
 the beginn i ng of h is difeafe. 
 
 And I may truely to Gods glory affirme,that in this yeere, i 6 3 8, 
 
 I have cured very many of Feavours, with alfo complaints of fvrellin^s 
 in their throats, meerely by thatDiaphoretickof Gold, of myowne 
 practice, cal led Aurum vitej&nA that with onely one dole given, and no 
 more, and the parties became thereby per fed ly fvhole the very next 
 day, without the taking any other Medicine , and by the lame medi¬ 
 cine, and onely by the once giving, I alfo have healed very many of 
 the Plague in one day, whereof fame had rifings of tumours, which 
 by their once fweating, fpent without further care, 
 v:;. : .• . .. t. . ; ... . i ... »> ra • • 
 
 Outward Medicines for the aflwaging 
 
 of the paines of the Head, in the fake 
 
 of the Plague. 
 
 T Ake good Vnguentum Pepuleon , and annoint the Temples, and 
 forehead therewith, it is good againft the Head-ache,or oyle of 
 liquid Mace, the Temples annointed therewith, or oyle of nut¬ 
 megs, prefled from the Nutmeg, or a great turnip roa fted in theimbers, 
 and cut thorow the middeft, ana very warme applied to ttie temples', 
 taketh away the paines of the head. 
 
 Alfo a piece of red role cake laidon apewter difh,and letonacha- 
 fing difli, witfi a fmiall fire, and then bedewed with wine vinegcr, and-a 
 little Nutmeg grated and ftrewed thereon, and fo applyed to "the foie- 
 head and temples, aftwageth the paine thereof very wellbeing as afore- 
 faid artificially prepared and fitly applyed. ^ 
 
 Likewife, in the Countrey where thefe things cannot be had, there of the 
 is an hearbe called Archangell, partly like a Nettle , of no good AHhtn tf a - 
 «r* fmell, by fome called a dead Nettle • the lame being beaten foft and 
 thickc, applyed cold to the fore-head or place grieved , aflvvageth the 
 paine thereof very ftrangely. 
 
 Alfo 
 
 1 
 
 
^4- Of the Plague. 
 
 Alfo Landanum graincs 4, but rather 3 graines onely, be not too bold 
 with this medicine, nor any other opiats whatfoever inthedifeafe of 
 s ' the Plague, and when you ufe them, doe it with advice, and onely in 
 
 extremities of unfufferable paine: For that Medicine will doc the 
 deed, andfafely, if the Surgeon be difereet, and not too bold there¬ 
 with, which if he be, hee loofeth his patient, yea I had almoft faid, he 
 killeth bis patient. 
 
 A preftrvative for the poore } and a good Cor dull. 
 
 Ctotias,f.i9j. 
 
 Prtfirvtiivesi 
 
 R. T> Ay berries, the huskes being taken away, the quantity of a 
 JDdrachme, or the weight of nine pence, either grate them to 
 powder, or beat them, and take the fame powder in ftale beerc, ftale 
 Ale,or in white wine, and goe to bed,andftrive tofweat therewith, and 
 that fully ; it provoketh fweat well, and thereby cureth the difeafe, and 
 may be taken againe and againc,three or foure times, if occafion be, for 
 it is a true cordial! againft the Plague. 
 
 True oyleof Amber beads is alfo excellent for the prelerving from 
 the Plague, three or foure drops taken fafting, dropped upon a piece 
 of Bread, or in anydrinke,and for the curing of the Plague, twelve 
 drops at once taken. 
 
 Alfo Beerc of the infufion of Woormcwood , and Rue is very 
 good, and to cate of the hearb Sorrell, or of Wormewocd, is likc- 
 wi fe good to preferve from the P lague, and alfo ufed in fawce, it is very 
 good and coral all. 
 
 AIfo the outlandifh Angelica rootes are very good chewed in the 
 mouth, and fo kept in the mouth afmaliroot thereof, for theprefer- 
 ving from the infedion of the Plague. 
 
 Of outward Medicines to bee ufed in the 
 
 curing of the Symptoms of this difeafe, to draw 
 
 forward a Bubo , or Carbuncle. 
 
 I N the beginning of the commmg forth of a Bubo or Carbuncle, 
 take a cocke, a hen, a pigeon, or a chicken alive, pull it bare about 
 thcrumpe, and vent, then ftrew a little fait thin upon the Botch, 
 then bind the Birds legs and wings as ealily as may bee, and let her fit 
 thereon, Imeaneuponthe Botch, untill fhe dye • then let her be buri¬ 
 ed, and take an other, and u fe her as the former,untill three or foure bee 
 killed thereon 5 it hath bin by experience found, that when all the ve-, 
 nOmc is drawne our, the laft bird will live,and if it be not hurt by pluck- 
 ingojrbinding* which done, then apply fome attra&ive remedie to 
 
 draw 
 
Of the Tlague, \6<> 
 
 draw it iorward j in which cupping-glaffes, with and without fcari- 
 fication, as occafion (hall require, are convenient and good to bring 
 forward a Pubo t 
 
 And Horfe-leeches are alfo very good to be (et on thd place; and By Htrft-ietchu 
 if the Leeches will take, it is a good figne of health : for which puf- 
 pofe,if you wet the Botch with a little faire water and Sugar warmed, 
 and fomewhat wiped off againc,they will take the better. 
 
 Alfo Pigeons dung w armed ,and made into a Cataplafme or Poultis, By Pigeom dung 
 with a little Swines Fat and Turpentine mixed, and very war me ap .t r *P* ,ed ' 
 plyed twice a day, or Hens dung in the like manner prepared, are very 
 good attra&ive Medicines,in that difeafe. 
 
 Paracel ftu much Commendeththeapplication of any -live Fifh to a syrmFijhn 
 Bubo , for the drawing out the venome,the Fifh being living, then fud- optW- 
 dcnly flit open, and put to the Bubo, where it maybe had, as namely, 
 either a Tench, a Carpe, Pike, Roche, or Peach, three or foure Fillies 
 one after another, each kept three or foure houres on the place; and 
 afterwards fomc good atira&ive Cataplafme applyed thereunto, as 
 namely, one of the hearbe Scabious. 
 
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 A good Emplafter for the fir ft y to ripen and to 
 breake a Bubo. 
 
 T Ake Figges and Raifins ftoncd,of each 3. ij. Sal Niter 5. 
 
 foure Leaven §. iij. Honey §. j» with Oyle of Camomil 3 . iij. yiytl 
 and of Milke vj. f. make thefe into an Emplafter j then fpread it 
 thick,warme it,and apply it to the Botch or Carbuncle,it is i fingular 
 good attra&ive. 
 
 Another more forcible drawing'Medicine^ to draw out 
 a Bubo or Carbuncle . 
 
 T Ake thehearb Crowes-foot,made into a Cataplafme or Poiiltis, 
 oncly by bruifing it very foft with a Peftle in a Clout, and ap¬ 
 plying it, it is fingular good to draw it forward ; but it will draw 
 forccably, and blifterthe skinne: Alfo Muftard-feed and Pigeons 
 dung well beaten together, with a little Swines fat mixed,and very 
 warme applyed,doe vehemently heat and attract forward a Botch oi 
 Carbuncle. 
 
 A Cataplafme for a Carbuncle^very milde^Anodirle y 
 and very ejfeBuaff. 
 
 < ^TpAkc Plantane leaves,or roots in want of leaves^ good quantitic, Kueitscf fa*'. 
 Jf X fhred them very fmall,thcn bruife them very well,and ftraine put 
 b the juice, and with emms of houfchold leavened Bread, boy led in the 
 
 I i i aforefaid 
 
166 
 
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 aforefaid juice, or in the juice of Sorrell, is as good ; make a Cata- 
 plafme thereof,adding in the boyling forae Barrowes greafe,and apply 
 it very warme to the place, and fhift it three or fourc times a day, it 
 fvvageth mightily the paine, and draweth unto it and yet evaporareth 
 the vcnome mightily: and the fame doth the juice of Scabious fo 
 done, or the hearbe Scabious ftamped and boyled in newMilke with 
 cruras of Bread. Provided alwayes,that in the making up thereof, or 
 of any fuppurating Cataplafme, you forget not to put fome fatnefle 
 to it, as OylcofLillic$,Camomilc,orRofcs,or at the leaft Butter or 
 S wines fat for a need: any one of thefe are good, and may lerve; but 
 the firft is belt,and fo the next: and be ever fure to apply all Poultefes 
 very warmc. 
 
 Mother Cataplafme to a Bubo. 
 
 Rec ' S reater Comfrey hacked and beaten and boyled in 
 
 Milke,with crums of Bread, to a Cataplafme 5 then addc a 
 q little Butter and a few Pruines boyled therein , taking out their 
 y Rones : the which Medicine doth fpcedily digeft and fuppuratc a 
 — Bttbo. 
 
 Mother attractive Medicine,to ripen a Botch . 
 
 Rec% A Great Onion,and having made a hole in the top thereof,and 
 jLJLpart of the Onion taken out and filled with Mithridatetfi 
 Treacle, and rolled in embers, let it beverywarme applyed to the 
 Botch^nd ufe it in forme of a Cataplafme,it is a very excellent Ano- 
 ^ dine, fwaging great paine,and proper for the dileafe,to draw forth the 
 venemous humours, as alfo utterly to quench the maligne power 
 thereof. 
 
 rhecmkfitn of I will here conclude touching outward applications in the cure of 
 nc reattje. the Plague,having at large elfewhcre often recited,thatconccrningall. 
 
 the accidents pertaining to that noyfome difeafe of the Plague, as 
 Buboes, Carbuncles, and Blaines, that the Peftilentiall Feavcr being 
 once remooved,all thole fymptomes doe heale farre fooner then any 
 other Boyles or Sores doe: for the effecting wbcreof,tbe Reader hath 
 in this Treatife many good foveraigne Medicines, diverle of them of 
 the Author his owne long experience,whereon the Surgeon mayrely, 
 if God pleafetobe mcrcifull to the Patient, in adding his blcfling to 
 them: to the which end,let the Surgeon and the fick jointly together, 
 and each for himfelfe,call upon God forablelfingupon the meancs, 
 and doubtlefle he will heare,and have mercie: for in truth, 
 
 Ni Deiu addiderit virefqtte infunderet herbis ) 
 
 Jguid prodeft ditamm vel panacea juvat i 
 
 The 
 
of the Plague. 
 
 The Epilogue , or Concluflve part of thife 
 Treatife : JVberein the <±Aitthor Yelatetb , of 
 his owne fufficient experience, yet one ^Antidote 
 more, for the whole Cure of the Tlague j 
 being a Cordiall Pouder made of Gold,and 
 by him called Aurum rite' whereon, 
 
 by Gods mercte , the Pattens may . 
 
 relic , as upon a fafe 
 Antidote. 
 
 1*7 
 
 A Cordiall Antidote,called furum 'piu. 
 
 T His Medicine, at one onely time given , taketh away the 
 Pcftilentiall Feaver,and thereby cureth the Plague, that the 
 Patient is oftentimes well the next day, it being,given upon 
 the firft day of the Patients complaint, with the obfervation of cer- 
 taine cafie rules hereafter preferibed, concerning the Order of ad- 
 miniftring thereof, and it is an eafie and fafe Medicine, ihfomuch, 
 that any infant, although it fufcke upon the Mothers bfeafts, may 
 fafely take it, yea, and cafily maybe induced to receive it into the 
 body, for that it is of a very fmall Dole, and is without any offence 
 in tafte or fmell to any: alfo, it may fafely be given to any woman 
 that is great with childe, whereof diverfe tryals have becne had,with 
 fafetie and comfort. 
 
 The Dofe or quantitie fufficient thereof for a man or woman to The vofe of 
 take at any one time, is but eight Grainesj and by that proportion, AutumvKr * 
 any difereet perfon may gather what maybe given to any younger 
 perfon : viz. A childe of two full yecres old, may fafely take two 
 n Graines; and a childe at foure or five yeeres old, may take three 
 ^"Graines; and one about eight yeeres old, may take foure Graines j 
 one of fouretcene yeeres,or thereabouts,may take fix Graines j and 
 one of eightcene,ninereene, twentic yecres old, or more, may fafely 
 take the full of eight Graines. 
 
 And note, that this Medicine performeth its operation onely by TbeoffitUefitl 
 Sweat, which is the trueft and fafeft way of the entrance upon that 
 Cure C for the mod part) and alfo it doth it without any mooving 
 the body either upwards or downewards • namely, it cauleth no 
 Vomits nor Stoolcs, neither is it at all naufeous to the ftomach, 
 nor any wayes cauling extraordinaric thirft nor faintnclfe, as fome, • 
 yea, and mod of other Minerall Diaphorcticks doe : But, on the 
 Contrarie, the Patient, when his fweating is ovcr,fnall manifeftly 
 feclc cheercfulnefle, as being much refrefhed thereby, with alfo an 
 abatement of his paines, and hisTcaver will utterly be gone at the 
 Onely once taking thereof. 
 
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Of the Tlague . 
 
 The order i**d. Either ffrall the Patient need to be over-burthened w ith too 
 
 mwiftrmi' of Clothes, to force him or her to fwcat, for the Medicine of it 
 
 felfe lumciently periormeth that datic j onely he may be ordered to 
 'hade fomewhat more to cover him, then the ordinarie Coverings he 
 ufiftjjy lyetfi uhder 5 and the Roome iikewife ought to be kept very 
 warme,with a good fire therein, for that cold ayre in time of fweating 
 is obnoxious and dangerous. 
 
 ofthecentinu- And further, this Medicine may be kept (even whole ycercs, and 
 mttfuiveruc. j on g Crj -f ncec i . f or lt being truly prepared of Gold, is permanent 
 above other Medicines, and it lofeth not his vertue as vegetable 
 Medicines doc: but as Gold,that moft excellent Minerall,excellcth 
 all other Minerals in price and true value • even fo doth the truely 
 prepared Medicines thereof as farre exceed all other Minerall Me¬ 
 dicines in their vertues, as well in the preferving and defending 
 mans body from difeafes, as alfo in curing their infirmities, when 
 by Gods pcrmilfion they feize upon the bodies of men. 
 
 And whereas other Minerall Diaphorcticks commonly worke 
 two wayes at once, namely, both by Sweat, and alfo by Vomit, 
 whereby they fiercely diftraft the Patient, and produce fearefull 
 fymptomcS, as if Death it (clfe were at hand, by the oppreffing 
 Nature in too violent expulfions at one time; yea, oftentimes by 
 a third, viz. by purging alfo downeward. But this moft truely fafe 
 and eafic fweating Medicine performeth as much as it promifeth 
 trttntfft Hippo- pleafantly, and without rigour, or naufeous offence, as well in the 
 A^hanMOuo ^ a 8 ue » as a ^° other contagious difeafes, where Nature ftriveth 
 natura vergfc° to thruft out her venemous cnemie jerpros cutis , or by the fweat* 
 adiocaconfc. holes 5 and that courfe of curing, is of all other the fafeft, in a con¬ 
 cede oportet! tagious difeafe, at the firft entrance, which then confifteth rather of 
 poyfonous vapours, then of putrifa&ion of humours ^ in which re¬ 
 gard, the aforefaid courfe is fafeft: for it is a fearefull courfe, yea, 
 4nd a defperate one, to purge in the beginning of this moft conta¬ 
 gious difeafe. 
 
 F« Apti or This Medicine is alfo approoved good to be given in the begin- 
 Feavtn that are ning of any contagious Ague or Fcavor, hot or cold j and for the 
 MUffoiu. m oft part,it cureth it at once giving,whether it appcarc to be Tertian, 
 
 Qyartanc,Quotidian,or intermittent Ague. 
 
 The courfe to be held in the taking of this Antidote . 
 
 Nam niora 
 uahic perieu 
 lum. 
 
 T^Irftjthe Patient is to be demanded, if hee bad any ftoole that 
 day, or the day before j and if yea, all is well 5 if otherwife, let 
 r nitu have onely a Suppofitorie, that may moove him once : and 
 when hce hath had one ftoole thereby, proceed without any delay 
 to the adminiftring of the Antidote, for delayes are dangerous. 
 Wherefore, without any further prfctra&ion of time, goe on to take 
 
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Oj the blague. 369 
 
 And the party that taketh it ought to lyc in his warme bed, fitted with 
 fufficient coverings, before he take it in, then let him take his medi¬ 
 cine, either mixed with fomecordial! thing, as a little Methridate, 
 true Treacle, conferve of Rofes, or Quinces, or give it onely mixed 
 with thepappeof an apple, and foit is eafieft taken in by infants, as 
 I luppofe, for it needs no addition at all, to adde vertue to it, onely 
 theaddition chiefly ferves, as a vehicle to carry the Medicine withriuf 
 wafting into the ftomach,for that it is a powder fmall in quantity , and 
 therefore fubje(ft to be wafted in taking. 
 
 Alfo the party that is to take it, muft have ready made before hand, tt u 
 
 an ordinary poflet drinke, ©f Ale and milke,tothe quantity of a quart, prwided) be- 
 very warme, and when he hath taken in his medicine, fhortly after let f tTetheta, ( m &' 
 him drinkea reafonablc full draught of his pofler, well warmed ,and 
 then lying on the one fide, let him be warme covered, head, face and 
 all, leaving full breathing fcope, and foin Gods name let him lyeftil!, 
 and fweat gently,ifhe canbeare it 3 or fourehoures, were beft, and ever 
 as he thir fteth, let him freely rake warme poflet drinke, which were beft 
 to be given him in fome Cruet, or fpout pot, that he take no ayre, rai¬ 
 ling himfclfe up in drinking, and when hec hath performed his due 
 fweating, let him be wiped dry,and lhifted, and then give the patient 
 fomewarme broth. 
 
 And the next day he may by Gods mercy fafely, as for himfelfe, goe 
 abroad, but for the day of his fweating, let him keepe within, and give 
 him food competent, in afparing quantity, fuch as is of a light dige- 
 ftion: and deny him not drinke, fothat it be fomewhat warme at the 
 fire. , _ 
 
 Thus much for thofc which take the medicine within 2 4 houres of 
 the firft complaint. 
 
 Iiem y unto filch as the difeafe hath taken greater hold of, namely that 
 before the receipt of thcaforefaid medicine or Antidote, the Patient 
 have outward tumours, as Botches, Carbuncles , or Blaines not yet 
 brpken, nor ripe, if he take the medicine as aforefaid, and fweat well 
 upon it, the venomeof the fores, fhali through Gods mercy, be fo e- 
 vaporatedby his fweating, that they fhali decline of them (elves, and 
 not at all come forward, and if any after doebreake, as being former¬ 
 ly fuppurated, before the medicine tookc place, they fhali as ordinary 
 boyles, eafily and quickly heale, with every meane medicine. 
 
 And notwithstanding, generally, one fweating ferveth,yet neverthe- 
 lefle, if occaflon be, the patient may fafely take a fecond dofe, or pro- 
 portion, yea,and a third without danger, as diverfe have done; and fo tbtdiMer*- 
 he may be the more confident of anlwcrable fuccefle , namely, of thofli?** 
 full and fafe recovery of his perfeft health, by Gods mercy : neverthe- 
 lefle, if he findehis defirc by the firft, of reasonable health,let him not 
 take a fecond, and if by a fecond, not a third . 
 
 When 
 
Of the Plague. 
 
 When anyperfon, dcfirous to take the benefit of the afordaid me¬ 
 dicine, havingan Ague, orFeavour, with paroxifmes or fits, let him 
 not take the medicine in the time of the fit, but One full hovver before 
 the fit, and rather more, but if the Fcaver be continual!, give it at any 
 time in manner aforefaid, although the patient bee in diftempcr,and 
 burning, for if hcetakeit, and his burning change into fweating, 
 which the vertue of this Medicine ufually produceth, the feare of 
 death in the Patient, ishalfe over. 
 
 And further of a truth I can affirmc, that 1 have cured fome by 
 this laft mentioned Antidote, that had the peftilence,or fpots of the 
 Plague, vulgarly called Gods Tokens upon them, and are yet living 
 witnclfes. 
 
 And whereas our blcflcd Saviour, as appeareth in the Holy 
 Scriptures, by a Parable declareth, that a certaine man gave to fun- 
 dry of his (ervants, Talents to trade or occupy with, to one more, 
 to another lefle, and afterwards ( as Hee might juftlydoc) Hce ex¬ 
 acted an account from each of them, highly blaming that fervant 
 who had not profited his Mafterby his Talent, but had hid it in the 
 ground. 
 
 Alfo, in another place Hee fheweth his diflike of lighting a 
 Candle, and putting it under a bufliell, advifing us rather to put it on 
 a Candlefticke, that it may give light toothers. 
 
 And further,wee are commanded not to forget to doe good, and to 
 diftributc, and that whileft we have timj. 
 
 All which precepts, together confidcrcd, I eftccmcd it my duty 
 (as commanded) to imploy my fhort talent of healing, which God 
 hath lent me, to the utmoft, for his Glory, and the good of others ; 
 and for that reafon, as in part I have thought fit here following t6 
 
 publifh by teftimony, what good the aforelaid Antidote hath 
 done already,onely in WeftmnfterjuiA Northampton^ not ac¬ 
 counting at all whom without teftimony it hath 
 healed, which hath bin very many, more 
 then by teftimony is fitting lor 
 me to produce. 
 
 * * 
 
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 The 
 
Of the Plague . 
 
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 lit 
 
 *y.' v>y rrt*s*? 
 
 4V*- *^%»v , JW* > 
 
 THE 
 
 COPY OF A CERTIFICATE, 
 
 Concerning the Vertue of the laft precedent 
 Antidote,called j from the Xuftices, Mini- 
 
 fter, and other the Officers of theParifh of S. Margarets 
 w eftminfter, 4/ i/ n^tr by them presented to the Rtvbt 
 Honorably Henry £ar/<? o/Manchefter, L. Pm/ 
 
 Stale, &c. which by his Lordfhip was pre¬ 
 fer? ted to the refl of the Lords 
 of bn Makefiles moil Honourable 
 Privy Comely 
 
 W Ee the inhabitants of the Parifli of S. Margarets 
 in Weltminller, whole names are here under 
 written, doe moll humbly ccrtifie your Lordlhips, and 
 that upon our owne knowledge, that in this time of vili- 
 tation of the P l ague, Feavers, Agues, and other difi- 
 cafes, which have beene very grievous and great affli&i- 
 onsuntous: It pleafed Almighty God, by the hands of 
 one John Woodall, Chirurgion of the EalWwfo* Company, 
 and of his MajelliesHolpitallof Saint Bartholomewes , in 
 London ,a learned, judiciall, and expert man , which laid 
 John Woodall, about five weekes before ^Michaelmas lalt, 
 delivered unto fome of us, who were Officers in this laid 
 Parifh, an Antidote compofed in Pills, which hee had 
 made up, with direction how they (hould be adminiftred 
 to fuch as had the Plague, Feavers, Agues, or any fuch 
 violent difeafes, that then remained amongflus; which 
 laid Pills have beene imployed very carefully , accor¬ 
 ding to his laid directions, and adminilired tothreelcore 
 feverall perlons, fome of this new Feavour, lome of the 
 Imall Poxe, fome Agues, and fome other Difeafes, buc 
 moll to them that were vilited with the Plague, 
 which had Rifings, Soares, Carbuncles,Blaines, and were 
 
 ccr- 
 

 Of the ‘VIague. 
 
 certainely knowne to have that fearefull difcale, all which 
 
 Perlons recovered, and not one of all them that hath taken 
 the faid Pills, dyed (chankes be given to Almighty God) 
 neither can we doe lefle, then publifh the great skill, 
 judgement ; andcbarity of the faid lohn Woodall, by whole 
 induftry and care, this Antidote hath wrought fo good 
 effed:, and did bellow them freely, without one penny of 
 recompence for the fame. 
 
 Weftminfter,the 6 Pet. Hejmcd, 
 
 of Odob.i <538. 
 
 Robert white, fub-Curate. 
 
 William Hawkins. 
 
 CopiaVera. 
 
 The. Kir he. 
 
 Edward Martin. 
 
 A 
 
Of the Tiague . 
 
 3?3 
 
 
 , A 
 
 COPY OF A certificate, 
 
 from the Mayor and Iuftices of J\forth~ 
 bampton , with a Further Reference to the 
 
 Report of one M.Wyly,^ experienced 
 Surgeon of the faid Tmne, 
 
 Ee the Mayor arid Iuftices within the faid Towne mu North. 
 of Northampton^ in the Countie of Northampton, hm t t0n ' 
 whofe names are here under written, doe hereby certifie, 
 that upon due examination and inquirie taken within this 
 Libertie, wee doe finde, that inthelate Vifitationof the 
 Pl A cue, Feavers, Agues, and other Difeafes, which 
 have beenc very grievous and heavie unto us: It plealed 
 Almightie God , by the hands of one John Woodall , Chi- 
 rurgion of the Ea ft-lndia Companie, and of his Majefties 
 Hofpitall of Saint Bartholomews in London ,a learned, judi- 
 ciall, and expert man, befides others: Which laid Iobn 
 Woodall lent in Summer laft to one William Wyly& Chirur- 
 gion in Np rt ^ m P ton ^ n Antidote compofed in Pills,which 
 
 be adminiftred to fuch as had the Plague, Feavers, Agues, 
 or any fuch violent difeafes, that then were violent in this 
 Libertie; which faid Pills were imployed to diverfeper- 
 ions very carefully, according to his directions, as wee 
 finde,and adminiftred; and that by meanes thereof diverle 
 recovered, and none of them dyed (thankes be to God) 
 there: As by a Note of fomc particulars,underthe hand 
 of the faid William Wyly may appeare. In teftimonie where¬ 
 of, wee have hereunto fet our hands and feales this three 
 and twentieth day of lanuary y 1638. 
 
 Richard Fwler, Mayor. William Eollu » Francis Fijher. 
 
 fck k 
 
 The 
 
0/the Plague. 
 
 The Copie of a Report of one M. \V y l y, 
 a Surgeon of Northampton , concerning 
 
 the former Certificate. 
 
 Good Sir, 
 
 W Hereas about the beginning of July lad, when 
 our Towne of Northampton was much vifited 
 with the SicknefTe, you fent me a Cordial! Pouder ^ of 
 eight Graines to the Dofe, for the Cure of the Plague, 
 defiring from me an account of the operation thereof j 
 I thought fit to fignifie unto you, that I have found if 
 exceeding good for the faid Dileafe, farre above my ex- 
 pe&ation, having adtmniftred the faid Pouder to fh? 
 parties hereunder named* apd diverfe others, tpp long ro 
 recite. } 
 
 And firft, I gave it to one Symonds fonne, a Plummer, 
 who was dangeroufly ficke of the Plague, and by OOCt 
 taking of that Pouder,was perfe&ly cured,. 
 
 His Mother prefencly after, falling ficke of the Plague, 
 and in great danger,was cured by taking it twice. 
 
 Likewife to one r Bromes daughter,her Father and Mo¬ 
 ther being dead of the Plague,atxi fhe her fclfc dangeroufly 
 ficke, and prayed for in the Church, who by once taking 
 of it was perfectly cured. 
 
 Alfo one Widow billets Maid, her daughter being dead 
 before of the Plague, and the Maid dangeroufly ficke, 
 by the taking of one pill was cured and wejl the very 
 next day. 
 
 Alfo I gave one Pill to a Boy of lames Faims, and it 
 cured him. 
 
 Likewife, I gave one Pill to one Good-Wife Iackfoo, a 
 very old woman, and fhe was cured therewith. 
 
 Likewife, tooneSreoww Wife I gave a Pill, and fhe 
 was cured therewith. 
 
 Likewife, 
 
Of the Plague . 
 
 Likewile, to a Child of one Taubots I gave a Pill, and 
 
 he was cured therewith. 
 
 LikewifeJ gave a Pill to one Miltris Huickfmns daugh¬ 
 ter, and fhe was well cured thereby. 
 
 i^nd to a Maid of M. Hills , who had a putrid Feavour, 
 and was cured thereby. 
 
 Likewife, to one Miftris Coopers fonne I gave one Pill, 
 who was cured of the Plague thereby the very next day. 
 
 Like wife,to M Smiths daughter, being very ficke of the 
 Plague twice, and was twice made well the next day fol¬ 
 lowing, 
 
 Likewife , to one Spooners daughter, being licke of the 
 Plague, and /he was made well the next day. 
 
 And to a Child of one Packwoods I gave a Pill, being 
 ficke of a putrid Feavour, who voided Wormes of above 
 haife a yard long, and was cured. 
 
 To one Goody Smithy Maulfters \X(ife,I gave two Pills, 
 file being very fick of the Plague * by the firlt, (he had a 
 Swelling appeared 5 and the next day I gave her another 
 of the lame Pills, which provoked her againc to iweat, 
 whereupon the Swelling vanilht away, and fhe became 
 thereby perfectly cured. 
 
 I could recite aiverfe other Cures in like manner by your 
 Powder performed, but for troubling you with tedious 
 repetitions: Wherefore I will thus conclude in the com¬ 
 mendations thereof, that I adminiftred it unto many, and 
 of all tnofe I gave it unto, that either had the Plague, or 
 any contagious or putrid Feavours,it cured them,and none 
 that tooke it dyed under my Cure. 
 
 375 
 
 Tours to be commanded , 
 
 W ILHAM W YIY. 
 
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 To 
 
 I 
 
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 Of the Plague. 
 
 ?7 * 
 
 To the Reader, 
 
 F the Reader perhaps, as by a former promtfe in part made at the fir ft 
 | Edition of my Surgeons Mate, doe expeB a defcription of 
 M*every the Cordials, Antidotes, and other the Compofitions in the for¬ 
 mer, and alfo in this his la ft Edition mentioned . the Author defires to be 
 excufed for his omi(fion therein, for that fince that fir ft Edition there hath 
 beene, by Authorise of his Afajeftie, a publike Diffienfatorie put forth, 
 called Pharmacopeia Londinensis, containing all fuch 
 Medicines as the learned DoBors of the CoUedge have feleBed, as fitteft 
 for their praBifes in London: in which learned worke, mo ft of the Me¬ 
 dicjnes by me in this Treatife mentioned, are to be found very truely and 
 \ exaBly fet downe the Compofitions of them j to which , hee is now as neceffi. 
 fated,forced to referre the Reader: and yet in this Treatife the Author 
 hath prefumed to explains dtverfe good Receipts. But the trorke being 
 on the fudden to fay (ant nunc aut nuncjuam ) hafted to the Pre/e, 
 there could be no alteration admitted, nttther time for addition. But 
 neverthelefie, for the prefcribed Antidote, called Aurutn Vitse, the Author 
 niff be readie,while ft God permits him life, and as alfo he bopeth that his 
 fofteritie after him niff not faile to prepare and have readie the faid 
 Antidote, for any perfon that fhaff pleafe to make uft of it, readie pre¬ 
 pared, put up, and fealed, at fuch reafonable rates, as no private man can 
 afioord to make it fo cheaps,although he knew the worke: and fo he taketh 
 leave, committing the Benevolent Reader to Gods proteftion. 
 
 From his Houfe in Broadftreet, London , at the time of the fir ft 
 Edition hereof, 
 
 John W oodall, Matter 
 in Surgerie. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
A 
 
 TREATISE 
 
 OF 
 
 GANGRENA. 
 
 AND 
 
 BVT CHIEFELY FOR THE 
 
 m . • r\ • r i 
 
 Amputating or Difmembring of any 
 
 Member in the mortified part, 
 
 (tAgainJl theT>oBrine of the mojl ancient Writers, 
 
 being approolPed a fafe 3 and good. 
 
 According to the long Pra&ice and Experience 
 of IohnWoodall, Matter 
 
 Surgeon of his Majesties Hofpitall of S f Bartholomews, 
 and Surgeon Generali toth cEatf-India 
 Company: 
 
 But w/wfrrbenedicite (namely) as imploring andafcrthing all the 
 Honour and Praife unto Go© alone, for his favour 
 
 and tucrcyes, touching the falubrious cflfecb 
 thereof. 
 
 London, 
 
 Printed by E. P. for Nicholas Bourne. I 639- 
 
A PREFACE 
 
 TOUCHING THE 
 
 J 
 
 definition 
 
 Gangrena. 
 
 O F 
 
 Ourteous Reader, having in 
 part ingaged my felfe by pfomife to my 
 good Friends, before the Edition cf this 
 my worke, to explaineto the World, a- 
 mongft other parts of Surgery, the man¬ 
 ner of Amputating or cutting off, of pu¬ 
 trid members, in the mortified part: 1 
 after confidered with my pelf that 1 could 
 not properly proceed therein, except by the defining of a Gan¬ 
 grene, in the firft place , becaufe a Gangrene is elecr the for el 
 runner of a Sphacelus, andtbemateriall caufe of Amputati¬ 
 on, either in the generall body of JMan, or in any the particu¬ 
 lar parts thereof] and from the which , no Animall creature , no not 
 Man himfelfe can decline from . 
 
 Ab initio ftatutum eft omnibus iemel mori: 
 
 For from the beginning , all men are confiituted once to dye,and 
 yet there is an interim for each man , of not being in health,neither 
 really dead put quail moriens,velfemi mortuus, or half- 
 dying. In the which interim,or intermisfion of time,aman may by an 
 accident be [aid to bee in fitch a diflemper, as he may be gangre- 
 nated, or in a Gangrena , as the Artifl tearmes it, either in 
 
 parti 
 
Of T>ifmemlring in the putrid parts . 
 
 intention ot invention as by great wounds; whcrof great hemorrage, 
 and fo as by a juft confequcnt a Gangrene followeth, as alfo by a vio¬ 
 lent conmfion given, cither by violence ofweapons, as by wounds 
 made by Gun-foot, Swords, Spearcs, knives, &c. and oftentimes 
 by obftru&ions in the blood , fometimes caufed by ftripcs,&c. 
 whereby fra&urcsof bones, diftorcions of joynts, contufions, in¬ 
 formations, Convulfions,great & fuddaine fears,and other diftem- 
 perS proceed, among which great accidents, Gangrena js to be fea¬ 
 red will be one, and not the leaft, although it may becalledoneof 
 thelaft, and it may alfo happen by the fall of a houfe, a tree, any 
 weighty thing, yea,by a tyle, a ftooe*by the bite of any venemous 
 Bcaft,yeaofaDog, andjinnurqerable other accidents, according 
 to Gods fecret appointment or permiflion, 
 
 Nam accidit in punfto quod non reparatur in anno. 
 
 That may happen in a moment, that cannot be repaired in a yeare. 
 And furtheradiftcper may fall out to be adifeafe ofthe fimilar parts, 
 deprived of their naturall & proper temperament, this deprivation is 
 * caufed a wayes,either by a Ample diftemper,by reafon of checxcefle 
 « w/c ,/'emper of quality, viz . of heac, cold, dry, or moifture, or by a com- 
 simple Mm- ppufld diftemper, by reafonof theextubcranceor over-bearing of 
 Cmpeunddu the two qualities together, hpt and moift,hot & dry,cold and moift, 
 fi tmper. and cold & dry,againe a diftemper is either a fault of the meere qua- 
 
 Jity alone, viz. an inflammation, or it hath an ad jundf fault ofthe 
 ogous. [j' amourSj as ^ phlegmon} againc many times a Gangrene proceeded 
 
 Phlegmon, from a forfeit,6r a diftemper of fuIne(ie,or inanit'On»which>may pro¬ 
 
 ceed by ftarving, or recegm ofdew nutriment to fatisfie nature. 
 
 A feconddsfinition of a Gangrene. *' 
 
 seconddefini- A Gangrene is a beginning of putrifattioo,being a d readful Symp- 
 im oftbe Gm- of a difeale in any member of the bpdy, and ftiewcth it 
 
 felfe for the moft part by inflammation with great dolour,the grieved 
 HemuipowU. part often appearing ofa fad dusky reddifh colour or livid, though 
 not alwayes, and being for the moft part ttrmified or fwollen, the 
 paine being to the judgement of the patient fo intolerable, as if 
 therewerea firecoalcburningtberin,or the like ineffed. And forthat 
 . ~ reafon the Germaine wthexs call this by t he violent heat ©f the difeafe 
 
 the Heisbrant , $r the hot burning coale, for in truth a Gangrene hot 
 a burning, fuddaine, fierce, deftroying nature, and therefore againft 
 aature,being a difeafe dreadfull toman kind,as is faid,&r juftlyfo/ot 
 that it} menaceth to'the part affe<5ted, ifnot to the whole body cmi- 
 cntdedlru&ion, yea death it felfe, except fpeedy remedy by God* 
 mercy be at band. 
 
 The caufcs of this di feafe as aforefaid arc many; fo* number where- 
 SSm f I will fet downe but part, a nz. It may proceed either from great 
 hemorrage mentioned, that # exceeding effufionpf blopd andfpi- 
 Eit?,or by adiftemper of thefoure humors, proceding either by 
 , . Repletion 
 
Of (fangrenes. 
 
 
 Repletion 
 
 or 
 
 Inanition, 
 
 Or by the extreme erofion or corro/ion of cauftickc medicines 
 
 orcoirofive humours. By imbecillityofnature,asby weakenefleof 
 infants and old age, by a venemous and poyfoned in the blood, as smBPoxtr 
 in contagious times, and namely when the fmall Pox or blague 
 raigneth, caufing fodaine putrifa&ionofhumours : alfoit may pro!- 
 ceed by great burnings and fealdings, by over-much hunger and 
 thirft, by the pricking of a nerve or of nerves, by a Feaver prece¬ 
 dent, byafrofl, and alfo by extreme cold-by thebitingsofvene- 
 mous Bcafts, or Wormes, or mad Dogs; by want of good conco^- 
 dion of humours , by obftru&ions of, or from any the principal! 
 members of the body ,as the Heart, Braineor Liver, caufing Con- 
 vu!fions,Palfies f Dropfies, Scorbutes or the like, which oft times 
 terminein Gangrena,and after a further time they conclude in Spha- 
 c elm. 
 
 Alfo Ganoremi proceed by great incifed wounds, and namely, 
 amongft other wounds, contufed wounds, chiefelyf meane thpfc 
 of Gun-fhot, alfo fomettmes by fraftures arid diflocations, alfo 
 by Fiftulaes and inveterate Ulcers, by unreafonable ftripes,as with 
 a Bulls piile, or a thong cut from an Elephants skinne,much ufed 
 for correction in Poland , Hungary , and the Turkifh Dominions, fi¬ 
 nally from all interceptions, interfe&ions or interruptions of fpirits. 
 
 what ,or wherefoever may produces Gdngrend, 
 
 ♦ 
 
 De Grangrena, A third definition gathered 
 
 Jrom learned Authors • 
 
 
 Gangrene is a partiall mortification of a member, commonly 7 be third ntfrk 
 
 by reaion ofa Phlegmon, it may be faid to be partiall in that 
 the part affe&ed, fo long as the member is not throughly 
 dead, buc hath in it felfe ftilla fenfeand feeling of paine, and there¬ 
 fore not altogether defperate , although ye tit be tending to mortis 
 fication, and fo unlefle there be fome fuddaine helpe in the Raying 
 thereof, it will fooneturneto atotalland perfeft mortification,af¬ 
 ter which it may no more be tearmed a Gangrene , but is calle4 ofthe 
 Grecians ( Spbacelta ) vretfut to XvaTTt/y r becauie of the extindion ofSphacelu*. 
 the natural!heat therein, andofthe Latinesitis called ( Sy deratio ) Sideratio> 
 a total 1 and perfect putrefa&ion, and mofe-over of the latter writers ’ , 
 ( Efthiomenon ) in that it is fo fuddaine piercing and penetrating un- Efthiomenoc. 
 tothebone, and doth as it were overcome the whole man,, foas 
 againe it may be concluded, that the difference betweene a Gangrene 
 and Sfkattltu, as is faid, is, a Gangrene is truely tearmed an un- ^ ang> 
 
 perfect mortification in the flefhly parts onely, bat Spbaceltu &Sph a <*>. 
 is si perfect and totall privation of fenfe, being a mortification. 
 
 Lll a 
 
Of (fangrenes. 
 
 iH 
 
 not onely of the fleflhy parts,but alfo of the nervous parts > even 
 
 the very bone, yea, and of the bone it lei fe alfo. Thecaufes ofa^saws 
 CaufeGangr.^rfWf by lome learned Writers are reduced to three ; The 
 
 1 when as a member cannot receive the vital! fphits proper or nam 
 rall due to it from the heart by the Arteries, by reafonof adiffoilM- 
 tion in the mixture or harmony of the member, caufe d externally 
 by extreame frigidity, as fometimes it chanccth to be in a very cold 
 and fli£rp winter, alfoby the inconfiderate and too too immoderate 
 and rafh refrigeration of a Phlegmon, asalfo extreme calidity,as by 
 fealding liquor, or through fome poyfonous difpofition in nature, 
 inverted in the parts affe&ed, all or any of which doe or may fuifi* 
 ciently extinguifh the naturall heat thereof; if whole fome ren«s 
 dies in time be not applyed, a Gangrene may jufUybe expe&edco 
 ^follow. ' 
 
 - Another caufe is, when as the vital! fpirits in any member are 
 
 obftruded,fuffocated,and finally extinguished, by reafonoffome 
 obdurate* fchirroushardndTeandconftipationofthe veines, arte¬ 
 ries or pores of the skinne, as in venemous or peftilentiall Apo* 
 flumes or Carbuncles is often fecne , fo that little or noneoftheve- 
 hemous matter conteined in the Apoftume or venemous tumour, 
 fcafibedigeftedor receive difeuflion, nor be brought to fupputa- 
 tionbyapt medicines, whereby Nature being above her ftrength 
 * oppreffed, and Art not fufficiently fuccouring, a Gangrene is pro¬ 
 duced. 
 
 Anothercaufe may be by extreame ftrong ligature, through the 
 indiferetion of unworthily tearmed Artifts, or of unexpert Artifts, 
 toooftenis rmnifjpft, and fometimes by compTeffions, or other in¬ 
 terceptions of blood or fpirits, by which the vital! fpirits fhould 
 be tranfported to the member grieved. 
 
 Thefignesofa Gangrene^ arethefe; an extin&ion of the lively 
 colour which was in the precedent Phlegmon, grievous paine and 
 continual! pulfation in the difeafed part, apparent by the Arteries, 
 beingar the firft very fenfible, but afterwards declining their due 
 force, the partagrieved feeming for the moft part, in colour to be 
 blacki(h,blewifh ,or ofaduskie or livid colour, yea, fometirae pu- 
 tred, and being opened, a filthy Ichor and of an unfavoury ftncl! 
 proceeding from it, thus much of the fignes. 
 
 SitntefG&g. 
 
 of the Ctireof Gangrena, 
 
 C*ru nr * O the performance of the cure of this difeafe, there muft be 
 
 * } I firft a due confederation had of the caufe. Secondly, of the 
 
 f, partaffc&ed. Thirdly, of the fitting apt remedies for the 
 
 Cure, and how to.piocecde in the curing that difeafe, and of the 
 
 ‘ / Symptomes 
 
Of (fangrenes. $$5 
 
 Symptomes thereof; and laftly ,of theremooving theeaufe, which 4 » 
 
 if that may be effe&ed > health doubtleffe will follow, according 
 to that Axiome of the Philofopher , Ablata caufa , toUitur effetlus, buc 
 thatmuft beexpededinhisdueumc, in which there mud be firft irbatt»beco>r 
 confidered, whether the difeafe proceed of repletion, and if to , then ftdtndmht 
 a generall evacuation with a cooling and fparedyet muft be preferi- cur t°f a G-«- 
 bed the patient: Piz. Water, with the milke of Almonds, and thin 
 broths with cooling hearbs , as LaBujia, Spinacbia , Portnlaca , Sorrell , for aGtHgnne. 
 orcbe Iike,asallbadvifing with the learned Phyfician, wheretime 
 and place lerveth: Barly waters alto are good, and the fickemuft 
 be forbidden all wme and ftrong drinkej and muft be contented 
 with pofletdrinke, Barly water and (mail Beere : it werealfo fitting 
 that there were prefcrit>cd to the patient fome preparative medica- Pr • 
 ments, as thefe, sirrup. ^Acetos^ Simp. Sirrap . Endivi <e, sirrup. citrt. ce jp a rj. 
 
 Piolar. any of thefe mixed w ith waters as may be convenient in fuch 
 a difeafe, and after thefe preparatives, may be ufed fuch purgatives 
 as may purge and cleanie the blood , viz. ConfeB. Hamcch.Caria co- 
 Jlrirum , D'iACAtMi(on , Cdjjiafiftula , or fome one of them, being ac¬ 
 cording to Art performed. 
 
 And if you perceive further occafion, you may reiterate the ufe of vbiebetmk 
 any of them, and further you may not ojnit the ufe of Phlebotomy, > 
 
 fcarrification and application of ventofes, Leeches or Veficatories 
 upon or nigh the partaffe&ed, and according to the patient his 
 ftrength,!et him blood moderatly :and obferve,that in fcarrification 
 regard is to be had, concerning the gangrenated part, whether ic 
 penetrate or be fuperficiaJl, and fo accordingly is fcarrification to 
 be ufed : as for the application of Leeches, ic may be done upon 
 any part thereto adjoining, or upon the partaffe&cd itfelfe: and 
 further, note, that if a Gangrene follow a conttifion, for the moft 
 part it proceeds cither by the vehemency of the contufion, whereby 
 eruption of the capillar veynes, yea, and the larger veynes alto, 
 blood is forced into the Muskles confufcdly, as by the Echymofis 
 may appeareoftheevilldifpofition of the patient , or it tnayalfo 
 proceed fov want of a Surgion to apply fit and artificial! applica¬ 
 tions in due time: not feldomc, under favour, by over-hard liga¬ 
 ture. . \ 
 
 But if the Gangrene appezrc to have proceeded by inanition, that 
 cafe is pitifull, and the cure very doubtful!, but nevertbelcffe where 
 itfofallethout, all nutritive and comforrative remedies are to be 
 appointed, as namely, if ic proceed of iCold either in froft, or by 
 want of due and fufficient food, confederation is xo be had by ad- , 
 
 ding warmth of food and rayment, with cordiall and comfortive 
 remedies: alfothe Artift muft truly, informe himfeffe, whether this 
 difeafebe a Gangrene or a Sphacelus , whether a partialiora total! pri¬ 
 vation and mortification, with rhe utter Ioffe of the fenfe of the RH i ei tt t eo £. 
 flcfhie and nervous parts, and if he find fenfe in the parts, there ajtrvedftht 
 
 life and nope. /w by vmMi 
 
 But fuppofe a Gangrene proceeds ofa venemous oaufe, as many ^u. 
 
 times 
 
*8 6 
 
 Of (jangrcnes. 
 
 What to be ob* 
 fervid if n be 
 cauftd bjfulnes, 
 
 A rectil tobe ad- 
 mmfired to the 
 Gangrenatcd , 
 
 The dofeofit. 
 
 The receit of £ 
 Diapharetickc* 
 
 7he order of the 
 afftyng (fit. 
 
 times it doth, and namely, in time of contagion, as ol CaibuEcles 
 in the Plague, the fmall Pox,or by other malignant Feavers, when 
 as the Attiftmay neither purge his patient norepenaveynefafely, 
 but with feare, except he may be well warranted, either by good and 
 grave advifeofthe expert where fuch maybe had, in want of which, 
 the Artift ought to featch by authority of the moft antient Wri¬ 
 ters, that he can come at, for the avoyding the eminent danger of 
 death, toinfue upon his patient, andtogoe warily in thewantof 
 better advife. viz. If the griefe procceed of fulnefle,which feldome it 
 doth at Sea,or inCampes, then his firftrulein Artmuftbe, as is 
 laid, that athindyetand cooling be preferibed his patient, and 
 that he be admitted no wine nor ftiongdrinke ♦ alfo that he may be 
 appointed fome cooling Julep to be made him, namely, if the pa¬ 
 tient be in Ship or Camp, hee is there confined and constrained to 
 the SuTgeons Cbeft, and then let the Surgeon examine his provi, 
 lions, and if hee find he have any cooling waters and Sirrups fitting 
 thereunto,he may proceed to take as followeth. 
 
 R.Aq. LaQuc, Acetof. Endivia, Bugles, Borag. Brag. Plantag. Lvjule „ 
 or fome one or more of the molt fitting afore-faid waters,wa, 
 
 R. Aq. Lujula 2 l. Sitr. Limon . vd Violar. § ij. Of vitriol.gut. 12. 
 Mifce, give the patient every two or three houres, two or three 
 fpoonfull hereof v the glaflfe being ever lhaken when it is powred 
 out, and if hee hath not beene at ftoole that day in which hee is to 
 take the fulep,you may give him a Suppofitory, and having had 
 one ftoole, give him a Diaphoreticke,viz,R,Aurum vitagr 8.or Mithri- 
 dat.Sj.EleB. de Ouo, 3 j. ConfeB. Alcberm. 9 ft. Of Vitriol.gut, 4.in 
 Aq. Borag. Lujula Acetos. veLBuglos. viz, of any one of thele §4. 
 with sir. Limon. Citri. Lujula. Violar. or fome of them Mi fee, 
 fiat bauftne , give it the patient being laid warme in bed, and cover 
 him warme and provoke him to fweet gently, and as you find his 
 ftrength continue his fweating for an houie, two houres or more ; 
 which done, keepe him in a moyfturcone other houreat theleaft, 
 which ended,let himcoolcand dry paulatim , and warily, andha* 
 ving fo done and refrefhed himfelfc, till foure or five houres ended, 
 then you may, if you fee caufe, give him the likeCordiall againe, 
 and proceed againe as before, to fweat him the fecond time, and give 
 him 3 . grainesof Aurumvit* fora Diaphoreticke , which done, you 
 may then admit him reft and refpite againe for a fitting time,where¬ 
 in you may advife what further is requifite to be done , in which 
 time, not omitting in any cafe, both before his laying downe ro 
 fweat and after, as alfo betwixt his fweating, ever to apply all fitting 
 topicall helpes, viz. by fcarifications and hot fomentations of 
 fome good lixivium , fuch as after the taking off members in the 
 mortified place, hereafter are deferibed. Thus much in briefe of the 
 Gangrcna ... 
 
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OfVifmem bring of the putrid parts . tyy 
 
 a&j rtwV-' buU^« Voj^fv StjdjiJ *2*^) 
 
 l ' ■ ' 4 *r 
 
 ^ Vefnitionof Sphacelus and the cure thereof 
 
 . from [ome antient Writers ,. to (beTF the Reader their opinions 
 and judgements thereof, for that fome ^rtifls have grounded 
 
 their judgements , that their relations are according fj good 
 prattife. andthcrefore are to he imitated. 
 
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 (st»: 
 
 OJ231Y 
 
 A Spbdcelw , faith Falop'm , and likewife F^ricw , is an af- 
 fed of a part already utterly mortified, and therefore not 
 -to be cured but by amputation ^ that the whole body come Extrewumg-. 
 rot to corruption thereby, and this abfeifliooisnot done without n “’ r “'°* bire ~ 
 great danger of death, for often, even in, the inflant a& of ampuia- wc*** 1088 
 non, the patiept dyeth by the profufion of blood and fpirits, where¬ 
 fore the flrength ofthefiekeistobeconfidered ^zudCopifiaa Cel- 
 fw alledgcth, C*p- *5*^.5* thaf itubistimethey ufedto takcof« 4 sJ/'S. 
 the sfacclated member, by cutting the fifty round about uhtothe 
 bone, in the whole part, nere the rotten or fphacelated part, & cut 
 ting ever in the live flefh, not leavingany-Qf the mortified fkfh un¬ 
 taken away, further ( Celfm ) fay they, doth admonifh us in this 
 worke, that the skinneand alfo tyediety ,1 bebroughf and drawne 
 upwards, that the bone m?y be tb$i>etter dnveredtbytfome-df 
 the laid part, ipthe healing of the flump j but the fcnle Auch6t 
 Copjfefteth alfQ y that by fuch abfeiffion caufing-rpeceding paini?, 
 w ith ovcr-largeeffufion of bipod and fpirits, death ufually follow^ 
 etb,tberforc to avoid bemorrage,they m«ft prcfently ufcaduall Can 
 terjes to burne the. parts adjacent, in which may be conjedured, hovr 
 cruellthatcourie isro the patiept and'^nppm for tabic * and prepare 
 the upper part tbickc enough, tobeafiroiecover tpthevcflsJsirnr 
 But after himfeife not approoving that £ourf<s, he faith ^ chathee 
 fpakc another way of curing, which ajshe faid, hazily facceedad 
 by which workepa profufion of blood bapoed, becaufe no blood 
 fioweth from a mortified part, neither iagriefe moovbd therein, but 
 leaft the corruption fhould tyread it felfe fttfchdr,'(faith cbe fidd 
 Author) I burned the puttified part v remain ingovery whera 
 with red hot Irops, that were heavy and well burnt, uhtiil the patient 
 did fcele the heat of the fire, and that he fuffered lomc fmall pain^i 
 and the rather they did it, they write, becaufe the fameoperatioo it 
 v*ry profitable, and‘therefore burned ever fome of the found flefhal- 
 fb, becaufe the putrifa&ion is beft to be drawne out by a red 
 hoc Iron, as I fuppofe faith he, which is apparent to the eye for 
 
 the 
 
}88 
 
 Of ‘Difmemhring in the putrid part. 
 
 the humours are apparently feenetoboyle about the Iron, and 
 likewife the weakenefle of the parts cenfidered by burning, it is 
 fortified, the adjacent parts being freed from many noxilous hu¬ 
 mours thereby, fo that the wcakc part received) ftrength, and with¬ 
 in afewdayes begins to feparare the living from thedcad part, and 
 fo afterwards the dead part falls off, and the living part is confervcd. 
 And this manner in my judgement, faith Fahrititu , is beft j but this 
 Author conceivethtobebut arelater, notatrue pradifer 
 of the aforfaid courfe in amputation, for that that worke is lc terrible 
 and cruel) nevettheleffc. In this recited Chapter you have theopi. 
 nions offome of the antient and learned writers couching Sfhactlated 
 'ibcwijcfm- members and the manner of the amputation of thofe times, fince 
 CterbpTxp 1 which the Art hath beeneby Gods favour,very much illuftrated,fo 
 rime, that where the fcomplaint formerly was, that by rcafon of great he- 
 morrage, namely, the large effufion of blood and fpirits in the woike 
 of their amputations, many of their patients petifhed under the Sur¬ 
 geons hands tn the very ad of amputation, I may ro Gods glory, 
 and fojuftlydoe 1 affirme foratruth, that for thefpaceofnere 24. 
 yeares I have been a Surgeon in the Hofpitall of Saint Bartholomews, 
 where I have taken off, and holpen to take off many more thenone 
 hundred of legges and armes, befides very many hands, and fin¬ 
 gers, amongft all which, box one of them all hath dyed in the time 
 * of their dlfmerobring nor afterwards, through the exceeding effu- 
 
 iionof bleed j in the operation that ever 1 could gather or conceive, 
 and fdrther-more , I affirme that not above fome of each twenty dif- 
 membred, bur lived to have beene healed, and have beene delivered 
 whole out of the Hofpitall, notwithftanding whatfoever their di- 
 fcafes have beene, and for that horrid cruell courfe mentioned by 
 the aforefaid recited antients, of burning the ends of the flumps in 
 thd tender living and moft feufiblc parts, fince I have knowne the 
 Art of Surgery ^ which hath beene by the fpace of 5 o yeares, that I 
 have ufed it, I never law if ufed-by any in England , nor elfe-wbere,and 
 yet I will not deny but the beft Artift that 1$ in the fitft worke of 
 amputation , or in the fecogd dre fling of the patient after amputa¬ 
 tion ,may be fo put to it, that if he provide not himfelfe ofa cau- 
 tcrifing button, hce may heartily wifb, hechad had a final! button 
 ready, for feare of the lofle of his patient, upon an unexpe&ed flux, 
 and howfoever, it is a good Art and fafe to my knowledge, both 
 fotthe patienrand Surgeon and but fitting for him, fo to be provi¬ 
 ded for feare of need; onely I advife it to be privately abfeonded for 
 the reputation' fake* Thus much of the manner of imputation from 
 the Antients. This* precedent Definition I have taken out offome 
 of the antient Authors, from their owne words verbatim, that the 
 Reader may con fider how farre it differeth from the fcopc hereaftet 
 to be handled 
 1 ~!s rfbB bnuol & 
 hyi s {•'! 3 Uosnvv: : A f / sd 01 *f 
 jdioi v doi 
 
Of difmembring in the putrid part. 
 
 foof the modernewriters, yea, andof theteft Arcifts with us, 
 
 ^ f it this prefent living, as fefre as I can'gather or conceive is, that 
 tae laleftand beft way forthe cureiof fph&odarcd or putrid dead mem¬ 
 bers, is to amputate them in the found (sift,and nc tin the putrid . and 
 tieir general 1 reafonsar<*,tO prevent that none of the putrid, venemous 
 ergangrenated blood, or fpirits fhoilld rcmainc uhtaken away for „ . >- 
 
 fcare it ftiould infe# fhe found, and fo confcquendy Confound the ££*cMc”" 
 whole mafieef the blood and fpirits, and to conclude,kill the whole parsfincera 
 bndy$ but the horrid paine th > patient thereby fufteineth, with alfo trahatur - 
 tie great uncertainty ofhis life,after his CXtreame fufferings, caufrd me 
 e’er to miflikc my owne workes therein^ yea a [though the fuccefle, for 
 tlic moft part, was anfwerable to mydefirei * 
 
 ; And I further cdhfefle, tradition tdoke place with tne iri the H(j{- 
 pitall of S.B.rhb 9 lo*iewts 1) itv'part, whefle I was, as is laid,’ a Suroeort, 
 for many yeercs, yea, and that in my whole pradf ice there,as alio with 
 tie reft of the Surgeons, my partners, ifntill after, reading fome ahei- Fruftri fit per 
 eit Authors, I conceived, that I might in fomedtfcsTaVe amans Ufe, 
 b; amputating in the fphacclated part: taotwiehftanding the general! Sj£.“ ftpcr 
 
 weandtenentaforefaid,to tlae contrary, whereupon byal’fident 
 
 atout theyeere 1^17, having a fit patient, which had a mortified-leg’ 
 and was as feeble and weakens poflfible a living creature might be, in- 
 fanuch I was of opinion, upon the firft view of him j tiiac Natures 
 thid was at hand fpun out in him, fothat icivas even finne and pitty 
 fame to hinder natures courfe, or to fhortebher. courftj in hafting it 
 w:th violent Art, and namely bydifmembrlng him in the whole part, 
 wio had not blood and fpirits in fucha cafe , according to the word, 
 tekeepe life and foule together, but by confeq'uenr, he muft dye in.the 
 very a 61 •, and therefore I confefie, I intended the patient fhould dye 
 by nature, rather then to be killed by Art, ever efteming it a great fin 
 totake away a limbe from any creature, but with’ fome good hope 
 thereby toprelerve his life: But againe confidering Chriftian duty, 
 ani that I was tyed to doe my beft, to preferve life, to the utmoft in 
 mi power, I conceived there might bee peradventure yet fomefmall 
 hepe of life, if I could without paine to the vyeake patient, or lofie 
 of blood, ridde awav his rotten member; fo I in fhorc concluded to 
 taleit off in the dead place, which as all men may conceive, I with* 
 ou: paine quickly effe&ed, and by Gods mercy, the next day, I foundf 
 th;t my poore patient, after the loath fome ft inch ofhis putrid limbe 
 was removed from him, he began to cheere up, ancl fo after, from day 
 
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 Of difmembring in the putrid part. 
 
 to day was refrcfhed more and more, and nature as it were rejoyced,e- 
 ven as a tree refrefheth after the dead bowes are pruned off,fo my poorc 
 patient grew more and more lufty and chcerefull ^ and to conclude, in 
 tbefpaceof ioweckes, he was perfeaiy healed,and being then found 
 and lufty,gave thanks to the Govcrnour of the Hofpitall, in full pay- 
 ment of his cure, and fo departed from the Hofpitall upon a legge of 
 wood, hethenbeing faire and fat, and very formall * the which blef- 
 fingof health to the poore man, and light of knowledge , by thatex- 
 pcrience to me,did put me in mind of my duty in juft thankfulnefle 
 to God,and alfo it animated me further to proceed in the like pradice 
 upon many others, which fince that time, I have with good fucceffe, 
 to Gods glory, in the fame manner well healed ; I then alfo began 
 with my l'clfe to confider, and as it were to queftion the reafon, why 
 this latter Age of ours, confiftingof more pregnant wits then for¬ 
 mer Ages, and that by good realon their judgements fhould in Art 
 farre exceed the former,as having had the experience,lighr,knowledge, 
 and examples from all the precedent Ages; I fay, I wondred they 
 fhould fo clcane have loft , or omitted and pafted by fo worthy a 
 workc of pra&ifc as the aforefaid was, it being of fuch good confe¬ 
 rence in a Common-wealth, and to let it dye in oblivion, yea 
 andnotonely fo, butalfo to brand it with pittifull inhibitions, and 
 conje&ured (landers, and unfeafiblenefle, for I cannot fee how any 
 man can juftly averre a rule, to bee fo pun&uall, or fo generally ab- 
 folute, that it may admit no exception, for even this fo ancient and 
 great a rule, I hope the Reader will acknowledge is confuted, or anon 
 willfully bee, by apparant practice, and common experience, (as 
 namely) one way, if the Reader doe but call to mind the workes of 
 Gale, a late worthy Writer, hec may find that hee affirmes, and by 
 found arguments well mainteines, that wounds made by Gunfhot 
 were not venemous, as diverfc antient Writers formerly had affirmed^ 
 and if fo, how ftands it then, that the amputation of fphacelared 
 members, proceeding by Wounds made with Gunfhot, not vene- 
 raous, that the Amputation of fuch performed in the wounded or 
 mortified parts, fhould of thcmfelves bee fo poyfonons or veno¬ 
 mous, that the whole body fhould fuffer thereby ? but fuppofcone 
 fhould affirme it were fo, yet the contrary by true, and yctvifibJe 
 pra&ice, is apparent, and to be prooved, yea, and further by good 
 practice, amputation in the mortified part, is experienced to bcc 
 good pra&icein more venemous cafes, then in Gunfhot: tor my 
 For txtmfie. f e jf e difmembred a young man of a legge, in the putrid part, the 
 mortification proceeding by a violent peftilentiall Feaver, which may 
 juftly bee deemed venomous, farre beyond a Wound made by 
 Gunfhot, yea even venomous in the higheft degree, and yet that 
 legge being fo taken off, the venomous difpofitionthereofdidceafe, 
 and did nor offend at all, but the patient was quickly healed, and if 
 the cafe bee cleared by experience, that the venome from amom’fi- 
 ed member, in the Plagne, returncth not to hurt the Body, though 
 fuch a member bee abfeiffed in the mortified part, in cafe of the 
 
 plague. 
 
OfT)ifmemb)ing of the putrid parts. 
 
 Plague, how then can it well ftand, that the aforelaid gtnerall rule 
 holds true, 
 
 Enfe reddendo, e{f, ne pan fincera irohatttr. 
 
 And yet further I defire to inftance to the Reader, a cafe that will, 
 as 1 conceive, (atisfie him fully, but if notail men, yet at the leaft, eve¬ 
 ry underftanding Artift, that mortified flefh left on upon amputati- 
 on, or otherwife letremainc, without amputating, untill nature being MertijkdJUjb 
 ftrongof her felfe j havecaft it off, doth no way indanger the life ot WI ptfmtyh*- 
 the Patient, no not in the leaft, and this is very familiarly knowne, and offbefa'wt 
 daily almoft obferved, or may be obferved to be, and that it doth not 
 at all prejudice that which is found, the which may be often feene in 
 poorc people, men, women and children, but moft commonly in 
 poore children, who by Gangreeties upon their toes, whole feet, fin¬ 
 gers, and hands, yea and on their legges, and armes, proceeding of 
 cold, or by weakendfe of nature, where fuftenance, dyet, and^ na¬ 
 tural! warmth is wanting, doth no way overthrow the body, for that 
 the (aid parties of indigent and poore beeing, brought into an Ho* 
 fpitallin Londono r elfe where,, where that there is no need of com¬ 
 petent food, and warmth, nature of her felfe being holpenby the on* 
 
 Iy adminiftrationof food and warmth, withfmall, or fometimes no 
 hclpcof Art at all, Nature doth of her felfe exfoliate, and caft off 
 the part putrid, from the whole part, by a feparation in Nature, 
 without offending or indangering the parts thereunto adjacent at . 4 
 
 all. . • ; i . r ■ 
 
 And I my (elfe may tritely fay, have from more then a hundred 
 perfons, cut off from fome a legge, yea both the legges, a hand, a foot, 
 a toe or toes, an arme, a finger, &c. of fuch rotten members, being all 
 difmembred in the rotten part, of which not one hath dyed in the 
 cure,neither hath the mortification fpread it felfe any further at all,ma- 
 ny of which, if occafionwere, I could produce, at this time, of pen* 
 ning this relation, I dare affirme twenty for living witnefles, andalfo 
 I have had fometimes old folkes, and young children, which onely 
 by weakeneffe, and for want of food competent, deficiency in nature^ 
 as aforefaid, their limbes have gangrenated, and fome of thefe, if no 
 helpehad bin at hand, would have fallen off, yea, and of fome my 
 felfe, have pinched off fingers, and fatfed afunder the greater bones, 
 when all the flefh was by narurc feparated, rotred, and fallen away of 
 it felfe, and yet that rotten, ftincking, or cadaverous part, did noway 
 infed the found, otherwife then by the ftiheke, and the truth hereof, 
 each Artift in pradice may not deny, and can fairely witneffe, then if 
 granted, away with the coojedurall fuppofition, that the fphacelated 
 part hath any property adive, or faculty in it felfe, to corrupt other- 
 wife then each other cadaverous thing, hath namely by his Fetour, in 
 want of being removed, it may noy fortily be offenfive, but not to the 
 heighth, as to kill the patient : And yet I will believe, per contract hat 
 neither the one nor the other way ot Amputation, no not with all 
 
 Mmm a t ‘ lf? 
 
$9* Of difmembring in the putrid part . 
 
 the ait of man can lave from the grave, by any amputation in fome ca¬ 
 fes, which, although by all menmuftbe granted, yet the pradiceof 
 amputating in the putrid part mu ft bee held good: as for example, 
 which I trouble your patience with, about 14 yeeres paft, there was a 
 Fw example, Minifter, named CM. Pofton , a Reader in the Chappell of Sat tons Ho- 
 fpitall, in London, whohadacorne upon one of his little toes, that 
 troubled him, he being otherwife at that time in perfeft health, and 
 himfelfe at evening going to bed, pared the faid come with his pen¬ 
 knife, that it bled a little, as he himfelfe faid, but within a few houres 
 after, nis toe pained him very much, and grew to bee inflamed • in the 
 morning, his foot was wholly difcoloured, and gangrenated, and the 
 patient, with the violent ficrcenefleofafudden F caver, by the paine 
 then upon him, was wholly diftra&cd, and in a delirium , which con¬ 
 tinued till the next day at night, and thenheedyed: and this man was 
 immediately before that accident, a man in perfed health, and of an 
 extraordinary great ftrength of body, yea, and wanted not the learned 
 advice of the Phyfician 5 onely he had a full corpulent body, and was 
 a very large feeder, fo that to fuch a patient, fo fiercely vifired, I can¬ 
 not conceive how any amputation, of what fort foever, could have fuc- 
 coured to have faved his life, for that in my opinion, the whole mafle 
 of the blood and fpirits, were tainted and lubjugated by an exceeding 
 feare, before helpe could take place: many other reafons I haveelfe- 
 whereinftancedof impoffibilities, or unfitnefle in my judgement to 
 injoyneany Artift to obferveanyone particular way, courfe, or order 
 of amputation, for that the occafions of the Gangrenes , fomuch doe 
 differ, onely as elfewhere is recited for the facil ity thereof, and for the 
 laving of blood and fpirits, I have thought fit to commend to your 
 confederation this new method, as to the diferetion of the Artift 
 fhall be efteemed fit. 
 
 Alfo I have obferved, that in furfeited delicate bodies of great per- 
 fonages, fuch as are over-pampred with pleafure, eafe, and fulneffe, if 
 by any way or accidents fuch happen to have a Gangrene , feldome one 
 of them efcapeth death, efpecially if they bee ancient, and have the 
 Dropfie, or Scorbute, and on the contrary, amongft thofe which are 
 weake, poore, and indigent miferable people, which ha\ e bin by long 
 continued ulcers, fiftulaes,or other grievous maladies fpenttoextream 
 weakenefle, althoughfeeming halfc dead, before the worke beginne 
 fearectwoof ten dye amongft them, upon amputation, if the worke 
 be judicioufly, and in a fit way and time petformed, fori by pra&ice 
 haveoften obferved, thatwherean infirmity hath pulled downea pati¬ 
 ent low, and almoft paft hope of recovery, efpecially if the difeafe pro¬ 
 ceeded by any outward violence, that fuch bodies have bin by my ex¬ 
 perience found to be generally mod hopeful 1 of recovery, either by 
 amputation in the one or the other kindc, as the occafion will 
 moft fitteft beare . and on the contrarie, perfons that are to bee 
 difmembred in full ftrength, if it be to be a£!ed in the found parr, 
 beare a farre greater venture of their lives, then the miferable dc- 
 
Of difmembrirfg in the putrid part, 
 
 jetted wretches doe., as aforefaid, except it can be effetted in the 
 putnd part. 
 
 . And one obfervation more., to be by all men had in regard; 
 namely, that our God in Nature hath created in mans body fuch a 
 ftrong antipathic betwixt the living and the dead parts thereof, 
 that when by any violence in Nature, either by diftemperature from 
 within, teftified by Feavers Peftilentiall j or others, or by the out¬ 
 ward violence of Engines of Warre, or other incident niilchances, 
 as by Frattures, Contufions,&c. whereby One part or limbe of mans 
 body bccommeth fphacelated and dead before the-other; it is mani- 
 feft, that the living parts doc as it were, either in feare or difdaine of 
 the dead parts, or for fomc other fecret caufc in Nature, (though not 
 without great paine and griefe ) notably withdraw themfelves each 
 from the Other, as in difdaine, leaving neither warmth, nOr at all 
 any comfort, motion, nor ienfe, either by bloud or fpirits, or ought 
 clfc mooving in the dead Veincs, Nerves, nor Arteries, neither any 
 fenfe in the Periojleor.^ that fcnfiblc Panicle thatcovererh the bones; 
 but as by a comparison of a Snailc may in part be explained, they 
 wholly withdraw thcmfelves : for the Snaile having, by the vertue 
 of naturall warmth, ftrctched her felfe out of her (hell,either for her 
 necellitie, nourilhment, or delight, in a moment apprehending cold, 
 or danger, retyres into her (hell, and with all her force, by her owne 
 (lime, (huts her felfe clofc up againe, and fo refts her felfe in a fup- 
 pofed fafetic, with her no doubt content • even fo all the living in- 
 ftruments, faculties, or veflels of Nature, as in a naufeous difdaine, 
 contempt, or feare of the dead parts, forfake the fphacelated parts ? 
 3.nd leave them.utterly defperate and impotent, and by vertue of the 
 Radicall Balfam of Nature contratts and fhrowds her -relitt living 
 parts , as Artifts may judge by the mortified toes of children.. but 
 much the better, where Art is at hand to aid Nature, fo that thereby 
 the dead parts become as a noyfome and heavie burthen to the living 
 parts: fo as if you wound the fphacelated part, it is notOnely fenfe- 1 
 leffe,but alfo it is without bloud or fpiritsacall, neither doth blOud 
 or humours runne any more, nor fo much as moove in the.fphacclated 
 or putrid Vcines at all ; and whileft lively Nature is as aforefaid 
 (hutting her dead enemie out of her living doores, by flopping Up 
 all the breaches , that fhee may hold the relitt- of her owne, if 
 animall Art have not the charitie to take her dead enemie from 
 her : yet vitall agilitie, affifted by naturall motion and will, in- 
 his due time doth cfficiate what faircly can be expetted , lor the 
 affifting of Nature, and fupplying all defetts proceeding ex in .... 
 tempene ; all which excellent offices in Nature, no queftion, pro- 
 ccedes df prxfcicntia Dei. 
 
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 Here 
 
 
394 - 0 / ‘Difmembring in the putrid parts . 
 
 Here followeth a briefe relation of amputation, 
 or of difmembring in generally but more particularly, 
 
 being for the taking off of members in the rotten or 
 mortified places : which hath in many cafes beenc 
 appmved by the Author thereof by his 
 otrne long experience . 
 
 F Or brevitie fakej in this place, I will not fpend time to write 
 of the gcncrall difeafes,caufes,or reafons, that might urge the 
 amputation of any member, having elfewhere written fotnc- 
 what thereof j onely my intent, for the prefent, is to acquaint the 
 younger fort with my long experienced pra&ife, for the manner of 
 difmembring in a mortified part, where juft caufc is offered : having 
 undertaken it meerely for the publique good, by informing the 
 younger fort of Surgeons, as well for their encouragements in the 
 fafe and warrantable putting in pra&ife my pra&icall Method there¬ 
 in, as all'o to fhew and fore-warne them from being over* much 
 mif led, in the inlifting upon old errours and traditions of their 
 Mafters, Patrons, and Predeceftburs, too punctually • As for ex¬ 
 ample :L 
 
 a cbiwpcatt Suppofe the younger Surgeon in confultation with his Friend or 
 Bf other Surgeon, by way of asking advice, fhould put the cafe and 
 fay ; I have a Patient that hath the toes of his feet putrified,fiftu- 
 lated, and many wayes perforated with foule bones therein, fo that 
 it is unfound even almoft to the joynts of the ankle, or the like, and 
 I have endeavoured by Art,and with advice the beft I can, to healc 
 him, and cannoc prevaile in the Cure : Wherefore, fince the toes 
 of the foot cannot be cured, the reft of the foot, as unprofitable, 
 were,as I fuppole, beft to be taken away, and no lefle of the legge 
 alfo, for it will be but a hinderance to the Patient, confidering 
 that hee cannot ftand thereon, and is full of grievous paine ; I will 
 therefore conclude, according to cuftome, to take all off a little 
 below the Gartering place, leaving a fit roome for the ftilt,toreft 
 the body upon : The which his faid friend admitteth of, as good 
 pra&ice ; and fo hee proceedcth to the worke, as being a rationall 
 and faire courfe, and warrantable. If the reft of his fuggeftion 
 or indications bee anfwerable unto the aforefaid allegation , the 
 ]af' C *nfr£i U worke is doubtlelfe good; and fo I my felfe would heretofore 
 Mdadmud. h ave done » untill my pra&ice taught mee better things : but 
 now, by my owne pratticc, which I much rather would ground 
 on, then upon ( ipfe dixit ) I take a fliorter courfe : For, if the 
 bones of the toes of the fectc onely were foule, fiftulated, &c. 
 
 as, 
 
Of dtfmembring in the putrid part. 395 
 
 as is fuggefted, yea, and therefore uncurablc, for fo (lands the fug- 
 geflion, as being fo by reafon of fome great contufion, wound, ox 
 ulcer, or otherwife, as aforefaid, with diverfe fragments of foule 
 bones in them, or the like s I would not proceed as aforefaid, if the 
 Patient were mine, and hee or fhee otherwife of & good habit of 
 body, the joynts of the ankle it felfe not being fiftulated nor plainely 
 corrupted: but rather I would take off the foot, I mcane the toes a me tf ya. 
 oncly, before the joynts of the ankle , and fpare the joyht of the 
 ankle, and that vyith a fitting Inftrument made for the purpofewith 
 good hope to effed the cure, and to fave the joynt, to,the great joy 
 and good fervicc of the Patient: for I would fave him a part of the 
 foot to (land upon, yea,and if to (land on, I dare fay to goe on in a 
 reafonable manner 5 the which 1 have more then once put in pradife, 
 and effeded with good fucceffe : but on the other fide, if that the 
 joynt of the ankle bedifeafed, fothat this, my,way Will not take 
 good effed,then I will yeeld the foot is not to be laved, by reafon 
 of the aforefaid deifeds thereof j and then in fuch a cafe I will give A jedding to the 
 way, and fay, that the whole legge is? beft to be taken away, as afore- 
 fa id, and it is an artificia.ll courfe and good pradife : Yet under fa¬ 
 vour , let me put the Reader in minde of another rationall good 
 Method, which were a farre better courfe then to take away a guilt- 
 lefle found legge, if any Other meanes were found, and the pradife 
 of our times had experienced and approoved thereof, and it is a mo- 
 derne pradife frequently pradifed in the Eaft-lndiej ,as it hath beene An Eaft-lndf* 1 
 credibly reported to me by fundry credible Surgeons, who having 
 fpent fome time intravell there, have related it to me, namely,that 
 they have feene diverfe perfons , who having formerly had their feet 
 chopped off at the ankles, by cenfure of their Countrey Lawes, for 
 trefpaffes committed, and the fayd m^n h^vft beene cured by their 
 owde Countrey Surgeons, and after have put rheir ftumpes into large 
 Canes or Reedes, which they tcarme Bamboes, being fluffed with 
 Cotton Wooll, or the like, aind they all tbfcit lives after have beene 
 imployed to runneof Errants, and get their livings as before, not- 
 withftanding the,want of feet, though,as, I conceive,not with former 
 like fpeed : wtiich hath put a longing defirc in me, I confefTe, having 
 had opportunitie above fome others, to have tryed the experience in 
 the Hofpitall, but a fit fubjed hath not prefcntcd it felfe to me for a 
 tryall: for I have, 1 confeffe, ever beene tender in that point, and loth 
 to put any one Patient againft hi* ovvne free will, upon new inventi¬ 
 ons,by beginning new pradife upon him,makingan unwilling perfon 
 the firfl example; every Patient in fuch a cafe having juft freedome to 
 chufc his way : although, on the other fide, a Patient fit for fuch a 
 tryall of Art ought to be one, who by a violent contufion, as of a 
 wound made by Gun-fhot,or fome other violence, as a violent bruife 
 by an intolerable weight had fpoy led the foot and ankle, and not any 
 one whofc difeafe proceeded from any evill habit in the bloud,as in i 
 body having struma,ox fcrupulous tumours, for there is fmall hope in 
 
 fuch, for their flumps will not heale found to beare their bodies. ^ 
 
Of difmembring in the putrid part, 
 
 u it m]ufk in Por I confefle, I efteeme it very unjuft in Nature, that any one part 
 
 mcmberhln”* a f° und member fhould fuffer and be taken off for the fault or dc- 
 'fiurm, fboZid of another, being found and blameleffe, efpecially when any 
 f4er tor anun- better or other comfort can poffibly be found. As for example, for 
 the offence or difeafe of the toes, let onely the tees fuffer, and no 
 more of the members of the body be Ioftjif it may fo be: and for the 
 offence of the foot and joynt thereof, if it be intolerable by excee¬ 
 ding paine^and therefore not to be fuftaiined, it is juft, that fo much 
 be amputated as deferveth expul fion, and not,as is faid, to take away 
 a found and blameleffe legge, when it is innocent and free from 
 fault, errour, or difeafe: for the noblencfle of each member of mans 
 °f body, and namely of the legge, is highly even in humanitie to be 
 
 pnfmmbL tcndred and regarded, being a great honour and comfort to the man, 
 when, if without a foot, by the helpe of Art, namely, of a hollow 
 Cafe, or the like, with an artificial! foot adjoyned, a man may de¬ 
 cently and comely walke,and ride,goeoveraftyle,yea,and runne,and 
 fit ftreight, and behave himfelfe man-like in Bed, and at Boord, and 
 doe good fervice for the defence of his Countrey,or of himfelfe: in 
 regard whereof, I fhould efteeme that Artift a very unworthy,unwife, 
 and wilfull perfon, who by any good meanes could keepe a profitable 
 part of any member untaken off, and would prefume to take it away 
 for any rcafon or pretence whatfoever j and befides, it is no fmall dif- 
 honour to the Art of Surgcrie. Wherefore I will conclude this 
 point, in perfwafive manner admonifhing young Surgeons, as I have 
 recited elfewherc, well to be advifed by counfell of the moft anci¬ 
 ent and beft experienced Artifts, before they undertake any ampu¬ 
 tation whatfoever j and not to thinke thcmfelves tobcdifparaged, 
 by craving counfcll, but rather graced thereby; following the Pre¬ 
 cepts of that fweet Lilj y in the Preface of his Grammar: 
 
 $£ dubitat, qui fepe rogat me a ditto, tenebit y 
 
 Is qui nil dubitat nil capit inde boni, - 
 
 Which may beare this Englifb conftru&ion. 
 
 Who doubts and askes , bee expert grooves y 
 and Lilies Rule makes good y 
 whileft bee that's wife in bis orvne conceit , 
 puts on the Idiots hood, 
 
 ^ Brethren of the yonger fort,let me lovingly advife you, 
 (bttfeijabpifwn. ,nc jtner r° r vame oftentation fake, nor popular applaufe, by rafhnefle, 
 to be guilty of the effufionof blood,by unadvifed amputation,though 
 yaj may pretend you have Art for a fufficient warrant, or for a buckler, 
 left God touch youe hearts, for it in fecrct, who feeth not as men fee, 
 lor the artificiall (bedding of blood hath no warrant nGrencourage- 
 ment written in Gods booke 5 wherefore in matters of weight, be not 
 too rafh, but be advifed by counfell j this my fecond declaration of 
 
197 
 
 Of'D tfmem bring in the putrid parts. 
 
 amputation was as elfe-where is recited , chiefly pubiifhed to in¬ 
 courage the taking off of a member in the putrid or dead part- where 
 a circular putrid partis, notwithftandingthe pTa <ftice 1 wel|\now, o«, 
 is by many antient and moderne writers inhibited, as a’foit hath by t ,aUHe m am - 
 rcalon of old tradition , beenc generally fhunned , and not fo much 
 as beeneattempted in our times, and yetneverthcleffe, fomcof the 
 antient writers, as Falopw , Fabritm^de aqua pendent e, Johannes de V"t<o 
 
 and fome others, as they themfelves affirme, have ufed it with "ood* 
 
 fucceffe j although by reading their workes 1 obferve by their me¬ 
 thod , that they were rather narrators one from another, then truely 
 a&ors -but be it as it will, this, one comfort, the Surgeon (hall be r m louuthe 
 lure to finde thereby, hee (hall no way endanger his patient in that tXSdfep 
 courfe, either by Ioffe of blood or fpirits, nor fhall the patient in- fat*****"""* 
 dure any paine at all in the ad of amputation after that way, and ^ cdpart ' 
 the pradice is good and warrantable in diverfe, yea, in mod cafes, 
 as hereafter I fhall explaine, and as my fclfe of my many yeares ex¬ 
 perience may boldly aifirme, and it is likewife beneficiall for the 
 Common-wealth and for a true inftance of the truth thereof, I have 
 many of ray patients fodifmembred at the writing hereof, living 
 and in perfed health, I meane which were difmembred in the pu¬ 
 trid part, and that upon fome patients on both the legges at one in-, 
 ftant performed, amongft which try als I made of one leggc , was in 
 Anno Domini i 6 ij. Secondly, 1 had one Thomat Browne , about Anno A Mflmffutm 
 x 6 i 9 m A Saylcr, who had received i great wound by Gun-ftibf at txmple ‘ ■ 
 
 Sea upon the right leggc, the greater Foifels thereof being broken in 
 funder, fo that the lhot had tarryed away two inches of the fait! 
 bone in length , together with the lacerating themuikles, nfcrt^ 
 arteries, vcmes, &c. whereby it was focontufed,lacerated ahd'pornc 
 alundcr, with alfofo much lofTe offubftance, that nature could 
 not bearc to heate that member to be any way ferviceable for ought, 
 befides there had followed upon the wound fo great add in tollera-; 
 blc hemorrage or expence of blood and fpirits,that the member 
 mortified by reafon of the former great evacuations and coDtufions, utfttftup *; 
 neither could nature in that patient poffibly have borne a difrnem- W e,fe,S3 ”S rf :;' 
 bring ina whole part, without eminent danger ofprefent death, and 
 fb was the eftate and cafe of this patient before he came by metb 
 be cured in Saint Bartholomewcs Hbfpitall, wherefore confiderine: 
 well his moftdefperate eftate , I refolvecf to make a fecond expe~ 
 rience of him, and did take off the wounded leggc in the lacerated 
 dead part, wherein I conceive as aforc-faid, all men of judgement 
 willcafily be of opinion,that the patient by that worke was with¬ 
 out danger ofdeath or paine,and without Ioffe of any drop of blood, 
 and I healed thi$ patient by Gods mercy in five tnonthes, and hee 
 had beene by the halfefooner whole f had n6t He Ipftfo exceeding 
 much blood and fpirits by his wounds as afbfe-faid; and this pati$np ( 
 was living at the writing bcrcbf, being many yeares after the ampu-. 
 ration; the method of which cute, with the mannerof amputating' 
 thereof, fhall ( God affifting me) hereafter be fee dbwne. x < . 
 
 N n n The 
 
398 Of Difmembring in the ptfpxylpart . 
 
 ^mbcrexam. The next 1 tooke off in the mortified place, was one Thomas Ho<r, 
 
 ft' a Jhippe Carpenter, a Scotchman , who alfo was living at the writing 
 
 hereof this man at his labour aboard the fhippe, ltanding ftoutly 
 at hisworke, at the {training of a Cable as it was running out of 
 the bits of the fhip (as the Sea-men teimcit) the Cable tooke 
 hold of his leg*, clofe by the ankle, and forceably bruifed in pecccs, 
 notonely the veines, arteries, and nerves, with the fofter parts, but 
 brake alfo the bones in funder with extreame violence, in-fomticb, 
 as by reafon of the want of a Surgeon prefent to drefle hin?, by 
 great effufion of blood and fpirits , the legge mortified the next 
 day, and he after that, fell unto my part, in the Hofpirall to be cu¬ 
 red , the which being emboldned by the good fuccefie of the two 
 former,! tooke off his legge alfo in the mortified part, as I did the 
 other, and made a perfeft cure thereof in three moneths, and he fol¬ 
 lowed the trade of a {hippe Carpenter at the writing hereof. 
 
 Amber exam - Alfo two yeares after, I cured an Apprentice of one Matter 
 
 ft' Goddard an Upholfter atthefigneof the Crownein the Poultry in 
 
 London , named Iohn Harding , in his matters houfr, who after a 
 fierce peftilentiall Feaver, had his right legge mortified in bed as 
 he lay, and I tooke it off in the mortified part at, or neare the garte¬ 
 ring place, which by theantientufeof Artofour times, mufthavc 
 beene taken off in a found place, notwitbftanding the great fetble- 
 nefle of the patient at that time, and his eminent danger of death, 
 hee being extreme feeble, and at the point of death, in which cafe 
 to have taken it off in the found part, hee doubdefle would have 
 dyed under my hand, but by Gods mercy he lived diverfc yeares 
 after, and wentmoft neatly on an artificiall legge not eafilydif- 
 covered. 
 
 Anotherbiflay A Hiftory or a relation ofa remarkeableexample ofan ampu- 
 Remmlttabie. ration by me performed upon a woman in S aint Bartholomews Hof. 
 
 pitall, ofbothherlegges, and partoffeavenof her fingers in one 
 morning together all taken off in the mortified part, without paine 
 7 ke amputation or lofle of bloodorfpirirsata>l, and the woman was living at the 
 of both the /<&« writing hereof, and the patient was a certaine poore maid orWoman 
 fagmllfa** f ervant in London , named BUin French , of whom there were made 
 maninitumor. Bookes and Ballads, that were fung about the ftreets of her, name- 
 nmg- ly, that whereas the faid maid or (ervant, was given to pilfering, 
 
 and being accufed thereof by her matter and ^miftreffe , ufed to 
 curfe and fwearc, and with words of execration to wifh, that if 
 fhee had committed the crime (free flood accufed of, that then her 
 Jegges and hands , might rot off, the which thing according¬ 
 ly , no doubt by t*he Providence of God , came to pafle, as a 
 judgement upon her, namely, that both her legs almoft to the 
 gartering place, with parts of feaven of her fingers did rot off, 
 the which wretched woman never thelefle, being referred to me 
 in Saint Bartholomews Hofpitall to be cured, by Gods mercy and 
 permiffion, I healed her perfectly, by cutting off both the Spha¬ 
 celated leggesin the mortified parts with'alfo part of her feaven 
 
 fingers 
 
Of Difinem bring of the putrid parts, 399 
 
 fingers, as is faid , all io one morning without painc, terrouror 
 of any lorte ofblood unco her, in the taking them off, and made 
 hcrperfe&Iy whole in a very fhort time, namely, within three 
 inoneths , (o mercifull is our God unto us vile creatures, when wee 
 are rnpft unworthy ofluch his mercies. She is at the initant writing 
 hereof,alio living. . 
 
 Now with yo«r friendly patience, 6ne onely example more, I 
 will trouble you with, namely ofthe cureofa mortification pro¬ 
 ceeding of a Carbuncle in a Feaver pcliilentiallby me performed 
 and I will therein conclude my fhewing of infiances, although f 
 could declare many more of living perlons, and I will hafte to 
 fhew forth the manner ofmyadingof fuch amputations. 
 
 Theworke was of a certaineScationer, then dwelling in Pauls. 
 Chuich-yard '(wholename Iconceale,) for that at the writing 
 hereof he lived , and it was performed upon his Tefticles, who in 
 the Plague time, that was K^Snno i6ii’ as I remember, or about 
 that rime, by a Carbuncle , that by Gods handfeafed upon one 
 of his Tefticles, and namely upon the, ldt Tefticle, that it be¬ 
 came wholy mortified , with the halfc ofthe scrotum, Or the purfe 
 of the Cod, in briefe, I tooke and cutaway the faid left Tefti-^nywST 
 cle, or ltone, which was wholly mortified with the halfeofthe mtbtbebaifc^ 
 Scrotum , or the purfe of the fame ftonc in the mort ified place, and 
 healed him perfectly whole in five weekes and lefle, and after the 
 iofle ofthathisoneftone, or Tefticle, hee married and had di- 
 verfe children , and I verily beleeve they were my patient his 
 owne and by him begotten on his wife. >■ - - ' ■ 
 
 Let thefe inftances fuffice ; and now having prefumed of 
 the friendly Reader, by my former digrelfions , I have refbl- 
 ved with my felte , though I confefle in a meane ftile , to put 
 fortli thefe inftru<ftions , being as is faid ; fdu the benefit of 
 pofterities , as I conceive , and namely; that when my bones 
 are at reft , uponfaire and reafonable grounds , any difereet Ar- 
 tift may boldly attempt , and doubtleftc performe the like pra* 
 iftice , for that I am confidently perfwaded , it will be a mcanes 
 forthefaving and preferving the lives of many worthy and valiant 
 Souldiers, and other brave and hardy Sea-men, efpecially in 
 time of Wanes, from which God of his mercy proce&our Coun- 
 try. 
 
 Nnm Qertaihe 
 
4«o 
 
 OfTfifmembringin i he putrid part . 
 
 Certaine ‘Ryles to be bad in regard before 
 
 difmembring be taken in band , either in found 
 
 or mortified f srts. 
 
 \ r ~.— 
 
 Tht firfl rule. 
 
 The (tend ride. 
 
 Tbt third rule. 
 
 A etvtal ’n 
 amputation, not 
 to the it hut by 
 etnftnt and in- 
 treaty cf the pa¬ 
 tient. 
 
 The fourth rule. 
 
 A caveat nteef, 
 f»ry. 
 
 The fifth mU. 
 Of preparation to 
 mpuatm. 
 
 Caveats before abfeiffion. 
 
 F Irft, amputation or difmembring of any man whatsoever, is 
 never tobe undertaken by any Artift without judicious pre- 
 confideration,nor without the advifeof other expert Surgeons, 
 firft had and obtained, as I have faid, yea., and of ihofe of the heft 
 judgements in practice, wherefuch may be had. 
 
 Secondly,, difmerr.br,mg or amputation is not to be put off nor 
 delayed where neceflity reejuifeth, not to ftay for the beft advife* 
 yet let me thus farrecxplaiue,fny felfe, that the moft mortifica¬ 
 tions, yea andjfew exempted, may ftay for advife, if the Artiftdoe 
 take nis juft,tirae for it. 
 
 Thirdly,I advife that nO Attift attempt to undertake rbe work of 
 taking away any member from any perfon, butby the defire&with 
 the good will and fullconfentofthe faid perfon fuff had,if the faid 
 patient have his perfeft fenfes, and be of yeares and judgement, 
 but if want be thereof, let the patients friend? and k.ndred beadvi- 
 fed with concemi ng ir,and give confeht thereto, yea and defireir, 
 for i counfell alhyoung Surgeons to be exceeding modeft andfpa- 
 ring, in putting forwards themfelves, and their patients tothedan- 
 gerous worke of amputation , or mooving them at all thereunto, 
 efpecially where it is to be a<ffed upon the whole skinne, lea ft per- 
 adventure it be afterwards faid , r it might have beehe laved on, had 
 not the Stngeon beene over forward Iot his gaire. For no little, 
 though for the moft part unjuft reproach and fcandall falleth upon 
 the Surgeon, by fuch his improvident forwaidreffc. 
 
 Fourthly, the worke of difmembring on^ht not to be done 
 nor attempted by any, who have not fiift, either dene the like, or 
 at the leaft beene a helper to di fmember fotr e, yea, and more then 
 one, and hath often feene and well obferved the manner of the 
 worke, to have beene done by other Artift, before he prtfumetoar- 
 tempt ithimfelfe, for the difmembring of the Image of God in 
 man ought naver to be performed but with a due reverent, and reli¬ 
 gious rega-d. 
 
 Fiftly, before any begin to make the incifion, he ought to have 
 all the materials fit for luch a woike ready and at hand ( asclfe* 
 where I have advifed ) and namely both Inftruroeiats, Ligatures, 
 
 Medicines, 
 
•Of ciifmembring in the putrid part. 7^ 
 
 Medicines, and all oilier addiumtnts, which areaffiftant in the 
 woike. * “ li,c 
 
 S.xtly the amputation once refold upon, and all things be- 
 mg ready for the wOTkc , let the Surgeon with all his affiltanccs 
 and friends ,«ot forget before the begianingof the worke heartily 
 tocallupoa God fora blefling upon their endeavours, and kt the 
 patient the day before , have notice given him, that heealfo may 
 rake time to prepare himfelfe with true refolution of foule and bo# 
 dy,coundergoe the worke, as being never performed without dan¬ 
 ger of death,bur more cfpccially, if it be to be done in found parts 
 which done,then let theSurgeon prepare himfelfe as aforefaid with 
 aho his helpers, namely at the lea It five perfons befides himfelfe, as Mm 
 
 *or example, one to fit behind the patient to hold him,a(ccond for t**Pfl tf *$** 
 aholder, who by the Surgeon mu ft be inftrudted fafttoftand be-!£" m * ,Um 
 forehim, and to beftride thelimbetobe amputated, and to am- 
 pled the member; and a third, to hold and flay the lower end of 
 tne difeafed member to betaken off, a fourth, to bring and receive 
 backe the fharpe ir.ftrumcnts, a fifth, to attend to deliver the Ar- 
 tift his needles, and burtons , reftridive rowlcrs, boulfters blad¬ 
 der, with other additamentsand fervices, and fo fooneas poflible 
 may be, to ftay with the palme ofhis hand the medicines applyed 
 to the end of the abfcifled ftumpc, that being the duty of the fifrh 
 helper, and thefixthis theArcift himfelfe that diftnembrtth, for 7htm»mtr 
 fix and tot fewer, area fit number, and that with the lead to the 
 w orke of taking off a legge or an arme, if it be to be done in the 
 whole or found part, or for the taking off of a member proceeding 
 by a wound by Gun.fhot, done in the lacerated, not totally mor# 
 tified part, but for the taking off ofa member in the mortified parr, 
 three perfons as afliftants may ferve, or two for a need, namely one 
 rohold the upper pa r r, the other the lower end, and the third to 
 abfcifle,name ! y theSurgeon. It followeth now, that I proceed to 
 cxplaine according to my opinion, in whatcafesamembermaybe 
 taken off in a mortified part, with as good hope, and more to pre- 
 ferve the life of the patient, then if it were taken off in the found 
 part. 
 
 Fir ft, in frozen members, and all that comeofextreame cold, sputum « 
 it maybe done very fafelyalfo, in all mortifications of members 
 by Feaverswhatfoever, the Feaver being firft cured, yea,although * 
 they ware peftilentiall, 1 fpeake this of long and true experience, 
 and therefore conceive, 1 may without difparagement omit the 
 producing or repetition of theantient writers, for witnefTes,or war¬ 
 rants in ought for me in any fuch workes, as Ihaveraanifeftly and 
 often performed in the parts mortified. 
 
 Alfo amputation may be done fafely in all fuch mortifications 
 as proceed by contufions, as alfoinall mortified members pro¬ 
 ceed ingby wounds made with Gunfhot, where a mortified place 
 is circulent, or more then feeme circular, and that with comfort 
 and good hope of the favingoflife, to the languishing patient, as 
 
 by 
 
by birntruff* 
 
 In places mrti- 
 fed by Vropfie, 
 er ether dijeafes, 
 
 &c . 
 
 4.01 Of T>ifmembring in the putrid parts . 
 
 by any other way. And as touching the poore Souldier and Sea¬ 
 man , after that be hath fuffeicd terrible and unfpeakeable paine, as 
 alfo great Ioffe of blood and fpirits by his wounds, it were then pi¬ 
 ty of all pities, if any other remedy could be had or thought of, 
 to wound him a new in the whole part, and thereby to endanger 
 him, yea, and ten to one to kill him by Ait, namely by artificial! 
 amputation, to deprive him of that naturali relid, pooie bicod 
 ana feeble fpirits yet referved within him , nxcerely to hold life 
 and foule together, whereof by confeejuent the faid fmall portion 
 of relief blood and fpirits, being taken away, he muft needs perifh, 
 yea, even as may be feared in the very ad of amputation, thecon. 
 trary being a wonder, unum } multis. 
 
 Alfo amputation in the mortified parts may be done in mortifi- 
 purtijitdthces cations that proceed by hemorrage in any wounds whatfoeverthat 
 can be named, if the patient be otherwife curable by any Art of am¬ 
 putation , he is then fafer and more cafier cured by this way. Alfo 
 in all mortifications that proceed by over-hard ligatures, or by the 
 violence of fealdings and burnings, or by the extremity of coirofive 
 medicinesimmoderatly ,or unskilfully applycd. 
 
 Alfo in all mortified limbes by Droprfies, Scorbutes, the final! 
 Pox, or like obflrudions that can be faid to be curable by ampu¬ 
 tating in the whole part,andthatwith as much and more hope,and 
 farre more facility ana cafe to Surgeon and patient, that worke may 
 be performed in a mortified place, if there be a fit mortified place 
 to doe the worke in. 
 
 Alfo mortifications happening by fradures ot diflocations of 
 legges, or armes, fingers, or toes, as alfo in all cafes happening, 
 and proceeding by ftarving , namely, for want of food, wcakcnefTe 
 and debility of nature, eitherofchildrenorofojdfolkes, the pa¬ 
 tient having no prefent Feavour at the time of the difmembring, 
 neither being in a Ddirtym , befides many other mortifications for 
 brevity omitted. , 
 
 fomecafes noti 9 ^ f°M° we th fitly alfo here, that I fet forih in whatcafcs abfeif- 
 levfctl. fion cannot be well effeded in the fphacejated or dead part, where¬ 
 in I doe but open againe to pofterity in the pradike, what thean- 
 tient Authors have declared in the thcoricke ,’in general! tearmes 
 of amputation in the mortified part,alluring the Artifl ,that when- 
 foever there is a circular mortification with any hope of life in the 
 a rtnnated eld patient, it may receive cure by this old new, renovated pradiceof 
 mine,even as wellandbetter in the mortified parr,then in the living. 
 And although generally this knowledge and pradice ferveth well 
 in times of peace, yet it ferveth meft fitly in times of warre, yea, 
 and at all times, for fuch Surgeons as are imployed in military 
 affaires, by Sea or Land, that they might take notice thereof, and 
 alfo inable themfelvcsto make ufeofthis manner of pradife where 
 occafion is offered, for the comfort, and more hopeful 1 preserving 
 the lives of the valiant Souldiers, and brave hardy Sea-men, as I 
 have faid, who for the honour and defence of our KiDg and Coun- 
 ' try 
 
 Abfcijjion \n 
 
4°5 
 
 Of difmembring in the putridpart, 
 
 try, very often are put to encounter with theirs, and our enemies, 
 to their no fmall perils and grievous fufferings by fearefuli wounds 
 made with Gun.lhot,and other fierce engines of tvarre, and bv the 
 accidentall harmes, luccouring them, whereby they fnfifer great 
 effufionof blood and fpirits by their wounds ,fo that thereby toge¬ 
 ther with the want of good lodging and comfortable nourifhment, 
 which to fuch good fellowes , is for the mod pare , but very meant 
 and fcant,elpcciallyinfhipsand Camps* their wounds, after their 
 moll pittifullendurings and ianguifhings , asafore-faid . common¬ 
 ly end in a Gangrena , which granted, all men may eafily then judge, 
 how heavenly a thing , and above all mealurc, comfortable it is to 
 the defpairing patient, if his life may be preserved and prolonged, 
 and he fafely healed without the lode of any blood or fpirits at all, 
 or any payne tnthe ad of amputation; and here as by the way I de- 
 fircto put to the Chirurgicall Readers,a cafe or two tobeconfidc- 
 red of, concerning the curing of wounds made with Gun-fhor, 
 and namely, I will fuppoleor fuggeft a valiant well-deferving Soul- 
 dier, for the honour of his King and Country, prcfling forward ito 
 fight, fhould receive a wound by a fhot upon his legge, having bto, 
 ken both the foffils', and Co contufed and lacerated the parts adja* 
 cent,as in an another place was fuggefted, that it was manifeft to the 
 Surgeon, that the legge, for the furer faving of the patients life, 
 were not convenient to be left on, but rather to be taken off accor¬ 
 ding to Art, theafore-faid fuggeftion admitted, what were to be " b ^f u PP s J u ' l!lj > 
 done, the Surgeon I fuppofc might fairely anfwere as followeth, M *" nc ' 
 although the bones be broken , the mufcles with their nerves, 
 veines , arteries, &c. lacerated, contufed, and the like , yet I will 
 endeavour to reduce all whatts fitting to be reduced to their due 
 and naturall places, formes, and true pofture, or as much as may 
 be, and I will fpeedily haft to flay the flux, the which done, I will 
 for the prefent, and fofor twenty foure homes at the leaft, repofe 
 it to reft, cxcepr a furtive flux convulfion, or the like fearefuli ac» 
 cident conftratne me to looke upon it fooner, and though the worke 
 bedefperate, yet, 1 will not difmember it at the firft, but try fur¬ 
 ther, except any eminenc occafion, as namely, mortification urge ^ 
 and beget new thoughts, and thcnl will take i: off in the found 
 part ( and Art warrants me fo to doe ) leaft any of the Gangrenated 
 part being left untaken away, as the common opinion is, it fhould 
 infe<5l the whole, and fol fhould loofemy patient, andbeblamed,- 
 as for Mala praxis unwarrantable. The fecond might alledge , that a fecund (app^ 
 the former njppofition granted, namely, that if the wounded mem- “ona»[uKren. 
 ber would be aburthen, I therefore before the abiding of the time, 
 cithetof digeftionorputrifadion of the aforefaid wounded parts, 
 would whiieft my patient were yet in ftrength, fot preventing 
 Feavers, furtive fluxes,- and other fearefuli accidents incident 
 to fuch great wounds as Gangrene , fince I fee the member is like 
 though faved in part, yet will be unferviccableand an eye-fore, and 
 burthen, I will immediatly take it off, in the wounded and lacera* 
 
 ted ! 
 
4-0* 
 
 Of THfmembring in the putrid part. 
 
 The third fuppo- 
 film anfwered* 
 
 the reflation. 
 
 ted parr, before that wofull Crifis of Gangrene feafe upon ray pa¬ 
 tient , which commonly is accompanied with a Fcaver ,and expence 
 ofvitallfpirirs, and deathwaiteth at thedore. 
 
 The third pleadeth in this manner following, and faith the for¬ 
 mer fuppofition granted , yet for my patient, although his wounds 
 received be defperate, as formerly is fuggefted, it would beheld 
 great rathnefle and unadvifed cruelty in me, if I fhould but offer 
 to take oft this member, efpecially in the wounded part, yea,orelfe 
 where, at the leaft before it be brought to digeftion, wherefore I 
 hold it my fafeft way to follow a rational! method, by joyniogtfce 
 parts fitting to be joyned, as aforefaid, and to proceed in * the cure, 
 the which , if by Art I could effe<ft, I fhould rejoyce, though my 
 patient were left with an unprofitable limbe, but if the hope of hea¬ 
 ling came (bort, then I fhould holditfit,if it muft be taken off to 
 doe it in a found part, and not in a putrid, according to the now ge* 
 nerall pra&ice in that kind which is warrantable. But yet let the 
 young Artift take this note from me, that when he apparently feeth 
 that a limbe cannot be faved without amputation, that whileft his 
 patient is yet in ftrcngtb,as afore is exprefTed,thathee doe his duty; 
 firft to fhew the patient his opinion, grounded upon Art and good 
 reafon, and ifhis patient give way to it, then in the name of God, 
 the fooner he takethit oft the better, but if the patient doe not ap- 
 proveof the motion, good reafons being given him,;theerrourrefts 
 inhim, but if heeconfent to the worke, let htmtakeitoftintbe 
 wounded part, although it be not wholly gangrenated circular, re¬ 
 gard ing that memorable oldvetfe. 
 
 Principiu fere mcdicina paratur^ 
 
 $uu,m mala per longat inxaluere moras; 
 
 And further,let the underftanding Artift confider as followerh, 
 that if the bullet have taken away one full third part of a legge, or 
 arme, in the circumference thereof, with the breach of both the 
 bones, the great contufion and laceration confideted with -alfothe 
 lofleof blood and fpirits thereby happening, it may be feared juftly, 
 that the limbe although the party live, wilf hardly or never be favedj 
 buthowfoever, it will be noway ferviceablc, beingdone byacon- 
 tufed wound lacerated, fo that if ever it be healed, the wound muft 
 come tofuppuration ,and thereby to digeftion, fo that by that rea- 
 fonjfome part more will be fpentand loft by quitture, and by coafe- 
 qucnt,if by the part taken away,the part contufed fo fallout that the 
 balfe limbe, with the office and vigour thereof be loft, or come away 
 by the juft courfeof Art in the healing, fcare one o ften fcape with 
 life, by reafon of the paine and great expence of blood and fpirits, 
 incidences isfaid, and by reafon of the long continuance of the 
 griefc, lo that it fallerh out, that for the moft part, nature is tyred ' 
 our, and the patient dyeth in tJltarafmtu or he<Sticke, andfuchan 
 end is more to be feared at Sea, where want of fitting nouriftimenr 
 
 is 
 
Of difmembringin the putrid part, 405 
 
 is,then at Land. So much I held fit to expreffc of my experience and 
 opinion,for young Arcifts to ruminate on. 
 
 And now forward againe, to my yet unfinifhed fcope of difmerti- 
 bring in the mortified part: in the profecution whereof,let me as by 
 the way yet againe put the Reader in minde once more of the old do¬ 
 cument or pbrafe,x*s. That there is no generall rule,but may admit an 
 exception: even fo in this cafe,there are diverfe times,places, and cau- Amputation m 
 fes, wherein amputation in a mortified part is utterly forbidden 3 as f bonified patt 
 namely,the Patient being in a violent Fcaver,or in a Delirium , for one CJ,CK *' 
 
 cafe 3 and yet even then neither is it wholly defperate, and fo to be 
 utterly inhibited, but ®nely during that Paroxifme: for, if by Gods 
 mercie,through thehelpe of the expert Surgeon or Phyfician,the pre- 
 fent fit, I meane the Delirium be but remooved, and the Feaver taken 
 away, if there be any way to fave the life of the Patient, fuch amputa¬ 
 tion, I meane in the mortified part, is in my opinion the moft fafe, 
 eafie,and rationall way, being of all other the moft likely way to pre- 
 ferve the life of the Patient j for by that, the Artift without paine or 
 effufion of bloud may (ipfo faHo) remoove (impurum d puro) the pu¬ 
 trid from the found, and utterly alter the fo much imagined or fug- 
 gefted corrofion or venomous qualitie thereof: fo as juftly it may be 
 laid, then it is in this effe&sd ; Caufa ablata ctt.ergo toliitur effect", the 
 eaufc is taken away, and therefore the effect ceafeth. 
 
 Another inhibition is, when an amputation is to be done, and there a ftiond *M- 
 is no mortified place to doe it in, which in the moft happeneth 5 and *>»«»• 
 then,in fuch a cafe, the Reader will grant theexpert Surgeon is freely 
 admitted tochufc his place, fothat hee chute it [ccundum few, ac¬ 
 
 cording to Arc,and fo proceed j and fuch occafions are very frequent, 
 as namely for one, when the occafions of difmembririg proceed from 
 corrofive,putrid,or fiftulous Ulcers in Joynts,orby foule bones,orby 
 fra&urcd bones,or by diftocatedbones,or members diftorted,or other- 
 wife, by difeafes incurable and unfufferable , when and whereas no 
 mortified place can fitting be found, the Surgeon then muft be left to 
 take the convenicntcft whole place. 
 
 Another inhibition generally is, when an occafion happeneth in a a thirdinbl- 
 putrid body,where Gangrenous and livid fpots, or otherwife difeo - b,tun > 
 loured fpots happen here and there, to and fro, upon the body, pre- 
 faging a hidden and venomous humour, or violence, or otherwife 
 deficiencie in Nature from within. Gangrenes doe proceed ( deabdita 
 caufa Natune) by occult caules in Nature,or when a ditfolution in the 
 harmonie of Nature manifcftly appeareth to be at hand, or when Pe- 
 ftilentiall or Carbunculous fpots happen upon a Patient,which many 
 times mortifie even to the bone; and yet fuch Peftilentiall Gangre¬ 
 nous fpots after (eparate of thcmfelves,and the Patient liveth and is 
 healed, for that often in fuch cafes the Patients receive an Ordinarie 
 Cure,which my eyes have fcene more then one fo efcape,and cured in 
 the Plague time-,and many other occafions may hinder fuch amputati¬ 
 ons,which are not now in the appreher.fionof my memorie to unfold , 
 
 Ooo Onety 
 
4 o6 
 
 Adutct for 
 youngr Attijlt 
 in \bt tun of 
 Gun-foot, by 
 cmfuiAim . 
 
 VireRim for 
 tbt amputating 
 Sttrgtm, 
 
 Of difmembring in the putrid part . 
 
 Oncly I defire, that younger Artifts would pbfcrve to hold the 
 gcnerall rule in wounds made with Gun-fhot, formerly touched}' 
 namely, that they forc*fce where they cannot fave a Limbe to be fer- 
 viceable, that they, with the approbation of the Patient, and likewile 
 by good advice, they take it away in time, whileft Nature is in h; 
 ftrength: and if they have a fit mortified place, then to doe it the: , 
 if poflibly they can ; and the rather, becaufe there the w.orkc is in 
 part done to their hand} not regarding, though the fiumpe fall or. 
 fomewhattoo long , for that the Patient hath the Artift read ie ever 
 when he pleafe, in fuch cafes as need fhall require. But grant the am¬ 
 putation be to beaded in the one way or the other,yet the Artift may 
 not be wanting of cauterizing Buttons, at the leaft of one,at any am. 
 putation, leaft having need on the fudden, and unexpefted, there be 
 occafion of the ufe of one of them, and by their want hec loofc the 
 Patient by improvidence,called had-I-wift. 
 
 But even now, me thinkes, I heare one of the hotter fort of rar 
 younger Brethren fay, Will this old man never have done,and fhew 
 his Riddle ? I have almoft tyred my felfc out with his citcumlocuf > 
 ons: Why doth hee not conclude,and come to the matter, after hi 
 long procefle ? Wherefore,leaft he fliould grow too much impatient. 
 I will endeavour in fome weake mcafure tQ,pacifie him, and fall upon, 
 the bufinefle promifed. In which J conceive, and hope the friendly 
 Reader may gather, and will charitably thinke, that thefcopeof my 
 precedent narrations to amputation at this tune, is not altogether 
 unprofitable,and impertinent to the matter in hand,although perhaps 
 adjudged tedious j and namely, w r ere it but onely for to introduft the 
 younger Artift^nd embolden him to the praftife : that when I come 
 to the point of the operation it fclfe, hee maybe the readier for the 
 aft ing thereof} for, in truth, the method will belli ort : fo that a few 
 words will fuffice to exprefle it, and a few inftruments or medicaments 
 for the cfficiating thereof. 
 
 Wherefore, for the firft workc of amputating in the putrid parr, let 
 the Surgeon have at hand at the leaft two or three minifters or fervann 
 befidcs himfelfe, to affift him in the worke,as is heretofore faid : and 
 as for Medicines for the firft drefling, let him have readie a good fo* 
 mentation, being an artificiall ftrong well fitted Lixivium, that m. v 
 have facultieabfterfive,deficcative, and almoft caufticke, bur not fo 
 fharpe,that it corrode the hands of the fomentor; let him alfo be 
 provided with fit ligature, and with large woollen ftupes, alfo with 
 fitting boulftring and convenient bandage: then let him further have 
 readie for inftmments, a fit amputating Cerra^ a Catling ; and a good 
 itnall incifion Knife, a good paire of ftrong Scizars,and three or foure 
 Cauterizing inftruments,fuch as in their places fhall bedeferibed : and 
 when he proceedeth to theeffefting of the incifion, let one of the a£ 
 fiftants rake the upper part of the member,holding it in both his hands 
 reafonable faft and fteddie, I meane the whole parr thereof,fomewhat 
 fceere unto the unfound part, and let the other helper hold the other 
 
 part, 
 
Of difmembringin the putrid part, 
 
 part, I meane the putrid part to be abicifled in his hand, each partie 
 hoiding reafonab'e hard and fteddie tojthe -worke, whileft the Sur¬ 
 geon himfelfe firft by circumcijing divide the putrid flefh from the 
 bone,doing it fomevvhat neere the quick part, but not too ncere it, 
 about one ynch full from the quick part, as may be imagined, will 
 doe well, that with the Cerra hee may come without feare to divide 
 the bone or bones a funder, where hee is lure they are fphacclatcd, 
 and that carefully firft, having regard to make his incilion wifely and 
 fecurely in the infeniible part, as is fa id, not touching any quick part 
 at all with his fharpe inftruments, neither with the one nor the other j 
 which hee may the ccrtainer obferve to doe , if with a Needle hee 
 enquire cautioufly. Let him alfo divide betwixt the bones the pu¬ 
 trid members or parts there being, leaft by lacerating or tearing with 
 the teeth of the terra hee offend ; which done, let the Artiit am¬ 
 putate the bones. 
 
 And as for the reft of the worke, the putrid Belli being as is faid 
 divided, and bones being abfeiffed and fo remooved, there will be 
 admitted deliberation futficicnt, with fulltime toconfidcr what is 
 next to be done ; the which will be, as in order, for diminution of 
 the remaining excremtntall part,by abfeiflion or uftion, one or both, 
 to remoove, for the firft, as much more thereof as fafely you may 
 from the ftumpc, with not being over-folicitous in taking all at one 
 time: for in truth it matters not much, neither doth it any thing 
 haften the worke of healing, that all be at the firft remooved; but 
 rather, it may bring terror and danger to the Patient, to be too bufie 
 or too forward •, which by all mcanes fhould be avoided, for fearc 
 of inducing of a Feaver: onely it will not be amifle, at the firft 
 drefling, by cauterie fuperficially to runne over the putrid flefh, and 
 alfo therewith to heat the end of the bone or bones abfeiffed $ and 
 alfo after that, with a good Lixivium fat if Calidm with ftupes, well 
 to foment not onely the fphacelatcd wounded parts, out alfo the 
 parts adjacent, with lufferablc full warmth, for, the fpace of haife an 
 hourc j not at all ufing any fearification in this whole worke, foe 
 that it will bring terror and needlefle paine, and be fruitlefle : which 
 done, leave very warme woollen ftupes upon the partj and io well 
 bound up, finifh that drefling. l 
 
 Then the next worke, namely,at the lecond drefling,will be onely 
 the reiterating of the artificial! former ad ions and application, ever 
 asaforefaid very warme fomenting, being fomewhat hot * and the 
 Medicine ever ftill readie On the fire y and for the mortified part, 
 onely to be applyed with a fealding hot lmall Map,of purpofe msttw, 
 ora Spunge, and that with fcverall and often fhiftings and rcitera- 
 tings for haife an houre, or longer, provided, you difeourage not the 
 Patient, by fealding or excoriating the whole parts next adjacent at 
 all: in which time, it will alfo be very neceffarie, that you have 
 readie one or more of the cauterizing Buttons hot, to apply betwixt 
 the fomentings • as alfo not omitting, if occafion ferve,with betters 
 s Oooi <* 
 
4.08 Of difmembring in the putrid part . 
 
 or othcrwife, to be clearing any infenfible Houghs from the wounded 
 part: and forget not, at each drefling, with a Button to heat the 
 end of the bone, untill the Patient be fenfiblc of the heat, and no 
 longer 5 the Buttons being of fuch formes , as hereafter in their 
 places fnall be deferibed s whereby the reft of the putrid fiefh 
 may by degrees be confumed, eroded, abfcilfed, and fret away, as 
 is fayd. 
 
 A camion. But in this worke, let not the younger Artift prefumc, in a worke 
 of fupercrogadon, or over-excellencie, to be too bufie to fcortch, 
 fear i fie, or excoriate the fenfible part, in preding to take away all 
 what is putrid from the quick flefh,norto cut or divide betwixt the 
 quick and the dead flefh,for fearc of awakening of a deeping dogge ; 
 neither to provoke paine to the Patient at all, as nccre as hee can^ 
 further then what of neccffitie fhall accede in fomenting, whereby 
 to minifter a full and fufficient warmth to the whole parts, and 
 no more j neither by extreame hot ftupes, in fomenting the living 
 part too too hot, as is fayd • nor by cauterizing fo long , untill 
 over-much paine be provoked : onely let all the operations and 
 applications for thedrefliugs > from time to time, be very gentle, 
 milde,and plcafing,as maybepoflible,to the Patient,butcfpecially 
 for the firft drefling, that without any great fenfiblc paine the Sur¬ 
 geon may come fomewhat ncerc the fenfible and living parts, ever 
 mildly eroding, clipping, and abounding onely the corrupt flefli, 
 and giving a lively warmth to Nature ; and in this manner proceed 
 thrice, if you fee fitting , or at the lead; twice for everie twenrie 
 foure houres, or as in diferetion the difcrect Artift pleafe, and fo 
 for three dayes and nights together in this worke, or as long or 
 fhort a time as caufe (hall offer: And you fhall not need ro ufe 
 any cauterizing Buttons at all, after the firft putrid Hefh is eroded, 
 onely one,and that at each drefling you may ufe fomewhat hot unto 
 the remaining dead end of the bone, therewith to caufe the faid 
 end of the remaining abfeifled bone to fcale the fooncr : but after 
 the fecond or third drefling, it will be fit to confider to apply fomc 
 Unguent foveant and digeftive very warme. 
 
 And as for further documents touching artificiall proceeding in 
 this Cure, I may as a fuperfluous thing,and frivolous, forbearcany 
 further narration to the difcrect young Artift or Scholer in Sur- 
 geric, for that the reft of the Cure will no way differ from the ordi- 
 narie way of the Cure of other ordinarie Ulcers, but will be healed 
 with much celeritie and comfort, through Gods favour, both to the 
 Surgeon and Patient. And for the bone, feare it not ; for by the 
 onely heating the mortified end thereof, it will fcale off by that time 
 the Ulcer be healed, and that with flcfli incarnated upon the living 
 part of it admirably, and will in fitting time liccatrize, and be per- 
 » fc&Iy whole, if the Surgeon will have patience with poorc Nature 
 
 in hervveakenefle to forbeare, and not be too bufie, efpecially with 
 Minerall Medicines j all which I leave to the diferetion of each 
 
 under- 
 
Of dtfmembring in the putrid part, 4.09 
 
 underftanding Artift : onely once more with this Caveat, as by re¬ 
 iteration, chat for the end of the ftumpe, after thaf it hath fcaled, 
 that the Surgeon be fure to ufc no Minerall Medicine at all, as pre¬ 
 cipitate Vitnol , nor any other, neither mixed with Rtyltcbn^ nor other- 
 wife, but with gentle and ordinaric Drgeftivcs, Mundificatives, In- 
 carnativeS, and the like gentle Deficcative, or at the utmoft, Parum 
 jtlumnu if need be; for that by experience I know, that Mine- 
 rail Medicines^s they helpe to fcale a bone, fo they will furely hclpc 
 to defile even'the lime bone againe andagaine , and fo make long 
 worke upon worke ; the which is foule and hatefull for any Arcift 
 to be guiltib of, that profefieth to feare God j yea, and it is abo¬ 
 minable to be wittingly riinted with that divcllifh Crime : fdr,let 
 reproach and many cvill Curies ever attend upon that Surgeon, 
 which willingly prolongeth healing ; for which, many an innoccoc 
 Artift dayly ftands accufcd unjuftly thereof: which guilt I advife 
 all the Sonnes and Succeflbtirs of fiLfcuhfm niay avoidc, even as 
 they feare God, and defire a blcfling from him upon their La¬ 
 bours. 
 
 And nOw to conclude, concerning amputation aforefaid, fee it be The condor, 
 done in requifite time For the omitting thereof, untill the bloud 
 and fpirits be coo much fpent,makcth often the fucccfle of the worke 
 doubtfull and defperate,efpecialiy where it is to be a&ed upon the 
 whole part: for in truth,when the languifti lbg Patient fhall truly lay. 
 
 Deficit animus . it will be too late for the Artift to anfwer, Um venio. 
 
 And fo I will take my leave at this prefent, concerning the manuall 
 part of the worke, in amputating in a mortified place: and for the 
 doing of it in the whole part, I referre the Reader to what I have 
 formerly, in my firft Edition, in the Swgow Afore explained, which, 
 
 together with this Poft-fcript, I conceive may fatisfic any indifferent 
 Reader. * 
 
 Onely one obfervation more,as in charitie to the Patient and the 
 young Surgeon, I thought fit to acquaint the young Surgeon with 
 what my experience fhewed me, and that is; That after any amputati¬ 
 on cither in the found of mortified part, the firft eikers or cadaverous 
 floughes being remooved, and the Ulcers rcafonably di'gefted, mun- 
 dified,and fomevvhat incarnate, the Patient ufeth ever to be exceeding 
 fcnfible,andgrievoufly tender, and alfoflelh is fubje&on thefudden 
 to grow over fa ft,and the ftumpe is fub je<ft to turne cancrous,oi; at the 
 leaft very dolorous r For remedic whereof, I ufe for one drefling, to 
 have Plcdgents of fine Towc made readie before-hand, fo muefi as 
 will cover the whole Ulcer; and having ordinarie good ftrong hnguent ,. 
 JEgyptiacum, without fublimate,feeching hot in a fmall flat Pewter or 
 Stone-Difh,dipthe Plcdgents therein, being very exceedinghoc, and 
 fuddenly applyed fb hot to'the Ulcer, ahd bound with another chicice 
 Pled gent to keepc it war me, binde if up^nddrefle it no more in-48 
 houres; and for the next drefling,cover the Ulcer ondy with foft Lint; 
 and likewife in all other dreflirigs provide by thick Pledgents of Towc 
 
 
Of ‘Difmembring in the putrid part . 
 
 ever to keepc the ftumpe very warme: and that one onely dreffing,as 
 aforefaid, of Mgyptiacum, vvill wholly take away the tendernefle, and 
 very much conduce to true healing ; which a fortnight after, if need 
 be, may be reiterated. 
 
 And as touching amputation to be performed in the mortified 
 place, for that the curing differs nothing from that in common »fe 
 for the healing of Ulcers in generall (as is laid) therefore if the dis¬ 
 creet Artift have a ftrong and fit Lixivium , a good JEgyptiacumy a 
 Digeftive, a Mundificative, an Incarnative, and a Deficcative or 
 Sigillative Unguent, and according to Art, and in their feafons, 
 make ufe of each of them, hcc is then fitted for the worke. And for 
 the firft, hee may prepare his Lixivium as followeth, if hec pleafe, 
 and have not one of his owne experience. 
 
 ill 
 
 Jk tig** 
 
 'Tip** 
 
 A fitting Lixivium, for the amputating of any 
 
 member in the mortified part. 
 
 Lixiriura- T> Ec. Com. Lix, de Cineribm Lign. FraR. GaUanos quatuor, herba 
 j\.Centaur. Scord. Card. BenediR. Hyper. Abfinth. Rofitmar.am.p,^, 
 Flores Camom. Melilot. aha. p. 4. fiat decoRio ad tertia partis confiumpt. 
 colentur ac colat. adde sal. Com. M, a. Vitriol. Viride fie. lib. Spirit *« 
 Vini i ij. lib. Mifice fimul S. A. 
 
 Vng. jEgyp- Rec. JEruginit Z,v. AUum.RocbUZ.iiij. Vitriol. Reman. Z,ij. 
 tiac - Sal.Commun. Z.j.fie. MeUis ij, fie. Aceti fortis %.iij. Mifice & co¬ 
 
 quant ur ad fipijfitudinem Vngueati. 
 
 Vng.Digcfiir. Rec. Cera Alb*, Rtfina Pini, fitve Vaccini y picis Graca y Terebin . 
 
 Olibam, Mirrha ana. %.j. Olei Oliv. lib.j. aut quant it at em fiufificien- 
 tem. Mifice & fiat Vngucntum . S.A. In cujtu loco Liniment . Bigeffi- 
 vum Arcei fiufificiee. 
 
 Vng. Mundi- Rec. Terebinth. Refiina y Cera Afiba y Amoniac. ana. Z. xiiij. Ari- 
 ficat. ftoloch. Long. Thuris Maficuli y ana. Z.vj. BdeUii , Myrrha Galbatt. ana. 
 
 Z. iiij. Opopanacis , For. JEris, ana.Z. ij. Lytbarg.Z. ix. Olei Oliv. 
 lib. ij. fie. Aceti , quant . S . ad Ammoniac. Galban. (jgOpopanac . dijfiol- 
 vendum Mifice fecund. Artem. 
 
 Vng.incarnat, Rec. Cera Citrini y |.t j. Olei Oliv. ij. lib, fie. Terebinth. |. ij. 
 
 Refina^ Colophonia ana. fie. Tbuiis y Maftichis ana.%. j. Croci Z.j. 
 
 Confijee fecund. Artem. 
 
Of difmembring in the putrid part. 
 
 Rcc. Olei oliv. lltb.Jf. Lytbarg.Z'ij. iij, Ceruf.^.j. fe.y It g ,Dc r - 
 
 Tuti*,Campbor. anfi. % iij. Cer& Curim^.ij. Mijce S. A, & pat vn- 
 gaentum. 
 
 Moreover, there are to be prepared ready : i. Cauterizing Buttons,' 
 fuch as are following hereafter deferibed, for the eroding and fret- 
 tingaway of the putrid, Cadaverous , or fphacelated remaincr after 
 abfeiflion of thefirft part, and thefe cauterizing Buttons ought to bee 
 thicker then others, namely more ponderous then thofe, which ulua'ly 
 Surgeons ufe to cauterize the end ofone or two veines or arteries,which 
 being otherwife not fo ferviceabl? for thi^ kindof amputation or o- 
 peration, of which it were requifite, that two or three were laid into 
 the fire privately, to bee hot, to doe fuch need full fervices, as that 
 worke of difmembring requires, namely, they being hot,are to caute¬ 
 rize or erode (as is faid) the putrid flefh. 
 
 Alfoitis as fitting to have in readinefletb? other inftruments com¬ 
 mon in all amputation, viz. A well fitted faw, a difmembring knife, 
 and incifion knife, or a fharpe inftrument, fit to divide and cleanfe 
 betwixt the bones &c. Not forgetting likewifc the other fit materials, 
 amongft. the reft, as ftupes and rowlers, all which it ought to bee the 
 Surgeons ownecare, to be fure to fee ready, that no one thing be wan¬ 
 ting at theinftant, andnottotruft tohisafiiftances, leaft to his griefe 
 and reproach, he be wantingof fome one or more of them in his ne- 
 ceflity. 
 
 L Oying Brethren, if the meanenefe of my pile, the make- 
 neffeof my aged memory, capacity ,or what el[e (oeyer here¬ 
 in, is not anjwerable to thy expe£lation,from me yet take it in good 
 part 1 pray thee, as proceeding from a Friend, who, if hu Ta¬ 
 lent could bayeafforded better, would willingly have imparted it 
 to thee. The former was the fruits of my youth, this, /itch as the 
 weakeneffe of old age can agoord. The pubkke good acceptance of 
 the former, hath pur chafed the latter. 
 
 Vale in Chrifto; 
 
 Qertuine 
 
4-u 
 
 0 }T)ifmembring in the putrid part. 
 
 Concerning the Injlruments for Amputation 
 in the sphacelated part. 
 
 B Enevolenc fpe&ator,here enfuing to thy view,are de¬ 
 ciphered the Inftruments molt ufefull for chc Manu- 
 all operations of feverali Amputations in the fphacelaced 
 parts of members, which being for memory lake only de- 
 fcribed to the expert Artilt, he will eafily conjecture and 
 relolve in Art, according to each prefent occafion, which 
 ©f them tomakeufeof, and which toomic: all of them 
 tending to the fcope of a rcfolved abfcillion , by ablating 
 impurum ab puro s theunpure from the pure, for the better 
 perfecting the warrantable fcope of the ftudious Artift, 
 in efficiating the fame, that he may make a cure thereof , 
 althoughdetraCtorsand depravers of that excellent Myfte- 
 ry of healing, malicioufly make a by-word, or word of re¬ 
 proach, againft Surgeons, of making a cure, yet I will 
 hope, if it be for the faving of the precious life of his mi- 
 ferable patient, the making of a perred cure, will have a 
 faireconftruCtion from good men: yea although it be to 
 be performed as indeed it muft be, part by abfcillion , 
 adultion, cauterization , by erofion, or Cerra, or how 
 elfe foever the worke may befafeft, and furelt, and more 
 artificially efficiated. All & every of which apparent par¬ 
 ticulars, in theirdue turnes,timcs and orders,are to be made 
 ufe of, which to deferibe in each particular, or more there¬ 
 of then is heretofore related, would be but tedious for me, 
 and frivolous for the Artift, who joyning his reafon & expe¬ 
 rience with the reading my precedent relation,will doubt- 
 1 elfe, by Gods favourable per mi (bon, make a found cure of 
 his patient: maugrethefcandall ofdetraCfors,in the abufc 
 of that honeft phrafe, to the reproach and unjuft vilify¬ 
 ing of many an honeft welldeferving Surgeon. 1 end with 
 an ©Id Phrafe, 
 
 u Ars non habet inimicos prater ignor antes. 
 
 FINIS. 
 

A 
 
 2(58 
 
 81 
 
 A Elution. 
 
 Absinthium herba. 
 
 C Commune l 
 y Di fit datum i 
 
 Accum< R fa m 44 
 
 £ Fwi 44:249 
 
 Aer, 249. to be corrected in infection, 
 
 33S 
 
 ^commun. 77 
 
 y * cs \vmde. 2fi 
 
 Aeflas. 2ji 
 
 A gar 1 cum. <54 
 
 Aibation. * 268 
 
 Album Grxcum. 83 
 
 ^Combuflum. 249 
 
 Alumen ^ Commune. <57.249 
 
 C Plumbojum. 249 
 
 Albumen Ovorurn. 249 
 
 Alcolifmus. 268 
 
 Aloes. 65 - 348 
 
 Amalgama^ 249 
 
 Amalgamate 0 quidfit, 2 <5 8 
 
 Amigdalx J 6 9t 70 
 
 Amputation, tvhen and how to be ufed 
 onalloceafions, 144. ij"< 5 . xj 8 . in 
 Gmfhot, 304. inputred parts, 387 
 Amputation in the mortified place 
 3 8 9 . a legge taken off in the tut red 
 part, 390. Mortifiedflejh doth not 
 prefently hazard the life of the 
 Patient, 391. Amputating in the 
 putred part is good, 392. Ampu¬ 
 tation tn generally 394. fixe rules 
 neceffary in Amputating a mem¬ 
 ber, 400,40 1. fxe perjons necef¬ 
 fary in the amputating a member, 
 ‘ 451. Amputation in members 
 
 inert fed by cold, 401. Amputati¬ 
 on in a member mortified by Hcm- 
 morage, 402. Amputation in mor¬ 
 tified places by the Dropfie, 402, 
 Abfeifsion tn fomc cafes not to be 
 ufed, 402. Amputation in a mor¬ 
 tified part in fomc cafes forbid¬ 
 den, 403-. Advice for young Ar- 
 tifls in cure of Gmfhot by Ampu¬ 
 tation , 40 6. Directions for the 
 Amputating Chirurgion, 40 6. a 
 Cautton in Amputation, 408. the 
 Concltifion of the Treatife of Am¬ 
 putation, 409. Lixivium for the 
 amputating any member in the 
 
 mortified part, 410 
 
 Amylum. 70 
 
 Ammoniacum. jt 
 
 Annus. 2fo 
 
 Angena mendofa cured. 3 <52 
 
 Antimoni vulgare. 7 3 
 
 Fitn 1 
 Regains. S 2 ^° 
 Anthrax. 331 
 
 Apoftumes in the mouth opened, r. cu¬ 
 red by Cattfiicks, Inc if on ,&c. 141, 
 
 144 
 
 Aqua 270 
 
 Car dm BenediCti. 40 
 
 Calefiis. 38 
 
 Cmnamoni. 39 
 
 Doct.Stephani. 38 
 
 Falapii. 42 
 
 Aqua \ Fort is. 43.25-0 
 
 1 Anifi. 40 
 
 Abfinthii . 40 
 
 j. Angelic*. 40 
 
 Balfami. 4 o 
 
 Limonum. 39 
 
 Pp p Mentha. , 
 
 l 
 
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THE TABLE. 
 
 c Mentha. 
 Oder if era. 
 
 ! ' Plantaginis. 
 Regis. 
 
 Rorifmarini 
 SaJJafras. 
 
 40 
 
 42 
 
 42 
 
 Viridis. 
 
 •Vita. 
 
 Argentum vivum 
 Aromatization. 
 
 Arfemcum. 
 
 Attrition. 
 
 Attrea Alexandrine 
 Auriculum. 
 
 Anri pigmentum. 
 
 Aurum Potabile. 
 
 Autumnus. 
 
 Axm S U fiZa.' l 3« 
 
 B 
 
 39 
 
 39 
 
 42 
 
 2fO 
 
 77 
 268 
 77,25-0 
 26 8 
 do 
 25-0 
 25-0 
 25-0 
 25-0 
 
 uni peri. \ 
 
 uri. J 
 
 79 
 
 <-—r: 
 
 ILanri 
 
 Bags. 
 
 Balme water. 
 
 Balneum Marie 
 
 Salf 4 „m{ Ar ’f'f 
 
 Bafon of Brajfe. 
 
 Bdellium. 
 
 Bedpan. 
 
 Benzoin. > 
 
 Benedifia Laxative 
 Blaines. 
 
 Bleeding.at nofe. 
 
 Bloodletting. 
 
 Boar d toJpreadplaijlers upon, 
 
 Bladd r to f earch, vide Catheter. 
 
 2JI 
 
 75,25 1 
 
 Borax Veneti. 2 ?i 
 
 Broths. 2f 2 
 
 Bricks. 2 £ 
 
 Bubo, figne oft he Plague, cures, 3 30, 
 
 3<*7 
 
 24 
 
 40 
 
 2/1 
 
 49 
 
 TX 
 
 22 
 
 7i 
 
 24 
 
 73 
 
 <*3 
 
 232 
 
 171 
 
 19,20 
 
 2 4 
 
 tCommunis. 
 
 Burnings. 
 Burras pipe. 
 Buccellatio. 
 
 20 
 
 268 
 
 23,205 
 26 8 
 
 2 n 
 
 2?I 
 
 2fl 
 
 2fl 
 
 83,25-1 
 
 G Aleanthnm,vide Coper as or Vi¬ 
 triol. 
 
 Calcinare. 2 6$ 
 
 Calcinatio. 2 dg 
 
 Callenture what it is, fignes and 
 cures. 
 
 Calf a flic. 
 
 Calidws. 
 
 Calor. 
 
 rCommttn. 
 
 Calx < Ovorum. 
 
 ^ Viva. 
 
 C aufiick white, its cobofition, 4d, 21 o 
 Candle,vocat.fearchmg Candle, iy 
 Cambodgia. $$ 
 
 Camphora. 
 
 Cantharides. 
 
 Calcother, or Deadhead. 216,25-2 
 
 Cardutss Bene diet ns. 
 
 Cariophili. 
 
 Carunckle in the bladder . 
 
 Cafsia Fiji ala. 
 
 Cathetor. 
 
 Catlings. t s 
 
 Carbuncles, fignes of the Plague, na¬ 
 ture and cure. 
 
 Cement are. * 
 
 Cementum 7 
 Cemcntatio £" 
 
 Cera citrina. 
 
 Ceratio. 
 
 Ceruff'a Venetarum. 
 
 Chafimdifh. 
 
 Chaliis. 
 
 Charafters ufuall with Chymifis, 
 from 248, to 260 
 china. 
 
 8r 
 
 70 
 
 x; 
 
 66 
 
 X7 
 
 1,2 
 
 331 
 
 25-2 
 
 74> 2 5'* 
 268 
 76,252 
 24 
 25 T 
 
 Cinefaflio. 
 Cineres ligni. 
 Cinnabrium. 
 Cinnamonum. 
 CircuUtio. 
 Clarification 
 Clouts. 
 
 66,253 
 2 68 
 252 
 78,252 
 70 
 268 
 270 
 24 
 
THE TABLE 
 
 2 / 
 
 270 
 
 Clofe-floole. 
 
 ■ Coadnnatto. 
 
 Coagmentatio. 
 
 Coagulatio. 
 
 Coffio. 
 
 Cohobatio. 
 
 Colatio. 
 
 Colliquatio. 
 
 Coloratio. 
 
 Collie a paffio, nature of it , flgnes, 
 cures. 197,198,199,200 
 
 Combuflio. 
 
 Conirninutio. 
 
 Complexio. * 270 
 
 Compofitio. 
 
 D 
 
 !> 
 
 j 
 
 J 
 
 270 
 
 _ r n- SAlkermes. 
 
 Confcaio \ HMck 
 
 Confrictio. 
 
 Confufia 
 Congelatio. 
 
 Conglutinatio. ^ 
 
 f Anthos. -) 1 
 
 | Cidoniorum. ( 
 Conferva J LujuU. !> ft 
 j Prunedorum. [ 
 \_Rofar. rubr.. J j 
 
 Contnfo . 
 
 Convulfion. 
 
 Copperas , vide Vitriol. 
 
 Copper , vide. Venus. 
 
 CoraltM 
 
 Cornu cervi. 
 
 Corrofio. 
 
 „ CCranatorum} 
 c °'“* \Guui 
 CojHvenejfe. 
 
 Cnbratio. 
 
 cCommun. 
 
 Crocus <c Mart is. 
 
 C Veneris. 
 
 Crowes Bills. 
 
 Cupping-gUjfes. 
 
 Cupping. 
 
 Cups for Phyfieall potions. 
 
 J* 
 
 S 6 
 
 2 53 
 
 270 
 
 59 
 
 60 
 
 54- 
 
 5<5 
 
 270 
 
 88 
 
 Decoctio. 
 
 Dehquatio. } r 
 Deliquium. $ J 
 Dcfcenfio. p 
 Defpumatto. ^ 270 
 Denies Elephant ini. 
 
 Diacodion. 
 
 Diam or on. 
 
 D iaprunumfimplex. u 
 
 Diarrhaa , or flux of the belly, the 
 
 Cttye ' S77>toi8-$ 
 
 jDihJ covdittiTj, 
 
 Diaphorettcks to procure fweat , 318 
 Diatejjdron. 
 
 D i at r ion pi per ion 
 Dies & nox. 
 
 Dietpot. 
 
 Difflatio. 
 
 Digeflio. 
 
 Dijhcationi. 
 
 Difmembrmg . 14 6,1 y6, lyi.inGun- 
 Jhot, 304. m paired parts. 387 
 Diffolutio. 
 
 Diflralho. 7 
 Dijhllatio. r 270 
 D ivaporatio. j 
 
 Drinkefor the Calenture .23, 2.0? 
 Drink efor the Laske. 2 3 
 
 Dyfenteria, and cure, 182,183,184, 
 
 185- 
 
 f3>34*>34 7 
 57 
 2 5 3 
 23 
 270 
 273,270 
 173,13-4,177 
 
 Eare-pickers. 
 
 Elaboration. 
 
 Election. 
 
 Electuarium ) 
 
 V w* 
 
 Element a. 
 Elevation. 
 Education. 
 Elution. 
 
 E 
 
 271 
 
 12 
 
 \Diacatholicon , 75 
 Dtaphanicon, 56 
 'deOvo, 78,344,347 
 coRofarum, 76 
 253 
 
 271 
 
 Ppp 2 Empla- 
 
THE TABL-E. 
 
 '} 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 28 
 27 
 
 f Calidum. 29 
 
 De LapideCaluminari vet 
 grifium. 29 
 
 Diacalfithres. 28 
 
 _ r ! , Scum oummis. 27 
 
 2 s 
 
 _/ / urn Mclilot Jimp lex, & 
 pro fflene. 
 de Minto. 
 
 Oxicroceum. 
 
 \jSupticum Paracelfi. 
 
 Esker when to be pricked in Apo- 
 Jhtrnes, 47. lying long, a good 
 Jigne. “ 47 
 
 Eskers fall rnnjl not bee hajlenecl, 
 where Nature hath breathing. 47 
 Esker cannot by Art be kept inApo- 
 pojtumes. 47 
 
 E vapor at ion, 27 x 
 
 Euphorbium. Cp 
 
 Exaltation -j 
 Exhalation 
 Exprefston^ 
 
 Exit us Ani, the caufes and cures by 
 fomentation and othenvife. 212, 
 
 213 
 
 Exprefsio y 
 Extinciio > 271 
 Extractio J 
 
 Extract. Cathol. purg. p6 
 
 Eyes ill affected to cure, 217 
 
 271 
 
 Ft fluids and Fleers with cures. 147 
 Fixatio. 273,271 
 
 Fluxes, the divers kindes, cures, 
 177> 178, 179y 180. an approved 
 remedy for thefltix. 
 
 Flos Acris. 
 
 " Anthes. 
 
 Balaufit arum. 
 
 . Centauria, 
 
 Flores <{ Chamomeh. 
 
 I Hyperici. 
 j Melilot. 
 fSambit an. 
 
 Folia Senna. 
 
 Forcers. 
 
 Forceps. 
 
 Fractio. 
 
 Fraftures, with the parts and divers 
 cures. 149,170 
 
 Falling of the Fundament,vide Ex- 
 it us Ani. Q_o £; 2 .i) 7 *\ 2 ,\i$ 
 A Funnell necefjary. 24 
 
 Frixion. 271 
 
 Fulmination 7 
 Fumigation £ 271 
 
 Fumes for in felted aire, andhoufes, 
 appare/l. 337,338 
 
 Fulnejfe of font ack by naufeous hu¬ 
 mours. 348 
 
 F urfur Tritic'i . 8 Q 
 
 27,26 
 
 273 
 
 78 
 
 78 
 
 79 
 
 78 
 
 79 
 79 
 79 
 64. 
 16 
 1 7 
 
 271 
 
 1 ,,\* 
 
 sFab arum 
 \Hordei . „ 
 
 t m < rrMd > so 
 
 *Volatile 
 F ermentatio . 7 . 
 
 Ferruminatio j 271 
 
 Fever, what it is, with cure in renc- 
 
 I ■ ^ gg 
 
 V X °A 11 
 
 Vail. 
 
 Files with their ufes. 
 
 Fittrum. 
 
 Filteratio. 
 
 Fimus Equinus. V- 
 
 Fifh living draw Carbuncles, 
 F if si on. 
 
 2f3 
 
 271 
 
 2f3 
 
 3<^ 
 
 271 
 
 G Angrcene, the definition and 
 caufe,i%\. 3 84,3 87,386 
 
 Gangreenc caufed by Ioffe of blood, 
 397. Examples of Gangrtencs am¬ 
 putated by the Author, 397,398 
 Galbanum, 72 
 
 Ga/la. -vi,, 77 
 
 Galles unguent in Amputation. 179 
 Galens rule in Dyfenteria. 188 
 G inger vide Zinsaber. 
 
 G Ioffes. 24 
 
 Glifier pot. iz 
 
 Glifier Siringe, vide Siringe. 
 
 Glifier, how to prepare with rules in 
 the adminifirati'on of it. 12,13 
 
 Gold, 
 
THE TABhE. 
 
 ■ v~ 
 
 G lifter vocat. Enema Fumofum } with 
 the draught or defcription of the 
 Inftrument or Pipe, whereby we de¬ 
 liver it. 
 
 Gold, vide Sol. 
 
 Goofe Bids. 
 
 Gradation. 
 
 Gradue. 
 
 Granatorum Cortex. 
 
 Granulation. 
 
 Gravers. 
 
 Gray paper. 
 
 r Cortex ? 
 
 Gttaci ^ Lignumy 
 C Gumm. 
 
 Gttmmi. 
 
 f Ammoniacum. 
 
 J Galbanum. 
 
 I Guacum. 
 
 Guntmi\ Opopanac t 
 .\Sagafenum, 
 
 • 1 1 Tragacanth.- 
 I L Bdedium. 
 rMyrrha O 
 A Map eke > 72 
 t Sty rax. J 
 Benzoin. 
 
 Ladanum. 
 
 Pix Burgundia.l 
 Communis. j 
 Refina. , • 73 
 
 Gums overgrorvne with filthy skin , 
 and rotten, with their cures phi 
 G uttigamba , vel Cambogia. 66 
 
 4? 
 
 7 
 
 272 
 
 2J4 
 
 *7 
 
 272 
 
 IO, 11 
 
 24 
 
 67 
 
 67 
 
 71 
 
 274 
 
 71 
 
 7 2 
 7i 
 
 7 1 
 
 7 2 
 
 73 
 71 
 
 73 
 
 7 2 
 
 3? 
 
 1,2 
 r 
 
 274 
 
 Ignition. 272 
 
 llhaca pafpo what it is , the fignes, 
 cures by Catapiafmes, Fomenta - - 
 tons,G lifters, Potions, &c. 194, 
 
 19^196 
 
 Iuiquation. y 
 Imbibition. £ 272 
 Imbution. ^ 
 
 Inc amative medicines. 
 
 Inceration. ? 
 
 Incineration. £ 272 
 Incifton. 
 
 Incifion by Caufticke. 
 
 Incifton by the Cauftickeftone. 47 
 hake. 24 
 
 Incorporation. 272 
 
 Infufion. 7 
 Inhumation. J 272 
 Injections into the yard, with the 
 manner how to infert. 14 
 
 Injections of Mercury, had for the 
 yard. 14 
 
 Inflation. 2.7 z 
 
 Intemperature ingenerall, what it is, 
 and what intemperature of the Li¬ 
 ver is. % 7 
 
 Irons to cauterize. 7 
 
 Irrigation. 27 z 
 
 Iron, vide Mars. 248 
 
 IupitcrorTin. 248 
 
 H 
 
 K 
 
 H Amules. 11 T/" Hives for Amputation or di 
 
 Hemorrhaa. - 87,171 J^membrtng with their tife. 
 
 Head Saw with rules in Sawing, $ Knives for Incifton. 
 
 Hermodactyli. - ;' J ~ 6f 
 
 Hookes. •• • ' 11 . 
 
 Hernia humor alis, with Cure, 308 £ 
 
 Horfteeches draw Carbuncles, 3 6p 
 
 : 1 • C Commune ? ' V: T AcVirginis. 
 
 Hordeum \ Gd u iettm $ *7 JLr Laudanum. 
 
 Humectattoni 272 Lanthorne . 
 
 Hyems. 274 £jq 
 
 dif- 
 
 z 
 1,2 
 
 24*> 
 
 pZfgOS 
 
 24 
 
 Lapis 
 
THE TABLE. 
 
 Lapis ^ 
 
 f Caluminaris. 
 Cranatus. 
 Hematites. 
 
 i Magnetts. 
 
 I Prunella. 
 \_S abulofus. 
 
 C Cnbrat. 1 
 Untegr. J 
 
 
 2/4 
 
 J 
 
 Lateres \lntcgr. $ 
 
 Laudanum Opt at, Paracelfi. /$>, 18 9, 
 
 to 194 
 
 Launcet with the uf e. 
 
 Lead , vide Saturne. 
 
 Lenticular. 
 
 A Levatory. 
 
 Levigatio. 7 
 Ltmatio. $ ' 3 
 
 Limatnra Martis. 
 
 Limonjuyce. 
 
 Ltmon water. 
 
 Linamentum Arcei . 
 
 Liquatio. \ 
 
 Liqueftudio.l 27 3 
 Liquiritia. 
 
 Lixivium. 
 
 L~. } 44 
 
 Lixivium lucinium. 
 
 Lotion cummun. 
 
 Lues Venerea. 
 
 18 
 
 239 
 
 316 
 
 4 
 
 2 // 
 
 *65 
 
 39 
 
 3/ 
 
 67 
 
 210 
 
 S Cre f c 
 
 \decre 
 
 j cens ^ 
 
 decrefcens.S 
 
 74 
 
 273 
 
 177 
 
 77 
 
 Xf/^.239. 
 
 Lupines. . 
 
 Lutation. 
 
 _ x S Commune 
 
 Lmum \upm, t . I VI 
 
 Li enteri a. 
 
 Lythargirum. 
 
 Argenti. -j 
 ) Auri. > zf6 
 C Plumbi. j 
 
 - T M 
 
 M **- . 
 
 Maceration. 
 
 Mallet and ChijJ'ell for Amputation\ 
 
 r 
 
 70 
 
 273 
 
 Manhafita. 
 (-Mars or Iron. 
 Majlick . 
 
 2/tf 
 
 235 
 
 70 
 
 Maturation. 
 
 Mel Jimp lex. 
 
 Mel. 
 
 JSaponis. 
 
 Meafures for Chirurgions. 
 M eli (fa. 
 
 Me llilo turn. 
 
 Menfis. 
 
 Mentha. 
 
 Merc nr ins. 
 
 ~Iovis. 
 
 275 
 
 37 ) 2/7 
 
 /4 
 
 33 
 
 310 
 
 8r 
 
 81 
 
 ^0 
 238,248 
 
 Luna. 
 
 Martis. 
 
 „ • J Pracipitat. 
 
 Mercurtns'y r 
 
 
 2/(5 
 
 2/y 
 
 43)273 
 
 2/4 
 
 Saturni. 
 
 Sub It mat. 
 
 Solis. 
 
 - Veneris. 
 
 Mercury prai 
 fodrfpraifed ’ 
 
 Methriaatum. 
 
 Metals [even in number 
 
 tues , names, and Char aiders ,239, 
 
 248 
 
 Minium. 
 
 M inti E mplajlrttm. 
 
 Mint-water. 
 
 (JMinntum. 
 
 Mirabolans. 
 
 Miflion.. 
 
 Mollition. 
 
 Morter and Pejlell. 
 
 Mullets .. 
 
 Multiplication. ? 
 
 Mundifcation. S 
 
 Mummia. 
 
 Myrrhe. 
 
 y 
 
 , andal- 
 
 239 ) 2/(5 
 
 j-s 
 
 , their ver- 
 
 77 
 
 29 
 
 40 
 
 2/7 
 
 <5/ 
 
 2 73 
 
 273 
 
 24 
 
 11 
 
 273 
 
 74 
 
 7 ® 
 
 N 
 
 N Ecke of a g lifer Siringe may 
 be crooked. 12 
 
 Nippers for Amputation. ... / 
 Needles andflit chtng quills. 18 
 iV/Vfr / 4 /f. 47)217 
 
 Nutrition. 273 
 
 NuxMofcata. 71 
 
 O 
 
THE TABLE. 
 
 o 
 
 oleum. 
 
 Oleum AbfintbuX c °™ mun ' 
 J LCbimic. 
 
 Oleum Amig- \ Amur Arum 7 
 
 dalarum cdulciitm. \ 
 
 2J7 
 
 yo 
 
 n 
 
 
 Oleum 
 
 < 
 
 " Anethinum, 
 Agarici. 
 
 Anifi. 
 
 Antimonii. 
 
 C hamomelinum . 
 Cartophillorum. 
 
 48 
 
 49 
 
 7* 
 
 48 
 
 Si 
 
 
 \fimflcx. 1". 
 . Iuniperinum. 
 
 ’■ L aurimm. 
 
 Lilltornm. 
 
 Lini. 
 
 Lumbricorum. 
 
 J2 
 
 49 
 
 48 
 
 49 
 48 
 
 LZfacis. 
 
 •i Origani. 
 
 * Ovorum. 
 
 Papaverum. 
 
 Petreoli. 
 
 Pbilofophorum. 
 
 . j Rofar urn. 
 
 olmm 1 sLbuimm. 
 
 Scorpion urn. 
 
 Spica. 
 
 Succini Chimice. 
 
 I Sulphur is per Camp ana. y r 
 Terebinthinx. /2 
 
 \Vttrioli. yr 
 
 Opium. 66 
 
 Opopanax. 71 
 
 Orpimenty vide Auri pigmcntum 
 Oximel [implex. 5-4 
 
 Oyntments ft for the Chirurgions 
 Chef. ' ", 31 
 
 do 
 
 - 19,20 
 
 212 , 2/7 
 
 ir 
 
 2/7 
 
 61 
 
 ( 
 
 d2 
 
 SI 
 S 3 
 49 
 S o 
 /o 
 *2 
 
 48 
 
 49 
 *0 
 
 73 
 
 )L Aces. 
 
 Payle ofBrajfe. 
 
 ' cPerfcum. y 
 
 Phi Ionium A Romanum. > 
 
 Tarfenfe. ^ 
 
 phlebotom'ie tvitb infractions corner 
 ning blood-letting. 
 
 Phlegma Vitrioli. 
 
 Phlcgmcs. 
 
 Piger Henri cns. 
 
 f Agregativx. 
 j Aura. 
 
 **<%£?* c, 
 
 1 de Euphorbia. [ 
 
 {.Ruff j 
 
 Pils how to be hardened and dryed 
 
 U P‘ 166 
 
 Piper nigrum. ~ Q 
 
 Pipkins. 24 
 
 r Burgundu. y 
 
 Pix d Grxca. C 73 
 
 <- Navails. 3 
 
 Plaferbox with appurtenances, id 
 
 Plaflers far the Chirurgeons Chef. 
 
 Plant aine water. 42,184 
 
 Plague what it is ,323. what parts arc 
 moffub] ect to t he plague, 3 24 ,na- 
 tur all caufes,iz6.precedentfigncs 
 32 7.fgnesprefaging death, 328. 
 Cods tokens with the manner of 
 t hem, 333. Directions for prefer- 
 vationfrom Infection, 334. F times 
 to purge aire in houfes, 337, 338. 
 Cordials, 340,344. I oofenefe un¬ 
 fa fe, Burges re cat, 343. ElcCiuar 
 de Ovo good Cn the plague, 344. 
 Diatejfaron good in the plague , 
 J4d. Cordials for women with 
 xhilde,i^y.Pilulx Ruff,t heir ver- 
 pue and dofe in the plague, 348. 
 Plague not cured by Joint ives,i Si* 
 danger of Laxatives, 3/2, 3/9. 
 lultps for the difeafed of the 
 i plague,againflfounding, 3 // 
 Bloodletting good in the plague , 
 and fweating to be ufed, 3 j7. 'Ve¬ 
 nice Treakle good in the plague, 
 tfo.Dtet for thefickofthe plague 
 CLq q 2 3 dr 
 
 10 
 
 24,2/ 
 
THE TABLE. 
 
 361. An gem mendofa incident 
 to people in contagions times, with 
 the cure, 3 62. cure of paines in 
 the head of thofe, who are infett- 
 cd, 363. Emplaflers and Cata- 
 plafmes to draw and hcalc Buboes, 
 Blaines, Carbuncles, 3 64, 3 65, 3 66. 
 Aurum vita, a rare Experiment to 
 care the plague by fweating , the 
 manner of ufingtt, 3 67. Lafily i 
 Certificates from S'. Margrets 
 Weflminfler, to the Lords of the 
 Councell, concerning the effects of 
 this, and another Certificate from 
 the Major and luflices of North¬ 
 hampton, touching theatres done 
 by the Aurum vitie. 
 
 r album. 
 
 PlumbunU philofophorunt. 
 l uflum. 
 
 76 
 V7 
 
 77 
 
 . ....... 
 
 Porrtngts for blood-letting. 2 3 
 
 Gaily Pots. 24 
 
 Precipitate, vide Mercury . 
 Precipitation. P -71 
 
 Probation. “ 273 
 
 Probes with ufe of them. ' 8 
 
 Procidentia Ani 3 vide Exit us Am. 
 Projeclio. 1 
 Proleffatio.y 27 * 
 
 Pullicans. 10,11 
 
 Puipa Tamarindorum, 61 
 
 Pulvis. 257 
 
 Putvis Arthreticus. 3 
 
 Punchies. jo,ii 
 
 Purgatio. 273 
 
 Purificare. 2/7 
 
 Put ref aftio. 257,273 
 
 R 
 
 r Althea. 
 
 | Angelica. 
 
 Radices 
 
 1 Conjohda, major. 
 Pyrethri. 
 
 Raphantfilvefris, 
 
 Rafion. 
 
 Rafour. 
 
 Ravens Bills . 
 
 Realgar. 
 
 Re ductio. 
 
 Repurgation. 
 
 Refna. 
 
 Refolution. 
 
 Refined ion. 
 
 Refiriftive ueceffary in a fracture. 
 
 1/0 
 
 Retort a. 
 
 Reverberation. 
 
 Rhabarbarum. 
 v , fiBerberum. 7 
 0 ’ LCidomorum. J ^ 
 
 Rofa folis. 
 
 Rofie rubra. f 
 
 Rofe-vinegar. ^ 
 
 "RaCf ni/itev S am ask e 7 
 
 Rofe-water } 41 . 
 
 Rofemary. g 0 
 
 Rofemary water. ^ 
 
 82 
 
 82 
 
 66 
 
 82 
 
 82 
 
 82 
 
 274 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 2 74 
 
 274 
 
 73 
 
 274 
 
 274 
 
 258 
 e/8,274 
 64 
 
 Variation. 
 
 VS 
 
 ^^Lguickfilver. vide Mercury. 
 Sluilsforfitching. j8 
 
 Quinta Effentia. O 
 guinta Effentia Vini.$ V*>V S 
 
 S Abina. 
 
 Sac eh arum. 
 Saith.Satumi. 
 
 ; f Abfinthii. 
 
 11 Askoli . 
 j Ammoniack. 
 I Colkotharis.' 
 Sal ^ Communis. 
 G emma.. 
 Nitri. 
 j Petr*. 
 \Tartari. 
 
 82 
 
 6 9 
 
 179,240 
 21 6 
 2/9 
 2/9 
 2/9 
 2/8 
 2/8 
 47,317 
 e/8 
 
 «/9 
 
 Salts the antiqmtie and kindts, 206. 
 
 what 
 
THE TABLE. 
 
 81 
 
 16 
 
 2? 9 
 
 66 
 
 66 
 
 2f2 
 
 what ufes it fervethto, and the 
 necefjitie of it, 207,20 8,109 ,21 o, 
 
 211 ,&c. 
 
 Salvia. 
 
 Salvatory with appurtenances. 
 
 Sapo. 
 
 Sarfaperilla. 
 
 Saffron. 
 
 $of Copper, 
 lof Iron. 
 
 Saffafras. 67 
 
 Sajfafras water. 3 9 
 
 Sagapamm. 72 
 
 Sanguis Draconic. 7 4 
 
 Saw for Amputating. 7, t7 8 
 
 S aw for the head. 7 
 
 Sc ammonium. 64 
 
 Sc or but urn, or Scurvy, what it ic,the 
 nature,and names of it,the caufes, 
 161. fignes of it, 162, 163. the 
 cure by Lotions, 169. by baths , 
 oyles, and Vnguents ,170,171,172 
 the cure for the ulcers of the Scur- 
 vy, 
 
 Searces. 
 
 Seffion. 
 
 Segregation. 
 
 CAnethi . 
 
 Arnft. 
 
 Carui. 
 
 ■f Cardui. 
 
 Faniculi. 
 
 Sizers. 
 
 Skillet. 
 
 Sol , or Gold. 
 
 Solution. 
 
 Sope. 
 
 Sorrell. 
 
 Spu.hu s 
 
 Spatula OUundani. 
 rAni. 
 
 Speculum < Lingua. 
 
 £ Oris. 
 
 Speculum Oris with a Screw. 
 SpermaCeti. 
 
 Sphacelus what it is, the wav of Am¬ 
 putating of the Sphacelated part , 
 387. Amputation made better by 
 experience , 388 
 
 f T ercbinthina. 4 <5 
 
 SpiritnsXvini. 47,25’9 
 
 Lvitrioli. 212 
 
 J 7 
 
 24 
 
 239 
 
 2f9> *74 
 279 
 171 
 
 * 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 74 
 
 24 
 
 274 
 
 274 
 
 *9 
 68 
 68 
 
 [ Fanuaract. 
 
 Semen ^ Lml f 
 
 Papaveris. 
 Petrofelini. 
 
 I Plmagmis. 
 
 . ! 1 3**- ma i 01 
 
 f \tuor cfrtgica mint) 
 f Lar^el 
 
 S‘rz"&'{sn.iui ,2 -‘3 
 
 Separation. 
 
 Sheeresfor Incifton. 
 
 Siccation. 
 
 Stgidum Hermetic. 
 
 S ik es. 
 
 Si Ike for the pitching needles . 
 Silver , vide Luna . 
 
 68 
 
 68 
 
 68 
 
 Splints. 24 
 
 Spleeneand thedtfeafes of it cured. 
 
 28 
 
 Spodium. 77 
 
 Spunges. 24 
 
 St ere ns Caninum, vide Album Gra- 
 cum. 
 
 Stibium. 77 
 
 Stitching. iS 
 
 /» the bladder, to fear chit by 
 Catheter , and fearching candle * 
 
 68 
 
 
 IS 
 
 69 
 
 Storks bills. 
 
 7 
 
 69 
 
 Strainers. 
 
 24 
 
 69 
 
 Stratification. 
 
 274 
 
 
 Statum fuperfiratum. 
 
 279 
 
 (69 
 
 „ C Calami t a. 1 
 
 
 
 Sl J ,ax iLiqmd. y 72 
 
 
 
 Stephens water,andits vertues. 
 
 
 274 
 
 Subduchon. 
 
 274 
 
 8 
 
 Subltmare. 
 
 278 
 
 274 
 
 Sublimation. 1 
 
 
 279 
 
 Subtiliation. 3 
 
 
 11 
 
 Succinum. 
 
 73 
 
 18 
 
 $ Album. 1 
 
 
 
 LCitrinum.g 2 *9 
 
 
 
 Rrr Sue cut. 
 
THE TABLE. 
 
 SttCCUS 
 
 Abfinthii. ~1 C Abfinthio. 
 
 Acacia. yf /•/••»_/ Alkandal. 
 
 Glicerhizd. > Sl Tr * h f a K M.mc. 
 
 Limonum. (L ^podio. 
 
 Sulphur in gen trail what it ispandits Tumors not to be wcifed . 
 uertues , 76,221,222,223,224 Tumor defined in its kinde. 
 
 63 
 
 64 
 
 1 
 
 S 7 
 
 Syrupus* 
 
 Sumach. 
 
 Syncope, tvhat it is with the cure. 
 ~Abfinthii. 
 
 Ciuamoni. 
 
 Limonum. 
 
 Pap aver is. 
 Prunellorum. 
 
 Raphani filvefiris. 
 
 j xtfin’tfs'Zwil 
 
 l L Violarum. 
 
 T Alcum. 
 
 T,amarinds. 
 
 T.apes. 
 
 Tartar. 
 
 Teeth how to be drawne out. 
 Tenafmus what it is,cure. 9,201,202 
 
 7 
 
 260 
 5-9,360 
 
 fhH* 
 57 
 24 
 81 
 260 
 24 
 248 
 
 2 74 
 12,24 
 
 25-8 
 
 Tumores. 1 
 
 Turbith. j 260 
 
 
 77 
 
 Tturpet hum Cathapfaris. 
 
 67 
 
 88 
 
 Ttitia. 
 
 77,260 
 
 73 
 
 73 
 
 V 
 
 
 73 
 
 
 
 73 
 
 TT Eines mufi be opened. 
 
 V Veine how to be opened. 
 
 19,20 
 
 77 
 
 20 
 
 74 
 
 Venus, or Copper . 
 
 239 
 
 74 
 
 Verjuice. 
 
 43 
 
 Vitriolum. 
 
 76,212 
 
 54 
 
 Vit riolum album. 
 
 217 
 
 
 Vitriolum ujlum . 
 
 217 
 
 
 Vitriols mel. 
 
 216 
 
 
 Vitriol c ailed Colkothcr. vide Colko - 
 
 260 
 
 ther. 
 
 
 167 
 
 Vitrification. 
 
 274 
 
 24 
 
 Vitrum. 
 
 260 
 
 260 
 
 Vleers cured. 147,148. &c. 
 
 10 
 
 Vlcus. 
 
 260 
 
 Tere be llurn. 
 
 Terra. 
 
 rAndromach. 
 
 T.heriaca <Diatc(Jaron. 
 
 CLondinenfis. 
 
 Tbread and needles . 
 
 Thimum. 
 
 Tigillum. 
 
 Tinder box. 
 
 Tin, or lupiter . 
 
 Torrefaciio. 
 
 Tow. 
 
 Tranfmutatio. 1 
 Tranfudatio. J 
 
 Trafine a new invented injlrument 
 which worketh farre better, and 
 morefafe then the Trap an, 313 , to 
 
 / 318 
 
 Tragacanth. 73 
 
 Trapan with the ufe . 3 
 
 f Album Camphoratum.iz 
 
 I Aeriptiacum. 31 
 
 J nguen- ^ ^pp^ 0 iQ rumt 3 j 
 
 tnm j Aragon. 36 
 
 \_Aureum. 31 
 
 r f Bafilicon. 
 
 3* 
 
 n . , , tcompofit. 
 j Dtalth*ad r *d 
 ytmplex. 
 
 }l4 
 
 Diapompholigos . 
 
 32 
 
 contra lgnem. 
 
 33 
 
 j Martiatum. 
 
 36 
 
 1 dcMercurio. 
 
 34 
 
 « 
 
 S 
 
 ** 
 
 I 
 
 AT 
 
 32 
 
 Petforale. 
 
 32 
 
 Populeon. 
 
 33 
 
 Potabile. 
 
 34 
 
 Rofatum. 
 
 32 
 
 contra Sc or but urn 7 
 
 34 
 
 Saponis Mel. 
 
 33 
 
 Triapharmacon, 
 
 32 
 
 Vrina 
 
THE TABLE. 
 
 Vnna. 
 
 Vftion. 
 
 Vvapafta. 
 
 F'vulafpconc. 
 
 260 
 
 274 
 
 70 
 
 21 
 
 W. 
 
 \7\f dters for a Surgeons Cheft, 
 V V vide Aqua. 
 
 Waters vocat: Hot Waters in what 
 quantity to be taken, when good, 
 fometimes put in C lifters . 41 
 
 Wax lights. iy 
 
 Weights and Scalcs. 24,310 
 
 Wormewood water. 40 
 
 Wormewoodfait. , 
 
 Wormcs a caufe of Difenteria. 
 
 Wine vinegar. 
 
 White Paper. 
 
 Wimnds in generally with cures. 
 Wounds in the Arteries 8 6. Nerves 
 and ligaments 8 <j. Head, Face , 
 N 0 fe, Eares, eyes, hands , in Tho- 
 rax,&c. gg 
 
 Wounds by Gunjhot. 9 3 , 5,4 
 
 216 
 
 183 
 
 44 
 
 24 
 
 8f 
 
 ' Inziber. 
 
 71 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 Courteous Reader, thefe errors with divers others omitted, I defire 
 thee as thou {halt finde them in reading, thou wouldeft be pleafed 
 to amend them with thy pen. 
 
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 more liquid. 199.lin. 1 i.read principally forpriripally. 211 read as forrs.236.lin ult.Parichmia- 
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