Pharmacopœia Londinensis: 
OR, THE 
London Dispensatory. 
Further adorned by the Studies and Collections of the 
Fellows, now living of the said COLLEDG. 
Being that Book by which all Apothecaries are bound 
to make up all the Medicines in their Shops. 
In which is Printed, 
I. The Vertues, Qualities, and Pro- 
perties of every Simple. 
II. The Vertues and Use of the Com- 
pounds. 
III. All the Medicines that were in the 
Old Latin Dispensatory, and 
are left out in the New Latin 
one, are Printed in this Impreßi- 
on in English, with their Vertues. 
IV. Cautions in giving all Medicines 
that are dangerous. 
V. A Key to Galen’s Method of Phy- 
sick, containing 33. Chapters. 
VI. The Latin Names of every one of 
the Compounds, and in what Page 
of the New Latin Book in Folio
they are to be found. 
By Nich. Culpeper Student in Physick and Astrology. 
In this Impression, There is Added to the Compounds many Vertues and 
Uses more than ever were in any former Impression. By divers Learned 
and Able Doctors of Physick, Viz., W.R.A.C.F.W. And, By Abdiah Cole, 
Doctor of Physick, and the Liberal Arts; who hath Practised Physick forty 
nine years, And lived above thirty years, out of his own Country; And hath 
seen the Practice of France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, and the Indies, 
The Physitian's Library 
Contains all the Works in English of these most Famous 
Physitians following. Viz. 
Sennertus Practice of 
Physick, &c. 
Riverius Practice and 
Observations. 
Platerus Practice and 
observations. 
Bartholinus Anatomy. 
Riolanus Anatomy. 
Veslingus Anatomy. 
Lusitanus his wonder 
ful Practice. 
Johnston’s idea.
Doctors of 
Physick.
Nich Culpeper. 
Mart. Ruland. 
Will. Rand. 
Joh. Fernlius &
Abdiah Cole. 
All which are of most excellent Use for all Rational Persons; especially for all 
Chirurgions at Sea in his most Royal Majesties Ships: and all others that are on 
Trading Voyages for the Advancement of the Wealth and Honor of his Kingdoms. 
London: Printed by Peter Cole Printer and Book-seller, at the Sign of the 
Printing-press in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange. 1665.


Physick Books Printed by Peter Cole at the Exchange London. Viz 
1. A GOLDEN Practice 
of Physick; plainly disco- 
ring the KINDS with the 
several CAUSES of every 
disease, and their most proper 
CURES, in respect to the 
Causes from whence they 
come: after a new, easie and 
plain Method of Knowing, 
Foretelling, Preventing, and 
Curing all Diseases incident 
to the Body of Man. Full of 
proper Observations and Re- 
medies both of Ancient and 
Modern Physitians. Being 
the Fruit of One and Thirty 
years Travel, and fifty years 
Practice of Physick. By Dr. 
Plater, Dr. Cole, and Nich. 
Culpeper. 
2. Sennertus Practical Phy- 
sick; the first Book in three 
Parts. 1 Of the Head. 2 Of
the Hurt of the internal Sen- 
ses. 3 Of the external Senses, 
in five Sections. 
3 Sennenus Practical Phy- 
Sick; the second Book in 
four Parts 1 Of the Jaws 
and Mouth. 2 Of the Breast, 
3 Of the Lungs. 4 Of the 
Heart. 
4 Sennertus third Book of 
Practical Physick in four 
teen Parts, treating, 1 Of 
the Stomach and Gullet. 2 
Of the Guts, 3 Of the Me 
sentery, Sweetbread and Omen- 
tum, 4 Of the Spleen, 5 Of 
the Sides, 6 Of the scurvey, 
7 and 8 Of the Liver, 9 Of 
the Ureters 10 Of the Kid- 
nies,, 11 and 12 Of the 
Bladder, 13 and 14 Of the 
Privities and Generation in 
Men.
5 Sennenus fourth Book 
of Practical Physick in three 
Parts, Part 1 Of the Dis- 
eases in the Privities of Wo- 
men. The first Section, Of 
Diseases of the privy Part, 
and the Neck of the Womb. 
The second Section, Of the 
Diseases of the Womb, Part 
2, Of the Symptoms in the 
Womb and from the Womb. 
The second Section, Of the 
Symptoms in the Terms and 
other Fluxes of the Womb. 
The third Section. Of the 
Symptoms that besal all Vir- 
gins and Women in their 
Wombs, after they are ripe 
of Age, The fourth Section, 
Of the Symptoms which are 
in Conception. The fifth 
Section, Of the Government 
of Women with Child, and 
præternatural Distempers in 
Women with child. The 
sixth Section, Of Symptoms 
that happen in Childbearing.
The seventh section, Of the 
Government of Women and  
Child-bed, and of the Dis-
eases that come after Travel.
The first Section, Of Dis-
ease of the breast. The se-
cond Section, Of the Sym- 
ptoms of the Breasts. 
To which is added a Tra- 
ctate of the Cure of Infants, 
Part I, Of the Diet and 
Government of Infants. The 
second Section, Of Diseases 
and Symptoms in Children. 
6 Sennertus fifth Book of 
Practical Physick, Or the 
Art of Chyrurgery in six
Parts. 1, Of Tumors. 2, Of 
Ulcers. 3, Of the Skin, Hair
and Nails. 4, Of Wounds, 
with an excellent Treatise of 
the Weapon Salve. 5, Of  
Fractures. 6, Of Luxations,
7 Sennertus sixth and last
Book of Practical Physick in 
nine Parts. 1, Of Diseases 
from occult Qualities in ge- 
neral. 2, Of occult, ma- 
lignant, and venemous Dis- 
eases arising from the inter-
nal fault of the humors. 3, Of 
occult Diseases from Water
Air, and Infections, and of
infectious Diseases. 4, Of
the Venereal Pox. 5, Of out-
ward Poysons in General. 
6, Of Poysons from Mine- 
rals and Metals. 7, Of Poy- 
sons from Plants. 8, Of Poy- 
sons that come from Living 
Creatures. 9, Of Diseases 
by Witchcraft, Incantation, 
and Charms. 
8 Sennertus Treatise of 
Chymistry, shewing the A- 
greement and Disagreement 
of Chymists and Galenists. 
9 Sennertus two Treatises 
I, Of the Pox. 2, Of the Gout. 
10 Sennertus thirteen Books 
of Natural Philosophy: or 
the Nature of all things in 
the world. 
11 Twenty four Books of 
the Practice of Physick, being 
the Works of that Learned 
and Renowned Doctor La- 
zarus Riverius, Physitian and 
Counsellor to the late King, 
&c. 
12 Idea of Practical Phy- 
sick in twelve Books. 
13 Bartholinus Anatomy, 
with very many larger Brass 
Figures, than any other A- 
natomy in English. 
14 Veslingus Anatomy of 
the Body of Man. 
15 Riolanus Anatomy. 
16 A Translation of the 
new Dispensatory, made by 
the Colledg of Physitians of 
London, in Folio and in O- 
ctavo; whereunto is added
the Key of Galens Method of 
Physick. 
17 A Directory for Mid- 
wives, or a guide for women, 
the first second Part. 
18 Galens Art of Phy- 
sick. 
19 A new Method both 
of studying and practising 
Physick. 
20 A Treatise of the Ric- 
kets. 
21 Medicaments for the 
Poor: or Physick for the 
common people. 
22 Health for the Rich 
and Poor, by Diet without 
Physick. 
23 One thousand New, 
Famous and Rare Cures, in 
Folio and Octavo. 
24 A Treatise of Pulses 
and Urins.
25 A Treatise of Blood- 
letting, and Cures perform- 
ed thereby. 
26 A Treatise of Scarisi- 
cation, and Cures performed 
thereby. 
27 The English Physitian 
enlarged. 
The London Dispensatory 
in Folio, of a great Chara- 
cter in Latin. 
28 The London Dispensa- 
tory in Latin, a small Book 
in Twelves. 
29 Chymistry made easie 
and useful: Or, the Agree- 
ment and Disagreement of 
Chymists and Galenists: By 
Dr. Cole, &c. 
30 A New Art of Physick 
by Weight, or five hundred 
Aphorismes of Insensible
Transpiration, Breathing or 
Vapor coming forth of the 
Body : By Dr. Cole.
Divinity Books Printed by Peter Cole, &c. 
Eighteen Several Books off 
Mr. Burroughs, viz, on 
Matth. II. 
1 Christs Call to all those 
that are weary and heavy la- 
den, to come to him for rest. 
2 Christ the great Teacher 
Of Souls that come to him. 
3 Christ the humble Tea- 
cher of those that come to 
him. 
4 The only easie way to 
Heaven.  
5 The Excellency of holy 
Courage in evil times. 
6 Gospel Reconciliation. 
7 The Rare Jewel of 
Christian Contentment. 
8 Gospel Worship. 
10 A Treatise of Earthly
Mindedneß and of Heavenly 
Mindedneß, and Walking 
with God. 
11 An Exposition of the 
Prophesie of Hoseah. 
12 The Evil of Evils, or 
the exceeding sinfulness of 
Sin. 
13 Of precious Faith. 
14 Of Hope. 
15 Of walking by Faith
and not by Sight. 
16 The Christians living 
to Christ upon 2 Cor. 5. 15. 
17 A Catechism. 
18 Moses Choice, &c. 
Dr. Hills WORKS. 
Mr. Stephen Marshals New 
WORKS. Viz. 
1 Of Christs Intercession, 
or of sins of Infirmity. 
2 The high Priviledg of 
Believers, that they are the 
Sons of God.
3 Faith the means to feed 
on Christ. 
4 Of Self-denial. 
5 The Saints Duty to 
keep their Hearts, &c. 
6 The Mystery of Spiri- 
tual Life. 
Twenty one several Books of 
Mr. William Bridge Col- 
lected into two Volumes. 
VIZ. 
1 Scripture Light the most 
sure Light. 
2 Christ in Travel. 
3 A lifting up Tor the cast 
down. 
4 Of the Sin against the 
Holy Ghost. 
5 Of Sins of Infirmity. 
6 The false Apostle tried 
and discovered. 
7 The good and means 
of Establishment.
Physick Books 
Newly Printed. 
Zacutus Lusitanus his won- 
derful Practice, or admira- 
ble CASES and CURES in 
Physick. 
Platerus Observations with 
Histories of his Famous 
CURES according to the 
Method of his Golden Pra-
now also printed. 
Sennertus his Practice of
Physick in six Books: all
which may be bound in two 
Books in Octavo. 
One thousand famous and
rare Cures by M. Ruland. 

The Printer to the Reader. 
It is now above two years since ( Friendly Reader ) I designed 
or thine and mine own Pleasure Profit a more compleat 
Edition of the London Dispensatory in English, than any of the 
former, and indeed such an one (if possible )as to which no- 
thing might be added to its Accomplishment and Ornament 
in any future Editions: I resolved that it should be in Folio, 
and that the Names of the Simples or several Ingredients, which go to the 
making up of all and every the Respective Medicaments, should be printed 
not in an Huddle (as formerly) meerly to save Charge, by the smalness of the 
Book; but distinctly in a perpendicular Line, one under the other, as they are 
ranked in the Latine Editions in Folio, which adds not only Beauty and Plea- 
sure in Respect of the Eye and Fancy, ( as all Methodical and decent Contri- 
vances do) but renders the Book far more useful, both for those that would 
take a deliberate and Judicious view of the Simples, thereby to estimate 
the Vertues and Faculties of the Compounds, and for such as would compare 
the Latine and the English Editions to edifie themselves in the Latine Tongue, 
(and therefore at the beginning of every Compound, I have printed the Page 
where you may find it in the best Edition in Latine) as also for such as being 
conscious of their small Skill in the Latine Tongue, shal choose for their grea- 
ter ease, and to avoid all possibility of Mistakes, to dispense and make any of 
the respective Medicaments by this English Edition, and therefore I printed 
it in Folio, that it may lie plain and open before them. 
Nor did my Care rest here, but for thy more ample satisfaction, and the
greater Ornament and Accomplishment of this Edition. I earnestly pressed 
some Learned and Ingenious Gentlemen Friends of mine, well known to be 
both General Schollers, and able Physitians; to add the Vertues and Faculties 
of the Compound Medicaments, where Mr. Culpeper had wholly omitted them, 
or spoke more sparingly then the worth of the Medicament, and thy Service 
did require. The Gentlemen my friends aforesaid answered to this Effect, 
that though themselves and some other Learned Physitians did not envy the 
the Benefit which the Nation receives by the englishing of such Books, where- 
by knowing and industrious though Illiterate men, (as to the Learned Lan- 
guage) do both in City and Country much relieve diseased People, where ei- 
ther a more Learned Physitian is wanting, or when the Poverty or low and 
mean Quality of the Patients is such, that they dare not approach the Majesty 
and Splendor of Collegiate, Learned, and Renowned Physitians, whom they 
understand to be dignified by the Title of Excellency in France, yea and 
in England too, and consequently they esteem them as formidable, and hard to 
approach as Generals of Armies, who are by way of highest Honor so called: 
Also by such Books the Surgeons in Ships at Sea-who have ever Acted and do 
stil, & (as long as Trading in the World & Fights at Sea or Land last) must ACT 
The Physitians part as wel as their own, being ingenious and industrious Persons 
are inabled to act with greater Knowledg and Steadiness, than in former times
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(when they had no such helps ) to the saving of many a Mans life, that formerly 
perished through the Surgeons ignorance, in the Art of curing inward Diseases, 
& to the easing of many a pained, sad, and sick Soul, which must otherwise live 
a life worse then Death, in a Purgatory, or Hell on Earth. Though for these 
and such like Reasons said they, we ( and some others of the more nobler and 
generous fort of the Learned Physitians) do not envie this Knowledg, nor 
find themselves grieved at the publishing thereof, yet many others of the lear- 
ned, young Physitians that want Experience, and have but few Patients they 
will find themselves Nettled, especially those that are men not disciplined by 
Phylosophy, but such as sacrifice their Reason, Justice, Nobleness, Mercy, in 
a word their whole Man-hood upon the Altar of their Coveteousness, Ambi-
tion, vain Glory, pompous living, and such idle and Childish passions; and 
these (said they ) will give us Bad thankes for our pains. And thus some of 
my friends bogled at the first, consulting with flesh and blood, rather than with 
Brain and Nerves, or the Nervous Divine Liquor. But at last Christian Phi-
losophy, gaining the Conquest in their Soules, they told me they would en
deavour to satisfie my Request, and in their Additions freely and generously 
discover divers things, which by long study in the Nature of Simples and of 
mans Constitution partly, and partly by Experience and diligent Reading 
they had observed, scarce known to the vulgar of more Learned Naturalists; 
but it must be upon Condition, that in this Edition of the English Dispensatory 
all the passages reflecting upon the Colledg of London the Authors of the Book 
should be (for the future) left out. For said they, How can we professing our
selves among the Learned; endure to see Learned men abused out of a capri- 
cious Humor, and in a scurrilous manner? The Colledg is a society of Lear- 
ned men generally, and worthy Persons; many of them have been our lo-
ving Friends and acquaintance for many years, and therefore we will not have 
an hand in the Edition of a Book that shall use them uncivilly. If divine Ju- 
stice hath chastised that Society for some faults of their Predecessors best known 
to themselves, as David was chastised by Shimei, probably now the fault is
expiated: upon these and the like expressions fluently uttered according to 
their Asiatick and Galenical way of speaking, I promised them that they 
should be satisfied in this Particular to the full. They proceeded and finished 
the work I desired of them. Having added new Intimations of qualities, vir-
tues, and uses; relating to very many Medicaments, as thou shalt find if thou 
please to read them, most of which are distinguished from the former Vertues, 
by these words, Vertues newly added Printed in a line by themselves.
I asked them when they had perused the Book, what they thought of it 
and the Medicaments therein contained. They said they conceived the Lon- 
don Dispensatory might hold rank with any Dspensatory of any City in Europe; 
they told me the Medicaments were generally very effectual to the Intention 
for which they were Invented, and there was not an Intention in the whole 
Practice of Physick, for which there was not one at least, or two peculiarly 
destinate Medicaments.
They said also that most of these Medicaments had been tried and approved 
by many (some hundreds of) years experience, and invented by the ablest 
Physitians of all Ages and Countries in the world; by Physitians to Emperours, 
Kings, Princes, Dukes, Bihops, Abbots and Popes, Persons of highest dignity, live- 
ing in the greatest sensual happiness, most desirous to live, and most able to 
gratifie Physitians of the greatest worth and Ability. Here you have the 
perours Pils, the Queen of Colens Plaster, the Countesses Oyntment, the Bishops E- 
lectuary, the Abbots Cordial Pouder: You have Medicaments invented by the
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Consultation not only of two or three, but whol Colledges of Physitians, Par- 
liaments of Physitians, such as London Treacle, Syrup of Rhubarb of Angsburge, &c. 
Nay you have one Medicament invented by a King which if you take, you 
have a King to be your Physitian, which is Syrup of Apples of King Sabor a fa- 
mous African Physitian as wel as King. 
They said that he that could not Cure all Diseases that have been and are ac- 
counted curable with the medicaments of this Book, it was for want of Skil in 
the Nature of Man and Medicaments, and in the Method of Healing or Curing 
and not for any defficiency in these medicaments. And that there have been 
and probably now are some Physitians who giving their Physick themselves 
and pretending that the Apothecary shall not divulge their secrets, do yet use 
little other than the medicaments here described. 
I then desired to know why the Apothecaries have such cause to complain, 
that these so excellent medicaments being by them faithfully and carefully, 
and at a great expence prepared and kept, many Physitians of the Col- 
ledg do perpetually trouble themselves to invent, and the Apothecaries to 
make new medicaments for every Disease and Patient they meet with. 
They are stil coyning new Pouders, new Syrups, new Plasters, new Pils, for 
Sr. John and my Lady, for Richard and William &c. and the medicaments by 
themselves recomended to the Apothecaries to be made (under penalty of the 
Kings displeasure) according to their Dispensatory, must sleep despised and neg- 
lected, and at last be spoiled, unless the Apothecary can get the repute of a 
Physitian and prescribe them himself. 
Their Answer was, That only some Physitians were guilty of this absurd 
Practise, of which themselves best knew the reason, whether it were out of
a childish Ambition to shew how wel their memories were stuffed with Varie- 
ty of Simples, or to mend Magnificat and seem Wiser than the Colledg and all Anti- 
quity besides; of that the Apothecaries may not smel their Art, to which In- 
tent some are thought stil to Vary their medicaments though never so success- 
ful, and though the same Intention continue: Which what an unconscionable 
hazard that is in acute Diseases, all that are sober and good men as wel as Phy- 
sitians (if any can be a good Physitian absolutely that is not a good man ) wil 
judg. It is a wretched thing that Physitians should be biast in their Practice 
wherein mens dearest lives are concerned, with consideration of the Apothe- 
caries quacking. Salus Populi ought to be the supream Law to al Physitians that 
would deserve the name of Men, and Christians, and not of Foxes, and Infi- 
dels. Mens lives ought not to be hazarded through a giddy and affectedly 
various fashion of prescribing. There are Censors and other waies and means 
to keep Apothecaries from Practising, and provided they Practice not, the 
more knowing in Physick, the better Apothecaries they wil prove, and more 
serviceable both to the Physitian and Patient. It wil be a good way to pre- 
vent their Practising, for Physitians to leave off that affected neglect of the me- 
dicaments they keep, and for Physitians to disperse and sprinkle their Favors 
up and down the Town among them, balking none but such as are Infamous 
for making bad medicaments. For whiles their Medicaments spoil with keep- 
ing and whiles a few Apothecaries have all the Practice of the greatest and 
most famous Practitioners among them, what should the rest do but turn either 
Mountebanks or Bankrupts. For it is chiefly want of imployment from the 
Physitian, or fear of loosing his medicaments with keeping, that makes any 
Apothecary invade and intrench upon the Practice of Physick.
My learned friends having proceeded thus far upon the Subject, it came into 
my Mind, to desire farther satisfaction of them, as to the goodness efficacy and
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utility of the medicaments in this Book described, in comparison of the medi- 
caments of our Philosophers by the fire, our Paracelsians, Helmontians and 
that Crew. Can the Medicaments of this Dispensatory compare with their Elixirs,
their Spirits, their Tinctures, their Quintessences? Can they compare with the 
Enthusiastical preparations of the pretended Adepti or inspired Chymists, or the 
Rodomontados of the Utopian Fraternity of the Rosie Crusians One of which 
Boasted to me that there were but twelve of that Brotherhood in the World, 
of which he was one. That he could make Gold of any base mettal, Cure all 
Diseases, make old Persons become yong again, Restore the body to such 
youth and strength that a man should live some hundreds of years longer. And 
delivered a Book to me to Print (the Coppy whereof he desired to sell me ) 
which promised to perform all these things. 
Their Answers were, that though Chymistry is a noble and useful Practise, 
highly tending to discover the Mysteries of Nature, by Analysing her pro- 
ductions; yet Far the greatest part of Chymists, those especially that get 
their bread by that Practise, are strongly tainted with Imposture. For when 
Men of mean Estates have spent that little they had upon chargeable Opera-
tions, into which they are commonly drawn by a vain desire and hope to 
gain the Phylosophers stone, (according to that true Proverb as to vulgar 
Spirits unphilosophized, which saies that Necessity compels me to unhansom and ig- 
noble Courses) they are forced by boasting promises and insinuations, to make 
a prey of wealthy Men that have an Ambition to make Gold and to work 
wonders in the Cure of Incurable Diseases.
They further said, The chiefest Helmontian who pretends to do such won-
ders in the Cure of Feavers and other Diseases (that if he were able to an- 
swer his boastings by deeds might fit in the House of Lords) has been fain to 
lie in prison some considerable time for a debt of thirty pound at most, contra 
cted with his Glass-merchant. And the rest of the boasting fraternity can 
hardly win bread without abusing some Wealthy Person enchanted by the 
Chymists boasts, and betwatled with his own foolish desire and idle ambition. 
Nor is it much to be wondred that the Divine Providence should deliver up 
such vain Pretenders to such delusions of cheating spirits, in regard of their 
Vanity, Ambition, and want of heart to do good with the over plus of their 
Estates.
And my Learned Friends did further Assure me upon their Conscience and 
Credit, That whatever any of these vaporing Chymists can really Cure by any 
Of their Boasted Medicaments, May be done with more safety and Certainty 
by Medicaments described in the London Dispensatory, in which Book there are 
the chiefest and most effectual Chymical preparations. And that Van Helmont 
is the Patriarch of those Impostors, who pretended that he was (save in your 
presence) Adeptus, one that by extraordinary Revelation had the gift of heal- 
ing, and yet had not the Grace or goodness given him by God to communi- 
cate to posterity the Cure of any one Disease. If Helmont could have done 
what in a way of chymical delusion he boasted of, as to cure Quartan Agues by 
Plasters, to cure the Plague and Fevers after His rate &c. surely said they, all 
Europe would have rung with his fame, whereas we never heard of that won 
der working Gentleman til after his death, when his Tractates were printed. 
Out of which when a man shal have severed his fantastical Superstitions and 
Popish transportations as to Religion, his hypochondriacal Dreams and Do- 
tages of his being Adeptus, his Ambitious and Mountebank-like Invective a- 
gainst Galenists, his nonsensical sublimities in things natural, (like the chi 
mærical Dreams of Jacob Behmen) his intelligible and useful Notions
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stolen from former Writers, and disguised with barbarous and fantastical names; 
he wil find only some smal remainders (in comparson of the rest) observed by 
himself of good use, being a man of an acute Wit and diligently versed in 
Chymical operations, and one that might have done much good had not vain 
Ambition, Hypochondriacal Melancholly, and Romish Superstition transport- 
ed him, as his many superstitious passages, Dreams and chymerical Visions, E- 
vince. And we cannot but highly applaud the judgment of that great Scho - 
lar and famous Practitioner of Physick (who practised fifty years in the noble 
and populous City of Basil in Germany) Fælix Platerus, who in his most judicious 
Book of Practice of Physick reckons these Enthusiastical Adepti ( so pretended,) 
and their wealthy Disciples sick of the Philosophers stone, amongst persons 
really diseased in their Brains. And we believe such of them as reflecting up- 
on themselves and becoming sensible of their Disease, wil run that course 
of Physick there prescribed ( now printing in English) may be cured of their 
dotage and Vain pretensions. 
Reader, thy cheerful acceptance of my labors in this kind; heretofore Testifi- 
ed by the abundant thanks (and mony for my Books) I have had from many 
hundreds of persons (I might say some thousands) of Sea Surgeons and o- 
thers using the Sea and new Plantations, And other places in the Country at 
home where they must have perished if they had not had these helps; Made 
me procure the assistance of my Learned Friends, and at several times write 
down their discourses, which I Judged very useful, and therefore have 
printed them, not doubting thy acceptance of the Labors of those that are wil-
ling to serve thee and their Generation, with the best of those abilities that 
God of his Mercy hath afforded them, And amongst the rest of 
Thy Real Friend 
and Servant 
Peter Cole.
C Books

Books Printed by Peter Cole, and Edward Cole, Printers 
and Book-sellers of London at the Exchange. 
Several Physick Books of Nich. Culpeper 
Physitian and Astrologer; and Abdiah Cole Doctor 
of Physick and of the Liberal Arts. 
1. New Famous and Rare Cures, in Folio, and 
Octavo. 
2. Idea of Practical Physick in twelve Books. 
3. Sennertus thirteen Books of Natural Phylosophy. 
4. Sennertus two Treatises. 1. Of the Pox. 2. Of 
the Gout. 
5. Sennertus Art of Chyrurgery in six Parts, 1. Of 
Tumors. 2. Of Ulcers. 3. Of the Skin, Hair and 
Nailes. 4. Of Wounds. 5. Of Fractures. 6. Of 
Luxations. 
6. Twenty four Books of the Practice of Physick, 
being the Works of that Learned and Renowned Do- 
ctor, Lazarus Riverius. Physitian and Councellor to 
the late King, &c. 
7. Riolanus Anatomy. 
8. Veslingus Anatomy of the Body of Man. 
9. A Translation of the New Dispensatory, made by 
the Colledg of Physitians of London. Wherein is ad- 
ded, The Key to Galens Method of Physick.
10. The English Physitian Enlarged. 
11. A Directory for Midwives, or a Guide for Wo- 
men. 
12. Galens Art of Physick. 
13. New Method both of studying and practising 
Physick. 
14. A Treatise of the Rickets. 
15. Medicaments for the Poor, Or Physick for the 
Common People. 
16. Health for the Rich and Poor, by Diet without 
Physick. 
The London Dispensatory in Folio, of a great Chara-
cter in Latin. 
The London Dispensatory in twelves, a small Pocket 
Book in Latin.  
There is now in the Press a New Famous Practice of 
Physick; never Published before in English.
To the Physical Reader. 
The greatest Reason that I could ever observe why the Medicines prescribed in these 
Books above mentioned, and in many other Physick books, do not perform the 
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An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Human Vertues in the 
Body of MAN; both 1 Principal. And 2. Administring.
Human Ver- 
tues are either 
Principal for 
Procreation 
Conservation. 
Administring
Attractive. 
Digestive. 
Retentive.
Expulsive.
Vertues Conservative 
Vital. 
Natural. 
Animal. 
By the Natural are bread 
Blood. 
Choller. 
Flegm. 
Melancholly. 
The Animal Vertues of 
Intellective 
Sensitive. 
The Intellective is 
Imagination,
Judgment, 
Memory. 
The Sensitive is 
Common
Particular.
The Particular is 
Seeing,
Hearing, 
Smelling, 
Feeling. 
The Scope of this Discourse is, to preserve in sound-  
ness, vigor, and activity, the Mind and Understand-
ing of Man ; to strengthen the Brain, preserve the Bo- 
dy in Health, to a Man to be an able Co-artificer, or 
Helper of Nature, to withstand and expel Diseases. 
I shall touch only the principal Faculties both of bo- 
dy and Mind, which being kept in a due decorum, pre-
serve the Body in Health, and the Mind in vigor.
I shall 

An Astrologo-Physical Discourse, &c.
I shall in this place speak of them only in the Gene- 
ral as they are laid down to your view in the Synopsis, 
in the former page, and in the same Order. 
Vertue Procreative. ] The first in order, is the Ver- 
tue Procreative; for Nature regards not only the con- 
servation of its self, but to beget its like, and conserve 
its Species. 
The seat of this is in the Members of Generation, and 
is governed principally by the influence of Venus. 
It is augmented and increased by the strength of Ve- 
nus, by her Herbs, Roots, Trees, Minerals, &c. 
It is diminished and purged by those of Mars, and 
quite extinguished by those of Saturn. 
Observe the Hour and Medicines of Venus, to for- 
tifie ; of Mars, to clense this Vertue ; of Saturn, to 
extinguish it. 
Conservative.] The Conservative Vertue is, Vital, 
Natural, Animal. 
Vital.]. The Vital spirit hath its residence in the 
Heart, and is dispersed from it by the Arteries; and 
is governed by the influence of the Sun. And it is so 
to the Body, as the Sun is to the Creation, as the heart 
is in the Microcosm, so is the Sun in the Megacosm: for 
as the Sun gives life, light, and Motion to the Creati- 
on, so doth the Heart to the Body; therefore it is cal- 
led Sol Corporis, as the Sun is called. Cor Cali, because 
their Operation are so like. 
Inimical and destructive to this Vertue, are Saturn 
and Mars. 
The Herbs and Plants of Sol, wonderfully fortifie it. 
Natural.] The Natural Faculty or Vertue, resides 
in the Liver, and is generally governed by Jupiter, qua- 
si Jovans Pater ; it’s Office is to nourish the Body, and 
is dispersed through the Body by the Veins. 
From this are bred four particular Humors, Blood, 
Choller, Flegm, Melancholly. 
Blood is made of Meat perfectly conceded, in quali- 
ty hot and moist, governed by Jupiter: It is by a third 
Concoction transmuted into Flesh, the superfluity of it 
into feed, and its receptacle is the Veins, by which it is 
dispersed throughout the Body. 
Choller is made of the Meat more than perfectly con- 
cocted; it is the spume or froth of Blood: it clarifies 
all the Humors, heats the Body, nourisheth the Appre- 
hension as Blood doth the Judgment: It is in quality 
not and dry; fortifieth the attractive Faculty, as Blood 
doth the Digestive ; moves Man to Activity and Valor:
its Receptacle is the Gall, and it is under the influence 
of Mars. 
Flegm is made of Meat not perfectly digested: it 
fortifies the Vertue Expulsive, makes the body slippery, 
for Ejection; it fortifies the Brain by its consimili- 
tude with it; yet it spoils Apprehension by its Antipa- 
thy with it: It qualifies Choller, cools and moistens 
the Heart, thereby sustaining it, and the whole Body, 
from the fiery Effects, which continual Motion would 
produce; its Receptacle is the Lungs, and is governed 
by Venus, some say by the Moon, perhaps it may be go- 
verned by them both ; it is cold and moist in quality. 
Melancholly, is the sediment of Blood, cold and 
Equality, fortifying the Retentive Faculty, and 
Memory; makes Men sober, solid, and staid, fit for 
study ; staies the unbridled toyes and fooleries of lust- 
full blood, staies the wandring thoughts, and reduceth 
them Home to the centre: It is like a grave Counsel- 
lor to the whol Body: its Receptacle is in the spleen, 
and it is governed by Saturn. 
Of all these Humors, Blood is the chief, all the rest 
are but superfluities of Blood; yet are they necessary 
superfluities, for without any of them, Man cannot live. 
Namely, choller is the fiery superfluity; Flegm, the 
Watry; Melancholly, the Earthly. 
Animal.] The third principal Vertue remains, 
which is Animal; its residence is in the Brain, and 
Mercury is the general Significator of it. Ptolomy held 
the Moon signified the Animal Vertue; and I am of an 
Opinion, both Mercury and the Moon dispose it; and 
my reason is, 1. Because both of them in Nativities,
either fortifie, or impedite it. 2 Ill Directions to ei- 
ther, or from either, afflict it, as good ones help it. In- 
deed the Moon rules the Bulk of if, as also the Sensitive 
part of it: Mercury the Rational part: and that’s the 
Reason, if in a Nativity the Moon be stronger that Mer- 
cury, Sence many times ever-powers Reason; but if 
Mercury be strong, and the Moon weak, Reason will be 
Master ordinarily in despite of Sence. 
It is divided into Intellective, and Sensitive. 
1 Intellective.] The Intellective resides in the brain, 
within the Pia mater, is governed generally by Mercury. 
It is divided into Imagination, Judgment and Me- 
mory. 
Imagination is seated in the fore-part of the Brain; 
it is hot and dry in quality, quick, active, alwaies wor- 
king; it receives Vapors from the Heart, and coyns 
them into thoughts; it never sleeps, but alwaies is wor- 
king, both when the Man is sleeping or waking; on- 
ly when judgment is awake it regulates the Imaginati- 
on, which runs at Random when judgment is asleep, 
and forms any thought according to the Nature of the 
Vapor sent up to it. Mercury is out of question the 
Disposer of it. 
A Man may easily perceive his judgment asleep be- 
fore himself many times, and then he shall perceive his 
thoughts run at Random. 
Judgment alwaies sleeps when Men do, Imagination 
never sleeps; Memory sometimes sleeps when Men sleep, 
and somtimes it doth not: so then when Memory is a- 
wake, and the man asleep, then Memory remembers 
what Apprehension coyns, and that is a Dream: the 
Thoughts would have been the same, if Memory had 
not been awake to remember it. 
These Thoughts are commonly ( I mean in sleep; 
when they are purely Natural) framed according to the
Nature of the Humor, called Complexion, which is 
predominate in the Body; and if the Humor be pec- 
cant, it is alwaies so. 
So that it is one of the surest Rules to know a mans 
own complexion, by his Dreams, I mean a Man void of 
Distractions, or deep studies: (this most assuredly shews 
Mercury to dispose of the Imagination, as also because 
it is mutable, applying it self to any Object, as Mercu- 
ry's Nature is to do) for then the Imagination will fol- 
low its old bend; for if a man be bent upon a Business, 
his Apprehension will work as much when he is asleep, 
and find out as many truths by study, as when the man 
is awake; and perhaps more too, because then it is not 
impedited by ocular Objects. 
For the Notion of the predominate complexion by 
the Dreams, I have read some most excellent Verses, 
made by Thomas May Esq; which I shall here insert, by
which, if the complexion be not altered much in quan- 
tity or quality, you may know, by your most usual 
Dreams, not only your own complexion, but also what 
every Complexion is prone, and inclinable to: (I sup- 
pose, and really beleeve, that many Men and Women 
may know strange truths by their Dreams, if their Na- 
tivities be accordingly either by Nature, or perhaps 
if the business be rectified by Art, of which I may hap- 
pen to write somthing hereafter.) They are these: 
Sanguine Complexion. 
There all together fly in Companies, 
Of different Colours, Shapes and Qualities, 
Bright Sanguine Dreames, that seem to cheer the Night 
With beautious shapes, and rosy wings as bright, 
As the Morning, or those flowers that grace
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An Astrologo-Physical Discourse, &c. 
In midst of Spring the painted Flora's Face, 
Within the Temple, merrily do sport,  
To whom the little Cupids oft resort: 
The little Cupids from fair Venus Grove, 
Stealing by night, do thither come and love, 
With those bright Sanguine Dreams to paß away 
The hours of night, in sport and amourous play. 
Chollerick Complexion. 
There Dreams of Choller in a flamelike hue, 
Through th’ Air like little fiery Meteors flue, 
With swift and angry motion, to and fro. 
As if they sought within that place, a foe. 
Sometimes up to the Temples roof, on high, 
They soar, as if they meant to scale the skie: 
Or some impossible Archievement sought, 
T' allay the thirst of an a aspiring thought. 
Melancholick Complexion. 
But down below, with a sad and heavy cheer. 
On dead mens Tombs, and every Sepulcher, 
The dusky dreams of Melancholly light, 
With sable wings, like Bats, or Birds of Night, 
Fluttering in darkest corners, here and there, 
But all alone, and still each other fear : 
Courting dead skuls, and seeming to invite 
The dismal Ghosts, for company by night. 
Phlegmatick Complexion. 
There all along the Temples whited wall, 
Phlegmatick lazie Dreams, not wing'd at all, 
But flow like slimy Snails, about do crawl, 
And evermore, are thence afraid to fall, 
And so be drown'd, for on the floor below 
They do suppose great Pools of water flow. 
And thus much for Imagination, which is governed 
by Mercury, and fortified by his influence; and is also 
strong or weak in Man, according as Mercury is strong 
or weak in the Nativity. 
Judgment is seated in the midst of the Brain, to shew 
that it ought to bear rule over all the other Faculties;
it is the Judg of the little World, to approve of what is 
good, and reject what is bad; it is the -- of Reason,
and the guide of Actions; so that all saings are com- 
mitted through its Infirmity, it not rightly judging be- 
tween a real and apparant good. It is hot and moist 
in quality, and under the influence of Jupiter. 
Memory is seated in the hinder cell of the Brain, it is 
the great Register to the little World; and its Office 
is to Record things either done and past, or to be done. 
It is in quality cold and dry, Melanchollick, and 
therefore generally Melanchollick men have best Me- 
mories, and most tenacious every way. It is under the 
Dominion of Saturn, and is fortified by his Influance, 
but purged by the Luminaries. 
2, Sensitive.] The second part of the Animal Ver- 
tue, is Sensitive, and it is divided into two parts, Com- 
mon and Particular. 
Common Sence is an imaginary term, and that which 
gives Vertue to all the particular Sences, and knits or 
unites them together within the Pia Mater. It is regu- 
lated by Mercury, (perhaps this is one Reason why 
men are so fickle-headed) and its Office is to preserve 
a Harmony among the Sences. 
Particular Sences are Five,
Seeing, 
Hearings 
Smelling, 
Tasting, 
Feeling, 
These Sences are united in one, in the Brain, by the 
common Sence but are operatively distinguished into
their several seates, and places of Residence. 
The Sight resides in the Eyes and particularly in the 
Christalline Humor; It is in quality cold and moist, 
and governed by the Luminaries; They who have them 
weak in their Genesis, have alwaies weak sights; if,
one of them be so, the weakness possesseth but one Eye.
The Hearing resides in the Ears; is in quality, cold 
and dry, Melancholly, and under the Dominion of Sa
turn. 
The Smelling resides in the Nose, is in quality hot 
and dry, Chollerick, and that is the Reason chollerick 
Creatures have so good smels, as Dogs. It is under 
the Influence of Mars. 
The Taste resides in the Pallat which is placed at the
Root of the Tongue, on purpose to discern what Food 
is congruous for the stomach, and what not; as the 
Meseraick Veins are placed to discern what Nourish- 
ment is proper for the Liver to convert into Blood; in 
some very few men, and but a few, and in those few, but 
in a very few Meats these two Tasters agree not and 
that is the Reason some men covet Meats that make 
them sick, viz. The tast craves them, and the Meseraick 
Veins reject them: In quality hot and moist, and is ru- 
led by Jupiter. 
The Feeling is deputed to no particular Organ, but 
is spread abroad, over the whole Body; is of all quali- 
ties, hot, cold, dry, and moist, and is the Index of all 
tangible things; for if it were only hot, alone, it could 
not feel a quality contrary,viz. cold; and so might
be spoken of other qualities. It is under the Domini- 
on of Venus, some say. Mercury: A thousand to one, 
but tis under Mercury.
The Four Administring Vertues are. 
Attractive, 
Digestive, 
Retentive, 
Expulsive, 
The Attractive Vertue is hot and dry, hot by quality, 
active, or principal, and that appears because the Foun- 
tain of all heat is Attractive, viz. the Sun. Dry by a qua- 
lity passive, or an effect of its Heat; its Office is to re- 
main in the Body, and call for what Nature wants. 
It is under the Influence of the Sun, say Authors, and 
not under Mars, because he is of a corrupting Nature, 
(Experience is more worth then Tradition ten thou- 
sand times over) yet if we cast an impartial Eye upon 
Experience, we shall find, that Martial men, call for
meat none of the least, and for Drink the most of all 
other men, although many times they corrupt the Body
by it; and therefore I see no Reason why Mars being 
of the same quality with the Sun, should not have a 
share in the Dominion. 
It is in vain to Object, that the Influence of Mars is 
Evil, and therefore he should have no dominion over 
this Vertue; for them.
1. By the same Rule, he should have no Dominion at 
all in the Body of man. 
2. Al the Vertues in man are Naturally evil, and cor- 
rupted by Adams Fall. 
This Attractive Vertue ought to be fortified when 
the Moon is in the fiery signs, viz. Aries and Sagitarys 
but not in Leo, for the sign is so violent, that no Phy- 
sick ought to be given when the Moon is there: (and 
why not Leo, seeing that is the most Attractive sign of
all? And that’s the reason such as have it ascending in
their Genesis, are such greedy eaters) If you cannot
stay till the Moon be in one of them, let one of them as- 
cend when you administer the Medicine. 
The Digestive Vertue is hot and moist, and is the 
principal of them all, like Hand-maids attend it. 
The Attractive Vertue draws that which it should 
digest, and serves continually to feed and supply it.
The 

DIRECTIONS. 
The Retentive Vertue, retains the substance with it, 
till it be perfectly digested. 
The Expulsive Vertue casteth out, expelleth what is 
Superfluous by Digestion. 
It is under the Influence of Jupiter, and fortified by 
his Herbs and Plants, &c. 
In fortifying it, let your Moon be in Geminis, Aqua-
ry, or the first half of Libra, or if matters be come to 
that extremity, that you cannot stay till that time, let 
one of them ascend, but both of them together would 
do better, alwaies provided that the Moon be not in the 
Ascendent. I cannot beleeve the Moon afflicts the As- 
cendent fo much as they talk of, if she be well dignified, 
and in a Sign she delights in. 
The Retentive Vertue is in quality cold and dry; cold 
because the Nature of cold is to compress, witness the 
Ice; dry, because the Nature of Dryness, is to keep and
hold what is compressed. 
It is under the Influence of Saturn, and that is the 
Reason why usually Saturnine men are so coveteous 
and tenacious. 
In fortifying of it, make use of the Herbs and Plants, 
&c. of Saturn, and let the Moon be in Taurus or Vir- 
go, Capricorn, is not so good, say Authors, (I can give 
no Reason for that neither) let not Saturn nor his ill 
Aspect molest the Ascendant. 
The Expulsive Faculty is cold and moist ; cold, be- 
cause that compresseth the superfluities; moist, because 
that makes the Body slippery, and fit for Ejection, and 
disposeth it to it. 
It is under the Dominion of Luna, with whom you 
may joyn Venus, because she is of the same Nature.
Also in whatsoever is before written, of the Nature 
of the Planets, take notice that fixed Stars of the same 
Nature, work the same effects. 
In fortifying this, (which ought to be done in all 
Purgations) let the Moon be in Cancer, Scorpio, or Pis- 
ces, or let one of these Signs Ascend.
DIRECTIONS. 
Although I did what I could throughout the whol Book 
to expreß my self in such a Language as might be un- 
derstood by all, and therefore avoided terms of Art as much 
as might be, (it being the task of ohers to write onely to 
the Learned and the Nurslings of Apollo, but of my 
Self to do my Country good; which is the Centre all my 
Lines tend to, and I desire should terminate in) Yet, 
I. Some words must of necessity fall in which need Expla- 
nation. 
2. It would be very tedious at the end of every Receipt to 
repeat over and over again, the way of administration of the 
Receipt, or ordering your Bodies after it, or to instruct you in 
the mixture of Medicines, and indeed would do nothing else 
but stuff the Book full of Tautology. 
To answer to both these is my task as this time. 
To the first: 
The words which need explaining, such as are obvious to 
my eye, are these that follow. 
To distil in Balneo Mariæ, is the usual way of distil- 
ing in Water. It is no more than to place your Glaß Body 
which holds the matter to be distilled in a convenient vessel of 
water, when the water is cold (for fear of breaking) put a 
wisp of straw, or the like under it, to keep it from the bottom, 
then make the water boil, that so the spirit may be distilled 
forth ; take not the Glaß out till the water be cold again, for 
fear of breaking: It is impossible for a man to learn how to 
do it unleß he saw is done.
2. Manica Hippocrates, Hippocrates his Sleeve, is a 
piece of woolen cloath, new and white, sewed together 
in form of a Sugar-loaf. Its use is, to strain any Syrup 
or Decoction through, by pouring it into it, and suffe- 
ring it to run through without pressing or crushing it. 
3. Calcination, Is a burning of a thing in a Cruci- 
ble or other such convenient Vessel that will endure the 
fire: A Crucible is such a thing as your Gold-smiths 
melt Silver in, and your Founders their Mettals; you 
may place it in the midst of the fire, with coals above, 
below, and every side of it. 
4. Filtration, is straining of a liquid Body through a 
brown Paper: Make up the Paper in form of a Funnel, 
the which having placed in a Funnel, and placed the 
Funnel and the Paper in it in an empty Glass, pour in 
the Liquor you would filter, and let it run through at
its Leasure. 
5. Coagulation, Is curdling or hardning: It is used 
in Physick for reducing a liquid Body to Hardness by 
the heat of the fire. 
6. Where as you find Vital, Natural and Animal 
Spirits, often mentioned in the Vertues of Receipts, I 
shall explain what they be, and what their Operation 
is in the Body of Man. 
The Actions or Operation of the Animal Vertues, 
are, 1 Sensitive. 2. Motive. 
The Sensitive is 1. External. 2. Internal. 
The External Sences are. 1 Seeing, 2 Hearing, 3 
Tasting, 4 Smelling, 5 Feeling. 
The Internal Sences are, 1. the Imagination to appre- 
hend a thing. 2. Judgment to judg of it. 3. Memory to re- 
member it.
The Seat of all these is in the Brain. 
The Vital Spirits proceed from the Heart, and cause 
in Man, Mirth, Joy, Hope, Trust, Humanity, Mildneß, 
Courage, &c. and their Opposites: viz. Sadneß, Fear, 
Care, Sorrow, Dispair, Envy, Hatred, Stubborneß, Re- 
venge, &c. by heat Natural or not Natural. 
The Natural spirit nourisheth the Body throughout 
(as the Vital quickens it, and the Animal gives it sence 
and motion) Its Office is to alter or concoct Food in- 
to Chyle, Chyle into Blood, Blood into flesh, to Form, 
Engender, Nourish, and Increase the Body, 
7. Infusion, is to steep a gross Body into one more
Liquid. 
8. Decoction, is the Liquor in which any thing is 
boyled. 
As for the manner of using or ordering the Body af- 
ter any sweating, or purging Medicines, or Pill, or the 
like, the Table at the latter end of the Vertues of the 
Medicines will direct you to what Pages you may find 
them in, look but the word [Rules] there, as also in 
the next Page. 
The different Forms of making up Medicines, as 
some into Syrups, others into Electuaries, Pills, Tro-
ches &c. was partly to please the different Pallats of 
People, that so Medicines might be more delightful, or 
at least less burdensom: in such a case, the Table of Ver- 
tues at the latter end will universally furnish you with 
the generallity of both Simples and Compounds ap- 
propriated to the Disease. 
You may make the mixtures of them in what form 
you please; only for your better instructions at present, 
accept of these few Rules. 
1. Consider, That all Diseases are cured by their 
contraries, but all parts of the Body maintained by 
their likes: Then if Heat be the Cause of the Disease, 
give the cold Medicine appropriated to it, if wind, see 
how many Medicines appropriated to that Disease ex- 
pel wind, and use them. 
2. Have a Care you use not such Medicines to one 
part of your Body which are appropriated to another, 
for if your Brain be over-heated, and you use such Me-
dicines

DIRECTIONS. 
dicines as cool the Heart or Liver, you may make mad 
work. 
3. The distilled Water of any Herb you would take 
for a Disease, is a fit mixture for the Syrup of the same 
Herb, or to make any Electuary into a Drink, if you af- 
fect such liquid Medicines best: if you have not the di- 
stilled water, make use of the Decoction. 
4. Diseases that lie in the parts of the Body remote 
from the stomach and Bowels, it is in vain to think to 
carry away the Cause at once, and therefore you had 
best do it by degrees; Pills, and such like Medicines 
which are hard in the Body, are fittest for such a busi- 
ness, because they are longest before they digest. 
5. Use no strong Medicines, if weak will serve the 
turn; you had better take one too weak by half, than 
too strong in the least. 
6. Consider the Natural temper of the part of the
Body afflicted, and maintain it in that, else you extin- 
guish Nature, as the Heart is hot, the Brain cold, or at 
least the coldest part of the Body. 
7. Observe this general Rule; that such Medicines 
as are hot in the first degree, are most habitual to our 
Bodies, because they are just of the heat of our Blood 
8. All opening Medicines, and such as provoke u- 
rin, or the Terms, or break the Stone may most conve 
niently be given in white Wine, because white Wine of 
it self is of an opening Nature, and clenseth the Reins 
gallantly. 
9. Let all such Medicines as are taken to stop fluxes 
or Loosness, be taken before Meat, about an hour be- 
fore, more or less, that so they may strengthen the Di- 
gestion and retentive Faculty, before the Food come in- 
to the stomach; But such as are subject to vomit up 
their meat, let them take such Medicines as stay vomi-
ting presently after meat, at the Conclusion of their 
Meals, that so they may close up the Mouth of the Sto- 
mach; and that is the Reason why usually men eat a 
bit of Cheese after Meat, because by its sowrness and 
binding it closeth the Mouth of the stomach, thereby 
staying Belching and Vomiting. 
10. In taking Purges be very careful, and that you 
may be so, observe these Rules. 
1. Consider what the Humor offending is, and let 
the Medicine be such as purgeth that Humor, else will 
you weaken Nature, not the Disease. 
2. Take notice, if the Humor you would purge out 
be thin, then gentle Medicines will serve the turn, but 
if it be tough and viscous, take such Medicines as are 
cutting and opening the Night before you would take 
the Purge.
3. In purging tough Humors, forbear as much as 
may be such Medicines as leave a binding quality be- 
hind them. 
4. Have a care of taking Purges when your Body is 
astringent; your best way, is first to open it by a Cly- 
ster. 
5. In taking open Medicines, you may safely take 
them at night, eating but a little supper three or four 
hours before, and the next morning a draught of warm 
Posset-drink, and you need not fear to go about your 
business. In this manner you may take Lenitive Elect- 
uary, Diacatholicon, Pulp of Cassia, and the like gen- 
tle Electuaries, as also all Pills that have neither Dia- 
gridium nor Colocynthis, in them. But all violent Pur- 
ges require a due ordering of the Body, such ought to 
be taken in the morning after you are up, and not to
sleep after them before they have done working, at least 
before night: two hours after you have taken them, 
drink a draught of warm Posset-drink, or broath, and 
six hours after eat a bit of Mutton often walking about 
the Chamber; let there be a good fire in the Chamber, 
and stir not out of the Chamber til the Purge have done 
working, or not till next day.
Lastly, Take sweating Medicines when you are in bed, 
covered warm and in the time of your sweating, Drink 
Posset-drink as hot as you can drink it; if you sweat for 
a Feaver, boyl Sorrel and red Sage in your Posset-drink. 
sweat an hour or longer if your strength will permit, 
then (the Chamber being kept very warm) shift your 
self all but your Head, about which (the Cap which 
you sweat in being still kept on) wrap a Napkin very 
hot, to repel the vapors back. 
I confess these, or many of these Directions may be 
found in one place of the Book or other, and I delight 
as little to write Tautology as another, but the Printer 
desiring they should be put here, and I considering it 
might make for the publick good, inserted them; if 
notwithstanding any will be so mad to do themselves
a mischief, the fault is not mine. 
Weights and Measures in the New 
DISPENSSATORY. 
Twenty Grains make a Scruple. 
Three scruples make a Dram. 
Eight Drams make an Ounce. 
Twelve Ounces make a Pound. 
THe most usual Measures [amongst us] are 
these. 
A spoon which in Syrups holds half an ounce, in 
distilled Waters three drams. 
A Taster which holds an ounce and an half. 
A Congy which (in their former Dispensatory held nine 
pound, now) holds but eight pound, viz. just a Gal- 
lon: The reason I suppose is, Because most Nations 
differ in the quantity of their Measures, and they quo-
ted their Congius from one Nation before, and from 
another now. 
Weights and Measures in the Old 
DISPENSATORY. 
Twenty Grains to make a Scruple. Three Scru- 
ples make a dram (commonly called a dram.) 
Eight drams make an ounce. Twelve ounces make a 
pound. 
As for the Colledges Measures I know not well what 
English Names to give them. Cochlearum holds in Sy- 
rups half an ounce; in distilled waters three Drams. 
Cyathus holds an ounce and an half, Hemina (which 
also they cal Cotyla) contains nine Ounces. Libra holds 
twelve Ounces. A Sextary contains eighteen Ounces. 
Congie six Sextaries.
These Measures amongst the Romans contained not 
just the same quantities; for their Cyathus contained an 
ounce and an half, a dram and a scruple. Their Sextary 
contained but fourteen ounces three quarters, and half 
a quarter; and among the Græcians not so much: It is
called a Sextary because it is the sixt part of a Congie. 
Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether se-
ven ounces and an half. Their Libra I suppose to be 
that which Galen calls μετζιχηγ, viz. A Vessel to mea- 
sure with; it was made of cleer Horn, and by certain 
lines drawn round it like rings, was divided into twelve 
equal parts, each part containing an ounce.
THE 

1
The SIMPLES that are most frequently used in 
Physick, with their VERTUES and USE. 
The PREFACE to the Catalogue of Simples. 
BEfore I begin the Catalogue, I thought good to premise a few words to the 
Reader. 
1. Let him have a care he mistake not one thing for another; viz, Herbs 
for Roots, or either of them for Flowers: If he cast but his Eye up to the top of 
the Page he shall there see which it is. 
2. Let a due time be observed (cases of necessity excepted) in gathering all Simples; 
for which take these few Rules. The time to gather all Roots is before the Herb run 
up to feed, for then they are softest, as you may see by Radishes, Carrots, Parsneps &c. 
The Roots of which, you may perceive hard when they run up to seed and not because 
the sap is in the Root, as the vulgar hold; for if the sap rose and fel as they hold, then 
the Root must grow in Winter only, as the branches do in Summer, which, experi- 
ence will shew to be false; for the Roots grows-only in Summer, as the branches do; 
you see what a wooden Doctor Tradition is: Would not this make every one endea- 
vour to study a Reason for what he doth? And see how our forefathers have been led 
by Tradition. The truth is, it is the Sun is the Author of life and growth to the whol
Creation, he was ordained of God for that end; when he comes on this side of the 
Equator, the Trees spring, when he passeth to the South side of the Equator they lose 
their verdant color and growth, also til the revolution of time bring his presence to 
revive them; but enough of this in this place. 
Herbs are to be gathered when they are fullest of Juyce which is, before they run up 
to seed; and if you gather them in a hot Sunshine day, they will not be so subject to 
putrifie: the best way to dry them, is in the Sun according to Dr. REASON, though 
not according to Dr. TRADITION: Such Herbs as remaine green all the year, 
or are very ful of Juyce, it were a folly to dry at all, but gather them only for present 
use, Housleek, Scurvy-grass &c. 
Let Flowers be gathered when they are in their prime, in a Sunshine day, and dried 
in the Sun. Let the Seeds be perfectly ripe before they be gathered. 
3. Let them be kept in a dry place; for any moisture, though it be a moist Aire, 
corrupts them, which if perceived in time, the Beams of the Sun will refresh the Herbs 
and Flowers and do the Sun no harm. 
ROOTS
BEars breach, or Brankursine; 
it is meanly hot and dry, it 
helps ach and numness of 
the Joynts, and is of a bin- 
ding quality, good for wounds and 
broken bones, Diascorides faith, they 
are profitable for Ruptures, or such 
as are bursten, or burnt with fire, a 
dram of the Root in Pouder being 
taken in the morning fasting, in a 
Decoction made with the same Root 
and water: 
Acori, Veri, Perigrini vulgaris, &c. 
See Calamus Aromaticus. I shall not, 
nor dare not make a long Paraphrase 
about the sorts of it, one of which is 
water-flag, or Flower-de-luce, which 
is hot and dry in the second degree,
G Binds,

2 ROOTS. 
binds, strengthens, stops fluxes of the 
Belly, and immoderate flowing of the 
terms in Women, a dram being taken 
in red wine every morning. 
Garlick. It is hot and dry in the 
fourth degree, breeds naughty and 
corrupt blood, yet is an enemy to all 
poysons, and such as are bitten by 
cold venemous beasts, viz. Adders, 
Toads, Spiders, &c. it provokes urin, 
and expels wind. 
Marsh-mallows, are meanly hot, 
of a digesting, softening nature, ease 
pains, help bloody fluxes, the storie 
and Gravel; being bruised and well 
boyled in Milk, and the Milk drunk, 
is a gallant Remedy for the gripings 
of the Belly, and the bloody Flux; If 
a Feaver accompany the Disease, 
boyl a handful of common Mallow 
leaves with a handful of these 
Roots.
Angelica; is hot and dry in the 
third degree, strengthens the heart 
exceeding, and is a singular remedy 
against Pestilence and poyson, half 
a dram taken in the morning fa- 
sting.
Alkanet; cold and dry, binding, 
good for old Ulcers, 
Anthoræ. An outlandish Root, 
the counterpoyson for Monks-hood, 
it is an admirable Remedy for the 
wind colick, and resists poyfon. They 
that would know more of it, let them 
read Guainerius, and Solerious, both 
which lived neer the places where it 
plentifully grew.
Of Birthwort: of which are three 
sorts, long, round, and climing: All 
hot and dry in the third degree. 
The long, being drunk in Wine, 
brings away both birth and after- 
birth, and whatsoevet a careless 
midwife hath left behind. Dioscorides. 
Galen. 
The round, being drunk with 
Wine, help (besides the former) 
stuffings of the Lungs, hardness of 
the Spleen, ruptures, Convulsions; 
both of them resist poyson. 
Of Sowbread: hot and dry in the 
third degree, a most violent purge, 
dangerous. Outwardly applied to 
the place, it profits much in the bi- 
tings of venemous Beasts, also being 
hung about Women in labor, it 
causeth speedy deliverance. See the 
Herb. 
Of common Reeds and sugar 
Reeds. The Roots of common Reeds 
applied to the place draw out thorns 
ease Sprains; the ashes of them mix- 
ed with Vinegar, take Scurf, or dan- 
drif off from the head, and prevent 
the falling off of the hair, they are 
hot and dry in the second degree, ac- 
cording to Galen. 
I would not have the Reader build 
to much confidence upon the degrees
of temperature (or more properly in- 
temperature) neither of this, or any 
other Simple, because most of them 
are quoted by Outlandish Authors; 
and out of question the difference of 
the Climate may somthing alter their 
temperature in degree.
Of Cuckow-pints, or Wake Robin, 
hot, and dry in the third degree, I
know no great good they do inward- 
ly taken, unless to play the Rogue 
withal, or make sport: outwardly 
applied, they take off Scurf, Mor- 
phew, or Freckles from the Face, and 
cleer the Skin, and ease the pains of 
the Gout. 
Of Swallow-wort, hot and dry, good 
against poyson, and gripings of the 
belly, as also against the bitings of 
made Dogs taken inwardly.
Of Asarabacca: the Roots are a
safer purge than the Leaves and not  
so violent. I do not much fancy any 
of them both, ignorant people had 
better let them alone than be too 
busie with what they have no skil in: 
they purge by vomit, stool, and 
Urine, they are profitable tor such 
as have Agues, Dropsies, stoppings 
of the Liver; or Spleen, Green-sick- 
ness.
Of Sparagus, or Sperage: they are 
temperate in quality, opening, they 
provoke Urine, and clense the Reins 
and Bladder, being boyled in white 
Wine, and the wine drunk. 
Of Male Asphodel. Hot and dry 
in tile second degree. Inwardly 
taken, they provoke vomit, Urine, 
and the Terms in Women: outward- 
ly used in Oyntments, they cause 
hair to grow, clense Ulcers, take a- 
way Morphew and Freckles from the 
Face.
Of Bur, Clot-Bur, or Bur Dock,
temperately hot and dry. Helps such 
as spit blood and matter, bruised and 
mixed with Salt and applied to the 
place, helps the bitings of mad Dogs. 
It expels wind, easeth pains of the 
Teeth, strengthens the back, helps 
the Running of the Reins, and the 
whites in Women, being taken in- 
wardly. Dioscorides Apuleius. 
Of Valerian, white and red. Mesue, 
Scrapio, and other Arabians, say they 
are hot and moist in the latter end of 
the first, or beginning of the second 
degree, and comfort the Heart, stir 
up lust. The Grecians held them to 
be dry in the second degree, that 
they stop Fluxes, and provoke
Urine. 
Of Beets, black, white, and red; as 
for black Beets I have nothing to 
say, I doubt they are as rare as black 
Swans. The red Beet root boyled 
and preserved in Vinegar, makes a 
fine, cool, pleasing, clensing, dige- 
sting sawce. See the Leaves. 
Of Bistort, or Snake-weed, cold and 
dry in the third degree, blinding: the
quantity of half a dram at a time 
taken inwardly, resist Pestilence and 
poyson, helps ruptures and bruises, 
staies fluxes, vomiting, and immo- 
derate flowing of the Terms in Wo- 
men, helps inflammations and sore- 
ness of the mouth, and fastens loose 
Teeth, being bruised and boyled in 
white Wine, and the mouth washed 
with it. 
Of Borrage, hot and moist in the 
first degree, cheers the heart, helps 
dropping Spirits. Dioscorides. 
Of Briony both white and black: 
they are both hot and dry, some say 
in the third degree, and same say but 
in the first; they purge flegm and
watry humors, but they trouble the 
stomach much, they are very good 
for Dropfies; the white is most in 
use, and is admirable good for the 
fits of the Mother: both of them ex- 
ternally used, take away Freckles, 
sunburning, and Morphew from the 
Face, and clense filthy Ulcers: It is 
but a churlish purge, but being let 
alone, can do no harm. 
Of Bugloss: Its Vertues are the 
same with Borrage, and the Roots 
of either seldom used.
Of Aromatical Reed, or sweet Gar- 
den flag: It provokes Urine, streng- 
thens the Lungs, helps bruises, resists 
poyson, &c. being taken inwardly 
in pouder, the quantity of half a 
dram at a time. In beattng of it be 
very speedy, for the strength will 
quickly fly out. You may mix it 
with syrup of Violets, if your body 
be feaverish. 
Capar Roots. Are hot and dry in 
the second degree, cutting and clen- 
sing: they provoke the Terms, help 
malignant ulcers, ease the Toothach
asswage swelling, and help the Ric- 
kets. See Oyl of Cappars.
Of Avens, or Hearb bennet. The 
Roots are dry, and somthing hot, of 
A clensing quality, they keep gar- 
ments from being motheaten. See 
the Leaves. 
Of Centaury the greater. The Roots 
help such as are bursten, such as spit- 
blood, shrinking of sinews, short- 
ness of wind, coughs, convulsions, 
cramps: half a dram in pouder be- 
ing taken inwardly, either in Mus- 
kadel, or in a Decoction of the same 
Roots. They are either not at all, or 
very scarce in England, our Centau- 
ry is the final centaury. 
Of Onions. Are hot and dry (ac- 
cording to Galen) in the fourth de- 
gree: They cause driness, and are 
extreamly hurtful for chollerick peo- 
ple, they breed but little nourish- 
ment, and that little is naught: they 
are bad meat, yet good Physick for 
flegmatick people, they are opening, 
and provoke Urine and the Terms, if 
cold be the cause obstructing: brui-- 
sed and outwardly applied, they cure 
the bitings of mad dogs: rosted and 
applied, they help Boyls, and Apost- 
humes

ROOTS. 3
humes: raw, they take the fire out 
of burnings; but ordinarily eaten, 
they cause head-ach, spoil the sight, 
dull the sences, and fil the body ful 
of wind. 
Of Chameleon white and black. 
Tragus calleth the carline Thistle by 
the name of white Chameleon, the 
root whereof is hot in the second de- 
gree, and dry in the third; it pro- 
vokes sweat, kils worms, resists Pesti- 
lence and Poyson, it is given with 
success in Pestilential feavers, helps 
the Toothach by being chewed in the 
mouth, opens the stoppings of the 
Liver and Spleen, it provokes urine, 
and brings dawn the Terms: give 
but little of it at a time, by reason 
of its heat. As for the black Cha- 
meleon, All Physitians hold it to 
have a kind of venemous quality and 
unfit to be used inwardly, both Galen, 
Clusius, Nicander, Dioscorides, and 
Ægineta. Outwardly in Oyntments, 
it is profitable for Scabs, Morphew. 
Tetters, &c. and all things that need 
clensing.
Of Celondine, the greater and lesser: 
The greater is that which we usually 
call Celondine: The Root is mani- 
festly hot and dry, clensing and scou- 
ring, proper for such as have the yel- 
low Jaundice, it opens obstructions 
of the Liver; being boyled in white 
Wine, and the Decoction drunk;
and if chewed in the mouth it helps 
the Tooth-ach.
Celondine the lesser is that which 
usually we call Pilewort, which 
though Galen and Dioscorides, teach 
to be hot in the fourth degree, and 
might happily be so in those Coun- 
tries where they lived, yet with us it 
scarce exceeds the first degree, the 
Juyce of the root mixed with Honey 
and snuffed up into the Nose, purg- 
eth the Head, helps the Hemorrhoids 
or Piles being bathed with it, as also 
doth the root only carried about one
being made into an Oyntment helps 
the *disease in the Neck, commonly 
Called the Kings Evil. [* Scrophula] 
China, wonderfully extenuateth 
and drieth, provoketh sweat, resisteth 
putrefaction, it strengthens the Liver, 
helps the dropsie and Malignant
Ulcers, Leprosie, Itch, and French 
Pocks, and is profitable in diseases 
coming of fasting. It is commonly 
used in Diet drinks for the pre- 
mises.
Of Succory: Cools and dries in the 
second degree, strengthens the Liver 
and Veins, it opens obstructions, 
stopping of the Liver and Spleen, be- 
ing boyled in white Wine and the 
Decoction drunk. 
Of Meadow Saffron, The Roots 
are held to be hurtful to the Sto- 
mach, therefore I let them alone. 
Consolida major, is that which 
we ordinarily call Comfry; it is of a 
cold quality, yet pretty temperate, 
of such a glutinous quality that ac-
cording to Dioscorides they will Joyn 
meat together that is cut in sunder, if 
they be boyled with it; it is excel-  
lent for all wounds, both internal, 
and external, for spitting of blood,
Ruptures' or burstness, pains in the 
back, it strengthens the Reins, it
stops the Terms, and helpeth He- 
morrhoids. The way to use them is 
to boyl them in water and drink the 
Decoction. Consolida minor, is that 
we cal Self-heal, and the Latins Pru- 
nella. See the Herb. 
Of Costus both sorts, being Roots 
coining from beyond Sea, hot and 
dry, break wind; being boyled in 
Oyl, it is held to help the Gout by 
anointing the grieved place with 
it.
Of wild Cucumer Roots, or Cowcum- 
ber as the vulgar call them; they 
purge flegm, and that with such vio- 
lence, that I would advise the coun- 
try man that knows not how to cor- 
rect them, to let them alone. 
Of Artichoaks. The roots purg- 
eth by Urine , whereby the rank 
favor of the Body is much amen- 
ded. 
Of Hounds-tongue. Cold and dry: 
being roasted and laid to the Funda- 
ment, helps the Hemorrhoids, is 
also good for burnings and scal-
ding.
Of Termerick, hot in the third 
degree opens obstructions, is profit- 
able against the yellow Jaundice, and  
cold distemper of the Liver and
Spleen, half a dram being taken at
night going to bed in the pulp of a 
roasted Apple, and if you add a little 
Saffron to it, it will be the better
by far. 
Of Cyperus Grass, or English Ga- 
langa, both sorts, long and round: 
is of a warming nature, provokes 
Urine, breaks the stone, provokes 
the Terms; the ashes of them (being 
burnt) is used for Ulcers in the 
mouth, Cankers, &c.
Of Carrots. Are moderately hot 
and moist, breed but little nourish- 
ment, and it extream windy: I omit 
what vertues Galen writes of them, as 
being confident there was such a dif- 
ference between them, that our car- 
rots will never answer those effects, 
or, if any do, 'tis the wild kind. 
Of Toothwort, toothed Violets, or 
Corralwort; they are drying, binding, 
and strengthening; are good to case 
pains in the sides and bowels; also 
being boyled, the Decoction is said 
to be good to wash green wounds 
and Ulcers with. 
Of Dittany: is hot and dry in the 
third degree, hastens travel in wo- 
men, provokes the Terms. (See the 
Leaves.) 
Of Doronicum, a supposed kind of 
Wolf-bane: I am of opinion that Se- 
rapio and Avicenna and other Ara- 
bian Physitians, did not intend that 
Root We now use for Doronicum
when they wrote so much against it, 
I shall adhear to the judgment of 
Gesner, which is vended by dayly 
experience: It is hot and dry in the 
third degree, strengthen the heart, is 
a foveraign Cordial, and preserva- 
tive against the Pestilence; It helps, 
the Vertigo, or Swimming of the 
head, is admirable against the bi- 
tings of venemous beasts, and such 
as have taken too much Opium, as 
also for Lethargies, the. Juyce helps 
hot rewins in the Eyes; a scruple of 
the Root in pouder is enough to take 
at one time. 
Dracontii, Dracunculi. Divers Au- 
tuors attribute divers Herbs to this 
Name. It is most probable to me, 
that they mean Dragons, the Roots of 
which clense mightily, and take a- 
way proud, or dead flesh, the very 
smel of them is hurtful for women 
with Child: outwardly in Oynt- 
ments, they take away Scurf, Mor- 
phew, and Sun-burning; I would 
not wish any unless very wel read in
Physick, to take them inwardly. Ma- 
thiolus Dioscorides. 
Of Dwarf-Elder, Walwort, or 
Danewort; hot and dry in the third 
degree; the Roots are as gallant a 
a purge for the Dropsie as any is un- 
der the Sun, which besides the Au- 
thority of the Ancient, was often, 
proved by the never dying Dr. Butler 
of Cambridg, as my self have in a 
Manuscript of his. You may take a 
dram or two drams (if the patient be 
strong) in white Wine at a time. 
Of Vipers Bugloss, or wild Bugloss, 
Authors differ about this Herb. I 
have set down the most usual Name,
and alwaies quote the vertues to 
what I set down: They say the root 
of this being carried in ones hand, 
no venemous beast wil bite him, (and 
so they say of Dragons which I for- 
got before) so that you may walk 
without danger amongst Adders, Vi- 
pers, and Serpents ; (but I beleeve 
you had best have a care you do not 
tread upon them) this root is cold 
and dry, good for such as are bitten 
by venemous beasts either being boy- 
led in Wine and drunk, or bruised 
and applied to the place; being boy- 
led in Wine and drunk, it encreaseth 
milk in Nurses.
Of Hellebore white and black. The 
Root of white Hellebore, or Sneez- 
wort, being grated and snuffed up 
the Nose, causeth sneezing; kills 
Rats and Mice being mixed with 
their Meat: it is but a scurvy, chur- 
lish Medicine, being taken inwardly,
and therefore better let alone than 
used, and yet Dr. Bright commends 
it for such as are --mad though Me- 
lancholly. Others are of opinion 
such harsh Medicines are not conve- 
nient for so sullen an humor, and of 
that opinion am I my self; If you wil 
use it for sneezing, let your head and 
Neck be wrapped hot for fear of cat- 
ching cold. Black

4 ROOTS 
Black Hellebore, Bears-foot, or 
Christmas flower: both this and the 
former are hot and dry in the third 
degree. This is nothing so violent 
nor dangerous as the former. Both 
Galen, and Julius Alexandrinus, 
report the roots of this * boyled  
[* You must boyl them but very little, 
for the strength will soon fly out in va- 
por.] in Vinegar, to be an admirable 
remedy against inveterate Scabs, 
Itch, and Leprosie, the same helps 
the Tooth-ach, being held in the 
mouth, and dropped into the Ears, 
helps deafness coming of Melan- 
cholly, and noise in the Ears; cor- 
rected with a little Cinnamon (in 
pouder) it purgeth Melancholly, 
resisteth madness. Also Pliny, Ab- 
syrius and Columella, affirm that a 
piece of Root put into a hole made 
in the Ear of a beast troubled with the 
Cough, or that hath taken any poy- 
son, and drawn quite through next 
day about that time, helpeth them: 
out of question it is a special thing to 
rowel Cartel withal.
Of Elecampane. Is hot and dry in the 
third degree, wholsome for the sto- 
mach, resists poyson, helps old 
Coughs , and shortness of breath, 
helps Rupture, and provokes lust; 
in Oyntment, it is good against scabs 
and Itch. 
Of Endive. Garden Endive, which 
is the root here specified, is held to 
be somwhat colder, though not so 
dry and clensing as that which is 
wild, it cools hot stomachs, hot li- 
vers, amends the blood corrupted by 
heat, and therefore must needs be 
good in Feavers, it cools the Reins, 
and therefore prevents the stone, it 
opens obstructions, and provokes 
Urine; you may bruise the root, and 
boyl it in white wine, ‘tis very harm- 
less.
Of Eringo, or Sea-holly: the roots 
are moderately hot, somthing dry-
ing and clensing, bruised and applied 
to the place, they help the Scrophula, 
or Disease in the Throat called the 
Kings Evil, they break the stone, en-
crease seed, stir up lust, provoke the 
Terms, &c.
Of Spurge the greater and lesser 
they are both (taken inwardly) too 
violent for a vulgar use; outwardly 
in Oyntments they clense the Skin,
fake away sunburning. 
Fearn, of which are two grand 
distinctions, viz. male and female; 
I suppose they intend the male here,
because they adjoyn some other 
names to it, which the Greeks attri- 
buted only to the male: the female 
is that which we in Sussex cal Brakes. 
Both of them are hot and dry, and 
excellent good for the Rickets in 
Children, and Diseases of the Spleen, 
but dangerous for Women with 
Child. 
Of Dropwort. The Roots are hot 
and dry in the third degree, opening, 
clensing, yet somwhat binding; they 
provoke Urine, ease pains in the 
Bladder, and are a good preservative 
against the Falling-sickness. 
Of Fennel. The Root is hot and 
dry, some say in the third degree, 
opening; it provokes Urine, and the 
Terms, strengthens the Liver, and is 
good against the Dropsie. 
Galanga, commonly called Galin- 
gal the greater and lesser: They are 
hot and dry in the third degree, and 
the lesser are accounted the hotter, it 
strengthens the stomach exceedingly, 
and takes away the pains thereof 
coming of cold or wind, the smel of 
it strengthens the Brain, it relieves 
faint hearts, takes away windiness 
of the Womb, heats the Reins, and 
provokes lust, you may take half a 
dram at a time. Mathiolus.
Of Gentian, called so from *his name 
[*Gentius a Prince] that first found it 
out: some call it Felwort, and Bald- 
money. It is hot, clensing, and scou- 
ring, a notable counterpoyson, it 
opens, obstructions, helps the bitings 
of venemous beasts, and mad Dogs, 
helps digestion, and clenseth the body 
of raw humors; our Chyrurgions 
use the root in form of a Tent, to 
open the sore, they are also very pro- 
fitable for Ruptures, or such as are 
burst. 
Of Liquoris; the best that is, prows 
in England: it is hot and moist in 
temperature, helps the roughness of 
the Windpipe, Hoarsness, Diseases
in the Kidnies and Bladder, and Ul- 
cers in the Bladder, (which in my 
opinion is a very difficult thing to 
cure, although curable) it concocts 
raw humors in the stomach, helps dif- 
ficulty of breathing, is profitable for 
all Salt humors; the root dried and 
beaten into pouder, and the pouder 
put into the Eye, is a special remedy 
for a Pin and Web. 
Of Grass, such as in London they 
call Couch-grass, and Squitch-grass; 
in Sussex, Dog-grass. It gallantly 
provokes Urine, and easeth the Kid- 
nies oppressed with Gravel, gripings 
of the Belly, and difficulty of Urine. 
Let such as are troubled with these 
Diseases, drink a draught of white 
wine, wherein these roots (being brui- 
sed) have been boyled, for their mor- 
nings draught; if they find ease, let 
them thank God; if not let them 
blame me. Bruised and applied to 
the place, they speedily help green 
Wounds. Galen Dioscorides. 
Of Hermodactils. They are hot 
and dry, purge flegm, especially
from the joynts, therefore are good 
for Gouts, and other Diseases in the 
Joynts. Their vices are corrected 
with Long Pepper, Ginger, Cinna- 
mon, or Mastich. I would not have 
unskilful people too busie with Pur- 
ges. 
Hyacinthi. Of Jacinths. The roots 
are dry in the first degree, and cold 
in the second; they stop loosness, 
bind the Belly. 
Orris, or flower-de-luce (after the 
French name) both that which grows 
with us, and that which comes from 
Florence. They are hot and dry in 
the third degree, resist poyson, help 
shortness of the breath, provoke the 
Terms; the Root being green and 
bruised, takes away blackness and 
blewness of a stroke being applied 
thereto. 
Of Masterwort. The Root is hot 
and dry in the third degree; miti- 
gates the rigor of Agues, helps Drop- 
sies, provokes sweat, breaks Car- 
buncles, and Plague-sores, being
applied to them; it is very profitable 
being given inwardly in bruises. 
Fullers-Thistle, Teazbe. The root 
being boyled in Wine til it be thick 
(quoth Dioscorides) helps by unction 
the clefts of the Fundament, as also 
takes away Warts and Wens. Galen 
saith, they are dry in the second de- 
gree: and I take it all Authors hold 
them to be cold and dry. 
Unflaked Lime beaten into pou- 
der, and mixed with black Soap, 
takes away a Wen being anointed 
with it.
If you rub Warts with the Leaves 
of Fig-trees, and bury the Leaves in 
the Earth, the Warts will insensibly 
consume away Mizaldus. 
If you anoint Warts with the juyce 
of Elder-berries, it will take them 
away. 
Warts rubbed with a piece of new 
Beef, and the Beef buried in the 
ground, the Warts will consume as 
the Beef rots. 
Of the Bay-tree. The Bark of the 
Root drunk with Wine, provokes 
Urine, breaks the stone, opens ob- 
structions of the Liver and Spleen. 
But according to Dioscorides is naught 
for Women with Child. Galen. 
The Roots of Sorrel are held to be 
profitable against the Jaundice. Of 
Sharp-pointed Dock; clense, and 
helps Scabs and Itch. 
Of Lovage. They are hot and dry, 
and exceeding good for any diseases 
coming of wind. 
Of White Lillies. The Root is 
somthing hot and dry, helps Bur- 
nings, softens the Womb, provoks 
the Terms; if boyled in Wine, is 
given with good success in rotten 
Feavers, Pestilences, and all Diseases 
that require suppuration: (it being 
outwardly applied) helps Ulcers in 
the head, and amends the ill color of 
the face. 
Of Mallows. They are cool, and 
digesting, resist poyson, and help 
Corrosions, or gnawing of the bo- 
wels, or any other part; as also Ul- 
cers in the Bladder. See Marsh- 
mallows. 
Of Mandrakes. A Root danger- 
ous for its coldness, being cold in 
the fourth degree; the Root is
scarcy,

ROOTS. 5
scarcy, and dangerous for the vulgar 
to use; therefore I leave it to those I 
chat have skil. 
Of Mechoacan. It is corrected 
With Cinnamon, is temperate yet 
drying, purgeth flegm chiefly from
the Head and Joynts, it is good for
old Diseases in the Head, and may 
safely be given even to Feaverish, 
Bodies, because of its temperature, 
it is also profitable against Coughs 
and pains of the Reins; as also 
against the French Pox: The strong 
take a dram at a time. 
Of Mulberry tree. The Bark of the 
Root is bitter, hot and dry, opens
stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, 
purgeth the Belly, and kils Worms, 
boyled in Vinegar, helps the Tooth- 
ach. 
Of Spicknard, Indian, and Celtick. 
Celtick Nard, according to Ronde- 
litius wonderfully provokes Urine. 
They are both hot and dry, but I let 
the degree alone, till the Learned 
are agreed about it. The Indian, 
also provokes Urine, and stops fluxes 
helps windiness of the stomach, resist- 
eth the pestilence, helps gnawing 
Pains of the stomach, and dries up 
Rhewms that molest the head. The 
Celtick Spicknard performs the same 
Offices, though in a weaker mea- 
sure.
Of Water-Lillies. They are cold 
and dry, and stop lust. 
Of Cammock, or Rest-harrow, so 
Called because it makes Oxen stand 
still when they are Ploughing. The 
Roots are hot and dry in the third 
degree; it breaks the Stone ( viz. the 
Barks of it.) The Root it self, accor- 
ding to Pliny, helps the Falling-sick- 
ness; according to Mathiolus, helps 
Ruptures: You may take half a dram 
at a time.
Garden and Wild parsnips. They are 
of a temperate quality, enclining 
something to heat; The Garden Pars- 
nips provoke Lust, and nourish as 
much and more too, than any Root 
ordinarily eaten: The wild are 
more Physical (and so are usually all 
wild Plants, I could give you reasons 
for it if I durst spend time and paper) 
being cutting, clensing, and ope- 
ning: they refill the bitings of vene- 
mous Beasts, ease pains and stitches 
in the sides, and are a soveraign 
Remedy against the Wind Chol- 
lick.
Of Cynksoyl, commonly called 
Five-leaved or Five finger'd grass;
the root is very drying but very mo- 
derately hot: It is admirable against 
all Fluxes, and stops blood flowing 
from any part of the body, it helps 
infirmities of the Liver and Lungs, 
help putrified Ulcers of the mouth, 
the root boyled in Vinegar is good 
against the Shingles, and appeaseth 
the rage any fretting sores. You 
may safely take half a dram at a time 
in any convenient Liquor.
Of Butter-Bur. The Roots are 
hot and dry in the second degree, 
they are exceeding good in violent 
and Pestilential Feavers, they pro- 
voke the Terms, expel poyson, and 
kil worms. 
Of Sulphur-wort, Hog-fennel or 
Hore strange. It is very good applied 
to the Navels of Children that stick 
out, Ruptures; held in the mouth, 
it is a present Remedy for the Fits of 
the Mother: it being taken inward- 
ly, gives speedy deliverance to Wo- 
men in Travel, and brings away the 
after-birth. 
Of Peony male and female. They
are meanly hot, but more drying; 
the male is more effectual in opera- 
tion than the female (say Authors) 
and yet quoth Dr. Reason, why should 
not the male be best for men, and 
the female for Women? The root 
helps Women not sufficiently purged 
after Travel, it provokes the Terms, 
and helps pains in the Belly, as also 
in the Reins and bladder, Falling- 
sickness, and Convulsions in Chil- 
dren, being either taken inwardly, 
or hung about their Necks. You 
may take half a dram at a time, and 
less for children. 
Valerian, or Setwal, greater and 
lesser. They are temperately hot, the 
greater provokes Urine and the
terms, helps the Strangury, staies 
Rhewms in the Head, and takes a- 
way the pricking pains thereof. The 
lesser resists poyson, asswageth the 
swelling of the Cods, coming either 
through wind or cold, helps cold 
taken after sweating or labor, Wind 
chollick: outwardly it draws out 
Thorns, and cures both wounds and 
Ulcers.
Of Plamaine. The Root is som- 
thing dryer than the Leaf, but not 
so cold, it opens stoppages of the 
Liver, helps the Jaundice, and Ul- 
cers of the Reins and Bladder. Dio- 
scorides affirmeth that one root help- 
eth a Quotidian Ague, three a Ter- 
tian, and four a Quartan, which 
though our late writers hold to be 
fabulous, yet there may be a grea- 
ter truth in it than they are aware of; 
yet I am as loth to make superstition 
a foundation to build on, as any of 
them; let Experience be judg, and
then we weigh not modern Jury 
Men. A little bit of the Root being 
eaten, instantly staies pains in the 
Head, even to admiration. 
Of Polypodium, or Fearn of the 
Oak. It is a gallant though, gentle 
purger of Melancholly; Also in the 
opinion of Mesue (as famous a Phy- 
sitian as ever I read for a Galenist) it 
dries up superfluous Humors, takes 
away, swellings from the Hands, 
Feet, Knees, and Joynts, stitches and 
pains in the sides, infirmities of the 
Spleen, Rickets: correct it with a 
few Annis Seeds, or Fennel seeds, or 
a little Ginger, and then the stomach
will not loath it. Your best way of 
taking it, is to bruise it well, and 
boyl it in white wine til half be con- 
sumed, you may put in much, or 
little, according to the strength of 
the Diseased, it works very safely. I 
cannot give no better reason why 
Polypodium of the Oak should be 
best, unless because ‘tis rarest, it 
draws either very little sap from the 
Oak, or none at all, or if it did, the 
reason were as far to seek. I am of 
opinion, that which grows on the 
ground is the best to evacuate Me- 
lancholly, but it is more Sympathe- 
tical.
Of Solomons Seal. Let it be no 
dishonor to Galen nor Dioscorides that 
English men have found out in late 
daies that those Roots may safely be 
given inwardly: Intruth they may 
be excused if the difference of the 
Climates they and we lived, and now 
live in, be but considered, neither I 
hope will my Country men blame 
me for following only Dr. Experience 
in the vertues oi this root: stamped 
and boyled in wine it speedily helps 
(being drunk I mean, for it will not 
do the deed by looking upon it) all 
broken bones, it is of an incredible 
vertue that way; as also being stam-
ped and applied to the place, it soon 
heals all wounds, and quickly takes 
away the black and blew marks of 
blows, being bruised and applied to 
the place, and for these, I am per- 
swaded there is not a better Medi- 
cine under the Sun (or as Copernicus 
and Kipler will have it, above the 
Sun.)
Of Leeks. They say they are hot 
and dry in the fourth degree; they 
breed ill-favored nourishment at the 
best, they spoil the Eyes, heat the 
body, cause troublesom sleep, and 
are noisome to the stomach, yet are 
they good for somthing else (than 
only to stick in Welchmans Hats) for 
the juyce of them dropped into the 
Ears takes away the noise of them, 
mixed with a little Vinegar and snuf- 
fed up the Nose, it staies the bleeding 
of it, they are better of the two boy- 
led then raw, but both waies excee- 
ding hurtful for Ulcers in the blad- 
der; and so are Onions and Gar- 
lick.
Pelitory of Spain. It is hot and dry 
in the fourth degree, chewed in the 
mouth, it draws away Rewin in the 
Tooth-ach; bruised and boyled in 
Oyl, it provokes sweat by unction; 
inwardly taken, they say it helps 
Palsies and other cold effects in the 
brain and Nerves.
Reupontick, or Rhubarb of Pontus. 
It takes away windiness and weak- 
ness of the stomach, sigthings, sob- 
bings, spittings of Blood, Diseases 
of the Liver and Spleen, Rickets &c. 
if you take a dram at a time it will 
purge a little, but bind much, and
H therefore

6 ROOTS. ROOTS. BARKS. 
therefore fit for foul bodies that have 
fluxes
Of Rhubarb. It gently purgeth 
Choller from the stomach and Liver, 
opens stoppings, withstands the  
Dropsies, Hypochondriack Melan-
Cholly; a little boyling takes away  
the vertue of it, and therefore it is 
best given by infusion only; If your 
body be any thing strong you may 
take two drams of it at a time being 
sliced thin and steeped all night in
white Wine, in the morning strain it 
out and drink the white Wine; it 
purgeth but gently, it leaves a bin- 
ding quality behind it, therefore 
dryed a little by the fire and beaten
into Pouder, it is usually given in
Fluxes. 
Of Rhadishes, Garden and Wild. 
Garden Radishes provoke Urine,  
break the Stone, and purge by Urine 
exceedingly, yet breed very bad 
blood, are offensive to the stomach, 
and hard of digestion, hot and dry 
in quality. Wild, or Horse Radi- 
shes, such as grow in ditches, are 
hotter and dryer than the former, and 
more effectual in the premises. 
Rose Root, called (I suppose) by 
that name because of its sweetness. 
Stamped and applied to the Head it 
mitigates the pains thereof, being 
somwhat cool in quality.
Patience, Monks Reubarb, or Ba- 
stard-Reubarb: It also purgeth, clens- 
eth the Blood, opens obstructions of 
the Liver.
Of Maddir. In this were Galen 
and Dioscorides quite beside the Cu- 
shion, in saying this Root was ope- 
ning, and clensing, when clean con- 
trary, it is both drying and binding, 
yet not without Tome opening quali- 
ty, for it helps the Yellow Jaundice, 
and therefore opens obstructions of 
the Liver and Gall; it is given with 
good success, to such as have had 
bruises by falls, stops loosness, the 
Hemorrhoids, and the Terms in Wo- 
men. 
Of knee-holly or Butchers-Broom, 
or Bruscus. They are meanly hot and 
dry, provoke Urine, break the stone, 
and help such as cannot piss freely. 
Use them like grass Roots.
Of Sarsa Parilla, or Bind-weed;
somewhat hot and dry, helpful 
against pains in the Head, and joynts ; 
they provoke sweat, and are used fa- 
miliarly in drying Diet drinks. 
Of Satyrion, each sort, They are 
hot and moist in temper, provoke 
lust, and encrease seed; each branch 
beareth two Roots, both spongy, yet 
the one more solid than the other, 
which is, of most vertue, and indeed 
only to be used, for some say the most 
spongy root is quite contrary in ope- 
ration to the other, as the one en- 
creaseth, the other decreaseth; yet 
if in your Eye they contend for dig-
nities, put them both in water, and
the most solid which is for use will 
sink, the other swim. 
Of white Saxifrage, in Sussex we 
call them Lady-smocks. The Roots 
powerfully break the stone, expel 
wind, provoke Urine, and clense the 
Reins. 
Of Scabious. The Roots either 
boyled, or beaten into ponder, and 
so taken, helps such as are extreamly 
troubled with Scabs and Itch, are 
Medicinal in the French Pox, hard 
swellings, inward wounds, being of 
a drying, clensing, and healing fa- 
culty. 
Sqellœ. Of Squils. See Vinegar, 
and Wine of Squils in the Com- 
pounds.
Of Vipers grass. The root cheers 
the heart, and strengthens the vital 
spirits, resists poyson, helps passions 
and tremblings of the Heart, faint- 
ness, sadness, and Melancholly, o- 
pens stoppings of the Liver and 
Spleen, provokes the Terms, easeth 
women of the Fits of the Mo- 
thers, and helps Swimmings in the 
Head. 
Of Hartwort. The Roots pro- 
voke Urine, helps the Falling-sick- 
ness. 
Of Scirrets. They are hot and 
moist, of good nourishment, som- 
thing windy, as all Roots are; by 
reason of which, they provoke Lust,
they stir up Appetite, and provoke 
Urine. 
Spina alba, Bedeguar. I scarce 
know what Name to give it, that wil 
please. Our English, both Physiti- 
ans and Apothecaries, cal that ball 
of thred that grows upon the Bryars, 
Bedeguar; but the Arabians called 
our Ladies Thistles by that Name,
the roots of which are drying and 
binding, stops fluxes, bleeding, takes 
away cold swellings, and eases the 
pains of the Teeth. 
Stinking Gladon, a kind of Flower- 
de-luce, called so for its unsavory 
smel: It is hot and dry in the third 
degree; outwardly they help the 
Kings Evil, soften hard swellings,
draws out broken bones: inwardly 
taken they help Convulsions, Rup- 
tures, Bruises, Infirmities of the 
Lungs. 
Of Tansie The Root eaten, is a 
singular remedy for the Gout: the 
Rich may bestow the cost to preserve 
it. 
Of Tormentil. A kind of Sinkfoil; 
dry in the third degree, but moder- 
ately hot; exceeding good in Pesti- 
lences, provokes sweat, staies Vo- 
miting, cheers the Heart, expels 
poyson.
Of Throat-wort: By some called 
Canterbury bels: by some Coventry 
bels. They help diseases and Ulcers 
in the throat. 
Tripolÿ. The Roots purgeth flegm, 
expel poyson. 
Turbith. The Root purgeth flegm,
(being hot in the third degree) chie-
fly from the exterior parts of the bo- 
dy: it is corrected with Ginger, or 
Mastich. Let not the vulgar be too 
busie with it. 
Victorialis. An Outlandish kind 
Of Garlick. They say, being hung 
about the Neck of Cattel that are 
blind suddenly, it helps them; and 
defends those that bear it, from evil 
Spirits. 
Mead-sweet. Cold and dry, bin- 
ding, stops fluxes, and the immo- 
derate flowing of the Terms in wo-
men: you may take a dram at a 
time. 
Of Zedoary, or Setwal. This and 
Zurumbet, according to Rasis, and 
Mesue, are all one; thinks 
them different: I hold with Mesu ;
indeed they differ in form, for the 
one is long, the other round; they 
are both hot and dry in the second 
degree, expel wind, resist Poyson, 
stop Fluxes, and the Terms, stay vo 
miting, help the Chollick, and kill
Worms; you may take half a dram at a 
time. 
Of Ginger, Helps digestion, warms 
the stomach, cleers the sight, and is 
profitable for old men, heats the
ioynts, and therefore is profitable 
against the Gout, expels Wind; it is 
hot and dry in the third degree. 
BARKS.
OF the Roots of Smallage. Take 
notice here. That the Barks 
both of this Root, as also of Parsly, 
Fennel &c. is all that of the Root 
which is in use, neither can it pro- 
perly be called Bark, for it is all the 
Root, the hard pith in the middle
excepted, which is alwaies thrown
away, when the Roots are used. It 
is somthing hotter and drier than 
Parsly, and more medicinal; it opens 
stoppings, provokes Urine, helps
digestion, expels wind, and Warms 
a cold Stomach: use them like Grass
Roots.
Of Hazel. The rind of the Tree
provokes Urine, breaks the Stone; 
the husks and shels of the Nuts, dry-
ed and given in Pouder, stay the im- 
moderate Flux of the Terms in Wo-
men. 
Of Orrenges. Both these, and also 
Lemmons and Citrons, are of differ- 
ent qualities, the outward bark, viz 
what looks red, is hot and dry, the 
white is cold and moist, the Juyce, 
colder than it; the seeds hot and dry; 
the outward bark is that which here 
I am to speak to, it is somewhat hot- 
ter than that either of Lemmons, or
Citrons;

BARKS. BARKS. WOODS. 7
Citrons therefore it warms a cold 
stomach more, and expels wind bet- 
ter but strengthens not the Heart so 
much. 
Barberries. The Rind of the Tree 
Recording to Clusius, being, steeped 
in Wine, and the Wine drunk, purg- 
eth Choller, and is a singular reme- 
dy for the yellow Jaundice. Boyl it 
in white wine and drink it. See the 
direction at the beginning. 
Cassia Lignea &c. It is somthing 
More oyly than Cinnamon, yet the 
vertues being not much different, I 
refer you thither. 
Of Chest-nuts. The bark of the 
Chestnut Tree is dry and binding, 
and stops Fluxes.
Cinnamon, and Cassia Lignea. Are 
hot and dry in the second degree, 
strengthens the stomach helps di- 
gestion, causeth a sweet breath, re- 
sists poyson, provokes Urine, and 
the Terms, causeth speedy delivery 
to Women in Travel, helps coughs 
and Defluxions of Humors upon the 
Lungs, Dropsies, and difficulty of 
Urine. In Oynonents it takes away 
red pimples, and the like deformities 
from the Face. There is scarce a 
better remedy for women in labor, 
than a dram of Cinnamon newly 
beaten into Pouder and taken in 
White Wine.
Of pome Citrons. The outward 
peel, It strengthens the Heart, resists 
poyson, amends a stinking breath, 
helps digestion, comforts a cold sto- 
mach. 
Of Beans. Bean Cods (or Pods, as 
We in Sussex call them) being burned, 
the ashes are a sovereign remedy for 
aches in the Joynts, old bruises, 
Gouts, and Sciaticaes. 
Of Fennel Roots. See the Roots, 
and remember the observation given 
in Smallage at the beginning of the 
Barks. 
Of the Bark of Ash Tree Roots. 
That the vertues lies only in the Bark 
of the Roots, I suppose it to be only 
nicety: But the bark of the Tree, 
helps the Rickets, is moderatly hot 
and dry, staies Vomiting; being 
burnt, the allies made into an Oynt- 
ment helps Leprosie and other de- 
formity of the skin, easeth pains of 
the spleen. You may say the bark in 
steep in white Wine for the Rickets, 
and when it hath stood so two or  
three daies, let the diseased Child 
drink now and then a spoonful of it. 
Of Pomegranates. The rind or pill, 
cool and forcibly binds, staies fluxes 
and the Terms in women, helps di- 
gestion, strengthens weak stomachs, 
fastens the Teeth, and are good for 
such whose gums wast. You may 
take a dram of it at a time inwardly. 
Pomegranate flowers are of the same 
Virtue.
Of green Walnuts. As for the out- 
ward green bark of Walnuts, I sup- 
pose the best time to take them is
before the Walnuts be shelled at all, 
and then you may take Nuts and all 
(if they may properly be called Nuts 
at such a time) you shal find them ex- 
ceeding comfortable to the stomach, 
they resist poison, and are a most 
excellent preservative against the 
Plague, inferior to none; they are 
admirable for such, as are troubled 
with Consumptions of the Lungs, 
the Rich may keep them preser- 
ved; they that cannot do as they 
would, must be content to do-as they, 
may, viz. dry them, and so keep 
them. 
Of Lemmons. The outward peel is
of the nature of Citron, but helps not 
so effectual; however let the poor 
Country man that cannot get the 
other, use this. 
Of Mace. It is hot in the third 
degree, strengthens the stomach and 
heats exceedingly, and helps con-
coction. 
Maceris &c. It is held to be the 
inner Bark of Nutmeg-tree, helps 
fluxes and spitting of blood. 
Of Parsley Roots; opens obstructi- 
ons, provokes Urine and the Terms, 
Warms a cold Stomach, expels wind, 
and breaks the stone, use them as 
Grass Roots, and take out the inner 
pith as you were taught in Smallage 
Roots. 
Pine-shucks or Husks. I suppose 
the cones that hold the Seeds; both 
those and also the Bark of the Tree, 
stops Fluxes, and helps the Lungs. 
Of Oak-Tree. Both the bark of the 
Oak, and Acorn Cups are drying 
and cold, binding, stop fluxes and 
the Terms, as also the running of the 
Reins, have a care how you use them 
before due purging.
Of Cork. If is good for somthing 
else besides to stop bottles; being 
dry and binding, stancheth blood, 
helps fluxes, especially the ashes of 
it being burnt. Paulus. 
Of Eider Roots and Branches; purg- 
eth water, helps the Dropfie. 
The middle Bark of Tameris, eas- 
eth the Spleen, helps the Ric- 
kets, you may use them as Ash Tree 
Bark. 
Of Line-Tree. Boyled, the water 
helps burnings. 
Of Elm. Moderately hot and clen- 
sing, very good for wounds, bums, 
and broken bones, viz.  Boyled in 
water and the grieved place bathed 
with it.
WOODS and
Their CHIPS, or
RASPINGS.
Wood of Aloes; is moder- 
acely hot and dry: a good
Cordial: a rich Perfume: a great 
strengthener to the stomach. 
Aspalathus. Rose-wood. There 
are diverse bushes called by the name 
of Aspalathus; but because the Col- 
ledg have set it down amongst the 
Woods, (I suppose they mean the 
Tree) It is moderately hot and dry, 
stops loosness, provokes Urine, and 
is excellent to clense filthy Ul- 
cers. 
Cypress. The Wood laid amongst 
cloaths, secures them from Moths. 
See the Leaves. 
Ebeny. It is held by Dioscorides, to 
cleer the sight, being either boyled 
in Wine, or burnt to ashes. 
Guajacum, Lignum vitæ. Dries,
attenuates, causeth swear, resisteth 
putrefaction, is admirable good for 
the French Pox, as also for Ulcers
Scabs and Leprosie, it is used in diet 
drink. 
Juniper. The smoak of the Wood, 
drives away Serpents; the ashes of 
it made into lie, oures Itch, and 
Scabs. 
Nephrhicum. It is a light Wood 
and comes from Hispaniola; being 
steeped in water, will soon turn it 
into a blew color ; it is hot and dry 
in the first degree, and so used as be- 
fore, is an admirable remedy for the 
stone, as also for the obstructions of 
the Liver and Spleen. 
Rhodium. Encreaseth Milk in Nur- 
ses.
White, red, and yellow Sanders: 
They are all cold and dry in the se- 
cond or third degree: the Red stops 
defluxions from any part, and helps 
inflamations: the white and yellow 
(of which the yellow is best) cool the 
heat of Feavers, strengthen the heart 
and cause cheerfulness, 
Sassafras. Is hot and dry in the 
second degree, it opens obstructions 
or stoppings, it strengthens the breast 
exceedingly, if it be weakned 
through cold, it breaks the stone, 
staies vomiting, provokes Urine, and 
is very profitable in the French Pox, 
used in diet drinks. 
Tamaris. Is profitable for the Ric- 
kets, and burnings.
HERBS 
And their 
LEAVES. 
Southernwood, Male and Female
It is hot and dry in the third de- 
gree, resists poyson, kils Worms 
provokes lust, outwardly in Plai- 
sters, it dissolves cold swellings, and 
helps the bitings of venemous beasts
makes

8 HERBS and their LEAVES. 
makes hair grow: take not above 
half a dram at a time in pouder. 
Wormwood. Its several sorts, are 
all hot and dry in the second or third 
degrees, the common Wormwood is 
thought to be hottest, they all help 
Weakness of the Stomach, clense 
Choller, kil worms, open stoppings, 
help Surfets, cleer the Sight, resist 
Poyson, clense the blood, and secures 
cloaths from Moths. 
Alkenet. The Leaves are somthing 
drying and binding, but inferior in 
vertue to the Roots, to which I refer 
you. 
Sorrel. Is moderately cold and
dry, binding, cutteth tough Humors, 
cools the brain, Liver, and stomach, 
cools the blood In Feavers and pro- 
vokes appetite. 
Bears-breech, or Brankursine. Is 
temperate, something moist. See the 
Root. 
Maiden-hair. white and black. 
They are temperate, yet drying, 
white Maiden-hair is that we usually 
call Wal-rue; they both open ob- 
structions, clense the breast and 
Lungs of gross slimy humors, pro- 
voke Urine, help ruptures and short- 
ness of winde. 
Golden Maiden-hair; its temper- 
ature and vertues are the same with 
the former; helps the Spleen; bur- 
ned and Ly made with the Ashes, 
keeps the hair from falling off from 
the Head. 
Argrimonia. Agrimony. Galens 
Eupatorium: It is hot and dry in the 
first degree, binding, it amends the 
infirmities of the Liver, helps such as 
piss blood, helps inward wounds, 
opens obstructons; outwardly ap- 
plied it helps old sores, ulcers &c. 
Inwardly it helps the Jaundice, and 
the Spleen: You may either take a 
dram of this or that following at a 
time inwardly in white Wine, or boyl
the Herb in white wine and drink the
Decoction. Galen, Pliny, Dioscorides, 
Serapio. 
Ageracum. Mesue his Eupatorium 
Maudlin. Is hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, provokes Urine and the 
Terms, dries the brain, opens stop- 
pings, helps the green sickness, and 
profits such as have a cold, weak Li- 
ver; outwardly applied, it takes 
away the hardness of the Matrix, and 
fills hollow Ulcers with flesh. 
Agnus Castus &c. Chast-tree. 
The Leaves are hot and dry in the 
third degree; expel wind, consume 
the seed, cause Chastity being only 
born about one, it dissolves swellings 
of the Cods being applied to them, 
Heach-ach, Lethargy. Also Diosco- 
rides faith, a branch of it preserves a 
traveller from weariness. 
Wood Sorrel. It is of the tempera- 
ture of other Sorrel, and held to be 
more cordial; cools the blood, helps 
Ulcers in the mouth, hot defluxi- 
ons upon the Lungs, Wounds, Ul- 
cers, &c. 
Vervain-Mallow. The Root helps 
fluxes and burstness. Ætius Diosco- 
rides. 
Garlick. Hot and dry in the 
fourth degree, troublesome to the 
Stomach, it dulls the sight, spoils a, 
clear skin, resists poyson, easeth the 
pains of the Teeth, helps the bitings 
of mad Dogs, and venemous beasts; 
helps Ulcers, Leprosies, provokes 
Urine, is exceeding opening, and 
profitable for Dropsies. 
Marsh-mallows. Are moderately
hot and drier then other Mallows; 
they help digestion, and mitigate 
pain, ease the pains of the Stone, 
and in the sides. Use them as you 
were taught in the Roots, whose ver- 
tues they have, and both together 
will do better. 
Chickweed Is cold and moist with- 
out any binding, asswageth swelling, 
and comforts the Sinews much, and 
therefore is good for such as are 
shrunk up; it dissolves Aposthums, 
hard swellings, and helps manginess 
in the Hands and Legs, outwardly 
applied in a pultis. Galen. 
Ladies-mantle. Is hot and dry, some 
say in the second degree, some say 
in the third: Outwardly it helps 
wounds, reduceth Womens breasts 
that hang bagging: inwardly, helps 
bruises, and Ruptures, staies vomi- 
ting and the whites in women, and, 
is very profitable for such women as 
are subject to miscarry through cold 
and moisture.
Privet. Hath a binding quality, 
helps Ulcers in the mouth, is good 
against burnings and scaldings, che- 
risheth the Nerves and Sinews; boyl 
it in white Wine to wash the mouth, 
and in Hogs grease for burnings and 
scaldings. 
Marjoram. Some say tis hot and 
dry in the second degree, some ad- 
vance it to the third. Sweet Marjo- 
ram, is an excellent remedy for cold 
diseases in the Brain, being only 
smelled to; helps such as are given 
to much sighing, easeth pains in the 
Belly, provokes Urine, being taken 
inwardly; you may take a dram of 
it at a time In pouder. Outwardly 
in Oyls or Salves, it helpeth Sinews 
that are shrunk; Limbs out of Joynt, 
all Aches and Swellings coming of a 
cold cause. 
Angelica. Is hot and dry in the 
third degree, openeth, digesteth , 
maketh thin, strengthens the Heart, 
helps Fluxes, and loathsomness of 
meat, it is an enemy to poyson and 
Pestilence, provokes the Terms in 
Women, and brings away the after- 
birth. You may take a dram of it at 
a time in pouder. 
Pimpernel, male and female. They 
are somthing hot and dry, and of 
such a drawing quality that they 
draw Thorns and Splinters out of the
flesh, amend the sight, clense Ulcers, 
help infirmities of the Liver and 
Reins. Galen. 
Dill. Is hot and dry in the second 
degree. Dioscorides faith, it breeds 
milk in Nurses. But Galen he denies 
it; Howsoever, it staies vomiting, 
easeth Hiccoughs, asswageth swel- 
lings, provokes Urine, helps such 
as are troubled with the fits of the 
mother, and digests raw Humors. 
Apium. Small age; So it is com- 
monly used; but indeed all Parsly is 
called by the Name of Apium, of
which this is one kind. It is som- 
thing hotter and drier than Parsly, 
and more efficacious; it opens stop- 
pings of the Liver and Spleen, cleans- 
eth the blood, provokes the Terms, 
helps a cold Stomach to digest its 
meat and its singular good against 
the yellow Jaundice. But Smallage 
and Clevers, may be well used in 
pottage in the morning instead of 
Herbs.
Goose-grass, or Clevers: They are 
meanly hot and dry, cleansing, helps 
the bitings of venemous beasts, keeps 
mens bodies from growing too fat, 
helps the yellow Jaundice, staies 
Bleeding, Fluxes, and helps green
wounds. Dioscorides, Pliny, Galen, 
Tragus. 
Wood-roof: Cheers the Heart, 
makes men Merry, helps Melancho- 
ly, and opens the stoppings of the 
Liver. 
Columbines: Help sore Throats, 
are of a drying, binding quali 
ty. 
Silver-weed, or Wild Tansie; Cold 
and dry almost in the third degree;
stops Lasks, Fluxes, and the Terms, 
good against Ulcers, the Stone, and 
inward wounds, it stops the immo- 
derate Flux of the Terms in Women 
if it be worn in their Shoes: easeth 
gripings in the Belly, fasteneth loose 
Teeth: outwardly it takes away
Freckles, Morphew, and Sunburning
it takes away Intimations, and
bound to the wrests stop the violence 
of the fits of an Ague.
Sow-bread: hot and dry in the 
third degree, it is so dangerous a 
purge I dare not take it my self, ther- 
fore would I not advise others: out- 
wartly in Oyntments it takes away
Freckles, Sunburning, and the marks 
which the smal Pocks leave behind 
them: dangerous for Women with 
Child, yea so dangerous, that both 
Dioscorides and Pliny say, it wil make 
a woman miscarry if she do but stride 
over it. 
Mugwort: Is hot and dry in the 
second degree: binding: an Herb 
appropriated to the Fœmine sex, it 
brings down the Terms, brings a- 
way both birth and after-birth, eas- 
eth pains in the Matrix. You may 
take a dram at a time. 
Asarabacca: hot and dry; pro- 
vokes vomiting and urine, and are
good

HERBS and their LEAVES. 9
good for Dropsies. They are cor- 
rected with Mace or Cinnamon. 
Orach, or Arrach. It is cold in
the first degree, and moist in the se- 
cond saith Galen, and makes the 
Belly soluble. Dioscorides saith, they
cure the yellow Jaundice, Lythus 
Neop saith, the help such as have 
taken Cantharides. *Mathiolus saith 
[*I doubt he was mistaken] it purgeth 
upwards and downwards. Hypocrates 
saith, it cools hot Aposthumes, and 
St. Anthonies fire. It is certainly 
an admirable remedy for the fits of 
the Mother, and other infimities of 
the Matrix, and therefore the Latins 
Called it Vulvaria.
Mous-ear: hot and dry, of a bin- 
ding quality, it is admirable to heal 
wounds, inward or outward, as also 
ruptures or burstness; Edge-tools 
quenched in the Juyce of it, will cut 
Iron without turning the Edg, as 
easie as they will lead: and lastly, it 
helps the swelling of the Spleen, 
Coughs and Consumption, of the 
Lungs. 
Wild Bastard Saffron, Distaff-thistle, 
0r Spindle-thistle; Is dry and moda- 
rately digesting, helpeth the bitings 
of venemous beasts: Mesue saith, it 
is hot in the first degree, and dry in 
the second, and clenseth the breast 
and Lungs of tough flegm. 
Costmary Alecost: See Maudline, 
Of which I take this to be one sort or, 
kind.
Housleek, or Sengreen: cold in the 
third degree, profitable against the 
Shingles, and other hot creeping
ulcers, inflamations, St. Anthonies 
fire, frenzies, it cools and takes a- 
way Corns from the Toes being ba- 
thed with the Joyce of it, and a skin 
of the leaf laid over the place; stops 
Fluxes, helps Scalding and bur- 
ning. 
Clot-Bur, or Bur-Dock: Temper-- 
ately dry and wasting, somthing 
cooling, it is held to be a good re- 
medy against the shrinking of the 
Sinews: they case pains in the blad- 
der provoke urine. Also Mizaldus 
saith, that a leaf applied to the top 
the Head of a Woman draws the 
Matrix upwards, but applied to the 
Soles of the Feet draws it down-
wards, and is therefore an admit- 
able remedy for suffocations, preci-  
pitations, and dislocations of the 
Matrix, if a wise man have but the 
using of it.
Beets, white and red; The white 
are somthing colder and moister than 
the red, both of them loosen the bel- 
ly, but have little or no nourishment
Simeon Sethi, tels A large story of se- 
veral diseases they breed in the Sto- 
mach, I scarce believe him. This is 
certain, the white provoke too stool, 
are more clensing, open stop- 
ping of the Liver and Spleen, help 
the Vertigo or swimming in the 
Head: The Red stay Fluxes, help the
immoderate flowing of the Terms in 
women, and are good in the yellow  
Jaundice. 
Avens: Hot and dry, help the
Colick and rawness of the Stomach, 
stitches in the sides, help bruises, and 
take away clotted blood in any part 
of the Body.
Common or wood Betony: Hot 
and dry in the second degree, helps 
the Falling-sickness and all Head- 
aches coming of cold, clenseth the 
Breast and Lungs, opens stoppings of 
the Liver and Spleen, as the Rickets, 
&c. procures appetite, helps four 
belchings, provokes urine, breaks 
the Stone, mitigate the pains of the 
Reins and Bladder, help Cramps, and 
Convulsions, resists poyson, helps the 
Gout, such as Piss blood, Madness 
and Head-ach, kills worms, help 
bruises, and clenseth women after
their labor: You may take a dram of 
it at a time in white Wine, or any 
other convenient liquor proper 
against the Disease you are afflicted 
with. 
Pauls Betony or male Lluellin, they 
are pretty temperate, stop defluxions 
of Humors that fal from the Head 
into the Eyes, are profitable in 
wounds, helps filthy foul eating Can- 
kers: Penœ tels of one of her Coun- 
try-men, a Gentleman of Wales, 
who had her nose almost eaten of 
with the Pocks, yea it was so pitiful 
fore, it had almost brought her to a 
Leprosie, and her was cured by only 
taking her own Country Herb Lluel- 
lin inwardly, and applying the Herb 
outwardly to the place.
Dasies: are cold and moist in the 
second degree, they ease all pains 
and swellings coming of heat, in 
Clysters they loose the Belly; are
profitable in Feavers and Inflamati- 
ons of the Stones; they take away 
bruises, and blackness and blewness; 
they are admirable in wounds 
and Inflamations of the Lungs or 
blood. 
Blites. Some say they are cold 
and moist, others cold and dry; 
none mention any great vertues of 
them. 
Barrage: Hot and moist, comforts 
the Heart, cheers the Spirits, drives 
away sadness and Melancholly, they 
are rather Laxative then binding 
help swooning and heart-qualms, 
breed special good blood, help con- 
sumptions, madness, and such as are 
much weakned by sickness. 
Good Henry, or all good; hot and 
dry, clensing and scouring; inward- 
ly taken it loosens the Belly; in- 
wardly it clenseth old sores and ul- 
cers. 
Oak of Jerusalem: hot and dry in 
the second degree, help such as are 
short-winded; cuts and wasts gross 
and rough flegm, laid among cloaths 
they preserve them from Moths, and 
give them a sweet smel. 
Briony, while and black, both are 
hot and dry in the third degree, 
purge violently, yet are held to be 
wholsom Physick for such as have 
Dropsies, Vertigo, or swimming in 
the Head, Falling-sickness, &c. Cer- 
tainly it is a scurvy, strong, trouble- 
som purge, therefore ill to be tampe- 
red with by the unskilful; outward- 
ly in Oyntments it takes away frec- 
kles, Wrinckles, Morphew, Scars, 
Spots, &c. from the Face. 
Shepherds-Purse; Is manifestly cold 
and dry, though Lobel and Pena 
thought the contrary; it is binding 
and stops blood, the Terms in Wo- 
men, Spitting and Pisling of Blood, 
cools inflamations. 
*Bugloss. [*In Sussex (because they 
must be francified) called Languede- 
beef in plain English, Ox-tongue.] 
Its vertues are the same with Bor- 
rage. 
Bugle, or middle Comfry; is tem- 
perate for heat, but very drying,
excellent for fals or inward bruises, 
for it dissolves congealed blood, pro- 
fitable for inward wounds, helps the 
Rickets and other stoppings of the 
Liver; outwardly it is of wonderful 
force in curing wounds and Ulcers, 
though festered, as also Gangreens & 
Fistulaes, it helps * broken bones, 
[* or Members out of joynt.] and dislo- 
cations. To conclude, let my Coun- 
try-mcn esteem it as a Jewel: In- 
wardly you may take it in pouder a 
dram at a time, or drink the decocti- 
on of it in white-wine, being made 
into an Oyntment with Hogs grease, 
you shall find it admirable in green 
wounds. 
Ox Eye, Mathiolus saith they are 
commonly used for black Helle- 
bore, to the vertues of which I refer 
you. 
Box-tree. The Leaves are hot, dry 
and binding, they are profitable
against the biting of mad Dogs: 
both taken inwardly, boyled and ap- 
plied to the place, besides they are 
excellent to cure Horses of the 
bots. 
Mountain and Water Calamint: For 
the Water Calamint; see Mints, 
then which it is accounted stonger. 
Mountain Calamint, is hot and dry 
in the third degree, provokes Urine 
and the Terms, hastens the Birth in 
Women, brings away the after-birth, 
helps Cramps, Convulsions, difficul- 
ty of breathing; kils Worms helps 
the Leprosie: outwardly used, it 
helps such as holds their Necks on 
one side: half a dram is enough at 
one time. Galen, Dioscorides, Apu- 
leius. 
Marigold. The Leaves are hot in 
the second degree, and somthing 
moist, loosen the belly: the juyce 
held in the mouth, helps the Tooth- 
ach, and take away any inflama- 
tion or hot swelling being bathed 
with it, mixed with a little Vineger.
I Hony

10 HERBS and their LEAVES. 
Hony-suckles: The Leaves are hot,
and therefore naught for Inflmati- 
ons of the Mouth and Throat, for 
which the ignorant people often give 
them: and Galen was true in this, let 
modern writers write their pleasure. 
If you chew but a Leaf of it in your 
mouth, experience will tel you that 
it is likelier to cause, then to cure a 
sore Throat: they provoke Urine, 
and purge by Urine, bring speedy 
delivery to women in Travel, yet 
procure barrenness and hinder con- 
ception: outwardly they dry up foul 
Ulcers, and clense the Face from 
Morphew, sunburing and Frec- 
kles. 
Groundsel. Cold and moist accor- 
ding to Tragus, helps the Chollick, 
and pains of gripings in the belly, 
helps such as cannot make water, 
cleanseth the Reins, purgeth choller 
and sharp humors; the usual way of 
taking it is to boyl it in water with 
Currance, and so eat it, I hold it to 
be a wholesome and harmless purge. 
Outwardly it easeth womens breasts 
that are swollen and inflamed; or 
(as themselves say) have gotten an 
Ague in their Breasts: as also infla- 
mation of the Joynts, Nerves or 
Sinews. Ægineta. 
Carduns B. Mariæ. Our Ladies 
Thistles. They are far more tempe- 
rate then Carduus Benedictus, open 
obstructions of the Liver, help the 
Jaundice and dropsie, provoke urine, 
break the Stone.
Carduus Benedictus. In plain Eng- 
lish; Blessed Thistle, though I con- 
fess it be better known by the Latine 
name; it is hot and dry in the second 
degree, clensing and opening, helps 
swimming and giddiness in the Head 
deafness, strengthens the memory, 
helps griping pains in the belly, kils 
worms, provokes sweat, expels poy- 
son, helps inflamation of the Liver, 
is very good in Pestilences, and the 
French-Pocks: outwardly applied, it 
ripens Plague-sores, and helps hot 
swellings, the bitings of mad Dogs 
and venemous beasts, and foul filthy 
Ulcers. Every one that can but make 
a Carduus posset, knows how to use 
it. Camerarius. Arnoldus vel anava- 
nus.
Carallina. A kind of Sea Moss: 
told, binding, drying, good for hot 
Gouts, inflamations, also they say it 
kils worms, and therefore by some is 
called Maw-wormseed. 
Avens, or Herb Bennet, Hot and 
dry: they help the colick, raw- 
ness of the stomach, stitches in the 
sides, stoppings of the Liver, and 
Bruises. 
Nep, or Catmints. The vertues are 
the same with Calaminth. 
Horse-tail; Is of a binding drying 
quality, cures wounds and is an ad- 
mirable remedy for Sinews that are 
shrunk; yea, Galen saith it cures 
Sinews though they be cut in sunder:
but Columbus holds that it is incur- 
able unless they be cut within the 
Muscle: well then, we will take 
Galen in the charitablest sense. How- 
ever this is certain, it is a sure reme- 
dy for bleeding at the Nose, or by 
wound, stops the Terms in Women, 
Fluxes, Ulcers in the Reins and 
Bladder, Coughs, Ulcers in the 
Lungues, Difficulty of breathing. 
Caulis, Brassica. hortensis, Silvestris. 
Colewort, or Cabbages, Garden and 
Wild. They are dry and binding, 
help dimness of the sight: help the 
Spleen, preserve from drunkenness, 
and help the evil effects of it: pro- 
voke the Terms: they say, being lain 
on the top of the Head, they draw 
the Matrix upward, and therefore 
are good for the falling out of the 
Womb, Chrysippus writes a whole 
Treatise of them, and makes them a 
universal Medicine for every disease 
in every part of the Body.
Centaury the greater and lesser. They 
say the greater will do wonders in 
curing wounds: see the, Root. The 
lesser is that which is commonly in 
Sussex known by the Name of Cen- 
taury, and indeed so throughout 
that part of the Nation that I have 
travelled over: a present remedy for 
the yellow Jaundice, opens stoppings 
of the Liver, Gall and Spleen: purg- 
eth choller, helps Gout, clears the 
sight, purgeth the Stomach, helps 
the Dropsie and Green-sickness. It 
is only the tops and Flowers which 
are useful, of which you may take a 
dram inwardly in pouder, or half a 
handful boyled in posset-drink at a 
time.
Knot-Grass: cold in the second 
degree, helps spitting and Pissing of 
Blood, stops the Terms and all other 
Fluxes of blood, vomiting of blood, 
Gonorhæa, or running of the Reins, 
weakness of the Back and Joynts, 
Inflamations of the Privities, and 
such as Piss by drops, and it is an 
excellent remedy for Hogs that will 
not eat their meat. Your only way 
is to boyl it, it is in its prime about 
the latter end of July, or beginning 
of August: at which time being 
gathered it may be kept dry all the 
year. Brassavalus. Camerarius. 
Common and great Chervil: Take 
them both together, and they are 
temperately hot and dry, provoke 
Urine, they stir up lust, and desire 
Copulation, comfort the Heart, and 
are good for old people; help 
Pleurisies and Pricking in their 
sides. 
Brooklime, Hot and dry, but not 
so hot and dry as Water-cresses; 
Tragus saith, they are hot and moist, 
but the man dreamed waking, they 
help mangy Horses: See Water- 
cresses. 
Spleenwort: Moderately hot, wasts 
and consumes the Spleen, insomuch 
that Vitruvius affirms he hath known
Hogs that have fed upon it, that have 
had (when they were killed) no 
Spleens at al. It is excellent good for 
Melancholy people, helps the stran- 
gury, provokes urine, and breaks 
the Stone in the bladder, boyl it and 
drink the Decoction; but because a 
little boyling will carry away the 
strength of if in vapours, let it boyl 
but very little, and let it stand close 
stopped till it be cold before you 
drain it out, this is the general rule 
for all Simples of this Nature. 
Ground-pine: Hot in the second 
degree, and dry in the third, helps 
the Jaundice, Sciatica, stopping of
the Liver, and Spleen, provokes the 
Terms, cleanseth the entrails, dis- 
solves congealed blood, resists poy 
son, cures wouuds and Ulcers.
Strong bodies may take a dram, and
weak bodies half a dram of it in pou-
der at a time. 
Garden and wild Chamomel. Gar-
den Chamomel, is hot and dry in the 
first degree, and as gallant a Medicine 
against the Stone in the Bladder as 
grows upon the Earth, you may take 
it inwardly, I mean the Decoction of
it, being boyled in white Wine, or in 
ject the juyce of it into the bladder 
with a syringe, It expels wind, helps 
belchings and potently provokes the 
Terms: used in Baths, it helps pains 
in the sides, gripings and gnawings
in the belly. 
Germander; Hot and dry in the 
third degree; cuts and brings 
tough humors, opens stoppings of 
the Liver and Spleen, helps coughs 
and shortness of breath, strangury and 
stopping of Urine and provokes the
Terms; half a dram is enough to take 
at a time. 
Celondine both-sorts. Smal Celon- 
dine is usually called Pilewort, it is 
somthing hotter and drier than the
former, but not in the fourth degree 
as Galen and Dioscorides would have 
it; they say it helps the Hemorroids 
or Piles, by only carrying it about 
one (but if it will not, bruise it and 
apply it to the grief) and from thence 
it took its name. Celondine the 
greater is hot and dry (they say in the 
third degree) any way used, either 
the juyce or made into an Oyl or 
Oyntment, it is a great preserver of 
the sight, and as excellent an help for 
sore Eyes as any is. 
Artichokes. They provoke lust
and purge by urine. 
Succory, to which add Endive which 
comes after. They are cold and dry 
in the second degree, clensing and 
openning, they cool the heats of the 
Liver, and are profitable in the yel- 
low Jaundice, and burning Feavers, 
helps Excoriations in the Yard,
hot Stomachs; and outwardly ap- 
plied, help hot Rhumes in the
Eyes. 
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Hemlock: Cold in the fourth de- 
gree, poysonous; outwardly applied, 
it helps Priapismus, or continual 
standing of the Yard, the Shingles, 
St. Anthonis fire, or any eating Ul- 
cers. 
Hemlock-boyled, and the Yard 
bathed with the Decoction of it, 
Helps the priapismus, or continual 
standing of the Yard. 
Perwinkle. Hot in the second de- 
gree, somthing dry and binding; 
stops Lasks, spitting of blood, and 
the Terms in Women. 
Comfry. I do not conceive the 
leaves to be so vertuous as the Roots 
Golden Red: Hot and dry in the 
second degree, cleanseth the Reins, 
provokes Urin, brings away the Gra- 
vel: an admirable Herb for woun- 
ded people to take inwardly, stops 
blood, &c. 
Larks heels; resist poyson, help the 
bitings of venomous beasts. 
Saracens Confound. Helps inward 
wounds, sore Mouths, sore Throats, 
Wasting of the Lungues, and Li- 
ver.
Buchorn Plantaine, or Sea-plantane: 
Cold and dry, helpeth the bitings of 
venemous beasts, either taken in- 
wardly, or applied to the wound; 
helps the colick, breaks the Stone.
Ægineta. 
Coronaria. Hath got many English 
Names. Cotten-weed, Cud-weed, 
Chaff-weed, and Petty Cotten. Of 
a drying and binding nature; boyled  
in Ly, it keeps the Head from Nits 
and Lice; being laid among clothes, 
it keeps them safe from Moths, kills 
Worms, helps the bitings of vene- 
mous Beasts; taken in a Tobacco- 
Pipe, it helps Coughs of the Lunges, 
and vehement Head-aches. 
Cruciata. Cross-wort: (there is
a kind of Gentian called also by this 
Name, which I pass by) is drying 
and binding, exceeding good for in- 
Ward or outward wounds, either in- 
wardly taken, or outwardly applied: 
an excellent remedy for such as 
are bursten. 
Orpine. Very cool; Outwardly 
used with Vinegar, it clears the skin; 
inwardly taken, it helps gnawings of 
the stomach and bowels. Ulcers in
the lungs, bloody-flux, and Quinsie 
the Throat; for which last disease 
it is inferior to none: take not too 
much of it at a time, because of its: 
Coolness. 
Sampier. Hot and dry, helps dif- 
ficulty of Urm, the yellow Jaundies,  
provokes the Terms, helps digestion, 
openeth stoppings of the Liver and  
Spleen. Galen.
Blew bottle, great and smal: A fine
cooling Herb, helps, bruises, wounds, 
broken Veins; the juyce dropped 
into the Eye, help the inflamations
thereof.
Hounds-Tongue, Cold and dry: 
applied to the Fundament helps the
Hemorroids, healeth wounds and 
Ulcers, and is a present remedy a- 
gainst the bitings of Dogs, burnings 
and scaldings. Some say, if you put 
the Herb under your Feet, within 
your stocking, no Dog will bark at 
you. 
Cypress-tree. The Leaves are hot 
and binding, help Ruptures, and 
Polypus or Flesh growing on the 
Nose. 
Lavender Cotton. Resists poyson, 
kills Worms. 
Dictamny, or Dittany of Croes, hot 
and dry, brings away dead Children, 
hastens Womens travail, brings away 
the after-birth, the very smel of it 
drives away venomous breasts , so 
deadly an enemy it is to poyson; its 
an admirable remedy against wounds 
and Gun-shot, wounds made with 
poysoned Weapons, it draws out 
Splinters, broken bones, &c. The 
dose from half a dram to a dram. 
They say, the Goats and Deers in 
Creet, being wounded with arrows, 
eat this Herb, which makes the ar- 
rows fal out of themselves: And from 
thence came the tale in *Virgil 
[* Virgil, Æniad. lib. 12.] about 
Æneas.
Teazles, Garden and Wild: The
Leaves bruised and applied to the 
temples, alay the heat in Feavers, 
qualifie the rage in frenzies; the 
Juyce dropped into the Ears, kill 
Worms in them, (if there be any 
there to kil) dropped into the Eyes, 
clears the sight, helps redness and 
pimples in the Face, being anointed 
with it. Galen. 
Dwarf-Elder, or Wall-wort. Hot 
and dry in the third degree; wasts 
hard swellings, being applied in form 
of a pultis; the Hair of the Head be- 
ing anointed with the Juyce of it 
turns it black, the leaves being ap- 
plied to the place, help inflamations, 
Burnings, Scaldings, the bitings of 
mad Dogs; mingled with Bulls suet 
is a present remedy for the Gout, 
inwardly taken; is a singular purge 
for the Dropsie and Gout. Dr. But- 
ler. 
Echium. Vipers-bugloss, Vipers-
Herb; Snake-bugloss, Wall-bugloss, 
Wild.-bugloss; Several Countries give 
it these several Names: It is a singu- 
lar remedy being eaten, for the biting 
of venemous beasts: Continual eat- 
ing of it makes the body invincible 
against the poyson of Serpents, 
Toads, Spiders, &c. however it be 
administred; It comforts the heart, 
expels sadness and Melancholy: It 
grows abundantly about the Castle 
Walls, at Lewis in Sussex. The rich 
may make the flowers into a con- 
serve, and the Herb into a Syrup: 
the poor may keep it dry; both may 
keep it as a Jewel. 
Rupture-wort, or Burst-wort: The 
English Name tels you it is good 
against ruptures, and so such as are  
bursten shall find it, if they please to 
make trial of it, either inwardly taken 
or outwardly applied to the place, or 
both. Also the Latin Names hold it 
forth to be good against the Stone, 
which who so tries shall find 
true. 
Elicampane. Provokes Urine; See 
the Root. 
Dodder of Time, to which add 
common Dodder which is usually 
that which grows upon Flax: Indeed 
every Dodder retains a virtue of that 
Herb or Plant it grows upon, as 
Dodder that grows upon Broom, 
Provokes Urin forcibly, and loosens 
the belly, and is moister than that 
Which grows upon Flax, that which 
grows upon Time, is hotter and dry- 
er than that which grows upon Flax, 
even in the third degree, opens ob- 
structions, helps infirmities of the 
Spleen, purgeth Melancholly, re- 
lieves drooping spirits, helps the Ric-
kets: That which grows on Flax, is 
excellent for Agues in young Chil- 
dren, strengthens weak Stomachs, 
purgeth choler, provokes Urin, opens 
stoppings in the Reins and Bladder; 
That which grows upon Nettles, pro- 
vokes Urin exceedingly. The way 
of using it is to boyl it in white Wine, 
or other convenient Decoction, and 
boyl it very little, remembring what 
was told you before in Cetrach, 
Ætius, Mesue, Actuarius, Scrapio, 
Avicenna. 
Rockets, Hot and dry in the third 
degree, being eaten alone, causeth 
Head-ach, by its heat procureteh lust, 
Galen.
Eye-bright is somthing hot and dry, 
the very sight of it refresheth the 
Eyes; inwardly taken, it restores the 
sight, and makes old mens Eyes 
young, a dram of it taken in the 
morning is worth a pair of Spectacles 
it comforts and strengtheneth the 
memory, outwardly applied to the 
place, it helps the Eyes. 
Malabathrum. Indian-leaf, hot 
and dry in the second degree, com- 
forts the Stomach exceedingly, helps 
digestion, provokes Urin, helps Infla- 
mations of the Eyes, secures Cloaths 
from Moths. 
Fennel, encreaseth Milk in Nurses, 
provokes Urin, breaks the Stone, 
easeth pains in the Reins, opens 
stoppings, breaks wind, provokes 
the Terms; you may boyl it in white 
Wine.
Straw-berry Leaves, are cold, dry, 
and binding, a singular remedy for 
Incarnations and Wonnds, hot Dis- 
eases in the Throat, they stop Fluxes 
and the Terms, cool the heat of the 
Stomach, and the Inflamations of 
the Liver. The best way is to boyl 
them in barley water. 
Ash-trees: The Leaves are mo- 
derately hot and dry, cure the bitings 
of Adders, and Serpents, by a cer- 
taine Antipathy (as they say) there is
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12 HERBS and their LEAVES.
between them, they stop loosness, 
and stay vomiting, help the Rickets, 
open stoppages of the Liver and 
Spleen. 
Fumatory: Cold and dry, it open- 
eth and clenseth by Urin, helps such 
as are Itchy, and Scabbed, cleers the 
Skin, opens stoppings of the Liver 
and Spleen, helps Rickets, Hypocon- 
driack Melancholly, madness fren- 
zies, quartan Agues, loosneth the 
belly, gently purgeth Melancholy, 
and addust choller: Boyl it in white 
Wine, and take this one general rule. 
All things of a cleansing or opening Na- 
ture may be most commodiously boyled in 
white wine. Remember but this, and 
then I need not write one thing so 
often. 
Goats-rue: Temperate in quality, 
resists Poyson, kills Worms, helps 
the Falling-sickness, resisteth the 
Pestilence. You may take a dram of 
it at a time in Powder. 
Ladies-bedstraw: dry and binding, 
stancheth blood: boyled in Oyl, the 
Oyl is good to anoint a weary Tra- 
veller; inwardly it provokes lust. 
Broom: Hot and dry in the second 
degree, cleanse and open the Sto- 
mach, break the stone in the Reins 
and Bladder, help the green sickness. 
Let such as are troubled with heart- 
qualms or fainting, forbear it, for, 
it weakens the heart and Spirit 
Vital.
See the Flowers. 
Geranium. Cranebil, the divers 
sorts of it, one of which is that which 
is called Muscata, and in Sussex Bar- 
barously Muscovy; it is thought to 
be cool and dry, helps hot swel- 
lings, and by its smel amends a hot 
Brain. 
Geranium Columbinum. Doves-foot,
helps the wind-colick, pains in the 
Belly, Stone in the Reins and blad- 
der, and is singular good in ruptures, 
and inward wounds. I suppose 
these are the general vertues of them 
all. 
Hedg-Hysop. Purgeth Water and 
Flegm, but works very churlish- 
ly. Gesner commends it in Drop- 
sies.
Liver-wort. Cold and dry, excel- 
lent good for inflamations of the Li-, 
ver, or any other Inflamations, yel- 
low Jaundice. 
Tree and Ground-Ivy. Tree-Ivy; 
helps Ulcers, Burnings, Scaldings,
the bad effects of the Spleen; the 
Juyce snuffed up in the Nose, purg- 
eth the Head it is admirable for sur- 
fets or Head-ach, or any other ill 
effect coming of drunkenness, and 
therefore the Poets feigned Bacchus 
to have his Head bound round with 
them. Your best way is to boyl them 
in the same liquor you got your surfet 
by drinking. 
Ground-Ivy is that which usually 
is called Alehoof, hot and the 
Juyce helps noise in the Ears, Fistu-
laes. Gouts, stoppings of the Liver, 
it strengthens the Reins and stops the 
Terms, helps the yellow Jaundice, 
and other Diseases coming of stop- 
pings of the Liver, and is excellent 
for wounded people.
Stinking Ground-pine, is of a drying 
faculty, and therefore stops defluxi- 
ons either in the Eyes or upon the 
Lungs, the Gout, Cramps, Palsies, 
Aches: strengthens the Nerves. 
Primroses, or Cowslips, which you 
will. The Leaves help pains in the 
Head and Joynts; see the Flowers 
which are most in use. 
Herb True-love or One-berry. Pena 
and Lobel, affirm it resists Poyson. 
Mathiolus faith it takes away evil 
done by Witch-craft, and affirms it 
by experience, as also long lingring 
sickness; however it is good for 
wounds, fals, bruises, Aposthumes, 
Inflamations, Ulcers in the Privities. 
Herb True-love, is very cold in tem- 
perature. You may take half a dram 
of it at a time in powder. 
Anemone. Wind-flower. The Juyce 
snuffed up in the Nose purgeth the 
Head, it cleanseth filthy Ulcers, 
encreaseth Milk in Nurses, and out- 
wardly by Oyntment helps Lepro- 
sies.
Pellitory of the Wall. Cold moist, 
cleansing, helps the Stone and Gra- 
vel in the Kidnies, difficulty of Urin, 
sore Throats, pains in the Ears, the 
Juyce being dropped in them; out- 
wardly it helps the Shingles and 
St. Anthonies fire. 
Horstongue, Tongue-blade, or 
Double-tongue. The Roots help 
the strangury, provoke Urin, ease 
the hard labor of Women, provoke 
the Terms, the Herb helps Ruptures 
and the fits of the Mother: it is hot 
in the second degree, dry in the first; 
Boyl it in white Wine. 
Alexanders, or Alisanders: pro- 
voke Urin, expel the after birth, 
help the strangury, expel wind. 
Sage either sod or taken inwardly 
or beaten and applied Plaister-wise 
to the Matrix, draws forth both Terms 
and after-birth.
If you seeth Mugwort in Water, 
and apply it hot Plaister-wise to the 
Navel and Thighs of a Woman in 
Travel, it brings forth both birth and 
after-birth, but then you must spee- 
dily take it away lest it draw down 
Matrix and all. Rogerius. 
The Smoak of Marigold flowers 
received up a Womans Privities by a 
Funnel, brings away easily the after- 
birth, although the Midwife have let 
go her hold. Mizaldus. 
Clary: Hot and dry in the third 
degree; helps weakness in the Back, 
stops the running of the Reins, and 
the whites in Women; provokes the 
Terms, and helps Women that are 
Barren through coldness or moisture, 
or both: causeth fruitfulness, but is 
hurtful for the Memory. The usual
way of taking it is to fry it with But- 
ter, or make a Tansie with it. 
Arsmart. Hot and dry, consumes 
all cold swellings and blood congea- 
led by bruises and stripes; applied to 
the place, it helps that Aposthume in 
the Joynts, commonly called a Felon, 
but in Sussex, an Anditom] If you put 
a handful of it under the Saddle of a 
tired Horses Back, it will make him 
Travel fresh and lustily: strewed in a 
Chamber, kills all the Fleas there : 
this is hottest Arsmart, and is unfit 
to be given inwardly: There is a 
milder sort, called Persicaria, which - 
is of a cooler quality, drying, excel- 
lent good for putrified Ulcers, kill 
Worms: I had almost forget that the 
former is an admirable remedy for 
the Gout, being rosted between two 
Tiles and applied to the grieved 
place, and yet I had it from Dr. Butler 
too. 
Hysop. Helps Coughs, shortness 
of breath, wheezing, distillations up
on the Lungs: it is of a clensing qua-
lity: kils worms in the body; amends 
the whol color of the Body, helps the
Dropsie and Spleen, sore Throats,
and noise of the Ears. See the Syrup
of Hysop.
Henbane. The white Henbane is
held to be cold in the third degree:
the black or common Henbane and 
the yellow, in the fourth. They Stu- 
pifie the sences, and therefore not to 
be taken inwardly: outwardly ap-
plied, they help Inflamations, hot
Gouts: applied to the temples they
provoke sleep.
St. Johns-wort. It is as gallant a
wound-herb as any is, either given
inwardly, or outwardly applied to
the wound: it is hot and dry, opens
stoppings, helpeth spitting and vo-
miting of blood, it clenseth the
Reins, provokes the Terms, helps
congealed blood in the stomach and 
Meseraick Veins, the Falling-sick- 
ness, Palsey, Cramps and Aches 
in the Joynts, you may give it in 
Powder or any convenient Decocti- 
on. 
Laurel of Alexandria, provokes 
Urin and the Terms, and is held to 
be a singular help to women in Tra- 
vel. 
Sciatica-cresses. I suppose so called 
because they help the Sciatica, or 
Huckle-bone-Gout, Setwort or Shart- 
wort: being bruised and applied 
they help swellings, botches, and 
venerious Buboes in the Groin, 
whence they took their Name, as also 
inflamation and falling out of the 
Fundament.
Woad. Drying and binding; the 
side being bathed with it, it easeth 
pains in the Spleen, clenseth filthy
corroding gnawing Ulcers. 
Lettice. Cold and moist, cool the 
Inflamation of the Stomach, com-
monly called heart-burning; pro- 
voke sleep, resist drunkenness, and
takes

HERBS and their LEAVES. 13
takes away the ill effects of it; cool 
the blood, quench thirst, breed milk, 
and are good for chollerick Bodies, 
and such as have a frenzy, or are 
frenitique, or as the vulgar say, fren- 
tick. They are far wholsomer eaten 
boyled then raw.
Lavender. Hot and dry in the 
third degree: the temples and fore- 
head bathed with the Juyee of it, as 
also the smel of the Herb helps swoo- 
nings, Catalepsies, falling-sickness, 
provided it be not accompani- 
ed with a Feaver. See the Flo- 
wers. 
Laurel. The Leaves purge upward 
and downward: they are good for 
Rhewmatick people to chew in their 
mouth, for they draw forth much 
Water.
Bay-tree. The Leaves are hot and 
dry, resist drunkenness, they gently 
bind and help Diseases in the Blad- 
der, help the stinging of Bees and 
Wasps, mitigate the pain of the sto- 
mach, dry and heal, open obstructi- 
ons of rhe Liver and Spleen, resist 
the Pestilence. 
Mastich-tree. Both the leavs and bark 
of it stop Fluxes (being hot and dry 
in the second degree) Spitting and 
pissing of blood, and the falling out 
of the Fundament. 
Duckmeat: Cold and moist in the 
second degree, helps Inflamations, 
hot swellings, and the falling out of 
the Fundament, being warmed and 
applied to the place. 
Dittander, Pepper-wort, or Scar-
wort: A hot fiery sharp Herb, admi- 
rable for the Gout being applied to 
the place: being only held in the 
Hand, it helps the Tooth-ach, and 
and withal leaves a wan color in the 
Hand that holds it.
Lovage. Cleares the sight, takes 
away redness and freckles from the 
Face. 
Toad-Flax; or Wild-Flax: hot 
and dry, clenses the Reins and Blad- 
der, provoke Urine, opens the stop- 
pings of the Liver and Spleen, and 
helps Diseases coming thereof: out- 
wardly they take away yellowness 
and deformity of the Skin. 
Harts-tongue: drying and binding, 
stops Blood, the Terms and Fluxes, o- 
pens stoppings of the Liver & Spleen, 
and Cures Diseases thence arising. 
the like quantity of Harts-tongue, 
Knot-grass, and Comfry Roots being 
boyled in Water, and a draught of 
the decoction drunk every morning, 
and the materials which have boy- 
led applied to the palce, is a notable 
remedy for such as are burst. 
Sea-bugloss, or Marsh-bugloss, or as 
some will have it, Sea-Lavender; the 
seeds being very drying and binding, 
stop Fluxes and the Terms, help the 
Chollick and Strangury.
Lotus Urbana. Authors make some 
flutter about this Herb, I conceive 
the best take it to be Trisolium Odo-
ratum, Sweet Tresoyl, which is of a 
temperate nature, cleanseth the Eyes 
gently of such things as hinder the 
sight, cureth green wounds, Rup- 
tures, or bursness, helps such as piss 
blood or are bruised, and secures 
garments from Moths. 
Hops, Opening, clensing, provoke
Urine; the young sprouts open stop-
pings of the Liver and Spleen, cleanse 
the blood, clear the skin, help scabs 
and Itch, help Agues, purge chol- 
ler: they are usually boyled and 
taken as they eat sparagus, but if you 
would keep them, for they are excel 
lent for these diseases, you may make 
them into a Conserve, (as you shall
be caught hereafter) or into a Sy-
rup. 
Masterwort: Hot and dry in the 
third degree; it is singular good; 
against poyson, Pestilence, corrupt
and unwholsom Air, helps windiness 
in the stomach, causeth an Appetite 
to ones Victuals, very profitable in
fals and bruises, congealed and clot- 
ted blood, the bitings of mad Dogs
the leaves chewed in the mouth, 
cleanse the brain of superfluous Hu- 
mors, thereby preventing Lethargies 
and Apoplexes. 
Mallows. The best of Authors 
account wild Mallows to be best, and 
hold them to be cold and moist in the 
first degree, they are profitable in the 
bitings of venemous beasts, the stin- 
ging of Bees and Wasps, &c. Inward- 
ly they resist poyson, provoke to 
stool; outwardly they asswage hard 
swelling of the Privities or other pla- 
ces, in Clysters they help roughness 
and fretting of the Guts, Bladder, or 
Fundament; and so they do being 
boyled in water, and the Decoction 
drunk, as I have proved in this pre- 
sent Epidemical Disease, the Bloody- 
flux. 
Mandrakes. Fit for no vulgar use, 
but only to be used in cooling Oynt- 
ments. 
Common Hore-hound. Hot in the 
second degree, and dry in the third, 
openeth the Liver and Spleen, cleans- 
eth the Breast and Lungs, helps old 
Coughs, pains in the sides, Ptisicks,
or ulceration of the Lungs, it pro- 
vokes the Terms, easeth hard labor 
in Child-bearing, brings away the
after-birth. See the Syrups. 
Marrubium. Nigrum, & Fœtidum. 
Black and stinking Hore-hound, I 
take to be all one. Hot and dry in 
the third degree; cure the bitings of 
mad Dogs, wast and consume hard 
knobs in the Fundament and Matrix, 
cleanse filthy Ulcers. Unless by stin- 
king Hore-hound the Colledg should 
mean that which Fuchsius cals Stachys 
if they do, it is hot and dry but in 
the first degree, and a singular remedy 
to keep wounds from Inflamation. 
Herb Mastich. Hot and dry in the
third degree, good against Cramps 
and Convulsions.
Fathersew. Hot in the third de-
gree, dry in the second; openeth, 
purgeth; a singular remedy for Dis- 
eases incident to the Matrix, and 
other Diseases incident to Women, 
eases their Travel, and Infirmities 
coming after it; it helps the Vertigo 
or Ditsiness of the Head, Melan- 
choly, sad thoughts, you may boyl 
it either alone, or with other Herbs 
fit for the same purpose, with which 
this Treatise will furnish you: ap- 
plyed to the Wrists, it helps the 
Ague. 
Melilot. Inwardly taken, provokes 
Urin, breaks the Stone, clenseth the 
Reins and Bladder, cutteth and 
cleanseth the Lungs of tough Flegm; 
the juyce dropped into the Eyes, 
cleers the sight; into the Ears, mi- 
tigates pain and noise there; the head 
bathed with the juyce mixed with 
Vinegar, takes away the pains there- 
of: outwardly in pultisses, it asswag- 
eth swellings in the Privities, and 
elswhere. 
Bawm. Hot and dry; outwardly 
mixed with Salt and applied to the 
Neck, help the Kings-evil, bitings
of mad Dogs, venemous beast, and 
such as cannot hold their Necks as 
they should do; inwardly it is an 
excellent remedy for a cold and moist 
Stomach, cheers the Heart, refresh- 
eth the mind, takes away grief, sor- 
row, and care, instead of which it 
produceth joy and mirth. See the 
Syrup. Galen, Avicenna.
Garden Mints, Speare Mints. Are 
hot and dry in the third degree, pro- 
voke hunger, are wholsom for the 
Stomach, stay vomiting, stop the 
Terms, helps fore Heads in Children 
strengthen the Stomach, cause dige- 
stion; outwardly applied, they help 
the bitings of mad Dogs: Yet they 
hinder Conception, and are naught 
for wounded people, they say by rea- 
son of an Antipathy between them 
and Iron. Pliny, Galen.
Water Mints: Ease pains of the 
belly, Head-ach, and Vomiting, Gra- 
vel in the Kidneys and Stone. 
Horse-mint. I know no differ- 
ence between them and Water- 
Mints. 
Mercury, male and female. They 
are both hot and dry in the second 
degree, cleansing, digesting, they 
purge watery Humors, and further 
Conception. Theophrastus relate that 
if a woman use to eat either the male 
or female Mercury, two or three 
daies after Conception, she shall 
bring for a Child either male or fe- 
male according to the sex of the herb 
she eats. 
Spurg-Olive, or Widdow-wail. A 
dangerous purge, better let alone 
than medled with. 
Yarrow. Meanly cold and bin- 
ding, and healing Herb for wounds, 
stancheth bleeding; and some say 
the juyce snuffed up the Nose, caus-
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14 HERBS and their LEAVES.  
eth it to bleed, whence it was called, 
Nose-bleed; it stoppeth Lasks, and 
the Terms in women, helps the run- 
ning of the Reins, helps inflamations 
and Excoriations of the Yard, as also 
Inflamations of wounds. Galen. 
Moss. Is somthing cold and bin- 
ding, yet usually retains a smatch of 
the property of the Tree it grows on: 
therefore that which grows upon 
Oaks is very dry and binding; Sera- 
pio saith that it being infused in Wine 
and the Wine drunk, it staies Vomi- 
ting and Fluxes, as also the whites in 
Women. 
Mirtle-Tree The Leaves are of a 
cold Earthly quality, drying and 
binding, good for Fluxes, Spitting, 
Vomiting and Filling of Blood;
stop the Whites and Reds in Wo- 
men. 
Water-Cresses, and Garden-Cresses. 
Garden Cresses, are hot and dry in 
the fourth degree, good for the Scur- 
vy, Sciatica, and hard swellings. Yet 
do they trouble the Belly, ease pains 
of the Spleen, provoke Lust. Diosio- 
rides.
Water-Cresses, are hot and dry. 
clense the blood, help the Scurvy, 
provoke Urine and the Terms, break 
the Stone, help the Green-sickness,
cause a fresh lively color. 
Treacle-mustard. Hot and dry in 
the third degree, purgeth violently, 
dangerous for Women with Child; 
Outwardly it is applied with profit 
to the Gout. 
Tobacco. And in reciteing the 
vertues of this Herb, I will follow
Clusius, that none should think I do 
it without an Author, It is hot and 
dry in the second degree, and of a 
clensing nature: the Leaves warmed 
and applied to the Head, are excel- 
lent good in *inveterate Head-aches 
[* χεθαΛαια I know not what better 
name to give it, Old Head-aches, con-
tinual Head-aches: take which we will.]
and Megrims, if the Diseases come 
through cold or wind, change them 
often til the Diseases be gone. They 
help such whose Neck be stiff easeth 
the faults of the Breast: Asthmaes or 
Head-flegm in the lappets of the 
Lungs: ease the pains of the Sto- 
mach and windiness thereof; being 
heat hot by the fire, and applied hot 
to the side, they loosen the belly, and 
*kill worms being applied unto it 
in like manner: [* this I know by ex- 
perience, even where many other medi- 
cines have failed. ] they break the 
stone being applied in like manner to 
the region of the bladder: help the 
Rickets, being applied to the belly 
and sides: applied to the Navel, they 
give present ease to the fits of the 
Mother: they take away cold ach in 
the Joynts applied to them: boyled, 
the liquor absolutely and speedily 
cures Scabs and Itch: neither is there 
any better salve in the world for 
wounds then may be made of it: for
it clenseth, setcheth out the filth 
though it lie in the bones, brings up 
the Filth from the bottom, and all 
this it doth speedily: it cures 
wounds made with poisoned Wea- 
pons, and for this Clusius brings 
many experiences too tedious here 
to relate. It is an admirable thing 
for Carbuncles and Plague-sores,
inferior to none: green wounds 
'twil cure in a trice: Ulcers, and 
Gangreens very speedily, not only in 
men, but also in Beasts, therefore 
the Indians dedicated it to their god. 
Taken in a pipe it hath almost as ma- 
ny vertues; it easeth weariness, 
takes away the fence of hunger and 
thirst, provokes to stool: he saith, 
the Indians will Travel four daies 
without either meat or drink, by on- 
ly chewing a little of this [made up 
like a Pill] in their mouths: It eas- 
eth the body of superfluous Humors, 
opens stoppings. Monardus also 
confirms this judgment; and indeed 
a man might fil a whol Volume with 
the vertues of it. See the Oyntment 
of Tobacco.
Money-wort, or Herb Two-pence;
cold, dry, binding, helps Fluxes, 
stopes the Terms, helps Ulcers in the 
Lungs; outwardly it is a special 
Herb for wounds. 
Basil, Hot and moist. Simeon 
Sethi saith, the smel of Basil is good 
for the Head; but Hollerius (and he 
no mean Physitian neither) saith the 
continual find of it hurts the brain, 
and breeds Scorpions there, and 
affirms his own knowledg of it, and 
that’s the reason (saith he) there is 
such an Antipathy between it and 
Rue, which I am confident there is: 
the truth is, it will quickly putrifie, 
and breed worms, Hollerius saith, 
they are venemous, and that's the
reason the name Basilicon was given 
to it. The best use that I know of it, 
is, it gives speedy deliverance to wo- 
men in Travel. Let them not take 
above half a dram of it at a time in 
pouder, and be sure also the birth 
be ripe, else it easeth abortion. 
Adders-tongue. The Leaves are 
very drying: being boyled in Oyl 
they make a dainty green Balsom for 
green wounds: taken inwardly, they 
help inward wounds. 
Origæny: A kind of wild Marjo- 
Ram; hot and dry in the third degree, 
helps the bitings of venemous beasts, 
such as have taken Opium, Hem- 
lock, or Poppy; provokes Urin, 
brings down the Terms, helps old 
Coughs; in an Oyntment it helps 
Scabs and Itch. 
Cynksoyl: very drying, yet but 
meanly hot, if at all; helps Ulcers 
in the mouth, roughness of the 
Wind-pipe (whence comes hoarsness 
and Coughs, &c.) helps Fluxes, 
creeping Ulcers, and the yellow 
Jaundice; they say one leaf cures a 
Quotidian Ague, three a Tertian,
and four a quartan: I know it will 
cure Agues without this curiosity, if 
a wife man have the handing of it; 
otherwise a Cart load will not do 
it. 
Peach leaves: They are a gentle, 
yet a compleat purger of Choller, 
and Diseases coming from thence; 
fit for Children because of their gen- 
tleness. You may boyl them in 
white Wine; a handful is enough at
a time. 
Plantane. Cold and dry; an herb,
Though common, yet let none despise 
it, for the Decoction of it prevails 
mightily against tormenting pains
and excoriaons of the Guts, bloody 
Fluxes, it stops the Terms, and spit- 
ting of blood, Ptisicks, or Consump- 
tions of the Lungs, the running of
the Reins, and the whites in Women,
pains in the Head, and Frenzies : 
outwardly it clears the sight, takes 
away Inflamations, Scabs, Itch, the 
Shingles, and all spreading sores, 
and is as wholesom an Herb as can 
grow about an House. Tragus, Dio- 
scorides.
Polley, or Pellamoutain: All the
sorts are, hot in the second degree,
and dry in the third; helps Dropsies 
the yellow Jaundice, infirmities of
the Spleen, and provokes Urine.
Dioscorides. 
Purslane: Cold and moist in the 
second or third degree cools hot 
stomachs, and (I remember since I
was a Child that) it is admirable for 
one that hath his Teeth on edg by
eating fowr Apples, it cools the 
Blood, Liver, and is good for hot dis- 
eases, or Incarnations in any of these 
places, stops Fluxes, and the Terms,
and helps all inward Inflamations 
whatsoever. 
Self-heal, Carpenters-herb and in
Sussex Sickle-wort. Moderately hot 
and dry, binding. See Bugle. So
shall I not need to write one thing 
twice, the vertues being the same. 
Penyroyal; Hot and dry in the 
third degree; provokes Urin; breaks
the Stone in the Reins (for as I take 
it, the Herb is chiefly appropriated 
to those parts) strengthens Women 
backs, provokes the Terms, easeth 
their Labor in Child-bed, brings 
away the after-birth, staies vomiting, 
strengthens the brain (yea, the very 
smel of it) breaks Wind, and helps 
the Vertigo. 
Pulmonaria, arborea, & Symphytum 
Maculosum. Lung-wort. I confess 
I searching Authors for these, found 
out many sorts of Lung-worts, yet
all agreed that both these were one 
and the same, and helps infirmities 
of the Lungs, as hoarsness, Coughs 
wheesing, shortness of breath, &c. 
You may boyl it in Hysop-water, or
any other water that strengthens the
Lungs.
Fleabane. Hot and dry in the third 
degree, helps the biting of venomous
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15 HERBS and their LEAVES. 
beasts, wounds and swellings, the 
yellow Jaundice, the Falling-sick- 
ness, and such as cannot Piss; it 
being burnt, the smoak of it kills all 
the Gnats and Fleas in the Chamber, 
as also Serpents if they be there; 
it is dangerous for Women with 
Child. 
Winter-green. Cold and dry, and 
Very binding, stops Fluxes, and the 
Terms in women, and is admirable 
good in green wounds. 
Oak Leaves: Are much of the 
nature of the former, stay the whites 
in women. See the Bark. 
Ranunculus. Hath got a fort of 
English Names: Crowfoes, Kingkob, 
Gold-cups, Gold-knobs, Butter-flo- 
wer, &c. they are of a notable hot 
quality, unfit to be taken inwardly: 
If you bruise the Roots and apply 
them to a Plague-fore, they are no- 
table things to draw the venome to 
them. Also Apuleius saith. That if 
they be hanged about the Neck of 
one that is Lunatick in the Wane of 
the Moon, the Moon being in the 
first degree of Taurus or Scorpio, it 
quickly rids him of his disease. 
Rosemary, Hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, binding, stops fluxes, 
helps stuffings in the head, the yellow 
Jaundice, helps the memory, expels 
wind. See the flowers, Serapio, 
Dioscorides. 
Dock: All the ordinary sorts of 
Docks are of a cool and drying sub- 
stance, and therefore stop Fluxes;
and the Leaves are seldom used in
Physick. 
Rue, or Herb of Grace; Hot and 
dry in the third degree, consumes 
the seed, and is an enemy to Gener- 
ation, helps difficulty of breathing, 
and Inflamations of the Lungs, pains 
in the side, Inflamations of the Yard 
and Matrix, is naught for Women 
with Child: An hundred such things 
are quoted by Dioscorides. This I am 
sure of, no Herb resisteth Poyson 
more. And some think Mithria- 
dates that renowned King of Pontus, 
fortified his Body against poyson 
with no other Medicine. It streng- 
theneth the Heart exceedingly, and 
no Herb better than this in Pestilen- 
tial times, take it what manner you 
will or can. 
Savin: Hot and dry in the third 
degree, potently provokes the terms, 
expels both birth and afterbirth, they
(boyled in Oyl and used in Oynt- 
ments) flay creeping Ulcers, scour 
away Spots, Freckles, and Sunbur- 
ning from the Face; the Belly anoin- 
ted with it kills Worms in Chil- 
dren. 
Sage:Hot and dry in the second 
or third degree, binding, it staies 
Abortion in such women as are sub- 
ject to come before their times, it 
causeth fruitfulness, it is singular 
good for the brain, strengthens the 
senses and memory, helps spitting
and Vomiting of blood: outwardly, 
heat hot with a little Vineger and ap- 
plied to the side, helps stitches and 
pains in the sides. 
Willow leaves, Are cold, dry, and 
binding, stop spitting of blood, and 
Fluxes; the boughs stuck about a 
Chamber, wonderfully cool the Air, 
and refresh such as have Feavers; 
the Leaves applied to the Head, 
help hot Diseases there, and Fren- 
zies. 
Sanicle; Hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, clenseth wounds and 
Ulcers. 
Sope-wort, or Bruise-won, Vulgar- 
ly used in bruises and cut Fingers, 
and is of notable use in the French 
Pox. 
Savory. Summer Savory is hot 
and dry in the third degree, winter- 
savory is not so hot, both of them 
expel wind gallantly, and that (they 
say} is the reason why they are boiled 
with Pease and Beans, and other such 
windy things: tis a good fashion, 
and pitty it would be left. 
White Saxifrage, Breaks wind,
helps the Cholick and Stone. 
Scabious ; Hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, clenseth the brest and 
Lungs, helps old rotten Coughs, and 
difficulty of breathing, provokes 
Urin and clenseth the Bladder of fil- 
thy stuffy breaks Aposthumes, and 
cures Scabs and Itch. Boyl it in 
white Wine. 
Schœnanth, Squinanth, or Chantels 
hay; Hot and binding. Galen saith, 
it causeth Head-ach believe him that 
lift. Dioscorides saith, it digests and 
opens the Passages of the Veins
surely it is as great an expeller of
wind, as any is. 
Water-Germander. Hot and dry, 
clenseth Ulcers in the inward parts, 
it provokes Urine and the Terms, 
opens stopping of the Liver, Spleen, 
Reins, Bladder, and Matrix, it is a 
great Counterpoyson, and easeth the 
breast oppressed with flegm: See 
Diascordium. 
Scrophularia. Figwort, so called
of Scrophula, the Kings Evil, which 
it cures, they say, by being only hung 
about the Neck. If not bruise if, and 
apply it to the place, it helps the 
Piles or Hemorrhoids , and (they say) 
being hung about the Neck preserves 
the body in health. 
The Root of Vervain hanged about 
the Neck of one that hath the Kings 
Evil, gives a strange and unheard of 
cure; The reasons is, because it is an 
Herb of Venus: and Taurus is her 
House. For the time of gathering, 
this and other Herbs, I refer you to 
other Treatises where the matter is 
particularly handled. Scribonius Lar- 
gus.
Senna. In this give me leave to 
stick close to Mesue, as an imparal- 
leld Author; it heats in the second 
degree and dries in the first, clenseth, 
purgeth, and digesteth; it carries 
downward both choller, Flegm, and 
Melancholly, it cleanseth the Brain, 
Heart, Liver, Spleen; it cheers the 
senses, opens obstructions, take away 
dulness of sight, preserves youth, 
helps deafness (if purging will help 
it) helps Melancholly and madness, 
keeps back old age, resists resolution 
of the Nerves, pains of the Head, 
*xεθαΛγια Scabs, Itch, Falling,
sickness, the windiness of it is cor- 
rected with a little Ginger. You may 
boyl half an ounce of it at a time, 
in water or white wine, but boyl it 
not too much, half an ounce is a 
moderate dose to be boyled for any 
reasonable Body. 
Mother-of-Time, wild Time; it is 
hot and dry in the third degree, it 
provokes the Terms gallantly as also 
help the strangury or stoppage of 
Urine, gripings in the Belly, Rup- 
tures, Convulsions, Inflamations of 
of the Liver, Lethargy, and infir-
mities of the Spleen: boyl it in white
wine. Ætius Galen.
Night-shade; very cold and dry,
binding, it is somewhat dangerous
given inwardly, unless by a skilful,
hand outwardly it helps the Shin-
gles, St.  Anthonies fire, and other 
hot Inflamations.
Bindweed, Hot and dry in the se-
cond degree, it opens obstructions 
of the Liver, and purgeth watry hu- 
mors, and is therefore very profit- 
able in Dropsies, it is very hurtful to 
the stomack, and therefore if taken 
inwardly it had need be well cor- 
rected with Cinnamon, Ginger, or 
Annis-seed, &c. Yet the German 
Physitians affirm that it cures the 
Dropsie being only bruised and ap- 
plied to the Navil and somthing lo- 
wer, and then it needs not be taken 
inwardly at all. Galen. 
Sowthistles smooth and rough, they 
are of a cold watry, yet bin- 
ding quality, good for Frenzies, they 
increase Milk in Nurses, and cause 
the Children which they Nurse to 
have a good color, help gnawings of 
the stomach coming of a hot cause; 
outwardly they help inflamations, 
and hot swellings, cool the heat of 
the Fundament and Privities. 
Flixweed: Drying without any 
manifect heat or coldness; it is 
usually found about old Ruinous 
buildings; it is so called because of 
its vertue in stopping Fluxes. Para- 
celsus highly commends it; Nay, 
elevates it up to the Skies for curing 
old wounds and Fistulaes, which 
though our modem Chyrurgions 
dispise, yet if it were in the hands of 
a wise man, such as Paracelsus was, 
it may do the wonders he saith it 
will. 
Silver knapweed: The vertues be 
the same with Scabious, and some 
think the Herbs too; though I am of 
I another opinion. 
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16 HERBS and their LEAVES. FLOWERS. 
French Lavender. Cassidony, is a 
great counterpoyson, opens obstru- 
ctions of the Liver and Spleen, clens- 
eth the Matrix and Bladder, brings 
out corrupt Humors, provokes Urin. 
There is another Stæchas mentioned 
here by the name of Amaranthus in 
English, Golden Flower, or Flower- 
gentle: the Flowers of which expel 
worm: being boyled, the water kils 
Lice and Nits. 
Devils-bit; Hot and dry in the 
second degree; inwardly taken, it 
easeth the fits of the Mother, and 
breaks wind, takes away swellings 
in the mouth, and slimy flegm that 
stick to the jaws, neither is there a 
more present remedy in the world 
for those cold swellings in the Neck 
which the vulgar call the Almonds 
of the Ears, then this Herb bruised 
and applied to them. 
Tansie: Hot in the second degree 
and dry in the third; the very smel
of it staies Abortion, or miscarriages 
in women; so it doth being bruised 
and applied to their Navils, pro- 
vokes Urine, and easeth pains in 
making Water; and is a special help 
against the Gout. 
Dandelion, or to write better French, 
Dent-de-lyon, for in plain English, 
it is called Lyons-Tooth; it is a 
kind of Succory, and thither I refer 
you.
Tamiris. It hath a dry clensing 
quality, and hath a notable vertue 
against the Rickets, and infirmities 
or the Spleen, provokes the Terms. 
Galen, Diascorides. 
Tyme. Hot and dry in the third 
degree; helps Coughs and shortness 
of breath, provokes the Terms; 
brings away dead Children and the 
after-birth; purgeth flegm clenseth 
the breast and Lungs, Reins and Ma- 
trix; helps the Sciatica, pains in the 
breast, expels wind in any part of the 
Body, resisteth fearfulness and Me- 
lancholy, continual pains in the 
Head, and is profitable for such as 
have the Falling-sickness to smel
to.
Spurge. Hot and dry in the fourth 
degree: a dogged purge, better let 
alone than taken inwardly; hair 
anointed with the Juyce of it will fal 
off; it kils fish, being mixed with 
any thing that they will eat: out- 
wardly it clenseth Ulcers, takes away 
Freckles, Sunburning and Morphew 
from the Face. 
Pansies, or Hearts-case: They are 
cold and moist, both Herbs and Flo- 
wers, excellent against Inflamations 
of the Breast or Lungs, Convulsions, 
or Falling-sickness, also they are 
held to be good for the French 
Pox. 
Trefoil: dry in the third degree, 
and cold: The ordinary Medow tre- 
foil, (for their word comprehends all 
sorts) clenseth the guts of fluny Hu- 
mors that stick to them, being used
either in drinks or Clysters; out- 
wardly they take away inflamations. 
PLiny saith the leaves stand upright 
before a storm, which I have observed 
to be true oftner then once or twice, 
and that in a cleer day, fourteen 
hours before the storm came, 
Colts-foot: somthing cold and dry, 
and therefore good for inflamations, 
it is admirable good for coughs, 
and consumptions of the lungs, short- 
ness of breath, &c. It is often used 
and with good success taken in a to- 
baccopipe, being cut and mixed with 
a little oyl of Annis seeds. See the si- 
rup of Colts-foot, 
Mullin, or Higtaper. It is some- 
thing dry, and of a digesting, clen- 
sing quality, stops fluxes and the hæ- 
morrhoids, it cures hoarsness, the 
cough, and such as are broken wind- 
ed; the leaves worn in the shoes pro- 
vokes the terms ( especially in such 
Virgins as never had them) but they 
must be worn next their feet: also 
they say, that the Herb being gathe- 
red when the Sun is in Virgo, and the 
Moon in Aries, in their mutual An- 
tiscions, help such of the Falling, sick- 
ness as do but carry it about them; 
worn under the feet it helps such as 
are troubled with the fits of the mo- 
ther.
Vervain: hot and dry, a great o- 
pener, clenser, healer; it helps the 
yellow jaundies, defects in the reins 
and bladder, pains in the head, if it 
be but bruised and hung about the 
Neck, all Diseases in the secret parts 
of men and women; made into an 
oyntment it is a soveraign Remedy
for old Head-aches, called by the, 
Name of xεθαΛγια as also Frenzies, 
it clears the skin, and causeth a love- 
ly colour.
Violet leaves: they are cool, ease 
pains in the head proceeding of heat 
and Frenzies, either inwardly taken 
or outwarly applied; heat of the sto- 
mach, or inflamation of the Lungs. 
Vitis Vinisera. The manured Vine 
*The Leaves [Vines of different cli- 
mates, have different operations; I write 
of English Vines.] are binding and 
cool withal the burnt ashes of the 
sticks of Vine, scour the teeth and 
make them as white as snow; the 
Leaves stop bleeding, fluxes, heart- 
burnings Vomitings; as also the 
longing of Women which Child. 
The coles of a burnt Vine, in pou- 
der mixed with hony, doth make the 
teeth as white as Ivory, which are 
rubbed with it.
Swallow-wort A pultis made with 
the leaves help sore breasts, and also 
so reliefs of the Matrix. 
Navil-wort; cold, dry and binding, 
therefore helps all inflamations; it 
is very good for kib’d heels, being 
bathed with it and a leaf laid over the 
sore. 
Nettles; an Herb so well known, 
that you may find them by the feel- 
ing in the darkest night: they are 
something hot, not very hot; the 
juyce stops bleeding; they provoke 
lust exceedingly, help difficulty of 
breathing, pleurisies, inflamations of 
the Lungs, that troublesom: cough 
that women call Chincough; they
exceedingly break the stone, provoke 
urine, and help such as cannot hold 
their necks upright. Boyl them in 
white wine. 
FLOWERS. 
Borrage, and Bugloss Flowers 
strengthen the brain, and are pro- 
fitable in Feavers. 
Chamomel flowers, heat and as- 
swage swellings, inflammation of the 
bowels, dissolve wind, are profitable 
given in clysters or drink, to such as 
are troubled with the Colick, or
Stone. 
Stæchas, opens stoppings in the 
Bowels, and strengthens the wholl 
body.
Saffron powerfully concocts, and
sends out what ever Humor offends 
the body, drives back inflamations; 
being applied outwardly, encreaseth 
just, and provokes Urine. 
Clove-Gilliflowers, resist the pesti- 
lence, strengthen the heart, liver, and 
Stomach, and provoke Lust. 
Schœnenth (which I think I touch- 
ed slightly amongst the Herbs) pro- 
vokes urine potently, provokes the 
terms, breaks wind, helps such as spit 
or vomit Blood, easeth pains of the 
Stomach, Reins, and Speen, helps 
Dropsies, Convulsions, and inflama- 
tions of Womb.
Lavender-flowers, resist al cold af- 
flictions of the Brain, Convulsions,
Falling-sickness, they strengthen cold 
stomachs, and opens obstructions of 
the Liver, they provoke urin and the 
terms,  bring forth the birth and after-
birth. 
Hops, open stoppings of the bo-
wels, and for that cause Beer is better
then Ale.
Bawm flowers, cheer the heart and 
vital spirits, strengthen the Sto-
mach.
Rosemary flowers, strengthen the
brain exceedingly and resist mad- 
ness; cleer the sight. 
Winter-Gilliflowers, or Wal-flower 
(as some call them) help inflamati- 
ons of the womb, provoke the terms,
and Help Ulcers in the Mouth.
Hony suckles, provoke urine, ease 
the pains of the spleen, and such as 
can hardly fetch their breath. 
Mallows, Help Coughs. 
Red Roses, cool, bind, strengthen 
both vital and animal vertue, restore
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such as are in consumptions, streng- 
then, There are so many Compositi- 
tions of them which makes me brie- 
fer in the Simples. 
Violets (to wit the blew ones, for 
I know little or no use of the white 
in Physick ) cool and moisten, pro- 
voke sleep, loosen the Belly, resist 
Feavers, help inflamations, correct, 
the heat of choller, ease the pains in 
the Head, help the roughness of the 
Wind-pipe, Diseases in the Throat, 
Inflamations in the breast: and sides, 
Plurefies, opens stoppings of the 
Liver, and help the Yellow Jaun- 
dice. 
Cicory, (or Succory as the vulgar 
cals it) cools and strengthens the Li- 
ver, so doth Endive. 
Water-lillies, Ease pains of the Head 
coming of choler and heat, provoke 
sleep, cool Inflamations, and the 
heat in feavers. 
Pomegranate-flowers, dry and bind, 
stop Fluxes, and the Terms in Wo- 
men. 
Cowslips. Strengthen the brain, 
sences, and memory, exceedingly, 
resist; all Diseases thereof, as Con- 
vulsions, Falling-sickness, Palsies 
&c. 
Centaury, Purges choler and gross 
Humors, helps the Yellow Jaundice, 
opens Obstructions of the Liver, 
helps pains of the Spleen, provokes 
the Terms, brings out the birth and 
after-birth.
Elder-flowers, Help Dropsies, clense 
the blood, deer the Skin, open stop- 
pings of the Liver and Spleen, and 
diseases arising there-from. 
Bean-flowers. Cleer the Skin, stop 
humors slowing into the Eyes. 
Peach-tree flowers. Purge choler 
gently. 
Broom-flowers. Purge water, and 
are good in Dropsies. 
The temperature of all these Flo- 
wers differ either very little or not at 
all from the Herbs.
The way of using; the Flowers I did 
forbear, because most of them may, 
and are usually made into Conserves, 
of which you may take the quantity 
of a Nutmeg in the morning; all of 
them may be kept dry a year, and 
boyled with, other Herbs conducing 
to the cures they do. 
FRUITS 
And their 
BUDS. 
Green Figs, Are held to be of ill 
Juyce, but the best is, we are 
not much troubled with them in
England; dry Figs helps Coughs, 
Clense the brest, and help, infirmities 
of the Lungs, shortness of wind, 
they loose the Belly, Purge the Reins 
help Inflamation of the Liver and 
Spleen: outwardly they dissolve 
swellings; some say the continuall 
eating of them makes men Lou- 
sie. 
Pine-Nuts, Restore such as are in 
Consumptions, amend the failings 
of the Lungs, concoct flegm, and 
yet are naught for such as are troub- 
led with the Head-ach. 
Dates, Are binding, stop eating 
Ulcers being applied to them; they 
are very good for weak Stomachs, 
for they soon digest, and breed good 
nourishment, they help infirmities of 
the Reins, Bladder, and Womb. 
Sebestens, Cool droller, violent 
heat of the Stomach, help roughness 
of the Tongue and Wind-pipe, cool 
the Reins and Bladder. 
Raisons of the Sun, help infirmities 
of the Breast and Liver, restore Con- 
sumptions, gently clense and move 
to stool. 
Walnut; Kill worms, resist the 
Pestilence, (I mean the green ones, 
not the dry.) 
Capers eaten before meals, pro- 
voke hunger. 
Nutmegs, Strengthen the Brain, 
Stomach, and Liver, provoke Urin, 
ease the pains, of the Spleen, stop 
loosness, ease pains of the Head, and 
pains in the joynts, strengthen the 
Body, take away weakness coming 
of cold, and cause a sweet breath. 
Cloves, Help digestion, stop loos- 
ness, provoke lust, and quicken the 
light.
Pepper, Binds, expels wind, helps 
the colick, quickens digestion op- 
pressed with cold, heats the Stomach, 
(for all that old women say, his cold: 
in the-Stomach.) 
Pears Are grateful to the Sto- 
mach, drying, and therefore helps 
Fluxes.
All plums that are sharp or sour, 
are binding, the sweet are loos- 
ning. 
Cucumers, of (if you will) Cow- 
cumbers, cool the Stomach, and 
ate good against Ulcers in the Blad-
der. 
Gaules, are exceeding binding, 
help Ulcers in the Mouth, wafting of 
the Gums, easeth the pains of the 
Teeth, helps the falling out of the 
Womb and Fundament, makes the 
hair black. 
Pompions are a cold and moist fruit, 
of smal nourishment, they provoke 
Urin; outwardly applied, the flesh 
of them help Inflamations and bur- 
nings; being applied to the fore-
head they help Inflamations of the 
Eyes. 
Melones, called in London Musk- 
millions, have few other vertues. 
Apricocks are very grateful to the
Stomach, and dry up the humors ther- 
of Peaches are held to do the like. 
Cubebs, are hot and dry in the third 
degree, they expel wind, and clense 
the Stomach of tough and viscus Hu- 
mors, they ease the pains of the 
Spleen and help cold diseases of the 
womb, they clense the Head of flegm 
and strengthen the brain, they heat 
the stomach and provoke lust. 
Bitter almonds, are hot in the first 
degree and dry in the second, they 
clense and cut thick humors, clense 
the Lungs; and eaten every mor- 
ning, they are held to preserve from 
drunkenness. 
Bay-berries, heat, expel wind, mi- 
tigate pain; are excellent for cold 
infirmities of the Womb, and Drop- 
sies. 
Cherries, Are of different qualities, 
according to their different tast, the 
sweet are quickest of digestion, but 
the four are most pleasing, to a hot 
Stomach and procure Appetite to
ones meat.
Medlars, Are strengthening to the 
Stomach, binding, and the green are 
more binding than the rotten, and 
the dry than the green. 
Olives, Cool and bind. 
English-currence, Cool the Stomach 
and are profitable in acute Leavers, 
they quench thirst:, resist vomiting, 
cool the heat of choler, provoke Ap- 
petite, and are good for hot Com- 
plexions. 
Services, Or (as we in Sussex cal 
them) Checkers are of the Nature of 
Medlars, but somthing weaker in 
operation.
Barberies, Quench third, cool the 
heat of choler, resist the Pestilence, 
stay vomiting and Fluxes, stop the 
Terms, kill worms, help spitting of 
blood, fasten the Teeth, and streng- 
then the Gums. 
Strawberries, Cool the Stomach, 
Liver, and Blood, but are very hurt- 
ful for such as have Agues. 
Winter-Cherries, Potently provoke 
Urin, and break the Stone. 
Cassia-fistula, Is temperate in qua- 
lity, gently purgeth choler and flegm 
clarifies the blood, refills Feavers, 
clenseth the Brest and Lungs, it cools 
the Reins, and thereby resisteth the
breeding of the Stone, it provokes 
Urin, and therefore is exceeding
good for the running of the Reins 
in men, and the whites in Wo- 
men. 
All the forts of Myrobalans, purge 
the Stomach; the Indian Myrobalans 
are held to purge Melancholy most 
especially, the other Flegm; yet take 
heed you use them not in stoppings 
of the bowels: they are cold and dry. 
they all strengthen the Heart, Brain, 
and Sinnews, strengthen the stomach, 
releeve the sences, take away tremb- 
lings and Heart-qualms. They are 
seldom used alone.
Prunes, Are cooling and loosening.
L Tamarinds 

18 SEEDS, or GRAINS. 
Tamarinds, Are cold and dry in 
the second degree, they purge cho- 
lor, cool the Blood, stay Vomiting, 
help the yellow jaundice, quench 
thirst, cool hot stomachs, and hot 
Livers. 
I omit the use of these also as rest- 
ing confident a Child of three yeers 
old, if you should give it Raisons of 
the Sun or Cherries, would not ask 
how it should take them.
SEEDS, 
or,
GRAINS. 
Coriander seed. Hot and dry, ex- 
pels wind, but is hurtful to the 
Head; fends up unwholsom vapors 
to the Brain, dangerous for mad 
people, therefore let them be prepa- 
red, as you shall be taught towards 
the latter end of the Book. 
Fænugreek-seeds, are of a softning, 
discussing nature, they cease inflama- 
tions, be they internal or external: 
bruised and mixed with vinegar they 
ease the pains of the Spleen: being 
applied to the sides, help hardness 
and swellings of the Matrix, being 
boyl’d, the Decoction helps scabby 
Heads. 
Linseed hath the same vertues with 
Fenugreek. 
Gromwel seed, provokes urine, helps 
the Colick, breaks the done, and ex- 
pels wind. Boyl them in white wine,
but bruise them first.
Lupines, easeth the pains of the 
spleen, kills Worms and casts them 
out; outwardly, they clense filthy ul- 
cers, and Gangreens, help scabs, itch, 
and Inflamations. 
Dill seed, encreaseth Milk in 
Nurses, expels wind, staies vomitings, 
provokes urine; yet it duls the sight, 
and is ail enemy to Generation.
Small age seed, provokes urine and 
the terms, expels wind, resists poyson, 
and easeth inward pains, it opens 
stoppings in any part of the body, yet 
it is hurtful for such as have the Fal- 
ling sickness and for Women with
Child. 
Rockes seed, provokes urine, stirs 
up Lust, encreaseth the seed, kills 
worms, easeth the pains of the spleen:
Vse all these in like manner. 
Basil seed . If we may beleeve Dio- 
scoridos and Cresentius, cheers ths 
Heart, and strengthens a moist Sto- 
mach, drives away melancholy, and 
provokes Urine.
Nettle seed, provokes lust, opens 
stoppages of the womb, helps infla-
mations of the lido and Lungs; pur- 
geth the breast: boyl them (being 
bruised) in white Wine also. 
The seed of Ammi, or Bishopsweed, 
heat and dry, help difficulty of urin 
and pains of the Colick, the bitings 
of venemous beasts, they provoke 
the terms, and purge the Womb, 
Annis seeds, heat and dry, ease pain 
expel Wind, cause a sweet breath, 
help the dropsie, resist poyson, breed 
milk, and stop the whites in women, 
provoke lust, and ease the Head- 
ach.
Cardamoms, heat, kill worms, 
clense the Reins, and provoke urine. 
Fennel feed, breaks wind, provo- 
kes urine and the terms, encreaseth 
Milk in Nurses. 
Cummin seeds, heat, bind, and dry, 
stop blood, expel wind, ease pain, 
help the bitings of venentous beasts; 
outwardly applied (viz. in Plaisters) 
they are of a discussing Nature. 
Caret seeds, are windy, provoke lust 
exceedingly, and encrease seed, pro- 
voke Urin and the terms, cause spee- 
dy delivery to women in travel, and 
bring away the after birth. All 
these also may be boyled in white 
Wine. 
Nigella seeds, boyled in Oyl, and the 
forehead anointed with it, ease pains 
in the head, takeaway leprosie, itch
scurf, and helps scald heads: inward- 
ly taken they expel worms, they pro- 
voke urine, and the terms, help diffi- 
culty of breathing: the smoak of them 
(being burned) drives away Ser- 
pents and venomous beasts. 
Stavesager, kills Lice in the Head, 
I hold it not fitting to be given in- 
wardly.
Olibanum mixed with as much bar- 
rows Grease (beat the Olibanum first 
in ponder) and boyled together, make 
an Oyntment which wil kil the Lice 
in Childrens heads, and such as are 
subject to breed them, wil never, 
breed them. A Medicine cheap, safe, 
anc sure, which breeds no annoyance 
to the Brain. 
The seeds of Water-cresses, heat, yet 
trouble the stomach and belly; ease 
the pains of the spleen, are very, dan- 
gerous for women with Child, yet 
they provoke lust: outwardly ap- 
plied, they help Leprosies, scald 
heads, and the falling off of hair, as 
also Carbuncles, and cold ulcers in 
the joynts. 
Mustard seed, heats, extenuates, 
and draws moisture from the brain; 
the head being shaved and anointed 
with Mustard, is a good Remedy for 
the Lethargy, it helps filthy Ulcers, 
and hard swellings in the Mouth, it 
helps old aches coming of cold. 
French Barley, is cooling, nourish- 
ing, and breeds Milk. 
Sorrrel seeds, potently resist poyson, 
help Fluxes, and such Stomachs as 
loath their meat. 
Succory seed, cools the heat of the 
blood, extinguisheth lust, openeth
stoppings of the Liver and Bowels, it 
allays the heat of the body, and pro- 
duceth a good colour, it strengthens 
the Stomach, Liver, and Reins. 
Poppy-seeds, ease pain, provoke 
sleep. Your best way is to make an 
Emulsion of them with Barley water. 
Mallow seeds, ease pains in the 
bladder. 
Cich-pease, are windy, provoke lust, 
encrease Milk in Nurses, provoke 
the terms; outwardly, they help 
scabs, itch, and inflamations of the 
stones, ulcers, &c, 
White Saxifrage seeds, provoke U- 
rine, expell wind, and breaks the 
stone. Boyl them in white Wine.
Rue seeds, help such as cannot hold 
their water. 
Lettice seeds, cools the blood, re- 
strains Lust.
Also Gourds, Citruls, Cucumers, 
Melones, Purslain, and Endive seeds, 
cool the blood, as also the stomach, 
spleen, and reins, and allay the heat 
of Feavers. Vse them as you were
taught to do Poppy-seed. 
Worm seed, expels wind kils worms, 
Ash-tree Keys, ease pains in the 
sides, help the Dropsie, relieve men 
weary with labor, provoke lust, and 
make the body lean.
Piony seeds, help the Ephialtes, or
the Disease the vulgar cal the Mare, 
as also the fits of the mother, and o- 
ther such like Infirmities of the 
womb, stop the terms, and help con- 
vulsions. 
Broom seed, potently provoke urin,
breaks the stone. 
Citron seeds, strengthen the heart; 
cheer the vital spirit, resist pestilence 
and poyson.
Tears, Liquors, 
and Rozins. 
Ladanum is of a heating mol- 
lifying Nature, it opens the
mouth of the veins, stayes the 
hair from falling off, helps pains in 
the ears, and hardness or the Womb. 
It is used only outwardly in plaisters
Assa satida, Is commonly used to 
allay the Fits of the mother by smel-
ling to it; they say, inwardly taken, 
it provokes Lust, and expels wind. 
Benzoin, or Benjamin, makes a 
good Perfume.
Sanguis Draconis, cools and binds
exceedingly. 
Aloes purgeth Coller and Flegm, 
and with such deliberation that it is 
often given to withstand the violence
of other Purges, it preserves the sen- 
ses and betters the apprehension, it
strengthens

Tears, Liquors, &c. JUYCES. Living Creatures. 19
strengthens the Liver, and helps the 
yellow-jaundice. Yet is nought for 
such as are troubled with the Hemor- 
morhoids, or have Agues. I do not 
like it taken raw. See Aloe rosata, 
which is nothing but it walked with 
the juyce of Roses. 
Manna, Is temperately hot, of a 
mighty dilative quality, windy, clen- 
seth choller gently, also it clenseth 
the throat and stomach. A child may 
take an ounce of it at a time melted 
in milk, and the drosse strained our, 
it is good for them when they are
Scabby.
Scamony, or Diagridium, call it by 
which Name you please, is a despe- 
rate Purge, hurtful to the body by 
reason oi its heat, windinesse, corro- 
ding, or gnawing, and violence of 
working. I would advise my Coun- 
ty to let it alone; it wil gnaw their 
bodies as fast as Doctors gnaw their 
Purses
Opopanax, is of a heating, mollify- 
ing digesting quality. 
Gum Elemi, is exceeding good for 
fractures of the Skull, as also in 
wounds, and therefore is put in plai- 
sters for that end. See Arceus his Li- 
niment. 
Tragacamhum, commonly called 
Gum Traganth, and Gum Dragon, 
helps coughs, hoarness, and distilati- 
ons upon the Lungs. 
Bdellium, heats and softens, helps 
hard swellings, ruptures, pains in the 
sides, hardness of the Sinews. 
Galbanum. Hot dry, discussing: 
applied to the womb, it hastens both 
birth and after-birth, applied to the 
Navel it stays the strangling of the 
Womb, commonly called the sits of 
the mother, helps pains in the sides, 
and difficulty of breathings, being 
applied to it, and the smell of it 
helps the Vertigo or Diziness in the
head.
Mirrh, Heats and dries, opens and 
softens the womb, provokes the birth 
and after-birth; inwardly taken, it 
helps old Coughs and Hoarsness, 
pain in the sides, kils worms, and 
help a stinking breath, helps the 
wasting of the Gums, fastens the 
teeth: outwardly it helps wounds, 
and fils up Ulcers; with flesh. You 
may take half a drain at a time. 
Mastich, strengthens the stomach 
Exceeding, helps such ray vomit or 
spit blood, it fastens the teeth and  
strengthens the Gums, being chewed 
in the Mouth. 
Frankincense use and Olibanum, Heat 
and Blind, fill up old ulcers with flesh, 
stop bleeding, but is extream bad for 
mad People. 
Turpentine, purgeth, clenseth the 
Rein, helps the running of them. 
Styrax Calamitis, helps coughs and 
Distillations upon the Lungs, hoars- 
ness want of voice, hardness of the 
womb but it is bad for Head-
aches.
Ammoniacum, Applied to the side
helps the hardness and pains of the 
Spleen. 
Camphir, Eeaseth pains of the head 
coming of heat, takes away inflma- 
tions, and cools any place it is ap- 
plied to.
JUYCES
That all Juyces have the same 
vertues with the herbs or fruits
whereof they are made, I suppose few
or none wil deny, therefore I shall 
onley Name a few of them, and that
briefly. 
Sugar is held to be hot in the first 
degree, strengthens the Lungs, takes
away the Roughness of the Throat,
succours the Reins and the Blad- 
der. 
The juyce of Citrons cools the blood  
strengthens the Heart, mitigates the  
violent heat of Feavers. 
The juyce of Lemmons works the 
same effect, but not so powerfully (as  
Authors say.)
Juyce of Liquoris, strengthens the 
Lungs, helps Coughs and Colds.
I am loath to trouble the Reader 
with Tautology, therefore I passe to
Things bred of Plants. 
AGrick It purgeth flegm, Choler 
and Melancholly, from the 
Brain, Nerves, Muscles, Marrow, (or 
more properly brain) of the Back, it 
clenseth the Breast, Lungs, Liver, 
Stomach, Spleen, Reins, Womb, 
Joynts, it provokes Urine, and the 
Terms, kils Worms, helps pains in 
the Joynts, and causeth a good co- 
lour; It is very seldom or never ta- 
ken alone. See Syrup of Roses with 
Agrick. 
Viscus Quircinus, or Misleto of the 
Oak, helps the Falling sickness being 
either taken inwardly, or hung about 
ones Neck.
Living Creatures. 
Mille-pedes (so called from the
multitude of their feet, though 
it cannot be supposed they have a 
thousand ) Sows, Hogs-lice in Sussex
they cal them Wood-lice) being bruis- 
ed and mixed with Wine, they pro- 
voke urin, help the yellow Jaundice: 
outwardly being boyled in oyl, help 
pains in the Ears, a drop, being put 
into them. 
The Flesh of * Vipers being eaten, 
[* I take your English Adder to be 
the true Viper, though happily not so, ve- 
nemous as they are in hotter Countries] 
clear the fight, help the Diseases of 
the Nerves, resist poyson exceedingly, 
neither is there any better Remedy 
under the Sun sou their bitings than 
the Head of the Viper that bit you, 
bruised and applied to the place, and 
and the flesh eaten, you need not eat 
above a dram at a time, and make it
up as you shal be taught in Troches
of Vipers. Neither any comparable 
to the stinging of Bees and Wasps, 
&c. than the same that sting you, 
bruised and applied to the Place. 
Land Scorpions cure their own sting- 
ings by the same means; the ashes of 
them (being burnt) potently provo- 
kes, Urin, and breaks the stone.
Earth worms, (the preparation of 
which you may find towards the lat- 
ter end of the Book Jare an admirable 
Remedy for cut nerves being applied 
to the place; they provoke Urin; see 
the oyl of them, only let me not for- 
get one notable thing quoted by Mi- 
zaldus, which is. That the pouder of 
them put into an hollow tooth, maks 
it drop out. 
To draw a tooth without pain, fill 
an earthen Crucible lust of Emmets 
(Ants, or Pismires, cal them by which 
name you wil), Egs and all, and when 
you have burned them, keep the 
ashes, with which if you touch a 
tooth it wil fall out. 
Eels, being put into Wine or Beer, 
and suffered to dy in it, he that drinks 
it wil never endure that sort of Li- 
quor again. 
Oysters, applied alive to a pestilen- 
tial swelling, draw the venom to 
them.
Crab-fish, burnt to ashes, and a 
dram of it taken every morning helps 
the bitings of mad Dogs, and all o- 
ther venemous beasts. 
Swallows, being eaten, clear the 
sight, the ashes of their, (being burnt) 
eaten, preserves from drunkenness, 
helps sore throats being applied to 
them, and inflamations. 
Grashoppers, being eaten, ease the 
Colick, and pains in the Bladder. 
Hedg-Sparrows, being, kept in salt, 
or dryed and eaten raw, are an admi- 
rable Remedy for the stone. 
Young Pigeons, being eaten, help 
pains in the Reins, and the Disease 
called Tenasmus.
PARTS

20 Parts of Living Creatures, and Excrements. 
PARTS 
OF 
Living Creatures, 
AND 
EXCREMENTS. 
The brain of Sparrows being ea- 
ten provoke lust exceedingly. 
The Brain of an Hare being rosted 
helps trembling, it makes Children 
breed teeth easily, their Gums being 
rubbed with it, also helps scald 
heads, and falling off of hair, the 
head being anointed with it. 
The Head of a coal black Cat being 
burnt to Ashes in a new Pot, and 
some of the Ashes blown into the Eye
every day, help such as have a Skin 
growing over their fight, if there be 
any Infatuation; moisten an Oak 
leaf in water and lay over the Eye 
Myzaldus saith (by this one only 
Medicine) he cured such as have been 
blind a whol year. 
The head of a young *Kite [*some
Countries calls them Gleads, and others 
Puttocks.] being burned to ashes and 
the quantity of a dram of it taken 
every morning in a little water, is 
an admirable remedy against the 
Gour. 
Crabs-eyes, breaks the Stone, and 
opens stopping of the bowels. 
The Lungs of a Fox wel dryed (but 
not burned) is an admirable streng- 
thener to the Lungs: See the Lohoch 
of Fox Lungs.
The Liver of a Duck, stops Fluxes, 
and strengthens the Liver exceeding- 
ly--
The------- of a Frog, being dryed 
and ---ten, helps quartan Agnes, or 
as the vulgar call them, third-day- 
Agues. 
Cock stones, Nourish mightily, and 
refresh and restore such bodies ss 
have been wasted by long sickness; 
they are admirable good in Hectick 
Feavers, and Galen's (supposed in- 
curable) Marasmus, which is a Con- 
sumption attending upon a Hectick 
Feaver; they increase seed, and help 
such as are weak in the sports of 
Venus. 
Castorium, Resists Poyson, the bi- 
tings of venemous beasts, it pro- 
vokes the Terms, and brings forth 
both Birth and After-birth; it expels 
wind, easeth pains and Aches, Con- 
vulsion sigthings, Lethargies; the 
smel of it allaies the fits of the Mo- 
ther , inwardly given, it helps tremb- 
lings, Falling-sickness, and other 
such ill effects of the Brain and 
Nerves: A scruple is enough to take 
at a time, and indeed spirit of Casto- 
rium is better then Castorium raw, to 
which I refer you. 
The Yard of a flag helps Fluxes, the 
bitings of Venemous beasts, pro- 
vokes Urin, and stirs up lust excee- 
dingly. 
A sheeps or Goats Bladder being 
burnt, and the Ashes given inwardly, 
helps the Diabetes, or continual Pis- 
sing. 
A stead Mouse, dried and beaten 
into Pouder, and given at a time, 
helps such as cannot hold their water 
or have a Diabetes, if you do the like 
three daies together. 
Vnicorns Horn, Resists Poyson and 
the Pestilence, provokes Urin, restores 
lost strength, brings forth both birth 
and after-birth.
Ivory, or Elephants Tooth, binds, 
stops the Whites in Women, it streng- 
the Heart and Stomach, helps the 
yellow Jaundice, and makes Women 
fruitful. 
The vertues of Harts-horn are the 
same with Vnicorns-horn. 
The Bone that is found in the Heart 
of a Stag, is as soveraign a cordial 
and as great a strengthener to the 
Heart as any is, being beaten into 
Pouder and taken inwardly; also it 
resists Pestilences and Poyson. 
The Scul of a man that was never 
buried, being beaten to Pouder and 
given inwardly, the quantity of a 
dram at a time in Betony Water, helps 
Palsies and Falling-sickness. 
That smal triangular Bone in the 
Skul of a man, called Os triquetrum) 
so absolutely cures the Falling-sick- 
ness, that it will never come again, 
saith Paracelsus,
Those smal Bones which are found 
in the Fore-feet of an Hare, being 
beaten into Pouder and drunk in 
wine, powerfully provoke Urine. 
A Ring made of a Elks claw being 
worn, helps the Cramp. 
The Fat of a Man is exceeding 
good to anoynt such limbs as fal a - 
way in the flesh. 
Goose grease and Capons Grease 
are both softening, help gnawing 
sores stiffness of the Womb, and mi- 
tigate pain.
I am of opinion that the Suet of a 
Goat mixed with a little Saffron, is 
as excellent an Oyntment for the 
Gout, especially the Gout in the 
Knees, as any is. 
Bears grease, day the falling off of 
the Hair. 
Fox grease, helps-pains in the 
Ears.
Elks claws, or hoofs are a sove- 
raign remedy for the Falling-sickness, 
though it be but worn in a Ring, 
much more being taken inwardly; 
but saith Mizaldus, it must be the 
Hoof of the right Foot behind. 
Milk, is an extream windy meat; 
therefore I am of the opinion of Dio-
scorides, viz. that it is not profitable 
in Head-aches, yet this is for cer- 
tain, that it is an admirable remedy
for inward Ulcers in any part of 
the Body, or any corrosions, or 
excoriations, pains in the Reins and 
Bladder; but it is very bad in Dis- 
eases of the Liver, Spleen, the Fal- 
ling-sickness. Vertigo, or dissiness 
in the Head, Leavers and Head- 
aches; Goats milk is held to be bet- 
ter then Cows for Hectick Feavers, 
Ptysicks, arid Consumptions, and so 
is Asses, also. 
Whey, attenuateth and clenseth 
both Choler and Melancholy: Won- 
derfully helps Melancholy and Mad- 
ness coming of it; opens stoppings
of the Bowels; helps such as have 
the Dropsie and are troubled with the 
stoppings of the Spleen, Rickets and 
Hypocondriack Melancholly; for 
such Diseases you may make up your 
Physick with Whey. Outwardly it
clenseth the Skin of such deformities 
as come through Choler or Melan- 
choly, as Scabs, Itch, Morphew, 
Leprosie, &c. 
Honey, Is of a Gallant clensing 
quality, exceeding profitable in all 
inward Ulcers in what part of the 
Body soever it opens the Veins, clens- 
eth the Reins and Bladder; he that 
would have more of the vertues of it,
let him read Butler his Book of Bees, 
a gallant experimental work. I know 
no faults belong to it, but only it is 
soon converted into Choler. 
Wax, Softens, heats, and meanly 
fils fores with llefh, it differs not the 
Milk to curdle in womens brests ; in- 
wardly it is given ( ten grains at a 
time) against Bloody-fluxes.
Raw-silk, Heats and dries, chears 
the Heart, drives away sadness, com- 
forts all the Spirits, both Natural, 
Vital and Animal. 
Belonging to the 
SEA. 
Sperma Cœti; Is well applied out- 
wardly to eating Ulcers, and the 
marks which the smal Pocks leave 
behinde them; it clears the sight
provokes sweat; inwardly it troubles 
the Stomach and Belly, helps bruises 
and stretching of the Nerves, and 
therefore is good for Women newly 
delivered. 
Amber Grease, Heats and dries,
strengthens the Brain and Nerves 
exceedingly, if the infirmity of
them come of cold, resists pesti-
lence. 
Sea-sand, A man that hath the
Dropsie.

Belonging to the Sea. Mettals, Menerals, and Stones. 21
Dropsie, being set up to the middle 
in it, it draws out all the water. 
Red Coral, Is cold, dry and bin- 
ding, stops the immoderate flowing 
of the Terms, Bloody-fluxes, the 
running of the Reins, and the whites 
Women, helps such as spit and piss 
blood, helps witchcraft being carried 
about one, it is an approved remedy 
for the Falling-sickness. Also if ten 
grains of red Corral be given to a 
Child in a little Bread-milk: so soon 
as it is born, before it take any other 
food, it wil never have the Falling- 
sickness, nor Convulsions. The com- 
mon Dose is from ten grains to thir- 
ty 
If any one be bewitched, put some 
Quick-silver in a Quil stop’d close, 
and lay it under the Threshold of the 
Door. 
St. Johns-wort born about one, 
keeps one from being hurt either by 
Witches or Devils.
Pearls, Are a wonderful strengthe-
ner to the Heart, encrease Milk in
Nurses, and amend it being naught, 
they restore such as are in Consump- 
tions; both they and the red Corral 
Preserve the Body in health, and resist 
Feavers. The Dose is ten grains or 
fewer; more I suppose because it is 
dear, than because it would do 
harm. 
Amber (viz. yellow Amber (heats 
and dries, therefore prevails against 
moist Diseases of the Head; it helps 
violent Coughs, helps consumption 
of the Lungs, spitting of blood, the 
Whites in Women; it helps such Wo- 
men that are out of measure unweal- 
dy in their going with Child, it stops 
bleeding at the Nose, helps difficulty 
of Urin. You may take ten or twen- 
ty grains at a time. 
The Froth of the Sea, it is hot and 
dry, helps Scabs, Itch, and Leprosie, 
Scald Heads, &c. it cleanseth the 
Skin, helps, difficulty of Urin, makes 
the Teeth white, being rubbed with 
it, the Head Being washed with it, it 
helps baldness, and trimly decks the 
Head with hairs. 
Mettals, Minerals,
And
STONES.
GOLD is temperate in quality,
it wonderfully strengthens the 
Heart and vital Spirits; which one
perceiving very wittily inferred these
verses:
For Gold is Cordial; and that’s the
reason.
Your Raking Misers live so long a
season.
However this is certain, in Cordials 
it resists Melancholly, Faintings, swoo- 
nings, Feavers, Falling-sickness and 
all such like Infirmities incident ei- 
ther to the Viral or Animal Spirit. 
What those be, See the directions at 
the beginning. 
Alum. Heats, binds and purgeth; 
scours filthy Ulcers, and fastens loose 
Teeth. 
Brimstone, or flower of Brimstone,
which is Brimstone refined, and the 
better for Physical uses; helps coughs 
and rotten Flegm; outwardly in 
Oyntments it takes away Leprosies, 
Scabs and Itch; inwardly it helps 
yellow Jaundice, as also worms in 
the Belly, especially being mixed
with a little Salt-peter; it helps Le- 
thargies being snuffed up in the Nose; 
the truth is I shall speak more of this 
and many other Simples (which I 
mention not here) when I come to 
the Chymical Oyls of them. 
Litharge, Both of Gold and Silver; 
binds and dries much, fils up Ulcers 
with flesh, and heals them. 
Lead is of a cold dry earthly quali- 
ty, of an healing Nature: applied 
to the place it helps any Inflamation, 
and dries up Humors. 
Pompholix, cools, dries and binds. 
* Iacynth, [* The stone, not the 
Herb] strengthens the Heart, being 
either beaten into Pouder, and taken 
idwardly or only worn in a Ring. 
Cardanus saith it encreaseth Riches 
and Wisdom. 
Saphyr, resisteth Necromantick ap- 
paritions, and by a certain divine
gift, it quickens the sences, helps 
such as are bitten by venemous beasts 
Ulcers in the Guts; Galen, Dioscori- 
des, Garcius, and Cardanus are my 
Authors. 
Emerald; called a, Chaste-stone be- 
cause it resisteth lust, and will break 
(as Cardanus saith) if one hath it 
about him when he Deflowrs a Vir- 
gin: moreover being worn in a Ring 
it helps, or at least mitigates the 
Falling-sickness and Vertigo; it. 
strengthens. the memory, and stops
the unruly Passions of Men; it takes 
away Vain and foolish fears, as of
Devils, Hobgolins, &c. it takes away 
folly anger, &c. and causeth good
conditions: and if it do so, being 
worn about one, reason will tell him
that being beaten into Pouder, and 
taken inwardly, it will do it much
more. Garcius. 
Ruby (or Carbuncle, if there be such 
a Stone) restrains lust; resists Pesti- 
lences; takes, away Idle and foolish 
thoughts; makes men cheerful. Car-
danus. 
Granate. Strengthens the Heart, 
but hurts the Brain, causeth Anger, 
takes away sleep. 
Diamond, Is reported to make him 
that bears it infortunate: It makes 
men undaunted (I suppose because it 
is a Stone of the Nature of Mars) it 
makes men more secure or fearless 
then careful, which it doth by over- 
powring the Spirit: as the Sun 
though it be light it self, yet it dar- 
kens the sight in beholding its body. 
Garcius, Cardanus. 
Amethists, Being worn, makes men 
sober and staied, keeps men from 
drunkenness and too much sleep, it 
quickens the wit, is profitable in 
huntings and fightings, and repels 
vapors from the Head. 
Bezoar, is a notable restorer of 
Nature, a great Cordial, no way 
hurtful nor dangerous, is admirable 
good in Feavers, Pestilences and 
Consumptions, viz. taken inwardly; 
for this Stone is not used to be worn 
as a Jewel; the Pouder of it being 
put upon wounds made by Vene- 
mous beasts, draws out the Poy- 
son. 
Topas (if Epiphanius spake truth) 
if you put it into boyling water, it 
doth so cool it that you may present- 
ly put your Hands into it without
harm; if so then it cools Inflamati- 
ons of the Body by touching of them. 
Toadstone; Being applied to the 
place, helps the bitings of venomous 
Beasts, and quickly draws all the 
Poyson to it; it is known to be a true 
one by this; hold it near to any 
Toad, and the will make proffer to 
take it away from you if it be right;
else not. Lemnius. 
There is a Stone of the bigness of 
a Bean found in the Gizzard of an 
Old Cock, which makes him that 
bears it, Beloved, Constant and bold;
Valiant in fighting, Beloved by Wo- 
men, potent in the sports of Venus. 
Lemnius. 
Nephriticus Lapis; Helps pains in 
the Stomach, and is of great force 
in breaking and bringing away the 
Stone and Gravel; concerning the 
powerful operation of which I shall 
only quote you one story of many, 
out of Minardas, a Physitian of note: 
A certain noble man (quoth he) very
well known to me, by only bearing 
this Stone tied to his Arm, voided 
such a deal of Gravel that he feard 
the quantity would do him hurt by 
avoiding so much of it; wherefore 
he laid it from him, and then he 
avoided no more Gravel; but after- 
wards being again troubled with the 
Stone, he wore it as before, and pre-
sently the pain eased, and he avoided 
Gravel as before, and was never 
troubled with the pain of the Stone 
so long as he wore it. 
Jaspar; Being worn, stops blee- 
ding, easeth the labor of Women, 
stops lull, resist Feavers and Dropsies. 
Mathiolus. 
Ætites, Æagle-stone or the Stone 
with Child, because being hollow 
in the middle, it contains another 
little Stone withinit, is found in 
an Eagles nest, and in many 
other places; this stone being 
M bound

22 Mettals, Minerals, and STONES. 
bound to the left Arm of Women 
with Child, staies their Miscarriage 
or Abortion, but when the time of 
their labor comes, remove it from 
their Arm, and bind it to the inside  
of their Thigh, and it brings forth the 
Child, and that (almost) without
any pain at all. Dioscorides, Pli- 
ny. 
Young Swallows of the first brood, 
if you cut them up between the time
they were hatched, and the next full 
Moon, you shall find two Stones in 
their Ventricle, one Reddish, the o- 
ther Blackish; these being hung about 
the Neck in a piece of Stags Leather, 
help the Falling-sickness and Feavers; 
the truth is, I have found the reddish 
one my self without any regard to 
the Lunation; but never tried the 
vertues of it. 
Lapis Lazuli, Purgeth Melancholly
being taken inwardly; outwardly 
worn as a Jewel, it makes men cheer- 
ful, fortunate and rich. 
And thus I end the Stones, the 
vertues of which if any think incre- 
dible, I answer; 1. I quoted the Au- 
thors where I had them. 2. I know 
nothing to the contrary but why it 
may be as possible as the sound of a 
Trumpet is to incite a man to Valor;
or a Fiddle to Dauncing.
Thus much for the Old Dispensatory, Indeed had not the Printer desired it might not be, I had left out what hitherto 
hath been Written, having published in Print such a *Treatise [* The English Physitian] of Herbs and plants as 
my Country-men may readily make use of, for their own preservation of health, or Cure of Diseases, such as grow neer them, 
and are easily to be had; that so by the help of my Book they may Cure themselves. 
A
CATALOGUE 
OF 
SIMPLES 
IN THE 
NEW DISPENSATORY. 
ROOTS used in PHYSICK are these, 
ROOTS of 
Colledg. Sorrel. 
Calamus Aromaticus. 
Water-flag. 
Privet. 
Garlick. 
Marsh-mallows. 
Alcanet. 
Angelica. 
Anthora. 
Smallage. 
Aron. 
Birth-wort 
long 
round. 
Sowbread. 
Reeds. 
Asarabacca. 
Virginian Snake-weed. 
Sparagus. 
Swallow-wort. 
Asphodel
male, 
female.
ROOTS of 
Bur-docks 
great, 
smal. 
Behen, or Bazil. 
Valerian 
white,
red.
Dazies. 
Beets  
white, 
red,
black.
Marsh-mallows. 
Bistort.
Barrage. 
Briony
white, 
black. 
Bugloβ 
Garden, 
wild. 
Calamus Aromaticus.
ROOTS of 
Our Ladies Thistles. 
Avens. 
Cole-worts. 
Centaury the less. 
Onions. 
Chamelion
white, 
black. 
Celondine. 
Pilewort. 
China. 
Succory. 
Artichoaks. 
Virginian Snakeroot. 
Comfry
greater, 
lesser. 
Contra yerva. 
Costus
Sweet,
Bitter. 
Turmerick.

ROOTS. 23 
ROOTS of
Turmerick. 
Wild Cucumers,
Sowbread. 
Hounds-tongue, 
Cyperus 
long, 
round. 
Toothwort. 
white Dittany.
Doronicum.
Dragons. 
Woody Night shade. 
Vipers Bugloβ. 
Smallage. 
Hellebore 
white, 
black. 
Endive.
Alicampane. 
Eringo. 
Colts-foot. 
Fearn 
male, 
fœmale. 
Filipendula, or Dropwort. 
Fennel. 
White Dittany.
Galanga 
great, 
smal. 
Gentian.
Lequoris. 
Dog-graß 
Hermodactils. 
Swallow-wort,
Jacinth. 
Henbane. 
Jallap. 
Master-wort
Orris, or Flower-de-luce, both English
and Florentine. 
Sharp pointed Dock. 
Bur-dock
greater, 
less. 
Lovage. 
Privet. 
White Lillies. 
Liquoris. 
Mallows.
Mechoacan. 
Jallap. 
Spignel. 
Mercury.
Devils bit.
Sweet Navew.
Spicknard 
Celtik, 
Indian.
Water-Lillies. 
Rest-harrow. 
Sharp pointed Dock.
Peony
male,
fœmale.
Parsneps
garden. 
wilde 
Cinkfoyl
Butter Bur. 
Parsly.
Hogs Fennel. 
Valerian
Greater,
lesser.
Roots of 
Burnet. 
Land and Water plantane. 
Polypodium of the Oak. 
Solomans-seal. 
Leeks. 
Pellitory of Spain. 
Cinksoyl, 
Turneps. 
Rhadishes 
garden, 
wild. 
Rhapontick. 
Common Rhubarb. 
Monks Rhubarb. 
Rose Root. 
Maddir.
Bruscus. 
Sopewort. 
Sarsaparilla. 
Savyrion 
male, 
fœmale. 
White Saxifrage. 
Squils.
Figwort. 
Scorzonera English and Spanish. 
Virginian Snakeweed. 
Solomons Seal.
Cicers.
Stinking Gladon.
Devils bit. 
Dandelyon. 
Thapsus. 
Tormentil. 
Turbith. 
Colts-foot. 
Valerian
greater, 
lesser. 
Vervain. 
Swallow-wort. 
Nettles.
Zedoary 
long, 
round. 
Ginger. 
Culpeper] For my own Particular, 
I aim solely at the benefit of my 
country in what I do, and shall im- 
partially reveal to them what the 
Lord hath revealed to me in Physick. 
I see my first labors were so well ac- 
cepted, that I shall not now give over 
till I have given my country that 
which is call’d the whol Body of 
Physick, in their own Mother 
Tongue. 
In ancient times when men lived 
more in health, simples were more in 
use by far then now they are; now 
compounds take the chief place, and 
men are far more sickly then be- 
fore. 
My opinion is, that those Herbs, 
Roots, Plants, &c. which grow near 
a man, are far better and more con- 
gruous to his Nature then any out- 
landish Rubbish whatsoever, and this 
I am able to give a reason of to any 
that shall demand it of me, therefore 
I am so copious in handling of them, 
you shall observe them ranked in this 
order.
1. The temperature of the Roots, 
Herbs, Flowers, &c. viz. Hot, cold, 
dry moist, together with the degree 
of each quality. 
2. What part of the Body each 
Root, Herb, Flower, is appropria- 
ted to, viz. Head, Throat, Breast, 
Heart, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Bo- 
wels, Reins, Bladder, Womb, Joynts, 
and in those which heat those places, 
and which cool them. 
3. The property of each Simple, as 
they bind, open, Mollifie, harden, 
extenuate, discuss, draw out, sup- 
pure, clense, glutinate, break wind, 
breed Seed, provoke the Terms, stop 
the Terms, resist Poyson, abate swel- 
lings, ease pain. 
This I intend shall be my general 
Method throughout the Simples, 
which having finished, I shall give 
you a Paraphrase explaining these 
Terms, which rightly considered, wil 
be the Key of Galens way of admini- 
string Physick.
The temperature of the 
Roots
Roots Hot in the first degree. Marsh- 
Mallows, Bazil, Valerian, Spattling, 
Poppy, Burdocks, Borrage, Bugloss, 
Calamus Aromaticus, Avens, Pile- 
wort, China, Self-heal, Liquoris, 
Dog-grass, white Lillies, Peony 
male and Female, wild Parsneps, 
Parsly, Valerian great and smal. 
Knee-holly, Satyrion, Scorzonera, 
Skirrets. 
Hot in the second degree. Water- 
flag, Reeds, Swallow-wort, Aspho- 
desi Male, Carline Thistle, Cyperous 
long and round, Fænnel, Lovage, 
Spignel, Mercury, Devils bit, Butter 
bur, Hogs Fennel, Sarsaparilla, Squils, 
Zedoary. 
Hot in the third degree. Angelica, 
Aron, Birth-wort long and round 
Sowbread, Asarabacca, Briony white 
and black, Celondine, Virginian 
Snakeroot, Turmerick, White Dit- 
tany, Doronicum, Hellebore white 
and black, Alicampane, Filipendula, 
Galangal greater and lesser, Master- 
wort. Orris English and Florentine, 
Restharrow, stinking Gladen, Tur- 
bith, Ginger. 
Hot in the fourth degree. Garlick, 
Onions, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain.
Roots temperate in respect of heat, are 
Bears breech, Sparagus, our Ladies 
Thistles, Eringo, Jallap, Mallows, 
Mechoacan, Garden Parsneps, Sink- 
soyl, Tormentil. 
Roots cold in the first degree. Sorrel, 
Beets white and red, Comfrey the 
greater, Plantane, Rose Root, Mad- 
dir. 
Cold in the second degree Alcanet,
Daizies, Succory, Hounds-Tongue, 
Endive, Jacinth. 
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24 ROOTS
Cold in the third degree. Bistort and 
Mandrakes are cold in the third de- 
gree, and Henbane in the fourth, 
Roots dry in the first degree. Bears- 
breech, Burdocks, Red-beets Cala- 
mus Aromaticus,Pilewort, Self-heal, 
Endive, Eringo, Jacinth, Maddir, 
Kneeholly. 
Dry in the second degree. Waterflag, 
Marsh-mallows, Alkanet, Smallage, 
Reeds, Sorrel, Swallow-wort, As- 
phodel male, Bazil, Valerian and 
spatling Poppy, according to the 
opinion of the Greek, Our Ladies 
Thirties, Avens, Succory, Hounds- 
Tongue, Cyperus long and round. 
Fennel, Lovage, Spignel, mercury, 
Devils-bit, Butter-Bur, Parsly, Plan- 
tane1, Zedoary.
Dry in the third degree. Angelica, 
Aron, Birth-wort long and round. 
Sowbread, Bistort, Asarabacca, Brio- 
ny white and black, Carline Thistle, 
China, Sellendine, Virginian snake- 
root, White Dittany, Doronicum, 
Hellebore white and black, Alicam- 
parse, Filipendula, Galanga greater 
and lesser, Master-wort, Orris Eng- 
lish and Florentine, Rest-harrow, 
Peony male and female, Cinksoyl, 
Hogs Fennel, Sarsaparilla, stinking 
Gladon, Tormentil, Ginger. 
Dry in the fourth degree, Garlick; 
Onions, Costus, Leekes, Pellitory of 
Spain. 
Roots moist are, Bazil, Valerian, 
and spattling-Poppy, according to 
the Arabian Physitians, Daizies, 
white Beets, Borrage, Bugloss, Li- 
quoris, Dog-grass, Mallows, Saty- 
rian, Scorzonera, Parsnips, Skir- 
rets.
Roots are also appropria- 
ted to several Parts of 
the Body; and so they. 
Heat the Head. Doronicum, Fen- 
nel, Jallap, Mechoacan, Spicknard, 
Celtick and Indian, Peony male and 
female. 
Neck and Throat. Pilewort, Devils 
bit. 
Bresst and Lungs. Birthwort long 
and round. Elicampane, Liquoris, 
Orris English and Florentine, Cala- 
mus Aromaticus, Cinksoyl, Squils. 
Heart. Angelica, Borrage, Bug- 
loss, Carline Thistle, Doronicum, 
Butter-bur, Scorzonera, Tormentil, 
Zedoary, Bazil, Valerian white and 
red. 
Stomach. Alicampane, Galanga 
greater and lesser, Spicknard, Celtick 
and Indian, Ginger, Fennel, Avens, 
Radishes. 
Bowels. Valerian great and smal, 
Zedoary, Ginger. 
Liver. Smallage, Carline thistle, 
Sullendine, China, Turmerick, Fen- 
nel, Gentian, Dog-grass, Sinksoyl,
Parsly, Smallage, Sparagus, Rhu- 
barb, Rhapontick, Knee-holly, 
Spleen. Smallage, Carline thistle, 
Fearn male and female; Parsly, Wa- 
ter-flag, sparagus, round Birth-wort, 
Fennel, Capers, Ash, Gentian. 
Reins and Bladder. Marsh-mallows, 
Smallage, Sparagus, Burdock, Bazil, 
Valerian, Spading Poppy, Carline 
thistle, China, Cyperus long and 
round, Filipendula, Dog grass, Spick- 
nard, Celtick and Indian; Parsly, 
Knee-holly, white Saxifrage, 
Womb. Birthwort long and round: 
Galanga greater and lesser, Peo- 
ny male and Fœmale, Hogs Fen- 
nel. 
Fundament. Pile-wort. 
Joynts. Bears-breech, Hermoda- 
ctils, Jallap, Mecoacan, Ginger, 
Costus. 
Roots cool the Head. Rose Root. 
Stomach. Sow thistles. Endive, Suc- 
cory, Bistort. 
Liver. Maddir, Endive, Chico-
ry
The properties of the 
Roots 
Although I confess the properties 
of the Simples may be found out by 
the ensuing explanation of the Terms 
and I suppose by that means they 
were found out at first; and although 
I hate a lazy student from my Heart, 
yet to encourage young students in 
the Art, I shall quote the chiefest of 
them: I desire all lovers of Physick 
to compare them with the explanati- 
on of these Rules, so shall they see 
how they agree, so may they be en- 
abled to find out the properties of all 
Simples to their own exceeding be- 
nefit in Physick.
Roots, bind. Cyperus, Bistort, 
Tormentil, Cinksoyl, Bears breech, 
Water flag, Alkenet, Toothwort, 
&c. 
Discuss. Birth-wort, Asphodel, 
Briony, Capers, &c. 
Clense. Birthwort, Aron, Spara- 
gus, Grass, Asphodel, Sullendine, 
&c. 
Open. Asarabacca, Garlick, Leeks, 
Onions, Rhapontick, Turmerick, 
Carline thistle, Succory, Endive, 
Filipendula, Fennel, Parsly, Brus- 
cus, Sparagus, Smallage, Gentian, 
&c. 
Extenuate. Orris English and Flo- 
rentine, Capers, &c. 
Burn. Garlick, Onions, Pellitoty 
of Spain, &c. 
Mollifie. Mallows, Marsh-mallows 
&c. 
Suppure. Marsh-mallows, Briony, 
white Lillies, &c. 
Glutinate. Comfry, Solomons- 
seal. Gentian, Birth-wort, Daisies, 
&c. 
Expel Wind. Smallage, Parsly, 
Fennel, Water-flag, Garlick, Co- 
stus, Galanga, Hogs Fennel, Zedo- 
ary, Spicknard Indian and Celtique, 
&c. 
Breed seed. Water-flag, Eringo, 
Satyrion, Galanga, &c. 
Provoke the Terms Birth-wort, 
Asarabacca, Aron, Water-flag, white 
Dittany, Asphodel, Garlick, Cen- 
taury the less , Cyperus long and 
round, Costus, Capers, Calamus
Aromaticus, Dittany of Creet, Car- 
rots, Eringo, Fennel, Parsly. Smal- 
lage, Grass, Alicampane, Penoy, 
Valerian, Knee-holly, &c. 
Stop the Terms. Comfry, Tormentil, 
Bistort, &c. 
Provoke swear. Carline Thistle, 
China, Sarsaparilla, &c. 
Resist Poyson. Angelica, Garlick 
long Birthwort, Smallage, Doroni- 
cum, Costus, Zedoary, Cyperus, 
Gentian, Catline Thistle, Bistort,
Tormentil, swallow wort, Vipers 
Bugloss, Alicampane &c.
Help burnings. Asphodel, Jacinth, 
white Lillies, &c. 
Ease pains. Water-flag, Eringo, 
Orris, Rest harrow, &c.
Of Roots, some Purge
Choller. Asarabacca, Rhubarb, 
Rhapontick, Fern, &c. 
Melancholly. Hellebore, white and 
black. Polypodium 
Flegm and Watry Humors. Squils, 
Turbith, Hermodactils, Jallap, Me- 
coacan, wilde Cucumers, Sowbread, 
male Asphodel, Briony white and. 
black, Elder, Spurge great and
smal. 
I quoted some of these properties 
to teach you the way how to find the
rest, which the explanation of these. 
Terms will give you ample instructi-
ons in. 
How to use your bodies in, and after 
taking Purges, you shall be taught by 
and by.
BARKS 
Used in Physick. 
BARKS of 
Colledg. HAzel Nuts. 
Orenges. 
Barberies. 
Birch-tree. 
Caper Roots. 
Cassia Lignea. 
Chest-Nuts.
Cinnamon.

BARKS. WOODS. HERBS. 25 
Cinnamon, Citron Pils, Dwarf Elder, 
Spurge Roots, Alder, Ash, pome- 
granates, Guajacum, Walnuts tree, Green 
Walnuts, Laurel, Bay, Lemmons, Mace, 
Pome-granates, Mandrake roots, Me- 
zereon, Mulberry tree roots, Sloe tree 
roots, Pine-nuts, Fistick-nuts, Poplar 
tree, Oak, Elder, Sassafras, Cork, 
Tamaris, Line-tree, Frankinsence, Elm, 
Capt. Winters Cinnamon.
Culpeper..] Of these, Captain 
Winters Cinnamon, being taken as 
ordinary spice, or half a dram taken 
in the morning in any convenient 
liquor, is an excellent remedy for the 
Scurvey, the Pouder of it being snuf- 
fed up in the Nose, clenseth the Head 
of Rhewm gallantly. 
The bark of the black Alder tree 
purgeth Choller and Flegm if you 
make a Decoction with it. Agrimo- 
ny, Worm-wood, Dodder, Hops, 
Endive and Succory Roots, Parsly 
and Smallage Roots, or you may 
bruise a handful of each of them, and 
put them in a gallon of new Ale, and 
let them work together (put the Sim- 
ples in a boulterbag) * a draught 
[*Half a pinte, more or less, according 
to the age of him that drinks it.] being 
drunk every morning, helps the 
Dropsie, Jaundice, evil disposition 
of the Body; helps the Rickets, 
strengthens the Liver and Spleen; 
makes the digestion good; troubles 
not the stomach at all; causeth Ap- 
petite; and helps such as are Scabby 
and Itchy.
The rest of the Barks that are worth 
the noting and the vertues of them, 
are to be found in the former part of 
the Book. 
Barks are hot in the first degree. Gua- 
jacum, Tamaris, Orrenge, Lemmons, 
Citrons. 
In the second Cinnamon, Cassia Lig- 
nea, Captain Winters Cinnamon, 
Frankinsence, Capers. 
In the third Mace. 
Cold in the first, Oak, Pome-gra- 
nates. 
In the third Mandrakes’
According to place, they 
Heat the Head Captain Winters 
Cinnamon. 
The Heart Cinnamon, Cassia Lig- 
nea Citron pils, Wal-nuts, Lemmon 
pils Mace. 
The Stomach Orenge pils, Cassia 
Lignea, Cinnamon, Citron pills, 
Lemmon pills, Mace, Sassafras. 
The Lungs Cassia Lignea, Cinna- 
mon Walnuts, 
The Liver. Barberry tree, Bay tree, 
Capt. Winters Cinnamon. 
The Spleen. Caper bark, Ash-tree 
Bark Bay-tree. 
The Reins Bladder, Bay-tree, 
Sassafras.
The Womb. Cassia Lignea, Cinna- 
mon. 
Cool the Stomach , Pome-granate 
pills. 
Purge Choller. The Barke of Bar- 
berry tree. 
Purge Flegm and Water. Elder, 
Dwarf-Elder, Spurge, Laurel. 
The WOODS, which 
are these. 
Colledg.] Firr. Wood of Aloes, 
Rhodium, Bazil, Box, 
willow, Cypress, Ebony, Guajacum, 
Juniper, Lentisk, Nephriticum,Rho- 
dium, Rosemary, Sanders white, yellow, 
and red, Sassafras, Tamaris. 
Culpeper.] Of these same are hot. As, 
Wood of Aloes, Rhodium, Box, Ebe- 
ny, Guajacum, Nephriticum, Rose- 
mary, Sassafras, Tamaris. 
Some cold. As, Cypress, Willow, 
Sanders white, red and yellow. 
Rosemary is appropriated to the  
Head, Wood of Aloes to the Heart 
and Stomach Rhodium to the bowels 
and Bladder, Nephriticum to the Li- 
ver, Spleen, Reins and Bladder, Sas- 
safras to the breast, Stomach and 
Bladder, Tamaris to the Spleen, San- 
der, cools the Heart and Spirits in 
Feavers.
For the particular vertues of each, 
see that part of the Book prece- 
ding.
The HERBS are, 
Colledg. Southernwood, male and 
Female, Wormwood, com- 
mon, roman, and such as bear Wormseed. 
Sorrel, Wood Sorrel, Maiden-hair,
common, white, or wal Rue; Black and 
golden Maudlin, Agrimony, Vervain, 
Mallow, Ladies mantle, Chick-weed, 
Marsh-mallows, and Pimpernel, both 
male, and female, Water pimpernel, 
Dill, Angellica, Small age, Goose-grass, 
or Cleavers, Columbine, Wilde Tansie, 
or silver weed, Mugwort, Asarabacca, 
Wood roose, Arach, Distasse thistle, 
Mousear, Costmary, or Alcost, Bur- 
Dock, greater, and lesser. Brooklime, or 
water pimpernel, Beets white, red, and 
black; Bettony of the wood and water.
Daises greater and lesser, Bike, Mer- 
cury. Barrage, Oake of Jerusalem, 
Cabbages, Soldonella, Briony white, and 
black, Bugloss, Sheap-hards purse, Ox- 
Eye, Box; Leaves, Calaminth of the 
Mountains and Fens, Ground Pine, 
Wood bine, or Honey-suckles, Lady- 
smocks, Mary-golds, Our Ladies thistle. 
Cardnuis Benedictus, Avens, Smal 
Spurge, Horse-taile, Coleworte, Centaury 
the less, Knotgrass, Cetrach, Chervil, 
Garmander, Camomel, Chamepytis, Fæ- 
male Southern-wood, Chelene, Pile- 
wort. Chicory, Hemlock, Garden and 
Sea Scurvy, Grass, Fleawort, Comfry 
great. Middle, or Bugle, Least, or 
Daisies, Sarasens, Confound, Buck horn, 
Plantane, May weed, (or Margweed, 
as we in Sussex call it.) Orpine, Sam- 
peer, Crosewort, Dodder, Blew bottle- 
great, and smal; Artichoaks, Hound- 
stone, Cypress Leaves, Dandelion, Dit- 
tany of Creet, Box Leaves, Teazles
garden and wilde, Dwarf Elder, Viper, 
Bugloss, Liuellin, Smallage, Endive, 
Alicampane, Horstail, Epithimum,
Groundsel Hedgmustard, Spurge, Agri- 
mony, Maudlin, Eye-bright, Orpine, 
Fennel, Sampeer, Filipendula, Indian 
leaf, Straw-berry Leaves, Ash-tree 
Leaves, Fumitory, Goats Rue, Ladies- 
bed-straw. Broom, Muscatu, Herb Ro- 
bert, Doves-foot, Cotten-weed, Hedge- 
bysop, Tree Ivy, Ground Ivy, or Ale- 
hoose, A1icampane, Pellitory of the wall. 
Liver-wort, Cowslips, Rupture-wort, 
Hawk-weed, Monks, Rhubarb, Alex- 
anders, Clary garden and wild, Hen- 
bane, St. Johns-wort, Horstongue, or 
double tongue, Hysop, Sciatica cresses, 
Smal Sengreen, Sharewort, Voad, Reeds,
Schœnanth, Chantepitys, Glass-wort, 
Lettice, Lagobus, Arch-angel, Bur- 
dock great and final. Lavender, Lau- 
rel, Bay leaves English and Alexan- 
drian. Duckmeat, Dittander, or Pep- 
per wort, Lovage, Privet, Sea Buglo, 
Toad-flax, Harts-tongue, Sweet Tresoyl, 
Wood-sorrel, Hops , Willow-herb, 
Marjoram, Common and tree Mallows, 
Mandrake, Horebound white and black,
Herb Mastich, Feathersew, Woodbine, 
Melilot, Bawm, Garden and Water 
Mints, Hors-mints, Mercury, Meze- 
reon, Yarrow. Devils bit, Moss, Sweet 
Chivil, Mirtle leaves, Garden and wa- 
ter Cresses, Nep, Tobacco, Money wort 
Water Lillies, Bazil, Olive leaves, Rest- 
harrow, Adders tongue. Origanum, 
Sharp-pointed Dock, Poppy white, 
black and red, or erratick: Pellitory 
of the Wall, Cinksoyl, Ars-smare 
spotted and not spotted Peach leaves, 
Throughwax, Parsly, Harts Tongue; 
Valeriak, Mous-ear, Burnet, Smal 
Spurge, Plantane common and narrow 
leaved, Mountain and Cretick Poley, 
Knot-grass, Golden Maiden-hair, 
Poplar leaves and buds, Leek, Pur- 
slain, Silverweed, or Wild Tansie, 
Horehound white and black, Prim- 
roses, and Self-heal, Field Pellitory, or 
Sneezwort, Peny-royal, Fleabane, 
Lung-wort, Winter-green, Oak leaves 
and buds, Docks, Common Rue, or Herb 
of Grace, Goats Rue, Wall Rue, or 
white Maidenhair, Wild rue, Savin, 
Ozier Leaves, Garden Sage the grea- 
ter and lesser, Wilde Sage, Elder leaves 
N buds.

26 HERBS. 
buds Marjoram, Burnet, sanicle, Sope- 
wort, Savory, White Saxifrage, Sca- 
bious, Cichory, Schœnanth, Clary, 
Scordium, Figwort, Housleek, or Sen- 
green the greater and lesser, Groundsel, 
Senna leaves and cods, Mother of Time, 
Solomons seal, Alexanders, Night- 
shade, Soldanella, Sow-thistles smooth 
and rough, Flix-weed, Common spike, 
Spinach, Hawthorn, Devils-bit. Com- 
fry, Tamaris leaves, Tansie, Dande- 
lyon, Mullen, or Higtaper, Time, 
Line Tree Leaves, Spurge, Tormentil, 
Tresoyl common, Golden, Wood-sorrel, 
Sweet Tresoyl, Colts foot, Valerian, 
Mullen, Varvain, Pauls Betteny, 
Lluellin, Violets, Tansie, Perewinkles, 
Swallow-wort, Golden Rod, Vine 
Leaves, Meadsweet, Elm Leaves, Na- 
vel-wort, Nettle, Wormwood common 
and roman, Arch-angel, or Dead Net- 
tles, white and red.
Culpeper.] These be the Herbs the 
Colledg set down for use. 
Herbs temperate in respect of heat, 
are common Maiden-hair, Wal- 
Rue, black and golden Maiden-hair, 
Woodroof, Bugle, Goats Rue, Harts- 
tongue, sweet Tresoyl, Flixweed, 
Cinksoyl, Tresoyl, Pauls Bettony, 
Lluellin. 
Intemperate and hot in the first de- 
gree, as Agrimony, Marsh-mallows, 
Goos-grass, or Cleavers, Distaff 
thistle, Borrage, Bugloss, or Ladies 
thistles, Avens, Cetrach, Chervil, 
Chamomel, Eye-bright, Cowslips, 
Melilot, Bazil, Self-heal. 
In the second degree, Common and 
Roman Wormwood, Maudlin, La- 
dies Mantle, Pimpernel, male and fe- 
male, Dill, Smallage, Mug-wort, 
Costmary, Betony, Oak of Jerusa- 
lem, Marigolds Cuckoo-flowers, 
Carduus Benedictus, Centaury the 
less, Chamepitis, Scurvy-grass, In- 
dian leaf. Broom, Alehoof, Alexan- 
ders, Double-tongue, or Tongue- 
blade, Arch-angel, or dead Nettles, 
Bay Leaves, Marjoram, Hore-hound 
Bawn, Mercury, Devils-bit, Tobacco 
Parsly, Poley mountain, Rosemary, 
Sage, Sanicle, Scabious, Senna, 
Soldanella, Tansie, Vervain, Pere- 
winkle. 
In the third degree. Southernwood
male and female, Brook-lime, Ange-
lica, Briony white and black, Cala- 
minth. Germander, Sullendine, Pile- 
Wort, Fleabane, Dwarf-Elder, Epi 
thimum, Bank-cresses, Clary, Glass- 
wort Lavender, Lovage, Herb Ma- 
stich, Featherfew, Mints, Water-cres- 
ses, Origanum, biting Arsmart, cal- 
led in Latin Hydropiper; Sneezwort, 
Penyroyal, Rue, Savin summer and 
winter Savory, Mother of time, La- 
vender, Spike, Time, Nettles. 
In the fourth degree. Sciatica-cres- 
ses, stone-crop. Dittander, or Pepper- 
wort, Garden cresses. Leeks, Crow- 
foot, Rosa solis, Spurge,
Herbs cold in the first degree. Sorrel, 
Wood-sorrel, Arach, Burdock, Shep- 
herds-purse, Pellitory of the Wall, 
Hawk-weed, Mallows, Yarrow, mild 
Arsmart, called Persicaria. If you be 
afraid of mistaking this for the other, 
break a leaf cross your Tongue, that 
which is hot will make your Tongue 
smart, so will not this (most of the 
wild Arsmart, though not all, hath 
blackish spots in the Leaves, almost 
Semicircular, like a half Moon) Bur- 
net, Coltsfoot, Violets.
Cold in the second degree. Chick- 
weed, wild Tansie, or Silver weed, 
Daisies, Knot-grass, Succory, Buck- 
Horn, Plantane, Dandelyon, Endive. 
Fumitory, Strawberry leaves, Lettice, 
Duckmeat, Plantane, Purslain, Wil- 
low leaves. 
In the third degree. Sengreen, or 
Housleek, Nightshade. 
In the fourth degree. Hemlock, Hen- 
bane, Mandrakes, Poppies. 
Herbs dry in the first degree. Agri- 
mony, Marsh mallows. Cleavers, 
Burdocks, Shepherds purse, or La- 
dies Thirties, Chervil, Chamomel, 
Eye-bright, Cowslips, Hawkweed, 
Tongue-blade, or Double-tongue, 
Melilot, mild Arsmart, Self-heal, 
Senna, Flixweed, Coltsfoot, Pere- 
winkle.
Dry in the second degree. Common 
and Roman Worm-wood, Sorrel, 
Wood-sorrel, Maudlin, Ladies man- 
the, Pimpernel, male and female, Dil, 
Smallage, wild Tansie, or Silverweed, 
Mugwort, distaff Thistle, costmary, 
Bettony, Bugle, Cuckooflowers, 
Carduus Benedictus, Avens, centau- 
ry the less, Cichory, commonly cal- 
led Succory, Scurvy-grass, Buck- 
horn, Plantane, Dandelyon, Endive, 
Indian Leaf, Straw-berry Leaves, 
Fumitory, Broom, Alehoof, Alexan- 
ders, Arch-Angel, or Dead Nettles, 
white and red. Bay leaves. Marjo- 
ram, Fearhersew, Bawm, Mercury, 
Devils-bit, Tobacco Parsly, Burnet. 
Plantane, Rosemary, Willow leaves, 
Sage, Sanicle, Scabious, Soldanella, 
Vervain. 
Dry in the third decree. Southern- 
wood, male and female, Brooklime, 
Angelica Briony, white and black, 
Calaminth, Germander, Chamepi- 
ties, Sullendine, Pilewort, Fleabane, 
Epithimum, Dwarf-Elder, Bank cres- 
ses, Clavy, Glass wort, Lavender, 
Lovage, Horehound, Herb Mastick, 
Mints, Water cresses, Origanum, 
Cinksoyl, hot Arsemart, Poley moun- 
tain, Sneezwort, Penyroyal, Rue, or 
Herb of Grace, Savin, winter and 
summer Savory, Mother of Time, 
Lavender, Silk, Tansie, Time, Tre- 
soyl. 
In the fourth degree. Garden cresses 
Wild Rue, Leeks, Onions, Crow- 
foot, Rosa solis, Garlick, Spurge. 
Herbs moist in the first degree. Bor- 
rage, Bugloss, Marigolds, Pellitory 
of the Wall, Mallows, Bazil. 
In the fourth degree. Chick-Weed, 
Arach, Daisies, Lettice, Duckmeat, 
Purslain, Sow thirties, Violets, Water- 
Lillies
Herbs appropriated to 
certain Parts of the 
Body of man, 
and so they
Heat the Head, as Maudlin, Cost- 
mary, Bettony, Carduus benedictus, 
Sullendine, scurvy grass, Eyebright, 
Goats Rue, Cowslips, Lavender, 
Laurel, Lovage, Herb mastich, Fea- 
therfew, Melilot, Sneezwort, Peny- 
royal, Senna, Mother of Time, La- 
vender; Spike, Time, Vervain, Rose- 
mary. 
Heat the Throat. Archangel white 
and red, otherwise called dead Net 
tles, Devils bit. 
Heat the Breast. Maidenhair, white, 
black, common and Golden, Distaff 
thistle. Time, Bettony, Calaminth, 
Chamomel, Fennel, Indian leaf, Bay 
leaves, Hysop, Bawm, Horehound, 
Oak of Jerusalem, Germander, Me- 
blot, Origanum, Rue, Scabious, 
Peruinkles, Nettles.
Heat the-Heart, Southernwood 
male and female, Angelica, Wood-
roof, Bugloss, Carduus benedictus, 
Borrage, Goats Rue, bay leaves, 
Bawm, Rue, Senna, bazil, Rosemary, 
Alicampane. 
Heat the Stomach. Wormwood com- 
mon and Roman, Smallage, Avens; 
Indian leaf, broom, Schenanth, bay 
leaves, bawm, mints, Parsly, Fennel
Time, Mother of Time, Sage. 
Heat the Liver. Agrimony, Maud- 
line, Pimpernel, male and female, 
Smallage, Costmary, or Alecost, out 
Ladies thistles. Centaury the less, 
Germander, Chamepytis, Sullendine, 
Sampier, Fox gloves, Ashtree leaves, 
Bay leaves, Toad-flax, Hops, Hore- 
hound, Water-cresses, Paisty, Poley 
mountaine, Sage, Scordium, Senna, 
Mother of Time, Soldanella, Asa- 
rabacca, Fennel, Hysop, Spick- 
nard. 
Heat the Bowels. Chamomel, Ale-
hoose, Alexanders. 
Heat the Spleen. All the four forts 
of Maiden-hair, Agrimony, smallage 
Centaury the less, Cetrach, German- 
der, Chamepitis, Sampier, Foxgloves 
Epithimum, Ash-tree, Bay leaves, 
Toad flax. Hops, Horehound, Parsly, 
Poley mountain, Sage, Scordium, 
Senna, mother of Time, Tamariks,
Wormwood, Water-cresses, Harts- 
tongue 
Heats the Reins and Bladder, Agri 
mony, Maudlin, Marsh-mallows, Pim
pernel male and female, Brook-lime, 
Costmary, Bettony, Chervil, German-
der 

HERBS. 27 
der, Chamomel, Sampier, Broom, 
Rupture wort, Clary, Schenanth,
Bay leaves, Toad flax. Hops, Melilot,
Water-cresses, Origanum, Penyroyal
Scordium, Vervain, mother of Time,
Rocket, Spicknard, Saxifrage, Net- 
tles.
Heat the Womb. Maudlin, Angel- 
lica, Mugwort, Costmary, Calaminth  
Fleabane, May-weed, or Marg-weed, 
Dettany of Creet, Schenanth, Arch-
angle, or dead Nettles, Melilot, Fea-
ther-sew, Mints, Devils-bit, Onga- 
num, Bazil, Pennyroyal, Savin, Sage,
Scordium, Tansie, Time, Vervain, 
Peruinkles, Nettles.
Heats the Joynts. Cowslips, Sciatica- 
cresses, hot Arsmart, Garden cresses, 
Costmary, Agrimony, Chamomel, 
Saint Johns-wort, Melilot, Water- 
cresses, Rosemary, Rue, Sage, Ste- 
chas.
Herbs cooling the Head. Wood
sorrel, Teazles, Lettice, Plantane, 
willow leaves, Sengreen, or Housleek, 
Straw-berry leaves, Violet leaves; 
Fumitory, Water Lillies. 
CooI the Throat. Orpine, Strawberry 
leaves. Privet, Bramble leaves. 
Breast. Mulberry leaves. Bramble 
leaves, Violet Leaves, Strawberry 
leaves. Sorrel, Wood sorrel. Poppies, 
Orpine, Moneywort, Plantane, Colts 
foot. 
Heart. Sorrel, Wood sorrel, Vi- 
pers Bugloss, Lettice, Burnet, Vio- 
let leaves, Strawberry leaves. Water- 
Lillies. 
Stomach. Sorrel, wood sorrel, suc, 
cory, Orpine, Dandelyon, Endive, 
Strawberry leaves, Hawkweed, Let- 
tice, Purslain, Sow thistles, Violet 
leaves.
Liver, Sorrel, Wood sorrel, Dan- 
delyon, Endive, Succory, Strawberry 
leaves, Fumitory, Liverwort, Lettice, 
Purslain, Nightshade, Water Lillies. 
Bowels. Fumitory, Mallows, 
Buckhorn, Plantane, Orpine, Plan- 
tane, burnet. 
Spleen. Fumitory, Endive, Succory, 
Lettice. 
Reins and Bladder. Knot-grass, 
Mallows, Yarrow, Moneywort, Plan-
tane. Endive, Succory, Lettice, Pur- 
slane, Water Lillies, Housleek or 
Sengreen. 
The Womb. Wild Tansie, Arrach 
Burdocks, Willow herb, Mirtle leaves
Moneywort, Purslane, Sow thistles, 
Endive, Succory, Lettice, Water 
Lillies, Sengreen. 
The Joynts.  Willow Leaves, Vine
leaves, Lettice Henbane, Nightshade, 
Sengreen or Housleek.
Herbs altering according 
to property, in opperati- 
on; some bind, as 
Amomus, Agnus Castus, Shep- 
herb-purse, Cypress, Horstaile, Ivy, 
Bay leaves, Melilot, Bawm, Mirtles, 
Sorrel, Plantane, Knot-grass, Comfry, 
Cinksoyl, Fleawort; Purslane; Oak 
Leaves; Willow leaves; sengreen or 
Housleek &c.
Open: as, Garlick; Onions; 
Wormwood; Mallows; Marsh-mal- 
lows; Pellitory of the wall, Endive; 
succory &c. 
Soften: Mallows; MarshmalJows; 
Beets; Pellitory of the wall; Violet 
leaves; strawberry leaves; Arrach; 
Cypress leaves; Bay leaves; Flea- 
wort &c. 
Harden. Purslane, Night-shade; 
Housleek or sengree; Duckmeat; 
and most other Herbs that are very 
cold. 
Extenuate. Mugwort; Chamomel; 
Hysop; penyroyal; stæchas; Time; 
Mother of Time; Juniper &c. 
Discuss. Southernwood male and 
Female; all the four forts of Maiden- 
hair; Marsh mallows; Dill; Mal- 
lows; Arrach; Beets; Chamomel; 
Mints; Melilot; Pellitory of the 
wal; Chick weed, Rue; Stœchas; 
Marjoram.
Draw Pimpernel; Birthwort; Dit- 
tany; Leeks; Onions; Garlick; and 
also take this general Rule; as all 
cold things bind and harden, as is 
apparent by the frost binding, and 
hardning water and mire; so al things 
vevy hot are drying, as is clear by the 
sun which is the original of heat, 
drawing up the dew. 
Suppurate. Mallows; Marsh mal- 
low white Lillies Leaves, &c. 
Clense Pimpernel; Southern- 
wood; Sparagus; Cetrach; Arach; 
Wormwood; Beets; Pellitory of the 
wall Chamepitis; Dodder; Liver- 
wort; Horehound; Willow Leaves,
&c.
Glutinate. Marshmallows; pimper- 
nel, Centaury; Chamepitis; Mallows; 
Germander; Horstail; Agrimony;
Maudlin; Strawberries Leaves; 
Woadchervil; Plantane; Cinksol; 
Comfrey; Bugle; Self-heal; Wound- 
wort; Tormentil; Ruptutewort; 
Knotegrass; Tobacco. 
Expel wind. Wormwood; Gar- 
lick; Dil; Smallage; Chamomel; 
Epithimum; Fennel; Juniper; Mar- 
joram; Origanum; Savory both win- 
ter and summer; and that (I am o- 
pinion) was the reason in Antient 
times women also boiled savory with 
their beans and pease, viz. to expel 
the windiness of them; it was a good 
I fashion, and therefore I would not 
have it left; however this shews that 
in Antient times people were more 
studious in the Nature of simples, or 
at the least Physitians were more ho- 
nest; I mean more free in imparting 
their knowledg for the benefit of the 
vulgar; at last honesty began to leave 
the earth; and then ignorance quick- 
ly stepping up in the place of know- 
ledg, people used then a while for cu- 
stome sake, at last they were esteemed 
superstitious, and quite left off. 
I care not greatly (now I am at 
It) if I quote one more of like Na- 
ture (I am confident, were it my pre- 
sent scope, I could quote an hun- 
dred) and that is Tansie. 
Tansie is excellent good to clense. 
the stomach and bowels of rough vis- 
cous flegm, and humors that stick to 
them, which the flegmatick constitu- 
tion of the winter usually infects the 
body of man with,, and occasions 
gouts and other Diseases of like Na- 
ture and lading long; this was the 
original of that custome to eat tansies 
in the spring; which afterwards grew 
to be superstitious, and appropriated 
only to some certain dayes, as Palm- 
sundaies &c. and so at last the evill of 
observing days being known and the 
vertues of the meat absconded, it is 
quite almost left Off For my part if 
any think it superstitious to eat a 
tansie in the spring, I shal not bur- 
then their consciences, they may 
make the herb into a conserve with 
sugar, or boyl it in wine and drunk 
the decoction. or make the Juyce in- 
to a syrup with sugar, which they wil 
but to proceed. 
Herbs breed seed. Clary; Rocket; 
and moist Herbs that are hot and 
moist, and breed wind.
Provoke the terms. Southernwood; 
Garlick; all the forts of Maiden hair; 
Mugwort, Wormwood; Bishop- 
Weed, Cabbages; Bettony; Centau- 
ry; Chamomel; Calaminth; Ger- 
mander; Dodder; Dittany; Fennel; 
St. Johns wort; Marjoram; Hore- 
Hound; Bawm; Water cresses; Ori- 
ganum; Bazil; Penyroyal; Poley-
mountain; Parsley; smallage; Rue; 
Rosemary; sage; savin; Hartwort; 
Time; Mother of Time; scordium; 
Nettles. 
Stop the terms, shepherds purse 
Strawberries; Mirtles; Water lillies; 
Plantane; Housleek; or sengreen; 
Comfry; Knotgrass. 
Resist poy.son southernwood; 
Wormwood; Garlick; all forts of 
Maiden hair; smallage; Bettony; 
Carduus benedictus; Germander; 
calaminth; Alexanders; carline 
thistle; Agrimony; Fennel; Juniper; 
Horehound; Origanum; Penyroy- 
all; Poley-mountain; Rue; scor- 
dium; Plantane.
Discuß smwllings. Maidenhair, clea- 
vers or Goosegrass; Mallows Marsh- 
mallows; Docks; Bawm; Water- 
cresses; cinksoyl; scordium &c. 
Ease pain. Dil; Wormwood; arach; 
Chamomel; calaminth; chamepitys; 
Henbane; Hops; Hogs-Fennel; 
Parsly; Rosemary; Rue; Marjoram; 
Mother of Time. 
Herbs Purging. 
Choller. Groundsel; Hops; Peach 
Leaves; wormword; centaury; Mal- 
lows, senna. 
Melancholy, Ox-eye; Epithimum; 
Fumitory 

28 FLOWERS.
Fumitory; Senna; Doddar. 
Flegm and Water. Briony; white 
Mid black; Spurge: both work most 
violently and are not therefore fit for 
a vulgar use: Dwarf Elder, Hedg, 
Hysop, Laurel Leaves, Mercury, Me- 
zereon also purgeth violently, and so 
doth sneezwort, Elder Leaves senna. 
For the particular Operations of 
these, as also how to order the body 
after purges, the quantity to be taken 
at a time, you have been in part in- 
structed already, and shall be more 
fully hereafter.
FLOWERS. 
Colledg] Wormwood: Agnus
Castus: Amaran- 
thus: Dill: Rosemary: Columbines: Or- 
renges: Balaustines: or Pomegranate 
flowers: Bettony; Borrage: Bugloß:
Marrigolds: Woodbine: or Honey- 
suckles: Clove Gilliflowers: Centaury: 
the less: Chamomel: Winter Gilliflow- 
ers: or Wall-flowers: Succory: Comfry 
the greater: Saffron: Blewbottle great 
and small: (Synosbatus, Tragus, and 
Dedonæus hold our white thorn to be 
it: Cordus and Marcelus think it to be 
Bryars: and Lugdunensis takes it for 
the sweet Bryar: but what our Colledg 
takes it for: I know not) ytinus: (Dios 
corides calleth the Flowers of the Ma- 
nured pomegranates: Cytinus: but Pliny 
calleth the Flowers of the wild kind by 
that Name:) Fox gloves: pipers Bug- 
loss: Rocket: Eye-bright: Beans: Fu- 
mitory: Broom: Cowslips: St. Johns 
wort: Hysop: Jasmine: or shrub Tre- 
soyl: Archangel: or dead Nettles white 
and red: Lavender: Wal-flowers: or
VVinter-gilliflowers: Privet: Lil- 
lies white: and of the Valley: Hops: 
Common and Tree Mallows: Feather- 
few: Woodbine or Honey suckles: 
Melilot: Bawm: Walnuts: Water- 
Lillies white and yellow: Origanum: 
Poppies white and red: or Erraticks: 
Poppies: or Corn Roses: so called be- 
cause they grow amongst Corn: Peony: 
Honey suckles: or Woodbine: Peach
flowers: Primroses: Selfheal: floebush:
Rosemary flowers: Roses: white Da- 
Mark and red: sage: Elder: white saxi- 
frage: scabious: siligo: (I think, they 
mean wheat by it: Authors are not a-
greed about it) stachas: Tamaris: Tan 
sy: Mullen; or Higtaper: Lintree: 
Clove gilly-flowers: Coltsfoot: Vio- 
lets: Agnus: castus: dead Nettles 
white and red.
Culpeper.] That these may be a lit- 
tle explained for the Publique good: 
be pleased to take notice that of 
these. 
Some are hot in the first Degree, as 
Borrage; Bugloss; Bettony; Ox- 
eye; Melilot; Chamomel; Stœ- 
chas. 
Hot in the second degree. Amomus,
Saffron; Clove-gilli-flowers; Roc- 
ket; Bawm; Spicknard; Hops; 
Schenanth; Lavender; Jasmine; 
Rosemary. 
In the third degree. Agnus Ca- 
stus; Epithimum; Winter-gilli-flo- 
wers; or Wal-flowers; Woodbin; 
or Honey-suckles. 
Cold in the first degree. Mallows; 
Roses, red, white; and Damask; Vio- 
lets. 
In the second. Anemom; or Wind- 
Flower; Endive; Succory; Water-
Lillies; both white and Yellow.
In the third. Balaustins; or Pome- 
grante flowers.
In the fourth. Henbane; and al the 
forts of Poppies; only whereas Au- 
thors say, field Poppies s which some 
call red, other erratick, and corn Ro- 
ses; are the coldest of all the others; 
yet my opinion is, that they are not 
cold in the fourth degree.
Moist in the first degree. Borrage; 
Bugloss; Mallows; Succory; Endive,
In the second. Water-Lillies; Vio- 
lets.
Dry in the first degree. Ox-eye; 
Saffron; Chamomel; Melilot; Ro- 
ses. 
In the second. Wind-flowers; Amo- 
mus; Clove gilli flower; Rocket; 
Lavender; Hops; Peony, Rosemary;
Spicknard. 
In the third. Woodbine; or Honey 
suckles, Balaustines; Epithimum; 
Germander; Chamepitys. 
The temperature of any other flo 
wers not here mentioned are of the 
same temperature with the Herbs; 
you may gain skil by searching there
for them; you can lose none.
For the parts of the Body 
they are appropriated 
to, some heat 
The head. as, Rosemary flowers; 
Self-heal; Chamomel; Bettony;
Cowslips; Lavender; Melilot; Peo 
ny; Sage; Stœchas. 
The breast. Bettony; Bawm; Sca- 
bious; Schænanth. 
The heart. Bawm; Rosemary flo- 
wers; Borrage; Bugloss; Saffrons 
Spicknard. 
The stomach. Rosemary flowers, 
Spicknard; Schœnanth. 
The Liver. Centaury; Schænanth; 
Elder; Bettony; Chamomel; Spick- 
nard. 
The spleen. Bettony; Wal flowers; 
The Reins and Bladder. Bettony; 
Marshmallows; Melilot; Schænanth; 
Spicknard. 
The Womb. Bettony; Squinanth 
or Schænanth; Sages; Orris or Flow- 
er-de-luce.
The Joynts. Rosemary flowers;
Cowslips; Chamomel; Melilot. 
Flowers as they are cool- 
ing, see they coole 
The Head. Violets; Roses; the 
three forts of Poppies: and Water 
Lillies.
The breast and heart. Violets; red 
Roses; Water-Lillies. 
The stomach. Red-Roses; Violets. 
The liver and spleen. Endive; and 
Succory. 
Violets; Borrage: and Bugloss; 
moisten the Heart; Rosemary flow 
ers; Bawm and Bettony dry it.
According to Property, 
so they Bind. 
Balaustines, Saffron; Succory; 
Endive; Red Roses; melilot Bawm; 
Clove-gilli-flowers; Agnus Castus
Discuß. Dil; Chamomel; Marsh- 
mallows; Mallows; Melilot; Stœ-
chas, &c. 
Clense. Damask Roses; Elder flow- 
ers; Bean-flowers, &c. 
Extenuate. Orris; or Flower-de-
Luce; Chamomel; Melilot ; Stœ
chas, &c. 
Mollifie. Saffron; white Lillies; 
Mallows; Marsh-mallows, &c. 
Suppure. Saffron; white Lillies; 
&c. 
Glutinate. Balaustines; Centaury; 
&c. 
Provoke the terms. Bettony; Cen-
taury; Chamomel; Schænanth; Wal-
Flowers; Bawm; Peony; Rosemary; 
Sage. 
Stop the terms. Balaustines; or
Pomegranate flowers; Water Lillies.
Expell wind. Dil; Chamomel; 
Schænanth; Spicknard.  
Help burnings. White Lillies;
Mallows; Marsh mallows, 
Resist poyson. Bettony; Centaury.
Ease pain. Dil; Chamomel; Cen- 
taury; Melilot; Rosemary. 
Flowers purge Choller. Peach Flow- 
ers; Damask Roles; Violets. 
Flegm. Broom flowers; Elder flo- 
wers.
If you compare but the quality of
the flowers with the Herbs, and 
the explanation of these terms at the 
latter end, you may easily find the
temperature and property of the
rest. 
As for the Verues of the Flowers, 
there were but few quote before
and those very briefly; I think the 
reason was, because the Printer was 
afraid the book would he too big: I 
shal therefore give a supply here to
what was wanting there; and where 
I was too brief there, I shall be more 
large here.
The flowers of Ox-eye being boiled 
into 

FLOWERS. FRVITS. 29 
into a pultis with a little barley meal, 
take away swellings and hardness of 
the flesh, being applied warm to the 
place. 
Chamomel flowers heat, discuss, loo- 
sen and rarifie; boyled in Clysters, 
they are excellent in the wind chol- 
ick boiled in wine, and the decoction 
drunk, purgeth the Reins, breaks the 
stone, opens the pores, casts out chol- 
lerick humors succonrs the heart, and 
easeth pains and aches, or stiffness 
coming by travelling. 
The flowers of Rocket used outward- 
ly, discuss swellings, and dissolve hard 
Juniors: you may boil them into a 
pultis or Cataplasme as Scholars call 
it, but inwardly taken they send but 
unwholsom vapors up to the Head.
Hops open Obstructions of the 
bowels, Liver and spleen, they clense 
the body of Choler and Flegm, pro- 
voke Urine. I wonder in my Heart 
how that apish fashion of drinking 
beer and ale together for the stone
came up; and others affirm that the 
disease of the stone was not in rerum 
natura, before beer was invented: 
a gross untruth, for Physitians have 
written of the stone that lived a thou- 
sand yeers before beer was invented, 
I deny not but staleness of beer may 
cause sharpness of urine: otherwise
beer if mild, is ten times better drink 
tor such as are trouled with the stone, 
then Ale, as being more opening.
Jasmine flowers bloiled in oyl, and 
the grieved place bathed with it, 
takes away cramps and stitches in the 
sides. The plant is only preserved 
here in the gardens of some few, and 
because hard to come by, I pass it; 
If you desire more vertues of it, be 
pleased to search it in Dodonæus.
The flowers of Woodbine or Honey- 
Suckles, being dryed and beaten into 
Pouder, and a dram taken in white 
wine in the morning, helps the Ric- 
ket, difficulty of breathing; provoke 
urine, and help such as cannot make 
water, I would have none make a 
common practice of taking it, for it 
clenseth the uretery vessels so potent- 
ly, that it may cause pissing of blood. 
The flowers of Mallows being brui- 
sed and boiled in honey (two ounces 
of the Flowers is sufficient for a 
pound of honey; and having first 
clarified the Honey before you put 
them in) then strained out; this ho- 
ney taken with a Liquoris stick, is an 
excellent Remedy both for Coughs, 
Astmaes, and consumptions of the 
Lungues
FRVITS. 
Colledg Winter cherries: Love ap-
ple: Almonds sweet
and bitter. Anacardia: Orrenges: Ha- 
zel Nuts: the oyly Nut Ben: Bar- 
berries: Capars: Guinny Pepper:
Figs: Carpobalsamum: Cloves: Caßia 
Fistula: Chestnuts: Cherries black and 
red: Cicers, white, black and red. Pome 
Citrons: Coculus Indi: Colocynthis, 
Currence: Cornels, or Cornelian cher- 
ries: Cubebs: Cucumers garden and wild. 
Gourd. * Cynosbatus [* see the flow- 
ers] Cypress cones: Quinces: Dates. 
Dwarfe-Elder: Green figs: Strawber- 
ries: common and Turky Galls: Acorns: 
Alorn cups: pomegranates: Goose- 
berries: Ivy: Herb True love; Wall- 
nuts: Jujubes: Juniper berries: Bay- 
berries: Lemmons: Orenges: Citrons: 
Quinces: Pomegranates: Lemmons: 
Mandrakes: Peaches: stramoneum: 
Apples garden and wild: or crabs and 
Apples: Musk melones: Medlars or 
open Arses Mulberries: Myrobalans:
bellericks; chebs: Emblicks, Citron: 
and Indian: Mirsle berries: water nuts: 
Hazle Nuts: Chest-nuts, Cypress 
Nuts: Wallnuts: Nutmegs: Fisticks 
Nuts. Vomiting Nuts: Olives pickled 
in brine: Heads of white and black pop- 
pies: Pompions: Peaches: French or 
Kidney Beans: Pine Cones: white, black, 
and long Pepper: Fistick Nuts: Apples 
and Crabs: Prunes French and Da- 
mask: sloes: pears: English Currence: 
berries of purging Thorn: black berries: 
Rasberries: Elder berries, sebestens, ser- 
vices, or Checkers: Hawthorn berries: 
pinenuts: water Nuts: Grapes, Goose- 
berries: Raisons: currence.
Culpeper That you may reap bene- 
fit by these, he pleased to consider, that 
they are some of them. 
Temperate in respect of heat. Raisons 
of the sun: currence, Figs: Pinenuts; 
Dates: sebestens. 
Hot in the first degree. Sweet Al- 
monds: Jujubes: cypress Nuts: green
Hazel Nuts: green wallnuts. 
Hot in the second degree. The Nut 
Ben: capers: Nutmegs: dry wallnuts 
dry Hazel Nuts; Fistick Nuts. 
In the third degree. Juniper berries: 
cloves, carpobalsamum, cubebs: Ana- 
cardium, bitter Almonds. 
In the fourth degree. Pepper, white 
black and long: Guinny pepper. 
Cold in the first degree. The flesh of 
citrons: Quinces: Pears: Prunes: &c. 
In the second. Guords; cucumers: 
Melones, (or, as they are called in 
London, Muskmelones: I suppose for 
the sweetness of their smel) pompi- 
ons; Oringes: Lemmons: citrons 
pomegranates: viz. the Juyce of 
them, Peaches: Prunes: Galls: Ap- 
ples. 
In the third. Mandrakes. 
In the fourth. Stramonium. 
Moist in the first degree. The flesh of 
citrons: Lemmons: Orrenges, viz. 
the inner rind which is white, for 
the outer rind is hot. 
In the second. Guords; Melones: 
Peaches: Prunes. &c.
Dry in the first degree. Juniper ber- 
ries.
In the second. The Nut Ben. Capers:
Pears: Fistick Nuts: Pine Nuts: 
Quinces; Nutmegs: Bayberries. 
In the third. Cloves: Gals: &c. 
In the fourth. All sorts of pepper. 
As appropriated to the bo- 
dy of Man, so they heat 
the Head: as 
Anacardia, cubebs, Nutmegs. 
The breast. Bitter Almonds, Dates, 
cubebs, Hazel Nuts, Pinenuts, Figs, 
Raisons of the sun. Jujubes. 
The heart. Walnuts, Nutmegs, 
Juniper berries. 
The stomach. Sweet Almonds, 
cloves, Ben. Juniper berries. Nut- 
megs Pinenuts, Olives. 
The spleen. Capers. 
The Reins and bladder. Bitter Al- 
monds, Juniperberries, cubebs, pine- 
nuts, Raisons of the sun. 
The womb. Walnuts, Nutmegs, 
Bayberries, Juniper berries. 
Cool the breast. Sebestens, prunes, 
Orrenges, Lemmons.
The heart. Orrenges, Lemmons, 
citrons, Pomegranates, Quinces, 
pears.
The stomach. Quinces, citruls, cucu- 
mers, Guords, Muskmelones, pom- 
pions, cherries, Gooseberries, corne- 
lian, cherries, Lemmons, Apples, 
Medlars, Orranges, pears, English 
currants, cervices or checkers. 
The Liver. Those that cool the 
stomach and Barberries. 
The Reins and womb. Those that 
cool the stomach and strawberries.
By their several Ope- 
ratitions some 
Bind. As the Berries of Mirtles, 
Barberries, chesnuts, cornels, or cor- 
nelian cherries, Quinces, Galls, A- 
corns, Acorncups, Medlars, checkers 
or cervices, pomegranates. Nutmegs, 
Olives, pears, peaches.
Discuss, capers, all the sorts of 
pepper. 
Extenuate. Sweet and bitter Al- 
monds, Bayberries, Juniper berries. 
Glutinate. Acorns, Acorn cups. 
Dates, Raisons of the sun, currence, 
Expel wind Bayberries, juniper 
berries, Nutmegs, all the sorts of 
pepper.
Breed seed. Raisons of the sun, sweet 
Almonds, pinenuts, Figs, &c. 
Provoke urine. Winter cherries. 
Provoke the terms. Ivy berries, ca- 
pers &c. 
Stop the terms. Barberries &c. 
Resist poyson. Bayberries, Juniper 
berries, walnuts, citrons, commonly 
called pomecitrons, all the sorts of 
pepper. 
O Ease 

30 FRVITS. SEEDS. 
Ease pain, Bayberries, Juniper 
berries. Ivy berries. Figs, VValnuts, 
Raisons, currence, all sorts of pepper.
Fruits Purging.
Choller. cassia fistula, citron My- 
robalans, prunes, Tamarinds, Rai- 
sons. 
Melancholy. Indian Myrobalans. 
Flegm. colocynthis and wild cu 
cumers purge violently, and there- 
fore not rashly to be medled withal: 
I desire my book should be benefici- 
all, not hurtful to the vulgar: but my- 
robalans of all sorts, especially chebs, 
bellericks and Emblicks, purge flegm 
very gently, and without danger. 
Of all these, besides what hath 
been formerly mentioned in this 
book (to which I refer you) give me, 
leave to commende only one to you 
as of special concernment, which is 
Juniper berries: They may be found 
al the winter long plentifully grow- 
ing on Warly common in Essex neer 
Brentwood, about fifteen miles from
London.
Tragus saith the vertues of Juniper 
berries are so many that they cannot 
be numbred, amongst which these 
are some; the berries eaten (for they 
are pleasant in tast) are exceeding 
good against the biting of Adders; 
they resist poyson, pestilence, or any 
infectious disease; help the strangury 
and dropsie. Mathiolus affirms, that 
a lye made with ashes of Juniper, and 
water, is as great aprovoker of urine 
as can be. The berries expel wind 
exceedingly, heat the stomach, help 
the digestion, provoke the terms; the 
Germans make an universal Medi- 
cine of them; they help the cough, 
shortness of breath, weakness of the 
Lungs, convulsions, cramps: they 
Give easie; Delivery to women with 
child: five or six berries taken every 
morning, preserves the body in 
health: helps the cholick and stone, 
rawness of the stomach, faintings and 
heart qualms, madness and frenzies: 
they strengthen the Eves, and help 
Rheums there: the yellow jaundice, 
falling sickness, gout and palsie. 
Take those berries which are ripe, 
which look black.
SEEDS. 
Colledg. Sorrel, Agnus Castus, 
Marshmallows, Bishops 
weed true and common. Amomus, Dill, 
Angelica, Annis, Roseseed, Smallage, 
Columbines, sparagus, Arach, Oates,
Orranges, Burdocks, Bazil, barberries, 
Cotton, Bruscus, or Kneeholly, Hemp,
Cardamoms greater and lesser, Carduus
benedictus, our Ladies thistles, bastard 
Saffron, Caraway, spurge greater and 
lesser, Coleworts, Onions, the Kernels of 
Cherries stones, Chervil. Succory, Hem- 
Lock, citrons, Citruls, Garden scurvy- 
graß, Colocynthis, Coriander, Sampier, 
cucumers. Garden and wild, Guords, 
Quinces, Cummin, Cynosbatus, Dates 
stones. Carrots English, and Cretish, 
Dwarf elder, Endive, Rocker, Hedg mu- 
stard, Orobus beans, Fennel, Fenugreek, 
Ashtree keys, Fumitory, brooms, grains 
of Paradice, pomegranates, wild Rue, 
Alexanders, barley, white Henbane, 
St. Johns wort, Hysop, Lettice, sharp- 
poynted Dock, Spurge, Laurel, Lentils, 
Lovage, Lemons, Ashtree keys, Lin 
seed, or Flaxseed, Gromwel, Darnel, 
sweet Trefoyl, Lupines, Masterwort, 
marjoram, mallowes, mandrakes, me- 
lones, medlars, mezereon, Gromwel, sweet 
Navew, Nigella, the Kernels of cher-
ries, Apricocks, and peaches, bazil, 
Orobus, Rice, panick, poppies, white and 
black, parsneps, Garden and wild, 
through wax, parsly, English and macc- 
donian, burnet, pease, plantane, peony, 
Leeks, purslain, Fleawort, Turneps, 
Radishes, sumach, Spurge Roses. Rue 
Garden and wild, Wormseed, saxifrage, 
succory, sesami, Hartwort, common and 
cretish  mustardseed, Alexanders, Night- 
shade, staves-Acer, Sumach, Treakle, 
Mustard, sweet Trefoyl, wheat, both 
the fine flower, and bran, and that which 
* starch is made of, Veches or Tares, 
Nettles, common and Roman; the stones 
of Grapes. Greek Wheat, or spelt wheat.
Seed are hot in the first
Degree
Linseed. Fenugreek, coriander. 
Rice. Gromwel. Lupines. 
In the second. Dill, smallage. Oro- 
bus Rocket, bazil. Nettles. 
In the third, bishops weed, Annis. 
Amomus. caraway. Fennel. ( and so 
I beleeve is smallage too let Authors 
say what they will; for if the Herb of 
smallage be some what hotter than 
parsley; I know little reason why the 
seed should not be so hot) carda- 
moms, parsley, cummin. carrots. Ni- 
gella. Navew. Hartwort. Staves ager. 
In the fourth. Watercresses. Mu 
stardseed.
Cold in the first degree, barley &c. 
In the second. Endive. Lettice. Pur- 
slain, succory. Guords. cucumers
Melones. citruls. Pompions. sorrel. 
Nightshade. 
In the third. Henbane. Hemlock. 
Poppies white and black. 
Moist in the first degree. Mallows &c. 
Dry in the first degree. beans. Fen- 
nel. Fenugreek. barley. Wheat. &c. 
In the second. Orobus Lentils. Rice. 
poppies. Nightshade. and the like. 
In the third. Dill. smallage. bishops 
weed. Annis caraway, cummin, co- 
riander. Nigella. Gromwel parsly. 
Appropriated to the body 
of Man, and so they 
Heat the head, fennel. Marjoram
Peony &c. 
The breast. Nettles.
The heart, bazil. Rue &c. Mustard
seed &c, 
The stomach. Annis. bishops weed. 
Amomus. smallage. cummin, carda- 
moms. cubebs. Grains of Paradice. 
The Liver. Annis. Fennel. bishops 
weed. Amomus. smallage. sparagus. 
cummin. caraway, carrots. 
The spleen. Annis. caraway, water- 
cresses. 
The reins and bladder. Cicer. Roc-
ket. saxifrage. Nettles. Gromwel. 
The womb. Peony. Rue. 
The Joynts. Water cresses. Rue. 
Mustard seed. 
Cool the head. Lettice. Purslain. 
white poppies. 
The breast. White poppies. Violets. 
The heart. Orrenge. Lemmon. ci- 
tron and sorrel seed. 
Lastly, the four greater and four 
lesser cold seed, which you may find 
in the beginning of the compositi- 
ons, as also the seed of white and 
black poppies cool the Liver and 
spleen, Reins and bladder, womb and 
Joynts.
According to operation 
some Seeds 
Bind, as Rose seeds, barberries 
sheapherds purse, purslain &c. 
Discuss. Dill, carrots, Linseeds,
Fenugreek, Nigella &c. 
Clense. Beans, Orobus, Barly; 
Lupine, Nettles &c 
Molifie. Linseed, or Flax seeds 
Fenugreek seed, Mallows, Nigella. 
Harden. Purslain seed &c. 
Suppure. Linseed, Fenugreek seed, 
Darnel, barley husked, commonly
called French barley. 
Glutinate. Orobus, Lupines, Dar- 
nel &c. 
Expel wind. Annis, Dill Smallage, 
caraway, cummin, carrots, Fennel, 
Nigella, parsly, Hartwort, Worm- 
seed.
Breed seed. Rocket, beans, cicers 
Ashtree. Keyes, 
Provoke the Terms. Amomus, spa- 
ragus, Annis, Fennel, bishops weed, 
cicers, carrots, smallage, parsly, Lo- 
vage, Hartswort. 
Break the Stone. Mallows, Marsh- 
mallows, Gromwel &c. 
Stop the Terms. Rose seeds, cummin, 
burdock &c.
Resist poyson Bishops weed, Annis 
smallage, cardamoms , Orrenges, 
Lemons, citrons, Fennel &c. , 
Ease pain  Dill, Amomus, carda- 
moms, cummin, carrots, Orobus,
Fenu- 

Gums, Rozins, Balsoms, and Juyces made thick, viz. 31 
Fenugreek, Linseed, Gromwel, parsly, 
panick. 
Asswage swellings. Linseed, Fenu- 
greek seeds, Marsh-mallows, Mal- 
low, coriander, barley,, Lupines, 
Darnel &c.
GUMS, ROZINS, 
Balsoms, and Juyces 
made thick, Viz. 
Colledg.] Juyces of Wormwood and 
Maudlin, Acacia, Aloes,
Lees of Oyl, Assa fœtida, Balsom of 
peru and India; Bdellium, Benzoin, 
Camphire, Caranna, Colophonia, Juyce 
of Maudline, Euphorbium, Lees of Vine, 
Lees of OlLGums of Galbanum, Amo-
niacum, Anime, Arabick, Cherry trees, 
Coopal, Elemy, Juniper, Ivy, plumb 
trees, Cambuge, Hypocystis, Labdanum, 
Lacca, Liquid, Amber, Mannæ, Ma- 
stich, mirrh, Olibanum, Opopanax, 
Pice-bitumen, of the Cedar of 
Greece, Liquid and dry, Rozin of firre 
tree, Larch tree, Pine tree, Pine fruite, 
mastich, Venice and Cipress Turpentine, 
Sugar, white, red, and Christaline, or 
Sugar Candy white and red, Sagapen, 
Juniper Gum , Sanguis Draconis , 
Sarcocolla, Scamomy, Styrax, liquid and 
Calamitis. Tacha Mahacca, Tarter, 
Frankinsence, Olibanum Tragaganth, 
birdlime. 
Culpeper.] That my country may 
receive benefit, I shall treat of them 
Severally. 
1. Of the Juyces. 
2. Of the Gums and Rozins.
Concrete Juyces, or Juyces 
made thick are either, 
Temperate; as Juyce of Liquoris, 
White Starch. 
Hot in the first degree. Sugar. 
In the second. Labdanum. 
In the third. Benzoin, Assafe- 
tida. 
Cold in the third degree. Sanguis 
Draconis, Acacia. 
In the third. Hypocistis. 
In the fourth. Opium, and yet 
some Authers think Opium is hot 
because of its bitter taste. 
Aloes and manna purge choller 
gently; and scammomy doth purge 
choler so violently, that it is no waies 
fit for a vulgar mans use, for it cor- 
rhodes the bowels. Opopanax purg- 
eth Flegm very gently. 
Considering I was very brief in the 
handling the vertue of these in my 
former part, I shall here supply what 
was wanting there.
White Starch gently Levigates or 
makes smooth such parts as are 
rough, syrup of Violets being made 
thick with it and so taken on the 
point of a Knife, helps coughs, 
roughness of the Throat, wheezing, 
Excoriations of the bowels, that same 
very Disease which so lately puzled 
the Learned Rabbies of our times, 
the bloody flux, or the plague in the 
Guts, (as their Worship learnedly 
call it) I cut my Finger the other day 
and then had I got the plague in my 
finger by the same rule. 
Juyce of Liquoris help, roughness 
of the Trachea Arteria, which is in 
plain English call’d the Windpipe, 
the roughness of which causeth 
coughs and hoarceness, difficulty of 
breathing &c. It allaies the heat of 
stomach and Liver, easeth, pains, 
soreness and roughness of the Reins 
and bladder, it quencheth thirst, and 
strengthens the stomach, exceeding- 
ly; It may easily be carried about in 
ones pocket, and eat a little now and 
then.
Sugar clenseth and digesteth, takes 
away roughnes of the Tongue, it 
strengthens the Reins and bladder, 
being weakned; being beaten into 
fine pouder and put into the Eyes, 
it takes away films that grow over 
the sight. 
Labdanum is in operation, thick- 
ning, heating and mollifying, it opens 
the passage of the Veins, and keeps 
the hair from falling off, the use of it 
is usually external: being mixed 
with Wine, Mirrh, and Oyl of Mir- 
tles, and applied like a plaister, it 
takes away filthy scars, and the de- 
formity the smal pocks leave behind 
them, being mixed with Oyl of 
Roses, and dropp'd into the Ears, it 
helps pains there; being used as a 
pessary, it provokes the Terms, and 
helps hardness or stiffness of the 
womb: It is somtimes used inwardly 
in such medicines as ease pains and 
help the cough: if you mix a little of 
it with old white wine and drink it, 
it both provokes urin and stops, loos- 
ness or fluxes.
Dragons blood, cools, binds, and 
repels. 
Acacia, and Hypocistis, do the like. 
The Juyce of maudlin, (or for want 
of it Costmary, which is the same in 
effect, and better known to the vulgar 
some countries call it Alecost) the 
juyce is made thick for the better 
keeping of it; first clarifie the Juyce 
very well, before you boyl it to its 
due thickness, which is somthing 
thicker then Honey.
It is appropriated to the Liver: 
and the quantity of a dram taken 
every morning, helps the Cachexia, 
or evil disposition of the body pro- 
ceeding from coldness of the Liver: 
it helps the Rickets and worms in 
Children, provokes Urin, and gently, 
(without purging) disburdens the 
body of choler and flegm, it succors 
the Lungs, opens obstructions, and 
resists putrifaction of blood. 
The rest which are material and 
easie to be had may be found in what 
goes before: such as are hard to 
come by I pass by, as considering it 
would do the Reader little good to 
tel him a long tale of what things 
are in the Bast Indies or Arabia. 
Gums are either temperate, as Lacca, 
Elemi, Tragacanth &c. 
Intemperate, and so are hot in the 
first degree, at Bdellium, Gum of Ivy. 
In the second, Galbanum, Mirrh, 
Mastich, Frankinsence, Olibanum, 
Pitch, Rozin, Styrax. 
In the third, Amoniacum. 
In the fourth, Euphorbium. 
Gum Arabick is cold. 
Colophonia and Styrax soften. 
Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, 
Sandarack of Juniper Gum, and 
Sarcocalla bind.
Gum of cherry trees, breaks the 
stone.
Styrax provokes the Terms. 
Opopanax gently purgeth flegm. 
Because I was brief in the vertues 
of these before, I shall supply here 
what was wanting there. 
From the prickly Cedar when it is 
burned comes forth that which with 
us, is usually known by the name of 
Tar, and is excellent good for uncti- 
on either for scabs, Itch, or mangi- 
ness either in men or beasts: as also 
against the Leprosie, Tetters, Ring- 
Worms, and scald heads. 
All forts of Rozins fil up hollow 
Ulcers, and relieves the body over 
pressed with cold griefs. 
The Rozin of Pitch tree, is that 
which is commonly tailed Burgony 
Pitch, and is somthing hotter and 
sharper than the former, being spread 
upon a cloath is excellent good for 
old aches coining of former bruises 
or dislocations.
Pitch molifies hard swellings, and 
brings boyls and pores to suppurati- 
on, it breaks carbuncles, disperseth 
imposthumes, clenseth Ulcers of 
corruption & filleth them with flesh. 
Bdellium heats and mobiles, and 
that very temperately, being mix'd 
with any convenient Oyntment or 
plaister, it helps kernels in the Neck 
and Throat, Scrophula, or that dis- 
ease which is called the Kings evil. 
Inwardly taken in any convenient 
medicine, it provokes the Terms, and 
breaks the stone, it helps coughs 
and bitings of venemous hearts it 
helps, windiness of the spleen, and 
pains in the sides thence coming, 
both outwardly applied to the place 
and inwardly taken, it helps ruptures 
or such as are burst, it softens the 
hardness of the Womb, dries up the 
moisture thereof, and expels the dead 
child. 
Bitumen Judaicum is a certain dry 
pitch which the dead sea, or lake of 
Sodom 

32 Gums, Rozihs. Balsoms, and Juyces made thick, viz. 
Sodom in Iudea cast forth at certain
times, the Inhabitants there abouts 
pitch their ships with it. It is of ex-
cellent use to mollifie the hardness of 
swellings and discuss them, as also a-
gainst Inflamations; the smoak of it
burnt is excellent good for the fits of; 
the mother, and the falling sickness; 
Inwardly taken in wine it provokes 
the terms, helps the bitings of vene- 
mous beasts, and dissolves congealed 
blood in the body.
Ambergreese is hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, I will not dispute the 
case whether it be a Gum or not: It 
strengthens nature much which way 
soever it be taken, there are but few 
grains usually given of it at a time, I 
suppose rather for fear it should be 
too heavy for the, purse than too hot 
for the body, mix’d with a little 
Oyntment of Orrenge flowers, and 
the Temples and Forehead anointed 
with it; it easeth the pains of the 
head and strengthens the brain ex- 
ceedingly: the same appli’d to the 
privities helps the fits of the mother, 
inwardy taken it strengthens the 
brain and memory, the heart and vi- 
tal spirit, warms cold stomachs, and 
is an exceeding strengthener of Na- 
ture to old people, adding vigor to 
decaid and worn out spirits, it pro-
vokes lust, and makes barren Women
fruitfull, if coldness and moisture or 
weakness be the cause impediting.
Assafœtida being smelled to, is 
vulgarly known to repress the fits of 
the mother: a little bit put into an 
aking tooth, presently easeth the 
pains: ten grains of it taken before 
dinner walking half an hour after if,
provokes, appetite, helps Digestion, 
strengthens the Stomach, and takes
away loathing of meat, it provokes 
lust exceedingly and expells wind as 
much. 
Borax, or Borrace as some call it,
besides its vertues it hath to sodder
Gold, Silver, and Copper &c. In- 
wardly given in small quantities, it
stops fluxes, and the running of the
Reins: being in fine pouder, and put
into green wounds it cures them at
once dressing.
Cambuge, which out of many 
names which every Country bestows 
upon it, the Colledg are pleased to 
cal Gutta Gamba: Authors are ex- 
treamly different, both about its be- 
ing, what it is whether a juyce, or 
not? If a juyce, of what? and about 
its Operations, whether it work vio-
lently or not: for my part I care not
for medling with an unknown Me-
dicine my self, neither would I advise 
my Country men. 
Caranna outwardly applied, is ex- 
cellent for aches and swellings in the 
nerves and Joynts; if you lay it be- 
hind the ears, it draws back humors 
from the eyes, applied to the temples 
as they usually do Mastich, it helps 
the Toothach. 
Gum Elemi Authors appropriate 
to factures in the skul and head. See 
Arceus his Liniment, 
Gum Lacca being wel purified, and 
the quantity of half a dram taken in 
any convenient liquor, strengthens 
the stomach and Liver, opens obstru- 
ctions, helps the yellow jaundice and 
dropsie; provokes urine, breaks the 
stone in the reins and bladder. 
Liquid Amber is not much unlike 
Liquid Styrax: by unction it warms 
and comforts a cold and moist brain, 
it easeth all griefs coming of a cold 
cause. It mightly comforteth and 
strengthneth a weak stomach, being 
anointed with it, and helps digestion 
exceedingly, it dissolves swellings. It 
is hot in the third degree, and moist 
in the first.
I think it would do the Common- 
wealth no harm if I should speak a 
word or two of Manna here, al- 
though it be no Gum; I confess Au- 
thors make some flutter about it 
what it is, some holding it to be the 
juyce of a tree; I am confident it is 
the very same condensated that our 
honey-dews here are, only the coun- 
tries whence it comes being far hot- 
ter, it fals in greater abundance Let 
him that desires Reason for it, be 
pleased to read Butler his book of 
Bees, a most excellent experimental 
work, there he shall find Reason e- 
nough to satisfy any reasonable man. 
Chuse the dryest and whitest; it is 
a very gentle purger of Choller,, 
quencheth thirst, provokes appetite, 
easeth the roughness of the Throat 
helps bitterness in the Throat, and 
often proneness to vomit; it is very 
good for such as are subject to be 
costive to put into the drinks instead 
of sugar, it hath no obnoxious qua- 
lity at all, in it, but may be taken by 
a woman with Child without any 
danger; a child of a veer old may 
take an ounce of it at a time dissolv- 
ed in Milk, it it wil melt like sugar, 
neither will it be known from it by 
the Tast.
Mirrh is hot and dry in the second 
degree, exceeding dangerous for wo- 
men with child; it bitter, and yet 
al Authors hold it to be good for the 
Roughness of the Throat and wind- 
pipe; half a dram of it taken at a 
time helps Rheumatick distillati- 
ons upon the Lungues, paines in the 
sides; it stops fluxes, provokes the 
terms, brings away both birth and 
after-birth, softens the hardness of 
the womb; being taken two hours 
before the fits comes, it helps Agues. 
Mathiolus saith he seldome used any 
other Medicine for the quartan A- 
gue then a dram of Mirrh given in 
muskadel an hour before the fit usu- 
ally came; if you make it up into 
pills with Treacle, and take one of 
them every morning fasting, it is a 
soveraign preservative against the 
pestilence, against the poyson of ser-
pents, and other venemous beasts, a 
singular remedy for stinking breath 
if it arise from putrefaction of the 
stomach, it fastens loose Teeth, and 
staies the shedding off of the hair, 
outwrardly used it breeds flesh in deep 
wounds, and covers the naked bones 
with flesh. 
Olibanum is hot in the second de- 
gree, and dry in the first, you may 
take a dram of it at a time, it stops 
loosness and the runnning of the 
Reins, it strengthens the memory ex- 
ceedingly, comforts the heart, expels 
sadness and Melancholy, strengthens 
the Heart, helps coughs, rhewms and 
Pleurifies. Your best way (in my opi- 
nion to take it, is to mix it with con 
serves of Roses, and take it in the 
morning fasting.)
Tachamacha is seldom, taken in- 
wardly, outwardly spied upon Lea- 
ther, and applied to the Navil, it 
staieth the fits of the Mother applied 
to the side, it mitigats speedily, and 
in little time quite takes away the 
pain and windiness of the spleen, the 
truth is, whatsoever ach or swelling 
proceeds of wind or cold raw hu-
mors, I know no better plaister com- 
ing from beyond sea, then this Gum. 
It strengthens the brain and memory 
exceedingly, and stops all such de- 
fluctions thence as trouble the Eye, 
Ears or Teeth, it helps the Gout and
Sciatica.
Gum Coopal, and Gum Anime are
very like one another both in body 
and operation, the former is hard 
to come by, the last not very easie.
It stops definitions from the Head, 
if you perfume your Cap with the 
smoak of it, it helps the Head-ach 
and Megrim, strengthens the Brain, 
and therefore the sinnews. 
Gum Tragaganth, which the vul- 
gar call Gum dragon, being mixed 
with Pectoral syrups (which you shal 
find noted in their proper places) 
helps coughs and hoarseness, salt and 
sharp distillations upon the Lungs, 
being taken with a liquoris stick, 
being dissolved in sweetwine, it helps 
(being drunk) gnawing in the bo- 
wels, sharpness and freetings of the 
Urin, which causeth excoriations 
either in the Reins or bladder, being 
dissolved in Milk and the Eyes wa- 
shed with it, it takes away wheels 
and scabs that grow on the Eye lids,
it is excellent good to be put in
Pultesses to sodder wounds, especi-
ally if the Nerves or Sinnews be 
hurt.
Sagapen, dissolved in juyce of Rue
and taken, wonderfully breaketh the 
stone in the bladder, expels the dead
child and after-birth, cleers the sight, 
dissolved in wine and drunk, it helps 
the cough, and distillation, upon the
Lungs, and the fits of the Mother, 
outwardly in Oyls or Oyntments, it 
mightily helps such members as are 
out of joynt or over-stretched. 
Galbanum 

Gums, Rozins, Balsoms, &c. Things bread of Plants. 33 
Galbanum is of the same operation 
and also taken from the same plant, 
viz, Fennel-Giant. 
Gum Arabick, thickneth and 
cooleth and correcteth cholerick 
sharp humors in the body, being 
dissolved in the white of an Ege wel 
beaten, it helps burnings, and keeps
the place from blistering. 
Mastich staies fluxes, being taken 
inwardly any way: Three or four 
smal grains of Mastick, swallowed 
down whol at night going to bed, is 
an excellent remedy for pains in the 
stomach: being beaten into powder,
and mixed with conserves of Roses,
it strengthens the stomach, stops di-
stillations upon the Lungs, staies vo- 
mitting and causeth a sweet breath, 
being mixed with white wine and 
the mouth washed with it, it clenseth 
the Gums of corruption, and fastn- 
eth loose Teeth.
Frankinsence being used outward- 
ly in the way of a Plaister, heats and 
binds, being applied to the temples, 
stops the Rhewms that slows to the 
Eyes, helps green wounds, and fills 
hollow Ulcers with flesh, stops the 
bleeding of wounds, though the Ar- 
teries he cut, being made into an 
Oyntment with Vinegar and Hogs- 
grease, helps the Itch, burnings, Ul- 
cers in the Head, pains in the Ears, 
inflamation in the Womens breasts 
commonly called Agues in the brest; 
beware of taking it inwardly, least
it cause madness.
Turpentine is hot in the second de- 
gree, it heals, softens, it discusseth 
and purgeth, clenseth the Reins, 
provokes Urin.
Styrax Calamitis is hot and dry in 
the second degree, it healeth, Moli- 
sieth, and concocteth; being taken 
inwardly helps the cough, and distil- 
lation of the Lungs, hoarseness and 
loss of voice, helps the hardness of 
the Womb, and provokes the Terms 
if you take ten grains of it at a 
time made up in the form of a 
Pill.
Ammoniacum, hot and dry in the  
third degree, softens, draws, and 
heats; being dissolved in Vineger, 
strained and applied Plaister-wise, it 
takes away bunckles and hardness in 
in the flesh, it is one of the best re- 
medies that I know for infirmities 
of the Spleen, being applied to the 
left side; being made into an Oynt- 
ment with Oyl it is excellent good 
to anoint the limbs of such as are 
weary; a scruple of it being taken 
in the form of a Pill loosens the bel- 
ly, gives speedy delivery to Women 
in Travil, helps diseases in the spleen, 
the Sciatica and all pains in the 
Joynts, such as piss Blood, and have 
any humor afflicting their brest. 
Camphire, It is held by all authori- 
ty to be cold and dry in the third de-
gree, it is of very thin subtil parts, 
insomuch that being beaten into ve- 
ry fine pouder it will vanish away in- 
to the Air, being beaten into pouder 
and mixed with Oyl, and the tem- 
ples anoynted therewith, easeth 
Head-aches proceeding of heat, all
inflammations whatsoevr, the back 
being anointed with the same, cools
the Reins, and Seminal Vessels, stops
the running of the Reins and whites 
in Women, the immoderate use of 
Venery, the like it doth if it be drunk
inwardly with Bettony Water, take
but a smal quantity of it at a time
inwardly, it refills Poyson and bi-
tings. by venemous beasts, outward- 
ly applied as before and the Eyes 
anoynted with it, stops hot Rhewms
that flow thither. 
Opopanax, purgeth thick flegm
from the most remote parts of the 
Body, viz. the Brain, Joynts, Hands 
and Feet, the Nerves and breast, and 
strengthens all these parts when they 
are weak, if the weakness proceed 
of cold, as usually it doth; it helps 
weakness of the light, old rotten 
coughs, and Gouts of all sorts, drop- 
sies, and swellings of the Spleen, it 
helps the the strangury and difficulty 
of making Urin, provokes the Terms, 
and helps all cold afflictions of the 
Womb, have a care you give it not 
to any women with child. The dose 
is one dram at most corrected with a 
little Mastich, dissolved in Vineger 
and outwardly applied helps the pas- 
sions of the Spleen.
LIQUID JUYCES 
and TEARS, kept 
for present Use, viz. 
Colledg. Vinegar, Juyce of Ci- 
trones, Juyce of sower 
Grape, Orrenges, barberries, Teares of 
a birch tree, juyces of Chermes, Quinces, 
pomegranates, Lemmons, Wood-sorrel, 
Oyl of unripe Olives, and ripe olives 
both new and old, Juyce of red and 
Damask, Roses: Wine, Teares of a 
Vine.
Culpeper.] The Vertues of the 
most of these may be found in the 
Syrups, and are few of them used 
alone, unless it be Vinegar to make 
sawce, and wine to drink. 
Things Bred of 
PLANTS, viz. 
Colledg.] A Grief, Jews-eares, the 
berries of chermes, the 
Spungy substance of the bryar, Moss, 
Viscus Quercinus, Oaks Apples.
Culpeper] Jews ears boyl’d in 
Milk and drunk, helpeth sore 
throats, it is the opinion of those 
that have studied Hermetick Philo- 
sophy, that those things which re- 
semble any parts of Mans body, 
strengthens those parts of the Body 
they resemble, and help the diseases 
they are vulgarly incident to, which 
is an approved truth in this; for as 
they resemble the Ear of a man, so 
being boyled in white wine, and the 
wine drunk, and the Jews-Ears ap- 
plied to the Ear outwardly, will help 
deafness, incarnations, and other in- 
firmities of the Ears. 
Moss is cold, dry, and binding, 
therefore good for fluxes of all sorts, 
if you desire to know more of it: I 
desire you would see my English Phy- 
sitian
Misleto of the Oak. I will tell but 
the truth, and am able to prove it 
when I have done; that one sort of 
Misleto is as good as another; it 
helps the Falling-sickness and the 
Convulsions being discreetly gathe- 
red and used. 
Oak Apples: Mathiolus saith if 
Oak Apples be broken a sunder a- 
bout the time of their withering be- 
fore they have a hole through them, 
they contain in them one Living 
creature or another, which if it be a 
Fly it signifies War, if a Spider, Pesti- 
lence, if a Magger, murren of Beasts,
if a worm, Scarcity of Victuals, if an 
ant, plenty of Corn for us: Il’e bind 
no bodies saith to believe it, because 
I never tried it in my self, this I say, 
they are dry and binding: being 
boyled in milk and drunk, they stop 
fluxes and the Terms, and being boy- 
led in Vinegar, and the Body anoin- 
ted with the Vinegar cures the 
Itch. 
Living Creatures. 
Colledg.] Bees Wood-lice, Silk- 
worms, Toads, crabs of 
the River, little Puppy Dogs, Gras- 
hoppers, chantharides, cothanel, Hedg- 
hogs, Emets or Ants, Larks, Swal-
lows, and their young ones; Hors lee- 
ches, Snails, Earth worms: Dishwa- 
shers or Wag tails, House Sparrows, 
and Hedg-Sparrows, Frogs, Scincus, 
Land Scorpions, Moles, wants, Tor- 
toise of the woods, Tenches, Vipers and 
Foxes. 
Culpeper.] That part of this crew of 
Catel and some others may be made 
beneficial to your sick bodies, be 
pleased to understand, that 
Bees being burnt to ashes, and a Ly 
made with the ashes, trimly decks a 
bald head, being washed with it. 
Snails with shels on their backs, be- 
ing first washed from the dirt, then
P the 

34 Living Creature. Parts of liv creatures, &c. Taken from the Sea. 
the shels broken; and they boyled in 
spring water, but not scumed at all 
for the scum will fink of it self, and 
the water drunk for ordinary drink 
is most admirable remedy for a Con- 
sumption. And here by the way I can- 
not but admire at the simplicity of 
most Physitians who prescribe that 
the Snails ought to be purged from 
their slime either with salt or bran 
before they be used; which if you do, 
you take away their vertue; for the 
reason why they cure a consumption 
is this; man being made of the slime 
of the earth, the slimy substance re- 
covers him when he is wasted; if you 
please to eat the snails when they are 
boyled you may, for they have a ve- 
ry pleasing tast, and it would be very 
cunningly done of you, if you did so, 
especially in these hard times, for  
then would you have meat, drink and
medicine altogether. Besides this, 
being bruised and applied to the 
place, they help the gout, draw thorns 
out of the flesh, and held to the nose  
help the bleeding thereof.
Frogs. It is a vulgar fashion of the 
Walloons to catch live Frogs and cut 
off their hinder Leggs and fry them 
and eat them; whether they be good 
meat or not I know not, but I am 
sure ’tis a good medicine for the bit- 
ings of serpents: An oyl made of it is 
excellent good for the stiffness of the 
Tendons, and the falling off of hair. 
Before I come to the compounds, 
left any should think I goe about to 
hide from them any thing that might 
do them good, I have here inserted 
the living creatures, and excrements, 
&c in the order the Colledg left 
them, The use of the fats and suets, 
you shal have, if you please but to 
stay til J come to the Oyls and oynt- 
ments.
PARTS of LIVING 
Creatures and Ex- 
crements. 
Colledg. THe Fat, grease, or suet 
of a Duck, Goose, Eel: 
Bore. Herron. Thymallos (if you know 
where to get it) Dog. Capon. Bever, 
wild Cat. Stork. Coney: Horse. Hedg- 
hog. Hen. Man. Lyon, Hare Pike. or 
Jack, Wolf. Mouse of the mountains 
pardal. Hog. Serpent. Badger, gray 
or brick Fox. Vultur. Album 
Græcum Anglice a Dogs turd. the 
Huck lebone of a Hare and a Hog. East 
and West Bezoar. Butter not salted and 
salted Stone taken out of a mans bladder. 
Vipers flesh. fresh Cheese. Castorium, 
white, yellow and virgins wax the brain 
of hairs and sparrows Crabs claws the 
Rennet of a Lamb. Kid. a Hare and a 
calf and a horse. the heart of a Bullock. 
Stag. Hog. and a weather, the horn of an 
Elk a hart a Rhincoerot an Vnicorne. the 
skul of a man killed by a violent death, 
a Cocky comb, the, Tooth of a Bore, an 
Elephant, and a Sea-horse. Ivory, or 
Elephants Tooth, the skin a snaky hath 
cast off, the gall of a Hawk. Bullock a
shee Goat, a Hare, a Kite, a Hog. a 
bull, a bear, the cases of Silkworms, the
Liver of a Wolf, an Otter, a Frog. I-
sing-glaß. the guts of a Wolf and a Fox.
the milk of a face Aß. a shee Goat. a  
woman. an Ewe. a Heiser.East and west 
Bezoar. the stone in the head of a Crab, 
and a Pearch, if there be any stone in an; 
Ox Gall, stone in the bladder of a 
Man. the Jawe of a Pike or Jack.
Pearls. the marrow of the Leg of a sheep. 
Ox. Goat. Stag. Calf. common and vir- 
gin honey. Musk, mummy of Swallows 
nest. crabs. Eyes, the Omentum, or call 
of a Lamb. Ram. Weather, Calf, the 
whites, Yolks. and shells of Hens Eggs,
Emets, Eggs. bone of a flags heart. an Ox 
leg. Offepiœ. the inner skin of a Hens 
Gizzard. the wool of hares the Feathers
of Partridges, that which bees make at  
the entrance of the Hive. the pizzle of a 
stag. of a bull. Fox Lungs, fasting spit- 
tle. the blood of a pigeon, of a cat. of a 
bee Goat, of a hare, of a Partridg. of a 
Sow of a Bull, of a badger, of a snail. 
Silk. Whey, the suet of a bullock. of a 
stag, of a bee Goat. of a sheep. Of a heifer. 
Sperma Ceti. a bullocks spleen. the skin
a snake hath cast off. the Turds of a 
Goose. of a Dog. of a Goat of Pidgeons.
of a stone Horse of a Hen. of Swallows, 
of Men. of Women. of Alice, of peacocks, 
of a Hog. of a heifer. the Ancle of a 
Hare, of a Sow. Cobwebs, water shels.
as Blatta byzanti; Buccinœ. Crabs
Cockles. Dentelis. Entalis. mother of 
Pearls Mytult purpuræ. Os sepiæ. um- 
bilicus marinus. the stones of a horse a  
cock, the hoof of an Elk of an Aß a 
Bullock, of a Horse. of a Lyon. the piß 
of a Bore. of a shee Goat, of a man or 
woman that is a maid, and that is not a 
maid, the moß on a mans skull, Zibeth. 
Culpeper.] The Liver of an Hedg- 
hog being dried and beaten into 
pouder and drunk in wine, streng 
thens the Reins exceedingly, and 
helps the Dropsie, Convulsions, and 
the falling-sickness, together with all 
fluxes of the Bowels. 
The Liver being in like manner 
brought into pouder strengthens the 
Liver exceedingly, and helps the 
Dropsie. 
The heart of a Frog being applied 
to the Region of the heart in a burn
ning feaver, mitigates the fits to ad- 
miration. 
The Heart of a Lark being bound 
to the Thigh of those that have the 
Cholick helps them; it doth the like 
also, being eaten.
Taken from the SEA, as
Colledg. AMber-greese. Sea water. 
Sea sand. Bitumen. Am- 
ber white and yellow. Jet. carline. cor- 
rel white and red. Some of the sea. spunge. 
stone pumice. Sea salt, spunges. Am- 
ber. 
METTALS, 
STONES, SALTS, 
and other, Minerals.
VErt-de-greese. scales of braß. Æ- 
titis, Alana Terra; _Alabaster. 
Alectorius. Allum Scissile. and Roach. 
Amethist. Amianth. Amphelites. An- 
timony. Leaves and fileings of silver. 
quick silver, lapis armenius. native ar-
snick, both white and red, artificial ars- 
nick. while and realgar. Argilla: Aste- 
ria. leaves and fileings of Gold. Belem- 
nites, berril. bole-armenick. borrax. Toads 
stone. Lapis calaminaris. cadmia. Lime 
quick and quenched. Vitriol, white, blew 
and green, steel. Borax chrisolite. chri- 
sopus. cynabris. native and artificial. 
Whetstones. chalk, white and green. chri- 
stal. Diphriges. the rust, dust. scales. and 
flakes of Iron. Granate, Mortar. such as 
wals are daubed with. Hematitis. Helio- 
tropium. Jacinth. Hybernicius. Jasper. 
Lapis Judacius. Tiles. Lapis Lazuli. 
Lapis Lincis. Lithanthrax. Litharge, 
of silver and gold. Loadstone. Marcha- 
site, or fire stone. marble, Red Lead, na- 
tive and artificial, mist. Naptha. Lapis 
Nephriticus. Niter. Oaker yellow and 
red Onyx. Opalus. Ophytes. Osteocolla.
Lead white and black. plumbago, pom- 
pholix. Marchasite. Realgar, Ruby. 
red Oaker, Sal Armoniak sal Gem. 
and salt Niter, saphir and sardine. sele- 
nites. Flints. Emerald. smiris. sori. spo- 
dium. Peuter, brimstone, quick and com-
mon. Talth. Earth of cimolia. sames. 
Lemnos, sylesia, to pas. Alana Terra. 
Tutty. Vitriol white blew and green, 
When the ground of our institution re- 
quired us, to give more then one Name 
to one simple, and sometimes to repeat 
them in diverse places, it pleased us to 
note those that are iterated in a differ- 
rent Character, left we should seem to 
make a needleß repetition or encrease 
our Catalogue for vain glory sake.
Culpeper.] Also I repeated them 
twice or thrice when they did, and
caused them to be set down in a dif- 
ferent letter; Also
Of some precious stones I speak
before in the former catalogue; I 
shall here reduce them al into order, 
and treat of such as were casually
there 

Mettals, Stones, Salts, and other Minerals. 35 
there omitted whether they were 
mentioned by the colledg or no. 
Precious Stones alter by a 
Way manifest or hidden. 
By a way manifest, they are, Hot in 
the first degree. Hæmetitis, Pyritis, 
Lapis Alius, Thyitis, Smires, La- 
pis Schistus. 
Precious Stones cold, in the first de- 
gree, are; Jacinth, Saphir, Emerald, 
cristal, Lapis Samius, Lapis Purigius. 
In the second degree. Ruby, Car- 
buncle, Granate: Sardony. 
In the fourth degree. Diamond. 
In respect of property, they binde 
as Lapis Asius, Nectius, Geodes, 
Pumice-stone. 
Emollient: as Alablaster, Jet, La- 
pis Thrasius. 
Stupifie: as Memphitis, Jasper, 
Ophites. 
Clense: as Lapis Arabicus. 
Glutinate: as Galactitis, Melites, 
Scarifie: as Morochtus. 
Break of the stone: as Lapis Lyncis, 
Lapis Judaicus. Lapis Spongiæ. 
Retain the fruit in the Womb: as 
Ætitis, Jasper. 
Provoke the Terms. Ostracites.
Stones altering by a pro- 
perty (as they cal it) are; 
Bezoar, Topas, Lapis Colubri- 
nus, Toad-stone, Emerald; Ale- 
ctorius, Calcidonius, Amethist, 
Saphyr, Jasper, Lapis Nephriticus, 
Lapis Tibernum, Lapis Spongites, 
the stone found in the maw of a 
Swallow, Load stone, Lapis. Vulturis, 
Merucius, Corral, Lynturius, Jet, 
Ætites, the Stones of Crabs, Amber, 
Christal, &c. 
The Load-stone purgeth gross hu- 
mors.
Lapis Armenius and Lapis Lazuli, 
Purge Melancholly. 
To speak a word or two of those 
Which were then pretermitted. 
A water Snake, a string being
thrust; through her tail, and-she hung
up, a Vessel ful of water being set 
underneath, into which she may put 
her Head, after certain hours or 
daies, she will Vomit up a Stone,
which being received in the vessel 
ful of water will drink it all up,
which being bound to the Navil of 
one that hath the Dropsie, drinks 
up all the water, Hollerius. Lapis 
calcidonius, being hung about the 
Neck, helps those Melancholly illu- 
sions, and Melancholly fancies. 
In the Indian Sea; are taken, cer- 
tain strong fighting Fish, called Ty- 
burones, in the Heads of which are 
found three or four Stones, somtimes 
more, very white, great and pon- 
derous, insomuch that somtimes they 
weigh two pound: The pouder of 
this Stone is very profitable for such 
as are troubled with the stone and 
difficulty of Urin, breaks the Stone 
in the Reins and Bladder.
Blood-stone is a kinde of Jasper of  
divers colours, with red spots in it
like blood, stops the Terms and blee-
ding in any part of the Body. Ni- 
cholaus Monardus. 
Hæmetites, Stops Blood, the Eyes  
often stroken with it, helps Blood- 
shed, being beaten into pouder and 
taken inwardly, provokes Urin and 
stops the Terms. Dioscorides, 
Pyrites, Heats and clenseth, takes 
away dimness of sight. Dioscorides. 
Lapis Asius binds and moderately 
corrodes and clenseth filthy Ulcers, 
and fills them up with flesh: being 
mixed with Honey, and applied to 
the place, is an admirable remedy for 
the Gout.
Chrystal Being beaten into very 
fine pouder, and a dram of it taken 
at a time helps the Bloody flux, stops 
the whites in Women, and inereas- 
eth Milk in Nurses. Mathiolus. 
Lapis Samius, Is cooling and bin- 
ding, it is very comfortable to the  
Stomach but it duls the sences, helps  
fluxes of the Eyes and Ulcers; Dio- 
scorides held that it was little inferi- 
our to Lapis Ætites in al his vertues. 
Dioscorides. That which comes off
from a whetstone of Cypress by 
whetting, helps Baldness: to being 
taken inwardly with Vinegar, con- 
sumes the Spleen and helps the Fal- 
ling-sickness. 
Geodetes, Binds and dries, being 
beaten into Pouder and mixed with 
water, and applied to the place, takes 
away Inflamations of the Testicles, 
Pumice-stone, Being beaten into 
Pouder, and the Teeth rubed with it
clenseth them. Dioscorides. 
Jet: It is of a softening and dis- 
cussing Nature, it resisteth the fits of 
the Mother. 
Lapis Memphites Dioscorides saith 
that if it be beaten to pouder, and 
made into an Oyntment, and the 
part of a man which is to be cut off 
anomted with it, takes away the 
sence of it without any danger.
Lapis Ophites: Some of these 
Stones have white lines in them 
these are an admirable remedy both 
for the Head-ach and Lethargy: all 
of them being born about one help 
the Head-ach, and the biting of Ser- 
pents.
Lapis Arabicus Being beaten
into pouder, and made into an Oynt- 
ment helps the Hemorrhoids. 
Ostracites, A dram of it taken in 
pouder provokes the Terms, being 
taken after that purgation, causeth 
Conception, also being made into 
an Oyntment, helps inflamations of 
the breasts. 
Lapis Selenites, Is an admirable 
Stone of the Moon; the Women in 
Germany wear them as Jewels, be- 
cause they would be fruitful; they 
cure the Falling-sickness, and being 
bound to Trees make them fruitful.
Lapis Amianthus being born a- 
bout one, helps such as are bewit- 
ched. Dioscorides. 
Myexis, Being born about one 
takes away pains in the Reins, and 
hinders the breeding of the Stone, 
Lapis Armenius, Purgeth Melan- 
choly, and also causeth vomiting, I 
hold it not very safe for our English 
bodies, and therefore I will speak 
no more of it.
AN EXPLANATTON of certain Nuncupations; 
Comprehending more things then one under one Name. 
OR
Rather an Interpretation of some Common names. 
The five opening 
Roots. 
Smallage, Sparagus, Ecnuel, Parsly, 
Kne-holly.
The two opening 
Roots. 
Fennel Parsly. 
The five Emollient 
Herbs. 
Marshmallows, Mallows, Beets, Mer- 
cury, Pellitory of the wal, Violet leaves. 
The five Capilary 
Herbs.
Maiden hair, Wall Rue, Cetrach,
Harts-tongue, Politricum. 
The four Cordial 
Flowers. 
Borrage, Bugloß, Roses, Violets.
THE 

36 An Explanation of Certain hard Names. Simple Waters, &c. 
The four greater hot 
Seeds, Carminative, 
or breaking Wind 
Annis, Caraway, Cummin, Fennel. 
The four lesser hot 
Seeds 
Bishops weed, Amomus, Smallage, 
Carrots. 
The four greater cold 
Seeds. 
Citrul, Cucumer, Guord, Melone.
The four lesser cold 
Seeds. 
Succory, Endive, Lattice. Purslain. 
Five fragments of pre- 
cious Stones. 
Granate, Jacinth, Saphirs, Sardine, 
Emerald.  
AN INTERPRE- 
TATlON of Certain 
Common Names, 
that were in the Old 
but are not Printed
in the New Latin 
Despensatory.
The five lesser opening 
Roots. 
Of Grass, Eringo, Capers, Rest- 
harrow. Madder. 
The four Pluretical 
Water. 
Of Our Ladies Thistle, Dandelion, 
Carduus Benedictus, Scabious.
Common hot Flowers. 
Of Chamomel, Meliot, Orris. 
Three stomach Oyls. 
Of Wormwood, Quinces, Mastich.
Four hot Oyntments, 
Of Agrippa, Althea, Aregon, Mar- 
tiatum. 
Four cold Oyntments. 
Album Camphoratum, Populion, 
Refrigerans Galeni, Rosatum.
Four Oyntments fit for 
Chyrurgions. 
Basilicon, to digest. 
Viride Apostolorum, to clense, 
Aurium, to breed Flesh. 
Album, to Skin. 
SIMPLE 
Distilled Waters.
Of fresh Roots of 
BRiony, Onions, Alicampane, Or- 
ris, or Flowerd-de-luce, Turneps. 
Of Flowers and Buds of 
Southernwood; both sorts of Worm- 
Wood; Wood Sorrel Ladies-mantle, 
Marshmallow; Angelica; Pimpernel 
with purple flowers Small age; Co- 
lumbine; Sparagus; Mousear; Bor- 
rage; Shephards purse, Calaminth; 
Wood-bine or Honey-suckles; Car- 
duus Benedictus, our Ladies thistles:
Knot-grass: Succory: Dragons: Colts- 
foot: Fennel: Goats Rue: Grass: 
Hysop: Lettice: Lovage: Toadflax: 
Hops: Marjoram: Mallows: Hore- 
hound: Feathersew: Bawm: Mints: 
Horsemints: Water cresses: English 
Tobacco: white Poppies, Pellatory of 
the wall: Parsly: Plantane: Pur-
slane: Self heal; Peneroyal; Oake 
leaves; Sage; Scabious; Figwort or 
Throatwort; Housleek or Sengreen 
the greater and lesser; Mother of Time; 
Nightshade; Tansie; Tormentil; 
Valeriane.
Of Flowers of  
Orrenges, Blew-bottles the greater, 
Beans, Water-Lillies, Lavender, Nut 
tree, Cowslips, Sloes, Rosemary, Roses  
white, damask and red, Satyrion, Line 
tree, Clove-gilli-flowers, Violets. 
Of Fruits of 
Orrenges, black cherries, Pomecitrons, 
Quinces, cucumers, Strawberries, winter 
cherries, Lemmons, Rasberries, unripe 
Walnuts, Apples. 
Of Parts of Living 
Creatures, and their 
Excrements. 
Lobsters: Cockles: or Snails: sig- 
nifies, Cockles, Snails, Perewinkles, 
and al such shel-fish, as their former 
word which I translated Lobsters, sig- 
nifies crabs as well as Lobsters; and 
I could afford to think they intend 
river crabs here, by two or three let- 
ters of a word, which they add at the 
latter end of it, Hartshorn, Bullocks 
dung made in May, Swallows, Earth- 
worms, Magpies, Spawm of Frogs. 
Simple Waters distil- 
led, being digested, 
before-hand.
Of the fresh Roots of Nettles. 
Of the Leaves of Agrimony, wild 
Tansie, or Silverweed, Mugwort, Bet-
tony, Marigolds, chamomel, chamepitys, 
Cellendine, Pileworts, Scurvy graß, com- 
fry the greater, Dandelyon, ash tree 
leaves, Eyebright, Fumitory, Alehoof,
or ground, Ivy, Horstail, St. Johns wort, 
Yarrow, Money wort, Restharrow, solo- 
mons seal, Ros solis, Rue, savin, saxi- 
frage, Harts tongue, scordium Tamaris 
Mullin, Vervain, Pauls bettony, Meed- 
sweet. Nettles. 
Of the flowers of Mayweed, broom, 
cowslips, butter bur, Peony, Elder 
Of the berries of broom. Elder. 
Culpeper. Then the Colledg gives 
you an Admonition concerning di-
stilling these, which being converted 
into your native language, is as fol- 
loweth.
We give you warning that these common 
waters be better prepared for time 
to come, either in common stills, put- 
ting good store of Ashes underneath,
and roots and herbs being dryer &c. 
or if they he ful of Juyce by distilling 
the juyce in a convenient bath, that so 
burning may he avoided, which hi-
therto hath seldom been. But let the 
other Herbs, Flowers or Roots, be
bruised, and by adding Tartar, Com- 
mon salt, or Leven be digested, then 
putting spring water to them, distill 
them in an Alembick with his refri- 
geratory, or worm, till the change of 
the tast shew the Venue to be drawn 
off; then let the Oyl (if any be) be 
separated from the water according to 
art.
In to the number of these waters may 
be ascribed. 
The Tears of Vines, the liquor of the 
birch-tree. May dew. 
Culpeper.] That my country may 
receive the benefit of these waters, I 
shall first shew the temperatures, se-
condly, the vertues of the most usual 
and most easie to come by. 
The qualities and appro- 
priated Virtues of the 
simple Distilled Waters. 
Simple distilled Waters either 
cool or heat; such as cool, either cool
the blood or Choller.
Water 

Simple Waters &c. Vertues of distilled Waters. 37 
Waters cooling the blood. Lettice, 
Burslain, Water-Lillies, Violets, Sor- 
rel, Endive, Succory, Fumitory. 
Waters cooling and re- 
pressing cholerick Hu- 
mors, or Vapors in 
the Head.
Nightshade, Lettice, Water-lillies, 
Plantane, Poppies, viz. The flowers 
both of white, black and red Pop- 
pies, black Cherries. 
The breast and Lunges. Violets, 
Poppies al three sorts, Colts foot. 
In the heart. Sorrel, Quinces, wa- 
ter-lillies, Roses, Violets, green or
unripe VValnuts. 
In the stomach. Quinces, Roses, 
Violets, Nightshade, Housleek, or 
Sengreen, Lettice, Purslain. 
In the Liver. Endive, Succory, 
Nightshade, Purslain, Water Lillies. 
In the Reins and bladder. Endive, 
Succory, Winter Cherries, Plantane, 
Water-lillies, Strawberries, Housleek, 
or Sengreen, Black Cherries. 
In the womb. Endive, Succory, 
lettice. Water Lillies, Purslain, 
Roses. 
Simple Water which 
are hot, concoct ei- 
ther Flegm or Me- 
lancholy.
Waters concocting Flegm 
in the Head, are of 
Bettony, Sage, Marjoram, Cha-
momel, Fennel, Calaminth, Rose 
mary Flowers, Primroses, Eyebright.
In the breast and Lunges. Maiden
hair, Bettony, Hysop, Horehound, 
Carduus-Benedictus, Scabious, Or-
ris, or Flower-de-luce, Bawm, self- 
heal, &c.
In the heart. Bawm, Rosemary. 
In the stomach. Wormwood, mints, 
Fennel, Chervil, Time, Mother of
Time, Marigolds. 
In the Liver. Wormword, Cen- 
taury, Origanum, Marjoram, Maud- 
lin, Costmary, Agrimony, Fennel.
In the Spleen. Water cresses, worm-
wood, Calaminth.
In the Reins and sladder Rocket,
Nettles, Saxifrage, Pellitory of the 
wal, Alicampane, Burnet.
In the womb. Mugwort, calaminth, 
Penyroyal, Savin, Mother of Time, 
Lovage. 
Waters concocting Me-
lancholy in the Head, 
are of
Hops. Fumitory.
The breast, Bawm. carduus. Bene-
dictus.
The heart. Borrage. Bugloss. bawm. 
Rosemary. 
The Liver. Endive. cichory. Hops. 
The spleen. Dodder. Hartstongue. 
Tamaris. Time. 
Having thus ended 
the appropriation, I
shall speak briefly of 
the vertues of distill-
ed Water.
Lettice Water cools the blood when 
it is over heated; for when it is not, 
it needs no cooling: it cools the head 
and Liver, staies hot Vapors amend- 
ing to the head, and hindring sleep; 
it quencheth immoderate thirst, and 
breeds Milk in Nurses. Distill it in 
May. 
Purslain Water cools the blood and 
Liver, quencheth thirst, helps such as 
spit blood, have hot coughs, or pesti- 
lences. 
The distilled water of Water-Lilly- 
flowers, cools the blood and the bow- 
els, and all internal parts of the bo- 
dy; helps such as have the yellow 
Jaundice, hot coughs and Pleurifies, 
the headach coming of heat, Feavers 
pestilential and not pestilential, as al- 
so hectick Feavers.
The water of Violet flowers cools 
the blood, the heart, liver, and lungs 
over-heated, and quenceth an insa- 
tiable desire of drinking; they are in 
their prime about the latter end of 
March, or beginning of April, ac- 
cording as the year falls out.
The water of Sorrel cooles the 
blood, heart, liver and spleen; If ve- 
nis Treacle be given with it, it is pro- 
fitable in pestilential Feavers: distill 
it in May. 
Endive and Succory water are ex- 
cellent, against heat in the stomach; if 
you take an ounce of either (for their 
operation is the same) morning and 
evening, four days one after another, 
they cool the Liver, and clense the 
blood: they are in their prime in 
May.
Fumitory water is usuall with the 
city Dames to wash their faces with, 
to take away morphew, freckles, and 
sunburning: inwardly taken it helps 
the yellow Jaundice and Itch, clen- 
seth the blood, provokes sweat, 
strengthens the stomach, and clenseth 
the body of adult humor: it is in its 
prime in May and June. 
The Water of Nightshade helps 
pains in the Head coming of heat: 
Take heed you distill not the deadly 
Nightshade instead of the common, 
if you do, you may make mad work. 
Let such as have not wit enough to 
know them asunder, have wit enough 
to let them alone till they do. 
The water of white Poppies, extin- 
guisheth al heat against nature, helps 
head aches coming of heat, and too 
long standing in the Sun; Distil them 
in June or July. 
Colts foot Water is excellent for 
burns to wash the place with it; in- 
wardly taken it helps Ptisicks and o- 
other diseases incident to the lunges; 
Distil them in May or June. 
The water of Distilled Quinces 
strengthens the Heart and stomach, 
exceedingly, staies Vomiting and 
Fluxes, and strengthens the retentive 
faculty in man. 
Damask Rose-water cools, comforts, 
and strengthens the heart: so doth 
Red Rose water, only with this dif- 
ference, the one is binding, the other 
loosening, if your body be costive, 
use Damask Rose water, because it is 
loosening: if loose, use red, because 
it is binding.
White Rose-water, is generally 
known to be excellent against hot 
Rhewms, and Inflamations in the 
Eyes, and for this it is better then 
the former. 
The water of red Poppy flowers, cal- 
led by many corn-roses, because they 
grow so frequently amongst Corn, 
cools the blood and spirits overheat- 
ed by drinking or labor, and is there- 
fore excellent in surfets.
Green Walnuts gathered about the 
latter end of June, or beginning of 
tuly, and bruised, and so stilled, streng- 
thens the heart, and resisteth the pe- 
stilence.
Plantane water helps the headach; 
being dropped into the Ear it helps 
the toothach, helps the Ptisick, drop- 
sie and fluxes, and is an admirable 
Remedy for Ulcers in the Reins and 
bladder, to be used as common drink: 
the herb is in its prime in May. 
Strawberry water cooleth, quen- 
ceth thirst, clarifieth the blood, breaks 
the stone, helps al inward inflamati- 
ons, especially those in the Reins, 
Bladder and passages of the urine; it 
strengthens the Liver and helps the 
yellow Jaundice. 
The distilled water of Dog graß, or 
couch grasse as some cal it, clenseth 
the Reins gallantly, and provokes u- 
rine; opens obstructions of the liver 
and spleen, and kils Worms. 
Black Cherry-water provokes U- 
rine, helps the dropsie. It is usually 
given in diseases of the Brain, as con- 
vulsions, Falling-sickness, Palsie and 
Apoplexy.
Bettony is in its prime in May, the
distilled Water thereof is very good 
for such as are pained in their 
heads. It prevails against the dropsie 
and all sorts of feavers; it succors the 
Liver and Spleen, and helps want of 
digestion and evill disposition of the 
body thence arising; it hastens tra- 
vel in women with child, and is ex- 
cellent against the bitings of vene- 
mous beasts.
Distil Sage whilest the flowers be on 
it; the water strengthens the brain.
Q provokes 

38 Vertues of distilled Waters. 
provokes the terms, helps Nature 
much in all its actions. 
Marjoram is in its prime in June; 
distilled water is excellent for such 
whose Brains are to cold, it provokes 
Urin, heats the Womb, provokes 
the Terms, strengthens the memory 
and helps the judgment, causeth an 
able brain. 
Distil Camomel Water about the 
beginning of June: It easeth the 
Chollick and pains in the Belly; it 
breaks the Stone in the Reins and 
Bladder; provokes the Terms, expels 
the dead Child, and takes away 
pains in the Head. 
Fennel water strengthens the heart 
and Brain; dilates the breast, the 
Cough, provokes the Terms, en-
creaseth milk in Nurses; and if you 
wash your Eyes with it, it clears the 
sight. 
The Hoofs of the forefeet of a 
Cow dried and taken any way, en- 
creaseth milk in Nurses: the smoke
of them burnt drives away Mice. 
Mizaldus.
Calaminth Water heats and clens- 
eth the Womb, provokes the Terms, 
and easeth the pains of the Head; 
distil it in May. 
The Distilled water of Rosemary- 
flowers helps such as are troubled 
with the yellow Jaundice, Asthma, 
it clenseth the blood, helps conco- 
ction, strengthens the Brain and Bo- 
dy exceedingly.
Water of the Flowers of Lillies of 
the Valley, strengthen the brain and 
all the sences. 
The water of Cowslip Flowers help 
the Palsey (and thence they obtained 
the name Paralysis) takes away pains 
in the Head, the vertigo and me- 
grim, and is exceeding good for wo- 
men with Child. 
The Eyes being washed every mor- 
ning with Eye-bright Water, most 
strangely clears and strengthens the 
sight. 
Maiden-hair distilled in May, the 
Water clenseth both Liver and Lungs 
clarifies the Blood, and breaks the 
Stone. 
Hysop Water, Clenseth the Lungs 
of Flegm, helps Coughs and Asth- 
maes. Distil it in August. 
The Water of Hore-hound helps the 
cough and straitness of the brest; it 
strengthens the breast, Lungs and 
Stomach, and Liver: distil it in June. 
Carduus Water succors the Head, 
strengthens the memory, helps such 
as are troubled with vertigoes and 
quartan agues; it provokes sweat, 
Lengthens the Heart, and is good 
in Pestilences, and all other feavers 
of choller. It is in prime in May 
and June. 
Scabious water helps Pleurifies and 
pains, and pricking in the sides; A- 
posthumes, Coughs, Pestilences, and
straitness of the breast. 
Water of Flower-de-luce is very pro-
fitable in Dropsies, anounce being
drink continually morning and eve- 
nings as also pains and torments 
in the bowels. 
Bawm water, Distlled in May, re- 
stores memory when it is lost; it 
quickens all the sences, strengthens 
the Brain, Heart and Stomach, 
causeth a merry mind and a sweet 
breath. 
The Water of Comfry, Sodders 
broken bones, being drunk, helps 
Ruptures, outwardly it stops the 
bleeding of wounds, they being 
washed with it. 
Wormwood water, Distilled cold, 
about the end of May, heats and 
stengthens the Stomach, helps con-
coction, staies vomiting, kills worms 
in the Stomach and Bowels; it mi- 
tigates the pains in the Teeth, and is 
profitably given in feavers of Chol- 
ler.
Mint water strengthens the Sto- 
mach, helps concoction, and staies 
vomiting: distil it in the latter end 
of May, or beginning of June, as 
the year is in forwareness or back- 
wardness; observe that in all the 
rest. 
Chervil watery Distilled about the 
end of May, helps Ruptures, breaks 
the Stone, dissolves congealed blood, 
strengthens the Heart and Stomach. 
The water of Mother of time streng- 
thens the brain and stomach, gets a 
man a good stomach to his victuals, 
provoke Urin and the Terms, heats 
the womb: It is in its prime about 
the end of June 
The Water of Marigold flowers is 
appropriated to most cold Diseases 
of the Head Eyes and Stomach: they 
are in their vigor when the Sun is in 
Leo. 
Distilled water of centaury comforts 
a cold stomach, helps in feavers 
of choller, which the Greeks call 
ηαυδος and  ςιπι_ οϕοεις; it kills 
worms, and provokes appetite to 
victuals. 
Maudline and Costmary water distil- 
led in May or June strengthens the 
Liver, helps the yellow Jaundice, 
opens obstructions, and helps the 
Dropsie.
Water cresses, Distilled in March.
the water clenseth the blood, and 
provokes Urine exceedingly, kills 
worms; outwardly mixed with Ho- 
ney, it clears the Skin of Morphew 
and Sunburning. 
Distil Nettles when they are in 
flower, the water helps coughs and 
pains in the bowels, provokes Urin, 
and breaks the Stone, 
Saxifrage water provokes urine ex- 
pels wind, breaks the stone, clenseth 
the Reins and bladder of gravel: di- 
stil them when they are in flower. 
The water of Pellitory of the wal o- 
pens Obstructions of the Liver and 
spleen by drinking an ounce of it eve- 
ry morning,it clenseth the Reins and  
bladder, and easeth the gripings of 
the bowels coming of wind. Distill 
it in the end of May, or beginning of 
June. 
Cinkfoyl water breaks the stone, 
clenseth the reins, and is of excellent 
use in putrid feavers: Distill it in 
May. 
The water of Radishes breaks the 
stone, clenseth the reins and bladder, 
provokes the terms, and helps the 
yellow Jaundice. 
Alicampane water strengthens the 
Stomach and Lunges, provokes U- 
rine, and clenseth the passages of it 
from gravel. 
Distill Burnet in May or June, the 
water breaks the stone, clense the pas- 
sages of urine, and is exceeding pro- 
fitable in pestilential times. 
Mugwort water distilled in May, is 
excellent in coughs and diseases pro- 
ceeding from stoppages of the terms 
in women, it warms the stomach, and 
helps the Dropsie.
Distil Peny-royal when the flowers 
are upon it; the water heats the 
womb gallantly, provokes the terms, 
expels the After-birth; cuts, and 
casts out thick and gross humors in 
the breast, easeth pains in the Bow- 
els, and consumes Flegm. 
The Water of Lovage distilled in 
May, easeth pains in the Head, and 
cures Ulcers in the Womb being 
washed with it; inwardly taken it 
expels wind, and breaks the stone. 
The tops of Hops when they are 
young, being distilled, the Water 
clenseth the Blood of addust and 
melancholy humors, and therefore 
helps Scabs. Itch, and Leprosie, and 
such like diseases thence proceeding. 
It opens obstructions of the spleen, 
helps the rickets, and Hypocondri- 
ack Melancholy.
The water of Barrage and Bugloß, 
distilled when their flowers are upon 
them strengthens the heart and brain 
exceedingly, clense the blood, and 
takes away sadness, griefes and me- 
lancholy. 
Dodder water clenseth the liver and 
spleen, helps the yellow Jaundice. 
Tamaris water opens the obstru- 
ctions, and helps the hardness of the 
spleen, and strengthens it. 
English Tobacco distilled, the water 
is excellent good for such as have 
dropsies, to drink an ounce or two 
every morning; it helps Ulcers in 
the mouth, strengthens the Lungues, 
and helps such as have Asihmaes. 
The Water of dwarff-Elder hath the 
same effects. 
Thus have you the Vertues of e- 
nough of cold Waters, the Use of 
which is for mixtures of other medi- 
cines, whose operation is the same, 
for they are seldom given alone: if 
you delight most in liquid Medi- 
cines, having regard to the disease
and part of the body afflicted by it, 
these will furnish you with where 
withall to make them so as wil please 
your Pallat best. 
COMPOUNDS 

101 
COMPOUNDS. 
SPIRITS, and 
Compound Di-
stilled Waters.
Culpe-
per. 
BEfore I begin these, 
I thought good to 
premise a few words: 
They are all hot in 
operation, and ther- 
fore not to be medled with by people 
of hot constitutions when they are 
in health, for fear of Feavers and a- 
dustion of blood; but for people of 
cold constitutions, as Melancholy 
and flegmatick people. If they drink 
of them moderately now and then 
for recreation, due consideration be- 
ing had to the part of the body 
which is weakest, they may do them 
good: yet in diseases of Melancholy, 
neither strong Waters nor Sack is to 
be drunk, for they make the humor 
thin, and then up to the head it flies, 
where it fills the brain with foolish 
and fearful imaginations. 
2. Let all young people forbear 
them whilst they are in health, for 
their blood is usually hot enough 
without them. 
3. Have regard to the season of 
the yeer, so shall you find them more 
beneficial in Summer than in Winter, 
because in Summer the body is al- 
waies coldest within, and digestion 
weakest, and that is the reason why 
men and women eat less in Sum- 
mer than in winter. 
Thus much for people in health, 
which drink strong waters for recrea- 
tion. 
As for the Medicinal use of them, 
it shall be shewed at the latter end of 
every Receipt, only in general they 
are (due respect had to the humors 
afflicting, and part of the body affli- 
cted) Medicinal for Diseases of cold 
and flegm, chilliness of the spirits, 
&c. 
But that my Country-men may 
not be mistaken in this, I shall give 
them some symptoms of each com- 
plexion how a man may know when 
it exceeds its due limits.   
Signs of Choller abounding. 
Leanness of body, costiveness, hol- 
low eyes, anger without a cause, a 
testy disposition, yellowness of the 
Skin bitterness in the throat, pric-  
king pains in the head, the pulse  
swifter and stronger than ordinary, 
the urine higher colored, thinner 
and brighter, troublesom sleeps, 
much dreaming of fire, lightning, an- 
ger, and fighting. 
Signs of Blood abounding. 
The Veins are bigger (or at least 
they seem so) and fuller than ordi- 
nary; the skin is red, and as it were 
swollen, pricking pains in the sides, 
and about the temples, shortness of 
breath, head-ach, the pulse great and 
full, urine high colored and thick, 
dreams of blood, &c. 
Signs of Melancholy abounding.
Fearfulness without a cause, fearful 
and foolish imaginations, the skin 
rough and swarthy, leanness, want 
of sleep, frightful dreams, sourness
in the throat, the puls very weak, so- 
litariness, thin and cleer urine, often 
sighing, &c. 
Signs of Flegm abounding. 
Sleepiness, dulness, slowness, hea- 
viness, cowardliness, forgetfulness, 
much spitting, much superfluities at 
the nose, little appetite to meat, and 
as bad digestion, the skin whiter, 
colder and smoother than it was 
wont to be; the pulse slow and deep 
the urine thick and low colored; 
dreams of rain, floods, and water, 
&c. 
These things thus premised, I 
come to the matter 
The first the Colledg presents you 
with, is 
Spiritus & Aqua Absinthii minus
Composita. Pag. 30. 
[Or, Spirit and Water of Worm- 
wood, the lesser Com- 
position. 
Colledg.] Take of the Leaves of 
dried Wormwood two pound. 
Annis seeds half a pound. 
Steep them in six gallons of smal Wines 
twenty four hours, then distil them in an 
Alembick, adding to every pound of 
the distilled water two ounces of the best
Sugar. 
Let the two first pound you draw out 
be called Spirit of Wormwood, those 
which follow, Wormwood water the les-  
ser Composition.
Culpeper.] I like this distinction 
of the Colledg very wel, because 
what is first stilled out, is far stron- 
ger than the rest, and therefore very 
fitting to be kept by it self. You 
may take which you please, accor- 
ding as the temperature of your bo- 
dy, either to heat or cold, and the 
season of the yeer requires. 
It hath the same Vertues worm- 
wood hath, only fitter to be used by 
such whose bodies are chilled by 
age, and whose natural heat abateth. 
You may search the Herbs for the 
vertues; it heateth the stomach, 
and helpeth digestion. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for such as are subject 
to the Cachexia, Dropsie, Jaundice, 
and swelling of the Legs, being al- 
layed with Cichory and Fennel wa- 
ters simply distilled. Also mingled 
with Tansie water it is good to pre- 
vent the breeding of worms in the 
stomach or guts. 
Colledg.] After the same man- 
ner (only omitting the Annis seeds) is 
distilled Spirit and Water of 
Angelica both Herb and Root
Bawm.
Mints. 
Sage, &c. 
Flowers of Rosemary. 
Clary. 
Clove-gilliflowers, &c. 
Seeds of Caraway, &c. 
Juniper berries. 
Peels of Orrenges. 
Lemmons.
Citrons, &c. 
Cinnamon. 
Nutmegs, &c. 
Spiritus & Aqua Absinthii magis 
Composita. 30. 
Or, Spirit and Water of Worm- 
wood, the greater com- 
position.
Colledg.] Take of common and 
Roman Wormwood, of each a pound. 
Sage. 
Mints.  
Bawm, of each two handfuls. 
Roots of Galanga. 
Ginger. 
Calamus aromaticus.  
Alicampane, of each three drams. 
Liquoris an ounce. 
Raisons of the Sun stoned three 
ounces.
Seeds of Annis. 
sweet Fennel, of each three drams. 
Cinnamon. 
Cloves. 
Nutmegs, of each two drams. 
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102 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters. 
Cardamoms. 
Cubebs, of each one dram. 
Let the things be cut that are to be cut,
and the things be bruised that are to be 
bruised. 
All of them infused in twenty four 
pints of Spanish Wines for twenty four 
hours, then distilled in an Alembick, 
adding two ounces of white Sugar to 
every pint of distilled water. 
Let the first pint be called Spirit of 
wormwood the greater Composition.
Culpeper.] The Opinion of Au- 
thors is, That it heats the Stomach, 
and strengthens it and the Lungs, 
expels wind, and helps digestion in 
ancient people. 
Vertues newly added. 
It hath the same Vertues with the 
former. Also it is good against a 
stinking breath, and cold and moist 
distempers of the Brain being tem- 
pered with common Betony water. 
It is good to cheer Hypochondriacal 
persons being tempered with a 
good quantity of Borrage, Bugloss, 
and Bawm waters. It helps a weak 
sight proceeding from a cold and 
moist cause. 
Spiritus & Aqua Angelicæ magis 
Composita. 3l. 
Or, Spirit and Water of Angelica, 
the greater composition.
Colledg.] Take leaves of Angelica 
eight ounces. 
Carduus Benedictus six ounces.
Bawm. 
Sage, of each four ounces. 
Angelica seeds six ounces. 
Sweet Fennel seeds nine ounces. 
Let the Herbs being dried, and the 
Seeds be grosly bruised, to which add of 
the Species called Aromaticum Rosa- 
tum, and of the Species called Diamos- 
chu dulce, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Infuse them two daies in thirty two pints 
of Spanish Wine, then distill them, with 
a gentle fire. And with every pound 
mix two ounces of Sugar dissolved in 
Rose water. 
Let the three first pound be called by 
the name of Spirit, the rest by the name 
of Water. 
Culpeper.] The chief end of com- 
posing this Medicine, was to streng- 
then the heart and resist infection, 
and therefore is very wholsom in Pe- 
stilential times, and for such as walk 
in stinking air.
Vertues newly added. 
It cheers the heart, and revives 
melancholick persons, being allaied 
with Borrage and Bugloss waters 
distilled after the ordinary way. Al- 
so it is a soveraign help for a bad 
memory arising from a cold and 
moist distemper of the Brain, being 
allaied with Sage and Lavender wa- 
ters, and sweetened with Syrup of 
Stechados. 
I shall now quote you their former 
Receipt in their former Dispensa- 
tory. 
Angelica Water the greater 
Composition. 
Colledg. Take of Angelica two 
pound.
Annis seeds half a pound. 
Coriander and Caraway seeds, of 
each four ounces. 
Zedoary bruised three ounces. 
Steep them twenty four hours in six gal- 
lons of smal wines: then draw out the 
spirit, and sweeten it with sugar. 
Culpeper.] It comforts the heart, 
cherisheth the vital spirits, resisteth 
the pestilence, and all corrupt airs, 
which indeed are the natural causes 
of epidemical diseases. The sick 
may take a spoonful of it in any con- 
venient cordial; and such as are in 
health, and have bodies either cold 
by nature, or cooled by age, may 
take as much either in the morning 
fasting, or a little before meat. 
Spiritus Lavendulæ compositus. 
Matthiæ. 31. 
Or, Compound Spirit of La- 
vender. Matthias. 
Colledg. Take of Lavender flowers 
one gallon, to which pour three gal- 
lons of the best spirit of wine. 
Let them stand together in the sun six 
daies, then distil them with an Alem- 
bick with his Refrigeratory. 
Take of the flowers of Sage, 
Rosemary. 
Betony, of each one handful.
Flowers of Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Lillies of the Valley, 
Cowslips, of each two handfuls. 
Let the Flowers being newly and seaso- 
nably gathered, being infused in one 
gallon of the best spirit of wine, and 
mingled with the aforegoing spirit of 
Lavender flowers adding the   
Leaves of Bawm, 
Feather-few, 
Orrenge-tree fresh gathered. 
Flowers of Stœchas,
Orrenge-tree, 
Bay-berries, of each one ounce. 
After convenient digestion distil it again, 
after which add, 
Citron pils the outward bark.
Peony seeds husked, of each six 
drams. 
Cinnamon. 
Mace. 
Nutmegs.
Cardamoms. 
Cubebs, 
Yellow Sanders, of each half an
ounce. 
Wood of Aloes one dram. 
the best Jujubes, the stones being 
taken out, half a pound. 
Digest them six weeks, then strain is and
filter it, and add to it 
Prepared Pearls two drams. 
Emeralds prepared a scruple. 
Ambergreece. 
Musk. 
Saffron, of each half a scruple. 
Red Roses dried. 
Red Sanders, of each half an 
ounce. 
Yellow Sanders.
Citron pills dried, of each one 
dram. 
Let the Species being tied up in a rag,
be hung into the aforegoing Spirit. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is contrived to strengthen the 
Brain, Nerves, Heart, Womb, and o- 
ther internal bowels, and to resist all 
Diseases springing from debility of 
the same parts, and their oppression
by cold, crude and melancholick and 
earthy humors. It is therefore good 
against the Falling-sickness and con- 
vulsion (for which I conceive it was 
principally invented) against the 
Palsey and trembling of the joynts 
proceeding from a cold cause, against 
shortness of memory and blockish- 
ness of wit proceeding from a cold 
and moist distemper of the brain and 
Nerves. It corrects the flashy cold 
distempers of the womb, and helps 
barrenness proceeding therefrom. 
It is good for convulsion fits of chil- 
dren. But it must be wel allaied with 
waters of cowslips, black cherries, 
and lilly-convally, and sweetened 
with the Syrup of the juyce of black
cherries. Also it is good for chil- 
dren or others that are thought to be 
bewitcht, being tempered with Rue 
water distilled after the ordinary 
way. It cleers the sight of aged and 
flegmatick or sanguine persons. 
Spiritus Castorii. 32. Or, 
Spirit of Castorium. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Castorium
four ounces. 
Lavender flowers an ounce.
Tops of Sage. 
Rosemary, of each half an ounce. 
Cinnamon six drams. 
Mace. 
Cloves, of each two drams. 
Spirit of Wine rectified six pound. 
Digest them in a Phial filled only to 
the third part, close stopped with cork 
and bladder in warm ashes for two daies,
then distilled in *Balneo Mariæ [*A 
Table at the latter end shall instruct 
you in all such crabbed words] and 
the distilled Water close stopped. 
Culpeper.] By reason of its heat it 
is no waies fit to be taken alone, but
mixed with other convenient Medi-
cines


103 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters. 
cines appropriated to the Diseases 
you would give it for; it resists poy- 
son, and helps such as are bitten by 
venemous beasts: it causeth speedy 
delivery to women in Travel, and 
casteth out the after-birth: it helps 
the fits of the mother, Lethargies and 
convulsions: being mixed with 
white wine, and dropped into the 
ears it helps deafness if stopping 
be the cause of it. The dose to be 
given inwardly is between one dram, 
and half a dram, according to the 
strength and age of the Patient. 
Vertues newly added. 
It powerfully strengthens the Brain 
and Nerves, and is therefore good 
for all Diseases springing from debi- 
lity thereof. 
It helps the cold distemper of the Te-
sticles and Womb, and incites and 
inables both men and women (but 
men especially) to the great work 
of the Generation of Man-kind. It 
is a good remedy for blockishness, 
dulness of wit, and forgetfulness, ari- 
sing from cold causes. A smal quan- 
tity wel allaied with other Ingredi- 
ents, is good in malignant Feavers. 
Aqua Petasitidis composita. 32. Or, 
compound water of Butter- 
burs.
Colledg.] Take of the fresh roots 
of Butter-bur bruised one pound and an 
half. 
Roots of Angelica, 
Masterwort, of each half a 
pound. 
Steep them in ten pints of strong Ale, 
then distil them till the change of the 
taste gives a testimony that the strength 
is drawn out. 
Culpeper.] This Water is very 
effectual being mixed with other 
convenient cordials, for such as have 
pestilential Feavers: also a spoonful 
taken in the morning, may prove a 
good preservative in pestilential 
times: It helps the sits of the mo- 
ther, and such as are short winded, 
and being taken inwardly, dries up 
the moisture of such sores as are 
hard to be cured.
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for tremblings of the 
Heart, and for such as are over- 
prone to Venery, and more willing 
and ready to make others than to 
preserve themselves (forgetting that 
charity ought to begin at home) be- 
ing allaied with vulgar Rue and Fen- 
nel waters.
Aqua Raphani composita. 33. Or
compound water of Rhadishes. 
Colledg.] Take of the leaves of 
both sorts of Scurvy-grass, of each six 
pound: having bruised them, press the 
juyce out of them, with which mix of the 
Juyce of Brooklime
Water-cresses, of each one 
pound and an half. 
Of the best white Wine eight 
pound. 
Twelve whol Lemmons pills and 
all,  
fresh Briony roots four pound. 
Roots of wild Radishes two 
pound. 
Capt. Winters Cinnamon half a 
pound. 
Nutmegs four ounces. 
Steep them all together, and then distil 
them. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is evident by the Ingredients, 
that this water was invented (and 
that with good judgment) for the 
Scurvy, a Disease Natural to the 
more Northern parts of our World. 
Also it moves Urin powerfully. It 
is good for persons troubled with 
stoppage of the water from gravel, 
and consequently subject to the 
stone; their bodies having been first 
purged and prepared by the advice 
of a skilful Physitian. It is good for 
persons cachectical, hydropical, and 
for women that have flegmatick and 
impure wombs. Mr. Culpeper had 
not on his considering cap when he 
past his censure upon this excellent 
water. 
Aqua Peoniæ composita. 33. Or 
compound water of Peony. 
Colledg.] Take of the flowers of 
Lillies of the valley one pound. 
Infuse them in four gallons of Spanish 
Wine so long till the following flowers 
may be had fresh. 
Take of the forenamed flowers half a 
pound. 
Peony flowers four ounces. 
Steep them together fourteen daies, then 
distil them in Balneo Mariæ till they 
be dry. 
In the distilled Liquor infuse again 
Male peony roots gathered in due 
time two ounces and an half. 
white Dittany, 
Long Birthwort, of each half an 
ounce. 
Leaves of Misleto of the Oak,
Rue, of each two handfuls. 
Peony seeds husked ten drams. 
Rue seeds three drams and a half. 
Castorium two scruples. 
Cubebs, 
Mace, of each two drams, 
Cinnamon an ounce and an half.
Squills prepared three drams. 
Rosemary flowers six pugils. 
Arabian Stœchas, 
Lavender, of each four pugils. 
Flowers of Betony, 
Clove-gilliflowers, 
Cowslips, of each eight pugils. 
Then adding four pound of the juyce
of black cherries, distil it in a glass till
it be dry. 
Culpeper.] If the Authority of 
Erastus, or dayly Experience will 
serve the turn, then was this Receipt 
chiefly compiled against the convul- 
sion fits; but the derivation of the 
word notes it to be prevalent against
the Falling-sickness also, for επλεπα
in Greek signifies Falling-sickness; 
and indeed Erastus and Experience 
pleads for this also. It is true, the 
composition of Erastus differs from 
this, and so doth another recited 
by Johannes Langius. 
Well then, having now learned 
the Vertues of the water, a word or 
two of the use will not be amiss. E- 
rastus was of Opinion that both 
these Diseases were caused by the 
Moon, (and so am I of that opinion 
also, for I know some at this time 
that are constantly troubled with the 
Falling sickness only at the new and 
full Moon. I could give reasons for 
this Judgment of Erastus, but I am 
unwilling to be tedious.) Then 
saith he, If the Disease come dayly, 
let a spoonful of it be taken mor- 
ning and evening: if weekly, then 
let it be taken only at the new and 
full Moon, and at her Quartiles 
to the Sun: if it begin to wear away, 
then only twice a month, viz. at 
the new and full Moon will suffice. 
It profits also in time of the fit, by  
rubbing their temples, nostrils, and 
jaws with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This was invented against the Fal- 
ing-sickness and convulsion fits. It 
strengthens the Brain, Nerves, and 
Womb. It is good for tremblings, 
dimness of sight, bad memory, and 
blockishness arising from a cold and 
moist distemper of the Brain, Nerves, 
or Heart, and the over-loosness and 
softness of those Organs. It is good 
for such as are supposed to be be- 
wicht, allaied with Rue, Fennel, and 
Dill waters. It cleers the sight of 
aged persons, being tempered with 
waters of Fennel and Eyebright. 
Aqua Bezoartica. 34. Or, A Bezo- 
artick Water, that is, a water 
having the soveraign faculties, and 
imitating the operations of Be- 
zoar stone. 
Colledg.] Take of the leaves of 
Sullendine, roots and all, three handfuls 
and an half. 
Rue two handfuls. 
Scordium four handfuls.  
Dittany of Creet, 
Carduus, of each one handful and a
half. 
Roots of Zedoary, 
Angelica, of each three drams, 
Citron pills, 
Lemmon pills, of each six drams. 
clove-


 



104 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters. 
Clove-gilliflowers one ounce and an 
half. 
Red Roses, 
Centaury the less, of each two drams.  
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, of each three drams. 
Venice Treacle three ounces. 
Methridale one ounce and an half. 
Camphire two scruples. 
Troches of vipers two ounces.
Mace two drams. 
Wood of Aloes half an ounce. 
Yellow Sanders one dram and an half. 
Carduus seeds one ounce. 
Citron seeds six drams. 
Let them be cut and infused in spirit of 
Wine, and Malaga Wine, of each three 
pound and an half. Vinegar of clove- 
gilliflowers, Juyce of Lemmons, of each 
one pound, and distilled in Balneo Ma- 
riæ. 
After it is half stilled off, the resi- 
due may be strained through a linnen 
cloth, and be reduced to the thickness of 
Honey, and called the Bezoartick Ex- 
tract.
Culpeper.] Extracts have the same 
vertues with the waters they are 
made from, only the different form 
is to please the quaint pallats of such 
whose fancy loaths any one particu- 
lar form. 
This Bezoar water strengtheneth 
the heart, arteries, and spirit vital: 
It provokes sweat, and is exceeding 
good in pestilential feavers, in health 
it withstands melancholy and con- 
sumptions, and makes a merry, blith, 
cheerful creature. Of the extract you 
may take ten grains at a time, or 
somwhat more, if your body be not 
feaverish, half a spoonful of water is 
sufficient at a time, and that mixed 
with other cordials or medicines ap- 
propriated to the disease that trou- 
bles you, which the Table at the 
latter end of the Book wil direct you 
to: and take this for a general rule, 
when any thing is too hot to take by 
it self, resort to the Table of Diseases, 
which wil amply furnish you with 
what to mix it, and especially the 
cold waters, the vertues of which 
you have amply in this Edition. 
This is Langius his Receipt. 
Virtues newly added. 
This (as Culpeper tels you) was 
invented by Langius a Learned and 
elegant Physitian, from whom he 
hath told you the vertues for which 
the Author designed it. 
I shal only add, That it is good 
for those that are sickle headed, un- 
constant, and undiscreet; for such 
as are haunted by Ghosts and Goblins 
as they conceive. Also being tempe- 
red with Agrimony water, it may be 
given to those that are sweated for 
the Venereal Disease, with good 
success. 
Aqua & Spiritus Lumbricorum, Ma- 
gistralis. 34. Or, Magistral Water 
and Spirit of Earth worms. 
Colledg.] Take of Earth worms well 
clensed three pound. 
Snails with shels on their backs clen- 
sed two gallons. 
Beat them in a Mortar, and put them 
into a convenient Vessel, adding 
Stinging Nettles, roots and all, six 
handfuls. 
Wild Angelica four handfuls. 
Brank-ursine seven handfuls. 
Agrimony. 
Bettony, of each three handfuls. 
Rue one handful. 
Common Wormwood two handfuls. 
Rosemary flowers six ounces. 
Dock roots ten ounces. 
Roots of Sorrel five ounces. 
Turmerick, 
The inner bark of Barberries, of each 
four ounces. 
Fenugreek seeds two ounces. 
Cloves three ounces.
Harts-horn, 
Ivory in gross pouder, of each four 
ounces. 
Saffron three drams. 
Smal spirit of Wine four gallons and 
an half. 
After twenty four hours infusion, 
distil them in an Alembick.
Let the four first pounds be reserved for 
Spirit, the rest for Water. 
Virtues newly added. 
This Water seems to have been 
invented by some Fellow of the Col- 
ledg, or at least by some late Phy- 
sitian, and therefore is termed Ma- 
gistral, that is as much as to say, the 
private Receipt of some Master of the 
Art of healing. And therefore Nich. 
was here put to his Trumps, not kno- 
wing in what Book to look for the 
Use and Vertues thereof, nor able to 
find the same in the Stars, nor to 
read in the nature of the Ingredi- 
ents. 
This Water is very effectual (and 
seems invented) against the Jaundice 
arising from the stoppage of the pas- 
sages of the Galls purgation. It o- 
pens all obstructions of the bowels, 
and helps all diseases proceeding 
therefrom. It may do much good sea- 
sonably and duly administred; in 
hectick Feavers arising from secret 
obstructions, as many of those Fea- 
vers do. 
Aqua Gentianæ composita. 35 Or, 
Gentian Water compound. 
Colledg. Take of Gentian Roots sliced, 
one pound and an half. 
The leaves and flowers of centaury the 
less, of each four ounces. 
Steep them eight daies in twelve pound 
of white Wine, then distill them 
in an Alembick. 
Culpeper.] It conduceth to pre- 
servation from ill air, and pestilential 
seavers: it opens obstructions of the 
liver, and helps such as they say are 
liver-grown; it easeth pains in the 
stomach, helps digestion, and easeth 
such as have pains in their bones by 
il lodging abroad in the cold; it pro- 
vokes appetite, and is exceeding 
good for the yellow Jaundies, as al- 
so for prickings or stitches in the 
side; it provokes the terms and ex- 
pels both birth and after birth; it is
naught for women with child: If
there be no feaver, you may take a 
spoonful or taster ful by it self; if 
there be, you may if you please mix
it withsome cooler Medicine appro- 
priated to the same use you would 
give it for. 
Virtues newly added. 
Here Culpeper is as plentiful in 
mustering up the Virtues as he was 
sparing in the last water. I shal only 
add that this water is good for Ter- 
tian. Agues being mingled with Syrup 
of the Juyce of Cichory or Syrup of 
Cicory with Rhubarbe, and season- 
ably administered. 
Aqua Gilberti. 31. Or, 
Gilberts Water. 
Colledg.] Take of Scabious, 
Burnet, 
Dragons, 
Bawm, 
Angelica, 
Pimpernel, 
Purple flowers, 
Tormentil, Roots and al, of each 
two handfuls. 
Let all of them being rightly gathered 
and prepared, be steeped in four gal- 
lons of Canary wine, stil off three gal- 
lons in an Alembick, to which add three 
ounces of each of the Cordial flowers. 
Clove-gilli-flowers six ounces. 
Saffron half an ounce. 
Turmerick two ounces. 
Galanga, 
Bazil seeds, of each one dram. 
Citron pills one ounce. 
Seeds of Citrons, 
Cardus. 
Cloves, of each five ounces. 
Harts-horn four ounces. 
Steep them twenty four hours, and then 
distil them in Balneo Mariæ. 
To the distilled Water add 
Pearls prepared an ounce and an half. 
Red Coral, 
Crabs eyes, 
White Amber, of each two drams. 
Crabs claws six drams. 
Bezoar, 
Amber greece, of each two scruples. 
Steep them six weeks in the sun, in a 
Vessel well stopped, often shaking it, 
then filter it (you may keep the Pou-
ders for Sp. cord. temp.) by mixing 
twelve ounces of Sugar candy, with six 
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105 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters.
ounces of red Rose-water, and four ounces 
of Spirit of Cinnamon with it.
Culpeper.] I suppose this was in- 
vented for a cordial to strengthen the  
heart, to relieve languishing nature.
It is exceeding dear. I forbear the  
dose, they that have mony enough 
to make it themselves, cannot want  
time to study both the vertues and   
dose: I would have Gentlemen to   
be studious. 
Vertues newly added.  
It is good in all venemous and pe- 
stilential cases. It cheares Melan-  
cholick persons. It is good for all 
Diseases arising from weakness of the 
Brain, Nerves, and Heart, and for 
such as are debiletated with a long 
Flux of the Belly, or the Whites, 
so called in Woman. 
Aqua cordialis frigida Saxoniæ. 36.
Or Dr. Hercules Saxonia his 
cooling cordial Water. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of 
Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Bawm, 
Bistort, 
Tormentil, 
Scordium, 
Vervain, 
Sharp-pointed Dock, 
Sorrel, 
Goats Rue, 
Mirrhis, 
blew Bottle great and smal, 
Roses, 
Marigolds, 
Lemmons, 
Citrons, of each six ounces. 
Burnet,  
Cinkfoyl, of each three ounces. 
White wine Vinegar one pound. 
Purslain seeds two ounces. 
Citron seeds, 
Carduus seeds, of each half an 
ounce. 
Water-lilly flowers two ounces. 
Flowers of Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Violets, 
Clove-gilliflowers, of each one 
ounce. 
Diatrion Santalon six drams. 
Let all of them being rightly prepared, 
be infused three daies, then distilled in a 
glass still. To the distilled liquor add 
Eearth of Lemnos, 
Silesia, 
Samos, of each one ounce and an 
half. 
Pearls prepared with the Juyce of 
Citrons three drams. 
Mix them, and keep them together. 
Culpeper.] It mightily cools the 
blood, and is therefore profitable in 
Feavers, and all diseases proceeding 
of heat of blood; it provokes sleep. 
You may take half an ounce at a 
time, or two drams if the party be  
weak. 
Vertues newly added. 
The Author of this famous Water  
being an Italian Physitian of good 
note, hath been worthily renowned  
by the Invention thereof: It having  
been long approved a great streng-  
thener of the Heart, vital faculties, 
and all the powers of Nature; and  
yet so temperate as to be safely ad-  
ministred in the most violent, burn- 
ing, malignant Feavers; in which 
cases it is of soveraign use. It is  
commonly mixed in cordial Juleps,  
and does well temper other cordial   
Ingredients, which are generally too  
hot to be given unallayed in such ca- 
ses. It is good in Phrentick mad-  
ness, and disturbances of the mind  
arising from Anger and wrath, and 
want of sleep proceeding from such   
passions and distempers; being tem-
pered with Syrup of Water-lillies,  
of Cowslips, of Rasberries and of  
Borrage, and allayed with waters 
of the said Simples.   
Aqua Theriacalis. 36. Or, 
Treacle Water. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of green  
Walnuts four pound. 
Juyce of Rue three pound. 
Carduus, 
Marigolds,  
Bawm, of each two pound. 
Green Petasitii roots one pound and  
a half. 
Roots of Burrs one pound. 
Angelica, 
Masterwort, of each half a pound. 
Leaves of Scordium four handfuls. 
Old Venice Treacle, 
Methridate, of each eight ounces. 
Canary Wine twelve pound. 
Vinegar six pound. 
Iuyce of Lemmons two pound. 
Digest them two daies either in Hors- 
dung, or in a bath, the Vessel being close 
shut, then distil them in sand; in the 
distillation you may make a Theriacal 
Extraction. 
Culpeper.] This Water is exceeding 
good in all Feavers, especially pesti- 
lential; it expelleth venemous hu- 
mors by sweats; it strengthens the 
heart and vitals; it is an admirable 
counterpoyson, special good for such 
as have the plague, or are poysoned, 
or bitten by venemous beasts, and 
expelleth virulent humors from such 
as have the French pox. If you desire 
to know more vertues of it, see the 
vertues of Venice Treacle. The Dose 
is from a spoonful to an ounce. 
Virtues newly added. 
Besides the Vertues and effects 
mustered up by Mr. Culpeper; let me 
ad, That this Water is of so mettle- 
som and pleasing a tast, and so he- 
roical a flavor, that most cordial Ju-
leps without the presence thereof do 
languish and prove wallowish and 
distastful to the feeble stomach of a 
languishing Patient; but by the ad- 
mixture thereof they became grateful 
and supportable, provided the water 
be faithfully and carefully made. Nor 
have I observed any Medicament 
ordinarily kept in the Shops, that is 
so various in its tast and smel, being 
made by several Apothecaries or by 
the same Apothecaries at several 
times. What the reason is, I can- 
not well say, unless the thicker 
atomes settleing in the bottom of 
great glasses, which contain the ver- 
tue of the Treacle and mithridate, 
somtimes the Apothecary pours off 
the thinner part without stirring, and 
somtimes he stirs the glass. 
I may wel cal this Water the salt
of Juleps, which are commonly un- 
favory where it is not admixed, in 
case the disease require and permit 
the same. 
Besides the faculties specified, it is 
an Antidote against vain fears, good 
to cause constancy and resolution of 
mind, helps such as are naturally dul 
witted, and those that are called and 
counted changelings. It favors the 
designs of those that would live 
chaste and free from the extravagan- 
ces caused by importunate, unseason- 
able, and irregular motions to wards 
Generation. It is very good for such 
as are thought to be bewitcht. Two or 
three spoonfuls may be given at a 
time upon some sudden disorder: 
ordinarily a spoonful at a time wil 
serve. In Juleps they put one ounce, 
two or three ounces when the Julep 
is large, and to be taken a little at 
a time. No certain Dose can be as- 
signed of such like Medicaments;
the discretion of the Artist guided 
by his sinel and tast, and the Nature 
of the Patient and disease, is the on- 
ly constant Rule in these cases. 
Aqua Brioniæ composita. 37. Or, 
Briony Water compound. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of Bri-
ony roots four pound. 
Leaves of Rue, 
Mugwort, of each two pounds. 
Dried Savin three handfuls. 
Featherfew, 
Nep, 
Penyroyal, of each two handfuls. 
Bazil, 
Dittany of Creet, of each one hand-
and a half. 
Orrenge pills four ounces. 
Myrrh two ounces. 
Castorium one ounce. 
Canary Wine twelve pounds.  
Digest them four daies in a convenient 
vessel, then distil them in Balneo Ma- 
riæ: about the middle of the distillation 
strain it out, and make a Hysterical Ex- 
traction of the residue. 
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106 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters. 
Culpeper.] A spoonful of it taken 
easeth the fits of the Mother in wo- 
men that have them; it potently 
expels the after-birth, and cleers the 
body of what a Midwife by heedless- 
ness or accident hath left behind; it 
clenseth the Womb exceedingly, and 
for that I fancy it much. Take not 
above a tasterful at a time, and then 
in the morning fasting, for it is of a 
purging quality, and let women with 
child forbear it.
Aqua Imperialis. 37. Or, 
Imperial Water. 
Colledg.] Take of dried Citron pills, 
Orrenge pills, 
Nutmegs, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, of each two ounces. 
Roots of Cyperus, 
Orris Florentine,
Calamus Aromaticus, of each one 
ounce. 
Zedoary, 
Galanga, 
Ginger, of each half an ounce. 
Tops of Lavender, 
Rosemary, of each two handfuls. 
Leaves of Bay, 
Marjoram, 
Bawm,
Mints, 
Sage, 
Time, of each one handful. 
Flowers of white Roses, 
Damask Roses fresh, of each half a 
handful. 
Rose-water four pound. 
White wine eight pound. 
Let all of them be bruised and infused 
twenty four hours, then distil them accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] You must distill it in a 
Bath, not in Sand: therefore take 
this for a general Aphorism; All 
gross bodies stilled in Sand will stink 
egregiously.  
It comforts and strengtheneth the 
heart against faintings and swoo- 
nings, and is held to be a preser- 
vative against consumptions and 
apoplexies. You may take half a 
spoonful at a time. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for al cold and moist Dis- 
eases of the brain, nerves, stomach, 
and heart. 
Aqua Mirabilis. 38. 
Colledg.] Take of cloves, 
Galanga, 
Cubebs, 
Mace, 
Cardamoms, 
Nutmegs, 
Ginger, of each one dram. 
Juyce of Sullendine half a pound.
Spirit of Wine one pound. 
White wine three pound. 
Infuse them twenty four hours and draw 
off two pound with an Alembick. 
Culpeper.] The Simples also of this 
regard the stomach, and therefore 
the water heats cold stomachs: Be- 
sides, Authors say it preserveth from 
Apoplexies, and restoreth speech 
lost. 
Aqua Protheriacalis. 38. Or, a 
Water serving instead of Treacle 
Water. 
Colledg.] Take of Scordium, 
Scabious, 
Carduus, 
Goats Rue, of each two 
handfuls. 
Citron pills, 
Orrenge pills, of each two ounces. 
Seeds of Citrons, 
Carduus, 
Hartwort, 
Treacle,
Mustard, of each one ounce. 
Flowers of Marigolds, 
Rosemary, of each one handful. 
Cut them, and bruise them grosly, then 
infuse them in four pound of white wine, 
and two pound of carduus water in a 
glass close stopped, and set it in the Sun 
or bath for a fortnight, often shaking it, 
then still it in Balneo Mariæ. Let the 
two first pound be kept by themselves for 
use, and the remainder of the distillation 
by it self. Lastly, mix one ounce of 
Julep of Alexandria, and a spoonful of 
cinnamon water with each pound. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is of like vertue with Treacle 
Water, being good in all pestilential, 
venemous, and malignant Diseases, 
and strengthens the heart. 
Aqua Caponis. 38. Or Capon 
Water. 
Colledg.] Take a capon the guts 
being pulled out, cut in pieces, the fat 
being taken away, boyled in a sufficient 
quantity of spring water in a close ves- 
sel; Take of this Broth three pound. 
Borrage, 
Violet water, of each a pound and an 
half. 
White wine one pound. 
Red Rose Leaves two drams and an 
half. 
Flowers of Borrage, 
Violets, 
Bugloss, of each one dram. 
Pieces of Bread hot out of the Oven 
half a pound. 
Cinnamon bruised half an ounce. 
Still it in a glass Still according to art. 
Culpeper.] Divers Physitians have 
written several Receipts of this wa- 
ter, as Gesner, Andr. è Lecuna, 
Med: Florent. and Coloniens. The 
Simples are most of them appropria- 
ted to the heart, and in truth the 
composition greatly nourishes and 
strengtheneth such as are in con- 
sumptions, and restoreth strength 
lost, either by feavers or other sick- 
ness. It is a soveraign Remedy for 
hectick Feavers, and Marasmos,
which is nothing else but a consum- 
ption coming from them. Let such 
as are subject to these Diseases, hold 
it for a Jewel. 
Aqua Limacum Magistr. 39. Or, 
Water of Snails.  
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of 
Ground Ivy, (or Alehoof, 
which is all one) 
Coltsfoot, 
Scabious, 
Lungwort, of each one pound and 
an half. 
Juyce of Purslain, 
Plantane,
Ambrosia 
Pauls Betony, of each a pound. 
Hogs blood, 
White wine, of each four pound. 
Garden Snails two pound. 
Dried Tobacco Leaves eight. 
Pouder of Liquoris two ounces. 
Alicampane half an ounce. 
Orris an ounce. 
Cotton seeds an ounce and an half. 
The greater cold seeds, 
Annis seeds, of each six drams. 
Saffron one dram. 
Flowers of red Roses six pugils. 
Violets, 
Borrage, of each four pugils. 
Steep them three daies warm, and then
distill them in a glass still in sand. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth the Lungs 
of flegm, and helps consumptions 
there. 
Aqua Scordii composita. 39. Or,
compound Water of 
Scordium. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of 
Goats Rue, 
Sorrel, 
Scordium, 
Citrons, of each one pound, 
London Treacle half a pound, 
Steep it three daies, and distil it in
sand. 
Culpeper.] A taster ful taken in
the morning, preserves from ill
airs. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is good in Pestilential, Ve-
nemous and malignant diseases. 
Aqua
 

107 COMPOUND WATERS. 
Aqua Mariæ. 39. Or, the Virgin 
Maries water. 
Colledg.] Take of Sugar-candy a 
pound. 
Canary wine six ounces. 
Rose water four ounces. 
Boyl it well into a Syrup, and ad to it 
Imperial water two pound. 
Ambergreese.
Musk, of each eighteen grains. 
Saffron fifteen grains. 
Yellow Sanders infused in Imperiall 
water, two drams.
Make a clear water of it. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is good against all faintings 
and decay of Spirits, and is an excel- 
lent cordial water. 
Aqua Papaveris composita. 39. Or, 
Poppy water Compound. 
Colledg] Take red Poppies four 
pounds: sprinkle them with white 
wine two pound: then distil them 
in a common stil. 
Let the distilled water be powred upon 
fresh flowers and repeated three times; 
to which distilled water ad two Nutmegs 
sliced, red poppy flowers a pugil: Sugar 
two ounces: set it in the Sun to give it a 
pleasing sharpness if the sharpness be 
more than you would have it, put some 
of the same water to it which was not set 
in the Sun. 
Virtues newly added. 
This water is good for surfets and 
oppression of the Stomach; for the 
Chine cough or whooping cough. 
It causes rest, stops defluctions of 
Rheum from the Head, and may pro-
fitably be mingled with Juleps in the 
Pleurisie.
Aqua Juglandium composita. 40. Or, 
Walnut water compound. 
Colledg.] Take of green walnuts a 
pound and half. 
Rhadish roots one pound. 
Green Asarabacca six ounces. 
Rhadish seeds six ounces. 
Let all of them being bruised be steeped 
in three pound of white wine for three 
daies; then distilled in a leaden stil til 
they be dry. 
Virtues newly added. 
This water seems invented to faci- 
litate and provoke Vomiting, and to 
that end may be mingled in Vomits. 
It voids clammy flegm and choler 
from the stomach and adjacent parts 
and opens the obstructions thereof. 
It is good in Agues, Green-sickness 
and Epilepsies arising from consent 
of the stomach. 
Some WATERS the 
Colledg have left out in 
their new Dispensatory, 
which were in their old 
one; and they are these. 
Mathiolus, his Bezoar water. 
Colledg. Take of Mathiolus his great 
Antidote. 
Syrup of citron pills, of each one 
pound. 
Spirit of wine distilled five times over 
five pound. 
Put all these in a glass that is much too 
big to hold them, stop it close that the 
spirit fly not out, then shake it together 
that the Electuary may be well mingled 
with the spirit, so let it stand a month, 
shaking it together twice a week (for the 
Electuary wil settle to the bottom.) The 
month being ended powr off the clear wa- 
ter into another glass to be kept for your 
use, stopping it very close with wax and 
parchment, else the strength will easily 
fly away in vapors. 
Culpeper. Mathiolus is very large in 
commendation of this very Water, 
for (quoth he) four drams (that is 
half an ounce) of this water being 
taken, either by it self, or in the like 
quantity of good Wine, or any other 
cordial water, so absolutely and spee- 
dily cureth the bitings of any vene- 
mous beasts whatsoever, that al- 
though the danger of death be such, 
that the patient have lost his speech, 
sight, and almost al the rest of his 
senses, yet will he be rouzed up like 
a man out of his sleep to the won- 
derful admiration of the beholders: 
which he saith he hath proved a thou- 
sand times (if it want 900. of it, it 
matters not much, it is but a figure 
called an Hyperbole, which is as much 
as to say in English, an Eloquent lie.) 
It draws away poyson from the heart, 
and cures such as have drunk poy- 
son; it casts poyson out of the sto- 
mach by vomit, and helps such as 
have the Pestilence.
For my own particular part, thus 
much I can say by experience in the 
commendations of it: I have known 
it given in acute, in peracute feavers 
with gallant success, and also in con- 
sumptions; yea, in Hectick, and in 
Galen's supposed incurable Maras- 
mos, (which had it been so, my self 
had not been alive to have written 
this Book) neither hath it missed the 
desired effects; and therefore out 
of question it strengtheneth the heart 
exceedingly, and the spirit vital. It 
helps in the falling-sickness, apople- 
xies and convulsion. And then your 
own Genius will tell you, this is 
fittest for cold complections, cold 
diseases, and such diseases as the 
heart is most afflicted in. It is too 
hot to be taken alone; and half a 
dram is the most may be taken at a 
time. 
Cut a Frog through the middle of 
the back with a knife, and take out 
the Liver, which wrap in a Colewort 
Leaf, and burn it in a new Crucible 
wel stopped; the ashes given to one 
that hath the falling-sickness: if once 
doth not the deed, use it oftener. 
Cinnamon water. 
Colledg. Take of bruised cinnamon a 
pound and an half. 
Spanish wine twelve pints. 
Infuse the cinnamon in the wine twenty 
four hours, then distil them in an Alem-
bick. Draw out three pints of strong 
waters (and smal, as much as you think  
sufficient) sweeten it with Sugar suffici- 
ently, and so keep it for your use.
Culpeper.] The vertues are the 
same that cinnamon it self hath, to 
which I refer you. 
Mathiolus his cinnamon water. 
Colledg. Take of bruised cinnamon 
a pound.
Put it into a glass still, pouring upon 
it four pints of Rose water, a pint and an 
half of Spanish wine; stop the stil body 
close, and place it in a warm bath twenty 
four hours; then put on the still-head, 
lute it wel, and distil it according to art. 
Culpeper.] Mathiolus appoints wine 
of Creet four pints, and that is all the 
alteration. The Authors own Judg- 
ment is, That it strengthens the brain, 
Heart, Liver, Stomach, Lungs, Spleen, 
& nerves, quickens the sight, resisteth 
poyson, helpeth bitings by venemous 
beasts, causeth a sweet breath, bring- 
eth down the terms in women, and 
hath virtue, attenuating, opening, 
digesting, and strengthening. The 
truth is, I beleeve it prevails in cold 
diseases being orderly, taken accor- 
ding to the Nature of the disease, the 
age and strength of the Patient, and 
the season of the year; have a care of 
taking too much of it in Feavers. 
Cinnamon water made by infusion. 
Colledg. Take of cinnamon bruised 
four pound, 
Spirit of wine two pints. 
Infuse them together four daies in a 
large glass close stopped with Cork and 
a bladder, shaking the glass twice a 
day. 
Dissolve half a pound of white Sugar
candy in a quart of Rose water. 
Then mix both these liquors together, 
then put into them four grains of Musk, 
and half a scruple of Amber-greece tied 
up


108 COMPOUND WATERS. 
up in a linnen rag, and hung to the top 
of the glass- 
Culpeper. In my opinion this latter 
water is more prevalent for heart- 
qualms and faintings, than Mathio- 
lus his, neither is it half so hot, there- 
fore more safe. 
Aqua Cælestis. Or, Heavenly water 
of Mathiolus. 
Colledg. Take of Cinnamon an ounce, 
Ginger half an ounce. 
White, red and yellow Sanders, of each 
six drams.
Cloves,  
Galanga, 
Nutmegs, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Mace,
Cubebs, of each one dram. 
Both sorts of Cardamoms 
Nigella seeds, of each three drams. 
Zedoary half an ounce. 
Seeds of Annis, 
Sweet Fennel, 
Wild Parsnips, 
Bazil, of each a dram and an 
half. 
Roots of Angelica, 
Avens, 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Liquoris, 
Valerian the less, 
Leaves of Clary, 
Time, 
Marjoram, of each two drams.
Flowers of Roses,
Sage,
Rosemary, 
Betony, 
Stœchas, 
Bugloss, 
Borrage, of each one dram and 
an half. 
Citron pills, three drams. 
Let the things be bruised that are to be 
bruised, and infused fifteen daies in 
twelve pints of the best spirit of wine in a 
glass body well stopped, and then let it be 
distilled in Balneo Mariæ according to 
art, Adding to the distilled water, 
Pouders of Diambra, 
Diamoscu dulce, 
Aromaticum Rosatum, 
Diamagariton frigidum, 
Diarhodon Abbatis, 
Electuary de Gemmis, of each 
three drams. 
Yellow Sanders bruised two drams. 
Musk, 
Amber-greece, of each a scruple tied 
up in a fine rag: 
Cleer Julip of Roses a pound. 
Shake them well together, stopping the 
glass close with Wax and Parchment, til 
it grow cleer to be kept for your use. 
Culpeper.] It comforteth and che- 
risheth the heart, reviveth drooping 
spirits, prevaileth against the plague
and all malignant feavers, preserveth 
the sences, and restoreth such as are 
in Consumptions. It is of a hot 
Nature. Let not the quantity taken 
at a time exceed half a dram. 
Only take this Caution, both con- 
cerning this, and all other strong wa- 
ters: They are not safely given by 
themselves in Feavers (because by 
their hot quality they inflame the 
blood, and add fuel to the fire (but 
mixed with other convenient Cordi- 
als, and consideration had to the 
strength, complexion, habit, age, and 
sex of the Patient: for my own part, 
I aim sincerely at the publick good 
in writing of this, and therefore as I 
would not have Physitians domineer, 
so I would not have fools turn Physi- 
tians.
They that think the use of the Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it’s so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick
for the Poor. 
Virtues newly added. 
A spoonful or half a spoonful here- 
of is profitably added to pectoral 
juleps, when the Natural faculties 
of the Lungs are very much weak- 
ned. 
Bawm water, the greater composition.  
Colledg. Take of Bawm a pound. 
Time, 
Penyroyal, of each three drams. 
Cinnamon, two drams. 
Cardamoms the less one dram. 
* Grains of Paradice [* And they 
are the greater Cardamoms, as 
most of the Arabian Physitians 
held] half an ounce. 
Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce. 
Nutmegs, 
Ginger, of each a dram. 
Galanga, six drams. 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Cyperus, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Dictami half a dram. 
Let all of them be bruised and infused in 
eight pints of Spanish wine, and six 
pints of strong Ale, for twenty four hours 
together, and then distilled by an Alem- 
bick, draw out of the stronger water 
three pints. 
Culpeper.] The Simples seem chiefly 
appropriated to the Stomach, and 
therefore must needs strengthen cold 
and weak stomachs, and help digesti- 
on: besides Authors say, It restoreth 
memory lost, quickens all the senses, 
keeps away gray hairs and baldness, 
strengtheneth the brain, makes the 
heart cheerful, and helps the lisping 
of the Tongue, easeth the pains of 
the Teeth, and causeth a sweet 
breath. 
Virtues newly added. 
This Water hath a special faculty 
to break wind, to strengthen the Li- 
ver and other bowels and to clear the 
Eye sight. 
Rosa Solis. 
Colledg. Take of Nutmegs, 
Annis seeds, 
Coriander seeds, of each one ounce. 
Galanga, 
Ginger, 
Cloves, of each half an ounce. 
Red Rose leaves one handful. 
Rosasolis six handfuls.
Liquoris two ounces.
Cardamoms, 
Zedoary, 
Grains of Paradice, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each one 
dram. 
Red Sanders,
Cinnamon, of each an ounce and an
half. 
Of the best Aqua vitæ twelve pints. 
Make an infusion of them for eight 
daies then strain it, and add to the Li- 
quor, one pound and an half of Su-
gar.  
Culpeper.] The Basis of this Medi- 
cine, seems to be the Herb Ros-folis, 
which is of a drying and binding 
quality, and appropriated to the 
Lungs, and therefore must needs be 
available for Phtisicks, or Consump- 
tions of the Lungs; and because this 
Herb provokes Lust exceedingly, I 
suppose therefore the Rose leaves 
were added, which according to 
* Authors [* Schol. Saler.] resist
Lust. 
Dr. Stephens Water. 
Colledg. Take of Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Galanga, 
Cloves, 
Nutmegs, 
Grains of Paradise, 
Seeds of Annis, 
Fennel, 
Caraway, of each one dram. 
Herbs of Time, 
Mother of time,
Mints, 
Sage, 
Penyroyal, 
Pellitory of the Wall, 
Rosemary, 
Flowers of red Roses, 
Chamomel, 
Origanum, 
Lavender, of each one handful. 
Infuse them twelve hours in twelve 
pints of Gascoign wine, then with an 
Alembick, draw three pints of strong 
water from it. 
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109 TINCTURES. 
Culpeper.] Authors hold it profi- 
table for women in labor, that it pro- 
vokes the terms, and brings away the 
after-birth. 
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians, let them read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Rive- 
rius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslingus, 
Sennertus, and Physick for the Poor. 
Vertues newly added. 
It strengthens the Brain, Eyes, and 
Stomach, and expels wind and U- 
rine. 
Ordinary Aqua vitæ.
Colledg.] Distill Ale and Lees of 
Wine in an Alembick (whose worm runs 
through cold water) into smal Wine, in 
ten gallons of which infuse one pound of 
bruised Annis seeds, for twenty four 
hours, then distil it again into strong 
water. 
Compound Aqua vitæ. 
Colledg.] Is made of smal Wines, 
in six gallons of which, infuse 
Seeds of Annis half a pound. 
Fennel, 
Caraway, of each two ounces. 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, of each one ounce.  
And then draw the strong spirit from it. 
Culpeper.] This is excellent good 
in my opinion for such as are trou- 
bled with wind. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is of the same faculties with 
the former. A spoonful maybe ta- 
ken alone, or mingled with common 
Mint water.
Usquebath. 
Colledg.] Take of strong Aqua vi- 
tæ twenty four pints.
In which, for four daies infuse a pound 
of Liquoris. 
Raisons of the Sun half a pound. 
Cloves half an ounce. 
Mace, 
Ginger, of each two drams. 
Strain it and keep it for your use. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the sto- 
mach, and helps indigestion coming 
of flegm and cold. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for Diseases of the 
chest mingled with Hysop and Colts- 
foot waters.
TINCTURES. 
Tinctura Croci. Pag. 41. Lat. Or, 
Tincture of Saffron. 
Col. TAke Saffron two drams. 
Treacle Water eight oun- 
ces.
Digest them six daies, then strain it. 
Culpeper.] See the Vertues of 
Treacle Water, and then know that 
this strengthens the heart somthing 
more, and keeps melancholy vapors 
thence, by drinking a spoonful of it 
every morning. 
Tinctura Castorii. Pag. 41. Lat. Or, 
Tincture of castorium. 
Colledg.] Take of Castorium in 
pouder half an ounce. 
Spirit of castorium half a pound. 
Digest them ten daies cold. Strain it, 
and keep the Liquor for Tincture. 
Culpeper.] ’Tis somthing more 
prevalent than the Spirit. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of the same use with Spirit of 
castorium aforesaid, but more effe- 
ctual.
Tinctura Fragrorum. Pag. 4l. L. Or, 
Tincture of Strawberries. 
Colledg.] Take of ripe Wood-straw- 
berries two pound: Put them in a 
Phial, and put so much smal spirit 
of wine to them that it may overtop 
them the thickness of four fingers;   
stop the vessel close, and set it in the 
sun two daies, then strain it and press 
it but gently; powr this spirit to as 
many fresh Strawberries, repeat this 
six times, at last keep the cleer Li- 
quor for your use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This allaies the boyling heat of 
the blood, represses vapors ascend- 
ing into the brain, strengthens the 
Liver, and helps those that sleep un- 
quietly. A spoonful or two may be 
given by it self, or an ounce or two 
in altering Juleps.
Tinctura Scordii. Pag. 41. Lat. Or, 
Tincture of Scordium. 
Colledg.] Take of the leaves of Scor- 
dium gathered in a dry time half a 
pound. 
Digest them in six pound of smal spirit of 
wine, in a vessel well stopped for three 
daies; press them out gently, and repeat 
the infusion three times, and keep the 
clarified liquor for use. 
So is made Tincture of 
Sullendine, 
Rest-harrow, 
Ros-solis. 
Culpeper.] See the Herbs for the 
Vertues, and then take notice that 
these are better for cold stomachs, 
old bodies.  
Vertues newly added. 
It ts good in malignant and pesti- 
lential and venemous diseases. 
Tinctura Theriacalis, vulgo, Aqua
Theriacalis Lugd. per infus. P. 41. L.
Or, Tincture of Treacle. 
Colledg.] Take of Canary wine often 
times distilled, 
Vinegar in which half an ounce of 
Rue seeds have been boyled, two 
pound. 
Choice Treacle, 
The best Methridate, of each half a 
pound. 
Mix them, and set them in the sun, or 
heat of a bath, digest them, and keep 
the water for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This partakes the Vertues of Trea- 
cle, Mithridate, and Treacle Water. 
It is good in all venemous, pestilen- 
tial, Venereal Diseases, being seaso- 
nably administred. 
Tinctura Cinnamomi, vulgo, Aqua 
Clareta cinnam. P. 42. L. Or, Tin- 
cture of Cinnamon. 
Colledg.] Take of bruised cinnamon 
two ounces.
Rectified spirit of wine two pound. 
Infuse them four daies in a large glass 
stopped with cork and bladder, shake it 
twice a day; then dissolve half a pound 
of Sugar candy by it self in two pound of 
Rose water. Mix both Liquors, into 
which hang a Nodule containing 
Ambergreece half a scruple. 
Musk four grains. 
Culpeper.] This was before a- 
mongst the Waters, only there is 
four ounces of cinnamon appointed,
and here but two. 
Vertues newly added. 
This hath the Vertues of Cinna- 
mon water aforesaid. It strengthens 
the brain, stomach, Liver, and womb, 
and is good for such as incline to the 
cachexia, dropsie, scurvy, being al- 
laied with fennel and scurvigrass wa-
ter. 
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110 PHYSICAL WINES. 
Tinctura Viridis. Pag. 42. Lat. Or, 
A green Tincture. 
Colledg.] Take of Verdegreece half 
an ounce. 
Auripigmentum six drams. 
Allum three drams. 
Boyl them in a pound of white wine till 
half be consumed, adding after it is cold, 
the water of red Roses, and Nightshade, 
of each six ounces.
Culpeper.] This was made to clense 
ulcers, but I fancy it not. 
Aqua Aluminosa Magistralis.
Page 42. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take water of 
Plantane, 
red Roses, of each one pound. 
Roch Allum, and 
Sublimatum, of each two drams. 
Let the Allum, and Sublimatum being 
in Pouder boyl in the waters, in a vessel 
with a narrow mouth till half be consu- 
med; when it hath stood five daies, 
strain it. 
Vertues newly added. 
These seem invented to clense and 
correct the virulency of Ulcers, espe- 
cially such as are malignant and Ve- 
nereal.
Physical Wines. 
Vinum Absinthites. Pag. 43. Lat. Or, 
Wormwood Wine. 
Col. 
TAke a handful of dried  
Wormwood for every gal- 
lon of Wine; stop it in a Vessel close,
and so let it remain in sleep. 
So is prepared wine of Rosemary flow- 
ers, and Eyebright. 
Culpeper.] It helps cold stomachs, 
breaks wind, helps the wind cholick, 
strengthens the stomach, kils worms,  
and helps the green sickness.   
Rosemary-flower Wine is made af-  
ter the same manner that Wormwood 
wine is made. It is good against all 
cold Diseases of the head, consumeth 
flegm, strengtheneth the Gums and
Teeth.
Eyebright Wine is made after the 
same manner. It wonderfully cleers 
the sight being drunk, and revives 
the sight of ancient men: A cup of 
it in the morning, is worth a pair of 
Spectacles. 
All other Wines are prepared in 
the same manner, when the Physiti- 
an shal see fit. View the vertues of 
the simple the Wine is made of, and  
then know the wine of that simple is 
far better and fitter for cold bodies, 
and weak stomachs, than the simple 
it self. 
The best way of taking any of these 
Wines is, To drink a draught of them 
every morning. You may, if you 
find your body old or cold, make 
wine of any other Herb, the vertues 
of which you desire; and make it 
and take it in the same manner. 
Such as would cure all Diseases, let 
them read these books of mine, of the 
last Edition, viz. Riverius, Johnston, 
Riolanus, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor. 
Vertues newly added. 
It hath the same vertues with Worm- 
wood, and spirit or water of Worm- 
wood formerly described. A cup 
may be taken before meat to procure 
appetite. It prevents the dropsie 
and cachexia, being frequently u- 
sed. 
Vinum Cerasorum Nigrorum. P. 43. L. 
Or, Wine of Black Cherries.
Colledg. Take a gallon of juyce of 
black cherries, keep it in a vessel close 
stopped till it begin to work, then filter it, 
and an ounce of Sugar being added to e- 
very pound, let it pass through Hippo- 
crates his sleeve, and keep it in a vessel 
close stopped for use.
Vertues newly added. 
This is called Black-cherry Wine, 
because made of the juyce thereof, as 
Wine is of the juyce of Grapes. 
Therefore there is no more need of 
Wine to make this Medicameut than 
there is of Mr. Culpeper his cavil a- 
gainst the Colledg for adding none. 
It is good against Epilepsies and 
convulsion fits in children or others, 
a spoonful or two being taken in the 
morning fasting, and at four a clock 
in the afternoon by way of preventi- 
on, and a spoonful two or three up- 
on the approach of the fit, with Peo- 
ny water, and a smal quantity of spi- 
rit of Castoreum aforesaid. 
Vinum Helleboratum. Pag. 43. L. Or, 
Wine Helleborated. 
Colledg] Take of white Hellebore cut 
smal, four ounces. 
Spanish Wine two pound. 
Steep it in the sun in a Phial close stop- 
ped, in the Dog daies, or other hot wea- 
ther. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is only for strong bodies, to 
purge by vomit in case of Epilepsies 
in grown persons, old Melancholies 
and Madness thereof arising, and for 
Green-sickness maidens of a strong 
Nature. Half a spoonful may be 
given with an ounce of Oxymel sim- 
ple, half an ounce of syrup of Marsh-
mallows, and an ounce of Walnut 
water aforesaid. But white Helle- 
bore being a most violent and dan- 
gerous Medicament, it is good to be 
very wary in the use hereof. Yet as 
Hippocrates saies, strong Diseases re- 
quire strong Medicaments. 
Vinum Rubellum. Pag. 43. Lat. Or,
Vomiting Claret.
Colledg.] Take of Stibium in pouder 
one ounce. 
Cloves sliced two drams. 
Claret Wine two pound. 
Keep it in a Phial close shut. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is useful in all cases in which 
Vomits are required, especially in 
Agues. It is, though not compara- 
ble to the former for churlishness, yet 
a strong Medicameent. 
Vinum Benedictum. Page 43. Latin. 
Or the Infusion of Crocus 
Metallorum. 
Colledg.] Take of Crocus Metal-
lorum in pouder one ounce. 
Mace one dram. 
Spanish wine one pound and an 
half: steep it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is a Vomiting Wine also, but 
more gentle, civil, and safe than the 
two former. It hath al the vertues of 
Antimony, & is a good vomiting Me- 
dicament upon al occasions, the Dose 
is from half an ounce to six drams, an 
ounce, and in strong bodies one 
ounce and half, with half an ounce 
of Oxymel simple, or of Squils, or 
Syrup of Lemmons. 
Vinum Antimoniale. Pag. 43. L. Or, 
Antimonial Wine. 
Colledg.] Take of Regulus of An- 
timony in pouder four ounces. Steep it 
in three pound of white Wine in a glass
well stopped, after the first shaking let 
the Regulus settle. 
Culpeper.] These three last men- 
tioned are Vomits, and Vomits are 
fitting Medicines for but a few, as I
told you before, the mouth being 
ordained to take in nourishment,
not to cast out excrements, and to 
regulate a mans body in vomiting; 
and Doses of Vomits require a dee- 
per study in Physick, than I doubt the 
generality of people yet have: I o- 
mit it therefore at this time, not be- 
cause I grutch it my Country, but 
because I would not willingly have 
them do themselves a mischief, I 
shal shorty teach them in what Dis-
eases 


111 PHYSICAL VINEGARS. 
eases vomits may be used, and then, 
and not til then, the use of vomits, 
Virtues newly added.
This is made of that whereof they 
so much famed Antimonial * Cups 
are made off; and it performes all 
that the said Cups can do, which is 
sufficiently declared in printed Pa- 
pers of that subject and lately in the 
weekly news Books. The dose is 
about an ounce, little more or less, 
after the same manner as hath been 
said of the Vinum Benedictum or in- 
fusion of Crocus Metallorum.
* The Vertues that the Antimonial Cup 
is said to have [which may be better 
performed by this Antimo-
nial Wine. 
It emptieth the Stomach of all evil 
humors, the Liver of Choler, the 
Spleen of Melancholy, the Head and 
Pectoral parts from Rheums, Distil- 
lations, and tough Flegm. It cur- 
eth Agues, Feavers, swimming in 
the Head, Madness, and the Palsie. 
It cureth Morbus Gallicus, the Run- 
ning of the Reins, the Kings Evil, 
with all Ulcerous Sores and Fistula’s. 
It cureth perfectly the Falling-sick- 
ness, all Convulsions, and Cramps. 
It cureth perfectly the Gout, the 
Stone, Sciatica and Lameness. It 
cureth perfectly Dropsies, asswag- 
eth pains of the Bones, Nerves, and 
destroyeth Worms. It purifieth blood 
and restoreth Appetite lost. It cur- 
eth the Green-sickness, and all Ob- 
structions, restoreth from Consump- 
tions, and increaseth and preserveth 
Natural vigor. It cleareth the sight, 
consumeth the Web or Pearl, and 
dissolveth congealed Blood. It cur- 
eth the Whites, the Bloody Flux, and 
griping pains in the Guts, and is 
found by dayly experience, to be a 
most Soveraign Remedy against Ma- 
lignant Feavers. It is safe and with- 
out danger, and never loseth nor 
diminisheth its Virtues.
Vinum Scilliticum. Page 44. Latin. 
Or, Wine of Squils. 
Colledg, Take of a white Squil of the 
mountains, gathered about the 
rising of the Dog Star, cut in thin 
pieces, and dried for a month, one 
pound: put it in a glass bottle, 
and power to it eight pound of 
French Wine, and when it hath 
stood so four daies, take out the 
Squil. 
Culpeper.] The virtues of this are 
the same with Vinegar of Squils, 
only ’tis hotter. 
Physical Vinegars. 
Acetum Distillatum. Page 45. Latin. 
Or, Distilled Vinegar. 
Colledg.
Fill a Glass or stone Alem- 
bick with the best Vinegar 
to the third part, separate the Flegm 
with a gentle fire, then encrease the fire 
by degrees, and perform the work. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is rather used as a menstruum 
in Chymical extractions and prepa- 
rations then otherwise and of it self. 
It makes thin, cuts, Discusses, re- 
presses, cooles, and in some measure 
heates. It hath all the faculties of 
Vinegar, but more intense, and more 
heating. 
Acetum Rosatum. Page 45. Latin. Or, 
Rose Vinegar. 
Colledg. Take of red Rose buds ga- 
thered in a dry time, the white cut 
off, dried in the shadow three or 
four daies, one pound; Vinegar 
eight Sextaries: set them in the 
Sun fourty daies, then strain out 
the Roses, and repeat the infusion 
with fresh ones.
After the same manner is made Vi- 
negar of Elder flowers. 
Rosemary flowers. 
Clove-gilli-flowers.
Culpeper: For the vertues of all 
Vinegars, take this one only obser- 
vation, They carry the same vertues 
with the flowers whereof they are 
made, only as we said of Wines, that 
they were better for cold Bodies than 
the bare simples whereof they are 
made; so are Vinegars for hot Bodies. 
Besides, Vinegars are often, Nay, most 
commonly used externally, viz. to 
bath the place, then look amongst the 
Simples, and see what place of the 
Body the simple is appropriated to, 
and then you cannot chuse but know 
(if you have but a grain of under- 
standing, more than a beast) both 
what Vinegar to use, and to what 
place to apply it.
Acetum Scilliticum. Page 45. Latin. 
Or, Vinegar of Squils. 
Colledg. Take of that part of the 
Squil which is between the outward 
bark and the bottom, cut it in thin 
slices, and place it thirty or fourty  
daies in the Sun of some remiss 
heat, then a pound of them (being 
cut smal with a Knife made of 
Ivory or some white wood) being  
put in a vessel, and six pound of 
Vinegar put to them; set the ves- 
sel being close stopped in the Sun 
thirty or fourty daies, afterwards 
strain it, and keep it for use.  
Culpeper.] A little of this Medi- 
cine being taken in the morning fa- 
sting, and walking half an hour after, 
preserves the body in health, to ex- 
tream old age (as Sanius tried, who 
using no other Medicine but this, 
lived in perfect health til one hun- 
dred and seventeen years of age) it 
maketh the digestion good, a long 
wind, a cleer voyce, an acute sight, 
a good color, it suffers no offensive 
thing to remain in the Body, neither 
wind, flegm, choller, melancholly, 
dung, nor urine, but brings them 
forth; it brings forth filth though it 
lie in the bones, it takes away salt 
and sowr belchings, though a man be 
never so * licentious in diet, [* I 
would not have Galen’s Judgment tried 
in this particular, it is far safer to take it 
upon his word] he shal feel no harm: 
It hath cured such as have the Phti- 
sick, that have been given over by al 
Physitians: It cures such as have the 
Falling-sickness, Gout, and diseases 
and swellings of the Joynts; It takes 
away the hardness of the Liver and 
Spleen. We should never have done 
if we should reckon up the particular 
benefits of this Medicine: Therefore 
we commend it as a wholsom Medi- 
cine for soundness of Body, preser- 
vation of health, and vigor of mind. 
Thus Galen. 
Acetum Theriacale, Norimberg. Page 
46. Latin. Or, Treacle Vinegar. 
Colledg. Take of the roots of Sullen- 
dine the greater, one ounce and an 
half. 
Roots of Angellica, 
Masterwort,
Gentian,   
Bistort, 
Valerian, 
Burnet,   
White Dittany, 
Alicampance,
Zedoary, of each one dram. 
Plantane the greater one dram 
and an half. 
Leaves of Mousear, 
Sage,
Scabius, 
Scordium, 
Dittany of Creet, 
Cardus, of each half a handful. 
Bark and seeds of Citrons, of each
half a dram. 
Bole-Armenich, one dram. 
Saffron three drams.  
Harts-horn, one dram and an half. 
Of these let the Saffron, Harts-horn, 
Dittany, and Bole, be tied up in a
ragge, and steeped with the things be-  
fore mentioned, in five pints of Vinegar, 
for certain daies by a temperate heat in a 
glass


112 DECOCTIONS. 
glass well stopped, strain it, and add six 
drams of the best Treacle to it, shake it 
together, and keep it for your use. 
Acetum Theriacale. Pag. 46. Latin. 
Or, Treacle Vinegar. 
Colledg.] Add to the description 
of Treacle water, Clove-gilliflowers two 
ounces, Lavender flowers an ounce and 
an half, Rose and Elder-flower Vine- 
gar, of each four pound: digest it with- 
out boyling three daies, then strain it 
through Hippocrates his sleeve.
Culpeper.] See Treacle Water for 
the vertues, only this is more cool. 
Vertues newly added. 
It hath the same faculty with Trea- 
cle Water, but it pierces more, and 
is therefore in some respects more ef- 
fectual, and in pestilential Diseases 
joyned with great heat and gross hu- 
mors, more proper. 
Those that would give help against 
al Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, 
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor.
DECOCTIONS.
Decoctum commune pro clystere. Page
47. Lat. Or, a common Deco-
ction for a clyster.
Colledg.] Take of Mallows,
Violets,
Pellitory,
Beets,
Mercury,
Chamomel flowers, of each one hand-
ful.
Sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce.
Lin-seeds two drams.
Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of
common water to a pound.
Culpeper.] This is the common
Decoction for all clysters, according
to the quality of the humor abound-
ing. so you may add what Simples,
or Syrups, or Electuaries you please;
only half a score Lin-seeds, and a 
handful of chamomel flowers are ad-
ded.
Virtues newly added.
This softens the excrements of the 
belly, makes the Guts slippery, and
tempers the body being heated
through costiveness. It is the foun-
dation of most ordinary clysters, o-
ther Medicaments being super-added
as the case requires.
Decoctum Epithymi. Pag. 47. L. Or, 
a Decoction of Epithimum. 
Colledg] Take of Myrobalans 
Chebs and 
Inds, of each half an ounce. 
Stœchas, 
Raisons of the sun stoned, 
Epithimum, 
Senna, of each one ounce. 
Fumitory half an ounce. 
Maudlin five drams. 
Polipodium six drams. 
Turbith half an ounce. 
Whey made with Goats milk, or 
Heifers milk, four pound. 
Let them all boyl to two pound, the Epi- 
thimum excepted, which boyl but a 
walm or two; then take it from the fire, 
and add 
Black Hellebore one dram and an 
half. 
Agrick half a dram. 
Sal. gem. one dram and an half. 
Steep them ten hours, then press it 
strongly out. 
Culpeper.] Here is half a dram of 
black Hellebore added, and I like 
the Receipt never the better for 
that. 
It purgeth Melancholy gallantly, 
as also adust choler, it resisteth mad- 
ness, and al Diseases coming of Me- 
lancholy, and therefore let melan- 
choly people esteem it as a Jewel.
I cannot but commend it to such 
of my Country-men as abound with 
Melancholy humors: Let them take 
a quarter of a pint of this in the mor- 
ning, and keep by the fire side all 
day; imagine they take it at six of 
the clock, then let them drink a 
draught of posset-drink at eight, and 
eat a bit of hot Mutton at twelve, if 
their bodies be strong (for people 
oppressed with melancholy, usually 
go hardly to stool, by reason it is a 
retentive humor) Let them mix 
those Syrups (which I shal quote 
when I come to them) with it, and 
I dare hazard that smal credit I have 
in Physick, that it shal in a few mor- 
nings fetch them out of their melan- 
choly dumps, which though they 
may seem pleasing, yet are no way 
profitable to the body of man, espe- 
cially if the body be troubled also 
with [ill Humors] I know not what 
better word to give [Cacochymia.] 
Vertues newly added. 
Why the addition of half a dram 
of black Hellebore to this Medica- 
ment by the Colledg (as it seems) 
should be blamed by Culpeper, I see 
not, being assured that black Helle- 
bore is but a slow purger, though a 
sure Remedy in Melancholick ca- 
ses.
This Medicament deserves the 
commendations given it. Yet it is 
distastful to drink down, and I think
I have observed this property there- 
in; That it purgeth but little, and 
yet weakens much. 
Decoctum Sennæ Gereonis. Pag. 37. L. 
Or, Dr. Gereo his Deco- 
ction of Senna.  
Colledg.] Take of Senna two ounces. 
Polypodium half an ounce. 
Ginger one dram. 
Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces. 
Sebestens, 
Prunes, of each twelve. 
Flowers of Borrage, 
Violets, 
Roses, 
Rosemary, of each two drams. 
Boyl them in four pound of water till 
half be consumed. 
Culpeper.] It is a common Deco- 
ction for any purge, by adding other
simples or compounds to it, accor- 
ding to the quality of the humor you 
would have purged, yet in its self, it 
chiefly purgeth Melancholy. I shall 
quote it when I come at such Com- 
pounds as are fit to mix with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an elegant composed 
and well tasted Decoction, fit to 
make the Basis of a Purge in Melan- 
cholick Bodies, and Diseases. 
Decoctum Pectorale. Pag. 48. Lat.
Or, A Pectoral Decoction.
Colledg.] Take of Raisons of the sun
stoned an ounce.
Sebestens,
Jujubes, of each fifteen.
Dates six.
Figs four.
French Barly one ounce.
Liquoris half an ounce.
Maidenhair,
Hysop,
Scabious,
Coltsfoot, of each one handful.
Boyl them in three pound of Water till
two remain.
Culpeper.] The Medicine is chief-
ly appropriated to the Lungs, and
therefore causeth a cleer voyce, a
long wind, resisteth coughs, hoars-
ness, Asthmaes, &c. You may drink
a quarter of a pint of it every morn-
ing, without keeping any Diet, for
it purgeth not.
I shal quote some Syrups fitting to 
be mixed with it, when I come to the
Syrups.
Vertues newly added.
This is a fine Decoction and well
tasted, and is the foundation of Pe-
ctoral Juleps in Diseases of the chest
proceeding from undigested Rhewm
and flegm.
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113 DECOCTIONS. 
Decoctum Traumaticum. Pag. 48. Latin. 
Or, the Decoctions for woun- 
ded Persons. 
Colledg. Take of Ægrimony, 
Mugwort, 
Wild Angelica, 
St. Johns wort, 
Mousear, of each two handfuls. 
Wormwood, half a handful. 
Southernwood, 
Betony, 
Bugloss,
Comfry the greater and lesser, Roots 
and all.
Avens, 
Barberries buds, 
Oak buds, of each a handful. 
All these being gathered in May and 
June and dilligently dried, let them be 
cut and put up in skins or papers against 
the time of use. Then, 
Take of the fore named Herbs three 
handfuls, 
Boyl them in four pound of Conduit 
water and two pound of white wine gent- 
ly till half be consumed, strain it, and a 
pound of Honey being added to it, let it 
be scummed and kept for use. 
Culpeper.] They that think the use 
of these Medicines is too brief, (its 
so only for cheapness of the Book) 
Let them read these Books, of the last 
Edition, viz. Riverius, Riolanus,
Johnston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor. 
Vertues newly added.
This drink was invented for woun- 
ded persons to drink, that the hea- 
ling of their wounds might be there 
by furthered; and it is effectual to 
that Intent. It will also further the 
Cure of Ulcers. And it must needs 
be very good for Consumptions of 
the Lungs and spitting of blood. 
Also for Malignant Dysenteries and 
Gonorrhea’s, after due purgation. 
The dose may be three or four oun- 
ces in the morning fasting, and as 
much at four in the after noone.
Some Decoctions they 
have left out in their new 
Model, which are these 
that follow. 
Colledg.] 
TAke of the * Seeds 
* [You must bruise
the seeds, else the Decoction 
will be but little the better for 
them] of Annis.
Carrots,
Fennel, 
Cummin, 
Caraway, of each three drams. 
Camomel flowers half a handful. 
Raisons of the Sun an ounce and an 
half. 
Boyl them in two pints of Water til 
almost half be consumed.
Culpeper. It is commonly used in 
Clysters, to such whose bodies are 
molested or oppressed with wind, 
these seeds being added to the former 
Decoction. 
A decoction of Flowers and Fruits. 
Colledg.] Take five Figs, 
Fifteen Prunes, 
Jujubes, 
Sebestens, of each twenty. 
Tamarinds, an ounce. 
Flowers of Roses, 
Violets, 
Borrage, 
Bugloss, of each a dram. 
Maidenhair, 
Hops, 
Endive, of each half an handful. 
Liquoris, two drams. 
Being cut and bruised, boyl them in three 
pints of spring water to the Consumption 
of the third part
Culpeper. It strengthens the Lungs, 
and helps Obstruction. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Decoction is a basis many 
times for purges given in Diseases of 
the Chest and Lungs; also for purges 
of sharpe Humors and such as are 
ordered in hot bodies and hot Dis- 
eases To four or six ounces hereof, 
a fitting quantity of some purgeing 
Electuaries or Syrups or both is ad- 
ded, and so a purge is made.
Lac Virgineum. 
Colledg. Take of Allum four ounces. 
Boyl it in a quart of spring water, to 
the third part: Afterwards 
Take of * Litharge [* Beaten into 
very fine Pouder] half a pound. 
White wine Vinegar a pint and an 
half. 
Boyl it to a pint, strain both the waters 
then mix them together, and stir them 
about till they are white. 
Culpeper. It takes away Pimples,
redness, freckles and sunburning, the
face being washed with it. 
A Drink for wounded men. 
Colledg. Take of Crabs of the River 
calcined, and beaten into very fine
pouder, two drams. 
Roots of round Birthwort, 
Comfry the greater, 
Self-heal, 
Bay-berries lightly bruised, of 
each one dram. 
Tie them all up in a linnen cloath, and 
boyl them in three pints of white wine till 
the third part be consumed, adding about 
the middle of the Decoction, one pugil 
of * Peretwinkle, [* The Herb not 
the Fish.] then strain it for your use 
This Decoction must be prepared only 
for the present when the Physitian ap- 
points it, as also must almost all the rest 
of the Decoctions. 
Culpeper. And therefore lest my 
poor wounded Country men should 
perish for want of an Angel to see a 
* Physitian, [* Too many Physiti- 
ans in England being like Balaams 
Asse, they will not speak unless they 
see an Angel: yet I accuse not all.]  
or if he have it, before the Physitian, 
(which in some places is very re- 
mote) can come at him; I have taken 
the pains to write the Receipt in his 
own Mother Toung; he may get any 
friend to make it: He may drink half 
a pint of it in the morning; or if he 
please to boyl it in smal Ale instead 
of wine; he would be wel the sooner 
if he drink no other drink. 
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians. Let them read those Books 
of mine, of the last Edition, viz. 
Riverius Riolanus, Johnston, Ve- 
slingus, Sennertus, and Physick for the
Poor. 
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114 SYRUPS. 
SYRUPS. 
ALTERING SYRUPS. 
Culpeper.
REader, Before we begin with the Particular Syrups, I think good to ad- 
vertise thee of these few things, which concern the Nature, Making, and 
use of Syrups in General. 1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body, Compounded of 
Decoction, Infusion, or Juyce, with Sugar or Honey, and brought by the heat of the fire, 
into the thickness of Honey. 2. Because all Honey is not of a thickness, understand new 
Honey, which of all other is thinness. 3. The Reason why Decoctions, Infusions, and 
Juyces, are thus used, is Because thereby, First, They will keep the longer. Secondly, They 
will tast the better. 4. In boyling Syrups have a great care of their just consistance, for if 
you boyl them too much they will candy, if too little, they will sour. 5. All Simple Syrups 
have the vertues of the Simples they are made of, and are far more convenient for weak people 
and queazie stomachs. 
Syrupus de Absinthio simplex. Page 49. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Worm- 
wood, Simple.
Colledg. 
TAKE of the clari- 
fied JUYCE of com- 
mon Wormwood. 
Clarified Sugar, of each four pound. 
Make it into a syrup according to Art. 
After the same manner, are prepared 
simple Syrups. 
Of Juyce of Betony, 
Borrage,
Bugloss, 
Cardus, 
Chamomel, 
Succory, 
Endive, 
Hedg-mustard, 
Straw-berries, 
Fumitory. 
Ground Ivy, 
Saint Johns-wort,
Hops,
Mercury, 
Mousear, 
Plantane,
Apples, 
Purslain, 
Rasberries, 
Sage, 
Scabious, 
Stordium, 
Housleek, 
Coltsfoot, 
Pauls Betony, 
And other Juyces not sour. 
Culpeper.] See the Simples, and 
then you may easily know, both their 
Vertues, and also that they are plea- 
santer and fitter for delicate Sto- 
machs when they are made into Sy- 
rups. 
Syrupus de Absinthio compositus. Pag. 49
Latin. Or, Syrup of Worm- 
wood, Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of common Wormwood 
meanly dry, half a pound. 
Red Roses two ounces.   
Indian spick nard three drams. 
Old white wine, 
Juyce of Quinces, of each two pound 
and an half. 
Steep them a whol day in an Earthen 
vessel, then boyl them gently, and strain 
it, and by adding two pound of Sugar, 
boyl it into a Syrup according to art.
Culpeper.] Mesue is followed ver- 
batim in this; and the Receipt is 
appropriated to cold and flegmatick
Stomachs, and in my opinion ’tis an 
admirable Remedy for it; for it 
strengthens both Stomach and Liver, 
as also the instruments of Concocti- 
on: a spoonful taken in the morning 
is admirable for such as have a weak 
digestion, it provokes an appetite to 
ones victuals, it prevails aginst the 
yellow Jaundice, breaks wind, purg- 
eth humors by Urin. It was Roman 
Worm-wood before, and so Mesue 
hath it. 
Syrupus Acetosus simplex. Page 50. L 
Syrup of Vinegar simple.
Colledg. Take of cleer water four 
pound. 
White Sugar five pound. 
Boyl them in a glazed vessel over a gen- 
tle fire, scumming it till half the water 
be consumed, then by putting, in two 
pound of Wine Vinegar by degrees, per- 
fect the syrup. 
Culpeper. This is, only melt the 
Sugar with the Vinegar over the fire, 
scum it, but boyl it not. 
Syrupus Acetosus simplicior. Page 50. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Vine- 
gar more simple. 
Colledg. Take of white sugar five 
pound. 
White wine Vinegar two pound. 
By melting it in a Bath, make it into a
syrup. 
Culpeper. Of these two Syrups let 
every one use which he finds by ex- 
perience to be best; the difference is 
but little. I hold the last to be the 
best of the two, and would give my 
reasons for it, but that I fear the 
Book will swel too big: They both 
of them cut flegm, as also tough, 
hard, viscous humors in the stomach; 
they cool the Body, quench thirst, 
provoke Urin, and prepare the Sto- 
mach before the taking of a vomit. If 
you take it as a preparative for a Vo- 
mit, take half an ounce of it when 
you go to bed the night before you 
intend to vomit, it will make you to 
vomit the easier, but if for any of the 
foregoing occasions, take it with a
liquoris stick.  
Syrupus Acetosus compositus. Page 50.
Latin. Or, Syrup of Vinegar 
Compound. 
Colledg. Take of the Roots of smal-
age, 
Fennel, 
Endive, of each three ounces.
Seeds


115 SYRUPS.  
Seeds of Annis, 
Samllage, 
Fennel, of each one ounce. 
Endive half an ounce. 
Cleer water six pound. 
Boyl it gently in an Earthen vessel till 
half the water be consumed, then strain 
and clarifie it, and with three pound of 
sugar, and a pound and an half of white 
Wine Vinegar, boyl it into a syrup. 
Culpeper.] This in my opinion is a 
gallant Syrup for such whose Bodies 
are stuffed either with flegm, or 
tough humors, for it opens obstru- 
ions or stoppings both of the Sto- 
mach Liver, Spleen, and Reins; it 
cuts and brings away tough flegm 
and choller, and is therefore a special 
remedy for such as have a stuffing at 
their Stomach. Mesue prescribes 
ten pints of water, and a quart of 
Vinegar; let every one use which 
Dr. Experience tels him is best.
Syrupus de Agno Casto. Page 50. Lat. 
Or, Syrup of Agnus Castus. 
Colledg. Take of the seeds of Rue. 
Hemp, of each half a dram. 
Seeds of Endive, 
Lettice, 
Purslain, 
Guords, 
Melons, of each two drams. 
Fleawort, half an ounce.
Agnus Castus, four ounces. 
Flowers of Water Lillies, 
Leaves of Mints, of each half a hand- 
ful.
Decoction of seeds of Lentils, 
Coriander seeds, of each half an 
ounce, 
Three pound, boyl them all over a gen- 
tle fire till two pound be consumed. 
Add to the residue being strained two 
ounces of juyce of Lemmons. 
A pound and an half of white Su- 
gar. 
Make it into a syrup according to art 
Virtues newly added.
This Syrupe is designed to allay 
fleshy lust by cooling, quenching and 
consuming the seed; and it is very 
good for such are desire, to live chast- 
ly and enjoy the happyness of a sin- 
gle life without vexation and scan- 
dal. It is good for such widdowes 
or Maids as are vexed with the furor 
uterinus, or madness arising from 
heat of the Womb and genital parts 
and acrimony of the seed. It is also 
good for such as are subject to spit 
blood and bleed much at the Nose, 
and for defluctions of thin salt and 
hot Rheums and the Whites. An 
ounce may be taken at a time in Let- 
tuce or Purslain water in the mor- 
ning and at four a clock in the after- 
noon. 
Syrupus de Althæa. Page 51. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Marsh-mallows. 
Colledg.] Take of Roots of Marsh- 
mallows, two ounces.  
Roots of Grass sparagus, 
Liquoris, 
Raisons of the Sun stoned, of each half 
an ounce. 
Tops of Mallows,
Marsh-mallows, 
Pellitory of the wall,
Burnet,
Plantane 
Maiden-hair, white and black, of 
each a handful. 
Red Cicers an ounce. 
Of the * four greater and four lesser
cold seeds, of each three drams. 
Boyl them in six 
pound of cleer water 
til four remain, which 
being strained, boyl 
into a Syrup with  
four pound of white  
Sugar. 
* What they are
see at the end of
the Simples, and
before the Com-
pounds in this
Book.
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling, 
opening, slippery syrup, and chiefly 
commendable for the cholick, stone, 
or gravel in the kidnies or bladder. 
I shall only give you a Caution 
or two concerning this syrup, which 
for the forenamed effects, I hold to 
be excellent: 1. Be sure you boyl it 
enough, for if you boyl it never so 
little too little, it will quickly be 
sowr. 2. For the cholick (which is 
nothing else but an infirmity in the 
Gut called Colon, and thence it takes 
its name) you had best use it in cly- 
sters, but for gravel or the stone, 
drink it in convenient Medicines, or 
by it self; if both of them afflict you 
use it both waies: I assure you, this 
Medicine wil save those that are sub- 
ject to such diseases, both mony and 
misery.
Syrupus de Ammoniaco. 51. Or, 
Syrup of Ammoniacum. 
Colledg.] Take of Maudlins, 
Cetrach, of each four handfuls. 
Common Wormwood an ounce. 
Roots of Succory, 
Sparagus, 
Bark of Capar roots, of each two 
ounces. 
After due preparation steep them twen- 
ty four hours 
in three ounces of white Wine. 
Water of Radishes, 
Fumitory Water, of each two pound. 
Then boyl it away to one pound eight 
ounces, let it settle:
In four ounces of which whilst it is 
warm, dissolve by it self 
Gum ammoniacum, first dissolved in 
white Wine Vinegar, two ounces. 
Boyl the rest with a pound and an half 
of white Sugar into a Syrup, adding the 
mixtures of the Gum at the end. 
Culpeper.] It cools the Liver, and 
opens obstructions both of it and the 
Spleen, helps old Sursets, and such 
like Diseases, as Scabs, Itch, Lepro- 
sie, and what else proceed from the 
Liver over heated. You may take 
an ounce at a time. 
Syrupus de Artemisia. Page 51. Lat. 
Or, Syrup of Mugwort. 
Colledg.] Take of Mugwort two 
handfuls. 
Penyroyal, 
Calominth,
Origanum, 
Bawm, 
Arsmart, 
Dittany of Creet,
Savin, 
Marjoram, 
Germander, 
St. Johns-wort, 
Camepitis, 
Featherfew with the flowers,
Centaury the less,
Rue, 
Bettony, 
Bugloss, of each a handful. 
Roots of Fennel,
Smallage, 
Parsly, 
Sparagus, 
Bruscus, 
Saxifrage, 
Alicampane, 
Cyperus, 
Maddir, 
Orris, 
Peony, of each an ounce.
Juniper berries,
Seeds of Lovage, 
Parsly, 
Smallage,  
Annis, 
Nigella, 
Carpobalsamum or cubebs,
Costus, 
Cassia lignea,
Cardamoms, 
Calamus aromaticus, 
Roots of Asarabacca, 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Valerian, of each half an ounce. 
Being clensed, cut, and bruised, let them
be infused twenty four hours in four- 
teen pound of cleer water, and boyled 
till half be consumed, being taken off 
from the fire, and rubbed between 
your hands whilst it is warm, strain 
it, and with Honey and Sugar, of 
each two pound, sharp Vinegar four 
ounces. Boyl it to a Syrup, and 
perfume it with Cinnamon and spick-
nard, of each three drams.  
Culpeper.] It helpeth the passion 
of the Matrix, and retains it in its 
place, it dissolves the coldness, wind, 
and pains thereof; it strengthens the 
Nerves,


116 SYRUPS. 
Nerves, opens the pores, corrects the 
blood, corrects and provokes the 
terms in women. You may take a 
spoonful of it at a time. 
Syrupus de Betonica composuus. Pag. 52 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Beto- 
ny compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Betony three hand- 
fuls. 
Marjoram one handful and half. 
Time, 
Red Roses, of each a handful. 
Violets, 
Stœchas, 
Sage, of each half a handful. 
Seeds of Fennel, 
Annis, 
Ammi, of each half an ounce. 
Roots of Peony, 
Polypodium, 
Fennel, of each five drams. 
Boyl them in six pound of River water 
to three pound. 
Strain it, and add 
Juyce of Betony two pound. 
Sugar three pound and an half. 
Make it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] It helps Diseases co-   
ming of cold, both in the head and 
stomach; as also such as come of 
wind, vertigoes, madness; it con- 
cocts melancholy, it provokes the  
terms in women, and so doth the 
simple syrup more than the com- 
pound. The composition was fra-   
med by the Augustan Physitians.
Syrupus Byzantinus, simple. 
Page 53. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of the 
Leaves of Endive, 
Smallage, of each two pound. 
Of Hops, 
Bugloss, of each one pound. 
Boyl them together and scum them. 
And to the clarified Liquor add four 
pound of white Sugar to as much of the 
Juyces, and with a gentle fire boyl it to 
a Syrup. 
Syrupus Byzantinus, compound. 
Page 53. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyces so order- 
ed as in the former, four pound. 
In which boyl 
Red Roses two ounces. 
Liquoris half an ounce. 
Seeds of Annis, 
Fennel, 
Smallage, of each three drams. 
Spicknard two drams. 
Strain it, and to the three pound re- 
maining add two pound of Vinegar, four 
pound of Sugar. 
Make it into a Syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.] They both of them, 
(viz. both simple and compound) 
open stoppings of the stomach, liver, 
and spleen, help the Rickets in chil- 
dren, cuts and brings away tough 
flegm, and helps the yellow Jaundice. 
Mesue saith the compound Syrup is 
of more effect than the simple for the 
same uses. You may take them with 
a Liquoris stick, or take a spoonful 
in the morning fasting. 
Syurpus Botryos. Page 53. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Oak of 
Jerusalem. 
Colledg.] Take of Oak of Jerusalem, 
Hedg-mustard, 
Nettles, of each two handfuls. 
Coltsfoot one handful and half. 
Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of 
cleer water till half be consumed; to 
two pound of the Decoction, add two 
pound of the juyce of Turnips baked 
in an Oven in a close pot, and with 
three pound of white Sugar boyl it in- 
to a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] This Syrup was com- 
posed against coughs, shortness of 
breath, and other the like infirmities 
of the Breast proceeding of cold, for 
which (if you can get it) you may 
take it with a Liquoris stick. 
Syrupus Capillorum Veneris. Page 53. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of 
Maiden-hair.  
Colledg.] Take of Liquoris two oun- 
ces. 
Maiden-hair five ounces. 
Steep them a natural day in four pound 
of warm water; then after gentle boyl- 
ing, and strong straining, with a pound 
and an half of fine Sugar make it into a 
Syrup.
Culpeper.] It opens stoppings of 
the stomach, strengthens the Lungs, 
and helps the infirmities of them. 
This may be taken also either with a 
Liquoris stick, or mixed with the Pe- 
ctoral Decoction like Syrup of colts- 
foot. 
Syrupus Cardiacus, vel Julepum Car- 
diacum. Page 53. Latin. Or, 
A Cordial Syrup.
Colledg.] Take of Rhenish Wine two 
pound. 
Rose water two ounces and an half. 
Cloves two scruples. 
Cinnamon half a dram. 
Ginger two scruples. 
Sugar three ounces and an half. 
Boyl it to the consistence of a Julep, ad- 
ding 
Amber-greece three grains. 
Musk one grain. 
Culpeper.] He that hath read thus 
far in this Book, and doth not know 
he must first boyl the simples in the 
Wine, and then strain them out be- 
fore he puts in the Sugar, is a man 
that in my opinion hath not wit e- 
nough to be taught to make up a 
Medicine; and the Colledg in their 
New Edition hath left it out. 
A. If you would have this Julep 
keep long, you may put in more 
Sugar, and yet if close stopped it wil 
not easily corrupt, because ’tis made 
up only of Wine; indeed the wisest 
way is to order the quan- 
tity of Sugar according 
to the * pallat of him 
that takes it. A. It 
restoreth such as are in 
consumptions, comforts 
the heart, cherisheth the 
drooping spirits, and is 
of an opening quality, thereby car- 
rying away those vapors which 
might otherwise annoy the brain and 
heart. You may take an ounce at a 
time, or two if you please.
* That la-
titude may
be given
safely in al
Composi-
tions. 
Syrupus infusionis florum Caryophillo- 
rum. Page 54. Latin. Syrup of 
Clove gilli-flowers. 
Colledg.] Take a pound of Clove-
gilli-flowers, the whites being cut 
off. 
Infuse them a whol night in two pound 
of water, then with four pound of Su- 
gar melted in it, make it into a Syrup 
without boyling. 
Culpeper. In their former, they ad- 
ded three pound of Water, if you 
would infuse them, you must do it at 
several times. A. The Syrup is a 
fine temperate Syrup; it strengthens 
the Heart, Liver, and Stomach; it 
refresheth the vital Spirits, and is a 
good cordial in feavers; and usually 
mixed with other Cordials, you can
hardly err in taking it, it is so harm- 
less a Syrup. 
Syrupus de Cinnamomo. Page 54. Latin 
Or, Syrup of Cinnamon. 
Colledg. Take of Cinnamon grosly
bruised, four ounces. 
Steep it in white Wine, and smal Cinna- 
mon water, of each half a pound, three 
daies in a glass by a gentle heat. 
Strain it, and with a pound and an half 
of Sugar boyl them gently to a 
Syrup. 
Culpeper.] This comes somthing 
neerer the Augustan Dispensatory
than their former did; it is not alto- 
gether the same: It refresheth the
vital 

117 SYRUPS. 
vital Spirits exceedingly, and cheer- 
eth both heart and stomach languish- 
ing through cold; it helps digestion 
exceedingly, and strengthens the 
whol Body. You may take a spoon- 
ful at a time in a Cordial. 
Colledg.] Thus also you may conveni- 
ently prepare Syrups (but only 
with white wine) 
Of Annis seeds, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, 
Cloves, 
Nutmegs, 
Ginger, &c. 
Syrupus Acetositatis Citriorum. Pag. 54. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Juyce of 
Citrons. 
Colledg. Take of the Juyce of Ci- 
trons, strained without expression, 
and clensed, a pound. 
Sugar two pound. 
Make it into a Syrup, like Syrup of 
Clove-gilli-flowers.
Culpeper.] It prevails against all 
diseases proceeding from Choller, or 
heat of blood, feavers, both Pesti- 
lential, and not Pestilential; it re- 
sisteth poyson, cools the Blood, 
quencheth thirst, cureth the vertigo, 
or diziness in the head.
Colledg.] After the same manner is 
made syrup of Grapes, 
Orrenges, 
Berberries,
Cherries, 
Quinces, 
Lemmons,
Wood-sorrel, 
Mul-berries, 
Sorrel, 
English Currance, 
And other sour Juyces. 
Culpeper. If you look the simples 
you may see the Vertues of them: 
they all cool and comfort the heart, 
and strengthen the stomach; syrup of 
Quinces staies vomiting, so doth also 
syrup of Grapes.
Syrupus Corticum Citriorum. Page 54. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Citron 
Pills. 
Colledg. Take of fresh yellow Citron 
Pills five ounces. 
Berries of Chermes, or the juyce of 
them brought over to us, two 
drams.
Spring water four pound. 
Steep them all night, boyl them till
half be consumed, taking off the 
scum, strain it, and with two 
pound and an half of sugar boyl it 
into a syrup. 
Let half of it be without Musk, but 
perfume the other half with three 
grains of Musk tied up n a
rag. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the sto- 
mach, resists poyson, strengthens the 
heart, and resists the passions thereof, 
palpitation, faintings, swooning; it 
strengthens the vital spirits, retores 
such as are in Consumptions, and He- 
ctick feavers, and strengthens Nature 
much. You may take a spoonful at a 
time. 
Syrupus è Coralliis simplex. Pag. 55. Lat. 
Or, Syrup of Coral, simple. 
Colledg.] Take of Red Coral in very 
fine pouder four ounces. 
Dissolve it in clarified Juyce of Barber- 
ries in the heat of a Bath, a pound; 
in a Glass well stopped with wax and 
cork, a digestion being made three or 
four daies, pour off what is dissolved, 
put in fresh clarified Juyce, and pro- 
ceed as before, repeat this so often till 
all the Coral be dissolved; lastly, to 
one pound of this juyce add a pound 
and an half of sugar, and boyl it to a 
syrup gently.
Syrupus è Coralliis compositus. Pag. 55. 
Latin. Or, syrup of Coral, 
compound. 
Colledg. Take of Red Coral six 
ounces, in very fine pouder, and 
Levigated upon a Marble, add 
Clarified juyce of Lemmons, the flegm 
being drawn off in a bath, sixteen 
ounces.
Clarified juyce of Barberries, eight 
ounces. 
Sharp wine Venegar, 
Juyce of Wood-sorrel, of each six 
ounces. 
Mix them together, and put them in 
a glass stopped with cork and bladder, 
shaking it every day til it have digested 
eight daies in a bath, or Hors-dung; 
then filter it, of which take a pound and 
an half. 
Juyce of Quinces half a pound. 
Sugar of Roses twelve ounces. 
Make them into a syrup in a Bath, 
adding Syrup of Clove-gilli-flowers six- 
teen ounces, keep it for use, omitting the 
half dram of Amber greece, and four 
grains of Musk til the Physitian com- 
mand it. 
Culpeper. Syrup of Coral both 
simple and compoud, restore such as 
are in consumptions, are of a gallant 
cooling nature, especially the last, and 
very cordial, special good for Hectick 
feavers, it stops fluxes, the running of 
the Reins, and the whites in Women, 
helps such as spit blood, and such as 
have the falling-sickness, it stayes the 
terms in Women: And indeed it had 
need be good for somthing, for it is 
exceeding costly. Half a spoonful in 
a morning is enough for the Body, 
and it may be to much for the 
purse.
Syrupus Cydoniorum. Page 56. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Quinces. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Quinces 
clarified six pound. 
Boyl it over a gentle fire till half of it 
be consumed, scumming it, adding 
Red Wine three pound. 
White sugar four pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup to be perfumed with 
a dram and an half of Cinnamon. 
Cloves, 
Ginger, of each two scruples. 
Culpeper. It strengthens the heart 
and stomach, staies loosness & vomi-
ting, relieves languishing Nature: for 
Loosness, take a spoonful of it before 
meat; for vomiting, after meat; for 
both, as also for the rest, in the mor- 
ning. 
Syrupus de Erysimo. Page 56. Latin 
Or, Syrup of Hedg-mustard. 
Colledg.] Take of Hedg-mustard fresh
six handfuls.
Roots of Alicampane, 
Colts-foot, 
Liquoris, of each two ounces. 
Borrage, 
Succory, Maiden-hair, of each 
a handful and an half. 
Cordial Flowers, 
Rosemary, 
Betony, of each half a handful. 
Annis seeds half an ounce.
Raisons of the Sun stoned, two ounces.
Let all being prepared according to 
Art 
Be boyled in a sufficient quantity of 
Barley water and Hydromel, with six 
ounces of Juyce of Hedg-mustard to two 
pound and an half; the which with three 
pound of Sugar; boyl into a Syrup ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper. It was invented against 
cold afflictions of the breast and 
lungs, as Asthmaes, hoarsness, &c. 
You may take it either with a liquo- 
ris stick, or which is better, mix an 
ounce of it with three or four ounces 
of Pectoral decoction, and drink it 
off warm in the morning.  
Syrupus de Fumaria. Page 56. Latin.
Or, Syrup of Fumitory. 
Colledg.] Take of Endive. 
Common Wormwood, 
Hops, 
Dodder, 
Harts-tongue, of each a hand- 
ful.
Epithimum an ounce and an half. 
Boyl them in four pound of water til half 
be consumed, strain it; and add 
Juyce of Fumitory a pound and an 
half.
Borrage,
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118 SYRUPS. 
Bugloss, of each half a pound. 
White sugar four pound. 
Make them into a syrup according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] The Receipt is a pretty 
concoctor of Melancholly, and there- 
fore a rational help for diseases ari- 
sing thence, both internal and exter- 
nal: it helps diseases of the Skin, as 
Leprosies, Cancers, Warts, Corns, 
Itch, Tetters, Ringworms, Scabs, &c. 
and it is the better to be liked be- 
cause of its gentleness, for in my ex- 
perience, I could never find a violent 
Medicine do good, but ever harm in 
a Melancholly disease (for Melan- 
cholly is a sad sullen humor, you had 
as good vex a nest of wasps as vex it) 
It also strengthens the Stomach and 
Liver, opens obstructions, and is a 
sovereign remedy for Hypochon- 
driack Melancholly. You may add 
an ounce of this to the Decoction of 
Epithimum before mentioned, and 
order your body as you were taught 
there. It helps surfets exceedingly, 
clenseth, cooleth, and strengtheneth 
the Liver, and causeth it to make 
good Blood, and good blood cannot 
make bad Flesh. I commend this 
Receipt to those whose Bodies are 
subject to scabs and Itch. If you 
please you may take two ounces by it 
self every morning. 
Syrupus de Glycyrrhiza. Page 56. Lat. 
Or, syrup of Liquoris. 
Colledg. Take of Green liquoris scra- 
ped and bruised two ounces. 
White Maiden-hair an ounce.
Dried Hysop half an ounce. 
Steep these in four pound of hot water: 
after twenty four hours boyl it til half be 
consumed: strain it, and clarifie it, and 
with 
Honey,
Penids, 
Sugar, of each eight ounces. 
Make it into a syrup, adding before it be 
perfectly boyled, 
Red Rose water six ounces.
Culpeper.] It clenseth the Breast 
and Lungs, and helps continual 
coughs and pleuresies. You may 
take it with a Liquoris stick, and ad 
an ounce of it or more to the Pecto- 
ral Decoction. 
Syrupus Granatorum cum Aceto; vul-
go, Oxysaccharum simplex Page 57. 
Latin. Or, sprup of Pomgra- 
nats with Vinegar.
Colledg. Take of white sugar a pound 
and an half. 
Juyce of Pomegranats eight ounces. 
White Wine Vinegar, four ounces. 
Boyl it gently into a syrup. 
Culpeper. Look the vertue of Pom- 
granates among the simples. 
Virtues newly added. 
It quenches thirst in burning Fea- 
vers, cuts tough Flegm and fits it for 
expectoration, also it corrects the 
boyling heat and Malignity of Cho- 
ler. 
Syrupus de Hyssopo. Page 57. Latin. 
Or, syrup of Hissop. 
Colledg. Take eight pound of spring 
water. 
Half an ounce of Barley. 
Boyl it about half an hour, then add 
Roots of Smalladge,
Parsly,
Fennel,
Liquoris, of each ten drams. 
Jujubes,
Sebestens, of each fifteen.
Raisons of the sun stoned, an ounce 
and an half.
Figs,
Dates, of each ten. 
Seeds of Mallows,
Quinces, 
Gum Tragacanth tied up in a rag, of 
each three drams.
Hysop meanly dried, ten drams. 
Maiden-hair six drams. 
Boyl them together, yet so, that the 
Roots may precede the Fruits, the Fruits 
the seeds, and the seeds the Herbs, about 
a quarter of an hour; at last, five pounds 
of water being consumed, boyl the other 
three (being first strained and clarified) 
into a Syrup with 
Two pound and an half of sugar.
Culpeper. A. It mightily streng- 
thens the breast and Lungs (by the 
breast I alwaies mean that which is 
called Thorax) causeth long wind, 
cleer voyce, is a good remedy against 
coughs. Use it like the syrup of 
Liquoris.
Syrupus Ivæ Arthriticæ, five chamæ- 
pityos. Page 57. Latin. Or, 
sprup of Chamepitys, 
or Ground pine.
Colledg. Take of Chamepitys, two 
handfuls. 
Sage, 
Rosemary, 
Poley mountain, 
Origanum, 
Calaminth, 
Wild mints, 
Penyroal, 
Hysup,
Time,
Rue, garden and wild, 
Betony, 
Mother of Time, of each a handful. 
Roots of Acorns,
Birthwort long and round, 
Briony, 
Dittany, 
Gentian,
Hogs Fennel, 
Valerian, of each half an ounce. 
Smallage,
Sparagus, 
Fennel,
Roots of Parsly,
Bruscus, of each an ounce. 
Pellitory of spain, an ounce and 
an half. 
Stœchas, 
Seeds of Annis, 
Ammi, 
Carroway, 
Fennel, 
Lovage, 
Hartwort, of each three drams. 
Raisons of the Sun two ounces. 
Boyl them in ten pound of water to four,
to which ad  
Honey. 
Sugar, of each two pound. 
Mafe it into a syrup to be perfumed
with. 
Sugar, 
Nutmegs, 
Cubebs, of each three drams. 
Virtues newly added. 
It dries and strengthens the Brain
Nerves and Joynts; and digests Gouty 
humors and fits them for evacuation.
It is good for the Head-ach procee- 
ding from a cold cause. It opens 
obstructions, expels wind and moves
Urine. 
Syrupus Jujubinus. Page 58. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Jujubes. 
Colledg.] Take of Jujubes, 
Violets, five drams. 
Maiden-hair,
Liquoris, 
French barley, of each an ounce. 
Seeds of Mallows five drams. 
White Poppies, 
Melones,
Lettice, 
[Seed of Quinces and Gum Traga- 
canth tied up in a rag] of each 
three drams. 
Boyl them in six pound of rain or
spring water till half be consumed, strain
it, and with 
Two pound of Sugar. 
Make it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] A. It is a fine cooling 
Syrup, very available in coughs, 
hoarsness, and Pleuresies, Ulcers of 
the Lungs and Bladder, as also in all 
inflamations whatsoever. You may
take a spoonful of it once in three or 
four hours, or if you please take it
with a liquoris stick. 
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119 SYRUPS. 
Syrupus de Meconio, five Diacodium. 
Page 58. Latin. Syrup of Meconi-   
um, or Diacodium.
Colledg.] Take of white Poppy heads 
with their seeds, gathered a little 
after the flowers are fallen off, and 
kept three daies, eight ounces. 
Black Poppy heads (so ordered) six 
ounces.
Rain water eight pound. 
Steep them twenty four hours; then 
boyl and press them gently; boyl it to 
three pounds, and with twenty four oun- 
ces of Sugar boyl it into a syrup accor- 
ding to art.
Syrupus de Meconio compositus. Pag. 59.
Latin. Or, Syrup of Meconium 
Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of white aud black 
Poppy heads with their seeds, fifty 
drams. 
Maiden-hair fifteen drams. 
Jujubes thirty. 
Seeds of Lettice, fourty drams. 
Mallows and Quinces tied up in a 
rag, a dram and an half. 
Liquoris five drams. 
Water eight pound. 
Boyl it according to art, strain it, and 
to three pound of Decoction, ad 
Sugar, 
Penids, of each one pound. 
Make it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] Meconium (the blush 
of which, this Receipt carries in its 
Frontispiece) is nothing else but the 
juyce of English Poppies boyled til it 
be thick: As I am of opinion that 
Opium is nothing else but the juyce 
of Poppies growing in hotter Coun- 
tries (for such Opium as Authors talk 
of comes from Utopia) and therefore in 
all reason is colder in quality) and 
therefore (I speak purely of Meconi- 
um and Opium, not of these Syrups) 
though they be no edg tools, yet ’tis 
ill jesting with them. A. All these 
former syrups of Poppies provokes 
sleep; but in that, I desire they may 
be used with a great deal of caution 
and wariness; such as these are, are 
not fit to be given in the beginning 
of Feavers, not to such whose bodies 
are costive: ever remember my for- 
mer Motto, Fools are not fit to make 
Physitians: yet to such as are troub- 
led with hot sharp rhewms, you may 
safely give them: and note this, The 
last, which is borrowed from Mesue, 
is appropriated to the Lungs, whose 
own words (translation excepted) of 
it are these: It prevails against dry 
coughs, Ptisicks, hot and sharp 
gnawing Rhewms, and provokes 
sleep. It is an usual fashion for 
Nurses when they have heat their 
milk by exercise or strong Liquor) no 
marvel then if their Children be fro- 
ward) then run for syrup of Poppies 
to make their yong ones sleep. I 
would fain have that fashion left, 
therefore I forbear the dose; let 
Nurses keep their own bodies tem- 
perate, and their Children will sleep 
well enough, never fear. 
Syrupus Melissophylli. Page 59. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Bawm. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of Bugloss 
Roots, an ounce. 
Roots of white Dittany. 
Sinkfoyl,
Scorzonera, of each half an ounce. 
Leaves of Bawm,
Scabious, 
Devils-bit, 
Flowers of both sorts of Bugloss,
Rosemary, of each a handful. 
Seeds of Sorrel, 
Citrons, 
Fennel, 
Cardus, 
Bazil, of each three drams. 
Boyl them in four pound of water til half 
be consumed; strain it, and add 
Three pound of white sugar. 
Juyce of Bawm,
Rosewater, of each half a pound. 
Boyl them to a syrup, the which perfume 
with 
Cinnamon, 
Yellow Sanders, of each half an 
ounce. 
Culpeper.] The Scorzonera Roots, 
and Bugloss Roots are added, and 
the Bettony Roots left out, that 
is all the alteration: A. Alwaies 
tie Perfumes up in a rag, and hang 
them into the Syrup by a string when 
it boyls; and hang them by a string 
in a vessel (be it pot or glass) that 
you may keep the Syrup in, being
boyled. A. It is an excellent Cor- 
dial, and strengthens the heart, breast, 
and stomach: it resisteth Melanchol- 
!y, revives the spirits, is given with 
good success in Feavers, it streng- 
theneth the Memory, and relieves 
languishing Nature. You may take 
a spoonful of it at a time.
Syrupus de Mentha. Page 59. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Mints. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Quinces 
sweet, and between sweet and 
sour, 
Juyce of Pomegranates sweet, between 
sweet and sour, of each a pound 
and an half. 
Dried Mints half a pound. 
Red Roses two ounces, let them lie in
steep one day, then 
Boyl it half away, and with four 
pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup ac-
cording to Art. Perfume it not unless
the Physitian command. 
Culpeper.] The Syrup is in quality 
binding, yet it comforts the Stomach 
much, helps digestion, staies vomi- 
ting, and is (in my opinion) as ex- 
cellent a Remedy against sour or of- 
fensive belchings, as any is in the 
Dispensatory. Take a spoonful of it 
after meat. 
Syrupus de Mucilaginibus. Page. 60
Latin. Or, Syrup of Mucilages. 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds of Marsh-
mallows. 
Seeds of Mallows, 
Quinces, of each an ounce,
Gum Tragacanth three drams, 
Let these infuse six hours in warm 
Decoction of 
Mallows, 
White Poppy seeds, 
Winter Cherries, 
Then press out the Mucilage to an ounce
and an half: with which, and three 
ounces of the aforesaid Decoction, and 
two ounces of Sugar, make a syrup ac- 
cording to Art. 
Culpeper.] A spoonful taken by it 
self, or in any convenient liquor is 
excellent for any sharp corroding 
Humors be they in what part of the 
Body soever, phtisicks, bloody flux, 
stone in the Reins or Bladder, or Ul- 
cers there: it is excellent good for 
such as have taken purges that are 
too strong for their bodies, for by its 
slippery Nature it helps corrosions, 
and by it cooling help Inflama- 
tions.  
Syrupus Myrtinus. Page 60. Latin.
Or, Syrup of Mirtles. 
Colledg.] Take of Mirtle Berries two
ounces and an half. 
Sanders white and red, 
Sumach, 
Balaustines, 
Barberry stones, 
Red Roses, of each an ounce and an
half. 
Medlars half a pound. 
Boyl them in eight pound of water to
four: strain it, and add 
Juyce of Quinces, 
Sowr Pomegranates, of each six oun-
ces.
Then with three pound of sugar. 
Boyl it into a syrup.
Culpeper.] The syrup is of a very 
binding, yet comforting Nature, it
helps such as spit blood, all fluxes of
the Belly, or corrosions of the inter- 
nal parts, it strengthens the retentive 
faculty, and stops immodetate flux 
of the Terms in Women. A spoonful 
at a time is the dose.
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120 SYRUPS. 
Syrupus Florum Nymphææ simplex. 
Pag. 60. Lat. Or, Syrup of Water 
Lilly flowers, simple.
Colledg.] Take of the whitest of white 
Water-lilly flowers, a pound. 
Steep them in three pound of warm 
water six or seven hours; let them boyl 
a little, and strain them out: put in the 
same weight of flowers again the second 
and third time: when you have strained 
it the last time, add its weight of Sugar 
to it, and boyl it to a Syrup.
Those that would give help against 
al Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, 
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor. 
Syrupus Florum Nymphææ compositus. 
Page 60. Latin. Or, syrup of 
Water-lilly flowers, compound. 
Colledg.] Take of white Water-Lilly-
flowers half a pound. 
Violets two ounces.
Lettice two handfuls. 
Seeds of Lettice, 
Purslain, 
Guords, of each half an ounce. 
Boyl them in four pound of cleer water 
til one be consumed. 
Strain it and add 
Red Rose water, half a pound. 
White Sugar four pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.] They both are fine coo- 
ling syrups, they allay the heat of 
choler, and provoke sleep, they cool 
the body, both head, heart, liver, reins 
and matrix, and therefore are profi- 
table for hot diseases in either: you 
may take an ounce of it at a time 
when your Stomach is empty.
Syrupus de Papavere Erratico, sive 
Rubro. Pag. 61. Latin. Or, Syrup 
of Erratick Poppy. 
Colledg.] Take of the fresh flowers of 
Red Poppies two pound. 
Steep them in four pound of warm 
spring water. 
The next day strain it, and boyl it 
into a Syrup with its equal weight 
in sugar.
Culpeper.] I know no danger in 
this syrup, so it be taken with mode- 
ration, and bread immoderately ta- 
ken, hurts: the syrup cools the blood 
helps surfets, and may safely be gi- 
ven in Frenzies, Feavers, and hot 
Agues.
Syrupus de Pitosella. Page 61. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Mousear. 
Colledg. Take of Mousear three hand- 
fuls. 
Roots of Ladies mantle, an ounce and an 
half. 
Comfry the greater, 
Maddir, 
White Dittany, 
Tormentil, 
Bistort, of each an ounce. 
Leaves of Wintergreen, 
Horstail, 
Ground lvy,
Plantane, 
Adders Tongue, 
Strawberries, 
St. Johns-wort with the flowers. 
Golden Rod, 
Agrimony, 
Bettony,
Burnet, 
Avens, 
Sinkfoyl the greater,
Red Coleworts, 
Balaustines, 
Red Roses, of each a handful. 
Boyl them gently in six pound of Plan- 
tane water to three. 
Then strain it strongly, and when it is 
setled, add 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Seeds of Fleawort, 
Marsh-mallows, 
Quinces, made into a Mucilage 
by themselves in strawberry 
and bettony water, of each three 
ounces.
White sugar two pound. 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper. It is profitable for woun- 
ded people to take, for it is drying 
and healing, and therefore good for 
Ruptures. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Syrup was designed I con- 
ceive to help Consumptions of the 
Lungs, being Drying, Healing, coo- 
ling, fastening. It is good against 
coughs and spittings of Blood, stops 
all defluxions of Rheum from the 
Braine, helps Dysenteries, the whites 
in women; strengthens the back, and 
stops a simple Gonorrhæa. Also it 
may help Barrenness arising from the 
flashyness of the seed, slipperyness of 
the Matrix, and Loosness of the Se- 
minal parts. An ounce may be taken 
at a time. 
Syrupus infusionis florum Pæoniæ. Pag. 
62. Latin. Or, syrup of the in- 
fusion of Peony Flowers. 
Colledg.] It is prepared just for all the 
world like syrup of Clove-gilli-flo- 
wers.
Culpeper.] See Syrup of Meconium 
for the Vertues. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is good for Convulsions and 
Epilepsies, and other infirmities ari- 
sing from a cold moist and weake 
Braine and Nerves. Half an ounce 
or an ounce may be given in Black- 
cherrie water in the morning, and at 
four in the after noone. 
Syrupus de Pæonia compositus. Page 62.
Latin. Or, Syrup of Peony 
Compound.
Colledg.] Take of the Roots of both 
sorts of Peony taken up at the ful 
Moon, cut in slices, and steeped 
in white Wine a whol day, of each 
an ounce and an half. 
Contra yerva half an ounce. 
Siler mountain six drams. 
Elks claws and ounce. 
Rosemary with the flowers on, one 
handful. 
Bettony, 
Hysop,  
Origanum, 
Chamepitys, 
Rue, of each three drams. 
Wood of Aloes,
Cloves, 
Cardamoms the less, of each two 
drams. 
Ginger, 
Spicknard, of each a dram. 
Stœchas, 
Nutmegs, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Boyl them after one daies warm digestion, 
in a sufficient quantily of distilled wa- 
ter of Peony Roots, to four pound. 
In which (being strained through Hip- 
pocrates his sleeve) put four pound 
and an half of white Sugar, and boyl 
it to a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] It is somwhat costly to 
buy, and as troublesom to make; a 
spoonful of it taken, helps the Falling- 
sickness, and convulsions. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is more effectual then the for- 
mer for all Diseases of the Brain and 
Nerves arising from a cold cause. It 
quickens the Eye sight, is good
against Head-ach, and stops deflucti- 
ons of Rheume. Also it comforts a 
cold stomach.  
Syrupus de Pomis alterans. Pag. 62. Lat.  
Or, Syrup of Apples alterative. 
Colledg. Take four pound of the juyce 
of sweet scented Apples. 
Juyce of Bugloss, garden and wild. 
Violet Leaves, 
Rose water, of each a pound. 
Boyl them together, and clarifie them, 
and with six pound of pure Sugar, boyl 
it into a Syrup according to art. 
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121 SYRUPS. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling sy-
rup for such whose hearts and sto- 
machs are overpressed with heat, and 
may safely be given in Feavers, for it 
rather loosens than binds: it breeds 
good blood, and is profitable in He- 
ctick Feavers, and for such as are trou-  
bled with palpitation of the heart, it 
quenches thirst admirably in Feavers, 
and staies Hiccoughs. You may take 
an ounce of it at a time in the mor- 
ning, or when you need. 
Virtues newly added. 
This syrup is designed to temper 
and digest Melancholy and black- 
choler. It chears the Hearts and 
spirits of Hypochondriacal and all 
other Melancholick Persons. An 
ounce or two may be taken in a mor- 
ning in Borrage water, and as much 
in the after-noon. Such as are Me- 
lancholick and cannot forbear Wine, 
may sweeten their cups therewith. 
A pinte of Cider sweetned with a 
spoonful or two of this syrup, is a 
good cordial Julep for a Melancho- 
lick Person.
Syrupus de Prasio. Page 62. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Horehound. 
Colledg. Take of white Horehound 
fresh, two ounces. 
Liquoris, 
Polipodium of the Oak, 
Fennel, 
Smallage roots, of each half an ounce. 
White Maiden-hair,
Origanum, 
Hysop, 
Calaminth, 
Time,
Savory, 
Scabious, 
Coltsfoot, of each six dram. 
Seeds of Annis, 
Cotten, of each three drams. 
Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces. 
Fat Figs ten, 
Boyl them in eight pound of Hydromel 
til half be consumed, boyl the Decoction 
into a Syrup, with 
Honey, 
Sugar, of each two pound. 
And perfume it with an ounce of the 
roots of Orris Florentine.
Culpeper.] It is appropriated to the 
breast and Lungs, and is a fine clen- 
ser to purge them from thick and pu- 
trified flegm, it helps Ptisicks and 
Coughs, and diseases subject to old 
men, and cold natures. Take it with 
a Liquoris stick. Both this Receipt 
and the former Fernelius was the Au- 
thor of.
Syrupus de quings Radicibus. Page 63. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of the five 
opening Roots. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Smal- 
lage. 
Roots of Fennel, 
Parsly,
Bruscus, 
Sparagus, of each two ounces. 
Spring water six pound. 
Boyl away the third part, and make a 
syrup with the rest according to art, with 
three pound of sugar, adding eight ounces 
of white wine Vinegar, towards the lat- 
ter end. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth and openeth 
very well, is profitable against ob-  
structions, provokes Urine, clenses 
the Body of flegm, and is safely and 
profitably given in the beginning of 
Feavers. An ounce at a time upon 
an empty stomach is a good dose.  
Srrupus Rhaphani. Page 63. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Rhadishes. 
Colledg.] Take of Garden and wild 
Rhadish Roots, of each an ounce. 
Roots of white Saxifrage, 
Lovage, 
Bruscus, 
Eringo, 
Rest harrow, 
Parsly, 
Fennel, of each half an ounce. 
Leaves of Betony,
Burnet,
Penyroyal, 
Nettles, 
Water-cresses, 
Sampier, 
Maiden-hair, of each one hand- 
ful.
Winter-Cherries,
Jujubes, of each ten. 
Seeds of Bazil,
Bur, 
Parsly of Macedonia, 
Hartwort, 
Caraway, 
Carrots, 
Gromwel,
Bark of the root of Bay-tree, of each 
two drams.
Raisons of the Sun stoned. 
Liquoris, of each six drams. 
Boyl them in twelve pound of water to 
eight. 
Strain it, and with 
Sugar four pound. 
Honey two pound. 
Make it into a syrup, and perfume it 
with 
Cinnamon, an ounce. 
Nutmegs half an ounce. 
Culpeper.] A tedius long Medi- 
cine for the stone. 
Vertues newly added. 
This syrup hath been invented for 
to bring away Urine and Gravel and 
to prevent the stone in those that are 
subject thereunto. It clears the Kid- 
neys and Bladder of such filth as 
might in time breed the stone. But 
the patient must be first duly purged. 
It is also good against the Scurvy 
and opens all obstructions of the in- 
ternal Bowels. It is proper for those 
that are enclined to the dropsie uni- 
versal Remedies having been duly 
premised. Half an ounce, an ounce, 
or an ounce and half or more, when 
there is no fear of bringing down a 
churlish stone too suddenly into the 
Ureters, may be given in saxifrage 
or fennel water, or Purslane water. 
When there are actual stones in the 
Kidneys or Bladder it is good to 
mingle a like quantity of syrup of 
Marsh-mallows, and to give them 
in posset drink or clear whey war- 
med. 
Syrupus Regius, aliâs Julapeum Al-
exandrinum. Page 64. Latin. Or,
Syrup Roial, or Alexandrian 
Julep and Julep of Roses. 
Colledg.] Boyl four pound of Rose- 
water, 
White Sugar one pound, into a 
Julep. 
Julep of Roses is made with Damask 
Rose water, in the very same man- 
ner.
Culpeper. Two fine cooling drinks 
in the heat of Summer. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Juleps refresh languishing per- 
sons, that in feavers or otherwise are 
subject to swoonings and fainting 
fits. They moderate thirst and streng- 
then the Heart. 
Syrupus de Roses siccis. Page 64. Latin.
Or, Syrup of dried Roses.
Colldg] Make four pound of spring
water hot. 
In which infuse a pound of dried 
Roses, by some at a time, press
them out. 
And with two pound of Sugar. 
Boyl it into a Syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.] If you boyl it, it will 
lose Color (in Syrups made of Decocti- 
ons, the color is not so material) and 
Vertue, therefore be pleased to ac- 
cept of this one general Rule, It is 
not best to boyl any syrups made of 
Infusions, but by adding the double 
weight of Sugar (viz. Two pound of 
Sugar to each pint of Infusion) melt 
it over a fire only. A. Syrup of 
dried Roses, strengthens the heart, 
comforts the spirits, bindeth the 
body, helps fluxes, and corrosions, 
or gnawings of the Guts, it streng- 
the stomach, and staies vomiting. 
You may take an ounce at a time, 
before meat, if for Fluxes; after
meat, if for vomiting.
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122 SYRUPS. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Syrup enclines to sleep by 
suppressing hot vapors and fumes 
that ascend from the lower parts into 
the brain, half an ounce or an ounce 
may be given in Cowslip or Lettice 
water. But a Clyster or Suppository  
must be premised in case the Patient  
be costive or else it will do little 
good, and may also hurt. 
Syrupus Scabiosæ. Page 64. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Scabious. 
Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Ali-
campane, 
Polypodium of the Oak, of each two 
ounces. 
Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce. 
Sebestens twenty. 
Coltsfoot, 
Lungwort, 
Savory, 
Calaminth, of each a handful and an 
half. 
Liquoris, 
Spanish Tobacca, of each half an 
ounce. 
Seeds of Nettles,  
Cotten, of each three drams. 
Boyl them all (the roots being infused in 
white Wine the day before) in a sufficient 
quantity of wine and water to eight oun- 
ces; strain it, and adding 
Juyce of Scabious, four ounces. 
Sugar ten ounces. 
Boyl it to a syrup, adding to it 
Oyl of Sulphur twenty drops.
Culpeper.] It is a clensing syrup ap- 
propriated to the Breast and Lungs:
when you perceive them oppressed
by flegm, crudities, or stoppings, 
your remedy is to take now and then 
a spoonful of this syrup; it is taken 
also with good success by such as are 
itchy, or scabby, 
Vertues newly added.
This syrup is good for Coughs en- 
clining to a Consumption. It opens 
obstructions of the Spleen and stops 
an immoderate flux of the whites. 
An ounce may be taken in Coltsfoot 
water, or Scabious water. 
Syrupus de scdopendrio. Page 45. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Hartstongue.
Colledg.] Take of Hartstongue three 
handful.
Polypodium of the Oak, 
Roots of both sorts of Bugloss,
Bark of the roots of Capars, 
Tamaris, of each two ounces. 
Hops, 
Dodder, 
Maidenhair, 
Bawm, of each two handfuls. 
Boyl them in nine pound of spring water 
to five, and strain it, and with 
White Sugar four pound. 
Make it into a syrup according to art. 
Culpeper. It helps the stoppings of 
Melancholly, opens Obstructions of 
the Liver and Spleen, and is profit- 
able aginst Splenetick evils, and 
therefore is a choyce Remedy for the 
Disease which the vulgar cal the Ric- 
kets, or Liver grown: A spoonful in 
a morning is a precious Remedy for 
Children troubled with that Disease. 
Men that are troubled with the 
Spleen, which is known by pain and 
hardness in their left side, may take 
three or four spoonfuls, they shall 
find this one Receipt worth the price 
of the whol Book. 
Syrupus de Stœchade. Page 65. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Stœchas Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Stœchas flowers 
four ounces, 
Rosemary-flowers half an ounce. 
Time, 
Calaminth, 
Origanum, of each an ounce and an 
half, 
Sage, 
Betony, of each half an ounce. 
Seeds of Rue, 
Peony, 
Fennel, of each three drams. 
Spring water ten pound. 
BoyL it till half be consumed, and with 
Honey, 
Sugar, of each two pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup, which perfume with 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each two
drams tied up in a rag. 
Vertues newly added. 
This syrup is fitted to strengthen 
the Brain, Nerves and Joynts. It 
therefore helps Convulsions, Epilep- 
sies, Tremblings of the Hands, 
Head-aches and Joynt pains, pro- 
ceeding from cold causes. It warms 
a cold stomach and Matrix and helps 
Barrenness in Women, arising from 
the over plashyness and moorish dis- 
position of the Feild of Nature. It 
may be given from half an ounce, to 
an ounce and half, or two ounces, 
in sage or Betony water in the mor- 
ning, and at four in the afternoon, 
and an hour before bed-time to wo- 
men disordered as aforesaid. 
Syrupus de Symphyto. Page 65. Latin. 
Or, syrup of Comfry. 
Colledg.] Take of roots and tops of 
Comfry, the greater and lesser, of 
each three handfuls. 
Red Roses, 
Bettony, 
Plantane,
Burnet, 
Knot-grass, 
Scabious, 
Coltsfoot, of each two handfuls. 
Press the Juyce out of them all being 
green and bruised, boyl it, scum it, and 
strain it; add its weight of sugar to it 
that it may be made into a syrup accor- 
ding to Art. 
Culpeper. The syrup is excellent 
for all inward Wounds and Bruises, 
Excoriations Vomitings, spittings, 
or Pissings of Blood; it unites bro- 
ken Bones, helps Ruptures, and 
stops the Terms in Women: You can- 
not er in taking of it. 
Syrupus Violarum. Page 65. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Violets. 
Colledg.] Take of Violet flowers fresh 
and picked, a pound. 
Cleer water made boyling hot, two 
pound. 
Shut them up close together into a new 
Glazed pot, a whol day, then press 
them hard out, and in two pound of 
the Liquor, dissolve 
White Sugar four pound and three 
ounces; take away the scum, and so 
make it into a syrup without boy- 
ling. 
Syrup of the Juyce of Violets is made 
with its double weight of Sugar, like 
the former. 
Culpeper.] This latter syrup is far 
more chargable than the former and 
in all reason is better, although I ne- 
ver knew it used; they both of them 
cool and moisten, and that very gent-
ly, they correct the sharpness of chol- 
ler, and give ease in hot diseases of 
the breast, they quench thirst in acute 
Feavers, and resist the heat of the dis- 
ease; they comfort hot stomachs ex- 
ceedingly, cool the Liver and Heart, 
and resist putrifaction, pestilence, and 
Poyson. It is so harmless a syrup, 
you shal hurt your Purse by it sooner 
than your Body. 
Colledg.] Julep of Violets is made of 
the water of Violet flowers and su- 
gar, like Julep of Roses. 
Culpeper.] It is cooling and plea- 
sant for the Gentry when they are hot 
with walking, for few of them much
trouble their study.
Vertues newly added.
This tempers choler in feavers ari-
sing therefrom. It quenches thirst
and gently invites sleep into the 
wearied Eye-lides. You may drink
thereof at pleasure. 
Purging


123 SYRUPS.         
Purging Syrups. 
Syrupus de Cicborio cum Rhubarbaro. 
Or, Syrup of Succory 
with Rhubarb.
Colledg.] TAke of whole Barley. 
Roots of Smallage. 
Roots of Fennel, 
Sparagus, of each two ounces. 
Succory, 
Dandelion,
Endive, 
Smooth Sow-thistles, of each two 
handfuls. 
Lettice, 
Liverwort, 
Fumitory, 
Tops of Hops, of each one handful. 
Maiden-hair white and black, 
Cetrach, 
Liquoris, 
Winter-Cherries, 
Doddar, of each six drams. 
To boyl these take sixteen pound of spring 
water 
Strain the Liquor, and boyl in it six 
pound of white Sugar, adding towards 
the end 
Rhubarb, six ounces. 
Spicknard, six drams bound up in a 
thin and slack rag, the which crush
often in boyling, and so make it
into a syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.] This Receipt (without 
a name) was borrowed from Nicho- 
laus Florentinus; the difference is on- 
ly in the quantity of the Rhubarb, 
and spike, besides the order inverted, 
whose own approbation of it runs in 
these terms, A. It clensth the Body 
of venemous Humors, as Boyls, Car- 
buncles, and the like; prevails a- 
gainst Pestilential Feavers, it streng- 
thens the heart and nutritive vertue, 
purgeth by stool and urine, it makes 
a man have a good stomach to his 
meat, and provokes sleep. A. But 
by my Authors leave, I never ac- 
counted Purges to be proper Physick 
in Pestilential Feavers; this I belee- 
ve; the syrup clenseth the Liver wel, 
and is exceeding good for such as 
are troubled with Hypochondriack 
Melancholly, The strong may take 
two ounces at a time; the weak one: 
Or you may mix an ounce of it with 
the Decoction of Senna. 
Syrupus de Epithymo. Page 67. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Epithimum. 
Colledg.] Take of Epithimum twenty 
drams. 
Mirobalans,
Citron, 
Indian, of each fifteen drams,
Emblicks,
Belloricks,
Polypodium, 
Liquoris, 
Agrick, 
Time, 
Calaminth,
Bugloss, 
Stœchas, of each six drams, 
Dodder, 
Fumitory, of each ten drams. 
Red Roses, 
Annis-seeds, 
Sweet Fenuel seeds of each two drams 
and an half. 
* Sweet Prunes ten, [* Would I 
could see them: truly if ye would 
have them, I doubt you must go 
to Arabia where Mesue dwelt.] 
Raisons of the Sun stoned four oun- 
ces. 
Tamarinds two ounces and an half. 
After twenty four hours infusion, in 
ten pints of spring water, boyl it away 
to six, then take it from the fire and 
strain it, and with 
Fine Sugar five pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup according to Art.
Culpeper. It is best to put in the 
Dodder, Stœchas and Agrik, towards 
the latter end of the Decoction. A.
This Receipt was Muse’s, only 
instead of five pound of Sugar, 
Mesue appoints four pound of sugar 
and two pound of sapa (the making 
of which shal be shewed in its proper 
place) and truly in my opinion the 
Receipts of Mesue are generally the 
best in al the Dispensatory, because 
the simples are so pertinent to the 
purpose intended, they are not made 
up of the mess of hodgpodg as ma- 
ny others are: but to the purpose. It 
purgeth Melancholly, and other hu- 
mors, it strengtheneth the stomach 
and Liver, clenseth the body of ad- 
dust choller and addnst blood, as al- 
so of salt humors, and helps Diseases
proceeding from these, as scabs, ltch, 
Tetters, ring-wormes, leprosie &c. 
and the truth is, I like it better for
its gentleness, for I never fancied vio- 
lent Medicines in Melancholly Dis- 
eases. A mean man may take two 
ounces at a time, or add one ounce 
to the Decoction of Epithimum. 
Syrupus è Floribus Persicorum. Pag. 68. 
Lat. Or, Syrup of Peach-flowers. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Peach-flowers 
a pound. 
Steep them a whol day in three pound of 
warm water, then boyl it a little and 
strain it out, repeat this infusion five 
times in the same Liquor. 
In three pound of which dissolve two 
pound and an half of sugar and 
boyl it into a syrup.  
Culpeper.] It is a gentle Purger 
of Choller, and may be given even 
in feavers to draw away the sharp 
chollerick Humors according to the 
opinion of Andernacus, whose Re- 
ceipt (all things considered) differs 
little from this. 
Syrupus de Pomis purgans. Pag. 68. Lat.
Or, Syrup of Apples, purging. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of sweet
smelling Apples two pound. 
Juyce of Borrage, 
Bugloss, of each one pound and an 
half. 
Senna two ounces.
Annis seeds half an ounce. 
Saffron one dram. 
Let the Senna be steeped in the juyces 
twenty four hours, and after a walm or 
two strain it, and with 
Two pound of White sugar, boyl it to  
a Syrup according to art: The Saffron 
being tied up in a rag, and often crushed 
in the boyling. 
Culpeper.] Mesue apoints Senna 
Cods, and so do the Augustan Phy- 
sitians, viz. the husk that holds the 
seeds; and the COLLEDG alte- 
red that and added the Annis seeds, 
I suppose to correct the Senna, and 
in so doing they did well. The Syrup 
is a pretty cooling purge, and tends 
to rectifie the distempers of the 
blood, it purgeth choller and Melan- 
cholly, and therefore must needs be 
effectual both in yellow and black 
Jaundice, madness, scurf, Leprosie, 
and scabs, It is very gentle and for 
that I commend both the Receipt 
and Mesue the Author of it. The dose 
is from one ounce to three, accor- 
ding as the body is in age and 
strength. An ounce of it in the mor- 
ning is excellent for such children as 
break out in scabs. 
Syrupus de Pomis Magistralis. Page. 68
Latin. Or, syrup of Apples 
Magisterial. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce and water 
of Apples of each a pound and an 
half. 
Juyce and water of Borrage and 
Bugloss, of each nine ounces. 
Senna half a pound. 
Seeds of Annis,
Sweet Fennel, of each three drams. 
Epithimum of * Creet [* and why 
of Creet? There grew most
Time upon Himettus in Greece, 
and Hybla in Sycilia and so by 
consequence most Epithimum]
two ounces. 
Agrick,
Rhubarb, of each half an ounce, 
Ginger, 
Mace of each four scruples,
Cinnamon two scruples,
Saffron, 


124 SYRUPS. 
Saffron half a dram. 
Infuse the Rhubarb and Cinnamon a- 
part by it self 
In white Wine, 
Juyce of Apples, of each two ounces. 
Let all the rest, the saffron excepted, 
be steeped in the Waters above mentio- 
ned, and the next day put in the Juyces, 
which being boyled, scummed and strai- 
ned, then with 
Four ounces of white Sugar. 
Boyl it into a syrup, crushing the saf- 
fron in it being tied up in a linnen rag, 
the infusion of the Rhubarb being added 
at the latter end. 
Culpeper.] Out of doubt this is a 
gallant Syrup to purge adust Choller 
and Melancholly, and to resist mad- 
ness. I know no better purge for 
such as are almost, or altogether di- 
stracted by Melancholly, than one 
ounce of this mixed with four ounces 
of the Decoction of the Epthimum, 
ordering their bodies as they were 
taught. 
Syrupus de Rhubarbaro. Page 69. Lat. 
Or, Syrup of Rhubarb. 
Colledg. Take of the best Rhubarb. 
Senna, of each two ounces and an 
half. 
Violet flowers a handful. 
Cinnamon one dram and an half. 
Ginger half a dram. 
Bitony, 
Succory, 
Bugloss Water, of each one pound and 
an half. 
Let them be mixed together warm all 
night, and in the morning strained and 
boyled into a syrup, with 
Two pound of white Suaar. 
Adding towards the end four ounces of 
syrup of Roses. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth choller and 
Melancholly very gently, and there- 
fore fit for children, old people, and 
weak bodies. You may add an ounce 
of it to the Decoction of Epithimum 
or to the Decoction of Senna. It is 
a very pretty Receipt made by the 
Augustan Physitians. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Syrup is proper at the begin- 
ning of loosnesses in old or young 
Also it is good in Dysenteries being 
administred the quantity of an ounce 
or two, in four or five ounces of 
clear whey, three or four mornings 
every other day, at the beginning of 
the disease.   
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus. Page 69. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Dam-
mask Roses.
Colledg, Take of spring Water boy- 
ling hot four pound. 
Dammask Rose leaves fresh, as many 
as the Water will contain.
Let them remain twelve hours in in- 
fusion, close stopped: then press
them out and put in fresh Rose
leaves. 
Do so nine times in the same Liquor, 
encreasing the quantity of the Roses
as the Liquor encreaseth, which 
will be almost by the third part 
every time: Take six parts of this 
Liquor, and with, 
Four parts of white Sugar. 
Boyl it to a Syrup according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It loosneth the Belly, 
and gently bringeth out choller and 
flegm, but leaves a binding quality 
behind it.
Vertues newly added. 
This Syrup cheifly if not only pur- 
ges yellow and Chollerick waters 
from the Body, and is therefore good 
for hot Rheums. An ounce, or one 
ounce and half, or two ounces may 
be taken in three ounces of clear 
whey warmed.
Syrupus è Succo Rosarum. Page 70. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of the 
Juyce of Roses. 
Colledg.] It is prepared without stee-
ping, only with the Juyce of Da- 
mask Roses pressed out, and clari- 
fied out, and an equal porportion 
of Sugar added to it. 
Culpeper.] This is like the other. 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum 
Agarico. Page 70. Latin. Or, 
Syrup of Roses solutive  
with Agrick. 
Colledg.] Take of Agrick cut thin an 
ounce. 
Ginger two drams. 
Sal. Gem. one dram. 
Polipodium bruised two ounces. 
Sprinkle them with white wine and steep 
them two daies over warm ashes, in a 
pound and an half of the infusion of Da- 
mask Roses prescribed before, and with 
One pound of Sugar. 
Boyl it into a Syrup according to Art. 
Culpeper.] You had better add 
twice so much sugar as is of the infu- 
sion, for fear the strength of the 
Agrick be lost in the boyling. It 
purgeth flegm from the head, re- 
lieves the sences oppressed by it, it 
provokes the terms in women, it 
purgeth the Stomach and Liver, and 
provokes Urine. Some hold it an 
universal purge for all parts of the 
Body. A weak Body may take an 
ounce at a time, and a stronge, two 
ounces, guiding himself as he was 
taught in the Decoction of Epithi- 
mum.
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Helle- 
boro. Page 70. Latin. Or, Syrup 
of Roses solutive, with 
Hellebore. 
Colledg. Take of the Bark of all the 
Myrobalans, of each five oun- 
ces, 
Bruise them grosly, and steep them 
twenty four hours in twelve pound of the 
infusion of Roses before spoken. 
Senna.  
Epithimum, 
Polypodium of the Oak, of each four
ounces.
Cloves an ounce. 
Citron seeds, 
Liquoris, of each four ounce. 
The * Bark of black Hellebore roots 
six drams: [* Take the Roots 
themselves, for if the Bark be 
to be had, it is very Rare.] 
Let the fourth part of the Liquor 
gently exhale, strain it, and with 
Five pound of Sugar, 
Rhubarb sixteen drams, tied up in a 
linnen rag 
Make it into a Syrup according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] You must not boyl the 
black Hellebore at all, or but very 
little, if you do, you had as good 
put none in. A. The Syrup rightly 
used, purgeth Melancholly, resisteth 
madness. I wish the Ignorant to let 
it alone, for fear it be too hard for 
them. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an excellent Syrup con-
ttived by Montanus a Judicious and 
renowned Physitian, very proper in al 
Melancholick Diseases whether they 
afflict the Body or mind. Culpeper 
might possibly have his considering 
Cap on, but certainly his wits were 
on Wooll-gathering, when he censurd 
this Medicament. He wishes the 
Ignorant to it alone. But if any 
man is ignorant through blockish- 
ness and desires and endeavours to 
be wiser, I say let him take it to cla- 
rifie his internal senses, which it will 
do effectually. Half an ounce, six 
drams, or an ounce may be taken in 
three ounces of Borrage water, or 
four ounces of Whey, spring and sal 
divers daies together or every other 
day, so as that it may work once or 
twice in a day only. Medicaments 
of this Nature and in these Cases,
must be taken in smal quantity aud 
long together. 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Senna. 
Page 70. Latin. Or, Syrup of 
Roses solutive, with Senna. 
Colledg. Take of Senna, six ounces.
Caraway, 
Sweet


125 SYRUPS. 
Sweet Fennel seeds, of each three 
drams. 
Sprinkle them with white wine, and 
infuse them two daies in three pound of 
the infusion of Roses aforesaid. 
Then strain it, and with two pound 
of Sugar, boyl it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper. It purgeth the Body of 
choller and Melancholly, and expels 
the relicts a disease hath left behind 
it; the dose is from one ounce to 
two: you may take it in a Decoction
of Senna, it leaves a binding quality 
behind it.
Syrupe de Spina Cervina. Pag. 71. Lat. 
Of Bucks Thorn, or pur- 
ging Thorn.
Colledg. Take of the Berries of pur- 
ging Thorn, gathered in Septem- 
ber, as many as you will. 
Bruise them in a stone Morter, and 
press out the Juyce, let the fourth 
part of it evaporate away in a 
Bath, then to two pound of it, 
add 
Sixteen ounces of white Sugar. 
Boyl it into a syrup, which perfume 
with 
Mastich, 
Cinnamon, 
Nutmegs, 
Annis seeds in fine pouder, of each 
three drams.
Culpeper. Tragus and Pena com- 
mended it much against the Dropsie: 
I know nothing of it by experi-
ence.
Vertues newly added. 
I have been informed that the late 
renowned Sir Theodore Mayerne that 
old Court Physitian cald this Syrup 
Syrupus Domesticus the Houswifes 
Syrup, intimating the usefulness and 
harmless Nature thereof. 
It purges water and froathy choler 
from the Head and Hypochondries. 
It is good against the Dropsie, scurvy 
and melancholly Hypochondriacal. It 
is not that I have observed, any waies 
hurtful, only it is apt to make the 
patient Stomach-sick upon the wor- 
king; which is a property of Aga- 
rick, reputed nevertheless a purga- 
tive so far from any Malicious or ma- 
lignant Nature, as that it is reputed 
most benigne and put into Mithri- 
date or Treacle as a soveraigne An- 
Antidote. 
Syrups made with 
Vinegar and Honey. 
Mel Anthosatum. Page 71. Latin. Or, 
Honey of Rosemary flowers. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Rosemary 
flowers a pound. 
Clarified Honey three pound. 
Mix them in a glass with a narrow 
mouth, set them in the Sun, keep them 
for use. 
Culpeper.] It hath the same vertues 
with Rosemary flowers, to which I 
refer you, only by reason of the Ho- 
ney it may be somewhat clensing. 
Mel Helleboratum. Page 72. Latin. 
Or, Honey of white Hellebore. 
Colledg.] Take of white Hellebore 
Roots bruised a pound. 
Cleer water fourteen pound. 
After three daies infusion, boyl it till 
half be consumed, then strain it diligent- 
ly, and with three pound of Honey, boyl
it to the thickness of Honey. 
Virtues newly added.
This is indeed a violent medica- 
ment not to be used but with great 
Caution, in strong bodies and at the 
last cast when gentler medicaments 
will do no good. In Madness, old 
and desperate Melancholies, Epilep- 
sies in grown persons, dropsies in 
strong bodies, a smal qnantity as a 
dram or two mingled with posset 
drink or a Decoction of Marsh mal- 
lows may be given fasting, and pos- 
set drink with sweet butter melted in 
it to drink when it works. And one 
ounce or two of Oyl of sweet Al- 
monds to drink after the working is 
over. I have not experimented this 
Medicament and cannot steadily de- 
termine of the Dose, He that shall
find a necessity to use it may begin 
with a dram and so arise gradually 
till he finds it work competently 
without dammage. I know not why 
the use thereof may not in some cases 
be as tolerable, as the use of Mercu- 
rius Vitæ. As for correction, which 
Culpeper talkes of the Hellebore it is 
in some measure corrected by the 
Honey and more by the Evaporation 
of the more spiritual parts in a two- 
fold long boyling, in which spiritual 
parts its cheif purgative quality 
seems to reside, because it cheifly 
works upwards.
Mel Mercuriale. Page 72. Latin.
Or, Honey of the Herb
Mercury. 
Colledg.] Boyl three pound of the 
juyce of Mercury, with 
Two pound of Honey. 
To the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] It is used as an Emol- 
lient in Clysters. 
Vertues newly added. 
It makes the Guts pliant and slip- 
pery, and loosens the dung, when 
the Belly is dried and hardned with 
Costiveness, it is hardly ever used but 
in Clysters. Yet an ounce or two 
may be profitably drunk in a pint 
of whey or posset drink to loosen the 
Belly. 
Mel Mororum, vel Diamoron
Page 72. Latin. Or, Ho- 
ney of Mulberries. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Mul-
berries and black berries, before 
they be ripe, gathered before the 
Sun be up, of each a pound and 
an half. 
Honey two pound. 
Boyl them to their due thickness.
Culpeper.] It is vulgarly known
to be good for sore mouths, as also 
to cool inflamation there. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for sore Throates, and to
clense and qualifie Ulcers. 
Mel Nuceum, alias, Diacaryon et Dia-
nucum. Page 72. Latin. Or, 
Honey of Nuts. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of the 
outward bark of green Walnuts, 
gathered in the Dog daies two 
pound. 
Boyl it gently til it be thick, and with 
one pound of Honey, boyl it to the thick- 
ness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] It is a good preservative 
in pestilential times, a spoonful being 
taken so soon as you are up. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to mingle in Vomits, 
and will bring away choler from the 
stomach and parts adjacent. 
Mel Passulatum. Page 72. Latin.
Or, Honey of Raisons. 
Colledg.] Take of Raisons of the Sun 
clensed from the stones two pound. 
Steep them in six pound of warm wa- 
ter, the next day boyl it half away, and 
press it strongly, and with two pound of 
Honey let the expressed liquor boyl to its 
thickness. 
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126 SYRUPS. 
Culpeper.] It is a pretty pleasing  
Medicine for such as are in Con-  
sumptions, and are bound in body. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for flegmatick bodies 
and rheumatick diseases.
Mel Rosatum commune, sive Foliatum. 
Page 73. Latin. Or Honey 
of red Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of red Roses not quite 
open two pound. 
Honey six pound. 
Set them in the Sun according to art. 
Mel Rosatum Colatum. Pag. 73. Latin. 
Or, Honey of Roses strained. 
Colledg.] Take of the best clarified 
Honey ten pound. 
Juyce of fresh red Roses one pound. 
Set it handsomly over the fire, and when 
it begins to boyl, put in four pound of 
fresh red Roses, the whites being cut off;
the Juyce being consumed by boyling 
and stirring, strain it and keep it for 
use.
Culpeper.] They are both used for 
Diseases in the mouth. 
Vertues newly added. 
It bridles hot defluxions, comforts 
a weak flegmatick stomach. It is of 
a scouring strengthening nature, both 
taken inwardly and outwardly ap- 
plied. 
Mel Rosatum solutivum Pag. 73 Lat. 
Or, Honey of Damask Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of the often infusion of 
Damask Roses five pound. 
Honey rightly clarified four pound. 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] It is used as a laxative 
in Clysters, and some Chyrurgeons 
use it to clense Wounds. 
Colledg.] After the same manner is 
prepared Honey of the infusion of 
red Roses. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of like faculties with syrup of 
Damask Roses, only hotter and fitter 
for cold flashy and crude stomachs 
and constitutions. 
Mel scilliticum Page 73. Latin. Or, 
Honey of Squils. 
Colledg. Take one Squill full of 
Juyce,
Cut it in bits, and put it in a glass ves- 
sel, the mouth close stopped, & co- 
vered with a skin, set it in the Sun 
forty daies, to wit, twenty before 
and after the rising of the Dog 
star, then open the vessel, and take  
the Juyce which lies at the bot- 
tom, and perserve it with the best
Honey.
Virtues newly added. 
It has the same nature with Vine- 
gar of Squils, save that it is hotter 
and fitter for cool constitutions. 
Half an ounce or six drams thereof 
wil do wel in a Vomit.  
Honey of Violets. 
Colledg. Honey of Violets is prepa- 
red like as Honey of Roses. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good for the Lungs and Chest. 
It lenifies, scoures, cools and streng- 
thens. It is profitably put into Cly- 
sters and Gargarisms, and success- 
fully used to clense Ulcers. In cold 
conststutions where the faculties of 
Violets are requisite, it is more con- 
venient then Syrup of Violets.
Oxymel simple. 73. 
Colledg. Take of the best Honey 
four pound. 
Cleer Water and white Wine Vine- 
gar, of each two pound.
Boyl them in an Earthen Vessel, ta- 
king the scum off with a wooden scum- 
mer, till it be come to the consistence of a 
syryp. 
Culpeper.] Your best way is to 
boyl the Water and Honey first into 
syrup and ad the Vinegar afterwards. 
and then boyl it again into a syrup, 
Observe that the later it be before 
you ad the Vinegar to any syrup, the 
sowrer wil it be: so may you please 
your self. 
It cuts flegm, and it is a good pre- 
parative against a vomit.  
Vertues newly added. 
It cuts thick and clammy humors, 
attenuates them and prepares them 
for expurgation. It is useful both in 
hot and cold diseases. It is very 
good for diseases of the Chest and 
Lungs; and hinders the accumula- 
tion of gross Juyces in the Body. 
Oxymel compound. 73. 
Colledg.] Take of the Bark of the root 
of Fennel, 
Smallage,
Parsly, 
Bruscus, 
Sparagus, of each two ounces. 
The seeds of Fennel,
Smallage,
Parsly, 
Annis, of each one ounce. 
Steep them all (the Roots being first
clensed and the seeds bruised) in six 
pound and an half of wine Vinegar: the 
next day boyl it to the consumption of the 
third part; boyl the rest being strained, 
with three pound of Honey into a liquid 
syrup according to art,
Culpeper.] First having bruised 
the Roots and seeds, boyl them in the 
water till half be consumed, then 
strain it and ad the the Honey, and 
when it is almost boyled enough, ad 
the Vinegar. 
Vertues newly added. 
This besides the faculties of the 
former does open Obstructions in all 
inward parts, and moves Urin pow- 
erfully.  
Oxymel Helleboratum Page 74. Latin. 
Or, Oxymel Helleborated. 
Colledg. Take of Rue,
Time,
Dittany of Creet, 
Hysop, 
Pennyroyal, 
Horehound,
Carduus, 
Roots of Celtick Spiknard with-
out Leaves. 
The inner bark of Elders, of each 
half a handful. 
Mountain Calaminth two pugils. 
The seeds of Annis, 
Fennel, 
Bazil,
Roman Nettles, 
Dill, of each two drams.
Roots of Angelica, 
Marsh-mallows, 
Aron, 
Squils prepared, 
Birthwort, long, round, and cli- 
ming, 
Turbith, 
English Orris, 
Costus, 
Polypodium, 
Lemmon pils, of each an ounce, 
Strings of black Hellebore, 
Spurge, 
Agrick,  added at the end of the 
Decoction, of each two drams. 
The Bark of white Hellebore half 
an ounce 
Let all of them being dried and bruised, 
be digested in a Glass or glazed Vessel 
close stopped, in the heat of the Sun or 
of a Furnace. 
Posca made of equal parts of Water 
and Vinegar eight pound. 
Sapa two ounces. 
Three daies being expired, boyl it a little
more then half away; strain it, pres-
sing it gently, and ad to the Liquor 
Honey of Roses, one pound and an 
half, wherein two ounces of Citron 
Pils have been infused. 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey, and
perfume it with 
Cloves, 
Saffron, 
Ginger,
Galanga,
Mace, of each a dram.
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127 SYRUPS. 
Vertues newly added.
This is good for Madness, 
Melancholly, Palsies, Epilepsies,
Convulsions, Green-sickness; pow- 
erfully opens Obstructions of all 
kinds, brings away Urin, Courses, 
Sweat, and Hemorrhoids where there 
is an Inclination in nature to that e- 
vacuation. Half an ounce or six 
drams may be taken in Whey or Pos- 
set drink, after general remedies 
have been applied. It is good in 
Clysters the quantity of two or three 
ounces in Lethargies and other stu- 
pefying diseases of the Brain; also 
in a stubborn stone or Wind Cholick 
and diseases of the Mother. 
Oxymel Julianizans. 75. 
Colledg.] Take of the Bark of Capar
Roots. 
Roots of Orris, 
Fennel, 
Parsly,
Bruscus, 
Cichory,
Sparagus, 
Cyperus, of each half an ounce. 
Leaves of 
Harts-tongue, 
Schænanth, 
Tamaris, of each half a handful. 
Sweet Fennel seed half an ounce. 
Infuse them in three pound of Posca, 
which is somthing sour; afterwards boyl 
it till half be consumed, strain it with 
Honey and 
Sugar clarified, of each half a 
pound. 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] This Medicine is very 
opening, very good against Hypo- 
chondriack Melancholly, and as fit 
a Medicine as can be for that disease 
in children called the Rickets. Chil- 
dren are as humorsom as men (and 
that is humorsom enough, Experience 
the best of al Doctors, teacheth) some 
love sweet things, let them take sy- 
rup of Harts-tongue; others cannot 
abide sweet things, to their Natures 
this syrup suits; being taken in the 
same manner.
Virtues newly added. 
This is of kin to the former but 
not purging nor so hot nor strong. It 
opens all Obstructions, brings away 
Wind, Urin, Courses, Sweat, Cor- 
rects Flegm and Melancholly, and 
helps diseases of the Spleen.
Oxymel of Squils.
Colledg] Oxymel of Squils simple, is 
made of three pound of clarified 
Honey. 
Vinegar of Squils two pound. 
Boyl them according to art. 
Culpeper. The self same Receipt is
word for word in Mesue, whose com- 
mendations of it is this: It cuts and 
divides humors that are tough and 
viscous, and therefore helps the sto- 
mach and bowels afflicted by such 
humors, and helps sowr belchings. 
If you take but a spoonful in the 
morning, an able body will think e- 
nough. 
A. View the Vinegar of Squils, 
and then your reason wil tel you this 
is as wholsom, and somwhat more 
toothsom. 
Oxymel Sciliticum compositum. Pag. 75. 
Latin. Or, Oxymel of Squils 
compound. 
Colledg. Take of Origanum, 
dried Hysop, 
Time, 
Lovage,
Cardamoms the less, 
Stœehas, of each five drams. 
Boyl them in three pound of Water to 
one.
Strain it, and with 
Honey two pound, 
Honey of Raisons half a pound, 
Juyce of Briony five ounces, 
Vinegar of Squils a pound and an 
half.
Boyl it, and scum it according to art. 
Culpeper.] Mesue saith this is good 
against the Falling-sicness, Megrim, 
Head-ach, Vertigo, or swimming in 
the Head, and if these be occasioned 
by the Stomach, as many times they 
are. It helps the Lungs obstructed by 
humor, and is good for women not
wel clensed after labor, it opens the 
passage of the Womb. ’Tis too chur- 
lish a purge for a Country man to 
meddle with: If the Ignorant wil be 
medling they wil meet with their 
matches, and say I told them so.
Such Syrups as are in 
their former Dispensato- 
ry, and left out in this, 
are these that follow. 
Syrup of Parslain compound. 
Colledg. TAke the seeds of 
Purslain grosly brui- 
sed half a pound. 
Juyce of Endive boyled and clarified, 
two pound. 
Sugar two pound. 
Vinegar nine ounces. 
Infuse the seeds in the juyce of Endive 
twenty four hours: afterwards boyl it 
half away with a gentle fire. 
Then strain it, and boyl it with the 
sugar to the consistence of a syrup, adding 
the Vinegar towards the latter end of the 
Decoction. 
Culpeper.] It is a pretty cooling sy-
rup, fit for any hot diseases incident 
to the stomach, reins, bladder, ma- 
trix, or liver; it thickens Flegm, 
cools the blood, and provokes sleep. 
You may take an ounce of it at a 
time when you have occasion. 
Vertues newly added.
It helps spitting of blood and blee- 
ding at the Nose. It allaies the ac- 
crimony of seed, and, and hinders ex- 
travigant Lusts and dreaming Go- 
norrhæas arising therefrom. Also 
it is good for over violent menstrual 
stoods springing from sharpness of 
the blood as to metelesom and shre- 
nish women is usual. 
Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot. 
Renod.
Colledg.] Take six handfuls of green 
Coltsfoot, 
Two handfuls of Maidenhair, 
One handful of Hysop, 
And two ounces of Liquoris. 
Boyl them in four pints, either of rain 
or spring water til the fourth part be con- 
sumed, then strain it, and clarifie it, to 
which add three pound of white sugar; 
boyl it to the perfect consistence of a sy- 
rup.
Culpeper. The Composition is ap- 
propriated to the Lungs; and ther- 
fore helps the infirmities, weaknesses 
or falling thereof; as want of voyce, 
difficculty of breathing, coughs, 
hoarsness, cathars, &c. The way of 
taking it is with a Liquoris stick, or 
if you please, you may add an ounce 
of it to the Pectoral Decoction be- 
fore mentioned.  
Syrup of Poppies the lesser 
composition.
Colledg. Take of the Heads of white 
Poppies and black, when both of 
them are green, of each six ounces. 
Seeds of Lettice, 
Flowers of Violets, of each one ounce. 
Boyl them in eight pints of water til the 
vertue is out of the heads; then strain 
them, and with four pound pound of su-
gar boyl the Liquor to a syrup. 
Syrup of Poppies, the greater com-
position. Mesue.  
Colledg.] Take of the heads of both 
white and black Poppies, seeds
and all, of each fifty drams. 
Maidenhair, fifteen drams, 
Liquoris, five drams, 
Jujubes thirty by number, 
Lettice seeds fourty drams,
Of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces
(tied up in a linnen cloth) of each 
one dram and an half. 
Boyl these in eight pints of water til five 
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128 ROB. 
be consumed: when you have strained 
out the three pints remaining, add to 
them, 
Penids, 
White Sugar, of each a pound. 
Boyl them into a Syrup according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] All these former Syrups 
of Poppies provoke sleep, but in 
that, I desire they may be used with 
a great deal of caution and wariness: 
such as these are, are not fit to be 
given in the beginning of Feavers, 
nor to such whose bodies are costive; 
ever remember my former Motto, 
Fools are not fit to make Physitians: 
yet to such as are troubled with hot, 
sharp Rhewms, you may safely give 
them: And note this, The last, 
which is borrowed from Mesue, is 
appropriated to the Lungs, whose 
own words (translation excepted) of 
it are these: It prevails against dry 
coughs, Ptisicks, hot and sharp gna- 
wing Rhewms, and provokes sleep. 
It is an usual fashion for Nurses when 
they have heat their Milk by Exer- 
cise or strong Liquor (no marvel 
then if their Children be froward) 
then to run for Syrup of Poppies to 
make their young ones sleep. I 
would fain have that fashion left, 
therefore I forbear the Dose: Let 
Nurses keep their own bodies tem- 
perate, and their Children will sleep  
wel enough, never fear.
Vertues newly added. 
They are good in spittings of 
blood, over flowings of courses, and 
to bridle the passions of Anger and 
wrath in such as are too much tran- 
sported therewith. 
Syrup of Eupatorium, or Maudlin. 
Colledg. Take of the Roots of Smal- 
lage, 
Roots of Fennel, 
Succory, of each two ounces. 
Liquoris, 
Schænanth, 
Dodder, 
Worm-wood, 
Roses, of each six drams, 
Maiden-hair, 
Bedeguar, or instead thereof, the 
Roots of Carduus Mariæ, 
* Suchaha [* A kind of Thorn gro- 
wing in Egipt and Arabia] or 
instead thereof the Roots of 
Avens, 
The flowers or roots of Bugloss,
Annis seeds, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, 
Ageratum, or Maudlin, of each five 
drams.
Rhubarb, 
Mastich, of each three drams. 
Spicknard, 
Indian leaf, or instead of it put Ro- 
man spike, of each two drams. 
Boyl them in eight pints of water till 
the third part be consumed: then strain
the Decoction, and with 
Four pound of Sugar, 
Clarified juyce of Smallage, 
Endive, of each half a pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup. 
Culpeper.] It amends infirmities of 
the Liver coming of cold, opens ob- 
structions, helps the dropsie, and 
evil State of the Body, it extenuates 
gross Humors, strengthen the Liver, 
provokes Urine, and is a present 
succor for Hypocondriack Melan- 
cholly. You may take an ounce at 
a time in the morning: it opens, but 
purgeth not. 
Honey of Emblicks. Augustanus. 
Colledg.] Take fifty Emblick Myro-
balans. 
Bruise them and boyl them in three pints 
of water till two be consumed; strain 
it, and with the like weight of Honey,
boyl it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine gentle purger 
both of flegm and Melancholly; it 
strengthens the Brain and Nerves, 
and fences both internal and exter- 
nal, helps tremblings of the heart, 
staies vomiting, provokes Appetite. 
You may take a spoanful at a time. 
ROB, OR SAPA:
AND 
JUYCES. 
Culpeper.] ROB is somthing an uncouth word, and happily formidable to 
the ignorant Country-man in these thieving times; and there- 
fore in the first place, I will explain the word. 1. Rob, or Sapa, is the Juyces 
of a Fruit, made thick by the Sun, or the Fire, that it is capable of, being kept 
safe from putrefaction. 2. Its use was first invented of Diseases in the mouth, 
(however, or for whatsoevor it is used now it matters not.) 3. It is usually 
made, in respect of Body, somthing thicker than new Honey 4. It may be 
kept about a year, little more or less. 
Rob, sive Sapa simplex. Pag. 76. Latin. 
Or, Simple Rob, or Sapa, viz. 
Wine boild to a thick Syrup. 
Colledg. TAke of Wine newly pres-
sed from white and ripe 
Grapes. 
Boyl it over a gentle fire to the thick- 
ness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] When ever you read the 
word Rob, or Sapa throughout the 
Dispensatory, simply quoted in any 
Medicine without any relation of 
what it should be made, this is that 
you ought to use. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good for sore mouths, in that 
it does not only strengthen, and stop 
the motion of the Morbisick cause by
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129 ROB. 
a Styptical roughness therein, but 
also clenses away and digests the hu- 
mors come already into the part, 
it is good in the clensing of Ulcers in 
what ever part. It strengthens a cold 
flashy stomach and weakened liver 
being taken from a Knifes point the 
quantity of three drams or half an 
ounce in a morning, alone or with 
two drams of Honey of Reisins, a 
foresaid.
Rob de Barberis. Page 76. Latin. 
Quiddeny, or Rob of 
Barberries. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Bar- 
berries strained as much as you 
will. 
Boyl it by it self (or else by adding 
half a pound of Sugar to each pound 
of juyce) to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] It quencheth thirst, 
closeth the mouth of the stomach, 
thereby staying Vomiting, and Bel- 
ching, it strengthens stomachs weak- 
ned by heat, and procures Appetite. 
Of any of these Robs you may take a 
little of the point of a Knife when 
you need.
Vertues newly added.
This taken at night in a mans bed 
the quantity of two or three drams 
or half an ounce from a Knifes point 
helps those to sleep that are kept 
waking by hot distempers of the 
Head arising from vexations steams 
and Vapors and fumes arising from 
the lower parts. It is good in Vo- 
mitings and Loosness, and the He- 
patick flux, and the Rheumatismus 
or Rheumatica Affectio so called (of 
which see Riverious his Practise) for 
the Dysentery and Chollerick loos- 
ness, being seasonably and skillfully 
applied. What we write, though it is 
to such as understand not the Latin 
Tongue, yet is it not to such as have not 
through education, long experience, study 
and Practise under a skilful master, at- 
tained a judgment in things appertai- 
ning to the of Art of healing: which I 
say in this place once for all. For an 
ignorant and uneducated person to think 
to Practise Physick by this Book alone, 
is as if a Plough-man should undertake 
to sing prick song at first sight or to play 
upon a Lute having never been trained  
in Musick. He may think it an easie
thing to strike the strings with one hand, 
and pat his Fingers upon the strings and 
frets with the other; but his Musick wil 
come short of the well accented howling 
of a Dog. So will it fare with him that 
shall presume unartfully to use the Me- 
dicaments of this Book. Study the books
of Speculative and Practical Physick in 
the English Tongue.
Rob de Cerasis. Page 76. Latin. Quid- 
deny, or Rob of Cherries. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of red 
Cherries somwhat sowrish, as 
much as you will. 
And with half their weight in Su- 
gar. 
Boyl them like the former. 
Culpeper.] See the vertues of Cher- 
ries; and there have you a neat trick 
to keep them all the year. 
Virtues newly added. 
This cooles, quenches thirst, al- 
laies the boyling of Chollerick hu- 
mours, cooles the Mouth and 
Tongue in Feavers: and imitates the 
Virtues of the former, save that it is 
not near so astringent. 
Rob de Cornis. Page 76. Latin. 
Or, Rob of Cornels. 
Colledg. Take of the Juyce of Cor- 
nels two pound. 
Sugar a pound and an half. 
Boyl it according to art. 
Culpeper.] Of these Cornel trees 
are two sorts, Male and Female; the 
fruit of the Male Cornel, or Corne- 
lian Cherry is here to be used, for 
the Female is that which is called 
Dog-berry, in the North Country 
they cal it Garter-wood, and we in 
Sussex Dog-wood. I suppose because 
the Berries will make Dogs mad as 
some hold; also it is very unwhol- 
som Wood, specially for such as have 
been bitten by mad Dogs. 
The fruite of Male Cornel, binds 
exceedingly, and therefore good in 
Fluxes, Bloody Fluxes. and the im-   
moderate flowing of the Terms in 
Women.
Rob Cydoniorum. Page 56. Latin. Or, 
Quiddeny of Quinces. 
Colledg. Take of the Clarified juyce 
of Quinces, 
Boyl it till two parts be consumed. 
And with its equal weight in Su-
gar. 
Boyl it into a Rob.
Miva vel Gelatina Eorundem. Pag. 76. 
Latin. Gelly, or Marmalade 
of Quinces.
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Quinces 
Clarified twelve pound. 
Boyl it half away, and add to the re- 
mainder 
Old white Wine five pound. 
Consume the third part over a gentle fire 
taking away the scum (all you ought) 
let the rest settle, and strain it, and 
with three pound of Sugar boyl it ac- 
cording to Art. 
Culpeper.] Both are good for weak 
and indisposed Stomachs. 
Vertues newly added. 
They have a binding and streng- 
thening faculty, stop Vomiting and 
Loosnesses, Reasonably and Skilfully 
applied; are good therefore for the 
Disease Cholera [See Riverius Pra- 
ctise] stop bleeding at the Nose and 
spitting of Blood, hinder fumes 
from annoying the brain being taken 
after meat. And being eaten by wo- 
men with Child, frequently (provi- 
ded they be not Costive which must, 
if so, be first remedied) about a dram 
upon a Knifes point after meats, and 
at bed time, it will contribute not 
only to prevent Abortion, but to 
make their Child of able understan- 
ding, sober, modest, and tractable. 
Provided the Women also abstaine
from Tobacco, strong drinks, and 
Wine especially, during the time of 
their greatness. Yet in case of great 
weakness of stomach from a cold 
cause a little Wine may be allowed 
and seldom, but no otherwise. 
Quiddeny of four Plums. 
Colledg.] Rob of four Plums is made 
as Rob of Quinces; the use of 
sugar is indifferent in them both. 
Rob of Engish Currence is made in 
the same manner, let the juyce be Clari-
fied. 
Culpeper.] The Vertues are the 
same with Rob of Barberries. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is supplied by the Providence 
of God to be used by such as cannot 
attain to Quiddeny of Barberries, 
which are not so common or plenti- 
ful. It will serve in good measure 
to the same Intents that have been 
said of Quiddeny of Barberries. But 
you must use a greater qantity, be- 
cause it is not so mettlesome as the 
former. Unripe Damsins are I con- 
ceive the fittest Plums. Yet any tart
Plums of a firme substance not fully
ripe may be used, where Damsins are 
not plentiful. 
Rob Baccarum Sambuci. Page 77.
Latin. Quiddeny, or Rob 
of Elder-berries. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Elder-
Berries
And make it thick with the help 
of a gentle fire, either by its self, 
or a quarter of its weight in Sugar 
being added. 
Culpeper.] Both Rob of Elder Ber- 
ries, and Dwarf-Elder, are excellent 
for such whose Bodies are inclining 
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130 LOHOCH. 
to Dropsies, neither let them neglect 
nor despise it, if they do ’tis not my 
fault. They may take the quantity 
of a Nutmeg each morning, ’twill
gently purge the watry humor. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good, not only for Dropsies, 
but for Gouts, Feavers, the Erysipe- 
las or red swelling which the Dutch 
call the Rose. It helps stoppings 
and Tumors of the Spleen, thence 
arising. It is good against the Stone 
in the Kidneys, Diseases of the 
Womb, which it clenses; also for 
Maladies of the Throat and Eyes, and 
for burnings. 
Colledg.] In the same manner is made 
Rob of Dwarf-Elder, Juniper 
berries and Pauls Betony, only in 
the last, the Sugar and Juyce must
be equal in weight. 
Succus Glycyrrhizæ simplex. Page 77. 
Latin. Or, Juyce of Liquoris 
Simple. 
Colledg.] Infuse Liquoris roots clen- 
sed and gently bruised, three daies 
in spring water, so much that it 
may over-top the roots the breadth  
of three fingers; then boyl it a 
little, and press it hard out, and 
boyl the liquor with a gentle fire to 
its due thickness.
Culpeper.] It is vulgarly known to 
be good against Coughs, Cold, &c. 
and a strengthener of the Lungs. 
Vertues newly added. 
It clears the Voice, opens obstru-
ctions, moves Urine moderately, al- 
laies sharpness of Urine, and re- 
lieves the Heart oppressed with Me- 
lancholy or whatever saddening hu-
mor.
Succus Glycyrrhizæ compositus. Pag. 77 
Latin. Or, Juyce of Liquoris 
Compound.
Colledg.] Take of the water of tender 
Oak leaves, 
Scabious, of each four pound. 
English Liquoris scraped and bruised 
two pound. 
Boyl them by degrees til they be soft, then 
press out the Liquor strongly in a press 
to which add 
Three pound of juyce of Hysop, and 
dry it away in the Sun in a broad 
Earthen vessel 
Culpeper.] The vertues are the same 
with the former. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is more effectual against dis- 
eases of the lungs arising from rheum 
and flegm, then the former. It dries 
up Rheum, cuts and expectorates 
flegm, and strengthens the Lungs. 
A drop or two of Chymical Oyl of 
Hyssop added to a couple of ounces 
of Juyce of Liquoris, wil make much 
such a Medicament as this.
Succus Prunorum Sylvestrium. Pag. 78. 
Latin. Or, Quiddeny 
of Sloes. 
Colledg.] Take of Sloes hardly ripe, 
press out the juyce, and make it 
thick in a Bath. 
Culpeper.] It stops Fluxes, and 
procures appetite. 
Vertues newly added. 
It corrects sharp and thin choller, 
strengthens the Stomach and Liver 
weakned with heat and chollerick
Juyces. It procures rest in hot di- 
stempers. It hath many of the fa- 
culties of Quiddeny of Barberries 
and Damsins, but is more cold, ear- 
thy, Styptick and stopping. A scru- 
ple, half a dram, and somtimes a 
dram may be given from a Knives 
point. But the Patient must not be 
costive. It may also do good in 
Plagues and Pestilential Feavers, 
mingled with London Treacle, Dia- 
scordium, Mithridate , or Venice 
Treacle according to the differing 
Age, Sex and Constitution of the 
Patient. 
Colledg] So are the juyces of Worm- 
wood, Maudlin, and Fumitory 
made thick, to wit, the Herbs 
bruised while they be tender, and 
the juyce pressed out and after it be
clarified, boyled over the fire to its
just thickness.
LOHOCH, ECLEGMATA, 
OR 
LICK-POTS. 
Culpeper. BEcause this word also is understood but by few, we will first ex- 
plain what it is. 1. The word Lohoch is an Arabick word,
called in Greek εχλεγμα, in Latin Linctus, and signifies a thing to be licked up. 
2. It is in respect of Body, somthing thicker than a Syrup, and not so thick as 
an Electuary. 3. Its use it was invented for, was against the roughness of the 
Wind-pipe, Diseases and Inflamation of the Lungs, difficulty of Breathing, Colds,
Coughs, &c. 4. Its manner of reception is with a Liquoris stick, bruised at 
the end, to take up some and retain it in the mouth, till it melt of its own accord. 
Vertues newly added. 
FRom the Hollanders I have bor- 
rowed the Term of Lick-pot 
which is by the Apothecaries and 
common people in those parts con- 
ferred upon these kind of Medica- 
ments
Lohoch de Farfara. P. 79. Lat. Lohoch, 
or Lick-pot of Colts-foot. 
Colledg.] Take of Colts-foot Roots 
clensed eight ounces. 
Marsh-mallow roots four ounces clen-
sed. 
Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of wa-
ter, and press the pulp out through a 
sieve. 
Dissolve this again in the Decoction, 
and


131 LOHOCH. 
and let it boyl once or twice, then take 
it from the fire and add 
White Sugar two pound. 
Honey of Raisons fourteen ounces. 
Juyce of Liquoris two drams and an 
half. 
Stir them stoutly with a wooden Pestel,
mean season sprinkle in 
Saffron, 
Cloves, of each a scruple. 
Cinnamon, 
Mace, of each two scruples. 
Make them into a Lohoch according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It was invented by an 
uncertain, or an unrevealed Author 
for the cough. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is framed to scour and clense 
the Lungs. It will prevent a Con- 
sumption, duly administred and ac- 
cording to method. It strengthens 
the chest and wind-bellows or Lungs. 
It relievs a melanchollick and pen- 
sive Heart. And it is usefui for all 
that delight in the noble and divine 
Art and practice of singing in Parts, 
to cleer their Vocal Organs, enbol- 
den their Hearts, and chear their 
spirits, that so they may chaunt it 
lusttily to the glory of God who is 
Musick as well as Love, if Love in 
that sense wherein St. John saies, 
God is Love, is not one and the same 
thing with Musick: which I leave to 
the Philosophers of Cambridge and 
Oxford to determine. Let a Chaun- 
ter that is stopt in his Breast, or 
daunted in courage, take one dram 
or two, half an hour before the inten- 
ded exercise, and if in years and ac- 
customed thereto, let him drink a 
cup of Sack after it: or a small
draught of stale cleer Ale, if no Wine- 
drinker. 
Diseased persons may frequently 
lick thereof with a Liquorice stick, as 
the name imports, at any time day or 
night save on a ful stomach. Yet for 
digestions sake in want of another 
Remedy, it may be taken after meat 
or immediately before: and perad- 
veuture the Virtues mingled with the 
juyces of the meat may be brought 
into the Lungs when they are become 
blood, to as good purpose as when 
it is taken fasting. 
This in my opinion is an excellently 
contrived medicament and artificial- 
ly composed, and certainly Mr. Cul- 
pepers faculties were disjoyned when 
he could not discern the harmonious 
beauty and pertinency thereof. 
Lohoch de Papavere. Page 79. Latin. 
Or, Lohoch of Poppies. 
Colledg.] Take white Poppy seeds 
twenty four drams. 
Sweet Almonds blanched in Rose
water, 
Pinenuts clensed,
Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, of
each ten drams, 
Juyce of Liquoris an ounce, 
Starch three drams, 
Seeds of Lettice, 
Purslain, 
Quinces of each half an ounce, 
Saffron one dram, 
Penids four onces, 
Syrup of Meconium three pound. 
Make it into a Lohoch according to art. 
Culpeper.] It helps salt sharp and 
thin distillations upon the Lungs, it 
allaies the fury of sharp humors 
which occasion both roughness of 
the throat, want of sleep, and fea- 
vers; it is excellent for such as are 
troubled with Pleuresies to take now 
and then a little of it. 
Lohoch è Passulis Page 80. Latin. Or, 
Lohoch of Raisons. 
Colldg] Take of Male Peony roots, 
Liquoris of each half an ounce, 
Hysop, 
Bawm, 
Harts-tongue, or Cetrach, of each 
half a handful. 
Boyl them in spring water, and press 
them strongly, and adding a pound 
of Raisons bruised, boyl it again, pres- 
sing it through a linnen cloth, then with 
a pound of white sugar, make it into a 
Lohoch according to art.
Culpeper.] Although this Medi- 
cine be seldom in use with us in Eng- 
land, yet by report of foraign Physi- 
tians, it is very prevalent, both a- 
gainst coughs, consumptions of the 
Lungs, & other diseases of the breast, 
and is usually given to children for 
such diseases, as also for the convul- 
sions, and falling-sickness (the diffe- 
rence of which two diseases, is not much) 
and indeed the simples testifie no 
less. 
Lohoch è Pino. Page 80. Latin. Or, 
Lohoch of Pinenuts. 
Colledg.] Take of Pinenuts, fifteen 
drams, 
Sweet Almonds,
Hazel Nuts, gently rosted, 
Gum Arabick and juyce of Liquo- 
ris, 
White starch, 
Maidenhair, 
Oris roots, of each two drams. 
The pulp of Dates seventeen drams. 
Bitter Almonds one dram and an 
half. 
Honey of Raisons,
White Sugar-candy, 
Fresh Butter, of each two ounces. 
Honey one pound and an half. 
Dissolve the Gums in so much Decocti- 
on of Maidenhair as is sufficient; let 
the rest be mixed over a gentle fire, and 
stirred, that so it may be made into a Lo- 
hoch.
Culpeper.] The Medicine is excel- 
lent for continuall coughs, and diffi- 
culty of breathing, it succors such as 
are Asthmatick (Asthma, is a Disease 
when tough flegm sticks in the lappets of 
the Lungs.) for it cuts and attenu- 
ates tough humors in the Breast. 
Lohoch de portulaca. Page 83. Latin. 
Lohoch, or Lick-pot of Purslain. 
Colledg.] Take of the strained juyce 
of Purslain two pomnd. 
Troches of Terra Lemnia two drams,
Troches of Amber,
Gum Arabick, 
Dragons blood of each one dram, 
Blood-stone, 
The wool of a Hare tosted, of each two 
scruples. 
White Sugar one pound. 
Mix them together that so you may make 
a Lohoch of them. 
Culpeper.] The Medicine is so ter- 
rible binding that it is better let a- 
lone than taken, unless in inward 
bruises when men spit blood, then 
you may safely take a little of it. 
Vertues newly added. 
It stops spitting of blood and all 
undue Evacuations thereof by the 
Courses or other waies. It corrects 
and mufflles the acrimony of sharp 
humors that are apt to fret the wind- 
pipes. 
Lohoch è pulmone Vulpis. Page 81. 
Latin. Or, Lohoch of 
Fox Lungs. 
Colledg.] Take of Fox Lungs rightly 
prepared. 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Maiden-hair, 
Annis seeds, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, of each equal 
parts. 
Sugar diosslved in Colts-foot and Sca- 
bious Water and boyled into a 
Syrup, three times their weight. 
The rest being in fine Pouder, let 
them be put to it and strongly stir- 
red together, that it may be made 
into a Lohoch according to Art. 
Culpeper.] A. Mesue appoints 
sixteen ounces of Honey, and no Su- 
gar nor uncertain quantity of any 
thing, and reason it self will tell you 
Honey is most clensing. A. It clens- 
eth and uniteth-Ulcers in the Lungs 
and breast, and is a present remedy 
in Ptisicks. 
Lohoch Sanum et Expertum. Page 81.
Or, A sound and well Expe- 
rienced Lohoch. 
Colledg.] Take of dried Hysop, 
Calaminth, of each half an ounce.
Jujubes,


132 PRESERVED. 
Jujubes, 
Sebestens, the stones being taken out. 
Fifteen Raisons of the Sun stoned. 
Fat Figs, 
Dates, of each two ounces. 
Lin-seed, 
Fenugreek seed, of each five drams. 
Maiden-hair one handful,
Annis-seeds, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, 
Orris Roots cut, 
Liquoris, 
Cinnamon, of each an ounce. 
Boyl them according to art in four pound 
of cleer water till half be consumed, and 
with
Penids two pound,
Boyl it into a syrup; and afterwards 
Cut and bruise very smal Pine-nuts 
five drams. 
Sweet Almonds blanched, 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Arabick,
White Starch of each three drams. 
Let these be put into the Syrup when it is 
off from the Fire, and stir it about 
swiftly with a wooden Pestel til it look
white. 
Culpeper.] Only Mesue appoints 
one dram less of Lin-seed, and 
whereas they appoint white Sugar, 
he appoints Penids, else the Receipt 
is Verbatim. A. It succours the 
Breast, Lungs, Throat, and *Trachæa 
Arteria [* Or, Wind-pipe] oppressed 
by cold, it restores the voyce lost by 
reason of cold, and attenuates thick 
and gross Humors in the Breast and 
Lungs.
Lohoch Squilliticum. Page 81. Latin. 
Or, Lick-pot of Squils. 
Colledg.] Take three drams of a 
Squil baked in past,
Orris Roots two dram. 
Hysop, 
Hore-hound, of each one dram. 
Saffron, 
Mirrh, of each half a dram. 
Honey, two ounces and an half. 
Bruise the Squil, after it is baked, in a 
stone Mortar, and after it hath boyled 
a walm or two with the Honey, put in 
the rest of the things in Pouder, dili- 
gently stirring it, and make it into a 
Lohoch according to art. 
Culpeper.] In their former Edition 
they quoted another Lohoch of 
Squils, but it was this. 
Vertues newly added. 
It strengthens the Lungs and helps 
their oppression by thick clammy 
flegm. It is also good for hoarsness 
and Infirmities of the Voice. 
Eclegma of Squils. Mesue.
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of 
Squils, and 
Honey, both of them clarified, of each 
two pound. 
Boyl them together according to art to 
the consistence of Honey. 
Culpeper.] How the name of Mesue 
came to be obtruded upon this Re- 
ceipt, I know not; this I am confi- 
dent of, Galen was Author of it: For 
the Vertues of it see Vinegar of 
Squils, and Oxymel of Squils, only 
this is more mild, and not so harsh 
to the Throat, because it hath 
no Vinegar in it, and therefore is far 
more fitting for Asthmaes, and such 
as are troubled with difficulty of 
breathing: it cuts and carries away 
humors from the breast, be they thick 
or thin, and wonderfully helps indi- 
gestion of victuals, and easeth pains 
in the breast; and of this, I quote the 
Authority of Galen. Alwaies take 
this as a general Aphorism in Phy- 
sick, Sour things are offensive to the 
Wind-Pipe.
Culpeper.] Lohochs left 
out in the new Dis- 
pensatory.
Lohoch, or Lick-pot of Coleworts. 
Colledg.] Take one pound of the juyce 
of Coleworts clarified, 
Saffron three drams. 
Clarified Hony, 
Sugar, of each half a pound. 
Make of them a Lohoch according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It helps hoarsness, and 
loss of voice, easeth surfets and 
Head-ach coming of drunkenness, 
and opens obstructions of the Liver 
and Spleen, and therefore is good for 
that Disease in Children which Wo- 
men call the Rickets.
Vertues newly added. 
It is very effectual against short- 
ness of Breath, being seasonably ad- 
ministred.
PRESERVED 
Stalks, Roots, Barks, 
Flowers, Fruits, 
Pulps. 
Colledg.] TAke of Eringo Roots 
as many as you will, 
clense them without and within, the 
Pith being taken out. 
Steep them two daies in cleer water, 
shifting the water somtimes, then 
dry them with a cloth. 
Then take their equal weight in white 
Sugar, and as much Rose-water 
as will make it into a Syrup,
which being almost boyled, put in 
the Roots, and let them boyl till 
the moisture be consumed, and let 
it be brought to the due Body of a 
Syrup. 
Not much unlike to this, are preser- 
ved the 
Roots of Acorus, 
Angelica, 
Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Succory, 
Alicampane, 
Burnet,
Satyrion, 
Sicers,
Comfry the greater,
Ginger,
Zedoary. 
Take of the stalks of Artichokes, not 
too ripe, as many as you wil. 
And take only the Pith of these, and pre- 
serve them with their equal weight in 
Sugar, like the former. 
So is prepared the stalks of Angelica, 
Burs,
Lettice, &c. Before they be too ripe. 
Take of fresh Orrange Pills as many as 
you will. 
Take away the exteriour yellowness, and
steep them in spring water three daies 
at the least, often renewing the water, 
then preserve them like the former. 
In like manner are Lemmon and Citron 
pills preserved. 
Preserve the Flowers of Citrons, 
Orrenges, 
Borrage, 
Prim-roses, with sugar according to
Art. 
Take of Apricocks as many as you will, 
take away the outer Skin and Stones, 
and mix them with their like weight 
in Sugar. 
After four hours take them out, and 
boyl the sugar without any other Li-
quor, then put them in again, and
boyl them a little. 
Other Fruits have the same manner of 
being preserved, or at least not much
unlike to it, as 
Whole Barberries,  
Cherries, 
Cornels, 
Citrons, 
Quinces, 
Peaches, 
Common Apples, 
The five sorts of Myrobalans, 
Hazel Nuts, 
Walnuts, 
Nutmegs, 
Raisons of the Sun, 
Pepper brought green from India, 
Plums, 
Garden and wild Pears, 
Grapes. 
Pulps are also preserved, as of Bar-
berries, Cassia Fistula, Citrons, 
Cinosbatus, Quinces, and Sloes, &c.
Take


133 CONSERVES and SUGARS. 
Take of Barberries as many as you 
will.
Boyl them in spring water till they are 
tender, then having pulped them through 
a sive, that they are free from the stones, 
boyl it again in an earthen Vessel over 
a gentle fire, often stirring them for fear 
of burning, til the watery humor be con- 
sumed, then mix ten pound of Sugar 
with six pound of this pulp, boyl it to its 
due thickness.
Broom buds are also preserved, but 
with Brine and Vinegar, and so 
are Olives and Capars. 
Lastly, Amongst the Barks, Cinnamon;
amongst the Flowers, Roses, and Mari- 
golds; amongst the Fruits, Almonds,
Cloves, Pine-nuts, and Fistick-nuts, 
are said to be preserved but with this 
difference, they are encrusted with dry 
Sugar, and are more called confects than 
Preserves.
CONSERVES 
And 
SUGARS.
Colledg.] COnserves of the Herbs 
of Worm-wood, 
Sorrel, 
Wood-sorrel, 
Flowers of Orrenges, 
Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Bettony, 
Marigolds, 
Tops of Carduus, 
Clove-gilli-flowers, 
Flowers of Centaury the less, 
Germander, 
Succory, 
Leaves of Scurvy-grass,
Flowers of Comfry the greater, 
Citratiæ, 
Cynosbati, 
Roots of Spurge, 
Herbs and flowers of Eye bright, 
Tops of Fumitory, 
Goats-Rue, 
Flowers of Broom not quite open, 
Hysop, 
Lavender, 
White Lillies,
Lillies of the Valley, 
Marjoram, 
Mallows, 
Tops of Bawm, 
Leaves of Mints, 
Flowers of water Lillies, 
Red Poppies, 
Peony, 
Peaches, 
Prim-roses, 
Roses, damask, red. 
Rosemary, 
Leaves of Rue,
Flowers of Sage,
Elder, 
Scabious, 
Leaves of Scordium, 
Flowers of Lime-tree, 
Coltsfoot, 
Violets,
With all these are Conserves made with
their treble proportion of white Sugar;
yet note, that all of them must not be 
mixed alike 
Some of them must be cut, beaten and 
gently boyled; some neither cut, bea- 
ten, nor boyled; and some admit but 
one of them, which every Artist in 
his Trade may find out by this Pre- 
monition and avoid error. 
SUGARS.
Diacodium Solidum, sive Tabulatum.
Page 86. Latin. 
Colledg.] TAke of White Poppy 
Heads, meanly ripe, 
and newly gathered, twenty. 
Steep them in three pound of warm spring 
water, and the next day boyl them til 
the vertue is out, then strain out the 
liquor, and with a sufficient quantity 
of good Sugar, boyl it according to 
Art that you may make it up into
Lozenges.
Culpeper.] This Receipt is tran- 
scribed verbatim from the Augustan 
Physitians, The Vertures are the 
same with the common Diacodium, 
viz. To provoke sleep, and help thin 
Rhewms in the Head, Coughs, and 
roughness of the Throat, and may 
easily be carried about in ones 
pocket. 
Saccharum Tabulatum simplex, & 
Perlatum. Page 86. Latin. Or, 
Lozenges of Sugar both 
Simple and Pearled. 
Colledg.] The first is made by pou- 
ring the Sugar out upon a Mar- 
ble; after a sufficient boyling in 
half its weight of Damask Rose 
water: And the latter by adding 
to every pound of the former to- 
wards the latter end of the De- 
coction, Pearls prepared and 
bruised half an ounce, with eight 
or ten Leaves of Gold. 
Culpeper.] A. It is naturally coo- 
ling, appropriated to the Heart, it 
restores lost strength, takes away bur- 
ning Feavers, and fals Imaginations, 
(I mean that with Pearls,) it hath 
the same Vertues Pearls have. 
Saccharum Tabulatum compositum. 
Pag 86. Lat. Or, Lozenges of 
Sugar Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of choyce Rhubarb 
four scruples. 
Agrick Trochiscated,
Corallina,
Burnt Harts-horn, 
Ditany of Creet, 
Wormseed and Sorrel seeds, of each a
scruple. 
Cinnamon, 
Zedoary, 
Cloves, 
Saffron, of each half a scruple.
White Sugar, a pound. 
Dissolved in 
Four ounces of Wormwood water,
Wormwood Wine an ounce.
Cinnamon water, a spoonful, with the 
forenamed Pouders make it into 
Lozenges according to Art. 
Culpeper.] The Title shews you the 
vertues of it. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are contrived to kill and 
drive out Worms, in Children espe- 
cially. They purge out and hin- 
der the encrease of such Humors as 
give matter to the Generation of 
Worms. They are good against a stin- 
king breath. A Lozenge may be ea- 
ten in the morning, and a glass of 
Worm-wood Wine or beer drunk 
thereon. 
Saccharum Penidium. Page. 86 Latin.
Or, Sugar Penids. 
Colledg.] Are prepared of Sugar 
dissolved in spring water by a gentle 
fire, and the whites of Eggs diligently 
beaten, and clarified once, and again,
whilst it is boyling, then strain it and 
boyl it gently again, till it rise up in 
great bubles, and being chewed it 
stick not to your teeth, then powr it 
upon a marble, anointed with Oyl of 
Almonds, (let the bubles first sink, 
after it is removed from the fire) bring 
back the outsides of it to the middle till 
it look like larch Rozin, then your
hands being rubbed with white Starch,
you may draw it into threads either 
short or long, thick or thin, and let it 
cool in what form you please. 
Culpeper.] I remember Country 
people were wont to take them for 
Coughs, and they are somtimes used
in other compositions. 
Vertues newly added. 
They serve to temper the Acrimony 
of sharp and Salt Humors, to which 
intent they are put into divers Medi- 
caments as occasion requires. 
Ii Con-


134 POUDERS. 
Confectio de Thure. Page 87. Latin. 
The Confection of Frankincense, 
or Lozenges of Frankincense. 
Colledg.] Take Coriander seeds pre- 
pared half an ounce, 
Nutmegs, 
White Frankincense, of each three 
drams.
Liquoris, 
Mastich, of each two drams. 
Cubebs, 
Harts-horn prepared of each one 
dram. 
Conserves of red Roses an ounce. 
White Sugar as much as is sufficient
to make it into mean bits. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Lozenges powerfully dry 
up Rheum, strengthen the Brain and 
Stomach, heal Catarhs, and are so- 
veraign for a bad memory arising 
from a cold and moist distemper of 
the Brain and Nerves.
Saccharum Rosarum. Page 87. Latin. 
Or, Sugar of Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of red Rose leaves the 
whites being cut off, and spedily 
dried in the Sun an onnce,
White Sugar a pound,
Melt the Sugar in Rose-water and juyce 
of Roses of each two ounces. 
Which being consumed by degrees, put in 
the Rose Leaves in pouder, mix them, 
and put it upon a Marble, 
And make it into Lozenges according 
to art.
Culpeper.] As for the vertues of 
this, It strengthens weak Stomachs, 
weak hearts, and weak brains; re- 
stores such as are in Consumptions, 
restores lost strength, staies fluxes, 
easeth pains in the head, ears and 
eyes, helps spitting, vomiting, and 
pissing of blood; it is a fine commo- 
dity for a man in a consumption to 
carry about with him, and eat now 
and then a bit.
Vertues newly added. 
Strengthens the Liver and corrects 
the hot distempers thereof. It helps 
the flagginess of the Livers substance 
and prevents Cachexia’s and Drop- 
sies.
Species, or Pouders.
Aromaticum Caryophyllatum. 
Page 88. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Cloves seven
drams, 
Mace,
Zedoary, 
Galanga the less, 
Yellow Saunders, 
Troches, 
Diarrhodon, 
Cinnamon, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Indian SPicknard,
Long Pepper,
Cardamus the less, of each one dram, 
Red Roses four drams, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Liquoris, of each two drams, 
Indian Leaf, 
Cubebs of each two scruples, 
Beat them all diligently into pouder. 
Culpeper. This pouder strengthens 
the heart and stomach, helps digesti- 
on, expelleth wind, staies vomiting, 
and clenseth the stomach of putrified 
humors.
Aromaticum Rosatum. 
Page 88. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of red Roses exungu-
lated fifteen drams,
Liquoris seven drams, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Yellow Saunders, of each thre drams. 
Cinnamon five drams,
Cloves, 
Mace, of each two drams and an half. 
Gum Arabick,
Tragacanth of of each eight scruples. 
Nutmegs, 
Cardamus the less, 
Galanga, of each one dram, 
Indian spicknard two scruples. 
Make it into a pouder to be kept in a 
glass for use.
Culpeper.] It strengthens the brain 
heart and stomach; and all such in- 
ternal Members as help towards con- 
coction; it helps digestion, con- 
sumes the watry excrements of the 
bowels, strengthens such as are pined 
away by reason of the violence of a 
Disease and restores such as are in a 
consumption. 
Pulvis ex chelis cancrorum compositus.
Page 89. Latin. Or, Pouder of 
Crabs Claws Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Pearls prepared,
Crabs Eyes, 
Red Coral, 
White Amber, 
Harts horn, 
Oriental Bezoar, of each half an 
ounce, 
Pouder of the black tops of Crabs 
claws the weight of them all. 
Beat them into pouder which may be 
made into Balls with gelly, and the skins 
which our Vipers have cast off, warily 
dried and kept for use. 
Culpeper.] This is that pouder 
they ordinariily call Gascoigns pou-
der, there are divers Receipts of it, 
of which this is none of the worst,
though the manner of making it up 
be exceeding difficult if not impossi- 
ble; but that it may be had to do a 
man good when Adders Skin cannot 
be gotten, you may make it up with 
gelly of Harts horn, into which put a 
little saffron: four, five or six grains 
is excellent good in a feaver to be 
taken in any cordial, for it chears the 
heart and vital spirits exceedingly, 
and makes them impregnable. 
Species cordiales Temperatæ 
Page 89. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of wood of Aloes, 
Spodium of each a dram. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, bone of a stags heart, 
Rooos of Angelica, 
Avens, 
Tormentil, of each a dram and a half. 
Pearls prepared six drams, 
Raw Silk tosted,
Both sorts of Coral, of each two
drams.
Jacinth,  
Emerald, 
Saphire, of each half a dram. 
Saffron a scruple, 
Leaves of Gold and Silver, of each 
ten.
Make them into pouder according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It is a great cordial, a 
great strengthener both of the heart,
and brain. 
Diacalaminthe Simplex.
Pag. 89. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of mountain Cala- 
minth,
Pennyroyl, 
Origanum, 
Seeds of Macedonian Parsly, 
Common Parsly, 
Hartwort, of each two drams. 
Seeds of Smallage, 
Tops of Time, of each half an ounce. 
Seeds of Lovage, 
Black Pepper, of each an ounce. 
Make them into pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It heats and comforts 
cold bodies, cuts thick and gross 
flegm, Provokes Urin and the terms
in women I confess this differs som- 
thing from Galen, but is better at 
leastwise for our bodies in my opini-
on than his. It expels wind excee- 
dingly, you may take half a dram of 
the pouder at a time. There is no- 
thing surer than that al their Pouders
wil keep better in Electuaries than
they will in Pouders, and into such 
a body if you please you may make
it 


135 POUDERS. 
it with two pound and a half of white 
sugar dissolved in Rose water.
Those that would give help against
al Infirmities, let them read these
Books of mine, of the last Edition,
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston,
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor.
Diacalaminthe compound.
Pag. 89. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Diacalaminthe 
simple half an ounce, 
The Leaves of Horehound, 
Marjoram, 
Bawm, 
Mugwort, 
Savin dried, of each a dram. 
Cyperus roots, 
Seeds of Maddir,
Rue, 
Mace, 
Cinnamon of each two scruples. 
Beat them and mix them diligently into 
a Pouder according to art. 
Culpeper.] This seems to be more
appropriated to the Feminine Gen- 
der than the former, viz. To bring 
down the Terms in women, to bring 
away the Birth, and After-birth, to 
purge them after labor: yet it is dan- 
gerous for women with child. 
Dianisum. Page 90. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of Annis seeds two 
ounces and an half,
Liquoris,
Mastich, of each an ounce. 
Seeds of Caraway, 
Fennel, 
Galanga, 
Mace, 
Ginger, 
Cinnamon of each five drams. 
The three sorts of Pepper, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Mountain-calaminth, 
Pellitory of Spain, of each two drams. 
Cardamoms the greater, 
Cloves, 
Cubebs, 
Indian Spicknard,
Saffron, of eoch a dram and an half.
Make them into pouder. 
Culpeper.] It is chiefly appropria-
ted to the Stomach, and helps the 
cold infirmities thereof, raw flegm, 
wind, contiuual coughs, and other 
such diseases coming of cold. You 
may safely take a dram of Electuary
at a time. You may make an Electu-
ary of it with its treble weight of cla- 
rified Honey 
Pulvis Radicum Ari compositus. Pag. 
98. Latin. Pouder of Aron or 
Cuckowpintle Roots 
compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Aron roots two 
ounces, 
Common Water flag,
Burnet, of each one ounce  
Crabs eyes half an ounce, 
Cinnamon three drams,
Salt of Wormwood and Juneper, of 
each one dram.
Make them into Pouder. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is good to move Sweat in 
malignant diseases, also against the 
bitings of a mad Dog. A scruple or 
half a dram may be given with Lon- 
don Treacle or Burnet or Bawm wa- 
ter.
Diaireos simple. Pag. 90 Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Orris Roots half an 
ounce, 
Sugar candy, 
Diatraganthum frigidum, of each 
two drams.
Make them into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] It comforts the breast, 
is good in colds, coughs, and hoars- 
ness. You may mix it with any pe- 
ctoral syrups which are apropriated 
to the same diseases, and so take it 
with a Liquoris stick. 
Dialacca. Page 90. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Gum-lacca prepa- 
red, 
Rubarb, 
Schænanth, of each three drams. 
Indian Spicknard, 
Mastich, 
Juyce of wormwood 
Agrimony made thick,
Seeds of Smallage, 
Annis, 
Fennel,
Ammi, 
Savin, 
Bitter Almonds,
Mirrh, 
Costus, or Zedoary, 
Roots of Maddir, 
Asarabacca, 
Birthwort long and round, 
Gentian, 
Saffron, 
Cinnamon, 
Dried Hysop, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Bdellium, of each a dram & an half. 
Black Pepper, 
Ginger, of each a dram. 
Make them into Pouder according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Sto- 
mach and Liver, opens Obstructions,
helps Dropsies, yellow Jaundice, 
provokes Urine, breaks the Stone in 
the Reins and bladder. Half a dram 
is a moderate Dose: if the Patieut be 
strong they may take a dram in white 
Wine. Let Women with child for- 
bear it. 
Pulvis Cardiacus Magistralis. Page 91 
Latin. The Cordial Magistral
pouder. 
Colledg.] Take of East Bezoar, Bone
of a Stags heart, of each a dram 
and an half. 
Magisterium of white and red Coral.
White Amber, 
Magisterium of Pearl,
Harts-horn,
Ivory, 
Bole-armenick,
Earth of Germany,
Samos and 
Lemnos, 
Elks claw,  
Tormentil roots, of each a dram. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Citron peels, 
Roots of Angelica, 
Zedoary of each two scruples. 
Leaves of Gold, twenty, 
Ambergreece one scruple, 
Musk six grains. 
Mix them, and make them into pou- 
der. 
Culpeper. It is too deer for a vul- 
gar purse, yet a mighty cordial and 
great strengthener of the heart and 
vitals in Feavers. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is excellent in al Venemous dis- 
eases. It helps fluxes, corrects a 
stinking breath, is good for the fal- 
ling-sickness, all Infirmities of the 
Brain and Heart springing from cold 
causes. It cheers a Melanchollick 
spirit. A scruple, half a dram or 
two scruples may be given in a little 
Borrage water, or in Sack to elderly 
persons not feverish. 
Diamargariton frrigidnm.
Page, 91. Latin.
Colledg. Take of the four greater cold 
seeds. 
Seeds of Purslain, 
White Poppies,
Endive, 
Sorrel,
Citrons, 
The three Saunders, 
Wood of Aloes,
Ginger,  
Red Roses exungulated, 
Flowers of Water-lillies,
Bugloss,
Violets,
The 


136 POUDERS.
The Berries of Mirtles,
Bone in a Stags Heart, 
Ivory, 
Contra-yerva, 
Cinnamon, of each one dram. 
Both sorts of Coral, of each half a 
dram. 
Pearls three drams. 
Camphire six grains, 
Make them into Pouder according to 
Art.
Observe that the four greater cold seeds, 
and the Poppy seeds, are not to be ad- 
ded before the Pouder be required by 
the Physitian for use. Do so by the 
other Pouders in the composition of 
which these Pouders are used. 
Culpeper.] As for the vertues of it, 
Authors hold it to be restorative in 
Consumptions, to help such as are 
in Hectick Feavers, to restore strength 
lost, to help Coughs, Asthmaes, and 
Consumptions of the Lungs, and 
restore such as have labored long 
under Languishing or Pining dis- 
eases. 
Diambræ. Page 92. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon, 
Angelica Roots, 
Cloves, 
Mace, 
Nutmegs, 
Indian leaf, 
Galanga, of each three drams. 
Indian spicknard, 
Cardamoms, greater and lesser, of 
each one dram. 
Ginger a dram and an half. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Yellow Sanders, 
Long Pepper, of each two drams.
Amber-grecce a dram and an 
half. 
Musk half a dram.
Make them all into Pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] Mesue appropriates this 
to the Head, and saith, It heats and 
strengthens the Brain, causeth Mirth, 
helps concoction, cherisheth the Ani- 
mal, Vital, and Natural Spirits; it 
strengthens the heart and stomach, 
and resists all cold Diseases, and is 
therefore special good for Women 
and old men. Your best way is to  
make it into an Electuary, by mixing  
it with three times its weight of cla- 
rified Honey, and take the quantity  
of a Nutmeg of it every morning. 
Diamoschu Dulce. Page 92. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Saffron, 
Galanga, 
Zedoary, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Mace, of each two drams. 
Pearls, 
Raw silk tosted, 
White Amber, 
Red Coral prepared, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Bazil, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Ginger, 
Cubebs, 
Long Pepper, of each a dram and an 
half.
Nutmegs, 
Indian Leaf or Cinnamon, 
Cloves, of each one dram. 
Musk two scruples. 
Make them into pouder according to
Art.
Culpeper.] It wonderfully helps cold 
afflictions of the Brain, that come 
without a feaver, melancholly and its 
attendants, viz. Sadness without a 
cause, Vertigo or diziness in the 
head, Falling-sickness, Palsies, re- 
solution of the Nerves, Convulsions, 
Heart qualms, afflictions of the 
Lungs, and difficulty of breathing. 
The Dose of the Pouder is half a 
dram, or two scruples, or less; ac- 
cording to the age or strength of him 
or her that takes it. Mesue appoints 
it to be made into an Electuary with 
clarified Honey, and of the Electua- 
ry, two drams is the Dose: The time 
of taking it is, in the mornig fa- 
sting. 
They that think the use of these Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it’s so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick
for the Poor. 
Diamoschu Amarum.
Page 92. Latin. 
Colledg.] It is prepared by adding to 
the fornamed Worm-wood. 
Dried Roses of each three drams. 
Aloes half an ounce. 
Cinnamon two drams and an half. 
Castorium, 
Lovage, of each one dram. 
Make them into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] Besides the Vertues of 
the former, it purgeth the stomach of 
putrified Humors. 
Species Dianthus. Page 93. Latin. 
Or, Pouder of Rosemary
Flowers Compound. 
Colledg. Take of Rosemary flowers 
an ounce. 
Flowers of Red Roses, 
Violets, 
Liquoris, of each six drams.
Cloves, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Nutmegs,
Galanga, 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Zedoary, 
Mace, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cardamoms the less, 
Seeds of Dill. 
Annis, of each four scruples. 
Make them into Pouder according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the heart 
and helps the passions thereof, it cau- 
seth a joyful and cheerful mind, and 
strengthens such as have been weak- 
ned by long sickness: it strengthens 
cold stomachs, and helps digestion
notably. The Dose is half a dram; 
you may make it into an Electuary 
with Honey, and take two drams of 
that at a time. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is effectual against all cold dis- 
eases of the Brain, Nerves and Sto- 
mach, as tremblings of the Hands, 
Palsies, Apoplexies, Indigestion of 
meat. Also it helps a bad memory 
arising from coldness and moisture of 
the Brain and Nerves. 
Diapenidion. Page 93. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Penidies two oun- 
ces. 
Piné-Nuts, 
Sweet Almonds blanched, 
White Poppy seeds, of each three 
drams and a scruple. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Ginger, 
(which three being omitted, it is Diape-
nidion without species) 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Gum Tragacanth, and 
Arabick, 
White Starch, 
The four greater cold seeds husked, of 
each a dram and an half. 
Camphire seven grains. 
Make them into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] It helps the Diseases 
of the breast, Coughs, Colds, hoars- 
ness, and Consumptions of the Lungs, 
as also such as spit matter. You may 
mix it with any Pectoral Syrup, and 
take it with a Liquoris stick, if you
fancy the Pouder best; but if the 
Electuary, you may take a dram of it
upon a knifes point at any time when 
the Cough comes. 
Diarrhodon Abbatis.
Page 93. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Sanders white and 
red, of each two drams and an 
half.  
Gum Tragacanth, and 
Arabick, 
Ivory,


137 POUDERS.
Ivory, of each two scruples.
Asarabacca roots, 
Mastich, 
Indian spicknard, 
Cardamoms, 
Liquoris, 
Saffron, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cloves, 
Gallia Moschata,
Annis, and 
Sweet Fennel seeds, 
Cinnamon, 
Rubarb, 
Bazil seeds, 
Barberry seeds, 
The seeds of Succory, 
Purslain, 
The four greater cold seeds clensed 
White Poppy seeds, of each a scruple. 
Pearls, 
Bone of a Stags Heart, of each half 
a scruple. 
Red Roses exungulated, one ounce and 
three drams. 
Camphire seven grains, 
Make them into Pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It cools the violent heat 
of the heart and stomach, as also of
the Liver, Lungs, and Spleen, easeth 
pains in the Body, and most infirmi- 
ties coming to the Body by reason of 
heat. The dose of the Pouder is half 
a dram, and two ounces of the Elect- 
uary, into which with Sugar dissol- 
ved in Rose water you may make it. 
Diaspoliticum. Page 94. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Cummin seeds stee- 
ped in Vinegar and dried.
Long Pepper, 
Rue leaves, of each an ounce. 
Niter, half an ounce, 
Make them into pouder.
Culpeper.] It is an admirable reme- 
dy for such whose meat is putrified 
in their stomachs, it helps cold 
stomachs, cold belchings and windy. 
You may take half a dram after meat 
either in a spoonful of Muskadel, or 
in a Syrup of Mirtles or Quinces, or 
any Cordial Water whose effects is 
the same. 
They that think the use of these Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it’s so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick
for the Poor. 
Species Diatragacanthi frigidi.
Page 94. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Gum Tragacanth
two ounces.
Gum Arabick an ounce and two 
drams. 
White Starch half an ounce. 
Liquoris, 
Seeds of Melones, 
White Poppies, of each three drams.
Citruls, 
Cucumers, 
Guords, of each two drams. 
Penids three ounces. 
Camphirc half a scruple. 
Make of them a Pouder according to 
Art.
Also you may make an Electuary of 
them with a sufficient quantity of Syrup 
of Violets; but have a care of what was 
told you before, of the Seeds. 
Culpeper.] If you please to put in 
the cold Seeds, and so make it up 
into an Electuary; It helps the faults 
of the Breast and Lungs coming of 
heat and driness; it helps Consump- 
tions, Leanness, Inflamations of the 
sides, Pleurisies, &c. hot and dry 
Coughs, roughness of the Tongue and 
Jaws: It is your best way to make an 
Electuary very moist, and take now  
and then a little of it with a Liquoris 
stick.
Diatrion Piperion. Pag. 94. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of the three sorts of  
Peppers, of each six drams and fif- 
teen grains. 
Annis seeds,
Time, 
Ginger, of each one dram. Beat them
into gross Pouder. 
Culpeper.] It heats the Stomach 
and expels wind. Half a dram in 
Pouder, or two drams in Electuary 
(for so Galen who was Author of it 
appointes it to be made with clari- 
fied Honey, a sufficient quantity) if 
age and strength permit; if not, half 
so much, is a sufficient dose, to be 
taken before meat, if to heat the sto- 
mach and help digestion; after meat, 
if to expel wind. 
Diatrion Santalon. Page 94. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of all the the sorts of 
Sanders, 
Red Roses, of each three drams. 
Rubarb, 
Ivory, 
Juyce of Liquoris,
Purslain seeds, of each two drams and 
fifteen grains,
White Starch, 
Gum Arabick,
Tragacanth,  
Seeds of Melones, 
Cucumers, 
Citruls, 
Guords, 
Endive, of each a dram and an 
half, 
Camphire a scruple.
Make them into Pouder according to
Art.
Culpeper.] It is very profitable a- 
gainst the heat of the stomach and li- 
ver; besides, it wonderfully helps 
such as have the yellow Jaundice, and 
consumptions of the Lungs. You 
may safely take a dram of the Pouder 
or two drams of the Electuary in the 
morning fasting; for most of their 
Pouders will keep better by half in 
Electuaries. 
Pulvis Haly. Page 95. Latin. Or, the 
Pouder of Haly, an Arabian 
Physitian so called. 
Colledg.] Take of white Poppy seeds 
ten drams. 
White Starch, 
Gum Arabick, and 
Tragacanth, of each three 
drams. 
Seeds of Purslain, 
Marsh-mallows, 
Mallows, of each five drams.
Cucumers,
Melones,
Gourds, 
Citruls, 
Quinces of each seven drams. 
Ivory, 
Liquoris, of each three drams. 
Penids the weight of them all. 
Make them into Pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It is a gallant cool Pou- 
der, fit for all hot imperfections of 
the Breast and Lungs, as Consump- 
tions, Pleurisies, &c. Your best way 
is to make it into a soft Electuary 
with Syrup of Violets, and take it as 
Diatragacanthum frigidum. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Pouder qualifies the sharpness 
and acrimony of Salt and adust Hu- 
mors, and eager Medicaments. It is 
good for spitting of Blood, overflo- 
wing of the courses & Hemorrhoides 
and all other undue evacuations 
of blood. It helps the strangury and 
sharpness of Urine, and the Bloody  
flux, being seasonably administred.
One scruple, half a dram or a dram 
may be given in Purslane water, or 
made up in an Electuary with Syrup  
of Marsh-mallows. 
Pulvis Lætificans, Galen. Page 95.
Latin. Or, Galens Merry- 
making Pouder. 
Colledg. Take the flowers of clove- 
bazil, or the seeds thereof,
Saffron,
Zedoary,
Wood of Aloes,
Kk Cloves,


138 POUDERS.
Cloves, 
Citron peels, 
Galanga,
Mace,
Nutmegs, 
Styrax Calamitis, of each two drams 
and an half. 
Ivory, 
Annis seeds, 
Time, 
Epithimum, of each one dram. 
Pearls, 
Bone of a Stags heart, 
Camphire, of each half a dram. 
Leaves of Gold and Silver, of each 
half a scruple. 
Make it into pouder according to Art.
Culpeper.] It causeth a merry 
heart, a good color, helps digestion, 
and keeps back old age. You may 
mix half a dram of it to take at one 
time, or less if you please, in any 
cordial syrup or Electuary appropria- 
ted to the same uses. 
Such as would cure all Diseases, let 
them read these books of mine, of the 
last Edition, viz. Riverius, Johnston, 
Riolanus, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor. 
Pulvis Bezoardicus Magistralis. Pag.
95. Latin. Or, the Bezoartick 
Magistral Pouder. 
Colledg.] Take of Saphire, 
Ruby, 
Jacinth, 
Granates, 
Emerald of each a dram. 
Terra Lemnia, 
Bole-armenick, 
Red Coral prepared, 
Pearls prepared, of each two drams. 
Zedoary, 
Unicorns horn,
East and West Bezoar,
Musk, 
Ambergreece, 
Camphire, 
Squinanth, 
Saffron of each half a dram.
Yellow Saunders,
Wood of Aloes, 
Benjamin, of each two scruples. 
Magisterial Phylonium, four scruples. 
Bone of a stags heart, 
Citron peels. 
Chermes of each half a dram. 
Chymital Oyl of Cinnamon and 
Nutmegs of each five drops. 
Make of all a most subtil Pouder accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] ’Tis a great Cordial to 
revive the Body, but it wil bring the 
purse into consumption. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Pouder seems to have been 
invented aginit the Plague and pesti- 
lential malignant diseases, in which 
cases, doubtless it is very useful, one 
scruple, half a dram, or a dram to a 
person infected may be given in Bor- 
rage water and sweat procured upon 
it. 
Species confectionis Liberantis. 
Page 96. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take Tormentil roots 
Seeds of Sorrel, 
Endive, 
Coriander prepared, 
Citron, of each one dram and an 
half. 
All the Saunders, 
White Dittany, of each a dram. 
Bole-armenick,
Earth of Lemnos, of each three 
drams. 
Pearls,
Both sorts of Coral, 
White Amber, 
Ivory, 
Spodium, 
Bone of a Stags heart,
Roots of Serpentary, 
Avens,
Angelica,
Cardamoms, 
Cinnamon, 
Mace, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Saffron, 
Zedoary, of each half a dram.
Penids, 
Raw Silk tosted,
Emeralds, 
Jacinth, 
Granate, 
Flowers of Water-lillies, 
Bugloss, 
Red Roses, of each one scruple. 
Camphire seven grains. 
Make them into a Pouder according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good 
in pestilential Feavers, and preserveth 
from ill airs, and keepeth the humors 
in the body from corruption, it cools 
the heart and blood, strengtheneth 
such as are oppressed by heat; to 
conclude, it is a gallant cool Cordial 
though costly. It being out of the 
reach of a vulgar mans purse, I omit 
the dose, let the Gentry and Nobility 
study Physick themselves, so shal they 
know it; for had they wanted hearts 
to that study no more than they wan- 
ted time and menas, it had been far 
better for this Common-wealth than 
now it is. If a Gentleman have no 
skil in Physick himself. Dr. Dunce if 
he have a Plush cloak will serve his 
turn.
Pulvis Saxonicus. Pag. 96. Latin. 
Colledg]. Take of the Roots of both 
sorts of Angelica, 
Swallow-wort, 
Garden Valerian, 
Polipodium of the Oak,
Marsh-mmallows, 
Nettles, of each half an ounce. 
Bark of German Mezereon, two
drams.  
Herb True-love, twenty grains, 
Leaves of the same, roots and all,
thirty six. 
The roots being steeped in Vinegar and 
dried, beat it all into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] It seems to be as great 
an expeller of poyson, and as great a 
preservative against it, and the pesti- 
lence, as one shall usually read of. 
Widdow-wail is left out by Gesner, 
Crato and others, and out of question 
it makes the Receipt the worse and 
not the better.  
Pulvis Antilyssus. or, pouder against 
the biting of mad Dogs.  
Page, 97. Latin.  
Colled.g Take of Leaves of Rue, 
Vervain, 
Sage, 
Plantane, 
Polypodium, 
Common Wormwood, 
Mints, 
Mugwort,
Bawm, 
Bettony, 
St Johns wort, 
Centaury the less, of each equal parts.
Let them all be gathered in their greatest
strength, which is about the ful Moon in 
June, and dried speedily in a warm Sun, 
and renewed yeerly, and not beaten to 
pouder till you have occasion to use them. 
Culpeper.] A dram of the pouder 
is sufficient taken every morning. 
Vertues newly added. 
I am credibly informed that this 
pouder has been lately experimented 
upon persons bit by mad Dogs and 
taken very ill afterwards, whom it 
did wonderfully restore. Conse- 
quently it is good in other Venemous 
diseases, and in the plague it self. Al- 
so for persons troubled in their wits 
from other causes, after general Re- 
medies it may be good, and for all 
maladies whose symptomes resemble 
those of persons diseased by the bite- 
ing of mad Dogs. 
Rosata Novella. Page 97. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Red Roses, 
Liquoris, of each one ounce one dram 
two scruples and an half. 
Cinamon two drams, two scruples,
and two grains, 
Cloves, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Ginger, 
Galanga, 
Nutmegs, 
Zedoary, 
Styrax Calamitis, 
Cardamoms,
 

139 POUDERS.
Cardamoms, 
Parsly seeds, of each one scruple eight 
grains. 
Beat them into pouder. 
Culpeper.] It quencheth thirst, 
and staies vomiting, and the Author 
saith it helps hot and dry stomachs, 
as also heat and driness of the heart, 
liver, and lungues (yet is the pou- 
der it self hot) It strengthens the vi- 
tal spirits, takes away heart-qualms, 
provokes sweat, and strengthens such 
as have labored long under cronical 
diseases. You may take a dram of 
the Electuary every morning, if with 
clarified Hony you please to make it 
into such a body.
Pulvis Thuraloes. Pag. 97. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Frankincense one 
dram, 
Aloes half a dram. 
Beat them into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] And when you have 
occasion to use it, mix so much of it 
with the white of an Egg (beat the 
white of the Egg well first) as will 
make it of the thickness of Honey, 
then dip the wool of a Hare in it, and 
apply it to the sore or part that blee- 
deth, binding it on. 
In my opinion this is a pretty me- 
dicine, and will stick on till the sore 
be throughly healed, and then will 
come off of it self. I remember when 
I was a child, we applied such a Me- 
dicine (only we left out the Aloes 
and Frankincense, and used only Co- 
nies wool and the white of an Egg) 
to kibed heels, and alwaies with 
good success. 
Pulvis Hermodactylorum compositus. 
Page. 97. Latin. Or, Pouder of 
Hermodactils compound 
Colledg.] Take of mens bones burnt, 
Scammony, 
Hermodactils,
Turbith, 
Senna, 
Sugar, of each equal parts.
Beat them into pouder.
Virtues newly added. 
This pouder was called Pulvis
Arthreticus formerly, being of Para-  
celsus his invention and transferred  
from him by Crollius into his Basilea
Chymica. It was invented against the 
running Gout, in which case it is ef-
fectual. The dose is half a dram or 
two scruples in white Wine. Nor  
is it so dreadful a thing as Mr. Culpe- 
per imagines. I conceive it may be  
proper to purge persons, especially 
women that are troubled with a stub-
born and impudent Tooth-ach, that 
will not otherwise be perswaded a-  
way convenient Remedies being af- 
terwards applied. 
Pulvis Sene compositus major Page 98. 
Latin. Pouder of Sena the greater 
composition, Or, Dr. Hol- 
lands Pouder. 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds of An-
nis, 
Fennel, 
Cummin, 
Spicknard, 
Cinnamon, 
Galanga, of each half an ounce. 
Liquoris, 
Gromwel, of each an ounce, 
Sena the weight of them all, 
Beat it into pouder.
Culpeper.] That this Receipt is 
gallantly composed none can deny, 
and is an excellent purge for such 
bodies as are troubled with the wind 
chollick, or stoppage either of Guts 
or Kidneys: two drams taken in 
white Wine wil work sufficiently with 
any ordinary body. Let weak men 
and children take less, keeping with- 
in doors and warm. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is good in hypochondrical 
melancholly and stoppage of the U- 
rin by wind or Gravel, also for Head- 
ach proceeding from winds, and 
singing or tinkling in the Ears. The 
dose is two scruples or a dram in 
white Wine or Sack. 
Pulvis Senæ compositus minor. Page 
98. Lat. Or, Pouder of Sena, 
the lesser composition. 
Colledg.] Take of Sena two ounces. 
Crem of Tartar half an ounce. 
Mace two scruples, and an half, 
Ginger, 
Cinnamon, of each a dram and an 
half. 
Sal gem one dram. 
Beat them into pouder according to art. 
Culpeper.] This pouder purgeth 
melancholly, and clenseth the head. 
The following pouder works som- 
thing violently by reason of the 
Scammony that is in it; this is more 
gentle, and may be given without 
danger, even two drams at a time to 
ordinary bodies I would not have 
the unskilful meddle with the follo- 
wing. Neither is it fitting for weak 
bodies and children; such as are 
strong may take a dram, or a dram 
and an half, mixing it with white 
Wine: let them take it early in the 
morning after they are up. and not 
sleep after it for fear of danger; two 
hours after, let them drink warm pos- 
set drink, and six hours after eat a bit
of warm Mutton, let them walk about 
the chamber often and not stir out of 
it that day.
Diasenæ or Pulvis Sanctus of Brassa-
volus Page 98. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Sena, 
Crem of Tartar, of each two ounces.
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Galanga, 
Ammi, of each two drams. 
Diacridium half an ounce. 
Beat it into pouder according to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
The Inventor of this pouder Bras-
savolus a learned Italian Physitian, 
finding the excellent effects thereof, 
termed it Pulvis Sanctus, the Holy 
or sacred pouder. It purges melan- 
cholly chiefly, and is good for all dis-
eases of the body or mind arising 
from that humor. The dose is half
a dram or two scruples. It has been 
used a thousand times I beleeve since 
it has been first invented and a thou- 
sand to that, without any such dan- 
ger as Mr. Culpeper imagines, ha- 
ving it seems calculated the Nativity 
thereof, but his Ephemerides were 
false printed. It is good for poor 
people, because of its no dear mate- 
rials, and easily made. The best way 
to give it, I conceive, is in white 
Wine with half an ounce of Elect. le-
nitivum, or in hot bodies with Cicho- 
ry or Fumitory water three ounces, 
and six drams of Electuary Lenitive 
to half a dram of the pouder. 
Diaturbith with Rhubarb. 
Page 98. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Turbith,
Hermodactils, of each an ounce. 
Rhubarb ten drams 
Diacrydium half an ounce, 
Sanders red and white, 
Violets, 
Ginger, of each a dram and a half.  
Mastich, 
Annis seed,  
Cinnamon,  
Saffron of each half a dram. 
Make it into pouder. 
Culpeper. This also purgeth flegm 
and choller. Once more let me de- 
sire such as are unskilful in the Rules 
of Physick, not to meddle with pur- 
ges of this nature (unless prescribed
by a skilful Physitian) left they do 
themselves more mischief in half an 
hour than they can claw off in half a 
yeer. 
Vertues newly added. 
Montagnana a famous and learned 
Physitian invented this medicament, 
or perfected the same at least, by ad- 
ding Rhubarb. It is effectuall to 
purge flegm and choller in diseases 
of the Head, Nerves, Joynts and the 
Venereal Murren. The dose is half 
an


140 POUDERS.
an ounce in white wine or five drams 
in strong Bodies with one ounce of 
Syrup of violets to temper the same. 
The POUDERS left 
out in their new Dispen-
satory, are these. 
The lesser cordial Pouder. 
Fernelius. 
Colledg.] TAke of Harts-horn, 
Unicorns horn, 
Pearls, 
Ivory, of each six grains. 
Beat them into fine Pouder. 
If you mean to keep it, you may en- 
crease the quantity Proportionably. 
The greater Cordial Pouder. 
Fernelius. 
Colledg. Take of the Roots of Tor- 
mentil, 
Roots of Dittany, 
Clove-gilli-flowers, 
Scabious. 
Seeds of Sorrel, 
Coriander prepared,
Citron, 
Carduus Benedictus, 
Endive, 
Rue, of each one dram. 
Of the three sorts of Sanders, white, 
red, and yellow. 
Been, white and red (or if you cannot 
get them, take the roots of Avens 
and Tormentil in their stead) 
Roman Doronicum, [a kind of Woolf- 
bane.] 
Cinnamon, 
Cardamoms, 
Saffron, 
Flowers of both sorts of Bugloss [viz.
Borrage and Bugloss.] 
Red Roses, 
Water-Lillies, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Mace, of each two scruples. 
Ivory, 
Spodium, 
Bone of a Stags heart,
Red Coral, 
Pearls, 
Emerald, 
Jacinth, 
Granate, of each one scruple. 
Raw-silk torrified [dried or rosted by 
the Fire] 
Bole-Armenick, 
Earth of Lemnos,, of each half a 
dram. 
Camphire, 
Ambergreece,
Musk, of each six grains. 
Beat them into pouder according to art. 
And with eight times their weight in 
white Sugar Dissolved in Rose
water. 
You may make them into Lozengce, if 
you please.
Culpeper.] Both this and the for- 
mer pouder, are appropriated to the 
Heart (as the titles shew) therefore 
they do strengthen that, and the vital | 
spirit, and relieve languishing Na-  
ture. All these are cordial Pouders,  
and seldom above half a dram of them  
given at a time, I suppose more for  
the cost of them than any ill effects 
they work, they are too high for a 
poor mans purse, the rich may mix  
them with any cordial Syrup or Elect-
uary which. They find apropriated to 
the same use these are. 
A Pouder for such as are bruised 
by a Fall.
Colledg.] Take of Terra Sigillata, 
Sanguis Draconis.  
Mummy of each two drams. 
Spermaceti one dram 
Rhubarb half a dram. 
beat them in Pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] You must beat the rest 
into Pouder, and then add the Sper- 
maceti to them afterwards, for if you 
put the Spermaceti and the rest all 
together and go to beat them in that 
fashion, you may as soon beat the 
Mortar into pouder, as the simples. 
Indeed your best way is to beat them 
severally, and then mix them all to- 
gether, which being done, makes you 
a gallant Medicine for the infirmity 
specified in the Title, a dram of it 
being taken in Muskadel, and swea- 
ting after it. 
Species Electuarij Diacymini. 
Nicholaus.
Colledg.] Take of Cummin seeds in- 
fused a natural day in Vinegar, 
one ounce and one scruple. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Galanga, 
Savory, 
Calaminth, of each one dram and two 
scruples. 
Ginger, 
Black Pepper, of each two drams and 
five grains. 
Seeds of Lovage, 
Ammi, or Bishop weed, of each 
one dram and eighteen grains. 
Long Pepper one dram. 
Spicknard, 
Nutmegs, 
Cardamoms, of each two scruples 
and an half. 
Beat them and keep them diligently 
in pouder for your use.
Culpeper.] It heats the stomach and 
bowels, expels wind exceedingly, 
helps the wind chollick, helps dige-
stion hindred by cold or wind, is an 
admirable remedy for wind in the 
guts, and helps quartan Agues. The 
Pouder is very hot: half a dram is 
enough to take at one time, and too 
much if the Patient be feaverish; you 
may take it in white Wine. It is in
my opinion a fine composed Pou- 
der. 
Those that would give help against 
all Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, 
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor. 
Species Electuarii Diagalangæ. 
Mesue.
Colledg.] Take of Galanga, 
Wood of Aloes, of each six drams. 
Cloves, 
Mace, 
Seeds of Lovage of each two drams. 
Ginger, 
Long and white Pepper, 
Cinnamon, 
Calamus Aromaticus of each a dram 
and an half. 
Calaminth, and 
Mints dried,
Cardamoms the greater, 
Indian spicknard, 
Seeds of Smallage, 
Annis,
Fennel, 
Carraway, of each one dram. 
Beat them into pouder according to 
Art. 
Also it may be made into an Electua- 
ry with white Sugar dissolved in 
Malago Wine or twelve times the 
weight of it of Clarified Honey. 
Culpeper.] I am afraid twelve 
times the weight of the simples, 
is too much. Mesue appoints 
only a sufficient quantity, and quotes 
it only as an Electuary, which he 
saith prevails against wind, sower 
belchings, and indigestion, gross hu- 
mors and cold afflictions of the Sto- 
mach and Liver. You may take half 
a dram of the Pouder at a time, or 
two of the Electuary in the morning 
fasting, or an hour before meat. It 
helps digestion exceedingly, expels 
wind, and heats a cold Stomach. 
Species Electuarii de Gemmis Frigidi.
Or, Species of the cooling Elect- 
ry of precious Stones. 
Colledg.] Take of Pearls prepared 
three drams. 
Spodium, 
Ivory, 
Both sorts of Corral, of each two
drams. 
Flowers


141 POUDERS.
Flowers of Red Roses a dram and an 
half. 
Jacinth, 
Saphire, 
Emerald, 
Sardine, 
Granate, 
Sanders white, red and yellow, 
Flowers of Borrage, and 
Bugloss, 
Seeds of Sorrel, and 
Bazil, 
Both sorts of Been (for want of them 
the Roots of Avens and Tormen- 
til) of each one dram. 
Bone of a Stags Heart half a dram. 
Leaves of Gold, and 
Silver, of each fifteen. 
Make of them all a Pouder according to 
Art, and let it be diligently kept. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Pouder is good in Malignant, 
Venemous and Pestilential Diseases. 
It cools and refreshs the Heart, 
Braine, Liver and other internal 
Bowels disordered by heat. It ex- 
hilarates the mind, is good in disen- 
teries and fluxes of the Belly, and 
against the whites or over great flux 
of Courses in Women. The dose is  
from one scruple to half a dram or a 
dram, in Borrage water or made in 
form of a Bolus with conserve of red 
Roses and Syrup of the Juyce of 
Citrons. 
Species Electuarii Diamargariton 
Calidi. Avicenna. 
Colledg.] Take of Pearls, and 
Pellitory of the Wall, of each one 
dram. 
Ginger, 
Mastich. of each half an ounce. 
Doronicum,
Zedoary, 
Smallage seeds, 
Both sorts of Cardamoms, 
Nutmegs, 
Mace, of each two drams. 
Been of both sorts, (if they cannot be 
procured take the Roots of Avens
and Tormentil) 
Black and long Pepper, of each three 
drams.
Beat them into Pouder and keep them 
for your use. 
Culpeper.] Avicenna prescribes 
this as an Electuary, This (quoth 
Avicenna) is apropriated to women 
and in them to Diseases incident to 
their Matrix, but his reasons I know 
not; It is Cordial and heats the sto-
mach.
Lithontribon Nicholaus, accor- 
ding to Fernelius.
Colledg.] Take of Spicknard, 
Ginger, 
Cinnamon, 
Black Pepper, 
Cardamoms, 
Cloves, 
Mace, of each half a dram.
Costus, 
Liquoris, 
Cyperus, 
Tracanth, 
Germander, of each two scruples
Seeds of Bishops weed [Ammi.]
Smallage, 
Sparagus, 
Bazil, 
Nettles, 
Citrons, 
Saxifrage, 
Burnet, 
Carraway,
Carrots, 
Fennel, 
Bruscus, 
Parsly of Macedonia, 
Burs, 
Seseli, [Or, Hartwort:]
Asarabaca, of each one dram.
Lapis spongiæ, 
Lyncis,
Cancri, 
Judaici, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Goats blood prepared an ounce and 
half.
Beat them all into pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper. It heats the Stomach, 
and helps want of digestion coming 
through cold, it easeth pain in the 
Belly and Loyns, the *Illiack passion 
[* A disease that causeth men to Vo- 
mit up their Excrements.] powerfully
breaks the stone in the Reins and 
bladder, it speedily helps the chollick 
strangury, & disury. The dose is from 
a dram to half a dram, take it either 
in white Wine, or Decoction of 
Herbs tending to the same purposes. 
Carduus Benedictus seeds stamped
and taken easeth pains, aches and 
stiches in the sides, as also griping of 
the Belly and Guts. 
Pleres Arconticon Nicholaus.
Colledg. Take of Cinnamon,
Cloves, 
Galanga, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Indian spicknard, 
Nutmegs, 
Ginger, 
Spodium, 
Schœnanthus,
Cyperus, 
Roses, 
Violets, of each one dram. 
Indian leaf, or Mace,
Liquoris, 
Mastich,  
Styrax Calamitis,
Marjoram,
Costmary, or water-Mints, 
Bazil, 
Cardamoms, 
Long and white Pepper, 
Mirtle berries,  
Citron pills, of each half a dram and 
six grains, 
Pearls, 
Been white and red (or if they be wan-
ting take the Roots of Avens and
Tormentil in their steads) 
Red Corral,  
Torrefied silk, of each eighteen 
grains 
Musk six grains, 
Camphire four grains, 
Beat them into pouder according to art.
And with ten times their weight in 
Sugar dissolved in Bawm water you 
may make them in an Electuary. 
Culpeper.] It is exceedingly good 
for Sad, Melancholly, Lumpish, Pen-
sive grieving, Vexing, Pining, Sighing
Sobbing, Fearful, Careful Spirts, it
strenghtens weak Stomachs excee-
dingly, and helps such as are prone 
to faintings and swoonings, it streng- 
thens such as are weakned by vio- 
lence of sickness, it helps bad memo- 
ries, quickens all the senses, streng- 
thens the Brain and Animal spirit, 
helps the Falling-sickness, and suc- 
cours such as are troubled with asth- 
maes, or other cold afflictions of the 
Lungs. It will keep best in an Elect- 
uary, of which you may take a dram 
in the morning, or more, as Age and 
strength, requires. 
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians. Let them read those Books 
of mine, of the last Edition, viz. 
Riverius Riolanus, Johnston, Ve- 
slingus, Sennertus, and Physick for the 
Poor. 
A preservative Pouder against the  
Pestilence. Montagnam. 
Colledg.] Take of all the * Sanders,
[* White, Red, and Yellow.
Seeds of Bazel, of each an ounce and
half. 
Bole-Armenick, 
Cinnamon, of each an ounce.
Roots of Dittany, 
Gentian, 
Tormentil, of each two drams and
an half. 
Seeds of Citron,
Sorrel, of each two drams.
Pearls,  
Saphire, 
Bone of a stags heart, of each one
dram. 
Beat them into pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] The Title tels you the
vertues of it: Besides it cheers the 
vital spirits, and strengthens the 
heart. You may take half a dram 
Ll every


142 ELECTUARIES.
every morning either by it self, or 
mixed with any other convenient 
composition, whether Syrup or Ele- 
ctuary. 
Diaturbith the greater, with- 
out Rhubarb. 
Colledg.] Take of the best Turbith 
an ounce,
Diagridium, 
Ginger, of each half an ounce.  
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, of each two drams. 
Galanga, 
Long Pepper, 
Mace of each one dram.
Beat them into pouder, and with eight 
ounces and five drams of white Sugar 
dissolved in Succory water, it may be 
made into an Electuary. 
Culpeper] It purgeth flegm, being 
rightly administred by a Skilfull 
hand. 
A pouder for the worms. 
Colledg] Take of Wormseed, four oun-
ces, 
Sena one ounce, 
Coriander seed prepared, 
Harts-horn of each half a dram. 
Rhubarb half an ounce, 
Dried Rue two drams. 
Beat them into pouder.
Culpeper.] I like this pouder very 
wel: the quantity (or to write more 
Scholastically, the dose) must be re- 
gulated according to the age of the 
Patient, even from ten grains to a 
dram; and the manner of taking it 
by their pallat. It is somthing pur- 
ging.
ELECTUARIES.
Antidotus Analeptica. Page 99. 
Latin. 
Col- 
ledg.] 
TAke of Red Roses,
Liquoris, of each two 
drams and five grains, 
Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, of 
each two drams and two scruples. 
Sanders white and red, of each four 
scruples. 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
White Starch, 
Seeds of white Poppies, 
Purslain, 
Lettice, 
Endive, of each three drams.
The four greater cold seeds husked, 
Seeds of Quinces, 
Mallows,
Cotton,
Violets,
Pine-nuts, 
Fistick Nuts, 
Sweet Almonds, 
Pulp of Sebestens, of each two drams. 
Cloves, 
Spodium, 
Cinnamon, of each one dram. 
Saffron five grains, 
Penids, half an ounce,
Being beaten, make them all into a soft 
Electuary, with three times their weight 
in Syrup of Violets.
Culpeper.] It restores consumpti- 
ons, and hectick feavers, strength lost, 
it nourisheth much, and restores radi- 
cal moistures, opens the pores, re- 
sists choller, takes away coughs, 
quencheth thirst, and resisteth fea- 
vers. For the quantity to be taken 
at a time, I hold it needless to trou- 
ble the Reader: you may take an 
ounce in a day, by a dram at a time, 
if you please; you shall sooner hurt 
your purse by it than your body.
Confectio Alkermes. Pag. 99.
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Ap- 
ples. 
Damask Rose water, of each a pound 
and an half. 
In which infuse for twenty four hours, 
Raw Silk four ounces. 
Strain it strongly, and ad syrup of the 
Berries of Chermes brought over 
to us, two pound. 
Sugar one pound, 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey; then 
removing it from the fire whilst it is 
warm, add, 
Ambergreece cut smal, half an 
ounce:
Which being wel mingled, put in these 
things following in pouder. 
Cinnamon, 
Wood of Aloes, of each six drams. 
Pearls prepared, two drams,
Leaf-Gold a dram, 
Musk a scruple. 
Make it up according to art. 
Culpeper.] Questionless this is a 
great cordial, and a mighty strength- 
ner of the heart, and spirit vital, a re- 
storer of such as are in consumpti- 
ons, a resister of pestilences and poy- 
son, a great relief to languishing Na- 
ture; it is given with good success 
in feavers, but give not too much of 
it at a time, lest it prove too hot for 
the body, and too heavy for the 
purse. You may mix ten grains of 
it with other convenient cordials to 
Children, twenty or thirty to men.  
Electuarium è Sassaphras. 
Page 100. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Sassaphras two 
ounces,
Common Water three pound. 
Boyl it to the consumption of the third 
part adding towards the end 
Cinnamon bruised half an ounce. 
Strain it and with two pound of white 
Sugar boyl it to the thickness of a Syrup 
putting in, in pouder,
Cinnamon a dram, 
Nutmegs half a scruple,
Musk three grains, 
Ambergreece, thirty two grains,
Leaves of Gold ten, 
Spirit of Vitriol four drops, 
And so make it into an Electuary accor- 
ding to art.
Culpeper.] It opens obstructions 
of the Liver and Spleen, helps cold 
Rheums or defluxions from the head 
to the Lungs, or Teeth, or eyes, it is 
excellent in coughs, and other cold 
afflictions of the Lungs and Breast;
it helps digestion, expels wind and 
the gravel of the Kidnies, it provokes 
the terms, warms and dries up the 
moisture of the womb, which is many 
times the cause of barrenness, and is 
generally a helper of all diseases co- 
ming of cold, raw thin humors: you 
may take half a dram at a time in the 
morning. 
Electuarium de Baccis Lauri. Page 
100. Latin. Or Electuary 
of Bay-berries. 
Colledg.] Take of the Leaves of dri- 
ed Rue ten drams,
Seeds of Ammi, 
Cummin, 
Lovage, 
Origanum, 
Nigella, 
Caraway, 
Carrots,
Parsly, 
Bitter Almonds, 
Pepper black and longs,
Wild Mints, 
Calamus Aromaticus,
Bay-berries, 
Castoreum of each two drams. 
Sagapenum half an ounce, 
Opopanax three drams, 
Clarified Honey a pound and an 
half. 
The things to be beaten, being beaten, 
and the Gums dissolved in Wine, make 
it into an Electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good 
either in the Chollick, or Illiack pas- 
sion, or any other disease of the bow- 
els coming of cold wind, it generally 
easeth pains in the bowels. You
may give a dram in the morning fast-
ing


143 ELECTUARIES. 
ing, or half an ounce in a Clyster ac- 
cording as the disease is. 
Diacapparis. Page 101. 
Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Capars four ounces, 
Agrimony roots, 
Nigella seeds, 
Squils, 
Asarabacca, 
Centaury,
Black Pepper, 
Smallage, 
Time of each an ounce. 
Honey three times their weight. 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It helps infirmities of 
the spleen; and the name doth pro- 
mise so much: it is good for cold 
bodies, if they have strength of na- 
ture in them: the next looks more 
lovely in my eyes which is——
Diacinnamomu Page. 101. 	
Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon fifteen 
drams, 
Cassia Lignea,
Alicampane roots, of each half an 
ounce. 
Galanga, seven drams,
Cloves, 
Long Pepper, 
Cardamoms of both sorts, 
Ginger, 
Mace, 
Nutmegs, 
Wood of Aloes, of each three drams. 
Saffron one dram, 
Sugar five drams, 
Musk two scruples, to be added ac- 
cording to the prescript of the Physi- 
tian, and by adding three pound 
eight ounces of clarified honey, boyl 
it and make it into an Electuary accor- 
ding to art.
Culpeper.] Diacinnamomum, or The 
composition of cinnamon, heats the Sto- 
mach, causeth digestion, provokes 
the Terms in Women, strengthens 
the stomach and other parts that di- 
stribute the nourishment of the body. 
A dram of it taken in the morning fa- 
sting is exceding good for ancient 
people & cold bodies, such as are sub- 
ject to Dropsies & diseases of Flegm, 
or Wind; for it comforts and streng- 
thens Nature much. If you take it 
to help digestion, take it an hour be- 
fore meat: do so in all things of like 
quality. 
Diacorallion. Page 101. Latin.  
Colledg.] Take of Coral white and 
red,
Bole-armenick, 
Dragons-blood, of each one dram. 
Pearls half a dram, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Red Roses, 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Cinnamon of each two scruples. 
Sanders white and red of each one 
scruple. 
With four times its weight in Sugar dis-
solved in smal cinnamon water, make it 
into an Electuary according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It comforts and streng- 
thens the heart exceedingly, and re- 
stores such as are in consumptions, it 
is cooling, therefore good in hectick 
feavers; very binding, and therefore 
stops Fluxes; neither do I know a 
better Medicine in all the Dispensa-
tory for such as have a consumption 
accompanied with a loosness. It 
stops the terms and whites in women 
if administred by one whose wits are 
not a wool-gathering. Take but a 
dram at a time every morning, be- 
cause of its binding quality, except 
you have a loosness; for then may 
you take so much two or three times 
a day. 
Diacorum. Pag. 101. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of the Roots of Cicers,
Acorus, or Calamus Aromaticus, 
Pine-nuts, of each a pound and an 
half. 
Let the cicers roots, being clensed, cut, 
boyled, and pulped, be added to ten pound 
of clarified Honey, and boyled (stirring 
it) to its just thickness, then being re- 
moved from the fire, add the Acorus
roots beaten, the Pinenuts cut, and these 
following in pouder. 
Take of black Pepper an ounce, 
Long pepper, 
Cloves, 
Ginger, 
Mace, of each half an ounce. 
Nutmegs, 
Galanga, 
Cardamoms, of each three dram,
Mix them with the roots and Honey in- 
to an Electuary according to Art. 
Culpeper.] The Electuary provokes 
Lust, heats the Brain, strengthens the 
Nerves, quickens the Senses, causeth
an acute Wit, easeth pains in the  
head, helps the Falling-sickness and  
Convulsions, Coughs, Cathars, and  
all diseases proceeding from coldness  
of the brain. Half a dram is enough 
to take at one time, because of its 
heat. 
Peony is an Herb of the Sun, the  
Roots of it cure the Falling-sick- 
ness.  
Those that would give help against 
all Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston,
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor.
Diacydonium. Or, Electuary of Quin- 
ces simple. Pag. 102. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the flesh of Quin- 
ces cut and boyled in fair water to 
a thickness, eight pound.
White Sugar six pound. 
Boyl it to its just thickness. 
Diacidonium with Species. 
Page 102. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Quin-
ces, 
Sugar, of each two pound. 
White Wine Vinegar half a pound 
added at the end of the Decoction,
It being gently boyled, and the scum ta- 
ken away, add 
Ginger two ounces, 
White Pepper ten drams and two scru-
ples.  
Bruise them grosly, and boyl it again to 
the thickness of Honey. 
Diacidonium compound, Magisterial.
Page 102. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of white Sugar six 
pound, 
Spring Water four pound. 
Clarifie them wel with the white of an 
Egg, scumming them; then 
Take of ripe Quinces clensed from the 
rind and seeds, and cut in four quar- 
ters, eight pound:  
Boyl them in the forgoing Syrup til they 
be tender, then strain the Syrup through 
a linnen cloth, vocata Anglice Boulter;
Boyl them again to a jelly, adding four 
ounces of white Wine Vinegar towards 
the end; remove it from the fire, and 
whilst it is warm put in these following 
Species in gross pouder, 
Ginger an ouunce, 
White Pepper, 
Cinnamon, 
Nutmegs, of each two drams 
Keep it in divers boxes. 
Culpeper.] The Vertues of all these 
three are, They comfort the Sto- 
mach, help digestion, stay vomiting, 
belching, &c. stop Fluxes and the 
Terms in Women. They are al harm- 
less, you may take the quantity of a 
Nutmeg of them at a time; before 
meat to help digestion and fluxes;
after meat to stay vomiting; in the 
morning for the rest.
Vertues newly added.  
They strengthen the stomach, stop 
Vomitings and Looseness. Being sea-
sonably administred they stop a sim- 
ple Gonorrhæa, and asswage the 
Flux of Whites in women: and help 
Barrenness arising from over Loos- 
ness of the Spermatick Vessels and 
thinness of the Seed. 
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144 ELECTUARIES. 
Confectio de Hyacintho.
Page 103. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Jacinth,
Red Coral, 
Bole-Armenick,
Earth of Lemnos, of each half an 
ounce. 
The Berries of Chermes, 
Roots of Tormentil, and 
Dittany, 
Seeds of Citrons, 
Sorrel, 
Purslain, 
Saffron, 
Mirrh, 
Red Roses exungulated, 
All the sorts of Sanders, 
Bone of a Stags heart, 
Harts-horn, 
Ivory prepared, of each four scru- 
ples. 
Saphire, 
Emerald, 
Topas, 
Pearls, 
Raw silk,
Leaves of Gold, and 
Silver, of each two scru- 
ples.
Camphire,
Musk,
Amber-greece, of each five grains, 
With Syrup of Lemmons make it into 
a Confection according to Art.
Culpeper.] It is a great Cordial, 
and cool, exceeding good in acute 
Feavers and Pestilences; it mightily 
strengtheneth and cherisheth the 
Heart. Never above half a dram is 
given at a time, very seldom so much; 
not because of its offensiveness, I 
suppose its chargableness.
Antidotum Hæmagogum. 
Page 103. Latin.. 
Colledg.] Take of Lupines husked 
two drams. 
Black pepper five scruples and six 
grains. 
Liquoris four scruples, 
Long Birthwort,
Mugwort, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Macedonian parsly seed, 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Rue seed,
Spicknard,
Mirrh,
Penyroyal, of each two scruples four- 
teen grains. 
Seeds of Smallage, 
Savin, of each two scruples and thir- 
teen grains. 
Centaury the greater, 
Cretish Carrots, 
Nigella,
Caraway, 
Annis,
Cloves, 
Allum, of each two scruples. 
Bay leaves one scruple, one half scru- 
ple, and three grains.
Schænanth one scruple and thirteen 
grains.
Asarabacca,
Calamus Aromaticus,
Amomum, 
Centaury the less,
Seed of Orrach, 
Peony, 
Fennel, of each one scruple and six 
grains. 
Wood of Aloes, a scruple and four-
teen grains.
Cyperus, 
Alicampane, 
Ginger, 
Cappar roots,
Cummin, 
Orobus, of each one scruple. 
All of them being beaten into very fine 
Pouder, let them be made into an Elect- 
uary according to art, with four times 
their weight in Sugar: Let it stand one 
month before you use it.
Culpeper.] It provokes the Terms, 
brings away both birth and after- 
birth, the dead Child, purgeth such 
as are not sufficiently purged after 
Travel; it provokes Urine, breaks 
the stone in the bladder, helps the 
Strangury, Disury, Iskury, &c. helps 
indigestion, the chollick, opens any 
stoppings in the Body; it heats the 
stomach, purgeth the liver and spleen 
consumes wind, staies vomiting: but 
let it not be taken by women with 
Child, nor such people as have the 
Hemorrhoids. The Dose is from one 
dram to two drams.
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians, let them read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Rive- 
rius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslingus, 
Sennertus, and Physick for the Poor.
Diasatyrion. Page 104. Latin. Or, 
The Electuary of Satyrion Roots. 
Colledg.] Take of Satyrion Roots 
three ounces. 
Dates, 
Bitter Almonds, 
Indian Nut, 
Pine-nuts, 
Fistick Nuts, 
Green Ginger, 
Eringo roots preserved, of each one 
ounce.
Ginger, 
Cloves, 
Galanga, 
Pepper long and black, of each three 
drams. 
Amber-greece one scruple. 
Musk two scruples. 
Penids four ounces. 
Cinnamon, 
Saffron, of each half an ounce. 
Malaga wine three ounces.
Nutmegs, 
Mace, 
Grains of Paradise, of each two 
drams. 
Ash-tree Key,
The belly and loyns of Scinks, 
Borax, 
Benjamin, of each three drams. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cardamoms of each two drams. 
Seeds of Nettles, and 
Onions, 
Roots of Avens, of each a dram and 
an half. 
With two pound and an half of Syrup of 
of Green Ginger. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Electuary hath been invented 
to assist lazy husbands that have smal 
lust or ability to exercise their Til- 
lage. It is a powerful inciter to the 
actions of Generation. It clenses the 
Kidneys, moves Urine, strengthens 
the back, Warms the Stomach, 
quickens the senses and provokes 
Womens monethly Courses. The 
dose is two or three drams, or in cold 
Bodies half an ounce, in a cup of 
Sack, or Muskadine, to provoke to 
Generation, or in Hippocras, And 
to move Urine or the Courses give 
it in white or Rhenish Wine, with a 
spoonful of Syrup of Mugwort com- 
pound. 
Electuarium Diaspermaton. Page 104. 
Latin. Or, Which is made of 
several sorts of Seeds. 
Colledg. Take of the four greater and 
lesser cold seeds, 
Seeds of Sparagus, 
Burnet, 
Bazil, 
Parsly, 
Winter Cherries, of each two drams. 
Gromwel, 
Juyce of Liquoris, of each three 
drams. 
Cinnamon, 
Mace, of each one dram. 
With eight times their weight in white 
Sugar dissolved in Marsh-mallow
water,
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It breaks the stone, and 
provokes Urine. Men may take half 
an ounce at a time, and Children 
half so much, in water of any Herbs 
or Roots &c. (or Decoction of them) 
that break the Stone; which the last
Catalogue in the Book (viz. the Ca- 
tagolue of diseases) wil furnish you 
with. I delight to have men studious.
Vertues newly added. 
It hath like Vertues with the for- 
mer though not so effectual, and was 
chiefly 


145 ELECTUARIES. 
cheifly invented to move Urine, as 
the former to incite to generation. 
Micleta. Page 105. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of the barks of all the 
Mirobalans torrified, of each two 
drams and an half. 
Seeds of Water-cresses, 
Cummin,
Annis, 
Fennel, 
Ammi,
Caraway, of each a dram and an 
half. 
Bruise the seeds and sprinkle them with 
sharp white Wine Vinegar; then beat 
them into pouder, and add the Miroba- 
lans, and these that follow. 
Spodium, 
Balanstincs,
Sumach, 
Mastich, 
Gum Arabick, of each one dram 
and fifteen grains. 
Mix them together, and with ten ounces  
of Syrup of Mirtles make them into an  
Electuary according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It gently easeth the bo- 
wels of the wind Cholick, wringing 
of the Guts, infirmities of the Spleen, 
it stops fluxes, the Hemorrhoids, as 
also Terms in women.  
Electuarium Pectorale. Page 105. Lat.
Or, A Pectorial Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of Li-
quoris,
Sweet Almonds,
Hazel Nuts, of each half an ounce.
Pine-nuts an ounce. 
Hysop, 
Maidenhair,
Orris,
Nettle seeds, 
Round Birthwort, of each a dram and 
an half. 
Black pepper, 
Seeds of water-cresses,
Roots of Alicampane, of each half a 
dram. 
Honey fourteen ounces. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to Art.
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Sto- 
mach and Lungs, and helps the vices 
thereof. Take it with a  Liquoris 
stick.
Theriaca Diatessaron. 
Page 105. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Gentian,
Bay-berries, 
Mirrh, 
Round Birthwort, of each two ounces.
Honey, two pound. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to Art.
Culpeper.] This is a gallant Electuary 
like the Author, which was Mesue. 
It wonderfully helps cold infirmities 
of the Brain, as Convulsions, Falling- 
sickness, dead Palsies, shaking Pal- 
sies, &c. As also the Stomach, as 
pains there, wind, want of digestion: 
as also stoppings of the Liver, Drop- 
sies; it resists the Pestilence and Poy- 
sons, and helps the bitings of vene- 
mous Beasts. The dose is from half 
a dram to two drams, according to 
the age and strength of the Patient, as 
also the strength of the diseases: you 
may take it either in the morning, or 
when urgent occasion cals for it. 
Diascordium. Page 136. Latin. Or, 
The Antidote made of the 
Herb Scordium.
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon,
Cassia lignea, of each half an ounce. 
Scordium an ounce. 
Dittany of Creet,
Tormentil,
Bistort,
Galbanum, 
Gum  Arabick, of each half an ounce. 
Opium one dram and an half. 
Sorrel seeds one dram and an half. 
Gentian half an ounce. 
Bole-Armenick an ounce and an 
half. 
Earth of Lemnos half an ounce. 
Long Pepper, 
Ginger, of each two drams. 
Clarified Honey two pound and an 
half. 
Sugar of Roses one pound. 
Canary Wine ten ounces. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art.
Culpeper.] It is a well composed 
Electuary, somthing appropriated to 
the Nature of Women, for it pro- 
vokes the Terms, hastens their labor, 
helps their usual sickness at the time 
of their Lying in, I know nothing 
better; it stops fluxes, mightily 
strengtheneth the heart and stomach; 
neither is so hot but it may safely be 
given to weak people; and besides 
provokes sleep. It may safely be 
given to yong children ten grains at 
a time; ancient people may take a 
dram or more: It is given as an ex- 
cellent Cordial in such Feavers as are 
accompanied with want of sleep. 
Vertues newly added. 
It hath been designed by the Au- 
thor Fracastorius an Eminent learned 
Physitian (who was Physitian to the 
Councel of Trent, if I mistake not)
to resist Venemous, Pestilential and 
malignant Diseases. It is of a very 
grateful tast and flavour. It powerful- 
ly stops loosnesses and Vomitings, as 
also defluxions of rheum, being a sea- 
sonably and discreetly administred. 
It is more temperate then either 
London Treacle, Mithridate or Ve- 
nice Treacle, and therefore more ge- 
nerally used in all Ages, sexes and 
Diseases, that require such a remedy. 
It is of general use in al Feavers, espe- 
cially when sleep is wanting. The 
Dose in Feavers is one scruple, half a 
dram, or a dram according as the case 
requires. Out of a Feaver to stop
loosnesses, Vomitings and defluxi- 
ons of Rheum, and to bridle the Go- 
norrhea two drams may be given af- 
ter universal Remedies have been ap- 
plied.
The Author Fracastorius was wont 
to give it to persons infected with the 
Plague after this manner. He took 
two ounces of the Juyce of Wood- 
Sorrel or ordinary Sorrel, Juyce of 
Citrons one ounce, Diascordium one 
dram, Cordial Species of the preci- 
ous Stones, formerly described, two 
scruples, Vinegar one ounce. He 
mixed all together, and gave it the 
Patient to drink, and repeated the 
same as occasion required. 
Mithridate Page 106. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Mirrh,
Saffron, 
Agrick,
Ginger, 
Cinnamon, 
Spicknard, 
Frankincense,
Treacle, 
Mustard seeds, of each ten drams.
The seeds of Hart-wort, 
Opobalsamum, or Oyl of Nut-
megs by expression, 
Schenanth, 
Stœchas, 
Costus, 
Galbanum, 
Turpentine, 
Castoreum. 
Long Pepper, 
Juyce of Hypocistis,
Styrax Calamitis, 
Opopanax, 
Indian leaf, or for want of it 
Mace, of each one ounce. 
Cassia Lignea, 
Poley mountain,
White Pepper,
Scordium, 
Seeds of Carrots of Creet, 
Carpobalsamum or Cubebs,
Troch. Cypheos,
Bdelium, of each seven drams.
Celtick spicknard,
Gum Arabick,
Macedonian Parsly seeds,
Opium, 
Cardamoms the less,
Fennel seeds,
Gentian, 
Red Rose Leaves, 
Dittany of Creet, of each five 
drams. 
Annis seeds,
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146 ELECTUARIES. 
Asarabacca,
Orris,
Acorus,
The greater Valerian, 
Sagapen, of each three drams. 
Meum,
Acacia,
The bellies of Scinks,
The tops of St. Johns-wort, of 
each two drams and an half. 
Mallego wine so much as is suffici- 
ent to dissolve the Juyces and 
Gums.
Clarified Honey the treble weight 
of all, the Wine excepted. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art.
Culpeper.] It is good against poy- 
son and such as have done themselves 
wrong by taking filthy Medicines, 
it provokes sweat, it helps continual 
watrings of the stomach, Ulcers in 
the Body, Consumptions, weakness 
of the Limbs, Rids the Body of cold 
Humors, and Diseases coming of 
cold, it remedies cold infirmities of 
the Brain, and stopping of the passage 
of the sences (viz. Hearing, Seeing, 
Smelling, &c.) by cold, it expels 
wind, helps the Chollick, ptovokes 
Appetite to ones Victuals, it helps 
Ulcers in the bladder, if Galen say 
true, as also difficulty of Urine, it 
casts out the dead Child, and helps 
such Women as cannot conceive by 
reason of cold. It is an admirable re- 
medy for Melancholly, and al diseases 
of the Body coming through cold, it 
would fill a whol sheet of Paper to 
reckon them all up particularly. You 
may take a scruple or half a dram in 
the morning, and follow your busi- 
ness; two drams wil make you sweat, 
yea one dram if your body be weak, 
for then two drams may be danger- 
ous because of its heat. How to or-
der your self in sweating, you were 
taught before; if you have forgot 
where, look the Table at latter end. 
They that think the use of these Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it's so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick
for the Poor. 
Philonium Persicum. 
Page 107. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of white Pepper, 
Seeds of white Henbane, of each 
two drams.
Opium, 
Earth of Lemnos, of each ten 
drams. 
Blood-stone,
Saffron, of each five drams. 
Castorium, 
Indian spicknard, 
Euphorbium prepared,
Pellitory of Spain,
Pearls,
Amber, 
Zedoary, 
Alicampane, 
Troch. Ramich, of each a dram.
Camphire a scruple.
With their treble weight in Honey 
of Roses. 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] All the difference is, 
Mesue appoints Honey, whose com- 
mendations of it is this: It stops 
blood flowing from any part of the 
Body, the immoderate flowing of the 
Terms in Women, the Hemorrhoids 
spitting of blood, bloody fluxes, 
and is profitable for such women as 
are subject to miscarry: See the next 
Receipt. 
Philonium Romanum. 
Page 107. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of white Pepper, 
White Henbane seeds, of each 
five drams. 
Opium two drams and an half, 
Cassia lignea a dram and an half. 
Seeds of Smallage a dram. 
Parsly of Macedonia, 
Fennel, 
Carrots of Creet, of each two 
scruples and five grains. 
Saffron a scruple and an half. 
Indian Spicknard, 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Zedoary fifteen grains. 
Cinnamon a dram and an half.
Euphorbium prepared,
Mirrh, 
Castorium, of each a dram. 
With their trebble weight in clari- 
fied Honey, 
Make it into an Electuary. 
Culpeper.] It is a most exquisite 
thing to ease vehement and deadly 
pains in what part of the body soever 
they, be whether internal or external. 
Therfore in such diseases which cause 
vehemency of pain, as Colicks, the 
stone, strangury, &c. this may be 
given (ordered by the discretion of 
an able Physitian)to mitigate the ex- 
tremity of pain, until convenient re- 
medy may be had.
Philonium Magistrale.
Page 108. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Opium four ounces. 
Benjamin, 
Mirrh,
Mummy, of each half an ounce. 
Spirit of Wine as much as is sufficient 
to make it into an Opiate. 
Culpeper.] I hold the Laudanum
to be a better Medicine, for this (be- 
ing exceeding dangerous) for an un- 
skilful man to meddle withall, I let 
it alone yet am not ignorant what 
good it might do to such whose 
wounds have brought them into a 
frenzy, if given by an able hand. 
Electuarium de Ovo. Page 108. Latin.
Or, Electuary of Eggs. 
Colledg.] Take a Hens Egg new laid, 
and the white being taken out by a 
smal hole, fill up the void place with 
Saffron, leaving the york in; then 
the hole being stopped, rost it in ashes
till the shell begin to look black; take 
diligent heed the Saffron burn not, for
then is the whole Medicine spoyled. 
Then the matter being taken out dry 
so that it may be beaten into pouder,
add to it as much pouder of white 
Mustard seed as it weight. Then 
Take the Roots of white Dittany, and 
Tormentil, of each two 
drams. 
Mirrh, 
Harts-horn, 
Petasitis roots, of each one dram.
Roots of Angelica and 
Burnet, 
Juniper Berries, 
Zedoary, 
Camphire, of each half an ounce. 
Mix them all together in a Morter, then 
add Venice Treacle the weight of them al.
Stir them about with a Pestle three hours 
together, purtting in so much Syrup of 
Lemmons, as is enough to make it into an 
Electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] A dram of it given at a 
time, is as great a help in a Pesti-
lential Feaver as a man shall usually 
read of. It provokes sweat, and 
then you shall be taught how to use 
your self. If years do not permit, give
not so much. 
Theriaca Andromachi. Page 108.
Latin. Or, Venice Treacle. 
Colledg. Take of Troches of Squils 
fourty eight drams. 
Troches of Vipers 
Long Pepper, 
Opium of Thebes,  
Magma, 
Hedycroi dried, of each twenty four
drams. 
Red Roses extungulated,
Orris Illiriok,
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Seeds of sweet Navew,
Scordium, 
Opobalsamum,
Cinnamon, 
Agrick, of each twelve drams. 
Mirrh, 
Costus, or Zedoary,
Saffron, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Indian Spicknard,
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147 ELECTUARIES.
Schenanth, 
Pepper white and black, 
Olibanum,
Dittany of Creet, 
Raphontick,
Stœchas, 
Horehound, 
Macedonian Parsly seed, 
Calaminth, 
Cypress, 
Turpentine, 
The Roots of Cink foyl and Ginger, 
of each six drams. 
Poley mountain, 
Chamepitis, 
Celtick Spicknard,
Amomus,
Styrax Calamitis,
Roots of Meum, 
Tops of Germander, 
Roots of Raphontick, 
Earth of Lemnos, 
Indian Leaf, 
Chalcitis burnt, or instead thereof Ro- 
man Vitriol burnt, 
Gentian Roots, 
Gum Arabick, 
Juyce of Hyppocistis, 
Carpobalsamum, or Nutmegs, or Cu- 
bebs, 
Seeds of Annis, 
Cardamoms,
Fennel,
Hartwort, 
Acacia, or instead thereof the juyce 
of Sloes made thick, 
Seeds of Treacle-Mustard. 
The tops of St. Johns wort, 
Sagapen, of each four drams. 
Castoreum, 
Roots of long Birthwort, 
Bitumen Judaicum, 
Carrot seed, 
Opopanax. 
Centaury the less, | 
Galbanum, of each two drams. 
Canary Wine enough to dissolve what 
is to be dissolved. 
Honey the treble weight of the dry 
species. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art.
Culpeper.]. It is confessed many 
Physitiaus have comented upon this 
Recipt; as Bartholomeus, Maranta, 
Gallen, Medici Romani, and Medici 
Bononienses, cum multis alijs; but with 
little difference. The vertues of it 
are, It resists poyson, and the bitings 
of venemous beasts, inveterate head- 
aches, Vertigo, Deafness, the falling- 
sickness, Astonishment, Apoplexies, 
dulness of sight, want of voyce, asth- 
maes, old and new coughs. It helps 
such as spit or vomit blood, such as 
can hardly spit or breath, coldness of 
the stomach, wind, the chollick, and 
illiack passion, the yellow Jaundice, 
hardness of the Spleen, stone in the 
reins and bladder, difficulty of urine, 
ulcers in the bladder, feavers, drop- 
sies, leprosies. It provokes the Terms, 
brings forth both birth & afterbirth, 
helps pains in the joynts, it helps not 
only the body, but also the mind, as 
vain fears, melancholly, &c. and is a 
good remedy in pestilential feavers. 
Thus Galen. You may take half a 
dram and go about your business, 
and it will do you good if you have 
occasion to go in ill airs, or in pesti-
lential times. If you shal sweat upon 
it as your best way is, if your body be 
not in health, then take one dram, 
or between one and two, or less than 
one, according as age and strength 
is; if you cannot take this or any o- 
ther sweating Medicine by it self, 
mix it with a little Carduus, or Dra- 
gons water, or Angelica water, which
in my opinion is the best of the 
three. 
Theriaca Londinensis. Pag. 110. Lat. 
Or, London Treacle. 
Colledg.] Take of Harts-horn two 
ounces, 
Seeds of Citron, 
Sorrel, 
Peony, 
Bazil, of each an ounce. 
Scordium, 
Corrallin, of each six drams. 
Roots of Angelica, 
Tormentil, 
Peony, 
Leaves of Dittany, 
Bayberries, 
Juniper-berries, of each half an 
ounce.
Flowers of Rosemary, 
Marigolds, 
Clove-gilliflowers. 
The tops of St. Johns wort, 
Nutmegs, 
Saffron, of each three drams. 
Roots of Gentian, 
Zedoary,
Ginger, 
Mace, 
Mirrh, 
Leaves of Scabicus, 
Devils-bit, 
Cardus, of each two drams. 
Cloves, 
Opium, of each a dram. 
Mallego wine as much as is sufficient. 
With their treble weight in Honey, mix 
them according to Art.
Culpeper. This Medicine is a pretty 
Cordial, resists the pestilence, and is 
a good Antidote in pestilential times, 
it resists poyson, strengthens cold sto- 
machs, helps digestion, crudities of 
the stomach. A man may safely take
two drams of it in a morning, and let
him fear no harm. 
Vertues newly added. 
This medicament was invented by
order of the Colledg of Physitians of 
London and is therefore cal’d London 
Treacle. It is of the same nature
with Mithridate and Venice Treacle, 
but not so hot nor so dear, and fitter 
for english bodies. It is wel tasted 
and therefore conveniently given to 
children to kil worms. It is good 
for all cold diseases of the Brain, 
Nerves, and Heart. It comforts the 
Stomach, helps dizziness of the 
Head. Being mixed with conserve 
of Scurvy-grass, it makes a good re- 
medy against the Scurvy. 
Diacrocuma. Page 110. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Saffron,
Asarabacca roots, 
Seeds of Parsly,
Carrots, 
Annis, 
Smallage, of each half an ounce. 
Rhubarb, 
Roots of Meum, 
Indian Spicknard, of each six drams 
Cassia Lignea, 
Costus, 
Mirrh,
Schenanth,
Cubebs, 
Maddir roots, 
Juyces of Maudlin and 
Wormwood made thick, 
Opobalsamum, or Oyl of Nutmegs, 
of each two drams. 
Cinnamon, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each a
dram and an half. 
Scordium, 
Ceterach, 
Juyce of Liquoris, of each two drams
and an half. 
Tragacanth a dram. 
With eight times their weight in white 
Sugar dissolved in Endive water, 
and clarified, 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] Mesue appoints clarifi- 
ed Honey. It is exceeding good a- 
gainst cold diseases of the stomach, 
liver, or spleen, corruption of hu- 
mors and putrefaction of meat in the 
stomach, ilfavored color of the body, 
dropsies, cold faults in the Reins and 
Bladder, provokes urine. Take a 
dram in the morning.
Purging Electuaries. 
Benedicta Laxativa. Pag. 111. Lat. 
Colledg.] TAke of choyce Tur- 
bith, ten drams,
Diacridium, 
Bark of Spurge roots prepared, 
Hermodactils, 
Red Roses, of each five drams:
Cloves, 
Spicknard,  
Ginger, 
Saffron,  
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148 ELECTUARIES.
Ammomus, or for want of it Calamus 
Aromaticus, 
Cardamoms the less, 
Seeds of Smallage,
Parsly, 
Fennel, 
Sparagus,
Bruscus, 
Saxifrage, 
Gromwel, 
Caraway, 
Sal gem, 
Galanga, 
Mace, of each a dram. 
With their treble weight of clarified Ho- 
ney, make them into an Electuary ac- 
cording to art. Also you may keep the 
species it self in your shops. 
Culpeper. It purgeth flegm, chief-  
ly from the joynts; also it purgeth 
the reins and bladder. I willingly | 
omit the quantity of these Purges,  
because I would not have foolish 
women and dunces do themselves   
and others mischief. For it worketh | 
too violently for their uses, and must 
be prudently ordered. 
Vertues newly added. 
The dose of Benedicta Laxativa (that 
is the blessed purging Electuary) is 
half an ounce, or six drams in strong 
bodies, given in white Wine. An 
ounce is profitably put into clisters 
for the stone, wind cholick, and dis- 
eases of the womb. 
Carycostinum. Page 111.
Latin.
Colledg. Take of Cloves, 
Costus, or Zedoary, 
Ginger, 
Cummin, of each two drams.
Hermodactils, Diacridium, of each 
half an ounce. 
With their double weight of Honey cla- 
rified in white Wine, make them into an 
Electuary according to Art. 
Culpeper.] Authors say it purgeth 
hot Rewms, and takes away inflama- 
tions in wounds, I assure you the E- 
lectuary works violently, and may 
safest be given in clysters, and so you 
may give two or three drams at a 
time, if the Patient be strong. 
Virtues newly added. 
This medicament is calculated for 
the Gout and Joynt-pains, in which
cases it has been found very effectu- 
al. The dose is two or three drams 
in white Wine.
Cassia Extracta pro Clysteribus. Page 
111. Lat. Or, Cassia extracted 
for Clysters.
Colledg.] Take of the Leaves of Vio-
lets, 
Mallows, 
Beets, 
Mercury,
Pellitory of the wall, 
Violet flowers of each a handful. 
Boyd them in a sufficient quantity of wa- 
ter, with which let the Cassia be 
extracted, and the Canes washed:
then  
Take of this Cassia so drawn, and boyl- 
ed to its consistence, a pound. 
Sugar a pound and an half, 
Boyl them to the consistence of an Electu-
ary according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is no more than 
breaking the Canes of the Cassia, 
and pick out the pulp (casting away 
the seeds) boyl the pulp in a little 
of this Decoction, then press it 
through a pulping sieve,, the title 
shews the use of it: or if you will 
take an ounce of it inwardly, you 
shal find it work with great gentle- 
ness. You may take it in white 
Wine, it is good for gentle bodies, 
for if your body be hard to work up- 
on, perhaps it wil not work at all; 
it purgeth the reins gallantly, and 
cooleth them, thereby preventing the 
stone, and other diseases caused by 
their heat.
Electuarium Amarum Magistrale 
majus. Page 112. Latin. Or, 
the greater bitter 
Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of Agrick,
Turbith,
Species Hiera Simplex, 
Rhubarb, of each one dram. 
Choyce Aloes unwashed, two drams. 
Ginger, 
Crystal of Tartar, of each two scru- 
ples. 
Orris Florentine,
Sweet Fennel seeds, of each a scruple. 
Syrup of Roses solutive as much as is 
sufficient to make it into an Ele- 
ctuary according to art. 
Electuarum Amarum minus. Page 
112. Latin. Or, The lesser 
bitter Electuary.
Colledg.] Take of Epithimum half an 
ounce. 
Roots of Angelica three drams, 
Gentian, 
Zedoary, 
Acorus, of each two drams. 
Cinnamon, one dram and an half. 
Cloves,
Mace,
Nutmegs, 
Saffron, of each one dram. 
Aloes six ounces, 
With syrup of Fumitory, 
Scabious and 
Sugar as much as is sufficient to make 
it into a soft Electuary.
Culpeper.] Both these purge chol- 
ler, the former flegm, and this me- 
lancholly: the former works stron- 
gest, and this strengthens most, and 
is good for such whose brains are a- 
noyed. You may take half an ounce, 
of the former if your body be any 
thing strong in white Wine, if very 
strong an ounce, ordering your self 
as you were taught before, and the 
Table at later end wil direct you to 
the place: a reasonable body may 
take an ounce of the latter, the weak 
less. I would not have the unskilful 
too busie with purges without advice 
of a Physitian. 
Diacassia with Manna. Page 112. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Damask Prunes 
two ounces,
Violet flowers a handful and an half, 
Spring Water a pound and an half. 
Boyl it according to art til half be consu-
med; strain it, and dissolve in the de- 
coction six ounces of 
Cassia newly drawn,
Sugar of Violets, 
Syrup of Violets, of each four ounces. 
Pulp of Tamarinds an ounce, 
Sugar candy, an ounce and an half 
Manna two ounces. 
Mix them, and make them into an Ele- 
ctuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cool purge 
for such as are bound in the body, for
it works gently, and without trou- 
ble, it purgeth choller, and may safely 
be given in Feavers coming of chol- 
ler: but in such cases, if the body be 
much bound, the best way is first to 
administer a Clyster, and then the 
next morning an ounce of this will 
cool the body and keep it in due 
temper. 
Cassia extracta sine solijs Senæ. 
Page 113. Latin. Or, Cassia 
extracted without the 
Leaves of Sena.  
Colledg. Take twelve Prunes, 
Violet flowers a handful, 
French Barley, 
Seeds of Annis, 
Bastard Saffron, 
Polipodium of the Oak, of each five 
drams. 
Maidenhair, 
Time, 
Epithimum of each a handful, 
Raisons of the Sun stoned half an 
ounce,
Seeds of Sweet Fennel two drams, 
Purslain, 
Mallows, of each three drams. 
Liquoris half an ounce, 
Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of wa- 
ter, strain them and dissolve in the De- 
coction, 
Pulp of Cassia two pound, 
Tamarinds an ounce, 
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149 ELECTUARIES. 
Cinnamon three drams,
Sugar a pound. 
Boyl it into the form of an Electuary. 
Cassia extracta cum folijs Senæ. Page 
113. Latin. Or, Cassia extracted 
with the Leaves of 
Sena. 
Colledg.] Take of the former Receipt 
two pound, 
Sena in pouder two ounces. 
Mix them according to art. 
Culpeper.] This is also a fine cool 
purge, gentle, cleansing the bowels of 
choller and melancholly without any 
griping, very fit for feaverish bodies, 
and yet the former is gentler then 
this. They both clense and cool the 
Reins; a reasonable body may take 
an ounce & an half of the former, and 
an ounce of the latter in white Wine, 
if they keep the house, or their bo- 
dies be oppressed with melancholly, 
let them take half the quantity in 
four ounces of decoction of Epithi- 
mum.
Diacarthamum. Page 113. Latin. 
Or, purging Electuary of 
Carthamus seeds.  
Colledg. Take of Diatragacanthum 
frigidum, half an ounce, 
Pulp of Preserved Quinces an ounce, 
Inside of the seeds of Bastard Saffron 
half an ounce,
Ginger two drams, 
Diacridium beaten by it self three 
drams.
Turbith six drams, 
Manna two ounces,
Honey of Roses solutive, 
Sugar candy, of each one ounce. 
Hermodactils half an ounce, 
Sugar ten ounces and an half. 
Make of them a liquid Electuary accord- 
ing to art.
Vertues newly added. 
It purges choller and phlegm and 
is good for diseases proceeding from  
a mixture of these humors, as the
Gout, Palsie and old headach. Also
it is made up into Tables or Lozen-
ges and given to children against
worms.
Diaphœnicon. Page 113. Latin. 
Or, purging Electuary 
of Dates.
Colledg] Take of the pulp of Dates 
boyled in Hydromel, 
Penids of each half a pound. 
Sweet Almonds blanched, three oun- 
ces and an half: 
To all of them being bruised and per- 
mixed, add 
Clarified Honey two pound.
Boyl them a little, and then strew
in 
Ginger,
Long Pepper,
Mace, 
Cinnamon, 
Rue Leaves, 
Seeds of Fennel, 
Carrots of each two drams. 
Turbith four ounces, 
Diacridium an ounce and an half. 
Make of them an Electuary according 
to art.
Culpeper.] I cannot beleeve this 
is so profitable in Feavers taken 
downwards as Authors say, for it is a 
very violent purge: Indeed I beleeve 
being mixed in clysters, it may do 
good in chollicks and infirmities of 
the bowels coming of raw humors, 
and so you may give half an ounce at 
a time. 
Vertues newly added. 
It purges flegm and choller, and
is good for old Feavers and Agues
arising from a mixture of these hu-
mors. It is very good for chollick
pains, pains of the stomach, and o-
other diseases arising from crude hu-
mors.
Diaprunum Lenitive, Page 114.
Latin.
Colledg.] Take one hundred Damask 
Prunes,
Boyl them in water till they be soft, then 
pulp them, and in the Liquor they were 
boyled in, boyl gently one ounce of 
Violet Flowers; strain it, and with 
two pound of Sugar boyl it into a 
Syrup: then ad half a pound of 
the aforesaid Pulp, 
Pulp of Cassia, 
Tamarinds of each one ounce.
Then mix with it these Pouders follow- 
ing, 
Sanders white and red,
Spodium, 
Rhubarb, of each three drams. 
Red Roses, 
Violets, 
Seeds of Purslain,
Succory, 
Barberries, 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Liquoris, 
Cinnamon, of each two drams: 
The four greater cold seeds, of each 
one dram. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art. 
Culpeper.] It may safely, and is 
with good success, given in acute, 
burning, and all other Feavers, for it 
cools much, and loosens the body 
gently: it is good in Agues, hectick 
Feavers, and Marasmos. You may 
take an ounce of it at a time, at night 
when you go to bed, three hours af- 
ter a light supper; neither need you 
keep your chamber next day, unless 
the weather be very cold, or your bo- 
dy very tender. 
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians. Let them read those Books 
of mine, of the last Edition, viz. 
Riverius Riolanus, Johnston, Ve- 
slingus, Sennertus, and Physick for the 
Poor. 
Diaprunum Solutvum. Pag. 114. 
Latin. Or, Electuary of 
Prunes purgative. 
Colledg.] Take of Diaprunum Le- 
mitive whilst it is warm, four
pound.
Scammony prepared, two ounces and 
five drams. 
Mix them together and make them into 
an Electuary according to art.
Virtues newly added. 
It purges choler and is good in all 
cholerick diseases, except continual 
Fevers, the matter being first pre-
pared. 
Catholicon, Latin. Page 114.
Colledg.] Take of the Pulp of Cassia, 
Tamarinds, 
Leaves of Senna, of each two ounces.
Polipodium, 
Violets, 
Rhubarb, of each one ounce.
Annis seeds, 
Penids, 
Sugar candy, 
Liquoris,
Seeds of Gourds, 
Citruls, 
Cucummers, 
Melons, of each two drams.
The things to be bruised being bruised, 
take of fresh
Polipodium three ounces, 
Sweet Fennel Seeds six drams.
Boyl them in four pound of water til the 
third part be consumed; strain it, and 
with two pound of Sugar boyl the De- 
coction to the thickness of a Syrup; then 
with the pulps and pouder make it into 
an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling 
purge for any part of the body, and 
very gentle; it may be given (an 
ounce, or half an ounce at a time, ac- 
cording to the strength of the pati- 
ent) in acute, in peracute Diseases,
for it gently loosneth the Belly, and 
adds strength; it helps infirmities of 
the Liver and Spleen, Gouts of all 
sorts quotidian, Tertian, and quartan 
Agues, as also Head-aches. It is u- 
sually given in clysters. If you list to 
take it inwardly, you may take an 
ounce at night going to bed, in the 
morning drink a draught of hot pos- 
set drink and go about your business. 
Nn Electua


150 ELECTUARIES. 
Electuarium de Citro Solutivum. 
Page 115. Latin. Or, Elect- 
uary of Citrons Purgative. 
Colledg.] Take of Citron Pills pre- 
served, 
Conserve of the flowers of Violets and 
Bugloss, 
Diatragacanthum frigidum, 
Diacrydium, of each half an ounce. 
Turbith five drams. 
Ginger half a dram. 
Senna six drams. 
Sweet Fennel seeds one dram. 
White Sugar dissolved in Rose water, 
and boyled according to art, ten 
ounces. 
Make a solid Electuary according to 
Art. 
Vertues newly added. 
It purges choler and Flegm chiefly. 
It is well tasted, good for diseases 
caused by the foresaid Humors. The 
dose is three drams or half an ounce 
in Cichory water, with two ounces 
of Syrup of Violets.
Electuariun Elescoph. Page 115. Latin. 
Or, the Bishops Electuary.
Colledg. Take of Diacrydium, 
Turbith, of each six drams. 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Myrobalans Emblicks. 
Nutmegs, 
Polypodium, of each two drams and 
an half. 
Sugar six ounces. 
Clarified Honey ten ounces. 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
art.
Culpeper.]: Mesue appoints only 
claryfied Honey, one pound and four 
ounces, to make it up into an Elect- 
uary; and saith, it purgeth choller 
and flegm, aud wind from all parts 
of the Body; helps pains of the 
Joynts and sides, the Chollick, it 
clenseth the Reins and Bladder; yet I 
advise you not to take too much of it 
at a time, for it works pretty vio- 
lently, though well corrected by the 
pen of a Mesue: let half an ounce be 
the most, for such whose bodies are 
strong, alwaies remembring that you 
had better ten times take too little, 
than once too much; you may take 
it in white Wine, and keep your self 
warm.   
Those that would give help against 
all Infirmities, let them read these
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, 
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for
the Poor.
Confectio Hamech. Page 115. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of Ci- 
trons Myrobalans two ounces,
Myrobalans, Chebs and blacks,
Violets, 
Colocynthis, 
Polypodium of the Oak, of each one 
ounce and an half. 
Wormwood, 
Time, of each half an ounce. 
Seeds of Annis, and 
Fennel, 
Flowers of red Roses of each three 
drams. 
Let all of them being bruised be infused
one day in six pound of Whey, then boy- 
led till half be consumed, rubbed with 
your hands and pressed out: to the De- 
coction add 
Juyce of Fumitory, 
Pulp of Pruens, and Raisons of the 
Sun, of each half a pound. 
White Sugar, 
Clarified Honey, of each one pound. 
Boyl it to thickness of Honey, strewing 
in towards the end. 
Agrick Trochiscated,
Senna of each two ounces.
Rhubarb one ounce and an half. 
Epithimum one ounce. 
Diacrydium six drams. 
Cinnamon half an ounce. 
Ginger two drams, 
Seeds of Fumitory and 
Annis, 
Spicknard of each one dram, 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] The Receipt is chiefly 
appropriated as a purge for Melan- 
cholly and salt flegm, and diseases 
thence arising, as Scabs, Itch, Lepro- 
sies, Cancers, infirmities of the Skin, it 
purgeth addust Humors and is good 
against madness, Melancholly, for- 
getfulness, Vertigo. It purgeth very 
violently, and is not safe given alone. 
I would advise the unskilful not to 
medle with it inwardly: You may 
give half an ounce of it in Clysters, in 
Melancholly diseases, which com- 
monly have astringency a constant 
companion with them. 
Vertues newly added. 
The dose is from half an ounce to 
six drams in substance or one ounce 
in Infusion. It is given in white 
Wine with an ounce of Syrup of Vio- 
lets or two ounces. In hot and dry 
Bodies to three drams thereof six 
drams of Electuarium Lenitivum 
may be added, which will facilitate 
and indemnifie the opperation. Ex- 
perience in thousands hath shewed 
this Medicamentt to be safe enough, 
for all Culpepers Panick seares.
Electuarium Lenitivum. Page 116. Lat. 
Or, The Lenetive Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of Raisons of the Sun 
stoned. 
Polypodium of the Oak, 
Senna, of each two ounces. 
Mercury one handful and an half. 
Jujubes, 
Sebestens of each twenty. 
Maiden-hair,
Violets, 
French Barley, of each one handful. 
Damask Prunes stoned, 
Tamerinds of each six drams. 
Liquoris half an ounce. 
Boyl them in ten pound of Water till two 
parts of the three be consumed; strain it, 
and dissolve in the Decection
Pulp of Cassia, 
Tamarinds, and 
Fresh Prunes. 
Sugar of Violets, of each six ounces. 
Sugar two pound, 
At last add pouder of Senna leaves, one 
ounce and an half, Annis seeds in 
pouder two drams to each pound of 
Electuary.
And so bring it into the form of an Ele- 
ctuary according to art.  
Culpeper.] It gently opens and 
molifies the bowels, bringeth forth 
choller, flegm, and Melancholly, and 
that without trouble. It is cooling, 
and therefore is profitable in Pleure- 
sies, and for wounded people: A 
man of reasonable strength may take 
an ounce of it going to bed, which 
will work next morning- And in 
truth they have done well here to ad 
the Annis seeds to correct the Sen- 
na. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is an excellent remedy for such 
as are naturally Costive, half an 
ounce being taken half an hour be- 
fore dinner with one scruple of white 
Tartar, poudered. The frequent use 
thereof, is good to prevent the bree- 
ding of the Stone in dry and Costive 
Bodies. It is good in the beginning 
and declination of Feavers, and may 
supply the place of Clysters, six 
drams being given the Patient from a 
Knives point at night; and so it en- 
clines also to rest. Taken in the hot 
weather before dinner as aforesaid, it
inables a man to endure the extremi- 
ty of the heat with lightsomeness and 
activity. It is good against bleeding 
at the Nose, and mitigates the sharp- 
ness of Humors in the Gonorrhæa 
and Strangury. 
Electuarium Passulatum. Page 117. Lat. 
Or, Electuary of Raisons.]
Colledg. Take of fresh Polypodium
Roots three ounces. 
Fresh Marsh-mallows Roots,
Senna


151 ELECTUARIES. 
Senna, of each two ounces. 
Annis seeds two drams. 
Steep them in a glazed Vessel in a suffi- 
ent quantity of spring water, boyl them 
according to Art; strain it and with 
Pulp of Raisons of the Sun half a 
pound. 
White Sugar, 
Manna, of each four ounces. 
Boyl it to the thickness of a Cydoniate, 
and renew it four times a year 
Culpeper.] You had best, first boyl 
the Roots in three pints of water to a 
quart, then put in the Senna, and 
seeds, boyl it to a pint and an half, 
then strain it and add the rest. The 
Manna will melt of it self as well as 
the Sugar, indeed you had best dis- 
solve the Manna by it self in some of 
the Decoction, and so strain it be- 
cause of its dross. It gently purgeth 
both choller and Melancholly, clens- 
eth the Reins and bladder, and there- 
fore is good for the Stone and Gravel
in the Kidneys.
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the Vertues receited by 
Culpeper, it opens and frees the 
Lungs from Flegmatick Humors op- 
pressing the same, and is good against 
a Cough proceeding from thin salt 
and sharp Humors.
Electuarium è succo Rosarum. Page 117. 
Latin. Or, Electuary of 
the Juyce of Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of Sugar, 
The Juyce of Red Roses clarified, of 
each a pound and four ounces. 
The three sorts of Sanders of each six 
drams. 
Spodium three drams, 
Diacydonium twelve drams. 
Camphire a scruple. 
Let the Juyce be boyled with the Su- 
gar to its just thickness, then add 
the rest in Pouder and so make it 
into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth Choller, and 
is good in Tertian Agues and dis- 
eases of the joynts. It purgeth vio- 
lently, therefore let it be warily 
given. I omit the dose, because it 
is not for a vulgar use. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good in the conclusion of 
Tertian and Quotidian Agues, to 
purge away the Reliques of the Mor- 
bifick Humor. The dose is from two 
drams to four in strong bodies. Two 
drams or three with half an ounce of 
Electuary Lenitive or three drams of 
Catholicon and six drams of Syrup 
of Violets may be safely given. 
Hiera Picra simple. Page 117. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon, 
Xylobalsamum, or wood of Aloes. 
Roots of Asarabacca,
Spicknard,
Mastich,
Saffron, of each six drams. 
Aloes not washed twelve ounces and 
an half. 
Clarified Honey four pound and three 
ounces. 
Mix them into an Electuary according 
to Art.
Also you may keep the Species by it 
self in your shops.
Culpeper.] It is an excellent reme- 
dy for vicious Juyces which lie fur- 
ring the Tunicle of the Stomach, and 
such idle Fancies and Symptoms 
which the brain suffers therby, where- 
by some think they see, others that 
they hear strange things, especially 
when they are in bed, and between 
sleeping and waking; besides this, 
it very gently pugeth the belly, and 
helps such women as are not suffici- 
ently purged after their Travel: your 
best way (in my opinion) to take it 
(for I fancy the Receipt very much, 
and have had experience of what I 
have written of it) is to put only so 
much Honey to it as wil make it into 
Pills, of which you may take a scru-
ple at night going to bed (if your 
body be not very weak) in the mor- 
ning drink a draught of hot broath 
or posset drink. You need not fear to 
go about your business, for it will 
hardly work til next day in the after- 
noon, and then very gently. I have 
found the benefit of it, and from my 
own experience I commend it to my 
Country men.  
Vertues newly added.
Two or three drams being given 
in Wormwood Rhenish Wine with 
half an ounce of Syrup of Artemisia 
or Mugwort compound described be- 
fore, will bring down the Purgations 
of Women, and help the Green-sick- 
ness in maidens. 
Hiera with Agarick. Pag. 117. Latin. 
Colledg] Take of species Hiera  sim- 
ple without Aloes, 
Agrick Trochiscated, of each half an 
ounce. 
Aloes not washed one ounce. 
Clarified Honey six ounces. 
Mix it, and make it into an Electuary 
according to Art. 
Culpeper.] Look but the vertues of 
Agrick and add them to the vertues 
of the former Receipt, so is the busi- 
ness done without any further 
trouble.  
Vertues newly added. 
It is more Purgative then the for- 
mer, and fitter for Flegmatick bodies 
and diseases. It wil perform al the ef- 
fects of the former in a smaller dose. 
It is good for puling Stomachs, short
winded Lungs, and other diseases of 
the stomach and brest arising from 
thick and Flegmatich Humors. The 
dose is a dram or a dram and half. 
Hiera Logadij. Page 117. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Coloquintida, 
Polipodium, of each two drams. 
Euphorbium,
Poley mountain,
Seeds of Spurge, of each one dram and 
an half, and six grains 
Wormwood, 
Mirrh, of each one dram and twelve
grains. 
Centaury the less, 
Agrick, 
Gum Ammoniacum,
Indian leaf or Mace, 
Spicknard, 
Squils prepared, 
Diacrydium of each one dram.
Aloes,
Time, 
Germander. 
Cassia Lignea, 
Bdellium, 
Horehound, of each one scruple and 
fourteen grains. 
Cinnamon, 
Opopanax, 
Castorium,
Long Birthwort,
The three sorts of Pepper, 
Sagapen, 
Saffron, 
Parsly of each two drams. 
Hellebore black and white, of eace six 
grains. 
Clarified Honey a pound and an 
half. 
Mix them, and make of them an Elect-
uary according to art. 
Let the Species be kept dry in your
shops. 
Culpeper.] It takes away by the 
roots daily evils coming of Melan- 
cholly, Falling-sickness, Vertigo,
Convulsions, Megrim, Leprosie, and
many other infirmities. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Medicament is with us little 
used, I suppose because of its heat 
and strong Purgative faculty. It is 
commended against the Falling-sick- 
ness, Melancholly, old head-ach of 
the whol head or one side thereof, for 
Swimmings and Diszyness of the 
Head, Convulsions, Palsies and 
tremblings; also for Diseases of the 
Liver, Spleen, and Joynts; for the 
Sciatica or Hip-Gout, and other old 
and rebellious Infirmities. It potent- 
ly moves the Courses. It Cures 
Poysons and Venemous Bitings, and 
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152 ELECTUARIES. 
is profitably given against the Lepro- 
sie, at the beginning of the disease. 
The dose is two or three drams three 
times a month, in a draught of Mead 
or Muld Sack, with a spoonful of 
salt. It is only for strong bodies and 
otherwise incurable diseases. Half 
a dram may usefully and without 
danger be put into a Suppository in 
sleepy diseases of the Head, and such 
like, also half an ounce may be given 
in a clyster in like cases, and against 
the Palsie and the stoppage of the 
Courses, Melancholly and madness 
thereof arising, fits of the stone or co- 
lick, and stoppage of Urine. 
Hiera Diacolocynthidos. Page 118. 
Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Colocynthis, 
Agrick, 
Germander, 
White Horehound, 
Stœhas, of each ten drams. 
Sagapen. 
Parsly seeds,
Round Birthwort roots, 
Opopanax, 
White Pepper, of each five drams. 
Spicknard,  
Cinnamon, 
Mirrh, 
Indian leaf or Mace, 
Saffron of each four drams, 
Bruise the Gums in a Mortar, sift the 
rest, and with three pound of clarified 
Honey, three ounces and five drams, 
Make it an Electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] It helps the Falling- 
sickness, Madness, and the pain in 
the head called κεϕαλαλγια, pains 
in the breast and stomach whether 
they come by sickness or bruises, 
pains in the Loyns or Back-bone, 
hardness of Womens breasts, putri- 
factions of meat in the stomach and 
sowr belching. It is but seldom used 
and therefore hard to be gotten,
Tryphera the greater. Page 118. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Myrobolans Chebs, 
Bellericks, 
Inds and Emblicks, 
Nutmegs, of each five drams. 
Water-cress seeds, 
Asarabacca roots. 
Persian Origanum, or else Dittany 
of Creet, 
Black Pepper, 
Olibanum, 
Ammi,
Ginger, 
Tamaris,
Indian Nard,
Squinanth, 
Cyperus root, of each half an ounce. 
Filings of steel prepared with Vine- 
gar, twenty drams. 
Let the Myrobolans be rosted a little 
with fresh butter, let the rest being pou- 
dered, be sprinkled with Oyl of Al-
monds, then add 
Musk one dram, 
Honey their treble weight 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It helps the immode- 
rate flowing of the terms in Women, 
and the Hemorrhoids. It helps 
weakness of the Stomach, and re- 
stores color lost. It frees the body 
from crude humors, and strengthens 
the bladder, helps Melancholly, and 
rectifies the distempers of the Spleen. 
You may take a dram in the morn- 
ing, or two if your body be any thing 
strong. 
Clupeper.] They that think the use 
of these Medicines are too brief, (its 
so only for cheapness of the Book) 
Let them read these Books, of the last 
Edition, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, 
Johnston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor.  
Tryphera solutive. Page 119. Latin. 
Or, the delicious purging 
Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of Diacrydium ten 
drams 
Turbith an ounce and an half. 
Cardamoms the less, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Honey of each three drams.
Yellow Saunders, 
Liquoris, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, of each half an 
ounce.
Acorns, 
Schænanth, of each a dram. 
Red Roses, 
Citron pills preserved, of each three 
drams. 
Violets two drams. 
Penids four ounces, 
White Sugar half a pound, 
Honey clarified in juyce of Apples 
one pound,
Make an Electuary according to art. 
Virtues newly added. 
I conceive this Electuary had its 
name from the pleasant tast. It pur- 
ges choler and phlegm and is good 
for all diseases arising from those 
humors. The dose is two drams 
or three with two ounces of Syrup 
of Violets and three ounces of Ci- 
chory water. It is fit for those that 
must needs have a wel-tasted purge. 
ELECTUARIES. 
left out in this new
Edition. 
Athanasia Mithridatis, or King Mi-
thridate his Medicine to cause  
a long life. 
Col-  
ledg.]
TAke of Cinnamon,
Cassia,
Schœnanth, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Saffron, 
Mirrh, of each one ounce. 
Costus, 
Spicknard, 
Acorus, 
Agrick, 
Scordium, 
Carrots, 
Parsly, of each half an ounce. 
White Pepper eleven grains. 
Honey as much as is sufficient to 
make it into an Electuary accord- 
ing to art. 
Culpeper] It prevails against poy- 
son, and the bitings of venemous 
Beasts, and helps such whose meat 
putrifies in their stomach, staies vo- 
miting of blood, helps old Coughs,
and cold diseases of the liver, spleen, 
bladder, and matrix. The dose is 
half a dram. 
Electuarium * scoriaferri. Rhasis. 
[* Scoria ferri is properly 
those flakes that Smiths beat 
from Iron when it is red 
hot] 
Colledg. Take of the flakes of Iron 
infused in Vinegar seven daies 
and dried, three drams, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Schœnanth, 
Cyperus, 
Ginger, 
Pepper, 
Bishops weed, 
Frankincense, of each half an ounce. 
Myrobolans, Indian Bellericks and 
Emblicks,
Honey boyled with the Decoction of
Emblicks, fifteen ounces. 
Mix them together, and make of them an
Electuary. 
Culpeper. Rhasis an Arabian Phy-
sitian, the Author of the Receipt, ap-
poins a dram of each: the medicine 
heets the spleen gently, purgeth me-
lancholly, easeth pains in the stomach
and spleen, and strengthens digesti-
on. People that are strong may take 
half an ounce in the morning fasting,
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153
ELECTUARIES. 
and weak people three drams. It is 
a good remedy for pains and hard- 
ness of the Spleen. 
Confectio Humain. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of Eye-bright two 
ounces, 
Fennel seeds five drams, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon,
Cubebs, 
Long Pepper, 
Mace of each a dram. 
Beat them all into pouder, and with 
Clarified Honey one pound (in 
which boyl 
Juyce of Fennel one ounce, 
Juyce of Celandine, and  
Rue, of each half an ounce) 
And with the pouders make it up into 
an Electuary. 
Culpeper.] It is chiefly appropria- 
ted to the brain and heart, quickens 
the sences, especially the sight, and 
resisteth the pestilence. You may take 
half a dram if your body be hot, a 
dram if cold, in the morning fasting. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is the only medicament (ex- 
cept certain purging Pils) in this 
Book prepared and fitted purpose- 
ly to help dimness of sight caused by 
oppression of the eyes and optick 
Nerves by phlegm and rhewm, and 
grossness and paucity of the visive 
spirits, And in such cases I conceive 
it is very effectual being methodical- 
ly and skilfully administred,and that 
it received wrong by being shut out 
of the last edition of the London Dis- 
pensatory. 
Diatreos Solomonis. 
Colledg.] Take of Orris roots one 
ounce, 
Penyroyal, 
Hysop, 
Liquoris, of each six drams. 
Tragacanth, 
White Starch, 
Bitter Almonds,
Pine-nuts,
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Pepper, of each three drams.
Fat Figs, 
The pulp of Raisons of the Sun, and 
Dates, of each three drams and 
an half.
Styrax Calamitis, two drams and an 
half, 
Sugar dissolved in Hysop water, and 
Clarified Honey, of each twice the 
weight of all the rest, 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art. 
Culpeper.] The Electuary is chief- 
ly appropriated to the Lungs, and 
helps cold infirmities of them, as 
asthmaes, coughs, difficulty of brea- 
thing, &c. You may take it with a 
Liquoris stick, or on the point of a 
knife, a little of it at a time, and of-
ten.
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians, let them read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Rive- 
rius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslingus, 
Sennertus, and Physick for the Poor. 
Diasatyrion. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Satyrion 
fresh and sound. 
Garden Parsnips, 
Eringo, 
Pine-nuts, 
Indian Nuts, or if Indian Nuts be 
wanting, take the double quantity 
of Pine-nuts, 
Fistick Nuts, of each one ounce and 
an half. 
Cloves, 
Ginger, 
The seeds of Annis, 
Rocket, 
Ash Keys, of each five drams. 
Cinnamon, 
The tails and loins of Scincus, 
The seeds of Bulbus, 
Nettles of each two drams and an 
half. 
Musk seven grains. 
Of the best Sugar dissolved in Male- 
go Wine, three pounds, 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It helps weakness of the 
Reins aud bladder, and such as make 
water with difficulty. It provokes lust 
exceedingly, and spedily helps such 
as are impotent in the Arts of Venus, 
You may take two drams or more at 
a time. 
Mathiolus his great Antidote against
Poyson and Pestilence. 
Colledg. Take of Rhubarb, 
Rhapontick, 
Valerian Roots, 
Roots of Acorus, or Calamus Are- 
maticus. 
Cyperus, 
Cinkfoyl, 
Tormentil, 
Round Birthwort, 
Male Peony, 
Alicampane, 
Costus Illirick, 
Orris,
White Chamelion, or Avens, of each
three drams.
Roots of Galanga, 
Masterwort, 
White Dictamni, 
Angelica, 
Tarrow, 
Filipendula or Dropwort, 
Zedoary, 
Ginger, of each two drams, 
Rosemary, 
Gentian, 
Devils-bit, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Seeds of Citrons, and 
Agnus Castus, 
Berries of Kermes,
Seeds of Ash-tree,
Sorrel, 
Wild Parsnips, 
Navew, 
Nigella, 
Peony the male, 
Bazil, 
Hedg Mustard, 
Treacle-Mustard, 
Fennel, 
Bishops-weed, of each two drams. 
Berries of Bay, 
Juniper, 
Ivy, 
Sarsaparilla (or for want of it the  
double weight of Cubebs) 
Cubebs of each one dram and half. 
Leaver of Scordium, 
Germander, 
Chamepitys,
Centaury the less, 
Stœchas, 
Celtick Spicknard, 
Calaminth, 
Rue, 
Mints, 
Betony, 
Vervain, 
Scabious, 
Carduus Benedictus, 
Bawm, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Dittany of Creet three drams, 
Marjoram, 
St. Johns wort, 
Schœnanth, 
Horehound, 
Goats Rue, 
Savin,
Burnet, of each two drams. 
Figs, 
Walnuts, 
Fistick Nuts, of each three ounces. 
Emblick Myrobolans, half an ounce. 
Flowers of Violets, 
Borrage, 
Bugloss,  
Roses, 
Lavender, 
Sage,
Rosemary, of each four scruples. 
Saffron three drams, 
Cassia Lignea ten drams. 
Cloves, 
White Chamelion, or sevenseach 
Nutmegs, 
Mace, of each two drams and an half. 
Black Pepper, 
Long Pepper,  
All the three sorts of Saunders, 
Wood of Aloes, of each one dram and 
an half, 
Harts-horn half an ounce, 
Unicorns horn, or in its stead, Be- 
zoar stone, one dram. 
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153 ELECTUARIES. 
Ivory, 
Stags Pizzle, 
Castorium, of each four scruples. 
Earth of Lemnos three drams. 
Opium one dram and an half. 
Orient Pearls, 
Emerald, 
Jacinth,
Red Coral, of each one dram and an 
half.
Camphire two drams. 
Gum Arabick, 
Mastich, 
Frankincense, 
Styrax, 
Turpentine, 
Sagapenum, 
Opopanax, 
Laserpitium, or Mirrh, of each two 
drams and an half. 
Musk, 
Amber-greece, of each one dram. 
Oyl of Vitriol half an ounce. 
Species Cordiales temperatæ, Dia- 
margariton, Diamoscu, Diambra, 
Electuarij de Gemmis, 
Troches of Camphire, 
Of Squils, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Troches of Vipers two ounces. 
Juyce of Sorrel, 
Sowthistles, 
Scordium, 
Vipers Bugloss, 
Borrage, 
Bawm, of each half a pound. 
Hypocistis two drams. 
Of the best Treacle and Mithridate, of 
each six ounces. 
Old Wine three pound. 
Of the best Sugar, or choyce Honey, 
eight pound six ounces. 
These being all chosen and prepared with 
diligence and Art, let them be made in- 
to an Electuary, just as Treacle or Mi- 
thridate is. 
Culpeper.] The Title shews you the 
scope of the Author in compiling it, I 
beleeve it is excellent for those uses. 
The Dose of this is from a scruple to 
four scruples, or a dram and an half. 
It provokes sweating abundantly, 
and in this or any other sweating Me- 
dicine, order your body thus: Take 
it in bed, and cover your self warm; 
in your sweating, drink posset-drink 
as hot as you can; if it be for a Fea- 
ver, boyl Sorrel and red Sage in pos- 
set-drink; sweat an hour or two if 
your strength will bear it; then the 
Chamber being kept very warm, shift 
your self all but your head, about 
which (your cap which you sweat in 
being kept on) wrap a hot Napkin, 
which will be a means to repel the 
vapors back. This I for present hold 
the best Method for sweating in Fea- 
vers and Pestilences, in which this 
Electuary is very good. 
Vertues newly added. | 
It containes all the faculties and 
Vertues of Mithridate and Venice 
Treacle with advantage.
Requies Nicolai, or Dr. Nicolaus 
his sleeping Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of Red Roses leaves, 
the whites being cut off. 
Blew Violets, of each three drams. 
Opium of Thebes dissolved in Wine. 
Seeds of white Henbane, 
Poppies, white and black,
Roots of Mandrakes, 
Seeds of Endive, 
Purslain, 
Garden Lettice, 
Psyllium, 
Spodium, 
Gum Traganth, of each two scruples 
and five grains. 
Nutmegs, 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, of each a dram and an half. 
Sanders, Yellow, White, and Red, 
of each a dram and an half. 
Sugar three times their weight, dissol- 
ved in Rose water. 
Mix them together, and make of them 
an Electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] Requies, the Title of this 
Prescript, signifies Rest: but I would 
not advise you to take too much of 
it inwardly, for fear instead of Rest, 
it brings you to Madness, or at best 
to Folly: Outwardly I confess being 
applied to the Temples, as also to 
the insides of the wrests, it may mi- 
tigate the heat in Feavers, and pro- 
voke Rest; as also mitigate the 
violent heat and raging in Frenzies. 
I like not the Receipt taken inward- 
ly. 
Vertues newly added. 
This was invented by an Ancient 
Author to cause rest and sleep. I con- 
ceive the use thereof in many cases 
to be far more proper, then to use 
Laudanum, Cynoglossa Pills, or Pills 
of Storax, how ever its luck is not 
to have the Vogue amongst us. But 
I have observed that Medicaments 
in London come in fashion and go 
out again, according to the fancies 
of some eminent collegiate Practiti- 
oners, who are imitated by the rest. 
It is most proper in hot Diseases and 
Bodies wherein opiates may be used 
For in Violent feavers they are of ill 
repute especially in the height as 
stopping the motions of Nature and 
inflamming the Feaver. But where- 
ever Laudanum is safe in an hot dis- 
ease and Body, I dare say this is 
much more safe and proper. As to 
the danger which Culpeper insinuates, 
Mr. John Grindal a learned Apothe- 
cary dwelling in Amsterdam, assured 
me that he had frequently given it to 
a Boy of his when very young and 
yet the Boy proved afterwards a 
lusty healthy and witty Knave. It is 
frequently used by the discreet
Practitioners of that renowned City. 
The Dose is from one scruple to half 
a dram or two scruples in urgent oc- 
casions. 
Electuarium Reginæ Coloniens. Or, 
The Queen of Colens Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of the Seeds of Saxi- 
frage and Gromwel, 
Juyce of Liquoris, of each half an 
ounce. 
Seeds of Caraway, 
Annis, 
Smallage, 
Fennel, 
Parsly of Macedonia, 
Broom, 
Carrots, 
Bruscus. 
Sparagus, 
Lovage, 
Cummin, 
Juniper,
Rue,
Siler Mountain, 
Seeds of Acorus, 
Penyroyal, 
Cinkfoyl, 
Bay-berries, of each two drams. 
Indian Spicknard, 
Schænanth, 
Amber, 
Valerian, 
Hogs Fennel, 
Lapis Lyncis, of each a dram and 
an half. 
Galanga, 
Ginger, 
Turbith, of each two drams. 
Senna an ounce. 
Goats blood prepared half an 
ounce. 
Mix them together: first beat them 
into pouder, then make them into an 
Electuary according to Art, with 
three times their weight in Sugar dis- 
solved in white Wine.  
Culpeper.] It is an excellent Re- 
medy for the stone and wind chol- 
lick, a dram of it taken every mor- 
ning: I assure such as are troubled 
with such diseases, I commend it to 
them as a Jewel.
Vertues newly added. 
If this Queen of Colen was Wife to 
one of those three Kings of Colen that 
the Legend tels us came to visit 
Christ in the Manger at Bethlehem, 
then is this Electuary. 1658. years 
old and upwards, and deserves Ve- 
neration for its Antiquity. 
It opens all obstructions and 
moves the Courses for which prob- 
ably the good Queen might use it as 
well as for Wine and Stone Colick, 
and to make her blithe and buxome 
when she was to club with the King 
her Husband in the great business of
making Princes and Princesses. 
Half a dram or two scruples may 
fitly be given in three ounces of 
white Wine with a spoonful or two
of Syrupe of Marsh-mallows.
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PILLS. 
Culpeper.] PILLS in Greek are called, Kατoπóπα, in Latin, Pilulæ: which 
signifie little bals, because they are made up in such a form, that 
they may be the better swallowed down, by reason of the offensiveness of their taste.
They were first invented for the purging of the Head (however Physitians have 
since ordered the business) because the matter there offending is not so soon taken 
away by any other Physick. Such as have Scammony (otherwise called Diagry-
dium) in them, or Colocynthis, work strongly, and must be taken in the morning, 
and the body well regulated after them, keeping your Chamber, and a good fire.
I shall instruct you in the Dose as I come to them; such as have neither Colocyn- 
this, nor Diagrydium, may best be taken in the evening, neither need yon keep 
the House for them. 
Pilulæ de Agarico. Paga 121. Latin. 
Or, Pills of Agrick. 
Colledg.] Take of Agarick three 
drams. 
Out own blue Orris roots, 
Mastich, 
Horehound, of each one dram. 
Turbith five drams. 
Species Hiera picra half an ounce. 
Colocynthis, 
Sarcocol, of each two drams. 
Mirrh one dram. 
Sapa as much as is sufficient, 
Make it into a Mass according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It was invented to clense 
the Breast and Lungs of flegm, it 
works pretty titely, therefore requires 
a good Physitian to direct it. Half 
a dram at a time (keeping your self 
warm) cannot wel do you harm, un- 
less you be very weak. 
Virtues newly added. 
They were invented to purge the
Brest and Lungs from Rheum and 
Flegm, and so to cure the Tissick and 
all shortness of breath; old Coughs, 
and the like diseases arising from 
thick and Flegmatick Humors. Their 
dose is a dram. 
Pilulæ Aggregativæ. Page 121. Latin.
Or, Aggregative Pills. 
Colledg.] Take of Citron Miroba- 
lans,
Rhubarb, of each half an ounce.
Juyce of Agrimony, and Worm- 
wood made thick, of each two 
drams. 
Diagrydium five drams. 
Agrick, 
Colocynthis, 
Polypodium, of each two drams. 
Turbith, 
Aloes, of each six drams. 
Mastich, 
Red Roses, 
Sal. Gem. 
Epithymum, 
Annis seed, 
Ginger, of each a dram. 
With Syrup of Damask Roses, 
Make it into a Mass according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth the Head of 
Choller, Flegm, and Melancholly, 
and that stoutly: it is good against 
quotidian Agues, and faults in the 
Stomach and Liver: yet, because it 
is well corrected if you take but half 
a dram at a time, and keep your self 
warm, I suppose you may take it 
without danger. 
Vertues newly added. 
They are so called I conceive be- 
cause they purge all the humors. 
Also they are termed Polychrestæ, 
that is good for many things. They 
purge Choller, Melancholly and 
Flegm, from the Head and Eyes, 
Stomach, Liver and Spleen, and are 
good for all diseases of those parts 
arising from the said humors. The 
dose is one dram in the morning 
about five a clock, the patient slee- 
ping after them and keeping bed till 
seven ox eight, yet without swea- 
ting. 
Pilulæ Alœphanginæ.
Page 121. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon,
Cloves, 
Cardamoms the less, 
Nutmegs, 
Mace, 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Carpobalsamum, or Juniper ber-
ries, 
Squinanth, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Yellow Sanders,
Red Roses dried, 
Wormwood, of each half an ounce. 
Let the Tincture be taken out of these 
being grosly bruised in spirit of Wine, the  
vessel being close stopped; in three pound 
of this Tincture being strained, dis 
solve  
Aloes one pound. 
Which being dissolved, add 
Mastich, 
Mirrh, of each half an ounce, 
Saffron two drams. 
Balsom of Peru one dram. 
The superfluous Liquors being consumed, 
either over hot Ashes or a Bath, bring 
it into a Mass of Pills. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth both sto- 
mach and brain of gross and putri- 
fied Humors, and sets the sences free 
when they are thereby troubled: it 
clenseth the brain offended by ill hu- 
mors, wind, &c. helps vertigo and 
head-aches, and strengthens the brain 
exceedingly, helps concoctions, and
strenthens the stomach. I have of-
ten

156 PILLLS 
ten made experience of it upon my 
own body, and alwaies with good  
success in such occasions, and there- 
fore give me leave to commend it 
unto my country-men, for a whol- 
som clensing Medicine, strengthning, 
no waies violent: one dram taken at 
night going to bed, wil work gently 
next day: if the party be weak, you 
may give less; if strong more. If 
you take but half a dram, you may 
go abroad the next day: but if you 
take a dram, you may keep the 
house; there can be no harm in 
that. 
Pilulæ de Aloe Lota. Page 122. Lat. 
Or, Pills of washed 
Aloes. 
Colledg. Take of Aloes washed with
juyce of red Roses, one ounce.
Agrick three drams,
Mastich, two drams, 
Diamoscu Dulce half a dram, 
Syrup of Damask Roses so much as is suf- 
ficient to make it into a mass according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.]. It purgeth both Brain, 
Stomach, Bowels, and Eyes of putri- 
fied humors, and also strengthens 
them. Use these as the succeeding. 
Vertues newly added 
These purge more effectually then 
Alephangine pils aforesaid; which 
seem rather strengthening then much 
purgative. It is a neatly composed 
Pil, and besides what is said of it, It 
does cheer and recreate the mind 
and spirits. It may be familiarly used 
a Pil or two before supper, by such as 
are costive, troubled with crudities, 
dim-sighted, dull-witted, heavy- 
hearted or otherwise indisposed, 
twice or thrice a week and a man 
may follow his occasions. If a man 
would give it as a just purge one 
dram or a dram and half may be the 
dose in the morning, the Patient kee- 
ping house. 
Aloe Rosata. Page 122.
Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Aloes in Pouder 
four ounces, 
Juyce of Damask Roses clarified one 
pound.
Mix them and digest them in the Sun, or 
in at bath, till the superfluous liquor he 
drawn off, digest it and evaporate it four 
sives over, and keep the Mass. 
Culpeper.] It is a gallant gentle 
putger of choller, frees the stomach 
from superfluous humors,opens stop- 
pings, and other infirmities of the 
body proceeding from Choller, flegm, 
as yellow Jaundice, &c. and streng- 
thens the body exceedingly. Take 
a scruple, or half a dram at night go- 
ing to bed, you may walk abroad, 
for it wil hardly work til next day in 
the afternoon. 
Pilulæ Aureœ. Page 122. Latin. 
Or, the Golden Pills.  
Colledg.] Take of Aloes,
Diacrydium, of each five drams. 
Red Roses,
Smallage seeds, of each two drams 
and an half. 
Seeds of Annis and 
Fennel, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Mastich, 
Saffron, 
Trochs Alhændal, of each one dram. 
With a sufficient quantity of Honey of 
Roses, make it into a Mass according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] They are held to purge 
the head, to quicken the sences, e- 
specially the sight, and to expel wind 
from the bowels, but work som- 
thing harshly. Half a dram is the 
utmost dose; keep the fire; take 
them in the morning, and sleep after 
them, they wil work before noon. 
Virtues newly added.
These Pills have anciently had 
their name from their precious ef- 
fects in purging the Head, quicken- 
ing the eye-sight, voiding wind from 
the stomach and Guts and that with- 
out trouble. The dose is one dram 
in five Pills. Two may be taken at 
night and the other three in the mor- 
ning. 
Pilulæ Cochiæ, the greater. 
Page 122. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Species of Hiera 
picra, ten drams. 
Trochs Alhandal, three drams and
an half,
Diacrydium two drams and an half. 
Turbith, 
Stechas, of each five drams, 
With a sufficent quantity of syrup of 
Stechas, make it into a Mass according 
to art. 
Culpeper.] Gesner and Matth. de 
Grad. put in only two scruples and a 
a half of Diacrydium, belike because 
they would not have it work so vio-
lently: But Mesue, Rhasis, and Nico- 
laus Myrepsus, prescribed two drams 
and an half, as here in the Dispensa- 
tory: only Mesus appoints it to be 
made up with Syrup of Wormwood. 
’Tis held to purge the head, and it 
must be given only to strong bodies,
and but half a dram at a time, and
also with great care.
Vertues newly added.
These are of Rhases his Invention
an able Arabian Physitian. They are 
termed also Cephalicæ or Head-pils, 
from their experimented Virtue in 
curing diseases of the Head out of 
which they purge choler and thick 
flegm effectually, and from the 
Nerves. The dose is from two scru- 
ples to a dram in the morning, and 
sleep after. 
Pilulæ Chochiæ, the less.
Page 123. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes, 
Scammony, 
Colocynthis, of each one ounce.
With equal parts of Syrup of Worm- 
wood and purging thorn: make it into 
a Mass according to art.
Vertues newly added. 
This purges choler more than 
flegm and is appropriated for disea- 
ses of the Stomach. The dose is from 
one scruple to half a dram or two 
scruples in the morning fasting. 
Pilulæ de Cygnoglosso, Page 123. 
Latin. Or, Pills of Cyg- 
noglossa or Hounds- 
Tongue.
Colledg.] Take of the Roots of 
Hounds-tongue dried, 
White Henbane seed, 
Opium prepared, of each half an
ounce. 
Mirrh six drams, 
Olibanum five drams, 
Saffron, 
Castoreum, 
Styrax Calamitis, of each one dram 
and an half. 
With syrup of Stœchas, make it into a 
Mass.
Culpeper.] It staies hot Rhewms 
that fal down upon the Lungs, there- 
fore is good in Ptisicks, also it miti- 
gates pain: a scruple is enough to 
take at a time going to bed, and too 
much if your body be weak: have a 
care of Opiates for fear they make 
you sleep your last. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Pills were invented, not to 
purge but to stop all distillations of 
rheum from the Head into the Lungs 
and Chest, the Teeth, or any other 
part. They are therefore good after
universal remedies methodically ap- 
plied, to stop the Tooth-ach, Cough, 
Gout pains, aud all troublesom mo- 
tions of the humors, ten grains being 
taken at night when the Patient lies 
down to rest, and repeated every o- 
ther night, for about three nights, if 
the pain or Cough continues so as 
to hinder the Patients sleep. Culpe- 
per overshoots in assigning the dose 
of this Pill for though a scruple 
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may be given, yet seldom is or need 
to be given more then half a scruple 
at a time. And there is as much 
danger in opiats as purgatives, 
though their bad effects when misap- 
plied are not so sudden and frightful. 
Pilulæ ex Duobus. Page 123. Latin. 
Or, Pills of two things. 
Colledg. Take of Colocynthis, and 
Scamony, of each one ounce. 
Oyl of Cloves as much as is sufficient 
to Malax them well: then with a little 
Syrup of purging Thorn. Make it into 
a Mass.
Vertues newly added. 
These Pills are named from the 
paucity of their ingredients, it being 
rare to see a Pill compounded only 
of two ingredients, not reckoning 
the Oyl of Cloves and Syrupe. This 
Pill was I suppose contrived to ac- 
commodate those that cannot be 
perswaded to take above one or two 
pills at a time, and therefore they 
were made so strong that one Pill in 
some Bodies and two in most will 
work handsomely. They purge cho- 
ler and flegm from all parts, are fit 
for rustick bodies, and have been 
supposed to be those Pills the people 
in London have so much sought and 
so dearly bought under the name of 
De Lawne his Head-Pills. Ten or 
twelve graines gilded with Gold 
make a gallant head Pill to be taken 
in the morning and to sleep after the 
same. I need not say that thin 
borath of veal, or posset drink is 
usually taken after the working of 
such Medicaments, to wash them 
from the stomach, temper their acri- 
mony, and facilitate their ejection. 
Also after strong Physick taken in the 
morning it is good for the patient to 
dine timely, which prevents weak- 
ness, and furthers the operation of 
the Physick in the Afternoon. 
For all Culpeper is in such an af- 
fright at the Contemplation of these 
terrible Pills, yet I have been assured 
by a learned and expert practitioner 
in this City of London now living 
this present year 1659. That a smal 
Pill thereof hath been given to Chil- 
dren successfully against the Worms, 
and without any danger. There is 
shore of Oyl of Cloves in the Mass 
thereof, which by its delicious Aro- 
matick flavour corrects the Maligni- 
ty, and by its Oyly body mussles and 
sheathes the Acrimony of the 
Coloquintida, and Scammony. Also 
stomach and all the inward bo- 
wels and Organs, are as effectually 
guarded and armed by the Chymical 
Oyl of cloves, as if a great quantity 
of Spices were added in substance, as 
the manner is to correct ordinary 
Pills. 
This Pill is by some used to purge
such as are infected with the great 
Pocks. In which case I conceive less 
then a scruple is not given, and it 
may be half a dram in strong Bodies. 
And possibly being of late invention, 
it may have been framed for the Me- 
ridian of that disease, as Hercules his 
great Club to knock down a Monster. 
But such hot and dry Medicaments 
do many times fail the Physitians ex- 
pectation in meager hot and dry bo- 
dies, when nevertheless an ounce of 
Electuarium Lenitivum or of Catho- 
licon will do some feates. In such 
bodies therefore the Patient must 
drink warm Whey, or eat stewed 
Pruens good store after the first stool.  
Pilulæ de Eupotorio. Page 123. Latin. 
Or, Pills of Eupatorium. 
Colledg. Take of the Juyce of Maud- 
lin, and Wormwood made 
thick,
Citron Myrobalans, of each three 
drams. 
Rhubarb three drams and an half. 
Mastich one dram. 
Aloes five drams. 
Saffron half a dram. 
Syrup of the Juyce of Endive, as much 
as is sufficient 
Make it into a Mass. 
Culpeper.] Having compared this 
Receipt of Mesue with Reason, I find 
it a gallant gentle purge, and streng- 
thening, fitted for such bodies as are 
much weakned by diseases of chol- 
ler. The Author appropriates it to 
such as have Tertian Agues, the yel- 
low Jaundice, obstructions or stop- 
pings of the Liver; half a dram taken 
at night going to bed, wil work with 
an ordinary body, the next day by 
noon. The truth is, I was before 
sparing in Relating the Doses of most 
purging Physicks, because they are 
to be regulated according to the 
strength of the Patient, &c. Physick 
is not to be presumed upon by un- 
able Physitians, lest they meet with 
their matches, and over-matches 
too. 
They that think the use of these Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it's so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick 
for the Poor. 
Pilulæ Fatidæ. Page 123. Latin. 
Or, Strong smelling Pills. 
Colledg. Take of Aloes, 
Colocynthis, 
Amoniucum, 
Sagapen,
Mirrh,
Rue seeds, 
Epithymum, of each five drams,
Scammony, three drams. 
Roots of Turbith half an ounce. 
Spurge the less, prepared. 
Hermodactils of each two drams. 
Ginger one dram and an half. 
Spicknard, 
Cinnamon, 
Saffron, 
Castoreum, of each one dram. 
Euphorbium prepared two scruples. 
Dissolve the Gums in juyce of Leeks, and 
with syrup made with the Juyce of Leeks 
and Sugar, make it into a Mass.
Culpeper.] They purge gross and 
law Flegm, and Diseases thereof ari- 
sing; Gouts of all sorts, pains in the 
back-bone, and other Joynts: it is 
good against Leprosies, and other 
such like infirmities of the Skin. 
Vertues newly added. 
These besides the Vertues mentio- 
ned do move the courses, clense 
a foule Womb of Flegmatick and 
Putrid baggage, and are good to 
prepare the same for conception, be-
ing discreetly used. And strange 
it is that Culpeper forgets his wonted 
Reverence to the Judgment of Me- 
sues when he censures this Pill. I like 
it the better, because the discreet 
Colledg of Amsterdam having accor- 
ding to the frugal and sober humor 
of that Nation, lest out many Medi- 
caments of all sorts, wherewith the 
Dispensatories of most Cities and 
common-wealths are pestered, and 
the younger practitioners distracted, 
they have nevertheless retained this 
Pill as that which by reason of its 
peculiar composition, having so ma- 
ny generous gums therein, and its 
peculiar fitness for some cases and 
occasions, could not be spared. I 
conceive they are unjustly called Fæ- 
tidæ, and that some Effeminate 
Courtier gave them that Name. For 
why should a Physitian judg the 
strong smel of Ammoniacum, Saga- 
penum, Opopanax, &c. to be stin- 
king? I did never think that Feaver- 
few, Ground Ivy, or Alehoof, Herb 
Robert and such like, were stinking 
Herbs, but that they were indeed of 
a vehement, Grave, and Masculine 
sent. Opopanax and Bdellium, two 
noble gums, are left out in the last 
Edition of the Dispensatory in Latin, 
I suppose through mistake, and to the 
detriment of the Pills. 
Their dose is from two scruples to 
one dram. I conceive them to be 
Elegantly and Artfully compounded 
and in stead of Fætidæ I would have 
them called Pilulæ Viriles, Martiales, 
or Hercuteæ. And to conclude, out
of the esteem I have of them, I shall
yet more fully muster their Virtues 
and Uses, as followeth. 
They are properly fitted for the
Brain, Nerves, Joynts and Limbs, 
and to remedy their old and cold dis-
cases, viz. Head-aches of the whole
or half head, Apoplexies, Palsies,
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Dizzyness, Tremblings, Running 
Gouts, Foot Gouts, Knee-Gouts, 
pain of the colick, Back-bone and 
other Joynts, as also of the Stomach. 
They open stubborne obstructions of 
the bowels, clense away the snivel of 
the Womb and help conception, 
move the courses, help diseases of 
of the Skin, as Morphews, Tetters, 
Itch and Scabs, Ring-worms, Le- 
prosie and the Elephantiasis so called 
or foul Maunge.
Pilulæ de Hermodactilis. Pag. 124. Lat. 
Or, Pills of Hermodactils. 
Colledg.] Take of Sagapen, six 
drams. 
Opopanax three drams. 
Melt them in warm juyce of Coleworts, 
so much as is sufficient; then strain it 
through a convenient rag, afterwards 
boyl it to a meanthickness, then 
Take of Hermodactils, 
Aloes, 
Citron Myrobalans, 
Turbith, 
Coloquintida, 
Soft Bdellium, of each six drams. 
Euphorbium prepared. 
Seeds of Rue and 
Smallage, 
Castorium, 
Sarcocol, of each three dram. 
Saffron one dram and an half. 
With the syrup of the juyce of Coleworts 
made with Honey, make it into a mass 
according to Art. 
Culpeper.] They are good against 
the Gout, and other cold afflictions 
of the Joynts. These are more mo- 
derate by half than Pilulæ Fœtidæ, and 
appropriated to the same Diseases. 
You may take a dram in the mor- 
ning, if age and strength agree; if 
not, take less, and keep your body 
warm by the fire, now and then wal- 
king about the Chamber. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are of kind to the former. 
For they consist also of such things as 
purge flegm, soften the same when 
hardned, melt and attenuate it being 
thickned, and make it more fit to be 
purged forth, and of such things as 
preserve the strength of the bowels 
wherfore they powerfully draw thick 
humors from the remote parts of the 
body, especially from the joynts and 
Limbs; they are good for cold dis- 
eases of the Head Nerves and Joynts. 
In a word they will do all in a man- 
ner that the former, but not so effect- 
ually. The dose is from two scruples 
to a dram and no higher. They must 
be given in the morning in bed, as 
all strong pills are usually given, and 
as hath been before expressed. 
Pilulæ de Hiera cum Agarico. Pag. 124 
Latin. Or, Pills of Hiera 
with Agarick. 
Colledg.] Take of Species Hiera Pi- 
cra, 
Agarick, of each half an ounce. 
Aloes one ounce. 
Honey Roses so much as is sufficient 
Makp it into a Mass according to Art. 
Culpeper.] Very many are the 
Vertues Authors have been pleased 
to confer upon this Medicine, as ma- 
king it Universal, and applying it to 
all parts of the Body, and almost all 
Diseases in them; proceed they ei- 
ther of Choller, flegm, or of Melan- 
cholly: Nay, they make it to resist
poyson, and Epidemical Diseases; 
to help the Gout, Dropsie, and Fal- 
ling-sickness; to provoke the terms 
and safe the fits of the Mother; to 
cure Agues of all sorts: shortness of 
breath and consumption of the lungs 
vertigo or dizziness in the head, to 
open obstructions of the Liver and 
spleen, to cure the yellow Jaundice, 
and sharpness of Urine: to streng- 
then the brain and memory, and 
what not? the truth is, it is as harm- 
less a purge as most in the Dispensa- 
tory. You may safely take a scru- 
ple at night going to bed, having eat 
a light Supper three hours before, 
and you may safely go about your 
business the next day, for it will not 
work too hastily, but very gently; so 
you may continue taking it a week 
together, for it will not do wonders 
in once taking. 
Pilulæ Imperiales. Page 124. Latin 
Imperial Pils, Or Pils of the 
Emperor. 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes two ounces,
Rhubarb one ounce and an half, 
Agarick, 
Senna, of each one ounce. 
Cinnamon, three drams. 
Ginger two drams. 
Nutmegs, 
Cloves, 
Spicknard, 
Mastich, of each one dram. 
With syrup of Violets, make it into a 
mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth the body of
mixt humors, and strengthens the 
stomach exceedingly; as also the bo-
wels, liver, and natural spirit: it is  
good for cold Natures, and cheers 
the spirits. The Dose is a scruple, 
or half a dram, taken at night: in  
the morning drink a draught of
warm Posset-drink, and then you  
may go about your business: both  
these and such like Pils as these, 'tis  
your best way to take them many  
nights together, for they are proper 
for such infirmities as cannot be car- 
ried away at once. Observe this 
Rule in all such Pills as are to be ta- 
ken at night. 
Virtues newly added. 
These Pills seem to have been fa- 
miliar to some Prince in regard of 
their gentle Nature, not receiving a- 
ny churlish purgative in their com- 
position, and being finely spiced, 
and tempered with syrup of Violets. 
They are of familiar use to preserve 
health and cheerfulness in persons 
costive, that live a sedentary life and 
are subject to crudities through stu- 
dy or want of Exercise; ten grains 
may be taken every other day, at go- 
ing to bed in case of costiveness for a 
fortnight together, til Nature be put 
into her tract. They encline to sleep, 
and what was said of Pil de Aloè lo- 
ta or Aloes washed may be said of 
this. It helps the eye-sight, and me- 
mory, and prolongs life, being used 
familiarly as aforesaid. If a man 
would give it for a solemn purge he 
may give one dram, four scruples or 
a dram and half. And in delicate 
bodies that are tender, and purge 
only of course, to clense their bodies 
and prevent sickness; these pills are 
are more safe and fitting then the 
scammoniated and colocynthidated 
pills, or other violent purgers; and 
they are more easily taken then any 
boiled purge, by those that are natu- 
rally apt to swallow pils. 
Pilulæ de Lapide Lazuli. Page. 124. 
Latin. Pills of Lapis Lazuli or 
a blue stone so called, being 
speckled with Golden 
Specks. 
Colledg] Take of Lapis Lazuli in
pouder, and well washed five
drams,
Epithimum, 
Polypodium, 
Agarick, of each an ounce. 
Scammony, 
Black Hellebore roots, 
Sal gem of each two drams and an 
half. 
Cloves, 
Annis seeds, of each half an ounce. 
Species Hiera simple, fifteen drams. 
With syrup of juyce of Fumitory, make 
it into a mass according to art. 
Culpeper, It purgeth Melancholly 
very violently: we wil not now dis- 
pute the story how, or in what cases 
violent purges are fit for melanchol- 
ly, let it suffice that it is not for a 
vulgar use. 
Vertues newly added. 
Experience hath shewed these pils 
to be effectual against diseases ari- 
sing from black choller and melan- 
cholly, hardness and pain of the
spleen, Jaundize, Morphew, Can-
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159 PILLS. 
ker, Leprosie and Elephantiasis so  
called or the great Maunge; in a 
word, against al manner of diseases, 
arising from black and adust choller. 
They have been found very effectual 
in hypochandriacal melancholy. And 
though they seem to make the pa- 
tient worse, while the Humors are 
in motion, yet after the body is set- 
tled, the patient is evidently bette- 
red. And this is ordinary in the Hy- 
pochondriacal Disease of Melancholy, 
that al medicaments seem to hurt at 
first, but afterward their good effect 
discovers it self. 
When the Melancholick or black- 
cholerick humor is turgent and vola- 
tile and Effects chiefly the internall 
Senses, such Medicaments as these 
must be warily used, left in going a- 
bout to cure a melancholick Man 
you make him stark mad. But when 
the Humor is more pesant and fixt & 
less spiritual, affecting the Heart with 
sadness (but not much disturbing 
the sancie) or vexing the sides with 
pains, and the surface of the Body 
with pimples,rubies, scabs &c. There 
is no such danger in strong melan- 
choly-purgers. 
The dose of these Pils is from half 
a dram to one dram and to one dram 
and half in strong Bodies and in me- 
lancholick Diseases of the body, ra- 
ther then of the Mind, and of the 
Heart and of the sides rather then of 
the Head and Fancy, for then caution 
is necessary as has been said. 
I conceive the best way to give 
this pil in melancholick Diseases af- 
fecting the internal senses chiefly and 
the mind, and indeed in most cases, 
is to dissolve two scruples or a 
dram and half according to the
nature and strength of the patient in 
six or eight ounces of Goats Milk 
whey if to be had, or ordinary whey 
boyled with Borrage and Scorzone- 
ra Roots, and so to give it the pa- 
tient warme. And when it begins to 
worke let him drink a draught of 
warme whey as aforesaid, and after it 
has wrought pretty wel as five or six 
times,let him eat some stewed prunes 
as many as he pleases, and dine a- 
bout half an hour after eleven. Me- 
morandum that in Head-affecting- 
melancholy, the patient must abstain 
from flesh during the Cure, or eat ve- 
ry little and that of the lightest sorts 
and seldom. 
Because Culpeper seems much a- 
fraid of these pils and says they 
work very violently; least the rea- 
der may think the Dose to large I 
shal thus demonstrate that it is not. 
Every dram of this pil the materi- 
als being wel beaten and mixed con- 
tains two grains and an half of Dia-  
grydium as many of Black Hellebore 
and Sal. gem. five grains, of Lapis la- 
zuly, Agrick, Polypody, Epithimum  
each eight grains; and Hicra Picra  
fourteen grains; ergo the dose of  
these pils may be raised from one 
dram to one dram and half. 
Pilulæ Macri. Page. 125. Latin 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes two oun- 
ces. 
Mastick half an ounce, 
Dried, Majoram two drams, 
Salt of Wormwood one dram, 
Make them al, being in pouder, into a 
mass according to art with juyce of Cole- 
worts and sugar, so much as is suffi- 
cient.
Culpeper.] It is a gallant compo- 
sed Pill, whoever was the Author of 
it, I have not time to search: it streng- 
theneth both stomach and brain, e- 
specially the Nerves and Muscles 
(what they are you shal be instructed 
in a Table by it self, at the latter end 
of the Book as also in al other hard 
words that puzzle your Brains) and 
easeth them of such humors as afflict 
them, and hinder the motion of the 
body, they open obstructions of the 
liver and spleen, and takes away dis- 
eases thence coming. Your best way 
is is to take them often going to bed; 
you may take a scruple or half a 
dram at a time. I commend it to such 
people as have had hurts or Bruises, 
whereby the use of their limbs is im- 
paired; and I desire them to take it 
often, because Diseases in remote 
parts of the body cannot be taken a- 
way at a time: It wil not hinder their 
following of their business at all and 
therfore is the fitter for poor people. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is a good pil, but wherein the 
Gallantery of the composition there- 
of consists, which Culpeper talkes of I 
cannot see, save that it receives in its 
composition two drams of English 
spice (I mean sweet Marjoram) in 
stead of Cloves, Mace, Ginger &c. 
and in that it is ordered to be made 
into a body, or mass with juice of 
coleworts, rather then any artificial 
and polydedalous syrnp; these in- 
deed are gallant considerations in 
the composition thereof and to be 
imitated, by those who think no me- 
dicament is good but what is crou- 
ded with aboundance of simples: a 
practise like that of Women in the 
composition of their kitchin physick, 
wherein they wil be sure to put a lit- 
tle of every thing that they count 
good: whereas two or three things 
pertinently and musically assembled 
in diet, proves more acceptable to 
the tast, then al their unjudicious 
huddles. And so it is in the prescrip- 
tion of Physick,wherein the Irresolu- 
tion & final Judgment of the Physiti- 
an in the power of simples & the true 
Indication of the remedies, makes 
him geeddily multiply the simples, 
like bad. Archers that shoot many Ar- 
rows at the mark that some one may 
come near; and like bad bowlers that 
throw many bowles to come near the 
Mistris. This Pill wil quicken the 
memory, internal and external sen- 
ses, and may be used familiarly, as we 
said before, of Pils of washt Aloes, 
and pils Imperial. They are good a- 
gainst, an offensive breath, arising 
from the stomach, and against 
worms. 
Pilulæ Mastichinæ. Page 125. Latin. 
Or Mastich Pills. 
Colledg. Take of Mastich two ounces, 
Aloes four ounces, 
Agarick, 
Species Hiera simple, of each one 
ounce and an half. 
With Syrup of Wormwood make it into 
a mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] They purge very gent- 
ly, but strengthens much, both head, 
brain, eyes, belly, and reins. Both 
Dose, and Order is the same with the 
former. 
Vertues newly added. 
Mastick Pills, Pilulæ Macri, and 
Pilulæ de Aloe lota are of a suit, and 
resemble one another in Virtues, to 
which may be added Pil Ruffi, Pilulæ
stomachicæ simple, Pil stomachiœ cum 
gummi, and Pil de Tribus (which differ 
from the Mastick pils only by additi- 
on of two ounces of Rhubarb and 
two drams of Cinnamon) and Im- 
perial Pills may bring up the Rear, or 
lead the rest as Captain of this com- 
pany. But we have forgot Pil. A- 
læphanginæ which for his founding 
name shal be Ensign-bearer or Anci- 
ent; and we have also omitted Pil 
de Aloe rosata and Pil de Eupatorio,
which shal therefore hold the place 
of two Sergeants of his Band of ci- 
vil, modest, and familiar Pills, who 
on Horsback might be termed the 
maiden Troop. And look where 
comes one more for a place in the 
company viz. Pil de succino who shall 
be Drummer. And now when I had 
concluded that I had mustred all this 
maiden-company of gentle Pils, see 
where comes a proper fellow, even 
Pil de Rhubarbaro of Mesues, for 
whom there remains no other room 
but that of the Levietenant, Pilulæ 
Imperialis being Captain of this 
band. 
Thus Reader have I not unprofita- 
bly though pleasantly assembled all 
the gentler sort of Pils, that you may 
have them in your view, and take 
your choice upon occasion. This I 
needed not to have done, but that 
the ridiculous and blockish though 
old and friarly fashion of setting such 
things down according to A B C in 
the beginning of their names, had 
confounded this maiden company of
modest pils purgative, with the more
boistrous

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boistrous and. impudent part. Nay 
by this childish fashion (abominated 
by Pet. Ramus that great Master of 
reason to Europe) binding Pils have 
been jumbled with purging, and 
what confusions have not been caus- 
ed in this and all books that follow 
this silly fashion, save Dictionaries 
and Indexes? If it had not been for 
this idle method, which the Printer 
was loath to change for fear to of- 
fend the weak in understanding, I 
would have ranged all me dicaments 
according to their natures, faculties,
Intentions, the weaker and less com- 
pounded by themselves, the stronger 
and more compouuded by them- 
selves: Preparatives by themselves, 
Purgatives by themselves, &c. At 
least I could not but muster this 
troop of maiden Purgers from their 
Alphabetarian Quarters wherein Dr. 
Gwin or whoever had the office of 
Quarter-master, had unduly lodged 
them. When you look for a modest 
and civil purger you need not now 
hunt among the whol Regiment of 
boisterous Knaves to find one civill 
fellow in a corner. There is no excuse 
for this foolish method, but that it is 
old, and does help to find the things 
man seeks for. But to what intent 
serves the Index I pray you? Cer- 
tainly when that foolish fashion of 
of ranking medicaments and other 
things alphabetically came first up, 
and it is as old as Galen's time that 
the art of Indexes and their use was 
unknown, and why it should be con- 
tinued, now there are Indexes, I see 
no reason. And this childish me- 
thod (which was the fault of Dr. 
Gwin the muster-master and Quarter 
Master rather than the Coledg) is 
the greatest fault in the Dispensato- 
ry, overspreading like a morphew 
the whol body thereof. Whereas 
method rationall is the most beauti- 
full ornament of all these artificiall 
bodies called books, if the matter be 
capable of any method, and gives 
great light to the understanding and 
faculties the use and fruit of all 
books, yea the world which from its 
beauty and ornament is called Cosmos, 
had that name chiefly to intimate the 
elegant method & fit marshalling of 
the parts thereof, which are not jum- 
bled after the roat of A B C. But if 
this Book was intended meerly for a 
directory to the Apothecary, and no 
waies to edifie the yong practitioner, 
this confusion may possibly have 
sprung from designe, to cast a mist 
but I hardly beleeve it. But Dr. Gwin 
or who ever else was Quarter-master 
may the rather be excused, because 
he was seduced into this disorder, 
probably, by imitateing, the like silly 
custome of ranking Books in our 
publick Libraries after the childish 
roate of A, B, C, (whereas the out- 
landish Libraries of Amsterdam, 
Antwerp, Brussels, Leriden, Lovaine, 
are ranked according to the faculties 
and subjects, and so ought all the 
Books of a wisely ordered Library: 
but so much by the way, not unpro- 
fitable, I hope, having now had an 
opportunity to note this fault, wor- 
thy to be amended. The Vertues of 
any of these Pils, yet uncelebrated, 
shal come in their place. 
Pilulæ Mechoacannæ. Page 125. Lat. 
Or, Pills of Mechoacan. 
Colledg.] Take of Mechoacan Roots 
half an ounce; 
Turbith three drams;
Leaves of spurge steeped in Vinigar and 
and dried,
Seeds of Walwort, 
Agrick trochiscated, of each two 
drams; 
Spurge roots prepared, 
Mastich, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Mace,
Cinnamon, 
Sal. gem. of each two scruples. 
Beat them into pouder, and with white 
wine, bring them into a mass. When 
it is dry, heat it into pouder, and with 
syrup made with the juyce of Orris roots 
and sugar, make it the second time into 
amass for pills, 
Culpeper. They purge flegm very vio- 
lently. If the Disease be desperate, 
you may take half a dram, (or a 
scruple if your body be weak keep- 
ing the house) else I would advise 
you to let them alone. 
Vertues newly added. 
These seem intended to purge thin 
Rheumes and watry wheyish humors 
chiefly, and to assist the Cure of the 
Dropsie, especially in constitutions 
otherwise strong. For Mechoacan 
besides the purging Faculty, is 
thought to be an exceeding dryer of 
of the Belly and all parts oversoaked 
with moisture. The dose is from a 
scruple to half a dram or two scru- 
ples in strong Bodies, and a dram in 
very strong. 
Pilulæ de Opopanace. Page 125. Latin. 
Or, Pills of Opopanax. 
Colledg.] Take of Opopanax, 
Sagapen, 
Bdellium, 
Ammodactils, 
Coloquintida, of each five drams. 
Saffron, 
Castorium, 
Mirrh, 
Ginger, 
White Pepper, 
Cassia lignea, 
Citron myrobalans, of each one dram. 
Scamony two drams.
Turbith half an ounce. 
Aloes an ounce an half.
The Gums being dissolved in clarified 
juyce of Coleworts, with syrup of the juyce
of Coleworts, make them into a mass ac- 
cording to art.
Culpeper. It helps tremblings, pal- 
sies, Gouts of all sorts, clenseth the 
joynts, and is helpful for such as are 
troubled with cold afflictions of the 
nerves. It works violently, take but 
half a dram at a time, and stir not a- 
broad. 
Vertues newly added. 
Pils of Opopanax are neer of affi- 
nity and cousin-germans to the Pilu- 
lae Fœtidæ or Herculeæ aforesaid,  
and imitate their Vertues. The dose 
is from half a dram to two scruples, 
or one dram in very strong Bodies, 
taken in a morning early, in bed, and 
slept upon, and posset drink or whey 
being used upon the working, as 
aforesaid. 
They extenuate, dissolve, scour a- 
way and evacuate gross and clammy 
Flegm and al cold Humors, from the 
Brain, Nerves, Eyes, and Joynts; 
they break wind, ease the Breast, 
Spleen, Guts, Womb and Bladder, 
burthened with the Humors afore- 
said, They are good in the falling- 
sickness, Cramp, Palsie and such like 
Diseases. 
Pilulæ Rudii. Page 126. Latin. Or, 
Dr. Rudius his Pills, or 
Extractum Rudii. 
Colledg. Take of Coloquintida six 
drams. 
Agrick,
Scammony, 
Roots of black Hellebore, 
Turbith, of each half an ounce. 
Aloes one ounce, 
Diarrhodon abbatis half an ounce,
Let al of them (the Diarrh. Abbatis
excepted) be grosly bruised, and infused 
eight daies in the best spirit of Wine in a
vessel close stopped in the Sun, so that the 
liquor may swim at top the breadth of 
six fingers: afterwards infuse the Diar- 
rhodon Abbatis in the same manner 
four daies in Aqua vitæ, then having 
strained and pressed them hard, mix them 
both together, casting the dross away,and 
draw off the moisture in a glass Alem- 
bick, and let the thick matter remain in 
a mass. 
Culpeper. As this is the dearest so 
in my opinion it is most excellent in 
operation of al the Pills in the Dis- 
pensatory, being of a quick searching 
nature, yet though many violent 
simples be in it, the terrene part is 
cast away, and only the tincture u- 
sed, whereby it is apparent it cannot 
lie gnawing in the body so long; It 
clenseth both head and body of chol- 
ler, flegm, and melancholly: it must 
not be taken in any great quantity, 
half 

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half a dram is sufficient for the stron- 
gest body; let the weaker take but a 
scruple, and the weakest less; keep 
your chamber: they work very spee- 
dily being of a penetrating nature. 
Vertues newly added. 
These renowned Pils are named 
from their Author a learned Physiti- 
an. It is a panchymagogum or Ge- 
neral purger of all the supposed Hu- 
mours, hot and cold, thick and thin. 
It has Coloquintida and Turbith, two 
stout knaves and the gentle Agarick
to purge Phlegm and Rheum, watrish 
and wheyish Humors; Black Helle- 
bore, a surly fellow to beat melancho- 
ly out of doors, bitter Sr. Aloes to 
cope with captain general Choller. 
It quickly begins, and soon leaves 
working. It is doubtles, a good pil, 
but whether in al cases so effectual as 
those other pils that are more mate- 
rial and less spiritual, I question. And 
I think, Experience has taught me, 
that a scruple of this pil mixed with 
a scruple of Aggregative pils, pil co- 
chie, or the like, as occasion shal re- 
quire, wil work more to the purpose, 
and with better success, then the ex- 
tract alone. It is usually given with 
Mercurius dulcis in the Venereal 
Pocks. It is good for such as can- 
not take potions nor swallow many 
pils. One large pil of twelve or four- 
teen grains wil work pretty wel. The 
dose is to half a dram or two scruples 
in strong Bodies of Country and la- 
bouring men. 
Pilulæ Ruffi. Pag. 126. Latin. Or, 
Ruffus his Pils. 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes two ounces: 
Mirrh one ounce: 
Saffron half an ounce : 
With syrup of juyce of Lemmons, make 
it into a Mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] A scruple taken at night 
going to bed, is an excellent preser- 
vative in pestilential times; also they 
clense the body of such humours as 
are gotten by surfets, they strengthen 
the heart, and weak and stomachs, and
work so easily that you need not fear 
following your business the next day. 
Vertues newly added. 
These pils are of ancient inventi- 
on and long same,they are common- 
ly called pestilential pils, being re- 
puted of soveraigne use to preserve a 
man from the plague in pestilential 
seasons. They strengthen the Heart, 
binder the corruption of Humors, 
move the courses in women, clear the 
voyce, and contribute that waies to 
the ingenuous content of those that 
are delighted to sing in parts. Their 
ingredients make the Elixar, proprie- 
tatis of Paracelsus, reputed a sove- 
raigne medicament to strengthen the 
Body.
Pilulæ sine Quibus Page. 126. Latin. 
Or, the necessary Pils. 
Colledg.] Take of washed Aloes, 
fourteen drams, 
Scammony prepared six drams, 
Agrick, 
Rubarb, 
Senna of each half an ounce. 
Wormwood, 
Red Roses exungulated. 
Violet flowers. 
Dodder, 
Mastick, 
Of each one dram. 
Salt of Wormwood, half a dram. 
With syrup of the juyce of Fennel made 
with Honey, make it into a mass accord- 
ing to art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth flegm, chol- 
ler, and melancholly from the head, 
makes the sight and hearing good, 
and giveth ease to a burdened brain. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Pils were so named by some 
that found their good effects. They 
are chiefly commended for purging 
the eyes and senses and quickening 
the sight. 
Pilulæ stomachicæ. Page 126. Latin. 
Or, Stomach pills. 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes six drams, 
Mastich, 
Red Roses, of each two drams. 
With syrup of Wormwood make it into a 
mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] They clense and streng- 
then the stomach; they clense but 
gently, strengthens much, help dige- 
stion. Take them as the former. 
Pilulæ Stomachicæ cum Gummi. Page. 
127. Latin. Or, Stomach pills 
with Gum.
Colledg.] Take of Aloes an ounce, 
Senna five drams, 
Gum Amoniacum dissolved in El- 
der-flower Vinegar, half an 
ounce,  
Mastick, 
Mirrh, of each a dram and an half. 
Saffron, 
Salt of Wormwood, of each half a 
dram. 
With syrup of purging thorn make it in- 
to a mass according to art.  
Culpeper.] They work more strong- 
ly than the former did, and are ap- 
propriated to such whose stomachs 
are weakned by surfets; let such 
take a dram of them in the morning, 
and if they can sleep after them, let 
them. They may take them by four  
of the clock, and keep the house all 
day.
Vertues newly added. 
These are discreetly composed pils, 
and cure the diseases of the stomach, 
especially such as arise from sympa- 
thy of the spleen whose obstructuns 
they open: they disburden the lungs, 
and help diseases of the head arising 
by sympathy of the stomach and 
spleen. 
Pululæ è Styrace. Page 127. Latin. 
Or, Pills of Styrax. 
Colledg.] Take of Styrax Calamitis, 
Olibanum,  
Mirrh, 
Juyce of Liquoris. 
Opium, of each half an ounce. 
With syrup of white Poppies, make it in-
to a mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] They help such as are 
troubled with defluxion of Rhewm, 
Coughs, and provoke sleep to such 
as cannot sleep for coughing. Half a 
scruple is enough to take at a time, if 
the body be weak, if strong, they may 
make bold with a little more: I de- 
sire the ignorant to be very cautious 
in taking Opiates; I confess it was 
the urgent importunity of friends 
moved me to set down the Doses; 
they may do wise men very much 
good, and therefore I consented: If 
people will bo mad and do them- 
selves mischief, I can but warn them 
of it, I can do no more. 
Pilulæ de Succino. Page. 127. Latin.
Or, Pills of Amber. 
Colledg. Take of white Amber,  
Mastick, of each two drams. 
Aloes, five drams, 
Agarick a dram and an half. 
Long Birthwort half a dram, 
With syrup of Wormwood make it into a 
mass. 
Culpeper.] It amends the evil state 
of a Womans body, strengthens con- 
ception, and takes away What hin- 
ders it; it gently purgeth choller 
and flegm, and leaves a binding, 
strengthening quality behind it. 
Take them as Imperial pils. 
Pilulæ ex Tribus. Page 127. Latin.
Or, Pills of three things. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastick two oun- 
ces,
Aloes four ounces, 
Agarick,
Hiera simple, of each an ounce and 
an half, 
Rhubarb two ounces, 
Cinnamon two drams, 
With syrup of Succory, make it into a 
mass according to art. 
Qq Culpeper.

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Culpeper.] They gently purge 
choller, and help diseases thence a- 
rising,as itch,scabs, &c. They streng- 
then the stomach and liver, and open 
obstructions; as also help the yellow 
Jaundice. You may take a scruple 
or half a dram at night going to bed 
according as your body is in 
strength; neither need you fear next 
day to go about your business. 
Pilulæ Turpeti Aureæ. Page. 127. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Turbith two 
ounces, 
Aloes an ounce and an half, 
Citron myrobalans ten drams, 
Red Roses, 
Mastich, of each six drams. 
Saffron three drams, 
Beat them all into pouder, and with sy- 
rup of Wormwood bring them into a 
mass. 
Culpeper. They purge choller and 
flegm, and that with as much gentle- 
ness as can be desired; also they 
strengthen the stomach and liver, and 
help digestion. Take a scruple or 
half a dram, according as your body 
and the season of the yeer is, at night,  
you may follow your business next 
day. 
Laudanum. Page. 127. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Thebane Opi- 
um extracted in Spirit of wine, 
One ounce,
Saffron alike extracted, a dram and 
an half, 
Castorium one dram, 
Let them be taken in tincture of half an 
ounce, 
Of species Diambræ newly made in 
spirit of wine: add to them 
Ambergreece, 
Musk, of each six grains. 
Oyl of Nutmegs ten drops, 
Evaporate the moisture away in a bath, 
and leave the mass. 
Culpeper.] It was invented (and a 
gallant invention it is) to mitigate 
violent pains, stop the fumes that 
trouble the brain in feavers (but be- 
ware of Opiates in the beginning of 
Feavers) to provoke sleep, take not 
above two grains of it at a time, go- 
ing to bed; if that provoke not 
sleep, the next night you may make 
bold with three. Have a care how 
you be too busie with such Medi- 
cines, lest you make a man sleep till 
dooms-day, 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to stop al irregular and 
over violent or long motions of Na- 
ture in coughs, tooth-ach hindring 
sleep, dysenterys, diarrheas, whites, 
Gonorrhæas, to prevent Epileptick 
Fits, and fits of Agues, artfully and 
seasonably administred; otherwise,
being empirically used, it is danger- 
ous. 
Nepenthes Opiatum. Page. 128. La- 
tin. Or, Opiate against Sor- 
row and Sadness. 
Colledg.] Take of the tincture of 
Opium made first with distilled Vinegar, 
then with spirit of Wine, 
Saffron extracted in spirit of wine, 
of each an ounce. 
Salt of Pearls, 
Coral, of each half an ounce. 
Tincture of species Diambræ seven 
drams. 
Amber-greece one dram. 
Bring them into the form of Pils by the 
gentle heat of a bath. 
Vertues newly added.
This is less hot and more cordial  
then the Laudanum, more proper for 
hot diseases and constitutions, for dy- 
senteries, and fluxes. It asswages 
cares, sorrows, anxiety of mind, and 
other passions that hinder sleep and 
discompose the Tranquillity of the 
spirit, being methodically and skil- 
fully administred. It hath its Name 
from a famous composition which 
fair Hellen of Greece is reported to 
have made, whereby the composed 
jarring affections of such as were of 
at Enmity and turned them to peace 
and Joy which medicament was cal- 
led in Greek Nepenthes, that is to say 
Quench-sorrow, Carekil, and Hearts- 
ease. 
PILLS left out by 
the Colledg in their New 
Edition are these: 
Pilulæ Assaireth. Avicenna. 
Colledg. Take of species Hiera pi- 
cra Galeni one ounce 
Mastich, 
Citron myrobalans, of each half an 
ounce, 
Aloes two ounces, 
Syrup of stœchas as much as is sufficient: 
make of them a mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth choller and 
flegm, and strengthens the whole bo- 
dy exceedingly, being very precious 
for such whose bodies are weakned 
by surfets, or ill diet, to take half a 
dram or scruple at night going to 
bed. 
Pills of Bdellium. 
Colledg.] Take of Bdellium ten
drams, 
Myrobalans, Bellericks, 
Emblicks,
Blacks, of each five drams. 
Flakes of Iron, 
Leek seeds, of each three drams.
Choncula Veneris burnt, 
Coral burnt,
Amber, of each a dram and an half.
Pearls half an ounce, 
Dissolve the Bdellium in juyce of Leeks 
and with so much syrup of juyce of Leeks 
as is sufficient, make it into a Mass ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] Both this and the for- 
mer are seldom used, and therefore 
are hardly to be had. Those that 
please may easily make the former, 
this is more tedious-but the Prin- 
ter wil have it put in to stop the 
mouth of Momus. 
Vertues newly added. 
These pills were invented to stop 
the immoderate flux of the Hæmor- 
rhoid Veins, and to heal the ulcers 
in the Hæmorrhoides, also against 
immoderate flux of the Courses in 
women. They are also good against 
the Whites in women, help spitting 
of blood, and stay defluxions of 
Rheume. The dose is one dram or 
four scruples, 
Pills of Rhubarb.
Colledg.] Take of choyce Rhubarb 
three drams. 
Citron Myrobalans, 
Trochisci Diarrhodon, of each three 
drams and an half. 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Juyce of Wormwood, 
Mastich, of each one dram. 
Seeds of Smallage and Fennel, of 
each half a dram. 
Species hiera picra simp. Galeni, ten 
drams. 
With juyce of Fennel not clarified, and 
Honey so much as is sufficient, make it 
into a mass. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth choller, o- 
pens obstructions of the Liver, helps 
the yellow Jaundice, and Dropsie in 
the beginning, strengtheneth the sto- 
mach and Lungs. Take them as Pi- 
lulæ Imperiales. 
Pilulæ Arabicæ. 
Colledg.] Take of the best Aloes, 
four ounces. 
Briony Roots, 
Myrobalans, Citrons, 
Chebs, 
Indian, Bellerick, 
Emblick, 
Mastick, 
Diagrydium, 
Asarabacca,
Roses,

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Roses, of each an ounce. 
Castorium three drams, 
Saffron one dram, 
With syrup of wormwood, make it into a 
mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It helps such women as 
are not sufficiently purged in their 
labor, helps to bring away what a 
careless Midwife hath left behind, 
purgeth the head, helps Head-ache, 
Megrim, Vertigo, and purgeth the 
stomach of vicious humors; besides 
Authors say it preserves the sight and 
hearing, and preserves the mind in 
vigor, and causeth joyfulness, driv- 
ing away Melancholly; 'tis like it 
may, but have a care you take not 
too much of it: a scruple is enough 
to take at a time, or half a dram if 
the body be stronger; take it in the 
morning about four of the clock, 
and (if you can) sleep an hour or 
two after, keep your self warm by the 
fire, and order your self as after other 
purges. I pray be not too busie with 
it, and say, I warned you of it. 
Pilulæ Arthriticæ. 
Colledg.] Take of Hermodactils, 
Turbith, 
Agrick, of each half an ounce. 
Cassia lignea, 
Indian spicknard, 
Cloves, 
Xylobalsamum, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Carpobalsamum or cubebs,  
Mace, 
Galanga, 
Ginger, 
Mastich, 
Assafœtida,
Seeds of Annis, 
Fennel, 
Saxifrage, 
Sparagus, 
Bruscus, 
Roses, 
Gromwels 
Sal. gem. of each two drams. 
Scammony one ounce, 
Of the best Aloes, the weight of them 
all. 
Juyce of Chamepitys made thick with 
Sugar, so much as is sufficient; or sy- 
rup of the juyce of the same, so much as is 
sufficient to make it into a mass. 
Culpeper. As I remember, the Au- 
thor appoints but a dram of Scam- 
mony, which is but the eighth part 
an ounce, and then wil the Receipt 
be pretty moderate, whereas now it 
is too violent: I know wel enough it 
is the opinion of Doctors, that Aloes 
retards the violent working of Scam- 
mony; I could never find it, and I 
am the worst in the world to pin my 
faith upon another mans sleeve, and 
I would as willingly trust my life in 
the hands of a wild Bear, as in the 
hands of that Monster called Traditi- 
on. If but a dram of Scammony be 
put in, then may a man safely (if not 
too much weakned) take a dram of 
it at a time, about four in the mor- 
ning, ordering your self as in the for- 
mer: but made up as the Colledg 
prescribes, I durst not take them my 
self, therfore I wil not prescribe them 
to others. It helps the gout, and 
other pains in the joynts, comforts 
and strengthens both brain and sto- 
mach, and consumes diseases whose 
original comes of flegm,
Pilulæ Cochiæ with Helebore. 
Colledg.] Take of the pouder of the 
Pills before prescribed, 
Pouder of the bark of the Roots of 
back Hellebore, one ounce, 
Make it into a mass with syrup of stœ- 
chas according to art. 
Culpeper. The former purgeth the 
head of flegm, and therefore is fit for 
Lethargies; this of Melancholly, and 
is therefore fit for mad people, if Me- 
lancholly be the cause. 
Pils of Fumitory Avicenna. 
Colledg. Take of Myrobalans,
Citrons, 
Chebs, 
Indian, Diagrydium, of each five 
drams.
Aloes seven drams, 
Let al of them being bruised be thrice 
moistned with juyce of Fumitory, and 
thrice suffered to dry, then brought into 
a Mass with syrup of Fumitory. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth Melancholly 
from the Liver and Spleen, sharp chol-  
lerick, and addust humors, salt flegm, 
and therefore helps Scabs and Itch. 
Take but half a dram at a time in the
morning, and keep by the fire. Be 
not too busie with it I beseech you.  
Pilulæ Indæ, Mesue out of Haly 
Colledg.] Take of Indian Myro- 
balans, 
Black Hellebore, 
Polypodium of the Oak, of each five 
drams. 
Epithimum, 
Stœchas, of each six drams. 
Agrick, 
Lapis laxuli often washed, troches Al- 
handal, 
Sal Indi, of each half an ounce. 
Juyce of Maudlin made thick,
Indian spicknard, of each two drams. 
Cloves one dram, 
Species hiera picra simplex Galeni, 
twelve drams, 
With syrup of the Juyce of Smallage, 
make into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper.] It wonderfully prevails 
against afflictions coming of Melan- 
choly, Cancers which are not ulce- 
rated, Leprosie, Evils of the mind co- 
ming of Melancholly, as sadness, 
fear, &c. quartan Agues, Jaundice, 
pains and infirmities of the Slpeen. 
I advise to take but half a dram, or a 
scruple at a time, and take it often, 
for Melancholly infirmities are 
not easily removed upon a sudden: 
take it in the morning, and keep the 
House. 
Vertues newly added. 
Look back to the vertues of Pilu-
læ de Lapide Lazuli, or of the stone 
so called, and there you shal be more 
fully informed concerning the Ver- 
tues of these pils, for they are very 
much alike in their composition. Me- 
sues the first inventer gave one dram 
and one dram and half, but one dram 
may suffice in English Bodies. 
Pilulæ Lucis Majores. Or the Eye en- 
lightening Pils of the larger 
composition. 
Colledg.] Take of Roses, 
Violets, 
Wormwood, 
Colocynthis, 
Turbith,  
Cubebs, 
Calamus aromaticus, 
Nutmegs, 
Indian spicknard, 
Epithimum, 
Carpobalsamum, or in stead thereof 
Cardomoms, 
Xylabolsamum, 
Wood of Aloes. 
Seeds of Seseli or Hartwort, 
Rue, 
Annis, 
Fennel, 
Smallage,  
Schænanthus, 
Mastich, 
Asarahacca Roots, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Cassia lignea, 
Saffron,  
Mace, of each two drams.
Myrobalans, 
Citrons, 
Chebs, 
Indian bellerick, 
Emblick,
Rhubarb, of each half an ounce, 
Agrick, 
Senna, of each five drams.  
Aloes succotrina, the weight of them 
all,  
With syrup of the juyce of Fennel make 
it into a mass according to art.
Culpeper.] It purgeth mixt hu- 
mors from the head, and cleers it o£
such Excrements as hinder the sight.
You may take a dram in the mor-
ning, keep yourself warm and with-
in doors, you shal find them streng-
then

164 TROCHES. 
then the brain and visive vertue: If 
your body be weak take less. 
Virtues newly added. 
Besides the good they do to the sight 
for which they were invented by Me- 
sues, They are good for diseases of 
the Head, Stomach and Belly pro- 
ceeding from phlegm. They expel 
Wind, bring down the Urine stop- 
ped, and strengthen the inward 
parts. 
Pills of Spurge.
Colledg.] Take of the barks of the 
roots of Spurge the less, steeped 
twenty four hours in Vinegar and 
juyce of Purslain, two drams,
Grains of Palma Christi torrefied 
by number forty,
Citron Myrobolans one dram and an
half, 
Germander, 
Chamepytis, 
Spicknard, 
Cinnamon, of each two scruples. 
Being beaten into fine pouder with an 
ounce of Gum Traganth dissolved in 
Rose water, and syrup of Roses so much 
as is sufficient, let it be made into a 
Mass.
Vertues newly added. 
They were invented by Fernelius to 
purge out the water of persons trou- 
bled with the Dropsie. They work 
very churlishly, are fit only for strong 
bodies of Plough-men, and other la- 
boring persons, and their dose rea- 
ches not beyond two scruples. 
Pills of Euphorbium. 
Colledg.] Take of Euphorbium, 
Colocynthis, 
Agarick,
Bdellium, 
Sagapenum, of each two drams. 
Aloes five drams, 
With syrup made of the juyce of Leeks,
make it into a mass. 
Culpeper.] The Pils are exceeding 
good for dropsies, pains in the 
Loyns, and Gouts coming of a moist 
cause. Take not above half a dram 
at a time and keep the house. 
Pilulæ Scribonij. 
Colledg. Take of Sagapenum, and 
Mirrh, of each two drams. 
Opium, 
Cardamoms, 
Castoreum, of each one dram. 
White pepper half a dram, 
Sapa as much as is sufficient to make it 
into a Mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is appropriated to 
such as have Ptisicks, and such as 
spit blood, but ought to be newly 
made. A scruple is sufficient going 
to bed. Galen was the Author of 
it.
I have now done with the Pils on- 
ly take notice that such as have Dia- 
grydium (otherwise called Scam- 
mony) in them, work violently and 
are to be taken early in the morning 
with discretion, and administred 
with due consideration; the other 
work more gently, so that you may 
take a scruple of them at night going 
to bed and follow your imployments 
next day without danger. I put in 
these only to satisfie the desires of 
the curious. 
Virtues newly added. 
These pills seasonably administred 
by him that understands the Institu- 
tions of Physick and the method of 
curing (of which see several Books 
in the English tongue, as Riverius, 
Johnston, Sennertus, &c.) will help 
to stop the overflowing of the Cour- 
ses, of the whites in women, also to 
check a weakning Loosness of the 
belly, and a Gonorrhea simple or vi- 
rulent general remedies having been 
premised according to Art. 
TROCHES.
Culpeper. IF any cavil at this name, and think it hardly English; let them 
give a better, and I shall be thankful: I know no other English 
Name but will fall far below it. They have gotten many Greek names, almost 
as many as a Welchman, reXtoxoi, xounsoxoi, and a'snoxoi: The Latins, besides the 
Greek Name, Trochisci, Pastilli, and Placentulæ, Although a man may 
make them what into form he pleaseth, yet they are usually made into little flat thin 
Cakes, of a scruple, or twenty grains in weight, plus minus: Some print I-
mages (as of Serpents upon Troches of Vipers) upon them, some guild them 
with leaf-Gold, some do neither. They were first invented by the Ancients, 
that pouders being brought into this form, may be kept pure the longer; for the 
vertues of pouder wil soon exhale by intermission of Air, which the thick body of 
Troches resist: also such are pectoral, are the easier carried in ones pocket.
Few of them are taken by themselves, but mixed with other composiositions. 
Trochisti de Absinthio. Page 122. 
Latin. Or, Troches of 
Wormwood. 
Colledg.] Take of red Roses,
Wormwood leaves, 
Annis seeds, of each two drams. 
Juyce of Maudlin made thick, 
Roots of Asarabacca,
Rhubarb, 
Spicknard,
Smallage seeds, 
Bitter Almonds,
Mastich, 
Mace, of each one dram.
Juyce of Succory so much as is sufficient
to

165 TROCHES. 
to make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They strengthen sto- 
mach exceedingly, open obstructions, 
or stoppings of the belly and bowels; 
strengthen digestion, open the passa- 
ges of the liver, help the yellow 
Jaundice, and consume watry super- 
fluities of the body. They are som- 
bitter, and seldom taken alone; 
if your pallat affect bitter things, you 
may take a dram of them in the mor- 
ning: They clense the body of chol- 
ler, but purge not, or to no pur- 
pose. 
Agaricus Trochischatus. Page 129. 
Latin. Or, Agarick 
Trochiscated. 
Colledg.] Take of Agarick poudered 
and sifted, three ounces, 
Steep it in a sufficient quantity of white 
Wine, in which two drams of Ginger 
have been infused and make it into Tro- 
ches. 
Culpeper.] See Troches of Agar- 
rick. This being indeed but the 
way to correct Agarick, and make it 
the fitter for use, and to perform 
those vertues Agarick hath, which 
you may find among the Simples. 
Trochisci Albi. Rhasis. Page 129. 
Latin. Or, white 
Troches. 
Colledg. Take of Ceruss washed in 
Rosewater ten drams, 
Sarcocol three drams, 
White Starch two drams, 
Gum Arabick and 
Tragacanth, of each one dram. 
Camphire half a dram. 
Either with Rosewater, or womens milk, 
make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They are cool without 
Opium, but cooler with it. as also 
very drying, and are used in injecti- 
ons in ulcers in the yard, and the 
running of the reins, &c. If there be 
an inflamation you may use them 
with Opium, if not, without: and 
the manner of using them is this, 
Take a dram of Troches, which ha- 
ving beaten into pouder, mix with 
two ounces of Plantane Water, and 
with a Syringe inject it into the 
Yard. 
Trochisci Alexiterij. 
Colledg.] Take of Zedoary roots, 
Pouder of Crabs Claws, of each one 
dram and an half. 
The outward Citrons peel preserved 
and dried, 
Angelica seeds, of each one dram. 
Bolearmeniack half a dram. 
With their treble weight in Sugar make 
them into pouder, and with a sufficient 
quantity of Mucilage of Gum Traganth 
made into Treacle water distilled, make 
it into past of which make Troches. 
Culpeper.] The Greeks cal all Me- 
dicines that expel poyson, Alexite- 
riæ; so then Trochisci Alexiterij, are 
nothing else but Troches to expel 
poyson. This preserves the body 
from ill airs, and Epidemical disea- 
ses, as the pestilence, small pox, &c. 
and strengthens the heart exceeding- 
ly, eating now and then a little. You 
may safely keep any troches in your 
pocket, for the drier you keep them, 
the better they are. 
Trochisci Alhandal. Page 130. Latin. 
Trochiski of Alhandal or 
Coloquintida. 
Colledg] Take of Coloquintida freed 
from the seeds, and cut smal, and 
rubbed with an ounce of oyl of Ro- 
ses, then beaten into fine pouder, 
ten ounces, 
Gum Arabick, 
Tragacanth, 
Bdellium, of each six drams. 
Steep the Gums three or four daies in a 
sufficient quantity of Rose water til they 
be melted, then with the aforesaid pulp, 
and part of the said Mucilage, let them 
be dried in the shadow, then beaten a- 
gain, and with the rest of the Mucilage, 
make it up again, dry them and keep 
them for use. 
Culpeper.] They are too violent 
for vulgar use. 
Virtues newly added. 
The Arabians call Coloquintida 
Alhandal in their Language. And 
these Trochisks are nothing but Co- 
loquintida qualified and prepared for 
use, to be mingled in pils and other 
purgative Medicaments, for they are 
seldome used alone. See before the 
Virtues of Coloquintida. Their 
dose alone, is from six to twelve 
grains. 
Trochisci Aleptœ Moschatæ. 
Page. 130. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Labdanum bruis- 
ed three ounces, 
Styrax Calamitis one ounce and an 
half, 
Benjamin one ounce, 
Wood of Aloes two drams. 
Ambergreece one dram, 
Camphire half a dram, 
Musk half a scruple, 
With a suffcient quantity of Rose water, 
make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is singular good for 
such as are Asthmatick, and can  
hardly fetch their breath; as also for 
young Children, whose throat is so 
narrow that they can hardly swallow 
down their milk. A very little taken 
at a time is enough for a mans body, 
and too much for a poor mans purse; 
for young children give them four or 
five grains at a time in a little Breast- 
milk. 
Trochisci Alkekengi. Page 130. Latin. 
Or, Trochisks of Winter
Cherries. 
Colledg.] Take of Winter Cherries 
three drams. 
Gum Arabick, 
Tragacanth, 
Olibanum, 
Dragons blood, 
Pine Nuts, 
Bitter Almonds, 
White Styrax, 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Bole-armenick, 
White Poppy seeds, of each six drams, 
Seeds of Melons, 
Cucumers, 
Citruls,  
Guords, of each three drams and 
an half. 
Seeds of Smallage, and 
white Henbane, 
Amber, 
Earth of Lemnos, 
Opium, of each two drams. 
With juyce of fresh Winter Cherries, 
make them in Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They potently provoke 
Urine, and break the stone. Mix 
them with other Medicines of that 
nature, half a dram at a time, or a 
dram if age permit.
Vertues newly added. 
These Trochisks are good in the 
dropsie being seasonably and metho- 
dically administred, also they prevent 
and cure drunkenness. 
They that would use this and other 
Medicaments in this Book with Dis- 
cretion and so as to find the promi- 
sed effects, let them read Veslingus 
and Riolanus Anatomies, and the In- 
stitutions and Practice of Johnston, 
Sennertus, and Riverius in the English 
tongue.
Trochisci Bechici albi, vel, Rotulæ 
pectorales. Or, Pectoral 
Rouls. 
Coiledg.] Take of white Sugar one
pound, 
White Sugar candy, 
Penids of each four ounces. 
Orris Florintine one ounce, 
Liquoris six drams, 
White Starch one ounce and an half. 
With a sufficient quantity of Mucilaga 
of Gum Tragacanth made in Rose water, 
make them into final Troches. You may 
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166 TROCHES. 
add four grains of Ambergreece, and 
three grains of Musk to them, if occasion 
serve.
Vertues newly added. 
These are known to help Coughs 
and colds proceeding from a thin 
salt rheum, also they clarifie the voice 
and if musk and amber be added, 
they palliate a stinking breath. They 
are very proper for Children that 
have coughs, because of their beauty 
and good tast. 
Trothisci Bethici nigri. Page. 131. 
Latin. Or, black Trochisks for 
the Cough. 
Colledg.] Take of Juyce of Liquoris, 
White Sugar of each one dram. 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Sweet Almonds blanched, of each six 
drams. 
With a sufficient quantity of Mucilage 
of Quince seeds, made thick with Rose 
water, make them into Troches according 
to art. 
Culpeper. Both this and the former 
wil melt in ones mouth, and in that 
manner to be used by such as are 
troubled with coughs, cold, hoars- 
ness, or want of voyce. The former 
is most in use, but in my opinion, the 
last is most effectual. You may take 
them any time when the cough trou- 
bles you, and this conveniency you 
shal find in Troches more then in any 
other Physick, You may carry them 
any whether in your pocket in a pa- 
per, without spoiling, though you 
travel as far as the East-Indies. 
Vertues newly added. 
These do more powerfully thicken 
and digest a thin salt Rheum, and 
muffle the acrimony thereof. They 
are good for spitting of blood and o- 
verflowing of the courses and whites 
in women, being frequently used, 
after convenient purgation and o- 
ther general remedies as the case shal 
require. The use of these and the 
former is in the mornings and after- 
wards fasting, when the Patient may 
hold a Trochisk or a Roul in his 
mouth and let it melt, and after that 
another and another as fast as they 
consume, and this may be done in 
the night, when the Patient lies a- 
wake. The more frequently they are 
used, the more good they wil do, and 
there is no danger in them. 
Trochisci de Barberis. Page 131, La- 
tin Or, Troches of Barberies. 
Colledg.] Take of juyce of Barbe- 
ries, 
Liquoris made thick,
Spodium, 
Purslain seeds, of each three drams. 
Red Roses six drams, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Saffron, 
White Starch, 
Gum Tragacanth, of each a dram. 
Citrul Seeds clensed three drams and 
an half, 
Camphire half a dram, 
With Manna dissolved in juyce of Bar- 
berries, make them into Troches accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] They wonderfully cool 
the heat of the Liver, Reins, and 
Bladder, Breast, and stomach, and stop 
Looseness, cools the heat of Feavers: 
They are very fit for bodies that are 
distempered with heat to carry about 
with them when they travel, they 
may take them at any time; I sup- 
pose their mothers wit will teach 
them that it is best to take them 
when the stomach is empty. I can- 
not write every thing, neither if I did 
should I please every body; I had 
as leeve undertake (with the Sicilian 
Phylosopher) to teach an Ass to 
speak, as to teach a Dunce Physick. 
Trochisci de Camphora. Page 131. La- 
tin Or, Troches of Camphire. 
Colledg.] Take of Camphire half a 
dram. 
Saffron two drams, 
White Starch three drams, 
Red Roses, 
Gum Arabick, 
Tragacanth, 
Ivory, of each half an ounce. 
Seeds of Cucumers husked, 
Purslain, 
Liquoris, of each an ounce. 
With Mucilage of the Fleawort, drawn 
in Rosewater, make them into Troches. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good in 
Burning Feavers, heat of Blood and 
Choler, together with hot distem- 
pers of the stomach and liver,and ex- 
tream thirst coming thereby, also it 
is good against the yellow Jaundice, 
Phtisicks, and Hectick Feavers. You 
may use these as the former. 
Vertues newly added.  
Besides the Virtues expressed be- 
fore, I conceive these Trochisks may 
very usefully be mingled in medica- 
ments given against the Pestilence, 
and in all other malignant diseases. 
They are also good for spitting of 
blood, also in a Dysentery, in over- 
great flux of the Whites, and Gonor- 
rhea The dose is from one scruple 
to half a drain or two scruples. 
Clupeper.] They that think the use 
of these Medicines are too brief, (its 
so only for cheapness of the Book) 
Let them read these Books, of the last 
Edition, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, 
Johnston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor. 
Trochisci de Capparibus. Page 132. 
Latin. Or, Troches of Capers. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of ca- 
per roots. 
Seeds of Agnus castus, of each six 
drams. 
Ammoniacum half an ounce, 
Seeds of Water-cresses and Nigella, 
Leaves of Calaminth and Rue, 
Roots of Atorus and long Birth- 
wort,
Juyce of Maudlin made thick, 
Bitter Almonds, of each two drams. 
Harts-tongue, 
Roots of round Cyprus, 
Madder, 
Gum Lac, of each one dram. 
Being bruised let them be made into 
Troches according to art, with Ammo- 
niacum dissolved in Vinegar, and boyl- 
ed to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] They open stoppings 
of the Liver and spleen, and help dis- 
eases therof coming; as Rickets, hy- 
pochondriack melancholly, &c. Men 
may take a dram, children a scruple 
in the morning. You need not ask 
how children should take it, 'tis wel 
if you can get them to take it any 
how. 
Trochisci de Carabe. Page 132. Latin. 
Or, Troches of Amber. 
Colledg.] Take of Amber an ounce 
Harts-horne burnt, 
Gum Arabick burnt, 
Red Coral burnt, 
Tragacanth, 
Acacia, 
Hypocistis, 
Balaustines, 
Mastich, 
Gum lacca washed, 
Black Poppy seeds rosted, of each two 
drams and two scruples. 
Frankinsence, 
Saffron, 
Opium, of each two drams. 
With a sufficieht quantity of Mucilage 
of the seeds of Fleawort drawn in Plan- 
tane water, make them into Troches ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] They were invented to 
stop fluxes of Blood in any part of 
the Body, the terms in Women, the 
hemorrhoids or Piles; they also help 
Ulcers in the breast and Lungs. The 
Dose is from ten grains to a scruple. 
Trochisci de Cypheos for Mithridate. 
Page 132. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of pulp of Raisons 
of the Sun, 
Cyperus, 
Turpentine, of each three ounces.
Mirrh,

167 TROCHES. 
Mirrh, 
Squinanth, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Calamus Aromaticus nine drams,
Roots of round Cyperus, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Juniper berries. 
Bdellium, 
Aspalthus or wood of Aloes, two 
drams and an half, 
Saffron one dram, 
Clarified Honey as much as is sufficient 
Canary Wine a little: Let the Mirth 
and Bdellium be ground in a Morter 
with the wine, to the thickness of liquid 
Honey, then add the Turpentine, then 
the pulp of Raisons, then the Pouders; 
at last with the Honey, let them all be 
made into Troches. 
Culpeper.] It is excellent good a- 
gainst inward Ulcers in what part of 
the body soever they be. It is chiefly 
used in Compositions, as Treacle and 
Methridate. 
Vertues newly added. 
They are good to expell wind 
move the urine and courses, to cause 
a fresh colour in the face, to help a 
stinking breath, to open obstructions, 
strengthen the Liver, Spleen, Head, 
stomach, and other internal parts, to 
prevent putrefaction of humors, and 
to resist Venom and al venemous dis- 
eases. Their dose may be one scruple 
or half a dram, or two scruples ac- 
cording as occasion shall require in 
white Wine or in Sack. 
Trochisci de Eupatorio. Page 133. Lat. 
Or, Troches of Maudlin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of 
Maudlin made thick, 
Manna, of each an ounce. 
Red Roses half an ounce, 
Spodium three drams and an half, 
Spicknard three drams, 
Rhubarb, 
Asarabacca roots, 
Annis seeds, of each two drams. 
Let the Nard, Annis seeds, and Roses, 
be beaten together; the Spodium, Asa- 
rabacca, and Rhubarb by themselves; 
then mix the Manna, and juyce of Mau- 
dlin in a Mortar, ad the pouders, and 
with new juyce make it into Troches. 
Culpeper.] Obstructions, or stop- 
pings, and swelling above nature, 
both of the Liver and spleen, are cu- 
red by the inward taking of these 
Troches, and diseases thereof com- 
ing, as yellow and black Jaundice, 
the beginning of dropsies, &c. Take 
them as Troches of Wormwood. 
Troches of Gallia Moschata. Page. 
133. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Wood of Aloes, 
five drams, 
Ambergreece three drams, 
Musk one dram, 
With Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth 
made in Rose water, make it into Troches 
according to art. 
Culpeper.] They strengthen the 
brain and heart, and by consequence 
both vital and animal spirit, and 
cause a sweet breath. They are of an 
extream price, therefore I pass by the 
Dose. 
Trochisci Gordonij. Page 133. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the four greater 
cold seeds husked. 
Seeds of white Poppies, 
Mallows, 
Cotton, 
Purslain, 
Quinces, 
Myrtles, 
Gum Tragacanth, and 
Arabick, 
Fistick-nuts, 
Sugar candy, 
Penids, 
Liquoris, 
French-barley, 
Mussilage of Flea-wort seeds, 
Sweet Almonds blanched, of each 
two drams. 
Bole-armenick, 
Dragons-blood, 
Spodium, 
Red Roses, 
Mirrh, of each half an ounce. 
With a sufficient quantity of Hydromel, 
make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They are held to be 
very good in Ulcers of the bladder, 
and al other inward Ulcers whatso- 
ever, and ease Feavers coming there- 
by, being of a fine cooling, slippery 
heating nature. You may mix half a 
dram of them with syrup of Marsh
mallows, or any other syrup or wa- 
ter appropriated to these uses: they 
ease the pains of the stomach much. 
They have left out the four lesser 
cold seeds, of each two drams, and 
altered some of the quantities of the 
rest. 
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the Vertues specified, they 
are good against spitting of Blood, 
coughs proceeding from hot and salt 
Rheum, flux of the courses over vio- 
lent, proceeding from Acrimony of 
the blood, bleedings at the Nose
over plentiful. They are good against 
Dysenteries, overflowing of the Hæ- 
morrhoids and the Whites, and a- 
gainst a Gonorrhæa simple or viru- 
lent.  Also they prevent Barrenness 
proceeding from the overgreat heat 
and acrimony of the womb and un- 
rulyness of its expulsive faculty, and 
from the acrimony and thinness of 
the mans seed, and that inability in 
some men to retain their seed, till 
they can accomodate their Yard for 
a fitting injection thereof into the 
field of Nature, or Parsley bed, as our 
women do very elegantly phraze it; 
which arises from vehemency of de- 
sire, thinness and acrimony of the 
seed, feebleness of the retentive fa- 
culty in the seminal Vessels and over 
soon or over frequent and violent ce- 
lebrations of the Actions of genera- 
tion.
Trochisci Hedycroi, Or Beautifying 
Trochisks of Galen. Page 134. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Aspalathus, or 
Yellow Saunders, 
Leaves of Mastick, 
Roots of Asarabacca, of each two 
drams. 
Rhapontick, 
Costus, 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cinnamon, 
Squinanth, 
Opobalsamum, or Oyl of Nutmegs by 
expression, of each three drams. 
Cassia Lignea, 
Indian leaf or Mace, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Mirrh,
Saffron of each six drams. 
Amomus or Cardamoms the less, an 
ounce and an half, 
Mastich a dram. 
Canary wine as much as is sufficient. 
Let the Mirrh be dissolved in the wine, 
then add the Mastich and Saffron well 
beaten, then the Opobalsamum; then 
the rest in pouder, and with the wine, 
make them up into Troches, and dry them 
gently. 
Culpeper.] They are very seldom or 
never used but in other compositi- 
ons; yet naturally they heat cold 
stomachs, help digestion, strengthen 
the heart and brain. 
Vertues newly added. 
These seem as their name imports 
to have been invented to help the co- 
lor of young people that stand upon 
their preferment in way of Marriage. 
For by strengthening the stomach, 
Liver and spleen, and by cheering 
the Heart, they may wel breed a fresh 
color in all that shal frequently use 
them, especially after bleeding, pur- 
ging, Vomiting, and such like reme- 
dies premised, as occasion and the 
method of healing shal require. The 
dose to these intents may be one 
scruple, half a dram or two scruples 
in white wine, Sack or Wormwood 
wine. They do also move the Cour- 
ses and Hemorrhoids in persons dis- 
posed to that evacuation, open ob- 
structions, and resist venom and all 
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168 TROCHES. 
gainst a stinking breath and against 
worms. 
Trochisci Hysterici. Page 134. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Asa fœtida, 
Galbanum, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Myrrh two drams, 
Castoreum a dram and an half, 
Roots of Asarabacca and 
Long Birthwort, 
Leaves of Savin, 
Feaverfew, 
Nep, of each one dram. 
Dittany half a dram. 
With either the juyce or decoction of 
Rue, make it into Troches according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] These are applied to 
the fœminine gender, help fits of 
the mother, expel both birth and af- 
ter-birth, clense women after labor, 
and expel the reliques of a careless 
Midwife. Search what other com- 
positions are appropriated to the 
same purpose; you may find them in 
the Table at the latter end of the 
Book, and then you may add half a 
dram of this to them. 
Those that would give help against 
all Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Sennertus, 
Veslingus, Johnston, and Physick for 
the Poor. 
Trochisci de Ligno Aloes. Page 134. 
Latin. Or Troches of Wood.
of Aloes. 
Colledg. Take of Wood of Aloes,
Red Roses, of each two drams. 
Mastich, 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Nutmegs, 
Parsnep seed, 
Cardamoms the greater and lesser, 
Cubebs, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Citron peels, 
Mace, of each one dram and an half. 
Ambergreese, 
Musk of each half a fcruple. 
With Honey of Raisons make it into 
Troches. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the heart 
stomach, and liver, takes away heart- 
qualms, faintings, and stinking 
breath, and resisteth the Dropsie. The 
Rich may take half a dram in the 
morning. 
Vertues newly added. 
These expel wind, strengthen the 
appetite, move Urine, and provoke 
to generation and conduce to fruit- 
fulness therein, seasonably admim- 
stred. 
Trochisci è Mryrha. Page 135. Latin. 
Or Troches of Myrrh. 
Colledg. Take of Myrrh three drams. 
Meal of Lupines five drams, 
Maddir roots, 
Leaves of Rue, 
Wild Mints, 
Dittany of Creet, 
Cummin seeds, 
Asa fœtida, 
Sagapen. 
Opopanax, of each two drams. 
Dissolve the Gums in Wine, wherein 
Mugwort hath been boyled, or else Juni- 
per Berries, then add the rest, and with 
juyce of Mugwort make them into Tro- 
ches according to art. 
Culpeper. They provoke the terms 
in women, and that with great ease 
to such as have them come down 
with pain. Take a dram of them bea- 
ten into pouder, in a spoonful or two 
of syrup of Mugwort, or any other 
composition tending to the same 
purpose, which the Table at latter 
end wil direct you to. 
Virtues newly added. 
They open Obstructions, expel 
wind, move Urine, bring awy Gra- 
vel, hinder putrefaction of humors, 
and invite and exhort a negligent 
Husband to dig and sow in his pars- 
ley bed. 
Sief de Plumbo. Page 135. Latin. 
Or, Sief of Lead. 
Colledg.] Take of Lead burnt and 
washed, 
Brass burnt, 
Antimony, 
Tutty washed, 
Gum Arabick and 
Tragacanth of each an ounce. 
Opium half a dram, 
With Rose water, make them being 
beaten and sifted, into Troches, 
Culpeper.] It fils up and cures Ul- 
cers in the eyes, if you put into them 
(say Authors) but in my Opinion 
'tis but a scurvy Medicine. 
Trochisci Polyidæ of Andromachus.
Page 135. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Pomegranate flo- 
wers twelve drams, 
Roch album three drams, 
Frankincense, 
Myrrh, of each half an ounce. 
Chalcanthum two drams, 
Bulls Gall six drams, 
Aloes an ounce, 
With austere wine, or juyce of Night- 
shade or plantane, make them into Tro- 
ches according to art.
Culpeper.] They are very good 
they say, being outwardly applied, 
both in green wounds and ulcers. I 
fancy it not. 
Vertues newly added. 
These do clense the putrefied flesh 
of Ulcers, and help the healing of 
Wounds, being of a drying, clensing 
and fastening nature. 
Trochisci de Rhabarbaro. Page 135. 
Latin. Or, Troches of 
Rhubarb. 
Colledg.] Take of Rhubarb ten 
drams
Juyce of Maudlin made thick,
Bitter Almonds, of each half an
ounce. 
Red Roses three drams, 
Roots of Asarabacca, 
Maddir, 
Indian Spicknard 
Leaves of Wormwood, 
Seeds of Annis and 
Smallage, of each one dram. 
With wine in which Wormwood hath 
been boyled, make them into Troches ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] They gently clense the 
Liver, help the yellow Jaundice, and 
other diseases coming of choller and 
stoppage of the Liver. You may take 
a dram of them every morning, or if 
you list not to take them alone, beat 
them into pouder, and mix them 
with white Wine. 
Vertues newly added. 
They help obstructions, pains,and 
preternatural swellings of the Liver, 
and are good in all old diseases ari- 
sing from the disorder of that Bowel. 
They are frequently given after pur- 
gation in Dropsies Cachexies, and
such like diseases of the Liver (as is 
supposed) one dram or one dram 
and an half or two drams being mix- 
ed conserve of Cichory flowers three 
ounces, and so with syrup of the ope- 
ning roots or of the juyce of Cicho- 
ry, or of Cichory with Rhubarb 
made into an Electuary, whereof the  
Patient takes the quantity of a Nut- 
meg in the morning and at four in 
the afternoon and drink after it one 
draught of Wormwood beer or a 
Glass of Wormwood wine. 
Trochisci de santalis. Page 139. Latin. 
Or, Trochisks of Sanders. 
Colledg.] Take of the three Sanders, 
of each one ounce. 
Seeds of Cucumbers,
Guords, 
Citruls,
Purslain, 
Spodium, of each half an ounce. 
Red Roses seven drams, 
Juyce of Barberries six drams,
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169 TROCHES. 
Bole-armenick half an ounce, 
Camphire one dram. 
With Purslain water make it into Tro- 
ches.
Culpeper.] The Vertues are the 
same with Troches of Spodium? both 
of them harmless. 
Venues newly added. 
They strengthen the liver diseased 
by choller and hot humours. They 
mitigate and digest choller, and fit it 
for expurgation. They are good in 
spittings of blood, overflowing of 
the Courses or whites, consumptions 
and hectick feavers; in coughs pro- 
ceeding from over thin and sharp 
humors. Also they temper the acri- 
mony of the seed, help Gonorrhæas 
methodically administred, and bridle 
troublesome and irregular incitati-  
ons to carnal copulation. 
Trochischi de scilla ad Theriacam. Pag. 
136. Latin. Or, Troches of 
Squils for Treacle. 
Colledg.] Take a squil gathered a-  
bout the beginning of July, of a middle 
bigness, and the hard part to which the  
smal roots stick, warp it up in past, and 
bake it in an Oven, till the past be dry, 
and the squil tender, which you may 
know by piercing it with a wooden stick, 
or a bodkin; then take it out and bruise 
it in a mortar, adding to every pound of 
the squil, eight ounces of white Orobus, 
or red cicers in pouder; then make it 
into Troches, of the weight of two drams 
a piece (your hands being anointed with 
Oyl of Roses) dry them on the top of the 
house, opening toward the South, in the 
shadow, often turning them till they be 
wel dry, then keep them in a peuter or 
glass vessel. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are prepared as the title 
shews for an ingredient into Treacle, 
their Vertue the same with that of 
squils whereof they ate made, which 
you may see in the Catalogue of sim- 
ples, and in Vinegar of squils and 
honey of squils, formerly described. 
Troches of Spodium. Page 136. Lat. 
Colledg. Take of Red Roses twelve 
drams. 
Spodium ten drams,
Sorrel seed six drams. 
Seeds of Purslain and coriander, steep- 
ed in Vineger and dried, 
Pulp of Stumach, of each two drams 
and an half. 
White starch tosted,  
Balaustines, 
Barberries, of each two drams. 
Gum Arabick tosted one dram and 
an half. 
with Juyce of unripe Grapes, make it 
into Troches. 
Culpeper.] They are of a fine cool-  
ing binding Nature, excellent in fea-  
vers coming of choller, especially if 
they be accompanied with a loose- 
ness, they also quench thirst. You 
may take half a dram, either by 
themselves, or in any other conve- 
nient Medicine. 
Vertues newly added. 
These help Coughs, spittings of 
blood, dysenteries and violent fluxes 
of the belly being used according as 
Art and the Method of healing re- 
quires. They stop the courses, 
Whites, and Gonorrhæa. They 
coole the acrimony of the seed, and 
assawage unbridled lust.
Trochisci de terra Lemnia. Page 137. 
Lat. Or, of the precious earth 
of the Island Lemnos.  
Colledg. Take of Earth of Lemnos, 
Bole-Armenick, 
Acacia, 
Hypocistis, 
Gum Arabick tosted, 
Dragons blood, 
White Starch, 
Red Roses, 
Rose seeds, 
Bloodstone, 
Red Coral, 
Amber, 
Balaustines, 
Spodium, 
Purslain seeds a little tosted, 
Olibanum, 
Harts-horn burnt, 
Cypress Nuts, 
Saffron, of each two drams. 
Blak Poppy seeds,
Gum Tragcanth, 
Pearls of each one dram and an half. 
Opium prepared one dram, 
With juyce of Plantane, make it into 
Troches. 
Culpeper. Indeed in external ap-  
plications, if an inflamation, or fea- j 
ver be, I think it be better with Opi- 
um than without, else better without 
than with it. It was invented to stop 
blood in any part of the body, and 
for it 'tis excellent. Well then, for 
the bloody flux, take half a dram of 
them inwardly (being beaten into 
pouder) in red Wine every morning; 
for spitting of blood, use it in like 
manner in Plantan water; for pissing 
of blood; inject it into the bladder;  
for bleeding at the nose, either snuff 
it up, or anoint your forehead with 
it mixed with Oyl: for the immode- 
rate flowing of the terms, inject it up 
the Womb with a syringe, but first 
mix, it with Plantane water? for the 
hemorrhoids or wounds, apply it to  
the place bleeding. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are excellent in al pestilen- 
tial and malignant diseases, in bite- 
ings of venemous Creatures and all
poisons, they stop Rheums and, 
coughs, asswage spittings of blood 
strengthen the stomach, Liver, spleen, 
Head and all internal parts. They 
cause a sweet breath, kill wormes 
and hinder their bleeding. They as- 
swage the Gonorrhæa, are good in 
dropsies, help shortness of memory a- 
rising from an over moisture of the 
Brain and Nerves. A scruple or half 
a dram may be taken in a bolus with 
three drams of conserve of Roses, or 
in a draught of Aligant as the occa- 
sion shal require. For the plague give 
it with borrage water two ounces 
and half an ounce of Treacle water. 
Sief, or Eye salve of Franckincense 
Page. 127. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Frankincense, 
Lap. calaminaris, 
Pompholix, of each ten drams.
Ceruss forty drams, 
Gum Arabick,
Opium, of each six drams. 
With fair water make it into Balls: dry 
them and keep them for use. 
Culpeper] Sief is a general term 
which the Arabians give to all Medi- 
cines appropriated to the Eyes, of 
which this is one, and a good one to 
dry up Rhewms there. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is a good Salve for bleared and 
rheumatick eyes such as it seems the 
Eyes of Leah were, one of the wives 
of Jacob. When you would direct 
the use thereof, let the patient scrape
a quantity in to a fine rag, and tie it 
up in a nodul, and dip it into white 
rosewater and there with pat and 
bath the eyes. Or mingle half a dram 
in pouder with the white of an Egg 
beaten with rosewater, and spred it 
upon two rags and lay over the pa- 
tients eyes, when he lies down to 
sleep. These and such like medica- 
ments must be applied after the hu- 
mors have been prepared, digested 
purged, derived, revelled according 
to art, and after blood letting, cup- 
ping &c. as occasion shal require 
and as the Art of Healing shal su- 
gest, without which art he shal prove 
but an arrogant and mischeivons, 
Cocks-comb, that wil go about to 
administer the medicaments in this 
book; and which Art he may learn
if he be not an idle and coveteous
drone, from the writings of Vesligus, 
Riolanus, Johnston, Riverius, Senner- 
tus, and Physick for the poor in the 
English tongue now by Gods provi- 
dence extant, in which regard al ig- 
norant Qualksalvers and empericks 
shal be justly accountable before 
God, for their blind and giddy pra- 
ctises, having means to become more 
understanding, if they had the brains 
Care and conscience to make use 
thereof. And they that cannot or 
Ss wil

170 TROCHES. 
wil not take pains to understand the 
Books aforesaid, are not fit to offici- 
ate as Surgeons at Sea and in the 
camp, nor to supply the room of a 
learned Physitian in the Country or 
once so much as to look upon a sick 
person in reference to his cure. And 
let this warning suffice once for all. 
Nor let him that knows not how to 
use them in due time and place say 
that the Vertues of the medicaments 
are over boasted when he finds not 
the desired effect. The Hammer of a 
clock hath the faculty to strike the 
hours, but it must be in conjunction 
with the other parts and wheeles of 
the clock, which must be wound up 
and kept going. He that shal set a 
hammer to a bell and without more 
a doe expect that it wil strike the 
hours without any other parts and 
appurtenances of a clock, wil find 
himself deceived: and so it is with 
Empiricks in the use of medicaments; 
though it is a real Vertue and use of 
Iron, that being duely ordered, fitted 
and applied a methodical way, it wil 
strike the hours upon a Bell. 
Trochisci è Violis solutivi. Page. 137. 
Lat. Or, Troches of Violets 
solutive. 
Colledg.] Take of Violet flow- 
ers meanly dry, six drams. 
Turbith one ounce and an half. 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Scammony, 
Manna, of each two drams. 
With syrup of Violets, make it into 
Troches. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are fitted to purge water 
and gross Phlegme together with 
choller. They expel wind. They 
cannot have any bad tast and may 
therefore fitly be given the Quantity 
of one scruple to children to eat, that 
have great bellies, and are troubled 
with wormes. Their dose may be to 
two scruples or a dram in rustick and 
labouring bodies, in case of Worms, 
chollick, dropsies and oppression of 
the Lungs by flegm. They may be 
made into tables. They are a pretty 
invention in my opinion for chil- 
dren and nice persons, in regard of 
the convenience of carrying about a 
man in journeying, in which case 
they are not subject to any miscar- 
riage or spolling, as syrups, Electua- 
ries, Pills &c. are. 
Trochisci de Vipera ad Theriacam. 
Or, Troches of Vipers 
for Treacle.
Colledg.] Take of the flesh of Vi- 
pers, the skin, entrals, head, fat, and 
tail being taken away, boyled in water 
with Dill, ad a little salt, eight ounces:
white bread twice baked, grated and sif- 
ted, two ounces: make it into Troches, 
your hands being annointed with Opo- 
balsamum, or Oyl of Nutmegs by ex- 
pression, dry them upon a sieve tur-
ned the bottom upwards in an open 
place, often turning them till they are 
wel dried, then put them in a glass or 
stone pot glazed, stopped close, they will 
keep a yeer, yet is it far better to make 
Treacle, not long after you have made 
them. 
Culpeper They expel poyson, and 
are excellent good, by a certain sym- 
pathetical vertue, for such as are bit- 
ten by an Adder. 
Vertues newly added. 
They are good in the plague and 
all malignant diseases, in all diseases 
of the skin, as scabs, maungynes, Le- 
prosie, tetters, morphewes. They 
quicken the sight, refresh the colour 
help cough, preserve from the dropsie 
and help to cure the same. They are 
good against the Venereal murren, 
thicken the seed, and incite a sleepy 
Husband to dig and manure his par- 
sley-bed; and an extravagant whore- 
haunter to drain his Marrow and 
Brain through his conduit pipe. I 
have heard it reported of a great La- 
dy over much given to Venereal em- 
bracements, that being anatomized 
after her death, her Brain was found 
consumed, though she was in the 
prime of her age. And if I forget 
not the story, she was a great Lover 
of viper wine, which is of the same 
faculties with the Trochisks afore- 
said. I could name her, but being a 
brave woman and a person of worth 
otherwise, and wife some time to a 
Gallant Gentleman, I shal bury her 
name in silence as to this story. 
Trochisci de Agno Casto. Page. 138. 
Latin, Or, Troches of Agnus 
Castus. 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds of Agnus 
Castus. 
Lettice, 
Red Rose flowers, 
Balaustines, of each a dram. 
Ivory, 
White Amber, 
Bole-armenick washed in Knotgrass 
water, two drams. 
Plantane seeds four scruples. 
Sassafras two scruples. 
With mussilage of quince seeds extracted 
in water of water-lilly flowers, let them 
be made into Troches. 
Vertues newly added. 
They are good to stop the Gonor- 
rhæa simple or Virulent being seaso- 
nably administred.They abate the flux 
of whites, and the courses in women 
being over flowing. They stay bleed- 
ings at the Nose, spittings of blood, 
and coughs. They are good for those 
who (abhorring tHe insolent usurpa- 
tion and domineering of Wives cau- 
sed for want of the fitting & just Re- 
medy of Divorce & allowance of Po- 
ligamy; and countenanced by the 
unmanly condescension and dotage 
of the Generality of Husbands in this 
Nation and Age wherein we live) re- 
solve to enjoy the happy freedom of 
a single life, without the vexation of 
carnal desires, and danger of scandal 
which might thence arise: For they 
Quench and dry up the seed, and a- 
bate the acrimony thereof, and stop 
its turgency and motion, and conse- 
quently do highly favour chastity. 
The dose is one scruple, half a dram 
or two scruples, or a dram if need be 
in lettuce water, morning and even- 
ing, or in conserve of red roses. 
TROCHES. 
left out in this new 
Edition.
Trochisci Alexiterij. Renodæus. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Gen- 
tian. 
Tormentil, 
Orris Florentine, 
Zedoary, of each two drams. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Mace, of each half a dram. 
Angelica Roots three drams. 
Coriander seeds prepared, 
Roses, of each one dram. 
Dryed Citron pills two drams. 
Beat them al into pouder, and with juyce 
of Liquoris softned in Hippocras, six 
ounces, make them into soft past, which 
you may form into either Troches or smal 
Rowls, which you please. 
Culpeper.] It preserves and streng- 
thens the heart exceedingly, helps 
faintings and failings of the vital spi- 
rits, resists poyson and the pestilence: 
and is an excellent Medicine for such 
to carry about them whose occasions 
are to travel in pestilential places and 
corrupt air, only taking a very smal 
quantity now and then. 
Troches of Annis seeds. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of Annis seeds, 
Juyce of Maudlin made thick, of 
each two drams. 
Seeds of Dil, 
Spicknard,
Mastich, 
Indian leafe or Mace,
Leaves of Wormwood,
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171 TROCHES. 
Bitter Almonds, of each half a 
dram, 
Aloes two drams. 
Juyce of Wormwood so much as is suf- 
ficient to make it into Troches according 
to art. 
Culpeper.] They open obstructions 
of the liver, and that very gently, and 
help therfore diseases coming there- 
of, quartan Agues. You can scarce 
do amiss in taking them if they pleas 
but your pallat. 
Trochisci Diarhodon. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of the Flowers of red 
Roses six drams. 
Spicknard, 
Wood of Aloes, of each two drams. 
Liquoris three drams, 
Spodium one dram. 
Saffron half a dram, 
Mastich two drams, 
Make them up into Troches with white 
Wine according to art. 
Culpeper. They wonderfully ease 
feavers coming of flegm, as quotidi- 
an Feavers, Agues, Epialos, &c. pains 
in the belly. 
Trochisci de Lacca. Mesue, 
Colledg.] Take of Gum Lacca clen- 
sed, 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Maudlin, 
Wormwood, 
Barberries, all made thick, 
Rhubarb, 
Long Birthwort, 
Costus, 
Asarabacca,
Bitter Almonds, 
Maddir, 
Annis,  
Smallage, 
Schænanth, of each one dram. 
With the Decoction of Birthwort, Schæ- 
nanth, or the juyce of Maudlin, or 
Wormwood, make them into Troches ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] It helps stoppings of 
the Liver and Spleen, and Feavers 
thence coming; it expels wind, pur- 
geth by urine, and resists dropsies.
The dose is between half a dram, and 
a dram, according to the age and 
strength of the Patient. 
Pastilli Andronis. Galen. 
Colledg. Take of Pomegranate flowers 
ten drams. 
Copperis twelve drams. 
Unripe Galls, 
Birthwort,
Frankincense, of each an ounce. 
Allum, 
Myrrh, of each half an ounce. 
Misy two drams. 
With eighteen ounces of red wine make 
it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper. This also is appropria- 
ted to wounds, ulcers, and fistulaes; 
it clears the ears, and represseth all 
excressences of flesh, clenseth the filth 
of the bones. 
Trochisci Musæ. Galen, 
Colledg.] Take of Allum, 
Aloes, 
Copperis, 
Myrrh, of each six drams. 
Crocomagma, 
Saffron, of each three drams. 
Pomegranate flowers half an ounce. 
Wine and Honey, of each so much as is 
sufficient to make it up into troches ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper] Their use is the same 
with the former. 
Crocomagma of Democrates. Galen. 
Colledg. Take of Saffron a hundred 
drams, 
Red Roses, 
Mirrh, ef each fifty drams. 
white Starch, 
Gum Arabick, of each thirty drams. 
Wine, so much as is sufficient to make it 
into troches 
Culpeper.] It is very expulsive, 
heats and strengthens the heart and 
stomach. 
Troches Ramich. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Sorrel, 
sixteen ounces.  
Red Rose Leaves, an ounce, 
Mirtle berries, two ounces, 
Boyl them a little together, and strain 
them, add to the Decoction, Galls well 
beaten, three ounces: boyl them again 
a little, then put in these following things  
in fine pouder: 
Take of red roses an ounce, 
Yellow Sanders, ten drams, 
Gum Arabick an ounce and an 
half. 
Sumach, 
Spodium, of each an ounce. 
Mirtle Berries four ounces. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cloves, 
Mace, 
Nutmegs, of each half an ounce. 
Sowr Grapes seven drams. 
Mix them altogether, and let them dry 
upon a stone, and grind them again in- 
to pouder, and make them into small 
troches with one dram of Camphire, and 
so much Rose Water as is sufficient, and 
perfume them with fifteen grains of 
Mask. 
Culpeper.] They strengthen the 
stomach, heart, and liver, as also the 
bowels; they help the colick, and 
fluxes of blood, as also bleeding at 
the nose, if you snuff up the pouder 
of them; disburden the body of salt, 
fretting, cholerick humors. You 
may carry them about you, and take 
them at your pleasure. 
Troches of Roses.
Colledg.] Take of red Roses half an
ounce, 
Wood of Aloes, two drams, 
Mastich a dram and an half, 
Roman Wormwood, 
Cinnamon, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Schenanth, of each one dram. 
Old Wine, and Decoction of the five o- 
pening Roots, so much as is sufficient to
make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They help pains in the 
stomach, and ill digestion, the illiack 
passion, Hectick Feavers and Drop- 
sie, in the beginning, and cause a
good color. Use them like the for-
mer. 
Trochisci Diacorallion. 
Colledg. Take of Bole-Armenick,
Red Coral, of each an ounce, 
Balaustins, 
Terra Lemnia, 
White Sarch, of each half an ounce. 
Hypocistis,
Seeds ef Henbane, 
Opium, of each two drams. 
Juyce of Plantane so much as is suffici- 
to make them into Troches according to 
Art. 
Culpeper] These also stop blood, 
help the bloody flux, stop the terms, 
and are a great help to such whole 
stomachs loath their victuals. I fan- 
cy them not. 
Trochisci Diaspermaton. 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds of Smal-
lage and 
Bishops weed, of each on ounce, 
Annis and
Fennel seeds, of each half an ounce. 
Opium, 
Cassia Lignea, of each two drams, 
With rain water, make it into Troches 
according to art. 
Culpeper,. These also bind, ease
pain, help the Pleurisie.
Pastilli

172 Of the Use of Oyls, &c. 
Pastilli Hemoptoici, or cakes against 
spitting of blood. 
Colledg.] Take of white Starch, 
Balaustins, 
Earth of Samos, 
Juyce of Hypocistis, 
Gum, 
Saffron, 
Opium, of each two drams. 
With juyce of Plantane, make them into 
Troches according to art. 
Culpeper. The Operation of this 
is like the former. 
Vertues newly added. 
These were invented to stop pit- 
ting of blood, and so their name does 
intimate. They are also good against
bleeding at the Nose, against an o- 
ver-great flux of the courses. Whites, 
or Hæmorrhoids. The dose is from 
one scruple to half a dram, in con- 
serve of red Roses. 
Trochisks of Agarick.
Colledg.] Take of choice Agarick 
three ounces,
Sal. gem. six drams, 
Ginger two drams, 
With Oxymel simplex, so much as is suf- 
ficient, make it into Troches according to 
Art. 
Culpeper. The Vertues of both 
these are the same with Agarick, on- 
ly it may be more safely given this 
way than any other. They clense the 
brain of flegm, and the stomach of 
tough, thick, viscous humors. The 
Dose is one dram at a time. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are made be kept in a 
readiness to compound other Medi- 
caments, and are seldom used alone, 
yet they may be taken alone, and wil 
perform all the effects of Agarick, 
which you may see in the catalogue 
of simples. In a word they purge 
thick flegm mixed with choler out of 
the Head: but especially they have 
the repute to draw thick corrupt and 
clammy humors out of the breast. 
OF THE 
USE 
OF 
OYLS, &c. 
Culpeper. 
BEfore I begin with their Oyls, 
Oyntments, and Plaisters, give 
me leave to swerve a little from the 
Colledges mode, I would but give 
a few Rules for the Use of them, and 
I had as good do it here as any 
where; and to write but the truth, 
many City Chyrurgeons that I have 
talked with, are scarce able to give a 
reason for what they do, ’tis to be 
feared, that those that live in the 
Country, far remote, are far less a- 
ble. To do to all these a courtesie, 
do I candidly deliver these Rules, 
and let me never be accounted so 
basely bred, as to forget those kind 
Ladies and Gentlewomen that for 
Gods sake help their poor wounded 
neighbors, the great God reward 
them with a plentiful increase of e- 
state in this world, and eternal Bea- 
titude in that to come. 
The chiefest of all these Chyrurgi- 
cal Antidotes, I shall divide into 
these twelve Chapters: which shall 
be treated of in this Order. 
Of Medicines 
Anodine—1 
Repelling—2 
Attracting—3 
Resolving—4 
Emollient—5
Suppurating—6 
Clensing—7 
Incarnative—8 
Scarrifying—9 
Glutinative—10 
Cathereticks—11 
Stanching blood—12 
Chap. I. Of Anodines. 
SUch Oyls, Oyntments, and Plai- 
sters, as ease pain, are called by 
Physitians Anodines. 
All pain is caused by heat or dri- 
ness, or both; for moisture seldom, 
unless heat be joyned with it,causeth 
pain. 
Anodines, also some divide into 
Proper, and Improper; Improper
Anodines (if a man may call them 
Anodines) they cal Narcoticks, for 
I assure you if crabbed words would 
cure diseases, our Physitians would 
come behind none in the world: the 
truth is, these words were borrowed 
from Galen, and are Greek words, 
and Galen writiting in his Mother 
Tongue, they were understood well 
enough there; ours retain the same 
words, only to blind peoples Eyes, 
that so they may not pry into the 
Mystery of their Monopoly, for then 
all the fat were in the fire. But to 
proceed. 
Proper Anodines, are either tem- 
perately Hot, or temperately Cold. 
Hot Anodines are: 
Oyl of sweet Almonds, Linseed- 
Oyl, Oyl of Eggs, Oyl of St. Johns- 
wort. Hen Grease, Ducks Grease, 
Goose Grease, Chamomel, Melilot, 
Fenugreek seeds. Dill, Bay leaves and 
berries, Juniper berries, Rosemary, 
Oyls and Oyntments made of them; 
Oyl of Earth-worms, Oyl of Elder, 
Wax, Turpentine, Oyntment of 
Marshmallows, Martiatum, Arregon, 
Resumptivum, Oxycroceum. 
If any external part of your bo- 
dy be pained, these, or any of these 
made into fomentations, applied to 
the part pained, or into Pultisses, or 
Oyls, or Oyntments by adding Hogs 
grease, or Plaisters by adding Wax, 
or Rozin, or both to the Oyntment; 
ease pain. 
But if together with the pain there 
be inflamation, then Anodines of a 
cooler Nature are more convenient, 
such be Oyl Omphacine, viz. Oyl of 
Olives pressed from them before 
they be ripe, Poppies, Roses, Vio- 
lets, pellitory of the wall, Fleawort: 
these or any of these made into Pul- 
tisses, Oyls, Oyntments, or Plaisters, 
Oyntments, of Roses, Unguentum al- 
bum, Populeon, Refrigerans Galeni, 
&c. 
Improper Anodines, or Narcoticks, 
which you please, are Medicines of 
another nature, and scarce fit for a 
vulgar use; till they have learned 
more skil in Physick than yet they 
have; yet be pleased to consider, 
that in taking away pains three 
things are to be considered: The 
Cause, the Pain, the Part pained. 
To these are Medicines appropriated, 
for some take away the Cause, but 
these belong not to my present 
scope; others take away the Pain, 
and meddle not with the cause, as 
those proper Anodines I mentioned 
before: and some take away neither 
Cause nor Pain, but only stupifie the 
sences, that so it cannot be felt. 
These are to be used with abundance 
of skil and discretion, and never but 
in cases of necessity,when the pain is 
so vehement that Nature is not able 
to bear it, or a Feaver thereby threat-
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173 Of the Use of Oyls, &c. 
ned. Of this Nature, and for this 
use are Narcoticks. 
Of these some are simple: As, 
Mandrakes, Henbane, Poppies, 
Opium, Lettice, Sengreen, Night- 
shade, Camphire, Hemlock, &c. 
Compound are: Oyls and Oynt- 
ments of these; Philonium Persicum 
Philonium Romanum, Pilulæ è Cyno- 
glosso, or Pills of Hounds-tongue, 
Pilulæ è Styrace; and most Opiates 
you meet withal in the Dispensa- 
tory. 
Chap. 2. Of Repelling Medicines. 
BY Repelling, or Repulsive Medi
cines I mean, either, 
1. Such as by a cold quality put 
back the humor. Or, 
2. Such as by binding, strengthen 
the part afflicted. 
They are in  
quality:  
1. Hot and binding.
2. Cold and binding.
They are divided into Simple, and 
Compound. 
Simple Repercussives (which is a- 
nother term they have) 
are 
Mild 
Strong  
Hot  
and binding
Mild Repulsives are: Roses, En- 
dive, Lettice, Sorrel, Navel-wort, 
Purslain, Violets, Water-lillies, cold 
Water, Whey, Coriander, Cynksoyl, 
Tresoyl, Pellitory of the wal, Apples, 
Pears, whites of Eggs, Hors-tail, 
Woodbine. 
Strong are: Teazels, Shepheards 
purse, Plantane, Nightshade, Sen- 
green, or Housleek, Melones, Guords, 
Citruls, Duckmeat, Fleawort, Myr- 
tles, Quinces, Pomegranate rinds 
and flowers, Sanguis Draconis, Pop- 
py, Opium, Bole-armeniack, Ceruss, 
Terra Sigillata, Lead burnt, and not 
burnt, Cypress Nuts. 
Hot and binding: Comfry the 
greater, Wormwood, Centaury, 
Horehound, Cardamoms, Cyperus 
grass, Calamus Aromaticus,the meal 
of Lupines, and of Orobus. 
Compound are: The Oyls and 
Oyntments of these, Refrigerans Ga- 
leni, Unguentum Alburn Rhasis, Un- 
guentum Citrinum, Unguentum Popule- 
on, Unguentum Desiccativum Rubrum,
Unguentum Pectorale, Diacalciteos. 
Chap. 3. Of Attractives.
Attractives (called by the Greeks 
Electica) are contrary to Re- 
percussives; for the nature of Repel- 
ling, Repulsive, or Repercussive Me- 
dicines, is to drive from the Circum- 
ference to the Centre, but of At- 
tractives to draw from the Centre to 
the Circumference. 
They are all hot in temper, and of 
thin parts. 
Attractives
draw by
1. Natural Heat. 
2. Putrefaction. 
3. Hidden Property. 
4. Fuga Vacui. 
1. Such as draw by 
natural heat are, 
1. Simple.
2. Compound.
Simple are: Onions, Briony, Leeks, 
Garlick; and now you may know a 
Reason why the cutting of Onions 
makes your Eyes run a water; Birth- 
wort, Spurge, Southernwood, Net- 
tles, Aron, Gentian, Asphodel, 
Bdellium, Opopanax, Euphorbium, 
Water-cresses, Assafœtida, Xylobal- 
samum, Carpobalsamum, Frankin- 
sence, Mirrh, Marjoram, Rosemary 
flowers Cabbage; Aquæ vitæ, Sea 
water, Ammoniacum, Pitch, Bitu- 
men, Calaminth, Dittany, Mustard, 
Asarabacca, Galbanum, Pellitory 
of Spain, Cantharides, Crowfoot,  
&c. 
Compound are,] The Oyls and 
Oyntments made of these, Turpen- 
tine, Oyl of Bricks, Oyl of Foxes, 
Oyl of Baies, Oyl of Dill, Oyl of 
Rue, Peter Oyl, Oyl of Castorium, 
Oyl of St. Johns-wort, Oyntment 
of Arregon, Martiatum and Agrippa, 
Mithridate and Venice Treacle appli- 
ed outwardly for Plaisters, Diachy- 
lon magnum, Diachylon cum Gummi,  
A Plaister of Melilot, both simple and 
Compound, Oxycroceum, with ma- 
ny others, which Reading and Dilli- 
gence (if they be gentlemen of your 
acquaintance) will help you to, and 
furnish you with. Such as draw by 
Putrefaction are, All Turds in ge- 
neral, especially Pidgeons and Goats 
dung, Leaven, Old Cheese, &c. 
By hidden Property as they call it, 
All purges in general, Amber, Viscus 
Quercinus, or Misleto, Peony, the 
Load-stone; these they (poor fools, 
being utterly ignorant of the Sympa- 
thy and Antipathy of the Creation, 
and by consequence of the Magne- 
tick Vertue of things, upon which 
the Foundation of Physick is built)
cal them Hidden Qualities, and so 
give Physick by rote, as a Parrot 
speaks. I could if I durst tel you of 
common things obvious to the Eye 
of every one, that have a far greater 
Magnetick Vertue in them than the 
Load-stone; but I must be silent till 
men learn to be Honester: It is deny- 
ed me to write all I know. 
By Fuga Vacui, or driving away 
Emptiness.
It is a most certain truth that na- 
ture abhors Vacuum or Emptiness, 
neither is there such a thing in rerum 
Natura, let Baptista van Helmont 
speak his pleasure; And this way do 
Cupping-glasses, and Horse Leaches 
draw; and thus may you draw with 
a horn. 
Chap. 4. Of Resolving Medicines. 
THese the Greeks cal Diaphorè- 
tica, the Latins, Carminativa 
and these are used externally as well 
as internally; for it is the external 
use of Medicines we are to speak of 
in this place. 
Their Use is, 
1. To open the Pores. 
2. To make the Humor thin. 
3. To Evacuate them by Sweat. 
They are, 
1. Simple. 
2. Compound,
The Simple are, 
1. Weak. 
2. Strong. 
Weak are: Savin, Marjoram, Rose- 
mary, Origanum, Worm-wood, Me- 
lilot, Arrach, Spicknard, Chamo- 
mel, Dill, Annis, Cummin, Hysop, 
Fumitory, Elder, Dwarf Elder, Vale- 
rian, Southernwood, Worm-wood, 
Fœnugreek, Rozin, al sorts of Turds, 
Turpentine, old cheese, Wine, strong- 
water. 
Strong are: Dittany, Leeks, Onions 
Garlick, Vineger, Aqua vitæ, Pelli- 
tory of Spain, all the hot seeds which 
you may find ranked in Battalia at 
the beginning of the Compounds, 
Cinnamon, Chervil, Nut-megs, 
Pepper, Crowfoot. 
Compound are, Oyls, Oyntments;
and all Compositions of the former.
Oyl of Euphorbium, Oyntment of 
Baies, Diachylon magnum, and cum
Gummi, Emplastrum &c. Cymino, 
Oxicroceum, Emplastrum de Baccis 
lauri, Of Melilot. Oyntments, of 
Agrippa, Arregon, and Martiatum. 
Chap. 5. Of Emollients. 
THe use of Emollients, is to sof- 
ten hard places, and bring 
them to their pristine estate, of which 
we spake more at large in the sim- 
ples. 
They are, 
1. Common. 
2. Proper. 
Those are common, whose general 
operation is to soften hard swellings 
and such parts and places of the 
body, as are hardned by Congela- 
tion. 
They are Proper, which are ap- 
propriated to peculiar humors, and 
belong not to my scope at present; 
for I intend not a Treatise of Chy- 
rurgery, but to give a Candle and a 
Lanthorn, to light you through the 
Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters: 
that you may see what a mist hath 
hitherto wrapped you in, and com- 
passed you round about with: for 
take this for a general rule, and you 
(if you have any Ingenuity in you) 
must needs confess, Ignorance is en-
croching and seeks Authority to back 
it: But Wisdom desires to be publick,
and is alwaies justified of her Chil- 
dren. 
Tt To

174 Of the Use of Oyls, &c.
To proceed, consider that Emolli- 
ents are more temperate than attra- 
ctives, but less temperate than Sup- 
puratives: of which more in the next 
Chapter. 
Also take notice that if the tumor 
be in any principal part of the body, 
mix your Emolients with Astrin- 
gents. 
Emolients are either simple or com- 
mon. 
Simple are: Almost, if not altoge- 
ther, all Marrows, as of a Stagg, dog, 
Horse, Calfe, Bear, Man, Hog, Hen, 
Goose, Duck, Lion, Goat, &c. and 
this book (if you have but wit e- 
nough to be a Physitian) this Book 
I say, if heedfully read and exami- 
ned, wil so furnish you with the vul- 
gar rules, that you may be able to 
understand that, when God shal en- 
able me to put it forth. A man shal 
never know any thing of the myste- 
ries of his creator, til he knows him- 
selse; and he shal never know him- 
self, First, Til he hath the honesty free- 
ly to impart to others, what God 
hath freely revealed to him for the 
pulick good; Secondly, Til he hath 
the Discretion to impart every thing 
in its due season. But to proceed to 
simple Emollients where I left) Gum 
Amoniacum, Bdellium, Opopanax, 
Galbanum, Turpentine, Rozin, Co- 
lophonia, Pitch, the Emolient herbs 
(you have them in rank and file, at 
the beginning of the compounds) 
Lin-seed, Fenugreek seed, white Lil- 
ly roots, Astrach, Figs, Wheat and 
Barley Meal, Malt, Flower, &c. 
Compounds are; Oyls, Oyntments, 
and Plaisters, made of al or any of 
these, Oyl of Lillies, Oyl of Chamo- 
mel, Oyl of Earth-worms, Oyl of 
Foxes, Oyntment of Marsh-mallows, 
Resumptivum, Diachylon, cum multis 
alijs. 
I shal give a notion or two, and 
then I have done with this, (you had 
had them before had I not forgotten 
them and now before I go any fur- 
ther let me advise those that intend 
to reap any benefit by my writings, 
to take a pen and ink, and note 
down what ever they find of conse- 
quence in them; for I know and they 
shal find by experience; that once 
writing of a thing, seates it better in 
the memory, then a hundred times 
reading of it.) 
1. The grease of all, ungelt males 
is hotter, then the grease either of fœ- 
males, or Eunuchs, as for example: 
the grease of a Bul is hotter by far, 
than either the grease of a Cow or 
an Ox. 
2. The grease of wild beasts,is hot- 
ter then that of such as are tame or 
domestical, as the grease of a wild 
Cat is hotter than that of a house 
Cat: judg ye the like of Fowles, the  
grease of a wild Duck, is hotter than  
that of a tame. A word is enough to 
the wise 
Chap. 6. Of Suppuratives, 
THe Greeks cal these Peptica. the 
Latins Maturantia. We had 
some talk about them amongst the 
simples. 
Their Office is by natural heat, to 
bring the blood and superfluous hu- 
mors into matter, to help nature so 
to concoct a superfluous humor, that 
it may be fit to be cast out, to ripen it 
as the vulgar proverb is. 
Emplasticks are of this nature, 
which we treated of by themselves in  
the simples, and may wel be reduced 
to this Head. For, 
First, Some close the pores of the 
Body, and so natural heat being kept 
in is encreased; as the Sulphurious 
vapors being kept in the Cloud turn 
to real Fire, and that is that we call 
Lightning: So that corruption of the 
body being kept in together putri- 
fies, and turns to matter. 
Of this number (for before we 
told you what Emplasticks were in 
general, now we tel you, what par- 
ticulars are Emplasticks, and a little 
ingenuity will find out more, by 
viewing the qualities of these) of this 
number I say, are Mallows, Marshmal- 
lows, yolks of Egs, Turpentine, Ho- 
ney, Amoniacum, Galbanum, Labda- 
num, Frankincense, liquid Styrax. 
Secondly, As the former forced 
nature to do the work, so these help 
nature in it, the former did it per ac- 
cidens, these per se, viz. They are 
friendly to nature, and conspire to- 
gether with it to bring the super- 
fluous matter to form; yea, to such 
a form as may be cast out, and the 
body afflicted may thereby be eased. 
Such simples are, Marsh-mallow- 
Roots, white Lilly roots (which is 
the best internal Medicines of Ga- 
len's Method, which I know for such, 
an use, for you must note, That I 
chiefly speak of external Medicines 
now) Wheat, and Barley, and malt 
Flower; Linseed, Fenugreek seed, 
Brank Ursine, or Bears-breech, Figs, 
Raisons, Currance, Dates, &c. 
As for Compounds, I shal not use 
any distinction between them, they 
that do one may happily do both to- 
gether, there are besides Compounds 
made of these (let me not forget 
Oyls of Lillies, because I fancy it) 
Unguentum Basilicon, Diachylon 
simplex, Diachylon magnum. Dia- 
chylon cum Gummi, a Plaister of mu- 
cilages, your own genius, if it be not 
dul, wil sute you with more. 
Chap. 7. Of clensing Medicines. 
Clensing medicines are such as 
by a drawing quality, have 
power to draw away purulent ex- 
crements (which Chyrurgions call 
the Sanies of a wound) or mattery 
quality which ariseth in all wounds 
after putrefaction, (and then chy- 
rurgians cal them Ulcers) from the 
center of the Ulcer, to the circum- 
ference; you have an ulcer, you 
would fain clense it, for you must 
make it clean before you can heal it; 
clensing Medicines were ordained 
you for that end. 
Of these 
some are,  
1. Simple. 
2. Compound.
Of Simples  
some are, 
1. Weak.
2. Strong. 
Weak simples are, Honey, Sugar, 
Salt, urine, especially your own urine, 
white Wine, these gently clense all
wounds and Ulcers (which is in- 
deed nothing else but a wound pu- 
trified, 'tis neither better nor worse.) 
Strong simples are, Wormwood, A- 
grimony, Betony, Smallage, Sou- 
thren wood, Mirrh, Aloes, Sarcocolla, 
Turpentine, bitter Almonds, Vert- 
degreece, Bullocks-Gall, Alicam- 
pane, Briony, the Roots of Aron, or 
Cooko-pintles, Gentian, Hellebore, 
Allum, Whey, Birthwort, both long 
and round. 
Compounds are, Oyls and Oynt- 
ments of these, and what hath these 
in them doth more or less clense, Ox- 
imel, Unguentum Egiptiacum. &c. 
Chap. 8. Incarnatives. 
The Greeks cal Incarnatives 
Sarcotica, Their Office is to 
dry, and change the blood that comes 
to any part into the flesh. 
They must be hot, and but hot in 
the first degree; because they must 
be friendly to nature, else they can- 
not be helpful. 
They must al be dry, yet so as these 
must not be a difference in their dri- 
ness; for if the Ulcer happen in a 
dry part of the body, the Sarcotick 
must be very dry, and therefore some 
of them are drying even to the fourth 
degree: but if the part of the body 
where they happen be moist, you 
must use Incarnatives, (or Sarco- 
ticks, which you please to call them 
by) that are less drying. 
According to the degrees of com- 
parison I shal divide them into. 
Mean. 
Stronger. 
Strongest. 
Mean are, Olibanum, Colopho- 
nia, Mastich, Aloes, Barley Meal, 
malt flower, Fenugreek-seeds; these 
ought to be applied to moist and de- 
licate bodies. 
Stronger are, Birthwort both long 
and round. Orris, meal of Lupines, 
and Orobus, these ought to be ap- 
plied to dry bodies, and hollow 
wounds. 
Strongest are, Centaury the greater
and lesser, burnt Lead, Myrrh, these 
are appropriated to deep Ulcers. 
Then according as formerly, I shal
divide them into simple and com- 
pound: If you search the simples
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175 OYLS. 
you may there find their degree of 
driness (and be sure of this, you can 
loose nothing by diligence and sear- 
ching) then as the Wound or Ulcer 
abounds with moisture, so let your 
Incarnatives be suitable for driness. 
Simple Incarnatives are, Olibanum, 
Mastich, Aloes, Borax, Colophonia, 
the meal of Lupines, Barly, Orobus, 
and meal of Fenugreek, Beans, Wheat 
and Lentiles, both sorts of Birth- 
wort, Myrrh, Sarcocolla, Sallet 
Oyl, Betony, Shepherds purse 
Mouse-Ear, St. Johns wort, Centau- 
ry, Sanicle, Vervain, Scabious, Bur- 
net, Tutty, Gum Arabick, and Tra- 
gacanth. 
Compounds are, The Compositions 
of these, Unguentum aureum, and Com- 
mitissæ, Plaisters of Bettony, Diapal- 
ma, Emplastrum nigrum, Emplaistrum 
de januæ. 
Chap. 9. Of Cicatrizing Medicines. 
These the Greeks call Epulotica, 
the Lains Cicatrizantes; and 
we in English, Scarifying Medicines, 
though the greater half of the Nation 
know not what the word Scarifying 
means. 
Therefore take notice that a Sca- 
rifying Medicine, is such a Medicine 
as cloaths a place again with skin 
when the skin is off; and this it 
doth by a drying and binding qua- 
lity. 
Of these some are Simples, some 
Compounds. 
Simples are: Galls, Spunge burnt, 
Litharge, Terra Sigillata, or Lemnia, 
Pomegranate pils or flowers, Aloes, 
Cassia Lignea, Pompholix, Spodium, 
Cypress Nuts, Myrrh, Frankincense, 
Lead, Bole-Armenick, Ceruss, Sar-
cocolla. 
Compounds are: All mixtures of 
these; Unguentum album, Desiccati- 
vum rubrum, Diopompholigos, Empla- 
strum de minio, Diapalmæ, &c. 
Chap 10. Of Aglutinative Medi- 
cines. 
The Greeks cal Aglutinative Me- 
dicines, Symphiticæ; and that’s 
the reason Comfry is called Symphi- 
tum, because of its glutinous qua- 
lity. 
The meaning of the word Agluti- 
nætive, is best known by its use, 
which is to dry up that humidity that 
is between the lips of a wound, that  
so it may be healed. 
They are all usually drying in the 
second degree. 
Aglutinætives simple, are: Mastich, 
Sarcocolla, Frankincense, Myrrh, Co- 
lophonia, Bole-armeniack, Dragons 
blood, Terrra Lemnia, Saint Johns- 
wort, Rosemary flowers, Knot-grass, 
Comfry, Marjoram, Gum Traga-
canth, Gum of Ivy, Gum Elemni, red 
Wine, Vervain, Yarrow,wild Tansy,  
Crane-bil, Sanicle, Cobwebs, Hors- 
tail, Cynksoyl. 
Compounds are, the Compositi- 
ons of these, Diapalma Emplastrum de 
minio. 
And now by comparing these with 
the scarifying Medicines, you may 
see that they are as like as one Egg is 
like another. 
Chap. 11. Of Catherreicks, Sép- 
ticks, and Causticks. 
THey all being as neer of kin as a 
man and his brother, I have 
put them all together; but before I 
treat of them, I care not greatly, If I 
explain their degrees: Therefore 
take notice that they are al such Me- 
dicines as have force to corrode the 
flesh or skin. 
Or these
Cathereticks are meanly 
strong, 
Septick stronger. 
Causticks strengest. 
The mean, if there be any mean- 
ness in them, or a more proper term 
is, those which are least violent, for 
all that are violent are called, Cathe- 
retica, or corrosives; by vehement 
drying these consume the excressen- 
ces of flesh. 
They are usually applied to ulcers 
that have dead flesh in them. 
They are 
Simple
Compound. 
Simple are: Vert-de-greece, Cop- 
peras, or Vitriol, Allum burnt, and 
not burnt, burnt Salt, Antimony, 
Mercury sublimate and precipitate, 
Euphorbium. 
Compounds are; Unguentum E- 
gyptiacum, all Oyntments that have 
the simples before mentioned in 
them. 
The stronger, the Greeks call Sep- 
tica, or Putrefactive Medicines. By 
their vehement heat they ulcerate 
the skin, and yet with little pain. 
Such are: Arsnick, Crowfoot, 
Spurge, Mustard seed, Cantharides, 
Euphorbium. 
Causticks are the strongest, and 
those the Greeks call Escarotica. 
These have got a faculty to consume 
all they come neer. 
Such are: Quicklime sublimated, 
Arsnick. 
Strong be, Lapis infernalis. 
I shal give you the use of them all 
in a very few words, as few as can be 
imagined. 
The first is used to eat away dead 
flesh. 
The second is used to draw blisters. 
The third to make Issues. 
Chap. ult. Of Medicines used to stop-
blood. 
Such are Bole-armenick, Terra Si- 
gillata. Dragons blood, Crocus 
Martis, Chalk, Egshels, Ceruss, Li- 
tharge, Frankincense, Mastich, A- 
loes, Rozin, white Starch, Stones of 
Raisons, Purslain, Housleek or Sen- 
green, Hors-tail, the Herb I alwaies 
mean so called, not the Tail of a 
Horse: the Herb Mousear, not the 
Ears of a Mouse; Fleawort, white 
and red Coral, Lapis Hematitis, the 
Blood-stone, dried blood, Gum Tra- 
gacanth and Arabick, Knot-grass, 
Cobwebs.  
I have now done with my Proæmi- 
um to the Oyls, Oyntments, and 
Plaisters: I desire you to excuse me 
for not following one and the same 
Author in the Simples, and here; 
the more you know the variety of 
Authors, the better Physitians in time 
you may come to be; Velle suum cui- 
que est, nec voto vivitur uno: and ac- 
cording to these Rules, so understand 
the Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters 
following. 
OYLS 
Simple Oyls by 
Expression. 
Oyl of sweet Almonds. 
Colledg.] Take of sweet Almonds 
not corrupted as many 
as you wil, 
Cast the shels away, and blanch them, 
beat them in a stone Mortar; heat them 
in a double Vessel, and press out the Oyl 
without heat. 
Culpeper.] It helps roughness and 
soreness of the Throat and Stomach, 
helps Pleurisies, encreaseth seed, ea- 
seth coughs and Hectick Feavers; 
By injection it helps such whose wa- 
ter scalds them; Ulcers in the blad- 
der, reins, and matrix. You may 
either take half an ounce of it by it 
self, or mix it with half an ounce of
syrup of Violets, and so take a spoon- 
ful at a time, shaking them: only 
take notice of this. It you take it in- 
wardly, let it be new drawn, for it 
wil be rank in three or four daies, 
Virtues newly added. 
It helps an hoarsness being mixed 
with Lohoch sanum or Sugar candy.
A spoonful is good for upoung chil-
dren

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dren that are choakcd with Flegm. 
It is good to drink in a dysentery 
and after the operation of strong Pur- 
gative Medicaments. A great Practi- 
tioner of this Citty had a fashion to 
make his Patients drink one ounce 
or one ounce and half or two ounces, 
of Oyl of sweet Almonds in the eve- 
ning after their purges, to abate and 
qualifie (as I conceive) the Acrimo- 
ny and remaining malignity of the 
Purgative Medicaments, and to se- 
cure the body from any dammage 
that might thereof proceed. A pra- 
ctise not amiss for the wealthier sort  
of People.
Oyl of bitter Almonds. 
Colledg.] It is made like Oyl of sweet 
Almonds, but that you need not 
blanch them, nor have such a care of 
heat in Pressing out the Oyl. 
Culpeper.] It opens stoppings, helps 
such as are deaf, being dropped into 
their Ears; it helps the hardness of 
the Nerves, and takes away spots in 
the Face. It is seldom or never taken 
inwardly. 
Vertues newly added. 
It discusses Winds, and Vapors, it 
is good against pains and noises in 
the Ears, It is profitably anointed 
upon the great bellies of children 
and of Hydropical persons. Anoin- 
ted upon the Kidnyes and about the 
Region of the bladder it will move 
Urine, especially being mingled 
with a like quantity of Oyl of Scor- 
pions. 
Oyl of Hazel Nuts. 
Colledg.] It is made of the Kernels,
clensed, bruised, heated, and pres- 
sed, like Oyl of sweet Almonds. 
Culpeper.] You must put them in a 
vessel (viz. a glass, or some such like 
thing) and stop them close that the 
water come not to them when you 
put them into the Bath. The Oyl is 
good for cold afflictions of the 
Nerves, the Gout in the Joynts, 
&c. 
Colledg.] So is Oyl of Been, Oyl of 
Nutmegs, and Oyl of Mace drawn. 
Oyl of Wallnuts. 
Colledg.] Is prepared of Walnut Ker
nels, in like manner, save only that 
in the making of this somtimes is 
required dried, Old, and Rank 
Nuts. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to heat and dry, and to 
expell wind; it dissipates swellings 
and digests them through the habit 
of the Body, it is very successful 
against the colick pain arising either 
from wind or cold humors. By its 
digestive faculty and its drying po- 
wer it heales pricks of Nerves and 
galled places without pain. Also it 
is wonderful good against burning. 
It may be anionted upon the parts 
affected, and also given in Clisters. 
Also one ounce may be taken in- 
wardly or two, when it is new against
gripings of the Guts. 
Oleum Chrysomelinum. Or, Oyl of 
Golden Apples or Apricocks. 
Colledg.] Is prepared in the same 
manner of Apricocks; so is also Oyls 
of the Kernels of cherry stones, Pea- 
ches, Pine Nuts, Fistick Nuts, 
Prunes, the seeds of Orrenges, Hemp, 
Bastard Saffron, Citrons, Guords, 
Citruls, Dwarf Elder, Henbane, 
Lettice, Flax, Melones, Poppy, 
Parsley, Rhadishes, Rapes, Rici- 
num, Sesani, Mustard seed, and 
Grape stones. 
Culpeper.] Because most of these 
Oyls is out of use, I took not the 
pains to quote the Vertues of them; 
if any list to make them, let them 
look the Simples,and there they have 
them; if the Simples be not to be 
found in the Book, there are other 
plentiful Medicines conducing to the 
cure of all usual diseases, which are. 
Virtues newly added. 
This helps the hardness and pain 
of the Nerves, and the Tissick arising 
from a cold cause, either anointed 
upon the chest or taken inwardly. It 
helps cold distempers of the Womb, 
used in an injection or taken inward- 
ly. It kills Worms, cures many de- 
formities of the Skin. It helps such 
as are troubled with the stone and 
cannot Piss freely, and such as fetch 
their breath short and are troubled 
with the Spleen. It heates, cuts, 
makes thin, digests, and powerful- 
ly clenses. It heals noises in the 
Eares, freckles in the Face, softens 
hardness in any part, asswages the 
pain of the Sinnews, discusses wind, 
and opens obstructions. This Oyl 
and Oyl of bitter Almonds are of the 
same faculties, and may be used one 
for another, when either of them is 
not to be had. They are good against 
the Hæmorrhoides when they are 
swollen and pained. 
Oyl of Baies. 
Colledg.] Take of Bay-berries ripe, 
and new gathered, being bruised. 
Let them be boyled in water, and pres- 
sed in a press; then bruise them 
again. 
And boyl them as before, and take a- 
way the Oyl that swims at top of the 
water according to art. It will soon 
be rank. 
Culpeper.] Their former manner 
was thus. 
Colledg.] Take of Bay-berries fresh 
and ripe, so many as you please; 
bruise them sufficiently, then boyl them 
in a sufficient quantity of water til the 
Oyl swim at top, which separate from 
the water, and keep for your use. 
Culpeper.] It helps the colick, 
and is a soveraign remedy for any 
diseases in any part of the body com- 
ing either of wind or cold. For the 
colick you may take a few drops in- 
wardly in any compound appropria- 
ted to the colick: The Table of Dis- 
eases will direct you. I love to have 
men studious; negligent people make 
wooden Physitians. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is a present help against cold dis- 
eases of the Brain, Nerves, Joynts, 
and Loyns. It remedies weariness, 
opens the pores of the Veins, helps 
the Palsie and shaking fits in Agues, 
being anointed upon the Back-bone. 
It hath an heating, softening, ope- 
ning and discussing faculty. It cures 
all cold distempers, whether they be 
simple or joyned with flegm or wind. 
It wonderfully helps the colick pain 
arising from these causes, being made 
into a clyster with some convenient 
Decoction. It is good for pains of 
the Stomach, Head, Liver, Spleen, 
Kidneys, Matrix, in a word for all 
cold diseases. 
Colledg.] Common Oyl of Olives, is 
pressed out of ripe Olives, not out of 
the stones. Oyl of Olives omphacine, 
is pressed out of unripe Olives. 
Oyl of Eggs Yolks. 
Colledg.] Boyl the Yolks till they be 
hard, and bruise them with your 
hands or with a Pestle and Mortar: 
heat them in an Earthen vessel glazed
until they begin to froath, stirring 
them diligently that they burn not; 
being hot, put them in a linnen bag, 
and sprinkle them with Aromatick 
wine, and press out the Oyl according 
to art. 
Cupleper.] It is profitable in sistu- 
laes, and malignant Ulcers; it cau- 
seth the hair to grow, it clears the 
Skin, and takes away deformities 
thereof, viz. Tetters, Ringworms, 
Morphew, Scabs. I suppose none 
is so simple to take it inwardly to 
cleer their Skin, nor to anoint their 
feet to take away the deformity of 
their face.
Vertues

177 OYLS. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good for al deformities of the 
Skin, and very effectual against ma- 
lignant Ulcers and chops of the 
Hands, Feet, and Fundament. It 
cures Burnes, Ring-worms and Tet- 
ters; it wholly removes or much a- 
bates fears and marks in the Skin, 
and beautifies the same. It must be 
anointed upon the parts affected, 
frequently, especially at bedtime.
Simple Oyls by In- 
fusion & Decoction. 
Culpeper.] THat most of 
these Oyls, if
not all of them, are used only
externally, is certain; and as
certain that they retain the
vertues of the Simples where-
of they are made; therefore
the ingenious might help them-
selves. But because we live
in a frigid Age, I shall vouch-
safe to quote the Vertues of the
chiefest of them.
Oyl of Roses Omphacine. 
Colledg.] Take of red Roses be- 
fore they be ripe, brui- 
sed in a stone Mortar, four oun- 
ces, 
Oyl Omphacine one pound. Set 
them in a hot Sun in a glass close stopped 
a whol week, shaking them every day; 
then boyl them gently in a Bath; press 
them out, and put in others, use them in 
like manner; do so a third time: then 
keep the Oyl upon a pound of juyce of 
Roses. 
Oyl of Roses compleat. 
Colledg.] Is made in the same man- 
ner with sweet and ripe oyl, often 
washed, and red Roses fully open, 
bruised, set in the Sum, and boyled 
gently, in a double vessel; only let the 
third infusion stand in the Sun fourty 
daies; then keep the Roses and oyl 
together. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Roses (the sto- 
mach being anointed with it) streng- 
thens it, cools the heat of it, thickens, 
takes away inflamatton, abates swel- 
lings, 
Vertues newly added.
It stops the motion of the Humors, 
extinguishes the Rose or swelling 
called also Erysipelas, helps pains 
arising from an hot cause, it cools 
and strengthens, collects and thic- 
kens, tempers and refreshes an hot 
stomach being anointed thereupon. 
It stops fluxions. It allaies the Head- 
ach proceeding from an hot cause. 
It mitigates the burning heat of the 
Kidneys. It asswages all Inflama- 
tions. 
Oyl of Worm-wood. 
Colledg.] In the same manner is made 
oyl of Wormwood, of the tops of com- 
mon Wormwood thrice repeated, four 
ounces, and three pound of ripe oyl, 
only the last time put in four ounces of 
the juyce of Wormwood, which eva- 
porate away by gentle boyling. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Wormwood 
doth moderately heat and strengthen 
the stomach, being anointed with it; 
it procures appetite, opens obstru- 
ctions, furthers digestion, and kills 
worms. 
Vertues newly added. 
It heats and strengthens all parts 
as well as the stomach and namely 
the Liver and spleen and prevents 
and helps Dropsies and cachexies 
arising from the coldness and weak- 
ness of those Entrals. It digests 
crude Humors in the stomach, dissi- 
pates wind, anointed upon the sto- 
mach and belly, and so helps colick- 
fits. It abates the shaking fit of an 
Ague smeared upon the Back-bone 
all along, half an hour before the fit 
comes. 
Oyl of Dill.
Colledg.] Oyl of Dill is made of the 
flowers and leaves of Dili four ounces, 
compleat oyl one pound, thrice repea- 
ted. 
Culpeper] Oyl of Dill doth mode- 
rately digest, asswage the pains of the 
Head and Nerves, and procures 
sleep.
Vertues newly added.
It opens the pores of the Veins and 
so helps the Ventilation of the blood, 
abates convulsion fits anointed upon 
the part convulsed,as also the cramp; 
it asswages pains of the Joynts. It 
is of an heating dissolving nature 
and so discusses winds. It comforts 
the Nerves, and helps weariness af- 
ter journeying or hard Labor.  
Oyl of Castorium. 
Colledg.] One ounce of Castorium, 
Oyl one pound, wine four ounces, 
which must be consumed with the heat 
of a Bath. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Castorium helps
cold diseases of the nerves, deafness. 
being dropped into the ears, and 
noise there.
Vertues newly added.  
It is good for tremblings of the 
Hands, Head or any part of the Bo- 
dy being anointed upon the nape of 
the Neck and along the Back-bone, 
especially there where the Nerves 
arise which move the trembling part 
or parts; it is good-against cramps 
and convulsions; it breaks wind in 
clysters, and anointed upon the bel- 
ly. It brings away Urine anointed 
upon the Region of the Kidneys and 
Bladder. It helps the cold and moist 
distemper of the Testicles and incites 
to generation being anointed upon 
the cods. It strengthens a feeble bo- 
dy being anointed every morning 
from Head to Foot all along the
Back-bone. It is good in clysters to 
move the courses. Being anointed 
upon the stomach it is good against 
Hiccuppings. It is also good to put 
in clysters which are given in the 
Lithargy and all sleepy diseases and 
cold infirmities of the Brain and 
Nerves. 
Oyl of Chamomel. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Chamomel (which 
many call Holy) is made of compleat 
oyl, and fresh Chamomel flowers, the 
little white, leaves taken away, cut, 
bruised, and the vessel covered with 
a thin linnen cloth, set in the Sun, 
pressed out, and three times repea- 
ted.
Culpeper.] Oyl of Chamomel 
strengthens the sinews, greatly as- 
swageth pain, and breaks the stone. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good against Head-ach, Wind 
and Stone-colick, being anointed 
upon the Head or Belly and stomach, 
or being given the quantity of two or 
three ounces in clysters. 
Oyl of Melilote. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Melilote is made of 
the tops of the Herb like Oyl of Cha- 
momel. 
Culpeper] Oyl of Melilot hath the 
same effects. 
Virtues newly added. 
It expels wind, asswages pain, 
moves Urine, comforts and opens 
the Spleen either anointed or given 
the quantity of one ounce two or 
three in clysters. It is good to anoint 
upon the short ribs for children that 
have the rickets. 
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178 OYLS. 
Oyl of Wall-flowers. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Wall-flowers is made 
as Oyloj Dill. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Wal-flowers as- 
swageth pains in the bread: and reins, 
sinews, joynts, and bladder.
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a digesting, attenuating, 
and lenifying faculty, and moderate- 
ly heats. It helps pains of the Nerves 
and joynts. It is good for gouty and 
palsied persons, being anointed upon 
the places afFected, or given the 
quantity of two or three ounces in 
clysters. 
Oyl of Quinces. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Quinces is made of 
six parts of Oyl Omphacine, the meat 
and juyce of Quinces one part: set 
them in the Sun fifteen daies in a glass 
and afterwards boyl them four hours 
in a double vessel; press them out, 
and renew them three times. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Quinces, cools, 
binds and strengthens, stops vomi- 
ting, loosness and sweating. 
Vertues newly added. 
It strengthens the retentive faculty 
of the stomach and Guts. It helps 
digestion. It is good against the 
disease called cholera [See Riverius 
and Johnstons Books in English] the 
Lientery and disentery, it renders all 
parts that are loose and stagging 
strong and firme. 
Oyl of Alicampane. 
Colledg] Oyl is Alicampane is made of 
ripe oyl, and the roots of Alicampane 
bruised, and their juyce, of each one 
part, and of Generous Wine half a 
party which is to be evaporated 
away. 
Oyl of Euphorbium simple. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Euphorbium is made 
of six drams of Euphorbium, Oyl of 
Wall-flowers, and sweet Wine, of each 
five ounces, boyling it in a double 
vessel till the Wine be consumed. 
Culpeper.] Qyl of Euphorbium 
hath the same effects with that of 
Castorium, but works more forcibly; 
being snuffed up the nose, it purgeth 
the head of flegm. 
Vertues newly added.
It is exceeding effectual in old and
cold pains of the Joynts, Liver and
Spleen. It is good for cold diseases
of the Nerves and the Brain, the old
Head-ach and pains in the one side 
of the Head; for the Lethargy also 
being smeared in the Nostrils or snif- 
led in: It provokes lust being anoin- 
ted upon the cods and it is good 
against all numness and stifness pro- 
ceeding from cold. 
Oyl of Pismires or Emmots. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Ants is made of win- 
ged Ants infused in four times their 
weight of sweet Oyl, set in the Sun in 
a glass fourty daies, and then strained 
out.
Culpeper.] Oyl of Emmots, the pri- 
vities being anointed with it, provo- 
kes lust.
Vertues newly added. 
It is good against the wind and 
stone colick anointed upon the belly 
and stomach: It moves Urine anoin- 
ted upon the Region of the Kidneys 
and of the Bladder, and the courses 
anointed upon the Region of the 
Womb. It is good against Palsies 
and numness of the Joynts and loss 
of Memory and blockishness of wit 
the Seams of the Head and Nape of 
the Neck being anointed therewith. 
It discusses hard and cold Tumors. 
It is good in clysters to move the 
courses, bring away wind and Urine, 
the quantity of one ounce or two 
being mingled with other usual ma- 
terials of clysters. 
Oyl of St. Johns-wort. 
Colledg.] Oyl, or Balsom of St. Johm- 
wort simple, is made of the Oyl of the 
seeds beaten and pressed, & the flouers 
being added, and rightly set in the 
Sun. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of St. Johns-wort, 
is as good a thing in green wounds 
as a man can use. 
Vertues newly added. 
It asswages pains, strengthens and 
refreshes the Joynts, digests and dis- 
cusses Humors, takes away black and 
blew spots of the skin proceeding 
from blows. Also it is a wonderful 
strengthener of the Nerves, and 
therefore it helps tremblings, Palsies, 
Cramps, convulsions, being smea- 
red upon the seams of the Head, the 
nape of the Neck, and all along the 
Back-bone to the very crupper. Also 
it is good to anoint all the Joynts 
therewith, to strengthen the same. 
Oyl of Jesmine. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Jesmine, is made of 
the flowers of Jesmine, put in cleer 
Oyl, and set in the Sun, and after- 
wards pressed out. 
Oyl of Orice Root. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Orris is made of the 
roots of Orris Florentine one pound, 
purple Orris flowers half a pound: 
boyl them in a double vessel in a suf- 
ficient quantity of Decoction of Orris 
florentine, and six pound of sweet oyl, 
putting fresh roots and flowers again 
and again, the former being cast away 
as in oyl of Roses.
Culpeper.] Oyl of Orris, doth con- 
coct and dissolve, assawge pain in the 
Womb, Liver, and joynts; also it 
strengthens the breast. 
Vertues newly added. 
It powerfully digests and dissolves, 
it heats, softens and makes thin. It 
is of a digesting, penetrating, ope- 
ning and ripening faculty, takes a- 
way noise in the Head, discusses 
Wenns and hard swellings. It helps 
the stinking smell of the Nostrils being 
sniffed up, and allaies all such pains 
as arise from a cold matter. 
Oyl of Earthworms. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Earthworms is made 
of half a pound of Earthworms wash- 
ed in white Wine, ripe oyl two pound, 
boyled in a double vessel with eight 
ounces of good white wine till the wine 
be consumed. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Earthworms 
molifies, heats, and asswages pains, 
and is special good for such who have 
been bruised or hurt in their joynts. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for all cold diseases of 
the sinews and pains of the Joints: 
for cramps, convulsions, tremblings, 
Apoplexies, Palsies, running Gouts. 
It opens obstructions of the Liver 
and speen being anointed on the Hy- 
pochondries and given in clysters, 
also it is good to anoynt the sides of 
children that have the Rickets.
Oyl of sweet Marjoram. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Marjoram is made 
with four-ounces of the herb a little 
bruised, white wine six ounces, ripe 
oyl a pound, mixed together, let than 
be set in the Sun repeated three times; 
at last boyled to the consumption of the 
wine
Culpeper.] Oyl of Marjoram, helps 
weariness, cold diseases of the brain, 
noise in the ears, being dropped into 
them, the biting of venomous beasts, 
and provokes the terms in women. 
Vertues newly added. 
It strengthens the Stomach and 
stops vomitings, anoynted thereup- 
on, and destroies worms. It asswa-
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179 OYLS. 
ges a loosness being anoynted upon 
the Belly. It provokes to generati- 
on, smeared upon the cods in men 
and upon the Region of the Womb 
and Perinæum [see Vestingus] in 
women. It is of an heating, attenu- 
ating and digesting faculty. It as- 
swages pains of the womb proceed- 
ing from a cold cause, discusses wind 
and mitigates all pains that arise 
from a cold cause in whatever part 
of the body, Two or three ounces is 
good in a clyster for the wind and 
stone colick and to move the Cour- 
ses.
Oyl of Mastich. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Mastich, is made of 
of oyl of roses omphacine one pound, 
Mastich three ounces, wine four oun- 
ces: boyl them in a double vessel to 
the consumption of the wine. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Mastich streng- 
thens the Brain, stomach, and Liver, 
sinews and Veins, staies vomiting 
and fluxes. 
Virtues newly added. 
Oyl of Mastich also asswages pain, 
in any part, and softens hard tumors. 
It is good against Palsies, Apoplexies, 
Trembling of the head, hands, or o- 
ther parts, the Dropsie, Cachexie, the 
foresaid members, or the region of 
the Liver being anointed therewith. 
It refreshes the memory, fancy and 
judgment dulled through weakness 
& moisture of the Brain,and Nerves; 
being anoynted upon the seams of 
the Head and in the Nostrils.  
Oyl of Mints. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Mints is made of the 
Herb, and oyl omphacine, as oyl of 
Roses. 
Culpeper.] The stomach being a- 
nointed with Oyl of Mints, staies the 
weakness heats and strengthens it, 
staies vomiting, helps digestion, and 
provokes, appetite, 
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the Virtues specified, it does 
being anointed frequently upon the 
Stomach cause a man to be couragi- 
ous, industrious and undaunted. Al- 
so it helps to kill Worms in the Sto- 
mach and belly being anointed upon 
that part which is most suspected of 
worms. Anointed upon the Stomach 
and Back-bone in the winter time, 
it inables a man to endure the cold 
wether patiently and cheerfully. 
Oyl of Myrtles. 
Colledg,] Oyl of Myrtles, is made of 
Myrtle berries bruised and sprinkled 
with sharp wine one part, oyl ompha- 
cine three parts; set it in the Sun 
twenty four daies, and in the interim 
thrice renewed, boyled, and the berries 
pressed out.
Culpeper. Oyl of Myrtles hath the 
same effects with Quinces. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is also good to anoint pustles 
and pushes that break out upon the 
skin, to suppress them. It streng- 
thens Limbs and Joynts that are 
loosned or disjointed. It fastens the 
loose Gums and is good against the 
Toothach, smeared upon the Tem- 
ples, Cheeks and Gums. It fastens 
the Hair and hinders the same from 
falling away, being anoynted at the 
roots of the Hairs. It strengthens 
the Brain, Nerves, and Stomach, 
helps digestion and stops vomitings 
and fluxes of the Belly being anoint- 
ed upon the stomach and Belly, It 
asswages the Gonorrhea being a- 
nointed upon the Region of the kid- 
nies end hinders nocturnal polluti- 
ons. In a word it is cooling thick- 
ning and binding. 
Oyl of Myrrh. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Myrrh preserves 
any thing from putrifying that is a- 
nointed with it, makes the face fair 
and youthful. 
Vertues newly added. 
It helps the wasting of the Gums 
anointed thereon and fastens loose 
Teeth. It helps coughs and hoars- 
ness anointed warm upon the chest, 
and pains in the sides, anoint- 
ed on the sides. It kils worms 
and helps a stinking breath anointed 
upon the Belly and Stomach. It 
scours Ulcers and and fils them. It 
heats, dries, opens and softens the
womb, and provokes the birth and 
afterbirth, being smeared upon the 
Region of the Womb. 
Nard Oyl. 
Colledg. Nard Oyl is made of three 
ounces of Spicknard, sweet oyl one 
pound and an half, sweet white wine  
and cleer water, of each two two oun- 
ces and an half, boyled to the consum- 
ption of the moisture. 
Culpeper. Nard oyl doth heat, di- 
gest, and strengthen, resists all cold 
and windy diseases throughout the 
body. 
Vertues newly added. 
Being smeared upon the Body it 
causeth a good color and a fragrant 
smel to proceed therefrom. It is 
good against all old and cold disea- 
ses of the Brain, Stomach, Liver, 
Spleen, and Womb, anointed upon 
the Regions of those parts; so that
it helps tremblings, Palsies, Apople- 
xies, Forgetfulness, sleepy diseases. 
Indigestions of meat and Vomitings, 
prevents cachexies, Dropsies, Ric- 
kets, obstructions of the Liver and 
spleen, Barrenness and Abortion. In 
a word it is by reason of its rare Vir- 
tues by some called Oleum Benedi- 
ctum the Blessed or sacred Oyl. A- 
nointed all along the Back-bone it 
strengthens the Limbs and the whol 
Body. 
Oyl of Water-Lillies. 
Colledg. Oyl of Water-lillies, is made 
of fresh white Water-lilly flowers, one 
past, oyl omphacine three parts, re- 
peating the flowers as in Oyl of Ro- 
ses.
Culpeper. Oyl of Water Lillies 
cools and asswageth the violent heat, 
especially of the head, reins and 
bladder, thereby mitigating frenzies, 
procuring sleep, and is a good pre- 
servative against the stone, and helps 
such women (their backs being a- 
nointed with it) as are subject to mis- 
carry through heat of their reins, 
which they may easily know by con- 
tinual pain in their backs, and swel- 
ling of their Legs. Also oyl of Pop- 
pies hath the same vertue. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a very cooling Nature. It 
causes sleep being anointed upon the 
forehead, temples, soles of the feet 
and stomach, in hot distempers. It 
asswages the heat of the Liver the 
spleen and Kidnies, anointed upon 
the respective Regions of those parts. 
It asswages the motions of carnal 
Lusts being anoynted upon the cods 
morning and evening and upon the 
Region of the Kidnies, especially if a 
little camphire dissolved in Vinegar 
be mingled therewith, and wel bea- 
ten together. It asswages pains of 
the Head proceeding from an hot 
cause, being anointed upon the Fore- 
head, Temples, Nostrils, and Pulses. 
Oyl of Tobacco. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Tobacco is made of 
the juyce of Tobacco, and common oyl, 
of each equal parts boyled in a bath. 
Oyl of Poppies. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Poppies, is made of 
the flowers, heads, and leaves of Gar- 
den Poppies, and oyl omphacine, as 
oyl of Dill. 
Oyl of Poplars. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Poplars, is made of 
the buds of Poplar three parts, rich 
white wine four parts, sweet oyl se- 
ven parts; first let the buds be brui- 
sed, then infused in the wine and oyl
seven 

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seven daies, then boyled, then pressed
out. 
Oyl of Rue. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Rue, is made of the 
Herbs bruised, and ripe oyl like oyl of 
Roses. 
Oyl of Savin is made in the same man- 
ner. 
So also is oyl of Elder flowers made. 
Culpeper] Oyl of Rue, heats, and 
makes thin gross humors, expelleth 
wind, helps palsies, cramps, coldness 
of the womb and bladder. 
Oyl of Scorpions. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Scorpions, is made 
of thirty live Scorpions, caught when 
the Sun is in Leo; oyl of bitter 
Almonds two pound, let them be set 
in the Sun, and after fourty daies 
strained. 
Oleum Cicyonium. 
Colledg.] Oleum Cycionium, is 
made of wild Cucumer roots, and their 
juyce, of each equal parts; with 
twice as much ripe oyl, boyl it to the 
consumption of the juyce. 
Oyl of Nightshade. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Nightshade, is made 
of the berries of Nightshade ripe, and 
one part boyled in ripe oyl, or oyl of 
roses three parts. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Nightshade hath 
the same effects with that of Water- 
lillies. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is of a nature more cold then 
oyl of Water-lillies. It is good for 
St. Anthonies fire, Head-ach from an 
hot cause, being smeared upon the 
Forehead and Temples. It is good 
to procure sleep in hot distempers, 
being smeared in the Nostrils, upon 
the Temples and Forehead, the soles 
of the Feet and cods. 
Oyl of Styrax. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Styrax, is made of 
Styrax, Sweet white Wine, of each 
one part, ripe oyl four parts gently 
boyled til the Wine be consumed. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Violets is made of oyl
omphacine, and Violet flowers, as oyl 
of roses.
Culpeper. Oyl of Violets cools in-
flamations, easeth the pleurisie, and
pains of the breast.
Oyl of Vervain. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Vervain, is made of 
the Herb and oyl, as oyl of Mints. 
Culpeper.] Then remember that 
these oyls must not be given inward- 
ly as men take drink, but outwardly 
applied, or cast in as injections or 
clysters. 
Oyl, or Liquor of Mirrh, cald Oleum 
Mirrhæ per deliquium. 
Colledg. Take certain new laid Eggs, 
and boyl them till they be hardy then 
cut them through the middle, the long- 
est way: take out the Yolk, and fill 
the hollow place half ful of Mirrh; 
then joyn the whites together again, 
and bind them gently with a string, 
then place them between two dishes, 
a smal grate being between that they 
fall not to the bottom; then place them 
in a Wine-Celler, or some other cool 
place under the ground, so will the 
melted Liquor of the Mirrh distill 
down into the inferior dish. 
Vertues newly added. 
This oyl beautifies the skin. Also 
being taken inwardly it helps an 
hoarseness, to which intent Sugar 
candy poudered may be put into an 
ounce of the liquor of Mirrh, and so 
the patient may take it from a lyco- 
rice stick. It is also good to stop a 
Gonorrhæa, skillfully applied and to 
assawge the white flux in Women. 
To which intent half an ounce may 
be given in two or three ounces of 
red Rose water or Plantane water or 
in a cup of claret wine for some mor- 
nings together, after general remedies 
have been used according to the me- 
thod of healing. Those that are much 
weakned with the white flux or a 
simple Gonorrhæa, may take it in a 
cup of Aligant. 
Compound Oyls 
by Infusion and 
Decoction. 
Oleum Benedictum. Page 146. Latin 
Or, Blessed Oyl. 
Colledg. TAke of the roos of Car- 
duus, and 
Valerian, of each one ounce. 
Flowers of St. Johns-wort two ounces. 
Wheat one ounce and an half,
Old oyl four ounces. 
Cypres Turpentine eight ounces. 
Frankincense in pouder two ounces, in- 
fuse the roots and flowers being bruised, 
in so much white wine as is sufficient to 
cover them, after two daies infusion put 
in the oyl with the wheat bruised, boyl 
them together, till the wine be consumed; 
then press it out, and add the Frankin- 
cense and Turpentine, then boyl them a
little, and keep it. 
Culpeper.] It is appropriated to 
clense and consolidate wounds, es- 
pecially in the head. 
Oleum de Capparibus. Page 245. Lat. 
Or, Oyl of Cappars. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of Cap- 
par roots an ounce, 
Bark of Tamaris, the leaves of the 
same, 
Seeds of Agnus castus, 
Cetrach, or spleenwort, 
Cyperus roots, of each two drams.
Rue one dram, 
Oyl of ripe olives one pound, 
White wine Vinegar, and white wine, 
of each two ounces, 
Cut them and steep them, and boyl them 
(two daies being elapsed) gently in a 
bath, then the wine and vinegar being 
consumed, strain it, and keep it. 
Culpeper.] The Oyl is opening,
and heating, absolutely appropriated 
to the spleen, hardness and pains 
thereof, and diseases coming of stop- 
pings there, as Hypochondriack me- 
lancholly, the rickets, &c. Bath the 
Breast and afflicted side with it hot by 
the fire, and if you please to add its 
like weight of oyntment of the o- 
pening juyces to it, it wil be the bet- 
ter; then if you apply a Virginia to- 
bacco leafe to the place, you shall 
find it an incomparable Remedy. 
Vertues newly added. 
This discusses superfluous humors 
in the external parts of the body,and 
it expells wind,and is therefore good 
in the wind colick to be anointed 
upon the Belly.
Oyl of Castorium compound. 
Page 146. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Castorium, 
Styrax Calamitis, 
Galbanum, 
Euphorbium, 
Opoponax, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Saffron, 
Carpobalsamum or cubebs, 
Spicknard, 
Costus, of each two drams. 
Cyperus, 
Squinanth, 
Pepper long and black,
Savin, 
Pellitory of Spain of each two drams 
and an half. 
Ripe Oyl four pound, 
Spanish wine two pound, 
The five first excepted, let the rest be pre- 
pared as they ought to be, and gently 
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boyled in the oyl and wine, while the 
wine be consumed, mean season the Gal- 
banum, Opopanax, and Euphorbium 
beaten in fine pouder, being dissolved in 
part of the wine, and strained, let them 
be exquisitely mixed with it (while the 
Oyl is warm) by often stirring; the 
boyling being finished, put in the Styrax 
and Castorium.
Culpeper. The vertues are of the 
same with the Simples, only it is 
held to be more effectual in the pre- 
mises. 
Vertues newly added 
This is to al intents far stronger 
and more effectual then the simple 
oyl of castorium. It seems chiefly in- 
vented against the dead palsie, for 
which it is a soveraigne Remedy be- 
ing duly administred. It is also good 
for all cold Diseases of the Brain, 
Nerves, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, 
Limbs and joynts. It helps trem- 
blings of the Hands, Head, or any 
part of the body, being (after uni- 
versal Remedies) anointed upon the 
nape of the Neck, and a long the 
back-bone, especially there where 
the Nerves arise which move the 
trembling part or parts. It is good 
against crampes and convulsions; it 
breaks wind in clysters,and anointed 
upon the Belly. It is good to put 
into clysters which are given in the 
Lethargy, and all sleepy diseases, and 
cold Infirmities of the brain and 
nerves. In dead palsies it may be 
mingled with spirit of Wine rectified 
and beaten together and so bathed a- 
gainst the fire into the palsied part 
and upon the original of the nerves. 
It is good against old and cold aches. 
It helps down the urin anointed up- 
on the region of the Kidneys and 
bladder. Anointed upon the sto- 
mach it is good against Hiccupings.
It is good in clysters against the wind 
and stone colick the quantity of one 
ounce or two, and to bring down the 
courses. It helps a cold and moist 
distemper of the Testicles, and incites 
to generation, being anointed upon 
the cods. It helps stomach-sickness 
and Vomitings proceeding from a 
cold cause, being anointed upon the 
region of the Stomach. 
Oleum Catellorum. Page 846. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Whelps. 
Colledg.] Take of Sallet Oyl four 
pound, 
Two puppy Dogs newly whelped. 
Earth wormes washed in white wine 
one pound, 
Boyl the Whelps til they fall in pieces, 
then put in the worms, a while after 
strain it, then with three ounces of Cy- 
pess Turpentine and one ounce of spirit 
of Wine perfect the oyl according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is excellent good to
bath those Limbs and Muscles that 
have been weakned by wounds or 
bruises. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a rare suppleing and paine 
assawging faculty, being good for al 
cold Diseases of the Sinnews and 
pains of the Joynts, for crampes, 
convulsions,Tremblings,Apoplexies, 
Palsies, and the running gout. For 
it comforts the nerves and cherisheth 
the natural Heat. 
Oleum Costinum. Page 146. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Drug Costus. 
Colledg ] Take of the Rpots of bitter 
Costus, two ounces, 
Cassia Lignea one ounce. 
Tops of Marjoram eight ounces. 
Being bruised, steep them two daies in 
twelve ounces of sweet white Wine; then 
with three pound of sallet Oyl washed in 
white Wine boyl it in Balneo mariæ 
till the wine be consumed. 
Culpeper.] It heats, opens obstru- 
ctions, strengthens the nerves, and al 
nervous parts, as muscles, tendons, 
ligaments, the ventricle; besides 
these, it strengthens the liver, it keeps 
the hairs from turning gray, and 
gives a good color to the body, I 
pray you take notice that this and 
the following Oyls (till I give you 
warning to the contrary) are not 
made to eat. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to anoint upon the sto- 
mach against Vomiting and worms 
and dizziness in the Head: to a- 
noint upon the belly in cholicks, and 
upon the whol backbone to assawge 
the cold fits of Agues, half an hour 
before the approach of the Fit. It 
strengthens the Womb being anoin- 
ted upon the Region thereof, and 
helps the pains thereof. It softens 
and discusses hard swellings. It is 
good against the worms being anoin- 
ted upon the stomach, and in a word 
it is an excellent Oyl and æmulates 
the Vertues of oyl of Nard and oyl 
of Costus aforesaid. 
Oleum Crocinum. Page 146. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Saffron. 
Colledg.] Take of Saffron, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each one 
ounce. 
Mirrh half an ounce, 
Cardamoms nine drams, 
Steep them six daies (the Cardamoms 
excepted, which are not to be put in till 
the last day) in nine ounces of Vinegar, 
the day after put in a pound and an half
of washed Oyl, boyl it gently according 
to art, till the Vinegar be consumed, then 
strain it. 
Culpeper,] It helps pains in the
nerves, and strengthens them, molli- 
fies their hardness, helps pains in the 
matrix, and causeth a good color.
Oyl of Euphorbium. Page 147. Lat.
Or, Oyl of Euphorbium 
compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Staves-acre, 
Sopewort, of each half an ounce, 
Pellitory of Spain six drams, 
Dried Mountain Calaminth one 
ounce and an half, 
Costus two drams, 
Castorium five drams.  
Being bruised, let them be three daies 
steeped in three found and an half of 
Wine, boyl them with a pound and an 
half of Oyl of Wall flowers, adding half 
an ounce of Euphorbium, before the wine 
be quite consumed, and so boyl it accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] It hath the same ver-
tue, only somthing more effectuall 
than the Simple. 
Vertues newly added.  
It is good for old and cold dis- 
eases of the nerves and brain, the old 
Headach, and the pain in one side of 
the Head alone; for the Lethargy 
and all sleepy diseases, being smea- 
red upon the nosrtils and sniffed in. It 
provoks to generation being anoin- 
ted upon the Cods, and it is good a- 
gainst all manner of numness and 
stifness springing from cold. It is 
very effectual in cold pains of the 
Joynts, Liver, Spleen, Womb, Kid- 
neys, Bladder, being anointed upon 
the respective regions of those parts. 
A certain man reading that the 
Virtues of Fish-hooks were to catch 
fish and draw them out of the water; 
bought a parcel of fish-hooks and 
scattered them in a pond abounding 
with fish, expecting the fish would 
come to his hand with the hooks in 
their noses, but failing of his expe- 
ctation after long patience, he com- 
plained that the book had delu- 
ded him and over boasted the fa-
culties virtues and uses of fishhooks: 
till meeting with an Artist in the me- 
thod of Angleing, he became infor- 
med, that though it was the real vir-
tue and certain use and effect of a 
fish-hook to catch fish, yet it must be 
in conjunction with an angling rod, 
a line, a float, a bait, a wary hand 
and a watchful eye to mark the mo- 
tion of the float; nor would al this 
do at all times, viz. in the Heat of 
the day and staring sun shine, not 
immediately after a large and beat- 
ing rain &c. but times and seasons 
must be observed. Thus it is in the 
cure of diseases by medicaments 
which must be artfully and seasona- 
bly applied in conjunction with o- 
ther remedies, or their effects wil not
follow. And this Art the ingenious 
and industious English Physitian may 
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learn from Veslingus and Riolanus 
Anatomies, the Institutions and pra- 
ctise of Johnston, Riverius, Sennertus. 
&c. now by Gods providence in 
the English tongue. 
Oleum Excestrense. Page 147. Latin. 
Or, Oyl Exceter. 
Colledg.] Take of the Leaves of 
Wormwood, 
Centaury the less, 
Eupatorium, 
Fennel, 
Hyssop, 
Bays, 
Marjoram, 
Bawm, 
Nep, 
Penyroyal, 
Savin,
Sage, 
Time, of each four ounces, 
Southernwood, 
Bettony, 
Chamepitys, 
Lavender, of each six ounces. 
Rosemary one pound. 
Flowers of Chamomel, 
Broom, 
White Lillies, 
Elders, 
Seeds of cumin. 
Fenugreek, 
Roots of Hellebore black and white, 
Bark of Ash and Lemons, of each 
four ounces, 
Euphorbium, 
Mustard, 
Castorium, 
Pellitory of Spain, of each an ounce. 
Oyl sixteen pound. 
Wine three pound. 
The Herbs, Flowers, Seeds, and Eu- 
phorbium being bruised, the roots, Barks, 
and Castorium cut, all of them infused 
twelve hours in the Wine and Oyl, in a 
warm bath, then boyled with a gentle 
fire, to the consumption of the wine and 
moisture, strain the Oyl and keep it. 
Culpeper.] Many people by catch- 
ing bruises when they are young, 
come to feel it when they are old; 
others by catching cold, catch a 
lameness in their limbs; to both 
which I commend this Soveraign 
Oyl to bath their grieved members 
with. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyl had its original in En- 
gland as the name imports, being a 
thing unknown to all forreign dis- 
pensatories. I conceive it was first 
devised for some Earl or Countess of 
Exceter which Honor did anciently 
belong to the family of the Court- 
neys, as I have been informed. It 
is of soveraign use for al cold disea- 
ses of the brain, nerves, stomach, 
limbs; for palsies, convulsions, cramps, 
tremblings of the hands or other parts 
being anointed upon the futures or 
seams of the Head, nape of the neck, 
the whol back-bone, the places af- 
fected, and chiefly upon the original 
of the nerves which are subservient 
to the motion of the diseased part. 
It is good for cold swellings, for 
sleepy diseases being mixed in cly- 
sters the quantity of an ounce or 
two. 
Oleum Hirundinum. Page 148 Lat. 
Or, Oyl of Swallows 
Colledg.] Take of whol Swallows six- 
teen. 
Chamomel,
Rue, 
Plantane the greater and lesser. 
Bay leaves, 
Penyroyal, 
Dilkl, 
Hyssop, 
Rosemary, 
Sage,
Saint Johns wort, 
Costmary, of each one handful.
Common Oyl four pound. 
Spanish wine one pound. 
Make it up according to art. 
Culpeper.] But if instead of Oyl
you will put so much May Butter to 
it as here is appointed oyl, and boyl 
it with the foregoing simples, then 
will it have both the name and con- 
consistence of an Oyntment. Both 
this and the former are appropriated 
to old bruises and pains therof com- 
ing, as also to sprains. If you please 
you may mix them together. 
Vertues newly added. 
This immitates the Virtues of the 
former, and is good for all old and 
cold diseases of the Brain, Nerves, 
Limbs, and Bowels; being anoin- 
ted upon the Nape of the Neck, the 
Back-bone, the Stomach, and Regi- 
ons of parts offended with any aches 
or weakness. 
Oleum Hyperici compositum. Page 
148. Lat. Or Oyl of Saint 
Johns wort Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of the tops of Saint 
Johns-wort four ounces. 
Steep them three whol daies in a pound 
of old Sallet Oyl, in the heat either of 
a Bath, or of the Sun; then press them 
out, repeat the infusion the second or 
third time, then boyl them til the Wine 
be almost consumed, press them out, and 
by adding 
Turpentine, three ounces. 
Saffron, one scruple. 
Boyl it a little and keep it. 
Culpeper.] See the simple Oyl ef 
St. Johns-wort, than which this is 
stronger. 
Oleum Hyperici magis Compositum. 
Page 148. Latin. Or Oyl of Saint 
Johns-wort more Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of white Wine three 
pound. 
Tops of St. Johns-wort ripe and gent-
ly bruised, four handfuls: steep 
them two daies in a glass close
stopped. 
Boyl them in a Bath, and strain them
strongly, repeat the infusion three times, 
having strained it the third time, ad to
every pound of Decoction, 
Old Oyl four pound. 
Turpentine six ounces. 
Oyl of Wormwood three ounces. 
Dittany, 
Gentian, 
Carduus, 
Tormentil, 
Carline,or Carduus Maria, 
Calamus Aromaticus, all of them 
bruised; of each two drams. 
Earth-worms often washed in white 
Wine two ounces. 
Set it in the Sun five or six weeks, then 
keep it close stopped. 
Culpeper.] Besides the vertues of 
the simple Oyl of St. Johns-wort, 
which this performs more effectual- 
ly, it is an excellent remedy for old 
bruises, aches, and Sprains. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Oyls do wonderfully streng- 
then the Nerves and consequently 
help tremblings, Palsies, Cramps, 
Convulsions, numness, being smea- 
red upon the seams of the Head, the 
Nape of the Neck, and all along the
Back-bone from the top thereof to
the bottome also it is good to streng- 
then the joynts being anointed thei- 
upon. It digests and discusses Hu- 
mors, asswages pains, takes away 
black and blue spots of the Skin, 
proceeding from blows and stripes. 
Oleum Irinum. Page 149. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Orris. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Orris
Florentine, three pound four ounces. 
Flowers of purple orris fifteen ounces. 
Cyperus roots six ounces. 
Alicampane three ounces. 
Alkanet two ounces. 
Cinnamon, 
Spicknard, 
Benjamin, of each one ounce. 
Let all of them being bruised as they 
ought to be, be streeped in the sunor other 
hot place in 
Fifteen pound of old Oyl, 
Four pound and an half of cleer wa- 
ter. 
After the fourth day, boyl them in Bal- 
neo Mariæ, the water being consumed
when it is cold, strain it and keep it. 
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Culpeper. The effects are the same 
with the Simple, only 'tis stronger, 
and better composed here than it was 
in the former Dispensatory. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for asthmatical persons 
being smeared upon the chest, It 
brings down the Hæmorrhoids a- 
nointed upon the place, or injected 
in a clyster. Mixed with vinegar and 
rue and bitter almonds, and dropt or 
squirted into the ears with a Syringe, 
it helps deafness and takes away the 
præternatural noises and tinklings 
of the ears. It cures ulcers and stop- 
pages of the nostrils. Also it is good 
against an old Catarrhe, anointed u- 
pon the seams of the head, the tem- 
ples, pulses, and soles of the feet. 
Oleum Majoranæ. Page 149. Latin 
Or, Oyl of Marjoram. 
Colledg.] Take of Marjoram four 
handfuls. 
Mother of time two handfuls, 
Leaves and berries of Myrtles one 
handful. 
Southernwood, 
Water mints, of each half an hand- 
full. 
Being cut, bruised, and put in a glass, 
three pound of oyl omphacine being put 
to it, let it stand eight daies in the Sun, 
or in a bath, close stopped, then strain it 
out, in the oyl put in fresh simples, do so 
the third time, the oyl may be perfected 
according to art. 
Culpeper. It helps weariness and 
Diseases of the Brain and Nerves, 
coming of cold; it helps the dead 
palsie, the back (viz. the region a- 
long the back bone) being anointed 
with it; being snuffed up in the nose, 
it helps Spasmus cynicus, which is a 
wrying the mouth aside; it helps 
noise in the ears being dropped into 
them; it provokes the terms, and 
helps the bitings of venemous beasts; 
it is a most gallant Oyl to strengthen 
the body, the back being anointed 
with it;strengthens the muscles, they 
being chased with it; helps the head- 
ach, the forehead being rubbed with 
it. 
Oleum Mandragoræ. Page 149. Lat.
Or, Oyl of Mandrakes. 
Colledg. Take of common oyl two pound 
Juyce of Mandrake apples, or for 
want of them, of the leaves, four 
ounces. 
Juyce of white Henbane two ounces 
Juyce of black Poppy heads three 
ounces, 
Juyce of Violets, 
Tender Hemlock, of each one 
ounce, 
Set them all in the Sun, and after the 
tenth day boyl them to the consumption of 
the juyce, then put in 
Opium finely beaten, 
Styrax calamitis dissolved in a little 
Turpentine, of each half an ounce. 
Culpeper. It is probable the Au- 
thor studied to invent an oyl ex- 
treamly cold, when he invented this. 
I am of opinion it may be used safely 
no way but only to anoint the tem- 
ples and noses of such as have a fren- 
zy. If by using this oyntment you see 
they sleep too long, dip a spunge in 
Vinegar, and hold to their noses, it 
may be a means to awake them. It 
is scarce safe, yet if you let it alone, 
it cannot do you harm. 
Vertues newly added. 
This way invented by Nicolaus, 
the Author of the Requies or sleep- 
ing medicament formerly described 
amongst the Electuaries. 
It was invented to assawge vehe- 
ment pains of the Head. It is also 
good for the tooth-ach, being anoin- 
ted upon the cheeks and jaws. For 
the Head-ach and Phrentick persons 
that cannot sleep, it must be anointed 
upon the forehead and temples, and 
in the nostrils. Those that are not 
frentick and yet cannot sleep, must 
have it anointed, upon their pulses 
and the soles of their feet.
Moschelæum. Page 149. Latin. Or, 
Masked Oyl. 
Colledg. Take two Nutmegs. 
Musk one dram, 
Indian leaf or Mace, 
Spicknard, 
Costus, 
Mastich, of each six drams. 
Styrax calamitis, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Mirrh, 
Saffron, 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Carpobalsamum, 
Cubebs, 
Bdellium, of each two drams. 
Pure Oyl three pound. 
Wine three ounces. 
Bruise them as you ought to do, mix them 
and let them boyl easily, till the wine be 
consumed, the Musk being mixed accor- 
ding to art after it is strained. 
Culpeper. It is exceeding good a- 
gainst all diseases of cold, especially 
those of the stomach, it helps dis- 
eases of the sides, they being anoin- 
ted with it, the strangury, chollick, 
and vices of the Nerves, and af- 
flictions of the Reins. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is good against all cold dis- 
eases of the body, as palsies, trem- 
blings, numness, especially for cold 
diseases of the Stomach, as pains, 
windiness, indigestion, want of ap- 
petite, being anointed upon the re- 
gion thereof. It is good against the 
strangury, being anointed upon the 
share, for the colick smeared upon 
the Belly, and for al diseases of the 
Nerves. It makes a man indure the 
cold in winter couragionsly, being a- 
nointed upon the stomach especially 
the pit thereof, and upon the back- 
bone. It strengthens the Liver and 
Spleen afflicted with cold Diseases. 
It is mingled in Plaisters and Epi- 
thems for diseases of the Stomach, 
Kidneys, and Womb. 
Oleum Nardinum. Page 150. 
Latin Or, Nard Oyl. 
Colledg.] Take of Spicknard three- 
ounces. 
Marjoram two ounces. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Calamus aromaticus,
Alicampane, 
Cyperus, 
Bay Leaves, 
Indian Leaf or Mace, 
Squinanth, 
Cardamoms, of each one ounce and an 
half. 
Bruise them al grosly, and steep them in 
water and wine, of each fourteen ounces. 
Oyl of Sesamin, or oyl of Olives, four 
pound and an half, for one day: then 
perfect the oyl by boyling it gently in a 
double vessel.  
Culpeper.] It heats, attenuates,di- 
gests, and moderately binds, and 
therefore helps all Cold and windy 
afflictions of the Brain, Stomach, 
Reins, Spleen, Liver, Bladder, and 
Womb; being snuffed up the Nose 
it purgeth the Head, and gives good 
color and smell to the Body. 
Vertues newly added. 
See the Vertues of the simple oyl 
of Nard formerly celebrated. It is to 
all intents and purposes more potent 
and effectuall. 
Oleum Nicodemi. Page 150. Latin 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds or tops of 
St. Johns wort, 
Old Turpentine, of each one pound, 
Litharge six drams. 
Aloes Hepatick, 
Tutty, of each three drams. 
Saffron one ounce. 
White wine four pound. 
Old oyl two pound, 
The fourth part of the Wine being con- 
sumed in a bath, or sand, or in the Sun, 
in the Dog daies; after the tenth day 
strain it, and keep the oyl apart from the 
Wine. 
Culpeper.] Both Wine and Oyl are 
exceeding drying (that the wine is 
more clensing, and the oyl best to 
skin a sore, your genius (though ne- 
ver so dul) wil tel you) and there- 
fore excellent for sores and ulcers
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that run much, as for Scabs, Itch, 
smal pocks, swine pocks, &c.
Oleum Vulpinum. Page. 150. Lat. 
Or Oyl of Foxes. 
Colledg.] Take a fat Fox, of a mid- 
dle age (if you can get such an one) 
caught by hunting about Autumn, 
cut in pieces, 
The skin and bowels taken away, the 
bones broken boyl him (scumming it di- 
ligently) in white wine or spring water, 
of each six pound, till half be consumed; 
with three ouces of Sea salt, 
The tops of Dill, 
Time, and 
Chamepytis, of each one handful, 
After straining boyl it again with 
Old Oyl four pound, 
Flowers of Sage, and 
Rosemary, of each one handful, 
The water being consumed, strain it a- 
gain, and keep the pure oyl for use. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good in 
pains of the joynts, Gouts, pains in 
the Back and Reins. It heats the bo- 
dy being afflicted by cold, and hard 
lodging in the air, whereby the 
joynts are stiff, a disease incident to 
many in these times. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is also good against cold Ca- 
tarrhs being anointed upon the 
seams of the head, the nape of the 
Neck, the Back-bone, Pulses, and 
soles of the feet. It is good for noi- 
ses in the Ears. 
OYLS left out in the 
New Dispensatory. 
Culpeper. THe Receipt is 
before: The 
Vertues of the Oyl of Tobacco 
is: It is a gallant Remedy for 
deep wound, Scabs or Itch, as 
any under the cope of Heaven, 
and no way prejudicial. See 
the Oyntment. 
Oyl of Pepper. 
Colledg.] Take of long, black, and 
white Pepper of each three 
drams. 
Myrebalans, Chebuls, Bellericks
Emblick and Indian, of each five 
drams. 
Roots of Smallage and 
Fennel, of each three drams and an 
half.
Sagapenum, 
Opopanax, 
Ammoniacum,
White Henbane, of each two drams 
and an half. 
Turbith two drams, 
Ginger three drams, 
The branches of green Time, and 
Green Rue, of each one handful. 
Infuse them according to art, in a suffi- 
cient quantity of Aqua vitæ, Oyl of 
Wall-flowers, otherwise called Winter 
Gilly-flowers two pound, then boyl them 
to the Consumption of the Aqua vitæ. 
Culpeper.] It helps cold diseases of 
the Nerves, as Palsies, Falling-sick- 
ness, Convulsions, Wry mouths, 
Trembling or shaking Palsie, like- 
wise cold afflictions of the Reins and 
Bladder, Yard, and Womb, Gouts, 
and all Diseases of the Joynts. It 
heats, makes thin, and clenseth, and 
therefore it opens obstructions or 
stoppings, and breaks the stone. 
Oleum Populeon. Or, Oyl of 
Poplar buds. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Poplar buds 
three pound, 
Wine four pound, 
Common oyl seven pound two ounces, 
Beat the poplar buds very wel, then 
steep them seven daies in the oyl and 
wine, then boyl them in a double vessel 
till the wine be consumtd (if you infuse 
fresh buds once or twice before you boyl 
it, the medicine will be stronger) then 
press out the oyl and keep it. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cool oyl, but 
the Oyntment called by that name 
which follows is far better. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good for Head-ach, pains of 
the Joynts, pains in the Kidnies, 
Gout pains, and all pains in what 
part soever, and it causes rest, smear- 
ed upon the Forehead and Tem- 
ples, snifFed into the Nostrils, and 
smeared upon the Pulses and soies of 
the feet. 
OYNTMEMTS 
MORE SIMPLE. 
Unguentum album. Page 153. Latin. 
Or, White Oyntment. 
Colledg.] TAke of Oyl of Roses 
nine ounces. 
Ceruss washed in Rose water and dili- 
gently sersed, three ounces,  
White Wax two ounces, 
After the the wax is melted in the Oyl, 
put in the Ceruss, and make it into an 
oyntment according to art; ad two dram 
of Camphire, made into pouder with a 
few drops of oyl of sweet Almonds, so
will it be camphorated. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling dry- 
ing oyntment, easeth pains, and itch- 
ing, in wounds and Ulcers, and is 
an hundred times better with Cam- 
phire than without it. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is also good for burnes and scal- 
dings, fretting and chasing of the skin 
by riding or othervise, and against
all Inflammations. It is used for the 
chasing of the tender Thighs of yong 
children that are swathed.
Unguentum Egyptiacum. Page. 153. 
Latin. Or, The Ægyptian
Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of Vert-de-greece fine- 
ly poudered, five parts, 
Honey fourteen parts,
Sharp Vinegar feven parts, 
Boyl them to a just thicknes and a red- 
dish color. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth filthy Ulcers 
and fistulaes forcibly, and not with- 
out pain. It takes away dead and 
proud flesh and dries: The Chirur- 
geons of our daies use it commonly 
instead of Apostolorum to clense 
wounds; it clenseth more potently 
indeed,and therefore may be fitter in 
sanious ulcers, but it strengthens not
so much.
Unguentum Anodynum. Page 153. 
Latin Or, An Oyntment 
to ease pain. 
Colledg.] Take of oyl of white Lil- 
lies, six ounces. 
Oyl of Dill, 
Chamomel, of each two ounces. 
Oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce. 
Ducks grease, 
Hens grease of each two ounces. 
White wax three ounces, 
Mix them according to art. 
Cupleper.] Its use is to asswage 
pains in any part of the body, espe- 
cially such as come by inflamations, 
whether in wounds or tumors, and 
for that it is admirable. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is also good to cause rest be- 
ing anointed upon the Forehead and 
Temples, and to asswage the ravings 
of frantick persons. 
Unguentum ex Apio. Page 153. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Smallage 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of Smal- 
lage one pound. 
Honey nine ounces. 
Wheat flower three ounces. 
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Boyl them to a just thickness.
Culpeper.] It is a very fine, and ve- 
ry gentle clenser of wounds and ul- 
cers. 
Vertues newly added. 
This oyntment doth also open ob- 
structions of the Liver and spleen, be-
ing smeared upon the Hypochon- 
dries. It moves urine anointed u- 
pon the Region of the Kidneys and 
share. It is good against the wind 
colick, anointed upon the belly. It 
clears the stuffing of the Lungs, 
smeared upon the chest. 
Liniment of Gum Elemi 
Colledg.] Take of Gum Elemi, 
Turpentine of the Fir-tree, of each 
one ounce and an half. 
Old Sheep Suet clensed two ounces. 
Old Hogs grease clensed one ounce. 
Mix them, and make them into an oynt- 
ment according to art. 
Culpeper.] Although our Chyrur- 
gians commonly use this only for 
wounds and ulcers in the head, yet 
he that makes trial shal find it excel- 
lent for ulcers, if not too famous, in 
any part of the body, though in the 
feet, and they are at the greatest di- 
stance from the head; it gently clen- 
seth and silleth up an ulcer with flesh, 
it being of a mild nature, and friend- 
ly to the Body. 
Vertues newly added. 
It safely heals wounds without 
danger of festering, it fills hollow ul- 
cers with flesh after they have been 
first clensed according to art, when 
there is pain in ulcers it asswages the 
same, and speedily over spreads the 
Cicatrix or Scar. 
Unguentum Aureum. Pag. 154. Lat. 
Or, The Golden Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow wax half a 
pound.  
Common oyl two pound.  
Turpentine two ounces. 
Pine-rozin,
Colophonia, of each one ounce and an 
half.
Frankincense,  
Mastich, of each one ounce. 
Saffron one dram.  
First melt the wax in the oyl, then the 
Turpentine being added, let them boyl 
together, having done boyling, put in 
the rest in fine pouder, (let the saffron 
be the last) and by diligent stirring, 
make them into an oyntment according 
to art.
Culpeper.] If you remember, the 
Colledg commends this Oyntment 
to engender flesh in the beginning of 
the Compounds, and indeed it doth  
so; but if you please to take counsel  
of Dr. Experience, he wil tel you that 
the former is better. 
Unguentum Basilicum. Page 154. Lat. 
Or, The Royal Oyntment, 
Colledg. Take of white Wax, 
Pine Rozin, 
Heifers suet, 
Greek-pitch, 
Turpentine, 
Olibanum, 
Mirrh, of each one ounce. 
Oyl five ounces. 
Pouder, the Olibanum and Mirrh, and 
the rest being melted, make it into an 
Oyntment according to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment, it seems, by its 
soveraigne Vertues has merited the 
kingship amongst oyntments. It has 
a rare faculty to asswage the pains of 
old sores, to digest bad humors there- 
in, to asswage the biteing Acrimony 
and eating faculty of the said Hu- 
mors, and finally to fill the cavity of 
ulcers with flesh. 
Basilicon, the Less. Page 154. Latin 
Colledg.] Take of Yellow wax. 
Fat Rozin, 
Greek pitch, of each half a pound. 
Oyl nine ounces. 
Mix them together, by melting them ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] Both this and the for- 
met, heat, moisten, and digest, pro- 
cure mater in wounds, I mean bring 
the filth or corrupted Blood from 
green wounds; They clense and ease 
pain. 
Oyntment of Bdellium. Page 154.
Lat. Or, Gum Edellium.
Colledg.] Take of Bdellium six drams. 
Euphorbium, 
Sagapen, of each four drams. 
Castorium three drams. 
Wax fifteen drams. 
Oyl of Elder or Wal-flowers, ten 
drams. 
The Bdellium and Sagapen being dis- 
solved in water of wild Rue, let the rest 
be united by the heat of a bath. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good against al cold and old 
diseases of the Brain and Nerves, for 
tremblings, palsies, cramps, Falling- 
sickness anointed on the seams of the 
Head, the nape of the Neek and the 
whol back bone. It helps the wind 
colick anointed upon the Belly. 
Unguentum de Calce. Page 155. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Chalk. 
Colledg.] Take of Chalk washed se- 
ven times at least, half a pound. 
Wax three ounces.  
Oyl of Roses one pound. 
Stir them altogether diligently in a lea-
den mortar, the wax being first melted by 
a gentle fire in a sufficient quantity of 
the prescribed Oyl. 
Culpeper] It is exceeding good in 
burnings and scaldings. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is also good against red pimpls, 
whelks, and watry pushes and pu- 
stles of the skin. 
Unguentum Dialtheææ. Page. 155. 
Lat. Or, Oyntment of Marsh- 
Mallows.
Colledg.] Take of common oyl four 
pound. 
Mucilage of Marsh-mallow Roots, 
Linseeds and Fenu-greek seeds two 
pound. 
Boyl them together til the watry part of 
the Mucilage be consumed, then add 
Wax half a pound. 
Rozin three ounces. 
Turpentine an ounce. 
Boyl them to the consistance of an 
Oyntment.
But let the Mucilage be prepared of a 
pound of fresh Roots bruised, and half a 
pound of each of the seeds steeped, and 
boyled in eight pound of spring water, 
& then pressed out.See the Compound.
Unguentum Dimpompholygos. 
Page 155. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Nightshade 
sixteen ounces. 
White wax, 
Washed Ceruss, of each four drams. 
Lead burnt and washed,  
Pompholix prepared, of each two oun- 
ces.
Pure Frankincense one ounce.  
Bring them into the forme of an Oynt-
ment according to art. 
Culpeper.] This much differing 
from the former, you shall have that 
inserted at the latter end, and then 
you may use which you please. 
Unguentum Enulatum. Page 155. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment of 
Alicampane, 
Colledg.] Take of Alicampane
roots boyled tn Vinegar, bruised 
and pulped, one pound. 
Turpentime washed in their Deco- 
ction, 
New wax, of each two ounces. 
Old Hogs greased salted ten ounces. 
Old oyl four ounces. 
Common Salt one ounce. 
Add the Turpentine to the grease, wax,
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186 OYNTMENTS. 
and oyl, being as also the pulp 
and salt being finely poudered, and so 
make it into an oyntment according to 
art. 
Unguentum Enulatum cum Mercurio. 
Page 156. Latin Or, Oynt- 
ment of Elicampane with 
Quick-silver. 
Colledg.] Is made of the former 
oyntment, by adding two ounces of quick- 
silver, killed by continual stirring, not 
only with spittle, or juyce of Lemons, but 
with al the Turpentine kept for that in- 
tent, and part of the Grease, in a stone 
Morter. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good against al Itch and scabs 
and other deforming eruptions upon 
the Skin, both without and with 
quick-silver. With quick-silver it 
is more effectual, but may bring 
Aches upon the party that shal use it, 
especially being of a weak-timbred 
constitution. 
Unguentum Laurinum commune, Pag. 
156. Or, Oyntment of 
Bayes common. 
Colledg.] Take of Bay leaves brui- 
sed one pound. 
Bayberries bruised half a pound. 
Cabbage leaves four ounces. 
Neats-foot oyl five pound. 
Bullock suet two pound. 
Boyl them together, and strain them,that 
so it may be made into an Oyntment ac-
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] Let the Leaves and Ber- 
ries be bruised and boyled with 
the Oyl and the Suet til the juyce be 
consumed, let it be strained and kept. 
It heats and expels wind, is profita- 
ble for old Aches, and Sprains; but 
what good it should do to the Itch 
(for which simple people buy it) I 
cannot imagin. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is soveraign against cold disea- 
ses of the Brain, Nerves, Joynts, and 
Loyns. It helps weariness, opens 
the pores of the Veins and Venti- 
lates the blood. It is good against 
the Palsie being smeared upon the 
Back-bone and against the shaking 
fit of an Ague, In a word it is of an 
heating, emollient, opening and dis- 
cussing faculty, heals all cold distem- 
pers whether simple (if such there 
be) or with matter as flegm and 
winds, and consequently it is good 
against the colick arising from these 
causes being anointed upon the Bel- 
ly and chased in with an hot hand. 
Unguentum de minio sive rubrum cam- 
phoratum. Page 156. Latin. 
Or, Oyntment of red 
Lead wit h Camphire. 
Colledg. Take of Oyl of Roses one 
pound and an half, 
Red Lead three ounces, 
Litharge two ounces, 
Ceruss one ounce and an half, 
Tutty three drams, 
Camphire two drams, 
Wax one ounce and an half, 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art, with a Pestle and Mortar made of 
Lead. 
Culpeper.] This Oyntment is as 
drying as a man shal usually read of 
one, and withall cooling; therefore 
good for sores, and such as are trou- 
bled with Defluxions. I remember 
once Dr. Alexander Read applied it 
to my Mothers Breast when she had a 
Cancer, before it brake a long time, 
but to as much purpose as though he 
had applied a rotten Apples; yet in 
the foregoing infirmities I beleeve it 
seldom fails. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is exceeding good for ill-condi- 
tioned ulcers that are hardly brought 
to close up under a very long time, 
it being of a cooling, healing, nature, 
and very drying, especially with 
Camphir in it. 
Unguentum è Nicotiona, seu Peto. Pag 
156. Latin. Or, Oyntment of 
Tobacco. 
Colledg.] Take of Tobacco Leaves 
bruised two pound, 
Steep them a whol night in red wine; in 
the morning boyl it in fresh Hogs grease, 
diligently washed, one pound, till the 
wine be consumed, 
Strain it, and add half a pound of 
Juyce of Tobacco, 
Rozin four ounces, 
Boyl it to the consumption of the juyce, 
adding towards the end, round Birth- 
wort roots in pouder, two ounces, new 
Wax as much as is sufficient to make it 
into an Oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper] It would ask a whol  
Summers day to write the particular 
Vertues of this Oyntment, and my 
poor Genius, is too weak to give it 
the hundreth part of its due praise: 
It cures Tumors, Aposthumes, 
Wounds, Ulcers, Gun-shot, Botches, 
Scabs, Itch, stinging with Nettles, 
Bees, Wasps, Hornets, Venemous 
beasts, Wounds made with-poysoned 
Arrows, &c. Tush! this is nothing 
—Paulo Majora canamus. It 
helps Scaldings though made with 
Oyl; Burnings though with Light- 
ning,, and that without any Scar; It 
helps nasty, rotten, stinking, putrifi- 
ed Ulcers, though in the Legs, whe- 
ther the humors are most subject to 
resort; in Fistulaes though the bone 
be afflicted, It shall scale it without 
any insrument, and bring up the flesh 
from the very bottom: Would you 
be fair? your face being anointed 
with this, soon wil the Redness, 
Pimples, and Sunburning vanish 
A Wound dressed with this wil never 
putrifie: a wound made with so smal 
a weapon that no tent wil follow, a-
noint but with this, & you need fear 
no danger: If your Head ake, anoint
your Temples with this,and you shal 
have ease: The Breast being a- 
nointed with it, no infirmity dares 
harbor there, no not Asthmaes, nor 
consumption of the Lungs: The 
Belly being anointed with it, helps 
the Colick and Illiack passion, the 
Worms, and whatnot! It helps the 
Hemorrhoids or Piles, and is the best 
Oyntment that is for Gouts of all 
sorts: Finally there may be as uni- 
versal a Medicine made for all disea- 
ses, of Tobacco, as of any thing in 
the world, the Philosophers stone ex- 
cepted. O Jouberous! thou shalt 
never want praise for inventing this 
Medicine, by those that use it, so 
long as the Sun and Moon endureth. 
Virtues newly added. 
The many Virtues and rare effects 
of this Oyntment do argue that To- 
bacco, however fantastically abused 
in a riotous manner,, and therefore 
by some cried down, is yet a very 
rare and soveraign plant, as the fra- 
grant and winey smel thereof when 
burnt or otherwise, if good does al- 
so testifie. And if the industrious 
Chymist did but think to try his Art 
upon it, I believe medicaments of 
very great use might be produced 
from this plant for internal Maladies 
otherwise hard to cure. I do therefore
hereby commend it to the considera- 
tion of all our ingenious English men 
that have a dexterity in the noble 
and useful Art of Chymistry, as 
a fit and promising subject to work 
upon. 
Unguentum Nutritum, seu Triphærma- 
cum. Page 156. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Litharge of Gold 
finely poudered, half a pound, 
Vinegar one pound, 
Oyl of roses two pound, 
Grind the Litharge in a Mortar, pow- 
ring to it somtimes Oyl, somtimes Vine- 
gar, till by continual stirring, the Vi- 
negar do no more appear, and it come to 
a whitish Oyntment. 
Culpeper.] It is of a cooling, dry- 
ing nature, good for itching of 
wounds, Itch and Scabs, and such 
like deformities of the Skin, as Tet- 
ters, Ringworms &c. 
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Unguentum Ophthalmicum. Page 157. 
Or, An Oyntment for 
the Eyes. 
Colledg.] Take of Bole Armeniack
washed in Rose water, one ounce. 
Lapis calaminaris washed in Eye- 
bright water, 
Tutty prepared, of each two drams. 
Pearls in very fine pouder half a 
dram. 
Camphire half a scruple, 
Opium five grains, 
Fresh Butter washed in Plantane water, 
as much as is sufficient to make it into an 
oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good to 
stop hot rewms that fall down into 
the eyes, the eyelids being but a- 
nointed with it. 
Unguentum ex Oxylapatho. Page 157. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment of 
sharp-pointed Dock. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of sharp- 
pointed Dock boyled in Vinegar 
untill they be soft, and then pul- 
ped. 
Brimstone washed in juyce of Lem- 
mons, of each one ounce & an half. 
Hogs grease often washed in juyce of 
Scabious, half a pound. 
Unguentum Populeon washed in 
juyce of Alicampane, half an 
ounce.  
Make them into an an Oyntment in a 
Mortar. 
Culpeper.] It is a wholsom though 
a troublesom Medicine for to cure 
Scabs and the Itch. 
Unguentum è Plumbo. Page 257. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment 
of Lead. 
Colledg.] Take of Lead burnt accor- 
dingto art, 
Litharge, of each two ounces. 
Ceruss, 
Antimony, of each one ounce. 
Oyl of Roses as much as is suffici-
ent, 
Make it into an oyntment according to 
Art. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a cooling, binding, and 
stopping faculty. It dries very much. 
It fils the cavity of the ulcers, and 
hinders the growth of proud flesh. 
It stops rhewms that fal into the eyes 
keing anointed upon the Temples. 
It is good against Ulcers, Knobs and 
Hemorrhoidal swellings in the fun- 
dament with Oyl of Roses. It is 
good for to bring a scar over an old 
sore.
Unguentum Pomatum. Page 157. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment 
of Apples. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Hogs grease, 
three pound, 
Fresh sheeps Suet nine ounces, 
Pomewaters pared and cut, one pound 
and nine ounces, 
Damask Rose-water six ounces, 
Roots of Orris Florentine grosly brui- 
sed six drams, 
Boyl them in Balneo Mariæ till the 
Apples be soft; then strain it, 
but press it not, and keep it for 
use, 
Then warm it a little again and wash it 
with fresh Rose-water, adding to each 
pound twelve drops of oyl of Lignum 
Rhodium. 
Culpeper.] Its general use is, to 
soften & supple the roughness of the 
skin, and take away the chops of the 
Lips, Hands, Face, or other parts. 
Vertues newly added 
It also whitens and smoothes the 
skin when Sun-burnt and made 
rough with the wind of the North. 
It takes spots from the face, hin- 
ders the scurse of the skin thereof, 
asswages the fierce redness and 
roughness thereof. It is very good 
against burnings if a little oyl of Wa- 
ter-lillies & Ceruss be mingled ther- 
with. Anointed upon the Forehead, 
Temples, Pulses, Stomach, and soles 
of the feet, it causes sweet sleep to 
such whose Bodies are disordered 
with Heat, Labor, and travail.  
Unguentum Potabile. Page 158. Lat. 
Or, the Inward Salve, or Oynt- 
to be taken inwardly. 
Colledg.] Take of Butter without salt, 
a pound and an half,
Sperma ceti, 
Maddir, 
Tormentil roots, 
Castorium, of each half an ounce, 
Boyl them as you ought in a sufficient 
quantity of Wine, till the Wine be con- 
symed, and become an oyntment. 
Vertues newly added. 
This was invented to be taken in- 
wardly, and therefore hath no grease 
or other nauseous material therein. 
It hath been framed to help such as 
have fallen from on high or are o- 
therwise bruised inwardly. The dose 
is half an ounce in younger, six, 
drams or an ounce in elder and stron-  
ger and larger bodies. Give it in 
Muskadine, Sack, or Spruce beer, 
hot, and let the Patient be covered 
close in his bed. 
Unguentum Resinum. Page 158. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Rozin. 
Colledg.] Take of Per-rozin, or Rozin 
of the Pine-tree, 
Of the purest Turpentine, 
Yellow Wax washed, 
Pure Oyl of each equal parts, 
Melt them into an Oyntment according 
to art.
Culpper.] It is as pretty a Cere- 
cloth for a new sprain as most is, and 
cheap. Let it not be despised, for I
have known a Gentlewoman in Sus- 
sex do much good with it. 
Unguentum Rosatum. Page 158. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment
of Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Hogs grease 
clensed a pound, 
Fresh red Roses half a pound, 
Juyce of the same three ounces. 
Make it into an oyntment according to
Art. 
Culpeper.] In their former Dispen- 
satory (which I like best) it was 
thus:  
Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease well 
clensed from the skin a pound. 
Wash it nine times in warm water, then 
as often in cold water, 
Fresh red Roses a pound, 
Mix them together, and so let them 
stand seven daies; then boyl them over 
a gentle fire, and strain out the Roses, 
then mix with the Oyntment the like 
quantity of fresh red Roses, and then let 
them stand together as many daies, then 
strain them out having first boyled them; 
at last add juyce of red Roses six ounces; 
boyl them over a gentle fire till the juyce 
be consumed, then strain it, and make an 
Oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper.] You need do no more 
than let it stand til it is cold, and you 
shal see it is an Oyntment alone 
without any further making. It is 
of a fine cooling nature, exceeding 
useful in all gaulings of the skin, and 
frettings, accompanied with chole- 
rick humors, angry pushes, Tetters, 
Ringworms; it mitigates diseases 
in the head coming of heat, as also 
the intemperate heat of the stomach 
and Liver. 
Desiccativum Rubrum. Page 155. Lat. 
Or, the red Dryer. 
Colledg.] Take of the oyl of Roses om- 
phacine a pound. 
White wax five ounces. 
Which being melted and put in a leæ-
den mortar,
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188 OYNTMENTS. 
Put in Earth of Lemnos or bole Ar- 
menick, 
Lapis calaminaris, of each four oun- 
ces. 
Litharge of Gold,  
Ceruss, of each three ounces. 
Camphir one dram. 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It binds and restrains 
fluxes of Humors, and is as gallant 
an oyntment to skin a sore as any is 
in the Dispensatory. 
Vertues newly added. 
It cools, strengthens, hinders 
the coming in of humors into 
a sore part, and it prevents ill ac- 
cidents (as the Chirurgeons use to 
say) it heals up Wounds and ulcers, 
the rather because it digests consu- 
mes and dries up excrementitious 
moistures. 
Unguentum é Solano. Page 158. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Night- 
shade. 
Colledg.] Take of juyce of Night- 
shade, 
Litharge washed, of each five ounces. 
Ceruss washed eight ounces. 
White wax seven ounces. 
Frankincense in pouder ten drams. 
Oyl of Roses often washed in water 
two pound. 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Culpeper. It was invented to take 
away inflamations from wounds, and 
to keep people from scratching of 
them when they are almost well.
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a very cooling nature and 
and drying. It is good for St. An- 
thonies fire so called. It is good a- 
gainst Head-ach proceeding from an 
hot cause, being, anointed upon the 
Forehead, Temples, Pulses and soles 
of the Feet. Also it is good to pro- 
cure sleep, anointed as aforesaid. 
It allaies the motions of carnal lust, 
being smeared upon the Cods and 
the Reins of the back, and hinders 
nocturnal pollutions. 
Unguentum Tutiæ. Page. 158. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Tutty. 
Colledg.] Take of Tutty prepared, 
two ounces, 
Lapis Calaminaris often burnt and 
quenched an ounce, 
Make them being finely poudered into 
an oyntment with a pound and an half 
of oyntment of Roses. 
Culpeper.] It is a cooling, drying 
Oyntment, appropriated to the eyes, 
dries up hot & salt humors that flow 
down thither, the eye-lids being a- 
nointed with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment being mingled 
with an equal quantity of Diapom- 
pholigos is more effectual to the In- 
tents aforesaid, and the best way to 
use the same, besides anointing the 
corners of the eyes in the day time,is 
to spred a quantity upon two linnen 
cloaths and to lay them over the 
eyes at night when the Patient lyes 
down to sleep. For so it cools the 
inflamed eyes and powerfully drives 
back the Humors which flow into 
them. In the morning let the patient 
wash off the oyntment with white 
Rose-water. 
Ualentia Scabiosæ. Page 159. Latin 
Or, Oyntment of Scabious. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of green 
Scabious pressed out with a screw, 
and framed through a cloth, 
Hogs grease, of each as much as you 
will. 
Beat the hogs grease in a stone mortar, 
(not grind it) putting in the juyce by de- 
grees for the more commodious mixture 
and tincture: afterwards set it in the sun 
in a convenient vessel, so as the juyce 
may over-top the grease: nine daies be-  
ing passed, power off the discolored juyce, 
and heat it again as before, putting in 
fresh juyce set it in the Sun again five 
daies, which being elapsed,beat it again, 
putting in more juyce; after fifteen daies 
more, do so again; do so five times; af- 
ter which, keep it in a glass, or glazed 
vessell. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Medicament is called Valen- 
tia Scabiosæ, that is to say the effica- 
cy and activity of the herb scabious 
so called, because it can powerfullly 
produce all the effects of that herb, 
as far as concernes external applica- 
tion. It is excellent against all scabs, 
Itch and mangyness. It helps the 
Lungs being stuffed with thick and 
flegmatick excrements being anoin- 
ted upon the region of the Chest. It 
is excellent against pestilential swel- 
lings and carbuncles, which it will 
cure in three or four daies space, with 
a little Camphir mingled therewith 
it is good against Morphews and 
Freckles, Tetters, Ringworms, and 
white Filmes that grow over the 
Eyes. It is good to anoint Ulcers 
proceeding from the venereal Dis- 
ease. The Inventer or first promulga- 
tor at least, of this and the two fol- 
lowing Medicaments was one Mr. 
John Arderne, an experienced Chi- 
rurgeon in the famous old Town of 
Newarke upon Trent, who flourish- 
ed in the year 1370 in the reign of 
Edward the third of that Name, King 
of England. Observe that the Ver- 
tue, of any other excellent Herb, as 
Comfrey, Ladies-mantle, Al-heal, 
St. Johns wort &c. may after the 
same manner be communicated to 
Hogs grease, and so made into an 
Oyntment. 
Tapsivalentia. Page 159, Latin Or, 
and Tapsimel of the same 
Author. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Mul- 
len, 
Hogs grease, of each as much as you 
will. 
Let the grease be clensed and cut in pie- 
ces, and beat it with the juyce, pressed and 
strained, as you did the former oyntment: 
then keep it in a convenient vessel nine 
or ten daies; then beat it twice, once with 
fresh juyce, until it be green, and the se- 
cond time without juyce, powring off what 
is discolored, and keep it for use. 
Tapsimel. Page 159. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Sul- 
lendine and Mulleh, of each one 
part. 
Clarified honey, two parts. 
Boyl them by degrees til the juyce be con- 
sumed, adding (the Physitian prescrib- 
ing) Vitriol burnt, Allum burnt, Ink, 
and boyl it again to an oyntment accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] When you are troubled 
With the Itch, put a little Tapsimel 
up your Fundament, and the itching 
will presenly cease. 
Vertues newly added. 
Tapsivalentia is as much as to say 
the virtue and efficacy of the Herb 
Tapsus barbatus or true Mullein, and 
Tapsimel is the Honey of mullein or 
Tapsus. 
Being applied to hard swellings 
they ease the pain and further the 
Cure. They stop a looseness, especi- 
ally the former being smeared upon 
the Belly, and and melted the quan- 
tity of an ounce or two in a conve- 
nient Clyster, also they ease the 
bloody flux, applied as aforesaid, es- 
pecially the Tapsivalentia. It is al- 
so good against the simple Gonor- 
rhæ smeared upon the Loins and 
Cods. Tapsimel is thought to bring 
down maidens Courses smeared on 
the sols of their Feet. It is good for 
a cough of the Lungs, (I mean the 
tapsimel simple without the addition 
of burnt vitriol, Allum or Ink) be- 
ing licked with a stick of Licorice. 
And the Tapsivalentia is good for 
the same, being smeared upon the 
Chest. The tapsimel simple as afore- 
said is good for the falling sickness 
being frequently licked in a morning 
fasting, and in an evening about four 
a clock afternoon. Tapsivalentia is 
good against the piles being smeared 
upon the place after universal Reme- 
dies. 
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OYNTMENTS 
more compound. 
Unguentum Agrippæ. Page 160. Lat. 
Or, King Agrippa his Oynt- 
ment. 
Colledg. TAke of Briony roots two 
pound. 
Roots of wild Cucummers one pound. 
Squils half a pound. 
Fresh English Orris Roots, three oun- 
ces. 
Roots of male Fern, 
Dwarf Elder, 
Water Caltrops, or Arron, of 
each two ounces. 
Bruise them all being fresh, and steep 
them six or seven daies in four found of 
old oyl, the whitest not rank. 
Then boyl them and press them out, and 
in the oyl melt fifteen ounces of white 
wax, and make it into an oyntment ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth exceeding- 
ly, and is good to anoint the Bellies 
of such as have dropsies; and if there 
be any humor of flegm in any part of 
the body that you know not how to 
remove (provided the part be not 
too tender) you may anoint it with 
this; but yet be not too busie with 
it, for I tel you plainly 'tis not very 
safe. 
Vertues newly added. 
This oyntment hath its name from 
King Agrippa as is conceived, either 
because he was the Inventor, or ra- 
ther because it was invented by his 
Physitians for his use, and proveing 
effectual, merited to be renowned by 
his Name. 
It is good for watry Tumors and 
loose heaveings of the skin and ex- 
ternal parts, and against cramps of 
the Nerves, for such as are pained in 
their kidneys. Being anointed upon 
the Belly it causes a stool, allaies the 
Strangury, helps the Spleen, and 
pains of the belly, being anointed u- 
pon the Region of the respective 
parts. 
Unguentum de Alabastro. Page 160. 
Latin Or, Oyntment of 
Alabaster. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Chamo- 
mel four ounces. 
Juyce of red Roses, 
Marsh-mallow Roots of each two 
ounces.
Juyce of Rue, and  
Bettony, of each an ounce and an 
half.
Oyl of Roses omphacine, a pound 
and half. 
Alabaster in very fine pouder three 
ounces. 
Mix them, and let them alone till the 
next day; then boyl them til the juyce be 
consumed, then with six ounces of white 	
wax, make it into an Oyntment according 
to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment is good for all 
sorts of Head-ach, whether arising 
from some primary disorder of the 
Head, or by consent with some other 
part, with and without a Feaver, at 
al times of the diseases save only the 
Beginning. Anoint it upon the fore- 
head, Temples, in the nostrils, upon 
the pulses, sols of the Feet and the 
Testicles. It is also good to asswage 
pain in any other part of the Bo- 
dy.
Unguentum Amarum. Page 160. 
Lat. Or, the bitter Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Rue, 
Savin, 
Mints, 
Wormwood, 
Bitter Almonds, of each one ounce 
and an half. 
Juyce of Peach flowers and leaves, 
Wormwood, of each half an ounce, 
Pouder of Rue, 
Mints, 
Centaury the less,
Gentian, 
Tormentil, of each one dram. 
Seeds of Coleworts, 
Pulp of colocynthis, of each two 
drams.
Aloes Hepatick, three drams. 
Meal of Lupines half an ounce. 
Mirrh washed in grass water a dram 
and an half. 
Bulls gall an ounce and an half. 
With a sufficient quantity of juyce of 
Lemons, and an ounce and an half of  
wax, make it into an Oyntment accor- 
ding to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This oyntment was childishly ter- 
med the bitter oyntment, since nei- 
ther this nor other oyntments are in- 
tended to be eaten and al are alike 
sweet to the skin and outward parts 
of the Body. 
It is of a heating, drying, purge- 
ing nature, and the simples agree ve- 
ry exceeding wel together, though 
Culpeper wanted intellectual specta- 
cles to see their agreement. It is ve- 
ry effectual to kill and drive out 
worms being anointed upon the bel- 
ly and stomach. Also it purges wa- 
ter out of the Belly, opens obstructi- 
ons of the Liver and Spleen, moves 
urine, brings away the dead child a- 
nointed on the region of the Womb, 
and brings down the stopped Cour- 
ses. 
Unguentum Apostolorum. Page 161.  
Latin Or, Oyntment of 
The Apostles. 
Colledg.] Take of Turpentine, 
Yellow wax, 
Rozin, 
Ammoniacum, of each fourteen 
drams. 
Long Birthwort roots, 
Olibanum, 
Bdellium, of each half an ounce, 
Mirrh, 
Galbanum, of each half an ounce. 
Opopanax,
Vert-de-greece, of each two drams. 
Litharge nine drams, 
Oyl two pound. 
Vinegar enough to dissolve the gums, 
Make it into an Oyntment according to
art. 
Culpeper.] It consumes corrupt 
and dead flesh, and makes flesh soft 
which is hard; it clenseth wounds, 
ulcers, and fistulaes, and restores flesh 
where it is wanting. 
Vertues, newly added. 
This Oyntment being acknow- 
ledged to be of the Invention of A-
vicenna the Arabian Physitian and 
Prince; is called the Apostles oynt- 
ment because of the twelve ingredi- 
ents, as if the Apostles had consulted 
to make a rare oyntment and every 
one had put in his Ingredient. In a 
like sense the Symbolum Apostolorum, 
Apostles Club or Creed so called, 
hath had its Name as if the twelve 
Apostles had every one brought an 
Article and so clubbed to the com- 
position of that creed, or descripsiti- 
on of a Christians faith, whereas the 
Apostles were no more I conceive 
Authors of that creed then of this 
Oyntment. But the Excellency of 
the one and other may justly merit 
such an Appellation as, great Moun- 
tains in the old Testament and great 
cedars are called cedars of God and 
Mountains of God by the holy pen- 
men, without any imputation of blas- 
phemy or undecency, but rather with 
all honourable acknowledgment of 
the greatness of God. So to call this 
the Oyntment of the Apostles, and a- 
nother medicament cordial, Manus 
Christi, favours more of honour and 
adoration of Christ and his worthy 
Messengers, then otherwise. And he 
that called an approved excellent
Plaister Gratia Dei, the grace of 
God, did thereby piously and thank- 
fully acknowledg that the virtue of 
that Plaister as of al other things did 
spring from God, and that it was of 
his meet grace and favour to aid the 
Invention and Application thereof 
with his Blessing. Likewise he that 
finding the soveraigne refreshment 
and comfort of wood sorrel in a burn- 
ing Feaver, called it Hallelu-jah, 
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190 OYNTMENTS. 
Praise the Æternal, was a pious per- 
son, and exceedingly to be commen- 
ded, which I speak to shew the Im- 
pertinency of Mr. Culpepers quarrel- 
ling with these Names. He might as 
wel quarrel with the famous Patri- 
arch Jacob for anointing a stone and 
calling it the house of God, and for 
building an Altar and calling it El- 
Elohe-Israel, God the God of Israel. 
This oyntment hath bin frequent- 
ly used against wounds, ulcers hard 
to cure, fistulons ulcers that run hol- 
low and sloapeing with turnings and 
windings; it helps foul and fillthy 
ulcers, purges, dries and clenses them, 
it eates out the putrefaction and re- 
stores the flesh, it softens hardness, 
and cures stripes. 
Unguentum Aregon. Page 161. Lat. 
Or, the Helpful Oynt- 
ment. 
Colledg.] Take of Rosemary, 
Marjoram, 
Mother of Time, 
Rue, 
Roots of Aron, 
Wild Cucumers, of each four ounces 
and an half. 
Leaves of Bay, 
Sage, 
Savin, 
Briony roots, of each three ounces, 
Fleabane, 
Laurel, of each nine ounces. 
Leaves of wild cucumers, 
Nep, of each half a pound. 
Let all of them, being gathered in May, 
clensed and bruised, be steeped seven 
daies in six pound of Sallet Oyl, and a 
pound of spirit of Wine, boyl them gent- 
ly till the spirit be consumed, then strain 
the Oyl, in which melt 
Wax sixteen ounces, 
Bears grease, 
Oyl of Bays, of each three ounces. 
Moschelæum half an ounce. 
Peter oyl an ounce. 
Butter four ounces. 
Stir them, and put in these following 
things in pouder 
Mastich, 
Olibanum, of each seven drams. 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Euphorbium, 
Ginger, 
Pepper, of each an ounce. 
Make them into an Oyntment according 
to art.
Culpeper.] It mightily digesteth 
and maketh thin, and that not with- 
out some purging quality, and is ve- 
ry commodious against cold afflicti- 
ons of the Body, but especially of the 
sinews, convulsions, falling-sickness 
pains of the joynts, and great guts.
Virtues newly added. 
It is called the helpful Oyntment.  
from its manyfold uses and good e-
ffects. It is one of the four hot oynt- 
ments so called by way of eminency. 
It helps al cold diseases of the Body, 
as Palsies, Convulsions, Cramps, 
Stifness of the whol body, distention 
of the Nerves or sinewes; being a- 
nointed upon the seams of the Head, 
the nape of the Neck, the whol back- 
bone, and especially upon the ori- 
ginal of the Nerves that serve to 
move the part affected, also it may be 
smeared upon the affected part. If 
a quantity be melted and mingled 
with rectified spirit of Wine and so 
chased in before a fire of oak chips 
it wil be more effectual. It helps the 
pains of the back-bone and kidneys, 
as also the pains of the colick, being 
smeared upon the Belly. It is also good 
against all pains of the stomach and 
belly whatsoever, and against cold 
diseases of the womb. It helps quar- 
tan Agues anointed upon the Back- 
bone and pulses, half an hour before 
the expected Fit. It is also good to 
abate the shakeing fits of tertian A- 
gues anointed as beforesaid. It helps 
the falling sickness, seasonably admi- 
nistred, being smeared upon the head 
the Nape of the Neck, and the back- 
bone. It is also good against pains 
of the Joynts; and it is frequently 
used to anoint the scabs which arise 
from the venereal Disease.
Unguentum de Artanita. Page 162. 
Latin Or, Oyntment of 
Sow-bread. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Sow- 
bread, or for want of it, 
Strong Decoction of the roots, three 
pound. 
Juyce of wild Cucumers, 
Heifers butter, of each a pound. 
Oyl of orris two pound. 
Pulp of coloquintida four ounces. 
Polypodium six ounces. 
Euphorbium half an ounce. 
The things to be bruised being bruised, 
let them be steeped in a glazed Vessell 
close shut eight daies, afterwards boyled 
in a double veffel till the Juyce be almost 
consumed, then press it out and dissolve 
in the liquor 
Yellow wax five ounces, 
Whilst it is warm mix with it 
Sagapen dissolved in Vinegar, 
Bulls gall boyled in a bath to the 
thickness of honey, of each an 
ounce. 
Then put in these things following in 
pouder. 
Scammony, 
Turbith,
Coloquintida, 
Berries or leaves of Mezereon, 
Aloes, of each seven drams. 
Sal. gem half an ounce. 
Euphorbium, 
Long Pepper, 
Mirrh, 
Ginger, 
Chamomel Flowers, of each three 
drams. 
Make them into an Oyntment according 
to art. 
Culpper.] The Stomach being a- 
nointed with it, it purgeth by vomit, 
the Belly anointed with it, it purgeth 
by stool: The truth is, it is a despe- 
rate kind of purge, yet I hold it as 
fitting as can be to anoint the bellies 
of such as have Dropsies, because I 
conceive it especially purgeth water, 
and the water in Dropsies lies neer 
the skin. 
Vertues newly added. 
This was invented to accomodate 
such as through niceness or weak- 
ness are not able to take purgatives 
by the mouth. It is reported to help 
such as have the Dropsie, very much, 
being anointed upon their Bellies 
below the Navel, because it plenti- 
fully purges out the wheyish Excre- 
ment which causes that disease also it 
kils worms and drives them forth. 
If you would thereby cause Vomit- 
ing, anoint it from the Navel up- 
wards as far as to the pit of the Sto- 
mach. 
Unguentum Catapsoras Page 162. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment against the 
Maunge and Scabs.
Colledg.] Take of Ceruss washed in 
Purslain water, then in vinegar 
wherein wild Radish roots have 
been steeped and pressed out, 
Lapis Calaminaris, 
Chalcitis, of each six drams. 
Burnt Lead,  
Goats blood, of each half an ounce. 
Quick-silver sublimated an ounce. 
Juyce of Housleek, 
Nightshade, 
Plantane, of each two ounces. 
Hogs grease clensed three pound, 
Oyl of Violets, 
Poppies, 
Mandrakes, of each an ounce. 
First let the Sublimate and Exungia, then 
the Oyls, Juyces, and Pouders, 
be mixed, and 
So made into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Vertues newly added 
It is effectual against all Scabs, 
Maunginess, and such like deformi- 
ties of the Skin, being anointed 
thereupon. It wil qualifie a fierce 
pimpled and rubied face. 
It wil stop the Gonorrhæa anoin- 
ted upon the Back, where the Kid- 
neys are quartered, and upon the Te-
sticles, and asswage bodily lust and 
carnal desires. Yet there is some 
danger therein, in regard of the 
Quick-silver And therefore it must not 
be anointed rashly on the back-bone, 
whence the Nerves are derived. 
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191 OYNTMENTS. 
Unguentum Citrinum. Page 163. Lat. 
Or, The Citron Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of Borax an ounce. 
Camphir a dram. 
White Coral half an ounce.
Allum Plume an ounce. 
Umbilicus Marinus, Tragacanth, 
White Starch, of each three drams. 
Christal, 
Dentalis, 
Etalis, 
Olibanum, 
Niter,
White Marble, of each two drams. 
Gersa Serpentaria an ounce. 
Ceruss six ounces. 
Hogs grease not salted, a pound and 
an half. 
Goats-suet prepared, an ounce and an 
half.
Hens fat two ounces and an half. 
Pouder the things as you ought to do 
both together, and by themselves, melt 
the fats being clensed in a stone vessell, 
and steep in them two Citrons of a mean 
bigness cut in bits, in a warm bath. After 
a whol week strain it, and put in the pou- 
ders by degrees, amongst which let the 
Camphir and Borax be the last, stir them 
and bring them into the form of an 
Oynment 
Culpeper.] It takes away pimples, 
redness, freckles, and other deformi- 
ties of the Face, scabs in any part of 
the body; it takes away the redness 
of the Eyes, and makes a rough skin 
smooth. 
Anoint a freckled Face either with 
the blood of a Bull or of a Hart, it 
wil put away the Freckles, and make 
the skin cleer. 
Unguentum Comitissœ. Page 163. Lat. 
Or, The Countesses Oynt- 
ment. 
Colledg.] Take of the middle bark of
Acorns,
Chestnuts, 
Oaks, 
Beans, 
Berries of Mirtles, 
Horstail, 
Galls,
Grape stones, 
Unripe Services and Medlars dried, 
Leaves of Sloe-tree,
Roots of Bistort, 
Tormentil, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Bruise them grosly, and boyl them in ten 
pound of Plantane water til half be con- 
sumed, then take 
New yellow Wax eight ounces and an 
half. 
Oyl of Mirtles simple two pound and 
an half. 
Melt them and wash them nine times 
in the aforesaid Decoction,
Being washed and melted put in 
these following pouders 
Middle bark of Acorns, 
Chestnuts, 
Oak. 
Galls, 
Juyce of Hypocistis, 
Ashes of the bone of an Ox Leg, 
Mirtle berries, 
Unripe Grape stones, 
Unripe Services, of each half an 
ounce.
Troches of Amber two ounces. 
With Oyl of Mastich so much as is suf- 
ficient, 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It seems in my Eyes a 
gallant binding Oyntment, compo- 
sed neatly by a judicious brain. The 
belly and Reins being anointed with 
it, it staies Abortion or Miscarriage 
in Women though already begun; it 
strengthens weak backs exceedingly, 
and stops the immoderate flowing of 
the Terms and Hemorrhoids, and fal- 
ling out of the Fundament and 
womb: Finally, for every occasion 
that requires binding, I would if I 
were Eloquent, commend it in the 
Superlative degree. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment was invented for 
the use of a Countess to the Intents 
aforesaid, and thence it had its name. 
Unguentum Martiatum. Page 164. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Bay leaves 
three pound. 
Garden Rue two pound and an half. 
Marjoram two pound. 
Mints a pound. 
Sage, 
Wormwood, 
Costmary, 
Bazil, of each half a pound. 
Sallet oyl twenty pound. 
Yellow wax four pound. 
Mallego wine two pound. 
Of all of them being bruised, boyled, and 
pressed out as they ought, make an oynt- 
ment according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is a great strengthe- 
ner of the head, it being anointed 
with it; as also of all the parts of 
the body, especially the Nerves, mus- 
cles, and arteries. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for all cold diseases of 
the body and parts thereof, for cold 
distempers of the Head, to cure pains 
of the Chest, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, 
arising from cold humors. It helps 
Convulsions, Palsies, tremblings of 
the hands, the Sciatica or Hip-gout, 
it softens all hard Tumors, especially 
those of the Spleen. It is a tried 
medicament for splenatick and hy- 
dropical persons. It takes away 
black and blew spots upon the skin 
arising from blows. It discusses col-
swellings of the Nerves and Joynts, 
and asswages their pains. It must be 
anointed upon, and chased into the 
respective parts, in the Sun or before 
the fire. 
Uuguentum Mastichinum. Page 164. 
Latin. Or, An Oyntmeut 
of Mastich. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Mastich, 
Wormwood, and 
Nard, of each an ounce. 
Mastich, 
Mints, 
Red Roses, 
Red Coral, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Squinanth, of each one dram. 
Wax as much as is suffcient to make it 
into an oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper.] This is like the former, 
and not a whit inferior to it; it 
strengthens the stomach being a- 
nointed with it, restores appetite and 
digestion. 
Vertues newly added. 
Anointed upon the belly it is good 
against Loosnesses and Dysenteries. 
Smeared upon the Reins it helps to 
stop the Gonorrhæa, and overplenti- 
ful pissing. Anointed upon the sto- 
mach it staies Vomitings. It reme- 
dies the thinness, Indigestion, and 
unfruitfulness of the seed, being 
smeared upon the Cods. Anointed 
upon the seams of the Head and nape, 
of the Neck, it stops defluxions of 
Rhewm, Strengthens the memory 
and other internal senses. And it 
strengthens the whol body being a- 
nointed upon the whol back-bone 
from the neck to the crupper. 
Unguentum Nepolitanum. Page 165. 
Latin. Or, The Oyntment a- 
gainst the Neapolitan or 
Venereal Pox. 
Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease wash-
ed in juyce of Sage a pound, 
Quick-silver strained through Lea- 
ther, killed with spittle, four oun-
ces, 
Oyl of Bays, 
Chamomel and 
Earthworms, of each two ounces. 
Spirit of Wine an ounce, 
Yellow Wax two ounces. 
Turpentine washed in juyce of Eli- 
campane three ounces, 
Pouder of Chamepytis and 
Sage, of each two drams. 
Make them into an oyntment according 
to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
The use of this Oyntment, is to a- 
noint

192 OYNTMENTS. 
noint the bodies of Persons infected 
with the Venereal disease, to cause 
that kind of evacuation which is 
known by the name of fluxing. But 
it is not to be used without necessity, 
and after the body has been first well 
purged. A true Artist will cure this 
disease timely taken, without fluxing 
which is a dangerous Practice, under 
which the patients somtimes perish, 
and which at the best leaves the bo- 
dy extreamly disordered and cache- 
ctical: though Empericks and Em- 
perical Surgeons do hand over head, 
use the same to make quick work, 
and by abating the symptomes, to 
perswade the Patient that the disease 
is cured, minding more their own 
gain then the real good of the poor 
Patient, the Remedy many times 
proving as bad as the Disease. 
Unguemum Nervinum. Page 165. 
Latin. The Nerve or Sinew- 
Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of Cowslips with the 
flowers,
Sage, 
Chamepytis, 
Rosemary, 
Lavender, 
Bay with the berries, 
Chamomel, 
Rue, 
Smallage, 
Mellilot with the flowers, 
Wormwood of each a handful. 
Mints, 
Betony, 
Peniroyal, 
Parsley, 
Centaury the less, 
St. Johns wort, of each half a hand- 
ful. 
Oyl of Sheeps or Bullocks feet, five 
pound. 
Oyl of Spike half an ounce, 
Sheeps or Bullocks suet, or the Mar- 
row of either, two pound, 
The herbs being bruised and boyled with 
the Oyl and Suet, make it into an Oynt- 
ment according to art. 
Cupleper.] It is appropriated to 
the Nerves, and helps their Infirmi- 
ties coming of cold (which you may 
find often enough related, I do not 
love alwaies to harp upon the same 
string) as also old bruises; make 
use of it in dead palsies, chilliness or 
coldness of particular members, such 
as the Arteries perform not their of- 
fice to as they ought; for wind a- 
noint your belly with it; for want 
of digestion, your stomach; for the 
colick, your belly; for whatever dis- 
ease in any part of the body comes 
of cold, esteem of this as a Jewel, 
and you shal give me thanks for de- 
claring it, after you have been thank- 
ful to God for raising me up to that 
end. 
Vertues newly added. 
To strengthen the Nerves and 
Joynts anoint it upon the seames or 
futures of the Head, upon the nape 
of the Neck and all along the Back- 
bone, upon the stomach and soles of 
the feet. It is also good for cold 
diseases of the Liver, Spleen and 
Womb, anointed upon the respective 
regions of those parts. Anointed 
upon the Kidneys it wil more Urine 
and strengthen the Back. 
Unguentum Pectorale, Page 165. 
Latin. The Pectoral or Breast- 
Oyntment. 
Colledg. Take of fresh Butter washed 
in Violet Water six ounces, 
Oyl of sweet Almonds four ounces, 
Oyl of Chamomel and Violets, 
White wax of each three ounces. 
Hens and Ducks grease, of each two 
ounces. 
Orris roots two drams. 
Saffron half a dram, 
The two last being finely poudered, the 
rest melted and often washed in Barley 
or Hysop water, make an Oyntment of 
them according to art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Breast
and Stomach, easeth the pains there- 
of, helps Pleurisies and Consumpti- 
ons of the Lungs, the breast being a- 
nointed with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
It wil asswage the pains of any part 
of the body, as wel as of the breast. 
It is good also in clysters against the 
Dysentery or bloody flux, and epi- 
demical griping of the guts, which 
common people call the Plague of 
the Guts. 
Unguentum Populneum. Page 166. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment of 
Poplar-buds. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Poplar buds 
one pound and an half, 
Flowers of Violets and 
Navel wort of the wall, of each 
three ounces. 
Fresh Hogs grease three pound, 
All of them being beaten together, in 
May let them stand a while, add 
Tops of Barberries, 
Leaves of black Poppies, 
Mandrake, 
Henbane, 
Nightshade,  
Lettice, 
Housleek great and smal, 
Burs the greater, of each three oun- 
ces. 
Beat them all together, and all of them 
being mixed, after ten daies with a pound 
of Rose water, boyl it til all the superstu- 
ous humidity be consumed; then strain 
it and press it out that it may it be an oynt- 
ment according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good 
in burnings and scaldings, and In- 
flamations; it asswageth the heat of 
the head and Kidneys; the temples 
being anointed with it. It provokes 
sleep. 
Vertues newly added. 
Mingled with Oyl of Roses, or Vi- 
olets, or both, it is good in Fevers to
asswage the burning heat, being a- 
nointed upon the Back-bone, the 
Pulses, Temples and soles, of the 
feet. It stops the Gonorrhæa anoin- 
ted upon the Back, Share, and Cods. 
Unguentum Resumptivum. Page 166. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease three 
ounces 
Grease of Hens, 
Geese and 
Ducks, of each two ounces. 
Oesipus half an ounce, 
Oyl of Violets, 
Chamomel, and 
Dill of each two ounces. 
Fresh Butter a pound, 
White Wax six ounces, 
Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, 
Arabick, 
Quince seeds, 
Linseeds, 
Marshmallow roots, of each half an 
ounce. 
Let the Mucilages be made in Rose-wa- 
ter, and adding the rest, make it into an 
oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper.] It mightily mollifies 
without any manifest heat, and is 
therefore a fit Oyntment for such as 
have Agues, Asthmaes, Hectick Fea- 
vers, or Consumptions. It is a gal- 
lant Oyntment to ease pains coming 
by inflammations of wounds or A- 
posthumes, especially such as driness 
accompanies, an infirmity wounded 
people are many times troubled 
with. In inward Aposthumes (as 
Pleurisies is one of them) to anoint 
the external region of the part, is ve- 
ry beneficial.
Unguentum Splanchnicum. Page 166. 
Latin. Or, the Oyntment for 
the Liver and Spleen. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of cappars an 
ounce, 
Oyl of white Lillies, 
Chamomel, 
Fresh Butter, 
Juyce of Briony and Sowbread, of 
each half an ounce. 
Boyl it to the consumption of the juyce, ad 
Ammononiacum dissolved in Vinegar, 
two drams and half. 
Hens grease, 
Oesypus, 
Marrow of a Calfs Leg, of each half 
an ounce. 
pouder

193 OYNTMENTS. 
Pouder of the bark of the Roots of Ta- 
maris and Cappars, 
Fern roots, 
Cetrach, of each a dram. 
Seeds of Agnus castus, 
Broom, of each a scruple. 
With a sufficient quantity of wax. 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Oyntments open obstructi- 
ons of the Liver and Spleen, dry up 
superfluous Humors, and are good 
for to anoint the sides of Children 
that thrive not, and which have the 
Rickets. 
Unguentum Splanchnicum Magistrale. 
Page 167. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of capper 
Roots six drams. 
Briony Roots, 
Orris Florentine, 
Pouder of sweet Fennel seed, 
Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar, 
of each half an ounce. 
Tops of wormwood, 
Chamomel flowers, of each a dram. 
Oyntment of the juyce and of flowers 
of Orrenges, of each six drams. 
Oyl of Orris and Cappars, of each an 
ounce and an half. 
The things which ought being poudered 
and sifted; the rest diligently mixed in 
a hot morter 
Make it into an oyntment according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] There are some that 
cannot abide Oyntments, yet can ea- 
sily bear Plaisters: therefore when 
occasion is given, you may make up 
the Oyntment in forme of a Plaister, 
by adding a little Wax, Ship-pitch, 
Cyperus, Turpentine. Both these,
Oyntments are appropriated to the 
spleen, and ease the pains thereof, the 
sides being anointed with them. I 
fancy not the former. 
Unguentum é Succis. Page 167. Lat.
Or, Oyntment of Juyces. 
Colledg.] Take of juyce of Dwarf-el-
der eight ounces,
Smallage and Parslly, each of four
ounces.
Wormwood and Orris, of each five
ounces.
Common oyl half a pound.
Oyl of white Lillies ten ounces.
Wormwood,
Chamomel, of each six ounces.
Fat of Ducks, and
Hens, of each two ounces.
Boyl them together with a gentle fire til
the juyces be consumed, then strain
it, and with,
White wax, seven ounces.
And a little white Vinegar.
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
See Unguentum ex Succis
Aperitivis.
Vertues newly added. 
This oyntment also opens obstru- 
ctions of the Liver and spleen. It is 
good against the Dropsie and Cache- 
xy, anointed upon the region of the 
Liver and Spleen, and the Reins of 
the Back. 
Unguentum Sumach. Pags 168. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Sumach. 
Colledg.] Take of Sumach, 
Unripe Galls, 
Mirtle berries, 
Balaustines, 
Pomegranate pills, 
Acorn cups, 
Cypress nuts, 
Acacia, 
Mastich, of each ten drams. 
White wax five ounces. 
Oyl of Roses often washed in Allum 
water, a pound and ten ounces. 
Make a fine pouder of the things you 
can, and steep them four whol daies in 
juyce of Medlars and unripe Services, 
of each a sufficient quantity, then dry 
them by a gentle fire, and with Oyl and 
Wax boyl it into an Oyntment. 
Culpeper.] It is a gallant drying 
and binding Oyntment, my former 
Rules will shew you what it’s good 
for, be studious, be studious: Besides, 
the stomach anointed with it, staies 
Vomiting, and the belly anointed 
with it staies Loosness: If the Fun- 
dament fal out, when you have put 
it up again anoint it with this oynt- 
ment, and it wil fal out no more. Do 
the like by the womb if that fal out. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment hath its Name 
from a principal Ingredient being of 
a binding, drying Nature. It is good 
to stop the courses being anointed u- 
pon the region of the Womb, and it 
hinders defluxions from the Head a- 
nointed upon the Sutures the Fore- 
head and Temples, and it stops the 
tooth-ach used in the same manner. 
It is good to anoint upon Ruptures. 
OYNTMENTS 
left out in this 
Dispensatory. 
Oyntment of Marsh-mallows, com- 
pound. 
Colledg. TAke of Marsh-mallow 
Roots two pound. 
Seeds of Flax and
Fœnugreek, of each one pound. 
Pulp of Squils half a pound. 
Oyl four pound. 
Wax one pound. 
Turpentine,
Gum of Ivy, 
Galbanum, of each two ounces. 
Colophonia, 
Rozin, of each half a pound, 
Let the Roots be well washed and brui- 
sed, as also the Linseed, Fœnugreek seed, 
and Squils; then steep them three daies 
in eight pints of water, the fourth day 
boyl them a little upon the fire, and draw 
out the Mucilage, of which take two 
pound, and boyl it with the Oyl to the 
consumption of the juyce: afterwards ad 
the Wax, Rozin, and Colophonia: when 
they are melted, add the Turpentine, af- 
wards the Galbanum and Gum of Ivy, 
dissolved in Vinegar: boyl them a little, 
and having removed them from the fire, 
stir them till they are cold, that so they 
may be well incorporated. 
Culpeper.] They both (viz. this 
and the former) heat and moisten : 
the latter helps pains of the breasts 
coming of cold, and Pleurisies, old 
aches, and stitches, and softens hard 
Swellings. 
Venues newly added. 
This Oyntment is of much use to 
soften, heat and moisten. It cures 
pains of the Breast arising from cold, 
and is excellent good against al pains 
in the sides. By it self or mixed with 
butter it softens the hardness of the 
Liver and Spleen, and discusses win- 
dy swellings of the stomach. It is 
good against hardness and weakness 
of the Nerves, and sodders them to- 
gether when they are cut in sunder. 
It closes wounds. It helps palsied 
Members and all parts over cooled, 
especially the bladder; being anoin- 
ted before the fire. It stops the shake- 
ing fits of Agues anointed upon the 
back-bone half an hour before the 
time of the expected Fit. It softens, 
lenisies, is of a concoctive, cutting and 
digestive Faculty.  
Unguentum Diapompholigos. Or, 
Oyntment of Pompholix, 
Colledg.] Take of oyl of Roses sixteen 
ounces. 
Juyce of Nightshade six ounces. 
Let them boyl to the consumption of the 
juyce, then add 
White wax five ounces. 
Ceruss washed two ounces. 
Lead burnt and washed, 
Pompholix prepared, 
Pure Frankincense, of each an ounce. 
Let them be brought into a form of an 
oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper] It cools and binds, dries, 
and staies fluxes, either of blood or 
humors in wounds, and fills hollow 
ulcers with flesh. 
Aaa Vertues

194 OYNTMENTS. 
Virtues newly added. 
This oyntment hath its name from 
a certain Excrement of Brass produ- 
ced in the melting thereof, which is 
called in Greek Pompholix, and in 
Latin because of its lightness nihil, as 
if you would say a thing of nought or 
of no Substance. 
This I formerly commended to be 
used in sore Eyes mixed with Oynt- 
ment of Tutty. It hath an excellent 
faculty in the Cure of ulcers, for it 
mitigates their Heat, dries up their 
moisture, tames their cancerous ma- 
lignity, asswages their pain, fills their 
cavities with flesh and brings them 
to a scar, but it is principally good 
for ulcers of the Legs and Shinns. It 
is good to apply to stop the violent 
Flux of the Hæmorrhoids, and a- 
nointed upon the Reins of the Back 
it wil help the simple Gonorrhæa, 
and asswage the white Flux of Wo- 
men. Smeared upon the Temples 
and forehead it stops defluxions of 
Rheume into the teeth, and asswages 
paine of the Head and tooth-ach, 
and enclines the restless Patient to 
sleep. 
Unguentum Refrigerans Galeni. Latin. 
Or, Galen his cooling Oynt- 
ment. 
Colledg.] Take of white Wax four oun- 
ces. 
Oyl of Roses omphacine one pound. 
Melt them in a double vessel, then powr 
it out into another, by degrees putting in 
cold water, and often powring it out of 
one vessel into another, stirring it till it 
be white: last of all wash it in Rose wa- 
ter, adding a little Rose water, and Rose 
vinegar. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling 
thing, and exceeding good, yea, su- 
perexcellent to cure inflamations in 
wounds or Tumors. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an excellent oyntment of 
Galen his Invention, being approved 
by long experience though it consist 
but of two ingredients. And to o- 
ther intents and purposes oyntments  
might be made, and other Medica- 
ments as effectual of two or three in- 
gredients, as of threescore, but that 
the Invention and Memory of Physi-  
tians out runs their Judgment, mu- 
stering upon al occasions so many 
simples, that they know not which to 
choose or leave, and so to be sure to 
hit the mark and knock the naile on 
the Head they put in al according to 
the Method of cooks and women in 
their Kitchin compositions, into 
which a little of every thing that is 
thought good, must needs be put. 
Besides the uses specified, this me-  
dicament is good in al cases where  
there is need of cooleing and moiste-  
ning. It is good to anoint upon the 
breast, pulses, forehead, and temples of 
persons in an hectick Feaver, also up- 
on the back-bone. And in Head-ach 
arising from an hot cause, it is good 
anointed as aforesaid. In tooth-ach 
and Coughs arising from hot thin 
and salt Rhumes, it is good to anoint 
upon the seams or futures of the head 
upon the Temples, and Jaws, and on 
the nape of the Neck, also in pains of 
the joynts arising from an hot Hu- 
mor. Anointed upon the Kidneys it 
is good to stop the over great flux of 
of urine, and to hinder nocturnall 
Pollutions. 
Unguentum é Succis Aperitivis. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of the Juyces 
of certain opening Herbs. 
Colledg.]. Take of the juyce of Smal- 
lage, 
Endive, 
Mints, 
Wormwood, 
Common Parsly, 
Valerian, of each three ounces. 
Oyl of wormwood and 
Mints, of each half a pound. 
Yellow wax three ounces. 
Mkv them together over a fire, and make 
of them an Oyntment. Sometimes is ad- 
ded also the pouders of Calamus Aro-
maticus, Spicknard, of each one dram, a 
little Oyl of Cappars. 
Culpeper.] It opens stoppages of 
the stomach and spleen, easeth the 
Rickets, the breast and sides being a- 
nointsd with it. 
Venues newly added. 
This was invented to open obstru- 
ctions of the Liver, Spleen, Gal-blad- 
der, urinary Pipes, of the Pores of the 
Skin, and in what place or part soe- 
ver. Consequently it is good artful- 
ly and seasonably applied against all 
Infirmities proceeding from obstru- 
ctions, which are numerous. It is 
good to anoint upon the Region of 
the Liver and Spleen in Dropsies, 
Cachexies, Jaundies yellow and 
black, in the scurvy. Green sickness, 
Melancholy, especially the Hypo- 
chondriacal sort; in Itch and Scabs, 
and al diseases arising from impurity 
of the blood. It is good to smear u- 
pon the hard Bellies and sides of 
young Children that do not thrive 
nor grow, but pine away. Anointed 
upon the Kidneys and down the 
Reins, and upon the share it brings 
away urine, and smeared upon the 
Belly from the Navel downwards it 
helps the Courses. 
Unguentum Martiatum. 
Colledg.] Take of the leaves of Bay 
and Rosemary, of each eight oun- 
ces.
Rue seven ounces.
Tamarisk six ounces. 
Leaves of Dwarfe Elder, 
Marjoram, 
Savin, 
Costmary, or else Water-mins, 
Sage, 
Bazil, 
Poley-mountain. 
Calaminth, 
Mugwort, 
Elicampane, 
Betony,  
Brank-Ursine, 
Goose grease or Cleavers, 
Anemone or Windflower, or for wans 
of it. Pellitroy of the Wall, 
Burnet, 
Agrimony, 
Wormwood, 
Cowslips. 
Garden Costus, 
Elders, 
Orphine the greater, 
Housleek the greater and lesser. 
Yarrow, 
Germander, 
Centaury the less, 
Plantane, 
Strawberries, 
a Tetrahit [a called also Syderites, 
and Iron-wort, because of its ex- 
cellency to cure wounds.] or for
want of it Golden-rod. 
Cynkfolf, of each four ounces and an 
half. 
Roots of Marsh mallows. 
Seeds of cummin, 
Mirrh, of each three ounces, 
Fœntigreek an ounce and an half. 
Seeds of the great Nettles, of violets, 
Red or erratick Poppies, commonly 
called corn-roses, 
Garden Mints, 
Sorrel, 
Wild Mints, 
Maiden-hair, 
Carduus benedictus, 
Woodbind, or Honey-suckles, 
Valevian the greater, 
Sweet Cranebill, or Moschata. 
Wood sorrel, 
Harts-tongue, 
Ox-eye, 
Southernwood, 
Marrow of a Stage, 
Styrax calamitis, of each half an 
ounce. 
Butter ten drams. 
Bears and Hens grease. 
Mastich, 
Frankincense, of each one ounce. 
Nard Oyl two ounces. 
Wax two pound. 
Let the Herbs being green, be cut, and 
infused in eight pound of Oyl with wine 
for seven daies; on the eight day let them 
be boyled almost to the consumption of 
the wine, then being removed from the 
fire, let it be strained, and the Oyl put in- 
to the pan again, to which (being a lit- 
tle warmed) add the Butter, Marrow, 
Fat, Nard oyl, and Wax: then the Sty- 
rax dissolved in wine and mixed with a 
little Turpentine: but let the Mastich, 
Mastich

195 CERECLOATHS. 
Mastich, Mirrh and Frankincense be- 
ing beaten into pouder be put in last of 
all, and when they are all well mixed to- 
gether, keep the Oyntment in a vessel. 
Culpeper.] This long Receipt of
Nich. Myrepsus, is held to be profita- 
ble against cold afflictions of the 
Brain, Nerves, and Joynts; as sha- 
king Palsie, dead Palsie, Convulsi- 
ons, &c. It helps numbness of the 
joynts, the Gout, and hard Tumors 
of the Spleen.
Venues newly added. 
This takes away black and blew 
spots of the skin arising from stripes. 
It discusses cold swellings of the 
Nerves and Joynts and asswages 
their pains. It is good against all 
cold diseases of the Body, and cold- 
ness of the Head. It helps pains of 
the Breast, Stomach, and Spleen, and 
other parts arising from a cold cause. 
It is good against a Convulsion, Pal- 
sies, and Sciaticaes, and other cold 
Gouts. It takes away hardness and 
swelling, and is chiefly good for an 
hard spleen. It is a tried remedy for 
those that are subject to the Dropsie, 
and Pains or Tumors of the Spleen. 
It must be smeared upon the respe- 
ctive regions of the parts aforesaid. 
An Oynment for the Worms. 
Fœsius.
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Rue,
Savin,
Mints,
Wormwood and 
Bitter Almonds, of each an ounce
and an half.
Juyce of the Flowers of Leaves of
Peaches and
Wormwood, each half an ounce.
Pouder of Rue,
Mints,
Gentian,
Centaury the less,
Tormentil, of each one dram. 
Seeds of Coleworts, 
Pulp of Colocynthis, of each two drams. 
Aloes Hepatick, three drams, 
Meal of Lupines half an ounce, 
Myrrh washed in grass water a dram 
and an half,  
Bulls Gall an ounce and an half, 
With jujce of Lemmons so much as is 
sufficient, and an ounce and an half of 
wax, make it into an Oyntment accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper] The Belly being anoin- 
ted with it kils Worms. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment wil also open ob- 
structions of the Liver and Spleen 
and Gall-bladder, and bring down 
the Urine and Courses, also it is 
good against pains in the Stomach 
and belly anointed thereupon. 
CERECLOATHS. 
Ceratum de Galbano. Page 169. Lat. 
Or, Cerecloath of 
Galbanum. 
Colledg.] TAke  of Galbanum 
prepared, an ounce 
and an half. 
Assafœtida half an ounce, 
Bdellium a dram, 
Mirrh two drams,
Wax two ounces, 
Feaverfew, 
Mugwort, of each half a dram. 
Dissolve the Gums in Vinegar, and 
make it a Cerecloath according to Art. 
Culpeper.] Being applied to the 
Belly of a woman after Labor, it 
clenseth her of any relicts acciden- 
tally left behind, helps the fits of the 
Mother, and other accidents incident 
to women in that case. 
Vertues newly added. 
This being laid to the Stomach or 
Belly wil also kill Worms breeding 
in those parts. It brings down the 
Courses applied to the region of the 
Womb. It helps cold Infirmities,  
Windiness, and stoppings of the Li- 
ver and Spleen applied to their re-
spective Regions And being laid 
all along the Back-bone it prevents 
or lessens the shaking fits of Agues. 
Ceratum Oesypatum. Page 169. Latin. 
Or, The Cerecloath of Ocsypus 
so called.  
Colledg. Take of Oesipus ten ounces, 
Oyl of Chamomel and 
Orris, of each half a pound, 
Yellow Wax two pound, 
Rozin a pound, 
Mastich, 
Ammoniacum, 
Turpentine, of each an ounce. 
Spicknard two drams and an half. 
Saffron a dram and an half, 
Styrax Calamitis half an ounce, 
Make them into a Cerecloth according 
to art.  
Culpeper.] It mollifies and digests 
hard swellings of the Liver, Spleen, 
Womb, Nerves, Joynts, and other 
parts of of the Body, and is a great 
easer of pain. 
A Plaster made of yong swallows, 
being burnt nest and all, doth (be- 
ing applied to the Throat) case the 
squinancy and swelling of the throat. 
You may make it into a Plaster with 
Oyl of Wax. 
Vertues newly added.
This Cerecloath hath its name 
from one of the Ingredients viz. Oe- 
sypum, which is the fatty grease col- 
lected from the wool of sheep, chief- 
ly that which grows about their 
flanks and shoulders, where they 
mostly sweat.  
It is of a mollifying, dissol- 
ving and pain-asswaging facul- 
ty. It digests hard swellings and  
stones in the outward part of the bo- 
dy, and ripens crude. A posthumes, 
Anointed upon the Breast it eases the 
stuffing of the Lungs and shortness of 
breath arising from cold clannny 
flegm nestleing about the Wind-pipe
Ceratum Santalinum. Page 169. 
Latin. Or, Cerecloth 
of Sanders. 
Colledg.] Take of red Sanders ten 
drams, 
White and yellow Sanders, of each six 
drams. 
Red Roses twelve drams, 
Bole Armeneack seven drams, 
Spodium four drams, 
Camphire two drams, 
White Wax washed thirty drams, 
Oyl of Roses omphacine six ounces, 
Make it into, a Cerecloath according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It wonderfully, helps 
hot infirmities of the stomach, liver, 
and other parts, being but applied to 
them. 
Vertues newly added. 
It has its name from the three sorts 
of Sanders whereof it is principally 
composed. It is an excellent medica- 
ment in the cases specified. It as- 
swages all phlegmonous Tumors and 
all hot distempers of the internal 
parts most effectually being applied 
to their respective regions. It is good 
to apply to the Liver, in the yellow 
Jaundise & in such as have inflamed 
Faces, & are troubled with a burning 
heat in the palms of their hands and 
on the soles of their feet after dinner 
and supper and in the night. It is 
good in hectick fevears being appli- 
ed to the region of the Liver and of 
the Chest. In Gonorrhæa’s and 
weakness of the Back arising from 
hot humors, it is profitably applied 
to the reins of the back, as also in 
the pissing disease, when the Patient 
is weakned with continual making 
water. Applied to the whol belly it 
asswages a cholerick Loosness and  
Dysentery. Applied to the region of 
the Womb and the Loyns it checks 
the white flux in women. It also 
prevents nocturnal pollutions being 
worn upon the Reins of the Back.
PLA-

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PLASTERS. 
Culpeper. I Hope no body is so 
simple as to eat 
Plasters. The general way 
of application it to the grieved 
place. You may melt them in 
any earthen dish, and so spread 
them upon a cloth, or white 
Leather. 
A. Plasters are so called 
from sticking, cleaving, and be- 
ing smeared upon Leather or 
cloth, as the Plaster is spred 
upon a wall. 
Emplastrumex Ammoniaco. Pag. 170. 
Latin. Or, The Plaster of 
Gum Ammoniack. 
Colledg.] Take of Ammoniacum, 
Bran well sifted, of each an ounce. 
Oyntment of Marsh-mallows, 
Melilot plaster compound, 
Roots of Betony and 
Orris in pouder, of each half an 
ounce. 
Fat of Ducks 
Geese and  
Hens, of each three drams. 
Bdellium, 
Galbanum of each one dram and an 
half. 
Per-rozin, 
Wax of each five ounces. 
Oyl of Orris, 
Turpentine, of each half an ounce. 
Boyl the Fats and Oyl with Mucilage 
of Lin-seed, and Fenugreek seed, of each 
three ounces, to the consumption of the 
Mucilage, strain it, and add the Wax, 
Rozin, and Turpentine, the Oyntment of 
Marshmallows with the Plaster of Me- 
lilot; when it begins to be cold, put in 
the Ammoniacum, dissolved in Vine- 
gar, then the Bdellium in pouder, with 
the rest of the pouders, and make it into 
a plaster according to art. 
Culpeper] By [Plaster] alwaies 
understand, not a Plaster spread up- 
on a cloth, but a roll made to spread 
such a one withall. 
It softens and asswageth hard swel- 
lings, and scatters the humors offen- 
ding; applied to the side it softents 
the hardness of the spleen, asswageth 
pains thence arising. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaster is of such a softening 
faculty that it is able to dissolve hard 
stony knobs which grow upon the 
joynts of the Fingers and Toes, and 
other parts. Applied to the Hypo- 
chondries it removes stubborn ob- 
structions about the Liver and 
Spleen. Applied to the Kidnies it 
brings down gravel stones and U- 
rine, to which intent it may be ap- 
plied to the region of the bladder. 
It helps down the Courses being laid 
to the region of the Womb. Being 
applied to the breast it opens the ob- 
structions thereof, dissolves clotted 
phlegm, and helps shortness of 
breath. 
Emplastrum è Baccis Lauri. Page 170. 
Latin. Or, The Plaister of 
Bay-berries. 
Colledg.] Take of Bay-berries hus- 
ked. 
Turpentine of each two ounces. 
Frankincense, 
Mastich, 
Myrrh, of each an ounce. 
Cyperus, 
Costus, of each half an ounce. 
Honey warmed and not scummed, four 
ounces, 
Make it into a plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is an excellent Pla- 
ster to ease any pain coming of cold 
or wind in any part of the Body whe- 
ther stomach, liver, belly, reins or 
bladder. It is an excellent remedy 
for the colick and wind in the bo- 
wels. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is also good against the dry Drop- 
sie or flatulent Dropsie being applied 
to the belly. It helps digestion appli- 
ed to the stomach, and prevents the 
Dropsie, applied to to the Liver and 
the Spleen, and cures pains of the 
Loyns or Kidnies applied to that 
part. 
Emplastrum Barbarum Magnum. Pag. 
171. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of dry Pitch eight
pound. 
Yellow wax six pound and eight oun- 
ces. 
Per-rozin five pound and four ounces. 
Bitumen, Judaicum, or Mummy, 
four pound. 
Oyl one pound and an half. 
Vert-de-greece, 
Litharge, 
Ceruss, of each three ounces. 
Frankincense half a pound. 
Roch Allum not burnt, an ounce 
and an half. 
burnt, four ounces. 
Opopanax, 
Scales of brass, 
Galbanum, of each twelve drams. 
Aloes, 
Opium, 
Mirrh, of each half an ounce. 
Turpentine two pound. 
Juyce of Mandrakes, or else dried 
Bark of the Root, six drams. 
Vinegar five pound. 
Let the Litharge, Ceruss, and Oyl, boyl 
to the thickness of Honey, then incorpo- 
rate with them the Pitch, being melted 
with Bitumen in pouder; then add the 
rest, and boyl them according to art, till 
the Vinegar be consumed, and it stick not 
to your hands. 
Culpeper.] It helps the bitings of 
men and beasts, easeth inflamations 
of wounds, and helps infirmities of 
the joynts, and gouts in the begin- 
ning. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good also for hollow old ul- 
cers that have secret turnings and 
windings in them. 
Emplastrum de Betonica. Page 171. 
Lat. Or, The Plaister of Betony. 
Colledg. Take of Betony, 
Burnet, 
Agrimony, 
Sage, 
Penyroyal, 
Yarrow, 
Comfry the greater, 
Clary, of each six drams. 
Frankincense, 
Mastich, of each three drams. 
Orris, 
Round Birthwort of each six drams. 
White wax,
Turpentine, of each eight ounces. 
Per-rozin six ounces. 
Gum Elemi, 
Oyl of Fir, of each two ounces, 
White wine three pound. 
Bruise the Herbs, boyl them in the wine, 
then strain them, and add the rest, and 
make them into a plaister according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It is a gallant Plaister 
to unite the skul when it is cracked, 
to draw out pieces of broken bones, 
and cover the bones with flesh: It
draws filth from the bottom of deep 
ulcers, restores flesh lost, clenseth, di- 
gesteth, and dryeth. 
Emplastrum Cæsaris. Page 171. Lat. 
Or, Cæsar his Plaister. 
Colledg. Take of red Roses one ounce 
and an half. 
Bistort roots, 
Cypres Nuts, 
All the Sanders, 
Mints, 
Coriander seeds, of each three drams
Mastich, half an ounce. 
Hyspocistis, 
Acacia, 
Dragons blood. 
Earth of Lemnos, 
Bole-armenick, 
Red coral, of each two drams. 
Turpentine washed in Plantane wa-
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Oyl of Roses three ounces. 
White wax twelve ounces. 
Per-rozin ten ounces. 
Pitch six ounces. 
Juyce of Plantane, 
Housleek,
Orpine, of each an ounce. 
The Wax, Rozin, and Pitch, being melted 
together, add the Turpentine and Oyl, 
then the Hypocistis and Acacia dissol- 
ved in the juyces; at last the Pouders, 
and make it into a plaister according to 
art.
Culpeper.] It is of a fine, cool, bin- 
ding, strengthening nature, excellent 
good to expell hot Rheums, or Va- 
pors that ascend up to the head, the 
hair being shaved off, and it applied 
to the Crown. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister is good for coughs 
enclineing to a consumption, being 
applied to the futures of the Head 
being shaven. It abates the simple 
Gonorrhæa applied to the Loins and 
Kidneys. It stops the courses over- 
flowing applied to the region of the 
womb. It is also very good against 
ruptures. It strengthens a feeble Li- 
ver applied to the region thereof, and 
it is good for a Looseness being laid 
upon the Belly. 
Emplastrum Catagmaticum. Or, the 
Bone-soddering plaister, 
first and second. 
Colledg.] Take of juyce of Marsh- 
mallow roots six ounces. 
Bark of Ash-tree Roots, and their 
Leaves, 
Roots of comfry the greater and smal- 
ler, with their Leaves, of each two 
ounces. 
Mirtle berries an ounce and an half. 
Leaves of willow, 
Tops of St. Johns wort, of each an 
handful and an half. 
Having bruised them, boyl them toge- 
ther in red wine, and Smiths water, of 
each two pound, till half be consumed; 
strain it and add 
Oyl of Mirtles, 
Roses Omphacine, of each one pound 
and an half. 
Goats suet eight ounces, boyl it again 
to the consumption of the decoction, strain 
it again, and add, 
Litharge of Gold and 
Silver, 
Red Lead, of each four ounces. 
Yellow wax one pound. 
Colophonia, half a pound. 
Boyl it to the consistence of a Plaister, 
then add 
Turpentine two ounces. 
Mirrh, 
Frankincense, 
Mastich, of each half an ounce. 
Bole-Armenick, 
Earth of Lemnos, of each one ounce.
Stir them about well till they be boyled, 
and made into an Emplaister according 
to art. 
Catagmaticum the Second. Page 173. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the Roots of Com- 
fry the greater, 
Marsh-mallows, 
Missleto of the Oak, of each two oun- 
ces. 
Plantane, 
Chamepitys, 
St. Johns wort, of each a handful. 
Boyl them in equal parts of black Wine, 
and Smiths water til half be consumed; 
strain it, and add 
Mucilage of Quince seeds made in 
Tripe water, 
Oyl of Mastich, and 
Roses, of each four ounces. 
Boyl it to the consumption of the humi- 
dity, and having strained it, add 
Litharge of gold four ounce, boyl it 
to the consistance of an Emplaister: 
then add 
Yellow wax four ounces. 
Turpentine three ounces. 
Colophonia six drams. 
Ship pitch ten ounces. 
Pouders of Balaustines, 
Roses, 
Mirtles 
Acacia, of each half an ounce. 
Mummy, 
Androsamum, 
Mastich, 
Amber, of each six drams. 
Bole-Armenick, 
Fine flower, 
Frankincense, of each twelve 
drams. 
Dragons blood two ounces. 
Make it into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.] Both this and the for- 
mer are binding and drying: the 
former Rules wil instruct you in the 
use. 
Vertues newly added. 
These plaisters have their Name 
from soddering together bones that 
have been broken. And to this In- 
tent they are excellent good, as hast- 
ing and helping the growing toge- 
ther of such bones, encreasing the 
Callus or hard substance whereby 
they are united, cherishing the nati- 
ve heat of the Part, and stopping the 
flowing in of Humors. 
Emplastrum Cephalicum. Page 173. 
Lat. Or, A Cephalick Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of Rozin two ounces. 
Black pitch one ounce. 
Labdanum, 
Turpentine, 
Flower of beans, and 
Orobus, 
Doves dung, of each half an ounce. 
Mirrh, 
Mastich, of each one dram & an half. 
Gum of Juniper, 
Nutmegs, of each two drams. 
Dissolve the mirth and Labdanum in a 
hot mortar, and adding the rest, make it
into a plaister according to art. 
If you will have it stronger, add the 
Pouders of Euphorbium, 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Black pepper, of each two scruples. 
Culpeper.] It is proper to streng-
then the Brain, and repel such vapors 
as annoy it, and those pouders being 
added, it dries up the superfluous 
moisture thereof, and easeth the eyes 
of hot scalding, vapors that annoy 
them.
Vertues newly addd. 
Being applied to the shaven crown 
of the Head, it dries up Rheums and 
helps the cough and prevents con- 
sumptions. Also it helps the memo- 
ry and other internal senses, being 
decayed by a cold and moist cause. 
Applied to the stomach it is good a- 
gainst vomitings. For the colick lay 
it to the belly. 
Emplastrum de Cerussu. Page 174. La. 
Or, A Plaister of Ceruss. 
Colledg.] Take of Ceruss in fine pou- 
der,  
White wax, 
Sallet Oyl, of each three ounces. 
Add the Oyl by degrees to the ceruss, 
and boyl it by continual stirring over a 
gentle fire, till it begin to swell, then add 
the Wax out smal, by degrees, and boyl
it to its just consistance. 
Culpeper.] It helps burns, dry 
Scabs, and hot ulcers, and in gene- 
ral what ever sores abound with moi- 
sture. 
Emplastrum ex Cicuta cum Ammonia- 
co. Page 174. Lat. Or, A Plai- 
ster of Hemlock with A- 
moniacum. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Hem- 
lock four ounces, 
Vinegar of Squils, and 
Ammoniacum, of each eight ounces. 
Dissolve the Gum in the juyce and Vi- 
negar; after a due infusion, then strain 
it into its just consistance according to art. 
Culpeper.] I suppose it was inven- 
ted to mitigate the extream pains, 
and allay the inflamations of 
wounds, fot which it is very good: 
Let it not be applied to any principal 
part.
Emplastrum é Cinnabari. Page 174. 
Latin. Or, Plaister of Cin- 
nabar or Cinoper. 
Colledg.] Take of Cinnabaris an ounce 
and an half.
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198 PLASTERS.
Euphorbium,
Auripigmentum, of each two drams  
and an half. 
Beat them into fine pouder, and unite 
them with 
Galbanum, 
Burgundy pitch of each two ounces & 
an half. 
Plaister of Mucilage three ounces. 
Unguentum Egyptiacum, half an 
ounce. 
Make it into a plaister without boyling 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister seems intended for a 
caustick to eat an hole in the skin for 
an issue in such as feare to have their 
skin cut with a knife; though I 
think the way of incision is less pain- 
ful (though more frightful) al things 
considered, then the makeing an issue 
by a caustick plaister as this is. I be- 
leeve some Mountebanks may use 
this plaister in the venereal Disease, 
for none is so bold as Baiard.
Emplastrum é crusta Panis. Lat. Or, 
A Plaister of a Bread 
crust. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastich, 
Mints, 
Spodium, 
Red coral. 
All the Sanders, of each one dram. 
Oyl of Mastich and 
Quinces, of each one dram and half. 
Crust of bread tosted, and three times 
steeped in red Rose Vinegar, and 
as often dried, 
Labdanum, of each two ounces. 
Rozin four ounces. 
Styrax calamitis half an ounce.  
Barley meal five drams. 
Make into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper. I shal commend this for 
as gallant a Plaister to strengthen the 
brain as any is in the Dispensatory, 
the hair being shaved off, and it ap- 
plied to the Crown; also being ap- 
plied to the Stomach, it strengthens 
it, helps digestion, staies vomiting and 
putrefaction of the meat there. 
Emplastrum é Cymino. Page 175. Lat. 
Or, A Plaister of Cummin. 
Colledg.] Take of Cummin-seed, 
Bay berries,  
Yellow Wax, of each one pound. 
Per-rozin two pound. 
Common Rozin three pound. 
Oyl of Dill half a pound. 
Mix them, and make them into a Plaster. 
Culpeper. It asswageth swellings, 
takes away old Aches coming of 
bruises: and applied to the belly, is 
an excellent Remedy for the wind 
chollick. This I have often proved, 
and alwaies with good success. 
Emplastrum Diacalciteos. Page 175. 
Latin Or, the Plaister of
Calcitis. 
Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease, fresh 
and purged from the skins two 
pound. 
Oyl of Olive Omphacine, 
Litharge of Gold eaten and sifted, of 
each three pound. 
White vitriol burnt and purged four 
ounces. 
Let the Litharge, Grease, and Oyl boyl  
together with a gentle fire, with a little  
Plantane water, alwaies stirring it, to 
the consistance of a plaister, into which 
(being removed from the fire) put in the 
Vitriol and make it into a plaister accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper] Before it was to be made 
in this manner: First let the Lithar- 
ge boyl with the Oyl and Grease a 
long time, continually stirring it with 
the branch of a Palm or other Tree 
of a binding Nature, as Oak, Box, or 
Medlar, which is new cut, that so 
the vertue of that Spatula may be 
mixed with the Plaister, cutting off 
the top and the rind even to the 
wood it self; the mixture being thus 
made thick by boyling and stirring, 
and removed from the fire, put in 
white Copperis for want of true 
Chalcitis in pouder, and so make it 
into a laudable mass for an Emplai- 
ster. It is a very drying, binding plai- 
ster, profitable in green wounds to 
hinder putrefaction, as also in pest- 
lential sores after they are broken, 
and Ruptures; and also in burnings 
and scaldings.
Vertues newly added 
This is the ordinary Surgeon his  
most known and usual plaister, being 
as the Proverb saies, his salve for all 
sores. Besides what hath been said 
of it, it is good for Ulcers and parts 
that are bruised and torne, and for 
black and blew spots that remain af- 
ter blows and stripes. It hinders the 
influx of Humors into a part and 
stops the growth of a beginning Tu- 
mor. Applied to the back it streng- 
thens the back, especially being 
smeared with a little Oyl of Mirtles. 
Diachylon Plaister. Page. 175. Lat. 
Or, of the Juyces or Mucilages. 
Colledg.] Take of Mucilage of Lin- 
seed, 
Fœnugreek seed, 
Marsh mallow Roots, of each one 
pound. 
Old Oyl three pound. 
Boyl it to the consumption of the Muci- 
lage, strain it, and add Litharge of gold 
in fine pouder, one pound and an half: 
boyl them with a little Water over a gen- 
tle fire alwayes stirring them to a just 
thickness. 
Culpeper.] It is an exceeding good 
Remedy for all swellings without 
pain, it softens hardness of the liver 
and spleen, it is very gentle like the 
Author of it [Mesue] very moderate 
and harmless,and it may be therefore 
neglected by the Phantastical Chy-
rurgeons of our Age. 
Diachylon Ireatum. Page. 175. Lat. 
Colledg.] Add one ounce of Orris in
pouder to every pound of Diachc- 
lon simple. 
Virtues newly added. 
If Orice be added to Diachylon 
simple it becomes of a more draw- 
ing, cutting and dissolving Nature. 
Diachylon magnum. Page 175. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Mucilage of Rai- 
sons, 
Fat Figs, 
Mastich, 
Mallow-roots, 
Linseed, 
Fœnugreek-seeds, 
Bird Lime, 
Juyce of Orris, 
Squils, of each twelve drams and an 
half. 
Oesypus, or Oyl of sheeps-feet an ounce 
and an half. 
Oyl of Orris, Chamomel, 
Dill of each eight ounces. 
Litharge of Gold in fine pouder one 
pound. 
Turpentine three ounces. 
Per-rozin, 
Yellow Wax, of each two ounces. 
Boyl the Oyl with the Mucilages and 
juyce to the consumption of the Humidt- 
ty, strain the Oyl from the Fæces, and by 
adding the Litharge boyl it to its consi- 
stence; then ad the Rozin and Wax; last- 
ly, it being removed from the fire, add the 
Turpentine, Oesipus and birdlime, make 
of them a Plaister by melting them ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper. It dissolves hardness and 
inflamations. 
Diachylon magnum cum Gummi. 
Page 176. Latin. Or, The 
great Diachylon with 
Gums in it. 
Colledg.] Take of Bdellium, 
Sagapen, 
Amoniacum, of each two ounces, 
Dissolved in wine, and added to the mass 
of Diachylon magnum, first boyl the 
Gums being dissolved, to the thickness of 
Honey. 
Culpeper.] This is the best to dis-
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199 PLASTERS. 
solve hard swellings of all the 
three. 
Vertues newly added
This is more effectual than the 
two Diachylons foregoing, for it 
more powerfully softens, concocts 
and digests all manner of hardness. 
By reason of the Gums, it does more 
powerfully attract, soften and resolve 
and dissipate. 
Diachylon compositum, sive Empla- 
strum è Mucilaginibus. Page 176. 
Latin. The Plaster of Muci- 
lages or of the slimy juyce 
of certain Plants, Roots 
and Seeds. 
Colledg.] Take of Mucilages of the 
middle bark of Elm, 
Marsh-mallow roots, 
Linseed,  
Fœnugreek seed, of each four ounces 
and an half. 
Oyl of Chamomel,  
Lillies, and 
Dill, of each an ounce and an half. 
Ammoniacum, 
Galbanum, 
Sagapen, 
Opopanax, of each half an ounce. 
New wax twenty ounces, 
Turpentine two ounces, 
Saffron two drams, 
Dissolve the Gums in wine, and make 
it into a Plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] It ripens swellings, and 
breaks them, and clenseth them 
when they are broken. It is of a 
most excellent ripening nature. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaster is of frequent use. It is 
of a softening nature and causes sup- 
puration. It is good in hard swel- 
lings, for it softens digests and ripens 
the said swellings, that so they may 
break, be clensed and healed. 
Emplastrum Diaphœnicon hot. 
Page 176. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow Wax two 
ounces, 
Per-rozin, 
Pitch, of each four ounces. 
Oyl of Roses and 
Nard, of each one ounce. 
Melt them together, and add 
Pulp of Dates made in Wine four 
ounces, 
Flesh of Quinces boyled in Wine an 
ounce, 
Then the pouders following, 
Take of bread twice baked, steeped in 
wine and dried, two ounces. 
Mastich an ounce.
Frankincense, 
Wormwood, 
Red Roses, 
Spicknard of each two drums and an 
half.
Wood of Aloes, 
Mace, 
Myrrh, 
Washed Aloes, 
Acacia, 
Troches of Gallia Moschata, and 
Earth of Lemnos, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each one 
dram, 
Labdamum three ounces. 
Mix them and make them a Plaster ac- 
cording to art.
Culpeper.] It strengthens the sto- 
mach and Liver exceedingly, helps 
Fluxes, apply it to the places grie- 
ved; your mother wit wil teach you 
not to apply it to the Nose for Flux- 
es; nor yet to the foals of the feet to 
strengthen your stomach. 
Diaphœnicon cold. Page 177. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Wax four ounces, 
Ship pitch five ounces, 
Labdanum three ounces and an half, 
Turpentine an ounce and an half, 
Oyl of Roses one ounce, 
Melt these, and add 
Pulp of Dates almost ripe, boyled in 
austere wine four ounces, 
Flesh of Quinces in like manner boy- 
led,  
Bread twice baked often steeped in red 
wine and dried, of each an ounce.
Styrax Calamitis, 
Acacia,
Unripe Grapes, 
Balaustines, 
Yellow Sanders, 
Troches of Terra Lemnia, 
Myrrh,  
Wood of Aloes, of each half an 
ounce. 
Mastich, 
Red Roses, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Austere Wine as much as it sufficient 
to dissolve the juyces, 
Make it into a Plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Belly 
and Liver, helps concocton in those 
parts, and distribution of humors, 
staies vomiting and fluxes. 
Clupeper.] They that think the use 
of thefc Medicines arc too brief, ( its 
fo only for cheapnefs of the Book) 
Let them read these Books, of the last 
Edition, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, 
Johnston, Veslingus, Sennenus, and
Physick for the Poor. 
Emplastrum Divinum. Page 177. 
Latin. Or, The Divine 
Plaster. 
Colledg.] Take of Loadstone four oun- 
ces.
Ammoniacum three ounces and three 
drams, 
Bdellium two ounces, 
Galbanum,
Myrrh, of each ten drams. 
Olibanum nine drams, 
Opopanax, 
Mastich, 
Long Birthwort, 
Vert-de-greece, of each an ounce. 
Litharge,
Common Oyl, of each a pound and an 
half. 
New Wax eight ounces. 
Let the Litharge in fine pouder be boy- 
led with the Oyl to a thickness, then add 
the Wax, which being melted, take it 
from the fire; add, the Gums dissolved 
in Wine or Vinegar, strain it, then add 
the Myrrh, Mastich, Frankincense, 
Bithwort, and Loadstone in pouder; 
Last of all the Vert-de-greece in Pouder, 
and make it into a Plaster according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It is of a clensing na- 
ture, exceeding good against malig- 
nant ulcers, it consumes corruption, 
engenders new flesh, and brings them 
to a scar. 
Vertues newly added. 
It softens and asswages pains, it at- 
tracts, dissolves and digests super- 
fluous Humors in the part and be- 
cause of its happy effects in the pre- 
mises it has merited the honour to be 
called Divine plaister, that is a plai- 
ster wherein much of the wisdom and 
power and goodness of God is seen, 
in providing such excellent Reme- 
dies for the accidents that annoy the 
frail Body of Man. 
Emplastrum Epispasticum. Page 177. 
Lat. Or, The Blistering 
Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of Mustard seed, 
Euphorbium, 
Long Pepper, of each one dram and 
an half. 
Staves-acre, 
Pellitory of Spain, of each two drams. 
Ammoniacum, 
Galbanum, 
Bdelleum, 
Sagapen, of each three drams. 
Whol Cantharides five drams, 
Ship-pitch, 
Rozin, 
Yellow Wax, of each five drams. 
Turpentine as much as is sufficient to 
make it into a Plaister. 
Culpeper.] Many People use to 
draw blisters in their necks for the 
toothach, or for rhewms in their 
eyes; if they please to lay a Plaster of 
this there, it wil do it. 
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the uses aforesaid, this 
Plaster is profitably applied to the 
wrists in pestilential, malignant, and 
al dangerous Fevers, whereby Blisters 
being raised and kept running for 
some daies, much venemous water is
let out, which offending the vital fa- 
culty

200 PLASTERS. 
culty, causes that same great 
contention of Nature and fermenta- 
tion of Blood, which we call a Fe- 
ver. 
Emplastrum à nostratibus, Flos Un- 
guentorum Dictum. Page 178. 
Latin. The Flower of Oynt- 
ments or of Plasters. 
Colledg.] Take of Rozin, 
Per-rozin, 
Yellow Wax, 
Sheep Suet, of each half a pound. 
Olibanum four ounces, 
Turpentine two ounces and an half. 
Myrrh, 
Mastich, of each an ounce. 
Camphire two drams, 
White wine half a pound. 
Boyl them into a Plaster. 
Culpeper.] I found this Receipt in 
an old Manuscript written in the 
yeer 1513. the quantity of the In- 
gredients very little altered (except 
analogically) and the vertue of it 
thus described verbatim. 
Yoys well clensande and well sow- 
dande and generande the flesh, and 
helande more in eight days then ony 
other Trete woll do in a month, 
for it will soffer noe corruption in 
a wounde, ne noe dead flesh to byde 
thereyn; also it is good for head- 
ache, and for wynde yn the brayn, 
and for all mannyr of posthymes in 
the head, or in the body, for swelling 
of the eares, or of the cheekes, for all 
mannyr of sinowes that is grieved,or 
breysyd, or sprong, and it woll draw 
out irne or splints of trees, or 
thornes, or broken bones, or ony 
other things that may grow in a 
wounde, and it is good for by- 
ting of venemous bests, and it rots 
and heals all mannyr of boches with- 
out fawt, and it is good for fester or 
canker, and for noli me tangere, and 
it draws out all mannyr of ak- 
ing in the liver or reins, or mylt, 
and helpyth the emerauds. 
Virtues newly added. 
This for its many tried Virtues has 
been termed the Flower or Cream 
of Oyntments or Plasters and de- 
serves to be respected accordingly.
A Plaster of Gum Elemi. Page 178. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Gum Elemi three 
ounces, 
Per-rozin, 
Wax, 
Ammoniacum, of each two ounces. 
Turpentine three ounces and an half, 
Mallege wine as much as is sufficient, 
Boyl it to the consumption of the vine, 
then add the Ammoniacum dissolved in 
Vinegar.  
Culpeper.] The operation is the 
same with Arceus Liniment. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is of an heating, softening, 
digesting, dissolving, concocting fa- 
culty. Also it causes suppuration. 
It asswages pain and is specially 
good in wounds of the Head and in 
ulcers also. It is excellent for Ul- 
cers if not sanious in any part of the 
body. It gently clenseth and filteth 
up an Ulcer with flesh, being of a 
mild Nature and friendly to the bo- 
dy.
The Plaster of Lapis Calaminaris. 
Page 178. Latin 
Colledg.] Take of Lapis Calaminaris 
prepared an ounce, 
Litharge two ounces, 
Ceruss half an ounce, 
Tutty a dram. 
Turpentine six drams, 
White wax an ounce and an half, 
Stags suet two ounces, 
Frankincense five drams, 
Mastich three drams. 
Myrrh two drams, 
Camphire a dram and an half, 
Make it up according to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a drying, cooling, clensing, 
healing nature. It helps running and 
putrified sores, and brings them to a 
closure. 
Emplastrum ad Herniam, Page 178.
Latin. Or, The Plaster 
against Ruptures. 
Colledg. Take of Galls, 
Cipress Nuts, 
Pomegranate pills, 
Balaustines, 
Acacia. 
Seeds of Plantane, 
Fleawort, 
Water-cresses, 
Acorn cups, 
Beans torrefied, 
Birthwort, long and round, 
Myrtles of each half an ounce. 
Let these be poudered, and steeped in Rose 
vinegar four daies, then torrefied and 
dried: then take of 
Comfry the greater, 
and lesser, 
Horstail, 
Wead, 
Cetrach, 
Roots of Osmond Royal, 
Fearn, of each an ounce. 
Frankincense, 
Myrrh, 
Aloes, 
Mastich, 
Mummy, of each two ounces. 
Bole Armeniack washed in Vine- 
gar,
Lap. Calaminaris prepared, 
Litharge of Gold,
Dragons blood, of each three ounces. 
Ship-pitch two pound. 
Turpentine six ounces, or as much as 
is sufficient to make it into a plaster ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] The Plaster is very bin- 
ding and knitting, appropriated to 
ruptures or burstness, as the title of 
it specifies; it strengthens the Reins 
and Womb, staies abortion, or mis- 
carriage in women, it consolidates 
wounds, and and helps all diseases 
coming of cold and moisture. If you 
mix a little Diapalma with it, it will 
stick on the better. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaster is good against deflu- 
zions of Rheum being applied to the 
shaven crown of the Head; and con- 
sequently prevents Consumptions. 
Applied to the Temples as Mastich is 
accustomed upon bits of Velvet or 
Satin, it helps the Tooth-ach. Ap- 
plied seasonably to the Loins it as- 
swages the Gonorrhæa and flux of 
the whites in women, especially if a 
Plaster be also applied to the region 
of the Womb. It helps Loosenesses 
after general remedies, being spred 
upon Leather and applied all over 
the Belly. It helps Vomiting being 
applied to the region of the stomach. 
Emplastrum Hystericum. Page 179. 
Latin. Or, the Mother- 
plaster. 
Colledg.] Take of Bistors roots one 
pound, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Yellow Sanders, 
Nutmegs, 
Barberry Kernels, 
Rose seeds, of each one ounce. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Squinanth, 
Chamomel flowers, of each half an 
ounce.  
Frankincense, 
Mastich, 
Alipta Moschata, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Styrax Calamitis, of each one dram. 
Mosch half a dram, 
Yellow Wax one pound and an half. 
Turpentine half a pound, 
Moschæleum four ounces, 
Labdanum four pound. 
Ship-pitch three pound, 
Let the Labdanum and Turpentine be 
added to the Pitch and Wax, being mel- 
ted, then the Styrax, lastly the rest in 
pouder, and sifted, that they may be 
made into a plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] The Plaster being ap- 
plied to the Navil, is a means to
withstand the fits of the mother in 
such 

201 PLASTERS. 
such women as are subject to them, 
by retaining the womb in its place. 
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the uses specified, it streng- 
thens and dries a cold and moist 
brain and hinders Defluxions of 
Rheum from the Brain, upon the 
Lungs and other inferior parts. It 
staies Vomitings and helps digestion 
being applied to the stomach. Being 
laid upon the Belly it abates the vio- 
lence of Loosnesses. Applied to the 
Loins it helps the Gonorrhæa, and 
the white Flux of Women, being ap- 
plied to the Back and Womb. It 
strengthens the whol body being ap- 
plied from the Nape of the Neck to 
the Crupper, and so worne. It is 
good against cold diseases of the Li- 
ver and of the spleen and womb, be- 
ing applied to their respective Regi- 
ons. Applied to the pit of the sto- 
mach in the winter time, or all over 
the stomach (if a Man be of a cold 
feeble complexion) it makes him 
bear the sharpness of the weather 
courageously.
Emplastrum de Mastich. Page 179 La. 
Or, A Plaister of Mastich. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastich three oun- 
ces,
Bole-Armenick. washed in black 
Wine, an ounce and an half, 
Red Roses six drams. 
Ivory, 
Mirtle berries, 
Red Coral of each half an ounce. 
Turpentine, 
Colophonia, 
Tachamahaca, 
Labdanum, of each two ounces. 
Yellow Wax half a pound. 
Oyl of Mirtles four ounces. 
Make it a Plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is a binding plaister, 
strengthens the stomach being appli- 
ed to it, and helps such as loath their 
victuals, or cannot digest it, or re- 
tain it till it be digested. 
Vertues newly added. 
This plaister is also good to dry 
up Rheums, and strengthen the brain 
and Nerves, help memory decayed 
stop Defluxions, used as aforesaid. 
Also applied to the Belly it helps 
loosness, and laid upon the region of 
the Womb it prevents Abortion. Ap- 
plied to the Loins and Kidneys and 
Womb, it asswages the Gonorrhæa 
and white Flux of Women, being rea- 
sonably used after the administration 
of generall Remedies. 
Emplastrum de Mililoto Simplex. Pag. 
180. Latin Or, A Plaister of 
Melilot Simple. 
Colledg.] of Rozin eight pound. 
Yellow wax four pound. 
Sheeps suet two pound. 
These being melted, add green Melitot 
cut small, five pound: make it a plaister 
according to art. 
Culpeper] It is a gallant drawing 
and healing plaister, no way offensive 
to any part of the body; it clenseth 
wounds of their filth, ripeneth swel- 
lings and breaks them, and cures 
them when it hath done: it is speci- 
al good for those swellings vulgary 
in London called Felons, in Sussex 
Andicoms; only have a care of ap- 
plying it to the Legs, because of its 
drawing quality. To any other part 
of the body, in a sore that hath any 
putrefaction in it, it is none of the 
worst plaisters. 
Such as would give help against al 
Infirmities, may read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Rive- 
rius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslingus, 
Sennertus, and Physick for the Poor. 
Emplastrum de Meliloto compositum. 
Page 180. Latin Or, A Plaister 
of Melilot compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Melilot flowers six 
drams. 
Chamomel flowers. 
Seeds of Fœnugreek, 
Bayberries husked, 
Marsh-mallow roots, 
Tops of Wormwood 
Marjoram, of each three drams. 
Seeds of Smallage, 
Cardamoms, 
Roots of Orris, 
Cyperus, 
Spicknard, 
Cassia lignea, of each one dram and 
an half. 
Bdellium five drams. 
Beat them all into fine pouder, 
The Pulp of twelve Figs, 
Incorporate them with a pound and an 
half of Melilot plaister simple, Turpen- 
tine an ounce and an half; Ammonia- 
cum dissolved in Hemlock vinegar, three 
ounces; Styrax five drams, Oyl of mar- 
joram, and Nard, of each half an ounce, 
or a sufficient quantity, make it into a 
plaister with a hot mortar and pestle, 
without boyling. 
Culpeper.] It mollifies the hard 
ness of the Stomach, Liver, Spleen 
Bowels, and other parts of the Body: 
it wonderfully asswageth pain, and 
easeth hypochondriack melancholly, 
and the Rickets. 
Vertues newly added. 
This plaisteris also good to streng- 
then the Stomach and help the 
windiness, nauseousness and indige- 
stion thereof, being applied to the 
Region of the Stomach. Also it is 
good against the wind Colick being 
applied to the belly. And it wil ease 
fits of the stone in the Kidney applied 
to the Reins of the Back.
Emplastrum de minio compositum. Pag.
180. Lat. Or, A Plaister of Red  
Lead compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Roses Om- 
phacine twenty ounces. 
Oyl of Mastich two ounces. 
Suet of a Sheep, and
Calf, of each half a pound. 
Litharge of Gold, and 
Silver, 
Red Lead of each two ounces. 
A Taster full of Wine. 
Boyl them by a gentle fire, continually 
stirring it till it grow black, let the fire 
be hottest towards the latter end, then ad 
Turpentine half a pound. 
Mastich two ounces. 
Gum Elemi one ounce. 
White wax as much as is sufficient: 
boyl them a little, and make them into a 
Plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.] It potently cures 
wounds, old malignant Ulcers; and 
is very drying.
Emplastrum de minio Simplicius: Page 
181. Lat. Or, A Plaister of Red 
Lead Simple. 
Colledg.] Take of Red Lead nine oun- 
ces. 
Oyl of red Roses one pound and an 
half
White wine Vinegar six ounces. 
Boyl it into the perfect body of a plaister. 
It is prepared without Vinegar thus 
Take of red Lead one pound. 
Oyl of Roses one pound and an half. 
Wax half a pound. 
Make it into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.]It is a fine cooling, heal- 
ing Plaister, and very drying.
Emplastrum Metroproptoticon. Page 
181. Lat. Or, the Plaister a- 
gainst the falling down 
of the Womb. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastich one ounce 
and an half.
Galbanum dissolved in red Wine and 
strained six drams. 
Cypress Turpentine two drams. 
Cypress Nuts, 
Galls, of each one dram and an half. 
Oyl of Nutmegs by expression one 
dram. 
Musk two grains and an half. 
Pitch scraped off from old ships two 
drams and an half. 
Beat the Galbanum, Pitch, Turpentine, 
and Mastich gently in a hot morter and 
pestle, towards the end, adding the Oyl 
of Nutmegs, then the rest in pouder, last 
of all the Musk mixed with a little Oyl 
of Mastich upon a Marble, and by ex- 
act mixture make them into a plaister.
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202 PLASTERS. 
Culpeper] It was invented (as I 
suppose, to comfort and strengthen 
the retentive faculty in the Stomach 
and belly, and therefore staies loos- 
ness and vomiting, and helps the fits 
of the mother, being applied to the 
Navel. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister was invented as the 
Name shews, to hinder the Falling 
down of the Womb from its natural 
place. It is also good to strengthen 
the stomach, being applied to the re- 
gion thereof. And laid upon the pit of 
the stomach in the winter time, it wil 
enable a man to endure the extremity 
of cold weather with little trouble or 
moledtation. 
Emplastrum Nervinum. Pag. 181. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Chamomel,
Roses, of each two ounces. 
Mastich, 
Turpentine, 
Linseeds, of each an ounce and an 
half,  
Turpentine boyled four ounces. 
Suet of a Gelt Calf, 
Hee-Goat, of each two ounces and an 
half.  
Rosemary, 
Bettony, 
Horstail, 
Centaury the less, of each an handful 
Earthworms washed and clensed in 
wine, three ounces. 
Tops of St. Johns wort a handful. 
Mastich, 
Gum Elemi, 
Maddir roots, of each ten drams. 
Shippitch, 
Rozin, of each an ounce and an half. 
Litharge of Gold, 
Silver, of each two ounces and an 
half. 
Red Lead two ounces. 
Galbanum, 
Sagapen. 
Ammoniacum, of each three drams. 
Boyl the Roots, Herbs, and Worms, in  
a pound and an half of wine till half be 
consumed, then press them out, and boyl 
the decoction again with the Oyls, Suets, 
Litharge, and Red Lead, to the consump- 
tion of the Wine, then ad the Gums dis- 
solved in wine, afterwards the Turpentine, 
Rozin, Pitch, & Mastich in pouder, and 
make them into a plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the brain 
and Nerves, and then being applied 
to the back, down along the bone, it 
must needs add strength to the Body. 
Emplastrum Oxycroceum. Pag. l82. Lat 
Colledg.] Take of Saffron, 
Shippitch, 
Colophonia, 
Yellow wax, of each four ounces.
Turpentine, 
Galbanum, 
Ammoniacum, 
Mirrh, 
Olibanum, 
Mastich, of each one ounce and three 
drams. 
Let the Pitch and Colophonia be melted 
together, then add the Wax, then (it 
being removed from the fire) the Tur- 
pentine, afterwards the Gums dissolved 
in Vinegar, lastly the Saffron in pouder, 
well mixed with Vinegar, and so make it 
into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is of a notable soften- 
ing and discussing quality, helps bro- 
ken bones, and any parts molested 
with cold, old aches, stifness of the 
Limbs by reason of wounds, ulcers, 
fractures, or dislocations, and dissi- 
pates cold swellings. 
Emplastrum de Ranis. Page 182. Lat. 
Or, Plaister of Frogs, 
with Quick-silver. 
Colledg. Take six live Frogs, 
Worms washed in white Wine, three 
ounces and an half.  
Oyl of Chamomel,  
Dill, 
Spicknard, 
Lillies, of each two ounces. 
OyL of Saffron one ounce. 
Bayes one ounce and an half 
Fat of an Hog, 
Calf, of each one pound. 
Vipers fat two ounces and an half. 
Euphorbium five drams. 
Frankincense ten drams. 
Juyce of the roots of Alicampane, 
Dwarf-Elder, of each two ounces. 
Squinanth, 
Stœchas, 
Mugwort, of each one handful, 
Wine two pound. 
Boyl them to the consumption of the 
wine, strain it, and add one pound of 
Litharge of gold, Turpentine three oun- 
ces, white Wax as much as is sufficient 
to make it into a plaster, adding in the 
end when it is removed from the fire, Li- 
quid Styrax an ounce and an half, stir- 
ring it about with a spatule; lastly,the 
mass being warm, add Quick-silver four 
ounces, killed in Turpentine, and liquid 
Styrax, and incorporate them very well 
together.
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister hath an excellent fa- 
culty to drive away pains in the 
Joynts, Shoulders, and Hips proceed- 
ing from an old Venereal disease. It 
strengthens the parts it is applied un- 
to. It draws out the Venom of the 
great pocks, in manner of a Sweat, 
and asswags the restless pains of that 
disease. That which is made with- 
out Quick-silver is good for pains a- 
rising from a cold cause. 
Emplastrum Syconium. Page 181. Lat. 
Or, of Wild Cucumers. 
Colledg. Take. of wild Cucumer Roots 
three ounces. 
Sulphur vivum. 
Cummin-seeds, of each two ounces. 
Euphorbium one ounce and an half. 
Beat them all into very fine pouder,
which incorporate with Burgundy pitch 
twenty eight ounces, over a gentle fire, 
stirring it with a spatule, adding at the 
end, Oyntment of Sowbread three oun- 
ces: make it into a plaister according to 
art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister is of a purgeing and 
drying Faculty. Being laid upon the 
dropsie-swolne belly it will drive out 
the water by stool, and dry up the 
remainder, being seasonably and me- 
thodically applied. 
Sparadrap sen tela Galteris Page 183. 
Lat. Or, Galterus his Cere-
cloath. 
Colledg.] Take Oyl of Roses half a 
pound. 
Rams suet four ounces. 
Wax ten ounces. 
Litharge, 
Per-rozin, 
Frankincense, 
Mastich, of each two ounces. 
Bole armenick. 
Fine flower, of each one ounce. 
Boyl the oyl,suet,and Litharge together, 
and when they are wel incorporated,then 
make them all into a plaister according 
to art; in which being hot, dip your 
Tents. 
Culpeper.] I never know it used 
yet it dries. 
Vertues newly added.
This Plaister or Cerecloath, is of 
a drying, soddering Nature, it has a 
faculty to breed new flesh in Ulcers. 
It closeth Wounds, and dries them 
up and brings both wounds and ul- 
cers to a perfect closure with a scar. 
Emplastrum Stephaniaion. Page 183. 
Latin. Or, the Crown-
Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of Labdanum half an 
ounce. 
Styrax, 
Juniper Gum, of each two drams. 
Amber, 
Cypress, 
Turpentine, of each one dram. 
Red Corral, 
Mastich, of each half a dram. 
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203 PLASTERS. 
Red Roses, 
Roots of Orris Florentine, of each one 
scruple. 
Rozin washed in Rose-water, half an 
ounce. 
The Rozin, Labdanum, Juniper-Gum, 
and Turpentine being gently beaten in a 
hot mortar, with a hot pestle, sprinkling 
in a few drops of red Wine till they are 
in a body; then put in the pouders, and 
by diligent stirring make them into an 
exact Plaister.
Virtues newly added. 
The Name and nature of this plai- 
ster do argue that it hath been first 
invented to applie to the Crown of 
the Head, the hair being first shaven 
away, to stop defluxions of Rheum 
from the Brain upon the Lungs, and 
to hinder consumptions thence ari- 
sing. It is also good against rup- 
tures. And it wil help fits of the mo- 
ther being applied to the region of 
the womb. Laid upon the Stomach 
it will staie Vomitings and streng- 
thens the stomach. Applied to the 
Kidneys and Loins it will help the 
Gonorrhæa, seasonably used. And it 
wil check a Loosness being laid over 
the Belly. 
Emplastrum Sticticum. Page 184. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Olives six 
ounces. 
Yellow Wax an ounce and an half. 
Litharge in pouder four ounces and 
an half. 
Ammoniacum, 
Bdellium, of each half an ounce. 
Galbamm, 
Opopanax, 
Oyl of Bays, 
Lapis Calaminaris, 
Both sorts of Birthwort, 
Mirrh, 
Frankincense, of each two drams. 
Pure Turpentine an ounce. 
Let the Oyl, Wax, and Litharge be boyl- 
and together till it stick, not to your finger, 
then the mass being removed from the fire 
and cooling a little, and the Gums di- 
ssolved in white wine Vinegar, which e- 
vaporate away by boyling, strain it 
strongly, then add the Pouders, Turpen- 
tine, and Oyl of Bays, that it may be 
made into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.It strengthens the nerves, 
draws out corruption, takes away 
pains and aches,and restores strength 
to members that have lost it. 
Emplastrum Stomachinum Magistrale. 
Page 184. Lat. Or, A Sto- 
mach Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of Mints,
Wormwood,
Stœehas, 
Bay leaves, of each a dram. 
Marjoram, 
Red Roses,
Yellow Sanders, of each two drams. 
Calamus Aromaticum, 
Wood of Aloes,
Lavender flowers, 
Nutmegs, 
Cubebs, 
Galanga, 
Long Pepper, 
Mace, of each a dram, 
Mastich three drams. 
Cloves two drams and an half. 
Oyl of Mints an ounce and an half. 
Oyl of Nard an ounce. 
Oyl of Spike a dram. 
Rozin. 
Wax, of each four ounces, 
Labdanum three ounces. 
Styrax half an ounce. 
Make it into a Plaister.
Culpeper.] Both this and the other 
of that name which you fhal have b- 
and by, strengthen the stomach ex- 
ceedingly, help digestion, and staies 
Vomiting. 
Emplastrum Tonsoris. Page. 185. Lat. 
Or, the Barber-surgeons 
Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of dry Pitch two pound 
Wax one pound. 
Per-rozin half a pound. 
Pouder of Fœnugreek, 
Roots of black Chameleon or Briony, 
of each four ounces. 
Cummin seeds finely poudered two 
ounces. 
Make it into a plaister according to art.
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister hath had its Name 
from the vulgar and repute thereof 
amongst Barbar-Surgeons and other 
Coblers of the Body of man. Aetius 
a famous greek Author highly com- 
mends the same against the Spleen, 
Dropsie, and scitatica or Hipgout, 
whose pains it has many times taken 
away. For it attracts, digests and dis- 
cusses, wheyish and windy Humors. 
PLAISTERS 
left out in the last Edi- 
tion.
Emplastrum Ceroma. Or, Ceroneum. 
Nich. Alex. 
Colledg. Take of Pitch scraped 
from a ship that hath 
been a long time at Sea, 
Yellow Wax: of each seven drams. 
Sagapenum six drams. 
Ammoniacum, 
Turpentstine, 
Colophonia, 
Saffron, of each four drams, 
Aloes,  
Olibanum, 
Mirrh, of each three drams. 
Styrax Calamitis, 
Mastich, 
Opopanax,  
Galbanum, 
Allum,
The seeds of Fœnugreek of each two 
drams, 
The setlings or feces of liquid Sty- 
rax. 
Bdellium, of each one dram, 
Lithargy half a dram. 
Culpeper.] It is of a gentle Emol- 
lient nature, prevails against stop- 
pings of the Stomach coming of cold 
hardness of the Spleen, coldness of 
the Liver and Matrix. 
For Cure of all Diseases, Read my 
Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslin- 
gus, Sennertus, and Physick for the 
Poor.
Emplastrum Gratia Dei. Nich. 
Or, the Grace of God. 
Colledg.] Take of Turpentine half a 
pound 
Rozin one pound.  
White Wax four ounces. 
Mastich an ounce. 
Fresh Betony, 
Vervain, 
Burnet, of each one handful. 
Let the Herbs being bruised, be suffic- 
ently boyled in white Wine, the Liquor 
presed out, in which let the wax and 
Rozin be boyled to the consumption of 
the liquor; being taken from the fire, 
let the Turpentine be mixed with it; 
lastly, the Mastich in Pouder, and so 
make of them a Plaister according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It is excellent good in 
wounds and green Ulcers, for it 
keeps back Inflamations, clenseth 
and joyneth wounds, fils up Ulcers 
with flesh. 
Emplastrum de Janua, or of Betony. 
Nicholaus. 
Colledg.] Take of Juyce of Betony, 
Plantane. 
Smallage, of each one pound, 
Wax, 
Pitch, 
Rozin, 
Turpentine, of each half a pound. 
Boyl the Wax and Rozin in the Juyces 
with a gentle fire, continually stirring 
them till the Juyce be consumed, then 
add the Turpentine and Pitch, Conti- 
nually stirring it till it be brought into
the

204 PLASTERS. 
the consistence of a plaster according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It is a gallant Plaster 
for the pains in the Head, and to 
secruit an addle Brain, helps green 
wounds, easeth Inflamations, streng- 
thens the Liver. 
Emplastrum Isis Epigoni. Galen. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow Wax an 
hundred drams. 
Turpentine two hundred drams. 
Scales of Copper,
Vertde-greece, 
Round Birth-wort, 
Frankincense, 
Sal. Armoniack, 
Ammoniacum, 
Burnt Brass, of each eight drams, 
Burnt Allum six drams.  
Aloes,
Mirrh, 
Galbanum, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Old Oyl one pound. 
Sharp Vinegar so much as is suffi- 
cient. 
Let the Mettals be dissolved in the 
Sun with the Vinegar, then put in those 
things that may be melted, last of all the 
pouders, and make them all into an Em- 
plaster. 
Culpeper.] Galen appropriates it to 
the Head, and Ulcers there. I know 
no reason but why it may as well 
serve for other parts of the body. 
A Plaster of Mastich. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastich, 
Ship-pitch, 
Sagapenum, 
Wax, of each fix drams.
Ammoniacum, 
Turpentine, 
Colophonia, 
Saffron, 
Aloes, 
Frankincense, 
Myrrh, ofeach three drams. 
Galbanum, 
Opopanax,  
Styrax Calamitis, 
Allum, (Rondoletius appoints, 
and we for him) Bitumen, 
Fœnugreek, of each two drams. 
Feces of Liquid Styrax, 
Bdellium, 
Litharge, of each half a dram. 
Let the Litharge being beaten into pou- 
der, be boyled in a sufficient quantity of 
water; then add the pitch, which being 
melted, ad the wax and Ammoniacum; 
afterwards let the Sagapenum, Opopa- 
nax, and Galbanwn be put in; then 
the Sytrax and Feces being mixed with 
the Turpentine; last of all the Colopho- 
nia, Mastich, Frankincecse, Bdellium, 
Allum, Myrrh, and Fœnugreek in pou- 
der: let them be made into a Plaster.
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Sto- 
mach, and helps digestion. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to strengthen a weake 
stomach and stop Vomiting, and to 
asswage the heat thereof. Also it wil 
stop defluxions of Rheum being ap- 
plied to the futures of the head. And 
being laid on the Belly it wil check a 
Looseness. And laid upon the region 
of the Womb it wil ease the mother- 
fits. It is also good against ruptures.
Emplastrum nigrum. Or, the Black- 
plaister called Stichflaster 
in the High-dutch. 
Colledg.] Take of Colophonia, 
Rozin, 
Ship-pitch, 
White Wax, 
Roman Vitriol, 
Ceruss, 
Olibanum, 
Mirrh, of each eight ounces. 
Oyl of Roses seven ounces. 
Oyl of Juniper berries three ounces. 
Oyl of Eggs two ounces. 
Oyl of Spike one ounce.
White Vitriol, 
Red Corral, 
Mummy, of each two ounces. 
Earth of Lemnos,
Mastich, 
Dragons blood, of each one ounce. 
Fat of an Heron one ounce. 
Fat of Timullus [* A kind of Fish.] 
three ounces.  
Load stone prepared, two ounces. 
Earthworms prepared, 
Camphire, of each one ounce. 
Make them into a Plaister according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It is very good (they 
say) in green Wounds and Pricks. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister is of a drying, fastning 
and binding Nature, and may there- 
fore well be good in Wounds and 
Pricks. I have heard it commended 
by some Gentlewomen for a great 
easer of sore duggs in women, and to 
that end it hath been fought for in 
London. 
Emplastrum Sanctum. Andr. é Cruce. 
A holy Plaister, composed by 
Andrew of the Gallows. 
Colledg.] Take of Per-rozin twelve 
ounces. 
Oyl of Bays, 
Turpentine, of each two ounces. 
Gum Elemi four ounces. 
Let the Rozin & Gum be melted over the 
fire in a brass pan stirring it with a brass 
instrument; then add Oyl of Bays and
Turpentine, boyl it a little, then put it in 
a linnen bagg, and that which drops, 
through keep in a glazed pot for your use. 
Culpeper.] The Vertues are the 
same with Arceus his Liniment.
Virtues newly added. 
This plaster is of an healing, soft- 
ning, digesting, dissblving, concoct- 
ing faculty. Also it causes suppura- 
tion. It asswages pain, and is especi- 
ally good in wounds of the head and 
in ulcers also. It is excellent for ul- 
cers, if not too sanious, in any part of 
the Body. It gently clenseth and fil- 
leth up an ulcer with fiesh, beipg of a 
mild Nature and friendly to the bo- 
dy. 
Emplastrum fine Part. 
Colledg.] Take of Frankincense, 
Bdellium, 
Styrax, of each three drams, 
Ammoniacum, 
Galbanum, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Ship pitch six drams.  
Marrow of a stag, 
Fat of Hens and 
Geese, of each two drams. 
Sulphur vivum washed in milk, 
Hermodactils in pouder, of each a 
dram and an half. 
Let the Gum be dissolved in white wine 
(not in Vinegar, bccause that is inimi- 
cal to the Nerves) and with two parts 
of Oyl of Roses compleat, and one part of 
oyl of Eggs, and a little oyl of Turpen- 
tine, make it into a plaister according to 
Art. 
The Stomach Plaster. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of wood of Aloes, 
Wormwood, 
Gum Arabick, 
Mastich, 
Cyperus, 
Costus, 
Ginger, of each half an ounce. 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Olibanum, 
Aloes, of each three drams. 
Cloves, 
Mace,  
Cinnamon, 
Spicknard, 
Nutmegs, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Schænanthus, of each one dram and 
an half. 
With Rob of Quinces make it into an 
Emplastre: and when you have spread 
it upon a cloth, perfume it with wood of 
Aloes, and apply it to your stomach. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is good to strengthen nhe sto- 
mach and stop Vomitings, and to 
cause good digestion Being applied 
to the belly it is good against the 
wind Colick, and stops a Loosness. 
Applied to the Head being first sha- 
ven, it helps a cold and moist distem- 
per of the brain and stops defluxions
of

205 CHYMICAL OYLS.  
of rheum from the head to the lower 
parts. It strengthens a cold and weak 
Liver and Spleen, being applied to 
the respective Regions of those bow- 
els.
The Cerecloath of Gum Ammoniacum. 
Colledg.] Take of Ammoniacum dis- 
soved in Vinegar an ounce. 
Unguentum de Althæa, Melisot 
plaister, of each half an ounce. 
Bran an ounce. 
Ponder of the Roots of Briony, 
Orris, of each half an ounce. 
Grease of Ducks, 
Geese, and 
Hens, of each three drams. 
Oyl of Orris one ounce and an half. 
Let them boyl gently in the Mucilages of
Lin and Fœnugreek seeds, so much as is  
sufficient. By adding wax four ounces, 
make it into a Cerecloath according to  
art.
Culpeper.] It asswageth swellings, 
or ripens and breaks them, and easeth 
pains thereby coming. 
Vertues newly added. 
It opens obstructions of the Liver 
and Spleen. It softens the hard swel- 
lings of the Spleen, and prevents a 
Dropsie.
Ceratum Stomachinum Galeni. Or Ga- 
len his Stomach-cerecloath.
Colledg.] Take of red Roses, 
Mastich, of each twenty drams. 
Dried Wormwood fifteen drams. 
Spicknard ten drams. 
Wax four ounces. 
Rose water so much as is sufficient. 
Oyl of Roses a pound and an half. 
Let it boyl so till it be like an oyntment: 
then add oyl of Roses eight ounces; wax 
fourteen ounces; the Pouders afore men- 
tioned (excepting the Mastich, which 
must be melted in the Oyl of Roses) of all 
of them used in this manner, make a cere- 
cloath according to art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Sto- 
mach and Liver, easeth their pains, 
provokes appetite to ones meat, and              
helps digestion.
Vertues newly added. 
This being applied to the futures 
or seams, of the Head, strengthens 
and vigorates a cold and moist brains 
helps a bad Memory thereef procee- 
ding, being applied to the hinder 
part of the Head. It stops the gonor- 
rhæa being applied to the Loins af- 
ter universal Remedies. Applied to 
the Region of the Liver it helps to 
prevent a Dropsie, and laid al along 
the Back-bone, it strengthens the 
back, and the Body.
CHYMICAL OYLS, 
AND OTHER 
CHYMICAL LIQUORS. 
Oyl of Herbs and Flowers. 
Culpeper. I Desire you to take notice before I begin, That Chymical Oyls 
generally are not to be taken alone by themselves by reason of 
their vehement heat and burning, but mixed with other convenient Medicines. 
2. They carry the very same vertues the Simples do, but are far more priva- 
lent, as having far more spirit in them, and far less Earthly dross. 3. The 
general way of taking them, is to drop two or three drops of them in any con- 
venient Liquor, or other Medicine, which the last Table will fit you with, 
and so take it; for some of them are so hot (as Oyl of Cinnamon) that two or 
three drops will make a dish of Pottage so hot of the Simple that you can hardly 
eat them 
Oyl of Wormwood. 
Colledg.] Take of dried Wormwood a 
pound. 
Spring water twenty pound. 
Steep them twenty four hours, and distill 
them in a great Alembick, with his re- 
frigeratory, or a Copper one with a 
worm. Let the Oyl be separated from
the water with a Funnel, or separating 
Glass as they call it,and let the water be 
kept for another Distillation. Let two 
or three of the first pounds of water be 
kept for the Physitians use, both in this, 
and other Chymical Oyls drawn with 
water.
Vertues newly added. 
A Drop or two of this Oyl in a 
glass of white wine and Sugar makes 
a pleasant Drink, which strengthens       
the Stomacn and Liver, breeds an ap- 
petite to meat, causes a good colour, 
expells wind, moves Urine, events 
the Dropsie, and is good against hy 
pochondriacal Melancholy. The 
way to use it is this, you must drop a 
drop or two or three into a piece of 
refined Sugar, and let it soak into 
the sugar, and then melt the sugar in 
the Wine; for so the Oyl wil, being
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206 CHYMICAL OYLS. 
incorporated with the sugar, wil min- 
gle more perfectly with the Wine. 
Colledg.] In the same manner are pre- 
pared Oyls of Hysop, 
Marjoram, 
Mints,
Garden, and water cresses, 
Origanum, 
Peniroyal, 
Rosemary, 
Rue,
Savin, 
Sage, 
Savory, 
Time, &c. 
Culpeper.] I shal instance here on- 
ly Oyl of Lavender, commonly cal- 
led Oyl of Spike, which helps the 
Running of the Reins, they being a- 
nointed with it; it expels Worms, 
two drops of it being taken in wine, 
the Region of the back being anoin- 
ted with it, it helps the Palsie. For 
all the rest see the Vertues of the 
Herbs themselves. 
Such as dosire to be knowing Phy- 
sitians, let them read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Ri- 
verius, Johnston, Vislingus, Riola- 
nus, Sennertus, and Physick for the 
Poor. 
Colledg.] After the same manner are 
made Oyl of dried Barks, of
Orranges, 
Citrons, 
Lemons, 
But it is better prepared of the Barks, 
being green and full of Juyce, separated 
from the internal white part, bruised, 
and with a sufficient quantity of simple 
distilled water, so will the Oyl be drawn 
easier, and in greater plenty, and no less 
fitting for the Physitians use, 
Oyl, or Fat of Roses, commonly called, 
Spirit of Roses. 
Colledg.] Take as many fresh Da- 
mask Roses as you will; infuse them 
twenty four hours in sufficient quantity 
of warm Water: after you have pressed 
them out, repeat the infusion certain times 
till the Liquor be strong enough, which 
distill in an Alembick with his refrige- 
ratory, or a Copper with his worm: se- 
parate the spirit from the water and keep 
the water for another infusion. So may 
you draw spirit from Damask Roses, pic- 
kled in salt: as also of red Roses.
Clupeper.] 'Tis a good perfume. 
Vertues newly added 
A drop of this Spirit in a cordial 
Electuary will cheat the Heart brain 
and spirits both vital and animal so 
called. Also a drop or two may be 
put into cordial Lozenges.
OYL of SEEDS. 
Oyl of Dill Seeds. 
Colledg.] Take of Dill seeds bruised 
two pound,                                               
Spring water twenty pound, 
Steep them twenty four hours, then distil 
them in a copper still, or an Alembick 
with his refrigeratory: separate the Oyl 
from the Water with a Funnel, and keep 
the Water for a new Distillation. So al- 
so is prepared Oyl of the seeds of Annis, 
Caraway, Cummin, Carrots, Fennel, 
Parsley, Saxifrage, &c,
Culpeper.] Oyl of Annis seeds al- 
though it be often given, and happily 
with good success in Vertigoes or 
Diziness in the Head; yet its chief 
Operation is upon the Breast and 
Lungs, it helps Narrowness of the 
Breast, Rawness and wind in the sto- 
mach, all Infirmities there coming of 
cold and Wind, strengthens the 
Nerves; six drops is enough at a 
time, taken in broth or any other 
convenient Liquor. As Annis seeds 
are apropriated to the Breast, so are 
Fennel seeds to the Head, the Oyl of 
which clenseth the Brain of cold In- 
firmities, Lithargies, indisposition of 
the Body, Numbness, want of mo- 
tion, also it helps the Stomach, and 
expels wind. Cummin seeds: The 
Oyl of them is a great expeller of 
wind, nothing better; it also won- 
derfully easeth pains of the Spleen, 
pains in the Reins and Bladder, stop- 
ping of Urine, especially if it come of 
wind, and is a present Remedy for 
the Colick. For the way of taking 
of them, see Annis seeds.
Colledg.] So also are made
Oyl of Spices, as of 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Mace, 
Nutmegs, 
Pepper, &c. 
Culpeper. One or two drops of 
Oyl of Cinnamon is enough to take 
at a time, and is exceeding good for 
such as are in Consumptions. See 
[Cinnamon] among the Simples. 
Oyl of Mace is excellent good for 
Rewms in the Head: and Oyl of 
Pepper for the Colick. 
Virtues newly added. 
A drop or two of these Oyls in 
Wine or in Electuaries, or Lozenges, 
does strengthen and comfort the 
Brain, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, and 
all internal parts, helps digestion, and 
expels wind.                   
Colledg.] Also Oyls of Aromatical 
Woods, as of 
Sassafras and 
Rhodium, &c.
OYL of BERRIES 
Oyl of Juniper Berries.
Colledg.] Take of fresh Juniper 
Berries fifty pound, 
bruise them and put them in a wood- 
en Vessel, with twenty four pound of 
spring water, sharp Leaven one 
pound, keep them in a Celler three 
months, the Vessel being close stopped, 
then distil them in an Alembick 
with a sufficient quantity of simple wa- 
ter, after the oyl is separated, keep the 
water for a new distillation. After 
the same manner is made Oyl of Bay- 
berries, Ivy-berries &c. Or you may 
draw oyl from the aforenamed berries 
bruised and steeped twenty four hours 
in warm water, adding six pound of 
water, or if the berries ibe very dry, 
ten pound of water to each pound of 
berries, distilling them as before. 
Culpeper. Oyl of Juniper berries, 
prevails wonderfully in pains of the 
Yard, and running of the Reins, the 
Falling-sickness. It is a mighty pre- 
servative against the Pestilence, and 
all evil airs. It purgeth the Reins, 
provokes Urine, bereaks the stone, 
helps the Dropsie: the quantity to 
be taken at a time in any convenient 
Liquor, is three or four drops; out- 
wardly by unction it helps the Gout: 
two or three drops dropped upon the 
Navil helps the Colick. 
Oyl of Bay-berries helps the Co- 
lick and Illiack passion. Oyl of Ivy- 
berries helps cold Diseases of the 
joynts, the stone, and provokes the 
Terms in Women. Use them as Ju- 
niper Oyl. 
Egg shels dryed and beaten into 
pouder, and given in white Wine, 
breaks the stone. 
Oyl of Turpentine. 
Colledg.] Take of Vence Turpentine 
as much as you wil, put it into an A- 
lembick with four times its weight in 
common Water, still it with a conveni- 
ent fire, and draw off a white thin Oyl 
like water, the Colophonia wil remain 
in the bottom of the vessel, this Oyl 
may be drawn into a bath, more aptly 
from burning in a glass Still. 
Culpeper.] It is wonderful good in 
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207 CHYMICAL OYLS. 
Diseases coming of cold and wind, it 
corrects the cold afflictions of the 
Lungs, as Asthmaes, difficulty of 
breathing, &c. A dram being taken 
in the morning. Outwardly it a- 
dorns the body, takes away the prints 
of Scabs, and the smal pox, chops in 
the Skin and breasts of women, and 
deafness, being dropped into the 
Ears.
Oyl of Myrrh.
Colledg.] Take of Myrrh bruised, 
Bay salt, of each six pound, dissolve 
them in sixty pound of spring water, 
and still them in a Copper still, or 
Alembick. 
Culpeper.] It keeps wounds (and 
all things else faith Fioravantus) from 
putrefaction; it makes the Face fair 
and youthful, quickly cures wounds, 
and Deafness, being dropped into 
the Ears. 
Oyl of Guajacum. 
Colledg.] Take of Guajacum in gross 
Pouder as much as you will, put it in- 
to a Retort, and still it in Sand, the 
Oyl that comes out, because it is thin- 
ner and sweeter, keep it by it self, 
which by rectifying with much water, 
will yet be sweeter. The same things 
are to be observed in Distillation of 
Box, and Oak, and other solid woods, 
as also Oyl of Tartar, with its tart, 
spirit, which may better be distilled 
out of Christal of Tartar in the same 
manner. 
Vertues newly added. 
Some drops being mingled in a 
sweating Potion, do further the e- 
ruption of sweat, dry up superfluous 
humors, help the Venereal Disease, 
and strengthen the Nerves.
Oyl of Wax. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow wax melted 
one pound, with which mix three 
pound of Tiles in pouder, draw out the 
Oyl in Sand with a Retort, which re- 
ctifie with water.
Culpeper.] I am of opinion, That 
Oyl of Wax is as singular a remedy 
for burns and burning Ulcers, as any 
is, or need to be.
Colledg.] After the same manner is 
drawn Oyl of Fats, and Gums, and 
Rozins, which cannot be beaten into 
Pouder, as Ammoniacum, Carranna, 
Opopanax, Sagapen, Liquid Styrax,                
Tachamahaca, &c. 
Oleum Lattricium Phylosophorum. 
Page 190. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Bricks broken in 
pieces, as big as an Hens Egg, heat 
them red hot, and quench them in old 
Oyl, where let them lie til they be cool, 
then beat them into fine Pouder, and 
still them in a glass Retort, with a fit 
receiver, give fire to it by degrees, and 
keep the Oyl in a glass close stopped.
Culpeper.] The Oyl wil quickly pe- 
netrate, and is a soveraign Remedy 
for the Gout, and all cold afflictions 
in the Joynts or Nerves, Cramps, 
Epilepsies, or Falling-sickness, Pal- 
sies; it mollifies hard swellings, dis- 
solves cold swellings, and also cold 
distempers of the Spleen, Reins, and 
Bladder. 
Oleum Succini. Page 191. Latin. Or, 
Oyl of Amber. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow Amber one 
part, burnt Flints, or pouder of Tiles 
two parts, distill them in a Retort in 
Sand, keep the white clear Oyl which 
comes but first by itself, then distill it 
on, til all come out, keep both Oyls se- 
verally, and rectifie them with water: 
gather the salt of Amber which sticks 
to the neck of the Retort, and being 
purged by Solution, Filtration, and 
coagulation, according to art, keep it 
for use.
Culpeper] It speedily helps all af- 
flictions of the Nerves, and Convul- 
sions, Falling-sickness, &c. Being gi- 
ven in convenient liquors, it is a sin- 
gular remedy against poyson and pe- 
stilent air, Diseases of the Reins and 
bladder, the fits of the Mother; the 
Nose being anointed with it, and the 
Colick. It causeth speedy Labor to 
women in travel being taken in Ver- 
vain water, itstrengthens the body 
exceedingly, as also the brain and 
sences, and is of an opening nature. 
Colledg.] So is distilled Oyl of Jet, 
and of Gums and Rozins, which may 
be Poudered as Benjamin, Mastich, 
Frankincense, &c. 
Oleum seu Butyrum Antimony. Page                 
191. Latin. Butter of 
Antimony. 
Colledg.] Take of crude. Antimony, 
Mercury sublimate,of each one pound: 
beat them into pouder, and put them 
in a glaβ Retort, with a large neck, 
give fire by degrees into a Reverbera- 
tory, or else in Sand, the Fat will di- 
still down into the Receiver, that part 
of that which sticks to the neck, of the 
Receiver, wil easily be melted, by put- 
ting a gentle fire under it; let this 
Fat be rectified in a smal retort, and 
keep either in an open Vial, or in a 
Celler, or other moist place, that it 
may be dissolved into Oyl which must 
be kept in a vessel close stopped.
Oleum Arsenici. Page 191. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Arsnick. 
Colledg.] Take of Chrystalline Ars- 
nick, first sublimated with Colcother a-              
lone, mix it with an equal part of salt 
of Tartar, and Salt-peter, calcine it 
between two pots, the uppermost of 
which hath a hole through, till no 
smoak ascend, dissolve the matter so 
calcined in warm water that you draw 
out the salt, moisten the pouder which 
resides at the bottom with liquor Tar- 
tari, and dry it by the fire, do so three 
times, then dissolve the matter again 
that you may draw out the salt, and                 
there will remain a white pouder and 
fixed, which being kept in a moist place 
will dissolve into a moist substance like 
Oyl or Butter.
Oleum Salis. Page 192. Latin. Or, 
Oyl of Salt. 
Colledg.] Take of French or Spanish 
Bay-salt, as much as you wil, dissolve 
it in water and filter it, and having 
then put it in a Copper vessel, mix 
with the brine fine pouder of Tiles or 
Bricks two or three times the weight of 
of the salt before it was dissolved, and 
set it upon hot coals, and let the water 
evaporate away (continually stirring 
it) til it be very dry, then put the 
pouder in a glaβ Retort wel luted, pla- 
ced in a furnace with a fit Receiver, 
giving fire by degrees to the height, 
for the space of twelve hours, so shall 
you have an Oyl or sharp spirit of sale 
in the receiver, rectifie this by separa- 
ting the flegm in a Retort in sand, and 
keep it close stopped for use. 
Culpeper.] Being mixed with Tur- 
pentine and applied outwardly, helps 
the Gout: three drops taken every 
morning in convenient liquor, pre- 
serves youth, consumes the Dropsie, 
resists Feavers, Convulsions, and the 
Falling-sickness: being mixed with 
Oyntments, it is exceeding good in 
Ruptures and Dislocations. 
Vertues newly added.
Some drops thereof taken in Oyl, 
or Posset-drink do powerfully move 
Urine, dry up superfluous humors, 
and hinder putrefaction. Also it cuts 
and digests flegm in the Lungs. In a 
Julep it quenches thirst.
Oleum 

208 CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS.
Oleum Sulphuris. Page 192. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Sulphur, 
Colledg.] It is prepared in a Bel-still 
by copious burning and consuming of 
Brimstone, by which a sharp spirit 
beating against the sides of the still, 
will turn into Liquor, and flow down 
like water or Oyl: the orderly dispo- 
sing of the still and Brimstone, and o- 
ther commodities belonging to this o- 
peration, we leave to the dexteityr of 
the Artificer.
Culpeper.] It prevails against Dis- 
eases coming of cold, putrefaction, 
or wind, Feavers, Agues, tertian, 
quartan, or quotidian, pestilence, 
Wounds and Ulcers, affects of the 
Brain, mouth, Teeth, Liver, Stomach, 
Spleen, Matrix, Bladder, Entrals, and 
Arteries coming of abundance of hu- 
mors or putrefaction: outwardly ap- 
plied it helps fistulaes, ulcers of the 
mouth, and Gangrenes. The way to 
take it inwardly is thus; Dip the top 
of a Feather in Oyl, and wash it in 
the liquor or decoction you give it 
in; in quotidian Agues give it in 
Wine, in which Rosemary, or Mints, 
or both have been boyled; in Terti- 
an Agues in Wine, in which Centau- 
ry hath been boyled; in quartan A- 
gues, in Bugloss water; in all of 
them a little before the fit comes: in 
Pestilences, in Wine in which Rhadi- 
shes have been boyled, mingled with 
a little Venice Treacle: in the Fall- 
ing-sickness, with decoction of Beto- 
ny or Peony: in Coughs with De- 
coction of Nettle seed and Hysop, 
both of them made with Wine: for 
flegm, in Wormwood water: for the 
wind colick, in Chamomel flower 
water: for dropsies and cold Livers, 
in Celondine water and Honey: for 
the Rickets and stoppage of the 
Spleen, in Tamaris Water: for the 
French pox, in Fumitory, or Broom- 
flower water: against worms,in Grass 
or Wormwood water: for the fits of 
the mother, in decoction of Betony 
or Featherfew in Wine: for suppre- 
ssion in Urine, in Decoction of Gar- 
lick with Wine: for the Gout, in de- 
coction of Chamepitysm Wine: in 
Wounds and Ulcers, the place is 
lightly to be touched with a feather 
wet of the Oyl: if a hollow tooth ake, 
put a drop into it; if all your teeth 
ake, make a decoction of Mints in 
Wine, and put a drop or two of this 
Oyl to it, and hold it warm in your 
Mouth.
Oleum Vitrioli. Page 129. Lat. Or, 
Oyl of Vitriol. 
Colledg.] Take of Ungarick, or 
English Vitriol of the best, as much as 
you will; melt it in an Earthen vessell
glazed, and exhale away all the moi- 
sture, continually stirring it, and so bring 
it into a yellow pouder, which is to be put  
in earthen Retorts that wil endure the 
fire, placed in an open Furnace, give fire 
by degrees, even to the height, for three 
daies, till the receiver, which before was 
full of smoake, be cleer; rectifie the Li-
quor from the flegm, in sand, and keep 
the strong and pouderous Oyl by it self
Culpeper.] It must be mixed with 
other Medicines, for it kils being ta- 
ken alone; it affwageth thirst, allay- 
eth violent heat in feavers and pesti- 
lences; and a few drops of it gives 
a pleasant grateful tast to any Medi- 
cine.
Vertues newly added. 
A drink made moderately Tart 
with this Oyl, is good for to asswage 
the passion of Anger and Hastiness. 
A drop or two in a Pint of fair wa- 
ter, or of Plantane, Lettice, Purslain, 
or Frog-spawn Water, does stop the 
bleeding at the Nose.  
Aqua fortis. Page 193. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Vitriol prepared as 
for Oyl of Vitriol, two pound. 
Saltpeter purged one pound. 
Beat them together, and put them in a 
Retort well luted; place it in a Furnace 
with a large Receiver, and giving fire to 
it, distill it by degrees for twenty four 
houres, rectifie the water in Sand.
Aqua Mellis. Page 193. Latin Or, 
Water of Honey. 
Colledg.] Take of the best Honey four 
pound, dry sand, two pound: 
Distill it in a Glass Still, so capacious 
that the matter take up only the fift part 
of it, draw off the flegm in a bath, then 
encrease the fire, and draw off the yellow- 
ish Water. 
Culpeper] Paracelsus adviseth it to 
be drawn five times over, and cals it 
Quintessence of Honey, and extols the 
vertues of it to the skies; faith, it wil 
revive dying men; which Mr. Charls 
Butler of Hamshire also affirms.
Liquor Seu Liquamen Tartari, Seu Oleum 
Tartari per Deliquium. Or
Liquor of Tartar.
Colledg.] Take of Tartar of white 
wine, calcined til it be white, as much as 
you will, put it in Hippocrates his sleeve, 
and hang it in a moist Celler that the 
Tartar may dissolve, putting a vessell 
under it to receive it, dissolve what re- 
mains in the sleeve in common Water, 
filter it, and evaporate it away till it be- 
gin to be like Allum, then use that like 
the former.         
Culpeper.] This is common to be 
had at every Apothecaries. Virgins 
buy it to take away the Sunburn and 
Freckles from their faces. It takes off 
the rust from the Iron, and preserves 
it bright a long time. 
Vertues newly Added. 
A drop or two of this Oyl in some 
convenient Liquor, opens all manner 
of obstructions.
Oleum Mirrhæ per Deliquium. Pa. l93. 
Lat. Or, Oyl or Liquor 
of Mirrh.
Colledg. Boyl Hens Eggs till they 
be hard, then out them through the mid- 
dle of the length, take out the yolk, and 
fil the Caveties half ful of beaten mirrh. 
joyn them again and bind them gently 
with a thrid, place them between two di-
shes in a moist place, a grate being put 
between, so wil the Liquor of the Mirrh 
distill down into the lower Dish. 
Culpeper.] You had both it and its 
vertues before. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is excellent against the white- 
flux in women, half an ounce being 
given in Plantane water, white-wine 
or Aligant. It is good also against 
Hoarsness. 
Oyl of Tartar. 
Colledg. Take of Tartar so much as 
you wil; put it into a large Retrot,with 
that proportion, that but the third part 
of the vessel be fil'd, distill it in Sand 
with a strong fire; afterwards (the oyl 
being first separated from the water, or 
spirit of Tartar) rectifie it with much 
water, to correct the smel of if, let it stand 
open a long time in the Sun. 
Chymical Prepa- 
rations, more fre-  
quent in Use. 
Antimonium cum Nitro Calcinatum. 
Page 194. Lat. Or, Antimo- 
ny Calcined with Niter. 
Colledg. Take of the best Anti- 
mony one part, pure 
Niter two parts; bruise the Anti- 
mony, then add the Niter to it, bring 
them both into pouder, which burn in 
a Crucible, which wil be most conve- 
niently done, if you put it in the red 
hot crucible with a Ladle or such a 
like instrument; then take it out, and 
beat it again, and mix it with the same 
quantity of Niter as before, put it into 
the crucible upon hot coals, and put- 
ting into is a live coal, fire it, stirring
it 

209 CHYMICAL PREPARATlONS. 
it with an iron thing that it may burn 
all about equally; and when there 
needs, put in more fresh coats; bruise 
it the third time, and with the like 
quantity of Niter, use it as before: at 
last beat it into pouder, wash it in 
pure water, and keep it for your use.
Chalybs preparatus. Page 194. Lat. 
Or, Steel prepared. 
Colledg.] Take of filtings of Steel, 
clensed with a Load-stone, as much as 
you will, moisten them twelve times 
with sharp white Wine Vinegar, dry 
it in the Sun or a dry air; beat it tn an 
Iron Mortar, and levigate it upon a 
marble with a little Cinnamon water, 
and so bring it into a very fine pou- 
der, and keep it for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an excellent opener of all 
obstructions of the Liver and Spleen 
and the other inward parts. It streng- 
thens the Bowels. It is good against 
the green-sickness, and the Jaundice, 
and Hypochondriacal Melancholy. 
It is a soveraign remedy for the scur- 
vy. It is mixed in Electuaries and in 
Pils to the Intents aforesaid, and after 
the taking of the Medicament the 
Patient is alwaies enjoyned to exer- 
cise. A dram of the pouder is mixed 
with three drams of Pils or two oun- 
ces of Electuary, or in a quart of 
White Wine, and the Quantity of a 
Walnut of the Electuary, or one or 
two Pils, or a cup of the wine is gi- 
ven in the morning a long time toge- 
ther and the Patient does stir upon 
it. The Invention of these times has 
found, that weak people that cannot 
exercise, may take steeled Medica- 
ments in the mornings in Bed, and 
lie after them. By which means, the 
steel aided by the warmness of the 
Bed, does penetrate and performe 
its office, as well as when the Body 
as warmed by exercise. It is also good 
against Cachexies and Dropsies. 
Crystal of Tartar. Page 195. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of Tartar of white or 
Rhenish Wine as much as you will, 
beat it in gross pouder, and wash it 
from the dross in water, then boyl it in 
asufficient quantity of Spring Water: 
after you have taken off the scum, fil- 
ter it, being somwhat warm, through 
a brown paper into a glass warmed 
before, lest it break; then place it in 
a Cellar, that the Crystal may stick to 
the sides of the glass, the which wash in 
pure water, and keep for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This opens obstructions in al parts. 
Half a dram or two scruples taken in 
broath before dinner, do breed an ap-  
petite and gently move the belly to 
Stool.
Crocus Martis. Page 195.Lat. 
Colledg.] Heat pieces of Iron or Steel 
red hot, and thrust them into a great 
heap of Brimstone, a bason of water 
being set underneath, the mettal will 
run out like Wax, which being sepa- 
rated from the Sulphur, beat into very 
fine pouder in an Iron Mortar, 
which put into four square earthen 
pans, not above a fingers breadth in 
deepness, set it at the flame of a rever- 
betory three or four daies, til it look red 
like a Spunge, the tops of which take 
away with an Iron, set the rest at the 
fire again, til it look so al of it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an astringent Medicament 
and is used to stop all over-violent 
motions of Nature by way of stool,  
courses, white flux. It strengthens 
the Liver and Spleen, and prevents 
Dropsies arising from the weakness 
of those bowels. It is mixed in streng- 
thening and astringent Electuaries to  
the Intents aforesaid. Half a dram 
may be mingled in four or five oun- 
ces of Electuary, and the Patient take 
every morning the quantity of a nut- 
meg, and drink a cup of aligant wine 
after it.                                           
Crocus Metallorum. Page 195. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of the best Antimony 
and salt Peeter, of each equal parts,
beat them into pouder severally, then 
mix them together, put them into a hot 
crucible with a ladle, or other conve- 
nient instrument, let it be beaten til the 
noise ceaseth, then remove it from the  
fire, and cool it, then the vessel being 
broken, separate it from the white crust 
at the top,and keep it for use.
Flos Sulphuris. Page 196. Lat. Or, 
Flower of Brimstone. 
Colledg. Take of the best Brimstone,
and beat it with equal parts of Colco-
thar of Vitriol, put it in a long earth-
en still, a head of glass large enough 
being put over it, give fire to it in
sand by degrees, stirring it with a 
Hares foot, it wil be the purer if you
iterate it with new Colcothar.
Virtues newly added. 
It is of an heating, digesting, dissol- 
ving quality. Our Women give it to 
their Children, for the worms. It is  
good for Coughs and tissicks, being 
made into an Electuary with syrup of 
Maiden hair and the like syrups and 
so taken from a licorice stick. It dries 
up Rheum, and being mingled with 
Syrup of Violets, and so lickt by fea- 
verish Persons it is reported to 
quanch the thirst. Taken in an Eg it 
brings away flegm. 
Lapis infernalis. Pag.196 Lat. 
Or the Helstone 
Colledg.] Take of Ly of which black 
Soap is made, and boyl it to a stone in 
a frying Pan, do not consume all the 
Humor, when it is cold cut it in the 
form of a dice, and keep it in a Glass 
close stopped. 
Otherwise 
Take of Vitriol calcined to redness, two 
ounces. 
Sal armoniack one ounce. 
Tartar calcined to whiteness, 
Quick Lime, of each three ounces. 
Sprinkle al of them being beaten, with 
with Ly made of Fig-trees, or Spurge, 
or Soap, strain it often till almost all the 
matter be dissolved, then boyl it in a brass
vessel, til the moisture be consumed, that 
which is left keep close stopped for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is so called from its burning &c. 
corroding faculty. It is used to make 
Yssues by eating into the skin, and so 
with a little help of the lancet make- 
ing way for a Pea.
Lapis Prunellæ, or sal prunellæ. Page 
196. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of pure salt peeter one 
pound, put it in a crucible, and place, 
coals round about it, that the Niter 
may flow like mettal, then put in by 
degrees two ounces of flower of Brim- 
stone, after the Brimstone is consumed, 
pour the Niter out into a brass bason, 
when it is cold keep it in a glass close 
stopped. 
Vertues newly added.
This Medicament is said to have 
its Name from a soreness of the 
throat which is teamed Prunella, or 
the burning cole, for which it is a 
soveraign Remedy, being put into a 
Gargarism to wash the Throat. It 
extinguishes al preternatural Heats, 
and thirst. It purifies the blood, fixes 
vapors that mount into the head, and 
exhilarates the whol Body of Man. 
It helps sharpness of urin, purges the 
Kidneys. It is given against the drop- 
sie, Mother fits, burning feavers and 
al feavers that are not pestilential. It 
is excellent for sore Mouths in Gar- 
garisms. And externally applied it 
asswages the pains of Wounds and 
the gout pains. It kils worms, moves 
Urin, helps the Scurvy, and the oft- 
ner is is used, the more good it does 
The Dose is from two scruples to 
four.
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210 CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS.
Magistery of Pearl and Coral. 
Colledg.] Take of pearl and Coral, as 
much as you wil, levigate it into very 
subtil pouder, to which put such a 
quantity of spirit of Radicate vinegar, 
that it may over top it the breadth of 
three or four fingers, digest it in ashes 
till it be dissolved, then pour off the 
Liquor, and put in fresh till the resi- 
due be dissolved, filter it, and put a 
little Liquor of Tartar to it, so will a 
white pouder fall down to the bottom 
of the glass, which being separated 
from what is dissolved, is to be washed; 
first with Spring water, then with 
Bawm or Barrage water. Radicate 
Vinegar is that which is distilled with 
Bay Salt in sand,
Vertues of Magistery of Pearl newly 
added. 
This is a great cordial, strengthen- 
the Brain and Heart, helps Melan- 
cholick passions, is good in Feavers 
and enclines to rest. 
Vertues of Magistery of Coral newly 
added. 
This is also cordial, and streng- 
thens the Brain and Liver. It is good 
against the Apoplexie, Falling-sick- 
ness, Night-mare, Palsies, convulsi- 
ons, swimmings of the head, madness, 
melancholy, terrors in the Night and 
frightful dreams. It helps Frenzies, 
Ravenings, Dotage. It helps to rest, 
stops Rheums,quickens the eyelight, 
and helps other Infirmities of the 
Eyes. It recreates the Heart and is 
good against tremblings and palpita- 
tion thereof, and against swooning 
fits. It is good against Venoms and 
pestilential diseases, feavers, heart- 
burnings, and four belchings. It is 
good against pains of the Stomach 
and Guts. It strengthens the Liver, 
helps the Dropsie, and stops the he- 
patick flux so called. It asswages the 
Lientery, dysentery, and al fluxes of 
of the Belly. It represses the over- 
greatness of the Spleen, and opens 
the obstructions thereof. It clenses 
the blood, kils worms, provokes to 
Generation, breaks and expells the 
stone. It stops the immoderate flux 
of the courses, strengthens the womb, 
recreates the child in the womb, hin- 
ders the breeding of Monsters, and 
abortion. It helps such as are trou- 
bled with apparations, seem to be 
bewitched or possessed of Devils. A 
scruple or two may be given in some 
fitting conserve or water.
Mercurius sublimatus corrosivus. Pag. 
197. Lat. Or, Mercury 
sublimate corrosive. 
Colledg.] Take of Vitirol purified by 
solution, Filtration, and Coagulation, 
and calcined til is be yellow one pound 
Bay salt in like manner purified, and 
dried, Niter in like manner purified, 
of each half a pound; crude Mercury 
clensed by straining through a Linnen 
Rag, one pound: bruise them al in a  
wooden morter, with a wooden pestle 
til the Salts are in pouder, and no bits 
of the Mercury are seen, which will be 
best done if you do it at divers times; 
as for Exampte sake, taking Vitriol 
and Mercury, of each one ounce, Salt 
and Niter, of each half an ounce at a 
time, and so forth, til the whol matter 
be brought into a pouder and mixt, 
then put this matter into a glass body, 
so capacious that it fill not above the 
one half of it, place the glass a little a- 
bove the middle in Sand, in a conve- 
nient Furnace, give fire to it by de- 
grees, even to the heigth. Twelve or fix- 
teen hours being passed, the sublimated 
Mercury will stick to the top of the 
Glass, which being so separated and 
bruised, sublimate by itself the second  
and third time, and oftener if it be too 
impure, till it be as white as snow,and 
no Dross mixed with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is a deadly poyson taken in- 
wardly. It is used by surgeons where 
there is need of a strong corrosive.
Mercurius dulcis sublimatus. Pag. 198. 
Lat. Or, Mercury sublimate. 
Colledg.] Take of Mercury sublimated 
as before, four ounces, crude Mercury 
three ounces, bruise them, and grind 
them in a wooden mortar, with a woo- 
den pestle, til they be perfectly mixed;
put them in a long Phiol, which place 
above the middle in Sand. Put first a 
gentle fire under it, then encrease it by 
degrees six hours, that the Mercury 
may be driven from the bottom, into 
the middle region of the phiol, which 
being separated from that at top and 
bottom, sublime it the second time, and 
the third if need be, til it have left its 
acrimony, and be freed from all impu- 
rity, and be as white as Snow. 
Vertues newly addd. 
This is best given with some gen- 
tle purging Pils. The Dose is from 
fifteen to twenty grains, or half a 
dram at most. It kils worms, causes 
salivation, and cures the Venereal 
disease, to which intent it is given 
with extractum Rudij. It is thought to 
purge all humors. Being given three 
daies one after another, it inflames 
the Throat and Mouth, but without 
danger. It is by many given to chil-  
dren against the worms, the quantity 
of eight or ten grains. But if it be 
not carefully prepared, it may doe 
hurt. Outwardly applied it clenses 
foul Ulcers successfully without any 
vehement pain or corrossion. It is an 
enemy to the teeth, and therefore it 
must not be bitten or chewed. 
The two sorts of Mercury precipitated, 
white and red. Page 198. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of crude Mercury, dri- 
ven from Sea salt in a retort, one 
part; Aqua-fortis of our description 
two parts; make a dissolution accor- 
ding to art, mean season provide brine 
of Sea salt, and fair water, as strong 
as you can make it, filter it, and put 
your solution of Mercury into this 
brine, and forthwith a white pouder 
will precipitate, which is to be washed 
from its acrimony in simple distilled 
water, or warm spring water, dried 
and kept in a glass for use.  
Mercurius præcipitatus corrosivus. Pag. 
198. Lat. Or, Corrosive 
precipitate.
Colledg.] Make a dissolution of crude 
Mercury and Aqua fortis as before, 
then evaporate it till it be dry, at last 
encrease the fire, and stir the matter 
with an Iron, til it be red, keep it in 
a glass for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are corrosive and dangerous 
to give inwardly. They may be used 
outwardly in putrid and venereal ul- 
cers. A scruple of white precipitate 
dissolved in two ounces of Water 
wherein steel has bin quenched maks 
an effectual Remedy to cure Scabs 
an ditch. 
Mercurius vitæ. Page 198. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Butter of Antimo- 
ny distilled according to our prescript, 
put it into cleer water, which wil forth 
with be white, a milk white pouder wil 
precipitate, which is to be sweetned by 
much washing in warm water, and 
dried by a gentle heat, and kept for 
use. 
Regulus Antimonij. Page 199. Lat. 
Or, the Metal of Antimony. 
Colledg.] Take op crude Antimony, 
Salt peter, Tartar, of each equal parts, 
beat the Antimony a part in an iron 
Mortar, with an Iron Pestle, then ad 
the rest in pouder, put this pouder by 
degrees with a ladle into a hot Cruci- 
ble, placed amongst hot coals; af- 
ter it's burned, shake the Crucible 
gently that the Regulus may sink to 
the bottom, which being taken out and 
cooled by degrees, and freed prom the 
dross, keep for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
Bullets are molded of this Metall 
which are commended to be swol-
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211 CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS.  
lowed by such as are troubled with 
the Iliaca Paβio, Miserere mei, or 
twisting of the Guts. Hereof also the 
Antimonial cups are made, whose 
virtues & effects have been formerly 
described in this Book. It works by 
way of Vomiting, opening the pores 
of the body, and furthering insensible 
Transpiration.
Saccharum Saturni. Page 199. Latin 
Or, Sugar of Lead 
Colledg.] Put as much red Lead as 
you will in a glass, and put so much 
Vinegar to it, as may overtop it the 
breadth of four fingers; warm it, and 
stir it a good while, after it is setled, 
pour off the sweet Vinegar, and put in 
fresh, do it so often till no more sweet- 
neβ be drawn from it, put all the Li- 
quors together, and let them settle, 
then exhale it away in a glass, til half 
be consumed, or until, it being set in 
a Cellar, the Cristal appear, which 
having taken out axhale it again, and 
set it in a Cellar or cold place, til more 
Cristal arise, do so til no more appear, 
then dissolve the Cristal in cleer Wa- 
ter, filter and coagulate it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is rarely given inwardly, yet 
some have given it mixed in internal 
medicaments against the Gonorrhæa, 
and to asswage bodily Lust. Exter- 
nally used, it is good against all In- 
flammations, and is an universall 
pain-asswager. It is commended a- 
gainst Inflammations of the Eyes, 
being mixed in Eye-salves to that in-                                   
tent.
Sal Vitrioli. Page 199. Latin. 
Reduce Ungarick, or English Vitriol 
being calcined in a crucible, into pou- 
der, of an obscure purple color, which 
pouder cast by degrees into a large 
glaβ, in which is either distilled, com- 
mon or other very cleer water, stirring 
it continually with a stick, til the wa- 
ter which was at first hot, is cold, then 
let it stand twenty four hours, then fil- 
ter it, lastly exhale it in a glass vessel, 
and coagulate it according to art.
Turpothum Minerale. Page 200. 
Latin.  
Colledg.] Take of crude Mercury, 
Oyl of Vitriol separated from all the 
flegm, of each equal parts, still them 
in Sand, encreasing the fire by degrees, 
till all the moisture be flown up in the 
air, a white mass remaining in the 
bottom, which being separated from 
the crude Mercury, wash in spring 
water and forthwith it wil be yellow, 
wash it in warm water from all its a- 
crimony, dry it and keep it for use.
Tartarum Vitriollatum. Page 230. 
Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Liquor of Tartar 
four ounces, into which drop by drops 
two ounces of Oyl of Vitriol wel recti- 
fied, so will a white pouder fall to the 
bottom, which dry, and keep for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Medicament is highly mag- 
nified by the Chymists as an univer- 
sal digestive and preparative of all 
humors. It fixes the volatil salt in 
mans body. It provokes Urin. It 
stops Vomiting. It helps headaches, 
by repelling Vapors that flie into the 
head. The dose is ten, fifteen, or, 
twenty grains, in some fitting water 
or Conserve.
Vitriolum album depuratum. Page 200 
Latin. Or, white Vitriol
clensed 
Colledg.] Dissolve white Vitriol in 
cleer water, filter it, and coagulate it. 
Vitrum Antimonij. Page 200. 
Latin, 
Colledg. Take of good Antimony in 
fine pouder, and put it in a Large stone 
vessel, put fire under, till it grow into 
clots, heat it, and do so again and a-                    
gain, alwaies stirring it till it resemble 
white ashes, and smoak not at all, then 
take of this half a pound. Borax half 
an ounce, put them in a crucible, the 
which cover with a Tile, set it in a 
strong fire, til there flow a matter like 
water, then put it into a braβ or cop- 
per vessel, and keep the glass for use
The General way 
of making 
Extracts. 
EXtracts may be made almost of e- 
very Medicine, whether Simple, 
as Herbs, Flowers, Seeds, or Com- 
pound, as species or Pils: Therefore 
take of any Medicine cut or bruised, 
or prepared as the Infusion requires, 
and pour to it spirit of Wine, or di- 
stilled water, as the Physitian com- 
mands, let it stand in infusion in the 
heat of a bath, two daies more or less, 
according as the thickness or thin- 
ness of the matter requires until the 
tincture be sufficient, then separate 
the Liquor and put in more as before 
sore, do so til the Medicine afford no 
more tincture; put all these Liquors 
together and filter them, and exhale 
the humidity by the heat of a bath, 
til the matter be left at the bottom of 
the thickness of Honey, to which if 
the Physitian prescribe, you may add 
two scruples or half a dram of its 
own proper, or other convenient Salt 
to every ounce of extract, that so it 
may keep the longer. 
The way of making 
SALTS.  
Salt Volatile, or Essential 
is thus made. 
TAke of any Plant when it is fresh 
and full of Juyce, a sufficient 
quantity, bruise it in a wooden Mor- 
tar, and a great deal of cleer water 
being added, boyl it til half be con- 
sumed, strain the Decoction, press it 
strongly, and boyl it to the thickness 
of Honey, set it in a glass or glazed 
vessel in a cold place, eight daies at 
least, and a Crystal Salt wil arise like 
Sal. Gem which gather, and wash 
with its proper water, and dry for 
your use. Thus is Salt made of 
Wormwood, Carduus, Mugwort, and 
other bitter Herbs; but of other 
Herbs with much difficulty. 
Salt fixed, or Elementary, 
is thus made. 
It consists in four things. Calcina-
tian. Solution, Filtration, Coagulation. 
Burn the matter you would make 
Salt of into white ashes, and herein 
somtimes you must have a care left by 
too hasty burning they run to glass; 
then with cleer water make the ashes 
into Lie to draw out the Salt, filter 
the Ly & boyl it in an earthen vessel 
by a gentle fire, that the water may be 
exhaled, and the Salt left; which, so- 
lution, filteration, and Coagulation, 
being repeated certain times, it will 
be free from all impurity, and be ve- 
ry white. 
Thus is prepared Salt of Plants, 
and parts of Living Creatures, a- 
mongst which these excel; Salt of 
Wormwood, Time, Rosemary, Cen- 
taury the less, Mugwort, Carduus, 
Masterwort, Parsly, Rest-harrow, 
Ash, Dwarf-Elder, Box, Chamomel, 
St. Johns wort, Cichory, Sullendine, 
Scurvy grass, Betony, Maudlin, Bawm, 
Cetrach, &c.
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212 Preparations of certain Simple Medicines
PREPARATIONS 
of certain Simple 
Medicines. 
The way of preparing Fats.
TAke of fresh Fats, the Veins, 
strings, and skins being taken 
away, wash them so often in fair wa- 
ter till they be no longer bloody; 
then beat them wel, and melt them in 
a double vessel, strain them, and pour 
off the water, keep it in a glass in a 
cold place; it wil endure a yeer. 
So also is prepared Marrow taken 
out of fresh bones, especially in Au- 
tumn. 
The burning of Brass.
Lay flakes of Brass in an earthen 
vessel, interposing Salt or Brimstone 
between each of them, so lay flake 
upon flake, burn them sufficiently, 
and wash the ashes with warm water 
til they be sweet.
The washing of Aloes.
Put as much Aloes in Pouder in a 
glass as you wil, putting a sufficient 
quantity of warm water to it, that it 
may overtop it two or three fingers 
thickness, stirring it about with a 
spatule, that the purer part of the A- 
loes may be mixed with the water; 
that being poured off, put in fresh 
warm water, and stir it in like man- 
ner, that the dross may be separated; 
gather those waters together, eva- 
porate the humidity, and keep the 
Mass. 
The preparation of Bole Armeniack. 
Grind it smal, and dissolve it so 
often in Rosewater, til the dross and 
sand be taken away, dry it in the sun, 
and keep it being dried. 
Fœcula Brioneœ. 
Take of Briony roots scraped, brui- 
sed and the juyce pressed out, which 
being done, let it stand stil a while in 
a vessel, a white pouder like Starch                   
will fall to the bottom, from which 
pour the Water, and let it dry for use. 
So is Gersa Serpentaria prepared of 
Aron Roots, and Fœcula of the roots 
of Rhadishes, and Orris. 
May Butter. 
About the latter end of May, take 
fresh Butter without salt, and in a  
glazed earthen vessel, set it in the 
sun, that it may be all melted, strain 
it through a rag without pressing; 
set it in the sun again, strain it again, 
and keep it a yeer. 
The preparation of Lapis 
Calaminaris. 
Heat it red hot three times in the 
fire, and quench it as often in Plan- 
tane and Rose water, and at last le- 
vigate it upon a Marble, and with 
the same waters make it into Balls. 
The washing of Lime. 
Bruise Quick-lime, put it in a pan, 
and mix it with sweet water, and 
when it is setled to the bottom, 
change the water, and mix it again; 
do so seven or eight times, filtring it 
every time; at last, do it with Rose 
water, and dry the Lime. 
The preparation of Coral, Pearls, 
Crabs Eyes, and other pre- 
cious Stones. 
Beat them in a steel Mortar, 
and levigate them on a Marble, put- 
ting a little Rose water to them, till 
they are in a very fine pouder, then 
make them into Balls.
The preparation of Coriander seed.
Steep them twenty four hours in 
sharp Vinegar, then dry them. So 
may you prepare Cummin seed.
The burning of Harts-horn, Ivo- 
ry, and other Bones. 
Burn them in a Crucible till they 
be white, then beat them into pou- 
der, and wash them in Rose water, 
at last levigate them on a Marble, 
and make them into Troches, you                  
may dissolve Camphire half an ounce 
in the last pound of Rose water, if 
you please. 
A new preparation of them. 
Hang them by a thrid in a vessel of 
Aqua vitæ, so as that they touch not 
the Liquor; then putting on the 
head, distil it, and the vapors ascen- 
ding will make them casie to be 
brought into pouder, after many di- 
stillations.
The way to make Elaterium. 
Take of wild Cucumers almost ripe, 
and cut them with the knife upwards, 
and gently press out the juyce with 
your foremost fingers, let it run 
through a sieve iuto a clean glazed 
vessel, let it settle, and pour off the 
cleerwater into another vessel,dry the 
settlings in the Sun, and keep them 
for use; if you will you may keep the 
cleer water for Unguentum de Arta- 
nita.                                
The preparation of the Bark of
Spurge Roots. 
Clense them and infuse them three 
daies in sharp Vinegar, then dry 
them. So are Lawrel Leaves, Meze- 
reon, and other things of that nature 
prepared. 
The preparation of Euphorbium. 
Take of Euphorbium purged from 
the Dross, and poudered, put it in a 
glass, and put so great a quantity of 
juyce of Lemmons to it, that it may 
overtop it three or four fingers; then 
place them in a hot bath, til the Eu- 
phorbium be dissolved in the juyce, 
strain it through a rag: place it in a 
bath again, and evaporate away the 
Juyce, and keep the Euphorbium for 
use. 
The preparation of black Hel-
lebore Roots. 
Steep such black Hellebore Roots 
as are brought to us, the woody pith 
being taken away, three daies in 
juyce of Quinces by a moderate 
heat: then dry them, and lay them 
up.
The preparation of Goats blood. 
Take a Goat of a middle age, and 
and feed him a month with Burnet, 
Smallage, Parsley, Mallows, Lovage, 
and such like things, kil him in the 
end of Summer about the Dog daies;                     
then take the blood which flows out 
of his Arteries, and let it settle, pou- 
ring off the water, dry the blood in 
an Oven. 
The burning of yong Swallows. 
Kil yong Swallows so as the blood 
may flow upon their wings, then 
sprinkle them with a little salt, and 
burn them in a glazed vessel, and 
keep the ashes for use. So are bur- 
ned Hedghogs, Frogs, Toads, and 
the like Creatures. 
The preparation of Lacca. 
Take of Lacca not clensed, for o- 
therwise your labor were vain, brui- 
sed a little, and and boyled in water 
in which the Roots of long Birth- 
wort, and Squinanth, each equal 
parts have been boyled, til the purer 
part swim at top, and the dross sink 
to the bottom; keep that purer part, 
put it in a glass and cover it, and eva- 
porate away the moisture either by 
the heat of the Sun, or of a bath, and 
being dry, keep it for use.
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213 Preparations of certain Simple Medicines.  
The preparation of Lapis Lazuli.
Let Lapis Lazuli being beaten in- 
to very fine pouder, be so often wash- 
ed in water, continually stirring it, til 
the water (after washing) remain 
cleer, without any other tast then its 
own. 
The preparation of Litharge.
Let the Litharge be ground into 
very fine pouder in a mortar, then 
pour cleer water upon it, and stir it 
up and down til it be troubled and 
thick, then pour off that water into 
another vessel, and put in fresh wa- 
ter to the pouder of the stone, stir 
that up and down till it be thick, and 
pour that water off to the former: 
do this so often til nothing but dross 
remains in the Mortar, the thinner 
substance being all mixed with the 
water you poured off, let that stand 
and settle, so wil the pure Litharge 
remain in the bottom, pour the water 
off gently, dry the Litharge, and 
grind it upon a Marble so long til no 
harshness can be discerned in it by 
your tongue. 
The preparation of Earth-worms. 
Slit them in the middle, and wash 
them so often in white wine till they 
be clensed from their impurity, then 
dry them, and keep them for your 
use.
The preparation of Sows, or Wood-lice. 
Take of Wood-lice as many as you                               
will, wash them very clean in pure 
white Wine, then put them in a new 
glazed pot, which being shut close 
put into a hot Oven, that so they 
may be dried with a moderate heat 
to be beaten into pouder.
The manner of preparing Ocsipus. 
Take of Wool unclensed which 
was taken off from the Neck, Ribs, 
and Shoulder-pits of the Sheep, put 
it into warm water often times, and 
wash it diligently till all the fatness 
be come off from it into the water; 
afterwards press it out, and lay it by, 
then pour that fat and filthy water 
out of one vessel into another, hold- 
in the vessel on high, pouring and 
repouring til it be frothy; let the 
froath settle, then take away the fat 
that swims on the top, pour and re- 
pour it as before till it be froathy, 
then again take away the fat that 
swims at the top; do so, so often til 
no more froath appear, nor fat swim 
at top; then take the fat, with the 
froath, and wash it up and down with 
your hand in cleer water, so often 
and so long till the filth be washed 
from it, which may be known by the 
water remaining cleer, and the fat 
being tasted do not bite your tongue, 
then keep it in a thick and clean pot 
in a cold place. 
The preparation of Opium. 
Dissolve the Opium in spirit of 
Wine, strain it, and evaporate it to 
its due consistence. 
Pouder of Raw Lead. 
Beat your Lead into very thin 
Plates, and cut these thin plates into 
very small pieces, the which steep 
three daies in very sharp Vinegar, 
changing the Vinegar every day,then 
take them out and dry them, without 
burning them, and take a little pains 
with them in a mortar to bring them 
into very fine pouder.  
The washing of Lead. 
Stir about water in a Leaden mor-  
tar with a Leaden pestle, and labor 
at it to some purpose, till the water 
look black and thick; strain out this 
water, dry it and make it into balls. 
The burning of Lead.
Take as many thin plates of Lead 
as you please, put them into a new 
earthen pot, lay them plate upon 
plate with Brimstone between each 
plate, then put the pot in the fire, 
and stir the Lead about with an Iron 
Spatule when the Brimstone burns, 
untill you have brought it all into 
ashes, the which wash in clear water, 
and keep it for your use.
The preparation of Fox Lungs.
Take of the fresh Lungs of a Fox 
the Aspera Arteria being taken a- 
way, wash them diligently in white  
wine, in which Hysop and Scabious  
hath been boyled, then dry them in 
an Oven so moderately hot that no 
part of them may be burned, then 
keep them in a glass stopped with 
Wax. 
The preparation of Scammony.  
Take the Core out of a Quince 
and fil the void place with pouder of, 
Scammony, then joyn the Quince to-  
gether again, and wrap it in Past,  
bake it in an Oven, or rost it under 
the ashes; afterwards take out the  
Scammony and keep it for use. This 
is that which is vulgarly called Dia- 
crydium or Diagrydium.              
Another way of Prepation of  
Scammony with Sulphur.
Take of Scammony beaten small, 
as much as you wil, spread it upon 
brown paper and hold it over hot 
coals upon which you have put 
Brimstone, stir the Scammony about 
all the while till it begin to melt or 
look white; and this is called Scam- 
mony sulphurated. 
The preparation of Squills.
Take a great Squill whilst it is 
green, casting away the outward 
rinds, wrap it in past and bake it in 
an Oven til it be tender, which you 
may know if you pierce it through 
with a Bodkin, then take it out of                      
the Oven and take off all the flakes 
one by one (leaving that part which 
is hard behind) draw a cord through 
them and hang them in a dry place, 
at that distance one from the other, 
that one may not touch another, till 
they be dried; yet take this caution 
along with you, that you ought not 
to cut nor peirce them with any I- 
ron Instrument, but with wood, Ivo- 
ry or bone.
Washed Tartar. 
Take of bruised Tartar as much as 
you wil, pour cold and pure spring 
water to it, stir it up and down, then 
let it settle, pour off that water and 
pour on more, use it as before, and 
repeat the usage so long til the water 
remain cleer after washing. 
Boyled Turpentine. 
Take of Venice Turpentine a 
pound, to which pour twenty four 
pound of Water, in which, boyl it so 
long til it be thick, and being cold 
may be rubbed in pouder like Rozin 
and beaten like glass.
The preparation of Tutty.
Tutty is prepared the same way 
that Lapis Calaminaris is; tie it up 
in a clean Linen Cloth, which shake 
up and down, drawing it this way 
and that way in a vessel full of cleer 
water, til the thinner and more pro- 
fitable part come out into the water, 
and the thicker and impurer remain 
in the cloath; then let it settle, and 
pour off the water gently from it; 
repeat this operation so often, til no- 
thing good for any thing remain in 
the cloth: Then take what you have 
purified, sprinkle it with a little Rose 
Water, make it into Troches to be 
kept for use.
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214 
A
KEY to Galen's 
Method of Physick. 
The Generall Use
OF
PHYSICK
I Shal desire thee whoever thou art, 
that intendest the Noble (though 
too much abused) Study of Physick, 
to mind heedfully these following 
Rules, which being wel understood, 
shew thee the Key of Galen and Hip- 
pocrates their Method of Physick: He 
that useth their Method and is not 
heedfull of these Rules, may soon 
Tinker-like, mend one hole and 
make two: cure one Disease and 
cause another more desperate.
That then thou maist understand 
what I intend, It is to discover in a 
general way the manifest Vertues of 
Medicines and you may behold them 
in this Order:
Sect 1. Of the tem- 
parature of Medicines. 
Sect 2. Of the Appro- 
priation of Medicines. 
Sect 3. Of the Pro- 
perties of Medicines. 
SECT. I.
Of the Temperature of 
Medicines. 
HErbs, Plants, and other Medi- 
cines manifestly operate, either 
by Hea; Coldness, Driness, or Moi- 
sture, for the world being composed 
of so many qualities, they and only 
they can be found in the world, and 
the mixtures of them one with ano- 
ther.
But that these may appear as cleer 
as the Sun when it is upon the Meri- 
dian, I shal treat of them severally, 
and in this Order. 
1 Of Medicines Temperate. 
2 Of Medicines Hot. 
3 Of Medicines Cold. 
4 Of Medicines Moist. 
5 Of Medicines Dry. 
Of Medicines Temperate. 
If the World be composed of Ex- 
treams, then it arts by Extreams, for 
as the man is, so is his work: there- 
fore it is impossible that any Medi- 
cine can be temperate, but may be 
reduced to Heat, Cold, Driness, or 
Moisture, and most oderate (I mean 
such as operate by manifest quality) 
by one of these, because there is no 
other to operate by, and that there 
should be such a Temperate mixture, 
so exquisitely of these qualities in a- 
ny Medicine, that one of them should 
not manifestly excell the other, I 
doubt it is a systeme too rare to 
find.
Thus then I conclude the matter to 
be, Those Medicines are called Tem- 
perate (not because they have no ex- 
cess of Temperature at all in them) 
which can neither be said, to heat 
nor cool so much as will amount to 
the first degree of excess, for daily ex- 
perience witnesseth that they being 
added to Medicines change not their 
qualities, they make them neither 
hotter nor colder. 
Their Use. They are used in such 
Diseases where is no manifest distem- 
per of the first qualities, viz. Heat 
and Cold: For Example; In Ob- 
struction of the Bowels, where cold 
medicines might make the Obstructi- 
on greater, and hot Medicines cause 
a Feaver.                              
In Feavers of Flegm, where the 
cause is cold and moist, and the effect 
hot and dry; in such, use temperate 
Medicines which may neither en- 
crease the Feaver by their heat, nor 
condensate the Flegm by their cold- 
ness.
Besides, Because Contraries are 
taken away by their Contraries, and 
every Like maintained by its Like; 
they are of great use, to preserve the 
constitution of the body temperate, 
and the Body it self in strength and 
vigor, and may be used without dan- 
ger, or fear of danger, by considering 
what part of the Body is weak, and 
using such temperate Medicines as 
are appropriated to that Part. 
Of Medicines Hot. 
The care of the Antient Physitians 
was such that they did not labor to 
hide from, but impart to Posterity, 
not only the temperature of Medici- 
nes in general, but also their degrees 
in temperature, that so the distempe- 
red part may be brought to its tem- 
perature, and no further; for al things 
which are of a contrary temperature, 
conduce not to cure, but the strength 
of the contrariety must be observed, 
that so the Medicine may be neither 
weaker nor stronger, than just to take 
away the distemper; for if the distem- 
per be but meanly hot, and you ap- 
ply a Medicine cold in the fourth de- 
gree,'tis true you may soon remove 
that distemper of heat, and bring a- 
nother of cold twice as bad. Galen. 
de simp. med. facul. lib. 3. cap. 12. 
Then Secondly, Not only the di- 
stemper it self, but also the part of the 
Body distempered must be heeded; 
for if the Head be distempered by 
heat, and you give such Medicines as 
cool the Heart and Liver, you will 
bring another Disease, and not cure 
the former. 
The Degrees then of Temperature 
are to be diligently heeded, which 
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215 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
antient Physitians have concluded to 
be Four in the Qualities, vix. Heat 
and Cold; of each of which we shal 
speak a word or two severally.
Of Medicines hot in the 
first Degree.  
Those are said to be hot in the first 
degree,which induce a moderate and 
Natural heat to the Body, and to the 
parts thereof; either cold by nature,  
or cooled by accident, by which Na- 
tural heat is cherished when weak, or 
restored when wanting. 
Effect 1. The first Effect then of 
Medicines hot in the first Degree, is, 
by their sweat and temperate heat to 
reduce the Body to its Natural heat 
as the fire doth the external parts in 
cold weather, unless the affliction of 
cold be so great that such mild Medi- 
cines will not serve the turn. 
Effect 2. The second Effect is the 
Mitigation of pain arising from such 
a Distemper, and indeed this Effect 
hath other Medicines, some that are 
cold, and some that are hotter than 
the first degree, they being rationally 
applied to the distemper. Thess Me- 
dicines the Greeks cal α'νωςυνα, and 
shall be spoken of in their proper 
places. In this place let it suffice                   
that medicines hot in the first degree, 
make the offending humors thin, and 
and expel them by sweat, or insensi- 
ble transpiration, and these of all o- 
ther are most congruous or agreeable 
to the Body of Man, for there is no 
such equal temperature of heat and 
and cold in a found Man, but Heat 
exceeds,for we live by heat and moi- 
sture, and not by cold.  
Medicines then which are hot in 
the first degree, are such as just cor- 
respond to the Natural heat of our 
Bodies; such as are hotter or cold- 
er, are more subject to do mischief,
being administred by an unskilfull 
hand, than these are, because of their 
contrariety to Nature; whereas these 
are grateful to the body by their mo- 
derate Heat. 
Effect. 3. Thirdly, These take a- 
way weariness, and help feavers, be- 
ing outwardly applied, because they 
open the Pores of the skin, and by 
their gentle heat prepare the Hu- 
mors, and take away those fuliginous 
vapors that are caused by Feavers. 
Discommodities.] Yet many Dis- 
commodities arise by heedless giving 
even of these, which I would have 
young Students in Physick to be ve- 
ry careful in, left they do more mis- 
chief than they are aware of, viz. It 
is possible by too much use of them, 
to consume not only what is inimi- 
cal in the body, but also the substan- 
ce it self, and the strength of the spi- 
rits, whence comes faintings, and 
somtimes death: Besides, by apply- 
ing them to the parts of the Body 
they are not appropriated to, or by 
not heeding wel the complexion of 
the Patient, or the Natural temper of 
the part of the body afflicted, for the 
Heart is hot,but the brain temperate. 
Effect 4. Lastly, Medicines hot in 
the first degree,cherish hear in the in- 
ternal parts, help concoction, breed 
good blood, and keep it in temper, 
being bred.
Of Medicines hot in the Second 
Degree. 
Having spoken of Medicines hot 
in the first Degree, it follows now in 
order to speak of those that are hot 
in the Second: These are something 
hotter then the Natural temper of a 
Man. 
Use. Their use is for such whose 
stomachs are filled with moisture, be- 
cause their faculty is too hot or dry; 
they take away obstructions or stop- 
pings, open the Pores of the skin, but 
not in the same manner that such do 
as are hot in the first degree, for they 
do it without force, by a gentle heat, 
concocting, and expelling the Hu- 
mors, by strengthening and helping 
Nature in the work; but these cut 
tough Humors, and scatter them by 
their own force and power when-na- 
ture cannot. 
Of Medicines hot in the third 
Degree.
Those which attain the third De- 
gree of heat, have the same Faculties 
with those before mentioned; but as 
they are hotter, so are they more 
powerful in their operations, for they 
are so powerfull in heating and cut- 
ting, that if unadvisedly given they 
cause Feavers, Use. Their use is to 
cut tough and compacted Humors, 
provoke sweat abundantly; hence it 
comes to pass that all of them resist 
poyson. 
Of Medicines hot in the fourth 
Degree. 
Those Medicines obtain highest 
degree of Heat, which are so hot that 
they burn the Body of Man, being 
outwardly applied to it, and cause  
inflamations, or raise Blisters; as 
Crowfoot, Mustard-seed, Onions, 
&c. Of these more hereafter. 
Of Cooling Medicines. 
PHysitians have also observed 
Four Degrees of Coldness, in 
Medicines, which I shall briefly treat 
of in order. 
Of Medicines cold in the First 
Degree.
Those Medicines which are least 
cold of, al obtain the first Degree of
Coldness; and I beseech you take 
notice of this, That seeing our Bo- 
dies are nourished by heat, and wee 
live by heat, therefore no cold Medi- 
cines are Naturally, and perse (as 
Scholars cal it) friendly to the body, 
but what good they do our Bodies, 
they do it per accidens, viz. by remo- 
ving an unnatural heat, or the Body 
heated above its Natural temper. 
The giving then of cold Medicines 
to a man in his Natural temper, the 
season of the year also being but mo- 
derately hot, extinguisheth Natural 
heat in the body of Man. 
Yet have these a necessary use in 
them too, though not so frequent as 
hot Medicines have; and that may 
be the reason why the All-wise God 
hath furnished us with far more hot 
Herbs and Plants, &c. than cold.
Use 1. Their Use is first, in Nou- 
rishment, that so the heat of food 
may be qualified, and made for a 
weak stomach to digest, and there- 
fore are Sallets used in Summer. 
Use 2. Secondly, To restrain and 
asswage the heat of the Bowels, and 
to cool the blood in Feavers. 
Therefore if the distemper of heat 
be but gentle, Medicines cold in the 
first Degree wil suffice; also Chil- 
dren, and such people whose Stom- 
achs are weak, are easily hurt by cold 
Medicines. 
Of Medicines cold in the Second 
and Third Degree. 
Use 1. Such whose Stomachs are 
strong, and Livers hot, may easily 
bear such Medicines as are cold in 
the second degree, and in cases of ex- 
tremity find much help by them: as 
as also by such as are cold in the 
third degree, the extremity of the dis- 
ease considered: for by both these 
the unbridled heat of Choller is as- 
swaged. 
Use 2. Also they are outwardly 
applied to hot swellings, due consi- 
deration being had. That if the infla- 
mation be not great, use those that 
are less; if the inflamation be vehe- 
ment, make use of Medicines cold in 
the second or third degree; Alwaies let 
the Remedy correspond to the just 
proportion of the Affliction. 
Use 3. Thirdly, sometimes the 
Spirits are moved inordinatly 
through heat, thence follows immo- 
derate watchings, if not deprivation 
of the Sences: this also must be Re- 
medied with cold Medicines; for 
cold stops the Pores of the skin; 
makes the humors thick, represseth
sweat, and keeps up the Spirits from 
fainting. 
Of Medicines cold in the Fourth 
Degree. 
Lastly, The Use of Medicines cold
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216 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
in the fourth Degree, is, To mitigate 
desperate and vehement pains, stupi- 
fying the Sences, when no other 
course can be taken to save life: Of 
the use of which more hereafter.
Of Moistning Medicines. 
There can be no such difference 
found amongst Moistning Medicines, 
that they should surpass the second 
degree. For seeing al Medicines are 
either hot or cold; neither heat nor 
cold, seeing they are extreams, can 
consist with moisture, for the one 
dries it up, the other condensates 1t. 
Use. Phylosophers therefore call 
moisture and driness, Passive quali- 
ties, yet have they their operation 
likewise; for moist Medicines lenifie 
and make slippery, ease the Cough, 
and help the roughness of the throat. 
These operations are proper to medi- 
cines moist in the first Degree. 
Those which are moister, take a- 
way Natural strength, helps the 
sharpness of humors, make both 
blood and spirits thicker, looseth the 
belly, and fit it for purgation. 
The immoderate or indiscreet use 
of them duls the Body, and makes it 
unfit for Action.
Of drying Medicines. 
Drying Medicines have contrary 
Faculties to these, viz. To consume 
moisture, stop fluxes, and make such 
parts dry as are slippery, they make 
the Body and Members firm, when 
they are weakened by too much moi- 
sture, that so they may perform their 
proper functions. 
Yet although the Members be 
strengthned by drying medicines, 
they have notwithstanding their own 
proper Moisture in them, which 
ought to be conserved, and not de- 
stroyed, for without it they cannot 
consist: If then this moisture be con- 
sumed by using, or rather over-use of 
drying Medicines, the Members can 
neither be nourished, nor yet perform 
their proper actions. 
Such Medicines as are dry in the 
third Degree, being unadvisedly gi- 
ven, hinder the parts of the Body 
they are appropriated to, of their 
Nourishment, and by that means 
brings them into Consumption. 
Besides, There is a certain moisture 
in the Body of Man, which is called 
Radical moisture, which being taken 
away, the parts must needs die, see- 
ing natural beat and life also consists 
in it; and this may be done by too 
frequent use of medicines dry in the 
fourth degree: And it may be this 
was the reason of Galen his writing, 
That things dry in the fourth degree, 
must of necessity burn; which is an 
effect of heat, and not of driness, un- 
less by Burning, Galen means consu- 
ming the Radical moisture.                  
The use then of drying Medicines, 
is only to such Bodies, and parts of 
the Body, as abound with moisture; 
in which observe these Rules: 
1. If the moisture be not extream, 
let not the Medicine be extream dry- 
ing. 
2. Let it be proper to the part of 
the Body afflicted; for if the Liver  
be afflicted by moisture, and you go  
about to dry the Brain or Heart, you  
may sooner kill than cure. 
Thus have we briefly spoken of the 
first Qualtities of Medicines, and in 
the general only, and but briefly, be-  
cause we shal alwaies touch upon  
them in the Exposition of the other 
Qualities, in which you must alwaies 
have an eye to these. 
SECT. II.
Of the Appropriation 
of Medicines to the 
severall Parts of 
the Body. 
ANtient Physitians also kept a 
grievous Racket about this, 
some denying any specificall vertues 
at al in Medicines, or any congruity 
to certain parts of the Body, but were 
of Opinion, that such as strengthen
the Head, must needs strengthen the 
Bowels, and al other parts of the Bo-
dy, by the same Rule: Because being
ignorant of the influence of the hea- 
vens, they would give no Reason for 
the contrary: and so whatsoever is 
obnoxious to one part of the Body, 
must needs be obnoxious to all the 
rest, by the same Rule. 
Others hold them to be appropri- 
ated to the particular parts of the 
Body, by an hidden property as they 
cal it, because their ignorance in A- 
stronomy knew not what to make of 
it, or how the Medicines operated, 
and their experience testifying that 
they had distinct operations upon di- 
stinct parts of the Body. 
Others have labored to find out a 
middle way between both these, and 
and they hold that what Medicines 
strengthen one part of the Body, must 
needs in some measure, strengthen al 
the rest, yet so as that it is peculiarly 
appropriated to that part of the body 
which it strengthens; & their reason 
is, Because the substance of the Medi- 
cine agrees with the substance of that 
part of the body which it strengthens, 
& every one almost that hath but Wit 
enough to eat an Eg, knows that the 
substance of all Parts of the Body are 
not alike. This argument hath some 
weight in it, though in my Opinion, 
it falls a little too low; for it is a cer- 
tain truth, The Sympathy and Anti-
pathy of the Creation, is the Cause 
both of al Diseases, and also of the o- 
perations of al Medicines. However, 
I may intertex my Opinion of what 
Physitians cal [Hidden qualities] now
and then with it; yet my scope shall 
be to treat chiefly of this at this time 
til time and opportunity (together 
with the wil of my Creator) give me 
leave to digest what they cal [Hid- 
den Qualities] into such a form that 
others may understand it as well as 
my self: I am sickly, and have no 
body to help me, I can do things 
no faster than I can. 
That the qualities and use of these 
medicines may be found out, and un- 
derstood by every one, and so my 
Country reap the benefit of my La- 
bor, they shal find them presented to 
their view in this Order. 
Medicines appropriated 
1. To the Head. 
2. To the Breast and Lungs, 
3- To the Heart, 
4. To the Stomach, 
5. To the Liver, 
6. To the Spleen, 
7. To the Reins and Bladder, 
8. To the Womb, 
9. To the Joynts, 
Chap. 1. Of Medicines appropria- 
to the Head. 
BY [Head] is usually understood 
al that part of the Body which is 
between the top of the Crown, and 
the uppermost joynt of the Neck; yet 
are those Medicines properly called 
Cephalical, which are appropriated to 
the Brain, not to the Eyes, Eears, nor 
Teeth; neither are those Medicines 
which are proper to the Ears, proper 
also to the Eyes; therefore (my in- 
tent being to write as plain as I can) 
I shal subdivide this Chapter into 
these parts. 
Medicines appropriated 
1. To the Brain, 
2. To the Eyes, 
3. To the Mouth and Nostrils, 
4. To the Ears, 
5. To the Teeth, 
For what Medicines are appropri- 
ated to an unruly Tongue, is not in
my prower at present to determin. 
Of Medicines appropriated to 
the Brain. 
Before we treat of Medicines ap- 
propriated to the Brain, it is requisite 
that we describe what the nature and 
affection of the Brain is. 
The brain which is the feat of Ap- 
prehension, Judgment, and Memory, 
the Original of Sence and Motion, is 
by Nature temperate, and if so, then 
you wil grant me that it may easily 
be afflicted both by Heat and Cold, 
and it is indeed more subject to affli- 
ctions by either of them, than any o- 
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217 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
ther part of the body, for if it be a- 
fflicted by Heat, Sence and Reason, 
are immoderatly moved, if by cold 
they languish, and are dulled, to pass 
by other Symptoms which invade 
the head, if the Brain be altered from 
its proper temper. 
Also this is peculiar to the Brain, 
that it is delighted or offended by 
smels, sights, and sounds: but I shal 
meddle no further with these here, 
because they are not Medicines. 
Cephalical medicines may be found 
out from the Affections of the Brain 
itself. The Brain is usually oppre- 
ssed with moisture in such afflictions; 
therefore give such Medicines as ve- 
ry gently warm, clense, cut, and dry: 
but withal, let them be such as are 
appropriated to the Head, such as 
Physitians say [by an hidden quality] 
strengthen the Brain. 
Again, if you consider the scitua- 
tion of the Brain, you shal find it pla- 
ced in the highest part of the body, 
therefore it is easily afflicted with hot 
vapors: this punisheth a man with 
watchings and head-ach, as the for- 
mer did with sottishness and sleepi- 
ness; in such cases use such Cepha- 
licks as gently cool the Brain. 
To make Cephalicks of Narcoticks, 
or stupifying Medicines, is not my 
intent, for I am confident they are 
inimical both to Brain and Senses. 
Of these, and such Medicines also as 
purge the brain, I shal speak by and 
by. To return to my purpose. 
Some Cephalicks purge the brain, 
some heat it, some cool it, some 
strengthen it; but how they perform 
this Office peculiarly to the Brain, 
most Physitians confess they could 
neither comprehend by Reason, nor 
describe by Precepts, only thus they 
do it by an hidden quality, either by 
strengthening the Brain, thereby de- 
fending it from Diseases, or by a cer- 
tain Antipathy between them and 
the Diseases incident to the brain.
Lastly, For the use of Cephalicks, 
observe, if the brain be much affli- 
cted, you cannot wel strengthen it be- 
fore you have purged it, neither can 
you wel purge the brain before you 
have clensed the rest of the body, it is 
so subject to receive the vapors up to 
it; give cooling Cephalicks, when 
the brain is too hot, and hot Cepha-
licks when it is too cold. 
Beware of using cooling Medi- 
cines to the brain when the Crisis of a 
Disease is neer: How that time may 
be known, I shal (God assisting me) 
instruct you hereafter, I cannot do al 
things at one time; let it suffice now, 
that according as the Disease afflict- 
ing your Head is, so let your remedy 
be. 
Of Medicines appropriated to 
the Eyes. 
Take such medicines as are appro- 
priated to the Eyes under the Name
of [Ocular Medicines] I do it partly 
to avoid multiplicity of Words, and 
partly to instruct my Country men in 
the terms of Art belonging to Phy- 
sick, (I would have called them 
[Ophthalmicks] had not the word 
bin troublesom to the reading, much 
more to the understanding of a coun- 
try man) as I even now called such 
Medicines [Cephalicks] as were ap- 
propriated to the Brain. 
Ocular Medicines are two-fold, 
viz. such as are referred to the Visive 
Vertues, and such as are referred to 
the Eyes themselves. 
Such as strengthen the Visive Ver- 
tue or the Optick Nerves which con- 
vey it to the Eyes (say Doctors) do 
it by an hidden vertue, into the rea- 
son of which no man can dive, unless 
they should fetch it from the Simili- 
tude of the substance: And yet they 
say a Goats Liver conduceth much 
to make one see in the night, and 
they give this Reason, Because Goats 
see as wel in the night as in the day. 
Yet is there no affinity in tempera- 
ture nor substance between the liver 
and the eyes: However Astrologers 
know well enough that al Herbs, 
Plants, &c. that are under the Do- 
minion of either Sun or Moon, and 
appropriated to the Head, be they 
hot or cold they strengthen the Vi- 
sive Vertue, as Eye-bright, which is 
hot; Lunaria or Moonwort, which 
is cold. 
As for what appertains to the con- 
stitution of the Eyes themselves, see- 
ing they are exact in fence, they will 
not endure the least inconvenience, 
therefore such Medicines as are out-  
wardly applied to them (for such 
Medicines as strengthen the Visive 
Vertues are all given inwardly) let 
them neither hurt by their hardness  
nor gnawing quality, nor be so tough  
that they should stick to them. There- 
fore let Ocular Medicines be neither  
in Pouders nor Oyntments, because 
oyl it self is offensive to the eyes, and 
how pleasing Pouders are to them, 
you may perceive your self by but 
going into the dust.
Medicines appropriated to the 
Mouth and Nose. 
Apply no stinking Medicine to a 
disease in the Nose, for such offend  
not only the nose, but also the brain; 
neither administer Medicines of any  
il tast to a Disease in the Mouth, for  
that subverts the Stomach, because  
the tunicle of the Mouth and of the 
Stomach is the same: And because 
both mouth and nostrils are waies by 
which the Brain is clensed; there- 
fore are they infected with such dis- 
eases as need almost continual clen- 
sing; and let the Medicines you apply 
to them be either pleasant, or at least, 
not ingratefull.                      
Medicines appropriated to the Ears. 
The Ears are easily afflicted by 
Cold, because they are alwaies open, 
therefore they require hot medicines. 
And because they are of themselves 
very dry, therefore they require Me- 
dicines which dry much, 
Medicines appropriated to the Teeth. 
Vehement heat, and vehement 
cold, are enemies to the Teeth, but 
they are most of al offended by sharp 
and four things, and the reason is, 
because they have neither Skin nor 
Flesh to cover them. They delight in 
such Medicines as are clensing and 
binding, because they are troubled 
with Defluxions and Rheums upon 
every light occasion; and that’s the 
reason the common use of fat and 
sweet things, soon rots the Teeth. 
Chap. 2. Of Medicines appropria- 
ted to the Breast and Lungs. 
THe Medicines appropriated to 
the Breast and Lungs, you shall 
find called al along by the Name of 
[Pectorals] that's the term Physitians 
give them, when you hear them talk 
of Pectoral Syrups, Pectoral Rows, 
or Pectoral Oyntments, now you 
know their Use. 
They are divers, some of which re- 
gard the part afflicted, others the 
matter afflicting. 
But although sometimes in ulcers 
of the Lungs we are forced to use 
binding Medicines, to joyn the ulcer, 
yet are not these called Pectorals, be- 
cause binding medicines are extream 
hurtful to the Breast and Lungs, both 
because they hinder ones fetching 
his breath, and also because they hin- 
der the avoiding that flegm by which 
the Breast is oppressed. 
Such Medicines are called Pecto- 
rals, which are of a* lenifying Na- 
ture, [*The next Section will in- 
struct you in the term] for by their 
operation is the breath the easier fet- 
ched, and what sticks to the Stomach 
the easier spit out. 
Neither yet is the way or manner 
of provoking this same spitting, al- 
waies one and the same; for somtimes 
the matter is so thin that it cannot be 
cast up by the motion of the Lungs, 
but it flips besides. Again, Somtimes it 
is so thick that it cannot be cast out 
by the narrow Arteries of the Lungs. 
These then are the genuine operati- 
ons of Pectorals, viz. Some to make 
the thin matter thicker, others to 
make the thick matter thinner. 
Besides, Those which make thin 
matter thicker are of two sorts, viz. 
Some are mild and gentle, which may 
safely be administred, be the matter 
hot or cold which offendeth (the de- 
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218 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
grees of Temperature will satisfie,  
which such be among the Simples, 
neither shal you want instructions a- 
mong the Compounds) Others are 
very cold, which are used only when 
the matter offending is sharp. 
But because such Medicines as  
conduce to the cure of the Phtisick 
(which is an ulceration of the lungs  
and the disease usually called, The  
Consumption of the Lungs) are al-  
so reckoned in amongst Pectorals. It  
is not amiss to speak a word to two  
of them. 
In the cure of this Disease are three 
things to be regarded. 
1. To cut and bring away the Con- 
creted Blood. 
2. To cherish and strengthen the 
Lungs. 
3. To couglutinate the Ulcer. 
And indeed some particular Sim- 
ples wil perform al these, and Physi- 
tians confess it; which shews the 
wonderfull Mystery the All-wise God 
hath made in the Creation, That one 
and the same Simple should perform 
two contrary Opinions on the same 
part of the Body; for the more a me- 
dicine clenseth, the more it congluti- 
nates; They usually in such cases first 
use Medicines which are more clen- 
sing; lastly, Medicines more bind- 
ing, and strengthen the Lungs all the 
Time. 
To conclude then, Pectoral Medi- 
cines are such as either cut and clense 
out the compacted humors from the 
Arteries of the Lungs, or make thin 
Defluxions thick, or temper those 
that are sharp, help the Roughness 
of the Wind-pipe, or are gently leni- 
tive and softning, being outwardly 
applied to the Breast.
Chap. 3. Of Medicines appropriated 
to the Heart. 
THese are they which are gene- 
rally given under the notion 
of Cordials, take them under that 
Name here. 
The Heart is the feat of the vital 
Spirit, the fountain of life, the origi- 
nal of infused heat, and of the Natu- 
ral affections of man. 
So then these two things are pro- 
per to the Heart. 
1. By its heat to cherish life through 
out the Body. 
2. To add Vigor to the Affecti- 
ons. 
And if these be proper to the heart, 
you wil easily grant me, that it is the 
property of Cordials to administer 
to the Heart in these particulars.  
Of Cordials, some chear the mind, 
some strengthen the Heart, and re- 
fresh the Spirits thereof being decay-
ed. 
Those which cheer the Mind, are 
not on and the same; for as the
Heart is variously disturbed, either by  
Anger, Love, Fear, Hatred, Sadness, 
&c. So such things as flatter Lovers 
or appease the Anger, or comfort the 
Fearful, or please the Hatefull, may 
wel be called cordials; for the heart, 
seeing it is placed in the middle be- 
tween the Brain and the Liver, is 
wrought upon by reason, as well as 
by digestion, yet these, because they 
are not Medicines, are beside my pre- 
sent scope. 
And although it is true, That mirth, 
Love, &c. are actions, or motions 
of the mind, not of the Body; yet 
many have been induced to think 
such affections may be wrought in 
the body by medicines, which some 
hold is done by an hidden Property 
(the old Bush ignorant Physitians 
have run into) Others that denied 
any hidden Quality in Medicines, 
held it to be done by Enchantment, 
and that is the only way of a thou- 
sand to lead people in ignorance, viz. 
To tel them (when they cannot give, 
nor wil not study a reason of a thing) 
It is Diabolical, and done by Sorce- 
ry. I could give a reason of the for- 
mer, if it were my present scope to 
speak of hidden properties; a very 
short time will discover the latter to 
be the greatest of falshoods. But to 
return to my purpose.
The Heart is chiefly afflicted by too 
much Heat, by Poyson, and by stink- 
ing Vapors, and these are remedied 
by the second sort of Cordials, and 
indeed chiefly belong to our present 
scope. 
According to these Three Afflicti- 
ons, viz.
1. Excessive Heat. 
2. Poyson. 
3. Melancholy Vapors. 
Are Three kinds of remedies which 
succor the afflicted Heart: 
Such as,
1. By their cooling Nature miti- 
gate the heat of Feavers. 
2. Resist poyson. 
3. Cherish the vital spirits when 
they languish. 
Al these are called Cordials: 
1. Such as cool the Heart in Fea- 
vers, yet is not every thing that cool- 
eth, Cordial, for Lead is colder than 
Gold, yet is not Lead cordial as gold 
is, some hold it Cordial by hidden 
Quality, others by Reason, Because 
it cheers a mans heart to see he hath 
gotten money, an Apish Reason, un- 
beseeming a Scholer; for Pearls, ta- 
ken inwardly, cool the Heart, and 
cheers exceedingly, and such a frigid 
Reason will no waies hold in that, 
what Medicines do by hidden Quali- 
ty is not my task at present, it may be 
hereafter, only here let it suffice, that 
cool Cordials are such Medicines as 
are appropriated to the heart, and let 
the Heart be afflicted with heat, elso 
take them not, for fear of Cordials 
they prove ruptures, for the Heart is 
maintained by heat, and not by cold. 
2. Such as resist Poyson There is 
a two-fold resisting of poyson. 
1. By an Antipathy between the 
Medicine and Poyson. 
2. By a Sympathy between the 
Medicine and the Heart. 
Of the first we shal speak anon, in 
a Chapter by it self. The latter be- 
longs to this Chapter, and they are 
such medicines, whose Nature is to 
strengthen the Heart, and fortifie it 
against the poyson, as Rue, Angelica, 
&c. For as the operation of the for- 
mer is upon the poyson, which affli- 
cteth the heart, so the operation of 
the latter is upon the Heart afflicted 
by the poyson. 
To this Classis may be referred all 
such Medicines as strengthen the 
Heart either by Astral influence, or 
by likeness of substance, if there be 
such a likeness in medicines, for a 
Bullocks heart is of like substance to 
mans, yet I question whether it be 
cordial or not. 
3. And lastly; Such as refresh the 
Spirits, and make them lively and a- 
ctive. both because they are appro- 
priated to that Office, and also be- 
cause they drive stinking melancholy 
vapors from the Heart, for as the A- 
nimal spirits be refreshed by fragrant 
smels, and the Natural Spirits by 
Spices: so are the vital Spirits refresh- 
ed by al such medicines as keep back 
melancholy Vapors from the Heart, 
as Borrage, Bugloss, Rosemary, Ci- 
tron Pils, the Compositions of them 
and many others, which this Treatise 
wil amply furnish you with. 
Chap. 4. Of Medicines appropri- 
ated to the Stomach. 
BY Stomach, I mean that Ventri- 
cle which contains the Food till 
it be concocted into Chyle. 
Medicines appropriated to the sto- 
mach are usually called stomachicals. 
The infirmities usually incident to 
the Stomach are three. 
1. Appetite lost. 
2. Digestion weakened. 
3. The retentive Faculty corrup- 
ted. 
When Appetite is lost, the man 
feels no hunger when his body needs 
Nourishment. 
When Digestion is weakened it is 
not able to concoct the meat recei- 
ved into the stomach, but it putrefies 
there. 
When the retentive Faculty is spoi- 
led the Somach is not able to retain 
the Food til it be digested, but either 
vomits it up again, or causeth fluxes. 
Such Medicines then as remedy al 
these, are called stomachicals. And 
of them in order.
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219 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
1. Such as provoke Appetite are  
usually of a sharp or fourish tast, and  
yet withall of a gratefull tast to the 
Pallat, for although loss of appetite  
may proceed from divers causes, as  
from Choller in the Stomach, or pu- 
trefied Humors or the like, yet such  
things as purge this Choller or Hu- 
mors, are properly called Orecticks, 
not stomachicals; the former streng-  
then Appetite after these are expel- 
led. 
2. Such medicines help Digestion  
as strengthen the Stomach, either by 
convenient heat, or Aromatica (viz.
spicy) Faculty, by hidden property, 
or congruity of Nature; by which 
last the inner skin of a Hens Gizzard 
dried and beaten to pouder and ta- 
ken in Wine in the morning fasting 
is an exceeding strengthener of Di- 
gestion, because those Creatures have 
such strong Digestions themselves. 
3. The retentive Faculty of the 
Stomach is corrected by binding me- 
dicines yet not by al binding Medi- 
cines neither, for some of them are 
adverse to the Stomach, but by such 
binding medicines as are appropria- 
ted to the Stomach. 
For the Use of these. 
Use, 1. Use not such medicines as 
provoke Appetite before you have 
clensed the Stomach of what hinders 
it. 
Use, 2. Such medicines as help 
Digestion (which the Greeks cal 
πεππχα) give them a good time be- 
fore meat that so they may pass to 
the bottom of the Stomach (for the 
digestive Faculty lies there) before 
the food come into it. 
Use, 3. Such as strengthen the re-  
tentive Faculty, give them a little be- 
fore meat, if to stay fluxes; a little af-  
ter meat, if to stay vomiting.   
Chap. 5. Of Medicines appropriated 
to the Liver.  
BE pleased to take these under the  
Name of Hepaticks, for that is 
the usual Name Physitians give then, 
and these also are of Three sorts. 
1. Some the Liver is delighted in. 
2. Others strengthen it. 
3. Others help its Diseases.  
The Palat is the Seat of tast, and  
its Office is to judg what Food is a- 
greeable to the stomach, and what 
not, by that is both the Quality and 
Quantity of Food for the Stomach 
discerned: the very same Office the 
Meseraik veins perform to the Liver. 
Sometimes such Food pleaseth the 
Pallat which the Liver likes not (but 
not often) and therefore the Mese- 
raik Veins refuse it, and that's the 
reason some few men fancy such  
food as makes them sick after the 
eating thereof.  
1. The Liver is delighted excee-  
dingly with sweet things, draws them  
greedily, and digesteth them as swift- 
ly, and that’s the reason Honey is so 
soon turned into Choller. 
2. Such medicines strengthen the 
Liver, as (being appropriated to it) 
very gently bind, for seeing the Office 
of the Liver is to concoct, it needs 
some adstriction, that so both the 
heat and the humor to be concocted 
may be staied that so the one flip not 
not away, nor the other be scattered. 
Yet do not Hepatical medicines 
require so great a binding Faculty as 
stomachicals do, because the passages 
of the Stomach are more open than 
those of the Liver, by which it either 
takes in Chyle, or sends out blood to 
the rest of the body, therefore medi- 
cines that are very binding are hurt- 
ful to the Liver, and either cause ob- 
structions, or hinder the distribution 
of the blood, or both. 
3. The Liver being very subject to 
obstructions, medicines which with- 
stand obstructions, or open them be- 
ing made, are truly Hepatical, and 
they are such as cut and extenuate 
without any vehement heat (to these 
we shal speak in their proper places) 
and yet they retain a Faculty both 
gently binding, and clensing, 
Sometimes Inflamation follows 
the obstruction, and then must you 
use Hepatical medicines, which cool, 
clense, and extenuate. 
In using these have a special care 
that your cooling medicines be so 
tempered with heat, that the digestive 
faculty of the liver be not spoiled, 
and that the Diaphragma (which is 
very neer unto it) be not so cooled 
that it hinder the fetching of breath. 
And thus much for the Liver, the 
Office of which is to conroct Chyle 
(which is a white substance the Sto- 
mach digests the food into) into 
Blood, and distribute it by the Veins 
to every part of the body, whereby 
the body is nourished, and decaying 
flesh restored.
Chap. 6. Of Medicines appropria- 
ted to the Spleen.  
IN the breeding of Blood, are three 
Excrements most conspicuous 
viz. Urine, Choler, and Melancholy.  
The proper Seat of Choler is in 
the Gall. 
The urine passeth down to the 
Reins or Kidneys, which is al one. 
The Spleen takes the thickest or 
melancholy blood to it self. 
I hope shortly to give you the ex- 
actest piece of Anatomy now extant, 
in your own mother Tongue, where- 
in you may as perfectly see these and 
al other internal operations of your 
body, as you can your Faces in a 
Looking-glass. But to return. 
This Excrement of blood is two- 
fold: for either by excessive heat, it. 
is addust, and this is that the Latins 
cal Atra Bilis: or else it is thick and 
earthly of it self, and this properly is
called Melancholy Humor. 
Hence then is the Nature of Sple- 
nical medicines to be found out, and 
by these two is the Spleen usually 
afflicted for Atra bilis (I know not 
what distinct English Name to give 
it) many times causes madness, and 
pure melancholy causeth Obstructi- 
ons of the Bowels, and Tumors, 
whereby the concoction of the blood 
is viciated, and dropsies many times 
follow. 
Medicines then peculiar to the 
spleen must needs be twofold also, 
some appropriated to Atra bilis, o- 
thers to pure melancholy; but of 
purging either of them, I shall omit 
till I come to treat of Purging in a 
Chapter by it self. 
1. Such medicines are Splenical, 
which by cooling and moistening 
temper Atra bilis: let not these me- 
dicines be too cold neither, for there 
is no such heat in Atra bilis as there 
is in Choller, and therefore it needs 
no such excessive cooling: amongst 
the number of these are such as wee 
mentioned amongst the Cordials or 
repel melancholy Vapors from the 
Heart, such temper and asswage the 
malice of Atra bilis. 
2. Those medicines are also Sple- 
nical, by which melancholy humors 
are corrected and so prepared, that 
they may the more easily be evacua- 
ted: such medicines are cutting and 
opening, and they differ from Hepa- 
ticals in this That they are no waies 
binding; for the spleen being no ways 
addicted to concoction, binding me- 
dicines do it harm, and not good. 
3. Sometimes the Spleen is not only 
obstructed, but also hardned by Me- 
lancholy Humors, and in such cases 
Emollient medicines may be wel cal- 
led Splenicals; not such as are taken 
inwardly, for they operate upon the 
stomach and bowels, but such as are 
outwardly applied to the Region of 
the Spleen. 
And although sometimes medi- 
cines, are outwardly applied to hard- 
ness of the Liver, yet they differ from 
Splenicals, because they are binding, 
so are not Splenicals.
Chap. 7. Of Medicines appropri- 
ated to the Reins and Bladder. 
The Office of the Reins is, To 
make a separation between 
the Blood and the Urine; to receive 
this urine thus separated from the 
Blood, is the Bladder ordained, 
which is of a sufficient bigness to 
contain it, that so a man may go a- 
bout his business and not be alwaies 
pissing. 
Both these parts of the body offici- 
ating about the Urine, they are both 
usually afflicted by the diseases of the 
urine. 
The urine is oppressed, 
1. By Stones.
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220 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
2. By Inflamation. 
3. By thick Humors.
Medicines appropriated to the 
Reins and Bladder are usually called 
Nephriticals, and are three-fold; 
some cool, others cut gross humors, 
and a third sort breaks the stone. 
In the use of all these, take notice, 
That the constitution of the Reins 
and bladder is such, that they abhor 
all binding Medicines, because they 
cause stoppage of urine. 
The truth is, I shall speak of all 
these apart in so many Chapters by 
themselves, only let it suffice, That 
Physitians confess some Medicines 
perform these by an hidden quality, 
and even break the hardest stone;  
but no man (they say, because they 
cannot themselves) can give a reason 
how, or why they do it. 
And Secondly, Take notice, That 
the Reins and Bladder being subject 
to Inflammations endure not very 
hot Medicines. 
Thirdly, Because the Bladder is 
further remote from the Centre of 
the Body than the Kidnies are, there- 
fore it requires stronger Medicines 
than the Kidnies do, left the strength 
of the Medicine be spent before it 
be come to the part afflicted. 
Chap. 8. Of Medicines appropri- 
ated to the Womb. 
THese Physitians call Hystericals, 
and to avoid Multiplicity of 
words, take them in this discourse 
under that notion. 
Take notice that such Medicines as 
provoke the Terms, or stop them 
when they flow immoderately, are 
properly Hystericals, but shal be spo- 
ken to by and by in a Chapter by 
themselves. 
As for the Nature of the Womb, it 
seems to be much like the Nature of 
the brain and stomath, for experience 
teacheth that it is delighted with 
sweet and Aromatical Medicines,and 
flies from their contraries. 
For Example: A Woman being 
troubled with the fits of the Mother, 
which is drawing of the Womb up- 
wards, apply sweet things, as Civit, 
or the like, to the place of Concep- 
tion, it draws it down again; but 
apply stinking things to the Nose, as 
Affafœtida, or the like, it expels it 
from it,and sends it down to its pro- 
per place. 
Again, Somtimes the womb of a 
Woman falls out; in such cases, 
sweet scents applied to the Nose, and 
stinking things to the privy passage, 
reduces it to its proper place again, 
and this made some Physitians of O- 
pinion that the Womb of a Woman 
was capable of the sence of smelling. 
For my part, I beleeve nothing less; 
only it doth it by appropriation to 
that part of the body, for the stomach 
is also offended with stinking things, 
not because it smels them, but be- 
cause they are obnoxious to that part 
of the body, judg the like by the 
womb; it is offended by stinking 
things, and strengthened by sweet: 
for smel is one of the touch-stones 
by which nature trieth what is con- 
venient for its self; yet, that the 
womb hath much affinity with the 
Head is most certain, and undenia- 
ble, by this argument, Because most 
Cephalick medicines conduce to the 
cure of Diseases in the womb, neither 
is the womb often afflicted, but the 
head principally suffers with it.
Chap. 9. Of Medicines appropri- 
ated to the Joynts. 
THe Joynts are usually troubled 
with Cephalick Diseases, and  
then are to be cured by Cephalick 
medicines. 
Medicines appropriated to the 
Joynts, are called by the name of 
Arthritical medicines. 
The Joynts, seeing they are very  
nervous, require medicines which 
are of a heating and drying Nature, 
with a gentle binding, and withall, 
such as by a peculiar vertue are ap-  
propriated to them, and ad strength  
to them. It is true, most Cephalicks  
do so, yet because the joynts are| 
more remote from the Centre, they  
require stronger medicines. 
For removing pains in the Joynts 
this is the method of proceeding.  
Pains is either taken away, or eas-
ed for the true cure is to take away 
the cause of the pain, somtimes the 
vehemency of the pain is so great 
that you must be forced to use Ano- 
dines (for so Physitians cal such me- 
dicines as ease pain) before you can 
meddle with the cause, and this is u- 
sually when the part pained is infla- 
med for those medicines which take 
away the cause of pain being very 
hot, if there be any inflammation in 
the part pained, you must abstain 
from them till the inflammation be 
taken away, 
Also the manner of easing the pain 
is two-fold, for if you regard only 
the pain, use Anodines, but if you re- 
gard the inflammation, use cooling 
medicines, because by them, not on- 
ly the heat is asswaged, but also the 
flux of Blood to that part is stopped, 
especially if you mix some repelling 
medicine with it. We shall speak of 
all these in the next Section. 
Only here take notice. That 
such medicines as take away the 
cause of pain from the Joynts, are of 
very thin substance, and forcible in 
cutting and drawing; and when you 
see the cause taken quite away, then 
use such as bind and strengthen the 
Joynts, that so you may prevent de- 
fluxions for the time to come. And 
thus much for the second Section.
SECT. III. 
Of the Properties or Ope- 
rations of Medicines. 
THat I may be as plain as can be 
in this (for I desire to be un- 
derstood of all) I shall divide this 
Section into these Chapters, Viz. 
Of Medicines. 
Chap. 
Emollient—1 
Hardening—2 
Loosning—3 
Making thin, and thick—4 
Opening the Vessels—5 
Attenuating—6 
Drawing—7 
Discμssing—8 
Repelling—9 
Burning—10 
Clensing—11
Emplasticks—12 
Suppuring—13 
Provoking Urine—14 
Provoking the Terms—15 
Breeding Milk—16 
Regarding the Seed—17 
Easing pain—18 
Breeding Flesh—19 
Glutinative—20 
Scarrifying—21 
Resisting Poyson—22 
Adorning the Body—23 
Purging—24 
Of all these in order, and in the 
same order they are set down.
Chap. 1. Of Emollient Medicines. 
THe variaus mixtures of Heat, 
Cold, Driness, and Moisture 
in Simples, must of necessity produce 
variety of Faculties, and operations 
in them, which now we come to treat 
of, beginning first at Emollients. 
What is hard, and what is soft, 
most men know, but few are able to 
express: Phylosophers define that to 
be hard which yields not to touching 
and soft to be the contrary. An E- 
mollient, or softening Medicine 
(which is all one) is such a Medi- 
cine as reduceth a hard substance to 
its proper temperature. 
But to leave Philosophy, and keep 
to Physick: Physitians describe hard- 
ness to be twofold. 
1. A distention or stretching of a 
part by too much fulness. 
2. Thick humors which are desti- 
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221 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick.  
tute of heat, growing hard in that 
part of the Body in which they flow. 
So many properties then ought E- 
mollient Medicines to have, viz. To 
moisten what is dry, to Discuss what 
is stretched, to warm what is congea- 
led by cold; yet properly, that only 
is said to mollifie which reduceth a 
hard substance to its proper tem- 
per.
Driness and thickness of humors 
being the cause of hardness, Emolli- 
ent Medicines must of necessity be 
hot and moist; and although you 
may peradventure find some of them 
dry in the second or third Degrees, 
yet must this Driness be tempered 
and qualified with heat and moisture, 
for Reason wil tel you that dry Me- 
dicines make hard parts harder, 
Besides, In Schirrhous humors (in 
which Emollients are most in use) 
various Symptomes appear, so that 
the hardness being not simple, the 
Emollients are not, nor ought not to 
be alwaies one and the same: as for 
example: Somtimes the Swelling 
abounds with moisture, and then the 
Medicine must be dryer, not to mol- 
lifie the swelling, but to consume the 
moisture; Somtimes the humor is 
so tough, that temperate Medicines 
wil not stir it, then must the Medicine 
be hotter, these things are acci- 
dental according as the humor offen- 
ding is; it follows not for al this, that 
Emollient Medicines should not be 
temperately hot and moist in their 
own Nature; for general Rules are 
not to be accounted false, because a 
man must sometimes swerve from 
them, for this is the true use of all 
Rules, viz. To vary them according 
to the various Symptomes of the Dis- 
ease, and herein is the judgment of 
the Physitians tried. 
Lastly, Mollifying Medicines are 
known, 1. By their tast, 2. By their 
feeling. 
1. In tast, they are neer unto 
sweet, but Fat and Oyly, they are 
neither sharp, nor austere, nor four, 
nor salt, neither do they manifest ei- 
ther binding, or vehement heat, or 
cold to be in them.
2. In feeling you may perceive no 
roughness, neither do they stick to 
your Fingers like Birdlime, for they 
ought to penetrate the parts to be 
mollified, and therefore many times 
if occasion be, are cutting Medicines 
mixed with them. 
Chap. 2. Of Hardning Medicines. 
GALEN in Lib. 5. de Simpl. 
Med. Facult. Cap. 10. deter- 
mins Hardning Medicines to be cold 
and moist, and he brings some argu- 
ments to prove it, against which o- 
ther Physitians contest. 
I shall not here stand to quote the 
Dispute, only take notice. That if  
softning Medicines be hot and moist 
(as we shew’d even now) the hard- 
ning Medicines must needs be cold 
and dry, because they are contrary 
to them. 
The universal course of Nature wil 
prove it, for driness and moisture are 
passive qualities, neither can extre- 
mities consist in moisture as you may 
know, if you do but consider that 
driness is not attributed to the Air, 
nor Water, but to Fire, and Earth. 
2 The thing to be congealed must 
needs be moist, therefore the Medi- 
cine congealing must of necessity be 
dry, for if cold be joyned with dri- 
ness, it contracts the pores, that so 
the humors cannot be scatterred. 
Yet you must observe a difference 
between Medicines drying, making 
thick, hardning, and congealing, of 
which differences a few words will 
not do amiss. 
1. Such Medicines are said to dry, 
which draw out or drink up the 
moisture, as a Spunge drinks up wa- 
ter. 
2. Such Medicines are said to 
make thick, as do not consume the 
moisture, but ad driness to it, as you 
make Syrups into a thick Electuary 
by adding Pouders to them. 
3. Such as congeal, neither draw 
out the Moisture, nor make it thick 
by adding driness to its but contract 
it by vehement cold, as Water is fro- 
zen into Ice.  
4. Hardness differs from all these, 
for the parts of the body swel, and, 
are filled with flegmatick Humors, 
or melancholly Blood, which at last 
grows hard. 
That you may cleerly understand 
this, observe but these two things. 
1. What it is that worketh. 
2. What it worketh upon. 
That which worketh is outward  
cold. 
That which is wrought upon is a 
certain thickness and driness of hu- 
mors, for if the humor were fluid as 
water is, it might properly be said to 
be congealed by cold, but not so 
properly hardened. Thus, you see 
cold and driness to be the cause of 
hardning. But enough of this (per- 
haps some may think too much) 
This hardning being so far from be- 
ing useful, that it is obnoxious to the 
body of Man. I pass it without more 
words. I suppose when Galen wrote 
of hardning Medicines, he intended 
such as make thick, and therefore a- 
mongst them he reckons up Flea- 
wort, Purslain, Housleek, and the 
like, which affwage the heat of the 
humors in Swellings and stop subtill 
and sharp desluxions upon the 
Lungs, but of these more anon. 
Chap. 3 of Loosning Medi- 
cines. 
BY Loosning here, I do not mean 
Purging, not that which is op- 
posite to Astringency; but that 
which is opposite to stretching: I 
knew not suddenly what fitter En- 
glish Name to give it, than Loosning 
or Laxation, which latter is scarce 
English.
The Members are distended or 
stretched divers waies, and ought to 
be loosned as many, for they are 
stretched somtimes, by driness some- 
times by cold, sometimes by repleti- 
on or fulness, somtimes by swellings, 
and somtimes by some of these joyn- 
ed together. I avoid terms of Art as 
much as I can, because it would pro- 
fit my Country but little, to give 
them the Rules of Physick in such 
English as they understand not. 
I confess the Opinion of Ancient 
Physitians hath been various about 
these Loosning Medicines. Galen's 
Opinion was, That they might be 
referred either to moistening, or hea- 
ting, or mollifying, or evacuating 
Medicines, and therefore ought not 
to be referred to a Chapter by them- 
selves.
'Tis like they may, and so may all 
other Medicines be referred to heat, 
or coldness, or driness, or moisture: 
But we speak not here of the particu- 
lar properties of Medicines, but of 
their joyned properties, as they heat 
and moisten. 
Others, they question how they 
can be distinguished from such as 
mollifie, seeing such as are loosning, 
and such as are emollient, are both 
of them hot and moist. 
To that, thus: Stretching and 
Loosning are ascribed to the mova- 
ble parts of the Body, as to the Mus- 
cles and their Tendons, to the Liga- 
ments and Membrans; but softness 
and hardness to such parts of the Bo- 
dy as may be felt with the hand: I 
shall make it cleer by a similitude:  
Wax is softned being hard, but Fiddle 
strings are loosned being stretched. 
And if you say that the difference ly- 
ing only in the parts of the Body is 
no true difference, then take notice, 
that such Medicines which loosen, 
are less hot, and more moistning, 
than such as soften, for they operate 
most by heat, these by moisture. 
The truth is, I am of Opinion, 
the difference is not much, nay, 
scarce sensible, between Emollient 
and Loosning Medicines; only I 
quoted this in a Chapter by it self, 
not so much because some Authors 
do, as because it conduceth to the 
encrease of knowledg in physick. 
The chief Use of Loosning Medi- 
cines is in Convulsions and Cramps, 
and such like infirmities which cause
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222 A key to Galen’s Method of Physick.  
distention or stretching. 
They are known by the very same 
Marks and Tokens that Emollient 
Medicines are.
Chap. 4. Of Medicines making thin 
and thick. 
MEdicines which rarifie, or make 
thin, are such which open the 
pores of the skin and make them wi- 
der; they are not so moist as Emol- 
lient Medicines are, but of thin and 
subtil parts; they are hot, but not so 
hot that they should draw the matter 
to them or discuss it, as we shal shew 
when we come to speak of those Fa- 
culties.
Such as make thick, are contrary 
to these, these are cold, and stop the 
Pores of the Skin. 
These Galen would have to be 
moist, neither is there any difference 
between his description of hardning 
Medicines and such as make thick. 
Use 1. The use of Rarifying me- 
dicines is, To open the pores of the 
skin and make them wider, that so- 
the vapors arising from blood over- 
heated may pass out, and that was 
the reason Wraftlers in antient times 
came to their exercise with their Bo- 
dies anointed, that so the vapors cau- 
sed by stirring their bodies, might 
pass out, and not cause Feavers or o- 
ther mischief to the bowels by being 
kept in. 
2. Rarifying medicines conduce 
much to the mitigation of pain, for 
the pores of the skin being opened, 
the matter causing the pain is the ea- 
sier expelled. 
Again, in swellings, it is not only 
the plenty of Humors that causeth 
pain, but the driness, hardness, or 
stretching of the skin, therefore see- 
ing Medicines which rarifie or make 
thin, do both loosen and mollifie, 
they must of necessity by these ope- 
rations mitigate pain. 
Also there is much profit in the 
use of thickning Medicines, for they 
make the skin firm, thereby not only 
the better resisting cold, but also they 
stop too much sweating, and dissolu- 
tion of the spirits that way, which of- 
ten happens to them that are weak. 
Chap. 5. Of Medicines opening the 
mouths of the Vessels. 
THese Galen thought to be hot, 
but of thick parts and biting. 
Let none admire that thickness 
should be attributed to Medicines of 
an opening substance, seeing thick- 
ness seems rather to stop than to o- 
pen. For answer to this, you must 
consider the manner of opening Ob- 
structions, and of opening the 
mouths of the vessels is different, ob- 
structions require cutting medicines, 
by which the thickness of the matter 
obstructing is made thinner, there- 
fore the medicine ought not to be 
thick, but of thin substance that it 
may the better penetrate (I do not 
mean of a thin Body, like water, for 
that causeth obstructions rather than 
takes them away, but of thin parts, 
viz. Making thin) But those medi- 
cines which are said to open the 
mouths or passages of the Vessels, are 
of thick parts, that they may not on- 
ly penetrate, but also strengthen the 
passages by which they pass, there- 
fore Galen besides heat, appointed 
thickness of parts and sharpness, or 
biting, as Pepper bites, for such a 
sharp heat is very effectual to pene- 
trate and cannot stop in the least; for 
although the skin be easily contract- 
ed by gentle medicines, the Vessels 
cannot be shut but by things vehe- 
mently binding, and therefore let 
these medicines of thick substance be 
also moist, for moisture cannot so 
forcibly bind as stop the mouths of 
the Vessels. 
Use. The use of opening medici- 
nes may be easily gathered from the 
use of the Vessels to be opened, for 
seeing their Use is to hold blood, 
which sometimes offends in quantity, 
somtimes in quality; such infirmities 
are to be somtimes remedied by ope- 
ning Medicines. 
They are easily known by tast, be- 
ing sharp and piercing, and bite the 
tongue, but such as are stopping, are 
cold and binding, and contract the 
tongue in tasting of them.
Chap. 6. Of Attenuating Medici- 
nes. 
THe use of attenuating medici- 
nes is to open the obstructions 
of the Bowels. 
The bowels are obstructed or stop- 
ped by tough and viscous Humors; 
Hence then it is cleer that Attenua- 
ting or Extenuating medicines ought 
to be thin of substance, but whe- 
ther they ought al to be hot or not, 
is some question, for indeed many 
cold Medicines cut tough Humors, 
and open Obstructions, as Vinegar, 
Endive, Succorie, and the like. I shal 
not enter into the dispute here, whe- 
ther al cold things bind or not, and 
therefore some hold Vinegar to be 
hot in it self, and cool only by acci- 
dent. We know wine is hot, and vi- 
negar is nothing but corrupted wine, 
and we know as wel that putrefacti- 
on turns things usually into a contra- 
ry quality; and besides, if you ask 
Physitians how one simple can per- 
form two contrarie Operations, they 
presently run into the old Bush, It 
doth it (say they) by a hidden qua- 
lity.  
The use of Attenuating medicines 
is to open the bowels, to clense the 
breast of flegm, to expell the Terms, 
&c.                                    
Your best course is, first to clense 
the Body by some gentle Purge be- 
fore you use Attenuating Medicines, 
left they seize upon the Blood, and 
cause Feavers, or other mischiefs as 
bad. 
They are in tast, sharp, fowr, or bit- 
ter, yet such as being tasted dilate the 
Tongue, and contract it not.
Chap. 7. Of Drawing Medicines. 
THe Opinion of Physitians, is 
concerning these, as it is con- 
cerning other medicines, viz. Some 
draw by a manifest quality, some by 
a hidden, and so (quoth they) they 
draw to themselves both humors and 
thorns, or splinters that are gotten 
into the flesh; however this is cer- 
tain, they are all of them hot, and of 
thin patts; hot because the Nature 
of heat is to draw off thin parts that 
so they may penetrate to the humors 
that are to be drawn out. 
Their use is various, Viz. 
Use 1. That the Bowels may be 
disburdened of corrupt Humors. 
2. Outwardly used, by them the 
offending humor (I should have said 
the Peccant Humor, had I written 
only to Scholers) is called from the 
internal parts of the body to the Su- 
perficies. 
3. By them the Crisis of a Disease 
is much helped forward. 
4. They are exceeding, profitable 
to draw forth poyson out of the Bo- 
dy.
5. Parts of the body over cooled 
are cured by these medicines, viz. By 
applying them outwardlie to the 
place, not only because they heat, but 
also because they draw the spirits by 
which life and Heat are cherished, to 
the part of the Bodie which is desti- 
tute of them; you cannot but know 
that many times parts of the body fal 
away in flesh, and their strength de- 
caies, as in some peoples Arines or 
Legs, or the like, the usual reason is, 
Because the vital Spirit decaies in 
those parts. To which use such Plai- 
sters or Oyntments as are attractive 
(which is the physical term for draw- 
ing medicines) for they do not only 
cherish the parts by their own proper 
heat, but draw the vital and Natural 
Spirits thither, whereby they are both 
quickned and nourished, 
They are known almost by the 
same tokens that Attenuating medi- 
cines are, seeing heat, and thinness of 
parts is in them both, they differ only 
in respect of quantitie, thinness of 
parts being most proper to attenuat- 
ing Medicines, but attractive Medi- 
cines are hotter.
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Chap 8. Of Discussive Medicines. 
BY Discussive Medicines I intend  
such as the Greeks eal δiαϕοgηπxα' 
commonly Physitians call them  
by the Names of Diaphoreticks: in  
plain English, they are such Medi- 
cines as provoke Sweat, or as work 
by insensible transpiration, I quote 
these terms, and explain them, be- 
cause I would not have my Coun- 
try Men hood-wink’d with strange 
terms. 
The nature of discussing (or swea- 
ting) medicines is almost the same 
with Attractive, for there are no dis- 
cussive medicines but are attractive, 
nor scarce any attractive Medicine 
but is in some measure or other 
discussing. 
The difference then is only this; 
That discussive medicines are hotter 
than attractive, and therefore no- 
thing else need be written of their na- 
ture.
Use. Their use may be known even 
from their very Name; for diseases 
that come by repletion or fulness, are 
cured by evacuation or emptying; yet 
neither blood nor gross Humors are 
to be expelled by sweating, or insen- 
sible transpiration (as they cal it) but 
the one requires Blood-letting, the 
other purgation; but Serosus or thin 
humors and filthy Vapors, and such
like superfluities, are to be expelled 
by sweat, and be wary in this too, for 
many of them work violently, and 
violent Medicines are not rashly to 
be given. 
Caut. 2. Besides, Swellings are 
sometimes made so hard by sweating 
medicines, that afterwards they can 
never be cured; for what is thin be- 
ing by such Medicines taken away, 
nothing but what is perfectly hard 
remains: If you fear such a thing,
mix Emollients with them. 
Caut. 3. Again, Sometimes by u- 
sing Discussives, the humors offend- 
ing (which Physitians usually cal the 
Peccant Humor) is driven to some 
more noble part of the body, or else 
it draws more than it discusseth; in 
such cases, concoct and attenuate 
the matter offending before you go 
about to discuss it. 
From hence may easily be gathered 
at what time of the disease discussive 
Medicines are to be used, viz. about 
the declining of the disease, although 
in Diseases arising from the Heat of 
blood, we sometimes use them in the 
encrease and state of them. 
They are known by the same marks 
and tokens attenuating Medicines 
are, viz. by their burning and biting 
quality, they being very hot, and of 
thin parts, void of any biting quality, 
therefore they contract not the 
Tongue in tasting of them.         
Chap. 9. Of Repelling Medicines.
REpelling Medicines are of con- 
trary operation to these three 
last mentioned, viz. Attenuating, 
Drawing, and Discussive medicines:
’Tis true; there is but little diffe- 
rence between these three, some hold 
none at al; and if you wil be so nice, 
you may oppose them thus. And so 
medicines making thick, correspond 
to attenuating medicines, or such as  
make thin, repelling Medicines are 
opposed to such as draw, and such as 
retain the Humors and make them 
tough, are opposite to such as dis- 
cuss, some hold this Niceness need- 
less. 
2. The sentence of Authors about 
Repulsive medicines is various. 
For seeing an Influxion may be 
caused many waies: Repulsive hath 
got as many Definitions. 
For such things as cool, bind, stop, 
and make thick, stay Influxions, and  
therefore Repulsives are by Authors 
opposed, not only to Attractives, but 
also to Attenuating, and Discussing 
Medicines. 
But properly such things are called 
Repulsives, which do not only stay 
Influxions (for so do such Medicines 
which stop and make thick) but such 
as drive the Humors flowing to, or 
inherent in the place, to some other
place.
The truth is, binding is inherent to 
Repulsives, so is not coldness nor 
making thick: Yet such as are bind- 
ing, cold and thin in operation, are 
most effectual. 
Your tast will find Repulsives to 
be, tart, or sharp, or austere, with a 
certain binding which contracts the 
Tongue. 
Use 1. Their Use is manifold, as  
in hot Tumors, Head-achs, or the
like 
Use 2. By these in Fearers are the 
Vapors driven from the Head: Vi- 
negar of Rofes is notable. 
Time of giving. They are most 
commodious in the beginning and 
encrease of a disease, for then influxi- 
ons are most rise. 
But seeing that in the cure of Tu- 
mors there are two scopes. 1. That 
that which flows to it may be repel- 
led. 
2. That that which is already in it 
may be discussed: Repulsives are most 
commodiously used in the begin- 
ning, discussives in the latter end. 
In the middle you may mix them 
with this Proviso, That Repulsives 
exceed in the beginning, Discussives 
in the latter end. 
Caut. 1. If the matter offending be 
of a venemous quality, either abstain 
from Repulsives altogether, or use 
Purging first, left the matter fly to the
Bowels and prove dangerous, espe- 
cially if the Bowels be weak. 
2. Also forbear, Repulsives, if the 
pain be great. 
3. Lastly, Have a case left by Re- 
pulsives you contract the Pores so 
much, that the matter cannot be re- 
moved by Discussives. 
Chap. 10. Of burning Medicines. 
SUch Medicines are called by the 
Greeks τυgoτiπα', that are so ve-
hement hot that they burn the Skin 
like fire or scalding water. 
Yet these also are distinguished by 
their degrees, for some are milder.
and only cause redness to, or blisters 
upon the skin, others burn both skin 
and flesh, and are used to make Is- 
sues. 
Use 1 The mildest are many times 
used to such Limbs as are wasted a- 
way. 
Use 2. To burn off Hair, to dis- 
solve hard and callous Tumors, to  
consume Warts, and Polypus, which 
is a fleshy excressence growing in the 
Nose, in the cure of Gouts, and Le- 
thargies. 
Use 3. Fistulaes and malignant Ul- 
cers are restrained this way, and dan- 
gerous defluxion of Humors to the 
superficies of the Body, and many
things of the like Nature.
Caut. 1. Yet must this sort of Me- 
dicines be used very circumspectly 
left it cause either Feavers or Con- 
vulsions, therefore use it not al til the 
body be first wel purged. 
Caut. 2. If you use it to restore 
Limbs, temper it with milder things. 
Caut. 3. Lastly, Have a care left 
the parts adjacent be inflamed, 
which you may both prevent and re- 
medy by anointing them with cool 
Oyntments. 
Chap. 11. Of Clensing Medicines. 
CLensing medicines can neither 
be defined by Heat, nor cold- 
ness, because some of both sorts 
clense. 
A clensing medicine then is of a 
terrene quality, which takes away the 
filth with it, and carries it out. 
Definition.] Here to avoid confusi- 
on, a difference must be made between 
washing and clensing. 
A thing which washeth, carries a- 
way by Fluxion as a man washeth the 
the dirt off from a thing. 
A clensing medicine by a certain 
Roughness or nitrous quality, carries 
away the compacted filth with it. 
This also is the difference between 
clensing and discussing medicines, the 
one makes thick humors thin, and so 
seatters them, but a clensing medi-
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214 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick.  
Medicine takes the most tenacious 
humor along with it, without any al- 
teration. 
Besides, Of clensing medicines, 
some are of a gentle Nature, which 
the Greeks cal ρυτiηα', some are more 
vehement, called ηαθαì ρnτiηα'. 
These are not known one and the 
same way; for some are sweet, some 
salt, and some bitter. 
The use of clensing is external, as 
the use of Purges internal. 
They are used to clense the Sanies 
and other filth of Ulcers, yea, and to 
consume and eat away the flesh it  
self, as burnt Allum, Precipitate, &c.  
When these must be used, not only 
the effects of the Ulcers, but also the 
temperature of the body wil tel you.
For if you see either a Disease of 
fulness, which our Physitians call 
[plethora] or corrupted Humors 
which they cal [Cacochymia] you must 
empty the body of these, viz. fulness 
by bleeding, and corrupted Humors 
or evil state of the Body, by purging 
before you use medicines to the Ul- 
cer, else your cure wil never proceed 
prosperously. 
In the Ulcer, pain to be eased, some 
part of the Ulcer to be ripened, flux 
to be stopped, or inflamation to be 
ceased, will instruct a prudent Arti- 
ficer.
Chap. 12. Of Emplasticks. 
BY 'εμπλαsixα' here, do I mean 
things glutinative, and they are 
clean contrary to things clensing. 
They are of a far more glutinous 
and tenacious substance. 
They differ from things stopping 
because they do not stop the pores so 
much, as stick to them like Birdlime. 
They have a certain glutinous 
heat, tempered both with coldness 
and moisture.
From these, Plasters take their 
names.
Their tast is either none at all, or 
not discernable whether hot or cold, 
but fat, insipid, or without tast, or 
sweet, viscous in feeling. 
Their use is to stop flowing of 
blood, and other fluxes, to cause sup- 
puration, to contain in the heat, that 
so tumors may be ripened. 
Also they are mixed with other 
Medicines, that they may the better 
be brought into the form of an Em- 
plaster, and may stick the better to 
the Members.
Chap. 13. Of Suppurating Medi- 
cines. 
THese have great affinity with 
Emollient, like to them in 
temperature, only Emollients are som- 
thing hotter.                        
Yet is there a difference as appa- 
rent as the Sun is when he is upon 
the Meridian, and the use is manifest. 
For,  
Emollients are to make hard things 
soft, but what Suppures, rather 
makes a generation than alteration 
of the humors, 
Natural heat is the efficient cause 
of Suppuration, neither can it be 
done by any external means. 
Therefore such things are said to 
suppure, which by a gentle heat che- 
rish the inbred heat of man.
This is done by such Medicines 
which are not only temperate in heat 
but also by a gentle viscosity, fill up 
or stop the pores, that so the heat of 
the part affected be not scattered. 
For although such things as bind 
hinder the dissipation of the Spirits, 
and internal heat, yet they retain not 
the moisture as suppuring Medicines 
properly and especially do. 
The heat then of Suppuring Medi- 
cines is like the internal heat of our 
Bodies
As things then very hot, are in- 
grateful either by biting, as Pepper, 
or bitterness: in Suppuring Medi- 
cines, no biting, no binding, no ni- 
trous quality is perceived by the tast  
(I shal give you better satisfaction  
both in this and the other by and  
by.) 
For Reason wil tel a man, that such 
things hinder rather than help the 
work of Nature in maturation.  
It follows not from hence. That 
all Suppuring Medicines are grateful 
to the tast, for many things grateful 
to the tast provoke vomiting, there- 
fore why may not the contrary be? 
The most frequent use of Suppura- 
tion is, to ripen Phlegmonœ, a general 
term Physitians give to all swellings 
proceeding of Blood, because Nature 
is very apt to help such cures, and 
Physick is an art to help, not to hin- 
der Nature.
The time of use is usually in the 
height of the Disease, when the flux 
is staied, as also to ripen matter that 
it may be the easier purged away.
Chap. 14. Of Medicines provoking 
Urine.
THe causes by which Urine is 
suppessed are many. 
1. By too much drying, or sweat- 
ing, it may be consumed. 
2. By heat or Inflamation of the 
Reins, or passages whereby it passes 
from the Reins, it may be stopped by 
compression. 
Urine is the thinnest part of Blood, 
separated from the thickest part in 
the Reins.  
If then the Blood be more thick 
and viscous than ordinary, it cannot 
easily be separated without cutting 
and clensing Medicines.            
This is for certain, That Blood can 
neither be separated or distributed 
without heat.
Yet amongst Diureticks are some 
cold things, as the four greater cold 
Seeds, Winter cherries, and the 
like 
Although this seem a wonder, yet 
it may be and both stand with truth. 
For cool Diureticks, though they 
further not the separation of the 
Blood one jot, yet they clense and 
purge the passages of the Urine. 
Diureticks then are of two sorts.  
1. Such as conduce to the separa- 
tion of the Blood. 
2. Such as open the Urinal passa- 
ges. 
The former are *biting [*I 
know not a better word for Acer, than 
biting like Pepper.] (and are known 
by that tast) very hot and cutting, 
whence they penetrate to the Reins, 
and cut the gross humors there. 
Bitter things, although they be ve- 
ry hot, and cut gross humors, yet are 
they of a more dry and terrene sub- 
stance, than is convenient to provoke 
Urine. 
Hence then we may safely gather, 
That bitter things are not so moist 
nor penetrating, as such as bite like 
Pepper.  
Those cold things which provoke 
Urin, though they bite not, yet have 
they a nitrous quality whereby they 
open and clense. 
For the use of these the Title will 
instruct you, only, left they carry the 
humors they find in the Veins to the 
Reins, and so make the stopping the 
greater, purge those places they must 
pass through before you administer 
them.
Chap. 15. Of Medicines provoking 
the Terms. 
THese Medicines have a great af- 
finity with those aforegoing. 
For such as provoke the Terms, pro- 
voke also Urine, their Nature is al- 
most the same, viz. Hot, and thin es- 
sence. 
Only thus much, to provoke the 
Terms, not only the blood is to be 
attenuated, but the mouths of the 
Vessels also to be opened. 
Such as open those Vessels cary a 
certain terrene quality with them, 
whereby they not only penetrate, but 
also penetrating dilate the Vessels, 
and carry away the filth with them. 
Things provoking the Terms, 
ought to be hot in the third degree, 
and yet not very dry.
That there is an appointed time 
for the Terms to come down, every 
Woman that is but sixteen yeers old 
can tel you. 
Be sure you administer the Medi- 
cine at the time they should come 
down, else you wil do no other good 
than weaken Nature. 
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225 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick.  
Neither must those things be neg- 
lected which may bring the Body in- 
to a fit temper for such a business. 
If the Body be full of ill humors, 
purge them out first before you ad- 
minister hot things, left you thrust 
the crude humors into the Veins.
By avoiding the Menstruis the Bo- 
dy is made lighter, and Nature dis- 
burthened, health secured, alacrity 
procured. 
The retaining of them breeds drop- 
sies, Falling-sickness, and other cruel 
Diseases, yea, somtimes madness.  
Hippocrates denies any Women  
have the Gout so long as they have 
the Terms.
Chap. 16. Medicines breeding, or  
taking away Milk. 
SEing Milk is bred of blood, there 
is no question to be made but 
the way to encrease Milk, is to en- 
crease the Blood. 
Yet though blood be very copi- 
ous, it doth not alwaies follow that 
Milk must of necessity be so too, for 
the Blood may be naught, or not fit 
to be turned into Milk, or impedited 
that it cannot. 
Those things are properly said to 
breed milk, which breed much blood,  
and it good, and have a moderate 
cutting faculty also. 
Such things then as breed milk are 
hot, and of thin parts, yet differ much 
from those that provoke urine, or the 
Terms. The other being vehement- 
ly hot, these which breed milk tem- 
perately hot. 
And if driness be adverse to the 
provoking of the terms, certainly it 
is most adverse to breeding Milk. 
Medicines which breed milk, are 
in tast either fat, or sweet, 
For seeing both blood and milk are 
temperate, or at least very moderate- 
ly hot, they must be bred of such 
things as are not unlike to them in 
Nature. 
Such things as lessen Milk must 
needs be contrary to such things as 
encrease it. 
This is done by drying or thick- 
ning the blood. 
They are known by tast, bitter,  
sharp, tart, Austere, &c. and what- 
foever is excessive either in heat or 
cold. 
If the body be full of evill juyce, 
purge it before you goe about to 
breed Milk, for the more you nourish 
impure bodies, the more you offend 
them. 
Addition. 
The Industry of late Physitians and 
Anatomists in conjunction with a 
noble freedom of Judgment, has 
found and asserted, that Milk is not 
bred of blood but of the thinner and 
purer parts of the Chylus: though 
the passage of the said chylus from 
the stomach to the Dugs is not yet 
sufciently discovered. See Dr. Ent 
his Exercitations upon Parisanus. It 
is likewise discovered lately by the 
means aforesaid, that blood does 
only quicken and give life and met- 
tle to the body, the nourishment  
thereof proceeding from the Milk, or 
purer part of the chyle, which justi- 
fies that saying of the Author of 
the Tragicomical History of Job, 
who saies that some men die when 
their bones are moistened with Mar- 
row and their breasts ful of Milk, 
Job 2. 23, 24.
Chap. 17. Of Medicines regarding 
the Seed.
AS Milk, so also Seed takes his 
Originial from Blood. 
Therefore of necessity nourishing 
meats beget much Seed, because they 
beget much blood. 
This is the difference between such 
things as breed Milk, and such as 
breed seed; Seed requires a more 
windy blood than the other doth. 
For this faculty ought to be in seed, 
that being heat with spirits, it may 
cause the Yard to stand. 
Such Medicines are temperately 
hot and moist 
Also to provoke one to the sports 
of Venus, we use such things as stir 
up the Venerial faculty. 
These are hotter than those that en- 
crease seed, yet not so dry that they 
should consume the seed. 
Take notice of this also. That some 
things dul Venus by cold, and some 
over power her by heat. 
The one of those consumes the 
seed, the other makes it torpid and 
fluggish, staies the Itching. 
For the seed of Man is subject to 
as many contingents as the Man him- 
self is. 
It is not my scope here to treat of 
them, for such things as make seed 
either thinner or thicker, are not pro- 
perly said to breed seed. 
For the time when seed should 
be evacuated, I need say nothing, un- 
less I should say, when a man is a 
bed with his Wife. 
If the body have ill humors let it 
first be purged, let seed be encreased 
before it be provoked. 
Biting things lessen the seed, stir 
up the Venereal parts to expulsion, 
cause Itching or tickling of the pri- 
vities, therefore they are good to be 
used a little before the act, otherwise 
the constant use of them, consumes 
and scatters the seed. 
Observe thus much, That one and 
the same Medicine doth not suit with 
every complexion. For example. If 
the person be flegmatick, let the Me- 
dicine be the hotter. 
The use of these Medicines is the 
propagation of Man-kind, for the 
desire of children incites many to co-   
pulation, but the pleasure that is in 
the act ten times more. 
Chap. 18. Of Medicines easing 
pain.
THere is no dispute of the story 
but that which causeth the dis- 
ease causeth pain, as also what cureth 
the disease easeth the pain. 
Yet are those properly called A- 
nodynes (which is the Physical term 
for such medicines) which barely 
regard the pain, both cause and dis- 
ease remaining. 
These are temperate for heat, and 
thin for essence.
For seeing they are to be applied 
both to hot and cold Diseases, they 
ought not to vary much from tempe- 
rature. 
They somthing excel in heat, and 
so they ease pain, because they open 
the pores and loosen the skin. 
But they also cool because they let 
out those hot fuliginous vapors 
which cause the pain. 
Such things as ease pain by stu- 
pefaction, are called Narcotika, not 
Anodyna; hupuotica, not Parego- 
rica.
They do not take away the pain at 
all, but either cause sleep, or so dull 
the sences that they cannot feel it. 
They are administred at such times 
when the Symptomes are so grievous 
that they threaten a greater Danger 
than the Disease is. 
If in giving them, you fear a grea- 
ter fluxion wil come to the part affli- 
cted, mix some things with them, 
which are medicinal for the Disease. 
If the pain lie in the Skin, let the 
Anodynes be liquid, the deeper it 
lies, the more solid let them be, left 
their vertue be discussed before they 
come at the part afflicted,
Chap. 19. Of Medicines breeding 
Flesh. 
THere are many things diligently 
to be observed in the cures of 
Wounds and Ulcers, which incur and 
hinder that the cure cannot be spee- 
dily done, nor the separated parts re- 
duced to their Natural State. 
Viz. Fluxes of blood, inflamation, 
Hardness, Pain, and other things be- 
sides our present scope. 
Our present scope is, to shew how 
the cavity of Ulcers may be filled 
with Flesh. 
Such medicines are called σαρπνΠ-
nα', Sarcoticks. 
This, though it be the work of na- 
ture, yet it is helped forward with 
Medicines, that the blood may be 
prepared, that it may the easier be 
turned into Flesh. 
These are not medicines which 
breed good Blood, nor which correct
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226 A Key to Galen’s Method of Physick.  
the in temperature of the place affli- 
cted, but which defend the blood and  
the Ulcer it self from corruption in  
breeding Flesh, 
For Nature in breeding flesh pro-  
duceth two sorts of excrements, viz.  
Serous Humors, and Purulent dross.
Those Medicines then which clense 
and consume, these by drying are said 
to breed flesh, because by their helps 
Nature performs that Office. 
Also take notice that these Me- 
dicines are not so drying that they 
should consume the Blood also as 
wel as the Sanies, nor so clensing that 
they should consume the flesh with 
the dross.
Let them not then exceed the first 
Degree unless the Ulcer be very 
moist. 
Their differences are various, ac- 
cording to the part wounded, which 
ought to be restored with the same 
flesh. 
The softer then, and tenderer the 
place is, the gentler let the midicines 
be.
Chap. 20. Of Glutinative Medi- 
cines.
THat is the true cure of an ulcer, 
which joyns the mouth of it 
together. 
That is a Glutinative Medicine, 
which couples together by drying 
and binding, the sides of an ulcer be- 
fore brought together. 
These require a greater drying fa- 
culty than the former, not only to 
consume what flows out, but what 
remains liquid in the flesh, for liquid 
flesh is more subject to flow abroad 
than to stick together. 
The time of using them, any body 
may know without teaching, viz. 
when the Ulcer is clensed and filled 
with flesh, and such Symptomes as 
hinder are taken away. 
For many times Ulcers must be 
kept open that the Sanies, or fords 
that lie in them may be purged out, 
whereas of themselves they could 
heal before. 
Only beware, left by too much bin- 
ding you cause pain in tender parts. 
Chap. 21. Of Scarrifying Medi- 
cines. 
THe last part of the cure of an ul- 
cer, is to cover it with skin, and 
restore the place to its pristine beau- 
tie. 
Such Medicines the Greeks call 
Epulotica. 
This also is done by things drying 
and binding. 
They differ from the former thus, 
in that they meddle with the flesh no 
further than only to convert it into 
Skin.                                   
Before you administer Epuloticks, 
let not only the ulcer, but the places 
adjacent be diligently viewed, left ill 
Symptomes follow.
Chap. 22. Of Medicines resisting 
poyson.
SUch medicines are called Alexi- 
teria, and Alexipharmaca, which 
resist Poyson. 
Some of these resist Poyson by A-  
stral influence, and some Physitians  
(though but few) can give a reason  
of it.  
These they have sorted into three  
Ranks. 
1. Such as strengthen Nature, that  
so it may tame the poyson the easier.  
2. Such as oppose the poyson by a  
contrary quality.  
3. Such as violently thrust it out  
of doors.  
Such as strengthen Nature against  
Poyson, either do it to the body uni- 
versally, or else strengthen some par- 
ticular part thereof. 
For many times one particular part 
of the Body is most afflicted by the 
Poyson, suppose the Stomach, Liver, 
Brain, or any other part: such as che- 
rish and strengthen those parts being 
weakened, may be said to resist poy- 
son.
Such as strengthen the Spirtis, 
strengthen all the Body. 
Sometimes Poysons kill by their 
quality, and then are they to be cor- 
rected by their contraries. 
They which kill by cooling are to 
be remedied by heating, and the con- 
trary; they which kill by corroding, 
are to be cured by lenitives, such as 
temper their Acrimony. 
Those which kil by Induration, or 
Coagulation, require cutting Medi- 
cines. 
Also because all Poysons are in 
motion, neither stay they in one place 
til they have seized and oppressed 
the Fountain of Life, therefore they 
have invented another faculty to stay 
their motion, viz. Terrene and Em- 
plastick. 
For they judg, if the Poyson light 
upon these Medicines, they embrace 
them round with a viscous quality. 
Also they say the waies and pas- 
sages are stopped by such means, to 
hinder their proceeding; take Terra 
Lemnia for one. 
Truly if these Reasons be good, 
which I leave to future time to de- 
termine, it may be done for a little 
cost. 
Some are of opinion that the safest 
way is to expel the poyson out of the 
Body, so soon as may be, and that is 
done by Vomit, or Purge, or Sweat. 
You need not question the time, 
but do it as soon as may be; for there 
is no parlying with poyson. 
Let vomiting be the first, Purging 
the next, and Sweating the last. This 
is general. But, 
If thou dost but observe the Na- 
ture and motion of the Venom, that 
wil be the best Instructer. 
In the Stomach it requires Vomi- 
ting, in the blood and spirits, Sweat- 
ing; if the Body be plethorick, blee- 
ding; if ful of evil humors, Purging. 
Lastly, The Cure being ended, 
strengthen the part afflicted. 
Thus our common Physitians. But 
out of question, Medicines whose o- 
peration is by Astral influence, are 
both safest and speediest, not only in 
this, but in all other Diseases; but 
this is besides my present scope, and 
Physitians confess is hid from their 
eyes, that belongs to my own Model, 
which I trust in God I shall live to 
perfect. This is that that cures Dis- 
eases perse, the other per accidens; this 
Moderns quite neglected: some An- 
tients were groping at it, though left 
it not to posterity.
Chap 23. Of Medicines Adorning 
the Body. 
SUch medicines as adorn the Bo- 
dy, adding comliness and beau- 
ty to it, are called xoσμεπxα'.
Beauty is a blesting of God, and e- 
very one ought to preserve it; they 
offend as much that neglect it, as 
they do that paint their Faces. 
They are appropriated to the skin, 
Hair, and Teeth. 
The Skin is pestered with spots, 
Pimples, freckes, wrinkles, and Sun- 
burning. 
The Hair either falls off, or hangs 
not as it should do. 
The Teeth are either loose, or fall 
out, or stink, or are black. 
Spots and Sunburning, as also 
blackness of the teeth, are not to be 
taken away by clensing Medicines: 
of which before. 
Redness of the Face proceedeth 
from divers causes, therefore are to 
be remedied by Remedies as divers. 
If of heat, cool the blood; if it be 
impacted to the Skin, use extenuat- 
ing Medicines; if of both, use both. 
If the failing be extrinsecal, use 
extrinsecal Medicines; if intrinsecal, 
let the Remedy be so also. 
Wrinckles are taken away by La- 
xative, Lenient, and Emollient me- 
dicines. 
For falling off of Hair, correct the 
pravity of the humor that causeth it. 
Gentle heat breeds Hair, and pre- 
serves it; clensing and corroding 
Medicines take it away. 
Drying and binding Medicines 
cause Hair to curl. 
Clensing things make the Teeth 
clean, binding things strengthen 
them, but have a care they have not 
a blackish quality with them, which 
is incident to many binding Medi- 
cines. 
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227 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick.  
Clensing iand discussing Medicines 
take scurse or dandrif from the head. 
In al these, see the Bowels clean, 
else local Medicines are applied in 
vain. 
In preserving hair, only two things 
are considerable. 
1. To contract the Pores.
2. To see that the Hair have nou- 
rishment. 
Chap. 24. Of purging Medicines. 
MUch jarring hath been amongst 
Physitians about Purging Me- 
dicines, namely, whether they draw 
the humors to them by a hidden qua- 
lity, which in plain English is, they 
know not how; or whether they per- 
form their office by manifest quality, 
viz. By heat, driness, coldness, or 
moisture: It is not my present scope 
to enter the Lists of a Dispute about 
the business, neither seems it such 
a hidden thing to me that every like 
should draw its like, only to make 
the matter as plain as I can, I subdi- 
vide this Chapter into these follow- 
ing parts.
1 Cautions concerning Purging. 
2 Of the choice of purging Medicines, 
3 Of the time of taking them. 
4 Of the correcting of them. 
5 Of the manner of Purging.  
Cautions concerning 
Purging. 
IN this, first consider diligently, and 
be exceeding cautious in it too, 
what the matter offending is, what 
part of the body is afflicted by it, and 
Which is the best way to bring it out. 
Only here by the way first, have a 
care of giving Vomits, for they u- 
sually work more violently, and af- 
flict the Body more than Purges do 
therefore are not fit for weak bodies, 
be sure the matter offending lie in 
the Tunicle of the Stomach, else is a 
Vomit given in vain. 
Secondly, Vomits are more dange- 
rous for Women then Men, especi- 
ally such as are either with Child, or 
subject to the Fits of the Mother. 
This is the first Caution. 
Secondly, What medicine is apro- 
priated to the purging of such a Hu- 
mor, for seeing the offending matter 
is not alike in al, the purging Medi- 
cine ought not to be the same to al, I 
shal speak more of this anon. As al- 
so of the divers waies whereby medi- 
cines draw out or cast out Humors, 
viz. By lenifying, clensing, provo- 
king nature to expulsion, and (which 
is stranger than the Doctors hidden 
Quality) some purge by binding, but 
indeed and in truth such as are pro- 
perly called Purging Medicines, 
which besides these Faculties have 
gotten another, by which they draw 
or cal out the Humors from the most 
remote parts of the Body, whether  
these do it by Heat or by an hidden  
quality, Physitians are scarce able to 
determine it being very well known  
to modern Physitians, though the  
Antient denied it that many cold  
Medicines purge, for my part I shall  
forbear the Dispute here, not because  
I am not able to answer it but be-  
cause I would train up my Country  
men first a little betterin the grounds 
of Physick, it being my opinion that  
yong Physitains as wel as youg Chri- 
stians ought not to be led into doubt- 
ful Disputations. This is the Second 
Caution. 
Thirdly, There is this Facultie in 
al the Purges of Galen's model (be- 
cause he gives the whol Simple which 
must needs consist of divers qualities, 
because the Creation is made up of 
and consists by a harmony of contra- 
ries) there is (I say) this Faculty in 
al Purges of that Nature, that they 
contain in them a substance which is 
inimical both to the Stomach and 
Bowels and some are of opinion this 
doth good namely, Provokes nature 
the more to expulsion; the reason
might be good if the Foundation of 
it were so, for by this Reason Nature 
her self should purge not the Medi- 
cine, and a Physitian who takes his 
Name from phusis, which signifies 
Nature, should help Nature in her 
business and not hinder her. But to 
forbear being critical, this substance 
which I told you was inimical to the 
Stomach, must be corrected in every  
Purge; And this is my Third Cau-  
tion. 
Fourthly, The choice of Purging 
Medicines is very difficult, they are  
not Physick for every Ignoramus to  
prescribe, for some purge gently some 
violently, some are appropriated to  
Flegm some to Choller, some to Me-  
lancholy, and some to Water, or se-  
rous humors: Consider this but duly,  
and withal, what mischief may accrue 
by giving a Medicine purging Cho- 
ler in a Disease proceeding of Flegm  
or watry humors, you may easily see 
without a pair of Spectacles, that it 
cannot but weaken the Spirits ex- 
ceedingly, and abate Natural Heat, 
which is al Nature hath to help her  
self in such a case, and also hinder the  
clarification of the Blood which is 
done by Choller, thereby encreasing 
the Disease, and opening a gap to let 
out Life, and let in Death; It were 
vain to recite what mischief may fol- 
low the giving of violent Purges to 
weak Bodies, or to strong bodies 
where the Humor offending is not 
tough and viscous, but fluid and ea- 
sie to be carried away I shal touch 
upon them by and by, only here you 
may see reason enough, why I am so 
long upon this subject. 
Lastly, When you perfectly know 
the humor offending, the convenient 
Medicine and fit correction for it, the 
time and matter of using it remains 
to be enquired into. 
These I thought to premise by way 
of caution before I come to the mat- 
ter it self intended, and so much the 
rather because people from one Ge- 
neration to another have been so 
trained up in ignorance by Physitians 
who have absconded the Method 
of Physick from them, that now 
like mad men (oppression having al- 
most, if not altogether made them so) 
when they ail anything, they take 
any Purge what their next Neighbor 
adviseth them to, right or wrong ’tis 
no matter, their wit in, and conside- 
ration of the business being much at 
one.
Of the choyce of Purging 
Medicines. 
WE told you before, That 
purging Medicines were 
appropriated to certain Humors, the 
redundancy or overflowing of which 
causeth diseases in the Body of man;  
of these, such as proceed from blood 
are not to be Remedied by Purging. 
The Humors to be purged are 
Four, Viz. 
Flegm, 
Watery Humors 
Choller, 
Melancholy. 
According to the quality of these, 
are Purging Medicines to be chosen. 
Before I come to them, give me 
leave to premise one word or two, I 
shal only here quote Purging simples be- 
fore I am now upon the simples, I shall 
touch upon the purging Compounds when 
I come unto them. 
The most noted qualities of Purging 
Medicines. 
I shall first give you a Synopsis or 
Joynt-view of Purging simples usu- 
ally to be had. 
Secondly, Speak as briefly as I can 
of their Properties. 
Purging Sim- 
ples work
Gently.
Strongly.  
Such as work gently, either purge  
Choller, As, 
Wormwood, Centaury, Aloes, 
Hops, Herb Mercury, Mallows, Peach 
leaves and Flowers, Damask Roses, 
Blew Violets, Cassia Fistula, Citron 
Mirobalans, Prunes, Tamarinds, Rhu- 
barbs, Rhapontick, Manna.
Purge Flegm, As, Hysop Hedg 
Hysop, Bastard Saffron, Broom Flo- 
wers, Elder flowers, Myrobalans, Bel- 
lerick, Chebs, & Emblicks, the seed of 
Bastard saffron and Broom, Jallap and 
Mechoacan. 
Watry





 


228 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
Watry Humors, The Leaves, Bark 
and Roots of Elder, and Dwarf elder, 
or Walwort, Elder Flowers, Broom 
Flowers, Agrick, Jallap, Mechoacan, 
Orris, or Flower-de-Luce Roots.
Melancholy, Senna, Fumitory, Dod- 
der, Epithimum, Indian Myrobalans, 
Polypodium, Whey, Lapis Lazuli, 
&c.
Violent Simples purge Choller, As, 
The Seeds of Spurge, the Bark and 
Root of the same, Scammonie, Ela- 
terium. 
Flegm and Water. Elaterium, Eu- 
phorbium, Spurge, Opopanax, Sar- 
cocolla, Briony Roots, Turbith, Her- 
modactils, Colocynthis, Wild Cu- 
cumers, Sowbread, Mezereon, 
Squils. 
Melancholly. Hellebore white and 
black.
Secondly, In all these observe, 
That such as are gentle are only to 
be given to delicate and tender Bo- 
dies, whether the body be weak Na- 
turally, or caused so by sickness, a- 
bove al give not vomits to weak Sto- 
machs, for the Fundament is ordain- 
ed by Nature to avoid the Excre- 
ments, and not the mouth, which was 
ordained to take in, not to Vomit 
out, therefore use vomits as seldome 
as may be. 
But for the Election of Purges, Let 
such as are apropriated to flegm and 
melancholy be mixed with such 
things as are thin in substance, and of 
a cutting quality, because these Hu- 
mors are tough, gentle medicines wil 
serve to evacuate Water and Choller 
usually, I say [usually] because som- 
times water requires such medicines, 
as are of force to call it from the 
extream parts of the body, and such 
must needs be violent in Operation. 
I entreat al yong Students in Phy- 
sick to be very carefull in admini- 
string violent medicines, and that ne- 
ver without due preparation of the 
body beforehand, never unless the 
Humor be so repugnant that it will 
not yield to gentle: And oh! that 
simple people would learn to be but 
so wise as to let them alone, and not 
take them themselves, the evill they 
do them (if not regulated by an a- 
bler brain than dwels in their skuls) 
is certain, the good very uncertain; 
for such violent medicines as purge 
Choller if immoderately taken, first 
draw the choller, then the flegm, 
afterwards the melancholy, then they 
cause Corrosions, and draw the 
blood: Such as purge flegm and wa- 
ter violently when they have drawn 
that, then they draw the Choller, 
then melancholy, they then corrode, 
and so either by excoriation or ope- 
ning the mouths of the Veins, bloo- 
dy Fluxes also follow, and many 
times the Disease ends in the Grave; 
and so also the immoderate Purgati- 
tion of melancholy, first draws chol- 
ler (I mean after the melancholy is
evacuated) then Flegm, and ends as 
the other do. But I think this is e- 
nough to wise men. To return; 
If you prepare the body before 
hand (you wil not want instructions 
how to do it in the COMPOUNDS) 
then gentler Medicines wil serve the 
turn, and therefore such Medicines 
as purge water, add but cutting me- 
dicines to them, and they purge 
Flegm. 
And then again, I desire you to 
take notice that such medicines as 
have a binding quality in them are 
very hurtful to tough flegm, and me- 
lancholy, because the humors them- 
selves being tough, they make them 
the tougher, but they are most proper 
for Choller and putrified Flegm, be- 
cause the first of them often causeth 
defluxions, the second a loosness. 
Again, Another thing I thought 
good to give notice of, and so much 
the rather because I have seen it prin- 
ted in English, and heard it contend- 
ed for by Students in Physick, yet is 
the conceipt very dangerous, viz. 
That the operations of Purging me- 
dicines may be known by their co- 
lors, for say they, white medicines 
purge Flegm; black, melancholy; 
and yellow, Choller. I confess some 
Antient Physitians were of this apish 
Opinion, which in no wise holds true 
in the general, though in some parti- 
culars it may.
Of the time of Purging. 
IT was the Opinion of Hippocrates 
to prepare the Body with hot and 
cutting Syrups before the purging 
Medicine be given, with this Proviso, 
That the matter be not so hot that it 
be thrust into the Veins, and cause 
Feavers. 
If your Purge must be strong, take 
some lenitive Purge, or else a Clyster 
before you take it, left the passages 
being not opened, the matter being 
violently expelled be stopped in its 
passage, and so either Colicks, or ve- 
hement Belly-ach, or worse mischief 
follow. 
Let it be two hours ere you drink, 
and four or five ere you eat after you 
have taken a Purge, and let your 
Stomach be empty when you take 
them. 
1. Left being mixed with the nou- 
rishment they lose their force, and so 
Nature convert them into nourish- 
ment, thereby corrupting the blood. 
2. All Purges are enemies to Na- 
ture, and if yon mix them with food, 
Nature detains them the longer, and 
by consequence is the more prejudice 
to them. 
3. It is very unfitting to molest 
Dame Nature with two several moti- 
ons at one time, viz. To expel the 
Purge and the obnoxious humor 
with it, and also at the same time to 
nourish the Body.                   
As for Lenitives or gentle Purges, 
and many Pills, they may safely be 
taken at night, as you were taught 
in the first part of my Directory, to 
which I refer you for Directions in 
all Purges, and I shal have a word or 
two to say concerning Vomits before 
I have done this Book: I refer it 
here therefore to its proper place. 
I shal here conclude with this Ca- 
veat, Never take sweet things after 
Purges, because the Liver draws them 
so greedily that they soon turn the 
Purge to aliment, which if any thing 
will bring mischiefs more than e- 
nough to the Body, this wil. 
Of the correcting of Purging Medi- 
cines. 
IN Purging Medicines are many 
things considerable, which are ei- 
ther to be helped forwards or cor- 
rected, for of Purges, some work too 
slowly, others too violently. 
Or to be a little more distinct, 
some faults of a purge may be known 
before it is given, and others nor till 
after. I shal begin with the first. 
There is this almost properly in all 
Purges, that they are obnoxions to 
the Stomach, and indeed to Nature 
it self, therefore mix some things 
with them which strengthen the Heart 
and Stomach.
Again, The gentleft Purges that 
are, have one discommodity in them 
That they are easily turned to wind; 
therefore mix such things with them 
as expel wind (the former Rules a- 
mongst the Simples, wil furnish you 
with enough, and more then enough 
of either) for although they be not, 
windy of themselves, yet by their 
heat they stir up wind, though they 
meet with Flegm or Melancholly. 
Violent purges by their Acrimony 
or sharp gnawing quality, are inimi- 
call to the Bowels, which must iu 
no wise be corrected with binding 
Physicks, for that will mend them as 
the Fletcher mends his Bolt, viz. Spoil 
all, and that by keeping them so long 
in the Body: such things as make 
slippery, lenisie, and somthing thic- 
ken, are proper Corrigents for them; 
such are, Quince Seeds, Mallows, 
Gum Tragacanth, and the like. 
After the Purge is given, it may 
offend on either hand, viz. By work- 
ing either not at all, or not violent- 
ly: If it work not at all, take hot 
Broaths; if they wil not do the deed, 
use a Clyster. 
Various and manifold are the evils 
that a Purge working too violently, 
may afflict upon the Body of Man, 
and very dangerous; for such may 
produce these, or any of these conse- 
quences, and poor filly people that 
take them, never know whence they 
come.
1. Feavers.
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229 A Key to Galens Method of Physick. 
2. Vehement Head-ach. 
3. Vertigo or Dissiness in the 
Head. 
4. Weakness of Sight 
5. Weakness of Digestion. 
6. Loss of Appetite. 
7. Ulcers in the Bowels. 
8. Hiccoughs. 
9. Bloody Fluxes. 
10. Tenasmus. 
11. Weakness of the Body. 
12. Convulsions.
If you feel these, or any of these 
Symptoms after Purging, you may 
give a shrewd Guess, either your 
purge was not proper for your Dis- 
ease or else wrought too violently. 
It is not my present Task to shew 
you how to remedy these, the Table 
at the latter end will instruct you 
with Medicines for each, and you 
cannot be more unwilling to pay for 
one thing twice, than I am to write it. 
For preventing such evills as these 
are (or others which perhaps a man 
might find in Authors) accept of 
these following Aphorisms. 
1. Be sure you strengthen the heart 
for if that fail, al wil be naught. 
2. When you preceive your purge 
Works too violently, you may then 
know nature hath got an enemy that 
is too hard for her, therefore make 
as much haft as you can to expell 
him, ease your Body of the Purge so 
soon as you can for the longer it 
staies in your Body, the more inimi- 
cal it proves, either poysoning it, or 
leaving such Symptoms behind it as 
we mentioned even now, which may 
be done by drinking much Barley 
Water (or for want of it take any 
warm Water, that is clean, as Spring 
Water or the like) wherein the seeds 
of Fleawort, or Quince seeds, or Gum 
Tragacanth is dissolved, for that 
makes the passages slippery and hin- 
ders Excoriation of the Bowels: 
Country people that know, not how 
to get these, may boyl two handfulls 
of Mallows in a quart of water to a 
pint, and drink it up, if that help not, 
let them drink another. 
3. If you find the Mouths of the 
Veins be opened, which you may 
know if much blood come from you 
without any skins, then take a Cly- 
ster made only of new Milk, a dram 
of Mastich in pouder being added to 
it. 
4. Oyl of sweet Almonds taken 
inwardly, an ounce at a time, and as 
often as you wil, is excellent in such 
a case, but let it be newly drawn. 
5. Juyce of Quinces, Syrup of 
Quinces, Preserved Quinces, or that 
which in Sussex the Gentry cal Mar- 
milade is very good; according to 
Mesue in such a case to be taken of- 
ten. 
6. Anoint the Belly and Stomach 
with Oyl of Roses as hot as can be 
endured, after which sprinkle the 
pouder of Mastich, or for want of it 
pouder of Galls, or red Rose Leaves 
upon them; if you apply any Rose 
Cake to the Belly in such a case it 
Would do good. 
Lastly, If for all this the matter 
grow desperate and wil not be stop- 
ped, Mesue leaves two Remedies 
more, which he desires may be the 
last that are used; and truly so do I 
only I shal quote his last first, because 
I hold it (of the two) the safest. 
His last (but my first) is this; To 
take three grains of Laudanum, or if 
your body be weak, but two. 
The Second is, To take a Vomit, 
thereby to divert the Humors from 
their unbridled Course downward.
Of the Way, or Manner 
of Purging. 
VArious is the way, and manner 
of Purging, according to the 
variety of the humor offending; con- 
cerning which, take these few and 
brief Rules, which may serve you as 
a Candle and Lanthorn to light you 
through the dark mist of your igno- 
rance, till such time as the 
Sun of Light begin to rise upon 
you. 
1. If the Humors be to be drawn 
from remote parts of the body, as the 
Head, Arms, Feet, or the like, let the 
purge be made up in a hard form as 
pills are, for by that means it staies 
the longer in the Body, and is in all 
reason therefore the better able to 
perform its Office. 
2. If the afflicting humor lie in the 
Bowels, or parts adjacent, use liquid 
Medicines, for they operate speediest 
and the bowels are soon hurt by pur- 
ging Medicines. 
3. The infusion of such Medicines 
as leave a binding quality behind 
them, or their Decoction is most fit- 
ting to be used, for it is the earthy 
quality of them which binds, much 
of which is cast away in an Infusion 
or Decoction, but all of it taken if 
you take the body of the simple. 
Such purging Medicines as do 
leave a binding quality behind them, 
the chiefest of them are these Aloes,
Wormwood, Damask Roses, Rhubarb, 
Rhapontick, all the sorts of Myrobalans,
Prunes, Tamarinds, &c.
If the matter be tough, viscous, 
and of long continuance, it is impos- 
sible to carry it away al at once, your 
way then is to take gentle purges, 
and take them often; for if the purge 
be too strong, it wil weaken Nature 
so, that the House (I mean the bo- 
dy) will fall down before you can 
clense it of the filth; and of such a 
Nature usually is Melancholy. 
As for the Doses of purges it is 
impossible to prescribe such general 
Rules, but they must of necessity do 
far more harm than good, for parti-
culars you may if you please find 
them in the first part of the Book 
concerning Simples, and in that part 
concerning Compounds.
FINIS.
Kkk A SYNOPSIS 
 

A SYNOPSIS of the KEY of GALENS 
METHOD of PHYSICK. 
READER, In this Synopsis diligently observe that a directs to the first 
Column, b. to the second, c. to the third Column: And the Figures direct 
to the Page. 
THe Scope of the whole work 
a 214 
Sect. 1. 
Of the Temperature of Medicines. 
a ibid 
Of Temperate Medicines what they 
are. Their use.—b 1b 
Of Hot Medicines. 
Of Medicines hot in the first degree 
a 215 
Use, 1. Reduce the body to natural heat 
a ibid 
Use, 2. To mitigate pain—a ibid 
Use, 3. To take away weariness—a rid 
help Feavers. A caution—a ib 
Use, 4. To help digestion and breed 
good blood—b ibid  
Of Medicines hot in the second degree  
what they are—b ibid 
Use, 1. To help moist Stomachs—b ibid 
Use, 2. To take away obstructions.—b ib 
Use, 3. To open the pores—b ibid 
Of Medicines hot in the third degree.  
b ibid  
Use, 1. To cut tough humors—b ib  
Use, 2. To provoke sweat—b ibid  
Use, 3. To resist poyson—b ib 
Of Medicines hot in the fourth degree 
b ibid 
Use, 1. To cause Inflamations and to  
cause blisters—b ibid  
Of cold Medicines 
Of Medicines cold in the first degree. 
Use, 1. To qualifie the heat of food. 
b ib 
Use, 2. To asswage the heat of the bow- 
els A caution—b ibid 
Of Medicines cold in the second and 
third Degrees—c ib 
Use, 1. To asswage the heat of choller 
c ib 
Use, 2. To take away the Inflamations 
of hot swellings—c ibid 
Use, 3. To cause sleep—c ib 
Of Medicines cold in the fourth degree 
c ibid 
Use, 1. To mitigate desperate pains by 
stupifiying the sences—c ibid 
Of Moistning Medicines—a 126 
Use, 1. To help the Roughness  of the 
throat—a ib 
Use, 2. To make the inward parts of the 
Body slippery—a ibid                 
Of Drying Medicines—a ibid 
Use, 1. To strengthen the members of 
the body cautions— a ibid 
Sect. 2. 
Of the Appropriation of Medicines 
to the several parts of the Body.—b ib 
THe several Opinions oj Authors 
b ib 
Chap. 1. "Medicines appropriated to the 
Head—c ibid 
Their Difference—c ibid 
Cautions in their use—c ibid 
Of Medicines appropriated to the brain 
c ibid 
Directions in their use—c ib 
Of Medicines appropriated to the 
Eyes—a 217 
The opinions of Astrologers—a ib 
The Election or choyce of medicines for 
the Eyes—a ib 
Of Medicines appropriated to the 
Mouth and Nose—b ibid 
Cautions for their use—b ibid 
The manner of the medicines—b ib 
Medicines appropriated to the Ears 
c ibid 
What they are and why they are so.—a ib 
Medicines appropriated to the teeth 
c ibid 
What they are, and why they are 
so—c ibid  
Chap. 2. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Breast and Lungs—c ibid 
What they are—c ibid 
The opinion of other Authors—c ibid 
The Authors opinion—c ib 
Chap. 3. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Heart—a 218 
What the office of the Heart is—a ib 
1. To cherish Life—a ibid 
2. To add vigor to the affection.—a ib 
The afflictions of the Heart—a ibid 
1. Excessive heat 2. Poysons—b ibid 
3. Melancholy Vapors—b ib 
What Cordials are—b ibid 
1. Such as mitigate the heat in Fea- 
vers—b ibid 
2. Such as resist Poyson—c ibid 
1. By Antipathy between the medi- 
cine and Poyson. 2. By Simpathy be- 
tween the medicine and the Heart. 3. 
Such as strengthen the heart. 4. Such as 
resresh the spirits—c ib 
Chap. 4. Of medicines appropriated to 
the stomach: The infirmities of the Sto-   
mach. 1. Appetite lost. 2. Digestion 
weakned. 3 The Retentive Faculty cor- 
rupted—c ibid 
Medicines appropriated to the sto- 
mach, are—c ibid 
1. Such as provoke appetite—c ib 
2. As help digestion. 3. Such as help 
the Retentive Faculty. A way to find 
these cautions in the use of them— c ibid 
Chap. 5. Of medicines appropriated to  
the Liver—a 219 
What they are—a ib 
How to know them—a ibid 
How to use them—a ibid 
Chap. 6. Of medicines appropriated to 
the spleen: What the office of the spleen 
is—b ib 
What Medicines appropriated to the 
Spleen are—b ib 
How they must be used—b ibid 
Chap. 7. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Reins and Bladder—c ibid 
What they are, Their use, cautions.—c ib 
Chap. 8. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Womb—a 220 
How they ought to be used—a ibid 
Chap. 9. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Joynts—b ibid 
What they are, how they ought to be u- 
sed—b ibid 
Sect. 3. 
Of the Properties or Operations of 
Medicines. 
Chap. 1. Of Emollient medicines—c ib 
What they are. Their use—c ib 
How they are known—c ibid 
1. By their tast. 2. By their feeling
c ibid 
Chap. 2. Of hardning medicines—a 221 
Their Qualities. Their use—c ibid. 
Chap. 3. Of loosning medicines—c ibid 
Loosning medicine described—c ib 
Their Use—c ibid 
Chap. 4. Of medicines making thick 
and thin Described—a 222 
The use of medicines making thin—a ibid 
To open the pores To mitigate pain 
To asswage swellings—a ibid 
The use of medicines making thick—a ib
Chap 5


A SYNOPSIS of the KEY of Galens Method of Physick. 
Chap. 5. Of Medicines opening the 
mouths of the Vessels—a ib 
Their description. Their Use. How 
they are known—a ibid 
Chap. 6. Of attenuating medicines
b ibid 
Their use. 1. To open obstructions 
2. to clense the breast of Flegm. 3. to 
provoke the terms—b ib 
Chap. 7. Of drawing medicines—c ibid 
Their use. 1. To draw thorns and 
splinters out of the flesh. 2. to draw 
corrupt humors from the Bowels. 3. 
to cal the offending humors to the out- 
ward parts of the Body. 4. By them 
the Crisis of the disease is much help- 
ed forwards. 5. to draw poyson out of 
the body. 6. to heat parts of the body 
which are overcooled—b ib 
Chap. 8. Of discussive medicines.—a 223 
What they are: their use: Cautions in 
their use: How they are known—a ib 
Chap. 9. Of repelling medicines—b ib 
What they are—b ibid 
How they are known—b ib 
Their uses are, 1. to help hot 
swelling. 2. to ease Head-aches coming 
of heat. 3. to take away the windy Va- 
pors of Feavers—b ib  
The time of giving repelling Medi- 
cines—b ibid 
Cautions in giving them—b ibid 
Chap. 10. Of burning medicines—c ib 
Their degrees in heat.—c ib 
Their uses, 1. to restore Limbs wasted  
away, 2. to burn off hair, 3. to dis- 
solve hard tumors, as warts and the 
like, 4. to help Gouts and Lethargies
to help Fistulaes &c.—c ibid 
Cautions in using these medicines—c ib 
Chap. 11. Of Clensing medicines—c ib 
Their definition: their difference their 
use—c ibid 
Chap. 12. Of Emplasters.—a 224 
what they are: their use—a ibid 
Chap. 13. Of Suppurating medicines 
a ibid
What they are: their use: their time 
of Use—a ibid 
Chap. 14. Of medicines provoking U- 
rine—b ib  
What urine is—b ibid  
The cause of the stop page of Urine 
b ib 
What Diureticks are, 1. Such as con- 
duce to separate the blood 2. Such as 
open the passages of urine—c ibid 
How each of these may be known. The 
use—c ib 
Chap. 15. Of medicines provoking the 
terms—c ibid 
Their use and manner of using—c ibid 
Chap. 16. Medicines breeding or ta- 
king away Milk—a 225 
Their Description—a ib 
Their use—a ib 
Chap. 17. Of medicines regarding the 
seed—b ib 
Their Description: Cautions in gi- 
ving them: their use—b ibid 
Chap. 18. Of medicines easing pain 
Their description—c ibid 
The manner of using them—c ibid 
Chap. 19. Of medicines breeding flesh
c ibid                              
Their uses: their differences—c ibid 
Chap. 20. Of Glutinative medicines 
their use—a 216 
Chap. 21. Of Scarrifying medicines 
a ib  
Cautions in their use—a ib 
Chap. 22. Of medicines resisting poy- 
son What they are—b ib 
1. Such as strengthen nature, 2. Such 
as oppose the poyson, 3. Such as vio- 
lently thrust it out of the Body—b ibid 
Cautions in the use of these medicines 
b ibid 
Chap. 23. Of medicines adorning the 
Body—c ib 
1. The Face: 2 the Skin: 3 the Hair: 
4 the Teeth: 5 the Head, Scurfe , Dan- 
drif—c ibid 
Chap. 24. Of Purging medicines.—227 
Cautions concerning Purging—a ibid 
The choyce of purging medicines—c ib 
Medicines Purging, 1 Flegm, 2 Wa- 
try Humors, 3 Choller, 4 Melancho- 
ly—c ibid 
In all these, to what Bodies such purges 
are general, and such as are strong 
should be given—c ibid 
Of the time of purging—b 228 
Of the correcting purging medicines 
How to order your Body both before 
and after purges—c ibid 
Inconveniences that arise in the Body 
by violent purges—a 229 
The way how to prevent them—a ibid 
Ihe way how to remedy them—a ibid 
Of the way or manner of purging.—b ib 
A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS in the 
Order they are set down in every Classis. 
READER, In this Table diligently observe that a: directs to the first 
Column, b to the second, c to the third Column: And the Figures direct 
to the Page.
SPIRITS and COM- 
POUND distilled 
WATERS. 
SPiritus & Aqua Absinthii minus 
Composita. Or, Spirit and Water 
of Wormwood, the lesser Compo- 
sition.—b 101 
Spiritus & Aqua Absinthii magis 
composita. Or, Spirit and Water of 
Wormwood, the greater composi- 
tion.— c ibid. 
Spiritus & Aqua Angelecæ magis  
composita. Or, Spirit and Water of 
Angelica, the greater conposition. 
a 102  
Angelica Water the greater compo- 
sition—b ibid. 
Spiritus Lavendulœ compositus Mat- 
thiol. Or, Compound Spirit of La- 
vender of Matthiolus.—b ib. 
Spiritus Castorii. Or, Spirit of 
Castorium.—c ibid. 
Aqua Petasitidis composita. Or, 
Compound Water of Butterburs. 
a 103 
Aqua Raphani composita. Or, 
compound water of Rhadishes.—a ib.
Aqua Peoniœ composita. Or, com-  
pound water of Peony.—b ib. 
Aqua Bezoartica. Or, A Bezoar- 
tick Water, that is, a water having 
the soveraign faculties, and imita- 
ting the operations of Bezoar Stone. 
c ibid. 
Aqua & Spiritus Lumbricorum, 
Magistralis. Or, Magistral Water 
and Spirit of Earth worms.—b 104 
Aqua Gentianæ composita Or, 
Gentian water compound.—b ib. 
Aqua Gilberti. Or, Gilberts wa- 
ter.—c ib.  
Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxonia. 
Or, Dr. Hercules Saxonia his cooling 
cordial Water.—a 105 
Aqua Theriacalis. Or, Treacle
Water.

A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Water.—b ibid. 
Aqua Brioniæ composita. Or, Bri- 
ony water compound.—c ibid. 
Aqua Imperialis. Or, Imperial 
Water.—a 106 
Aqua Mirabilis.—a ibid. 
Aqua Protheriacalis. Or, A wa- 
ter serving instead of Treacle Water. 
b ibid.
Aqua Caponis. Or, Capon wa- 
ter.—b ibid. 
Aqua Limacum Magistr. Or, Wa- 
ter of Snails.—c ibid. 
Aqua Scordii composita. Or, Com- 
pound water of Scordium.—c ibid. 
Aqua Mariæ. Or, the Virgin 
Maries water.—a 107 
Aqua Papaveris composita. Or, 
Poppy water compound.—a ib. 
Aqua Juglandium composita. Or, 
Wallnuts Water compound.—a ibid. 
Mathiolus, his Bezoar water.—b ib. 
Cinnamon water.—c ibid.
Matthiolus, his Cinnamon water.
c ibid.  
Cinnamon water made by infusion. 
c ibid. 
-Aqua Cælestis. Or, Heavenly wa- 
ter of Mathiolus.—a 108 
Bawm water, the greater composition. 
b ibid. 
Rosa Solis.—c ibid. 
Dr. Stephens water.—c ibid. 
Ordinary Aqua vitæ.—a 109 
Compound Aqua vitæ.—a ibid. 
Usquebah.—a ib. 
TINCTURES.
Tinctura Croci. Or, Tincture 
of Saffron.—b 109 
Tinctura Castorij. Or, Tincture 
of Castorium.— b ibid. 
Tinctura Fragrorum. Or, Tincture                           
of Strawberries.—b ib. 
Tinctura Scordij. Or, Tincture of 
Scordium.—b ibid. 
Tinctura Theriacalis, vulgo, Aqua 
Theriacalis Lugd. per infus. Or, Tin- 
cture of Treacle.—c ibid. 
Tinctura Cinnamomi, vulgo, Aqua 
Clareta cinnam. Or, Tincture of Cin- 
namon.—c ibid. 
Tinctura Viridis. Or, A green 
Tincture.—a 110 
Aqua Aluminosa Magistralis. 
a ibid.
Physical Wines.
Vinum Absinthites. Or, Worm- 
wood Wine.—a ibid 
Vinum Cerasorum Nigrorum. Or, 
Wine of Black Cherries.—b ibid 
Vinum Helleboratum. Or, Wine 
Helleborated.—b ib 
Vinum Rubellum. Or, Vomiting 
Claret.—c ibid 
Vinum Benedictum. Or, the In- 
fusion of Crocus Metallorum.—c ib 
Vinum Antimoniale. Or, Anti- 
monial Wine.—c ib 
The Vertues that the Antimonial 
Cup is said to have [which may be bet- 
ter performed by this Antimonial Wine
a 111
Vinum Scilleticμm. Or, Wine of 
Squils.—a ib 
Physical Vinegars. 
ACetum Distillatum. Or, Distil- 
led Vinegar.—b ib 
Acetum Rosatum. Or, Rose Vine- 
gar.—b ib 
Acetum Scilliticum. Or, Vinegar 
of Squils.—b ib 
Acetum Theriacale. Norimberg. 
Or, Treacle Vinegar.—c ib 
Acetum Theriacale. Or, Treacle 
Vinegar.—a 112 
DECOCTIONS. 
DEcoctum commune pro Clystere. 
Or, A common Decoction for 
a Clyster.—a ibid 
Decoctum Epithymi. Or, A De- 
coction of Epithimum.—b ib 
Decoctum Sennæ Gereonis. Or, 
Dr. Cereo his Decoction of Senna.
c ib
Decoctum Pectorale. Or, A Pe- 
ctoral Decoction.—c ib                                  
Decoctum Traumaticum. Or, the De- 
coction for wounded Persons.—a 113 
A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits. 
b ibid 
LaC Virgineum.—c ibid 
A drink for wounded men.—c ib 
SYRUPS.
Altering Syrups.
SYrupus de Absinthio simplex. Or, 
Syrup of Wormwood, simple. 
a 114 
Syrupus de Absinthio compositus. 
Or, Syrup of Wormwood, Com- 
pound.—b ibid 
Syrupus Acetosus simplex. Or, Sy- 
rup of Vinegar simple.—b ib 
Syrupus Acetosus simplicior. Or, 
Syrup of Vinegar more simple.—c ibid 
Syrupus Acetosus compositus. Or,
Syrup of Vinegar Compound.—c ib 
Syrupus de Agno Casto. Or, Sy- 
rup of Agnus Castus.—a 115 
Syrupus de Althæa. Or, Syrup 
of Marsh-mallows.—b ibid 
Syrupus de Ammoniaco. Or, Sy- 
rup of Ammoniacum.—b ibid 
Syrupus de Artemisia. Or, Syrup 
of Mugwort.—c ibid 
Syrupus de Betonica compositus. Or, 
Syrup of Bettony compound.—a 116 
Syrupus Byzantinus. simple.—a ib 
Syrupus Byzantinus, Compound. 
a ib  
Syrupus Botryos, Or, Syrup of 
Oak of Jerusalem.—b ibid 
Syrupus Capillorum Veneris. Or, 
Syrup of Maiden-hair.—b ibid 
Syrupus Cardiacus, vel Julepum 
Cardiacum, Or, A Cordial Syrup. 
Syrupus Corticum Citriorum. Or, 
Syrup of Citron Pills.—c ib 
Syrupus Acetositatis Citriorum. Or,
Syrup of Juyce of Citrons.—a 117 
Syrupus Corticum Citriorum. Or,                                 
Syrup of Citrons Pills.—a ib 
Syrupus è Coralliis simplex. Or, Sy- 
rup of Coral, simple.—b ibid 
Syrupus è Coralliis compositus. Or, 
Syrup of Coral Compound.—b ib 
Syrupus Cydoniorum. or, Syrup of 
Quinces—c ib 
Syrupus de Erisymo. or, Syrup of 
Hedg mustard.—c ib 
Syrupus de Fumaria. or, Syrup of 
Fumitory—c ib 
Syrupus de Glycyrrhiza. or, Sy- 
rup of Liquoris.—a 118 
Syrupus Granatorum cum Aceto- 
vulgo, Oxysacharum simplex. or, Sy- 
rup of Pomgranates with Vinegar. 
a ib  
Syrupus de Hyssopo. or, Syrup of 
Hissop—b ibid 
Syrupus Ivæ Arthriticæ, sive cha- 
mæpityos. or, Syrup of Chamepitys, 
or Ground pine—b ib 
Syrupus Jujubinus. or, Syrup of 
Jujubes—c ibid 
Syrupus de Meconio, sive Diacodium. 
or, Syrup of Miconium, or Diacodi-              
um.—a 119 
Syrupus de Meconio compositus. or, 
Syrup of Meconium Compound.—a ib 
Syrupus Melissophylli. or, Syrup of 
Bawm—b ib  
Syrupus de Mentha. or, Syrup of 
Mints—b ib 
Syrupus de Mucilaginibus. or, Sy- 
rup of Mucilages—c ib 
Syrupus Myrtinus. or, Syrup of 
Mirtles.—c ib 
Syrupus Florum Nymphææ simplex 
or, Syrup of Water Lilly flowers, 
simple—a 120    
Syrupus Florum Nymphææ compositus 
or, Syrup of Water-Lilly flowers, 
compound—a ib 
Syrupus de Papavere Erratico, sive 
Rubro. or, Syrup of Erratick Poppy. 
a ib 
Syrupus de Pilosella. or, Syrup of 
Mouseæv.—b ib 
Syrupus infusionis florun pæoniæ. or, 
Syrup


A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Syrup of the infusion of Peony flo- 
wers,—b ib 
Syrupus de pæonia compositus. Or, 
Syrup of Peony Compound.—c ib 
Syrupus de Pomis alterans. Or, Sy- 
rup of Apples alterative.—c ib 
Syrupus de Prasio. Or, Syrup of 
Horehound.—a 121 
Syrupus de quings Radicibus. Or, 
Syrup of the sive opening Roots. 
a ib 
Syrupus Rhaphani. or, Syrup of 
Rhadishes.—b ib 
Syrupus Regius, aliâs Julapeum 
Alexandrinum. or, Syrup Roial, 
or Alexandrian Julep and Julep of 
Roses.—c ib 
Syrupus de Rosis siccis. or, Syrup 
of dried Roses.—c ib 
Syrupus Scabiosæ. or, Syrup of 
Scabious Compound.—a 122
Syrupus de Scolopendrio. or, Syrup 
of Hartstongue.—a ib 
Syrupus de Stœchade. or, syrup of 
stœchas Compound.—b ib 
Syrupus de Symphyto. or, syrup 
of Comfry.—b ib 
Syrupus Violarum. or, Syrup of 
Violets.—c ib 
Purging Syrups.
SYrupus de Cichorio cum Rhubarbaro 
or, Syrup of succory with Rhu- 
barb—a 123 
Syrupus de Epithymo. or, syrup 
of Epithimum.—a ib 
Syrupus è Floribus Persicorum. or, 
syrup of Peach-flowers—b ib 
Syrupus de Pomis purgans. or, Sy-                      
rup of Apples, Purging.—c ib 
Syrupus de Pomis Magistralis. or, 
Syrup of Apples Magisterial.—c ib 
Syrupus de Rhabarbaro. or, Syrup 
of Rhubarb.—a 124 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus. or, Sy- 
rup of Damask Roses.—a ib 
Syrupus è succo Rosarum. or, Sy- 
rup of the Juyce of Roses.—b ib 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Aga- 
rico. or, Syrup of Roses solutive 
with Agarick.—b ib 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Hel- 
leboro. or, syrup of Roses solutive 
with Hellebore.—c ib 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum senna 
or, Syrup of Roses solutive with 
senna.—c ib 
Syrupus de spina Cervina. or, of 
Bucks Thorn, or purging Thorn. 
a 125
Syrups made with 
Vinegar and Honey.
MEL Anthosatum. or, Honey of 
Rosemary flowers.—b ib 
Mel Helleboratum. Or, Honey of
white Hellebore.—b ibid 
Mel Mercuriale. Or, Honey of the 
Herb Mercury.—c ib 
Mel Mororum, vel Diamoron. Or, 
Honey of Mulberries.—c ib 
Mel Nucum, alias, Diacarion & 
Dianucum. Or, Honey of Nuts.—c ib 
Mel Passulatum. Or, Honey of 
Raisons.—c ibid 
Mel Rosatum commune, sive Folia- 
tum. Or, Honey of Red Roses.—a 126 
Mel Rosatum Colatum. Or, Honey 
of Roses strained.—a ib 
Mel Rosatum solutivum. Or, Ho- 
ney of Damask Roses.—a ibid 
Mel scilliticum. or, Honey of Squils. 
a ibid 
Honey of Violets.—b ibid 
Oxymel simple.—b ibid 
Oxymel compound.—b ib 
Oxymel Helleboratum. or, Oxymel 
Helleborated.—c ibid 
Oxymel Julianizans.—a 127 
Oxymel of Squils.—a ibid 
Oxymel Sciliticum Compositum. or, 
Oxymel of Squils Compound.—b ib 
Syrup of Purslain Compound.—b ib 
Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot. 
Renod.—c ib 
Syrup of Poppies the lesser com- 
position.—c ib 
Syrup of Poppies, the greater 
composition. Mesue.—c ib 
Syrup of Eupatorium, or Mandlin. 
b 128 
Honey of Myrobalans Emblik. Au- 
gustan.—c ibid 
ROB, Or SAPA 
and JUYCES.
Rob sive Sapa, simplex. Or, Sim- 
ple Rob, or Sapa, viz. Wine 
boyled to a thick Syrup.—a ibid 
Rob de Barberis. Quiddeny, or, 
Rob of Barberries.—a 129 
Rob de Cerasis. Quiddeny, or, 
Rob of Cherries.—b ib 
Rob de Cornis. Or, Rob of Cor- 
nels.—b ib 
Rob Cydoniorum. Or, Quiddeny 
of Quinces.—b ib 
Miva vel Gelatina Eorundem. 
Gelly, or Marmalade of Quinces. 
b ib 
Quiddeny of four Plums.—c ib 
Rob Baccarum Sambuci. Quiddeny, 
or Rob of Elder-berries.—c ib 
Succus Glycyrrhizæ compositus. Or, 
Juyce of Liquoris Compound.—b 130 
Succus Prunorum Sylvestrum. Or, 
Quiddeny of Slæs.—c ibid 
LOHOCH, 
ECLEGMATA, 
Or, LICK-POTS.  
Lohoch dæ Farfara. Lohoch, or, 
Lick-pot of Colts-foot.—a ib 
Lohoch de papavere. Or, Lohoch 
of Poppies.—a 131 
Lohoch è passulis. Or, Lohoch 
of Raisons.—b ib
Lohoch è Pino. Or, Lohoch of 
Pine-Nuts.—b ib 
Lohoch de portulaca. Lohoch, or 
Lick-pot of Purslain.—c ibid 
Lohoch è pulmone Vulpis, Or, 
Lohoch of Fox Lungs.—c ibid 
Lohoch Sanum et Expertum. Or, 
A found and well Experienced Lo- 
hoch.—c ibid 
Lohoch Squilliticum. Or, Lick- 
pot of Squils.—a 132 
Eclegma of Squils Mesue.—a ib 
Lohoch, or Lick-pot of Cole- 
worts.—b ib 
Preserved Roots,                          
Barks, Flowers, 
Fruits, Pulps. 
CONSERVES  
and SUGARS.
SUGARS. 
DIacodium Solidum, sive Tabula- 
tum.—b 133 
Saccharum Tabulatum simplex, and 
Perlatum. Or, Lozenges of Sugar 
both Simple and Pearled.—b ib 
Saccharum Tabulatum compositum. 
Or, Lozenges of Sugar Compound. 
c ibid 
Saccharum Penidium. Or, Sugar 
of Penids.—c ib 
Confectio de Thure. The Confecti- 
on of Frankincense, or Lozenges of 
Frankincense.—a 134 
Saccharum Rosarum. Or, Sugar of 
Roses.—a ibid 
Species, or Pouders 
ARomaticum Caryophyllatum.—a ib 
Aromaticum Rosatum.—b ib 
Pulvis ex Chelis Cancrorum Compo- 
situs. Or, Pouder of Crabs Claws 
Compound.—b ib 
Species Cordiales Temperatæ.—c ib 
Diacalaminthe Simplex.—c ib 
Diacalaminthe Compound.—a 135 
Dianisum.—a ib 
Pulvis Radicum Ari Compositus 
Lll Pouder. 


A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Pouder of Aron or Cuckow-pintle 
Roots Compound,—b ibid. 
Diaireos simple.—b ib
Dialacca,—b ib
Pulvis Cardiacus Magistralis. Or, 
The Cordial Magistral Pouder.—c ib 
Diamargaritum Frigidum.—c ib 
Diambræ.—a 136 
Diamoscu Dulce,—a ib 
Diamoschu Amarum—b ib 
Species Dianthus. Or, Pouder of 
Rosemary Flowers Compound.—b ib 
Diapenidion.—c ib
Diarrhodon Abbatis—c ib
Diaspoliticum.—a 137 
Species Diatragacanthi frigidi.—a ib. 
Diatrion Piperion.—b ibid. 
Diatrion Santalon.—b ibid. 
Pulvis Haly. Or, the Pouder of 
Haly, an Arabian Physitian so called. 
c ibid.
Pulvis Lætificans, Galen. Or, Ga- 
lens Merry-making Pouder.—c ib 
Pulvis Bezoardicus Magistralis. 
Or, the Bezoartick Magistral Pou- 
der.—a 138 
Spieces confectionis Liberantis.—b ib. 
Pulvis Saxonicus.—b ibid. 
Pulvis Antilyssus. Or Pouder a- 
gainst the bitings of mad Dogs.—c ib. 
Rosata Novella.—c ibid. 
Pulvis Thuraloes.—a 139 
Pulvis Hermodactylorum compositus 
Or, Pouder of Hermodactils com-                          
pound.—a ibid 
Pulvis Senæ compositus major. Pou- 
der of Sena the greater composition, 
Or, Dr. Hollands Pouder.—b ib. 
Pulvis Senæ compositus minor. Or, 
pouder of Sena, the lesser compositi- 
on.—b ibid 
Diasenæ or Pulvis Sanctus of Bras- 
savolus.—c ibid. 
Diaturbith with Rhubarb—c ib. 
The lesser cordial Pouder. Fernelius 
a 140 
The greater Cordial Pouder. Fer- 
nelius.—a ib.
A Pouder for such as are bruised by 
a Fall.—b ibid. 
Species Electuarij Diacymini. Ni- 
cholaus.—b ib. 
Species Electuarij Diagalangæ. Me- 
sue.—c ibd. 
Species Electuarij de Gemmis Fri- 
gtdi. Or, Species of the cooling E- 
lectuary of precious Stones.—c ib. 
Species Electuarij Diamargaritoni 
Calidi. Avicenna.—a 141 
Lithontribon of Nicholaus, accor- 
ding to Fernelius.—a ib. 
Pleres Arconticon of Nicholaus.—b ib.
A preservative Pouder against the 
Pestitence. Montagnani.—c ib. 
Diaturbith the greater, without Rhu- 
barb.—a 142. 
A Pouder for the Worms.—a ib.
ELECTUARIES.
ANtidotus Analeptica.—a ib 
Confectio Alkermes.—b ib.  
Electuarium é Sassaphras.—c ib. 
Electuarium de Baccis Lauri. Or, 
Electuary of Bay-berries.—c ibid. 
Diacapparis.—a 143 
Diacinnamomu.—a ibid.
Diacorallion.—a ib. 
Diacorum.—b ibid. 
Diacydonium or Electuary of quinces 
simple.—c ib. 
Diacidonium with Species.—c ib. 
Diacidonium compound, Magisterial. 
c ibid.                                                  
Confectio de Hyacintho.—a 144 
Antidotum Hæmagogum.—a ib. 
Diasatyrion. Or, The Electuary of 
Satyrion Roots.—b ibid. 
Electuarium Diaspermaton. Or, 
which is made of several sorts of 
Seed.—c ibid. 
Micleta.—a 145  
Electuarium Pectorale. Or, a Pecto- 
ral Electuary.—a ibid. 
Theriaca Diatessaron.—a ib. 
Diascordium. Or, the Antidote made 
of the Herb Scordium.—b ib. 
Mithridate.—c ib. 
Philonium persicum—a 146 
Philonium Romanum.—b ib. 
Philonium Magistrale.—b ib. 
Electuarium de Ovo. Or, Electuary 
of Eggs.—c ib. 
Theriaca Andromachi. Or, Venice 
Treacle.—c ib. 
Theriaca Londinensis. Or, London 
Treacle.—b 147  
Diacrocuma.—b ib. 
Purging Electuaries.
BEnedicta Laxativa.—c ib 
Caryocostinum.—a 148 
Cassia Extracta pro Clysteribus. Or, 
Cassia extracted for Clysters.—a ib. 
Electuarium Amarum Magistrale 
majus. Or, the greater bitter Electu- 
ary.—b ibid. 
Electuarium Amarum minus. Or, 
the lesser bitter Electuary.—b ib. 
Diacaβia with Manna.—c ib. 
Caβia extracta sine Foliis Senæ. Or, 
Cassia extracted without the Leaves 
of Sena.—c ibid. 
Cassia extracta cum foliis Sena. Or, 
Cassia extracted with the Leaves of 
Sena.—a 149 
Diacarthamum. Or, purging E- 
lectuary of Carthamus Seeds—a ibid. 
Diaphænicon. Or, purging Electua- 
ry of Dates.—a ib.                                      
Diaprunum Linitive.—b ib. 
Diaprunum Solutivum. Or, Elect- 
uary of Prunes purgative.—c ibid. 
Catholicon.—c ibid.
Electuarium de Citro Solutivum. Or, 
Electuary of Citron solutive.—a 150 
Electuarium Elescoph. Or, the Bi- 
shops Electuary.—a ibid 
Confectio Hamech.—b ib.
Electuarium Lenitivum. Or, Leni- 
tives Electuarie.—c ib.    
Electuarium Passulatum. Or, Elect- 
uary of Raisons.—c ib. 
Electuarium è succo Rosarum. Or, 
Electuary of the Juyce of Roses —a 
151. 
Hiera Picra simple.—b ibid 
Hiera with Agrick.—b ibid. 
Hiera Logadij.—c ib. 
Hiera Diacholocinthidos.—a 152
Triphera the greater.—a ibib. 
Tryphera solutive. Or, the delicious 
purging Electuary.—b ibid. 
Athanasia Mithridatis. or, King 
Mithridates his Medicine to cause 
a long life.—c ibid 
Electuarium é Scoriaferri. Rhasis. 
Scoria ferri is properly those flakes 
that Smiths beat from Iron when it 
is red hot.—c ib. 
Confectio Humain, Mesue.—a 153 
Diaireos Solomonis.—a ib. 
Diasatirion.—b ib. 
Mathiolus his great Antidote a- 
gainst Poyson and Pestilence.—b ib. 
Requies Nicolai, or Dr. Nico- 
laus his sleeping Electuary.—b 153 
Electuarium Reginæ Coloniens. Or, 
The Queen of Colens Electuary.—c ib. 
PILLS.
Pilulæ de Agarico. Or, Pills of 
Agrick.—a 154                                       
Pilulæ Aggregative. Or, Aggre- 
gative Pills.—a ib.  
Pilulæ Alæphanginæ.—c ibid. 
Pilulæ de Alæ Lota. Or, Pills of 
washed Alæs.—a 156 
Alæ Rosata.—a ib.  
Pilulæ Aureæ. Or, the Golden 
Pills.—b ib 
Pilulæ Cociæ, the greater.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Cochiæ, the less.—c ib. 
Pilulæ de Cygnoglosso. Or, Pills of 
Cynoglossa or Hounds-tongue.—c ib. 
Pilulæ ex Duobus. Or, Pills of two 
things.—a 160 
Pilulæ de Eupotorio. Or, Pills of 
Eupatorium.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Fætidæ. Or, Strong smel- 
ling Pills.—b ib 
Pilulæ de Hermodactilis. Or, pills 
of Hermodactils.—a 158 
Pilulæ de Hiera cum Agarico. Or, 
pills of Hiera with Agrick.—b ibid. 
Pilulæ Imperiales. Imperial pills 
Or, pills of the Emperor.—b ib. 
Pilulæ de Lapide Lazuli. Pills of 
Lapis Lazuli or a blew Stone so cal- 
led, being speckled with Golden 
Specks.—c ib. 
Pilulæ Macri.—b 156 
Pilulæ Mastichinæ. Or, Mastich 
pills.—c ibid. 
Pilulæ Mechoacannæ. Or, pills of 
Mechoacan.—c 157 
Pilulæ de Opopanace. Or, pills of 
Opopanax.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Rudij. Or, Dr. Rudius his 
pills 


A TABLE of the COMPOUNS. 
pills, or Extractum Rudij.—c ib. 
Pilulæ. Ruffi. Or, Russus his pills. 
a l61 
Pilulæ sine Quibus. Or, the Neces- 
sary pils.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Stomachicæ. Or, Stomach 
pils.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Stomachicæ cum Gummi. Or. 
Stomach pils with Gum.—b ib. 
Pilulæ é Styrace. Or, pills of Sty- 
rax.—c ibid.
Pilulæ de Succino. Or, pills of Am- 
ber.—c ib.
Pilulæ ex Tribus. Or, pils of three 
things.—c ibid. 
Pilulæ Turpeti Aureæ.—a 162 
Laudanum.—a ibid. 
Nepenthes Opiatum. Or the Opiate 
against Sorrow and Sadness.—b ibid. 
Pilulæ Assaireth. Avicenna,—b ib. 
Pills of Bdellium.—b ib. 
Pills of Rhubarb.—c ib. 
Pilulæ Arabicæ.—c ib.
Pilulæ Arthriticæ.—a 163 
Pilulæ Cochiæ with Hellebore.—b ib. 
Pils of Fumitory Avicenna.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Indæ, Mesue out of Haly. 
b ib. 
Pilulæ Lucis Majores. Or, the eye 
enlightning pills of the larger com- 
sition.—c ib.
Pills of Spurge.—a 164. 
Pills of Euphorbium.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Scribonii.—b ib.
TROCHES 
TRochisci de Absinthin. Or, Tro- 
ches of Wormwood.—a ib 
Agaricus Trochischatus. Or, A- 
grick Trochiscated.—a 165 
Trochisci Albi. Rhasis. Or, white 
Troches.—a ib. 
Trochisci Alexiterij.—a ib. 
Trochisci Alhandel. Trochicks of 
Alhandel or Coloquintida.—b ib. 
Trochisci Aleptæ Moschatæ.—b ib.               
Trochisci Alkekengi. Or, Troches 
of winter-Cherries.—c ibid.
Trochisci Bechici albi, vel, Rotulæ 
pectorales. Or, pectorals Rouls.—c ib. 
Trochisci Bechici nigri. Or, black 
Trochisks for the Cough.—a 166 
Trochisci de Barbaris. Or, Troches 
of Barberies.—a ibid.
Trochisci de Camphora. Or, Tro- 
ches of Camphir.—b ib. 
Trochisci de Capparibus. Or, Tro- 
ches of Capers.—c ib. 
Trochisci de Carabe. Or, Troches 
of Amber.—c ibid. 
Trochisci de Cypheos for Mithridatc. 
c ib.
Trochisci Eupatorio. Or, Troches 
of Maudlin.—a 167 
Troches of Gallia Moschata.—a ib. 
Trochisci Gordonij.—b ib. 
Trochisci Hedycroi. Or, Beautify- 
ing Trochisks of Galen.—c ib. 
Trochisci Hysterici.—a 168        
Trochisci de Ligno Aloes. Or, Tro- 
ches of wood of Aloes.—a ib. 
Trochisci é Mirrha. Or, Troches 
of Mirrh.—b ib. 
Sief de Plumbo. Or, Sief of Lead. 
b ib 
Trochisci Polyidæ of Andromachus. 
b ibid. 
Trochisci de Rhubarbaro. Or, Tro- 
ches of Rhubarb.—c ibid. 
Troschisci de Santalis. Or, Tro- 
chisks of Sanders.—c ib. 
Trochisci de Scilla ad Theriacam. 
Or, Troches of Squils for Treacle. 
a 196 
Troches of Spodium.—a ib. 
Trochisci de terra Lemnia. Or, the 
precious Earth of the Island of Lem- 
nos.—b ib. 
Sief. or Eye salve of Frinkincense. 
c ib. 
Trochisci é Violis solutivi. Or, 
Troches of Violets solutives.—a 170 
Trochisci de Vipera ad Theriacam 
Or, troches of Viper for Treacle. 
a ib. 
Trochisci de Agno Casto. Or, Tro- 
ches of Agnus Castus.—b ib. 
Trochisci Alexiterij. Renodæus. 
b ibid. 
Troches of Annis seeds. Mesue.—c ib. 
Trohisci Diarodon. Mesue.—c ib. 
Trochisci de Lacca. Mesue.—c ibid.             
Pastilli Adronis. Galen.—a 17l 
Trochisci Musæ. Galen.—a ib. 
Crocomagma of Democrates. Galen. 
a ib. 
Troches Ramich. Mesue.—b ib. 
Troches of Roses.—b ibid. 
Trochisci Diacorallion.—c ibid. 
Trochisci Diaspermaton.—c ib. 
Pastilli Hemoptoici. or, Cakes 
against spitting of Blood.—c ibid 
Trochisks of Agarick.—c ib. 
Pastilli Hemoptoici, Or, Cakes a- 
gainst spitting of Blood.—a 172  
Trochisks of Agarick.—a ib.
Of the USE of 
OYLS, &c.
CHap. 1. Of Anodines—b ibid. 
Chap. 2 Of Repelling Medi- 
cines.—a l73 
Chap. 3 Of Attractives—a ib. 
Chap. 4 Of Resolving Medicines 
b ibid. 
Chap. 5 Of Emollient—c ibid. 
Chap. 6 Of Superatives—b 174 
Chap. 7 Of Clensing Medicines 
b ibid. 
Chap. 8 Incarnatives—c ibid. 
Chap. 9 Of Cicatrizing Medicines 
a 175 
Chap. 10 Of Agglutinatives Me- 
dicines.—a ib. 
Chap. 11 Of Cathericks, Septicks, 
and Causticks.—b ibid. 
Chap. 12 Of Medicines used to stop 
Blood.—c ib.                        
OYLS 
Simple Oyls by 
Expression.  
OYl of sweet Almonds.—c ib. 
Oyl of bitter Almonds.—a 176 
Oyl Hazel Nuts.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Wallnuts.—a ib. 
Oleum Chrysomelinum. Or, oyl of 
Golden Apples, or Apricocks—b ib. 
Oyl of Bayes.—b ib. 
Oyl of Eggs Yolks.—c ibid.
Simple OYLS by                           
Infusion and De- 
coction.
OYL of Roses Omphacine 
a 177 
Oyl of Roses compleat.—a ib. 
Oyl Wormwood.—b ibid. 
Oyl of Dill.—b ib. 
Oyl of Castorium.—b ibid. 
Oyl of Chamomel.—c ibid.
Oyl of Melilot.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Wall-flowers.—a l78 
Oyl of Quinces.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Alicampane.—a ib. 
Oyl of Euphorbium simple.—a ib. 
Oyl of Pismires or Emmots.—b ib. 
Oyl of St. Johns-wort.—b ib. 
Oyl of Jesmine.—b ibid. 
Oyl of Orrice Root.—c ib. 
Oyl of Earth-worms.—c ibid 
Oyl of sweet Marjoram.—c ib. 
Oyl of Mastich.—a 179 
Oyl of Mints.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Mirtles.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Mirrh.—b ibid. 
Nard Oyl.—b ib 
Oyl of Water-Lillies.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Tobacco.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Poppies.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Poplars.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Rue.—a 180 
Oyl of Scorpions.—a ib. 
Oleum Cicyonium—a ib. 
Oyl of Nightshade.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Styrax.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Vervain.—cibid. 
Oyl, or Liquor of Mirrh cald 
Oleum Mirrhæ per deliquium.—c ibid.  
Compound Oyls 
by Infusion and 
Decoction. 
OLeum Benedictum. Or, Blessed
oyl.—b ib.
Oleum 


A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Oleum de Capparibus. Or, oyl of 
Cappars.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Castorium Compound.—c ibid. 
Oleum Catellorum. Or, Oyl of 
Whelps.—a 181 
Oleum Costinum. Or, Oyl of Drug 
Costus..—b ibid. 
Oleum Crocinum. Or, oyl of Saf- 
fron.—b ibid. 
Oyl of Euphorbium. Or, oyl of Eu- 
phorbium compound.—c ibid. 
Oleum Excestrense. Or, oyl of Ex- 
ceter.—a 182 
Oleum Hirundinum. Or, oyl of 
Swallows.—b ibid. 
Oleum Hyperici compositum. Or, 
oyl of St. ]ohns-wort compound. 
b ibid.  
Oleum Hyperici magis compositum. 
Or, oyl of St. Johns-wort more com- 
pound.—c ibid. 
Oleum Irinum. Or, oyl of Orris. 
c ib. 
Oleum Majoranæ. Or, Oyl of 
Marjoram.—a 183  
Oleum Mandragoræ. Or, Oyl of 
Mandrakes.—a ib.  
Mosibelæum. Or, Musked Oyl. 
b ib 
Oleum Nordinum. Or, Nard Oyl. 
c ib 
Oleum Nicodemi—c ib 
Oleum Vulpinum. Or, Oyl of 
Foxes.—a 184 
Oyl of Pepper.—a ib 
Oleum Populeon. Or, Oyl of 
Poplar buds.—a ib 
OYNTMENTS 
more SIMPLE. 
UNguentum Album. Or, White 
Oyntment.—b ib 
Unguentum Egyptiacum. Or, The  
Egyptian Oyntment.—c ib  
Unguentum Anodynum. Or, An 
Oyntment to ease pain.—c ib 
Unguentum ex Apio. Or, Oynt- 
ment of Smallage.—c ib 
Liniment of Gum Elemi.—a 185 
Unguentum Aureum. Or, The 
Golden Oyntment.—a ib 
Unguentum Basilicum. Or, The 
Royal Oyntment.—b ib 
Basilicon, the less.—b ib 
Oyntment of Bdellium. Or, Gum  
Bdellium.—b ib 
Unguentum de Calce. Or, Oynt- 
ments of Chalk.—b ib 
Unguentum Dialtheæ. Or, Oynt- 
ment of Marsh-mallows.—c ib                   
Unguentum Diapompholygos.—c ib 
Unguentum Enulatum. Or, Oynt- 
ment of Alicampane.—c ib 
Oleum Excestrensg. Or, Oyl Ex- 
ætor.—a 174 
Oleum Hirundinum. Or, Oyl of 
Swallows. —b ib             
Oleum Hyperici compositum. or, Oyl 
of St. Johns-wort Compound.—b ib 
Oleum Hyperici magis compositum. 
or, Oyl of St. Johns-wort more 
Compound,—c ib 
Oleum Irinum. or, Oyl of Orris 
c ib 
Oleum Marjoranæ. or, Oyl of 
Marjoram.—a 173 
Oleum Mandragoræ. or, Oyl of 
Mandrakes.— a ibid 
Moschlæum. Or, Musked Oyl. 
b ib 
Oleum Nardinum. or, Nard Oyl. 
c ib 
Oleum Nicodemi.—c ib 
Unguentum è Solano. or, Oyntment 
of Night-shade.—a 188
Unguentum Tutiæ. or, Oyntment 
of Tutty.—a ib 
Valentia Scabiosæ. or, Oyntment 
of Scabious.—b ibid 
Tapsivalentia. or, Tapsimel of the 
same Anthor.—c ib 
Tapsimel.—c ib
OYNTMENTS 
more Compound.
UNguentum Agrippæ. or, King 
Agrippa his Oyntment.—a ibid 
Unguentum de Alabastro. or, Oynt- 
ment of Alabaster.—a ibid 
Unguentum Amarum. or, the bit- 
ter Oyntment.—b ib 
Unguentum Apostolorum. or, Oynt- 
ment of the Apostles—c ibid 
Unguentum Oregon. or, the help-                
ful Oyntment.—a 190 
Unguentum de Artanita. or, Oynt- 
ment of Sow-bread.—b ib 
Unguentum Catapsoras. or, Oynt- 
ment against the Maunge and Scabs. 
c ibid 
Unguentum Citrinum. or, the Ci- 
tron Oyntment.—c ibid 
Unguentum Comitissæ. or, the Coun- 
tesses Oyntment.—a 191
Unguentum Martiatum—b ib 
Unguentum Mastichinum. or, An 
Oyntment of Mastich.—b ib 
Unguentum Neopolitanum. or, The 
Oyntment against the Neapolitan or 
Venereal Pocks.—c ib 
Unguentum Nervinum. The Nerve 
or Sinew-oyntment.—a 192 
Unguentum pectorale. The Pectoral 
or Breast-Oyntment.—a ibid 
Unguentum populncum. or, oynt- 
ment of Poplar buds—b ib 
Unguentum Resumptivum.—c ib 
Unguentum Splanchnicum. or, the 
Oyntment for Liver and Spleen.—c ib  
Unguentum Splanchnicum Magistrale 
a 193 
Unguentum é Succis. or, oyntment 
of Juyces.—a ibid 
Unguentum Sumach. or, oyntment 
of Sumach.—b ibid            
Oyntments of Marsh-mallows, Com- 
pound.—b ibid 
Unguentum Diapompholigos. or, 
oyntment of pompholix.—c ibid 
Unguentum Refrigcrans Galeni. or, 
Galen his cooling oyntment.—a 194 
Unguentum é Succis Aperitivis. or, 
oyntment of the Juyces of certain 
opening Herbs.—bib 
Unguentum Martiatum.—b ibid 
An Oyntment for the Worms Fæsius.
a 195 
CERECLOATHS. 
CEratum de Galbano. or, Cere- 
cloath of Galbanum.—b ib 
Ceratum æsypatum. or, The Cere- 
cloath of æsypus so called.—b ib 
Ceratum Santalinum. Cere-cloath 
of Sanders.—c ib 
PLASTERS.
EMplastrum ex Ammoniaco. Or,the 
plaister of Gum Ammoniack. 
a 196
Emplastrum è Baccis Lauri. or, the 
plaster of Bay-Berries.—b ibid 
Emplastrum Barbarum Magnum. 
b ib 
Emplastrum de Betonica. or, The 
plaster of Betony.—c ib 
Emplastrum Cæsaris. or, Cæsar his 
plaister.—c ibid                                    
Emplastrum Catagmaticum. or, the 
Bone-foddering plaster, first and se- 
cond.—a 197 
Catagmaticum the second.—b ib 
Emplastrum Cephalicum. or, A Ce- 
phalick plaster.—b ibid 
Emplastrum de Ccrnssa. or, A pla- 
ster of Ceruss.—c ib 
Emplastrum ex Cicura cum Ammo- 
niaco. or, A plaster of Hemlock with 
Amoniacum.—c ib 
Emplastrum è Cinnabari. or, plaster 
of Cinnabar or Cinoper.—c ib 
Emplastrum é Crusta Panis. or, A 
plaster of the crust of Bread.—a 198 
Emplastrum é Cymino. or, A plaster 
of Cummin.—a ibid 
Emplastrum Diacalciteos. or, The 
plaster of Calcitis.—b ib 
Diachylon Plaster. or, of the Juyces 
or Mucilages.—c ib 
Diachylon Ireatum.—c ib 
Diachylon Magnum. or, 
c ib 
Diachylon magnum cum Gummi. 
b 199 
Diachylon Compositum, sive Empla- 
strum è Mucilaginibus. or, The pla- 
ster of Mucilages or of the slimy 
juyce of certain plants Roots and 
Seed,—a ib 
Emplastrum


A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Emplastrum Diaphænicon hot. 
a ib
Diaphænicon cold.—b ib 
Emplastrum Divinum. or, The Di- 
vine plaster.—c ib 
Emplastrum Epispasticum. or, The 
Blistering plaster.—c ib 
Emplastrum à Nostratibus, Flos 
unguentum Dictum. The Flower of 
Oyntments or of plasters—a 200 
A Plaster of Gum Elemi—a ib 
The plaster of Lapis Calaminaris. 
b ibid 
Emplastrum ad Hernians. or, The 
plaster against Ruptures.—b ibid 
Emplastrum Hystericum. or, The 
Mother plaster.—c ib 
Emplastrum de Mastich. Or, the 
plaster of Mastich.—a 201
Emplastrum de Mililoto Simplex. 
Or, A plaster of Melilot Simple. 
a ibid 
Emplastrum de Meliloto compositum. 
Or, A Plaster of Melilot Compound 
b ibid 
Emplastrum de minio Compositum. 
Or, A Plaster of Red Lead Com- 
pound—c ibid 
Emplastrum de minio Simplicius. 
Or, A Plaster of Red Lead Simple. 
c ibid
Emplastrum Metroproptoticon. Or, 
The Plaster against the Falling down 
of the Womb.—c ib 
Emplastrum Nervinum.—a 202 
Emplaftrum Oxycroceum.—a ib 
Emplastrum de Ranis. Or, Plaster 
of Frogs with Quick-silver.—b ib 
Emplastrum Ciconium. Or, of wild 
Cucumers.—c ibid 
Sparadrap seu tela Galteris. Or, 
Galterius his Cerecloath.—c ibid                    
Emplastrum Stephaniaion. Or, the 
Crown Plaster.—c ib
Emplastrum Sticticum.—a 203 
Emplastrum Stomachicum Magi- 
strale. Or, a Stomach Plaster.—a ib 
Emplastrum Tonsoris. Or, The 
Barber-Surgeons Plaster.—b ib 
Emplastrum Ceroma, Or, Ceroneum. 
Nich. Alex.—b ib
Emplastrum Gratia Dei. Nich. Or, 
the Grace of God.—c ibid 
Emplastrum de Janua, or, of Betony 
Nicholaus.—c ibid 
Emplastrum Isis Epigoni. Galen.
a 204 
A Plaister of Mastich.—a ib 
Emplastrum nigrum. Or, the black 
Plaster called Stichflaster in the High- 
Dutch.—b ibid 
Emplastrum Sanctum. Andr.é Cruce 
A holy Plaster, composed by An- 
drew of the Cross.—b ib. 
Emplastrum sine Pari.—c ib. 
The Stomach plaster. Mesue. 
c ibid
The Cerecloath of Gum Ammonia- 
cum.—a 205 
Ceratum Stomachinum Galeni. 
Or, Galen his Stomach Cerecloath. 
b ibid                       
Chymical Oyls, 
And other 
Chymical Liquors. 
OYl of Wormwood.—a ibid 
Oyl, or Fat of Roses, commonly 
called the Spirit of Roses—a 206 
OYL of SEEDS. 
OYL of Dill Seeds.—b ib
OYL of BERRIES. 
OYl of Juniper Berries.—c ibid 
Oyl of Turpentine.—c ibid 
Oyl of Myrrh.—a 207 
Oyl of Guajacum.—a ib. 
Oyl of Wax—a 1b. 
Oleum Latricium Philosophorum. 
b ibid 
Oleum Succini. or, oyl of Amber 
a ib. 
Oleum seu Butyrum Antimonij. or,
Butter of Antimony.—b ib. 
Oleum Arsenici. or, oyl of Ars- 
nick.—c ibid 
Oleum Salis. or, oyl of Salt.—c ib 
Oleum Sulphuris. or, oyl of Sul- 
phur.—a 208 
Oleum Vitrioli. or, Oyl of Vitriol 
a ib. 
Aqua fortis—b ibid                                         
Aqua Mellis. Or, Water of Ho- 
ney.—b ibid 
Liquor seu Liquamen Tartari, seu 
Oleum Tartari per Deliquiun. Or, 
Liquor of Tartar.—b ib. 
Oleum Mirrhæ per Deliquium. Or, 
Oyl or Liquor of Mirrh.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Tartar.—c ib.
Chymical Prepa- 
rations, more fre- 
quent in Use. 
ANtimonium cum Nitro Calcina- 
tum. Or, Antimony Calcited 
with Niter—c ibid 
Chalybs preparatus. Or, Steel 
prepared.—a 209 
Crystal of Tartar.—a ib. 
Crocus Martis.—b ibid. 
Crocus Metallorum—b ibid. 
Flos Sulphuris. Or, Flower of 
Brimstone—b ibid 
Lapis infernalis. Or, the Hell- 
stone.—c ibid 
Lapis Prunellæ, or Sal prunellæ. 
c ibid 
Magistery of Pearl and Coral.—a 210
Mercurius sublimatus corrosivus. or, 
Mercury sublimate corrosive.—a ib. 
Mercurius dulcis. sublimatus. Or, 
Mercury sublimate.—b ibid 
The two sorts of Mercury precipitated, 
white and red.—c ibid 
Mercurius præcipitatus corrosivus. 
or, Corrosive precipitate—c ibid 
Mercurius vitæ.—c ibid. 
Regulus Antimonij. Or, the Me- 
tle of Antimony.—c ibid 
Saccharum Saturni. Or, Sugar of 
Lead.—a 211 
Sal Vitrioli.—a ibid 
Turpethum Minerale.—a ibid. 
Tariarum Vitriolatum.—b ibid.                
Vitriolum album depuratum. Or, 
white Vitriol clensed.—b ibid 
Vitrum Antimonij.—b ib  
The General way 
of making Extracts. 
The way of making 
SALTS. 
SAlt Volatile, or Essential, is thus 
made.—c ibid. 
Salt fixed, or Elementary, is thus 
made.—c ibid.  
PREPARATIONS 
of certain Simple 
Medicines.
THe way of preparing Fats.—a 212 
The burning of Brass.—a ibid 
The washing of Alæs.—a ibid 
The preparation of Bole Armeniack. 
Fæcula Brioneæ.—a ibid. 
May Butter.—a ibid 
The preparation of Lapis Calami- 
naris.—b ibid 
The washing of Lime.—b ibid 
The preparation of Coral, Pearls, 
Crabs Eyes. and other precious Stones. 
b ibid 
The preparation of Coriander Seed. 
b ibid 
The burning of Harts-horn, Ivory, 
and other Bones—b ibid 
A new preparation of them.—b ibid 
The way to make Elaterium.—b ibid.
Mmm The   


A TABL of the COMPOUNDS. 
The preparation of the Bark of Spurge 
Roots.—c ibid 
The preparation of Euphorbium.—c ib. 
The preparation of black Hellebore 
Roots.—c ibid 
The preparation of Goats blood. 
c ibid 
The burning of yong Swallows.—c ibid 
The preparation of Lacca.—c ibid 
The preparation of Lapis Lazuli.
a 213 
The preparation of Litharge,—a ibid 
The preparation of Earth-worms. 
a ibid 
The preparation of Sows, or Wood- 
Lice.—a ibid 
The manner of preparing æsipus. 
a ibid 
The preparation of Opium.—b ibid 
Pouder of Raw Lead.—b ibid 
The burning of Lead.—b ibid. 
The washings of Lead.—b ibid 
The preparation of Fox Lungs.—b ibid 
The preparation of Scammony.—b ibid 
Another way of Preparation of 
Scammony with Sulphur.—c ibid 
The preparation of Squils.—c ibid. 
Washed Tartar.—c ibid 
Boyled Turpentine.—c ibid 
The preparation of Tutty.—c ibid 
An ALPHABETICAL TABLE to the 
English Names in the Catalogue of Simples. 
READER, In this Table diligently observe that a directs to the first 
Column, b. to the second, c. to the third Column: And the Figures direct 
to the Page. 
ROOTS.
A
ALkanet.—a 2 
Angelica.—a 2 
Anthoræ.—a 2 
Asarabacca.—b 2 
Asphodel Malé.—b 2 
Avens.—c 2 
Aromatical Reed.—c 2 
Astichoaks.—b 3 
B 
Bay-Tree.—c 4 
Bear-Breech.—a 1 
Birthwort Long.—a 2 
—Round.—a 2  
Brank- ursine Clining.—a 2 
Beets.—b 2  
Bistort.—b 2 
Borrage,—b 2 
Burdock.—b 2 
Briony—c 2 
Bugloss.—c 2 
Brakes—a 4 
Bears Foot.—a 4 
Butter-Bur—b 5  
Bruscuss.—a 6  
Butchers Broom,—a 6 
Bind weed.—a 6 
Bedeguar,—b 6 
C 
Calamus Aromaticus.—c 1 
Capars—c 2 
Carrots—b 3 
Consolida Major—a 3 
Chamelion white—a 3             
—Black.—a 3 
Celondine greater.—a 3 
—Lesser.—a 3 
China—a 3 
Coleworts—b 3 
Centaury—c 2
Costus—b 3 
Carrolwort—b 3 
Cucumers wild—b 3 
Cyperus long—b 3 
—Round.—b 3 
Cuckow pints—b 2 
Christmas Flowers.—a 4 
Couch grass.—b 4 
Chamock—a 5 
Cinksoyl—a 5 
Canterbury, or 
Coventry Bells.—b 6 
D 
Danewort—c 3 
Doronicum.—b 3 
Dittany—b 3 
Dragons.—c 3 
Dwarf-Elder—c 3 
Dropwort.—a 4 
E
Elicampane—a 4 
Endive—a 4 
Eringo—a 4 
English Galanga.—b 3
F
Fearn—a 4 
Five-leaved, or five fingered Grass.—a 5 
Filipendula—a 12 
Flower-de-luce.—c 1  
Fullers Thistle.—c 4 
Figwort—b 12 
Fennel—b 2 
G
Garlick—a 2 
Galanga greater—b 4 
—Lesser.—b 4 
Gentian—b 4 
Grass—b 4 
Ginger—c 6 
Gladon stinking—b 5 
H 
Hartwort—b 6 
Hermodactils—b 4 
Herb Bennet—c 2 
Hyacinthi.—b 4 
Hellebore white—b 3 
—Black—a 4 
Hound-stongue—b 3 
Horestrange—b 5 
Hogs-Fennel.—b 5  
I
Jacinths—b 4 
K 
Kneeholly—a 6 
L 
Ladies Thistle—b 12 
Liquoris—b 4 
Lillies white—c 4 
Lovage—c 4  
Leeks.—c 5  
M 
Marsh-mallows—a 2 
Medow Saffron—a 3 
Master wort—c 4 
Mallows—c 4 
Mandrakes—c 4 
Mechoacan—a 5 
Mezereon.—a 9 
Mulberry—a 5 
Monks Rhubarb—a 6 
Maddir—a 6 
Meadsweat—a 6  
O
Onions—c 2 
Orris—c 4 
P 
Pile wort—a 3 
Prunella—b 3 
Parsnips wild—a 5 
—Garden.—a 5 
Peony Male and Female.—b 5
Patience 
 

The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples. 
Patience—a 6 
Plantane—b 5 
Petasitis.—a 10 
Pellitory of Spain—c 5 
Polypodium.—b 5 
R 
Reeds common—a 2 
—Sugar—a 2 
Restharrow—a 5 
Reupontick—c 5 
Rubarb—a 6 
Radishes—a 6 
Rose Root.—a 6 
S 
Sarsaparilla—a 6 
Satyrion—a 6 
Sperage—b 2 
Savory—b 27 
Spina Alba—b 6 
Self-heal—b 3 
Sweet Garden Flag.—c 2 
Sea-holly.—a 4 
Squitch Grass.—b 4 
Squills.—b 6 
Saxifrage white.—b 6 
Scabious.—b 6  
Scorzonera.—b 12 
Setwal.—b 5 
Sefeli.—b 12 
Scirrets.—b 6 
Sowbread.—a 2 
Swallow-wort.—b 2
Sparagus.—b 2 
Snakeweed.—b 2 
Sullendin.—a 4 
Succory.—a 3 
Spurge.—a 4 
Sharp-pointed Dock.—c 4 
Sorrel.—c 4  
Spignel.—a 9  
Spurge Olive.—a 9 
Spicknard.—a 5 
Sulphur-wort.—b 5  
Solomons Seal.—c 5  
T 
Tansie.—b 6 
Teazles.—c 5 
Tooth-wort.—b 3 
Turmerick.—b 3 
Toothed Violets.—b 3 
Tormentil.—b 6 
Throat-wort.—b 6 
Toadstools—b l3 
Tripolii.—b 6 
Turbith.—b 6 
V 
Valerian white.—b 2 
—Red—b 2 
Vipers Buglos.—c 3 
Valerian great.—b 5 
—Smal.—b 5 
Vipers grass.—b 6 
Victorialis—c 6 
W 
Waterflag—c 1 
Wild Bugloss.—c 3 
Wake-robin.—b 2 
Walwort.—c 3 
Water-Lillies.—a 5 
Widdow-wall.—a 9
Z
Zedoary.—c 6                 
BARKS.
A 
Ash-tree.—a 7  
B 
Barberries.—a 7 
Beans—a 7 
C 
Cassia Lignea.—a 7 
Chestnuts.—a 7 
Cinnamon—a 7 
Citrons.—c 6 
Cork.—b 7  
E  
Elder—b 7  
Elm.—b 7  
F  
Fennel Roots.—a 7  
H  
Hazel.—c 6  
L  
Lemmons.—c 6  
Lignum Vita.—c 7  
M 
Mace.—b 7  
Maceris, &c.—b 7 
N  
Nutmeg Tree.—b 7  
Nephriticum.—c 7  
O 
Oak—b 7 
Orrenges.—c 6 
P 
Parsly Roots.—b 7 
Pine-Nuts.—b 7 
Pine husks.—b 7 
Pom Citrons.—a 7 
Pomegranates.—a 7 
S 
Smallage Roots.—c 6 
T 
Tamaris —b 15  
WOODS. 
B 
Brazil.—a 16 
C 
Cypress.—c 7  
E 
Ebeny.—c 7  
G  
Guajacum.—c 7
J 
Juniper.—c 7
N  
Nephriticum.—c 7
R 
Rhodium.—c 7 
Rose-wood.—c 7 
S 
Sanders, red, white and yellow.—c 7  
Sassafrass.—c 7 
T
Tamaris.—c 7 
W 
Wood of Aloes.—b 7  
HERBS. 
A 
Anemone.—a 12 
Adders-tongue.—b 14 
Agrimony.—a 8 
Agnus Castus.—a 8 
Alkanet.—a 8 
Angelica.—b 8
Asarabacca.—c 8 
Arrach.—a 9 
Alecost.—a 9 
Avens.—b 9 a 10 
Artichoaks.—c 10 
Ash-tree leaves.—c 11 
Alehoof.—b 28 
Alexanders.—b 12 
Arsmart.—c 12 
B 
Bay-Tree.—a 13 
Balm.—c 13 
Bazil.—b 14. 
Bears-breech.—a 8 
Branckursine.—a 8 
Beets white and red.—a 9 
Burdock.—a 9 
Bettony.—b 9 
Blites.—b 9 
Borrage.—b 9  
Briony.—c 9 
Bugloss.—c 9 
Bugle.—c 9 
Box Tree.—c 9 
Brooklime.—b 10 
Buckhorn-plantanc,—a 11 
Blew-bottle.—a 11 
Burstwort.—b 11 
Broom.—a 12 
Black and stincking Hore hound.—b 13 
Butter-flowers.—a 36
Bruisewort.—b 15 
Bind weed.—c 15 
C
Chast-Tree.—a 8 
Clot-bur.—a 9 
Calamint.—c 9 
Comfry Milde.—c 9 
Carduus benedictus.—a 10 
Cabbages.—b 10 
Chass-weed.—a 11 
Coronaria.—a 11  
Cammels Hay.—b 15 
Cassidony.—a 37 
Catmints.—a 23 
Centaury.—b 10 
Cetrach.—b 23 
Chamomel.—c l0 
Celondine.—c l0 
Chervil.—b 10 
Chickweed.—b 8 
Clevers.—c 8 
Columbines.—c 8 
Costmary.—a 9 
Carrallina,—a 10 
Coleworts.—b 10 
Chamepitys.—b 24 
Comfrie.—a 11 
Cottonweed.—a 11  
Cudweed.—a 11 
Crosswort.—a 11  
Cypress-tree.—b 11  
Cranebill.—a 12 
Cowslips.—b 12 
Clarie.—b 12 
Cinksoyl.—b 14 
Coltsfoot.—b 16 
Crowfoot.—a 15  
D
Dandelion.—a 16 
Dasies.—b 9 
Dill.—c 8 
Distaf-Thistle.—a 9 
Dictamni.—b 11
Dwarf 
   

The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples.
Dwarf-Elder.—b 11 
Dodder.—c 11 
Doves-foot.—a 12 
Double-tongue.—b 12 
Dittander.—a 13 
Duckmeat.—a 13 
Docks.—a 5 
Devils-bit.—a 16 
Dittany.—b 11 
E 
Endive.—c 10 
Elicampane.—c 11 
Epithimum.—a 25 
Eye-bright.—c 1 
F
Fennel.—c 11 
Fumatory.—a 12 
Featherfew.—c 13 
Fleabane.—c 14 
Figwort.—b 15 
Flixweed.—c 15 
French Lavender.—a 16 
G 
Golden Maiden-hair.—a 8 
Garlick.—b 8 
Garden Mints.—c 13 
Good Henry.—b 9 
Goof-grass.—c 8 
Groundsel.—a 10 
Germander.—c 10 
Groundpine.—c 10 
Golden Rod.—a 11 
Goats Rue.—a 12 
Gold Knobs.—a 15 
Gould Cups.—a 15 
H
Herb two pence.—b 14 
Harts-tongue.—a 13 
Horse-Mints.—a 13 
Harts-ease.—n 16 
Housleek.—a 9 
Honey-suckles—a 10 
Herb Bennet.—a 10 
Horstail.—a 10 
Herb-true-love.—b 12 
Henbane.—c 12 
Hemlock.—a 11 
Houndstongue.—a 11 
Hedg-hysop.—a 12 
Horstongue.—b 12 
Hysop.—c 12 
Herb Mastich.—b 13 
Hops—b 13 
Horehound.—b 13 
Herb of Grace.—a 15 
Higtaper.—b 16 
I 
Indian Leaf.—c 11 
Ivy.—a 12 
St. Johns-wort.—c 12 
K 
King Cobs—a 15 
Knapweed.—a 37 
Knotgrass.—b 10
L 
Ladies Mantle.—b 8 
Lluellin.—b 21 
Ladies Thistle.—a 10
Larks-heel.—a 11 
Lavender Cotton.—b 11
Ladies Bedstraw.—a 12 
Liver-wort.—a l2 
Laurel of Alexandria.—c 12- 
Lettice.—c 12          
Lotus Urbana.—a 13 
Lavender.—a 13 
Laurel.—a 13 
Lovage.—a 13 
Lungwort.—a l4 
M 
Marsh-bugloss.—a 13 
Malbatharum.—c 11 
Maiden-hair, white and black.—a 8 
Midle Comfry.—c 9 
Mountain Calamint.—c 9 
Marigold.—c 9 
Maudlin.—a 8 
Marsh-mallows.—b 8 
Marjoram.—b 8 
Mousear,—a 9 
Mugwort.—c 8 
Moschata.—b 23 
Masterwort.—b 13 
Mastich tree.—a 13 
Mallows.—b 13 
Mandrakes.—b 13 
Melilot.—c 13 
Mints.—c 13 
Mercury.—c 13 
Mezereon.—b 37 
Moss.—a 14 
Mirtle Tree.—a 14 
Moneywort.—b 14 
Mother of Time.—c 15 
Mullin.—b 16 
N 
Navil-wort.—b 16 
Nep—a 10 
Nettles.—b l6 
Nightshade.—c 15 
O 
Oak of Jerusalem.—b 9 
Ox eye.—c 9 
Orpine.—a 11  
One-berry.—b 12 
Origany, Origanum.—a 14 
Oak Leaves.—a 15  
Orach.—a 9 
Ox-Tongue.—c 9 
P 
Petty-Cotton.—a 11 
Pansies.—a 38 
Patience.—b 29 
Pauls Bettony.—b 9 
Pimpernel.—b 8 
Perewinkle.—a 11 
Primroses.—b 12 
Privet.—b 8 
Pellitory of the Wall.—b 12 
Pepper-wort.—a 13 
Peniroyal—a 34 
Peach leaves.—c 14 
Plantane.—c 14 
Poppies.—a 33 
Poley-mountain.—c 14 
Purslain.—c 14 
R
Rocket.—c 11 
Rupture wort.—b 11  
Rosemary.—a 15  
Roses.—a 35 
Rue.—a 15 
S 
Sampier.—a 11
Sarazens confound.—a 11 
Sage.—a 15 
Sanicle.—b 15 
Savin.—a 15 
Savory.—b 15 
Saxifrage.—b l5 
Scabious.—b 15 
Schænanth.—b 15 
Southernwood,—c 7 
Sorrel.—a 7 
Smallage.—c 8 
Silver-weed.—c 8 
Sow-bread.—c 8  
Sengreen.—a 9 
Shepherds-purse.—c 9
Spleenwort.—b 10 
Sullendine.—c 10  
Succory.—c 10 
Straw berry leaves.—c 11 
Stinking groundpine.—b 12 
St. Johns-wort.—c 12 
Sciatica-cresses.—c l2 
Star-wort.—a 29 
Share-wort.—a 30 
Sea bugloss.—a l3 
Sea Lavender.—a 13 
Sweet Tresoyl.—b 13 
Self-heal.—c 14 
Sicklewort.—c 14 
Sopewort.—b 15
Scordium.—a 36  
Senna.—b 15 
Sowthistles—c 15 
Spinach.—b 36 
Stœchas.—b 36 
Spurge.—a 16 
Swallow-wort.—b 16  
Spurge Olive—c 13 
Scar-wort.—a 13 
Sea-plantan.—a 11 
Spindle-thistle.—a 9 
Silver Knapweed.—c 15  
Spare-Mints.—c 13 
Snake-bugloss.—b 11  
T 
Tamaris.—a 16 
Tansie.—a 16  
Teazles—b 11 
Trulove.—a 27 
Tongue-blade.—b 12 
Toad-flax.—a 13  
Treacle Mustard.—a 14  
Tobacco.—a 14  
Time.—a 16  
Trefoil.—a 16
V
Vipers-herb.—b 11 
Vervain mallows.—b 8 
Vipers bugloss.—b 11 
Vervain.—b 16 
Violet leaves.—b 16 
Vine leaves.—b 16 
W
Water Germander.—b 15
Water Mints.—c 13 
Wall bugloss.—b 11 
Water Calamint.—c 9 
Wild basterd Saffron.—a 9 
Wild Bugloss.—b 11 
Wind flowers.—b 12 
Wild-flax.—a 13
Water-cresses.—a 14 
Walwort.—b 20 
Wormwood.—a 8
Wood sorrel.—a 8 
Woodroof.—c 8 
Wild Tansie.—c 8 
Wild-flower.—b 27 
Woad


The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples.                                   
Woad.—c 12 
Widdow-wail.—c 13 
Winter-green.—a 15 
Willow leaves.—b 15 
Y 
Yarrow.—c 13
FLOWERS.
B
Bawm.—c 16
Borrage.—c 16 
Bugloss.—c 16 
Beans.—a 17 
Broom.—a 17 
C 
Centaury.—a 17 
Chamomel.—a 29 
Clove-gilli-flowers.—c 16 
Cowslips.—a 17
E
Elder-flowers.—a 17
H 
Honeysuckles.—c 16 
Hops.—a 29 
Hops.—c 16
J
Jasmine flowers.—a 29 
L 
Lavender flowers.—c 16
M
Mallow flowers.—a 29 
Mallows.—c 16
O
Ox-Eye.—c 28
P
Pomgranate flowers.—a 17 
Peach tree.—a 17  
R 
Rosemary.—c 16  
Roses.—c 16  
Rocket.—a 29  
S 
Saffron,—c 16 
Stœchas.—c 16
Schænanth.—c 16
Succory.—a 17 
V
Violets.—a 17 
W
Winter-gilli-flowers.—c 16 
Water-Lillies.—a 17 
Woodbine or Honeysuckle flowers. 
a 29 
FRUITS, BUDS.
A  
Apricocks.—b 17 
B 
Bay berries.—c 17 
Barberries.—c 17 
Bitter Almonds.—c 17
C 
Capars.—b 17 
Cassia Fistula.—c 17 
Cherries.—c 17 
Cloves.—b 17 
Cucumers.—b 17 
Cubebs.—c 17 
Currance, English.—c 17
D
Dates.—b 17
F
Figs.—a 17      
G
Galls.—b 17 
I 
Juniper berries.—a. 30
M
Medlars.—c 17 
Melones.—b 17 
Myrobalans.—c 17 
N
Nutmegs.—b 17
O
Olives.—c 17 
P 
Pepper.—b 17 
Pears.—b 17 
Peaches—c 17 
Plums.—b 17 
Pinenuts.—b 17 
Pompions.—b 17 
Prunes.—c 17
R
Raisons.—b 17
S 
Sebestens.—b 17 
Services.—c 17  
Strawberries.—c 17 
T
Tamarinds.—a 18 
W 
Winter Cherries.—c 17 
Walnuts.—b 17 
SEEDS.
A
Annis.—a 18 
Ammi.—b 18
Ash-tree.—c 18 
B 
Bazil.—a 18 
Bishops weed.—b 18 
Broom.—c 18
C 
Cardamoms.— b 18 
Carrots.—b 18 
Coriander.—a. 18 
Cummin.—b 18 
Cich pease.—c 18 
Citrons.—c 18 
D 
Dill.—a 18 
F 
Four great cold Seeds.—c 18  
Fenugreek.—a 18 
Fennel.—b 18 
French Barly.—b 18 
G 
Gromwel.—a 18 
L 
Lettice.—a 18 
Linseed.—a 18  
Lupines.—a 18
M
Mustard seed.—b 18  
Mallows.—c 18   
N 
Nettles.—a 18 
Nigella.—b 18
P 
Peony.—c 18 
Poppy.—c 18
Purslain.—c 18
R
Rocket.—a 18 
Rue.—c 18 
S
Smallage.—a 18 
Stavesager.—b 18 
Sorrel.—b 18 
Succory.—b 18 
W  
White Saxifrage.—c 18 
Water-cresses.—b 18 
Wormseed.—c 18   
GUMS ROZINS.  
A 
Ammoniacum.—b 44 
Assafœtida.—c 18 
Aloes.—c 18 
B 
Bdellium.—a 18 
Benzoin.—c 18
C 
Camphire.—b 44 
D  
Diagridium.—a 19                            
E
Elemni.—a 19 
F  
Frankincense.—a 19 
G 
Galbanum.—a 19 
L 
Labdanum.—c 18 
M  
Manna.—a 19  
Mastich.—a 19 
Mirrh.—a 19  
O 
Olibanum.—a 19  
Opopanax.—a 19   
S 
Sanguis Draconis—c 18 
Scammony.—a 19  
Styrax Calamitis.—a 19  
T 
Traganth.—a 19  
Turpentine.—a 19  
JUYCES.
C  
Citrons.—b 19   
L 
Lemmons.—b 19  
Liquoris.—b 19  
S 
Sugar.—b 19 
PLANTS. 
A  
Agrick.—b 19 
M 
Misleto.—b 19  
LIVING CREATURES. 
C 
Crabfish.—c 19 
E 
Earthworms.—c 19  
Eels.—c 19   
G 
Grashoppers.—c 19  
H  
Hedg-sparrows.—c 19 
L  
Land Scorpion.—c 19  
O 
Oysters.—c 19 
Nnn Pidgeons. 


The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples. 
P
Pidgeons.—c 19 
S
Sows.—b 19 
Swallow.—c 19
V
Vipers.—c 19
W
Woodlice.—c 18, 19
PARTS of LIVING 
CREATURES.
B
Bone in a Stags Heart—b 20 
Bears grease.—b 20 
Bone in a Hares Foot.—b 20 
Brain of Sparrows.—a 20   
Brain of Hares.—a 20 
C 
Cats Head.—a 20 
Crabs Eyes.—a 20 
Cocks Stones.—a 20
Castorium.—a 20 
Capons Grease.—b 20
D 
Ducks Liver.—a 20 
Ducks grease.—b 46
E
Elks Claws.—b 20
F
Flead Mouse.—b 20 
Fox Lungs.—a 20 
Fox grease.—b 20
Frogs Liver.—a 20
G
Goats bladder.—b 20 
Goats Suet.—b 20 
Goose grease.—b 20 
H
Harts Horn.— b 20 
Honey.—c 20
I
Ivory.—b 20 
K
Kites Head.—a 20 
M
Mans Skul.—b 20 
Mans Fat.—b 20 
Milk.—b 20
O
Os Triquetrum.—b 20 
R 
Raw Silk.—c 20 
S
Sheeps Bladder.—b 20 
Stags Pizzle.—b 20 
U
Unicorns horn.—b 20 
W
Wax.—c 20 
Whey.—c 20
BELONGING to the SEA.
A
Ambergreece.—c 20 
Amber.—a 21 
F
Foam of the Sea.—a 21 
P
Pearls—a 20
R
Red Corral.—a 2l
S
Sperma Ceti.—c 20 
Sea Sand.—c 20 
METTALS, STONES.
A
Ætitis.—c 21 
Allum.—b 21 
Amethist.—c 21
B 
Bezoar.—c 21 
Brimstone.—b 21 
C 
Carbuncles.—b 21 
Cocks Stones.—c 21   
D 
Diamond.—b 2l
E
Emerald.—b 21 
G 
Granate.—b 21 
Gold.—a 21
I  
Jacinth.—b 21 
Jasper.—c 21 
L 
Lazuli.—b 22 
Lead.—b 21 
Litharge.—b 21  
N 
Nephriticus.—c 21 
P 
Pompholix.—b 21
R  
Ruby.—b 21 
S
Swallows Stone.—a 22 
Saphire.—b 21 
T
Toad-stone.—c 21 
Topas.—c 21  
An Alphabetical TABLE (newly added) of the Eng- 
lish Names of such Simples as the Vertues thereof are 
set down in this Impression that were not in the former. 
READER, In this Table diligently observe that a directs to the first 
Column, b. to the second, c. to the third Column: And the Figures direct 
to the Page.  
BARKS. 
A
AGrimony.—a 25
B
Black Alder-Tree.—a 25
C
Captaine Winters to Cinnamon.—a 25
D
Dodder.—a 25
E  
Endive.—a 25 
H
Hops.—a 25
P
Parsly.—a 25
S
Succory.—a 25  
Savory.—b 27  
Smallage.—a 25 
T
Tansie.—c 27 
FLOWERS. 
C   
Cammomel.—a 29  
H
Hops.—a 29
J
Jasmine.—a 29
Mallows  
 

The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples. 
M  
Mallows.—a 29
O
Ox-Eye.—c 28
R 
Rocket.—a 29
W
Wood-bind, or Honey-suckles.—a 29 
FRUITS PURGING.
J
Juniper-berries.—a 30 
GUMS, ROZINS, 
BALSOMS, JUYCES 
Made thick.
A
Amber-grease.—a 32 
Assafœtida.—a 32   
Alecost.—b 31 
Accacia.—b 31 
Ammoniacum.—a 33 
B
Bitumen Judaicum.—c 31 
Burgany Pitch.—c 31 
Bdellium.—c 31 
Borax.—a 32 
C
Costmary.—b 31 
Cambuge.—a 32  
Caranna.—a 32  
Cappier.—a 33 
D
Dragons blood.—b 31  
F 
Frankinsence.—a 33 
G  
Gutta Gumba.—a 32
Gum Elemi.—b 32  
Gum Lacca.—b 32  
Gum Coopal.—c 32 
Gum Anime—c 32  
Gum Tragaganth.—c 32   
Galbanum.—a 33 
Gum Arabick.—a 33
I
Juyce of Liquoris.—b 31 
L
Labdanum.—b 31 
Liquid Amber.—b 32
M
Manna.—b 32  
Mirrh.—b 32
Mastich.—a 33 
O
Opopanax.—b 33 
Olibanum.—c 32 
Other things. 
P
Pitch.—c 31 
S
Styrax Calamitis.—a 33  
Sugar.—b 31 
Sagapen.—c 32  
T 
Tachamacha.—c 32
Turpentine.—a 33
W 
White Starch.—b 31           
THINGS BRED of PLANTS.
B
Bees should be, &c.—a 34
F
Frogs.—a 33 
I
Jews-Ears.—c 33
M
Misleto.—c 33 
Moss.—c 33
O 
Oak Apples.—c 33
S 
Snailes should be, &c.—a 34
STONES.
A 
A Stone taken out of a Water Snake.
a b 35
B
Blood Stone.—b 35 
C
Calcidonius.—b 35 
Crystal.—b 35  
G
Geodetes,—c 35
H
Hemetites.—b 35 
I
Jet.—c 35
L
Lapis Memphites.—c 35 
Lapis Samius.—b 35 
Lapis Ophites.—c 35 
Lapis Arabicus.—c 35 
Lapis Selenites.—c 35
Lapis Amnianthus.—c 35  
Lapis Armenius.—c 35 
M
Myexis.—c 35 
Ostracites.—c 35  
P
Pumice-Stone.—c 35   
Pyritis.—b 35  
T 
Tybuones.—b 35
Distilled WATERS.
A 
Alicampane Water.—c 38 
B
Borrage  
and  
Bugloss 
Water Distilled when 
their Flowers are upon
them.—c 38 
Bawm Water.—c 38 
Burnet Water.—c 38 
Bettony Water.—c 37 
Black Cherry Water.—c 37 
C 
Carduus Water.—a 38  
Calaminth Water.—a 38 
Camomel Water.—a 38  
Centaury water.—b 38  
Chervil water.—b 38 
Comfry water.—b 38 
Colts-foot water.—c 37  
Couch grass water.—c 37 
Cowslips flowers, water thereof.—a 38     
D
Damask Rose water.—c 37 
Dodder water.—c 38 
Dogs grass water.—c 37  
Dwarf-Elder water.—c 38    
E 
Elder, see Dwarf-Elder. 
Endive water and Succory water. 
b 37 
Eye Bright water.—a 38  
F 
Flower-de-luce water.—a 31 
Fennel—a 38 
Flowers of Lillies of the Valley.—a 38 
Fumatory water.—a 37  
G 
Green Walnut water.—c 37 
H  
Hore-hound water.—a 38 
Hops when they are young, a Water 
thereof.—c 38  
Hyssop water.—a 38
L
Lettice water.—b 37 
Loveage water.—c 38
M 
Maiden-hair water.—c 38 
Marjoram water.—a 38  
Maudlin water.—b 38 
Marigold water.—b 38  
Mint water.—b 38 
Mother of Time water.—b 38
Mugwort water.—c 38  
N 
Nettles when they flower.—b 38 
Night shade water.—b 37 
P 
Pellitory of the wall water.—b 38 
Penny-royal water.—c 38 
Plantane water.—c 37 
Purslaine water.—b 37
Q
Quinces, distilled waters thereof.—c 37
R  
Red Poppy flower water.—c 37 
Radishes, the distilled water thereof. 
c 38
Rosemary water.—a 38 
Rose water, see Damask.—c 37  
S 
Sage, while the flowers are on.—c 37 
Saxifrage water.—b 31 
Scabious water.—a 38 
Sinksoyl water.—c 38 
Sorrel water.—b 37 
Strawberry water.—c 37 
Succory, see Endive.
T 
Tamaris water.—c 38
Tobacco of the English grouth.—c 38 
V 
Violet flowers, water thereof.—b 37 
W 
Water Cresses, the water thereof. 
b 38 
Water-lilly flowers, water thereof. 
b 37 
Wallnut water, see green Wallnuts. 
White Poppy water.—c 37 
Wormwood water.—b 38                                   
The End of the Catalogue of Simples. 
An   


An ALPHABETICAL TABLE of Diseases 
Treated on, in the Dispensatory.  
READER, In this Table diligently observe that a directs to the first 
Colum, b. to the second, c. to the third Colum: And the Figures direct 
to the Page.
A 
ABortion, hindereth a 15 a 16 a 22
c 129 c 179 b 191 c 200 a 201 a 2Ol. 
Ach a 1 a 7 b 12 a 20 a 29 c 31 a 32 c 182
a 186 c 193 b 202, 203 
Aches coming of a cold cause, b 8 b 18 
Adders stinging, or biting c 11 
Aduft Humors b 37 c 38 c 137 b 150 
b 163. 
Adust Choller a 12 b 112 b 123 a 124- 
After-birth a 2 b 5 b 8 c 9 b 11 b 12 b 12 
b 12 b 13 c 14 a 15 a 16 c 16 a 17 b 18 a 19 
a 19 a 20 b 20 b 32 c 38 a 103 c 104 a 106 
a 109 a 135 b 144 a 147 a 168 b 179. 
Agues b 2 c 4 b 5 c 8 a 13 c 13 b 14 b 32 
c 104 a 107 c 110 a 111 a 120 b 149 b 149
c 149 a 151 b 157 b 158 a 162 a 171 c 176
b 177 b 181 a 186 c 192 c 193 b 195 a 208. 
Ague in Womens Brests a 10. 
Agues naught for c 17.
Ague in the brests a 33. 
Agues in young Children, c 11. 
see Inflamation. 
Quartan Agues a 12 c 14 a 20 b 32 a 38 
c 140 c 149 c 163 a 171 b 190 a 208. 
Air cooleth b 15. 
Air infected or corrupted b 13 b 102 b 138 
b 165 c 206. 
Almonds of the Ears a 16 
Andicom b 201 
Anger causeth, b 21 
Anger Asswageth b 21 b 128 
St. Anthonies fire a 9 a 11 b 12 c 15 a 180 
a 188 
Appetite provoketh b 6 a 9 b l3 c 17 c 17
a 25 a 32 b 32 b 38 c 104 b 110 b 114 a 123 
c 128 a 129 a 146 a 168 b 177 a 179 c 205 
c 205. 
Appetite restoreth a 111 b 183 c 191
a 209
Appetite hurtful for it 
Aposthumes c 2 b 8 b 12 b 15 a 38 b 186 
c 192 c 195 a 200 
Apoplexy b 13 c 37 a 106 a 106 c 136 
147a c 157 c 178 a 179 b 179 b 181 a 210 
Arteries a 104 b 191 a 208 
Asthma a 14 a 29 a 38 a 38 c 98 c 112 
c 117 c 131 b 132 a 136 c 141 a 147 b 153 
b 165 a 183 c 186 c 192 a 207. 
Astonishment a 147.
B 
BAck strengtheneth b 2 c 14 b 120 b 191 
b 192 b 198 c 205 
Back, weakness thereof b 10 b 12 a 21. 
Baldness c 33 c 35 b 108 
Barrenness procureth a 10 
Barrenness helpeth b 12 c 102 b 120 b 122 
c 143 b 167 c 179 
Bees stinging a 13 b l3 c 19 b 186 
Beauty adds b 19 c 111 a 137 c 147 b 152 
a 167 c 167 b 170 c 171 c 181 c 205. 
Beloved of Women c 21 
Belly ach b 8 a 12 c 13 a 14 a 164 
see Bowels. 
Belly strengthens, c 149 c 859 b 199 
—loosens a 9 a 9 b 9 c 9 c 9 c 11 a 12 
a 14 a 17 b 17 b 17 a 33 a 112 b 124 c 149 
—binds b l7 b 17 b 17 
Belching, sower belching c 10 a 129 
Bewitched c 35 
Belching, helps sower belching a 9 c 111 
c 119 b 127 a 138 c 143 a 152 a 210. 
Bewitched c lO3 c 105 a 210 
Biting with Venemous Beasts b 169 b 170 
c 178 a 183 a 200 
Birth facilitates a 2 c 8 b 13 a 22 
Birth c 8 b 13 a 15 c 16 a 17 a 19 a 20 b 20  
b 32 c 104 a 135 b 144 a 147 a 168 b 179. 
Binds 
Biting with Venemous Beasts a 2 c 3 c 3 
b 4 a 5 c 7 b 8 c 8 a 9 a 10 a 11 a 11 a 11 
b 11 c 13 b 14 c 14 b 18 b 18 c 19 c 19 a 20 
b 20 b 21 c 21 c 21 c 31 a 32 b 33 C 37 
a 103 b 107 c 107 b 145 a 147 c 151 c 152 
Biting with a mad Dog b 2 b 2 c 2 b 8  a 10 
b 11 c 135 see mad Dogs 
Blood clarifieth a 38 a 118 b 123 c 209 
Bladder, Ulcers therein c 4 b 17 a 146 
b 167 c 175 
Blockishness b 178 
Bladder b 2 b 4 b 5 c 10 c 13 b 15 b 15 a 16 
b 16 


An Alphabetical Table of Diseases, &c. 
b 16 b 17 b 17 b 19 c 20 b 31 b 38 b 115 
b 121 c 127 c 147 a 148 a 151 b 152 c 152
b 153 c 160 a 166 a 180 c 181 c 183 b 184
b 207 b 207 a 208 
Bladder, ease pains therein b 4 b 5 a 9 b 9 
c 18 c 19 c 2O a 178 b 196 a 206. 
Blackness and blewness c 4 c 5 a 9 
Black Jaundice a 167 b 194 
Bleeding at Nose c 5 b 10 a l4 a 21 a 115 
c 127 c 129 c 150 b 167 b 169 b 170 c 171 
a 172 b 208. 
Bleeding stopeth b 6 c 8 b 10 a 12 b 16 a 33 
b 35 b 38 b 169
Blood a 6 a 8 a 111 a 116 c 123 
Blood stopeth a 5 b 7 a 11 c l6 b 18 a 19 
c 2l b 146 c l7l 
—clensech a 6 a 6 a 8 c 8 b l3 a 14 
a 17 c 17 b 37 b 37 a 38 b 38 c 38 a 210 
—cooleth a 4 a 8 a 8 b 9 a 13 c 14 c 17
a 18 b 18 c 18 c 18 b 19 b 37 b 37 b 37 b 37 
b 37 a 105 b 109 a 117 a 120 c 127 b 166 
Blood spiting c 2 c 5 b 6 c 9 a 11 a 13 a 14 
c l4 b 15 c 16 c 17 a 19 a21 a21 b 37
a 113 a 115 b 117 c 119 b 120 c 122 c 127 
b 128 c 129 c 131 c 137 b 146 a 147 c 162 
a 166 b 166 b 167 a 169 b 169 b 169 c 169 
b 170 a 172 
Blood congealed b 9 c 9 c 10 c 12 c 12 b 13
b 38 0a 110 c 164  
Blood congealed by Bruises or Strips c 12 
b 13 a 32
Bloody-flux a 2 a 11 c 171 c 171 c 188 
Body good for b 15 b 17 a 20 a 30 a 38
a 117 a 123 c 134 b 157 c 148 b 158 a 161 
b 162 a 183 b 183 a 184 a 190 b 190 a 202 
b 207
Body cools in general c 18 c 114 a 120 
b 138 
Bones clenseth filth thereof b 171 
Bones broken a 1 c 5 c 9 a 38 c 122 b 197  
b 202 
see the Perticuler Parts oppressed 
with heat.
Botches c 12 b 189 a 200 
Bots in Horses c 9 
Bowels a 11 c l6 c 18 a 20 c 2O c 32 b 37 
b 38 b 38 b 38 b 134 c 142 c 150 a 156 
a 158 b 158 c 171 b 182 b 196 b 201 a 209 
Bowels excoriated b 31 
Boyls c 2 
Brain strengthen c 14 c 16 c 16 a 17 b 17
c 17 c 17 c 20 c 32 c 32 c 33 c 37 a 38 a 38 
a 38 b 38 b 38 c 38 c 102 a 103 c 103 c 107 
b 108 a 109 c 109 c 118 b 122 c 128 a 134 
a 134 a 136 c 155 b 159 c 159 b 163 a 164 
a 167 c 167 a 179 b 179 c 197 a 198 a 201 
a 201 a 202 b 206 b 207 a 209 c 210 
Brain b 4 c 5 a 15 c 15 b 18 a 32 a 38 a 38 
a 102 a 102 b 109 c 120 c 129 b 134 c 141 
b 143 b 145 c 148 a 153 c 155 c 155 a 156 
c 157 b 158 a 162 a 172 c 177 a 183 a 204 
b 206 a 208  
Brain cooleth a 8 a 12 a 141 
—drieth a 8 a 106 c 118 c 197 a 201 
Breast c 7 a 9 b 9 a 14 b 15 b 17 a 38 a 38 
b 116 C 117 a 122 C 122 b 131 a 132 a 132 
b 132 b 132 b 135 c l36 b 137 c 137 c 142 
c l5l b 166 a 178 a 180 c 186 b 191 c 193 
c 193 a 195 b 206 
Brest clenseth a 8 a 9 b 9 b 13 b 15 a 16 
b 17 c 17 b 18 b 19 a 118 a 155 a 155
c 160 
Brest strengthen c 7 a 38 b 118 b 119 c 178 
b 192 
Brest swelled a 10 c 35 
—inflamed, see Inflamation 
Breth sweeten a 7 b l7 b 18 a 33 b 38 c 107 
b 108 b 167 c 169 
Breth short c 2 a 4 c 10 c 12 C 14 a 16 b 16 
a 30 a 103 b 132 b 158 b 176 c 195 b 196 
Breth stinking helpeth a 7 a l9 b 32 c 32 
a 102 c 133 c 135 c 159 a 166 a 167 a 168 
a 168 b179 
Brused or 
Bruises c 2 c 2 c 4 a 6 b 6 a 7 b 8 b 9 c 9
a 10 a 11 b 12 b 13 b 15 c 2O C 122 c l3l 
c 178 a 182 b 182 c 182 b 187 a 198 b 198 
Broken Vains
Broken bones b6 b7 b 11 
Burstness b 1 c 2 b 3 b 8 a 9 a 11 b 11 a 13
c 200  
see Ruptures 
Bubo, or Swelling in the Groyn c l2 
Burnt with fire b 1 a 3 b 3 c 37 a 177 c 184  
c 185 c 197 b 207 
Burnings b 7 b 7 c 7 b 8 a 9 b 11 a 12 b 17 
a 33 a 33 a 130 b 176 b 186 c 192 b 198 
Boyles a 123 
C 
CAchexia (or evil Disposition of the 
whol Body) b 31 c 101 b 103 c 109 
b 110 a 134 c 168 b 177 a 178 c 179 b 193 
Canker b 3 b 9 a 118 a 200 
Carbuncles c 4 b 14 b 18 c 3l a 123 b 188 
b 198 
Cattle that are blind suddenly helpeth  
them c 6 
Cathars c 127 a 134 b 143 a 183 a 184 
Cancers or Canker b 150 c 158 b 163 
Catalepsis a 13 
Choller a 6 a 8 a 10 b 10 c 15 a 17 b 17 
c 17 a 29 c 111 a 115 a 117 b 118 a 120 
a 121 c 122 C 122 b 124 c 129 c 129 b 141 
a 149 c 150 c 158 a 161 a 165 b 166 a 169 
Choller purgeth a 7 a 10 c 11 a 13 c 14 
a 17 a 17  a l7 a 18 c 18 a 19 b 19 c 2O 
a 25 a 29 a 31 c 3l b 32 c 123 c 123 a 124 
a 125 c 139 c 139 b 148 c l48 a 149 b 149
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c 149 a 150 a 151 a 151 b 152 
Choler purgeth b 155 b 155 a 156 c 156
c 156 a 157 b 161 c 161 a 162 a 162 b 162 
c 162 a 170 
Chollerick persons, bad for c 2 
Chollerick humors good for a 8 a 10 a 13 
a 29 a 33 
Chollick, wind Cholick a 5 a 5 b 5 c 6 a 9 
a 1O a 10 a 11 a 12 a 110 a 127 b 139
c 140 a 145 a 148 c 154 
Chollick a 13 b 15 b 17 a 18 c 19 a 29 a 30 
b 34 a 38 b 115 b 141 c 142 b 144 a 146 
b 146 a 147 b 149 b 149 a 150 a 152 a 158 
c 170 c 171 b 176 c 176 c 176 b 177 c 177 
b 178 a 179 a 181 b 181 b 183 
Chollick c 183 a 186 c 186 b 190 a 192 
c 197 b 206 b 206 c 206 b 207 a 208 
Cholick of wind a 179 c 180 a 181 a 185 
a 198 b 201 c 204 a 208 
Cheerfulness causeth c 7 c 22 
Chap'd Lips and Hands a 177 b 187 a 207 
Chaps in the Skin and Brests of Women. 
Chastity causeth a 8 a 115 
Chilliness a 192 
Chin cough c 16 a 107
Courses a 127 a 127 b 128 c 137 a 141 
c 144 c 151 a 152 c 154 c 157 a 158 a 161 
c 162 a 166 
Courses a 167 b 167 c 167 a 169 b 169 
b 170 a 172 c 177 b 178 b 178 c 179 a 181 
c 188 b 189 b 193 b 194 a 195 b 191 b 196 
a 197 b 209 a 210 
Cods swol'n b 5 a 8
Colds b 19 a 130 b 135 c 136 a 166 a 166 
Color ill, amends the Color of the whol Body 
c 12 a 14 c 183 
see Beauty, adds 
Consumption b 6 a 9 b 9 a l7 b 17 b 17 
c 20 a 21 c 21 a 34 a 106 c lO6 b 108 a 111 
a 113 c 116 b 117 b 117 a 126 a 131 a 134 
a 134 b 134 a 136 c 136 b 137 c 137 b 142 
b 142 b 143 a 146 a 169 c 192 c 197 c 2OO 
a 203 b 206 
Consumption hindereth a 10 c 13 
Cough b 169 b 170 b 170 c 175 b 179 b 194 
a 197 c 197 a 208 b 209 
Cough c 2 a 4 a 5 a 7 a 9 b 10 c 10 c 12 a 16  
b 16 b 16 c 16 b 17 a 19 a 19 b 19 a 21 a 29 
a 30 b 31 b 31 c 3l c 32 c 32 c 32 a 33 
b 37 a 38 a 38 a 38 b 38 c 38 c 112 b 116 
a 118 b 118 c 118 a 119 b 120 a 122 c 127 
a 128 a 130 a 131 c 131 b 133 a 135 b 135 
a 136 c 136 b 137 b 141 c 142 b 143 a 147 
a 151 c 156 c 161 a 162 a 166 a 166 b 167 
a 169 
old Coughs b 13 b 14 b 15 a 19 b 33 a 147 
c 152 a 155 
Cough of the Lungs a 11 c 14 b 133 c 188 
Convulsion a 2 c 2 b 5 b 6 b 9 c 9 b 13 c 15 
a 16 c 16 c 16 a 17 c 18 a 20 a 21 a 30 c 33 
b 34 c 37 c 102 c 102 a 103 c 103 b 110 
a 111 c 120 c 120 b 122 a 127 b 131 b 136
b 143 b 145 c 151 c 151 b 177 c 177 b 178
c 178 a 181 b 181 a 182 c 182 b 184 a 190 
b 190 b 191 a 195 a 195 b 207 c 207
a 210 
Constant c 21 c 105 
Concoction b 7 a 38 a 136 b 199 
see Digestion 
Conception a 146 c 157 
Conception strengthens c 161 
Conception furthers c 13 a 158 
Conception hinders 
Corrosians of the Bowels c 4 c 119 
see Bowels 
Cordial things c 7 
Corruption b 138 c 147 a 161 c 199 a 203 
see Putrefaction 
Corns on the Feet and Toes a 9 a 118 
Counter poysons a 16 
Cramp c 2 b 9 c 9 b 12 c 12 b 13 b 20 a 29 
a 30 a 111 c 160 b 177 c 177 b 178 c 178 
a 180 a 181 b 181 a 182 c 182 b 185 a 189 
b 207 
see Convulsions 
Crudities a 122 b 147 a 156 
see Indigestion 
Cutting tough humors a 8 c 17 
D 
DAndriff a 2 
see Scurff 
Deafness a 4 c 15 b 33 c 33 a 103 a 147 
a 176 c 177 a 183 a 207 a 207 
Deafness a 10 
Dead flesh c 3 c 189 a 200 
Dead Child bringeth away  b 11 a 16 c 32 
a 38 b 144 a 146 b 189 
(see Birth) 
Deformaty in the Skin a 7 b 176 c 176 
a 177 c 186 
Defluxions a 7 c 7 a 9 b 12 c 32 c 32 a 107 
a 115 b 120 a 126 c 142 b 145 c 161 c 162 
b 186 
Defluxions that are hot helpeth a 8 
Defluxions c 191 b 193 a 194 c 200 a 201 
a 201 a 203 b 204 c 204 
Digestion a 11 c 11 b 134 c 155 
Digestion helpeth b 161 a 165 c 167 b 177 
b 177 a 178 a 179 b 179 c 191 b 196 a 198 
a 201 b 203 b 204 c 204 
Digestion helpeth c 6 a 7 a 7 a 7 b 8 c 13
b 17 b 17 a 25 a 30 a 32 b 32 c 37 b 38 b 38 
c 101 a 102 c 104 b 108 c 111 a 117 c 119 
b 134 c 136 a 138 c 140 c 140 c 142 a 143 
a 143 c 143 b 147 c 152 
Digest row humors c 8 
Diabetes c 18 b 20 c 195 
Dimness of sight b 1O c 103 a 153 a 156 
see Sight 
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Difficulty of Urin a 11 b 18 
Difficulty of breathing b 4 c 9 b 10 a 15 
b 15 c 16 b 18 a 19 b 27 c 127 c 131 b 132 
b 136 a 147 b 153 c 165 a 207 
Disury a 33 b 141 b 144 a 146 a 152 b 206 
a 208 
see Urin stopped 
Dislocations c 9 c 207 
Distilations upon the Lungs c 12 c 32 a 33 
a 33 b 131 c 156 
Disenteries b 120 a 129 a 141 a 162 b 162 
b 166 b 167 b 169 a 176 a 178 c 191 b 192
c 195
Dizziness in the Head c 147 c 151 c 157 
b 181 
mad Dogs biting c 9 c 13 c 19 c 138 
see biting of Venemous Beasts 
Dotage a 201 
Dropsie b 2 c 2 a 3 c 3 b 4 c 4 a 6 a 7 b 7 b 8 
a 9 c 9 a 10 b 10 b 11 c 12 c 14 c 15 c 16 
a 17 a 17 b 16 c 18 c 20 c 21 a 25 b 32 b 33 
b 34 b 34 b 35 c 37 c 37 c 37 a 38 b 38 c 38 
c 38 c 101 b 103 c 109 c 110 a 111 c 121 
a 125 a 125 b 125 c 128 a 130 a 134 c 135 
a 143 b 145 a 147 c 147 b 158 b 160 c 162 
b 164 b 184 
Dropsie c 165 a 167 a 168 c 168 c 196 a 170 
b 170 a 171 c l7l b 177 a 178 a 179 c 179 
a 189 c 190 b 191 b l93 a 194 b 194 b 196 
c 202 b 203 b 205 c 205 c 206 c 207 a 208
a 209 a 209 a 210 
Drooping spirits c 11 
Drunkenness preserves from b 10 c 12 a 13 
c 17 c 19 c 21 c 32 c 165 
Drunckenness a 12 b 37 
E              
EArs b 12 b 12 b 139 b 171 
Edge tooles to make them cut Iron a 9 
Eipdemical Diseases b 158 b 165 
Epilepsies b 110 c 120 b 122 b 125 a 127 
a 162 b 207 
Excoriations c 2O c 122 
see the place Excoriated
Excoriations of the Yard 
see Yard 
Excoriations of the Guts c 14 
Expel wind b 6 c 6 
see Wind 
Eyes, maketh old mens Eyes young c 11 
a 11O 
Eyes b 9 c 10 c 11 a 17 a 3O b 31 a 32 a 109 
c 120 a 130 a 134 b 155 a 156 c 159 c 160 
a 188 b 188 a 201 
Eyes red b 11 a 191 
Eyes sore c 10 a 194 c 197  
Eyes, Pin and Web in them b 4 a 111 
Eyes spoile c 5 
Eyes, Defluxions on them b 12 c 32 
Eyes, bleared and Rheumatick c 169  
F 
FAce, amends the ill color thereof c 4 
b 179 a 207 
Face 
Faintings b 4 b 6 b 21 a 30 a 106 a 107 b 117 
c 121 c 141 a 168 c 170 
Falling-sickness b 4 a 5 b 5 b 6 b 9 a 12 c 12 
a 13 a 15 c 15 a 16 b 16 a 17 b 20 b 21 b 21 
a 32 c 35 c 37 c 102 c 103 b 121 b 126 
b 143 b 145 a 147 c 151 c151 b 158 c 160 
a 190 b 207 
Falls c 9 b 12 b 13 
see Bruses 
Falling-sickness, helps b 6 c 9 a 16 c 16 
b 19 a 20 b 20 b 20 a 21 b 22 a 30 c 33 b 34 
c 35 c 103 c 107 a 111 c 111 b 117 c 120 
b 127 c 135 c 141 b 143 a 152 b 184 b 185 
c 188 b 190 c 206 c 207 a 210 
Fatness, helpeth those that grow too Fat 
c 8 
Feavers cools their heat c 7 c 10 b 11 c 18   
b 19 b 129 b 133 b 166 b 208 
Feavers a 4 a 8 b 15 a 17 c 17 c 17 a 20 
a 21 b 21 c 21 c 21 b 22 b 37 c 37 a 103 
a 105 b 105 b 107 b 105 b 108 a 111 a 111 
a 117 b 118 b 119 a 120 a 121 b 121 c 122 
c 122 a 130 c 134 c 135 b 142 b 142 a 144
c 145 a 147 c 148 a 149 b 149 b 149 c 150 
b 166 b 167 b 169 c 192 c 199 
Feavers, cooleth the Blood in Feavers a 8 
c 1O a 17 b 154 
Feavers Pestilential b 5 b 37 b 37 a 103 
a 104 c 104 b 105 a 117 a 123 c 130 b 138 
c 146 b 147 c 199 
rotten Feavers c 4 
Feavers a 171 a 171 c 207 a 208 c 209
a 210 a 210
Fear a 16 b 21 c 105 
Felon c 12 b 201 
Fighting 
Fingers cut b 15 
Fistula c 9 a 12 b 12 c 15 a 111 b 171 c 176 
c 184 c 186 c 189 a 208 
Flesh, dead and proud c 184 a 187 
Flegm b 4 a 5 b 9 c 13 c 15 a 16 b 17 a 21 
a 110 c 111 a 115 b 116 a 121 a 122 b 124 
b 126 a 127 c 127 b 130 c 134 a 135 a 143
b 150 a 155 b 155 c 156 c 157 a 158 c 160 
b 163 a 170 a 176 a 196 c 207 a 208 
c 209 
Flegm Purgeth b 6 b 6 a 16 c 17 c 17 c 17 
c 18 b 19 a 25 a 29 a 30 a 31 c 31 c 31 b 33 
c 38 a 121 b 124 c 128 c 139 c 139 a 142 
a 148 a 149 b 149 a 150 b 150 b 152 b 155
a 157 b 160 c 160 a 161 b 161 c 161 a 162 
b 162 
Flegm Purgeth c 165 a 172
Flegmatick people good for c 2 a 126 
a 126 a 126 c 151 
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Flux staies a 2 b 2 c 2 a 5 a 5 a 6 a 6 b 6 
c 6 c 6 a 7 b 7 b 7 b 7 b 7 b 8 b 8 c 8 c 8 a 9
b 10 b 11 a 13 b 14 b 14 c 14 a 15 a 15 a 15 
b 15 c 15 b 16 b 16 a 17 c 17 b 18 a 20 
b 31 a 32 b 32 a 33 c 37 b 117 c 121 
Flux of Blood b 10 c 14 c 20 a 21 b 35 
a 111 c 119 b 120 c 130 c 137 b 146 c 166 
b 169 b 192 
Flux of the Belly a 2 a 105 c 119 a 141
b 169 b 179 a 210 
belpetb Flux b 17 b 2O c 33 c 37 b 129 c 135 
b 162 b 199  
Flux staies b 143 a 134 a 145 b 145 c 193 
b 199 
Fleas c 12 
Fleas kill c 12 a 15 
Flesh restoreth 
Forgitfulness b 12 a 103 b 150 b 179 
Freckles b 2 b 2 c 2 c 8 c 8 c 9 a 10 a 13 
a 15 a 16 b 37 c 113 b 176 b 188 a 191 
a 191 c 208 
French Pox a 3 a 5 b 6 c 7 b 9 a 10 b 15 
a 16 b 105 a 208 
Frenzies a 9 b 11 a 12 a 13 c 14 b 15 c 15 
b 16 b 16 a 30 a 120 b 154 c 179 b 183 
a 210 
Fundament c 15 
Fundament falling out c 12 a 13 a 13 a 13  
b 17 b 191 b 193 
Fundament, clests therein c 4 
Fundament, hard knobs therein b 13
a 187 
Fundament chopped a 177 
G
GAul b 1O b 176 c 184 c 187 
Gall Bladder open obstructions a 195 
Gangreens c 9 b 14 a 18 a 208 
Generation provokes to a 179 a 181 c 181 
a 210 
Gidiness in the Head a 10 
Gladness 
Gnats  
Gonorhæa b 169 c 169 a 169 b 170 b 179 
b 180 c 188 c 190 c 191 c 192 a 194 c 195 
a 197 c 200 a 201 a 201 a 203 c 205 a 211 
Gout b 2 b 3 b 6 c 6 a 7 b 9 b 11 b 11 a 12 
b 12 c 12 a 13 a 14 a 16 a 20 b 20 a 30 c 32 
b 33 b 35 a 111 c 111 a 130 a 139 a 148 
a 149 c 149 c 156 c 157 a 158 a 158 b 158 
c 160 b 163 b 164 a 176 a 178 c 178 b 181 
a 184 b 184 b 184 c 186 a 195 c 196 c 206 
b 207 c 207 a 208 c 209 
hot Gouts a10 c 12 c 149 
Gravel 012 an biz 013 h 115 0151 
Gravel brings away a 11 c 21 c 38 b 121 
c 142 b 168 
Griping in the Belly and Guts a 2 b 2 b 4 
b 4 c 8  a 10 a 10 c 10 c 15 a 111 b 141 
b 176 b 192                        
Gripings 
Grief takes away c 13 
Green-sickness b 2 a 8 b 10 a 12 a 14 a 107
a 110 b 110 a 111 a 127 b 151 b 194 
a 209 
Guts a 16 a 112 c 121 c 125 b 139 a 145 
c 160 a 178 a 190 a 211 
Gums a 7 b 17 c 17 a 19 a 19 a 33 a 110 
b 179 b 179 
Gunshot b 11 b 186 
H 
Hair to make black b 11 b 17 
Hair to grow b 2 a 8 c 176 
Hair falling off the Head helpeth a 2 a 8 
b 118 c 18 a20 b 20 b 31 c 32 b 179 
Hairs from turning Gray b 181 
Hands trembling c 177 a 179 a 182 b 191 
Hands scabby 
see Scabs 
Hardness c 198 a 199 
see Swellings 
Heart c 15 b 25 b 37 b 37 c 37 b 109 a 121 
c 122 a 131 b 133 c 135 a 137 
Hearts merry b 6 b 6 c 8 c 13 c 16 a 18 
c 20 b 108 c 134 c 137 a 206 a 210 
Heart strengthen a 2 c 3 a 7 a 7 c 7 b 8 
a 15 c 16 c 17 c 18 a 19 b 20 a 21 a 21 b 21 
b 2l c 32 c 37 c 37 c 37 a 38 a 38 b 38 
a 102 c 102 a 104 a 105 b 105 b 105 a 106 
b 106 b 107 c 107 b 109 c 116 b 117 c 117 
a 161 
Heart comfort b 2 c 2 b 6 c 7 c 8 b 9 b 10 
b 11 a 29 c 32 c 37 a 102 b 102 a 106 a 108 
c 116 a 117 a 117 a 121 b 143 a 144 
c 17O 
Heart strengthen b 117 c 121 c 121 a 123 
a 134 b 134 b 134 c 135 a 136 c 136 c 141 
b 142 b 143 b 145 a 161 b 165 c 167 a 168 
c 17O b 171 c 171 a 210 
Heart qualms naught for a 12 
Heart qualms good for b 9 c 17 a 30 a 108 
b 136 a 139 a 168 
Heart tremblings b 6 c 17 a 103 c 128 
a 210 
Heart burnings c 12 b 16 a 210
Heart b 138 a 140 a 141 c 147 a 153 
Helpeth Head snuffings therein a 15 
Hepatick Flux 129 a 210 
Hearing makes good b 161 a 163 
Head, cold Diseases a 110 a 158 
Head a 136 b 139 b 155 b 155 b 156 c 119 
c 161 a 193 c 163 a 164 a 167 c 169 a 178 
b 191 a 195 
Head tremblings b 179 
Head pained b 5 c 14 b 18 a 116 
Head-ach causeth c 11 
Head-ach helpeth b 5 a 6 a 6 a 8 b 9 a 11
c 13 a 14 b 16 c 32 c 35 b 37 c 37 c 37
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c 118 c 120 b 122 b 127 b 132 b 139 a 147 
a 149 c 149 c 151 c 155 c 157 c 163 b 177 
c 177 b 178 a 180 a 181 c 181 a 183 b 184 
c 186 a 188 a 189 b 194 b 211
Head, swimings therein b 6 a 111 b 127
c 151 a 210 
Head, rhewns therein b 5 a 25 a 111 b 133 
c 191 b 206 
Head, purgeth a 3 a 5 b 12 a 25 a 111 a 125 
b 156 b 156 c 183 
Head scabby c 13 a 18 
see Scabs and Scald Heads 
Head, Ulcers therein c 4 a 33 
Health, preserveth c 111 c 111 c 158 
Hectick Feavers b 104 c 106 b 107 b 117 
b 117 a 121 a 136 b 142 b 143 b 149 b 166 
a 169 c 171 c 175 c 192 b 194 c 195 
Heat, extingwisheth c 37 c 179 195 c 209 
Heat of the Stomach a 121 
see Stomach 
Hemorrhoids, helpeth a 3 b 3 b 3 a 6 c 10 
b 11 a 200 
see Piles 
Hemorrhoids naught for a 19 
Hemorhoids a 183 c 186 b 191 a 194 a 154 
b 152 c 162 c 166 b 167 c 167 a 172 b 176 
b 146 
Hemlock eaten b 14 
Hiccoughs c 8 a 121 
Hiccuppings c 177 a 181 
Hoarceness c 14 b 16 a 19 a 19 c 32 a 33 
c 112 c 117 c 118 c 127 a 132 b 132 b 135 
c 136 a 166 c 175 b 179 b 180 c 208 
Hogs that will not eat their meat b 10 
Hornets stinging b 186 
Horses that are Mangy b 10 
—Tired c 12 
Humors b 5 c 10 b 14 a 16 a 17 a 33 a 35 
c 38 b 105 a 111 b 113 b 114 c 118 c 119 
c 123 b 126 c 128 a 129 b 129 b 131 c 131 
a 132 c 133 c 140 c 142 c 146 c 150 b 152
a 161 a 161 c 171 a 172 a 172 b 177 b 178 
c 180 c 182 a 196 b 197 b 198 c 199 b 203 
a 207 c 207 b 210 b 211 
Humors tough c 10 c 17 c 114 a 115 b 127 
c 131 
Humors watery, purgeth b 7 c 13 c 15 
a 161 a 165 
Hunting c 21 
Hunger c 13 b 14 b 17 
Hypocondriacal Melancholly a 6 a 12 c 20 
c 38 a 118 a 121 a 123 a 125 a 127 c 128
b 139 a 159 c 166 c 180 b 194 b 201 c 205 
a 209 
I 
JAundice c 4 b 5 a 7 a 8 c 8 c 8 a 10 c 10 
a 25 c 101 b 104 c 123 c 158 c 163 a 209 
Iliack paflion b 141 a 147 b 171 c 186 c 206 
a 211 
Impostumes c 31                                 
Inflamations c 7 c 8 a 9 b 9 c 9 a 10 a 10 
b 11 c 11 a 12 b 12 c 12 a 13 a 13 a 14 
c 14 c 14 c 15 b 16 a 17 a 17 a 17 b 17 a 18 
b 19 c 19 b 21 c 21 a 32 c 33 c 35 c 119 
b 137 a 177 b 177 a 180 c 184 c 192 c 198 
c 203 a 204 a 211 
Inflamation of the Lungs b 9 a 15 a 16 b 16 
c 16 a 18 
Inflamation in the Privities b 9 b 10 a 15 
Inflamations in the Eyes a 11 b 11 b 17 
a 211
see Eyes
Inflamation of the Liver c 11 a 12 c 14 c 15 
see Liver 
Inflamation of Wombs a 14 a 148 a 188 
a 194 c 196 c 197
Indigestion a 109 b 132 c 136 c 140 b 141 
b 144 b 145 c 171 c 179 b 183 c 191 a 192 
Infection a 102 
Joynt Aches c 12 a 14 
see Pestilence 
Joynts Lame a 184 b 184 a 190 
Joynts b 4 a 10 b 10 b 19 a 111 a 118 
b 122 a 151 c 157 a 158 c 160 c 176 b 178 
b 178 b 179 a 181 c 182 a 186 b 192 a 195 
c 196 c 206 b 207 
Joynts ach a 7 a 148 
Joynts heats c 6
Iron draw out b 11 
Itch a 3 a 4 a 4 c 4 b 6 c 7 a 12 a 13 b 14 
c 14 b 15 c 15 a 18 b 18 c 18 a 21 b 21 
c 31 a 33 b 33 b 37 c 38 c 115 a 118 a 122 
b 123 b 150 a 158 a 162 b 163 a 184 
a 186 b 186 c 186 a 187 b 188 c 188 b 194 
c 210 
Iskury b 144  
K                                        
KErnels in the Neck and Throat c 31 
Kibes b 16 a 139 
Kidneys b 4 b 15 b 139 c 144 b 177 c 179 
c 183 c 209 
Kidneys oppressed with Gravel b 4 b 12 
b 115 b 121 b 196 
Kings-Evil a 3 a 4 b 6 c 13 b 15 c 31 
a 111 
Knobs, hard growing on the Fingers dis- 
solves a 196 
L 
LAsks c 8 a 11 a 14 
Leaseth Labor in Child-bed c 14 c 21 
Leanness b 137 
Legs Scabby 
see Scalded 
Leprosies a 3 a 4 a 7 b 8 c 9 b 12 b 18 b 18
a 21 b 21 c 31 c 38 c 115 a 118 b 123 c 123 
a 147 b 150 c 151 a 152 c 157 a 158 a 159 
c 163 b 170 
Lethargy c 3 a 8 b 13 c 15 b 18 a 20 b 21 
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c 35 a 102 a 127 b 163 c 177 b 178 a 181 
c 181 b 206
Lice a 11 
Lice causeth b 17 
Lice killeth a 16 b 18 b 18 
Ligaments b 181 
Limbs c 179 c 181 a 182 b 182 
Limbs lame a 111 
Limbs, weakness thereof a 146 b 181 
Limbs out of Joynt b 8 b 179 
Liver, Inflamations thereof a 10 b 17 
Liver grown c 104 b 122 
Liver, strengthen: a 3 a 3 b 4 c 16 a 17 b 17 
c 18 a 19 a 20 a 25 b 32 b 34 c 37 a 38 b 38 
c 107 b 108 b 109 c 109 b 114 c 116 a 118 
a 118 c 120 a 129 c 130 a 134 c 135 a 162 
a 162 a 167 a 168 a 169 c 169 c 171 b 177 
a 179 b 181 c 183 a 197 b 199 
Liver a 5 c 5 a 6 a 8 c 8 b 10 c 10 a 11 c 15 
c 17 b 19 c 37 a 38 c 38 a 111 c 111 a 118  
a 123 b 124 c 128 a 134 a 139 c 140 b 144
c 147 c 149 c 151 c 152 b 155 b 155 b 158 
c 168 c 168 b 179 a 181 c 183 b 192 c 193 
c 198 
Liver, heats a 8 
Liver, cooles a 4 a 8 c 10 c 14 c 17 a 18 b 31
b 37 b 37 b 37 b 37 b 37 c 115 a 118 a 120 
c 122 c 127 a 137 c 137 a 141 b 166 
Liver, opens the stopping a 3 a 3 c 8 b 9 
a 10 c 10 a 12 a 17 a 17 a 165 a 170 
Liver a 201 b 201 c 203 a 208 a 208 
Liver, strengthen b 199 a 204 a 205 c 205  
b 206 b 209 a 210 a 210
Liver, hot distempers thereof b 166 c 195 
heats of the Liver c 179 c 187  
stopping of the Liver b 2 b 6 c 9 c 10 b 12 
b 15 c 18 b 116 b 145 
Lisping b 108 
Longing of Women b 16 
Looseneth the Belly c 9 c 125 
Loosness a 124 a 129 
Loosness, stops c 4 a 6 c 7 a 12 b 17 b 17 
b 31 c 32 c 117 c 129 c 143 b 166 a 178 
a 179 c 188 c 191 b 193 c 195 a 197 c 200 
a 201 a 201 a 202 b 204 c 204 
Loathing of Meat b 8 
Loyns, pained b 141 b 164 c 176 
Loyns a 186 b 196 
Lunges a 2 c 2 a 5 b 6 b 6 a 7 b 7 b 7 a 8 
a 11 b 12 c 12 b 17 b 17 a 19 b 19 b 19 a 20 
a 3O c 31 b 32 c 32 b 37 a 38 c 38 c 38 
a 102 c 107 b 108 c 108 c 112 b 113 b 118 
a 122 b 126 b 126 b 127 c 127 a 130 b 130 
b 130 a 131 a 132 a 132 a 132 b 136 a 137 
b 137 c 137 a 139 c 141 c 142 a 145 a 151 
c 151 a 153 c 158 c 162 a 170 b 188 
Lungs, clenseth a 8 a 9 b 13 c 13 b 15 a 16
c 17 c 17 b 19 a 38 c 106 a 118 b 126 
a 131 a 155 a 155 c 161 a 185 
Lungs, Consumption thereof b 7 c 14 b 16  
a 21 a 29 c 106 c 108 a 113 a 120 b 131 
a 136 c 137 b 158 c 180 b 192 
Lungs c 195 
Lunatick a l5 
Lunary 
see Madness 
Lust, staies a 5 b 18 c 18 b 21 b 21 c 21 
a 115 c 127 b 169 c 179 a 188 c 190 
a 211 
Lust, provokes b 2 a 4 a 4 b 4 a 5 a 6 b 6 
c 7 b 10 c 10 c 11 a 12 a 14 c 16 c 16 b 17 
c 17 a 18 a 18 b 18 b 18 c 18 c 18 c 18 
a 20 b 20 a 32 a 108 b 143 b 153 b 168 
b 178 
M 
MAdness a 4 b 9 b 9 a 12 c 16 c 20 
a 3O a 104 b 105 b 110 a 111 b 112 
a 116 c 123 a 124 c 124 b 125 a 127 b 150 
a 152 a 152 b 163 a 210 
Mad-Dogs biting b 4 c 13 
see Bitings 
Mangyness c 31 a 158 a 159 b 170 b 188 
c 190 
Mangy Hands and Legs b 8 
Mangy Horses c 10 
Marks, the smal Pox leave behind them 
c 8 b 31 
Matrix c 8 b 13 c 13 b 15 a 16 a 16 b 16
c 115 b 122 c 127 a 141 c 152 c 203 
a 208 
Matrix, hardness thereof helpeth a 8 a 18 
Mare c 18 
Marasmus a 20 c 106 b 107 b 149 
Megrim a 14 c 32 a 38 b 127 c 151 a 163 
Melancholy a 4 b 6 c 8 b 9 c 10 b 11 c 11 
a 12 c 13 c 15 a 16 a 18 b 19 c 20 b 20 
b 21 b 22 c 32 a 35 c 35 c 38 a 102 a 105 
b 110 c 111 b 112 c 112 a 116 a 118 b 119 
a 121 b 122 b 123 c 123 a 124 a 124 c 124 
c 124 a 125 b 125 a 127 a 127 b 130 a 131 
c 135 b 139 c 139 c 141 a 146 b 147 b 148 
a 149 b 150 b 150 c 150 c 151 c 151 a 152 
b 152 c 152 b 155 b 155 c 158 c 158 c 160
a 161 b 161 a 163 b 163 b 163 c 163 a 210 
a 210
Merry, maketh one so c 8 
Memory c 103 c 159 c 169 b 178 a 201 
see Forgetfulness 
Memory strengthen a 10 c 11 a 15 a 17 
b 21 a 32 b 32 c 32 a 38 a 38 a 102 b 108 
b 119 b 134 c 141 b 158 c 158 a 179 c 191 
Memory, hurutful for b 12 
Messeraick Veins, Blood congealed there- 
in c 12 
Mice kils c 3 a 38 
Milk, breeds c 3 c 8 b 18 b 18 
Milk, increase in Nurses c 7 c 11 b 12 c 15 
a 18 b 18 c 18 a 21 b 35 b 37 a 38 a 38 
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Mirth c 13 a 136 
Mother fits c 2 b 5 c 8 a 9 b 12 a 14 a 16
b 16 c 18 c 18 a 19 a 20 a 32 a 32 c 32
c 32 c 35 a 103 a 106 a 127 b 158 a 168
a 195 c 200 a 202 a 203 b 204 b 207 c 209
Moaths c 2 c 7 a 8 b 9 a 11 c 11 b 13
Morphew b 2 b 2 c 2 a 3 c 3 c 8 a 10 a 16 
b 37 a 158 c 158 b 170 c 176 b 188
Mouth, sore c 2 a 11 c 125 a 126 c 128 
a 208 c 209 
Mouth swelled 
see Swelling 
Mouth, Ulcers therein b 3 a 5 
Mouth, Inflamations thereof c 2 c 125 
Muscles b 159 a 181 b 181 a 183 b 191 
N 
NAvil that stick out b 5 
Nerves b 8 a 10 c 15 c 19 c 19 c 20 c 103
a 106 a 111 c 120 b 136 c 139 c 149 c 157 
a 158 c 160 c 160 a 175 a 176 b 176 b 176
c 176 b 177 c 177 c 177 a 178 a 178 a 181 
b 181 b 181 c 181 c 181 a 182 b 182 a 183 
b 183 b 184 b 185 a 186 b 190 b 191 a 182 
c 193 a 195 c 206 b 207 b 207              
Nerves strengthen b 12 c 20 c 102 a 103 
b 107 c 115 c 118 b 122 c 128 b 143 b 159 
b 177 b 178 b 179 c 181 c 182 b 192 a 201
a 202 a 203 b 206 a 207 
Necks stiff a 14 c 16 
Necromantick apparitions b 21 
Nettles stinging b 186 
Nits a 11 a 16
Night mare a 210 
Noise in the Head c 178 
Noise in the Ears a 4 c 5 a 12 c 12 c 13
c 178 a 183 a 183 
Noli me tangere a 200 
Numness b 178 b 178 c 181 c 182 b 183 
a 195 b 206 
Nurses to breed Milk 
see Milk
O 
OBstructions of the Liver a 3 a 3 c 4 
a 5 b 5 a 6 a 6 b 6 c 7 a 10 a 11 a 12 
a 13 b 13 b 13 c 15 a 16 c 16 a 17 a 19 
c 37 b 38 c 104 a 115 c 115 b 122 b 122 
b 132 c 142 b 157 b 158 b 159 c 162 c 166 
a 167 a 171 c 178 a 185 b 189 b 192 a 193
b 194 a 195 b 196 205 a 209 
Open Obstruction, or stoppings of the 
Spleen a 2 b 2 a 3 a 4 c 4 a 5 c 7 c 10 
a 11 a 12 a 13 b 13 b 13 a 29 c 37 b 38 
c 38 a 111 b 113 a 115 c 115 b 116 a 122
b 122 a 130 a 132 c 142 b 158 b 159 c 161
c 166 a 167 a 171 c 178 c 179 a 185 b 189 
b 192 a 193 b 194 b 194 a 195 b 195 a 196
205 a 209
Old sores a 8                    
Opening b 2 a 5 b 8 
Open Obstructions a 4 b 4 a 6 b 7 c 7 
a 8 a 8 a 10 c 11 c 15 a 19 c 31 b 32 b 38
b 38 b 38 c 38 b 104 a 107 a 115 c 115 
a 118 c 118 b 121 c 121 c 126 a 127 a 127 
c 128 b 130 c 135 c 154 a 158 a 160 a 165 
a 167 c 167 b 168 c 168 b 176 b 177 c 178 
b 181 b 184 a 193 b 194 b 196 c 208 a 209 
a 218 
Open Obstruction of the Gall a 6 
Opens stopping a 6 c 6 c 7 a 8 a 8 c 10 
c 11 c 11 a 18 b 116 b 116 b 144 a 156 
a 165 a 176 b 184 b 194 b 195 
Opens the Poors a 29 a 116 b 142 c 176 
b 177 a 186 b 194 a 211 
Opium taken too much c 3
P 
PAine in the Belly b 8 a 12 a 38 b 141 
a 171 a 189 b 190 b 196 
Pain easeth a 2 b 3 a 5 b 8 a 16 a 16 c 17 
a 18 b 18 a 20 a 29 b 31 b 31 b 38 c 104
a 111 a 137 b 141 b 146 a 152 c 156 a 162 
c 168 c 171 a 177 c 177 c 177 b 178 c 178 
a 179 a 179 c 182 c 184 b 195 b 197 c 199 
b 202 
Pains in the sides b 13 a 15 b 15 c 18 a 19 
a 19 a 19 b 32 c 32 a 38 b 141 a 150 b 179 
b 183 c 193 
Pain in the Head b 12 c 13 c 15 a 16 b 16 
b 16 a 17 a 17 b 17 b 18 b 19 a 32 b 37 
a 38 a 38 c 38 a 134 b 143 a 204 
Pains in the Joynts a 6 a 7 b 12 b 17 a 33 
b 147 a 150 c 157 a 158 b 163 b 177 a 178 
a 178 a 178 c 178 c 178 c 180 b 181 a 184 
b 184 a 190 b 160 b 194 b 202 
Pains in the Stomach comming of cold b 4 
a 14 c 104 b 145 c 152 c 171 c 176 b 191 
a 195 b 196 
Pain in the Back b 3 a 152 c 157 a 158 
a 184 b 190 
Pain in the Ears b 12 c 18 c 19 b 20 b 31   
a 33 a 134 a 176 
Pain in the Head a 152 c 176 b 177 c 179
b 183 a 194 
Pain in the Chest b 191  
Pain in the Matrix c 176 c 181 
Pain in the Liver c 176 a 178 c 178 c 181
b 191 b 196 c 203  
Pain in the Spleen c 176 a 178 c 180 c 181 
b 191 a 193 a 195 a 195 b 2O6 
Pain in the Kidneys c 176 c 181 b 184 
b 190 b 196 
Pain easeth c 204 
Palsie b 12 c 12 a 17 b 20 a 30 c 102 a 127 
b 136 b 145 a 149 c 151 a 178 b 178 b 178
b 179 a 180 a 181 a 181 a 182 c 132 a 183 
b 184 b 190 a 210 
Palsie c 37 a 38 a 111 c 136 b 145 a 152 
c 157 c 160 c 160 c 176 c 178 a 179 b 181
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b 183 b 184 b 185 a 186 b 191 c 193 a 195 
a 195 a 206 
Passion b 21 b 208 
see Anger 
Passion of the heart b 6 b 117 c 136 
Parts of the Body swoln 
Perfume c 7 c 18 
Pestilence a 2 a 2 c 2 a 3 c 4 b 5 b 6 
b 7 b 8 a 10 b 13 a 15 c 16 b 17 c 17 
c 18 c 19 b 20 b 20 b 21 c 21 b 32 b 37 
c 37 a 38 a 38 c 38 b 102 c 106 b 107 
c 122 a 138 c 138 a 141 b 142 c 144 b 145 
b 147 a 153 b 165 b 166 c 170 c 206 a 208 
b 208 
Pestilential Diseases b 169 a 210 
Pestilential times a 161 a 161 b 207 
Phtisicks b 13 c 14 c 37 c 37 c 108 a 119 
c 119 a 121 a 128 c 131 a 155 c 156 c 164 
b 166 a 176 a 176 b 209 
Phtisick c 20
Piles a 3 c 10 b 15 c 186 c 188 
Pimples in the Face, and redness a 7 b 11 
c 113 c 186 c 190 a 191 
Pin and Web b 4  
Pissing blood a 8 b 9 b 10 b 13 a 14 a 21 
a 33 c 122 a 134 b 169 
Pissing Disease 
see Diabetes 
Pissing, helpeth those that cannot Piss 
freely a 6 b 10 b 176 
Pissing by Drops b 10 
Plague sores c 4 a 10 a 15 
see Carbuncles 
Plague b 6 b 7 b 105 a 108 c 130 a 138 
c 138 c 145 b 170 
Pluresie b 10 c 16 a 17 c 32 b 37 a 38 
a 107 a 118 c 118 b 131 b 137 c 137 c 150 
c 171 c 175 a 180 b 192 c 192 c 193 
Pock-holes c 20 a 207 
infected with the Pox b 157 
great Pox b 202 
Smal Pox b 165 a 184
Swine Pox a 184
Polipus, or flesh growing in the Nose b 11 
Poyson a 2 a 2 a 2 b 2 c 2 c 2 a 3 a 4 
b 4 c 4 c 4 b 5 b 6 b 6 b 6 b 6 c 6 a 7 
a 7 b 7 c 7 a 8 b 8 b 8 b 9 a 11 a 12 
b 13 b 32 b 107 c 138 a 146 c 151 b 152 
c 169 b 207 
Poyson, resist a 11 b 11 a 12 a 15 a 18 
b 18 b 18 c 18 c 19 a 20 b 20 b 20 b 33 
a 103 a 107 a 117 b 117 c 122 b 142 b 145 
a 147 b 158 c 190 
Poyson, expels a 10 a 107 b 165 b 170 
Poysonous Weapons 
Preperations for a Vomit 
Pricking in the sides b 10 
Privities 
see Womb, Yard  
Priapismus, or continual standing of the 
Yard a 11 a 11                                
Proud flesh c 3 
Provoke to stool b 13 b 209 
Purge a 6 a 6 c 15 121 a 123 c 123 b 124 
Purge by Urine a 6 a 10 
see Urin 
Purgeth the Belly a 5 
Putrifaction, resisteth a 3 c 7 c 31 c 122 
a 137 b 147 c 151 a 152 a 167 b 168 a 190 
a 207 c 207 a 208 
Pushes, or Pusles that break sorth b 179  
c 185 c 187                                           
Q 
QUinsie in the Throat a 11
R 
RAdical moysture b 142 
Ratskils c 3 
Raw Stomach a 10 a 30 b 206 
Reds a 14 
Redness a 13 c 186 b 187 
Reins b 2 b 3 a 5 b 5 a 9 b 10 c 11 b 12 
b 15 b 16 c 16 b 17 c 18 b 19 c 19 b 20 
a 21 b 31 b 31 b 34 c 35 c 147 b 153 c 159 
a 178 c 183 b 184 b 196 c 200 b 206 b 207 
b 207 
Reins clense b 6 c 8 a 11 c 12 a 13 c 13 
a 16 a 17 b 18 a 19 b 19 c 20 c 29 a 33 
c 37 b 38 b 38 c 38 a 148 b 148 a 149 
a 150 a 151 c 206 
Reins cools b 17 c 17 b 33 a 120 c 127 
b 148 a 149 b 166  
Reins heats b 4 
Rest provokes c 12 a 107 b 154 c 184 a 201 
Revive dying men 
Rhewms in the Head a 5 
Rhewms in the Eyes c 3 c 10 a 30 a 33 
a 128 a 148 a 187 a 187 
Rhewm c 32 b 33 a 119 b 124 a 128 b 130 
a 134 c 142 a 155 c 156 b 160 a 161 a 166 
c 169 c 169 a 197 c 199 a 201 b 209 
a 201 
Rhewmatick people, good for a 13 a 126 
Rickets c 2 a 4 b 5 c 5 a 7 b 7 c 7 a 9 c 9
c 11 a 12 a 12 a 14 a 16 c 20 a 25 a 29 
b 31 c 38 b 116 b 122 a 127 b 132 c 166 
c 177 c 178 c 179 c 180 a 193 b 194 b 201 
a 208 
Riches b 21 c 22 
Ringworms c 31 a 118 b 123 a 158 c 176 
a 177 c 186 c 187 
Roughness of the Wind-pipe b 4 b 14  
a 17 b 17 b 31 b 32 
Roughness of the Skin a 187 a 191 
see Sunburning 
Roughness of the Jawes b 137 
Rowelling cattle a 4 
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Rose extinguisheth, or swelling called 
Erysipelas a 177 
Rules for
Purges b 112 
Taking Pils 154 c 164 
Ordering the Body after swea- 
ting a 153 
To stop Vomiting b 126 
To stop Fluxes b 117 c 117 
See further concerning Purging, Chap 24 
Page 227, 228, 229. 
1. Cautions concerning Purging. 
2. Of the Choice of Purging Medicines. 
3. Of the time of talking them. 
4. Of Correcting them. 
5. Of the Manner of Purging. 
See also (for Purging) the Directions at 
the beginning of this Book, placed be- 
fore the Catalogue of Simples. 
Running of the Reins, helpeth b 2 b 7 
b 10 b 12 a 14 c 14 c 17 a 19 a 32 c 32 
b 33 a 111 b 117 a 165 a 206 c 206 
Ruptures b 1 a 2 c 2 b 3 a 4 b 4 a 5 b 5 
b 6 a 8 b 8 a 9 b 11 b 11 a 12 b 12 b 13 
c 15 a 19 c 31 b 38 b 38 a 120 c 122 b 193 
a 197 b 198 c 200 b 203 b 204 c 207  
S 
SAdness b 6 c 20 c 32 c 38 b 136 c 163 
Salt humors b 4 
Scabs a 3 a 4 a 4 c 4 b 6 c 7 c 7 a 12 
a 13 a 14 c 14 b 15 c 15 a 18 c 18 a 19 
a 21 b 21 c 31 c 38 c 115 a 118 a 122 
b 123 c 133 b 150 a 158 a 162 b 163 b 170 
c 176 a 184 a 186 b 186 c 186 a 187 c 188 
c 190 a 191 b 194 c 197 c 210 
Scars c 9 a 177 
Scalding b 3 b 8 c 9 b 11 a 12 c 184 c 185 
b 186 c 192 b 198 
Scald Heads b 18 b 18 a 20 c 31 
Sciatica a 7 c 10 
Sciatica, or Hucle-bone Gout c 12 a 14 
a 16 c 32 a 33 a 111 c 151 b 191 a 195 
b 203 
Scrophula see Kings Evil 
Scurf a 2 b 2 c 3 b 18 c 123 b 187 
Scurvy a 14 a 14 a 25 b 103 c 1O9 c 121 
a 125 c 147 b 194 a 209 c 209 
Seed Increase a 4 a 6 a 18 b 18 a 20 
c 175 
Seed Consume a 8 a 15 
Sences a 15 c 15 a 17 c 17 c 18 b 21 b 38 
b 108 b 108 b 124 c 128 c 141 b 143 a 146 
a 153 b 156 c 159 
Serpents, drive away c 7 b 11 
Sences stupesie c 12 
Serpents biting c 11 c 35 
see Venemous Beasts 
Shingles a 5 a 9 a 11 b 12 c 14 c 15  
Shortness of Breath c 4 b 116 a 115 
see Breath short 
Sides pained b 8 c 10 
Sight helpeth c 6 c 7 a 8 c 8 b 10 c 10 
b 11 c 11 a 13 c 13 c 14 c 16 b 17 c 19
c 19 a 20 c 20 c 32 b 33 a 38 a 38 c 102
c 103 c 107 c 108 a 110 a 111 c 111 a 147 
a 153 b 156 c 158 b 161 c 163 c 163 
Sight, hurteth b 8 
Sight, helpeth a 164 b 170 
Sighing c 5 b 8 a 20 
Sinews b 8 b 8 b 8 a 10 c 17 a 19 b 176 
c 177 a 178 c 178 a 179 b 181 a 190 b 190 
Sinews shrinking c 2 b 8 a 9 a 10 a 10 
Skul broken a 19 c 196 
Skin hurt, a cleer Skin b 8 
Skin, to make fair b 2 a 4 a 11 b 13 b 16 
a 17 a 17 c 20 a 21 a 118 b 150 c 176 
b 180 b 187 
Sleep provokes c 12 c 12 a 17 a 17 c 18 
a 105 b 109 a 119 a 120 c 122 a 123 c 127 
a 128 a 129 see Watching 
Sleep provokes b 133 b 145 c 161 b 177 
c 177 a 180 c 192 a 194 
Sneesing c 3 
Sores a 5 b 9 a 102 a 139 c 183 b 185 
b 186 a 188 c 197 b 200
Sobbing b 5 b 162 
Spleen a 2 b 2 a 3 a 4 c 4 b 5 c 5 b 6 a 7
b 7 a 8 a 8 c 8 a 9 b 10 b 10 b 10 c 10
c 10 a 12 c 12 c 12 a 13 b 14 c 14 b 15 
c 15 c 15 a 16 c 16 a 17 a 17 b 17 b 17 
c 17 a 18 a 18 b 18 b 19 b 19 c 20 a 25 
c 31 a 33 a 33 b 37 c 37 c 107 a 111 
b 122 b 122 a 127 a 137 b 137 a 143 b 144 
a 145 a 147 c 147 c 149 c 151 b 152 c 152 
c 152 c 152 a 153 b 155 c 158 c 160 c 163 
a 167 c 169 b 176 b 177 c 177 b 179 c 179 
c 180 c 181 c 183 c 183 a 189 b 191 b 192 
c 193 a 195 a 196 c 198 a 201 b 201 b 203 
c 203 a 205 b 205 b 206 b 207 a 208 a 208 
b 209 a 210 
Sprains a 2 b 182 c 182 a 186 c 187 
Spiting blood b 2 b 3 b 6 b 7 b 10 a 11 
c 12 a 13 a 15 a 134 see Blood spitting 
Spirit, vital b 6 a 12 c 18 c 20 a 21 b 102 
a 104 b 105 b 107 c 116 a 117 b 117 c 134 
c 135 a 136 a 139 a 140 c 141 b 142 b 167 
c 170 a 206 
Spirit, Animal a 12 c 20 a 136 c 141 b 167 
a 206 
Spirit, Natural a 12 a 136 b 158 
Spirit spent, and Fainting a 107 
see streng blost 
Spirits evil, preserve from c 6 
Spirits, cheereth b 9 
drooping Spirit, helpeth c 2 
Splinters, draws out b 11 see Thorns 
Spots in the Face c 9 see Freckler 
Spots in the Face a 176 b 187
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Spots, Black and Blew, comming of Blows 
or stripes c 182 b 191 a 195 b 198 
Stone a 2 b 3 a 4 a 6 c 7 b 8 c 8 a 11 b 11 
c 11 c 11 a 12 a 12 b 12 b 15 c 18 c 19 a 30
b 35 b 103 a 111 b 115 c 119 a 127 a 130 
b 146 a 147 a 148 a 151 a 152 c 154 b 176 
b 201 c 206 
Stone, breaks c 4 a 5 a 6 b 6 b 6 c 6 b 7 
c 7 a 9 a 10 c 10 c 10 a 12 c 13 a 14 a 14  
c 14 c 16 c 17 a 18 c 18 c 18 c 19 a 20 c 21 
a 29 c 31 c 31 b 32 c 32 b 35 a 38 a 38 b 38 
b 38 c 38 c 38 c 35 b 141 b 144 c 144 
Stone, prevents a 4 c 17 c 35 b 121 b 148 
c 150 c 179 
Stone, breaks c 165 c 177 b 184 c 206 
c 206 a 210 
Stomach a 4 b 4 a 6 a 7 a 9 b 10 c 10 a 11 
c 11 a 12 c 13 c 13 c 16 b 17 b 17 b 17 c 17 
a 19 b 19 c 21 c 21 a 33 b 37 a 106 a 107 
a 107 b 109 a 110 b 114 c 114 a 115 a 116 
b 116 b 116 a 117 c 119 c 120 c 122 b 124
c 125 a 126 
Stomach b 127 b 134 b 134 b 136 a 139 
c 143 a 146 c 147 b 149 b 151 c 151 b 155 
c 155 a 156 a 156 a 158 b 161 c 161 a 163 
a 164 a 165 a 172 c 175 b 179 a 181 a 182 
c 183 b 190 a 195 b 201 a 202 c 203 b 206 
b 206 a 208 a 210 
Stomach, strengthen b 4 c 5 a 7 a 7 b 7 b 7 
c 7 c 11 c 13 c 16 c 16 c 16 b 17 c 17 c 17 
a 18 c 18 a 19 b 20 a 32 a 33 b 37 c 37 a 38 
b 38 b 38 b 38 b 38 b 38 c 38 c 107 b 108 
a 109 a 109 c 109 a 110 b 114 c 116 a 117 
b 117
Stomach, strengthen c 117 a 117 a 118 
b 119 c 121 b 123 a 129 a 129 c 130 a 134 
a 134 b 134 b 134 c 135 a 136 c 136 a 143 
c 143 a 145 b 145 b 147 c 155 b 158 b 159 
b 161 a 162 a 162 a 162 c 162 b 163 a 167 
a 168 c 169 c 171 a 177 b 177 b 177 b 177 
a 178 c 178 a 179 b 179 c 191 b 192 a 198 
b 199 a 201 b 201 a 202 a 203 b 203 b 204
c 204 c 205 c 205  
Stomach, cools a 4 a 8 c 11 c 14 b 17 c 17 
c 17 a 18 b 31 b 37 c 127 a 137 b 166 a 177
Stomach, cools b 177 
Stomach, heats c 6 c 6 a 7 a 7 b 7 b 7 b 7 
c 8 b 16 b 17 b 17 c 17 a 30 b 32 b 38 b 38
c 101 a 102 b 106 b 122 a 137 b 137 c 140 
c 140 a 141 b 141 a 143 b 144 b 171 b 177 
Stomach, heat thereof c 137 b 166 c 187 
c 195 b 204
Stomach, knawing pains therein c 15 
Stomach, helpeth weakness thereof a 18 
c 129 c 141 b 152 a 161 b 161 a 179 
Stomach cold, comforteth a 7 a 7 a 135 
c 140 a 147 c 147 c 167 a 181 b 183 b 183
c 183 
Stomach cold, helpeth to digest their Meat 
c 8 a 198 b 201 
Stomach, naught for b 8 
Stomach windiness a 5 c 5       
Stiches a 5 a 9 a 10 b 15 a 29 c 104 c 193 
Stiches in the Sides a 10 
Stinking breth, amends a 7 
Strength lost b 20 c 106 a 111 b 133 a 134 
a 136 b 142 a 203 
Stool, provokes b 13 b 14 b 17 
Strangury b 5 c 10 c 10 b 12 b 12 a 13 c 15
b 33 c 137 b 141 b 144 b 146 b 183 c 183 
a 189 
Sunburning c 2 c 3 a 4 c 8 c 8 a 10 a 15 
a 16 b 37 b 38 c 113 c 186 
Suppuration b 200 c 204 c 208 c 4 
Surfets a 8 a 12 c 37 a 107 c 115 a 118 
a 120 b 132 b 162 
Swellings c 2 b 5 b 6 c 7 c 8 b 9 c 12 a 14
b 17 a 29 a 29 a 32 c 101 a 130 a 176 a 177
c 191 c 193 a 195 a 195 a 198 c 198 a 199 
a 200 b 201 b 202 b 205 
Swellings, comming of heat b 9 c 9 a 10 
a 12 a 13 a 13 c 15 
Swellings with cold b 6 c 7 
Swellings that are hard, soften them b 6 
b 6 b 8 b 8 b 11 a 14 a 19 c 31 a 32 b 176 
c 178 b 181 c 188 c 193 b 195 c 195 a 196 
a 199 
Swellings in the Privities a 8 b 13 c 13 a 18 
see Womb and Yard 
Swellings in the Mouth a 16 b 18 
Swelling, comming of a cold Cause b 8 b 12 
b 182 
Sweat,causeth a 3 a 3 c 4 c 5 a 6 b 6 c 7 
a 10 c 20 b 37 a 38 a 104 a 127 b 135 
a 139 a 146 c 146 a 154  
Sweat a 127 a 178 
Swine-Pox a 184 
Swoonings b 9 a 13 b 21 a 106 b 117 
c 121 c 141 a 210 
Swimmings in the Head b 6 a 9 c 9 a 10 
T 
TEeth, to ease pain in them b 2 b 6 b 8 
b 108 
Teeth a 208  
Teeth, to make them fal out c 19 
Teeth, to preserve found 
Teeth, to make white b 16 b 16 a 21 c 35 
Teeth, strengthens a 110 
fasten Teeth loose c 2 a 7 c 8 c 17 a 19 
a 19 a 21 c 32 a 33 b 179 
Teeth on Edg c 14 
Teeth, to breed easie a 20 see Tooth-ach 
Tetters a 3 c 31 a 11 b 123 a 158 b 170 
c 176 a 177 c 187 c 187 b 188 
Tenasmus c 19 
Tendons a 34 b 181 
Terms, brings down b 14 c 107 a 135 
Terms, provokes b 2 c 2 c 2 a 3 b 3 b 3 a 4 
b 4 c 4 c 4 b 5 b 5 b 5 b 6 a 7 b 7 a 8 b 8 c 8 
c 9 b 10 c 10 c 11 b 12 a 14 c 14 a 15 b 15 
c 15 a 16 a 16 b 16 c 16 c 16 c 16 a 17 a 18 
b 18 b 18 b 18 b 18 c 18 a 20 a 30 b 31 c 31
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c 31 a 32 b 32 a 33 b 33 c 35 c 37 a 38 a 38 
a 38 a 38 b 38 c 38 c 38 c 104 a 109 a 116 
a 116 b 124 c 142 a 143 a 144 b 145 a 147 
b 158 b 168 c 178 a 183 c 206 
Terms, stops a 2 c 2 b 3 a 6 c 6 a 7 b 7 
c 8 b 10 b 10 a 11 b 12 c 13 a 14 b 14 c 14 
c 14 a 15 a 17 c 17 c 18 a 21 b 35 b 35 
b 117 c 119 c 122 b 143 c 143 a 145 c 166
c 171
Terms, immoderatly flowing, help c 6 
Thorns, draw out a 2 b 5 b 8 
Thirst, quencheth a 13 b 14 c 17 c 17 a 18 
b 31 b 32 b 37 a 114 a 117 c 121 c 122 
c 122 a 129 b 129 a 139 b 142 b 169 c 207 
b 208 c 209 c 209 
Throat b 6 a 17 b 31 b 32 b 32 a 130 c 132 
b 133 b 137 b 195 c 209 
Throat, sore c 8 a 11 b 12 c 12 c 19 c 125 
c 175 c 209 
Throat, narrow c 165 
Throat, hot Diseases thereof c 11 b 19 
Tooth-ach c 2 a 3 a 3 a 4 a 5 c 5 c 9 a 13 
b 17 a 32 a 32 c 37 a 138 c 156 a 162
b 179 b 183 b 193 a 194 b 194 c 200 a 208 
Tongue, rough b 17 b 31 b 137 
Trembling a 20 a 20 c 103 b 122 c 151 
a 158 c 160 c 177 b 178 c 178 b 179 a 181 
b 181 c 182 b 183 b 185 
Tumors b 178 a 179 b 186 a 189 a 195 
c 195 see Swelling 
U
VAliant b 21 c 21 a 179 
Venemous Beasts a 2 a 2 c 7 a 11 
b 11 b 11 b 13 b 186 
Venemous Diseases c 135 c 138 a 141 
b 145 a 167 c 167 
Veins, strengthen a 3 a 179 
Veins broken a 11 
Veins, open b 15 c 18 c 20 b 31 
Vertigo c 3 a 9 c 9 c 13 c 14 a 19 b 21 
a 38 a 38 a 116 a 117 b 127 b 136 a 147 
b 150 c 151 c 155 a 158 b 163 b 206 
Ventilation of the Blood a 186 
Ventricle b 181 
Venereal Diseases a 207 b 210 
Ulcers a 3 c 2 b 3 b 5 c 7 a 8 b 8 c 8 c 8   
b 9 c 9 a 10 b 11 c 10 b 11 c 12 b 14 b 14
a 15 c 18 a 19 a 119 c 20 b 21 b 21 b 35
b 113 a 146 c 162 a 167 c 168 b 171 a 183 
a 184 a 185 b 186 b 186 c 186 a 187 a 188 
b 188 a 194 
Ulcers a 190 c 197 b 200 c 203 a 204 c 204 
a 207 a 208 a 208 b 210 
eating Ulcers a 11 b 17 c 20 
filthy Ulcers c 7 a 10 b 12 c 12 a 18 b 18 
b 21 b 35 c 186 a 190 c 196 
malignant Ulcers a 3 a 110 c 176 a 177
c 199 c 201 
clense Ulcers b 1 c 8 b 12 b 14 c 15 a 16 c 31 
c 125 b 126 a 129 c 184 b 185 c 189 b 210   
Ulcers, in the Reins and bladder b 4 b 5 
b 10 c 37 c 118 c 119 c 175 
Ulcers, in the Mouth b 3 a 8 b 8 b 14 c 16
b 17 c 38 a 208 see Mouth 
Ulcers, in the Breast b 14 c 131 c 166 
Ulcers, in the Lungs b 10 a 11 b 13 b 14 
c 118 c 131 c 166 see Phtisicks
Ulcers, in the Privities b 12 c 38 a 165 
c 175 
Ulcers, in the Eyes b 168 
Ulcers that are hollow, fil with Flesh a 8 
c 21 c 31 c 31 a 33 b 35 b 179 a 185 b 185 
a 187 a 190 c 193 a 194 b 200 c 202 c 203 
Vomiting, stops c 2 b 6 c 6 a 7 c 7 b 8 
c 8 a 12 c 13 a 14 c 14 b 16 c 17 c 17 a 18 
a 18 a 33 c 37 b 38 b 38 a 117 c 117 
c 119 c 121 b 126 c 128 a 129 c 129 c 134 
a 139 c 143 c 143 b 144 b 145 a 178 c 178 
a 179 a 179 b 179 a 181 b 181 c 191 b 193 
c 197 b 199 c 200 a 201 a 202 a 203 b 203 
c 204 b 211 
good in Vomiting a 129 c 179 
Vomiting, provokes b 2 c 8 c 35 a 107 
c 110 c 147 c 190 
Vomiting blood b 10 c12 a 14 b 15 a 134 
a 147 c 152 
Vomiting, ease the pains thereof c 13 
b 32 c 114 
Voyce a 19 c 111 c 112 b 118 c 127 b 130 
a 132 a 132 b 132 a 147 a 161 a 166 
a 166  
Urin, sharpned c 32 c 137 b 158 c 209 
Urin, stopped c 10 a 15 a 21 a 21 a 29 
b 139 a 164 
Urin, provokes a 2 b 2 b 2 c 2 c 2 a 3 
b 3 a 4 b 4 b 4 b 4 c 4 a 5 a 6 a 6 b 6 
b 6 b 6 c 6 c 6 a 7 b 7 c 7 c 7 a 8 b 8 
b 8 c 8 c 8 a 9 c 9 a 10 a 10 b 10 b 10 
a 11 c 11 c 11 c 11 b 12 b 12 c 13 a 14
b 14 c 14 c 14 b 15 b 15 a 16 a 16 c 16 
c 16 c 16 c 16 b 17 b 17 c 17 c 17 a 18 
a 18 a 18 a 18 a 18 b 18 b 18 b 18 b 18 
c 19 c 19 c 19 b 20 b 20 b 20 a 29 a 29 b 31 
b 31 b 32 a 33 b 35 c 37 c 37 a 38 b 38 b 38 
b 38 b 38 c 38 b 103 a 109 c 114 b 121 
b 121 b 124 c 126 a 127 a 127 c 127 c 135 
b 144 c 144 c 165 c 177 b 178 a 181 b 194 
c 195 c 206 b 211 
Urine, difficulty thereof b 4 a 7 b 10 
b 153 a 147 
Urine, move b 130 c 144 a 145 a 167 
a 168 b 168 a 176 c 177 b 178 a 185 b 189 
b 192 c 205 c 207 c 209 
W 
WArts c 4 c 4 c 4 c 4 a 118 
Wasps stinging a 13 b 13 c 19 b 186 
Water, purgeth a 17 b 124 a 170 b 189 
Web in the Eye 
Weakness comming of cold b 17 b 33
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Weariness a 8 a 12 b 14 c 18 a 33 c 176 
b 177 c 178 a 183 a 186 
Wens c 4 c 4 c 178 
Weakness c 136 c 177  
Whites in women b 2 b 8 b 12 a 14 a 14 
c 14 a 15 c 17 b 18 b 20 a 21 a 21 b 33 
b 35 a 105 a 111 a 115 b 117 b 120 a 122 
a 141 b 143 c 143 a 162 c 162 a 166 b 166 
b 167 a 169 b 169 b 170 a 172 b 180 a 194 
c 195 c 200 
Whites in women a 201 a 201 c 208 b 209 
Wheezing c 12 c 14 b 31. 
Wheals c 32 
Wind, broken b 16 
Wind, shortness thereof a 8 b 17 c 111 
c 112 b 118 see Breath 
Wind c 4 a 109 c 111 b 113 a 127 a 135 
c 140 a 143 b 144 a 147 a 150 b 176 a 192 
a 208 
Wind, breaketh b 3 c 11 c 14 b 15 a 16 
c 16 b 18 c 108 a 110 b 114 c 160 c 177 
a 181
Wind, expels a 2 b 2 c 6 c 6 a 7 b 7 a 8 b 12 
a 15 b 15 b 15 a 16 b 17 c 17 c 17 a 18 
a 18 b 18 b 18 c 18 c 18 c 18 a 20 a 30 
a 32 b 38 c 38 a 102 a 109 c 118 c 134 
b 137 b 137 c 140 c 140 c 142 a 146 b 156 
a 164 
Wind, expels a 167 a 168 b 168 a 170 
a 176 a 176 b 177 b 177 c 177 a 179 
a 180 c 180 a 186 c 193 c 205 a 206 b 206 
Winds short, helpeth b 9 
Witt c 21 c 102 a 103 c 105 b 143 a 156 
Witthcraft b 12 a 21 a 21 
Wisdom b 21 
Women apt to miscarry, help for b 8 
b 146 c 179  
Women in Labor, causeth speedy delivery 
a 7 b 11 b 18 a 30 a 33 a 103 b 207 
Women, hastens their Labor b 145 
Women with Child, good for a 38 
Women with Child, naught for c 3 a 4 
c 8 a 15 a 15 b 18 b 32 c 104 a 135 
Women newly delivered, and not wel pur- 
ged b 5 a 9 b 12 b 127 a 135 b 144 b 151 
163 a 168 b 195 
help Women in Travel a 2 b 3 b 5 a 7 c 8 
c 9 a 10 b 11 b 12 c 12 b 13 c 13 b 14 c 37 
help Women in Travel b 5 a 7 c 9 b 11 b 12 
Womens Brests b 8 a 10 a 207 
see Brests 
Womens brests swoln or inflamed a 10 
a 33 
Womens immoderate flowing of their 
Terms c 6 c 6 b 129 b 146 b 152 b 169
b 191                                  
Womb softned c 4 a 19 
Womb hardned c 18 a 19 b 31 b 32 a 33 
Womb swelled see Swellings 
Womb faln out b 10 b 17 b 191 a 202
Womb inflamed c 16 c 16
see Inflamation 
Womb b 4 c 15 b 17 c 17 c 17 a 18 b 18 
a 19 b 19 b 20 b 33 a 38 a 38 b 38 c 38 
c 102 c 102 a 103 b 103 c 103 c 109 a 115 
b 127 a 130 c 142 a 148 c 157 a 158 b 160 
b 176 c 178 a 179 b 179 a 180 b 181 c 181 
c 183 c 183 b 184 b 190 b 192 c 209 a 201 
a 201
Worms, kill a 3 a 5 c 6 c 7 a 8 a 9 c 9 
a 10 a 10 b 10 a 11 b 11 a 12 c 12 a 14 
a 15 b 17 c 17 a 18 a 18 b 18 c 18 a 19 
c 37 b 38 b 38 b 38 a 110 a 111 c 133 
c 147 c 169 b 176 b 177 c 178 a 179 b 179 
Worms, expel b 5 b 18 b 21 b 31 c 101 
c 133 a 149 a 157 c 159 a 168 a 170 b 181 
b 181 
Worms, kills c 186 b 189 c 190 a 195 
b 195 a 208 b 209 c 209 a 210 b 210 
Wounds a 1 b 3 b 3 b 4 b 5 c 5 b 7 b 8 
c 8 a 9 c 9 a 10 a 11 a 11 b 11 c 11 b 12
b 12 c 12 b 13 c 13 a 14 b 14 a 15 b 15 
c 15 a 19 a 19 c 32 a 113 c 113 a 126 
c 150 c 168 b 169 a 171 c 180 a 184 c 184 
a 185 b 186 
green Wounds c 8 c 8 c 9 b 13 b 14 b 14 
a 15 a 32 a 33 b 178 b 185 b 198 a 204 
204 
inward Wounds a 8 c 8 a 9 c 9 a 11 a 11 
a 11 a 12 c 12 b 14 c 122 
Wounds made with poyson’d Weapons 
b 11 b 14 b 186 
Wounds c 186 c 186 a 188 c 189 a 190 
c 193 a 200 b 200 c 200 b 201 c 201 c 202 
c 203 b 204 a 207 a 208 a 208 c 209 
Wry Mouths a 183 b 184 
Wry Necks c 9 c 13 
Wrinkles c 9 
Y 
YArd c 10 c 15 b 184 c 206 
Yard excoriated c 10 a 14 
Yellow Jaundice a 3 b 3 a 6 a 7 c 8 c 8 
a 9 b 9 b 10 c 10 a 11 a 12 b 12 b 14 
c 14 a 15 a 15 b 16 a 17 a 17 a 18 a 19 
c 19 b 20 b 21 a 30 b 32 b 37 b 37 c 37 
a 38 b 38 c 38 c 104 b 114 c 116 c 123 
c 135 c 137 a 147 a 156 b 157 b 158 a 162 
c 162 a 165 b 166 a 167 c 168 b 194 c 195 
Yellowness of the Skin a 13 
Youth preserves c 15 c 207 
FINIS. 

Pharmacopœia Londinensis: 
OR, THE 
London Dispensatory. 
Further adorned by the Studies and Collections of the 
Fellows, now living of the said COLLEDG. 
Being that Book by which all Apothecaries are bound 
to make up all the Medicines in their Shops. 
In which is Printed, 
I. The Vertues, Qualities, and Pro- 
perties of every Simple. 
II. The Vertues and Use of the Com- 
pounds. 
III. All the Medicines that were in the 
Old Latin Dispensatory, and 
are left out in the New Latin 
one, are Printed in this Impreßi- 
on in English, with their Vertues. 
IV. Cautions in giving all Medicines 
that are dangerous. 
V. A Key to Galen’s Method of Phy- 
sick, containing 33. Chapters. 
VI. The Latin Names of every one of 
the Compounds, and in what Page 
of the New Latin Book in Folio
they are to be found. 
By Nich. Culpeper Student in Physick and Astrology. 
In this Impression, There is Added to the Compounds many Vertues and 
Uses more than ever were in any former Impression. By divers Learned 
and Able Doctors of Physick, Viz., W.R.A.C.F.W. And, By Abdiah Cole, 
Doctor of Physick, and the Liberal Arts; who hath Practised Physick forty 
nine years, And lived above thirty years, out of his own Country; And hath 
seen the Practice of France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, and the Indies, 
The Physitian's Library 
Contains all the Works in English of these most Famous 
Physitians following. Viz. 
Sennertus Practice of 
Physick, &c. 
Riverius Practice and 
Observations. 
Platerus Practice and 
observations. 
Bartholinus Anatomy. 
Riolanus Anatomy. 
Veslingus Anatomy. 
Lusitanus his wonder 
ful Practice. 
Johnston’s idea.
Doctors of 
Physick.
Nich Culpeper. 
Mart. Ruland. 
Will. Rand. 
Joh. Fernlius &
Abdiah Cole. 
All which are of most excellent Use for all Rational Persons; especially for all 
Chirurgions at Sea in his most Royal Majesties Ships: and all others that are on 
Trading Voyages for the Advancement of the Wealth and Honor of his Kingdoms. 
London: Printed by Peter Cole Printer and Book-seller, at the Sign of the 
Printing-press in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange. 1665.


Physick Books Printed by Peter Cole at the Exchange London. Viz 
1. A GOLDEN Practice 
of Physick; plainly disco- 
ring the KINDS with the 
several CAUSES of every 
disease, and their most proper 
CURES, in respect to the 
Causes from whence they 
come: after a new, easie and 
plain Method of Knowing, 
Foretelling, Preventing, and 
Curing all Diseases incident 
to the Body of Man. Full of 
proper Observations and Re- 
medies both of Ancient and 
Modern Physitians. Being 
the Fruit of One and Thirty 
years Travel, and fifty years 
Practice of Physick. By Dr. 
Plater, Dr. Cole, and Nich. 
Culpeper. 
2. Sennertus Practical Phy- 
sick; the first Book in three 
Parts. 1 Of the Head. 2 Of
the Hurt of the internal Sen- 
ses. 3 Of the external Senses, 
in five Sections. 
3 Sennenus Practical Phy- 
Sick; the second Book in 
four Parts 1 Of the Jaws 
and Mouth. 2 Of the Breast, 
3 Of the Lungs. 4 Of the 
Heart. 
4 Sennertus third Book of 
Practical Physick in four 
teen Parts, treating, 1 Of 
the Stomach and Gullet. 2 
Of the Guts, 3 Of the Me 
sentery, Sweetbread and Omen- 
tum, 4 Of the Spleen, 5 Of 
the Sides, 6 Of the scurvey, 
7 and 8 Of the Liver, 9 Of 
the Ureters 10 Of the Kid- 
nies,, 11 and 12 Of the 
Bladder, 13 and 14 Of the 
Privities and Generation in 
Men.
5 Sennenus fourth Book 
of Practical Physick in three 
Parts, Part 1 Of the Dis- 
eases in the Privities of Wo- 
men. The first Section, Of 
Diseases of the privy Part, 
and the Neck of the Womb. 
The second Section, Of the 
Diseases of the Womb, Part 
2, Of the Symptoms in the 
Womb and from the Womb. 
The second Section, Of the 
Symptoms in the Terms and 
other Fluxes of the Womb. 
The third Section. Of the 
Symptoms that besal all Vir- 
gins and Women in their 
Wombs, after they are ripe 
of Age, The fourth Section, 
Of the Symptoms which are 
in Conception. The fifth 
Section, Of the Government 
of Women with Child, and 
præternatural Distempers in 
Women with child. The 
sixth Section, Of Symptoms 
that happen in Childbearing.
The seventh section, Of the 
Government of Women and  
Child-bed, and of the Dis-
eases that come after Travel.
The first Section, Of Dis-
ease of the breast. The se-
cond Section, Of the Sym- 
ptoms of the Breasts. 
To which is added a Tra- 
ctate of the Cure of Infants, 
Part I, Of the Diet and 
Government of Infants. The 
second Section, Of Diseases 
and Symptoms in Children. 
6 Sennertus fifth Book of 
Practical Physick, Or the 
Art of Chyrurgery in six
Parts. 1, Of Tumors. 2, Of 
Ulcers. 3, Of the Skin, Hair
and Nails. 4, Of Wounds, 
with an excellent Treatise of 
the Weapon Salve. 5, Of  
Fractures. 6, Of Luxations,
7 Sennertus sixth and last
Book of Practical Physick in 
nine Parts. 1, Of Diseases 
from occult Qualities in ge- 
neral. 2, Of occult, ma- 
lignant, and venemous Dis- 
eases arising from the inter-
nal fault of the humors. 3, Of 
occult Diseases from Water
Air, and Infections, and of
infectious Diseases. 4, Of
the Venereal Pox. 5, Of out-
ward Poysons in General. 
6, Of Poysons from Mine- 
rals and Metals. 7, Of Poy- 
sons from Plants. 8, Of Poy- 
sons that come from Living 
Creatures. 9, Of Diseases 
by Witchcraft, Incantation, 
and Charms. 
8 Sennertus Treatise of 
Chymistry, shewing the A- 
greement and Disagreement 
of Chymists and Galenists. 
9 Sennertus two Treatises 
I, Of the Pox. 2, Of the Gout. 
10 Sennertus thirteen Books 
of Natural Philosophy: or 
the Nature of all things in 
the world. 
11 Twenty four Books of 
the Practice of Physick, being 
the Works of that Learned 
and Renowned Doctor La- 
zarus Riverius, Physitian and 
Counsellor to the late King, 
&c. 
12 Idea of Practical Phy- 
sick in twelve Books. 
13 Bartholinus Anatomy, 
with very many larger Brass 
Figures, than any other A- 
natomy in English. 
14 Veslingus Anatomy of 
the Body of Man. 
15 Riolanus Anatomy. 
16 A Translation of the 
new Dispensatory, made by 
the Colledg of Physitians of 
London, in Folio and in O- 
ctavo; whereunto is added
the Key of Galens Method of 
Physick. 
17 A Directory for Mid- 
wives, or a guide for women, 
the first second Part. 
18 Galens Art of Phy- 
sick. 
19 A new Method both 
of studying and practising 
Physick. 
20 A Treatise of the Ric- 
kets. 
21 Medicaments for the 
Poor: or Physick for the 
common people. 
22 Health for the Rich 
and Poor, by Diet without 
Physick. 
23 One thousand New, 
Famous and Rare Cures, in 
Folio and Octavo. 
24 A Treatise of Pulses 
and Urins.
25 A Treatise of Blood- 
letting, and Cures perform- 
ed thereby. 
26 A Treatise of Scarisi- 
cation, and Cures performed 
thereby. 
27 The English Physitian 
enlarged. 
The London Dispensatory 
in Folio, of a great Chara- 
cter in Latin. 
28 The London Dispensa- 
tory in Latin, a small Book 
in Twelves. 
29 Chymistry made easie 
and useful: Or, the Agree- 
ment and Disagreement of 
Chymists and Galenists: By 
Dr. Cole, &c. 
30 A New Art of Physick 
by Weight, or five hundred 
Aphorismes of Insensible
Transpiration, Breathing or 
Vapor coming forth of the 
Body : By Dr. Cole.
Divinity Books Printed by Peter Cole, &c. 
Eighteen Several Books off 
Mr. Burroughs, viz, on 
Matth. II. 
1 Christs Call to all those 
that are weary and heavy la- 
den, to come to him for rest. 
2 Christ the great Teacher 
Of Souls that come to him. 
3 Christ the humble Tea- 
cher of those that come to 
him. 
4 The only easie way to 
Heaven.  
5 The Excellency of holy 
Courage in evil times. 
6 Gospel Reconciliation. 
7 The Rare Jewel of 
Christian Contentment. 
8 Gospel Worship. 
10 A Treatise of Earthly
Mindedneß and of Heavenly 
Mindedneß, and Walking 
with God. 
11 An Exposition of the 
Prophesie of Hoseah. 
12 The Evil of Evils, or 
the exceeding sinfulness of 
Sin. 
13 Of precious Faith. 
14 Of Hope. 
15 Of walking by Faith
and not by Sight. 
16 The Christians living 
to Christ upon 2 Cor. 5. 15. 
17 A Catechism. 
18 Moses Choice, &c. 
Dr. Hills WORKS. 
Mr. Stephen Marshals New 
WORKS. Viz. 
1 Of Christs Intercession, 
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2 The high Priviledg of 
Believers, that they are the 
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on Christ. 
4 Of Self-denial. 
5 The Saints Duty to 
keep their Hearts, &c. 
6 The Mystery of Spiri- 
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3 A lifting up Tor the cast 
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4 Of the Sin against the 
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5 Of Sins of Infirmity. 
6 The false Apostle tried 
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7 The good and means 
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It is now above two years since ( Friendly Reader ) I designed 
or thine and mine own Pleasure Profit a more compleat 
Edition of the London Dispensatory in English, than any of the 
former, and indeed such an one (if possible )as to which no- 
thing might be added to its Accomplishment and Ornament 
in any future Editions: I resolved that it should be in Folio, 
and that the Names of the Simples or several Ingredients, which go to the 
making up of all and every the Respective Medicaments, should be printed 
not in an Huddle (as formerly) meerly to save Charge, by the smalness of the 
Book; but distinctly in a perpendicular Line, one under the other, as they are 
ranked in the Latine Editions in Folio, which adds not only Beauty and Plea- 
sure in Respect of the Eye and Fancy, ( as all Methodical and decent Contri- 
vances do) but renders the Book far more useful, both for those that would 
take a deliberate and Judicious view of the Simples, thereby to estimate 
the Vertues and Faculties of the Compounds, and for such as would compare 
the Latine and the English Editions to edifie themselves in the Latine Tongue, 
(and therefore at the beginning of every Compound, I have printed the Page 
where you may find it in the best Edition in Latine) as also for such as being 
conscious of their small Skill in the Latine Tongue, shal choose for their grea- 
ter ease, and to avoid all possibility of Mistakes, to dispense and make any of 
the respective Medicaments by this English Edition, and therefore I printed 
it in Folio, that it may lie plain and open before them. 
Nor did my Care rest here, but for thy more ample satisfaction, and the
greater Ornament and Accomplishment of this Edition. I earnestly pressed 
some Learned and Ingenious Gentlemen Friends of mine, well known to be 
both General Schollers, and able Physitians; to add the Vertues and Faculties 
of the Compound Medicaments, where Mr. Culpeper had wholly omitted them, 
or spoke more sparingly then the worth of the Medicament, and thy Service 
did require. The Gentlemen my friends aforesaid answered to this Effect, 
that though themselves and some other Learned Physitians did not envy the 
the Benefit which the Nation receives by the englishing of such Books, where- 
by knowing and industrious though Illiterate men, (as to the Learned Lan- 
guage) do both in City and Country much relieve diseased People, where ei- 
ther a more Learned Physitian is wanting, or when the Poverty or low and 
mean Quality of the Patients is such, that they dare not approach the Majesty 
and Splendor of Collegiate, Learned, and Renowned Physitians, whom they 
understand to be dignified by the Title of Excellency in France, yea and 
in England too, and consequently they esteem them as formidable, and hard to 
approach as Generals of Armies, who are by way of highest Honor so called: 
Also by such Books the Surgeons in Ships at Sea-who have ever Acted and do 
stil, & (as long as Trading in the World & Fights at Sea or Land last) must ACT 
The Physitians part as wel as their own, being ingenious and industrious Persons 
are inabled to act with greater Knowledg and Steadiness, than in former times
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(when they had no such helps ) to the saving of many a Mans life, that formerly 
perished through the Surgeons ignorance, in the Art of curing inward Diseases, 
& to the easing of many a pained, sad, and sick Soul, which must otherwise live 
a life worse then Death, in a Purgatory, or Hell on Earth. Though for these 
and such like Reasons said they, we ( and some others of the more nobler and 
generous fort of the Learned Physitians) do not envie this Knowledg, nor 
find themselves grieved at the publishing thereof, yet many others of the lear- 
ned, young Physitians that want Experience, and have but few Patients they 
will find themselves Nettled, especially those that are men not disciplined by 
Phylosophy, but such as sacrifice their Reason, Justice, Nobleness, Mercy, in 
a word their whole Man-hood upon the Altar of their Coveteousness, Ambi-
tion, vain Glory, pompous living, and such idle and Childish passions; and 
these (said they ) will give us Bad thankes for our pains. And thus some of 
my friends bogled at the first, consulting with flesh and blood, rather than with 
Brain and Nerves, or the Nervous Divine Liquor. But at last Christian Phi-
losophy, gaining the Conquest in their Soules, they told me they would en
deavour to satisfie my Request, and in their Additions freely and generously 
discover divers things, which by long study in the Nature of Simples and of 
mans Constitution partly, and partly by Experience and diligent Reading 
they had observed, scarce known to the vulgar of more Learned Naturalists; 
but it must be upon Condition, that in this Edition of the English Dispensatory 
all the passages reflecting upon the Colledg of London the Authors of the Book 
should be (for the future) left out. For said they, How can we professing our
selves among the Learned; endure to see Learned men abused out of a capri- 
cious Humor, and in a scurrilous manner? The Colledg is a society of Lear- 
ned men generally, and worthy Persons; many of them have been our lo-
ving Friends and acquaintance for many years, and therefore we will not have 
an hand in the Edition of a Book that shall use them uncivilly. If divine Ju- 
stice hath chastised that Society for some faults of their Predecessors best known 
to themselves, as David was chastised by Shimei, probably now the fault is
expiated: upon these and the like expressions fluently uttered according to 
their Asiatick and Galenical way of speaking, I promised them that they 
should be satisfied in this Particular to the full. They proceeded and finished 
the work I desired of them. Having added new Intimations of qualities, vir-
tues, and uses; relating to very many Medicaments, as thou shalt find if thou 
please to read them, most of which are distinguished from the former Vertues, 
by these words, Vertues newly added Printed in a line by themselves.
I asked them when they had perused the Book, what they thought of it 
and the Medicaments therein contained. They said they conceived the Lon- 
don Dispensatory might hold rank with any Dspensatory of any City in Europe; 
they told me the Medicaments were generally very effectual to the Intention 
for which they were Invented, and there was not an Intention in the whole 
Practice of Physick, for which there was not one at least, or two peculiarly 
destinate Medicaments.
They said also that most of these Medicaments had been tried and approved 
by many (some hundreds of) years experience, and invented by the ablest 
Physitians of all Ages and Countries in the world; by Physitians to Emperours, 
Kings, Princes, Dukes, Bihops, Abbots and Popes, Persons of highest dignity, live- 
ing in the greatest sensual happiness, most desirous to live, and most able to 
gratifie Physitians of the greatest worth and Ability. Here you have the 
perours Pils, the Queen of Colens Plaster, the Countesses Oyntment, the Bishops E- 
lectuary, the Abbots Cordial Pouder: You have Medicaments invented by the
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Consultation not only of two or three, but whol Colledges of Physitians, Par- 
liaments of Physitians, such as London Treacle, Syrup of Rhubarb of Angsburge, &c. 
Nay you have one Medicament invented by a King which if you take, you 
have a King to be your Physitian, which is Syrup of Apples of King Sabor a fa- 
mous African Physitian as wel as King. 
They said that he that could not Cure all Diseases that have been and are ac- 
counted curable with the medicaments of this Book, it was for want of Skil in 
the Nature of Man and Medicaments, and in the Method of Healing or Curing 
and not for any defficiency in these medicaments. And that there have been 
and probably now are some Physitians who giving their Physick themselves 
and pretending that the Apothecary shall not divulge their secrets, do yet use 
little other than the medicaments here described. 
I then desired to know why the Apothecaries have such cause to complain, 
that these so excellent medicaments being by them faithfully and carefully, 
and at a great expence prepared and kept, many Physitians of the Col- 
ledg do perpetually trouble themselves to invent, and the Apothecaries to 
make new medicaments for every Disease and Patient they meet with. 
They are stil coyning new Pouders, new Syrups, new Plasters, new Pils, for 
Sr. John and my Lady, for Richard and William &c. and the medicaments by 
themselves recomended to the Apothecaries to be made (under penalty of the 
Kings displeasure) according to their Dispensatory, must sleep despised and neg- 
lected, and at last be spoiled, unless the Apothecary can get the repute of a 
Physitian and prescribe them himself. 
Their Answer was, That only some Physitians were guilty of this absurd 
Practise, of which themselves best knew the reason, whether it were out of
a childish Ambition to shew how wel their memories were stuffed with Varie- 
ty of Simples, or to mend Magnificat and seem Wiser than the Colledg and all Anti- 
quity besides; of that the Apothecaries may not smel their Art, to which In- 
tent some are thought stil to Vary their medicaments though never so success- 
ful, and though the same Intention continue: Which what an unconscionable 
hazard that is in acute Diseases, all that are sober and good men as wel as Phy- 
sitians (if any can be a good Physitian absolutely that is not a good man ) wil 
judg. It is a wretched thing that Physitians should be biast in their Practice 
wherein mens dearest lives are concerned, with consideration of the Apothe- 
caries quacking. Salus Populi ought to be the supream Law to al Physitians that 
would deserve the name of Men, and Christians, and not of Foxes, and Infi- 
dels. Mens lives ought not to be hazarded through a giddy and affectedly 
various fashion of prescribing. There are Censors and other waies and means 
to keep Apothecaries from Practising, and provided they Practice not, the 
more knowing in Physick, the better Apothecaries they wil prove, and more 
serviceable both to the Physitian and Patient. It wil be a good way to pre- 
vent their Practising, for Physitians to leave off that affected neglect of the me- 
dicaments they keep, and for Physitians to disperse and sprinkle their Favors 
up and down the Town among them, balking none but such as are Infamous 
for making bad medicaments. For whiles their Medicaments spoil with keep- 
ing and whiles a few Apothecaries have all the Practice of the greatest and 
most famous Practitioners among them, what should the rest do but turn either 
Mountebanks or Bankrupts. For it is chiefly want of imployment from the 
Physitian, or fear of loosing his medicaments with keeping, that makes any 
Apothecary invade and intrench upon the Practice of Physick.
My learned friends having proceeded thus far upon the Subject, it came into 
my Mind, to desire farther satisfaction of them, as to the goodness efficacy and
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utility of the medicaments in this Book described, in comparison of the medi- 
caments of our Philosophers by the fire, our Paracelsians, Helmontians and 
that Crew. Can the Medicaments of this Dispensatory compare with their Elixirs,
their Spirits, their Tinctures, their Quintessences? Can they compare with the 
Enthusiastical preparations of the pretended Adepti or inspired Chymists, or the 
Rodomontados of the Utopian Fraternity of the Rosie Crusians One of which 
Boasted to me that there were but twelve of that Brotherhood in the World, 
of which he was one. That he could make Gold of any base mettal, Cure all 
Diseases, make old Persons become yong again, Restore the body to such 
youth and strength that a man should live some hundreds of years longer. And 
delivered a Book to me to Print (the Coppy whereof he desired to sell me ) 
which promised to perform all these things. 
Their Answers were, that though Chymistry is a noble and useful Practise, 
highly tending to discover the Mysteries of Nature, by Analysing her pro- 
ductions; yet Far the greatest part of Chymists, those especially that get 
their bread by that Practise, are strongly tainted with Imposture. For when 
Men of mean Estates have spent that little they had upon chargeable Opera-
tions, into which they are commonly drawn by a vain desire and hope to 
gain the Phylosophers stone, (according to that true Proverb as to vulgar 
Spirits unphilosophized, which saies that Necessity compels me to unhansom and ig- 
noble Courses) they are forced by boasting promises and insinuations, to make 
a prey of wealthy Men that have an Ambition to make Gold and to work 
wonders in the Cure of Incurable Diseases.
They further said, The chiefest Helmontian who pretends to do such won-
ders in the Cure of Feavers and other Diseases (that if he were able to an- 
swer his boastings by deeds might fit in the House of Lords) has been fain to 
lie in prison some considerable time for a debt of thirty pound at most, contra 
cted with his Glass-merchant. And the rest of the boasting fraternity can 
hardly win bread without abusing some Wealthy Person enchanted by the 
Chymists boasts, and betwatled with his own foolish desire and idle ambition. 
Nor is it much to be wondred that the Divine Providence should deliver up 
such vain Pretenders to such delusions of cheating spirits, in regard of their 
Vanity, Ambition, and want of heart to do good with the over plus of their 
Estates.
And my Learned Friends did further Assure me upon their Conscience and 
Credit, That whatever any of these vaporing Chymists can really Cure by any 
Of their Boasted Medicaments, May be done with more safety and Certainty 
by Medicaments described in the London Dispensatory, in which Book there are 
the chiefest and most effectual Chymical preparations. And that Van Helmont 
is the Patriarch of those Impostors, who pretended that he was (save in your 
presence) Adeptus, one that by extraordinary Revelation had the gift of heal- 
ing, and yet had not the Grace or goodness given him by God to communi- 
cate to posterity the Cure of any one Disease. If Helmont could have done 
what in a way of chymical delusion he boasted of, as to cure Quartan Agues by 
Plasters, to cure the Plague and Fevers after His rate &c. surely said they, all 
Europe would have rung with his fame, whereas we never heard of that won 
der working Gentleman til after his death, when his Tractates were printed. 
Out of which when a man shal have severed his fantastical Superstitions and 
Popish transportations as to Religion, his hypochondriacal Dreams and Do- 
tages of his being Adeptus, his Ambitious and Mountebank-like Invective a- 
gainst Galenists, his nonsensical sublimities in things natural, (like the chi 
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An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Human Vertues in the 
Body of MAN; both 1 Principal. And 2. Administring.
Human Ver- 
tues are either 
Principal for 
Procreation 
Conservation. 
Administring
Attractive. 
Digestive. 
Retentive.
Expulsive.
Vertues Conservative 
Vital. 
Natural. 
Animal. 
By the Natural are bread 
Blood. 
Choller. 
Flegm. 
Melancholly. 
The Animal Vertues of 
Intellective 
Sensitive. 
The Intellective is 
Imagination,
Judgment, 
Memory. 
The Sensitive is 
Common
Particular.
The Particular is 
Seeing,
Hearing, 
Smelling, 
Feeling. 
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dy in Health, to a Man to be an able Co-artificer, or 
Helper of Nature, to withstand and expel Diseases. 
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serve the Body in Health, and the Mind in vigor.
I shall 

An Astrologo-Physical Discourse, &c.
I shall in this place speak of them only in the Gene- 
ral as they are laid down to your view in the Synopsis, 
in the former page, and in the same Order. 
Vertue Procreative. ] The first in order, is the Ver- 
tue Procreative; for Nature regards not only the con- 
servation of its self, but to beget its like, and conserve 
its Species. 
The seat of this is in the Members of Generation, and 
is governed principally by the influence of Venus. 
It is augmented and increased by the strength of Ve- 
nus, by her Herbs, Roots, Trees, Minerals, &c. 
It is diminished and purged by those of Mars, and 
quite extinguished by those of Saturn. 
Observe the Hour and Medicines of Venus, to for- 
tifie ; of Mars, to clense this Vertue ; of Saturn, to 
extinguish it. 
Conservative.] The Conservative Vertue is, Vital, 
Natural, Animal. 
Vital.]. The Vital spirit hath its residence in the 
Heart, and is dispersed from it by the Arteries; and 
is governed by the influence of the Sun. And it is so 
to the Body, as the Sun is to the Creation, as the heart 
is in the Microcosm, so is the Sun in the Megacosm: for 
as the Sun gives life, light, and Motion to the Creati- 
on, so doth the Heart to the Body; therefore it is cal- 
led Sol Corporis, as the Sun is called. Cor Cali, because 
their Operation are so like. 
Inimical and destructive to this Vertue, are Saturn 
and Mars. 
The Herbs and Plants of Sol, wonderfully fortifie it. 
Natural.] The Natural Faculty or Vertue, resides 
in the Liver, and is generally governed by Jupiter, qua- 
si Jovans Pater ; it’s Office is to nourish the Body, and 
is dispersed through the Body by the Veins. 
From this are bred four particular Humors, Blood, 
Choller, Flegm, Melancholly. 
Blood is made of Meat perfectly conceded, in quali- 
ty hot and moist, governed by Jupiter: It is by a third 
Concoction transmuted into Flesh, the superfluity of it 
into feed, and its receptacle is the Veins, by which it is 
dispersed throughout the Body. 
Choller is made of the Meat more than perfectly con- 
cocted; it is the spume or froth of Blood: it clarifies 
all the Humors, heats the Body, nourisheth the Appre- 
hension as Blood doth the Judgment: It is in quality 
not and dry; fortifieth the attractive Faculty, as Blood 
doth the Digestive ; moves Man to Activity and Valor:
its Receptacle is the Gall, and it is under the influence 
of Mars. 
Flegm is made of Meat not perfectly digested: it 
fortifies the Vertue Expulsive, makes the body slippery, 
for Ejection; it fortifies the Brain by its consimili- 
tude with it; yet it spoils Apprehension by its Antipa- 
thy with it: It qualifies Choller, cools and moistens 
the Heart, thereby sustaining it, and the whole Body, 
from the fiery Effects, which continual Motion would 
produce; its Receptacle is the Lungs, and is governed 
by Venus, some say by the Moon, perhaps it may be go- 
verned by them both ; it is cold and moist in quality. 
Melancholly, is the sediment of Blood, cold and 
Equality, fortifying the Retentive Faculty, and 
Memory; makes Men sober, solid, and staid, fit for 
study ; staies the unbridled toyes and fooleries of lust- 
full blood, staies the wandring thoughts, and reduceth 
them Home to the centre: It is like a grave Counsel- 
lor to the whol Body: its Receptacle is in the spleen, 
and it is governed by Saturn. 
Of all these Humors, Blood is the chief, all the rest 
are but superfluities of Blood; yet are they necessary 
superfluities, for without any of them, Man cannot live. 
Namely, choller is the fiery superfluity; Flegm, the 
Watry; Melancholly, the Earthly. 
Animal.] The third principal Vertue remains, 
which is Animal; its residence is in the Brain, and 
Mercury is the general Significator of it. Ptolomy held 
the Moon signified the Animal Vertue; and I am of an 
Opinion, both Mercury and the Moon dispose it; and 
my reason is, 1. Because both of them in Nativities,
either fortifie, or impedite it. 2 Ill Directions to ei- 
ther, or from either, afflict it, as good ones help it. In- 
deed the Moon rules the Bulk of if, as also the Sensitive 
part of it: Mercury the Rational part: and that’s the 
Reason, if in a Nativity the Moon be stronger that Mer- 
cury, Sence many times ever-powers Reason; but if 
Mercury be strong, and the Moon weak, Reason will be 
Master ordinarily in despite of Sence. 
It is divided into Intellective, and Sensitive. 
1 Intellective.] The Intellective resides in the brain, 
within the Pia mater, is governed generally by Mercury. 
It is divided into Imagination, Judgment and Me- 
mory. 
Imagination is seated in the fore-part of the Brain; 
it is hot and dry in quality, quick, active, alwaies wor- 
king; it receives Vapors from the Heart, and coyns 
them into thoughts; it never sleeps, but alwaies is wor- 
king, both when the Man is sleeping or waking; on- 
ly when judgment is awake it regulates the Imaginati- 
on, which runs at Random when judgment is asleep, 
and forms any thought according to the Nature of the 
Vapor sent up to it. Mercury is out of question the 
Disposer of it. 
A Man may easily perceive his judgment asleep be- 
fore himself many times, and then he shall perceive his 
thoughts run at Random. 
Judgment alwaies sleeps when Men do, Imagination 
never sleeps; Memory sometimes sleeps when Men sleep, 
and somtimes it doth not: so then when Memory is a- 
wake, and the man asleep, then Memory remembers 
what Apprehension coyns, and that is a Dream: the 
Thoughts would have been the same, if Memory had 
not been awake to remember it. 
These Thoughts are commonly ( I mean in sleep; 
when they are purely Natural) framed according to the
Nature of the Humor, called Complexion, which is 
predominate in the Body; and if the Humor be pec- 
cant, it is alwaies so. 
So that it is one of the surest Rules to know a mans 
own complexion, by his Dreams, I mean a Man void of 
Distractions, or deep studies: (this most assuredly shews 
Mercury to dispose of the Imagination, as also because 
it is mutable, applying it self to any Object, as Mercu- 
ry's Nature is to do) for then the Imagination will fol- 
low its old bend; for if a man be bent upon a Business, 
his Apprehension will work as much when he is asleep, 
and find out as many truths by study, as when the man 
is awake; and perhaps more too, because then it is not 
impedited by ocular Objects. 
For the Notion of the predominate complexion by 
the Dreams, I have read some most excellent Verses, 
made by Thomas May Esq; which I shall here insert, by
which, if the complexion be not altered much in quan- 
tity or quality, you may know, by your most usual 
Dreams, not only your own complexion, but also what 
every Complexion is prone, and inclinable to: (I sup- 
pose, and really beleeve, that many Men and Women 
may know strange truths by their Dreams, if their Na- 
tivities be accordingly either by Nature, or perhaps 
if the business be rectified by Art, of which I may hap- 
pen to write somthing hereafter.) They are these: 
Sanguine Complexion. 
There all together fly in Companies, 
Of different Colours, Shapes and Qualities, 
Bright Sanguine Dreames, that seem to cheer the Night 
With beautious shapes, and rosy wings as bright, 
As the Morning, or those flowers that grace
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An Astrologo-Physical Discourse, &c. 
In midst of Spring the painted Flora's Face, 
Within the Temple, merrily do sport,  
To whom the little Cupids oft resort: 
The little Cupids from fair Venus Grove, 
Stealing by night, do thither come and love, 
With those bright Sanguine Dreams to paß away 
The hours of night, in sport and amourous play. 
Chollerick Complexion. 
There Dreams of Choller in a flamelike hue, 
Through th’ Air like little fiery Meteors flue, 
With swift and angry motion, to and fro. 
As if they sought within that place, a foe. 
Sometimes up to the Temples roof, on high, 
They soar, as if they meant to scale the skie: 
Or some impossible Archievement sought, 
T' allay the thirst of an a aspiring thought. 
Melancholick Complexion. 
But down below, with a sad and heavy cheer. 
On dead mens Tombs, and every Sepulcher, 
The dusky dreams of Melancholly light, 
With sable wings, like Bats, or Birds of Night, 
Fluttering in darkest corners, here and there, 
But all alone, and still each other fear : 
Courting dead skuls, and seeming to invite 
The dismal Ghosts, for company by night. 
Phlegmatick Complexion. 
There all along the Temples whited wall, 
Phlegmatick lazie Dreams, not wing'd at all, 
But flow like slimy Snails, about do crawl, 
And evermore, are thence afraid to fall, 
And so be drown'd, for on the floor below 
They do suppose great Pools of water flow. 
And thus much for Imagination, which is governed 
by Mercury, and fortified by his influence; and is also 
strong or weak in Man, according as Mercury is strong 
or weak in the Nativity. 
Judgment is seated in the midst of the Brain, to shew 
that it ought to bear rule over all the other Faculties;
it is the Judg of the little World, to approve of what is 
good, and reject what is bad; it is the -- of Reason,
and the guide of Actions; so that all saings are com- 
mitted through its Infirmity, it not rightly judging be- 
tween a real and apparant good. It is hot and moist 
in quality, and under the influence of Jupiter. 
Memory is seated in the hinder cell of the Brain, it is 
the great Register to the little World; and its Office 
is to Record things either done and past, or to be done. 
It is in quality cold and dry, Melanchollick, and 
therefore generally Melanchollick men have best Me- 
mories, and most tenacious every way. It is under the 
Dominion of Saturn, and is fortified by his Influance, 
but purged by the Luminaries. 
2, Sensitive.] The second part of the Animal Ver- 
tue, is Sensitive, and it is divided into two parts, Com- 
mon and Particular. 
Common Sence is an imaginary term, and that which 
gives Vertue to all the particular Sences, and knits or 
unites them together within the Pia Mater. It is regu- 
lated by Mercury, (perhaps this is one Reason why 
men are so fickle-headed) and its Office is to preserve 
a Harmony among the Sences. 
Particular Sences are Five,
Seeing, 
Hearings 
Smelling, 
Tasting, 
Feeling, 
These Sences are united in one, in the Brain, by the 
common Sence but are operatively distinguished into
their several seates, and places of Residence. 
The Sight resides in the Eyes and particularly in the 
Christalline Humor; It is in quality cold and moist, 
and governed by the Luminaries; They who have them 
weak in their Genesis, have alwaies weak sights; if,
one of them be so, the weakness possesseth but one Eye.
The Hearing resides in the Ears; is in quality, cold 
and dry, Melancholly, and under the Dominion of Sa
turn. 
The Smelling resides in the Nose, is in quality hot 
and dry, Chollerick, and that is the Reason chollerick 
Creatures have so good smels, as Dogs. It is under 
the Influence of Mars. 
The Taste resides in the Pallat which is placed at the
Root of the Tongue, on purpose to discern what Food 
is congruous for the stomach, and what not; as the 
Meseraick Veins are placed to discern what Nourish- 
ment is proper for the Liver to convert into Blood; in 
some very few men, and but a few, and in those few, but 
in a very few Meats these two Tasters agree not and 
that is the Reason some men covet Meats that make 
them sick, viz. The tast craves them, and the Meseraick 
Veins reject them: In quality hot and moist, and is ru- 
led by Jupiter. 
The Feeling is deputed to no particular Organ, but 
is spread abroad, over the whole Body; is of all quali- 
ties, hot, cold, dry, and moist, and is the Index of all 
tangible things; for if it were only hot, alone, it could 
not feel a quality contrary,viz. cold; and so might
be spoken of other qualities. It is under the Domini- 
on of Venus, some say. Mercury: A thousand to one, 
but tis under Mercury.
The Four Administring Vertues are. 
Attractive, 
Digestive, 
Retentive, 
Expulsive, 
The Attractive Vertue is hot and dry, hot by quality, 
active, or principal, and that appears because the Foun- 
tain of all heat is Attractive, viz. the Sun. Dry by a qua- 
lity passive, or an effect of its Heat; its Office is to re- 
main in the Body, and call for what Nature wants. 
It is under the Influence of the Sun, say Authors, and 
not under Mars, because he is of a corrupting Nature, 
(Experience is more worth then Tradition ten thou- 
sand times over) yet if we cast an impartial Eye upon 
Experience, we shall find, that Martial men, call for
meat none of the least, and for Drink the most of all 
other men, although many times they corrupt the Body
by it; and therefore I see no Reason why Mars being 
of the same quality with the Sun, should not have a 
share in the Dominion. 
It is in vain to Object, that the Influence of Mars is 
Evil, and therefore he should have no dominion over 
this Vertue; for them.
1. By the same Rule, he should have no Dominion at 
all in the Body of man. 
2. Al the Vertues in man are Naturally evil, and cor- 
rupted by Adams Fall. 
This Attractive Vertue ought to be fortified when 
the Moon is in the fiery signs, viz. Aries and Sagitarys 
but not in Leo, for the sign is so violent, that no Phy- 
sick ought to be given when the Moon is there: (and 
why not Leo, seeing that is the most Attractive sign of
all? And that’s the reason such as have it ascending in
their Genesis, are such greedy eaters) If you cannot
stay till the Moon be in one of them, let one of them as- 
cend when you administer the Medicine. 
The Digestive Vertue is hot and moist, and is the 
principal of them all, like Hand-maids attend it. 
The Attractive Vertue draws that which it should 
digest, and serves continually to feed and supply it.
The 

DIRECTIONS. 
The Retentive Vertue, retains the substance with it, 
till it be perfectly digested. 
The Expulsive Vertue casteth out, expelleth what is 
Superfluous by Digestion. 
It is under the Influence of Jupiter, and fortified by 
his Herbs and Plants, &c. 
In fortifying it, let your Moon be in Geminis, Aqua-
ry, or the first half of Libra, or if matters be come to 
that extremity, that you cannot stay till that time, let 
one of them ascend, but both of them together would 
do better, alwaies provided that the Moon be not in the 
Ascendent. I cannot beleeve the Moon afflicts the As- 
cendent fo much as they talk of, if she be well dignified, 
and in a Sign she delights in. 
The Retentive Vertue is in quality cold and dry; cold 
because the Nature of cold is to compress, witness the 
Ice; dry, because the Nature of Dryness, is to keep and
hold what is compressed. 
It is under the Influence of Saturn, and that is the 
Reason why usually Saturnine men are so coveteous 
and tenacious. 
In fortifying of it, make use of the Herbs and Plants, 
&c. of Saturn, and let the Moon be in Taurus or Vir- 
go, Capricorn, is not so good, say Authors, (I can give 
no Reason for that neither) let not Saturn nor his ill 
Aspect molest the Ascendant. 
The Expulsive Faculty is cold and moist ; cold, be- 
cause that compresseth the superfluities; moist, because 
that makes the Body slippery, and fit for Ejection, and 
disposeth it to it. 
It is under the Dominion of Luna, with whom you 
may joyn Venus, because she is of the same Nature.
Also in whatsoever is before written, of the Nature 
of the Planets, take notice that fixed Stars of the same 
Nature, work the same effects. 
In fortifying this, (which ought to be done in all 
Purgations) let the Moon be in Cancer, Scorpio, or Pis- 
ces, or let one of these Signs Ascend.
DIRECTIONS. 
Although I did what I could throughout the whol Book 
to expreß my self in such a Language as might be un- 
derstood by all, and therefore avoided terms of Art as much 
as might be, (it being the task of ohers to write onely to 
the Learned and the Nurslings of Apollo, but of my 
Self to do my Country good; which is the Centre all my 
Lines tend to, and I desire should terminate in) Yet, 
I. Some words must of necessity fall in which need Expla- 
nation. 
2. It would be very tedious at the end of every Receipt to 
repeat over and over again, the way of administration of the 
Receipt, or ordering your Bodies after it, or to instruct you in 
the mixture of Medicines, and indeed would do nothing else 
but stuff the Book full of Tautology. 
To answer to both these is my task as this time. 
To the first: 
The words which need explaining, such as are obvious to 
my eye, are these that follow. 
To distil in Balneo Mariæ, is the usual way of distil- 
ing in Water. It is no more than to place your Glaß Body 
which holds the matter to be distilled in a convenient vessel of 
water, when the water is cold (for fear of breaking) put a 
wisp of straw, or the like under it, to keep it from the bottom, 
then make the water boil, that so the spirit may be distilled 
forth ; take not the Glaß out till the water be cold again, for 
fear of breaking: It is impossible for a man to learn how to 
do it unleß he saw is done.
2. Manica Hippocrates, Hippocrates his Sleeve, is a 
piece of woolen cloath, new and white, sewed together 
in form of a Sugar-loaf. Its use is, to strain any Syrup 
or Decoction through, by pouring it into it, and suffe- 
ring it to run through without pressing or crushing it. 
3. Calcination, Is a burning of a thing in a Cruci- 
ble or other such convenient Vessel that will endure the 
fire: A Crucible is such a thing as your Gold-smiths 
melt Silver in, and your Founders their Mettals; you 
may place it in the midst of the fire, with coals above, 
below, and every side of it. 
4. Filtration, is straining of a liquid Body through a 
brown Paper: Make up the Paper in form of a Funnel, 
the which having placed in a Funnel, and placed the 
Funnel and the Paper in it in an empty Glass, pour in 
the Liquor you would filter, and let it run through at
its Leasure. 
5. Coagulation, Is curdling or hardning: It is used 
in Physick for reducing a liquid Body to Hardness by 
the heat of the fire. 
6. Where as you find Vital, Natural and Animal 
Spirits, often mentioned in the Vertues of Receipts, I 
shall explain what they be, and what their Operation 
is in the Body of Man. 
The Actions or Operation of the Animal Vertues, 
are, 1 Sensitive. 2. Motive. 
The Sensitive is 1. External. 2. Internal. 
The External Sences are. 1 Seeing, 2 Hearing, 3 
Tasting, 4 Smelling, 5 Feeling. 
The Internal Sences are, 1. the Imagination to appre- 
hend a thing. 2. Judgment to judg of it. 3. Memory to re- 
member it.
The Seat of all these is in the Brain. 
The Vital Spirits proceed from the Heart, and cause 
in Man, Mirth, Joy, Hope, Trust, Humanity, Mildneß, 
Courage, &c. and their Opposites: viz. Sadneß, Fear, 
Care, Sorrow, Dispair, Envy, Hatred, Stubborneß, Re- 
venge, &c. by heat Natural or not Natural. 
The Natural spirit nourisheth the Body throughout 
(as the Vital quickens it, and the Animal gives it sence 
and motion) Its Office is to alter or concoct Food in- 
to Chyle, Chyle into Blood, Blood into flesh, to Form, 
Engender, Nourish, and Increase the Body, 
7. Infusion, is to steep a gross Body into one more
Liquid. 
8. Decoction, is the Liquor in which any thing is 
boyled. 
As for the manner of using or ordering the Body af- 
ter any sweating, or purging Medicines, or Pill, or the 
like, the Table at the latter end of the Vertues of the 
Medicines will direct you to what Pages you may find 
them in, look but the word [Rules] there, as also in 
the next Page. 
The different Forms of making up Medicines, as 
some into Syrups, others into Electuaries, Pills, Tro-
ches &c. was partly to please the different Pallats of 
People, that so Medicines might be more delightful, or 
at least less burdensom: in such a case, the Table of Ver- 
tues at the latter end will universally furnish you with 
the generallity of both Simples and Compounds ap- 
propriated to the Disease. 
You may make the mixtures of them in what form 
you please; only for your better instructions at present, 
accept of these few Rules. 
1. Consider, That all Diseases are cured by their 
contraries, but all parts of the Body maintained by 
their likes: Then if Heat be the Cause of the Disease, 
give the cold Medicine appropriated to it, if wind, see 
how many Medicines appropriated to that Disease ex- 
pel wind, and use them. 
2. Have a Care you use not such Medicines to one 
part of your Body which are appropriated to another, 
for if your Brain be over-heated, and you use such Me-
dicines

DIRECTIONS. 
dicines as cool the Heart or Liver, you may make mad 
work. 
3. The distilled Water of any Herb you would take 
for a Disease, is a fit mixture for the Syrup of the same 
Herb, or to make any Electuary into a Drink, if you af- 
fect such liquid Medicines best: if you have not the di- 
stilled water, make use of the Decoction. 
4. Diseases that lie in the parts of the Body remote 
from the stomach and Bowels, it is in vain to think to 
carry away the Cause at once, and therefore you had 
best do it by degrees; Pills, and such like Medicines 
which are hard in the Body, are fittest for such a busi- 
ness, because they are longest before they digest. 
5. Use no strong Medicines, if weak will serve the 
turn; you had better take one too weak by half, than 
too strong in the least. 
6. Consider the Natural temper of the part of the
Body afflicted, and maintain it in that, else you extin- 
guish Nature, as the Heart is hot, the Brain cold, or at 
least the coldest part of the Body. 
7. Observe this general Rule; that such Medicines 
as are hot in the first degree, are most habitual to our 
Bodies, because they are just of the heat of our Blood 
8. All opening Medicines, and such as provoke u- 
rin, or the Terms, or break the Stone may most conve 
niently be given in white Wine, because white Wine of 
it self is of an opening Nature, and clenseth the Reins 
gallantly. 
9. Let all such Medicines as are taken to stop fluxes 
or Loosness, be taken before Meat, about an hour be- 
fore, more or less, that so they may strengthen the Di- 
gestion and retentive Faculty, before the Food come in- 
to the stomach; But such as are subject to vomit up 
their meat, let them take such Medicines as stay vomi-
ting presently after meat, at the Conclusion of their 
Meals, that so they may close up the Mouth of the Sto- 
mach; and that is the Reason why usually men eat a 
bit of Cheese after Meat, because by its sowrness and 
binding it closeth the Mouth of the stomach, thereby 
staying Belching and Vomiting. 
10. In taking Purges be very careful, and that you 
may be so, observe these Rules. 
1. Consider what the Humor offending is, and let 
the Medicine be such as purgeth that Humor, else will 
you weaken Nature, not the Disease. 
2. Take notice, if the Humor you would purge out 
be thin, then gentle Medicines will serve the turn, but 
if it be tough and viscous, take such Medicines as are 
cutting and opening the Night before you would take 
the Purge.
3. In purging tough Humors, forbear as much as 
may be such Medicines as leave a binding quality be- 
hind them. 
4. Have a care of taking Purges when your Body is 
astringent; your best way, is first to open it by a Cly- 
ster. 
5. In taking open Medicines, you may safely take 
them at night, eating but a little supper three or four 
hours before, and the next morning a draught of warm 
Posset-drink, and you need not fear to go about your 
business. In this manner you may take Lenitive Elect- 
uary, Diacatholicon, Pulp of Cassia, and the like gen- 
tle Electuaries, as also all Pills that have neither Dia- 
gridium nor Colocynthis, in them. But all violent Pur- 
ges require a due ordering of the Body, such ought to 
be taken in the morning after you are up, and not to
sleep after them before they have done working, at least 
before night: two hours after you have taken them, 
drink a draught of warm Posset-drink, or broath, and 
six hours after eat a bit of Mutton often walking about 
the Chamber; let there be a good fire in the Chamber, 
and stir not out of the Chamber til the Purge have done 
working, or not till next day.
Lastly, Take sweating Medicines when you are in bed, 
covered warm and in the time of your sweating, Drink 
Posset-drink as hot as you can drink it; if you sweat for 
a Feaver, boyl Sorrel and red Sage in your Posset-drink. 
sweat an hour or longer if your strength will permit, 
then (the Chamber being kept very warm) shift your 
self all but your Head, about which (the Cap which 
you sweat in being still kept on) wrap a Napkin very 
hot, to repel the vapors back. 
I confess these, or many of these Directions may be 
found in one place of the Book or other, and I delight 
as little to write Tautology as another, but the Printer 
desiring they should be put here, and I considering it 
might make for the publick good, inserted them; if 
notwithstanding any will be so mad to do themselves
a mischief, the fault is not mine. 
Weights and Measures in the New 
DISPENSSATORY. 
Twenty Grains make a Scruple. 
Three scruples make a Dram. 
Eight Drams make an Ounce. 
Twelve Ounces make a Pound. 
THe most usual Measures [amongst us] are 
these. 
A spoon which in Syrups holds half an ounce, in 
distilled Waters three drams. 
A Taster which holds an ounce and an half. 
A Congy which (in their former Dispensatory held nine 
pound, now) holds but eight pound, viz. just a Gal- 
lon: The reason I suppose is, Because most Nations 
differ in the quantity of their Measures, and they quo-
ted their Congius from one Nation before, and from 
another now. 
Weights and Measures in the Old 
DISPENSATORY. 
Twenty Grains to make a Scruple. Three Scru- 
ples make a dram (commonly called a dram.) 
Eight drams make an ounce. Twelve ounces make a 
pound. 
As for the Colledges Measures I know not well what 
English Names to give them. Cochlearum holds in Sy- 
rups half an ounce; in distilled waters three Drams. 
Cyathus holds an ounce and an half, Hemina (which 
also they cal Cotyla) contains nine Ounces. Libra holds 
twelve Ounces. A Sextary contains eighteen Ounces. 
Congie six Sextaries.
These Measures amongst the Romans contained not 
just the same quantities; for their Cyathus contained an 
ounce and an half, a dram and a scruple. Their Sextary 
contained but fourteen ounces three quarters, and half 
a quarter; and among the Græcians not so much: It is
called a Sextary because it is the sixt part of a Congie. 
Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether se-
ven ounces and an half. Their Libra I suppose to be 
that which Galen calls μετζιχηγ, viz. A Vessel to mea- 
sure with; it was made of cleer Horn, and by certain 
lines drawn round it like rings, was divided into twelve 
equal parts, each part containing an ounce.
THE 

1
The SIMPLES that are most frequently used in 
Physick, with their VERTUES and USE. 
The PREFACE to the Catalogue of Simples. 
BEfore I begin the Catalogue, I thought good to premise a few words to the 
Reader. 
1. Let him have a care he mistake not one thing for another; viz, Herbs 
for Roots, or either of them for Flowers: If he cast but his Eye up to the top of 
the Page he shall there see which it is. 
2. Let a due time be observed (cases of necessity excepted) in gathering all Simples; 
for which take these few Rules. The time to gather all Roots is before the Herb run 
up to feed, for then they are softest, as you may see by Radishes, Carrots, Parsneps &c. 
The Roots of which, you may perceive hard when they run up to seed and not because 
the sap is in the Root, as the vulgar hold; for if the sap rose and fel as they hold, then 
the Root must grow in Winter only, as the branches do in Summer, which, experi- 
ence will shew to be false; for the Roots grows-only in Summer, as the branches do; 
you see what a wooden Doctor Tradition is: Would not this make every one endea- 
vour to study a Reason for what he doth? And see how our forefathers have been led 
by Tradition. The truth is, it is the Sun is the Author of life and growth to the whol
Creation, he was ordained of God for that end; when he comes on this side of the 
Equator, the Trees spring, when he passeth to the South side of the Equator they lose 
their verdant color and growth, also til the revolution of time bring his presence to 
revive them; but enough of this in this place. 
Herbs are to be gathered when they are fullest of Juyce which is, before they run up 
to seed; and if you gather them in a hot Sunshine day, they will not be so subject to 
putrifie: the best way to dry them, is in the Sun according to Dr. REASON, though 
not according to Dr. TRADITION: Such Herbs as remaine green all the year, 
or are very ful of Juyce, it were a folly to dry at all, but gather them only for present 
use, Housleek, Scurvy-grass &c. 
Let Flowers be gathered when they are in their prime, in a Sunshine day, and dried 
in the Sun. Let the Seeds be perfectly ripe before they be gathered. 
3. Let them be kept in a dry place; for any moisture, though it be a moist Aire, 
corrupts them, which if perceived in time, the Beams of the Sun will refresh the Herbs 
and Flowers and do the Sun no harm. 
ROOTS
BEars breach, or Brankursine; 
it is meanly hot and dry, it 
helps ach and numness of 
the Joynts, and is of a bin- 
ding quality, good for wounds and 
broken bones, Diascorides faith, they 
are profitable for Ruptures, or such 
as are bursten, or burnt with fire, a 
dram of the Root in Pouder being 
taken in the morning fasting, in a 
Decoction made with the same Root 
and water: 
Acori, Veri, Perigrini vulgaris, &c. 
See Calamus Aromaticus. I shall not, 
nor dare not make a long Paraphrase 
about the sorts of it, one of which is 
water-flag, or Flower-de-luce, which 
is hot and dry in the second degree,
G Binds,

2 ROOTS. 
binds, strengthens, stops fluxes of the 
Belly, and immoderate flowing of the 
terms in Women, a dram being taken 
in red wine every morning. 
Garlick. It is hot and dry in the 
fourth degree, breeds naughty and 
corrupt blood, yet is an enemy to all 
poysons, and such as are bitten by 
cold venemous beasts, viz. Adders, 
Toads, Spiders, &c. it provokes urin, 
and expels wind. 
Marsh-mallows, are meanly hot, 
of a digesting, softening nature, ease 
pains, help bloody fluxes, the storie 
and Gravel; being bruised and well 
boyled in Milk, and the Milk drunk, 
is a gallant Remedy for the gripings 
of the Belly, and the bloody Flux; If 
a Feaver accompany the Disease, 
boyl a handful of common Mallow 
leaves with a handful of these 
Roots.
Angelica; is hot and dry in the 
third degree, strengthens the heart 
exceeding, and is a singular remedy 
against Pestilence and poyson, half 
a dram taken in the morning fa- 
sting.
Alkanet; cold and dry, binding, 
good for old Ulcers, 
Anthoræ. An outlandish Root, 
the counterpoyson for Monks-hood, 
it is an admirable Remedy for the 
wind colick, and resists poyfon. They 
that would know more of it, let them 
read Guainerius, and Solerious, both 
which lived neer the places where it 
plentifully grew.
Of Birthwort: of which are three 
sorts, long, round, and climing: All 
hot and dry in the third degree. 
The long, being drunk in Wine, 
brings away both birth and after- 
birth, and whatsoevet a careless 
midwife hath left behind. Dioscorides. 
Galen. 
The round, being drunk with 
Wine, help (besides the former) 
stuffings of the Lungs, hardness of 
the Spleen, ruptures, Convulsions; 
both of them resist poyson. 
Of Sowbread: hot and dry in the 
third degree, a most violent purge, 
dangerous. Outwardly applied to 
the place, it profits much in the bi- 
tings of venemous Beasts, also being 
hung about Women in labor, it 
causeth speedy deliverance. See the 
Herb. 
Of common Reeds and sugar 
Reeds. The Roots of common Reeds 
applied to the place draw out thorns 
ease Sprains; the ashes of them mix- 
ed with Vinegar, take Scurf, or dan- 
drif off from the head, and prevent 
the falling off of the hair, they are 
hot and dry in the second degree, ac- 
cording to Galen. 
I would not have the Reader build 
to much confidence upon the degrees
of temperature (or more properly in- 
temperature) neither of this, or any 
other Simple, because most of them 
are quoted by Outlandish Authors; 
and out of question the difference of 
the Climate may somthing alter their 
temperature in degree.
Of Cuckow-pints, or Wake Robin, 
hot, and dry in the third degree, I
know no great good they do inward- 
ly taken, unless to play the Rogue 
withal, or make sport: outwardly 
applied, they take off Scurf, Mor- 
phew, or Freckles from the Face, and 
cleer the Skin, and ease the pains of 
the Gout. 
Of Swallow-wort, hot and dry, good 
against poyson, and gripings of the 
belly, as also against the bitings of 
made Dogs taken inwardly.
Of Asarabacca: the Roots are a
safer purge than the Leaves and not  
so violent. I do not much fancy any 
of them both, ignorant people had 
better let them alone than be too 
busie with what they have no skil in: 
they purge by vomit, stool, and 
Urine, they are profitable tor such 
as have Agues, Dropsies, stoppings 
of the Liver; or Spleen, Green-sick- 
ness.
Of Sparagus, or Sperage: they are 
temperate in quality, opening, they 
provoke Urine, and clense the Reins 
and Bladder, being boyled in white 
Wine, and the wine drunk. 
Of Male Asphodel. Hot and dry 
in tile second degree. Inwardly 
taken, they provoke vomit, Urine, 
and the Terms in Women: outward- 
ly used in Oyntments, they cause 
hair to grow, clense Ulcers, take a- 
way Morphew and Freckles from the 
Face.
Of Bur, Clot-Bur, or Bur Dock,
temperately hot and dry. Helps such 
as spit blood and matter, bruised and 
mixed with Salt and applied to the 
place, helps the bitings of mad Dogs. 
It expels wind, easeth pains of the 
Teeth, strengthens the back, helps 
the Running of the Reins, and the 
whites in Women, being taken in- 
wardly. Dioscorides Apuleius. 
Of Valerian, white and red. Mesue, 
Scrapio, and other Arabians, say they 
are hot and moist in the latter end of 
the first, or beginning of the second 
degree, and comfort the Heart, stir 
up lust. The Grecians held them to 
be dry in the second degree, that 
they stop Fluxes, and provoke
Urine. 
Of Beets, black, white, and red; as 
for black Beets I have nothing to 
say, I doubt they are as rare as black 
Swans. The red Beet root boyled 
and preserved in Vinegar, makes a 
fine, cool, pleasing, clensing, dige- 
sting sawce. See the Leaves. 
Of Bistort, or Snake-weed, cold and 
dry in the third degree, blinding: the
quantity of half a dram at a time 
taken inwardly, resist Pestilence and 
poyson, helps ruptures and bruises, 
staies fluxes, vomiting, and immo- 
derate flowing of the Terms in Wo- 
men, helps inflammations and sore- 
ness of the mouth, and fastens loose 
Teeth, being bruised and boyled in 
white Wine, and the mouth washed 
with it. 
Of Borrage, hot and moist in the 
first degree, cheers the heart, helps 
dropping Spirits. Dioscorides. 
Of Briony both white and black: 
they are both hot and dry, some say 
in the third degree, and same say but 
in the first; they purge flegm and
watry humors, but they trouble the 
stomach much, they are very good 
for Dropfies; the white is most in 
use, and is admirable good for the 
fits of the Mother: both of them ex- 
ternally used, take away Freckles, 
sunburning, and Morphew from the 
Face, and clense filthy Ulcers: It is 
but a churlish purge, but being let 
alone, can do no harm. 
Of Bugloss: Its Vertues are the 
same with Borrage, and the Roots 
of either seldom used.
Of Aromatical Reed, or sweet Gar- 
den flag: It provokes Urine, streng- 
thens the Lungs, helps bruises, resists 
poyson, &c. being taken inwardly 
in pouder, the quantity of half a 
dram at a time. In beattng of it be 
very speedy, for the strength will 
quickly fly out. You may mix it 
with syrup of Violets, if your body 
be feaverish. 
Capar Roots. Are hot and dry in 
the second degree, cutting and clen- 
sing: they provoke the Terms, help 
malignant ulcers, ease the Toothach
asswage swelling, and help the Ric- 
kets. See Oyl of Cappars.
Of Avens, or Hearb bennet. The 
Roots are dry, and somthing hot, of 
A clensing quality, they keep gar- 
ments from being motheaten. See 
the Leaves. 
Of Centaury the greater. The Roots 
help such as are bursten, such as spit- 
blood, shrinking of sinews, short- 
ness of wind, coughs, convulsions, 
cramps: half a dram in pouder be- 
ing taken inwardly, either in Mus- 
kadel, or in a Decoction of the same 
Roots. They are either not at all, or 
very scarce in England, our Centau- 
ry is the final centaury. 
Of Onions. Are hot and dry (ac- 
cording to Galen) in the fourth de- 
gree: They cause driness, and are 
extreamly hurtful for chollerick peo- 
ple, they breed but little nourish- 
ment, and that little is naught: they 
are bad meat, yet good Physick for 
flegmatick people, they are opening, 
and provoke Urine and the Terms, if 
cold be the cause obstructing: brui-- 
sed and outwardly applied, they cure 
the bitings of mad dogs: rosted and 
applied, they help Boyls, and Apost- 
humes

ROOTS. 3
humes: raw, they take the fire out 
of burnings; but ordinarily eaten, 
they cause head-ach, spoil the sight, 
dull the sences, and fil the body ful 
of wind. 
Of Chameleon white and black. 
Tragus calleth the carline Thistle by 
the name of white Chameleon, the 
root whereof is hot in the second de- 
gree, and dry in the third; it pro- 
vokes sweat, kils worms, resists Pesti- 
lence and Poyson, it is given with 
success in Pestilential feavers, helps 
the Toothach by being chewed in the 
mouth, opens the stoppings of the 
Liver and Spleen, it provokes urine, 
and brings dawn the Terms: give 
but little of it at a time, by reason 
of its heat. As for the black Cha- 
meleon, All Physitians hold it to 
have a kind of venemous quality and 
unfit to be used inwardly, both Galen, 
Clusius, Nicander, Dioscorides, and 
Ægineta. Outwardly in Oyntments, 
it is profitable for Scabs, Morphew. 
Tetters, &c. and all things that need 
clensing.
Of Celondine, the greater and lesser: 
The greater is that which we usually 
call Celondine: The Root is mani- 
festly hot and dry, clensing and scou- 
ring, proper for such as have the yel- 
low Jaundice, it opens obstructions 
of the Liver; being boyled in white 
Wine, and the Decoction drunk;
and if chewed in the mouth it helps 
the Tooth-ach.
Celondine the lesser is that which 
usually we call Pilewort, which 
though Galen and Dioscorides, teach 
to be hot in the fourth degree, and 
might happily be so in those Coun- 
tries where they lived, yet with us it 
scarce exceeds the first degree, the 
Juyce of the root mixed with Honey 
and snuffed up into the Nose, purg- 
eth the Head, helps the Hemorrhoids 
or Piles being bathed with it, as also 
doth the root only carried about one
being made into an Oyntment helps 
the *disease in the Neck, commonly 
Called the Kings Evil. [* Scrophula] 
China, wonderfully extenuateth 
and drieth, provoketh sweat, resisteth 
putrefaction, it strengthens the Liver, 
helps the dropsie and Malignant
Ulcers, Leprosie, Itch, and French 
Pocks, and is profitable in diseases 
coming of fasting. It is commonly 
used in Diet drinks for the pre- 
mises.
Of Succory: Cools and dries in the 
second degree, strengthens the Liver 
and Veins, it opens obstructions, 
stopping of the Liver and Spleen, be- 
ing boyled in white Wine and the 
Decoction drunk. 
Of Meadow Saffron, The Roots 
are held to be hurtful to the Sto- 
mach, therefore I let them alone. 
Consolida major, is that which 
we ordinarily call Comfry; it is of a 
cold quality, yet pretty temperate, 
of such a glutinous quality that ac-
cording to Dioscorides they will Joyn 
meat together that is cut in sunder, if 
they be boyled with it; it is excel-  
lent for all wounds, both internal, 
and external, for spitting of blood,
Ruptures' or burstness, pains in the 
back, it strengthens the Reins, it
stops the Terms, and helpeth He- 
morrhoids. The way to use them is 
to boyl them in water and drink the 
Decoction. Consolida minor, is that 
we cal Self-heal, and the Latins Pru- 
nella. See the Herb. 
Of Costus both sorts, being Roots 
coining from beyond Sea, hot and 
dry, break wind; being boyled in 
Oyl, it is held to help the Gout by 
anointing the grieved place with 
it.
Of wild Cucumer Roots, or Cowcum- 
ber as the vulgar call them; they 
purge flegm, and that with such vio- 
lence, that I would advise the coun- 
try man that knows not how to cor- 
rect them, to let them alone. 
Of Artichoaks. The roots purg- 
eth by Urine , whereby the rank 
favor of the Body is much amen- 
ded. 
Of Hounds-tongue. Cold and dry: 
being roasted and laid to the Funda- 
ment, helps the Hemorrhoids, is 
also good for burnings and scal-
ding.
Of Termerick, hot in the third 
degree opens obstructions, is profit- 
able against the yellow Jaundice, and  
cold distemper of the Liver and
Spleen, half a dram being taken at
night going to bed in the pulp of a 
roasted Apple, and if you add a little 
Saffron to it, it will be the better
by far. 
Of Cyperus Grass, or English Ga- 
langa, both sorts, long and round: 
is of a warming nature, provokes 
Urine, breaks the stone, provokes 
the Terms; the ashes of them (being 
burnt) is used for Ulcers in the 
mouth, Cankers, &c.
Of Carrots. Are moderately hot 
and moist, breed but little nourish- 
ment, and it extream windy: I omit 
what vertues Galen writes of them, as 
being confident there was such a dif- 
ference between them, that our car- 
rots will never answer those effects, 
or, if any do, 'tis the wild kind. 
Of Toothwort, toothed Violets, or 
Corralwort; they are drying, binding, 
and strengthening; are good to case 
pains in the sides and bowels; also 
being boyled, the Decoction is said 
to be good to wash green wounds 
and Ulcers with. 
Of Dittany: is hot and dry in the 
third degree, hastens travel in wo- 
men, provokes the Terms. (See the 
Leaves.) 
Of Doronicum, a supposed kind of 
Wolf-bane: I am of opinion that Se- 
rapio and Avicenna and other Ara- 
bian Physitians, did not intend that 
Root We now use for Doronicum
when they wrote so much against it, 
I shall adhear to the judgment of 
Gesner, which is vended by dayly 
experience: It is hot and dry in the 
third degree, strengthen the heart, is 
a foveraign Cordial, and preserva- 
tive against the Pestilence; It helps, 
the Vertigo, or Swimming of the 
head, is admirable against the bi- 
tings of venemous beasts, and such 
as have taken too much Opium, as 
also for Lethargies, the. Juyce helps 
hot rewins in the Eyes; a scruple of 
the Root in pouder is enough to take 
at one time. 
Dracontii, Dracunculi. Divers Au- 
tuors attribute divers Herbs to this 
Name. It is most probable to me, 
that they mean Dragons, the Roots of 
which clense mightily, and take a- 
way proud, or dead flesh, the very 
smel of them is hurtful for women 
with Child: outwardly in Oynt- 
ments, they take away Scurf, Mor- 
phew, and Sun-burning; I would 
not wish any unless very wel read in
Physick, to take them inwardly. Ma- 
thiolus Dioscorides. 
Of Dwarf-Elder, Walwort, or 
Danewort; hot and dry in the third 
degree; the Roots are as gallant a 
a purge for the Dropsie as any is un- 
der the Sun, which besides the Au- 
thority of the Ancient, was often, 
proved by the never dying Dr. Butler 
of Cambridg, as my self have in a 
Manuscript of his. You may take a 
dram or two drams (if the patient be 
strong) in white Wine at a time. 
Of Vipers Bugloss, or wild Bugloss, 
Authors differ about this Herb. I 
have set down the most usual Name,
and alwaies quote the vertues to 
what I set down: They say the root 
of this being carried in ones hand, 
no venemous beast wil bite him, (and 
so they say of Dragons which I for- 
got before) so that you may walk 
without danger amongst Adders, Vi- 
pers, and Serpents ; (but I beleeve 
you had best have a care you do not 
tread upon them) this root is cold 
and dry, good for such as are bitten 
by venemous beasts either being boy- 
led in Wine and drunk, or bruised 
and applied to the place; being boy- 
led in Wine and drunk, it encreaseth 
milk in Nurses.
Of Hellebore white and black. The 
Root of white Hellebore, or Sneez- 
wort, being grated and snuffed up 
the Nose, causeth sneezing; kills 
Rats and Mice being mixed with 
their Meat: it is but a scurvy, chur- 
lish Medicine, being taken inwardly,
and therefore better let alone than 
used, and yet Dr. Bright commends 
it for such as are --mad though Me- 
lancholly. Others are of opinion 
such harsh Medicines are not conve- 
nient for so sullen an humor, and of 
that opinion am I my self; If you wil 
use it for sneezing, let your head and 
Neck be wrapped hot for fear of cat- 
ching cold. Black

4 ROOTS 
Black Hellebore, Bears-foot, or 
Christmas flower: both this and the 
former are hot and dry in the third 
degree. This is nothing so violent 
nor dangerous as the former. Both 
Galen, and Julius Alexandrinus, 
report the roots of this * boyled  
[* You must boyl them but very little, 
for the strength will soon fly out in va- 
por.] in Vinegar, to be an admirable 
remedy against inveterate Scabs, 
Itch, and Leprosie, the same helps 
the Tooth-ach, being held in the 
mouth, and dropped into the Ears, 
helps deafness coming of Melan- 
cholly, and noise in the Ears; cor- 
rected with a little Cinnamon (in 
pouder) it purgeth Melancholly, 
resisteth madness. Also Pliny, Ab- 
syrius and Columella, affirm that a 
piece of Root put into a hole made 
in the Ear of a beast troubled with the 
Cough, or that hath taken any poy- 
son, and drawn quite through next 
day about that time, helpeth them: 
out of question it is a special thing to 
rowel Cartel withal.
Of Elecampane. Is hot and dry in the 
third degree, wholsome for the sto- 
mach, resists poyson, helps old 
Coughs , and shortness of breath, 
helps Rupture, and provokes lust; 
in Oyntment, it is good against scabs 
and Itch. 
Of Endive. Garden Endive, which 
is the root here specified, is held to 
be somwhat colder, though not so 
dry and clensing as that which is 
wild, it cools hot stomachs, hot li- 
vers, amends the blood corrupted by 
heat, and therefore must needs be 
good in Feavers, it cools the Reins, 
and therefore prevents the stone, it 
opens obstructions, and provokes 
Urine; you may bruise the root, and 
boyl it in white wine, ‘tis very harm- 
less.
Of Eringo, or Sea-holly: the roots 
are moderately hot, somthing dry-
ing and clensing, bruised and applied 
to the place, they help the Scrophula, 
or Disease in the Throat called the 
Kings Evil, they break the stone, en-
crease seed, stir up lust, provoke the 
Terms, &c.
Of Spurge the greater and lesser 
they are both (taken inwardly) too 
violent for a vulgar use; outwardly 
in Oyntments they clense the Skin,
fake away sunburning. 
Fearn, of which are two grand 
distinctions, viz. male and female; 
I suppose they intend the male here,
because they adjoyn some other 
names to it, which the Greeks attri- 
buted only to the male: the female 
is that which we in Sussex cal Brakes. 
Both of them are hot and dry, and 
excellent good for the Rickets in 
Children, and Diseases of the Spleen, 
but dangerous for Women with 
Child. 
Of Dropwort. The Roots are hot 
and dry in the third degree, opening, 
clensing, yet somwhat binding; they 
provoke Urine, ease pains in the 
Bladder, and are a good preservative 
against the Falling-sickness. 
Of Fennel. The Root is hot and 
dry, some say in the third degree, 
opening; it provokes Urine, and the 
Terms, strengthens the Liver, and is 
good against the Dropsie. 
Galanga, commonly called Galin- 
gal the greater and lesser: They are 
hot and dry in the third degree, and 
the lesser are accounted the hotter, it 
strengthens the stomach exceedingly, 
and takes away the pains thereof 
coming of cold or wind, the smel of 
it strengthens the Brain, it relieves 
faint hearts, takes away windiness 
of the Womb, heats the Reins, and 
provokes lust, you may take half a 
dram at a time. Mathiolus.
Of Gentian, called so from *his name 
[*Gentius a Prince] that first found it 
out: some call it Felwort, and Bald- 
money. It is hot, clensing, and scou- 
ring, a notable counterpoyson, it 
opens, obstructions, helps the bitings 
of venemous beasts, and mad Dogs, 
helps digestion, and clenseth the body 
of raw humors; our Chyrurgions 
use the root in form of a Tent, to 
open the sore, they are also very pro- 
fitable for Ruptures, or such as are 
burst. 
Of Liquoris; the best that is, prows 
in England: it is hot and moist in 
temperature, helps the roughness of 
the Windpipe, Hoarsness, Diseases
in the Kidnies and Bladder, and Ul- 
cers in the Bladder, (which in my 
opinion is a very difficult thing to 
cure, although curable) it concocts 
raw humors in the stomach, helps dif- 
ficulty of breathing, is profitable for 
all Salt humors; the root dried and 
beaten into pouder, and the pouder 
put into the Eye, is a special remedy 
for a Pin and Web. 
Of Grass, such as in London they 
call Couch-grass, and Squitch-grass; 
in Sussex, Dog-grass. It gallantly 
provokes Urine, and easeth the Kid- 
nies oppressed with Gravel, gripings 
of the Belly, and difficulty of Urine. 
Let such as are troubled with these 
Diseases, drink a draught of white 
wine, wherein these roots (being brui- 
sed) have been boyled, for their mor- 
nings draught; if they find ease, let 
them thank God; if not let them 
blame me. Bruised and applied to 
the place, they speedily help green 
Wounds. Galen Dioscorides. 
Of Hermodactils. They are hot 
and dry, purge flegm, especially
from the joynts, therefore are good 
for Gouts, and other Diseases in the 
Joynts. Their vices are corrected 
with Long Pepper, Ginger, Cinna- 
mon, or Mastich. I would not have 
unskilful people too busie with Pur- 
ges. 
Hyacinthi. Of Jacinths. The roots 
are dry in the first degree, and cold 
in the second; they stop loosness, 
bind the Belly. 
Orris, or flower-de-luce (after the 
French name) both that which grows 
with us, and that which comes from 
Florence. They are hot and dry in 
the third degree, resist poyson, help 
shortness of the breath, provoke the 
Terms; the Root being green and 
bruised, takes away blackness and 
blewness of a stroke being applied 
thereto. 
Of Masterwort. The Root is hot 
and dry in the third degree; miti- 
gates the rigor of Agues, helps Drop- 
sies, provokes sweat, breaks Car- 
buncles, and Plague-sores, being
applied to them; it is very profitable 
being given inwardly in bruises. 
Fullers-Thistle, Teazbe. The root 
being boyled in Wine til it be thick 
(quoth Dioscorides) helps by unction 
the clefts of the Fundament, as also 
takes away Warts and Wens. Galen 
saith, they are dry in the second de- 
gree: and I take it all Authors hold 
them to be cold and dry. 
Unflaked Lime beaten into pou- 
der, and mixed with black Soap, 
takes away a Wen being anointed 
with it.
If you rub Warts with the Leaves 
of Fig-trees, and bury the Leaves in 
the Earth, the Warts will insensibly 
consume away Mizaldus. 
If you anoint Warts with the juyce 
of Elder-berries, it will take them 
away. 
Warts rubbed with a piece of new 
Beef, and the Beef buried in the 
ground, the Warts will consume as 
the Beef rots. 
Of the Bay-tree. The Bark of the 
Root drunk with Wine, provokes 
Urine, breaks the stone, opens ob- 
structions of the Liver and Spleen. 
But according to Dioscorides is naught 
for Women with Child. Galen. 
The Roots of Sorrel are held to be 
profitable against the Jaundice. Of 
Sharp-pointed Dock; clense, and 
helps Scabs and Itch. 
Of Lovage. They are hot and dry, 
and exceeding good for any diseases 
coming of wind. 
Of White Lillies. The Root is 
somthing hot and dry, helps Bur- 
nings, softens the Womb, provoks 
the Terms; if boyled in Wine, is 
given with good success in rotten 
Feavers, Pestilences, and all Diseases 
that require suppuration: (it being 
outwardly applied) helps Ulcers in 
the head, and amends the ill color of 
the face. 
Of Mallows. They are cool, and 
digesting, resist poyson, and help 
Corrosions, or gnawing of the bo- 
wels, or any other part; as also Ul- 
cers in the Bladder. See Marsh- 
mallows. 
Of Mandrakes. A Root danger- 
ous for its coldness, being cold in 
the fourth degree; the Root is
scarcy,

ROOTS. 5
scarcy, and dangerous for the vulgar 
to use; therefore I leave it to those I 
chat have skil. 
Of Mechoacan. It is corrected 
With Cinnamon, is temperate yet 
drying, purgeth flegm chiefly from
the Head and Joynts, it is good for
old Diseases in the Head, and may 
safely be given even to Feaverish, 
Bodies, because of its temperature, 
it is also profitable against Coughs 
and pains of the Reins; as also 
against the French Pox: The strong 
take a dram at a time. 
Of Mulberry tree. The Bark of the 
Root is bitter, hot and dry, opens
stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, 
purgeth the Belly, and kils Worms, 
boyled in Vinegar, helps the Tooth- 
ach. 
Of Spicknard, Indian, and Celtick. 
Celtick Nard, according to Ronde- 
litius wonderfully provokes Urine. 
They are both hot and dry, but I let 
the degree alone, till the Learned 
are agreed about it. The Indian, 
also provokes Urine, and stops fluxes 
helps windiness of the stomach, resist- 
eth the pestilence, helps gnawing 
Pains of the stomach, and dries up 
Rhewms that molest the head. The 
Celtick Spicknard performs the same 
Offices, though in a weaker mea- 
sure.
Of Water-Lillies. They are cold 
and dry, and stop lust. 
Of Cammock, or Rest-harrow, so 
Called because it makes Oxen stand 
still when they are Ploughing. The 
Roots are hot and dry in the third 
degree; it breaks the Stone ( viz. the 
Barks of it.) The Root it self, accor- 
ding to Pliny, helps the Falling-sick- 
ness; according to Mathiolus, helps 
Ruptures: You may take half a dram 
at a time.
Garden and Wild parsnips. They are 
of a temperate quality, enclining 
something to heat; The Garden Pars- 
nips provoke Lust, and nourish as 
much and more too, than any Root 
ordinarily eaten: The wild are 
more Physical (and so are usually all 
wild Plants, I could give you reasons 
for it if I durst spend time and paper) 
being cutting, clensing, and ope- 
ning: they refill the bitings of vene- 
mous Beasts, ease pains and stitches 
in the sides, and are a soveraign 
Remedy against the Wind Chol- 
lick.
Of Cynksoyl, commonly called 
Five-leaved or Five finger'd grass;
the root is very drying but very mo- 
derately hot: It is admirable against 
all Fluxes, and stops blood flowing 
from any part of the body, it helps 
infirmities of the Liver and Lungs, 
help putrified Ulcers of the mouth, 
the root boyled in Vinegar is good 
against the Shingles, and appeaseth 
the rage any fretting sores. You 
may safely take half a dram at a time 
in any convenient Liquor.
Of Butter-Bur. The Roots are 
hot and dry in the second degree, 
they are exceeding good in violent 
and Pestilential Feavers, they pro- 
voke the Terms, expel poyson, and 
kil worms. 
Of Sulphur-wort, Hog-fennel or 
Hore strange. It is very good applied 
to the Navels of Children that stick 
out, Ruptures; held in the mouth, 
it is a present Remedy for the Fits of 
the Mother: it being taken inward- 
ly, gives speedy deliverance to Wo- 
men in Travel, and brings away the 
after-birth. 
Of Peony male and female. They
are meanly hot, but more drying; 
the male is more effectual in opera- 
tion than the female (say Authors) 
and yet quoth Dr. Reason, why should 
not the male be best for men, and 
the female for Women? The root 
helps Women not sufficiently purged 
after Travel, it provokes the Terms, 
and helps pains in the Belly, as also 
in the Reins and bladder, Falling- 
sickness, and Convulsions in Chil- 
dren, being either taken inwardly, 
or hung about their Necks. You 
may take half a dram at a time, and 
less for children. 
Valerian, or Setwal, greater and 
lesser. They are temperately hot, the 
greater provokes Urine and the
terms, helps the Strangury, staies 
Rhewms in the Head, and takes a- 
way the pricking pains thereof. The 
lesser resists poyson, asswageth the 
swelling of the Cods, coming either 
through wind or cold, helps cold 
taken after sweating or labor, Wind 
chollick: outwardly it draws out 
Thorns, and cures both wounds and 
Ulcers.
Of Plamaine. The Root is som- 
thing dryer than the Leaf, but not 
so cold, it opens stoppages of the 
Liver, helps the Jaundice, and Ul- 
cers of the Reins and Bladder. Dio- 
scorides affirmeth that one root help- 
eth a Quotidian Ague, three a Ter- 
tian, and four a Quartan, which 
though our late writers hold to be 
fabulous, yet there may be a grea- 
ter truth in it than they are aware of; 
yet I am as loth to make superstition 
a foundation to build on, as any of 
them; let Experience be judg, and
then we weigh not modern Jury 
Men. A little bit of the Root being 
eaten, instantly staies pains in the 
Head, even to admiration. 
Of Polypodium, or Fearn of the 
Oak. It is a gallant though, gentle 
purger of Melancholly; Also in the 
opinion of Mesue (as famous a Phy- 
sitian as ever I read for a Galenist) it 
dries up superfluous Humors, takes 
away, swellings from the Hands, 
Feet, Knees, and Joynts, stitches and 
pains in the sides, infirmities of the 
Spleen, Rickets: correct it with a 
few Annis Seeds, or Fennel seeds, or 
a little Ginger, and then the stomach
will not loath it. Your best way of 
taking it, is to bruise it well, and 
boyl it in white wine til half be con- 
sumed, you may put in much, or 
little, according to the strength of 
the Diseased, it works very safely. I 
cannot give no better reason why 
Polypodium of the Oak should be 
best, unless because ‘tis rarest, it 
draws either very little sap from the 
Oak, or none at all, or if it did, the 
reason were as far to seek. I am of 
opinion, that which grows on the 
ground is the best to evacuate Me- 
lancholly, but it is more Sympathe- 
tical.
Of Solomons Seal. Let it be no 
dishonor to Galen nor Dioscorides that 
English men have found out in late 
daies that those Roots may safely be 
given inwardly: Intruth they may 
be excused if the difference of the 
Climates they and we lived, and now 
live in, be but considered, neither I 
hope will my Country men blame 
me for following only Dr. Experience 
in the vertues oi this root: stamped 
and boyled in wine it speedily helps 
(being drunk I mean, for it will not 
do the deed by looking upon it) all 
broken bones, it is of an incredible 
vertue that way; as also being stam-
ped and applied to the place, it soon 
heals all wounds, and quickly takes 
away the black and blew marks of 
blows, being bruised and applied to 
the place, and for these, I am per- 
swaded there is not a better Medi- 
cine under the Sun (or as Copernicus 
and Kipler will have it, above the 
Sun.)
Of Leeks. They say they are hot 
and dry in the fourth degree; they 
breed ill-favored nourishment at the 
best, they spoil the Eyes, heat the 
body, cause troublesom sleep, and 
are noisome to the stomach, yet are 
they good for somthing else (than 
only to stick in Welchmans Hats) for 
the juyce of them dropped into the 
Ears takes away the noise of them, 
mixed with a little Vinegar and snuf- 
fed up the Nose, it staies the bleeding 
of it, they are better of the two boy- 
led then raw, but both waies excee- 
ding hurtful for Ulcers in the blad- 
der; and so are Onions and Gar- 
lick.
Pelitory of Spain. It is hot and dry 
in the fourth degree, chewed in the 
mouth, it draws away Rewin in the 
Tooth-ach; bruised and boyled in 
Oyl, it provokes sweat by unction; 
inwardly taken, they say it helps 
Palsies and other cold effects in the 
brain and Nerves.
Reupontick, or Rhubarb of Pontus. 
It takes away windiness and weak- 
ness of the stomach, sigthings, sob- 
bings, spittings of Blood, Diseases 
of the Liver and Spleen, Rickets &c. 
if you take a dram at a time it will 
purge a little, but bind much, and
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6 ROOTS. ROOTS. BARKS. 
therefore fit for foul bodies that have 
fluxes
Of Rhubarb. It gently purgeth 
Choller from the stomach and Liver, 
opens stoppings, withstands the  
Dropsies, Hypochondriack Melan-
Cholly; a little boyling takes away  
the vertue of it, and therefore it is 
best given by infusion only; If your 
body be any thing strong you may 
take two drams of it at a time being 
sliced thin and steeped all night in
white Wine, in the morning strain it 
out and drink the white Wine; it 
purgeth but gently, it leaves a bin- 
ding quality behind it, therefore 
dryed a little by the fire and beaten
into Pouder, it is usually given in
Fluxes. 
Of Rhadishes, Garden and Wild. 
Garden Radishes provoke Urine,  
break the Stone, and purge by Urine 
exceedingly, yet breed very bad 
blood, are offensive to the stomach, 
and hard of digestion, hot and dry 
in quality. Wild, or Horse Radi- 
shes, such as grow in ditches, are 
hotter and dryer than the former, and 
more effectual in the premises. 
Rose Root, called (I suppose) by 
that name because of its sweetness. 
Stamped and applied to the Head it 
mitigates the pains thereof, being 
somwhat cool in quality.
Patience, Monks Reubarb, or Ba- 
stard-Reubarb: It also purgeth, clens- 
eth the Blood, opens obstructions of 
the Liver.
Of Maddir. In this were Galen 
and Dioscorides quite beside the Cu- 
shion, in saying this Root was ope- 
ning, and clensing, when clean con- 
trary, it is both drying and binding, 
yet not without Tome opening quali- 
ty, for it helps the Yellow Jaundice, 
and therefore opens obstructions of 
the Liver and Gall; it is given with 
good success, to such as have had 
bruises by falls, stops loosness, the 
Hemorrhoids, and the Terms in Wo- 
men. 
Of knee-holly or Butchers-Broom, 
or Bruscus. They are meanly hot and 
dry, provoke Urine, break the stone, 
and help such as cannot piss freely. 
Use them like grass Roots.
Of Sarsa Parilla, or Bind-weed;
somewhat hot and dry, helpful 
against pains in the Head, and joynts ; 
they provoke sweat, and are used fa- 
miliarly in drying Diet drinks. 
Of Satyrion, each sort, They are 
hot and moist in temper, provoke 
lust, and encrease seed; each branch 
beareth two Roots, both spongy, yet 
the one more solid than the other, 
which is, of most vertue, and indeed 
only to be used, for some say the most 
spongy root is quite contrary in ope- 
ration to the other, as the one en- 
creaseth, the other decreaseth; yet 
if in your Eye they contend for dig-
nities, put them both in water, and
the most solid which is for use will 
sink, the other swim. 
Of white Saxifrage, in Sussex we 
call them Lady-smocks. The Roots 
powerfully break the stone, expel 
wind, provoke Urine, and clense the 
Reins. 
Of Scabious. The Roots either 
boyled, or beaten into ponder, and 
so taken, helps such as are extreamly 
troubled with Scabs and Itch, are 
Medicinal in the French Pox, hard 
swellings, inward wounds, being of 
a drying, clensing, and healing fa- 
culty. 
Sqellœ. Of Squils. See Vinegar, 
and Wine of Squils in the Com- 
pounds.
Of Vipers grass. The root cheers 
the heart, and strengthens the vital 
spirits, resists poyson, helps passions 
and tremblings of the Heart, faint- 
ness, sadness, and Melancholly, o- 
pens stoppings of the Liver and 
Spleen, provokes the Terms, easeth 
women of the Fits of the Mo- 
thers, and helps Swimmings in the 
Head. 
Of Hartwort. The Roots pro- 
voke Urine, helps the Falling-sick- 
ness. 
Of Scirrets. They are hot and 
moist, of good nourishment, som- 
thing windy, as all Roots are; by 
reason of which, they provoke Lust,
they stir up Appetite, and provoke 
Urine. 
Spina alba, Bedeguar. I scarce 
know what Name to give it, that wil 
please. Our English, both Physiti- 
ans and Apothecaries, cal that ball 
of thred that grows upon the Bryars, 
Bedeguar; but the Arabians called 
our Ladies Thistles by that Name,
the roots of which are drying and 
binding, stops fluxes, bleeding, takes 
away cold swellings, and eases the 
pains of the Teeth. 
Stinking Gladon, a kind of Flower- 
de-luce, called so for its unsavory 
smel: It is hot and dry in the third 
degree; outwardly they help the 
Kings Evil, soften hard swellings,
draws out broken bones: inwardly 
taken they help Convulsions, Rup- 
tures, Bruises, Infirmities of the 
Lungs. 
Of Tansie The Root eaten, is a 
singular remedy for the Gout: the 
Rich may bestow the cost to preserve 
it. 
Of Tormentil. A kind of Sinkfoil; 
dry in the third degree, but moder- 
ately hot; exceeding good in Pesti- 
lences, provokes sweat, staies Vo- 
miting, cheers the Heart, expels 
poyson.
Of Throat-wort: By some called 
Canterbury bels: by some Coventry 
bels. They help diseases and Ulcers 
in the throat. 
Tripolÿ. The Roots purgeth flegm, 
expel poyson. 
Turbith. The Root purgeth flegm,
(being hot in the third degree) chie-
fly from the exterior parts of the bo- 
dy: it is corrected with Ginger, or 
Mastich. Let not the vulgar be too 
busie with it. 
Victorialis. An Outlandish kind 
Of Garlick. They say, being hung 
about the Neck of Cattel that are 
blind suddenly, it helps them; and 
defends those that bear it, from evil 
Spirits. 
Mead-sweet. Cold and dry, bin- 
ding, stops fluxes, and the immo- 
derate flowing of the Terms in wo-
men: you may take a dram at a 
time. 
Of Zedoary, or Setwal. This and 
Zurumbet, according to Rasis, and 
Mesue, are all one; thinks 
them different: I hold with Mesu ;
indeed they differ in form, for the 
one is long, the other round; they 
are both hot and dry in the second 
degree, expel wind, resist Poyson, 
stop Fluxes, and the Terms, stay vo 
miting, help the Chollick, and kill
Worms; you may take half a dram at a 
time. 
Of Ginger, Helps digestion, warms 
the stomach, cleers the sight, and is 
profitable for old men, heats the
ioynts, and therefore is profitable 
against the Gout, expels Wind; it is 
hot and dry in the third degree. 
BARKS.
OF the Roots of Smallage. Take 
notice here. That the Barks 
both of this Root, as also of Parsly, 
Fennel &c. is all that of the Root 
which is in use, neither can it pro- 
perly be called Bark, for it is all the 
Root, the hard pith in the middle
excepted, which is alwaies thrown
away, when the Roots are used. It 
is somthing hotter and drier than 
Parsly, and more medicinal; it opens 
stoppings, provokes Urine, helps
digestion, expels wind, and Warms 
a cold Stomach: use them like Grass
Roots.
Of Hazel. The rind of the Tree
provokes Urine, breaks the Stone; 
the husks and shels of the Nuts, dry-
ed and given in Pouder, stay the im- 
moderate Flux of the Terms in Wo-
men. 
Of Orrenges. Both these, and also 
Lemmons and Citrons, are of differ- 
ent qualities, the outward bark, viz 
what looks red, is hot and dry, the 
white is cold and moist, the Juyce, 
colder than it; the seeds hot and dry; 
the outward bark is that which here 
I am to speak to, it is somewhat hot- 
ter than that either of Lemmons, or
Citrons;

BARKS. BARKS. WOODS. 7
Citrons therefore it warms a cold 
stomach more, and expels wind bet- 
ter but strengthens not the Heart so 
much. 
Barberries. The Rind of the Tree 
Recording to Clusius, being, steeped 
in Wine, and the Wine drunk, purg- 
eth Choller, and is a singular reme- 
dy for the yellow Jaundice. Boyl it 
in white wine and drink it. See the 
direction at the beginning. 
Cassia Lignea &c. It is somthing 
More oyly than Cinnamon, yet the 
vertues being not much different, I 
refer you thither. 
Of Chest-nuts. The bark of the 
Chestnut Tree is dry and binding, 
and stops Fluxes.
Cinnamon, and Cassia Lignea. Are 
hot and dry in the second degree, 
strengthens the stomach helps di- 
gestion, causeth a sweet breath, re- 
sists poyson, provokes Urine, and 
the Terms, causeth speedy delivery 
to Women in Travel, helps coughs 
and Defluxions of Humors upon the 
Lungs, Dropsies, and difficulty of 
Urine. In Oynonents it takes away 
red pimples, and the like deformities 
from the Face. There is scarce a 
better remedy for women in labor, 
than a dram of Cinnamon newly 
beaten into Pouder and taken in 
White Wine.
Of pome Citrons. The outward 
peel, It strengthens the Heart, resists 
poyson, amends a stinking breath, 
helps digestion, comforts a cold sto- 
mach. 
Of Beans. Bean Cods (or Pods, as 
We in Sussex call them) being burned, 
the ashes are a sovereign remedy for 
aches in the Joynts, old bruises, 
Gouts, and Sciaticaes. 
Of Fennel Roots. See the Roots, 
and remember the observation given 
in Smallage at the beginning of the 
Barks. 
Of the Bark of Ash Tree Roots. 
That the vertues lies only in the Bark 
of the Roots, I suppose it to be only 
nicety: But the bark of the Tree, 
helps the Rickets, is moderatly hot 
and dry, staies Vomiting; being 
burnt, the allies made into an Oynt- 
ment helps Leprosie and other de- 
formity of the skin, easeth pains of 
the spleen. You may say the bark in 
steep in white Wine for the Rickets, 
and when it hath stood so two or  
three daies, let the diseased Child 
drink now and then a spoonful of it. 
Of Pomegranates. The rind or pill, 
cool and forcibly binds, staies fluxes 
and the Terms in women, helps di- 
gestion, strengthens weak stomachs, 
fastens the Teeth, and are good for 
such whose gums wast. You may 
take a dram of it at a time inwardly. 
Pomegranate flowers are of the same 
Virtue.
Of green Walnuts. As for the out- 
ward green bark of Walnuts, I sup- 
pose the best time to take them is
before the Walnuts be shelled at all, 
and then you may take Nuts and all 
(if they may properly be called Nuts 
at such a time) you shal find them ex- 
ceeding comfortable to the stomach, 
they resist poison, and are a most 
excellent preservative against the 
Plague, inferior to none; they are 
admirable for such, as are troubled 
with Consumptions of the Lungs, 
the Rich may keep them preser- 
ved; they that cannot do as they 
would, must be content to do-as they, 
may, viz. dry them, and so keep 
them. 
Of Lemmons. The outward peel is
of the nature of Citron, but helps not 
so effectual; however let the poor 
Country man that cannot get the 
other, use this. 
Of Mace. It is hot in the third 
degree, strengthens the stomach and 
heats exceedingly, and helps con-
coction. 
Maceris &c. It is held to be the 
inner Bark of Nutmeg-tree, helps 
fluxes and spitting of blood. 
Of Parsley Roots; opens obstructi- 
ons, provokes Urine and the Terms, 
Warms a cold Stomach, expels wind, 
and breaks the stone, use them as 
Grass Roots, and take out the inner 
pith as you were taught in Smallage 
Roots. 
Pine-shucks or Husks. I suppose 
the cones that hold the Seeds; both 
those and also the Bark of the Tree, 
stops Fluxes, and helps the Lungs. 
Of Oak-Tree. Both the bark of the 
Oak, and Acorn Cups are drying 
and cold, binding, stop fluxes and 
the Terms, as also the running of the 
Reins, have a care how you use them 
before due purging.
Of Cork. If is good for somthing 
else besides to stop bottles; being 
dry and binding, stancheth blood, 
helps fluxes, especially the ashes of 
it being burnt. Paulus. 
Of Eider Roots and Branches; purg- 
eth water, helps the Dropfie. 
The middle Bark of Tameris, eas- 
eth the Spleen, helps the Ric- 
kets, you may use them as Ash Tree 
Bark. 
Of Line-Tree. Boyled, the water 
helps burnings. 
Of Elm. Moderately hot and clen- 
sing, very good for wounds, bums, 
and broken bones, viz.  Boyled in 
water and the grieved place bathed 
with it.
WOODS and
Their CHIPS, or
RASPINGS.
Wood of Aloes; is moder- 
acely hot and dry: a good
Cordial: a rich Perfume: a great 
strengthener to the stomach. 
Aspalathus. Rose-wood. There 
are diverse bushes called by the name 
of Aspalathus; but because the Col- 
ledg have set it down amongst the 
Woods, (I suppose they mean the 
Tree) It is moderately hot and dry, 
stops loosness, provokes Urine, and 
is excellent to clense filthy Ul- 
cers. 
Cypress. The Wood laid amongst 
cloaths, secures them from Moths. 
See the Leaves. 
Ebeny. It is held by Dioscorides, to 
cleer the sight, being either boyled 
in Wine, or burnt to ashes. 
Guajacum, Lignum vitæ. Dries,
attenuates, causeth swear, resisteth 
putrefaction, is admirable good for 
the French Pox, as also for Ulcers
Scabs and Leprosie, it is used in diet 
drink. 
Juniper. The smoak of the Wood, 
drives away Serpents; the ashes of 
it made into lie, oures Itch, and 
Scabs. 
Nephrhicum. It is a light Wood 
and comes from Hispaniola; being 
steeped in water, will soon turn it 
into a blew color ; it is hot and dry 
in the first degree, and so used as be- 
fore, is an admirable remedy for the 
stone, as also for the obstructions of 
the Liver and Spleen. 
Rhodium. Encreaseth Milk in Nur- 
ses.
White, red, and yellow Sanders: 
They are all cold and dry in the se- 
cond or third degree: the Red stops 
defluxions from any part, and helps 
inflamations: the white and yellow 
(of which the yellow is best) cool the 
heat of Feavers, strengthen the heart 
and cause cheerfulness, 
Sassafras. Is hot and dry in the 
second degree, it opens obstructions 
or stoppings, it strengthens the breast 
exceedingly, if it be weakned 
through cold, it breaks the stone, 
staies vomiting, provokes Urine, and 
is very profitable in the French Pox, 
used in diet drinks. 
Tamaris. Is profitable for the Ric- 
kets, and burnings.
HERBS 
And their 
LEAVES. 
Southernwood, Male and Female
It is hot and dry in the third de- 
gree, resists poyson, kils Worms 
provokes lust, outwardly in Plai- 
sters, it dissolves cold swellings, and 
helps the bitings of venemous beasts
makes

8 HERBS and their LEAVES. 
makes hair grow: take not above 
half a dram at a time in pouder. 
Wormwood. Its several sorts, are 
all hot and dry in the second or third 
degrees, the common Wormwood is 
thought to be hottest, they all help 
Weakness of the Stomach, clense 
Choller, kil worms, open stoppings, 
help Surfets, cleer the Sight, resist 
Poyson, clense the blood, and secures 
cloaths from Moths. 
Alkenet. The Leaves are somthing 
drying and binding, but inferior in 
vertue to the Roots, to which I refer 
you. 
Sorrel. Is moderately cold and
dry, binding, cutteth tough Humors, 
cools the brain, Liver, and stomach, 
cools the blood In Feavers and pro- 
vokes appetite. 
Bears-breech, or Brankursine. Is 
temperate, something moist. See the 
Root. 
Maiden-hair. white and black. 
They are temperate, yet drying, 
white Maiden-hair is that we usually 
call Wal-rue; they both open ob- 
structions, clense the breast and 
Lungs of gross slimy humors, pro- 
voke Urine, help ruptures and short- 
ness of winde. 
Golden Maiden-hair; its temper- 
ature and vertues are the same with 
the former; helps the Spleen; bur- 
ned and Ly made with the Ashes, 
keeps the hair from falling off from 
the Head. 
Argrimonia. Agrimony. Galens 
Eupatorium: It is hot and dry in the 
first degree, binding, it amends the 
infirmities of the Liver, helps such as 
piss blood, helps inward wounds, 
opens obstructons; outwardly ap- 
plied it helps old sores, ulcers &c. 
Inwardly it helps the Jaundice, and 
the Spleen: You may either take a 
dram of this or that following at a 
time inwardly in white Wine, or boyl
the Herb in white wine and drink the
Decoction. Galen, Pliny, Dioscorides, 
Serapio. 
Ageracum. Mesue his Eupatorium 
Maudlin. Is hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, provokes Urine and the 
Terms, dries the brain, opens stop- 
pings, helps the green sickness, and 
profits such as have a cold, weak Li- 
ver; outwardly applied, it takes 
away the hardness of the Matrix, and 
fills hollow Ulcers with flesh. 
Agnus Castus &c. Chast-tree. 
The Leaves are hot and dry in the 
third degree; expel wind, consume 
the seed, cause Chastity being only 
born about one, it dissolves swellings 
of the Cods being applied to them, 
Heach-ach, Lethargy. Also Diosco- 
rides faith, a branch of it preserves a 
traveller from weariness. 
Wood Sorrel. It is of the tempera- 
ture of other Sorrel, and held to be 
more cordial; cools the blood, helps 
Ulcers in the mouth, hot defluxi- 
ons upon the Lungs, Wounds, Ul- 
cers, &c. 
Vervain-Mallow. The Root helps 
fluxes and burstness. Ætius Diosco- 
rides. 
Garlick. Hot and dry in the 
fourth degree, troublesome to the 
Stomach, it dulls the sight, spoils a, 
clear skin, resists poyson, easeth the 
pains of the Teeth, helps the bitings 
of mad Dogs, and venemous beasts; 
helps Ulcers, Leprosies, provokes 
Urine, is exceeding opening, and 
profitable for Dropsies. 
Marsh-mallows. Are moderately
hot and drier then other Mallows; 
they help digestion, and mitigate 
pain, ease the pains of the Stone, 
and in the sides. Use them as you 
were taught in the Roots, whose ver- 
tues they have, and both together 
will do better. 
Chickweed Is cold and moist with- 
out any binding, asswageth swelling, 
and comforts the Sinews much, and 
therefore is good for such as are 
shrunk up; it dissolves Aposthums, 
hard swellings, and helps manginess 
in the Hands and Legs, outwardly 
applied in a pultis. Galen. 
Ladies-mantle. Is hot and dry, some 
say in the second degree, some say 
in the third: Outwardly it helps 
wounds, reduceth Womens breasts 
that hang bagging: inwardly, helps 
bruises, and Ruptures, staies vomi- 
ting and the whites in women, and, 
is very profitable for such women as 
are subject to miscarry through cold 
and moisture.
Privet. Hath a binding quality, 
helps Ulcers in the mouth, is good 
against burnings and scaldings, che- 
risheth the Nerves and Sinews; boyl 
it in white Wine to wash the mouth, 
and in Hogs grease for burnings and 
scaldings. 
Marjoram. Some say tis hot and 
dry in the second degree, some ad- 
vance it to the third. Sweet Marjo- 
ram, is an excellent remedy for cold 
diseases in the Brain, being only 
smelled to; helps such as are given 
to much sighing, easeth pains in the 
Belly, provokes Urine, being taken 
inwardly; you may take a dram of 
it at a time In pouder. Outwardly 
in Oyls or Salves, it helpeth Sinews 
that are shrunk; Limbs out of Joynt, 
all Aches and Swellings coming of a 
cold cause. 
Angelica. Is hot and dry in the 
third degree, openeth, digesteth , 
maketh thin, strengthens the Heart, 
helps Fluxes, and loathsomness of 
meat, it is an enemy to poyson and 
Pestilence, provokes the Terms in 
Women, and brings away the after- 
birth. You may take a dram of it at 
a time in pouder. 
Pimpernel, male and female. They 
are somthing hot and dry, and of 
such a drawing quality that they 
draw Thorns and Splinters out of the
flesh, amend the sight, clense Ulcers, 
help infirmities of the Liver and 
Reins. Galen. 
Dill. Is hot and dry in the second 
degree. Dioscorides faith, it breeds 
milk in Nurses. But Galen he denies 
it; Howsoever, it staies vomiting, 
easeth Hiccoughs, asswageth swel- 
lings, provokes Urine, helps such 
as are troubled with the fits of the 
mother, and digests raw Humors. 
Apium. Small age; So it is com- 
monly used; but indeed all Parsly is 
called by the Name of Apium, of
which this is one kind. It is som- 
thing hotter and drier than Parsly, 
and more efficacious; it opens stop- 
pings of the Liver and Spleen, cleans- 
eth the blood, provokes the Terms, 
helps a cold Stomach to digest its 
meat and its singular good against 
the yellow Jaundice. But Smallage 
and Clevers, may be well used in 
pottage in the morning instead of 
Herbs.
Goose-grass, or Clevers: They are 
meanly hot and dry, cleansing, helps 
the bitings of venemous beasts, keeps 
mens bodies from growing too fat, 
helps the yellow Jaundice, staies 
Bleeding, Fluxes, and helps green
wounds. Dioscorides, Pliny, Galen, 
Tragus. 
Wood-roof: Cheers the Heart, 
makes men Merry, helps Melancho- 
ly, and opens the stoppings of the 
Liver. 
Columbines: Help sore Throats, 
are of a drying, binding quali 
ty. 
Silver-weed, or Wild Tansie; Cold 
and dry almost in the third degree;
stops Lasks, Fluxes, and the Terms, 
good against Ulcers, the Stone, and 
inward wounds, it stops the immo- 
derate Flux of the Terms in Women 
if it be worn in their Shoes: easeth 
gripings in the Belly, fasteneth loose 
Teeth: outwardly it takes away
Freckles, Morphew, and Sunburning
it takes away Intimations, and
bound to the wrests stop the violence 
of the fits of an Ague.
Sow-bread: hot and dry in the 
third degree, it is so dangerous a 
purge I dare not take it my self, ther- 
fore would I not advise others: out- 
wartly in Oyntments it takes away
Freckles, Sunburning, and the marks 
which the smal Pocks leave behind 
them: dangerous for Women with 
Child, yea so dangerous, that both 
Dioscorides and Pliny say, it wil make 
a woman miscarry if she do but stride 
over it. 
Mugwort: Is hot and dry in the 
second degree: binding: an Herb 
appropriated to the Fœmine sex, it 
brings down the Terms, brings a- 
way both birth and after-birth, eas- 
eth pains in the Matrix. You may 
take a dram at a time. 
Asarabacca: hot and dry; pro- 
vokes vomiting and urine, and are
good

HERBS and their LEAVES. 9
good for Dropsies. They are cor- 
rected with Mace or Cinnamon. 
Orach, or Arrach. It is cold in
the first degree, and moist in the se- 
cond saith Galen, and makes the 
Belly soluble. Dioscorides saith, they
cure the yellow Jaundice, Lythus 
Neop saith, the help such as have 
taken Cantharides. *Mathiolus saith 
[*I doubt he was mistaken] it purgeth 
upwards and downwards. Hypocrates 
saith, it cools hot Aposthumes, and 
St. Anthonies fire. It is certainly 
an admirable remedy for the fits of 
the Mother, and other infimities of 
the Matrix, and therefore the Latins 
Called it Vulvaria.
Mous-ear: hot and dry, of a bin- 
ding quality, it is admirable to heal 
wounds, inward or outward, as also 
ruptures or burstness; Edge-tools 
quenched in the Juyce of it, will cut 
Iron without turning the Edg, as 
easie as they will lead: and lastly, it 
helps the swelling of the Spleen, 
Coughs and Consumption, of the 
Lungs. 
Wild Bastard Saffron, Distaff-thistle, 
0r Spindle-thistle; Is dry and moda- 
rately digesting, helpeth the bitings 
of venemous beasts: Mesue saith, it 
is hot in the first degree, and dry in 
the second, and clenseth the breast 
and Lungs of tough flegm. 
Costmary Alecost: See Maudline, 
Of which I take this to be one sort or, 
kind.
Housleek, or Sengreen: cold in the 
third degree, profitable against the 
Shingles, and other hot creeping
ulcers, inflamations, St. Anthonies 
fire, frenzies, it cools and takes a- 
way Corns from the Toes being ba- 
thed with the Joyce of it, and a skin 
of the leaf laid over the place; stops 
Fluxes, helps Scalding and bur- 
ning. 
Clot-Bur, or Bur-Dock: Temper-- 
ately dry and wasting, somthing 
cooling, it is held to be a good re- 
medy against the shrinking of the 
Sinews: they case pains in the blad- 
der provoke urine. Also Mizaldus 
saith, that a leaf applied to the top 
the Head of a Woman draws the 
Matrix upwards, but applied to the 
Soles of the Feet draws it down-
wards, and is therefore an admit- 
able remedy for suffocations, preci-  
pitations, and dislocations of the 
Matrix, if a wise man have but the 
using of it.
Beets, white and red; The white 
are somthing colder and moister than 
the red, both of them loosen the bel- 
ly, but have little or no nourishment
Simeon Sethi, tels A large story of se- 
veral diseases they breed in the Sto- 
mach, I scarce believe him. This is 
certain, the white provoke too stool, 
are more clensing, open stop- 
ping of the Liver and Spleen, help 
the Vertigo or swimming in the 
Head: The Red stay Fluxes, help the
immoderate flowing of the Terms in 
women, and are good in the yellow  
Jaundice. 
Avens: Hot and dry, help the
Colick and rawness of the Stomach, 
stitches in the sides, help bruises, and 
take away clotted blood in any part 
of the Body.
Common or wood Betony: Hot 
and dry in the second degree, helps 
the Falling-sickness and all Head- 
aches coming of cold, clenseth the 
Breast and Lungs, opens stoppings of 
the Liver and Spleen, as the Rickets, 
&c. procures appetite, helps four 
belchings, provokes urine, breaks 
the Stone, mitigate the pains of the 
Reins and Bladder, help Cramps, and 
Convulsions, resists poyson, helps the 
Gout, such as Piss blood, Madness 
and Head-ach, kills worms, help 
bruises, and clenseth women after
their labor: You may take a dram of 
it at a time in white Wine, or any 
other convenient liquor proper 
against the Disease you are afflicted 
with. 
Pauls Betony or male Lluellin, they 
are pretty temperate, stop defluxions 
of Humors that fal from the Head 
into the Eyes, are profitable in 
wounds, helps filthy foul eating Can- 
kers: Penœ tels of one of her Coun- 
try-men, a Gentleman of Wales, 
who had her nose almost eaten of 
with the Pocks, yea it was so pitiful 
fore, it had almost brought her to a 
Leprosie, and her was cured by only 
taking her own Country Herb Lluel- 
lin inwardly, and applying the Herb 
outwardly to the place.
Dasies: are cold and moist in the 
second degree, they ease all pains 
and swellings coming of heat, in 
Clysters they loose the Belly; are
profitable in Feavers and Inflamati- 
ons of the Stones; they take away 
bruises, and blackness and blewness; 
they are admirable in wounds 
and Inflamations of the Lungs or 
blood. 
Blites. Some say they are cold 
and moist, others cold and dry; 
none mention any great vertues of 
them. 
Barrage: Hot and moist, comforts 
the Heart, cheers the Spirits, drives 
away sadness and Melancholly, they 
are rather Laxative then binding 
help swooning and heart-qualms, 
breed special good blood, help con- 
sumptions, madness, and such as are 
much weakned by sickness. 
Good Henry, or all good; hot and 
dry, clensing and scouring; inward- 
ly taken it loosens the Belly; in- 
wardly it clenseth old sores and ul- 
cers. 
Oak of Jerusalem: hot and dry in 
the second degree, help such as are 
short-winded; cuts and wasts gross 
and rough flegm, laid among cloaths 
they preserve them from Moths, and 
give them a sweet smel. 
Briony, while and black, both are 
hot and dry in the third degree, 
purge violently, yet are held to be 
wholsom Physick for such as have 
Dropsies, Vertigo, or swimming in 
the Head, Falling-sickness, &c. Cer- 
tainly it is a scurvy, strong, trouble- 
som purge, therefore ill to be tampe- 
red with by the unskilful; outward- 
ly in Oyntments it takes away frec- 
kles, Wrinckles, Morphew, Scars, 
Spots, &c. from the Face. 
Shepherds-Purse; Is manifestly cold 
and dry, though Lobel and Pena 
thought the contrary; it is binding 
and stops blood, the Terms in Wo- 
men, Spitting and Pisling of Blood, 
cools inflamations. 
*Bugloss. [*In Sussex (because they 
must be francified) called Languede- 
beef in plain English, Ox-tongue.] 
Its vertues are the same with Bor- 
rage. 
Bugle, or middle Comfry; is tem- 
perate for heat, but very drying,
excellent for fals or inward bruises, 
for it dissolves congealed blood, pro- 
fitable for inward wounds, helps the 
Rickets and other stoppings of the 
Liver; outwardly it is of wonderful 
force in curing wounds and Ulcers, 
though festered, as also Gangreens & 
Fistulaes, it helps * broken bones, 
[* or Members out of joynt.] and dislo- 
cations. To conclude, let my Coun- 
try-mcn esteem it as a Jewel: In- 
wardly you may take it in pouder a 
dram at a time, or drink the decocti- 
on of it in white-wine, being made 
into an Oyntment with Hogs grease, 
you shall find it admirable in green 
wounds. 
Ox Eye, Mathiolus saith they are 
commonly used for black Helle- 
bore, to the vertues of which I refer 
you. 
Box-tree. The Leaves are hot, dry 
and binding, they are profitable
against the biting of mad Dogs: 
both taken inwardly, boyled and ap- 
plied to the place, besides they are 
excellent to cure Horses of the 
bots. 
Mountain and Water Calamint: For 
the Water Calamint; see Mints, 
then which it is accounted stonger. 
Mountain Calamint, is hot and dry 
in the third degree, provokes Urine 
and the Terms, hastens the Birth in 
Women, brings away the after-birth, 
helps Cramps, Convulsions, difficul- 
ty of breathing; kils Worms helps 
the Leprosie: outwardly used, it 
helps such as holds their Necks on 
one side: half a dram is enough at 
one time. Galen, Dioscorides, Apu- 
leius. 
Marigold. The Leaves are hot in 
the second degree, and somthing 
moist, loosen the belly: the juyce 
held in the mouth, helps the Tooth- 
ach, and take away any inflama- 
tion or hot swelling being bathed 
with it, mixed with a little Vineger.
I Hony

10 HERBS and their LEAVES. 
Hony-suckles: The Leaves are hot,
and therefore naught for Inflmati- 
ons of the Mouth and Throat, for 
which the ignorant people often give 
them: and Galen was true in this, let 
modern writers write their pleasure. 
If you chew but a Leaf of it in your 
mouth, experience will tel you that 
it is likelier to cause, then to cure a 
sore Throat: they provoke Urine, 
and purge by Urine, bring speedy 
delivery to women in Travel, yet 
procure barrenness and hinder con- 
ception: outwardly they dry up foul 
Ulcers, and clense the Face from 
Morphew, sunburing and Frec- 
kles. 
Groundsel. Cold and moist accor- 
ding to Tragus, helps the Chollick, 
and pains of gripings in the belly, 
helps such as cannot make water, 
cleanseth the Reins, purgeth choller 
and sharp humors; the usual way of 
taking it is to boyl it in water with 
Currance, and so eat it, I hold it to 
be a wholesome and harmless purge. 
Outwardly it easeth womens breasts 
that are swollen and inflamed; or 
(as themselves say) have gotten an 
Ague in their Breasts: as also infla- 
mation of the Joynts, Nerves or 
Sinews. Ægineta. 
Carduns B. Mariæ. Our Ladies 
Thistles. They are far more tempe- 
rate then Carduus Benedictus, open 
obstructions of the Liver, help the 
Jaundice and dropsie, provoke urine, 
break the Stone.
Carduus Benedictus. In plain Eng- 
lish; Blessed Thistle, though I con- 
fess it be better known by the Latine 
name; it is hot and dry in the second 
degree, clensing and opening, helps 
swimming and giddiness in the Head 
deafness, strengthens the memory, 
helps griping pains in the belly, kils 
worms, provokes sweat, expels poy- 
son, helps inflamation of the Liver, 
is very good in Pestilences, and the 
French-Pocks: outwardly applied, it 
ripens Plague-sores, and helps hot 
swellings, the bitings of mad Dogs 
and venemous beasts, and foul filthy 
Ulcers. Every one that can but make 
a Carduus posset, knows how to use 
it. Camerarius. Arnoldus vel anava- 
nus.
Carallina. A kind of Sea Moss: 
told, binding, drying, good for hot 
Gouts, inflamations, also they say it 
kils worms, and therefore by some is 
called Maw-wormseed. 
Avens, or Herb Bennet, Hot and 
dry: they help the colick, raw- 
ness of the stomach, stitches in the 
sides, stoppings of the Liver, and 
Bruises. 
Nep, or Catmints. The vertues are 
the same with Calaminth. 
Horse-tail; Is of a binding drying 
quality, cures wounds and is an ad- 
mirable remedy for Sinews that are 
shrunk; yea, Galen saith it cures 
Sinews though they be cut in sunder:
but Columbus holds that it is incur- 
able unless they be cut within the 
Muscle: well then, we will take 
Galen in the charitablest sense. How- 
ever this is certain, it is a sure reme- 
dy for bleeding at the Nose, or by 
wound, stops the Terms in Women, 
Fluxes, Ulcers in the Reins and 
Bladder, Coughs, Ulcers in the 
Lungues, Difficulty of breathing. 
Caulis, Brassica. hortensis, Silvestris. 
Colewort, or Cabbages, Garden and 
Wild. They are dry and binding, 
help dimness of the sight: help the 
Spleen, preserve from drunkenness, 
and help the evil effects of it: pro- 
voke the Terms: they say, being lain 
on the top of the Head, they draw 
the Matrix upward, and therefore 
are good for the falling out of the 
Womb, Chrysippus writes a whole 
Treatise of them, and makes them a 
universal Medicine for every disease 
in every part of the Body.
Centaury the greater and lesser. They 
say the greater will do wonders in 
curing wounds: see the, Root. The 
lesser is that which is commonly in 
Sussex known by the Name of Cen- 
taury, and indeed so throughout 
that part of the Nation that I have 
travelled over: a present remedy for 
the yellow Jaundice, opens stoppings 
of the Liver, Gall and Spleen: purg- 
eth choller, helps Gout, clears the 
sight, purgeth the Stomach, helps 
the Dropsie and Green-sickness. It 
is only the tops and Flowers which 
are useful, of which you may take a 
dram inwardly in pouder, or half a 
handful boyled in posset-drink at a 
time.
Knot-Grass: cold in the second 
degree, helps spitting and Pissing of 
Blood, stops the Terms and all other 
Fluxes of blood, vomiting of blood, 
Gonorhæa, or running of the Reins, 
weakness of the Back and Joynts, 
Inflamations of the Privities, and 
such as Piss by drops, and it is an 
excellent remedy for Hogs that will 
not eat their meat. Your only way 
is to boyl it, it is in its prime about 
the latter end of July, or beginning 
of August: at which time being 
gathered it may be kept dry all the 
year. Brassavalus. Camerarius. 
Common and great Chervil: Take 
them both together, and they are 
temperately hot and dry, provoke 
Urine, they stir up lust, and desire 
Copulation, comfort the Heart, and 
are good for old people; help 
Pleurisies and Pricking in their 
sides. 
Brooklime, Hot and dry, but not 
so hot and dry as Water-cresses; 
Tragus saith, they are hot and moist, 
but the man dreamed waking, they 
help mangy Horses: See Water- 
cresses. 
Spleenwort: Moderately hot, wasts 
and consumes the Spleen, insomuch 
that Vitruvius affirms he hath known
Hogs that have fed upon it, that have 
had (when they were killed) no 
Spleens at al. It is excellent good for 
Melancholy people, helps the stran- 
gury, provokes urine, and breaks 
the Stone in the bladder, boyl it and 
drink the Decoction; but because a 
little boyling will carry away the 
strength of if in vapours, let it boyl 
but very little, and let it stand close 
stopped till it be cold before you 
drain it out, this is the general rule 
for all Simples of this Nature. 
Ground-pine: Hot in the second 
degree, and dry in the third, helps 
the Jaundice, Sciatica, stopping of
the Liver, and Spleen, provokes the 
Terms, cleanseth the entrails, dis- 
solves congealed blood, resists poy 
son, cures wouuds and Ulcers.
Strong bodies may take a dram, and
weak bodies half a dram of it in pou-
der at a time. 
Garden and wild Chamomel. Gar-
den Chamomel, is hot and dry in the 
first degree, and as gallant a Medicine 
against the Stone in the Bladder as 
grows upon the Earth, you may take 
it inwardly, I mean the Decoction of
it, being boyled in white Wine, or in 
ject the juyce of it into the bladder 
with a syringe, It expels wind, helps 
belchings and potently provokes the 
Terms: used in Baths, it helps pains 
in the sides, gripings and gnawings
in the belly. 
Germander; Hot and dry in the 
third degree; cuts and brings 
tough humors, opens stoppings of 
the Liver and Spleen, helps coughs 
and shortness of breath, strangury and 
stopping of Urine and provokes the
Terms; half a dram is enough to take 
at a time. 
Celondine both-sorts. Smal Celon- 
dine is usually called Pilewort, it is 
somthing hotter and drier than the
former, but not in the fourth degree 
as Galen and Dioscorides would have 
it; they say it helps the Hemorroids 
or Piles, by only carrying it about 
one (but if it will not, bruise it and 
apply it to the grief) and from thence 
it took its name. Celondine the 
greater is hot and dry (they say in the 
third degree) any way used, either 
the juyce or made into an Oyl or 
Oyntment, it is a great preserver of 
the sight, and as excellent an help for 
sore Eyes as any is. 
Artichokes. They provoke lust
and purge by urine. 
Succory, to which add Endive which 
comes after. They are cold and dry 
in the second degree, clensing and 
openning, they cool the heats of the 
Liver, and are profitable in the yel- 
low Jaundice, and burning Feavers, 
helps Excoriations in the Yard,
hot Stomachs; and outwardly ap- 
plied, help hot Rhumes in the
Eyes. 
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Hemlock: Cold in the fourth de- 
gree, poysonous; outwardly applied, 
it helps Priapismus, or continual 
standing of the Yard, the Shingles, 
St. Anthonis fire, or any eating Ul- 
cers. 
Hemlock-boyled, and the Yard 
bathed with the Decoction of it, 
Helps the priapismus, or continual 
standing of the Yard. 
Perwinkle. Hot in the second de- 
gree, somthing dry and binding; 
stops Lasks, spitting of blood, and 
the Terms in Women. 
Comfry. I do not conceive the 
leaves to be so vertuous as the Roots 
Golden Red: Hot and dry in the 
second degree, cleanseth the Reins, 
provokes Urin, brings away the Gra- 
vel: an admirable Herb for woun- 
ded people to take inwardly, stops 
blood, &c. 
Larks heels; resist poyson, help the 
bitings of venomous beasts. 
Saracens Confound. Helps inward 
wounds, sore Mouths, sore Throats, 
Wasting of the Lungues, and Li- 
ver.
Buchorn Plantaine, or Sea-plantane: 
Cold and dry, helpeth the bitings of 
venemous beasts, either taken in- 
wardly, or applied to the wound; 
helps the colick, breaks the Stone.
Ægineta. 
Coronaria. Hath got many English 
Names. Cotten-weed, Cud-weed, 
Chaff-weed, and Petty Cotten. Of 
a drying and binding nature; boyled  
in Ly, it keeps the Head from Nits 
and Lice; being laid among clothes, 
it keeps them safe from Moths, kills 
Worms, helps the bitings of vene- 
mous Beasts; taken in a Tobacco- 
Pipe, it helps Coughs of the Lunges, 
and vehement Head-aches. 
Cruciata. Cross-wort: (there is
a kind of Gentian called also by this 
Name, which I pass by) is drying 
and binding, exceeding good for in- 
Ward or outward wounds, either in- 
wardly taken, or outwardly applied: 
an excellent remedy for such as 
are bursten. 
Orpine. Very cool; Outwardly 
used with Vinegar, it clears the skin; 
inwardly taken, it helps gnawings of 
the stomach and bowels. Ulcers in
the lungs, bloody-flux, and Quinsie 
the Throat; for which last disease 
it is inferior to none: take not too 
much of it at a time, because of its: 
Coolness. 
Sampier. Hot and dry, helps dif- 
ficulty of Urm, the yellow Jaundies,  
provokes the Terms, helps digestion, 
openeth stoppings of the Liver and  
Spleen. Galen.
Blew bottle, great and smal: A fine
cooling Herb, helps, bruises, wounds, 
broken Veins; the juyce dropped 
into the Eye, help the inflamations
thereof.
Hounds-Tongue, Cold and dry: 
applied to the Fundament helps the
Hemorroids, healeth wounds and 
Ulcers, and is a present remedy a- 
gainst the bitings of Dogs, burnings 
and scaldings. Some say, if you put 
the Herb under your Feet, within 
your stocking, no Dog will bark at 
you. 
Cypress-tree. The Leaves are hot 
and binding, help Ruptures, and 
Polypus or Flesh growing on the 
Nose. 
Lavender Cotton. Resists poyson, 
kills Worms. 
Dictamny, or Dittany of Croes, hot 
and dry, brings away dead Children, 
hastens Womens travail, brings away 
the after-birth, the very smel of it 
drives away venomous breasts , so 
deadly an enemy it is to poyson; its 
an admirable remedy against wounds 
and Gun-shot, wounds made with 
poysoned Weapons, it draws out 
Splinters, broken bones, &c. The 
dose from half a dram to a dram. 
They say, the Goats and Deers in 
Creet, being wounded with arrows, 
eat this Herb, which makes the ar- 
rows fal out of themselves: And from 
thence came the tale in *Virgil 
[* Virgil, Æniad. lib. 12.] about 
Æneas.
Teazles, Garden and Wild: The
Leaves bruised and applied to the 
temples, alay the heat in Feavers, 
qualifie the rage in frenzies; the 
Juyce dropped into the Ears, kill 
Worms in them, (if there be any 
there to kil) dropped into the Eyes, 
clears the sight, helps redness and 
pimples in the Face, being anointed 
with it. Galen. 
Dwarf-Elder, or Wall-wort. Hot 
and dry in the third degree; wasts 
hard swellings, being applied in form 
of a pultis; the Hair of the Head be- 
ing anointed with the Juyce of it 
turns it black, the leaves being ap- 
plied to the place, help inflamations, 
Burnings, Scaldings, the bitings of 
mad Dogs; mingled with Bulls suet 
is a present remedy for the Gout, 
inwardly taken; is a singular purge 
for the Dropsie and Gout. Dr. But- 
ler. 
Echium. Vipers-bugloss, Vipers-
Herb; Snake-bugloss, Wall-bugloss, 
Wild.-bugloss; Several Countries give 
it these several Names: It is a singu- 
lar remedy being eaten, for the biting 
of venemous beasts: Continual eat- 
ing of it makes the body invincible 
against the poyson of Serpents, 
Toads, Spiders, &c. however it be 
administred; It comforts the heart, 
expels sadness and Melancholy: It 
grows abundantly about the Castle 
Walls, at Lewis in Sussex. The rich 
may make the flowers into a con- 
serve, and the Herb into a Syrup: 
the poor may keep it dry; both may 
keep it as a Jewel. 
Rupture-wort, or Burst-wort: The 
English Name tels you it is good 
against ruptures, and so such as are  
bursten shall find it, if they please to 
make trial of it, either inwardly taken 
or outwardly applied to the place, or 
both. Also the Latin Names hold it 
forth to be good against the Stone, 
which who so tries shall find 
true. 
Elicampane. Provokes Urine; See 
the Root. 
Dodder of Time, to which add 
common Dodder which is usually 
that which grows upon Flax: Indeed 
every Dodder retains a virtue of that 
Herb or Plant it grows upon, as 
Dodder that grows upon Broom, 
Provokes Urin forcibly, and loosens 
the belly, and is moister than that 
Which grows upon Flax, that which 
grows upon Time, is hotter and dry- 
er than that which grows upon Flax, 
even in the third degree, opens ob- 
structions, helps infirmities of the 
Spleen, purgeth Melancholly, re- 
lieves drooping spirits, helps the Ric-
kets: That which grows on Flax, is 
excellent for Agues in young Chil- 
dren, strengthens weak Stomachs, 
purgeth choler, provokes Urin, opens 
stoppings in the Reins and Bladder; 
That which grows upon Nettles, pro- 
vokes Urin exceedingly. The way 
of using it is to boyl it in white Wine, 
or other convenient Decoction, and 
boyl it very little, remembring what 
was told you before in Cetrach, 
Ætius, Mesue, Actuarius, Scrapio, 
Avicenna. 
Rockets, Hot and dry in the third 
degree, being eaten alone, causeth 
Head-ach, by its heat procureteh lust, 
Galen.
Eye-bright is somthing hot and dry, 
the very sight of it refresheth the 
Eyes; inwardly taken, it restores the 
sight, and makes old mens Eyes 
young, a dram of it taken in the 
morning is worth a pair of Spectacles 
it comforts and strengtheneth the 
memory, outwardly applied to the 
place, it helps the Eyes. 
Malabathrum. Indian-leaf, hot 
and dry in the second degree, com- 
forts the Stomach exceedingly, helps 
digestion, provokes Urin, helps Infla- 
mations of the Eyes, secures Cloaths 
from Moths. 
Fennel, encreaseth Milk in Nurses, 
provokes Urin, breaks the Stone, 
easeth pains in the Reins, opens 
stoppings, breaks wind, provokes 
the Terms; you may boyl it in white 
Wine.
Straw-berry Leaves, are cold, dry, 
and binding, a singular remedy for 
Incarnations and Wonnds, hot Dis- 
eases in the Throat, they stop Fluxes 
and the Terms, cool the heat of the 
Stomach, and the Inflamations of 
the Liver. The best way is to boyl 
them in barley water. 
Ash-trees: The Leaves are mo- 
derately hot and dry, cure the bitings 
of Adders, and Serpents, by a cer- 
taine Antipathy (as they say) there is
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12 HERBS and their LEAVES.
between them, they stop loosness, 
and stay vomiting, help the Rickets, 
open stoppages of the Liver and 
Spleen. 
Fumatory: Cold and dry, it open- 
eth and clenseth by Urin, helps such 
as are Itchy, and Scabbed, cleers the 
Skin, opens stoppings of the Liver 
and Spleen, helps Rickets, Hypocon- 
driack Melancholly, madness fren- 
zies, quartan Agues, loosneth the 
belly, gently purgeth Melancholy, 
and addust choller: Boyl it in white 
Wine, and take this one general rule. 
All things of a cleansing or opening Na- 
ture may be most commodiously boyled in 
white wine. Remember but this, and 
then I need not write one thing so 
often. 
Goats-rue: Temperate in quality, 
resists Poyson, kills Worms, helps 
the Falling-sickness, resisteth the 
Pestilence. You may take a dram of 
it at a time in Powder. 
Ladies-bedstraw: dry and binding, 
stancheth blood: boyled in Oyl, the 
Oyl is good to anoint a weary Tra- 
veller; inwardly it provokes lust. 
Broom: Hot and dry in the second 
degree, cleanse and open the Sto- 
mach, break the stone in the Reins 
and Bladder, help the green sickness. 
Let such as are troubled with heart- 
qualms or fainting, forbear it, for, 
it weakens the heart and Spirit 
Vital.
See the Flowers. 
Geranium. Cranebil, the divers 
sorts of it, one of which is that which 
is called Muscata, and in Sussex Bar- 
barously Muscovy; it is thought to 
be cool and dry, helps hot swel- 
lings, and by its smel amends a hot 
Brain. 
Geranium Columbinum. Doves-foot,
helps the wind-colick, pains in the 
Belly, Stone in the Reins and blad- 
der, and is singular good in ruptures, 
and inward wounds. I suppose 
these are the general vertues of them 
all. 
Hedg-Hysop. Purgeth Water and 
Flegm, but works very churlish- 
ly. Gesner commends it in Drop- 
sies.
Liver-wort. Cold and dry, excel- 
lent good for inflamations of the Li-, 
ver, or any other Inflamations, yel- 
low Jaundice. 
Tree and Ground-Ivy. Tree-Ivy; 
helps Ulcers, Burnings, Scaldings,
the bad effects of the Spleen; the 
Juyce snuffed up in the Nose, purg- 
eth the Head it is admirable for sur- 
fets or Head-ach, or any other ill 
effect coming of drunkenness, and 
therefore the Poets feigned Bacchus 
to have his Head bound round with 
them. Your best way is to boyl them 
in the same liquor you got your surfet 
by drinking. 
Ground-Ivy is that which usually 
is called Alehoof, hot and the 
Juyce helps noise in the Ears, Fistu-
laes. Gouts, stoppings of the Liver, 
it strengthens the Reins and stops the 
Terms, helps the yellow Jaundice, 
and other Diseases coming of stop- 
pings of the Liver, and is excellent 
for wounded people.
Stinking Ground-pine, is of a drying 
faculty, and therefore stops defluxi- 
ons either in the Eyes or upon the 
Lungs, the Gout, Cramps, Palsies, 
Aches: strengthens the Nerves. 
Primroses, or Cowslips, which you 
will. The Leaves help pains in the 
Head and Joynts; see the Flowers 
which are most in use. 
Herb True-love or One-berry. Pena 
and Lobel, affirm it resists Poyson. 
Mathiolus faith it takes away evil 
done by Witch-craft, and affirms it 
by experience, as also long lingring 
sickness; however it is good for 
wounds, fals, bruises, Aposthumes, 
Inflamations, Ulcers in the Privities. 
Herb True-love, is very cold in tem- 
perature. You may take half a dram 
of it at a time in powder. 
Anemone. Wind-flower. The Juyce 
snuffed up in the Nose purgeth the 
Head, it cleanseth filthy Ulcers, 
encreaseth Milk in Nurses, and out- 
wardly by Oyntment helps Lepro- 
sies.
Pellitory of the Wall. Cold moist, 
cleansing, helps the Stone and Gra- 
vel in the Kidnies, difficulty of Urin, 
sore Throats, pains in the Ears, the 
Juyce being dropped in them; out- 
wardly it helps the Shingles and 
St. Anthonies fire. 
Horstongue, Tongue-blade, or 
Double-tongue. The Roots help 
the strangury, provoke Urin, ease 
the hard labor of Women, provoke 
the Terms, the Herb helps Ruptures 
and the fits of the Mother: it is hot 
in the second degree, dry in the first; 
Boyl it in white Wine. 
Alexanders, or Alisanders: pro- 
voke Urin, expel the after birth, 
help the strangury, expel wind. 
Sage either sod or taken inwardly 
or beaten and applied Plaister-wise 
to the Matrix, draws forth both Terms 
and after-birth.
If you seeth Mugwort in Water, 
and apply it hot Plaister-wise to the 
Navel and Thighs of a Woman in 
Travel, it brings forth both birth and 
after-birth, but then you must spee- 
dily take it away lest it draw down 
Matrix and all. Rogerius. 
The Smoak of Marigold flowers 
received up a Womans Privities by a 
Funnel, brings away easily the after- 
birth, although the Midwife have let 
go her hold. Mizaldus. 
Clary: Hot and dry in the third 
degree; helps weakness in the Back, 
stops the running of the Reins, and 
the whites in Women; provokes the 
Terms, and helps Women that are 
Barren through coldness or moisture, 
or both: causeth fruitfulness, but is 
hurtful for the Memory. The usual
way of taking it is to fry it with But- 
ter, or make a Tansie with it. 
Arsmart. Hot and dry, consumes 
all cold swellings and blood congea- 
led by bruises and stripes; applied to 
the place, it helps that Aposthume in 
the Joynts, commonly called a Felon, 
but in Sussex, an Anditom] If you put 
a handful of it under the Saddle of a 
tired Horses Back, it will make him 
Travel fresh and lustily: strewed in a 
Chamber, kills all the Fleas there : 
this is hottest Arsmart, and is unfit 
to be given inwardly: There is a 
milder sort, called Persicaria, which - 
is of a cooler quality, drying, excel- 
lent good for putrified Ulcers, kill 
Worms: I had almost forget that the 
former is an admirable remedy for 
the Gout, being rosted between two 
Tiles and applied to the grieved 
place, and yet I had it from Dr. Butler 
too. 
Hysop. Helps Coughs, shortness 
of breath, wheezing, distillations up
on the Lungs: it is of a clensing qua-
lity: kils worms in the body; amends 
the whol color of the Body, helps the
Dropsie and Spleen, sore Throats,
and noise of the Ears. See the Syrup
of Hysop.
Henbane. The white Henbane is
held to be cold in the third degree:
the black or common Henbane and 
the yellow, in the fourth. They Stu- 
pifie the sences, and therefore not to 
be taken inwardly: outwardly ap-
plied, they help Inflamations, hot
Gouts: applied to the temples they
provoke sleep.
St. Johns-wort. It is as gallant a
wound-herb as any is, either given
inwardly, or outwardly applied to
the wound: it is hot and dry, opens
stoppings, helpeth spitting and vo-
miting of blood, it clenseth the
Reins, provokes the Terms, helps
congealed blood in the stomach and 
Meseraick Veins, the Falling-sick- 
ness, Palsey, Cramps and Aches 
in the Joynts, you may give it in 
Powder or any convenient Decocti- 
on. 
Laurel of Alexandria, provokes 
Urin and the Terms, and is held to 
be a singular help to women in Tra- 
vel. 
Sciatica-cresses. I suppose so called 
because they help the Sciatica, or 
Huckle-bone-Gout, Setwort or Shart- 
wort: being bruised and applied 
they help swellings, botches, and 
venerious Buboes in the Groin, 
whence they took their Name, as also 
inflamation and falling out of the 
Fundament.
Woad. Drying and binding; the 
side being bathed with it, it easeth 
pains in the Spleen, clenseth filthy
corroding gnawing Ulcers. 
Lettice. Cold and moist, cool the 
Inflamation of the Stomach, com-
monly called heart-burning; pro- 
voke sleep, resist drunkenness, and
takes

HERBS and their LEAVES. 13
takes away the ill effects of it; cool 
the blood, quench thirst, breed milk, 
and are good for chollerick Bodies, 
and such as have a frenzy, or are 
frenitique, or as the vulgar say, fren- 
tick. They are far wholsomer eaten 
boyled then raw.
Lavender. Hot and dry in the 
third degree: the temples and fore- 
head bathed with the Juyee of it, as 
also the smel of the Herb helps swoo- 
nings, Catalepsies, falling-sickness, 
provided it be not accompani- 
ed with a Feaver. See the Flo- 
wers. 
Laurel. The Leaves purge upward 
and downward: they are good for 
Rhewmatick people to chew in their 
mouth, for they draw forth much 
Water.
Bay-tree. The Leaves are hot and 
dry, resist drunkenness, they gently 
bind and help Diseases in the Blad- 
der, help the stinging of Bees and 
Wasps, mitigate the pain of the sto- 
mach, dry and heal, open obstructi- 
ons of rhe Liver and Spleen, resist 
the Pestilence. 
Mastich-tree. Both the leavs and bark 
of it stop Fluxes (being hot and dry 
in the second degree) Spitting and 
pissing of blood, and the falling out 
of the Fundament. 
Duckmeat: Cold and moist in the 
second degree, helps Inflamations, 
hot swellings, and the falling out of 
the Fundament, being warmed and 
applied to the place. 
Dittander, Pepper-wort, or Scar-
wort: A hot fiery sharp Herb, admi- 
rable for the Gout being applied to 
the place: being only held in the 
Hand, it helps the Tooth-ach, and 
and withal leaves a wan color in the 
Hand that holds it.
Lovage. Cleares the sight, takes 
away redness and freckles from the 
Face. 
Toad-Flax; or Wild-Flax: hot 
and dry, clenses the Reins and Blad- 
der, provoke Urine, opens the stop- 
pings of the Liver and Spleen, and 
helps Diseases coming thereof: out- 
wardly they take away yellowness 
and deformity of the Skin. 
Harts-tongue: drying and binding, 
stops Blood, the Terms and Fluxes, o- 
pens stoppings of the Liver & Spleen, 
and Cures Diseases thence arising. 
the like quantity of Harts-tongue, 
Knot-grass, and Comfry Roots being 
boyled in Water, and a draught of 
the decoction drunk every morning, 
and the materials which have boy- 
led applied to the palce, is a notable 
remedy for such as are burst. 
Sea-bugloss, or Marsh-bugloss, or as 
some will have it, Sea-Lavender; the 
seeds being very drying and binding, 
stop Fluxes and the Terms, help the 
Chollick and Strangury.
Lotus Urbana. Authors make some 
flutter about this Herb, I conceive 
the best take it to be Trisolium Odo-
ratum, Sweet Tresoyl, which is of a 
temperate nature, cleanseth the Eyes 
gently of such things as hinder the 
sight, cureth green wounds, Rup- 
tures, or bursness, helps such as piss 
blood or are bruised, and secures 
garments from Moths. 
Hops, Opening, clensing, provoke
Urine; the young sprouts open stop-
pings of the Liver and Spleen, cleanse 
the blood, clear the skin, help scabs 
and Itch, help Agues, purge chol- 
ler: they are usually boyled and 
taken as they eat sparagus, but if you 
would keep them, for they are excel 
lent for these diseases, you may make 
them into a Conserve, (as you shall
be caught hereafter) or into a Sy-
rup. 
Masterwort: Hot and dry in the 
third degree; it is singular good; 
against poyson, Pestilence, corrupt
and unwholsom Air, helps windiness 
in the stomach, causeth an Appetite 
to ones Victuals, very profitable in
fals and bruises, congealed and clot- 
ted blood, the bitings of mad Dogs
the leaves chewed in the mouth, 
cleanse the brain of superfluous Hu- 
mors, thereby preventing Lethargies 
and Apoplexes. 
Mallows. The best of Authors 
account wild Mallows to be best, and 
hold them to be cold and moist in the 
first degree, they are profitable in the 
bitings of venemous beasts, the stin- 
ging of Bees and Wasps, &c. Inward- 
ly they resist poyson, provoke to 
stool; outwardly they asswage hard 
swelling of the Privities or other pla- 
ces, in Clysters they help roughness 
and fretting of the Guts, Bladder, or 
Fundament; and so they do being 
boyled in water, and the Decoction 
drunk, as I have proved in this pre- 
sent Epidemical Disease, the Bloody- 
flux. 
Mandrakes. Fit for no vulgar use, 
but only to be used in cooling Oynt- 
ments. 
Common Hore-hound. Hot in the 
second degree, and dry in the third, 
openeth the Liver and Spleen, cleans- 
eth the Breast and Lungs, helps old 
Coughs, pains in the sides, Ptisicks,
or ulceration of the Lungs, it pro- 
vokes the Terms, easeth hard labor 
in Child-bearing, brings away the
after-birth. See the Syrups. 
Marrubium. Nigrum, & Fœtidum. 
Black and stinking Hore-hound, I 
take to be all one. Hot and dry in 
the third degree; cure the bitings of 
mad Dogs, wast and consume hard 
knobs in the Fundament and Matrix, 
cleanse filthy Ulcers. Unless by stin- 
king Hore-hound the Colledg should 
mean that which Fuchsius cals Stachys 
if they do, it is hot and dry but in 
the first degree, and a singular remedy 
to keep wounds from Inflamation. 
Herb Mastich. Hot and dry in the
third degree, good against Cramps 
and Convulsions.
Fathersew. Hot in the third de-
gree, dry in the second; openeth, 
purgeth; a singular remedy for Dis- 
eases incident to the Matrix, and 
other Diseases incident to Women, 
eases their Travel, and Infirmities 
coming after it; it helps the Vertigo 
or Ditsiness of the Head, Melan- 
choly, sad thoughts, you may boyl 
it either alone, or with other Herbs 
fit for the same purpose, with which 
this Treatise will furnish you: ap- 
plyed to the Wrists, it helps the 
Ague. 
Melilot. Inwardly taken, provokes 
Urin, breaks the Stone, clenseth the 
Reins and Bladder, cutteth and 
cleanseth the Lungs of tough Flegm; 
the juyce dropped into the Eyes, 
cleers the sight; into the Ears, mi- 
tigates pain and noise there; the head 
bathed with the juyce mixed with 
Vinegar, takes away the pains there- 
of: outwardly in pultisses, it asswag- 
eth swellings in the Privities, and 
elswhere. 
Bawm. Hot and dry; outwardly 
mixed with Salt and applied to the 
Neck, help the Kings-evil, bitings
of mad Dogs, venemous beast, and 
such as cannot hold their Necks as 
they should do; inwardly it is an 
excellent remedy for a cold and moist 
Stomach, cheers the Heart, refresh- 
eth the mind, takes away grief, sor- 
row, and care, instead of which it 
produceth joy and mirth. See the 
Syrup. Galen, Avicenna.
Garden Mints, Speare Mints. Are 
hot and dry in the third degree, pro- 
voke hunger, are wholsom for the 
Stomach, stay vomiting, stop the 
Terms, helps fore Heads in Children 
strengthen the Stomach, cause dige- 
stion; outwardly applied, they help 
the bitings of mad Dogs: Yet they 
hinder Conception, and are naught 
for wounded people, they say by rea- 
son of an Antipathy between them 
and Iron. Pliny, Galen.
Water Mints: Ease pains of the 
belly, Head-ach, and Vomiting, Gra- 
vel in the Kidneys and Stone. 
Horse-mint. I know no differ- 
ence between them and Water- 
Mints. 
Mercury, male and female. They 
are both hot and dry in the second 
degree, cleansing, digesting, they 
purge watery Humors, and further 
Conception. Theophrastus relate that 
if a woman use to eat either the male 
or female Mercury, two or three 
daies after Conception, she shall 
bring for a Child either male or fe- 
male according to the sex of the herb 
she eats. 
Spurg-Olive, or Widdow-wail. A 
dangerous purge, better let alone 
than medled with. 
Yarrow. Meanly cold and bin- 
ding, and healing Herb for wounds, 
stancheth bleeding; and some say 
the juyce snuffed up the Nose, caus-
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14 HERBS and their LEAVES.  
eth it to bleed, whence it was called, 
Nose-bleed; it stoppeth Lasks, and 
the Terms in women, helps the run- 
ning of the Reins, helps inflamations 
and Excoriations of the Yard, as also 
Inflamations of wounds. Galen. 
Moss. Is somthing cold and bin- 
ding, yet usually retains a smatch of 
the property of the Tree it grows on: 
therefore that which grows upon 
Oaks is very dry and binding; Sera- 
pio saith that it being infused in Wine 
and the Wine drunk, it staies Vomi- 
ting and Fluxes, as also the whites in 
Women. 
Mirtle-Tree The Leaves are of a 
cold Earthly quality, drying and 
binding, good for Fluxes, Spitting, 
Vomiting and Filling of Blood;
stop the Whites and Reds in Wo- 
men. 
Water-Cresses, and Garden-Cresses. 
Garden Cresses, are hot and dry in 
the fourth degree, good for the Scur- 
vy, Sciatica, and hard swellings. Yet 
do they trouble the Belly, ease pains 
of the Spleen, provoke Lust. Diosio- 
rides.
Water-Cresses, are hot and dry. 
clense the blood, help the Scurvy, 
provoke Urine and the Terms, break 
the Stone, help the Green-sickness,
cause a fresh lively color. 
Treacle-mustard. Hot and dry in 
the third degree, purgeth violently, 
dangerous for Women with Child; 
Outwardly it is applied with profit 
to the Gout. 
Tobacco. And in reciteing the 
vertues of this Herb, I will follow
Clusius, that none should think I do 
it without an Author, It is hot and 
dry in the second degree, and of a 
clensing nature: the Leaves warmed 
and applied to the Head, are excel- 
lent good in *inveterate Head-aches 
[* χεθαΛαια I know not what better 
name to give it, Old Head-aches, con-
tinual Head-aches: take which we will.]
and Megrims, if the Diseases come 
through cold or wind, change them 
often til the Diseases be gone. They 
help such whose Neck be stiff easeth 
the faults of the Breast: Asthmaes or 
Head-flegm in the lappets of the 
Lungs: ease the pains of the Sto- 
mach and windiness thereof; being 
heat hot by the fire, and applied hot 
to the side, they loosen the belly, and 
*kill worms being applied unto it 
in like manner: [* this I know by ex- 
perience, even where many other medi- 
cines have failed. ] they break the 
stone being applied in like manner to 
the region of the bladder: help the 
Rickets, being applied to the belly 
and sides: applied to the Navel, they 
give present ease to the fits of the 
Mother: they take away cold ach in 
the Joynts applied to them: boyled, 
the liquor absolutely and speedily 
cures Scabs and Itch: neither is there 
any better salve in the world for 
wounds then may be made of it: for
it clenseth, setcheth out the filth 
though it lie in the bones, brings up 
the Filth from the bottom, and all 
this it doth speedily: it cures 
wounds made with poisoned Wea- 
pons, and for this Clusius brings 
many experiences too tedious here 
to relate. It is an admirable thing 
for Carbuncles and Plague-sores,
inferior to none: green wounds 
'twil cure in a trice: Ulcers, and 
Gangreens very speedily, not only in 
men, but also in Beasts, therefore 
the Indians dedicated it to their god. 
Taken in a pipe it hath almost as ma- 
ny vertues; it easeth weariness, 
takes away the fence of hunger and 
thirst, provokes to stool: he saith, 
the Indians will Travel four daies 
without either meat or drink, by on- 
ly chewing a little of this [made up 
like a Pill] in their mouths: It eas- 
eth the body of superfluous Humors, 
opens stoppings. Monardus also 
confirms this judgment; and indeed 
a man might fil a whol Volume with 
the vertues of it. See the Oyntment 
of Tobacco.
Money-wort, or Herb Two-pence;
cold, dry, binding, helps Fluxes, 
stopes the Terms, helps Ulcers in the 
Lungs; outwardly it is a special 
Herb for wounds. 
Basil, Hot and moist. Simeon 
Sethi saith, the smel of Basil is good 
for the Head; but Hollerius (and he 
no mean Physitian neither) saith the 
continual find of it hurts the brain, 
and breeds Scorpions there, and 
affirms his own knowledg of it, and 
that’s the reason (saith he) there is 
such an Antipathy between it and 
Rue, which I am confident there is: 
the truth is, it will quickly putrifie, 
and breed worms, Hollerius saith, 
they are venemous, and that's the
reason the name Basilicon was given 
to it. The best use that I know of it, 
is, it gives speedy deliverance to wo- 
men in Travel. Let them not take 
above half a dram of it at a time in 
pouder, and be sure also the birth 
be ripe, else it easeth abortion. 
Adders-tongue. The Leaves are 
very drying: being boyled in Oyl 
they make a dainty green Balsom for 
green wounds: taken inwardly, they 
help inward wounds. 
Origæny: A kind of wild Marjo- 
Ram; hot and dry in the third degree, 
helps the bitings of venemous beasts, 
such as have taken Opium, Hem- 
lock, or Poppy; provokes Urin, 
brings down the Terms, helps old 
Coughs; in an Oyntment it helps 
Scabs and Itch. 
Cynksoyl: very drying, yet but 
meanly hot, if at all; helps Ulcers 
in the mouth, roughness of the 
Wind-pipe (whence comes hoarsness 
and Coughs, &c.) helps Fluxes, 
creeping Ulcers, and the yellow 
Jaundice; they say one leaf cures a 
Quotidian Ague, three a Tertian,
and four a quartan: I know it will 
cure Agues without this curiosity, if 
a wife man have the handing of it; 
otherwise a Cart load will not do 
it. 
Peach leaves: They are a gentle, 
yet a compleat purger of Choller, 
and Diseases coming from thence; 
fit for Children because of their gen- 
tleness. You may boyl them in 
white Wine; a handful is enough at
a time. 
Plantane. Cold and dry; an herb,
Though common, yet let none despise 
it, for the Decoction of it prevails 
mightily against tormenting pains
and excoriaons of the Guts, bloody 
Fluxes, it stops the Terms, and spit- 
ting of blood, Ptisicks, or Consump- 
tions of the Lungs, the running of
the Reins, and the whites in Women,
pains in the Head, and Frenzies : 
outwardly it clears the sight, takes 
away Inflamations, Scabs, Itch, the 
Shingles, and all spreading sores, 
and is as wholesom an Herb as can 
grow about an House. Tragus, Dio- 
scorides.
Polley, or Pellamoutain: All the
sorts are, hot in the second degree,
and dry in the third; helps Dropsies 
the yellow Jaundice, infirmities of
the Spleen, and provokes Urine.
Dioscorides. 
Purslane: Cold and moist in the 
second or third degree cools hot 
stomachs, and (I remember since I
was a Child that) it is admirable for 
one that hath his Teeth on edg by
eating fowr Apples, it cools the 
Blood, Liver, and is good for hot dis- 
eases, or Incarnations in any of these 
places, stops Fluxes, and the Terms,
and helps all inward Inflamations 
whatsoever. 
Self-heal, Carpenters-herb and in
Sussex Sickle-wort. Moderately hot 
and dry, binding. See Bugle. So
shall I not need to write one thing 
twice, the vertues being the same. 
Penyroyal; Hot and dry in the 
third degree; provokes Urin; breaks
the Stone in the Reins (for as I take 
it, the Herb is chiefly appropriated 
to those parts) strengthens Women 
backs, provokes the Terms, easeth 
their Labor in Child-bed, brings 
away the after-birth, staies vomiting, 
strengthens the brain (yea, the very 
smel of it) breaks Wind, and helps 
the Vertigo. 
Pulmonaria, arborea, & Symphytum 
Maculosum. Lung-wort. I confess 
I searching Authors for these, found 
out many sorts of Lung-worts, yet
all agreed that both these were one 
and the same, and helps infirmities 
of the Lungs, as hoarsness, Coughs 
wheesing, shortness of breath, &c. 
You may boyl it in Hysop-water, or
any other water that strengthens the
Lungs.
Fleabane. Hot and dry in the third 
degree, helps the biting of venomous
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15 HERBS and their LEAVES. 
beasts, wounds and swellings, the 
yellow Jaundice, the Falling-sick- 
ness, and such as cannot Piss; it 
being burnt, the smoak of it kills all 
the Gnats and Fleas in the Chamber, 
as also Serpents if they be there; 
it is dangerous for Women with 
Child. 
Winter-green. Cold and dry, and 
Very binding, stops Fluxes, and the 
Terms in women, and is admirable 
good in green wounds. 
Oak Leaves: Are much of the 
nature of the former, stay the whites 
in women. See the Bark. 
Ranunculus. Hath got a fort of 
English Names: Crowfoes, Kingkob, 
Gold-cups, Gold-knobs, Butter-flo- 
wer, &c. they are of a notable hot 
quality, unfit to be taken inwardly: 
If you bruise the Roots and apply 
them to a Plague-fore, they are no- 
table things to draw the venome to 
them. Also Apuleius saith. That if 
they be hanged about the Neck of 
one that is Lunatick in the Wane of 
the Moon, the Moon being in the 
first degree of Taurus or Scorpio, it 
quickly rids him of his disease. 
Rosemary, Hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, binding, stops fluxes, 
helps stuffings in the head, the yellow 
Jaundice, helps the memory, expels 
wind. See the flowers, Serapio, 
Dioscorides. 
Dock: All the ordinary sorts of 
Docks are of a cool and drying sub- 
stance, and therefore stop Fluxes;
and the Leaves are seldom used in
Physick. 
Rue, or Herb of Grace; Hot and 
dry in the third degree, consumes 
the seed, and is an enemy to Gener- 
ation, helps difficulty of breathing, 
and Inflamations of the Lungs, pains 
in the side, Inflamations of the Yard 
and Matrix, is naught for Women 
with Child: An hundred such things 
are quoted by Dioscorides. This I am 
sure of, no Herb resisteth Poyson 
more. And some think Mithria- 
dates that renowned King of Pontus, 
fortified his Body against poyson 
with no other Medicine. It streng- 
theneth the Heart exceedingly, and 
no Herb better than this in Pestilen- 
tial times, take it what manner you 
will or can. 
Savin: Hot and dry in the third 
degree, potently provokes the terms, 
expels both birth and afterbirth, they
(boyled in Oyl and used in Oynt- 
ments) flay creeping Ulcers, scour 
away Spots, Freckles, and Sunbur- 
ning from the Face; the Belly anoin- 
ted with it kills Worms in Chil- 
dren. 
Sage:Hot and dry in the second 
or third degree, binding, it staies 
Abortion in such women as are sub- 
ject to come before their times, it 
causeth fruitfulness, it is singular 
good for the brain, strengthens the 
senses and memory, helps spitting
and Vomiting of blood: outwardly, 
heat hot with a little Vineger and ap- 
plied to the side, helps stitches and 
pains in the sides. 
Willow leaves, Are cold, dry, and 
binding, stop spitting of blood, and 
Fluxes; the boughs stuck about a 
Chamber, wonderfully cool the Air, 
and refresh such as have Feavers; 
the Leaves applied to the Head, 
help hot Diseases there, and Fren- 
zies. 
Sanicle; Hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, clenseth wounds and 
Ulcers. 
Sope-wort, or Bruise-won, Vulgar- 
ly used in bruises and cut Fingers, 
and is of notable use in the French 
Pox. 
Savory. Summer Savory is hot 
and dry in the third degree, winter- 
savory is not so hot, both of them 
expel wind gallantly, and that (they 
say} is the reason why they are boiled 
with Pease and Beans, and other such 
windy things: tis a good fashion, 
and pitty it would be left. 
White Saxifrage, Breaks wind,
helps the Cholick and Stone. 
Scabious ; Hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, clenseth the brest and 
Lungs, helps old rotten Coughs, and 
difficulty of breathing, provokes 
Urin and clenseth the Bladder of fil- 
thy stuffy breaks Aposthumes, and 
cures Scabs and Itch. Boyl it in 
white Wine. 
Schœnanth, Squinanth, or Chantels 
hay; Hot and binding. Galen saith, 
it causeth Head-ach believe him that 
lift. Dioscorides saith, it digests and 
opens the Passages of the Veins
surely it is as great an expeller of
wind, as any is. 
Water-Germander. Hot and dry, 
clenseth Ulcers in the inward parts, 
it provokes Urine and the Terms, 
opens stopping of the Liver, Spleen, 
Reins, Bladder, and Matrix, it is a 
great Counterpoyson, and easeth the 
breast oppressed with flegm: See 
Diascordium. 
Scrophularia. Figwort, so called
of Scrophula, the Kings Evil, which 
it cures, they say, by being only hung 
about the Neck. If not bruise if, and 
apply it to the place, it helps the 
Piles or Hemorrhoids , and (they say) 
being hung about the Neck preserves 
the body in health. 
The Root of Vervain hanged about 
the Neck of one that hath the Kings 
Evil, gives a strange and unheard of 
cure; The reasons is, because it is an 
Herb of Venus: and Taurus is her 
House. For the time of gathering, 
this and other Herbs, I refer you to 
other Treatises where the matter is 
particularly handled. Scribonius Lar- 
gus.
Senna. In this give me leave to 
stick close to Mesue, as an imparal- 
leld Author; it heats in the second 
degree and dries in the first, clenseth, 
purgeth, and digesteth; it carries 
downward both choller, Flegm, and 
Melancholly, it cleanseth the Brain, 
Heart, Liver, Spleen; it cheers the 
senses, opens obstructions, take away 
dulness of sight, preserves youth, 
helps deafness (if purging will help 
it) helps Melancholly and madness, 
keeps back old age, resists resolution 
of the Nerves, pains of the Head, 
*xεθαΛγια Scabs, Itch, Falling,
sickness, the windiness of it is cor- 
rected with a little Ginger. You may 
boyl half an ounce of it at a time, 
in water or white wine, but boyl it 
not too much, half an ounce is a 
moderate dose to be boyled for any 
reasonable Body. 
Mother-of-Time, wild Time; it is 
hot and dry in the third degree, it 
provokes the Terms gallantly as also 
help the strangury or stoppage of 
Urine, gripings in the Belly, Rup- 
tures, Convulsions, Inflamations of 
of the Liver, Lethargy, and infir-
mities of the Spleen: boyl it in white
wine. Ætius Galen.
Night-shade; very cold and dry,
binding, it is somewhat dangerous
given inwardly, unless by a skilful,
hand outwardly it helps the Shin-
gles, St.  Anthonies fire, and other 
hot Inflamations.
Bindweed, Hot and dry in the se-
cond degree, it opens obstructions 
of the Liver, and purgeth watry hu- 
mors, and is therefore very profit- 
able in Dropsies, it is very hurtful to 
the stomack, and therefore if taken 
inwardly it had need be well cor- 
rected with Cinnamon, Ginger, or 
Annis-seed, &c. Yet the German 
Physitians affirm that it cures the 
Dropsie being only bruised and ap- 
plied to the Navil and somthing lo- 
wer, and then it needs not be taken 
inwardly at all. Galen. 
Sowthistles smooth and rough, they 
are of a cold watry, yet bin- 
ding quality, good for Frenzies, they 
increase Milk in Nurses, and cause 
the Children which they Nurse to 
have a good color, help gnawings of 
the stomach coming of a hot cause; 
outwardly they help inflamations, 
and hot swellings, cool the heat of 
the Fundament and Privities. 
Flixweed: Drying without any 
manifect heat or coldness; it is 
usually found about old Ruinous 
buildings; it is so called because of 
its vertue in stopping Fluxes. Para- 
celsus highly commends it; Nay, 
elevates it up to the Skies for curing 
old wounds and Fistulaes, which 
though our modem Chyrurgions 
dispise, yet if it were in the hands of 
a wise man, such as Paracelsus was, 
it may do the wonders he saith it 
will. 
Silver knapweed: The vertues be 
the same with Scabious, and some 
think the Herbs too; though I am of 
I another opinion. 
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16 HERBS and their LEAVES. FLOWERS. 
French Lavender. Cassidony, is a 
great counterpoyson, opens obstru- 
ctions of the Liver and Spleen, clens- 
eth the Matrix and Bladder, brings 
out corrupt Humors, provokes Urin. 
There is another Stæchas mentioned 
here by the name of Amaranthus in 
English, Golden Flower, or Flower- 
gentle: the Flowers of which expel 
worm: being boyled, the water kils 
Lice and Nits. 
Devils-bit; Hot and dry in the 
second degree; inwardly taken, it 
easeth the fits of the Mother, and 
breaks wind, takes away swellings 
in the mouth, and slimy flegm that 
stick to the jaws, neither is there a 
more present remedy in the world 
for those cold swellings in the Neck 
which the vulgar call the Almonds 
of the Ears, then this Herb bruised 
and applied to them. 
Tansie: Hot in the second degree 
and dry in the third; the very smel
of it staies Abortion, or miscarriages 
in women; so it doth being bruised 
and applied to their Navils, pro- 
vokes Urine, and easeth pains in 
making Water; and is a special help 
against the Gout. 
Dandelion, or to write better French, 
Dent-de-lyon, for in plain English, 
it is called Lyons-Tooth; it is a 
kind of Succory, and thither I refer 
you.
Tamiris. It hath a dry clensing 
quality, and hath a notable vertue 
against the Rickets, and infirmities 
or the Spleen, provokes the Terms. 
Galen, Diascorides. 
Tyme. Hot and dry in the third 
degree; helps Coughs and shortness 
of breath, provokes the Terms; 
brings away dead Children and the 
after-birth; purgeth flegm clenseth 
the breast and Lungs, Reins and Ma- 
trix; helps the Sciatica, pains in the 
breast, expels wind in any part of the 
Body, resisteth fearfulness and Me- 
lancholy, continual pains in the 
Head, and is profitable for such as 
have the Falling-sickness to smel
to.
Spurge. Hot and dry in the fourth 
degree: a dogged purge, better let 
alone than taken inwardly; hair 
anointed with the Juyce of it will fal 
off; it kils fish, being mixed with 
any thing that they will eat: out- 
wardly it clenseth Ulcers, takes away 
Freckles, Sunburning and Morphew 
from the Face. 
Pansies, or Hearts-case: They are 
cold and moist, both Herbs and Flo- 
wers, excellent against Inflamations 
of the Breast or Lungs, Convulsions, 
or Falling-sickness, also they are 
held to be good for the French 
Pox. 
Trefoil: dry in the third degree, 
and cold: The ordinary Medow tre- 
foil, (for their word comprehends all 
sorts) clenseth the guts of fluny Hu- 
mors that stick to them, being used
either in drinks or Clysters; out- 
wardly they take away inflamations. 
PLiny saith the leaves stand upright 
before a storm, which I have observed 
to be true oftner then once or twice, 
and that in a cleer day, fourteen 
hours before the storm came, 
Colts-foot: somthing cold and dry, 
and therefore good for inflamations, 
it is admirable good for coughs, 
and consumptions of the lungs, short- 
ness of breath, &c. It is often used 
and with good success taken in a to- 
baccopipe, being cut and mixed with 
a little oyl of Annis seeds. See the si- 
rup of Colts-foot, 
Mullin, or Higtaper. It is some- 
thing dry, and of a digesting, clen- 
sing quality, stops fluxes and the hæ- 
morrhoids, it cures hoarsness, the 
cough, and such as are broken wind- 
ed; the leaves worn in the shoes pro- 
vokes the terms ( especially in such 
Virgins as never had them) but they 
must be worn next their feet: also 
they say, that the Herb being gathe- 
red when the Sun is in Virgo, and the 
Moon in Aries, in their mutual An- 
tiscions, help such of the Falling, sick- 
ness as do but carry it about them; 
worn under the feet it helps such as 
are troubled with the fits of the mo- 
ther.
Vervain: hot and dry, a great o- 
pener, clenser, healer; it helps the 
yellow jaundies, defects in the reins 
and bladder, pains in the head, if it 
be but bruised and hung about the 
Neck, all Diseases in the secret parts 
of men and women; made into an 
oyntment it is a soveraign Remedy
for old Head-aches, called by the, 
Name of xεθαΛγια as also Frenzies, 
it clears the skin, and causeth a love- 
ly colour.
Violet leaves: they are cool, ease 
pains in the head proceeding of heat 
and Frenzies, either inwardly taken 
or outwarly applied; heat of the sto- 
mach, or inflamation of the Lungs. 
Vitis Vinisera. The manured Vine 
*The Leaves [Vines of different cli- 
mates, have different operations; I write 
of English Vines.] are binding and 
cool withal the burnt ashes of the 
sticks of Vine, scour the teeth and 
make them as white as snow; the 
Leaves stop bleeding, fluxes, heart- 
burnings Vomitings; as also the 
longing of Women which Child. 
The coles of a burnt Vine, in pou- 
der mixed with hony, doth make the 
teeth as white as Ivory, which are 
rubbed with it.
Swallow-wort A pultis made with 
the leaves help sore breasts, and also 
so reliefs of the Matrix. 
Navil-wort; cold, dry and binding, 
therefore helps all inflamations; it 
is very good for kib’d heels, being 
bathed with it and a leaf laid over the 
sore. 
Nettles; an Herb so well known, 
that you may find them by the feel- 
ing in the darkest night: they are 
something hot, not very hot; the 
juyce stops bleeding; they provoke 
lust exceedingly, help difficulty of 
breathing, pleurisies, inflamations of 
the Lungs, that troublesom: cough 
that women call Chincough; they
exceedingly break the stone, provoke 
urine, and help such as cannot hold 
their necks upright. Boyl them in 
white wine. 
FLOWERS. 
Borrage, and Bugloss Flowers 
strengthen the brain, and are pro- 
fitable in Feavers. 
Chamomel flowers, heat and as- 
swage swellings, inflammation of the 
bowels, dissolve wind, are profitable 
given in clysters or drink, to such as 
are troubled with the Colick, or
Stone. 
Stæchas, opens stoppings in the 
Bowels, and strengthens the wholl 
body.
Saffron powerfully concocts, and
sends out what ever Humor offends 
the body, drives back inflamations; 
being applied outwardly, encreaseth 
just, and provokes Urine. 
Clove-Gilliflowers, resist the pesti- 
lence, strengthen the heart, liver, and 
Stomach, and provoke Lust. 
Schœnenth (which I think I touch- 
ed slightly amongst the Herbs) pro- 
vokes urine potently, provokes the 
terms, breaks wind, helps such as spit 
or vomit Blood, easeth pains of the 
Stomach, Reins, and Speen, helps 
Dropsies, Convulsions, and inflama- 
tions of Womb.
Lavender-flowers, resist al cold af- 
flictions of the Brain, Convulsions,
Falling-sickness, they strengthen cold 
stomachs, and opens obstructions of 
the Liver, they provoke urin and the 
terms,  bring forth the birth and after-
birth. 
Hops, open stoppings of the bo-
wels, and for that cause Beer is better
then Ale.
Bawm flowers, cheer the heart and 
vital spirits, strengthen the Sto-
mach.
Rosemary flowers, strengthen the
brain exceedingly and resist mad- 
ness; cleer the sight. 
Winter-Gilliflowers, or Wal-flower 
(as some call them) help inflamati- 
ons of the womb, provoke the terms,
and Help Ulcers in the Mouth.
Hony suckles, provoke urine, ease 
the pains of the spleen, and such as 
can hardly fetch their breath. 
Mallows, Help Coughs. 
Red Roses, cool, bind, strengthen 
both vital and animal vertue, restore
such

FLOWERS. FRUITS and their BUDS. 17 
such as are in consumptions, streng- 
then, There are so many Compositi- 
tions of them which makes me brie- 
fer in the Simples. 
Violets (to wit the blew ones, for 
I know little or no use of the white 
in Physick ) cool and moisten, pro- 
voke sleep, loosen the Belly, resist 
Feavers, help inflamations, correct, 
the heat of choller, ease the pains in 
the Head, help the roughness of the 
Wind-pipe, Diseases in the Throat, 
Inflamations in the breast: and sides, 
Plurefies, opens stoppings of the 
Liver, and help the Yellow Jaun- 
dice. 
Cicory, (or Succory as the vulgar 
cals it) cools and strengthens the Li- 
ver, so doth Endive. 
Water-lillies, Ease pains of the Head 
coming of choler and heat, provoke 
sleep, cool Inflamations, and the 
heat in feavers. 
Pomegranate-flowers, dry and bind, 
stop Fluxes, and the Terms in Wo- 
men. 
Cowslips. Strengthen the brain, 
sences, and memory, exceedingly, 
resist; all Diseases thereof, as Con- 
vulsions, Falling-sickness, Palsies 
&c. 
Centaury, Purges choler and gross 
Humors, helps the Yellow Jaundice, 
opens Obstructions of the Liver, 
helps pains of the Spleen, provokes 
the Terms, brings out the birth and 
after-birth.
Elder-flowers, Help Dropsies, clense 
the blood, deer the Skin, open stop- 
pings of the Liver and Spleen, and 
diseases arising there-from. 
Bean-flowers. Cleer the Skin, stop 
humors slowing into the Eyes. 
Peach-tree flowers. Purge choler 
gently. 
Broom-flowers. Purge water, and 
are good in Dropsies. 
The temperature of all these Flo- 
wers differ either very little or not at 
all from the Herbs.
The way of using; the Flowers I did 
forbear, because most of them may, 
and are usually made into Conserves, 
of which you may take the quantity 
of a Nutmeg in the morning; all of 
them may be kept dry a year, and 
boyled with, other Herbs conducing 
to the cures they do. 
FRUITS 
And their 
BUDS. 
Green Figs, Are held to be of ill 
Juyce, but the best is, we are 
not much troubled with them in
England; dry Figs helps Coughs, 
Clense the brest, and help, infirmities 
of the Lungs, shortness of wind, 
they loose the Belly, Purge the Reins 
help Inflamation of the Liver and 
Spleen: outwardly they dissolve 
swellings; some say the continuall 
eating of them makes men Lou- 
sie. 
Pine-Nuts, Restore such as are in 
Consumptions, amend the failings 
of the Lungs, concoct flegm, and 
yet are naught for such as are troub- 
led with the Head-ach. 
Dates, Are binding, stop eating 
Ulcers being applied to them; they 
are very good for weak Stomachs, 
for they soon digest, and breed good 
nourishment, they help infirmities of 
the Reins, Bladder, and Womb. 
Sebestens, Cool droller, violent 
heat of the Stomach, help roughness 
of the Tongue and Wind-pipe, cool 
the Reins and Bladder. 
Raisons of the Sun, help infirmities 
of the Breast and Liver, restore Con- 
sumptions, gently clense and move 
to stool. 
Walnut; Kill worms, resist the 
Pestilence, (I mean the green ones, 
not the dry.) 
Capers eaten before meals, pro- 
voke hunger. 
Nutmegs, Strengthen the Brain, 
Stomach, and Liver, provoke Urin, 
ease the pains, of the Spleen, stop 
loosness, ease pains of the Head, and 
pains in the joynts, strengthen the 
Body, take away weakness coming 
of cold, and cause a sweet breath. 
Cloves, Help digestion, stop loos- 
ness, provoke lust, and quicken the 
light.
Pepper, Binds, expels wind, helps 
the colick, quickens digestion op- 
pressed with cold, heats the Stomach, 
(for all that old women say, his cold: 
in the-Stomach.) 
Pears Are grateful to the Sto- 
mach, drying, and therefore helps 
Fluxes.
All plums that are sharp or sour, 
are binding, the sweet are loos- 
ning. 
Cucumers, of (if you will) Cow- 
cumbers, cool the Stomach, and 
ate good against Ulcers in the Blad-
der. 
Gaules, are exceeding binding, 
help Ulcers in the Mouth, wafting of 
the Gums, easeth the pains of the 
Teeth, helps the falling out of the 
Womb and Fundament, makes the 
hair black. 
Pompions are a cold and moist fruit, 
of smal nourishment, they provoke 
Urin; outwardly applied, the flesh 
of them help Inflamations and bur- 
nings; being applied to the fore-
head they help Inflamations of the 
Eyes. 
Melones, called in London Musk- 
millions, have few other vertues. 
Apricocks are very grateful to the
Stomach, and dry up the humors ther- 
of Peaches are held to do the like. 
Cubebs, are hot and dry in the third 
degree, they expel wind, and clense 
the Stomach of tough and viscus Hu- 
mors, they ease the pains of the 
Spleen and help cold diseases of the 
womb, they clense the Head of flegm 
and strengthen the brain, they heat 
the stomach and provoke lust. 
Bitter almonds, are hot in the first 
degree and dry in the second, they 
clense and cut thick humors, clense 
the Lungs; and eaten every mor- 
ning, they are held to preserve from 
drunkenness. 
Bay-berries, heat, expel wind, mi- 
tigate pain; are excellent for cold 
infirmities of the Womb, and Drop- 
sies. 
Cherries, Are of different qualities, 
according to their different tast, the 
sweet are quickest of digestion, but 
the four are most pleasing, to a hot 
Stomach and procure Appetite to
ones meat.
Medlars, Are strengthening to the 
Stomach, binding, and the green are 
more binding than the rotten, and 
the dry than the green. 
Olives, Cool and bind. 
English-currence, Cool the Stomach 
and are profitable in acute Leavers, 
they quench thirst:, resist vomiting, 
cool the heat of choler, provoke Ap- 
petite, and are good for hot Com- 
plexions. 
Services, Or (as we in Sussex cal 
them) Checkers are of the Nature of 
Medlars, but somthing weaker in 
operation.
Barberies, Quench third, cool the 
heat of choler, resist the Pestilence, 
stay vomiting and Fluxes, stop the 
Terms, kill worms, help spitting of 
blood, fasten the Teeth, and streng- 
then the Gums. 
Strawberries, Cool the Stomach, 
Liver, and Blood, but are very hurt- 
ful for such as have Agues. 
Winter-Cherries, Potently provoke 
Urin, and break the Stone. 
Cassia-fistula, Is temperate in qua- 
lity, gently purgeth choler and flegm 
clarifies the blood, refills Feavers, 
clenseth the Brest and Lungs, it cools 
the Reins, and thereby resisteth the
breeding of the Stone, it provokes 
Urin, and therefore is exceeding
good for the running of the Reins 
in men, and the whites in Wo- 
men. 
All the forts of Myrobalans, purge 
the Stomach; the Indian Myrobalans 
are held to purge Melancholy most 
especially, the other Flegm; yet take 
heed you use them not in stoppings 
of the bowels: they are cold and dry. 
they all strengthen the Heart, Brain, 
and Sinnews, strengthen the stomach, 
releeve the sences, take away tremb- 
lings and Heart-qualms. They are 
seldom used alone.
Prunes, Are cooling and loosening.
L Tamarinds 

18 SEEDS, or GRAINS. 
Tamarinds, Are cold and dry in 
the second degree, they purge cho- 
lor, cool the Blood, stay Vomiting, 
help the yellow jaundice, quench 
thirst, cool hot stomachs, and hot 
Livers. 
I omit the use of these also as rest- 
ing confident a Child of three yeers 
old, if you should give it Raisons of 
the Sun or Cherries, would not ask 
how it should take them.
SEEDS, 
or,
GRAINS. 
Coriander seed. Hot and dry, ex- 
pels wind, but is hurtful to the 
Head; fends up unwholsom vapors 
to the Brain, dangerous for mad 
people, therefore let them be prepa- 
red, as you shall be taught towards 
the latter end of the Book. 
Fænugreek-seeds, are of a softning, 
discussing nature, they cease inflama- 
tions, be they internal or external: 
bruised and mixed with vinegar they 
ease the pains of the Spleen: being 
applied to the sides, help hardness 
and swellings of the Matrix, being 
boyl’d, the Decoction helps scabby 
Heads. 
Linseed hath the same vertues with 
Fenugreek. 
Gromwel seed, provokes urine, helps 
the Colick, breaks the done, and ex- 
pels wind. Boyl them in white wine,
but bruise them first.
Lupines, easeth the pains of the 
spleen, kills Worms and casts them 
out; outwardly, they clense filthy ul- 
cers, and Gangreens, help scabs, itch, 
and Inflamations. 
Dill seed, encreaseth Milk in 
Nurses, expels wind, staies vomitings, 
provokes urine; yet it duls the sight, 
and is ail enemy to Generation.
Small age seed, provokes urine and 
the terms, expels wind, resists poyson, 
and easeth inward pains, it opens 
stoppings in any part of the body, yet 
it is hurtful for such as have the Fal- 
ling sickness and for Women with
Child. 
Rockes seed, provokes urine, stirs 
up Lust, encreaseth the seed, kills 
worms, easeth the pains of the spleen:
Vse all these in like manner. 
Basil seed . If we may beleeve Dio- 
scoridos and Cresentius, cheers ths 
Heart, and strengthens a moist Sto- 
mach, drives away melancholy, and 
provokes Urine.
Nettle seed, provokes lust, opens 
stoppages of the womb, helps infla-
mations of the lido and Lungs; pur- 
geth the breast: boyl them (being 
bruised) in white Wine also. 
The seed of Ammi, or Bishopsweed, 
heat and dry, help difficulty of urin 
and pains of the Colick, the bitings 
of venemous beasts, they provoke 
the terms, and purge the Womb, 
Annis seeds, heat and dry, ease pain 
expel Wind, cause a sweet breath, 
help the dropsie, resist poyson, breed 
milk, and stop the whites in women, 
provoke lust, and ease the Head- 
ach.
Cardamoms, heat, kill worms, 
clense the Reins, and provoke urine. 
Fennel feed, breaks wind, provo- 
kes urine and the terms, encreaseth 
Milk in Nurses. 
Cummin seeds, heat, bind, and dry, 
stop blood, expel wind, ease pain, 
help the bitings of venentous beasts; 
outwardly applied (viz. in Plaisters) 
they are of a discussing Nature. 
Caret seeds, are windy, provoke lust 
exceedingly, and encrease seed, pro- 
voke Urin and the terms, cause spee- 
dy delivery to women in travel, and 
bring away the after birth. All 
these also may be boyled in white 
Wine. 
Nigella seeds, boyled in Oyl, and the 
forehead anointed with it, ease pains 
in the head, takeaway leprosie, itch
scurf, and helps scald heads: inward- 
ly taken they expel worms, they pro- 
voke urine, and the terms, help diffi- 
culty of breathing: the smoak of them 
(being burned) drives away Ser- 
pents and venomous beasts. 
Stavesager, kills Lice in the Head, 
I hold it not fitting to be given in- 
wardly.
Olibanum mixed with as much bar- 
rows Grease (beat the Olibanum first 
in ponder) and boyled together, make 
an Oyntment which wil kil the Lice 
in Childrens heads, and such as are 
subject to breed them, wil never, 
breed them. A Medicine cheap, safe, 
anc sure, which breeds no annoyance 
to the Brain. 
The seeds of Water-cresses, heat, yet 
trouble the stomach and belly; ease 
the pains of the spleen, are very, dan- 
gerous for women with Child, yet 
they provoke lust: outwardly ap- 
plied, they help Leprosies, scald 
heads, and the falling off of hair, as 
also Carbuncles, and cold ulcers in 
the joynts. 
Mustard seed, heats, extenuates, 
and draws moisture from the brain; 
the head being shaved and anointed 
with Mustard, is a good Remedy for 
the Lethargy, it helps filthy Ulcers, 
and hard swellings in the Mouth, it 
helps old aches coming of cold. 
French Barley, is cooling, nourish- 
ing, and breeds Milk. 
Sorrrel seeds, potently resist poyson, 
help Fluxes, and such Stomachs as 
loath their meat. 
Succory seed, cools the heat of the 
blood, extinguisheth lust, openeth
stoppings of the Liver and Bowels, it 
allays the heat of the body, and pro- 
duceth a good colour, it strengthens 
the Stomach, Liver, and Reins. 
Poppy-seeds, ease pain, provoke 
sleep. Your best way is to make an 
Emulsion of them with Barley water. 
Mallow seeds, ease pains in the 
bladder. 
Cich-pease, are windy, provoke lust, 
encrease Milk in Nurses, provoke 
the terms; outwardly, they help 
scabs, itch, and inflamations of the 
stones, ulcers, &c, 
White Saxifrage seeds, provoke U- 
rine, expell wind, and breaks the 
stone. Boyl them in white Wine.
Rue seeds, help such as cannot hold 
their water. 
Lettice seeds, cools the blood, re- 
strains Lust.
Also Gourds, Citruls, Cucumers, 
Melones, Purslain, and Endive seeds, 
cool the blood, as also the stomach, 
spleen, and reins, and allay the heat 
of Feavers. Vse them as you were
taught to do Poppy-seed. 
Worm seed, expels wind kils worms, 
Ash-tree Keys, ease pains in the 
sides, help the Dropsie, relieve men 
weary with labor, provoke lust, and 
make the body lean.
Piony seeds, help the Ephialtes, or
the Disease the vulgar cal the Mare, 
as also the fits of the mother, and o- 
ther such like Infirmities of the 
womb, stop the terms, and help con- 
vulsions. 
Broom seed, potently provoke urin,
breaks the stone. 
Citron seeds, strengthen the heart; 
cheer the vital spirit, resist pestilence 
and poyson.
Tears, Liquors, 
and Rozins. 
Ladanum is of a heating mol- 
lifying Nature, it opens the
mouth of the veins, stayes the 
hair from falling off, helps pains in 
the ears, and hardness or the Womb. 
It is used only outwardly in plaisters
Assa satida, Is commonly used to 
allay the Fits of the mother by smel-
ling to it; they say, inwardly taken, 
it provokes Lust, and expels wind. 
Benzoin, or Benjamin, makes a 
good Perfume.
Sanguis Draconis, cools and binds
exceedingly. 
Aloes purgeth Coller and Flegm, 
and with such deliberation that it is 
often given to withstand the violence
of other Purges, it preserves the sen- 
ses and betters the apprehension, it
strengthens

Tears, Liquors, &c. JUYCES. Living Creatures. 19
strengthens the Liver, and helps the 
yellow-jaundice. Yet is nought for 
such as are troubled with the Hemor- 
morhoids, or have Agues. I do not 
like it taken raw. See Aloe rosata, 
which is nothing but it walked with 
the juyce of Roses. 
Manna, Is temperately hot, of a 
mighty dilative quality, windy, clen- 
seth choller gently, also it clenseth 
the throat and stomach. A child may 
take an ounce of it at a time melted 
in milk, and the drosse strained our, 
it is good for them when they are
Scabby.
Scamony, or Diagridium, call it by 
which Name you please, is a despe- 
rate Purge, hurtful to the body by 
reason oi its heat, windinesse, corro- 
ding, or gnawing, and violence of 
working. I would advise my Coun- 
ty to let it alone; it wil gnaw their 
bodies as fast as Doctors gnaw their 
Purses
Opopanax, is of a heating, mollify- 
ing digesting quality. 
Gum Elemi, is exceeding good for 
fractures of the Skull, as also in 
wounds, and therefore is put in plai- 
sters for that end. See Arceus his Li- 
niment. 
Tragacamhum, commonly called 
Gum Traganth, and Gum Dragon, 
helps coughs, hoarness, and distilati- 
ons upon the Lungs. 
Bdellium, heats and softens, helps 
hard swellings, ruptures, pains in the 
sides, hardness of the Sinews. 
Galbanum. Hot dry, discussing: 
applied to the womb, it hastens both 
birth and after-birth, applied to the 
Navel it stays the strangling of the 
Womb, commonly called the sits of 
the mother, helps pains in the sides, 
and difficulty of breathings, being 
applied to it, and the smell of it 
helps the Vertigo or Diziness in the
head.
Mirrh, Heats and dries, opens and 
softens the womb, provokes the birth 
and after-birth; inwardly taken, it 
helps old Coughs and Hoarsness, 
pain in the sides, kils worms, and 
help a stinking breath, helps the 
wasting of the Gums, fastens the 
teeth: outwardly it helps wounds, 
and fils up Ulcers; with flesh. You 
may take half a drain at a time. 
Mastich, strengthens the stomach 
Exceeding, helps such ray vomit or 
spit blood, it fastens the teeth and  
strengthens the Gums, being chewed 
in the Mouth. 
Frankincense use and Olibanum, Heat 
and Blind, fill up old ulcers with flesh, 
stop bleeding, but is extream bad for 
mad People. 
Turpentine, purgeth, clenseth the 
Rein, helps the running of them. 
Styrax Calamitis, helps coughs and 
Distillations upon the Lungs, hoars- 
ness want of voice, hardness of the 
womb but it is bad for Head-
aches.
Ammoniacum, Applied to the side
helps the hardness and pains of the 
Spleen. 
Camphir, Eeaseth pains of the head 
coming of heat, takes away inflma- 
tions, and cools any place it is ap- 
plied to.
JUYCES
That all Juyces have the same 
vertues with the herbs or fruits
whereof they are made, I suppose few
or none wil deny, therefore I shall 
onley Name a few of them, and that
briefly. 
Sugar is held to be hot in the first 
degree, strengthens the Lungs, takes
away the Roughness of the Throat,
succours the Reins and the Blad- 
der. 
The juyce of Citrons cools the blood  
strengthens the Heart, mitigates the  
violent heat of Feavers. 
The juyce of Lemmons works the 
same effect, but not so powerfully (as  
Authors say.)
Juyce of Liquoris, strengthens the 
Lungs, helps Coughs and Colds.
I am loath to trouble the Reader 
with Tautology, therefore I passe to
Things bred of Plants. 
AGrick It purgeth flegm, Choler 
and Melancholly, from the 
Brain, Nerves, Muscles, Marrow, (or 
more properly brain) of the Back, it 
clenseth the Breast, Lungs, Liver, 
Stomach, Spleen, Reins, Womb, 
Joynts, it provokes Urine, and the 
Terms, kils Worms, helps pains in 
the Joynts, and causeth a good co- 
lour; It is very seldom or never ta- 
ken alone. See Syrup of Roses with 
Agrick. 
Viscus Quircinus, or Misleto of the 
Oak, helps the Falling sickness being 
either taken inwardly, or hung about 
ones Neck.
Living Creatures. 
Mille-pedes (so called from the
multitude of their feet, though 
it cannot be supposed they have a 
thousand ) Sows, Hogs-lice in Sussex
they cal them Wood-lice) being bruis- 
ed and mixed with Wine, they pro- 
voke urin, help the yellow Jaundice: 
outwardly being boyled in oyl, help 
pains in the Ears, a drop, being put 
into them. 
The Flesh of * Vipers being eaten, 
[* I take your English Adder to be 
the true Viper, though happily not so, ve- 
nemous as they are in hotter Countries] 
clear the fight, help the Diseases of 
the Nerves, resist poyson exceedingly, 
neither is there any better Remedy 
under the Sun sou their bitings than 
the Head of the Viper that bit you, 
bruised and applied to the place, and 
and the flesh eaten, you need not eat 
above a dram at a time, and make it
up as you shal be taught in Troches
of Vipers. Neither any comparable 
to the stinging of Bees and Wasps, 
&c. than the same that sting you, 
bruised and applied to the Place. 
Land Scorpions cure their own sting- 
ings by the same means; the ashes of 
them (being burnt) potently provo- 
kes, Urin, and breaks the stone.
Earth worms, (the preparation of 
which you may find towards the lat- 
ter end of the Book Jare an admirable 
Remedy for cut nerves being applied 
to the place; they provoke Urin; see 
the oyl of them, only let me not for- 
get one notable thing quoted by Mi- 
zaldus, which is. That the pouder of 
them put into an hollow tooth, maks 
it drop out. 
To draw a tooth without pain, fill 
an earthen Crucible lust of Emmets 
(Ants, or Pismires, cal them by which 
name you wil), Egs and all, and when 
you have burned them, keep the 
ashes, with which if you touch a 
tooth it wil fall out. 
Eels, being put into Wine or Beer, 
and suffered to dy in it, he that drinks 
it wil never endure that sort of Li- 
quor again. 
Oysters, applied alive to a pestilen- 
tial swelling, draw the venom to 
them.
Crab-fish, burnt to ashes, and a 
dram of it taken every morning helps 
the bitings of mad Dogs, and all o- 
ther venemous beasts. 
Swallows, being eaten, clear the 
sight, the ashes of their, (being burnt) 
eaten, preserves from drunkenness, 
helps sore throats being applied to 
them, and inflamations. 
Grashoppers, being eaten, ease the 
Colick, and pains in the Bladder. 
Hedg-Sparrows, being, kept in salt, 
or dryed and eaten raw, are an admi- 
rable Remedy for the stone. 
Young Pigeons, being eaten, help 
pains in the Reins, and the Disease 
called Tenasmus.
PARTS

20 Parts of Living Creatures, and Excrements. 
PARTS 
OF 
Living Creatures, 
AND 
EXCREMENTS. 
The brain of Sparrows being ea- 
ten provoke lust exceedingly. 
The Brain of an Hare being rosted 
helps trembling, it makes Children 
breed teeth easily, their Gums being 
rubbed with it, also helps scald 
heads, and falling off of hair, the 
head being anointed with it. 
The Head of a coal black Cat being 
burnt to Ashes in a new Pot, and 
some of the Ashes blown into the Eye
every day, help such as have a Skin 
growing over their fight, if there be 
any Infatuation; moisten an Oak 
leaf in water and lay over the Eye 
Myzaldus saith (by this one only 
Medicine) he cured such as have been 
blind a whol year. 
The head of a young *Kite [*some
Countries calls them Gleads, and others 
Puttocks.] being burned to ashes and 
the quantity of a dram of it taken 
every morning in a little water, is 
an admirable remedy against the 
Gour. 
Crabs-eyes, breaks the Stone, and 
opens stopping of the bowels. 
The Lungs of a Fox wel dryed (but 
not burned) is an admirable streng- 
thener to the Lungs: See the Lohoch 
of Fox Lungs.
The Liver of a Duck, stops Fluxes, 
and strengthens the Liver exceeding- 
ly--
The------- of a Frog, being dryed 
and ---ten, helps quartan Agnes, or 
as the vulgar call them, third-day- 
Agues. 
Cock stones, Nourish mightily, and 
refresh and restore such bodies ss 
have been wasted by long sickness; 
they are admirable good in Hectick 
Feavers, and Galen's (supposed in- 
curable) Marasmus, which is a Con- 
sumption attending upon a Hectick 
Feaver; they increase seed, and help 
such as are weak in the sports of 
Venus. 
Castorium, Resists Poyson, the bi- 
tings of venemous beasts, it pro- 
vokes the Terms, and brings forth 
both Birth and After-birth; it expels 
wind, easeth pains and Aches, Con- 
vulsion sigthings, Lethargies; the 
smel of it allaies the fits of the Mo- 
ther , inwardly given, it helps tremb- 
lings, Falling-sickness, and other 
such ill effects of the Brain and 
Nerves: A scruple is enough to take 
at a time, and indeed spirit of Casto- 
rium is better then Castorium raw, to 
which I refer you. 
The Yard of a flag helps Fluxes, the 
bitings of Venemous beasts, pro- 
vokes Urin, and stirs up lust excee- 
dingly. 
A sheeps or Goats Bladder being 
burnt, and the Ashes given inwardly, 
helps the Diabetes, or continual Pis- 
sing. 
A stead Mouse, dried and beaten 
into Pouder, and given at a time, 
helps such as cannot hold their water 
or have a Diabetes, if you do the like 
three daies together. 
Vnicorns Horn, Resists Poyson and 
the Pestilence, provokes Urin, restores 
lost strength, brings forth both birth 
and after-birth.
Ivory, or Elephants Tooth, binds, 
stops the Whites in Women, it streng- 
the Heart and Stomach, helps the 
yellow Jaundice, and makes Women 
fruitful. 
The vertues of Harts-horn are the 
same with Vnicorns-horn. 
The Bone that is found in the Heart 
of a Stag, is as soveraign a cordial 
and as great a strengthener to the 
Heart as any is, being beaten into 
Pouder and taken inwardly; also it 
resists Pestilences and Poyson. 
The Scul of a man that was never 
buried, being beaten to Pouder and 
given inwardly, the quantity of a 
dram at a time in Betony Water, helps 
Palsies and Falling-sickness. 
That smal triangular Bone in the 
Skul of a man, called Os triquetrum) 
so absolutely cures the Falling-sick- 
ness, that it will never come again, 
saith Paracelsus,
Those smal Bones which are found 
in the Fore-feet of an Hare, being 
beaten into Pouder and drunk in 
wine, powerfully provoke Urine. 
A Ring made of a Elks claw being 
worn, helps the Cramp. 
The Fat of a Man is exceeding 
good to anoynt such limbs as fal a - 
way in the flesh. 
Goose grease and Capons Grease 
are both softening, help gnawing 
sores stiffness of the Womb, and mi- 
tigate pain.
I am of opinion that the Suet of a 
Goat mixed with a little Saffron, is 
as excellent an Oyntment for the 
Gout, especially the Gout in the 
Knees, as any is. 
Bears grease, day the falling off of 
the Hair. 
Fox grease, helps-pains in the 
Ears.
Elks claws, or hoofs are a sove- 
raign remedy for the Falling-sickness, 
though it be but worn in a Ring, 
much more being taken inwardly; 
but saith Mizaldus, it must be the 
Hoof of the right Foot behind. 
Milk, is an extream windy meat; 
therefore I am of the opinion of Dio-
scorides, viz. that it is not profitable 
in Head-aches, yet this is for cer- 
tain, that it is an admirable remedy
for inward Ulcers in any part of 
the Body, or any corrosions, or 
excoriations, pains in the Reins and 
Bladder; but it is very bad in Dis- 
eases of the Liver, Spleen, the Fal- 
ling-sickness. Vertigo, or dissiness 
in the Head, Leavers and Head- 
aches; Goats milk is held to be bet- 
ter then Cows for Hectick Feavers, 
Ptysicks, arid Consumptions, and so 
is Asses, also. 
Whey, attenuateth and clenseth 
both Choler and Melancholy: Won- 
derfully helps Melancholy and Mad- 
ness coming of it; opens stoppings
of the Bowels; helps such as have 
the Dropsie and are troubled with the 
stoppings of the Spleen, Rickets and 
Hypocondriack Melancholly; for 
such Diseases you may make up your 
Physick with Whey. Outwardly it
clenseth the Skin of such deformities 
as come through Choler or Melan- 
choly, as Scabs, Itch, Morphew, 
Leprosie, &c. 
Honey, Is of a Gallant clensing 
quality, exceeding profitable in all 
inward Ulcers in what part of the 
Body soever it opens the Veins, clens- 
eth the Reins and Bladder; he that 
would have more of the vertues of it,
let him read Butler his Book of Bees, 
a gallant experimental work. I know 
no faults belong to it, but only it is 
soon converted into Choler. 
Wax, Softens, heats, and meanly 
fils fores with llefh, it differs not the 
Milk to curdle in womens brests ; in- 
wardly it is given ( ten grains at a 
time) against Bloody-fluxes.
Raw-silk, Heats and dries, chears 
the Heart, drives away sadness, com- 
forts all the Spirits, both Natural, 
Vital and Animal. 
Belonging to the 
SEA. 
Sperma Cœti; Is well applied out- 
wardly to eating Ulcers, and the 
marks which the smal Pocks leave 
behinde them; it clears the sight
provokes sweat; inwardly it troubles 
the Stomach and Belly, helps bruises 
and stretching of the Nerves, and 
therefore is good for Women newly 
delivered. 
Amber Grease, Heats and dries,
strengthens the Brain and Nerves 
exceedingly, if the infirmity of
them come of cold, resists pesti-
lence. 
Sea-sand, A man that hath the
Dropsie.

Belonging to the Sea. Mettals, Menerals, and Stones. 21
Dropsie, being set up to the middle 
in it, it draws out all the water. 
Red Coral, Is cold, dry and bin- 
ding, stops the immoderate flowing 
of the Terms, Bloody-fluxes, the 
running of the Reins, and the whites 
Women, helps such as spit and piss 
blood, helps witchcraft being carried 
about one, it is an approved remedy 
for the Falling-sickness. Also if ten 
grains of red Corral be given to a 
Child in a little Bread-milk: so soon 
as it is born, before it take any other 
food, it wil never have the Falling- 
sickness, nor Convulsions. The com- 
mon Dose is from ten grains to thir- 
ty 
If any one be bewitched, put some 
Quick-silver in a Quil stop’d close, 
and lay it under the Threshold of the 
Door. 
St. Johns-wort born about one, 
keeps one from being hurt either by 
Witches or Devils.
Pearls, Are a wonderful strengthe-
ner to the Heart, encrease Milk in
Nurses, and amend it being naught, 
they restore such as are in Consump- 
tions; both they and the red Corral 
Preserve the Body in health, and resist 
Feavers. The Dose is ten grains or 
fewer; more I suppose because it is 
dear, than because it would do 
harm. 
Amber (viz. yellow Amber (heats 
and dries, therefore prevails against 
moist Diseases of the Head; it helps 
violent Coughs, helps consumption 
of the Lungs, spitting of blood, the 
Whites in Women; it helps such Wo- 
men that are out of measure unweal- 
dy in their going with Child, it stops 
bleeding at the Nose, helps difficulty 
of Urin. You may take ten or twen- 
ty grains at a time. 
The Froth of the Sea, it is hot and 
dry, helps Scabs, Itch, and Leprosie, 
Scald Heads, &c. it cleanseth the 
Skin, helps, difficulty of Urin, makes 
the Teeth white, being rubbed with 
it, the Head Being washed with it, it 
helps baldness, and trimly decks the 
Head with hairs. 
Mettals, Minerals,
And
STONES.
GOLD is temperate in quality,
it wonderfully strengthens the 
Heart and vital Spirits; which one
perceiving very wittily inferred these
verses:
For Gold is Cordial; and that’s the
reason.
Your Raking Misers live so long a
season.
However this is certain, in Cordials 
it resists Melancholly, Faintings, swoo- 
nings, Feavers, Falling-sickness and 
all such like Infirmities incident ei- 
ther to the Viral or Animal Spirit. 
What those be, See the directions at 
the beginning. 
Alum. Heats, binds and purgeth; 
scours filthy Ulcers, and fastens loose 
Teeth. 
Brimstone, or flower of Brimstone,
which is Brimstone refined, and the 
better for Physical uses; helps coughs 
and rotten Flegm; outwardly in 
Oyntments it takes away Leprosies, 
Scabs and Itch; inwardly it helps 
yellow Jaundice, as also worms in 
the Belly, especially being mixed
with a little Salt-peter; it helps Le- 
thargies being snuffed up in the Nose; 
the truth is I shall speak more of this 
and many other Simples (which I 
mention not here) when I come to 
the Chymical Oyls of them. 
Litharge, Both of Gold and Silver; 
binds and dries much, fils up Ulcers 
with flesh, and heals them. 
Lead is of a cold dry earthly quali- 
ty, of an healing Nature: applied 
to the place it helps any Inflamation, 
and dries up Humors. 
Pompholix, cools, dries and binds. 
* Iacynth, [* The stone, not the 
Herb] strengthens the Heart, being 
either beaten into Pouder, and taken 
idwardly or only worn in a Ring. 
Cardanus saith it encreaseth Riches 
and Wisdom. 
Saphyr, resisteth Necromantick ap- 
paritions, and by a certain divine
gift, it quickens the sences, helps 
such as are bitten by venemous beasts 
Ulcers in the Guts; Galen, Dioscori- 
des, Garcius, and Cardanus are my 
Authors. 
Emerald; called a, Chaste-stone be- 
cause it resisteth lust, and will break 
(as Cardanus saith) if one hath it 
about him when he Deflowrs a Vir- 
gin: moreover being worn in a Ring 
it helps, or at least mitigates the 
Falling-sickness and Vertigo; it. 
strengthens. the memory, and stops
the unruly Passions of Men; it takes 
away Vain and foolish fears, as of
Devils, Hobgolins, &c. it takes away 
folly anger, &c. and causeth good
conditions: and if it do so, being 
worn about one, reason will tell him
that being beaten into Pouder, and 
taken inwardly, it will do it much
more. Garcius. 
Ruby (or Carbuncle, if there be such 
a Stone) restrains lust; resists Pesti- 
lences; takes, away Idle and foolish 
thoughts; makes men cheerful. Car-
danus. 
Granate. Strengthens the Heart, 
but hurts the Brain, causeth Anger, 
takes away sleep. 
Diamond, Is reported to make him 
that bears it infortunate: It makes 
men undaunted (I suppose because it 
is a Stone of the Nature of Mars) it 
makes men more secure or fearless 
then careful, which it doth by over- 
powring the Spirit: as the Sun 
though it be light it self, yet it dar- 
kens the sight in beholding its body. 
Garcius, Cardanus. 
Amethists, Being worn, makes men 
sober and staied, keeps men from 
drunkenness and too much sleep, it 
quickens the wit, is profitable in 
huntings and fightings, and repels 
vapors from the Head. 
Bezoar, is a notable restorer of 
Nature, a great Cordial, no way 
hurtful nor dangerous, is admirable 
good in Feavers, Pestilences and 
Consumptions, viz. taken inwardly; 
for this Stone is not used to be worn 
as a Jewel; the Pouder of it being 
put upon wounds made by Vene- 
mous beasts, draws out the Poy- 
son. 
Topas (if Epiphanius spake truth) 
if you put it into boyling water, it 
doth so cool it that you may present- 
ly put your Hands into it without
harm; if so then it cools Inflamati- 
ons of the Body by touching of them. 
Toadstone; Being applied to the 
place, helps the bitings of venomous 
Beasts, and quickly draws all the 
Poyson to it; it is known to be a true 
one by this; hold it near to any 
Toad, and the will make proffer to 
take it away from you if it be right;
else not. Lemnius. 
There is a Stone of the bigness of 
a Bean found in the Gizzard of an 
Old Cock, which makes him that 
bears it, Beloved, Constant and bold;
Valiant in fighting, Beloved by Wo- 
men, potent in the sports of Venus. 
Lemnius. 
Nephriticus Lapis; Helps pains in 
the Stomach, and is of great force 
in breaking and bringing away the 
Stone and Gravel; concerning the 
powerful operation of which I shall 
only quote you one story of many, 
out of Minardas, a Physitian of note: 
A certain noble man (quoth he) very
well known to me, by only bearing 
this Stone tied to his Arm, voided 
such a deal of Gravel that he feard 
the quantity would do him hurt by 
avoiding so much of it; wherefore 
he laid it from him, and then he 
avoided no more Gravel; but after- 
wards being again troubled with the 
Stone, he wore it as before, and pre-
sently the pain eased, and he avoided 
Gravel as before, and was never 
troubled with the pain of the Stone 
so long as he wore it. 
Jaspar; Being worn, stops blee- 
ding, easeth the labor of Women, 
stops lull, resist Feavers and Dropsies. 
Mathiolus. 
Ætites, Æagle-stone or the Stone 
with Child, because being hollow 
in the middle, it contains another 
little Stone withinit, is found in 
an Eagles nest, and in many 
other places; this stone being 
M bound

22 Mettals, Minerals, and STONES. 
bound to the left Arm of Women 
with Child, staies their Miscarriage 
or Abortion, but when the time of 
their labor comes, remove it from 
their Arm, and bind it to the inside  
of their Thigh, and it brings forth the 
Child, and that (almost) without
any pain at all. Dioscorides, Pli- 
ny. 
Young Swallows of the first brood, 
if you cut them up between the time
they were hatched, and the next full 
Moon, you shall find two Stones in 
their Ventricle, one Reddish, the o- 
ther Blackish; these being hung about 
the Neck in a piece of Stags Leather, 
help the Falling-sickness and Feavers; 
the truth is, I have found the reddish 
one my self without any regard to 
the Lunation; but never tried the 
vertues of it. 
Lapis Lazuli, Purgeth Melancholly
being taken inwardly; outwardly 
worn as a Jewel, it makes men cheer- 
ful, fortunate and rich. 
And thus I end the Stones, the 
vertues of which if any think incre- 
dible, I answer; 1. I quoted the Au- 
thors where I had them. 2. I know 
nothing to the contrary but why it 
may be as possible as the sound of a 
Trumpet is to incite a man to Valor;
or a Fiddle to Dauncing.
Thus much for the Old Dispensatory, Indeed had not the Printer desired it might not be, I had left out what hitherto 
hath been Written, having published in Print such a *Treatise [* The English Physitian] of Herbs and plants as 
my Country-men may readily make use of, for their own preservation of health, or Cure of Diseases, such as grow neer them, 
and are easily to be had; that so by the help of my Book they may Cure themselves. 
A
CATALOGUE 
OF 
SIMPLES 
IN THE 
NEW DISPENSATORY. 
ROOTS used in PHYSICK are these, 
ROOTS of 
Colledg. Sorrel. 
Calamus Aromaticus. 
Water-flag. 
Privet. 
Garlick. 
Marsh-mallows. 
Alcanet. 
Angelica. 
Anthora. 
Smallage. 
Aron. 
Birth-wort 
long 
round. 
Sowbread. 
Reeds. 
Asarabacca. 
Virginian Snake-weed. 
Sparagus. 
Swallow-wort. 
Asphodel
male, 
female.
ROOTS of 
Bur-docks 
great, 
smal. 
Behen, or Bazil. 
Valerian 
white,
red.
Dazies. 
Beets  
white, 
red,
black.
Marsh-mallows. 
Bistort.
Barrage. 
Briony
white, 
black. 
Bugloβ 
Garden, 
wild. 
Calamus Aromaticus.
ROOTS of 
Our Ladies Thistles. 
Avens. 
Cole-worts. 
Centaury the less. 
Onions. 
Chamelion
white, 
black. 
Celondine. 
Pilewort. 
China. 
Succory. 
Artichoaks. 
Virginian Snakeroot. 
Comfry
greater, 
lesser. 
Contra yerva. 
Costus
Sweet,
Bitter. 
Turmerick.

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ROOTS of
Turmerick. 
Wild Cucumers,
Sowbread. 
Hounds-tongue, 
Cyperus 
long, 
round. 
Toothwort. 
white Dittany.
Doronicum.
Dragons. 
Woody Night shade. 
Vipers Bugloβ. 
Smallage. 
Hellebore 
white, 
black. 
Endive.
Alicampane. 
Eringo. 
Colts-foot. 
Fearn 
male, 
fœmale. 
Filipendula, or Dropwort. 
Fennel. 
White Dittany.
Galanga 
great, 
smal. 
Gentian.
Lequoris. 
Dog-graß 
Hermodactils. 
Swallow-wort,
Jacinth. 
Henbane. 
Jallap. 
Master-wort
Orris, or Flower-de-luce, both English
and Florentine. 
Sharp pointed Dock. 
Bur-dock
greater, 
less. 
Lovage. 
Privet. 
White Lillies. 
Liquoris. 
Mallows.
Mechoacan. 
Jallap. 
Spignel. 
Mercury.
Devils bit.
Sweet Navew.
Spicknard 
Celtik, 
Indian.
Water-Lillies. 
Rest-harrow. 
Sharp pointed Dock.
Peony
male,
fœmale.
Parsneps
garden. 
wilde 
Cinkfoyl
Butter Bur. 
Parsly.
Hogs Fennel. 
Valerian
Greater,
lesser.
Roots of 
Burnet. 
Land and Water plantane. 
Polypodium of the Oak. 
Solomans-seal. 
Leeks. 
Pellitory of Spain. 
Cinksoyl, 
Turneps. 
Rhadishes 
garden, 
wild. 
Rhapontick. 
Common Rhubarb. 
Monks Rhubarb. 
Rose Root. 
Maddir.
Bruscus. 
Sopewort. 
Sarsaparilla. 
Savyrion 
male, 
fœmale. 
White Saxifrage. 
Squils.
Figwort. 
Scorzonera English and Spanish. 
Virginian Snakeweed. 
Solomons Seal.
Cicers.
Stinking Gladon.
Devils bit. 
Dandelyon. 
Thapsus. 
Tormentil. 
Turbith. 
Colts-foot. 
Valerian
greater, 
lesser. 
Vervain. 
Swallow-wort. 
Nettles.
Zedoary 
long, 
round. 
Ginger. 
Culpeper] For my own Particular, 
I aim solely at the benefit of my 
country in what I do, and shall im- 
partially reveal to them what the 
Lord hath revealed to me in Physick. 
I see my first labors were so well ac- 
cepted, that I shall not now give over 
till I have given my country that 
which is call’d the whol Body of 
Physick, in their own Mother 
Tongue. 
In ancient times when men lived 
more in health, simples were more in 
use by far then now they are; now 
compounds take the chief place, and 
men are far more sickly then be- 
fore. 
My opinion is, that those Herbs, 
Roots, Plants, &c. which grow near 
a man, are far better and more con- 
gruous to his Nature then any out- 
landish Rubbish whatsoever, and this 
I am able to give a reason of to any 
that shall demand it of me, therefore 
I am so copious in handling of them, 
you shall observe them ranked in this 
order.
1. The temperature of the Roots, 
Herbs, Flowers, &c. viz. Hot, cold, 
dry moist, together with the degree 
of each quality. 
2. What part of the Body each 
Root, Herb, Flower, is appropria- 
ted to, viz. Head, Throat, Breast, 
Heart, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Bo- 
wels, Reins, Bladder, Womb, Joynts, 
and in those which heat those places, 
and which cool them. 
3. The property of each Simple, as 
they bind, open, Mollifie, harden, 
extenuate, discuss, draw out, sup- 
pure, clense, glutinate, break wind, 
breed Seed, provoke the Terms, stop 
the Terms, resist Poyson, abate swel- 
lings, ease pain. 
This I intend shall be my general 
Method throughout the Simples, 
which having finished, I shall give 
you a Paraphrase explaining these 
Terms, which rightly considered, wil 
be the Key of Galens way of admini- 
string Physick.
The temperature of the 
Roots
Roots Hot in the first degree. Marsh- 
Mallows, Bazil, Valerian, Spattling, 
Poppy, Burdocks, Borrage, Bugloss, 
Calamus Aromaticus, Avens, Pile- 
wort, China, Self-heal, Liquoris, 
Dog-grass, white Lillies, Peony 
male and Female, wild Parsneps, 
Parsly, Valerian great and smal. 
Knee-holly, Satyrion, Scorzonera, 
Skirrets. 
Hot in the second degree. Water- 
flag, Reeds, Swallow-wort, Aspho- 
desi Male, Carline Thistle, Cyperous 
long and round, Fænnel, Lovage, 
Spignel, Mercury, Devils bit, Butter 
bur, Hogs Fennel, Sarsaparilla, Squils, 
Zedoary. 
Hot in the third degree. Angelica, 
Aron, Birth-wort long and round 
Sowbread, Asarabacca, Briony white 
and black, Celondine, Virginian 
Snakeroot, Turmerick, White Dit- 
tany, Doronicum, Hellebore white 
and black, Alicampane, Filipendula, 
Galangal greater and lesser, Master- 
wort. Orris English and Florentine, 
Restharrow, stinking Gladen, Tur- 
bith, Ginger. 
Hot in the fourth degree. Garlick, 
Onions, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain.
Roots temperate in respect of heat, are 
Bears breech, Sparagus, our Ladies 
Thistles, Eringo, Jallap, Mallows, 
Mechoacan, Garden Parsneps, Sink- 
soyl, Tormentil. 
Roots cold in the first degree. Sorrel, 
Beets white and red, Comfrey the 
greater, Plantane, Rose Root, Mad- 
dir. 
Cold in the second degree Alcanet,
Daizies, Succory, Hounds-Tongue, 
Endive, Jacinth. 
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Cold in the third degree. Bistort and 
Mandrakes are cold in the third de- 
gree, and Henbane in the fourth, 
Roots dry in the first degree. Bears- 
breech, Burdocks, Red-beets Cala- 
mus Aromaticus,Pilewort, Self-heal, 
Endive, Eringo, Jacinth, Maddir, 
Kneeholly. 
Dry in the second degree. Waterflag, 
Marsh-mallows, Alkanet, Smallage, 
Reeds, Sorrel, Swallow-wort, As- 
phodel male, Bazil, Valerian and 
spatling Poppy, according to the 
opinion of the Greek, Our Ladies 
Thirties, Avens, Succory, Hounds- 
Tongue, Cyperus long and round. 
Fennel, Lovage, Spignel, mercury, 
Devils-bit, Butter-Bur, Parsly, Plan- 
tane1, Zedoary.
Dry in the third degree. Angelica, 
Aron, Birth-wort long and round. 
Sowbread, Bistort, Asarabacca, Brio- 
ny white and black, Carline Thistle, 
China, Sellendine, Virginian snake- 
root, White Dittany, Doronicum, 
Hellebore white and black, Alicam- 
parse, Filipendula, Galanga greater 
and lesser, Master-wort, Orris Eng- 
lish and Florentine, Rest-harrow, 
Peony male and female, Cinksoyl, 
Hogs Fennel, Sarsaparilla, stinking 
Gladon, Tormentil, Ginger. 
Dry in the fourth degree, Garlick; 
Onions, Costus, Leekes, Pellitory of 
Spain. 
Roots moist are, Bazil, Valerian, 
and spattling-Poppy, according to 
the Arabian Physitians, Daizies, 
white Beets, Borrage, Bugloss, Li- 
quoris, Dog-grass, Mallows, Saty- 
rian, Scorzonera, Parsnips, Skir- 
rets.
Roots are also appropria- 
ted to several Parts of 
the Body; and so they. 
Heat the Head. Doronicum, Fen- 
nel, Jallap, Mechoacan, Spicknard, 
Celtick and Indian, Peony male and 
female. 
Neck and Throat. Pilewort, Devils 
bit. 
Bresst and Lungs. Birthwort long 
and round. Elicampane, Liquoris, 
Orris English and Florentine, Cala- 
mus Aromaticus, Cinksoyl, Squils. 
Heart. Angelica, Borrage, Bug- 
loss, Carline Thistle, Doronicum, 
Butter-bur, Scorzonera, Tormentil, 
Zedoary, Bazil, Valerian white and 
red. 
Stomach. Alicampane, Galanga 
greater and lesser, Spicknard, Celtick 
and Indian, Ginger, Fennel, Avens, 
Radishes. 
Bowels. Valerian great and smal, 
Zedoary, Ginger. 
Liver. Smallage, Carline thistle, 
Sullendine, China, Turmerick, Fen- 
nel, Gentian, Dog-grass, Sinksoyl,
Parsly, Smallage, Sparagus, Rhu- 
barb, Rhapontick, Knee-holly, 
Spleen. Smallage, Carline thistle, 
Fearn male and female; Parsly, Wa- 
ter-flag, sparagus, round Birth-wort, 
Fennel, Capers, Ash, Gentian. 
Reins and Bladder. Marsh-mallows, 
Smallage, Sparagus, Burdock, Bazil, 
Valerian, Spading Poppy, Carline 
thistle, China, Cyperus long and 
round, Filipendula, Dog grass, Spick- 
nard, Celtick and Indian; Parsly, 
Knee-holly, white Saxifrage, 
Womb. Birthwort long and round: 
Galanga greater and lesser, Peo- 
ny male and Fœmale, Hogs Fen- 
nel. 
Fundament. Pile-wort. 
Joynts. Bears-breech, Hermoda- 
ctils, Jallap, Mecoacan, Ginger, 
Costus. 
Roots cool the Head. Rose Root. 
Stomach. Sow thistles. Endive, Suc- 
cory, Bistort. 
Liver. Maddir, Endive, Chico-
ry
The properties of the 
Roots 
Although I confess the properties 
of the Simples may be found out by 
the ensuing explanation of the Terms 
and I suppose by that means they 
were found out at first; and although 
I hate a lazy student from my Heart, 
yet to encourage young students in 
the Art, I shall quote the chiefest of 
them: I desire all lovers of Physick 
to compare them with the explanati- 
on of these Rules, so shall they see 
how they agree, so may they be en- 
abled to find out the properties of all 
Simples to their own exceeding be- 
nefit in Physick.
Roots, bind. Cyperus, Bistort, 
Tormentil, Cinksoyl, Bears breech, 
Water flag, Alkenet, Toothwort, 
&c. 
Discuss. Birth-wort, Asphodel, 
Briony, Capers, &c. 
Clense. Birthwort, Aron, Spara- 
gus, Grass, Asphodel, Sullendine, 
&c. 
Open. Asarabacca, Garlick, Leeks, 
Onions, Rhapontick, Turmerick, 
Carline thistle, Succory, Endive, 
Filipendula, Fennel, Parsly, Brus- 
cus, Sparagus, Smallage, Gentian, 
&c. 
Extenuate. Orris English and Flo- 
rentine, Capers, &c. 
Burn. Garlick, Onions, Pellitoty 
of Spain, &c. 
Mollifie. Mallows, Marsh-mallows 
&c. 
Suppure. Marsh-mallows, Briony, 
white Lillies, &c. 
Glutinate. Comfry, Solomons- 
seal. Gentian, Birth-wort, Daisies, 
&c. 
Expel Wind. Smallage, Parsly, 
Fennel, Water-flag, Garlick, Co- 
stus, Galanga, Hogs Fennel, Zedo- 
ary, Spicknard Indian and Celtique, 
&c. 
Breed seed. Water-flag, Eringo, 
Satyrion, Galanga, &c. 
Provoke the Terms Birth-wort, 
Asarabacca, Aron, Water-flag, white 
Dittany, Asphodel, Garlick, Cen- 
taury the less , Cyperus long and 
round, Costus, Capers, Calamus
Aromaticus, Dittany of Creet, Car- 
rots, Eringo, Fennel, Parsly. Smal- 
lage, Grass, Alicampane, Penoy, 
Valerian, Knee-holly, &c. 
Stop the Terms. Comfry, Tormentil, 
Bistort, &c. 
Provoke swear. Carline Thistle, 
China, Sarsaparilla, &c. 
Resist Poyson. Angelica, Garlick 
long Birthwort, Smallage, Doroni- 
cum, Costus, Zedoary, Cyperus, 
Gentian, Catline Thistle, Bistort,
Tormentil, swallow wort, Vipers 
Bugloss, Alicampane &c.
Help burnings. Asphodel, Jacinth, 
white Lillies, &c. 
Ease pains. Water-flag, Eringo, 
Orris, Rest harrow, &c.
Of Roots, some Purge
Choller. Asarabacca, Rhubarb, 
Rhapontick, Fern, &c. 
Melancholly. Hellebore, white and 
black. Polypodium 
Flegm and Watry Humors. Squils, 
Turbith, Hermodactils, Jallap, Me- 
coacan, wilde Cucumers, Sowbread, 
male Asphodel, Briony white and. 
black, Elder, Spurge great and
smal. 
I quoted some of these properties 
to teach you the way how to find the
rest, which the explanation of these. 
Terms will give you ample instructi-
ons in. 
How to use your bodies in, and after 
taking Purges, you shall be taught by 
and by.
BARKS 
Used in Physick. 
BARKS of 
Colledg. HAzel Nuts. 
Orenges. 
Barberies. 
Birch-tree. 
Caper Roots. 
Cassia Lignea. 
Chest-Nuts.
Cinnamon.

BARKS. WOODS. HERBS. 25 
Cinnamon, Citron Pils, Dwarf Elder, 
Spurge Roots, Alder, Ash, pome- 
granates, Guajacum, Walnuts tree, Green 
Walnuts, Laurel, Bay, Lemmons, Mace, 
Pome-granates, Mandrake roots, Me- 
zereon, Mulberry tree roots, Sloe tree 
roots, Pine-nuts, Fistick-nuts, Poplar 
tree, Oak, Elder, Sassafras, Cork, 
Tamaris, Line-tree, Frankinsence, Elm, 
Capt. Winters Cinnamon.
Culpeper..] Of these, Captain 
Winters Cinnamon, being taken as 
ordinary spice, or half a dram taken 
in the morning in any convenient 
liquor, is an excellent remedy for the 
Scurvey, the Pouder of it being snuf- 
fed up in the Nose, clenseth the Head 
of Rhewm gallantly. 
The bark of the black Alder tree 
purgeth Choller and Flegm if you 
make a Decoction with it. Agrimo- 
ny, Worm-wood, Dodder, Hops, 
Endive and Succory Roots, Parsly 
and Smallage Roots, or you may 
bruise a handful of each of them, and 
put them in a gallon of new Ale, and 
let them work together (put the Sim- 
ples in a boulterbag) * a draught 
[*Half a pinte, more or less, according 
to the age of him that drinks it.] being 
drunk every morning, helps the 
Dropsie, Jaundice, evil disposition 
of the Body; helps the Rickets, 
strengthens the Liver and Spleen; 
makes the digestion good; troubles 
not the stomach at all; causeth Ap- 
petite; and helps such as are Scabby 
and Itchy.
The rest of the Barks that are worth 
the noting and the vertues of them, 
are to be found in the former part of 
the Book. 
Barks are hot in the first degree. Gua- 
jacum, Tamaris, Orrenge, Lemmons, 
Citrons. 
In the second Cinnamon, Cassia Lig- 
nea, Captain Winters Cinnamon, 
Frankinsence, Capers. 
In the third Mace. 
Cold in the first, Oak, Pome-gra- 
nates. 
In the third Mandrakes’
According to place, they 
Heat the Head Captain Winters 
Cinnamon. 
The Heart Cinnamon, Cassia Lig- 
nea Citron pils, Wal-nuts, Lemmon 
pils Mace. 
The Stomach Orenge pils, Cassia 
Lignea, Cinnamon, Citron pills, 
Lemmon pills, Mace, Sassafras. 
The Lungs Cassia Lignea, Cinna- 
mon Walnuts, 
The Liver. Barberry tree, Bay tree, 
Capt. Winters Cinnamon. 
The Spleen. Caper bark, Ash-tree 
Bark Bay-tree. 
The Reins Bladder, Bay-tree, 
Sassafras.
The Womb. Cassia Lignea, Cinna- 
mon. 
Cool the Stomach , Pome-granate 
pills. 
Purge Choller. The Barke of Bar- 
berry tree. 
Purge Flegm and Water. Elder, 
Dwarf-Elder, Spurge, Laurel. 
The WOODS, which 
are these. 
Colledg.] Firr. Wood of Aloes, 
Rhodium, Bazil, Box, 
willow, Cypress, Ebony, Guajacum, 
Juniper, Lentisk, Nephriticum,Rho- 
dium, Rosemary, Sanders white, yellow, 
and red, Sassafras, Tamaris. 
Culpeper.] Of these same are hot. As, 
Wood of Aloes, Rhodium, Box, Ebe- 
ny, Guajacum, Nephriticum, Rose- 
mary, Sassafras, Tamaris. 
Some cold. As, Cypress, Willow, 
Sanders white, red and yellow. 
Rosemary is appropriated to the  
Head, Wood of Aloes to the Heart 
and Stomach Rhodium to the bowels 
and Bladder, Nephriticum to the Li- 
ver, Spleen, Reins and Bladder, Sas- 
safras to the breast, Stomach and 
Bladder, Tamaris to the Spleen, San- 
der, cools the Heart and Spirits in 
Feavers.
For the particular vertues of each, 
see that part of the Book prece- 
ding.
The HERBS are, 
Colledg. Southernwood, male and 
Female, Wormwood, com- 
mon, roman, and such as bear Wormseed. 
Sorrel, Wood Sorrel, Maiden-hair,
common, white, or wal Rue; Black and 
golden Maudlin, Agrimony, Vervain, 
Mallow, Ladies mantle, Chick-weed, 
Marsh-mallows, and Pimpernel, both 
male, and female, Water pimpernel, 
Dill, Angellica, Small age, Goose-grass, 
or Cleavers, Columbine, Wilde Tansie, 
or silver weed, Mugwort, Asarabacca, 
Wood roose, Arach, Distasse thistle, 
Mousear, Costmary, or Alcost, Bur- 
Dock, greater, and lesser. Brooklime, or 
water pimpernel, Beets white, red, and 
black; Bettony of the wood and water.
Daises greater and lesser, Bike, Mer- 
cury. Barrage, Oake of Jerusalem, 
Cabbages, Soldonella, Briony white, and 
black, Bugloss, Sheap-hards purse, Ox- 
Eye, Box; Leaves, Calaminth of the 
Mountains and Fens, Ground Pine, 
Wood bine, or Honey-suckles, Lady- 
smocks, Mary-golds, Our Ladies thistle. 
Cardnuis Benedictus, Avens, Smal 
Spurge, Horse-taile, Coleworte, Centaury 
the less, Knotgrass, Cetrach, Chervil, 
Garmander, Camomel, Chamepytis, Fæ- 
male Southern-wood, Chelene, Pile- 
wort. Chicory, Hemlock, Garden and 
Sea Scurvy, Grass, Fleawort, Comfry 
great. Middle, or Bugle, Least, or 
Daisies, Sarasens, Confound, Buck horn, 
Plantane, May weed, (or Margweed, 
as we in Sussex call it.) Orpine, Sam- 
peer, Crosewort, Dodder, Blew bottle- 
great, and smal; Artichoaks, Hound- 
stone, Cypress Leaves, Dandelion, Dit- 
tany of Creet, Box Leaves, Teazles
garden and wilde, Dwarf Elder, Viper, 
Bugloss, Liuellin, Smallage, Endive, 
Alicampane, Horstail, Epithimum,
Groundsel Hedgmustard, Spurge, Agri- 
mony, Maudlin, Eye-bright, Orpine, 
Fennel, Sampeer, Filipendula, Indian 
leaf, Straw-berry Leaves, Ash-tree 
Leaves, Fumitory, Goats Rue, Ladies- 
bed-straw. Broom, Muscatu, Herb Ro- 
bert, Doves-foot, Cotten-weed, Hedge- 
bysop, Tree Ivy, Ground Ivy, or Ale- 
hoose, A1icampane, Pellitory of the wall. 
Liver-wort, Cowslips, Rupture-wort, 
Hawk-weed, Monks, Rhubarb, Alex- 
anders, Clary garden and wild, Hen- 
bane, St. Johns-wort, Horstongue, or 
double tongue, Hysop, Sciatica cresses, 
Smal Sengreen, Sharewort, Voad, Reeds,
Schœnanth, Chantepitys, Glass-wort, 
Lettice, Lagobus, Arch-angel, Bur- 
dock great and final. Lavender, Lau- 
rel, Bay leaves English and Alexan- 
drian. Duckmeat, Dittander, or Pep- 
per wort, Lovage, Privet, Sea Buglo, 
Toad-flax, Harts-tongue, Sweet Tresoyl, 
Wood-sorrel, Hops , Willow-herb, 
Marjoram, Common and tree Mallows, 
Mandrake, Horebound white and black,
Herb Mastich, Feathersew, Woodbine, 
Melilot, Bawm, Garden and Water 
Mints, Hors-mints, Mercury, Meze- 
reon, Yarrow. Devils bit, Moss, Sweet 
Chivil, Mirtle leaves, Garden and wa- 
ter Cresses, Nep, Tobacco, Money wort 
Water Lillies, Bazil, Olive leaves, Rest- 
harrow, Adders tongue. Origanum, 
Sharp-pointed Dock, Poppy white, 
black and red, or erratick: Pellitory 
of the Wall, Cinksoyl, Ars-smare 
spotted and not spotted Peach leaves, 
Throughwax, Parsly, Harts Tongue; 
Valeriak, Mous-ear, Burnet, Smal 
Spurge, Plantane common and narrow 
leaved, Mountain and Cretick Poley, 
Knot-grass, Golden Maiden-hair, 
Poplar leaves and buds, Leek, Pur- 
slain, Silverweed, or Wild Tansie, 
Horehound white and black, Prim- 
roses, and Self-heal, Field Pellitory, or 
Sneezwort, Peny-royal, Fleabane, 
Lung-wort, Winter-green, Oak leaves 
and buds, Docks, Common Rue, or Herb 
of Grace, Goats Rue, Wall Rue, or 
white Maidenhair, Wild rue, Savin, 
Ozier Leaves, Garden Sage the grea- 
ter and lesser, Wilde Sage, Elder leaves 
N buds.

26 HERBS. 
buds Marjoram, Burnet, sanicle, Sope- 
wort, Savory, White Saxifrage, Sca- 
bious, Cichory, Schœnanth, Clary, 
Scordium, Figwort, Housleek, or Sen- 
green the greater and lesser, Groundsel, 
Senna leaves and cods, Mother of Time, 
Solomons seal, Alexanders, Night- 
shade, Soldanella, Sow-thistles smooth 
and rough, Flix-weed, Common spike, 
Spinach, Hawthorn, Devils-bit. Com- 
fry, Tamaris leaves, Tansie, Dande- 
lyon, Mullen, or Higtaper, Time, 
Line Tree Leaves, Spurge, Tormentil, 
Tresoyl common, Golden, Wood-sorrel, 
Sweet Tresoyl, Colts foot, Valerian, 
Mullen, Varvain, Pauls Betteny, 
Lluellin, Violets, Tansie, Perewinkles, 
Swallow-wort, Golden Rod, Vine 
Leaves, Meadsweet, Elm Leaves, Na- 
vel-wort, Nettle, Wormwood common 
and roman, Arch-angel, or Dead Net- 
tles, white and red.
Culpeper.] These be the Herbs the 
Colledg set down for use. 
Herbs temperate in respect of heat, 
are common Maiden-hair, Wal- 
Rue, black and golden Maiden-hair, 
Woodroof, Bugle, Goats Rue, Harts- 
tongue, sweet Tresoyl, Flixweed, 
Cinksoyl, Tresoyl, Pauls Bettony, 
Lluellin. 
Intemperate and hot in the first de- 
gree, as Agrimony, Marsh-mallows, 
Goos-grass, or Cleavers, Distaff 
thistle, Borrage, Bugloss, or Ladies 
thistles, Avens, Cetrach, Chervil, 
Chamomel, Eye-bright, Cowslips, 
Melilot, Bazil, Self-heal. 
In the second degree, Common and 
Roman Wormwood, Maudlin, La- 
dies Mantle, Pimpernel, male and fe- 
male, Dill, Smallage, Mug-wort, 
Costmary, Betony, Oak of Jerusa- 
lem, Marigolds Cuckoo-flowers, 
Carduus Benedictus, Centaury the 
less, Chamepitis, Scurvy-grass, In- 
dian leaf. Broom, Alehoof, Alexan- 
ders, Double-tongue, or Tongue- 
blade, Arch-angel, or dead Nettles, 
Bay Leaves, Marjoram, Hore-hound 
Bawn, Mercury, Devils-bit, Tobacco 
Parsly, Poley mountain, Rosemary, 
Sage, Sanicle, Scabious, Senna, 
Soldanella, Tansie, Vervain, Pere- 
winkle. 
In the third degree. Southernwood
male and female, Brook-lime, Ange-
lica, Briony white and black, Cala- 
minth. Germander, Sullendine, Pile- 
Wort, Fleabane, Dwarf-Elder, Epi 
thimum, Bank-cresses, Clary, Glass- 
wort Lavender, Lovage, Herb Ma- 
stich, Featherfew, Mints, Water-cres- 
ses, Origanum, biting Arsmart, cal- 
led in Latin Hydropiper; Sneezwort, 
Penyroyal, Rue, Savin summer and 
winter Savory, Mother of time, La- 
vender, Spike, Time, Nettles. 
In the fourth degree. Sciatica-cres- 
ses, stone-crop. Dittander, or Pepper- 
wort, Garden cresses. Leeks, Crow- 
foot, Rosa solis, Spurge,
Herbs cold in the first degree. Sorrel, 
Wood-sorrel, Arach, Burdock, Shep- 
herds-purse, Pellitory of the Wall, 
Hawk-weed, Mallows, Yarrow, mild 
Arsmart, called Persicaria. If you be 
afraid of mistaking this for the other, 
break a leaf cross your Tongue, that 
which is hot will make your Tongue 
smart, so will not this (most of the 
wild Arsmart, though not all, hath 
blackish spots in the Leaves, almost 
Semicircular, like a half Moon) Bur- 
net, Coltsfoot, Violets.
Cold in the second degree. Chick- 
weed, wild Tansie, or Silver weed, 
Daisies, Knot-grass, Succory, Buck- 
Horn, Plantane, Dandelyon, Endive. 
Fumitory, Strawberry leaves, Lettice, 
Duckmeat, Plantane, Purslain, Wil- 
low leaves. 
In the third degree. Sengreen, or 
Housleek, Nightshade. 
In the fourth degree. Hemlock, Hen- 
bane, Mandrakes, Poppies. 
Herbs dry in the first degree. Agri- 
mony, Marsh mallows. Cleavers, 
Burdocks, Shepherds purse, or La- 
dies Thirties, Chervil, Chamomel, 
Eye-bright, Cowslips, Hawkweed, 
Tongue-blade, or Double-tongue, 
Melilot, mild Arsmart, Self-heal, 
Senna, Flixweed, Coltsfoot, Pere- 
winkle.
Dry in the second degree. Common 
and Roman Worm-wood, Sorrel, 
Wood-sorrel, Maudlin, Ladies man- 
the, Pimpernel, male and female, Dil, 
Smallage, wild Tansie, or Silverweed, 
Mugwort, distaff Thistle, costmary, 
Bettony, Bugle, Cuckooflowers, 
Carduus Benedictus, Avens, centau- 
ry the less, Cichory, commonly cal- 
led Succory, Scurvy-grass, Buck- 
horn, Plantane, Dandelyon, Endive, 
Indian Leaf, Straw-berry Leaves, 
Fumitory, Broom, Alehoof, Alexan- 
ders, Arch-Angel, or Dead Nettles, 
white and red. Bay leaves. Marjo- 
ram, Fearhersew, Bawm, Mercury, 
Devils-bit, Tobacco Parsly, Burnet. 
Plantane, Rosemary, Willow leaves, 
Sage, Sanicle, Scabious, Soldanella, 
Vervain. 
Dry in the third decree. Southern- 
wood, male and female, Brooklime, 
Angelica Briony, white and black, 
Calaminth, Germander, Chamepi- 
ties, Sullendine, Pilewort, Fleabane, 
Epithimum, Dwarf-Elder, Bank cres- 
ses, Clavy, Glass wort, Lavender, 
Lovage, Horehound, Herb Mastick, 
Mints, Water cresses, Origanum, 
Cinksoyl, hot Arsemart, Poley moun- 
tain, Sneezwort, Penyroyal, Rue, or 
Herb of Grace, Savin, winter and 
summer Savory, Mother of Time, 
Lavender, Silk, Tansie, Time, Tre- 
soyl. 
In the fourth degree. Garden cresses 
Wild Rue, Leeks, Onions, Crow- 
foot, Rosa solis, Garlick, Spurge. 
Herbs moist in the first degree. Bor- 
rage, Bugloss, Marigolds, Pellitory 
of the Wall, Mallows, Bazil. 
In the fourth degree. Chick-Weed, 
Arach, Daisies, Lettice, Duckmeat, 
Purslain, Sow thirties, Violets, Water- 
Lillies
Herbs appropriated to 
certain Parts of the 
Body of man, 
and so they
Heat the Head, as Maudlin, Cost- 
mary, Bettony, Carduus benedictus, 
Sullendine, scurvy grass, Eyebright, 
Goats Rue, Cowslips, Lavender, 
Laurel, Lovage, Herb mastich, Fea- 
therfew, Melilot, Sneezwort, Peny- 
royal, Senna, Mother of Time, La- 
vender; Spike, Time, Vervain, Rose- 
mary. 
Heat the Throat. Archangel white 
and red, otherwise called dead Net 
tles, Devils bit. 
Heat the Breast. Maidenhair, white, 
black, common and Golden, Distaff 
thistle. Time, Bettony, Calaminth, 
Chamomel, Fennel, Indian leaf, Bay 
leaves, Hysop, Bawm, Horehound, 
Oak of Jerusalem, Germander, Me- 
blot, Origanum, Rue, Scabious, 
Peruinkles, Nettles.
Heat the-Heart, Southernwood 
male and female, Angelica, Wood-
roof, Bugloss, Carduus benedictus, 
Borrage, Goats Rue, bay leaves, 
Bawm, Rue, Senna, bazil, Rosemary, 
Alicampane. 
Heat the Stomach. Wormwood com- 
mon and Roman, Smallage, Avens; 
Indian leaf, broom, Schenanth, bay 
leaves, bawm, mints, Parsly, Fennel
Time, Mother of Time, Sage. 
Heat the Liver. Agrimony, Maud- 
line, Pimpernel, male and female, 
Smallage, Costmary, or Alecost, out 
Ladies thistles. Centaury the less, 
Germander, Chamepytis, Sullendine, 
Sampier, Fox gloves, Ashtree leaves, 
Bay leaves, Toad-flax, Hops, Hore- 
hound, Water-cresses, Paisty, Poley 
mountaine, Sage, Scordium, Senna, 
Mother of Time, Soldanella, Asa- 
rabacca, Fennel, Hysop, Spick- 
nard. 
Heat the Bowels. Chamomel, Ale-
hoose, Alexanders. 
Heat the Spleen. All the four forts 
of Maiden-hair, Agrimony, smallage 
Centaury the less, Cetrach, German- 
der, Chamepitis, Sampier, Foxgloves 
Epithimum, Ash-tree, Bay leaves, 
Toad flax. Hops, Horehound, Parsly, 
Poley mountain, Sage, Scordium, 
Senna, mother of Time, Tamariks,
Wormwood, Water-cresses, Harts- 
tongue 
Heats the Reins and Bladder, Agri 
mony, Maudlin, Marsh-mallows, Pim
pernel male and female, Brook-lime, 
Costmary, Bettony, Chervil, German-
der 

HERBS. 27 
der, Chamomel, Sampier, Broom, 
Rupture wort, Clary, Schenanth,
Bay leaves, Toad flax. Hops, Melilot,
Water-cresses, Origanum, Penyroyal
Scordium, Vervain, mother of Time,
Rocket, Spicknard, Saxifrage, Net- 
tles.
Heat the Womb. Maudlin, Angel- 
lica, Mugwort, Costmary, Calaminth  
Fleabane, May-weed, or Marg-weed, 
Dettany of Creet, Schenanth, Arch-
angle, or dead Nettles, Melilot, Fea-
ther-sew, Mints, Devils-bit, Onga- 
num, Bazil, Pennyroyal, Savin, Sage,
Scordium, Tansie, Time, Vervain, 
Peruinkles, Nettles.
Heats the Joynts. Cowslips, Sciatica- 
cresses, hot Arsmart, Garden cresses, 
Costmary, Agrimony, Chamomel, 
Saint Johns-wort, Melilot, Water- 
cresses, Rosemary, Rue, Sage, Ste- 
chas.
Herbs cooling the Head. Wood
sorrel, Teazles, Lettice, Plantane, 
willow leaves, Sengreen, or Housleek, 
Straw-berry leaves, Violet leaves; 
Fumitory, Water Lillies. 
CooI the Throat. Orpine, Strawberry 
leaves. Privet, Bramble leaves. 
Breast. Mulberry leaves. Bramble 
leaves, Violet Leaves, Strawberry 
leaves. Sorrel, Wood sorrel. Poppies, 
Orpine, Moneywort, Plantane, Colts 
foot. 
Heart. Sorrel, Wood sorrel, Vi- 
pers Bugloss, Lettice, Burnet, Vio- 
let leaves, Strawberry leaves. Water- 
Lillies. 
Stomach. Sorrel, wood sorrel, suc, 
cory, Orpine, Dandelyon, Endive, 
Strawberry leaves, Hawkweed, Let- 
tice, Purslain, Sow thistles, Violet 
leaves.
Liver, Sorrel, Wood sorrel, Dan- 
delyon, Endive, Succory, Strawberry 
leaves, Fumitory, Liverwort, Lettice, 
Purslain, Nightshade, Water Lillies. 
Bowels. Fumitory, Mallows, 
Buckhorn, Plantane, Orpine, Plan- 
tane, burnet. 
Spleen. Fumitory, Endive, Succory, 
Lettice. 
Reins and Bladder. Knot-grass, 
Mallows, Yarrow, Moneywort, Plan-
tane. Endive, Succory, Lettice, Pur- 
slane, Water Lillies, Housleek or 
Sengreen. 
The Womb. Wild Tansie, Arrach 
Burdocks, Willow herb, Mirtle leaves
Moneywort, Purslane, Sow thistles, 
Endive, Succory, Lettice, Water 
Lillies, Sengreen. 
The Joynts.  Willow Leaves, Vine
leaves, Lettice Henbane, Nightshade, 
Sengreen or Housleek.
Herbs altering according 
to property, in opperati- 
on; some bind, as 
Amomus, Agnus Castus, Shep- 
herb-purse, Cypress, Horstaile, Ivy, 
Bay leaves, Melilot, Bawm, Mirtles, 
Sorrel, Plantane, Knot-grass, Comfry, 
Cinksoyl, Fleawort; Purslane; Oak 
Leaves; Willow leaves; sengreen or 
Housleek &c.
Open: as, Garlick; Onions; 
Wormwood; Mallows; Marsh-mal- 
lows; Pellitory of the wall, Endive; 
succory &c. 
Soften: Mallows; MarshmalJows; 
Beets; Pellitory of the wall; Violet 
leaves; strawberry leaves; Arrach; 
Cypress leaves; Bay leaves; Flea- 
wort &c. 
Harden. Purslane, Night-shade; 
Housleek or sengree; Duckmeat; 
and most other Herbs that are very 
cold. 
Extenuate. Mugwort; Chamomel; 
Hysop; penyroyal; stæchas; Time; 
Mother of Time; Juniper &c. 
Discuss. Southernwood male and 
Female; all the four forts of Maiden- 
hair; Marsh mallows; Dill; Mal- 
lows; Arrach; Beets; Chamomel; 
Mints; Melilot; Pellitory of the 
wal; Chick weed, Rue; Stœchas; 
Marjoram.
Draw Pimpernel; Birthwort; Dit- 
tany; Leeks; Onions; Garlick; and 
also take this general Rule; as all 
cold things bind and harden, as is 
apparent by the frost binding, and 
hardning water and mire; so al things 
vevy hot are drying, as is clear by the 
sun which is the original of heat, 
drawing up the dew. 
Suppurate. Mallows; Marsh mal- 
low white Lillies Leaves, &c. 
Clense Pimpernel; Southern- 
wood; Sparagus; Cetrach; Arach; 
Wormwood; Beets; Pellitory of the 
wall Chamepitis; Dodder; Liver- 
wort; Horehound; Willow Leaves,
&c.
Glutinate. Marshmallows; pimper- 
nel, Centaury; Chamepitis; Mallows; 
Germander; Horstail; Agrimony;
Maudlin; Strawberries Leaves; 
Woadchervil; Plantane; Cinksol; 
Comfrey; Bugle; Self-heal; Wound- 
wort; Tormentil; Ruptutewort; 
Knotegrass; Tobacco. 
Expel wind. Wormwood; Gar- 
lick; Dil; Smallage; Chamomel; 
Epithimum; Fennel; Juniper; Mar- 
joram; Origanum; Savory both win- 
ter and summer; and that (I am o- 
pinion) was the reason in Antient 
times women also boiled savory with 
their beans and pease, viz. to expel 
the windiness of them; it was a good 
I fashion, and therefore I would not 
have it left; however this shews that 
in Antient times people were more 
studious in the Nature of simples, or 
at the least Physitians were more ho- 
nest; I mean more free in imparting 
their knowledg for the benefit of the 
vulgar; at last honesty began to leave 
the earth; and then ignorance quick- 
ly stepping up in the place of know- 
ledg, people used then a while for cu- 
stome sake, at last they were esteemed 
superstitious, and quite left off. 
I care not greatly (now I am at 
It) if I quote one more of like Na- 
ture (I am confident, were it my pre- 
sent scope, I could quote an hun- 
dred) and that is Tansie. 
Tansie is excellent good to clense. 
the stomach and bowels of rough vis- 
cous flegm, and humors that stick to 
them, which the flegmatick constitu- 
tion of the winter usually infects the 
body of man with,, and occasions 
gouts and other Diseases of like Na- 
ture and lading long; this was the 
original of that custome to eat tansies 
in the spring; which afterwards grew 
to be superstitious, and appropriated 
only to some certain dayes, as Palm- 
sundaies &c. and so at last the evill of 
observing days being known and the 
vertues of the meat absconded, it is 
quite almost left Off For my part if 
any think it superstitious to eat a 
tansie in the spring, I shal not bur- 
then their consciences, they may 
make the herb into a conserve with 
sugar, or boyl it in wine and drunk 
the decoction. or make the Juyce in- 
to a syrup with sugar, which they wil 
but to proceed. 
Herbs breed seed. Clary; Rocket; 
and moist Herbs that are hot and 
moist, and breed wind.
Provoke the terms. Southernwood; 
Garlick; all the forts of Maiden hair; 
Mugwort, Wormwood; Bishop- 
Weed, Cabbages; Bettony; Centau- 
ry; Chamomel; Calaminth; Ger- 
mander; Dodder; Dittany; Fennel; 
St. Johns wort; Marjoram; Hore- 
Hound; Bawm; Water cresses; Ori- 
ganum; Bazil; Penyroyal; Poley-
mountain; Parsley; smallage; Rue; 
Rosemary; sage; savin; Hartwort; 
Time; Mother of Time; scordium; 
Nettles. 
Stop the terms, shepherds purse 
Strawberries; Mirtles; Water lillies; 
Plantane; Housleek; or sengreen; 
Comfry; Knotgrass. 
Resist poy.son southernwood; 
Wormwood; Garlick; all forts of 
Maiden hair; smallage; Bettony; 
Carduus benedictus; Germander; 
calaminth; Alexanders; carline 
thistle; Agrimony; Fennel; Juniper; 
Horehound; Origanum; Penyroy- 
all; Poley-mountain; Rue; scor- 
dium; Plantane.
Discuß smwllings. Maidenhair, clea- 
vers or Goosegrass; Mallows Marsh- 
mallows; Docks; Bawm; Water- 
cresses; cinksoyl; scordium &c. 
Ease pain. Dil; Wormwood; arach; 
Chamomel; calaminth; chamepitys; 
Henbane; Hops; Hogs-Fennel; 
Parsly; Rosemary; Rue; Marjoram; 
Mother of Time. 
Herbs Purging. 
Choller. Groundsel; Hops; Peach 
Leaves; wormword; centaury; Mal- 
lows, senna. 
Melancholy, Ox-eye; Epithimum; 
Fumitory 

28 FLOWERS.
Fumitory; Senna; Doddar. 
Flegm and Water. Briony; white 
Mid black; Spurge: both work most 
violently and are not therefore fit for 
a vulgar use: Dwarf Elder, Hedg, 
Hysop, Laurel Leaves, Mercury, Me- 
zereon also purgeth violently, and so 
doth sneezwort, Elder Leaves senna. 
For the particular Operations of 
these, as also how to order the body 
after purges, the quantity to be taken 
at a time, you have been in part in- 
structed already, and shall be more 
fully hereafter.
FLOWERS. 
Colledg] Wormwood: Agnus
Castus: Amaran- 
thus: Dill: Rosemary: Columbines: Or- 
renges: Balaustines: or Pomegranate 
flowers: Bettony; Borrage: Bugloß:
Marrigolds: Woodbine: or Honey- 
suckles: Clove Gilliflowers: Centaury: 
the less: Chamomel: Winter Gilliflow- 
ers: or Wall-flowers: Succory: Comfry 
the greater: Saffron: Blewbottle great 
and small: (Synosbatus, Tragus, and 
Dedonæus hold our white thorn to be 
it: Cordus and Marcelus think it to be 
Bryars: and Lugdunensis takes it for 
the sweet Bryar: but what our Colledg 
takes it for: I know not) ytinus: (Dios 
corides calleth the Flowers of the Ma- 
nured pomegranates: Cytinus: but Pliny 
calleth the Flowers of the wild kind by 
that Name:) Fox gloves: pipers Bug- 
loss: Rocket: Eye-bright: Beans: Fu- 
mitory: Broom: Cowslips: St. Johns 
wort: Hysop: Jasmine: or shrub Tre- 
soyl: Archangel: or dead Nettles white 
and red: Lavender: Wal-flowers: or
VVinter-gilliflowers: Privet: Lil- 
lies white: and of the Valley: Hops: 
Common and Tree Mallows: Feather- 
few: Woodbine or Honey suckles: 
Melilot: Bawm: Walnuts: Water- 
Lillies white and yellow: Origanum: 
Poppies white and red: or Erraticks: 
Poppies: or Corn Roses: so called be- 
cause they grow amongst Corn: Peony: 
Honey suckles: or Woodbine: Peach
flowers: Primroses: Selfheal: floebush:
Rosemary flowers: Roses: white Da- 
Mark and red: sage: Elder: white saxi- 
frage: scabious: siligo: (I think, they 
mean wheat by it: Authors are not a-
greed about it) stachas: Tamaris: Tan 
sy: Mullen; or Higtaper: Lintree: 
Clove gilly-flowers: Coltsfoot: Vio- 
lets: Agnus: castus: dead Nettles 
white and red.
Culpeper.] That these may be a lit- 
tle explained for the Publique good: 
be pleased to take notice that of 
these. 
Some are hot in the first Degree, as 
Borrage; Bugloss; Bettony; Ox- 
eye; Melilot; Chamomel; Stœ- 
chas. 
Hot in the second degree. Amomus,
Saffron; Clove-gilli-flowers; Roc- 
ket; Bawm; Spicknard; Hops; 
Schenanth; Lavender; Jasmine; 
Rosemary. 
In the third degree. Agnus Ca- 
stus; Epithimum; Winter-gilli-flo- 
wers; or Wal-flowers; Woodbin; 
or Honey-suckles. 
Cold in the first degree. Mallows; 
Roses, red, white; and Damask; Vio- 
lets. 
In the second. Anemom; or Wind- 
Flower; Endive; Succory; Water-
Lillies; both white and Yellow.
In the third. Balaustins; or Pome- 
grante flowers.
In the fourth. Henbane; and al the 
forts of Poppies; only whereas Au- 
thors say, field Poppies s which some 
call red, other erratick, and corn Ro- 
ses; are the coldest of all the others; 
yet my opinion is, that they are not 
cold in the fourth degree.
Moist in the first degree. Borrage; 
Bugloss; Mallows; Succory; Endive,
In the second. Water-Lillies; Vio- 
lets.
Dry in the first degree. Ox-eye; 
Saffron; Chamomel; Melilot; Ro- 
ses. 
In the second. Wind-flowers; Amo- 
mus; Clove gilli flower; Rocket; 
Lavender; Hops; Peony, Rosemary;
Spicknard. 
In the third. Woodbine; or Honey 
suckles, Balaustines; Epithimum; 
Germander; Chamepitys. 
The temperature of any other flo 
wers not here mentioned are of the 
same temperature with the Herbs; 
you may gain skil by searching there
for them; you can lose none.
For the parts of the Body 
they are appropriated 
to, some heat 
The head. as, Rosemary flowers; 
Self-heal; Chamomel; Bettony;
Cowslips; Lavender; Melilot; Peo 
ny; Sage; Stœchas. 
The breast. Bettony; Bawm; Sca- 
bious; Schænanth. 
The heart. Bawm; Rosemary flo- 
wers; Borrage; Bugloss; Saffrons 
Spicknard. 
The stomach. Rosemary flowers, 
Spicknard; Schœnanth. 
The Liver. Centaury; Schænanth; 
Elder; Bettony; Chamomel; Spick- 
nard. 
The spleen. Bettony; Wal flowers; 
The Reins and Bladder. Bettony; 
Marshmallows; Melilot; Schænanth; 
Spicknard. 
The Womb. Bettony; Squinanth 
or Schænanth; Sages; Orris or Flow- 
er-de-luce.
The Joynts. Rosemary flowers;
Cowslips; Chamomel; Melilot. 
Flowers as they are cool- 
ing, see they coole 
The Head. Violets; Roses; the 
three forts of Poppies: and Water 
Lillies.
The breast and heart. Violets; red 
Roses; Water-Lillies. 
The stomach. Red-Roses; Violets. 
The liver and spleen. Endive; and 
Succory. 
Violets; Borrage: and Bugloss; 
moisten the Heart; Rosemary flow 
ers; Bawm and Bettony dry it.
According to Property, 
so they Bind. 
Balaustines, Saffron; Succory; 
Endive; Red Roses; melilot Bawm; 
Clove-gilli-flowers; Agnus Castus
Discuß. Dil; Chamomel; Marsh- 
mallows; Mallows; Melilot; Stœ-
chas, &c. 
Clense. Damask Roses; Elder flow- 
ers; Bean-flowers, &c. 
Extenuate. Orris; or Flower-de-
Luce; Chamomel; Melilot ; Stœ
chas, &c. 
Mollifie. Saffron; white Lillies; 
Mallows; Marsh-mallows, &c. 
Suppure. Saffron; white Lillies; 
&c. 
Glutinate. Balaustines; Centaury; 
&c. 
Provoke the terms. Bettony; Cen-
taury; Chamomel; Schænanth; Wal-
Flowers; Bawm; Peony; Rosemary; 
Sage. 
Stop the terms. Balaustines; or
Pomegranate flowers; Water Lillies.
Expell wind. Dil; Chamomel; 
Schænanth; Spicknard.  
Help burnings. White Lillies;
Mallows; Marsh mallows, 
Resist poyson. Bettony; Centaury.
Ease pain. Dil; Chamomel; Cen- 
taury; Melilot; Rosemary. 
Flowers purge Choller. Peach Flow- 
ers; Damask Roles; Violets. 
Flegm. Broom flowers; Elder flo- 
wers.
If you compare but the quality of
the flowers with the Herbs, and 
the explanation of these terms at the 
latter end, you may easily find the
temperature and property of the
rest. 
As for the Verues of the Flowers, 
there were but few quote before
and those very briefly; I think the 
reason was, because the Printer was 
afraid the book would he too big: I 
shal therefore give a supply here to
what was wanting there; and where 
I was too brief there, I shall be more 
large here.
The flowers of Ox-eye being boiled 
into 

FLOWERS. FRVITS. 29 
into a pultis with a little barley meal, 
take away swellings and hardness of 
the flesh, being applied warm to the 
place. 
Chamomel flowers heat, discuss, loo- 
sen and rarifie; boyled in Clysters, 
they are excellent in the wind chol- 
ick boiled in wine, and the decoction 
drunk, purgeth the Reins, breaks the 
stone, opens the pores, casts out chol- 
lerick humors succonrs the heart, and 
easeth pains and aches, or stiffness 
coming by travelling. 
The flowers of Rocket used outward- 
ly, discuss swellings, and dissolve hard 
Juniors: you may boil them into a 
pultis or Cataplasme as Scholars call 
it, but inwardly taken they send but 
unwholsom vapors up to the Head.
Hops open Obstructions of the 
bowels, Liver and spleen, they clense 
the body of Choler and Flegm, pro- 
voke Urine. I wonder in my Heart 
how that apish fashion of drinking 
beer and ale together for the stone
came up; and others affirm that the 
disease of the stone was not in rerum 
natura, before beer was invented: 
a gross untruth, for Physitians have 
written of the stone that lived a thou- 
sand yeers before beer was invented, 
I deny not but staleness of beer may 
cause sharpness of urine: otherwise
beer if mild, is ten times better drink 
tor such as are trouled with the stone, 
then Ale, as being more opening.
Jasmine flowers bloiled in oyl, and 
the grieved place bathed with it, 
takes away cramps and stitches in the 
sides. The plant is only preserved 
here in the gardens of some few, and 
because hard to come by, I pass it; 
If you desire more vertues of it, be 
pleased to search it in Dodonæus.
The flowers of Woodbine or Honey- 
Suckles, being dryed and beaten into 
Pouder, and a dram taken in white 
wine in the morning, helps the Ric- 
ket, difficulty of breathing; provoke 
urine, and help such as cannot make 
water, I would have none make a 
common practice of taking it, for it 
clenseth the uretery vessels so potent- 
ly, that it may cause pissing of blood. 
The flowers of Mallows being brui- 
sed and boiled in honey (two ounces 
of the Flowers is sufficient for a 
pound of honey; and having first 
clarified the Honey before you put 
them in) then strained out; this ho- 
ney taken with a Liquoris stick, is an 
excellent Remedy both for Coughs, 
Astmaes, and consumptions of the 
Lungues
FRVITS. 
Colledg Winter cherries: Love ap-
ple: Almonds sweet
and bitter. Anacardia: Orrenges: Ha- 
zel Nuts: the oyly Nut Ben: Bar- 
berries: Capars: Guinny Pepper:
Figs: Carpobalsamum: Cloves: Caßia 
Fistula: Chestnuts: Cherries black and 
red: Cicers, white, black and red. Pome 
Citrons: Coculus Indi: Colocynthis, 
Currence: Cornels, or Cornelian cher- 
ries: Cubebs: Cucumers garden and wild. 
Gourd. * Cynosbatus [* see the flow- 
ers] Cypress cones: Quinces: Dates. 
Dwarfe-Elder: Green figs: Strawber- 
ries: common and Turky Galls: Acorns: 
Alorn cups: pomegranates: Goose- 
berries: Ivy: Herb True love; Wall- 
nuts: Jujubes: Juniper berries: Bay- 
berries: Lemmons: Orenges: Citrons: 
Quinces: Pomegranates: Lemmons: 
Mandrakes: Peaches: stramoneum: 
Apples garden and wild: or crabs and 
Apples: Musk melones: Medlars or 
open Arses Mulberries: Myrobalans:
bellericks; chebs: Emblicks, Citron: 
and Indian: Mirsle berries: water nuts: 
Hazle Nuts: Chest-nuts, Cypress 
Nuts: Wallnuts: Nutmegs: Fisticks 
Nuts. Vomiting Nuts: Olives pickled 
in brine: Heads of white and black pop- 
pies: Pompions: Peaches: French or 
Kidney Beans: Pine Cones: white, black, 
and long Pepper: Fistick Nuts: Apples 
and Crabs: Prunes French and Da- 
mask: sloes: pears: English Currence: 
berries of purging Thorn: black berries: 
Rasberries: Elder berries, sebestens, ser- 
vices, or Checkers: Hawthorn berries: 
pinenuts: water Nuts: Grapes, Goose- 
berries: Raisons: currence.
Culpeper That you may reap bene- 
fit by these, he pleased to consider, that 
they are some of them. 
Temperate in respect of heat. Raisons 
of the sun: currence, Figs: Pinenuts; 
Dates: sebestens. 
Hot in the first degree. Sweet Al- 
monds: Jujubes: cypress Nuts: green
Hazel Nuts: green wallnuts. 
Hot in the second degree. The Nut 
Ben: capers: Nutmegs: dry wallnuts 
dry Hazel Nuts; Fistick Nuts. 
In the third degree. Juniper berries: 
cloves, carpobalsamum, cubebs: Ana- 
cardium, bitter Almonds. 
In the fourth degree. Pepper, white 
black and long: Guinny pepper. 
Cold in the first degree. The flesh of 
citrons: Quinces: Pears: Prunes: &c. 
In the second. Guords; cucumers: 
Melones, (or, as they are called in 
London, Muskmelones: I suppose for 
the sweetness of their smel) pompi- 
ons; Oringes: Lemmons: citrons 
pomegranates: viz. the Juyce of 
them, Peaches: Prunes: Galls: Ap- 
ples. 
In the third. Mandrakes. 
In the fourth. Stramonium. 
Moist in the first degree. The flesh of 
citrons: Lemmons: Orrenges, viz. 
the inner rind which is white, for 
the outer rind is hot. 
In the second. Guords; Melones: 
Peaches: Prunes. &c.
Dry in the first degree. Juniper ber- 
ries.
In the second. The Nut Ben. Capers:
Pears: Fistick Nuts: Pine Nuts: 
Quinces; Nutmegs: Bayberries. 
In the third. Cloves: Gals: &c. 
In the fourth. All sorts of pepper. 
As appropriated to the bo- 
dy of Man, so they heat 
the Head: as 
Anacardia, cubebs, Nutmegs. 
The breast. Bitter Almonds, Dates, 
cubebs, Hazel Nuts, Pinenuts, Figs, 
Raisons of the sun. Jujubes. 
The heart. Walnuts, Nutmegs, 
Juniper berries. 
The stomach. Sweet Almonds, 
cloves, Ben. Juniper berries. Nut- 
megs Pinenuts, Olives. 
The spleen. Capers. 
The Reins and bladder. Bitter Al- 
monds, Juniperberries, cubebs, pine- 
nuts, Raisons of the sun. 
The womb. Walnuts, Nutmegs, 
Bayberries, Juniper berries. 
Cool the breast. Sebestens, prunes, 
Orrenges, Lemmons.
The heart. Orrenges, Lemmons, 
citrons, Pomegranates, Quinces, 
pears.
The stomach. Quinces, citruls, cucu- 
mers, Guords, Muskmelones, pom- 
pions, cherries, Gooseberries, corne- 
lian, cherries, Lemmons, Apples, 
Medlars, Orranges, pears, English 
currants, cervices or checkers. 
The Liver. Those that cool the 
stomach and Barberries. 
The Reins and womb. Those that 
cool the stomach and strawberries.
By their several Ope- 
ratitions some 
Bind. As the Berries of Mirtles, 
Barberries, chesnuts, cornels, or cor- 
nelian cherries, Quinces, Galls, A- 
corns, Acorncups, Medlars, checkers 
or cervices, pomegranates. Nutmegs, 
Olives, pears, peaches.
Discuss, capers, all the sorts of 
pepper. 
Extenuate. Sweet and bitter Al- 
monds, Bayberries, Juniper berries. 
Glutinate. Acorns, Acorn cups. 
Dates, Raisons of the sun, currence, 
Expel wind Bayberries, juniper 
berries, Nutmegs, all the sorts of 
pepper.
Breed seed. Raisons of the sun, sweet 
Almonds, pinenuts, Figs, &c. 
Provoke urine. Winter cherries. 
Provoke the terms. Ivy berries, ca- 
pers &c. 
Stop the terms. Barberries &c. 
Resist poyson. Bayberries, Juniper 
berries, walnuts, citrons, commonly 
called pomecitrons, all the sorts of 
pepper. 
O Ease 

30 FRVITS. SEEDS. 
Ease pain, Bayberries, Juniper 
berries. Ivy berries. Figs, VValnuts, 
Raisons, currence, all sorts of pepper.
Fruits Purging.
Choller. cassia fistula, citron My- 
robalans, prunes, Tamarinds, Rai- 
sons. 
Melancholy. Indian Myrobalans. 
Flegm. colocynthis and wild cu 
cumers purge violently, and there- 
fore not rashly to be medled withal: 
I desire my book should be benefici- 
all, not hurtful to the vulgar: but my- 
robalans of all sorts, especially chebs, 
bellericks and Emblicks, purge flegm 
very gently, and without danger. 
Of all these, besides what hath 
been formerly mentioned in this 
book (to which I refer you) give me, 
leave to commende only one to you 
as of special concernment, which is 
Juniper berries: They may be found 
al the winter long plentifully grow- 
ing on Warly common in Essex neer 
Brentwood, about fifteen miles from
London.
Tragus saith the vertues of Juniper 
berries are so many that they cannot 
be numbred, amongst which these 
are some; the berries eaten (for they 
are pleasant in tast) are exceeding 
good against the biting of Adders; 
they resist poyson, pestilence, or any 
infectious disease; help the strangury 
and dropsie. Mathiolus affirms, that 
a lye made with ashes of Juniper, and 
water, is as great aprovoker of urine 
as can be. The berries expel wind 
exceedingly, heat the stomach, help 
the digestion, provoke the terms; the 
Germans make an universal Medi- 
cine of them; they help the cough, 
shortness of breath, weakness of the 
Lungs, convulsions, cramps: they 
Give easie; Delivery to women with 
child: five or six berries taken every 
morning, preserves the body in 
health: helps the cholick and stone, 
rawness of the stomach, faintings and 
heart qualms, madness and frenzies: 
they strengthen the Eves, and help 
Rheums there: the yellow jaundice, 
falling sickness, gout and palsie. 
Take those berries which are ripe, 
which look black.
SEEDS. 
Colledg. Sorrel, Agnus Castus, 
Marshmallows, Bishops 
weed true and common. Amomus, Dill, 
Angelica, Annis, Roseseed, Smallage, 
Columbines, sparagus, Arach, Oates,
Orranges, Burdocks, Bazil, barberries, 
Cotton, Bruscus, or Kneeholly, Hemp,
Cardamoms greater and lesser, Carduus
benedictus, our Ladies thistles, bastard 
Saffron, Caraway, spurge greater and 
lesser, Coleworts, Onions, the Kernels of 
Cherries stones, Chervil. Succory, Hem- 
Lock, citrons, Citruls, Garden scurvy- 
graß, Colocynthis, Coriander, Sampier, 
cucumers. Garden and wild, Guords, 
Quinces, Cummin, Cynosbatus, Dates 
stones. Carrots English, and Cretish, 
Dwarf elder, Endive, Rocker, Hedg mu- 
stard, Orobus beans, Fennel, Fenugreek, 
Ashtree keys, Fumitory, brooms, grains 
of Paradice, pomegranates, wild Rue, 
Alexanders, barley, white Henbane, 
St. Johns wort, Hysop, Lettice, sharp- 
poynted Dock, Spurge, Laurel, Lentils, 
Lovage, Lemons, Ashtree keys, Lin 
seed, or Flaxseed, Gromwel, Darnel, 
sweet Trefoyl, Lupines, Masterwort, 
marjoram, mallowes, mandrakes, me- 
lones, medlars, mezereon, Gromwel, sweet 
Navew, Nigella, the Kernels of cher-
ries, Apricocks, and peaches, bazil, 
Orobus, Rice, panick, poppies, white and 
black, parsneps, Garden and wild, 
through wax, parsly, English and macc- 
donian, burnet, pease, plantane, peony, 
Leeks, purslain, Fleawort, Turneps, 
Radishes, sumach, Spurge Roses. Rue 
Garden and wild, Wormseed, saxifrage, 
succory, sesami, Hartwort, common and 
cretish  mustardseed, Alexanders, Night- 
shade, staves-Acer, Sumach, Treakle, 
Mustard, sweet Trefoyl, wheat, both 
the fine flower, and bran, and that which 
* starch is made of, Veches or Tares, 
Nettles, common and Roman; the stones 
of Grapes. Greek Wheat, or spelt wheat.
Seed are hot in the first
Degree
Linseed. Fenugreek, coriander. 
Rice. Gromwel. Lupines. 
In the second. Dill, smallage. Oro- 
bus Rocket, bazil. Nettles. 
In the third, bishops weed, Annis. 
Amomus. caraway. Fennel. ( and so 
I beleeve is smallage too let Authors 
say what they will; for if the Herb of 
smallage be some what hotter than 
parsley; I know little reason why the 
seed should not be so hot) carda- 
moms, parsley, cummin. carrots. Ni- 
gella. Navew. Hartwort. Staves ager. 
In the fourth. Watercresses. Mu 
stardseed.
Cold in the first degree, barley &c. 
In the second. Endive. Lettice. Pur- 
slain, succory. Guords. cucumers
Melones. citruls. Pompions. sorrel. 
Nightshade. 
In the third. Henbane. Hemlock. 
Poppies white and black. 
Moist in the first degree. Mallows &c. 
Dry in the first degree. beans. Fen- 
nel. Fenugreek. barley. Wheat. &c. 
In the second. Orobus Lentils. Rice. 
poppies. Nightshade. and the like. 
In the third. Dill. smallage. bishops 
weed. Annis caraway, cummin, co- 
riander. Nigella. Gromwel parsly. 
Appropriated to the body 
of Man, and so they 
Heat the head, fennel. Marjoram
Peony &c. 
The breast. Nettles.
The heart, bazil. Rue &c. Mustard
seed &c, 
The stomach. Annis. bishops weed. 
Amomus. smallage. cummin, carda- 
moms. cubebs. Grains of Paradice. 
The Liver. Annis. Fennel. bishops 
weed. Amomus. smallage. sparagus. 
cummin. caraway, carrots. 
The spleen. Annis. caraway, water- 
cresses. 
The reins and bladder. Cicer. Roc-
ket. saxifrage. Nettles. Gromwel. 
The womb. Peony. Rue. 
The Joynts. Water cresses. Rue. 
Mustard seed. 
Cool the head. Lettice. Purslain. 
white poppies. 
The breast. White poppies. Violets. 
The heart. Orrenge. Lemmon. ci- 
tron and sorrel seed. 
Lastly, the four greater and four 
lesser cold seed, which you may find 
in the beginning of the compositi- 
ons, as also the seed of white and 
black poppies cool the Liver and 
spleen, Reins and bladder, womb and 
Joynts.
According to operation 
some Seeds 
Bind, as Rose seeds, barberries 
sheapherds purse, purslain &c. 
Discuss. Dill, carrots, Linseeds,
Fenugreek, Nigella &c. 
Clense. Beans, Orobus, Barly; 
Lupine, Nettles &c 
Molifie. Linseed, or Flax seeds 
Fenugreek seed, Mallows, Nigella. 
Harden. Purslain seed &c. 
Suppure. Linseed, Fenugreek seed, 
Darnel, barley husked, commonly
called French barley. 
Glutinate. Orobus, Lupines, Dar- 
nel &c. 
Expel wind. Annis, Dill Smallage, 
caraway, cummin, carrots, Fennel, 
Nigella, parsly, Hartwort, Worm- 
seed.
Breed seed. Rocket, beans, cicers 
Ashtree. Keyes, 
Provoke the Terms. Amomus, spa- 
ragus, Annis, Fennel, bishops weed, 
cicers, carrots, smallage, parsly, Lo- 
vage, Hartswort. 
Break the Stone. Mallows, Marsh- 
mallows, Gromwel &c. 
Stop the Terms. Rose seeds, cummin, 
burdock &c.
Resist poyson Bishops weed, Annis 
smallage, cardamoms , Orrenges, 
Lemons, citrons, Fennel &c. , 
Ease pain  Dill, Amomus, carda- 
moms, cummin, carrots, Orobus,
Fenu- 

Gums, Rozins, Balsoms, and Juyces made thick, viz. 31 
Fenugreek, Linseed, Gromwel, parsly, 
panick. 
Asswage swellings. Linseed, Fenu- 
greek seeds, Marsh-mallows, Mal- 
low, coriander, barley,, Lupines, 
Darnel &c.
GUMS, ROZINS, 
Balsoms, and Juyces 
made thick, Viz. 
Colledg.] Juyces of Wormwood and 
Maudlin, Acacia, Aloes,
Lees of Oyl, Assa fœtida, Balsom of 
peru and India; Bdellium, Benzoin, 
Camphire, Caranna, Colophonia, Juyce 
of Maudline, Euphorbium, Lees of Vine, 
Lees of OlLGums of Galbanum, Amo-
niacum, Anime, Arabick, Cherry trees, 
Coopal, Elemy, Juniper, Ivy, plumb 
trees, Cambuge, Hypocystis, Labdanum, 
Lacca, Liquid, Amber, Mannæ, Ma- 
stich, mirrh, Olibanum, Opopanax, 
Pice-bitumen, of the Cedar of 
Greece, Liquid and dry, Rozin of firre 
tree, Larch tree, Pine tree, Pine fruite, 
mastich, Venice and Cipress Turpentine, 
Sugar, white, red, and Christaline, or 
Sugar Candy white and red, Sagapen, 
Juniper Gum , Sanguis Draconis , 
Sarcocolla, Scamomy, Styrax, liquid and 
Calamitis. Tacha Mahacca, Tarter, 
Frankinsence, Olibanum Tragaganth, 
birdlime. 
Culpeper.] That my country may 
receive benefit, I shall treat of them 
Severally. 
1. Of the Juyces. 
2. Of the Gums and Rozins.
Concrete Juyces, or Juyces 
made thick are either, 
Temperate; as Juyce of Liquoris, 
White Starch. 
Hot in the first degree. Sugar. 
In the second. Labdanum. 
In the third. Benzoin, Assafe- 
tida. 
Cold in the third degree. Sanguis 
Draconis, Acacia. 
In the third. Hypocistis. 
In the fourth. Opium, and yet 
some Authers think Opium is hot 
because of its bitter taste. 
Aloes and manna purge choller 
gently; and scammomy doth purge 
choler so violently, that it is no waies 
fit for a vulgar mans use, for it cor- 
rhodes the bowels. Opopanax purg- 
eth Flegm very gently. 
Considering I was very brief in the 
handling the vertue of these in my 
former part, I shall here supply what 
was wanting there.
White Starch gently Levigates or 
makes smooth such parts as are 
rough, syrup of Violets being made 
thick with it and so taken on the 
point of a Knife, helps coughs, 
roughness of the Throat, wheezing, 
Excoriations of the bowels, that same 
very Disease which so lately puzled 
the Learned Rabbies of our times, 
the bloody flux, or the plague in the 
Guts, (as their Worship learnedly 
call it) I cut my Finger the other day 
and then had I got the plague in my 
finger by the same rule. 
Juyce of Liquoris help, roughness 
of the Trachea Arteria, which is in 
plain English call’d the Windpipe, 
the roughness of which causeth 
coughs and hoarceness, difficulty of 
breathing &c. It allaies the heat of 
stomach and Liver, easeth, pains, 
soreness and roughness of the Reins 
and bladder, it quencheth thirst, and 
strengthens the stomach, exceeding- 
ly; It may easily be carried about in 
ones pocket, and eat a little now and 
then.
Sugar clenseth and digesteth, takes 
away roughnes of the Tongue, it 
strengthens the Reins and bladder, 
being weakned; being beaten into 
fine pouder and put into the Eyes, 
it takes away films that grow over 
the sight. 
Labdanum is in operation, thick- 
ning, heating and mollifying, it opens 
the passage of the Veins, and keeps 
the hair from falling off, the use of it 
is usually external: being mixed 
with Wine, Mirrh, and Oyl of Mir- 
tles, and applied like a plaister, it 
takes away filthy scars, and the de- 
formity the smal pocks leave behind 
them, being mixed with Oyl of 
Roses, and dropp'd into the Ears, it 
helps pains there; being used as a 
pessary, it provokes the Terms, and 
helps hardness or stiffness of the 
womb: It is somtimes used inwardly 
in such medicines as ease pains and 
help the cough: if you mix a little of 
it with old white wine and drink it, 
it both provokes urin and stops, loos- 
ness or fluxes.
Dragons blood, cools, binds, and 
repels. 
Acacia, and Hypocistis, do the like. 
The Juyce of maudlin, (or for want 
of it Costmary, which is the same in 
effect, and better known to the vulgar 
some countries call it Alecost) the 
juyce is made thick for the better 
keeping of it; first clarifie the Juyce 
very well, before you boyl it to its 
due thickness, which is somthing 
thicker then Honey.
It is appropriated to the Liver: 
and the quantity of a dram taken 
every morning, helps the Cachexia, 
or evil disposition of the body pro- 
ceeding from coldness of the Liver: 
it helps the Rickets and worms in 
Children, provokes Urin, and gently, 
(without purging) disburdens the 
body of choler and flegm, it succors 
the Lungs, opens obstructions, and 
resists putrifaction of blood. 
The rest which are material and 
easie to be had may be found in what 
goes before: such as are hard to 
come by I pass by, as considering it 
would do the Reader little good to 
tel him a long tale of what things 
are in the Bast Indies or Arabia. 
Gums are either temperate, as Lacca, 
Elemi, Tragacanth &c. 
Intemperate, and so are hot in the 
first degree, at Bdellium, Gum of Ivy. 
In the second, Galbanum, Mirrh, 
Mastich, Frankinsence, Olibanum, 
Pitch, Rozin, Styrax. 
In the third, Amoniacum. 
In the fourth, Euphorbium. 
Gum Arabick is cold. 
Colophonia and Styrax soften. 
Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, 
Sandarack of Juniper Gum, and 
Sarcocalla bind.
Gum of cherry trees, breaks the 
stone.
Styrax provokes the Terms. 
Opopanax gently purgeth flegm. 
Because I was brief in the vertues 
of these before, I shall supply here 
what was wanting there. 
From the prickly Cedar when it is 
burned comes forth that which with 
us, is usually known by the name of 
Tar, and is excellent good for uncti- 
on either for scabs, Itch, or mangi- 
ness either in men or beasts: as also 
against the Leprosie, Tetters, Ring- 
Worms, and scald heads. 
All forts of Rozins fil up hollow 
Ulcers, and relieves the body over 
pressed with cold griefs. 
The Rozin of Pitch tree, is that 
which is commonly tailed Burgony 
Pitch, and is somthing hotter and 
sharper than the former, being spread 
upon a cloath is excellent good for 
old aches coining of former bruises 
or dislocations.
Pitch molifies hard swellings, and 
brings boyls and pores to suppurati- 
on, it breaks carbuncles, disperseth 
imposthumes, clenseth Ulcers of 
corruption & filleth them with flesh. 
Bdellium heats and mobiles, and 
that very temperately, being mix'd 
with any convenient Oyntment or 
plaister, it helps kernels in the Neck 
and Throat, Scrophula, or that dis- 
ease which is called the Kings evil. 
Inwardly taken in any convenient 
medicine, it provokes the Terms, and 
breaks the stone, it helps coughs 
and bitings of venemous hearts it 
helps, windiness of the spleen, and 
pains in the sides thence coming, 
both outwardly applied to the place 
and inwardly taken, it helps ruptures 
or such as are burst, it softens the 
hardness of the Womb, dries up the 
moisture thereof, and expels the dead 
child. 
Bitumen Judaicum is a certain dry 
pitch which the dead sea, or lake of 
Sodom 

32 Gums, Rozihs. Balsoms, and Juyces made thick, viz. 
Sodom in Iudea cast forth at certain
times, the Inhabitants there abouts 
pitch their ships with it. It is of ex-
cellent use to mollifie the hardness of 
swellings and discuss them, as also a-
gainst Inflamations; the smoak of it
burnt is excellent good for the fits of; 
the mother, and the falling sickness; 
Inwardly taken in wine it provokes 
the terms, helps the bitings of vene- 
mous beasts, and dissolves congealed 
blood in the body.
Ambergreese is hot and dry in the se- 
cond degree, I will not dispute the 
case whether it be a Gum or not: It 
strengthens nature much which way 
soever it be taken, there are but few 
grains usually given of it at a time, I 
suppose rather for fear it should be 
too heavy for the, purse than too hot 
for the body, mix’d with a little 
Oyntment of Orrenge flowers, and 
the Temples and Forehead anointed 
with it; it easeth the pains of the 
head and strengthens the brain ex- 
ceedingly: the same appli’d to the 
privities helps the fits of the mother, 
inwardy taken it strengthens the 
brain and memory, the heart and vi- 
tal spirit, warms cold stomachs, and 
is an exceeding strengthener of Na- 
ture to old people, adding vigor to 
decaid and worn out spirits, it pro-
vokes lust, and makes barren Women
fruitfull, if coldness and moisture or 
weakness be the cause impediting.
Assafœtida being smelled to, is 
vulgarly known to repress the fits of 
the mother: a little bit put into an 
aking tooth, presently easeth the 
pains: ten grains of it taken before 
dinner walking half an hour after if,
provokes, appetite, helps Digestion, 
strengthens the Stomach, and takes
away loathing of meat, it provokes 
lust exceedingly and expells wind as 
much. 
Borax, or Borrace as some call it,
besides its vertues it hath to sodder
Gold, Silver, and Copper &c. In- 
wardly given in small quantities, it
stops fluxes, and the running of the
Reins: being in fine pouder, and put
into green wounds it cures them at
once dressing.
Cambuge, which out of many 
names which every Country bestows 
upon it, the Colledg are pleased to 
cal Gutta Gamba: Authors are ex- 
treamly different, both about its be- 
ing, what it is whether a juyce, or 
not? If a juyce, of what? and about 
its Operations, whether it work vio-
lently or not: for my part I care not
for medling with an unknown Me-
dicine my self, neither would I advise 
my Country men. 
Caranna outwardly applied, is ex- 
cellent for aches and swellings in the 
nerves and Joynts; if you lay it be- 
hind the ears, it draws back humors 
from the eyes, applied to the temples 
as they usually do Mastich, it helps 
the Toothach. 
Gum Elemi Authors appropriate 
to factures in the skul and head. See 
Arceus his Liniment, 
Gum Lacca being wel purified, and 
the quantity of half a dram taken in 
any convenient liquor, strengthens 
the stomach and Liver, opens obstru- 
ctions, helps the yellow jaundice and 
dropsie; provokes urine, breaks the 
stone in the reins and bladder. 
Liquid Amber is not much unlike 
Liquid Styrax: by unction it warms 
and comforts a cold and moist brain, 
it easeth all griefs coming of a cold 
cause. It mightly comforteth and 
strengthneth a weak stomach, being 
anointed with it, and helps digestion 
exceedingly, it dissolves swellings. It 
is hot in the third degree, and moist 
in the first.
I think it would do the Common- 
wealth no harm if I should speak a 
word or two of Manna here, al- 
though it be no Gum; I confess Au- 
thors make some flutter about it 
what it is, some holding it to be the 
juyce of a tree; I am confident it is 
the very same condensated that our 
honey-dews here are, only the coun- 
tries whence it comes being far hot- 
ter, it fals in greater abundance Let 
him that desires Reason for it, be 
pleased to read Butler his book of 
Bees, a most excellent experimental 
work, there he shall find Reason e- 
nough to satisfy any reasonable man. 
Chuse the dryest and whitest; it is 
a very gentle purger of Choller,, 
quencheth thirst, provokes appetite, 
easeth the roughness of the Throat 
helps bitterness in the Throat, and 
often proneness to vomit; it is very 
good for such as are subject to be 
costive to put into the drinks instead 
of sugar, it hath no obnoxious qua- 
lity at all, in it, but may be taken by 
a woman with Child without any 
danger; a child of a veer old may 
take an ounce of it at a time dissolv- 
ed in Milk, it it wil melt like sugar, 
neither will it be known from it by 
the Tast.
Mirrh is hot and dry in the second 
degree, exceeding dangerous for wo- 
men with child; it bitter, and yet 
al Authors hold it to be good for the 
Roughness of the Throat and wind- 
pipe; half a dram of it taken at a 
time helps Rheumatick distillati- 
ons upon the Lungues, paines in the 
sides; it stops fluxes, provokes the 
terms, brings away both birth and 
after-birth, softens the hardness of 
the womb; being taken two hours 
before the fits comes, it helps Agues. 
Mathiolus saith he seldome used any 
other Medicine for the quartan A- 
gue then a dram of Mirrh given in 
muskadel an hour before the fit usu- 
ally came; if you make it up into 
pills with Treacle, and take one of 
them every morning fasting, it is a 
soveraign preservative against the 
pestilence, against the poyson of ser-
pents, and other venemous beasts, a 
singular remedy for stinking breath 
if it arise from putrefaction of the 
stomach, it fastens loose Teeth, and 
staies the shedding off of the hair, 
outwrardly used it breeds flesh in deep 
wounds, and covers the naked bones 
with flesh. 
Olibanum is hot in the second de- 
gree, and dry in the first, you may 
take a dram of it at a time, it stops 
loosness and the runnning of the 
Reins, it strengthens the memory ex- 
ceedingly, comforts the heart, expels 
sadness and Melancholy, strengthens 
the Heart, helps coughs, rhewms and 
Pleurifies. Your best way (in my opi- 
nion to take it, is to mix it with con 
serves of Roses, and take it in the 
morning fasting.)
Tachamacha is seldom, taken in- 
wardly, outwardly spied upon Lea- 
ther, and applied to the Navil, it 
staieth the fits of the Mother applied 
to the side, it mitigats speedily, and 
in little time quite takes away the 
pain and windiness of the spleen, the 
truth is, whatsoever ach or swelling 
proceeds of wind or cold raw hu-
mors, I know no better plaister com- 
ing from beyond sea, then this Gum. 
It strengthens the brain and memory 
exceedingly, and stops all such de- 
fluctions thence as trouble the Eye, 
Ears or Teeth, it helps the Gout and
Sciatica.
Gum Coopal, and Gum Anime are
very like one another both in body 
and operation, the former is hard 
to come by, the last not very easie.
It stops definitions from the Head, 
if you perfume your Cap with the 
smoak of it, it helps the Head-ach 
and Megrim, strengthens the Brain, 
and therefore the sinnews. 
Gum Tragaganth, which the vul- 
gar call Gum dragon, being mixed 
with Pectoral syrups (which you shal 
find noted in their proper places) 
helps coughs and hoarseness, salt and 
sharp distillations upon the Lungs, 
being taken with a liquoris stick, 
being dissolved in sweetwine, it helps 
(being drunk) gnawing in the bo- 
wels, sharpness and freetings of the 
Urin, which causeth excoriations 
either in the Reins or bladder, being 
dissolved in Milk and the Eyes wa- 
shed with it, it takes away wheels 
and scabs that grow on the Eye lids,
it is excellent good to be put in
Pultesses to sodder wounds, especi-
ally if the Nerves or Sinnews be 
hurt.
Sagapen, dissolved in juyce of Rue
and taken, wonderfully breaketh the 
stone in the bladder, expels the dead
child and after-birth, cleers the sight, 
dissolved in wine and drunk, it helps 
the cough, and distillation, upon the
Lungs, and the fits of the Mother, 
outwardly in Oyls or Oyntments, it 
mightily helps such members as are 
out of joynt or over-stretched. 
Galbanum 

Gums, Rozins, Balsoms, &c. Things bread of Plants. 33 
Galbanum is of the same operation 
and also taken from the same plant, 
viz, Fennel-Giant. 
Gum Arabick, thickneth and 
cooleth and correcteth cholerick 
sharp humors in the body, being 
dissolved in the white of an Ege wel 
beaten, it helps burnings, and keeps
the place from blistering. 
Mastich staies fluxes, being taken 
inwardly any way: Three or four 
smal grains of Mastick, swallowed 
down whol at night going to bed, is 
an excellent remedy for pains in the 
stomach: being beaten into powder,
and mixed with conserves of Roses,
it strengthens the stomach, stops di-
stillations upon the Lungs, staies vo- 
mitting and causeth a sweet breath, 
being mixed with white wine and 
the mouth washed with it, it clenseth 
the Gums of corruption, and fastn- 
eth loose Teeth.
Frankinsence being used outward- 
ly in the way of a Plaister, heats and 
binds, being applied to the temples, 
stops the Rhewms that slows to the 
Eyes, helps green wounds, and fills 
hollow Ulcers with flesh, stops the 
bleeding of wounds, though the Ar- 
teries he cut, being made into an 
Oyntment with Vinegar and Hogs- 
grease, helps the Itch, burnings, Ul- 
cers in the Head, pains in the Ears, 
inflamation in the Womens breasts 
commonly called Agues in the brest; 
beware of taking it inwardly, least
it cause madness.
Turpentine is hot in the second de- 
gree, it heals, softens, it discusseth 
and purgeth, clenseth the Reins, 
provokes Urin.
Styrax Calamitis is hot and dry in 
the second degree, it healeth, Moli- 
sieth, and concocteth; being taken 
inwardly helps the cough, and distil- 
lation of the Lungs, hoarseness and 
loss of voice, helps the hardness of 
the Womb, and provokes the Terms 
if you take ten grains of it at a 
time made up in the form of a 
Pill.
Ammoniacum, hot and dry in the  
third degree, softens, draws, and 
heats; being dissolved in Vineger, 
strained and applied Plaister-wise, it 
takes away bunckles and hardness in 
in the flesh, it is one of the best re- 
medies that I know for infirmities 
of the Spleen, being applied to the 
left side; being made into an Oynt- 
ment with Oyl it is excellent good 
to anoint the limbs of such as are 
weary; a scruple of it being taken 
in the form of a Pill loosens the bel- 
ly, gives speedy delivery to Women 
in Travil, helps diseases in the spleen, 
the Sciatica and all pains in the 
Joynts, such as piss Blood, and have 
any humor afflicting their brest. 
Camphire, It is held by all authori- 
ty to be cold and dry in the third de-
gree, it is of very thin subtil parts, 
insomuch that being beaten into ve- 
ry fine pouder it will vanish away in- 
to the Air, being beaten into pouder 
and mixed with Oyl, and the tem- 
ples anoynted therewith, easeth 
Head-aches proceeding of heat, all
inflammations whatsoevr, the back 
being anointed with the same, cools
the Reins, and Seminal Vessels, stops
the running of the Reins and whites 
in Women, the immoderate use of 
Venery, the like it doth if it be drunk
inwardly with Bettony Water, take
but a smal quantity of it at a time
inwardly, it refills Poyson and bi-
tings. by venemous beasts, outward- 
ly applied as before and the Eyes 
anoynted with it, stops hot Rhewms
that flow thither. 
Opopanax, purgeth thick flegm
from the most remote parts of the 
Body, viz. the Brain, Joynts, Hands 
and Feet, the Nerves and breast, and 
strengthens all these parts when they 
are weak, if the weakness proceed 
of cold, as usually it doth; it helps 
weakness of the light, old rotten 
coughs, and Gouts of all sorts, drop- 
sies, and swellings of the Spleen, it 
helps the the strangury and difficulty 
of making Urin, provokes the Terms, 
and helps all cold afflictions of the 
Womb, have a care you give it not 
to any women with child. The dose 
is one dram at most corrected with a 
little Mastich, dissolved in Vineger 
and outwardly applied helps the pas- 
sions of the Spleen.
LIQUID JUYCES 
and TEARS, kept 
for present Use, viz. 
Colledg. Vinegar, Juyce of Ci- 
trones, Juyce of sower 
Grape, Orrenges, barberries, Teares of 
a birch tree, juyces of Chermes, Quinces, 
pomegranates, Lemmons, Wood-sorrel, 
Oyl of unripe Olives, and ripe olives 
both new and old, Juyce of red and 
Damask, Roses: Wine, Teares of a 
Vine.
Culpeper.] The Vertues of the 
most of these may be found in the 
Syrups, and are few of them used 
alone, unless it be Vinegar to make 
sawce, and wine to drink. 
Things Bred of 
PLANTS, viz. 
Colledg.] A Grief, Jews-eares, the 
berries of chermes, the 
Spungy substance of the bryar, Moss, 
Viscus Quercinus, Oaks Apples.
Culpeper] Jews ears boyl’d in 
Milk and drunk, helpeth sore 
throats, it is the opinion of those 
that have studied Hermetick Philo- 
sophy, that those things which re- 
semble any parts of Mans body, 
strengthens those parts of the Body 
they resemble, and help the diseases 
they are vulgarly incident to, which 
is an approved truth in this; for as 
they resemble the Ear of a man, so 
being boyled in white wine, and the 
wine drunk, and the Jews-Ears ap- 
plied to the Ear outwardly, will help 
deafness, incarnations, and other in- 
firmities of the Ears. 
Moss is cold, dry, and binding, 
therefore good for fluxes of all sorts, 
if you desire to know more of it: I 
desire you would see my English Phy- 
sitian
Misleto of the Oak. I will tell but 
the truth, and am able to prove it 
when I have done; that one sort of 
Misleto is as good as another; it 
helps the Falling-sickness and the 
Convulsions being discreetly gathe- 
red and used. 
Oak Apples: Mathiolus saith if 
Oak Apples be broken a sunder a- 
bout the time of their withering be- 
fore they have a hole through them, 
they contain in them one Living 
creature or another, which if it be a 
Fly it signifies War, if a Spider, Pesti- 
lence, if a Magger, murren of Beasts,
if a worm, Scarcity of Victuals, if an 
ant, plenty of Corn for us: Il’e bind 
no bodies saith to believe it, because 
I never tried it in my self, this I say, 
they are dry and binding: being 
boyled in milk and drunk, they stop 
fluxes and the Terms, and being boy- 
led in Vinegar, and the Body anoin- 
ted with the Vinegar cures the 
Itch. 
Living Creatures. 
Colledg.] Bees Wood-lice, Silk- 
worms, Toads, crabs of 
the River, little Puppy Dogs, Gras- 
hoppers, chantharides, cothanel, Hedg- 
hogs, Emets or Ants, Larks, Swal-
lows, and their young ones; Hors lee- 
ches, Snails, Earth worms: Dishwa- 
shers or Wag tails, House Sparrows, 
and Hedg-Sparrows, Frogs, Scincus, 
Land Scorpions, Moles, wants, Tor- 
toise of the woods, Tenches, Vipers and 
Foxes. 
Culpeper.] That part of this crew of 
Catel and some others may be made 
beneficial to your sick bodies, be 
pleased to understand, that 
Bees being burnt to ashes, and a Ly 
made with the ashes, trimly decks a 
bald head, being washed with it. 
Snails with shels on their backs, be- 
ing first washed from the dirt, then
P the 

34 Living Creature. Parts of liv creatures, &c. Taken from the Sea. 
the shels broken; and they boyled in 
spring water, but not scumed at all 
for the scum will fink of it self, and 
the water drunk for ordinary drink 
is most admirable remedy for a Con- 
sumption. And here by the way I can- 
not but admire at the simplicity of 
most Physitians who prescribe that 
the Snails ought to be purged from 
their slime either with salt or bran 
before they be used; which if you do, 
you take away their vertue; for the 
reason why they cure a consumption 
is this; man being made of the slime 
of the earth, the slimy substance re- 
covers him when he is wasted; if you 
please to eat the snails when they are 
boyled you may, for they have a ve- 
ry pleasing tast, and it would be very 
cunningly done of you, if you did so, 
especially in these hard times, for  
then would you have meat, drink and
medicine altogether. Besides this, 
being bruised and applied to the 
place, they help the gout, draw thorns 
out of the flesh, and held to the nose  
help the bleeding thereof.
Frogs. It is a vulgar fashion of the 
Walloons to catch live Frogs and cut 
off their hinder Leggs and fry them 
and eat them; whether they be good 
meat or not I know not, but I am 
sure ’tis a good medicine for the bit- 
ings of serpents: An oyl made of it is 
excellent good for the stiffness of the 
Tendons, and the falling off of hair. 
Before I come to the compounds, 
left any should think I goe about to 
hide from them any thing that might 
do them good, I have here inserted 
the living creatures, and excrements, 
&c in the order the Colledg left 
them, The use of the fats and suets, 
you shal have, if you please but to 
stay til J come to the Oyls and oynt- 
ments.
PARTS of LIVING 
Creatures and Ex- 
crements. 
Colledg. THe Fat, grease, or suet 
of a Duck, Goose, Eel: 
Bore. Herron. Thymallos (if you know 
where to get it) Dog. Capon. Bever, 
wild Cat. Stork. Coney: Horse. Hedg- 
hog. Hen. Man. Lyon, Hare Pike. or 
Jack, Wolf. Mouse of the mountains 
pardal. Hog. Serpent. Badger, gray 
or brick Fox. Vultur. Album 
Græcum Anglice a Dogs turd. the 
Huck lebone of a Hare and a Hog. East 
and West Bezoar. Butter not salted and 
salted Stone taken out of a mans bladder. 
Vipers flesh. fresh Cheese. Castorium, 
white, yellow and virgins wax the brain 
of hairs and sparrows Crabs claws the 
Rennet of a Lamb. Kid. a Hare and a 
calf and a horse. the heart of a Bullock. 
Stag. Hog. and a weather, the horn of an 
Elk a hart a Rhincoerot an Vnicorne. the 
skul of a man killed by a violent death, 
a Cocky comb, the, Tooth of a Bore, an 
Elephant, and a Sea-horse. Ivory, or 
Elephants Tooth, the skin a snaky hath 
cast off, the gall of a Hawk. Bullock a
shee Goat, a Hare, a Kite, a Hog. a 
bull, a bear, the cases of Silkworms, the
Liver of a Wolf, an Otter, a Frog. I-
sing-glaß. the guts of a Wolf and a Fox.
the milk of a face Aß. a shee Goat. a  
woman. an Ewe. a Heiser.East and west 
Bezoar. the stone in the head of a Crab, 
and a Pearch, if there be any stone in an; 
Ox Gall, stone in the bladder of a 
Man. the Jawe of a Pike or Jack.
Pearls. the marrow of the Leg of a sheep. 
Ox. Goat. Stag. Calf. common and vir- 
gin honey. Musk, mummy of Swallows 
nest. crabs. Eyes, the Omentum, or call 
of a Lamb. Ram. Weather, Calf, the 
whites, Yolks. and shells of Hens Eggs,
Emets, Eggs. bone of a flags heart. an Ox 
leg. Offepiœ. the inner skin of a Hens 
Gizzard. the wool of hares the Feathers
of Partridges, that which bees make at  
the entrance of the Hive. the pizzle of a 
stag. of a bull. Fox Lungs, fasting spit- 
tle. the blood of a pigeon, of a cat. of a 
bee Goat, of a hare, of a Partridg. of a 
Sow of a Bull, of a badger, of a snail. 
Silk. Whey, the suet of a bullock. of a 
stag, of a bee Goat. of a sheep. Of a heifer. 
Sperma Ceti. a bullocks spleen. the skin
a snake hath cast off. the Turds of a 
Goose. of a Dog. of a Goat of Pidgeons.
of a stone Horse of a Hen. of Swallows, 
of Men. of Women. of Alice, of peacocks, 
of a Hog. of a heifer. the Ancle of a 
Hare, of a Sow. Cobwebs, water shels.
as Blatta byzanti; Buccinœ. Crabs
Cockles. Dentelis. Entalis. mother of 
Pearls Mytult purpuræ. Os sepiæ. um- 
bilicus marinus. the stones of a horse a  
cock, the hoof of an Elk of an Aß a 
Bullock, of a Horse. of a Lyon. the piß 
of a Bore. of a shee Goat, of a man or 
woman that is a maid, and that is not a 
maid, the moß on a mans skull, Zibeth. 
Culpeper.] The Liver of an Hedg- 
hog being dried and beaten into 
pouder and drunk in wine, streng 
thens the Reins exceedingly, and 
helps the Dropsie, Convulsions, and 
the falling-sickness, together with all 
fluxes of the Bowels. 
The Liver being in like manner 
brought into pouder strengthens the 
Liver exceedingly, and helps the 
Dropsie. 
The heart of a Frog being applied 
to the Region of the heart in a burn
ning feaver, mitigates the fits to ad- 
miration. 
The Heart of a Lark being bound 
to the Thigh of those that have the 
Cholick helps them; it doth the like 
also, being eaten.
Taken from the SEA, as
Colledg. AMber-greese. Sea water. 
Sea sand. Bitumen. Am- 
ber white and yellow. Jet. carline. cor- 
rel white and red. Some of the sea. spunge. 
stone pumice. Sea salt, spunges. Am- 
ber. 
METTALS, 
STONES, SALTS, 
and other, Minerals.
VErt-de-greese. scales of braß. Æ- 
titis, Alana Terra; _Alabaster. 
Alectorius. Allum Scissile. and Roach. 
Amethist. Amianth. Amphelites. An- 
timony. Leaves and fileings of silver. 
quick silver, lapis armenius. native ar-
snick, both white and red, artificial ars- 
nick. while and realgar. Argilla: Aste- 
ria. leaves and fileings of Gold. Belem- 
nites, berril. bole-armenick. borrax. Toads 
stone. Lapis calaminaris. cadmia. Lime 
quick and quenched. Vitriol, white, blew 
and green, steel. Borax chrisolite. chri- 
sopus. cynabris. native and artificial. 
Whetstones. chalk, white and green. chri- 
stal. Diphriges. the rust, dust. scales. and 
flakes of Iron. Granate, Mortar. such as 
wals are daubed with. Hematitis. Helio- 
tropium. Jacinth. Hybernicius. Jasper. 
Lapis Judacius. Tiles. Lapis Lazuli. 
Lapis Lincis. Lithanthrax. Litharge, 
of silver and gold. Loadstone. Marcha- 
site, or fire stone. marble, Red Lead, na- 
tive and artificial, mist. Naptha. Lapis 
Nephriticus. Niter. Oaker yellow and 
red Onyx. Opalus. Ophytes. Osteocolla.
Lead white and black. plumbago, pom- 
pholix. Marchasite. Realgar, Ruby. 
red Oaker, Sal Armoniak sal Gem. 
and salt Niter, saphir and sardine. sele- 
nites. Flints. Emerald. smiris. sori. spo- 
dium. Peuter, brimstone, quick and com-
mon. Talth. Earth of cimolia. sames. 
Lemnos, sylesia, to pas. Alana Terra. 
Tutty. Vitriol white blew and green, 
When the ground of our institution re- 
quired us, to give more then one Name 
to one simple, and sometimes to repeat 
them in diverse places, it pleased us to 
note those that are iterated in a differ- 
rent Character, left we should seem to 
make a needleß repetition or encrease 
our Catalogue for vain glory sake.
Culpeper.] Also I repeated them 
twice or thrice when they did, and
caused them to be set down in a dif- 
ferent letter; Also
Of some precious stones I speak
before in the former catalogue; I 
shall here reduce them al into order, 
and treat of such as were casually
there 

Mettals, Stones, Salts, and other Minerals. 35 
there omitted whether they were 
mentioned by the colledg or no. 
Precious Stones alter by a 
Way manifest or hidden. 
By a way manifest, they are, Hot in 
the first degree. Hæmetitis, Pyritis, 
Lapis Alius, Thyitis, Smires, La- 
pis Schistus. 
Precious Stones cold, in the first de- 
gree, are; Jacinth, Saphir, Emerald, 
cristal, Lapis Samius, Lapis Purigius. 
In the second degree. Ruby, Car- 
buncle, Granate: Sardony. 
In the fourth degree. Diamond. 
In respect of property, they binde 
as Lapis Asius, Nectius, Geodes, 
Pumice-stone. 
Emollient: as Alablaster, Jet, La- 
pis Thrasius. 
Stupifie: as Memphitis, Jasper, 
Ophites. 
Clense: as Lapis Arabicus. 
Glutinate: as Galactitis, Melites, 
Scarifie: as Morochtus. 
Break of the stone: as Lapis Lyncis, 
Lapis Judaicus. Lapis Spongiæ. 
Retain the fruit in the Womb: as 
Ætitis, Jasper. 
Provoke the Terms. Ostracites.
Stones altering by a pro- 
perty (as they cal it) are; 
Bezoar, Topas, Lapis Colubri- 
nus, Toad-stone, Emerald; Ale- 
ctorius, Calcidonius, Amethist, 
Saphyr, Jasper, Lapis Nephriticus, 
Lapis Tibernum, Lapis Spongites, 
the stone found in the maw of a 
Swallow, Load stone, Lapis. Vulturis, 
Merucius, Corral, Lynturius, Jet, 
Ætites, the Stones of Crabs, Amber, 
Christal, &c. 
The Load-stone purgeth gross hu- 
mors.
Lapis Armenius and Lapis Lazuli, 
Purge Melancholly. 
To speak a word or two of those 
Which were then pretermitted. 
A water Snake, a string being
thrust; through her tail, and-she hung
up, a Vessel ful of water being set 
underneath, into which she may put 
her Head, after certain hours or 
daies, she will Vomit up a Stone,
which being received in the vessel 
ful of water will drink it all up,
which being bound to the Navil of 
one that hath the Dropsie, drinks 
up all the water, Hollerius. Lapis 
calcidonius, being hung about the 
Neck, helps those Melancholly illu- 
sions, and Melancholly fancies. 
In the Indian Sea; are taken, cer- 
tain strong fighting Fish, called Ty- 
burones, in the Heads of which are 
found three or four Stones, somtimes 
more, very white, great and pon- 
derous, insomuch that somtimes they 
weigh two pound: The pouder of 
this Stone is very profitable for such 
as are troubled with the stone and 
difficulty of Urin, breaks the Stone 
in the Reins and Bladder.
Blood-stone is a kinde of Jasper of  
divers colours, with red spots in it
like blood, stops the Terms and blee-
ding in any part of the Body. Ni- 
cholaus Monardus. 
Hæmetites, Stops Blood, the Eyes  
often stroken with it, helps Blood- 
shed, being beaten into pouder and 
taken inwardly, provokes Urin and 
stops the Terms. Dioscorides, 
Pyrites, Heats and clenseth, takes 
away dimness of sight. Dioscorides. 
Lapis Asius binds and moderately 
corrodes and clenseth filthy Ulcers, 
and fills them up with flesh: being 
mixed with Honey, and applied to 
the place, is an admirable remedy for 
the Gout.
Chrystal Being beaten into very 
fine pouder, and a dram of it taken 
at a time helps the Bloody flux, stops 
the whites in Women, and inereas- 
eth Milk in Nurses. Mathiolus. 
Lapis Samius, Is cooling and bin- 
ding, it is very comfortable to the  
Stomach but it duls the sences, helps  
fluxes of the Eyes and Ulcers; Dio- 
scorides held that it was little inferi- 
our to Lapis Ætites in al his vertues. 
Dioscorides. That which comes off
from a whetstone of Cypress by 
whetting, helps Baldness: to being 
taken inwardly with Vinegar, con- 
sumes the Spleen and helps the Fal- 
ling-sickness. 
Geodetes, Binds and dries, being 
beaten into Pouder and mixed with 
water, and applied to the place, takes 
away Inflamations of the Testicles, 
Pumice-stone, Being beaten into 
Pouder, and the Teeth rubed with it
clenseth them. Dioscorides. 
Jet: It is of a softening and dis- 
cussing Nature, it resisteth the fits of 
the Mother. 
Lapis Memphites Dioscorides saith 
that if it be beaten to pouder, and 
made into an Oyntment, and the 
part of a man which is to be cut off 
anomted with it, takes away the 
sence of it without any danger.
Lapis Ophites: Some of these 
Stones have white lines in them 
these are an admirable remedy both 
for the Head-ach and Lethargy: all 
of them being born about one help 
the Head-ach, and the biting of Ser- 
pents.
Lapis Arabicus Being beaten
into pouder, and made into an Oynt- 
ment helps the Hemorrhoids. 
Ostracites, A dram of it taken in 
pouder provokes the Terms, being 
taken after that purgation, causeth 
Conception, also being made into 
an Oyntment, helps inflamations of 
the breasts. 
Lapis Selenites, Is an admirable 
Stone of the Moon; the Women in 
Germany wear them as Jewels, be- 
cause they would be fruitful; they 
cure the Falling-sickness, and being 
bound to Trees make them fruitful.
Lapis Amianthus being born a- 
bout one, helps such as are bewit- 
ched. Dioscorides. 
Myexis, Being born about one 
takes away pains in the Reins, and 
hinders the breeding of the Stone, 
Lapis Armenius, Purgeth Melan- 
choly, and also causeth vomiting, I 
hold it not very safe for our English 
bodies, and therefore I will speak 
no more of it.
AN EXPLANATTON of certain Nuncupations; 
Comprehending more things then one under one Name. 
OR
Rather an Interpretation of some Common names. 
The five opening 
Roots. 
Smallage, Sparagus, Ecnuel, Parsly, 
Kne-holly.
The two opening 
Roots. 
Fennel Parsly. 
The five Emollient 
Herbs. 
Marshmallows, Mallows, Beets, Mer- 
cury, Pellitory of the wal, Violet leaves. 
The five Capilary 
Herbs.
Maiden hair, Wall Rue, Cetrach,
Harts-tongue, Politricum. 
The four Cordial 
Flowers. 
Borrage, Bugloß, Roses, Violets.
THE 

36 An Explanation of Certain hard Names. Simple Waters, &c. 
The four greater hot 
Seeds, Carminative, 
or breaking Wind 
Annis, Caraway, Cummin, Fennel. 
The four lesser hot 
Seeds 
Bishops weed, Amomus, Smallage, 
Carrots. 
The four greater cold 
Seeds. 
Citrul, Cucumer, Guord, Melone.
The four lesser cold 
Seeds. 
Succory, Endive, Lattice. Purslain. 
Five fragments of pre- 
cious Stones. 
Granate, Jacinth, Saphirs, Sardine, 
Emerald.  
AN INTERPRE- 
TATlON of Certain 
Common Names, 
that were in the Old 
but are not Printed
in the New Latin 
Despensatory.
The five lesser opening 
Roots. 
Of Grass, Eringo, Capers, Rest- 
harrow. Madder. 
The four Pluretical 
Water. 
Of Our Ladies Thistle, Dandelion, 
Carduus Benedictus, Scabious.
Common hot Flowers. 
Of Chamomel, Meliot, Orris. 
Three stomach Oyls. 
Of Wormwood, Quinces, Mastich.
Four hot Oyntments, 
Of Agrippa, Althea, Aregon, Mar- 
tiatum. 
Four cold Oyntments. 
Album Camphoratum, Populion, 
Refrigerans Galeni, Rosatum.
Four Oyntments fit for 
Chyrurgions. 
Basilicon, to digest. 
Viride Apostolorum, to clense, 
Aurium, to breed Flesh. 
Album, to Skin. 
SIMPLE 
Distilled Waters.
Of fresh Roots of 
BRiony, Onions, Alicampane, Or- 
ris, or Flowerd-de-luce, Turneps. 
Of Flowers and Buds of 
Southernwood; both sorts of Worm- 
Wood; Wood Sorrel Ladies-mantle, 
Marshmallow; Angelica; Pimpernel 
with purple flowers Small age; Co- 
lumbine; Sparagus; Mousear; Bor- 
rage; Shephards purse, Calaminth; 
Wood-bine or Honey-suckles; Car- 
duus Benedictus, our Ladies thistles:
Knot-grass: Succory: Dragons: Colts- 
foot: Fennel: Goats Rue: Grass: 
Hysop: Lettice: Lovage: Toadflax: 
Hops: Marjoram: Mallows: Hore- 
hound: Feathersew: Bawm: Mints: 
Horsemints: Water cresses: English 
Tobacco: white Poppies, Pellatory of 
the wall: Parsly: Plantane: Pur-
slane: Self heal; Peneroyal; Oake 
leaves; Sage; Scabious; Figwort or 
Throatwort; Housleek or Sengreen 
the greater and lesser; Mother of Time; 
Nightshade; Tansie; Tormentil; 
Valeriane.
Of Flowers of  
Orrenges, Blew-bottles the greater, 
Beans, Water-Lillies, Lavender, Nut 
tree, Cowslips, Sloes, Rosemary, Roses  
white, damask and red, Satyrion, Line 
tree, Clove-gilli-flowers, Violets. 
Of Fruits of 
Orrenges, black cherries, Pomecitrons, 
Quinces, cucumers, Strawberries, winter 
cherries, Lemmons, Rasberries, unripe 
Walnuts, Apples. 
Of Parts of Living 
Creatures, and their 
Excrements. 
Lobsters: Cockles: or Snails: sig- 
nifies, Cockles, Snails, Perewinkles, 
and al such shel-fish, as their former 
word which I translated Lobsters, sig- 
nifies crabs as well as Lobsters; and 
I could afford to think they intend 
river crabs here, by two or three let- 
ters of a word, which they add at the 
latter end of it, Hartshorn, Bullocks 
dung made in May, Swallows, Earth- 
worms, Magpies, Spawm of Frogs. 
Simple Waters distil- 
led, being digested, 
before-hand.
Of the fresh Roots of Nettles. 
Of the Leaves of Agrimony, wild 
Tansie, or Silverweed, Mugwort, Bet-
tony, Marigolds, chamomel, chamepitys, 
Cellendine, Pileworts, Scurvy graß, com- 
fry the greater, Dandelyon, ash tree 
leaves, Eyebright, Fumitory, Alehoof,
or ground, Ivy, Horstail, St. Johns wort, 
Yarrow, Money wort, Restharrow, solo- 
mons seal, Ros solis, Rue, savin, saxi- 
frage, Harts tongue, scordium Tamaris 
Mullin, Vervain, Pauls bettony, Meed- 
sweet. Nettles. 
Of the flowers of Mayweed, broom, 
cowslips, butter bur, Peony, Elder 
Of the berries of broom. Elder. 
Culpeper. Then the Colledg gives 
you an Admonition concerning di-
stilling these, which being converted 
into your native language, is as fol- 
loweth.
We give you warning that these common 
waters be better prepared for time 
to come, either in common stills, put- 
ting good store of Ashes underneath,
and roots and herbs being dryer &c. 
or if they he ful of Juyce by distilling 
the juyce in a convenient bath, that so 
burning may he avoided, which hi-
therto hath seldom been. But let the 
other Herbs, Flowers or Roots, be
bruised, and by adding Tartar, Com- 
mon salt, or Leven be digested, then 
putting spring water to them, distill 
them in an Alembick with his refri- 
geratory, or worm, till the change of 
the tast shew the Venue to be drawn 
off; then let the Oyl (if any be) be 
separated from the water according to 
art.
In to the number of these waters may 
be ascribed. 
The Tears of Vines, the liquor of the 
birch-tree. May dew. 
Culpeper.] That my country may 
receive the benefit of these waters, I 
shall first shew the temperatures, se-
condly, the vertues of the most usual 
and most easie to come by. 
The qualities and appro- 
priated Virtues of the 
simple Distilled Waters. 
Simple distilled Waters either 
cool or heat; such as cool, either cool
the blood or Choller.
Water 

Simple Waters &c. Vertues of distilled Waters. 37 
Waters cooling the blood. Lettice, 
Burslain, Water-Lillies, Violets, Sor- 
rel, Endive, Succory, Fumitory. 
Waters cooling and re- 
pressing cholerick Hu- 
mors, or Vapors in 
the Head.
Nightshade, Lettice, Water-lillies, 
Plantane, Poppies, viz. The flowers 
both of white, black and red Pop- 
pies, black Cherries. 
The breast and Lunges. Violets, 
Poppies al three sorts, Colts foot. 
In the heart. Sorrel, Quinces, wa- 
ter-lillies, Roses, Violets, green or
unripe VValnuts. 
In the stomach. Quinces, Roses, 
Violets, Nightshade, Housleek, or 
Sengreen, Lettice, Purslain. 
In the Liver. Endive, Succory, 
Nightshade, Purslain, Water Lillies. 
In the Reins and bladder. Endive, 
Succory, Winter Cherries, Plantane, 
Water-lillies, Strawberries, Housleek, 
or Sengreen, Black Cherries. 
In the womb. Endive, Succory, 
lettice. Water Lillies, Purslain, 
Roses. 
Simple Water which 
are hot, concoct ei- 
ther Flegm or Me- 
lancholy.
Waters concocting Flegm 
in the Head, are of 
Bettony, Sage, Marjoram, Cha-
momel, Fennel, Calaminth, Rose 
mary Flowers, Primroses, Eyebright.
In the breast and Lunges. Maiden
hair, Bettony, Hysop, Horehound, 
Carduus-Benedictus, Scabious, Or-
ris, or Flower-de-luce, Bawm, self- 
heal, &c.
In the heart. Bawm, Rosemary. 
In the stomach. Wormwood, mints, 
Fennel, Chervil, Time, Mother of
Time, Marigolds. 
In the Liver. Wormword, Cen- 
taury, Origanum, Marjoram, Maud- 
lin, Costmary, Agrimony, Fennel.
In the Spleen. Water cresses, worm-
wood, Calaminth.
In the Reins and sladder Rocket,
Nettles, Saxifrage, Pellitory of the 
wal, Alicampane, Burnet.
In the womb. Mugwort, calaminth, 
Penyroyal, Savin, Mother of Time, 
Lovage. 
Waters concocting Me-
lancholy in the Head, 
are of
Hops. Fumitory.
The breast, Bawm. carduus. Bene-
dictus.
The heart. Borrage. Bugloss. bawm. 
Rosemary. 
The Liver. Endive. cichory. Hops. 
The spleen. Dodder. Hartstongue. 
Tamaris. Time. 
Having thus ended 
the appropriation, I
shall speak briefly of 
the vertues of distill-
ed Water.
Lettice Water cools the blood when 
it is over heated; for when it is not, 
it needs no cooling: it cools the head 
and Liver, staies hot Vapors amend- 
ing to the head, and hindring sleep; 
it quencheth immoderate thirst, and 
breeds Milk in Nurses. Distill it in 
May. 
Purslain Water cools the blood and 
Liver, quencheth thirst, helps such as 
spit blood, have hot coughs, or pesti- 
lences. 
The distilled water of Water-Lilly- 
flowers, cools the blood and the bow- 
els, and all internal parts of the bo- 
dy; helps such as have the yellow 
Jaundice, hot coughs and Pleurifies, 
the headach coming of heat, Feavers 
pestilential and not pestilential, as al- 
so hectick Feavers.
The water of Violet flowers cools 
the blood, the heart, liver, and lungs 
over-heated, and quenceth an insa- 
tiable desire of drinking; they are in 
their prime about the latter end of 
March, or beginning of April, ac- 
cording as the year falls out.
The water of Sorrel cooles the 
blood, heart, liver and spleen; If ve- 
nis Treacle be given with it, it is pro- 
fitable in pestilential Feavers: distill 
it in May. 
Endive and Succory water are ex- 
cellent, against heat in the stomach; if 
you take an ounce of either (for their 
operation is the same) morning and 
evening, four days one after another, 
they cool the Liver, and clense the 
blood: they are in their prime in 
May.
Fumitory water is usuall with the 
city Dames to wash their faces with, 
to take away morphew, freckles, and 
sunburning: inwardly taken it helps 
the yellow Jaundice and Itch, clen- 
seth the blood, provokes sweat, 
strengthens the stomach, and clenseth 
the body of adult humor: it is in its 
prime in May and June. 
The Water of Nightshade helps 
pains in the Head coming of heat: 
Take heed you distill not the deadly 
Nightshade instead of the common, 
if you do, you may make mad work. 
Let such as have not wit enough to 
know them asunder, have wit enough 
to let them alone till they do. 
The water of white Poppies, extin- 
guisheth al heat against nature, helps 
head aches coming of heat, and too 
long standing in the Sun; Distil them 
in June or July. 
Colts foot Water is excellent for 
burns to wash the place with it; in- 
wardly taken it helps Ptisicks and o- 
other diseases incident to the lunges; 
Distil them in May or June. 
The water of Distilled Quinces 
strengthens the Heart and stomach, 
exceedingly, staies Vomiting and 
Fluxes, and strengthens the retentive 
faculty in man. 
Damask Rose-water cools, comforts, 
and strengthens the heart: so doth 
Red Rose water, only with this dif- 
ference, the one is binding, the other 
loosening, if your body be costive, 
use Damask Rose water, because it is 
loosening: if loose, use red, because 
it is binding.
White Rose-water, is generally 
known to be excellent against hot 
Rhewms, and Inflamations in the 
Eyes, and for this it is better then 
the former. 
The water of red Poppy flowers, cal- 
led by many corn-roses, because they 
grow so frequently amongst Corn, 
cools the blood and spirits overheat- 
ed by drinking or labor, and is there- 
fore excellent in surfets.
Green Walnuts gathered about the 
latter end of June, or beginning of 
tuly, and bruised, and so stilled, streng- 
thens the heart, and resisteth the pe- 
stilence.
Plantane water helps the headach; 
being dropped into the Ear it helps 
the toothach, helps the Ptisick, drop- 
sie and fluxes, and is an admirable 
Remedy for Ulcers in the Reins and 
bladder, to be used as common drink: 
the herb is in its prime in May. 
Strawberry water cooleth, quen- 
ceth thirst, clarifieth the blood, breaks 
the stone, helps al inward inflamati- 
ons, especially those in the Reins, 
Bladder and passages of the urine; it 
strengthens the Liver and helps the 
yellow Jaundice. 
The distilled water of Dog graß, or 
couch grasse as some cal it, clenseth 
the Reins gallantly, and provokes u- 
rine; opens obstructions of the liver 
and spleen, and kils Worms. 
Black Cherry-water provokes U- 
rine, helps the dropsie. It is usually 
given in diseases of the Brain, as con- 
vulsions, Falling-sickness, Palsie and 
Apoplexy.
Bettony is in its prime in May, the
distilled Water thereof is very good 
for such as are pained in their 
heads. It prevails against the dropsie 
and all sorts of feavers; it succors the 
Liver and Spleen, and helps want of 
digestion and evill disposition of the 
body thence arising; it hastens tra- 
vel in women with child, and is ex- 
cellent against the bitings of vene- 
mous beasts.
Distil Sage whilest the flowers be on 
it; the water strengthens the brain.
Q provokes 

38 Vertues of distilled Waters. 
provokes the terms, helps Nature 
much in all its actions. 
Marjoram is in its prime in June; 
distilled water is excellent for such 
whose Brains are to cold, it provokes 
Urin, heats the Womb, provokes 
the Terms, strengthens the memory 
and helps the judgment, causeth an 
able brain. 
Distil Camomel Water about the 
beginning of June: It easeth the 
Chollick and pains in the Belly; it 
breaks the Stone in the Reins and 
Bladder; provokes the Terms, expels 
the dead Child, and takes away 
pains in the Head. 
Fennel water strengthens the heart 
and Brain; dilates the breast, the 
Cough, provokes the Terms, en-
creaseth milk in Nurses; and if you 
wash your Eyes with it, it clears the 
sight. 
The Hoofs of the forefeet of a 
Cow dried and taken any way, en- 
creaseth milk in Nurses: the smoke
of them burnt drives away Mice. 
Mizaldus.
Calaminth Water heats and clens- 
eth the Womb, provokes the Terms, 
and easeth the pains of the Head; 
distil it in May. 
The Distilled water of Rosemary- 
flowers helps such as are troubled 
with the yellow Jaundice, Asthma, 
it clenseth the blood, helps conco- 
ction, strengthens the Brain and Bo- 
dy exceedingly.
Water of the Flowers of Lillies of 
the Valley, strengthen the brain and 
all the sences. 
The water of Cowslip Flowers help 
the Palsey (and thence they obtained 
the name Paralysis) takes away pains 
in the Head, the vertigo and me- 
grim, and is exceeding good for wo- 
men with Child. 
The Eyes being washed every mor- 
ning with Eye-bright Water, most 
strangely clears and strengthens the 
sight. 
Maiden-hair distilled in May, the 
Water clenseth both Liver and Lungs 
clarifies the Blood, and breaks the 
Stone. 
Hysop Water, Clenseth the Lungs 
of Flegm, helps Coughs and Asth- 
maes. Distil it in August. 
The Water of Hore-hound helps the 
cough and straitness of the brest; it 
strengthens the breast, Lungs and 
Stomach, and Liver: distil it in June. 
Carduus Water succors the Head, 
strengthens the memory, helps such 
as are troubled with vertigoes and 
quartan agues; it provokes sweat, 
Lengthens the Heart, and is good 
in Pestilences, and all other feavers 
of choller. It is in prime in May 
and June. 
Scabious water helps Pleurifies and 
pains, and pricking in the sides; A- 
posthumes, Coughs, Pestilences, and
straitness of the breast. 
Water of Flower-de-luce is very pro-
fitable in Dropsies, anounce being
drink continually morning and eve- 
nings as also pains and torments 
in the bowels. 
Bawm water, Distlled in May, re- 
stores memory when it is lost; it 
quickens all the sences, strengthens 
the Brain, Heart and Stomach, 
causeth a merry mind and a sweet 
breath. 
The Water of Comfry, Sodders 
broken bones, being drunk, helps 
Ruptures, outwardly it stops the 
bleeding of wounds, they being 
washed with it. 
Wormwood water, Distilled cold, 
about the end of May, heats and 
stengthens the Stomach, helps con-
coction, staies vomiting, kills worms 
in the Stomach and Bowels; it mi- 
tigates the pains in the Teeth, and is 
profitably given in feavers of Chol- 
ler.
Mint water strengthens the Sto- 
mach, helps concoction, and staies 
vomiting: distil it in the latter end 
of May, or beginning of June, as 
the year is in forwareness or back- 
wardness; observe that in all the 
rest. 
Chervil watery Distilled about the 
end of May, helps Ruptures, breaks 
the Stone, dissolves congealed blood, 
strengthens the Heart and Stomach. 
The water of Mother of time streng- 
thens the brain and stomach, gets a 
man a good stomach to his victuals, 
provoke Urin and the Terms, heats 
the womb: It is in its prime about 
the end of June 
The Water of Marigold flowers is 
appropriated to most cold Diseases 
of the Head Eyes and Stomach: they 
are in their vigor when the Sun is in 
Leo. 
Distilled water of centaury comforts 
a cold stomach, helps in feavers 
of choller, which the Greeks call 
ηαυδος and  ςιπι_ οϕοεις; it kills 
worms, and provokes appetite to 
victuals. 
Maudline and Costmary water distil- 
led in May or June strengthens the 
Liver, helps the yellow Jaundice, 
opens obstructions, and helps the 
Dropsie.
Water cresses, Distilled in March.
the water clenseth the blood, and 
provokes Urine exceedingly, kills 
worms; outwardly mixed with Ho- 
ney, it clears the Skin of Morphew 
and Sunburning. 
Distil Nettles when they are in 
flower, the water helps coughs and 
pains in the bowels, provokes Urin, 
and breaks the Stone, 
Saxifrage water provokes urine ex- 
pels wind, breaks the stone, clenseth 
the Reins and bladder of gravel: di- 
stil them when they are in flower. 
The water of Pellitory of the wal o- 
pens Obstructions of the Liver and 
spleen by drinking an ounce of it eve- 
ry morning,it clenseth the Reins and  
bladder, and easeth the gripings of 
the bowels coming of wind. Distill 
it in the end of May, or beginning of 
June. 
Cinkfoyl water breaks the stone, 
clenseth the reins, and is of excellent 
use in putrid feavers: Distill it in 
May. 
The water of Radishes breaks the 
stone, clenseth the reins and bladder, 
provokes the terms, and helps the 
yellow Jaundice. 
Alicampane water strengthens the 
Stomach and Lunges, provokes U- 
rine, and clenseth the passages of it 
from gravel. 
Distill Burnet in May or June, the 
water breaks the stone, clense the pas- 
sages of urine, and is exceeding pro- 
fitable in pestilential times. 
Mugwort water distilled in May, is 
excellent in coughs and diseases pro- 
ceeding from stoppages of the terms 
in women, it warms the stomach, and 
helps the Dropsie.
Distil Peny-royal when the flowers 
are upon it; the water heats the 
womb gallantly, provokes the terms, 
expels the After-birth; cuts, and 
casts out thick and gross humors in 
the breast, easeth pains in the Bow- 
els, and consumes Flegm. 
The Water of Lovage distilled in 
May, easeth pains in the Head, and 
cures Ulcers in the Womb being 
washed with it; inwardly taken it 
expels wind, and breaks the stone. 
The tops of Hops when they are 
young, being distilled, the Water 
clenseth the Blood of addust and 
melancholy humors, and therefore 
helps Scabs. Itch, and Leprosie, and 
such like diseases thence proceeding. 
It opens obstructions of the spleen, 
helps the rickets, and Hypocondri- 
ack Melancholy.
The water of Barrage and Bugloß, 
distilled when their flowers are upon 
them strengthens the heart and brain 
exceedingly, clense the blood, and 
takes away sadness, griefes and me- 
lancholy. 
Dodder water clenseth the liver and 
spleen, helps the yellow Jaundice. 
Tamaris water opens the obstru- 
ctions, and helps the hardness of the 
spleen, and strengthens it. 
English Tobacco distilled, the water 
is excellent good for such as have 
dropsies, to drink an ounce or two 
every morning; it helps Ulcers in 
the mouth, strengthens the Lungues, 
and helps such as have Asihmaes. 
The Water of dwarff-Elder hath the 
same effects. 
Thus have you the Vertues of e- 
nough of cold Waters, the Use of 
which is for mixtures of other medi- 
cines, whose operation is the same, 
for they are seldom given alone: if 
you delight most in liquid Medi- 
cines, having regard to the disease
and part of the body afflicted by it, 
these will furnish you with where 
withall to make them so as wil please 
your Pallat best. 
COMPOUNDS 

101 
COMPOUNDS. 
SPIRITS, and 
Compound Di-
stilled Waters.
Culpe-
per. 
BEfore I begin these, 
I thought good to 
premise a few words: 
They are all hot in 
operation, and ther- 
fore not to be medled with by people 
of hot constitutions when they are 
in health, for fear of Feavers and a- 
dustion of blood; but for people of 
cold constitutions, as Melancholy 
and flegmatick people. If they drink 
of them moderately now and then 
for recreation, due consideration be- 
ing had to the part of the body 
which is weakest, they may do them 
good: yet in diseases of Melancholy, 
neither strong Waters nor Sack is to 
be drunk, for they make the humor 
thin, and then up to the head it flies, 
where it fills the brain with foolish 
and fearful imaginations. 
2. Let all young people forbear 
them whilst they are in health, for 
their blood is usually hot enough 
without them. 
3. Have regard to the season of 
the yeer, so shall you find them more 
beneficial in Summer than in Winter, 
because in Summer the body is al- 
waies coldest within, and digestion 
weakest, and that is the reason why 
men and women eat less in Sum- 
mer than in winter. 
Thus much for people in health, 
which drink strong waters for recrea- 
tion. 
As for the Medicinal use of them, 
it shall be shewed at the latter end of 
every Receipt, only in general they 
are (due respect had to the humors 
afflicting, and part of the body affli- 
cted) Medicinal for Diseases of cold 
and flegm, chilliness of the spirits, 
&c. 
But that my Country-men may 
not be mistaken in this, I shall give 
them some symptoms of each com- 
plexion how a man may know when 
it exceeds its due limits.   
Signs of Choller abounding. 
Leanness of body, costiveness, hol- 
low eyes, anger without a cause, a 
testy disposition, yellowness of the 
Skin bitterness in the throat, pric-  
king pains in the head, the pulse  
swifter and stronger than ordinary, 
the urine higher colored, thinner 
and brighter, troublesom sleeps, 
much dreaming of fire, lightning, an- 
ger, and fighting. 
Signs of Blood abounding. 
The Veins are bigger (or at least 
they seem so) and fuller than ordi- 
nary; the skin is red, and as it were 
swollen, pricking pains in the sides, 
and about the temples, shortness of 
breath, head-ach, the pulse great and 
full, urine high colored and thick, 
dreams of blood, &c. 
Signs of Melancholy abounding.
Fearfulness without a cause, fearful 
and foolish imaginations, the skin 
rough and swarthy, leanness, want 
of sleep, frightful dreams, sourness
in the throat, the puls very weak, so- 
litariness, thin and cleer urine, often 
sighing, &c. 
Signs of Flegm abounding. 
Sleepiness, dulness, slowness, hea- 
viness, cowardliness, forgetfulness, 
much spitting, much superfluities at 
the nose, little appetite to meat, and 
as bad digestion, the skin whiter, 
colder and smoother than it was 
wont to be; the pulse slow and deep 
the urine thick and low colored; 
dreams of rain, floods, and water, 
&c. 
These things thus premised, I 
come to the matter 
The first the Colledg presents you 
with, is 
Spiritus & Aqua Absinthii minus
Composita. Pag. 30. 
[Or, Spirit and Water of Worm- 
wood, the lesser Com- 
position. 
Colledg.] Take of the Leaves of 
dried Wormwood two pound. 
Annis seeds half a pound. 
Steep them in six gallons of smal Wines 
twenty four hours, then distil them in an 
Alembick, adding to every pound of 
the distilled water two ounces of the best
Sugar. 
Let the two first pound you draw out 
be called Spirit of Wormwood, those 
which follow, Wormwood water the les-  
ser Composition.
Culpeper.] I like this distinction 
of the Colledg very wel, because 
what is first stilled out, is far stron- 
ger than the rest, and therefore very 
fitting to be kept by it self. You 
may take which you please, accor- 
ding as the temperature of your bo- 
dy, either to heat or cold, and the 
season of the yeer requires. 
It hath the same Vertues worm- 
wood hath, only fitter to be used by 
such whose bodies are chilled by 
age, and whose natural heat abateth. 
You may search the Herbs for the 
vertues; it heateth the stomach, 
and helpeth digestion. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for such as are subject 
to the Cachexia, Dropsie, Jaundice, 
and swelling of the Legs, being al- 
layed with Cichory and Fennel wa- 
ters simply distilled. Also mingled 
with Tansie water it is good to pre- 
vent the breeding of worms in the 
stomach or guts. 
Colledg.] After the same man- 
ner (only omitting the Annis seeds) is 
distilled Spirit and Water of 
Angelica both Herb and Root
Bawm.
Mints. 
Sage, &c. 
Flowers of Rosemary. 
Clary. 
Clove-gilliflowers, &c. 
Seeds of Caraway, &c. 
Juniper berries. 
Peels of Orrenges. 
Lemmons.
Citrons, &c. 
Cinnamon. 
Nutmegs, &c. 
Spiritus & Aqua Absinthii magis 
Composita. 30. 
Or, Spirit and Water of Worm- 
wood, the greater com- 
position.
Colledg.] Take of common and 
Roman Wormwood, of each a pound. 
Sage. 
Mints.  
Bawm, of each two handfuls. 
Roots of Galanga. 
Ginger. 
Calamus aromaticus.  
Alicampane, of each three drams. 
Liquoris an ounce. 
Raisons of the Sun stoned three 
ounces.
Seeds of Annis. 
sweet Fennel, of each three drams. 
Cinnamon. 
Cloves. 
Nutmegs, of each two drams. 
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102 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters. 
Cardamoms. 
Cubebs, of each one dram. 
Let the things be cut that are to be cut,
and the things be bruised that are to be 
bruised. 
All of them infused in twenty four 
pints of Spanish Wines for twenty four 
hours, then distilled in an Alembick, 
adding two ounces of white Sugar to 
every pint of distilled water. 
Let the first pint be called Spirit of 
wormwood the greater Composition.
Culpeper.] The Opinion of Au- 
thors is, That it heats the Stomach, 
and strengthens it and the Lungs, 
expels wind, and helps digestion in 
ancient people. 
Vertues newly added. 
It hath the same Vertues with the 
former. Also it is good against a 
stinking breath, and cold and moist 
distempers of the Brain being tem- 
pered with common Betony water. 
It is good to cheer Hypochondriacal 
persons being tempered with a 
good quantity of Borrage, Bugloss, 
and Bawm waters. It helps a weak 
sight proceeding from a cold and 
moist cause. 
Spiritus & Aqua Angelicæ magis 
Composita. 3l. 
Or, Spirit and Water of Angelica, 
the greater composition.
Colledg.] Take leaves of Angelica 
eight ounces. 
Carduus Benedictus six ounces.
Bawm. 
Sage, of each four ounces. 
Angelica seeds six ounces. 
Sweet Fennel seeds nine ounces. 
Let the Herbs being dried, and the 
Seeds be grosly bruised, to which add of 
the Species called Aromaticum Rosa- 
tum, and of the Species called Diamos- 
chu dulce, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Infuse them two daies in thirty two pints 
of Spanish Wine, then distill them, with 
a gentle fire. And with every pound 
mix two ounces of Sugar dissolved in 
Rose water. 
Let the three first pound be called by 
the name of Spirit, the rest by the name 
of Water. 
Culpeper.] The chief end of com- 
posing this Medicine, was to streng- 
then the heart and resist infection, 
and therefore is very wholsom in Pe- 
stilential times, and for such as walk 
in stinking air.
Vertues newly added. 
It cheers the heart, and revives 
melancholick persons, being allaied 
with Borrage and Bugloss waters 
distilled after the ordinary way. Al- 
so it is a soveraign help for a bad 
memory arising from a cold and 
moist distemper of the Brain, being 
allaied with Sage and Lavender wa- 
ters, and sweetened with Syrup of 
Stechados. 
I shall now quote you their former 
Receipt in their former Dispensa- 
tory. 
Angelica Water the greater 
Composition. 
Colledg. Take of Angelica two 
pound.
Annis seeds half a pound. 
Coriander and Caraway seeds, of 
each four ounces. 
Zedoary bruised three ounces. 
Steep them twenty four hours in six gal- 
lons of smal wines: then draw out the 
spirit, and sweeten it with sugar. 
Culpeper.] It comforts the heart, 
cherisheth the vital spirits, resisteth 
the pestilence, and all corrupt airs, 
which indeed are the natural causes 
of epidemical diseases. The sick 
may take a spoonful of it in any con- 
venient cordial; and such as are in 
health, and have bodies either cold 
by nature, or cooled by age, may 
take as much either in the morning 
fasting, or a little before meat. 
Spiritus Lavendulæ compositus. 
Matthiæ. 31. 
Or, Compound Spirit of La- 
vender. Matthias. 
Colledg. Take of Lavender flowers 
one gallon, to which pour three gal- 
lons of the best spirit of wine. 
Let them stand together in the sun six 
daies, then distil them with an Alem- 
bick with his Refrigeratory. 
Take of the flowers of Sage, 
Rosemary. 
Betony, of each one handful.
Flowers of Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Lillies of the Valley, 
Cowslips, of each two handfuls. 
Let the Flowers being newly and seaso- 
nably gathered, being infused in one 
gallon of the best spirit of wine, and 
mingled with the aforegoing spirit of 
Lavender flowers adding the   
Leaves of Bawm, 
Feather-few, 
Orrenge-tree fresh gathered. 
Flowers of Stœchas,
Orrenge-tree, 
Bay-berries, of each one ounce. 
After convenient digestion distil it again, 
after which add, 
Citron pils the outward bark.
Peony seeds husked, of each six 
drams. 
Cinnamon. 
Mace. 
Nutmegs.
Cardamoms. 
Cubebs, 
Yellow Sanders, of each half an
ounce. 
Wood of Aloes one dram. 
the best Jujubes, the stones being 
taken out, half a pound. 
Digest them six weeks, then strain is and
filter it, and add to it 
Prepared Pearls two drams. 
Emeralds prepared a scruple. 
Ambergreece. 
Musk. 
Saffron, of each half a scruple. 
Red Roses dried. 
Red Sanders, of each half an 
ounce. 
Yellow Sanders.
Citron pills dried, of each one 
dram. 
Let the Species being tied up in a rag,
be hung into the aforegoing Spirit. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is contrived to strengthen the 
Brain, Nerves, Heart, Womb, and o- 
ther internal bowels, and to resist all 
Diseases springing from debility of 
the same parts, and their oppression
by cold, crude and melancholick and 
earthy humors. It is therefore good 
against the Falling-sickness and con- 
vulsion (for which I conceive it was 
principally invented) against the 
Palsey and trembling of the joynts 
proceeding from a cold cause, against 
shortness of memory and blockish- 
ness of wit proceeding from a cold 
and moist distemper of the brain and 
Nerves. It corrects the flashy cold 
distempers of the womb, and helps 
barrenness proceeding therefrom. 
It is good for convulsion fits of chil- 
dren. But it must be wel allaied with 
waters of cowslips, black cherries, 
and lilly-convally, and sweetened 
with the Syrup of the juyce of black
cherries. Also it is good for chil- 
dren or others that are thought to be 
bewitcht, being tempered with Rue 
water distilled after the ordinary 
way. It cleers the sight of aged and 
flegmatick or sanguine persons. 
Spiritus Castorii. 32. Or, 
Spirit of Castorium. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Castorium
four ounces. 
Lavender flowers an ounce.
Tops of Sage. 
Rosemary, of each half an ounce. 
Cinnamon six drams. 
Mace. 
Cloves, of each two drams. 
Spirit of Wine rectified six pound. 
Digest them in a Phial filled only to 
the third part, close stopped with cork 
and bladder in warm ashes for two daies,
then distilled in *Balneo Mariæ [*A 
Table at the latter end shall instruct 
you in all such crabbed words] and 
the distilled Water close stopped. 
Culpeper.] By reason of its heat it 
is no waies fit to be taken alone, but
mixed with other convenient Medi-
cines


103 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters. 
cines appropriated to the Diseases 
you would give it for; it resists poy- 
son, and helps such as are bitten by 
venemous beasts: it causeth speedy 
delivery to women in Travel, and 
casteth out the after-birth: it helps 
the fits of the mother, Lethargies and 
convulsions: being mixed with 
white wine, and dropped into the 
ears it helps deafness if stopping 
be the cause of it. The dose to be 
given inwardly is between one dram, 
and half a dram, according to the 
strength and age of the Patient. 
Vertues newly added. 
It powerfully strengthens the Brain 
and Nerves, and is therefore good 
for all Diseases springing from debi- 
lity thereof. 
It helps the cold distemper of the Te-
sticles and Womb, and incites and 
inables both men and women (but 
men especially) to the great work 
of the Generation of Man-kind. It 
is a good remedy for blockishness, 
dulness of wit, and forgetfulness, ari- 
sing from cold causes. A smal quan- 
tity wel allaied with other Ingredi- 
ents, is good in malignant Feavers. 
Aqua Petasitidis composita. 32. Or, 
compound water of Butter- 
burs.
Colledg.] Take of the fresh roots 
of Butter-bur bruised one pound and an 
half. 
Roots of Angelica, 
Masterwort, of each half a 
pound. 
Steep them in ten pints of strong Ale, 
then distil them till the change of the 
taste gives a testimony that the strength 
is drawn out. 
Culpeper.] This Water is very 
effectual being mixed with other 
convenient cordials, for such as have 
pestilential Feavers: also a spoonful 
taken in the morning, may prove a 
good preservative in pestilential 
times: It helps the sits of the mo- 
ther, and such as are short winded, 
and being taken inwardly, dries up 
the moisture of such sores as are 
hard to be cured.
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for tremblings of the 
Heart, and for such as are over- 
prone to Venery, and more willing 
and ready to make others than to 
preserve themselves (forgetting that 
charity ought to begin at home) be- 
ing allaied with vulgar Rue and Fen- 
nel waters.
Aqua Raphani composita. 33. Or
compound water of Rhadishes. 
Colledg.] Take of the leaves of 
both sorts of Scurvy-grass, of each six 
pound: having bruised them, press the 
juyce out of them, with which mix of the 
Juyce of Brooklime
Water-cresses, of each one 
pound and an half. 
Of the best white Wine eight 
pound. 
Twelve whol Lemmons pills and 
all,  
fresh Briony roots four pound. 
Roots of wild Radishes two 
pound. 
Capt. Winters Cinnamon half a 
pound. 
Nutmegs four ounces. 
Steep them all together, and then distil 
them. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is evident by the Ingredients, 
that this water was invented (and 
that with good judgment) for the 
Scurvy, a Disease Natural to the 
more Northern parts of our World. 
Also it moves Urin powerfully. It 
is good for persons troubled with 
stoppage of the water from gravel, 
and consequently subject to the 
stone; their bodies having been first 
purged and prepared by the advice 
of a skilful Physitian. It is good for 
persons cachectical, hydropical, and 
for women that have flegmatick and 
impure wombs. Mr. Culpeper had 
not on his considering cap when he 
past his censure upon this excellent 
water. 
Aqua Peoniæ composita. 33. Or 
compound water of Peony. 
Colledg.] Take of the flowers of 
Lillies of the valley one pound. 
Infuse them in four gallons of Spanish 
Wine so long till the following flowers 
may be had fresh. 
Take of the forenamed flowers half a 
pound. 
Peony flowers four ounces. 
Steep them together fourteen daies, then 
distil them in Balneo Mariæ till they 
be dry. 
In the distilled Liquor infuse again 
Male peony roots gathered in due 
time two ounces and an half. 
white Dittany, 
Long Birthwort, of each half an 
ounce. 
Leaves of Misleto of the Oak,
Rue, of each two handfuls. 
Peony seeds husked ten drams. 
Rue seeds three drams and a half. 
Castorium two scruples. 
Cubebs, 
Mace, of each two drams, 
Cinnamon an ounce and an half.
Squills prepared three drams. 
Rosemary flowers six pugils. 
Arabian Stœchas, 
Lavender, of each four pugils. 
Flowers of Betony, 
Clove-gilliflowers, 
Cowslips, of each eight pugils. 
Then adding four pound of the juyce
of black cherries, distil it in a glass till
it be dry. 
Culpeper.] If the Authority of 
Erastus, or dayly Experience will 
serve the turn, then was this Receipt 
chiefly compiled against the convul- 
sion fits; but the derivation of the 
word notes it to be prevalent against
the Falling-sickness also, for επλεπα
in Greek signifies Falling-sickness; 
and indeed Erastus and Experience 
pleads for this also. It is true, the 
composition of Erastus differs from 
this, and so doth another recited 
by Johannes Langius. 
Well then, having now learned 
the Vertues of the water, a word or 
two of the use will not be amiss. E- 
rastus was of Opinion that both 
these Diseases were caused by the 
Moon, (and so am I of that opinion 
also, for I know some at this time 
that are constantly troubled with the 
Falling sickness only at the new and 
full Moon. I could give reasons for 
this Judgment of Erastus, but I am 
unwilling to be tedious.) Then 
saith he, If the Disease come dayly, 
let a spoonful of it be taken mor- 
ning and evening: if weekly, then 
let it be taken only at the new and 
full Moon, and at her Quartiles 
to the Sun: if it begin to wear away, 
then only twice a month, viz. at 
the new and full Moon will suffice. 
It profits also in time of the fit, by  
rubbing their temples, nostrils, and 
jaws with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This was invented against the Fal- 
ing-sickness and convulsion fits. It 
strengthens the Brain, Nerves, and 
Womb. It is good for tremblings, 
dimness of sight, bad memory, and 
blockishness arising from a cold and 
moist distemper of the Brain, Nerves, 
or Heart, and the over-loosness and 
softness of those Organs. It is good 
for such as are supposed to be be- 
wicht, allaied with Rue, Fennel, and 
Dill waters. It cleers the sight of 
aged persons, being tempered with 
waters of Fennel and Eyebright. 
Aqua Bezoartica. 34. Or, A Bezo- 
artick Water, that is, a water 
having the soveraign faculties, and 
imitating the operations of Be- 
zoar stone. 
Colledg.] Take of the leaves of 
Sullendine, roots and all, three handfuls 
and an half. 
Rue two handfuls. 
Scordium four handfuls.  
Dittany of Creet, 
Carduus, of each one handful and a
half. 
Roots of Zedoary, 
Angelica, of each three drams, 
Citron pills, 
Lemmon pills, of each six drams. 
clove-


 



104 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters. 
Clove-gilliflowers one ounce and an 
half. 
Red Roses, 
Centaury the less, of each two drams.  
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, of each three drams. 
Venice Treacle three ounces. 
Methridale one ounce and an half. 
Camphire two scruples. 
Troches of vipers two ounces.
Mace two drams. 
Wood of Aloes half an ounce. 
Yellow Sanders one dram and an half. 
Carduus seeds one ounce. 
Citron seeds six drams. 
Let them be cut and infused in spirit of 
Wine, and Malaga Wine, of each three 
pound and an half. Vinegar of clove- 
gilliflowers, Juyce of Lemmons, of each 
one pound, and distilled in Balneo Ma- 
riæ. 
After it is half stilled off, the resi- 
due may be strained through a linnen 
cloth, and be reduced to the thickness of 
Honey, and called the Bezoartick Ex- 
tract.
Culpeper.] Extracts have the same 
vertues with the waters they are 
made from, only the different form 
is to please the quaint pallats of such 
whose fancy loaths any one particu- 
lar form. 
This Bezoar water strengtheneth 
the heart, arteries, and spirit vital: 
It provokes sweat, and is exceeding 
good in pestilential feavers, in health 
it withstands melancholy and con- 
sumptions, and makes a merry, blith, 
cheerful creature. Of the extract you 
may take ten grains at a time, or 
somwhat more, if your body be not 
feaverish, half a spoonful of water is 
sufficient at a time, and that mixed 
with other cordials or medicines ap- 
propriated to the disease that trou- 
bles you, which the Table at the 
latter end of the Book wil direct you 
to: and take this for a general rule, 
when any thing is too hot to take by 
it self, resort to the Table of Diseases, 
which wil amply furnish you with 
what to mix it, and especially the 
cold waters, the vertues of which 
you have amply in this Edition. 
This is Langius his Receipt. 
Virtues newly added. 
This (as Culpeper tels you) was 
invented by Langius a Learned and 
elegant Physitian, from whom he 
hath told you the vertues for which 
the Author designed it. 
I shal only add, That it is good 
for those that are sickle headed, un- 
constant, and undiscreet; for such 
as are haunted by Ghosts and Goblins 
as they conceive. Also being tempe- 
red with Agrimony water, it may be 
given to those that are sweated for 
the Venereal Disease, with good 
success. 
Aqua & Spiritus Lumbricorum, Ma- 
gistralis. 34. Or, Magistral Water 
and Spirit of Earth worms. 
Colledg.] Take of Earth worms well 
clensed three pound. 
Snails with shels on their backs clen- 
sed two gallons. 
Beat them in a Mortar, and put them 
into a convenient Vessel, adding 
Stinging Nettles, roots and all, six 
handfuls. 
Wild Angelica four handfuls. 
Brank-ursine seven handfuls. 
Agrimony. 
Bettony, of each three handfuls. 
Rue one handful. 
Common Wormwood two handfuls. 
Rosemary flowers six ounces. 
Dock roots ten ounces. 
Roots of Sorrel five ounces. 
Turmerick, 
The inner bark of Barberries, of each 
four ounces. 
Fenugreek seeds two ounces. 
Cloves three ounces.
Harts-horn, 
Ivory in gross pouder, of each four 
ounces. 
Saffron three drams. 
Smal spirit of Wine four gallons and 
an half. 
After twenty four hours infusion, 
distil them in an Alembick.
Let the four first pounds be reserved for 
Spirit, the rest for Water. 
Virtues newly added. 
This Water seems to have been 
invented by some Fellow of the Col- 
ledg, or at least by some late Phy- 
sitian, and therefore is termed Ma- 
gistral, that is as much as to say, the 
private Receipt of some Master of the 
Art of healing. And therefore Nich. 
was here put to his Trumps, not kno- 
wing in what Book to look for the 
Use and Vertues thereof, nor able to 
find the same in the Stars, nor to 
read in the nature of the Ingredi- 
ents. 
This Water is very effectual (and 
seems invented) against the Jaundice 
arising from the stoppage of the pas- 
sages of the Galls purgation. It o- 
pens all obstructions of the bowels, 
and helps all diseases proceeding 
therefrom. It may do much good sea- 
sonably and duly administred; in 
hectick Feavers arising from secret 
obstructions, as many of those Fea- 
vers do. 
Aqua Gentianæ composita. 35 Or, 
Gentian Water compound. 
Colledg. Take of Gentian Roots sliced, 
one pound and an half. 
The leaves and flowers of centaury the 
less, of each four ounces. 
Steep them eight daies in twelve pound 
of white Wine, then distill them 
in an Alembick. 
Culpeper.] It conduceth to pre- 
servation from ill air, and pestilential 
seavers: it opens obstructions of the 
liver, and helps such as they say are 
liver-grown; it easeth pains in the 
stomach, helps digestion, and easeth 
such as have pains in their bones by 
il lodging abroad in the cold; it pro- 
vokes appetite, and is exceeding 
good for the yellow Jaundies, as al- 
so for prickings or stitches in the 
side; it provokes the terms and ex- 
pels both birth and after birth; it is
naught for women with child: If
there be no feaver, you may take a 
spoonful or taster ful by it self; if 
there be, you may if you please mix
it withsome cooler Medicine appro- 
priated to the same use you would 
give it for. 
Virtues newly added. 
Here Culpeper is as plentiful in 
mustering up the Virtues as he was 
sparing in the last water. I shal only 
add that this water is good for Ter- 
tian. Agues being mingled with Syrup 
of the Juyce of Cichory or Syrup of 
Cicory with Rhubarbe, and season- 
ably administered. 
Aqua Gilberti. 31. Or, 
Gilberts Water. 
Colledg.] Take of Scabious, 
Burnet, 
Dragons, 
Bawm, 
Angelica, 
Pimpernel, 
Purple flowers, 
Tormentil, Roots and al, of each 
two handfuls. 
Let all of them being rightly gathered 
and prepared, be steeped in four gal- 
lons of Canary wine, stil off three gal- 
lons in an Alembick, to which add three 
ounces of each of the Cordial flowers. 
Clove-gilli-flowers six ounces. 
Saffron half an ounce. 
Turmerick two ounces. 
Galanga, 
Bazil seeds, of each one dram. 
Citron pills one ounce. 
Seeds of Citrons, 
Cardus. 
Cloves, of each five ounces. 
Harts-horn four ounces. 
Steep them twenty four hours, and then 
distil them in Balneo Mariæ. 
To the distilled Water add 
Pearls prepared an ounce and an half. 
Red Coral, 
Crabs eyes, 
White Amber, of each two drams. 
Crabs claws six drams. 
Bezoar, 
Amber greece, of each two scruples. 
Steep them six weeks in the sun, in a 
Vessel well stopped, often shaking it, 
then filter it (you may keep the Pou-
ders for Sp. cord. temp.) by mixing 
twelve ounces of Sugar candy, with six 
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105 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters.
ounces of red Rose-water, and four ounces 
of Spirit of Cinnamon with it.
Culpeper.] I suppose this was in- 
vented for a cordial to strengthen the  
heart, to relieve languishing nature.
It is exceeding dear. I forbear the  
dose, they that have mony enough 
to make it themselves, cannot want  
time to study both the vertues and   
dose: I would have Gentlemen to   
be studious. 
Vertues newly added.  
It is good in all venemous and pe- 
stilential cases. It cheares Melan-  
cholick persons. It is good for all 
Diseases arising from weakness of the 
Brain, Nerves, and Heart, and for 
such as are debiletated with a long 
Flux of the Belly, or the Whites, 
so called in Woman. 
Aqua cordialis frigida Saxoniæ. 36.
Or Dr. Hercules Saxonia his 
cooling cordial Water. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of 
Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Bawm, 
Bistort, 
Tormentil, 
Scordium, 
Vervain, 
Sharp-pointed Dock, 
Sorrel, 
Goats Rue, 
Mirrhis, 
blew Bottle great and smal, 
Roses, 
Marigolds, 
Lemmons, 
Citrons, of each six ounces. 
Burnet,  
Cinkfoyl, of each three ounces. 
White wine Vinegar one pound. 
Purslain seeds two ounces. 
Citron seeds, 
Carduus seeds, of each half an 
ounce. 
Water-lilly flowers two ounces. 
Flowers of Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Violets, 
Clove-gilliflowers, of each one 
ounce. 
Diatrion Santalon six drams. 
Let all of them being rightly prepared, 
be infused three daies, then distilled in a 
glass still. To the distilled liquor add 
Eearth of Lemnos, 
Silesia, 
Samos, of each one ounce and an 
half. 
Pearls prepared with the Juyce of 
Citrons three drams. 
Mix them, and keep them together. 
Culpeper.] It mightily cools the 
blood, and is therefore profitable in 
Feavers, and all diseases proceeding 
of heat of blood; it provokes sleep. 
You may take half an ounce at a 
time, or two drams if the party be  
weak. 
Vertues newly added. 
The Author of this famous Water  
being an Italian Physitian of good 
note, hath been worthily renowned  
by the Invention thereof: It having  
been long approved a great streng-  
thener of the Heart, vital faculties, 
and all the powers of Nature; and  
yet so temperate as to be safely ad-  
ministred in the most violent, burn- 
ing, malignant Feavers; in which 
cases it is of soveraign use. It is  
commonly mixed in cordial Juleps,  
and does well temper other cordial   
Ingredients, which are generally too  
hot to be given unallayed in such ca- 
ses. It is good in Phrentick mad-  
ness, and disturbances of the mind  
arising from Anger and wrath, and 
want of sleep proceeding from such   
passions and distempers; being tem-
pered with Syrup of Water-lillies,  
of Cowslips, of Rasberries and of  
Borrage, and allayed with waters 
of the said Simples.   
Aqua Theriacalis. 36. Or, 
Treacle Water. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of green  
Walnuts four pound. 
Juyce of Rue three pound. 
Carduus, 
Marigolds,  
Bawm, of each two pound. 
Green Petasitii roots one pound and  
a half. 
Roots of Burrs one pound. 
Angelica, 
Masterwort, of each half a pound. 
Leaves of Scordium four handfuls. 
Old Venice Treacle, 
Methridate, of each eight ounces. 
Canary Wine twelve pound. 
Vinegar six pound. 
Iuyce of Lemmons two pound. 
Digest them two daies either in Hors- 
dung, or in a bath, the Vessel being close 
shut, then distil them in sand; in the 
distillation you may make a Theriacal 
Extraction. 
Culpeper.] This Water is exceeding 
good in all Feavers, especially pesti- 
lential; it expelleth venemous hu- 
mors by sweats; it strengthens the 
heart and vitals; it is an admirable 
counterpoyson, special good for such 
as have the plague, or are poysoned, 
or bitten by venemous beasts, and 
expelleth virulent humors from such 
as have the French pox. If you desire 
to know more vertues of it, see the 
vertues of Venice Treacle. The Dose 
is from a spoonful to an ounce. 
Virtues newly added. 
Besides the Vertues and effects 
mustered up by Mr. Culpeper; let me 
ad, That this Water is of so mettle- 
som and pleasing a tast, and so he- 
roical a flavor, that most cordial Ju-
leps without the presence thereof do 
languish and prove wallowish and 
distastful to the feeble stomach of a 
languishing Patient; but by the ad- 
mixture thereof they became grateful 
and supportable, provided the water 
be faithfully and carefully made. Nor 
have I observed any Medicament 
ordinarily kept in the Shops, that is 
so various in its tast and smel, being 
made by several Apothecaries or by 
the same Apothecaries at several 
times. What the reason is, I can- 
not well say, unless the thicker 
atomes settleing in the bottom of 
great glasses, which contain the ver- 
tue of the Treacle and mithridate, 
somtimes the Apothecary pours off 
the thinner part without stirring, and 
somtimes he stirs the glass. 
I may wel cal this Water the salt
of Juleps, which are commonly un- 
favory where it is not admixed, in 
case the disease require and permit 
the same. 
Besides the faculties specified, it is 
an Antidote against vain fears, good 
to cause constancy and resolution of 
mind, helps such as are naturally dul 
witted, and those that are called and 
counted changelings. It favors the 
designs of those that would live 
chaste and free from the extravagan- 
ces caused by importunate, unseason- 
able, and irregular motions to wards 
Generation. It is very good for such 
as are thought to be bewitcht. Two or 
three spoonfuls may be given at a 
time upon some sudden disorder: 
ordinarily a spoonful at a time wil 
serve. In Juleps they put one ounce, 
two or three ounces when the Julep 
is large, and to be taken a little at 
a time. No certain Dose can be as- 
signed of such like Medicaments;
the discretion of the Artist guided 
by his sinel and tast, and the Nature 
of the Patient and disease, is the on- 
ly constant Rule in these cases. 
Aqua Brioniæ composita. 37. Or, 
Briony Water compound. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of Bri-
ony roots four pound. 
Leaves of Rue, 
Mugwort, of each two pounds. 
Dried Savin three handfuls. 
Featherfew, 
Nep, 
Penyroyal, of each two handfuls. 
Bazil, 
Dittany of Creet, of each one hand-
and a half. 
Orrenge pills four ounces. 
Myrrh two ounces. 
Castorium one ounce. 
Canary Wine twelve pounds.  
Digest them four daies in a convenient 
vessel, then distil them in Balneo Ma- 
riæ: about the middle of the distillation 
strain it out, and make a Hysterical Ex- 
traction of the residue. 
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106 Spirits, and Compound Distilled Waters. 
Culpeper.] A spoonful of it taken 
easeth the fits of the Mother in wo- 
men that have them; it potently 
expels the after-birth, and cleers the 
body of what a Midwife by heedless- 
ness or accident hath left behind; it 
clenseth the Womb exceedingly, and 
for that I fancy it much. Take not 
above a tasterful at a time, and then 
in the morning fasting, for it is of a 
purging quality, and let women with 
child forbear it.
Aqua Imperialis. 37. Or, 
Imperial Water. 
Colledg.] Take of dried Citron pills, 
Orrenge pills, 
Nutmegs, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, of each two ounces. 
Roots of Cyperus, 
Orris Florentine,
Calamus Aromaticus, of each one 
ounce. 
Zedoary, 
Galanga, 
Ginger, of each half an ounce. 
Tops of Lavender, 
Rosemary, of each two handfuls. 
Leaves of Bay, 
Marjoram, 
Bawm,
Mints, 
Sage, 
Time, of each one handful. 
Flowers of white Roses, 
Damask Roses fresh, of each half a 
handful. 
Rose-water four pound. 
White wine eight pound. 
Let all of them be bruised and infused 
twenty four hours, then distil them accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] You must distill it in a 
Bath, not in Sand: therefore take 
this for a general Aphorism; All 
gross bodies stilled in Sand will stink 
egregiously.  
It comforts and strengtheneth the 
heart against faintings and swoo- 
nings, and is held to be a preser- 
vative against consumptions and 
apoplexies. You may take half a 
spoonful at a time. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for al cold and moist Dis- 
eases of the brain, nerves, stomach, 
and heart. 
Aqua Mirabilis. 38. 
Colledg.] Take of cloves, 
Galanga, 
Cubebs, 
Mace, 
Cardamoms, 
Nutmegs, 
Ginger, of each one dram. 
Juyce of Sullendine half a pound.
Spirit of Wine one pound. 
White wine three pound. 
Infuse them twenty four hours and draw 
off two pound with an Alembick. 
Culpeper.] The Simples also of this 
regard the stomach, and therefore 
the water heats cold stomachs: Be- 
sides, Authors say it preserveth from 
Apoplexies, and restoreth speech 
lost. 
Aqua Protheriacalis. 38. Or, a 
Water serving instead of Treacle 
Water. 
Colledg.] Take of Scordium, 
Scabious, 
Carduus, 
Goats Rue, of each two 
handfuls. 
Citron pills, 
Orrenge pills, of each two ounces. 
Seeds of Citrons, 
Carduus, 
Hartwort, 
Treacle,
Mustard, of each one ounce. 
Flowers of Marigolds, 
Rosemary, of each one handful. 
Cut them, and bruise them grosly, then 
infuse them in four pound of white wine, 
and two pound of carduus water in a 
glass close stopped, and set it in the Sun 
or bath for a fortnight, often shaking it, 
then still it in Balneo Mariæ. Let the 
two first pound be kept by themselves for 
use, and the remainder of the distillation 
by it self. Lastly, mix one ounce of 
Julep of Alexandria, and a spoonful of 
cinnamon water with each pound. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is of like vertue with Treacle 
Water, being good in all pestilential, 
venemous, and malignant Diseases, 
and strengthens the heart. 
Aqua Caponis. 38. Or Capon 
Water. 
Colledg.] Take a capon the guts 
being pulled out, cut in pieces, the fat 
being taken away, boyled in a sufficient 
quantity of spring water in a close ves- 
sel; Take of this Broth three pound. 
Borrage, 
Violet water, of each a pound and an 
half. 
White wine one pound. 
Red Rose Leaves two drams and an 
half. 
Flowers of Borrage, 
Violets, 
Bugloss, of each one dram. 
Pieces of Bread hot out of the Oven 
half a pound. 
Cinnamon bruised half an ounce. 
Still it in a glass Still according to art. 
Culpeper.] Divers Physitians have 
written several Receipts of this wa- 
ter, as Gesner, Andr. è Lecuna, 
Med: Florent. and Coloniens. The 
Simples are most of them appropria- 
ted to the heart, and in truth the 
composition greatly nourishes and 
strengtheneth such as are in con- 
sumptions, and restoreth strength 
lost, either by feavers or other sick- 
ness. It is a soveraign Remedy for 
hectick Feavers, and Marasmos,
which is nothing else but a consum- 
ption coming from them. Let such 
as are subject to these Diseases, hold 
it for a Jewel. 
Aqua Limacum Magistr. 39. Or, 
Water of Snails.  
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of 
Ground Ivy, (or Alehoof, 
which is all one) 
Coltsfoot, 
Scabious, 
Lungwort, of each one pound and 
an half. 
Juyce of Purslain, 
Plantane,
Ambrosia 
Pauls Betony, of each a pound. 
Hogs blood, 
White wine, of each four pound. 
Garden Snails two pound. 
Dried Tobacco Leaves eight. 
Pouder of Liquoris two ounces. 
Alicampane half an ounce. 
Orris an ounce. 
Cotton seeds an ounce and an half. 
The greater cold seeds, 
Annis seeds, of each six drams. 
Saffron one dram. 
Flowers of red Roses six pugils. 
Violets, 
Borrage, of each four pugils. 
Steep them three daies warm, and then
distill them in a glass still in sand. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth the Lungs 
of flegm, and helps consumptions 
there. 
Aqua Scordii composita. 39. Or,
compound Water of 
Scordium. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of 
Goats Rue, 
Sorrel, 
Scordium, 
Citrons, of each one pound, 
London Treacle half a pound, 
Steep it three daies, and distil it in
sand. 
Culpeper.] A taster ful taken in
the morning, preserves from ill
airs. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is good in Pestilential, Ve-
nemous and malignant diseases. 
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107 COMPOUND WATERS. 
Aqua Mariæ. 39. Or, the Virgin 
Maries water. 
Colledg.] Take of Sugar-candy a 
pound. 
Canary wine six ounces. 
Rose water four ounces. 
Boyl it well into a Syrup, and ad to it 
Imperial water two pound. 
Ambergreese.
Musk, of each eighteen grains. 
Saffron fifteen grains. 
Yellow Sanders infused in Imperiall 
water, two drams.
Make a clear water of it. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is good against all faintings 
and decay of Spirits, and is an excel- 
lent cordial water. 
Aqua Papaveris composita. 39. Or, 
Poppy water Compound. 
Colledg] Take red Poppies four 
pounds: sprinkle them with white 
wine two pound: then distil them 
in a common stil. 
Let the distilled water be powred upon 
fresh flowers and repeated three times; 
to which distilled water ad two Nutmegs 
sliced, red poppy flowers a pugil: Sugar 
two ounces: set it in the Sun to give it a 
pleasing sharpness if the sharpness be 
more than you would have it, put some 
of the same water to it which was not set 
in the Sun. 
Virtues newly added. 
This water is good for surfets and 
oppression of the Stomach; for the 
Chine cough or whooping cough. 
It causes rest, stops defluctions of 
Rheum from the Head, and may pro-
fitably be mingled with Juleps in the 
Pleurisie.
Aqua Juglandium composita. 40. Or, 
Walnut water compound. 
Colledg.] Take of green walnuts a 
pound and half. 
Rhadish roots one pound. 
Green Asarabacca six ounces. 
Rhadish seeds six ounces. 
Let all of them being bruised be steeped 
in three pound of white wine for three 
daies; then distilled in a leaden stil til 
they be dry. 
Virtues newly added. 
This water seems invented to faci- 
litate and provoke Vomiting, and to 
that end may be mingled in Vomits. 
It voids clammy flegm and choler 
from the stomach and adjacent parts 
and opens the obstructions thereof. 
It is good in Agues, Green-sickness 
and Epilepsies arising from consent 
of the stomach. 
Some WATERS the 
Colledg have left out in 
their new Dispensatory, 
which were in their old 
one; and they are these. 
Mathiolus, his Bezoar water. 
Colledg. Take of Mathiolus his great 
Antidote. 
Syrup of citron pills, of each one 
pound. 
Spirit of wine distilled five times over 
five pound. 
Put all these in a glass that is much too 
big to hold them, stop it close that the 
spirit fly not out, then shake it together 
that the Electuary may be well mingled 
with the spirit, so let it stand a month, 
shaking it together twice a week (for the 
Electuary wil settle to the bottom.) The 
month being ended powr off the clear wa- 
ter into another glass to be kept for your 
use, stopping it very close with wax and 
parchment, else the strength will easily 
fly away in vapors. 
Culpeper. Mathiolus is very large in 
commendation of this very Water, 
for (quoth he) four drams (that is 
half an ounce) of this water being 
taken, either by it self, or in the like 
quantity of good Wine, or any other 
cordial water, so absolutely and spee- 
dily cureth the bitings of any vene- 
mous beasts whatsoever, that al- 
though the danger of death be such, 
that the patient have lost his speech, 
sight, and almost al the rest of his 
senses, yet will he be rouzed up like 
a man out of his sleep to the won- 
derful admiration of the beholders: 
which he saith he hath proved a thou- 
sand times (if it want 900. of it, it 
matters not much, it is but a figure 
called an Hyperbole, which is as much 
as to say in English, an Eloquent lie.) 
It draws away poyson from the heart, 
and cures such as have drunk poy- 
son; it casts poyson out of the sto- 
mach by vomit, and helps such as 
have the Pestilence.
For my own particular part, thus 
much I can say by experience in the 
commendations of it: I have known 
it given in acute, in peracute feavers 
with gallant success, and also in con- 
sumptions; yea, in Hectick, and in 
Galen's supposed incurable Maras- 
mos, (which had it been so, my self 
had not been alive to have written 
this Book) neither hath it missed the 
desired effects; and therefore out 
of question it strengtheneth the heart 
exceedingly, and the spirit vital. It 
helps in the falling-sickness, apople- 
xies and convulsion. And then your 
own Genius will tell you, this is 
fittest for cold complections, cold 
diseases, and such diseases as the 
heart is most afflicted in. It is too 
hot to be taken alone; and half a 
dram is the most may be taken at a 
time. 
Cut a Frog through the middle of 
the back with a knife, and take out 
the Liver, which wrap in a Colewort 
Leaf, and burn it in a new Crucible 
wel stopped; the ashes given to one 
that hath the falling-sickness: if once 
doth not the deed, use it oftener. 
Cinnamon water. 
Colledg. Take of bruised cinnamon a 
pound and an half. 
Spanish wine twelve pints. 
Infuse the cinnamon in the wine twenty 
four hours, then distil them in an Alem-
bick. Draw out three pints of strong 
waters (and smal, as much as you think  
sufficient) sweeten it with Sugar suffici- 
ently, and so keep it for your use.
Culpeper.] The vertues are the 
same that cinnamon it self hath, to 
which I refer you. 
Mathiolus his cinnamon water. 
Colledg. Take of bruised cinnamon 
a pound.
Put it into a glass still, pouring upon 
it four pints of Rose water, a pint and an 
half of Spanish wine; stop the stil body 
close, and place it in a warm bath twenty 
four hours; then put on the still-head, 
lute it wel, and distil it according to art. 
Culpeper.] Mathiolus appoints wine 
of Creet four pints, and that is all the 
alteration. The Authors own Judg- 
ment is, That it strengthens the brain, 
Heart, Liver, Stomach, Lungs, Spleen, 
& nerves, quickens the sight, resisteth 
poyson, helpeth bitings by venemous 
beasts, causeth a sweet breath, bring- 
eth down the terms in women, and 
hath virtue, attenuating, opening, 
digesting, and strengthening. The 
truth is, I beleeve it prevails in cold 
diseases being orderly, taken accor- 
ding to the Nature of the disease, the 
age and strength of the Patient, and 
the season of the year; have a care of 
taking too much of it in Feavers. 
Cinnamon water made by infusion. 
Colledg. Take of cinnamon bruised 
four pound, 
Spirit of wine two pints. 
Infuse them together four daies in a 
large glass close stopped with Cork and 
a bladder, shaking the glass twice a 
day. 
Dissolve half a pound of white Sugar
candy in a quart of Rose water. 
Then mix both these liquors together, 
then put into them four grains of Musk, 
and half a scruple of Amber-greece tied 
up


108 COMPOUND WATERS. 
up in a linnen rag, and hung to the top 
of the glass- 
Culpeper. In my opinion this latter 
water is more prevalent for heart- 
qualms and faintings, than Mathio- 
lus his, neither is it half so hot, there- 
fore more safe. 
Aqua Cælestis. Or, Heavenly water 
of Mathiolus. 
Colledg. Take of Cinnamon an ounce, 
Ginger half an ounce. 
White, red and yellow Sanders, of each 
six drams.
Cloves,  
Galanga, 
Nutmegs, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Mace,
Cubebs, of each one dram. 
Both sorts of Cardamoms 
Nigella seeds, of each three drams. 
Zedoary half an ounce. 
Seeds of Annis, 
Sweet Fennel, 
Wild Parsnips, 
Bazil, of each a dram and an 
half. 
Roots of Angelica, 
Avens, 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Liquoris, 
Valerian the less, 
Leaves of Clary, 
Time, 
Marjoram, of each two drams.
Flowers of Roses,
Sage,
Rosemary, 
Betony, 
Stœchas, 
Bugloss, 
Borrage, of each one dram and 
an half. 
Citron pills, three drams. 
Let the things be bruised that are to be 
bruised, and infused fifteen daies in 
twelve pints of the best spirit of wine in a 
glass body well stopped, and then let it be 
distilled in Balneo Mariæ according to 
art, Adding to the distilled water, 
Pouders of Diambra, 
Diamoscu dulce, 
Aromaticum Rosatum, 
Diamagariton frigidum, 
Diarhodon Abbatis, 
Electuary de Gemmis, of each 
three drams. 
Yellow Sanders bruised two drams. 
Musk, 
Amber-greece, of each a scruple tied 
up in a fine rag: 
Cleer Julip of Roses a pound. 
Shake them well together, stopping the 
glass close with Wax and Parchment, til 
it grow cleer to be kept for your use. 
Culpeper.] It comforteth and che- 
risheth the heart, reviveth drooping 
spirits, prevaileth against the plague
and all malignant feavers, preserveth 
the sences, and restoreth such as are 
in Consumptions. It is of a hot 
Nature. Let not the quantity taken 
at a time exceed half a dram. 
Only take this Caution, both con- 
cerning this, and all other strong wa- 
ters: They are not safely given by 
themselves in Feavers (because by 
their hot quality they inflame the 
blood, and add fuel to the fire (but 
mixed with other convenient Cordi- 
als, and consideration had to the 
strength, complexion, habit, age, and 
sex of the Patient: for my own part, 
I aim sincerely at the publick good 
in writing of this, and therefore as I 
would not have Physitians domineer, 
so I would not have fools turn Physi- 
tians.
They that think the use of the Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it’s so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick
for the Poor. 
Virtues newly added. 
A spoonful or half a spoonful here- 
of is profitably added to pectoral 
juleps, when the Natural faculties 
of the Lungs are very much weak- 
ned. 
Bawm water, the greater composition.  
Colledg. Take of Bawm a pound. 
Time, 
Penyroyal, of each three drams. 
Cinnamon, two drams. 
Cardamoms the less one dram. 
* Grains of Paradice [* And they 
are the greater Cardamoms, as 
most of the Arabian Physitians 
held] half an ounce. 
Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce. 
Nutmegs, 
Ginger, of each a dram. 
Galanga, six drams. 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Cyperus, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Dictami half a dram. 
Let all of them be bruised and infused in 
eight pints of Spanish wine, and six 
pints of strong Ale, for twenty four hours 
together, and then distilled by an Alem- 
bick, draw out of the stronger water 
three pints. 
Culpeper.] The Simples seem chiefly 
appropriated to the Stomach, and 
therefore must needs strengthen cold 
and weak stomachs, and help digesti- 
on: besides Authors say, It restoreth 
memory lost, quickens all the senses, 
keeps away gray hairs and baldness, 
strengtheneth the brain, makes the 
heart cheerful, and helps the lisping 
of the Tongue, easeth the pains of 
the Teeth, and causeth a sweet 
breath. 
Virtues newly added. 
This Water hath a special faculty 
to break wind, to strengthen the Li- 
ver and other bowels and to clear the 
Eye sight. 
Rosa Solis. 
Colledg. Take of Nutmegs, 
Annis seeds, 
Coriander seeds, of each one ounce. 
Galanga, 
Ginger, 
Cloves, of each half an ounce. 
Red Rose leaves one handful. 
Rosasolis six handfuls.
Liquoris two ounces.
Cardamoms, 
Zedoary, 
Grains of Paradice, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each one 
dram. 
Red Sanders,
Cinnamon, of each an ounce and an
half. 
Of the best Aqua vitæ twelve pints. 
Make an infusion of them for eight 
daies then strain it, and add to the Li- 
quor, one pound and an half of Su-
gar.  
Culpeper.] The Basis of this Medi- 
cine, seems to be the Herb Ros-folis, 
which is of a drying and binding 
quality, and appropriated to the 
Lungs, and therefore must needs be 
available for Phtisicks, or Consump- 
tions of the Lungs; and because this 
Herb provokes Lust exceedingly, I 
suppose therefore the Rose leaves 
were added, which according to 
* Authors [* Schol. Saler.] resist
Lust. 
Dr. Stephens Water. 
Colledg. Take of Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Galanga, 
Cloves, 
Nutmegs, 
Grains of Paradise, 
Seeds of Annis, 
Fennel, 
Caraway, of each one dram. 
Herbs of Time, 
Mother of time,
Mints, 
Sage, 
Penyroyal, 
Pellitory of the Wall, 
Rosemary, 
Flowers of red Roses, 
Chamomel, 
Origanum, 
Lavender, of each one handful. 
Infuse them twelve hours in twelve 
pints of Gascoign wine, then with an 
Alembick, draw three pints of strong 
water from it. 
Culpeper.


109 TINCTURES. 
Culpeper.] Authors hold it profi- 
table for women in labor, that it pro- 
vokes the terms, and brings away the 
after-birth. 
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians, let them read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Rive- 
rius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslingus, 
Sennertus, and Physick for the Poor. 
Vertues newly added. 
It strengthens the Brain, Eyes, and 
Stomach, and expels wind and U- 
rine. 
Ordinary Aqua vitæ.
Colledg.] Distill Ale and Lees of 
Wine in an Alembick (whose worm runs 
through cold water) into smal Wine, in 
ten gallons of which infuse one pound of 
bruised Annis seeds, for twenty four 
hours, then distil it again into strong 
water. 
Compound Aqua vitæ. 
Colledg.] Is made of smal Wines, 
in six gallons of which, infuse 
Seeds of Annis half a pound. 
Fennel, 
Caraway, of each two ounces. 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, of each one ounce.  
And then draw the strong spirit from it. 
Culpeper.] This is excellent good 
in my opinion for such as are trou- 
bled with wind. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is of the same faculties with 
the former. A spoonful maybe ta- 
ken alone, or mingled with common 
Mint water.
Usquebath. 
Colledg.] Take of strong Aqua vi- 
tæ twenty four pints.
In which, for four daies infuse a pound 
of Liquoris. 
Raisons of the Sun half a pound. 
Cloves half an ounce. 
Mace, 
Ginger, of each two drams. 
Strain it and keep it for your use. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the sto- 
mach, and helps indigestion coming 
of flegm and cold. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for Diseases of the 
chest mingled with Hysop and Colts- 
foot waters.
TINCTURES. 
Tinctura Croci. Pag. 41. Lat. Or, 
Tincture of Saffron. 
Col. TAke Saffron two drams. 
Treacle Water eight oun- 
ces.
Digest them six daies, then strain it. 
Culpeper.] See the Vertues of 
Treacle Water, and then know that 
this strengthens the heart somthing 
more, and keeps melancholy vapors 
thence, by drinking a spoonful of it 
every morning. 
Tinctura Castorii. Pag. 41. Lat. Or, 
Tincture of castorium. 
Colledg.] Take of Castorium in 
pouder half an ounce. 
Spirit of castorium half a pound. 
Digest them ten daies cold. Strain it, 
and keep the Liquor for Tincture. 
Culpeper.] ’Tis somthing more 
prevalent than the Spirit. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of the same use with Spirit of 
castorium aforesaid, but more effe- 
ctual.
Tinctura Fragrorum. Pag. 4l. L. Or, 
Tincture of Strawberries. 
Colledg.] Take of ripe Wood-straw- 
berries two pound: Put them in a 
Phial, and put so much smal spirit 
of wine to them that it may overtop 
them the thickness of four fingers;   
stop the vessel close, and set it in the 
sun two daies, then strain it and press 
it but gently; powr this spirit to as 
many fresh Strawberries, repeat this 
six times, at last keep the cleer Li- 
quor for your use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This allaies the boyling heat of 
the blood, represses vapors ascend- 
ing into the brain, strengthens the 
Liver, and helps those that sleep un- 
quietly. A spoonful or two may be 
given by it self, or an ounce or two 
in altering Juleps.
Tinctura Scordii. Pag. 41. Lat. Or, 
Tincture of Scordium. 
Colledg.] Take of the leaves of Scor- 
dium gathered in a dry time half a 
pound. 
Digest them in six pound of smal spirit of 
wine, in a vessel well stopped for three 
daies; press them out gently, and repeat 
the infusion three times, and keep the 
clarified liquor for use. 
So is made Tincture of 
Sullendine, 
Rest-harrow, 
Ros-solis. 
Culpeper.] See the Herbs for the 
Vertues, and then take notice that 
these are better for cold stomachs, 
old bodies.  
Vertues newly added. 
It ts good in malignant and pesti- 
lential and venemous diseases. 
Tinctura Theriacalis, vulgo, Aqua
Theriacalis Lugd. per infus. P. 41. L.
Or, Tincture of Treacle. 
Colledg.] Take of Canary wine often 
times distilled, 
Vinegar in which half an ounce of 
Rue seeds have been boyled, two 
pound. 
Choice Treacle, 
The best Methridate, of each half a 
pound. 
Mix them, and set them in the sun, or 
heat of a bath, digest them, and keep 
the water for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This partakes the Vertues of Trea- 
cle, Mithridate, and Treacle Water. 
It is good in all venemous, pestilen- 
tial, Venereal Diseases, being seaso- 
nably administred. 
Tinctura Cinnamomi, vulgo, Aqua 
Clareta cinnam. P. 42. L. Or, Tin- 
cture of Cinnamon. 
Colledg.] Take of bruised cinnamon 
two ounces.
Rectified spirit of wine two pound. 
Infuse them four daies in a large glass 
stopped with cork and bladder, shake it 
twice a day; then dissolve half a pound 
of Sugar candy by it self in two pound of 
Rose water. Mix both Liquors, into 
which hang a Nodule containing 
Ambergreece half a scruple. 
Musk four grains. 
Culpeper.] This was before a- 
mongst the Waters, only there is 
four ounces of cinnamon appointed,
and here but two. 
Vertues newly added. 
This hath the Vertues of Cinna- 
mon water aforesaid. It strengthens 
the brain, stomach, Liver, and womb, 
and is good for such as incline to the 
cachexia, dropsie, scurvy, being al- 
laied with fennel and scurvigrass wa-
ter. 
Cc Tinctura


110 PHYSICAL WINES. 
Tinctura Viridis. Pag. 42. Lat. Or, 
A green Tincture. 
Colledg.] Take of Verdegreece half 
an ounce. 
Auripigmentum six drams. 
Allum three drams. 
Boyl them in a pound of white wine till 
half be consumed, adding after it is cold, 
the water of red Roses, and Nightshade, 
of each six ounces.
Culpeper.] This was made to clense 
ulcers, but I fancy it not. 
Aqua Aluminosa Magistralis.
Page 42. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take water of 
Plantane, 
red Roses, of each one pound. 
Roch Allum, and 
Sublimatum, of each two drams. 
Let the Allum, and Sublimatum being 
in Pouder boyl in the waters, in a vessel 
with a narrow mouth till half be consu- 
med; when it hath stood five daies, 
strain it. 
Vertues newly added. 
These seem invented to clense and 
correct the virulency of Ulcers, espe- 
cially such as are malignant and Ve- 
nereal.
Physical Wines. 
Vinum Absinthites. Pag. 43. Lat. Or, 
Wormwood Wine. 
Col. 
TAke a handful of dried  
Wormwood for every gal- 
lon of Wine; stop it in a Vessel close,
and so let it remain in sleep. 
So is prepared wine of Rosemary flow- 
ers, and Eyebright. 
Culpeper.] It helps cold stomachs, 
breaks wind, helps the wind cholick, 
strengthens the stomach, kils worms,  
and helps the green sickness.   
Rosemary-flower Wine is made af-  
ter the same manner that Wormwood 
wine is made. It is good against all 
cold Diseases of the head, consumeth 
flegm, strengtheneth the Gums and
Teeth.
Eyebright Wine is made after the 
same manner. It wonderfully cleers 
the sight being drunk, and revives 
the sight of ancient men: A cup of 
it in the morning, is worth a pair of 
Spectacles. 
All other Wines are prepared in 
the same manner, when the Physiti- 
an shal see fit. View the vertues of 
the simple the Wine is made of, and  
then know the wine of that simple is 
far better and fitter for cold bodies, 
and weak stomachs, than the simple 
it self. 
The best way of taking any of these 
Wines is, To drink a draught of them 
every morning. You may, if you 
find your body old or cold, make 
wine of any other Herb, the vertues 
of which you desire; and make it 
and take it in the same manner. 
Such as would cure all Diseases, let 
them read these books of mine, of the 
last Edition, viz. Riverius, Johnston, 
Riolanus, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor. 
Vertues newly added. 
It hath the same vertues with Worm- 
wood, and spirit or water of Worm- 
wood formerly described. A cup 
may be taken before meat to procure 
appetite. It prevents the dropsie 
and cachexia, being frequently u- 
sed. 
Vinum Cerasorum Nigrorum. P. 43. L. 
Or, Wine of Black Cherries.
Colledg. Take a gallon of juyce of 
black cherries, keep it in a vessel close 
stopped till it begin to work, then filter it, 
and an ounce of Sugar being added to e- 
very pound, let it pass through Hippo- 
crates his sleeve, and keep it in a vessel 
close stopped for use.
Vertues newly added. 
This is called Black-cherry Wine, 
because made of the juyce thereof, as 
Wine is of the juyce of Grapes. 
Therefore there is no more need of 
Wine to make this Medicameut than 
there is of Mr. Culpeper his cavil a- 
gainst the Colledg for adding none. 
It is good against Epilepsies and 
convulsion fits in children or others, 
a spoonful or two being taken in the 
morning fasting, and at four a clock 
in the afternoon by way of preventi- 
on, and a spoonful two or three up- 
on the approach of the fit, with Peo- 
ny water, and a smal quantity of spi- 
rit of Castoreum aforesaid. 
Vinum Helleboratum. Pag. 43. L. Or, 
Wine Helleborated. 
Colledg] Take of white Hellebore cut 
smal, four ounces. 
Spanish Wine two pound. 
Steep it in the sun in a Phial close stop- 
ped, in the Dog daies, or other hot wea- 
ther. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is only for strong bodies, to 
purge by vomit in case of Epilepsies 
in grown persons, old Melancholies 
and Madness thereof arising, and for 
Green-sickness maidens of a strong 
Nature. Half a spoonful may be 
given with an ounce of Oxymel sim- 
ple, half an ounce of syrup of Marsh-
mallows, and an ounce of Walnut 
water aforesaid. But white Helle- 
bore being a most violent and dan- 
gerous Medicament, it is good to be 
very wary in the use hereof. Yet as 
Hippocrates saies, strong Diseases re- 
quire strong Medicaments. 
Vinum Rubellum. Pag. 43. Lat. Or,
Vomiting Claret.
Colledg.] Take of Stibium in pouder 
one ounce. 
Cloves sliced two drams. 
Claret Wine two pound. 
Keep it in a Phial close shut. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is useful in all cases in which 
Vomits are required, especially in 
Agues. It is, though not compara- 
ble to the former for churlishness, yet 
a strong Medicameent. 
Vinum Benedictum. Page 43. Latin. 
Or the Infusion of Crocus 
Metallorum. 
Colledg.] Take of Crocus Metal-
lorum in pouder one ounce. 
Mace one dram. 
Spanish wine one pound and an 
half: steep it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is a Vomiting Wine also, but 
more gentle, civil, and safe than the 
two former. It hath al the vertues of 
Antimony, & is a good vomiting Me- 
dicament upon al occasions, the Dose 
is from half an ounce to six drams, an 
ounce, and in strong bodies one 
ounce and half, with half an ounce 
of Oxymel simple, or of Squils, or 
Syrup of Lemmons. 
Vinum Antimoniale. Pag. 43. L. Or, 
Antimonial Wine. 
Colledg.] Take of Regulus of An- 
timony in pouder four ounces. Steep it 
in three pound of white Wine in a glass
well stopped, after the first shaking let 
the Regulus settle. 
Culpeper.] These three last men- 
tioned are Vomits, and Vomits are 
fitting Medicines for but a few, as I
told you before, the mouth being 
ordained to take in nourishment,
not to cast out excrements, and to 
regulate a mans body in vomiting; 
and Doses of Vomits require a dee- 
per study in Physick, than I doubt the 
generality of people yet have: I o- 
mit it therefore at this time, not be- 
cause I grutch it my Country, but 
because I would not willingly have 
them do themselves a mischief, I 
shal shorty teach them in what Dis-
eases 


111 PHYSICAL VINEGARS. 
eases vomits may be used, and then, 
and not til then, the use of vomits, 
Virtues newly added.
This is made of that whereof they 
so much famed Antimonial * Cups 
are made off; and it performes all 
that the said Cups can do, which is 
sufficiently declared in printed Pa- 
pers of that subject and lately in the 
weekly news Books. The dose is 
about an ounce, little more or less, 
after the same manner as hath been 
said of the Vinum Benedictum or in- 
fusion of Crocus Metallorum.
* The Vertues that the Antimonial Cup 
is said to have [which may be better 
performed by this Antimo-
nial Wine. 
It emptieth the Stomach of all evil 
humors, the Liver of Choler, the 
Spleen of Melancholy, the Head and 
Pectoral parts from Rheums, Distil- 
lations, and tough Flegm. It cur- 
eth Agues, Feavers, swimming in 
the Head, Madness, and the Palsie. 
It cureth Morbus Gallicus, the Run- 
ning of the Reins, the Kings Evil, 
with all Ulcerous Sores and Fistula’s. 
It cureth perfectly the Falling-sick- 
ness, all Convulsions, and Cramps. 
It cureth perfectly the Gout, the 
Stone, Sciatica and Lameness. It 
cureth perfectly Dropsies, asswag- 
eth pains of the Bones, Nerves, and 
destroyeth Worms. It purifieth blood 
and restoreth Appetite lost. It cur- 
eth the Green-sickness, and all Ob- 
structions, restoreth from Consump- 
tions, and increaseth and preserveth 
Natural vigor. It cleareth the sight, 
consumeth the Web or Pearl, and 
dissolveth congealed Blood. It cur- 
eth the Whites, the Bloody Flux, and 
griping pains in the Guts, and is 
found by dayly experience, to be a 
most Soveraign Remedy against Ma- 
lignant Feavers. It is safe and with- 
out danger, and never loseth nor 
diminisheth its Virtues.
Vinum Scilliticum. Page 44. Latin. 
Or, Wine of Squils. 
Colledg, Take of a white Squil of the 
mountains, gathered about the 
rising of the Dog Star, cut in thin 
pieces, and dried for a month, one 
pound: put it in a glass bottle, 
and power to it eight pound of 
French Wine, and when it hath 
stood so four daies, take out the 
Squil. 
Culpeper.] The virtues of this are 
the same with Vinegar of Squils, 
only ’tis hotter. 
Physical Vinegars. 
Acetum Distillatum. Page 45. Latin. 
Or, Distilled Vinegar. 
Colledg.
Fill a Glass or stone Alem- 
bick with the best Vinegar 
to the third part, separate the Flegm 
with a gentle fire, then encrease the fire 
by degrees, and perform the work. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is rather used as a menstruum 
in Chymical extractions and prepa- 
rations then otherwise and of it self. 
It makes thin, cuts, Discusses, re- 
presses, cooles, and in some measure 
heates. It hath all the faculties of 
Vinegar, but more intense, and more 
heating. 
Acetum Rosatum. Page 45. Latin. Or, 
Rose Vinegar. 
Colledg. Take of red Rose buds ga- 
thered in a dry time, the white cut 
off, dried in the shadow three or 
four daies, one pound; Vinegar 
eight Sextaries: set them in the 
Sun fourty daies, then strain out 
the Roses, and repeat the infusion 
with fresh ones.
After the same manner is made Vi- 
negar of Elder flowers. 
Rosemary flowers. 
Clove-gilli-flowers.
Culpeper: For the vertues of all 
Vinegars, take this one only obser- 
vation, They carry the same vertues 
with the flowers whereof they are 
made, only as we said of Wines, that 
they were better for cold Bodies than 
the bare simples whereof they are 
made; so are Vinegars for hot Bodies. 
Besides, Vinegars are often, Nay, most 
commonly used externally, viz. to 
bath the place, then look amongst the 
Simples, and see what place of the 
Body the simple is appropriated to, 
and then you cannot chuse but know 
(if you have but a grain of under- 
standing, more than a beast) both 
what Vinegar to use, and to what 
place to apply it.
Acetum Scilliticum. Page 45. Latin. 
Or, Vinegar of Squils. 
Colledg. Take of that part of the 
Squil which is between the outward 
bark and the bottom, cut it in thin 
slices, and place it thirty or fourty  
daies in the Sun of some remiss 
heat, then a pound of them (being 
cut smal with a Knife made of 
Ivory or some white wood) being  
put in a vessel, and six pound of 
Vinegar put to them; set the ves- 
sel being close stopped in the Sun 
thirty or fourty daies, afterwards 
strain it, and keep it for use.  
Culpeper.] A little of this Medi- 
cine being taken in the morning fa- 
sting, and walking half an hour after, 
preserves the body in health, to ex- 
tream old age (as Sanius tried, who 
using no other Medicine but this, 
lived in perfect health til one hun- 
dred and seventeen years of age) it 
maketh the digestion good, a long 
wind, a cleer voyce, an acute sight, 
a good color, it suffers no offensive 
thing to remain in the Body, neither 
wind, flegm, choller, melancholly, 
dung, nor urine, but brings them 
forth; it brings forth filth though it 
lie in the bones, it takes away salt 
and sowr belchings, though a man be 
never so * licentious in diet, [* I 
would not have Galen’s Judgment tried 
in this particular, it is far safer to take it 
upon his word] he shal feel no harm: 
It hath cured such as have the Phti- 
sick, that have been given over by al 
Physitians: It cures such as have the 
Falling-sickness, Gout, and diseases 
and swellings of the Joynts; It takes 
away the hardness of the Liver and 
Spleen. We should never have done 
if we should reckon up the particular 
benefits of this Medicine: Therefore 
we commend it as a wholsom Medi- 
cine for soundness of Body, preser- 
vation of health, and vigor of mind. 
Thus Galen. 
Acetum Theriacale, Norimberg. Page 
46. Latin. Or, Treacle Vinegar. 
Colledg. Take of the roots of Sullen- 
dine the greater, one ounce and an 
half. 
Roots of Angellica, 
Masterwort,
Gentian,   
Bistort, 
Valerian, 
Burnet,   
White Dittany, 
Alicampance,
Zedoary, of each one dram. 
Plantane the greater one dram 
and an half. 
Leaves of Mousear, 
Sage,
Scabius, 
Scordium, 
Dittany of Creet, 
Cardus, of each half a handful. 
Bark and seeds of Citrons, of each
half a dram. 
Bole-Armenich, one dram. 
Saffron three drams.  
Harts-horn, one dram and an half. 
Of these let the Saffron, Harts-horn, 
Dittany, and Bole, be tied up in a
ragge, and steeped with the things be-  
fore mentioned, in five pints of Vinegar, 
for certain daies by a temperate heat in a 
glass


112 DECOCTIONS. 
glass well stopped, strain it, and add six 
drams of the best Treacle to it, shake it 
together, and keep it for your use. 
Acetum Theriacale. Pag. 46. Latin. 
Or, Treacle Vinegar. 
Colledg.] Add to the description 
of Treacle water, Clove-gilliflowers two 
ounces, Lavender flowers an ounce and 
an half, Rose and Elder-flower Vine- 
gar, of each four pound: digest it with- 
out boyling three daies, then strain it 
through Hippocrates his sleeve.
Culpeper.] See Treacle Water for 
the vertues, only this is more cool. 
Vertues newly added. 
It hath the same faculty with Trea- 
cle Water, but it pierces more, and 
is therefore in some respects more ef- 
fectual, and in pestilential Diseases 
joyned with great heat and gross hu- 
mors, more proper. 
Those that would give help against 
al Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, 
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor.
DECOCTIONS.
Decoctum commune pro clystere. Page
47. Lat. Or, a common Deco-
ction for a clyster.
Colledg.] Take of Mallows,
Violets,
Pellitory,
Beets,
Mercury,
Chamomel flowers, of each one hand-
ful.
Sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce.
Lin-seeds two drams.
Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of
common water to a pound.
Culpeper.] This is the common
Decoction for all clysters, according
to the quality of the humor abound-
ing. so you may add what Simples,
or Syrups, or Electuaries you please;
only half a score Lin-seeds, and a 
handful of chamomel flowers are ad-
ded.
Virtues newly added.
This softens the excrements of the 
belly, makes the Guts slippery, and
tempers the body being heated
through costiveness. It is the foun-
dation of most ordinary clysters, o-
ther Medicaments being super-added
as the case requires.
Decoctum Epithymi. Pag. 47. L. Or, 
a Decoction of Epithimum. 
Colledg] Take of Myrobalans 
Chebs and 
Inds, of each half an ounce. 
Stœchas, 
Raisons of the sun stoned, 
Epithimum, 
Senna, of each one ounce. 
Fumitory half an ounce. 
Maudlin five drams. 
Polipodium six drams. 
Turbith half an ounce. 
Whey made with Goats milk, or 
Heifers milk, four pound. 
Let them all boyl to two pound, the Epi- 
thimum excepted, which boyl but a 
walm or two; then take it from the fire, 
and add 
Black Hellebore one dram and an 
half. 
Agrick half a dram. 
Sal. gem. one dram and an half. 
Steep them ten hours, then press it 
strongly out. 
Culpeper.] Here is half a dram of 
black Hellebore added, and I like 
the Receipt never the better for 
that. 
It purgeth Melancholy gallantly, 
as also adust choler, it resisteth mad- 
ness, and al Diseases coming of Me- 
lancholy, and therefore let melan- 
choly people esteem it as a Jewel.
I cannot but commend it to such 
of my Country-men as abound with 
Melancholy humors: Let them take 
a quarter of a pint of this in the mor- 
ning, and keep by the fire side all 
day; imagine they take it at six of 
the clock, then let them drink a 
draught of posset-drink at eight, and 
eat a bit of hot Mutton at twelve, if 
their bodies be strong (for people 
oppressed with melancholy, usually 
go hardly to stool, by reason it is a 
retentive humor) Let them mix 
those Syrups (which I shal quote 
when I come to them) with it, and 
I dare hazard that smal credit I have 
in Physick, that it shal in a few mor- 
nings fetch them out of their melan- 
choly dumps, which though they 
may seem pleasing, yet are no way 
profitable to the body of man, espe- 
cially if the body be troubled also 
with [ill Humors] I know not what 
better word to give [Cacochymia.] 
Vertues newly added. 
Why the addition of half a dram 
of black Hellebore to this Medica- 
ment by the Colledg (as it seems) 
should be blamed by Culpeper, I see 
not, being assured that black Helle- 
bore is but a slow purger, though a 
sure Remedy in Melancholick ca- 
ses.
This Medicament deserves the 
commendations given it. Yet it is 
distastful to drink down, and I think
I have observed this property there- 
in; That it purgeth but little, and 
yet weakens much. 
Decoctum Sennæ Gereonis. Pag. 37. L. 
Or, Dr. Gereo his Deco- 
ction of Senna.  
Colledg.] Take of Senna two ounces. 
Polypodium half an ounce. 
Ginger one dram. 
Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces. 
Sebestens, 
Prunes, of each twelve. 
Flowers of Borrage, 
Violets, 
Roses, 
Rosemary, of each two drams. 
Boyl them in four pound of water till 
half be consumed. 
Culpeper.] It is a common Deco- 
ction for any purge, by adding other
simples or compounds to it, accor- 
ding to the quality of the humor you 
would have purged, yet in its self, it 
chiefly purgeth Melancholy. I shall 
quote it when I come at such Com- 
pounds as are fit to mix with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an elegant composed 
and well tasted Decoction, fit to 
make the Basis of a Purge in Melan- 
cholick Bodies, and Diseases. 
Decoctum Pectorale. Pag. 48. Lat.
Or, A Pectoral Decoction.
Colledg.] Take of Raisons of the sun
stoned an ounce.
Sebestens,
Jujubes, of each fifteen.
Dates six.
Figs four.
French Barly one ounce.
Liquoris half an ounce.
Maidenhair,
Hysop,
Scabious,
Coltsfoot, of each one handful.
Boyl them in three pound of Water till
two remain.
Culpeper.] The Medicine is chief-
ly appropriated to the Lungs, and
therefore causeth a cleer voyce, a
long wind, resisteth coughs, hoars-
ness, Asthmaes, &c. You may drink
a quarter of a pint of it every morn-
ing, without keeping any Diet, for
it purgeth not.
I shal quote some Syrups fitting to 
be mixed with it, when I come to the
Syrups.
Vertues newly added.
This is a fine Decoction and well
tasted, and is the foundation of Pe-
ctoral Juleps in Diseases of the chest
proceeding from undigested Rhewm
and flegm.
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113 DECOCTIONS. 
Decoctum Traumaticum. Pag. 48. Latin. 
Or, the Decoctions for woun- 
ded Persons. 
Colledg. Take of Ægrimony, 
Mugwort, 
Wild Angelica, 
St. Johns wort, 
Mousear, of each two handfuls. 
Wormwood, half a handful. 
Southernwood, 
Betony, 
Bugloss,
Comfry the greater and lesser, Roots 
and all.
Avens, 
Barberries buds, 
Oak buds, of each a handful. 
All these being gathered in May and 
June and dilligently dried, let them be 
cut and put up in skins or papers against 
the time of use. Then, 
Take of the fore named Herbs three 
handfuls, 
Boyl them in four pound of Conduit 
water and two pound of white wine gent- 
ly till half be consumed, strain it, and a 
pound of Honey being added to it, let it 
be scummed and kept for use. 
Culpeper.] They that think the use 
of these Medicines is too brief, (its 
so only for cheapness of the Book) 
Let them read these Books, of the last 
Edition, viz. Riverius, Riolanus,
Johnston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor. 
Vertues newly added.
This drink was invented for woun- 
ded persons to drink, that the hea- 
ling of their wounds might be there 
by furthered; and it is effectual to 
that Intent. It will also further the 
Cure of Ulcers. And it must needs 
be very good for Consumptions of 
the Lungs and spitting of blood. 
Also for Malignant Dysenteries and 
Gonorrhea’s, after due purgation. 
The dose may be three or four oun- 
ces in the morning fasting, and as 
much at four in the after noone.
Some Decoctions they 
have left out in their new 
Model, which are these 
that follow. 
Colledg.] 
TAke of the * Seeds 
* [You must bruise
the seeds, else the Decoction 
will be but little the better for 
them] of Annis.
Carrots,
Fennel, 
Cummin, 
Caraway, of each three drams. 
Camomel flowers half a handful. 
Raisons of the Sun an ounce and an 
half. 
Boyl them in two pints of Water til 
almost half be consumed.
Culpeper. It is commonly used in 
Clysters, to such whose bodies are 
molested or oppressed with wind, 
these seeds being added to the former 
Decoction. 
A decoction of Flowers and Fruits. 
Colledg.] Take five Figs, 
Fifteen Prunes, 
Jujubes, 
Sebestens, of each twenty. 
Tamarinds, an ounce. 
Flowers of Roses, 
Violets, 
Borrage, 
Bugloss, of each a dram. 
Maidenhair, 
Hops, 
Endive, of each half an handful. 
Liquoris, two drams. 
Being cut and bruised, boyl them in three 
pints of spring water to the Consumption 
of the third part
Culpeper. It strengthens the Lungs, 
and helps Obstruction. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Decoction is a basis many 
times for purges given in Diseases of 
the Chest and Lungs; also for purges 
of sharpe Humors and such as are 
ordered in hot bodies and hot Dis- 
eases To four or six ounces hereof, 
a fitting quantity of some purgeing 
Electuaries or Syrups or both is ad- 
ded, and so a purge is made.
Lac Virgineum. 
Colledg. Take of Allum four ounces. 
Boyl it in a quart of spring water, to 
the third part: Afterwards 
Take of * Litharge [* Beaten into 
very fine Pouder] half a pound. 
White wine Vinegar a pint and an 
half. 
Boyl it to a pint, strain both the waters 
then mix them together, and stir them 
about till they are white. 
Culpeper. It takes away Pimples,
redness, freckles and sunburning, the
face being washed with it. 
A Drink for wounded men. 
Colledg. Take of Crabs of the River 
calcined, and beaten into very fine
pouder, two drams. 
Roots of round Birthwort, 
Comfry the greater, 
Self-heal, 
Bay-berries lightly bruised, of 
each one dram. 
Tie them all up in a linnen cloath, and 
boyl them in three pints of white wine till 
the third part be consumed, adding about 
the middle of the Decoction, one pugil 
of * Peretwinkle, [* The Herb not 
the Fish.] then strain it for your use 
This Decoction must be prepared only 
for the present when the Physitian ap- 
points it, as also must almost all the rest 
of the Decoctions. 
Culpeper. And therefore lest my 
poor wounded Country men should 
perish for want of an Angel to see a 
* Physitian, [* Too many Physiti- 
ans in England being like Balaams 
Asse, they will not speak unless they 
see an Angel: yet I accuse not all.]  
or if he have it, before the Physitian, 
(which in some places is very re- 
mote) can come at him; I have taken 
the pains to write the Receipt in his 
own Mother Toung; he may get any 
friend to make it: He may drink half 
a pint of it in the morning; or if he 
please to boyl it in smal Ale instead 
of wine; he would be wel the sooner 
if he drink no other drink. 
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians. Let them read those Books 
of mine, of the last Edition, viz. 
Riverius Riolanus, Johnston, Ve- 
slingus, Sennertus, and Physick for the
Poor. 
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114 SYRUPS. 
SYRUPS. 
ALTERING SYRUPS. 
Culpeper.
REader, Before we begin with the Particular Syrups, I think good to ad- 
vertise thee of these few things, which concern the Nature, Making, and 
use of Syrups in General. 1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body, Compounded of 
Decoction, Infusion, or Juyce, with Sugar or Honey, and brought by the heat of the fire, 
into the thickness of Honey. 2. Because all Honey is not of a thickness, understand new 
Honey, which of all other is thinness. 3. The Reason why Decoctions, Infusions, and 
Juyces, are thus used, is Because thereby, First, They will keep the longer. Secondly, They 
will tast the better. 4. In boyling Syrups have a great care of their just consistance, for if 
you boyl them too much they will candy, if too little, they will sour. 5. All Simple Syrups 
have the vertues of the Simples they are made of, and are far more convenient for weak people 
and queazie stomachs. 
Syrupus de Absinthio simplex. Page 49. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Worm- 
wood, Simple.
Colledg. 
TAKE of the clari- 
fied JUYCE of com- 
mon Wormwood. 
Clarified Sugar, of each four pound. 
Make it into a syrup according to Art. 
After the same manner, are prepared 
simple Syrups. 
Of Juyce of Betony, 
Borrage,
Bugloss, 
Cardus, 
Chamomel, 
Succory, 
Endive, 
Hedg-mustard, 
Straw-berries, 
Fumitory. 
Ground Ivy, 
Saint Johns-wort,
Hops,
Mercury, 
Mousear, 
Plantane,
Apples, 
Purslain, 
Rasberries, 
Sage, 
Scabious, 
Stordium, 
Housleek, 
Coltsfoot, 
Pauls Betony, 
And other Juyces not sour. 
Culpeper.] See the Simples, and 
then you may easily know, both their 
Vertues, and also that they are plea- 
santer and fitter for delicate Sto- 
machs when they are made into Sy- 
rups. 
Syrupus de Absinthio compositus. Pag. 49
Latin. Or, Syrup of Worm- 
wood, Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of common Wormwood 
meanly dry, half a pound. 
Red Roses two ounces.   
Indian spick nard three drams. 
Old white wine, 
Juyce of Quinces, of each two pound 
and an half. 
Steep them a whol day in an Earthen 
vessel, then boyl them gently, and strain 
it, and by adding two pound of Sugar, 
boyl it into a Syrup according to art.
Culpeper.] Mesue is followed ver- 
batim in this; and the Receipt is 
appropriated to cold and flegmatick
Stomachs, and in my opinion ’tis an 
admirable Remedy for it; for it 
strengthens both Stomach and Liver, 
as also the instruments of Concocti- 
on: a spoonful taken in the morning 
is admirable for such as have a weak 
digestion, it provokes an appetite to 
ones victuals, it prevails aginst the 
yellow Jaundice, breaks wind, purg- 
eth humors by Urin. It was Roman 
Worm-wood before, and so Mesue 
hath it. 
Syrupus Acetosus simplex. Page 50. L 
Syrup of Vinegar simple.
Colledg. Take of cleer water four 
pound. 
White Sugar five pound. 
Boyl them in a glazed vessel over a gen- 
tle fire, scumming it till half the water 
be consumed, then by putting, in two 
pound of Wine Vinegar by degrees, per- 
fect the syrup. 
Culpeper. This is, only melt the 
Sugar with the Vinegar over the fire, 
scum it, but boyl it not. 
Syrupus Acetosus simplicior. Page 50. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Vine- 
gar more simple. 
Colledg. Take of white sugar five 
pound. 
White wine Vinegar two pound. 
By melting it in a Bath, make it into a
syrup. 
Culpeper. Of these two Syrups let 
every one use which he finds by ex- 
perience to be best; the difference is 
but little. I hold the last to be the 
best of the two, and would give my 
reasons for it, but that I fear the 
Book will swel too big: They both 
of them cut flegm, as also tough, 
hard, viscous humors in the stomach; 
they cool the Body, quench thirst, 
provoke Urin, and prepare the Sto- 
mach before the taking of a vomit. If 
you take it as a preparative for a Vo- 
mit, take half an ounce of it when 
you go to bed the night before you 
intend to vomit, it will make you to 
vomit the easier, but if for any of the 
foregoing occasions, take it with a
liquoris stick.  
Syrupus Acetosus compositus. Page 50.
Latin. Or, Syrup of Vinegar 
Compound. 
Colledg. Take of the Roots of smal-
age, 
Fennel, 
Endive, of each three ounces.
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115 SYRUPS.  
Seeds of Annis, 
Samllage, 
Fennel, of each one ounce. 
Endive half an ounce. 
Cleer water six pound. 
Boyl it gently in an Earthen vessel till 
half the water be consumed, then strain 
and clarifie it, and with three pound of 
sugar, and a pound and an half of white 
Wine Vinegar, boyl it into a syrup. 
Culpeper.] This in my opinion is a 
gallant Syrup for such whose Bodies 
are stuffed either with flegm, or 
tough humors, for it opens obstru- 
ions or stoppings both of the Sto- 
mach Liver, Spleen, and Reins; it 
cuts and brings away tough flegm 
and choller, and is therefore a special 
remedy for such as have a stuffing at 
their Stomach. Mesue prescribes 
ten pints of water, and a quart of 
Vinegar; let every one use which 
Dr. Experience tels him is best.
Syrupus de Agno Casto. Page 50. Lat. 
Or, Syrup of Agnus Castus. 
Colledg. Take of the seeds of Rue. 
Hemp, of each half a dram. 
Seeds of Endive, 
Lettice, 
Purslain, 
Guords, 
Melons, of each two drams. 
Fleawort, half an ounce.
Agnus Castus, four ounces. 
Flowers of Water Lillies, 
Leaves of Mints, of each half a hand- 
ful.
Decoction of seeds of Lentils, 
Coriander seeds, of each half an 
ounce, 
Three pound, boyl them all over a gen- 
tle fire till two pound be consumed. 
Add to the residue being strained two 
ounces of juyce of Lemmons. 
A pound and an half of white Su- 
gar. 
Make it into a syrup according to art 
Virtues newly added.
This Syrupe is designed to allay 
fleshy lust by cooling, quenching and 
consuming the seed; and it is very 
good for such are desire, to live chast- 
ly and enjoy the happyness of a sin- 
gle life without vexation and scan- 
dal. It is good for such widdowes 
or Maids as are vexed with the furor 
uterinus, or madness arising from 
heat of the Womb and genital parts 
and acrimony of the seed. It is also 
good for such as are subject to spit 
blood and bleed much at the Nose, 
and for defluctions of thin salt and 
hot Rheums and the Whites. An 
ounce may be taken at a time in Let- 
tuce or Purslain water in the mor- 
ning and at four a clock in the after- 
noon. 
Syrupus de Althæa. Page 51. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Marsh-mallows. 
Colledg.] Take of Roots of Marsh- 
mallows, two ounces.  
Roots of Grass sparagus, 
Liquoris, 
Raisons of the Sun stoned, of each half 
an ounce. 
Tops of Mallows,
Marsh-mallows, 
Pellitory of the wall,
Burnet,
Plantane 
Maiden-hair, white and black, of 
each a handful. 
Red Cicers an ounce. 
Of the * four greater and four lesser
cold seeds, of each three drams. 
Boyl them in six 
pound of cleer water 
til four remain, which 
being strained, boyl 
into a Syrup with  
four pound of white  
Sugar. 
* What they are
see at the end of
the Simples, and
before the Com-
pounds in this
Book.
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling, 
opening, slippery syrup, and chiefly 
commendable for the cholick, stone, 
or gravel in the kidnies or bladder. 
I shall only give you a Caution 
or two concerning this syrup, which 
for the forenamed effects, I hold to 
be excellent: 1. Be sure you boyl it 
enough, for if you boyl it never so 
little too little, it will quickly be 
sowr. 2. For the cholick (which is 
nothing else but an infirmity in the 
Gut called Colon, and thence it takes 
its name) you had best use it in cly- 
sters, but for gravel or the stone, 
drink it in convenient Medicines, or 
by it self; if both of them afflict you 
use it both waies: I assure you, this 
Medicine wil save those that are sub- 
ject to such diseases, both mony and 
misery.
Syrupus de Ammoniaco. 51. Or, 
Syrup of Ammoniacum. 
Colledg.] Take of Maudlins, 
Cetrach, of each four handfuls. 
Common Wormwood an ounce. 
Roots of Succory, 
Sparagus, 
Bark of Capar roots, of each two 
ounces. 
After due preparation steep them twen- 
ty four hours 
in three ounces of white Wine. 
Water of Radishes, 
Fumitory Water, of each two pound. 
Then boyl it away to one pound eight 
ounces, let it settle:
In four ounces of which whilst it is 
warm, dissolve by it self 
Gum ammoniacum, first dissolved in 
white Wine Vinegar, two ounces. 
Boyl the rest with a pound and an half 
of white Sugar into a Syrup, adding the 
mixtures of the Gum at the end. 
Culpeper.] It cools the Liver, and 
opens obstructions both of it and the 
Spleen, helps old Sursets, and such 
like Diseases, as Scabs, Itch, Lepro- 
sie, and what else proceed from the 
Liver over heated. You may take 
an ounce at a time. 
Syrupus de Artemisia. Page 51. Lat. 
Or, Syrup of Mugwort. 
Colledg.] Take of Mugwort two 
handfuls. 
Penyroyal, 
Calominth,
Origanum, 
Bawm, 
Arsmart, 
Dittany of Creet,
Savin, 
Marjoram, 
Germander, 
St. Johns-wort, 
Camepitis, 
Featherfew with the flowers,
Centaury the less,
Rue, 
Bettony, 
Bugloss, of each a handful. 
Roots of Fennel,
Smallage, 
Parsly, 
Sparagus, 
Bruscus, 
Saxifrage, 
Alicampane, 
Cyperus, 
Maddir, 
Orris, 
Peony, of each an ounce.
Juniper berries,
Seeds of Lovage, 
Parsly, 
Smallage,  
Annis, 
Nigella, 
Carpobalsamum or cubebs,
Costus, 
Cassia lignea,
Cardamoms, 
Calamus aromaticus, 
Roots of Asarabacca, 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Valerian, of each half an ounce. 
Being clensed, cut, and bruised, let them
be infused twenty four hours in four- 
teen pound of cleer water, and boyled 
till half be consumed, being taken off 
from the fire, and rubbed between 
your hands whilst it is warm, strain 
it, and with Honey and Sugar, of 
each two pound, sharp Vinegar four 
ounces. Boyl it to a Syrup, and 
perfume it with Cinnamon and spick-
nard, of each three drams.  
Culpeper.] It helpeth the passion 
of the Matrix, and retains it in its 
place, it dissolves the coldness, wind, 
and pains thereof; it strengthens the 
Nerves,


116 SYRUPS. 
Nerves, opens the pores, corrects the 
blood, corrects and provokes the 
terms in women. You may take a 
spoonful of it at a time. 
Syrupus de Betonica composuus. Pag. 52 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Beto- 
ny compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Betony three hand- 
fuls. 
Marjoram one handful and half. 
Time, 
Red Roses, of each a handful. 
Violets, 
Stœchas, 
Sage, of each half a handful. 
Seeds of Fennel, 
Annis, 
Ammi, of each half an ounce. 
Roots of Peony, 
Polypodium, 
Fennel, of each five drams. 
Boyl them in six pound of River water 
to three pound. 
Strain it, and add 
Juyce of Betony two pound. 
Sugar three pound and an half. 
Make it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] It helps Diseases co-   
ming of cold, both in the head and 
stomach; as also such as come of 
wind, vertigoes, madness; it con- 
cocts melancholy, it provokes the  
terms in women, and so doth the 
simple syrup more than the com- 
pound. The composition was fra-   
med by the Augustan Physitians.
Syrupus Byzantinus, simple. 
Page 53. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of the 
Leaves of Endive, 
Smallage, of each two pound. 
Of Hops, 
Bugloss, of each one pound. 
Boyl them together and scum them. 
And to the clarified Liquor add four 
pound of white Sugar to as much of the 
Juyces, and with a gentle fire boyl it to 
a Syrup. 
Syrupus Byzantinus, compound. 
Page 53. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyces so order- 
ed as in the former, four pound. 
In which boyl 
Red Roses two ounces. 
Liquoris half an ounce. 
Seeds of Annis, 
Fennel, 
Smallage, of each three drams. 
Spicknard two drams. 
Strain it, and to the three pound re- 
maining add two pound of Vinegar, four 
pound of Sugar. 
Make it into a Syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.] They both of them, 
(viz. both simple and compound) 
open stoppings of the stomach, liver, 
and spleen, help the Rickets in chil- 
dren, cuts and brings away tough 
flegm, and helps the yellow Jaundice. 
Mesue saith the compound Syrup is 
of more effect than the simple for the 
same uses. You may take them with 
a Liquoris stick, or take a spoonful 
in the morning fasting. 
Syurpus Botryos. Page 53. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Oak of 
Jerusalem. 
Colledg.] Take of Oak of Jerusalem, 
Hedg-mustard, 
Nettles, of each two handfuls. 
Coltsfoot one handful and half. 
Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of 
cleer water till half be consumed; to 
two pound of the Decoction, add two 
pound of the juyce of Turnips baked 
in an Oven in a close pot, and with 
three pound of white Sugar boyl it in- 
to a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] This Syrup was com- 
posed against coughs, shortness of 
breath, and other the like infirmities 
of the Breast proceeding of cold, for 
which (if you can get it) you may 
take it with a Liquoris stick. 
Syrupus Capillorum Veneris. Page 53. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of 
Maiden-hair.  
Colledg.] Take of Liquoris two oun- 
ces. 
Maiden-hair five ounces. 
Steep them a natural day in four pound 
of warm water; then after gentle boyl- 
ing, and strong straining, with a pound 
and an half of fine Sugar make it into a 
Syrup.
Culpeper.] It opens stoppings of 
the stomach, strengthens the Lungs, 
and helps the infirmities of them. 
This may be taken also either with a 
Liquoris stick, or mixed with the Pe- 
ctoral Decoction like Syrup of colts- 
foot. 
Syrupus Cardiacus, vel Julepum Car- 
diacum. Page 53. Latin. Or, 
A Cordial Syrup.
Colledg.] Take of Rhenish Wine two 
pound. 
Rose water two ounces and an half. 
Cloves two scruples. 
Cinnamon half a dram. 
Ginger two scruples. 
Sugar three ounces and an half. 
Boyl it to the consistence of a Julep, ad- 
ding 
Amber-greece three grains. 
Musk one grain. 
Culpeper.] He that hath read thus 
far in this Book, and doth not know 
he must first boyl the simples in the 
Wine, and then strain them out be- 
fore he puts in the Sugar, is a man 
that in my opinion hath not wit e- 
nough to be taught to make up a 
Medicine; and the Colledg in their 
New Edition hath left it out. 
A. If you would have this Julep 
keep long, you may put in more 
Sugar, and yet if close stopped it wil 
not easily corrupt, because ’tis made 
up only of Wine; indeed the wisest 
way is to order the quan- 
tity of Sugar according 
to the * pallat of him 
that takes it. A. It 
restoreth such as are in 
consumptions, comforts 
the heart, cherisheth the 
drooping spirits, and is 
of an opening quality, thereby car- 
rying away those vapors which 
might otherwise annoy the brain and 
heart. You may take an ounce at a 
time, or two if you please.
* That la-
titude may
be given
safely in al
Composi-
tions. 
Syrupus infusionis florum Caryophillo- 
rum. Page 54. Latin. Syrup of 
Clove gilli-flowers. 
Colledg.] Take a pound of Clove-
gilli-flowers, the whites being cut 
off. 
Infuse them a whol night in two pound 
of water, then with four pound of Su- 
gar melted in it, make it into a Syrup 
without boyling. 
Culpeper. In their former, they ad- 
ded three pound of Water, if you 
would infuse them, you must do it at 
several times. A. The Syrup is a 
fine temperate Syrup; it strengthens 
the Heart, Liver, and Stomach; it 
refresheth the vital Spirits, and is a 
good cordial in feavers; and usually 
mixed with other Cordials, you can
hardly err in taking it, it is so harm- 
less a Syrup. 
Syrupus de Cinnamomo. Page 54. Latin 
Or, Syrup of Cinnamon. 
Colledg. Take of Cinnamon grosly
bruised, four ounces. 
Steep it in white Wine, and smal Cinna- 
mon water, of each half a pound, three 
daies in a glass by a gentle heat. 
Strain it, and with a pound and an half 
of Sugar boyl them gently to a 
Syrup. 
Culpeper.] This comes somthing 
neerer the Augustan Dispensatory
than their former did; it is not alto- 
gether the same: It refresheth the
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117 SYRUPS. 
vital Spirits exceedingly, and cheer- 
eth both heart and stomach languish- 
ing through cold; it helps digestion 
exceedingly, and strengthens the 
whol Body. You may take a spoon- 
ful at a time in a Cordial. 
Colledg.] Thus also you may conveni- 
ently prepare Syrups (but only 
with white wine) 
Of Annis seeds, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, 
Cloves, 
Nutmegs, 
Ginger, &c. 
Syrupus Acetositatis Citriorum. Pag. 54. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Juyce of 
Citrons. 
Colledg. Take of the Juyce of Ci- 
trons, strained without expression, 
and clensed, a pound. 
Sugar two pound. 
Make it into a Syrup, like Syrup of 
Clove-gilli-flowers.
Culpeper.] It prevails against all 
diseases proceeding from Choller, or 
heat of blood, feavers, both Pesti- 
lential, and not Pestilential; it re- 
sisteth poyson, cools the Blood, 
quencheth thirst, cureth the vertigo, 
or diziness in the head.
Colledg.] After the same manner is 
made syrup of Grapes, 
Orrenges, 
Berberries,
Cherries, 
Quinces, 
Lemmons,
Wood-sorrel, 
Mul-berries, 
Sorrel, 
English Currance, 
And other sour Juyces. 
Culpeper. If you look the simples 
you may see the Vertues of them: 
they all cool and comfort the heart, 
and strengthen the stomach; syrup of 
Quinces staies vomiting, so doth also 
syrup of Grapes.
Syrupus Corticum Citriorum. Page 54. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Citron 
Pills. 
Colledg. Take of fresh yellow Citron 
Pills five ounces. 
Berries of Chermes, or the juyce of 
them brought over to us, two 
drams.
Spring water four pound. 
Steep them all night, boyl them till
half be consumed, taking off the 
scum, strain it, and with two 
pound and an half of sugar boyl it 
into a syrup. 
Let half of it be without Musk, but 
perfume the other half with three 
grains of Musk tied up n a
rag. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the sto- 
mach, resists poyson, strengthens the 
heart, and resists the passions thereof, 
palpitation, faintings, swooning; it 
strengthens the vital spirits, retores 
such as are in Consumptions, and He- 
ctick feavers, and strengthens Nature 
much. You may take a spoonful at a 
time. 
Syrupus è Coralliis simplex. Pag. 55. Lat. 
Or, Syrup of Coral, simple. 
Colledg.] Take of Red Coral in very 
fine pouder four ounces. 
Dissolve it in clarified Juyce of Barber- 
ries in the heat of a Bath, a pound; 
in a Glass well stopped with wax and 
cork, a digestion being made three or 
four daies, pour off what is dissolved, 
put in fresh clarified Juyce, and pro- 
ceed as before, repeat this so often till 
all the Coral be dissolved; lastly, to 
one pound of this juyce add a pound 
and an half of sugar, and boyl it to a 
syrup gently.
Syrupus è Coralliis compositus. Pag. 55. 
Latin. Or, syrup of Coral, 
compound. 
Colledg. Take of Red Coral six 
ounces, in very fine pouder, and 
Levigated upon a Marble, add 
Clarified juyce of Lemmons, the flegm 
being drawn off in a bath, sixteen 
ounces.
Clarified juyce of Barberries, eight 
ounces. 
Sharp wine Venegar, 
Juyce of Wood-sorrel, of each six 
ounces. 
Mix them together, and put them in 
a glass stopped with cork and bladder, 
shaking it every day til it have digested 
eight daies in a bath, or Hors-dung; 
then filter it, of which take a pound and 
an half. 
Juyce of Quinces half a pound. 
Sugar of Roses twelve ounces. 
Make them into a syrup in a Bath, 
adding Syrup of Clove-gilli-flowers six- 
teen ounces, keep it for use, omitting the 
half dram of Amber greece, and four 
grains of Musk til the Physitian com- 
mand it. 
Culpeper. Syrup of Coral both 
simple and compoud, restore such as 
are in consumptions, are of a gallant 
cooling nature, especially the last, and 
very cordial, special good for Hectick 
feavers, it stops fluxes, the running of 
the Reins, and the whites in Women, 
helps such as spit blood, and such as 
have the falling-sickness, it stayes the 
terms in Women: And indeed it had 
need be good for somthing, for it is 
exceeding costly. Half a spoonful in 
a morning is enough for the Body, 
and it may be to much for the 
purse.
Syrupus Cydoniorum. Page 56. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Quinces. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Quinces 
clarified six pound. 
Boyl it over a gentle fire till half of it 
be consumed, scumming it, adding 
Red Wine three pound. 
White sugar four pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup to be perfumed with 
a dram and an half of Cinnamon. 
Cloves, 
Ginger, of each two scruples. 
Culpeper. It strengthens the heart 
and stomach, staies loosness & vomi-
ting, relieves languishing Nature: for 
Loosness, take a spoonful of it before 
meat; for vomiting, after meat; for 
both, as also for the rest, in the mor- 
ning. 
Syrupus de Erysimo. Page 56. Latin 
Or, Syrup of Hedg-mustard. 
Colledg.] Take of Hedg-mustard fresh
six handfuls.
Roots of Alicampane, 
Colts-foot, 
Liquoris, of each two ounces. 
Borrage, 
Succory, Maiden-hair, of each 
a handful and an half. 
Cordial Flowers, 
Rosemary, 
Betony, of each half a handful. 
Annis seeds half an ounce.
Raisons of the Sun stoned, two ounces.
Let all being prepared according to 
Art 
Be boyled in a sufficient quantity of 
Barley water and Hydromel, with six 
ounces of Juyce of Hedg-mustard to two 
pound and an half; the which with three 
pound of Sugar; boyl into a Syrup ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper. It was invented against 
cold afflictions of the breast and 
lungs, as Asthmaes, hoarsness, &c. 
You may take it either with a liquo- 
ris stick, or which is better, mix an 
ounce of it with three or four ounces 
of Pectoral decoction, and drink it 
off warm in the morning.  
Syrupus de Fumaria. Page 56. Latin.
Or, Syrup of Fumitory. 
Colledg.] Take of Endive. 
Common Wormwood, 
Hops, 
Dodder, 
Harts-tongue, of each a hand- 
ful.
Epithimum an ounce and an half. 
Boyl them in four pound of water til half 
be consumed, strain it; and add 
Juyce of Fumitory a pound and an 
half.
Borrage,
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118 SYRUPS. 
Bugloss, of each half a pound. 
White sugar four pound. 
Make them into a syrup according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] The Receipt is a pretty 
concoctor of Melancholly, and there- 
fore a rational help for diseases ari- 
sing thence, both internal and exter- 
nal: it helps diseases of the Skin, as 
Leprosies, Cancers, Warts, Corns, 
Itch, Tetters, Ringworms, Scabs, &c. 
and it is the better to be liked be- 
cause of its gentleness, for in my ex- 
perience, I could never find a violent 
Medicine do good, but ever harm in 
a Melancholly disease (for Melan- 
cholly is a sad sullen humor, you had 
as good vex a nest of wasps as vex it) 
It also strengthens the Stomach and 
Liver, opens obstructions, and is a 
sovereign remedy for Hypochon- 
driack Melancholly. You may add 
an ounce of this to the Decoction of 
Epithimum before mentioned, and 
order your body as you were taught 
there. It helps surfets exceedingly, 
clenseth, cooleth, and strengtheneth 
the Liver, and causeth it to make 
good Blood, and good blood cannot 
make bad Flesh. I commend this 
Receipt to those whose Bodies are 
subject to scabs and Itch. If you 
please you may take two ounces by it 
self every morning. 
Syrupus de Glycyrrhiza. Page 56. Lat. 
Or, syrup of Liquoris. 
Colledg. Take of Green liquoris scra- 
ped and bruised two ounces. 
White Maiden-hair an ounce.
Dried Hysop half an ounce. 
Steep these in four pound of hot water: 
after twenty four hours boyl it til half be 
consumed: strain it, and clarifie it, and 
with 
Honey,
Penids, 
Sugar, of each eight ounces. 
Make it into a syrup, adding before it be 
perfectly boyled, 
Red Rose water six ounces.
Culpeper.] It clenseth the Breast 
and Lungs, and helps continual 
coughs and pleuresies. You may 
take it with a Liquoris stick, and ad 
an ounce of it or more to the Pecto- 
ral Decoction. 
Syrupus Granatorum cum Aceto; vul-
go, Oxysaccharum simplex Page 57. 
Latin. Or, sprup of Pomgra- 
nats with Vinegar.
Colledg. Take of white sugar a pound 
and an half. 
Juyce of Pomegranats eight ounces. 
White Wine Vinegar, four ounces. 
Boyl it gently into a syrup. 
Culpeper. Look the vertue of Pom- 
granates among the simples. 
Virtues newly added. 
It quenches thirst in burning Fea- 
vers, cuts tough Flegm and fits it for 
expectoration, also it corrects the 
boyling heat and Malignity of Cho- 
ler. 
Syrupus de Hyssopo. Page 57. Latin. 
Or, syrup of Hissop. 
Colledg. Take eight pound of spring 
water. 
Half an ounce of Barley. 
Boyl it about half an hour, then add 
Roots of Smalladge,
Parsly,
Fennel,
Liquoris, of each ten drams. 
Jujubes,
Sebestens, of each fifteen.
Raisons of the sun stoned, an ounce 
and an half.
Figs,
Dates, of each ten. 
Seeds of Mallows,
Quinces, 
Gum Tragacanth tied up in a rag, of 
each three drams.
Hysop meanly dried, ten drams. 
Maiden-hair six drams. 
Boyl them together, yet so, that the 
Roots may precede the Fruits, the Fruits 
the seeds, and the seeds the Herbs, about 
a quarter of an hour; at last, five pounds 
of water being consumed, boyl the other 
three (being first strained and clarified) 
into a Syrup with 
Two pound and an half of sugar.
Culpeper. A. It mightily streng- 
thens the breast and Lungs (by the 
breast I alwaies mean that which is 
called Thorax) causeth long wind, 
cleer voyce, is a good remedy against 
coughs. Use it like the syrup of 
Liquoris.
Syrupus Ivæ Arthriticæ, five chamæ- 
pityos. Page 57. Latin. Or, 
sprup of Chamepitys, 
or Ground pine.
Colledg. Take of Chamepitys, two 
handfuls. 
Sage, 
Rosemary, 
Poley mountain, 
Origanum, 
Calaminth, 
Wild mints, 
Penyroal, 
Hysup,
Time,
Rue, garden and wild, 
Betony, 
Mother of Time, of each a handful. 
Roots of Acorns,
Birthwort long and round, 
Briony, 
Dittany, 
Gentian,
Hogs Fennel, 
Valerian, of each half an ounce. 
Smallage,
Sparagus, 
Fennel,
Roots of Parsly,
Bruscus, of each an ounce. 
Pellitory of spain, an ounce and 
an half. 
Stœchas, 
Seeds of Annis, 
Ammi, 
Carroway, 
Fennel, 
Lovage, 
Hartwort, of each three drams. 
Raisons of the Sun two ounces. 
Boyl them in ten pound of water to four,
to which ad  
Honey. 
Sugar, of each two pound. 
Mafe it into a syrup to be perfumed
with. 
Sugar, 
Nutmegs, 
Cubebs, of each three drams. 
Virtues newly added. 
It dries and strengthens the Brain
Nerves and Joynts; and digests Gouty 
humors and fits them for evacuation.
It is good for the Head-ach procee- 
ding from a cold cause. It opens 
obstructions, expels wind and moves
Urine. 
Syrupus Jujubinus. Page 58. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Jujubes. 
Colledg.] Take of Jujubes, 
Violets, five drams. 
Maiden-hair,
Liquoris, 
French barley, of each an ounce. 
Seeds of Mallows five drams. 
White Poppies, 
Melones,
Lettice, 
[Seed of Quinces and Gum Traga- 
canth tied up in a rag] of each 
three drams. 
Boyl them in six pound of rain or
spring water till half be consumed, strain
it, and with 
Two pound of Sugar. 
Make it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] A. It is a fine cooling 
Syrup, very available in coughs, 
hoarsness, and Pleuresies, Ulcers of 
the Lungs and Bladder, as also in all 
inflamations whatsoever. You may
take a spoonful of it once in three or 
four hours, or if you please take it
with a liquoris stick. 
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Syrupus de Meconio, five Diacodium. 
Page 58. Latin. Syrup of Meconi-   
um, or Diacodium.
Colledg.] Take of white Poppy heads 
with their seeds, gathered a little 
after the flowers are fallen off, and 
kept three daies, eight ounces. 
Black Poppy heads (so ordered) six 
ounces.
Rain water eight pound. 
Steep them twenty four hours; then 
boyl and press them gently; boyl it to 
three pounds, and with twenty four oun- 
ces of Sugar boyl it into a syrup accor- 
ding to art.
Syrupus de Meconio compositus. Pag. 59.
Latin. Or, Syrup of Meconium 
Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of white aud black 
Poppy heads with their seeds, fifty 
drams. 
Maiden-hair fifteen drams. 
Jujubes thirty. 
Seeds of Lettice, fourty drams. 
Mallows and Quinces tied up in a 
rag, a dram and an half. 
Liquoris five drams. 
Water eight pound. 
Boyl it according to art, strain it, and 
to three pound of Decoction, ad 
Sugar, 
Penids, of each one pound. 
Make it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] Meconium (the blush 
of which, this Receipt carries in its 
Frontispiece) is nothing else but the 
juyce of English Poppies boyled til it 
be thick: As I am of opinion that 
Opium is nothing else but the juyce 
of Poppies growing in hotter Coun- 
tries (for such Opium as Authors talk 
of comes from Utopia) and therefore in 
all reason is colder in quality) and 
therefore (I speak purely of Meconi- 
um and Opium, not of these Syrups) 
though they be no edg tools, yet ’tis 
ill jesting with them. A. All these 
former syrups of Poppies provokes 
sleep; but in that, I desire they may 
be used with a great deal of caution 
and wariness; such as these are, are 
not fit to be given in the beginning 
of Feavers, not to such whose bodies 
are costive: ever remember my for- 
mer Motto, Fools are not fit to make 
Physitians: yet to such as are troub- 
led with hot sharp rhewms, you may 
safely give them: and note this, The 
last, which is borrowed from Mesue, 
is appropriated to the Lungs, whose 
own words (translation excepted) of 
it are these: It prevails against dry 
coughs, Ptisicks, hot and sharp 
gnawing Rhewms, and provokes 
sleep. It is an usual fashion for 
Nurses when they have heat their 
milk by exercise or strong Liquor) no 
marvel then if their Children be fro- 
ward) then run for syrup of Poppies 
to make their yong ones sleep. I 
would fain have that fashion left, 
therefore I forbear the dose; let 
Nurses keep their own bodies tem- 
perate, and their Children will sleep 
well enough, never fear. 
Syrupus Melissophylli. Page 59. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Bawm. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of Bugloss 
Roots, an ounce. 
Roots of white Dittany. 
Sinkfoyl,
Scorzonera, of each half an ounce. 
Leaves of Bawm,
Scabious, 
Devils-bit, 
Flowers of both sorts of Bugloss,
Rosemary, of each a handful. 
Seeds of Sorrel, 
Citrons, 
Fennel, 
Cardus, 
Bazil, of each three drams. 
Boyl them in four pound of water til half 
be consumed; strain it, and add 
Three pound of white sugar. 
Juyce of Bawm,
Rosewater, of each half a pound. 
Boyl them to a syrup, the which perfume 
with 
Cinnamon, 
Yellow Sanders, of each half an 
ounce. 
Culpeper.] The Scorzonera Roots, 
and Bugloss Roots are added, and 
the Bettony Roots left out, that 
is all the alteration: A. Alwaies 
tie Perfumes up in a rag, and hang 
them into the Syrup by a string when 
it boyls; and hang them by a string 
in a vessel (be it pot or glass) that 
you may keep the Syrup in, being
boyled. A. It is an excellent Cor- 
dial, and strengthens the heart, breast, 
and stomach: it resisteth Melanchol- 
!y, revives the spirits, is given with 
good success in Feavers, it streng- 
theneth the Memory, and relieves 
languishing Nature. You may take 
a spoonful of it at a time.
Syrupus de Mentha. Page 59. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Mints. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Quinces 
sweet, and between sweet and 
sour, 
Juyce of Pomegranates sweet, between 
sweet and sour, of each a pound 
and an half. 
Dried Mints half a pound. 
Red Roses two ounces, let them lie in
steep one day, then 
Boyl it half away, and with four 
pound of Sugar boyl it into a syrup ac-
cording to Art. Perfume it not unless
the Physitian command. 
Culpeper.] The Syrup is in quality 
binding, yet it comforts the Stomach 
much, helps digestion, staies vomi- 
ting, and is (in my opinion) as ex- 
cellent a Remedy against sour or of- 
fensive belchings, as any is in the 
Dispensatory. Take a spoonful of it 
after meat. 
Syrupus de Mucilaginibus. Page. 60
Latin. Or, Syrup of Mucilages. 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds of Marsh-
mallows. 
Seeds of Mallows, 
Quinces, of each an ounce,
Gum Tragacanth three drams, 
Let these infuse six hours in warm 
Decoction of 
Mallows, 
White Poppy seeds, 
Winter Cherries, 
Then press out the Mucilage to an ounce
and an half: with which, and three 
ounces of the aforesaid Decoction, and 
two ounces of Sugar, make a syrup ac- 
cording to Art. 
Culpeper.] A spoonful taken by it 
self, or in any convenient liquor is 
excellent for any sharp corroding 
Humors be they in what part of the 
Body soever, phtisicks, bloody flux, 
stone in the Reins or Bladder, or Ul- 
cers there: it is excellent good for 
such as have taken purges that are 
too strong for their bodies, for by its 
slippery Nature it helps corrosions, 
and by it cooling help Inflama- 
tions.  
Syrupus Myrtinus. Page 60. Latin.
Or, Syrup of Mirtles. 
Colledg.] Take of Mirtle Berries two
ounces and an half. 
Sanders white and red, 
Sumach, 
Balaustines, 
Barberry stones, 
Red Roses, of each an ounce and an
half. 
Medlars half a pound. 
Boyl them in eight pound of water to
four: strain it, and add 
Juyce of Quinces, 
Sowr Pomegranates, of each six oun-
ces.
Then with three pound of sugar. 
Boyl it into a syrup.
Culpeper.] The syrup is of a very 
binding, yet comforting Nature, it
helps such as spit blood, all fluxes of
the Belly, or corrosions of the inter- 
nal parts, it strengthens the retentive 
faculty, and stops immodetate flux 
of the Terms in Women. A spoonful 
at a time is the dose.
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120 SYRUPS. 
Syrupus Florum Nymphææ simplex. 
Pag. 60. Lat. Or, Syrup of Water 
Lilly flowers, simple.
Colledg.] Take of the whitest of white 
Water-lilly flowers, a pound. 
Steep them in three pound of warm 
water six or seven hours; let them boyl 
a little, and strain them out: put in the 
same weight of flowers again the second 
and third time: when you have strained 
it the last time, add its weight of Sugar 
to it, and boyl it to a Syrup.
Those that would give help against 
al Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, 
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor. 
Syrupus Florum Nymphææ compositus. 
Page 60. Latin. Or, syrup of 
Water-lilly flowers, compound. 
Colledg.] Take of white Water-Lilly-
flowers half a pound. 
Violets two ounces.
Lettice two handfuls. 
Seeds of Lettice, 
Purslain, 
Guords, of each half an ounce. 
Boyl them in four pound of cleer water 
til one be consumed. 
Strain it and add 
Red Rose water, half a pound. 
White Sugar four pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.] They both are fine coo- 
ling syrups, they allay the heat of 
choler, and provoke sleep, they cool 
the body, both head, heart, liver, reins 
and matrix, and therefore are profi- 
table for hot diseases in either: you 
may take an ounce of it at a time 
when your Stomach is empty.
Syrupus de Papavere Erratico, sive 
Rubro. Pag. 61. Latin. Or, Syrup 
of Erratick Poppy. 
Colledg.] Take of the fresh flowers of 
Red Poppies two pound. 
Steep them in four pound of warm 
spring water. 
The next day strain it, and boyl it 
into a Syrup with its equal weight 
in sugar.
Culpeper.] I know no danger in 
this syrup, so it be taken with mode- 
ration, and bread immoderately ta- 
ken, hurts: the syrup cools the blood 
helps surfets, and may safely be gi- 
ven in Frenzies, Feavers, and hot 
Agues.
Syrupus de Pitosella. Page 61. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Mousear. 
Colledg. Take of Mousear three hand- 
fuls. 
Roots of Ladies mantle, an ounce and an 
half. 
Comfry the greater, 
Maddir, 
White Dittany, 
Tormentil, 
Bistort, of each an ounce. 
Leaves of Wintergreen, 
Horstail, 
Ground lvy,
Plantane, 
Adders Tongue, 
Strawberries, 
St. Johns-wort with the flowers. 
Golden Rod, 
Agrimony, 
Bettony,
Burnet, 
Avens, 
Sinkfoyl the greater,
Red Coleworts, 
Balaustines, 
Red Roses, of each a handful. 
Boyl them gently in six pound of Plan- 
tane water to three. 
Then strain it strongly, and when it is 
setled, add 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Seeds of Fleawort, 
Marsh-mallows, 
Quinces, made into a Mucilage 
by themselves in strawberry 
and bettony water, of each three 
ounces.
White sugar two pound. 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper. It is profitable for woun- 
ded people to take, for it is drying 
and healing, and therefore good for 
Ruptures. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Syrup was designed I con- 
ceive to help Consumptions of the 
Lungs, being Drying, Healing, coo- 
ling, fastening. It is good against 
coughs and spittings of Blood, stops 
all defluxions of Rheum from the 
Braine, helps Dysenteries, the whites 
in women; strengthens the back, and 
stops a simple Gonorrhæa. Also it 
may help Barrenness arising from the 
flashyness of the seed, slipperyness of 
the Matrix, and Loosness of the Se- 
minal parts. An ounce may be taken 
at a time. 
Syrupus infusionis florum Pæoniæ. Pag. 
62. Latin. Or, syrup of the in- 
fusion of Peony Flowers. 
Colledg.] It is prepared just for all the 
world like syrup of Clove-gilli-flo- 
wers.
Culpeper.] See Syrup of Meconium 
for the Vertues. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is good for Convulsions and 
Epilepsies, and other infirmities ari- 
sing from a cold moist and weake 
Braine and Nerves. Half an ounce 
or an ounce may be given in Black- 
cherrie water in the morning, and at 
four in the after noone. 
Syrupus de Pæonia compositus. Page 62.
Latin. Or, Syrup of Peony 
Compound.
Colledg.] Take of the Roots of both 
sorts of Peony taken up at the ful 
Moon, cut in slices, and steeped 
in white Wine a whol day, of each 
an ounce and an half. 
Contra yerva half an ounce. 
Siler mountain six drams. 
Elks claws and ounce. 
Rosemary with the flowers on, one 
handful. 
Bettony, 
Hysop,  
Origanum, 
Chamepitys, 
Rue, of each three drams. 
Wood of Aloes,
Cloves, 
Cardamoms the less, of each two 
drams. 
Ginger, 
Spicknard, of each a dram. 
Stœchas, 
Nutmegs, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Boyl them after one daies warm digestion, 
in a sufficient quantily of distilled wa- 
ter of Peony Roots, to four pound. 
In which (being strained through Hip- 
pocrates his sleeve) put four pound 
and an half of white Sugar, and boyl 
it to a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] It is somwhat costly to 
buy, and as troublesom to make; a 
spoonful of it taken, helps the Falling- 
sickness, and convulsions. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is more effectual then the for- 
mer for all Diseases of the Brain and 
Nerves arising from a cold cause. It 
quickens the Eye sight, is good
against Head-ach, and stops deflucti- 
ons of Rheume. Also it comforts a 
cold stomach.  
Syrupus de Pomis alterans. Pag. 62. Lat.  
Or, Syrup of Apples alterative. 
Colledg. Take four pound of the juyce 
of sweet scented Apples. 
Juyce of Bugloss, garden and wild. 
Violet Leaves, 
Rose water, of each a pound. 
Boyl them together, and clarifie them, 
and with six pound of pure Sugar, boyl 
it into a Syrup according to art. 
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121 SYRUPS. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling sy-
rup for such whose hearts and sto- 
machs are overpressed with heat, and 
may safely be given in Feavers, for it 
rather loosens than binds: it breeds 
good blood, and is profitable in He- 
ctick Feavers, and for such as are trou-  
bled with palpitation of the heart, it 
quenches thirst admirably in Feavers, 
and staies Hiccoughs. You may take 
an ounce of it at a time in the mor- 
ning, or when you need. 
Virtues newly added. 
This syrup is designed to temper 
and digest Melancholy and black- 
choler. It chears the Hearts and 
spirits of Hypochondriacal and all 
other Melancholick Persons. An 
ounce or two may be taken in a mor- 
ning in Borrage water, and as much 
in the after-noon. Such as are Me- 
lancholick and cannot forbear Wine, 
may sweeten their cups therewith. 
A pinte of Cider sweetned with a 
spoonful or two of this syrup, is a 
good cordial Julep for a Melancho- 
lick Person.
Syrupus de Prasio. Page 62. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Horehound. 
Colledg. Take of white Horehound 
fresh, two ounces. 
Liquoris, 
Polipodium of the Oak, 
Fennel, 
Smallage roots, of each half an ounce. 
White Maiden-hair,
Origanum, 
Hysop, 
Calaminth, 
Time,
Savory, 
Scabious, 
Coltsfoot, of each six dram. 
Seeds of Annis, 
Cotten, of each three drams. 
Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces. 
Fat Figs ten, 
Boyl them in eight pound of Hydromel 
til half be consumed, boyl the Decoction 
into a Syrup, with 
Honey, 
Sugar, of each two pound. 
And perfume it with an ounce of the 
roots of Orris Florentine.
Culpeper.] It is appropriated to the 
breast and Lungs, and is a fine clen- 
ser to purge them from thick and pu- 
trified flegm, it helps Ptisicks and 
Coughs, and diseases subject to old 
men, and cold natures. Take it with 
a Liquoris stick. Both this Receipt 
and the former Fernelius was the Au- 
thor of.
Syrupus de quings Radicibus. Page 63. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of the five 
opening Roots. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Smal- 
lage. 
Roots of Fennel, 
Parsly,
Bruscus, 
Sparagus, of each two ounces. 
Spring water six pound. 
Boyl away the third part, and make a 
syrup with the rest according to art, with 
three pound of sugar, adding eight ounces 
of white wine Vinegar, towards the lat- 
ter end. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth and openeth 
very well, is profitable against ob-  
structions, provokes Urine, clenses 
the Body of flegm, and is safely and 
profitably given in the beginning of 
Feavers. An ounce at a time upon 
an empty stomach is a good dose.  
Srrupus Rhaphani. Page 63. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Rhadishes. 
Colledg.] Take of Garden and wild 
Rhadish Roots, of each an ounce. 
Roots of white Saxifrage, 
Lovage, 
Bruscus, 
Eringo, 
Rest harrow, 
Parsly, 
Fennel, of each half an ounce. 
Leaves of Betony,
Burnet,
Penyroyal, 
Nettles, 
Water-cresses, 
Sampier, 
Maiden-hair, of each one hand- 
ful.
Winter-Cherries,
Jujubes, of each ten. 
Seeds of Bazil,
Bur, 
Parsly of Macedonia, 
Hartwort, 
Caraway, 
Carrots, 
Gromwel,
Bark of the root of Bay-tree, of each 
two drams.
Raisons of the Sun stoned. 
Liquoris, of each six drams. 
Boyl them in twelve pound of water to 
eight. 
Strain it, and with 
Sugar four pound. 
Honey two pound. 
Make it into a syrup, and perfume it 
with 
Cinnamon, an ounce. 
Nutmegs half an ounce. 
Culpeper.] A tedius long Medi- 
cine for the stone. 
Vertues newly added. 
This syrup hath been invented for 
to bring away Urine and Gravel and 
to prevent the stone in those that are 
subject thereunto. It clears the Kid- 
neys and Bladder of such filth as 
might in time breed the stone. But 
the patient must be first duly purged. 
It is also good against the Scurvy 
and opens all obstructions of the in- 
ternal Bowels. It is proper for those 
that are enclined to the dropsie uni- 
versal Remedies having been duly 
premised. Half an ounce, an ounce, 
or an ounce and half or more, when 
there is no fear of bringing down a 
churlish stone too suddenly into the 
Ureters, may be given in saxifrage 
or fennel water, or Purslane water. 
When there are actual stones in the 
Kidneys or Bladder it is good to 
mingle a like quantity of syrup of 
Marsh-mallows, and to give them 
in posset drink or clear whey war- 
med. 
Syrupus Regius, aliâs Julapeum Al-
exandrinum. Page 64. Latin. Or,
Syrup Roial, or Alexandrian 
Julep and Julep of Roses. 
Colledg.] Boyl four pound of Rose- 
water, 
White Sugar one pound, into a 
Julep. 
Julep of Roses is made with Damask 
Rose water, in the very same man- 
ner.
Culpeper. Two fine cooling drinks 
in the heat of Summer. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Juleps refresh languishing per- 
sons, that in feavers or otherwise are 
subject to swoonings and fainting 
fits. They moderate thirst and streng- 
then the Heart. 
Syrupus de Roses siccis. Page 64. Latin.
Or, Syrup of dried Roses.
Colldg] Make four pound of spring
water hot. 
In which infuse a pound of dried 
Roses, by some at a time, press
them out. 
And with two pound of Sugar. 
Boyl it into a Syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.] If you boyl it, it will 
lose Color (in Syrups made of Decocti- 
ons, the color is not so material) and 
Vertue, therefore be pleased to ac- 
cept of this one general Rule, It is 
not best to boyl any syrups made of 
Infusions, but by adding the double 
weight of Sugar (viz. Two pound of 
Sugar to each pint of Infusion) melt 
it over a fire only. A. Syrup of 
dried Roses, strengthens the heart, 
comforts the spirits, bindeth the 
body, helps fluxes, and corrosions, 
or gnawings of the Guts, it streng- 
the stomach, and staies vomiting. 
You may take an ounce at a time, 
before meat, if for Fluxes; after
meat, if for vomiting.
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122 SYRUPS. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Syrup enclines to sleep by 
suppressing hot vapors and fumes 
that ascend from the lower parts into 
the brain, half an ounce or an ounce 
may be given in Cowslip or Lettice 
water. But a Clyster or Suppository  
must be premised in case the Patient  
be costive or else it will do little 
good, and may also hurt. 
Syrupus Scabiosæ. Page 64. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Scabious. 
Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Ali-
campane, 
Polypodium of the Oak, of each two 
ounces. 
Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce. 
Sebestens twenty. 
Coltsfoot, 
Lungwort, 
Savory, 
Calaminth, of each a handful and an 
half. 
Liquoris, 
Spanish Tobacca, of each half an 
ounce. 
Seeds of Nettles,  
Cotten, of each three drams. 
Boyl them all (the roots being infused in 
white Wine the day before) in a sufficient 
quantity of wine and water to eight oun- 
ces; strain it, and adding 
Juyce of Scabious, four ounces. 
Sugar ten ounces. 
Boyl it to a syrup, adding to it 
Oyl of Sulphur twenty drops.
Culpeper.] It is a clensing syrup ap- 
propriated to the Breast and Lungs:
when you perceive them oppressed
by flegm, crudities, or stoppings, 
your remedy is to take now and then 
a spoonful of this syrup; it is taken 
also with good success by such as are 
itchy, or scabby, 
Vertues newly added.
This syrup is good for Coughs en- 
clining to a Consumption. It opens 
obstructions of the Spleen and stops 
an immoderate flux of the whites. 
An ounce may be taken in Coltsfoot 
water, or Scabious water. 
Syrupus de scdopendrio. Page 45. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Hartstongue.
Colledg.] Take of Hartstongue three 
handful.
Polypodium of the Oak, 
Roots of both sorts of Bugloss,
Bark of the roots of Capars, 
Tamaris, of each two ounces. 
Hops, 
Dodder, 
Maidenhair, 
Bawm, of each two handfuls. 
Boyl them in nine pound of spring water 
to five, and strain it, and with 
White Sugar four pound. 
Make it into a syrup according to art. 
Culpeper. It helps the stoppings of 
Melancholly, opens Obstructions of 
the Liver and Spleen, and is profit- 
able aginst Splenetick evils, and 
therefore is a choyce Remedy for the 
Disease which the vulgar cal the Ric- 
kets, or Liver grown: A spoonful in 
a morning is a precious Remedy for 
Children troubled with that Disease. 
Men that are troubled with the 
Spleen, which is known by pain and 
hardness in their left side, may take 
three or four spoonfuls, they shall 
find this one Receipt worth the price 
of the whol Book. 
Syrupus de Stœchade. Page 65. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Stœchas Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Stœchas flowers 
four ounces, 
Rosemary-flowers half an ounce. 
Time, 
Calaminth, 
Origanum, of each an ounce and an 
half, 
Sage, 
Betony, of each half an ounce. 
Seeds of Rue, 
Peony, 
Fennel, of each three drams. 
Spring water ten pound. 
BoyL it till half be consumed, and with 
Honey, 
Sugar, of each two pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup, which perfume with 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each two
drams tied up in a rag. 
Vertues newly added. 
This syrup is fitted to strengthen 
the Brain, Nerves and Joynts. It 
therefore helps Convulsions, Epilep- 
sies, Tremblings of the Hands, 
Head-aches and Joynt pains, pro- 
ceeding from cold causes. It warms 
a cold stomach and Matrix and helps 
Barrenness in Women, arising from 
the over plashyness and moorish dis- 
position of the Feild of Nature. It 
may be given from half an ounce, to 
an ounce and half, or two ounces, 
in sage or Betony water in the mor- 
ning, and at four in the afternoon, 
and an hour before bed-time to wo- 
men disordered as aforesaid. 
Syrupus de Symphyto. Page 65. Latin. 
Or, syrup of Comfry. 
Colledg.] Take of roots and tops of 
Comfry, the greater and lesser, of 
each three handfuls. 
Red Roses, 
Bettony, 
Plantane,
Burnet, 
Knot-grass, 
Scabious, 
Coltsfoot, of each two handfuls. 
Press the Juyce out of them all being 
green and bruised, boyl it, scum it, and 
strain it; add its weight of sugar to it 
that it may be made into a syrup accor- 
ding to Art. 
Culpeper. The syrup is excellent 
for all inward Wounds and Bruises, 
Excoriations Vomitings, spittings, 
or Pissings of Blood; it unites bro- 
ken Bones, helps Ruptures, and 
stops the Terms in Women: You can- 
not er in taking of it. 
Syrupus Violarum. Page 65. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Violets. 
Colledg.] Take of Violet flowers fresh 
and picked, a pound. 
Cleer water made boyling hot, two 
pound. 
Shut them up close together into a new 
Glazed pot, a whol day, then press 
them hard out, and in two pound of 
the Liquor, dissolve 
White Sugar four pound and three 
ounces; take away the scum, and so 
make it into a syrup without boy- 
ling. 
Syrup of the Juyce of Violets is made 
with its double weight of Sugar, like 
the former. 
Culpeper.] This latter syrup is far 
more chargable than the former and 
in all reason is better, although I ne- 
ver knew it used; they both of them 
cool and moisten, and that very gent-
ly, they correct the sharpness of chol- 
ler, and give ease in hot diseases of 
the breast, they quench thirst in acute 
Feavers, and resist the heat of the dis- 
ease; they comfort hot stomachs ex- 
ceedingly, cool the Liver and Heart, 
and resist putrifaction, pestilence, and 
Poyson. It is so harmless a syrup, 
you shal hurt your Purse by it sooner 
than your Body. 
Colledg.] Julep of Violets is made of 
the water of Violet flowers and su- 
gar, like Julep of Roses. 
Culpeper.] It is cooling and plea- 
sant for the Gentry when they are hot 
with walking, for few of them much
trouble their study.
Vertues newly added.
This tempers choler in feavers ari-
sing therefrom. It quenches thirst
and gently invites sleep into the 
wearied Eye-lides. You may drink
thereof at pleasure. 
Purging


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Purging Syrups. 
Syrupus de Cicborio cum Rhubarbaro. 
Or, Syrup of Succory 
with Rhubarb.
Colledg.] TAke of whole Barley. 
Roots of Smallage. 
Roots of Fennel, 
Sparagus, of each two ounces. 
Succory, 
Dandelion,
Endive, 
Smooth Sow-thistles, of each two 
handfuls. 
Lettice, 
Liverwort, 
Fumitory, 
Tops of Hops, of each one handful. 
Maiden-hair white and black, 
Cetrach, 
Liquoris, 
Winter-Cherries, 
Doddar, of each six drams. 
To boyl these take sixteen pound of spring 
water 
Strain the Liquor, and boyl in it six 
pound of white Sugar, adding towards 
the end 
Rhubarb, six ounces. 
Spicknard, six drams bound up in a 
thin and slack rag, the which crush
often in boyling, and so make it
into a syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.] This Receipt (without 
a name) was borrowed from Nicho- 
laus Florentinus; the difference is on- 
ly in the quantity of the Rhubarb, 
and spike, besides the order inverted, 
whose own approbation of it runs in 
these terms, A. It clensth the Body 
of venemous Humors, as Boyls, Car- 
buncles, and the like; prevails a- 
gainst Pestilential Feavers, it streng- 
thens the heart and nutritive vertue, 
purgeth by stool and urine, it makes 
a man have a good stomach to his 
meat, and provokes sleep. A. But 
by my Authors leave, I never ac- 
counted Purges to be proper Physick 
in Pestilential Feavers; this I belee- 
ve; the syrup clenseth the Liver wel, 
and is exceeding good for such as 
are troubled with Hypochondriack 
Melancholly, The strong may take 
two ounces at a time; the weak one: 
Or you may mix an ounce of it with 
the Decoction of Senna. 
Syrupus de Epithymo. Page 67. Latin. 
Or, Syrup of Epithimum. 
Colledg.] Take of Epithimum twenty 
drams. 
Mirobalans,
Citron, 
Indian, of each fifteen drams,
Emblicks,
Belloricks,
Polypodium, 
Liquoris, 
Agrick, 
Time, 
Calaminth,
Bugloss, 
Stœchas, of each six drams, 
Dodder, 
Fumitory, of each ten drams. 
Red Roses, 
Annis-seeds, 
Sweet Fenuel seeds of each two drams 
and an half. 
* Sweet Prunes ten, [* Would I 
could see them: truly if ye would 
have them, I doubt you must go 
to Arabia where Mesue dwelt.] 
Raisons of the Sun stoned four oun- 
ces. 
Tamarinds two ounces and an half. 
After twenty four hours infusion, in 
ten pints of spring water, boyl it away 
to six, then take it from the fire and 
strain it, and with 
Fine Sugar five pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup according to Art.
Culpeper. It is best to put in the 
Dodder, Stœchas and Agrik, towards 
the latter end of the Decoction. A.
This Receipt was Muse’s, only 
instead of five pound of Sugar, 
Mesue appoints four pound of sugar 
and two pound of sapa (the making 
of which shal be shewed in its proper 
place) and truly in my opinion the 
Receipts of Mesue are generally the 
best in al the Dispensatory, because 
the simples are so pertinent to the 
purpose intended, they are not made 
up of the mess of hodgpodg as ma- 
ny others are: but to the purpose. It 
purgeth Melancholly, and other hu- 
mors, it strengtheneth the stomach 
and Liver, clenseth the body of ad- 
dust choller and addnst blood, as al- 
so of salt humors, and helps Diseases
proceeding from these, as scabs, ltch, 
Tetters, ring-wormes, leprosie &c. 
and the truth is, I like it better for
its gentleness, for I never fancied vio- 
lent Medicines in Melancholly Dis- 
eases. A mean man may take two 
ounces at a time, or add one ounce 
to the Decoction of Epithimum. 
Syrupus è Floribus Persicorum. Pag. 68. 
Lat. Or, Syrup of Peach-flowers. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Peach-flowers 
a pound. 
Steep them a whol day in three pound of 
warm water, then boyl it a little and 
strain it out, repeat this infusion five 
times in the same Liquor. 
In three pound of which dissolve two 
pound and an half of sugar and 
boyl it into a syrup.  
Culpeper.] It is a gentle Purger 
of Choller, and may be given even 
in feavers to draw away the sharp 
chollerick Humors according to the 
opinion of Andernacus, whose Re- 
ceipt (all things considered) differs 
little from this. 
Syrupus de Pomis purgans. Pag. 68. Lat.
Or, Syrup of Apples, purging. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of sweet
smelling Apples two pound. 
Juyce of Borrage, 
Bugloss, of each one pound and an 
half. 
Senna two ounces.
Annis seeds half an ounce. 
Saffron one dram. 
Let the Senna be steeped in the juyces 
twenty four hours, and after a walm or 
two strain it, and with 
Two pound of White sugar, boyl it to  
a Syrup according to art: The Saffron 
being tied up in a rag, and often crushed 
in the boyling. 
Culpeper.] Mesue apoints Senna 
Cods, and so do the Augustan Phy- 
sitians, viz. the husk that holds the 
seeds; and the COLLEDG alte- 
red that and added the Annis seeds, 
I suppose to correct the Senna, and 
in so doing they did well. The Syrup 
is a pretty cooling purge, and tends 
to rectifie the distempers of the 
blood, it purgeth choller and Melan- 
cholly, and therefore must needs be 
effectual both in yellow and black 
Jaundice, madness, scurf, Leprosie, 
and scabs, It is very gentle and for 
that I commend both the Receipt 
and Mesue the Author of it. The dose 
is from one ounce to three, accor- 
ding as the body is in age and 
strength. An ounce of it in the mor- 
ning is excellent for such children as 
break out in scabs. 
Syrupus de Pomis Magistralis. Page. 68
Latin. Or, syrup of Apples 
Magisterial. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce and water 
of Apples of each a pound and an 
half. 
Juyce and water of Borrage and 
Bugloss, of each nine ounces. 
Senna half a pound. 
Seeds of Annis,
Sweet Fennel, of each three drams. 
Epithimum of * Creet [* and why 
of Creet? There grew most
Time upon Himettus in Greece, 
and Hybla in Sycilia and so by 
consequence most Epithimum]
two ounces. 
Agrick,
Rhubarb, of each half an ounce, 
Ginger, 
Mace of each four scruples,
Cinnamon two scruples,
Saffron, 


124 SYRUPS. 
Saffron half a dram. 
Infuse the Rhubarb and Cinnamon a- 
part by it self 
In white Wine, 
Juyce of Apples, of each two ounces. 
Let all the rest, the saffron excepted, 
be steeped in the Waters above mentio- 
ned, and the next day put in the Juyces, 
which being boyled, scummed and strai- 
ned, then with 
Four ounces of white Sugar. 
Boyl it into a syrup, crushing the saf- 
fron in it being tied up in a linnen rag, 
the infusion of the Rhubarb being added 
at the latter end. 
Culpeper.] Out of doubt this is a 
gallant Syrup to purge adust Choller 
and Melancholly, and to resist mad- 
ness. I know no better purge for 
such as are almost, or altogether di- 
stracted by Melancholly, than one 
ounce of this mixed with four ounces 
of the Decoction of the Epthimum, 
ordering their bodies as they were 
taught. 
Syrupus de Rhubarbaro. Page 69. Lat. 
Or, Syrup of Rhubarb. 
Colledg. Take of the best Rhubarb. 
Senna, of each two ounces and an 
half. 
Violet flowers a handful. 
Cinnamon one dram and an half. 
Ginger half a dram. 
Bitony, 
Succory, 
Bugloss Water, of each one pound and 
an half. 
Let them be mixed together warm all 
night, and in the morning strained and 
boyled into a syrup, with 
Two pound of white Suaar. 
Adding towards the end four ounces of 
syrup of Roses. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth choller and 
Melancholly very gently, and there- 
fore fit for children, old people, and 
weak bodies. You may add an ounce 
of it to the Decoction of Epithimum 
or to the Decoction of Senna. It is 
a very pretty Receipt made by the 
Augustan Physitians. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Syrup is proper at the begin- 
ning of loosnesses in old or young 
Also it is good in Dysenteries being 
administred the quantity of an ounce 
or two, in four or five ounces of 
clear whey, three or four mornings 
every other day, at the beginning of 
the disease.   
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus. Page 69. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of Dam-
mask Roses.
Colledg, Take of spring Water boy- 
ling hot four pound. 
Dammask Rose leaves fresh, as many 
as the Water will contain.
Let them remain twelve hours in in- 
fusion, close stopped: then press
them out and put in fresh Rose
leaves. 
Do so nine times in the same Liquor, 
encreasing the quantity of the Roses
as the Liquor encreaseth, which 
will be almost by the third part 
every time: Take six parts of this 
Liquor, and with, 
Four parts of white Sugar. 
Boyl it to a Syrup according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It loosneth the Belly, 
and gently bringeth out choller and 
flegm, but leaves a binding quality 
behind it.
Vertues newly added. 
This Syrup cheifly if not only pur- 
ges yellow and Chollerick waters 
from the Body, and is therefore good 
for hot Rheums. An ounce, or one 
ounce and half, or two ounces may 
be taken in three ounces of clear 
whey warmed.
Syrupus è Succo Rosarum. Page 70. 
Latin. Or, Syrup of the 
Juyce of Roses. 
Colledg.] It is prepared without stee-
ping, only with the Juyce of Da- 
mask Roses pressed out, and clari- 
fied out, and an equal porportion 
of Sugar added to it. 
Culpeper.] This is like the other. 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum 
Agarico. Page 70. Latin. Or, 
Syrup of Roses solutive  
with Agrick. 
Colledg.] Take of Agrick cut thin an 
ounce. 
Ginger two drams. 
Sal. Gem. one dram. 
Polipodium bruised two ounces. 
Sprinkle them with white wine and steep 
them two daies over warm ashes, in a 
pound and an half of the infusion of Da- 
mask Roses prescribed before, and with 
One pound of Sugar. 
Boyl it into a Syrup according to Art. 
Culpeper.] You had better add 
twice so much sugar as is of the infu- 
sion, for fear the strength of the 
Agrick be lost in the boyling. It 
purgeth flegm from the head, re- 
lieves the sences oppressed by it, it 
provokes the terms in women, it 
purgeth the Stomach and Liver, and 
provokes Urine. Some hold it an 
universal purge for all parts of the 
Body. A weak Body may take an 
ounce at a time, and a stronge, two 
ounces, guiding himself as he was 
taught in the Decoction of Epithi- 
mum.
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Helle- 
boro. Page 70. Latin. Or, Syrup 
of Roses solutive, with 
Hellebore. 
Colledg. Take of the Bark of all the 
Myrobalans, of each five oun- 
ces, 
Bruise them grosly, and steep them 
twenty four hours in twelve pound of the 
infusion of Roses before spoken. 
Senna.  
Epithimum, 
Polypodium of the Oak, of each four
ounces.
Cloves an ounce. 
Citron seeds, 
Liquoris, of each four ounce. 
The * Bark of black Hellebore roots 
six drams: [* Take the Roots 
themselves, for if the Bark be 
to be had, it is very Rare.] 
Let the fourth part of the Liquor 
gently exhale, strain it, and with 
Five pound of Sugar, 
Rhubarb sixteen drams, tied up in a 
linnen rag 
Make it into a Syrup according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] You must not boyl the 
black Hellebore at all, or but very 
little, if you do, you had as good 
put none in. A. The Syrup rightly 
used, purgeth Melancholly, resisteth 
madness. I wish the Ignorant to let 
it alone, for fear it be too hard for 
them. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an excellent Syrup con-
ttived by Montanus a Judicious and 
renowned Physitian, very proper in al 
Melancholick Diseases whether they 
afflict the Body or mind. Culpeper 
might possibly have his considering 
Cap on, but certainly his wits were 
on Wooll-gathering, when he censurd 
this Medicament. He wishes the 
Ignorant to it alone. But if any 
man is ignorant through blockish- 
ness and desires and endeavours to 
be wiser, I say let him take it to cla- 
rifie his internal senses, which it will 
do effectually. Half an ounce, six 
drams, or an ounce may be taken in 
three ounces of Borrage water, or 
four ounces of Whey, spring and sal 
divers daies together or every other 
day, so as that it may work once or 
twice in a day only. Medicaments 
of this Nature and in these Cases,
must be taken in smal quantity aud 
long together. 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Senna. 
Page 70. Latin. Or, Syrup of 
Roses solutive, with Senna. 
Colledg. Take of Senna, six ounces.
Caraway, 
Sweet


125 SYRUPS. 
Sweet Fennel seeds, of each three 
drams. 
Sprinkle them with white wine, and 
infuse them two daies in three pound of 
the infusion of Roses aforesaid. 
Then strain it, and with two pound 
of Sugar, boyl it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper. It purgeth the Body of 
choller and Melancholly, and expels 
the relicts a disease hath left behind 
it; the dose is from one ounce to 
two: you may take it in a Decoction
of Senna, it leaves a binding quality 
behind it.
Syrupe de Spina Cervina. Pag. 71. Lat. 
Of Bucks Thorn, or pur- 
ging Thorn.
Colledg. Take of the Berries of pur- 
ging Thorn, gathered in Septem- 
ber, as many as you will. 
Bruise them in a stone Morter, and 
press out the Juyce, let the fourth 
part of it evaporate away in a 
Bath, then to two pound of it, 
add 
Sixteen ounces of white Sugar. 
Boyl it into a syrup, which perfume 
with 
Mastich, 
Cinnamon, 
Nutmegs, 
Annis seeds in fine pouder, of each 
three drams.
Culpeper. Tragus and Pena com- 
mended it much against the Dropsie: 
I know nothing of it by experi-
ence.
Vertues newly added. 
I have been informed that the late 
renowned Sir Theodore Mayerne that 
old Court Physitian cald this Syrup 
Syrupus Domesticus the Houswifes 
Syrup, intimating the usefulness and 
harmless Nature thereof. 
It purges water and froathy choler 
from the Head and Hypochondries. 
It is good against the Dropsie, scurvy 
and melancholly Hypochondriacal. It 
is not that I have observed, any waies 
hurtful, only it is apt to make the 
patient Stomach-sick upon the wor- 
king; which is a property of Aga- 
rick, reputed nevertheless a purga- 
tive so far from any Malicious or ma- 
lignant Nature, as that it is reputed 
most benigne and put into Mithri- 
date or Treacle as a soveraigne An- 
Antidote. 
Syrups made with 
Vinegar and Honey. 
Mel Anthosatum. Page 71. Latin. Or, 
Honey of Rosemary flowers. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Rosemary 
flowers a pound. 
Clarified Honey three pound. 
Mix them in a glass with a narrow 
mouth, set them in the Sun, keep them 
for use. 
Culpeper.] It hath the same vertues 
with Rosemary flowers, to which I 
refer you, only by reason of the Ho- 
ney it may be somewhat clensing. 
Mel Helleboratum. Page 72. Latin. 
Or, Honey of white Hellebore. 
Colledg.] Take of white Hellebore 
Roots bruised a pound. 
Cleer water fourteen pound. 
After three daies infusion, boyl it till 
half be consumed, then strain it diligent- 
ly, and with three pound of Honey, boyl
it to the thickness of Honey. 
Virtues newly added.
This is indeed a violent medica- 
ment not to be used but with great 
Caution, in strong bodies and at the 
last cast when gentler medicaments 
will do no good. In Madness, old 
and desperate Melancholies, Epilep- 
sies in grown persons, dropsies in 
strong bodies, a smal qnantity as a 
dram or two mingled with posset 
drink or a Decoction of Marsh mal- 
lows may be given fasting, and pos- 
set drink with sweet butter melted in 
it to drink when it works. And one 
ounce or two of Oyl of sweet Al- 
monds to drink after the working is 
over. I have not experimented this 
Medicament and cannot steadily de- 
termine of the Dose, He that shall
find a necessity to use it may begin 
with a dram and so arise gradually 
till he finds it work competently 
without dammage. I know not why 
the use thereof may not in some cases 
be as tolerable, as the use of Mercu- 
rius Vitæ. As for correction, which 
Culpeper talkes of the Hellebore it is 
in some measure corrected by the 
Honey and more by the Evaporation 
of the more spiritual parts in a two- 
fold long boyling, in which spiritual 
parts its cheif purgative quality 
seems to reside, because it cheifly 
works upwards.
Mel Mercuriale. Page 72. Latin.
Or, Honey of the Herb
Mercury. 
Colledg.] Boyl three pound of the 
juyce of Mercury, with 
Two pound of Honey. 
To the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] It is used as an Emol- 
lient in Clysters. 
Vertues newly added. 
It makes the Guts pliant and slip- 
pery, and loosens the dung, when 
the Belly is dried and hardned with 
Costiveness, it is hardly ever used but 
in Clysters. Yet an ounce or two 
may be profitably drunk in a pint 
of whey or posset drink to loosen the 
Belly. 
Mel Mororum, vel Diamoron
Page 72. Latin. Or, Ho- 
ney of Mulberries. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Mul-
berries and black berries, before 
they be ripe, gathered before the 
Sun be up, of each a pound and 
an half. 
Honey two pound. 
Boyl them to their due thickness.
Culpeper.] It is vulgarly known
to be good for sore mouths, as also 
to cool inflamation there. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for sore Throates, and to
clense and qualifie Ulcers. 
Mel Nuceum, alias, Diacaryon et Dia-
nucum. Page 72. Latin. Or, 
Honey of Nuts. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of the 
outward bark of green Walnuts, 
gathered in the Dog daies two 
pound. 
Boyl it gently til it be thick, and with 
one pound of Honey, boyl it to the thick- 
ness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] It is a good preservative 
in pestilential times, a spoonful being 
taken so soon as you are up. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to mingle in Vomits, 
and will bring away choler from the 
stomach and parts adjacent. 
Mel Passulatum. Page 72. Latin.
Or, Honey of Raisons. 
Colledg.] Take of Raisons of the Sun 
clensed from the stones two pound. 
Steep them in six pound of warm wa- 
ter, the next day boyl it half away, and 
press it strongly, and with two pound of 
Honey let the expressed liquor boyl to its 
thickness. 
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126 SYRUPS. 
Culpeper.] It is a pretty pleasing  
Medicine for such as are in Con-  
sumptions, and are bound in body. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for flegmatick bodies 
and rheumatick diseases.
Mel Rosatum commune, sive Foliatum. 
Page 73. Latin. Or Honey 
of red Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of red Roses not quite 
open two pound. 
Honey six pound. 
Set them in the Sun according to art. 
Mel Rosatum Colatum. Pag. 73. Latin. 
Or, Honey of Roses strained. 
Colledg.] Take of the best clarified 
Honey ten pound. 
Juyce of fresh red Roses one pound. 
Set it handsomly over the fire, and when 
it begins to boyl, put in four pound of 
fresh red Roses, the whites being cut off;
the Juyce being consumed by boyling 
and stirring, strain it and keep it for 
use.
Culpeper.] They are both used for 
Diseases in the mouth. 
Vertues newly added. 
It bridles hot defluxions, comforts 
a weak flegmatick stomach. It is of 
a scouring strengthening nature, both 
taken inwardly and outwardly ap- 
plied. 
Mel Rosatum solutivum Pag. 73 Lat. 
Or, Honey of Damask Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of the often infusion of 
Damask Roses five pound. 
Honey rightly clarified four pound. 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] It is used as a laxative 
in Clysters, and some Chyrurgeons 
use it to clense Wounds. 
Colledg.] After the same manner is 
prepared Honey of the infusion of 
red Roses. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of like faculties with syrup of 
Damask Roses, only hotter and fitter 
for cold flashy and crude stomachs 
and constitutions. 
Mel scilliticum Page 73. Latin. Or, 
Honey of Squils. 
Colledg. Take one Squill full of 
Juyce,
Cut it in bits, and put it in a glass ves- 
sel, the mouth close stopped, & co- 
vered with a skin, set it in the Sun 
forty daies, to wit, twenty before 
and after the rising of the Dog 
star, then open the vessel, and take  
the Juyce which lies at the bot- 
tom, and perserve it with the best
Honey.
Virtues newly added. 
It has the same nature with Vine- 
gar of Squils, save that it is hotter 
and fitter for cool constitutions. 
Half an ounce or six drams thereof 
wil do wel in a Vomit.  
Honey of Violets. 
Colledg. Honey of Violets is prepa- 
red like as Honey of Roses. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good for the Lungs and Chest. 
It lenifies, scoures, cools and streng- 
thens. It is profitably put into Cly- 
sters and Gargarisms, and success- 
fully used to clense Ulcers. In cold 
conststutions where the faculties of 
Violets are requisite, it is more con- 
venient then Syrup of Violets.
Oxymel simple. 73. 
Colledg. Take of the best Honey 
four pound. 
Cleer Water and white Wine Vine- 
gar, of each two pound.
Boyl them in an Earthen Vessel, ta- 
king the scum off with a wooden scum- 
mer, till it be come to the consistence of a 
syryp. 
Culpeper.] Your best way is to 
boyl the Water and Honey first into 
syrup and ad the Vinegar afterwards. 
and then boyl it again into a syrup, 
Observe that the later it be before 
you ad the Vinegar to any syrup, the 
sowrer wil it be: so may you please 
your self. 
It cuts flegm, and it is a good pre- 
parative against a vomit.  
Vertues newly added. 
It cuts thick and clammy humors, 
attenuates them and prepares them 
for expurgation. It is useful both in 
hot and cold diseases. It is very 
good for diseases of the Chest and 
Lungs; and hinders the accumula- 
tion of gross Juyces in the Body. 
Oxymel compound. 73. 
Colledg.] Take of the Bark of the root 
of Fennel, 
Smallage,
Parsly, 
Bruscus, 
Sparagus, of each two ounces. 
The seeds of Fennel,
Smallage,
Parsly, 
Annis, of each one ounce. 
Steep them all (the Roots being first
clensed and the seeds bruised) in six 
pound and an half of wine Vinegar: the 
next day boyl it to the consumption of the 
third part; boyl the rest being strained, 
with three pound of Honey into a liquid 
syrup according to art,
Culpeper.] First having bruised 
the Roots and seeds, boyl them in the 
water till half be consumed, then 
strain it and ad the the Honey, and 
when it is almost boyled enough, ad 
the Vinegar. 
Vertues newly added. 
This besides the faculties of the 
former does open Obstructions in all 
inward parts, and moves Urin pow- 
erfully.  
Oxymel Helleboratum Page 74. Latin. 
Or, Oxymel Helleborated. 
Colledg. Take of Rue,
Time,
Dittany of Creet, 
Hysop, 
Pennyroyal, 
Horehound,
Carduus, 
Roots of Celtick Spiknard with-
out Leaves. 
The inner bark of Elders, of each 
half a handful. 
Mountain Calaminth two pugils. 
The seeds of Annis, 
Fennel, 
Bazil,
Roman Nettles, 
Dill, of each two drams.
Roots of Angelica, 
Marsh-mallows, 
Aron, 
Squils prepared, 
Birthwort, long, round, and cli- 
ming, 
Turbith, 
English Orris, 
Costus, 
Polypodium, 
Lemmon pils, of each an ounce, 
Strings of black Hellebore, 
Spurge, 
Agrick,  added at the end of the 
Decoction, of each two drams. 
The Bark of white Hellebore half 
an ounce 
Let all of them being dried and bruised, 
be digested in a Glass or glazed Vessel 
close stopped, in the heat of the Sun or 
of a Furnace. 
Posca made of equal parts of Water 
and Vinegar eight pound. 
Sapa two ounces. 
Three daies being expired, boyl it a little
more then half away; strain it, pres-
sing it gently, and ad to the Liquor 
Honey of Roses, one pound and an 
half, wherein two ounces of Citron 
Pils have been infused. 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey, and
perfume it with 
Cloves, 
Saffron, 
Ginger,
Galanga,
Mace, of each a dram.
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127 SYRUPS. 
Vertues newly added.
This is good for Madness, 
Melancholly, Palsies, Epilepsies,
Convulsions, Green-sickness; pow- 
erfully opens Obstructions of all 
kinds, brings away Urin, Courses, 
Sweat, and Hemorrhoids where there 
is an Inclination in nature to that e- 
vacuation. Half an ounce or six 
drams may be taken in Whey or Pos- 
set drink, after general remedies 
have been applied. It is good in 
Clysters the quantity of two or three 
ounces in Lethargies and other stu- 
pefying diseases of the Brain; also 
in a stubborn stone or Wind Cholick 
and diseases of the Mother. 
Oxymel Julianizans. 75. 
Colledg.] Take of the Bark of Capar
Roots. 
Roots of Orris, 
Fennel, 
Parsly,
Bruscus, 
Cichory,
Sparagus, 
Cyperus, of each half an ounce. 
Leaves of 
Harts-tongue, 
Schænanth, 
Tamaris, of each half a handful. 
Sweet Fennel seed half an ounce. 
Infuse them in three pound of Posca, 
which is somthing sour; afterwards boyl 
it till half be consumed, strain it with 
Honey and 
Sugar clarified, of each half a 
pound. 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] This Medicine is very 
opening, very good against Hypo- 
chondriack Melancholly, and as fit 
a Medicine as can be for that disease 
in children called the Rickets. Chil- 
dren are as humorsom as men (and 
that is humorsom enough, Experience 
the best of al Doctors, teacheth) some 
love sweet things, let them take sy- 
rup of Harts-tongue; others cannot 
abide sweet things, to their Natures 
this syrup suits; being taken in the 
same manner.
Virtues newly added. 
This is of kin to the former but 
not purging nor so hot nor strong. It 
opens all Obstructions, brings away 
Wind, Urin, Courses, Sweat, Cor- 
rects Flegm and Melancholly, and 
helps diseases of the Spleen.
Oxymel of Squils.
Colledg] Oxymel of Squils simple, is 
made of three pound of clarified 
Honey. 
Vinegar of Squils two pound. 
Boyl them according to art. 
Culpeper. The self same Receipt is
word for word in Mesue, whose com- 
mendations of it is this: It cuts and 
divides humors that are tough and 
viscous, and therefore helps the sto- 
mach and bowels afflicted by such 
humors, and helps sowr belchings. 
If you take but a spoonful in the 
morning, an able body will think e- 
nough. 
A. View the Vinegar of Squils, 
and then your reason wil tel you this 
is as wholsom, and somwhat more 
toothsom. 
Oxymel Sciliticum compositum. Pag. 75. 
Latin. Or, Oxymel of Squils 
compound. 
Colledg. Take of Origanum, 
dried Hysop, 
Time, 
Lovage,
Cardamoms the less, 
Stœehas, of each five drams. 
Boyl them in three pound of Water to 
one.
Strain it, and with 
Honey two pound, 
Honey of Raisons half a pound, 
Juyce of Briony five ounces, 
Vinegar of Squils a pound and an 
half.
Boyl it, and scum it according to art. 
Culpeper.] Mesue saith this is good 
against the Falling-sicness, Megrim, 
Head-ach, Vertigo, or swimming in 
the Head, and if these be occasioned 
by the Stomach, as many times they 
are. It helps the Lungs obstructed by 
humor, and is good for women not
wel clensed after labor, it opens the 
passage of the Womb. ’Tis too chur- 
lish a purge for a Country man to 
meddle with: If the Ignorant wil be 
medling they wil meet with their 
matches, and say I told them so.
Such Syrups as are in 
their former Dispensato- 
ry, and left out in this, 
are these that follow. 
Syrup of Parslain compound. 
Colledg. TAke the seeds of 
Purslain grosly brui- 
sed half a pound. 
Juyce of Endive boyled and clarified, 
two pound. 
Sugar two pound. 
Vinegar nine ounces. 
Infuse the seeds in the juyce of Endive 
twenty four hours: afterwards boyl it 
half away with a gentle fire. 
Then strain it, and boyl it with the 
sugar to the consistence of a syrup, adding 
the Vinegar towards the latter end of the 
Decoction. 
Culpeper.] It is a pretty cooling sy-
rup, fit for any hot diseases incident 
to the stomach, reins, bladder, ma- 
trix, or liver; it thickens Flegm, 
cools the blood, and provokes sleep. 
You may take an ounce of it at a 
time when you have occasion. 
Vertues newly added.
It helps spitting of blood and blee- 
ding at the Nose. It allaies the ac- 
crimony of seed, and, and hinders ex- 
travigant Lusts and dreaming Go- 
norrhæas arising therefrom. Also 
it is good for over violent menstrual 
stoods springing from sharpness of 
the blood as to metelesom and shre- 
nish women is usual. 
Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot. 
Renod.
Colledg.] Take six handfuls of green 
Coltsfoot, 
Two handfuls of Maidenhair, 
One handful of Hysop, 
And two ounces of Liquoris. 
Boyl them in four pints, either of rain 
or spring water til the fourth part be con- 
sumed, then strain it, and clarifie it, to 
which add three pound of white sugar; 
boyl it to the perfect consistence of a sy- 
rup.
Culpeper. The Composition is ap- 
propriated to the Lungs; and ther- 
fore helps the infirmities, weaknesses 
or falling thereof; as want of voyce, 
difficculty of breathing, coughs, 
hoarsness, cathars, &c. The way of 
taking it is with a Liquoris stick, or 
if you please, you may add an ounce 
of it to the Pectoral Decoction be- 
fore mentioned.  
Syrup of Poppies the lesser 
composition.
Colledg. Take of the Heads of white 
Poppies and black, when both of 
them are green, of each six ounces. 
Seeds of Lettice, 
Flowers of Violets, of each one ounce. 
Boyl them in eight pints of water til the 
vertue is out of the heads; then strain 
them, and with four pound pound of su-
gar boyl the Liquor to a syrup. 
Syrup of Poppies, the greater com-
position. Mesue.  
Colledg.] Take of the heads of both 
white and black Poppies, seeds
and all, of each fifty drams. 
Maidenhair, fifteen drams, 
Liquoris, five drams, 
Jujubes thirty by number, 
Lettice seeds fourty drams,
Of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces
(tied up in a linnen cloth) of each 
one dram and an half. 
Boyl these in eight pints of water til five 
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128 ROB. 
be consumed: when you have strained 
out the three pints remaining, add to 
them, 
Penids, 
White Sugar, of each a pound. 
Boyl them into a Syrup according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] All these former Syrups 
of Poppies provoke sleep, but in 
that, I desire they may be used with 
a great deal of caution and wariness: 
such as these are, are not fit to be 
given in the beginning of Feavers, 
nor to such whose bodies are costive; 
ever remember my former Motto, 
Fools are not fit to make Physitians: 
yet to such as are troubled with hot, 
sharp Rhewms, you may safely give 
them: And note this, The last, 
which is borrowed from Mesue, is 
appropriated to the Lungs, whose 
own words (translation excepted) of 
it are these: It prevails against dry 
coughs, Ptisicks, hot and sharp gna- 
wing Rhewms, and provokes sleep. 
It is an usual fashion for Nurses when 
they have heat their Milk by Exer- 
cise or strong Liquor (no marvel 
then if their Children be froward) 
then to run for Syrup of Poppies to 
make their young ones sleep. I 
would fain have that fashion left, 
therefore I forbear the Dose: Let 
Nurses keep their own bodies tem- 
perate, and their Children will sleep  
wel enough, never fear.
Vertues newly added. 
They are good in spittings of 
blood, over flowings of courses, and 
to bridle the passions of Anger and 
wrath in such as are too much tran- 
sported therewith. 
Syrup of Eupatorium, or Maudlin. 
Colledg. Take of the Roots of Smal- 
lage, 
Roots of Fennel, 
Succory, of each two ounces. 
Liquoris, 
Schænanth, 
Dodder, 
Worm-wood, 
Roses, of each six drams, 
Maiden-hair, 
Bedeguar, or instead thereof, the 
Roots of Carduus Mariæ, 
* Suchaha [* A kind of Thorn gro- 
wing in Egipt and Arabia] or 
instead thereof the Roots of 
Avens, 
The flowers or roots of Bugloss,
Annis seeds, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, 
Ageratum, or Maudlin, of each five 
drams.
Rhubarb, 
Mastich, of each three drams. 
Spicknard, 
Indian leaf, or instead of it put Ro- 
man spike, of each two drams. 
Boyl them in eight pints of water till 
the third part be consumed: then strain
the Decoction, and with 
Four pound of Sugar, 
Clarified juyce of Smallage, 
Endive, of each half a pound. 
Boyl it into a syrup. 
Culpeper.] It amends infirmities of 
the Liver coming of cold, opens ob- 
structions, helps the dropsie, and 
evil State of the Body, it extenuates 
gross Humors, strengthen the Liver, 
provokes Urine, and is a present 
succor for Hypocondriack Melan- 
cholly. You may take an ounce at 
a time in the morning: it opens, but 
purgeth not. 
Honey of Emblicks. Augustanus. 
Colledg.] Take fifty Emblick Myro-
balans. 
Bruise them and boyl them in three pints 
of water till two be consumed; strain 
it, and with the like weight of Honey,
boyl it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine gentle purger 
both of flegm and Melancholly; it 
strengthens the Brain and Nerves, 
and fences both internal and exter- 
nal, helps tremblings of the heart, 
staies vomiting, provokes Appetite. 
You may take a spoanful at a time. 
ROB, OR SAPA:
AND 
JUYCES. 
Culpeper.] ROB is somthing an uncouth word, and happily formidable to 
the ignorant Country-man in these thieving times; and there- 
fore in the first place, I will explain the word. 1. Rob, or Sapa, is the Juyces 
of a Fruit, made thick by the Sun, or the Fire, that it is capable of, being kept 
safe from putrefaction. 2. Its use was first invented of Diseases in the mouth, 
(however, or for whatsoevor it is used now it matters not.) 3. It is usually 
made, in respect of Body, somthing thicker than new Honey 4. It may be 
kept about a year, little more or less. 
Rob, sive Sapa simplex. Pag. 76. Latin. 
Or, Simple Rob, or Sapa, viz. 
Wine boild to a thick Syrup. 
Colledg. TAke of Wine newly pres-
sed from white and ripe 
Grapes. 
Boyl it over a gentle fire to the thick- 
ness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] When ever you read the 
word Rob, or Sapa throughout the 
Dispensatory, simply quoted in any 
Medicine without any relation of 
what it should be made, this is that 
you ought to use. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good for sore mouths, in that 
it does not only strengthen, and stop 
the motion of the Morbisick cause by
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129 ROB. 
a Styptical roughness therein, but 
also clenses away and digests the hu- 
mors come already into the part, 
it is good in the clensing of Ulcers in 
what ever part. It strengthens a cold 
flashy stomach and weakened liver 
being taken from a Knifes point the 
quantity of three drams or half an 
ounce in a morning, alone or with 
two drams of Honey of Reisins, a 
foresaid.
Rob de Barberis. Page 76. Latin. 
Quiddeny, or Rob of 
Barberries. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Bar- 
berries strained as much as you 
will. 
Boyl it by it self (or else by adding 
half a pound of Sugar to each pound 
of juyce) to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] It quencheth thirst, 
closeth the mouth of the stomach, 
thereby staying Vomiting, and Bel- 
ching, it strengthens stomachs weak- 
ned by heat, and procures Appetite. 
Of any of these Robs you may take a 
little of the point of a Knife when 
you need.
Vertues newly added.
This taken at night in a mans bed 
the quantity of two or three drams 
or half an ounce from a Knifes point 
helps those to sleep that are kept 
waking by hot distempers of the 
Head arising from vexations steams 
and Vapors and fumes arising from 
the lower parts. It is good in Vo- 
mitings and Loosness, and the He- 
patick flux, and the Rheumatismus 
or Rheumatica Affectio so called (of 
which see Riverious his Practise) for 
the Dysentery and Chollerick loos- 
ness, being seasonably and skillfully 
applied. What we write, though it is 
to such as understand not the Latin 
Tongue, yet is it not to such as have not 
through education, long experience, study 
and Practise under a skilful master, at- 
tained a judgment in things appertai- 
ning to the of Art of healing: which I 
say in this place once for all. For an 
ignorant and uneducated person to think 
to Practise Physick by this Book alone, 
is as if a Plough-man should undertake 
to sing prick song at first sight or to play 
upon a Lute having never been trained  
in Musick. He may think it an easie
thing to strike the strings with one hand, 
and pat his Fingers upon the strings and 
frets with the other; but his Musick wil 
come short of the well accented howling 
of a Dog. So will it fare with him that 
shall presume unartfully to use the Me- 
dicaments of this Book. Study the books
of Speculative and Practical Physick in 
the English Tongue.
Rob de Cerasis. Page 76. Latin. Quid- 
deny, or Rob of Cherries. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of red 
Cherries somwhat sowrish, as 
much as you will. 
And with half their weight in Su- 
gar. 
Boyl them like the former. 
Culpeper.] See the vertues of Cher- 
ries; and there have you a neat trick 
to keep them all the year. 
Virtues newly added. 
This cooles, quenches thirst, al- 
laies the boyling of Chollerick hu- 
mours, cooles the Mouth and 
Tongue in Feavers: and imitates the 
Virtues of the former, save that it is 
not near so astringent. 
Rob de Cornis. Page 76. Latin. 
Or, Rob of Cornels. 
Colledg. Take of the Juyce of Cor- 
nels two pound. 
Sugar a pound and an half. 
Boyl it according to art. 
Culpeper.] Of these Cornel trees 
are two sorts, Male and Female; the 
fruit of the Male Cornel, or Corne- 
lian Cherry is here to be used, for 
the Female is that which is called 
Dog-berry, in the North Country 
they cal it Garter-wood, and we in 
Sussex Dog-wood. I suppose because 
the Berries will make Dogs mad as 
some hold; also it is very unwhol- 
som Wood, specially for such as have 
been bitten by mad Dogs. 
The fruite of Male Cornel, binds 
exceedingly, and therefore good in 
Fluxes, Bloody Fluxes. and the im-   
moderate flowing of the Terms in 
Women.
Rob Cydoniorum. Page 56. Latin. Or, 
Quiddeny of Quinces. 
Colledg. Take of the Clarified juyce 
of Quinces, 
Boyl it till two parts be consumed. 
And with its equal weight in Su-
gar. 
Boyl it into a Rob.
Miva vel Gelatina Eorundem. Pag. 76. 
Latin. Gelly, or Marmalade 
of Quinces.
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Quinces 
Clarified twelve pound. 
Boyl it half away, and add to the re- 
mainder 
Old white Wine five pound. 
Consume the third part over a gentle fire 
taking away the scum (all you ought) 
let the rest settle, and strain it, and 
with three pound of Sugar boyl it ac- 
cording to Art. 
Culpeper.] Both are good for weak 
and indisposed Stomachs. 
Vertues newly added. 
They have a binding and streng- 
thening faculty, stop Vomiting and 
Loosnesses, Reasonably and Skilfully 
applied; are good therefore for the 
Disease Cholera [See Riverius Pra- 
ctise] stop bleeding at the Nose and 
spitting of Blood, hinder fumes 
from annoying the brain being taken 
after meat. And being eaten by wo- 
men with Child, frequently (provi- 
ded they be not Costive which must, 
if so, be first remedied) about a dram 
upon a Knifes point after meats, and 
at bed time, it will contribute not 
only to prevent Abortion, but to 
make their Child of able understan- 
ding, sober, modest, and tractable. 
Provided the Women also abstaine
from Tobacco, strong drinks, and 
Wine especially, during the time of 
their greatness. Yet in case of great 
weakness of stomach from a cold 
cause a little Wine may be allowed 
and seldom, but no otherwise. 
Quiddeny of four Plums. 
Colledg.] Rob of four Plums is made 
as Rob of Quinces; the use of 
sugar is indifferent in them both. 
Rob of Engish Currence is made in 
the same manner, let the juyce be Clari-
fied. 
Culpeper.] The Vertues are the 
same with Rob of Barberries. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is supplied by the Providence 
of God to be used by such as cannot 
attain to Quiddeny of Barberries, 
which are not so common or plenti- 
ful. It will serve in good measure 
to the same Intents that have been 
said of Quiddeny of Barberries. But 
you must use a greater qantity, be- 
cause it is not so mettlesome as the 
former. Unripe Damsins are I con- 
ceive the fittest Plums. Yet any tart
Plums of a firme substance not fully
ripe may be used, where Damsins are 
not plentiful. 
Rob Baccarum Sambuci. Page 77.
Latin. Quiddeny, or Rob 
of Elder-berries. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Elder-
Berries
And make it thick with the help 
of a gentle fire, either by its self, 
or a quarter of its weight in Sugar 
being added. 
Culpeper.] Both Rob of Elder Ber- 
ries, and Dwarf-Elder, are excellent 
for such whose Bodies are inclining 
Hh to 


130 LOHOCH. 
to Dropsies, neither let them neglect 
nor despise it, if they do ’tis not my 
fault. They may take the quantity 
of a Nutmeg each morning, ’twill
gently purge the watry humor. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good, not only for Dropsies, 
but for Gouts, Feavers, the Erysipe- 
las or red swelling which the Dutch 
call the Rose. It helps stoppings 
and Tumors of the Spleen, thence 
arising. It is good against the Stone 
in the Kidneys, Diseases of the 
Womb, which it clenses; also for 
Maladies of the Throat and Eyes, and 
for burnings. 
Colledg.] In the same manner is made 
Rob of Dwarf-Elder, Juniper 
berries and Pauls Betony, only in 
the last, the Sugar and Juyce must
be equal in weight. 
Succus Glycyrrhizæ simplex. Page 77. 
Latin. Or, Juyce of Liquoris 
Simple. 
Colledg.] Infuse Liquoris roots clen- 
sed and gently bruised, three daies 
in spring water, so much that it 
may over-top the roots the breadth  
of three fingers; then boyl it a 
little, and press it hard out, and 
boyl the liquor with a gentle fire to 
its due thickness.
Culpeper.] It is vulgarly known to 
be good against Coughs, Cold, &c. 
and a strengthener of the Lungs. 
Vertues newly added. 
It clears the Voice, opens obstru-
ctions, moves Urine moderately, al- 
laies sharpness of Urine, and re- 
lieves the Heart oppressed with Me- 
lancholy or whatever saddening hu-
mor.
Succus Glycyrrhizæ compositus. Pag. 77 
Latin. Or, Juyce of Liquoris 
Compound.
Colledg.] Take of the water of tender 
Oak leaves, 
Scabious, of each four pound. 
English Liquoris scraped and bruised 
two pound. 
Boyl them by degrees til they be soft, then 
press out the Liquor strongly in a press 
to which add 
Three pound of juyce of Hysop, and 
dry it away in the Sun in a broad 
Earthen vessel 
Culpeper.] The vertues are the same 
with the former. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is more effectual against dis- 
eases of the lungs arising from rheum 
and flegm, then the former. It dries 
up Rheum, cuts and expectorates 
flegm, and strengthens the Lungs. 
A drop or two of Chymical Oyl of 
Hyssop added to a couple of ounces 
of Juyce of Liquoris, wil make much 
such a Medicament as this.
Succus Prunorum Sylvestrium. Pag. 78. 
Latin. Or, Quiddeny 
of Sloes. 
Colledg.] Take of Sloes hardly ripe, 
press out the juyce, and make it 
thick in a Bath. 
Culpeper.] It stops Fluxes, and 
procures appetite. 
Vertues newly added. 
It corrects sharp and thin choller, 
strengthens the Stomach and Liver 
weakned with heat and chollerick
Juyces. It procures rest in hot di- 
stempers. It hath many of the fa- 
culties of Quiddeny of Barberries 
and Damsins, but is more cold, ear- 
thy, Styptick and stopping. A scru- 
ple, half a dram, and somtimes a 
dram may be given from a Knives 
point. But the Patient must not be 
costive. It may also do good in 
Plagues and Pestilential Feavers, 
mingled with London Treacle, Dia- 
scordium, Mithridate , or Venice 
Treacle according to the differing 
Age, Sex and Constitution of the 
Patient. 
Colledg] So are the juyces of Worm- 
wood, Maudlin, and Fumitory 
made thick, to wit, the Herbs 
bruised while they be tender, and 
the juyce pressed out and after it be
clarified, boyled over the fire to its
just thickness.
LOHOCH, ECLEGMATA, 
OR 
LICK-POTS. 
Culpeper. BEcause this word also is understood but by few, we will first ex- 
plain what it is. 1. The word Lohoch is an Arabick word,
called in Greek εχλεγμα, in Latin Linctus, and signifies a thing to be licked up. 
2. It is in respect of Body, somthing thicker than a Syrup, and not so thick as 
an Electuary. 3. Its use it was invented for, was against the roughness of the 
Wind-pipe, Diseases and Inflamation of the Lungs, difficulty of Breathing, Colds,
Coughs, &c. 4. Its manner of reception is with a Liquoris stick, bruised at 
the end, to take up some and retain it in the mouth, till it melt of its own accord. 
Vertues newly added. 
FRom the Hollanders I have bor- 
rowed the Term of Lick-pot 
which is by the Apothecaries and 
common people in those parts con- 
ferred upon these kind of Medica- 
ments
Lohoch de Farfara. P. 79. Lat. Lohoch, 
or Lick-pot of Colts-foot. 
Colledg.] Take of Colts-foot Roots 
clensed eight ounces. 
Marsh-mallow roots four ounces clen-
sed. 
Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of wa-
ter, and press the pulp out through a 
sieve. 
Dissolve this again in the Decoction, 
and


131 LOHOCH. 
and let it boyl once or twice, then take 
it from the fire and add 
White Sugar two pound. 
Honey of Raisons fourteen ounces. 
Juyce of Liquoris two drams and an 
half. 
Stir them stoutly with a wooden Pestel,
mean season sprinkle in 
Saffron, 
Cloves, of each a scruple. 
Cinnamon, 
Mace, of each two scruples. 
Make them into a Lohoch according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It was invented by an 
uncertain, or an unrevealed Author 
for the cough. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is framed to scour and clense 
the Lungs. It will prevent a Con- 
sumption, duly administred and ac- 
cording to method. It strengthens 
the chest and wind-bellows or Lungs. 
It relievs a melanchollick and pen- 
sive Heart. And it is usefui for all 
that delight in the noble and divine 
Art and practice of singing in Parts, 
to cleer their Vocal Organs, enbol- 
den their Hearts, and chear their 
spirits, that so they may chaunt it 
lusttily to the glory of God who is 
Musick as well as Love, if Love in 
that sense wherein St. John saies, 
God is Love, is not one and the same 
thing with Musick: which I leave to 
the Philosophers of Cambridge and 
Oxford to determine. Let a Chaun- 
ter that is stopt in his Breast, or 
daunted in courage, take one dram 
or two, half an hour before the inten- 
ded exercise, and if in years and ac- 
customed thereto, let him drink a 
cup of Sack after it: or a small
draught of stale cleer Ale, if no Wine- 
drinker. 
Diseased persons may frequently 
lick thereof with a Liquorice stick, as 
the name imports, at any time day or 
night save on a ful stomach. Yet for 
digestions sake in want of another 
Remedy, it may be taken after meat 
or immediately before: and perad- 
veuture the Virtues mingled with the 
juyces of the meat may be brought 
into the Lungs when they are become 
blood, to as good purpose as when 
it is taken fasting. 
This in my opinion is an excellently 
contrived medicament and artificial- 
ly composed, and certainly Mr. Cul- 
pepers faculties were disjoyned when 
he could not discern the harmonious 
beauty and pertinency thereof. 
Lohoch de Papavere. Page 79. Latin. 
Or, Lohoch of Poppies. 
Colledg.] Take white Poppy seeds 
twenty four drams. 
Sweet Almonds blanched in Rose
water, 
Pinenuts clensed,
Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, of
each ten drams, 
Juyce of Liquoris an ounce, 
Starch three drams, 
Seeds of Lettice, 
Purslain, 
Quinces of each half an ounce, 
Saffron one dram, 
Penids four onces, 
Syrup of Meconium three pound. 
Make it into a Lohoch according to art. 
Culpeper.] It helps salt sharp and 
thin distillations upon the Lungs, it 
allaies the fury of sharp humors 
which occasion both roughness of 
the throat, want of sleep, and fea- 
vers; it is excellent for such as are 
troubled with Pleuresies to take now 
and then a little of it. 
Lohoch è Passulis Page 80. Latin. Or, 
Lohoch of Raisons. 
Colldg] Take of Male Peony roots, 
Liquoris of each half an ounce, 
Hysop, 
Bawm, 
Harts-tongue, or Cetrach, of each 
half a handful. 
Boyl them in spring water, and press 
them strongly, and adding a pound 
of Raisons bruised, boyl it again, pres- 
sing it through a linnen cloth, then with 
a pound of white sugar, make it into a 
Lohoch according to art.
Culpeper.] Although this Medi- 
cine be seldom in use with us in Eng- 
land, yet by report of foraign Physi- 
tians, it is very prevalent, both a- 
gainst coughs, consumptions of the 
Lungs, & other diseases of the breast, 
and is usually given to children for 
such diseases, as also for the convul- 
sions, and falling-sickness (the diffe- 
rence of which two diseases, is not much) 
and indeed the simples testifie no 
less. 
Lohoch è Pino. Page 80. Latin. Or, 
Lohoch of Pinenuts. 
Colledg.] Take of Pinenuts, fifteen 
drams, 
Sweet Almonds,
Hazel Nuts, gently rosted, 
Gum Arabick and juyce of Liquo- 
ris, 
White starch, 
Maidenhair, 
Oris roots, of each two drams. 
The pulp of Dates seventeen drams. 
Bitter Almonds one dram and an 
half. 
Honey of Raisons,
White Sugar-candy, 
Fresh Butter, of each two ounces. 
Honey one pound and an half. 
Dissolve the Gums in so much Decocti- 
on of Maidenhair as is sufficient; let 
the rest be mixed over a gentle fire, and 
stirred, that so it may be made into a Lo- 
hoch.
Culpeper.] The Medicine is excel- 
lent for continuall coughs, and diffi- 
culty of breathing, it succors such as 
are Asthmatick (Asthma, is a Disease 
when tough flegm sticks in the lappets of 
the Lungs.) for it cuts and attenu- 
ates tough humors in the Breast. 
Lohoch de portulaca. Page 83. Latin. 
Lohoch, or Lick-pot of Purslain. 
Colledg.] Take of the strained juyce 
of Purslain two pomnd. 
Troches of Terra Lemnia two drams,
Troches of Amber,
Gum Arabick, 
Dragons blood of each one dram, 
Blood-stone, 
The wool of a Hare tosted, of each two 
scruples. 
White Sugar one pound. 
Mix them together that so you may make 
a Lohoch of them. 
Culpeper.] The Medicine is so ter- 
rible binding that it is better let a- 
lone than taken, unless in inward 
bruises when men spit blood, then 
you may safely take a little of it. 
Vertues newly added. 
It stops spitting of blood and all 
undue Evacuations thereof by the 
Courses or other waies. It corrects 
and mufflles the acrimony of sharp 
humors that are apt to fret the wind- 
pipes. 
Lohoch è pulmone Vulpis. Page 81. 
Latin. Or, Lohoch of 
Fox Lungs. 
Colledg.] Take of Fox Lungs rightly 
prepared. 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Maiden-hair, 
Annis seeds, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, of each equal 
parts. 
Sugar diosslved in Colts-foot and Sca- 
bious Water and boyled into a 
Syrup, three times their weight. 
The rest being in fine Pouder, let 
them be put to it and strongly stir- 
red together, that it may be made 
into a Lohoch according to Art. 
Culpeper.] A. Mesue appoints 
sixteen ounces of Honey, and no Su- 
gar nor uncertain quantity of any 
thing, and reason it self will tell you 
Honey is most clensing. A. It clens- 
eth and uniteth-Ulcers in the Lungs 
and breast, and is a present remedy 
in Ptisicks. 
Lohoch Sanum et Expertum. Page 81.
Or, A sound and well Expe- 
rienced Lohoch. 
Colledg.] Take of dried Hysop, 
Calaminth, of each half an ounce.
Jujubes,


132 PRESERVED. 
Jujubes, 
Sebestens, the stones being taken out. 
Fifteen Raisons of the Sun stoned. 
Fat Figs, 
Dates, of each two ounces. 
Lin-seed, 
Fenugreek seed, of each five drams. 
Maiden-hair one handful,
Annis-seeds, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, 
Orris Roots cut, 
Liquoris, 
Cinnamon, of each an ounce. 
Boyl them according to art in four pound 
of cleer water till half be consumed, and 
with
Penids two pound,
Boyl it into a syrup; and afterwards 
Cut and bruise very smal Pine-nuts 
five drams. 
Sweet Almonds blanched, 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Arabick,
White Starch of each three drams. 
Let these be put into the Syrup when it is 
off from the Fire, and stir it about 
swiftly with a wooden Pestel til it look
white. 
Culpeper.] Only Mesue appoints 
one dram less of Lin-seed, and 
whereas they appoint white Sugar, 
he appoints Penids, else the Receipt 
is Verbatim. A. It succours the 
Breast, Lungs, Throat, and *Trachæa 
Arteria [* Or, Wind-pipe] oppressed 
by cold, it restores the voyce lost by 
reason of cold, and attenuates thick 
and gross Humors in the Breast and 
Lungs.
Lohoch Squilliticum. Page 81. Latin. 
Or, Lick-pot of Squils. 
Colledg.] Take three drams of a 
Squil baked in past,
Orris Roots two dram. 
Hysop, 
Hore-hound, of each one dram. 
Saffron, 
Mirrh, of each half a dram. 
Honey, two ounces and an half. 
Bruise the Squil, after it is baked, in a 
stone Mortar, and after it hath boyled 
a walm or two with the Honey, put in 
the rest of the things in Pouder, dili- 
gently stirring it, and make it into a 
Lohoch according to art. 
Culpeper.] In their former Edition 
they quoted another Lohoch of 
Squils, but it was this. 
Vertues newly added. 
It strengthens the Lungs and helps 
their oppression by thick clammy 
flegm. It is also good for hoarsness 
and Infirmities of the Voice. 
Eclegma of Squils. Mesue.
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of 
Squils, and 
Honey, both of them clarified, of each 
two pound. 
Boyl them together according to art to 
the consistence of Honey. 
Culpeper.] How the name of Mesue 
came to be obtruded upon this Re- 
ceipt, I know not; this I am confi- 
dent of, Galen was Author of it: For 
the Vertues of it see Vinegar of 
Squils, and Oxymel of Squils, only 
this is more mild, and not so harsh 
to the Throat, because it hath 
no Vinegar in it, and therefore is far 
more fitting for Asthmaes, and such 
as are troubled with difficulty of 
breathing: it cuts and carries away 
humors from the breast, be they thick 
or thin, and wonderfully helps indi- 
gestion of victuals, and easeth pains 
in the breast; and of this, I quote the 
Authority of Galen. Alwaies take 
this as a general Aphorism in Phy- 
sick, Sour things are offensive to the 
Wind-Pipe.
Culpeper.] Lohochs left 
out in the new Dis- 
pensatory.
Lohoch, or Lick-pot of Coleworts. 
Colledg.] Take one pound of the juyce 
of Coleworts clarified, 
Saffron three drams. 
Clarified Hony, 
Sugar, of each half a pound. 
Make of them a Lohoch according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It helps hoarsness, and 
loss of voice, easeth surfets and 
Head-ach coming of drunkenness, 
and opens obstructions of the Liver 
and Spleen, and therefore is good for 
that Disease in Children which Wo- 
men call the Rickets.
Vertues newly added. 
It is very effectual against short- 
ness of Breath, being seasonably ad- 
ministred.
PRESERVED 
Stalks, Roots, Barks, 
Flowers, Fruits, 
Pulps. 
Colledg.] TAke of Eringo Roots 
as many as you will, 
clense them without and within, the 
Pith being taken out. 
Steep them two daies in cleer water, 
shifting the water somtimes, then 
dry them with a cloth. 
Then take their equal weight in white 
Sugar, and as much Rose-water 
as will make it into a Syrup,
which being almost boyled, put in 
the Roots, and let them boyl till 
the moisture be consumed, and let 
it be brought to the due Body of a 
Syrup. 
Not much unlike to this, are preser- 
ved the 
Roots of Acorus, 
Angelica, 
Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Succory, 
Alicampane, 
Burnet,
Satyrion, 
Sicers,
Comfry the greater,
Ginger,
Zedoary. 
Take of the stalks of Artichokes, not 
too ripe, as many as you wil. 
And take only the Pith of these, and pre- 
serve them with their equal weight in 
Sugar, like the former. 
So is prepared the stalks of Angelica, 
Burs,
Lettice, &c. Before they be too ripe. 
Take of fresh Orrange Pills as many as 
you will. 
Take away the exteriour yellowness, and
steep them in spring water three daies 
at the least, often renewing the water, 
then preserve them like the former. 
In like manner are Lemmon and Citron 
pills preserved. 
Preserve the Flowers of Citrons, 
Orrenges, 
Borrage, 
Prim-roses, with sugar according to
Art. 
Take of Apricocks as many as you will, 
take away the outer Skin and Stones, 
and mix them with their like weight 
in Sugar. 
After four hours take them out, and 
boyl the sugar without any other Li-
quor, then put them in again, and
boyl them a little. 
Other Fruits have the same manner of 
being preserved, or at least not much
unlike to it, as 
Whole Barberries,  
Cherries, 
Cornels, 
Citrons, 
Quinces, 
Peaches, 
Common Apples, 
The five sorts of Myrobalans, 
Hazel Nuts, 
Walnuts, 
Nutmegs, 
Raisons of the Sun, 
Pepper brought green from India, 
Plums, 
Garden and wild Pears, 
Grapes. 
Pulps are also preserved, as of Bar-
berries, Cassia Fistula, Citrons, 
Cinosbatus, Quinces, and Sloes, &c.
Take


133 CONSERVES and SUGARS. 
Take of Barberries as many as you 
will.
Boyl them in spring water till they are 
tender, then having pulped them through 
a sive, that they are free from the stones, 
boyl it again in an earthen Vessel over 
a gentle fire, often stirring them for fear 
of burning, til the watery humor be con- 
sumed, then mix ten pound of Sugar 
with six pound of this pulp, boyl it to its 
due thickness.
Broom buds are also preserved, but 
with Brine and Vinegar, and so 
are Olives and Capars. 
Lastly, Amongst the Barks, Cinnamon;
amongst the Flowers, Roses, and Mari- 
golds; amongst the Fruits, Almonds,
Cloves, Pine-nuts, and Fistick-nuts, 
are said to be preserved but with this 
difference, they are encrusted with dry 
Sugar, and are more called confects than 
Preserves.
CONSERVES 
And 
SUGARS.
Colledg.] COnserves of the Herbs 
of Worm-wood, 
Sorrel, 
Wood-sorrel, 
Flowers of Orrenges, 
Borrage, 
Bugloss, 
Bettony, 
Marigolds, 
Tops of Carduus, 
Clove-gilli-flowers, 
Flowers of Centaury the less, 
Germander, 
Succory, 
Leaves of Scurvy-grass,
Flowers of Comfry the greater, 
Citratiæ, 
Cynosbati, 
Roots of Spurge, 
Herbs and flowers of Eye bright, 
Tops of Fumitory, 
Goats-Rue, 
Flowers of Broom not quite open, 
Hysop, 
Lavender, 
White Lillies,
Lillies of the Valley, 
Marjoram, 
Mallows, 
Tops of Bawm, 
Leaves of Mints, 
Flowers of water Lillies, 
Red Poppies, 
Peony, 
Peaches, 
Prim-roses, 
Roses, damask, red. 
Rosemary, 
Leaves of Rue,
Flowers of Sage,
Elder, 
Scabious, 
Leaves of Scordium, 
Flowers of Lime-tree, 
Coltsfoot, 
Violets,
With all these are Conserves made with
their treble proportion of white Sugar;
yet note, that all of them must not be 
mixed alike 
Some of them must be cut, beaten and 
gently boyled; some neither cut, bea- 
ten, nor boyled; and some admit but 
one of them, which every Artist in 
his Trade may find out by this Pre- 
monition and avoid error. 
SUGARS.
Diacodium Solidum, sive Tabulatum.
Page 86. Latin. 
Colledg.] TAke of White Poppy 
Heads, meanly ripe, 
and newly gathered, twenty. 
Steep them in three pound of warm spring 
water, and the next day boyl them til 
the vertue is out, then strain out the 
liquor, and with a sufficient quantity 
of good Sugar, boyl it according to 
Art that you may make it up into
Lozenges.
Culpeper.] This Receipt is tran- 
scribed verbatim from the Augustan 
Physitians, The Vertures are the 
same with the common Diacodium, 
viz. To provoke sleep, and help thin 
Rhewms in the Head, Coughs, and 
roughness of the Throat, and may 
easily be carried about in ones 
pocket. 
Saccharum Tabulatum simplex, & 
Perlatum. Page 86. Latin. Or, 
Lozenges of Sugar both 
Simple and Pearled. 
Colledg.] The first is made by pou- 
ring the Sugar out upon a Mar- 
ble; after a sufficient boyling in 
half its weight of Damask Rose 
water: And the latter by adding 
to every pound of the former to- 
wards the latter end of the De- 
coction, Pearls prepared and 
bruised half an ounce, with eight 
or ten Leaves of Gold. 
Culpeper.] A. It is naturally coo- 
ling, appropriated to the Heart, it 
restores lost strength, takes away bur- 
ning Feavers, and fals Imaginations, 
(I mean that with Pearls,) it hath 
the same Vertues Pearls have. 
Saccharum Tabulatum compositum. 
Pag 86. Lat. Or, Lozenges of 
Sugar Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of choyce Rhubarb 
four scruples. 
Agrick Trochiscated,
Corallina,
Burnt Harts-horn, 
Ditany of Creet, 
Wormseed and Sorrel seeds, of each a
scruple. 
Cinnamon, 
Zedoary, 
Cloves, 
Saffron, of each half a scruple.
White Sugar, a pound. 
Dissolved in 
Four ounces of Wormwood water,
Wormwood Wine an ounce.
Cinnamon water, a spoonful, with the 
forenamed Pouders make it into 
Lozenges according to Art. 
Culpeper.] The Title shews you the 
vertues of it. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are contrived to kill and 
drive out Worms, in Children espe- 
cially. They purge out and hin- 
der the encrease of such Humors as 
give matter to the Generation of 
Worms. They are good against a stin- 
king breath. A Lozenge may be ea- 
ten in the morning, and a glass of 
Worm-wood Wine or beer drunk 
thereon. 
Saccharum Penidium. Page. 86 Latin.
Or, Sugar Penids. 
Colledg.] Are prepared of Sugar 
dissolved in spring water by a gentle 
fire, and the whites of Eggs diligently 
beaten, and clarified once, and again,
whilst it is boyling, then strain it and 
boyl it gently again, till it rise up in 
great bubles, and being chewed it 
stick not to your teeth, then powr it 
upon a marble, anointed with Oyl of 
Almonds, (let the bubles first sink, 
after it is removed from the fire) bring 
back the outsides of it to the middle till 
it look like larch Rozin, then your
hands being rubbed with white Starch,
you may draw it into threads either 
short or long, thick or thin, and let it 
cool in what form you please. 
Culpeper.] I remember Country 
people were wont to take them for 
Coughs, and they are somtimes used
in other compositions. 
Vertues newly added. 
They serve to temper the Acrimony 
of sharp and Salt Humors, to which 
intent they are put into divers Medi- 
caments as occasion requires. 
Ii Con-


134 POUDERS. 
Confectio de Thure. Page 87. Latin. 
The Confection of Frankincense, 
or Lozenges of Frankincense. 
Colledg.] Take Coriander seeds pre- 
pared half an ounce, 
Nutmegs, 
White Frankincense, of each three 
drams.
Liquoris, 
Mastich, of each two drams. 
Cubebs, 
Harts-horn prepared of each one 
dram. 
Conserves of red Roses an ounce. 
White Sugar as much as is sufficient
to make it into mean bits. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Lozenges powerfully dry 
up Rheum, strengthen the Brain and 
Stomach, heal Catarhs, and are so- 
veraign for a bad memory arising 
from a cold and moist distemper of 
the Brain and Nerves.
Saccharum Rosarum. Page 87. Latin. 
Or, Sugar of Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of red Rose leaves the 
whites being cut off, and spedily 
dried in the Sun an onnce,
White Sugar a pound,
Melt the Sugar in Rose-water and juyce 
of Roses of each two ounces. 
Which being consumed by degrees, put in 
the Rose Leaves in pouder, mix them, 
and put it upon a Marble, 
And make it into Lozenges according 
to art.
Culpeper.] As for the vertues of 
this, It strengthens weak Stomachs, 
weak hearts, and weak brains; re- 
stores such as are in Consumptions, 
restores lost strength, staies fluxes, 
easeth pains in the head, ears and 
eyes, helps spitting, vomiting, and 
pissing of blood; it is a fine commo- 
dity for a man in a consumption to 
carry about with him, and eat now 
and then a bit.
Vertues newly added. 
Strengthens the Liver and corrects 
the hot distempers thereof. It helps 
the flagginess of the Livers substance 
and prevents Cachexia’s and Drop- 
sies.
Species, or Pouders.
Aromaticum Caryophyllatum. 
Page 88. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Cloves seven
drams, 
Mace,
Zedoary, 
Galanga the less, 
Yellow Saunders, 
Troches, 
Diarrhodon, 
Cinnamon, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Indian SPicknard,
Long Pepper,
Cardamus the less, of each one dram, 
Red Roses four drams, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Liquoris, of each two drams, 
Indian Leaf, 
Cubebs of each two scruples, 
Beat them all diligently into pouder. 
Culpeper. This pouder strengthens 
the heart and stomach, helps digesti- 
on, expelleth wind, staies vomiting, 
and clenseth the stomach of putrified 
humors.
Aromaticum Rosatum. 
Page 88. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of red Roses exungu-
lated fifteen drams,
Liquoris seven drams, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Yellow Saunders, of each thre drams. 
Cinnamon five drams,
Cloves, 
Mace, of each two drams and an half. 
Gum Arabick,
Tragacanth of of each eight scruples. 
Nutmegs, 
Cardamus the less, 
Galanga, of each one dram, 
Indian spicknard two scruples. 
Make it into a pouder to be kept in a 
glass for use.
Culpeper.] It strengthens the brain 
heart and stomach; and all such in- 
ternal Members as help towards con- 
coction; it helps digestion, con- 
sumes the watry excrements of the 
bowels, strengthens such as are pined 
away by reason of the violence of a 
Disease and restores such as are in a 
consumption. 
Pulvis ex chelis cancrorum compositus.
Page 89. Latin. Or, Pouder of 
Crabs Claws Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Pearls prepared,
Crabs Eyes, 
Red Coral, 
White Amber, 
Harts horn, 
Oriental Bezoar, of each half an 
ounce, 
Pouder of the black tops of Crabs 
claws the weight of them all. 
Beat them into pouder which may be 
made into Balls with gelly, and the skins 
which our Vipers have cast off, warily 
dried and kept for use. 
Culpeper.] This is that pouder 
they ordinariily call Gascoigns pou-
der, there are divers Receipts of it, 
of which this is none of the worst,
though the manner of making it up 
be exceeding difficult if not impossi- 
ble; but that it may be had to do a 
man good when Adders Skin cannot 
be gotten, you may make it up with 
gelly of Harts horn, into which put a 
little saffron: four, five or six grains 
is excellent good in a feaver to be 
taken in any cordial, for it chears the 
heart and vital spirits exceedingly, 
and makes them impregnable. 
Species cordiales Temperatæ 
Page 89. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of wood of Aloes, 
Spodium of each a dram. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, bone of a stags heart, 
Rooos of Angelica, 
Avens, 
Tormentil, of each a dram and a half. 
Pearls prepared six drams, 
Raw Silk tosted,
Both sorts of Coral, of each two
drams.
Jacinth,  
Emerald, 
Saphire, of each half a dram. 
Saffron a scruple, 
Leaves of Gold and Silver, of each 
ten.
Make them into pouder according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It is a great cordial, a 
great strengthener both of the heart,
and brain. 
Diacalaminthe Simplex.
Pag. 89. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of mountain Cala- 
minth,
Pennyroyl, 
Origanum, 
Seeds of Macedonian Parsly, 
Common Parsly, 
Hartwort, of each two drams. 
Seeds of Smallage, 
Tops of Time, of each half an ounce. 
Seeds of Lovage, 
Black Pepper, of each an ounce. 
Make them into pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It heats and comforts 
cold bodies, cuts thick and gross 
flegm, Provokes Urin and the terms
in women I confess this differs som- 
thing from Galen, but is better at 
leastwise for our bodies in my opini-
on than his. It expels wind excee- 
dingly, you may take half a dram of 
the pouder at a time. There is no- 
thing surer than that al their Pouders
wil keep better in Electuaries than
they will in Pouders, and into such 
a body if you please you may make
it 


135 POUDERS. 
it with two pound and a half of white 
sugar dissolved in Rose water.
Those that would give help against
al Infirmities, let them read these
Books of mine, of the last Edition,
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston,
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor.
Diacalaminthe compound.
Pag. 89. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Diacalaminthe 
simple half an ounce, 
The Leaves of Horehound, 
Marjoram, 
Bawm, 
Mugwort, 
Savin dried, of each a dram. 
Cyperus roots, 
Seeds of Maddir,
Rue, 
Mace, 
Cinnamon of each two scruples. 
Beat them and mix them diligently into 
a Pouder according to art. 
Culpeper.] This seems to be more
appropriated to the Feminine Gen- 
der than the former, viz. To bring 
down the Terms in women, to bring 
away the Birth, and After-birth, to 
purge them after labor: yet it is dan- 
gerous for women with child. 
Dianisum. Page 90. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of Annis seeds two 
ounces and an half,
Liquoris,
Mastich, of each an ounce. 
Seeds of Caraway, 
Fennel, 
Galanga, 
Mace, 
Ginger, 
Cinnamon of each five drams. 
The three sorts of Pepper, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Mountain-calaminth, 
Pellitory of Spain, of each two drams. 
Cardamoms the greater, 
Cloves, 
Cubebs, 
Indian Spicknard,
Saffron, of eoch a dram and an half.
Make them into pouder. 
Culpeper.] It is chiefly appropria-
ted to the Stomach, and helps the 
cold infirmities thereof, raw flegm, 
wind, contiuual coughs, and other 
such diseases coming of cold. You 
may safely take a dram of Electuary
at a time. You may make an Electu-
ary of it with its treble weight of cla- 
rified Honey 
Pulvis Radicum Ari compositus. Pag. 
98. Latin. Pouder of Aron or 
Cuckowpintle Roots 
compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Aron roots two 
ounces, 
Common Water flag,
Burnet, of each one ounce  
Crabs eyes half an ounce, 
Cinnamon three drams,
Salt of Wormwood and Juneper, of 
each one dram.
Make them into Pouder. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is good to move Sweat in 
malignant diseases, also against the 
bitings of a mad Dog. A scruple or 
half a dram may be given with Lon- 
don Treacle or Burnet or Bawm wa- 
ter.
Diaireos simple. Pag. 90 Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Orris Roots half an 
ounce, 
Sugar candy, 
Diatraganthum frigidum, of each 
two drams.
Make them into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] It comforts the breast, 
is good in colds, coughs, and hoars- 
ness. You may mix it with any pe- 
ctoral syrups which are apropriated 
to the same diseases, and so take it 
with a Liquoris stick. 
Dialacca. Page 90. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Gum-lacca prepa- 
red, 
Rubarb, 
Schænanth, of each three drams. 
Indian Spicknard, 
Mastich, 
Juyce of wormwood 
Agrimony made thick,
Seeds of Smallage, 
Annis, 
Fennel,
Ammi, 
Savin, 
Bitter Almonds,
Mirrh, 
Costus, or Zedoary, 
Roots of Maddir, 
Asarabacca, 
Birthwort long and round, 
Gentian, 
Saffron, 
Cinnamon, 
Dried Hysop, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Bdellium, of each a dram & an half. 
Black Pepper, 
Ginger, of each a dram. 
Make them into Pouder according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Sto- 
mach and Liver, opens Obstructions,
helps Dropsies, yellow Jaundice, 
provokes Urine, breaks the Stone in 
the Reins and bladder. Half a dram 
is a moderate Dose: if the Patieut be 
strong they may take a dram in white 
Wine. Let Women with child for- 
bear it. 
Pulvis Cardiacus Magistralis. Page 91 
Latin. The Cordial Magistral
pouder. 
Colledg.] Take of East Bezoar, Bone
of a Stags heart, of each a dram 
and an half. 
Magisterium of white and red Coral.
White Amber, 
Magisterium of Pearl,
Harts-horn,
Ivory, 
Bole-armenick,
Earth of Germany,
Samos and 
Lemnos, 
Elks claw,  
Tormentil roots, of each a dram. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Citron peels, 
Roots of Angelica, 
Zedoary of each two scruples. 
Leaves of Gold, twenty, 
Ambergreece one scruple, 
Musk six grains. 
Mix them, and make them into pou- 
der. 
Culpeper. It is too deer for a vul- 
gar purse, yet a mighty cordial and 
great strengthener of the heart and 
vitals in Feavers. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is excellent in al Venemous dis- 
eases. It helps fluxes, corrects a 
stinking breath, is good for the fal- 
ling-sickness, all Infirmities of the 
Brain and Heart springing from cold 
causes. It cheers a Melanchollick 
spirit. A scruple, half a dram or 
two scruples may be given in a little 
Borrage water, or in Sack to elderly 
persons not feverish. 
Diamargariton frrigidnm.
Page, 91. Latin.
Colledg. Take of the four greater cold 
seeds. 
Seeds of Purslain, 
White Poppies,
Endive, 
Sorrel,
Citrons, 
The three Saunders, 
Wood of Aloes,
Ginger,  
Red Roses exungulated, 
Flowers of Water-lillies,
Bugloss,
Violets,
The 


136 POUDERS.
The Berries of Mirtles,
Bone in a Stags Heart, 
Ivory, 
Contra-yerva, 
Cinnamon, of each one dram. 
Both sorts of Coral, of each half a 
dram. 
Pearls three drams. 
Camphire six grains, 
Make them into Pouder according to 
Art.
Observe that the four greater cold seeds, 
and the Poppy seeds, are not to be ad- 
ded before the Pouder be required by 
the Physitian for use. Do so by the 
other Pouders in the composition of 
which these Pouders are used. 
Culpeper.] As for the vertues of it, 
Authors hold it to be restorative in 
Consumptions, to help such as are 
in Hectick Feavers, to restore strength 
lost, to help Coughs, Asthmaes, and 
Consumptions of the Lungs, and 
restore such as have labored long 
under Languishing or Pining dis- 
eases. 
Diambræ. Page 92. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon, 
Angelica Roots, 
Cloves, 
Mace, 
Nutmegs, 
Indian leaf, 
Galanga, of each three drams. 
Indian spicknard, 
Cardamoms, greater and lesser, of 
each one dram. 
Ginger a dram and an half. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Yellow Sanders, 
Long Pepper, of each two drams.
Amber-grecce a dram and an 
half. 
Musk half a dram.
Make them all into Pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] Mesue appropriates this 
to the Head, and saith, It heats and 
strengthens the Brain, causeth Mirth, 
helps concoction, cherisheth the Ani- 
mal, Vital, and Natural Spirits; it 
strengthens the heart and stomach, 
and resists all cold Diseases, and is 
therefore special good for Women 
and old men. Your best way is to  
make it into an Electuary, by mixing  
it with three times its weight of cla- 
rified Honey, and take the quantity  
of a Nutmeg of it every morning. 
Diamoschu Dulce. Page 92. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Saffron, 
Galanga, 
Zedoary, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Mace, of each two drams. 
Pearls, 
Raw silk tosted, 
White Amber, 
Red Coral prepared, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Bazil, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Ginger, 
Cubebs, 
Long Pepper, of each a dram and an 
half.
Nutmegs, 
Indian Leaf or Cinnamon, 
Cloves, of each one dram. 
Musk two scruples. 
Make them into pouder according to
Art.
Culpeper.] It wonderfully helps cold 
afflictions of the Brain, that come 
without a feaver, melancholly and its 
attendants, viz. Sadness without a 
cause, Vertigo or diziness in the 
head, Falling-sickness, Palsies, re- 
solution of the Nerves, Convulsions, 
Heart qualms, afflictions of the 
Lungs, and difficulty of breathing. 
The Dose of the Pouder is half a 
dram, or two scruples, or less; ac- 
cording to the age or strength of him 
or her that takes it. Mesue appoints 
it to be made into an Electuary with 
clarified Honey, and of the Electua- 
ry, two drams is the Dose: The time 
of taking it is, in the mornig fa- 
sting. 
They that think the use of these Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it’s so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick
for the Poor. 
Diamoschu Amarum.
Page 92. Latin. 
Colledg.] It is prepared by adding to 
the fornamed Worm-wood. 
Dried Roses of each three drams. 
Aloes half an ounce. 
Cinnamon two drams and an half. 
Castorium, 
Lovage, of each one dram. 
Make them into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] Besides the Vertues of 
the former, it purgeth the stomach of 
putrified Humors. 
Species Dianthus. Page 93. Latin. 
Or, Pouder of Rosemary
Flowers Compound. 
Colledg. Take of Rosemary flowers 
an ounce. 
Flowers of Red Roses, 
Violets, 
Liquoris, of each six drams.
Cloves, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Nutmegs,
Galanga, 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Zedoary, 
Mace, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cardamoms the less, 
Seeds of Dill. 
Annis, of each four scruples. 
Make them into Pouder according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the heart 
and helps the passions thereof, it cau- 
seth a joyful and cheerful mind, and 
strengthens such as have been weak- 
ned by long sickness: it strengthens 
cold stomachs, and helps digestion
notably. The Dose is half a dram; 
you may make it into an Electuary 
with Honey, and take two drams of 
that at a time. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is effectual against all cold dis- 
eases of the Brain, Nerves and Sto- 
mach, as tremblings of the Hands, 
Palsies, Apoplexies, Indigestion of 
meat. Also it helps a bad memory 
arising from coldness and moisture of 
the Brain and Nerves. 
Diapenidion. Page 93. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Penidies two oun- 
ces. 
Piné-Nuts, 
Sweet Almonds blanched, 
White Poppy seeds, of each three 
drams and a scruple. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Ginger, 
(which three being omitted, it is Diape-
nidion without species) 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Gum Tragacanth, and 
Arabick, 
White Starch, 
The four greater cold seeds husked, of 
each a dram and an half. 
Camphire seven grains. 
Make them into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] It helps the Diseases 
of the breast, Coughs, Colds, hoars- 
ness, and Consumptions of the Lungs, 
as also such as spit matter. You may 
mix it with any Pectoral Syrup, and 
take it with a Liquoris stick, if you
fancy the Pouder best; but if the 
Electuary, you may take a dram of it
upon a knifes point at any time when 
the Cough comes. 
Diarrhodon Abbatis.
Page 93. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Sanders white and 
red, of each two drams and an 
half.  
Gum Tragacanth, and 
Arabick, 
Ivory,


137 POUDERS.
Ivory, of each two scruples.
Asarabacca roots, 
Mastich, 
Indian spicknard, 
Cardamoms, 
Liquoris, 
Saffron, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cloves, 
Gallia Moschata,
Annis, and 
Sweet Fennel seeds, 
Cinnamon, 
Rubarb, 
Bazil seeds, 
Barberry seeds, 
The seeds of Succory, 
Purslain, 
The four greater cold seeds clensed 
White Poppy seeds, of each a scruple. 
Pearls, 
Bone of a Stags Heart, of each half 
a scruple. 
Red Roses exungulated, one ounce and 
three drams. 
Camphire seven grains, 
Make them into Pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It cools the violent heat 
of the heart and stomach, as also of
the Liver, Lungs, and Spleen, easeth 
pains in the Body, and most infirmi- 
ties coming to the Body by reason of 
heat. The dose of the Pouder is half 
a dram, and two ounces of the Elect- 
uary, into which with Sugar dissol- 
ved in Rose water you may make it. 
Diaspoliticum. Page 94. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Cummin seeds stee- 
ped in Vinegar and dried.
Long Pepper, 
Rue leaves, of each an ounce. 
Niter, half an ounce, 
Make them into pouder.
Culpeper.] It is an admirable reme- 
dy for such whose meat is putrified 
in their stomachs, it helps cold 
stomachs, cold belchings and windy. 
You may take half a dram after meat 
either in a spoonful of Muskadel, or 
in a Syrup of Mirtles or Quinces, or 
any Cordial Water whose effects is 
the same. 
They that think the use of these Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it’s so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick
for the Poor. 
Species Diatragacanthi frigidi.
Page 94. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Gum Tragacanth
two ounces.
Gum Arabick an ounce and two 
drams. 
White Starch half an ounce. 
Liquoris, 
Seeds of Melones, 
White Poppies, of each three drams.
Citruls, 
Cucumers, 
Guords, of each two drams. 
Penids three ounces. 
Camphirc half a scruple. 
Make of them a Pouder according to 
Art.
Also you may make an Electuary of 
them with a sufficient quantity of Syrup 
of Violets; but have a care of what was 
told you before, of the Seeds. 
Culpeper.] If you please to put in 
the cold Seeds, and so make it up 
into an Electuary; It helps the faults 
of the Breast and Lungs coming of 
heat and driness; it helps Consump- 
tions, Leanness, Inflamations of the 
sides, Pleurisies, &c. hot and dry 
Coughs, roughness of the Tongue and 
Jaws: It is your best way to make an 
Electuary very moist, and take now  
and then a little of it with a Liquoris 
stick.
Diatrion Piperion. Pag. 94. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of the three sorts of  
Peppers, of each six drams and fif- 
teen grains. 
Annis seeds,
Time, 
Ginger, of each one dram. Beat them
into gross Pouder. 
Culpeper.] It heats the Stomach 
and expels wind. Half a dram in 
Pouder, or two drams in Electuary 
(for so Galen who was Author of it 
appointes it to be made with clari- 
fied Honey, a sufficient quantity) if 
age and strength permit; if not, half 
so much, is a sufficient dose, to be 
taken before meat, if to heat the sto- 
mach and help digestion; after meat, 
if to expel wind. 
Diatrion Santalon. Page 94. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of all the the sorts of 
Sanders, 
Red Roses, of each three drams. 
Rubarb, 
Ivory, 
Juyce of Liquoris,
Purslain seeds, of each two drams and 
fifteen grains,
White Starch, 
Gum Arabick,
Tragacanth,  
Seeds of Melones, 
Cucumers, 
Citruls, 
Guords, 
Endive, of each a dram and an 
half, 
Camphire a scruple.
Make them into Pouder according to
Art.
Culpeper.] It is very profitable a- 
gainst the heat of the stomach and li- 
ver; besides, it wonderfully helps 
such as have the yellow Jaundice, and 
consumptions of the Lungs. You 
may safely take a dram of the Pouder 
or two drams of the Electuary in the 
morning fasting; for most of their 
Pouders will keep better by half in 
Electuaries. 
Pulvis Haly. Page 95. Latin. Or, the 
Pouder of Haly, an Arabian 
Physitian so called. 
Colledg.] Take of white Poppy seeds 
ten drams. 
White Starch, 
Gum Arabick, and 
Tragacanth, of each three 
drams. 
Seeds of Purslain, 
Marsh-mallows, 
Mallows, of each five drams.
Cucumers,
Melones,
Gourds, 
Citruls, 
Quinces of each seven drams. 
Ivory, 
Liquoris, of each three drams. 
Penids the weight of them all. 
Make them into Pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It is a gallant cool Pou- 
der, fit for all hot imperfections of 
the Breast and Lungs, as Consump- 
tions, Pleurisies, &c. Your best way 
is to make it into a soft Electuary 
with Syrup of Violets, and take it as 
Diatragacanthum frigidum. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Pouder qualifies the sharpness 
and acrimony of Salt and adust Hu- 
mors, and eager Medicaments. It is 
good for spitting of Blood, overflo- 
wing of the courses & Hemorrhoides 
and all other undue evacuations 
of blood. It helps the strangury and 
sharpness of Urine, and the Bloody  
flux, being seasonably administred.
One scruple, half a dram or a dram 
may be given in Purslane water, or 
made up in an Electuary with Syrup  
of Marsh-mallows. 
Pulvis Lætificans, Galen. Page 95.
Latin. Or, Galens Merry- 
making Pouder. 
Colledg. Take the flowers of clove- 
bazil, or the seeds thereof,
Saffron,
Zedoary,
Wood of Aloes,
Kk Cloves,


138 POUDERS.
Cloves, 
Citron peels, 
Galanga,
Mace,
Nutmegs, 
Styrax Calamitis, of each two drams 
and an half. 
Ivory, 
Annis seeds, 
Time, 
Epithimum, of each one dram. 
Pearls, 
Bone of a Stags heart, 
Camphire, of each half a dram. 
Leaves of Gold and Silver, of each 
half a scruple. 
Make it into pouder according to Art.
Culpeper.] It causeth a merry 
heart, a good color, helps digestion, 
and keeps back old age. You may 
mix half a dram of it to take at one 
time, or less if you please, in any 
cordial syrup or Electuary appropria- 
ted to the same uses. 
Such as would cure all Diseases, let 
them read these books of mine, of the 
last Edition, viz. Riverius, Johnston, 
Riolanus, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor. 
Pulvis Bezoardicus Magistralis. Pag.
95. Latin. Or, the Bezoartick 
Magistral Pouder. 
Colledg.] Take of Saphire, 
Ruby, 
Jacinth, 
Granates, 
Emerald of each a dram. 
Terra Lemnia, 
Bole-armenick, 
Red Coral prepared, 
Pearls prepared, of each two drams. 
Zedoary, 
Unicorns horn,
East and West Bezoar,
Musk, 
Ambergreece, 
Camphire, 
Squinanth, 
Saffron of each half a dram.
Yellow Saunders,
Wood of Aloes, 
Benjamin, of each two scruples. 
Magisterial Phylonium, four scruples. 
Bone of a stags heart, 
Citron peels. 
Chermes of each half a dram. 
Chymital Oyl of Cinnamon and 
Nutmegs of each five drops. 
Make of all a most subtil Pouder accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] ’Tis a great Cordial to 
revive the Body, but it wil bring the 
purse into consumption. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Pouder seems to have been 
invented aginit the Plague and pesti- 
lential malignant diseases, in which 
cases, doubtless it is very useful, one 
scruple, half a dram, or a dram to a 
person infected may be given in Bor- 
rage water and sweat procured upon 
it. 
Species confectionis Liberantis. 
Page 96. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take Tormentil roots 
Seeds of Sorrel, 
Endive, 
Coriander prepared, 
Citron, of each one dram and an 
half. 
All the Saunders, 
White Dittany, of each a dram. 
Bole-armenick,
Earth of Lemnos, of each three 
drams. 
Pearls,
Both sorts of Coral, 
White Amber, 
Ivory, 
Spodium, 
Bone of a Stags heart,
Roots of Serpentary, 
Avens,
Angelica,
Cardamoms, 
Cinnamon, 
Mace, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Saffron, 
Zedoary, of each half a dram.
Penids, 
Raw Silk tosted,
Emeralds, 
Jacinth, 
Granate, 
Flowers of Water-lillies, 
Bugloss, 
Red Roses, of each one scruple. 
Camphire seven grains. 
Make them into a Pouder according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good 
in pestilential Feavers, and preserveth 
from ill airs, and keepeth the humors 
in the body from corruption, it cools 
the heart and blood, strengtheneth 
such as are oppressed by heat; to 
conclude, it is a gallant cool Cordial 
though costly. It being out of the 
reach of a vulgar mans purse, I omit 
the dose, let the Gentry and Nobility 
study Physick themselves, so shal they 
know it; for had they wanted hearts 
to that study no more than they wan- 
ted time and menas, it had been far 
better for this Common-wealth than 
now it is. If a Gentleman have no 
skil in Physick himself. Dr. Dunce if 
he have a Plush cloak will serve his 
turn.
Pulvis Saxonicus. Pag. 96. Latin. 
Colledg]. Take of the Roots of both 
sorts of Angelica, 
Swallow-wort, 
Garden Valerian, 
Polipodium of the Oak,
Marsh-mmallows, 
Nettles, of each half an ounce. 
Bark of German Mezereon, two
drams.  
Herb True-love, twenty grains, 
Leaves of the same, roots and all,
thirty six. 
The roots being steeped in Vinegar and 
dried, beat it all into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] It seems to be as great 
an expeller of poyson, and as great a 
preservative against it, and the pesti- 
lence, as one shall usually read of. 
Widdow-wail is left out by Gesner, 
Crato and others, and out of question 
it makes the Receipt the worse and 
not the better.  
Pulvis Antilyssus. or, pouder against 
the biting of mad Dogs.  
Page, 97. Latin.  
Colled.g Take of Leaves of Rue, 
Vervain, 
Sage, 
Plantane, 
Polypodium, 
Common Wormwood, 
Mints, 
Mugwort,
Bawm, 
Bettony, 
St Johns wort, 
Centaury the less, of each equal parts.
Let them all be gathered in their greatest
strength, which is about the ful Moon in 
June, and dried speedily in a warm Sun, 
and renewed yeerly, and not beaten to 
pouder till you have occasion to use them. 
Culpeper.] A dram of the pouder 
is sufficient taken every morning. 
Vertues newly added. 
I am credibly informed that this 
pouder has been lately experimented 
upon persons bit by mad Dogs and 
taken very ill afterwards, whom it 
did wonderfully restore. Conse- 
quently it is good in other Venemous 
diseases, and in the plague it self. Al- 
so for persons troubled in their wits 
from other causes, after general Re- 
medies it may be good, and for all 
maladies whose symptomes resemble 
those of persons diseased by the bite- 
ing of mad Dogs. 
Rosata Novella. Page 97. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Red Roses, 
Liquoris, of each one ounce one dram 
two scruples and an half. 
Cinamon two drams, two scruples,
and two grains, 
Cloves, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Ginger, 
Galanga, 
Nutmegs, 
Zedoary, 
Styrax Calamitis, 
Cardamoms,
 

139 POUDERS.
Cardamoms, 
Parsly seeds, of each one scruple eight 
grains. 
Beat them into pouder. 
Culpeper.] It quencheth thirst, 
and staies vomiting, and the Author 
saith it helps hot and dry stomachs, 
as also heat and driness of the heart, 
liver, and lungues (yet is the pou- 
der it self hot) It strengthens the vi- 
tal spirits, takes away heart-qualms, 
provokes sweat, and strengthens such 
as have labored long under cronical 
diseases. You may take a dram of 
the Electuary every morning, if with 
clarified Hony you please to make it 
into such a body.
Pulvis Thuraloes. Pag. 97. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Frankincense one 
dram, 
Aloes half a dram. 
Beat them into Pouder. 
Culpeper.] And when you have 
occasion to use it, mix so much of it 
with the white of an Egg (beat the 
white of the Egg well first) as will 
make it of the thickness of Honey, 
then dip the wool of a Hare in it, and 
apply it to the sore or part that blee- 
deth, binding it on. 
In my opinion this is a pretty me- 
dicine, and will stick on till the sore 
be throughly healed, and then will 
come off of it self. I remember when 
I was a child, we applied such a Me- 
dicine (only we left out the Aloes 
and Frankincense, and used only Co- 
nies wool and the white of an Egg) 
to kibed heels, and alwaies with 
good success. 
Pulvis Hermodactylorum compositus. 
Page. 97. Latin. Or, Pouder of 
Hermodactils compound 
Colledg.] Take of mens bones burnt, 
Scammony, 
Hermodactils,
Turbith, 
Senna, 
Sugar, of each equal parts.
Beat them into pouder.
Virtues newly added. 
This pouder was called Pulvis
Arthreticus formerly, being of Para-  
celsus his invention and transferred  
from him by Crollius into his Basilea
Chymica. It was invented against the 
running Gout, in which case it is ef-
fectual. The dose is half a dram or 
two scruples in white Wine. Nor  
is it so dreadful a thing as Mr. Culpe- 
per imagines. I conceive it may be  
proper to purge persons, especially 
women that are troubled with a stub-
born and impudent Tooth-ach, that 
will not otherwise be perswaded a-  
way convenient Remedies being af- 
terwards applied. 
Pulvis Sene compositus major Page 98. 
Latin. Pouder of Sena the greater 
composition, Or, Dr. Hol- 
lands Pouder. 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds of An-
nis, 
Fennel, 
Cummin, 
Spicknard, 
Cinnamon, 
Galanga, of each half an ounce. 
Liquoris, 
Gromwel, of each an ounce, 
Sena the weight of them all, 
Beat it into pouder.
Culpeper.] That this Receipt is 
gallantly composed none can deny, 
and is an excellent purge for such 
bodies as are troubled with the wind 
chollick, or stoppage either of Guts 
or Kidneys: two drams taken in 
white Wine wil work sufficiently with 
any ordinary body. Let weak men 
and children take less, keeping with- 
in doors and warm. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is good in hypochondrical 
melancholly and stoppage of the U- 
rin by wind or Gravel, also for Head- 
ach proceeding from winds, and 
singing or tinkling in the Ears. The 
dose is two scruples or a dram in 
white Wine or Sack. 
Pulvis Senæ compositus minor. Page 
98. Lat. Or, Pouder of Sena, 
the lesser composition. 
Colledg.] Take of Sena two ounces. 
Crem of Tartar half an ounce. 
Mace two scruples, and an half, 
Ginger, 
Cinnamon, of each a dram and an 
half. 
Sal gem one dram. 
Beat them into pouder according to art. 
Culpeper.] This pouder purgeth 
melancholly, and clenseth the head. 
The following pouder works som- 
thing violently by reason of the 
Scammony that is in it; this is more 
gentle, and may be given without 
danger, even two drams at a time to 
ordinary bodies I would not have 
the unskilful meddle with the follo- 
wing. Neither is it fitting for weak 
bodies and children; such as are 
strong may take a dram, or a dram 
and an half, mixing it with white 
Wine: let them take it early in the 
morning after they are up. and not 
sleep after it for fear of danger; two 
hours after, let them drink warm pos- 
set drink, and six hours after eat a bit
of warm Mutton, let them walk about 
the chamber often and not stir out of 
it that day.
Diasenæ or Pulvis Sanctus of Brassa-
volus Page 98. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Sena, 
Crem of Tartar, of each two ounces.
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Galanga, 
Ammi, of each two drams. 
Diacridium half an ounce. 
Beat it into pouder according to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
The Inventor of this pouder Bras-
savolus a learned Italian Physitian, 
finding the excellent effects thereof, 
termed it Pulvis Sanctus, the Holy 
or sacred pouder. It purges melan- 
cholly chiefly, and is good for all dis-
eases of the body or mind arising 
from that humor. The dose is half
a dram or two scruples. It has been 
used a thousand times I beleeve since 
it has been first invented and a thou- 
sand to that, without any such dan- 
ger as Mr. Culpeper imagines, ha- 
ving it seems calculated the Nativity 
thereof, but his Ephemerides were 
false printed. It is good for poor 
people, because of its no dear mate- 
rials, and easily made. The best way 
to give it, I conceive, is in white 
Wine with half an ounce of Elect. le-
nitivum, or in hot bodies with Cicho- 
ry or Fumitory water three ounces, 
and six drams of Electuary Lenitive 
to half a dram of the pouder. 
Diaturbith with Rhubarb. 
Page 98. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Turbith,
Hermodactils, of each an ounce. 
Rhubarb ten drams 
Diacrydium half an ounce, 
Sanders red and white, 
Violets, 
Ginger, of each a dram and a half.  
Mastich, 
Annis seed,  
Cinnamon,  
Saffron of each half a dram. 
Make it into pouder. 
Culpeper. This also purgeth flegm 
and choller. Once more let me de- 
sire such as are unskilful in the Rules 
of Physick, not to meddle with pur- 
ges of this nature (unless prescribed
by a skilful Physitian) left they do 
themselves more mischief in half an 
hour than they can claw off in half a 
yeer. 
Vertues newly added. 
Montagnana a famous and learned 
Physitian invented this medicament, 
or perfected the same at least, by ad- 
ding Rhubarb. It is effectuall to 
purge flegm and choller in diseases 
of the Head, Nerves, Joynts and the 
Venereal Murren. The dose is half 
an


140 POUDERS.
an ounce in white wine or five drams 
in strong Bodies with one ounce of 
Syrup of violets to temper the same. 
The POUDERS left 
out in their new Dispen-
satory, are these. 
The lesser cordial Pouder. 
Fernelius. 
Colledg.] TAke of Harts-horn, 
Unicorns horn, 
Pearls, 
Ivory, of each six grains. 
Beat them into fine Pouder. 
If you mean to keep it, you may en- 
crease the quantity Proportionably. 
The greater Cordial Pouder. 
Fernelius. 
Colledg. Take of the Roots of Tor- 
mentil, 
Roots of Dittany, 
Clove-gilli-flowers, 
Scabious. 
Seeds of Sorrel, 
Coriander prepared,
Citron, 
Carduus Benedictus, 
Endive, 
Rue, of each one dram. 
Of the three sorts of Sanders, white, 
red, and yellow. 
Been, white and red (or if you cannot 
get them, take the roots of Avens 
and Tormentil in their stead) 
Roman Doronicum, [a kind of Woolf- 
bane.] 
Cinnamon, 
Cardamoms, 
Saffron, 
Flowers of both sorts of Bugloss [viz.
Borrage and Bugloss.] 
Red Roses, 
Water-Lillies, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Mace, of each two scruples. 
Ivory, 
Spodium, 
Bone of a Stags heart,
Red Coral, 
Pearls, 
Emerald, 
Jacinth, 
Granate, of each one scruple. 
Raw-silk torrified [dried or rosted by 
the Fire] 
Bole-Armenick, 
Earth of Lemnos,, of each half a 
dram. 
Camphire, 
Ambergreece,
Musk, of each six grains. 
Beat them into pouder according to art. 
And with eight times their weight in 
white Sugar Dissolved in Rose
water. 
You may make them into Lozengce, if 
you please.
Culpeper.] Both this and the for- 
mer pouder, are appropriated to the 
Heart (as the titles shew) therefore 
they do strengthen that, and the vital | 
spirit, and relieve languishing Na-  
ture. All these are cordial Pouders,  
and seldom above half a dram of them  
given at a time, I suppose more for  
the cost of them than any ill effects 
they work, they are too high for a 
poor mans purse, the rich may mix  
them with any cordial Syrup or Elect-
uary which. They find apropriated to 
the same use these are. 
A Pouder for such as are bruised 
by a Fall.
Colledg.] Take of Terra Sigillata, 
Sanguis Draconis.  
Mummy of each two drams. 
Spermaceti one dram 
Rhubarb half a dram. 
beat them in Pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] You must beat the rest 
into Pouder, and then add the Sper- 
maceti to them afterwards, for if you 
put the Spermaceti and the rest all 
together and go to beat them in that 
fashion, you may as soon beat the 
Mortar into pouder, as the simples. 
Indeed your best way is to beat them 
severally, and then mix them all to- 
gether, which being done, makes you 
a gallant Medicine for the infirmity 
specified in the Title, a dram of it 
being taken in Muskadel, and swea- 
ting after it. 
Species Electuarij Diacymini. 
Nicholaus.
Colledg.] Take of Cummin seeds in- 
fused a natural day in Vinegar, 
one ounce and one scruple. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Galanga, 
Savory, 
Calaminth, of each one dram and two 
scruples. 
Ginger, 
Black Pepper, of each two drams and 
five grains. 
Seeds of Lovage, 
Ammi, or Bishop weed, of each 
one dram and eighteen grains. 
Long Pepper one dram. 
Spicknard, 
Nutmegs, 
Cardamoms, of each two scruples 
and an half. 
Beat them and keep them diligently 
in pouder for your use.
Culpeper.] It heats the stomach and 
bowels, expels wind exceedingly, 
helps the wind chollick, helps dige-
stion hindred by cold or wind, is an 
admirable remedy for wind in the 
guts, and helps quartan Agues. The 
Pouder is very hot: half a dram is 
enough to take at one time, and too 
much if the Patient be feaverish; you 
may take it in white Wine. It is in
my opinion a fine composed Pou- 
der. 
Those that would give help against 
all Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, 
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor. 
Species Electuarii Diagalangæ. 
Mesue.
Colledg.] Take of Galanga, 
Wood of Aloes, of each six drams. 
Cloves, 
Mace, 
Seeds of Lovage of each two drams. 
Ginger, 
Long and white Pepper, 
Cinnamon, 
Calamus Aromaticus of each a dram 
and an half. 
Calaminth, and 
Mints dried,
Cardamoms the greater, 
Indian spicknard, 
Seeds of Smallage, 
Annis,
Fennel, 
Carraway, of each one dram. 
Beat them into pouder according to 
Art. 
Also it may be made into an Electua- 
ry with white Sugar dissolved in 
Malago Wine or twelve times the 
weight of it of Clarified Honey. 
Culpeper.] I am afraid twelve 
times the weight of the simples, 
is too much. Mesue appoints 
only a sufficient quantity, and quotes 
it only as an Electuary, which he 
saith prevails against wind, sower 
belchings, and indigestion, gross hu- 
mors and cold afflictions of the Sto- 
mach and Liver. You may take half 
a dram of the Pouder at a time, or 
two of the Electuary in the morning 
fasting, or an hour before meat. It 
helps digestion exceedingly, expels 
wind, and heats a cold Stomach. 
Species Electuarii de Gemmis Frigidi.
Or, Species of the cooling Elect- 
ry of precious Stones. 
Colledg.] Take of Pearls prepared 
three drams. 
Spodium, 
Ivory, 
Both sorts of Corral, of each two
drams. 
Flowers


141 POUDERS.
Flowers of Red Roses a dram and an 
half. 
Jacinth, 
Saphire, 
Emerald, 
Sardine, 
Granate, 
Sanders white, red and yellow, 
Flowers of Borrage, and 
Bugloss, 
Seeds of Sorrel, and 
Bazil, 
Both sorts of Been (for want of them 
the Roots of Avens and Tormen- 
til) of each one dram. 
Bone of a Stags Heart half a dram. 
Leaves of Gold, and 
Silver, of each fifteen. 
Make of them all a Pouder according to 
Art, and let it be diligently kept. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Pouder is good in Malignant, 
Venemous and Pestilential Diseases. 
It cools and refreshs the Heart, 
Braine, Liver and other internal 
Bowels disordered by heat. It ex- 
hilarates the mind, is good in disen- 
teries and fluxes of the Belly, and 
against the whites or over great flux 
of Courses in Women. The dose is  
from one scruple to half a dram or a 
dram, in Borrage water or made in 
form of a Bolus with conserve of red 
Roses and Syrup of the Juyce of 
Citrons. 
Species Electuarii Diamargariton 
Calidi. Avicenna. 
Colledg.] Take of Pearls, and 
Pellitory of the Wall, of each one 
dram. 
Ginger, 
Mastich. of each half an ounce. 
Doronicum,
Zedoary, 
Smallage seeds, 
Both sorts of Cardamoms, 
Nutmegs, 
Mace, of each two drams. 
Been of both sorts, (if they cannot be 
procured take the Roots of Avens
and Tormentil) 
Black and long Pepper, of each three 
drams.
Beat them into Pouder and keep them 
for your use. 
Culpeper.] Avicenna prescribes 
this as an Electuary, This (quoth 
Avicenna) is apropriated to women 
and in them to Diseases incident to 
their Matrix, but his reasons I know 
not; It is Cordial and heats the sto-
mach.
Lithontribon Nicholaus, accor- 
ding to Fernelius.
Colledg.] Take of Spicknard, 
Ginger, 
Cinnamon, 
Black Pepper, 
Cardamoms, 
Cloves, 
Mace, of each half a dram.
Costus, 
Liquoris, 
Cyperus, 
Tracanth, 
Germander, of each two scruples
Seeds of Bishops weed [Ammi.]
Smallage, 
Sparagus, 
Bazil, 
Nettles, 
Citrons, 
Saxifrage, 
Burnet, 
Carraway,
Carrots, 
Fennel, 
Bruscus, 
Parsly of Macedonia, 
Burs, 
Seseli, [Or, Hartwort:]
Asarabaca, of each one dram.
Lapis spongiæ, 
Lyncis,
Cancri, 
Judaici, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Goats blood prepared an ounce and 
half.
Beat them all into pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper. It heats the Stomach, 
and helps want of digestion coming 
through cold, it easeth pain in the 
Belly and Loyns, the *Illiack passion 
[* A disease that causeth men to Vo- 
mit up their Excrements.] powerfully
breaks the stone in the Reins and 
bladder, it speedily helps the chollick 
strangury, & disury. The dose is from 
a dram to half a dram, take it either 
in white Wine, or Decoction of 
Herbs tending to the same purposes. 
Carduus Benedictus seeds stamped
and taken easeth pains, aches and 
stiches in the sides, as also griping of 
the Belly and Guts. 
Pleres Arconticon Nicholaus.
Colledg. Take of Cinnamon,
Cloves, 
Galanga, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Indian spicknard, 
Nutmegs, 
Ginger, 
Spodium, 
Schœnanthus,
Cyperus, 
Roses, 
Violets, of each one dram. 
Indian leaf, or Mace,
Liquoris, 
Mastich,  
Styrax Calamitis,
Marjoram,
Costmary, or water-Mints, 
Bazil, 
Cardamoms, 
Long and white Pepper, 
Mirtle berries,  
Citron pills, of each half a dram and 
six grains, 
Pearls, 
Been white and red (or if they be wan-
ting take the Roots of Avens and
Tormentil in their steads) 
Red Corral,  
Torrefied silk, of each eighteen 
grains 
Musk six grains, 
Camphire four grains, 
Beat them into pouder according to art.
And with ten times their weight in 
Sugar dissolved in Bawm water you 
may make them in an Electuary. 
Culpeper.] It is exceedingly good 
for Sad, Melancholly, Lumpish, Pen-
sive grieving, Vexing, Pining, Sighing
Sobbing, Fearful, Careful Spirts, it
strenghtens weak Stomachs excee-
dingly, and helps such as are prone 
to faintings and swoonings, it streng- 
thens such as are weakned by vio- 
lence of sickness, it helps bad memo- 
ries, quickens all the senses, streng- 
thens the Brain and Animal spirit, 
helps the Falling-sickness, and suc- 
cours such as are troubled with asth- 
maes, or other cold afflictions of the 
Lungs. It will keep best in an Elect- 
uary, of which you may take a dram 
in the morning, or more, as Age and 
strength, requires. 
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians. Let them read those Books 
of mine, of the last Edition, viz. 
Riverius Riolanus, Johnston, Ve- 
slingus, Sennertus, and Physick for the 
Poor. 
A preservative Pouder against the  
Pestilence. Montagnam. 
Colledg.] Take of all the * Sanders,
[* White, Red, and Yellow.
Seeds of Bazel, of each an ounce and
half. 
Bole-Armenick, 
Cinnamon, of each an ounce.
Roots of Dittany, 
Gentian, 
Tormentil, of each two drams and
an half. 
Seeds of Citron,
Sorrel, of each two drams.
Pearls,  
Saphire, 
Bone of a stags heart, of each one
dram. 
Beat them into pouder according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] The Title tels you the
vertues of it: Besides it cheers the 
vital spirits, and strengthens the 
heart. You may take half a dram 
Ll every


142 ELECTUARIES.
every morning either by it self, or 
mixed with any other convenient 
composition, whether Syrup or Ele- 
ctuary. 
Diaturbith the greater, with- 
out Rhubarb. 
Colledg.] Take of the best Turbith 
an ounce,
Diagridium, 
Ginger, of each half an ounce.  
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, of each two drams. 
Galanga, 
Long Pepper, 
Mace of each one dram.
Beat them into pouder, and with eight 
ounces and five drams of white Sugar 
dissolved in Succory water, it may be 
made into an Electuary. 
Culpeper] It purgeth flegm, being 
rightly administred by a Skilfull 
hand. 
A pouder for the worms. 
Colledg] Take of Wormseed, four oun-
ces, 
Sena one ounce, 
Coriander seed prepared, 
Harts-horn of each half a dram. 
Rhubarb half an ounce, 
Dried Rue two drams. 
Beat them into pouder.
Culpeper.] I like this pouder very 
wel: the quantity (or to write more 
Scholastically, the dose) must be re- 
gulated according to the age of the 
Patient, even from ten grains to a 
dram; and the manner of taking it 
by their pallat. It is somthing pur- 
ging.
ELECTUARIES.
Antidotus Analeptica. Page 99. 
Latin. 
Col- 
ledg.] 
TAke of Red Roses,
Liquoris, of each two 
drams and five grains, 
Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, of 
each two drams and two scruples. 
Sanders white and red, of each four 
scruples. 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
White Starch, 
Seeds of white Poppies, 
Purslain, 
Lettice, 
Endive, of each three drams.
The four greater cold seeds husked, 
Seeds of Quinces, 
Mallows,
Cotton,
Violets,
Pine-nuts, 
Fistick Nuts, 
Sweet Almonds, 
Pulp of Sebestens, of each two drams. 
Cloves, 
Spodium, 
Cinnamon, of each one dram. 
Saffron five grains, 
Penids, half an ounce,
Being beaten, make them all into a soft 
Electuary, with three times their weight 
in Syrup of Violets.
Culpeper.] It restores consumpti- 
ons, and hectick feavers, strength lost, 
it nourisheth much, and restores radi- 
cal moistures, opens the pores, re- 
sists choller, takes away coughs, 
quencheth thirst, and resisteth fea- 
vers. For the quantity to be taken 
at a time, I hold it needless to trou- 
ble the Reader: you may take an 
ounce in a day, by a dram at a time, 
if you please; you shall sooner hurt 
your purse by it than your body.
Confectio Alkermes. Pag. 99.
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Ap- 
ples. 
Damask Rose water, of each a pound 
and an half. 
In which infuse for twenty four hours, 
Raw Silk four ounces. 
Strain it strongly, and ad syrup of the 
Berries of Chermes brought over 
to us, two pound. 
Sugar one pound, 
Boyl it to the thickness of Honey; then 
removing it from the fire whilst it is 
warm, add, 
Ambergreece cut smal, half an 
ounce:
Which being wel mingled, put in these 
things following in pouder. 
Cinnamon, 
Wood of Aloes, of each six drams. 
Pearls prepared, two drams,
Leaf-Gold a dram, 
Musk a scruple. 
Make it up according to art. 
Culpeper.] Questionless this is a 
great cordial, and a mighty strength- 
ner of the heart, and spirit vital, a re- 
storer of such as are in consumpti- 
ons, a resister of pestilences and poy- 
son, a great relief to languishing Na- 
ture; it is given with good success 
in feavers, but give not too much of 
it at a time, lest it prove too hot for 
the body, and too heavy for the 
purse. You may mix ten grains of 
it with other convenient cordials to 
Children, twenty or thirty to men.  
Electuarium è Sassaphras. 
Page 100. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Sassaphras two 
ounces,
Common Water three pound. 
Boyl it to the consumption of the third 
part adding towards the end 
Cinnamon bruised half an ounce. 
Strain it and with two pound of white 
Sugar boyl it to the thickness of a Syrup 
putting in, in pouder,
Cinnamon a dram, 
Nutmegs half a scruple,
Musk three grains, 
Ambergreece, thirty two grains,
Leaves of Gold ten, 
Spirit of Vitriol four drops, 
And so make it into an Electuary accor- 
ding to art.
Culpeper.] It opens obstructions 
of the Liver and Spleen, helps cold 
Rheums or defluxions from the head 
to the Lungs, or Teeth, or eyes, it is 
excellent in coughs, and other cold 
afflictions of the Lungs and Breast;
it helps digestion, expels wind and 
the gravel of the Kidnies, it provokes 
the terms, warms and dries up the 
moisture of the womb, which is many 
times the cause of barrenness, and is 
generally a helper of all diseases co- 
ming of cold, raw thin humors: you 
may take half a dram at a time in the 
morning. 
Electuarium de Baccis Lauri. Page 
100. Latin. Or Electuary 
of Bay-berries. 
Colledg.] Take of the Leaves of dri- 
ed Rue ten drams,
Seeds of Ammi, 
Cummin, 
Lovage, 
Origanum, 
Nigella, 
Caraway, 
Carrots,
Parsly, 
Bitter Almonds, 
Pepper black and longs,
Wild Mints, 
Calamus Aromaticus,
Bay-berries, 
Castoreum of each two drams. 
Sagapenum half an ounce, 
Opopanax three drams, 
Clarified Honey a pound and an 
half. 
The things to be beaten, being beaten, 
and the Gums dissolved in Wine, make 
it into an Electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good 
either in the Chollick, or Illiack pas- 
sion, or any other disease of the bow- 
els coming of cold wind, it generally 
easeth pains in the bowels. You
may give a dram in the morning fast-
ing


143 ELECTUARIES. 
ing, or half an ounce in a Clyster ac- 
cording as the disease is. 
Diacapparis. Page 101. 
Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Capars four ounces, 
Agrimony roots, 
Nigella seeds, 
Squils, 
Asarabacca, 
Centaury,
Black Pepper, 
Smallage, 
Time of each an ounce. 
Honey three times their weight. 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It helps infirmities of 
the spleen; and the name doth pro- 
mise so much: it is good for cold 
bodies, if they have strength of na- 
ture in them: the next looks more 
lovely in my eyes which is——
Diacinnamomu Page. 101. 	
Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon fifteen 
drams, 
Cassia Lignea,
Alicampane roots, of each half an 
ounce. 
Galanga, seven drams,
Cloves, 
Long Pepper, 
Cardamoms of both sorts, 
Ginger, 
Mace, 
Nutmegs, 
Wood of Aloes, of each three drams. 
Saffron one dram, 
Sugar five drams, 
Musk two scruples, to be added ac- 
cording to the prescript of the Physi- 
tian, and by adding three pound 
eight ounces of clarified honey, boyl 
it and make it into an Electuary accor- 
ding to art.
Culpeper.] Diacinnamomum, or The 
composition of cinnamon, heats the Sto- 
mach, causeth digestion, provokes 
the Terms in Women, strengthens 
the stomach and other parts that di- 
stribute the nourishment of the body. 
A dram of it taken in the morning fa- 
sting is exceding good for ancient 
people & cold bodies, such as are sub- 
ject to Dropsies & diseases of Flegm, 
or Wind; for it comforts and streng- 
thens Nature much. If you take it 
to help digestion, take it an hour be- 
fore meat: do so in all things of like 
quality. 
Diacorallion. Page 101. Latin.  
Colledg.] Take of Coral white and 
red,
Bole-armenick, 
Dragons-blood, of each one dram. 
Pearls half a dram, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Red Roses, 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Cinnamon of each two scruples. 
Sanders white and red of each one 
scruple. 
With four times its weight in Sugar dis-
solved in smal cinnamon water, make it 
into an Electuary according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It comforts and streng- 
thens the heart exceedingly, and re- 
stores such as are in consumptions, it 
is cooling, therefore good in hectick 
feavers; very binding, and therefore 
stops Fluxes; neither do I know a 
better Medicine in all the Dispensa-
tory for such as have a consumption 
accompanied with a loosness. It 
stops the terms and whites in women 
if administred by one whose wits are 
not a wool-gathering. Take but a 
dram at a time every morning, be- 
cause of its binding quality, except 
you have a loosness; for then may 
you take so much two or three times 
a day. 
Diacorum. Pag. 101. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of the Roots of Cicers,
Acorus, or Calamus Aromaticus, 
Pine-nuts, of each a pound and an 
half. 
Let the cicers roots, being clensed, cut, 
boyled, and pulped, be added to ten pound 
of clarified Honey, and boyled (stirring 
it) to its just thickness, then being re- 
moved from the fire, add the Acorus
roots beaten, the Pinenuts cut, and these 
following in pouder. 
Take of black Pepper an ounce, 
Long pepper, 
Cloves, 
Ginger, 
Mace, of each half an ounce. 
Nutmegs, 
Galanga, 
Cardamoms, of each three dram,
Mix them with the roots and Honey in- 
to an Electuary according to Art. 
Culpeper.] The Electuary provokes 
Lust, heats the Brain, strengthens the 
Nerves, quickens the Senses, causeth
an acute Wit, easeth pains in the  
head, helps the Falling-sickness and  
Convulsions, Coughs, Cathars, and  
all diseases proceeding from coldness  
of the brain. Half a dram is enough 
to take at one time, because of its 
heat. 
Peony is an Herb of the Sun, the  
Roots of it cure the Falling-sick- 
ness.  
Those that would give help against 
all Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston,
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for 
the Poor.
Diacydonium. Or, Electuary of Quin- 
ces simple. Pag. 102. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the flesh of Quin- 
ces cut and boyled in fair water to 
a thickness, eight pound.
White Sugar six pound. 
Boyl it to its just thickness. 
Diacidonium with Species. 
Page 102. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of the juyce of Quin-
ces, 
Sugar, of each two pound. 
White Wine Vinegar half a pound 
added at the end of the Decoction,
It being gently boyled, and the scum ta- 
ken away, add 
Ginger two ounces, 
White Pepper ten drams and two scru-
ples.  
Bruise them grosly, and boyl it again to 
the thickness of Honey. 
Diacidonium compound, Magisterial.
Page 102. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of white Sugar six 
pound, 
Spring Water four pound. 
Clarifie them wel with the white of an 
Egg, scumming them; then 
Take of ripe Quinces clensed from the 
rind and seeds, and cut in four quar- 
ters, eight pound:  
Boyl them in the forgoing Syrup til they 
be tender, then strain the Syrup through 
a linnen cloth, vocata Anglice Boulter;
Boyl them again to a jelly, adding four 
ounces of white Wine Vinegar towards 
the end; remove it from the fire, and 
whilst it is warm put in these following 
Species in gross pouder, 
Ginger an ouunce, 
White Pepper, 
Cinnamon, 
Nutmegs, of each two drams 
Keep it in divers boxes. 
Culpeper.] The Vertues of all these 
three are, They comfort the Sto- 
mach, help digestion, stay vomiting, 
belching, &c. stop Fluxes and the 
Terms in Women. They are al harm- 
less, you may take the quantity of a 
Nutmeg of them at a time; before 
meat to help digestion and fluxes;
after meat to stay vomiting; in the 
morning for the rest.
Vertues newly added.  
They strengthen the stomach, stop 
Vomitings and Looseness. Being sea-
sonably administred they stop a sim- 
ple Gonorrhæa, and asswage the 
Flux of Whites in women: and help 
Barrenness arising from over Loos- 
ness of the Spermatick Vessels and 
thinness of the Seed. 
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144 ELECTUARIES. 
Confectio de Hyacintho.
Page 103. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Jacinth,
Red Coral, 
Bole-Armenick,
Earth of Lemnos, of each half an 
ounce. 
The Berries of Chermes, 
Roots of Tormentil, and 
Dittany, 
Seeds of Citrons, 
Sorrel, 
Purslain, 
Saffron, 
Mirrh, 
Red Roses exungulated, 
All the sorts of Sanders, 
Bone of a Stags heart, 
Harts-horn, 
Ivory prepared, of each four scru- 
ples. 
Saphire, 
Emerald, 
Topas, 
Pearls, 
Raw silk,
Leaves of Gold, and 
Silver, of each two scru- 
ples.
Camphire,
Musk,
Amber-greece, of each five grains, 
With Syrup of Lemmons make it into 
a Confection according to Art.
Culpeper.] It is a great Cordial, 
and cool, exceeding good in acute 
Feavers and Pestilences; it mightily 
strengtheneth and cherisheth the 
Heart. Never above half a dram is 
given at a time, very seldom so much; 
not because of its offensiveness, I 
suppose its chargableness.
Antidotum Hæmagogum. 
Page 103. Latin.. 
Colledg.] Take of Lupines husked 
two drams. 
Black pepper five scruples and six 
grains. 
Liquoris four scruples, 
Long Birthwort,
Mugwort, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Macedonian parsly seed, 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Rue seed,
Spicknard,
Mirrh,
Penyroyal, of each two scruples four- 
teen grains. 
Seeds of Smallage, 
Savin, of each two scruples and thir- 
teen grains. 
Centaury the greater, 
Cretish Carrots, 
Nigella,
Caraway, 
Annis,
Cloves, 
Allum, of each two scruples. 
Bay leaves one scruple, one half scru- 
ple, and three grains.
Schænanth one scruple and thirteen 
grains.
Asarabacca,
Calamus Aromaticus,
Amomum, 
Centaury the less,
Seed of Orrach, 
Peony, 
Fennel, of each one scruple and six 
grains. 
Wood of Aloes, a scruple and four-
teen grains.
Cyperus, 
Alicampane, 
Ginger, 
Cappar roots,
Cummin, 
Orobus, of each one scruple. 
All of them being beaten into very fine 
Pouder, let them be made into an Elect- 
uary according to art, with four times 
their weight in Sugar: Let it stand one 
month before you use it.
Culpeper.] It provokes the Terms, 
brings away both birth and after- 
birth, the dead Child, purgeth such 
as are not sufficiently purged after 
Travel; it provokes Urine, breaks 
the stone in the bladder, helps the 
Strangury, Disury, Iskury, &c. helps 
indigestion, the chollick, opens any 
stoppings in the Body; it heats the 
stomach, purgeth the liver and spleen 
consumes wind, staies vomiting: but 
let it not be taken by women with 
Child, nor such people as have the 
Hemorrhoids. The Dose is from one 
dram to two drams.
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians, let them read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Rive- 
rius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslingus, 
Sennertus, and Physick for the Poor.
Diasatyrion. Page 104. Latin. Or, 
The Electuary of Satyrion Roots. 
Colledg.] Take of Satyrion Roots 
three ounces. 
Dates, 
Bitter Almonds, 
Indian Nut, 
Pine-nuts, 
Fistick Nuts, 
Green Ginger, 
Eringo roots preserved, of each one 
ounce.
Ginger, 
Cloves, 
Galanga, 
Pepper long and black, of each three 
drams. 
Amber-greece one scruple. 
Musk two scruples. 
Penids four ounces. 
Cinnamon, 
Saffron, of each half an ounce. 
Malaga wine three ounces.
Nutmegs, 
Mace, 
Grains of Paradise, of each two 
drams. 
Ash-tree Key,
The belly and loyns of Scinks, 
Borax, 
Benjamin, of each three drams. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cardamoms of each two drams. 
Seeds of Nettles, and 
Onions, 
Roots of Avens, of each a dram and 
an half. 
With two pound and an half of Syrup of 
of Green Ginger. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Electuary hath been invented 
to assist lazy husbands that have smal 
lust or ability to exercise their Til- 
lage. It is a powerful inciter to the 
actions of Generation. It clenses the 
Kidneys, moves Urine, strengthens 
the back, Warms the Stomach, 
quickens the senses and provokes 
Womens monethly Courses. The 
dose is two or three drams, or in cold 
Bodies half an ounce, in a cup of 
Sack, or Muskadine, to provoke to 
Generation, or in Hippocras, And 
to move Urine or the Courses give 
it in white or Rhenish Wine, with a 
spoonful of Syrup of Mugwort com- 
pound. 
Electuarium Diaspermaton. Page 104. 
Latin. Or, Which is made of 
several sorts of Seeds. 
Colledg. Take of the four greater and 
lesser cold seeds, 
Seeds of Sparagus, 
Burnet, 
Bazil, 
Parsly, 
Winter Cherries, of each two drams. 
Gromwel, 
Juyce of Liquoris, of each three 
drams. 
Cinnamon, 
Mace, of each one dram. 
With eight times their weight in white 
Sugar dissolved in Marsh-mallow
water,
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It breaks the stone, and 
provokes Urine. Men may take half 
an ounce at a time, and Children 
half so much, in water of any Herbs 
or Roots &c. (or Decoction of them) 
that break the Stone; which the last
Catalogue in the Book (viz. the Ca- 
tagolue of diseases) wil furnish you 
with. I delight to have men studious.
Vertues newly added. 
It hath like Vertues with the for- 
mer though not so effectual, and was 
chiefly 


145 ELECTUARIES. 
cheifly invented to move Urine, as 
the former to incite to generation. 
Micleta. Page 105. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of the barks of all the 
Mirobalans torrified, of each two 
drams and an half. 
Seeds of Water-cresses, 
Cummin,
Annis, 
Fennel, 
Ammi,
Caraway, of each a dram and an 
half. 
Bruise the seeds and sprinkle them with 
sharp white Wine Vinegar; then beat 
them into pouder, and add the Miroba- 
lans, and these that follow. 
Spodium, 
Balanstincs,
Sumach, 
Mastich, 
Gum Arabick, of each one dram 
and fifteen grains. 
Mix them together, and with ten ounces  
of Syrup of Mirtles make them into an  
Electuary according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It gently easeth the bo- 
wels of the wind Cholick, wringing 
of the Guts, infirmities of the Spleen, 
it stops fluxes, the Hemorrhoids, as 
also Terms in women.  
Electuarium Pectorale. Page 105. Lat.
Or, A Pectorial Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of Li-
quoris,
Sweet Almonds,
Hazel Nuts, of each half an ounce.
Pine-nuts an ounce. 
Hysop, 
Maidenhair,
Orris,
Nettle seeds, 
Round Birthwort, of each a dram and 
an half. 
Black pepper, 
Seeds of water-cresses,
Roots of Alicampane, of each half a 
dram. 
Honey fourteen ounces. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to Art.
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Sto- 
mach and Lungs, and helps the vices 
thereof. Take it with a  Liquoris 
stick.
Theriaca Diatessaron. 
Page 105. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Gentian,
Bay-berries, 
Mirrh, 
Round Birthwort, of each two ounces.
Honey, two pound. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to Art.
Culpeper.] This is a gallant Electuary 
like the Author, which was Mesue. 
It wonderfully helps cold infirmities 
of the Brain, as Convulsions, Falling- 
sickness, dead Palsies, shaking Pal- 
sies, &c. As also the Stomach, as 
pains there, wind, want of digestion: 
as also stoppings of the Liver, Drop- 
sies; it resists the Pestilence and Poy- 
sons, and helps the bitings of vene- 
mous Beasts. The dose is from half 
a dram to two drams, according to 
the age and strength of the Patient, as 
also the strength of the diseases: you 
may take it either in the morning, or 
when urgent occasion cals for it. 
Diascordium. Page 136. Latin. Or, 
The Antidote made of the 
Herb Scordium.
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon,
Cassia lignea, of each half an ounce. 
Scordium an ounce. 
Dittany of Creet,
Tormentil,
Bistort,
Galbanum, 
Gum  Arabick, of each half an ounce. 
Opium one dram and an half. 
Sorrel seeds one dram and an half. 
Gentian half an ounce. 
Bole-Armenick an ounce and an 
half. 
Earth of Lemnos half an ounce. 
Long Pepper, 
Ginger, of each two drams. 
Clarified Honey two pound and an 
half. 
Sugar of Roses one pound. 
Canary Wine ten ounces. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art.
Culpeper.] It is a well composed 
Electuary, somthing appropriated to 
the Nature of Women, for it pro- 
vokes the Terms, hastens their labor, 
helps their usual sickness at the time 
of their Lying in, I know nothing 
better; it stops fluxes, mightily 
strengtheneth the heart and stomach; 
neither is so hot but it may safely be 
given to weak people; and besides 
provokes sleep. It may safely be 
given to yong children ten grains at 
a time; ancient people may take a 
dram or more: It is given as an ex- 
cellent Cordial in such Feavers as are 
accompanied with want of sleep. 
Vertues newly added. 
It hath been designed by the Au- 
thor Fracastorius an Eminent learned 
Physitian (who was Physitian to the 
Councel of Trent, if I mistake not)
to resist Venemous, Pestilential and 
malignant Diseases. It is of a very 
grateful tast and flavour. It powerful- 
ly stops loosnesses and Vomitings, as 
also defluxions of rheum, being a sea- 
sonably and discreetly administred. 
It is more temperate then either 
London Treacle, Mithridate or Ve- 
nice Treacle, and therefore more ge- 
nerally used in all Ages, sexes and 
Diseases, that require such a remedy. 
It is of general use in al Feavers, espe- 
cially when sleep is wanting. The 
Dose in Feavers is one scruple, half a 
dram, or a dram according as the case 
requires. Out of a Feaver to stop
loosnesses, Vomitings and defluxi- 
ons of Rheum, and to bridle the Go- 
norrhea two drams may be given af- 
ter universal Remedies have been ap- 
plied.
The Author Fracastorius was wont 
to give it to persons infected with the 
Plague after this manner. He took 
two ounces of the Juyce of Wood- 
Sorrel or ordinary Sorrel, Juyce of 
Citrons one ounce, Diascordium one 
dram, Cordial Species of the preci- 
ous Stones, formerly described, two 
scruples, Vinegar one ounce. He 
mixed all together, and gave it the 
Patient to drink, and repeated the 
same as occasion required. 
Mithridate Page 106. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Mirrh,
Saffron, 
Agrick,
Ginger, 
Cinnamon, 
Spicknard, 
Frankincense,
Treacle, 
Mustard seeds, of each ten drams.
The seeds of Hart-wort, 
Opobalsamum, or Oyl of Nut-
megs by expression, 
Schenanth, 
Stœchas, 
Costus, 
Galbanum, 
Turpentine, 
Castoreum. 
Long Pepper, 
Juyce of Hypocistis,
Styrax Calamitis, 
Opopanax, 
Indian leaf, or for want of it 
Mace, of each one ounce. 
Cassia Lignea, 
Poley mountain,
White Pepper,
Scordium, 
Seeds of Carrots of Creet, 
Carpobalsamum or Cubebs,
Troch. Cypheos,
Bdelium, of each seven drams.
Celtick spicknard,
Gum Arabick,
Macedonian Parsly seeds,
Opium, 
Cardamoms the less,
Fennel seeds,
Gentian, 
Red Rose Leaves, 
Dittany of Creet, of each five 
drams. 
Annis seeds,
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146 ELECTUARIES. 
Asarabacca,
Orris,
Acorus,
The greater Valerian, 
Sagapen, of each three drams. 
Meum,
Acacia,
The bellies of Scinks,
The tops of St. Johns-wort, of 
each two drams and an half. 
Mallego wine so much as is suffici- 
ent to dissolve the Juyces and 
Gums.
Clarified Honey the treble weight 
of all, the Wine excepted. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art.
Culpeper.] It is good against poy- 
son and such as have done themselves 
wrong by taking filthy Medicines, 
it provokes sweat, it helps continual 
watrings of the stomach, Ulcers in 
the Body, Consumptions, weakness 
of the Limbs, Rids the Body of cold 
Humors, and Diseases coming of 
cold, it remedies cold infirmities of 
the Brain, and stopping of the passage 
of the sences (viz. Hearing, Seeing, 
Smelling, &c.) by cold, it expels 
wind, helps the Chollick, ptovokes 
Appetite to ones Victuals, it helps 
Ulcers in the bladder, if Galen say 
true, as also difficulty of Urine, it 
casts out the dead Child, and helps 
such Women as cannot conceive by 
reason of cold. It is an admirable re- 
medy for Melancholly, and al diseases 
of the Body coming through cold, it 
would fill a whol sheet of Paper to 
reckon them all up particularly. You 
may take a scruple or half a dram in 
the morning, and follow your busi- 
ness; two drams wil make you sweat, 
yea one dram if your body be weak, 
for then two drams may be danger- 
ous because of its heat. How to or-
der your self in sweating, you were 
taught before; if you have forgot 
where, look the Table at latter end. 
They that think the use of these Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it's so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick
for the Poor. 
Philonium Persicum. 
Page 107. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of white Pepper, 
Seeds of white Henbane, of each 
two drams.
Opium, 
Earth of Lemnos, of each ten 
drams. 
Blood-stone,
Saffron, of each five drams. 
Castorium, 
Indian spicknard, 
Euphorbium prepared,
Pellitory of Spain,
Pearls,
Amber, 
Zedoary, 
Alicampane, 
Troch. Ramich, of each a dram.
Camphire a scruple.
With their treble weight in Honey 
of Roses. 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] All the difference is, 
Mesue appoints Honey, whose com- 
mendations of it is this: It stops 
blood flowing from any part of the 
Body, the immoderate flowing of the 
Terms in Women, the Hemorrhoids 
spitting of blood, bloody fluxes, 
and is profitable for such women as 
are subject to miscarry: See the next 
Receipt. 
Philonium Romanum. 
Page 107. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of white Pepper, 
White Henbane seeds, of each 
five drams. 
Opium two drams and an half, 
Cassia lignea a dram and an half. 
Seeds of Smallage a dram. 
Parsly of Macedonia, 
Fennel, 
Carrots of Creet, of each two 
scruples and five grains. 
Saffron a scruple and an half. 
Indian Spicknard, 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Zedoary fifteen grains. 
Cinnamon a dram and an half.
Euphorbium prepared,
Mirrh, 
Castorium, of each a dram. 
With their trebble weight in clari- 
fied Honey, 
Make it into an Electuary. 
Culpeper.] It is a most exquisite 
thing to ease vehement and deadly 
pains in what part of the body soever 
they, be whether internal or external. 
Therfore in such diseases which cause 
vehemency of pain, as Colicks, the 
stone, strangury, &c. this may be 
given (ordered by the discretion of 
an able Physitian)to mitigate the ex- 
tremity of pain, until convenient re- 
medy may be had.
Philonium Magistrale.
Page 108. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Opium four ounces. 
Benjamin, 
Mirrh,
Mummy, of each half an ounce. 
Spirit of Wine as much as is sufficient 
to make it into an Opiate. 
Culpeper.] I hold the Laudanum
to be a better Medicine, for this (be- 
ing exceeding dangerous) for an un- 
skilful man to meddle withall, I let 
it alone yet am not ignorant what 
good it might do to such whose 
wounds have brought them into a 
frenzy, if given by an able hand. 
Electuarium de Ovo. Page 108. Latin.
Or, Electuary of Eggs. 
Colledg.] Take a Hens Egg new laid, 
and the white being taken out by a 
smal hole, fill up the void place with 
Saffron, leaving the york in; then 
the hole being stopped, rost it in ashes
till the shell begin to look black; take 
diligent heed the Saffron burn not, for
then is the whole Medicine spoyled. 
Then the matter being taken out dry 
so that it may be beaten into pouder,
add to it as much pouder of white 
Mustard seed as it weight. Then 
Take the Roots of white Dittany, and 
Tormentil, of each two 
drams. 
Mirrh, 
Harts-horn, 
Petasitis roots, of each one dram.
Roots of Angelica and 
Burnet, 
Juniper Berries, 
Zedoary, 
Camphire, of each half an ounce. 
Mix them all together in a Morter, then 
add Venice Treacle the weight of them al.
Stir them about with a Pestle three hours 
together, purtting in so much Syrup of 
Lemmons, as is enough to make it into an 
Electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] A dram of it given at a 
time, is as great a help in a Pesti-
lential Feaver as a man shall usually 
read of. It provokes sweat, and 
then you shall be taught how to use 
your self. If years do not permit, give
not so much. 
Theriaca Andromachi. Page 108.
Latin. Or, Venice Treacle. 
Colledg. Take of Troches of Squils 
fourty eight drams. 
Troches of Vipers 
Long Pepper, 
Opium of Thebes,  
Magma, 
Hedycroi dried, of each twenty four
drams. 
Red Roses extungulated,
Orris Illiriok,
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Seeds of sweet Navew,
Scordium, 
Opobalsamum,
Cinnamon, 
Agrick, of each twelve drams. 
Mirrh, 
Costus, or Zedoary,
Saffron, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Indian Spicknard,
Schenanth


147 ELECTUARIES.
Schenanth, 
Pepper white and black, 
Olibanum,
Dittany of Creet, 
Raphontick,
Stœchas, 
Horehound, 
Macedonian Parsly seed, 
Calaminth, 
Cypress, 
Turpentine, 
The Roots of Cink foyl and Ginger, 
of each six drams. 
Poley mountain, 
Chamepitis, 
Celtick Spicknard,
Amomus,
Styrax Calamitis,
Roots of Meum, 
Tops of Germander, 
Roots of Raphontick, 
Earth of Lemnos, 
Indian Leaf, 
Chalcitis burnt, or instead thereof Ro- 
man Vitriol burnt, 
Gentian Roots, 
Gum Arabick, 
Juyce of Hyppocistis, 
Carpobalsamum, or Nutmegs, or Cu- 
bebs, 
Seeds of Annis, 
Cardamoms,
Fennel,
Hartwort, 
Acacia, or instead thereof the juyce 
of Sloes made thick, 
Seeds of Treacle-Mustard. 
The tops of St. Johns wort, 
Sagapen, of each four drams. 
Castoreum, 
Roots of long Birthwort, 
Bitumen Judaicum, 
Carrot seed, 
Opopanax. 
Centaury the less, | 
Galbanum, of each two drams. 
Canary Wine enough to dissolve what 
is to be dissolved. 
Honey the treble weight of the dry 
species. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art.
Culpeper.]. It is confessed many 
Physitiaus have comented upon this 
Recipt; as Bartholomeus, Maranta, 
Gallen, Medici Romani, and Medici 
Bononienses, cum multis alijs; but with 
little difference. The vertues of it 
are, It resists poyson, and the bitings 
of venemous beasts, inveterate head- 
aches, Vertigo, Deafness, the falling- 
sickness, Astonishment, Apoplexies, 
dulness of sight, want of voyce, asth- 
maes, old and new coughs. It helps 
such as spit or vomit blood, such as 
can hardly spit or breath, coldness of 
the stomach, wind, the chollick, and 
illiack passion, the yellow Jaundice, 
hardness of the Spleen, stone in the 
reins and bladder, difficulty of urine, 
ulcers in the bladder, feavers, drop- 
sies, leprosies. It provokes the Terms, 
brings forth both birth & afterbirth, 
helps pains in the joynts, it helps not 
only the body, but also the mind, as 
vain fears, melancholly, &c. and is a 
good remedy in pestilential feavers. 
Thus Galen. You may take half a 
dram and go about your business, 
and it will do you good if you have 
occasion to go in ill airs, or in pesti-
lential times. If you shal sweat upon 
it as your best way is, if your body be 
not in health, then take one dram, 
or between one and two, or less than 
one, according as age and strength 
is; if you cannot take this or any o- 
ther sweating Medicine by it self, 
mix it with a little Carduus, or Dra- 
gons water, or Angelica water, which
in my opinion is the best of the 
three. 
Theriaca Londinensis. Pag. 110. Lat. 
Or, London Treacle. 
Colledg.] Take of Harts-horn two 
ounces, 
Seeds of Citron, 
Sorrel, 
Peony, 
Bazil, of each an ounce. 
Scordium, 
Corrallin, of each six drams. 
Roots of Angelica, 
Tormentil, 
Peony, 
Leaves of Dittany, 
Bayberries, 
Juniper-berries, of each half an 
ounce.
Flowers of Rosemary, 
Marigolds, 
Clove-gilliflowers. 
The tops of St. Johns wort, 
Nutmegs, 
Saffron, of each three drams. 
Roots of Gentian, 
Zedoary,
Ginger, 
Mace, 
Mirrh, 
Leaves of Scabicus, 
Devils-bit, 
Cardus, of each two drams. 
Cloves, 
Opium, of each a dram. 
Mallego wine as much as is sufficient. 
With their treble weight in Honey, mix 
them according to Art.
Culpeper. This Medicine is a pretty 
Cordial, resists the pestilence, and is 
a good Antidote in pestilential times, 
it resists poyson, strengthens cold sto- 
machs, helps digestion, crudities of 
the stomach. A man may safely take
two drams of it in a morning, and let
him fear no harm. 
Vertues newly added. 
This medicament was invented by
order of the Colledg of Physitians of 
London and is therefore cal’d London 
Treacle. It is of the same nature
with Mithridate and Venice Treacle, 
but not so hot nor so dear, and fitter 
for english bodies. It is wel tasted 
and therefore conveniently given to 
children to kil worms. It is good 
for all cold diseases of the Brain, 
Nerves, and Heart. It comforts the 
Stomach, helps dizziness of the 
Head. Being mixed with conserve 
of Scurvy-grass, it makes a good re- 
medy against the Scurvy. 
Diacrocuma. Page 110. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Saffron,
Asarabacca roots, 
Seeds of Parsly,
Carrots, 
Annis, 
Smallage, of each half an ounce. 
Rhubarb, 
Roots of Meum, 
Indian Spicknard, of each six drams 
Cassia Lignea, 
Costus, 
Mirrh,
Schenanth,
Cubebs, 
Maddir roots, 
Juyces of Maudlin and 
Wormwood made thick, 
Opobalsamum, or Oyl of Nutmegs, 
of each two drams. 
Cinnamon, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each a
dram and an half. 
Scordium, 
Ceterach, 
Juyce of Liquoris, of each two drams
and an half. 
Tragacanth a dram. 
With eight times their weight in white 
Sugar dissolved in Endive water, 
and clarified, 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] Mesue appoints clarifi- 
ed Honey. It is exceeding good a- 
gainst cold diseases of the stomach, 
liver, or spleen, corruption of hu- 
mors and putrefaction of meat in the 
stomach, ilfavored color of the body, 
dropsies, cold faults in the Reins and 
Bladder, provokes urine. Take a 
dram in the morning.
Purging Electuaries. 
Benedicta Laxativa. Pag. 111. Lat. 
Colledg.] TAke of choyce Tur- 
bith, ten drams,
Diacridium, 
Bark of Spurge roots prepared, 
Hermodactils, 
Red Roses, of each five drams:
Cloves, 
Spicknard,  
Ginger, 
Saffron,  
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148 ELECTUARIES.
Ammomus, or for want of it Calamus 
Aromaticus, 
Cardamoms the less, 
Seeds of Smallage,
Parsly, 
Fennel, 
Sparagus,
Bruscus, 
Saxifrage, 
Gromwel, 
Caraway, 
Sal gem, 
Galanga, 
Mace, of each a dram. 
With their treble weight of clarified Ho- 
ney, make them into an Electuary ac- 
cording to art. Also you may keep the 
species it self in your shops. 
Culpeper. It purgeth flegm, chief-  
ly from the joynts; also it purgeth 
the reins and bladder. I willingly | 
omit the quantity of these Purges,  
because I would not have foolish 
women and dunces do themselves   
and others mischief. For it worketh | 
too violently for their uses, and must 
be prudently ordered. 
Vertues newly added. 
The dose of Benedicta Laxativa (that 
is the blessed purging Electuary) is 
half an ounce, or six drams in strong 
bodies, given in white Wine. An 
ounce is profitably put into clisters 
for the stone, wind cholick, and dis- 
eases of the womb. 
Carycostinum. Page 111.
Latin.
Colledg. Take of Cloves, 
Costus, or Zedoary, 
Ginger, 
Cummin, of each two drams.
Hermodactils, Diacridium, of each 
half an ounce. 
With their double weight of Honey cla- 
rified in white Wine, make them into an 
Electuary according to Art. 
Culpeper.] Authors say it purgeth 
hot Rewms, and takes away inflama- 
tions in wounds, I assure you the E- 
lectuary works violently, and may 
safest be given in clysters, and so you 
may give two or three drams at a 
time, if the Patient be strong. 
Virtues newly added. 
This medicament is calculated for 
the Gout and Joynt-pains, in which
cases it has been found very effectu- 
al. The dose is two or three drams 
in white Wine.
Cassia Extracta pro Clysteribus. Page 
111. Lat. Or, Cassia extracted 
for Clysters.
Colledg.] Take of the Leaves of Vio-
lets, 
Mallows, 
Beets, 
Mercury,
Pellitory of the wall, 
Violet flowers of each a handful. 
Boyd them in a sufficient quantity of wa- 
ter, with which let the Cassia be 
extracted, and the Canes washed:
then  
Take of this Cassia so drawn, and boyl- 
ed to its consistence, a pound. 
Sugar a pound and an half, 
Boyl them to the consistence of an Electu-
ary according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is no more than 
breaking the Canes of the Cassia, 
and pick out the pulp (casting away 
the seeds) boyl the pulp in a little 
of this Decoction, then press it 
through a pulping sieve,, the title 
shews the use of it: or if you will 
take an ounce of it inwardly, you 
shal find it work with great gentle- 
ness. You may take it in white 
Wine, it is good for gentle bodies, 
for if your body be hard to work up- 
on, perhaps it wil not work at all; 
it purgeth the reins gallantly, and 
cooleth them, thereby preventing the 
stone, and other diseases caused by 
their heat.
Electuarium Amarum Magistrale 
majus. Page 112. Latin. Or, 
the greater bitter 
Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of Agrick,
Turbith,
Species Hiera Simplex, 
Rhubarb, of each one dram. 
Choyce Aloes unwashed, two drams. 
Ginger, 
Crystal of Tartar, of each two scru- 
ples. 
Orris Florentine,
Sweet Fennel seeds, of each a scruple. 
Syrup of Roses solutive as much as is 
sufficient to make it into an Ele- 
ctuary according to art. 
Electuarum Amarum minus. Page 
112. Latin. Or, The lesser 
bitter Electuary.
Colledg.] Take of Epithimum half an 
ounce. 
Roots of Angelica three drams, 
Gentian, 
Zedoary, 
Acorus, of each two drams. 
Cinnamon, one dram and an half. 
Cloves,
Mace,
Nutmegs, 
Saffron, of each one dram. 
Aloes six ounces, 
With syrup of Fumitory, 
Scabious and 
Sugar as much as is sufficient to make 
it into a soft Electuary.
Culpeper.] Both these purge chol- 
ler, the former flegm, and this me- 
lancholly: the former works stron- 
gest, and this strengthens most, and 
is good for such whose brains are a- 
noyed. You may take half an ounce, 
of the former if your body be any 
thing strong in white Wine, if very 
strong an ounce, ordering your self 
as you were taught before, and the 
Table at later end wil direct you to 
the place: a reasonable body may 
take an ounce of the latter, the weak 
less. I would not have the unskilful 
too busie with purges without advice 
of a Physitian. 
Diacassia with Manna. Page 112. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Damask Prunes 
two ounces,
Violet flowers a handful and an half, 
Spring Water a pound and an half. 
Boyl it according to art til half be consu-
med; strain it, and dissolve in the de- 
coction six ounces of 
Cassia newly drawn,
Sugar of Violets, 
Syrup of Violets, of each four ounces. 
Pulp of Tamarinds an ounce, 
Sugar candy, an ounce and an half 
Manna two ounces. 
Mix them, and make them into an Ele- 
ctuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cool purge 
for such as are bound in the body, for
it works gently, and without trou- 
ble, it purgeth choller, and may safely 
be given in Feavers coming of chol- 
ler: but in such cases, if the body be 
much bound, the best way is first to 
administer a Clyster, and then the 
next morning an ounce of this will 
cool the body and keep it in due 
temper. 
Cassia extracta sine solijs Senæ. 
Page 113. Latin. Or, Cassia 
extracted without the 
Leaves of Sena.  
Colledg. Take twelve Prunes, 
Violet flowers a handful, 
French Barley, 
Seeds of Annis, 
Bastard Saffron, 
Polipodium of the Oak, of each five 
drams. 
Maidenhair, 
Time, 
Epithimum of each a handful, 
Raisons of the Sun stoned half an 
ounce,
Seeds of Sweet Fennel two drams, 
Purslain, 
Mallows, of each three drams. 
Liquoris half an ounce, 
Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of wa- 
ter, strain them and dissolve in the De- 
coction, 
Pulp of Cassia two pound, 
Tamarinds an ounce, 
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149 ELECTUARIES. 
Cinnamon three drams,
Sugar a pound. 
Boyl it into the form of an Electuary. 
Cassia extracta cum folijs Senæ. Page 
113. Latin. Or, Cassia extracted 
with the Leaves of 
Sena. 
Colledg.] Take of the former Receipt 
two pound, 
Sena in pouder two ounces. 
Mix them according to art. 
Culpeper.] This is also a fine cool 
purge, gentle, cleansing the bowels of 
choller and melancholly without any 
griping, very fit for feaverish bodies, 
and yet the former is gentler then 
this. They both clense and cool the 
Reins; a reasonable body may take 
an ounce & an half of the former, and 
an ounce of the latter in white Wine, 
if they keep the house, or their bo- 
dies be oppressed with melancholly, 
let them take half the quantity in 
four ounces of decoction of Epithi- 
mum.
Diacarthamum. Page 113. Latin. 
Or, purging Electuary of 
Carthamus seeds.  
Colledg. Take of Diatragacanthum 
frigidum, half an ounce, 
Pulp of Preserved Quinces an ounce, 
Inside of the seeds of Bastard Saffron 
half an ounce,
Ginger two drams, 
Diacridium beaten by it self three 
drams.
Turbith six drams, 
Manna two ounces,
Honey of Roses solutive, 
Sugar candy, of each one ounce. 
Hermodactils half an ounce, 
Sugar ten ounces and an half. 
Make of them a liquid Electuary accord- 
ing to art.
Vertues newly added. 
It purges choller and phlegm and 
is good for diseases proceeding from  
a mixture of these humors, as the
Gout, Palsie and old headach. Also
it is made up into Tables or Lozen-
ges and given to children against
worms.
Diaphœnicon. Page 113. Latin. 
Or, purging Electuary 
of Dates.
Colledg] Take of the pulp of Dates 
boyled in Hydromel, 
Penids of each half a pound. 
Sweet Almonds blanched, three oun- 
ces and an half: 
To all of them being bruised and per- 
mixed, add 
Clarified Honey two pound.
Boyl them a little, and then strew
in 
Ginger,
Long Pepper,
Mace, 
Cinnamon, 
Rue Leaves, 
Seeds of Fennel, 
Carrots of each two drams. 
Turbith four ounces, 
Diacridium an ounce and an half. 
Make of them an Electuary according 
to art.
Culpeper.] I cannot beleeve this 
is so profitable in Feavers taken 
downwards as Authors say, for it is a 
very violent purge: Indeed I beleeve 
being mixed in clysters, it may do 
good in chollicks and infirmities of 
the bowels coming of raw humors, 
and so you may give half an ounce at 
a time. 
Vertues newly added. 
It purges flegm and choller, and
is good for old Feavers and Agues
arising from a mixture of these hu-
mors. It is very good for chollick
pains, pains of the stomach, and o-
other diseases arising from crude hu-
mors.
Diaprunum Lenitive, Page 114.
Latin.
Colledg.] Take one hundred Damask 
Prunes,
Boyl them in water till they be soft, then 
pulp them, and in the Liquor they were 
boyled in, boyl gently one ounce of 
Violet Flowers; strain it, and with 
two pound of Sugar boyl it into a 
Syrup: then ad half a pound of 
the aforesaid Pulp, 
Pulp of Cassia, 
Tamarinds of each one ounce.
Then mix with it these Pouders follow- 
ing, 
Sanders white and red,
Spodium, 
Rhubarb, of each three drams. 
Red Roses, 
Violets, 
Seeds of Purslain,
Succory, 
Barberries, 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Liquoris, 
Cinnamon, of each two drams: 
The four greater cold seeds, of each 
one dram. 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art. 
Culpeper.] It may safely, and is 
with good success, given in acute, 
burning, and all other Feavers, for it 
cools much, and loosens the body 
gently: it is good in Agues, hectick 
Feavers, and Marasmos. You may 
take an ounce of it at a time, at night 
when you go to bed, three hours af- 
ter a light supper; neither need you 
keep your chamber next day, unless 
the weather be very cold, or your bo- 
dy very tender. 
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians. Let them read those Books 
of mine, of the last Edition, viz. 
Riverius Riolanus, Johnston, Ve- 
slingus, Sennertus, and Physick for the 
Poor. 
Diaprunum Solutvum. Pag. 114. 
Latin. Or, Electuary of 
Prunes purgative. 
Colledg.] Take of Diaprunum Le- 
mitive whilst it is warm, four
pound.
Scammony prepared, two ounces and 
five drams. 
Mix them together and make them into 
an Electuary according to art.
Virtues newly added. 
It purges choler and is good in all 
cholerick diseases, except continual 
Fevers, the matter being first pre-
pared. 
Catholicon, Latin. Page 114.
Colledg.] Take of the Pulp of Cassia, 
Tamarinds, 
Leaves of Senna, of each two ounces.
Polipodium, 
Violets, 
Rhubarb, of each one ounce.
Annis seeds, 
Penids, 
Sugar candy, 
Liquoris,
Seeds of Gourds, 
Citruls, 
Cucummers, 
Melons, of each two drams.
The things to be bruised being bruised, 
take of fresh
Polipodium three ounces, 
Sweet Fennel Seeds six drams.
Boyl them in four pound of water til the 
third part be consumed; strain it, and 
with two pound of Sugar boyl the De- 
coction to the thickness of a Syrup; then 
with the pulps and pouder make it into 
an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling 
purge for any part of the body, and 
very gentle; it may be given (an 
ounce, or half an ounce at a time, ac- 
cording to the strength of the pati- 
ent) in acute, in peracute Diseases,
for it gently loosneth the Belly, and 
adds strength; it helps infirmities of 
the Liver and Spleen, Gouts of all 
sorts quotidian, Tertian, and quartan 
Agues, as also Head-aches. It is u- 
sually given in clysters. If you list to 
take it inwardly, you may take an 
ounce at night going to bed, in the 
morning drink a draught of hot pos- 
set drink and go about your business. 
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150 ELECTUARIES. 
Electuarium de Citro Solutivum. 
Page 115. Latin. Or, Elect- 
uary of Citrons Purgative. 
Colledg.] Take of Citron Pills pre- 
served, 
Conserve of the flowers of Violets and 
Bugloss, 
Diatragacanthum frigidum, 
Diacrydium, of each half an ounce. 
Turbith five drams. 
Ginger half a dram. 
Senna six drams. 
Sweet Fennel seeds one dram. 
White Sugar dissolved in Rose water, 
and boyled according to art, ten 
ounces. 
Make a solid Electuary according to 
Art. 
Vertues newly added. 
It purges choler and Flegm chiefly. 
It is well tasted, good for diseases 
caused by the foresaid Humors. The 
dose is three drams or half an ounce 
in Cichory water, with two ounces 
of Syrup of Violets.
Electuariun Elescoph. Page 115. Latin. 
Or, the Bishops Electuary.
Colledg. Take of Diacrydium, 
Turbith, of each six drams. 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Myrobalans Emblicks. 
Nutmegs, 
Polypodium, of each two drams and 
an half. 
Sugar six ounces. 
Clarified Honey ten ounces. 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
art.
Culpeper.]: Mesue appoints only 
claryfied Honey, one pound and four 
ounces, to make it up into an Elect- 
uary; and saith, it purgeth choller 
and flegm, aud wind from all parts 
of the Body; helps pains of the 
Joynts and sides, the Chollick, it 
clenseth the Reins and Bladder; yet I 
advise you not to take too much of it 
at a time, for it works pretty vio- 
lently, though well corrected by the 
pen of a Mesue: let half an ounce be 
the most, for such whose bodies are 
strong, alwaies remembring that you 
had better ten times take too little, 
than once too much; you may take 
it in white Wine, and keep your self 
warm.   
Those that would give help against 
all Infirmities, let them read these
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, 
Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick for
the Poor.
Confectio Hamech. Page 115. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of Ci- 
trons Myrobalans two ounces,
Myrobalans, Chebs and blacks,
Violets, 
Colocynthis, 
Polypodium of the Oak, of each one 
ounce and an half. 
Wormwood, 
Time, of each half an ounce. 
Seeds of Annis, and 
Fennel, 
Flowers of red Roses of each three 
drams. 
Let all of them being bruised be infused
one day in six pound of Whey, then boy- 
led till half be consumed, rubbed with 
your hands and pressed out: to the De- 
coction add 
Juyce of Fumitory, 
Pulp of Pruens, and Raisons of the 
Sun, of each half a pound. 
White Sugar, 
Clarified Honey, of each one pound. 
Boyl it to thickness of Honey, strewing 
in towards the end. 
Agrick Trochiscated,
Senna of each two ounces.
Rhubarb one ounce and an half. 
Epithimum one ounce. 
Diacrydium six drams. 
Cinnamon half an ounce. 
Ginger two drams, 
Seeds of Fumitory and 
Annis, 
Spicknard of each one dram, 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] The Receipt is chiefly 
appropriated as a purge for Melan- 
cholly and salt flegm, and diseases 
thence arising, as Scabs, Itch, Lepro- 
sies, Cancers, infirmities of the Skin, it 
purgeth addust Humors and is good 
against madness, Melancholly, for- 
getfulness, Vertigo. It purgeth very 
violently, and is not safe given alone. 
I would advise the unskilful not to 
medle with it inwardly: You may 
give half an ounce of it in Clysters, in 
Melancholly diseases, which com- 
monly have astringency a constant 
companion with them. 
Vertues newly added. 
The dose is from half an ounce to 
six drams in substance or one ounce 
in Infusion. It is given in white 
Wine with an ounce of Syrup of Vio- 
lets or two ounces. In hot and dry 
Bodies to three drams thereof six 
drams of Electuarium Lenitivum 
may be added, which will facilitate 
and indemnifie the opperation. Ex- 
perience in thousands hath shewed 
this Medicamentt to be safe enough, 
for all Culpepers Panick seares.
Electuarium Lenitivum. Page 116. Lat. 
Or, The Lenetive Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of Raisons of the Sun 
stoned. 
Polypodium of the Oak, 
Senna, of each two ounces. 
Mercury one handful and an half. 
Jujubes, 
Sebestens of each twenty. 
Maiden-hair,
Violets, 
French Barley, of each one handful. 
Damask Prunes stoned, 
Tamerinds of each six drams. 
Liquoris half an ounce. 
Boyl them in ten pound of Water till two 
parts of the three be consumed; strain it, 
and dissolve in the Decection
Pulp of Cassia, 
Tamarinds, and 
Fresh Prunes. 
Sugar of Violets, of each six ounces. 
Sugar two pound, 
At last add pouder of Senna leaves, one 
ounce and an half, Annis seeds in 
pouder two drams to each pound of 
Electuary.
And so bring it into the form of an Ele- 
ctuary according to art.  
Culpeper.] It gently opens and 
molifies the bowels, bringeth forth 
choller, flegm, and Melancholly, and 
that without trouble. It is cooling, 
and therefore is profitable in Pleure- 
sies, and for wounded people: A 
man of reasonable strength may take 
an ounce of it going to bed, which 
will work next morning- And in 
truth they have done well here to ad 
the Annis seeds to correct the Sen- 
na. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is an excellent remedy for such 
as are naturally Costive, half an 
ounce being taken half an hour be- 
fore dinner with one scruple of white 
Tartar, poudered. The frequent use 
thereof, is good to prevent the bree- 
ding of the Stone in dry and Costive 
Bodies. It is good in the beginning 
and declination of Feavers, and may 
supply the place of Clysters, six 
drams being given the Patient from a 
Knives point at night; and so it en- 
clines also to rest. Taken in the hot 
weather before dinner as aforesaid, it
inables a man to endure the extremi- 
ty of the heat with lightsomeness and 
activity. It is good against bleeding 
at the Nose, and mitigates the sharp- 
ness of Humors in the Gonorrhæa 
and Strangury. 
Electuarium Passulatum. Page 117. Lat. 
Or, Electuary of Raisons.]
Colledg. Take of fresh Polypodium
Roots three ounces. 
Fresh Marsh-mallows Roots,
Senna


151 ELECTUARIES. 
Senna, of each two ounces. 
Annis seeds two drams. 
Steep them in a glazed Vessel in a suffi- 
ent quantity of spring water, boyl them 
according to Art; strain it and with 
Pulp of Raisons of the Sun half a 
pound. 
White Sugar, 
Manna, of each four ounces. 
Boyl it to the thickness of a Cydoniate, 
and renew it four times a year 
Culpeper.] You had best, first boyl 
the Roots in three pints of water to a 
quart, then put in the Senna, and 
seeds, boyl it to a pint and an half, 
then strain it and add the rest. The 
Manna will melt of it self as well as 
the Sugar, indeed you had best dis- 
solve the Manna by it self in some of 
the Decoction, and so strain it be- 
cause of its dross. It gently purgeth 
both choller and Melancholly, clens- 
eth the Reins and bladder, and there- 
fore is good for the Stone and Gravel
in the Kidneys.
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the Vertues receited by 
Culpeper, it opens and frees the 
Lungs from Flegmatick Humors op- 
pressing the same, and is good against 
a Cough proceeding from thin salt 
and sharp Humors.
Electuarium è succo Rosarum. Page 117. 
Latin. Or, Electuary of 
the Juyce of Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of Sugar, 
The Juyce of Red Roses clarified, of 
each a pound and four ounces. 
The three sorts of Sanders of each six 
drams. 
Spodium three drams, 
Diacydonium twelve drams. 
Camphire a scruple. 
Let the Juyce be boyled with the Su- 
gar to its just thickness, then add 
the rest in Pouder and so make it 
into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth Choller, and 
is good in Tertian Agues and dis- 
eases of the joynts. It purgeth vio- 
lently, therefore let it be warily 
given. I omit the dose, because it 
is not for a vulgar use. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good in the conclusion of 
Tertian and Quotidian Agues, to 
purge away the Reliques of the Mor- 
bifick Humor. The dose is from two 
drams to four in strong bodies. Two 
drams or three with half an ounce of 
Electuary Lenitive or three drams of 
Catholicon and six drams of Syrup 
of Violets may be safely given. 
Hiera Picra simple. Page 117. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon, 
Xylobalsamum, or wood of Aloes. 
Roots of Asarabacca,
Spicknard,
Mastich,
Saffron, of each six drams. 
Aloes not washed twelve ounces and 
an half. 
Clarified Honey four pound and three 
ounces. 
Mix them into an Electuary according 
to Art.
Also you may keep the Species by it 
self in your shops.
Culpeper.] It is an excellent reme- 
dy for vicious Juyces which lie fur- 
ring the Tunicle of the Stomach, and 
such idle Fancies and Symptoms 
which the brain suffers therby, where- 
by some think they see, others that 
they hear strange things, especially 
when they are in bed, and between 
sleeping and waking; besides this, 
it very gently pugeth the belly, and 
helps such women as are not suffici- 
ently purged after their Travel: your 
best way (in my opinion) to take it 
(for I fancy the Receipt very much, 
and have had experience of what I 
have written of it) is to put only so 
much Honey to it as wil make it into 
Pills, of which you may take a scru-
ple at night going to bed (if your 
body be not very weak) in the mor- 
ning drink a draught of hot broath 
or posset drink. You need not fear to 
go about your business, for it will 
hardly work til next day in the after- 
noon, and then very gently. I have 
found the benefit of it, and from my 
own experience I commend it to my 
Country men.  
Vertues newly added.
Two or three drams being given 
in Wormwood Rhenish Wine with 
half an ounce of Syrup of Artemisia 
or Mugwort compound described be- 
fore, will bring down the Purgations 
of Women, and help the Green-sick- 
ness in maidens. 
Hiera with Agarick. Pag. 117. Latin. 
Colledg] Take of species Hiera  sim- 
ple without Aloes, 
Agrick Trochiscated, of each half an 
ounce. 
Aloes not washed one ounce. 
Clarified Honey six ounces. 
Mix it, and make it into an Electuary 
according to Art. 
Culpeper.] Look but the vertues of 
Agrick and add them to the vertues 
of the former Receipt, so is the busi- 
ness done without any further 
trouble.  
Vertues newly added. 
It is more Purgative then the for- 
mer, and fitter for Flegmatick bodies 
and diseases. It wil perform al the ef- 
fects of the former in a smaller dose. 
It is good for puling Stomachs, short
winded Lungs, and other diseases of 
the stomach and brest arising from 
thick and Flegmatich Humors. The 
dose is a dram or a dram and half. 
Hiera Logadij. Page 117. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Coloquintida, 
Polipodium, of each two drams. 
Euphorbium,
Poley mountain,
Seeds of Spurge, of each one dram and 
an half, and six grains 
Wormwood, 
Mirrh, of each one dram and twelve
grains. 
Centaury the less, 
Agrick, 
Gum Ammoniacum,
Indian leaf or Mace, 
Spicknard, 
Squils prepared, 
Diacrydium of each one dram.
Aloes,
Time, 
Germander. 
Cassia Lignea, 
Bdellium, 
Horehound, of each one scruple and 
fourteen grains. 
Cinnamon, 
Opopanax, 
Castorium,
Long Birthwort,
The three sorts of Pepper, 
Sagapen, 
Saffron, 
Parsly of each two drams. 
Hellebore black and white, of eace six 
grains. 
Clarified Honey a pound and an 
half. 
Mix them, and make of them an Elect-
uary according to art. 
Let the Species be kept dry in your
shops. 
Culpeper.] It takes away by the 
roots daily evils coming of Melan- 
cholly, Falling-sickness, Vertigo,
Convulsions, Megrim, Leprosie, and
many other infirmities. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Medicament is with us little 
used, I suppose because of its heat 
and strong Purgative faculty. It is 
commended against the Falling-sick- 
ness, Melancholly, old head-ach of 
the whol head or one side thereof, for 
Swimmings and Diszyness of the 
Head, Convulsions, Palsies and 
tremblings; also for Diseases of the 
Liver, Spleen, and Joynts; for the 
Sciatica or Hip-Gout, and other old 
and rebellious Infirmities. It potent- 
ly moves the Courses. It Cures 
Poysons and Venemous Bitings, and 
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152 ELECTUARIES. 
is profitably given against the Lepro- 
sie, at the beginning of the disease. 
The dose is two or three drams three 
times a month, in a draught of Mead 
or Muld Sack, with a spoonful of 
salt. It is only for strong bodies and 
otherwise incurable diseases. Half 
a dram may usefully and without 
danger be put into a Suppository in 
sleepy diseases of the Head, and such 
like, also half an ounce may be given 
in a clyster in like cases, and against 
the Palsie and the stoppage of the 
Courses, Melancholly and madness 
thereof arising, fits of the stone or co- 
lick, and stoppage of Urine. 
Hiera Diacolocynthidos. Page 118. 
Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Colocynthis, 
Agrick, 
Germander, 
White Horehound, 
Stœhas, of each ten drams. 
Sagapen. 
Parsly seeds,
Round Birthwort roots, 
Opopanax, 
White Pepper, of each five drams. 
Spicknard,  
Cinnamon, 
Mirrh, 
Indian leaf or Mace, 
Saffron of each four drams, 
Bruise the Gums in a Mortar, sift the 
rest, and with three pound of clarified 
Honey, three ounces and five drams, 
Make it an Electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] It helps the Falling- 
sickness, Madness, and the pain in 
the head called κεϕαλαλγια, pains 
in the breast and stomach whether 
they come by sickness or bruises, 
pains in the Loyns or Back-bone, 
hardness of Womens breasts, putri- 
factions of meat in the stomach and 
sowr belching. It is but seldom used 
and therefore hard to be gotten,
Tryphera the greater. Page 118. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Myrobolans Chebs, 
Bellericks, 
Inds and Emblicks, 
Nutmegs, of each five drams. 
Water-cress seeds, 
Asarabacca roots. 
Persian Origanum, or else Dittany 
of Creet, 
Black Pepper, 
Olibanum, 
Ammi,
Ginger, 
Tamaris,
Indian Nard,
Squinanth, 
Cyperus root, of each half an ounce. 
Filings of steel prepared with Vine- 
gar, twenty drams. 
Let the Myrobolans be rosted a little 
with fresh butter, let the rest being pou- 
dered, be sprinkled with Oyl of Al-
monds, then add 
Musk one dram, 
Honey their treble weight 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It helps the immode- 
rate flowing of the terms in Women, 
and the Hemorrhoids. It helps 
weakness of the Stomach, and re- 
stores color lost. It frees the body 
from crude humors, and strengthens 
the bladder, helps Melancholly, and 
rectifies the distempers of the Spleen. 
You may take a dram in the morn- 
ing, or two if your body be any thing 
strong. 
Clupeper.] They that think the use 
of these Medicines are too brief, (its 
so only for cheapness of the Book) 
Let them read these Books, of the last 
Edition, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, 
Johnston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor.  
Tryphera solutive. Page 119. Latin. 
Or, the delicious purging 
Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of Diacrydium ten 
drams 
Turbith an ounce and an half. 
Cardamoms the less, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Honey of each three drams.
Yellow Saunders, 
Liquoris, 
Sweet Fennel seeds, of each half an 
ounce.
Acorns, 
Schænanth, of each a dram. 
Red Roses, 
Citron pills preserved, of each three 
drams. 
Violets two drams. 
Penids four ounces, 
White Sugar half a pound, 
Honey clarified in juyce of Apples 
one pound,
Make an Electuary according to art. 
Virtues newly added. 
I conceive this Electuary had its 
name from the pleasant tast. It pur- 
ges choler and phlegm and is good 
for all diseases arising from those 
humors. The dose is two drams 
or three with two ounces of Syrup 
of Violets and three ounces of Ci- 
chory water. It is fit for those that 
must needs have a wel-tasted purge. 
ELECTUARIES. 
left out in this new
Edition. 
Athanasia Mithridatis, or King Mi-
thridate his Medicine to cause  
a long life. 
Col-  
ledg.]
TAke of Cinnamon,
Cassia,
Schœnanth, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Saffron, 
Mirrh, of each one ounce. 
Costus, 
Spicknard, 
Acorus, 
Agrick, 
Scordium, 
Carrots, 
Parsly, of each half an ounce. 
White Pepper eleven grains. 
Honey as much as is sufficient to 
make it into an Electuary accord- 
ing to art. 
Culpeper] It prevails against poy- 
son, and the bitings of venemous 
Beasts, and helps such whose meat 
putrifies in their stomach, staies vo- 
miting of blood, helps old Coughs,
and cold diseases of the liver, spleen, 
bladder, and matrix. The dose is 
half a dram. 
Electuarium * scoriaferri. Rhasis. 
[* Scoria ferri is properly 
those flakes that Smiths beat 
from Iron when it is red 
hot] 
Colledg. Take of the flakes of Iron 
infused in Vinegar seven daies 
and dried, three drams, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Schœnanth, 
Cyperus, 
Ginger, 
Pepper, 
Bishops weed, 
Frankincense, of each half an ounce. 
Myrobolans, Indian Bellericks and 
Emblicks,
Honey boyled with the Decoction of
Emblicks, fifteen ounces. 
Mix them together, and make of them an
Electuary. 
Culpeper. Rhasis an Arabian Phy-
sitian, the Author of the Receipt, ap-
poins a dram of each: the medicine 
heets the spleen gently, purgeth me-
lancholly, easeth pains in the stomach
and spleen, and strengthens digesti-
on. People that are strong may take 
half an ounce in the morning fasting,
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153
ELECTUARIES. 
and weak people three drams. It is 
a good remedy for pains and hard- 
ness of the Spleen. 
Confectio Humain. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of Eye-bright two 
ounces, 
Fennel seeds five drams, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon,
Cubebs, 
Long Pepper, 
Mace of each a dram. 
Beat them all into pouder, and with 
Clarified Honey one pound (in 
which boyl 
Juyce of Fennel one ounce, 
Juyce of Celandine, and  
Rue, of each half an ounce) 
And with the pouders make it up into 
an Electuary. 
Culpeper.] It is chiefly appropria- 
ted to the brain and heart, quickens 
the sences, especially the sight, and 
resisteth the pestilence. You may take 
half a dram if your body be hot, a 
dram if cold, in the morning fasting. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is the only medicament (ex- 
cept certain purging Pils) in this 
Book prepared and fitted purpose- 
ly to help dimness of sight caused by 
oppression of the eyes and optick 
Nerves by phlegm and rhewm, and 
grossness and paucity of the visive 
spirits, And in such cases I conceive 
it is very effectual being methodical- 
ly and skilfully administred,and that 
it received wrong by being shut out 
of the last edition of the London Dis- 
pensatory. 
Diatreos Solomonis. 
Colledg.] Take of Orris roots one 
ounce, 
Penyroyal, 
Hysop, 
Liquoris, of each six drams. 
Tragacanth, 
White Starch, 
Bitter Almonds,
Pine-nuts,
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, 
Pepper, of each three drams.
Fat Figs, 
The pulp of Raisons of the Sun, and 
Dates, of each three drams and 
an half.
Styrax Calamitis, two drams and an 
half, 
Sugar dissolved in Hysop water, and 
Clarified Honey, of each twice the 
weight of all the rest, 
Make them into an Electuary according 
to art. 
Culpeper.] The Electuary is chief- 
ly appropriated to the Lungs, and 
helps cold infirmities of them, as 
asthmaes, coughs, difficulty of brea- 
thing, &c. You may take it with a 
Liquoris stick, or on the point of a 
knife, a little of it at a time, and of-
ten.
They that would be knowing Phy- 
sitians, let them read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Rive- 
rius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslingus, 
Sennertus, and Physick for the Poor. 
Diasatyrion. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Satyrion 
fresh and sound. 
Garden Parsnips, 
Eringo, 
Pine-nuts, 
Indian Nuts, or if Indian Nuts be 
wanting, take the double quantity 
of Pine-nuts, 
Fistick Nuts, of each one ounce and 
an half. 
Cloves, 
Ginger, 
The seeds of Annis, 
Rocket, 
Ash Keys, of each five drams. 
Cinnamon, 
The tails and loins of Scincus, 
The seeds of Bulbus, 
Nettles of each two drams and an 
half. 
Musk seven grains. 
Of the best Sugar dissolved in Male- 
go Wine, three pounds, 
Make it into an Electuary according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It helps weakness of the 
Reins aud bladder, and such as make 
water with difficulty. It provokes lust 
exceedingly, and spedily helps such 
as are impotent in the Arts of Venus, 
You may take two drams or more at 
a time. 
Mathiolus his great Antidote against
Poyson and Pestilence. 
Colledg. Take of Rhubarb, 
Rhapontick, 
Valerian Roots, 
Roots of Acorus, or Calamus Are- 
maticus. 
Cyperus, 
Cinkfoyl, 
Tormentil, 
Round Birthwort, 
Male Peony, 
Alicampane, 
Costus Illirick, 
Orris,
White Chamelion, or Avens, of each
three drams.
Roots of Galanga, 
Masterwort, 
White Dictamni, 
Angelica, 
Tarrow, 
Filipendula or Dropwort, 
Zedoary, 
Ginger, of each two drams, 
Rosemary, 
Gentian, 
Devils-bit, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Seeds of Citrons, and 
Agnus Castus, 
Berries of Kermes,
Seeds of Ash-tree,
Sorrel, 
Wild Parsnips, 
Navew, 
Nigella, 
Peony the male, 
Bazil, 
Hedg Mustard, 
Treacle-Mustard, 
Fennel, 
Bishops-weed, of each two drams. 
Berries of Bay, 
Juniper, 
Ivy, 
Sarsaparilla (or for want of it the  
double weight of Cubebs) 
Cubebs of each one dram and half. 
Leaver of Scordium, 
Germander, 
Chamepitys,
Centaury the less, 
Stœchas, 
Celtick Spicknard, 
Calaminth, 
Rue, 
Mints, 
Betony, 
Vervain, 
Scabious, 
Carduus Benedictus, 
Bawm, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Dittany of Creet three drams, 
Marjoram, 
St. Johns wort, 
Schœnanth, 
Horehound, 
Goats Rue, 
Savin,
Burnet, of each two drams. 
Figs, 
Walnuts, 
Fistick Nuts, of each three ounces. 
Emblick Myrobolans, half an ounce. 
Flowers of Violets, 
Borrage, 
Bugloss,  
Roses, 
Lavender, 
Sage,
Rosemary, of each four scruples. 
Saffron three drams, 
Cassia Lignea ten drams. 
Cloves, 
White Chamelion, or sevenseach 
Nutmegs, 
Mace, of each two drams and an half. 
Black Pepper, 
Long Pepper,  
All the three sorts of Saunders, 
Wood of Aloes, of each one dram and 
an half, 
Harts-horn half an ounce, 
Unicorns horn, or in its stead, Be- 
zoar stone, one dram. 
Bone in a Stags heart, 
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153 ELECTUARIES. 
Ivory, 
Stags Pizzle, 
Castorium, of each four scruples. 
Earth of Lemnos three drams. 
Opium one dram and an half. 
Orient Pearls, 
Emerald, 
Jacinth,
Red Coral, of each one dram and an 
half.
Camphire two drams. 
Gum Arabick, 
Mastich, 
Frankincense, 
Styrax, 
Turpentine, 
Sagapenum, 
Opopanax, 
Laserpitium, or Mirrh, of each two 
drams and an half. 
Musk, 
Amber-greece, of each one dram. 
Oyl of Vitriol half an ounce. 
Species Cordiales temperatæ, Dia- 
margariton, Diamoscu, Diambra, 
Electuarij de Gemmis, 
Troches of Camphire, 
Of Squils, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Troches of Vipers two ounces. 
Juyce of Sorrel, 
Sowthistles, 
Scordium, 
Vipers Bugloss, 
Borrage, 
Bawm, of each half a pound. 
Hypocistis two drams. 
Of the best Treacle and Mithridate, of 
each six ounces. 
Old Wine three pound. 
Of the best Sugar, or choyce Honey, 
eight pound six ounces. 
These being all chosen and prepared with 
diligence and Art, let them be made in- 
to an Electuary, just as Treacle or Mi- 
thridate is. 
Culpeper.] The Title shews you the 
scope of the Author in compiling it, I 
beleeve it is excellent for those uses. 
The Dose of this is from a scruple to 
four scruples, or a dram and an half. 
It provokes sweating abundantly, 
and in this or any other sweating Me- 
dicine, order your body thus: Take 
it in bed, and cover your self warm; 
in your sweating, drink posset-drink 
as hot as you can; if it be for a Fea- 
ver, boyl Sorrel and red Sage in pos- 
set-drink; sweat an hour or two if 
your strength will bear it; then the 
Chamber being kept very warm, shift 
your self all but your head, about 
which (your cap which you sweat in 
being kept on) wrap a hot Napkin, 
which will be a means to repel the 
vapors back. This I for present hold 
the best Method for sweating in Fea- 
vers and Pestilences, in which this 
Electuary is very good. 
Vertues newly added. | 
It containes all the faculties and 
Vertues of Mithridate and Venice 
Treacle with advantage.
Requies Nicolai, or Dr. Nicolaus 
his sleeping Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of Red Roses leaves, 
the whites being cut off. 
Blew Violets, of each three drams. 
Opium of Thebes dissolved in Wine. 
Seeds of white Henbane, 
Poppies, white and black,
Roots of Mandrakes, 
Seeds of Endive, 
Purslain, 
Garden Lettice, 
Psyllium, 
Spodium, 
Gum Traganth, of each two scruples 
and five grains. 
Nutmegs, 
Cinnamon, 
Ginger, of each a dram and an half. 
Sanders, Yellow, White, and Red, 
of each a dram and an half. 
Sugar three times their weight, dissol- 
ved in Rose water. 
Mix them together, and make of them 
an Electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] Requies, the Title of this 
Prescript, signifies Rest: but I would 
not advise you to take too much of 
it inwardly, for fear instead of Rest, 
it brings you to Madness, or at best 
to Folly: Outwardly I confess being 
applied to the Temples, as also to 
the insides of the wrests, it may mi- 
tigate the heat in Feavers, and pro- 
voke Rest; as also mitigate the 
violent heat and raging in Frenzies. 
I like not the Receipt taken inward- 
ly. 
Vertues newly added. 
This was invented by an Ancient 
Author to cause rest and sleep. I con- 
ceive the use thereof in many cases 
to be far more proper, then to use 
Laudanum, Cynoglossa Pills, or Pills 
of Storax, how ever its luck is not 
to have the Vogue amongst us. But 
I have observed that Medicaments 
in London come in fashion and go 
out again, according to the fancies 
of some eminent collegiate Practiti- 
oners, who are imitated by the rest. 
It is most proper in hot Diseases and 
Bodies wherein opiates may be used 
For in Violent feavers they are of ill 
repute especially in the height as 
stopping the motions of Nature and 
inflamming the Feaver. But where- 
ever Laudanum is safe in an hot dis- 
ease and Body, I dare say this is 
much more safe and proper. As to 
the danger which Culpeper insinuates, 
Mr. John Grindal a learned Apothe- 
cary dwelling in Amsterdam, assured 
me that he had frequently given it to 
a Boy of his when very young and 
yet the Boy proved afterwards a 
lusty healthy and witty Knave. It is 
frequently used by the discreet
Practitioners of that renowned City. 
The Dose is from one scruple to half 
a dram or two scruples in urgent oc- 
casions. 
Electuarium Reginæ Coloniens. Or, 
The Queen of Colens Electuary. 
Colledg.] Take of the Seeds of Saxi- 
frage and Gromwel, 
Juyce of Liquoris, of each half an 
ounce. 
Seeds of Caraway, 
Annis, 
Smallage, 
Fennel, 
Parsly of Macedonia, 
Broom, 
Carrots, 
Bruscus. 
Sparagus, 
Lovage, 
Cummin, 
Juniper,
Rue,
Siler Mountain, 
Seeds of Acorus, 
Penyroyal, 
Cinkfoyl, 
Bay-berries, of each two drams. 
Indian Spicknard, 
Schænanth, 
Amber, 
Valerian, 
Hogs Fennel, 
Lapis Lyncis, of each a dram and 
an half. 
Galanga, 
Ginger, 
Turbith, of each two drams. 
Senna an ounce. 
Goats blood prepared half an 
ounce. 
Mix them together: first beat them 
into pouder, then make them into an 
Electuary according to Art, with 
three times their weight in Sugar dis- 
solved in white Wine.  
Culpeper.] It is an excellent Re- 
medy for the stone and wind chol- 
lick, a dram of it taken every mor- 
ning: I assure such as are troubled 
with such diseases, I commend it to 
them as a Jewel.
Vertues newly added. 
If this Queen of Colen was Wife to 
one of those three Kings of Colen that 
the Legend tels us came to visit 
Christ in the Manger at Bethlehem, 
then is this Electuary. 1658. years 
old and upwards, and deserves Ve- 
neration for its Antiquity. 
It opens all obstructions and 
moves the Courses for which prob- 
ably the good Queen might use it as 
well as for Wine and Stone Colick, 
and to make her blithe and buxome 
when she was to club with the King 
her Husband in the great business of
making Princes and Princesses. 
Half a dram or two scruples may 
fitly be given in three ounces of 
white Wine with a spoonful or two
of Syrupe of Marsh-mallows.
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154 PILLS. 
PILLS. 
Culpeper.] PILLS in Greek are called, Kατoπóπα, in Latin, Pilulæ: which 
signifie little bals, because they are made up in such a form, that 
they may be the better swallowed down, by reason of the offensiveness of their taste.
They were first invented for the purging of the Head (however Physitians have 
since ordered the business) because the matter there offending is not so soon taken 
away by any other Physick. Such as have Scammony (otherwise called Diagry-
dium) in them, or Colocynthis, work strongly, and must be taken in the morning, 
and the body well regulated after them, keeping your Chamber, and a good fire.
I shall instruct you in the Dose as I come to them; such as have neither Colocyn- 
this, nor Diagrydium, may best be taken in the evening, neither need yon keep 
the House for them. 
Pilulæ de Agarico. Paga 121. Latin. 
Or, Pills of Agrick. 
Colledg.] Take of Agarick three 
drams. 
Out own blue Orris roots, 
Mastich, 
Horehound, of each one dram. 
Turbith five drams. 
Species Hiera picra half an ounce. 
Colocynthis, 
Sarcocol, of each two drams. 
Mirrh one dram. 
Sapa as much as is sufficient, 
Make it into a Mass according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It was invented to clense 
the Breast and Lungs of flegm, it 
works pretty titely, therefore requires 
a good Physitian to direct it. Half 
a dram at a time (keeping your self 
warm) cannot wel do you harm, un- 
less you be very weak. 
Virtues newly added. 
They were invented to purge the
Brest and Lungs from Rheum and 
Flegm, and so to cure the Tissick and 
all shortness of breath; old Coughs, 
and the like diseases arising from 
thick and Flegmatick Humors. Their 
dose is a dram. 
Pilulæ Aggregativæ. Page 121. Latin.
Or, Aggregative Pills. 
Colledg.] Take of Citron Miroba- 
lans,
Rhubarb, of each half an ounce.
Juyce of Agrimony, and Worm- 
wood made thick, of each two 
drams. 
Diagrydium five drams. 
Agrick, 
Colocynthis, 
Polypodium, of each two drams. 
Turbith, 
Aloes, of each six drams. 
Mastich, 
Red Roses, 
Sal. Gem. 
Epithymum, 
Annis seed, 
Ginger, of each a dram. 
With Syrup of Damask Roses, 
Make it into a Mass according to Art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth the Head of 
Choller, Flegm, and Melancholly, 
and that stoutly: it is good against 
quotidian Agues, and faults in the 
Stomach and Liver: yet, because it 
is well corrected if you take but half 
a dram at a time, and keep your self 
warm, I suppose you may take it 
without danger. 
Vertues newly added. 
They are so called I conceive be- 
cause they purge all the humors. 
Also they are termed Polychrestæ, 
that is good for many things. They 
purge Choller, Melancholly and 
Flegm, from the Head and Eyes, 
Stomach, Liver and Spleen, and are 
good for all diseases of those parts 
arising from the said humors. The 
dose is one dram in the morning 
about five a clock, the patient slee- 
ping after them and keeping bed till 
seven ox eight, yet without swea- 
ting. 
Pilulæ Alœphanginæ.
Page 121. Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon,
Cloves, 
Cardamoms the less, 
Nutmegs, 
Mace, 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Carpobalsamum, or Juniper ber-
ries, 
Squinanth, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Yellow Sanders,
Red Roses dried, 
Wormwood, of each half an ounce. 
Let the Tincture be taken out of these 
being grosly bruised in spirit of Wine, the  
vessel being close stopped; in three pound 
of this Tincture being strained, dis 
solve  
Aloes one pound. 
Which being dissolved, add 
Mastich, 
Mirrh, of each half an ounce, 
Saffron two drams. 
Balsom of Peru one dram. 
The superfluous Liquors being consumed, 
either over hot Ashes or a Bath, bring 
it into a Mass of Pills. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth both sto- 
mach and brain of gross and putri- 
fied Humors, and sets the sences free 
when they are thereby troubled: it 
clenseth the brain offended by ill hu- 
mors, wind, &c. helps vertigo and 
head-aches, and strengthens the brain 
exceedingly, helps concoctions, and
strenthens the stomach. I have of-
ten

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ten made experience of it upon my 
own body, and alwaies with good  
success in such occasions, and there- 
fore give me leave to commend it 
unto my country-men, for a whol- 
som clensing Medicine, strengthning, 
no waies violent: one dram taken at 
night going to bed, wil work gently 
next day: if the party be weak, you 
may give less; if strong more. If 
you take but half a dram, you may 
go abroad the next day: but if you 
take a dram, you may keep the 
house; there can be no harm in 
that. 
Pilulæ de Aloe Lota. Page 122. Lat. 
Or, Pills of washed 
Aloes. 
Colledg. Take of Aloes washed with
juyce of red Roses, one ounce.
Agrick three drams,
Mastich, two drams, 
Diamoscu Dulce half a dram, 
Syrup of Damask Roses so much as is suf- 
ficient to make it into a mass according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.]. It purgeth both Brain, 
Stomach, Bowels, and Eyes of putri- 
fied humors, and also strengthens 
them. Use these as the succeeding. 
Vertues newly added 
These purge more effectually then 
Alephangine pils aforesaid; which 
seem rather strengthening then much 
purgative. It is a neatly composed 
Pil, and besides what is said of it, It 
does cheer and recreate the mind 
and spirits. It may be familiarly used 
a Pil or two before supper, by such as 
are costive, troubled with crudities, 
dim-sighted, dull-witted, heavy- 
hearted or otherwise indisposed, 
twice or thrice a week and a man 
may follow his occasions. If a man 
would give it as a just purge one 
dram or a dram and half may be the 
dose in the morning, the Patient kee- 
ping house. 
Aloe Rosata. Page 122.
Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Aloes in Pouder 
four ounces, 
Juyce of Damask Roses clarified one 
pound.
Mix them and digest them in the Sun, or 
in at bath, till the superfluous liquor he 
drawn off, digest it and evaporate it four 
sives over, and keep the Mass. 
Culpeper.] It is a gallant gentle 
putger of choller, frees the stomach 
from superfluous humors,opens stop- 
pings, and other infirmities of the 
body proceeding from Choller, flegm, 
as yellow Jaundice, &c. and streng- 
thens the body exceedingly. Take 
a scruple, or half a dram at night go- 
ing to bed, you may walk abroad, 
for it wil hardly work til next day in 
the afternoon. 
Pilulæ Aureœ. Page 122. Latin. 
Or, the Golden Pills.  
Colledg.] Take of Aloes,
Diacrydium, of each five drams. 
Red Roses,
Smallage seeds, of each two drams 
and an half. 
Seeds of Annis and 
Fennel, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Mastich, 
Saffron, 
Trochs Alhændal, of each one dram. 
With a sufficient quantity of Honey of 
Roses, make it into a Mass according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] They are held to purge 
the head, to quicken the sences, e- 
specially the sight, and to expel wind 
from the bowels, but work som- 
thing harshly. Half a dram is the 
utmost dose; keep the fire; take 
them in the morning, and sleep after 
them, they wil work before noon. 
Virtues newly added.
These Pills have anciently had 
their name from their precious ef- 
fects in purging the Head, quicken- 
ing the eye-sight, voiding wind from 
the stomach and Guts and that with- 
out trouble. The dose is one dram 
in five Pills. Two may be taken at 
night and the other three in the mor- 
ning. 
Pilulæ Cochiæ, the greater. 
Page 122. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Species of Hiera 
picra, ten drams. 
Trochs Alhandal, three drams and
an half,
Diacrydium two drams and an half. 
Turbith, 
Stechas, of each five drams, 
With a sufficent quantity of syrup of 
Stechas, make it into a Mass according 
to art. 
Culpeper.] Gesner and Matth. de 
Grad. put in only two scruples and a 
a half of Diacrydium, belike because 
they would not have it work so vio-
lently: But Mesue, Rhasis, and Nico- 
laus Myrepsus, prescribed two drams 
and an half, as here in the Dispensa- 
tory: only Mesus appoints it to be 
made up with Syrup of Wormwood. 
’Tis held to purge the head, and it 
must be given only to strong bodies,
and but half a dram at a time, and
also with great care.
Vertues newly added.
These are of Rhases his Invention
an able Arabian Physitian. They are 
termed also Cephalicæ or Head-pils, 
from their experimented Virtue in 
curing diseases of the Head out of 
which they purge choler and thick 
flegm effectually, and from the 
Nerves. The dose is from two scru- 
ples to a dram in the morning, and 
sleep after. 
Pilulæ Chochiæ, the less.
Page 123. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes, 
Scammony, 
Colocynthis, of each one ounce.
With equal parts of Syrup of Worm- 
wood and purging thorn: make it into 
a Mass according to art.
Vertues newly added. 
This purges choler more than 
flegm and is appropriated for disea- 
ses of the Stomach. The dose is from 
one scruple to half a dram or two 
scruples in the morning fasting. 
Pilulæ de Cygnoglosso, Page 123. 
Latin. Or, Pills of Cyg- 
noglossa or Hounds- 
Tongue.
Colledg.] Take of the Roots of 
Hounds-tongue dried, 
White Henbane seed, 
Opium prepared, of each half an
ounce. 
Mirrh six drams, 
Olibanum five drams, 
Saffron, 
Castoreum, 
Styrax Calamitis, of each one dram 
and an half. 
With syrup of Stœchas, make it into a 
Mass.
Culpeper.] It staies hot Rhewms 
that fal down upon the Lungs, there- 
fore is good in Ptisicks, also it miti- 
gates pain: a scruple is enough to 
take at a time going to bed, and too 
much if your body be weak: have a 
care of Opiates for fear they make 
you sleep your last. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Pills were invented, not to 
purge but to stop all distillations of 
rheum from the Head into the Lungs 
and Chest, the Teeth, or any other 
part. They are therefore good after
universal remedies methodically ap- 
plied, to stop the Tooth-ach, Cough, 
Gout pains, aud all troublesom mo- 
tions of the humors, ten grains being 
taken at night when the Patient lies 
down to rest, and repeated every o- 
ther night, for about three nights, if 
the pain or Cough continues so as 
to hinder the Patients sleep. Culpe- 
per overshoots in assigning the dose 
of this Pill for though a scruple 
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may be given, yet seldom is or need 
to be given more then half a scruple 
at a time. And there is as much 
danger in opiats as purgatives, 
though their bad effects when misap- 
plied are not so sudden and frightful. 
Pilulæ ex Duobus. Page 123. Latin. 
Or, Pills of two things. 
Colledg. Take of Colocynthis, and 
Scamony, of each one ounce. 
Oyl of Cloves as much as is sufficient 
to Malax them well: then with a little 
Syrup of purging Thorn. Make it into 
a Mass.
Vertues newly added. 
These Pills are named from the 
paucity of their ingredients, it being 
rare to see a Pill compounded only 
of two ingredients, not reckoning 
the Oyl of Cloves and Syrupe. This 
Pill was I suppose contrived to ac- 
commodate those that cannot be 
perswaded to take above one or two 
pills at a time, and therefore they 
were made so strong that one Pill in 
some Bodies and two in most will 
work handsomely. They purge cho- 
ler and flegm from all parts, are fit 
for rustick bodies, and have been 
supposed to be those Pills the people 
in London have so much sought and 
so dearly bought under the name of 
De Lawne his Head-Pills. Ten or 
twelve graines gilded with Gold 
make a gallant head Pill to be taken 
in the morning and to sleep after the 
same. I need not say that thin 
borath of veal, or posset drink is 
usually taken after the working of 
such Medicaments, to wash them 
from the stomach, temper their acri- 
mony, and facilitate their ejection. 
Also after strong Physick taken in the 
morning it is good for the patient to 
dine timely, which prevents weak- 
ness, and furthers the operation of 
the Physick in the Afternoon. 
For all Culpeper is in such an af- 
fright at the Contemplation of these 
terrible Pills, yet I have been assured 
by a learned and expert practitioner 
in this City of London now living 
this present year 1659. That a smal 
Pill thereof hath been given to Chil- 
dren successfully against the Worms, 
and without any danger. There is 
shore of Oyl of Cloves in the Mass 
thereof, which by its delicious Aro- 
matick flavour corrects the Maligni- 
ty, and by its Oyly body mussles and 
sheathes the Acrimony of the 
Coloquintida, and Scammony. Also 
stomach and all the inward bo- 
wels and Organs, are as effectually 
guarded and armed by the Chymical 
Oyl of cloves, as if a great quantity 
of Spices were added in substance, as 
the manner is to correct ordinary 
Pills. 
This Pill is by some used to purge
such as are infected with the great 
Pocks. In which case I conceive less 
then a scruple is not given, and it 
may be half a dram in strong Bodies. 
And possibly being of late invention, 
it may have been framed for the Me- 
ridian of that disease, as Hercules his 
great Club to knock down a Monster. 
But such hot and dry Medicaments 
do many times fail the Physitians ex- 
pectation in meager hot and dry bo- 
dies, when nevertheless an ounce of 
Electuarium Lenitivum or of Catho- 
licon will do some feates. In such 
bodies therefore the Patient must 
drink warm Whey, or eat stewed 
Pruens good store after the first stool.  
Pilulæ de Eupotorio. Page 123. Latin. 
Or, Pills of Eupatorium. 
Colledg. Take of the Juyce of Maud- 
lin, and Wormwood made 
thick,
Citron Myrobalans, of each three 
drams. 
Rhubarb three drams and an half. 
Mastich one dram. 
Aloes five drams. 
Saffron half a dram. 
Syrup of the Juyce of Endive, as much 
as is sufficient 
Make it into a Mass. 
Culpeper.] Having compared this 
Receipt of Mesue with Reason, I find 
it a gallant gentle purge, and streng- 
thening, fitted for such bodies as are 
much weakned by diseases of chol- 
ler. The Author appropriates it to 
such as have Tertian Agues, the yel- 
low Jaundice, obstructions or stop- 
pings of the Liver; half a dram taken 
at night going to bed, wil work with 
an ordinary body, the next day by 
noon. The truth is, I was before 
sparing in Relating the Doses of most 
purging Physicks, because they are 
to be regulated according to the 
strength of the Patient, &c. Physick 
is not to be presumed upon by un- 
able Physitians, lest they meet with 
their matches, and over-matches 
too. 
They that think the use of these Me- 
dicines is too brief, (it's so only for 
cheapness of the Book) let them read 
these Books of mine, of the last Edi- 
tion, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, John- 
ston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and Physick 
for the Poor. 
Pilulæ Fatidæ. Page 123. Latin. 
Or, Strong smelling Pills. 
Colledg. Take of Aloes, 
Colocynthis, 
Amoniucum, 
Sagapen,
Mirrh,
Rue seeds, 
Epithymum, of each five drams,
Scammony, three drams. 
Roots of Turbith half an ounce. 
Spurge the less, prepared. 
Hermodactils of each two drams. 
Ginger one dram and an half. 
Spicknard, 
Cinnamon, 
Saffron, 
Castoreum, of each one dram. 
Euphorbium prepared two scruples. 
Dissolve the Gums in juyce of Leeks, and 
with syrup made with the Juyce of Leeks 
and Sugar, make it into a Mass.
Culpeper.] They purge gross and 
law Flegm, and Diseases thereof ari- 
sing; Gouts of all sorts, pains in the 
back-bone, and other Joynts: it is 
good against Leprosies, and other 
such like infirmities of the Skin. 
Vertues newly added. 
These besides the Vertues mentio- 
ned do move the courses, clense 
a foule Womb of Flegmatick and 
Putrid baggage, and are good to 
prepare the same for conception, be-
ing discreetly used. And strange 
it is that Culpeper forgets his wonted 
Reverence to the Judgment of Me- 
sues when he censures this Pill. I like 
it the better, because the discreet 
Colledg of Amsterdam having accor- 
ding to the frugal and sober humor 
of that Nation, lest out many Medi- 
caments of all sorts, wherewith the 
Dispensatories of most Cities and 
common-wealths are pestered, and 
the younger practitioners distracted, 
they have nevertheless retained this 
Pill as that which by reason of its 
peculiar composition, having so ma- 
ny generous gums therein, and its 
peculiar fitness for some cases and 
occasions, could not be spared. I 
conceive they are unjustly called Fæ- 
tidæ, and that some Effeminate 
Courtier gave them that Name. For 
why should a Physitian judg the 
strong smel of Ammoniacum, Saga- 
penum, Opopanax, &c. to be stin- 
king? I did never think that Feaver- 
few, Ground Ivy, or Alehoof, Herb 
Robert and such like, were stinking 
Herbs, but that they were indeed of 
a vehement, Grave, and Masculine 
sent. Opopanax and Bdellium, two 
noble gums, are left out in the last 
Edition of the Dispensatory in Latin, 
I suppose through mistake, and to the 
detriment of the Pills. 
Their dose is from two scruples to 
one dram. I conceive them to be 
Elegantly and Artfully compounded 
and in stead of Fætidæ I would have 
them called Pilulæ Viriles, Martiales, 
or Hercuteæ. And to conclude, out
of the esteem I have of them, I shall
yet more fully muster their Virtues 
and Uses, as followeth. 
They are properly fitted for the
Brain, Nerves, Joynts and Limbs, 
and to remedy their old and cold dis-
cases, viz. Head-aches of the whole
or half head, Apoplexies, Palsies,
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158 PILLS. 
Dizzyness, Tremblings, Running 
Gouts, Foot Gouts, Knee-Gouts, 
pain of the colick, Back-bone and 
other Joynts, as also of the Stomach. 
They open stubborne obstructions of 
the bowels, clense away the snivel of 
the Womb and help conception, 
move the courses, help diseases of 
of the Skin, as Morphews, Tetters, 
Itch and Scabs, Ring-worms, Le- 
prosie and the Elephantiasis so called 
or foul Maunge.
Pilulæ de Hermodactilis. Pag. 124. Lat. 
Or, Pills of Hermodactils. 
Colledg.] Take of Sagapen, six 
drams. 
Opopanax three drams. 
Melt them in warm juyce of Coleworts, 
so much as is sufficient; then strain it 
through a convenient rag, afterwards 
boyl it to a meanthickness, then 
Take of Hermodactils, 
Aloes, 
Citron Myrobalans, 
Turbith, 
Coloquintida, 
Soft Bdellium, of each six drams. 
Euphorbium prepared. 
Seeds of Rue and 
Smallage, 
Castorium, 
Sarcocol, of each three dram. 
Saffron one dram and an half. 
With the syrup of the juyce of Coleworts 
made with Honey, make it into a mass 
according to Art. 
Culpeper.] They are good against 
the Gout, and other cold afflictions 
of the Joynts. These are more mo- 
derate by half than Pilulæ Fœtidæ, and 
appropriated to the same Diseases. 
You may take a dram in the mor- 
ning, if age and strength agree; if 
not, take less, and keep your body 
warm by the fire, now and then wal- 
king about the Chamber. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are of kind to the former. 
For they consist also of such things as 
purge flegm, soften the same when 
hardned, melt and attenuate it being 
thickned, and make it more fit to be 
purged forth, and of such things as 
preserve the strength of the bowels 
wherfore they powerfully draw thick 
humors from the remote parts of the 
body, especially from the joynts and 
Limbs; they are good for cold dis- 
eases of the Head Nerves and Joynts. 
In a word they will do all in a man- 
ner that the former, but not so effect- 
ually. The dose is from two scruples 
to a dram and no higher. They must 
be given in the morning in bed, as 
all strong pills are usually given, and 
as hath been before expressed. 
Pilulæ de Hiera cum Agarico. Pag. 124 
Latin. Or, Pills of Hiera 
with Agarick. 
Colledg.] Take of Species Hiera Pi- 
cra, 
Agarick, of each half an ounce. 
Aloes one ounce. 
Honey Roses so much as is sufficient 
Makp it into a Mass according to Art. 
Culpeper.] Very many are the 
Vertues Authors have been pleased 
to confer upon this Medicine, as ma- 
king it Universal, and applying it to 
all parts of the Body, and almost all 
Diseases in them; proceed they ei- 
ther of Choller, flegm, or of Melan- 
cholly: Nay, they make it to resist
poyson, and Epidemical Diseases; 
to help the Gout, Dropsie, and Fal- 
ling-sickness; to provoke the terms 
and safe the fits of the Mother; to 
cure Agues of all sorts: shortness of 
breath and consumption of the lungs 
vertigo or dizziness in the head, to 
open obstructions of the Liver and 
spleen, to cure the yellow Jaundice, 
and sharpness of Urine: to streng- 
then the brain and memory, and 
what not? the truth is, it is as harm- 
less a purge as most in the Dispensa- 
tory. You may safely take a scru- 
ple at night going to bed, having eat 
a light Supper three hours before, 
and you may safely go about your 
business the next day, for it will not 
work too hastily, but very gently; so 
you may continue taking it a week 
together, for it will not do wonders 
in once taking. 
Pilulæ Imperiales. Page 124. Latin 
Imperial Pils, Or Pils of the 
Emperor. 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes two ounces,
Rhubarb one ounce and an half, 
Agarick, 
Senna, of each one ounce. 
Cinnamon, three drams. 
Ginger two drams. 
Nutmegs, 
Cloves, 
Spicknard, 
Mastich, of each one dram. 
With syrup of Violets, make it into a 
mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth the body of
mixt humors, and strengthens the 
stomach exceedingly; as also the bo-
wels, liver, and natural spirit: it is  
good for cold Natures, and cheers 
the spirits. The Dose is a scruple, 
or half a dram, taken at night: in  
the morning drink a draught of
warm Posset-drink, and then you  
may go about your business: both  
these and such like Pils as these, 'tis  
your best way to take them many  
nights together, for they are proper 
for such infirmities as cannot be car- 
ried away at once. Observe this 
Rule in all such Pills as are to be ta- 
ken at night. 
Virtues newly added. 
These Pills seem to have been fa- 
miliar to some Prince in regard of 
their gentle Nature, not receiving a- 
ny churlish purgative in their com- 
position, and being finely spiced, 
and tempered with syrup of Violets. 
They are of familiar use to preserve 
health and cheerfulness in persons 
costive, that live a sedentary life and 
are subject to crudities through stu- 
dy or want of Exercise; ten grains 
may be taken every other day, at go- 
ing to bed in case of costiveness for a 
fortnight together, til Nature be put 
into her tract. They encline to sleep, 
and what was said of Pil de Aloè lo- 
ta or Aloes washed may be said of 
this. It helps the eye-sight, and me- 
mory, and prolongs life, being used 
familiarly as aforesaid. If a man 
would give it for a solemn purge he 
may give one dram, four scruples or 
a dram and half. And in delicate 
bodies that are tender, and purge 
only of course, to clense their bodies 
and prevent sickness; these pills are 
are more safe and fitting then the 
scammoniated and colocynthidated 
pills, or other violent purgers; and 
they are more easily taken then any 
boiled purge, by those that are natu- 
rally apt to swallow pils. 
Pilulæ de Lapide Lazuli. Page. 124. 
Latin. Pills of Lapis Lazuli or 
a blue stone so called, being 
speckled with Golden 
Specks. 
Colledg] Take of Lapis Lazuli in
pouder, and well washed five
drams,
Epithimum, 
Polypodium, 
Agarick, of each an ounce. 
Scammony, 
Black Hellebore roots, 
Sal gem of each two drams and an 
half. 
Cloves, 
Annis seeds, of each half an ounce. 
Species Hiera simple, fifteen drams. 
With syrup of juyce of Fumitory, make 
it into a mass according to art. 
Culpeper, It purgeth Melancholly 
very violently: we wil not now dis- 
pute the story how, or in what cases 
violent purges are fit for melanchol- 
ly, let it suffice that it is not for a 
vulgar use. 
Vertues newly added. 
Experience hath shewed these pils 
to be effectual against diseases ari- 
sing from black choller and melan- 
cholly, hardness and pain of the
spleen, Jaundize, Morphew, Can-
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ker, Leprosie and Elephantiasis so  
called or the great Maunge; in a 
word, against al manner of diseases, 
arising from black and adust choller. 
They have been found very effectual 
in hypochandriacal melancholy. And 
though they seem to make the pa- 
tient worse, while the Humors are 
in motion, yet after the body is set- 
tled, the patient is evidently bette- 
red. And this is ordinary in the Hy- 
pochondriacal Disease of Melancholy, 
that al medicaments seem to hurt at 
first, but afterward their good effect 
discovers it self. 
When the Melancholick or black- 
cholerick humor is turgent and vola- 
tile and Effects chiefly the internall 
Senses, such Medicaments as these 
must be warily used, left in going a- 
bout to cure a melancholick Man 
you make him stark mad. But when 
the Humor is more pesant and fixt & 
less spiritual, affecting the Heart with 
sadness (but not much disturbing 
the sancie) or vexing the sides with 
pains, and the surface of the Body 
with pimples,rubies, scabs &c. There 
is no such danger in strong melan- 
choly-purgers. 
The dose of these Pils is from half 
a dram to one dram and to one dram 
and half in strong Bodies and in me- 
lancholick Diseases of the body, ra- 
ther then of the Mind, and of the 
Heart and of the sides rather then of 
the Head and Fancy, for then caution 
is necessary as has been said. 
I conceive the best way to give 
this pil in melancholick Diseases af- 
fecting the internal senses chiefly and 
the mind, and indeed in most cases, 
is to dissolve two scruples or a 
dram and half according to the
nature and strength of the patient in 
six or eight ounces of Goats Milk 
whey if to be had, or ordinary whey 
boyled with Borrage and Scorzone- 
ra Roots, and so to give it the pa- 
tient warme. And when it begins to 
worke let him drink a draught of 
warme whey as aforesaid, and after it 
has wrought pretty wel as five or six 
times,let him eat some stewed prunes 
as many as he pleases, and dine a- 
bout half an hour after eleven. Me- 
morandum that in Head-affecting- 
melancholy, the patient must abstain 
from flesh during the Cure, or eat ve- 
ry little and that of the lightest sorts 
and seldom. 
Because Culpeper seems much a- 
fraid of these pils and says they 
work very violently; least the rea- 
der may think the Dose to large I 
shal thus demonstrate that it is not. 
Every dram of this pil the materi- 
als being wel beaten and mixed con- 
tains two grains and an half of Dia-  
grydium as many of Black Hellebore 
and Sal. gem. five grains, of Lapis la- 
zuly, Agrick, Polypody, Epithimum  
each eight grains; and Hicra Picra  
fourteen grains; ergo the dose of  
these pils may be raised from one 
dram to one dram and half. 
Pilulæ Macri. Page. 125. Latin 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes two oun- 
ces. 
Mastick half an ounce, 
Dried, Majoram two drams, 
Salt of Wormwood one dram, 
Make them al, being in pouder, into a 
mass according to art with juyce of Cole- 
worts and sugar, so much as is suffi- 
cient.
Culpeper.] It is a gallant compo- 
sed Pill, whoever was the Author of 
it, I have not time to search: it streng- 
theneth both stomach and brain, e- 
specially the Nerves and Muscles 
(what they are you shal be instructed 
in a Table by it self, at the latter end 
of the Book as also in al other hard 
words that puzzle your Brains) and 
easeth them of such humors as afflict 
them, and hinder the motion of the 
body, they open obstructions of the 
liver and spleen, and takes away dis- 
eases thence coming. Your best way 
is is to take them often going to bed; 
you may take a scruple or half a 
dram at a time. I commend it to such 
people as have had hurts or Bruises, 
whereby the use of their limbs is im- 
paired; and I desire them to take it 
often, because Diseases in remote 
parts of the body cannot be taken a- 
way at a time: It wil not hinder their 
following of their business at all and 
therfore is the fitter for poor people. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is a good pil, but wherein the 
Gallantery of the composition there- 
of consists, which Culpeper talkes of I 
cannot see, save that it receives in its 
composition two drams of English 
spice (I mean sweet Marjoram) in 
stead of Cloves, Mace, Ginger &c. 
and in that it is ordered to be made 
into a body, or mass with juice of 
coleworts, rather then any artificial 
and polydedalous syrnp; these in- 
deed are gallant considerations in 
the composition thereof and to be 
imitated, by those who think no me- 
dicament is good but what is crou- 
ded with aboundance of simples: a 
practise like that of Women in the 
composition of their kitchin physick, 
wherein they wil be sure to put a lit- 
tle of every thing that they count 
good: whereas two or three things 
pertinently and musically assembled 
in diet, proves more acceptable to 
the tast, then al their unjudicious 
huddles. And so it is in the prescrip- 
tion of Physick,wherein the Irresolu- 
tion & final Judgment of the Physiti- 
an in the power of simples & the true 
Indication of the remedies, makes 
him geeddily multiply the simples, 
like bad. Archers that shoot many Ar- 
rows at the mark that some one may 
come near; and like bad bowlers that 
throw many bowles to come near the 
Mistris. This Pill wil quicken the 
memory, internal and external sen- 
ses, and may be used familiarly, as we 
said before, of Pils of washt Aloes, 
and pils Imperial. They are good a- 
gainst, an offensive breath, arising 
from the stomach, and against 
worms. 
Pilulæ Mastichinæ. Page 125. Latin. 
Or Mastich Pills. 
Colledg. Take of Mastich two ounces, 
Aloes four ounces, 
Agarick, 
Species Hiera simple, of each one 
ounce and an half. 
With Syrup of Wormwood make it into 
a mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] They purge very gent- 
ly, but strengthens much, both head, 
brain, eyes, belly, and reins. Both 
Dose, and Order is the same with the 
former. 
Vertues newly added. 
Mastick Pills, Pilulæ Macri, and 
Pilulæ de Aloe lota are of a suit, and 
resemble one another in Virtues, to 
which may be added Pil Ruffi, Pilulæ
stomachicæ simple, Pil stomachiœ cum 
gummi, and Pil de Tribus (which differ 
from the Mastick pils only by additi- 
on of two ounces of Rhubarb and 
two drams of Cinnamon) and Im- 
perial Pills may bring up the Rear, or 
lead the rest as Captain of this com- 
pany. But we have forgot Pil. A- 
læphanginæ which for his founding 
name shal be Ensign-bearer or Anci- 
ent; and we have also omitted Pil 
de Aloe rosata and Pil de Eupatorio,
which shal therefore hold the place 
of two Sergeants of his Band of ci- 
vil, modest, and familiar Pills, who 
on Horsback might be termed the 
maiden Troop. And look where 
comes one more for a place in the 
company viz. Pil de succino who shall 
be Drummer. And now when I had 
concluded that I had mustred all this 
maiden-company of gentle Pils, see 
where comes a proper fellow, even 
Pil de Rhubarbaro of Mesues, for 
whom there remains no other room 
but that of the Levietenant, Pilulæ 
Imperialis being Captain of this 
band. 
Thus Reader have I not unprofita- 
bly though pleasantly assembled all 
the gentler sort of Pils, that you may 
have them in your view, and take 
your choice upon occasion. This I 
needed not to have done, but that 
the ridiculous and blockish though 
old and friarly fashion of setting such 
things down according to A B C in 
the beginning of their names, had 
confounded this maiden company of
modest pils purgative, with the more
boistrous

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boistrous and. impudent part. Nay 
by this childish fashion (abominated 
by Pet. Ramus that great Master of 
reason to Europe) binding Pils have 
been jumbled with purging, and 
what confusions have not been caus- 
ed in this and all books that follow 
this silly fashion, save Dictionaries 
and Indexes? If it had not been for 
this idle method, which the Printer 
was loath to change for fear to of- 
fend the weak in understanding, I 
would have ranged all me dicaments 
according to their natures, faculties,
Intentions, the weaker and less com- 
pounded by themselves, the stronger 
and more compouuded by them- 
selves: Preparatives by themselves, 
Purgatives by themselves, &c. At 
least I could not but muster this 
troop of maiden Purgers from their 
Alphabetarian Quarters wherein Dr. 
Gwin or whoever had the office of 
Quarter-master, had unduly lodged 
them. When you look for a modest 
and civil purger you need not now 
hunt among the whol Regiment of 
boisterous Knaves to find one civill 
fellow in a corner. There is no excuse 
for this foolish method, but that it is 
old, and does help to find the things 
man seeks for. But to what intent 
serves the Index I pray you? Cer- 
tainly when that foolish fashion of 
of ranking medicaments and other 
things alphabetically came first up, 
and it is as old as Galen's time that 
the art of Indexes and their use was 
unknown, and why it should be con- 
tinued, now there are Indexes, I see 
no reason. And this childish me- 
thod (which was the fault of Dr. 
Gwin the muster-master and Quarter 
Master rather than the Coledg) is 
the greatest fault in the Dispensato- 
ry, overspreading like a morphew 
the whol body thereof. Whereas 
method rationall is the most beauti- 
full ornament of all these artificiall 
bodies called books, if the matter be 
capable of any method, and gives 
great light to the understanding and 
faculties the use and fruit of all 
books, yea the world which from its 
beauty and ornament is called Cosmos, 
had that name chiefly to intimate the 
elegant method & fit marshalling of 
the parts thereof, which are not jum- 
bled after the roat of A B C. But if 
this Book was intended meerly for a 
directory to the Apothecary, and no 
waies to edifie the yong practitioner, 
this confusion may possibly have 
sprung from designe, to cast a mist 
but I hardly beleeve it. But Dr. Gwin 
or who ever else was Quarter-master 
may the rather be excused, because 
he was seduced into this disorder, 
probably, by imitateing, the like silly 
custome of ranking Books in our 
publick Libraries after the childish 
roate of A, B, C, (whereas the out- 
landish Libraries of Amsterdam, 
Antwerp, Brussels, Leriden, Lovaine, 
are ranked according to the faculties 
and subjects, and so ought all the 
Books of a wisely ordered Library: 
but so much by the way, not unpro- 
fitable, I hope, having now had an 
opportunity to note this fault, wor- 
thy to be amended. The Vertues of 
any of these Pils, yet uncelebrated, 
shal come in their place. 
Pilulæ Mechoacannæ. Page 125. Lat. 
Or, Pills of Mechoacan. 
Colledg.] Take of Mechoacan Roots 
half an ounce; 
Turbith three drams;
Leaves of spurge steeped in Vinigar and 
and dried,
Seeds of Walwort, 
Agrick trochiscated, of each two 
drams; 
Spurge roots prepared, 
Mastich, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Mace,
Cinnamon, 
Sal. gem. of each two scruples. 
Beat them into pouder, and with white 
wine, bring them into a mass. When 
it is dry, heat it into pouder, and with 
syrup made with the juyce of Orris roots 
and sugar, make it the second time into 
amass for pills, 
Culpeper. They purge flegm very vio- 
lently. If the Disease be desperate, 
you may take half a dram, (or a 
scruple if your body be weak keep- 
ing the house) else I would advise 
you to let them alone. 
Vertues newly added. 
These seem intended to purge thin 
Rheumes and watry wheyish humors 
chiefly, and to assist the Cure of the 
Dropsie, especially in constitutions 
otherwise strong. For Mechoacan 
besides the purging Faculty, is 
thought to be an exceeding dryer of 
of the Belly and all parts oversoaked 
with moisture. The dose is from a 
scruple to half a dram or two scru- 
ples in strong Bodies, and a dram in 
very strong. 
Pilulæ de Opopanace. Page 125. Latin. 
Or, Pills of Opopanax. 
Colledg.] Take of Opopanax, 
Sagapen, 
Bdellium, 
Ammodactils, 
Coloquintida, of each five drams. 
Saffron, 
Castorium, 
Mirrh, 
Ginger, 
White Pepper, 
Cassia lignea, 
Citron myrobalans, of each one dram. 
Scamony two drams.
Turbith half an ounce. 
Aloes an ounce an half.
The Gums being dissolved in clarified 
juyce of Coleworts, with syrup of the juyce
of Coleworts, make them into a mass ac- 
cording to art.
Culpeper. It helps tremblings, pal- 
sies, Gouts of all sorts, clenseth the 
joynts, and is helpful for such as are 
troubled with cold afflictions of the 
nerves. It works violently, take but 
half a dram at a time, and stir not a- 
broad. 
Vertues newly added. 
Pils of Opopanax are neer of affi- 
nity and cousin-germans to the Pilu- 
lae Fœtidæ or Herculeæ aforesaid,  
and imitate their Vertues. The dose 
is from half a dram to two scruples, 
or one dram in very strong Bodies, 
taken in a morning early, in bed, and 
slept upon, and posset drink or whey 
being used upon the working, as 
aforesaid. 
They extenuate, dissolve, scour a- 
way and evacuate gross and clammy 
Flegm and al cold Humors, from the 
Brain, Nerves, Eyes, and Joynts; 
they break wind, ease the Breast, 
Spleen, Guts, Womb and Bladder, 
burthened with the Humors afore- 
said, They are good in the falling- 
sickness, Cramp, Palsie and such like 
Diseases. 
Pilulæ Rudii. Page 126. Latin. Or, 
Dr. Rudius his Pills, or 
Extractum Rudii. 
Colledg. Take of Coloquintida six 
drams. 
Agrick,
Scammony, 
Roots of black Hellebore, 
Turbith, of each half an ounce. 
Aloes one ounce, 
Diarrhodon abbatis half an ounce,
Let al of them (the Diarrh. Abbatis
excepted) be grosly bruised, and infused 
eight daies in the best spirit of Wine in a
vessel close stopped in the Sun, so that the 
liquor may swim at top the breadth of 
six fingers: afterwards infuse the Diar- 
rhodon Abbatis in the same manner 
four daies in Aqua vitæ, then having 
strained and pressed them hard, mix them 
both together, casting the dross away,and 
draw off the moisture in a glass Alem- 
bick, and let the thick matter remain in 
a mass. 
Culpeper. As this is the dearest so 
in my opinion it is most excellent in 
operation of al the Pills in the Dis- 
pensatory, being of a quick searching 
nature, yet though many violent 
simples be in it, the terrene part is 
cast away, and only the tincture u- 
sed, whereby it is apparent it cannot 
lie gnawing in the body so long; It 
clenseth both head and body of chol- 
ler, flegm, and melancholly: it must 
not be taken in any great quantity, 
half 

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half a dram is sufficient for the stron- 
gest body; let the weaker take but a 
scruple, and the weakest less; keep 
your chamber: they work very spee- 
dily being of a penetrating nature. 
Vertues newly added. 
These renowned Pils are named 
from their Author a learned Physiti- 
an. It is a panchymagogum or Ge- 
neral purger of all the supposed Hu- 
mours, hot and cold, thick and thin. 
It has Coloquintida and Turbith, two 
stout knaves and the gentle Agarick
to purge Phlegm and Rheum, watrish 
and wheyish Humors; Black Helle- 
bore, a surly fellow to beat melancho- 
ly out of doors, bitter Sr. Aloes to 
cope with captain general Choller. 
It quickly begins, and soon leaves 
working. It is doubtles, a good pil, 
but whether in al cases so effectual as 
those other pils that are more mate- 
rial and less spiritual, I question. And 
I think, Experience has taught me, 
that a scruple of this pil mixed with 
a scruple of Aggregative pils, pil co- 
chie, or the like, as occasion shal re- 
quire, wil work more to the purpose, 
and with better success, then the ex- 
tract alone. It is usually given with 
Mercurius dulcis in the Venereal 
Pocks. It is good for such as can- 
not take potions nor swallow many 
pils. One large pil of twelve or four- 
teen grains wil work pretty wel. The 
dose is to half a dram or two scruples 
in strong Bodies of Country and la- 
bouring men. 
Pilulæ Ruffi. Pag. 126. Latin. Or, 
Ruffus his Pils. 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes two ounces: 
Mirrh one ounce: 
Saffron half an ounce : 
With syrup of juyce of Lemmons, make 
it into a Mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] A scruple taken at night 
going to bed, is an excellent preser- 
vative in pestilential times; also they 
clense the body of such humours as 
are gotten by surfets, they strengthen 
the heart, and weak and stomachs, and
work so easily that you need not fear 
following your business the next day. 
Vertues newly added. 
These pils are of ancient inventi- 
on and long same,they are common- 
ly called pestilential pils, being re- 
puted of soveraigne use to preserve a 
man from the plague in pestilential 
seasons. They strengthen the Heart, 
binder the corruption of Humors, 
move the courses in women, clear the 
voyce, and contribute that waies to 
the ingenuous content of those that 
are delighted to sing in parts. Their 
ingredients make the Elixar, proprie- 
tatis of Paracelsus, reputed a sove- 
raigne medicament to strengthen the 
Body.
Pilulæ sine Quibus Page. 126. Latin. 
Or, the necessary Pils. 
Colledg.] Take of washed Aloes, 
fourteen drams, 
Scammony prepared six drams, 
Agrick, 
Rubarb, 
Senna of each half an ounce. 
Wormwood, 
Red Roses exungulated. 
Violet flowers. 
Dodder, 
Mastick, 
Of each one dram. 
Salt of Wormwood, half a dram. 
With syrup of the juyce of Fennel made 
with Honey, make it into a mass accord- 
ing to art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth flegm, chol- 
ler, and melancholly from the head, 
makes the sight and hearing good, 
and giveth ease to a burdened brain. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Pils were so named by some 
that found their good effects. They 
are chiefly commended for purging 
the eyes and senses and quickening 
the sight. 
Pilulæ stomachicæ. Page 126. Latin. 
Or, Stomach pills. 
Colledg.] Take of Aloes six drams, 
Mastich, 
Red Roses, of each two drams. 
With syrup of Wormwood make it into a 
mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] They clense and streng- 
then the stomach; they clense but 
gently, strengthens much, help dige- 
stion. Take them as the former. 
Pilulæ Stomachicæ cum Gummi. Page. 
127. Latin. Or, Stomach pills 
with Gum.
Colledg.] Take of Aloes an ounce, 
Senna five drams, 
Gum Amoniacum dissolved in El- 
der-flower Vinegar, half an 
ounce,  
Mastick, 
Mirrh, of each a dram and an half. 
Saffron, 
Salt of Wormwood, of each half a 
dram. 
With syrup of purging thorn make it in- 
to a mass according to art.  
Culpeper.] They work more strong- 
ly than the former did, and are ap- 
propriated to such whose stomachs 
are weakned by surfets; let such 
take a dram of them in the morning, 
and if they can sleep after them, let 
them. They may take them by four  
of the clock, and keep the house all 
day.
Vertues newly added. 
These are discreetly composed pils, 
and cure the diseases of the stomach, 
especially such as arise from sympa- 
thy of the spleen whose obstructuns 
they open: they disburden the lungs, 
and help diseases of the head arising 
by sympathy of the stomach and 
spleen. 
Pululæ è Styrace. Page 127. Latin. 
Or, Pills of Styrax. 
Colledg.] Take of Styrax Calamitis, 
Olibanum,  
Mirrh, 
Juyce of Liquoris. 
Opium, of each half an ounce. 
With syrup of white Poppies, make it in-
to a mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] They help such as are 
troubled with defluxion of Rhewm, 
Coughs, and provoke sleep to such 
as cannot sleep for coughing. Half a 
scruple is enough to take at a time, if 
the body be weak, if strong, they may 
make bold with a little more: I de- 
sire the ignorant to be very cautious 
in taking Opiates; I confess it was 
the urgent importunity of friends 
moved me to set down the Doses; 
they may do wise men very much 
good, and therefore I consented: If 
people will bo mad and do them- 
selves mischief, I can but warn them 
of it, I can do no more. 
Pilulæ de Succino. Page. 127. Latin.
Or, Pills of Amber. 
Colledg. Take of white Amber,  
Mastick, of each two drams. 
Aloes, five drams, 
Agarick a dram and an half. 
Long Birthwort half a dram, 
With syrup of Wormwood make it into a 
mass. 
Culpeper.] It amends the evil state 
of a Womans body, strengthens con- 
ception, and takes away What hin- 
ders it; it gently purgeth choller 
and flegm, and leaves a binding, 
strengthening quality behind it. 
Take them as Imperial pils. 
Pilulæ ex Tribus. Page 127. Latin.
Or, Pills of three things. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastick two oun- 
ces,
Aloes four ounces, 
Agarick,
Hiera simple, of each an ounce and 
an half, 
Rhubarb two ounces, 
Cinnamon two drams, 
With syrup of Succory, make it into a 
mass according to art. 
Qq Culpeper.

162 PILLS. 
Culpeper.] They gently purge 
choller, and help diseases thence a- 
rising,as itch,scabs, &c. They streng- 
then the stomach and liver, and open 
obstructions; as also help the yellow 
Jaundice. You may take a scruple 
or half a dram at night going to bed 
according as your body is in 
strength; neither need you fear next 
day to go about your business. 
Pilulæ Turpeti Aureæ. Page. 127. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Turbith two 
ounces, 
Aloes an ounce and an half, 
Citron myrobalans ten drams, 
Red Roses, 
Mastich, of each six drams. 
Saffron three drams, 
Beat them all into pouder, and with sy- 
rup of Wormwood bring them into a 
mass. 
Culpeper. They purge choller and 
flegm, and that with as much gentle- 
ness as can be desired; also they 
strengthen the stomach and liver, and 
help digestion. Take a scruple or 
half a dram, according as your body 
and the season of the yeer is, at night,  
you may follow your business next 
day. 
Laudanum. Page. 127. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Thebane Opi- 
um extracted in Spirit of wine, 
One ounce,
Saffron alike extracted, a dram and 
an half, 
Castorium one dram, 
Let them be taken in tincture of half an 
ounce, 
Of species Diambræ newly made in 
spirit of wine: add to them 
Ambergreece, 
Musk, of each six grains. 
Oyl of Nutmegs ten drops, 
Evaporate the moisture away in a bath, 
and leave the mass. 
Culpeper.] It was invented (and a 
gallant invention it is) to mitigate 
violent pains, stop the fumes that 
trouble the brain in feavers (but be- 
ware of Opiates in the beginning of 
Feavers) to provoke sleep, take not 
above two grains of it at a time, go- 
ing to bed; if that provoke not 
sleep, the next night you may make 
bold with three. Have a care how 
you be too busie with such Medi- 
cines, lest you make a man sleep till 
dooms-day, 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to stop al irregular and 
over violent or long motions of Na- 
ture in coughs, tooth-ach hindring 
sleep, dysenterys, diarrheas, whites, 
Gonorrhæas, to prevent Epileptick 
Fits, and fits of Agues, artfully and 
seasonably administred; otherwise,
being empirically used, it is danger- 
ous. 
Nepenthes Opiatum. Page. 128. La- 
tin. Or, Opiate against Sor- 
row and Sadness. 
Colledg.] Take of the tincture of 
Opium made first with distilled Vinegar, 
then with spirit of Wine, 
Saffron extracted in spirit of wine, 
of each an ounce. 
Salt of Pearls, 
Coral, of each half an ounce. 
Tincture of species Diambræ seven 
drams. 
Amber-greece one dram. 
Bring them into the form of Pils by the 
gentle heat of a bath. 
Vertues newly added.
This is less hot and more cordial  
then the Laudanum, more proper for 
hot diseases and constitutions, for dy- 
senteries, and fluxes. It asswages 
cares, sorrows, anxiety of mind, and 
other passions that hinder sleep and 
discompose the Tranquillity of the 
spirit, being methodically and skil- 
fully administred. It hath its Name 
from a famous composition which 
fair Hellen of Greece is reported to 
have made, whereby the composed 
jarring affections of such as were of 
at Enmity and turned them to peace 
and Joy which medicament was cal- 
led in Greek Nepenthes, that is to say 
Quench-sorrow, Carekil, and Hearts- 
ease. 
PILLS left out by 
the Colledg in their New 
Edition are these: 
Pilulæ Assaireth. Avicenna. 
Colledg. Take of species Hiera pi- 
cra Galeni one ounce 
Mastich, 
Citron myrobalans, of each half an 
ounce, 
Aloes two ounces, 
Syrup of stœchas as much as is sufficient: 
make of them a mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth choller and 
flegm, and strengthens the whole bo- 
dy exceedingly, being very precious 
for such whose bodies are weakned 
by surfets, or ill diet, to take half a 
dram or scruple at night going to 
bed. 
Pills of Bdellium. 
Colledg.] Take of Bdellium ten
drams, 
Myrobalans, Bellericks, 
Emblicks,
Blacks, of each five drams. 
Flakes of Iron, 
Leek seeds, of each three drams.
Choncula Veneris burnt, 
Coral burnt,
Amber, of each a dram and an half.
Pearls half an ounce, 
Dissolve the Bdellium in juyce of Leeks 
and with so much syrup of juyce of Leeks 
as is sufficient, make it into a Mass ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] Both this and the for- 
mer are seldom used, and therefore 
are hardly to be had. Those that 
please may easily make the former, 
this is more tedious-but the Prin- 
ter wil have it put in to stop the 
mouth of Momus. 
Vertues newly added. 
These pills were invented to stop 
the immoderate flux of the Hæmor- 
rhoid Veins, and to heal the ulcers 
in the Hæmorrhoides, also against 
immoderate flux of the Courses in 
women. They are also good against 
the Whites in women, help spitting 
of blood, and stay defluxions of 
Rheume. The dose is one dram or 
four scruples, 
Pills of Rhubarb.
Colledg.] Take of choyce Rhubarb 
three drams. 
Citron Myrobalans, 
Trochisci Diarrhodon, of each three 
drams and an half. 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Juyce of Wormwood, 
Mastich, of each one dram. 
Seeds of Smallage and Fennel, of 
each half a dram. 
Species hiera picra simp. Galeni, ten 
drams. 
With juyce of Fennel not clarified, and 
Honey so much as is sufficient, make it 
into a mass. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth choller, o- 
pens obstructions of the Liver, helps 
the yellow Jaundice, and Dropsie in 
the beginning, strengtheneth the sto- 
mach and Lungs. Take them as Pi- 
lulæ Imperiales. 
Pilulæ Arabicæ. 
Colledg.] Take of the best Aloes, 
four ounces. 
Briony Roots, 
Myrobalans, Citrons, 
Chebs, 
Indian, Bellerick, 
Emblick, 
Mastick, 
Diagrydium, 
Asarabacca,
Roses,

163 PILLS. 
Roses, of each an ounce. 
Castorium three drams, 
Saffron one dram, 
With syrup of wormwood, make it into a 
mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It helps such women as 
are not sufficiently purged in their 
labor, helps to bring away what a 
careless Midwife hath left behind, 
purgeth the head, helps Head-ache, 
Megrim, Vertigo, and purgeth the 
stomach of vicious humors; besides 
Authors say it preserves the sight and 
hearing, and preserves the mind in 
vigor, and causeth joyfulness, driv- 
ing away Melancholly; 'tis like it 
may, but have a care you take not 
too much of it: a scruple is enough 
to take at a time, or half a dram if 
the body be stronger; take it in the 
morning about four of the clock, 
and (if you can) sleep an hour or 
two after, keep your self warm by the 
fire, and order your self as after other 
purges. I pray be not too busie with 
it, and say, I warned you of it. 
Pilulæ Arthriticæ. 
Colledg.] Take of Hermodactils, 
Turbith, 
Agrick, of each half an ounce. 
Cassia lignea, 
Indian spicknard, 
Cloves, 
Xylobalsamum, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Carpobalsamum or cubebs,  
Mace, 
Galanga, 
Ginger, 
Mastich, 
Assafœtida,
Seeds of Annis, 
Fennel, 
Saxifrage, 
Sparagus, 
Bruscus, 
Roses, 
Gromwels 
Sal. gem. of each two drams. 
Scammony one ounce, 
Of the best Aloes, the weight of them 
all. 
Juyce of Chamepitys made thick with 
Sugar, so much as is sufficient; or sy- 
rup of the juyce of the same, so much as is 
sufficient to make it into a mass. 
Culpeper. As I remember, the Au- 
thor appoints but a dram of Scam- 
mony, which is but the eighth part 
an ounce, and then wil the Receipt 
be pretty moderate, whereas now it 
is too violent: I know wel enough it 
is the opinion of Doctors, that Aloes 
retards the violent working of Scam- 
mony; I could never find it, and I 
am the worst in the world to pin my 
faith upon another mans sleeve, and 
I would as willingly trust my life in 
the hands of a wild Bear, as in the 
hands of that Monster called Traditi- 
on. If but a dram of Scammony be 
put in, then may a man safely (if not 
too much weakned) take a dram of 
it at a time, about four in the mor- 
ning, ordering your self as in the for- 
mer: but made up as the Colledg 
prescribes, I durst not take them my 
self, therfore I wil not prescribe them 
to others. It helps the gout, and 
other pains in the joynts, comforts 
and strengthens both brain and sto- 
mach, and consumes diseases whose 
original comes of flegm,
Pilulæ Cochiæ with Helebore. 
Colledg.] Take of the pouder of the 
Pills before prescribed, 
Pouder of the bark of the Roots of 
back Hellebore, one ounce, 
Make it into a mass with syrup of stœ- 
chas according to art. 
Culpeper. The former purgeth the 
head of flegm, and therefore is fit for 
Lethargies; this of Melancholly, and 
is therefore fit for mad people, if Me- 
lancholly be the cause. 
Pils of Fumitory Avicenna. 
Colledg. Take of Myrobalans,
Citrons, 
Chebs, 
Indian, Diagrydium, of each five 
drams.
Aloes seven drams, 
Let al of them being bruised be thrice 
moistned with juyce of Fumitory, and 
thrice suffered to dry, then brought into 
a Mass with syrup of Fumitory. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth Melancholly 
from the Liver and Spleen, sharp chol-  
lerick, and addust humors, salt flegm, 
and therefore helps Scabs and Itch. 
Take but half a dram at a time in the
morning, and keep by the fire. Be 
not too busie with it I beseech you.  
Pilulæ Indæ, Mesue out of Haly 
Colledg.] Take of Indian Myro- 
balans, 
Black Hellebore, 
Polypodium of the Oak, of each five 
drams. 
Epithimum, 
Stœchas, of each six drams. 
Agrick, 
Lapis laxuli often washed, troches Al- 
handal, 
Sal Indi, of each half an ounce. 
Juyce of Maudlin made thick,
Indian spicknard, of each two drams. 
Cloves one dram, 
Species hiera picra simplex Galeni, 
twelve drams, 
With syrup of the Juyce of Smallage, 
make into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper.] It wonderfully prevails 
against afflictions coming of Melan- 
choly, Cancers which are not ulce- 
rated, Leprosie, Evils of the mind co- 
ming of Melancholly, as sadness, 
fear, &c. quartan Agues, Jaundice, 
pains and infirmities of the Slpeen. 
I advise to take but half a dram, or a 
scruple at a time, and take it often, 
for Melancholly infirmities are 
not easily removed upon a sudden: 
take it in the morning, and keep the 
House. 
Vertues newly added. 
Look back to the vertues of Pilu-
læ de Lapide Lazuli, or of the stone 
so called, and there you shal be more 
fully informed concerning the Ver- 
tues of these pils, for they are very 
much alike in their composition. Me- 
sues the first inventer gave one dram 
and one dram and half, but one dram 
may suffice in English Bodies. 
Pilulæ Lucis Majores. Or the Eye en- 
lightening Pils of the larger 
composition. 
Colledg.] Take of Roses, 
Violets, 
Wormwood, 
Colocynthis, 
Turbith,  
Cubebs, 
Calamus aromaticus, 
Nutmegs, 
Indian spicknard, 
Epithimum, 
Carpobalsamum, or in stead thereof 
Cardomoms, 
Xylabolsamum, 
Wood of Aloes. 
Seeds of Seseli or Hartwort, 
Rue, 
Annis, 
Fennel, 
Smallage,  
Schænanthus, 
Mastich, 
Asarahacca Roots, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Cassia lignea, 
Saffron,  
Mace, of each two drams.
Myrobalans, 
Citrons, 
Chebs, 
Indian bellerick, 
Emblick,
Rhubarb, of each half an ounce, 
Agrick, 
Senna, of each five drams.  
Aloes succotrina, the weight of them 
all,  
With syrup of the juyce of Fennel make 
it into a mass according to art.
Culpeper.] It purgeth mixt hu- 
mors from the head, and cleers it o£
such Excrements as hinder the sight.
You may take a dram in the mor-
ning, keep yourself warm and with-
in doors, you shal find them streng-
then

164 TROCHES. 
then the brain and visive vertue: If 
your body be weak take less. 
Virtues newly added. 
Besides the good they do to the sight 
for which they were invented by Me- 
sues, They are good for diseases of 
the Head, Stomach and Belly pro- 
ceeding from phlegm. They expel 
Wind, bring down the Urine stop- 
ped, and strengthen the inward 
parts. 
Pills of Spurge.
Colledg.] Take of the barks of the 
roots of Spurge the less, steeped 
twenty four hours in Vinegar and 
juyce of Purslain, two drams,
Grains of Palma Christi torrefied 
by number forty,
Citron Myrobolans one dram and an
half, 
Germander, 
Chamepytis, 
Spicknard, 
Cinnamon, of each two scruples. 
Being beaten into fine pouder with an 
ounce of Gum Traganth dissolved in 
Rose water, and syrup of Roses so much 
as is sufficient, let it be made into a 
Mass.
Vertues newly added. 
They were invented by Fernelius to 
purge out the water of persons trou- 
bled with the Dropsie. They work 
very churlishly, are fit only for strong 
bodies of Plough-men, and other la- 
boring persons, and their dose rea- 
ches not beyond two scruples. 
Pills of Euphorbium. 
Colledg.] Take of Euphorbium, 
Colocynthis, 
Agarick,
Bdellium, 
Sagapenum, of each two drams. 
Aloes five drams, 
With syrup made of the juyce of Leeks,
make it into a mass. 
Culpeper.] The Pils are exceeding 
good for dropsies, pains in the 
Loyns, and Gouts coming of a moist 
cause. Take not above half a dram 
at a time and keep the house. 
Pilulæ Scribonij. 
Colledg. Take of Sagapenum, and 
Mirrh, of each two drams. 
Opium, 
Cardamoms, 
Castoreum, of each one dram. 
White pepper half a dram, 
Sapa as much as is sufficient to make it 
into a Mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is appropriated to 
such as have Ptisicks, and such as 
spit blood, but ought to be newly 
made. A scruple is sufficient going 
to bed. Galen was the Author of 
it.
I have now done with the Pils on- 
ly take notice that such as have Dia- 
grydium (otherwise called Scam- 
mony) in them, work violently and 
are to be taken early in the morning 
with discretion, and administred 
with due consideration; the other 
work more gently, so that you may 
take a scruple of them at night going 
to bed and follow your imployments 
next day without danger. I put in 
these only to satisfie the desires of 
the curious. 
Virtues newly added. 
These pills seasonably administred 
by him that understands the Institu- 
tions of Physick and the method of 
curing (of which see several Books 
in the English tongue, as Riverius, 
Johnston, Sennertus, &c.) will help 
to stop the overflowing of the Cour- 
ses, of the whites in women, also to 
check a weakning Loosness of the 
belly, and a Gonorrhea simple or vi- 
rulent general remedies having been 
premised according to Art. 
TROCHES.
Culpeper. IF any cavil at this name, and think it hardly English; let them 
give a better, and I shall be thankful: I know no other English 
Name but will fall far below it. They have gotten many Greek names, almost 
as many as a Welchman, reXtoxoi, xounsoxoi, and a'snoxoi: The Latins, besides the 
Greek Name, Trochisci, Pastilli, and Placentulæ, Although a man may 
make them what into form he pleaseth, yet they are usually made into little flat thin 
Cakes, of a scruple, or twenty grains in weight, plus minus: Some print I-
mages (as of Serpents upon Troches of Vipers) upon them, some guild them 
with leaf-Gold, some do neither. They were first invented by the Ancients, 
that pouders being brought into this form, may be kept pure the longer; for the 
vertues of pouder wil soon exhale by intermission of Air, which the thick body of 
Troches resist: also such are pectoral, are the easier carried in ones pocket.
Few of them are taken by themselves, but mixed with other composiositions. 
Trochisti de Absinthio. Page 122. 
Latin. Or, Troches of 
Wormwood. 
Colledg.] Take of red Roses,
Wormwood leaves, 
Annis seeds, of each two drams. 
Juyce of Maudlin made thick, 
Roots of Asarabacca,
Rhubarb, 
Spicknard,
Smallage seeds, 
Bitter Almonds,
Mastich, 
Mace, of each one dram.
Juyce of Succory so much as is sufficient
to

165 TROCHES. 
to make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They strengthen sto- 
mach exceedingly, open obstructions, 
or stoppings of the belly and bowels; 
strengthen digestion, open the passa- 
ges of the liver, help the yellow 
Jaundice, and consume watry super- 
fluities of the body. They are som- 
bitter, and seldom taken alone; 
if your pallat affect bitter things, you 
may take a dram of them in the mor- 
ning: They clense the body of chol- 
ler, but purge not, or to no pur- 
pose. 
Agaricus Trochischatus. Page 129. 
Latin. Or, Agarick 
Trochiscated. 
Colledg.] Take of Agarick poudered 
and sifted, three ounces, 
Steep it in a sufficient quantity of white 
Wine, in which two drams of Ginger 
have been infused and make it into Tro- 
ches. 
Culpeper.] See Troches of Agar- 
rick. This being indeed but the 
way to correct Agarick, and make it 
the fitter for use, and to perform 
those vertues Agarick hath, which 
you may find among the Simples. 
Trochisci Albi. Rhasis. Page 129. 
Latin. Or, white 
Troches. 
Colledg. Take of Ceruss washed in 
Rosewater ten drams, 
Sarcocol three drams, 
White Starch two drams, 
Gum Arabick and 
Tragacanth, of each one dram. 
Camphire half a dram. 
Either with Rosewater, or womens milk, 
make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They are cool without 
Opium, but cooler with it. as also 
very drying, and are used in injecti- 
ons in ulcers in the yard, and the 
running of the reins, &c. If there be 
an inflamation you may use them 
with Opium, if not, without: and 
the manner of using them is this, 
Take a dram of Troches, which ha- 
ving beaten into pouder, mix with 
two ounces of Plantane Water, and 
with a Syringe inject it into the 
Yard. 
Trochisci Alexiterij. 
Colledg.] Take of Zedoary roots, 
Pouder of Crabs Claws, of each one 
dram and an half. 
The outward Citrons peel preserved 
and dried, 
Angelica seeds, of each one dram. 
Bolearmeniack half a dram. 
With their treble weight in Sugar make 
them into pouder, and with a sufficient 
quantity of Mucilage of Gum Traganth 
made into Treacle water distilled, make 
it into past of which make Troches. 
Culpeper.] The Greeks cal all Me- 
dicines that expel poyson, Alexite- 
riæ; so then Trochisci Alexiterij, are 
nothing else but Troches to expel 
poyson. This preserves the body 
from ill airs, and Epidemical disea- 
ses, as the pestilence, small pox, &c. 
and strengthens the heart exceeding- 
ly, eating now and then a little. You 
may safely keep any troches in your 
pocket, for the drier you keep them, 
the better they are. 
Trochisci Alhandal. Page 130. Latin. 
Trochiski of Alhandal or 
Coloquintida. 
Colledg] Take of Coloquintida freed 
from the seeds, and cut smal, and 
rubbed with an ounce of oyl of Ro- 
ses, then beaten into fine pouder, 
ten ounces, 
Gum Arabick, 
Tragacanth, 
Bdellium, of each six drams. 
Steep the Gums three or four daies in a 
sufficient quantity of Rose water til they 
be melted, then with the aforesaid pulp, 
and part of the said Mucilage, let them 
be dried in the shadow, then beaten a- 
gain, and with the rest of the Mucilage, 
make it up again, dry them and keep 
them for use. 
Culpeper.] They are too violent 
for vulgar use. 
Virtues newly added. 
The Arabians call Coloquintida 
Alhandal in their Language. And 
these Trochisks are nothing but Co- 
loquintida qualified and prepared for 
use, to be mingled in pils and other 
purgative Medicaments, for they are 
seldome used alone. See before the 
Virtues of Coloquintida. Their 
dose alone, is from six to twelve 
grains. 
Trochisci Aleptœ Moschatæ. 
Page. 130. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Labdanum bruis- 
ed three ounces, 
Styrax Calamitis one ounce and an 
half, 
Benjamin one ounce, 
Wood of Aloes two drams. 
Ambergreece one dram, 
Camphire half a dram, 
Musk half a scruple, 
With a suffcient quantity of Rose water, 
make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is singular good for 
such as are Asthmatick, and can  
hardly fetch their breath; as also for 
young Children, whose throat is so 
narrow that they can hardly swallow 
down their milk. A very little taken 
at a time is enough for a mans body, 
and too much for a poor mans purse; 
for young children give them four or 
five grains at a time in a little Breast- 
milk. 
Trochisci Alkekengi. Page 130. Latin. 
Or, Trochisks of Winter
Cherries. 
Colledg.] Take of Winter Cherries 
three drams. 
Gum Arabick, 
Tragacanth, 
Olibanum, 
Dragons blood, 
Pine Nuts, 
Bitter Almonds, 
White Styrax, 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Bole-armenick, 
White Poppy seeds, of each six drams, 
Seeds of Melons, 
Cucumers, 
Citruls,  
Guords, of each three drams and 
an half. 
Seeds of Smallage, and 
white Henbane, 
Amber, 
Earth of Lemnos, 
Opium, of each two drams. 
With juyce of fresh Winter Cherries, 
make them in Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They potently provoke 
Urine, and break the stone. Mix 
them with other Medicines of that 
nature, half a dram at a time, or a 
dram if age permit.
Vertues newly added. 
These Trochisks are good in the 
dropsie being seasonably and metho- 
dically administred, also they prevent 
and cure drunkenness. 
They that would use this and other 
Medicaments in this Book with Dis- 
cretion and so as to find the promi- 
sed effects, let them read Veslingus 
and Riolanus Anatomies, and the In- 
stitutions and Practice of Johnston, 
Sennertus, and Riverius in the English 
tongue.
Trochisci Bechici albi, vel, Rotulæ 
pectorales. Or, Pectoral 
Rouls. 
Coiledg.] Take of white Sugar one
pound, 
White Sugar candy, 
Penids of each four ounces. 
Orris Florintine one ounce, 
Liquoris six drams, 
White Starch one ounce and an half. 
With a sufficient quantity of Mucilaga 
of Gum Tragacanth made in Rose water, 
make them into final Troches. You may 
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166 TROCHES. 
add four grains of Ambergreece, and 
three grains of Musk to them, if occasion 
serve.
Vertues newly added. 
These are known to help Coughs 
and colds proceeding from a thin 
salt rheum, also they clarifie the voice 
and if musk and amber be added, 
they palliate a stinking breath. They 
are very proper for Children that 
have coughs, because of their beauty 
and good tast. 
Trothisci Bethici nigri. Page. 131. 
Latin. Or, black Trochisks for 
the Cough. 
Colledg.] Take of Juyce of Liquoris, 
White Sugar of each one dram. 
Gum Tragacanth, 
Sweet Almonds blanched, of each six 
drams. 
With a sufficient quantity of Mucilage 
of Quince seeds, made thick with Rose 
water, make them into Troches according 
to art. 
Culpeper. Both this and the former 
wil melt in ones mouth, and in that 
manner to be used by such as are 
troubled with coughs, cold, hoars- 
ness, or want of voyce. The former 
is most in use, but in my opinion, the 
last is most effectual. You may take 
them any time when the cough trou- 
bles you, and this conveniency you 
shal find in Troches more then in any 
other Physick, You may carry them 
any whether in your pocket in a pa- 
per, without spoiling, though you 
travel as far as the East-Indies. 
Vertues newly added. 
These do more powerfully thicken 
and digest a thin salt Rheum, and 
muffle the acrimony thereof. They 
are good for spitting of blood and o- 
verflowing of the courses and whites 
in women, being frequently used, 
after convenient purgation and o- 
ther general remedies as the case shal 
require. The use of these and the 
former is in the mornings and after- 
wards fasting, when the Patient may 
hold a Trochisk or a Roul in his 
mouth and let it melt, and after that 
another and another as fast as they 
consume, and this may be done in 
the night, when the Patient lies a- 
wake. The more frequently they are 
used, the more good they wil do, and 
there is no danger in them. 
Trochisci de Barberis. Page 131, La- 
tin Or, Troches of Barberies. 
Colledg.] Take of juyce of Barbe- 
ries, 
Liquoris made thick,
Spodium, 
Purslain seeds, of each three drams. 
Red Roses six drams, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Saffron, 
White Starch, 
Gum Tragacanth, of each a dram. 
Citrul Seeds clensed three drams and 
an half, 
Camphire half a dram, 
With Manna dissolved in juyce of Bar- 
berries, make them into Troches accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] They wonderfully cool 
the heat of the Liver, Reins, and 
Bladder, Breast, and stomach, and stop 
Looseness, cools the heat of Feavers: 
They are very fit for bodies that are 
distempered with heat to carry about 
with them when they travel, they 
may take them at any time; I sup- 
pose their mothers wit will teach 
them that it is best to take them 
when the stomach is empty. I can- 
not write every thing, neither if I did 
should I please every body; I had 
as leeve undertake (with the Sicilian 
Phylosopher) to teach an Ass to 
speak, as to teach a Dunce Physick. 
Trochisci de Camphora. Page 131. La- 
tin Or, Troches of Camphire. 
Colledg.] Take of Camphire half a 
dram. 
Saffron two drams, 
White Starch three drams, 
Red Roses, 
Gum Arabick, 
Tragacanth, 
Ivory, of each half an ounce. 
Seeds of Cucumers husked, 
Purslain, 
Liquoris, of each an ounce. 
With Mucilage of the Fleawort, drawn 
in Rosewater, make them into Troches. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good in 
Burning Feavers, heat of Blood and 
Choler, together with hot distem- 
pers of the stomach and liver,and ex- 
tream thirst coming thereby, also it 
is good against the yellow Jaundice, 
Phtisicks, and Hectick Feavers. You 
may use these as the former. 
Vertues newly added.  
Besides the Virtues expressed be- 
fore, I conceive these Trochisks may 
very usefully be mingled in medica- 
ments given against the Pestilence, 
and in all other malignant diseases. 
They are also good for spitting of 
blood, also in a Dysentery, in over- 
great flux of the Whites, and Gonor- 
rhea The dose is from one scruple 
to half a drain or two scruples. 
Clupeper.] They that think the use 
of these Medicines are too brief, (its 
so only for cheapness of the Book) 
Let them read these Books, of the last 
Edition, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, 
Johnston, Veslingus, Sennertus, and 
Physick for the Poor. 
Trochisci de Capparibus. Page 132. 
Latin. Or, Troches of Capers. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of ca- 
per roots. 
Seeds of Agnus castus, of each six 
drams. 
Ammoniacum half an ounce, 
Seeds of Water-cresses and Nigella, 
Leaves of Calaminth and Rue, 
Roots of Atorus and long Birth- 
wort,
Juyce of Maudlin made thick, 
Bitter Almonds, of each two drams. 
Harts-tongue, 
Roots of round Cyprus, 
Madder, 
Gum Lac, of each one dram. 
Being bruised let them be made into 
Troches according to art, with Ammo- 
niacum dissolved in Vinegar, and boyl- 
ed to the thickness of Honey. 
Culpeper.] They open stoppings 
of the Liver and spleen, and help dis- 
eases therof coming; as Rickets, hy- 
pochondriack melancholly, &c. Men 
may take a dram, children a scruple 
in the morning. You need not ask 
how children should take it, 'tis wel 
if you can get them to take it any 
how. 
Trochisci de Carabe. Page 132. Latin. 
Or, Troches of Amber. 
Colledg.] Take of Amber an ounce 
Harts-horne burnt, 
Gum Arabick burnt, 
Red Coral burnt, 
Tragacanth, 
Acacia, 
Hypocistis, 
Balaustines, 
Mastich, 
Gum lacca washed, 
Black Poppy seeds rosted, of each two 
drams and two scruples. 
Frankinsence, 
Saffron, 
Opium, of each two drams. 
With a sufficieht quantity of Mucilage 
of the seeds of Fleawort drawn in Plan- 
tane water, make them into Troches ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] They were invented to 
stop fluxes of Blood in any part of 
the Body, the terms in Women, the 
hemorrhoids or Piles; they also help 
Ulcers in the breast and Lungs. The 
Dose is from ten grains to a scruple. 
Trochisci de Cypheos for Mithridate. 
Page 132. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of pulp of Raisons 
of the Sun, 
Cyperus, 
Turpentine, of each three ounces.
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167 TROCHES. 
Mirrh, 
Squinanth, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Calamus Aromaticus nine drams,
Roots of round Cyperus, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Juniper berries. 
Bdellium, 
Aspalthus or wood of Aloes, two 
drams and an half, 
Saffron one dram, 
Clarified Honey as much as is sufficient 
Canary Wine a little: Let the Mirth 
and Bdellium be ground in a Morter 
with the wine, to the thickness of liquid 
Honey, then add the Turpentine, then 
the pulp of Raisons, then the Pouders; 
at last with the Honey, let them all be 
made into Troches. 
Culpeper.] It is excellent good a- 
gainst inward Ulcers in what part of 
the body soever they be. It is chiefly 
used in Compositions, as Treacle and 
Methridate. 
Vertues newly added. 
They are good to expell wind 
move the urine and courses, to cause 
a fresh colour in the face, to help a 
stinking breath, to open obstructions, 
strengthen the Liver, Spleen, Head, 
stomach, and other internal parts, to 
prevent putrefaction of humors, and 
to resist Venom and al venemous dis- 
eases. Their dose may be one scruple 
or half a dram, or two scruples ac- 
cording as occasion shall require in 
white Wine or in Sack. 
Trochisci de Eupatorio. Page 133. Lat. 
Or, Troches of Maudlin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of 
Maudlin made thick, 
Manna, of each an ounce. 
Red Roses half an ounce, 
Spodium three drams and an half, 
Spicknard three drams, 
Rhubarb, 
Asarabacca roots, 
Annis seeds, of each two drams. 
Let the Nard, Annis seeds, and Roses, 
be beaten together; the Spodium, Asa- 
rabacca, and Rhubarb by themselves; 
then mix the Manna, and juyce of Mau- 
dlin in a Mortar, ad the pouders, and 
with new juyce make it into Troches. 
Culpeper.] Obstructions, or stop- 
pings, and swelling above nature, 
both of the Liver and spleen, are cu- 
red by the inward taking of these 
Troches, and diseases thereof com- 
ing, as yellow and black Jaundice, 
the beginning of dropsies, &c. Take 
them as Troches of Wormwood. 
Troches of Gallia Moschata. Page. 
133. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Wood of Aloes, 
five drams, 
Ambergreece three drams, 
Musk one dram, 
With Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth 
made in Rose water, make it into Troches 
according to art. 
Culpeper.] They strengthen the 
brain and heart, and by consequence 
both vital and animal spirit, and 
cause a sweet breath. They are of an 
extream price, therefore I pass by the 
Dose. 
Trochisci Gordonij. Page 133. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the four greater 
cold seeds husked. 
Seeds of white Poppies, 
Mallows, 
Cotton, 
Purslain, 
Quinces, 
Myrtles, 
Gum Tragacanth, and 
Arabick, 
Fistick-nuts, 
Sugar candy, 
Penids, 
Liquoris, 
French-barley, 
Mussilage of Flea-wort seeds, 
Sweet Almonds blanched, of each 
two drams. 
Bole-armenick, 
Dragons-blood, 
Spodium, 
Red Roses, 
Mirrh, of each half an ounce. 
With a sufficient quantity of Hydromel, 
make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They are held to be 
very good in Ulcers of the bladder, 
and al other inward Ulcers whatso- 
ever, and ease Feavers coming there- 
by, being of a fine cooling, slippery 
heating nature. You may mix half a 
dram of them with syrup of Marsh
mallows, or any other syrup or wa- 
ter appropriated to these uses: they 
ease the pains of the stomach much. 
They have left out the four lesser 
cold seeds, of each two drams, and 
altered some of the quantities of the 
rest. 
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the Vertues specified, they 
are good against spitting of Blood, 
coughs proceeding from hot and salt 
Rheum, flux of the courses over vio- 
lent, proceeding from Acrimony of 
the blood, bleedings at the Nose
over plentiful. They are good against 
Dysenteries, overflowing of the Hæ- 
morrhoids and the Whites, and a- 
gainst a Gonorrhæa simple or viru- 
lent.  Also they prevent Barrenness 
proceeding from the overgreat heat 
and acrimony of the womb and un- 
rulyness of its expulsive faculty, and 
from the acrimony and thinness of 
the mans seed, and that inability in 
some men to retain their seed, till 
they can accomodate their Yard for 
a fitting injection thereof into the 
field of Nature, or Parsley bed, as our 
women do very elegantly phraze it; 
which arises from vehemency of de- 
sire, thinness and acrimony of the 
seed, feebleness of the retentive fa- 
culty in the seminal Vessels and over 
soon or over frequent and violent ce- 
lebrations of the Actions of genera- 
tion.
Trochisci Hedycroi, Or Beautifying 
Trochisks of Galen. Page 134. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Aspalathus, or 
Yellow Saunders, 
Leaves of Mastick, 
Roots of Asarabacca, of each two 
drams. 
Rhapontick, 
Costus, 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cinnamon, 
Squinanth, 
Opobalsamum, or Oyl of Nutmegs by 
expression, of each three drams. 
Cassia Lignea, 
Indian leaf or Mace, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Mirrh,
Saffron of each six drams. 
Amomus or Cardamoms the less, an 
ounce and an half, 
Mastich a dram. 
Canary wine as much as is sufficient. 
Let the Mirrh be dissolved in the wine, 
then add the Mastich and Saffron well 
beaten, then the Opobalsamum; then 
the rest in pouder, and with the wine, 
make them up into Troches, and dry them 
gently. 
Culpeper.] They are very seldom or 
never used but in other compositi- 
ons; yet naturally they heat cold 
stomachs, help digestion, strengthen 
the heart and brain. 
Vertues newly added. 
These seem as their name imports 
to have been invented to help the co- 
lor of young people that stand upon 
their preferment in way of Marriage. 
For by strengthening the stomach, 
Liver and spleen, and by cheering 
the Heart, they may wel breed a fresh 
color in all that shal frequently use 
them, especially after bleeding, pur- 
ging, Vomiting, and such like reme- 
dies premised, as occasion and the 
method of healing shal require. The 
dose to these intents may be one 
scruple, half a dram or two scruples 
in white wine, Sack or Wormwood 
wine. They do also move the Cour- 
ses and Hemorrhoids in persons dis- 
posed to that evacuation, open ob- 
structions, and resist venom and all 
Venemous diseases. They are good 
against

168 TROCHES. 
gainst a stinking breath and against 
worms. 
Trochisci Hysterici. Page 134. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Asa fœtida, 
Galbanum, of each two drams and an 
half. 
Myrrh two drams, 
Castoreum a dram and an half, 
Roots of Asarabacca and 
Long Birthwort, 
Leaves of Savin, 
Feaverfew, 
Nep, of each one dram. 
Dittany half a dram. 
With either the juyce or decoction of 
Rue, make it into Troches according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] These are applied to 
the fœminine gender, help fits of 
the mother, expel both birth and af- 
ter-birth, clense women after labor, 
and expel the reliques of a careless 
Midwife. Search what other com- 
positions are appropriated to the 
same purpose; you may find them in 
the Table at the latter end of the 
Book, and then you may add half a 
dram of this to them. 
Those that would give help against 
all Infirmities, let them read these 
Books of mine, of the last Edition, 
viz. Riverius, Riolanus, Sennertus, 
Veslingus, Johnston, and Physick for 
the Poor. 
Trochisci de Ligno Aloes. Page 134. 
Latin. Or Troches of Wood.
of Aloes. 
Colledg. Take of Wood of Aloes,
Red Roses, of each two drams. 
Mastich, 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Nutmegs, 
Parsnep seed, 
Cardamoms the greater and lesser, 
Cubebs, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Citron peels, 
Mace, of each one dram and an half. 
Ambergreese, 
Musk of each half a fcruple. 
With Honey of Raisons make it into 
Troches. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the heart 
stomach, and liver, takes away heart- 
qualms, faintings, and stinking 
breath, and resisteth the Dropsie. The 
Rich may take half a dram in the 
morning. 
Vertues newly added. 
These expel wind, strengthen the 
appetite, move Urine, and provoke 
to generation and conduce to fruit- 
fulness therein, seasonably admim- 
stred. 
Trochisci è Mryrha. Page 135. Latin. 
Or Troches of Myrrh. 
Colledg. Take of Myrrh three drams. 
Meal of Lupines five drams, 
Maddir roots, 
Leaves of Rue, 
Wild Mints, 
Dittany of Creet, 
Cummin seeds, 
Asa fœtida, 
Sagapen. 
Opopanax, of each two drams. 
Dissolve the Gums in Wine, wherein 
Mugwort hath been boyled, or else Juni- 
per Berries, then add the rest, and with 
juyce of Mugwort make them into Tro- 
ches according to art. 
Culpeper. They provoke the terms 
in women, and that with great ease 
to such as have them come down 
with pain. Take a dram of them bea- 
ten into pouder, in a spoonful or two 
of syrup of Mugwort, or any other 
composition tending to the same 
purpose, which the Table at latter 
end wil direct you to. 
Virtues newly added. 
They open Obstructions, expel 
wind, move Urine, bring awy Gra- 
vel, hinder putrefaction of humors, 
and invite and exhort a negligent 
Husband to dig and sow in his pars- 
ley bed. 
Sief de Plumbo. Page 135. Latin. 
Or, Sief of Lead. 
Colledg.] Take of Lead burnt and 
washed, 
Brass burnt, 
Antimony, 
Tutty washed, 
Gum Arabick and 
Tragacanth of each an ounce. 
Opium half a dram, 
With Rose water, make them being 
beaten and sifted, into Troches, 
Culpeper.] It fils up and cures Ul- 
cers in the eyes, if you put into them 
(say Authors) but in my Opinion 
'tis but a scurvy Medicine. 
Trochisci Polyidæ of Andromachus.
Page 135. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Pomegranate flo- 
wers twelve drams, 
Roch album three drams, 
Frankincense, 
Myrrh, of each half an ounce. 
Chalcanthum two drams, 
Bulls Gall six drams, 
Aloes an ounce, 
With austere wine, or juyce of Night- 
shade or plantane, make them into Tro- 
ches according to art.
Culpeper.] They are very good 
they say, being outwardly applied, 
both in green wounds and ulcers. I 
fancy it not. 
Vertues newly added. 
These do clense the putrefied flesh 
of Ulcers, and help the healing of 
Wounds, being of a drying, clensing 
and fastening nature. 
Trochisci de Rhabarbaro. Page 135. 
Latin. Or, Troches of 
Rhubarb. 
Colledg.] Take of Rhubarb ten 
drams
Juyce of Maudlin made thick,
Bitter Almonds, of each half an
ounce. 
Red Roses three drams, 
Roots of Asarabacca, 
Maddir, 
Indian Spicknard 
Leaves of Wormwood, 
Seeds of Annis and 
Smallage, of each one dram. 
With wine in which Wormwood hath 
been boyled, make them into Troches ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] They gently clense the 
Liver, help the yellow Jaundice, and 
other diseases coming of choller and 
stoppage of the Liver. You may take 
a dram of them every morning, or if 
you list not to take them alone, beat 
them into pouder, and mix them 
with white Wine. 
Vertues newly added. 
They help obstructions, pains,and 
preternatural swellings of the Liver, 
and are good in all old diseases ari- 
sing from the disorder of that Bowel. 
They are frequently given after pur- 
gation in Dropsies Cachexies, and
such like diseases of the Liver (as is 
supposed) one dram or one dram 
and an half or two drams being mix- 
ed conserve of Cichory flowers three 
ounces, and so with syrup of the ope- 
ning roots or of the juyce of Cicho- 
ry, or of Cichory with Rhubarb 
made into an Electuary, whereof the  
Patient takes the quantity of a Nut- 
meg in the morning and at four in 
the afternoon and drink after it one 
draught of Wormwood beer or a 
Glass of Wormwood wine. 
Trochisci de santalis. Page 139. Latin. 
Or, Trochisks of Sanders. 
Colledg.] Take of the three Sanders, 
of each one ounce. 
Seeds of Cucumbers,
Guords, 
Citruls,
Purslain, 
Spodium, of each half an ounce. 
Red Roses seven drams, 
Juyce of Barberries six drams,
Bole-

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Bole-armenick half an ounce, 
Camphire one dram. 
With Purslain water make it into Tro- 
ches.
Culpeper.] The Vertues are the 
same with Troches of Spodium? both 
of them harmless. 
Venues newly added. 
They strengthen the liver diseased 
by choller and hot humours. They 
mitigate and digest choller, and fit it 
for expurgation. They are good in 
spittings of blood, overflowing of 
the Courses or whites, consumptions 
and hectick feavers; in coughs pro- 
ceeding from over thin and sharp 
humors. Also they temper the acri- 
mony of the seed, help Gonorrhæas 
methodically administred, and bridle 
troublesome and irregular incitati-  
ons to carnal copulation. 
Trochischi de scilla ad Theriacam. Pag. 
136. Latin. Or, Troches of 
Squils for Treacle. 
Colledg.] Take a squil gathered a-  
bout the beginning of July, of a middle 
bigness, and the hard part to which the  
smal roots stick, warp it up in past, and 
bake it in an Oven, till the past be dry, 
and the squil tender, which you may 
know by piercing it with a wooden stick, 
or a bodkin; then take it out and bruise 
it in a mortar, adding to every pound of 
the squil, eight ounces of white Orobus, 
or red cicers in pouder; then make it 
into Troches, of the weight of two drams 
a piece (your hands being anointed with 
Oyl of Roses) dry them on the top of the 
house, opening toward the South, in the 
shadow, often turning them till they be 
wel dry, then keep them in a peuter or 
glass vessel. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are prepared as the title 
shews for an ingredient into Treacle, 
their Vertue the same with that of 
squils whereof they ate made, which 
you may see in the Catalogue of sim- 
ples, and in Vinegar of squils and 
honey of squils, formerly described. 
Troches of Spodium. Page 136. Lat. 
Colledg. Take of Red Roses twelve 
drams. 
Spodium ten drams,
Sorrel seed six drams. 
Seeds of Purslain and coriander, steep- 
ed in Vineger and dried, 
Pulp of Stumach, of each two drams 
and an half. 
White starch tosted,  
Balaustines, 
Barberries, of each two drams. 
Gum Arabick tosted one dram and 
an half. 
with Juyce of unripe Grapes, make it 
into Troches. 
Culpeper.] They are of a fine cool-  
ing binding Nature, excellent in fea-  
vers coming of choller, especially if 
they be accompanied with a loose- 
ness, they also quench thirst. You 
may take half a dram, either by 
themselves, or in any other conve- 
nient Medicine. 
Vertues newly added. 
These help Coughs, spittings of 
blood, dysenteries and violent fluxes 
of the belly being used according as 
Art and the Method of healing re- 
quires. They stop the courses, 
Whites, and Gonorrhæa. They 
coole the acrimony of the seed, and 
assawage unbridled lust.
Trochisci de terra Lemnia. Page 137. 
Lat. Or, of the precious earth 
of the Island Lemnos.  
Colledg. Take of Earth of Lemnos, 
Bole-Armenick, 
Acacia, 
Hypocistis, 
Gum Arabick tosted, 
Dragons blood, 
White Starch, 
Red Roses, 
Rose seeds, 
Bloodstone, 
Red Coral, 
Amber, 
Balaustines, 
Spodium, 
Purslain seeds a little tosted, 
Olibanum, 
Harts-horn burnt, 
Cypress Nuts, 
Saffron, of each two drams. 
Blak Poppy seeds,
Gum Tragcanth, 
Pearls of each one dram and an half. 
Opium prepared one dram, 
With juyce of Plantane, make it into 
Troches. 
Culpeper. Indeed in external ap-  
plications, if an inflamation, or fea- j 
ver be, I think it be better with Opi- 
um than without, else better without 
than with it. It was invented to stop 
blood in any part of the body, and 
for it 'tis excellent. Well then, for 
the bloody flux, take half a dram of 
them inwardly (being beaten into 
pouder) in red Wine every morning; 
for spitting of blood, use it in like 
manner in Plantan water; for pissing 
of blood; inject it into the bladder;  
for bleeding at the nose, either snuff 
it up, or anoint your forehead with 
it mixed with Oyl: for the immode- 
rate flowing of the terms, inject it up 
the Womb with a syringe, but first 
mix, it with Plantane water? for the 
hemorrhoids or wounds, apply it to  
the place bleeding. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are excellent in al pestilen- 
tial and malignant diseases, in bite- 
ings of venemous Creatures and all
poisons, they stop Rheums and, 
coughs, asswage spittings of blood 
strengthen the stomach, Liver, spleen, 
Head and all internal parts. They 
cause a sweet breath, kill wormes 
and hinder their bleeding. They as- 
swage the Gonorrhæa, are good in 
dropsies, help shortness of memory a- 
rising from an over moisture of the 
Brain and Nerves. A scruple or half 
a dram may be taken in a bolus with 
three drams of conserve of Roses, or 
in a draught of Aligant as the occa- 
sion shal require. For the plague give 
it with borrage water two ounces 
and half an ounce of Treacle water. 
Sief, or Eye salve of Franckincense 
Page. 127. Latin. 
Colledg. Take of Frankincense, 
Lap. calaminaris, 
Pompholix, of each ten drams.
Ceruss forty drams, 
Gum Arabick,
Opium, of each six drams. 
With fair water make it into Balls: dry 
them and keep them for use. 
Culpeper] Sief is a general term 
which the Arabians give to all Medi- 
cines appropriated to the Eyes, of 
which this is one, and a good one to 
dry up Rhewms there. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is a good Salve for bleared and 
rheumatick eyes such as it seems the 
Eyes of Leah were, one of the wives 
of Jacob. When you would direct 
the use thereof, let the patient scrape
a quantity in to a fine rag, and tie it 
up in a nodul, and dip it into white 
rosewater and there with pat and 
bath the eyes. Or mingle half a dram 
in pouder with the white of an Egg 
beaten with rosewater, and spred it 
upon two rags and lay over the pa- 
tients eyes, when he lies down to 
sleep. These and such like medica- 
ments must be applied after the hu- 
mors have been prepared, digested 
purged, derived, revelled according 
to art, and after blood letting, cup- 
ping &c. as occasion shal require 
and as the Art of Healing shal su- 
gest, without which art he shal prove 
but an arrogant and mischeivons, 
Cocks-comb, that wil go about to 
administer the medicaments in this 
book; and which Art he may learn
if he be not an idle and coveteous
drone, from the writings of Vesligus, 
Riolanus, Johnston, Riverius, Senner- 
tus, and Physick for the poor in the 
English tongue now by Gods provi- 
dence extant, in which regard al ig- 
norant Qualksalvers and empericks 
shal be justly accountable before 
God, for their blind and giddy pra- 
ctises, having means to become more 
understanding, if they had the brains 
Care and conscience to make use 
thereof. And they that cannot or 
Ss wil

170 TROCHES. 
wil not take pains to understand the 
Books aforesaid, are not fit to offici- 
ate as Surgeons at Sea and in the 
camp, nor to supply the room of a 
learned Physitian in the Country or 
once so much as to look upon a sick 
person in reference to his cure. And 
let this warning suffice once for all. 
Nor let him that knows not how to 
use them in due time and place say 
that the Vertues of the medicaments 
are over boasted when he finds not 
the desired effect. The Hammer of a 
clock hath the faculty to strike the 
hours, but it must be in conjunction 
with the other parts and wheeles of 
the clock, which must be wound up 
and kept going. He that shal set a 
hammer to a bell and without more 
a doe expect that it wil strike the 
hours without any other parts and 
appurtenances of a clock, wil find 
himself deceived: and so it is with 
Empiricks in the use of medicaments; 
though it is a real Vertue and use of 
Iron, that being duely ordered, fitted 
and applied a methodical way, it wil 
strike the hours upon a Bell. 
Trochisci è Violis solutivi. Page. 137. 
Lat. Or, Troches of Violets 
solutive. 
Colledg.] Take of Violet flow- 
ers meanly dry, six drams. 
Turbith one ounce and an half. 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Scammony, 
Manna, of each two drams. 
With syrup of Violets, make it into 
Troches. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are fitted to purge water 
and gross Phlegme together with 
choller. They expel wind. They 
cannot have any bad tast and may 
therefore fitly be given the Quantity 
of one scruple to children to eat, that 
have great bellies, and are troubled 
with wormes. Their dose may be to 
two scruples or a dram in rustick and 
labouring bodies, in case of Worms, 
chollick, dropsies and oppression of 
the Lungs by flegm. They may be 
made into tables. They are a pretty 
invention in my opinion for chil- 
dren and nice persons, in regard of 
the convenience of carrying about a 
man in journeying, in which case 
they are not subject to any miscar- 
riage or spolling, as syrups, Electua- 
ries, Pills &c. are. 
Trochisci de Vipera ad Theriacam. 
Or, Troches of Vipers 
for Treacle.
Colledg.] Take of the flesh of Vi- 
pers, the skin, entrals, head, fat, and 
tail being taken away, boyled in water 
with Dill, ad a little salt, eight ounces:
white bread twice baked, grated and sif- 
ted, two ounces: make it into Troches, 
your hands being annointed with Opo- 
balsamum, or Oyl of Nutmegs by ex- 
pression, dry them upon a sieve tur-
ned the bottom upwards in an open 
place, often turning them till they are 
wel dried, then put them in a glass or 
stone pot glazed, stopped close, they will 
keep a yeer, yet is it far better to make 
Treacle, not long after you have made 
them. 
Culpeper They expel poyson, and 
are excellent good, by a certain sym- 
pathetical vertue, for such as are bit- 
ten by an Adder. 
Vertues newly added. 
They are good in the plague and 
all malignant diseases, in all diseases 
of the skin, as scabs, maungynes, Le- 
prosie, tetters, morphewes. They 
quicken the sight, refresh the colour 
help cough, preserve from the dropsie 
and help to cure the same. They are 
good against the Venereal murren, 
thicken the seed, and incite a sleepy 
Husband to dig and manure his par- 
sley-bed; and an extravagant whore- 
haunter to drain his Marrow and 
Brain through his conduit pipe. I 
have heard it reported of a great La- 
dy over much given to Venereal em- 
bracements, that being anatomized 
after her death, her Brain was found 
consumed, though she was in the 
prime of her age. And if I forget 
not the story, she was a great Lover 
of viper wine, which is of the same 
faculties with the Trochisks afore- 
said. I could name her, but being a 
brave woman and a person of worth 
otherwise, and wife some time to a 
Gallant Gentleman, I shal bury her 
name in silence as to this story. 
Trochisci de Agno Casto. Page. 138. 
Latin, Or, Troches of Agnus 
Castus. 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds of Agnus 
Castus. 
Lettice, 
Red Rose flowers, 
Balaustines, of each a dram. 
Ivory, 
White Amber, 
Bole-armenick washed in Knotgrass 
water, two drams. 
Plantane seeds four scruples. 
Sassafras two scruples. 
With mussilage of quince seeds extracted 
in water of water-lilly flowers, let them 
be made into Troches. 
Vertues newly added. 
They are good to stop the Gonor- 
rhæa simple or Virulent being seaso- 
nably administred.They abate the flux 
of whites, and the courses in women 
being over flowing. They stay bleed- 
ings at the Nose, spittings of blood, 
and coughs. They are good for those 
who (abhorring tHe insolent usurpa- 
tion and domineering of Wives cau- 
sed for want of the fitting & just Re- 
medy of Divorce & allowance of Po- 
ligamy; and countenanced by the 
unmanly condescension and dotage 
of the Generality of Husbands in this 
Nation and Age wherein we live) re- 
solve to enjoy the happy freedom of 
a single life, without the vexation of 
carnal desires, and danger of scandal 
which might thence arise: For they 
Quench and dry up the seed, and a- 
bate the acrimony thereof, and stop 
its turgency and motion, and conse- 
quently do highly favour chastity. 
The dose is one scruple, half a dram 
or two scruples, or a dram if need be 
in lettuce water, morning and even- 
ing, or in conserve of red roses. 
TROCHES. 
left out in this new 
Edition.
Trochisci Alexiterij. Renodæus. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Gen- 
tian. 
Tormentil, 
Orris Florentine, 
Zedoary, of each two drams. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Mace, of each half a dram. 
Angelica Roots three drams. 
Coriander seeds prepared, 
Roses, of each one dram. 
Dryed Citron pills two drams. 
Beat them al into pouder, and with juyce 
of Liquoris softned in Hippocras, six 
ounces, make them into soft past, which 
you may form into either Troches or smal 
Rowls, which you please. 
Culpeper.] It preserves and streng- 
thens the heart exceedingly, helps 
faintings and failings of the vital spi- 
rits, resists poyson and the pestilence: 
and is an excellent Medicine for such 
to carry about them whose occasions 
are to travel in pestilential places and 
corrupt air, only taking a very smal 
quantity now and then. 
Troches of Annis seeds. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of Annis seeds, 
Juyce of Maudlin made thick, of 
each two drams. 
Seeds of Dil, 
Spicknard,
Mastich, 
Indian leafe or Mace,
Leaves of Wormwood,
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171 TROCHES. 
Bitter Almonds, of each half a 
dram, 
Aloes two drams. 
Juyce of Wormwood so much as is suf- 
ficient to make it into Troches according 
to art. 
Culpeper.] They open obstructions 
of the liver, and that very gently, and 
help therfore diseases coming there- 
of, quartan Agues. You can scarce 
do amiss in taking them if they pleas 
but your pallat. 
Trochisci Diarhodon. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of the Flowers of red 
Roses six drams. 
Spicknard, 
Wood of Aloes, of each two drams. 
Liquoris three drams, 
Spodium one dram. 
Saffron half a dram, 
Mastich two drams, 
Make them up into Troches with white 
Wine according to art. 
Culpeper. They wonderfully ease 
feavers coming of flegm, as quotidi- 
an Feavers, Agues, Epialos, &c. pains 
in the belly. 
Trochisci de Lacca. Mesue, 
Colledg.] Take of Gum Lacca clen- 
sed, 
Juyce of Liquoris, 
Maudlin, 
Wormwood, 
Barberries, all made thick, 
Rhubarb, 
Long Birthwort, 
Costus, 
Asarabacca,
Bitter Almonds, 
Maddir, 
Annis,  
Smallage, 
Schænanth, of each one dram. 
With the Decoction of Birthwort, Schæ- 
nanth, or the juyce of Maudlin, or 
Wormwood, make them into Troches ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] It helps stoppings of 
the Liver and Spleen, and Feavers 
thence coming; it expels wind, pur- 
geth by urine, and resists dropsies.
The dose is between half a dram, and 
a dram, according to the age and 
strength of the Patient. 
Pastilli Andronis. Galen. 
Colledg. Take of Pomegranate flowers 
ten drams. 
Copperis twelve drams. 
Unripe Galls, 
Birthwort,
Frankincense, of each an ounce. 
Allum, 
Myrrh, of each half an ounce. 
Misy two drams. 
With eighteen ounces of red wine make 
it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper. This also is appropria- 
ted to wounds, ulcers, and fistulaes; 
it clears the ears, and represseth all 
excressences of flesh, clenseth the filth 
of the bones. 
Trochisci Musæ. Galen, 
Colledg.] Take of Allum, 
Aloes, 
Copperis, 
Myrrh, of each six drams. 
Crocomagma, 
Saffron, of each three drams. 
Pomegranate flowers half an ounce. 
Wine and Honey, of each so much as is 
sufficient to make it up into troches ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper] Their use is the same 
with the former. 
Crocomagma of Democrates. Galen. 
Colledg. Take of Saffron a hundred 
drams, 
Red Roses, 
Mirrh, ef each fifty drams. 
white Starch, 
Gum Arabick, of each thirty drams. 
Wine, so much as is sufficient to make it 
into troches 
Culpeper.] It is very expulsive, 
heats and strengthens the heart and 
stomach. 
Troches Ramich. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Sorrel, 
sixteen ounces.  
Red Rose Leaves, an ounce, 
Mirtle berries, two ounces, 
Boyl them a little together, and strain 
them, add to the Decoction, Galls well 
beaten, three ounces: boyl them again 
a little, then put in these following things  
in fine pouder: 
Take of red roses an ounce, 
Yellow Sanders, ten drams, 
Gum Arabick an ounce and an 
half. 
Sumach, 
Spodium, of each an ounce. 
Mirtle Berries four ounces. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Cloves, 
Mace, 
Nutmegs, of each half an ounce. 
Sowr Grapes seven drams. 
Mix them altogether, and let them dry 
upon a stone, and grind them again in- 
to pouder, and make them into small 
troches with one dram of Camphire, and 
so much Rose Water as is sufficient, and 
perfume them with fifteen grains of 
Mask. 
Culpeper.] They strengthen the 
stomach, heart, and liver, as also the 
bowels; they help the colick, and 
fluxes of blood, as also bleeding at 
the nose, if you snuff up the pouder 
of them; disburden the body of salt, 
fretting, cholerick humors. You 
may carry them about you, and take 
them at your pleasure. 
Troches of Roses.
Colledg.] Take of red Roses half an
ounce, 
Wood of Aloes, two drams, 
Mastich a dram and an half, 
Roman Wormwood, 
Cinnamon, 
Indian Spicknard, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Schenanth, of each one dram. 
Old Wine, and Decoction of the five o- 
pening Roots, so much as is sufficient to
make it into Troches according to art. 
Culpeper.] They help pains in the 
stomach, and ill digestion, the illiack 
passion, Hectick Feavers and Drop- 
sie, in the beginning, and cause a
good color. Use them like the for-
mer. 
Trochisci Diacorallion. 
Colledg. Take of Bole-Armenick,
Red Coral, of each an ounce, 
Balaustins, 
Terra Lemnia, 
White Sarch, of each half an ounce. 
Hypocistis,
Seeds ef Henbane, 
Opium, of each two drams. 
Juyce of Plantane so much as is suffici- 
to make them into Troches according to 
Art. 
Culpeper] These also stop blood, 
help the bloody flux, stop the terms, 
and are a great help to such whole 
stomachs loath their victuals. I fan- 
cy them not. 
Trochisci Diaspermaton. 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds of Smal-
lage and 
Bishops weed, of each on ounce, 
Annis and
Fennel seeds, of each half an ounce. 
Opium, 
Cassia Lignea, of each two drams, 
With rain water, make it into Troches 
according to art. 
Culpeper,. These also bind, ease
pain, help the Pleurisie.
Pastilli

172 Of the Use of Oyls, &c. 
Pastilli Hemoptoici, or cakes against 
spitting of blood. 
Colledg.] Take of white Starch, 
Balaustins, 
Earth of Samos, 
Juyce of Hypocistis, 
Gum, 
Saffron, 
Opium, of each two drams. 
With juyce of Plantane, make them into 
Troches according to art. 
Culpeper. The Operation of this 
is like the former. 
Vertues newly added. 
These were invented to stop pit- 
ting of blood, and so their name does 
intimate. They are also good against
bleeding at the Nose, against an o- 
ver-great flux of the courses. Whites, 
or Hæmorrhoids. The dose is from 
one scruple to half a dram, in con- 
serve of red Roses. 
Trochisks of Agarick.
Colledg.] Take of choice Agarick 
three ounces,
Sal. gem. six drams, 
Ginger two drams, 
With Oxymel simplex, so much as is suf- 
ficient, make it into Troches according to 
Art. 
Culpeper. The Vertues of both 
these are the same with Agarick, on- 
ly it may be more safely given this 
way than any other. They clense the 
brain of flegm, and the stomach of 
tough, thick, viscous humors. The 
Dose is one dram at a time. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are made be kept in a 
readiness to compound other Medi- 
caments, and are seldom used alone, 
yet they may be taken alone, and wil 
perform all the effects of Agarick, 
which you may see in the catalogue 
of simples. In a word they purge 
thick flegm mixed with choler out of 
the Head: but especially they have 
the repute to draw thick corrupt and 
clammy humors out of the breast. 
OF THE 
USE 
OF 
OYLS, &c. 
Culpeper. 
BEfore I begin with their Oyls, 
Oyntments, and Plaisters, give 
me leave to swerve a little from the 
Colledges mode, I would but give 
a few Rules for the Use of them, and 
I had as good do it here as any 
where; and to write but the truth, 
many City Chyrurgeons that I have 
talked with, are scarce able to give a 
reason for what they do, ’tis to be 
feared, that those that live in the 
Country, far remote, are far less a- 
ble. To do to all these a courtesie, 
do I candidly deliver these Rules, 
and let me never be accounted so 
basely bred, as to forget those kind 
Ladies and Gentlewomen that for 
Gods sake help their poor wounded 
neighbors, the great God reward 
them with a plentiful increase of e- 
state in this world, and eternal Bea- 
titude in that to come. 
The chiefest of all these Chyrurgi- 
cal Antidotes, I shall divide into 
these twelve Chapters: which shall 
be treated of in this Order. 
Of Medicines 
Anodine—1 
Repelling—2 
Attracting—3 
Resolving—4 
Emollient—5
Suppurating—6 
Clensing—7 
Incarnative—8 
Scarrifying—9 
Glutinative—10 
Cathereticks—11 
Stanching blood—12 
Chap. I. Of Anodines. 
SUch Oyls, Oyntments, and Plai- 
sters, as ease pain, are called by 
Physitians Anodines. 
All pain is caused by heat or dri- 
ness, or both; for moisture seldom, 
unless heat be joyned with it,causeth 
pain. 
Anodines, also some divide into 
Proper, and Improper; Improper
Anodines (if a man may call them 
Anodines) they cal Narcoticks, for 
I assure you if crabbed words would 
cure diseases, our Physitians would 
come behind none in the world: the 
truth is, these words were borrowed 
from Galen, and are Greek words, 
and Galen writiting in his Mother 
Tongue, they were understood well 
enough there; ours retain the same 
words, only to blind peoples Eyes, 
that so they may not pry into the 
Mystery of their Monopoly, for then 
all the fat were in the fire. But to 
proceed. 
Proper Anodines, are either tem- 
perately Hot, or temperately Cold. 
Hot Anodines are: 
Oyl of sweet Almonds, Linseed- 
Oyl, Oyl of Eggs, Oyl of St. Johns- 
wort. Hen Grease, Ducks Grease, 
Goose Grease, Chamomel, Melilot, 
Fenugreek seeds. Dill, Bay leaves and 
berries, Juniper berries, Rosemary, 
Oyls and Oyntments made of them; 
Oyl of Earth-worms, Oyl of Elder, 
Wax, Turpentine, Oyntment of 
Marshmallows, Martiatum, Arregon, 
Resumptivum, Oxycroceum. 
If any external part of your bo- 
dy be pained, these, or any of these 
made into fomentations, applied to 
the part pained, or into Pultisses, or 
Oyls, or Oyntments by adding Hogs 
grease, or Plaisters by adding Wax, 
or Rozin, or both to the Oyntment; 
ease pain. 
But if together with the pain there 
be inflamation, then Anodines of a 
cooler Nature are more convenient, 
such be Oyl Omphacine, viz. Oyl of 
Olives pressed from them before 
they be ripe, Poppies, Roses, Vio- 
lets, pellitory of the wall, Fleawort: 
these or any of these made into Pul- 
tisses, Oyls, Oyntments, or Plaisters, 
Oyntments, of Roses, Unguentum al- 
bum, Populeon, Refrigerans Galeni, 
&c. 
Improper Anodines, or Narcoticks, 
which you please, are Medicines of 
another nature, and scarce fit for a 
vulgar use; till they have learned 
more skil in Physick than yet they 
have; yet be pleased to consider, 
that in taking away pains three 
things are to be considered: The 
Cause, the Pain, the Part pained. 
To these are Medicines appropriated, 
for some take away the Cause, but 
these belong not to my present 
scope; others take away the Pain, 
and meddle not with the cause, as 
those proper Anodines I mentioned 
before: and some take away neither 
Cause nor Pain, but only stupifie the 
sences, that so it cannot be felt. 
These are to be used with abundance 
of skil and discretion, and never but 
in cases of necessity,when the pain is 
so vehement that Nature is not able 
to bear it, or a Feaver thereby threat-
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173 Of the Use of Oyls, &c. 
ned. Of this Nature, and for this 
use are Narcoticks. 
Of these some are simple: As, 
Mandrakes, Henbane, Poppies, 
Opium, Lettice, Sengreen, Night- 
shade, Camphire, Hemlock, &c. 
Compound are: Oyls and Oynt- 
ments of these; Philonium Persicum 
Philonium Romanum, Pilulæ è Cyno- 
glosso, or Pills of Hounds-tongue, 
Pilulæ è Styrace; and most Opiates 
you meet withal in the Dispensa- 
tory. 
Chap. 2. Of Repelling Medicines. 
BY Repelling, or Repulsive Medi
cines I mean, either, 
1. Such as by a cold quality put 
back the humor. Or, 
2. Such as by binding, strengthen 
the part afflicted. 
They are in  
quality:  
1. Hot and binding.
2. Cold and binding.
They are divided into Simple, and 
Compound. 
Simple Repercussives (which is a- 
nother term they have) 
are 
Mild 
Strong  
Hot  
and binding
Mild Repulsives are: Roses, En- 
dive, Lettice, Sorrel, Navel-wort, 
Purslain, Violets, Water-lillies, cold 
Water, Whey, Coriander, Cynksoyl, 
Tresoyl, Pellitory of the wal, Apples, 
Pears, whites of Eggs, Hors-tail, 
Woodbine. 
Strong are: Teazels, Shepheards 
purse, Plantane, Nightshade, Sen- 
green, or Housleek, Melones, Guords, 
Citruls, Duckmeat, Fleawort, Myr- 
tles, Quinces, Pomegranate rinds 
and flowers, Sanguis Draconis, Pop- 
py, Opium, Bole-armeniack, Ceruss, 
Terra Sigillata, Lead burnt, and not 
burnt, Cypress Nuts. 
Hot and binding: Comfry the 
greater, Wormwood, Centaury, 
Horehound, Cardamoms, Cyperus 
grass, Calamus Aromaticus,the meal 
of Lupines, and of Orobus. 
Compound are: The Oyls and 
Oyntments of these, Refrigerans Ga- 
leni, Unguentum Alburn Rhasis, Un- 
guentum Citrinum, Unguentum Popule- 
on, Unguentum Desiccativum Rubrum,
Unguentum Pectorale, Diacalciteos. 
Chap. 3. Of Attractives.
Attractives (called by the Greeks 
Electica) are contrary to Re- 
percussives; for the nature of Repel- 
ling, Repulsive, or Repercussive Me- 
dicines, is to drive from the Circum- 
ference to the Centre, but of At- 
tractives to draw from the Centre to 
the Circumference. 
They are all hot in temper, and of 
thin parts. 
Attractives
draw by
1. Natural Heat. 
2. Putrefaction. 
3. Hidden Property. 
4. Fuga Vacui. 
1. Such as draw by 
natural heat are, 
1. Simple.
2. Compound.
Simple are: Onions, Briony, Leeks, 
Garlick; and now you may know a 
Reason why the cutting of Onions 
makes your Eyes run a water; Birth- 
wort, Spurge, Southernwood, Net- 
tles, Aron, Gentian, Asphodel, 
Bdellium, Opopanax, Euphorbium, 
Water-cresses, Assafœtida, Xylobal- 
samum, Carpobalsamum, Frankin- 
sence, Mirrh, Marjoram, Rosemary 
flowers Cabbage; Aquæ vitæ, Sea 
water, Ammoniacum, Pitch, Bitu- 
men, Calaminth, Dittany, Mustard, 
Asarabacca, Galbanum, Pellitory 
of Spain, Cantharides, Crowfoot,  
&c. 
Compound are,] The Oyls and 
Oyntments made of these, Turpen- 
tine, Oyl of Bricks, Oyl of Foxes, 
Oyl of Baies, Oyl of Dill, Oyl of 
Rue, Peter Oyl, Oyl of Castorium, 
Oyl of St. Johns-wort, Oyntment 
of Arregon, Martiatum and Agrippa, 
Mithridate and Venice Treacle appli- 
ed outwardly for Plaisters, Diachy- 
lon magnum, Diachylon cum Gummi,  
A Plaister of Melilot, both simple and 
Compound, Oxycroceum, with ma- 
ny others, which Reading and Dilli- 
gence (if they be gentlemen of your 
acquaintance) will help you to, and 
furnish you with. Such as draw by 
Putrefaction are, All Turds in ge- 
neral, especially Pidgeons and Goats 
dung, Leaven, Old Cheese, &c. 
By hidden Property as they call it, 
All purges in general, Amber, Viscus 
Quercinus, or Misleto, Peony, the 
Load-stone; these they (poor fools, 
being utterly ignorant of the Sympa- 
thy and Antipathy of the Creation, 
and by consequence of the Magne- 
tick Vertue of things, upon which 
the Foundation of Physick is built)
cal them Hidden Qualities, and so 
give Physick by rote, as a Parrot 
speaks. I could if I durst tel you of 
common things obvious to the Eye 
of every one, that have a far greater 
Magnetick Vertue in them than the 
Load-stone; but I must be silent till 
men learn to be Honester: It is deny- 
ed me to write all I know. 
By Fuga Vacui, or driving away 
Emptiness.
It is a most certain truth that na- 
ture abhors Vacuum or Emptiness, 
neither is there such a thing in rerum 
Natura, let Baptista van Helmont 
speak his pleasure; And this way do 
Cupping-glasses, and Horse Leaches 
draw; and thus may you draw with 
a horn. 
Chap. 4. Of Resolving Medicines. 
THese the Greeks cal Diaphorè- 
tica, the Latins, Carminativa 
and these are used externally as well 
as internally; for it is the external 
use of Medicines we are to speak of 
in this place. 
Their Use is, 
1. To open the Pores. 
2. To make the Humor thin. 
3. To Evacuate them by Sweat. 
They are, 
1. Simple. 
2. Compound,
The Simple are, 
1. Weak. 
2. Strong. 
Weak are: Savin, Marjoram, Rose- 
mary, Origanum, Worm-wood, Me- 
lilot, Arrach, Spicknard, Chamo- 
mel, Dill, Annis, Cummin, Hysop, 
Fumitory, Elder, Dwarf Elder, Vale- 
rian, Southernwood, Worm-wood, 
Fœnugreek, Rozin, al sorts of Turds, 
Turpentine, old cheese, Wine, strong- 
water. 
Strong are: Dittany, Leeks, Onions 
Garlick, Vineger, Aqua vitæ, Pelli- 
tory of Spain, all the hot seeds which 
you may find ranked in Battalia at 
the beginning of the Compounds, 
Cinnamon, Chervil, Nut-megs, 
Pepper, Crowfoot. 
Compound are, Oyls, Oyntments;
and all Compositions of the former.
Oyl of Euphorbium, Oyntment of 
Baies, Diachylon magnum, and cum
Gummi, Emplastrum &c. Cymino, 
Oxicroceum, Emplastrum de Baccis 
lauri, Of Melilot. Oyntments, of 
Agrippa, Arregon, and Martiatum. 
Chap. 5. Of Emollients. 
THe use of Emollients, is to sof- 
ten hard places, and bring 
them to their pristine estate, of which 
we spake more at large in the sim- 
ples. 
They are, 
1. Common. 
2. Proper. 
Those are common, whose general 
operation is to soften hard swellings 
and such parts and places of the 
body, as are hardned by Congela- 
tion. 
They are Proper, which are ap- 
propriated to peculiar humors, and 
belong not to my scope at present; 
for I intend not a Treatise of Chy- 
rurgery, but to give a Candle and a 
Lanthorn, to light you through the 
Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters: 
that you may see what a mist hath 
hitherto wrapped you in, and com- 
passed you round about with: for 
take this for a general rule, and you 
(if you have any Ingenuity in you) 
must needs confess, Ignorance is en-
croching and seeks Authority to back 
it: But Wisdom desires to be publick,
and is alwaies justified of her Chil- 
dren. 
Tt To

174 Of the Use of Oyls, &c.
To proceed, consider that Emolli- 
ents are more temperate than attra- 
ctives, but less temperate than Sup- 
puratives: of which more in the next 
Chapter. 
Also take notice that if the tumor 
be in any principal part of the body, 
mix your Emolients with Astrin- 
gents. 
Emolients are either simple or com- 
mon. 
Simple are: Almost, if not altoge- 
ther, all Marrows, as of a Stagg, dog, 
Horse, Calfe, Bear, Man, Hog, Hen, 
Goose, Duck, Lion, Goat, &c. and 
this book (if you have but wit e- 
nough to be a Physitian) this Book 
I say, if heedfully read and exami- 
ned, wil so furnish you with the vul- 
gar rules, that you may be able to 
understand that, when God shal en- 
able me to put it forth. A man shal 
never know any thing of the myste- 
ries of his creator, til he knows him- 
selse; and he shal never know him- 
self, First, Til he hath the honesty free- 
ly to impart to others, what God 
hath freely revealed to him for the 
pulick good; Secondly, Til he hath 
the Discretion to impart every thing 
in its due season. But to proceed to 
simple Emollients where I left) Gum 
Amoniacum, Bdellium, Opopanax, 
Galbanum, Turpentine, Rozin, Co- 
lophonia, Pitch, the Emolient herbs 
(you have them in rank and file, at 
the beginning of the compounds) 
Lin-seed, Fenugreek seed, white Lil- 
ly roots, Astrach, Figs, Wheat and 
Barley Meal, Malt, Flower, &c. 
Compounds are; Oyls, Oyntments, 
and Plaisters, made of al or any of 
these, Oyl of Lillies, Oyl of Chamo- 
mel, Oyl of Earth-worms, Oyl of 
Foxes, Oyntment of Marsh-mallows, 
Resumptivum, Diachylon, cum multis 
alijs. 
I shal give a notion or two, and 
then I have done with this, (you had 
had them before had I not forgotten 
them and now before I go any fur- 
ther let me advise those that intend 
to reap any benefit by my writings, 
to take a pen and ink, and note 
down what ever they find of conse- 
quence in them; for I know and they 
shal find by experience; that once 
writing of a thing, seates it better in 
the memory, then a hundred times 
reading of it.) 
1. The grease of all, ungelt males 
is hotter, then the grease either of fœ- 
males, or Eunuchs, as for example: 
the grease of a Bul is hotter by far, 
than either the grease of a Cow or 
an Ox. 
2. The grease of wild beasts,is hot- 
ter then that of such as are tame or 
domestical, as the grease of a wild 
Cat is hotter than that of a house 
Cat: judg ye the like of Fowles, the  
grease of a wild Duck, is hotter than  
that of a tame. A word is enough to 
the wise 
Chap. 6. Of Suppuratives, 
THe Greeks cal these Peptica. the 
Latins Maturantia. We had 
some talk about them amongst the 
simples. 
Their Office is by natural heat, to 
bring the blood and superfluous hu- 
mors into matter, to help nature so 
to concoct a superfluous humor, that 
it may be fit to be cast out, to ripen it 
as the vulgar proverb is. 
Emplasticks are of this nature, 
which we treated of by themselves in  
the simples, and may wel be reduced 
to this Head. For, 
First, Some close the pores of the 
Body, and so natural heat being kept 
in is encreased; as the Sulphurious 
vapors being kept in the Cloud turn 
to real Fire, and that is that we call 
Lightning: So that corruption of the 
body being kept in together putri- 
fies, and turns to matter. 
Of this number (for before we 
told you what Emplasticks were in 
general, now we tel you, what par- 
ticulars are Emplasticks, and a little 
ingenuity will find out more, by 
viewing the qualities of these) of this 
number I say, are Mallows, Marshmal- 
lows, yolks of Egs, Turpentine, Ho- 
ney, Amoniacum, Galbanum, Labda- 
num, Frankincense, liquid Styrax. 
Secondly, As the former forced 
nature to do the work, so these help 
nature in it, the former did it per ac- 
cidens, these per se, viz. They are 
friendly to nature, and conspire to- 
gether with it to bring the super- 
fluous matter to form; yea, to such 
a form as may be cast out, and the 
body afflicted may thereby be eased. 
Such simples are, Marsh-mallow- 
Roots, white Lilly roots (which is 
the best internal Medicines of Ga- 
len's Method, which I know for such, 
an use, for you must note, That I 
chiefly speak of external Medicines 
now) Wheat, and Barley, and malt 
Flower; Linseed, Fenugreek seed, 
Brank Ursine, or Bears-breech, Figs, 
Raisons, Currance, Dates, &c. 
As for Compounds, I shal not use 
any distinction between them, they 
that do one may happily do both to- 
gether, there are besides Compounds 
made of these (let me not forget 
Oyls of Lillies, because I fancy it) 
Unguentum Basilicon, Diachylon 
simplex, Diachylon magnum. Dia- 
chylon cum Gummi, a Plaister of mu- 
cilages, your own genius, if it be not 
dul, wil sute you with more. 
Chap. 7. Of clensing Medicines. 
Clensing medicines are such as 
by a drawing quality, have 
power to draw away purulent ex- 
crements (which Chyrurgions call 
the Sanies of a wound) or mattery 
quality which ariseth in all wounds 
after putrefaction, (and then chy- 
rurgians cal them Ulcers) from the 
center of the Ulcer, to the circum- 
ference; you have an ulcer, you 
would fain clense it, for you must 
make it clean before you can heal it; 
clensing Medicines were ordained 
you for that end. 
Of these 
some are,  
1. Simple. 
2. Compound.
Of Simples  
some are, 
1. Weak.
2. Strong. 
Weak simples are, Honey, Sugar, 
Salt, urine, especially your own urine, 
white Wine, these gently clense all
wounds and Ulcers (which is in- 
deed nothing else but a wound pu- 
trified, 'tis neither better nor worse.) 
Strong simples are, Wormwood, A- 
grimony, Betony, Smallage, Sou- 
thren wood, Mirrh, Aloes, Sarcocolla, 
Turpentine, bitter Almonds, Vert- 
degreece, Bullocks-Gall, Alicam- 
pane, Briony, the Roots of Aron, or 
Cooko-pintles, Gentian, Hellebore, 
Allum, Whey, Birthwort, both long 
and round. 
Compounds are, Oyls and Oynt- 
ments of these, and what hath these 
in them doth more or less clense, Ox- 
imel, Unguentum Egiptiacum. &c. 
Chap. 8. Incarnatives. 
The Greeks cal Incarnatives 
Sarcotica, Their Office is to 
dry, and change the blood that comes 
to any part into the flesh. 
They must be hot, and but hot in 
the first degree; because they must 
be friendly to nature, else they can- 
not be helpful. 
They must al be dry, yet so as these 
must not be a difference in their dri- 
ness; for if the Ulcer happen in a 
dry part of the body, the Sarcotick 
must be very dry, and therefore some 
of them are drying even to the fourth 
degree: but if the part of the body 
where they happen be moist, you 
must use Incarnatives, (or Sarco- 
ticks, which you please to call them 
by) that are less drying. 
According to the degrees of com- 
parison I shal divide them into. 
Mean. 
Stronger. 
Strongest. 
Mean are, Olibanum, Colopho- 
nia, Mastich, Aloes, Barley Meal, 
malt flower, Fenugreek-seeds; these 
ought to be applied to moist and de- 
licate bodies. 
Stronger are, Birthwort both long 
and round. Orris, meal of Lupines, 
and Orobus, these ought to be ap- 
plied to dry bodies, and hollow 
wounds. 
Strongest are, Centaury the greater
and lesser, burnt Lead, Myrrh, these 
are appropriated to deep Ulcers. 
Then according as formerly, I shal
divide them into simple and com- 
pound: If you search the simples
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175 OYLS. 
you may there find their degree of 
driness (and be sure of this, you can 
loose nothing by diligence and sear- 
ching) then as the Wound or Ulcer 
abounds with moisture, so let your 
Incarnatives be suitable for driness. 
Simple Incarnatives are, Olibanum, 
Mastich, Aloes, Borax, Colophonia, 
the meal of Lupines, Barly, Orobus, 
and meal of Fenugreek, Beans, Wheat 
and Lentiles, both sorts of Birth- 
wort, Myrrh, Sarcocolla, Sallet 
Oyl, Betony, Shepherds purse 
Mouse-Ear, St. Johns wort, Centau- 
ry, Sanicle, Vervain, Scabious, Bur- 
net, Tutty, Gum Arabick, and Tra- 
gacanth. 
Compounds are, The Compositions 
of these, Unguentum aureum, and Com- 
mitissæ, Plaisters of Bettony, Diapal- 
ma, Emplastrum nigrum, Emplaistrum 
de januæ. 
Chap. 9. Of Cicatrizing Medicines. 
These the Greeks call Epulotica, 
the Lains Cicatrizantes; and 
we in English, Scarifying Medicines, 
though the greater half of the Nation 
know not what the word Scarifying 
means. 
Therefore take notice that a Sca- 
rifying Medicine, is such a Medicine 
as cloaths a place again with skin 
when the skin is off; and this it 
doth by a drying and binding qua- 
lity. 
Of these some are Simples, some 
Compounds. 
Simples are: Galls, Spunge burnt, 
Litharge, Terra Sigillata, or Lemnia, 
Pomegranate pils or flowers, Aloes, 
Cassia Lignea, Pompholix, Spodium, 
Cypress Nuts, Myrrh, Frankincense, 
Lead, Bole-Armenick, Ceruss, Sar-
cocolla. 
Compounds are: All mixtures of 
these; Unguentum album, Desiccati- 
vum rubrum, Diopompholigos, Empla- 
strum de minio, Diapalmæ, &c. 
Chap 10. Of Aglutinative Medi- 
cines. 
The Greeks cal Aglutinative Me- 
dicines, Symphiticæ; and that’s 
the reason Comfry is called Symphi- 
tum, because of its glutinous qua- 
lity. 
The meaning of the word Agluti- 
nætive, is best known by its use, 
which is to dry up that humidity that 
is between the lips of a wound, that  
so it may be healed. 
They are all usually drying in the 
second degree. 
Aglutinætives simple, are: Mastich, 
Sarcocolla, Frankincense, Myrrh, Co- 
lophonia, Bole-armeniack, Dragons 
blood, Terrra Lemnia, Saint Johns- 
wort, Rosemary flowers, Knot-grass, 
Comfry, Marjoram, Gum Traga-
canth, Gum of Ivy, Gum Elemni, red 
Wine, Vervain, Yarrow,wild Tansy,  
Crane-bil, Sanicle, Cobwebs, Hors- 
tail, Cynksoyl. 
Compounds are, the Compositi- 
ons of these, Diapalma Emplastrum de 
minio. 
And now by comparing these with 
the scarifying Medicines, you may 
see that they are as like as one Egg is 
like another. 
Chap. 11. Of Catherreicks, Sép- 
ticks, and Causticks. 
THey all being as neer of kin as a 
man and his brother, I have 
put them all together; but before I 
treat of them, I care not greatly, If I 
explain their degrees: Therefore 
take notice that they are al such Me- 
dicines as have force to corrode the 
flesh or skin. 
Or these
Cathereticks are meanly 
strong, 
Septick stronger. 
Causticks strengest. 
The mean, if there be any mean- 
ness in them, or a more proper term 
is, those which are least violent, for 
all that are violent are called, Cathe- 
retica, or corrosives; by vehement 
drying these consume the excressen- 
ces of flesh. 
They are usually applied to ulcers 
that have dead flesh in them. 
They are 
Simple
Compound. 
Simple are: Vert-de-greece, Cop- 
peras, or Vitriol, Allum burnt, and 
not burnt, burnt Salt, Antimony, 
Mercury sublimate and precipitate, 
Euphorbium. 
Compounds are; Unguentum E- 
gyptiacum, all Oyntments that have 
the simples before mentioned in 
them. 
The stronger, the Greeks call Sep- 
tica, or Putrefactive Medicines. By 
their vehement heat they ulcerate 
the skin, and yet with little pain. 
Such are: Arsnick, Crowfoot, 
Spurge, Mustard seed, Cantharides, 
Euphorbium. 
Causticks are the strongest, and 
those the Greeks call Escarotica. 
These have got a faculty to consume 
all they come neer. 
Such are: Quicklime sublimated, 
Arsnick. 
Strong be, Lapis infernalis. 
I shal give you the use of them all 
in a very few words, as few as can be 
imagined. 
The first is used to eat away dead 
flesh. 
The second is used to draw blisters. 
The third to make Issues. 
Chap. ult. Of Medicines used to stop-
blood. 
Such are Bole-armenick, Terra Si- 
gillata. Dragons blood, Crocus 
Martis, Chalk, Egshels, Ceruss, Li- 
tharge, Frankincense, Mastich, A- 
loes, Rozin, white Starch, Stones of 
Raisons, Purslain, Housleek or Sen- 
green, Hors-tail, the Herb I alwaies 
mean so called, not the Tail of a 
Horse: the Herb Mousear, not the 
Ears of a Mouse; Fleawort, white 
and red Coral, Lapis Hematitis, the 
Blood-stone, dried blood, Gum Tra- 
gacanth and Arabick, Knot-grass, 
Cobwebs.  
I have now done with my Proæmi- 
um to the Oyls, Oyntments, and 
Plaisters: I desire you to excuse me 
for not following one and the same 
Author in the Simples, and here; 
the more you know the variety of 
Authors, the better Physitians in time 
you may come to be; Velle suum cui- 
que est, nec voto vivitur uno: and ac- 
cording to these Rules, so understand 
the Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters 
following. 
OYLS 
Simple Oyls by 
Expression. 
Oyl of sweet Almonds. 
Colledg.] Take of sweet Almonds 
not corrupted as many 
as you wil, 
Cast the shels away, and blanch them, 
beat them in a stone Mortar; heat them 
in a double Vessel, and press out the Oyl 
without heat. 
Culpeper.] It helps roughness and 
soreness of the Throat and Stomach, 
helps Pleurisies, encreaseth seed, ea- 
seth coughs and Hectick Feavers; 
By injection it helps such whose wa- 
ter scalds them; Ulcers in the blad- 
der, reins, and matrix. You may 
either take half an ounce of it by it 
self, or mix it with half an ounce of
syrup of Violets, and so take a spoon- 
ful at a time, shaking them: only 
take notice of this. It you take it in- 
wardly, let it be new drawn, for it 
wil be rank in three or four daies, 
Virtues newly added. 
It helps an hoarsness being mixed 
with Lohoch sanum or Sugar candy.
A spoonful is good for upoung chil-
dren

176 OYLS. 
dren that are choakcd with Flegm. 
It is good to drink in a dysentery 
and after the operation of strong Pur- 
gative Medicaments. A great Practi- 
tioner of this Citty had a fashion to 
make his Patients drink one ounce 
or one ounce and half or two ounces, 
of Oyl of sweet Almonds in the eve- 
ning after their purges, to abate and 
qualifie (as I conceive) the Acrimo- 
ny and remaining malignity of the 
Purgative Medicaments, and to se- 
cure the body from any dammage 
that might thereof proceed. A pra- 
ctise not amiss for the wealthier sort  
of People.
Oyl of bitter Almonds. 
Colledg.] It is made like Oyl of sweet 
Almonds, but that you need not 
blanch them, nor have such a care of 
heat in Pressing out the Oyl. 
Culpeper.] It opens stoppings, helps 
such as are deaf, being dropped into 
their Ears; it helps the hardness of 
the Nerves, and takes away spots in 
the Face. It is seldom or never taken 
inwardly. 
Vertues newly added. 
It discusses Winds, and Vapors, it 
is good against pains and noises in 
the Ears, It is profitably anointed 
upon the great bellies of children 
and of Hydropical persons. Anoin- 
ted upon the Kidnyes and about the 
Region of the bladder it will move 
Urine, especially being mingled 
with a like quantity of Oyl of Scor- 
pions. 
Oyl of Hazel Nuts. 
Colledg.] It is made of the Kernels,
clensed, bruised, heated, and pres- 
sed, like Oyl of sweet Almonds. 
Culpeper.] You must put them in a 
vessel (viz. a glass, or some such like 
thing) and stop them close that the 
water come not to them when you 
put them into the Bath. The Oyl is 
good for cold afflictions of the 
Nerves, the Gout in the Joynts, 
&c. 
Colledg.] So is Oyl of Been, Oyl of 
Nutmegs, and Oyl of Mace drawn. 
Oyl of Wallnuts. 
Colledg.] Is prepared of Walnut Ker
nels, in like manner, save only that 
in the making of this somtimes is 
required dried, Old, and Rank 
Nuts. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to heat and dry, and to 
expell wind; it dissipates swellings 
and digests them through the habit 
of the Body, it is very successful 
against the colick pain arising either 
from wind or cold humors. By its 
digestive faculty and its drying po- 
wer it heales pricks of Nerves and 
galled places without pain. Also it 
is wonderful good against burning. 
It may be anionted upon the parts 
affected, and also given in Clisters. 
Also one ounce may be taken in- 
wardly or two, when it is new against
gripings of the Guts. 
Oleum Chrysomelinum. Or, Oyl of 
Golden Apples or Apricocks. 
Colledg.] Is prepared in the same 
manner of Apricocks; so is also Oyls 
of the Kernels of cherry stones, Pea- 
ches, Pine Nuts, Fistick Nuts, 
Prunes, the seeds of Orrenges, Hemp, 
Bastard Saffron, Citrons, Guords, 
Citruls, Dwarf Elder, Henbane, 
Lettice, Flax, Melones, Poppy, 
Parsley, Rhadishes, Rapes, Rici- 
num, Sesani, Mustard seed, and 
Grape stones. 
Culpeper.] Because most of these 
Oyls is out of use, I took not the 
pains to quote the Vertues of them; 
if any list to make them, let them 
look the Simples,and there they have 
them; if the Simples be not to be 
found in the Book, there are other 
plentiful Medicines conducing to the 
cure of all usual diseases, which are. 
Virtues newly added. 
This helps the hardness and pain 
of the Nerves, and the Tissick arising 
from a cold cause, either anointed 
upon the chest or taken inwardly. It 
helps cold distempers of the Womb, 
used in an injection or taken inward- 
ly. It kills Worms, cures many de- 
formities of the Skin. It helps such 
as are troubled with the stone and 
cannot Piss freely, and such as fetch 
their breath short and are troubled 
with the Spleen. It heates, cuts, 
makes thin, digests, and powerful- 
ly clenses. It heals noises in the 
Eares, freckles in the Face, softens 
hardness in any part, asswages the 
pain of the Sinnews, discusses wind, 
and opens obstructions. This Oyl 
and Oyl of bitter Almonds are of the 
same faculties, and may be used one 
for another, when either of them is 
not to be had. They are good against 
the Hæmorrhoides when they are 
swollen and pained. 
Oyl of Baies. 
Colledg.] Take of Bay-berries ripe, 
and new gathered, being bruised. 
Let them be boyled in water, and pres- 
sed in a press; then bruise them 
again. 
And boyl them as before, and take a- 
way the Oyl that swims at top of the 
water according to art. It will soon 
be rank. 
Culpeper.] Their former manner 
was thus. 
Colledg.] Take of Bay-berries fresh 
and ripe, so many as you please; 
bruise them sufficiently, then boyl them 
in a sufficient quantity of water til the 
Oyl swim at top, which separate from 
the water, and keep for your use. 
Culpeper.] It helps the colick, 
and is a soveraign remedy for any 
diseases in any part of the body com- 
ing either of wind or cold. For the 
colick you may take a few drops in- 
wardly in any compound appropria- 
ted to the colick: The Table of Dis- 
eases will direct you. I love to have 
men studious; negligent people make 
wooden Physitians. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is a present help against cold dis- 
eases of the Brain, Nerves, Joynts, 
and Loyns. It remedies weariness, 
opens the pores of the Veins, helps 
the Palsie and shaking fits in Agues, 
being anointed upon the Back-bone. 
It hath an heating, softening, ope- 
ning and discussing faculty. It cures 
all cold distempers, whether they be 
simple or joyned with flegm or wind. 
It wonderfully helps the colick pain 
arising from these causes, being made 
into a clyster with some convenient 
Decoction. It is good for pains of 
the Stomach, Head, Liver, Spleen, 
Kidneys, Matrix, in a word for all 
cold diseases. 
Colledg.] Common Oyl of Olives, is 
pressed out of ripe Olives, not out of 
the stones. Oyl of Olives omphacine, 
is pressed out of unripe Olives. 
Oyl of Eggs Yolks. 
Colledg.] Boyl the Yolks till they be 
hard, and bruise them with your 
hands or with a Pestle and Mortar: 
heat them in an Earthen vessel glazed
until they begin to froath, stirring 
them diligently that they burn not; 
being hot, put them in a linnen bag, 
and sprinkle them with Aromatick 
wine, and press out the Oyl according 
to art. 
Cupleper.] It is profitable in sistu- 
laes, and malignant Ulcers; it cau- 
seth the hair to grow, it clears the 
Skin, and takes away deformities 
thereof, viz. Tetters, Ringworms, 
Morphew, Scabs. I suppose none 
is so simple to take it inwardly to 
cleer their Skin, nor to anoint their 
feet to take away the deformity of 
their face.
Vertues

177 OYLS. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good for al deformities of the 
Skin, and very effectual against ma- 
lignant Ulcers and chops of the 
Hands, Feet, and Fundament. It 
cures Burnes, Ring-worms and Tet- 
ters; it wholly removes or much a- 
bates fears and marks in the Skin, 
and beautifies the same. It must be 
anointed upon the parts affected, 
frequently, especially at bedtime.
Simple Oyls by In- 
fusion & Decoction. 
Culpeper.] THat most of 
these Oyls, if
not all of them, are used only
externally, is certain; and as
certain that they retain the
vertues of the Simples where-
of they are made; therefore
the ingenious might help them-
selves. But because we live
in a frigid Age, I shall vouch-
safe to quote the Vertues of the
chiefest of them.
Oyl of Roses Omphacine. 
Colledg.] Take of red Roses be- 
fore they be ripe, brui- 
sed in a stone Mortar, four oun- 
ces, 
Oyl Omphacine one pound. Set 
them in a hot Sun in a glass close stopped 
a whol week, shaking them every day; 
then boyl them gently in a Bath; press 
them out, and put in others, use them in 
like manner; do so a third time: then 
keep the Oyl upon a pound of juyce of 
Roses. 
Oyl of Roses compleat. 
Colledg.] Is made in the same man- 
ner with sweet and ripe oyl, often 
washed, and red Roses fully open, 
bruised, set in the Sum, and boyled 
gently, in a double vessel; only let the 
third infusion stand in the Sun fourty 
daies; then keep the Roses and oyl 
together. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Roses (the sto- 
mach being anointed with it) streng- 
thens it, cools the heat of it, thickens, 
takes away inflamatton, abates swel- 
lings, 
Vertues newly added.
It stops the motion of the Humors, 
extinguishes the Rose or swelling 
called also Erysipelas, helps pains 
arising from an hot cause, it cools 
and strengthens, collects and thic- 
kens, tempers and refreshes an hot 
stomach being anointed thereupon. 
It stops fluxions. It allaies the Head- 
ach proceeding from an hot cause. 
It mitigates the burning heat of the 
Kidneys. It asswages all Inflama- 
tions. 
Oyl of Worm-wood. 
Colledg.] In the same manner is made 
oyl of Wormwood, of the tops of com- 
mon Wormwood thrice repeated, four 
ounces, and three pound of ripe oyl, 
only the last time put in four ounces of 
the juyce of Wormwood, which eva- 
porate away by gentle boyling. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Wormwood 
doth moderately heat and strengthen 
the stomach, being anointed with it; 
it procures appetite, opens obstru- 
ctions, furthers digestion, and kills 
worms. 
Vertues newly added. 
It heats and strengthens all parts 
as well as the stomach and namely 
the Liver and spleen and prevents 
and helps Dropsies and cachexies 
arising from the coldness and weak- 
ness of those Entrals. It digests 
crude Humors in the stomach, dissi- 
pates wind, anointed upon the sto- 
mach and belly, and so helps colick- 
fits. It abates the shaking fit of an 
Ague smeared upon the Back-bone 
all along, half an hour before the fit 
comes. 
Oyl of Dill.
Colledg.] Oyl of Dill is made of the 
flowers and leaves of Dili four ounces, 
compleat oyl one pound, thrice repea- 
ted. 
Culpeper] Oyl of Dill doth mode- 
rately digest, asswage the pains of the 
Head and Nerves, and procures 
sleep.
Vertues newly added.
It opens the pores of the Veins and 
so helps the Ventilation of the blood, 
abates convulsion fits anointed upon 
the part convulsed,as also the cramp; 
it asswages pains of the Joynts. It 
is of an heating dissolving nature 
and so discusses winds. It comforts 
the Nerves, and helps weariness af- 
ter journeying or hard Labor.  
Oyl of Castorium. 
Colledg.] One ounce of Castorium, 
Oyl one pound, wine four ounces, 
which must be consumed with the heat 
of a Bath. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Castorium helps
cold diseases of the nerves, deafness. 
being dropped into the ears, and 
noise there.
Vertues newly added.  
It is good for tremblings of the 
Hands, Head or any part of the Bo- 
dy being anointed upon the nape of 
the Neck and along the Back-bone, 
especially there where the Nerves 
arise which move the trembling part 
or parts; it is good-against cramps 
and convulsions; it breaks wind in 
clysters, and anointed upon the bel- 
ly. It brings away Urine anointed 
upon the Region of the Kidneys and 
Bladder. It helps the cold and moist 
distemper of the Testicles and incites 
to generation being anointed upon 
the cods. It strengthens a feeble bo- 
dy being anointed every morning 
from Head to Foot all along the
Back-bone. It is good in clysters to 
move the courses. Being anointed 
upon the stomach it is good against 
Hiccuppings. It is also good to put 
in clysters which are given in the 
Lithargy and all sleepy diseases and 
cold infirmities of the Brain and 
Nerves. 
Oyl of Chamomel. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Chamomel (which 
many call Holy) is made of compleat 
oyl, and fresh Chamomel flowers, the 
little white, leaves taken away, cut, 
bruised, and the vessel covered with 
a thin linnen cloth, set in the Sun, 
pressed out, and three times repea- 
ted.
Culpeper.] Oyl of Chamomel 
strengthens the sinews, greatly as- 
swageth pain, and breaks the stone. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good against Head-ach, Wind 
and Stone-colick, being anointed 
upon the Head or Belly and stomach, 
or being given the quantity of two or 
three ounces in clysters. 
Oyl of Melilote. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Melilote is made of 
the tops of the Herb like Oyl of Cha- 
momel. 
Culpeper] Oyl of Melilot hath the 
same effects. 
Virtues newly added. 
It expels wind, asswages pain, 
moves Urine, comforts and opens 
the Spleen either anointed or given 
the quantity of one ounce two or 
three in clysters. It is good to anoint 
upon the short ribs for children that 
have the rickets. 
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178 OYLS. 
Oyl of Wall-flowers. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Wall-flowers is made 
as Oyloj Dill. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Wal-flowers as- 
swageth pains in the bread: and reins, 
sinews, joynts, and bladder.
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a digesting, attenuating, 
and lenifying faculty, and moderate- 
ly heats. It helps pains of the Nerves 
and joynts. It is good for gouty and 
palsied persons, being anointed upon 
the places afFected, or given the 
quantity of two or three ounces in 
clysters. 
Oyl of Quinces. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Quinces is made of 
six parts of Oyl Omphacine, the meat 
and juyce of Quinces one part: set 
them in the Sun fifteen daies in a glass 
and afterwards boyl them four hours 
in a double vessel; press them out, 
and renew them three times. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Quinces, cools, 
binds and strengthens, stops vomi- 
ting, loosness and sweating. 
Vertues newly added. 
It strengthens the retentive faculty 
of the stomach and Guts. It helps 
digestion. It is good against the 
disease called cholera [See Riverius 
and Johnstons Books in English] the 
Lientery and disentery, it renders all 
parts that are loose and stagging 
strong and firme. 
Oyl of Alicampane. 
Colledg] Oyl is Alicampane is made of 
ripe oyl, and the roots of Alicampane 
bruised, and their juyce, of each one 
part, and of Generous Wine half a 
party which is to be evaporated 
away. 
Oyl of Euphorbium simple. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Euphorbium is made 
of six drams of Euphorbium, Oyl of 
Wall-flowers, and sweet Wine, of each 
five ounces, boyling it in a double 
vessel till the Wine be consumed. 
Culpeper.] Qyl of Euphorbium 
hath the same effects with that of 
Castorium, but works more forcibly; 
being snuffed up the nose, it purgeth 
the head of flegm. 
Vertues newly added.
It is exceeding effectual in old and
cold pains of the Joynts, Liver and
Spleen. It is good for cold diseases
of the Nerves and the Brain, the old
Head-ach and pains in the one side 
of the Head; for the Lethargy also 
being smeared in the Nostrils or snif- 
led in: It provokes lust being anoin- 
ted upon the cods and it is good 
against all numness and stifness pro- 
ceeding from cold. 
Oyl of Pismires or Emmots. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Ants is made of win- 
ged Ants infused in four times their 
weight of sweet Oyl, set in the Sun in 
a glass fourty daies, and then strained 
out.
Culpeper.] Oyl of Emmots, the pri- 
vities being anointed with it, provo- 
kes lust.
Vertues newly added. 
It is good against the wind and 
stone colick anointed upon the belly 
and stomach: It moves Urine anoin- 
ted upon the Region of the Kidneys 
and of the Bladder, and the courses 
anointed upon the Region of the 
Womb. It is good against Palsies 
and numness of the Joynts and loss 
of Memory and blockishness of wit 
the Seams of the Head and Nape of 
the Neck being anointed therewith. 
It discusses hard and cold Tumors. 
It is good in clysters to move the 
courses, bring away wind and Urine, 
the quantity of one ounce or two 
being mingled with other usual ma- 
terials of clysters. 
Oyl of St. Johns-wort. 
Colledg.] Oyl, or Balsom of St. Johm- 
wort simple, is made of the Oyl of the 
seeds beaten and pressed, & the flouers 
being added, and rightly set in the 
Sun. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of St. Johns-wort, 
is as good a thing in green wounds 
as a man can use. 
Vertues newly added. 
It asswages pains, strengthens and 
refreshes the Joynts, digests and dis- 
cusses Humors, takes away black and 
blew spots of the skin proceeding 
from blows. Also it is a wonderful 
strengthener of the Nerves, and 
therefore it helps tremblings, Palsies, 
Cramps, convulsions, being smea- 
red upon the seams of the Head, the 
nape of the Neck, and all along the 
Back-bone to the very crupper. Also 
it is good to anoint all the Joynts 
therewith, to strengthen the same. 
Oyl of Jesmine. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Jesmine, is made of 
the flowers of Jesmine, put in cleer 
Oyl, and set in the Sun, and after- 
wards pressed out. 
Oyl of Orice Root. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Orris is made of the 
roots of Orris Florentine one pound, 
purple Orris flowers half a pound: 
boyl them in a double vessel in a suf- 
ficient quantity of Decoction of Orris 
florentine, and six pound of sweet oyl, 
putting fresh roots and flowers again 
and again, the former being cast away 
as in oyl of Roses.
Culpeper.] Oyl of Orris, doth con- 
coct and dissolve, assawge pain in the 
Womb, Liver, and joynts; also it 
strengthens the breast. 
Vertues newly added. 
It powerfully digests and dissolves, 
it heats, softens and makes thin. It 
is of a digesting, penetrating, ope- 
ning and ripening faculty, takes a- 
way noise in the Head, discusses 
Wenns and hard swellings. It helps 
the stinking smell of the Nostrils being 
sniffed up, and allaies all such pains 
as arise from a cold matter. 
Oyl of Earthworms. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Earthworms is made 
of half a pound of Earthworms wash- 
ed in white Wine, ripe oyl two pound, 
boyled in a double vessel with eight 
ounces of good white wine till the wine 
be consumed. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Earthworms 
molifies, heats, and asswages pains, 
and is special good for such who have 
been bruised or hurt in their joynts. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for all cold diseases of 
the sinews and pains of the Joints: 
for cramps, convulsions, tremblings, 
Apoplexies, Palsies, running Gouts. 
It opens obstructions of the Liver 
and speen being anointed on the Hy- 
pochondries and given in clysters, 
also it is good to anoynt the sides of 
children that have the Rickets.
Oyl of sweet Marjoram. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Marjoram is made 
with four-ounces of the herb a little 
bruised, white wine six ounces, ripe 
oyl a pound, mixed together, let than 
be set in the Sun repeated three times; 
at last boyled to the consumption of the 
wine
Culpeper.] Oyl of Marjoram, helps 
weariness, cold diseases of the brain, 
noise in the ears, being dropped into 
them, the biting of venomous beasts, 
and provokes the terms in women. 
Vertues newly added. 
It strengthens the Stomach and 
stops vomitings, anoynted thereup- 
on, and destroies worms. It asswa-
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179 OYLS. 
ges a loosness being anoynted upon 
the Belly. It provokes to generati- 
on, smeared upon the cods in men 
and upon the Region of the Womb 
and Perinæum [see Vestingus] in 
women. It is of an heating, attenu- 
ating and digesting faculty. It as- 
swages pains of the womb proceed- 
ing from a cold cause, discusses wind 
and mitigates all pains that arise 
from a cold cause in whatever part 
of the body, Two or three ounces is 
good in a clyster for the wind and 
stone colick and to move the Cour- 
ses.
Oyl of Mastich. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Mastich, is made of 
of oyl of roses omphacine one pound, 
Mastich three ounces, wine four oun- 
ces: boyl them in a double vessel to 
the consumption of the wine. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Mastich streng- 
thens the Brain, stomach, and Liver, 
sinews and Veins, staies vomiting 
and fluxes. 
Virtues newly added. 
Oyl of Mastich also asswages pain, 
in any part, and softens hard tumors. 
It is good against Palsies, Apoplexies, 
Trembling of the head, hands, or o- 
ther parts, the Dropsie, Cachexie, the 
foresaid members, or the region of 
the Liver being anointed therewith. 
It refreshes the memory, fancy and 
judgment dulled through weakness 
& moisture of the Brain,and Nerves; 
being anoynted upon the seams of 
the Head and in the Nostrils.  
Oyl of Mints. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Mints is made of the 
Herb, and oyl omphacine, as oyl of 
Roses. 
Culpeper.] The stomach being a- 
nointed with Oyl of Mints, staies the 
weakness heats and strengthens it, 
staies vomiting, helps digestion, and 
provokes, appetite, 
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the Virtues specified, it does 
being anointed frequently upon the 
Stomach cause a man to be couragi- 
ous, industrious and undaunted. Al- 
so it helps to kill Worms in the Sto- 
mach and belly being anointed upon 
that part which is most suspected of 
worms. Anointed upon the Stomach 
and Back-bone in the winter time, 
it inables a man to endure the cold 
wether patiently and cheerfully. 
Oyl of Myrtles. 
Colledg,] Oyl of Myrtles, is made of 
Myrtle berries bruised and sprinkled 
with sharp wine one part, oyl ompha- 
cine three parts; set it in the Sun 
twenty four daies, and in the interim 
thrice renewed, boyled, and the berries 
pressed out.
Culpeper. Oyl of Myrtles hath the 
same effects with Quinces. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is also good to anoint pustles 
and pushes that break out upon the 
skin, to suppress them. It streng- 
thens Limbs and Joynts that are 
loosned or disjointed. It fastens the 
loose Gums and is good against the 
Toothach, smeared upon the Tem- 
ples, Cheeks and Gums. It fastens 
the Hair and hinders the same from 
falling away, being anoynted at the 
roots of the Hairs. It strengthens 
the Brain, Nerves, and Stomach, 
helps digestion and stops vomitings 
and fluxes of the Belly being anoint- 
ed upon the stomach and Belly, It 
asswages the Gonorrhea being a- 
nointed upon the Region of the kid- 
nies end hinders nocturnal polluti- 
ons. In a word it is cooling thick- 
ning and binding. 
Oyl of Myrrh. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Myrrh preserves 
any thing from putrifying that is a- 
nointed with it, makes the face fair 
and youthful. 
Vertues newly added. 
It helps the wasting of the Gums 
anointed thereon and fastens loose 
Teeth. It helps coughs and hoars- 
ness anointed warm upon the chest, 
and pains in the sides, anoint- 
ed on the sides. It kils worms 
and helps a stinking breath anointed 
upon the Belly and Stomach. It 
scours Ulcers and and fils them. It 
heats, dries, opens and softens the
womb, and provokes the birth and 
afterbirth, being smeared upon the 
Region of the Womb. 
Nard Oyl. 
Colledg. Nard Oyl is made of three 
ounces of Spicknard, sweet oyl one 
pound and an half, sweet white wine  
and cleer water, of each two two oun- 
ces and an half, boyled to the consum- 
ption of the moisture. 
Culpeper. Nard oyl doth heat, di- 
gest, and strengthen, resists all cold 
and windy diseases throughout the 
body. 
Vertues newly added. 
Being smeared upon the Body it 
causeth a good color and a fragrant 
smel to proceed therefrom. It is 
good against all old and cold disea- 
ses of the Brain, Stomach, Liver, 
Spleen, and Womb, anointed upon 
the Regions of those parts; so that
it helps tremblings, Palsies, Apople- 
xies, Forgetfulness, sleepy diseases. 
Indigestions of meat and Vomitings, 
prevents cachexies, Dropsies, Ric- 
kets, obstructions of the Liver and 
spleen, Barrenness and Abortion. In 
a word it is by reason of its rare Vir- 
tues by some called Oleum Benedi- 
ctum the Blessed or sacred Oyl. A- 
nointed all along the Back-bone it 
strengthens the Limbs and the whol 
Body. 
Oyl of Water-Lillies. 
Colledg. Oyl of Water-lillies, is made 
of fresh white Water-lilly flowers, one 
past, oyl omphacine three parts, re- 
peating the flowers as in Oyl of Ro- 
ses.
Culpeper. Oyl of Water Lillies 
cools and asswageth the violent heat, 
especially of the head, reins and 
bladder, thereby mitigating frenzies, 
procuring sleep, and is a good pre- 
servative against the stone, and helps 
such women (their backs being a- 
nointed with it) as are subject to mis- 
carry through heat of their reins, 
which they may easily know by con- 
tinual pain in their backs, and swel- 
ling of their Legs. Also oyl of Pop- 
pies hath the same vertue. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a very cooling Nature. It 
causes sleep being anointed upon the 
forehead, temples, soles of the feet 
and stomach, in hot distempers. It 
asswages the heat of the Liver the 
spleen and Kidnies, anointed upon 
the respective Regions of those parts. 
It asswages the motions of carnal 
Lusts being anoynted upon the cods 
morning and evening and upon the 
Region of the Kidnies, especially if a 
little camphire dissolved in Vinegar 
be mingled therewith, and wel bea- 
ten together. It asswages pains of 
the Head proceeding from an hot 
cause, being anointed upon the Fore- 
head, Temples, Nostrils, and Pulses. 
Oyl of Tobacco. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Tobacco is made of 
the juyce of Tobacco, and common oyl, 
of each equal parts boyled in a bath. 
Oyl of Poppies. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Poppies, is made of 
the flowers, heads, and leaves of Gar- 
den Poppies, and oyl omphacine, as 
oyl of Dill. 
Oyl of Poplars. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Poplars, is made of 
the buds of Poplar three parts, rich 
white wine four parts, sweet oyl se- 
ven parts; first let the buds be brui- 
sed, then infused in the wine and oyl
seven 

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seven daies, then boyled, then pressed
out. 
Oyl of Rue. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Rue, is made of the 
Herbs bruised, and ripe oyl like oyl of 
Roses. 
Oyl of Savin is made in the same man- 
ner. 
So also is oyl of Elder flowers made. 
Culpeper] Oyl of Rue, heats, and 
makes thin gross humors, expelleth 
wind, helps palsies, cramps, coldness 
of the womb and bladder. 
Oyl of Scorpions. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Scorpions, is made 
of thirty live Scorpions, caught when 
the Sun is in Leo; oyl of bitter 
Almonds two pound, let them be set 
in the Sun, and after fourty daies 
strained. 
Oleum Cicyonium. 
Colledg.] Oleum Cycionium, is 
made of wild Cucumer roots, and their 
juyce, of each equal parts; with 
twice as much ripe oyl, boyl it to the 
consumption of the juyce. 
Oyl of Nightshade. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Nightshade, is made 
of the berries of Nightshade ripe, and 
one part boyled in ripe oyl, or oyl of 
roses three parts. 
Culpeper.] Oyl of Nightshade hath 
the same effects with that of Water- 
lillies. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is of a nature more cold then 
oyl of Water-lillies. It is good for 
St. Anthonies fire, Head-ach from an 
hot cause, being smeared upon the 
Forehead and Temples. It is good 
to procure sleep in hot distempers, 
being smeared in the Nostrils, upon 
the Temples and Forehead, the soles 
of the Feet and cods. 
Oyl of Styrax. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Styrax, is made of 
Styrax, Sweet white Wine, of each 
one part, ripe oyl four parts gently 
boyled til the Wine be consumed. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Violets is made of oyl
omphacine, and Violet flowers, as oyl 
of roses.
Culpeper. Oyl of Violets cools in-
flamations, easeth the pleurisie, and
pains of the breast.
Oyl of Vervain. 
Colledg.] Oyl of Vervain, is made of 
the Herb and oyl, as oyl of Mints. 
Culpeper.] Then remember that 
these oyls must not be given inward- 
ly as men take drink, but outwardly 
applied, or cast in as injections or 
clysters. 
Oyl, or Liquor of Mirrh, cald Oleum 
Mirrhæ per deliquium. 
Colledg. Take certain new laid Eggs, 
and boyl them till they be hardy then 
cut them through the middle, the long- 
est way: take out the Yolk, and fill 
the hollow place half ful of Mirrh; 
then joyn the whites together again, 
and bind them gently with a string, 
then place them between two dishes, 
a smal grate being between that they 
fall not to the bottom; then place them 
in a Wine-Celler, or some other cool 
place under the ground, so will the 
melted Liquor of the Mirrh distill 
down into the inferior dish. 
Vertues newly added. 
This oyl beautifies the skin. Also 
being taken inwardly it helps an 
hoarseness, to which intent Sugar 
candy poudered may be put into an 
ounce of the liquor of Mirrh, and so 
the patient may take it from a lyco- 
rice stick. It is also good to stop a 
Gonorrhæa, skillfully applied and to 
assawge the white flux in Women. 
To which intent half an ounce may 
be given in two or three ounces of 
red Rose water or Plantane water or 
in a cup of claret wine for some mor- 
nings together, after general remedies 
have been used according to the me- 
thod of healing. Those that are much 
weakned with the white flux or a 
simple Gonorrhæa, may take it in a 
cup of Aligant. 
Compound Oyls 
by Infusion and 
Decoction. 
Oleum Benedictum. Page 146. Latin 
Or, Blessed Oyl. 
Colledg. TAke of the roos of Car- 
duus, and 
Valerian, of each one ounce. 
Flowers of St. Johns-wort two ounces. 
Wheat one ounce and an half,
Old oyl four ounces. 
Cypres Turpentine eight ounces. 
Frankincense in pouder two ounces, in- 
fuse the roots and flowers being bruised, 
in so much white wine as is sufficient to 
cover them, after two daies infusion put 
in the oyl with the wheat bruised, boyl 
them together, till the wine be consumed; 
then press it out, and add the Frankin- 
cense and Turpentine, then boyl them a
little, and keep it. 
Culpeper.] It is appropriated to 
clense and consolidate wounds, es- 
pecially in the head. 
Oleum de Capparibus. Page 245. Lat. 
Or, Oyl of Cappars. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of Cap- 
par roots an ounce, 
Bark of Tamaris, the leaves of the 
same, 
Seeds of Agnus castus, 
Cetrach, or spleenwort, 
Cyperus roots, of each two drams.
Rue one dram, 
Oyl of ripe olives one pound, 
White wine Vinegar, and white wine, 
of each two ounces, 
Cut them and steep them, and boyl them 
(two daies being elapsed) gently in a 
bath, then the wine and vinegar being 
consumed, strain it, and keep it. 
Culpeper.] The Oyl is opening,
and heating, absolutely appropriated 
to the spleen, hardness and pains 
thereof, and diseases coming of stop- 
pings there, as Hypochondriack me- 
lancholly, the rickets, &c. Bath the 
Breast and afflicted side with it hot by 
the fire, and if you please to add its 
like weight of oyntment of the o- 
pening juyces to it, it wil be the bet- 
ter; then if you apply a Virginia to- 
bacco leafe to the place, you shall 
find it an incomparable Remedy. 
Vertues newly added. 
This discusses superfluous humors 
in the external parts of the body,and 
it expells wind,and is therefore good 
in the wind colick to be anointed 
upon the Belly.
Oyl of Castorium compound. 
Page 146. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Castorium, 
Styrax Calamitis, 
Galbanum, 
Euphorbium, 
Opoponax, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Saffron, 
Carpobalsamum or cubebs, 
Spicknard, 
Costus, of each two drams. 
Cyperus, 
Squinanth, 
Pepper long and black,
Savin, 
Pellitory of Spain of each two drams 
and an half. 
Ripe Oyl four pound, 
Spanish wine two pound, 
The five first excepted, let the rest be pre- 
pared as they ought to be, and gently 
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boyled in the oyl and wine, while the 
wine be consumed, mean season the Gal- 
banum, Opopanax, and Euphorbium 
beaten in fine pouder, being dissolved in 
part of the wine, and strained, let them 
be exquisitely mixed with it (while the 
Oyl is warm) by often stirring; the 
boyling being finished, put in the Styrax 
and Castorium.
Culpeper. The vertues are of the 
same with the Simples, only it is 
held to be more effectual in the pre- 
mises. 
Vertues newly added 
This is to al intents far stronger 
and more effectual then the simple 
oyl of castorium. It seems chiefly in- 
vented against the dead palsie, for 
which it is a soveraigne Remedy be- 
ing duly administred. It is also good 
for all cold Diseases of the Brain, 
Nerves, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, 
Limbs and joynts. It helps trem- 
blings of the Hands, Head, or any 
part of the body, being (after uni- 
versal Remedies) anointed upon the 
nape of the Neck, and a long the 
back-bone, especially there where 
the Nerves arise which move the 
trembling part or parts. It is good 
against crampes and convulsions; it 
breaks wind in clysters,and anointed 
upon the Belly. It is good to put 
into clysters which are given in the 
Lethargy, and all sleepy diseases, and 
cold Infirmities of the brain and 
nerves. In dead palsies it may be 
mingled with spirit of Wine rectified 
and beaten together and so bathed a- 
gainst the fire into the palsied part 
and upon the original of the nerves. 
It is good against old and cold aches. 
It helps down the urin anointed up- 
on the region of the Kidneys and 
bladder. Anointed upon the sto- 
mach it is good against Hiccupings.
It is good in clysters against the wind 
and stone colick the quantity of one 
ounce or two, and to bring down the 
courses. It helps a cold and moist 
distemper of the Testicles, and incites 
to generation, being anointed upon 
the cods. It helps stomach-sickness 
and Vomitings proceeding from a 
cold cause, being anointed upon the 
region of the Stomach. 
Oleum Catellorum. Page 846. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Whelps. 
Colledg.] Take of Sallet Oyl four 
pound, 
Two puppy Dogs newly whelped. 
Earth wormes washed in white wine 
one pound, 
Boyl the Whelps til they fall in pieces, 
then put in the worms, a while after 
strain it, then with three ounces of Cy- 
pess Turpentine and one ounce of spirit 
of Wine perfect the oyl according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is excellent good to
bath those Limbs and Muscles that 
have been weakned by wounds or 
bruises. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a rare suppleing and paine 
assawging faculty, being good for al 
cold Diseases of the Sinnews and 
pains of the Joynts, for crampes, 
convulsions,Tremblings,Apoplexies, 
Palsies, and the running gout. For 
it comforts the nerves and cherisheth 
the natural Heat. 
Oleum Costinum. Page 146. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Drug Costus. 
Colledg ] Take of the Rpots of bitter 
Costus, two ounces, 
Cassia Lignea one ounce. 
Tops of Marjoram eight ounces. 
Being bruised, steep them two daies in 
twelve ounces of sweet white Wine; then 
with three pound of sallet Oyl washed in 
white Wine boyl it in Balneo mariæ 
till the wine be consumed. 
Culpeper.] It heats, opens obstru- 
ctions, strengthens the nerves, and al 
nervous parts, as muscles, tendons, 
ligaments, the ventricle; besides 
these, it strengthens the liver, it keeps 
the hairs from turning gray, and 
gives a good color to the body, I 
pray you take notice that this and 
the following Oyls (till I give you 
warning to the contrary) are not 
made to eat. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to anoint upon the sto- 
mach against Vomiting and worms 
and dizziness in the Head: to a- 
noint upon the belly in cholicks, and 
upon the whol backbone to assawge 
the cold fits of Agues, half an hour 
before the approach of the Fit. It 
strengthens the Womb being anoin- 
ted upon the Region thereof, and 
helps the pains thereof. It softens 
and discusses hard swellings. It is 
good against the worms being anoin- 
ted upon the stomach, and in a word 
it is an excellent Oyl and æmulates 
the Vertues of oyl of Nard and oyl 
of Costus aforesaid. 
Oleum Crocinum. Page 146. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Saffron. 
Colledg.] Take of Saffron, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each one 
ounce. 
Mirrh half an ounce, 
Cardamoms nine drams, 
Steep them six daies (the Cardamoms 
excepted, which are not to be put in till 
the last day) in nine ounces of Vinegar, 
the day after put in a pound and an half
of washed Oyl, boyl it gently according 
to art, till the Vinegar be consumed, then 
strain it. 
Culpeper,] It helps pains in the
nerves, and strengthens them, molli- 
fies their hardness, helps pains in the 
matrix, and causeth a good color.
Oyl of Euphorbium. Page 147. Lat.
Or, Oyl of Euphorbium 
compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Staves-acre, 
Sopewort, of each half an ounce, 
Pellitory of Spain six drams, 
Dried Mountain Calaminth one 
ounce and an half, 
Costus two drams, 
Castorium five drams.  
Being bruised, let them be three daies 
steeped in three found and an half of 
Wine, boyl them with a pound and an 
half of Oyl of Wall flowers, adding half 
an ounce of Euphorbium, before the wine 
be quite consumed, and so boyl it accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] It hath the same ver-
tue, only somthing more effectuall 
than the Simple. 
Vertues newly added.  
It is good for old and cold dis- 
eases of the nerves and brain, the old 
Headach, and the pain in one side of 
the Head alone; for the Lethargy 
and all sleepy diseases, being smea- 
red upon the nosrtils and sniffed in. It 
provoks to generation being anoin- 
ted upon the Cods, and it is good a- 
gainst all manner of numness and 
stifness springing from cold. It is 
very effectual in cold pains of the 
Joynts, Liver, Spleen, Womb, Kid- 
neys, Bladder, being anointed upon 
the respective regions of those parts. 
A certain man reading that the 
Virtues of Fish-hooks were to catch 
fish and draw them out of the water; 
bought a parcel of fish-hooks and 
scattered them in a pond abounding 
with fish, expecting the fish would 
come to his hand with the hooks in 
their noses, but failing of his expe- 
ctation after long patience, he com- 
plained that the book had delu- 
ded him and over boasted the fa-
culties virtues and uses of fishhooks: 
till meeting with an Artist in the me- 
thod of Angleing, he became infor- 
med, that though it was the real vir-
tue and certain use and effect of a 
fish-hook to catch fish, yet it must be 
in conjunction with an angling rod, 
a line, a float, a bait, a wary hand 
and a watchful eye to mark the mo- 
tion of the float; nor would al this 
do at all times, viz. in the Heat of 
the day and staring sun shine, not 
immediately after a large and beat- 
ing rain &c. but times and seasons 
must be observed. Thus it is in the 
cure of diseases by medicaments 
which must be artfully and seasona- 
bly applied in conjunction with o- 
ther remedies, or their effects wil not
follow. And this Art the ingenious 
and industious English Physitian may 
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learn from Veslingus and Riolanus 
Anatomies, the Institutions and pra- 
ctise of Johnston, Riverius, Sennertus. 
&c. now by Gods providence in 
the English tongue. 
Oleum Excestrense. Page 147. Latin. 
Or, Oyl Exceter. 
Colledg.] Take of the Leaves of 
Wormwood, 
Centaury the less, 
Eupatorium, 
Fennel, 
Hyssop, 
Bays, 
Marjoram, 
Bawm, 
Nep, 
Penyroyal, 
Savin,
Sage, 
Time, of each four ounces, 
Southernwood, 
Bettony, 
Chamepitys, 
Lavender, of each six ounces. 
Rosemary one pound. 
Flowers of Chamomel, 
Broom, 
White Lillies, 
Elders, 
Seeds of cumin. 
Fenugreek, 
Roots of Hellebore black and white, 
Bark of Ash and Lemons, of each 
four ounces, 
Euphorbium, 
Mustard, 
Castorium, 
Pellitory of Spain, of each an ounce. 
Oyl sixteen pound. 
Wine three pound. 
The Herbs, Flowers, Seeds, and Eu- 
phorbium being bruised, the roots, Barks, 
and Castorium cut, all of them infused 
twelve hours in the Wine and Oyl, in a 
warm bath, then boyled with a gentle 
fire, to the consumption of the wine and 
moisture, strain the Oyl and keep it. 
Culpeper.] Many people by catch- 
ing bruises when they are young, 
come to feel it when they are old; 
others by catching cold, catch a 
lameness in their limbs; to both 
which I commend this Soveraign 
Oyl to bath their grieved members 
with. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyl had its original in En- 
gland as the name imports, being a 
thing unknown to all forreign dis- 
pensatories. I conceive it was first 
devised for some Earl or Countess of 
Exceter which Honor did anciently 
belong to the family of the Court- 
neys, as I have been informed. It 
is of soveraign use for al cold disea- 
ses of the brain, nerves, stomach, 
limbs; for palsies, convulsions, cramps, 
tremblings of the hands or other parts 
being anointed upon the futures or 
seams of the Head, nape of the neck, 
the whol back-bone, the places af- 
fected, and chiefly upon the original 
of the nerves which are subservient 
to the motion of the diseased part. 
It is good for cold swellings, for 
sleepy diseases being mixed in cly- 
sters the quantity of an ounce or 
two. 
Oleum Hirundinum. Page 148 Lat. 
Or, Oyl of Swallows 
Colledg.] Take of whol Swallows six- 
teen. 
Chamomel,
Rue, 
Plantane the greater and lesser. 
Bay leaves, 
Penyroyal, 
Dilkl, 
Hyssop, 
Rosemary, 
Sage,
Saint Johns wort, 
Costmary, of each one handful.
Common Oyl four pound. 
Spanish wine one pound. 
Make it up according to art. 
Culpeper.] But if instead of Oyl
you will put so much May Butter to 
it as here is appointed oyl, and boyl 
it with the foregoing simples, then 
will it have both the name and con- 
consistence of an Oyntment. Both 
this and the former are appropriated 
to old bruises and pains therof com- 
ing, as also to sprains. If you please 
you may mix them together. 
Vertues newly added. 
This immitates the Virtues of the 
former, and is good for all old and 
cold diseases of the Brain, Nerves, 
Limbs, and Bowels; being anoin- 
ted upon the Nape of the Neck, the 
Back-bone, the Stomach, and Regi- 
ons of parts offended with any aches 
or weakness. 
Oleum Hyperici compositum. Page 
148. Lat. Or Oyl of Saint 
Johns wort Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of the tops of Saint 
Johns-wort four ounces. 
Steep them three whol daies in a pound 
of old Sallet Oyl, in the heat either of 
a Bath, or of the Sun; then press them 
out, repeat the infusion the second or 
third time, then boyl them til the Wine 
be almost consumed, press them out, and 
by adding 
Turpentine, three ounces. 
Saffron, one scruple. 
Boyl it a little and keep it. 
Culpeper.] See the simple Oyl ef 
St. Johns-wort, than which this is 
stronger. 
Oleum Hyperici magis Compositum. 
Page 148. Latin. Or Oyl of Saint 
Johns-wort more Compound. 
Colledg.] Take of white Wine three 
pound. 
Tops of St. Johns-wort ripe and gent-
ly bruised, four handfuls: steep 
them two daies in a glass close
stopped. 
Boyl them in a Bath, and strain them
strongly, repeat the infusion three times, 
having strained it the third time, ad to
every pound of Decoction, 
Old Oyl four pound. 
Turpentine six ounces. 
Oyl of Wormwood three ounces. 
Dittany, 
Gentian, 
Carduus, 
Tormentil, 
Carline,or Carduus Maria, 
Calamus Aromaticus, all of them 
bruised; of each two drams. 
Earth-worms often washed in white 
Wine two ounces. 
Set it in the Sun five or six weeks, then 
keep it close stopped. 
Culpeper.] Besides the vertues of 
the simple Oyl of St. Johns-wort, 
which this performs more effectual- 
ly, it is an excellent remedy for old 
bruises, aches, and Sprains. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Oyls do wonderfully streng- 
then the Nerves and consequently 
help tremblings, Palsies, Cramps, 
Convulsions, numness, being smea- 
red upon the seams of the Head, the 
Nape of the Neck, and all along the
Back-bone from the top thereof to
the bottome also it is good to streng- 
then the joynts being anointed thei- 
upon. It digests and discusses Hu- 
mors, asswages pains, takes away 
black and blue spots of the Skin, 
proceeding from blows and stripes. 
Oleum Irinum. Page 149. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Orris. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of Orris
Florentine, three pound four ounces. 
Flowers of purple orris fifteen ounces. 
Cyperus roots six ounces. 
Alicampane three ounces. 
Alkanet two ounces. 
Cinnamon, 
Spicknard, 
Benjamin, of each one ounce. 
Let all of them being bruised as they 
ought to be, be streeped in the sunor other 
hot place in 
Fifteen pound of old Oyl, 
Four pound and an half of cleer wa- 
ter. 
After the fourth day, boyl them in Bal- 
neo Mariæ, the water being consumed
when it is cold, strain it and keep it. 
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Culpeper. The effects are the same 
with the Simple, only 'tis stronger, 
and better composed here than it was 
in the former Dispensatory. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for asthmatical persons 
being smeared upon the chest, It 
brings down the Hæmorrhoids a- 
nointed upon the place, or injected 
in a clyster. Mixed with vinegar and 
rue and bitter almonds, and dropt or 
squirted into the ears with a Syringe, 
it helps deafness and takes away the 
præternatural noises and tinklings 
of the ears. It cures ulcers and stop- 
pages of the nostrils. Also it is good 
against an old Catarrhe, anointed u- 
pon the seams of the head, the tem- 
ples, pulses, and soles of the feet. 
Oleum Majoranæ. Page 149. Latin 
Or, Oyl of Marjoram. 
Colledg.] Take of Marjoram four 
handfuls. 
Mother of time two handfuls, 
Leaves and berries of Myrtles one 
handful. 
Southernwood, 
Water mints, of each half an hand- 
full. 
Being cut, bruised, and put in a glass, 
three pound of oyl omphacine being put 
to it, let it stand eight daies in the Sun, 
or in a bath, close stopped, then strain it 
out, in the oyl put in fresh simples, do so 
the third time, the oyl may be perfected 
according to art. 
Culpeper. It helps weariness and 
Diseases of the Brain and Nerves, 
coming of cold; it helps the dead 
palsie, the back (viz. the region a- 
long the back bone) being anointed 
with it; being snuffed up in the nose, 
it helps Spasmus cynicus, which is a 
wrying the mouth aside; it helps 
noise in the ears being dropped into 
them; it provokes the terms, and 
helps the bitings of venemous beasts; 
it is a most gallant Oyl to strengthen 
the body, the back being anointed 
with it;strengthens the muscles, they 
being chased with it; helps the head- 
ach, the forehead being rubbed with 
it. 
Oleum Mandragoræ. Page 149. Lat.
Or, Oyl of Mandrakes. 
Colledg. Take of common oyl two pound 
Juyce of Mandrake apples, or for 
want of them, of the leaves, four 
ounces. 
Juyce of white Henbane two ounces 
Juyce of black Poppy heads three 
ounces, 
Juyce of Violets, 
Tender Hemlock, of each one 
ounce, 
Set them all in the Sun, and after the 
tenth day boyl them to the consumption of 
the juyce, then put in 
Opium finely beaten, 
Styrax calamitis dissolved in a little 
Turpentine, of each half an ounce. 
Culpeper. It is probable the Au- 
thor studied to invent an oyl ex- 
treamly cold, when he invented this. 
I am of opinion it may be used safely 
no way but only to anoint the tem- 
ples and noses of such as have a fren- 
zy. If by using this oyntment you see 
they sleep too long, dip a spunge in 
Vinegar, and hold to their noses, it 
may be a means to awake them. It 
is scarce safe, yet if you let it alone, 
it cannot do you harm. 
Vertues newly added. 
This way invented by Nicolaus, 
the Author of the Requies or sleep- 
ing medicament formerly described 
amongst the Electuaries. 
It was invented to assawge vehe- 
ment pains of the Head. It is also 
good for the tooth-ach, being anoin- 
ted upon the cheeks and jaws. For 
the Head-ach and Phrentick persons 
that cannot sleep, it must be anointed 
upon the forehead and temples, and 
in the nostrils. Those that are not 
frentick and yet cannot sleep, must 
have it anointed, upon their pulses 
and the soles of their feet.
Moschelæum. Page 149. Latin. Or, 
Masked Oyl. 
Colledg. Take two Nutmegs. 
Musk one dram, 
Indian leaf or Mace, 
Spicknard, 
Costus, 
Mastich, of each six drams. 
Styrax calamitis, 
Cassia Lignea, 
Mirrh, 
Saffron, 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Carpobalsamum, 
Cubebs, 
Bdellium, of each two drams. 
Pure Oyl three pound. 
Wine three ounces. 
Bruise them as you ought to do, mix them 
and let them boyl easily, till the wine be 
consumed, the Musk being mixed accor- 
ding to art after it is strained. 
Culpeper. It is exceeding good a- 
gainst all diseases of cold, especially 
those of the stomach, it helps dis- 
eases of the sides, they being anoin- 
ted with it, the strangury, chollick, 
and vices of the Nerves, and af- 
flictions of the Reins. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is good against all cold dis- 
eases of the body, as palsies, trem- 
blings, numness, especially for cold 
diseases of the Stomach, as pains, 
windiness, indigestion, want of ap- 
petite, being anointed upon the re- 
gion thereof. It is good against the 
strangury, being anointed upon the 
share, for the colick smeared upon 
the Belly, and for al diseases of the 
Nerves. It makes a man indure the 
cold in winter couragionsly, being a- 
nointed upon the stomach especially 
the pit thereof, and upon the back- 
bone. It strengthens the Liver and 
Spleen afflicted with cold Diseases. 
It is mingled in Plaisters and Epi- 
thems for diseases of the Stomach, 
Kidneys, and Womb. 
Oleum Nardinum. Page 150. 
Latin Or, Nard Oyl. 
Colledg.] Take of Spicknard three- 
ounces. 
Marjoram two ounces. 
Wood of Aloes, 
Calamus aromaticus,
Alicampane, 
Cyperus, 
Bay Leaves, 
Indian Leaf or Mace, 
Squinanth, 
Cardamoms, of each one ounce and an 
half. 
Bruise them al grosly, and steep them in 
water and wine, of each fourteen ounces. 
Oyl of Sesamin, or oyl of Olives, four 
pound and an half, for one day: then 
perfect the oyl by boyling it gently in a 
double vessel.  
Culpeper.] It heats, attenuates,di- 
gests, and moderately binds, and 
therefore helps all Cold and windy 
afflictions of the Brain, Stomach, 
Reins, Spleen, Liver, Bladder, and 
Womb; being snuffed up the Nose 
it purgeth the Head, and gives good 
color and smell to the Body. 
Vertues newly added. 
See the Vertues of the simple oyl 
of Nard formerly celebrated. It is to 
all intents and purposes more potent 
and effectuall. 
Oleum Nicodemi. Page 150. Latin 
Colledg.] Take of the seeds or tops of 
St. Johns wort, 
Old Turpentine, of each one pound, 
Litharge six drams. 
Aloes Hepatick, 
Tutty, of each three drams. 
Saffron one ounce. 
White wine four pound. 
Old oyl two pound, 
The fourth part of the Wine being con- 
sumed in a bath, or sand, or in the Sun, 
in the Dog daies; after the tenth day 
strain it, and keep the oyl apart from the 
Wine. 
Culpeper.] Both Wine and Oyl are 
exceeding drying (that the wine is 
more clensing, and the oyl best to 
skin a sore, your genius (though ne- 
ver so dul) wil tel you) and there- 
fore excellent for sores and ulcers
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that run much, as for Scabs, Itch, 
smal pocks, swine pocks, &c.
Oleum Vulpinum. Page. 150. Lat. 
Or Oyl of Foxes. 
Colledg.] Take a fat Fox, of a mid- 
dle age (if you can get such an one) 
caught by hunting about Autumn, 
cut in pieces, 
The skin and bowels taken away, the 
bones broken boyl him (scumming it di- 
ligently) in white wine or spring water, 
of each six pound, till half be consumed; 
with three ouces of Sea salt, 
The tops of Dill, 
Time, and 
Chamepytis, of each one handful, 
After straining boyl it again with 
Old Oyl four pound, 
Flowers of Sage, and 
Rosemary, of each one handful, 
The water being consumed, strain it a- 
gain, and keep the pure oyl for use. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good in 
pains of the joynts, Gouts, pains in 
the Back and Reins. It heats the bo- 
dy being afflicted by cold, and hard 
lodging in the air, whereby the 
joynts are stiff, a disease incident to 
many in these times. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is also good against cold Ca- 
tarrhs being anointed upon the 
seams of the head, the nape of the 
Neck, the Back-bone, Pulses, and 
soles of the feet. It is good for noi- 
ses in the Ears. 
OYLS left out in the 
New Dispensatory. 
Culpeper. THe Receipt is 
before: The 
Vertues of the Oyl of Tobacco 
is: It is a gallant Remedy for 
deep wound, Scabs or Itch, as 
any under the cope of Heaven, 
and no way prejudicial. See 
the Oyntment. 
Oyl of Pepper. 
Colledg.] Take of long, black, and 
white Pepper of each three 
drams. 
Myrebalans, Chebuls, Bellericks
Emblick and Indian, of each five 
drams. 
Roots of Smallage and 
Fennel, of each three drams and an 
half.
Sagapenum, 
Opopanax, 
Ammoniacum,
White Henbane, of each two drams 
and an half. 
Turbith two drams, 
Ginger three drams, 
The branches of green Time, and 
Green Rue, of each one handful. 
Infuse them according to art, in a suffi- 
cient quantity of Aqua vitæ, Oyl of 
Wall-flowers, otherwise called Winter 
Gilly-flowers two pound, then boyl them 
to the Consumption of the Aqua vitæ. 
Culpeper.] It helps cold diseases of 
the Nerves, as Palsies, Falling-sick- 
ness, Convulsions, Wry mouths, 
Trembling or shaking Palsie, like- 
wise cold afflictions of the Reins and 
Bladder, Yard, and Womb, Gouts, 
and all Diseases of the Joynts. It 
heats, makes thin, and clenseth, and 
therefore it opens obstructions or 
stoppings, and breaks the stone. 
Oleum Populeon. Or, Oyl of 
Poplar buds. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Poplar buds 
three pound, 
Wine four pound, 
Common oyl seven pound two ounces, 
Beat the poplar buds very wel, then 
steep them seven daies in the oyl and 
wine, then boyl them in a double vessel 
till the wine be consumtd (if you infuse 
fresh buds once or twice before you boyl 
it, the medicine will be stronger) then 
press out the oyl and keep it. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cool oyl, but 
the Oyntment called by that name 
which follows is far better. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good for Head-ach, pains of 
the Joynts, pains in the Kidnies, 
Gout pains, and all pains in what 
part soever, and it causes rest, smear- 
ed upon the Forehead and Tem- 
ples, snifFed into the Nostrils, and 
smeared upon the Pulses and soies of 
the feet. 
OYNTMEMTS 
MORE SIMPLE. 
Unguentum album. Page 153. Latin. 
Or, White Oyntment. 
Colledg.] TAke of Oyl of Roses 
nine ounces. 
Ceruss washed in Rose water and dili- 
gently sersed, three ounces,  
White Wax two ounces, 
After the the wax is melted in the Oyl, 
put in the Ceruss, and make it into an 
oyntment according to art; ad two dram 
of Camphire, made into pouder with a 
few drops of oyl of sweet Almonds, so
will it be camphorated. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling dry- 
ing oyntment, easeth pains, and itch- 
ing, in wounds and Ulcers, and is 
an hundred times better with Cam- 
phire than without it. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is also good for burnes and scal- 
dings, fretting and chasing of the skin 
by riding or othervise, and against
all Inflammations. It is used for the 
chasing of the tender Thighs of yong 
children that are swathed.
Unguentum Egyptiacum. Page. 153. 
Latin. Or, The Ægyptian
Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of Vert-de-greece fine- 
ly poudered, five parts, 
Honey fourteen parts,
Sharp Vinegar feven parts, 
Boyl them to a just thicknes and a red- 
dish color. 
Culpeper.] It clenseth filthy Ulcers 
and fistulaes forcibly, and not with- 
out pain. It takes away dead and 
proud flesh and dries: The Chirur- 
geons of our daies use it commonly 
instead of Apostolorum to clense 
wounds; it clenseth more potently 
indeed,and therefore may be fitter in 
sanious ulcers, but it strengthens not
so much.
Unguentum Anodynum. Page 153. 
Latin Or, An Oyntment 
to ease pain. 
Colledg.] Take of oyl of white Lil- 
lies, six ounces. 
Oyl of Dill, 
Chamomel, of each two ounces. 
Oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce. 
Ducks grease, 
Hens grease of each two ounces. 
White wax three ounces, 
Mix them according to art. 
Cupleper.] Its use is to asswage 
pains in any part of the body, espe- 
cially such as come by inflamations, 
whether in wounds or tumors, and 
for that it is admirable. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is also good to cause rest be- 
ing anointed upon the Forehead and 
Temples, and to asswage the ravings 
of frantick persons. 
Unguentum ex Apio. Page 153. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Smallage 
Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of Smal- 
lage one pound. 
Honey nine ounces. 
Wheat flower three ounces. 
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Boyl them to a just thickness.
Culpeper.] It is a very fine, and ve- 
ry gentle clenser of wounds and ul- 
cers. 
Vertues newly added. 
This oyntment doth also open ob- 
structions of the Liver and spleen, be-
ing smeared upon the Hypochon- 
dries. It moves urine anointed u- 
pon the Region of the Kidneys and 
share. It is good against the wind 
colick, anointed upon the belly. It 
clears the stuffing of the Lungs, 
smeared upon the chest. 
Liniment of Gum Elemi 
Colledg.] Take of Gum Elemi, 
Turpentine of the Fir-tree, of each 
one ounce and an half. 
Old Sheep Suet clensed two ounces. 
Old Hogs grease clensed one ounce. 
Mix them, and make them into an oynt- 
ment according to art. 
Culpeper.] Although our Chyrur- 
gians commonly use this only for 
wounds and ulcers in the head, yet 
he that makes trial shal find it excel- 
lent for ulcers, if not too famous, in 
any part of the body, though in the 
feet, and they are at the greatest di- 
stance from the head; it gently clen- 
seth and silleth up an ulcer with flesh, 
it being of a mild nature, and friend- 
ly to the Body. 
Vertues newly added. 
It safely heals wounds without 
danger of festering, it fills hollow ul- 
cers with flesh after they have been 
first clensed according to art, when 
there is pain in ulcers it asswages the 
same, and speedily over spreads the 
Cicatrix or Scar. 
Unguentum Aureum. Pag. 154. Lat. 
Or, The Golden Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow wax half a 
pound.  
Common oyl two pound.  
Turpentine two ounces. 
Pine-rozin,
Colophonia, of each one ounce and an 
half.
Frankincense,  
Mastich, of each one ounce. 
Saffron one dram.  
First melt the wax in the oyl, then the 
Turpentine being added, let them boyl 
together, having done boyling, put in 
the rest in fine pouder, (let the saffron 
be the last) and by diligent stirring, 
make them into an oyntment according 
to art.
Culpeper.] If you remember, the 
Colledg commends this Oyntment 
to engender flesh in the beginning of 
the Compounds, and indeed it doth  
so; but if you please to take counsel  
of Dr. Experience, he wil tel you that 
the former is better. 
Unguentum Basilicum. Page 154. Lat. 
Or, The Royal Oyntment, 
Colledg. Take of white Wax, 
Pine Rozin, 
Heifers suet, 
Greek-pitch, 
Turpentine, 
Olibanum, 
Mirrh, of each one ounce. 
Oyl five ounces. 
Pouder, the Olibanum and Mirrh, and 
the rest being melted, make it into an 
Oyntment according to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment, it seems, by its 
soveraigne Vertues has merited the 
kingship amongst oyntments. It has 
a rare faculty to asswage the pains of 
old sores, to digest bad humors there- 
in, to asswage the biteing Acrimony 
and eating faculty of the said Hu- 
mors, and finally to fill the cavity of 
ulcers with flesh. 
Basilicon, the Less. Page 154. Latin 
Colledg.] Take of Yellow wax. 
Fat Rozin, 
Greek pitch, of each half a pound. 
Oyl nine ounces. 
Mix them together, by melting them ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] Both this and the for- 
met, heat, moisten, and digest, pro- 
cure mater in wounds, I mean bring 
the filth or corrupted Blood from 
green wounds; They clense and ease 
pain. 
Oyntment of Bdellium. Page 154.
Lat. Or, Gum Edellium.
Colledg.] Take of Bdellium six drams. 
Euphorbium, 
Sagapen, of each four drams. 
Castorium three drams. 
Wax fifteen drams. 
Oyl of Elder or Wal-flowers, ten 
drams. 
The Bdellium and Sagapen being dis- 
solved in water of wild Rue, let the rest 
be united by the heat of a bath. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good against al cold and old 
diseases of the Brain and Nerves, for 
tremblings, palsies, cramps, Falling- 
sickness anointed on the seams of the 
Head, the nape of the Neek and the 
whol back bone. It helps the wind 
colick anointed upon the Belly. 
Unguentum de Calce. Page 155. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Chalk. 
Colledg.] Take of Chalk washed se- 
ven times at least, half a pound. 
Wax three ounces.  
Oyl of Roses one pound. 
Stir them altogether diligently in a lea-
den mortar, the wax being first melted by 
a gentle fire in a sufficient quantity of 
the prescribed Oyl. 
Culpeper] It is exceeding good in 
burnings and scaldings. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is also good against red pimpls, 
whelks, and watry pushes and pu- 
stles of the skin. 
Unguentum Dialtheææ. Page. 155. 
Lat. Or, Oyntment of Marsh- 
Mallows.
Colledg.] Take of common oyl four 
pound. 
Mucilage of Marsh-mallow Roots, 
Linseeds and Fenu-greek seeds two 
pound. 
Boyl them together til the watry part of 
the Mucilage be consumed, then add 
Wax half a pound. 
Rozin three ounces. 
Turpentine an ounce. 
Boyl them to the consistance of an 
Oyntment.
But let the Mucilage be prepared of a 
pound of fresh Roots bruised, and half a 
pound of each of the seeds steeped, and 
boyled in eight pound of spring water, 
& then pressed out.See the Compound.
Unguentum Dimpompholygos. 
Page 155. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Nightshade 
sixteen ounces. 
White wax, 
Washed Ceruss, of each four drams. 
Lead burnt and washed,  
Pompholix prepared, of each two oun- 
ces.
Pure Frankincense one ounce.  
Bring them into the forme of an Oynt-
ment according to art. 
Culpeper.] This much differing 
from the former, you shall have that 
inserted at the latter end, and then 
you may use which you please. 
Unguentum Enulatum. Page 155. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment of 
Alicampane, 
Colledg.] Take of Alicampane
roots boyled tn Vinegar, bruised 
and pulped, one pound. 
Turpentime washed in their Deco- 
ction, 
New wax, of each two ounces. 
Old Hogs greased salted ten ounces. 
Old oyl four ounces. 
Common Salt one ounce. 
Add the Turpentine to the grease, wax,
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186 OYNTMENTS. 
and oyl, being as also the pulp 
and salt being finely poudered, and so 
make it into an oyntment according to 
art. 
Unguentum Enulatum cum Mercurio. 
Page 156. Latin Or, Oynt- 
ment of Elicampane with 
Quick-silver. 
Colledg.] Is made of the former 
oyntment, by adding two ounces of quick- 
silver, killed by continual stirring, not 
only with spittle, or juyce of Lemons, but 
with al the Turpentine kept for that in- 
tent, and part of the Grease, in a stone 
Morter. 
Virtues newly added. 
It is good against al Itch and scabs 
and other deforming eruptions upon 
the Skin, both without and with 
quick-silver. With quick-silver it 
is more effectual, but may bring 
Aches upon the party that shal use it, 
especially being of a weak-timbred 
constitution. 
Unguentum Laurinum commune, Pag. 
156. Or, Oyntment of 
Bayes common. 
Colledg.] Take of Bay leaves brui- 
sed one pound. 
Bayberries bruised half a pound. 
Cabbage leaves four ounces. 
Neats-foot oyl five pound. 
Bullock suet two pound. 
Boyl them together, and strain them,that 
so it may be made into an Oyntment ac-
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] Let the Leaves and Ber- 
ries be bruised and boyled with 
the Oyl and the Suet til the juyce be 
consumed, let it be strained and kept. 
It heats and expels wind, is profita- 
ble for old Aches, and Sprains; but 
what good it should do to the Itch 
(for which simple people buy it) I 
cannot imagin. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is soveraign against cold disea- 
ses of the Brain, Nerves, Joynts, and 
Loyns. It helps weariness, opens 
the pores of the Veins and Venti- 
lates the blood. It is good against 
the Palsie being smeared upon the 
Back-bone and against the shaking 
fit of an Ague, In a word it is of an 
heating, emollient, opening and dis- 
cussing faculty, heals all cold distem- 
pers whether simple (if such there 
be) or with matter as flegm and 
winds, and consequently it is good 
against the colick arising from these 
causes being anointed upon the Bel- 
ly and chased in with an hot hand. 
Unguentum de minio sive rubrum cam- 
phoratum. Page 156. Latin. 
Or, Oyntment of red 
Lead wit h Camphire. 
Colledg. Take of Oyl of Roses one 
pound and an half, 
Red Lead three ounces, 
Litharge two ounces, 
Ceruss one ounce and an half, 
Tutty three drams, 
Camphire two drams, 
Wax one ounce and an half, 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art, with a Pestle and Mortar made of 
Lead. 
Culpeper.] This Oyntment is as 
drying as a man shal usually read of 
one, and withall cooling; therefore 
good for sores, and such as are trou- 
bled with Defluxions. I remember 
once Dr. Alexander Read applied it 
to my Mothers Breast when she had a 
Cancer, before it brake a long time, 
but to as much purpose as though he 
had applied a rotten Apples; yet in 
the foregoing infirmities I beleeve it 
seldom fails. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is exceeding good for ill-condi- 
tioned ulcers that are hardly brought 
to close up under a very long time, 
it being of a cooling, healing, nature, 
and very drying, especially with 
Camphir in it. 
Unguentum è Nicotiona, seu Peto. Pag 
156. Latin. Or, Oyntment of 
Tobacco. 
Colledg.] Take of Tobacco Leaves 
bruised two pound, 
Steep them a whol night in red wine; in 
the morning boyl it in fresh Hogs grease, 
diligently washed, one pound, till the 
wine be consumed, 
Strain it, and add half a pound of 
Juyce of Tobacco, 
Rozin four ounces, 
Boyl it to the consumption of the juyce, 
adding towards the end, round Birth- 
wort roots in pouder, two ounces, new 
Wax as much as is sufficient to make it 
into an Oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper] It would ask a whol  
Summers day to write the particular 
Vertues of this Oyntment, and my 
poor Genius, is too weak to give it 
the hundreth part of its due praise: 
It cures Tumors, Aposthumes, 
Wounds, Ulcers, Gun-shot, Botches, 
Scabs, Itch, stinging with Nettles, 
Bees, Wasps, Hornets, Venemous 
beasts, Wounds made with-poysoned 
Arrows, &c. Tush! this is nothing 
—Paulo Majora canamus. It 
helps Scaldings though made with 
Oyl; Burnings though with Light- 
ning,, and that without any Scar; It 
helps nasty, rotten, stinking, putrifi- 
ed Ulcers, though in the Legs, whe- 
ther the humors are most subject to 
resort; in Fistulaes though the bone 
be afflicted, It shall scale it without 
any insrument, and bring up the flesh 
from the very bottom: Would you 
be fair? your face being anointed 
with this, soon wil the Redness, 
Pimples, and Sunburning vanish 
A Wound dressed with this wil never 
putrifie: a wound made with so smal 
a weapon that no tent wil follow, a-
noint but with this, & you need fear 
no danger: If your Head ake, anoint
your Temples with this,and you shal 
have ease: The Breast being a- 
nointed with it, no infirmity dares 
harbor there, no not Asthmaes, nor 
consumption of the Lungs: The 
Belly being anointed with it, helps 
the Colick and Illiack passion, the 
Worms, and whatnot! It helps the 
Hemorrhoids or Piles, and is the best 
Oyntment that is for Gouts of all 
sorts: Finally there may be as uni- 
versal a Medicine made for all disea- 
ses, of Tobacco, as of any thing in 
the world, the Philosophers stone ex- 
cepted. O Jouberous! thou shalt 
never want praise for inventing this 
Medicine, by those that use it, so 
long as the Sun and Moon endureth. 
Virtues newly added. 
The many Virtues and rare effects 
of this Oyntment do argue that To- 
bacco, however fantastically abused 
in a riotous manner,, and therefore 
by some cried down, is yet a very 
rare and soveraign plant, as the fra- 
grant and winey smel thereof when 
burnt or otherwise, if good does al- 
so testifie. And if the industrious 
Chymist did but think to try his Art 
upon it, I believe medicaments of 
very great use might be produced 
from this plant for internal Maladies 
otherwise hard to cure. I do therefore
hereby commend it to the considera- 
tion of all our ingenious English men 
that have a dexterity in the noble 
and useful Art of Chymistry, as 
a fit and promising subject to work 
upon. 
Unguentum Nutritum, seu Triphærma- 
cum. Page 156. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Litharge of Gold 
finely poudered, half a pound, 
Vinegar one pound, 
Oyl of roses two pound, 
Grind the Litharge in a Mortar, pow- 
ring to it somtimes Oyl, somtimes Vine- 
gar, till by continual stirring, the Vi- 
negar do no more appear, and it come to 
a whitish Oyntment. 
Culpeper.] It is of a cooling, dry- 
ing nature, good for itching of 
wounds, Itch and Scabs, and such 
like deformities of the Skin, as Tet- 
ters, Ringworms &c. 
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187 OYNTMENTS. 
Unguentum Ophthalmicum. Page 157. 
Or, An Oyntment for 
the Eyes. 
Colledg.] Take of Bole Armeniack
washed in Rose water, one ounce. 
Lapis calaminaris washed in Eye- 
bright water, 
Tutty prepared, of each two drams. 
Pearls in very fine pouder half a 
dram. 
Camphire half a scruple, 
Opium five grains, 
Fresh Butter washed in Plantane water, 
as much as is sufficient to make it into an 
oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good to 
stop hot rewms that fall down into 
the eyes, the eyelids being but a- 
nointed with it. 
Unguentum ex Oxylapatho. Page 157. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment of 
sharp-pointed Dock. 
Colledg.] Take of the roots of sharp- 
pointed Dock boyled in Vinegar 
untill they be soft, and then pul- 
ped. 
Brimstone washed in juyce of Lem- 
mons, of each one ounce & an half. 
Hogs grease often washed in juyce of 
Scabious, half a pound. 
Unguentum Populeon washed in 
juyce of Alicampane, half an 
ounce.  
Make them into an an Oyntment in a 
Mortar. 
Culpeper.] It is a wholsom though 
a troublesom Medicine for to cure 
Scabs and the Itch. 
Unguentum è Plumbo. Page 257. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment 
of Lead. 
Colledg.] Take of Lead burnt accor- 
dingto art, 
Litharge, of each two ounces. 
Ceruss, 
Antimony, of each one ounce. 
Oyl of Roses as much as is suffici-
ent, 
Make it into an oyntment according to 
Art. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a cooling, binding, and 
stopping faculty. It dries very much. 
It fils the cavity of the ulcers, and 
hinders the growth of proud flesh. 
It stops rhewms that fal into the eyes 
keing anointed upon the Temples. 
It is good against Ulcers, Knobs and 
Hemorrhoidal swellings in the fun- 
dament with Oyl of Roses. It is 
good for to bring a scar over an old 
sore.
Unguentum Pomatum. Page 157. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment 
of Apples. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Hogs grease, 
three pound, 
Fresh sheeps Suet nine ounces, 
Pomewaters pared and cut, one pound 
and nine ounces, 
Damask Rose-water six ounces, 
Roots of Orris Florentine grosly brui- 
sed six drams, 
Boyl them in Balneo Mariæ till the 
Apples be soft; then strain it, 
but press it not, and keep it for 
use, 
Then warm it a little again and wash it 
with fresh Rose-water, adding to each 
pound twelve drops of oyl of Lignum 
Rhodium. 
Culpeper.] Its general use is, to 
soften & supple the roughness of the 
skin, and take away the chops of the 
Lips, Hands, Face, or other parts. 
Vertues newly added 
It also whitens and smoothes the 
skin when Sun-burnt and made 
rough with the wind of the North. 
It takes spots from the face, hin- 
ders the scurse of the skin thereof, 
asswages the fierce redness and 
roughness thereof. It is very good 
against burnings if a little oyl of Wa- 
ter-lillies & Ceruss be mingled ther- 
with. Anointed upon the Forehead, 
Temples, Pulses, Stomach, and soles 
of the feet, it causes sweet sleep to 
such whose Bodies are disordered 
with Heat, Labor, and travail.  
Unguentum Potabile. Page 158. Lat. 
Or, the Inward Salve, or Oynt- 
to be taken inwardly. 
Colledg.] Take of Butter without salt, 
a pound and an half,
Sperma ceti, 
Maddir, 
Tormentil roots, 
Castorium, of each half an ounce, 
Boyl them as you ought in a sufficient 
quantity of Wine, till the Wine be con- 
symed, and become an oyntment. 
Vertues newly added. 
This was invented to be taken in- 
wardly, and therefore hath no grease 
or other nauseous material therein. 
It hath been framed to help such as 
have fallen from on high or are o- 
therwise bruised inwardly. The dose 
is half an ounce in younger, six, 
drams or an ounce in elder and stron-  
ger and larger bodies. Give it in 
Muskadine, Sack, or Spruce beer, 
hot, and let the Patient be covered 
close in his bed. 
Unguentum Resinum. Page 158. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Rozin. 
Colledg.] Take of Per-rozin, or Rozin 
of the Pine-tree, 
Of the purest Turpentine, 
Yellow Wax washed, 
Pure Oyl of each equal parts, 
Melt them into an Oyntment according 
to art.
Culpper.] It is as pretty a Cere- 
cloth for a new sprain as most is, and 
cheap. Let it not be despised, for I
have known a Gentlewoman in Sus- 
sex do much good with it. 
Unguentum Rosatum. Page 158. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment
of Roses. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Hogs grease 
clensed a pound, 
Fresh red Roses half a pound, 
Juyce of the same three ounces. 
Make it into an oyntment according to
Art. 
Culpeper.] In their former Dispen- 
satory (which I like best) it was 
thus:  
Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease well 
clensed from the skin a pound. 
Wash it nine times in warm water, then 
as often in cold water, 
Fresh red Roses a pound, 
Mix them together, and so let them 
stand seven daies; then boyl them over 
a gentle fire, and strain out the Roses, 
then mix with the Oyntment the like 
quantity of fresh red Roses, and then let 
them stand together as many daies, then 
strain them out having first boyled them; 
at last add juyce of red Roses six ounces; 
boyl them over a gentle fire till the juyce 
be consumed, then strain it, and make an 
Oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper.] You need do no more 
than let it stand til it is cold, and you 
shal see it is an Oyntment alone 
without any further making. It is 
of a fine cooling nature, exceeding 
useful in all gaulings of the skin, and 
frettings, accompanied with chole- 
rick humors, angry pushes, Tetters, 
Ringworms; it mitigates diseases 
in the head coming of heat, as also 
the intemperate heat of the stomach 
and Liver. 
Desiccativum Rubrum. Page 155. Lat. 
Or, the red Dryer. 
Colledg.] Take of the oyl of Roses om- 
phacine a pound. 
White wax five ounces. 
Which being melted and put in a leæ-
den mortar,
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Put in Earth of Lemnos or bole Ar- 
menick, 
Lapis calaminaris, of each four oun- 
ces. 
Litharge of Gold,  
Ceruss, of each three ounces. 
Camphir one dram. 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It binds and restrains 
fluxes of Humors, and is as gallant 
an oyntment to skin a sore as any is 
in the Dispensatory. 
Vertues newly added. 
It cools, strengthens, hinders 
the coming in of humors into 
a sore part, and it prevents ill ac- 
cidents (as the Chirurgeons use to 
say) it heals up Wounds and ulcers, 
the rather because it digests consu- 
mes and dries up excrementitious 
moistures. 
Unguentum é Solano. Page 158. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Night- 
shade. 
Colledg.] Take of juyce of Night- 
shade, 
Litharge washed, of each five ounces. 
Ceruss washed eight ounces. 
White wax seven ounces. 
Frankincense in pouder ten drams. 
Oyl of Roses often washed in water 
two pound. 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Culpeper. It was invented to take 
away inflamations from wounds, and 
to keep people from scratching of 
them when they are almost well.
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a very cooling nature and 
and drying. It is good for St. An- 
thonies fire so called. It is good a- 
gainst Head-ach proceeding from an 
hot cause, being, anointed upon the 
Forehead, Temples, Pulses and soles 
of the Feet. Also it is good to pro- 
cure sleep, anointed as aforesaid. 
It allaies the motions of carnal lust, 
being smeared upon the Cods and 
the Reins of the back, and hinders 
nocturnal pollutions. 
Unguentum Tutiæ. Page. 158. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Tutty. 
Colledg.] Take of Tutty prepared, 
two ounces, 
Lapis Calaminaris often burnt and 
quenched an ounce, 
Make them being finely poudered into 
an oyntment with a pound and an half 
of oyntment of Roses. 
Culpeper.] It is a cooling, drying 
Oyntment, appropriated to the eyes, 
dries up hot & salt humors that flow 
down thither, the eye-lids being a- 
nointed with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment being mingled 
with an equal quantity of Diapom- 
pholigos is more effectual to the In- 
tents aforesaid, and the best way to 
use the same, besides anointing the 
corners of the eyes in the day time,is 
to spred a quantity upon two linnen 
cloaths and to lay them over the 
eyes at night when the Patient lyes 
down to sleep. For so it cools the 
inflamed eyes and powerfully drives 
back the Humors which flow into 
them. In the morning let the patient 
wash off the oyntment with white 
Rose-water. 
Ualentia Scabiosæ. Page 159. Latin 
Or, Oyntment of Scabious. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of green 
Scabious pressed out with a screw, 
and framed through a cloth, 
Hogs grease, of each as much as you 
will. 
Beat the hogs grease in a stone mortar, 
(not grind it) putting in the juyce by de- 
grees for the more commodious mixture 
and tincture: afterwards set it in the sun 
in a convenient vessel, so as the juyce 
may over-top the grease: nine daies be-  
ing passed, power off the discolored juyce, 
and heat it again as before, putting in 
fresh juyce set it in the Sun again five 
daies, which being elapsed,beat it again, 
putting in more juyce; after fifteen daies 
more, do so again; do so five times; af- 
ter which, keep it in a glass, or glazed 
vessell. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Medicament is called Valen- 
tia Scabiosæ, that is to say the effica- 
cy and activity of the herb scabious 
so called, because it can powerfullly 
produce all the effects of that herb, 
as far as concernes external applica- 
tion. It is excellent against all scabs, 
Itch and mangyness. It helps the 
Lungs being stuffed with thick and 
flegmatick excrements being anoin- 
ted upon the region of the Chest. It 
is excellent against pestilential swel- 
lings and carbuncles, which it will 
cure in three or four daies space, with 
a little Camphir mingled therewith 
it is good against Morphews and 
Freckles, Tetters, Ringworms, and 
white Filmes that grow over the 
Eyes. It is good to anoint Ulcers 
proceeding from the venereal Dis- 
ease. The Inventer or first promulga- 
tor at least, of this and the two fol- 
lowing Medicaments was one Mr. 
John Arderne, an experienced Chi- 
rurgeon in the famous old Town of 
Newarke upon Trent, who flourish- 
ed in the year 1370 in the reign of 
Edward the third of that Name, King 
of England. Observe that the Ver- 
tue, of any other excellent Herb, as 
Comfrey, Ladies-mantle, Al-heal, 
St. Johns wort &c. may after the 
same manner be communicated to 
Hogs grease, and so made into an 
Oyntment. 
Tapsivalentia. Page 159, Latin Or, 
and Tapsimel of the same 
Author. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Mul- 
len, 
Hogs grease, of each as much as you 
will. 
Let the grease be clensed and cut in pie- 
ces, and beat it with the juyce, pressed and 
strained, as you did the former oyntment: 
then keep it in a convenient vessel nine 
or ten daies; then beat it twice, once with 
fresh juyce, until it be green, and the se- 
cond time without juyce, powring off what 
is discolored, and keep it for use. 
Tapsimel. Page 159. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Sul- 
lendine and Mulleh, of each one 
part. 
Clarified honey, two parts. 
Boyl them by degrees til the juyce be con- 
sumed, adding (the Physitian prescrib- 
ing) Vitriol burnt, Allum burnt, Ink, 
and boyl it again to an oyntment accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper.] When you are troubled 
With the Itch, put a little Tapsimel 
up your Fundament, and the itching 
will presenly cease. 
Vertues newly added. 
Tapsivalentia is as much as to say 
the virtue and efficacy of the Herb 
Tapsus barbatus or true Mullein, and 
Tapsimel is the Honey of mullein or 
Tapsus. 
Being applied to hard swellings 
they ease the pain and further the 
Cure. They stop a looseness, especi- 
ally the former being smeared upon 
the Belly, and and melted the quan- 
tity of an ounce or two in a conve- 
nient Clyster, also they ease the 
bloody flux, applied as aforesaid, es- 
pecially the Tapsivalentia. It is al- 
so good against the simple Gonor- 
rhæ smeared upon the Loins and 
Cods. Tapsimel is thought to bring 
down maidens Courses smeared on 
the sols of their Feet. It is good for 
a cough of the Lungs, (I mean the 
tapsimel simple without the addition 
of burnt vitriol, Allum or Ink) be- 
ing licked with a stick of Licorice. 
And the Tapsivalentia is good for 
the same, being smeared upon the 
Chest. The tapsimel simple as afore- 
said is good for the falling sickness 
being frequently licked in a morning 
fasting, and in an evening about four 
a clock afternoon. Tapsivalentia is 
good against the piles being smeared 
upon the place after universal Reme- 
dies. 
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OYNTMENTS 
more compound. 
Unguentum Agrippæ. Page 160. Lat. 
Or, King Agrippa his Oynt- 
ment. 
Colledg. TAke of Briony roots two 
pound. 
Roots of wild Cucummers one pound. 
Squils half a pound. 
Fresh English Orris Roots, three oun- 
ces. 
Roots of male Fern, 
Dwarf Elder, 
Water Caltrops, or Arron, of 
each two ounces. 
Bruise them all being fresh, and steep 
them six or seven daies in four found of 
old oyl, the whitest not rank. 
Then boyl them and press them out, and 
in the oyl melt fifteen ounces of white 
wax, and make it into an oyntment ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] It purgeth exceeding- 
ly, and is good to anoint the Bellies 
of such as have dropsies; and if there 
be any humor of flegm in any part of 
the body that you know not how to 
remove (provided the part be not 
too tender) you may anoint it with 
this; but yet be not too busie with 
it, for I tel you plainly 'tis not very 
safe. 
Vertues newly added. 
This oyntment hath its name from 
King Agrippa as is conceived, either 
because he was the Inventor, or ra- 
ther because it was invented by his 
Physitians for his use, and proveing 
effectual, merited to be renowned by 
his Name. 
It is good for watry Tumors and 
loose heaveings of the skin and ex- 
ternal parts, and against cramps of 
the Nerves, for such as are pained in 
their kidneys. Being anointed upon 
the Belly it causes a stool, allaies the 
Strangury, helps the Spleen, and 
pains of the belly, being anointed u- 
pon the Region of the respective 
parts. 
Unguentum de Alabastro. Page 160. 
Latin Or, Oyntment of 
Alabaster. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Chamo- 
mel four ounces. 
Juyce of red Roses, 
Marsh-mallow Roots of each two 
ounces.
Juyce of Rue, and  
Bettony, of each an ounce and an 
half.
Oyl of Roses omphacine, a pound 
and half. 
Alabaster in very fine pouder three 
ounces. 
Mix them, and let them alone till the 
next day; then boyl them til the juyce be 
consumed, then with six ounces of white 	
wax, make it into an Oyntment according 
to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment is good for all 
sorts of Head-ach, whether arising 
from some primary disorder of the 
Head, or by consent with some other 
part, with and without a Feaver, at 
al times of the diseases save only the 
Beginning. Anoint it upon the fore- 
head, Temples, in the nostrils, upon 
the pulses, sols of the Feet and the 
Testicles. It is also good to asswage 
pain in any other part of the Bo- 
dy.
Unguentum Amarum. Page 160. 
Lat. Or, the bitter Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Rue, 
Savin, 
Mints, 
Wormwood, 
Bitter Almonds, of each one ounce 
and an half. 
Juyce of Peach flowers and leaves, 
Wormwood, of each half an ounce, 
Pouder of Rue, 
Mints, 
Centaury the less,
Gentian, 
Tormentil, of each one dram. 
Seeds of Coleworts, 
Pulp of colocynthis, of each two 
drams.
Aloes Hepatick, three drams. 
Meal of Lupines half an ounce. 
Mirrh washed in grass water a dram 
and an half. 
Bulls gall an ounce and an half. 
With a sufficient quantity of juyce of 
Lemons, and an ounce and an half of  
wax, make it into an Oyntment accor- 
ding to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This oyntment was childishly ter- 
med the bitter oyntment, since nei- 
ther this nor other oyntments are in- 
tended to be eaten and al are alike 
sweet to the skin and outward parts 
of the Body. 
It is of a heating, drying, purge- 
ing nature, and the simples agree ve- 
ry exceeding wel together, though 
Culpeper wanted intellectual specta- 
cles to see their agreement. It is ve- 
ry effectual to kill and drive out 
worms being anointed upon the bel- 
ly and stomach. Also it purges wa- 
ter out of the Belly, opens obstructi- 
ons of the Liver and Spleen, moves 
urine, brings away the dead child a- 
nointed on the region of the Womb, 
and brings down the stopped Cour- 
ses. 
Unguentum Apostolorum. Page 161.  
Latin Or, Oyntment of 
The Apostles. 
Colledg.] Take of Turpentine, 
Yellow wax, 
Rozin, 
Ammoniacum, of each fourteen 
drams. 
Long Birthwort roots, 
Olibanum, 
Bdellium, of each half an ounce, 
Mirrh, 
Galbanum, of each half an ounce. 
Opopanax,
Vert-de-greece, of each two drams. 
Litharge nine drams, 
Oyl two pound. 
Vinegar enough to dissolve the gums, 
Make it into an Oyntment according to
art. 
Culpeper.] It consumes corrupt 
and dead flesh, and makes flesh soft 
which is hard; it clenseth wounds, 
ulcers, and fistulaes, and restores flesh 
where it is wanting. 
Vertues, newly added. 
This Oyntment being acknow- 
ledged to be of the Invention of A-
vicenna the Arabian Physitian and 
Prince; is called the Apostles oynt- 
ment because of the twelve ingredi- 
ents, as if the Apostles had consulted 
to make a rare oyntment and every 
one had put in his Ingredient. In a 
like sense the Symbolum Apostolorum, 
Apostles Club or Creed so called, 
hath had its Name as if the twelve 
Apostles had every one brought an 
Article and so clubbed to the com- 
position of that creed, or descripsiti- 
on of a Christians faith, whereas the 
Apostles were no more I conceive 
Authors of that creed then of this 
Oyntment. But the Excellency of 
the one and other may justly merit 
such an Appellation as, great Moun- 
tains in the old Testament and great 
cedars are called cedars of God and 
Mountains of God by the holy pen- 
men, without any imputation of blas- 
phemy or undecency, but rather with 
all honourable acknowledgment of 
the greatness of God. So to call this 
the Oyntment of the Apostles, and a- 
nother medicament cordial, Manus 
Christi, favours more of honour and 
adoration of Christ and his worthy 
Messengers, then otherwise. And he 
that called an approved excellent
Plaister Gratia Dei, the grace of 
God, did thereby piously and thank- 
fully acknowledg that the virtue of 
that Plaister as of al other things did 
spring from God, and that it was of 
his meet grace and favour to aid the 
Invention and Application thereof 
with his Blessing. Likewise he that 
finding the soveraigne refreshment 
and comfort of wood sorrel in a burn- 
ing Feaver, called it Hallelu-jah, 
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190 OYNTMENTS. 
Praise the Æternal, was a pious per- 
son, and exceedingly to be commen- 
ded, which I speak to shew the Im- 
pertinency of Mr. Culpepers quarrel- 
ling with these Names. He might as 
wel quarrel with the famous Patri- 
arch Jacob for anointing a stone and 
calling it the house of God, and for 
building an Altar and calling it El- 
Elohe-Israel, God the God of Israel. 
This oyntment hath bin frequent- 
ly used against wounds, ulcers hard 
to cure, fistulons ulcers that run hol- 
low and sloapeing with turnings and 
windings; it helps foul and fillthy 
ulcers, purges, dries and clenses them, 
it eates out the putrefaction and re- 
stores the flesh, it softens hardness, 
and cures stripes. 
Unguentum Aregon. Page 161. Lat. 
Or, the Helpful Oynt- 
ment. 
Colledg.] Take of Rosemary, 
Marjoram, 
Mother of Time, 
Rue, 
Roots of Aron, 
Wild Cucumers, of each four ounces 
and an half. 
Leaves of Bay, 
Sage, 
Savin, 
Briony roots, of each three ounces, 
Fleabane, 
Laurel, of each nine ounces. 
Leaves of wild cucumers, 
Nep, of each half a pound. 
Let all of them, being gathered in May, 
clensed and bruised, be steeped seven 
daies in six pound of Sallet Oyl, and a 
pound of spirit of Wine, boyl them gent- 
ly till the spirit be consumed, then strain 
the Oyl, in which melt 
Wax sixteen ounces, 
Bears grease, 
Oyl of Bays, of each three ounces. 
Moschelæum half an ounce. 
Peter oyl an ounce. 
Butter four ounces. 
Stir them, and put in these following 
things in pouder 
Mastich, 
Olibanum, of each seven drams. 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Euphorbium, 
Ginger, 
Pepper, of each an ounce. 
Make them into an Oyntment according 
to art.
Culpeper.] It mightily digesteth 
and maketh thin, and that not with- 
out some purging quality, and is ve- 
ry commodious against cold afflicti- 
ons of the Body, but especially of the 
sinews, convulsions, falling-sickness 
pains of the joynts, and great guts.
Virtues newly added. 
It is called the helpful Oyntment.  
from its manyfold uses and good e-
ffects. It is one of the four hot oynt- 
ments so called by way of eminency. 
It helps al cold diseases of the Body, 
as Palsies, Convulsions, Cramps, 
Stifness of the whol body, distention 
of the Nerves or sinewes; being a- 
nointed upon the seams of the Head, 
the nape of the Neck, the whol back- 
bone, and especially upon the ori- 
ginal of the Nerves that serve to 
move the part affected, also it may be 
smeared upon the affected part. If 
a quantity be melted and mingled 
with rectified spirit of Wine and so 
chased in before a fire of oak chips 
it wil be more effectual. It helps the 
pains of the back-bone and kidneys, 
as also the pains of the colick, being 
smeared upon the Belly. It is also good 
against all pains of the stomach and 
belly whatsoever, and against cold 
diseases of the womb. It helps quar- 
tan Agues anointed upon the Back- 
bone and pulses, half an hour before 
the expected Fit. It is also good to 
abate the shakeing fits of tertian A- 
gues anointed as beforesaid. It helps 
the falling sickness, seasonably admi- 
nistred, being smeared upon the head 
the Nape of the Neck, and the back- 
bone. It is also good against pains 
of the Joynts; and it is frequently 
used to anoint the scabs which arise 
from the venereal Disease.
Unguentum de Artanita. Page 162. 
Latin Or, Oyntment of 
Sow-bread. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Sow- 
bread, or for want of it, 
Strong Decoction of the roots, three 
pound. 
Juyce of wild Cucumers, 
Heifers butter, of each a pound. 
Oyl of orris two pound. 
Pulp of coloquintida four ounces. 
Polypodium six ounces. 
Euphorbium half an ounce. 
The things to be bruised being bruised, 
let them be steeped in a glazed Vessell 
close shut eight daies, afterwards boyled 
in a double veffel till the Juyce be almost 
consumed, then press it out and dissolve 
in the liquor 
Yellow wax five ounces, 
Whilst it is warm mix with it 
Sagapen dissolved in Vinegar, 
Bulls gall boyled in a bath to the 
thickness of honey, of each an 
ounce. 
Then put in these things following in 
pouder. 
Scammony, 
Turbith,
Coloquintida, 
Berries or leaves of Mezereon, 
Aloes, of each seven drams. 
Sal. gem half an ounce. 
Euphorbium, 
Long Pepper, 
Mirrh, 
Ginger, 
Chamomel Flowers, of each three 
drams. 
Make them into an Oyntment according 
to art. 
Culpper.] The Stomach being a- 
nointed with it, it purgeth by vomit, 
the Belly anointed with it, it purgeth 
by stool: The truth is, it is a despe- 
rate kind of purge, yet I hold it as 
fitting as can be to anoint the bellies 
of such as have Dropsies, because I 
conceive it especially purgeth water, 
and the water in Dropsies lies neer 
the skin. 
Vertues newly added. 
This was invented to accomodate 
such as through niceness or weak- 
ness are not able to take purgatives 
by the mouth. It is reported to help 
such as have the Dropsie, very much, 
being anointed upon their Bellies 
below the Navel, because it plenti- 
fully purges out the wheyish Excre- 
ment which causes that disease also it 
kils worms and drives them forth. 
If you would thereby cause Vomit- 
ing, anoint it from the Navel up- 
wards as far as to the pit of the Sto- 
mach. 
Unguentum Catapsoras Page 162. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment against the 
Maunge and Scabs.
Colledg.] Take of Ceruss washed in 
Purslain water, then in vinegar 
wherein wild Radish roots have 
been steeped and pressed out, 
Lapis Calaminaris, 
Chalcitis, of each six drams. 
Burnt Lead,  
Goats blood, of each half an ounce. 
Quick-silver sublimated an ounce. 
Juyce of Housleek, 
Nightshade, 
Plantane, of each two ounces. 
Hogs grease clensed three pound, 
Oyl of Violets, 
Poppies, 
Mandrakes, of each an ounce. 
First let the Sublimate and Exungia, then 
the Oyls, Juyces, and Pouders, 
be mixed, and 
So made into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Vertues newly added 
It is effectual against all Scabs, 
Maunginess, and such like deformi- 
ties of the Skin, being anointed 
thereupon. It wil qualifie a fierce 
pimpled and rubied face. 
It wil stop the Gonorrhæa anoin- 
ted upon the Back, where the Kid- 
neys are quartered, and upon the Te-
sticles, and asswage bodily lust and 
carnal desires. Yet there is some 
danger therein, in regard of the 
Quick-silver And therefore it must not 
be anointed rashly on the back-bone, 
whence the Nerves are derived. 
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191 OYNTMENTS. 
Unguentum Citrinum. Page 163. Lat. 
Or, The Citron Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of Borax an ounce. 
Camphir a dram. 
White Coral half an ounce.
Allum Plume an ounce. 
Umbilicus Marinus, Tragacanth, 
White Starch, of each three drams. 
Christal, 
Dentalis, 
Etalis, 
Olibanum, 
Niter,
White Marble, of each two drams. 
Gersa Serpentaria an ounce. 
Ceruss six ounces. 
Hogs grease not salted, a pound and 
an half. 
Goats-suet prepared, an ounce and an 
half.
Hens fat two ounces and an half. 
Pouder the things as you ought to do 
both together, and by themselves, melt 
the fats being clensed in a stone vessell, 
and steep in them two Citrons of a mean 
bigness cut in bits, in a warm bath. After 
a whol week strain it, and put in the pou- 
ders by degrees, amongst which let the 
Camphir and Borax be the last, stir them 
and bring them into the form of an 
Oynment 
Culpeper.] It takes away pimples, 
redness, freckles, and other deformi- 
ties of the Face, scabs in any part of 
the body; it takes away the redness 
of the Eyes, and makes a rough skin 
smooth. 
Anoint a freckled Face either with 
the blood of a Bull or of a Hart, it 
wil put away the Freckles, and make 
the skin cleer. 
Unguentum Comitissœ. Page 163. Lat. 
Or, The Countesses Oynt- 
ment. 
Colledg.] Take of the middle bark of
Acorns,
Chestnuts, 
Oaks, 
Beans, 
Berries of Mirtles, 
Horstail, 
Galls,
Grape stones, 
Unripe Services and Medlars dried, 
Leaves of Sloe-tree,
Roots of Bistort, 
Tormentil, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Bruise them grosly, and boyl them in ten 
pound of Plantane water til half be con- 
sumed, then take 
New yellow Wax eight ounces and an 
half. 
Oyl of Mirtles simple two pound and 
an half. 
Melt them and wash them nine times 
in the aforesaid Decoction,
Being washed and melted put in 
these following pouders 
Middle bark of Acorns, 
Chestnuts, 
Oak. 
Galls, 
Juyce of Hypocistis, 
Ashes of the bone of an Ox Leg, 
Mirtle berries, 
Unripe Grape stones, 
Unripe Services, of each half an 
ounce.
Troches of Amber two ounces. 
With Oyl of Mastich so much as is suf- 
ficient, 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It seems in my Eyes a 
gallant binding Oyntment, compo- 
sed neatly by a judicious brain. The 
belly and Reins being anointed with 
it, it staies Abortion or Miscarriage 
in Women though already begun; it 
strengthens weak backs exceedingly, 
and stops the immoderate flowing of 
the Terms and Hemorrhoids, and fal- 
ling out of the Fundament and 
womb: Finally, for every occasion 
that requires binding, I would if I 
were Eloquent, commend it in the 
Superlative degree. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment was invented for 
the use of a Countess to the Intents 
aforesaid, and thence it had its name. 
Unguentum Martiatum. Page 164. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Bay leaves 
three pound. 
Garden Rue two pound and an half. 
Marjoram two pound. 
Mints a pound. 
Sage, 
Wormwood, 
Costmary, 
Bazil, of each half a pound. 
Sallet oyl twenty pound. 
Yellow wax four pound. 
Mallego wine two pound. 
Of all of them being bruised, boyled, and 
pressed out as they ought, make an oynt- 
ment according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is a great strengthe- 
ner of the head, it being anointed 
with it; as also of all the parts of 
the body, especially the Nerves, mus- 
cles, and arteries. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good for all cold diseases of 
the body and parts thereof, for cold 
distempers of the Head, to cure pains 
of the Chest, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, 
arising from cold humors. It helps 
Convulsions, Palsies, tremblings of 
the hands, the Sciatica or Hip-gout, 
it softens all hard Tumors, especially 
those of the Spleen. It is a tried 
medicament for splenatick and hy- 
dropical persons. It takes away 
black and blew spots upon the skin 
arising from blows. It discusses col-
swellings of the Nerves and Joynts, 
and asswages their pains. It must be 
anointed upon, and chased into the 
respective parts, in the Sun or before 
the fire. 
Uuguentum Mastichinum. Page 164. 
Latin. Or, An Oyntmeut 
of Mastich. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Mastich, 
Wormwood, and 
Nard, of each an ounce. 
Mastich, 
Mints, 
Red Roses, 
Red Coral, 
Cloves, 
Cinnamon, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Squinanth, of each one dram. 
Wax as much as is suffcient to make it 
into an oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper.] This is like the former, 
and not a whit inferior to it; it 
strengthens the stomach being a- 
nointed with it, restores appetite and 
digestion. 
Vertues newly added. 
Anointed upon the belly it is good 
against Loosnesses and Dysenteries. 
Smeared upon the Reins it helps to 
stop the Gonorrhæa, and overplenti- 
ful pissing. Anointed upon the sto- 
mach it staies Vomitings. It reme- 
dies the thinness, Indigestion, and 
unfruitfulness of the seed, being 
smeared upon the Cods. Anointed 
upon the seams of the Head and nape, 
of the Neck, it stops defluxions of 
Rhewm, Strengthens the memory 
and other internal senses. And it 
strengthens the whol body being a- 
nointed upon the whol back-bone 
from the neck to the crupper. 
Unguentum Nepolitanum. Page 165. 
Latin. Or, The Oyntment a- 
gainst the Neapolitan or 
Venereal Pox. 
Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease wash-
ed in juyce of Sage a pound, 
Quick-silver strained through Lea- 
ther, killed with spittle, four oun-
ces, 
Oyl of Bays, 
Chamomel and 
Earthworms, of each two ounces. 
Spirit of Wine an ounce, 
Yellow Wax two ounces. 
Turpentine washed in juyce of Eli- 
campane three ounces, 
Pouder of Chamepytis and 
Sage, of each two drams. 
Make them into an oyntment according 
to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
The use of this Oyntment, is to a- 
noint

192 OYNTMENTS. 
noint the bodies of Persons infected 
with the Venereal disease, to cause 
that kind of evacuation which is 
known by the name of fluxing. But 
it is not to be used without necessity, 
and after the body has been first well 
purged. A true Artist will cure this 
disease timely taken, without fluxing 
which is a dangerous Practice, under 
which the patients somtimes perish, 
and which at the best leaves the bo- 
dy extreamly disordered and cache- 
ctical: though Empericks and Em- 
perical Surgeons do hand over head, 
use the same to make quick work, 
and by abating the symptomes, to 
perswade the Patient that the disease 
is cured, minding more their own 
gain then the real good of the poor 
Patient, the Remedy many times 
proving as bad as the Disease. 
Unguemum Nervinum. Page 165. 
Latin. The Nerve or Sinew- 
Oyntment. 
Colledg.] Take of Cowslips with the 
flowers,
Sage, 
Chamepytis, 
Rosemary, 
Lavender, 
Bay with the berries, 
Chamomel, 
Rue, 
Smallage, 
Mellilot with the flowers, 
Wormwood of each a handful. 
Mints, 
Betony, 
Peniroyal, 
Parsley, 
Centaury the less, 
St. Johns wort, of each half a hand- 
ful. 
Oyl of Sheeps or Bullocks feet, five 
pound. 
Oyl of Spike half an ounce, 
Sheeps or Bullocks suet, or the Mar- 
row of either, two pound, 
The herbs being bruised and boyled with 
the Oyl and Suet, make it into an Oynt- 
ment according to art. 
Cupleper.] It is appropriated to 
the Nerves, and helps their Infirmi- 
ties coming of cold (which you may 
find often enough related, I do not 
love alwaies to harp upon the same 
string) as also old bruises; make 
use of it in dead palsies, chilliness or 
coldness of particular members, such 
as the Arteries perform not their of- 
fice to as they ought; for wind a- 
noint your belly with it; for want 
of digestion, your stomach; for the 
colick, your belly; for whatever dis- 
ease in any part of the body comes 
of cold, esteem of this as a Jewel, 
and you shal give me thanks for de- 
claring it, after you have been thank- 
ful to God for raising me up to that 
end. 
Vertues newly added. 
To strengthen the Nerves and 
Joynts anoint it upon the seames or 
futures of the Head, upon the nape 
of the Neck and all along the Back- 
bone, upon the stomach and soles of 
the feet. It is also good for cold 
diseases of the Liver, Spleen and 
Womb, anointed upon the respective 
regions of those parts. Anointed 
upon the Kidneys it wil more Urine 
and strengthen the Back. 
Unguentum Pectorale, Page 165. 
Latin. The Pectoral or Breast- 
Oyntment. 
Colledg. Take of fresh Butter washed 
in Violet Water six ounces, 
Oyl of sweet Almonds four ounces, 
Oyl of Chamomel and Violets, 
White wax of each three ounces. 
Hens and Ducks grease, of each two 
ounces. 
Orris roots two drams. 
Saffron half a dram, 
The two last being finely poudered, the 
rest melted and often washed in Barley 
or Hysop water, make an Oyntment of 
them according to art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Breast
and Stomach, easeth the pains there- 
of, helps Pleurisies and Consumpti- 
ons of the Lungs, the breast being a- 
nointed with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
It wil asswage the pains of any part 
of the body, as wel as of the breast. 
It is good also in clysters against the 
Dysentery or bloody flux, and epi- 
demical griping of the guts, which 
common people call the Plague of 
the Guts. 
Unguentum Populneum. Page 166. 
Latin. Or, Oyntment of 
Poplar-buds. 
Colledg.] Take of fresh Poplar buds 
one pound and an half, 
Flowers of Violets and 
Navel wort of the wall, of each 
three ounces. 
Fresh Hogs grease three pound, 
All of them being beaten together, in 
May let them stand a while, add 
Tops of Barberries, 
Leaves of black Poppies, 
Mandrake, 
Henbane, 
Nightshade,  
Lettice, 
Housleek great and smal, 
Burs the greater, of each three oun- 
ces. 
Beat them all together, and all of them 
being mixed, after ten daies with a pound 
of Rose water, boyl it til all the superstu- 
ous humidity be consumed; then strain 
it and press it out that it may it be an oynt- 
ment according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is exceeding good 
in burnings and scaldings, and In- 
flamations; it asswageth the heat of 
the head and Kidneys; the temples 
being anointed with it. It provokes 
sleep. 
Vertues newly added. 
Mingled with Oyl of Roses, or Vi- 
olets, or both, it is good in Fevers to
asswage the burning heat, being a- 
nointed upon the Back-bone, the 
Pulses, Temples and soles, of the 
feet. It stops the Gonorrhæa anoin- 
ted upon the Back, Share, and Cods. 
Unguentum Resumptivum. Page 166. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease three 
ounces 
Grease of Hens, 
Geese and 
Ducks, of each two ounces. 
Oesipus half an ounce, 
Oyl of Violets, 
Chamomel, and 
Dill of each two ounces. 
Fresh Butter a pound, 
White Wax six ounces, 
Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, 
Arabick, 
Quince seeds, 
Linseeds, 
Marshmallow roots, of each half an 
ounce. 
Let the Mucilages be made in Rose-wa- 
ter, and adding the rest, make it into an 
oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper.] It mightily mollifies 
without any manifest heat, and is 
therefore a fit Oyntment for such as 
have Agues, Asthmaes, Hectick Fea- 
vers, or Consumptions. It is a gal- 
lant Oyntment to ease pains coming 
by inflammations of wounds or A- 
posthumes, especially such as driness 
accompanies, an infirmity wounded 
people are many times troubled 
with. In inward Aposthumes (as 
Pleurisies is one of them) to anoint 
the external region of the part, is ve- 
ry beneficial.
Unguentum Splanchnicum. Page 166. 
Latin. Or, the Oyntment for 
the Liver and Spleen. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of cappars an 
ounce, 
Oyl of white Lillies, 
Chamomel, 
Fresh Butter, 
Juyce of Briony and Sowbread, of 
each half an ounce. 
Boyl it to the consumption of the juyce, ad 
Ammononiacum dissolved in Vinegar, 
two drams and half. 
Hens grease, 
Oesypus, 
Marrow of a Calfs Leg, of each half 
an ounce. 
pouder

193 OYNTMENTS. 
Pouder of the bark of the Roots of Ta- 
maris and Cappars, 
Fern roots, 
Cetrach, of each a dram. 
Seeds of Agnus castus, 
Broom, of each a scruple. 
With a sufficient quantity of wax. 
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
Vertues newly added. 
These Oyntments open obstructi- 
ons of the Liver and Spleen, dry up 
superfluous Humors, and are good 
for to anoint the sides of Children 
that thrive not, and which have the 
Rickets. 
Unguentum Splanchnicum Magistrale. 
Page 167. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the bark of capper 
Roots six drams. 
Briony Roots, 
Orris Florentine, 
Pouder of sweet Fennel seed, 
Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar, 
of each half an ounce. 
Tops of wormwood, 
Chamomel flowers, of each a dram. 
Oyntment of the juyce and of flowers 
of Orrenges, of each six drams. 
Oyl of Orris and Cappars, of each an 
ounce and an half. 
The things which ought being poudered 
and sifted; the rest diligently mixed in 
a hot morter 
Make it into an oyntment according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] There are some that 
cannot abide Oyntments, yet can ea- 
sily bear Plaisters: therefore when 
occasion is given, you may make up 
the Oyntment in forme of a Plaister, 
by adding a little Wax, Ship-pitch, 
Cyperus, Turpentine. Both these,
Oyntments are appropriated to the 
spleen, and ease the pains thereof, the 
sides being anointed with them. I 
fancy not the former. 
Unguentum é Succis. Page 167. Lat.
Or, Oyntment of Juyces. 
Colledg.] Take of juyce of Dwarf-el-
der eight ounces,
Smallage and Parslly, each of four
ounces.
Wormwood and Orris, of each five
ounces.
Common oyl half a pound.
Oyl of white Lillies ten ounces.
Wormwood,
Chamomel, of each six ounces.
Fat of Ducks, and
Hens, of each two ounces.
Boyl them together with a gentle fire til
the juyces be consumed, then strain
it, and with,
White wax, seven ounces.
And a little white Vinegar.
Make it into an Oyntment according to 
art. 
See Unguentum ex Succis
Aperitivis.
Vertues newly added. 
This oyntment also opens obstru- 
ctions of the Liver and spleen. It is 
good against the Dropsie and Cache- 
xy, anointed upon the region of the 
Liver and Spleen, and the Reins of 
the Back. 
Unguentum Sumach. Pags 168. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of Sumach. 
Colledg.] Take of Sumach, 
Unripe Galls, 
Mirtle berries, 
Balaustines, 
Pomegranate pills, 
Acorn cups, 
Cypress nuts, 
Acacia, 
Mastich, of each ten drams. 
White wax five ounces. 
Oyl of Roses often washed in Allum 
water, a pound and ten ounces. 
Make a fine pouder of the things you 
can, and steep them four whol daies in 
juyce of Medlars and unripe Services, 
of each a sufficient quantity, then dry 
them by a gentle fire, and with Oyl and 
Wax boyl it into an Oyntment. 
Culpeper.] It is a gallant drying 
and binding Oyntment, my former 
Rules will shew you what it’s good 
for, be studious, be studious: Besides, 
the stomach anointed with it, staies 
Vomiting, and the belly anointed 
with it staies Loosness: If the Fun- 
dament fal out, when you have put 
it up again anoint it with this oynt- 
ment, and it wil fal out no more. Do 
the like by the womb if that fal out. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment hath its Name 
from a principal Ingredient being of 
a binding, drying Nature. It is good 
to stop the courses being anointed u- 
pon the region of the Womb, and it 
hinders defluxions from the Head a- 
nointed upon the Sutures the Fore- 
head and Temples, and it stops the 
tooth-ach used in the same manner. 
It is good to anoint upon Ruptures. 
OYNTMENTS 
left out in this 
Dispensatory. 
Oyntment of Marsh-mallows, com- 
pound. 
Colledg. TAke of Marsh-mallow 
Roots two pound. 
Seeds of Flax and
Fœnugreek, of each one pound. 
Pulp of Squils half a pound. 
Oyl four pound. 
Wax one pound. 
Turpentine,
Gum of Ivy, 
Galbanum, of each two ounces. 
Colophonia, 
Rozin, of each half a pound, 
Let the Roots be well washed and brui- 
sed, as also the Linseed, Fœnugreek seed, 
and Squils; then steep them three daies 
in eight pints of water, the fourth day 
boyl them a little upon the fire, and draw 
out the Mucilage, of which take two 
pound, and boyl it with the Oyl to the 
consumption of the juyce: afterwards ad 
the Wax, Rozin, and Colophonia: when 
they are melted, add the Turpentine, af- 
wards the Galbanum and Gum of Ivy, 
dissolved in Vinegar: boyl them a little, 
and having removed them from the fire, 
stir them till they are cold, that so they 
may be well incorporated. 
Culpeper.] They both (viz. this 
and the former) heat and moisten : 
the latter helps pains of the breasts 
coming of cold, and Pleurisies, old 
aches, and stitches, and softens hard 
Swellings. 
Venues newly added. 
This Oyntment is of much use to 
soften, heat and moisten. It cures 
pains of the Breast arising from cold, 
and is excellent good against al pains 
in the sides. By it self or mixed with 
butter it softens the hardness of the 
Liver and Spleen, and discusses win- 
dy swellings of the stomach. It is 
good against hardness and weakness 
of the Nerves, and sodders them to- 
gether when they are cut in sunder. 
It closes wounds. It helps palsied 
Members and all parts over cooled, 
especially the bladder; being anoin- 
ted before the fire. It stops the shake- 
ing fits of Agues anointed upon the 
back-bone half an hour before the 
time of the expected Fit. It softens, 
lenisies, is of a concoctive, cutting and 
digestive Faculty.  
Unguentum Diapompholigos. Or, 
Oyntment of Pompholix, 
Colledg.] Take of oyl of Roses sixteen 
ounces. 
Juyce of Nightshade six ounces. 
Let them boyl to the consumption of the 
juyce, then add 
White wax five ounces. 
Ceruss washed two ounces. 
Lead burnt and washed, 
Pompholix prepared, 
Pure Frankincense, of each an ounce. 
Let them be brought into a form of an 
oyntment according to art. 
Culpeper] It cools and binds, dries, 
and staies fluxes, either of blood or 
humors in wounds, and fills hollow 
ulcers with flesh. 
Aaa Vertues

194 OYNTMENTS. 
Virtues newly added. 
This oyntment hath its name from 
a certain Excrement of Brass produ- 
ced in the melting thereof, which is 
called in Greek Pompholix, and in 
Latin because of its lightness nihil, as 
if you would say a thing of nought or 
of no Substance. 
This I formerly commended to be 
used in sore Eyes mixed with Oynt- 
ment of Tutty. It hath an excellent 
faculty in the Cure of ulcers, for it 
mitigates their Heat, dries up their 
moisture, tames their cancerous ma- 
lignity, asswages their pain, fills their 
cavities with flesh and brings them 
to a scar, but it is principally good 
for ulcers of the Legs and Shinns. It 
is good to apply to stop the violent 
Flux of the Hæmorrhoids, and a- 
nointed upon the Reins of the Back 
it wil help the simple Gonorrhæa, 
and asswage the white Flux of Wo- 
men. Smeared upon the Temples 
and forehead it stops defluxions of 
Rheume into the teeth, and asswages 
paine of the Head and tooth-ach, 
and enclines the restless Patient to 
sleep. 
Unguentum Refrigerans Galeni. Latin. 
Or, Galen his cooling Oynt- 
ment. 
Colledg.] Take of white Wax four oun- 
ces. 
Oyl of Roses omphacine one pound. 
Melt them in a double vessel, then powr 
it out into another, by degrees putting in 
cold water, and often powring it out of 
one vessel into another, stirring it till it 
be white: last of all wash it in Rose wa- 
ter, adding a little Rose water, and Rose 
vinegar. 
Culpeper.] It is a fine cooling 
thing, and exceeding good, yea, su- 
perexcellent to cure inflamations in 
wounds or Tumors. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an excellent oyntment of 
Galen his Invention, being approved 
by long experience though it consist 
but of two ingredients. And to o- 
ther intents and purposes oyntments  
might be made, and other Medica- 
ments as effectual of two or three in- 
gredients, as of threescore, but that 
the Invention and Memory of Physi-  
tians out runs their Judgment, mu- 
stering upon al occasions so many 
simples, that they know not which to 
choose or leave, and so to be sure to 
hit the mark and knock the naile on 
the Head they put in al according to 
the Method of cooks and women in 
their Kitchin compositions, into 
which a little of every thing that is 
thought good, must needs be put. 
Besides the uses specified, this me-  
dicament is good in al cases where  
there is need of cooleing and moiste-  
ning. It is good to anoint upon the 
breast, pulses, forehead, and temples of 
persons in an hectick Feaver, also up- 
on the back-bone. And in Head-ach 
arising from an hot cause, it is good 
anointed as aforesaid. In tooth-ach 
and Coughs arising from hot thin 
and salt Rhumes, it is good to anoint 
upon the seams or futures of the head 
upon the Temples, and Jaws, and on 
the nape of the Neck, also in pains of 
the joynts arising from an hot Hu- 
mor. Anointed upon the Kidneys it 
is good to stop the over great flux of 
of urine, and to hinder nocturnall 
Pollutions. 
Unguentum é Succis Aperitivis. Lat. 
Or, Oyntment of the Juyces 
of certain opening Herbs. 
Colledg.]. Take of the juyce of Smal- 
lage, 
Endive, 
Mints, 
Wormwood, 
Common Parsly, 
Valerian, of each three ounces. 
Oyl of wormwood and 
Mints, of each half a pound. 
Yellow wax three ounces. 
Mkv them together over a fire, and make 
of them an Oyntment. Sometimes is ad- 
ded also the pouders of Calamus Aro-
maticus, Spicknard, of each one dram, a 
little Oyl of Cappars. 
Culpeper.] It opens stoppages of 
the stomach and spleen, easeth the 
Rickets, the breast and sides being a- 
nointsd with it. 
Venues newly added. 
This was invented to open obstru- 
ctions of the Liver, Spleen, Gal-blad- 
der, urinary Pipes, of the Pores of the 
Skin, and in what place or part soe- 
ver. Consequently it is good artful- 
ly and seasonably applied against all 
Infirmities proceeding from obstru- 
ctions, which are numerous. It is 
good to anoint upon the Region of 
the Liver and Spleen in Dropsies, 
Cachexies, Jaundies yellow and 
black, in the scurvy. Green sickness, 
Melancholy, especially the Hypo- 
chondriacal sort; in Itch and Scabs, 
and al diseases arising from impurity 
of the blood. It is good to smear u- 
pon the hard Bellies and sides of 
young Children that do not thrive 
nor grow, but pine away. Anointed 
upon the Kidneys and down the 
Reins, and upon the share it brings 
away urine, and smeared upon the 
Belly from the Navel downwards it 
helps the Courses. 
Unguentum Martiatum. 
Colledg.] Take of the leaves of Bay 
and Rosemary, of each eight oun- 
ces.
Rue seven ounces.
Tamarisk six ounces. 
Leaves of Dwarfe Elder, 
Marjoram, 
Savin, 
Costmary, or else Water-mins, 
Sage, 
Bazil, 
Poley-mountain. 
Calaminth, 
Mugwort, 
Elicampane, 
Betony,  
Brank-Ursine, 
Goose grease or Cleavers, 
Anemone or Windflower, or for wans 
of it. Pellitroy of the Wall, 
Burnet, 
Agrimony, 
Wormwood, 
Cowslips. 
Garden Costus, 
Elders, 
Orphine the greater, 
Housleek the greater and lesser. 
Yarrow, 
Germander, 
Centaury the less, 
Plantane, 
Strawberries, 
a Tetrahit [a called also Syderites, 
and Iron-wort, because of its ex- 
cellency to cure wounds.] or for
want of it Golden-rod. 
Cynkfolf, of each four ounces and an 
half. 
Roots of Marsh mallows. 
Seeds of cummin, 
Mirrh, of each three ounces, 
Fœntigreek an ounce and an half. 
Seeds of the great Nettles, of violets, 
Red or erratick Poppies, commonly 
called corn-roses, 
Garden Mints, 
Sorrel, 
Wild Mints, 
Maiden-hair, 
Carduus benedictus, 
Woodbind, or Honey-suckles, 
Valevian the greater, 
Sweet Cranebill, or Moschata. 
Wood sorrel, 
Harts-tongue, 
Ox-eye, 
Southernwood, 
Marrow of a Stage, 
Styrax calamitis, of each half an 
ounce. 
Butter ten drams. 
Bears and Hens grease. 
Mastich, 
Frankincense, of each one ounce. 
Nard Oyl two ounces. 
Wax two pound. 
Let the Herbs being green, be cut, and 
infused in eight pound of Oyl with wine 
for seven daies; on the eight day let them 
be boyled almost to the consumption of 
the wine, then being removed from the 
fire, let it be strained, and the Oyl put in- 
to the pan again, to which (being a lit- 
tle warmed) add the Butter, Marrow, 
Fat, Nard oyl, and Wax: then the Sty- 
rax dissolved in wine and mixed with a 
little Turpentine: but let the Mastich, 
Mastich

195 CERECLOATHS. 
Mastich, Mirrh and Frankincense be- 
ing beaten into pouder be put in last of 
all, and when they are all well mixed to- 
gether, keep the Oyntment in a vessel. 
Culpeper.] This long Receipt of
Nich. Myrepsus, is held to be profita- 
ble against cold afflictions of the 
Brain, Nerves, and Joynts; as sha- 
king Palsie, dead Palsie, Convulsi- 
ons, &c. It helps numbness of the 
joynts, the Gout, and hard Tumors 
of the Spleen.
Venues newly added. 
This takes away black and blew 
spots of the skin arising from stripes. 
It discusses cold swellings of the 
Nerves and Joynts and asswages 
their pains. It is good against all 
cold diseases of the Body, and cold- 
ness of the Head. It helps pains of 
the Breast, Stomach, and Spleen, and 
other parts arising from a cold cause. 
It is good against a Convulsion, Pal- 
sies, and Sciaticaes, and other cold 
Gouts. It takes away hardness and 
swelling, and is chiefly good for an 
hard spleen. It is a tried remedy for 
those that are subject to the Dropsie, 
and Pains or Tumors of the Spleen. 
It must be smeared upon the respe- 
ctive regions of the parts aforesaid. 
An Oynment for the Worms. 
Fœsius.
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Rue,
Savin,
Mints,
Wormwood and 
Bitter Almonds, of each an ounce
and an half.
Juyce of the Flowers of Leaves of
Peaches and
Wormwood, each half an ounce.
Pouder of Rue,
Mints,
Gentian,
Centaury the less,
Tormentil, of each one dram. 
Seeds of Coleworts, 
Pulp of Colocynthis, of each two drams. 
Aloes Hepatick, three drams, 
Meal of Lupines half an ounce, 
Myrrh washed in grass water a dram 
and an half,  
Bulls Gall an ounce and an half, 
With jujce of Lemmons so much as is 
sufficient, and an ounce and an half of 
wax, make it into an Oyntment accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper] The Belly being anoin- 
ted with it kils Worms. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Oyntment wil also open ob- 
structions of the Liver and Spleen 
and Gall-bladder, and bring down 
the Urine and Courses, also it is 
good against pains in the Stomach 
and belly anointed thereupon. 
CERECLOATHS. 
Ceratum de Galbano. Page 169. Lat. 
Or, Cerecloath of 
Galbanum. 
Colledg.] TAke  of Galbanum 
prepared, an ounce 
and an half. 
Assafœtida half an ounce, 
Bdellium a dram, 
Mirrh two drams,
Wax two ounces, 
Feaverfew, 
Mugwort, of each half a dram. 
Dissolve the Gums in Vinegar, and 
make it a Cerecloath according to Art. 
Culpeper.] Being applied to the 
Belly of a woman after Labor, it 
clenseth her of any relicts acciden- 
tally left behind, helps the fits of the 
Mother, and other accidents incident 
to women in that case. 
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This being laid to the Stomach or 
Belly wil also kill Worms breeding 
in those parts. It brings down the 
Courses applied to the region of the 
Womb. It helps cold Infirmities,  
Windiness, and stoppings of the Li- 
ver and Spleen applied to their re-
spective Regions And being laid 
all along the Back-bone it prevents 
or lessens the shaking fits of Agues. 
Ceratum Oesypatum. Page 169. Latin. 
Or, The Cerecloath of Ocsypus 
so called.  
Colledg. Take of Oesipus ten ounces, 
Oyl of Chamomel and 
Orris, of each half a pound, 
Yellow Wax two pound, 
Rozin a pound, 
Mastich, 
Ammoniacum, 
Turpentine, of each an ounce. 
Spicknard two drams and an half. 
Saffron a dram and an half, 
Styrax Calamitis half an ounce, 
Make them into a Cerecloth according 
to art.  
Culpeper.] It mollifies and digests 
hard swellings of the Liver, Spleen, 
Womb, Nerves, Joynts, and other 
parts of of the Body, and is a great 
easer of pain. 
A Plaster made of yong swallows, 
being burnt nest and all, doth (be- 
ing applied to the Throat) case the 
squinancy and swelling of the throat. 
You may make it into a Plaster with 
Oyl of Wax. 
Vertues newly added.
This Cerecloath hath its name 
from one of the Ingredients viz. Oe- 
sypum, which is the fatty grease col- 
lected from the wool of sheep, chief- 
ly that which grows about their 
flanks and shoulders, where they 
mostly sweat.  
It is of a mollifying, dissol- 
ving and pain-asswaging facul- 
ty. It digests hard swellings and  
stones in the outward part of the bo- 
dy, and ripens crude. A posthumes, 
Anointed upon the Breast it eases the 
stuffing of the Lungs and shortness of 
breath arising from cold clannny 
flegm nestleing about the Wind-pipe
Ceratum Santalinum. Page 169. 
Latin. Or, Cerecloth 
of Sanders. 
Colledg.] Take of red Sanders ten 
drams, 
White and yellow Sanders, of each six 
drams. 
Red Roses twelve drams, 
Bole Armeneack seven drams, 
Spodium four drams, 
Camphire two drams, 
White Wax washed thirty drams, 
Oyl of Roses omphacine six ounces, 
Make it into, a Cerecloath according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It wonderfully, helps 
hot infirmities of the stomach, liver, 
and other parts, being but applied to 
them. 
Vertues newly added. 
It has its name from the three sorts 
of Sanders whereof it is principally 
composed. It is an excellent medica- 
ment in the cases specified. It as- 
swages all phlegmonous Tumors and 
all hot distempers of the internal 
parts most effectually being applied 
to their respective regions. It is good 
to apply to the Liver, in the yellow 
Jaundise & in such as have inflamed 
Faces, & are troubled with a burning 
heat in the palms of their hands and 
on the soles of their feet after dinner 
and supper and in the night. It is 
good in hectick fevears being appli- 
ed to the region of the Liver and of 
the Chest. In Gonorrhæa’s and 
weakness of the Back arising from 
hot humors, it is profitably applied 
to the reins of the back, as also in 
the pissing disease, when the Patient 
is weakned with continual making 
water. Applied to the whol belly it 
asswages a cholerick Loosness and  
Dysentery. Applied to the region of 
the Womb and the Loyns it checks 
the white flux in women. It also 
prevents nocturnal pollutions being 
worn upon the Reins of the Back.
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PLASTERS. 
Culpeper. I Hope no body is so 
simple as to eat 
Plasters. The general way 
of application it to the grieved 
place. You may melt them in 
any earthen dish, and so spread 
them upon a cloth, or white 
Leather. 
A. Plasters are so called 
from sticking, cleaving, and be- 
ing smeared upon Leather or 
cloth, as the Plaster is spred 
upon a wall. 
Emplastrumex Ammoniaco. Pag. 170. 
Latin. Or, The Plaster of 
Gum Ammoniack. 
Colledg.] Take of Ammoniacum, 
Bran well sifted, of each an ounce. 
Oyntment of Marsh-mallows, 
Melilot plaster compound, 
Roots of Betony and 
Orris in pouder, of each half an 
ounce. 
Fat of Ducks 
Geese and  
Hens, of each three drams. 
Bdellium, 
Galbanum of each one dram and an 
half. 
Per-rozin, 
Wax of each five ounces. 
Oyl of Orris, 
Turpentine, of each half an ounce. 
Boyl the Fats and Oyl with Mucilage 
of Lin-seed, and Fenugreek seed, of each 
three ounces, to the consumption of the 
Mucilage, strain it, and add the Wax, 
Rozin, and Turpentine, the Oyntment of 
Marshmallows with the Plaster of Me- 
lilot; when it begins to be cold, put in 
the Ammoniacum, dissolved in Vine- 
gar, then the Bdellium in pouder, with 
the rest of the pouders, and make it into 
a plaster according to art. 
Culpeper] By [Plaster] alwaies 
understand, not a Plaster spread up- 
on a cloth, but a roll made to spread 
such a one withall. 
It softens and asswageth hard swel- 
lings, and scatters the humors offen- 
ding; applied to the side it softents 
the hardness of the spleen, asswageth 
pains thence arising. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaster is of such a softening 
faculty that it is able to dissolve hard 
stony knobs which grow upon the 
joynts of the Fingers and Toes, and 
other parts. Applied to the Hypo- 
chondries it removes stubborn ob- 
structions about the Liver and 
Spleen. Applied to the Kidnies it 
brings down gravel stones and U- 
rine, to which intent it may be ap- 
plied to the region of the bladder. 
It helps down the Courses being laid 
to the region of the Womb. Being 
applied to the breast it opens the ob- 
structions thereof, dissolves clotted 
phlegm, and helps shortness of 
breath. 
Emplastrum è Baccis Lauri. Page 170. 
Latin. Or, The Plaister of 
Bay-berries. 
Colledg.] Take of Bay-berries hus- 
ked. 
Turpentine of each two ounces. 
Frankincense, 
Mastich, 
Myrrh, of each an ounce. 
Cyperus, 
Costus, of each half an ounce. 
Honey warmed and not scummed, four 
ounces, 
Make it into a plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is an excellent Pla- 
ster to ease any pain coming of cold 
or wind in any part of the Body whe- 
ther stomach, liver, belly, reins or 
bladder. It is an excellent remedy 
for the colick and wind in the bo- 
wels. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is also good against the dry Drop- 
sie or flatulent Dropsie being applied 
to the belly. It helps digestion appli- 
ed to the stomach, and prevents the 
Dropsie, applied to to the Liver and 
the Spleen, and cures pains of the 
Loyns or Kidnies applied to that 
part. 
Emplastrum Barbarum Magnum. Pag. 
171. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of dry Pitch eight
pound. 
Yellow wax six pound and eight oun- 
ces. 
Per-rozin five pound and four ounces. 
Bitumen, Judaicum, or Mummy, 
four pound. 
Oyl one pound and an half. 
Vert-de-greece, 
Litharge, 
Ceruss, of each three ounces. 
Frankincense half a pound. 
Roch Allum not burnt, an ounce 
and an half. 
burnt, four ounces. 
Opopanax, 
Scales of brass, 
Galbanum, of each twelve drams. 
Aloes, 
Opium, 
Mirrh, of each half an ounce. 
Turpentine two pound. 
Juyce of Mandrakes, or else dried 
Bark of the Root, six drams. 
Vinegar five pound. 
Let the Litharge, Ceruss, and Oyl, boyl 
to the thickness of Honey, then incorpo- 
rate with them the Pitch, being melted 
with Bitumen in pouder; then add the 
rest, and boyl them according to art, till 
the Vinegar be consumed, and it stick not 
to your hands. 
Culpeper.] It helps the bitings of 
men and beasts, easeth inflamations 
of wounds, and helps infirmities of 
the joynts, and gouts in the begin- 
ning. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good also for hollow old ul- 
cers that have secret turnings and 
windings in them. 
Emplastrum de Betonica. Page 171. 
Lat. Or, The Plaister of Betony. 
Colledg. Take of Betony, 
Burnet, 
Agrimony, 
Sage, 
Penyroyal, 
Yarrow, 
Comfry the greater, 
Clary, of each six drams. 
Frankincense, 
Mastich, of each three drams. 
Orris, 
Round Birthwort of each six drams. 
White wax,
Turpentine, of each eight ounces. 
Per-rozin six ounces. 
Gum Elemi, 
Oyl of Fir, of each two ounces, 
White wine three pound. 
Bruise the Herbs, boyl them in the wine, 
then strain them, and add the rest, and 
make them into a plaister according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It is a gallant Plaister 
to unite the skul when it is cracked, 
to draw out pieces of broken bones, 
and cover the bones with flesh: It
draws filth from the bottom of deep 
ulcers, restores flesh lost, clenseth, di- 
gesteth, and dryeth. 
Emplastrum Cæsaris. Page 171. Lat. 
Or, Cæsar his Plaister. 
Colledg. Take of red Roses one ounce 
and an half. 
Bistort roots, 
Cypres Nuts, 
All the Sanders, 
Mints, 
Coriander seeds, of each three drams
Mastich, half an ounce. 
Hyspocistis, 
Acacia, 
Dragons blood. 
Earth of Lemnos, 
Bole-armenick, 
Red coral, of each two drams. 
Turpentine washed in Plantane wa-
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Oyl of Roses three ounces. 
White wax twelve ounces. 
Per-rozin ten ounces. 
Pitch six ounces. 
Juyce of Plantane, 
Housleek,
Orpine, of each an ounce. 
The Wax, Rozin, and Pitch, being melted 
together, add the Turpentine and Oyl, 
then the Hypocistis and Acacia dissol- 
ved in the juyces; at last the Pouders, 
and make it into a plaister according to 
art.
Culpeper.] It is of a fine, cool, bin- 
ding, strengthening nature, excellent 
good to expell hot Rheums, or Va- 
pors that ascend up to the head, the 
hair being shaved off, and it applied 
to the Crown. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister is good for coughs 
enclineing to a consumption, being 
applied to the futures of the Head 
being shaven. It abates the simple 
Gonorrhæa applied to the Loins and 
Kidneys. It stops the courses over- 
flowing applied to the region of the 
womb. It is also very good against 
ruptures. It strengthens a feeble Li- 
ver applied to the region thereof, and 
it is good for a Looseness being laid 
upon the Belly. 
Emplastrum Catagmaticum. Or, the 
Bone-soddering plaister, 
first and second. 
Colledg.] Take of juyce of Marsh- 
mallow roots six ounces. 
Bark of Ash-tree Roots, and their 
Leaves, 
Roots of comfry the greater and smal- 
ler, with their Leaves, of each two 
ounces. 
Mirtle berries an ounce and an half. 
Leaves of willow, 
Tops of St. Johns wort, of each an 
handful and an half. 
Having bruised them, boyl them toge- 
ther in red wine, and Smiths water, of 
each two pound, till half be consumed; 
strain it and add 
Oyl of Mirtles, 
Roses Omphacine, of each one pound 
and an half. 
Goats suet eight ounces, boyl it again 
to the consumption of the decoction, strain 
it again, and add, 
Litharge of Gold and 
Silver, 
Red Lead, of each four ounces. 
Yellow wax one pound. 
Colophonia, half a pound. 
Boyl it to the consistence of a Plaister, 
then add 
Turpentine two ounces. 
Mirrh, 
Frankincense, 
Mastich, of each half an ounce. 
Bole-Armenick, 
Earth of Lemnos, of each one ounce.
Stir them about well till they be boyled, 
and made into an Emplaister according 
to art. 
Catagmaticum the Second. Page 173. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of the Roots of Com- 
fry the greater, 
Marsh-mallows, 
Missleto of the Oak, of each two oun- 
ces. 
Plantane, 
Chamepitys, 
St. Johns wort, of each a handful. 
Boyl them in equal parts of black Wine, 
and Smiths water til half be consumed; 
strain it, and add 
Mucilage of Quince seeds made in 
Tripe water, 
Oyl of Mastich, and 
Roses, of each four ounces. 
Boyl it to the consumption of the humi- 
dity, and having strained it, add 
Litharge of gold four ounce, boyl it 
to the consistance of an Emplaister: 
then add 
Yellow wax four ounces. 
Turpentine three ounces. 
Colophonia six drams. 
Ship pitch ten ounces. 
Pouders of Balaustines, 
Roses, 
Mirtles 
Acacia, of each half an ounce. 
Mummy, 
Androsamum, 
Mastich, 
Amber, of each six drams. 
Bole-Armenick, 
Fine flower, 
Frankincense, of each twelve 
drams. 
Dragons blood two ounces. 
Make it into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.] Both this and the for- 
mer are binding and drying: the 
former Rules wil instruct you in the 
use. 
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These plaisters have their Name 
from soddering together bones that 
have been broken. And to this In- 
tent they are excellent good, as hast- 
ing and helping the growing toge- 
ther of such bones, encreasing the 
Callus or hard substance whereby 
they are united, cherishing the nati- 
ve heat of the Part, and stopping the 
flowing in of Humors. 
Emplastrum Cephalicum. Page 173. 
Lat. Or, A Cephalick Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of Rozin two ounces. 
Black pitch one ounce. 
Labdanum, 
Turpentine, 
Flower of beans, and 
Orobus, 
Doves dung, of each half an ounce. 
Mirrh, 
Mastich, of each one dram & an half. 
Gum of Juniper, 
Nutmegs, of each two drams. 
Dissolve the mirth and Labdanum in a 
hot mortar, and adding the rest, make it
into a plaister according to art. 
If you will have it stronger, add the 
Pouders of Euphorbium, 
Pellitory of Spain, 
Black pepper, of each two scruples. 
Culpeper.] It is proper to streng-
then the Brain, and repel such vapors 
as annoy it, and those pouders being 
added, it dries up the superfluous 
moisture thereof, and easeth the eyes 
of hot scalding, vapors that annoy 
them.
Vertues newly addd. 
Being applied to the shaven crown 
of the Head, it dries up Rheums and 
helps the cough and prevents con- 
sumptions. Also it helps the memo- 
ry and other internal senses, being 
decayed by a cold and moist cause. 
Applied to the stomach it is good a- 
gainst vomitings. For the colick lay 
it to the belly. 
Emplastrum de Cerussu. Page 174. La. 
Or, A Plaister of Ceruss. 
Colledg.] Take of Ceruss in fine pou- 
der,  
White wax, 
Sallet Oyl, of each three ounces. 
Add the Oyl by degrees to the ceruss, 
and boyl it by continual stirring over a 
gentle fire, till it begin to swell, then add 
the Wax out smal, by degrees, and boyl
it to its just consistance. 
Culpeper.] It helps burns, dry 
Scabs, and hot ulcers, and in gene- 
ral what ever sores abound with moi- 
sture. 
Emplastrum ex Cicuta cum Ammonia- 
co. Page 174. Lat. Or, A Plai- 
ster of Hemlock with A- 
moniacum. 
Colledg.] Take of the juyce of Hem- 
lock four ounces, 
Vinegar of Squils, and 
Ammoniacum, of each eight ounces. 
Dissolve the Gum in the juyce and Vi- 
negar; after a due infusion, then strain 
it into its just consistance according to art. 
Culpeper.] I suppose it was inven- 
ted to mitigate the extream pains, 
and allay the inflamations of 
wounds, fot which it is very good: 
Let it not be applied to any principal 
part.
Emplastrum é Cinnabari. Page 174. 
Latin. Or, Plaister of Cin- 
nabar or Cinoper. 
Colledg.] Take of Cinnabaris an ounce 
and an half.
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198 PLASTERS.
Euphorbium,
Auripigmentum, of each two drams  
and an half. 
Beat them into fine pouder, and unite 
them with 
Galbanum, 
Burgundy pitch of each two ounces & 
an half. 
Plaister of Mucilage three ounces. 
Unguentum Egyptiacum, half an 
ounce. 
Make it into a plaister without boyling 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister seems intended for a 
caustick to eat an hole in the skin for 
an issue in such as feare to have their 
skin cut with a knife; though I 
think the way of incision is less pain- 
ful (though more frightful) al things 
considered, then the makeing an issue 
by a caustick plaister as this is. I be- 
leeve some Mountebanks may use 
this plaister in the venereal Disease, 
for none is so bold as Baiard.
Emplastrum é crusta Panis. Lat. Or, 
A Plaister of a Bread 
crust. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastich, 
Mints, 
Spodium, 
Red coral. 
All the Sanders, of each one dram. 
Oyl of Mastich and 
Quinces, of each one dram and half. 
Crust of bread tosted, and three times 
steeped in red Rose Vinegar, and 
as often dried, 
Labdanum, of each two ounces. 
Rozin four ounces. 
Styrax calamitis half an ounce.  
Barley meal five drams. 
Make into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper. I shal commend this for 
as gallant a Plaister to strengthen the 
brain as any is in the Dispensatory, 
the hair being shaved off, and it ap- 
plied to the Crown; also being ap- 
plied to the Stomach, it strengthens 
it, helps digestion, staies vomiting and 
putrefaction of the meat there. 
Emplastrum é Cymino. Page 175. Lat. 
Or, A Plaister of Cummin. 
Colledg.] Take of Cummin-seed, 
Bay berries,  
Yellow Wax, of each one pound. 
Per-rozin two pound. 
Common Rozin three pound. 
Oyl of Dill half a pound. 
Mix them, and make them into a Plaster. 
Culpeper. It asswageth swellings, 
takes away old Aches coming of 
bruises: and applied to the belly, is 
an excellent Remedy for the wind 
chollick. This I have often proved, 
and alwaies with good success. 
Emplastrum Diacalciteos. Page 175. 
Latin Or, the Plaister of
Calcitis. 
Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease, fresh 
and purged from the skins two 
pound. 
Oyl of Olive Omphacine, 
Litharge of Gold eaten and sifted, of 
each three pound. 
White vitriol burnt and purged four 
ounces. 
Let the Litharge, Grease, and Oyl boyl  
together with a gentle fire, with a little  
Plantane water, alwaies stirring it, to 
the consistance of a plaister, into which 
(being removed from the fire) put in the 
Vitriol and make it into a plaister accor- 
ding to art. 
Culpeper] Before it was to be made 
in this manner: First let the Lithar- 
ge boyl with the Oyl and Grease a 
long time, continually stirring it with 
the branch of a Palm or other Tree 
of a binding Nature, as Oak, Box, or 
Medlar, which is new cut, that so 
the vertue of that Spatula may be 
mixed with the Plaister, cutting off 
the top and the rind even to the 
wood it self; the mixture being thus 
made thick by boyling and stirring, 
and removed from the fire, put in 
white Copperis for want of true 
Chalcitis in pouder, and so make it 
into a laudable mass for an Emplai- 
ster. It is a very drying, binding plai- 
ster, profitable in green wounds to 
hinder putrefaction, as also in pest- 
lential sores after they are broken, 
and Ruptures; and also in burnings 
and scaldings.
Vertues newly added 
This is the ordinary Surgeon his  
most known and usual plaister, being 
as the Proverb saies, his salve for all 
sores. Besides what hath been said 
of it, it is good for Ulcers and parts 
that are bruised and torne, and for 
black and blew spots that remain af- 
ter blows and stripes. It hinders the 
influx of Humors into a part and 
stops the growth of a beginning Tu- 
mor. Applied to the back it streng- 
thens the back, especially being 
smeared with a little Oyl of Mirtles. 
Diachylon Plaister. Page. 175. Lat. 
Or, of the Juyces or Mucilages. 
Colledg.] Take of Mucilage of Lin- 
seed, 
Fœnugreek seed, 
Marsh mallow Roots, of each one 
pound. 
Old Oyl three pound. 
Boyl it to the consumption of the Muci- 
lage, strain it, and add Litharge of gold 
in fine pouder, one pound and an half: 
boyl them with a little Water over a gen- 
tle fire alwayes stirring them to a just 
thickness. 
Culpeper.] It is an exceeding good 
Remedy for all swellings without 
pain, it softens hardness of the liver 
and spleen, it is very gentle like the 
Author of it [Mesue] very moderate 
and harmless,and it may be therefore 
neglected by the Phantastical Chy-
rurgeons of our Age. 
Diachylon Ireatum. Page. 175. Lat. 
Colledg.] Add one ounce of Orris in
pouder to every pound of Diachc- 
lon simple. 
Virtues newly added. 
If Orice be added to Diachylon 
simple it becomes of a more draw- 
ing, cutting and dissolving Nature. 
Diachylon magnum. Page 175. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Mucilage of Rai- 
sons, 
Fat Figs, 
Mastich, 
Mallow-roots, 
Linseed, 
Fœnugreek-seeds, 
Bird Lime, 
Juyce of Orris, 
Squils, of each twelve drams and an 
half. 
Oesypus, or Oyl of sheeps-feet an ounce 
and an half. 
Oyl of Orris, Chamomel, 
Dill of each eight ounces. 
Litharge of Gold in fine pouder one 
pound. 
Turpentine three ounces. 
Per-rozin, 
Yellow Wax, of each two ounces. 
Boyl the Oyl with the Mucilages and 
juyce to the consumption of the Humidt- 
ty, strain the Oyl from the Fæces, and by 
adding the Litharge boyl it to its consi- 
stence; then ad the Rozin and Wax; last- 
ly, it being removed from the fire, add the 
Turpentine, Oesipus and birdlime, make 
of them a Plaister by melting them ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper. It dissolves hardness and 
inflamations. 
Diachylon magnum cum Gummi. 
Page 176. Latin. Or, The 
great Diachylon with 
Gums in it. 
Colledg.] Take of Bdellium, 
Sagapen, 
Amoniacum, of each two ounces, 
Dissolved in wine, and added to the mass 
of Diachylon magnum, first boyl the 
Gums being dissolved, to the thickness of 
Honey. 
Culpeper.] This is the best to dis-
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199 PLASTERS. 
solve hard swellings of all the 
three. 
Vertues newly added
This is more effectual than the 
two Diachylons foregoing, for it 
more powerfully softens, concocts 
and digests all manner of hardness. 
By reason of the Gums, it does more 
powerfully attract, soften and resolve 
and dissipate. 
Diachylon compositum, sive Empla- 
strum è Mucilaginibus. Page 176. 
Latin. The Plaster of Muci- 
lages or of the slimy juyce 
of certain Plants, Roots 
and Seeds. 
Colledg.] Take of Mucilages of the 
middle bark of Elm, 
Marsh-mallow roots, 
Linseed,  
Fœnugreek seed, of each four ounces 
and an half. 
Oyl of Chamomel,  
Lillies, and 
Dill, of each an ounce and an half. 
Ammoniacum, 
Galbanum, 
Sagapen, 
Opopanax, of each half an ounce. 
New wax twenty ounces, 
Turpentine two ounces, 
Saffron two drams, 
Dissolve the Gums in wine, and make 
it into a Plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] It ripens swellings, and 
breaks them, and clenseth them 
when they are broken. It is of a 
most excellent ripening nature. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaster is of frequent use. It is 
of a softening nature and causes sup- 
puration. It is good in hard swel- 
lings, for it softens digests and ripens 
the said swellings, that so they may 
break, be clensed and healed. 
Emplastrum Diaphœnicon hot. 
Page 176. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow Wax two 
ounces, 
Per-rozin, 
Pitch, of each four ounces. 
Oyl of Roses and 
Nard, of each one ounce. 
Melt them together, and add 
Pulp of Dates made in Wine four 
ounces, 
Flesh of Quinces boyled in Wine an 
ounce, 
Then the pouders following, 
Take of bread twice baked, steeped in 
wine and dried, two ounces. 
Mastich an ounce.
Frankincense, 
Wormwood, 
Red Roses, 
Spicknard of each two drums and an 
half.
Wood of Aloes, 
Mace, 
Myrrh, 
Washed Aloes, 
Acacia, 
Troches of Gallia Moschata, and 
Earth of Lemnos, 
Calamus Aromaticus, of each one 
dram, 
Labdamum three ounces. 
Mix them and make them a Plaster ac- 
cording to art.
Culpeper.] It strengthens the sto- 
mach and Liver exceedingly, helps 
Fluxes, apply it to the places grie- 
ved; your mother wit wil teach you 
not to apply it to the Nose for Flux- 
es; nor yet to the foals of the feet to 
strengthen your stomach. 
Diaphœnicon cold. Page 177. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Wax four ounces, 
Ship pitch five ounces, 
Labdanum three ounces and an half, 
Turpentine an ounce and an half, 
Oyl of Roses one ounce, 
Melt these, and add 
Pulp of Dates almost ripe, boyled in 
austere wine four ounces, 
Flesh of Quinces in like manner boy- 
led,  
Bread twice baked often steeped in red 
wine and dried, of each an ounce.
Styrax Calamitis, 
Acacia,
Unripe Grapes, 
Balaustines, 
Yellow Sanders, 
Troches of Terra Lemnia, 
Myrrh,  
Wood of Aloes, of each half an 
ounce. 
Mastich, 
Red Roses, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Austere Wine as much as it sufficient 
to dissolve the juyces, 
Make it into a Plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Belly 
and Liver, helps concocton in those 
parts, and distribution of humors, 
staies vomiting and fluxes. 
Clupeper.] They that think the use 
of thefc Medicines arc too brief, ( its 
fo only for cheapnefs of the Book) 
Let them read these Books, of the last 
Edition, viz. Riverius, Riolanus, 
Johnston, Veslingus, Sennenus, and
Physick for the Poor. 
Emplastrum Divinum. Page 177. 
Latin. Or, The Divine 
Plaster. 
Colledg.] Take of Loadstone four oun- 
ces.
Ammoniacum three ounces and three 
drams, 
Bdellium two ounces, 
Galbanum,
Myrrh, of each ten drams. 
Olibanum nine drams, 
Opopanax, 
Mastich, 
Long Birthwort, 
Vert-de-greece, of each an ounce. 
Litharge,
Common Oyl, of each a pound and an 
half. 
New Wax eight ounces. 
Let the Litharge in fine pouder be boy- 
led with the Oyl to a thickness, then add 
the Wax, which being melted, take it 
from the fire; add, the Gums dissolved 
in Wine or Vinegar, strain it, then add 
the Myrrh, Mastich, Frankincense, 
Bithwort, and Loadstone in pouder; 
Last of all the Vert-de-greece in Pouder, 
and make it into a Plaster according to 
Art.
Culpeper.] It is of a clensing na- 
ture, exceeding good against malig- 
nant ulcers, it consumes corruption, 
engenders new flesh, and brings them 
to a scar. 
Vertues newly added. 
It softens and asswages pains, it at- 
tracts, dissolves and digests super- 
fluous Humors in the part and be- 
cause of its happy effects in the pre- 
mises it has merited the honour to be 
called Divine plaister, that is a plai- 
ster wherein much of the wisdom and 
power and goodness of God is seen, 
in providing such excellent Reme- 
dies for the accidents that annoy the 
frail Body of Man. 
Emplastrum Epispasticum. Page 177. 
Lat. Or, The Blistering 
Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of Mustard seed, 
Euphorbium, 
Long Pepper, of each one dram and 
an half. 
Staves-acre, 
Pellitory of Spain, of each two drams. 
Ammoniacum, 
Galbanum, 
Bdelleum, 
Sagapen, of each three drams. 
Whol Cantharides five drams, 
Ship-pitch, 
Rozin, 
Yellow Wax, of each five drams. 
Turpentine as much as is sufficient to 
make it into a Plaister. 
Culpeper.] Many People use to 
draw blisters in their necks for the 
toothach, or for rhewms in their 
eyes; if they please to lay a Plaster of 
this there, it wil do it. 
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the uses aforesaid, this 
Plaster is profitably applied to the 
wrists in pestilential, malignant, and 
al dangerous Fevers, whereby Blisters 
being raised and kept running for 
some daies, much venemous water is
let out, which offending the vital fa- 
culty

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culty, causes that same great 
contention of Nature and fermenta- 
tion of Blood, which we call a Fe- 
ver. 
Emplastrum à nostratibus, Flos Un- 
guentorum Dictum. Page 178. 
Latin. The Flower of Oynt- 
ments or of Plasters. 
Colledg.] Take of Rozin, 
Per-rozin, 
Yellow Wax, 
Sheep Suet, of each half a pound. 
Olibanum four ounces, 
Turpentine two ounces and an half. 
Myrrh, 
Mastich, of each an ounce. 
Camphire two drams, 
White wine half a pound. 
Boyl them into a Plaster. 
Culpeper.] I found this Receipt in 
an old Manuscript written in the 
yeer 1513. the quantity of the In- 
gredients very little altered (except 
analogically) and the vertue of it 
thus described verbatim. 
Yoys well clensande and well sow- 
dande and generande the flesh, and 
helande more in eight days then ony 
other Trete woll do in a month, 
for it will soffer noe corruption in 
a wounde, ne noe dead flesh to byde 
thereyn; also it is good for head- 
ache, and for wynde yn the brayn, 
and for all mannyr of posthymes in 
the head, or in the body, for swelling 
of the eares, or of the cheekes, for all 
mannyr of sinowes that is grieved,or 
breysyd, or sprong, and it woll draw 
out irne or splints of trees, or 
thornes, or broken bones, or ony 
other things that may grow in a 
wounde, and it is good for by- 
ting of venemous bests, and it rots 
and heals all mannyr of boches with- 
out fawt, and it is good for fester or 
canker, and for noli me tangere, and 
it draws out all mannyr of ak- 
ing in the liver or reins, or mylt, 
and helpyth the emerauds. 
Virtues newly added. 
This for its many tried Virtues has 
been termed the Flower or Cream 
of Oyntments or Plasters and de- 
serves to be respected accordingly.
A Plaster of Gum Elemi. Page 178. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Gum Elemi three 
ounces, 
Per-rozin, 
Wax, 
Ammoniacum, of each two ounces. 
Turpentine three ounces and an half, 
Mallege wine as much as is sufficient, 
Boyl it to the consumption of the vine, 
then add the Ammoniacum dissolved in 
Vinegar.  
Culpeper.] The operation is the 
same with Arceus Liniment. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is of an heating, softening, 
digesting, dissolving, concocting fa- 
culty. Also it causes suppuration. 
It asswages pain and is specially 
good in wounds of the Head and in 
ulcers also. It is excellent for Ul- 
cers if not sanious in any part of the 
body. It gently clenseth and filteth 
up an Ulcer with flesh, being of a 
mild Nature and friendly to the bo- 
dy.
The Plaster of Lapis Calaminaris. 
Page 178. Latin 
Colledg.] Take of Lapis Calaminaris 
prepared an ounce, 
Litharge two ounces, 
Ceruss half an ounce, 
Tutty a dram. 
Turpentine six drams, 
White wax an ounce and an half, 
Stags suet two ounces, 
Frankincense five drams, 
Mastich three drams. 
Myrrh two drams, 
Camphire a dram and an half, 
Make it up according to art. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is of a drying, cooling, clensing, 
healing nature. It helps running and 
putrified sores, and brings them to a 
closure. 
Emplastrum ad Herniam, Page 178.
Latin. Or, The Plaster 
against Ruptures. 
Colledg. Take of Galls, 
Cipress Nuts, 
Pomegranate pills, 
Balaustines, 
Acacia. 
Seeds of Plantane, 
Fleawort, 
Water-cresses, 
Acorn cups, 
Beans torrefied, 
Birthwort, long and round, 
Myrtles of each half an ounce. 
Let these be poudered, and steeped in Rose 
vinegar four daies, then torrefied and 
dried: then take of 
Comfry the greater, 
and lesser, 
Horstail, 
Wead, 
Cetrach, 
Roots of Osmond Royal, 
Fearn, of each an ounce. 
Frankincense, 
Myrrh, 
Aloes, 
Mastich, 
Mummy, of each two ounces. 
Bole Armeniack washed in Vine- 
gar,
Lap. Calaminaris prepared, 
Litharge of Gold,
Dragons blood, of each three ounces. 
Ship-pitch two pound. 
Turpentine six ounces, or as much as 
is sufficient to make it into a plaster ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] The Plaster is very bin- 
ding and knitting, appropriated to 
ruptures or burstness, as the title of 
it specifies; it strengthens the Reins 
and Womb, staies abortion, or mis- 
carriage in women, it consolidates 
wounds, and and helps all diseases 
coming of cold and moisture. If you 
mix a little Diapalma with it, it will 
stick on the better. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaster is good against deflu- 
zions of Rheum being applied to the 
shaven crown of the Head; and con- 
sequently prevents Consumptions. 
Applied to the Temples as Mastich is 
accustomed upon bits of Velvet or 
Satin, it helps the Tooth-ach. Ap- 
plied seasonably to the Loins it as- 
swages the Gonorrhæa and flux of 
the whites in women, especially if a 
Plaster be also applied to the region 
of the Womb. It helps Loosenesses 
after general remedies, being spred 
upon Leather and applied all over 
the Belly. It helps Vomiting being 
applied to the region of the stomach. 
Emplastrum Hystericum. Page 179. 
Latin. Or, the Mother- 
plaster. 
Colledg.] Take of Bistors roots one 
pound, 
Wood of Aloes, 
Yellow Sanders, 
Nutmegs, 
Barberry Kernels, 
Rose seeds, of each one ounce. 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Squinanth, 
Chamomel flowers, of each half an 
ounce.  
Frankincense, 
Mastich, 
Alipta Moschata, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Styrax Calamitis, of each one dram. 
Mosch half a dram, 
Yellow Wax one pound and an half. 
Turpentine half a pound, 
Moschæleum four ounces, 
Labdanum four pound. 
Ship-pitch three pound, 
Let the Labdanum and Turpentine be 
added to the Pitch and Wax, being mel- 
ted, then the Styrax, lastly the rest in 
pouder, and sifted, that they may be 
made into a plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] The Plaster being ap- 
plied to the Navil, is a means to
withstand the fits of the mother in 
such 

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such women as are subject to them, 
by retaining the womb in its place. 
Vertues newly added. 
Besides the uses specified, it streng- 
thens and dries a cold and moist 
brain and hinders Defluxions of 
Rheum from the Brain, upon the 
Lungs and other inferior parts. It 
staies Vomitings and helps digestion 
being applied to the stomach. Being 
laid upon the Belly it abates the vio- 
lence of Loosnesses. Applied to the 
Loins it helps the Gonorrhæa, and 
the white Flux of Women, being ap- 
plied to the Back and Womb. It 
strengthens the whol body being ap- 
plied from the Nape of the Neck to 
the Crupper, and so worne. It is 
good against cold diseases of the Li- 
ver and of the spleen and womb, be- 
ing applied to their respective Regi- 
ons. Applied to the pit of the sto- 
mach in the winter time, or all over 
the stomach (if a Man be of a cold 
feeble complexion) it makes him 
bear the sharpness of the weather 
courageously.
Emplastrum de Mastich. Page 179 La. 
Or, A Plaister of Mastich. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastich three oun- 
ces,
Bole-Armenick. washed in black 
Wine, an ounce and an half, 
Red Roses six drams. 
Ivory, 
Mirtle berries, 
Red Coral of each half an ounce. 
Turpentine, 
Colophonia, 
Tachamahaca, 
Labdanum, of each two ounces. 
Yellow Wax half a pound. 
Oyl of Mirtles four ounces. 
Make it a Plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is a binding plaister, 
strengthens the stomach being appli- 
ed to it, and helps such as loath their 
victuals, or cannot digest it, or re- 
tain it till it be digested. 
Vertues newly added. 
This plaister is also good to dry 
up Rheums, and strengthen the brain 
and Nerves, help memory decayed 
stop Defluxions, used as aforesaid. 
Also applied to the Belly it helps 
loosness, and laid upon the region of 
the Womb it prevents Abortion. Ap- 
plied to the Loins and Kidneys and 
Womb, it asswages the Gonorrhæa 
and white Flux of Women, being rea- 
sonably used after the administration 
of generall Remedies. 
Emplastrum de Mililoto Simplex. Pag. 
180. Latin Or, A Plaister of 
Melilot Simple. 
Colledg.] of Rozin eight pound. 
Yellow wax four pound. 
Sheeps suet two pound. 
These being melted, add green Melitot 
cut small, five pound: make it a plaister 
according to art. 
Culpeper] It is a gallant drawing 
and healing plaister, no way offensive 
to any part of the body; it clenseth 
wounds of their filth, ripeneth swel- 
lings and breaks them, and cures 
them when it hath done: it is speci- 
al good for those swellings vulgary 
in London called Felons, in Sussex 
Andicoms; only have a care of ap- 
plying it to the Legs, because of its 
drawing quality. To any other part 
of the body, in a sore that hath any 
putrefaction in it, it is none of the 
worst plaisters. 
Such as would give help against al 
Infirmities, may read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Rive- 
rius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslingus, 
Sennertus, and Physick for the Poor. 
Emplastrum de Meliloto compositum. 
Page 180. Latin Or, A Plaister 
of Melilot compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Melilot flowers six 
drams. 
Chamomel flowers. 
Seeds of Fœnugreek, 
Bayberries husked, 
Marsh-mallow roots, 
Tops of Wormwood 
Marjoram, of each three drams. 
Seeds of Smallage, 
Cardamoms, 
Roots of Orris, 
Cyperus, 
Spicknard, 
Cassia lignea, of each one dram and 
an half. 
Bdellium five drams. 
Beat them all into fine pouder, 
The Pulp of twelve Figs, 
Incorporate them with a pound and an 
half of Melilot plaister simple, Turpen- 
tine an ounce and an half; Ammonia- 
cum dissolved in Hemlock vinegar, three 
ounces; Styrax five drams, Oyl of mar- 
joram, and Nard, of each half an ounce, 
or a sufficient quantity, make it into a 
plaister with a hot mortar and pestle, 
without boyling. 
Culpeper.] It mollifies the hard 
ness of the Stomach, Liver, Spleen 
Bowels, and other parts of the Body: 
it wonderfully asswageth pain, and 
easeth hypochondriack melancholly, 
and the Rickets. 
Vertues newly added. 
This plaisteris also good to streng- 
then the Stomach and help the 
windiness, nauseousness and indige- 
stion thereof, being applied to the 
Region of the Stomach. Also it is 
good against the wind Colick being 
applied to the belly. And it wil ease 
fits of the stone in the Kidney applied 
to the Reins of the Back.
Emplastrum de minio compositum. Pag.
180. Lat. Or, A Plaister of Red  
Lead compound. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Roses Om- 
phacine twenty ounces. 
Oyl of Mastich two ounces. 
Suet of a Sheep, and
Calf, of each half a pound. 
Litharge of Gold, and 
Silver, 
Red Lead of each two ounces. 
A Taster full of Wine. 
Boyl them by a gentle fire, continually 
stirring it till it grow black, let the fire 
be hottest towards the latter end, then ad 
Turpentine half a pound. 
Mastich two ounces. 
Gum Elemi one ounce. 
White wax as much as is sufficient: 
boyl them a little, and make them into a 
Plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.] It potently cures 
wounds, old malignant Ulcers; and 
is very drying.
Emplastrum de minio Simplicius: Page 
181. Lat. Or, A Plaister of Red 
Lead Simple. 
Colledg.] Take of Red Lead nine oun- 
ces. 
Oyl of red Roses one pound and an 
half
White wine Vinegar six ounces. 
Boyl it into the perfect body of a plaister. 
It is prepared without Vinegar thus 
Take of red Lead one pound. 
Oyl of Roses one pound and an half. 
Wax half a pound. 
Make it into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.]It is a fine cooling, heal- 
ing Plaister, and very drying.
Emplastrum Metroproptoticon. Page 
181. Lat. Or, the Plaister a- 
gainst the falling down 
of the Womb. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastich one ounce 
and an half.
Galbanum dissolved in red Wine and 
strained six drams. 
Cypress Turpentine two drams. 
Cypress Nuts, 
Galls, of each one dram and an half. 
Oyl of Nutmegs by expression one 
dram. 
Musk two grains and an half. 
Pitch scraped off from old ships two 
drams and an half. 
Beat the Galbanum, Pitch, Turpentine, 
and Mastich gently in a hot morter and 
pestle, towards the end, adding the Oyl 
of Nutmegs, then the rest in pouder, last 
of all the Musk mixed with a little Oyl 
of Mastich upon a Marble, and by ex- 
act mixture make them into a plaister.
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202 PLASTERS. 
Culpeper] It was invented (as I 
suppose, to comfort and strengthen 
the retentive faculty in the Stomach 
and belly, and therefore staies loos- 
ness and vomiting, and helps the fits 
of the mother, being applied to the 
Navel. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister was invented as the 
Name shews, to hinder the Falling 
down of the Womb from its natural 
place. It is also good to strengthen 
the stomach, being applied to the re- 
gion thereof. And laid upon the pit of 
the stomach in the winter time, it wil 
enable a man to endure the extremity 
of cold weather with little trouble or 
moledtation. 
Emplastrum Nervinum. Pag. 181. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Chamomel,
Roses, of each two ounces. 
Mastich, 
Turpentine, 
Linseeds, of each an ounce and an 
half,  
Turpentine boyled four ounces. 
Suet of a Gelt Calf, 
Hee-Goat, of each two ounces and an 
half.  
Rosemary, 
Bettony, 
Horstail, 
Centaury the less, of each an handful 
Earthworms washed and clensed in 
wine, three ounces. 
Tops of St. Johns wort a handful. 
Mastich, 
Gum Elemi, 
Maddir roots, of each ten drams. 
Shippitch, 
Rozin, of each an ounce and an half. 
Litharge of Gold, 
Silver, of each two ounces and an 
half. 
Red Lead two ounces. 
Galbanum, 
Sagapen. 
Ammoniacum, of each three drams. 
Boyl the Roots, Herbs, and Worms, in  
a pound and an half of wine till half be 
consumed, then press them out, and boyl 
the decoction again with the Oyls, Suets, 
Litharge, and Red Lead, to the consump- 
tion of the Wine, then ad the Gums dis- 
solved in wine, afterwards the Turpentine, 
Rozin, Pitch, & Mastich in pouder, and 
make them into a plaster according to art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the brain 
and Nerves, and then being applied 
to the back, down along the bone, it 
must needs add strength to the Body. 
Emplastrum Oxycroceum. Pag. l82. Lat 
Colledg.] Take of Saffron, 
Shippitch, 
Colophonia, 
Yellow wax, of each four ounces.
Turpentine, 
Galbanum, 
Ammoniacum, 
Mirrh, 
Olibanum, 
Mastich, of each one ounce and three 
drams. 
Let the Pitch and Colophonia be melted 
together, then add the Wax, then (it 
being removed from the fire) the Tur- 
pentine, afterwards the Gums dissolved 
in Vinegar, lastly the Saffron in pouder, 
well mixed with Vinegar, and so make it 
into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is of a notable soften- 
ing and discussing quality, helps bro- 
ken bones, and any parts molested 
with cold, old aches, stifness of the 
Limbs by reason of wounds, ulcers, 
fractures, or dislocations, and dissi- 
pates cold swellings. 
Emplastrum de Ranis. Page 182. Lat. 
Or, Plaister of Frogs, 
with Quick-silver. 
Colledg. Take six live Frogs, 
Worms washed in white Wine, three 
ounces and an half.  
Oyl of Chamomel,  
Dill, 
Spicknard, 
Lillies, of each two ounces. 
OyL of Saffron one ounce. 
Bayes one ounce and an half 
Fat of an Hog, 
Calf, of each one pound. 
Vipers fat two ounces and an half. 
Euphorbium five drams. 
Frankincense ten drams. 
Juyce of the roots of Alicampane, 
Dwarf-Elder, of each two ounces. 
Squinanth, 
Stœchas, 
Mugwort, of each one handful, 
Wine two pound. 
Boyl them to the consumption of the 
wine, strain it, and add one pound of 
Litharge of gold, Turpentine three oun- 
ces, white Wax as much as is sufficient 
to make it into a plaster, adding in the 
end when it is removed from the fire, Li- 
quid Styrax an ounce and an half, stir- 
ring it about with a spatule; lastly,the 
mass being warm, add Quick-silver four 
ounces, killed in Turpentine, and liquid 
Styrax, and incorporate them very well 
together.
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister hath an excellent fa- 
culty to drive away pains in the 
Joynts, Shoulders, and Hips proceed- 
ing from an old Venereal disease. It 
strengthens the parts it is applied un- 
to. It draws out the Venom of the 
great pocks, in manner of a Sweat, 
and asswags the restless pains of that 
disease. That which is made with- 
out Quick-silver is good for pains a- 
rising from a cold cause. 
Emplastrum Syconium. Page 181. Lat. 
Or, of Wild Cucumers. 
Colledg. Take. of wild Cucumer Roots 
three ounces. 
Sulphur vivum. 
Cummin-seeds, of each two ounces. 
Euphorbium one ounce and an half. 
Beat them all into very fine pouder,
which incorporate with Burgundy pitch 
twenty eight ounces, over a gentle fire, 
stirring it with a spatule, adding at the 
end, Oyntment of Sowbread three oun- 
ces: make it into a plaister according to 
art. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister is of a purgeing and 
drying Faculty. Being laid upon the 
dropsie-swolne belly it will drive out 
the water by stool, and dry up the 
remainder, being seasonably and me- 
thodically applied. 
Sparadrap sen tela Galteris Page 183. 
Lat. Or, Galterus his Cere-
cloath. 
Colledg.] Take Oyl of Roses half a 
pound. 
Rams suet four ounces. 
Wax ten ounces. 
Litharge, 
Per-rozin, 
Frankincense, 
Mastich, of each two ounces. 
Bole armenick. 
Fine flower, of each one ounce. 
Boyl the oyl,suet,and Litharge together, 
and when they are wel incorporated,then 
make them all into a plaister according 
to art; in which being hot, dip your 
Tents. 
Culpeper.] I never know it used 
yet it dries. 
Vertues newly added.
This Plaister or Cerecloath, is of 
a drying, soddering Nature, it has a 
faculty to breed new flesh in Ulcers. 
It closeth Wounds, and dries them 
up and brings both wounds and ul- 
cers to a perfect closure with a scar. 
Emplastrum Stephaniaion. Page 183. 
Latin. Or, the Crown-
Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of Labdanum half an 
ounce. 
Styrax, 
Juniper Gum, of each two drams. 
Amber, 
Cypress, 
Turpentine, of each one dram. 
Red Corral, 
Mastich, of each half a dram. 
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203 PLASTERS. 
Red Roses, 
Roots of Orris Florentine, of each one 
scruple. 
Rozin washed in Rose-water, half an 
ounce. 
The Rozin, Labdanum, Juniper-Gum, 
and Turpentine being gently beaten in a 
hot mortar, with a hot pestle, sprinkling 
in a few drops of red Wine till they are 
in a body; then put in the pouders, and 
by diligent stirring make them into an 
exact Plaister.
Virtues newly added. 
The Name and nature of this plai- 
ster do argue that it hath been first 
invented to applie to the Crown of 
the Head, the hair being first shaven 
away, to stop defluxions of Rheum 
from the Brain upon the Lungs, and 
to hinder consumptions thence ari- 
sing. It is also good against rup- 
tures. And it wil help fits of the mo- 
ther being applied to the region of 
the womb. Laid upon the Stomach 
it will staie Vomitings and streng- 
thens the stomach. Applied to the 
Kidneys and Loins it will help the 
Gonorrhæa, seasonably used. And it 
wil check a Loosness being laid over 
the Belly. 
Emplastrum Sticticum. Page 184. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Oyl of Olives six 
ounces. 
Yellow Wax an ounce and an half. 
Litharge in pouder four ounces and 
an half. 
Ammoniacum, 
Bdellium, of each half an ounce. 
Galbamm, 
Opopanax, 
Oyl of Bays, 
Lapis Calaminaris, 
Both sorts of Birthwort, 
Mirrh, 
Frankincense, of each two drams. 
Pure Turpentine an ounce. 
Let the Oyl, Wax, and Litharge be boyl- 
and together till it stick, not to your finger, 
then the mass being removed from the fire 
and cooling a little, and the Gums di- 
ssolved in white wine Vinegar, which e- 
vaporate away by boyling, strain it 
strongly, then add the Pouders, Turpen- 
tine, and Oyl of Bays, that it may be 
made into a plaister according to art. 
Culpeper.It strengthens the nerves, 
draws out corruption, takes away 
pains and aches,and restores strength 
to members that have lost it. 
Emplastrum Stomachinum Magistrale. 
Page 184. Lat. Or, A Sto- 
mach Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of Mints,
Wormwood,
Stœehas, 
Bay leaves, of each a dram. 
Marjoram, 
Red Roses,
Yellow Sanders, of each two drams. 
Calamus Aromaticum, 
Wood of Aloes,
Lavender flowers, 
Nutmegs, 
Cubebs, 
Galanga, 
Long Pepper, 
Mace, of each a dram, 
Mastich three drams. 
Cloves two drams and an half. 
Oyl of Mints an ounce and an half. 
Oyl of Nard an ounce. 
Oyl of Spike a dram. 
Rozin. 
Wax, of each four ounces, 
Labdanum three ounces. 
Styrax half an ounce. 
Make it into a Plaister.
Culpeper.] Both this and the other 
of that name which you fhal have b- 
and by, strengthen the stomach ex- 
ceedingly, help digestion, and staies 
Vomiting. 
Emplastrum Tonsoris. Page. 185. Lat. 
Or, the Barber-surgeons 
Plaister. 
Colledg.] Take of dry Pitch two pound 
Wax one pound. 
Per-rozin half a pound. 
Pouder of Fœnugreek, 
Roots of black Chameleon or Briony, 
of each four ounces. 
Cummin seeds finely poudered two 
ounces. 
Make it into a plaister according to art.
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister hath had its Name 
from the vulgar and repute thereof 
amongst Barbar-Surgeons and other 
Coblers of the Body of man. Aetius 
a famous greek Author highly com- 
mends the same against the Spleen, 
Dropsie, and scitatica or Hipgout, 
whose pains it has many times taken 
away. For it attracts, digests and dis- 
cusses, wheyish and windy Humors. 
PLAISTERS 
left out in the last Edi- 
tion.
Emplastrum Ceroma. Or, Ceroneum. 
Nich. Alex. 
Colledg. Take of Pitch scraped 
from a ship that hath 
been a long time at Sea, 
Yellow Wax: of each seven drams. 
Sagapenum six drams. 
Ammoniacum, 
Turpentstine, 
Colophonia, 
Saffron, of each four drams, 
Aloes,  
Olibanum, 
Mirrh, of each three drams. 
Styrax Calamitis, 
Mastich, 
Opopanax,  
Galbanum, 
Allum,
The seeds of Fœnugreek of each two 
drams, 
The setlings or feces of liquid Sty- 
rax. 
Bdellium, of each one dram, 
Lithargy half a dram. 
Culpeper.] It is of a gentle Emol- 
lient nature, prevails against stop- 
pings of the Stomach coming of cold 
hardness of the Spleen, coldness of 
the Liver and Matrix. 
For Cure of all Diseases, Read my 
Riverius, Riolanus, Johnston, Veslin- 
gus, Sennertus, and Physick for the 
Poor.
Emplastrum Gratia Dei. Nich. 
Or, the Grace of God. 
Colledg.] Take of Turpentine half a 
pound 
Rozin one pound.  
White Wax four ounces. 
Mastich an ounce. 
Fresh Betony, 
Vervain, 
Burnet, of each one handful. 
Let the Herbs being bruised, be suffic- 
ently boyled in white Wine, the Liquor 
presed out, in which let the wax and 
Rozin be boyled to the consumption of 
the liquor; being taken from the fire, 
let the Turpentine be mixed with it; 
lastly, the Mastich in Pouder, and so 
make of them a Plaister according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It is excellent good in 
wounds and green Ulcers, for it 
keeps back Inflamations, clenseth 
and joyneth wounds, fils up Ulcers 
with flesh. 
Emplastrum de Janua, or of Betony. 
Nicholaus. 
Colledg.] Take of Juyce of Betony, 
Plantane. 
Smallage, of each one pound, 
Wax, 
Pitch, 
Rozin, 
Turpentine, of each half a pound. 
Boyl the Wax and Rozin in the Juyces 
with a gentle fire, continually stirring 
them till the Juyce be consumed, then 
add the Turpentine and Pitch, Conti- 
nually stirring it till it be brought into
the

204 PLASTERS. 
the consistence of a plaster according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It is a gallant Plaster 
for the pains in the Head, and to 
secruit an addle Brain, helps green 
wounds, easeth Inflamations, streng- 
thens the Liver. 
Emplastrum Isis Epigoni. Galen. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow Wax an 
hundred drams. 
Turpentine two hundred drams. 
Scales of Copper,
Vertde-greece, 
Round Birth-wort, 
Frankincense, 
Sal. Armoniack, 
Ammoniacum, 
Burnt Brass, of each eight drams, 
Burnt Allum six drams.  
Aloes,
Mirrh, 
Galbanum, of each an ounce and an 
half. 
Old Oyl one pound. 
Sharp Vinegar so much as is suffi- 
cient. 
Let the Mettals be dissolved in the 
Sun with the Vinegar, then put in those 
things that may be melted, last of all the 
pouders, and make them all into an Em- 
plaster. 
Culpeper.] Galen appropriates it to 
the Head, and Ulcers there. I know 
no reason but why it may as well 
serve for other parts of the body. 
A Plaster of Mastich. 
Colledg.] Take of Mastich, 
Ship-pitch, 
Sagapenum, 
Wax, of each fix drams.
Ammoniacum, 
Turpentine, 
Colophonia, 
Saffron, 
Aloes, 
Frankincense, 
Myrrh, ofeach three drams. 
Galbanum, 
Opopanax,  
Styrax Calamitis, 
Allum, (Rondoletius appoints, 
and we for him) Bitumen, 
Fœnugreek, of each two drams. 
Feces of Liquid Styrax, 
Bdellium, 
Litharge, of each half a dram. 
Let the Litharge being beaten into pou- 
der, be boyled in a sufficient quantity of 
water; then add the pitch, which being 
melted, ad the wax and Ammoniacum; 
afterwards let the Sagapenum, Opopa- 
nax, and Galbanwn be put in; then 
the Sytrax and Feces being mixed with 
the Turpentine; last of all the Colopho- 
nia, Mastich, Frankincecse, Bdellium, 
Allum, Myrrh, and Fœnugreek in pou- 
der: let them be made into a Plaster.
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Sto- 
mach, and helps digestion. 
Vertues newly added. 
It is good to strengthen a weake 
stomach and stop Vomiting, and to 
asswage the heat thereof. Also it wil 
stop defluxions of Rheum being ap- 
plied to the futures of the head. And 
being laid on the Belly it wil check a 
Looseness. And laid upon the region 
of the Womb it wil ease the mother- 
fits. It is also good against ruptures.
Emplastrum nigrum. Or, the Black- 
plaister called Stichflaster 
in the High-dutch. 
Colledg.] Take of Colophonia, 
Rozin, 
Ship-pitch, 
White Wax, 
Roman Vitriol, 
Ceruss, 
Olibanum, 
Mirrh, of each eight ounces. 
Oyl of Roses seven ounces. 
Oyl of Juniper berries three ounces. 
Oyl of Eggs two ounces. 
Oyl of Spike one ounce.
White Vitriol, 
Red Corral, 
Mummy, of each two ounces. 
Earth of Lemnos,
Mastich, 
Dragons blood, of each one ounce. 
Fat of an Heron one ounce. 
Fat of Timullus [* A kind of Fish.] 
three ounces.  
Load stone prepared, two ounces. 
Earthworms prepared, 
Camphire, of each one ounce. 
Make them into a Plaister according to 
Art. 
Culpeper.] It is very good (they 
say) in green Wounds and Pricks. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Plaister is of a drying, fastning 
and binding Nature, and may there- 
fore well be good in Wounds and 
Pricks. I have heard it commended 
by some Gentlewomen for a great 
easer of sore duggs in women, and to 
that end it hath been fought for in 
London. 
Emplastrum Sanctum. Andr. é Cruce. 
A holy Plaister, composed by 
Andrew of the Gallows. 
Colledg.] Take of Per-rozin twelve 
ounces. 
Oyl of Bays, 
Turpentine, of each two ounces. 
Gum Elemi four ounces. 
Let the Rozin & Gum be melted over the 
fire in a brass pan stirring it with a brass 
instrument; then add Oyl of Bays and
Turpentine, boyl it a little, then put it in 
a linnen bagg, and that which drops, 
through keep in a glazed pot for your use. 
Culpeper.] The Vertues are the 
same with Arceus his Liniment.
Virtues newly added. 
This plaster is of an healing, soft- 
ning, digesting, dissblving, concoct- 
ing faculty. Also it causes suppura- 
tion. It asswages pain, and is especi- 
ally good in wounds of the head and 
in ulcers also. It is excellent for ul- 
cers, if not too sanious, in any part of 
the Body. It gently clenseth and fil- 
leth up an ulcer with fiesh, beipg of a 
mild Nature and friendly to the bo- 
dy. 
Emplastrum fine Part. 
Colledg.] Take of Frankincense, 
Bdellium, 
Styrax, of each three drams, 
Ammoniacum, 
Galbanum, of each one dram and an 
half. 
Ship pitch six drams.  
Marrow of a stag, 
Fat of Hens and 
Geese, of each two drams. 
Sulphur vivum washed in milk, 
Hermodactils in pouder, of each a 
dram and an half. 
Let the Gum be dissolved in white wine 
(not in Vinegar, bccause that is inimi- 
cal to the Nerves) and with two parts 
of Oyl of Roses compleat, and one part of 
oyl of Eggs, and a little oyl of Turpen- 
tine, make it into a plaister according to 
Art. 
The Stomach Plaster. Mesue. 
Colledg.] Take of wood of Aloes, 
Wormwood, 
Gum Arabick, 
Mastich, 
Cyperus, 
Costus, 
Ginger, of each half an ounce. 
Calamus Aromaticus, 
Olibanum, 
Aloes, of each three drams. 
Cloves, 
Mace,  
Cinnamon, 
Spicknard, 
Nutmegs, 
Gallia Moschata, 
Schænanthus, of each one dram and 
an half. 
With Rob of Quinces make it into an 
Emplastre: and when you have spread 
it upon a cloth, perfume it with wood of 
Aloes, and apply it to your stomach. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is good to strengthen nhe sto- 
mach and stop Vomitings, and to 
cause good digestion Being applied 
to the belly it is good against the 
wind Colick, and stops a Loosness. 
Applied to the Head being first sha- 
ven, it helps a cold and moist distem- 
per of the brain and stops defluxions
of

205 CHYMICAL OYLS.  
of rheum from the head to the lower 
parts. It strengthens a cold and weak 
Liver and Spleen, being applied to 
the respective Regions of those bow- 
els.
The Cerecloath of Gum Ammoniacum. 
Colledg.] Take of Ammoniacum dis- 
soved in Vinegar an ounce. 
Unguentum de Althæa, Melisot 
plaister, of each half an ounce. 
Bran an ounce. 
Ponder of the Roots of Briony, 
Orris, of each half an ounce. 
Grease of Ducks, 
Geese, and 
Hens, of each three drams. 
Oyl of Orris one ounce and an half. 
Let them boyl gently in the Mucilages of
Lin and Fœnugreek seeds, so much as is  
sufficient. By adding wax four ounces, 
make it into a Cerecloath according to  
art.
Culpeper.] It asswageth swellings, 
or ripens and breaks them, and easeth 
pains thereby coming. 
Vertues newly added. 
It opens obstructions of the Liver 
and Spleen. It softens the hard swel- 
lings of the Spleen, and prevents a 
Dropsie.
Ceratum Stomachinum Galeni. Or Ga- 
len his Stomach-cerecloath.
Colledg.] Take of red Roses, 
Mastich, of each twenty drams. 
Dried Wormwood fifteen drams. 
Spicknard ten drams. 
Wax four ounces. 
Rose water so much as is sufficient. 
Oyl of Roses a pound and an half. 
Let it boyl so till it be like an oyntment: 
then add oyl of Roses eight ounces; wax 
fourteen ounces; the Pouders afore men- 
tioned (excepting the Mastich, which 
must be melted in the Oyl of Roses) of all 
of them used in this manner, make a cere- 
cloath according to art. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the Sto- 
mach and Liver, easeth their pains, 
provokes appetite to ones meat, and              
helps digestion.
Vertues newly added. 
This being applied to the futures 
or seams, of the Head, strengthens 
and vigorates a cold and moist brains 
helps a bad Memory thereef procee- 
ding, being applied to the hinder 
part of the Head. It stops the gonor- 
rhæa being applied to the Loins af- 
ter universal Remedies. Applied to 
the Region of the Liver it helps to 
prevent a Dropsie, and laid al along 
the Back-bone, it strengthens the 
back, and the Body.
CHYMICAL OYLS, 
AND OTHER 
CHYMICAL LIQUORS. 
Oyl of Herbs and Flowers. 
Culpeper. I Desire you to take notice before I begin, That Chymical Oyls 
generally are not to be taken alone by themselves by reason of 
their vehement heat and burning, but mixed with other convenient Medicines. 
2. They carry the very same vertues the Simples do, but are far more priva- 
lent, as having far more spirit in them, and far less Earthly dross. 3. The 
general way of taking them, is to drop two or three drops of them in any con- 
venient Liquor, or other Medicine, which the last Table will fit you with, 
and so take it; for some of them are so hot (as Oyl of Cinnamon) that two or 
three drops will make a dish of Pottage so hot of the Simple that you can hardly 
eat them 
Oyl of Wormwood. 
Colledg.] Take of dried Wormwood a 
pound. 
Spring water twenty pound. 
Steep them twenty four hours, and distill 
them in a great Alembick, with his re- 
frigeratory, or a Copper one with a 
worm. Let the Oyl be separated from
the water with a Funnel, or separating 
Glass as they call it,and let the water be 
kept for another Distillation. Let two 
or three of the first pounds of water be 
kept for the Physitians use, both in this, 
and other Chymical Oyls drawn with 
water.
Vertues newly added. 
A Drop or two of this Oyl in a 
glass of white wine and Sugar makes 
a pleasant Drink, which strengthens       
the Stomacn and Liver, breeds an ap- 
petite to meat, causes a good colour, 
expells wind, moves Urine, events 
the Dropsie, and is good against hy 
pochondriacal Melancholy. The 
way to use it is this, you must drop a 
drop or two or three into a piece of 
refined Sugar, and let it soak into 
the sugar, and then melt the sugar in 
the Wine; for so the Oyl wil, being
Ddd incorpo-

206 CHYMICAL OYLS. 
incorporated with the sugar, wil min- 
gle more perfectly with the Wine. 
Colledg.] In the same manner are pre- 
pared Oyls of Hysop, 
Marjoram, 
Mints,
Garden, and water cresses, 
Origanum, 
Peniroyal, 
Rosemary, 
Rue,
Savin, 
Sage, 
Savory, 
Time, &c. 
Culpeper.] I shal instance here on- 
ly Oyl of Lavender, commonly cal- 
led Oyl of Spike, which helps the 
Running of the Reins, they being a- 
nointed with it; it expels Worms, 
two drops of it being taken in wine, 
the Region of the back being anoin- 
ted with it, it helps the Palsie. For 
all the rest see the Vertues of the 
Herbs themselves. 
Such as dosire to be knowing Phy- 
sitians, let them read these Books of 
mine, of the last Edition, viz. Ri- 
verius, Johnston, Vislingus, Riola- 
nus, Sennertus, and Physick for the 
Poor. 
Colledg.] After the same manner are 
made Oyl of dried Barks, of
Orranges, 
Citrons, 
Lemons, 
But it is better prepared of the Barks, 
being green and full of Juyce, separated 
from the internal white part, bruised, 
and with a sufficient quantity of simple 
distilled water, so will the Oyl be drawn 
easier, and in greater plenty, and no less 
fitting for the Physitians use, 
Oyl, or Fat of Roses, commonly called, 
Spirit of Roses. 
Colledg.] Take as many fresh Da- 
mask Roses as you will; infuse them 
twenty four hours in sufficient quantity 
of warm Water: after you have pressed 
them out, repeat the infusion certain times 
till the Liquor be strong enough, which 
distill in an Alembick with his refrige- 
ratory, or a Copper with his worm: se- 
parate the spirit from the water and keep 
the water for another infusion. So may 
you draw spirit from Damask Roses, pic- 
kled in salt: as also of red Roses.
Clupeper.] 'Tis a good perfume. 
Vertues newly added 
A drop of this Spirit in a cordial 
Electuary will cheat the Heart brain 
and spirits both vital and animal so 
called. Also a drop or two may be 
put into cordial Lozenges.
OYL of SEEDS. 
Oyl of Dill Seeds. 
Colledg.] Take of Dill seeds bruised 
two pound,                                               
Spring water twenty pound, 
Steep them twenty four hours, then distil 
them in a copper still, or an Alembick 
with his refrigeratory: separate the Oyl 
from the Water with a Funnel, and keep 
the Water for a new Distillation. So al- 
so is prepared Oyl of the seeds of Annis, 
Caraway, Cummin, Carrots, Fennel, 
Parsley, Saxifrage, &c,
Culpeper.] Oyl of Annis seeds al- 
though it be often given, and happily 
with good success in Vertigoes or 
Diziness in the Head; yet its chief 
Operation is upon the Breast and 
Lungs, it helps Narrowness of the 
Breast, Rawness and wind in the sto- 
mach, all Infirmities there coming of 
cold and Wind, strengthens the 
Nerves; six drops is enough at a 
time, taken in broth or any other 
convenient Liquor. As Annis seeds 
are apropriated to the Breast, so are 
Fennel seeds to the Head, the Oyl of 
which clenseth the Brain of cold In- 
firmities, Lithargies, indisposition of 
the Body, Numbness, want of mo- 
tion, also it helps the Stomach, and 
expels wind. Cummin seeds: The 
Oyl of them is a great expeller of 
wind, nothing better; it also won- 
derfully easeth pains of the Spleen, 
pains in the Reins and Bladder, stop- 
ping of Urine, especially if it come of 
wind, and is a present Remedy for 
the Colick. For the way of taking 
of them, see Annis seeds.
Colledg.] So also are made
Oyl of Spices, as of 
Cinnamon, 
Cloves, 
Mace, 
Nutmegs, 
Pepper, &c. 
Culpeper. One or two drops of 
Oyl of Cinnamon is enough to take 
at a time, and is exceeding good for 
such as are in Consumptions. See 
[Cinnamon] among the Simples. 
Oyl of Mace is excellent good for 
Rewms in the Head: and Oyl of 
Pepper for the Colick. 
Virtues newly added. 
A drop or two of these Oyls in 
Wine or in Electuaries, or Lozenges, 
does strengthen and comfort the 
Brain, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, and 
all internal parts, helps digestion, and 
expels wind.                   
Colledg.] Also Oyls of Aromatical 
Woods, as of 
Sassafras and 
Rhodium, &c.
OYL of BERRIES 
Oyl of Juniper Berries.
Colledg.] Take of fresh Juniper 
Berries fifty pound, 
bruise them and put them in a wood- 
en Vessel, with twenty four pound of 
spring water, sharp Leaven one 
pound, keep them in a Celler three 
months, the Vessel being close stopped, 
then distil them in an Alembick 
with a sufficient quantity of simple wa- 
ter, after the oyl is separated, keep the 
water for a new distillation. After 
the same manner is made Oyl of Bay- 
berries, Ivy-berries &c. Or you may 
draw oyl from the aforenamed berries 
bruised and steeped twenty four hours 
in warm water, adding six pound of 
water, or if the berries ibe very dry, 
ten pound of water to each pound of 
berries, distilling them as before. 
Culpeper. Oyl of Juniper berries, 
prevails wonderfully in pains of the 
Yard, and running of the Reins, the 
Falling-sickness. It is a mighty pre- 
servative against the Pestilence, and 
all evil airs. It purgeth the Reins, 
provokes Urine, bereaks the stone, 
helps the Dropsie: the quantity to 
be taken at a time in any convenient 
Liquor, is three or four drops; out- 
wardly by unction it helps the Gout: 
two or three drops dropped upon the 
Navil helps the Colick. 
Oyl of Bay-berries helps the Co- 
lick and Illiack passion. Oyl of Ivy- 
berries helps cold Diseases of the 
joynts, the stone, and provokes the 
Terms in Women. Use them as Ju- 
niper Oyl. 
Egg shels dryed and beaten into 
pouder, and given in white Wine, 
breaks the stone. 
Oyl of Turpentine. 
Colledg.] Take of Vence Turpentine 
as much as you wil, put it into an A- 
lembick with four times its weight in 
common Water, still it with a conveni- 
ent fire, and draw off a white thin Oyl 
like water, the Colophonia wil remain 
in the bottom of the vessel, this Oyl 
may be drawn into a bath, more aptly 
from burning in a glass Still. 
Culpeper.] It is wonderful good in 
cold afflictions of the Nerves and all
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207 CHYMICAL OYLS. 
Diseases coming of cold and wind, it 
corrects the cold afflictions of the 
Lungs, as Asthmaes, difficulty of 
breathing, &c. A dram being taken 
in the morning. Outwardly it a- 
dorns the body, takes away the prints 
of Scabs, and the smal pox, chops in 
the Skin and breasts of women, and 
deafness, being dropped into the 
Ears.
Oyl of Myrrh.
Colledg.] Take of Myrrh bruised, 
Bay salt, of each six pound, dissolve 
them in sixty pound of spring water, 
and still them in a Copper still, or 
Alembick. 
Culpeper.] It keeps wounds (and 
all things else faith Fioravantus) from 
putrefaction; it makes the Face fair 
and youthful, quickly cures wounds, 
and Deafness, being dropped into 
the Ears. 
Oyl of Guajacum. 
Colledg.] Take of Guajacum in gross 
Pouder as much as you will, put it in- 
to a Retort, and still it in Sand, the 
Oyl that comes out, because it is thin- 
ner and sweeter, keep it by it self, 
which by rectifying with much water, 
will yet be sweeter. The same things 
are to be observed in Distillation of 
Box, and Oak, and other solid woods, 
as also Oyl of Tartar, with its tart, 
spirit, which may better be distilled 
out of Christal of Tartar in the same 
manner. 
Vertues newly added. 
Some drops being mingled in a 
sweating Potion, do further the e- 
ruption of sweat, dry up superfluous 
humors, help the Venereal Disease, 
and strengthen the Nerves.
Oyl of Wax. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow wax melted 
one pound, with which mix three 
pound of Tiles in pouder, draw out the 
Oyl in Sand with a Retort, which re- 
ctifie with water.
Culpeper.] I am of opinion, That 
Oyl of Wax is as singular a remedy 
for burns and burning Ulcers, as any 
is, or need to be.
Colledg.] After the same manner is 
drawn Oyl of Fats, and Gums, and 
Rozins, which cannot be beaten into 
Pouder, as Ammoniacum, Carranna, 
Opopanax, Sagapen, Liquid Styrax,                
Tachamahaca, &c. 
Oleum Lattricium Phylosophorum. 
Page 190. Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of Bricks broken in 
pieces, as big as an Hens Egg, heat 
them red hot, and quench them in old 
Oyl, where let them lie til they be cool, 
then beat them into fine Pouder, and 
still them in a glass Retort, with a fit 
receiver, give fire to it by degrees, and 
keep the Oyl in a glass close stopped.
Culpeper.] The Oyl wil quickly pe- 
netrate, and is a soveraign Remedy 
for the Gout, and all cold afflictions 
in the Joynts or Nerves, Cramps, 
Epilepsies, or Falling-sickness, Pal- 
sies; it mollifies hard swellings, dis- 
solves cold swellings, and also cold 
distempers of the Spleen, Reins, and 
Bladder. 
Oleum Succini. Page 191. Latin. Or, 
Oyl of Amber. 
Colledg.] Take of yellow Amber one 
part, burnt Flints, or pouder of Tiles 
two parts, distill them in a Retort in 
Sand, keep the white clear Oyl which 
comes but first by itself, then distill it 
on, til all come out, keep both Oyls se- 
verally, and rectifie them with water: 
gather the salt of Amber which sticks 
to the neck of the Retort, and being 
purged by Solution, Filtration, and 
coagulation, according to art, keep it 
for use.
Culpeper] It speedily helps all af- 
flictions of the Nerves, and Convul- 
sions, Falling-sickness, &c. Being gi- 
ven in convenient liquors, it is a sin- 
gular remedy against poyson and pe- 
stilent air, Diseases of the Reins and 
bladder, the fits of the Mother; the 
Nose being anointed with it, and the 
Colick. It causeth speedy Labor to 
women in travel being taken in Ver- 
vain water, itstrengthens the body 
exceedingly, as also the brain and 
sences, and is of an opening nature. 
Colledg.] So is distilled Oyl of Jet, 
and of Gums and Rozins, which may 
be Poudered as Benjamin, Mastich, 
Frankincense, &c. 
Oleum seu Butyrum Antimony. Page                 
191. Latin. Butter of 
Antimony. 
Colledg.] Take of crude. Antimony, 
Mercury sublimate,of each one pound: 
beat them into pouder, and put them 
in a glaβ Retort, with a large neck, 
give fire by degrees into a Reverbera- 
tory, or else in Sand, the Fat will di- 
still down into the Receiver, that part 
of that which sticks to the neck, of the 
Receiver, wil easily be melted, by put- 
ting a gentle fire under it; let this 
Fat be rectified in a smal retort, and 
keep either in an open Vial, or in a 
Celler, or other moist place, that it 
may be dissolved into Oyl which must 
be kept in a vessel close stopped.
Oleum Arsenici. Page 191. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Arsnick. 
Colledg.] Take of Chrystalline Ars- 
nick, first sublimated with Colcother a-              
lone, mix it with an equal part of salt 
of Tartar, and Salt-peter, calcine it 
between two pots, the uppermost of 
which hath a hole through, till no 
smoak ascend, dissolve the matter so 
calcined in warm water that you draw 
out the salt, moisten the pouder which 
resides at the bottom with liquor Tar- 
tari, and dry it by the fire, do so three 
times, then dissolve the matter again 
that you may draw out the salt, and                 
there will remain a white pouder and 
fixed, which being kept in a moist place 
will dissolve into a moist substance like 
Oyl or Butter.
Oleum Salis. Page 192. Latin. Or, 
Oyl of Salt. 
Colledg.] Take of French or Spanish 
Bay-salt, as much as you wil, dissolve 
it in water and filter it, and having 
then put it in a Copper vessel, mix 
with the brine fine pouder of Tiles or 
Bricks two or three times the weight of 
of the salt before it was dissolved, and 
set it upon hot coals, and let the water 
evaporate away (continually stirring 
it) til it be very dry, then put the 
pouder in a glaβ Retort wel luted, pla- 
ced in a furnace with a fit Receiver, 
giving fire by degrees to the height, 
for the space of twelve hours, so shall 
you have an Oyl or sharp spirit of sale 
in the receiver, rectifie this by separa- 
ting the flegm in a Retort in sand, and 
keep it close stopped for use. 
Culpeper.] Being mixed with Tur- 
pentine and applied outwardly, helps 
the Gout: three drops taken every 
morning in convenient liquor, pre- 
serves youth, consumes the Dropsie, 
resists Feavers, Convulsions, and the 
Falling-sickness: being mixed with 
Oyntments, it is exceeding good in 
Ruptures and Dislocations. 
Vertues newly added.
Some drops thereof taken in Oyl, 
or Posset-drink do powerfully move 
Urine, dry up superfluous humors, 
and hinder putrefaction. Also it cuts 
and digests flegm in the Lungs. In a 
Julep it quenches thirst.
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208 CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS.
Oleum Sulphuris. Page 192. Latin. 
Or, Oyl of Sulphur, 
Colledg.] It is prepared in a Bel-still 
by copious burning and consuming of 
Brimstone, by which a sharp spirit 
beating against the sides of the still, 
will turn into Liquor, and flow down 
like water or Oyl: the orderly dispo- 
sing of the still and Brimstone, and o- 
ther commodities belonging to this o- 
peration, we leave to the dexteityr of 
the Artificer.
Culpeper.] It prevails against Dis- 
eases coming of cold, putrefaction, 
or wind, Feavers, Agues, tertian, 
quartan, or quotidian, pestilence, 
Wounds and Ulcers, affects of the 
Brain, mouth, Teeth, Liver, Stomach, 
Spleen, Matrix, Bladder, Entrals, and 
Arteries coming of abundance of hu- 
mors or putrefaction: outwardly ap- 
plied it helps fistulaes, ulcers of the 
mouth, and Gangrenes. The way to 
take it inwardly is thus; Dip the top 
of a Feather in Oyl, and wash it in 
the liquor or decoction you give it 
in; in quotidian Agues give it in 
Wine, in which Rosemary, or Mints, 
or both have been boyled; in Terti- 
an Agues in Wine, in which Centau- 
ry hath been boyled; in quartan A- 
gues, in Bugloss water; in all of 
them a little before the fit comes: in 
Pestilences, in Wine in which Rhadi- 
shes have been boyled, mingled with 
a little Venice Treacle: in the Fall- 
ing-sickness, with decoction of Beto- 
ny or Peony: in Coughs with De- 
coction of Nettle seed and Hysop, 
both of them made with Wine: for 
flegm, in Wormwood water: for the 
wind colick, in Chamomel flower 
water: for dropsies and cold Livers, 
in Celondine water and Honey: for 
the Rickets and stoppage of the 
Spleen, in Tamaris Water: for the 
French pox, in Fumitory, or Broom- 
flower water: against worms,in Grass 
or Wormwood water: for the fits of 
the mother, in decoction of Betony 
or Featherfew in Wine: for suppre- 
ssion in Urine, in Decoction of Gar- 
lick with Wine: for the Gout, in de- 
coction of Chamepitysm Wine: in 
Wounds and Ulcers, the place is 
lightly to be touched with a feather 
wet of the Oyl: if a hollow tooth ake, 
put a drop into it; if all your teeth 
ake, make a decoction of Mints in 
Wine, and put a drop or two of this 
Oyl to it, and hold it warm in your 
Mouth.
Oleum Vitrioli. Page 129. Lat. Or, 
Oyl of Vitriol. 
Colledg.] Take of Ungarick, or 
English Vitriol of the best, as much as 
you will; melt it in an Earthen vessell
glazed, and exhale away all the moi- 
sture, continually stirring it, and so bring 
it into a yellow pouder, which is to be put  
in earthen Retorts that wil endure the 
fire, placed in an open Furnace, give fire 
by degrees, even to the height, for three 
daies, till the receiver, which before was 
full of smoake, be cleer; rectifie the Li-
quor from the flegm, in sand, and keep 
the strong and pouderous Oyl by it self
Culpeper.] It must be mixed with 
other Medicines, for it kils being ta- 
ken alone; it affwageth thirst, allay- 
eth violent heat in feavers and pesti- 
lences; and a few drops of it gives 
a pleasant grateful tast to any Medi- 
cine.
Vertues newly added. 
A drink made moderately Tart 
with this Oyl, is good for to asswage 
the passion of Anger and Hastiness. 
A drop or two in a Pint of fair wa- 
ter, or of Plantane, Lettice, Purslain, 
or Frog-spawn Water, does stop the 
bleeding at the Nose.  
Aqua fortis. Page 193. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Vitriol prepared as 
for Oyl of Vitriol, two pound. 
Saltpeter purged one pound. 
Beat them together, and put them in a 
Retort well luted; place it in a Furnace 
with a large Receiver, and giving fire to 
it, distill it by degrees for twenty four 
houres, rectifie the water in Sand.
Aqua Mellis. Page 193. Latin Or, 
Water of Honey. 
Colledg.] Take of the best Honey four 
pound, dry sand, two pound: 
Distill it in a Glass Still, so capacious 
that the matter take up only the fift part 
of it, draw off the flegm in a bath, then 
encrease the fire, and draw off the yellow- 
ish Water. 
Culpeper] Paracelsus adviseth it to 
be drawn five times over, and cals it 
Quintessence of Honey, and extols the 
vertues of it to the skies; faith, it wil 
revive dying men; which Mr. Charls 
Butler of Hamshire also affirms.
Liquor Seu Liquamen Tartari, Seu Oleum 
Tartari per Deliquium. Or
Liquor of Tartar.
Colledg.] Take of Tartar of white 
wine, calcined til it be white, as much as 
you will, put it in Hippocrates his sleeve, 
and hang it in a moist Celler that the 
Tartar may dissolve, putting a vessell 
under it to receive it, dissolve what re- 
mains in the sleeve in common Water, 
filter it, and evaporate it away till it be- 
gin to be like Allum, then use that like 
the former.         
Culpeper.] This is common to be 
had at every Apothecaries. Virgins 
buy it to take away the Sunburn and 
Freckles from their faces. It takes off 
the rust from the Iron, and preserves 
it bright a long time. 
Vertues newly Added. 
A drop or two of this Oyl in some 
convenient Liquor, opens all manner 
of obstructions.
Oleum Mirrhæ per Deliquium. Pa. l93. 
Lat. Or, Oyl or Liquor 
of Mirrh.
Colledg. Boyl Hens Eggs till they 
be hard, then out them through the mid- 
dle of the length, take out the yolk, and 
fil the Caveties half ful of beaten mirrh. 
joyn them again and bind them gently 
with a thrid, place them between two di-
shes in a moist place, a grate being put 
between, so wil the Liquor of the Mirrh 
distill down into the lower Dish. 
Culpeper.] You had both it and its 
vertues before. 
Virtues newly added. 
This is excellent against the white- 
flux in women, half an ounce being 
given in Plantane water, white-wine 
or Aligant. It is good also against 
Hoarsness. 
Oyl of Tartar. 
Colledg. Take of Tartar so much as 
you wil; put it into a large Retrot,with 
that proportion, that but the third part 
of the vessel be fil'd, distill it in Sand 
with a strong fire; afterwards (the oyl 
being first separated from the water, or 
spirit of Tartar) rectifie it with much 
water, to correct the smel of if, let it stand 
open a long time in the Sun. 
Chymical Prepa- 
rations, more fre-  
quent in Use. 
Antimonium cum Nitro Calcinatum. 
Page 194. Lat. Or, Antimo- 
ny Calcined with Niter. 
Colledg. Take of the best Anti- 
mony one part, pure 
Niter two parts; bruise the Anti- 
mony, then add the Niter to it, bring 
them both into pouder, which burn in 
a Crucible, which wil be most conve- 
niently done, if you put it in the red 
hot crucible with a Ladle or such a 
like instrument; then take it out, and 
beat it again, and mix it with the same 
quantity of Niter as before, put it into 
the crucible upon hot coals, and put- 
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it 

209 CHYMICAL PREPARATlONS. 
it with an iron thing that it may burn 
all about equally; and when there 
needs, put in more fresh coats; bruise 
it the third time, and with the like 
quantity of Niter, use it as before: at 
last beat it into pouder, wash it in 
pure water, and keep it for your use.
Chalybs preparatus. Page 194. Lat. 
Or, Steel prepared. 
Colledg.] Take of filtings of Steel, 
clensed with a Load-stone, as much as 
you will, moisten them twelve times 
with sharp white Wine Vinegar, dry 
it in the Sun or a dry air; beat it tn an 
Iron Mortar, and levigate it upon a 
marble with a little Cinnamon water, 
and so bring it into a very fine pou- 
der, and keep it for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an excellent opener of all 
obstructions of the Liver and Spleen 
and the other inward parts. It streng- 
thens the Bowels. It is good against 
the green-sickness, and the Jaundice, 
and Hypochondriacal Melancholy. 
It is a soveraign remedy for the scur- 
vy. It is mixed in Electuaries and in 
Pils to the Intents aforesaid, and after 
the taking of the Medicament the 
Patient is alwaies enjoyned to exer- 
cise. A dram of the pouder is mixed 
with three drams of Pils or two oun- 
ces of Electuary, or in a quart of 
White Wine, and the Quantity of a 
Walnut of the Electuary, or one or 
two Pils, or a cup of the wine is gi- 
ven in the morning a long time toge- 
ther and the Patient does stir upon 
it. The Invention of these times has 
found, that weak people that cannot 
exercise, may take steeled Medica- 
ments in the mornings in Bed, and 
lie after them. By which means, the 
steel aided by the warmness of the 
Bed, does penetrate and performe 
its office, as well as when the Body 
as warmed by exercise. It is also good 
against Cachexies and Dropsies. 
Crystal of Tartar. Page 195. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of Tartar of white or 
Rhenish Wine as much as you will, 
beat it in gross pouder, and wash it 
from the dross in water, then boyl it in 
asufficient quantity of Spring Water: 
after you have taken off the scum, fil- 
ter it, being somwhat warm, through 
a brown paper into a glass warmed 
before, lest it break; then place it in 
a Cellar, that the Crystal may stick to 
the sides of the glass, the which wash in 
pure water, and keep for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This opens obstructions in al parts. 
Half a dram or two scruples taken in 
broath before dinner, do breed an ap-  
petite and gently move the belly to 
Stool.
Crocus Martis. Page 195.Lat. 
Colledg.] Heat pieces of Iron or Steel 
red hot, and thrust them into a great 
heap of Brimstone, a bason of water 
being set underneath, the mettal will 
run out like Wax, which being sepa- 
rated from the Sulphur, beat into very 
fine pouder in an Iron Mortar, 
which put into four square earthen 
pans, not above a fingers breadth in 
deepness, set it at the flame of a rever- 
betory three or four daies, til it look red 
like a Spunge, the tops of which take 
away with an Iron, set the rest at the 
fire again, til it look so al of it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is an astringent Medicament 
and is used to stop all over-violent 
motions of Nature by way of stool,  
courses, white flux. It strengthens 
the Liver and Spleen, and prevents 
Dropsies arising from the weakness 
of those bowels. It is mixed in streng- 
thening and astringent Electuaries to  
the Intents aforesaid. Half a dram 
may be mingled in four or five oun- 
ces of Electuary, and the Patient take 
every morning the quantity of a nut- 
meg, and drink a cup of aligant wine 
after it.                                           
Crocus Metallorum. Page 195. Lat.
Colledg.] Take of the best Antimony 
and salt Peeter, of each equal parts,
beat them into pouder severally, then 
mix them together, put them into a hot 
crucible with a ladle, or other conve- 
nient instrument, let it be beaten til the 
noise ceaseth, then remove it from the  
fire, and cool it, then the vessel being 
broken, separate it from the white crust 
at the top,and keep it for use.
Flos Sulphuris. Page 196. Lat. Or, 
Flower of Brimstone. 
Colledg. Take of the best Brimstone,
and beat it with equal parts of Colco-
thar of Vitriol, put it in a long earth-
en still, a head of glass large enough 
being put over it, give fire to it in
sand by degrees, stirring it with a 
Hares foot, it wil be the purer if you
iterate it with new Colcothar.
Virtues newly added. 
It is of an heating, digesting, dissol- 
ving quality. Our Women give it to 
their Children, for the worms. It is  
good for Coughs and tissicks, being 
made into an Electuary with syrup of 
Maiden hair and the like syrups and 
so taken from a licorice stick. It dries 
up Rheum, and being mingled with 
Syrup of Violets, and so lickt by fea- 
verish Persons it is reported to 
quanch the thirst. Taken in an Eg it 
brings away flegm. 
Lapis infernalis. Pag.196 Lat. 
Or the Helstone 
Colledg.] Take of Ly of which black 
Soap is made, and boyl it to a stone in 
a frying Pan, do not consume all the 
Humor, when it is cold cut it in the 
form of a dice, and keep it in a Glass 
close stopped. 
Otherwise 
Take of Vitriol calcined to redness, two 
ounces. 
Sal armoniack one ounce. 
Tartar calcined to whiteness, 
Quick Lime, of each three ounces. 
Sprinkle al of them being beaten, with 
with Ly made of Fig-trees, or Spurge, 
or Soap, strain it often till almost all the 
matter be dissolved, then boyl it in a brass
vessel, til the moisture be consumed, that 
which is left keep close stopped for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is so called from its burning &c. 
corroding faculty. It is used to make 
Yssues by eating into the skin, and so 
with a little help of the lancet make- 
ing way for a Pea.
Lapis Prunellæ, or sal prunellæ. Page 
196. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of pure salt peeter one 
pound, put it in a crucible, and place, 
coals round about it, that the Niter 
may flow like mettal, then put in by 
degrees two ounces of flower of Brim- 
stone, after the Brimstone is consumed, 
pour the Niter out into a brass bason, 
when it is cold keep it in a glass close 
stopped. 
Vertues newly added.
This Medicament is said to have 
its Name from a soreness of the 
throat which is teamed Prunella, or 
the burning cole, for which it is a 
soveraign Remedy, being put into a 
Gargarism to wash the Throat. It 
extinguishes al preternatural Heats, 
and thirst. It purifies the blood, fixes 
vapors that mount into the head, and 
exhilarates the whol Body of Man. 
It helps sharpness of urin, purges the 
Kidneys. It is given against the drop- 
sie, Mother fits, burning feavers and 
al feavers that are not pestilential. It 
is excellent for sore Mouths in Gar- 
garisms. And externally applied it 
asswages the pains of Wounds and 
the gout pains. It kils worms, moves 
Urin, helps the Scurvy, and the oft- 
ner is is used, the more good it does 
The Dose is from two scruples to 
four.
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210 CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS.
Magistery of Pearl and Coral. 
Colledg.] Take of pearl and Coral, as 
much as you wil, levigate it into very 
subtil pouder, to which put such a 
quantity of spirit of Radicate vinegar, 
that it may over top it the breadth of 
three or four fingers, digest it in ashes 
till it be dissolved, then pour off the 
Liquor, and put in fresh till the resi- 
due be dissolved, filter it, and put a 
little Liquor of Tartar to it, so will a 
white pouder fall down to the bottom 
of the glass, which being separated 
from what is dissolved, is to be washed; 
first with Spring water, then with 
Bawm or Barrage water. Radicate 
Vinegar is that which is distilled with 
Bay Salt in sand,
Vertues of Magistery of Pearl newly 
added. 
This is a great cordial, strengthen- 
the Brain and Heart, helps Melan- 
cholick passions, is good in Feavers 
and enclines to rest. 
Vertues of Magistery of Coral newly 
added. 
This is also cordial, and streng- 
thens the Brain and Liver. It is good 
against the Apoplexie, Falling-sick- 
ness, Night-mare, Palsies, convulsi- 
ons, swimmings of the head, madness, 
melancholy, terrors in the Night and 
frightful dreams. It helps Frenzies, 
Ravenings, Dotage. It helps to rest, 
stops Rheums,quickens the eyelight, 
and helps other Infirmities of the 
Eyes. It recreates the Heart and is 
good against tremblings and palpita- 
tion thereof, and against swooning 
fits. It is good against Venoms and 
pestilential diseases, feavers, heart- 
burnings, and four belchings. It is 
good against pains of the Stomach 
and Guts. It strengthens the Liver, 
helps the Dropsie, and stops the he- 
patick flux so called. It asswages the 
Lientery, dysentery, and al fluxes of 
of the Belly. It represses the over- 
greatness of the Spleen, and opens 
the obstructions thereof. It clenses 
the blood, kils worms, provokes to 
Generation, breaks and expells the 
stone. It stops the immoderate flux 
of the courses, strengthens the womb, 
recreates the child in the womb, hin- 
ders the breeding of Monsters, and 
abortion. It helps such as are trou- 
bled with apparations, seem to be 
bewitched or possessed of Devils. A 
scruple or two may be given in some 
fitting conserve or water.
Mercurius sublimatus corrosivus. Pag. 
197. Lat. Or, Mercury 
sublimate corrosive. 
Colledg.] Take of Vitirol purified by 
solution, Filtration, and Coagulation, 
and calcined til is be yellow one pound 
Bay salt in like manner purified, and 
dried, Niter in like manner purified, 
of each half a pound; crude Mercury 
clensed by straining through a Linnen 
Rag, one pound: bruise them al in a  
wooden morter, with a wooden pestle 
til the Salts are in pouder, and no bits 
of the Mercury are seen, which will be 
best done if you do it at divers times; 
as for Exampte sake, taking Vitriol 
and Mercury, of each one ounce, Salt 
and Niter, of each half an ounce at a 
time, and so forth, til the whol matter 
be brought into a pouder and mixt, 
then put this matter into a glass body, 
so capacious that it fill not above the 
one half of it, place the glass a little a- 
bove the middle in Sand, in a conve- 
nient Furnace, give fire to it by de- 
grees, even to the heigth. Twelve or fix- 
teen hours being passed, the sublimated 
Mercury will stick to the top of the 
Glass, which being so separated and 
bruised, sublimate by itself the second  
and third time, and oftener if it be too 
impure, till it be as white as snow,and 
no Dross mixed with it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is a deadly poyson taken in- 
wardly. It is used by surgeons where 
there is need of a strong corrosive.
Mercurius dulcis sublimatus. Pag. 198. 
Lat. Or, Mercury sublimate. 
Colledg.] Take of Mercury sublimated 
as before, four ounces, crude Mercury 
three ounces, bruise them, and grind 
them in a wooden mortar, with a woo- 
den pestle, til they be perfectly mixed;
put them in a long Phiol, which place 
above the middle in Sand. Put first a 
gentle fire under it, then encrease it by 
degrees six hours, that the Mercury 
may be driven from the bottom, into 
the middle region of the phiol, which 
being separated from that at top and 
bottom, sublime it the second time, and 
the third if need be, til it have left its 
acrimony, and be freed from all impu- 
rity, and be as white as Snow. 
Vertues newly addd. 
This is best given with some gen- 
tle purging Pils. The Dose is from 
fifteen to twenty grains, or half a 
dram at most. It kils worms, causes 
salivation, and cures the Venereal 
disease, to which intent it is given 
with extractum Rudij. It is thought to 
purge all humors. Being given three 
daies one after another, it inflames 
the Throat and Mouth, but without 
danger. It is by many given to chil-  
dren against the worms, the quantity 
of eight or ten grains. But if it be 
not carefully prepared, it may doe 
hurt. Outwardly applied it clenses 
foul Ulcers successfully without any 
vehement pain or corrossion. It is an 
enemy to the teeth, and therefore it 
must not be bitten or chewed. 
The two sorts of Mercury precipitated, 
white and red. Page 198. 
Latin. 
Colledg.] Take of crude Mercury, dri- 
ven from Sea salt in a retort, one 
part; Aqua-fortis of our description 
two parts; make a dissolution accor- 
ding to art, mean season provide brine 
of Sea salt, and fair water, as strong 
as you can make it, filter it, and put 
your solution of Mercury into this 
brine, and forthwith a white pouder 
will precipitate, which is to be washed 
from its acrimony in simple distilled 
water, or warm spring water, dried 
and kept in a glass for use.  
Mercurius præcipitatus corrosivus. Pag. 
198. Lat. Or, Corrosive 
precipitate.
Colledg.] Make a dissolution of crude 
Mercury and Aqua fortis as before, 
then evaporate it till it be dry, at last 
encrease the fire, and stir the matter 
with an Iron, til it be red, keep it in 
a glass for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
These are corrosive and dangerous 
to give inwardly. They may be used 
outwardly in putrid and venereal ul- 
cers. A scruple of white precipitate 
dissolved in two ounces of Water 
wherein steel has bin quenched maks 
an effectual Remedy to cure Scabs 
an ditch. 
Mercurius vitæ. Page 198. Lat. 
Colledg.] Take of Butter of Antimo- 
ny distilled according to our prescript, 
put it into cleer water, which wil forth 
with be white, a milk white pouder wil 
precipitate, which is to be sweetned by 
much washing in warm water, and 
dried by a gentle heat, and kept for 
use. 
Regulus Antimonij. Page 199. Lat. 
Or, the Metal of Antimony. 
Colledg.] Take op crude Antimony, 
Salt peter, Tartar, of each equal parts, 
beat the Antimony a part in an iron 
Mortar, with an Iron Pestle, then ad 
the rest in pouder, put this pouder by 
degrees with a ladle into a hot Cruci- 
ble, placed amongst hot coals; af- 
ter it's burned, shake the Crucible 
gently that the Regulus may sink to 
the bottom, which being taken out and 
cooled by degrees, and freed prom the 
dross, keep for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
Bullets are molded of this Metall 
which are commended to be swol-
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211 CHYMICAL PREPARATIONS.  
lowed by such as are troubled with 
the Iliaca Paβio, Miserere mei, or 
twisting of the Guts. Hereof also the 
Antimonial cups are made, whose 
virtues & effects have been formerly 
described in this Book. It works by 
way of Vomiting, opening the pores 
of the body, and furthering insensible 
Transpiration.
Saccharum Saturni. Page 199. Latin 
Or, Sugar of Lead 
Colledg.] Put as much red Lead as 
you will in a glass, and put so much 
Vinegar to it, as may overtop it the 
breadth of four fingers; warm it, and 
stir it a good while, after it is setled, 
pour off the sweet Vinegar, and put in 
fresh, do it so often till no more sweet- 
neβ be drawn from it, put all the Li- 
quors together, and let them settle, 
then exhale it away in a glass, til half 
be consumed, or until, it being set in 
a Cellar, the Cristal appear, which 
having taken out axhale it again, and 
set it in a Cellar or cold place, til more 
Cristal arise, do so til no more appear, 
then dissolve the Cristal in cleer Wa- 
ter, filter and coagulate it. 
Vertues newly added. 
This is rarely given inwardly, yet 
some have given it mixed in internal 
medicaments against the Gonorrhæa, 
and to asswage bodily Lust. Exter- 
nally used, it is good against all In- 
flammations, and is an universall 
pain-asswager. It is commended a- 
gainst Inflammations of the Eyes, 
being mixed in Eye-salves to that in-                                   
tent.
Sal Vitrioli. Page 199. Latin. 
Reduce Ungarick, or English Vitriol 
being calcined in a crucible, into pou- 
der, of an obscure purple color, which 
pouder cast by degrees into a large 
glaβ, in which is either distilled, com- 
mon or other very cleer water, stirring 
it continually with a stick, til the wa- 
ter which was at first hot, is cold, then 
let it stand twenty four hours, then fil- 
ter it, lastly exhale it in a glass vessel, 
and coagulate it according to art.
Turpothum Minerale. Page 200. 
Latin.  
Colledg.] Take of crude Mercury, 
Oyl of Vitriol separated from all the 
flegm, of each equal parts, still them 
in Sand, encreasing the fire by degrees, 
till all the moisture be flown up in the 
air, a white mass remaining in the 
bottom, which being separated from 
the crude Mercury, wash in spring 
water and forthwith it wil be yellow, 
wash it in warm water from all its a- 
crimony, dry it and keep it for use.
Tartarum Vitriollatum. Page 230. 
Latin.
Colledg.] Take of Liquor of Tartar 
four ounces, into which drop by drops 
two ounces of Oyl of Vitriol wel recti- 
fied, so will a white pouder fall to the 
bottom, which dry, and keep for use. 
Vertues newly added. 
This Medicament is highly mag- 
nified by the Chymists as an univer- 
sal digestive and preparative of all 
humors. It fixes the volatil salt in 
mans body. It provokes Urin. It 
stops Vomiting. It helps headaches, 
by repelling Vapors that flie into the 
head. The dose is ten, fifteen, or, 
twenty grains, in some fitting water 
or Conserve.
Vitriolum album depuratum. Page 200 
Latin. Or, white Vitriol
clensed 
Colledg.] Dissolve white Vitriol in 
cleer water, filter it, and coagulate it. 
Vitrum Antimonij. Page 200. 
Latin, 
Colledg. Take of good Antimony in 
fine pouder, and put it in a Large stone 
vessel, put fire under, till it grow into 
clots, heat it, and do so again and a-                    
gain, alwaies stirring it till it resemble 
white ashes, and smoak not at all, then 
take of this half a pound. Borax half 
an ounce, put them in a crucible, the 
which cover with a Tile, set it in a 
strong fire, til there flow a matter like 
water, then put it into a braβ or cop- 
per vessel, and keep the glass for use
The General way 
of making 
Extracts. 
EXtracts may be made almost of e- 
very Medicine, whether Simple, 
as Herbs, Flowers, Seeds, or Com- 
pound, as species or Pils: Therefore 
take of any Medicine cut or bruised, 
or prepared as the Infusion requires, 
and pour to it spirit of Wine, or di- 
stilled water, as the Physitian com- 
mands, let it stand in infusion in the 
heat of a bath, two daies more or less, 
according as the thickness or thin- 
ness of the matter requires until the 
tincture be sufficient, then separate 
the Liquor and put in more as before 
sore, do so til the Medicine afford no 
more tincture; put all these Liquors 
together and filter them, and exhale 
the humidity by the heat of a bath, 
til the matter be left at the bottom of 
the thickness of Honey, to which if 
the Physitian prescribe, you may add 
two scruples or half a dram of its 
own proper, or other convenient Salt 
to every ounce of extract, that so it 
may keep the longer. 
The way of making 
SALTS.  
Salt Volatile, or Essential 
is thus made. 
TAke of any Plant when it is fresh 
and full of Juyce, a sufficient 
quantity, bruise it in a wooden Mor- 
tar, and a great deal of cleer water 
being added, boyl it til half be con- 
sumed, strain the Decoction, press it 
strongly, and boyl it to the thickness 
of Honey, set it in a glass or glazed 
vessel in a cold place, eight daies at 
least, and a Crystal Salt wil arise like 
Sal. Gem which gather, and wash 
with its proper water, and dry for 
your use. Thus is Salt made of 
Wormwood, Carduus, Mugwort, and 
other bitter Herbs; but of other 
Herbs with much difficulty. 
Salt fixed, or Elementary, 
is thus made. 
It consists in four things. Calcina-
tian. Solution, Filtration, Coagulation. 
Burn the matter you would make 
Salt of into white ashes, and herein 
somtimes you must have a care left by 
too hasty burning they run to glass; 
then with cleer water make the ashes 
into Lie to draw out the Salt, filter 
the Ly & boyl it in an earthen vessel 
by a gentle fire, that the water may be 
exhaled, and the Salt left; which, so- 
lution, filteration, and Coagulation, 
being repeated certain times, it will 
be free from all impurity, and be ve- 
ry white. 
Thus is prepared Salt of Plants, 
and parts of Living Creatures, a- 
mongst which these excel; Salt of 
Wormwood, Time, Rosemary, Cen- 
taury the less, Mugwort, Carduus, 
Masterwort, Parsly, Rest-harrow, 
Ash, Dwarf-Elder, Box, Chamomel, 
St. Johns wort, Cichory, Sullendine, 
Scurvy grass, Betony, Maudlin, Bawm, 
Cetrach, &c.
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212 Preparations of certain Simple Medicines
PREPARATIONS 
of certain Simple 
Medicines. 
The way of preparing Fats.
TAke of fresh Fats, the Veins, 
strings, and skins being taken 
away, wash them so often in fair wa- 
ter till they be no longer bloody; 
then beat them wel, and melt them in 
a double vessel, strain them, and pour 
off the water, keep it in a glass in a 
cold place; it wil endure a yeer. 
So also is prepared Marrow taken 
out of fresh bones, especially in Au- 
tumn. 
The burning of Brass.
Lay flakes of Brass in an earthen 
vessel, interposing Salt or Brimstone 
between each of them, so lay flake 
upon flake, burn them sufficiently, 
and wash the ashes with warm water 
til they be sweet.
The washing of Aloes.
Put as much Aloes in Pouder in a 
glass as you wil, putting a sufficient 
quantity of warm water to it, that it 
may overtop it two or three fingers 
thickness, stirring it about with a 
spatule, that the purer part of the A- 
loes may be mixed with the water; 
that being poured off, put in fresh 
warm water, and stir it in like man- 
ner, that the dross may be separated; 
gather those waters together, eva- 
porate the humidity, and keep the 
Mass. 
The preparation of Bole Armeniack. 
Grind it smal, and dissolve it so 
often in Rosewater, til the dross and 
sand be taken away, dry it in the sun, 
and keep it being dried. 
Fœcula Brioneœ. 
Take of Briony roots scraped, brui- 
sed and the juyce pressed out, which 
being done, let it stand stil a while in 
a vessel, a white pouder like Starch                   
will fall to the bottom, from which 
pour the Water, and let it dry for use. 
So is Gersa Serpentaria prepared of 
Aron Roots, and Fœcula of the roots 
of Rhadishes, and Orris. 
May Butter. 
About the latter end of May, take 
fresh Butter without salt, and in a  
glazed earthen vessel, set it in the 
sun, that it may be all melted, strain 
it through a rag without pressing; 
set it in the sun again, strain it again, 
and keep it a yeer. 
The preparation of Lapis 
Calaminaris. 
Heat it red hot three times in the 
fire, and quench it as often in Plan- 
tane and Rose water, and at last le- 
vigate it upon a Marble, and with 
the same waters make it into Balls. 
The washing of Lime. 
Bruise Quick-lime, put it in a pan, 
and mix it with sweet water, and 
when it is setled to the bottom, 
change the water, and mix it again; 
do so seven or eight times, filtring it 
every time; at last, do it with Rose 
water, and dry the Lime. 
The preparation of Coral, Pearls, 
Crabs Eyes, and other pre- 
cious Stones. 
Beat them in a steel Mortar, 
and levigate them on a Marble, put- 
ting a little Rose water to them, till 
they are in a very fine pouder, then 
make them into Balls.
The preparation of Coriander seed.
Steep them twenty four hours in 
sharp Vinegar, then dry them. So 
may you prepare Cummin seed.
The burning of Harts-horn, Ivo- 
ry, and other Bones. 
Burn them in a Crucible till they 
be white, then beat them into pou- 
der, and wash them in Rose water, 
at last levigate them on a Marble, 
and make them into Troches, you                  
may dissolve Camphire half an ounce 
in the last pound of Rose water, if 
you please. 
A new preparation of them. 
Hang them by a thrid in a vessel of 
Aqua vitæ, so as that they touch not 
the Liquor; then putting on the 
head, distil it, and the vapors ascen- 
ding will make them casie to be 
brought into pouder, after many di- 
stillations.
The way to make Elaterium. 
Take of wild Cucumers almost ripe, 
and cut them with the knife upwards, 
and gently press out the juyce with 
your foremost fingers, let it run 
through a sieve iuto a clean glazed 
vessel, let it settle, and pour off the 
cleerwater into another vessel,dry the 
settlings in the Sun, and keep them 
for use; if you will you may keep the 
cleer water for Unguentum de Arta- 
nita.                                
The preparation of the Bark of
Spurge Roots. 
Clense them and infuse them three 
daies in sharp Vinegar, then dry 
them. So are Lawrel Leaves, Meze- 
reon, and other things of that nature 
prepared. 
The preparation of Euphorbium. 
Take of Euphorbium purged from 
the Dross, and poudered, put it in a 
glass, and put so great a quantity of 
juyce of Lemmons to it, that it may 
overtop it three or four fingers; then 
place them in a hot bath, til the Eu- 
phorbium be dissolved in the juyce, 
strain it through a rag: place it in a 
bath again, and evaporate away the 
Juyce, and keep the Euphorbium for 
use. 
The preparation of black Hel-
lebore Roots. 
Steep such black Hellebore Roots 
as are brought to us, the woody pith 
being taken away, three daies in 
juyce of Quinces by a moderate 
heat: then dry them, and lay them 
up.
The preparation of Goats blood. 
Take a Goat of a middle age, and 
and feed him a month with Burnet, 
Smallage, Parsley, Mallows, Lovage, 
and such like things, kil him in the 
end of Summer about the Dog daies;                     
then take the blood which flows out 
of his Arteries, and let it settle, pou- 
ring off the water, dry the blood in 
an Oven. 
The burning of yong Swallows. 
Kil yong Swallows so as the blood 
may flow upon their wings, then 
sprinkle them with a little salt, and 
burn them in a glazed vessel, and 
keep the ashes for use. So are bur- 
ned Hedghogs, Frogs, Toads, and 
the like Creatures. 
The preparation of Lacca. 
Take of Lacca not clensed, for o- 
therwise your labor were vain, brui- 
sed a little, and and boyled in water 
in which the Roots of long Birth- 
wort, and Squinanth, each equal 
parts have been boyled, til the purer 
part swim at top, and the dross sink 
to the bottom; keep that purer part, 
put it in a glass and cover it, and eva- 
porate away the moisture either by 
the heat of the Sun, or of a bath, and 
being dry, keep it for use.
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213 Preparations of certain Simple Medicines.  
The preparation of Lapis Lazuli.
Let Lapis Lazuli being beaten in- 
to very fine pouder, be so often wash- 
ed in water, continually stirring it, til 
the water (after washing) remain 
cleer, without any other tast then its 
own. 
The preparation of Litharge.
Let the Litharge be ground into 
very fine pouder in a mortar, then 
pour cleer water upon it, and stir it 
up and down til it be troubled and 
thick, then pour off that water into 
another vessel, and put in fresh wa- 
ter to the pouder of the stone, stir 
that up and down till it be thick, and 
pour that water off to the former: 
do this so often til nothing but dross 
remains in the Mortar, the thinner 
substance being all mixed with the 
water you poured off, let that stand 
and settle, so wil the pure Litharge 
remain in the bottom, pour the water 
off gently, dry the Litharge, and 
grind it upon a Marble so long til no 
harshness can be discerned in it by 
your tongue. 
The preparation of Earth-worms. 
Slit them in the middle, and wash 
them so often in white wine till they 
be clensed from their impurity, then 
dry them, and keep them for your 
use.
The preparation of Sows, or Wood-lice. 
Take of Wood-lice as many as you                               
will, wash them very clean in pure 
white Wine, then put them in a new 
glazed pot, which being shut close 
put into a hot Oven, that so they 
may be dried with a moderate heat 
to be beaten into pouder.
The manner of preparing Ocsipus. 
Take of Wool unclensed which 
was taken off from the Neck, Ribs, 
and Shoulder-pits of the Sheep, put 
it into warm water often times, and 
wash it diligently till all the fatness 
be come off from it into the water; 
afterwards press it out, and lay it by, 
then pour that fat and filthy water 
out of one vessel into another, hold- 
in the vessel on high, pouring and 
repouring til it be frothy; let the 
froath settle, then take away the fat 
that swims on the top, pour and re- 
pour it as before till it be froathy, 
then again take away the fat that 
swims at the top; do so, so often til 
no more froath appear, nor fat swim 
at top; then take the fat, with the 
froath, and wash it up and down with 
your hand in cleer water, so often 
and so long till the filth be washed 
from it, which may be known by the 
water remaining cleer, and the fat 
being tasted do not bite your tongue, 
then keep it in a thick and clean pot 
in a cold place. 
The preparation of Opium. 
Dissolve the Opium in spirit of 
Wine, strain it, and evaporate it to 
its due consistence. 
Pouder of Raw Lead. 
Beat your Lead into very thin 
Plates, and cut these thin plates into 
very small pieces, the which steep 
three daies in very sharp Vinegar, 
changing the Vinegar every day,then 
take them out and dry them, without 
burning them, and take a little pains 
with them in a mortar to bring them 
into very fine pouder.  
The washing of Lead. 
Stir about water in a Leaden mor-  
tar with a Leaden pestle, and labor 
at it to some purpose, till the water 
look black and thick; strain out this 
water, dry it and make it into balls. 
The burning of Lead.
Take as many thin plates of Lead 
as you please, put them into a new 
earthen pot, lay them plate upon 
plate with Brimstone between each 
plate, then put the pot in the fire, 
and stir the Lead about with an Iron 
Spatule when the Brimstone burns, 
untill you have brought it all into 
ashes, the which wash in clear water, 
and keep it for your use.
The preparation of Fox Lungs.
Take of the fresh Lungs of a Fox 
the Aspera Arteria being taken a- 
way, wash them diligently in white  
wine, in which Hysop and Scabious  
hath been boyled, then dry them in 
an Oven so moderately hot that no 
part of them may be burned, then 
keep them in a glass stopped with 
Wax. 
The preparation of Scammony.  
Take the Core out of a Quince 
and fil the void place with pouder of, 
Scammony, then joyn the Quince to-  
gether again, and wrap it in Past,  
bake it in an Oven, or rost it under 
the ashes; afterwards take out the  
Scammony and keep it for use. This 
is that which is vulgarly called Dia- 
crydium or Diagrydium.              
Another way of Prepation of  
Scammony with Sulphur.
Take of Scammony beaten small, 
as much as you wil, spread it upon 
brown paper and hold it over hot 
coals upon which you have put 
Brimstone, stir the Scammony about 
all the while till it begin to melt or 
look white; and this is called Scam- 
mony sulphurated. 
The preparation of Squills.
Take a great Squill whilst it is 
green, casting away the outward 
rinds, wrap it in past and bake it in 
an Oven til it be tender, which you 
may know if you pierce it through 
with a Bodkin, then take it out of                      
the Oven and take off all the flakes 
one by one (leaving that part which 
is hard behind) draw a cord through 
them and hang them in a dry place, 
at that distance one from the other, 
that one may not touch another, till 
they be dried; yet take this caution 
along with you, that you ought not 
to cut nor peirce them with any I- 
ron Instrument, but with wood, Ivo- 
ry or bone.
Washed Tartar. 
Take of bruised Tartar as much as 
you wil, pour cold and pure spring 
water to it, stir it up and down, then 
let it settle, pour off that water and 
pour on more, use it as before, and 
repeat the usage so long til the water 
remain cleer after washing. 
Boyled Turpentine. 
Take of Venice Turpentine a 
pound, to which pour twenty four 
pound of Water, in which, boyl it so 
long til it be thick, and being cold 
may be rubbed in pouder like Rozin 
and beaten like glass.
The preparation of Tutty.
Tutty is prepared the same way 
that Lapis Calaminaris is; tie it up 
in a clean Linen Cloth, which shake 
up and down, drawing it this way 
and that way in a vessel full of cleer 
water, til the thinner and more pro- 
fitable part come out into the water, 
and the thicker and impurer remain 
in the cloath; then let it settle, and 
pour off the water gently from it; 
repeat this operation so often, til no- 
thing good for any thing remain in 
the cloth: Then take what you have 
purified, sprinkle it with a little Rose 
Water, make it into Troches to be 
kept for use.
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214 
A
KEY to Galen's 
Method of Physick. 
The Generall Use
OF
PHYSICK
I Shal desire thee whoever thou art, 
that intendest the Noble (though 
too much abused) Study of Physick, 
to mind heedfully these following 
Rules, which being wel understood, 
shew thee the Key of Galen and Hip- 
pocrates their Method of Physick: He 
that useth their Method and is not 
heedfull of these Rules, may soon 
Tinker-like, mend one hole and 
make two: cure one Disease and 
cause another more desperate.
That then thou maist understand 
what I intend, It is to discover in a 
general way the manifest Vertues of 
Medicines and you may behold them 
in this Order:
Sect 1. Of the tem- 
parature of Medicines. 
Sect 2. Of the Appro- 
priation of Medicines. 
Sect 3. Of the Pro- 
perties of Medicines. 
SECT. I.
Of the Temperature of 
Medicines. 
HErbs, Plants, and other Medi- 
cines manifestly operate, either 
by Hea; Coldness, Driness, or Moi- 
sture, for the world being composed 
of so many qualities, they and only 
they can be found in the world, and 
the mixtures of them one with ano- 
ther.
But that these may appear as cleer 
as the Sun when it is upon the Meri- 
dian, I shal treat of them severally, 
and in this Order. 
1 Of Medicines Temperate. 
2 Of Medicines Hot. 
3 Of Medicines Cold. 
4 Of Medicines Moist. 
5 Of Medicines Dry. 
Of Medicines Temperate. 
If the World be composed of Ex- 
treams, then it arts by Extreams, for 
as the man is, so is his work: there- 
fore it is impossible that any Medi- 
cine can be temperate, but may be 
reduced to Heat, Cold, Driness, or 
Moisture, and most oderate (I mean 
such as operate by manifest quality) 
by one of these, because there is no 
other to operate by, and that there 
should be such a Temperate mixture, 
so exquisitely of these qualities in a- 
ny Medicine, that one of them should 
not manifestly excell the other, I 
doubt it is a systeme too rare to 
find.
Thus then I conclude the matter to 
be, Those Medicines are called Tem- 
perate (not because they have no ex- 
cess of Temperature at all in them) 
which can neither be said, to heat 
nor cool so much as will amount to 
the first degree of excess, for daily ex- 
perience witnesseth that they being 
added to Medicines change not their 
qualities, they make them neither 
hotter nor colder. 
Their Use. They are used in such 
Diseases where is no manifest distem- 
per of the first qualities, viz. Heat 
and Cold: For Example; In Ob- 
struction of the Bowels, where cold 
medicines might make the Obstructi- 
on greater, and hot Medicines cause 
a Feaver.                              
In Feavers of Flegm, where the 
cause is cold and moist, and the effect 
hot and dry; in such, use temperate 
Medicines which may neither en- 
crease the Feaver by their heat, nor 
condensate the Flegm by their cold- 
ness.
Besides, Because Contraries are 
taken away by their Contraries, and 
every Like maintained by its Like; 
they are of great use, to preserve the 
constitution of the body temperate, 
and the Body it self in strength and 
vigor, and may be used without dan- 
ger, or fear of danger, by considering 
what part of the Body is weak, and 
using such temperate Medicines as 
are appropriated to that Part. 
Of Medicines Hot. 
The care of the Antient Physitians 
was such that they did not labor to 
hide from, but impart to Posterity, 
not only the temperature of Medici- 
nes in general, but also their degrees 
in temperature, that so the distempe- 
red part may be brought to its tem- 
perature, and no further; for al things 
which are of a contrary temperature, 
conduce not to cure, but the strength 
of the contrariety must be observed, 
that so the Medicine may be neither 
weaker nor stronger, than just to take 
away the distemper; for if the distem- 
per be but meanly hot, and you ap- 
ply a Medicine cold in the fourth de- 
gree,'tis true you may soon remove 
that distemper of heat, and bring a- 
nother of cold twice as bad. Galen. 
de simp. med. facul. lib. 3. cap. 12. 
Then Secondly, Not only the di- 
stemper it self, but also the part of the 
Body distempered must be heeded; 
for if the Head be distempered by 
heat, and you give such Medicines as 
cool the Heart and Liver, you will 
bring another Disease, and not cure 
the former. 
The Degrees then of Temperature 
are to be diligently heeded, which 
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215 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
antient Physitians have concluded to 
be Four in the Qualities, vix. Heat 
and Cold; of each of which we shal 
speak a word or two severally.
Of Medicines hot in the 
first Degree.  
Those are said to be hot in the first 
degree,which induce a moderate and 
Natural heat to the Body, and to the 
parts thereof; either cold by nature,  
or cooled by accident, by which Na- 
tural heat is cherished when weak, or 
restored when wanting. 
Effect 1. The first Effect then of 
Medicines hot in the first Degree, is, 
by their sweat and temperate heat to 
reduce the Body to its Natural heat 
as the fire doth the external parts in 
cold weather, unless the affliction of 
cold be so great that such mild Medi- 
cines will not serve the turn. 
Effect 2. The second Effect is the 
Mitigation of pain arising from such 
a Distemper, and indeed this Effect 
hath other Medicines, some that are 
cold, and some that are hotter than 
the first degree, they being rationally 
applied to the distemper. Thess Me- 
dicines the Greeks cal α'νωςυνα, and 
shall be spoken of in their proper 
places. In this place let it suffice                   
that medicines hot in the first degree, 
make the offending humors thin, and 
and expel them by sweat, or insensi- 
ble transpiration, and these of all o- 
ther are most congruous or agreeable 
to the Body of Man, for there is no 
such equal temperature of heat and 
and cold in a found Man, but Heat 
exceeds,for we live by heat and moi- 
sture, and not by cold.  
Medicines then which are hot in 
the first degree, are such as just cor- 
respond to the Natural heat of our 
Bodies; such as are hotter or cold- 
er, are more subject to do mischief,
being administred by an unskilfull 
hand, than these are, because of their 
contrariety to Nature; whereas these 
are grateful to the body by their mo- 
derate Heat. 
Effect. 3. Thirdly, These take a- 
way weariness, and help feavers, be- 
ing outwardly applied, because they 
open the Pores of the skin, and by 
their gentle heat prepare the Hu- 
mors, and take away those fuliginous 
vapors that are caused by Feavers. 
Discommodities.] Yet many Dis- 
commodities arise by heedless giving 
even of these, which I would have 
young Students in Physick to be ve- 
ry careful in, left they do more mis- 
chief than they are aware of, viz. It 
is possible by too much use of them, 
to consume not only what is inimi- 
cal in the body, but also the substan- 
ce it self, and the strength of the spi- 
rits, whence comes faintings, and 
somtimes death: Besides, by apply- 
ing them to the parts of the Body 
they are not appropriated to, or by 
not heeding wel the complexion of 
the Patient, or the Natural temper of 
the part of the body afflicted, for the 
Heart is hot,but the brain temperate. 
Effect 4. Lastly, Medicines hot in 
the first degree,cherish hear in the in- 
ternal parts, help concoction, breed 
good blood, and keep it in temper, 
being bred.
Of Medicines hot in the Second 
Degree. 
Having spoken of Medicines hot 
in the first Degree, it follows now in 
order to speak of those that are hot 
in the Second: These are something 
hotter then the Natural temper of a 
Man. 
Use. Their use is for such whose 
stomachs are filled with moisture, be- 
cause their faculty is too hot or dry; 
they take away obstructions or stop- 
pings, open the Pores of the skin, but 
not in the same manner that such do 
as are hot in the first degree, for they 
do it without force, by a gentle heat, 
concocting, and expelling the Hu- 
mors, by strengthening and helping 
Nature in the work; but these cut 
tough Humors, and scatter them by 
their own force and power when-na- 
ture cannot. 
Of Medicines hot in the third 
Degree.
Those which attain the third De- 
gree of heat, have the same Faculties 
with those before mentioned; but as 
they are hotter, so are they more 
powerful in their operations, for they 
are so powerfull in heating and cut- 
ting, that if unadvisedly given they 
cause Feavers, Use. Their use is to 
cut tough and compacted Humors, 
provoke sweat abundantly; hence it 
comes to pass that all of them resist 
poyson. 
Of Medicines hot in the fourth 
Degree. 
Those Medicines obtain highest 
degree of Heat, which are so hot that 
they burn the Body of Man, being 
outwardly applied to it, and cause  
inflamations, or raise Blisters; as 
Crowfoot, Mustard-seed, Onions, 
&c. Of these more hereafter. 
Of Cooling Medicines. 
PHysitians have also observed 
Four Degrees of Coldness, in 
Medicines, which I shall briefly treat 
of in order. 
Of Medicines cold in the First 
Degree.
Those Medicines which are least 
cold of, al obtain the first Degree of
Coldness; and I beseech you take 
notice of this, That seeing our Bo- 
dies are nourished by heat, and wee 
live by heat, therefore no cold Medi- 
cines are Naturally, and perse (as 
Scholars cal it) friendly to the body, 
but what good they do our Bodies, 
they do it per accidens, viz. by remo- 
ving an unnatural heat, or the Body 
heated above its Natural temper. 
The giving then of cold Medicines 
to a man in his Natural temper, the 
season of the year also being but mo- 
derately hot, extinguisheth Natural 
heat in the body of Man. 
Yet have these a necessary use in 
them too, though not so frequent as 
hot Medicines have; and that may 
be the reason why the All-wise God 
hath furnished us with far more hot 
Herbs and Plants, &c. than cold.
Use 1. Their Use is first, in Nou- 
rishment, that so the heat of food 
may be qualified, and made for a 
weak stomach to digest, and there- 
fore are Sallets used in Summer. 
Use 2. Secondly, To restrain and 
asswage the heat of the Bowels, and 
to cool the blood in Feavers. 
Therefore if the distemper of heat 
be but gentle, Medicines cold in the 
first Degree wil suffice; also Chil- 
dren, and such people whose Stom- 
achs are weak, are easily hurt by cold 
Medicines. 
Of Medicines cold in the Second 
and Third Degree. 
Use 1. Such whose Stomachs are 
strong, and Livers hot, may easily 
bear such Medicines as are cold in 
the second degree, and in cases of ex- 
tremity find much help by them: as 
as also by such as are cold in the 
third degree, the extremity of the dis- 
ease considered: for by both these 
the unbridled heat of Choller is as- 
swaged. 
Use 2. Also they are outwardly 
applied to hot swellings, due consi- 
deration being had. That if the infla- 
mation be not great, use those that 
are less; if the inflamation be vehe- 
ment, make use of Medicines cold in 
the second or third degree; Alwaies let 
the Remedy correspond to the just 
proportion of the Affliction. 
Use 3. Thirdly, sometimes the 
Spirits are moved inordinatly 
through heat, thence follows immo- 
derate watchings, if not deprivation 
of the Sences: this also must be Re- 
medied with cold Medicines; for 
cold stops the Pores of the skin; 
makes the humors thick, represseth
sweat, and keeps up the Spirits from 
fainting. 
Of Medicines cold in the Fourth 
Degree. 
Lastly, The Use of Medicines cold
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216 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
in the fourth Degree, is, To mitigate 
desperate and vehement pains, stupi- 
fying the Sences, when no other 
course can be taken to save life: Of 
the use of which more hereafter.
Of Moistning Medicines. 
There can be no such difference 
found amongst Moistning Medicines, 
that they should surpass the second 
degree. For seeing al Medicines are 
either hot or cold; neither heat nor 
cold, seeing they are extreams, can 
consist with moisture, for the one 
dries it up, the other condensates 1t. 
Use. Phylosophers therefore call 
moisture and driness, Passive quali- 
ties, yet have they their operation 
likewise; for moist Medicines lenifie 
and make slippery, ease the Cough, 
and help the roughness of the throat. 
These operations are proper to medi- 
cines moist in the first Degree. 
Those which are moister, take a- 
way Natural strength, helps the 
sharpness of humors, make both 
blood and spirits thicker, looseth the 
belly, and fit it for purgation. 
The immoderate or indiscreet use 
of them duls the Body, and makes it 
unfit for Action.
Of drying Medicines. 
Drying Medicines have contrary 
Faculties to these, viz. To consume 
moisture, stop fluxes, and make such 
parts dry as are slippery, they make 
the Body and Members firm, when 
they are weakened by too much moi- 
sture, that so they may perform their 
proper functions. 
Yet although the Members be 
strengthned by drying medicines, 
they have notwithstanding their own 
proper Moisture in them, which 
ought to be conserved, and not de- 
stroyed, for without it they cannot 
consist: If then this moisture be con- 
sumed by using, or rather over-use of 
drying Medicines, the Members can 
neither be nourished, nor yet perform 
their proper actions. 
Such Medicines as are dry in the 
third Degree, being unadvisedly gi- 
ven, hinder the parts of the Body 
they are appropriated to, of their 
Nourishment, and by that means 
brings them into Consumption. 
Besides, There is a certain moisture 
in the Body of Man, which is called 
Radical moisture, which being taken 
away, the parts must needs die, see- 
ing natural beat and life also consists 
in it; and this may be done by too 
frequent use of medicines dry in the 
fourth degree: And it may be this 
was the reason of Galen his writing, 
That things dry in the fourth degree, 
must of necessity burn; which is an 
effect of heat, and not of driness, un- 
less by Burning, Galen means consu- 
ming the Radical moisture.                  
The use then of drying Medicines, 
is only to such Bodies, and parts of 
the Body, as abound with moisture; 
in which observe these Rules: 
1. If the moisture be not extream, 
let not the Medicine be extream dry- 
ing. 
2. Let it be proper to the part of 
the Body afflicted; for if the Liver  
be afflicted by moisture, and you go  
about to dry the Brain or Heart, you  
may sooner kill than cure. 
Thus have we briefly spoken of the 
first Qualtities of Medicines, and in 
the general only, and but briefly, be-  
cause we shal alwaies touch upon  
them in the Exposition of the other 
Qualities, in which you must alwaies 
have an eye to these. 
SECT. II.
Of the Appropriation 
of Medicines to the 
severall Parts of 
the Body. 
ANtient Physitians also kept a 
grievous Racket about this, 
some denying any specificall vertues 
at al in Medicines, or any congruity 
to certain parts of the Body, but were 
of Opinion, that such as strengthen
the Head, must needs strengthen the 
Bowels, and al other parts of the Bo-
dy, by the same Rule: Because being
ignorant of the influence of the hea- 
vens, they would give no Reason for 
the contrary: and so whatsoever is 
obnoxious to one part of the Body, 
must needs be obnoxious to all the 
rest, by the same Rule. 
Others hold them to be appropri- 
ated to the particular parts of the 
Body, by an hidden property as they 
cal it, because their ignorance in A- 
stronomy knew not what to make of 
it, or how the Medicines operated, 
and their experience testifying that 
they had distinct operations upon di- 
stinct parts of the Body. 
Others have labored to find out a 
middle way between both these, and 
and they hold that what Medicines 
strengthen one part of the Body, must 
needs in some measure, strengthen al 
the rest, yet so as that it is peculiarly 
appropriated to that part of the body 
which it strengthens; & their reason 
is, Because the substance of the Medi- 
cine agrees with the substance of that 
part of the body which it strengthens, 
& every one almost that hath but Wit 
enough to eat an Eg, knows that the 
substance of all Parts of the Body are 
not alike. This argument hath some 
weight in it, though in my Opinion, 
it falls a little too low; for it is a cer- 
tain truth, The Sympathy and Anti-
pathy of the Creation, is the Cause 
both of al Diseases, and also of the o- 
perations of al Medicines. However, 
I may intertex my Opinion of what 
Physitians cal [Hidden qualities] now
and then with it; yet my scope shall 
be to treat chiefly of this at this time 
til time and opportunity (together 
with the wil of my Creator) give me 
leave to digest what they cal [Hid- 
den Qualities] into such a form that 
others may understand it as well as 
my self: I am sickly, and have no 
body to help me, I can do things 
no faster than I can. 
That the qualities and use of these 
medicines may be found out, and un- 
derstood by every one, and so my 
Country reap the benefit of my La- 
bor, they shal find them presented to 
their view in this Order. 
Medicines appropriated 
1. To the Head. 
2. To the Breast and Lungs, 
3- To the Heart, 
4. To the Stomach, 
5. To the Liver, 
6. To the Spleen, 
7. To the Reins and Bladder, 
8. To the Womb, 
9. To the Joynts, 
Chap. 1. Of Medicines appropria- 
to the Head. 
BY [Head] is usually understood 
al that part of the Body which is 
between the top of the Crown, and 
the uppermost joynt of the Neck; yet 
are those Medicines properly called 
Cephalical, which are appropriated to 
the Brain, not to the Eyes, Eears, nor 
Teeth; neither are those Medicines 
which are proper to the Ears, proper 
also to the Eyes; therefore (my in- 
tent being to write as plain as I can) 
I shal subdivide this Chapter into 
these parts. 
Medicines appropriated 
1. To the Brain, 
2. To the Eyes, 
3. To the Mouth and Nostrils, 
4. To the Ears, 
5. To the Teeth, 
For what Medicines are appropri- 
ated to an unruly Tongue, is not in
my prower at present to determin. 
Of Medicines appropriated to 
the Brain. 
Before we treat of Medicines ap- 
propriated to the Brain, it is requisite 
that we describe what the nature and 
affection of the Brain is. 
The brain which is the feat of Ap- 
prehension, Judgment, and Memory, 
the Original of Sence and Motion, is 
by Nature temperate, and if so, then 
you wil grant me that it may easily 
be afflicted both by Heat and Cold, 
and it is indeed more subject to affli- 
ctions by either of them, than any o- 
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217 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
ther part of the body, for if it be a- 
fflicted by Heat, Sence and Reason, 
are immoderatly moved, if by cold 
they languish, and are dulled, to pass 
by other Symptoms which invade 
the head, if the Brain be altered from 
its proper temper. 
Also this is peculiar to the Brain, 
that it is delighted or offended by 
smels, sights, and sounds: but I shal 
meddle no further with these here, 
because they are not Medicines. 
Cephalical medicines may be found 
out from the Affections of the Brain 
itself. The Brain is usually oppre- 
ssed with moisture in such afflictions; 
therefore give such Medicines as ve- 
ry gently warm, clense, cut, and dry: 
but withal, let them be such as are 
appropriated to the Head, such as 
Physitians say [by an hidden quality] 
strengthen the Brain. 
Again, if you consider the scitua- 
tion of the Brain, you shal find it pla- 
ced in the highest part of the body, 
therefore it is easily afflicted with hot 
vapors: this punisheth a man with 
watchings and head-ach, as the for- 
mer did with sottishness and sleepi- 
ness; in such cases use such Cepha- 
licks as gently cool the Brain. 
To make Cephalicks of Narcoticks, 
or stupifying Medicines, is not my 
intent, for I am confident they are 
inimical both to Brain and Senses. 
Of these, and such Medicines also as 
purge the brain, I shal speak by and 
by. To return to my purpose. 
Some Cephalicks purge the brain, 
some heat it, some cool it, some 
strengthen it; but how they perform 
this Office peculiarly to the Brain, 
most Physitians confess they could 
neither comprehend by Reason, nor 
describe by Precepts, only thus they 
do it by an hidden quality, either by 
strengthening the Brain, thereby de- 
fending it from Diseases, or by a cer- 
tain Antipathy between them and 
the Diseases incident to the brain.
Lastly, For the use of Cephalicks, 
observe, if the brain be much affli- 
cted, you cannot wel strengthen it be- 
fore you have purged it, neither can 
you wel purge the brain before you 
have clensed the rest of the body, it is 
so subject to receive the vapors up to 
it; give cooling Cephalicks, when 
the brain is too hot, and hot Cepha-
licks when it is too cold. 
Beware of using cooling Medi- 
cines to the brain when the Crisis of a 
Disease is neer: How that time may 
be known, I shal (God assisting me) 
instruct you hereafter, I cannot do al 
things at one time; let it suffice now, 
that according as the Disease afflict- 
ing your Head is, so let your remedy 
be. 
Of Medicines appropriated to 
the Eyes. 
Take such medicines as are appro- 
priated to the Eyes under the Name
of [Ocular Medicines] I do it partly 
to avoid multiplicity of Words, and 
partly to instruct my Country men in 
the terms of Art belonging to Phy- 
sick, (I would have called them 
[Ophthalmicks] had not the word 
bin troublesom to the reading, much 
more to the understanding of a coun- 
try man) as I even now called such 
Medicines [Cephalicks] as were ap- 
propriated to the Brain. 
Ocular Medicines are two-fold, 
viz. such as are referred to the Visive 
Vertues, and such as are referred to 
the Eyes themselves. 
Such as strengthen the Visive Ver- 
tue or the Optick Nerves which con- 
vey it to the Eyes (say Doctors) do 
it by an hidden vertue, into the rea- 
son of which no man can dive, unless 
they should fetch it from the Simili- 
tude of the substance: And yet they 
say a Goats Liver conduceth much 
to make one see in the night, and 
they give this Reason, Because Goats 
see as wel in the night as in the day. 
Yet is there no affinity in tempera- 
ture nor substance between the liver 
and the eyes: However Astrologers 
know well enough that al Herbs, 
Plants, &c. that are under the Do- 
minion of either Sun or Moon, and 
appropriated to the Head, be they 
hot or cold they strengthen the Vi- 
sive Vertue, as Eye-bright, which is 
hot; Lunaria or Moonwort, which 
is cold. 
As for what appertains to the con- 
stitution of the Eyes themselves, see- 
ing they are exact in fence, they will 
not endure the least inconvenience, 
therefore such Medicines as are out-  
wardly applied to them (for such 
Medicines as strengthen the Visive 
Vertues are all given inwardly) let 
them neither hurt by their hardness  
nor gnawing quality, nor be so tough  
that they should stick to them. There- 
fore let Ocular Medicines be neither  
in Pouders nor Oyntments, because 
oyl it self is offensive to the eyes, and 
how pleasing Pouders are to them, 
you may perceive your self by but 
going into the dust.
Medicines appropriated to the 
Mouth and Nose. 
Apply no stinking Medicine to a 
disease in the Nose, for such offend  
not only the nose, but also the brain; 
neither administer Medicines of any  
il tast to a Disease in the Mouth, for  
that subverts the Stomach, because  
the tunicle of the Mouth and of the 
Stomach is the same: And because 
both mouth and nostrils are waies by 
which the Brain is clensed; there- 
fore are they infected with such dis- 
eases as need almost continual clen- 
sing; and let the Medicines you apply 
to them be either pleasant, or at least, 
not ingratefull.                      
Medicines appropriated to the Ears. 
The Ears are easily afflicted by 
Cold, because they are alwaies open, 
therefore they require hot medicines. 
And because they are of themselves 
very dry, therefore they require Me- 
dicines which dry much, 
Medicines appropriated to the Teeth. 
Vehement heat, and vehement 
cold, are enemies to the Teeth, but 
they are most of al offended by sharp 
and four things, and the reason is, 
because they have neither Skin nor 
Flesh to cover them. They delight in 
such Medicines as are clensing and 
binding, because they are troubled 
with Defluxions and Rheums upon 
every light occasion; and that’s the 
reason the common use of fat and 
sweet things, soon rots the Teeth. 
Chap. 2. Of Medicines appropria- 
ted to the Breast and Lungs. 
THe Medicines appropriated to 
the Breast and Lungs, you shall 
find called al along by the Name of 
[Pectorals] that's the term Physitians 
give them, when you hear them talk 
of Pectoral Syrups, Pectoral Rows, 
or Pectoral Oyntments, now you 
know their Use. 
They are divers, some of which re- 
gard the part afflicted, others the 
matter afflicting. 
But although sometimes in ulcers 
of the Lungs we are forced to use 
binding Medicines, to joyn the ulcer, 
yet are not these called Pectorals, be- 
cause binding medicines are extream 
hurtful to the Breast and Lungs, both 
because they hinder ones fetching 
his breath, and also because they hin- 
der the avoiding that flegm by which 
the Breast is oppressed. 
Such Medicines are called Pecto- 
rals, which are of a* lenifying Na- 
ture, [*The next Section will in- 
struct you in the term] for by their 
operation is the breath the easier fet- 
ched, and what sticks to the Stomach 
the easier spit out. 
Neither yet is the way or manner 
of provoking this same spitting, al- 
waies one and the same; for somtimes 
the matter is so thin that it cannot be 
cast up by the motion of the Lungs, 
but it flips besides. Again, Somtimes it 
is so thick that it cannot be cast out 
by the narrow Arteries of the Lungs. 
These then are the genuine operati- 
ons of Pectorals, viz. Some to make 
the thin matter thicker, others to 
make the thick matter thinner. 
Besides, Those which make thin 
matter thicker are of two sorts, viz. 
Some are mild and gentle, which may 
safely be administred, be the matter 
hot or cold which offendeth (the de- 
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218 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
grees of Temperature will satisfie,  
which such be among the Simples, 
neither shal you want instructions a- 
mong the Compounds) Others are 
very cold, which are used only when 
the matter offending is sharp. 
But because such Medicines as  
conduce to the cure of the Phtisick 
(which is an ulceration of the lungs  
and the disease usually called, The  
Consumption of the Lungs) are al-  
so reckoned in amongst Pectorals. It  
is not amiss to speak a word to two  
of them. 
In the cure of this Disease are three 
things to be regarded. 
1. To cut and bring away the Con- 
creted Blood. 
2. To cherish and strengthen the 
Lungs. 
3. To couglutinate the Ulcer. 
And indeed some particular Sim- 
ples wil perform al these, and Physi- 
tians confess it; which shews the 
wonderfull Mystery the All-wise God 
hath made in the Creation, That one 
and the same Simple should perform 
two contrary Opinions on the same 
part of the Body; for the more a me- 
dicine clenseth, the more it congluti- 
nates; They usually in such cases first 
use Medicines which are more clen- 
sing; lastly, Medicines more bind- 
ing, and strengthen the Lungs all the 
Time. 
To conclude then, Pectoral Medi- 
cines are such as either cut and clense 
out the compacted humors from the 
Arteries of the Lungs, or make thin 
Defluxions thick, or temper those 
that are sharp, help the Roughness 
of the Wind-pipe, or are gently leni- 
tive and softning, being outwardly 
applied to the Breast.
Chap. 3. Of Medicines appropriated 
to the Heart. 
THese are they which are gene- 
rally given under the notion 
of Cordials, take them under that 
Name here. 
The Heart is the feat of the vital 
Spirit, the fountain of life, the origi- 
nal of infused heat, and of the Natu- 
ral affections of man. 
So then these two things are pro- 
per to the Heart. 
1. By its heat to cherish life through 
out the Body. 
2. To add Vigor to the Affecti- 
ons. 
And if these be proper to the heart, 
you wil easily grant me, that it is the 
property of Cordials to administer 
to the Heart in these particulars.  
Of Cordials, some chear the mind, 
some strengthen the Heart, and re- 
fresh the Spirits thereof being decay-
ed. 
Those which cheer the Mind, are 
not on and the same; for as the
Heart is variously disturbed, either by  
Anger, Love, Fear, Hatred, Sadness, 
&c. So such things as flatter Lovers 
or appease the Anger, or comfort the 
Fearful, or please the Hatefull, may 
wel be called cordials; for the heart, 
seeing it is placed in the middle be- 
tween the Brain and the Liver, is 
wrought upon by reason, as well as 
by digestion, yet these, because they 
are not Medicines, are beside my pre- 
sent scope. 
And although it is true, That mirth, 
Love, &c. are actions, or motions 
of the mind, not of the Body; yet 
many have been induced to think 
such affections may be wrought in 
the body by medicines, which some 
hold is done by an hidden Property 
(the old Bush ignorant Physitians 
have run into) Others that denied 
any hidden Quality in Medicines, 
held it to be done by Enchantment, 
and that is the only way of a thou- 
sand to lead people in ignorance, viz. 
To tel them (when they cannot give, 
nor wil not study a reason of a thing) 
It is Diabolical, and done by Sorce- 
ry. I could give a reason of the for- 
mer, if it were my present scope to 
speak of hidden properties; a very 
short time will discover the latter to 
be the greatest of falshoods. But to 
return to my purpose.
The Heart is chiefly afflicted by too 
much Heat, by Poyson, and by stink- 
ing Vapors, and these are remedied 
by the second sort of Cordials, and 
indeed chiefly belong to our present 
scope. 
According to these Three Afflicti- 
ons, viz.
1. Excessive Heat. 
2. Poyson. 
3. Melancholy Vapors. 
Are Three kinds of remedies which 
succor the afflicted Heart: 
Such as,
1. By their cooling Nature miti- 
gate the heat of Feavers. 
2. Resist poyson. 
3. Cherish the vital spirits when 
they languish. 
Al these are called Cordials: 
1. Such as cool the Heart in Fea- 
vers, yet is not every thing that cool- 
eth, Cordial, for Lead is colder than 
Gold, yet is not Lead cordial as gold 
is, some hold it Cordial by hidden 
Quality, others by Reason, Because 
it cheers a mans heart to see he hath 
gotten money, an Apish Reason, un- 
beseeming a Scholer; for Pearls, ta- 
ken inwardly, cool the Heart, and 
cheers exceedingly, and such a frigid 
Reason will no waies hold in that, 
what Medicines do by hidden Quali- 
ty is not my task at present, it may be 
hereafter, only here let it suffice, that 
cool Cordials are such Medicines as 
are appropriated to the heart, and let 
the Heart be afflicted with heat, elso 
take them not, for fear of Cordials 
they prove ruptures, for the Heart is 
maintained by heat, and not by cold. 
2. Such as resist Poyson There is 
a two-fold resisting of poyson. 
1. By an Antipathy between the 
Medicine and Poyson. 
2. By a Sympathy between the 
Medicine and the Heart. 
Of the first we shal speak anon, in 
a Chapter by it self. The latter be- 
longs to this Chapter, and they are 
such medicines, whose Nature is to 
strengthen the Heart, and fortifie it 
against the poyson, as Rue, Angelica, 
&c. For as the operation of the for- 
mer is upon the poyson, which affli- 
cteth the heart, so the operation of 
the latter is upon the Heart afflicted 
by the poyson. 
To this Classis may be referred all 
such Medicines as strengthen the 
Heart either by Astral influence, or 
by likeness of substance, if there be 
such a likeness in medicines, for a 
Bullocks heart is of like substance to 
mans, yet I question whether it be 
cordial or not. 
3. And lastly; Such as refresh the 
Spirits, and make them lively and a- 
ctive. both because they are appro- 
priated to that Office, and also be- 
cause they drive stinking melancholy 
vapors from the Heart, for as the A- 
nimal spirits be refreshed by fragrant 
smels, and the Natural Spirits by 
Spices: so are the vital Spirits refresh- 
ed by al such medicines as keep back 
melancholy Vapors from the Heart, 
as Borrage, Bugloss, Rosemary, Ci- 
tron Pils, the Compositions of them 
and many others, which this Treatise 
wil amply furnish you with. 
Chap. 4. Of Medicines appropri- 
ated to the Stomach. 
BY Stomach, I mean that Ventri- 
cle which contains the Food till 
it be concocted into Chyle. 
Medicines appropriated to the sto- 
mach are usually called stomachicals. 
The infirmities usually incident to 
the Stomach are three. 
1. Appetite lost. 
2. Digestion weakened. 
3. The retentive Faculty corrup- 
ted. 
When Appetite is lost, the man 
feels no hunger when his body needs 
Nourishment. 
When Digestion is weakened it is 
not able to concoct the meat recei- 
ved into the stomach, but it putrefies 
there. 
When the retentive Faculty is spoi- 
led the Somach is not able to retain 
the Food til it be digested, but either 
vomits it up again, or causeth fluxes. 
Such Medicines then as remedy al 
these, are called stomachicals. And 
of them in order.
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219 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
1. Such as provoke Appetite are  
usually of a sharp or fourish tast, and  
yet withall of a gratefull tast to the 
Pallat, for although loss of appetite  
may proceed from divers causes, as  
from Choller in the Stomach, or pu- 
trefied Humors or the like, yet such  
things as purge this Choller or Hu- 
mors, are properly called Orecticks, 
not stomachicals; the former streng-  
then Appetite after these are expel- 
led. 
2. Such medicines help Digestion  
as strengthen the Stomach, either by 
convenient heat, or Aromatica (viz.
spicy) Faculty, by hidden property, 
or congruity of Nature; by which 
last the inner skin of a Hens Gizzard 
dried and beaten to pouder and ta- 
ken in Wine in the morning fasting 
is an exceeding strengthener of Di- 
gestion, because those Creatures have 
such strong Digestions themselves. 
3. The retentive Faculty of the 
Stomach is corrected by binding me- 
dicines yet not by al binding Medi- 
cines neither, for some of them are 
adverse to the Stomach, but by such 
binding medicines as are appropria- 
ted to the Stomach. 
For the Use of these. 
Use, 1. Use not such medicines as 
provoke Appetite before you have 
clensed the Stomach of what hinders 
it. 
Use, 2. Such medicines as help 
Digestion (which the Greeks cal 
πεππχα) give them a good time be- 
fore meat that so they may pass to 
the bottom of the Stomach (for the 
digestive Faculty lies there) before 
the food come into it. 
Use, 3. Such as strengthen the re-  
tentive Faculty, give them a little be- 
fore meat, if to stay fluxes; a little af-  
ter meat, if to stay vomiting.   
Chap. 5. Of Medicines appropriated 
to the Liver.  
BE pleased to take these under the  
Name of Hepaticks, for that is 
the usual Name Physitians give then, 
and these also are of Three sorts. 
1. Some the Liver is delighted in. 
2. Others strengthen it. 
3. Others help its Diseases.  
The Palat is the Seat of tast, and  
its Office is to judg what Food is a- 
greeable to the stomach, and what 
not, by that is both the Quality and 
Quantity of Food for the Stomach 
discerned: the very same Office the 
Meseraik veins perform to the Liver. 
Sometimes such Food pleaseth the 
Pallat which the Liver likes not (but 
not often) and therefore the Mese- 
raik Veins refuse it, and that's the 
reason some few men fancy such  
food as makes them sick after the 
eating thereof.  
1. The Liver is delighted excee-  
dingly with sweet things, draws them  
greedily, and digesteth them as swift- 
ly, and that’s the reason Honey is so 
soon turned into Choller. 
2. Such medicines strengthen the 
Liver, as (being appropriated to it) 
very gently bind, for seeing the Office 
of the Liver is to concoct, it needs 
some adstriction, that so both the 
heat and the humor to be concocted 
may be staied that so the one flip not 
not away, nor the other be scattered. 
Yet do not Hepatical medicines 
require so great a binding Faculty as 
stomachicals do, because the passages 
of the Stomach are more open than 
those of the Liver, by which it either 
takes in Chyle, or sends out blood to 
the rest of the body, therefore medi- 
cines that are very binding are hurt- 
ful to the Liver, and either cause ob- 
structions, or hinder the distribution 
of the blood, or both. 
3. The Liver being very subject to 
obstructions, medicines which with- 
stand obstructions, or open them be- 
ing made, are truly Hepatical, and 
they are such as cut and extenuate 
without any vehement heat (to these 
we shal speak in their proper places) 
and yet they retain a Faculty both 
gently binding, and clensing, 
Sometimes Inflamation follows 
the obstruction, and then must you 
use Hepatical medicines, which cool, 
clense, and extenuate. 
In using these have a special care 
that your cooling medicines be so 
tempered with heat, that the digestive 
faculty of the liver be not spoiled, 
and that the Diaphragma (which is 
very neer unto it) be not so cooled 
that it hinder the fetching of breath. 
And thus much for the Liver, the 
Office of which is to conroct Chyle 
(which is a white substance the Sto- 
mach digests the food into) into 
Blood, and distribute it by the Veins 
to every part of the body, whereby 
the body is nourished, and decaying 
flesh restored.
Chap. 6. Of Medicines appropria- 
ted to the Spleen.  
IN the breeding of Blood, are three 
Excrements most conspicuous 
viz. Urine, Choler, and Melancholy.  
The proper Seat of Choler is in 
the Gall. 
The urine passeth down to the 
Reins or Kidneys, which is al one. 
The Spleen takes the thickest or 
melancholy blood to it self. 
I hope shortly to give you the ex- 
actest piece of Anatomy now extant, 
in your own mother Tongue, where- 
in you may as perfectly see these and 
al other internal operations of your 
body, as you can your Faces in a 
Looking-glass. But to return. 
This Excrement of blood is two- 
fold: for either by excessive heat, it. 
is addust, and this is that the Latins 
cal Atra Bilis: or else it is thick and 
earthly of it self, and this properly is
called Melancholy Humor. 
Hence then is the Nature of Sple- 
nical medicines to be found out, and 
by these two is the Spleen usually 
afflicted for Atra bilis (I know not 
what distinct English Name to give 
it) many times causes madness, and 
pure melancholy causeth Obstructi- 
ons of the Bowels, and Tumors, 
whereby the concoction of the blood 
is viciated, and dropsies many times 
follow. 
Medicines then peculiar to the 
spleen must needs be twofold also, 
some appropriated to Atra bilis, o- 
thers to pure melancholy; but of 
purging either of them, I shall omit 
till I come to treat of Purging in a 
Chapter by it self. 
1. Such medicines are Splenical, 
which by cooling and moistening 
temper Atra bilis: let not these me- 
dicines be too cold neither, for there 
is no such heat in Atra bilis as there 
is in Choller, and therefore it needs 
no such excessive cooling: amongst 
the number of these are such as wee 
mentioned amongst the Cordials or 
repel melancholy Vapors from the 
Heart, such temper and asswage the 
malice of Atra bilis. 
2. Those medicines are also Sple- 
nical, by which melancholy humors 
are corrected and so prepared, that 
they may the more easily be evacua- 
ted: such medicines are cutting and 
opening, and they differ from Hepa- 
ticals in this That they are no waies 
binding; for the spleen being no ways 
addicted to concoction, binding me- 
dicines do it harm, and not good. 
3. Sometimes the Spleen is not only 
obstructed, but also hardned by Me- 
lancholy Humors, and in such cases 
Emollient medicines may be wel cal- 
led Splenicals; not such as are taken 
inwardly, for they operate upon the 
stomach and bowels, but such as are 
outwardly applied to the Region of 
the Spleen. 
And although sometimes medi- 
cines, are outwardly applied to hard- 
ness of the Liver, yet they differ from 
Splenicals, because they are binding, 
so are not Splenicals.
Chap. 7. Of Medicines appropri- 
ated to the Reins and Bladder. 
The Office of the Reins is, To 
make a separation between 
the Blood and the Urine; to receive 
this urine thus separated from the 
Blood, is the Bladder ordained, 
which is of a sufficient bigness to 
contain it, that so a man may go a- 
bout his business and not be alwaies 
pissing. 
Both these parts of the body offici- 
ating about the Urine, they are both 
usually afflicted by the diseases of the 
urine. 
The urine is oppressed, 
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2. By Inflamation. 
3. By thick Humors.
Medicines appropriated to the 
Reins and Bladder are usually called 
Nephriticals, and are three-fold; 
some cool, others cut gross humors, 
and a third sort breaks the stone. 
In the use of all these, take notice, 
That the constitution of the Reins 
and bladder is such, that they abhor 
all binding Medicines, because they 
cause stoppage of urine. 
The truth is, I shall speak of all 
these apart in so many Chapters by 
themselves, only let it suffice, That 
Physitians confess some Medicines 
perform these by an hidden quality, 
and even break the hardest stone;  
but no man (they say, because they 
cannot themselves) can give a reason 
how, or why they do it. 
And Secondly, Take notice, That 
the Reins and Bladder being subject 
to Inflammations endure not very 
hot Medicines. 
Thirdly, Because the Bladder is 
further remote from the Centre of 
the Body than the Kidnies are, there- 
fore it requires stronger Medicines 
than the Kidnies do, left the strength 
of the Medicine be spent before it 
be come to the part afflicted. 
Chap. 8. Of Medicines appropri- 
ated to the Womb. 
THese Physitians call Hystericals, 
and to avoid Multiplicity of 
words, take them in this discourse 
under that notion. 
Take notice that such Medicines as 
provoke the Terms, or stop them 
when they flow immoderately, are 
properly Hystericals, but shal be spo- 
ken to by and by in a Chapter by 
themselves. 
As for the Nature of the Womb, it 
seems to be much like the Nature of 
the brain and stomath, for experience 
teacheth that it is delighted with 
sweet and Aromatical Medicines,and 
flies from their contraries. 
For Example: A Woman being 
troubled with the fits of the Mother, 
which is drawing of the Womb up- 
wards, apply sweet things, as Civit, 
or the like, to the place of Concep- 
tion, it draws it down again; but 
apply stinking things to the Nose, as 
Affafœtida, or the like, it expels it 
from it,and sends it down to its pro- 
per place. 
Again, Somtimes the womb of a 
Woman falls out; in such cases, 
sweet scents applied to the Nose, and 
stinking things to the privy passage, 
reduces it to its proper place again, 
and this made some Physitians of O- 
pinion that the Womb of a Woman 
was capable of the sence of smelling. 
For my part, I beleeve nothing less; 
only it doth it by appropriation to 
that part of the body, for the stomach 
is also offended with stinking things, 
not because it smels them, but be- 
cause they are obnoxious to that part 
of the body, judg the like by the 
womb; it is offended by stinking 
things, and strengthened by sweet: 
for smel is one of the touch-stones 
by which nature trieth what is con- 
venient for its self; yet, that the 
womb hath much affinity with the 
Head is most certain, and undenia- 
ble, by this argument, Because most 
Cephalick medicines conduce to the 
cure of Diseases in the womb, neither 
is the womb often afflicted, but the 
head principally suffers with it.
Chap. 9. Of Medicines appropri- 
ated to the Joynts. 
THe Joynts are usually troubled 
with Cephalick Diseases, and  
then are to be cured by Cephalick 
medicines. 
Medicines appropriated to the 
Joynts, are called by the name of 
Arthritical medicines. 
The Joynts, seeing they are very  
nervous, require medicines which 
are of a heating and drying Nature, 
with a gentle binding, and withall, 
such as by a peculiar vertue are ap-  
propriated to them, and ad strength  
to them. It is true, most Cephalicks  
do so, yet because the joynts are| 
more remote from the Centre, they  
require stronger medicines. 
For removing pains in the Joynts 
this is the method of proceeding.  
Pains is either taken away, or eas-
ed for the true cure is to take away 
the cause of the pain, somtimes the 
vehemency of the pain is so great 
that you must be forced to use Ano- 
dines (for so Physitians cal such me- 
dicines as ease pain) before you can 
meddle with the cause, and this is u- 
sually when the part pained is infla- 
med for those medicines which take 
away the cause of pain being very 
hot, if there be any inflammation in 
the part pained, you must abstain 
from them till the inflammation be 
taken away, 
Also the manner of easing the pain 
is two-fold, for if you regard only 
the pain, use Anodines, but if you re- 
gard the inflammation, use cooling 
medicines, because by them, not on- 
ly the heat is asswaged, but also the 
flux of Blood to that part is stopped, 
especially if you mix some repelling 
medicine with it. We shall speak of 
all these in the next Section. 
Only here take notice. That 
such medicines as take away the 
cause of pain from the Joynts, are of 
very thin substance, and forcible in 
cutting and drawing; and when you 
see the cause taken quite away, then 
use such as bind and strengthen the 
Joynts, that so you may prevent de- 
fluxions for the time to come. And 
thus much for the second Section.
SECT. III. 
Of the Properties or Ope- 
rations of Medicines. 
THat I may be as plain as can be 
in this (for I desire to be un- 
derstood of all) I shall divide this 
Section into these Chapters, Viz. 
Of Medicines. 
Chap. 
Emollient—1 
Hardening—2 
Loosning—3 
Making thin, and thick—4 
Opening the Vessels—5 
Attenuating—6 
Drawing—7 
Discμssing—8 
Repelling—9 
Burning—10 
Clensing—11
Emplasticks—12 
Suppuring—13 
Provoking Urine—14 
Provoking the Terms—15 
Breeding Milk—16 
Regarding the Seed—17 
Easing pain—18 
Breeding Flesh—19 
Glutinative—20 
Scarrifying—21 
Resisting Poyson—22 
Adorning the Body—23 
Purging—24 
Of all these in order, and in the 
same order they are set down.
Chap. 1. Of Emollient Medicines. 
THe variaus mixtures of Heat, 
Cold, Driness, and Moisture 
in Simples, must of necessity produce 
variety of Faculties, and operations 
in them, which now we come to treat 
of, beginning first at Emollients. 
What is hard, and what is soft, 
most men know, but few are able to 
express: Phylosophers define that to 
be hard which yields not to touching 
and soft to be the contrary. An E- 
mollient, or softening Medicine 
(which is all one) is such a Medi- 
cine as reduceth a hard substance to 
its proper temperature. 
But to leave Philosophy, and keep 
to Physick: Physitians describe hard- 
ness to be twofold. 
1. A distention or stretching of a 
part by too much fulness. 
2. Thick humors which are desti- 
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221 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick.  
tute of heat, growing hard in that 
part of the Body in which they flow. 
So many properties then ought E- 
mollient Medicines to have, viz. To 
moisten what is dry, to Discuss what 
is stretched, to warm what is congea- 
led by cold; yet properly, that only 
is said to mollifie which reduceth a 
hard substance to its proper tem- 
per.
Driness and thickness of humors 
being the cause of hardness, Emolli- 
ent Medicines must of necessity be 
hot and moist; and although you 
may peradventure find some of them 
dry in the second or third Degrees, 
yet must this Driness be tempered 
and qualified with heat and moisture, 
for Reason wil tel you that dry Me- 
dicines make hard parts harder, 
Besides, In Schirrhous humors (in 
which Emollients are most in use) 
various Symptomes appear, so that 
the hardness being not simple, the 
Emollients are not, nor ought not to 
be alwaies one and the same: as for 
example: Somtimes the Swelling 
abounds with moisture, and then the 
Medicine must be dryer, not to mol- 
lifie the swelling, but to consume the 
moisture; Somtimes the humor is 
so tough, that temperate Medicines 
wil not stir it, then must the Medicine 
be hotter, these things are acci- 
dental according as the humor offen- 
ding is; it follows not for al this, that 
Emollient Medicines should not be 
temperately hot and moist in their 
own Nature; for general Rules are 
not to be accounted false, because a 
man must sometimes swerve from 
them, for this is the true use of all 
Rules, viz. To vary them according 
to the various Symptomes of the Dis- 
ease, and herein is the judgment of 
the Physitians tried. 
Lastly, Mollifying Medicines are 
known, 1. By their tast, 2. By their 
feeling. 
1. In tast, they are neer unto 
sweet, but Fat and Oyly, they are 
neither sharp, nor austere, nor four, 
nor salt, neither do they manifest ei- 
ther binding, or vehement heat, or 
cold to be in them.
2. In feeling you may perceive no 
roughness, neither do they stick to 
your Fingers like Birdlime, for they 
ought to penetrate the parts to be 
mollified, and therefore many times 
if occasion be, are cutting Medicines 
mixed with them. 
Chap. 2. Of Hardning Medicines. 
GALEN in Lib. 5. de Simpl. 
Med. Facult. Cap. 10. deter- 
mins Hardning Medicines to be cold 
and moist, and he brings some argu- 
ments to prove it, against which o- 
ther Physitians contest. 
I shall not here stand to quote the 
Dispute, only take notice. That if  
softning Medicines be hot and moist 
(as we shew’d even now) the hard- 
ning Medicines must needs be cold 
and dry, because they are contrary 
to them. 
The universal course of Nature wil 
prove it, for driness and moisture are 
passive qualities, neither can extre- 
mities consist in moisture as you may 
know, if you do but consider that 
driness is not attributed to the Air, 
nor Water, but to Fire, and Earth. 
2 The thing to be congealed must 
needs be moist, therefore the Medi- 
cine congealing must of necessity be 
dry, for if cold be joyned with dri- 
ness, it contracts the pores, that so 
the humors cannot be scatterred. 
Yet you must observe a difference 
between Medicines drying, making 
thick, hardning, and congealing, of 
which differences a few words will 
not do amiss. 
1. Such Medicines are said to dry, 
which draw out or drink up the 
moisture, as a Spunge drinks up wa- 
ter. 
2. Such Medicines are said to 
make thick, as do not consume the 
moisture, but ad driness to it, as you 
make Syrups into a thick Electuary 
by adding Pouders to them. 
3. Such as congeal, neither draw 
out the Moisture, nor make it thick 
by adding driness to its but contract 
it by vehement cold, as Water is fro- 
zen into Ice.  
4. Hardness differs from all these, 
for the parts of the body swel, and, 
are filled with flegmatick Humors, 
or melancholly Blood, which at last 
grows hard. 
That you may cleerly understand 
this, observe but these two things. 
1. What it is that worketh. 
2. What it worketh upon. 
That which worketh is outward  
cold. 
That which is wrought upon is a 
certain thickness and driness of hu- 
mors, for if the humor were fluid as 
water is, it might properly be said to 
be congealed by cold, but not so 
properly hardened. Thus, you see 
cold and driness to be the cause of 
hardning. But enough of this (per- 
haps some may think too much) 
This hardning being so far from be- 
ing useful, that it is obnoxious to the 
body of Man. I pass it without more 
words. I suppose when Galen wrote 
of hardning Medicines, he intended 
such as make thick, and therefore a- 
mongst them he reckons up Flea- 
wort, Purslain, Housleek, and the 
like, which affwage the heat of the 
humors in Swellings and stop subtill 
and sharp desluxions upon the 
Lungs, but of these more anon. 
Chap. 3 of Loosning Medi- 
cines. 
BY Loosning here, I do not mean 
Purging, not that which is op- 
posite to Astringency; but that 
which is opposite to stretching: I 
knew not suddenly what fitter En- 
glish Name to give it, than Loosning 
or Laxation, which latter is scarce 
English.
The Members are distended or 
stretched divers waies, and ought to 
be loosned as many, for they are 
stretched somtimes, by driness some- 
times by cold, sometimes by repleti- 
on or fulness, somtimes by swellings, 
and somtimes by some of these joyn- 
ed together. I avoid terms of Art as 
much as I can, because it would pro- 
fit my Country but little, to give 
them the Rules of Physick in such 
English as they understand not. 
I confess the Opinion of Ancient 
Physitians hath been various about 
these Loosning Medicines. Galen's 
Opinion was, That they might be 
referred either to moistening, or hea- 
ting, or mollifying, or evacuating 
Medicines, and therefore ought not 
to be referred to a Chapter by them- 
selves.
'Tis like they may, and so may all 
other Medicines be referred to heat, 
or coldness, or driness, or moisture: 
But we speak not here of the particu- 
lar properties of Medicines, but of 
their joyned properties, as they heat 
and moisten. 
Others, they question how they 
can be distinguished from such as 
mollifie, seeing such as are loosning, 
and such as are emollient, are both 
of them hot and moist. 
To that, thus: Stretching and 
Loosning are ascribed to the mova- 
ble parts of the Body, as to the Mus- 
cles and their Tendons, to the Liga- 
ments and Membrans; but softness 
and hardness to such parts of the Bo- 
dy as may be felt with the hand: I 
shall make it cleer by a similitude:  
Wax is softned being hard, but Fiddle 
strings are loosned being stretched. 
And if you say that the difference ly- 
ing only in the parts of the Body is 
no true difference, then take notice, 
that such Medicines which loosen, 
are less hot, and more moistning, 
than such as soften, for they operate 
most by heat, these by moisture. 
The truth is, I am of Opinion, 
the difference is not much, nay, 
scarce sensible, between Emollient 
and Loosning Medicines; only I 
quoted this in a Chapter by it self, 
not so much because some Authors 
do, as because it conduceth to the 
encrease of knowledg in physick. 
The chief Use of Loosning Medi- 
cines is in Convulsions and Cramps, 
and such like infirmities which cause
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222 A key to Galen’s Method of Physick.  
distention or stretching. 
They are known by the very same 
Marks and Tokens that Emollient 
Medicines are.
Chap. 4. Of Medicines making thin 
and thick. 
MEdicines which rarifie, or make 
thin, are such which open the 
pores of the skin and make them wi- 
der; they are not so moist as Emol- 
lient Medicines are, but of thin and 
subtil parts; they are hot, but not so 
hot that they should draw the matter 
to them or discuss it, as we shal shew 
when we come to speak of those Fa- 
culties.
Such as make thick, are contrary 
to these, these are cold, and stop the 
Pores of the Skin. 
These Galen would have to be 
moist, neither is there any difference 
between his description of hardning 
Medicines and such as make thick. 
Use 1. The use of Rarifying me- 
dicines is, To open the pores of the 
skin and make them wider, that so- 
the vapors arising from blood over- 
heated may pass out, and that was 
the reason Wraftlers in antient times 
came to their exercise with their Bo- 
dies anointed, that so the vapors cau- 
sed by stirring their bodies, might 
pass out, and not cause Feavers or o- 
ther mischief to the bowels by being 
kept in. 
2. Rarifying medicines conduce 
much to the mitigation of pain, for 
the pores of the skin being opened, 
the matter causing the pain is the ea- 
sier expelled. 
Again, in swellings, it is not only 
the plenty of Humors that causeth 
pain, but the driness, hardness, or 
stretching of the skin, therefore see- 
ing Medicines which rarifie or make 
thin, do both loosen and mollifie, 
they must of necessity by these ope- 
rations mitigate pain. 
Also there is much profit in the 
use of thickning Medicines, for they 
make the skin firm, thereby not only 
the better resisting cold, but also they 
stop too much sweating, and dissolu- 
tion of the spirits that way, which of- 
ten happens to them that are weak. 
Chap. 5. Of Medicines opening the 
mouths of the Vessels. 
THese Galen thought to be hot, 
but of thick parts and biting. 
Let none admire that thickness 
should be attributed to Medicines of 
an opening substance, seeing thick- 
ness seems rather to stop than to o- 
pen. For answer to this, you must 
consider the manner of opening Ob- 
structions, and of opening the 
mouths of the vessels is different, ob- 
structions require cutting medicines, 
by which the thickness of the matter 
obstructing is made thinner, there- 
fore the medicine ought not to be 
thick, but of thin substance that it 
may the better penetrate (I do not 
mean of a thin Body, like water, for 
that causeth obstructions rather than 
takes them away, but of thin parts, 
viz. Making thin) But those medi- 
cines which are said to open the 
mouths or passages of the Vessels, are 
of thick parts, that they may not on- 
ly penetrate, but also strengthen the 
passages by which they pass, there- 
fore Galen besides heat, appointed 
thickness of parts and sharpness, or 
biting, as Pepper bites, for such a 
sharp heat is very effectual to pene- 
trate and cannot stop in the least; for 
although the skin be easily contract- 
ed by gentle medicines, the Vessels 
cannot be shut but by things vehe- 
mently binding, and therefore let 
these medicines of thick substance be 
also moist, for moisture cannot so 
forcibly bind as stop the mouths of 
the Vessels. 
Use. The use of opening medici- 
nes may be easily gathered from the 
use of the Vessels to be opened, for 
seeing their Use is to hold blood, 
which sometimes offends in quantity, 
somtimes in quality; such infirmities 
are to be somtimes remedied by ope- 
ning Medicines. 
They are easily known by tast, be- 
ing sharp and piercing, and bite the 
tongue, but such as are stopping, are 
cold and binding, and contract the 
tongue in tasting of them.
Chap. 6. Of Attenuating Medici- 
nes. 
THe use of attenuating medici- 
nes is to open the obstructions 
of the Bowels. 
The bowels are obstructed or stop- 
ped by tough and viscous Humors; 
Hence then it is cleer that Attenua- 
ting or Extenuating medicines ought 
to be thin of substance, but whe- 
ther they ought al to be hot or not, 
is some question, for indeed many 
cold Medicines cut tough Humors, 
and open Obstructions, as Vinegar, 
Endive, Succorie, and the like. I shal 
not enter into the dispute here, whe- 
ther al cold things bind or not, and 
therefore some hold Vinegar to be 
hot in it self, and cool only by acci- 
dent. We know wine is hot, and vi- 
negar is nothing but corrupted wine, 
and we know as wel that putrefacti- 
on turns things usually into a contra- 
ry quality; and besides, if you ask 
Physitians how one simple can per- 
form two contrarie Operations, they 
presently run into the old Bush, It 
doth it (say they) by a hidden qua- 
lity.  
The use of Attenuating medicines 
is to open the bowels, to clense the 
breast of flegm, to expell the Terms, 
&c.                                    
Your best course is, first to clense 
the Body by some gentle Purge be- 
fore you use Attenuating Medicines, 
left they seize upon the Blood, and 
cause Feavers, or other mischiefs as 
bad. 
They are in tast, sharp, fowr, or bit- 
ter, yet such as being tasted dilate the 
Tongue, and contract it not.
Chap. 7. Of Drawing Medicines. 
THe Opinion of Physitians, is 
concerning these, as it is con- 
cerning other medicines, viz. Some 
draw by a manifest quality, some by 
a hidden, and so (quoth they) they 
draw to themselves both humors and 
thorns, or splinters that are gotten 
into the flesh; however this is cer- 
tain, they are all of them hot, and of 
thin patts; hot because the Nature 
of heat is to draw off thin parts that 
so they may penetrate to the humors 
that are to be drawn out. 
Their use is various, Viz. 
Use 1. That the Bowels may be 
disburdened of corrupt Humors. 
2. Outwardly used, by them the 
offending humor (I should have said 
the Peccant Humor, had I written 
only to Scholers) is called from the 
internal parts of the body to the Su- 
perficies. 
3. By them the Crisis of a Disease 
is much helped forward. 
4. They are exceeding, profitable 
to draw forth poyson out of the Bo- 
dy.
5. Parts of the body over cooled 
are cured by these medicines, viz. By 
applying them outwardlie to the 
place, not only because they heat, but 
also because they draw the spirits by 
which life and Heat are cherished, to 
the part of the Bodie which is desti- 
tute of them; you cannot but know 
that many times parts of the body fal 
away in flesh, and their strength de- 
caies, as in some peoples Arines or 
Legs, or the like, the usual reason is, 
Because the vital Spirit decaies in 
those parts. To which use such Plai- 
sters or Oyntments as are attractive 
(which is the physical term for draw- 
ing medicines) for they do not only 
cherish the parts by their own proper 
heat, but draw the vital and Natural 
Spirits thither, whereby they are both 
quickned and nourished, 
They are known almost by the 
same tokens that Attenuating medi- 
cines are, seeing heat, and thinness of 
parts is in them both, they differ only 
in respect of quantitie, thinness of 
parts being most proper to attenuat- 
ing Medicines, but attractive Medi- 
cines are hotter.
Chap.


223 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
Chap 8. Of Discussive Medicines. 
BY Discussive Medicines I intend  
such as the Greeks eal δiαϕοgηπxα' 
commonly Physitians call them  
by the Names of Diaphoreticks: in  
plain English, they are such Medi- 
cines as provoke Sweat, or as work 
by insensible transpiration, I quote 
these terms, and explain them, be- 
cause I would not have my Coun- 
try Men hood-wink’d with strange 
terms. 
The nature of discussing (or swea- 
ting) medicines is almost the same 
with Attractive, for there are no dis- 
cussive medicines but are attractive, 
nor scarce any attractive Medicine 
but is in some measure or other 
discussing. 
The difference then is only this; 
That discussive medicines are hotter 
than attractive, and therefore no- 
thing else need be written of their na- 
ture.
Use. Their use may be known even 
from their very Name; for diseases 
that come by repletion or fulness, are 
cured by evacuation or emptying; yet 
neither blood nor gross Humors are 
to be expelled by sweating, or insen- 
sible transpiration (as they cal it) but 
the one requires Blood-letting, the 
other purgation; but Serosus or thin 
humors and filthy Vapors, and such
like superfluities, are to be expelled 
by sweat, and be wary in this too, for 
many of them work violently, and 
violent Medicines are not rashly to 
be given. 
Caut. 2. Besides, Swellings are 
sometimes made so hard by sweating 
medicines, that afterwards they can 
never be cured; for what is thin be- 
ing by such Medicines taken away, 
nothing but what is perfectly hard 
remains: If you fear such a thing,
mix Emollients with them. 
Caut. 3. Again, Sometimes by u- 
sing Discussives, the humors offend- 
ing (which Physitians usually cal the 
Peccant Humor) is driven to some 
more noble part of the body, or else 
it draws more than it discusseth; in 
such cases, concoct and attenuate 
the matter offending before you go 
about to discuss it. 
From hence may easily be gathered 
at what time of the disease discussive 
Medicines are to be used, viz. about 
the declining of the disease, although 
in Diseases arising from the Heat of 
blood, we sometimes use them in the 
encrease and state of them. 
They are known by the same marks 
and tokens attenuating Medicines 
are, viz. by their burning and biting 
quality, they being very hot, and of 
thin parts, void of any biting quality, 
therefore they contract not the 
Tongue in tasting of them.         
Chap. 9. Of Repelling Medicines.
REpelling Medicines are of con- 
trary operation to these three 
last mentioned, viz. Attenuating, 
Drawing, and Discussive medicines:
’Tis true; there is but little diffe- 
rence between these three, some hold 
none at al; and if you wil be so nice, 
you may oppose them thus. And so 
medicines making thick, correspond 
to attenuating medicines, or such as  
make thin, repelling Medicines are 
opposed to such as draw, and such as 
retain the Humors and make them 
tough, are opposite to such as dis- 
cuss, some hold this Niceness need- 
less. 
2. The sentence of Authors about 
Repulsive medicines is various. 
For seeing an Influxion may be 
caused many waies: Repulsive hath 
got as many Definitions. 
For such things as cool, bind, stop, 
and make thick, stay Influxions, and  
therefore Repulsives are by Authors 
opposed, not only to Attractives, but 
also to Attenuating, and Discussing 
Medicines. 
But properly such things are called 
Repulsives, which do not only stay 
Influxions (for so do such Medicines 
which stop and make thick) but such 
as drive the Humors flowing to, or 
inherent in the place, to some other
place.
The truth is, binding is inherent to 
Repulsives, so is not coldness nor 
making thick: Yet such as are bind- 
ing, cold and thin in operation, are 
most effectual. 
Your tast will find Repulsives to 
be, tart, or sharp, or austere, with a 
certain binding which contracts the 
Tongue. 
Use 1. Their Use is manifold, as  
in hot Tumors, Head-achs, or the
like 
Use 2. By these in Fearers are the 
Vapors driven from the Head: Vi- 
negar of Rofes is notable. 
Time of giving. They are most 
commodious in the beginning and 
encrease of a disease, for then influxi- 
ons are most rise. 
But seeing that in the cure of Tu- 
mors there are two scopes. 1. That 
that which flows to it may be repel- 
led. 
2. That that which is already in it 
may be discussed: Repulsives are most 
commodiously used in the begin- 
ning, discussives in the latter end. 
In the middle you may mix them 
with this Proviso, That Repulsives 
exceed in the beginning, Discussives 
in the latter end. 
Caut. 1. If the matter offending be 
of a venemous quality, either abstain 
from Repulsives altogether, or use 
Purging first, left the matter fly to the
Bowels and prove dangerous, espe- 
cially if the Bowels be weak. 
2. Also forbear, Repulsives, if the 
pain be great. 
3. Lastly, Have a case left by Re- 
pulsives you contract the Pores so 
much, that the matter cannot be re- 
moved by Discussives. 
Chap. 10. Of burning Medicines. 
SUch Medicines are called by the 
Greeks τυgoτiπα', that are so ve-
hement hot that they burn the Skin 
like fire or scalding water. 
Yet these also are distinguished by 
their degrees, for some are milder.
and only cause redness to, or blisters 
upon the skin, others burn both skin 
and flesh, and are used to make Is- 
sues. 
Use 1 The mildest are many times 
used to such Limbs as are wasted a- 
way. 
Use 2. To burn off Hair, to dis- 
solve hard and callous Tumors, to  
consume Warts, and Polypus, which 
is a fleshy excressence growing in the 
Nose, in the cure of Gouts, and Le- 
thargies. 
Use 3. Fistulaes and malignant Ul- 
cers are restrained this way, and dan- 
gerous defluxion of Humors to the 
superficies of the Body, and many
things of the like Nature.
Caut. 1. Yet must this sort of Me- 
dicines be used very circumspectly 
left it cause either Feavers or Con- 
vulsions, therefore use it not al til the 
body be first wel purged. 
Caut. 2. If you use it to restore 
Limbs, temper it with milder things. 
Caut. 3. Lastly, Have a care left 
the parts adjacent be inflamed, 
which you may both prevent and re- 
medy by anointing them with cool 
Oyntments. 
Chap. 11. Of Clensing Medicines. 
CLensing medicines can neither 
be defined by Heat, nor cold- 
ness, because some of both sorts 
clense. 
A clensing medicine then is of a 
terrene quality, which takes away the 
filth with it, and carries it out. 
Definition.] Here to avoid confusi- 
on, a difference must be made between 
washing and clensing. 
A thing which washeth, carries a- 
way by Fluxion as a man washeth the 
the dirt off from a thing. 
A clensing medicine by a certain 
Roughness or nitrous quality, carries 
away the compacted filth with it. 
This also is the difference between 
clensing and discussing medicines, the 
one makes thick humors thin, and so 
seatters them, but a clensing medi-
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214 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick.  
Medicine takes the most tenacious 
humor along with it, without any al- 
teration. 
Besides, Of clensing medicines, 
some are of a gentle Nature, which 
the Greeks cal ρυτiηα', some are more 
vehement, called ηαθαì ρnτiηα'. 
These are not known one and the 
same way; for some are sweet, some 
salt, and some bitter. 
The use of clensing is external, as 
the use of Purges internal. 
They are used to clense the Sanies 
and other filth of Ulcers, yea, and to 
consume and eat away the flesh it  
self, as burnt Allum, Precipitate, &c.  
When these must be used, not only 
the effects of the Ulcers, but also the 
temperature of the body wil tel you.
For if you see either a Disease of 
fulness, which our Physitians call 
[plethora] or corrupted Humors 
which they cal [Cacochymia] you must 
empty the body of these, viz. fulness 
by bleeding, and corrupted Humors 
or evil state of the Body, by purging 
before you use medicines to the Ul- 
cer, else your cure wil never proceed 
prosperously. 
In the Ulcer, pain to be eased, some 
part of the Ulcer to be ripened, flux 
to be stopped, or inflamation to be 
ceased, will instruct a prudent Arti- 
ficer.
Chap. 12. Of Emplasticks. 
BY 'εμπλαsixα' here, do I mean 
things glutinative, and they are 
clean contrary to things clensing. 
They are of a far more glutinous 
and tenacious substance. 
They differ from things stopping 
because they do not stop the pores so 
much, as stick to them like Birdlime. 
They have a certain glutinous 
heat, tempered both with coldness 
and moisture.
From these, Plasters take their 
names.
Their tast is either none at all, or 
not discernable whether hot or cold, 
but fat, insipid, or without tast, or 
sweet, viscous in feeling. 
Their use is to stop flowing of 
blood, and other fluxes, to cause sup- 
puration, to contain in the heat, that 
so tumors may be ripened. 
Also they are mixed with other 
Medicines, that they may the better 
be brought into the form of an Em- 
plaster, and may stick the better to 
the Members.
Chap. 13. Of Suppurating Medi- 
cines. 
THese have great affinity with 
Emollient, like to them in 
temperature, only Emollients are som- 
thing hotter.                        
Yet is there a difference as appa- 
rent as the Sun is when he is upon 
the Meridian, and the use is manifest. 
For,  
Emollients are to make hard things 
soft, but what Suppures, rather 
makes a generation than alteration 
of the humors, 
Natural heat is the efficient cause 
of Suppuration, neither can it be 
done by any external means. 
Therefore such things are said to 
suppure, which by a gentle heat che- 
rish the inbred heat of man.
This is done by such Medicines 
which are not only temperate in heat 
but also by a gentle viscosity, fill up 
or stop the pores, that so the heat of 
the part affected be not scattered. 
For although such things as bind 
hinder the dissipation of the Spirits, 
and internal heat, yet they retain not 
the moisture as suppuring Medicines 
properly and especially do. 
The heat then of Suppuring Medi- 
cines is like the internal heat of our 
Bodies
As things then very hot, are in- 
grateful either by biting, as Pepper, 
or bitterness: in Suppuring Medi- 
cines, no biting, no binding, no ni- 
trous quality is perceived by the tast  
(I shal give you better satisfaction  
both in this and the other by and  
by.) 
For Reason wil tel a man, that such 
things hinder rather than help the 
work of Nature in maturation.  
It follows not from hence. That 
all Suppuring Medicines are grateful 
to the tast, for many things grateful 
to the tast provoke vomiting, there- 
fore why may not the contrary be? 
The most frequent use of Suppura- 
tion is, to ripen Phlegmonœ, a general 
term Physitians give to all swellings 
proceeding of Blood, because Nature 
is very apt to help such cures, and 
Physick is an art to help, not to hin- 
der Nature.
The time of use is usually in the 
height of the Disease, when the flux 
is staied, as also to ripen matter that 
it may be the easier purged away.
Chap. 14. Of Medicines provoking 
Urine.
THe causes by which Urine is 
suppessed are many. 
1. By too much drying, or sweat- 
ing, it may be consumed. 
2. By heat or Inflamation of the 
Reins, or passages whereby it passes 
from the Reins, it may be stopped by 
compression. 
Urine is the thinnest part of Blood, 
separated from the thickest part in 
the Reins.  
If then the Blood be more thick 
and viscous than ordinary, it cannot 
easily be separated without cutting 
and clensing Medicines.            
This is for certain, That Blood can 
neither be separated or distributed 
without heat.
Yet amongst Diureticks are some 
cold things, as the four greater cold 
Seeds, Winter cherries, and the 
like 
Although this seem a wonder, yet 
it may be and both stand with truth. 
For cool Diureticks, though they 
further not the separation of the 
Blood one jot, yet they clense and 
purge the passages of the Urine. 
Diureticks then are of two sorts.  
1. Such as conduce to the separa- 
tion of the Blood. 
2. Such as open the Urinal passa- 
ges. 
The former are *biting [*I 
know not a better word for Acer, than 
biting like Pepper.] (and are known 
by that tast) very hot and cutting, 
whence they penetrate to the Reins, 
and cut the gross humors there. 
Bitter things, although they be ve- 
ry hot, and cut gross humors, yet are 
they of a more dry and terrene sub- 
stance, than is convenient to provoke 
Urine. 
Hence then we may safely gather, 
That bitter things are not so moist 
nor penetrating, as such as bite like 
Pepper.  
Those cold things which provoke 
Urin, though they bite not, yet have 
they a nitrous quality whereby they 
open and clense. 
For the use of these the Title will 
instruct you, only, left they carry the 
humors they find in the Veins to the 
Reins, and so make the stopping the 
greater, purge those places they must 
pass through before you administer 
them.
Chap. 15. Of Medicines provoking 
the Terms. 
THese Medicines have a great af- 
finity with those aforegoing. 
For such as provoke the Terms, pro- 
voke also Urine, their Nature is al- 
most the same, viz. Hot, and thin es- 
sence. 
Only thus much, to provoke the 
Terms, not only the blood is to be 
attenuated, but the mouths of the 
Vessels also to be opened. 
Such as open those Vessels cary a 
certain terrene quality with them, 
whereby they not only penetrate, but 
also penetrating dilate the Vessels, 
and carry away the filth with them. 
Things provoking the Terms, 
ought to be hot in the third degree, 
and yet not very dry.
That there is an appointed time 
for the Terms to come down, every 
Woman that is but sixteen yeers old 
can tel you. 
Be sure you administer the Medi- 
cine at the time they should come 
down, else you wil do no other good 
than weaken Nature. 
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225 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick.  
Neither must those things be neg- 
lected which may bring the Body in- 
to a fit temper for such a business. 
If the Body be full of ill humors, 
purge them out first before you ad- 
minister hot things, left you thrust 
the crude humors into the Veins.
By avoiding the Menstruis the Bo- 
dy is made lighter, and Nature dis- 
burthened, health secured, alacrity 
procured. 
The retaining of them breeds drop- 
sies, Falling-sickness, and other cruel 
Diseases, yea, somtimes madness.  
Hippocrates denies any Women  
have the Gout so long as they have 
the Terms.
Chap. 16. Medicines breeding, or  
taking away Milk. 
SEing Milk is bred of blood, there 
is no question to be made but 
the way to encrease Milk, is to en- 
crease the Blood. 
Yet though blood be very copi- 
ous, it doth not alwaies follow that 
Milk must of necessity be so too, for 
the Blood may be naught, or not fit 
to be turned into Milk, or impedited 
that it cannot. 
Those things are properly said to 
breed milk, which breed much blood,  
and it good, and have a moderate 
cutting faculty also. 
Such things then as breed milk are 
hot, and of thin parts, yet differ much 
from those that provoke urine, or the 
Terms. The other being vehement- 
ly hot, these which breed milk tem- 
perately hot. 
And if driness be adverse to the 
provoking of the terms, certainly it 
is most adverse to breeding Milk. 
Medicines which breed milk, are 
in tast either fat, or sweet, 
For seeing both blood and milk are 
temperate, or at least very moderate- 
ly hot, they must be bred of such 
things as are not unlike to them in 
Nature. 
Such things as lessen Milk must 
needs be contrary to such things as 
encrease it. 
This is done by drying or thick- 
ning the blood. 
They are known by tast, bitter,  
sharp, tart, Austere, &c. and what- 
foever is excessive either in heat or 
cold. 
If the body be full of evill juyce, 
purge it before you goe about to 
breed Milk, for the more you nourish 
impure bodies, the more you offend 
them. 
Addition. 
The Industry of late Physitians and 
Anatomists in conjunction with a 
noble freedom of Judgment, has 
found and asserted, that Milk is not 
bred of blood but of the thinner and 
purer parts of the Chylus: though 
the passage of the said chylus from 
the stomach to the Dugs is not yet 
sufciently discovered. See Dr. Ent 
his Exercitations upon Parisanus. It 
is likewise discovered lately by the 
means aforesaid, that blood does 
only quicken and give life and met- 
tle to the body, the nourishment  
thereof proceeding from the Milk, or 
purer part of the chyle, which justi- 
fies that saying of the Author of 
the Tragicomical History of Job, 
who saies that some men die when 
their bones are moistened with Mar- 
row and their breasts ful of Milk, 
Job 2. 23, 24.
Chap. 17. Of Medicines regarding 
the Seed.
AS Milk, so also Seed takes his 
Originial from Blood. 
Therefore of necessity nourishing 
meats beget much Seed, because they 
beget much blood. 
This is the difference between such 
things as breed Milk, and such as 
breed seed; Seed requires a more 
windy blood than the other doth. 
For this faculty ought to be in seed, 
that being heat with spirits, it may 
cause the Yard to stand. 
Such Medicines are temperately 
hot and moist 
Also to provoke one to the sports 
of Venus, we use such things as stir 
up the Venerial faculty. 
These are hotter than those that en- 
crease seed, yet not so dry that they 
should consume the seed. 
Take notice of this also. That some 
things dul Venus by cold, and some 
over power her by heat. 
The one of those consumes the 
seed, the other makes it torpid and 
fluggish, staies the Itching. 
For the seed of Man is subject to 
as many contingents as the Man him- 
self is. 
It is not my scope here to treat of 
them, for such things as make seed 
either thinner or thicker, are not pro- 
perly said to breed seed. 
For the time when seed should 
be evacuated, I need say nothing, un- 
less I should say, when a man is a 
bed with his Wife. 
If the body have ill humors let it 
first be purged, let seed be encreased 
before it be provoked. 
Biting things lessen the seed, stir 
up the Venereal parts to expulsion, 
cause Itching or tickling of the pri- 
vities, therefore they are good to be 
used a little before the act, otherwise 
the constant use of them, consumes 
and scatters the seed. 
Observe thus much, That one and 
the same Medicine doth not suit with 
every complexion. For example. If 
the person be flegmatick, let the Me- 
dicine be the hotter. 
The use of these Medicines is the 
propagation of Man-kind, for the 
desire of children incites many to co-   
pulation, but the pleasure that is in 
the act ten times more. 
Chap. 18. Of Medicines easing 
pain.
THere is no dispute of the story 
but that which causeth the dis- 
ease causeth pain, as also what cureth 
the disease easeth the pain. 
Yet are those properly called A- 
nodynes (which is the Physical term 
for such medicines) which barely 
regard the pain, both cause and dis- 
ease remaining. 
These are temperate for heat, and 
thin for essence.
For seeing they are to be applied 
both to hot and cold Diseases, they 
ought not to vary much from tempe- 
rature. 
They somthing excel in heat, and 
so they ease pain, because they open 
the pores and loosen the skin. 
But they also cool because they let 
out those hot fuliginous vapors 
which cause the pain. 
Such things as ease pain by stu- 
pefaction, are called Narcotika, not 
Anodyna; hupuotica, not Parego- 
rica.
They do not take away the pain at 
all, but either cause sleep, or so dull 
the sences that they cannot feel it. 
They are administred at such times 
when the Symptomes are so grievous 
that they threaten a greater Danger 
than the Disease is. 
If in giving them, you fear a grea- 
ter fluxion wil come to the part affli- 
cted, mix some things with them, 
which are medicinal for the Disease. 
If the pain lie in the Skin, let the 
Anodynes be liquid, the deeper it 
lies, the more solid let them be, left 
their vertue be discussed before they 
come at the part afflicted,
Chap. 19. Of Medicines breeding 
Flesh. 
THere are many things diligently 
to be observed in the cures of 
Wounds and Ulcers, which incur and 
hinder that the cure cannot be spee- 
dily done, nor the separated parts re- 
duced to their Natural State. 
Viz. Fluxes of blood, inflamation, 
Hardness, Pain, and other things be- 
sides our present scope. 
Our present scope is, to shew how 
the cavity of Ulcers may be filled 
with Flesh. 
Such medicines are called σαρπνΠ-
nα', Sarcoticks. 
This, though it be the work of na- 
ture, yet it is helped forward with 
Medicines, that the blood may be 
prepared, that it may the easier be 
turned into Flesh. 
These are not medicines which 
breed good Blood, nor which correct
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226 A Key to Galen’s Method of Physick.  
the in temperature of the place affli- 
cted, but which defend the blood and  
the Ulcer it self from corruption in  
breeding Flesh, 
For Nature in breeding flesh pro-  
duceth two sorts of excrements, viz.  
Serous Humors, and Purulent dross.
Those Medicines then which clense 
and consume, these by drying are said 
to breed flesh, because by their helps 
Nature performs that Office. 
Also take notice that these Me- 
dicines are not so drying that they 
should consume the Blood also as 
wel as the Sanies, nor so clensing that 
they should consume the flesh with 
the dross.
Let them not then exceed the first 
Degree unless the Ulcer be very 
moist. 
Their differences are various, ac- 
cording to the part wounded, which 
ought to be restored with the same 
flesh. 
The softer then, and tenderer the 
place is, the gentler let the midicines 
be.
Chap. 20. Of Glutinative Medi- 
cines.
THat is the true cure of an ulcer, 
which joyns the mouth of it 
together. 
That is a Glutinative Medicine, 
which couples together by drying 
and binding, the sides of an ulcer be- 
fore brought together. 
These require a greater drying fa- 
culty than the former, not only to 
consume what flows out, but what 
remains liquid in the flesh, for liquid 
flesh is more subject to flow abroad 
than to stick together. 
The time of using them, any body 
may know without teaching, viz. 
when the Ulcer is clensed and filled 
with flesh, and such Symptomes as 
hinder are taken away. 
For many times Ulcers must be 
kept open that the Sanies, or fords 
that lie in them may be purged out, 
whereas of themselves they could 
heal before. 
Only beware, left by too much bin- 
ding you cause pain in tender parts. 
Chap. 21. Of Scarrifying Medi- 
cines. 
THe last part of the cure of an ul- 
cer, is to cover it with skin, and 
restore the place to its pristine beau- 
tie. 
Such Medicines the Greeks call 
Epulotica. 
This also is done by things drying 
and binding. 
They differ from the former thus, 
in that they meddle with the flesh no 
further than only to convert it into 
Skin.                                   
Before you administer Epuloticks, 
let not only the ulcer, but the places 
adjacent be diligently viewed, left ill 
Symptomes follow.
Chap. 22. Of Medicines resisting 
poyson.
SUch medicines are called Alexi- 
teria, and Alexipharmaca, which 
resist Poyson. 
Some of these resist Poyson by A-  
stral influence, and some Physitians  
(though but few) can give a reason  
of it.  
These they have sorted into three  
Ranks. 
1. Such as strengthen Nature, that  
so it may tame the poyson the easier.  
2. Such as oppose the poyson by a  
contrary quality.  
3. Such as violently thrust it out  
of doors.  
Such as strengthen Nature against  
Poyson, either do it to the body uni- 
versally, or else strengthen some par- 
ticular part thereof. 
For many times one particular part 
of the Body is most afflicted by the 
Poyson, suppose the Stomach, Liver, 
Brain, or any other part: such as che- 
rish and strengthen those parts being 
weakened, may be said to resist poy- 
son.
Such as strengthen the Spirtis, 
strengthen all the Body. 
Sometimes Poysons kill by their 
quality, and then are they to be cor- 
rected by their contraries. 
They which kill by cooling are to 
be remedied by heating, and the con- 
trary; they which kill by corroding, 
are to be cured by lenitives, such as 
temper their Acrimony. 
Those which kil by Induration, or 
Coagulation, require cutting Medi- 
cines. 
Also because all Poysons are in 
motion, neither stay they in one place 
til they have seized and oppressed 
the Fountain of Life, therefore they 
have invented another faculty to stay 
their motion, viz. Terrene and Em- 
plastick. 
For they judg, if the Poyson light 
upon these Medicines, they embrace 
them round with a viscous quality. 
Also they say the waies and pas- 
sages are stopped by such means, to 
hinder their proceeding; take Terra 
Lemnia for one. 
Truly if these Reasons be good, 
which I leave to future time to de- 
termine, it may be done for a little 
cost. 
Some are of opinion that the safest 
way is to expel the poyson out of the 
Body, so soon as may be, and that is 
done by Vomit, or Purge, or Sweat. 
You need not question the time, 
but do it as soon as may be; for there 
is no parlying with poyson. 
Let vomiting be the first, Purging 
the next, and Sweating the last. This 
is general. But, 
If thou dost but observe the Na- 
ture and motion of the Venom, that 
wil be the best Instructer. 
In the Stomach it requires Vomi- 
ting, in the blood and spirits, Sweat- 
ing; if the Body be plethorick, blee- 
ding; if ful of evil humors, Purging. 
Lastly, The Cure being ended, 
strengthen the part afflicted. 
Thus our common Physitians. But 
out of question, Medicines whose o- 
peration is by Astral influence, are 
both safest and speediest, not only in 
this, but in all other Diseases; but 
this is besides my present scope, and 
Physitians confess is hid from their 
eyes, that belongs to my own Model, 
which I trust in God I shall live to 
perfect. This is that that cures Dis- 
eases perse, the other per accidens; this 
Moderns quite neglected: some An- 
tients were groping at it, though left 
it not to posterity.
Chap 23. Of Medicines Adorning 
the Body. 
SUch medicines as adorn the Bo- 
dy, adding comliness and beau- 
ty to it, are called xoσμεπxα'.
Beauty is a blesting of God, and e- 
very one ought to preserve it; they 
offend as much that neglect it, as 
they do that paint their Faces. 
They are appropriated to the skin, 
Hair, and Teeth. 
The Skin is pestered with spots, 
Pimples, freckes, wrinkles, and Sun- 
burning. 
The Hair either falls off, or hangs 
not as it should do. 
The Teeth are either loose, or fall 
out, or stink, or are black. 
Spots and Sunburning, as also 
blackness of the teeth, are not to be 
taken away by clensing Medicines: 
of which before. 
Redness of the Face proceedeth 
from divers causes, therefore are to 
be remedied by Remedies as divers. 
If of heat, cool the blood; if it be 
impacted to the Skin, use extenuat- 
ing Medicines; if of both, use both. 
If the failing be extrinsecal, use 
extrinsecal Medicines; if intrinsecal, 
let the Remedy be so also. 
Wrinckles are taken away by La- 
xative, Lenient, and Emollient me- 
dicines. 
For falling off of Hair, correct the 
pravity of the humor that causeth it. 
Gentle heat breeds Hair, and pre- 
serves it; clensing and corroding 
Medicines take it away. 
Drying and binding Medicines 
cause Hair to curl. 
Clensing things make the Teeth 
clean, binding things strengthen 
them, but have a care they have not 
a blackish quality with them, which 
is incident to many binding Medi- 
cines. 
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227 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick.  
Clensing iand discussing Medicines 
take scurse or dandrif from the head. 
In al these, see the Bowels clean, 
else local Medicines are applied in 
vain. 
In preserving hair, only two things 
are considerable. 
1. To contract the Pores.
2. To see that the Hair have nou- 
rishment. 
Chap. 24. Of purging Medicines. 
MUch jarring hath been amongst 
Physitians about Purging Me- 
dicines, namely, whether they draw 
the humors to them by a hidden qua- 
lity, which in plain English is, they 
know not how; or whether they per- 
form their office by manifest quality, 
viz. By heat, driness, coldness, or 
moisture: It is not my present scope 
to enter the Lists of a Dispute about 
the business, neither seems it such 
a hidden thing to me that every like 
should draw its like, only to make 
the matter as plain as I can, I subdi- 
vide this Chapter into these follow- 
ing parts.
1 Cautions concerning Purging. 
2 Of the choice of purging Medicines, 
3 Of the time of taking them. 
4 Of the correcting of them. 
5 Of the manner of Purging.  
Cautions concerning 
Purging. 
IN this, first consider diligently, and 
be exceeding cautious in it too, 
what the matter offending is, what 
part of the body is afflicted by it, and 
Which is the best way to bring it out. 
Only here by the way first, have a 
care of giving Vomits, for they u- 
sually work more violently, and af- 
flict the Body more than Purges do 
therefore are not fit for weak bodies, 
be sure the matter offending lie in 
the Tunicle of the Stomach, else is a 
Vomit given in vain. 
Secondly, Vomits are more dange- 
rous for Women then Men, especi- 
ally such as are either with Child, or 
subject to the Fits of the Mother. 
This is the first Caution. 
Secondly, What medicine is apro- 
priated to the purging of such a Hu- 
mor, for seeing the offending matter 
is not alike in al, the purging Medi- 
cine ought not to be the same to al, I 
shal speak more of this anon. As al- 
so of the divers waies whereby medi- 
cines draw out or cast out Humors, 
viz. By lenifying, clensing, provo- 
king nature to expulsion, and (which 
is stranger than the Doctors hidden 
Quality) some purge by binding, but 
indeed and in truth such as are pro- 
perly called Purging Medicines, 
which besides these Faculties have 
gotten another, by which they draw 
or cal out the Humors from the most 
remote parts of the Body, whether  
these do it by Heat or by an hidden  
quality, Physitians are scarce able to 
determine it being very well known  
to modern Physitians, though the  
Antient denied it that many cold  
Medicines purge, for my part I shall  
forbear the Dispute here, not because  
I am not able to answer it but be-  
cause I would train up my Country  
men first a little betterin the grounds 
of Physick, it being my opinion that  
yong Physitains as wel as youg Chri- 
stians ought not to be led into doubt- 
ful Disputations. This is the Second 
Caution. 
Thirdly, There is this Facultie in 
al the Purges of Galen's model (be- 
cause he gives the whol Simple which 
must needs consist of divers qualities, 
because the Creation is made up of 
and consists by a harmony of contra- 
ries) there is (I say) this Faculty in 
al Purges of that Nature, that they 
contain in them a substance which is 
inimical both to the Stomach and 
Bowels and some are of opinion this 
doth good namely, Provokes nature 
the more to expulsion; the reason
might be good if the Foundation of 
it were so, for by this Reason Nature 
her self should purge not the Medi- 
cine, and a Physitian who takes his 
Name from phusis, which signifies 
Nature, should help Nature in her 
business and not hinder her. But to 
forbear being critical, this substance 
which I told you was inimical to the 
Stomach, must be corrected in every  
Purge; And this is my Third Cau-  
tion. 
Fourthly, The choice of Purging 
Medicines is very difficult, they are  
not Physick for every Ignoramus to  
prescribe, for some purge gently some 
violently, some are appropriated to  
Flegm some to Choller, some to Me-  
lancholy, and some to Water, or se-  
rous humors: Consider this but duly,  
and withal, what mischief may accrue 
by giving a Medicine purging Cho- 
ler in a Disease proceeding of Flegm  
or watry humors, you may easily see 
without a pair of Spectacles, that it 
cannot but weaken the Spirits ex- 
ceedingly, and abate Natural Heat, 
which is al Nature hath to help her  
self in such a case, and also hinder the  
clarification of the Blood which is 
done by Choller, thereby encreasing 
the Disease, and opening a gap to let 
out Life, and let in Death; It were 
vain to recite what mischief may fol- 
low the giving of violent Purges to 
weak Bodies, or to strong bodies 
where the Humor offending is not 
tough and viscous, but fluid and ea- 
sie to be carried away I shal touch 
upon them by and by, only here you 
may see reason enough, why I am so 
long upon this subject. 
Lastly, When you perfectly know 
the humor offending, the convenient 
Medicine and fit correction for it, the 
time and matter of using it remains 
to be enquired into. 
These I thought to premise by way 
of caution before I come to the mat- 
ter it self intended, and so much the 
rather because people from one Ge- 
neration to another have been so 
trained up in ignorance by Physitians 
who have absconded the Method 
of Physick from them, that now 
like mad men (oppression having al- 
most, if not altogether made them so) 
when they ail anything, they take 
any Purge what their next Neighbor 
adviseth them to, right or wrong ’tis 
no matter, their wit in, and conside- 
ration of the business being much at 
one.
Of the choyce of Purging 
Medicines. 
WE told you before, That 
purging Medicines were 
appropriated to certain Humors, the 
redundancy or overflowing of which 
causeth diseases in the Body of man;  
of these, such as proceed from blood 
are not to be Remedied by Purging. 
The Humors to be purged are 
Four, Viz. 
Flegm, 
Watery Humors 
Choller, 
Melancholy. 
According to the quality of these, 
are Purging Medicines to be chosen. 
Before I come to them, give me 
leave to premise one word or two, I 
shal only here quote Purging simples be- 
fore I am now upon the simples, I shall 
touch upon the purging Compounds when 
I come unto them. 
The most noted qualities of Purging 
Medicines. 
I shall first give you a Synopsis or 
Joynt-view of Purging simples usu- 
ally to be had. 
Secondly, Speak as briefly as I can 
of their Properties. 
Purging Sim- 
ples work
Gently.
Strongly.  
Such as work gently, either purge  
Choller, As, 
Wormwood, Centaury, Aloes, 
Hops, Herb Mercury, Mallows, Peach 
leaves and Flowers, Damask Roses, 
Blew Violets, Cassia Fistula, Citron 
Mirobalans, Prunes, Tamarinds, Rhu- 
barbs, Rhapontick, Manna.
Purge Flegm, As, Hysop Hedg 
Hysop, Bastard Saffron, Broom Flo- 
wers, Elder flowers, Myrobalans, Bel- 
lerick, Chebs, & Emblicks, the seed of 
Bastard saffron and Broom, Jallap and 
Mechoacan. 
Watry





 


228 A Key to Galen's Method of Physick. 
Watry Humors, The Leaves, Bark 
and Roots of Elder, and Dwarf elder, 
or Walwort, Elder Flowers, Broom 
Flowers, Agrick, Jallap, Mechoacan, 
Orris, or Flower-de-Luce Roots.
Melancholy, Senna, Fumitory, Dod- 
der, Epithimum, Indian Myrobalans, 
Polypodium, Whey, Lapis Lazuli, 
&c.
Violent Simples purge Choller, As, 
The Seeds of Spurge, the Bark and 
Root of the same, Scammonie, Ela- 
terium. 
Flegm and Water. Elaterium, Eu- 
phorbium, Spurge, Opopanax, Sar- 
cocolla, Briony Roots, Turbith, Her- 
modactils, Colocynthis, Wild Cu- 
cumers, Sowbread, Mezereon, 
Squils. 
Melancholly. Hellebore white and 
black.
Secondly, In all these observe, 
That such as are gentle are only to 
be given to delicate and tender Bo- 
dies, whether the body be weak Na- 
turally, or caused so by sickness, a- 
bove al give not vomits to weak Sto- 
machs, for the Fundament is ordain- 
ed by Nature to avoid the Excre- 
ments, and not the mouth, which was 
ordained to take in, not to Vomit 
out, therefore use vomits as seldome 
as may be. 
But for the Election of Purges, Let 
such as are apropriated to flegm and 
melancholy be mixed with such 
things as are thin in substance, and of 
a cutting quality, because these Hu- 
mors are tough, gentle medicines wil 
serve to evacuate Water and Choller 
usually, I say [usually] because som- 
times water requires such medicines, 
as are of force to call it from the 
extream parts of the body, and such 
must needs be violent in Operation. 
I entreat al yong Students in Phy- 
sick to be very carefull in admini- 
string violent medicines, and that ne- 
ver without due preparation of the 
body beforehand, never unless the 
Humor be so repugnant that it will 
not yield to gentle: And oh! that 
simple people would learn to be but 
so wise as to let them alone, and not 
take them themselves, the evill they 
do them (if not regulated by an a- 
bler brain than dwels in their skuls) 
is certain, the good very uncertain; 
for such violent medicines as purge 
Choller if immoderately taken, first 
draw the choller, then the flegm, 
afterwards the melancholy, then they 
cause Corrosions, and draw the 
blood: Such as purge flegm and wa- 
ter violently when they have drawn 
that, then they draw the Choller, 
then melancholy, they then corrode, 
and so either by excoriation or ope- 
ning the mouths of the Veins, bloo- 
dy Fluxes also follow, and many 
times the Disease ends in the Grave; 
and so also the immoderate Purgati- 
tion of melancholy, first draws chol- 
ler (I mean after the melancholy is
evacuated) then Flegm, and ends as 
the other do. But I think this is e- 
nough to wise men. To return; 
If you prepare the body before 
hand (you wil not want instructions 
how to do it in the COMPOUNDS) 
then gentler Medicines wil serve the 
turn, and therefore such Medicines 
as purge water, add but cutting me- 
dicines to them, and they purge 
Flegm. 
And then again, I desire you to 
take notice that such medicines as 
have a binding quality in them are 
very hurtful to tough flegm, and me- 
lancholy, because the humors them- 
selves being tough, they make them 
the tougher, but they are most proper 
for Choller and putrified Flegm, be- 
cause the first of them often causeth 
defluxions, the second a loosness. 
Again, Another thing I thought 
good to give notice of, and so much 
the rather because I have seen it prin- 
ted in English, and heard it contend- 
ed for by Students in Physick, yet is 
the conceipt very dangerous, viz. 
That the operations of Purging me- 
dicines may be known by their co- 
lors, for say they, white medicines 
purge Flegm; black, melancholy; 
and yellow, Choller. I confess some 
Antient Physitians were of this apish 
Opinion, which in no wise holds true 
in the general, though in some parti- 
culars it may.
Of the time of Purging. 
IT was the Opinion of Hippocrates 
to prepare the Body with hot and 
cutting Syrups before the purging 
Medicine be given, with this Proviso, 
That the matter be not so hot that it 
be thrust into the Veins, and cause 
Feavers. 
If your Purge must be strong, take 
some lenitive Purge, or else a Clyster 
before you take it, left the passages 
being not opened, the matter being 
violently expelled be stopped in its 
passage, and so either Colicks, or ve- 
hement Belly-ach, or worse mischief 
follow. 
Let it be two hours ere you drink, 
and four or five ere you eat after you 
have taken a Purge, and let your 
Stomach be empty when you take 
them. 
1. Left being mixed with the nou- 
rishment they lose their force, and so 
Nature convert them into nourish- 
ment, thereby corrupting the blood. 
2. All Purges are enemies to Na- 
ture, and if yon mix them with food, 
Nature detains them the longer, and 
by consequence is the more prejudice 
to them. 
3. It is very unfitting to molest 
Dame Nature with two several moti- 
ons at one time, viz. To expel the 
Purge and the obnoxious humor 
with it, and also at the same time to 
nourish the Body.                   
As for Lenitives or gentle Purges, 
and many Pills, they may safely be 
taken at night, as you were taught 
in the first part of my Directory, to 
which I refer you for Directions in 
all Purges, and I shal have a word or 
two to say concerning Vomits before 
I have done this Book: I refer it 
here therefore to its proper place. 
I shal here conclude with this Ca- 
veat, Never take sweet things after 
Purges, because the Liver draws them 
so greedily that they soon turn the 
Purge to aliment, which if any thing 
will bring mischiefs more than e- 
nough to the Body, this wil. 
Of the correcting of Purging Medi- 
cines. 
IN Purging Medicines are many 
things considerable, which are ei- 
ther to be helped forwards or cor- 
rected, for of Purges, some work too 
slowly, others too violently. 
Or to be a little more distinct, 
some faults of a purge may be known 
before it is given, and others nor till 
after. I shal begin with the first. 
There is this almost properly in all 
Purges, that they are obnoxions to 
the Stomach, and indeed to Nature 
it self, therefore mix some things 
with them which strengthen the Heart 
and Stomach.
Again, The gentleft Purges that 
are, have one discommodity in them 
That they are easily turned to wind; 
therefore mix such things with them 
as expel wind (the former Rules a- 
mongst the Simples, wil furnish you 
with enough, and more then enough 
of either) for although they be not, 
windy of themselves, yet by their 
heat they stir up wind, though they 
meet with Flegm or Melancholly. 
Violent purges by their Acrimony 
or sharp gnawing quality, are inimi- 
call to the Bowels, which must iu 
no wise be corrected with binding 
Physicks, for that will mend them as 
the Fletcher mends his Bolt, viz. Spoil 
all, and that by keeping them so long 
in the Body: such things as make 
slippery, lenisie, and somthing thic- 
ken, are proper Corrigents for them; 
such are, Quince Seeds, Mallows, 
Gum Tragacanth, and the like. 
After the Purge is given, it may 
offend on either hand, viz. By work- 
ing either not at all, or not violent- 
ly: If it work not at all, take hot 
Broaths; if they wil not do the deed, 
use a Clyster. 
Various and manifold are the evils 
that a Purge working too violently, 
may afflict upon the Body of Man, 
and very dangerous; for such may 
produce these, or any of these conse- 
quences, and poor filly people that 
take them, never know whence they 
come.
1. Feavers.
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229 A Key to Galens Method of Physick. 
2. Vehement Head-ach. 
3. Vertigo or Dissiness in the 
Head. 
4. Weakness of Sight 
5. Weakness of Digestion. 
6. Loss of Appetite. 
7. Ulcers in the Bowels. 
8. Hiccoughs. 
9. Bloody Fluxes. 
10. Tenasmus. 
11. Weakness of the Body. 
12. Convulsions.
If you feel these, or any of these 
Symptoms after Purging, you may 
give a shrewd Guess, either your 
purge was not proper for your Dis- 
ease or else wrought too violently. 
It is not my present Task to shew 
you how to remedy these, the Table 
at the latter end will instruct you 
with Medicines for each, and you 
cannot be more unwilling to pay for 
one thing twice, than I am to write it. 
For preventing such evills as these 
are (or others which perhaps a man 
might find in Authors) accept of 
these following Aphorisms. 
1. Be sure you strengthen the heart 
for if that fail, al wil be naught. 
2. When you preceive your purge 
Works too violently, you may then 
know nature hath got an enemy that 
is too hard for her, therefore make 
as much haft as you can to expell 
him, ease your Body of the Purge so 
soon as you can for the longer it 
staies in your Body, the more inimi- 
cal it proves, either poysoning it, or 
leaving such Symptoms behind it as 
we mentioned even now, which may 
be done by drinking much Barley 
Water (or for want of it take any 
warm Water, that is clean, as Spring 
Water or the like) wherein the seeds 
of Fleawort, or Quince seeds, or Gum 
Tragacanth is dissolved, for that 
makes the passages slippery and hin- 
ders Excoriation of the Bowels: 
Country people that know, not how 
to get these, may boyl two handfulls 
of Mallows in a quart of water to a 
pint, and drink it up, if that help not, 
let them drink another. 
3. If you find the Mouths of the 
Veins be opened, which you may 
know if much blood come from you 
without any skins, then take a Cly- 
ster made only of new Milk, a dram 
of Mastich in pouder being added to 
it. 
4. Oyl of sweet Almonds taken 
inwardly, an ounce at a time, and as 
often as you wil, is excellent in such 
a case, but let it be newly drawn. 
5. Juyce of Quinces, Syrup of 
Quinces, Preserved Quinces, or that 
which in Sussex the Gentry cal Mar- 
milade is very good; according to 
Mesue in such a case to be taken of- 
ten. 
6. Anoint the Belly and Stomach 
with Oyl of Roses as hot as can be 
endured, after which sprinkle the 
pouder of Mastich, or for want of it 
pouder of Galls, or red Rose Leaves 
upon them; if you apply any Rose 
Cake to the Belly in such a case it 
Would do good. 
Lastly, If for all this the matter 
grow desperate and wil not be stop- 
ped, Mesue leaves two Remedies 
more, which he desires may be the 
last that are used; and truly so do I 
only I shal quote his last first, because 
I hold it (of the two) the safest. 
His last (but my first) is this; To 
take three grains of Laudanum, or if 
your body be weak, but two. 
The Second is, To take a Vomit, 
thereby to divert the Humors from 
their unbridled Course downward.
Of the Way, or Manner 
of Purging. 
VArious is the way, and manner 
of Purging, according to the 
variety of the humor offending; con- 
cerning which, take these few and 
brief Rules, which may serve you as 
a Candle and Lanthorn to light you 
through the dark mist of your igno- 
rance, till such time as the 
Sun of Light begin to rise upon 
you. 
1. If the Humors be to be drawn 
from remote parts of the body, as the 
Head, Arms, Feet, or the like, let the 
purge be made up in a hard form as 
pills are, for by that means it staies 
the longer in the Body, and is in all 
reason therefore the better able to 
perform its Office. 
2. If the afflicting humor lie in the 
Bowels, or parts adjacent, use liquid 
Medicines, for they operate speediest 
and the bowels are soon hurt by pur- 
ging Medicines. 
3. The infusion of such Medicines 
as leave a binding quality behind 
them, or their Decoction is most fit- 
ting to be used, for it is the earthy 
quality of them which binds, much 
of which is cast away in an Infusion 
or Decoction, but all of it taken if 
you take the body of the simple. 
Such purging Medicines as do 
leave a binding quality behind them, 
the chiefest of them are these Aloes,
Wormwood, Damask Roses, Rhubarb, 
Rhapontick, all the sorts of Myrobalans,
Prunes, Tamarinds, &c.
If the matter be tough, viscous, 
and of long continuance, it is impos- 
sible to carry it away al at once, your 
way then is to take gentle purges, 
and take them often; for if the purge 
be too strong, it wil weaken Nature 
so, that the House (I mean the bo- 
dy) will fall down before you can 
clense it of the filth; and of such a 
Nature usually is Melancholy. 
As for the Doses of purges it is 
impossible to prescribe such general 
Rules, but they must of necessity do 
far more harm than good, for parti-
culars you may if you please find 
them in the first part of the Book 
concerning Simples, and in that part 
concerning Compounds.
FINIS.
Kkk A SYNOPSIS 
 

A SYNOPSIS of the KEY of GALENS 
METHOD of PHYSICK. 
READER, In this Synopsis diligently observe that a directs to the first 
Column, b. to the second, c. to the third Column: And the Figures direct 
to the Page. 
THe Scope of the whole work 
a 214 
Sect. 1. 
Of the Temperature of Medicines. 
a ibid 
Of Temperate Medicines what they 
are. Their use.—b 1b 
Of Hot Medicines. 
Of Medicines hot in the first degree 
a 215 
Use, 1. Reduce the body to natural heat 
a ibid 
Use, 2. To mitigate pain—a ibid 
Use, 3. To take away weariness—a rid 
help Feavers. A caution—a ib 
Use, 4. To help digestion and breed 
good blood—b ibid  
Of Medicines hot in the second degree  
what they are—b ibid 
Use, 1. To help moist Stomachs—b ibid 
Use, 2. To take away obstructions.—b ib 
Use, 3. To open the pores—b ibid 
Of Medicines hot in the third degree.  
b ibid  
Use, 1. To cut tough humors—b ib  
Use, 2. To provoke sweat—b ibid  
Use, 3. To resist poyson—b ib 
Of Medicines hot in the fourth degree 
b ibid 
Use, 1. To cause Inflamations and to  
cause blisters—b ibid  
Of cold Medicines 
Of Medicines cold in the first degree. 
Use, 1. To qualifie the heat of food. 
b ib 
Use, 2. To asswage the heat of the bow- 
els A caution—b ibid 
Of Medicines cold in the second and 
third Degrees—c ib 
Use, 1. To asswage the heat of choller 
c ib 
Use, 2. To take away the Inflamations 
of hot swellings—c ibid 
Use, 3. To cause sleep—c ib 
Of Medicines cold in the fourth degree 
c ibid 
Use, 1. To mitigate desperate pains by 
stupifiying the sences—c ibid 
Of Moistning Medicines—a 126 
Use, 1. To help the Roughness  of the 
throat—a ib 
Use, 2. To make the inward parts of the 
Body slippery—a ibid                 
Of Drying Medicines—a ibid 
Use, 1. To strengthen the members of 
the body cautions— a ibid 
Sect. 2. 
Of the Appropriation of Medicines 
to the several parts of the Body.—b ib 
THe several Opinions oj Authors 
b ib 
Chap. 1. "Medicines appropriated to the 
Head—c ibid 
Their Difference—c ibid 
Cautions in their use—c ibid 
Of Medicines appropriated to the brain 
c ibid 
Directions in their use—c ib 
Of Medicines appropriated to the 
Eyes—a 217 
The opinions of Astrologers—a ib 
The Election or choyce of medicines for 
the Eyes—a ib 
Of Medicines appropriated to the 
Mouth and Nose—b ibid 
Cautions for their use—b ibid 
The manner of the medicines—b ib 
Medicines appropriated to the Ears 
c ibid 
What they are and why they are so.—a ib 
Medicines appropriated to the teeth 
c ibid 
What they are, and why they are 
so—c ibid  
Chap. 2. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Breast and Lungs—c ibid 
What they are—c ibid 
The opinion of other Authors—c ibid 
The Authors opinion—c ib 
Chap. 3. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Heart—a 218 
What the office of the Heart is—a ib 
1. To cherish Life—a ibid 
2. To add vigor to the affection.—a ib 
The afflictions of the Heart—a ibid 
1. Excessive heat 2. Poysons—b ibid 
3. Melancholy Vapors—b ib 
What Cordials are—b ibid 
1. Such as mitigate the heat in Fea- 
vers—b ibid 
2. Such as resist Poyson—c ibid 
1. By Antipathy between the medi- 
cine and Poyson. 2. By Simpathy be- 
tween the medicine and the Heart. 3. 
Such as strengthen the heart. 4. Such as 
resresh the spirits—c ib 
Chap. 4. Of medicines appropriated to 
the stomach: The infirmities of the Sto-   
mach. 1. Appetite lost. 2. Digestion 
weakned. 3 The Retentive Faculty cor- 
rupted—c ibid 
Medicines appropriated to the sto- 
mach, are—c ibid 
1. Such as provoke appetite—c ib 
2. As help digestion. 3. Such as help 
the Retentive Faculty. A way to find 
these cautions in the use of them— c ibid 
Chap. 5. Of medicines appropriated to  
the Liver—a 219 
What they are—a ib 
How to know them—a ibid 
How to use them—a ibid 
Chap. 6. Of medicines appropriated to 
the spleen: What the office of the spleen 
is—b ib 
What Medicines appropriated to the 
Spleen are—b ib 
How they must be used—b ibid 
Chap. 7. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Reins and Bladder—c ibid 
What they are, Their use, cautions.—c ib 
Chap. 8. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Womb—a 220 
How they ought to be used—a ibid 
Chap. 9. Of medicines appropriated to 
the Joynts—b ibid 
What they are, how they ought to be u- 
sed—b ibid 
Sect. 3. 
Of the Properties or Operations of 
Medicines. 
Chap. 1. Of Emollient medicines—c ib 
What they are. Their use—c ib 
How they are known—c ibid 
1. By their tast. 2. By their feeling
c ibid 
Chap. 2. Of hardning medicines—a 221 
Their Qualities. Their use—c ibid. 
Chap. 3. Of loosning medicines—c ibid 
Loosning medicine described—c ib 
Their Use—c ibid 
Chap. 4. Of medicines making thick 
and thin Described—a 222 
The use of medicines making thin—a ibid 
To open the pores To mitigate pain 
To asswage swellings—a ibid 
The use of medicines making thick—a ib
Chap 5


A SYNOPSIS of the KEY of Galens Method of Physick. 
Chap. 5. Of Medicines opening the 
mouths of the Vessels—a ib 
Their description. Their Use. How 
they are known—a ibid 
Chap. 6. Of attenuating medicines
b ibid 
Their use. 1. To open obstructions 
2. to clense the breast of Flegm. 3. to 
provoke the terms—b ib 
Chap. 7. Of drawing medicines—c ibid 
Their use. 1. To draw thorns and 
splinters out of the flesh. 2. to draw 
corrupt humors from the Bowels. 3. 
to cal the offending humors to the out- 
ward parts of the Body. 4. By them 
the Crisis of the disease is much help- 
ed forwards. 5. to draw poyson out of 
the body. 6. to heat parts of the body 
which are overcooled—b ib 
Chap. 8. Of discussive medicines.—a 223 
What they are: their use: Cautions in 
their use: How they are known—a ib 
Chap. 9. Of repelling medicines—b ib 
What they are—b ibid 
How they are known—b ib 
Their uses are, 1. to help hot 
swelling. 2. to ease Head-aches coming 
of heat. 3. to take away the windy Va- 
pors of Feavers—b ib  
The time of giving repelling Medi- 
cines—b ibid 
Cautions in giving them—b ibid 
Chap. 10. Of burning medicines—c ib 
Their degrees in heat.—c ib 
Their uses, 1. to restore Limbs wasted  
away, 2. to burn off hair, 3. to dis- 
solve hard tumors, as warts and the 
like, 4. to help Gouts and Lethargies
to help Fistulaes &c.—c ibid 
Cautions in using these medicines—c ib 
Chap. 11. Of Clensing medicines—c ib 
Their definition: their difference their 
use—c ibid 
Chap. 12. Of Emplasters.—a 224 
what they are: their use—a ibid 
Chap. 13. Of Suppurating medicines 
a ibid
What they are: their use: their time 
of Use—a ibid 
Chap. 14. Of medicines provoking U- 
rine—b ib  
What urine is—b ibid  
The cause of the stop page of Urine 
b ib 
What Diureticks are, 1. Such as con- 
duce to separate the blood 2. Such as 
open the passages of urine—c ibid 
How each of these may be known. The 
use—c ib 
Chap. 15. Of medicines provoking the 
terms—c ibid 
Their use and manner of using—c ibid 
Chap. 16. Medicines breeding or ta- 
king away Milk—a 225 
Their Description—a ib 
Their use—a ib 
Chap. 17. Of medicines regarding the 
seed—b ib 
Their Description: Cautions in gi- 
ving them: their use—b ibid 
Chap. 18. Of medicines easing pain 
Their description—c ibid 
The manner of using them—c ibid 
Chap. 19. Of medicines breeding flesh
c ibid                              
Their uses: their differences—c ibid 
Chap. 20. Of Glutinative medicines 
their use—a 216 
Chap. 21. Of Scarrifying medicines 
a ib  
Cautions in their use—a ib 
Chap. 22. Of medicines resisting poy- 
son What they are—b ib 
1. Such as strengthen nature, 2. Such 
as oppose the poyson, 3. Such as vio- 
lently thrust it out of the Body—b ibid 
Cautions in the use of these medicines 
b ibid 
Chap. 23. Of medicines adorning the 
Body—c ib 
1. The Face: 2 the Skin: 3 the Hair: 
4 the Teeth: 5 the Head, Scurfe , Dan- 
drif—c ibid 
Chap. 24. Of Purging medicines.—227 
Cautions concerning Purging—a ibid 
The choyce of purging medicines—c ib 
Medicines Purging, 1 Flegm, 2 Wa- 
try Humors, 3 Choller, 4 Melancho- 
ly—c ibid 
In all these, to what Bodies such purges 
are general, and such as are strong 
should be given—c ibid 
Of the time of purging—b 228 
Of the correcting purging medicines 
How to order your Body both before 
and after purges—c ibid 
Inconveniences that arise in the Body 
by violent purges—a 229 
The way how to prevent them—a ibid 
Ihe way how to remedy them—a ibid 
Of the way or manner of purging.—b ib 
A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS in the 
Order they are set down in every Classis. 
READER, In this Table diligently observe that a: directs to the first 
Column, b to the second, c to the third Column: And the Figures direct 
to the Page.
SPIRITS and COM- 
POUND distilled 
WATERS. 
SPiritus & Aqua Absinthii minus 
Composita. Or, Spirit and Water 
of Wormwood, the lesser Compo- 
sition.—b 101 
Spiritus & Aqua Absinthii magis 
composita. Or, Spirit and Water of 
Wormwood, the greater composi- 
tion.— c ibid. 
Spiritus & Aqua Angelecæ magis  
composita. Or, Spirit and Water of 
Angelica, the greater conposition. 
a 102  
Angelica Water the greater compo- 
sition—b ibid. 
Spiritus Lavendulœ compositus Mat- 
thiol. Or, Compound Spirit of La- 
vender of Matthiolus.—b ib. 
Spiritus Castorii. Or, Spirit of 
Castorium.—c ibid. 
Aqua Petasitidis composita. Or, 
Compound Water of Butterburs. 
a 103 
Aqua Raphani composita. Or, 
compound water of Rhadishes.—a ib.
Aqua Peoniœ composita. Or, com-  
pound water of Peony.—b ib. 
Aqua Bezoartica. Or, A Bezoar- 
tick Water, that is, a water having 
the soveraign faculties, and imita- 
ting the operations of Bezoar Stone. 
c ibid. 
Aqua & Spiritus Lumbricorum, 
Magistralis. Or, Magistral Water 
and Spirit of Earth worms.—b 104 
Aqua Gentianæ composita Or, 
Gentian water compound.—b ib. 
Aqua Gilberti. Or, Gilberts wa- 
ter.—c ib.  
Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxonia. 
Or, Dr. Hercules Saxonia his cooling 
cordial Water.—a 105 
Aqua Theriacalis. Or, Treacle
Water.

A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Water.—b ibid. 
Aqua Brioniæ composita. Or, Bri- 
ony water compound.—c ibid. 
Aqua Imperialis. Or, Imperial 
Water.—a 106 
Aqua Mirabilis.—a ibid. 
Aqua Protheriacalis. Or, A wa- 
ter serving instead of Treacle Water. 
b ibid.
Aqua Caponis. Or, Capon wa- 
ter.—b ibid. 
Aqua Limacum Magistr. Or, Wa- 
ter of Snails.—c ibid. 
Aqua Scordii composita. Or, Com- 
pound water of Scordium.—c ibid. 
Aqua Mariæ. Or, the Virgin 
Maries water.—a 107 
Aqua Papaveris composita. Or, 
Poppy water compound.—a ib. 
Aqua Juglandium composita. Or, 
Wallnuts Water compound.—a ibid. 
Mathiolus, his Bezoar water.—b ib. 
Cinnamon water.—c ibid.
Matthiolus, his Cinnamon water.
c ibid.  
Cinnamon water made by infusion. 
c ibid. 
-Aqua Cælestis. Or, Heavenly wa- 
ter of Mathiolus.—a 108 
Bawm water, the greater composition. 
b ibid. 
Rosa Solis.—c ibid. 
Dr. Stephens water.—c ibid. 
Ordinary Aqua vitæ.—a 109 
Compound Aqua vitæ.—a ibid. 
Usquebah.—a ib. 
TINCTURES.
Tinctura Croci. Or, Tincture 
of Saffron.—b 109 
Tinctura Castorij. Or, Tincture 
of Castorium.— b ibid. 
Tinctura Fragrorum. Or, Tincture                           
of Strawberries.—b ib. 
Tinctura Scordij. Or, Tincture of 
Scordium.—b ibid. 
Tinctura Theriacalis, vulgo, Aqua 
Theriacalis Lugd. per infus. Or, Tin- 
cture of Treacle.—c ibid. 
Tinctura Cinnamomi, vulgo, Aqua 
Clareta cinnam. Or, Tincture of Cin- 
namon.—c ibid. 
Tinctura Viridis. Or, A green 
Tincture.—a 110 
Aqua Aluminosa Magistralis. 
a ibid.
Physical Wines.
Vinum Absinthites. Or, Worm- 
wood Wine.—a ibid 
Vinum Cerasorum Nigrorum. Or, 
Wine of Black Cherries.—b ibid 
Vinum Helleboratum. Or, Wine 
Helleborated.—b ib 
Vinum Rubellum. Or, Vomiting 
Claret.—c ibid 
Vinum Benedictum. Or, the In- 
fusion of Crocus Metallorum.—c ib 
Vinum Antimoniale. Or, Anti- 
monial Wine.—c ib 
The Vertues that the Antimonial 
Cup is said to have [which may be bet- 
ter performed by this Antimonial Wine
a 111
Vinum Scilleticμm. Or, Wine of 
Squils.—a ib 
Physical Vinegars. 
ACetum Distillatum. Or, Distil- 
led Vinegar.—b ib 
Acetum Rosatum. Or, Rose Vine- 
gar.—b ib 
Acetum Scilliticum. Or, Vinegar 
of Squils.—b ib 
Acetum Theriacale. Norimberg. 
Or, Treacle Vinegar.—c ib 
Acetum Theriacale. Or, Treacle 
Vinegar.—a 112 
DECOCTIONS. 
DEcoctum commune pro Clystere. 
Or, A common Decoction for 
a Clyster.—a ibid 
Decoctum Epithymi. Or, A De- 
coction of Epithimum.—b ib 
Decoctum Sennæ Gereonis. Or, 
Dr. Cereo his Decoction of Senna.
c ib
Decoctum Pectorale. Or, A Pe- 
ctoral Decoction.—c ib                                  
Decoctum Traumaticum. Or, the De- 
coction for wounded Persons.—a 113 
A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits. 
b ibid 
LaC Virgineum.—c ibid 
A drink for wounded men.—c ib 
SYRUPS.
Altering Syrups.
SYrupus de Absinthio simplex. Or, 
Syrup of Wormwood, simple. 
a 114 
Syrupus de Absinthio compositus. 
Or, Syrup of Wormwood, Com- 
pound.—b ibid 
Syrupus Acetosus simplex. Or, Sy- 
rup of Vinegar simple.—b ib 
Syrupus Acetosus simplicior. Or, 
Syrup of Vinegar more simple.—c ibid 
Syrupus Acetosus compositus. Or,
Syrup of Vinegar Compound.—c ib 
Syrupus de Agno Casto. Or, Sy- 
rup of Agnus Castus.—a 115 
Syrupus de Althæa. Or, Syrup 
of Marsh-mallows.—b ibid 
Syrupus de Ammoniaco. Or, Sy- 
rup of Ammoniacum.—b ibid 
Syrupus de Artemisia. Or, Syrup 
of Mugwort.—c ibid 
Syrupus de Betonica compositus. Or, 
Syrup of Bettony compound.—a 116 
Syrupus Byzantinus. simple.—a ib 
Syrupus Byzantinus, Compound. 
a ib  
Syrupus Botryos, Or, Syrup of 
Oak of Jerusalem.—b ibid 
Syrupus Capillorum Veneris. Or, 
Syrup of Maiden-hair.—b ibid 
Syrupus Cardiacus, vel Julepum 
Cardiacum, Or, A Cordial Syrup. 
Syrupus Corticum Citriorum. Or, 
Syrup of Citron Pills.—c ib 
Syrupus Acetositatis Citriorum. Or,
Syrup of Juyce of Citrons.—a 117 
Syrupus Corticum Citriorum. Or,                                 
Syrup of Citrons Pills.—a ib 
Syrupus è Coralliis simplex. Or, Sy- 
rup of Coral, simple.—b ibid 
Syrupus è Coralliis compositus. Or, 
Syrup of Coral Compound.—b ib 
Syrupus Cydoniorum. or, Syrup of 
Quinces—c ib 
Syrupus de Erisymo. or, Syrup of 
Hedg mustard.—c ib 
Syrupus de Fumaria. or, Syrup of 
Fumitory—c ib 
Syrupus de Glycyrrhiza. or, Sy- 
rup of Liquoris.—a 118 
Syrupus Granatorum cum Aceto- 
vulgo, Oxysacharum simplex. or, Sy- 
rup of Pomgranates with Vinegar. 
a ib  
Syrupus de Hyssopo. or, Syrup of 
Hissop—b ibid 
Syrupus Ivæ Arthriticæ, sive cha- 
mæpityos. or, Syrup of Chamepitys, 
or Ground pine—b ib 
Syrupus Jujubinus. or, Syrup of 
Jujubes—c ibid 
Syrupus de Meconio, sive Diacodium. 
or, Syrup of Miconium, or Diacodi-              
um.—a 119 
Syrupus de Meconio compositus. or, 
Syrup of Meconium Compound.—a ib 
Syrupus Melissophylli. or, Syrup of 
Bawm—b ib  
Syrupus de Mentha. or, Syrup of 
Mints—b ib 
Syrupus de Mucilaginibus. or, Sy- 
rup of Mucilages—c ib 
Syrupus Myrtinus. or, Syrup of 
Mirtles.—c ib 
Syrupus Florum Nymphææ simplex 
or, Syrup of Water Lilly flowers, 
simple—a 120    
Syrupus Florum Nymphææ compositus 
or, Syrup of Water-Lilly flowers, 
compound—a ib 
Syrupus de Papavere Erratico, sive 
Rubro. or, Syrup of Erratick Poppy. 
a ib 
Syrupus de Pilosella. or, Syrup of 
Mouseæv.—b ib 
Syrupus infusionis florun pæoniæ. or, 
Syrup


A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Syrup of the infusion of Peony flo- 
wers,—b ib 
Syrupus de pæonia compositus. Or, 
Syrup of Peony Compound.—c ib 
Syrupus de Pomis alterans. Or, Sy- 
rup of Apples alterative.—c ib 
Syrupus de Prasio. Or, Syrup of 
Horehound.—a 121 
Syrupus de quings Radicibus. Or, 
Syrup of the sive opening Roots. 
a ib 
Syrupus Rhaphani. or, Syrup of 
Rhadishes.—b ib 
Syrupus Regius, aliâs Julapeum 
Alexandrinum. or, Syrup Roial, 
or Alexandrian Julep and Julep of 
Roses.—c ib 
Syrupus de Rosis siccis. or, Syrup 
of dried Roses.—c ib 
Syrupus Scabiosæ. or, Syrup of 
Scabious Compound.—a 122
Syrupus de Scolopendrio. or, Syrup 
of Hartstongue.—a ib 
Syrupus de Stœchade. or, syrup of 
stœchas Compound.—b ib 
Syrupus de Symphyto. or, syrup 
of Comfry.—b ib 
Syrupus Violarum. or, Syrup of 
Violets.—c ib 
Purging Syrups.
SYrupus de Cichorio cum Rhubarbaro 
or, Syrup of succory with Rhu- 
barb—a 123 
Syrupus de Epithymo. or, syrup 
of Epithimum.—a ib 
Syrupus è Floribus Persicorum. or, 
syrup of Peach-flowers—b ib 
Syrupus de Pomis purgans. or, Sy-                      
rup of Apples, Purging.—c ib 
Syrupus de Pomis Magistralis. or, 
Syrup of Apples Magisterial.—c ib 
Syrupus de Rhabarbaro. or, Syrup 
of Rhubarb.—a 124 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus. or, Sy- 
rup of Damask Roses.—a ib 
Syrupus è succo Rosarum. or, Sy- 
rup of the Juyce of Roses.—b ib 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Aga- 
rico. or, Syrup of Roses solutive 
with Agarick.—b ib 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Hel- 
leboro. or, syrup of Roses solutive 
with Hellebore.—c ib 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum senna 
or, Syrup of Roses solutive with 
senna.—c ib 
Syrupus de spina Cervina. or, of 
Bucks Thorn, or purging Thorn. 
a 125
Syrups made with 
Vinegar and Honey.
MEL Anthosatum. or, Honey of 
Rosemary flowers.—b ib 
Mel Helleboratum. Or, Honey of
white Hellebore.—b ibid 
Mel Mercuriale. Or, Honey of the 
Herb Mercury.—c ib 
Mel Mororum, vel Diamoron. Or, 
Honey of Mulberries.—c ib 
Mel Nucum, alias, Diacarion & 
Dianucum. Or, Honey of Nuts.—c ib 
Mel Passulatum. Or, Honey of 
Raisons.—c ibid 
Mel Rosatum commune, sive Folia- 
tum. Or, Honey of Red Roses.—a 126 
Mel Rosatum Colatum. Or, Honey 
of Roses strained.—a ib 
Mel Rosatum solutivum. Or, Ho- 
ney of Damask Roses.—a ibid 
Mel scilliticum. or, Honey of Squils. 
a ibid 
Honey of Violets.—b ibid 
Oxymel simple.—b ibid 
Oxymel compound.—b ib 
Oxymel Helleboratum. or, Oxymel 
Helleborated.—c ibid 
Oxymel Julianizans.—a 127 
Oxymel of Squils.—a ibid 
Oxymel Sciliticum Compositum. or, 
Oxymel of Squils Compound.—b ib 
Syrup of Purslain Compound.—b ib 
Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot. 
Renod.—c ib 
Syrup of Poppies the lesser com- 
position.—c ib 
Syrup of Poppies, the greater 
composition. Mesue.—c ib 
Syrup of Eupatorium, or Mandlin. 
b 128 
Honey of Myrobalans Emblik. Au- 
gustan.—c ibid 
ROB, Or SAPA 
and JUYCES.
Rob sive Sapa, simplex. Or, Sim- 
ple Rob, or Sapa, viz. Wine 
boyled to a thick Syrup.—a ibid 
Rob de Barberis. Quiddeny, or, 
Rob of Barberries.—a 129 
Rob de Cerasis. Quiddeny, or, 
Rob of Cherries.—b ib 
Rob de Cornis. Or, Rob of Cor- 
nels.—b ib 
Rob Cydoniorum. Or, Quiddeny 
of Quinces.—b ib 
Miva vel Gelatina Eorundem. 
Gelly, or Marmalade of Quinces. 
b ib 
Quiddeny of four Plums.—c ib 
Rob Baccarum Sambuci. Quiddeny, 
or Rob of Elder-berries.—c ib 
Succus Glycyrrhizæ compositus. Or, 
Juyce of Liquoris Compound.—b 130 
Succus Prunorum Sylvestrum. Or, 
Quiddeny of Slæs.—c ibid 
LOHOCH, 
ECLEGMATA, 
Or, LICK-POTS.  
Lohoch dæ Farfara. Lohoch, or, 
Lick-pot of Colts-foot.—a ib 
Lohoch de papavere. Or, Lohoch 
of Poppies.—a 131 
Lohoch è passulis. Or, Lohoch 
of Raisons.—b ib
Lohoch è Pino. Or, Lohoch of 
Pine-Nuts.—b ib 
Lohoch de portulaca. Lohoch, or 
Lick-pot of Purslain.—c ibid 
Lohoch è pulmone Vulpis, Or, 
Lohoch of Fox Lungs.—c ibid 
Lohoch Sanum et Expertum. Or, 
A found and well Experienced Lo- 
hoch.—c ibid 
Lohoch Squilliticum. Or, Lick- 
pot of Squils.—a 132 
Eclegma of Squils Mesue.—a ib 
Lohoch, or Lick-pot of Cole- 
worts.—b ib 
Preserved Roots,                          
Barks, Flowers, 
Fruits, Pulps. 
CONSERVES  
and SUGARS.
SUGARS. 
DIacodium Solidum, sive Tabula- 
tum.—b 133 
Saccharum Tabulatum simplex, and 
Perlatum. Or, Lozenges of Sugar 
both Simple and Pearled.—b ib 
Saccharum Tabulatum compositum. 
Or, Lozenges of Sugar Compound. 
c ibid 
Saccharum Penidium. Or, Sugar 
of Penids.—c ib 
Confectio de Thure. The Confecti- 
on of Frankincense, or Lozenges of 
Frankincense.—a 134 
Saccharum Rosarum. Or, Sugar of 
Roses.—a ibid 
Species, or Pouders 
ARomaticum Caryophyllatum.—a ib 
Aromaticum Rosatum.—b ib 
Pulvis ex Chelis Cancrorum Compo- 
situs. Or, Pouder of Crabs Claws 
Compound.—b ib 
Species Cordiales Temperatæ.—c ib 
Diacalaminthe Simplex.—c ib 
Diacalaminthe Compound.—a 135 
Dianisum.—a ib 
Pulvis Radicum Ari Compositus 
Lll Pouder. 


A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Pouder of Aron or Cuckow-pintle 
Roots Compound,—b ibid. 
Diaireos simple.—b ib
Dialacca,—b ib
Pulvis Cardiacus Magistralis. Or, 
The Cordial Magistral Pouder.—c ib 
Diamargaritum Frigidum.—c ib 
Diambræ.—a 136 
Diamoscu Dulce,—a ib 
Diamoschu Amarum—b ib 
Species Dianthus. Or, Pouder of 
Rosemary Flowers Compound.—b ib 
Diapenidion.—c ib
Diarrhodon Abbatis—c ib
Diaspoliticum.—a 137 
Species Diatragacanthi frigidi.—a ib. 
Diatrion Piperion.—b ibid. 
Diatrion Santalon.—b ibid. 
Pulvis Haly. Or, the Pouder of 
Haly, an Arabian Physitian so called. 
c ibid.
Pulvis Lætificans, Galen. Or, Ga- 
lens Merry-making Pouder.—c ib 
Pulvis Bezoardicus Magistralis. 
Or, the Bezoartick Magistral Pou- 
der.—a 138 
Spieces confectionis Liberantis.—b ib. 
Pulvis Saxonicus.—b ibid. 
Pulvis Antilyssus. Or Pouder a- 
gainst the bitings of mad Dogs.—c ib. 
Rosata Novella.—c ibid. 
Pulvis Thuraloes.—a 139 
Pulvis Hermodactylorum compositus 
Or, Pouder of Hermodactils com-                          
pound.—a ibid 
Pulvis Senæ compositus major. Pou- 
der of Sena the greater composition, 
Or, Dr. Hollands Pouder.—b ib. 
Pulvis Senæ compositus minor. Or, 
pouder of Sena, the lesser compositi- 
on.—b ibid 
Diasenæ or Pulvis Sanctus of Bras- 
savolus.—c ibid. 
Diaturbith with Rhubarb—c ib. 
The lesser cordial Pouder. Fernelius 
a 140 
The greater Cordial Pouder. Fer- 
nelius.—a ib.
A Pouder for such as are bruised by 
a Fall.—b ibid. 
Species Electuarij Diacymini. Ni- 
cholaus.—b ib. 
Species Electuarij Diagalangæ. Me- 
sue.—c ibd. 
Species Electuarij de Gemmis Fri- 
gtdi. Or, Species of the cooling E- 
lectuary of precious Stones.—c ib. 
Species Electuarij Diamargaritoni 
Calidi. Avicenna.—a 141 
Lithontribon of Nicholaus, accor- 
ding to Fernelius.—a ib. 
Pleres Arconticon of Nicholaus.—b ib.
A preservative Pouder against the 
Pestitence. Montagnani.—c ib. 
Diaturbith the greater, without Rhu- 
barb.—a 142. 
A Pouder for the Worms.—a ib.
ELECTUARIES.
ANtidotus Analeptica.—a ib 
Confectio Alkermes.—b ib.  
Electuarium é Sassaphras.—c ib. 
Electuarium de Baccis Lauri. Or, 
Electuary of Bay-berries.—c ibid. 
Diacapparis.—a 143 
Diacinnamomu.—a ibid.
Diacorallion.—a ib. 
Diacorum.—b ibid. 
Diacydonium or Electuary of quinces 
simple.—c ib. 
Diacidonium with Species.—c ib. 
Diacidonium compound, Magisterial. 
c ibid.                                                  
Confectio de Hyacintho.—a 144 
Antidotum Hæmagogum.—a ib. 
Diasatyrion. Or, The Electuary of 
Satyrion Roots.—b ibid. 
Electuarium Diaspermaton. Or, 
which is made of several sorts of 
Seed.—c ibid. 
Micleta.—a 145  
Electuarium Pectorale. Or, a Pecto- 
ral Electuary.—a ibid. 
Theriaca Diatessaron.—a ib. 
Diascordium. Or, the Antidote made 
of the Herb Scordium.—b ib. 
Mithridate.—c ib. 
Philonium persicum—a 146 
Philonium Romanum.—b ib. 
Philonium Magistrale.—b ib. 
Electuarium de Ovo. Or, Electuary 
of Eggs.—c ib. 
Theriaca Andromachi. Or, Venice 
Treacle.—c ib. 
Theriaca Londinensis. Or, London 
Treacle.—b 147  
Diacrocuma.—b ib. 
Purging Electuaries.
BEnedicta Laxativa.—c ib 
Caryocostinum.—a 148 
Cassia Extracta pro Clysteribus. Or, 
Cassia extracted for Clysters.—a ib. 
Electuarium Amarum Magistrale 
majus. Or, the greater bitter Electu- 
ary.—b ibid. 
Electuarium Amarum minus. Or, 
the lesser bitter Electuary.—b ib. 
Diacaβia with Manna.—c ib. 
Caβia extracta sine Foliis Senæ. Or, 
Cassia extracted without the Leaves 
of Sena.—c ibid. 
Cassia extracta cum foliis Sena. Or, 
Cassia extracted with the Leaves of 
Sena.—a 149 
Diacarthamum. Or, purging E- 
lectuary of Carthamus Seeds—a ibid. 
Diaphænicon. Or, purging Electua- 
ry of Dates.—a ib.                                      
Diaprunum Linitive.—b ib. 
Diaprunum Solutivum. Or, Elect- 
uary of Prunes purgative.—c ibid. 
Catholicon.—c ibid.
Electuarium de Citro Solutivum. Or, 
Electuary of Citron solutive.—a 150 
Electuarium Elescoph. Or, the Bi- 
shops Electuary.—a ibid 
Confectio Hamech.—b ib.
Electuarium Lenitivum. Or, Leni- 
tives Electuarie.—c ib.    
Electuarium Passulatum. Or, Elect- 
uary of Raisons.—c ib. 
Electuarium è succo Rosarum. Or, 
Electuary of the Juyce of Roses —a 
151. 
Hiera Picra simple.—b ibid 
Hiera with Agrick.—b ibid. 
Hiera Logadij.—c ib. 
Hiera Diacholocinthidos.—a 152
Triphera the greater.—a ibib. 
Tryphera solutive. Or, the delicious 
purging Electuary.—b ibid. 
Athanasia Mithridatis. or, King 
Mithridates his Medicine to cause 
a long life.—c ibid 
Electuarium é Scoriaferri. Rhasis. 
Scoria ferri is properly those flakes 
that Smiths beat from Iron when it 
is red hot.—c ib. 
Confectio Humain, Mesue.—a 153 
Diaireos Solomonis.—a ib. 
Diasatirion.—b ib. 
Mathiolus his great Antidote a- 
gainst Poyson and Pestilence.—b ib. 
Requies Nicolai, or Dr. Nico- 
laus his sleeping Electuary.—b 153 
Electuarium Reginæ Coloniens. Or, 
The Queen of Colens Electuary.—c ib. 
PILLS.
Pilulæ de Agarico. Or, Pills of 
Agrick.—a 154                                       
Pilulæ Aggregative. Or, Aggre- 
gative Pills.—a ib.  
Pilulæ Alæphanginæ.—c ibid. 
Pilulæ de Alæ Lota. Or, Pills of 
washed Alæs.—a 156 
Alæ Rosata.—a ib.  
Pilulæ Aureæ. Or, the Golden 
Pills.—b ib 
Pilulæ Cociæ, the greater.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Cochiæ, the less.—c ib. 
Pilulæ de Cygnoglosso. Or, Pills of 
Cynoglossa or Hounds-tongue.—c ib. 
Pilulæ ex Duobus. Or, Pills of two 
things.—a 160 
Pilulæ de Eupotorio. Or, Pills of 
Eupatorium.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Fætidæ. Or, Strong smel- 
ling Pills.—b ib 
Pilulæ de Hermodactilis. Or, pills 
of Hermodactils.—a 158 
Pilulæ de Hiera cum Agarico. Or, 
pills of Hiera with Agrick.—b ibid. 
Pilulæ Imperiales. Imperial pills 
Or, pills of the Emperor.—b ib. 
Pilulæ de Lapide Lazuli. Pills of 
Lapis Lazuli or a blew Stone so cal- 
led, being speckled with Golden 
Specks.—c ib. 
Pilulæ Macri.—b 156 
Pilulæ Mastichinæ. Or, Mastich 
pills.—c ibid. 
Pilulæ Mechoacannæ. Or, pills of 
Mechoacan.—c 157 
Pilulæ de Opopanace. Or, pills of 
Opopanax.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Rudij. Or, Dr. Rudius his 
pills 


A TABLE of the COMPOUNS. 
pills, or Extractum Rudij.—c ib. 
Pilulæ. Ruffi. Or, Russus his pills. 
a l61 
Pilulæ sine Quibus. Or, the Neces- 
sary pils.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Stomachicæ. Or, Stomach 
pils.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Stomachicæ cum Gummi. Or. 
Stomach pils with Gum.—b ib. 
Pilulæ é Styrace. Or, pills of Sty- 
rax.—c ibid.
Pilulæ de Succino. Or, pills of Am- 
ber.—c ib.
Pilulæ ex Tribus. Or, pils of three 
things.—c ibid. 
Pilulæ Turpeti Aureæ.—a 162 
Laudanum.—a ibid. 
Nepenthes Opiatum. Or the Opiate 
against Sorrow and Sadness.—b ibid. 
Pilulæ Assaireth. Avicenna,—b ib. 
Pills of Bdellium.—b ib. 
Pills of Rhubarb.—c ib. 
Pilulæ Arabicæ.—c ib.
Pilulæ Arthriticæ.—a 163 
Pilulæ Cochiæ with Hellebore.—b ib. 
Pils of Fumitory Avicenna.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Indæ, Mesue out of Haly. 
b ib. 
Pilulæ Lucis Majores. Or, the eye 
enlightning pills of the larger com- 
sition.—c ib.
Pills of Spurge.—a 164. 
Pills of Euphorbium.—b ib. 
Pilulæ Scribonii.—b ib.
TROCHES 
TRochisci de Absinthin. Or, Tro- 
ches of Wormwood.—a ib 
Agaricus Trochischatus. Or, A- 
grick Trochiscated.—a 165 
Trochisci Albi. Rhasis. Or, white 
Troches.—a ib. 
Trochisci Alexiterij.—a ib. 
Trochisci Alhandel. Trochicks of 
Alhandel or Coloquintida.—b ib. 
Trochisci Aleptæ Moschatæ.—b ib.               
Trochisci Alkekengi. Or, Troches 
of winter-Cherries.—c ibid.
Trochisci Bechici albi, vel, Rotulæ 
pectorales. Or, pectorals Rouls.—c ib. 
Trochisci Bechici nigri. Or, black 
Trochisks for the Cough.—a 166 
Trochisci de Barbaris. Or, Troches 
of Barberies.—a ibid.
Trochisci de Camphora. Or, Tro- 
ches of Camphir.—b ib. 
Trochisci de Capparibus. Or, Tro- 
ches of Capers.—c ib. 
Trochisci de Carabe. Or, Troches 
of Amber.—c ibid. 
Trochisci de Cypheos for Mithridatc. 
c ib.
Trochisci Eupatorio. Or, Troches 
of Maudlin.—a 167 
Troches of Gallia Moschata.—a ib. 
Trochisci Gordonij.—b ib. 
Trochisci Hedycroi. Or, Beautify- 
ing Trochisks of Galen.—c ib. 
Trochisci Hysterici.—a 168        
Trochisci de Ligno Aloes. Or, Tro- 
ches of wood of Aloes.—a ib. 
Trochisci é Mirrha. Or, Troches 
of Mirrh.—b ib. 
Sief de Plumbo. Or, Sief of Lead. 
b ib 
Trochisci Polyidæ of Andromachus. 
b ibid. 
Trochisci de Rhubarbaro. Or, Tro- 
ches of Rhubarb.—c ibid. 
Troschisci de Santalis. Or, Tro- 
chisks of Sanders.—c ib. 
Trochisci de Scilla ad Theriacam. 
Or, Troches of Squils for Treacle. 
a 196 
Troches of Spodium.—a ib. 
Trochisci de terra Lemnia. Or, the 
precious Earth of the Island of Lem- 
nos.—b ib. 
Sief. or Eye salve of Frinkincense. 
c ib. 
Trochisci é Violis solutivi. Or, 
Troches of Violets solutives.—a 170 
Trochisci de Vipera ad Theriacam 
Or, troches of Viper for Treacle. 
a ib. 
Trochisci de Agno Casto. Or, Tro- 
ches of Agnus Castus.—b ib. 
Trochisci Alexiterij. Renodæus. 
b ibid. 
Troches of Annis seeds. Mesue.—c ib. 
Trohisci Diarodon. Mesue.—c ib. 
Trochisci de Lacca. Mesue.—c ibid.             
Pastilli Adronis. Galen.—a 17l 
Trochisci Musæ. Galen.—a ib. 
Crocomagma of Democrates. Galen. 
a ib. 
Troches Ramich. Mesue.—b ib. 
Troches of Roses.—b ibid. 
Trochisci Diacorallion.—c ibid. 
Trochisci Diaspermaton.—c ib. 
Pastilli Hemoptoici. or, Cakes 
against spitting of Blood.—c ibid 
Trochisks of Agarick.—c ib. 
Pastilli Hemoptoici, Or, Cakes a- 
gainst spitting of Blood.—a 172  
Trochisks of Agarick.—a ib.
Of the USE of 
OYLS, &c.
CHap. 1. Of Anodines—b ibid. 
Chap. 2 Of Repelling Medi- 
cines.—a l73 
Chap. 3 Of Attractives—a ib. 
Chap. 4 Of Resolving Medicines 
b ibid. 
Chap. 5 Of Emollient—c ibid. 
Chap. 6 Of Superatives—b 174 
Chap. 7 Of Clensing Medicines 
b ibid. 
Chap. 8 Incarnatives—c ibid. 
Chap. 9 Of Cicatrizing Medicines 
a 175 
Chap. 10 Of Agglutinatives Me- 
dicines.—a ib. 
Chap. 11 Of Cathericks, Septicks, 
and Causticks.—b ibid. 
Chap. 12 Of Medicines used to stop 
Blood.—c ib.                        
OYLS 
Simple Oyls by 
Expression.  
OYl of sweet Almonds.—c ib. 
Oyl of bitter Almonds.—a 176 
Oyl Hazel Nuts.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Wallnuts.—a ib. 
Oleum Chrysomelinum. Or, oyl of 
Golden Apples, or Apricocks—b ib. 
Oyl of Bayes.—b ib. 
Oyl of Eggs Yolks.—c ibid.
Simple OYLS by                           
Infusion and De- 
coction.
OYL of Roses Omphacine 
a 177 
Oyl of Roses compleat.—a ib. 
Oyl Wormwood.—b ibid. 
Oyl of Dill.—b ib. 
Oyl of Castorium.—b ibid. 
Oyl of Chamomel.—c ibid.
Oyl of Melilot.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Wall-flowers.—a l78 
Oyl of Quinces.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Alicampane.—a ib. 
Oyl of Euphorbium simple.—a ib. 
Oyl of Pismires or Emmots.—b ib. 
Oyl of St. Johns-wort.—b ib. 
Oyl of Jesmine.—b ibid. 
Oyl of Orrice Root.—c ib. 
Oyl of Earth-worms.—c ibid 
Oyl of sweet Marjoram.—c ib. 
Oyl of Mastich.—a 179 
Oyl of Mints.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Mirtles.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Mirrh.—b ibid. 
Nard Oyl.—b ib 
Oyl of Water-Lillies.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Tobacco.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Poppies.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Poplars.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Rue.—a 180 
Oyl of Scorpions.—a ib. 
Oleum Cicyonium—a ib. 
Oyl of Nightshade.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Styrax.—a ibid. 
Oyl of Vervain.—cibid. 
Oyl, or Liquor of Mirrh cald 
Oleum Mirrhæ per deliquium.—c ibid.  
Compound Oyls 
by Infusion and 
Decoction. 
OLeum Benedictum. Or, Blessed
oyl.—b ib.
Oleum 


A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Oleum de Capparibus. Or, oyl of 
Cappars.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Castorium Compound.—c ibid. 
Oleum Catellorum. Or, Oyl of 
Whelps.—a 181 
Oleum Costinum. Or, Oyl of Drug 
Costus..—b ibid. 
Oleum Crocinum. Or, oyl of Saf- 
fron.—b ibid. 
Oyl of Euphorbium. Or, oyl of Eu- 
phorbium compound.—c ibid. 
Oleum Excestrense. Or, oyl of Ex- 
ceter.—a 182 
Oleum Hirundinum. Or, oyl of 
Swallows.—b ibid. 
Oleum Hyperici compositum. Or, 
oyl of St. ]ohns-wort compound. 
b ibid.  
Oleum Hyperici magis compositum. 
Or, oyl of St. Johns-wort more com- 
pound.—c ibid. 
Oleum Irinum. Or, oyl of Orris. 
c ib. 
Oleum Majoranæ. Or, Oyl of 
Marjoram.—a 183  
Oleum Mandragoræ. Or, Oyl of 
Mandrakes.—a ib.  
Mosibelæum. Or, Musked Oyl. 
b ib 
Oleum Nordinum. Or, Nard Oyl. 
c ib 
Oleum Nicodemi—c ib 
Oleum Vulpinum. Or, Oyl of 
Foxes.—a 184 
Oyl of Pepper.—a ib 
Oleum Populeon. Or, Oyl of 
Poplar buds.—a ib 
OYNTMENTS 
more SIMPLE. 
UNguentum Album. Or, White 
Oyntment.—b ib 
Unguentum Egyptiacum. Or, The  
Egyptian Oyntment.—c ib  
Unguentum Anodynum. Or, An 
Oyntment to ease pain.—c ib 
Unguentum ex Apio. Or, Oynt- 
ment of Smallage.—c ib 
Liniment of Gum Elemi.—a 185 
Unguentum Aureum. Or, The 
Golden Oyntment.—a ib 
Unguentum Basilicum. Or, The 
Royal Oyntment.—b ib 
Basilicon, the less.—b ib 
Oyntment of Bdellium. Or, Gum  
Bdellium.—b ib 
Unguentum de Calce. Or, Oynt- 
ments of Chalk.—b ib 
Unguentum Dialtheæ. Or, Oynt- 
ment of Marsh-mallows.—c ib                   
Unguentum Diapompholygos.—c ib 
Unguentum Enulatum. Or, Oynt- 
ment of Alicampane.—c ib 
Oleum Excestrensg. Or, Oyl Ex- 
ætor.—a 174 
Oleum Hirundinum. Or, Oyl of 
Swallows. —b ib             
Oleum Hyperici compositum. or, Oyl 
of St. Johns-wort Compound.—b ib 
Oleum Hyperici magis compositum. 
or, Oyl of St. Johns-wort more 
Compound,—c ib 
Oleum Irinum. or, Oyl of Orris 
c ib 
Oleum Marjoranæ. or, Oyl of 
Marjoram.—a 173 
Oleum Mandragoræ. or, Oyl of 
Mandrakes.— a ibid 
Moschlæum. Or, Musked Oyl. 
b ib 
Oleum Nardinum. or, Nard Oyl. 
c ib 
Oleum Nicodemi.—c ib 
Unguentum è Solano. or, Oyntment 
of Night-shade.—a 188
Unguentum Tutiæ. or, Oyntment 
of Tutty.—a ib 
Valentia Scabiosæ. or, Oyntment 
of Scabious.—b ibid 
Tapsivalentia. or, Tapsimel of the 
same Anthor.—c ib 
Tapsimel.—c ib
OYNTMENTS 
more Compound.
UNguentum Agrippæ. or, King 
Agrippa his Oyntment.—a ibid 
Unguentum de Alabastro. or, Oynt- 
ment of Alabaster.—a ibid 
Unguentum Amarum. or, the bit- 
ter Oyntment.—b ib 
Unguentum Apostolorum. or, Oynt- 
ment of the Apostles—c ibid 
Unguentum Oregon. or, the help-                
ful Oyntment.—a 190 
Unguentum de Artanita. or, Oynt- 
ment of Sow-bread.—b ib 
Unguentum Catapsoras. or, Oynt- 
ment against the Maunge and Scabs. 
c ibid 
Unguentum Citrinum. or, the Ci- 
tron Oyntment.—c ibid 
Unguentum Comitissæ. or, the Coun- 
tesses Oyntment.—a 191
Unguentum Martiatum—b ib 
Unguentum Mastichinum. or, An 
Oyntment of Mastich.—b ib 
Unguentum Neopolitanum. or, The 
Oyntment against the Neapolitan or 
Venereal Pocks.—c ib 
Unguentum Nervinum. The Nerve 
or Sinew-oyntment.—a 192 
Unguentum pectorale. The Pectoral 
or Breast-Oyntment.—a ibid 
Unguentum populncum. or, oynt- 
ment of Poplar buds—b ib 
Unguentum Resumptivum.—c ib 
Unguentum Splanchnicum. or, the 
Oyntment for Liver and Spleen.—c ib  
Unguentum Splanchnicum Magistrale 
a 193 
Unguentum é Succis. or, oyntment 
of Juyces.—a ibid 
Unguentum Sumach. or, oyntment 
of Sumach.—b ibid            
Oyntments of Marsh-mallows, Com- 
pound.—b ibid 
Unguentum Diapompholigos. or, 
oyntment of pompholix.—c ibid 
Unguentum Refrigcrans Galeni. or, 
Galen his cooling oyntment.—a 194 
Unguentum é Succis Aperitivis. or, 
oyntment of the Juyces of certain 
opening Herbs.—bib 
Unguentum Martiatum.—b ibid 
An Oyntment for the Worms Fæsius.
a 195 
CERECLOATHS. 
CEratum de Galbano. or, Cere- 
cloath of Galbanum.—b ib 
Ceratum æsypatum. or, The Cere- 
cloath of æsypus so called.—b ib 
Ceratum Santalinum. Cere-cloath 
of Sanders.—c ib 
PLASTERS.
EMplastrum ex Ammoniaco. Or,the 
plaister of Gum Ammoniack. 
a 196
Emplastrum è Baccis Lauri. or, the 
plaster of Bay-Berries.—b ibid 
Emplastrum Barbarum Magnum. 
b ib 
Emplastrum de Betonica. or, The 
plaster of Betony.—c ib 
Emplastrum Cæsaris. or, Cæsar his 
plaister.—c ibid                                    
Emplastrum Catagmaticum. or, the 
Bone-foddering plaster, first and se- 
cond.—a 197 
Catagmaticum the second.—b ib 
Emplastrum Cephalicum. or, A Ce- 
phalick plaster.—b ibid 
Emplastrum de Ccrnssa. or, A pla- 
ster of Ceruss.—c ib 
Emplastrum ex Cicura cum Ammo- 
niaco. or, A plaster of Hemlock with 
Amoniacum.—c ib 
Emplastrum è Cinnabari. or, plaster 
of Cinnabar or Cinoper.—c ib 
Emplastrum é Crusta Panis. or, A 
plaster of the crust of Bread.—a 198 
Emplastrum é Cymino. or, A plaster 
of Cummin.—a ibid 
Emplastrum Diacalciteos. or, The 
plaster of Calcitis.—b ib 
Diachylon Plaster. or, of the Juyces 
or Mucilages.—c ib 
Diachylon Ireatum.—c ib 
Diachylon Magnum. or, 
c ib 
Diachylon magnum cum Gummi. 
b 199 
Diachylon Compositum, sive Empla- 
strum è Mucilaginibus. or, The pla- 
ster of Mucilages or of the slimy 
juyce of certain plants Roots and 
Seed,—a ib 
Emplastrum


A TABLE of the COMPOUNDS. 
Emplastrum Diaphænicon hot. 
a ib
Diaphænicon cold.—b ib 
Emplastrum Divinum. or, The Di- 
vine plaster.—c ib 
Emplastrum Epispasticum. or, The 
Blistering plaster.—c ib 
Emplastrum à Nostratibus, Flos 
unguentum Dictum. The Flower of 
Oyntments or of plasters—a 200 
A Plaster of Gum Elemi—a ib 
The plaster of Lapis Calaminaris. 
b ibid 
Emplastrum ad Hernians. or, The 
plaster against Ruptures.—b ibid 
Emplastrum Hystericum. or, The 
Mother plaster.—c ib 
Emplastrum de Mastich. Or, the 
plaster of Mastich.—a 201
Emplastrum de Mililoto Simplex. 
Or, A plaster of Melilot Simple. 
a ibid 
Emplastrum de Meliloto compositum. 
Or, A Plaster of Melilot Compound 
b ibid 
Emplastrum de minio Compositum. 
Or, A Plaster of Red Lead Com- 
pound—c ibid 
Emplastrum de minio Simplicius. 
Or, A Plaster of Red Lead Simple. 
c ibid
Emplastrum Metroproptoticon. Or, 
The Plaster against the Falling down 
of the Womb.—c ib 
Emplastrum Nervinum.—a 202 
Emplaftrum Oxycroceum.—a ib 
Emplastrum de Ranis. Or, Plaster 
of Frogs with Quick-silver.—b ib 
Emplastrum Ciconium. Or, of wild 
Cucumers.—c ibid 
Sparadrap seu tela Galteris. Or, 
Galterius his Cerecloath.—c ibid                    
Emplastrum Stephaniaion. Or, the 
Crown Plaster.—c ib
Emplastrum Sticticum.—a 203 
Emplastrum Stomachicum Magi- 
strale. Or, a Stomach Plaster.—a ib 
Emplastrum Tonsoris. Or, The 
Barber-Surgeons Plaster.—b ib 
Emplastrum Ceroma, Or, Ceroneum. 
Nich. Alex.—b ib
Emplastrum Gratia Dei. Nich. Or, 
the Grace of God.—c ibid 
Emplastrum de Janua, or, of Betony 
Nicholaus.—c ibid 
Emplastrum Isis Epigoni. Galen.
a 204 
A Plaister of Mastich.—a ib 
Emplastrum nigrum. Or, the black 
Plaster called Stichflaster in the High- 
Dutch.—b ibid 
Emplastrum Sanctum. Andr.é Cruce 
A holy Plaster, composed by An- 
drew of the Cross.—b ib. 
Emplastrum sine Pari.—c ib. 
The Stomach plaster. Mesue. 
c ibid
The Cerecloath of Gum Ammonia- 
cum.—a 205 
Ceratum Stomachinum Galeni. 
Or, Galen his Stomach Cerecloath. 
b ibid                       
Chymical Oyls, 
And other 
Chymical Liquors. 
OYl of Wormwood.—a ibid 
Oyl, or Fat of Roses, commonly 
called the Spirit of Roses—a 206 
OYL of SEEDS. 
OYL of Dill Seeds.—b ib
OYL of BERRIES. 
OYl of Juniper Berries.—c ibid 
Oyl of Turpentine.—c ibid 
Oyl of Myrrh.—a 207 
Oyl of Guajacum.—a ib. 
Oyl of Wax—a 1b. 
Oleum Latricium Philosophorum. 
b ibid 
Oleum Succini. or, oyl of Amber 
a ib. 
Oleum seu Butyrum Antimonij. or,
Butter of Antimony.—b ib. 
Oleum Arsenici. or, oyl of Ars- 
nick.—c ibid 
Oleum Salis. or, oyl of Salt.—c ib 
Oleum Sulphuris. or, oyl of Sul- 
phur.—a 208 
Oleum Vitrioli. or, Oyl of Vitriol 
a ib. 
Aqua fortis—b ibid                                         
Aqua Mellis. Or, Water of Ho- 
ney.—b ibid 
Liquor seu Liquamen Tartari, seu 
Oleum Tartari per Deliquiun. Or, 
Liquor of Tartar.—b ib. 
Oleum Mirrhæ per Deliquium. Or, 
Oyl or Liquor of Mirrh.—c ibid. 
Oyl of Tartar.—c ib.
Chymical Prepa- 
rations, more fre- 
quent in Use. 
ANtimonium cum Nitro Calcina- 
tum. Or, Antimony Calcited 
with Niter—c ibid 
Chalybs preparatus. Or, Steel 
prepared.—a 209 
Crystal of Tartar.—a ib. 
Crocus Martis.—b ibid. 
Crocus Metallorum—b ibid. 
Flos Sulphuris. Or, Flower of 
Brimstone—b ibid 
Lapis infernalis. Or, the Hell- 
stone.—c ibid 
Lapis Prunellæ, or Sal prunellæ. 
c ibid 
Magistery of Pearl and Coral.—a 210
Mercurius sublimatus corrosivus. or, 
Mercury sublimate corrosive.—a ib. 
Mercurius dulcis. sublimatus. Or, 
Mercury sublimate.—b ibid 
The two sorts of Mercury precipitated, 
white and red.—c ibid 
Mercurius præcipitatus corrosivus. 
or, Corrosive precipitate—c ibid 
Mercurius vitæ.—c ibid. 
Regulus Antimonij. Or, the Me- 
tle of Antimony.—c ibid 
Saccharum Saturni. Or, Sugar of 
Lead.—a 211 
Sal Vitrioli.—a ibid 
Turpethum Minerale.—a ibid. 
Tariarum Vitriolatum.—b ibid.                
Vitriolum album depuratum. Or, 
white Vitriol clensed.—b ibid 
Vitrum Antimonij.—b ib  
The General way 
of making Extracts. 
The way of making 
SALTS. 
SAlt Volatile, or Essential, is thus 
made.—c ibid. 
Salt fixed, or Elementary, is thus 
made.—c ibid.  
PREPARATIONS 
of certain Simple 
Medicines.
THe way of preparing Fats.—a 212 
The burning of Brass.—a ibid 
The washing of Alæs.—a ibid 
The preparation of Bole Armeniack. 
Fæcula Brioneæ.—a ibid. 
May Butter.—a ibid 
The preparation of Lapis Calami- 
naris.—b ibid 
The washing of Lime.—b ibid 
The preparation of Coral, Pearls, 
Crabs Eyes. and other precious Stones. 
b ibid 
The preparation of Coriander Seed. 
b ibid 
The burning of Harts-horn, Ivory, 
and other Bones—b ibid 
A new preparation of them.—b ibid 
The way to make Elaterium.—b ibid.
Mmm The   


A TABL of the COMPOUNDS. 
The preparation of the Bark of Spurge 
Roots.—c ibid 
The preparation of Euphorbium.—c ib. 
The preparation of black Hellebore 
Roots.—c ibid 
The preparation of Goats blood. 
c ibid 
The burning of yong Swallows.—c ibid 
The preparation of Lacca.—c ibid 
The preparation of Lapis Lazuli.
a 213 
The preparation of Litharge,—a ibid 
The preparation of Earth-worms. 
a ibid 
The preparation of Sows, or Wood- 
Lice.—a ibid 
The manner of preparing æsipus. 
a ibid 
The preparation of Opium.—b ibid 
Pouder of Raw Lead.—b ibid 
The burning of Lead.—b ibid. 
The washings of Lead.—b ibid 
The preparation of Fox Lungs.—b ibid 
The preparation of Scammony.—b ibid 
Another way of Preparation of 
Scammony with Sulphur.—c ibid 
The preparation of Squils.—c ibid. 
Washed Tartar.—c ibid 
Boyled Turpentine.—c ibid 
The preparation of Tutty.—c ibid 
An ALPHABETICAL TABLE to the 
English Names in the Catalogue of Simples. 
READER, In this Table diligently observe that a directs to the first 
Column, b. to the second, c. to the third Column: And the Figures direct 
to the Page. 
ROOTS.
A
ALkanet.—a 2 
Angelica.—a 2 
Anthoræ.—a 2 
Asarabacca.—b 2 
Asphodel Malé.—b 2 
Avens.—c 2 
Aromatical Reed.—c 2 
Astichoaks.—b 3 
B 
Bay-Tree.—c 4 
Bear-Breech.—a 1 
Birthwort Long.—a 2 
—Round.—a 2  
Brank- ursine Clining.—a 2 
Beets.—b 2  
Bistort.—b 2 
Borrage,—b 2 
Burdock.—b 2 
Briony—c 2 
Bugloss.—c 2 
Brakes—a 4 
Bears Foot.—a 4 
Butter-Bur—b 5  
Bruscuss.—a 6  
Butchers Broom,—a 6 
Bind weed.—a 6 
Bedeguar,—b 6 
C 
Calamus Aromaticus.—c 1 
Capars—c 2 
Carrots—b 3 
Consolida Major—a 3 
Chamelion white—a 3             
—Black.—a 3 
Celondine greater.—a 3 
—Lesser.—a 3 
China—a 3 
Coleworts—b 3 
Centaury—c 2
Costus—b 3 
Carrolwort—b 3 
Cucumers wild—b 3 
Cyperus long—b 3 
—Round.—b 3 
Cuckow pints—b 2 
Christmas Flowers.—a 4 
Couch grass.—b 4 
Chamock—a 5 
Cinksoyl—a 5 
Canterbury, or 
Coventry Bells.—b 6 
D 
Danewort—c 3 
Doronicum.—b 3 
Dittany—b 3 
Dragons.—c 3 
Dwarf-Elder—c 3 
Dropwort.—a 4 
E
Elicampane—a 4 
Endive—a 4 
Eringo—a 4 
English Galanga.—b 3
F
Fearn—a 4 
Five-leaved, or five fingered Grass.—a 5 
Filipendula—a 12 
Flower-de-luce.—c 1  
Fullers Thistle.—c 4 
Figwort—b 12 
Fennel—b 2 
G
Garlick—a 2 
Galanga greater—b 4 
—Lesser.—b 4 
Gentian—b 4 
Grass—b 4 
Ginger—c 6 
Gladon stinking—b 5 
H 
Hartwort—b 6 
Hermodactils—b 4 
Herb Bennet—c 2 
Hyacinthi.—b 4 
Hellebore white—b 3 
—Black—a 4 
Hound-stongue—b 3 
Horestrange—b 5 
Hogs-Fennel.—b 5  
I
Jacinths—b 4 
K 
Kneeholly—a 6 
L 
Ladies Thistle—b 12 
Liquoris—b 4 
Lillies white—c 4 
Lovage—c 4  
Leeks.—c 5  
M 
Marsh-mallows—a 2 
Medow Saffron—a 3 
Master wort—c 4 
Mallows—c 4 
Mandrakes—c 4 
Mechoacan—a 5 
Mezereon.—a 9 
Mulberry—a 5 
Monks Rhubarb—a 6 
Maddir—a 6 
Meadsweat—a 6  
O
Onions—c 2 
Orris—c 4 
P 
Pile wort—a 3 
Prunella—b 3 
Parsnips wild—a 5 
—Garden.—a 5 
Peony Male and Female.—b 5
Patience 
 

The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples. 
Patience—a 6 
Plantane—b 5 
Petasitis.—a 10 
Pellitory of Spain—c 5 
Polypodium.—b 5 
R 
Reeds common—a 2 
—Sugar—a 2 
Restharrow—a 5 
Reupontick—c 5 
Rubarb—a 6 
Radishes—a 6 
Rose Root.—a 6 
S 
Sarsaparilla—a 6 
Satyrion—a 6 
Sperage—b 2 
Savory—b 27 
Spina Alba—b 6 
Self-heal—b 3 
Sweet Garden Flag.—c 2 
Sea-holly.—a 4 
Squitch Grass.—b 4 
Squills.—b 6 
Saxifrage white.—b 6 
Scabious.—b 6  
Scorzonera.—b 12 
Setwal.—b 5 
Sefeli.—b 12 
Scirrets.—b 6 
Sowbread.—a 2 
Swallow-wort.—b 2
Sparagus.—b 2 
Snakeweed.—b 2 
Sullendin.—a 4 
Succory.—a 3 
Spurge.—a 4 
Sharp-pointed Dock.—c 4 
Sorrel.—c 4  
Spignel.—a 9  
Spurge Olive.—a 9 
Spicknard.—a 5 
Sulphur-wort.—b 5  
Solomons Seal.—c 5  
T 
Tansie.—b 6 
Teazles.—c 5 
Tooth-wort.—b 3 
Turmerick.—b 3 
Toothed Violets.—b 3 
Tormentil.—b 6 
Throat-wort.—b 6 
Toadstools—b l3 
Tripolii.—b 6 
Turbith.—b 6 
V 
Valerian white.—b 2 
—Red—b 2 
Vipers Buglos.—c 3 
Valerian great.—b 5 
—Smal.—b 5 
Vipers grass.—b 6 
Victorialis—c 6 
W 
Waterflag—c 1 
Wild Bugloss.—c 3 
Wake-robin.—b 2 
Walwort.—c 3 
Water-Lillies.—a 5 
Widdow-wall.—a 9
Z
Zedoary.—c 6                 
BARKS.
A 
Ash-tree.—a 7  
B 
Barberries.—a 7 
Beans—a 7 
C 
Cassia Lignea.—a 7 
Chestnuts.—a 7 
Cinnamon—a 7 
Citrons.—c 6 
Cork.—b 7  
E  
Elder—b 7  
Elm.—b 7  
F  
Fennel Roots.—a 7  
H  
Hazel.—c 6  
L  
Lemmons.—c 6  
Lignum Vita.—c 7  
M 
Mace.—b 7  
Maceris, &c.—b 7 
N  
Nutmeg Tree.—b 7  
Nephriticum.—c 7  
O 
Oak—b 7 
Orrenges.—c 6 
P 
Parsly Roots.—b 7 
Pine-Nuts.—b 7 
Pine husks.—b 7 
Pom Citrons.—a 7 
Pomegranates.—a 7 
S 
Smallage Roots.—c 6 
T 
Tamaris —b 15  
WOODS. 
B 
Brazil.—a 16 
C 
Cypress.—c 7  
E 
Ebeny.—c 7  
G  
Guajacum.—c 7
J 
Juniper.—c 7
N  
Nephriticum.—c 7
R 
Rhodium.—c 7 
Rose-wood.—c 7 
S 
Sanders, red, white and yellow.—c 7  
Sassafrass.—c 7 
T
Tamaris.—c 7 
W 
Wood of Aloes.—b 7  
HERBS. 
A 
Anemone.—a 12 
Adders-tongue.—b 14 
Agrimony.—a 8 
Agnus Castus.—a 8 
Alkanet.—a 8 
Angelica.—b 8
Asarabacca.—c 8 
Arrach.—a 9 
Alecost.—a 9 
Avens.—b 9 a 10 
Artichoaks.—c 10 
Ash-tree leaves.—c 11 
Alehoof.—b 28 
Alexanders.—b 12 
Arsmart.—c 12 
B 
Bay-Tree.—a 13 
Balm.—c 13 
Bazil.—b 14. 
Bears-breech.—a 8 
Branckursine.—a 8 
Beets white and red.—a 9 
Burdock.—a 9 
Bettony.—b 9 
Blites.—b 9 
Borrage.—b 9  
Briony.—c 9 
Bugloss.—c 9 
Bugle.—c 9 
Box Tree.—c 9 
Brooklime.—b 10 
Buckhorn-plantanc,—a 11 
Blew-bottle.—a 11 
Burstwort.—b 11 
Broom.—a 12 
Black and stincking Hore hound.—b 13 
Butter-flowers.—a 36
Bruisewort.—b 15 
Bind weed.—c 15 
C
Chast-Tree.—a 8 
Clot-bur.—a 9 
Calamint.—c 9 
Comfry Milde.—c 9 
Carduus benedictus.—a 10 
Cabbages.—b 10 
Chass-weed.—a 11 
Coronaria.—a 11  
Cammels Hay.—b 15 
Cassidony.—a 37 
Catmints.—a 23 
Centaury.—b 10 
Cetrach.—b 23 
Chamomel.—c l0 
Celondine.—c l0 
Chervil.—b 10 
Chickweed.—b 8 
Clevers.—c 8 
Columbines.—c 8 
Costmary.—a 9 
Carrallina,—a 10 
Coleworts.—b 10 
Chamepitys.—b 24 
Comfrie.—a 11 
Cottonweed.—a 11  
Cudweed.—a 11 
Crosswort.—a 11  
Cypress-tree.—b 11  
Cranebill.—a 12 
Cowslips.—b 12 
Clarie.—b 12 
Cinksoyl.—b 14 
Coltsfoot.—b 16 
Crowfoot.—a 15  
D
Dandelion.—a 16 
Dasies.—b 9 
Dill.—c 8 
Distaf-Thistle.—a 9 
Dictamni.—b 11
Dwarf 
   

The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples.
Dwarf-Elder.—b 11 
Dodder.—c 11 
Doves-foot.—a 12 
Double-tongue.—b 12 
Dittander.—a 13 
Duckmeat.—a 13 
Docks.—a 5 
Devils-bit.—a 16 
Dittany.—b 11 
E 
Endive.—c 10 
Elicampane.—c 11 
Epithimum.—a 25 
Eye-bright.—c 1 
F
Fennel.—c 11 
Fumatory.—a 12 
Featherfew.—c 13 
Fleabane.—c 14 
Figwort.—b 15 
Flixweed.—c 15 
French Lavender.—a 16 
G 
Golden Maiden-hair.—a 8 
Garlick.—b 8 
Garden Mints.—c 13 
Good Henry.—b 9 
Goof-grass.—c 8 
Groundsel.—a 10 
Germander.—c 10 
Groundpine.—c 10 
Golden Rod.—a 11 
Goats Rue.—a 12 
Gold Knobs.—a 15 
Gould Cups.—a 15 
H
Herb two pence.—b 14 
Harts-tongue.—a 13 
Horse-Mints.—a 13 
Harts-ease.—n 16 
Housleek.—a 9 
Honey-suckles—a 10 
Herb Bennet.—a 10 
Horstail.—a 10 
Herb-true-love.—b 12 
Henbane.—c 12 
Hemlock.—a 11 
Houndstongue.—a 11 
Hedg-hysop.—a 12 
Horstongue.—b 12 
Hysop.—c 12 
Herb Mastich.—b 13 
Hops—b 13 
Horehound.—b 13 
Herb of Grace.—a 15 
Higtaper.—b 16 
I 
Indian Leaf.—c 11 
Ivy.—a 12 
St. Johns-wort.—c 12 
K 
King Cobs—a 15 
Knapweed.—a 37 
Knotgrass.—b 10
L 
Ladies Mantle.—b 8 
Lluellin.—b 21 
Ladies Thistle.—a 10
Larks-heel.—a 11 
Lavender Cotton.—b 11
Ladies Bedstraw.—a 12 
Liver-wort.—a l2 
Laurel of Alexandria.—c 12- 
Lettice.—c 12          
Lotus Urbana.—a 13 
Lavender.—a 13 
Laurel.—a 13 
Lovage.—a 13 
Lungwort.—a l4 
M 
Marsh-bugloss.—a 13 
Malbatharum.—c 11 
Maiden-hair, white and black.—a 8 
Midle Comfry.—c 9 
Mountain Calamint.—c 9 
Marigold.—c 9 
Maudlin.—a 8 
Marsh-mallows.—b 8 
Marjoram.—b 8 
Mousear,—a 9 
Mugwort.—c 8 
Moschata.—b 23 
Masterwort.—b 13 
Mastich tree.—a 13 
Mallows.—b 13 
Mandrakes.—b 13 
Melilot.—c 13 
Mints.—c 13 
Mercury.—c 13 
Mezereon.—b 37 
Moss.—a 14 
Mirtle Tree.—a 14 
Moneywort.—b 14 
Mother of Time.—c 15 
Mullin.—b 16 
N 
Navil-wort.—b 16 
Nep—a 10 
Nettles.—b l6 
Nightshade.—c 15 
O 
Oak of Jerusalem.—b 9 
Ox eye.—c 9 
Orpine.—a 11  
One-berry.—b 12 
Origany, Origanum.—a 14 
Oak Leaves.—a 15  
Orach.—a 9 
Ox-Tongue.—c 9 
P 
Petty-Cotton.—a 11 
Pansies.—a 38 
Patience.—b 29 
Pauls Bettony.—b 9 
Pimpernel.—b 8 
Perewinkle.—a 11 
Primroses.—b 12 
Privet.—b 8 
Pellitory of the Wall.—b 12 
Pepper-wort.—a 13 
Peniroyal—a 34 
Peach leaves.—c 14 
Plantane.—c 14 
Poppies.—a 33 
Poley-mountain.—c 14 
Purslain.—c 14 
R
Rocket.—c 11 
Rupture wort.—b 11  
Rosemary.—a 15  
Roses.—a 35 
Rue.—a 15 
S 
Sampier.—a 11
Sarazens confound.—a 11 
Sage.—a 15 
Sanicle.—b 15 
Savin.—a 15 
Savory.—b 15 
Saxifrage.—b l5 
Scabious.—b 15 
Schænanth.—b 15 
Southernwood,—c 7 
Sorrel.—a 7 
Smallage.—c 8 
Silver-weed.—c 8 
Sow-bread.—c 8  
Sengreen.—a 9 
Shepherds-purse.—c 9
Spleenwort.—b 10 
Sullendine.—c 10  
Succory.—c 10 
Straw berry leaves.—c 11 
Stinking groundpine.—b 12 
St. Johns-wort.—c 12 
Sciatica-cresses.—c l2 
Star-wort.—a 29 
Share-wort.—a 30 
Sea bugloss.—a l3 
Sea Lavender.—a 13 
Sweet Tresoyl.—b 13 
Self-heal.—c 14 
Sicklewort.—c 14 
Sopewort.—b 15
Scordium.—a 36  
Senna.—b 15 
Sowthistles—c 15 
Spinach.—b 36 
Stœchas.—b 36 
Spurge.—a 16 
Swallow-wort.—b 16  
Spurge Olive—c 13 
Scar-wort.—a 13 
Sea-plantan.—a 11 
Spindle-thistle.—a 9 
Silver Knapweed.—c 15  
Spare-Mints.—c 13 
Snake-bugloss.—b 11  
T 
Tamaris.—a 16 
Tansie.—a 16  
Teazles—b 11 
Trulove.—a 27 
Tongue-blade.—b 12 
Toad-flax.—a 13  
Treacle Mustard.—a 14  
Tobacco.—a 14  
Time.—a 16  
Trefoil.—a 16
V
Vipers-herb.—b 11 
Vervain mallows.—b 8 
Vipers bugloss.—b 11 
Vervain.—b 16 
Violet leaves.—b 16 
Vine leaves.—b 16 
W
Water Germander.—b 15
Water Mints.—c 13 
Wall bugloss.—b 11 
Water Calamint.—c 9 
Wild basterd Saffron.—a 9 
Wild Bugloss.—b 11 
Wind flowers.—b 12 
Wild-flax.—a 13
Water-cresses.—a 14 
Walwort.—b 20 
Wormwood.—a 8
Wood sorrel.—a 8 
Woodroof.—c 8 
Wild Tansie.—c 8 
Wild-flower.—b 27 
Woad


The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples.                                   
Woad.—c 12 
Widdow-wail.—c 13 
Winter-green.—a 15 
Willow leaves.—b 15 
Y 
Yarrow.—c 13
FLOWERS.
B
Bawm.—c 16
Borrage.—c 16 
Bugloss.—c 16 
Beans.—a 17 
Broom.—a 17 
C 
Centaury.—a 17 
Chamomel.—a 29 
Clove-gilli-flowers.—c 16 
Cowslips.—a 17
E
Elder-flowers.—a 17
H 
Honeysuckles.—c 16 
Hops.—a 29 
Hops.—c 16
J
Jasmine flowers.—a 29 
L 
Lavender flowers.—c 16
M
Mallow flowers.—a 29 
Mallows.—c 16
O
Ox-Eye.—c 28
P
Pomgranate flowers.—a 17 
Peach tree.—a 17  
R 
Rosemary.—c 16  
Roses.—c 16  
Rocket.—a 29  
S 
Saffron,—c 16 
Stœchas.—c 16
Schænanth.—c 16
Succory.—a 17 
V
Violets.—a 17 
W
Winter-gilli-flowers.—c 16 
Water-Lillies.—a 17 
Woodbine or Honeysuckle flowers. 
a 29 
FRUITS, BUDS.
A  
Apricocks.—b 17 
B 
Bay berries.—c 17 
Barberries.—c 17 
Bitter Almonds.—c 17
C 
Capars.—b 17 
Cassia Fistula.—c 17 
Cherries.—c 17 
Cloves.—b 17 
Cucumers.—b 17 
Cubebs.—c 17 
Currance, English.—c 17
D
Dates.—b 17
F
Figs.—a 17      
G
Galls.—b 17 
I 
Juniper berries.—a. 30
M
Medlars.—c 17 
Melones.—b 17 
Myrobalans.—c 17 
N
Nutmegs.—b 17
O
Olives.—c 17 
P 
Pepper.—b 17 
Pears.—b 17 
Peaches—c 17 
Plums.—b 17 
Pinenuts.—b 17 
Pompions.—b 17 
Prunes.—c 17
R
Raisons.—b 17
S 
Sebestens.—b 17 
Services.—c 17  
Strawberries.—c 17 
T
Tamarinds.—a 18 
W 
Winter Cherries.—c 17 
Walnuts.—b 17 
SEEDS.
A
Annis.—a 18 
Ammi.—b 18
Ash-tree.—c 18 
B 
Bazil.—a 18 
Bishops weed.—b 18 
Broom.—c 18
C 
Cardamoms.— b 18 
Carrots.—b 18 
Coriander.—a. 18 
Cummin.—b 18 
Cich pease.—c 18 
Citrons.—c 18 
D 
Dill.—a 18 
F 
Four great cold Seeds.—c 18  
Fenugreek.—a 18 
Fennel.—b 18 
French Barly.—b 18 
G 
Gromwel.—a 18 
L 
Lettice.—a 18 
Linseed.—a 18  
Lupines.—a 18
M
Mustard seed.—b 18  
Mallows.—c 18   
N 
Nettles.—a 18 
Nigella.—b 18
P 
Peony.—c 18 
Poppy.—c 18
Purslain.—c 18
R
Rocket.—a 18 
Rue.—c 18 
S
Smallage.—a 18 
Stavesager.—b 18 
Sorrel.—b 18 
Succory.—b 18 
W  
White Saxifrage.—c 18 
Water-cresses.—b 18 
Wormseed.—c 18   
GUMS ROZINS.  
A 
Ammoniacum.—b 44 
Assafœtida.—c 18 
Aloes.—c 18 
B 
Bdellium.—a 18 
Benzoin.—c 18
C 
Camphire.—b 44 
D  
Diagridium.—a 19                            
E
Elemni.—a 19 
F  
Frankincense.—a 19 
G 
Galbanum.—a 19 
L 
Labdanum.—c 18 
M  
Manna.—a 19  
Mastich.—a 19 
Mirrh.—a 19  
O 
Olibanum.—a 19  
Opopanax.—a 19   
S 
Sanguis Draconis—c 18 
Scammony.—a 19  
Styrax Calamitis.—a 19  
T 
Traganth.—a 19  
Turpentine.—a 19  
JUYCES.
C  
Citrons.—b 19   
L 
Lemmons.—b 19  
Liquoris.—b 19  
S 
Sugar.—b 19 
PLANTS. 
A  
Agrick.—b 19 
M 
Misleto.—b 19  
LIVING CREATURES. 
C 
Crabfish.—c 19 
E 
Earthworms.—c 19  
Eels.—c 19   
G 
Grashoppers.—c 19  
H  
Hedg-sparrows.—c 19 
L  
Land Scorpion.—c 19  
O 
Oysters.—c 19 
Nnn Pidgeons. 


The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples. 
P
Pidgeons.—c 19 
S
Sows.—b 19 
Swallow.—c 19
V
Vipers.—c 19
W
Woodlice.—c 18, 19
PARTS of LIVING 
CREATURES.
B
Bone in a Stags Heart—b 20 
Bears grease.—b 20 
Bone in a Hares Foot.—b 20 
Brain of Sparrows.—a 20   
Brain of Hares.—a 20 
C 
Cats Head.—a 20 
Crabs Eyes.—a 20 
Cocks Stones.—a 20
Castorium.—a 20 
Capons Grease.—b 20
D 
Ducks Liver.—a 20 
Ducks grease.—b 46
E
Elks Claws.—b 20
F
Flead Mouse.—b 20 
Fox Lungs.—a 20 
Fox grease.—b 20
Frogs Liver.—a 20
G
Goats bladder.—b 20 
Goats Suet.—b 20 
Goose grease.—b 20 
H
Harts Horn.— b 20 
Honey.—c 20
I
Ivory.—b 20 
K
Kites Head.—a 20 
M
Mans Skul.—b 20 
Mans Fat.—b 20 
Milk.—b 20
O
Os Triquetrum.—b 20 
R 
Raw Silk.—c 20 
S
Sheeps Bladder.—b 20 
Stags Pizzle.—b 20 
U
Unicorns horn.—b 20 
W
Wax.—c 20 
Whey.—c 20
BELONGING to the SEA.
A
Ambergreece.—c 20 
Amber.—a 21 
F
Foam of the Sea.—a 21 
P
Pearls—a 20
R
Red Corral.—a 2l
S
Sperma Ceti.—c 20 
Sea Sand.—c 20 
METTALS, STONES.
A
Ætitis.—c 21 
Allum.—b 21 
Amethist.—c 21
B 
Bezoar.—c 21 
Brimstone.—b 21 
C 
Carbuncles.—b 21 
Cocks Stones.—c 21   
D 
Diamond.—b 2l
E
Emerald.—b 21 
G 
Granate.—b 21 
Gold.—a 21
I  
Jacinth.—b 21 
Jasper.—c 21 
L 
Lazuli.—b 22 
Lead.—b 21 
Litharge.—b 21  
N 
Nephriticus.—c 21 
P 
Pompholix.—b 21
R  
Ruby.—b 21 
S
Swallows Stone.—a 22 
Saphire.—b 21 
T
Toad-stone.—c 21 
Topas.—c 21  
An Alphabetical TABLE (newly added) of the Eng- 
lish Names of such Simples as the Vertues thereof are 
set down in this Impression that were not in the former. 
READER, In this Table diligently observe that a directs to the first 
Column, b. to the second, c. to the third Column: And the Figures direct 
to the Page.  
BARKS. 
A
AGrimony.—a 25
B
Black Alder-Tree.—a 25
C
Captaine Winters to Cinnamon.—a 25
D
Dodder.—a 25
E  
Endive.—a 25 
H
Hops.—a 25
P
Parsly.—a 25
S
Succory.—a 25  
Savory.—b 27  
Smallage.—a 25 
T
Tansie.—c 27 
FLOWERS. 
C   
Cammomel.—a 29  
H
Hops.—a 29
J
Jasmine.—a 29
Mallows  
 

The English Names of the Catalogue of Simples. 
M  
Mallows.—a 29
O
Ox-Eye.—c 28
R 
Rocket.—a 29
W
Wood-bind, or Honey-suckles.—a 29 
FRUITS PURGING.
J
Juniper-berries.—a 30 
GUMS, ROZINS, 
BALSOMS, JUYCES 
Made thick.
A
Amber-grease.—a 32 
Assafœtida.—a 32   
Alecost.—b 31 
Accacia.—b 31 
Ammoniacum.—a 33 
B
Bitumen Judaicum.—c 31 
Burgany Pitch.—c 31 
Bdellium.—c 31 
Borax.—a 32 
C
Costmary.—b 31 
Cambuge.—a 32  
Caranna.—a 32  
Cappier.—a 33 
D
Dragons blood.—b 31  
F 
Frankinsence.—a 33 
G  
Gutta Gumba.—a 32
Gum Elemi.—b 32  
Gum Lacca.—b 32  
Gum Coopal.—c 32 
Gum Anime—c 32  
Gum Tragaganth.—c 32   
Galbanum.—a 33 
Gum Arabick.—a 33
I
Juyce of Liquoris.—b 31 
L
Labdanum.—b 31 
Liquid Amber.—b 32
M
Manna.—b 32  
Mirrh.—b 32
Mastich.—a 33 
O
Opopanax.—b 33 
Olibanum.—c 32 
Other things. 
P
Pitch.—c 31 
S
Styrax Calamitis.—a 33  
Sugar.—b 31 
Sagapen.—c 32  
T 
Tachamacha.—c 32
Turpentine.—a 33
W 
White Starch.—b 31           
THINGS BRED of PLANTS.
B
Bees should be, &c.—a 34
F
Frogs.—a 33 
I
Jews-Ears.—c 33
M
Misleto.—c 33 
Moss.—c 33
O 
Oak Apples.—c 33
S 
Snailes should be, &c.—a 34
STONES.
A 
A Stone taken out of a Water Snake.
a b 35
B
Blood Stone.—b 35 
C
Calcidonius.—b 35 
Crystal.—b 35  
G
Geodetes,—c 35
H
Hemetites.—b 35 
I
Jet.—c 35
L
Lapis Memphites.—c 35 
Lapis Samius.—b 35 
Lapis Ophites.—c 35 
Lapis Arabicus.—c 35 
Lapis Selenites.—c 35
Lapis Amnianthus.—c 35  
Lapis Armenius.—c 35 
M
Myexis.—c 35 
Ostracites.—c 35  
P
Pumice-Stone.—c 35   
Pyritis.—b 35  
T 
Tybuones.—b 35
Distilled WATERS.
A 
Alicampane Water.—c 38 
B
Borrage  
and  
Bugloss 
Water Distilled when 
their Flowers are upon
them.—c 38 
Bawm Water.—c 38 
Burnet Water.—c 38 
Bettony Water.—c 37 
Black Cherry Water.—c 37 
C 
Carduus Water.—a 38  
Calaminth Water.—a 38 
Camomel Water.—a 38  
Centaury water.—b 38  
Chervil water.—b 38 
Comfry water.—b 38 
Colts-foot water.—c 37  
Couch grass water.—c 37 
Cowslips flowers, water thereof.—a 38     
D
Damask Rose water.—c 37 
Dodder water.—c 38 
Dogs grass water.—c 37  
Dwarf-Elder water.—c 38    
E 
Elder, see Dwarf-Elder. 
Endive water and Succory water. 
b 37 
Eye Bright water.—a 38  
F 
Flower-de-luce water.—a 31 
Fennel—a 38 
Flowers of Lillies of the Valley.—a 38 
Fumatory water.—a 37  
G 
Green Walnut water.—c 37 
H  
Hore-hound water.—a 38 
Hops when they are young, a Water 
thereof.—c 38  
Hyssop water.—a 38
L
Lettice water.—b 37 
Loveage water.—c 38
M 
Maiden-hair water.—c 38 
Marjoram water.—a 38  
Maudlin water.—b 38 
Marigold water.—b 38  
Mint water.—b 38 
Mother of Time water.—b 38
Mugwort water.—c 38  
N 
Nettles when they flower.—b 38 
Night shade water.—b 37 
P 
Pellitory of the wall water.—b 38 
Penny-royal water.—c 38 
Plantane water.—c 37 
Purslaine water.—b 37
Q
Quinces, distilled waters thereof.—c 37
R  
Red Poppy flower water.—c 37 
Radishes, the distilled water thereof. 
c 38
Rosemary water.—a 38 
Rose water, see Damask.—c 37  
S 
Sage, while the flowers are on.—c 37 
Saxifrage water.—b 31 
Scabious water.—a 38 
Sinksoyl water.—c 38 
Sorrel water.—b 37 
Strawberry water.—c 37 
Succory, see Endive.
T 
Tamaris water.—c 38
Tobacco of the English grouth.—c 38 
V 
Violet flowers, water thereof.—b 37 
W 
Water Cresses, the water thereof. 
b 38 
Water-lilly flowers, water thereof. 
b 37 
Wallnut water, see green Wallnuts. 
White Poppy water.—c 37 
Wormwood water.—b 38                                   
The End of the Catalogue of Simples. 
An   


An ALPHABETICAL TABLE of Diseases 
Treated on, in the Dispensatory.  
READER, In this Table diligently observe that a directs to the first 
Colum, b. to the second, c. to the third Colum: And the Figures direct 
to the Page.
A 
ABortion, hindereth a 15 a 16 a 22
c 129 c 179 b 191 c 200 a 201 a 2Ol. 
Ach a 1 a 7 b 12 a 20 a 29 c 31 a 32 c 182
a 186 c 193 b 202, 203 
Aches coming of a cold cause, b 8 b 18 
Adders stinging, or biting c 11 
Aduft Humors b 37 c 38 c 137 b 150 
b 163. 
Adust Choller a 12 b 112 b 123 a 124- 
After-birth a 2 b 5 b 8 c 9 b 11 b 12 b 12 
b 12 b 13 c 14 a 15 a 16 c 16 a 17 b 18 a 19 
a 19 a 20 b 20 b 32 c 38 a 103 c 104 a 106 
a 109 a 135 b 144 a 147 a 168 b 179. 
Agues b 2 c 4 b 5 c 8 a 13 c 13 b 14 b 32 
c 104 a 107 c 110 a 111 a 120 b 149 b 149
c 149 a 151 b 157 b 158 a 162 a 171 c 176
b 177 b 181 a 186 c 192 c 193 b 195 a 208. 
Ague in Womens Brests a 10. 
Agues naught for c 17.
Ague in the brests a 33. 
Agues in young Children, c 11. 
see Inflamation. 
Quartan Agues a 12 c 14 a 20 b 32 a 38 
c 140 c 149 c 163 a 171 b 190 a 208. 
Air cooleth b 15. 
Air infected or corrupted b 13 b 102 b 138 
b 165 c 206. 
Almonds of the Ears a 16 
Andicom b 201 
Anger causeth, b 21 
Anger Asswageth b 21 b 128 
St. Anthonies fire a 9 a 11 b 12 c 15 a 180 
a 188 
Appetite provoketh b 6 a 9 b l3 c 17 c 17
a 25 a 32 b 32 b 38 c 104 b 110 b 114 a 123 
c 128 a 129 a 146 a 168 b 177 a 179 c 205 
c 205. 
Appetite restoreth a 111 b 183 c 191
a 209
Appetite hurtful for it 
Aposthumes c 2 b 8 b 12 b 15 a 38 b 186 
c 192 c 195 a 200 
Apoplexy b 13 c 37 a 106 a 106 c 136 
147a c 157 c 178 a 179 b 179 b 181 a 210 
Arteries a 104 b 191 a 208 
Asthma a 14 a 29 a 38 a 38 c 98 c 112 
c 117 c 131 b 132 a 136 c 141 a 147 b 153 
b 165 a 183 c 186 c 192 a 207. 
Astonishment a 147.
B 
BAck strengtheneth b 2 c 14 b 120 b 191 
b 192 b 198 c 205 
Back, weakness thereof b 10 b 12 a 21. 
Baldness c 33 c 35 b 108 
Barrenness procureth a 10 
Barrenness helpeth b 12 c 102 b 120 b 122 
c 143 b 167 c 179 
Bees stinging a 13 b l3 c 19 b 186 
Beauty adds b 19 c 111 a 137 c 147 b 152 
a 167 c 167 b 170 c 171 c 181 c 205. 
Beloved of Women c 21 
Belly ach b 8 a 12 c 13 a 14 a 164 
see Bowels. 
Belly strengthens, c 149 c 859 b 199 
—loosens a 9 a 9 b 9 c 9 c 9 c 11 a 12 
a 14 a 17 b 17 b 17 a 33 a 112 b 124 c 149 
—binds b l7 b 17 b 17 
Belching, sower belching c 10 a 129 
Bewitched c 35 
Belching, helps sower belching a 9 c 111 
c 119 b 127 a 138 c 143 a 152 a 210. 
Bewitched c lO3 c 105 a 210 
Biting with Venemous Beasts b 169 b 170 
c 178 a 183 a 200 
Birth facilitates a 2 c 8 b 13 a 22 
Birth c 8 b 13 a 15 c 16 a 17 a 19 a 20 b 20  
b 32 c 104 a 135 b 144 a 147 a 168 b 179. 
Binds 
Biting with Venemous Beasts a 2 c 3 c 3 
b 4 a 5 c 7 b 8 c 8 a 9 a 10 a 11 a 11 a 11 
b 11 c 13 b 14 c 14 b 18 b 18 c 19 c 19 a 20 
b 20 b 21 c 21 c 21 c 31 a 32 b 33 C 37 
a 103 b 107 c 107 b 145 a 147 c 151 c 152 
Biting with a mad Dog b 2 b 2 c 2 b 8  a 10 
b 11 c 135 see mad Dogs 
Blood clarifieth a 38 a 118 b 123 c 209 
Bladder, Ulcers therein c 4 b 17 a 146 
b 167 c 175 
Blockishness b 178 
Bladder b 2 b 4 b 5 c 10 c 13 b 15 b 15 a 16 
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b 16 b 17 b 17 b 19 c 20 b 31 b 38 b 115 
b 121 c 127 c 147 a 148 a 151 b 152 c 152
b 153 c 160 a 166 a 180 c 181 c 183 b 184
b 207 b 207 a 208 
Bladder, ease pains therein b 4 b 5 a 9 b 9 
c 18 c 19 c 2O a 178 b 196 a 206. 
Blackness and blewness c 4 c 5 a 9 
Black Jaundice a 167 b 194 
Bleeding at Nose c 5 b 10 a l4 a 21 a 115 
c 127 c 129 c 150 b 167 b 169 b 170 c 171 
a 172 b 208. 
Bleeding stopeth b 6 c 8 b 10 a 12 b 16 a 33 
b 35 b 38 b 169
Blood a 6 a 8 a 111 a 116 c 123 
Blood stopeth a 5 b 7 a 11 c l6 b 18 a 19 
c 2l b 146 c l7l 
—clensech a 6 a 6 a 8 c 8 b l3 a 14 
a 17 c 17 b 37 b 37 a 38 b 38 c 38 a 210 
—cooleth a 4 a 8 a 8 b 9 a 13 c 14 c 17
a 18 b 18 c 18 c 18 b 19 b 37 b 37 b 37 b 37 
b 37 a 105 b 109 a 117 a 120 c 127 b 166 
Blood spiting c 2 c 5 b 6 c 9 a 11 a 13 a 14 
c l4 b 15 c 16 c 17 a 19 a21 a21 b 37
a 113 a 115 b 117 c 119 b 120 c 122 c 127 
b 128 c 129 c 131 c 137 b 146 a 147 c 162 
a 166 b 166 b 167 a 169 b 169 b 169 c 169 
b 170 a 172 
Blood congealed b 9 c 9 c 10 c 12 c 12 b 13
b 38 0a 110 c 164  
Blood congealed by Bruises or Strips c 12 
b 13 a 32
Bloody-flux a 2 a 11 c 171 c 171 c 188 
Body good for b 15 b 17 a 20 a 30 a 38
a 117 a 123 c 134 b 157 c 148 b 158 a 161 
b 162 a 183 b 183 a 184 a 190 b 190 a 202 
b 207
Body cools in general c 18 c 114 a 120 
b 138 
Bones clenseth filth thereof b 171 
Bones broken a 1 c 5 c 9 a 38 c 122 b 197  
b 202 
see the Perticuler Parts oppressed 
with heat.
Botches c 12 b 189 a 200 
Bots in Horses c 9 
Bowels a 11 c l6 c 18 a 20 c 2O c 32 b 37 
b 38 b 38 b 38 b 134 c 142 c 150 a 156 
a 158 b 158 c 171 b 182 b 196 b 201 a 209 
Bowels excoriated b 31 
Boyls c 2 
Brain strengthen c 14 c 16 c 16 a 17 b 17
c 17 c 17 c 20 c 32 c 32 c 33 c 37 a 38 a 38 
a 38 b 38 b 38 c 38 c 102 a 103 c 103 c 107 
b 108 a 109 c 109 c 118 b 122 c 128 a 134 
a 134 a 136 c 155 b 159 c 159 b 163 a 164 
a 167 c 167 a 179 b 179 c 197 a 198 a 201 
a 201 a 202 b 206 b 207 a 209 c 210 
Brain b 4 c 5 a 15 c 15 b 18 a 32 a 38 a 38 
a 102 a 102 b 109 c 120 c 129 b 134 c 141 
b 143 b 145 c 148 a 153 c 155 c 155 a 156 
c 157 b 158 a 162 a 172 c 177 a 183 a 204 
b 206 a 208  
Brain cooleth a 8 a 12 a 141 
—drieth a 8 a 106 c 118 c 197 a 201 
Breast c 7 a 9 b 9 a 14 b 15 b 17 a 38 a 38 
b 116 C 117 a 122 C 122 b 131 a 132 a 132 
b 132 b 132 b 135 c l36 b 137 c 137 c 142 
c l5l b 166 a 178 a 180 c 186 b 191 c 193 
c 193 a 195 b 206 
Brest clenseth a 8 a 9 b 9 b 13 b 15 a 16 
b 17 c 17 b 18 b 19 a 118 a 155 a 155
c 160 
Brest strengthen c 7 a 38 b 118 b 119 c 178 
b 192 
Brest swelled a 10 c 35 
—inflamed, see Inflamation 
Breth sweeten a 7 b l7 b 18 a 33 b 38 c 107 
b 108 b 167 c 169 
Breth short c 2 a 4 c 10 c 12 C 14 a 16 b 16 
a 30 a 103 b 132 b 158 b 176 c 195 b 196 
Breth stinking helpeth a 7 a l9 b 32 c 32 
a 102 c 133 c 135 c 159 a 166 a 167 a 168 
a 168 b179 
Brused or 
Bruises c 2 c 2 c 4 a 6 b 6 a 7 b 8 b 9 c 9
a 10 a 11 b 12 b 13 b 15 c 2O C 122 c l3l 
c 178 a 182 b 182 c 182 b 187 a 198 b 198 
Broken Vains
Broken bones b6 b7 b 11 
Burstness b 1 c 2 b 3 b 8 a 9 a 11 b 11 a 13
c 200  
see Ruptures 
Bubo, or Swelling in the Groyn c l2 
Burnt with fire b 1 a 3 b 3 c 37 a 177 c 184  
c 185 c 197 b 207 
Burnings b 7 b 7 c 7 b 8 a 9 b 11 a 12 b 17 
a 33 a 33 a 130 b 176 b 186 c 192 b 198 
Boyles a 123 
C 
CAchexia (or evil Disposition of the 
whol Body) b 31 c 101 b 103 c 109 
b 110 a 134 c 168 b 177 a 178 c 179 b 193 
Canker b 3 b 9 a 118 a 200 
Carbuncles c 4 b 14 b 18 c 3l a 123 b 188 
b 198 
Cattle that are blind suddenly helpeth  
them c 6 
Cathars c 127 a 134 b 143 a 183 a 184 
Cancers or Canker b 150 c 158 b 163 
Catalepsis a 13 
Choller a 6 a 8 a 10 b 10 c 15 a 17 b 17 
c 17 a 29 c 111 a 115 a 117 b 118 a 120 
a 121 c 122 C 122 b 124 c 129 c 129 b 141 
a 149 c 150 c 158 a 161 a 165 b 166 a 169 
Choller purgeth a 7 a 10 c 11 a 13 c 14 
a 17 a 17  a l7 a 18 c 18 a 19 b 19 c 2O 
a 25 a 29 a 31 c 3l b 32 c 123 c 123 a 124 
a 125 c 139 c 139 b 148 c l48 a 149 b 149
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c 149 a 150 a 151 a 151 b 152 
Choler purgeth b 155 b 155 a 156 c 156
c 156 a 157 b 161 c 161 a 162 a 162 b 162 
c 162 a 170 
Chollerick persons, bad for c 2 
Chollerick humors good for a 8 a 10 a 13 
a 29 a 33 
Chollick, wind Cholick a 5 a 5 b 5 c 6 a 9 
a 1O a 10 a 11 a 12 a 110 a 127 b 139
c 140 a 145 a 148 c 154 
Chollick a 13 b 15 b 17 a 18 c 19 a 29 a 30 
b 34 a 38 b 115 b 141 c 142 b 144 a 146 
b 146 a 147 b 149 b 149 a 150 a 152 a 158 
c 170 c 171 b 176 c 176 c 176 b 177 c 177 
b 178 a 179 a 181 b 181 b 183 
Chollick c 183 a 186 c 186 b 190 a 192 
c 197 b 206 b 206 c 206 b 207 a 208 
Cholick of wind a 179 c 180 a 181 a 185 
a 198 b 201 c 204 a 208 
Cheerfulness causeth c 7 c 22 
Chap'd Lips and Hands a 177 b 187 a 207 
Chaps in the Skin and Brests of Women. 
Chastity causeth a 8 a 115 
Chilliness a 192 
Chin cough c 16 a 107
Courses a 127 a 127 b 128 c 137 a 141 
c 144 c 151 a 152 c 154 c 157 a 158 a 161 
c 162 a 166 
Courses a 167 b 167 c 167 a 169 b 169 
b 170 a 172 c 177 b 178 b 178 c 179 a 181 
c 188 b 189 b 193 b 194 a 195 b 191 b 196 
a 197 b 209 a 210 
Cods swol'n b 5 a 8
Colds b 19 a 130 b 135 c 136 a 166 a 166 
Color ill, amends the Color of the whol Body 
c 12 a 14 c 183 
see Beauty, adds 
Consumption b 6 a 9 b 9 a l7 b 17 b 17 
c 20 a 21 c 21 a 34 a 106 c lO6 b 108 a 111 
a 113 c 116 b 117 b 117 a 126 a 131 a 134 
a 134 b 134 a 136 c 136 b 137 c 137 b 142 
b 142 b 143 a 146 a 169 c 192 c 197 c 2OO 
a 203 b 206 
Consumption hindereth a 10 c 13 
Cough b 169 b 170 b 170 c 175 b 179 b 194 
a 197 c 197 a 208 b 209 
Cough c 2 a 4 a 5 a 7 a 9 b 10 c 10 c 12 a 16  
b 16 b 16 c 16 b 17 a 19 a 19 b 19 a 21 a 29 
a 30 b 31 b 31 c 3l c 32 c 32 c 32 a 33 
b 37 a 38 a 38 a 38 b 38 c 38 c 112 b 116 
a 118 b 118 c 118 a 119 b 120 a 122 c 127 
a 128 a 130 a 131 c 131 b 133 a 135 b 135 
a 136 c 136 b 137 b 141 c 142 b 143 a 147 
a 151 c 156 c 161 a 162 a 166 a 166 b 167 
a 169 
old Coughs b 13 b 14 b 15 a 19 b 33 a 147 
c 152 a 155 
Cough of the Lungs a 11 c 14 b 133 c 188 
Convulsion a 2 c 2 b 5 b 6 b 9 c 9 b 13 c 15 
a 16 c 16 c 16 a 17 c 18 a 20 a 21 a 30 c 33 
b 34 c 37 c 102 c 102 a 103 c 103 b 110 
a 111 c 120 c 120 b 122 a 127 b 131 b 136
b 143 b 145 c 151 c 151 b 177 c 177 b 178
c 178 a 181 b 181 a 182 c 182 b 184 a 190 
b 190 b 191 a 195 a 195 b 207 c 207
a 210 
Constant c 21 c 105 
Concoction b 7 a 38 a 136 b 199 
see Digestion 
Conception a 146 c 157 
Conception strengthens c 161 
Conception furthers c 13 a 158 
Conception hinders 
Corrosians of the Bowels c 4 c 119 
see Bowels 
Cordial things c 7 
Corruption b 138 c 147 a 161 c 199 a 203 
see Putrefaction 
Corns on the Feet and Toes a 9 a 118 
Counter poysons a 16 
Cramp c 2 b 9 c 9 b 12 c 12 b 13 b 20 a 29 
a 30 a 111 c 160 b 177 c 177 b 178 c 178 
a 180 a 181 b 181 a 182 c 182 b 185 a 189 
b 207 
see Convulsions 
Crudities a 122 b 147 a 156 
see Indigestion 
Cutting tough humors a 8 c 17 
D 
DAndriff a 2 
see Scurff 
Deafness a 4 c 15 b 33 c 33 a 103 a 147 
a 176 c 177 a 183 a 207 a 207 
Deafness a 10 
Dead flesh c 3 c 189 a 200 
Dead Child bringeth away  b 11 a 16 c 32 
a 38 b 144 a 146 b 189 
(see Birth) 
Deformaty in the Skin a 7 b 176 c 176 
a 177 c 186 
Defluxions a 7 c 7 a 9 b 12 c 32 c 32 a 107 
a 115 b 120 a 126 c 142 b 145 c 161 c 162 
b 186 
Defluxions that are hot helpeth a 8 
Defluxions c 191 b 193 a 194 c 200 a 201 
a 201 a 203 b 204 c 204 
Digestion a 11 c 11 b 134 c 155 
Digestion helpeth b 161 a 165 c 167 b 177 
b 177 a 178 a 179 b 179 c 191 b 196 a 198 
a 201 b 203 b 204 c 204 
Digestion helpeth c 6 a 7 a 7 a 7 b 8 c 13
b 17 b 17 a 25 a 30 a 32 b 32 c 37 b 38 b 38 
c 101 a 102 c 104 b 108 c 111 a 117 c 119 
b 134 c 136 a 138 c 140 c 140 c 142 a 143 
a 143 c 143 b 147 c 152 
Digest row humors c 8 
Diabetes c 18 b 20 c 195 
Dimness of sight b 1O c 103 a 153 a 156 
see Sight 
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Difficulty of Urin a 11 b 18 
Difficulty of breathing b 4 c 9 b 10 a 15 
b 15 c 16 b 18 a 19 b 27 c 127 c 131 b 132 
b 136 a 147 b 153 c 165 a 207 
Disury a 33 b 141 b 144 a 146 a 152 b 206 
a 208 
see Urin stopped 
Dislocations c 9 c 207 
Distilations upon the Lungs c 12 c 32 a 33 
a 33 b 131 c 156 
Disenteries b 120 a 129 a 141 a 162 b 162 
b 166 b 167 b 169 a 176 a 178 c 191 b 192
c 195
Dizziness in the Head c 147 c 151 c 157 
b 181 
mad Dogs biting c 9 c 13 c 19 c 138 
see biting of Venemous Beasts 
Dotage a 201 
Dropsie b 2 c 2 a 3 c 3 b 4 c 4 a 6 a 7 b 7 b 8 
a 9 c 9 a 10 b 10 b 11 c 12 c 14 c 15 c 16 
a 17 a 17 b 16 c 18 c 20 c 21 a 25 b 32 b 33 
b 34 b 34 b 35 c 37 c 37 c 37 a 38 b 38 c 38 
c 38 c 101 b 103 c 109 c 110 a 111 c 121 
a 125 a 125 b 125 c 128 a 130 a 134 c 135 
a 143 b 145 a 147 c 147 b 158 b 160 c 162 
b 164 b 184 
Dropsie c 165 a 167 a 168 c 168 c 196 a 170 
b 170 a 171 c l7l b 177 a 178 a 179 c 179 
a 189 c 190 b 191 b l93 a 194 b 194 b 196 
c 202 b 203 b 205 c 205 c 206 c 207 a 208
a 209 a 209 a 210 
Drooping spirits c 11 
Drunkenness preserves from b 10 c 12 a 13 
c 17 c 19 c 21 c 32 c 165 
Drunckenness a 12 b 37 
E              
EArs b 12 b 12 b 139 b 171 
Edge tooles to make them cut Iron a 9 
Eipdemical Diseases b 158 b 165 
Epilepsies b 110 c 120 b 122 b 125 a 127 
a 162 b 207 
Excoriations c 2O c 122 
see the place Excoriated
Excoriations of the Yard 
see Yard 
Excoriations of the Guts c 14 
Expel wind b 6 c 6 
see Wind 
Eyes, maketh old mens Eyes young c 11 
a 11O 
Eyes b 9 c 10 c 11 a 17 a 3O b 31 a 32 a 109 
c 120 a 130 a 134 b 155 a 156 c 159 c 160 
a 188 b 188 a 201 
Eyes red b 11 a 191 
Eyes sore c 10 a 194 c 197  
Eyes, Pin and Web in them b 4 a 111 
Eyes spoile c 5 
Eyes, Defluxions on them b 12 c 32 
Eyes, bleared and Rheumatick c 169  
F 
FAce, amends the ill color thereof c 4 
b 179 a 207 
Face 
Faintings b 4 b 6 b 21 a 30 a 106 a 107 b 117 
c 121 c 141 a 168 c 170 
Falling-sickness b 4 a 5 b 5 b 6 b 9 a 12 c 12 
a 13 a 15 c 15 a 16 b 16 a 17 b 20 b 21 b 21 
a 32 c 35 c 37 c 102 c 103 b 121 b 126 
b 143 b 145 a 147 c 151 c151 b 158 c 160 
a 190 b 207 
Falls c 9 b 12 b 13 
see Bruses 
Falling-sickness, helps b 6 c 9 a 16 c 16 
b 19 a 20 b 20 b 20 a 21 b 22 a 30 c 33 b 34 
c 35 c 103 c 107 a 111 c 111 b 117 c 120 
b 127 c 135 c 141 b 143 a 152 b 184 b 185 
c 188 b 190 c 206 c 207 a 210 
Fatness, helpeth those that grow too Fat 
c 8 
Feavers cools their heat c 7 c 10 b 11 c 18   
b 19 b 129 b 133 b 166 b 208 
Feavers a 4 a 8 b 15 a 17 c 17 c 17 a 20 
a 21 b 21 c 21 c 21 b 22 b 37 c 37 a 103 
a 105 b 105 b 107 b 105 b 108 a 111 a 111 
a 117 b 118 b 119 a 120 a 121 b 121 c 122 
c 122 a 130 c 134 c 135 b 142 b 142 a 144
c 145 a 147 c 148 a 149 b 149 b 149 c 150 
b 166 b 167 b 169 c 192 c 199 
Feavers, cooleth the Blood in Feavers a 8 
c 1O a 17 b 154 
Feavers Pestilential b 5 b 37 b 37 a 103 
a 104 c 104 b 105 a 117 a 123 c 130 b 138 
c 146 b 147 c 199 
rotten Feavers c 4 
Feavers a 171 a 171 c 207 a 208 c 209
a 210 a 210
Fear a 16 b 21 c 105 
Felon c 12 b 201 
Fighting 
Fingers cut b 15 
Fistula c 9 a 12 b 12 c 15 a 111 b 171 c 176 
c 184 c 186 c 189 a 208 
Flesh, dead and proud c 184 a 187 
Flegm b 4 a 5 b 9 c 13 c 15 a 16 b 17 a 21 
a 110 c 111 a 115 b 116 a 121 a 122 b 124 
b 126 a 127 c 127 b 130 c 134 a 135 a 143
b 150 a 155 b 155 c 156 c 157 a 158 c 160 
b 163 a 170 a 176 a 196 c 207 a 208 
c 209 
Flegm Purgeth b 6 b 6 a 16 c 17 c 17 c 17 
c 18 b 19 a 25 a 29 a 30 a 31 c 31 c 31 b 33 
c 38 a 121 b 124 c 128 c 139 c 139 a 142 
a 148 a 149 b 149 a 150 b 150 b 152 b 155
a 157 b 160 c 160 a 161 b 161 c 161 a 162 
b 162 
Flegm Purgeth c 165 a 172
Flegmatick people good for c 2 a 126 
a 126 a 126 c 151 
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Flux staies a 2 b 2 c 2 a 5 a 5 a 6 a 6 b 6 
c 6 c 6 a 7 b 7 b 7 b 7 b 7 b 8 b 8 c 8 c 8 a 9
b 10 b 11 a 13 b 14 b 14 c 14 a 15 a 15 a 15 
b 15 c 15 b 16 b 16 a 17 c 17 b 18 a 20 
b 31 a 32 b 32 a 33 c 37 b 117 c 121 
Flux of Blood b 10 c 14 c 20 a 21 b 35 
a 111 c 119 b 120 c 130 c 137 b 146 c 166 
b 169 b 192 
Flux of the Belly a 2 a 105 c 119 a 141
b 169 b 179 a 210 
belpetb Flux b 17 b 2O c 33 c 37 b 129 c 135 
b 162 b 199  
Flux staies b 143 a 134 a 145 b 145 c 193 
b 199 
Fleas c 12 
Fleas kill c 12 a 15 
Flesh restoreth 
Forgitfulness b 12 a 103 b 150 b 179 
Freckles b 2 b 2 c 2 c 8 c 8 c 9 a 10 a 13 
a 15 a 16 b 37 c 113 b 176 b 188 a 191 
a 191 c 208 
French Pox a 3 a 5 b 6 c 7 b 9 a 10 b 15 
a 16 b 105 a 208 
Frenzies a 9 b 11 a 12 a 13 c 14 b 15 c 15 
b 16 b 16 a 30 a 120 b 154 c 179 b 183 
a 210 
Fundament c 15 
Fundament falling out c 12 a 13 a 13 a 13  
b 17 b 191 b 193 
Fundament, clests therein c 4 
Fundament, hard knobs therein b 13
a 187 
Fundament chopped a 177 
G
GAul b 1O b 176 c 184 c 187 
Gall Bladder open obstructions a 195 
Gangreens c 9 b 14 a 18 a 208 
Generation provokes to a 179 a 181 c 181 
a 210 
Gidiness in the Head a 10 
Gladness 
Gnats  
Gonorhæa b 169 c 169 a 169 b 170 b 179 
b 180 c 188 c 190 c 191 c 192 a 194 c 195 
a 197 c 200 a 201 a 201 a 203 c 205 a 211 
Gout b 2 b 3 b 6 c 6 a 7 b 9 b 11 b 11 a 12 
b 12 c 12 a 13 a 14 a 16 a 20 b 20 a 30 c 32 
b 33 b 35 a 111 c 111 a 130 a 139 a 148 
a 149 c 149 c 156 c 157 a 158 a 158 b 158 
c 160 b 163 b 164 a 176 a 178 c 178 b 181 
a 184 b 184 b 184 c 186 a 195 c 196 c 206 
b 207 c 207 a 208 c 209 
hot Gouts a10 c 12 c 149 
Gravel 012 an biz 013 h 115 0151 
Gravel brings away a 11 c 21 c 38 b 121 
c 142 b 168 
Griping in the Belly and Guts a 2 b 2 b 4 
b 4 c 8  a 10 a 10 c 10 c 15 a 111 b 141 
b 176 b 192                        
Gripings 
Grief takes away c 13 
Green-sickness b 2 a 8 b 10 a 12 a 14 a 107
a 110 b 110 a 111 a 127 b 151 b 194 
a 209 
Guts a 16 a 112 c 121 c 125 b 139 a 145 
c 160 a 178 a 190 a 211 
Gums a 7 b 17 c 17 a 19 a 19 a 33 a 110 
b 179 b 179 
Gunshot b 11 b 186 
H 
Hair to make black b 11 b 17 
Hair to grow b 2 a 8 c 176 
Hair falling off the Head helpeth a 2 a 8 
b 118 c 18 a20 b 20 b 31 c 32 b 179 
Hairs from turning Gray b 181 
Hands trembling c 177 a 179 a 182 b 191 
Hands scabby 
see Scabs 
Hardness c 198 a 199 
see Swellings 
Heart c 15 b 25 b 37 b 37 c 37 b 109 a 121 
c 122 a 131 b 133 c 135 a 137 
Hearts merry b 6 b 6 c 8 c 13 c 16 a 18 
c 20 b 108 c 134 c 137 a 206 a 210 
Heart strengthen a 2 c 3 a 7 a 7 c 7 b 8 
a 15 c 16 c 17 c 18 a 19 b 20 a 21 a 21 b 21 
b 2l c 32 c 37 c 37 c 37 a 38 a 38 b 38 
a 102 c 102 a 104 a 105 b 105 b 105 a 106 
b 106 b 107 c 107 b 109 c 116 b 117 c 117 
a 161 
Heart comfort b 2 c 2 b 6 c 7 c 8 b 9 b 10 
b 11 a 29 c 32 c 37 a 102 b 102 a 106 a 108 
c 116 a 117 a 117 a 121 b 143 a 144 
c 17O 
Heart strengthen b 117 c 121 c 121 a 123 
a 134 b 134 b 134 c 135 a 136 c 136 c 141 
b 142 b 143 b 145 a 161 b 165 c 167 a 168 
c 17O b 171 c 171 a 210 
Heart qualms naught for a 12 
Heart qualms good for b 9 c 17 a 30 a 108 
b 136 a 139 a 168 
Heart tremblings b 6 c 17 a 103 c 128 
a 210 
Heart burnings c 12 b 16 a 210
Heart b 138 a 140 a 141 c 147 a 153 
Helpeth Head snuffings therein a 15 
Hepatick Flux 129 a 210 
Hearing makes good b 161 a 163 
Head, cold Diseases a 110 a 158 
Head a 136 b 139 b 155 b 155 b 156 c 119 
c 161 a 193 c 163 a 164 a 167 c 169 a 178 
b 191 a 195 
Head tremblings b 179 
Head pained b 5 c 14 b 18 a 116 
Head-ach causeth c 11 
Head-ach helpeth b 5 a 6 a 6 a 8 b 9 a 11
c 13 a 14 b 16 c 32 c 35 b 37 c 37 c 37
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c 118 c 120 b 122 b 127 b 132 b 139 a 147 
a 149 c 149 c 151 c 155 c 157 c 163 b 177 
c 177 b 178 a 180 a 181 c 181 a 183 b 184 
c 186 a 188 a 189 b 194 b 211
Head, swimings therein b 6 a 111 b 127
c 151 a 210 
Head, rhewns therein b 5 a 25 a 111 b 133 
c 191 b 206 
Head, purgeth a 3 a 5 b 12 a 25 a 111 a 125 
b 156 b 156 c 183 
Head scabby c 13 a 18 
see Scabs and Scald Heads 
Head, Ulcers therein c 4 a 33 
Health, preserveth c 111 c 111 c 158 
Hectick Feavers b 104 c 106 b 107 b 117 
b 117 a 121 a 136 b 142 b 143 b 149 b 166 
a 169 c 171 c 175 c 192 b 194 c 195 
Heat, extingwisheth c 37 c 179 195 c 209 
Heat of the Stomach a 121 
see Stomach 
Hemorrhoids, helpeth a 3 b 3 b 3 a 6 c 10 
b 11 a 200 
see Piles 
Hemorrhoids naught for a 19 
Hemorhoids a 183 c 186 b 191 a 194 a 154 
b 152 c 162 c 166 b 167 c 167 a 172 b 176 
b 146 
Hemlock eaten b 14 
Hiccoughs c 8 a 121 
Hiccuppings c 177 a 181 
Hoarceness c 14 b 16 a 19 a 19 c 32 a 33 
c 112 c 117 c 118 c 127 a 132 b 132 b 135 
c 136 a 166 c 175 b 179 b 180 c 208 
Hogs that will not eat their meat b 10 
Hornets stinging b 186 
Horses that are Mangy b 10 
—Tired c 12 
Humors b 5 c 10 b 14 a 16 a 17 a 33 a 35 
c 38 b 105 a 111 b 113 b 114 c 118 c 119 
c 123 b 126 c 128 a 129 b 129 b 131 c 131 
a 132 c 133 c 140 c 142 c 146 c 150 b 152
a 161 a 161 c 171 a 172 a 172 b 177 b 178 
c 180 c 182 a 196 b 197 b 198 c 199 b 203 
a 207 c 207 b 210 b 211 
Humors tough c 10 c 17 c 114 a 115 b 127 
c 131 
Humors watery, purgeth b 7 c 13 c 15 
a 161 a 165 
Hunting c 21 
Hunger c 13 b 14 b 17 
Hypocondriacal Melancholly a 6 a 12 c 20 
c 38 a 118 a 121 a 123 a 125 a 127 c 128
b 139 a 159 c 166 c 180 b 194 b 201 c 205 
a 209 
I 
JAundice c 4 b 5 a 7 a 8 c 8 c 8 a 10 c 10 
a 25 c 101 b 104 c 123 c 158 c 163 a 209 
Iliack paflion b 141 a 147 b 171 c 186 c 206 
a 211 
Impostumes c 31                                 
Inflamations c 7 c 8 a 9 b 9 c 9 a 10 a 10 
b 11 c 11 a 12 b 12 c 12 a 13 a 13 a 14 
c 14 c 14 c 15 b 16 a 17 a 17 a 17 b 17 a 18 
b 19 c 19 b 21 c 21 a 32 c 33 c 35 c 119 
b 137 a 177 b 177 a 180 c 184 c 192 c 198 
c 203 a 204 a 211 
Inflamation of the Lungs b 9 a 15 a 16 b 16 
c 16 a 18 
Inflamation in the Privities b 9 b 10 a 15 
Inflamations in the Eyes a 11 b 11 b 17 
a 211
see Eyes
Inflamation of the Liver c 11 a 12 c 14 c 15 
see Liver 
Inflamation of Wombs a 14 a 148 a 188 
a 194 c 196 c 197
Indigestion a 109 b 132 c 136 c 140 b 141 
b 144 b 145 c 171 c 179 b 183 c 191 a 192 
Infection a 102 
Joynt Aches c 12 a 14 
see Pestilence 
Joynts Lame a 184 b 184 a 190 
Joynts b 4 a 10 b 10 b 19 a 111 a 118 
b 122 a 151 c 157 a 158 c 160 c 176 b 178 
b 178 b 179 a 181 c 182 a 186 b 192 a 195 
c 196 c 206 b 207 
Joynts ach a 7 a 148 
Joynts heats c 6
Iron draw out b 11 
Itch a 3 a 4 a 4 c 4 b 6 c 7 a 12 a 13 b 14 
c 14 b 15 c 15 a 18 b 18 c 18 a 21 b 21 
c 31 a 33 b 33 b 37 c 38 c 115 a 118 a 122 
b 123 b 150 a 158 a 162 b 163 a 184 
a 186 b 186 c 186 a 187 b 188 c 188 b 194 
c 210 
Iskury b 144  
K                                        
KErnels in the Neck and Throat c 31 
Kibes b 16 a 139 
Kidneys b 4 b 15 b 139 c 144 b 177 c 179 
c 183 c 209 
Kidneys oppressed with Gravel b 4 b 12 
b 115 b 121 b 196 
Kings-Evil a 3 a 4 b 6 c 13 b 15 c 31 
a 111 
Knobs, hard growing on the Fingers dis- 
solves a 196 
L 
LAsks c 8 a 11 a 14 
Leaseth Labor in Child-bed c 14 c 21 
Leanness b 137 
Legs Scabby 
see Scalded 
Leprosies a 3 a 4 a 7 b 8 c 9 b 12 b 18 b 18
a 21 b 21 c 31 c 38 c 115 a 118 b 123 c 123 
a 147 b 150 c 151 a 152 c 157 a 158 a 159 
c 163 b 170 
Lethargy c 3 a 8 b 13 c 15 b 18 a 20 b 21 
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c 35 a 102 a 127 b 163 c 177 b 178 a 181 
c 181 b 206
Lice a 11 
Lice causeth b 17 
Lice killeth a 16 b 18 b 18 
Ligaments b 181 
Limbs c 179 c 181 a 182 b 182 
Limbs lame a 111 
Limbs, weakness thereof a 146 b 181 
Limbs out of Joynt b 8 b 179 
Liver, Inflamations thereof a 10 b 17 
Liver grown c 104 b 122 
Liver, strengthen: a 3 a 3 b 4 c 16 a 17 b 17 
c 18 a 19 a 20 a 25 b 32 b 34 c 37 a 38 b 38 
c 107 b 108 b 109 c 109 b 114 c 116 a 118 
a 118 c 120 a 129 c 130 a 134 c 135 a 162 
a 162 a 167 a 168 a 169 c 169 c 171 b 177 
a 179 b 181 c 183 a 197 b 199 
Liver a 5 c 5 a 6 a 8 c 8 b 10 c 10 a 11 c 15 
c 17 b 19 c 37 a 38 c 38 a 111 c 111 a 118  
a 123 b 124 c 128 a 134 a 139 c 140 b 144
c 147 c 149 c 151 c 152 b 155 b 155 b 158 
c 168 c 168 b 179 a 181 c 183 b 192 c 193 
c 198 
Liver, heats a 8 
Liver, cooles a 4 a 8 c 10 c 14 c 17 a 18 b 31
b 37 b 37 b 37 b 37 b 37 c 115 a 118 a 120 
c 122 c 127 a 137 c 137 a 141 b 166 
Liver, opens the stopping a 3 a 3 c 8 b 9 
a 10 c 10 a 12 a 17 a 17 a 165 a 170 
Liver a 201 b 201 c 203 a 208 a 208 
Liver, strengthen b 199 a 204 a 205 c 205  
b 206 b 209 a 210 a 210
Liver, hot distempers thereof b 166 c 195 
heats of the Liver c 179 c 187  
stopping of the Liver b 2 b 6 c 9 c 10 b 12 
b 15 c 18 b 116 b 145 
Lisping b 108 
Longing of Women b 16 
Looseneth the Belly c 9 c 125 
Loosness a 124 a 129 
Loosness, stops c 4 a 6 c 7 a 12 b 17 b 17 
b 31 c 32 c 117 c 129 c 143 b 166 a 178 
a 179 c 188 c 191 b 193 c 195 a 197 c 200 
a 201 a 201 a 202 b 204 c 204 
Loathing of Meat b 8 
Loyns, pained b 141 b 164 c 176 
Loyns a 186 b 196 
Lunges a 2 c 2 a 5 b 6 b 6 a 7 b 7 b 7 a 8 
a 11 b 12 c 12 b 17 b 17 a 19 b 19 b 19 a 20 
a 3O c 31 b 32 c 32 b 37 a 38 c 38 c 38 
a 102 c 107 b 108 c 108 c 112 b 113 b 118 
a 122 b 126 b 126 b 127 c 127 a 130 b 130 
b 130 a 131 a 132 a 132 a 132 b 136 a 137 
b 137 c 137 a 139 c 141 c 142 a 145 a 151 
c 151 a 153 c 158 c 162 a 170 b 188 
Lungs, clenseth a 8 a 9 b 13 c 13 b 15 a 16
c 17 c 17 b 19 a 38 c 106 a 118 b 126 
a 131 a 155 a 155 c 161 a 185 
Lungs, Consumption thereof b 7 c 14 b 16  
a 21 a 29 c 106 c 108 a 113 a 120 b 131 
a 136 c 137 b 158 c 180 b 192 
Lungs c 195 
Lunatick a l5 
Lunary 
see Madness 
Lust, staies a 5 b 18 c 18 b 21 b 21 c 21 
a 115 c 127 b 169 c 179 a 188 c 190 
a 211 
Lust, provokes b 2 a 4 a 4 b 4 a 5 a 6 b 6 
c 7 b 10 c 10 c 11 a 12 a 14 c 16 c 16 b 17 
c 17 a 18 a 18 b 18 b 18 c 18 c 18 c 18 
a 20 b 20 a 32 a 108 b 143 b 153 b 168 
b 178 
M 
MAdness a 4 b 9 b 9 a 12 c 16 c 20 
a 3O a 104 b 105 b 110 a 111 b 112 
a 116 c 123 a 124 c 124 b 125 a 127 b 150 
a 152 a 152 b 163 a 210 
Mad-Dogs biting b 4 c 13 
see Bitings 
Mangyness c 31 a 158 a 159 b 170 b 188 
c 190 
Mangy Hands and Legs b 8 
Mangy Horses c 10 
Marks, the smal Pox leave behind them 
c 8 b 31 
Matrix c 8 b 13 c 13 b 15 a 16 a 16 b 16
c 115 b 122 c 127 a 141 c 152 c 203 
a 208 
Matrix, hardness thereof helpeth a 8 a 18 
Mare c 18 
Marasmus a 20 c 106 b 107 b 149 
Megrim a 14 c 32 a 38 b 127 c 151 a 163 
Melancholy a 4 b 6 c 8 b 9 c 10 b 11 c 11 
a 12 c 13 c 15 a 16 a 18 b 19 c 20 b 20 
b 21 b 22 c 32 a 35 c 35 c 38 a 102 a 105 
b 110 c 111 b 112 c 112 a 116 a 118 b 119 
a 121 b 122 b 123 c 123 a 124 a 124 c 124 
c 124 a 125 b 125 a 127 a 127 b 130 a 131 
c 135 b 139 c 139 c 141 a 146 b 147 b 148 
a 149 b 150 b 150 c 150 c 151 c 151 a 152 
b 152 c 152 b 155 b 155 c 158 c 158 c 160
a 161 b 161 a 163 b 163 b 163 c 163 a 210 
a 210
Merry, maketh one so c 8 
Memory c 103 c 159 c 169 b 178 a 201 
see Forgetfulness 
Memory strengthen a 10 c 11 a 15 a 17 
b 21 a 32 b 32 c 32 a 38 a 38 a 102 b 108 
b 119 b 134 c 141 b 158 c 158 a 179 c 191 
Memory, hurutful for b 12 
Messeraick Veins, Blood congealed there- 
in c 12 
Mice kils c 3 a 38 
Milk, breeds c 3 c 8 b 18 b 18 
Milk, increase in Nurses c 7 c 11 b 12 c 15 
a 18 b 18 c 18 a 21 b 35 b 37 a 38 a 38 
Mind, refresheth c 13 c 136 c 139 b 147 
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Mirth c 13 a 136 
Mother fits c 2 b 5 c 8 a 9 b 12 a 14 a 16
b 16 c 18 c 18 a 19 a 20 a 32 a 32 c 32
c 32 c 35 a 103 a 106 a 127 b 158 a 168
a 195 c 200 a 202 a 203 b 204 b 207 c 209
Moaths c 2 c 7 a 8 b 9 a 11 c 11 b 13
Morphew b 2 b 2 c 2 a 3 c 3 c 8 a 10 a 16 
b 37 a 158 c 158 b 170 c 176 b 188
Mouth, sore c 2 a 11 c 125 a 126 c 128 
a 208 c 209 
Mouth swelled 
see Swelling 
Mouth, Ulcers therein b 3 a 5 
Mouth, Inflamations thereof c 2 c 125 
Muscles b 159 a 181 b 181 a 183 b 191 
N 
NAvil that stick out b 5 
Nerves b 8 a 10 c 15 c 19 c 19 c 20 c 103
a 106 a 111 c 120 b 136 c 139 c 149 c 157 
a 158 c 160 c 160 a 175 a 176 b 176 b 176
c 176 b 177 c 177 c 177 a 178 a 178 a 181 
b 181 b 181 c 181 c 181 a 182 b 182 a 183 
b 183 b 184 b 185 a 186 b 190 b 191 a 182 
c 193 a 195 c 206 b 207 b 207              
Nerves strengthen b 12 c 20 c 102 a 103 
b 107 c 115 c 118 b 122 c 128 b 143 b 159 
b 177 b 178 b 179 c 181 c 182 b 192 a 201
a 202 a 203 b 206 a 207 
Necks stiff a 14 c 16 
Necromantick apparitions b 21 
Nettles stinging b 186 
Nits a 11 a 16
Night mare a 210 
Noise in the Head c 178 
Noise in the Ears a 4 c 5 a 12 c 12 c 13
c 178 a 183 a 183 
Noli me tangere a 200 
Numness b 178 b 178 c 181 c 182 b 183 
a 195 b 206 
Nurses to breed Milk 
see Milk
O 
OBstructions of the Liver a 3 a 3 c 4 
a 5 b 5 a 6 a 6 b 6 c 7 a 10 a 11 a 12 
a 13 b 13 b 13 c 15 a 16 c 16 a 17 a 19 
c 37 b 38 c 104 a 115 c 115 b 122 b 122 
b 132 c 142 b 157 b 158 b 159 c 162 c 166 
a 167 a 171 c 178 a 185 b 189 b 192 a 193
b 194 a 195 b 196 205 a 209 
Open Obstruction, or stoppings of the 
Spleen a 2 b 2 a 3 a 4 c 4 a 5 c 7 c 10 
a 11 a 12 a 13 b 13 b 13 a 29 c 37 b 38 
c 38 a 111 b 113 a 115 c 115 b 116 a 122
b 122 a 130 a 132 c 142 b 158 b 159 c 161
c 166 a 167 a 171 c 178 c 179 a 185 b 189 
b 192 a 193 b 194 b 194 a 195 b 195 a 196
205 a 209
Old sores a 8                    
Opening b 2 a 5 b 8 
Open Obstructions a 4 b 4 a 6 b 7 c 7 
a 8 a 8 a 10 c 11 c 15 a 19 c 31 b 32 b 38
b 38 b 38 c 38 b 104 a 107 a 115 c 115 
a 118 c 118 b 121 c 121 c 126 a 127 a 127 
c 128 b 130 c 135 c 154 a 158 a 160 a 165 
a 167 c 167 b 168 c 168 b 176 b 177 c 178 
b 181 b 184 a 193 b 194 b 196 c 208 a 209 
a 218 
Open Obstruction of the Gall a 6 
Opens stopping a 6 c 6 c 7 a 8 a 8 c 10 
c 11 c 11 a 18 b 116 b 116 b 144 a 156 
a 165 a 176 b 184 b 194 b 195 
Opens the Poors a 29 a 116 b 142 c 176 
b 177 a 186 b 194 a 211 
Opium taken too much c 3
P 
PAine in the Belly b 8 a 12 a 38 b 141 
a 171 a 189 b 190 b 196 
Pain easeth a 2 b 3 a 5 b 8 a 16 a 16 c 17 
a 18 b 18 a 20 a 29 b 31 b 31 b 38 c 104
a 111 a 137 b 141 b 146 a 152 c 156 a 162 
c 168 c 171 a 177 c 177 c 177 b 178 c 178 
a 179 a 179 c 182 c 184 b 195 b 197 c 199 
b 202 
Pains in the sides b 13 a 15 b 15 c 18 a 19 
a 19 a 19 b 32 c 32 a 38 b 141 a 150 b 179 
b 183 c 193 
Pain in the Head b 12 c 13 c 15 a 16 b 16 
b 16 a 17 a 17 b 17 b 18 b 19 a 32 b 37 
a 38 a 38 c 38 a 134 b 143 a 204 
Pains in the Joynts a 6 a 7 b 12 b 17 a 33 
b 147 a 150 c 157 a 158 b 163 b 177 a 178 
a 178 a 178 c 178 c 178 c 180 b 181 a 184 
b 184 a 190 b 160 b 194 b 202 
Pains in the Stomach comming of cold b 4 
a 14 c 104 b 145 c 152 c 171 c 176 b 191 
a 195 b 196 
Pain in the Back b 3 a 152 c 157 a 158 
a 184 b 190 
Pain in the Ears b 12 c 18 c 19 b 20 b 31   
a 33 a 134 a 176 
Pain in the Head a 152 c 176 b 177 c 179
b 183 a 194 
Pain in the Chest b 191  
Pain in the Matrix c 176 c 181 
Pain in the Liver c 176 a 178 c 178 c 181
b 191 b 196 c 203  
Pain in the Spleen c 176 a 178 c 180 c 181 
b 191 a 193 a 195 a 195 b 2O6 
Pain in the Kidneys c 176 c 181 b 184 
b 190 b 196 
Pain easeth c 204 
Palsie b 12 c 12 a 17 b 20 a 30 c 102 a 127 
b 136 b 145 a 149 c 151 a 178 b 178 b 178
b 179 a 180 a 181 a 181 a 182 c 132 a 183 
b 184 b 190 a 210 
Palsie c 37 a 38 a 111 c 136 b 145 a 152 
c 157 c 160 c 160 c 176 c 178 a 179 b 181
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b 183 b 184 b 185 a 186 b 191 c 193 a 195 
a 195 a 206 
Passion b 21 b 208 
see Anger 
Passion of the heart b 6 b 117 c 136 
Parts of the Body swoln 
Perfume c 7 c 18 
Pestilence a 2 a 2 c 2 a 3 c 4 b 5 b 6 
b 7 b 8 a 10 b 13 a 15 c 16 b 17 c 17 
c 18 c 19 b 20 b 20 b 21 c 21 b 32 b 37 
c 37 a 38 a 38 c 38 b 102 c 106 b 107 
c 122 a 138 c 138 a 141 b 142 c 144 b 145 
b 147 a 153 b 165 b 166 c 170 c 206 a 208 
b 208 
Pestilential Diseases b 169 a 210 
Pestilential times a 161 a 161 b 207 
Phtisicks b 13 c 14 c 37 c 37 c 108 a 119 
c 119 a 121 a 128 c 131 a 155 c 156 c 164 
b 166 a 176 a 176 b 209 
Phtisick c 20
Piles a 3 c 10 b 15 c 186 c 188 
Pimples in the Face, and redness a 7 b 11 
c 113 c 186 c 190 a 191 
Pin and Web b 4  
Pissing blood a 8 b 9 b 10 b 13 a 14 a 21 
a 33 c 122 a 134 b 169 
Pissing Disease 
see Diabetes 
Pissing, helpeth those that cannot Piss 
freely a 6 b 10 b 176 
Pissing by Drops b 10 
Plague sores c 4 a 10 a 15 
see Carbuncles 
Plague b 6 b 7 b 105 a 108 c 130 a 138 
c 138 c 145 b 170 
Pluresie b 10 c 16 a 17 c 32 b 37 a 38 
a 107 a 118 c 118 b 131 b 137 c 137 c 150 
c 171 c 175 a 180 b 192 c 192 c 193 
Pock-holes c 20 a 207 
infected with the Pox b 157 
great Pox b 202 
Smal Pox b 165 a 184
Swine Pox a 184
Polipus, or flesh growing in the Nose b 11 
Poyson a 2 a 2 a 2 b 2 c 2 c 2 a 3 a 4 
b 4 c 4 c 4 b 5 b 6 b 6 b 6 b 6 c 6 a 7 
a 7 b 7 c 7 a 8 b 8 b 8 b 9 a 11 a 12 
b 13 b 32 b 107 c 138 a 146 c 151 b 152 
c 169 b 207 
Poyson, resist a 11 b 11 a 12 a 15 a 18 
b 18 b 18 c 18 c 19 a 20 b 20 b 20 b 33 
a 103 a 107 a 117 b 117 c 122 b 142 b 145 
a 147 b 158 c 190 
Poyson, expels a 10 a 107 b 165 b 170 
Poysonous Weapons 
Preperations for a Vomit 
Pricking in the sides b 10 
Privities 
see Womb, Yard  
Priapismus, or continual standing of the 
Yard a 11 a 11                                
Proud flesh c 3 
Provoke to stool b 13 b 209 
Purge a 6 a 6 c 15 121 a 123 c 123 b 124 
Purge by Urine a 6 a 10 
see Urin 
Purgeth the Belly a 5 
Putrifaction, resisteth a 3 c 7 c 31 c 122 
a 137 b 147 c 151 a 152 a 167 b 168 a 190 
a 207 c 207 a 208 
Pushes, or Pusles that break sorth b 179  
c 185 c 187                                           
Q 
QUinsie in the Throat a 11
R 
RAdical moysture b 142 
Ratskils c 3 
Raw Stomach a 10 a 30 b 206 
Reds a 14 
Redness a 13 c 186 b 187 
Reins b 2 b 3 a 5 b 5 a 9 b 10 c 11 b 12 
b 15 b 16 c 16 b 17 c 18 b 19 c 19 b 20 
a 21 b 31 b 31 b 34 c 35 c 147 b 153 c 159 
a 178 c 183 b 184 b 196 c 200 b 206 b 207 
b 207 
Reins clense b 6 c 8 a 11 c 12 a 13 c 13 
a 16 a 17 b 18 a 19 b 19 c 20 c 29 a 33 
c 37 b 38 b 38 c 38 a 148 b 148 a 149 
a 150 a 151 c 206 
Reins cools b 17 c 17 b 33 a 120 c 127 
b 148 a 149 b 166  
Reins heats b 4 
Rest provokes c 12 a 107 b 154 c 184 a 201 
Revive dying men 
Rhewms in the Head a 5 
Rhewms in the Eyes c 3 c 10 a 30 a 33 
a 128 a 148 a 187 a 187 
Rhewm c 32 b 33 a 119 b 124 a 128 b 130 
a 134 c 142 a 155 c 156 b 160 a 161 a 166 
c 169 c 169 a 197 c 199 a 201 b 209 
a 201 
Rhewmatick people, good for a 13 a 126 
Rickets c 2 a 4 b 5 c 5 a 7 b 7 c 7 a 9 c 9
c 11 a 12 a 12 a 14 a 16 c 20 a 25 a 29 
b 31 c 38 b 116 b 122 a 127 b 132 c 166 
c 177 c 178 c 179 c 180 a 193 b 194 b 201 
a 208 
Riches b 21 c 22 
Ringworms c 31 a 118 b 123 a 158 c 176 
a 177 c 186 c 187 
Roughness of the Wind-pipe b 4 b 14  
a 17 b 17 b 31 b 32 
Roughness of the Skin a 187 a 191 
see Sunburning 
Roughness of the Jawes b 137 
Rowelling cattle a 4 
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Rose extinguisheth, or swelling called 
Erysipelas a 177 
Rules for
Purges b 112 
Taking Pils 154 c 164 
Ordering the Body after swea- 
ting a 153 
To stop Vomiting b 126 
To stop Fluxes b 117 c 117 
See further concerning Purging, Chap 24 
Page 227, 228, 229. 
1. Cautions concerning Purging. 
2. Of the Choice of Purging Medicines. 
3. Of the time of talking them. 
4. Of Correcting them. 
5. Of the Manner of Purging. 
See also (for Purging) the Directions at 
the beginning of this Book, placed be- 
fore the Catalogue of Simples. 
Running of the Reins, helpeth b 2 b 7 
b 10 b 12 a 14 c 14 c 17 a 19 a 32 c 32 
b 33 a 111 b 117 a 165 a 206 c 206 
Ruptures b 1 a 2 c 2 b 3 a 4 b 4 a 5 b 5 
b 6 a 8 b 8 a 9 b 11 b 11 a 12 b 12 b 13 
c 15 a 19 c 31 b 38 b 38 a 120 c 122 b 193 
a 197 b 198 c 200 b 203 b 204 c 207  
S 
SAdness b 6 c 20 c 32 c 38 b 136 c 163 
Salt humors b 4 
Scabs a 3 a 4 a 4 c 4 b 6 c 7 c 7 a 12 
a 13 a 14 c 14 b 15 c 15 a 18 c 18 a 19 
a 21 b 21 c 31 c 38 c 115 a 118 a 122 
b 123 c 133 b 150 a 158 a 162 b 163 b 170 
c 176 a 184 a 186 b 186 c 186 a 187 c 188 
c 190 a 191 b 194 c 197 c 210 
Scars c 9 a 177 
Scalding b 3 b 8 c 9 b 11 a 12 c 184 c 185 
b 186 c 192 b 198 
Scald Heads b 18 b 18 a 20 c 31 
Sciatica a 7 c 10 
Sciatica, or Hucle-bone Gout c 12 a 14 
a 16 c 32 a 33 a 111 c 151 b 191 a 195 
b 203 
Scrophula see Kings Evil 
Scurf a 2 b 2 c 3 b 18 c 123 b 187 
Scurvy a 14 a 14 a 25 b 103 c 1O9 c 121 
a 125 c 147 b 194 a 209 c 209 
Seed Increase a 4 a 6 a 18 b 18 a 20 
c 175 
Seed Consume a 8 a 15 
Sences a 15 c 15 a 17 c 17 c 18 b 21 b 38 
b 108 b 108 b 124 c 128 c 141 b 143 a 146 
a 153 b 156 c 159 
Serpents, drive away c 7 b 11 
Sences stupesie c 12 
Serpents biting c 11 c 35 
see Venemous Beasts 
Shingles a 5 a 9 a 11 b 12 c 14 c 15  
Shortness of Breath c 4 b 116 a 115 
see Breath short 
Sides pained b 8 c 10 
Sight helpeth c 6 c 7 a 8 c 8 b 10 c 10 
b 11 c 11 a 13 c 13 c 14 c 16 b 17 c 19
c 19 a 20 c 20 c 32 b 33 a 38 a 38 c 102
c 103 c 107 c 108 a 110 a 111 c 111 a 147 
a 153 b 156 c 158 b 161 c 163 c 163 
Sight, hurteth b 8 
Sight, helpeth a 164 b 170 
Sighing c 5 b 8 a 20 
Sinews b 8 b 8 b 8 a 10 c 17 a 19 b 176 
c 177 a 178 c 178 a 179 b 181 a 190 b 190 
Sinews shrinking c 2 b 8 a 9 a 10 a 10 
Skul broken a 19 c 196 
Skin hurt, a cleer Skin b 8 
Skin, to make fair b 2 a 4 a 11 b 13 b 16 
a 17 a 17 c 20 a 21 a 118 b 150 c 176 
b 180 b 187 
Sleep provokes c 12 c 12 a 17 a 17 c 18 
a 105 b 109 a 119 a 120 c 122 a 123 c 127 
a 128 a 129 see Watching 
Sleep provokes b 133 b 145 c 161 b 177 
c 177 a 180 c 192 a 194 
Sneesing c 3 
Sores a 5 b 9 a 102 a 139 c 183 b 185 
b 186 a 188 c 197 b 200
Sobbing b 5 b 162 
Spleen a 2 b 2 a 3 a 4 c 4 b 5 c 5 b 6 a 7
b 7 a 8 a 8 c 8 a 9 b 10 b 10 b 10 c 10
c 10 a 12 c 12 c 12 a 13 b 14 c 14 b 15 
c 15 c 15 a 16 c 16 a 17 a 17 b 17 b 17 
c 17 a 18 a 18 b 18 b 19 b 19 c 20 a 25 
c 31 a 33 a 33 b 37 c 37 c 107 a 111 
b 122 b 122 a 127 a 137 b 137 a 143 b 144 
a 145 a 147 c 147 c 149 c 151 b 152 c 152 
c 152 c 152 a 153 b 155 c 158 c 160 c 163 
a 167 c 169 b 176 b 177 c 177 b 179 c 179 
c 180 c 181 c 183 c 183 a 189 b 191 b 192 
c 193 a 195 a 196 c 198 a 201 b 201 b 203 
c 203 a 205 b 205 b 206 b 207 a 208 a 208 
b 209 a 210 
Sprains a 2 b 182 c 182 a 186 c 187 
Spiting blood b 2 b 3 b 6 b 7 b 10 a 11 
c 12 a 13 a 15 a 134 see Blood spitting 
Spirit, vital b 6 a 12 c 18 c 20 a 21 b 102 
a 104 b 105 b 107 c 116 a 117 b 117 c 134 
c 135 a 136 a 139 a 140 c 141 b 142 b 167 
c 170 a 206 
Spirit, Animal a 12 c 20 a 136 c 141 b 167 
a 206 
Spirit, Natural a 12 a 136 b 158 
Spirit spent, and Fainting a 107 
see streng blost 
Spirits evil, preserve from c 6 
Spirits, cheereth b 9 
drooping Spirit, helpeth c 2 
Splinters, draws out b 11 see Thorns 
Spots in the Face c 9 see Freckler 
Spots in the Face a 176 b 187
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Spots, Black and Blew, comming of Blows 
or stripes c 182 b 191 a 195 b 198 
Stone a 2 b 3 a 4 a 6 c 7 b 8 c 8 a 11 b 11 
c 11 c 11 a 12 a 12 b 12 b 15 c 18 c 19 a 30
b 35 b 103 a 111 b 115 c 119 a 127 a 130 
b 146 a 147 a 148 a 151 a 152 c 154 b 176 
b 201 c 206 
Stone, breaks c 4 a 5 a 6 b 6 b 6 c 6 b 7 
c 7 a 9 a 10 c 10 c 10 a 12 c 13 a 14 a 14  
c 14 c 16 c 17 a 18 c 18 c 18 c 19 a 20 c 21 
a 29 c 31 c 31 b 32 c 32 b 35 a 38 a 38 b 38 
b 38 c 38 c 38 c 35 b 141 b 144 c 144 
Stone, prevents a 4 c 17 c 35 b 121 b 148 
c 150 c 179 
Stone, breaks c 165 c 177 b 184 c 206 
c 206 a 210 
Stomach a 4 b 4 a 6 a 7 a 9 b 10 c 10 a 11 
c 11 a 12 c 13 c 13 c 16 b 17 b 17 b 17 c 17 
a 19 b 19 c 21 c 21 a 33 b 37 a 106 a 107 
a 107 b 109 a 110 b 114 c 114 a 115 a 116 
b 116 b 116 a 117 c 119 c 120 c 122 b 124
c 125 a 126 
Stomach b 127 b 134 b 134 b 136 a 139 
c 143 a 146 c 147 b 149 b 151 c 151 b 155 
c 155 a 156 a 156 a 158 b 161 c 161 a 163 
a 164 a 165 a 172 c 175 b 179 a 181 a 182 
c 183 b 190 a 195 b 201 a 202 c 203 b 206 
b 206 a 208 a 210 
Stomach, strengthen b 4 c 5 a 7 a 7 b 7 b 7 
c 7 c 11 c 13 c 16 c 16 c 16 b 17 c 17 c 17 
a 18 c 18 a 19 b 20 a 32 a 33 b 37 c 37 a 38 
b 38 b 38 b 38 b 38 b 38 c 38 c 107 b 108 
a 109 a 109 c 109 a 110 b 114 c 116 a 117 
b 117
Stomach, strengthen c 117 a 117 a 118 
b 119 c 121 b 123 a 129 a 129 c 130 a 134 
a 134 b 134 b 134 c 135 a 136 c 136 a 143 
c 143 a 145 b 145 b 147 c 155 b 158 b 159 
b 161 a 162 a 162 a 162 c 162 b 163 a 167 
a 168 c 169 c 171 a 177 b 177 b 177 b 177 
a 178 c 178 a 179 b 179 c 191 b 192 a 198 
b 199 a 201 b 201 a 202 a 203 b 203 b 204
c 204 c 205 c 205  
Stomach, cools a 4 a 8 c 11 c 14 b 17 c 17 
c 17 a 18 b 31 b 37 c 127 a 137 b 166 a 177
Stomach, cools b 177 
Stomach, heats c 6 c 6 a 7 a 7 b 7 b 7 b 7 
c 8 b 16 b 17 b 17 c 17 a 30 b 32 b 38 b 38
c 101 a 102 b 106 b 122 a 137 b 137 c 140 
c 140 a 141 b 141 a 143 b 144 b 171 b 177 
Stomach, heat thereof c 137 b 166 c 187 
c 195 b 204
Stomach, knawing pains therein c 15 
Stomach, helpeth weakness thereof a 18 
c 129 c 141 b 152 a 161 b 161 a 179 
Stomach cold, comforteth a 7 a 7 a 135 
c 140 a 147 c 147 c 167 a 181 b 183 b 183
c 183 
Stomach cold, helpeth to digest their Meat 
c 8 a 198 b 201 
Stomach, naught for b 8 
Stomach windiness a 5 c 5       
Stiches a 5 a 9 a 10 b 15 a 29 c 104 c 193 
Stiches in the Sides a 10 
Stinking breth, amends a 7 
Strength lost b 20 c 106 a 111 b 133 a 134 
a 136 b 142 a 203 
Stool, provokes b 13 b 14 b 17 
Strangury b 5 c 10 c 10 b 12 b 12 a 13 c 15
b 33 c 137 b 141 b 144 b 146 b 183 c 183 
a 189 
Sunburning c 2 c 3 a 4 c 8 c 8 a 10 a 15 
a 16 b 37 b 38 c 113 c 186 
Suppuration b 200 c 204 c 208 c 4 
Surfets a 8 a 12 c 37 a 107 c 115 a 118 
a 120 b 132 b 162 
Swellings c 2 b 5 b 6 c 7 c 8 b 9 c 12 a 14
b 17 a 29 a 29 a 32 c 101 a 130 a 176 a 177
c 191 c 193 a 195 a 195 a 198 c 198 a 199 
a 200 b 201 b 202 b 205 
Swellings, comming of heat b 9 c 9 a 10 
a 12 a 13 a 13 c 15 
Swellings with cold b 6 c 7 
Swellings that are hard, soften them b 6 
b 6 b 8 b 8 b 11 a 14 a 19 c 31 a 32 b 176 
c 178 b 181 c 188 c 193 b 195 c 195 a 196 
a 199 
Swellings in the Privities a 8 b 13 c 13 a 18 
see Womb and Yard 
Swellings in the Mouth a 16 b 18 
Swelling, comming of a cold Cause b 8 b 12 
b 182 
Sweat,causeth a 3 a 3 c 4 c 5 a 6 b 6 c 7 
a 10 c 20 b 37 a 38 a 104 a 127 b 135 
a 139 a 146 c 146 a 154  
Sweat a 127 a 178 
Swine-Pox a 184 
Swoonings b 9 a 13 b 21 a 106 b 117 
c 121 c 141 a 210 
Swimmings in the Head b 6 a 9 c 9 a 10 
T 
TEeth, to ease pain in them b 2 b 6 b 8 
b 108 
Teeth a 208  
Teeth, to make them fal out c 19 
Teeth, to preserve found 
Teeth, to make white b 16 b 16 a 21 c 35 
Teeth, strengthens a 110 
fasten Teeth loose c 2 a 7 c 8 c 17 a 19 
a 19 a 21 c 32 a 33 b 179 
Teeth on Edg c 14 
Teeth, to breed easie a 20 see Tooth-ach 
Tetters a 3 c 31 a 11 b 123 a 158 b 170 
c 176 a 177 c 187 c 187 b 188 
Tenasmus c 19 
Tendons a 34 b 181 
Terms, brings down b 14 c 107 a 135 
Terms, provokes b 2 c 2 c 2 a 3 b 3 b 3 a 4 
b 4 c 4 c 4 b 5 b 5 b 5 b 6 a 7 b 7 a 8 b 8 c 8 
c 9 b 10 c 10 c 11 b 12 a 14 c 14 a 15 b 15 
c 15 a 16 a 16 b 16 c 16 c 16 c 16 a 17 a 18 
b 18 b 18 b 18 b 18 c 18 a 20 a 30 b 31 c 31
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c 31 a 32 b 32 a 33 b 33 c 35 c 37 a 38 a 38 
a 38 a 38 b 38 c 38 c 38 c 104 a 109 a 116 
a 116 b 124 c 142 a 143 a 144 b 145 a 147 
b 158 b 168 c 178 a 183 c 206 
Terms, stops a 2 c 2 b 3 a 6 c 6 a 7 b 7 
c 8 b 10 b 10 a 11 b 12 c 13 a 14 b 14 c 14 
c 14 a 15 a 17 c 17 c 18 a 21 b 35 b 35 
b 117 c 119 c 122 b 143 c 143 a 145 c 166
c 171
Terms, immoderatly flowing, help c 6 
Thorns, draw out a 2 b 5 b 8 
Thirst, quencheth a 13 b 14 c 17 c 17 a 18 
b 31 b 32 b 37 a 114 a 117 c 121 c 122 
c 122 a 129 b 129 a 139 b 142 b 169 c 207 
b 208 c 209 c 209 
Throat b 6 a 17 b 31 b 32 b 32 a 130 c 132 
b 133 b 137 b 195 c 209 
Throat, sore c 8 a 11 b 12 c 12 c 19 c 125 
c 175 c 209 
Throat, narrow c 165 
Throat, hot Diseases thereof c 11 b 19 
Tooth-ach c 2 a 3 a 3 a 4 a 5 c 5 c 9 a 13 
b 17 a 32 a 32 c 37 a 138 c 156 a 162
b 179 b 183 b 193 a 194 b 194 c 200 a 208 
Tongue, rough b 17 b 31 b 137 
Trembling a 20 a 20 c 103 b 122 c 151 
a 158 c 160 c 177 b 178 c 178 b 179 a 181 
b 181 c 182 b 183 b 185 
Tumors b 178 a 179 b 186 a 189 a 195 
c 195 see Swelling 
U
VAliant b 21 c 21 a 179 
Venemous Beasts a 2 a 2 c 7 a 11 
b 11 b 11 b 13 b 186 
Venemous Diseases c 135 c 138 a 141 
b 145 a 167 c 167 
Veins, strengthen a 3 a 179 
Veins broken a 11 
Veins, open b 15 c 18 c 20 b 31 
Vertigo c 3 a 9 c 9 c 13 c 14 a 19 b 21 
a 38 a 38 a 116 a 117 b 127 b 136 a 147 
b 150 c 151 c 155 a 158 b 163 b 206 
Ventilation of the Blood a 186 
Ventricle b 181 
Venereal Diseases a 207 b 210 
Ulcers a 3 c 2 b 3 b 5 c 7 a 8 b 8 c 8 c 8   
b 9 c 9 a 10 b 11 c 10 b 11 c 12 b 14 b 14
a 15 c 18 a 19 a 119 c 20 b 21 b 21 b 35
b 113 a 146 c 162 a 167 c 168 b 171 a 183 
a 184 a 185 b 186 b 186 c 186 a 187 a 188 
b 188 a 194 
Ulcers a 190 c 197 b 200 c 203 a 204 c 204 
a 207 a 208 a 208 b 210 
eating Ulcers a 11 b 17 c 20 
filthy Ulcers c 7 a 10 b 12 c 12 a 18 b 18 
b 21 b 35 c 186 a 190 c 196 
malignant Ulcers a 3 a 110 c 176 a 177
c 199 c 201 
clense Ulcers b 1 c 8 b 12 b 14 c 15 a 16 c 31 
c 125 b 126 a 129 c 184 b 185 c 189 b 210   
Ulcers, in the Reins and bladder b 4 b 5 
b 10 c 37 c 118 c 119 c 175 
Ulcers, in the Mouth b 3 a 8 b 8 b 14 c 16
b 17 c 38 a 208 see Mouth 
Ulcers, in the Breast b 14 c 131 c 166 
Ulcers, in the Lungs b 10 a 11 b 13 b 14 
c 118 c 131 c 166 see Phtisicks
Ulcers, in the Privities b 12 c 38 a 165 
c 175 
Ulcers, in the Eyes b 168 
Ulcers that are hollow, fil with Flesh a 8 
c 21 c 31 c 31 a 33 b 35 b 179 a 185 b 185 
a 187 a 190 c 193 a 194 b 200 c 202 c 203 
Vomiting, stops c 2 b 6 c 6 a 7 c 7 b 8 
c 8 a 12 c 13 a 14 c 14 b 16 c 17 c 17 a 18 
a 18 a 33 c 37 b 38 b 38 a 117 c 117 
c 119 c 121 b 126 c 128 a 129 c 129 c 134 
a 139 c 143 c 143 b 144 b 145 a 178 c 178 
a 179 a 179 b 179 a 181 b 181 c 191 b 193 
c 197 b 199 c 200 a 201 a 202 a 203 b 203 
c 204 b 211 
good in Vomiting a 129 c 179 
Vomiting, provokes b 2 c 8 c 35 a 107 
c 110 c 147 c 190 
Vomiting blood b 10 c12 a 14 b 15 a 134 
a 147 c 152 
Vomiting, ease the pains thereof c 13 
b 32 c 114 
Voyce a 19 c 111 c 112 b 118 c 127 b 130 
a 132 a 132 b 132 a 147 a 161 a 166 
a 166  
Urin, sharpned c 32 c 137 b 158 c 209 
Urin, stopped c 10 a 15 a 21 a 21 a 29 
b 139 a 164 
Urin, provokes a 2 b 2 b 2 c 2 c 2 a 3 
b 3 a 4 b 4 b 4 b 4 c 4 a 5 a 6 a 6 b 6 
b 6 b 6 c 6 c 6 a 7 b 7 c 7 c 7 a 8 b 8 
b 8 c 8 c 8 a 9 c 9 a 10 a 10 b 10 b 10 
a 11 c 11 c 11 c 11 b 12 b 12 c 13 a 14
b 14 c 14 c 14 b 15 b 15 a 16 a 16 c 16 
c 16 c 16 c 16 b 17 b 17 c 17 c 17 a 18 
a 18 a 18 a 18 a 18 b 18 b 18 b 18 b 18 
c 19 c 19 c 19 b 20 b 20 b 20 a 29 a 29 b 31 
b 31 b 32 a 33 b 35 c 37 c 37 a 38 b 38 b 38 
b 38 b 38 c 38 b 103 a 109 c 114 b 121 
b 121 b 124 c 126 a 127 a 127 c 127 c 135 
b 144 c 144 c 165 c 177 b 178 a 181 b 194 
c 195 c 206 b 211 
Urine, difficulty thereof b 4 a 7 b 10 
b 153 a 147 
Urine, move b 130 c 144 a 145 a 167 
a 168 b 168 a 176 c 177 b 178 a 185 b 189 
b 192 c 205 c 207 c 209 
W 
WArts c 4 c 4 c 4 c 4 a 118 
Wasps stinging a 13 b 13 c 19 b 186 
Water, purgeth a 17 b 124 a 170 b 189 
Web in the Eye 
Weakness comming of cold b 17 b 33
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An Alphabetical Table of Diseases, &c. 
Weariness a 8 a 12 b 14 c 18 a 33 c 176 
b 177 c 178 a 183 a 186 
Wens c 4 c 4 c 178 
Weakness c 136 c 177  
Whites in women b 2 b 8 b 12 a 14 a 14 
c 14 a 15 c 17 b 18 b 20 a 21 a 21 b 33 
b 35 a 105 a 111 a 115 b 117 b 120 a 122 
a 141 b 143 c 143 a 162 c 162 a 166 b 166 
b 167 a 169 b 169 b 170 a 172 b 180 a 194 
c 195 c 200 
Whites in women a 201 a 201 c 208 b 209 
Wheezing c 12 c 14 b 31. 
Wheals c 32 
Wind, broken b 16 
Wind, shortness thereof a 8 b 17 c 111 
c 112 b 118 see Breath 
Wind c 4 a 109 c 111 b 113 a 127 a 135 
c 140 a 143 b 144 a 147 a 150 b 176 a 192 
a 208 
Wind, breaketh b 3 c 11 c 14 b 15 a 16 
c 16 b 18 c 108 a 110 b 114 c 160 c 177 
a 181
Wind, expels a 2 b 2 c 6 c 6 a 7 b 7 a 8 b 12 
a 15 b 15 b 15 a 16 b 17 c 17 c 17 a 18 
a 18 b 18 b 18 c 18 c 18 c 18 a 20 a 30 
a 32 b 38 c 38 a 102 a 109 c 118 c 134 
b 137 b 137 c 140 c 140 c 142 a 146 b 156 
a 164 
Wind, expels a 167 a 168 b 168 a 170 
a 176 a 176 b 177 b 177 c 177 a 179 
a 180 c 180 a 186 c 193 c 205 a 206 b 206 
Winds short, helpeth b 9 
Witt c 21 c 102 a 103 c 105 b 143 a 156 
Witthcraft b 12 a 21 a 21 
Wisdom b 21 
Women apt to miscarry, help for b 8 
b 146 c 179  
Women in Labor, causeth speedy delivery 
a 7 b 11 b 18 a 30 a 33 a 103 b 207 
Women, hastens their Labor b 145 
Women with Child, good for a 38 
Women with Child, naught for c 3 a 4 
c 8 a 15 a 15 b 18 b 32 c 104 a 135 
Women newly delivered, and not wel pur- 
ged b 5 a 9 b 12 b 127 a 135 b 144 b 151 
163 a 168 b 195 
help Women in Travel a 2 b 3 b 5 a 7 c 8 
c 9 a 10 b 11 b 12 c 12 b 13 c 13 b 14 c 37 
help Women in Travel b 5 a 7 c 9 b 11 b 12 
Womens Brests b 8 a 10 a 207 
see Brests 
Womens brests swoln or inflamed a 10 
a 33 
Womens immoderate flowing of their 
Terms c 6 c 6 b 129 b 146 b 152 b 169
b 191                                  
Womb softned c 4 a 19 
Womb hardned c 18 a 19 b 31 b 32 a 33 
Womb swelled see Swellings 
Womb faln out b 10 b 17 b 191 a 202
Womb inflamed c 16 c 16
see Inflamation 
Womb b 4 c 15 b 17 c 17 c 17 a 18 b 18 
a 19 b 19 b 20 b 33 a 38 a 38 b 38 c 38 
c 102 c 102 a 103 b 103 c 103 c 109 a 115 
b 127 a 130 c 142 a 148 c 157 a 158 b 160 
b 176 c 178 a 179 b 179 a 180 b 181 c 181 
c 183 c 183 b 184 b 190 b 192 c 209 a 201 
a 201
Worms, kill a 3 a 5 c 6 c 7 a 8 a 9 c 9 
a 10 a 10 b 10 a 11 b 11 a 12 c 12 a 14 
a 15 b 17 c 17 a 18 a 18 b 18 c 18 a 19 
c 37 b 38 b 38 b 38 a 110 a 111 c 133 
c 147 c 169 b 176 b 177 c 178 a 179 b 179 
Worms, expel b 5 b 18 b 21 b 31 c 101 
c 133 a 149 a 157 c 159 a 168 a 170 b 181 
b 181 
Worms, kills c 186 b 189 c 190 a 195 
b 195 a 208 b 209 c 209 a 210 b 210 
Wounds a 1 b 3 b 3 b 4 b 5 c 5 b 7 b 8 
c 8 a 9 c 9 a 10 a 11 a 11 b 11 c 11 b 12
b 12 c 12 b 13 c 13 a 14 b 14 a 15 b 15 
c 15 a 19 a 19 c 32 a 113 c 113 a 126 
c 150 c 168 b 169 a 171 c 180 a 184 c 184 
a 185 b 186 
green Wounds c 8 c 8 c 9 b 13 b 14 b 14 
a 15 a 32 a 33 b 178 b 185 b 198 a 204 
204 
inward Wounds a 8 c 8 a 9 c 9 a 11 a 11 
a 11 a 12 c 12 b 14 c 122 
Wounds made with poyson’d Weapons 
b 11 b 14 b 186 
Wounds c 186 c 186 a 188 c 189 a 190 
c 193 a 200 b 200 c 200 b 201 c 201 c 202 
c 203 b 204 a 207 a 208 a 208 c 209 
Wry Mouths a 183 b 184 
Wry Necks c 9 c 13 
Wrinkles c 9 
Y 
YArd c 10 c 15 b 184 c 206 
Yard excoriated c 10 a 14 
Yellow Jaundice a 3 b 3 a 6 a 7 c 8 c 8 
a 9 b 9 b 10 c 10 a 11 a 12 b 12 b 14 
c 14 a 15 a 15 b 16 a 17 a 17 a 18 a 19 
c 19 b 20 b 21 a 30 b 32 b 37 b 37 c 37 
a 38 b 38 c 38 c 104 b 114 c 116 c 123 
c 135 c 137 a 147 a 156 b 157 b 158 a 162 
c 162 a 165 b 166 a 167 c 168 b 194 c 195 
Yellowness of the Skin a 13 
Youth preserves c 15 c 207 
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