Subsect. 4. Averters.
Cardan’s
nettles, frictions, clysters, suppositories, sneezings,
masticatories,
nasals, cupping-glasses.
To open the haemorrhoids
with horseleeches, to apply horseleeches to
the
forehead without scarification, to the shoulders, thighs.
Issues, boring,
cauteries, hot irons in the suture of the crown.
Subsect. 5. Cordials, resolvers,
hinderers.
A cup of wine
or strong drink.
Bezars stone,
amber, spice.
Conserves of borage,
bugloss, roses, fumitory.
Confection of
Alchermes.
Electuarium
laetificans Galeni et Rhasis, &c.
Diamargaritum
frig. diaboraginatum, &c.
Subsect. 6. Correctors of accidents,
as,
Odoraments of
roses, violets.
Irrigations of
the head, with the decoctions of nymphea, lettuce,
mallows,
&c.
Epithymes, ointments,
bags to the heart.
Fomentations of
oil for the belly.
Baths of sweet
water, in which were sod mallows, violets, roses,
water-lilies,
borage flowers, ramsheads, &c.
To procure sleep, and are
Inwardly taken,
Simples
Poppy, nymphea, lettuce, roses,
purslane, henbane,
mandrake, nightshade, opium, &c.
or Compounds.
Liquid, as syrups of poppy, verbasco,
violets, roses.
Solid, as requies Nicholai, Philonium,
Romanum, Laudanum
Paracelsi.
or Outwardly used, as
Oil of nymphea, poppy, violets, roses,
mandrake, nutmegs.
Odoraments of vinegar, rosewater, opium.
Frontals of rose-cake, rose-vinegar,
nutmeg.
Ointments, alablastritum, unguentum
populeum, simple or mixed
with opium.
Irrigations of the head, feet, sponges,
music, murmur and
noise of waters.
Frictions of the head and outward parts,
sacculi of henbane,
wormwood at his pillow, &c.
Against terrible dreams; not
to sup late, or eat peas, cabbage,
venison, meats heavy of digestion, use balm,
hart’s-tongue, &c.
Against ruddiness and blushing, inward and outward remedies.
[Symbol: Leo] 2. Memb. Cure of melancholy over the body.
Diet, preparatives, purges, averters, cordials, correctors, as before.
Phlebotomy in this kind more necessary, and more frequent.
To correct and cleanse the blood with
fumitory, senna, succory,
dandelion, endive, &c.
[Symbol: Virgo] Cure of hypochondriacal or windy melancholy. 3. Memb.
Subsect. 1 Phlebotomy, if need
require.
Diet, preparatives, averters, cordials,
purgers, as before, saving that
they must not be so vehement.
Use of pennyroyal, wormwood, centaury
sod, which alone hath cured many.
To provoke urine with aniseed, daucus,
asarum, &c., and stools, if need
be, by clysters and suppositories.
To respect the spleen, stomach, liver,
hypochondries.
To use treacle now and then in winter.
To vomit after meals sometimes, if it
be inveterate.
Subsect. 2. To expel wind.