tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56857878062961660152024-02-20T16:24:48.028+00:0017th Century Physician's HandbookTreatments and remedies transcribed from a working Physician's handbook published in the 17th century. <a href="http://physicianshandbook.blogspot.com/2011/01/introduction.html">Check out the Introduction </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-88505180655237731982011-06-26T10:57:00.000+01:002011-06-26T10:57:15.104+01:00Medicines for burning or scalding. To get out the fire of burning or scaldingTake the whites of new laid Eggs, after the quantity of the sore, and put them in a peuter dish, and with a stone of Roch Allum, labour it about till it come all to a froth, then take a fine linnen cloth and wet it in Oyl Olive; or for lack of it in fresh grease or butter, and lay it next the sore, and then lay the froth upon the same a good thickness, and so bind it with a cloth, foure times dresse it, evening and morning, and the fire will be out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-87202246598733674732011-06-26T10:52:00.002+01:002011-06-26T10:52:45.661+01:00Medicines for burning or scalding. For burning with wild fireTake the dregs of Wine and Vinegar, and an Egg, both the white and yolk by even portions, and mingle them well together, and lay it to the sore, untill it be whole.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-81503386083662174572011-06-26T10:51:00.000+01:002011-06-26T10:51:01.777+01:00Medicines for burning or scalding. For burning with Gun-powderTake Sheeps sewet, and Sheeps dung, and fry them both together, and so annoynt the place that is burned therewith, twice every day, and do not wash the sore with anything, for the medicine wil fall away of itself as it doth heale, and do not change the medicine in any wise.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-71788909844798156922011-06-26T10:47:00.000+01:002011-06-26T10:47:49.762+01:00Medicines for burning or scalding. For one that is burned with a MatchTake the same Match and burn it to powder, and strew the same powder upon the place, and this will heal it in short space.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-36015141568831542402011-06-26T09:53:00.000+01:002011-06-26T09:53:31.742+01:00Medicines for burning or scaldingTake unflaked Lime, as much as you think is good, and flake it in common Oyl, and then take it out as dry as you can, and incorporate it with Oyl of Roses, and it will be as it were an oyntment, which you shal annoynt the place with, and in eight or ten daies it will be whole, and not leave any mark or scarr upon the skin, and when the party is first burned or scalded, because the other is not ready, take a little of the Lard of a Barrow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-39134690904061713852011-05-08T13:22:00.000+01:002011-05-08T13:22:37.865+01:00Medcines for a Canker. For a Canker, Fistula, Wart, new sores, old sores, or woundsTake a gallon and a half of running Water, and a peck of ashes made of green ashen wood, and sift them clean, and make thereof a gallon of Lie, and put thereto a gallon of Tanwoose, and a pound of Madder, and seeth all these to a gallon, and let your Pan be so great, that it be little more then half full, and when it riseth in the seething, stir it with a ladle, that it run not over, then let it stand three or four hours till it be clear, and then let all that is clear strain through a good clean cloth, and then wet a ragged cloth, and with a long Lint lay it to the sore, and this will heal the diseases aforesaid.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-6339162862741904042011-05-08T13:16:00.000+01:002011-05-08T13:16:57.644+01:00Medicines for a Canker.Take Walwort and Waybred, Self-green Housleek, and Smallage, of each a like much, stamp them together in a leaden Morter, and strain them through a cloth, and mingle the juice with wheat flower, and honey, and the white of an Egg, and stir all these, and lay it to the sore.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-53327297297570277422011-05-08T13:12:00.001+01:002011-05-08T13:12:30.096+01:00Medicines for the Dropsie. For a swelling in a mans bodyTake Betany and Sentory, of each a like much, and make Powder of them, and put of the powder in your drink, and in your pottage, and it will bring the swelling out of your body into Legs and Feet, then take Salendine and bruise him in a Morter, and lay him to the soles of your feet, and it will take away all the swellings of the Body through the soles of your Feet, by water running; and it is called a Dropsie.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-4423324941500799262011-05-08T13:09:00.000+01:002011-05-08T13:09:19.335+01:00Medicines for the Dropsie. For the Dropsie that swellethTake and eat water Cresse, and Raysons, and this shal make the malady come down to the Legs and Toes, then when it is in the Legs or Feet, take the green bark of Older in Winter, and the Crops in Summer, and Oatmeal, and lay it to thy Legs being sodden in fair water, and this will heal thee.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-84684363731485244342011-05-08T12:57:00.000+01:002011-05-08T12:57:34.636+01:00Medicines for the Dropsie. An excellent medicine for the Dropsie, made for Queen Elizabeth, by Doctor Adrian and Doctor LasyeTake Polypodium, Spicknard, Squant, Ginger, Marjoram, Galingall, Setwell, of every one, one penny weight, Seeny, the leaves and cods, so much as all the rest, grosly broken into powder, and so put them into a bag, and hang it with a packthread in an earthen pot of two gallons of Ale, and every four daies cover the Ale with new Barm, and drink no other drink the space of a whole week, and this shall purge all ill humors in the body: this drink will not let the bloud putrifie, neither flegme to have domination, nor choler to burn, nor melancholy to have exaltation, it doth multiply bloud, and helpeth all evill, it purgeth the rheume, and mightily helpeth it, it defendeth the Stomach, and noursisheth it, profiteth and preserveth youth; and engendreth good colour, comforteth the sight, and nourisheth the mind.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-13302929271182866662011-05-08T12:47:00.000+01:002011-05-08T12:47:47.287+01:00Medicines for the DropsieTake a portion of water Cresse, and Sage, the greatest part of Mugwort, Hysope, red Fennel; of every one of these a like portion, wash all these clean, and let the water run from them, then take the same herbs and put them in a Past of a great pie, and the same Pie to be baked in an oven, and when it is baked take it out, and all hot put it into a pot of ale clear drawn after the portion of your herbs: Also you must cover your pot, to the intent the strength of the herbs come not out, but remain in your pot still, and work in the Ale, to make it so much the stronger, then draw off the said Ale daily, and let the sick drink thereof at all times, when you will day or night, when he desireth to drink, and within nine daies he shall be whole.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-48080244292220902662011-05-08T12:39:00.000+01:002011-05-08T12:39:15.689+01:00Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout a proved medicineTake Civill sope, and two penniworth of Camphire, a sawcer full of womans Milk, of a man child, then put the Sope and Camphire into the milk til it be thick, then put it into a clean box or vessell, and let it stand twenty four hours, and then annoynt the Patient therewith cold, and ever lay the medicine above the sore to draw it downwards. This was proved upon Sir <i>John Wilton</i> and many others.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-78622994138139116602011-05-08T12:31:00.000+01:002011-05-08T12:31:53.573+01:00Medicines for the Gout.Take six new laid Eggs, and rost them hard, and cut them asunder, take out the yolks, and where the yolks were, while the Eggs be very hot, put in myrrhe of <i>Alexandria</i>, it is to be bought at the Aothecaries, and lay one side of the Eggs upon another as you cut them, and lay them in a row between two dishes, and thereof will come a water and be in the dish, then take it out, and put in a glasse, and then dresse new, till you have some quantity of the Water, for six Eggs will not make above a spoonfull at once. This is proved medicine to drive away the pain of the Gout when it cometh.<br />
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Take the milk of a Cow of one color, and small Planten Leaves, and flower of clean Wheatmeal, and boyl them together, and make a plaister, and lay it to the sore, and this will help thee in short space.<br />
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Take Cows horn coming of a red or brinded Cow, a good quantity, and make it warm in a frying pan, and put thereunto half a spoonfull of the powder of a rotten post, or pole of Older wood, and stir them together, and bind them on the place aggrieved hot or bloud-warm, and lap it with a woollen cloth next to the medicine, and a linnen cloth over all to keep in the medicine: wash off this medicine when you take it off with Farrow Cow milk warmed.<br />
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Valerian, Coltsfoot, Oyl of Shomakers patches, Deers sewet, and as much of Neatsfoot Oyle as the other two, melt the Oyls and Deers sewet and then put in the two herbs, being chopped small, and boil them all together with agentle fire half an hour, and then strain them through a course cloth, and keep this oyntment and lay it on a plaister of the Oyl of Shomakers patches only spread upon thin brown paper warmed.<br />
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Take four onces of the Oyl of Lineseed, four ounces of Oyl of Worms, and the like quantity of the best Treacle, and mix them well together, and annoynt the place aggrieved, and also spread it on a linnen cloth, and bind it on all night.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-70005118301139252752011-05-08T12:13:00.001+01:002011-05-08T12:34:49.722+01:00Medicines for the Gout. A special medicine for the GoutYou shall buy at the Apothecaries <i>Cantarides</i>, which is a great fly, take of this a quantity, and twice so much sowre bread, the crums thereof stamped in a Morter with a little Vineger, so that you may make thereof a plaister, then stroke it upon a cloth, and cut it in the bredth of a penny, and lay it to the place where the pain is for the space of six or seven hours, then lift up the plaister with a knife, and let it lie half a hour, then again pull it off, and a blister will rise there, then let out the water with a needle, in the lowest place of the blister, and softly thrust it with your finger, and if the water be cold, it will be somewhat yellow, if the pain be new, it will be white like the gelly of a Pig, then take the leaf of an Oak tree, and cut away the hardnesse thereof, and prick it full of holes, and lay it on untill it be whole, as soon as the blister is broken the pain is gone, but you must make the blister beneath the joynt.<br />
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Take a young Whelp in the moneth of May, and strip him out of his skin, and dresse him clean, then take a quantity of Water-frogs, and put them in his belly when his guts be out, and sow up his belly, then rost him, and take the dripping in an Iron Vessell, and when it is cold put it in a glasse, and therewithall annoynt the disease, and you shall be whole, by Gods grace.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-33748588859061705282011-05-08T12:05:00.000+01:002011-05-08T12:05:07.270+01:00Medicines for the Gout. An approved medicine for the GoutTake a quantity of unwrought Wax, and four times so much Boars Grease, and as much black Sope as the Boars Grease, then take the Boars Grease first, and seeth it in a skillet, and then clarifie it, and melt the Wax by it self, and put them together with the sope, then take it from the fire and stir it a great while till it be like a salve, then make a plaister of sheeps Leather, and when your pain doth come lay on this plaister somewhat broader then the grief is, and let it lie on twenty four hours before it be removed, and you shall find great ease in it. This salve will be good a whole year, if it be kept close.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-41871710713980942222011-05-08T11:59:00.000+01:002011-05-08T11:59:32.956+01:00Medicines for the Gout.Take Castle Sope, and scrape it into the barm of Ale, but the Ale must not be sowre, and stir the Sope and the barm together, and lay it upon the ach, and with a little cloth rowl it on, and when it swells take red Fennell and seeth it, and put to it butter, and lay it to the swelling; it must be butter unsalted, and use this, for it is very good.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-79091501926571206242011-05-08T11:56:00.000+01:002011-05-08T11:56:34.696+01:00Medicines for the Gout. For the festring Gout that maketh holesTake the juice of rib grasse, and as much of the white of an Egg, and Rie meal, and mingle them together, and stamp them, and make a thick plaister thereof, and lay it to the sore, and let it lie still untill it fall away. Or take Rie flower, and mingle it with the juice of Walwort roots, and make thereof two cakes, and bake them, and then take one and do away the crust, and bind it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it, and when that cake is cold then take the other, and lay it to the pain, and this will heal it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-36044091512948492572011-05-08T11:46:00.002+01:002011-05-08T11:52:25.723+01:00Medicines for the Gout. To take away pain of the GoutTake the fattest Brach you can get, and scald him like a Pig, and take out the guts and garbage at one of the sides, then take nettles and stamp them with two ounces of Brimstone, four yolks of Eggs, four ounces of Turpentine, incorporate all together, and put it in the whelps belly surely sowed up, that no composition come out, then rost him with a soft fire, and keep the dripping that doth come from him, and annoint the sore place therewith, for this is excellent; and it will cease all manner of Convulsions of the Sinews or joynts, and pain of the Cramp that may be felt in any man: This medicine hath been tryed not only to heal the Gout, but to drive it away for ever.<br />
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Take half a pint of strong Vineger, and three Yolks of Eggs, and put them to the Vineger with a quantity of black Sope, and so let it stand three daies and three nights, and then mingle them together like a plaister, and lay it to the sore. Or take and stamp Walwort small, and seeth it with the lees of red Wine as thick as pap, and lay it to the sore wheresoever it be, if it be hot lay it on hot, if it be cold lay it on cold, and then annoynt it two daies after with Nerve Oyl upon the Sinews.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-91859161829454035542011-05-08T11:40:00.001+01:002011-05-08T12:13:33.535+01:00Medicines for the Gout.Take a pint and a half of good Ale, and half a pound of black Sope, and a handfull of bay Salt beaten small, then mingle them all together till half be consumed, then put four spoonfulls of <i>Aqua vitae</i>, and let it boyl a little more, then take a cloth and dip it in it, and lay it the griefe as hot as he can suffer it, and be whole. Or take a pint of good Ale, and clarifie it on the fire, and put therein a handfull of Bay Salt, and stir it well a good while, put thereto two spoonfulls of black Sope, and before you lay on the medicine, take a linnen cloth, and rub it well a good while, and then lay on the medicine.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-77347913820220161902011-05-01T14:47:00.000+01:002011-05-01T14:47:15.946+01:00Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout coldTake as much black sope as a Walnut, and as much herb grace made in juice to the quantity of the Sope, and as much of the juice of Salendine, and mingle them all together, and take sheeps Leather, and on the fleshy side lay on the plaister, and so lay it to the Gout three daies, and it will help thee.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-89248986250028576512011-05-01T14:43:00.002+01:002011-05-01T14:43:47.325+01:00Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout in the FeetTake and stamp nettles, and lay them to the <i>Podagra</i> feet or Legs, and this will joyn flesh to the bone that is risen; but you must mingle it with salt, for that drieth up evill humors in short time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-31787784326655294172011-05-01T14:40:00.000+01:002011-05-01T14:40:58.689+01:00Medicines for the Gout. Medicnes for the Gout appropriate in all causesTake cow dung, and seeth it in sweet Milk, and lay a plaister thereof to the Gout: Also the yolks of Eggs, womans Milk, Lynseed, and Saffron all together in a plaister asswageth the diseases of the Gout, and if you be disposed to break the skin, and to let the humor issue out (as by such means many a one is eased) you shall make a little plaister of black Sope, and <i>Aqua vitae</i>, which will blister it without pain: Also very hare old cheese cut and sodden in the broth of a gammon of Bacon, and afterwards stamped with a little of the broth, and made in manner of a plaister, is a singular remedy for the diseses of the Gout, and was first practised by <i>Galen</i> the Prince of all Phisitians.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-67619514748735618062011-05-01T14:33:00.000+01:002011-05-01T14:33:08.598+01:00Medicines for the Gout. To comfort the Joynts and SynewsTake five or six handfulls of Walworts, and seeth them well in Wine, then strain them with a little wax, oyl of Spike, and <i>Aqua vitae,</i> make an ointment wherewith you must annoint the place morning and evening every day.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-45507910521130715922011-05-01T14:28:00.000+01:002011-05-01T14:28:25.342+01:00Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout, and all manner of AchesTake of Clot roots two pound, and seeth them in pisse till they be tender, and then bray them and strain them through a cloth, and then take six Oxen galls, or Neats, and look that you have a pottle of unrine or more well strained, and then put thereto a quart of Oyl Olive, and seeth this together till it do come to the quantity of the Oyl, for this will work wonders in the Gout.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685787806296166015.post-27147976159944706852011-05-01T14:18:00.000+01:002011-05-01T14:18:31.497+01:00Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout in the hand called ChyragraThe cause of this impediment doth come of rheume, and evill dirt, and there be two kinds of Gout in the hands, the one is confirmed and cannot be made whole, for it do come by kind, and the joynts be broken, the sicknesse is incurable, the other which is not confirmed, may be made whole, as followeth.<br />
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Take of Colworts three handfulls, and seeth them with a little Lie, with three spoonfulls of Vineger, and a little salt, stamp all these together with the said little, and make a plaister thereof. Or take and eat Treacle, and make a plaister thereof, and lay it to the place, and mark if the matter do come of a hot cause, you may minister hot Medicines, and if of a cold cause, not hot medicines but cold, and let the patient beware of eating those things that may be over hot or cold.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0