A shorte discourse of the most rare and excellent vertue of nitre wherein is declared the sondrie and diuerse cures by the same effected, and how it may be aswell receiued in medicine inwardly as outwardly plaiterwise applied: seruing to the vse and commoditie aswell of the meaner people as of the delicater sorte.

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Author:	Chaloner, Thomas, Sir, 1561-1615.
Title:	A shorte discourse of the most rare and excellent vertue of nitre wherein is declared the sondrie and diuerse cures by the same effected, and how it may be aswell receiued in medicine inwardly as outwardly plaiterwise applied: seruing to the vse and commoditie aswell of the meaner people as of the delicater sorte.
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Print source:	A shorte discourse of the most rare and excellent vertue of nitre wherein is declared the sondrie and diuerse cures by the same effected, and how it may be aswell receiued in medicine inwardly as outwardly plaiterwise applied: seruing to the vse and commoditie aswell of the meaner people as of the delicater sorte. Chaloner, Thomas, Sir, 1561-1615. Imprinted at London: By [T. Marshe for] Gerald Dewes, dwelling in Paules churchyearde at the signe of the Swanne, [1584]
Subject terms:	Saltpeter -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
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A COPIE OF A DIS∣COVRSE VVRITTEN FROM THE ISLE OF LAMBY ON THE the East coaste of Ireland, by Thomas Chalonergent▪ vnto his cosen Iohn Napper Apothecarie dwelling at the signe of the Ewe and the golden Lambe ouer a∣gainst Soper lane ende in cheepe side at London, tou∣ching the qualitie and facultie of Nitre. The example whereof he sent vnto him with that letter.

The preparation of this Nitre vnto more subtili∣tie, sharpenes, drines and heat, is after three sortes ensuing.

The second waie.

The thirde way of more Calcination to make this Nitre, yet more sharpe and subtile, then the o∣ther two waies aforesaide.

Outward reamedies to fordoe foulenes and diseases of the skinne: as tawnie steynings, Sunnebur∣ning, freckles, dusknes, iaundises, yellow, greene, and blacke, wheales and white whelks, cholerick, melancholicke, & flegmatike euaporations, ill colour or complexion by sicknes called Atrophe, which commeth of ill conuertion and assimula∣tion of the nourishment: and to restoore the skinne and complexion to the natiue bewtie. Also to remoue and fordoe, skurffe, dandruffe, skales, skalles, scabbes, pimples, pushes, maunge, ringe∣wormes, tetters, byles, buttons, drie lepries, and such effectes.

An other waie more delicate, and for tender skin, which leysurely remoueth such affectes, and also doth smooth and bewtifie the skinne.

An other for the same, of stronger effect.

A lotion of washing to fordoe ringe-wormes, and tetters.

An oyntment or plaister to foredoe harde knobbes, buttons, or cornes wheresoeuer they be in the face, or other partes of the skinne.

An other oyntment for the same.

An other oyntment to fordoe the buttons of lepree faces.

To mundifie and heale vlcers in the face.

An experte oyntment for cure of maunge, ringe-wormes, scabbes, and eating soores.

A linement or enoynting, effectuallie good against Itche, and breaking out of all the bodie.

A lotion or washing for the same.

An effectuall plaister and lotion or washing for the Affectes aforesaide.

A lotion or lynement for bringing out, and for out∣warde healing of the small pockes, measelles, whealkes, and pushes.

For healiing and sealing vp of rank lepree breaking out.

For opening, riping, drawing and mundifying of carbuncles sores, and for cure of suspecte fellon sores with hollow brimmes, deepe sores, and all vlcers in generall.

A lotion vnto the cankring, creeping and spredding of malitiouse vlcers and sores.

An other lotion, and emplaister to fordoe deformi∣ties of scuruie & dry scalie eating lepres, maung, tetters, ringewormes, itches, and deformed neiles.

An oyntment to heale the skinne broken out of pu∣trified salt fleugme, be it one the face, or elsewhere on the rest of the bodie.

An other lotion for the Itche.

A lotion or rubbing for Itche, Maunge and Scuruie leprees.

A liniment to fordoe freckells in the face, & other places of the skinne.

A drinke for the Iaundyze

A lyniment or lotion for the styning of the Iaun∣dize (after right cure) vsed inwardes

A liniment or lotion delicate to fordoe Morphews, darke and white.

Likewise for the white morphewes.

An other lotiō or washing for the white Morphew.

For such as are discolered by the sicknes called A∣trophia, in that their nourishment is not natu∣turally conuerted.

To fordoe the rancke smell of the armeholes, and other the clensing partes of the body, and foldes of the skinne.

In generall.

An oyntment for the face, to make the skinne smooth, egall, sticke, and suppell, fordoing the duskenes of the skinne, and yelding the com∣plexion cleare transparent.

An other oyntment to the same purpose & effecte.

To cherish the growing of the heares, and to cause them to become fayre and yellow naturally

Likewise for the same.

Likewise for the same.

An other for the same.

For falling off, or pilling of the heares.

To fordoe vermine, Nittes, Skurffe, Dandruffe, Scales, mattring Skalles, and drie Skalles in the heade.

An other for the same

A medicine to skoure and heale the moysture and mattering skalles of the head.

Another for the same.

An oyntment for the same.

Likewise for the same.

Likewise.

An oyntment for skalles on the heade and for dandruffe.

A washing medicine for the same.

But if the heares be yellow or bright, then vse this medicine.

An other oyntment to fordoe Vermine and Nittes in the heade, and other hearie places.

An other oyntment for the same.

To cleane the teath.

For the tooth-ache.

Likewise.

Or else.

For an olde ache in the head.

Or else rather.

And therewith also for the same.

For the eares akeing, & mattering, or hauing noise or hissing or ringing in them. And also to clense the eares from stopping or stuffing, and to a∣mende the hearing.

Or else.

Or for the same.

For bleared eyes, pynne, webbe, and skarres in the eyes, or for white, growen betweene the circle and blacke of the eye, and to remoue dymnes of of the eyes, and to sharpen the eye sight.

For bleeding at the nose.

Or else.

To helpe the deformities of the neyles.

For cure of the Squinancie or strangles.

Or else.

Or else.

Also.

Or else.

For paralisie of the tongue

For other paralisies and slacknes of the Sinewes, and for priuation of the facultie of sense or mo∣uing of the sinewes, and for stitches, crampes, conuulsions, distortiōs, wrying, shrinking, crowch∣ing or tying forwardes, backewardes, or side∣wardes, of the sinewes, and for all such like greefes or defaultes of the sinewes and faculties motiue and sensitiue.

Or (in causes requiring lesse vehemence) as wrenches of sinewes, or greefe and anguish of sinewes:

A bathe to the feete, verie wholsome for the feete, the sinewes, the head, and all the bodie to be v∣sed once or twise weekelie, in the morning or e∣uening, before meale, and at going to sleepe.

For stifenes of greefe of the Rompe, the hippe-ache, or Sciatica, or such like.

To ease the hurte of other partes of the bodie.

Or else for the same.

For vncumbring and clensing of the Lunges, and breastbulke, and for remedie of hoarsenes, olde coughe, and toughe coughe, stright breath, wei∣sing in the windepipes, heauines of the breaste, and sighing.

Or else for the same.

Or else for the same.

Or else for the same.

Or else for the same.

Or else for more effect to the same.

Likewise for heauines of the Lunges and cause of sighing.

Also for the same.

To clēse the stomak of filth & encōbrāce of slyimy and clinging humours, & lothsomenes & to re∣medie suffocation, windynes, heauing, gnawing & torment, of the stomake, vnderbulke, and bowells.

For the same.

Also for the same.

For suffocation or strangulation by such sliemy & clinging matter in the stomak or in the veynes or cōduittes betweene it, & the Liuer or Splene.

Or else for the same.

Also for the same.

Likewise for the same.

Likewise for the torment of the stomak and bowels.

To vnstoppe and discombre the Liuer, from the distentions, stuffinges and chokings of the con∣duites thereof.

To asswage and ease the swelling or stuffing and hardenes of the Spleene.

Also.

Also.

Or else.

And also for the same.

Likewise.

For gurgling, heauing, and torment of the vnderbulke.

Also for the same.

Or else for the same.

For the Illiacke passion, (to wit, the torment of the vpper bowels and gutts.)

Also for the same.

Likewise for the same.

For the Collicke passion.

Moreouer.

For the Hydropsie.

Also.

Or else.

Also for the same.

Also for the same.

For to asswage and abate inflamation, swelling and anguish of the Coddes.

To dispare or swage other swellings, inflammati∣ons and inflations, or heauings outward.

And if the euill be inwardes.

For Carnosities or knobbes growing in the conduit of the yearde, or in the purse of the coddes.

To breake the stone in the kidneyes and bladder, & and to vnstoppe and discharge the stuffing and chokeing there, and in the conduits of the vrine: And for mundifying of soores in the kydnyes and bladder.

Or else in like sort.

Or else in like sorte.

And moreouer also for the same.

And also.

And also.

For to supple and dissolue the Cake or hardenes growen in the substance of the Matrice, and for remedie of suffocatiō & tortures of the Matrice, and to open and clense and apte the Matrice vn∣to conception, and to procure it the benefit of the ordinarie and monthlie auoidance.

Or else.

Or else.

Or else.

Or else to the poorer sort.

Likewise.

And likewise outwardlie.

To smooth the wrinckles of womens bellies after childing.

To bring the blood, and plumnes and supplenes vnto anie member decated and wythered by not receiueing nutriment.

To procure sweating.

Also.

To stay immoderate sweating.

To supple and nimble the stifenes and wearines of the lymmes.

Or rather

Or else.

To preuent the grudg or cold shrugge or shakeing, inuading with the accesse of fits of Feuers.

Or else.

To laxe and scoure the bowells.

Or else.

Or else.

Or else.

Moreouer.

For burning or scalding.

For the byting of a madde dogge, and for other venemous byting or stinging.

Likewise.

Against the venome of Henbane receiued into the bodie.

Against the estonyeng venome of Mandragora taken into the bodie.

Against the venome and strangling of vnkinde Mushrowmes eaten.

Against the venome, and vlceration, and strangu∣lation and tormente caused by receieuing in∣wardes, of Buprestes, or of other Cantharides.

Against the venome, and strangulation of Bulles bloode taken inwardes.

And vniuersallie, for all strangulations, or suffoca∣tions, stuffinges, or obstructions, by anie of those causes, or cluddred blood, or, humors, grosse clā∣mie, slimie, clinging, pasted, or cleuing.

For soldring of golde, siluer, or copper, and to yeeld fayre colour vnto golde vnfine.

For sponginge or skouring of greace, or of filthie spottes or soyle out of silke or lynnen or bomba∣zine, or wollen or leather.

For skowring and whytting of lynnen cloth, or lynnen yarne.

For skowring of woll, or of wollen cloath, or of wol∣len yearne, from the soyle, greace and fatnes therein: whereby to make it apt to receiue and reteine Die: and moreouer to yeelde it soft and supple.

For to skowre & supple Buffe-leather, Shamois le∣ther, and such like skinnes, to make them to be∣come cleane, drie, suplle and soft.

For to taw and make furres, supple and soft.

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