The mirrour or glasse of health Necessary and needefull for euery person to looke in, that will keepe their bodye from the sickenesse of the pestylence, and it sheweth how the planets do reygne euery hower of the day and nyght, wyth the natures and expositions of the xii. signes, deuyded by the twelue months of the yeare. And sheweth the remedyes for dyuers infirmyties and diseases that hurteth the body of man.

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Author:	Moulton, Thomas.
Title:	The mirrour or glasse of health Necessary and needefull for euery person to looke in, that will keepe their bodye from the sickenesse of the pestylence, and it sheweth how the planets do reygne euery hower of the day and nyght, wyth the natures and expositions of the xii. signes, deuyded by the twelue months of the yeare. And sheweth the remedyes for dyuers infirmyties and diseases that hurteth the body of man.
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Alternate titles:	Myrour or glasse of helthe
Subject terms:	Hygiene -- Early works to 1800. Medicine -- Early works to 1800. Plague -- Early works to 1800.
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¶The Prologue of the Authour.

¶Here followeth the Table of this present Booke.

¶Here beginneth the fyrste parte of this Booke, that sheweth dyuers causes how the Pestilence may be ingendred. Capitulo. i.

¶Here followeth the seconde parte that sheweth how man shuld pre∣serue and keep him from the Pestylence. Cap. ij.

And here followeth the thyrd parte that sheweth & a man be taken with the pestilence, what remedy and me∣dicine is best therfore. Cap. iij.

Thus endeth the thyrde parte of this Pestilence treatise. And hereaf∣ter followeth the .vij. dayes, with the Planets. Capitulo. iij.

¶Here followeth, howe the Pla∣nettes reigne in euery hower of the daye, and of the night. And the fyrste is the hower of the Sonday. Cap. v.

¶And hereafter followeth the na∣tures and expositions of the .xij. signs, deuyded by the .xij. monthes in the yeare.

For the headach. Capitulo .vij.

For aking of the head. Capitulo .viii.

For to spourge the head Capitulo .ix.

Also for to spurge the head. Cap. x.

For the toothach. Cap. xi.

For the ach of a hollow tooth. Capitulo. xii.

Also for the toothach. Cap. xiii.

Also for the toothach. Cap. xiiii.

Also for the Toothach. Cap. xv.

For the stench in the mouth. Cap. xvi.

For a stinking breath. Cap. xvii.

For ache and wormes in the eares. Cap. xviii.

A precious water for poyson and specially agaynst y^e pestilence. ca. xix.

For running eyen. Cap. xx.

For red bleared eyen. Cap. xxi.

For eyen that bene dasuned or dark. Capitulo. xxii.

A precious water for the sighte of the eyen. Capitulo. xxiii.

For a pinne and a webbe in the eyes. Capitulo. xxiiii.

For all the euils in the eyen. cap. xxv.

For boyling in the eyen. Cap. xxvi.

For a stinking breath. Cap. xxvii.

For the stomack that is hote and swollen. Cap. xxviii.

For the stomack that aketh, that commeth of colde. cap. xxix.

For to force the stomack Cap. xxx.

For the stomacke and the Bellye that aketh. Capitulo. xxxi.

And if a man be sick at the stomack or in the belly, or at the heart or head, or were bitten with any euill vene∣mous beast, or poysoned. Cap. xxxii.

A good medicine for risyng vnder the stomacke. Cap. xxxiii.

Also a good playster for the rysing vnder the stomack. Cap. xxxiiii.

For to destroy the heate in the sto∣mack. Cap. xxxv.

For brēning in the stomack. ca. xxxvi

For to auoyd flume out of thy sto∣mack and the head. Cap. xxxvii.

For al euils in y^e stomack. ca. xxxviii.

For the disease at the harte. ca. xxxix.

For weaknesse of the hearte. Cap. xl.

For faintnesse of the heart. Cap. xli.

For the brest that is incombred. Capitulo. xlii.

For a man, woman, or chylde that is broken in the belly. ca. xliii.

The playster to knit him. Capitulo. xliiii.

For the playster in May. Cap. xlv.

For to breake wynde in the bellye. Cap. xlvi.

For a swolen wombe. Cap. xlvii.

For aking of the wombe. Cap. xlvii.

For the harte brenning. Cap. xlix.

For the sore sydes within forth. Cap. l.

Contra telamet masculam in oculo. Capitulo. li.

For a womans Pappe that is sore. Cap. lii.

For the lyuer that is corrupte and wasted. Capitulo. liii.

For the heate in the Lyuer. Cap. liiij.

For the heate in the lyuer of man, that his colloure is yellow. Cap. lv.

For the brest that is incombred. Capitulo. lvi.

For a man that hath wormes in his belly, and his body be leane. Cap. lvii.

For the brest and the lungues. Capitulo .lviij.

For to auoyde and destroye flume. Capitulo .lix.

For the stoe. Cap. lx.

Also for the stone. Cap. lxi.

For the Collick stranguary, and the stone. Cap. lxii.

For a man that is a Lepper, and it take in his legges and go vp∣ward. Cap. lxiii.

For a derte in a mans flesh. Cap. lxiiii.

For a sauce flume vysage. Ca. lxv.

For him that maye not hold his water. Cap. lxvi.

Another for the same. Cap. lxvii.

For to destroy flume. Cap. lxviii.

For a wombe that is harde. Cap. lxix.

Also another for the same.

For the blody manyson place. ca. lxx.

For a mans stones that be swo∣len. Cap. lxxi.

For to mak one slender. Cap. lxxii.

For him that lacketh wynde. Capitulo. lxxiii.

For him that is costyfe. Cap. lxxiiii.

For a wicked blaste and wynde in the vysage. Cap. lxxv.

For the Shingles. Cap. lxxvi.

For the cough. Cap. lxxvii.

For him that hath the perrillous cough. cap. lxxviii.

The cough that is called the Chi∣cough. cap. lxxix.

For the Ich. Capitulo .lxxx.

For to draw a byle from one place to another. Capitulo .lxxxi.

For them that pisseth blood ca. lxxxii.

For him that hath lost his mind. ca. lxxxiii.

Another for the same. ca. lxxxiiii.

For him that hath the frensye. Capitulo .lxxxv.

For a person that vomiteth to much. cap. lxxxvi.

For a man that hath a disease in his eares. cap. lxxxvii.

For a man that his eares swones within. Cap. lxxxviii.

For synowes that shrinke after that they haue bene hurte and healed. cap. lxxxix.

For to staunch blood. Cap. xc.

Also to staunch blood Cap. xci.

For an Empostume. cap. xcii.

For spitting of blood. cap. xciii.

For wylde fyre, that is called fyre of Hell. cap. xciiii.

For byting of a mad dog. ca. xcv.

For to doe away a wen. Cap. xcvi.

For to breake a felon in the night. Cap. xcvii.

For the Megrim. Cap. xcviii.

For the Morfew. Cap. xcix.

For to stop the flyx. Cap. C.

For the Cancre, wyld fyre, and Ig∣nis sancti Antoni. ca. Ci.

For to make heire to grow. cap. Cii.

For to doe away heire. cap. Ciii.

For a scald head. cap. Ciiij.

For the yellow Iaundes. Ca. Cv.

For the blacke Iaundes. Ca. cvi.

For wormes and heate in the hands Capitulo. Cvii.

For the gowte. cap. Cviii.

For sore knees that doth swell and ake. Cap. Cix.

For the falling euill. Cap. Cx.

For brenning and scalding. Cap. cxi.

For brenning with fyre. cap. Cxii.

For to heale hurtes and woundes. Capitulo.Cxiii.

Also to make a salue to draw, and to heale. cap. cxiiii.

For stinging of Adders and Snakes. Ca. Cxv.

For him that cannot sleepe. Capitulo. Cxvi▪

For the Palsye. Capitulo. Cxvii.

A good drinke for the pox. cap. cxviii.

A salue for the Pox. cap. Cxix.

¶For the gowte, and swelling of ioynts, and knobs that commeth of ach of the pox. Ca. cxx.

For the Crampe. ca. Cxxi.

For the spots of the morfew. ca. cxxii.

For to put away the rot of the Mor∣fewe. cap. Cxxiii.

¶For a Chylde that is iawfall, or moldfall, or rofefall. cap. cxxiiii.

For the moder. ca. Cxxv.

For al feuer agues, and for yong chil∣dren sucking the brest. cap. Cxxvi.

For to destroy poyson. ca. Cxxvii.

For the ague. cap. Cxxviii.

For the hote ague, infected with pe∣stilence take betimes. cap. Cxxix.

For the goute. cap. Cxxx.

To draw out ach. cap. Cxxxi.

For to drye the same. cap. Cxxxii.

For the swelling in a mans knee, or legge that aketh. Cap. Cxxxiii.