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Author: Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
Title: A verye excellent and profitable booke conteining sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines apperteyning unto phisick and surgerie, long tyme practysed of the expert and Reuerend Mayster Alexis, which he termeth the fourth and finall booke of his secretes ... Translated out of Italian into Englishe by Richard Androse.
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Print source: A verye excellent and profitable booke conteining sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines apperteyning unto phisick and surgerie, long tyme practysed of the expert and Reuerend Mayster Alexis, which he termeth the fourth and finall booke of his secretes ... Translated out of Italian into Englishe by Richard Androse.
Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565., Androse, Richard, 16th cent.
Imprinted at London: By Henry Denham, 1569.
Alternate titles: Secreti. Part 4. English
Subject terms:
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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TO THE RIGHT HONO∣rable, Fraunces Lorde Russell, Erle of Bedford, one of the Queenes Ma∣iesties priuie Counsell, and Knight of the most Honorable order of the Garter: Richard Androse wysheth health, long lyfe, wyth much en∣crease of vertue and honor.
¶Mayster Alexis of Piemont vnto the Reader.
A breefe Table or demonstration to finde out all such secrets or medicines as are contay∣ned in this last and fourth part of Alexis.
Of the fourth and last part of the Secretes of the Reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount.
The first Booke
A remedie against mistes or cloudes, and other impe∣diments which offend the sight.
To kill wormes that gnaw and eate the heare.
To destroy scurfe or scales in the head.
Against the falling away of the heare from the bearde or head, called in Italian Tigna.
To heale Ringwormes.
Another for the same.
A remedie against the itche.
Another for the same.
Against rubbing, or itch, which commeth in the night.
Against the chapping of the lippes.
Against the chappings of the feete.
Another for the same.
For the same.
Against sweate which stincketh.
Against the stinch of the toes.
Against bruses of or about the eares.
Another for the same.
To heale a West that riseth vpon the eye liddes.
To take away blewnesse or blacknesse of the eye liddes.
To make nayles which are rotten to fall.
Another for the same.
For the same.
Against bruses of the nayles.
A plaister to heale burgeons or pushes.
A remedie for such as haue out their fundament.
To remedie the crampe in children.
A remedie against the falling sicknesse.
Against the griefes of the skull.
To comfort the hart.
For the tooth ache.
To mitigate euery kinde of griefe.
Another for the same.
To heale the disease called Gonorrea.
Against the flixe of the bodie.
A medicine to heale the flix of the liuer.
To stop the flowers of a woman.
Against the disease Gonorrhea.
An excellent sirope to heale the French pockes.
A plaister to heale the dropsie.
Against red spots in the skinne.
To stay heare that it fall not away.
A remedie against pimples or spottes in the face.
To remedie a fretting itch and rough or scalie spots.
To make heare to grow againe.
A remedie against the falling away of heare, called in Italian Aree.
A remedie to heale Chilblaines which are properly in the ioynts of the fingars through colde, called in Italian, Bugunze, or the itch.
To heale beatings or brusings.
To purge the fleume of the Matrix.
A remedy against the pestilence.
To heale the Ptisicke.
To remedie the diseases called Dissinteria and Diar∣rhea, and the bloudie flixe of women.
Against the rednesse of the face and nose.
To heale the Pleurisey and putri∣faction of the matrix.
Against the difficultie of taking breath and opilation of the liuer and lunges, and a vehe∣ment cough.
To make heare grow againe where it is fallen away.
To prouoke sweate and to heale the plague.
Against the paine of the liuer, stomacke, and milt.
To heale Ringwormes, or the Morphew.
Against the disease called Nausea.
To cause the naturall places of women to purge.
To heale the hoarcenesse and streightnesse of the brest occasioned of euill humors.
A remedie to cause a woman to bring forth the deade creature, or the skin that the childe is wrap∣ped in, called in Italian Secunda.
To cure the distillation of vrine.
Against rednesse and dropping of the eyes.
To remedie the broken coddes of children.
Against the bitings of mad Dogges.
To remedie the vntemperate heate of the liuer.
To expell sadnesse.
To remedie an olde inueterated cough.
Against the paine of the stomacke and the disease called Nausea.
To remedie the stinking or chappes of the toes.
Against the paine of the stomacke.
To heale the perillous flix and excotiation or rasing of the bowels, called Dissintiria.
Against the Cholike.
A remedie for him whose fundiment is out, to cause it to abide in.
To heale broken Kibes.
To draw out thornes or any other thing fast∣ned in the flesh.
To take away Wartes.
To remedie the stinking of the mouth.
To remedie the paine of the loynes.
To remedie the difficultie of pyssing and paine of the bladder.
To heale one that cannot keepe his water.
To remedie the comming out of the Matrix.
To heale the itch and hardnesse of the Matrix.
To remedie the windinesse of the Matrix.
To heale the paine of the head, occasioned through the French disease.
To cause heare to grow where it is fallen away.
To remedie eyes that be bloud shot.
To heale the flix of the bodie and spitting of bloud.
To remedie the Ptisicke.
An oyntment to heale the stiffenesse or shrinking of sinowes, called Spasmus, comming of a wound taken of some venemous beast.
To make milke come into a womans brests.
To remedie the disease called in Italian Fuoco sal∣uatico, and in English S. Anthonies fire.
A verie excellent remedie against winde in the left side, called in Italian Melancholia mirachiale.
Another for the same.
To remedie the want of sleepe through frenesie.
To heale the falling sicknesse.
To heale the trembling or shaking of the members.
To remedie the teares, or itch of the eyes.
To heale the sounding of the eares.
To remedie the yoxe or hicket.
To remedie the beating, trembling of the bodie and the disease called Sincope.
To drie vp the milke of the brestes.
To make soft or flagging brests to become hard.
To remedie the vomiting of children.
To remedie the paine of the stomacke which hap∣peneth with sharpe belkings.
To remedie the bloud or milke engendred in the stomack.
To remedie the opilation of the liuer.
To heale the Iaundice.
To remedie an olde paine of the liuer, and of the bellie and sides, with the short ribbes called Hypochondrium.
To remedie the hardnesse of the Liuers, with the Iaundice.
To heale the flixe of Vrine.
To prouoke vrine.
To remedie the burning of the vrine.
To remedie the paine of the Bladder.
To heale the Collick.
To remedie the Flixe of the bodie.
Another for the same.
To remedie the strayninges called in Italian Pondera.
Another.
To prouoke the flowers, and the Secunda vnto women.
Another for the same.
An other most excellent remedie for the same.
To remedie the paine of the Matrix appostumated through grosse humors.
To heale the paine of the matrix happened through winde.
To heale the prefocation of the matrix.
To remedie the comming out of the matrix.
To remedie the itche of the purse of the testicles.
To heale the paine of the Hemerhodes.
To remedie the hardnesse or stifnesse of the ioyntes.
To heale the Sciatica.
To remedie the griefes, and inueterated swellinges of the knees.
To take away swellings after the Goute ceaseth.
To driue away venimous Beastes.
To take away spottes out of the skinne.
To heale Ringwormes.
To remedie the wanne speckes, or pimples of the face.
To remedie the opilations of the liuer and of the milt.
To remedie the baldnesse of the head.
To stop bleeding at the Nose.
Against the excoriations, and griefes of the bodie.
To heale the flixes of the stomack and bowels.
To heale the issuing forth of the Fundiment.
To heale streynings.
Against the belkings of the stomack.
Against Chilblaynes, or Kibes.
Against hardnesse of the Milt, and of other mem∣bers, and the Palsey.
To remedie the griefe of the loynes and bellie.
To heale the pimples in the face.
Against windinesse of the Bellie.
To cause a woman to auoyde the skinne that the childe is wrapped in, called in Italian Secondina.
An excellent preseruatiue against the Pestilence and Dropsey.
To remedie the yexings of the stomacke and vomi∣tings, and losse of appetite, occasioned through cold humors.
To heale the Quarterne ague and all agues, which by nature continue long time.
Against the Pestilence.
To heale the flix called Dissinteria.
To restore the appetite that is lost.
To take spots away that grow in the eyes.
Against the pleurisey.
A medicine for women which through fatnesse can not conceyue.
Against the Hemerodes:
To take away Warts.
To remedie the infection of the skinne.
To accelerat the birth.
To remedie the Quinsey.
To heale the Cough▪
To make a leane person to become fat.
To make a fat person become leane.
To heale Wartes or harde knobbes.
To heale the Cough.
To remedie the cough of children.
To take white spots from the nayles.
To remedie the flegmaticke humor in the bladder and reines.
To remedie the flix of vrine.
To remedie the Dropsey.
To remedie the griefes and bloude retayned in the Matrix.
To heale the burnings or inflammations of the goute.
To heale the Ptisicke, or an olde Catarre, the cough and other defectes of the lunges.
To procure the birth of dead Creatures, and to reme∣die the stingings of venemous beasts.
To remedie all the passions of the sinewes.
To heale the itch.
To remedie the paines of the stomacke and of the milt, and the windinesse of the body.
To heale the griefes and hardnesse of the milt.
To comfort the brayne, or to heale the Apoplexia, and the Collick.
To remedie the whyte flixes, and coldnesse of the Matrix.
To heale the Collick and difficultie of pyssing.
To heale the comming out and prefocation of the Matrix.
To driue away the heauinesse of the minde, to accuate the senses, and to make a good memorie.
To remedie the congelation of the milke within the brests.
To heale the falling of the Vuula.
Against fulnesse of the stomack, and Ptisick.
To remedie the retention of the skin called Secunda, and to cause the auoyding therof.
To heale Warts.
To stop the flix of bloud in women.
To stop the white flix of the Matrix.
To heale a quarterne Ague.
Against the Ptisick.
To remedie the rednesse of the face.
To heale the Sciatica.
Against wheales or blisters of the face.
To recouer a lost appetite.
To take away moles or spots which children take in their mothers bellye.
To heale the yelow iaundice:
To remedie the griefes of the heade, which through the beating of the artiers, doe not suffer one to take sleepe.
To heale the Ptisick occasioned of grosse and viscous humors.
Against grauell or any other viscous matter ingen∣dred in the reynes.
To drie vp the milke of the brestes.
To heale children that haue wormes.
To mitigate all kindes of griefes.
To cause milke to discende into the brests.
Against yexings occasioned through cruditie of the stomacke.
To remedie the stinking of the breath, happened by eating of Garlicke, or suche like meates.
To heale the bitings of mad dogges.
To prouoke the flowers vnto a woman.
An excellent remedie against the dropsey.
Against the falling sicknesse.
Against the weakenesse of the stomacke through colde.
To remedie the desire to vomit, and to restore the appetite that is lost.
Against the bitings of all venemous beasts.
Against the mistes, droppings, and rednesse of the eyes.
Against the hardnesse and swelling of the liuer or milt.
To purge the Matrix of a woman.
Against the Ptisick.
To remedie olde inueterate griefes of the head.
Against Hemerodes that appeare not.
Against drie choughes.
To remedie the griefe of the Hemerodes, and the chappings of the fundiment.
An other for the same.
To heale the windinesse and other passions of the Matrix.
To remedie the disease of the pleurisey.
To heale the disease called Tigna.
To remedie the griefe of the brestes, and to cause milke to discende.
Against water and windinesse in the testicles of children.
To heale scabbed hands occasioned through the French disease.
To stop the superfluous bloud of the flowers.
To heale shronken and stiffe sinewes.
To remedie the euill countenance which proceedeth of the Dropsey.
To remedie the euill colour of the face.
Against the inflammation of the liuer.
To remedie the mistes or dymnesse of the sight.
To remedie the want of hearing.
Against the trembling of the hart.
Against the impediment of smelling.
Against wormes in children.
Against great and swollen gummes.
Against the opilations or other defectes of the liuer.
To remedie moles or signes which children haue when they are borne.
To heale the comming forth of the nauill of chil∣dren, and the ruptures within them.
To remedie the retention, and to cause a woman to auoyde the skin called Secundina.
Against the griefes and swellings of the Matrix, occasioned through ventositie after the birth.
Against the prefocation of the Matrix.
Of the fourth and last part of the Secretes of the Reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount.
Against putrified or rotten wounds.
To remedie bruses or stripes of the ioynts.
To heale a Fistola.
To remedie moyst sores or scabbes in childrens heads.
To heale the itch.
To remedie olde sores of the legges.
Against the hardnesse and stiffnesse of sinewes oc∣casioned through woundes.
To take out thornes or any other thing fastned in the flesh.
To dissolue dead bloud, happened through stripes, or falling from some high place.
Another which worketh the same effect.
Against impostumes and griefes of the Hemerodes.
To stop the bleeding of woundes.
To dissolue the bloud congealed in the body, caused through wounds or other accidents.
To remedie festered and inflamed woundes.
To heale woundes wherein were fastened thornes, or other such like things.
To remedie cankers in wounds.
To remedie the Kings euill.
Against the Kings euill in children.
Against all sores and angrie pushes, as the Canker or the disease Phadagena.
To wash away spots and red pimples or wheales in the face.
To heale ruptures within one, happened through fal∣ling from an high place, or of some other cause, and to dissolue the con∣gealed bloud.
Against sores of the nose, and of the mouth, and also of the French pockes.
Against wounds that penetrate.
To take away the blacknesse of wounds.
Against griefes occasioned through rupture, or vn∣placing of bones, or in the members.
To dissolue the blacknesse of the skin happened through stripes, or other cause, and for to heale the sores of the naturall places of women, and swelling of the brestes.
Against all kindes of flixes of bloud, and to heale the hurts of the bowels and of the bladder.
Against the swelling and griefe of a mans yarde.
Against the Kings euill.
Against putrified gummes.
To take away the putrifaction of wounds.
Against vicious humors, which are caused of the itch, or like effects betwene the flesh and the skin.
To heale wounds quickly.
To heale that kinde of breaking out that is like vnto a Leprosie.
To heale broken bowels of children.
Against pimples or knobbes of the legges, and natu∣rall places of women, with rednesse and burning.
To remedie the gallings of the feete and cankers.
To heale olde sores.
To remedie a blit or blast, and to heale Cankers.
To cause nayles that be scaly to fall away.
A remedie against infection of the lunges, and the Ptisick.
To heale the sores of the mouth, and throte.
To heale Ringwormes, Cornes, and sores of the feete.
Against the flixe of the bloud of Emerodes, and sores of the priuie members
Against the putrifaction of the gummes, and sores of the mouth.
Against blites and waterie scabbes that are in the heads of children.
Against woundes and all putrified olde sores.
Against colericall impostumations, as blytes and blastes, and such lyke.
To remedie the griefes of the bowels, and watry ruptures.
Against the griefes of the ioynts.
To heale the broken bowels of children.
To heale the scorchings made with fire, and fretting sores.
To remedie the hurts of the scull.
To heale corrosiue hurts called commonly the Wolfe.
Against wounds and ruptures of the naturall places of women, and to stop the flix of blee∣ding of the nose.
For to heale one that falleth from some high place.
To stop the bloud of the Matrix, and of the vrine, and of wounds, and to heale the blacke pimples or wheales in the legs.
To stop the bleeding of wounds.
Against the flix of the bloud of the Emerodes.
Against the Hemerodes and crestie swellings of the fundiment, and rednesse of the face.
Against spitting of bloud.
Against the ruptures of the feete and of the hands oc∣casioned through the French disease.
Against the burnings of fire.
To heale eares that auoyde matter.
Against scabbes and itch.
Against the Leprosie.
Against itch, and swelling of the Hemerodes.
To heale Cankers.
To heale the sores of the naturall places of women.
To heale griefes of the eyes, and to make cleare the sight.
Against the galdnesse of the feete, or other parts of children.
To mundifie putrified wounds.
Against griefes of the necke through stripes, or other occasions.
To remedie the disease Panaritio.
Against the chappes of the fundiment, and spots in the face.
Against the swellings and sores of the Hemerodes.
To remedie the flix of the bloud of the Hemerodes.
To heale the swellings of a mans yarde.
To heale deepe sores in the legges.
Against the griefes, sores, putrifaction and stinch of the eares.
To heale chappes in the heades of the brests or teates.
To heale sores of the legs happened through scaldings.
To heale a west growing on the eye liddes.
To take away the griefe of the eyes which happeneth of a stripe.
Against chappings of the lippes, and of the heads of womens brests.
Against chappes vnder the tongue.
Against a Fistola growing in a womans brest.
To remedie the impostumation of a mans yarde, and windinesse of the bottome of the bellie.
Against hot impostumations of the testicles.
Against colde impostumations of the testicles.
Against the discending of the intrales into the purse of the testicles.
To remedie a rupture or breaking.
To draw bloud from the Hemerodes.
To stop the flix of the bloud of the Hemerodes.
Against rupture of the hands and feete cau∣sed through colde.
To close vp wounds.
To generate flesh in wounds.
Against brusings within the flesh and armes.
Against the shrinking of sinewes.
Against the hurts of the sinewes and arteries.
To heale the prickings or cuttings of sinewes.
Against paine of the sinewes.
To ease the paine of wounds.
Against the superfluous flesh of wounds and wormes of the same.
To take away the blacknesse of wounds.
To remedie the disease Panaritio.
To open ripe impostumes.
Against festred cankers.
To heale sores that are moyst and hard to close.
Against fretting sores.
To heale sore tetters.
A verie excellent water for tetters.
Against burnings or scurfes in the face, which appeare like vnto a Leprosie.
An other.
To heale sore legges.
To heale legges that are hard, swollen, and sore.
To heale the burnings of fire before they bladder.
To heale one that is fallen from some high place.
To heale one that with a fall hath hurt one of his members.
To preserue a member that is striken, from impostumation.
To take away the signes that remaine of blowes or stripes.
To heale brusings of the nayles.
To heale sores proceeding of itch in the naturall places of women.
Against the sores of the mouth of the Marrix happened in procreation.
Against burning sores of the Matrix of wo∣men with childe.
To heale the prickings of the sinewes.
An excellent and precious oyntment to heale the rupture of the scull.
To mollifie hardnesse.
A most precious oyle to heale a wounde in xxiiii. houres.
Against spitting of bloud, through rupture of a veine.
To heale sores of the legges.
An other for the same.
Against all inflammations of the reynes, and the running of them.
To heale sores that are inflamed.
Against stripes or brusings.
To heale the Panaritio, and euery other griefe which happeneth vnto the endes of the fingars.
To heale scurfe or scales in the head, bearde, or browes.
To remedie the scortications of children through occasion of vrine, or of some other sharpe humor.
To remedie the running of the reynes occasioned of a sharpe cause, and to heale the scortica∣tions which they make.
To remedie spots and markes, and to take away all superfluous growing of flesh in any part of the body.
To heale sores of the brests.
To make oyle of Balme, which hath these vertues following.
To heale wounds of the legges happened of scaldings.
To close vp woundes.
To heale sores which through drie distemperature of those parts cannot be healed.
To remedie dolorous sores of the ioynts.
To remedie brusings and sores happened of stripes, or otherwise.
To heale the hardnesse of the feete.
To remedie dolorous sores happened through colde distemperature.
To take away superfluous flesh which groweth in woundes.
To heale sores that happen thorow wormes.
To heale sores happened of broken bones.
To remedie the gummes of the French disease.
To kill wormes in children.
Another for the same disease.
A verie precious water for diuers infirmities.
An oyle like vnto Balme, very profitable for diuers sores.
Against superfluous winde in the left side, called in Italian Melancholia mirachiale, and the disease called Sincope.
To preserue from the pestilence.
A Ceare cloth for sore and swollen legges.
To remedie the commotion of the brayne through fal∣ling from some high place, or through other oc∣casions and cuttes, when through the blowes men lose their speach.
To remedie the falling sicknesse in children.
To heale the euill habite, and to cure them that haue the splene.
A preseruatiue against the pestilence.
To remedie the discending of a Catarre through coldnesse of stomack.
To remedie the Kings euill.
To heale many infirmities with oyle of Sulphur.
To heale scalie or rough hands happened through the French disease.
Another for the same.
Against Melancholie.
To mitigate the paines of the French disease in any member.
To remedie the milt that is hardened.
To preserue from the goute.
To heale the face of scurfe or scabbes.
Against the chappes in the hands through heate of the liuer.
To heale one that is stiptick of body.
To heale one that cannot pisse through fleugme.
To purge the head by the nose, after the vniuersall purging of the whole body.
To stop the flix of a Catarre.
Against the debilitie of nature and all other infirmities.
To remedie the falling away of the heare from the head or bearde.
To remedie the disease called Vertigo.
To cause heare to grow againe, and to keepe them from falling away.
Another remedie for the same disease.
Another of like vertue.
To take away the spots and scurfe happened through the French disease.
Another pleasant remedie for the same disease.
Another against the same disease.
Against the dilatation of the sight of the eye.
To preserue the teeth from putrifaction.
To fasten the teeth which are redie to fall through the French disease.
Against the fluxes dissentericall in the French disease.
To remedie the paines of the throte happened through the French disease.
To remedie the pushes in the French disease.
To heale knobbes in the naturall places of women.
To heale the scurfe or scalles in the head, beard, or browes.
Against knobbes or wheales of the French disease.
To take away the blacknesse of wounds.
To cause heare to grow.
Against the prefocation of the Matrix.
To purge melancholie humors, and to remedie the paine of the head and stomack.
An excellent remedie for to heale the French disease.
To purge one that hath the paine of the French disease.
To cause the feuers Perhiodicae to cease after they be prolonged.
To heale those which haue the eye liddes infected of sharpe or salt humors.
Against the falling sicknesse of children, and to heale the head of Catarres, happened through colde causes.
To heale those which pisse a bed.
To heale the choking of the Matrix when it can not returne againe.
To purge the hote goute.
To remedie the difficultie of pissing through the impediment of fleume.
To heale sore and inflamed legges.
To remedie the griefe of the pleurisie when one is stopped that he cannot spit.
To purge the brest of the pleurisie and Ptisicke.
To heale the disease of the pleurisie.
A liniment to remedie the disease of the pleurisie.
Another for the same disease.
Another verie approued remedie for the same disease.
To remedie the paine and inflammation of the Milt.
To remedie or heale those that haue the splene or quarterne agues.
To heale those that haue the splene, and paine in the liuer.
To heale the falling from some high place.
To heale spots in the eyes.
To remedie teares or droppings of the eyes.
Another for the same disease.
To renew the sight of olde men.
To remedie the rednesse and paine of the eyes.
To heale sore and bloudshotten eyes.
To heale the disease called Vertigo, and swelling of the arme, by reason of letting of bloud.
Against coldnesse of stomack, and to cause a good colour.
To heale the diseases of the stomacke.
To heale the paine in the body called the Colick.
To heale the flixe of bloud.
To heale the flix and excoriations of the bellie.
To take away wrinkles out of the face.
To heale the paine of the teeth.
To heale swollen gummes.
To heale the stone in the bladder.
Of the fourth and last part of the Secretes of the Reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount.
To heale a windie impostume.
To remedie the ioynts that are out of their place.
To mollifie hardnesse.
To heale a rupture of the guttes.
To remedie the griefe of the Matrix.
A maruellous powder for the weakenesse of the sight.
To heale ruptures, or burstings.
To staye the heare that falleth.
To heale the swelling of the arme through letting of bloud.
To remedie the swelling of the legges.
To heale the swelling of the bodie, and of the legges, through cold humors.
To cause good fleshe to growe in woundes.
To heale sore legges.
To heale the disease called in Italian, Fuoco saluatico.
To heale bones that are broken in the head in fewe dayes.
To mollifie hardened sinewes.
To mundifie Fistuloes, and other putrified sores.
A most precious oyle to remedie all sores and griefes.
To heale the cloutes or spots in the face.
To make the sight cleare.
To heale sore brests.
To heale little red speckes in the face.
A most excellent pouder to comfort the sight, and all the defects of the head, of the stomack, and the disease called Scotomia and Vertigo, and the palsie, and all inwarde diseases, it consumeth the super∣fluous humiditie of the braine, it helpeth the memorie: it was vsed of Frederick the Empe∣rour.
To heale the griefe of the reynes, of the loynes, of the head, and the diseases of the Matrix.
To heale those that haue the Ptisick:
An odour against the same disease.
A fumigation for the same disease.
To stop a hote Catarre.
To stay a colde Catarre.
To heale the same disease.
To heale those that be Melancholick, and are in a furie or rage.
An oyntment to remedie the sores of the nose.
To seperate or deuide a corrupted bone from the sound.
To heale one which by scratching with his nailes hath made a sore.
To remedie the burning of vrine.
Another for the same disease.
Another for the same disease.
To reuiue one that is fallen thorow the falling sicknesse.
A more excellent remedie against empoysments than is common Triacle.
To heale a thinne Catarre.
To cause a pellet of a Dagge or Pistolet which is in the flesh to come forth.
To remedie a swelling or paine that happeneth after a wound is healed.
To purge a wound, and to draw out that which was fastened therein.
To heale brusings of the head with broken bones or without.
To draw out things fastned in the flesh, as thornes and such like.
To heale the Kings euill and other harde impostumes.
To remedie the paine of the backe.
To heale the rednesse of the nose.
To heale one that spitteth bloud through the rupture of a veine.
To heale the euill colour of the face, and the Ptisicke.
To heale sores in the naturall places of women.
To heale the knobbes which remaine in the ioynts after the paine of the goute.
To remedie the stinch of the mouth.
To heale the crestie growings of the fundiment.
To heale the Collick.
To heale the palsey of the tongue.
To remedie the paine of the head proceeding through a hote or colde cause.
To remedie the griefes of the head and neck.
To remedie the dimnesse of sight.
To heale the paine of the flanke.
To heale a burning canker called in Italian, Fuoco saluatico.
To purge the matrix of women.
To stop the flixe of the bloud of the Hemerods.
To heale the coldnesse of the matrix.
To drie vp the superfluous humiditie of the Vuola and of the gummes.
To take spottes from the face.
To heale a Ringworme.
To heale the flixe of the bellie.
To heale the paine of the loynes.
To heale those that pisse in their beddes.
To heale the sores of the feete.
To kyll wormes in the eares.
To remedie the hurtes of the eares happened through entring of water into them.
To heale sores that are ingendred in the eares.
To dissolue impostumes vnder the eares.
To heale the stripes of the eyes.
To remedie the losse of appetite vnto meate.
A maruellous remedy against sores and woundes.
To preserue one from poysoning,
Against the bitings of venemous beasts.
Against the stinche of the nose.
To heale the griefes of the fundiment.
Against the impotencie of the Genitale member.
To heale an impostumed Collick.
Against the biting of a mad dogge.
Against indurate impostumes, perished Condilomi and hardened brestes.
To dissolue an impostume vnder the eare.
To dissolue the kings euill, and euery hard impostumation.
Against trembling through some melancholy humor.
A confection to heale mistes or dimnesse of the sight.
Against the weakenesse of the sight.
An other for the same purpose.
To keepe the belly sollible in the infirmitie of the eyes.
Against the inflamation of the eyes.
To heale the griefe of the eyes.
An other for the same effect.
To heale stripes of the eyes, and extention of the nuck.
Another for the same.
To remedie the Litargie.
To heale the incontinencie and dropping of vrine.
Against the hardnesse of the splene.
To heale an olde flix of a womans flowers.
Against stinging of Bees.
To heale the inflammation of a mans yarde.
A remedie against coldnesse, and debilitie of the reines, the paine of the backe, and want of appetite vnto a woman.
To remedie vomiting occasioned of colde humors.
Against the streynings when a man cannot go to the stoole.
To remedie deafnesse or want of hearing.
To heale bruses about the eyes without laun∣cing or incision.
To heale watrie or dropping eyes.
An excellent pouder for the same disease.
To heale the griefes of the eyes.
To heale sores of the eares that offend the hearing.
Against the griefe of the loynes and of the eyes.
Against difficultie of taking of breath through coldnesse.
To heale a drie cough.
Against the hardnesse of the matrix.
Against the falling of the Vuola, and swelling of the Pallate.
Against the comming out of the nauill of children.
To heale the palsey.
Against the debilitie of sinewes.
Against rednesse of the legges.
To remedie the printes of blowes that remaine.
Against swellings of the face.
To keepe heare from growing white.
To heale the itch of children.
Another for the same.
Against trembling or shaking.
Against stinch of the mouth through rotten teeth.
To heale the white flixes in women.
To heale the relapsation of the gummes.
To heale chappes in the fingars.
To heale a windie impostumation.
To heale the euill disposition which commeth before the Dropsey, and the obstruction of the Mesaraicall veynes.
Against the flix of vrine.
To remedie the impotencie of the Genitall member.
To heale sores of the Bladder.
To heale the diseases of the reynes.
To heale ruptures within the body.
To take away the blacknesse of skarres.
To kyll wormes in the body.
To preserue one that hath taken poyson.
A medicine to heale the Quinsey.
To remedie the vnquietnesse of agues, and to prouoke sleepe.
To heale the flixe called Disenteria.
An other glyster most precious for the same disease.
Another for the same.
Another for the same, of verie great efficacie.
To cause Hemerodes to open.
Against scorchings of fire.
To preserue one from the goute.
Against the belkings of the stomack.
To cause a woman to bring forth a dead creature.
To heale the Dropsey and opilation of the liuer.
An emplaister to heale the rupture of the scull.
Another for the same.
Against the paine of the Collick.
To heale the itching or scabbes of the fundiment.
To remedie the paines and burnings of the fundiment.
To heale the disease called Iliaca passio.
Another remedie for the same disease.
To remedie the issuing out of the Fundiment.
To heale one that can not keepe his vrine.
To remedie the comming out of the matrix.
Against the growing of fleshe out of the nayles.
To cause skalie nailes to fall.
To take away the blacknesse that remayneth in skarres.
Against bloud that is congealed within one.
Against the difficultie of taking breath.
To remedie the congelation of milke within the breasts.
Against the subuersion of the stomach.
For one that hath lost his voyce.
To remedie the hardnesse of the splene.
Against empoysonments.
To heale the flixes Disentericall or Lientericall.
To draw out thornes or arrowe heads out of the flesh.
For women that be barren.
Against the Collick.
Against the infection of the skinne.
To cause a woman to bring forth a dead creature.
Against the crestes of the piles in the fundiment.
To remedie a tongue aggrauated, which through ouer∣much moysture pronounceth not well.
To heale the paine of the Collick.
To drie vp milke in the brests.
To deminish the fleugme of the bodie, and to augment the bloud.
A remedie to cause conception.
To heale paine in the feete.
To heale Wheales.
To heale inward ruptures.
To remedie griefes proceeding through going out of the ioyntes, and to heale swellings.
To heale the paine of the splene and the Ptisick.
To remedie the puntures of bones or stingings of dead Serpents.
To take away wearinesse, after great labor and griefe of the members.
To heale one that lotheth meate.
To heale percussions of the eyes.
To remedie the paine of the splene.
Against the great griefes of the body.
To heale the plurisey.
To remedie the stinking at the nose, and difficultie of hearing.
To heale the scorchings of fire.
To dissolue the crestes of the French disease.
Against swellings of womens bellies that make them to seeme with childe.
To clense the face from spottes.
To heale the torsions and griefes of the bellie.
To remedie the burning or heate of vrine.
To remedie percussions or falling vpon the ribbes or back.
Against burning occasioned of colde.
To heale wheales or blisters in the face.
To make skarres become fayre of colour.
To take away the bleachnesse of blowes.
Against the swellings of Percussions.
To heale those that haue paine in their lyuer.
To heale the paynes of the brests, which happen after the birth of a childe.
Against the scurfe of the head.
To heale a plurisey by spitting.
Against moyst sores.
To heale woundes, which after they are whole brust out a newe, by reason of a pu∣trified bone.
To heale the crestie swellings of the Piles.
Against euill disposition through cold∣nesse of the stomack.
To heale the losse or diminishing of smelling.
To cause that heare shall not grow againe.
To heale cleftes or chappings of the fundiment.
Against retention of vrine in Agues.
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