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Author: Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?
Title: The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.
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Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?
London: Printed by T.H. and M.H., and are to be sold by Thomas Whittaker, 1648.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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To the Honourable and singularly vertuous, Mris. MARGARET EVRE, The Authour consecrateth these his Labours.
THE Preface to the Reader.
A Catalogue of such Authours, whose helpe I have used in this worke.
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imprimatur
The Marrow of Physick.
CHAPTER I. Of Elements.
CHAP. II.
Of Temperaments.
Of Ages.
CHAP. III. Of Humours.
CHAP. IV. Of Members.
CHAP. V. Of Faculties.
CHAP. VI. Of the Actions.
CHAP. VII. Of Spirits.
CHAP. VIII. Of things not naturall, which is the second part of Physicke.
CHAP. IX. Of Aire.
CAAP. X. Of meate and drink.
CHAP. XI. Of Labour and Rest.
CHAP. XII. Of sleeping, and waking.
CHAP. XIII. Of Repletion, and Inanition.
CHAP. XIV. Of passions and perturbations of the mind, which are commonly called the accidents of the mind.
CHAP. XV. Of things against nature, which is the third part of Physicke, and first of a disease.
CHAP. XVI. Of the causes of diseases.
CHAP. XVII. Of a simptome.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
CHAP. XX.
CHAP. XXI.
CHAP. XXII. Weights and measures used in physick are these that follow with their marks and notes.
CHAP. XXII. A Catalogue of such instruments as are requisite in private house: for those that are desirous to compound medicines themselves.
CHAP. XXIV. For the better understanding of some hard words used in this worke you must note that,
CHAP. XXV. What a Medicine is, and the difference of Medicines.
CHAP. XXVI. The forme of making Medicines. Of Clisters.
CHAP. XXVII. Of Suppositaries.
CHAP. XXVIII. Of Nodules.
CHAP. XXIX. Of Pessaries.
CHAP. XXX. Of Iuleps.
CHAP. XXXI. Of Pills.
Ʋnguents. CHAP. XXXII.
To make Vnguentum aureum.
Vnguentum Enulatum.
Vnguentum Populeon.
Vnguentum Aegyptiacum.
Vnguentum Apostolorum.
Vnguentum Album.
Vnguentum Vulpinum, or Ointment of a Foxe.
Vnguent of Saint Cosme and Damian.
A very good ointment for any Ach, or Bruise, for any Noise in the head, or to draw out a Thorne.
An Ointment of the Wormes of the earth, good to strengthen the Back, to coole it, and take away the Ache.
An Ointment for a Bruise, and Swelling, also for the Piles.
An Ointment which I used with good successe to a woman who had a paine in her Hip, without any tumour proceeding from the retention of her monthly Visits.
An ointment for the face after the Foxe are dryed, to cause them to fall off without leaving any Markes.
Another for the same, and which mightily cleares the skin.
An ointment for Aches and Bruises, Stitches, Goute, and Lamenesse.
An ointment for a burne or scald.
Vnguentum de Calcantho, good for old Vlcers, Mundi∣fieth evill flesh, and Incarnateth.
An ointment for an Ache.
A precious Oyntment against all Pains, and Griefes.
A good Oyntment to cleanse a Sore, both old, or new.
An Oyntment for Scabbes, Ring-wormes, or any other breaking out.
A good Oyntment for the Spleene.
An Ointment for burning or scalding.
Vnguentum Aleblastrum.
An Ointment to asswage paine, and coole.
To make Flos Vnguentorum.
Of Oyles. CHAP. XXXIII.
To make Oyle of Roses.
Oyle of Violets.
Oyle of Mints.
Oyle of Wormwood.
Oyle of Lillies.
Oyle of sweet Almonds.
Oyle of bitter Almonds.
Oyle of Wormes.
Oyle of Rue.
Oyle of Baye.
Oyle of Scorpions.
Oyle of Turpentine.
Oyle of Mastick.
Oyle of Tilestones.
Oyle of the Yolkes of Egges.
Oyle of Hypericon: or, S. Iohns Wort.
Oyle of Whelpes, for wounds made by Gunshot.
Oyle of Vitrioll.
An Oyle approved for the Sciatica.
Oleum Benedictum.
The composition of Oleum Magistrale, invented by Aparice a Moriscoe living in Spaine.
The true application of this Oyle according to the qualities of the Wounds, and Diseases, doth consist in these points following, viz. To the Patient, to the Pre∣parative, to the Wound, or Diseases, to the Plai∣ster, to the dis∣eased Part.
For the Haemorroids.
For the Gouts.
For Cankers.
For paine in the Reines.
For old Vlcers.
To make Oyle of Snailes.
To make Oyle of a Dogge for the Gowt.
An Oyle for the Palsie.
To make Oyle of Swallowes.
An Oyle for a noise in the Head.
An Oyle for the dead Palsie.
Oyle of Mastick.
Oyle of Storax Calamite.
Oyle of Galbanum.
Oyle of Myrrhe.
Oyle of Sagapenum.
Oyle of Castoreum.
Oyle of Ambre.
Oyle of Ammoniacum.
Oyle of Waxe.
Oyle of Butter.
The quintessence of Honey.
Oyle of Cinamon.
Oyle of Mace.
Oyle of Cloves.
Oyle of Nutmegs.
Oyle of Pepper.
Oyle of Saffron.
Oyle of Quince seed made by expression.
Oyle of Rosemary flowers.
Oyle of Time.
Oyle of sweet Margerome.
Oyle of Mint.
Oyle of Peneroyall.
Oyle of Sage.
Oyle of Isop.
Oyle of Ivy.
Oyle of Rue.
Oyle of Aniseeds.
Oyle of Fennell seed.
Oyle of Parceley seed.
Oyle of Radish seed is made by expression.
Oyle of Mustardseed.
Oyle of Colewortseeds.
Oyle of Linseed, or Flaxe seed.
Oyle of Mans-skull.
Oyle of Saturne, and Iupiter, that is, of Lead, and Tin.
Oyle of Mercury, or Quicksilver.
Oyle of Hempseed.
Emplaisters. CHAP. XXXIV.
Emplastrum de Ianna.
Emplastrum Divinum.
The black Emplaister.
To make an attractive Plaister for the Gout.
An excellent Emplaister to heale any Wound, or Ache.
Sir Philip Parys his Emplaister.
A most approved Plaister for a Rupture.
A Plaister very excellent for the Sciatica.
A Plaister to heale, Cicatrize, and asswage paine.
To make Oxycrotium good for old Bruises, and Ache in the Limmes, and to dissolve hard Impostumes, also for broken Bones, and Wounds that have beene healed faire without, but rankle within.
Another Oxycrotium for any other Ache in the Body, or paine in the Breast, or for the Sciatica.
Doctor Morsus Plaister, called Oxecrotium.
An Emplaister for an Ache.
A Salve to Draw, and Heale.
A good Emplaister for old Sores, or new.
An Emplaister called, Gratia Dei.
An Emplaister for a Bruise in the Leg, or Arme, or elsewhere.
To make a blacke Salve that cureth all old Sores, and Vlcers, be they never so foule, and stinking.
A good Emplaister for an Ache.
To make the greene Salve.
A very excellent Salve for Wounds, and old Sores.
A Salve for fresh Wounds.
A Plaister to ripe an Impostume.
Another for the same.
A Gratia Dei for all Wounds, and Vlcers.
An Emplaister to heale Cankers, Fistulaes, and maligne Vlcers.
A Plaister for shrinking of Sinewes.
The Tobacco Salve for fresh Cuts.
A Salve to heale any Wound.
A Plaister for the Gout, or Ache in the Ioints.
The black Salve good for any fresh Wound.
A very good Salve to heale an old inveterate Sore.
A Salve for all manner of Wounds, and Sores that be curable.
Powders. CHAP. XXXV.
A Powder for Hollow Vlcers.
A Powder to incarnate Wounds.
A Powder to stay bleeding of a Wound.
A Powder Adstrictive to be used in stitching of Wounds with Clothes.
Hollands Powder for the Cholicke.
To make the Powder called Pulvis sanctus, to Purge, the Dose whereof, is, ʒ i. ss.
A Powder for an Ague.
Powder of Turbith to purge Phlegme for Women, Children, or old Men, or for delicate Persons that live without labour.
A dredge Powder that purgeth Choler, Phlegme, and Melancholy.
A Sneezing Powder.
A most excellent Powder to provoke Vrine, and to send forth the Gravell and Stone.
To make white Damaske Powder.
To make common sweet Powder.
To make Damaske Powder.
A Powder for the Falling sicknesse.
A Powder for the Gout.
A Powder to rub the Teeth, and keep them white.
A Powder to stanch bleeding at the Nose.
A Powder for the Greene sicknesse.
A Powder for the Stone.
A Powder for the Falling sicknesse.
A Powder for the black Iaundies.
A Powder for a Stitch.
Waters. CHAP. XXXVI.
A good Water for Heates, and Inflammations of the Eyes.
A Water to cleanse a filthy cankerous Vlcer.
An excellent Water for the Vlceration of the Yard.
A Water for a Fistula.
A Water for the Toothache.
A Water for the Sight.
A precious Water for Sore Eyes, and to restore the Sight.
A Water for a Sore Mouth.
A precious Water for Sore Legs, and for the Canker in the Mouth, or any other place.
A Water for a Canker.
A Water to take away Pimples, or Heate in the Face.
A Water for to cleare the Face.
A Water for the Morphewe.
Another Water for the same.
A Water for heate in the Face, and to cleare the Skin.
A Water to preserve the Face young a great while.
A Water to make the face Smooth, and Lovely.
Another for the same.
Also this.
Another.
A Water for Rednesse, and Pimples in the Face, which for the Milky whitenesse is called Virgins Milk.
To make a pretious Water.
To make Aqua mirabilis.
A Water for a Canker in the Mouth.
A Water for sore Eyes.
For sore Eyes.
A Water for a Webb, or Pearle in the Eye.
To make Eysell.
A precious Water for dimnesse of Sight.
A Water for the Humour which falls into the Eyes.
A Drinke to purge away Gravell breeding in the Kidnies.
A Water to be used in extremity of the Stone, when it stoppeth the Water.
A Water to destroy any Pearle, or Webb, or any Blood shotten in the Eyes.
A Water for the Stone.
Doctor Stevens his Aqua composita.
To procure Beauty, and cleanse the Face, or Hands.
A red Water to cure Vlcers.
A Water to coole the Liver.
For sore Eyes.
A Water for a Sore Mouth, to be made in May for all the yeare.
A Water for a bruised Eye.
Another for dim Eyes.
To make Hydromell, or Honied Water.
To make a good Ptisan.
A Water to heale any Sore Leg.
Water of Coperas.
For the Spots of the Morphew, a Water.
To take away the roote of the Morphew.
An excellent Water to help Pimples in the Face, and it is good for sore Eyes, and Pearles in the Eyes, or any Ache in the Head, Shoulders, or Knees.
A Drinke against the small Poxe, or any Feaver.
A Drinke against the Plague, Poxe, Measells, and other infectious Diseases.
A pretious Water for the Stone.
A Water to make the Face, and Hands white.
A Water for Pimples, and heate in the Face.
A Water to make the Stone slip, and to provoke Vrine.
For a Pearle, or Web, or Blood-shotten Eye.
A Water for an olde Sore.
To make Aqua coelestis, the Celestiall Water.
It is thus made.
Cataplasmes, or Poultisses. CHAP. XXXVII.
An excellent Cataplasme for any Swelling, Apostume, rankling Wound, or broken Bone.
A Poultis for a sore Breast.
A Poultis for a sore Throate.
A Poultis for any Swelling that comes of a hot cause.
A Poultis to be applyed to the bottome of the Belly to breake Winde, and move Vrine.
Another for the same.
Another.
A Poultis for the Sciatica.
A Cataplasme to suppurate a cold Tumour.
A Cataplasme to asswage Paine, and suppurate Tumours.
A Poultis for a Plague Sore, or Carbuncle.
A Cataplasme for the Shingles, to be applyed cold.
A Cataplasme for a Wrench, or Straine.
A Cataplasme for the Kings Evill, or the Tumour called Scrophula.
A Cataplasme to stay Flux of Blood in any part.
A Cataplasme for a sore Breast.
A Poultis for a sore Breast.
A good Poultis for an Impostume, or any sudden Swelling in any part of the Body. Also for a sore Breast.
A Poultis for the Palsey.
Balmes. CHAP. XXXVIII.
An excellent black Balme to agglutinate Wounds.
Banisters Balsame is thus made.
A good Balme against contraction and stiffenesse of mem∣bers, the water whereof cleareth the Eye-sight.
An excellent Balme of Earth wormes for the speedy curing of all manner of Wounds, especially those of the Ioynts, Sinews, and Tendons, and about the head it cureth prickes according to the first intention, and is good for Palsies, Cramps, Lame∣nesse, or Numnesse, and such like.
Vesalius his Balsame.
Fallopius his Balsame.
A very good Balme.
Bathes. CHAP. XXXIX.
A Bathe for a Rupture.
A Bathe for Diseases in the Legs, called Malum mortuum.
A Bathe for the Stone.
A Bathe for a Consumption.
A Bath for the retention of Womens Visits.
A Bathe to soften and mollifie the Skinne.
Observations for those that Bathe.
CHAP. XL. Of Stoves and Hot-houses.
Electuaries. CHAP. XLI.
To make an Electuary of the Iuyce of Roses.
To make Diaphaenicon.
To make the Electuary called Benedicta.
To make the Electuary called Confectio Hamech.
To make an Electuary called Hiera Simplex.
An Electuary for a Cough, or Cold.
The Electuary of an Egge, commonly called, Electuari∣um de ovo, against the Plague.
An Electuary to purge Melancholy.
An Electuary for the Ptisicke.
Sirrups. CHAP. XLII.
To make a most excellent Sirrup of Damaske Roses, made by that worthy and famous Doctor Andreas de Languina, a Spaniard, and commonly used by the Princes of Spaine, Germany, Italy, and France, and by the best learned men in those Countries.
To make Sirrup of Vinegar simple.
To make Sirrup of Vinegar compound.
To make Catholicum simplex.
To make Catholicum Majus.
To make a Sirrup of white Roses by infusion.
Sirrup of the Iuice of Lemmons.
Oxymel simple.
Sirrup of Endive.
Sirrup of Harts-tongue.
Sirrup of dry Roses.
Sirrup of Poppy.
To make Diacodion.
Sirrup of Violets compound.
Sirrup of Violets simple.
Sirrup of Hyssop.
Sirrup of Horehound.
Sirrup of the Iuyce of Buglosse.
Sirrup of Mint.
Sirrup of Coltsfoot.
Sirrup of Maidenhaire.
Sirrup of Wormewood.
Sirrup of Radish.
Sirrup of Mugwort.
Sirrup of Alchachenge, or Morrell of the Hill.
An excellent Sirrup to preserve the Lunges, and for Astma.
A Sirrup for the cough of the Lunges.
Another Sirrup for the same, and to open Obstructions, and help a short breath.
A Sirrup for a Cold.
Pilles. CHAP. XLIII.
To make Pilles of Aristolochia.
Pills of Agaricke.
Pills called, Without which I would not be.
Stomack Pills.
Pills of Ruffus, called common Pills, or Pestilentiall.
CHAP. XLIV.
First, Of the foure cordiall Flowers, which are
The five Emellient hearbes are
The foure great hot seeds.
The foure lesse hot seeds.
The foure great cold seeds.
The foure lesse cold seeds.
The five great common Rootes aperitive, and diuretick.
The two Rootes.
The foure Pleuretick Waters.
The five lesse opening Rootes.
The three Stomachiall Oyles.
The five Capillar hearbes.
The foure hot Oyntments.
The foure cold Oyntments.
The common hot Flowers.
The foure Ointments wherewith a Chirurgion ought to be stored.
CHAP. XLV. Notes for those that shall practise the compounding of Medicaments.
To make pulp of Dates.
To prepare and correct Sene.
To wash and prepare Fats.
To make Hony of Raisons.
To make dispumed Honey.
Rose Vineger.
To make the decoction of flowers and fruits much used in purgations.
To make Iuice of Licoras.
To make Aloes Rosatum.
To make May Butter.
To make Salt of Cerusse, described in my receits for Beauties.
The manner to prepare Goats blood, wonderfull efficacious in Medicines for the Stone.
To make Metheglin.
To make Cider.
An excellent way to wash Aloes.
To make Lute sapientiae, to lute the Receivers in distilla∣tions, or to lute Pots in any decoction.
To make Honey of Roses.
To know the vertues of hearbes in all Seasons.
Preserves, and Conserves. CHAP. XLVI.
To preserve Cherries.
To preserve Quinces.
To preserve Damsons, Peareplums, or any other kinde of Plummes.
To make Marmalade of Quinces.
To preserve Grapes, Barberies, or Gooseberries.
To keep Quinces rawe all the yeare.
To make Paste of Oranges, and Lemons.
To make Paste of Genua the true way.
To make Paste of any tender Plummes.
To make Marmalade of some of these Plummes.
To make conserve of any of these Fruits.
To make Conserve of tender Fruits, or Berries.
To Preserve Fruits greene.
To Preserve these Plummes when they are ripe.
To dry Pippins as cleare as Amber.
To dry Apricocks very Orient and cleare.
To dry Plummes▪ or Cherries.
To dry Peares without Sugar.
To dry Peare-Plummes, or other Plummes.
To dry Orenges or Lemmons.
To dry Lettice Stalkes, Arcichhcke Stalkes, or Cabbage Stalkes.
To Candy Barberries, Grapes, or Gooseberries,
To dry any fruits after they are Preserved.
To make cleere Cakes.
To Candy the cleare Rocke Candy.
To Candy Eringoe Rootes.
To Candy Suckets, Orenges, Lemmons, Pome-citrons, and Lettice Stalkes.
To Candy Flowers after another fashion used in Spaine.
To make Lozenges of any of these Flowers.
To make a Marchpane, Ice it, garnish it, and gild it.
To make Rashers of Bacon.
To make Makeroones.
To make Naples Bisket.
To make French Bisket.
To make Prince Bisket.
To boile Sugar to a Manus Christi height.
To boile Sugar to a Candy height.
To make Marmalade of Oranges, or Lemmons.
Miscellanea. CHAP. XLVII.
To make Ielly of Flesh.
To make Harts-horne Ielly.
To make the Court Ielly.
A remedy for the Fluxe.
For an old Cough, or Ptisicke.
For a Consumption.
To make a good Searecloth to skin, and heale.
A Medicine for the Spleene.
For an Apostume in the Head.
For a weake Backe.
For the small Poxe.
For a Fellon.
For buzzing in the Eares.
To stay a Laske.
For the Goute.
For Earewigges, or any Worme crept into the Head.
For a Fellon.
For the stinging of a Waspe, or Bee.
For a Stitch in the Side.
To stay the immoderate Fluxe of Women.
A speciall Medicine for the Goute.
For the Megrim.
To stay the bloody Fluxe.
To cleare the Eyes when they are blood-shotten, or sore.
For wilde Fire.
For to stay the humour that flowes to the Teeth, and Eyes through the Temples.
To give present ease to the goute.
For the Palsey.
To stop a Laske.
Another.
For one that is blasted.
To stop womens immoderate Fluxe.
To provoke the monthly Visits.
For them that cannot hold their Water.
To stay a Laske.
For a Cough, or Cold.
For the running of the Reines.
For any Carbuncle, Plague Sore, Botch, Boile, or Imposthume.
A singular Medicine for Bone ache, in what place soever.
For all old Aches, and Paines in the Ioynts.
To cause one to voide Winde.
A good Purge.
To stay bleeding at the Nose.
For the bloody Fluxe.
To stay womens immoderate Fluxe.
For too much Vomiting.
For Freckles in the Face.
For an old Ioint sicknesse.
For a Botch, Boile, or Fellon.
To make a Iuice of Licoras to stay the Cough comming of Rheume, to be made in the beginning of May.
For a Fellon.
For those that are troubled with Rheume distilling downe their Throate in the night.
For a Bruise.
To take away the Morphew, and other filth from the Face, and Hands, and to make a new skin.
To make the Skin soft, and white after the said Medicine.
To breed Blood, and bring a good fresh Colour in the Face.
For the Spleene.
An approved laxative Whey for the Spleene.
To stanch Blood in Veine, or Artery.
To provoke Vomit, and to purge the Belly.
For the Dropsie.
For the Ptisicke.
For women with Childe that are subject to Miscarrying.
For the Cholicke.
For the Sciatica.
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READER, My absence from the Presse, hath caused some faults, which I shall desire thee to correct, as followeth.
In the first Part.
In the second Part.