Book II;

■The motion and revolution of humours in fuch as are dead.
John 1 i*
why chrifl rai- fed Lazarus no fooneu
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Remedies for the Night- mare.
The force of P ionic.
Of the Epileffe's Violence.
avwitii Torcuc: ana Caddies,; that vviiilcft t lit y are lighted they do not ft ink., but whfc,, they are put out, they fill the room with a {linking favour. V’\ lure fore the danger is greater to be pre¬ fers when a man dies of the plague, than when he is yet alive, or dead and grown cold and fliff.But il you kec p thefe bodies a little too long unburicd, they become if ii king Caifafies, and they do by lit tie, and little fend forth filthy exhalations, and corrupt fil¬ thy matter runs from them, which happens but feldome in the Apoplex and other cold dife ales of the brajn ., unlefle it be vtry hot weather, or the boJies be very far. And if there be no fuch matter to hinder, tl ey need not be buried till three dayes be over. For when feventy two hours are over, the humours ceafe to move, and If ir nor, becaufe in that time the Moon hath palled one fign in the Zodiack, by force whereof the humours run in the body : which fome fay was the reafon, that Chrifl took occasion toraiie Z^^mmiraculoufiy that was dead four dayes, left any man fhould fay he was not dead, but onely in a trance, and come tohimfeif again. Aifo when he by his Death and Re- furredion wrought mans faivation, he took the fame occafion. For befides that he had a mortal wound on his fide, he lay three dayes in the Sepulchre, to take away all objedions from them who would fpeak irreverently, and not as they ought concerning his Death and Refurredion, but calumniate all he faid or did. In which errour and rnadneffe the fews continue even to this day. But fince thofe difeafes are fo formidable that bereave a man of his underftanding, that all the {landers by are frig bred at it, 1 fhall do a confiderable work, to add fome prefent remedies, and thofe not ordinary, whereby every one that is unskilful in Phyftck, may preferve himfelf and his family from them. And becaufe alldikafes of the brain, efpecially fuch as proceed from a cold humour, are near of kin, thefe remedies may be ufed to them all indifferently, as to Ioffe of memory, vertigo’s, panting of the heart, trembling, Epilepfies, Lethargies, Apoplexies, and for the hag and night marc, and other difeafes of the night, which difeafe is called by the Greeks Amongft innumerable remedies
again!! thefe difeafes, I have found four efpecially to be moft ef- fcdluall, not fo much approved by experience as by reafon. The round black Piony feed ; for the corner’d and red colour’d feed is ufelcffe herein : the round bulbous root of Squils, the fhavings of mans skull 5 and Miift’dtoe. I fhould fbew feverally how "they perform thcleeftebts, and by what reafon they perform it.
yalen crycs upPionie as much as Cato did Coleworts, which not onely by an Elementary quality but from the whole fubftance of it and fecret property, refills this difeafe. And it will raife children that fall, becaute it is not fo ftrong in them, if it be but hanged about their necks. For it difeuffeth and confumes the flegmatique humour that is the feminary of this difeafe. Alfo the feeds of this given inwardly will do it more eftc&ually in fuch as arc of years. For it drinks up the windy venemous miofture, and
brings
Ghap. 3.
Of the Epilepjie’s violence.
brings the body to a hotter and dryer temper. Some fay, this feed is the beft, that comes from the full increafe of the friale Pionie.
For a long time it brings forth unprofitable (hoots Without Iced.
But when ic is of per fed growth, the husks cleave* and in one part you (hall fee berries very fmooth and black * ih akbther, ker¬ nels of a ihining fcarlet red colour. The black feed tiibffc be kept for ufe. Yet not fo fuperftitioufly, as to Hdld, that the feed of the next year is unetfedual 5 fdr that feed that comes after ten years, is a pre fent rertiedy if it be not rotten and decay’d.
Squills are better than Pionie, and have a woftderfull force and wbat free faculty, ndtonely forthe Epifopfie, but alfo for all difeafesthat squMs bapt h proceed of a damiiiy viftouS hUtUout,in what part foever of the 1 e£*leWt: body. For it hath an abftcrgent fotcetodifidlve atllclartirriy things.
For which ufe I ufc to give a fpoohfbl of art oxymel that 1 make of it, which becaufe it is exetedihg bitter, I ufe to rtiihglfc it with fyrup of French Lavender , and I put ih a little Nutmeg to it ; alfd I comihand them to Wa(h their riiouthes With vinegar of Squills, fd as to (wallow it down by degrees.
Alibi firid, that the fhavings of fiianssktill&re dpfefeht remedy to dry up criofe hufnotlrs that edrife fchofe difeafeS, if forne pslrt of a marls Skull feraped off be givtn to d inafi* or of a WelmanS skull id a woman, arid thdt in wine* or Oxymel Of Squills, *rtot by any hid¬ den quali y,but becaufe it drye's exceedingly : for Which cdufethe nihiler aiid blood of a Hare ftayes the bloody fltix,and other fluxes of the belly; fo I find by experience, that marts bones grated gi¬ ven for the dyfentery in red Wine, will ftdp ir* by a binding qua¬ lity, and drying force, Which alfo is excellently performed by ar^ lificial Fijuphaltam, that is, Arabian Aittmfnie , if yort mingle but d little ; lea- Amber, which is called SptrntetCKti. Mifielto is hexrto Miifclttf A thefe if not before them ; arid it is called vifew, beeatife there is d clammy humour iri the berries, which if you rub it with youf '{pMjlikt Aft* fingers is l ike birdlime ; for by that word is not mtdnt venemous ktfi** glew, and fnotty matter called txia, that will inflame the tongue, and glew all the Ent^als together : Butafhrubby plaht; that the Priefts and DrttiJes of Prince^ asCdfar calls them, held moil fa- cmmwul.6, cred. It never growes on the earth, but is alwayes green, upoft tfhe Oke and Holm Tret ; nor of any feed, but from the eXcremeht of the wood pigeon and blackbird. I have often feett that fnrUb a cubit in height, gfetn as a Itek Within* browriifh without, and the leaf like box leaft,almoft Saffron colour’d, Which P'iroit the Father of a 11 Learning,and who Was as Well verfed iri tfec: kriowledg ^
of all things as any man, fees doWn iri elegdnt verfe 5
Taltf Crat faciei atiri fhondentts opaca IB&tiAAi $
Jlice ; (ic leni ttepitabant brtiBei vento :
Qjale fulet (ilvis brdrnali ttmpote P~ifcdrh Fronde virete ndva, quod non fa ferriintit arbo St croceo fast u teretes circundare tr uncos,
• - -Latet arbore opaca
Aurem
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Of the Epilepfie’s ’violence.