heart and other parts must be made according to the figure of those parts. Their matter is usually taken from whole seeds fryed in a frying-pan, or made into powder; there are sometimes added roots, flowers, fruits, rinds, cordiall powders, and other dry medicines, which may bee easily brought into powder, and conduce to the grie∣ved parts; the quantity is different according to the magnitude of the affected parts; In the books of practisers it is commonly found prescribed from ℥iii. to ℥viss. some∣times flowers, and dry herbs are prescribed by handfulls and pugils: and here there is need of an artificiall conjecture to conceive and appoint a fit quantity of powders: but let us give you some examples.
{rum}. rosar. rub. p i. mastich. ℥ ss. coralli rub. ʒ iii. sem. anisi, & faenic. an. ʒ ii. nucis moschat. ʒ i. summitat. absinth. & menth. an. m i. tritis omnibus, fiat sacculus consutus & compunctus pro ventriculo.
℞. furfuris macri, p i. milii, ℥ i. salis, ʒ ii. rosar. rub. flor. rorismarini, staechados, ca∣ryoph. an. m ii. fol. beton. & salv. an. ʒ iii. tritis omnibus fiat cucupha, intersuta & cale∣facta fumo thuris, & sandarachae exustorum, capiti apponatur.
{rum}. flor. borag. buglos. & violar. an. p ii. cortic. citri sicci, macis, ligni aloes, rasurae e∣boris, an. ʒ i. ossis de corde cervi, croci, an. ℈ ii. fol. melis. m ss. pulveris diambrae, ʒ ss. contritis omnibus fiat sacculus è serico pro corde, irror andus aquascabiosae.
Wee use bagges for the strengthening of the noble parts, as the braine, heart, li∣ver, as also for those lesse noble, as the stomacke, spleene, breast; lastly for discus∣sing flatulen cies in what part soever, as in the collicke, and in a bastard pleurisie pro∣ceeding from flatulencies. The powders must bee strawed upon carded bombast, that they runne not together, and then they must bee sewed up or quilted in a bagge of linnen or taffaty.
Wee often times moisten these bagges in wine or distilled water, and sometimes not with the substance thereof, but by the vapour only of such liquors put into a hot dish: thus oft times the bagges are heated by the vapour onely, and oft times at the fire in a dish by often turning them. These, if intended for the heart, ought to bee of crimson or skarlet silke, because the skarlet berry, called by the Arabians Kermes, is said to refresh and recreate the heart. Certainly they must alwaies be made of some fine thing, whether it be linnen or silke.