¶ IN THE XXVI. BOOKE ARE CONTAI∣ned the medicines for the parts of mans bodie. (Book 26)
- ...Chap.
- 1. Of new maladies, and namely of Lichenes, what they be, and when they began to raign in Italie first. Of the Carbuncle, of the white Morphew or Leprosie called Elephantiasis, and of the Collicke.
- 2. The praise of Hippocrates.
- 3. Of the new practise in Physicke, of the Phy∣sician Asclepiades, and by what meanes hee abolished the old manner of practise, and set vp a new.
- 4. The superstitious follie of Magicke is deri∣ded. Also a discourse touching the foule tettar called Lichenes, the remedie thereof: and also the infirmities of the throat and chawes.
- 5. Receits and remedies against the kings euil: also for the diseases of the fingers and the breast, and against the Cough.
- 6. Of Mullin, of Cacalia, Tussilage or Fole∣foot, of Bechium, and Sauge, all herbes for to cure the cough.
- 7. For the paines of the sides and chist, for the difficultie of breath, and those that cannot take wind but sitting or standing vpright, for the pains of the liuer and the heart-ach, medicines appropriat to the lungs, difficul∣tie of vrine, and the cough, for the breast, for inward vlcers, for the kidnies and imbe∣cilitie of the liuer, to stay vomit and yex∣ing, also for the pleurisie and disease of the sides and flankes.
- 8. Of all diseases of the bellie and the parts ei∣ther within it or neare vnto it. How to stay the flux thereof, or to make it loose and so∣luble.
- 9. Of Peniroiall and Argemone.
- 10. Of water Lillie or Nenuphar, of abstinence from Venus, of prouocation to fleshly lust, of Ragwort or Satyrium, called Erythrai∣cum, of Crategis and Syderitis.
- 11. Generall remedies for infirmities of the feet, anckles, joints, and sinewes. Remedies against diseases that hold and possesse the whole bodie. Of Mirthryda. Medicines and meanes to procure sleepe: against the pal∣sie, agues with cold fits, feauers or agues in∣cident vnto labouring Horses, Asses, and Mules: against franticke persons. Of the herbe Chamaeacta, of Housleeke or stone∣crop, and Pricke-madame, of S. Antonies fire.
- 12. Remedies against dislocations in the joints, against the yellow jaundise, fellons, fistulaes, swelling of ventositie, burnes, scalds, and other diseases, for sinewes, and to stanch bloud.
- 13. Of the herb called Horse-taile, Nenuphar, Harstrange, Syderitis, of many other reme∣dies good to restraine the flux of bloud: of Stephanomelis and Erisithale, remedies a∣gainst the wormes.
- 14. For vlcers, old sores, and greene wounds: to take away werts, and of the herbe Polyc∣nemon.
- 15. Many good experiments either for to pro∣uoke or to stay the flux of womens months: soueraigne remedies for the diseases of the matrice: also to cast forth the fruit within the wombe, or to containe it the full time, for to take away the blemishes and spots in the skin, and namely of the face, to colour the haire, to cause the haire to fall, also a∣gainst the scab or maunge of foure-footed beasts.
In summe, this booke leadeth you to medicines, stories and obseruations, a thousand two hundred ninetie and two: collected out of
Latine Authours.
M. Varro, C. Volgius, Pompeius Lenaeus, Sextius Niger, and Iulius Bassus, who writ both in Greeke, Antonius Castor, and Cornelius Celsus.