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¶ Medicines for S. Anthonies fire, Carbuncles, fellons, burns, crampes, or contractions of sinewes. [unspec F]
THe suet or grease of vnwashed wooll incorporat with oile of Roses and Tutie, is a proper liniment for S. Anthonies fire: so is the bloud of a tike, and earth-wormes reduced into an vnguent with vineger: but especially these Cricquets, crushed and wrought within ones
hand to the consistence of an vnguent and so applied. And this medicine last mentioned, is pas∣sing [unspec G] effectuall for the party himselfe that hath the handling of it: for it assureth him afore hand, that he shall not fal into the said disease in a whole yere following: but this Criquet must bee digged out of the ground with some instrument of yron, and the earth & all to be taken vp with it, for to serue in this cure. Moreouer, it is said, That goose grease is very good in this case: so are the ashes of a Vipers head kept dried & then calcined, if the same be afterwards applied in form of a liniment with vineger. The old sloughs that snakes cast off, reduced into an vnguent with Bitumen and Lambs suet, quencheth this burning humor of S. Anthonies fire, if the body be an∣nointed therewith tempered in water, presently after the baine.
As for Carbuncles, the means to rid them away, is to annoint them either with Pigeons dung alone, or els mixed with Lineseed and honied vineger: likewise, it is good to make a cataplasme [unspec H] of those Bees which haue bin drowned or killed in their own honey, and lay the same vpon the sore. Others apply vnto them either a pultesse of fried Barley groats, or else a pouder made with their meale. If there be a carbuncle risen in their priuities, the fattinesse of greasie and vnwashed wooll, incorporat in hony and the skales refuse or cinders of lead, into a salue, cureth it: and the same healeth generally all other botches or vlcers in those parts. Sheeps dung that is fresh and greene, they hold to be singular for carbuncles, taken in the very beginning.
All tumors and hard swellings, which had need to be mollified, are made soft and brought downe most effectually with Goose grease, or the fat of a Swan.
Moreouer it is said, That a spider laid to any fellon, before it be once named what thing it is eureth the same; but it must not be remoued from the place before the third day. The mouse [unspec I] called an Hardishrew hanged vp aliue vntill it be dead, is very good for these fellons, in case it touch not the ground afterward, and that there be 3 circles or turnes made with it round about the sore; so that withall both the patient and the party that hath this cure in hand, spit vpon the floore three times in the doing thereof. Also the dung of Cocke or Henne (that which looketh reddish especially) tempered with vineger & laid to a fellon, healeth it: but the said dung ought to be fresh and newly meuted. Of the same operation and effect is the gisier of a Storke boiled in wine. Some there be that take certain flies of some odde and vneuen number, bruise and work them into the consistence of a saue, with their * 1.1 ring-finger, and therewith apply them to the fellon. Others vse for the said purpose the filth ingendred in sheeps ears: old sheeps tallow mix∣ed with the ashes that come of womens haire, reduced into a liniment, serueth to cure the sayd [unspec K] accident so doth rams suet mixed with the ashes of a pumish stone calcined, and a like quantity in weight of salt.
As for burns and sealdings, the ashes of a dogs head burnt, are singular good to cure the same: so be the ashes of Dormice tempered with oile; sheeps treddles also mixed with wax: the ashes of mice and shel snails; and this medicine will skin them so cleane, that there shall no scarre re∣maine afterwards to be seen. In like manner, the grease of Vipers: or the ashes of Pigeons dung calcined and reduced into a liniment with oile.
Touching the nodosities of the sinewes, the ashes of a Vipers head burnt and brought into an vnguent with the oile Cyprinum, is thought to be a soueraign medicine for the resolue them. [unspec K] Likewise, earth-wormes made into a cataplas•…•…e with honey, and so applied vnto the affected place. But if the said s•…•…ews do ake and be pained, bind vnto them the serpent called Amphis∣baena dead, and it will ease the griefe. The like effect you may looke for of Vultures grease, to∣gether with the gisier of the said foule, dried or stamped with old swines grease or lard, and so reduced into a liniment. And if we may giue any credit to the Magitians, a drinke made of ho∣nied wine, spiced with the ashes of a scrich-owles head, together with a Lillie root, wil work the same effect.
In contractions of the sinewes, it is good to eat the flesh of stock-doues, especially if the same hath bin poudered and kept in salt. The flesh likewise of an Hedgehog is as good for crampes and spasmes: as also the ashes of a Weazil. The old slough that snakes leaue off, infolded with∣in a piece of a Buls skin or leather made thereof, is good to be worne tied about one for to pre∣uent this disease: and more particularly for those spasmes or convulsions that draw the sinews [unspec M] of the neck so, as the head is pluckt backward, there is not a better medicine than to drinke the poise of three oboli of a kites liuer dried, in as many cyaths of mead or honied water.
When the skin turneth vp about the roots of the nails, or the excrescence of the flesh putteth
the fingers to pain, which accidents be called in Latine Reduviae, and in Greek Pterygia: it were [unspec A] good to vse to them the ashes of a dogs head calcined, or the matrice of a bitch sodden in oile; with this charge, to annoint them aloft with a liniment of butter, made of ewes milke and hony incorporat together. The burse likewise or little bladder, which containeth in it the gall of any beast, is good for this purpose.
If the snailes be ragged and rugged, it is not amisse to apply vnto them Cantharides incor∣porat with pitch, without reemoouing this plaister before the third day: or els to lay vnto them Locusts fried in Goats suet: sheeps tallow also is good therefore. Some mix therwith Birdlime made with Misselto and Purcelane tempered together: others take Verdegris or rust of brasse and the foresaid birdlime, but they remoue not the plaister off in three daies.
Medico. i. the fourth or n•…•… to the little finger.