An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C.
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- An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C.
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- T. C., fl. 1579.
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- Imprinted at London :: For Edward White, at the little northdore of Paules Churche, at the signe of the gun, and are there to bee solde,
- 1579.
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- Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
- Plague -- Treatment.
- Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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"An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17489.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- ¶To all suche Readers as haue care of their bodylie healthe.
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An hospitall for the diseased.
- A preseruatiue againste the Plague.
- For the partie infected with the Plague.
- A medicine to breake the Botch.
- A medicine for the Plague.
- A playster to drawe the sore.
- A good medicine against the plauge approued.
- A soueraigne drinke against the Pestilence.
- A playster to drawe a hed to the sore of the plague, and to breake it.
- A medicine that was taught King Henrie the seuenth by his Physition a∣gainst the pestilence.
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A medicine to be dr
nke suspectyng any to haue the Plague. - Also for the vsuall drinke of euery patient beyng so infected.
- Also an other drinke to be taken euery mornyng, for a preseruatiue against the Plague, and for the auoidyng of infection.
- A good medicine against the Plague.
- For the Plague.
- For the Plague.
- A medicine for the Plague or Leprosie.
- An oyle for all maner of aches, bruses and strainynges of the Synewes.
- Far an ache.
- A medicine for an ache, or shrin∣king of Synewes.
- A medicine for an ache.
- A proued oyntment for aches.
- A medicine for an ache in any place.
- A medicine for achyng sores.
- For aches and swellynges in the knees.
- For a Sciatica or ache.
- A plaister for an ache.
- For an Ague.
- A medicine against the hote Feuer.
- A good medicine for an Ague, bee it quotidian, or quarten.
- A medicine for an Ague.
- For the Ague.
- For your drinke in an Ague.
- Drinke and potage in an Ague
- A medicine for the drought in an Ague.
- A medicine for a quarter Ague, and for the drought.
- A medicine against the Quarten.
- A medicine for the colde in a Feuer,
- A medicine against the hote Feuer.
- For the Ague.
- Against the corrupt ayre.
- To make a man haue an appetite to his meate.
- ¶ A good comfortable pouder to disgest well and many other good properties.
- To make Hypocras for a weake Stomacke.
- A medicine to cleanse the backe, and to purge the raines.
- A medicine for paine in the backe, and for the heate in the backe.
- For paine in the backe.
- A medicine for the raines of the backe.
- To driue out a paine or gripyng in the beallie.
- For the bityng of any vene∣mous beaste.
- A medicine for the bityng of a madde Dogge.
- A medicine to stoppe bleedyng.
- A medicine to stop bleedyng.
- An other medicine for the same.
- Another for the same.
- Another to stop bloud.
- For spittyng of bloud.
- For the same.
- To stench bloud at the nose.
- To stench bloud.
- Good for the braine.
- Ill for the braine.
- For stopping in the breast.
- For a stinking breath.
- A medicine for a bruse in the Legge, or arme or elswhere.
- Another playster for a bruse, or sore vnriped.
- For a bruse or straine.
- For allbruses and aches in the bones.
- A medicine for burnyng, scaldyng, or hurt with an handgun.
- An other medicine for the same.
- For burnyng and skaldyng.
- To take awaie a heate or burnyng with gunpouder.
- A medicine for burnyng and skaldyng.
- For burnyng or skaldyng.
- To make an oyntment for burning with gunpouder, or scaldyng with water.
- An oyntment for burnyng.
- For burnyng or scaldyng in what place so euer it be.
- For burning or scaldyng.
- A medicine for a burnyng for lacke of other thinges.
- Another medicine for the same.
- For a burnyng with fire.
- For a Cancar in a womans Pappes.
- For the Cancar in the mouthe.
- A receipt to still a Cocke.
- A medicine for the Collike.
- For the Collike in the side.
- A medicine for the Stone.
- An other for the same.
- An other to breake the stone.
- A medicine not onely to breake the stone, but also clearely to purge you thereof, if you doe vse thesame daiely.
- An other for the same.
- A medicine for the Collike or Stiche.
- For the Collicke and Stone.
- For the Collicke and Stone.
- For the Stone, and for hym that cannot pisse.
- ¶ A speciall medicine proued for the Stone, Collike, Dropsie, Strangurie, and Iaunders.
- A goodly pouder to helpe one that hath Collica passio.
- For the stone, or stoppyng of the water.
- A soueraigne medicine for the Stone and Collike, and to breake them bothe.
- A medicine to purge the bladder of hym that cannot pisse.
- For the same.
- For hym that cannot wellpisse.
- To prouoke Vrine, and against the Stone.
- To make one pisse.
- For a man that pisseth bloud.
- To prouoke Vrine.
- For the same.
- A drinke for the windie Collike.
- To take awaie Cornes.
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To doe awai
a Corne. -
For the sam
. - To make a water against a consumption.
- For a consuption in the raines.
- To wake Ielly for one that is in a consumption.
- An excellent medicine against the extreme cough.
- A powder for the Cough.
- Another for the cough, and to drye vp the rume and fleame.
- For the cough of the lunges.
- For the cough.
- A syrop for a cough.
- For the cough
- A remedye for the same.
- A medicine for the chinecough for children.
- A medicine for the cough and the whesing.
- For a cough.
- For the cough and for stopping at the brest and to open thepypes, and to auoyde much cor∣ruption.
- A soueraigne medicine for the cough of the lunges Maister Bakers medicine.
- For the Crampe.
- An excellent salue for a cutte.
- A salue for a newe cutte, that will not leaue bleeding.
- A medicine for deafenes in a mans head.
- A good medicine for deafnesse, vsed by Thomas Steeuens of Bushton.
- A soueraigne medicine for the payne and bushing in the head, which bindereth the hearing very much.
- For the payne in the eare.
- An oyntment for a swelling.
- To make a drinke for an extreame beate or drought.
- To make a dyet drinke.
- A water for the eyes.
- Good for the sight.
- Ill for the sight.
- A speciall good water for the eyes.
- To kill the pinne and webbe in the eye.
- An other for the same.
- For the Webbe in the eye if it bee olde.
- A good medicine for the eyes beyng either Pearle or Webbe.
- A water comfortable for the eye.
- For sore eyes.
- For the same.
- A water very comfortable for the eye sight.
- A drinke for the eye sight.
- A perfect water very good for the eyesight.
- For the hemeraudes, and to drie vp any sore.
- For the same.
- For the same.
- A medicine for a redde or high cou∣lored face.
- An other for the same.
- A medicine to destroye a heate in the face or in any other place, thought it bee Sanct Anthonies fire.
- For the pymples in the face.
- Good for a Felon.
- For the same.
- A medicine for boyles, felons, and vncomes.
- To ripe boyles, felons, or vncomes.
- A Gargresse for fleame.
- To breake the steame and for the Cough.
- To breake fleame.
- For the same.
- For the same.
- A medicine for the Flixe or Lax.
- For the same.
- A Candle for the bloudy Flix.
- A singular medicine for the blou∣die Flixe.
- An other for the same.
- For the bloudy Flixe.
- To stoppe the bloudy Flixe.
- For the bloudy flixe.
- A medicine for the falling of the fundament.
- A playster to heale a gowtie legge, a wounde or sore what∣soeuer.
- A playster for the gowt or ache in the ioyntes wher∣with the Lorde Riche was cured when all Surgions thought him to be vncurable.
- A medicine for the goute.
- A drinke for the gowt festered.
- A playster for the same.
- Good for the harte.
- Ill for the harte.
- A medicine for the passion at the harte. called termor cordes.
- A medicine for a continuall heade ache.
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A medicine
clens or purge the heade. - A medicine for the payne in the heade.
- A medicine for winde in the heade.
- For the headache.
- For the megrime or headache.
- A medicine for the megrime truely proued.
- For the megrime.
- An other for the same.
- A good medicine for the megrime. in the head.
- A medicine for the blacke Iaunders.
- An other medicine for the blacke Iaunders.
- For the blacke Iaunders. M. Anthony Cox prisoner.
- A medicine for the yellowe Iaunders.
- Another for the same.
- For the same.
- A remedie for the yellowe Iaunders.
- For the same.
- For the Yella.
- For the same.
- A very good medicine for an itche.
- To make one seeme young long, to purge the winde, and cleare the sight.
- To make a whey laxatiue.
- A good playster for festred legges that haue beene long sore.
- For the stopping in the liuer.
- Another for the same.
- For the same.
- For the same.
- For heate in the Liuer or drynesse in the handes.
- For the heate of the Liuer.
- For the Plurasie.
- For the plurasie or stich.
- For the Lunges.
- For the pricking of a thorne or needle in a ioynt and the hole be stopped againe.
- An easie purgation.
- An easie purgation.
- A playster to be laied to the side that the Melte is in.
- For the Morphewe.
- A medicine for the Morphewe.
- For the Morphewe white or blacke.
- A water to clense the mouth and to fasten the teeth.
- For to destroy a Ringworme.
- A medicine to kill a Tetter or Ryngworme, or any kinde of Itche.
- A restoritie, whiche diuerse noble men haue vsed, and it hath prolonged their life.
- To heale the vessell wherein Nature lieth, if it bee broken.
- For the Palsey.
- An other for the same.
- For lamenesse in the side commyng by palsey.
- A medicine very good especially for those that bee taken with the palsey, thoughnes the shaking Palsey.
- A medicine for the Palsey that ta∣keth awaie the speeche.
- For the same.
- A medicine for the Palsey.
- A medicine for the piles.
- To stanche bleedyng of the piles.
- To destroye the piles.
- A true medicine for the piles.
- ¶ To make a Salue to bryng woundes that rancle, and ake, into their owne kinde, and seace the burnyng and achyng.
- For a wounde that is ouer healed, and sore vnderneath.
- A plaster for a greene wounde.
- ¶To make Milonitret, to cure any greene wounde, or vncome, or others, what soeuer thei bee.
- ¶A water to cure all maner woundes and sores, bee thei neuer so sore and slinking, and all maner of Cankers in the nose, mouthe, throte, or whersoeuer.
- A medicine or drinke for hym that is burste in the beally or coddes.
- For the toothe ache.
- A good drinke to put out the small Poxe or pimples.
- A present remedie for an Ague.
- For the same.
- For the Collicke.
- For the windie Collicke.
- For the Collicke and Stone.
- For a paine in the side that commeth of winde.
- To remoue a disease from the stomacke.
- For them that doe caste vp their meate by reason of weakenesse of the stomake.
- A drinke for clensing the stomacke, to be taken luke warme in the morning.
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A drinke to auoyde the fleame out of the stomacke,
o make it easier to come vp, you maie take of it a spoonefull or two, continu ∣ally when you neede. - A remedie against the Plague was sent to the Lord Mayre of London from King Henrie the eyght.
- Another for the same.
- To cause one to sleepe.
- For a sore throte.
- For the hickop.
- For a Canker in the mouth.
- For a laste.
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¶ A medicine very precious called Flos vnguentorum, go
all maner of maladies, that is to tte, agains all sores and woundes, against all manner mpostumes in the heade or bodie, against headache, singing in the braine, or boyling in the harte, shrinking of Synewes, it draweth out any thorne or broken bone, and all manner of ache out of the Liuer, Spline or Lungs, it helpeth the Hemerodes, and is very good to make a seare cloth for all goutes, aches, and pestilent botches, and therefore this trett is worthely called Flos vnguentorum. -
To make the blacke salue, that cureth all olde sores and vlcers, bee the
neuer so greate foule, and stincking.