The surgeons mate or Military & domestique surgery Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise as namely: wounds, apos fumes, ulcers, fistula's, fractures, dislocations, with ye most easie & safest wayes of amputation or dismembring. The cures of the scuruey, of ye fluxes of ye belly, of ye collicke and iliaca passio, of tenasmus and exitus ani, and of the calenture, with A treatise of ye cure of ye plague. Published for the service of his Ma. tie and of the com:wealth. By John Woodall Mr. in chyrurgerie.

A good Cordial Medicine for the poorer sort, though it were to women with Child; for they may take it softly.

* 1.1 TAke Bayberries, cleanse the husks, and dry them, untill they will be made into powder, then powder them, or for a need grate them, as you do Nutmegs, and give a small spoonful thereof in a

draught of white Wine, Ale, or Beer, and let the party be laid to sweat,* 1.2 and forbear sleep, it is a good and a safe Cordial, to which may be added Sugar, or cordial syrups at pleasure: and note, that even Galen, the Prince of Physicians, as I said, Attributeth unto Antidotes, mean∣ing the preservatives, that open the pores, and provoke sweat, the whole cure of the Plague, which this mean medicine mightily and* 1.3 safely doth. It also is exceeding good against the wind Collick, and all tortions and disturbances of the bowels.

Another good Cordial for the poorer sort.

* 1.4 TAke of the best Walnuts in number 20, chosen Figs 16, Rue, ℥. 1. se. Wormwood leaves, and seeds pickt, half a handfull, Gentian roots, ℥. 2. round Aristolochia roots, ℥. 3 long Aristolochia roots, ℥. 1. Torment. Diptam. roots, of each half an ounce, Bayberries half an ounce, common salt, ℥. 3. Mithridate ℥. 2. mix all artificially to ge∣ther, except the Mithridate; then weigh the whole lump, and take three times so much pure honey in weight, as all the ingrediences are, and being first all well wrought together, adde the Mithridate, and mix it also.

* 1.5 Keep this close covered, and give for a preservative the quantity of a Nutmeg; but by way of cure to provoke sweat, give as much as a Walnut thereof, and sweat well upon it: this is an approved good Medicine, and not much unsavoury to be taken, if it be truly made.

But if any person, for the unsavourinesse of a medicine, will refuse help, let him forbear, and expect, and take of what followes: and further note, that it will not be amisse, as I have said, that after any cordial medicine be swallowed down without liquor, that a cup of good wine be given; or in want of it, warm Posset-Drink, or Beer.

Another good Cordial for poor people at a mean price to be had.

* 1.6 TAke the kernels of Walnuts, of the herb Rue, and of chosen figs, of each ℥. 1. of common salt, ʒ. 2. of Saffron ʒ. 1. let all this be very well beaten together, with as much Wine Vineger as will work* 1.7 them up into the form of an Electuary, and take thereof fasting daily the quantity of two Drachmes.

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