Natura exenterata: or Nature unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of her. Wherein are contained, her choicest secrets digested into receipts, fitted for the cure of all sorts of infirmities, whether internal or external, acute or chronical, that are incident to the body of man. / Collected and preserved by several persons of quality and great experience in the art of medicine, whose names are prefixed to the book. Containing in the whole, one thousand seven hundred and twenty. Very necessary for such as regard their owne health, or that of their friends. VVhereunto are annexed, many rare, hitherto un-imparted inventions, for gentlemen, ladies and others, in the recreations of their different imployments. With an exact alphabetical table referring to the several diseases, and their proper cures.

Sundry Waters for several Uses.

A Water to take the heat from the stomack.

TAke a good handful of violet leaves, a root of Henbane, scrape it and boyl them together in a quart of water, and wash the soals of the feet with the water; then lay them with your hand upon the ball of the foot as hot as he can endure it, then wrap the feet in a warm cloth.

A Water to wash the Fundament for the hanging out of the same.

Take a quart of Red-wine, and a handful of red Rose leaves dry∣ed, and an ounce of Pomgranat flowers dried, and beaten into grosse Powder, and let them boile on the fire half away; and take it and put it into a close pot, and every time that the Patient goeth to the stool, take a little and warm it, and bathe the place, and wet a spunge, and wring the moisture; sit upon it as hot as you may the space of a quarter of an hour; and within ten times it will help.

For the same.

Take Barley meal, and cast it upon the Fundament, but take heed you do not handle it.

A Water for sores Eyes.

Take a new laid egg, and take out the yolk, and put unto the white as much Coperas as a fitch, and the roots and leaves of Dai∣sies and red Fennel, and stamp it, and strain it, and put to the white of the egg, then set it upon the embers till the white of the egg be ga∣thered, and alwayes stir it upon the fire, and then wring it through a fine cloth, and so use the water.

A Water for a Canker in the mouth.

Take a pint of White-wine, one handful of buds of red Roses, play them, and strain them, and put to the wine a good spoonful of clarified honey, and put to it a good quantity of Vineger, and a little Allom, and wash where need is.

A most precious and excellent Water for the Eyes.

By Mrs. Downing.

Take red Fennel, Euphrasia, ••li••s Eyebright, Vervain, Tormen∣til, Betony▪ Red-rose, Grape-leaves, Appovarmemorid, Ground-Ivy, and Ivy that growes on an Oak, of all these al••ke much. It must be used thus for three or four nights. The first day and night in the water of a Man-child and a Virgin; the second day and night in a womans milk, the fourth day and night in clear honey. This done take all these herbs, and put them in a Stillatory, and the water that comeththereof, it must be put in a Viol; and when you wil use it, put one clear drop thereof into your eye; and into this put the fourth part of an ounce of an Onyser beaten in a Mortar. This is a precious Medicine.

This is a special Remedy for the eyes to clarifie the sight, and cu∣rable to all passions in the eye, as hath been proved many times. It is profitable for Scriveners and such like.

This Water maketh the sight bright, it putteth away the bloodi∣nesse of the eyes; it will destroy a Pearle; it overcometh the Me∣grim, and it will heal the eye which is smitten with a stroke.

A Water for the Pearl in the Eye.

Take ground Ivie, and bruise it very smal, and an Egg being new laid, and hard roasted; then take the white thereof, and beat both the white and Ivie together, then strain it, and put thereof one drop at once into the Patients Eye.