The surgions directorie, for young practitioners, in anatomie, wounds, and cures, &c. shewing, the excellencie of divers secrets belonging to that noble art and mysterie. Very usefull in these times upon any sodaine accidents. And may well serve, as a noble exercise for gentle-women, and others; who desire science in medicine and surgery, for a generall good. Divided into X. parts. (Whose contents follow in the next page.) / Written by T. Vicary, Esquire, chyrurgion to Hen 8. Edw. 6. Q. Mary. Q. Eliz.

The vertue of certaine Herbes, and Drugs.

MAllowes, the Leaves boyled being eaten doth take away Hoarsnesse, and being pounded with Sage, they make a singular plai∣ster for Wounds and other Inflamations.

St. Johns-wort, the Seed thereof being drunk with Wine voideth the Stone out of the body.

Wormwood, is good against the Dropsie, taking often the leaves thereof confected with Suger.

Hysop, being boyled with Figges, Water, Honey, and Rew taken in drinke, is good for inflamation of the Lungs, it avoydeth flegme, and easeth an old Cough.

Sage, is good against all Cold and flegma∣tick diseases in the Head, and against all paines in the Joynts, being taken in drinke, or apply∣ed in fomentation; It is good for great bel∣lied women to eate, which are subject to tra∣vell before their time.

Mynt, beaten and made into a Plaister comforts a weake Stomack, it is very good to restore the smell, or the Feeling, if it bee often held to the nose; the Leaves dryed and beaten to powder kill wormes in Children; also it applied to the forehead, helpeth the Head-ach.

Time, taken in drinke is good to purge the Intrailes, or to make one spit out the evill hu∣mours of the Lungs, and in the Brest.

Rosemary, is very good against the Collick and casting up of Meat, by eating it in bread, or drinking it in powder in Wine.

Camomill, The leaves beaten and put into

white Wine, is good drinke against Quotidi∣an and quartern Agues, the decoction thereof drunk, healeth paines in the side, good against Feavers, and also to avoyd Urine.

Lillyes, The leaves thereof being boyled, heale burnings, and confected in Vineger and mingled with Saffron, and Cinamon, is good for Women that are delivered of Child with great difficulty and voydeth the after burden.

Baulme, The property of it in Wine is to comfort the Heart, to helpe digestion, to heale the feeblenesse of the heart, especially if the weaknesse be such that it causeth to breake sleepe in the Night, it stayeth the panting of the heart, and drives away cares; the leaves thereof taken in drinke is good against the bi∣ting of a Dog, or outwardly applyed is good to heale the Wound with the decoction of it.

Dogs tooth, The decoction of the leaves ta∣ken in drinke, helpeth the wringing of the bel∣ly, hard making of water, and breaketh the Stone or gravell in the Kidneyes; the seed thereof doth greatly provoke Urine.

Periatory, or Pellatory. Gathered in winter hath vertue to dissolve, consume, and draw; and while it is greene it breaketh wind in the stomack. The juyce thereof held within the mouth allayeth the Tooth-ach, the leaves

thereof being applyed healeth Burnings, swel∣lings, and Inflamations, being fryed with fresh Butter, or Capons grease, and layd unto the belly, it cureth the Collick, and being mixed with Goats or Kids grease, is good to ease the Gout; the Juyce also mixed with like quan∣tity of white Wine, and oyle of sweet Al∣monds newly made, is very good against the Stone, and dropped into the Eares with oyle of Roses helpeth the paine.

Aleanet, is to sooder Wounds.

Aspaltum, is Tarre of India, it hath vertue to draw and sooder, for if the Powder thereof be strowed on a dry Wound it will presently close it, though it be both broad and deepe.

Oates, hath vertue to abate Swelling, and to soften things, being made hot in a pan.

Asarum, maketh Women to have their termes, openeth the veynes of the Urine, and maketh one to pisse freely. It mixed with ho∣ney killeth Wormes▪ dissolveth Winds, and warmeth the stomacke, clenseth the Liver and veynes of the Guts, and reynes of the Mother, it putteth away Feaver quotidian, and cureth the stinking of venemous Wormes.

Bole-Armoniacke, if it be good, is as it were white redded.

Ballestianes, is the flower of the Pomgranet

and P••idia is the rinde, and it hath vertue to restraine as Bolle hath.

Brancha Vrona, hath vertue to make soft, or to rypen Empostumes.

Bistorta, or Tormentill, hath vertue to straine together, comfort, and confound.

Bedellion, hath vertue to constraine together, it helpeth the Impostume, both within and without, it breaketh the stone, and breaketh the Cough.

Cadamen, is the rootes of Parcely, that hath ••ertue to dissolve, to consume and to draw.

Camfere, ought to be kept in Marble, or Alablaster, Lynseed, or Anniseed, is good for the Gomora, and to abate a mans courage.

Coloquintida, hath vertue to purge Flegme and Melancholy, and for the Tooth-ache seethe it in Vineger.

C••ssia fi••tula, a Gargarisme made thereof, and of the Juyce of Morell, dissolveth the Em∣postume in the Wezend, and also swelling in the Cheekes.

Ceru••e, is good to engender good flesh, and to fret away evill flesh.

Capers, is good to defie cold Humours, in the mouth and stomack.

Con••ube and Quibebes, the powder heereof with the juyce of Borage, is good for the cold

Rheume and to comfort the Braine.

Dragagant, is of three kinds, and the white is the best in cold Medicines, and the red in hot.

Euphorbium, his vertue is to dissolve, to draw, to allay, to consume, to purge Fleame, and Melancholly.

Esul••, is the rinde of Eleborus Albus, or Peritory of Spaine, it hath vertue to purge Fleame and Melancholly, and it is the best that purgeth nekt to Scamonie. Take Esula, five drams, Canell, Fennell-seeds, Any seedes, and use this with warme Wine, or other broth, is a very good purge.

Gum Arabic, the white is cold, the red is hot in Medicines.

Gariofiolate, is Avence, his vertue is to open dissolve, and consume, whilest hee is greene, it helpeth the Collicia passio.

Hermadactilus, the whitest is the best, it hath vertue to dissolve, consume, and draw, and principally to purge Fleame.

Jarus, Barba, Aron, Calves feet, Cuckoo∣pintell, the leaves, and the rootes, and the gobbets about the rootes be of good vertue, and the Rootes being cloven, and dryed, they have vertue to dissolve and asswage.

Ipaguistidos, is Gobbets that are found by the roote of the Dog bryer, it hath vertue to draw together.

Jempus, is the fruit thereof, it hath vertue to dissolve, and consume; for the Strangury and Illiaco, drinke Wine wherein it was sodden.

Licium, is good with the juyce of Fennell for sore Eyes.

Litarge, is good to close together and to clense.

Lovag••-seed with Cinamon, is good for the Liver, and Spleen, and wind in the Guts and stomacke.

Mamia, is good to make Bloud cleane.

Mumia, hath vertue to straine together.

Medeswete, greene or dry bringeth Men∣struum, and clenseth the Mother.

Mora, is the fruit of the Cicomore Tree▪ it hath vertue to dissolve, consume, and make cleane, it is good for the Ovinsie, and for costivenesse.

Nitrum, the whiter the better, it hath vertue to dissolve, and drive away filth.

Opponax, if it be cleere, and draw to Cytrin colour, it is good, it hath vertue to dissolve and consume.

Oppium, that which is not hard nor soft, is good, it hath vertue to make one sleepe.

Organum flowers, is good powdered to make Laxe, to dissolve, and to consume, and the powder put within and without, abateth swolne cheekes.

Oxificicentia, Phenicon, Dactilis Indie, Ta∣marindus, They that bee good, be neither too moyst nor too hard, and be somewhat blacke, and somewhat sower, the Rind nor the Seed, must not be used in Medicines, It hath vertue to purge Choller, to clense the Blood, and to abate unkind heat.

Os de cord•• Cervi, is the bone of the Harts heart, on the left side, it is good to purge Me∣lancholy blood, and Cardiacle, and Sinicapos or Sincapos, with the juyce of Borage, and Os Sexi, will make the Teeth white.

Dog-Fennell, the root is good for the Stran∣gury, Oissury, and stopping of the Liver and Spleene.

Pine apples, the Kernels doe moysten and open, and is good for the disease in the Brest, or Cough, or Eticke, or Consumption, and to increase good blood.

Damsons, bee cold and moyst, in the third degree, gather them when they be ripe, and cleave them in the Sun, and spring them with Vineger above, and then yee may keepe them two yeare in a vessell; Their vertue is to cool•• a man, and make his Guts light, and therefore they be good in Fevers, against the costivenesse that commeth of drynesse, or of Cholerick hu∣mours in the Guts, when they be ripe to cut,

and when they be dry, soke them in water; and eate the Prune, and drinke the water.

Psilium, is cold and moyst in the third de∣gree; his vertue is to make soft and light, and to coole a mans body, and to draw together.

Purslene, is good both raw and sodden, to abate unkind heat in Cholerick men.

Pitch-liquid, hath vertue to dissolve and consume.

Ponticum, is good for the stopping of the Liver and Spleene, that commeth of cold.

Storax, hath vertue both to comfort and consume, and to fasten Teeth, and comfort the Gummes.

Squilla, is a Sea-Onion, and that is found by himselfe is deadly, his vertue is to purge and to dissolve, but the outer and inner parts must be cast away, for they bee deadly; and that which is in the middest, may bee put in Medicines, and it hath more vertue raw than sodden.

Seeds within the berries of Elder, is good to purge Flegme.

Stavisacre, hath vertue to dissolve, con∣sume, draw, and purge Flegme, and Litargie▪ and to put away heavinesse from the heart, if it be taken and put in the nose.

S••apium, is good, and hath vertue to dissolve

consume, draw, and laxe, and heale, it is good for fallings downe of the Mother, with suf∣fumigation, or supositor, and for the tearmes of the secondine or dead Child.

Saracoll, if it be right, it is good, it hath ver∣tue to straine together and to sooder. Drinke Calamint sodden in Wine, for coldnesse of the stomack, and for stopping of the Liver and Spleen, the Reynes and Bladder, and Illiac•• passio.

Saterion, his root is green, and hath vertue to unloose mans nature.

Saligem, his vertue is to dissolve, and con∣sume.

Scabius, while hee is greene, hath vertue to dissolve, consume, and cleanse.

Dragons, take the roote, and cleave it, and dry it in the Sun, yee may keepe it two yeares, mingle the powder of Dragons with Sope, and wet a Tent therein, and put it deepe into a fester, and it will clense and enlarge it, and if there be a bone in it, it will draw it out, or else loose it that yee may take it out lightly.

Sene, is to purge Melancholy and Epilencie, and Fever quartaine, and Emerodes; for the Spleene and Liver, take Cardiacle sodden in water▪ and put to Sage, and make a Syrope, or the Juyce of Borage and Suger, is very good.

Terra sigillata, terra sarasincia, terra ar∣genta, is all one manner of earth, his vertue is to constraine together.

Turbith, if it be hollow, small, and of an Ash-colour, and gummie, it is good, It hath vertue to dissolve, and draw humours from the uttermost part of a mans body, and name∣ly Fleame; for the Gout, and Illiaca, and Podegra, and Chiragra, give him foure scru∣ples of Turbith mingled with some other Medicine, and it will doe the like.

Taplia, or faiters Hearbe, his vertue is to purge above and beneath, both greene and dry, for it is never given by himselfe, he that stamp∣eth it let him hide his face and eyes that he see not, also keepe close his Testacles, or else they will swell. With this Hearbe beggers doe make themselves seeme to have the Dropsie upon them.

Tartar is the Lees of Wine, and hath vertue to dissolve, and dryeth away filth, and to abate a mans fatnesse.

Terbentine, a fugimation thereof, is good for the subfumigation of the Mother.

Virga Pastoris, or Shepheards rod, hath vertue to straine together, to coole, and to fill that is empty, and is good for the Fluxe.

Bryona, or wild Neppe, is hot and dry, the

roote thereof maketh a woman to have her tearmes, and delivereth a dead Child or se∣condine.

Flower-de-Luce, the Root of it washt and scraped cleane, being dryed and finely beaten, and put into a pint of new Milke, made hote upon the fire and given the patient to drinke, it helpeth the Greene sicknesse. D. B.

Ginger, comforteth the heart, and maketh good digestion.

Sugar, is temperate hot, and moyst, his ver∣tue is to moysten and nourish, and to loose, if it be mingled with cold things to coole.