An excellent treatise teaching howe to cure the French-pockes with all other diseases arising and growing thereof, and in a manner all other sicknesses. Dravvne out of the bookes of that learned doctor and prince of phisitians, Theophrastus Paracelsus. Compiled by the learned Phillippus Hermanus, phisition and chirurgion. And now put into English by Iohn Hester in the spagiricall arte, practitioner.

For the Phlegmaticke and the Mellancholicke.

YOu shall purge the Patient with Pillulae cochiae, and Pillulę Aggregatiuę, of each two scruples, this must bee giuen him in the euening, vsing him in all respects as is said of the other, then you shall giue him this drinke.

Take of the Wood a pound and a halfe, wine sixe pound, Water seauen pound, this you must seeth as aforesaide, gi∣uing the Patient thereof morning and euening eyght oun∣ces at a time, purging him euery ninth day once with the a∣foresaid Pilles, causing him to sweat verie well. The sores he shall wash euery day sixe or seauen times with the afore∣said drinke, for it is the best salue that can be vsed héerein, for it clenseth & mollifieth more then any other Oyntment that is vsed, and to conclude, I say, if you doo according to the con∣tents of this Chapter, there is no Malladie so ill procéeding of the Pockes, nor other open sores how ill soeuer, but may by this meanes be cured.