De venenis, or, A discourse of poysons their names, natures, & vertues : with their several symptomes, prognosticks, and antidotes / by W.R., M.D.

OF POYSONS With their severall ANTIDOTES, Illustrated by Divers Histories, the Testimony of the most Approved, Authen∣tick, and Learned Authors Extant.

PART I. Of the Differences of Poysons, and of Poysons in Generall.

POYSONS are of Various and In∣finite Kindes; which, to Describe, Explain, and rightly understand, that we may the better shun, avoid and resist; It will not be impertinent to praefix a word,

or two of their Differencies in Generall, before we come to Particulars: which some Authours have Comprehended under one or other of these seven Heads.

SECTION I. Of the first Division of Poysons.

AS, First, they are such as are 1. so of their own nature, As Woolf-bane, Hem∣lock, Hen-bane, and the like; Or 2. such as are not so of their own Nature, but be∣come so when they putrifie and Corrupt, As Flesh, Fish, Fruits, &c. putrified. Or 3. Such as were made so by Art, As Aqua For∣tis, Aqua Regis, Mercurius Sublimate, Praecipitate, &c.

SECTION II. Of the second Division of Poysons, and that they act not by Primary and manifest Qualities.

SEcondly, they are are such, (as some teach) which hurt either 1. by the pri∣mary and manifest Qualities, As Hot, Cold,

Dry, Moist. Or 2. by occult. Or 3. by ma∣nifest and occult together. Or 4. (As others will) by second qualities, as they call it, which Corrode, or putrifie; As Glass, they say, (which they number among Poysons) Cor∣rodes the Belly and Intralls, and thereby causeth Death. But, they may as well say splints of Bones, Needles, Pins, or other sharp thing is Poyson, because they also, many times, perforate the Intestines being swallowed, and Destroy the party. Neither do they rightly teach that Poysons offend and hurt by primary qualities, if it be taken simply; For that, which so acts and works, is not properly to be accompted Poyson; But by occult qualities, and by the proper y of the whole substance. As Galen abun∣dantly teacheth Lib. 3. De Temperamentis, Cap. 4. & in Lib. 1. De simpli∣cium medicamentorum faculta∣tibus,* 1.1 Cap. De abrotano. For, if Poyson depended onely upon manifest qualities; then, whatsoever doth therein exceed, should be poyson, As, Gar∣lick, Onyons, and the like; which, by Dios∣cordies, Galen, Avicenna, Serapio, and other of the Antients, are accompted Hot and Dry in the fourth Degree; yet are not

Poyson, As is Auripigmentum, quod proprie∣tate totius substantiae nocet: The other one∣ly in quantity. Yet we Deny not, that there are Differencies in Poysons; As, some that hurt only by an occult quality, without exceeding in the first qualities; Others, do exceed, and hereby, together with an occulte quality operates on the bodies of men; yet so, as that therein all Authours do not a∣gree, affirming that Euphorbium (for ex∣ample) offends sometimes by an occult qua∣lity, sometimes by the manifest and primary. However those which are properly Poysons chiefly affect by an occult and hidden pro∣perty. So that although in one and the same subject there may be both manifest and oc∣cult qualities, yet we are not to confound their effects. For, manifest and primary qualities either Heat, or Coole, or Moisten, or Dry: occult, either Kill, or Direfully hurt; every quality acting according to its Nature, Sine alterius Directione, As Antonius Guaynerius Cap. 1. De Venenis, excellently notes. For, although Avicenna and other Authours treating of Poysons, af∣firm opium, Euphoribium, and others, ope∣rate by manifest qualities; they are to be understood, thus speaking, considering Poyson,

quantum ad specificam formam, qua una species differt ab alia; And accor∣ding to this Consideration, they sayed that some did work non quatenus Calidium, aut frigidum; sed quatenus tale, habens scilicet virtutem humanae vitae & sannitati contra∣riam, &c.

SECTION III. Of the Third Kind of Poysons, shewing that all have not an aptitude to Kill, but that some are Mortall, others not.

THirdly, Some with Hieronimus Mer∣curialis Lib. 1. De Venenis Cap. 5. and others, maintain, that all Poysons are either Mortall, or have an aptitude to kill. But this is false, as you will see in the Second Part, where we shall Discourse of Poysons more particularly; for some do only Infa∣tuate, Stupifie, and hurt for a time; As Phil∣ters and Love-Potions, or as the Spider Ta∣rantula which makes such as are thereby bitten, to dane and be mad, &c. Or the Torpedo, which stupifies and benums the parts that touch it, &c. For, that Poyson which hurts only such members as are not

necessary to life, and doth not hinder or abolish what Conduceth to the Preservati∣on thereof, is not mortall, neither can it have an aptitude thereunto. Wherefore the more Rationall, have agreed, that some are Mortall, others not Mortall, or only ve∣ry hurtfull. And those that are Mortall, kill either sooner, or later, and are those which affect the Vitall Parts, as Braine, Heart, Liver, Lungs, &c.

SECTION IV. Shewing a Fourth sort of Poysons disco∣vered by their effects, and that some are Enemies to one part, some to another.

FOurthly, Some Poysons discover them∣selves unto us by their effects and ope∣rations, whilst their formes are hid; For, some, 1. Do more peculiarly affect and hurt the Brain, as Night-shade, Opium, Hen-bane, Mercury, Torpedo, Tarantula, the braines of a Catt, and others. 2. Others are Enemies to the Heart, as all those which suddenly kill; as Scorpions and the like, which sud∣denly pass through the Arteries to the Heart. Some also 3. Are opposed to the Liver, as all those Hearbs which evacuate

blood, which Galen Lib. de Purg. med. facultat. Cap. 4. mentions. 4. Others to the Sperm vessels and genitalls, as Cardan writes of one Lib. 3. De Venenis, who, by Poyson, became barren. 5. Some to the Lungs, as Lepus Marinus. 6. To the Blad∣der, as Cantharides. 7. Some, again, cause the dysentery, whence it comes to pass that such who are bitten by poysonous Crea∣tures or stung, have their Veines, Arteries, Nerves, and the like, more effectually af∣fected; as the bite of a Scorpion (as we said) Conveies the venom to the Heart by the Arteries; the bite of an Haemorrhous diffu∣ses into all the Veines, and causes an expul∣sion of blood. The bite of a mad-Dogg, delates neither by the Arteries, nor Veines, but Nerves especially. And so the infection of the French-Pox (or English-Pox, as it may now be termed for the frequency of it among us) Runs immediately to the Liver, whilst the Brain and Heart is free. Whence it happens, that some poysons cause heavi∣ness, dulness, stupidity; Others, Convulsions, Epilepsies, Apoplexies, some excite to Laughter, Madness, Dancing, Libidiny, Fu∣ry, Raging, Sadness, Fearfulness; Some cause Feavers, Paines, Inflammations, Some bring Death suddenly; Some by degrees and

more slowly, according as the Poyson is in property, the Nature of the Patient, or ac∣cording as it is used or applyed.

SECTION V. Shewing a Fifth Division of Poysons, and that there is no Poyson to be prepared that can kill precisely a Moneth, two, three, or a Year, after it is administred.

Fifthly, Some Poysons kill sooner, and some later. As, the bite of an Aspe, if some speedy course be not taken, kills im∣mediately, especally that sort called Hy∣rundinaceus, which as Galen, and the Learn∣ed think, kills so suddenly, as that it is thougt to be Incurable; Terrestris within 3. or 4. hours time; and that sort which is called Pryas, they think is more slow; which it may be, is that kind which Paraeus thinks destroyes in the third part of a day. And a bite of a Mad-Dogg, lyes long as it were hid, and yet breaks forth at the last as Pa∣raeus writes of Baldus the Lawyer, Lib. 21. De Venenis Cap. 14. Who Dyed four Mo∣neths after he was bitten. And sometimes there is no sign of it in six or eight Moneths, as Galen holds, the which Codronchus con∣firmes;

Or in a year as others write. Al∣bertus magnus, Lib. 7. de Hist. Animal Cap. 21. Sayes he saw a man bitten by a Mad-Dogg in the Arm, and was well seven whole years after, and then the place began to swell and be inflamed, and so within two Dayes thereupon Dyed. Guaynerius also, speaks of some who continued well twelve years. And Alsaharavius attests, he knew one that lived forty years after he was bitten, before he was apparently infected, and then Dyed of that bite. Other Poysons again, although they are of power sufficient to kill presently; yet by being eaten in a smaller quantity are the longer, as Arsnick; For though of its own Nature, as Wierus, and Forestus well observe it, is not to be remedi∣ed, it kills so soon, if it be not immediately taken; Yet some have by eating but little of it, lived a long time after but in great misery and torment, as Amatus Lucitanus mentions of his servant, that by eating of some Hen dipt in the sawce wherein Arsnick was, lived and whole year after, Cent. 2. Cu∣rat. 65. And Forestus observat. med. observat. 28. In Scholia, Lib. 18. Tells us of a woman that lived two years, and of some, that lived many years, after they eat some of this deadly poyson.

Whence it is disputed among Physicians, and the Learned, An venena talia dentur, qua definito & certo temporis spatio hominem interficiant? Whether there be any such Poyson, or whether any such is to be prepa∣red, as will kill at such a certain and prefix∣ed time, and no sooner nor later: which tenet is stifly maintained in the Affirmative, by severall; Instancing and backing of their opinion, by that of Claudius in Tacitus Annal. Lib. 12. And of Drusus who Lib. 4. Annal. Is affirmed to Dye in this manner: as also by that practise of Caesar Borgia in Jo∣vius Histor. Part 1. Lib. 3. Bringing likewise the Authority of Theophrastus that in 9. D•• Hist. Plantar. Cap. 16. maintaines, that they may so be Composed, as that they may kill in two, three, or one Moneths time, or at the years end, or at two years end. Citing that story, from him also Cap. 19. Of an Apothecary who to restrain hot spurrs, had a medicine so exactly prepared, that he could make any that took it, as they pleased to agree, have no appetite in the leas•• to venereall sports, for a moneth, two, or three, &c. With severall such like stories which forbear to recite. Besides, natura•••• things have their circuits in their actions, and after a time end; as is seen in the Cri••••

of a disease especially. And because Death is occasioned by a Consumption of naturall heat, & a drying up of the Radical moisture; which seems feasible sometimes in a moneth or two, or in a year or two. Divers such like arguments are brought by some, to maintain this their false imagination. But if we rightly Consider; It doth not stand with reason that there can possibly be any such Poyson; For although all things have their Circuit and End; Yet it is not probable any man, in this life, should attain to that per∣fection of Knowledge, as to know exactly any ones temperature so, as to prepare his Medicine accordingly. Besides, to an acti∣on, the Agent is not only requisite, but the Patient also, and the Agent is to act accord∣••ng to the Disposion of the Patient; Where∣fore since the Patient, viz. Mans Body, ac∣cording to its temperature, Age, occult qua∣••ities, Dyet, Customs, and other, Circum∣••tances, may resist sometimes more and ••ometimes lesse, the Agent which is the Poyson: It is no wonder it kills some ••ooner, and some later; but it would be more then a wonder, this being Considered, ••f the Medicine should be so exactly prepa∣••ed, as to make the effect when the party who administers it, pleases. Whence it is,

that sometimes it falls out, that divers who have eaten or partaken of one and the same Poyson, have not the same end, nor at the same time, some live longer, some shorter, as is evident in Divers Stories from Credible Authours; as will be found in aur following Discourse. And Nicolas af∣firmes, Serm. 4. Tract. 4. Cap. 35. He saw two bitten by one and the same mad-Dogg, and one thereby became mad; But the o∣ther had no Detriment at all. And although according to the Consent Generall of all the Learned, Arsnick be a most Deadly Poyson, killing immediately although ea∣ten but in a small quantity, yet Cardan, Con∣tradict. 7. Tract. 2. Lib. 2. Tells us of one that eat almost an ounce of Arsenick without the least prejudice. And Opium, which as Pliny Nat. Hist. Lib. 20. Cap. 8. Records, is of force to bring sudden Death eaten in a small quantity; And but administed in Clysters, and yet Sextus Empericus 1. Hypothese•••• Empericorum, Tells us of one who eat four Drachms of Opium without any hurt. Nay Gartzeus ab Horto Lib. 1. Aromat. Jndia, Cap. 4. Sayes he knew one that could famili∣arly eat Ten Drachms. And the Turks as Historians assure us, Do familiarly eat whole ounces of it with no inconveniency in the least.

SECTION VI. Containing a Sixth sort of Poysons, ac∣cording as they are received into the Bodies of Men; wherein divers Questions are discussed.

SIxthly, A Sixth Division of Poysons, is, from the severall wayes they Insinuate into our Bodies and affect us; As some are taken by the mouth in Meat or Drink, or instead of them, or by way of Medicine; And some are outward. Whence arises this Question among the Physicians, whe∣ther externall Poysons, are Poysons taken Inwardly, and so whether Internall, be if Outwardly applyed; From that of Galen Lib. 3. De Temperam. Cap. 3. Where he sayes, Non candem esse Venenorum rationem cum exterius applicantur, ut cum intus assu∣muntur. Quemadmodum enim ait, quae itnus assumpta perimunt, foris administrata, non nocent: Sic neque quae foris admota occidunt, iutus assumpta idem praestant. With whom Cornelius Celsus. De Re medica, lib. 5 Cap. 27. And Plinie, lib. 29. Nat. Hist. Cap. 4. Agree. But, this is by sufficient reasons controverted by Cardan lib. 1. De Venenis,

Cap. 18. And our Latter Writers. From the testimony of the Learnedst and most Credible Authours extant; We see there are divers Poysons which may externally hurt us; As, by the poysoning of Darts, Swords, and other Instruments of War, the Bodyes of Men may be not only Infected, but whol∣ly destroyed. Nay, and as Ardoynus Lib. 1. De Venenis, Cap 8. Guaynerius Cap. 22. De Venenis, Pouzettus Lib 7. Cap. 2. And others aboundantly manifest, even Cloathes and other necessaries, have been Infected; and by shaking hands with their Enemies, some have found out a way to poyson them by certain Unguents. Oyles, and the like, And so to Infect their Spurts, Stirrop••, Bootes, Saddles, as that they shall there∣by be Destroyed. But these are meerely Fansies; and no wise agreeable to reason that any should have to do with such viru∣lent Poyson, and not to be infected them∣selves, or that, he that shakes his Enemy by the hand, should be more free then the E∣nemy that is thereby pretended to be Infe∣cted by the Unguent, wherewith the hands of the Actor is annoynted. Or, that Poyson should penetrate through other Vestments to the Skin, as Scaliger atrests Exercit. 186. One to be poysoned by treading on a Spider,

affirming the venom of that Creature pene∣trated the sole of his shooe, and so getting to the Heart suffocated him. I say, these, and the like Storyes are meerely Fabulous, not to be Credited, and rather to be attri∣buted to the Subtilty, Craft, and Malice of the Devill, and his Imps, Witches, Conju∣rers, and the like, who, by Gods permission, are indeed suffered to use and practise ma∣ny such Feats upon the Bodyes of Men, men∣tioned by Nicol. Florentinus, Sum. 4. Tract. 4. Cap. 5. Guaynerius, Cap. 1. et 2. De Vene∣••is, Grevinus, Lib. 1. De Venenis, Cap. 1. Mathiolus in Praefat. in 6. Dioscori, &c. But ••hat such Mischiefs are to be done by natu∣••urall means, is not be Credited. But, this 〈◊〉〈◊〉 most Certain, that many times Poyson 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Communicated and Conveyed into Mens Bodyes, by the bites of venomous Creatures, (as we shall aboundaly manifest beneath, when we come to speak of Particulars) Wherein we shall likewise see, that some Creatures are so poysonous as that they ••nfect not only by their touch corporally, ••ut also by their breath, and virtually (as ••e may say) and kill by a kind of spirituall ••nflux. Avicenna to this purpose, hath ••any examples, Lib. 4. Fen. 6. Tract. 3. ••ap. 22. That some have been killed by

slaying a Serpent with a speare, coming not nearer then the length thereof; Jul. Cas. Scaliger also, Exercit. 200. affirmes the same; So doth Mathiolus in Praefat. in 6. Dioscorid. And Amatus Lucitanus Cent. 1. Curat. 62. Vidus Vidius Lib. 1. De Curat. Generall. Cap. 13. &c. Even as it is credibly affirmed of the Torpedo, that it benums the Hand and Arm, that holds but the pole that toucheth it afar off. Or, as the breath of Catts, as Avenzoar, Praemit•• Lib. 1. Thenzir. Mathiolus Com. Ad Lib. 6. Cap. 25. Dioscorid. Attest, is known com∣monly to be poysonous. And to bring Con∣sumptions of the Lungs, Hectick Feavers, and the like, as Paraeus notes, Lib. 21. D•• Venenis, Cap. 34. to such as are familiar with them. And the Basiliske, even with the touch, kills; For no Creature can touch him and escape Death, as Galen avers, with whom Avicenna, Aetius, Dioscorides, Panlus Aeginetus, Pliny, Nicander, and others con∣sent. Likewise, at the second hand, Me•• may be destroyed by Poyson from inoffen∣sive Hearbs and Plants, that have been acci∣dentally infected by some venemous Crea∣ture; As Mizaldus relates, of some who have been destroyed by Sage, poysoned by a Toad that lay at the root of it. Memora∣bil.

Cent. 1. Aph. 1. Et in Horto. Neither may we be surprised with Death, only by the touch of Poyson and poysonous Crea∣tures, but also by their very looks, smell, noyse, we may not only be infected and su∣stain much misery, but likewise be sometimes deprived of life also; As Araeteus lib. 1. De Signis. et Causis morb. Acut. Mentions one Infected by the Ardent and venemous look of a Mad-dogg. And, as the most Cre∣dible of the Learned maintain, the Basi∣lisk kills even with the sound of his Hiss, and the rayes of his sight. And many have been Infected by the very smell of a Mad-dogg, as will be shewed beneath. Pliny like, wise lib. 8. Nat. Hist. Cap. 21. mentions a wild beast near Nilus called Catablepas that kills any man that it beholds, and that in∣stantly. Which Relations, although some with Cardanlib. 1. De Venenis Cap. 16. ac∣count as Fabulous; Yet, sounder Judge∣ments are not of his nor their opinion; But hold, that these and other Creatures may destroy mankind by their very touch, sight, smell, noyse or sound, receiving the species of the poysonous vapours into their bodies by the Pores, Eyes, Nose, and Ears. For if one Man, by a malicious and envious look, that is not of a poysonous Nature, may hurt;

disturb, disquiet, and discompose the spirits of an other; How much more is it possible for a poysonous Creature, by his venemous Aspect, to hurt or kill? As my Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans in his Nat. Hist. Cent. 10 Gives this Reason, why Men in their Trophies, and after Triumphs, are indispo∣sed and sick, oftentimes; because they have received into their bodies the venemous Rayes and malignant beames of some envi∣ous and malicious Eye: being communica∣ted in forma Atomorum et minimorum Cor∣pusculorum, et qualitate spiritale. So that with Cardan and the rest, I confess that nei∣ther the sight, nor hearing the sound, not smell, nor the like, doe quatenus tales, hurt or kill; Sed quatenus cum iis vel vaports et Atomi venenatae, vel aliae qualitates spirita∣les venenosae conjunctae sunt; But as either venemous vaponrs, Atomes, or other spi∣rituall venemous qualities are joyned there∣unto. For as all Philosophers and Physicians agree, Seeing; is not by emitting, but re∣ceiving in. Wherefore, it is the poysono•• Rayes that are received into the body by the Eye, kills, and not the sight only. And so, of hearing the sound, & hissing of Serpents, it is not barely that, but the venemous va∣pours infecting the Atomes and received,

which cause the infection. The same likewise may be sayed of smells, and of that wonderfull change which happens to such who lye under the Yew-Tree, which is of that venemous quality in Arcadia, as Pliny observes lib. 16. Nat. Hist. Cap. 10. That divers have perished by sleeping under its shadow, (although here in England, as Pena notes, and reason teaches us, it is not offen∣sive, because the heat of the Sun is not of that force among us to bring it to its matu∣rity, nor to cause venemous exhalations to breath forth) And The vetus lib. sing Cap 61. Reports of the Tree Baxama, that if any stay under it but a quarter of an hour, they are in danger of suffocation. Not that the shadow is the cause thereof, simply as a shadow, though it be said such as stay under the shadow, &c. Are so, and so affected, (as Cardan would fain perswade the world these Learned Authours, and others think, when they so write, and so labours to prove the shadow of them are not Poyson, where∣by indeed, he shewes onely that he sights with a shadow, and neglects the substance.) But the venemous vapours which proceed & breath out of those Trees, and are received into the bodies of such as remain under 〈◊〉〈◊〉 And so we free, Colocy this doth ••••••••••∣times

purge only by smelling to it: which is not to be understood simply, quatenus odo∣rabilis, sed quatenus subtilissimos emittit va•• pores, qui naribus excipiuntur.

SECTION VII. Shewing a Seventh Division of Poysons.

SEventhly, a Seventh Division of Poysons is taken from their originall, and bo∣dies in which they are found. As 1. Some are in Mettalls and Mineralls. 2. Some is Vegetables. 3. Some in Animalls, and Li∣ving Creatures. According to which Di∣vision, we shall treat of Poysons in Particu∣lar. And thus much shall suffice to be spo∣ken of Poysons in Generall.

PART II. Of POYSONS in par∣ticular, with their severall sorts and Antidotes.

THus having prefixed a word of Poysons in Generall, we descend to Particulars: (which as hath been said) may be divided into these three Classes, as being all comprehended, either under Mineralls, or Vegetables, or Animalls, of which in order.

CLASSE I. Of Poysons belonging to MINERALLS, or dug out of the earth.

DIVISION I. Of such as may properly be termed Metalls.

SUch Poysons, as are, or have relation to Mi∣neralls, are these 9. chiefly, and most fre∣quently met with. 1. Aqua Fortis, 2. Antimony,

3. Arsenick, 4. Argent Vive. 5. Calx. Vive, 6. Vitriol, 7. Aes, Brass or Copper, 8. Dross and rust of Iron, 9. Lead. For other things that are dug out of the earth, and are no metalls, they are especially these two: 1. Lapis Lazu∣lus, and 2. The Diamond. Of all which one word in order, briefly.

SECTION I. Of Aqua Fortis, Aqua Regis, and Aqua Chry∣sulca; with their Antidotes,

AQƲA Fortis, Aqua Regis, and Aqua Chrysulca as some call it, are put by ma∣ny Authours as deadly poysons: The which Bruno Seidelius in lib. De Morb. Incurabil. pag. 13. Illustrates by an example of a young Wench who being very thirsty, meeting with a bottle in which there was Aqua Fortis, and drinking it off, fell into most direfull symptomes, and at length dyed. Bembus likewise tells us of a certain Legate, in his History of Venice, Lib. 1. that having swallowed a Diamond that was in his Ring, and drinking some Aqua Fortis after it, was thereby poysoned: Its Antidote is the Mu∣cilage of the seedes of Quinces, or of Quinces it self; An example of one the••e by recovered, Petrus Forestus records in observat Med. Lib. 15 Observat. 30. De aegritudinibus Gulae, who had drank Aqua Fortis. But in regard these waters

do soone diffuse themselves into every part of the body, the remedy ought speedily to be u∣sed. I find commended also as most effectuall, Eclegma ex mucilagine seminum Cydoniorum, Altheae et gummi tragacanthae, aqua rosarum ex∣tracta, ac melle Rosato, et violato paratum; ut et gargarisma ex semine Cydoniorum, Altheae, et Cucumeris. Flor. Rosarum, violarum et ver∣basti, at{que} ex prunella, pulmonaria, sannicula, et s. q. Aquae decoctis, & melle rosato, vol exy••••lite scilitico addito paratum. With which medicines, that Heardsman recorded in Baldwin Ro••seus, Epist. 9. (That being 'excessive thirsty, imsta∣king the vessell, drank a most hearty draught of Aqua Fortis, and thereby molested with many grievous symptomes) was perfectly cu••ed The story at large you may read in the aforesaid 9. Epist. And also in Schen••kins, observat. med. Lib 7. fol. 996.

SECTION II. Of Antimony and its Antidotes.

ANtimony likewise, if not rightly prepared, and fitly and duely administred, is deadly poyson; Whence Cornelius Gemm••s, Cycl••••∣nomicae lib. 2. Writes that he hath the Names of above fourscore men and women that have perished by Antimony: Yet some dost sly main∣tain it to be inoffensive, with Mathiolus, But then

it must be prepared, according to Quercetan, Evonimus, Valentius, Crolius. And so, it may prove (being also administred by a knowing and judicious Physician) a good medicine, and no wise dangerous; Joannes Albertas Wimpi∣naeus, De concord. Hippocraticor. et Paracelsist. Writes that he saw thirty graines of Antimony prepared, taken without any hurt in the least. Its Antidotes are, if taken into the body, syrup of Roses, Treacle, Bole armoniacke, &c. or you may make this composition, ℞ Boli Armeni, ℈ij. et cum pauxillo vino exhibeatur. vel ℞ Boli ar∣meni ℈j. ol. Caryophilorum, gut. iij. cum paux∣illo vino Fiat Haustus. vel ℞ Pul vis mastiches, ex Caryophilorum, Chel. Cane: et Boli Armen. Ana ℈j. cum succo Cidoniorum pauxillo. To pre∣vent the reception of fumes, and to resist tho poysonons vapours of Antimony, let such as try experiments therewith in the fire, and refiners of metalls, Drink a little of the water of Worm∣seed, or eat a piece of bread and butter with Rue. This following Electuary is likewise very much commended; ℞ Allii, Nucum jugland, Ana Mj. Contundendo contundantur, et cum mel∣le s. q. misceantur; misturae huic addatur Theri∣aca ℥j. Zedoariae, ℥ss. Caryophilorum, nuc. mos∣chat. Ana ʒij. Mellis dispumati q. s. Fiat Ele∣ctuarium. With the which you may anoynt the nose and nostrills.

SECTION III. Of Arsnick, its severall kinds and Antidotes.

ARSNICK is of two sorts Naturall, or Artificiall. Naturall is likewise two fould, the first is called Auripigmentum, the other San∣daracha. Auripigmentum is that Arsnick which is yellow, and in colour resembles Gold; San∣daracha is of a brightish red colour. These are not onely both of one kind, but also of one and the same quality. The Artificiall Arsnick is likewise of two sorts, the one is very white and transparent like Chrystall, composed of Sanda∣racha, and Auripigmentum by sublination. And this is by most, without any distinction, taken for Arsnick. The other is called Realgar and Ri∣sugallum, which is composed of Sulphur and Auripigmentum, or with the addition of Calx∣vive, or Salt, or mixt, and burnt, or Calcined, &c. They are all four ranck poyson, and being taken into the body, produce much alike the fame symptomes, onely Sandaracha is not so violent and grievous as Auripigmentum. Wherefore one and the same Antidotes will indifferently serve for the cure of all: But if speedy help be not administred all will be in vain, in regard they kill so suddenly; As Wierus, Forestus, and

others abundantly manifest unto us by severall examples: Nay it is of that poysonous quality, that it kills even by outward application, and that suddainly too; as that young man in Ama∣tus Lucitanus, recorded likewise by Schenckius, and Sennertus, who, molested with the Itch, an∣nointing himself with an unguent in which was some Arsnick, running on, and trusting to his own head, without the advice of any Phisician, was found dead in his bed the next Morning. Another he likewise mentions, who by the same rash action, became stark mad, so that he was fain to be bound; but one Day getting loose, when the people of the house in which he lived, were upon their severall occasions called out of the way, after he had raged about, at length leapt out of the window and broke one of his leggs, &c. Yet sometimes it happeneth, that they die not so suddainly, but then they, for the most part live miserably all their Dayes after: as the same Lucitanus Cen. 2. Curat. 65. Records one to have lived an whole year before he dyed, yet was all that while in a most intollerable torment. And Petrus Forestus, observat. med. Lib. 18. Schol. observat. 28. Tells us he hath known some have lived many years after, but in grievous misery Et ego novi qui multos annos supervixere, sed in magna miseria, cruribus resolutis, ut vix ince∣dere possent; et mulierem post dnos annos tandem

vita orbatam; Ita et religiosa quaedam Delphis veneno infecta longo tempore, sed misere, supervix∣it. And Cardan Contradict. 7. Tract. 2. Lib. 2 Tells us of one that eat almost an ounce of Ars∣nick without the least prejudice. The cure may be effected if taken in time; first, by vomiting it up if possible, before it have diffused it self out of the stomach into the parts; and that by butter and warm water, or the Decoction se∣minis Rapi, Atriplicis in quo Butyrum recens aut ol. lini, vel rosace••m sit liquefactum, or any other sat liquor. Forestus observat. med. Lib. 18. in schola observat. 28. doth much commend oyle with a litttle chickin broath for a vomit, Memini ego pueram apud Delphenses, &c. I remember I cured a Boy at Delph, who had unawares eaten that kind of Arsnick, which they usually lay for Mice, (commonly called by us Rats-bane) onely with a vomit of oyle and chickin broath. Ad∣ding a little after, that he hath found of great use (amongst such as he hath cured,) oyle of sweete Almonds given to drink with buttered-ale Milk likewise is highly commended by some Authors to this purpose: whence the same Forestus lo∣co citato, affirmes, that in Italy they use when poyson is first taken, to drink Milk perpetually mixt with oyle of sweet Almends, which he sayes Avicenna had experienc•• of. De cura I••teritiae in fine decerptum. And M••nta••us will

have them drink Milk till their thirst be quenched (if possible) for this kind of poyson doth exceedingly cause thirst; For hereby he at∣tests himself to have cured severall that had ea∣ten fish fryed with butter, and rouled in meal wherein Arsnick was mixt: shewing farther, that all such as drank liberally thereof, were quickly well; such as deferred the drinking of it, grew worse and fell into grievous symptomes and paralytick sits; and such as refused it whol∣ly, Dyed. Petrus de Apono, Tract. De Venenis, Commends Asses Milk; who sayes, he cured a young man that had taken that kind of Ars∣nick called Realgar in drink, and was so affected, that through too much Drought, remained a•• Immoveable; First he administred Vomits, as is before described, then Clysters, but the chief business was drinking of Asses Milk. Lastly, the specificall Antidotes of this kind of poyson, Sunt, in primis, Christallus Fossilis pulverizat∣us ʒj. pondere, cum oleo Amygdalorum dulcium recenti potus. Secundo, oltum è nucleis pini ʒiij. pondere exhibitum. Tertio, utilis est & lapis Be∣zoar, quod probat historia illa, quam recenset Claudius Richardus, in descriptione Bezoartici Lapidis Jordani de peste operi adjuncta; ut scribit Schenkius observat. med. Lib. 7. fol. 994.

SECTION IV: Of Argent Vive its severall sorts, and Antidotes.

ARgent Vive, or Mercury, as our Chymists vulgarly phrase it, is of three sorts, for it is either 1. Crude, or 2. Sublimate, or 3. Praecipi∣tate. To which we may add Cinabar, being composed of Mercury; But Naturall Cinabar I shall here pretermit: wherefore then of these in order. And first of Crude Mercury, which taken rather in substance, or by inunction, or in fume, causeth grievous affections and symp∣tomes, by its weight, and eroding malignant quality: as intollerable paines in the stomack and bowels, wind, gripings, and erosions, a gene∣rall indisposition of the whole body, and some∣times a violent lask. And if it be retained long in the body, as many times it happeneth when it is mixed with some other medicament of a re∣taining quality, or lies in some cavity longer then it ought, or some such accident happening whereby it is kept still in the body unevacuated, there followeth a suppression of Urine, and the passages being stopt, the whole man becomes infected, and all his humours, so that he turnes

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pale, wan, and of a leaden colour: having a very corrupt and soetid breath; And at length causes Palsies in severall parts, and sometimes the Fal∣ling-sicknesse, Apoplexie, Swounding fits, nay and Death it self: as that Apothecary recorded by Cardan, de venenis, Lib. 1. cap. 20. who being exceeding thirsty in the night time, drank in∣stead of beere or other convenient liquor, very largely of Crude Mercury, in so much that being found dead in the morning, and dissecting of him to find out the cause, in his stomack was found allmost the quantity of a pint of Mercury, the blood coagulated in his heart, [yet Alsahara∣vius Pract. Tract. 30. c. 3. saies he saw one who devoured ten dramgs of Argent Vive, without any hurt at all. Botallus likewise, Lib. de lue venerea, affirmes that he hath seen one, & heard of divers, that swallowed as many ounces, and yet was thereby no wise damnified. See more in Agricola Lib. 8. Fossilium. Wierus Lib. 4. edit 6. Sanbarolitanus. Comm. Avicen. de cura casus et offens. Pag. 189. Which record some to have dranke some pounds without any hurt.] Whence by the way it would argue it of a cold quality, notwithstanding what some Authours have said against it; much after the same manner are they affected, that use it outwardly by inunction, of receive the sume thereof; As is apparent by that young man in Forestus observat. med. Lib. 8.

observat. 5. who receiving the vapour thereof into his brain, could neither sleepe, rest, nor be at ease in any place: with an universall tremb∣ling over all his body, extraordinary palenesse, and baldnesse, his hair thereby falling off. And Ferdinandus Ponzettus, De Venenis, Lib. 2. cap. 21. Tells us of a man in his time who by inde∣vouring to convert Mercury into Luna, or sil∣ver, being one day negligent, received the sume thereof into his head, and so fell down dead im∣mediately, without one word speaking. Like∣wise several have been kill'd by using oyntments in which Mercury hath been mixt, by its pene∣trative nature through the pores, affecting and infecting the blood and humours. Joannes Schenckins, observat. med. Lib. 7. fol 990. Re∣cords one, who by the frequent use of Mercury, it came to pass, that his veines at length were perceived to be full of Mercury (being penetra∣ted therewith) so that it was discerned to run up and down, as his armes were elevated or de∣pressed. Yet there are Antidotes against all these, as is to be found in the writings of the Learned. Ʋtile est valde Lac Copiosius potum, imprimis Asininum ut inquit Sennertus, magnum verò imprimis auxilium praestat, auri limati sco∣bem, vel folia auri sumere, ut alii dieunt, atque ita postea argentum viv••m per alvum cum auro egeritur. Nec multum à veritate abire videtur,

cum nihil est, quod argentum vivum avidius im∣bibat quaem aurum. Neither doth it onely help to carry it down, and expell it by the panch, but also hinders it from dilating it self into the parts of the body, till such proper meanes can be administred as will cause expulsion. To purge and free the body downwards is rather to be en∣deavoured then by Vomits, because it is of that ponderous nature that it will hardly be brought up by any art. Quod ut facilius fiat, laudatur E∣nema ex Hydromelite, cui admixta sit hiera picra, vel ex oleo olivarum solo, aut misto eum modico pinguedinis gallinae, vel Anatis, aut modico butyri recentis s. salis, & similibus, intestinis insunder∣dus est. Antidoti vero loco variae medicamenta exhibentur. Costum cum vino sumptum argen∣ti vivi quasi Bezoar esse, scribit Conciliator, & Guaynerius. Exhiberi potest etiam theriaca. Post Evacuationes, Avicenna laudat exhibere Myr∣rham (Canon Lib. 4. Fen. 6. Cap. propr.) ʒiij. Pondere cum vino, & postea mulsum superbibere, imperat. Conciliator Myrrham & Castoreu•• decoctae in vino, & salviam, ac rutam tritam, cum aqua in qua nuces cupressi coctae fuerunt, dart praescribit. Dioscorides vinum cum absynthi••. Apii decoctum, semen hormini, origanum hysopur cum vino. Rhases etiam Absynthium tritum cum multo vino. Aut semen Apii, vel Hysopum vel etiam mentastrum montanum cum vino. Plinie

vinum merum remedio esse tradit. Nat. Hist. Lib. 23. Cap. 1 & in Lib. 20. Cap. 5. Commendat si∣ser erraeticum, & in Lib. 22. Cap. 3. Semen urticae siccum fungis. Et Lardum Lupi, in Lib. 28. cap. 10. Denique in Lib. 29. cap. 5. Columbarum syl∣vestrium fimum priva••im contra Argenti vivi po∣tum valere tradit, ut annotat Sennertus. Si vero à fumo Argenti vivi. naribus & ore recep∣to, aeger male habeat, conf••rt plurimum, ut aeger haustū lactis Caprini bibat, vel potius, in quantita∣te magna; vel vini in quo Absynthium & Hyso∣pum, Decocta sunt; ut ex scriptis Platonis annotat Forestus, observat. med. Lib 8. observat. 5. Et ipse Forestus praedictum juvenem curavit, jubendo ut perpetuo uteretur, oro potu, lacte Caprino, & ut ipsum etiam comederet cum pane qui furfuris expers non esset. Etiam ut hoc decocto uteretur, Imperando. ℞. Rad. Apii ʒss Absynthii, Origani, Hysopi, Ana Manip. 1. seminis hormini seu gali∣rici,* 1.2 & herbae quae tota bona dicitur, ana ʒj. Coquantur in Lib. ij. Vini tenuis & albi, addendo albae betho∣nicae, Lib. 5. Ad consumptionem me∣dietatis, & colatura sacc••aro dulcoretur. Quo, & potis Lactis Caprini cum continuaret, ab omni∣bus symptomatis diclis liber evasit, & pili postea creverunt per se. Laudat etiam Autozes Vinum in quo folia Rorismarini Staechas Arabica, & Centaur. Min cocta sint utilis est etiam aqua Sal∣viae,

et Zedoariae pota, Aeger quoque in balneo sicco saepe sudet, et post sudorem partes languen∣tes fricentur sacculo in vino cocto, cui insutae sunt herbae facultatem habentes poros cutis aperiendi, et nervos roborandi; quales sunt salvia, Chamae∣pitys, betonica, lavendula, cum baccis Juniperi. Ut Docet Sonnertus. Perutilis etiam est succus pimpinellae, ut patet ab Historia illa ex Schenckio, jam citata, quo post multa srustra tentata, quen∣dam, qui Argento vivo frequenter usus fuerat cu∣ratum fuisse ut ipse, loco citato, refert Schenckius. Si ab inunctione Argenti vivi aeger mali aliquid patiatur, à Mercurio in corpore relicto; Auri raementa potanda, vel globuli aut pillulae ex auri foli is paratae deglutiendae. Imbibitur enim Mer∣curius ab auro, et cum eo è corpore evacuatur, at∣que ita, ne quid mali excitetur, praecavetur. Ad dolorem quo{que} leniendum, os et fauces lacte tepido, vel decocto hordei abluantur. Ad inflammationem prohibendam, decocto vel aquae plantaginis, vel foliorum vitis, cum Diamoro, et syrupo De rosis siccis utatur aeger. Dentes abluendi decocto vel aqua Salivae, Aquilegiae, vino austero. Pro caeteris consule Autores.

Praecipitate Mercury causeth more grievous symptomes, and is much more stronger poyson; for besides all the preceeding grievances, it caus∣eth an inordinate effusion of putride spittle, and that continually; An inflammation of the

mouth, Ulcers in the Jawes and Gummes, loose∣nesse of the teeth,* 1.3 Trembling of the Members, Depravation of strength, Alienation of the Mind, and Death it self; Most of which symptomes, are recited by Langius, Lib. 1. Epist. 46. Palmari∣us, De Hydrargiro, Cap. 6. Operis de contagios∣morb. & Schenckius, Sennertus, and others. But the most grievous and horrid symptomes of all, are those caused by Mercurius sublimate, con∣suming like fire every thing it toucheth; whēce, if it be taken inwardly, the Tongue, Mouth, and Jawes are immediately exasperated, which no gargarisme or other means can ease or as∣swage without great difficulty and much ex∣pence of time; it extreamly burnes the stomack and bowells, exulcerating them, and the In∣tralls also,* 1.4 if it descend so far before it kills, and therefore excites most intollerable paines in those parts, as also inextinguishable thirst, sup∣pression of Urine, Difficulty of breathing, and sometimes the bloody I lux, alienation of the Mind, Madness, and Death it self. As may be collected from those instances recorded by Sch••nckius, observat med. Lib 7 fol. 990 et 991. from Andrea Baccio in prol••gemenis venen••rum et Antidtorum Pa. 21. Et à Franc••sco Fal••riolae, observat. med. lib 1. observat. 7. Yet many Au∣thours

have stood up stiffly for some Chymicall preparations of Mercury to be as wholsome and inoffensive, as any other medicament whatsoe∣ver, whence some have adventured to call one preparation, Mercurius Vitae, Mercury of life Another, Mercurius Dulcis, sweet Mercury; Nay and the powder of Precipitated Mercury, they have termed the Angelicall Powder. But o∣ther Learned Men have exploded this high ap∣plause, as much on the other side; admonish∣ing men to great circumspection and caution, how they attempt the taking of them: where∣fore Guilielmus Fabricius, in Epist. ad D. Dor∣ingium, lib. 3. observat. annexa, thinks Mercuri∣us Vitae, or that which they call Mercury of life, may, often times, be well nominated, Mercurius mortis, & Mercurius vitae aeternae, Mercury of Death, or Mercury of eternall life; because it doth frequently sond such as take it either into Heaven or Hell. And so I may say of Precipi∣tated Mercury likewise, you may thereby soone praecipitate your selves: Also Mercurius Dul∣cis, although it be the most gentle of all the rest, may, if not duly prepared, and rightly admini∣stred, both for time, quantity, and respect had to the patient, be very well denominated Mer∣curius Amarus. How they are to be prepared you may see in Evominus, Valentius, Quercita∣••u, Crollius and others. To decide this con∣troversie,

shall not be my work in this place, only thus much I shall add to what hath bee said; That when they are rightly and fitly prepared, they are like Scanderbegs sword, which is either good or bad, strong or weak, As the Physician that prescribes, or the Patient that takes them; In plain English, they are most excellent medi∣cines, if by an able and knowing Physician ad∣ministred to strong bodies, or such as the Consti∣tution, nature of the disease, or present state of the infirmity or body can bear: otherwise they are no better then poyson. Curationem quod attinet, Si Argentum vivum non crudum, sed vel Sublimatum vel Praecipitatum fuerit as∣sumptum, opem ferre possunt ea medicamenta, quae venenis erodentibus conveniunt, Primo er∣go statim (ut dictum est) antequam ad intestina venenum transeat, vomitus provocandus. Ʋbi verò ad intestina descendit, Clysteres injicere ne∣cessarium est, ex decocto malvae, Altheae, bliti, et oleo sesami ac rosarum paratos. Postea ut vir••∣lenta Mercurii erosio fraenetur, jubent nonnulti ut aeger frequenter bibat lac recens mulsum, in quo, etiam semina psyllii maceraci possunt, vel aquam tepidam decoctionis hord••i. Confert etiam multum butyri recentiss. sale e••••tare, ut do∣cocta Sennertus. Contra exulcerationes stomachi; commendat Vinum rubruns in quo myrobalani de∣c••ct••

sint; Pinguedine Caprina, vel Hir∣cina, &c. Ita enim exulcerationes intestinorum Clysteribus convenientibus sunt sanandae. Si (ut saepe sit) retentio urinae adsit, ut balneo aquae calidae utendum, postea pecten et vesica saepius fomentanda imposita spongia madida decocto Juniperi, et s••m. Apii, et regio vesicae inungenda eleo rutae, vel Juniperi, et Vinum bibendum, in quo radix Cyperi vel acori cocta sit, Laudant plurimi. Antidotum et quasi Bezear Argenti vivi sublimati, est pulvis Crystaelli subtilissimus ʒj quantitate cum ol. Amygdal. Dulc. haustus, ut scribant nonnulli. Alii, imprimis commendant contra Sublimatum, oleum Tartari, vel salis ab∣synthii, ʒij. pondere sumptum. Aliqui ʒiij. myrrhae, cum vino calido, vel aqua mellis, aut vinum, in quo ruta, salvia, semen Apii castoreum, cocta sunt exhibent.

Cinabar being taken inwardly, works much the same effects, as doth Argent vive (I mean the Artificiall Cinabar) being composed of Mercury and Sulphur, And therefore, the Cure and Antidotes are the same.

SECTION V. Of Calx-vive, and its Antidot••s.

CAlx-Vive is likewise a deadly Poyson, is appears by that story in Amatus Lu∣citanus, Cen. 5. Curatio 91. recorded by Schenkius Observat. Med. lib. 7. fol. 999. Of a boy of eight years of age, who eating a great quantity of it, fell into most grie∣vous symptomes; As, he was extreamly feverish, thirsty, and notwithstanding he drank much, yet could never extinguish that inordinate thirst wherewithall he was possest, want of appetite & tast, also great pain in the Jawes, nay, and Death it self: For so he reports of this boy, that he dyed the ninth day after he had taken it. [Yet Ferne∣lius, lib. 6. De partium morb. et symptom. Cap. 3. Tells us of a man that eat to the quantity of a mans fist of Calx-vive, without any hurt at all to his stomack or howells.] Some Authours likewise affirm it to cause, being eaten, intollerable heat and drought in the Mouth, Tongue and Jaws, Difficulty of breathing, a Cough, and roughne ••e in the Throat, suppression of Urine, Syncope, Dysentery, &c. C••rationem quod attine, 〈◊〉〈◊〉

mùm statim danda opera ut vomitu rejicia∣tur, ejus{que} acrimonia lenientibus et lubrican∣tibus obtundatur, partes{que} contra ejus erosi∣onem muniantur, ut antea dictum. Venter quo{que} iisdem leniatur, ut et cassia extracta, vel jnjciatur Clysteres ex decocto hordei, fol. Rad. et sem. Altheae, malvae mucilag. sem. Psyllii, Cassia, Lini, ol. viol. Lini, Nymphaeae et similibus. Inter Antid••ta, recensetur fel Capre∣oli à ℈j. ad ʒj cum aqua datum calida. Ʋt et fel Cervinum ℈j. pondere eodem modo exhi∣bitum. Item Terra Lemnia ʒij. quantita∣te cum lacte sumpta. To Calx-vive, I may very well annex Mortar, being chieflly composed thereof, and is no lesse mortall, as appeares by those relati∣ons from Pliny,* 1.5 Nat. Hist, lib. 35. cap. 24. And Sa∣bellicus, lib. 4. En. 9. quo∣ted by the same Schenkius, loco citato, and others; The symptomes are much the same with Calx vive, yet not altogether so vio∣lent, But more moderate and gentle. And the same cures may likewise serve for a need; Yet Sennertus out of Rhases 8. ad Al∣mensoar, Cap. proprio commendat scammonii ʒj. Cum Psyllii ʒij. ex julebo. Item et Avi. cennas purgare scammonio jubet. Et quia Gypsum sumptum alvi pertinaces obstructio∣nes

sequi solent, ea lenienda Clysteribus ex decocto maluae, Althaae, Parietariae, flor. Cha∣maemeli, Cassia extracta, sem. lini. et oleo A∣nethino. Inter vera et propria Gypsi Antido∣ta refertur stercus muris ʒj. pondere ex vino potum, et dictamnus cum oxymelite. Item et Laudantur Theriaca et Methridatum a ʒ ss. ad ʒij. exhibita cum vino generoso. Guia∣nerius et alii commendant Bezoard. ʒij. pon∣dere cum vino dulci, vel vino dec••ctionis Hy∣sopi suniptus, &c.

SECTION VI. Of Vitriol and its Antidotes.

VItriol in regard of its admirable and transcendent use in Physick, may seem to be impertinently placed among Poysons; Yet because it hath been known that such as have taken it, either Crude, or the Chy∣micall oyle in too great a quantity, or in any other manner have thereby been grie∣vously molested and intollerably affected, as that fellow in Joannes Crato lib. 5. Consil. 10. Epist. et aliorum pagin. 380. et 383. Who being afflicted with the Gout, thinking to ease himself by drinking some of the oyle of Vitriol, in all his external parts & pores,

felt before he Dyed, as it were points of needles all about him; Nay and the same Crato, in the same place, affirmes, he hath seen the Lungs corroded in one who used much this Minerall; And another whose Liver came away as it were by bits, intolle∣rable paine in their bowells, vehemently exclaiming their intralls were burnt up and torne in peices. Moreover I find others ranking it among Poysons also; and there∣fore upō these cōsiderations, I am unwilling to dissent, but readily agree with them, since common experience and sense evinceth us that if but a drop of that Oyle be dropped on Cloath, or ought else almost, it will soone burn through it. Ideoque Vitriolo sumpto, danda opera, ut quam primum vomitu planè reijciatur, quod fit decoctae Anethi; vel Aqua Tepida et oleo Anethi: Sedato vomitu, lac recens tepidum largius sumatur, cum saccaro et butyro; vel exhibeatur decoctum hordei cum syrupo violarum. Si erosio & cruciatus in intestinis percipiantur, Clystres lenientes, ut jam dictum, injiciantur. Antidoti loco exhibeatur Terrae Lemnia vel sigillata, cum mucilag. sem. Cydonior ʒj. ex aqua hordei; vel corallium rubrum cum vino detur.

SECTION VII. Of Copper, and such as proceed thereof, with their Antidotes.

Aes, Copper, or Brass, is likewise of a venemous quality, as many of the Learned think, and experience confirmes; and of this ariseth severall other noxious things; As, Aes ustum, Aerugo, Squamma, et Flos Aeris; Which, being taken Inward∣ly, are very poysonous; As, they subvert the appetite, hinder concoction, and ma∣cerate the bowels and intralls, especially, Squamma, and Flos Aeris; as also Aerugo, or Verdygreece, which are much more vio∣lent and grievous. As, Squamma Aeris, hath a particular property in griping and tormenting the bowells, provoking either to vomit, or causing an intollerable Flux. Flos Aeris is much of the same Nature, but over and above, contraets and affecteth the Lungs, so as that the party is thereby often suffocated. But Aerugo, which we call Ver∣digreece, is the most deadly poyson of all the rest, having all their properties; and more∣over affecteth much after the manner which you have but now heard of Arsnick.

Their Cure is all one, & ut hactenus de aliis venenis saepe dictum, quicquid assumptum fuerit ut evomatur. Postea accipiatur lac, et praecipue Asininum, Butyrum recens, juscula carnium pinguia, mucil. sem. fenig∣raeci, Althaeae, Psyllii, Lini, item syrupus et julebus violarum, cum aqua frigida. Non∣nullietiam valde commendant pinguedinem ovium in jusculo sumptum. Antidoti loco enecantur a bolo Armeno ʒij. quantitate cum hydramelite; vel terra lemnia; aut sigillata ʒj. quantitate cum vino exhibito. Laudan∣tur et succus menthae; aut succus Apii cum potu Datus, ad quant. ʒij. vel in vino sumptus. Item Theriaca ʒij. quantitate propinata. Vel saltem ʒij. vel iij. succi Rad. Acori, Coralliae rubrae preparatae ʒij. Aut pulvis Zedoariae ʒj. vel ol. Anisi ℈j. in vino sumpti.

SECTION VIII. Of the Dross and Rust of Iron, with their Antidotes.

IN like manner the Dross and Rust of Iron, or any Chymicall preparation of Iron or Steele which is made thereof, if either it be taken in too great a quantity, or be not duly administred, or at least, stay too long

in the Body, may prove very prejudiciall, and cause many horrid symptomes; as in∣tollerable Head-aches, grievous inflamma∣tions over the whole Body, Drought of the Mouth, Tongue, and unsufferable paines in the stomach and belly, and sometimes vo∣miting. The Cure is effected in the same manner, and with the same medicaments which you have heard before. Antidoti loco, usurpatur Magnes seu Bezoar ʒj. pon∣dere in pillulas eum succo Mercurialis con∣firmatus.

SECTION IX. Of Lead, Ceruse, and Litharge, with their Antidotes.

PLumbum, Lead also, taken in small bits or powder, or continuing long in the body, and dissolved, causes grievous and intollerable sumptomes, as appears by that story recorded by Fernelius Cap. 7. De Lue Venerea of a friend of his, as Schenkins lib. allegato recites it, who being perswaded by an Emperick to eat the Powder of Lead, as being an admirable preservative and re∣medy against the Gout, and rashly follow••∣ing his Counsell, without any more adoe,

did, at certain times, in Broath, Wine, up∣on baked Pears, and such kind of food, instead of sugar, in the space of fifteen days, eat about a pound weight thereof. But (saith he) into how many, and horrid symp∣tomes did he immediately fall? on the 12. day a most greievous Dysentery and Fever seises upon him, with intollerable paines, not only of the belly, but of the stomach also, and most sharp gnawings, in that in∣sufferable manner, that he could not indure his belly or region of his stomach should be touched in the gentlest manner; And what∣soever he took was immediately vomited up again, and tincted of a Leaden Colour, and so propense he was to belching, that one would have thought he was even made up of Wind. But these grievous paines and gnawings of his belly and stomack (the Dysentery ceasing) continued twenty Days and Nights, during all which time he never slept one wink; coveting to eat perpetually, although not much to drink: But never went to stoole without the help of some Clyster, or other purging medicine; And then whatsoever he voided, was of a Leaden Colour, at length he became Ictericall and of a nasty hew; nay, and his very blood, which was drawn to abate the Feaver, was

of a yellow Colour, Cholerick, and strange to behold. The same is to be understood of Minium, Ceruss, Litharges, and what∣soever else is made of Lead. Nay, and the same may be sayed of Tinn, if it be taken in∣to the Body, and there resolved (for other∣wise taken in a lump, it doth little or no hurt, nor Lead neither) for it causeth such like symptomes, though not altogether so grievous; The Cure therefore is the same which is used when Lead is resolved in the Body, viz. And that is, as most Authours conceive, the same likewise with that of Ceruss, Minium, and Litharge, in the same method as you have already heard of other Poysons; First by vomit before it be resolved in the Body, and diffused into the parts; then by Clysters, and so to use Antidotes, as occasion requires; But Sennertus thinks vomiting here needless in every respect; for that, Lead is inoffensive unless it be resolved in the body; The truth is, if it be taken in lumps or in small peices, the danger is not much, because it is not likely to resolve, but if in powder, as in this story which we have heard from Fernelius, a vomit would be ad∣ministred as most necessary and requisite to ejecti••, f possible, before it can be resolved; Ad quem rem ••tilia srut decc••t••m sem.

Rapi et Atriplicis, Radic: maluae, ficuum, cum butyro recenti, oleo Communi, Arnethino, Liliorum, Irinum, Sesaminum et similia, ut et aqua mulsa. Postea Lac Asininum, ut et aliorum animalium exhibitum, laudatur. Clysteres parentur ex decocto Brassicae, Cauli∣um rubrorum, Decoct: Radic: maluae, Althaeae, parietariae, Cardui benedicti, Centaur: minor. Diaphaenico, gran. Juniperi, ol: communi, Lilliorum alborum, et Anethi, vel ex aqua Meliti: Si Clysteres non satis juvant, et symptomata ingravescant, purgantes iniici∣endi, parati ex hydromelite, decocto Centaur: minor. Anetho, Hydromelite, Hyera picra, ol: Rutae, Pinguedine Gallinarum, Scammonio et similibus. Antidoti loco, exhibeantur grana Cydoniorum excorticata, et trita ʒij: pondere cum vino dulci. Et Minium sumptum, exhibeatur spodium de ebore usto, ʒij. pondere ex vino; Item utile est quotidie us{que} Diem quintum, Theriacae et Methridati ʒij. cum a∣qua mellis vel vino propinare. Simul etiam exhibenda medicamenta, quae malignitat•• resistunt, vimque aperiendi et urinam movendi habent (precipue cum Lethargyrum fuerit sumptum) In quem usum imprimis commendatur myrrha eujus duos obolos vel tres ex vino exhibent Autores, vel ʒj. vel ij. Commendant ita{que} Absynthium, Hysopum,

sem. apii, piper, Ligustri storem ex vino; item et Hypericum. Rhases hoc medicamentum dare. jubet. ℞ sem: apii, myrrhae: an. Aur. ij. Absynthii. Aur: j. Misce cum sapa dosis Aurei ij. vel ℞ sem: Appii Absynthi, an: part aequal: piperis Drachm: ss. Detur pondus Aureor ij. cum vino. Petrus Aponensis Bezoar Lethar∣gyri sem••n Kervae vel Cataputiae majoris esse scribit. Laudatur et columbarum et palum∣barum stereus ex vino vel mulso exhibi∣tum, &c.

DIVISION II. Of such as are dug out of the Fa••th, and are not Mettalls:

SECTION I: Of Lapis Lazulus, and its antidotes:

LApis Lazulus, although oftentimes it be with good successe used in Physick, and by severall Physicians applauded for an excellent medicine; Yet if it be not rightly prepared, and duly administred, is likewise Poyson; For if it be not well ordered, or taken in too great a quantity, or preposte∣rously, it c••useth vomitings, destroyeth

the appetite, subverteth the stomach, and causeth many paynes and gripings. Curatio, ut dictum, consistit in eo, ut primò vomitu reijciatur, et Clysteribus lenientibus et ab∣stergentibus per alvum educatur. Deinde ut exhibeantur ea, quae vim corrodendi tempe∣rant, ut lac tepidum, asininum praecipuè pro Septem Diebus. Bezoar vero hujus veneni, succinum, ad ʒij. sumptum, esse, idem scri∣bit.

SECTION II. Of the Diamond, and its Antidotes.

THe Diamond likewise taken into the Bo∣cy in powder is rank Poyson, as most Au∣thours maintain; Causing grievous paines in the stomack, & Intralls, and brings at length Death it self. The method for Cure, is, as you have all along heard, first by vomit before it be got into the bowells, then by lenitive and clensing Clysters, or purges if they are insufficient, Antidotiloco, postea dandum, censent nonnulli, sanguinem Hirci recentem vel siccum cum jure Carnium pin∣gui. Alii Balsamum serum à ℈j. ad ij. exhi∣bendum censent.

SECTION III. Of the Load-stone and its Antidotes.

TO which we may likewise add the Load-stone, which although many are of opinion it is no Poyson, yet in regard I find the most rationall concluding in the affirmative, I can in no wise dissent from them: For certainly if it be retained long in the Body, it will, no question, as well as other Stones and Mineralls, be prejudiciall. So Sennertus concludes; But if any such thing happen: Curatio sit per vomitionem in principio: Si verò ad intestina De∣scenderit, Clysteribut lenientibus abluen∣dus, aut si illi non sufficiant, purgantibus evomendus. Deinde exhibeenda quae Antido∣ti loco habentur; Smaragdus nimirum, qui Novem Di••rum spatio t••r cum vino propine∣tur. Cui 〈◊〉〈◊〉 C. C. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 C••••••alia addi possunt utili•• est ••t Th riaca. Nonnulli et Allium valde c••mm••ndant. And thus much shall suffice to be spoken of Poysons b l••aning to Mineralls, and such as are d••g ••ut of the Earth.

OF POYSONS belonging to VEGETABLES. CLASSE. 2.

VEgetables also, afford to us variety of Poysons; but chiefly they may be redu∣ced to these seven Heads. As, 1. They are either Seeds, or 2. Rootes, or 3. Leaves and Branches, or 4. Flowers, or 5. Trees, or 6. Fruits, or else lastly, Juyces. First Seedes are again, principally, these Four: 1. Semen Ricini, 2. Sem. Hyosyami, 3. Lolii, and 4. Granum Nubiae. Secondly, Roots are, e∣specially these Four also: 1. Ixia, seu Ca∣maelion niger, 2. Helleborus Albus, 3. Aco∣nitum, 4. Mandragora. Thirdly, Leaves and Branches are in number 7. As, 1. Na∣pellus, 2. Cicuta, 3. Hyosyamus, 4. Man∣dragora, 5. Herba Sardonica, Ranunculus,

seu Apium, 6. Esula minor five Tithymal∣lus, 7. Ophiusa. Fourthly, Flowers are 1. Flos Colchii, 2. Flores Africani, 3. Croci. Fifthly, Trees, are chiefly these Three also: 1. Jug∣lans Arbor, 2. Taxus Arbor, 3. Buxus Arbor. Sixthly, Fruits are in number Five: 1. Mandragora, 2. Nux vomica, 3. Colo∣cynthis, 4. Solanum, 5. Mangas. Seventh∣ly, and Lastly, Juynes are especially also, these Five: 1. Opium, 2. Euphorbium, 3. Scammonium, 4. Hinccae Succus, 5. and Lastly, Toxicum, and Pharicum. Of all which, briefly one word, and so descend to Poysons belonging to Animals, and then conclude.

DIVISION I. Of Seeds that are Poyson.

SECTION I. De Semine Ricinae, of the Seed of Pal∣ma Christi of America, and its Antidotes.

ANd first of Seeds, and De Semine Ricina, or the Seeds of Palma Christi of A∣merica,

which although in former Ages it was, (and now still perhaps in this may be) in use for purging Choller, Flegme, and Hydropicall Humours; yet taken in too great a quantity, or administred by an un∣skilful Hand, proves pernicious and rank Poyson, destroying the Appetite, over∣throwing the Stomach, causing most vio∣lent and incessant vomitings, &c. Nay, and at length, Death if self: As appears by that Story recorded by Amatus Lucitanus, Cent. 6. Cura••. 63. Of some who eating some of these Seeds instead of Pistacias, were not only, thereby, with grievous symptomes affected, but also destroyed. Dioscorides allowes of thirty Seeds for a Dose; But Co∣steus in Com. Mesu. is more rationall, al∣lowing but of three, for indeed that is the greatest Dose, and to strong Bodyes too. Yet he doth not impute this grosse mistake to Dioscorides, but rather to the Transcrib∣er of his Copy putting 30. for 3. (or it may be the Printers fault, wherefore this may be a warning to them to be Circumspect, Care∣full, and diligent in their Calling) The Truth is four will kill the strongest Zam∣zummim or Goliah, that ever was, without flinging them at their heads, but onely ••••ding them down their Throats. Ʋt in

omnibus venenis it a & in hoc. Medicus im∣primis id agere debet, ut venenum, si ore sumptum sit, quamprimum vomitu reiiciatur, Et si jam ad inferiora descenderit, per alvum medicamento purgante, vel Clystere evaecue∣tur. Postea, statim veneni vis Alexiphar∣macis propriis expugnanda; qualia sunt Terra Sigillata, Bolum armenum, etc. Item utile est quotidie us{que} ad Diem septimum The∣ariac et Methridati ʒij cum aqua mellis, ••ol vino propinare, Simul otiane exhibonda medinamentae, quae malignitati rosistune, in quem usum inprimis commend tur Lapis Bezoar, cujus ʒj. vel ij. ex vino exhibent Autores.

SECTION II. Of the Seed of Hen-bane, and its Autidotes.

SEmen Hyosyami: the Seed of Hen-bane, is likewise exceeding dangerous, not on∣ly to Hens, and other Birds, and Beasts, but to Mankind especially; affecting and setting upon the Brain and Animall spirits: As is evident from that of Pena, who tells us of a young woman an acquaintance of his, that by using to receive the sume of this Seed into

her mouth for the paine of the teeth, be∣came so molested in her mind and senses, for 3. days after, that she seemed to be drunk, reeling up and down as she walked, being vertiginous and giddy. Such an other Story Alexandrinus Annot. ad Cap. 3. Galeni, quod Animi mores temperaturam Corporis sequan∣tur, hath of a youth which he knew, that by eating some of these Seeds, was not only inebriated, but raging, and as were mad, at length taken with a Vertigo, lay so a long time, &c. It causes likewise difficulty in breathing, insomuch that sometimes the party seemes to be in danger of choaking; Likewise an universall trembling over the whole Body, Dotage, Alienation of the Mind, Phrensies, Madness, and the Falling∣sickness, &c. M. Joannes Faber. De obser∣vat. Propriis. Records some remarkable Stories to this effect; One is, of a certain Nobleman, who being intollerably mole∣sted with an universall pain in his lest side, was perswaded by his Lady, to take twenty five whole Seeds of Hen-bane, assuring him that it would immediately cure him, and if it were an Impostum, break it, &c. (with many such motives she at-length prevailed; But let this be a warning to all rationall men, how they take Physick of that won∣derfull

creature in nature a Woman Doctor; And likewise be a Caveat to those more curious then wise Creatures, how they adventure to administer what they are ig∣norant of: It being ten to one (if they go upon their own reason and judgement) the Case being dangerous, they rather kill then cure; and if at any time it happen other∣wise, all rationall men must needs acknow∣ledge a more Divine hand, and rather Gods especiall mercy and providence, then the least skill in them: The same may he sayed of Empericks and Ig••••••muses.) But it was not long after he had taken this mad Me∣dicine, but he grow so wild, and fell into such a Phrensie, and Alienation of Mind, that as my Authour sayes, Ne•• Liberos, nec Fr••••res, nec Sorol••••m, quam bab it unidam, agnoscere potuerit He did not know either his Children, Brothers, Sister, or any of his Relations; And was so seised on by Lipo∣thymia, and sounding sits, that they were out of hopes he would live. An other man he tells us of, that travelling along the road, and intollerably pained with the Tooth∣ach, at length alighting at a Victualling House to drink, and relating to his Hostess his grief, was perswaded by her to receive the fume of this Seed into lus Footh, by a

Funnell, (as the common way of that Cure is to do) But he thereupon, fell into such a Phrensie, that he ran about the Feilds as if he had been stark mad, &c. Likewise he reports, that a woman by eating of it instead of an other grain, because thereby Epilep∣tick, and that so grievous, that a fit did usually continue a whole Day and Night. Of this Hen-bane there are severall kinds, as is described by Dioscorides lib. 4. Cap. 64. Our Parkinson, Theat. Botanic. Trib. 3. Cap. 13. And other Herbalists; But especially their sorts are reduced to these three kinds; As being either 1. Black, which is most dangerous; Or 2. Red or Yellowish, which, is less pernitious; Or else Lastly, White▪ which is the least offensive of all; Yet neither of them but will cause all these aforesaid symptomes and alterations in our Senses and Braines, if unadvisedly taken; or in too great a quantity: I mean the Seeds of those severall kinds. In Curing of the Body, or freeing it from this Poyson, taken thereinto, as you have most frequently heard, you must first before it be descended into the Intralls, or diffused into the parts, endeavour to cast it up by vomits, such as you have heard before described, or in this manner; ℞ Flor. Genistae, Sambuci, An.

P ij Cortie. Ebul. ʒij. Sem. Raphan. Anethi, Atriplic. An. ʒj. Agaric. ʒss. Coquantur in s. q. hydromelit is; Colaturae ℞ ℥vj. Adde ol. Rutae ℥j. misce, Fiat potio. And such like. But if it be already gotten into the Intralls, you must endeavour to expell it by Lenitive and cleansing Clysters, which hath also been declared before, or else you may make use of Purges; As hath likewise been often taught, or prepared. Ex electuario Jndo, Diacarthamo, Scammonio, Colocynthida, Diacatholico, Agarico, etc. And then lastly to administer such Medicines as are proper and effectuall to resist the nature of that Poyson, viz. Antidotes, and such also as do allay the malignant quality thereof. This you have been often told is the method of Curing, and freeing the body of all manner of Poysons. So that it will not onely he needless, to reiterate the same thing over and over again, in speaking of every Poy∣son, but also ridiculous: Wherefore, omit∣ting that, for brevities sake, and to avoid Tautology, I shall henceforward all along give you only their severall Antidotes, and what Medicines are commanded, and have been approved by the Learned; And that in short.

First, then, touching this Hen-bane seed.

Bezoartica hujus veneni sunt Pistatia large comesta et imbibita, Castore••m, Ruta, Absy••∣thium, folia et baccae lauri. Theriaca, Me∣thridatum. Parkinsonus noster Botanicus Commendat valde Lac Caprinum, Aq. mel∣lis, sem. Faeniculi, Senapi, Raphani, Ʋr∣ticae, item et Allium, etc. ex vino sumptum. Item et Nuc. Pinior. cum vino mulso. Lau∣datur & Pulver. Pestilent. Joanni Faber ʒss. pondere cum vino.

SECTION III. Of Darnel, and its Antidotes.

LOlium Darnel, growing among Corn, is likewise a pernicious Seed; as may appear by what Galen affirmes in Lib. 6. De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus, & Lib. 1. De alimentorum facultatibus. Who there attests, that such Bread that hath a∣ny of this Seed mixed with it, is of that quality that it causeth such as eat thereof, to be possessed with a trembling over the whole Body, Stupor, Restlesnesse, Hindring Sleep, &c. Wherefore he adviseth, they be carefully pickt out of the Corn before they be grownd. And that such as have the ordering of it, be therewith acquainted,

in regard they may be apt to commit an errour ignorantly, they not knowing either the property of Darnel, or its effects which that they are Direfull, causing Vertigo, Dotage, Allenation of the Mind, and Mad∣ness it self, is evident from that of Joan∣nes Wierus, Lib. 3. De Praestigiis, Cap. 18. Edit. 6. As Schenkius quotes. The Cure is the same with Hen-bane seed.

SECTION IV. De Grano Nubiae, and its Antidotes, Fennel, Linseed, etc.

GRanum Nubiae, another pestilent and venemous Graine, so called by Au∣thours, from the Denomination of the place in which it growes; It is so strong and vio∣lent a Poyson, that One Graine thereof is present Death, if it be taken into the Body any manner of way; As divers Authours affirme. Its A••••••••tes are Theriaca, Methridatum, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Armenus▪ Lapis Be∣••••ar, Terra ••gillata, Lac Caprinum, Asi∣ni•• um largius sumptum, et similia; That is, if so little be taken that the Party lives till something can be administred, (as is seldom seen) and then you may likewise follow

the Method before prescribed in Hyosy∣amo.

To these Seeds, Linseed may be added, which may perhaps seeme strange to some, but if it be taken in any great quantity, or commonly fed on, it is very noxious; Fil∣ling the Bowells and Body with corrupt Humours, and Wind, extending the hypo∣chondries, bloating and swelling the Face & other parts, and many times brings Death it self, if we may believe Dodonaeus Lib. 2. Cap. 24. Hist. Stirp. Who tells us of some poore people in Midleberge in Zealand, who through want and indigency making Bread of it, and eating it, were not onely grievously affected with many sad symp∣tomes, but also thereby destroyed. And so likewise Balthazar Pisanellus▪ (as Schen∣kius notes,) Libro De es•• ulentorum et potu∣lentorum facultatibus, interprete Fresag••o, D•• Faeniculo, Accompts Fenel seed of a malig∣nant quality many times; By reason of certain Wormes which breed in them of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 very poysonous quality. Their C••res are the same with the former. And thus much of Seeds.

DIVISION II. Of Poysons belonging to Roots.

SECTION 1. Of the black Camaelion-Thistle-Root, and its Antidotes.

NOW of Rootes. 1. Ixia son Camalion niger, the black Camelion Thistle, which, as Galen accompts, is very per∣nitious; So that even by the very touch thereof, the skin is exulcerated. Nay Bel∣lonius goes further, telling us, Lib. 1. observ. Cap. 35. of some, who handling of these Rootes, had their Faces extreamly exculce∣rated by the very touch of their Hands, as Schen••ius, Sennertus, and our Parkinson quote. Much more dangerous then will it be, taken inwardly; As it will cause many gripings and paines in the stomach, diffi∣culty of breathing, Inflammations, Lipo∣thymia, and fainting; Nay, and Madnesse, affecting chiefly the Heart and Spirits. Excitat•• vomitu, etc. Aegroto propinandum decocium Absinthij, ex ••ino paratum, vel aceto, aut hydromelite; vel exhibeatur••ide••••

silphij radix, vel Rutae sylvestris semen; vel nardus Jndica; Castoreum, Theriaca, vel Methridatum, etc.

SECTION II Of White Hellebor, and its Antidotes.

HEll••borus Albus, White Hellebor, (if it may properly be so termed, because Galen 5. Aphoris. 1. will have it to be under∣stood without the addition of White) al∣though it hath formerly, among the Anti∣ents been, and yet, to this day, continues, in use for Physick, well prepared, corrected, and discreetely administred; yet erring herein, it oftentimes proves Poyson, [not∣withstanding the people in Thrace, and certain shepherds in those Countryes, can familiarly eat whole handfulls, and two or three Rootes at a time, as Theophr. De Hist. Plant. Lib. 9. Cap. 18. attests.] Causing most grievous wringings and paines in the sto∣mack, hickope, difficulty in breathing, dang∣er of strangling, as those in Scoltzeus, who, instead of spice, being sprinkled upon the meat, eating of it, were all like▪ to be choaked: It soon seiseth upon the Heart and Spirits, disturbes the phansie, and mind

enfeebleth and takes away the strength of the Body; As appears by that stratagem of Solon, against the City Cy••rhaeus, ••s Pau∣sanius, in Ph••ciis hath it; makes an univer∣sall trembling over the whole Body, causes Lipothymia and sounding sits, and at length suff••cates and kills the party; As him in Ponz••ttus recorded Lib. 2. Cap. 32. De ••ene∣nis, who took a Drachm and a half. Anti∣doti loco exhibeatur, pulv. sl. aut Rad. Nymphae albae, vel s••m. Pastinacae, ʒij. cum vino ex Absynthio, Scordio, Aniso, Cumino, Nardo Indica, et Cast••reo paretur pulvis, & cum vino off••ratur, ut et Theriaca, Mithrydatum. Ad strangulationem inhi∣bendam laudatur Galbani ʒss. Ad v••ntris cruciatus et tormina sedanda, sacculus è surfuribus, sale Pulegio, Cumino, Ruta▪ Mentha, et La••••i bac••is paratus, & in vino v••l l••cte coctus, extra▪ c••lide applicetur. Vel ℞ Mithridatij, Castar••i, ••••••nc. mos∣cat. express. An. ʒj. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Rut••c•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉.••ia•• ••••inimentum Q•••• rati••••e Hyp••••••••••rcharsis, ••t nimia purgatio ••s••enda ••••t▪ 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sing•••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 qu••mo ••o curandus sit, ••t C••nv••l 〈◊〉〈◊〉 q•••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••de••e sol••nt, vide Apud Fraclic••••.

SECTION III. Aconitum and its Antidotes.

A Conitum is accounted one of the most Deadly Poysons that is: killing not onely Beasts, but men also, with the very touch. Pliny Nat. Hist. Lib. 27. Cap. 2. As Schenkius observes, thinks it one of the most pernitious poysons of all others: Idem refert tactis genitalibus faeminini sexus ani∣malium eodem die mortem infert. Atque hoc fuit venenum quo interemptas, dormientes a Calphurnio Bestia uxores. Antidoti loco sunt Ruta, Abrotanum, Centaurium, Ori∣ganum, Marrubium, Chamaepitis, Aristoloch. Longa, Coagulum Leporis, Haedi, cum vino vel aceto sumptum, Rad. Eryngij, Castoreum, Theriaca, Mithridatum; Sed imprimis commendatur opobalsamum ʒj. pondere ex∣hibitum. Sed adeo homini adversa est, ut nisi statim succurratur, hominem subito in∣terficiat.

SECTION IV. Of the Mandrake and its Antidotes.

MAndragora the Mandrake Roote, which is of so poysonous a nature,

that it affecteth in a violent manner, mak∣ing the Mouth and Tongues of such as have taken it, dry, and as it were inflamed: It hath a bitter taste, and is of a most offen∣sive smell, causing such a deep sleepe to seise on those who hath seised upon it, that it is no easie matter to awake them, stupify∣ing the braine and senses, making them of∣tentimes mad; And in the end, if meanes be not used in time, it kills. Antidoti loco, aegro Pulegium, Origanum, Absynthi••m, Ru∣ta, Scordium, Castoreum, seu forma decocti, sen pulveris, cum vino vel accio exhibeantur. Ʋtilis est Theriaca, Raphanus domesticus, cum sale per triduum aliquoties assumptus, Mandragorae Bezoar perhib••tur. Ad aegrum excitandum adhibeantur Odoramenta et Err∣hina è castoreo, Ruta, Pulegio, Pyrethro, Pi∣pere et Sinapi parata. Et reliqua e••••nia quae in Lethargo adhiberi solent; ut, Frictiones, Ligaeturae, etc. Caput etiam irrigandum est A••eto et Oleo Rosaceo, item oleo in quo Puleg••∣um, Calamintha, Serpill••m, Thymus, et alia Medicam••nta Cephalica c••cta fuerunt. Potus sit virtum dulce, vel vinum Absynthites.

To which Roots, we may well add the excessive use of Garlick, Onyons, and ••••e••kes, since all Physicians▪ conclude them extream noxious, ingendring many gross,

corrupt, and malignant humours, inflame the Blood, hurt the Eyes, Head, Braine, and Stomack, and incline to Lethargies, Sopor Coro, Vertigo, Epilepsie, and madness it self. Nay and Cardan affirmes, That even the Children that are begotten of such as use to. feed frequently on Onyons, are much inclined and prone to madness. Arnulfus the Empe∣rour, as Crantzius records, Lib. 3. cap. 3. Saxoniae, Lost his life by too liberally feed∣ing on Garlick. And if we may believe Mizaldus, he will shew us, in horto, that Leekes are no less dangerous. The Cures o•• these, are the same with that of Hen—ba•••• before declared.

DIVISION III. Of Poysons belonging to Hearbs.

SECTION I. Of Woolf. bane, and its Antidotes.

THirdly, of Hearbs and Leaves, Napells offers it self first to our Consideration commonly among us known by the name of Wolf-bane; The most poysonous and deadly of all others, if taken inwardly, ei∣ther

to Dogg, Catt, or any other Creature, as well as Woolfes, nay and unto Mankind also, as all Authours affirm; And common experience hath evinced us, if we may give Credit to the relations we meet with in: he writings of the Learned: As that Feast in Antwerp, where, the Leaves of this Hearb being ignorantly put into a Sallad among others, and eaten by severall, dyed every one, not without most horrible and grievous symptomes, at large to be seen in Schenki∣us, where he recites severall examples of such as have eaten this Hearb; As, in brief, they are, (as appears by those examples) very much swelled in most parts of the Body, their Mouths are inflamed, and their Tongue swelled, so as that it can hardly be contained in the Mouth; They are Con∣vulsive, Vertiginous, subject to frequent faintings, The Face and whole Body pa••e, or, as it were, black and blew, the Pease weak, the Eyes drawn adde, the Leggs failing, and the whole man possessed with a Cold Sweat, and lastly, with Death 〈◊〉〈◊〉 self, &c. This Napellus, as Mathiolus up 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Dioscori••es. Lib. 4. Cap. 73. maintaines, ••s a kind of Aconitum; And the truth is they ••re so near of kin, that I find sew Authours ••learing their differences, most taking them

to be one and the same, and so confound these appellations promiscuously and indif∣ferently, using the one for the other, or for both. I should be too prolix, (and but to little purpose) to reconcile the Controver∣sie; wherefore I shall for brevities sake refer you to the aforesaid Dioscorides, Ma∣thiolus, Dodonaeus, our Parkinson, Ger∣rard, and other Herbalists. As touching the Cure, Such is the malignity and vene∣mous nature of this Hearb, that if present remedy be not used, no Antidote is of suffi∣cient force to allay or resist it, but in short time kills them that have taken it. Sed An∣tidoti loco, exhibeatur Lapis Bezoar, Terra sig••llata cum Butyro et Aqua Mellis, utilis item est et Smaragdus ʒij. pondere exhibitus, Bolus Armenus, Syrupus Acetositat. Citr. Granatorum Praecipuum vero adversus Na∣pellum, et alia venena, Antidotum est istud praestantissimum, in Paena, ••t Lobel. in Ad∣versariis stirpium, Pag. 320. ℞. Muscarum quae pastum ceperint De Napello Num. 20. Aristolecchiae, Boli Armeni, an. ʒj. Dosis est ʒj. in Pulvere, in Aqua Rutae. vel ℞. Zedoar. ℈j. Thuris; ℈ss. Lapid Bezoar. gra. vij. Mosci, Ambrae, An. gra. ij. Fiat pulvis. Antidotus Guianer ij. est, ℞ Bacci Laur. Mithridat. Terrae Lemniae, An ℥ij. Musc∣arum

Napelli, Num. 24. Mellis, & olei q s. Fiat Electuarium. Landantur & Theriaca, et Mithridatum. Ad oris & faciem Inflam∣mationem, adhibeantur collutiones oris ex A∣qua Rosar. Prunell. Plantagin. Cum Rob. Nucum, Diamoro, et similibus. Cordis etiam regioni sericum succo boragi••is madidum, vel aliud cordiale imponatur. Refert se quendam à morte revocasse, Mathiolus, ol••o s•••• de Scorpionibus Cordi illito; Non solum tamen regioni Cordis, sed et manunum de pe∣dum arteriis, et sub axillis ••lea talia inung∣possunt.

SECTION II. Of Hemlock and i. s Antidotes.

CIcuta, Hemlock, is likewise, as all Authours agree, a dangerous Poyson; (Yet Mercuriaelis Lib. 1. De Venenis, Cap. 6. Out of Empericus, tells us of one that eat 30 Drachms of Hemlock, without any hurt.) Causing Vertigoes, difficulty of breathing, Hickop, and sometimes strangles the party; also Trigidity, stupor, and swellings over all the Body; Likewise Phrensies, Madnesse, and at length an abatement of the strength, and Death it self, to such as eat this Hearb,

as it hath been often known, mistaking it for Parsley, and the Rootes for Parsueps [Vide Dalecampius, Annotat. ad Cap. 13. Lib. 25. Plinij, Lit. H. Cardanus, De venenis, Lib. 1. Cap. 2. Julius Caes. Scaliger,* 1.6 Ex∣ercitat. 152. ad subtil. Cardan, Mathiolus, Comm. ad Lib. 6. Cap. 11. Dioscoridis.] In Curatione, statim Alexipharmaca sunt exhibenda, praemisso vomitorco, et ut sunt Pulv: Rutae, Dictamni, fol. Lauri, Dauci, Gentianae, Piperis, Carda∣momi, seminis Ʋrticae, Absynthij, Castorei. Cum vino generoso exhibend. vel Decoct. Laudatur et vinum merum seu generosum largius sumptum; Si enim paucum exhibea∣tur, metus est ne potius vehiculi loco sit vene∣no, quam ut id expugnet. Tragus Hist: Stirp. Lib. 1 Cap 159. valde Commendat Acetum Co••iosius ha••stum; quo mulierem quae B••d Cicutae devorasset, se curasse affirmati Th••ri••ca quo{que} et Mithridatium ʒij. pondere whib••ri possunt.

SECTION III. Of the Hearb Hen bane.

HIosyamus, Hen-bane the Hearb, as well as the Seed, is Rank Poyson; But

in regard it's symptomes, effects, and also Cures, are the same which you have heard before, where I spake of the Seeds; I shall not need to add any thing in this place.

SECTION IV. Of the Hearb Man-Drake.

MAndragora, Man-Drake, is likewise pernitious, taken in the Hearb as well as Root, though not altogether so vi∣olent; the effects and Cures, see in the Rootes.

SECTION V. Of Round-Leaved-Marsh-Crow-foot, and its Antidotes.

HErba Sardonica, Ran••••nculus, seu Apium, The Round-Leaved-Marsh-Crow foot. By Lucitanus, Comment. ad Cap. 171. Lib. 2. Dioscorid. And others of the Learned, is accounted very malignant and Poysonous; Causing the Throates and Stomachs of such as eat it, to burn, and be as it were on fire; As also their Bowells, Intralls; And indeed the whole Man is

thereby Inflamed; Causing an Alienation of the Mind, and so draws the Mouth aside, and shrivells up the Face, that they seem to Laugh. Ʋnde appellatur Apium risus; Apium, quod agresti Apio simile sit; Herba Sardonica dicta est, quod in Sardinia Co∣piose provenit. Unde in proverbio de ho∣mine in calamitatibus ridente dicitur, Risus Sardonius. Ita{que} Convulsio Canina à non∣nullis Sardonicus Risus Denominatur, &c. In Curatione valde utilis est emulsio Amyg∣dal. Dulc. sem. 4. frig. major, excorticator. Item sem. Papav. albi, cum aq. Hordei, Lac∣tucae, et Plantaginis parata. Antidoti loco est succus melistae cum aceto datus, vel Bolus Armenus cum sero Lactis; vel Castoreum cum vino Dulci. Extra inungatur Cervix oleo Costino, de Castoreo, Ʋnlpino, Hyperici, Ʋnguento Aregon. & similibus. Laudatur et vinum largius sumptum.

SECTION VI. Of Spurges and their Antidotes.

ESula Minor, sive Tithymallus, The Smaller Spurge, is by some esteemed as the most violent; The truth is, there is not a pin to choose, they are all sorts so bad. For

although they have been, and may be used inwardly to purge Choller, Phlegme, and Hydropicall humours: Yet are they but very Churlish, working violently, more fit for horses, then Men, or rather, for De∣vils; For taken unseasonably, or in too great a quantity, without respect to the nature of the disease, constitution, strength, and custom of the Patient, may sooner kill, then Cure; nay and proves Poyson it self. Notwithstanding Dioscorides prescribeth to take ʒiij. of that sort called Pityusa, with red flowers, I do here affirm, peremtorily, it is too much or too great a Dose by farr. For who so shall venture upon half a Drachm of the juyce, or powder of the Root (as be adviseth to prepare it) shall find it sufficiently strong, and enough, and that one Drachm will destroy them. But I would not advise any to go to disprove me by the Tryall of it Many horrid symptomes besides Death, it usually bringeth to such as use it; For it is of that venemous quality, that even, by the very touch, it exulcerateth the skin, making it to burn, and blister an hundred times more then any nettles can. Besides, it being taken inwardly, inflames the whole Body, overthrowes the constitu∣tion and temperature of the Liver, excites

intollerable paines in the stomach, extream thirst, vomiting and scowring, it seiseth vi∣olently on the heart, causeth oftentimes Convulsions, and sudden Death. Antidoti, loco exhibeatur Bolus▪ Armenus, Terra sigil∣lata, Corallia rubra, Cornu Cervi praepara∣tum, Theriaca cum vino, vel Aqua Cardui benedicti, utile est et gummi Arabic. ac Tra∣gacanth.

SECTION VII. Ophiusa and its Antidotes; And Rew.

OPhiusa, An Hearb growing in Aethio∣pia, is no less pernitious; Causing, in such as eat it, intollerable paines; It seiseth chiefly on the Head, Heart, and Spirits, ma∣king the parts rage, rove, and as Julius A∣lexandrinus Lib. 3. Cap. 5. observes, runn Phrantick, stark mad, and so Dye. Anti∣doti loco exhibeatur Theriaca vel Mithri∣datum ʒij. pondere, Item Bolus Armenus, Terra sigillata, Corallia Rubra, Lapis Be∣zoard. & similia.

To this Divis. of Hearbs, we may add Rew, for its Caustick Faculty; it being so sharp and corroding, that the skin is easily exulcerated thereby; As appears by that

Gardiner recorded by Camerarius, Lib. De Horto,* 1.7 who by plucking up of great store of this Hearb, for certain days together, his Hands and Forehead were thereby extreamly blistered and Erysipelated. Levinus Lem∣nius also, De occult. Nat. Miracul. Lib. 4. Cap. 12. Tells us of one that had his upper Lipp and Nostrills most exceedingly exulce∣rated and blistred, but with smelling to a glass in which was Rew steept in Vineger. How strange soever it may seem, no questi∣on, the fume and Aër of Poyson is very nox∣ious, and may prove, sometimes, mortall. Diodorus Siculus, Lib. 2. Informes us of a certain Hearb growing in Arabia Felix, which casts, such as sleepe upon it, into a most sweete sleepe, and so at length makes them sleepe their Last. And the same Lem∣nius in his Herball to the Bible, evinceth this truth also, where he shewes that by the very smell of a Mandrake Aple, which he had set upon a shelfe in his study, he was so propensed to sleepe, that he could not hold open his Eyes; which so sooon as he had removed into another roome, he became cheerefull and lively again. Besides com∣mon experience evinceth us that the burn∣ing of Girny ••epper in a roome, will set

all therein a Coughing; and Henbane-seed, being burnt in any Heu-house, will cast all the Poultry into a dead and stupid sleepe.

DIVISION IV. Of Poysons belonging to Flowers.

SECTION I. Flos Colchii and its Antidotes.

FOurthly Flowers are in number 3. chiefly 1. Flos Colchi, and not onely the Flow∣er, but also the Hearb it self is most Deadly Poyson; It is a sort of Ephemerum growing in Armenia, and so, from the name of the place, is called Colchicum. If it be taken inwardly, it Corrodes and exulcerateth the stomach, Bowells, and all it touches, causing the Bloody-Flux, and there with expells the very Intralls themselves, in raggs, and an extraordinary itching over all the Body, nay and Death it self, as appeares by that story recorded by Joann. Agricola Ammonius, Rei Herbariae, Lib. 2. Who tells us of two Boyes playing together in the fields, by eat∣ing these Flowers, Dyed most miserably. In Curatione, Dioscorides valde commendat

bubulum vel Asininum Lac, largius sump∣tum. Item Laudantur emulsiones ex sem. 4. frigid. major. Et Amygdal. Dulc. Cum aqua Tormentilli, Plantaginis, Bursae Pastoris, vel, pro Alexipharmacis, Commendantur, serpillum, origanum; myrti semen et folia; Rad. Polygoni Rubifolia; Folia & glandes fagi ac quercus, quae in Lacte coqui possunt.

SECTION II. Flos Africanus and its Antidotes.

FLos Africanus, is likewise as pernicious If Dodonaeus may be credited, who in part. 2. lib. 3. Cap. 12. affirms as much, be¦ing of an unsavory smell, dulling the head, brain and senses like unto Hemlock, &c. Nay and experience (says he) evinceth in∣stanceing in a Cat, to which he having given some of these Flowers with Cheese, was there by presently inflamed in an exceeding manner, and so Dyed immediately: And Mice (he saith) that have eaten the seedes thereof, have been found dead afterwards; Nay, and he farther attests, he saw a boy, being about to eat the Flowees, that had his Lipps and Mouth most exceedingly inflam∣ed. The Cure is the same with Hemlock.

SECTION III. Crocus, and its Antidotes.

CRocus also, if taken inordinately, and inconsiderately, is poysonous; Al∣though otherwise, viz. given with discreti∣on, and taken in moderation, is a very good Cordiall, and exceedingly exhilarateth the Spirits, as Dioscorides, Dodonaeus, Mathiolus, and our Hearbalists, unanimously affirm: Nay Lucitanus, Confirmes it byan example, ad Cap. 25. Lib. 1. Dioscorid. Of one who putting a little too much of these Flowers into broath (in regard they were Cordial) and eating of them, fell into such a vio∣lent passion or fit of Laughter, that one would have thought he would have there∣by instantly dyed, it causes likewise, most excessive pains in the head, nay, it hath been known that some who have slept up∣on them, have the next day been found Dead. The Cure is the same with Hen∣bane.

DIVISION V. Of Poysons belonging to Trees.

SECTION I. Of the Wallnut-Tree, and its Antidotes, Tammerine-Tree, Juniper, and Baxama, &c.

OF Trees that are venemous, Authours have variously written; Yet chiefly they are reducible to these Three. 1. Ju∣glans Arbor, the Wallnut-Tree, whose very shadow is of a poysonous influence or facul∣ty, As Graevinus ••i. 2. De venenis et De Taxo, observes Cap. 22. Affirming it from his own Experience; For, not believing what Authours had reported of this matter, he sayes, that once, in the midst of Summer, he adventured to sleepe under this Tree, but when he awaked, he attests himself to be most grievously affected with the Head-ach, and his whole body refrigerated, which, continued for six Dayes after. Nay Sen∣nertus thinks it Causeth the Vertigo, Epi∣lepsie, and Apoplexy also; And that it is the occasion of troublesome Dreames, and o∣ther

evills, may be Collected from that of Marcellus Donatus, recorded also by the a∣foresaid Sennertus, of a Woman who sleeping under this Tree about noon-day, Dreamed she was sighting with the Devill, or that the Devill was beating of her, who thereby was so terrified and amazed, that, being awaked and returned home to her own house, fell into a Burning Feaver, whereby all her hair came off, &c. which phansie in sleepe, although it might have happened as well in her own house, as I have Dreamed the same in my bed; Yet no question the very shadow of that Tree is very noxious to the Body, Spirits, Heart, and Brain, as all Authours generally agree. Neither is it to be accounted so strange since we find many others recorded by the Learned that assert in the same nature. As the Tammeride, which, as Christophorus A Costa. Arom. Lib. Cap. De Tamarind.* 1.8 maketh mention, is know by experience, to be no lesse dangerous. And Thevetus Lib. Sing. Cap. 61. Reports of the Tree called Baxana, that whosoever shall stay under it but the space of a quarter of an hour, shall be in danger of suffocation: Many of the same virtue, he

sayes, are growing in Peru and the Caribe. Islands in India. To which may be added the Juniper-Tree, according to those in Vir∣gil Aeclog. 10. v. Penult. Recited by Lu∣cretius Lib. 6. As Schenkius quotes Lib. 7. De Venenis.

Arboribus primum certis, gravis umbra tributa Ʋs{que} adeo Capitis faciant ut saepe dolores: Si quis cas subter jacuit, prostratus in herbis.

Symptomata veròista tolluntur lotione Capi∣tis cum lixivio in quo Betonica, Hysopus, Ma∣jorana, Lavendula, Pulegium, Rosmarinus, Salvia, Spica, vel Staecas Cocta fuerint. vel irroretur Cap••t Aqua Rorismarini, Majo∣ranae, Sal••••iae, Lavendulae. Exhibeantur vero species Diambrae (ut docet Sennertus et Alii) Diamosci Dulcis, Aromatici Caryo∣phylati, Dianthos, Trochisci Galliae Mascha∣tae, vel ex Herbis Cephalicis supra dictis paretur decoctum••et addito melle Anthosato a∣gro exhibeatur. Ʋtiles etiam sunt Aquae Cephalicae, Epilepticae, Apoplecticae. Potus sit vinum generosum, &c.

SECTION II. Of the Yew-Tree and its Antidotes.

TAxus Arbor, the Yew-Tree, which al∣though it be, as Petrus Pena notes, (in Adversariis ••ag. 450.) inoffensive, growing in England; Yet in other parts, the Wood, Juyce, Berries, and shadow like∣wise, is Poysonous. As in Spaine, according to Pliny Lib. 16. Nat. Hist. Cap. 10. The Wood and Berries are mortall, especially of the Male Yew; So that it hath been known the Wine that hath been kept in such pipes and vessells as hath been made of that wood, hath killed those who drank thereof. And in Arabia (he sayes) it is so pernitious, that it killsthem who do sleepo, or eat their meat under it. Its Cures are the same with the Wallnut, Juniper, and the rest.

SECTION III. Of the Box-Tree, and its Antidotes, with the Rose-bays, &c.

BƲxus Arbor, the Box-Tree, is put by Levinus Lemnius, in his Herball to the

Bible also, as a poysonous Tree causing Death it self, Feavers, and many other symp∣tomes, Instancing in one who was destroyed drinking the ashes thereof, out of a super stitious humour. To which, I may, for a Conclusion, add, that Indian Tree called Nerium & Oliander, which being likewise taken inwardly, prove destructive, As Lit∣bantius Com. De venenis affirmes. Yet Dios∣corides allowes of the leaves and Howers ta∣ken in wine to be an excellent remedy a∣gainst the stinging of an Adder, or Serpent, But acknowledgeth it is poyson to Doggs, Asses, Mules, &c. Galen, notwithstanding, Lib. 8. simpl. Affirmes positively it is both to Man and Beast, mortall, taken inward ••y. And with him the most rationall agree. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Cures are the same with the former.

DIVISION VI. Of Poysons belonging 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••ui••••.

SECTION I. Of the Man-Drake-Apple, an ••i••s Antidotes.

IN the sixth place, Fruits are to be Con∣sidered; And 1. That of the Mandrak.,

for its Apples are by the Learned generally concluded poysonous, Dioscorides, Galen, Mathiolus, Avicenna, Rhasis, Lemnius, Sen∣nertus, new and old writers, all agree there∣in; Causing, in such as have taken it, ex∣tream heat and drought in both Mouth, Tongue, Jawes, &c. As you have heard before, where I spake of the Root, Causing Phrensies, Dotage, Madness, nay and Death it self, stupefying the braines and senses, and exciting sleepe even by the smell thereof, as Lemnius records (in his Herball of the Bi∣ble) of himself, who, having laid one of these apples on a shelf in his study, was made so dull, heavy, and sleepy thereby, that he could hardly open his Eyes, but re∣moving of it into another roome, did there∣withall likewise remove his Drowsiness (as I noted before where I spake of Rew) Rha∣sis, Lib 24. Cap. 835. Contine••tis. Hath a Story of one who by eating of five of these Apples fell into a Syncope. The Cure is the same with the Root••s.

SECTION II. Nux Vomica, and its Antidotes, with Pruna Insania, Nux Metalla, &c.

NƲx Vomica, the Vomiting Nut, so called, because it is thought to be ve∣ry effectuall to provoke vomiting; Mathi∣olus, and others are of the contrary part, affirming it not to cause vomit at all, not∣withstanding the name; with whom our Parkinson, Theat. Botan. Agrees, Trihe 17. Cap. 44. But Sennertus proves it is a strong vomit, Pract. Med Lib. 6. Part. 7. Cap. 20. out of Renodaeus, Antidotor. Lib. 3. Sect. 1. Cap. 10. So likewise some accompt it no Poyson mixing it with medecines, as may be seene in the Pharmacopea made by the Augnstin Physicians, and those in Noria∣berge in their Electuary De ••vo; But our Colledge at London, are of another mind, or were; And therefore did not without Cause strike it out of the former Antient Dispensatory, it being very hurtfull, nay and poysonous. It is by all confessed very vene∣mous to Doggs, Catts, and Birds, as Sennor∣tus affirmes from his own experience, and others. Serapio, on the other side will have

no venemous quality in it; But Mathiolus again sayes there is, Confirming it by an ex∣ample, of an old woman that was destroy∣ed by eating of some which was intended to kill certain Doggs, which by their continuall barking, disturbed them from their sleepe and rest. Com. ad Cap. 73. Lib. 4. Dioscorid. (Yet the Turks do usually eat of it without any the least prejudice; And the Germans frequently use it in Antidotes, and the Electuary De Ovo, and that with good success, As Gregorius Melichius Stoli. ad Elect. de Aromat. Galeni, Antidotarii sui annotat.) Tabernamontanus, Lib. 3. Cap. 14. affirmes ℥ij, weight of it, is poy∣son, and will kill any one; but, a Drachm will only intoxicate a mans braines so as that he will seeme to be inebriated; with whom also, Sennertus agrees, Affirming, that if it be taken inwardly, it causeth pre∣sently a loathing, and much vomiting, ex∣traordinary thirst, a violent flux of the bel∣ly, straitnesse of the brest, an universall weakness over the whole body, a cold sweat, Convulsions, and at length with out speedy help be administred, Death it self. An∣tidoti loco exhibeantur Zedoar. ʒij. pondere cum vino, Cortices Citri vel succus ejus, Rob. Myrti, vel Cydoniorum. Hereunto I may

well add Nux Metella, or Methel, and Pruna Insania;* 1.9 In regard of their dangerous quality, and affinity one with ano∣ther, they being all Nuts; Methel or Metel then, I shall first speak of, which Serapio, with some others, have confounded with Nux vomica, indifferent∣ly taking one for the other, and mistaking both, as I think; Some likewise will have it be the Stramonium minus, or Datura; It will not be worth my time and paines to reconcile the Dissentions of Authours on this matter; the most rationall agree that our Vomica in Apothecaries shops at this day to be sold••, is not the Nux Vomica of the Antients, (for that is of that property, that one Drachm, will cause vomiting) but rather Methel. However Methel is also poysonous, as our approved∣est Writers agree, Casting such as take it, into a most profound sleepe, hardly to be awakened, making their Tongue and Lips to swell, their Na••les to grow blew, the whole body pale, and to fall into a cold sweat, and Death it self without speedy help. In Curatione exhibeantur decoctum Absynthij, Origani, Rutae Sylvestris, Ra∣dic. Gentianae, Helenii, cum vi••o paratum,

vel Castoreum, Pyrethrum, Baccae Lauri, Cinamomum, Theriaca, Species Diagalan∣gae, Diazinziberis: Cibi loco utatur aeger Butyro recenti, Carnibus & jusculis pingui∣bus, Potus sit vel vinum meracum, vel Lac Dulce Copiosum. Pruna Insania, the mad Indian Plums or Nuts, &c. Are altogether as dangerous some think; But I rather con∣ceive this much more temperate, yet they make such as eat them, extraordinary slee∣py, Cause Laskes, seise on the Heart, spirits and Braine, exciting divers strange phan∣sies and Chymeraes in their heads; As ap∣peares from that relation of Clusius, Lib. 2. Epotick Pag. 53. et 54. Touching some Dutch men that happened to eat some of them after they were steept in liquor and boyled; where he tells us one cryed per∣petually, take away the woman, thinking his Cabin was a Brew house; Another continu∣ally made inquiry, who would buy his Fish, imagining himself to be plentuously stored with them. One thought that the Devill was catching of Fish at the stern of the ship; Another, that they were building a ship in his Cabin; A third, that severall men were come to take away his Cabin from him, whereupon bestirring himself broake seve∣rall China Dishes; Here lies one Howling

and Crying, his flesh was torne from his bones; An other sees the Heavens open, and exclames, Lord I will, willingly, follow thee. The Masters Boy thinks he sees many little men dancing upon his Fathers nose; And one of the Sailers will not be perswad∣ed but that through the bulke of the ship, he saw the Anchors of the Sea, and the like; Yet, He sayes, after they had slept, all these Phansies vanished. Its Antidotes are the same with Mandrakes.

SECTION III. Of Colocynthis, and its Antidotes.

COlocynthis, The Coloquintida Apple, Taken by it self or in any other Com∣pound Medicine in too great a quantity is no lesse mortall then any of the former, destroying the Conslitution of the stomach, excoriating the bowells and intralls, cau∣sing Bloody-sluxes, and many other direful symptomes, nay, and Death it self; For Dodonaeus in suis observationibus, as Camera∣rius in Horto records, telleth us of one who by receiving a Drachm hereof with other ingredients, but in a Clyster, had his intralls

thereby excoriated even to death, causing much blood, some few hours after he was dead to issue out at the fundament. The Cure is the same with Hellebor. Ʋtilis est etiam, si aegro exhibeatur Decoct. Ʋvar. Passar. cum Oleo Amygdalorum Dulcium.

SECTION IV: Of Night-shade, and its Antidotes.

SOlani Fructus, The Fruits or Berries of Night-shade; Night-shade is very dan∣gerous of what sor•• soever it be, taken either in the Roote, Hearb, or Fruit; All the kinds excite and provoke to sleepe; The Ordina∣ry and Common Night-shade is lesse perniti∣ous: And those which are called Hortensis, and Belladonna, are the most poysonous and mortall, especially their Fruits; Causing terrible Dreames, strange Phansies, Alie∣nation of the Mind, deepe sleepe, &c. As appeares by that of Joannes Moibanus in symphon. ad Cap. 11. Lib. 1. Parabilium, Di∣oscorid. And Mercurialis De Venenis, Lib. 1. Cap. 13. Sayes he saw some boyes who were kill'd by eating those Apples of that sort callyd Belladonna. Likewise the Berries of ordinary Night-shade are reputed no less de∣structive

••or Tragus, Hist. Stirp. Lib. 3. Cap. 24. From the testimony of Georg. Olin∣ger. Novimburgers. Aslures us they were the death of two Boyes that out of wanton∣nesse eat them as they were playing in the Fields. Yet of the two, Belladonna is by the most rationall accounted, the most mortall and violent; As is apparent from the Wri∣tings of the said Tragus Cap. 15. Leonhart. Fuchsius, Hi Stirp. Cap. 265. Joannes Wierus De Praestigits Daemonum, Lib. 3. Cap. 17. Joannes Baptista Porta De Mag a Natural. Lib. 14. Cap. 13, &c. In Curatione laudan∣tur Aqua Mulsa, Lac Caprinum aut Asi∣ninum, Dul••e vinum, quod t••pi••••m cum a∣niso bibatur: Amygdalae amarae, gallina∣cea pectora Dec••cta; quin etiam Conchylia omnia, tam cruda quam cocta, edere saluta∣re est. Conveniunt & l••c••s••ae ma••inae, gam∣mari et pota corundem ••usc••l••▪ Item exhi∣bean••ur Bolus Arm••••••s, Ter•••• sigillata, Ru∣ta, Theria••a ••t Mit••rtdati••••, ••t reliqua, quae H••lleb••ro ••lbo s••••p••e milia sunt.

SECTION V. Mangas, and its Antidotes.

MAngas, The Italian hony plum, a∣bout the bigness of a quince, full of a milkie kind of Juyce, etc. As Christophorus à Costa, Lib. Aro. p. 70. describes it. Affirming, withall, that it is a most pernitious and pier∣cing poyson, So that the least quantity thereof being eaten, will immediately kill; conclud∣ing, Adeo celeriter perimit, ut hactenus nul∣lum sit repertum Antidotum ad ejus vim compescendam. Its of that penetrative na∣ture, that, as yet, no Antidote is known to be sufficient to suppress or resist its pow∣er and force.

DIVISION VII. Of Poysons belonging to Juyces.

SECTION I. Of Opium and its Antidotes.

LAstly, Juyces are especially five that are poysonous; As, Opium, the Juyce of Poppys, a most dangerous Poyson,

as all Authours unanimously agree. Pliny Nat. Hist. Lib. 20. Cap. 8. Tells us of one that was presently killed with drinking some of it. And Jacobus Justinianus affe∣cted with the Tooth••ach, by dropping some Oyle in which was Opium thereinto, slept to death; as Alexander Benedictus Lib. 6. Cap. 13. De Curand. Morb. Records. Nay, it is of that force and poysonous Nature, that even in Clysters and suppositories it is mortall: as appears by him in Nichol. Ser. 2. C. 11. Who taking a suppository against the Tenesinus was thereby destroyed. A Lady, in Mar. Gattinaria, Cap. De Soda Colerica in 9. Rhasis. Having not slept many days toge∣ther et Medici decreverunt in sibi supponere∣tur collyrium quoddam longum Opiatum quod cum silo communi appenso, ut extrahi possit, which caused her presently to sleepe, but the Maides neglecting to draw it away as the Physicians had given order to do when she was ••allen asleep, slept her last, never waking more. And the same Nicho∣la•• Serm ••. Tr••ct 1. Cap. 15 ••••te••••s him∣selt to have seen an ancient man, to whom a Clys••er being a••n in••stred with Opium a∣gainst that excessive pa•••• e of the Collick, dyed. And if it be not taken in that quan∣tity as to kill, yet it causeth many horrible,

and direfull symptomes; As the Vertigo, Sopor, Coma, a retching and wearinesse to any thing but sleepe, refrigerating the body, and so seising on the Heart, Spirits, and Lungs, that respiration is but small and remisse, the whole body infeebled, and the very blood in the Heart Coagulated; Nay, and if it be taken in the least manner in ex∣cess, without speedy help be administred, it immediately kills. [As Fallopius, Tractat. de Composit medicament. Cap. 8. Instances by example. And yet Sextus Empericus, 1. Hy∣potheseon Empericarum, tells us of one that eat 4. Drachms of Opium without any hurt. Nay, Gartzeus ab Horto, Lib. 1. Aro∣mat. Indiae Cap. 4. Sayes he knew one that would familiarly eat ten D••ach••••s.] Op•••• Antidota sunt in primus Asa, et Castoreum, quae nonnulli Bezoar et Theriacam Opii no∣minant. Ʋtilia etiam sunt R••••ta et Origa∣num, et quid••m A••a ʒj. vel Castoreum ʒj. vel ij. pondere cum vino generoso propinatur.

SECTION II. Euphorbium, and its Antidotes.

EƲphorbium, or that which our Herba∣lists call the Burning Thorny Plant, ei∣ther

in the Juyce, Gumm, or otherwise taken into the Body, irregularly, or in too great a quantity, causeth an extraordi∣nary heat in the Tongue, Mouth, Jawes, Stomach, and bowells, exciting intolerable paines by corroding and gnawing those parts: it provoketh Vomit, nauseousness and Hiccop; inflameth the whole body, with inextinguishable thirst; bringeth cold sweats, sownding fits, grievous Dysente∣ries, and at length Death it self; As him in Alex. Benedictus recorded by Schenkius, De venenis, Lib. 7. Fol. 984. Troubled with the Gout, and taking pills from an Empe∣rick, made of Euphor••ium, was immedi∣ately seised on by the Dysentery, and seve∣rall other direfull symptoms, and so dyed that very day. Proprium Euphorbij Anti∣dotum est s••men Citri ex vino, in quo radices h••lenit Coctae sint. Ʋtilia etiam sunt Terra sigillata, Smaragdus, Crystallus Praepara∣tus, Spec. Liberantis, Theriaca, &c.

SECTION III. Scammony and its Antidotes.

SCammonium, a kind of Convalvulus, or Bendeweed; It is oftentimes used in Phy∣sick,

especially in Pills, both by Antiēt & Mo∣dern Physicians; But yet as the former, if not warily used and rightly applyed, caus∣eth exceeding much Mischeif to ensue; As, it destroyeth the Stomach, gnawes and cor∣rodes the Intralls, causing Dysenteries and expulsion of blood, and sometimes of the bowells thēselves in rags; Brings also faint∣ings and sowndings, inflaming the Heart and spirits, so that the whole Body is as it were set on fire, and at length destroyed, as Amatus Lucitanus, Comment. ad Cap. 171. Lib. 4. Dioscorid. attests to have often seen at Venice and Ferraria, severall that by taking of it in pills, and other wayes in to great a quantity, have changed, thereby, this life for eternity. [Yet Fallopius de simpl. Purg. Capit. quadragesimo octavo, sayes he saw one that took at once an ounce of Scammony, and yet gave him not so much as one stoole.] In Curatione Diascoridii, quod est suce. Scammonii. Laudantur omnia quae Fuphorbio sumpto utilia sunt.

SECTION IV. Of the Indian Hiucca, and its Antidotes.

HIuccae succu••, The Juice of the Indian Hearb Hiucca, of the Root of which the Indians make their bread Casaver, is likewise Poyson, as Cardan, Scaliger, and other of the Learned, note; as also common experience evinceth; as divers have affirmed unto me who have beē in those parts where it is frequent to make such bread; and yet the Juyce thereof is rank, peircing, and deadly Poyson: So that, as the afore∣named Cardan, Lib. 12. De subtilitate con∣tends, there is hardly any remedy sufficient to resist the power thereof. The reason is rendred by Julius Caesar Scaliger, Exerci∣tat. 153. sect. 5. ••t 8. ad subtil. Cardani. Be∣cause the Juyce being a thin body, or of rare parts, soone penetrateth all the parts of the Body; as also of a peculiar offensive and destructive faculty or property, natu∣rally Inherent in the Juyce it self. (Yet it is reported that the Juyce of this Root not growing in Islands, but in the Continent is inoffensive. And where it is deemed poy∣sonous, the Inhabitants make a kind of

small drink of it, by boyling it only till half be consumed. It serveth them likewise for Hony, being boyled thick; and for Vi∣nager being set in the Sun without such boyling.) Illustrating the former reason by an example, Instancing in Leeks, that the Juyce thereof is very offensive. (But Mizaldus in Horto, Affirmes the Juyce also to be mortall, and to have killed severall who have attempted to take it into their Bodyes▪) When as the Rootes or Blades themselves eaten are lesse offensive or not at all in that nature. The same may be added of the Juyce of Lettice, two ounces where∣of being reputed no better then poyson, and of a deadly quality; When, as much Lettice as will yeild two ounces of Juyce, may be eaten without any offence: and all because of the thinnesse of the parts, which soone diffuse themselves into the Veines, &c. And extinguish naturall heat, nay, and Life it self. The Cure is (you have heard) sel∣dome or never wrought, so deadly and poysonous is it.

SECTION V. Of Toxicum and its Antidotes, Mel Ve∣nenatum, Mushroomes.

5. ANd Lastly, Toxicum; a most vio∣lent and wicked Poyson, so destru∣ctive and pernitious, that all Poysons have generally been denominated Toxica, and comprehended under that name. But what this Toxicum is, or formerly was, is not plainly discovered by any Authour that I have yet rancountred; Dioscorides, Lib. 6. Cap. 20. Sayes it was a medecine in which the Indians, Savages, and people of old were wont to dip the heads of their arrows in the time of war, to make the wound in∣curable, and mortall. Sunt enim Graecis 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 et 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sagittae; At{que} hinc Toxicum dictum venenum, quo tela illinuntur. To the same use likewise in Cap. 19. he names Pharicum to be also in request; so called, as some think, either because good store of it was wont to be brought to Pharis a City in Arcadia so called; or from the Witch that first invented it; But what these poy∣sons were, he doth not acquaint us, neither do any since for him, more then that they

were the Juyces of some Hearb or Hearbs; But whether Simple or Compound is not concluded among them; neither of what Hearb or Hearbs, they were prepared Some think it may be made of Napellus, or Woolf∣bane; others of Aconitum; a third of VVhite Hellebor: Pliny Lib. 16. Nat. Hist. Cap. 10. will have it the Juice of the Tree called Taxus or Yew, and that thence therefore it had its name: But whether it be any of these, or the tree Ga••acum or those other bearing fruit, (as Thevetus records Cap. 61. Lib. Sing. Idem T. 1. Cosm. Lib. 10. Cap. 3. in the Indies) about the bigness of a tennis∣ball, the Juyce of which they affirm the In∣dians to dip their Darts in, or some other. I shall not adventure to presume to deter∣mine, where so many Learned Men have been obscure, or at least, not clear. It is so deadly and piercing a Poyson, that it is im∣medicable; killing even with the very touch; Wherefore I willingly omit what others have affirmed in that particular.

To these Juyces, I may well add (besides Leekes, and Lettice before named) the Juyce of Mandrake, and of Hemlock; Half a Drachm of the former being enough to kill any one; And the latter being reputed the death of* 1.10 SOCRATES that

famous Pilosopher. Their Cure is the same with the Roote, any Hearb before treat∣ed of.

There may, likewise, hereunto, also, be annexed, Mel Venenatum, Poysoned Hony; for so it often happens to be: as appears by that of Galen, Lib. 10. De simplic. medica∣ment. facultat. circa initium, according as Schenkins and Sennertus quote, as also that of Pliny, Lib. 21. Cap. 14. Nat. Hist. being gathered by the Bees,* 1.11 from poysonous Flowers, &c. And Rhodiginus Cap. 35.25. Tells us of Hony coming out of Box in Pontus, that makes such as eat it stark mad. Others again he records, Cap. 30.18. that immediately kills being poysoned by the place in which it was made. As soon as e∣ver it is eaten any manner of way, or drank in liquor, it is in the Mouth, and to the Tongue and Palate very sweete and plea∣sant; But immediately after, disturbes the Head, causing it to be dull, Vertiginous, and filled with Chymeraes, as also Deliriums, tremblings aboundantly; hinders respira∣tion, making grievous paines in the sides, & Breasts, as also gnawings in the Intestines, and aboundance of Wind; an universall trembling over the whole Body; and if

speedy remedy be not administred, Death it self seiseth on them. Its Cures are the same with Aconitum, before mentioned.

Lastly to conclude this Class, touching Poysons belonging to Vegetables, I may add that meanest and most unworthy of all ve∣getables, Mushromes, which although some are ventured on as food by Fanatick brains; Yet others are poysonous, and all pernici∣ous; Nay, and none of them sit for food; Whence Seneca did well term them a voluptuous Poy∣son.* 1.12 Pliny Ancipitem Ci••um Lib. 22. Cap. 23. Nat. Hist. Destroying whole Families at a repast; Claudius Caesar, as Suetonius records, was destroyed by them; And Cardan Lib. 3. De Sanitat. Tuend. Cap. 47. Reckons up I know not how many more that lost their lives by this fantasticall food. Those are the worst, and most poysonous, which, as Avicenna notes, are grayish or of a blewish colour, which some think are not only mortall be∣ing eaten, but destructive also to such as do but smell unto them. And the reason is, either 1. Because they are naturally nothing else but a bundle of cold, moist, and viscous vapours and matter of the Earth or Trees on which they grow: Or 2. In that they

are very apt to attract, and suck in all manner of poyson from Toades, Spiders, and other noxious Creatures that do, or may converse about them; Whence, such as eat them, (or such as are naught, or those that are good, in too great a quatity) are as it were suffocated, strangled or choakt, having their naturall heat extin∣guished, filling their bellies with wind, causing the Hiccop, exulcerating the Intralls and Bowells, and bringing an uni∣versall palenesse over the whole Body; and sometimes causeth madnesse; an example of one thus affected Petrus Forestus hath Lib. 10. Observat. Med. Observat. 116. in Scholio, of a Woman so affected by eating this trash only. Likewise in the same place he tells us of a young Gentlewoman about Eighteen years of age, quae in Convulsione qb ••utero ex fungis Comestis incidebat; Lying so Convulst, staring in a most hor∣rible manner, Continuing thus in her fit for six Dayes together, &c. It brings, likewise Sownding ••its, Cold Sweats, ••alling-sicknesse, and deepe sleepe, Nay, and Death it self, as you have heard; The which every Physician Confirmes. Ma∣lignitati verò hujus veneni resistunt Cala∣mintha Montana, Origanum, Hysopus, Ruta,

Nasturtium, Absynthium, Allium, Ari∣stoloch. Laudantur et Theriaca, vel Mi∣thridatium cum Oxymelite simplici vel scillitico exhibitum; ut et species Diatrion Piperion, Diacalaminthae, Diamosci, Dia∣cymini, Diagalanga ʒj. pondere cum vino generoso Tribus Diebus Continuis exhibi∣tae, &c. And thus much, briefly, shall suffice to be spoken Of Poysons belonging to Vegetables.

OF POYSONS belonging to ANIMALLS. CLASSE III.

THus having spoken of Poysons belong∣ing to Mineralls, as also to Vegetables, It resteth, according, to my promise, I speak also to Animalls, which may be divided into these severall rankes; As being either 1. Of Beasts; Or 2. Of Flying Creatures; Or 3. Of Serpents; Or 4. Of Fishes; Or 5. Of Creeping things. Of all which, there are divers sorts: As 1. Of BEASTS; 1. Doggs; 2. Cats; 3. Woolses; 4. Mus Araneus; 5. Taurus; 6. Vacca. 2. Of FLYING CREATƲRES: 1. Cantharides; 2. Apis; 3. Vespus. 3. Of SERPENTS: 1. Draco; 2. Crocodi∣lus;

3. Scorpio; 4. Baziliseus; 5. Sala∣mandra; 6. Vipera; 7. Dryinus; 8. Stel∣lio; 9. Aspis; 10. Natrix; 11. Haemor∣rhous; 12. Sepedon; 13. Cerastes; 14. Dipsas; 15. Amphysbaenas & Sytate; 16. Cenchris; 17. & Lacerta. 4. Of FISHES: 1. Tor∣pedo; 2. Draco Marinus; 3. Pastinaca Marina; 4. Canis Marinus; 5. Lepus Marinus; 6. Scorpio Marinus; & 7. Mu∣raena. 5. Of CREEPING THINGS, or INSECTS: 1. Scolopendra; 2. Hirudo; 3. Rubeta; 4. Aranenus; 5. Pini Erucae. Of all which in order one word as I have done of other Poysons, and so Conclude.

DIVISION I. Of Poysons belonging to Four-Footed-Beasts.

SECTION I. Of the biting of Mad-Doggs, and the Antidotes

AND First of such poysons as Four-Footed-Beasts yeild unto us; Among which, Doggs offer themselves in the first place, to our Consideration. Which Creatures, in regard they are more subject

to madnesse oftentimes then others, and a raving kind of distemper, and foaming at the mouth; Do, by biting, or their vene∣mous foame, convey the same raging fury, to Man or Beast which they wound; As al∣so severall other wayes, as you may see be∣neath. Of this Creature, therefore, I say, we shall chiefly insist: as touching the madnesse of Horses, Asses, Mules, Beares, Foxes, and the rest, which are not so subject to madnesse, or so frequently raging, or, perhaps, never, unless it be unto them con∣veyed by the bite, foame, or other manner, from these Doggs, or Woolfes, I shall refer thee to Bauchinus, who hath written an whole Tract of them. [With him you may also consult Avicennas 6. quarti, Tract. 4. Cap. 5. & 6. Aurelianus likewise, Lib. 3. Acutor. Cap. 9. Aristoteles De Hist. Anima∣lium Lib. 18. Cap. 22. et 24.] For farther satisfaction, have recourse to the writings of the Learned; But more particularly, read Dioscorides, Hournicus, Capivaccius, Hieldishem, Forestus, Schenkius, Sennertus, &c But especially he that is, Instar omnium Co∣dronchus, who hath largely, and fully dis∣cussed this subject matter, in Two Trea∣tises.

How Doggs become mad, is a question

not fully discussed by our Physicians and Philosophers. Some render this reason; Because they are of a melancholly temper and nature: But then other Creatures of the same disposition, as Hares, Coneys, Cats, and all kind of Venison, sheepe, etc. would be likewise in the same manner affected.* 1.13 Others will have it proceed ex qualitatibus primis; which likewise is invalid; for we see these primae qualitates work not the same effect in o∣ther Creatures. Others again, say they are subject and most prone to madnesse of all other Creatures in that they feed upon Car∣rion, and stinking corrupt matter, and drink faetide and putrified water, which cor∣rupting their blood & spirits procures mad∣nesse: But to this neither, can I consent, in that, other Creatures that feed as foully and more frequently, are lesse, nay seldom, or never thus affected, as Swine, Ducks, Hens, &c. Which will eat any, or all manner of filth without the least inconveniency; Be∣sides, many times we see Dogs run mad that never eat a bit of Carrion in all their lives, but choicely fed from their Masters Table. Af, ourth sort, say it is through vexation or trouble in finding their Master when lost,

and smelling to every filthy & faetid thing; But this argues as little as the rest, in that if he cannot find his Master quickly, he soone returnes home, so that the vexation will not be so violent as to make him mad, in regard it cannot be imagined the Dogg should ag∣gravate his misery and discontent to height∣en any such humour, by conceiving he shall loose his labour when he comes home, and that then the other people in the house will injure him, famish, hang, or some other way destroy him, and the like; which might make him mad, if this reasoning or phansie might be admitted in the Dogg I say: But on the contrary we see that as soone as he comes home, he rests contented till he by chance again rancounters his owner, seek∣ing no farther after him. Neither doth his senting at every offensive vapour argue he thereupon grows mad; for then it would be of that efficacy and force to divert his present intentions, and confound his sense so that he would be disinabled to follow his appetite: But we see by common experience, that, notwithstanding all these, he con∣stantly pursues his game or his desires with∣out the least disturbance from those va∣pours, retaining still the sent of what he seekes or pursues. Many, again, are of opini∣on,

that sudden heats and colds may be the cause of this their phrensie, they being Creatures much subject thereunto, whereby their blood is inflamed, melancholly increa∣sed, and madness it self excited: But this, likewise, is of as little force as all the rest, since we are, by common eperience, evinced that Doggs are as mad in winter as in sum∣mer; in cold weather as in the Dog-dayes. So that among these various opinions, what to determine, is no easie matter; The Con∣troversie I shall not presume to decide; on∣ly thus much, I hope, I may without offence deliver; that they are more addicted and propence unto this Delirium, then other Creatures; out of a peculiar inherent or innate property in themselves; which, in plain English, is as much as to say, I am ig∣norant of the cause. Neither am I asham∣ed to confesse it, since, I find the most ap∣provedst Authours, herein, to seek, or ob∣scure; but wish heartily other men may have a more clear understanding in this matter then my self.

But however they become thus; yet this is most certain, that they emit such a Poyson, when they are thus mad, which destroyes both Man and Beast, by a secret, not ma∣nifest property. And that severall wayes;

As, 1. By biting; Thus Baldus the Lawyer was destroyed by a small bite of a little Dogg which he kept and played with,* 1.14 gave him in the Lip, as Ambrosius Paraeus De venenis, Lib. 21. Cap. 14. Records; Every Authour affirmes their bite to be most dangerous, and that they thereby most frequently destroy both Man and Beast. [Yet Nicholus affirmes Sermon 4. Tract. 4. Cap. 15. That he saw a Man who being bitten with a Mad Dogg, be∣came mad; and another that the same Dogg bit, had no more hurt then if he had been bitten by another Dogg which ailed no∣thing, or had not been bit at all; wherfore there is more in it then the meere bite; Nay some conceive the venome is but in one or some certain teeth, and that all the rest are inoffensive as any Dogg that is not mad.] 2. By scratching; And thus Caelius Aure∣lianus Lib. 3. Cap. 9. Acut. morb. reports of a Woman who being lightly scratcht in the face by a little Dogg that was mad, be∣came, not long after, distracted. 3. By the touch; for so Galen Lib. 6. De loc is affectis, teacheth that their very foame being touch∣ed, is sufficient to make a man mad, and breed that raging disease called Hydroph∣obia;

which Mathiolus confirmes, attesting he himself saw two thus affected without the least bite or hurt, but only having some of their slaver sprinkled, by chance, upon them; Com. ad Lib. 6. Dioscorid. Cap. 36. Likewise Mathaeus De Gradibus, Consil: 82. affirmes Joannes Coqueranus to be thus in∣fected with onely putting his hand into the mouth of a Mad Dogg, although he was not at all bit thereby. 4. By the smell of a Mad Dogg it hath also been known some have been infected, as him in Aurelianus, loco citato, &c. 5. By sucking or biting that which they have bitten; As I have heard of a fellow who meeting a Mad Dogg, not knowing he was so, came so near him that the Cur, in his transient Journey, bit off a peece of his Cloak and let it fall, the which, the fellow (being somewhat saveing) took up, and had it sowed on again, but, as it was thought, bit off the ragged threads before he sowed it to the other, whereby he was infected, and at the next full Moon, Dyed: But lest my relation may not be worthy the crediting, take the same from the aforenam∣ed Caelius Aurelianus, loco Aligato, who tells us of such an other action, verbatim. 6. By eating such Creatures as are bitten by them; An Instance of much mischief in this

kind may be seen in Fernelius Lib. 2. De Abditis rerum causis Cap. 14. Nay and 7. And Lastly, by their very looks, as Arate∣us Lib. 1. Cap. 7. De signis & causis morb. Acut. Instanceth in one who was thus af∣fected by the ardent, venemous, and fierce aspect of a Mad Dogg, earnestly looking him in the face, neither biting or touching him any manner of way.

And this Poyson doth sometimes manifest it self sooner, sometimes, again, later; for what reason we are as yet left in the dark; neither is the time exactly known, when the effects begin to manifest themselves; some say within a Week, others nine, or Fourteen dayes after; A third sort, say, about the seventeenth or twen∣tieth; but most hold,* 1.15 about the thirtieth, or fortieth day after the bite. Nay and sometimes there is no sign of it till 4. Moneths after, as Galen holdes; As also Codronchus, [Baldus the great Lawyer, as Paraeus notes, Lib. 21. De venenis, Cap. 14. Dyed foure Moneths after he was bitten] some not till the 6. or 8. Moneth or a year, as others will, Albertus Magnus, De Hist Animal. Lib. 7. Cap. 2. Sayes he saw a man that was bitten with a Mad Dogg in the Arm, and yet was well

for seven years, after which, the place be gan to be inflamed, and so within two day dyed. And Fracastorius sayes five years; but Gnianerius, twelve years: Amatus Lucita∣nus gives instances of eight moneths; and of three years; But Petrus Salius of five, se∣ven, and twelve years. [As also eighteen years; Nay and Alsaharavius attests he knew one that lived 40. years before he was apparently infected.] I shall not presume to correct so worthy, so learned,* 1.16 so able Physici∣ans as these are which thus affirm; but I may acknowledge my self ig∣norant in the reason hereof without pre∣judicing any man, as also take that liberty as to think my pleasure, and not conclude with all I heare, especially since there are so many poysons that may accidentally in∣terveane and be eaten unawares, that may cause Death, in such a manner as will be very difficult to determine whether was the Interficient dosse: (And so, as some think, There be many posons which being taken, will kill at such, or such certain times after. Qua de re consule Galeotum De pro∣miscua disciplina, Cap. 12. Iobertum para∣doxo 3. Lib. 27. Amatum Lucitanum, Cant. 2.

Curat. 65. Julium Alexandrinum Annotat. Ad Galenum 680. Cardanum Lib. 2. Tract. 5. Contradict. 9. et de subtilitate Lib. 2. Mer∣curialem, De venenis Lib. 1. Cap. 21. Fran∣cisc. Valeriolam loc. Commun. Pag. 633. Vidum Vidium, Tom. 2. Pag. 13. And Bac∣cium Lib. 1. De venenoruns prolegomenis, &c. But, as to this Tenet we spake our opinion in Part. 1. Sect. 4.) Besides, the same Poyson and venemous matter of which this madness ariseth, may be generated in the Bodies of Men and Women, without any infection from Doggs at all. To this purpose Mar∣cellus Donatus, De Historia medica mirabili, Lib. 6. Cap. 1. De Hydrophobia mira affectio, gives us five severall examples of such as were so affected and fallen into the disease called Hydrophobia without the least com∣munication of the said venome from any Dogg or thing: but purely from some innate seeds thereof inherent in themselves. Likewise the same aforequoted Petrus Sali∣us, De affect. Partic. Cap. 19. Hath such an other instance. So hath Felix Paterus obser. Med. Lib. 1.

Touching the nature and temperature of this Poyson, many arguments are among the Learned; Some maintaining it to be Hot, others Cold, with Enstathius Rudins,

Lib. 4. De Morbis occultis, Cap. 12. who labours by severall arguments to maintain this Paradox. But the most Rationall and Learned are of the contrary Judgement, affirming it to be Hot, and Dry of quality. As Fuchsius, Fernelius, Sennertus, &c. Hildesheim, Speciel. 2. Confirms it by se∣verall examples, in such as have been infectected by the bite of Mad Doggs, and dying madd, being opened, had no water, or blood scarce; or any other moisture left in them. And Capivaccius, Fract. med. Lib. 7. Cap. 12. Concludes it not only Hot, but Hot in the fourth Degree; which from his own experience in a certain Monck whose Body being defected (dying in this sort of madness from the bite of a Dogg) He observ∣ed these three things clearly evincing the truth therof; First that there was no moi∣sture in the Pericardion (in the least) but all wasted and dryed up by the fiery Poyson; Secondly the Cells or Ventricles of the Heart were dry, and destitute of blood; Thirdly, That some part of the Pericardi•• on was so dry, scorcht, and burnt up, that it was fit to be pulverized. Besides, their inordinate Draught evinceth, putting the matter quite out of Doubt, and makes it evidently appear to be Hot. And yet,

notwithstanding, they will rather choose to Dye then Drink, out of a peculiar in∣herent property, or occult quality, which, as yet (to tell you the truth) is not known to Physicians and Philosophers even as they who are bitten with the spider Tarantula (as you will hear beneath) are in more ease,* 1.17 pleasant, mer∣ry, and Dance when they hear Musick, nay, and are oftentimes cured thereby. And those who have eaten of the Sea Hare abhor all Fish: So, I say, doth they who are infected by the bite of a Mad Dogg, (or otherwayes) from an occult quality in the Poyson, naturally ab∣hor all water; whence, by the Ancients, as Dodonaeus obs. medicinal Cap. 12. notes, it had it's Denomination Hydrophobia; And that it is thus, Rhasis hath a notable story to this effect, Lib. 8. Ad Almansoar. Cap. 10. we had once a patient in an Hospitall af∣fected with that Disease called Hydropho∣bia, by the biting of a Mad Dogg, who whould usually bark in the night time; Call∣ing often very earnestly for Drink, especi∣ally water, out of the extremity of his Drought; But when we gave him Water, he abominated and rejected it, saying, it

was full of filth and pollution; And being demanded what filth he saw there; He re∣plyed, the intralls and garbidge of Doggs and Catts, intreating he might have some other Water brought him: So, according∣ly, other Water was fetcht; But, as before, he continued in the same story, and began to be angry. Beseeching us earnestly that we would let him have some clear, good Water. So that, hence we may Collect, that this may likewise proceed from some Depravation of the Phansie the Brain being principally the part affected in this Disease, as all Physicians unanimously agree) And it being incident to all who are therewith infected, to have the representation of a Dogg ever in their minds, and therefore shun Looking-glasses, Polite Bodies, and Water because they imagine they see a Dogg in it, of which, examples are fre∣quent in Authours. And not only of Water are they thus afraid, but of all other liquours and Drinks whatsoever, as the same Dodo∣naeus loco aligato, observes. So doth Vidus Vidius, Part. 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 6. Medecine. Illustrating the truth thereof by an example of a certain young man being bit by a Mad Dogg, at first neglecting the wound, Did after four Moneths time, begin to rave, ab∣horring

all manner of Meat and Drink, and at length Dyed miserably through hunger and thirst. Of the same Judgement is Pe∣trus Salius, and the aprovedest Authours; Hercules De Saxonia, Forestus, Sennertus, and every one.

Thus, by what hath been said, you may Collect divers Signes of such as are bitten, or any other manner of way infected with this Poyson; yet there are severall other worth your noting, which I shall nominate, that so you may discover and know it the better; As,* 1.18 In regard in principally seiseth upon the Brain and Spirits, it makes them pen∣sive, sadd, solitary, desiring to be alone, refraining all Company, and the Light; Likewise they are very fearfull of every thing, but especially of Doggs and liquid things. As him in Florentinus Ser∣mon 4. Tract. 4. Cap. 15. who being bitten by a Mad Dogg, and finding no pain extra∣ordinary in the wound, neglected it and followed his business 35. dayes after; but on the 36. day, he began to stand and bark like a Dogg at his wife, and being, by her re∣prehended, he fell a laughing; yet persisted to practise this foolery, severall times that day, at night he was wholly deprived of his

reason, and Dyed the 40. Day; Casting himself upon the ground many times (as the nature of that Disease is) to avoid Doggs, if possible, by running as it were into the earth: Such like instances, as also that they are prone to bark like Doggs, is frequent in the writings of the Learned; As that before quoted from Rhasis, Lib. 8. Cap. 10. Ad Almans. Another he hath in Lib. 20. Cap. 2. &c. That they are excessive thirsty, and yet will not drink, is apparent from that of Forestus observat. med. Lib. 10. observat. 25. of a VVoman of Delfe that mi∣serably perished thereby; And of the young man or youth in the same Town, recorded likewise by him in the same Observation, qui bibere not potuit. They are likewise fro∣ward, waspish, and testy, seldome answer∣ing to any thing in question; they grievous∣ly grate with their teeth, especially at the beginning of their Distemper, and phansie strange Chymeroes in their Dreames: Their Phansie, Memory, Reason, nay all the senses and faculties of the Soul are generally De∣praved and Disturbed; So that they often times; fall foule upon their dearest and best friends, biting, scratching, and beating them, raving and mad some times, like that VVo∣man before mentioned in Forestus, that

could not be scarce held down in her bed, biting at, and spitting upon the standers by, foaming at the mouth, &c. Yet they do not alwayes rage, and become furious, as Petrus Salius, Lib. De affect. Partic. well observes in severall, that he sayes did not rage at all to their dying Day. Sometimes also, as he likewise notes, Pag. 358. Loc. Citat. They are subject to a Feaver, but this is rather to be attributed to the aptness and disposition of the Body and humours, then any peculiar property in the venome it self as he thinks, and Sennertus agrees. They are frequently troubled with cold sweats; And from the wound or bite, issues a green faetid matter. The Urine pale, clear, and like fair water, if the distemper be at any highth; And many times wholly suppressed, by the strength of the Poyson and extraor∣dinary Drought under which they intolle∣rably labour, partching up the Heart and Vitalls, powerfully subverting and suffocat∣ing both Vitall & Animall Spirits, and con∣suming the Brain, do at length dye frantick, mad or moped. These are such like sump∣tomes commonly follow the effects of this Poyson according to the consent generall of the most approvedst Authours extant. As touching that of Avicenna that small peices

of flesh in their Urine are to be discerned in the form and shape of Doggs or whelps, and such other Phansies, I willingly pretermit, being as I conceive rather the product of his Phansie then of reason or experience.

This only I shall here, by way of advice, add; That if any be either bit, or infected any other way which hath been before re∣lated; that they seeke out for speedy remedy, and defer not till it be too late; Let that of Baldus the Laywer be a warning to them, who neglecting that small bite of his little Dogg, miserably perished, notwithstand∣ing when it was too late, he had used all kind of medicines. Forestus in that Obser∣vation so often quoted, where he mentions that Woman of Delfe, advised all those whom she had spit upon to be ducked over head and ears in water forthwith, and there∣by, they were all saved, preventing what might otherwise have happened, for indeed few who have used remedies in time have perished. Leaping into the water and ducking themselves in this manner, is the Common Cure in the Country; But the best way is to have recourse to the writings of the most approvedest Physicians; For this, as Ponzet. to the Cardinall Lib. De venenis notes, hath been used many times to little

purpose; Although sometimes it will effect it; As Cornelius Celsus, Petrus Salius, and others attest, and as we may see by that Philosopher in Aetius, who being infected, and fearfull of water, leaping couragiously into a Bath, and in the water beholding the shape of the Dogg that bitt him, at first made a stand as being terrified, but after a little pause, being ashamed thereof, he im∣mediately cryed out, Quid Canicum Bal∣neo, and so threw himself forcibly into the water, Drinking some of it without the least fear; And so was freed from his distemper and depraved Phansie. And the rather do I admonish all such as have cause to suspect the infection of this Poyson to seek out for present remedy, in that the bite or part ve∣nomed, for the present, doth not rage or paine the Patient, more then an ordinary wound, which may make them apt to be careless of themselves; lying lurking in the body, and no wise manifesting it self till it have reacht and seised upon the noble parts: So that, indeed, it is not an casie matter, at the first, to know whether one be bitten or infected; Yet, for the discove∣ry thereof, Rhasis and Avicenna have ad∣vised, that a bit of the crommy part of bread be wet in the blood & matter of the wound,

and so given to a Dogg to eat, the which if he refuse to eat or smell too (being hungry) or grow mad or dye after he hath eaten t, It is a most sure token (they say) that the party is infected: whereby you may disco∣ver the malignity of the Poyson although the wound be not extraordinary painfull, nor swell, nor burn, &c. As wounds from other venemous Creatures do. Neither for this reason only, have you reason to be cau∣tious; but also, for that, when once it hath seised on the Brain, Heart, and the more no∣ble parts, so that the party become phran∣tick, groveling upon the ground, epileptick, swound, howle, bark, snarle, and apprehend strange phansies, rage, and the like, it is past remedy; And all medecines, will prove ineffectuall; Dying sooner, or later, as the symptomes are more or less prevalent, and apparent, as Delirium, want of sleepe, Con∣vulsions, &c. And if the Hickop take them, they for the most part dye the next Day after; but many times that same Day, How∣ever an assured token it is, that Death is at hand. If the wound or bite be not deepe, or have offended the Nerves, Veines or A••∣teries, there is more hope of life, provided present help, be administred, If the wound be large, some think it a greater sign of

health then when the wound is the smaller, because it thereby is more capable of eva∣cuating much of the venemous matter. The which if it aboundantly evacuate, or send forth much blood thereby when it is first made, or afterwards when it is curing; or the Body of its own accord sweat freely and in any quantity, emit much Urine, and it black, they are very good signes all of health, if Rhasis and Avicenna may be cre∣dited. The same Avicenna likewise af∣firmeth, that it is a good sign if he be afraid of water (which by most is thought a token of death) provided he can behold his face in a glass. But these Aphorismes are not infalli∣ble; for we see that Philosopher in Aetius before quoted, was cured by Drinking and Ducking himself in the Bath, notwithstand∣ing he feared the Dogg that bit him was in the water: other examples you may find, in the writings of the Learned, contradict∣ing most of the other assertions likewise, which for brevities sake I willingly preter∣mit.

Wherefore then as touching the Cure in generall, not only of this venemous infe∣ction, but of all other wounds received by the biting of Serpents, or any other poy∣sonous Creature whatsoever, There are 2

things principally to be considered. First, when any one is bit,* 1.19 or any other wayes infe∣cted, to prevent the raging & raving mad∣nesse: And Secondly, when they are there∣with Captivated, to cure as much as in Art is possible to be done. In the former of these, there are three things a Physician must be carefull to perform. 1. That the Poyson may be hindred from entring into the Body; and not only so, but that it be also drawn forth of the wound or part af∣fected, and expelled. 2. That the Poyson be hindred from spreading and delating it self, or entring into the inward parts and principall members; And the parts, rather, corroborated and fortified against it. 3. That the Poyson and the malignity thereof be extinguished.

The first of these is performed by Liga∣tures, if the part be such as will admit of them, having a care that it be not bound too hard. And if it may not by any means be tyed about, the best way is to apply restrin∣gent medecines, such as are Bolus Armenus, Belaustia, Sanguis Draconis, cum ovi al∣bumine vicinis locis imponenda, &c. Attra∣hentia sunt varia, quidem sunt calida & sic∣ca

in secundo gradu, quae moderate attra∣hunt; Alia vero in tertio. quae magis; Alia etiam in quarto, quae maximè attrah••nt, & ardore C••tem in tum••ore attolunt, ac ru∣bore suffundum, Tand in{que} vesicas excitant. Talia sunt Cylamini, Radices Aristol••chiae, Dracuaculi, An••mones, Gentianae, Ranuncu∣li, Ari, Narcissi, Pyrethri, Arundines, Th••psiae, Ʋri••a, Flammula, Seinen Si∣napis, Allium, Caepe, Nasturtii, Fer∣mentum, Anacardia, Gummi, Galbanum, Opopanax, Ammoniatum, Sagapenum, ••iae sicca, Propolis, Cantharides, fimus Anscri∣nus, Gallinaceus, Columbrinus, &c. Q••ibus C••mmode admiscetur Theriaca, Ʋ••ile est & ••mplastrum v l Cataplasma De Angeli∣ca. Commendatur plurimum ex Dioscoride d••sumpt••m, & sapecum felici successu usur∣patur, ex Allio, Caepis, & semine Tritici ma∣stic••to paratum, Galenus Lib. 2. De An∣tidot. Cap. 11. Commendat valde emplastrum paratum ex Pic••, Opopanate, & Aceto. sic. ℞. Picis L••b j. A••eti Acer••••m Lib. j. ℥viij. op∣popanac. ℥iij opopona ••prius in Cyathis 4. Aceti dusolvitur, Acetum quod suprest cum Pice coq••itur, et coquuntur, ••avendo ne efferveant: ser bi••{que} ••cem G. l n••s, se neminem vidisse, quo ino us••s mo••u ••s sit. In Lib. i••e•• De 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a Ad P••s num etiam cum felici successu Th••rina•• c••m ol:

Rosar. liquatam imponi testatur. Aetius Tetr. 3. Serm Cap. 10. Hoc laudat, ℞. Spum. Argent. Ceruss. resin. Pini, An. Lib. j. ol. veter. Lib. iij. ℥vij. Amononiat. Thymiam. Galban. An. ℥iiij. Cerussae & Argenti spu∣mam ol. Coquito, donec manus non inqui∣nent, deinde liquefacta adducito & unito. Laudatur et emplastrum Diadictamnum, quod Galenus Lib. 5. De Compositione medi∣camentorum secundum genera, Cap. 4. Sic describit. ℞. olei veteris, heminas ij. Ly∣thargyri, ʒij. aeruginis rasae, ʒviij. Squam∣mae, ʒvi. Colophoniae liquidae, ʒj. manuae ʒxij. Ammoniaci Thymiamatis, ʒxxvj. aeris Combusti, ʒviij. Diphrygis ʒvj. Gentianae, tantundem, Aloes, ʒviij. Galbani, ʒxij. Pro∣polis, ʒviij. Cerae, ʒxxv. Aristolochiae, ʒx. Dictamni Cretici, tantundem. Conficito accuratissimè. Capivaccius Lib. 7. Pract. Cap. 12. sequens commendat, ℞. Ciner. Cancr. fluviat. Allii, Menthae, Gentianae, Aristol∣ochiae Rotundae, Ana. ʒij. Baccar. Lauri, Boli Armenij, Ana. ʒj. Misce cum succo Menthae q s. Fiat Emplastrum; vel potius, Cataplasma. Those, and such like mede∣cines may be fitly applyed to attract, and draw out the venome; or the same may be used as is requisite in the second Rule, viz. which hinder the Poyson from diffusing and penetrating the Body.

Ʋt, Si partis conditio ferat, Cucurbi∣tulae imponantur, et quidem cum magna flamma venenum immissum extrahatur. Et si vulnus sit exiguum scarificari debet, et quidem si aliquod temporis spatium a morsu praeterlapsum sit, saepius adhibendae sunt, et partibus vicinis altiora vulnera inftigenda. Sed vulnus antea si satis sit magnum, non opus est scarificationes adhibere, ne inflam∣matio excitetur, quae postea impediat, quo minus alia remedia, quae venenum evocant, adhiberi possint. Si verò pars sit, ut Cucur∣bitulae commodè affigi non possint, scarificatio sola adhibenda, ut sanguis effluat, qui sicca spongia è vulneri••us exsugendus, non verò vulnus aqua abluendum, id est fontana, sed potius cum Aqua Marina, aut Ʋrina, vel Aqua Vitae, aut vino, vel Aceto in quo The∣riac. aut Sinap. fuerit Dissolut; Et sic vul∣nus diu apertum servandum est, non solum us{que} ad diem quadràgessimum, sed per integrii annum, praesertim in morsu Canis Rabid. Cum observatum sit (ut antea dictum) quos∣dam à rabidis Canibus morsos etiam post an∣num, imò etiam longius temporis spatium in Hydrophobiam incidisse. Licet etiam Ani∣malia viva, ut Columbas, Gallinas, plumis prius evulsis, podice vulneri admovere; et si ••nd moriatur, statim aliam adhibere, vel pul∣los

Gallinarum, Aut Columbarum per medi∣um dissectos adh••c calentes laesae parti impon••∣re. Expeditissim•• verò via est ad••ibere Cau∣te••ia actualia, q••ae et venenum absumunt, et diuturnum ul••us, per quod virus essluat, relin∣quunt. Ʋstione peracta danda opera, ut Cru∣sta quam c••lerrime moveaour, ut venenum qua citissime per ulcus evacuari possit. Nam Crusta ulceri inh••rens facit ut venenum reti∣neatur, et ad Corpor is interiora penetret. A∣moveatur autem alias, si illinatur vitello o∣vi, et recenti Butyro. Verum cum periculum sit in mora, si locus sit Carnosus, etam ma∣nuali opera Crusta d••mi inde potest; Si an∣tem locus ustionem non f••rat, aut aeger ignem actualem admittere nolit, adhibenda medica∣menta Ca••stica ••t escharatica dicta, inter quae etiam Mercurius Sublim••••us et praecipitatus utiliter usurpatur. Sunt nonnulli, qui, si partis conditio id ferat partem demorsam sta∣tim amputandam censent, exemplo illerum, qui ab aspide ant viperis demor si aigi os am∣putaverunt, et salvievaserunt; ut refert Ga∣lenus Lib. 3. De locis affectis, Cap. 7. Venae∣fectioni hic nullus locus est, ut pote quae vene∣num non evacuat, sed vires debilitat, vene∣num{que} exagitat: Et ergo potius obest quam prodest. Purgationem quod attinet, ut ab initio ea instituatur, nihil est, quod eam indi∣cet.

Imo si exhibeantur purgantia, metus est ••e venenum ad interiora trahatur, et humores, ac corporis partes inquinentur. Si verò malum jam progressum sit, et venenum ad interiora penetraverit, tum purgatio non in∣utilis est, cam{que} tantum auxilii afferre scri∣bit Dioscorides, ut quidem qui jam Hydro∣phobiae propinqui essent sumpto Heleboro sana∣ti fuerunt; Ideoque non semel at{que} iterum, sed frequentius ante diem 40. Ea it a uti praecipit. Humores tamen prim. praeparare non inutil•• fuerit Calefacientibus, incidentibus, abster∣gentibus atque veneno simul resistentibus; ut syr. scord. de Cortic. Citri, Betonic. De••omis De succo bugloss. Epithymo, Decoctionibus paratis è semine Citri, Rad. Gentianae, An∣gelicae, Dictamni Albi, Scordii, Vinceroxico, Bugloss. Melissa, Hippolapatho, &c. Reliquis scopis, nimirum ut veneni ad interna pre∣gressus prohibeatur, partes principes roboren∣tur quo sacilius venenum à se propellere pos∣sint, ac malignua 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 humoribus et Cor∣poria a veneno impresso aboleatur, iisd••m fere medicamentissatis fieri potest, scilicet Antido∣tis, et i••s quae deculiari vi his venenis resist∣••nt; ut in singulis reperiuntUr. Item et 3. ••••t venenum ••t malignitas extinguatur. Of which bene••••th, in their severall places; And first of such Corroboratives and Anti∣dotes

as are convenient to be used again the Poyson of a Mad-Doggs bite; or of the Cure of this venome.

Quod ad Curationem attinet. Prim¦danda opera, ut venenum Corpori Commu•• catum foras eliciatur, iis modis, qui bacten•• sunt propositi. Imponantur plagae Emple¦strum è Galbano in Aceto Dissoluto, et fari•••• hordeacea paratum; vel e•• Allio,* 1.20 foliis ficus et Cym•• no Contusis ac cum oleo mix••¦tis. Fiat Cataplasma vu••¦neri imponendum. Vel, Emplastrum ex Pie•• oppopanace et Aceto paratum jam descriptum Aut Emplastrum Diadict amuum ex Galen sumptum; vel illud Aetii, aut Capivaccii, et Purgantia, quae in Rabie Canina conveniu•• sint omnium consensu validiora, ut ellebori¦mus, Hiera, Diacatholocynthid. Russii, Ar∣chigenis, Logadii, Pachii, Pilul. ex Helle bore Antimonio, De Lapide Lazuli, Cochiae, D•• Nitro, Faetido, &c. Si aetas, temperamentum vires, vel aer dissuadeant talia; eligant•••• mitiora, ac mediocria, ut est Sena, Epithymum Polypodium, Helleborus Niger, Mirabol Nigri, et Agaric, trecipue, qui simul venen, resistit. Composita sunt elect. De Dactyl, Con∣fect. Hamech, Elect Indum majus, ac bene∣dicta Laxativa. Ad partes principes Robo∣randum,

ab omnibus commendatur Alysum. Laudantur et Cancri fluviatilis, cum corum Cinis, tum decoctum, multo Anetho admixto, Scordium, Chamedrys, Radix Gentianae, Ru∣tae Agrest is semen, Chamemalum, Centauri∣um minus; Artemisia, Aristolochia rotunda, Rad. sylv. Radicem Cynhorrhodi Commendat precipuè Plinius, Nat. Hist. Lib. 8 Cap. 41 & Lib. 25. Cap. 2. ut oraculo patefactam, cam{que} aliis omnibus igitur remediis Prefert. Lau∣datur et vinum generosum statim potum et Allium Comestum.

Inter Composita, Antidotus è Cancris plu∣ribus Commendatur et à Graecis, et Arabibus, scribit{que} Galenus neminens unquam mort n••m esse, qui Canc••orum pulvere rectè usus sit, et quidem Lib. 11. De simpl. medicamentorum facultatibus, ex praeceptore suo A••schrione, sumit Cancros sluviaetiles post ortum Canis Captos, quando Sol Leonem transit, Decima octava Luna et tos vivos in sartagine aeris ru∣bri Comburit; Cinerum sumit Duo Cochle∣aris, vel ʒij. pulv. Gentianae Cochlear. j. seu. ʒj. vini meraci iiij. Cyath. quae in modum po∣lentae dilutae miscet, et quotidie bibenda exhi∣bet. Deinde ex Asclepiade, recipit Ciner. Caner. Praepar. Pare••x. Thuris Part. 1. Ger∣tianae, Part. v. et exhibet hujus pulv. Cochle∣ar. j. bibendum X L. Diebus, aut si jam à

morsu aliquot Dies processerint, Duo Cochle∣aria propinat. De hec t••amen medicamento observandum, Cancr••s veres usurpandes esse qui sunt Corpore ro••undo, non nostros Gam∣maros aut Astacos. Nonnulli tamen nostros usurpant. Commeadatur, Item, à pleris{que} adversus mors••m Canis Rabidi Theriaca, ut r••medium efficacissimum. Item laudatur a nonnullis et hoc Antideti••m, ℞. Methridat. elect Pulv. Rad. Aristoloch. ••otund. Ana ℥ij.. Terra•• s••gillatae, ℥ss Muscarum, quae de Na∣relli fructibus victum quaerunt Num xx. Cum succi Citri ••••cent. q. s. F••at Mistura; Cujus Dos••s à ʒj ad ʒj. ss. vel Accipe experimentum nostrum, ut ℞. Cervisia Prin••ariae seuoptimae Lib ij. Theriac. ℥iiij Ru••ae, M••j••ss. Alli•• quas∣sat ℥i. seu Stanni in pulvere redacti Cochlear. j. simul Decoquantur ad Con∣sumptionem Dimidiae partis, et usui serva. Dossis est Cochlear. ij Calid man•• & vespe∣ri, Dum durat. Et Antidota propinentur in dupla quantitate, quam in praeservati••n••, sin∣gulis Dicbus, mane Theriac. vel Mithridat. ℥ij. in vino potenti, vesperiante Caenam Anti∣a••t. De Cancris, Gentia••ae, Helichor Albus pr••tinus exhibendus; Hae••••{que} A••tid••ta ad 40 Di••m exhib••ri debent. Q••••am suddent, ut ager in anno, quater purg••••ar, et ••••••gulis 15. Di bus sumat Theri••c••m. N••••••l as Floren∣tinus

ut perintegrum Annum Antidota u∣surpentur. Aetius, ut singulis Annis Appro∣pinquante morsus tempore per hieram ager purgetur, et instante Die per tridunm Theri∣acam sumat. Inter Recentiores Alexiphar∣macum prastantissimum proponit Palmarius, in Lib. De Morb. Contagios••s Quod so••••m neglect is purganti••us, et emissa••••am vulne∣ris Cura, qu••••un{que} à morsu tempore usur∣patum, certissimum ac tutiss••mum remedium existat; et quo nullum unquam animal ••sum fu••ris, quod non mali hujus peri••ulum evita∣verit, cum quacun{que} vic••us ration••, illaesis ta∣men capitis partibus, et modo vulnus inflictum capitis partes ••re superiores non attigerit, aut aqud clotum fuerit. Has enim parti•• us vul∣neratis, aut parte vulnerata statim à morsu frigida clota, parum spei superest. Est autem tale. ℞. I ol. Rut. Verben. Salviae, Planta∣ginis, Polypodij, Absynthij vulg Menthae, Artemis. Melissophyll. Beton Hyperici, Cen∣tauri minoris singulor. a••quale pondus. Col∣ligantur singula, quo tempore magis virib. pollent; deinde papyraceis charus inclusa s••ccentur seorsum in loco, ad quem ne{que} Sol, ne{que} pluvia pertingat, ne vel nimium ex∣are••cant, vel ••••••m contrahunt. Post redi∣gant••r in pulverem: De quo ʒj. ss. vel ij. ••••ngulis diebus demorso exhibean ur, vel cum

saccharo, vel cum vino, vel jusculo, vel a∣lio modo jejuno stomacho, horis tribus ante Cibum. Si tamen tempus aliquod a morsu inflicto praeterierit ʒiij. Exhibeantur. Extra verò vulnus prius spongia, vel linteolis siccis ex siccatum vino aut hydromelite, in quo pulveris hujus ʒss. soluta sit, bis velter quo∣tidie foveatur, deinde Emplastrum, vel Magnetum, quale in aliis vulneribus, admo∣veatur.

Post Alexipharmaca, et•• Purgationem etiam exhiberi possunt sudorifera, ut venenum dissipetur. Efficaciffim•••• autem est visc. querc. lignum sumptum, viscus autem ipsum ex∣trinsicus applicatum. Sudorifera simul alex∣iteria sunt talia; ut, ℞. Ligni visci querci, Dictamni albi An. ʒij. vel iij. Aqua Chama∣maemel. Lib. ij. Coq. Ad medietat. Dosis ℥viij. vel x. vel ℞. Ligni visci querci ℥ij. Dictamni ℥ss. Sem. & Flor. Cardui Bene∣dicti, An. ʒj. ss. F. Pulvis. Cujus Dosis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ʒj. ad ʒij. vini Albi generosissimi ℥jss. Aqu. Card. Benedict. ʒij. vel iij. mixta exhibe. Prater sudorifera conveniunt etiam Diuretica Antidotis mixta, quae utra{que} vi polleant; In∣ter quae praestant spica Celtica, Valeriana, Asarum, Scordium, et alia, quae eodem tem∣pore quo sudorifera conveniunt.

Pro Amuletis commendantur dens Canis

Rabidi humero suspensus et substractus, Ce∣reum ursa, Phocae. Plura vide apud Scri∣bonium Largum, Lib. De Compos. Med, &c. & pro curationibus Divinis & miraculosis, vide Col. Rodesi••. Jovian. Pontan. Mathi∣ol &c. And thus much briefly to be spo∣ken of the biting of a Mad-Dogg, and of its Cures and Antidotes; And of the Cure in generall of all other venamous Creatures bites; which I have, for brevities sake, here, in the first place, prefixt, to avoid repotition and tautology in what follows. Touching the Cures of which, we intend only to mention in short, their severall An∣tidotes, and for what else is requisite to be known, refer you to what hath been already spoken.

SECTION II. Of Cats Poyson and its Antidotes.

2. FElis, a Cat, a Creature no less fre∣quent and familiar with us, then the former; yet thought, by some, to be of that poysonous quality, as the very sight or presence of it, is sufficient to make a man swound, tremble, sweat, and become speechless. But what reason such have as

thus conceive, I know not. If as Paraeus, Sennertus, and most apprehend, there is some venamous quality in these Creatures, be cause many are affected in that manner a∣foresaid; How cometh it to pass then all in the Company are not likewise moved thereat? And, if their presence so poyson∣eth and infecteth the Aër that it being drawn into the mouth puts men into a sweat, and into swounding fits; Why are not all thus molested thereby? Wherefore I rather believe this proceeds from some secret Antipathy: else, by the same reason, we must conclude Mutton, Beef, Ducks, nay and most food to be poyson, there being almost nothing in the world, but is, by one, or other, Distasted. A Gentleman one day at Dinner at my Fathers I remember, fell down from his Chaire in a swound at the serving up of a Custard; Another Gentle∣man grew extream sick by eating only a bit of a shoulder of Mutton minc'•• among o∣ther meats in an H••sh, &c. Authours are full of such like examples; And yet to con∣clude these Poysons, because they work such effects in this, or that party, were ridicu∣lous.

But of these Creatures if the braine be eaten, it proves assuredly destructive; as

Schenkius Lib. De Venenis, Fol. 953. And Sennertus Pract. Med. Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap 31. Prove out of Pouzettus, Lib. 2. De Venenis, Tract. 6. Cap. 3. And Mathiolus, Comment. ad Lib. 6. Cap. 25. Dioscorid. For, it makes such to rage and grow mad, It being very dry potentially (especially the male) Com∣paring it with Mans, It obstructeth the passages of the brain, so that the Animall Spirits cannot passe to the hinder part; whence the Memory becomes depraved and lost, They become Dolts, grow moped, and vertiginous, &c. Neither is it safe to eat of the Braines of severall other Crea∣tures; In that divers Men have thereby had their Naturall Dispositions quite changed into the Nature of such Creatures, as Sen∣nerins instanceth in those who have been changed into the very habit and disposition of a bear, by eating the Braines of that Creature, Instit. Med. Lib. 2. Part. 3. Sect. 2. Cap. 4. But no more of this, in this place. Quod ad Curationem attinet, Primo si sciatur Cerebrum ••elis adhuc in ventriculo haerere, vomitu reijciatur; Si verò in Corpus sit distri••utum, expurgandum est, inprimis Extr. Hellebor ℈j. Possea Antidoti loco exhibea∣tur Moschi, qui proprium hujus veneni ha∣betur Antidotum ℈ss. Idque singulis sep∣timanis

aliquandiu continuetur. Utile est etiam saepe sumere Confectionem Diamos∣chi Dulcis, vel de sequenti electuario ali∣quid exhibere ℞. Conserv. Anthos ℥ij. Pulv. Sem. Paeon. Carni, Cubebar. Ana ʒss. Spec. Diamosch. Dulc. ʒj. Cum Syrup. De Betonica. Fiat Electuarium. Item Curatur, ut inquit Pouzettus, Loco Aligato, Propinando bis mense ʒj. Terrae Lemuiae cum Aqua Samphuchi; Aromata etiam Cibis miscenda sunt, recreandi spiritus gratia. Vinum bi∣bendum Clarum, & cum eo quando{que} ʒ ss. Diamoschi Dulcis (Mathiolus, Loco Citato, vult ut aegri sumant mane quotidie Confecti∣one Diamoschi tribus vel quatuor horis ante Cibum) sed forte sat fuerit bonam victus ra∣tionem instituisse.

The Blood of Cats is likewise extreamly pernitious, as appears by that of Martinus Weinrichius Comm. De Monstris (recorded also by Laurentius Scholzius, De suis nob is adeo{que} posteritati communicatis observationi∣bus; As also by Schenkins, Lib. 7. De Venenuis, And Sennertus, Institut. Med. Lib. 2. Part. 3. Sect. 2. Cap. 4. And in Pract. Med. Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 31.) Who tells us of a Maid that by seeing a Theif executed publickly, by severing his Head from his Body, fell into the Epilepsie, being extreamly terrifyed

by this Object; And for her recovery ha∣ving frustrately used divers medicaments and praescripts, was at length perswaded by some of the twatling Gossips about her to drink some Cats-blood, assuring her it was a present remedy; But not long after she had followed this mad Direction, she dege∣nerated into the Nature of this Creature, and, by fits, would Mew, Leap, Scratch, and play as Cats use to do, as also, in private, catch Mice, and contract her self so as to pass through holes, that no body else could of her bignesse. Touching the unwhol∣somnesse of the blood of Creatures for food, especially Swines-blood, which is commonly and most frequently eaten by the vulgar, I shall not in this place insist, ha∣ving treated thereof in other peices as yet in manuscript.

The very breathing likewise of Cats is by many of the Learned accounted extreamly dangerous, consuming the radicall moisture of the Body, Lungs, and the whole Man, as Avenzoar Praemito, Lib 1. Theuzar, at∣tests to be commonly known; As Schen∣kins and Sennertus in Locis Citatis quote him. And Mathiolus, Comm. ad Lib. •• Cap 25. Dioscorid as the same Schenkius and Paraus Lib 21 Cap. 34 De Venenis, have it,

also affirmes as much, attesting himself to have known some who delighting so much in Cats, that they would even take them to bed with them, that, by often drawing in the Aër of their breathing, fell into heck∣tick Feavers, Marasmus, Consumption of the Lungs, and at length thereby dyed. The same Paraeus, Loco Citato, likewise confirmes it, saying; that Cats by lying at the mouths of Children, hinder, by the weight of their Bodyes, the evacuation of the fuliginous vapours, and the motion of the Chest, whereby their Spirits are suffo∣cated and stiffed, by the pestiferous Aër received from the expiration of these Cats. But, whether, this likewise, proceedes from a secret Antipathy, or by the haires of these Creatures received into the throat, which, as Gesner, Johustonus, and others think, as Aldrovandus, Aristotle, &c. are sufficient to choak one: I shall not here dispute. This, however is certain, that by all Au∣thours they are condemned as very noxi∣ous to Mankind; And therefore I shall not presume to Correct them, notwithstanding experience and examples are Common of such both Men, and Women, and Children, who have been very fa••n ••ar with these Creatnres lying with them, playing with

them in the day time, and stroaking of them at meal time and letting them walk upon the board, their armes and shoulders (As the late William ••and, Archbishop of Ca•••••••••••• was won•• to have them) and all withou•• the least prejudice. But let every Man use his own Reason and experience.

SECTION III. O Woo•••••• Poyson, an•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Anti••••ot••s.

L••••••••, all 〈◊〉〈◊〉, whose bite, likewise (being madd) intecteth a man with the same madnesse; And, as the madness con∣••eted by the bi••e of a Do••••, is (as you have heard) called Hy••••••phol in, so is 〈◊〉〈◊〉, com∣mun••••ated by the poy••onous fo••me, or breath of a W••••••, termed 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; As ••••••x Plater. Pra••••. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Cap 3. D••m••m•••• Ali••nation••, well notes, Q••a 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, it being a distemp•••• in which they not only unitate Wo••••es, but likewise ••un howling about in their manner o••v••••ce and ••oane, frequen•••••• Sep••••••e: and Grave••, imagining themselves 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••lly 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as L••••th 〈…〉〈…〉 3. S•••••• 1. Cap 11. and every 〈◊〉〈◊〉 C••an a••∣••unne. Whence, by the vulgar Lati••••,

this kind of madnesse is termed Lupina In∣sania. Hence, perhaps, as the same Fuch∣sius and others note, Pliny Nat. Hist. Lib. 8. Cap. 22. with Virgil in Eclog. And Ovid De* 1.21 Lycaone, and other Poets write that men have been Metamorphosed into Woolfes, and from Woolfes to Men again. An example of one thus affected is recorded by Joannes Wi∣••rus in Libro 3. De praestigiis Daemonum, Cap. 18. Running about Church-yards, Graves, and Sepulchers; howling, and would be by no perswasions made to believe he was other then a Woolf; which afterwards recovering again, it might, in some sense be said of him, the Woolf which was formerly a Man, is become a Man again; or he who had his Reason and Intellectualls so depraved, as that he thought himself a Woolf and degene∣rated into the actions and habits of that Creature, is now again restored to the Rea∣son and Understanding of a‖ 1.22 Man. Nicholas Remigius, Damonolair. Lib. 2. Cap. 5. Hath divers instances of the like seeming Meta∣morphoses, or of such who have been affe∣cted with this kind of madness. Nay, and Nebuchadnezzar in the prophesie of Daniel, as some Expositors conceive, was only affected with this melancholly distemper. Little better were King Praetus

Daughters, recorded by Hippocrates, Lib. De la••an••t, who thought themselves Kine. So Jupiter transmitted 〈◊〉〈◊〉 King of Ar∣ca••••a, as Ovid note M••••. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Lib. 1. into a Wo••lf for his sins. ••••••h ha•••• ••o••es are frequent almost in every Authour what hath but mentioned this Lyc••••••••••••pia, As, M••∣zald••••, ••ildesh im. For st••••, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Remi∣••ius, Spran••perus, Wi••••••, 〈…〉〈…〉, Olaus Ma••••us, V〈8 letters〉〈8 letters〉, P••u••••••us, N••••••••chius, Platerus, G••••ma, Marcellus, D••••tas, Se•• norta••, &c. It a••••seth also as well from a Melancholly humour generat∣ed in Man, as from the bite of any Woolf, and therefore we find Parlus, M••ginetus, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 3. Cap. 16 And Aetius, T••••r. Scr••••. Cap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Terming it a hand of M•••••••• 〈…〉〈…〉 most, soating higher, make it a for ••••••••d∣n••ss, although many w••ll not ••d•••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Disease, but merely by the force of this Poyson, or by a possession of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉. But though these Men that this 〈◊〉〈◊〉 un, are so far from hu••ing the mark, that they shoote quite beside the Bu••••; yet I do, and must acknowledge, the Devill can, and therefore, may delude the senses of Men, so as to make the appearance of such a Creature in the room of the Man affected, or other wayes, so that thereupon may be

concluded a reall transmutation of the Man into the shape of the VVoolf; or that it is occasioned from the Possession of the Devil, and not from any humour, or Poyson by a bite from these Creatures when mad, of which you may see more in St. Augustin, De Civitate Dei, Cap. 18. Lib. 28. Some affected herewith, do somewhat differ in their acti∣ons from what you have heard already de∣scribed; not howling or running up and down like VVoolfes, or frequenting Graves, Churches, Church-yards, or Sepulchers, neither do they desire to hunt sheepe, or to raven any manner of way; But rather imi∣tate the actions and customes of Dogs, ima∣gining themselves to be really Dogs, Like him in Forestus, whom he sayes Observat. Med. Lib. 10. De morbis Cerebri, observat. 26. He saw himself at Alchmar in Holland, A poor Husbandmā of a pale countenance, hollow eyed, black, ugly and fearfull to be∣hold, having his Leggs & Thighes scabbed, very dry and scurffy, &c. Carrying a stick in his hand, with which he used only to beat away Dogs, not offering to strike at a∣ny Man or other Creature. And these same Symptomes are common to both kinds▪ For I find Donatus Antonius ab Altomaro Lib. De Medend. Corp. Mal. Cap. 9. Reciting

the same signs in Lycanthropia; Neither are they otherwise delivered by any; This latter kind is termed commonly by Physici∣ans〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, se•• Canina Insania, and proceedes rather purely from a Melanchol∣ly humour in the Body, molesting the brain; then from any poysonon•• bite of a Madd-VVo lf, as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, oftentimes, doth; Having, besides those before recited signs in the Face, Body, Leggs, all the actions and manners of a Woolf, howling, ravening, and tearing all that comes near them, Sheep, Doggs, Men, &c. The Cure, is the same with that of a Madd-Dogg, wherefore, for brevities sake, I shall thither refer thee.

SECTION. IV. De Mure Araneo, and its Antidotes

MƲS Araneus, It is so called, as some ••hink, Quod est Animal exiguum Aran••i forma & Muris dicta; qu••d ejus morsu Aranea interimitur; because it is like unto that Spider in shape called A••an••a, &••. Others say it is thus called, because it is thought to eviscerate it self and to climbe up upon any thing thereby as Spiders usual∣ly do: Many take it for a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and some

for a ••ish; Others that it is a vermin like unto a Weesel, having two rowe, of teeth, poysoning by the v••ry bite, together with us spittle or so••n•••• con••e••••••g it into the Bodyes of such 〈◊〉〈◊〉 b••••th▪ And therefore others will ha•••• it called Mus Aran••us, because it poysoneth as doth that Spider ••••rmed Aran•••••• Animal simile Mustelae, 〈…〉〈…〉 eyes m••••s••s venenatus, unde Ar•••••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 It is not a Creature vulgar∣l•• known, 〈…〉〈…〉 w••ll observes. Yet 〈…〉〈…〉, I th••••. Cap. 2. And C••••••inus, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Venenis, Lib. 1. Cap. 27. Treat of 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Such as are bitten with this 〈◊〉〈◊〉 may be known by these signes; As, 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ pression 〈…〉〈…〉 of those severall ••ow••••. ••••eth, out of which, first, blood 〈…〉〈…〉, the•• matter corrupt and filthy, besides it tormenteth them with grievous pa••••e, the part affected being inflamed, ex∣ulcerated and pu••••ifyed: and about the wound usually ari••e many small pustules, ••ull of ••urrulent corrupt matter; Sometimes also the patient is grievously tormented and macerated with a griping in his bowells, ••oppage of the Urine, and Cold, Clammy sweats; and at length death it self, if not timely prevented. Quod ad Curationem ••tti••••t, Primò danda opera ut venenum

Corpori communicatain foras eliciatur, iis modis, qui hactenus sunt propo••••i••••. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ponantur Plagae, Emplastrum è Clalban••••a A••eto Dissoluto, & sarina Hord••••cen para∣tam, vel ex Allio, F••lii•• Ficus•••• Cymin, cantusis, ac cum Oleo mixt••s, Fiat Cata∣plasma vulneri imponendum. Ulcera è pu∣stulis ruptis oborta, Acida M••ria eluere, et Hordeum ustum, vel mali punici d••le is coriu ••••••ctum tritum imponcre, atque ulcera codem ••••c••••••to, vel potius Decoclo Myrti, sovere Jubet Aetius, Tetrab. 4. Serm. 1. Cap. 14. Morsum à Mure Aranco instictum, Arenam, sin terram ex rotacian transitu sess orbita sumptam, & ••••l••eri Cataplasmatis modo impositam, Illico sanare scribit Paulus Aeliae. nus, De Animal. Lib. 2. Cap 37. Interim slatim simul Alexipharm•••••• sunt sumenda. quae hactenus sunt proposica; vel paret•••• ••ale Electuarium ℞ Cortis. Radic. Cappar Radi Gentianae, An ʒj. ss. Aristeloch. long. Bacear. L••an••i, Terre sigillatae, Rutae, Ana. ʒij. Cosii Amari, Spicae Indicae, Ana. ʒj. Flor. Salphuris, ʒss. Croci, ℈ss. Cum M••lle, ••iar Electuatium. Cujus Dostis quotidie bis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ʒj. Ad ʒij. Sunt qui Congulum H••••••i, Lapo∣ris, vel Agni ex vino sumptum valde com∣mendant. Pl••ra vide apud Pra••••i••••s.

SECTION V. Of Bulls-blood ranked among Poysons by some of the L••arned.

TAurus, a Bull, a Creature commonly known among us, even to the meanest Capacity; The Blood of which, notwith∣standing, is, by many of the Learned, ranked among Poysons, if it be drank in too great a quantity, giving divers instances of severall that have thus lost their lives, as, Joannes Schenckius. Lib. 7. De Venenis, and Sennertus, Pract. Med. Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 33. from him, record. Midas King of Phrygia, by drinking freely of Bulls blood expired this life; as Caelius Rhodiginus, Antiq. Lect. Lib. 14. Cap. 12. Ex Plutarcho Lib De su∣perstitione Strabonis Lib. 1. Et Eusebio De Temporibus note. Likewise Psamentius King of Aegypt, being vanquished by Cambysis, killed himsef by drinking of Bulls blood, as Herodotus Records, Lib. 3. The same doth Plutarch report in Themislocle of Themisto∣cles. Et cum ob insperatum Argonautarum reditum Pelias Aesonem Jason••s patrem ob∣truncare decrevisset, Aeson sacrificans, Hau∣sto Taurino sanguine satis concessit, Natalis

Comes Mythol. Lib. 6. Cap 7. Ex Diod. Sioul. Lib. 4. Cap. 3.

Yet, this proceedes not out of any inhe∣rent property of the blood; But as Senner∣tus proves out of Grevinus, Li. 2. De venenis, Cap. 10. à ratione tantum quadam adventi∣cia, It having no venemous property in it; the which Eustachius Rudins Lib. 3. Cap. 6. De morb. ••••cult. Consirmes; But being drank coagulateth in the stomach, and so, is only* 1.23 hurtfull, and no otherwise, which Grevinus approves; adding, that after the blood is concreated in the stomach, and Con∣verted into lumps, it putresies, and so sends malignant vapours to the Brain, whence men oftentimes loose their senses; Swound∣ings and Suffocations likewise follow, in re∣regard those Lumps and Clotts of blood growing great, can be neither upward nor downward expelled, whence the passages of the stomach and Lungs are choaked up. But Sennertus rather ••••nceives it to arise fro•• a consent of the stomach; which, whilst•••• is repleat of this Concreated blood, presse••h down the Diaphragma and Lungs, hurting also the orifice of the stomach, which being nervous, may likewise by consent affect the neighbouring parts that have nerves. How∣ever

and Concreted in the stomach, it must needs affect in a direfull manner; the sto∣mach being all together unable to digest it, as is clear from common experience; for we see the blood of this Creature doth glaze, and as it were petresie the very earth and pave∣ments on which it is spilt. As it* 1.24 causeth a a difficulty in breathing, and swallowing, sendeth forth much spittle by the mouth, and froathy substance, paines and nauseous∣ness in the stomach, sowndings, faintings, and senselesnesse, and almost such invasions as are incident to Epilepticks, and at length Death it self, if not timely prevented. In Curatione, nota; quod ut reliquorum vene∣norum intra Corpus assumptorum; Ita Sanguinis Taurini quo{que} Curatio vel à Vo∣mitoriò, vel à Clystere, prout vel in ventri∣c••lo, vel intestinis venenum latet, Cura au∣spicanda. Verum primò, Quia ob grumos sanguinis Concretos vomitus Citra suffoca∣tio••is per••nlum provocari non potest, au∣spicanda et à medicamentis sanguinem con∣cretum solventibus; qualia sunt Acetum, O••••ymel, & Acctosa alia, Hydromel, Sperma C••••i, Mumia, Coagulum Leporis, Haedi, Rad Gentianae, Laserpitij, Pinipinellae, semen Brassicae, Conyzae folia cum Pipere, Nitrum, Ʋng••entum Ruborum potabile, Magisterium

O••••l rum Cancri, & similia. Ac••tius, Tet∣rab. 4. Serm. Cap. 74. Ramulos etiam fici tri∣t••s c••m nitro & ••osca prae••et fructusque vitis syl•• estris, etiam sicces, c••m••stos, statim gru∣mos sanguinis dissolvere asserie. Sanguine hoc modo dissoluto vomitus provocetur, & si ad intestina jam descenderit, Clysteribus injectis per alvum educatur. Medicamenta quae ad malignit atem utilia esse videntur, sunt Terra Sigillata, Bolus Armenus, Rad. Tor∣mentulae; Aeger saepius comedat ••icus Maceratos in Ac••to, in quo aliquid Nitri dissolution sit: Potus si•• Hydro••el, vel dec••••lum ficu•••••• ping••ium.

SECTION VI. Of Cows Milk, by some among Poysons.

VAcca, a Cow; whose Milk if it Con∣gulate likewise in the stomachs of such as eat or drink it, is no less noxious, and no better then Poyson, As most maintain; yet that it hath any poysonous quality more then other Milk, I find none of the Judicious affirm; only, that it being Coagulated in the stomach, thereby, for want of Concoction, obstructing the lower orifice, mesentery veines, &c. Causeth many horrible symp∣tomes,

As Animi Deliquium, fainting and sownding sits, suffocating, shortness of breath, and all those other effects which are produced by blood Concreat, or Coagn∣lated, or by any other thing oppressing the stomach, for want of Digestion; And thus (I say) it rather offends then any otherwise by a venamous property; for that cannot be admitted off; yet because others have ranked it among Poysons, I would not pre∣fume to deviate from their steps in placing it with them, although it offend no otherwise then hath been said. To insist upon the Nature of Milk, or to shew what manner of food it is, whether wholsom or unwhol∣som, or what Milk is best, &c. shall not be my work at this time, because I have done it already, in a Treatise sitted for the press elsewhere:

In Curatione, Danda imprimis opera, ut Lac Coagulatum Dissolvatur et vomitu reij∣ciatur. Quam ad rem utile est Acetum sim∣plex; vel sciliticum, Hydromel, Oxymel sim∣plex & compositum vel sciliticum, & reliqua medicamenta in Sanguine Concreto Comen∣data. Laudatur & succus Menthae recens expressus, Baccae Juniperi, Thymus, Artemi∣sia, Sem. Nausturij, ficus cum vino vel Aceto propinatum, &c. And thus much of Poysons

appertaining to four footed Creatures, or, more properly, to Beasts. The rest fol∣low.

DIVISION I. Of Poysons belonging to FLYING CREATƲRES.

SECTION. I. Of the Hye Cantharides, ••na••ts Ant∣dotes, Bupressus.

SEcondly, of FLYING CREA∣TƲRES there are certa••n ••oy∣sons also; as 1. Cant••••ri••••s, A Spa∣nish or French Hye o•• ha•••••• ••n inch long, beautifull and sta••••••g, commonly known by our Ap••th••car••••, and ••ould i•• their shops. It is of a sharpe, ac••ide and ••orroding nature, and a great enemy to the Blauder, poysonou••, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 being taken inwardly in any quantity, or ha••e then ••s fi••ting; As appeares by severall example•• in the writings of the Learned. Ambrosi•••• Pareus, De venems, lib. ••1. Cap. ••8. Tell•• us of an Abbot; who loving a young Serum∣pet, that she might have her fill of pleasur••

with him, invited him to a Banquet, on which she had sprinkled Cantharides pul∣verized, the which he eating in too great a measure, the next Day fell into the Dysen∣tery, and evacuated nothing but blood, both by the Fundament and Yard, which continued still erected; And so, at length notwithstanding he had all the remedies the Physitians could administer or prescribe, miserably died in that condition. Brala∣vola, Com. ad Apher. 17. Lib. 2. Also re∣lates one, who by taking of a Potion mixt with Rubarb, and other Powders in a Morter, wherein Cantharides had been pul∣verized, was along there by exulcerated from the mouth to the Bladder, and so down to the Fundament. And Plinie, nat. Hist. lib. 29. Cap. 4. Records Cantharides dranke, to be the Death of Cossonus that Roman Knight: And so it was of that rich man in Andreas Baccius Prolegomenis venenorum & Antidotorum, Pag. 23. By which stories, if you peruse them, you will find a full relati∣on of those horrid syptomes that attend the taking of this sort of Flye into the body.

As, it exulcerateth not only the stomach, bowells, bladder, and those parts wherein it shall reside, but also all other parts by which it passeth; As from the mouth by

which it enters to the Bladder and Funda∣ment by which it is evacuated: neither doth it only exulcerate, but also burn and in∣flame the parts, whence follow, burning feavers, nautiousnesse, Dysentery, And In∣flation of the hypochondries, vertigo and madnesse; In their mouths they usually sa∣vour the tast of Rosin or Pitch; Lastly, It affecteth (as hath been said) the ureteries chiefly, burning, inflaming, and exulcera∣ting them, causing a constant effusion of blood and erection of the Penis, strangury, Ischury, Intollerable paines, At length it causeth a Gangrene in the ureteries, and fi∣nally brings Death it self.

Nay it is of that violent force, and qua∣lity, that, as some Authors maintain, Be∣ing but even outwardly applyed, it will not only affect the Ureteries and Bladder, but also cause an effusion of blood from those parts. Paraeus, loco alle gato, hath a notable story to this effect, of a certain Gentlewo∣man, who having her face very much De∣formed with red, fiery, and filthy pustules; so that she was shunn'd by all Company, and abominated by every man that saw her as if she had been Leprous, in a sad per∣plexity, at length came to Paris the Me∣tropolis of France, to seek help; where she

consulted Hollerius, and Grealmus, two eminent Physitians; and, with them, made use likewise, of the said Paraeus, and Caballus, approved and skillfull Chyrurgi∣ons, who concluded together to apply over all her face a vesicatory of Cantharides, as the most probable and speedy Cure; But not full 4 hours after the application of this medecine, Her Bladder began to burn intollerably, and the neck of her womb to swell, with Gripings, continuall Vomet∣ings, Evacuatings with blood, both by U∣rine and stoole, with a generall exagitati∣on of the humours, and Disturbance of the whole Body, And a violent burning Fea∣ver. And Langius, Tomo 1. Epist. 47. out of Montaguanus tells us of one who e∣vacuated by the Yard above five pound weight of blood, by only applying Cantha∣rides to the knee. Andreas Baccius, in Pro∣legonis venenorum, & Antidotorum, Pag. 22. Also affirmes that outward applicati∣ons of this Fly, will work such effects, as effusion of blood, intollerable paines, in∣flammations, exulcerations, &c. whether applyed to the Head, Armes, Leggs, Feet, &c: Nay, which is more wonderfull, Jo∣annes Michael Paschalius, Method, Curan∣morb. Cap. 41. hath a story of a Chyrur∣gion

of Millaine in Italy that was twice grievously affected with pissing of blood, only by carrying Cantharides in a purse a∣bou•• him. Adolp••••s Occ•• in his observations, hath such an other example also.

But the truth hereof I shall leave to the Judgements of the Judicious; I shall not presume to correct these so worthy writers, neither in the one, no•• the other; only ac∣quaint you, that all the Learned do not hereunto agree; Nay Sennertus, Pract. Med. Lib 6. Part. 8. Cap. 20 Doth give no credit at all to these assertions, where he hath these words, V••r•••••• et si s••xcenties ve sicato∣ri•• loco i••s usus fuerim; nunquam tamen tale quid ob••e•••••••••• potia: That he could never find any such e••••••ct by outward applicati∣ons, although he had six h••ndred times ap∣plyed them by way of ve••••••••ory. And I my self had once a patient that applyed, of her own head, a ve•••••• ••ory of Catath••••rid••s to her Knee, for a pain she had there, and yet suffered not the least dammage thereby any other way. But, I say, however, let every Man use his own Judgement and Rea∣son.

Qu••d ad C••••••a ••••••m at••••••••••, Primo dan∣da oper•• quod Commod••s••in•• sit vomitorio ex Aqua tepran vel Die ••••o Capiti•• porci••i,

aut Agnini, Cum Oleo Violarum parato: Et Vomitus aliquoties repeti debet. Post Vo∣mitum Clystres per anum inijciendi, ex hor∣deo, Malva, Parietar. &c. sem. lini faenigra. ci, ol. lilior. albor. vel violarum, sevo hircino, et Elect. Diaphaenico Parati. Item non inutile fuerit, si Decoctum Althaeae, Maluae, sem. lini vel lac solum. cum Ol. Violarum mixtum, per anum vel meatum urinarium infunderetur. Postea ad Acrimo∣niam & Maleficam Cantharidum vim obtun∣dendam, aeger sumat Lac Caprinum, juscula pinguia, Ptizanae Cremorem, Butyrum recens, Oryzam cum Lacte Caprino Coctam, Carnes pingues, porcinas scilicet & haedinas, cum hor∣deo, Portulaca, Lactuca, & Violaria Coctas. Laudatur et vinum copiose sumptum à Pareo De Venenis Lib. 21. Cap. 28. Alij etiam valde Commendant Lac Amygdal. Dulc. vel emul∣sionem ex sem. 4. frigid. majorib. Cum Aqua Lactucae parata. Vel emulsio Consiciatur è Nucleis pini, sem. papaveris albi, et baccis halacacabi, cum Aqua Violarum, &c. Pecu∣liari vero vi venenum Cantharidum expug∣nat Pulegium, sive in substantia sumatur, sive decoctum ex eo paretur. Commendatur & terra Lemnia ʒij. pondere, vel Fructus Alke∣kengi, Num. x. si cum vino sumantur. vel ℞. Trochisc. de terra sigillata, Alkekengi, An.

ʒss. Et aegro Cum Ano d••lci, Ant lacte mu∣li••bri exhibea••tur. B••lnea quo{que} parantur ex Deco••••o m••lu••, Altha••, ••••i••lari••, Portu∣l••cae, Sem▪ ••••ini, ••aenugr••••i Gemtal••a, a∣••••a membra Dol••n••••••, & Lumbi extra, J••ungantur ung••ento R••sa••••o, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Popul. Cum Oxycrato mustis ••••••li•• ••un•• & Epi∣themata e••suc•••• L••ctu••••, P••rtulac•• C••cume∣ris, Cu••••rbi••ae, 〈…〉〈…〉 Violarunt mixtis parata, et d••pli••••ti•• lint••lis locis D••∣lentibus impos••ta.

To this we may well add Bupres••is, being very like unto Canth••••i••s for Colour, not shape, although may Authours traditionally so write from Galen Lib 11. De Simpl. Med. Facultat. Can. 40. For this sort of Fly is in form more like a Beede, though much smaller; Called Bupres••is, because,* 1.25 being swallowed by chance by any Beast, it swells them up l••ke a ••unn. It is likewise, as all un••••••••ously agree, no less pe••mti•••••• and off••••sive to men ••f eaten any manner of way, puffing and swelling their bellies, ••••••••••ing and grievously tor∣menting the stomach and bowells with pain; Cauling a supp•••••••••• of the Urine, Strangury, I••chury, and death it self; till when, the party affected, imagines he tasts

And smells nought but a kind of Nitrous savour. The Cure is the same with Cantha∣rides.

SECTION II. Of the Sting of Bees and their Antidotes.

APIS, a BEE, a Creature com∣monly known among us of great use and profit; yet the Sting of it is reputed Poyson, Causing, in the part affected, great pain, anguish, inflammation, and swellings; or blisters to arise, &c. Yet seldom proves mortall if it proceed only from one simple Bee, unless the party be set on by many. Yet some maintain that if they be taken into the body, the mouth, palate, tongue, throat, stomach, and other parts will be pained, prickt, shoot, and be inflamed, causing a most extream heat over all the body; But I can∣not agree herein with them.

Quod ad Curationem attinet, Si Aculeus in vulnere fuit relictus, ille ante omnia ex∣trahendus; ubi verò aculeus extractus est, vel si nullus adfuit, plaga abluenda Aqua Salsa: Hinc Cataplasma è farina hordei, Malva, et Plantagine cum Aceto paratum, vel Stercus Bubulum cum Aceto, vel Bolus Armenus cum Aceto et Oleo mistus imponendus: Na∣sturtium etiam aquaticum tritum et imposi∣tum

dolorem sedat, ac tumorem d••scutit. Im∣primis vero ipsa Animalenla (ut ai•• ••araeus Lib. 21. Cap. 26. De Venenis) quae plagam intulerunt trita imposita ••mnem virulenti∣••••m extrahunt. Prodest & sulphur vivum salvia humana subactum; Item Ruta, Lac, Ficuum, loco affecto imposita Caler in toto Corpore Curatur ut feb. Malig. A••doynus Lib 8. De Venenis Cap. 11. Jubet ut Corian∣drum cum saccharo exhibeatur, scribit enim puncturae Apis, item & Vespae esse Bezoar.

SECTION III Of the Sting of Waspes and their Antidotes.

VEspa, a Wasp, a Creature no less com∣monly known then the other; but more noxious, their stink being accounted more poysonous; And that the rather, because it is thought, by some Naturalists, that this kind of ••ly doth usually dip its sting in the venome of Aspes and Adders if they find them Dead, whence the Indians learnt to dip their Darts and Arrowes in poyson when they went to war.

But the worst of the three, are Hornets, nine whereof are thought to be sufficient to

kill an Horse; and therefore not unfitly may they be added hereunto.

The Signes and Cures are the same with the Bee, wherefore, for brevities sake, I shall shun repetition.

DIVISION III. Of Poyson belonging to SERPENTS.

SECTION I. Of the Dragon and its Antidotes.

THirdly of SERPENTS there are likewise Divers poysonous; As 1. Draco the Dragon, a Creature not much known in our parts or Regions, nor in māy other parts of the world, & therefore not worth spend∣ing much time about; Especially, since most of the Learned will not admit it to be rank∣ed among the number of poysons; yet some think otherwise, in regard it is a Serpent; maintaining, it therefore, poysonous no less then the rest, especially in hot Countryes, whence Lucan thus sings Lib. 9.

Vos quo{que}, qui cunctis innoxia numina terris. Serpitis, aurato nitidi fulgore Dracones, Pestiferos ardens facit Africa.

Such as are bitten therewith, are usually Cured in the same manner as they who are bitten by other venemous Creatures, as Mad Doggs before treated of, &c.

SECTION II. Of the Crocodile and its Antidotes

CRocodilus the Crocodile as we likewise, ••erm it, an Outlandish Creature also, and venemous (although some have con∣ceived otherwise, and therefore have omit∣ted to mention it among Poysons) for it fills such as are bitten by it, with intollerable pain, inflaming the place extreamly, and causing it to swel, as also several black pustu∣les to arise, It causeth likewise Feavers, Cold Sweats, Lipothymia, and such like direful symptomes, and at length Death it self, if not timely prevented.

The Cure is after the same manner as you have heard already where we spake of the bite of Mad Doggs; Wherefore, for the Method, as also Medicaments, I shall, here, for brevities sake, thereunto refer thee.

SECTION III. Of the Scorpion and its Antidotes.

SCorpio, a Scorpion, as we vulgarly phrase t; of which there are divers kinds, some being smaller, some greater then others, some likewise are yellow, others brown, a third sort reddish, a fourth green, a fifth ash colour, a sixth black, a seventh white, &c Again, some have no wings, and others a∣gain have wings, whence, perhaps, that part of A••thiopia was depopulated, which Pliny mentions, by these winged Scerpions, which fly about in flocks like so many Birds, driving away the Inhabitants of such places in which they pitch; The common colour usually of them is a dark brown or musk Colour. For other differencies consult Au∣thours, especially Ardoynus and Grevinus, De Venenis. Our business, in this place, being rather to speak of their venemous qualitie, then of their divers kinds. They hurt by a prick or sting in their tayles most cōmonly, and some think they have two stings; But however, whether it be so or no, or whe∣ther some only are thus furnished; Yet this is most true, one they have, and that

so venemous as it causes an extream pain, not only in the part stung, but also over all the Body, infl••ming and swelling such as are any wise therewith struck, causing likewise an universall paleness, trembling, clammy, cold sweats, sometimes burning and extream hot, at other times so cold, that they think they are invironed with Ice; Like him in Benivenius his Family, recorded Cap. 56. De Abditor. as Schenkius Lib. 7. De Venenis, ••ol. 964. And Sennertus Pract. Med. Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 14. quote. Their hair stands an end, as Paraeus notes De Venenis, Lib. 21. Cap. 25. Amatus Lucitanus, Cent. 6. Curat. 31. Tells us of a man who being stung in the finger by a Scorpion, was affected with an universall pain over all his Body, and prickings in his skin, as if all his skin were run thorow with Needles. Such also as are stung thereby, are usually molested with Bubo, and Impostumes in the groynes, and under the armes; are prone to vomit, have an hickope, their face is often drawn aside, their eyes run with water, and in the corners of their eyes is much purrulent faetid matter, they foame at the mouth, and sometimes, have many black spotts sprinkled in most parts of their Body; As him record∣ed by Marcellus Donatus, Hist. Med. Mi∣rabil.

Lib. 1. Cap. 9. As Schenkius Loco Cita∣to hath it. The part affected or stung, also, is usually red, emitting certain pustules in form of warts, the whole Body (in short) is distempered and feaverish, and at length destroyed if not timely prevented.

These are the symptoms usually attending the stinging of a Scorpion; Yet many times they are hurtfull by entring into peoples Bodyes, as Omnibonus Ferrarius, Lib. 2. De Art. Med. Infant. Cap. 9. Reports of a Child that was grievously affected by a Scor∣pion that entred into its Body by the Mouth while it was a sleepe, and so dyed the same day, notwithstanding it was vomit∣ed up again. How this kind of Creature should get into the Body of an Infant by the Mouth, especially, if (as some Naturalist hold) they are much of the same magni∣tude and shape with a pidgeons egg, I shall not here dispute; whe••efore why this that Ferrarius mentions, may not be generated in that Infants Body, as well as that which Hollerius records to be bred in an Italians brain by the frequent smell of the Hearb Baziliske, whereby he was not only much tormented with an inveterate Head-ach for a long time, but at length with Death it self, I know not. Gesner hath likewise

such a like instance of a certain young Wench in France that by often smelling to the same Hearb, fell into a most insuffera∣ble Head-ach, and incurable; At length dying, and opening her Head, there was found certain Scorpions in her Brain.

Ambrosius Paraeus, De Venenis, Lib. 21. Cap. 25. Affirmes they are more or lesse deadly, according to the Countryes they inhabit. Sennertus, Pract. Med. Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 14. Sayes that in temperate Regions, and especially in cold, they are less venemous, and that in Italy they are very dangerous; Yet, Pouzettus in Lib De Venenis, will have those in Italy to be less perniti∣ous then those in France: So doth Pliny likewise attest, that they in Italy are very harmless, and in some parts of Egypt, and o∣ther places. Likewise about the Alps as Scaliger in subtilit Cardani, exercit. 198.5. Contends.

In Curatione Danda opera (ut supra di∣ctum) ne venenum in Corpus penetret, sed è vulnere extrahatur, & ut Cor à veneno muniatur. Ideo membrum, si fieri potest, supra puncturam Arctè Ligandum, vel cu∣curbitulae parti imponendae, aut saltim me∣dicament. Adstringent. applicand. Aut alio modo ante praescript. Vel, quod Certissimum

remedium est (ut Docet Paraeus, Sennertus, & alii Autores) & multiplici experientia comprobatum, ipse Scorpius vivus captus & contritus imponendus, aut vulnus Oleo Scorpi∣onis illinendum: omne enim simile attrahit ad se sibi simile. Unde videamus etiam ab aliis venenis venena extrahi; ut Bubonibus & Carbunculis pestilentibus, ad venenum ex∣trahendum bufones sicci imponuntur. Aetius, Paraeus, & nonnulli Cochleam hortulanam praecipuè cum testa tritam, & plagae imposi∣tam confestim Dolorem sedare aiunt. Laudantur etiam, Calamintha Aquatica, Lumbrici, Allium. Item Aetius, Tetrab. 4. Serm. 1. Cap. 19. Hoc mirabile pharmacum nominat ℞. Rutae sylvestris ℥j. in Aceto trit. Cerae, tantundem; & resinae Piniquadrant. liquefact. & affuso oleo, q.s. imponat. Lau∣datur & Herba Scorpioides si eodem modo sit mist. & imponant. Dioscorides, Lib. 6. Cap. 44. scribit Lac ficulneum in vulnus instilla∣tum percussis praesenti auxilio esse. Vel ℞ E rad. Bryoniae coct. Rutae trit Sem. Ʋrticae, q. s. cum pauco sulphure & Ol. Veteri. Fiat Cataplasma, plagae imponend. Antequam Topica reitdrentur, id quod saepius fieri de∣bet, abluatur locus affectus aqua, in qua Ruta syvestris, Sulphur, lauri folia, & alia supra enumerata cocta sint. Daniel Sennertus,

vult, Dum haec ita vulneri applicantur, statim simul Alexipharmaca, & quae veneno huic adversantur, exhibenda sunt; ut Salvia, Scordium, Absynthium, Agrimonia, Tarax∣acum, Serpillum, Ocymum, Elaphoboscum, Verbenaca recta, Gentiana, Aristolochia, Bac∣cae Lauri, Sem. Pastinacae sylvestris, ••rifolij, Ocymi, Faeniculi, Raphani, quae vel in sub∣stantia, vel in Decocto exhibeantur. Aetius, loco citato, Antidotum sequentem pluri∣mum ad Scorpionis ictum conducere, eaque seipsum usum & servatum fuisse scribit; ut annotat idem Sennertus. ℞. Castorei, succi Cyrenaici, Piperis. An. ℥ ss. Cocti, spici nardi, Croci, succi Centaurii, An. ʒij. Mellis De∣spumati, q s. Misce; Datur nucis ponticae magnitudme. Vel ℞. Asae faetidae, Rad. Gentianae, An. ℥ss. Aristolochiae longae, Ro∣tundae, An. ʒij. Sem. Rutae, ʒj. Castorei, ʒss. cum Melle Despumato Fiat Electuarium. Dosis à ʒj. Ad ʒij. cum vino vel Anethi decocto.

SECTION IV. Of the Baziliske.

BAziliscus, A Creature which we com∣monly know by the name of Bazilick, mentioned by Galen, Avicenna, Aetius, Di∣oscorides, Paulus Aeginetus, Pliny, and by an infinite many of our Neotericks.

Some Question whether there were ever any such Creature in the World; Others, on the other side, affirm it. And not only so, but that there are two sorts of them; The one proceeding from the Egg of an old House-Cocke (as they say) and thence is terme a Cockatrice. The other is a kind of Serpent, which comes within the verge of our Discourse at this time. And this lat∣ter Galen mentioneth in his book De The∣riasa ad Pisonem, Fol. 1273. As Lacuta in his Epitomie of Galen Delivers it in these words, Baziliscus belua subflava, & triplici frontis apice munita, &c. Affirming, moreover, that the very noyse of his hisling, or raies of his sight is of sufficient force to kill a man outright: And that no Creature can touch him and live. Nay Pliny goes on further, not only attesting such a Creature

to be in the World; but also that he is so pernitious, that he destroyes and kills even Vegetables, as Shrubs, Hearbs, and Trees, not by his touch alone, but likewise by his very breath, or steame of his Body: Nat. Hist. Lib. 8. Cap. 21. whence, in the pro∣vince of Syrene, where it is thought by s••me, they are produced, by the Barronnesse of the soile, and deadness of the Trees. Busnes, and Grass, Men know themselves to be near their Dens. A••icen••a likewise mention∣eth this Creature and Des••r••bes it, ••••lding, that if Birds fly but over ••im within the verge of its steeme, they immediately fall down Dead. Grevinus, affirmeth the same Lib. 1. De Venenis, Cap. 18. So doth Nican∣der, and Aetius, insomuch that all Creatures, Serpents and all, that are likewise vene∣mous shun him as most obnoxious & deadly, so that, by some, he is termed, The King of Serpents; in regard he overcomes them all, and‖ 1.26 slayes them with his very touch although he be dead. Whence the people of Pergamus in Grace (as Selinus records, and, from h••m, divers other Authours) gave a large sum of moneys for the dead Carkats of one, to hang up in the Temple of Ap••llo to drive away Spiders, Birds, and other Creatures from polluting that sacred place.

Erasistratus also acknowledgeth such a Creature to be in rerum natara, where he affirmes the part affected, or bitten, will turn of a yellowish and golden colour. Paraeus is of the same belief, undertaking (as if he had seen one) to describe it in this manner, He is of the lergth of twelve fingers, with a white spot in his Head resembling a Crown. Sennertus in like manner is per∣swaded there is such vermine in the World, and the reason he gives, is, because he is* 1.27 described by so many Authours.

On the Contrary Opinion, notwith∣standing are some others; which at this instant, I shall not spend time nor pains to insert; only shew you Cardans reasons against it, deriding all that hath been already said, and accounting them no better then so many Fictions. Lib. 1. De Venenis, Cap. 16. And he gives these grounds for his assertion.

1. That Galen confesseth in Li. 1. De simpl. Med facultat. Cap. 1. That he never saw any such Creature, nor any Man else that could ever assure him he had seen one, neither did he ever hear of any such Man.

2. He sayes it doth not stand with truth or reason, that Nature should produce so noxi∣ous, so destructfull a Creature, that might de∣vour and consume all others.

3. If it be true that with the very sight or sound of its voice, it kills, what man is there can bring news of either its description, or that, indeed, there is any such thing. 4. Rhasis that sc••ntinous, fearcher into natures misteries, who, notwithstanding he lived in Africa (where it is reported these Creatures are bread) yet never makes the least mention of them

But I shall not presume to decide the Con∣troversie; All that I shall say, is, that these reasons may seem to be rationall; And on the other side, that many, nay most writers take most (I will not say all) things upon trust, not the least inquiring into the verity thereof. Whence we have such voluminous works, when a little said with truth, is much more to be preferred.

I shall therfore add only this, that if there be no such Creature, or if there be, accord∣ing to those places in the Holy Writ, Isa 11.8. & Cap 14.29. & Cap 59 verse 5 Jer. 8.17. we, in these parts, shall never be troubled with the danger or cure of it. And if there is such a thing Erasistratus and Dios∣corides (who consenteth with Cardan,) affirm it not so pernitious as they report, since they have prescribed a remedy for it: As, ℞. Castorei, ʒj. cum vino, vel papaveris

liquore, & exhibeatur. Or, on the other side, if it be true, that there are such Crea∣tures, and so pernitious; Then, with Aetius, I may well conclude it in vain to pre∣scribe, or think of any Cure against the poy∣son of the Bazilisk, since it kills so suddain∣ly and effectually: and that by the very fight breath, or noyse thereof alone.

SECTION V. Of the Salamander, and its Antidotes.

SAlamandra, or, as we commonly thence phrase it, the Salamander, described by Pliny in his Nat. Hist. Lib. 29. Cap. 4. And Isidorus, Lib. 10. Cap. 47. To be a small Creature, like unto An Ewt, Gesnerus, Ʋlisses Aldrovandus, and others, say, It is like a Lizard, but every way a little bigger, having its belly white, its back and other parts of the body, black and yellow, spotted and glistering.

Touching that fond conceit which some have, that it will live in the fire and receive no prejudice; It being condemned‖ 1.28 else∣where,

I shall not spend time, in this place, to make any repetition thereof.

However, it is a Creature reputed no less poysonous then the rest, not only by its bite, but, as Pliny, Nicander, Paraeus, and others maintain, by a secret property, infects even the every fruit of such trees as it climes, so that if any chance to eat thereof it proves unto them Mortall, Sennertus therefore (who from those Authours, likewise, affirm∣eth the same) accounts it no wise less per∣nitious or destructfull then the Aconite, be∣fore mentioned. It is attested also, by some, that it poysoneth all Hearbs and other things over which it chanceth to creepe: And Paraeus, the which Sennertus seemes to confirm, with many more, writes, that it is no strange matter for whole families to be destroyed by drinking (or eating the meat which hath been Drest with) the water of such a well or spring in which they have casually fallen.

Such as are hereby affected, or rather infe∣cted, if Death do not immediately seize upon them, are usually molested with un∣usuall Inflammations over the whole Body, naturall heat by Degrees decayeth, and is at length extinguished, especially in the mem∣ber or part affected, and thence it becomes

black, patresies and emitteth a certain fae∣tid, purrulent matter. Aetius sayes, at first there appear many white spots over all the Body, then ••ed, and afterwards black, pu∣trefying the parts so that at length they fall away by peice-meale (as we say) The Hair generally over the whole Man, is made to fall off, especially if the poysō continue long in the Body, the speech impedited, the ra∣tiocination, phansie, and all the senses ob∣fuscated, the whole frame, and Constitution subverted, and, at last, by Death confounded and destroyed.

In Curatione, animadvertendum, Si Sa∣lamandrae venenum ore sumptum fuerit, & tum vomitus aqua calida, & oleo, & aliis medicamentis hactenus propositis, provo∣candus, Vel, Si demorso insertum, & tun∣locus quamprimum scarificandus, vene∣num{que} vel cucurbitulis, vel aliis modis eji∣ciendum, aut vulneri cataplasma ex Allio, Saepis, Ruta, sale & melle Confectum calide imponendum. In utro{que} Casu Alexiphar∣mica necessaria sunt, ac propterea & Mithre∣datum exhibendum, & Theriaca, In spe∣cie ad Salamandrae morsum Paraeus, Lib. De Venenis, Cap. 20. Laudat a Dioscoride Lib. 6 Cap. 4. quae Confirmat Sennert. Resinam pini, aut Galbanum ex melle tinctum,

Item grana pin. foliA cupressi, & sem urticae ••••••ino, Decoct••••••{que} exhibeatur. Praeterea Commendat Sennert. Hectuarium sequen. ut. ℞ ••acear, Juniperi, Assae faetid••, Paperis nigri, A••••••••j. Cast••rei, fol Rutae, Radic. Py∣••ethri, A•• ʒj. Cum mille sp••mato. Dos••is, a ʒj ad ʒij. ••um b••••••tu vim veteris exbuben∣dam. A••g••r in Ci••••••••pe sumat nucleos pini, ••••b••{que} ••hi condiantur cinamomo, Cario∣phylis, &c. Potus fit vinum vetus, vel lac vac•• num cal••dum.

SECTION VI. Of the Viper and its Antidotes.

VIpera, a† 1.29 Viper or Adder, as some call it, a Creature no lesse noxious and poysonous then any of the former by bit∣ing; for in their Mouths (as our Natural∣ists unamously agree) they contain their poyson in certain small bladders between their teech, so that when they bite, the force thereof cau••ing an eruption of those blad∣ders,

the poyson is thereby conveied into the wound or part bitten. The female Vi∣per is reputed the more dangerous of the two, having more large tusks then the male, and so makes the larger wound; Whence some Authours from Nicander, and Galen, have presumed to affirm the male to have but two tusks, and the female four; But the more rationall agree with Angelus Baldus Abbatius that scrutinous searcher into the Nature of that Creature, that both male and female have four tusks, only the females are more firm, long and strong then the males: They may therefore know whether the part affected was bitten by a male or fe∣male Viper by the largeness of the wound, but not by the number of the orifices made by the teeth; For the smallness of the males tusks causing the wound to be more obscure, occasioned some to affirm they had but on∣ly two tusks. However, if it were so, that were enough to do much mischief; For, such as are therewith bitten, are (as the most Learned & Authentick Authours conclude) molested with intollerable paines, and prickings over all their Body, as also an uni∣versall swelling, but first in the part affected, out of which, when the wound is green and newly made, issueth pure blood, then a pur∣rulent

filthy matter, and certain blisters a∣rise about the part, as if it had been burn'd, which argues this Poyson to be hot, not cold as some have endeavoured to maintain, because this Creature is actually cold, which argument, if it might be admitted, might as well serve to prove Mercurius Sublimate, Antimony, and other Mineralls and poysons Cold, which to affirm, were ridiculous, when all rationall Men know they are potentially Hot many of them, although actually, and to the touch they seem to be otherwise. All the parts are generally, especially the Liver, inslamed, and dryed, whence they are unsa∣tiably desirous to drink. Some think the whole Body becomes yellow or of a pale colour, Caelius Aurelianus, Antiq. Lect. Lib. 6. Cap. 13. sayes of a Leek like green, and gives instance of a Courtier so affected by the bite of a Viper. Sennertus, Pract. Med. Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 13. sayes, according to the disposition of the poyson it is sometimes redd, someties, pale, sometimes, purpleish, sometimes, black, &c. Adding withall, that sometimes there appears certain black pu∣stules in the member bitten. Brasavela. Com. ad Aph. 62. Lib. 4. Hippo••ratis. Affirmes he saw one that was (hereupon) speckled all

over his Body with black, and blew spots. Moreover, the patient bitten by this Crea∣ture, is usually molested with intollerable paines, and gripings in the bowells, frequent vomitings of Choler, the stomach is affected with Hickops, the Head with vertiginous and unusuall paines, the nose with eruption of blood; the bladder and ureters with sup∣pressions and obstructions, so that there is but little emission of urine; The Lungs with difficulty of breathing; The Heart with faintings and swoundings; The whole Body (in a word) with a burning feaver, tremb∣lings and cold sweats; And lastly (if not timely prevented) with Death it self. Espe∣cially if the patient bleed at nose, his hands grow cold, his nailes pale, his lips greenish, if he tremble over all his Body, be mole∣sted with sownding fits; If the wound be large, in summer time, and in an hot Coun∣try (for it is thought they are more poyson∣ous in such places then in others) or given when the Viper was inraged or angry, &c. You may assuredly conclude Death to be at hand, and that the patient will not live long, sometimes within seven hours time after; they seldom linger out to the third day; Nay, the same Brasavola, in loco alle∣gato, tells us he saw one that dyed by the

bite of a Viper within three hours after. And Ambrosius ••araeus, Lib. 21. De Venenis, Cap. 16. records out of Mathiolus a remark∣able story of a Country man, who as he was mowing a meadow by chance, cut an Adder in two with his sythe, which percei∣ving, and thinking it to be slain, took up that end on which was the head in his hand, fearing nothing, but the enraged Creature turning about its head, bit him by the finger, the which, he immediately clapt into his Mouth (as the unadvised Custom of Men is to do, if ought hurt them) and sucking out the blood, Immediately, fell down dead-Such an other story is to be found in Ama∣tus Lucitanus, which Gesner of Serpents, Schenckius of poysons, and others record. A certain boy seeing a Viper or Adder in the fields, boasted to his Companions, he could take it up in his hand, and receive no hurt, but they not believing of it, or telling him he durst not, the Lad rather then be thought to speak more then he would do, put forth his hand to take up the Viper, but the vene∣mous Creature, extending its neck, bit him by the singer very sorely, the which (as you heard before of the Country fellow) he presently put into his Mouth to suck out the blood, and thereby bought his rashness

and folly at a dear rate, for not long after, he changed this miserable life for death; there being no medecine, as my Authour adds, that could do him any good: yet if he had not put his finger into his mouth he might have been recovered.

In Curatione, quod de aliorum Anim••∣lium venenorum morsu dictum, & ••••e faciendum. Tamen hoc venenum u•• a•••• peculiar. Antididot. habet. Ardoynus. De Venenis, Lib. 6. Cap. 1. Veneni Viperarum, Bezoar Costam esse scribit, a ʒss. ad ʒj. Cum vino Absynthite, vel Decoctionis Absynthij exhibitum. Laudantur & Scilla sub cineri∣bus cocta, Alliis, Porris{que} tritis & impositis, Hordei farina cum Accto, Melle & stercore Caprino subacta, impositas{que} cataplasmatis instar. Quibusdam ex Dioscorid. Lib 6. Cap. 47. exhibent Coaguli Leporin. obol. iij. vi∣num{que} frequenter bibendum mandant. Et ita Gesner. Hist. Serpent. Lib. 5. De Vipera, ex relatione Gerardi Bauman. quo{que} affirmat, Puclla quaedam cum carnem, cui venenum Vipera exemptum erat, fortè gustasset in o∣pisthotonum alias{que} gravissima symptomata incidit; Sed mox vinum copiose ei propinatum est, & liberata puella. Nonnulli satis est ex∣emplo lavisse & fovisse plagam Aceto, Sale, & pauco Melle. Mtilis est & radiX Asphode∣li,

Gemianae, Bryoniae, Aristclochiae Rotundae, Item & Terra sigillata ne•• non Radix tor∣mentillae quorum quodlibet vel seorsim, vel plura simul mixta dantur ʒj. cum vino veteri. ••racastoreus De Contagiosis Morb. Libro 3. Capite. 2. Sic de Radice Tormentillae atte∣stat. Conslat Rusticos quosdam dum fortè se∣carent herbas demorsos fuisse à Vipera, ac re∣pente inslatos, apposita autem Tormentilla vo∣cata herba supra lo••um, statim liberatos fu∣isse. Cui si aliquid Rutae addatur, efficacius medicamentum evadit. Galenus Lib. 2. De Antidot. Cap. 14. Ad Viperae morsus, haec e∣pithemata tradit; ℞ Sagapeni, Piperis, li∣quoris Cyrenaic. opopanicis, An. Part. j. Gal∣bani, Sulphuris vivi, An Part. ij. Arida pulverisetur, liquoris in Aceto solvantur, & aridis inijciantur, F. Emplastrum Vel. ℞. Centaurij, Aristolochiae, Rad. Puced. An. Par. Pondus; Pulverisentur, et Aceto ac Galba∣no excipiantur. Vel ℞ Sagapen, Asae fae∣tidae, Piperis, Opopanicis, An. ʒjj. Galbani, Sulphuris vivi, An. ʒj. Gummi Aceto Dissol∣vantur, at{que} iis reliqua pulverisata inspergan∣tur: F. Emplastrum. Item Galenus, De Locis Affectis, Lib. 3. Cap. 7. Scribit se vi∣disse Rusticum, Cujustotum digitum Vipera momorderat, qui salce, quod tum fortè habe∣bat, ab ultimo articulo ictam partem rese∣cans

deinde inducta, usitatis pharmacis in cicatrice nullo sumpto medicamine sanatus est. Inter Composita Paraeus Loco ••••tata∣to, valde laudat Theriacam Antiquam in Aqua Vitae Dissolutam, vel, Methridatium: ubi sic scribit. Cum Rex Carolus nonus Mons∣pessuli esset, ac in Fargij Pharmacopolae offi∣cina Viperam unam tractarem, ipsa ex∣tremum indicem, qua inter unguem car∣nem{que} hiat, morsu mihi praehendit, unde sta∣tim subortus est acer dolor tum partis exqui∣sitissimo sensu praeditae veneni efferi occasione: è vestigio digitum supra vulnus arctissime constrinxi, ut sanguinem, venenum{que} ne se latius in corpus diffunderet exprimerem. Theriacam Antiquam in Aqua Vitae dissol∣vi, ex qua intinctum imbutum{que} bom bycem vulneri imposui, at{que} intra paucos aies hee uno remedio planè convalui: Licet uti & Mitheridatio loco Theriacae. Item & inter Interna exhibentur ab Autoribus Theriaca quae inter composita primas ob••inet, ʒj. vel, ij. pondere, cum vini generosi, ℥iiij. Cui suc∣cedit, Mithridatium: ut Docet Sennertus. Vel. ℞. Radic. Aristoloch. Rotund. Bacc. Laturi Cassiae ligneae, Piperis, An. ʒij C••sto∣rei, ʒj. Anisi, ʒss. folior. Rutae sylvestris, ʒj. ss. Pulverisentur omnia, & cum Melle despuma∣to redigantur, in formam Electuarij. Dossis

a ʒj. Ad ij. cum haustu vini. Mathiolus, in Com. super praefat. Lib. 6. Dioscoridis, ex Antidoto quadam, quam ibi describit, aquam parat, cujus tantas vires esse praedicat, ut ea non solum à demorsu Viperis, quod duabus Histories probat, sed etiam à quocun{que} Ani∣mali veneno ictos sanare; Imò in tanto mor∣tis discrimine constitutos, ut visum, vocem, et reliquos sensus amiserint, ingenti Astantium admiratione, à longo veluti somno excitare, et à morte ad vitam revocare possit. Dossis illius Aquae sunt ʒiiij. vel per se, vel cum Aquae alicujus distillatae Cor••ialis, vel vi••a Oderati pari quantitati.

SECTION VII. Of the Dryinus and its Antidotes.

7. DRyinus, is a most hurtfull and vene∣nious Serpent or Worm, bred as some think a•• ther••o•• of an Oak. So per∣nitious that, as Galen, Lib. De Theria••••, ad Pisonem contends, if any chance at 〈◊〉〈◊〉 war••s to tread upon it, it excoriateth the so••le of the foot, and causeth the legg to swell, nay and hurts the hand no less that toucheth it; the which Sennertus confirmes, Pract. Med Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 11. Adding that it of∣fends

also by biting, nay and so forcibly, that Men are killed thereby; Likewise that the very savour thereof is of sufficient pow∣er to deprive Men of their senses. The common signes of such as are poysoned by the bite of this Creature are these; There usually issueth (as the Learned have noted) out of the wound a kind of black, faetid, and purrulent blood, after which the part or member affected swells exceedingly, and about the wound ariseth certain blackish pu∣stules, grievous paynes accompanyes, and macerates the whole Man, the skin is gene∣rally, Dry, rough and hard. The stomach is molested with vomitings, and hickops, and that which is cast up, is, for the most part Choller or Blood; Extream thirst, likewise tormenteth the party, and intollerable pains and gripings in the bowells; All the natu∣rall actions are so impedited, and destroyed, that there is no emission of either urine or the feces of the belly; Neither are the Vi∣talls lesse affected, for they can neither breath nor speak without great difficulty; and the Heart is subject to swoundings and faintings: and the Animall faculties, also, are so confounded and molested, that there followes not only a depravation & dimness of sight, but likewise Frensies, Dotage, Deli∣rium,

and madness. In a word the whole Man Body and Soul, with all its operations Vegetall, Vitall, and Animall, are there∣by destroyed, so that the whole lump becomes odious, and the very exhalations and breathings through the ••ores extream∣ly offensive. And lastly, if not maturely prevented, brings Death and utter Destru∣ction.

Curatio Petatur ex iis, quae supra De Vi∣perae morsu dicuntur. In specie tamen ad Dryini morsus commendantur Origanum, ut Docet Sennertus, item trifolium & maru∣bium, vel e••rum succus; Radix item Ari∣stolochiae, nec non glandes cujuscun{que} quer∣cus concisae, et cum vino generoso sumptae; Eae∣dem quo{que} Contusae et cum Melle mixtae, ex∣tra, plagae imponantur. Dolorem leniunt etiam ilicis radices tusae et applicatae.

SECTION VIII. Of the Serpent Stellio and its Antidoces.

STellio, is a kind of Lizzard; which, because it hath certain spots upon its back like stars, it hath its name Stellio, à Stel∣la a Star De Stellione, Ita scribit Galenus, in Libro De Theriaca ad Pisonem; Stellio vi∣sus

à Scorpionibus, substringit ipsos et peri∣mit. It is, likewise, very pernitious to Mankind, as well by biting them, as by being eaten by them, or the water, Drink or other liquor in which they are by chance drowned. For either of these wayes it caus∣eth in Man, no less, but the very same symptomes, as you have heard before of Cantharides; Wherefore, for brevities sake, I shall not here make the least Repetition.

Et in Curatione, sive venenum Stellionis haustum, & ore sumptum, sive morsu Com∣municatum fuerit, Alexipharmaca nullo modo negligenda, sed ea, quae contra Serpen∣tum morsus hactenus proposita sunt, usurpan∣da.

SECTION IX. Of the Aspe and its Antidotes.

ASpis, an Aspe, a Creature so poyson∣ous that Nicander affirmes it to be the most venemous of all other Serpents; whence perhaps it is Sennertus when he treats of the Poysons of Serpents, begins with the Aspe. But however, whether compared with the rest it be the worst or no, this is most certain, it is a Deadly Poyson; or, as

Moses ••••ut. 32.33. Terms it, a Cruel Ven∣im. For, if it chance to fall upon any member of a Man or Woman (although they were not ••••ten) i•• becomes thereby immediately inflamed, ••ed and angry, mo∣lests the whole M••n, and causeth Death it self if not timely prevented; nay and all the symptomes that follow upon their bite, though not altogether so for••••able. As, their heads that are herewith i••••ten, are, for the most part, heavy, and ••ail, their fore∣heads molested with convulsive switchings, their ••lyes and sight is obsu••cated and dark∣ned; their ey-lids and theeks tremble; they are sleepy and drowsie, subject to ••u∣pors and soporificall distempers: Their whole senses are perverted and confused; their face is generally pale; often yaune and reach; Their whole Body is possessed with frigidity and chilness, and at length slain by the King of fears, if not immediate∣ly prevented. So dangerous, so cruell, so deadly is this poyson of the As••e, that ma∣ny think it is incurable; Paraeus and others, think one wounded herewith can continue with life but the third part of a Day; But this, Sennertus, and the Learned, say is va∣rious according to the nature and difference of the kind of Aspe: for Galen Libro Citato

Ad Pisonem, speaks of three sorts of Aspes, the one he calls Hirundinaceus; the second, Terrestris; the third, Pryas: The first of which kills so suddainly and effectually, that it is thought to be incurable. The other in three or four hours time: The third, a little more slowly. The truth is, the most mild, is sufficiently malignant and mortall; and that the rather, because its wound is so small, that it is hardly Discernable. As, some write no bigger then the eye of a needle; insinuatingly hurting and destroy∣ing the lives of such as they wound, and yet hardly seem to make any impression or breach upon the Body; As back-biting, slandering, and flattering people do their Neighbours: whence the Apostle Saint Paul alluding to the nature of this Creature, Rom. 3. And speaking of the wicked seems to strike at such malicious tale-bearers and slanderers, Verse 13. Where he sayes, Their Throat is an open Sepulchre, with their Tongues they have used deceit, the poyson of Aspes is under their Lipps. The wound that is made by these Creatures, doth common∣ly grow angry and inflamed, but doth not swell, little blood issueth out of it, and that of Colour black. It affecteth the stomach also with paines, The speech and sight is

presently lost, the whole Man immediately languisheth, a cold sweat possesseth all the parts, palpitation of the heart, and Death it self, as hath been said, in a very few hours, as that good man was in every particular taken, recorded by Schenkius, Lib. 7. De Ve∣nenis, Fol. 962. And so within four hours Dyed.

Curatio in g••nere, petatur ex ijs, quae supra De Viperae morsu Dicebantur. In spe∣cie tamen commendatur Theriaca, vel Mi∣thridatium in vino vel Aceto dissolut ad vuln. Abluend. Item pars Aspidis sputo infecta urina puerorum impubium, v••l spiritu vini, in quo Theriaca disso luta sit, frequenter ab∣luenda. Vel. ℞. Folia thap si barbari Cary∣ophilatae, Leucoij rubri, pari pon••••re, quae in Aceto acerrimo, & sani hominis urina bulliant, ad partis laesae fotum.

Quanquam si ab ictu multum tempus jam sine remedio exactum sit, omnino satius, & certius esse, si aeger ejus decocti ℥iij. je ju∣nus duabus ante pastum horis hauriat. Ae∣gyptij, ut scribit Sennertus in frequenti usu contra venenum hoc habent, Acetum vini copiose sumptum. Utilis est & Gentiana ac Castoreum cum vino vel Aceto propinata. Item Celsus De remed. Lib. 5 Cap. De Aspi∣dis ictu. Valdè laudat Acetum, ubi scribit;

Puer cum ab Aspide ictus esset, & parti••n ob ipsum vulnus, partim ob immodicos aestus siti premeretur, ac locis siccis alium humo∣rem non reperiret, Acetum quod forte s••cum habebat ebibit, & liberatus est. Cre•••• quo∣niam id, quamvis refrigerandi vim ••abet, tamen habet etiam dissipandi. Q••o fit ut Terrae respersa eo sumet. Eadem ••••go vi ve∣risimile est spissescentem quoque intus humo∣rem hominis ab eo discuti, & sic dari sanita∣tem. Idem sentit Hyronimus ••••crc••rialis ut patet in Lib. 2. De Venenis, Cap. 3. his verbis; Marcus Varro dum 83. aetatis An∣num ageret, scripsit, urinam commorsi ab Aspide potam singularissimum esse remedium Adversus venena Aspidis. Sed illud certissi∣mum est Aegyptiorum inventum et experimen∣tum Acetum, quo copio sius potetur utilius esse ••e•• in genere ven••••i. Et narrat Plinius Lib. 23. Cap De Aceto, fuisse quendam ab Aspi∣de commorsum va•• Aceto plenum gestantem, quod quam primum deposuisset, statim incipi. ebat, illico omnis dolor & malum cessabat, ut intelligi possit Acetum esse singulare remedi∣um adversus h••e venenum. Vel, si velis à Sennerto, ℞ Radic. Aristoloch. Rotund Gen∣tianae, Ana ʒj. f••lior. Rutae, Pug. ij Castorei, Cassiae Lign. Ana ʒj Sem. Anisi, Citri excor∣tie. Ana ʒj. ss. F. Pulvis. Dossis a ℈j. ad ʒj.

cum vino, vel Aceto. Veneni Aspidis Be∣zoar Rutam else, seribit Ardaynus ••b 6. De Venenis, Cap. 4.

SECTION X. Of the Serpent Natrix and its Antidotes.

NAtrix is likewise a most pernitious and destructive Serpent, for the most part and commonly called by An hours Hydrus; yet many name it according to the place and time of its appearance; As, if it be found upon the earth in the Summer or Autumn, it is called Chersybres, in the Winter or Spring, in the water, Amphybium•• of which, the former, is much more poysonous and dangerous then the latter: or, more plain∣ly, when it is found upon the earth it is re∣puted more venemous then when it is found in the water. For Chersydri, or such as are found in the earth, are recorded, by se∣verall, from Apollodorus, to be of force suffi∣cient to kill any Man that toucheth them even when they are dead. The symptomes that usually follow upon the bite of these Creatures is much the same which you have before heard of the Viper, only they kill more suddainly or as soon, within three

hours time Ardoynus Contends. The Cure is likewise the same with that of the Viper; wherefore to avoid Tautology I shall thi∣ther refer thee.

SECTION XI. Of the Serpents Amphysbaena and Scytale, with their Antidotes.

AMphysbaena & Scytale. These are Ser∣pents so called by the Learned; And because they are so like one the other, And therefore Authours have joyned them toge∣ther, I shall not here, at this time, put them assunder: especially since they are, also, both alike hurtfull. Herein only they differ, Amphysbaena moves both forward and back∣ward (whence by some) it is thought it hath its name; But Scytale moveth only forward, and is something thicker then the Amphys∣baena. It is reported also of this latter, that if a Woman with Child do but cross it she shall miscarry or be in great danger in Child-bed. Such as are bitten by either of these kinds of Serpents, are molested, in the part affected, with grievous and intollera∣ble paines, inflammations, redness, swel∣lings, and sometimes impostumes, Nay

and there followes all those horrid signes and symptomes which you have read before where we spake of the Viper; which, because the Cure is likewise the same, I shall not here again reiterate, but, for brevities sake, refer thee thereunto.

SECTION XII. Of the Haemorrhous and its Antidotes.

Haemorrhous or Haemorhus, as Galen hath it, in Lib. De Theriaca, ad Pisonem, adding it to be so pernitious and such an enemy unto Mankind that whosoever is bitten thereby, bleeds not only by the wound, but also by the Mouth, Nose, and all other evacuations of the Body; whence it is thought by most it had its name. Pa∣raeus, Sennertus, and others say it causeth the member to grow black, by extinguish∣ing naturall heat, and to swell; then fol∣lowes a paine of the stomach, and difficulty of breathing; Depraving of the voice, hin∣dring the passage of the urine; Hurts the memory; putrifies the gumms; and caus∣eth the teeth to fall out of the Jawes; and at length poureth out the Soul, that Death it self ensues. Moreover, according to

those Verses in Lucan and Lucretius, re∣corded by Gesuer, Schenkius, and Senner∣tus, blood doth not only issue as Galen notes, out of the Mouth and Note, but out of the Eye, also, Eares, and every other passage and hole in the Body; nay from the very Gummes, rootes of the Nailes, and some∣times from old wounds, &c.

Impressit dentes Haemorrhois Aspera Tullo, Magnanimo inveni, miratori{que} Catonis, Ʋt{que} solet pariter totis se effundere signis Corycij pressura Croci: sic omnia membra Emisere simul rutilum pro sanguine virus. Sanguis erant lachrymae: quaecunque fo∣ramina novit. Humor, ab ijs largus manat cruor: ora redundant, Et patulae nares, sudor rubet: omnia plenis Membra fluunt venis: totum est pro vul∣nere Corpus.

Of the same accident Gorgius Pictorius thus sings,

Impressit dentes: Haemorrhois Aspera Tullo, Magnanimo, fluxu sanguinis et periit.

Over and above all which, there followes vomitings, Diarrhaea, and deadly Convul∣sions.

Curatio ut Docet Paraus primo quidem membrum laesrm, si absque vita dispendio id fieri potest, abscindendum; Aut s•• id sa∣cere non liceat, Cucurbitula scarificata adhibenda, vel Canterio actuali pars aduren∣da. Postea etiam medicamenta venenum ex alto evocantia, applicentur. A••tius im∣pone•• Cataplasma ex foliis vitis coctis tritis cum Melle, & foliis portulacae cum polenta. Vel è porro, urtica & ruta coctis & contu∣sis, addita farina hordei it Albumine Ovi, Fiat Cataplasma parti demorsae imponen∣dum. Laudantur & medicamenta sangui∣nis impetum sistendi vim habentis, qualia sunt Tormentilla, Bursa Pastoris, Portulaca, Plantago, Bolus Armenus, Lapis Hamati∣tes, Terra sigillata, quibus, semper ali∣quid Theriacae adijcere utile est. Commen∣datur & praeterea, Allium et Theriaca prae∣sertim recens; Item & uvae passae, ac rubi fructus.

SECTION XIII. Of the Serpent Seps, and its Antidotes.

SEpedon, or Serpent Seps, so called, as Paraeus and the most rationall agree, be∣cause it immediately putrefies the part it biteth: so violent and noxious is its poyson; Nay Sennertus affirmes, that most Writers think it to be the Deadliest venome that is, putrefying any member of a Man, that doth but touch it; And kills within three or four Dayes, as common experience evinceth. However all agree, that it causeth, by its bite, extream pain in the part affected. Pau∣sanius, and, from him Sennertus, Paraus, Grevinus, Ardoynus, and the rest, affirm, that when the wound is green, or newly made, there issueth forth pure blood, but afterwards, most filthy, corrupt, purrulent matter, exceeding faetid. The part affect∣ed and putrefied becomes white, and with∣in a short time the whole Body, so putre∣fying along as it goes, that it consumes the very skin, and flesh, causing the hair to fall off by peice-meal, resolveth the spirits, and destroyes life, if not timely prevented.

The Method for Cure, both in generall and particular, is the same which hath been shewed of the Viper.

SECTION XIV. Of the Serpent Cerastes and its Antidotes.

CErastes, a Serpent so called by the Greeks 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, à 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Cornis signify∣ing a Horn, because it is reported by our Naturalists, to have two horns upon its head, like unto a Rams; a very poysonous and dangerous Creature it is also; but not so bad as the former two: yet the member thereby bitten swelleth in nobs and nodes, not unlike to the head of a tenpenny naile: out of the wound made thereby, there issu∣eth a purrulent matter, sometimes, pale and whitish, and sometimes, again black: the whole Body becomes black and blew; The Mind and Phansie become disturbed; The Eyes wax dim; The Lipps swell; And a∣bout the Groyne is intollerable pain, through retraction of the Nerves: genitale intenditur; The whole strength of the Bo∣dy is at last wasted, and Life it self subvert∣ed. Yet, many times, they linger out till the ninth Day.

De Curatione, ea quae contra Serpentum morsus, hactenus proposita sunt, usurpanda. Ut Consistit in m••mbri laesi Amputatione, si locus membri & conditio id patiatur; quod si sieri non pos••it, omnis caro circa locum affectum abscindatur, vel, ad minimum, profunde scarificetur; cu••urbitulis{que} apposi∣tis sanguis copi••sius eliciatur: Et ••laga A∣qua Vitae, in Aqua Theriaca dissoluta sit, abl••atur; vel Cauterio Actuali locus Adu∣ratur, &c.

SECTION XV. Of the Serpent Dipsas and its Antidot••s.

DIpsas, it is a kind of Snake called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 by the Greeks, à 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sitio, to thirst; because, by its bite, it so dryes up and consumes the moisture, and humours in a man, that they become exceeding thirsty that are thereby offended: And so Dye thirsty, as Galen notes, Lib. De Theriaca ad Pisonem. Sennertus, thinks this extream drought ariseth from the ardent quality of the poyson, above measure inflaming the whole Man, growing so much the more thirsty, by how much the more they drink, for the uretery passages being so dryed and

shriveled up, that the dri••k they receive cannot pass through, it is conveied through and into the Veines, throughout the Body; or into the Cavity of the belly, whence it becomes thereby so extended, that some∣times about the groynes, it breakes.

In C••ratione nota; Dip•••••••• morsui ea∣dem quae reliquorum Se••••••••tum ac Vipe∣••atum morsui, conven•••••• ••••••••••••me••••a & externa, & interna. Tamen p••••••ter illa, quia demorsi plu•••••••••• bibunt, ••t potus ille per vias urina•• non ev••••••••••, Diuretica exhibenda è Sem. 4. srigid. ••a••or. Radic. Aperientib Resta b••vis, Ch•••••••• lio, B••••sa pastoris Fragis, N••c••••is, ••••••co••. Horde••, & similibus. Plura vide apud A••t••m Tetrab. 4. Serm. 1. Cap. 22. Ardoy••••m Lib 6. De Ve∣nenis, Cap. •• Gr••vinum l••b. 1. De Venenis, Cap. 14 &c.

SECTION XVI. Of the Serpent Cenchris and it Antidetes.

CEnchris, which likewise, is a Serpent extreamly venamous and permtious, killing, by the very poyson of his bite, with∣out speedy remedy be applyed, in three days time; Causing moreover, curing the time,

divers grievous and fearfull symptomes; As, the Belly is filled with water, the nature of the Poyson being to dissolve, and pour out the humours thereinto, whereby it is swollen, and puffed up; The flesh languish∣eth and flaggeth; the head growes heavy; all the senses are propense to sleep; and an alienation of the mind followes; The part affected swells; out of the wound there issueth a faetid, purrulent matter, sharp and acride, whereby the soare spreads, and the skin is exulcerated, &c. Besides, most of the Antients maintain, from the testimony of Erasistratus, it hath a peculiar property in offending the Liver; the Intrall called the Jejunum which is the second Intrall of those they term Small; and the Neck. Curatio petatur exiis, quae supra De Viperae morsu dicetur.

SECTION XVII. Of the Lizzard and its Antidotes.

LAstly Lacerta, a Lizzard, a Creature very frequent and common in the Iu∣dies, as Acosta, and others note; and re∣puted by divers to be inoffensive; and no question, some sort of them are alltogether

harmless, as common experience evinceth, and the unanimous assertion of all Travel∣lers into those parts: who will moreover tell you of their strange love and affection which they bear to Men; But I shall not in∣sist on that in this small Tract. Another sort there are, which Sennertus thinks to be (though not to be so bad as the rest before mentioned) pernitious, and something poysonous, as appears by the symptomes that follow upon their biting of Men. As, the part affected is grievously pained; out of the wound, which is newly made issueth pure blood at first, but afterwards most a∣bominable corruption; the flesh about the bite turues pale, and putrefies; And also exceedingly swells. And that you may know the bite of a Lizzard from other Creatures, there following many times the same symptomes, take notice they all∣wayes leave their teeth in the wound or member bitten, as the Learned teach.

Curatio in genere perficitur, ut antea di∣ctum est De Vipera. In specie tamen, ut dentes in vulnere relicti ••acilius excidant, locum Oleo & Aqua calida fricare oportet; postea Cucurbitulas ei applicare, &c. Pro∣dest etiam Spongiam Aceto calido imbutam morsui imponere, Locum{que} Butyro, Sale &

Melle mixtis inungere: Emplasirum ex Allio & soliis Maluae coclis & contusis, fur∣furibus{que} cribratis, & oleo Rosaceo paratum; vel Cataplasma ex panis Triticei medul•• la, cum dec••cto Rutae, Calaminthae, Alu et Gentianae confectum, applicare. And thus mu∣ch of the Poyson of Serpents.

DIVISION IIII. Of Poysons BELONGING TO FISHES.

SECTION I. Of the Torpedo and its Antidotes.

FOurthly, there are certain Poysons pro∣ceeding from Fishes, As, 1. T••rpedo, a Fish so called, eo quod Corpus torp••scere faci∣at, si eam quisquam viventem tangat, because it benumeth and astonieth the Body or member which toucheth it whilst it is ••live; Although when it is dead, As Galen ••••res, Lib. 3. De ••limentis, Cap. 34. it may be ea∣ten: through a secret property in this ••rea∣ture. Nay it is of that numming quality, that it not only aston••eth the Body or member touching it, but even the Armes of the ••ish∣ermen that strike them with their long Poles, and come no neerer them, as Ga∣len

evinceth, Lib. De usu Res••irationis, Item in Lib. 6. De locis affictis, Cap 5. Et in Lib. 11. De simplicium medicam••••••••••m sac ulta∣tibus, Cap 49. The which is confirmed by every Writer. And over and above this they are no less dangerous to them that take them accidentally with other sisi m nets; As Sennertus demonstrates, out ••f Ar••st••tle, Lib. 9. De Hister. Animal. Cap. ••7. Adding with∣all, that it dilates into the whole Body, o∣verthrowes the st••ength, brings an universal trembling over all the Body, and he ••iness; which Scaliger, likewise confirmes, in Ex∣ercitat. 218.8. Ad Subtilit. Cardan. And Gesner, Lib. 4. Hist. Animal. Cap. De Tor∣pedine, from Albertus, tell us of one that was scarce well again in half a years time, notwithstanding all convenient means was applyed and daily used, so as to have the use of his hand and arm, only by touching one with his singer a little, although he twitch't away his hand again suddainly.

They futher report of this Creature, that have adventured to speak of it, that it catcheth the ••••sh it delights to eat, and preyes upon by hiding it self in the mudd from them and stupefying them, not being able otherwise to catch them through the slowness of its motion, wanting sins;

And that this is so apparent, since, as the Learned contend, it is often seen the mullet hath been found whole in their bellyes, not∣withstanding it be a Fish of admirable Cele∣rity. Si quis liquorem Cyrenaicum manu te∣neat, eum nihil à Torpedine mali pati. Aelia∣nus, De Histor. Animal. Lib. 5. Cap. 17. Au∣tor est▪ Quae si ita sese habent, procul dubio etiam hic liquor ad torporem & stuporem à Contactu ••orpedinis inducturu, utilis erit. Alexander Aphrodisaeus, initio problemat. Trigli, quam mullum vocant, carnem hujus veneni remedium esse docet. Ad Torporem ctiam à Torpedine inductum utilis est Theria∣ca, si ʒij. pondere, cum vino Absynthite ex∣hibea••ur. Vel, Coquatur Absynthium; Ruta, Gentiana, folia lauri in vino, decoctumque exhibeatur. Vel, ℞. Sem. Ʋrticae, Nausturtij, Dauci. Ana ʒj. ss. Piperis nigri, Castorei, An. ℥j. F. Pulvis. Cujus ʒj. Cum vino generoso exhibeatur. Aeger quo{que} in balneo saepius sudet. Membrum stupidum fricetur pannis Asperis, & fomentetur vino, in quo Salvia, Calamintha, Ruta, Chamaemelum, Hypericum cocta sint. Ex eiisdem etiam balneum para∣ri potest. Postea illinatur locus affectus oleo rutaseo, Costino, quibus aliquid spiritus bac∣car. juniperi admixtum sit.

SECTION II. Of the Sea-Deagon an•• its Aatidotes.

DRaco Marinus, the Sea Dragon is like∣wise a ••ish that may be eaten, astord∣ing, As, Sennertus write••, no unlaudable nourishment; yet, as mo••t, nay all Authours agree that have adventured to mention, or have spoken of this Creature, It hath certain pricks, especially in the gills under the throat (and back as some of them contend) that are poysonous, causing most insuffera∣ble pain in the part assected, inflaming, and swelling of it, And, if not timely prevent∣ed, causeth it to Gangreene; Mo••eover it puts the party into a leaver, bringeth swounding sits, and Death it self, if proper means be not forthwith applyed; As Lieu∣tenant Monsieur Barg••l••rmes wife did, mentioned by Paraeus; wherefore, as the same Authour notes Lib. 21. De V••n••nis Cap 31. recited also, from him, by Schenkius ••••i. 7. De Venenis, fol. 955. The ••ishmongers at Roan in France use not to lay them upon stalls till they have cut off their heads: nei∣ther, in that Nation, if any come to the Hands of a Cook with their Heads on, do they serve them up to Table till they are beheaded: The better to prevent those hor∣rid

symptomes before related that usually follow upon a prick from their gills.

In Curatione, ut venenum immissum, eplaga eliciatur, membrum laesum Aquae Calidae immergendum, scarificandum, ei{que} cucurbitulae, vel Hirudines applicandae. Hunc piscem dissectum, suo{que} vulneri impositum remedio esse scribit Dioscorides; Idem prae∣stat Mulli Caro ut annotat. Rondeletius, De piscibus, Lib. 10. Cap. 11. Utile est et Cata∣plasma ex Caepe sub Cineribus cocta, fermento, vel Serpillo trito, & pauca Theriaca para∣tum. Vel Aqua Vitae in Aqua Theriaca dis∣soluta sit, linteis duplicatis imponenda. Fur∣sures tritici cum Aqua Calida in massam re∣dacti, et loco laeso saepius de die impositi, Dolo∣res in hoc Casis mirè mitigant. Ut Docet Sennertus. Idem affirmat Paraeus ubi scribit his verbis; Non ita pridem uxor Fromage∣tij, Curiae libellorum supplicum scribae, hujus piscis A••ul••oicta est in digito medio; istum subsecuti sunt partis tumor et rubor, sine non magno dolore. Cum videret tumorem in horas augeri, vicinae suae ••voris Praegelonij rerum privatarum juridici comitialis, quae ex simili casu neglecto paulo ante interierat, periculis facta cautior, me accersit, ego intellecta morbi Causa digito dolenti toti{que} pariter manui Ca∣taplasma imposui ex crassiore caepa sub prunis

Cocta, Fermento, et pauca Theriaca. Postero die jussi ut manum totam demergeret in A∣quam Calentem, ad venenum for is elicien∣dum, mox multiplici scarificatis, sed superfi∣ciario, eutem in ambitu divisi, divisionibus hirudines apposui, suctu detracto sufficienter sanguine, Theriacam in Aqua Vitae dissolu∣tam admovi. Sequenti die detumu••rat manus dolore plane expers, paucis{que} post di••bus plane convaluit. Dum Haec circa partem affecta peraguntur; Statim etiam Alexipharmaca propinanda. Dioscorides, Lib. 6. Cap. 45. (ut contendit Sennertus) Absynthium, Sal∣viam, & sulphur cum Accto mistum exhibet. Prodest etiam Theriaca ad Mithridatium cum Absinthii Aqua aut decocto exhibitum. Pastillos ex Bryonia et eruo, cum vino potos Aetius, Tetrab 4. Serm. 1. Cap. 39. à Draco∣ne Marino ictis mirè Conducere scribit.

SECTION III. Of the Sea-Ray, or Pastinaca and its Antidotes

PAstinaca Marina, the Sea Sting-Ray, A Fish, that as Galen in Lib. 9. De Ali∣mentis, Lib. 8. De simplicium Medicamento∣rum facultatibus, And other places of his works, notes; is fit for food and may be eaten: yet their heads and tayles are poy∣sonous,

at least the sting in their tayle, and their gills or sp••ikles about their head;* 1.30 for gills (to term properly) they have not, being shaped flat like a flownder; Some of them have two stings, if we may believe the testimony of many Writers: However, I shall not insist upon that, one is enough to prove extreamly destructive and pernitious, killing not only Men, but other living Crea∣tures; Paraeus tells us of from Aetius, and o∣thers they kill fish with their sting, and so prey upon them: And Vidius Vidus, Med. Pract. 2. Sect. Libr. secundo Cap. 8. Tells us of a Woman that unadvisedly washing this fish, and pricking her hand with its sting, did in a short time dye therewith: Nay it will kill even the largest and biggest, as also the most flourishing Trees, if they be but touched therewith or pricked, causing the leaves to fall off, and the body it self to waste by degrees, as Aelianus, De Animal. Lib. 8. Cap. 16. observes. And Oppianus writes, that the sting of this fish is more ve∣nemous then the Persians Arrowes: affirm∣ing, moreover, that the force of the poyson remaineth after they are dead: whence it is that such as catch them bereave them im∣mediately of their sting. Yet Pliny, Nat.

Hist. Li. 7 Ca. 48. Confidently assures us, that it is good against the paines of the teeth, by scarifying the gumms therewith; nay, and, that the powder thereof alone, or mixt with white Hellebor, being layed upon any tooth will cause it to come forth. But I will not here make Digression, wherefore to our business. Such as are thereby stung, or prick••, Have, as Aetius, and others from him con∣clude▪ intollerable paines in the part affect∣ed, and numness over the whole Body; The member is much extended and swelled; very black about the wound, issuing forth, if it be crusht, purrulent, black, thick, and saetid matter; especially if there be any Nerve touched, there followe•• frequent Convulsions of the whole Body, weariness, stupor, and Death it self.

In Curatione, nota, quod omma quae Vi∣perarum morsibus medentur, etiam Pastina∣cae Marinae vulneribus adhiberi possunt. In specie tamen Aetius, Tetrab 4. Serm. 1. Cap. 37. furfures Aceto Coctos, & pro Cataplas∣mate impositos, ut & Acetum affusum pro foru valde prodesse scribit. Item vulneri, vel Hepar Pastinacae, vel Radij Cinis cum Aceto, vel ipsa Pastinaca divulsa imponatur. Rondelentius & sic curavit Rusti••um, de quo mentionem facit ex eo Gesnerus Lib. 4. De

Historia Animalium, Pag 801. ut annotat Schenkius Lib. 7. De Venenis, fol. 954. Item narrat Sennertus, Pract. Med. Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 41. Applicentur alii, Cataplasmata attrahentia, quae parantur ex Sulphure vi∣vo, Radic. Bryoniae, Marubio, Foliis lauri, Salvia, & similibus, cum urina veteri sub∣subactis. Vel imponatur fermentum aci∣dum cum pice liquida emollitum, vel è nitro sinapi, Sale Ammoniaco ex sulphure, ac Acet•• forti, Fiat Linimentum, Plagae inungendum. Plinius, Contra Pastinacam Marinam, & omnium Marinorum ictus vel morsus, Libro 28. Cap. 11. Nat. Hist. Coagulum Leporis, vel Haedi, vel Agni, ʒj. pondere prodesse tradit. Item in Libro 32 Cap 5. Contra e∣undem etiam prodesse Mullum in Cibo sumptum, scribit. Ʋtilia etiam sunt Scordium, Rosmarinus, Salvia in vino cocta, vel è Myrr∣hae, Piperis, Costi Amari, Rad. Bryoniae, Partibus aequalibus, siat Pulvis, Cujus ʒj. ex vino exhibeatur. Vel propinentur ʒij. Theri∣acae Andromachi cum vino. Vel ℞ (ut Docet Sennertus) Costi Amari, Myrrhae, Rad Gen∣tianae, Aristoloch. Long. Zedoariae, An. ʒj. Sem. Pastinacae sylvestris, Anisi, Ammios, An. ℈ij. Granor. Mastiches, Spicae, Piperis, Rutae, Croci, An. ʒss. Cum Melle despuma∣to, F••at ••lectuarium. Et nota quod simul cum

externa applicentur, Alexipharmaca exhi∣bere oporter.

SECTION IV. Of the Sea-Dogg and its Antidotes.

CAnis Marinus, the Sea-Dogg, a Crea∣ture carrying a Gall, no less danger∣ous and destructive then any other part of those Creatures before mentioned. For, it is so deadly a poyson, that even one grain weight, is of weight enough sufficient (being taken into the Body), to deprive a Man of his Life within seven dayes time, if not op∣portunely prevented; As Sennertus Contends out of Ardoynus, Lib. 4. De Venenis, Cap. 17. and others confirm it: Concluding, that, in the Interim, it causeth, likewise, these horrid symptomes following. As, a most grievous stinking mouth and breath, an universall Ictericious Colour, oryellowness over all the Body; And a kind of gonorrhaea, or un∣voluntary effusion of the sperm, &c.

In Curatione Laudantur Gentianae Rad. sive in substantia ʒij. pondere cum Butyro sumātur, sive decoctum exea paretur, & Bu∣tyrum in eo dissolvatur, & singulis diebus bis ℥iiij sumantur. Corpus inungatur Oleis vel Balsamis Aromaticis suaveolentibus.

SECTION V. Of the Sea-Hare and its Antidotes.

LEpus Marinus, the Sea-Hare, an ugly deformed and poysonous Creature; as most Authours contend. Nicander, Diosco∣rides, Galen, Paulus Aeginetus, Aetius, with the rest of the Antients; And, from them, Rondeletius, Sennertus, Paraeus, and other Neotericks, all unanimously agree it not on∣ly to poyson and destroy people that eat it, but likewise such as do but look upon it, are strangely affected. Instancing in Women that are with Child, who fall immediately into vomitings, and go near to miscarry, if they do but look upon one stedfastly. Such as have eaten or drank this poyson, as Dios∣corides notes, are extreamly tormented in their Bellies, their urine is stopt for the most part, and if any be evacuated, it is bloody, Their sweat is offensive, stinking, and smells of fish; They vomit many times Choller, and that mixed with blood. Aetius adds their Bodies are generally yellow and as if they were ictericall, and then turnes of a Leadenish Colour; their faces swell; and their feet, but especially their genitalls, and hath a peculiar property, as Galen Lib. 1. De Compositione Medicamentorum secundum

genera, in initio, observes, to exulcerate the Lungs especially, and at length brings Death it self.

In Curatione, primo danda opera, ut vene∣num Corpori communicatum foras eliciatur, iis modis, qui hactenus saepius sunt proposit••. Ut quamprimum sit assumptus vel Vomitis, si adhue in ventriculo ressitet, reijciendus, vel si ad intestina descenderit, vel injecto Clystere, velpurgante medicamento ore as∣sumpto, citiam paulo fortiore educendus. In quem usum cōmendantur pillulae è Scam∣monij, Elebori nigri, Agarici, sueci Glycyr∣rhizae & Tragacanthae aqualibus partibus paratae, & ʒj. poudere exhibitae. Antidot. Loco exhibeatur Lac Asininum, vinum cum melle paratum, vel decodum è malua. Lau∣dantur & sangis. Anserum et Galli, Resinum Cedri oboli pondere cum vino sumptum Leporis Marini Alexipharmacum esse tra∣dunt; Alij, hujus veneni Bez••articum, Triglam esse aiunt. Ʋtilia sunt & mala Pu∣nica; decoctum item è virga pastoris, Plan∣tagine, et Calamintha montana paratum, &c

SECTION VI. Of the Sea-Scorpion and its Antidotes.

SCorpio Marinus, the Sea-Scorpion, so cal∣led, not that it is of the same form and

shape with the Land-Scorpion; But because it stings and conveyes the poyson as the Land-Scorpion doth, though not out of the same part, for the Scorpion offends by its sting in its tayle, but the Sea-Scorpion by its prickles about its Head and back, the Head especially, so that it can hardly be toucht without much danger; wherefore Men are usually forc'r, that take them, to lay hold of their tayle, or the lower part of their back.

Such as are wounded by any of these pricks, do usually sustain insufferable pain in the member hurt, which afterwards di∣lates it self; As Alsaharavius records of himself, Tractat. 30. Pract. Sect. 2. Cap. 21. that unadvisedly offering to touch the Head of this Creature, received immediately a wound in his little finger, which did not only swell and inrage, but his whole hand, up to his elbow, then dilating it self up to his shoulder, &c. The same story is like∣wise recorded by Schenckius, Lib. 7. De Ve∣nents, fol. 955. And Sennertus Pract. Med. Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 42. Whence, sometimes, ensues Death it self; sometimes they lose the member or part affected; sometimes, there is grievous Convulsions occasioned, and wearinesse over the whole Body, especially if a Nerve be hurt.

Quod ad Curationem attinet in genere, no∣ta, Quae in aliorum venenatorum animali∣um morsibus & ictibus curatio adhiberi solet, ea & hic locum habet in specie. Rondeletius, Lib. 6. Cap. 19. De Piscibus, refert se pue∣rum ab hoc pisce miserè ictum, dum eum in sinu recondere vellet, curasse Mullo disse∣cto et imposito, cum ejusdem Scorpionis† 1.31 Hepate, adhibito ad vulneris Ambitum len∣tisco contuso.

Galenus Lib. 9. De simpl. medic. facult. Pis∣carores docuit, ut sulphure ad venenatorum Piscium morsus uterentur; seu sicco vulneri insperso, seu cum salvia misto, seu cum u∣rina Macerato, seu cum Oleo veteri et Melle et resina, Terebinthina subacto. Dioscorides Percussis à Marino-Scorpione, Absynthiy, Sal∣viae, aut sulphuris ex Aceto triti potionem subvenire scribit.

SECTION VII. Of the Lampron and its Antidotes.

MƲrena the Lampron, a sea fish much like the Lamprey, but thicker, bigger, and larger every way; Had in great esteem in former times, and now yet to this day fancied, by some, as a choice food, yet their teeth are poysonous, long, sharp, and bend∣ing inwards, causing the wound to be very dangerous, making not only an effusion of blood, but greivous & intollerable paines to follow; The member to swell and exulce∣rate; whence ariseth most symptomes be∣fore recited of the Viper; And Death it self. But, that you may know this Creature perfectly, the better to avoid it, Authours describe it to be about two Cubits long, of a duskish colour and whitish spots, &c. Ni∣cander reports of this Creature, that it will leave the Sea often, and at the times of Pro∣creation seek out the Den of the Viper, and ingender therewith. The Care is the same with that of the Viper.

DIVISION V. Of Poysons BELONGING TO CREEPING THINGS.

SECTION I. Of Scolopendra and its Antidotes.

FIfthly and Lastly, there are severall Poysons among Creeping Things; As, 1. Scolopendra, a kind of worm, which creepes both backward and forward, offending with its bite no less then any of the former Crea∣tures, causing grievous paines over all the Body; The flesh about the part affected becomes black and blew, and putrefies, Some times, likewise, it is red and fiery; Hard to be Cured, and unless timely prevented brings Death it self, and many other effects which you have before heard in other venemous beasts.

In Curatione omnia quae Viperarum mor∣sibus medentur, etiam Scolopendrae vulneri∣bus exhiberi possunt. In specie tamen Antido∣ta quod attinet, Dioscorides Lib. 6. Cap. 43. à Scolopendra demorsis cum vino exhibet Ari∣stolochiam, aut Serpillum, aut Calamintham, aut Rutam sylvestram; quibus Aetius, Te∣trabil. 4. Serm. 1. Cap. 15. Absynthium & Mentham adjungit. Vinum quo{que} in quo

Asphedeli flores, & semen, aut Mentastri so∣lia Cocta sunt, utile est.

SECTION II. Of Horse-Leeches, and their Antidotes.

HIrudo, an Horse-Leech, a Creature although oftentimes used by Physici∣ans, kept in fair water and cleansed from their impurity and malignant quality; yet, being taken from muddy, filthy waters, they are oftentimes poysonous; proving very dangerous to Phlebotomize by them: Like∣wise if they fasten their teeth in the flesh, or leave their heads in the wounds by pluck∣ing them off too violently, or other wayes, they exulcerate the part or member unto which they were fastened: And oftentimes causeth Death it self, as Pliny instanceth in Messalinus, that so perished, by laying thē to his Knee, Schenkius Lib. 7. De Venenis, Fol. 962 Sennertus, Lib. 6. Part. 8. Cap. 20. And others, from him, records the same. Likewise most Authours, especially our Ne∣otericks, acknowledge as much. And moreo∣ver, that many times by drinking of impure muddy water where they are found, have become grievously affected, by their fast∣ning on either Throats, or Mouthes of their Ventricles or Oesophagus. But Sennertus

and some others (from the aforesaid Schen∣kius, who, from Wolphius, taking it from Gesner, and Scholdzins, &c.) have affirmed (adding to the rest) that Leeches being vene∣mous, or else if not rightly applyed, do not only cause Ulcers, but also Gangreens; Two examples of the like accidents, the afore quoted Authours give us, who, by being bitten by Leeches whilst they were swim∣ing, had their flesh gangreened, whereby their Bodyes became repleat of gross and praved humours, their flesh corrupted, and by peice-meale fell off, &c.

In Curatione; St vulnus ab Hirudine in∣flictum non bene cadat, Imponantur folia lauri, vel centaurin contusam cum vino mix∣tum; Vel ex Allio, Ruta, Galbano, Maj••∣rana, Castoreo & Oleo veteri, Fiat Cataplas∣ma; quod plagae imponatur. Imprimis u∣tilis est Agrimonia contrita & Cataplasma∣tis modo imposita, vel illinatur plaga Testu∣dinis marinae sanguine, Oleo Cestino, de Pyre∣thro. Si Faucibus adhaereat Hirudo, saepe gargarismatibus è Sinapi, Allio, Aceto, alis∣que acribus & Acidis, adjecto Sale paratis, utendum. Ventriculo si infixa sit, aeger Mu∣riam tepidam vel Acetum bibat; quibus a∣liquid Aloes admiscendum, ut eo citius re∣frigatur, vomitu{que} qui cum Oxymelite sim∣plici,

vel scilitico, Decocto Anethi provo∣cari potest, excludatur. Si Sanguis reijci∣atur, Astringentibus, sanguinem{que} sistentibus utendum; qualia sunt Conserva Rosarum Ru∣brarum Antiqua, Radic. Tormentillae, Bolus Armenus, Terra Sigillata, Trochisci de Ber∣beris, De Spodio, Syrupi Cydoniorum, De Rosis siccis, De Agresta, Myrtillorum, Gra∣natorum, Aqua Plantaginis, Portulacae, Bursae Pastoris, & alia. Rejecta per vomi∣tum Hirudine, ejus malignitati resistentia ex∣hibenda; ubi Commendatur Absinthium Na∣sturtium, Salvia, Gentiana, Pinipinella, Baccae Lauri, Scilla, Radic Cappar. Myrr∣hae Galbanum, è quibus tale potest fieri E∣lectuarium, ut docet Sennertus. ℞. Aristo∣lochiae Longae, Gentianae, Baccar. Lauri, Cortic. Radic. Capparum, Myrrhae, Ana ʒij. Sem. Rutae, Piperis nigri, Castorei, Ana ʒj. Cum Melle dispumato. Fiat Electuariū, Cu∣jus Dossis à ʒj. ad ʒij. Cum vini generosi ℥iiij.

SECTION III. Of the Toad and its Antidotes, with Frogs, &c.

RƲbeta, a Toad, a Creature extreamly poysonous, and no less pernicious then any of the former Creeping Creatures; offending by the emission of their venom

by urine, spettle, and breath, as also by the bite, although they have not teeth, yet such is the hardness of their gumms, & roughness, and so violently do they pinch, that there∣by they make such an impression that the venemous puality of their poyson is convei∣ed not only into the part affected, but like∣wise through all & every part of the Body, by the pores; causing most horrid symptoms. As, the Vertigo, loss of sight, Synchope, and mi••t by fits with Convulsions, for the most part they stammer, their Lipps and Tongue become black, their Countenance furious, horrid and gashly, subject to vomitings, universall swelling, & invironed with a cold sweat, and at length Death it self possesses them. As appears by those recorded by Ambrosius Paraeus, Lib. 21. De Venenis, Cap. 24. who drank Wine in which they had infused a little sage, that they gathered in the Garden from a stock, under which at the root lay severall Toads; by the urine, and spettle of which it was infected. Mizaldus likewise, Memorabil. Centur. 1. Aph. 1. Et in Hort. Med. Camp. 3. Area à Joanne Bocatio records, that one walking in a Gar∣den, plucking a little Sage, therewith rub'd his Gumms and Teeth, and so sell down suddainly dead; which proves that these

kind of Creatures do and can infect Hearbs and Fruits by their breath, spettle and urine, as was shewed before. But over and above the former symptoms many of the Learned, write, such as are affected, or poysoned any manner of way by this Creature, are mo∣lested with a ••eaverish distemper, the ex∣ternall parts become inflamed, the sperm to shed of its own accord, the Hair, and sometimes the Teeth fall out; the Mouth and breath stinks, the breath is short, and drawn with great difficulty.

In Curatione nota quod Rubetae venenum si ore sumptum sit, ut vomitu quamprimum reijciatur, Curandum. Hinc, ut alias etiam, quocun{que} modo in Corpus admissum sit, Theriaca vel Mithridatium Tribus Diebus Continuis, Cum decocto rutae vel vino exhi∣bendum: vinum meracum Copiose propinan∣dum; motus vehemens aegro imperandus, sudor Copiosus aliquoties in Balneo provocan∣dus, aeger{que} Aqua Calida abluendus. Qui cum è balneo egreditur, de speciebus diacurcumae, Dialaccae, Diarhod. Abbat. Trochisc. De Erupator. De Rhaburbar. aliquid sumat, vel ex his cum Conserv. Capil. Veneris, Diacoro, et syrup. Byzantino. Fiat Electuarium, de quo quoudie bis, hora una ante Cibum ʒij. vel iij. exhibeantur; vel testudinis marinae san∣guis,

Cum Leporis Coagulo cum Cumino ex vino praebeatur. Cutis sputo vel urina Ru∣betae inquinata mox Lavetur urina huma∣na, vel aqua et sale; Postea{que} Ol. Vit••l. Ovor. Vel Rosaceo illinatur.

Frogs likewise are often times pernitious, by their quality and cold juyce which they yeild to such as eat them, dilating it self into all the Body, put••efying and corrupting the good humours,* 1.32 perverting and de∣stroying the healthiest constitution, and in∣toxicating such as eat them, if we may be∣lieve Andreas Baccius, in Prolegomenis ve∣nenorum et Antidotorum pag. 38. & 39. It likewise hath been known to extinguish, and suffocate natural heat; Nay Paraeus, Lib. 21 De Venenis, Cap. 24. Affirmes that Frogs in the moneth of May are ranke poyson; Wherefore not fit to be eaten at that time of the year above all others; And his rea∣son is, because they then ingender with Toads.

The Cure is the same as you have heard but now of them.

SECTION IV. Of the Araneus and other sort of Spiders, and their Antidotes, Tarantula, &c.

ARaneus, a Spider so called; whether all Spiders are poysonous, I shall not here dispute; that some are, all Physicians and the Learned affirm. Especially, 1. That sort of Spider which is called Rhagium being in shape round in colour black, whose bite is as painfull as the sting of a Scorpion; Its Mouth is under the midst of its belly. 2. That which is called Mymecion, in colour like∣wise black, but in form somewhat resembling an Ewnet, especially about the head, but somewhat a larger Creature, and having whitish streakes, or spots towards the back. 3. That which is termed Lupus or the Woolt Spider. 4. That sort which is denominated Vesparium, because setting aside the wings, it much resembles a Waspe, but is of a reddish colour. 5. That which is known by the ap∣pellation of Tarantula, so called as Mathi∣olus notes Comment ad Lib. 2. Cap. 57. Dioscorid. from the City Tarantus in Apu∣lcia, about which, in Summer time, there used to be multitudes; Others think it hath ••s name from its effects, because such are stung or bitten thereby, do perpetually sing

or delight in Musick, or racher, are cured by Musick, or yet rather, by dancing and leap∣ing about, occasioned by the Musick, So e∣vapourating the virulency of the venome by sweat. These sive forts of Spiders, among o∣thors, are by all. Authours accounted poy∣sonous, more especially. To insist upon e∣very one distinctly, and apart, would be too teadious, at this time, or to particularise all that Authours have recorded of them; Wherefore, in brief, know, that such as are either bitten by any of the four former, or have accidentally swallowed any of them, are usually molested with these fol∣lowing symptomes. The part affected will be seised on with a stupor, with horrour and cold, the belly is filled with wind and swells, the face growes pale, the eyes drop tears in∣voluntarily, the extream and remote parts of the Body tremble, and are, in a manner, convulst, a continuall inclination and desire to evacuate by urine followes them▪ the pri∣vy part is extended and pained, if the party be young; relaxed, if old; a cold sweat uni∣versally possesseth them, and, sometimes, they void by urine some what like unto a Spider.

In Cura••ione, nota, Si morsu Araneus nocuerit; saepius spongia Calido Accto, aut

Aqua Salsa abluendus. vel Decocto Maluae, Origani, Serpilli, aliorum supra commemo∣ratorum madida fovendus. Inprimis lau∣dat Monardus, lib. simpl. novi or bis, cap. 62. Lac è foliis ficus manans instillatum utile etam ad ictum Araneae percanae Cataplasma∣ta quo{que} ictui imponenda patari possunt è foliis Lauri, Ruta, Porro, Farina Hordeac••a, cum Aceto C••ct••s. Prodest etiam Allium et Caepas Contusas. Stercus item Caprinum cum vino, ut & ficus pingues imponere. Si∣mulquisurpentur Theriaca et Methridatium, item Alaexipharmaca supra proposita, aeger{que} in Balneo saepius sudet. Allium etiam frae∣quentius comedat; vinum{que} liberalius bibat. Si vero Aranaeus intra Corpus sumptus fuerit, Cura à vomitorio Auspicanda. Ut, ℞. Radic. Esulae, Asari, Ana. ʒij. Flor. Anethi Genistae, An. Pug. j. Coq in Aqua pura, Col. ℞ ℥v. Adde Mellis ʒj. Fiat vomitorium. Post vo∣initum offerenda Alexipharmica, quibus sumptis aeger vel in lecto sese ad indorem componat, vel, puod melius, baseing redi∣atur & Copiose sudet. Utilis est hic Ther∣acae ʒij. pondere, Cum Aqua Cardini bene∣••i••••i, Scordii, aut vino al••o sumpta. Contra Aran••i veuenum laudatur medicamentum sequens. ℞. ••ol. Scordii, Menthae, Rutae, Cupressi, An. M. j. Sem. Errsae, Anisi. 4. Ca∣lidor

minor An. ʒj. Coq. in s q. vini, Colaturae quotidie bis, manè & vesper••, ℥iiij. propinen∣tur, donec corporis tumor evanescat. Vel ℞. Asae faetidae, ʒiij. Myrrhae, Allij, Piperis, Castor••i, An. ʒss. F. Pulvis pro 4. Dossibus, qui exhibeatur cum vino. Antequam aeger balneum, quod quotidie fere, cum magna in hoc Casu ejus vis sit, repetendum ingrediatur.

Touching the Tarantula and the symp∣tomes following upon its bite, should I enumerate what is recorded by the Learned, it would seem incredulous, and altogether fabulous. Wherefore, in short, not to insist on every Circumstance, such as are bitten by Of the Tarantula this kind of vermin, are and its Antidotes. affected with intollerable pain in the part offended, causing it to swell and putrefie, the Body is universally seised with cold, and wind, especially the belly: Virgae in quibusdam erectio et priapismus, an universall nu••ness over all the parts, trembling, and a Convulsion and resolution of the members, so that even the youngest and strongest Bodies, are, thereby, soon dejected; a generall pain possesses the Arteries, Depravation of the voice, over∣watchings, Vertigo, Dilirium, rednesse of the eyes, and an universall cold sweat

captivateth thē, &c. which are more, or less, according to the nature and temper of the party; For, as Wine maketh some laugh, some cry, some melancholly, some madd, &c. that are thereby intoxicated; so doth the bite and venome of this Creature cause some to sing, others to laugh, a third sort to weep, a fourth to rejoyce, a fifth to sleepe, a 6. to awake, a seventh to vomit all they take in, an eighth to dance, an ninth to sweat, a tenth to tremble, an eleventh to be passion∣ate; Others, other wayes; as, to be phrantick, swound, to rave and the like: and which is more, if they hear any Musick they immediately fall a dancing, although, before, they lay as if they were dead, and if the Musick chance to cease, they immediat∣ly fall down in the like stupidity they were before; as the aforequoted Mathiolus in Loco Citato Contends. For further informa∣tion in this matter. Consult Nicander, Pau∣lus Aeginetius, Aetius, Cornelius Celsus, Aviceunas, Rhases, Epiphanius Ferdinandus, and others. Praeterea, à Tarantula morsi qui∣dam circa sepulchra versantur, et in feretris mortuorum cubant, virgines obscaenas partes ostendunt, evellunt sibi crines: Alij pensiles in cunis moveri, Alij terra obrui cupiunt; Nonnulli etam alios morsu impetunt: magna

quo{que} appetentia laborant, praecipuè dum sal∣ant, variis coloribus delectantur, & si quem colorem aversantur, eum, qui veste ••o colore infecta indutus est, insectantur; Aquam ab∣horrent, Vinum bibunt, & merum ••tiam potum ••os non inebriat, & alia admiranda patiuntur. All which is to be referred to occult qualities & causes both in relation to the place, viz. Apulcia (although some to shew their wit, will affirm it to be chiefly more incident to that place then any other, because of the heat, when other places that are hotter are free) as also to the nature of the poyson to work so many strange, and various effects in people, when other poysons work the like effects in all parties; and to conclude, that Musick should be the instrument of so re∣markable a Cure, &c.

In Curatione danda opera, ne venenum in Corpus penetret, sed••statim ò Corpore extrahatur; deinde ut per interna medica∣menta 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Corpore expellatur. Ad praeser∣vandum (ut & ad curandum) commendatur Anchusa comesta, & decoctum ejus potum, Artemisia, Allium, Bolus Armenus, Theri∣aca, & Antiphalangium, quod postea pro∣ponetur in Curatione. Deinde si quis à Phalangis morsus sit, curandum, ne venenum ad interiora penetret, sed sta••im ad exteriora

revocetur, & è Corpore extrahatur, eo modo ut antea saepius dictum. Deinde ut venenum à partibus interioribus repellatur; Ut ℞. Flor. Rutae sicc. Costi, Mentastri, Pyrethri, Ana Part. aequales, Asae faetidae. Par tem quar∣tam ad pondus omnium, Mellis, q. sufficient. Fiat Electuarium. Dosis ʒj. Epiphanius Ferdinandus, qui dilligēs fuit in observandis ijs, quae circa demorsos à Tarantulis evene∣runt, quin{que} remedia experientiâ comprobata commendat. Primum est Aqua Vitae, seu spir. vini. Cum enim omnes Autores ad Curandos Tarantatos vinum commendent: multo magis spirit. vini utilis erit, qui feli∣cissimè ab ℥j. ad ℥iij. pro ratione aetatis ex∣hibetur. Secundum est, Quinta essentia Rorismarini, quae ipsa etiam contra ictus Tarantulae prodest. Tertius, Aqua vitalis ejusdem, quae ita paratur; ℞. Flor. Citran∣guli, boni quantitat. fol. tenerorum quereus, Cardui benedict. Scabiosae, Acetosell. Souchi, Salviae, Majoranae, Flor. Lavenduiae, Ab∣sinthij, Rorismarini, Tussilaginis, Rosar. Rubor. Scorzonerae, Melissae, Pimpinellae, Boraginis, Fol. Arbuti, Lenticularis, Rutae, Ana M.iiij. Cyperi nostrat. Radic. Angelicae, Baccar. Lauri, Juniperi, Cortic. Citri, Tor∣mentillae, Zedoariae, An. ℥j. Cinamom. Cary∣oph. Ana ℥ss. Distillentur in Balneo, Quar∣tum

est. Electuarium Antiphalangium, quod omnia ferè simplicia contra Tarantulae, morsū Cōmendata côplectitur: ut ℞. Fruct. Myrti. Tamarisci, Ana ℥j. Sem. Pastinacae, Nigell. Agni Casti, Danci, Anisi. Cymius, Origani, Ana ʒj. Terrae Sigillatae, Beli Ar∣meni orient. praeparat. Ana ʒij. Centaur. n••inor. Aristolech. rotund. Ana ʒss. Fol. Meliss. Trifolij, Bituninosi, Chamipisyos abrot. Ana P. ss. Theriac. opt. Mithridat. Ana ʒj. ss. succ. Caepar. Allii, Plantaeginis, Atriplicis, Haederae depurator. Ana q. l. Cum Melle fiat è succis syrupus, in quo fiat Electuarium, Addendo spir. vini, q. s. Dossis ʒj. ss. ad ʒiij. Cum vino. In praeservatione ʒj. Verum nullum certius remedii genus est, quam Musica; ut enim side digni Autores. Sed Pena & Lobelius in Adversariis stirpium, Pag. 320. Valde Laudant medicamentum sequens. ℞. muscarū quae pastum ceperint de Napello xx. Aristolochiae, Boli Armeni, Ana ʒj. Item praestat contra omnes Epidemicos morbos. Dosis ʒi.

SECTION V. Of Pini Erucae and its Antidotes.

AND Lastly, Pini Erucae, a kind of worm so called which the Learned have esteemed as very noxious and vene∣mous, offending three manner of wayes, 1. By its bite. 2. By its touch upon any na∣ked part, causing the part bitten or roughly touched, to swell, ach, grow red and fiery, as also to putrefie. 3. By being accidentally swallowed or taken into the Body, and then the palate of the Mouth, Tongue, and all other parts of the Mouth, Likewise the Stomach, Intestines, &c. Are affected with intollerable paines, inflammation, and ex∣traordinary heat over all the Body, &c.

Parti Erucae morsu aut attritu laesae reme∣dio sunt Caepae, Aceto tritae, Ruta item cum Melle et Sale trita, vel cum Aceto et Pice Cocta et Imposita. Intra Corpus assumptae Erucae, quamprimum vomitu reijcienda sunt, & si jam ad intestina descenderin••, Cly∣steribus eluendae. Et ut veneni bujus acri∣monia retundatur, Propinandum Lac Capri∣num,

vel emulsio è sem. 4. frigid. major, Amygdall. Dulc. Sem. Papav. Albi, cum Aqua Hordei parata. Aeger comeda•• Ory∣zam cum Lacte Caprino Cectam; Cremorem Ptisanae, Amygdal. dulces, Juseula pinguta, Antidotus Erucarum Pini, est Terra Lem∣nia, et Corallia rubra praeparata, Cum Mucilag. Sem. Cydoniorum, exhibitae, &c.

And thus have I, as brief as may be, gi∣ven you the Names, Natures, Symptomes, Prognosticks, and Antidotes, of all poysons belonging to Mineralls, Vegetables, and Animalls. Qui Monet, Amat, Ave, & Cave.

FINIS.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Poyson doth not act by divers qua∣lities.
• * 1.2

  Antidotes a∣gainst Mercu∣ry received in fume.
• * 1.3

  Of Preci∣pitate Mercu∣ry, and its Antidotes.
• * 1.4

  Of Mercurius sublimate, and its Anti∣dotes.
• * 1.5

  De Gypso, or of Mortar and its Antidotes.
• * 1.6

  Of Hemlock, and its An∣tidotes.
• * 1.7

  Of Rew and its Antidotes
• * 1.8

  Of the Tam∣meride-Tree, Juniper. and Baxana, with their Anti∣dotes.
• * 1.9

  Of Pruna Insania, Nux Metella, and its Autidores.
• * 1.10

  Plato in Phaedon.
• * 1.11

  Of Poysoned Hony, and its Antidotes.
• * 1.12

  Of Mushroomes, and their Anti∣dotes.
• * 1.13

  Why Doggs are mad, or more adict∣ed there∣unto then any other Creature.
• * 1.14

  How the Poyson of a Mad Dogg is communicated to Man or Beast.
• * 1.15

  Of the time when the ef∣ects appears.
• * 1.16

  Whether that Poyson which causeth this madness may be ge∣nerated in Mans Body.
• * 1.17

  Of the nature of this Poyson, and why such as are af∣fected abhor water, and all other liquid things.
• * 1.18

  Signes of such as are bitten by a Mad Dogg.
• * 1.19

  Of the Cure in generall of the bite of a Mad Dogg, Serpent, or other venamous Creature.
• * 1.20

  Of the Cure of the bite or Poyson of a Mad Dogg.
• * 1.21

  Arcadia Rege, quem a ••ove in Lupum ob sua s••elera mutatum ••inxit.
• ‖ 1.22

  Anima e∣nim huma∣na non po∣test infor∣mare Cor∣pus brutū, nec anima Lupi, Cor∣pus huma∣nuin; Cum quaelibet forma cer∣tam, a•• sibi convementi modo dispo∣sitam, & peculiarem requirat materiam.
• * 1.23

  Cur au∣tem hic sanguis sit venenosus, percontabe∣ris? Respon∣det Marti∣nus Ru∣landus, lib. 1. Pross. Medicophy. 253.
• * 1.24

  ••••••••i re••••••er jug•••• ni sangumem ep••••um 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••••s••••n esse, v••terii & ju••io∣rum vn••ni∣••••s senten••¦tia sirmat, ex cujus ••∣su Difficul∣tas spiran∣di, distentio ne••v••ram, fau••••u•••• prae••lus••••, lingua ••u∣bor••, ••••••••wn nigr•••••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 alia 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sympt••••••∣ta subj••∣q••••ntar.
• * 1.25

  Of the Fly ••••∣p••estis, and us Antid••tes.
• ‖ 1.26

  Est enim Bazil scus ommum Serpentum venenatis∣simus, unde procul du∣bio etiam nemen ac∣cepit.
• * 1.27

  Ceterum dari Bazi∣liscum Serpentem negari non potest, cum à tot. Au∣toribus de∣scribatur.
• ‖ 1.28

  See Sect 1. Subsect. 3. Memb. 3. This relates to a Book in Manuscript, which al∣though it was intended first for the press, yet this like Pharez hath brokeno••t first.
• † 1.29

  A reli∣quas Ser∣pentibus duobus diff••••t; P••••num est, qu•••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 rel••••ui ser∣pentes eva pariant, Viperae vivum faetum exd••dunt, nen quod & nonnulli ex Aristotele, lib••••-De Hist. Animal. Cap. ult. Male inteliecto exist mant, vent••e matris perforate nas••••tur cum so•••••• membranis, quibus m••••lvi••ur, corrosis prod••at. Altetum est, quod Aristoteles, lib. 8. Hist. Animal. Cap. 15. Se••bit; Caeten serpentes Hy••me in terra V••••e a in saxis latet.
• * 1.30

  Of the Sea-Ray, or Pastinaca, and its Antidotes.
• † 1.31

  Nullum enim vene∣natum ferè est animal, quod vene∣ni sui An∣tipharma∣cum in se non contineat: duplex autem Antipharmaci genus est, Antipathia & similitudo substantiae, ut Hepar venenatorum Anima∣lium vulneri impositum similitudine substantiae venenum retrabit maxime{que} confert ea parte, qua fel continetur: Carnes vero impo∣sitae idem praestant per Antipathiam, ut Viperarum caro morsui Viperarum medetur. Terrenus Scorpius totus ictibus suis re∣medium est. Sie Mullus, Marini Draconis, Aranei ac Scorpionis morsibus medetur, si crudus dissectus admovetur, Autore DI∣OSCORIDE, Lib. 2. Cap. 25.
• * 1.32

  Of Froggs and their Antidotes.