Ptåochopharmakon, seu Medicamen miseris, or Pauperum pyxidicula salutifera. Help for the poor collected for the benefit of such as are not able to make use of physitians and chiurgians, or live remote from them. Also an appendix concerning letting blood in the smallpox. By Robert Pemel, physitian of Crane-brook in Kent.

Against the Piles or Hemor∣rhoides.

TAke two handfuls of Pilewort, roots and all, bruise it and add two or three ounces of Hoggs-grease, boyl them gently together, then strain it and anoint therewith: also boyl Pile-wort in Beer or water, and drink a good draught of it morning and even∣ning.

Or,

Take burnt Muscle-shells in fine pow∣der half an ounce, Saffron in powder thirty grains; mix them with Honey, and anoint with it.

Or,

Beat the yolk of an egge and some Sallet oyl, or oyl of Roses, together with some Saffron and Spread it on Leather, lay it to the place affected.

Or,

Take Melilot, Fenegreek, and Lin∣seed, of each a like quantity; bruise them and mix therewith the white of an egge, make a Poultess, and lay it to the Piles.

Or,

Take an Onion well rosted in the Embers, bruise it, and add thereto meal or powder of Fenegreek, Linseed, and Camomil flowers, as much as sufficeth; put also a little Butter and Saffron to it; make a Poultis and apply it.

Or,

Take the fat of a Hen and mix therewith the yolk of an egge, Saffron and oyl of Roses. Lay it on.

Or,

Take two ounces of Doggs-dung in fine powder, four ounces of common oyl or Lin-seed-oyl, boyl them gently together, then add two or three ounces of wax, and make an oyntment.

Or,

Take oyl of Violets (washed in Violet water) and fresh-Butter wash∣ed of each one ounce, of Lin-seed-oyl half an ounce, with the yolk of an egge, and the fore-mentioned, make an oynt∣ment.

Or,

Take Elder leaves and boyl them in water till they be very tender; with this bathe the Fundament warm, and lay on the leaves with a piece of Cot∣ten

dipped first in the bath.

Or,

Take two ounces of oyntment of Roses, one ounce and a half of Popu∣leon oyntment, the yolk of one egge, of Opium thirty grains; mix them to∣gether, and anoint therewith.

Or,

Take one ounce of Linseed-oyl, and two or three Plantain leaves, stamp them, and being gently boyled toge∣ther, apply it. This doth ease pain.

Or,

Take Henbane leaves and Purslain, cut them small, then take crums of white Bread and boyl them all in Milk, till they be soft, add also the yolk of a hard roasted egge and oyl of Roses. Apply it to the Fundament.