Tractatus de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus. = A treatise of the nature and qualities of such simples as are most frequently used in medicines,: both purging, and others. Methodically handled, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine tongue. To which is added: many compound medicines for most diseases incident to mankinde: as also two alphabeticall tables, very necessary for the reader. Together with, the explanation of all hard words or termes of art, whereby the vulgar may the better understand it. / By Robert Pemel, practitioner in physick, at Cranebrooke in Kent. Licensed and enterd according to order.

The inward use.

It is excellent against the Diseases of the Braine, Stomach, Heart, Wombe, as in Melancholly, troublesome sleepe, Palsie, Apoplexie,

Falling sicknesse, Swimming of the head, and to revive the fainting heart, falling into swimmings: It is good for a cold stomach and to help digestion, as also among other things for the Plague or Pestilence, and the water thereof is used for the same purposes. It provoketh the courses, helpeth a stinking breath, and good for the rising of the Mo∣ther. A decoction of bawme made in wine and drunke, is good against venome and poyson, helpeth the griping paines of the belly, and is good for them that cannot take their breath, unlesse they hold their necks upright, being taken in a lohock or licking electuary. The sy∣rupe of Bawme is a good cordiall, & strengthneth the heart and sto∣mach, resisteth Melancholly, and is very profitable in burning and contagious Feavers. A Candle made with Eggs and the juyce thereof while it is young, putting some Sugar and Rosewater to it, is often given to womin in Childbed, when the afterbirth is not throughly avoyded, and for their faintings upon or after their sore tra∣vells.