The Juyce of Veal is a good Anodine.
Give Digesters to consume them, and if they prevail not, then Dryers, that bite not, if there be pain.
Or make Cataplasms of Mullein, Clowns-All-heal, Plantane, black Hawkweed, Scabious, Crownwort, Yar∣row, Shepheards rod, Dogs-tongue, Horehound, Leeks, Coleworts bruised or roasted in the Embers, and mixed with Butter or Oyl. Matthiolus commends the Oynt∣ment of Scrophularia.
Or this: Take Lillies two ounces, Orris an ounce, Moullin, Scrophularia, each three handfuls, Flowers of Chamomil, Meli∣lot Dill, St. Johns-wort, each a pugil; Dates ter, with Snails, without shells: boyl them in steeled Water, stamp, and add Foenugreek and Line-seed, each an ounce; Butter two ounces, Myrrh, Frankincense, each two drams; Sassron a dram, yolks of Eggs four, make a Cataplasin.
Or apply roasted Onions, or Leeks, with Oyl of Roses or the like; or with Dragons, or Cuckow pintles, and Oyl, least they burn, or alone, if they may be endured. All these may be mixed with the former Cataplasms.
You may foment with a Spunge, or a Bag, with the de∣coction of the aforesaid, with Dates, and Snails, to nou∣rish, and with such as consume and dry, as Sumach; Bram∣ble, Pomegranate peels and flowers, Galls, Roses, Myr∣tle berries, and the like mentioned in Ulcers of the Neck of the Womb, with steeled water, and red wine.
Or anoint with Oyl of Chamomil, Melilot, Dill, St. Johns-wort, Lillies, Olive, in which are boyled Raddish∣seed, Spurge seeds, or Earth-worms, or Hog-lice, or Sows, or Wood-lice, or Horsleeches, or red Snails without shels, or with Oyl of Bricks.
Or make a Liniment of the Plants mentioned, with Smallage, or Parsley, or Yarrow, Juyces. Or beat them with Turpentine in a leaden Mortar, and wax.
Some fill a hollow Onion with Oyl, and Verdigrease, and roast it, and anoint with the Juyce.
An Oyntment. Take Frankincense, Mastick or Myrrh, each two drams; Bdellium, Lycium, or Juyce of Sumach, or Hypocistis a dram, Saffren a scruple, Mucilage of Fleabane, and Gum Traganth, each half an ounce; a Yolk of an Eg, with Oyl of Roses, make a Liniment. If there be pain, ad a dram of Opium, or Oyl of Henbane seed, which also con∣sumes them.
To dry more, add Ceruss, washt Lead, Litharge, Tutty three drams, the Arabian Stone according to Dioscorides. And in a leaden Morter, with Mucilage, and white Wax, make an Oyntment.
It will be stronger with Vitriol, burnt Allum a dram, Verdigrease, or Rust of Iron a scruple, Camphire half a scruple.
Give a Suppository, or Suet, the Yolk of an Eg, white wax, and a little Opium.
Or make a Fume of the Decoction hot, or take in only the Fume of Moulin boyled, to ease the pain.
Or sprinkle the Pouder of Darnel, Moulin, Scrophu∣laria upon Coals, or hot Bricks, or Iron, and take the Fume to dry. It is better with Brimstone, or with Honey anacardine.
Some say it is good to sit upon a Stool, made of Pine∣tree, and anointed with Oyl.
When a Condyloma comes from un∣clean Copulation without the Pox,
then after purging, and bleeding, and sweating, apply Topicks, as in other malignant Humors. If it be in the Pox, then cure it as the Pox, by purging and sweating, and if they remain, the Disease is not wholly cured, and then use Topicks in the Cure, mixing things that are pro∣per against the pox.
Use the same Topicks to digest and dry, as in the swol∣len Haemorrhoids, especially the strongest, because these are harder, and the pain less, adding stronger Ingredi∣ents.
Also the Cataplasms and Fomentations there mentio∣ned, as Scrophularia, Moulin, Plantane, Bramble, Pelli∣tory, Mercury, Winter-cresses, Savine, Horehound, Mai∣den-hair, Rosemary, Time, Savory, Rue, green and brui∣sed, or boyled with red Wine, or steeled Water, or water and Vinegar, or Lye, and applyed with a Spunge, or Bag•• or ad Roots of five leaved Grass, round Birthwort, and Bay-berries, and other Dryers, as Salt, or Peeter, raw Quinces may be added according to Dioscorides.
Sheeps dung, or Hens dung, with the Gall of a Goat, Soap, and Vinegar mixed, are good.
Or dissolve Tarr, and Ammoniacum in strong Vine∣gar.
Or use the Oyntments for the Piles.
To which add this: Take Juyce of Winter-cresses, Smal∣lage, or Parsley, each an ounce and half; Oyl of Brick two ounces, Bole a dram, with Turpentine make an Oyntment.
Or, Take Oyl of Tartar half an ounce, Lapis Calamina∣ris, Bloodstone, or red Lead two drams.
Or, Take Vine ashes, and Dill ashes, each a dram and an half; Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar a dram, Al∣lum two drams, Bloodstone, or Minium a dram, Galls half a dram, Saffron a scruple, a Yolk of an Eg roasted, Turpentine a dram, with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment.
This is stronger. Take Quick-silver two drams, Turpen∣tine an ounce, Oyl of Nuts two ounces, red Lead two drams, Allum, Vitriol, each a dram; Verdigrease half a dram, with Wax make a Liniment, add a little Sublimate.
A Pouder to dry and consume it. Take round Birth∣wort a dram, dryed Savine two drams, Ashes of Hermodacts, and Myrobalans, each a dram and half; Allum a dram, red Vitriol half a dram, red Orpiment a scruple, with Opium, and Mandrake roots make a Pouder.
Or use Sublimate boyled in Water, or Oyl of Vitriol, or of Antimony.
A caustick Oyl to consume the Condyloma, Fistula, Scro∣phulus, and any Excrescens of Flesh without pain. Take Oyl of Bricks, Mastick, and Gum Arabick the best, and Tur∣pentine, each three ounces; distil them in a Glass Alembick, and mix the first Water with Ashes of Ivy, and still it again, keep the Water.
Fumes taken in, do dry up a Condyloma, such as we mentioned for the Ulcers of the Nose. Chiefly of Cinna∣bar, as in the French Pox.
Somtimes they are cut off, when they are hard, as warts, or if they be long, they are tyed with Hair or Thread to rot.
Inflammation in the Fundament a∣lone, or with Piles, or Condyloma,
is cured as other Inflammations in Wo∣mens privities, and if it turn to an Ul∣cer, as an Ulcer.
Therefore we let blood in the Ham, to derive and cup to revel and derive, when we fear a Flux to the part.
We loosen the Belly that the Excrements may not hurt. Clysters are not easily given.
We alter with cold and moist Diet and Medicine. Dio∣scorides commends the Water of Lens palustris to be drunk.
VVe use Anodines at the first, because the part is very sensible of pain, and we cool without binding much, least the part should be exasperated, with things against piles mentioned, that ease pain, and slupesie, and cool, as Oyntments, Baths, Fomentations, Cataplasms.
A cool Oyntment. Take Juyce of Purslane, Plantanc, Groundsoyl, each three ounces, Mucilage of Fleabane an ounce, the Yolk of an Eg roasted, with Oyl of Roses, and Violets,
A Pultis: Take Comfrey roots, Althaea roots, each an ounce; Plantane, Moulin, Groundsoyl, Sowthistle, each a handful; Melilot flowers, and Roses, each a pugil; Faenu∣greek and Line-seed, each half an ounce; boyl and stamp them, add Flower of Lentils a pugil, Oyl of Willows, Roses, and Violets, each an ounce; Saffron a dram.
In the end, use Discussers, and if Hardness appear, Softners, and consume the reliquies as in other Inflam∣mations.