Physical rarities containing the most choice receipts of physick, and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases incident to mans body. Being a rich jewell, kept in the cabinet of a famous doctor in this nation; stored with admirable secrets, and approved medicines. Published by Ralph Williams, practitioner in physick and chyrurgerie.

Medicines for the Nose.

For a fleshy humor growing in the Nose, or for a bottle Nose.

TAke of the Powder of Dragagant with a little Honey, and make a Tent thereof, and introduce it into your Nose, or Nostrills, or take the Juice of Black Ivy, with a little Cotton, and make a Tent, and put it in your Nostrills.

For bleeding at Nose.

TO restrict the Blood which doth flow out of a mans Nose, let him smell to a Hogs Tird, and lay his Stones, and Cods in Vineger. If it be a Woman, let her lay her breasts in Vineger, or else exhaust an Ounce or more of Blood out of a Vein called Cephalica.

For stinking of the Nose.

TAke Cloves, Ginger, and Calamints, of each alike, and seeth them in white Wine, and therewith wash thy Nose, and after put in Powder of Pierimonie to provoke sneesing: Also if the cause of thy stinking come from thy Sto∣mach, first help thy Stomach, as shall be said in the Remedies for the Stomach.

A singular Medicine to stop blood.

TAke Swines Dung, as hot as you may have it from the Swine, & when you have cleansed the congeal'd Blood out of the Nose, wring it through a Cloth, and let that juice pierce into the side, from whence the Blood cometh, and by the Grace of God it shall stanch anon. Moreover it is good to bind the Feet and Arms, as hard as can be suf∣fered with a Cord or Lace, the stronger the bet∣ter. Or take strong Vineger, and put it into the side of the Nostrill that bleedeth; and if they bleed both, put it into both, and it shall stop straight: Or take and bear about thee the herb Appium, o∣therwise called March Smallage, that groweth by the Waters side, and whilest thou bearest the same about thee, thou shalt not bleed, if thou haddest many Wounds.

To kill a Canker in the Nose.

TAke and boil Strong Ale untill it rope, and be like a Salve, then lay it on a plaister of Leather, and lay it on the Nose, and it will heal it: and for stinking Flesh that groweth on the Nose, take and distill Serpentine, called Adders∣tongue, and then put of the same Water with Cotton into the Nostrills where the stinking Flesh is: And against the Imposthumation of the Nose, take and distill Flower de Luce, and lay wet Clothes thereon: also Water of Sowthistles,

called Carduus Benedictus, doth heal the Noli me tangere in the Nose, wet Clothes being laid thereon, and some of the Powder of the same will heal the Nose.

For Pushes and Pimples in the Nose.

TAke the Yolk of an Egge, and bray it with Ceruse, and so anoint your Nose there∣with, and be whole within four or five dayes at the most: or take the Juice of Plantane, and the roots of Burres, and Salt, and Verjuice, and stamp them all together, and strain out the Juice, and therewith wash thy Nose, and it will be whole.

To stop Bleeding at the Nose.

TAke Amber, and burn it in a Chasingdish of Coals, and let the Smoak of it go up into thy Nose, and it will stop Bleeding. A Tailor Bleeding twenty four houres without ceasing, and no Medicine could stay him, at last he took a Skain of black Threed, and put the one end thereof in at the Nostrills, and the other was set on Fire, and when he had received the Smoke in∣to his Nostrills, the great Flux ceased immediately, and he bled no more in a long time after.

Another for the same.

TAke the Root of the great Romane Nettle, and let the Patient chew it in his mouth, and so refresh it with another Root, for this in great need hath been found very saving for staying of the Flux of Blood. And when I could stop the Blood with no manner of Medicine, then I o∣pened a Vein in the Ear, and so let out a good quantity of blood: this is the last Refuge for Bleeding at the Nose.