Wellcome Collection: Bulkeley, Elizabeth (MS.169)

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Of Pellitory of the walle, the temperature.

Pellitory of the wall (as Gallen sayth) hath force to scoure, & is somethinge could & moyste.

The vertue.

Pellitory of the wall boyled & the decoction of it drunken, helpeth such as are vexed with an oulde cough, the gravell & stonne; & is good against the difficultie of makinge water, & stoppinge of the same, not onely inwardly, but also outwardly applied uppon the region of the bladder, in maner of a fomentation or warme bathinge, withe foringe or double clouts or such like.

Dioscorides sayth that the wine tempered with [Serase?] or white lead, maketh a good oyntment against St. Anthonies' fier & the shingles: & mixed with the cerott of Alcanua or with male goats tallow, it helpeth the goute of the feete, which Plinie also affirmeth in his 22. booke 17. Chapter. it is applied sayth he, to the paines of the feete with Goate suet & waxe of Cyprus: wherin Peele of waxe of Cyprus there must be putt the Cerote of Alcamia.

Dioscorides addeth, that the iuice hereof is a remedy for ould coughes, & taketh away hott swellinge of the almonds in the throate if it be [pled?] in a gargarisine or other wyse applied: it mittigateth also the paines in the eares beinge poured in with oyle of roses mixed there with.

It is affymred that if three ounce of the iuise be drunke, it provoketh wrine out of hand. The leaves tempered with oyle of sweete almonde, in manner of a pultus & laid to the paines ptes it is a remedy for them that be troubled with the stone & that can hardly make water.

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The Temperature of Wilde tyme.

Wilde tyme is hot & drye in the third degree: it is of thinne & subtill partes, cutting, & much bytinge.

The vertues.

It bringeth downe the desired sicknes, prouoketh vrine, appied in bathes & fomentations it procureth sweate: beinge boyled in wine, it helpeth the Ague, it easeth the strangurie, it stayeth the [hicket?], it breaketh the stones in the bladder, it helpeth the Lithargie, frensie, & madnes, & stayeth the vomiting of blood. Wilde tyme boyled in wine & drunke, is good against the wamblinge & gripinge of the bellie, ruptures, comvulsions, & inflamations of the liver. it helpeth against the bytinge of any venemous beast, either taken in drinke, or outwardly appied.

AEtius writeth, that [Gerpillim?] infused well in vineger, & then sodden & mingled with rose water, is a right singular remedye to cure them that have had a longe fhrensie or lithargie. Galen prescribeth one dram of the mix'e to be give wi vineger, against the vomitinge of blood & helpeth such as are greaued with the spleene.

If garden tyme the nature of it.

This tyme is hot & drye in the third degree.

The vertues.

Thyme boyled in water & honie & drunken, is good against the cough & shortnesse of the breath, it provoketh vrine, eppeaseth the [secondine?] or after birth, & the dead childe; & dissolveth clotted or congealed blood in the bodye.

The same drunke with vineger & salt, purgeth flegme; & boyled in meade or metheglin, clenseth the brest, lunges, [renies?], & [matries?], & killeth wormes. Made into powder & taken in the waight of three drams with meade or honied vineger called [?], & a litle salt, purgeth by stoole cough & clammie flegme sharpe cholericke humours, & all corruption of blood The same taken in like sorte, is goode a gainst the [?] schratica, the payne in the side & brest, against the winde in the side & bellie, & is proals for such as are fearfull, melancholike, & troubled in mynde.

It is good to be given to those that have the fadinge sickness so to smell unto.

Epithymum, after Galen, is of more effectuall operation in phiscke then tyme, beinge hott & drye in the third degree, more miyhtily clensinge, heatinge, dryinge, & openinge then [?suscuta], have right good effect to eradicate melancholie, or any other humour in the spleene or other disease, [spronge?] by occasion of the [spleec?]. It helpeth the longe, continued paines of the head, & be sides his singular effecte about spleneticall matters; it helpeth the lepry, or any disease of melancholie, or hypochondriaes; all [quarten?] agues, & such like griefes proseeding from the spleene.

Dioscorides sayth Epithymum drunke with honied water, pulleth downe by [seige?] flegme, called pituita

Pituita, and melancholie.

Of his nature proptie it releeceth them which be melancholike, or [?], swollen in the face & other [xtcs?], if you pound Epithymum & take the fine powder thereof in the quantitie of 4 scruples in the liquor which the apothekaries call pa[?], or with Oximell & salte, which taketh away all flatuous humours & ventosities.

The temperature & vertues of Lyssope.

A decoction of Lyssope made with figs, & gargled in the mouth & throte ripeneth & breaketh the tumors & [?]postumes of the mouth & throate, & easeth the difficultie of swallowinge, comminge by could rheumes.

The same made with figs, water, honie, & rue, & drunken, helpeth the inflamation of the lungs, the olde coughe, & shortnes of breath, & the obstructions of the breast or stoppinge of ye brest The sirupe or wine of Lissope taken with the sirupe of vineger, purgeth by stoole tough & clammye flegme, & driveth foorth woormes, if it be eaten with figs.

The distilled water drunke, is good for those diseases before named, but not with that speede, & force.