Wellcome Collection: Bulkeley, Elizabeth (MS.169)

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A boke of hearbes and receipts.

A boke of hearbes and receipts.



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The temperature & vertues of Ledge Lyssop

Ledge Lyssope is hott & dry of temperature.

The vertues.

Who so taketh but one scruple of Gratiola bruysed, shall _ceave evidently his effectuall operation & vertue, in purging mightily, & that in greate abundance, watrish, grosse, & slimiye humors. Conradus Gesneras experimented this, & founded it to be true, & so have I my selfe & many otheres.

Gratiola boyled, & the decoctio drunke or eatenn with any kinde of meate, in manner of a sallad, openeth the bellye, & causeth notable loosenes, & to flowre freely, & by that meanes purgeth grosse flegmes, & cholerike humors.

Gratiola, of Ledge Lyssope boyled in wine & given to drinke, helpeth feuers of what sorte soever & is most excellent in dropsies, & such like diseases proceedinge of could & watery caughes. The extraction given with the powder of cinamom & a litle of th iuce of salaminte prevaileth against tertian & quotidian feuers, sett downe for most certaine by the learned Joachimus Camerarius.

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Of Lavander Spike, the temperature.

Lavander is hot & drye, & that in the third degree, & is of a thinn substance, consistinge of many airie & spirituall ptes. Therefort it is good to be given any way against the diseases of the head, & espetially those which have theire originall or beginninge not of a bundance of humors, but cheifely of a qualitie onely.

The Vertues.

The distilled water of Lavander smelt unto, or the temples and forehead bathed therwith, is a refreshinge to them that have the Catalepsie, a light migrane, & to them that have the fallinge sicknes, & that [?] to soone much. But when there is a bundance of humors, espetiallly mixed with blood, it is not then to be [?] safely, neither is the composition to be taken, which made of distilled wine: in which such kinde of herbes, flowers, or seeds, & certayne spices are infused or steeped, though most men do rashly & att adventure give them without makinge any difference at all for by [dosinge?] such hot thinge that fill & stuffe the head, both the disease is made greater & the sicke also brought into danger, espetially when letting of blood, or purging have not gone before. This much by way of admonition, because every where divers rash & overbold Apothecaries, & other foolish weomen, do by & by give such compositions, & others of the like kinde, not onely to those that have the Apoplexie; but also to those that

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that cannot sleepe, & have also an ague; to whom they cann give nothinge worse, seeinge those things doe very much hurte, & oftentymes bringe death it selfe.

The flowers of lavander picked from the [knapp?], I meane the blew [?], & not the huske, mixed with cinamom, nutmeg, & cloves made into powder, & given to drinke in the distilled water there of, doth helpe the pantinge & passion of the harte, prevaileth against gideinesse, turninge or swimminge of the braine & members subiect to the palsey.

Conserve made of the flowers with suger, profiteth much against the disease aforesaid if the quantatie of a beane be taken therof in the morninge fastinge.

It profiteth much that have the palsie, if they be washed with the distilled water of the flowers, or annoynted with the oyle made of the fflowers & oyle olive, in such manner as oyle of roses, which shalle expresed in the treatise of roses.

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The temperature of Gromell. [] The seede of Gromell is hott & drie in the second degree:.

The vertues.

The seede of Gromell [pownd?], & drunke in white wine, breaketh dissolueth & dryweth foorth the stone & provoketh urine & espetially breaketh the stone in the Bladder.

The vertues of Dodder

Dodder remooveth the stoppinge of the lyver [melt?] or spleene, it disburtheneth the veines of flegmaticka, choloricke, crrupt & supfluous humors pvoketh the veine gently, & in a meane openeth kidnes, crureth the yellow ius [?] which are ioyned with the stoppinge of the lyver & gaule, it a remedie against crmpt & longe [terticens?], quartians also, & proplye agues in Infante & yonge children, as Mesues sayth in Cerapio; who also teacheth, the nature of dodder is to purge cholen by the stoole, & that more effectually if it have worme woode ioyned with it; but too much usinge of it, is hurt full to the stomacke: yett Auicon writeth that it doth not hurt it, but strengtheneth a weake or feeble stomacke; which opinion allso we do better allow of. Epithimum, or the dodder which groweth upon tyme, is hotter & dryer then the dodder that groweth upon claye, that is to saye, even in the third degree

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As Galen saith It helpeth all the infirmities of the melte: it is a remedie against obstructions & & hard wemine swellinge: it taketh a waye ould head aches, the fallinge sicknesse, mad nesse that cometh of melancollie, & espetially that which proceedeth from the spleene & pts therabout: it is good for those that have the ffuewe disease, & such as be troubled with contagious ulcers, the leprosie, & the scabbie [euill?]. It purgeth downewarde blacke & melancholicke humours, as Aetius, Actuarius, & Mesues write; & also plegme as Dioscorides noteth: that like wyse purgeth by stoole which groweth upon Gavorie & Scabius, but more weakely, as Actuarius sayth. Suscuta, or dodder that groweth upon [thape?] boyled in water or wines drunke, openeth the stoppinge of the liver, the bladder, the gaule, the wilt the kidneies & penies, purgeth both by seige & [brwe?] cholericke humours.

Its good against the Ague that hath continude alone tyme, & against the iaundise, I meane that dodder espetially that groweth upon brambles.

Epuirtica, or dodder growinge upon netles, is a most singular & effectuall medicine to pvoke urine, & to loose the obstructions of the bodye, & is pred ofen tymes in the [wet pts?] to have good successe against any maladies.

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