the Gout or Palsy, of whatsoever Cause they come, and it will be helped.

41. Seeth Ivy, Mugwort, Walwort, and the Inner Rind of Elder, in Water with much Salt, and bathe therewith any Sciatica twice or thrice a day, for eight or nine days together, and the Party grieved will assuredly be made whole.—I had this out of an old written book, wherein were many excellent things.

42. If you sprinkle the Powder of Saffron round about the Wick upon the Oil in a fair green and bright lamp of Glass, and let the same burn, so that there be none other light in the chamber, it will so beautify all things in the same place with a fair Yellow Colour. You may prove it by any other colour likewise.

43. There is nothing better to draw forth Thorns, Pricks, or any thing whatsoever, in any parts of the body wheresoever it be, than Black Soap applied to the place, letting the same lie thereto about twelve hours, without removing of the

same.

44. A certain noble Matron in Spain had a strong imagination of a great Ethiopian painted in her chamber with others, in the time of the act of Generation; which Lady afterwards was delivered of a Boy like to the great Ethiopian painted before named; which Child being born, every one believed that she had lain with some one of the Slaves of the Saracens, for that the Child was like neither of the Parents. Whereupon the Ministers of Justice, with consent of her Husband and others, did decree that she should be burned after the month's end. But before the ministration of this justice or execution, certain Wise Men were called, when one desired that he might see the place where the Child was begot, which when he had seen, he considered that Generation was by the strength of the imaginative virtue: and then he said, that great Ethiopian was the Father of the Child, bringing, for the confirmation, that place of the Bible where Jacob put Speckled Rods before the Sheep, by which imagination the Ewes brought forth Speckled Lambs, which when he had spoken, the Lady was delivered from burning. Wherefore, as I have written in other places of this book, Men ought not rashly to mislike their Wives having none other occasion) because their Children are unlike to their Parents; for, as you see here, and in Jacob's Lambs, Imagination is of marvellous force in the time of Generation, which doth not only work in Men but in Beasts.—Ganivetus writes this history, who, as it should seem, hath it out of Lyra. 45. Ifa Woman that is too much weakened with her monthly Courses, doth cast the same, or let the same run into a Hole made into the Ground with a three-square Stake (the same Stake immediately after being put or driven into the same

Hole, and so remain therein unremoved,) her Flux will stay or cease, being thought before to be incurable. An honest Woman revealed this strange secret to me, which proved the same to be true; and she learned it of a Woman that required alms of her at the door.

46. The Leaves of Docks do loose the Belly and make one laxative; but the Seeds being taken, do bind and are restrictive.

47. If Wine has taken any Tartness or Sourness, take a Pot filled with good Water, and let it be well covered, then set the same Pot in the Wine, so that the Pot stand under or within the Wine, and at the three days' end, if the Wine have gotten its former strength, the Water will smell, and then the Wine will like thee.

48. A piece of Raw Beef, not too thick nor too thin, being laid or steeped all night before in good Aqua Composita, and applied to the Temples of the Forehead, without removing all night, and doing it three or four nights, doth help the Watering and Pains in the Eyes, and all Distillations and Rheums that come from the Head or Brain.-One told me this, who had often proved it to be most true, as a great secret.

49. An Egg laid on a Thursday, and emptied and filled with Salt, and set in the Fire, remaining there until it may be made into Powder, and then Cankered Teeth rubbed with the Powder thereof, it both kills the Canker and the Worms that eat the Teeth, and destroys them.-Proved.

50. This following will destroy Ringworms, Tetters, and Scales in the Hands. Take White Copperas, the quantity of two beans, and put it into a pint of Clear Water, till it be dissolved and melted, and with the Water wash the Place or Hands, till they be whole.-Proved.

51. Stamp Parsley in White Wine, then strain it well, and drink a good draught thereof, and it will cause thee to make Water and break the Stone. Use it five or six timesProved.

52. A little piece of the Navel String of a Child that is newly born, enclosed in a Ring, and so borne that it may touch the flesh or bare skin, is a pure help and remedy against the great pains and torments of the Cholic.-Mizaldus.

53. For the Piles. Take Black Wool and Black Soap, and bind it thereto; or Brown Paper alone helps.

54. A present remedy for an Ague. Two ounces of Bay Salt, two ounces of White Frankincense, and a handful of Smallage, beaten together, and laid to the Wrist of the Hand, two hours before the fit doth come.

THE Water wherein the Leaves of Plantain that grows close to the ground, and near the root, is sod, being drank twice every day, morning and evening, first and last, half a pint at a time, for the space of four or five days, helps perfectly all Griefs and Diseases of the Bladder.-A true medicine, and often proved.

2. A notable Water for the breaking of the Stone. Take of the Juice of Saxifrage two pounds; of the Juice of Gromel, and of the Juice of Parsley, of cach one pound; of the Juice of Betony, of the Juice of Nettles, and of Ramsins, of each half a pound; of strong Wine Vinegar, ten ounces; of the Flowers and Seeds of Broom, and of the Roots of Radish, of each two handfuls: stamp the last rehearsed well, then mix the same with all the Juices before mentioned, and thereof distil a Water, with a gentle fire; of which Water give to them that have the Stone, one ounce at one time, with Oximel Diuretic (which you may have at the Apothecaries',) using the same nine or ten times (if need be,) and it will break and void the Stone wonderfully.-There cannot be a better medicine for the Stone, prove it when you will.

3. In the island of Ireland and Orcades, in certain places there, be certain Trees much like unto Willow Trees, out of which come forth certain little Hairs, increasing by little and little into Birds, having shapes of Ducks, hanging upon the boughs by their nibs or bills; and when they are come to perfectness, they fly away by themselves, or fall into the next seas, which Birds we call Barnacles.-This is related by the people that doth dwell there.-Mizaidus.

4. If one be bewitched of any, put Quicksilver into a Quill, and stop it, or else into a hollow Nutshell, inclosed fast with Wax, and lay the same under the Pillow of the Party bewitched, or under the threshold of the Door where he enters into the house or chamber.

5. Betony stamped aud made into a plaster, and laid to the Eyes, and if they be washed with the Water wherein Betony is sodden, they will be whole without dimness or blemish; and if you dink a drachm of the Powder of Betony, with the

Water of Betony, it will bring down and heal the cloudiness and bloodiness of the Eyes; and if Betony be beaten, it drieth up the tears of the Eyes.-All this, and more, hath been proved of Betony.

6. A marvellous cure of a Woman that was Swoln, done by one John Arden, who did see a certain Woman at Newarke, whose whole body was certainly Swoln, and also the face, neck, and legs, who did lie as though she were half dead, to whom I gave the Roots of a Daffodil stamped, and mixed with Water and Saffron, which being drank, she was quickly whole. 7. Take heed in letting blood, giving of Purgations or strong medicines, that the Lord of the Eighth House be not with the Moon, or with the Lord of the Ascendant; likewise that the Moon, or the Lord of the Ascendant, be in the Fourth or Eighth House; nor that the Lord of the Eighth House be in an Angle; and it is not good that the Moon be in the Ascendant.-Jatromath.

8. A Wind rising in the North, in the beginning of the Bight, or in the twilight, by and by he ceaseth, and leaveth his place, therefore it is that the Mariners (having just trial thereof) will not set forth in that Wind, unless it hath conti nued three days. The South Wind is contrary, which if it rise or begin with the beginning of the day, it brings hope to the Mariners that it will continue, and not quickly depart out of that place.—Mizaldus.

9. Lute Strings, or Harp Strings, cut in little pieces, and east upon Flesh newly sodden or roasted, will seem to be Worms, whereby they that know not thereof will refuse the same Meat.-Mizaldus.

10. If the Yard doth Swell, and be grievously pained, mingle Wax, Oil, and the Juice of Purslane together, and apply it to the Swoln Yard, and it will help it.-Often proved.

11. Johannes Ganivetus writes, that in the year of our Lord1431, the seventh of August, being Tuesday, about seven o'clock in the morning, one Master Henricus Amici, a Doctor of Physic, born at Bruxels in Brabant, did ask him for the Lord Dean of Vienens then being sick, whether he should die or recover that sickness. In the figure of which question he found that the Moon was going into conjunction to the Sun, under the beams of the Sun, which was a testimony of Death, with divers other likelihoods of the same; but espying Mer cury beginning to retrograde, within one degree of the Ascendant (Corruption the degree of the ascending,) did judge that he should shortly fall into a frenzy, at the farthest within a natural day, although he was a very wise man; and so it tame to pass, for within a natural day, he became frantic, and so died within two days after.

12. Take Cloves of Garlick, and burn them in a pot all to Powder, and if you use to eat of the Powder in your pottage, doubtless it will make you make Water, if you are troubled with the Stone.

13. If you put the Powder of Alum in Water, whatsoever you write therewith, the Writing or Letters will not appear unless you put the same Paper into Water, and then you will read it perfectly.-Bapt. Porta.

14. This that followeth is a most excellent, tried, and sure proved medicine for a great and old Grief and Pain in the Head. Take of Bay Salt stamped, by itself; as much Cummin Seed, stamped by itself; as much brown Fennel; and then stamp them all together in a dish, over a chafing dish of hot coals, and then lay some of the same hot upon a cloth, and apply it to the hinder part of the Head at night, and tie it fast thereto, that it fall not away. And also lay on another plaster thereof, hot thereto the next night, and so do nine nights together, one after another, and it will not only help the same (perhaps within three or four times so doing,) but also it will clear the Sight, and draw the Humours clear away that run out of the Head into the Eyes, and dry up the same. This medicine never fails, therefore it is a precious thing, and worthy to be esteemed.

15. A good way to get the Stone called Crampandina out of the Toad. Put a great or overgrown Toad (first bruised in divers places,) into an earthen pot, and put the same into an Ant's Hillock, and cover the same with earth, which toad at length the Ants will eat, so that the Bones of the Toad, and Stone, will be left in the pot, which Mizaldus, and many others (as he saith) hath oftentimes proved.

16. It is said that the Female Viper doth open her mouth to receive the generative Sperm of the Male Viper, which he doth by putting his mouth into her mouth, which received, she doth bite off his head. This is the manner of the froward generating of Vipers; and after that, the Young Vipers that spring of the same, do eat or knaw asunder their Mother's Belly, thereby coming or bursting forth, and so they being revengers of their Father's injury, do kill their own Mother. -Galen de Therica ad Pisonem.

17. Seeth Sage, and drink it, or stamp it and lay it to the Matrix, for both ways it provoketh the Flowers and Afterburthens. Pet. Hispanus.

18. The Skin of an Ass being turned, and Shoes made of that part of the hide whereon the burdens did lie that the Ass carried, they will never tear nor be worn; no, although you go continually among stones and thorns, and with the oldness thereof they will wax hard, that one cannot suffer to wear them. As Cardanus hath written.