· Lindly ia·Lmjlerfhjre my Fathqrshoufe, I firfi obfer.ve~hhis Amulet of a, ~ Spider in a nut-ihelllapped in filke, &<;. fo applic;Q.fqr an.Ag11e by • my • MiftreJ!• Mother. Whom although I kntw to 1\ave ~xcclleq~ sl<ill in Chirprgerie, ~~,,~~.1 V iu/ foreeyes,aches,&c.and fuch experimentall medicine$, as all the country t6'9 · \vherdbedweltcanwirnelfe,toh;medone many tampus andgpod~urei · upon divers poore folks,that wereotherwife defiitute ofhdpe:Yet among all btherexperiments,this me thought was moft abf1,1rd and ripiculous, l could fee no warrant for it. J!f'ir/ Arane~ cum fibre~ J;lQ~ •~hat Antipathy i' till at length rambling amongftauthors (as often I doe) Ifoundthisvery medicine in Diofcorides approved by N.attbiol«s, repeated by .Alde'rovan· d«s cap.de Ar•nea !iv.deinft8il, I began to h~~ea better opinion ofit, and to giue morecrecltt to Amulets,when I f~w tt m fome parues anfwer to experience,'Such med.icines are to be exploded,that conlift ofwords, chara. ders,fpells,and charmes,which can doe no good at all, but out ofa lhong conceipt,as Pomponati«s proves; or theDivclspolicy,who is the firfi founder and teacher of them. SUB S E C T, 6, Correllors ofaccidents to procureJleep. Again.ft , fearefu/t dreames,redneffi,c7c. you have ufed all good meanes and bel ps ot alteratives,aver• rers,diminutives , yet there will be fiill certain-accidents to bee correded and amended,as waking,tearefull dreames, flulhing in · the face, to fome,ruddineffe,&c. W:<king,by reafon of their continuall carcs,feares,forrows,dry bbines, is a fymptomethat muchcrucifiesrnelancholy men, and mull therefore be fpeediiy helped, and ili!ep by all meanes procured, which fomerimes is a · .litfficiem (remedy of ic felfe without any other Phylick.s kenki«s in his oh. r solo fo~•• fervatio~s hat~ an example of awoman that was fo cured. Themeanesto ;~;-:,:,:~ ;;: procure tt,are m ward or outward. Inwa:•lly taken , are fill! pies , or com. ,,1,;.,; fol• .pounds,fimples,as Poppy,Nymph;ra,VJalets, Rofes, Letttce, MandJ.ake, •a. Henbane,Nightlbade,or Solanum,Saffron,Hempfeed,Nutmegs,Willows ,with their feeds,juyce, decodions, dit!illed waters, &c. Compounds are .fyrupes,or opiats,fyrup of Poppy, Violet~;Verbafcof Which are common. -ly taken with diftilled waters. ' ' JJ. .diacbdii ~j.dioftordii3 B aqu,e/ellflc,e ~iijR , "miflafiatpotioad horam.[omnifomenda. . . 1/.eqt~ies Nicholai,Philonium Rouwzu"'•Tr!p'l;eramagna,pz'tu/,e de Cyn,glof fa Dtoftord~t~m,Laudanum Paracelft,opimn, ar-ein ufe, &c. Country folkes .commonly make a polfetofhemp-f~ed, which Fsch]im. in his herbal! fo much dtf~ommends,yct I haue fecn the good effect · and it may bee ufcd ··where•bettermedicincsarenott<'l>hehad. J;q;, . ' ·, .L•uda,mm Pa~acelfi is prefcri~d in twa!orthreegraines, witha dram of;:,:~~·;~;·:.· . Dtofl.ordt{lm, whtch 0 fwald.:;ruflt~M commenc!s. Opium it fdfe is moll part • r. laffituJ;. ufed.ourwardly, r~ fmell to m a ball , r~orl"h commonly fo taken by rhe "'"' & /aboTurks ea tbefame q\iantity 'fol·a c<'>rd~all;'ii~d ~t Goain,tHeJndjes,thc doft ;:~,·.~z~~:;:. ·40 oq ogrames. •· · •i•r ab horro JlulAndu. calls requiem N#hol*i,r•ltimrlmrefitgit~m,thr.1af!i. reflwe•bur offilib. '·'"~·~· ' Ddd 3 . " , this rnp.m,..
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