From the Treasure of Euonymus, 1599
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bunnyjadwigaOf fomentations and perfumes
Fomenta are called of the Grekes Pyriamata, all things that be laide hot to the body withoute, ether to asswage the griefe, or to drawe out the matter, bothe otherwise, and also to dissolve swellings: this peradventure is done by dri fomentations rather, the other by moyste. Sometimes I would use now the one now the other both dry and moyst by course, as in gouty greues either in the feete or other ioynts, wher as it is ieopardy least the more subtill parte of the matter drawne oute, the groser be lefte behinde and made more hard. Moyst fomentations seme to prepare the matter for the drye, to extenuate and make selender, to mollefy, to digest, to make them vapor out; some peradventure do none of these, accordinge to the diuersitie of the matter. But dry fomentations do drye and draw outward, and heaten more. Moist be ether liquid or running as simple water, or salte, Oyle, milk by itself, or with hony; herbs and flours sod in water or wine or other liquors, and laid upon a linnen cloth or bag, or put into a blader, or a spug [sponge?] moistened therin, or a linnen cloth, or wul, or a Filtrium, that is a shred of wollen cloth. Bladders or like things full of hot water or oyl.
Cataplasmata also maye be numbered amongste these, whyche are ministred hot, that is to saye hearbes sod, and beaten laide uppon a linnen cloth.
Dry are suche, as Milium, Salte, Sande, bran, Otes made hot in a kettle, and sturred aboute, are put into a linnen clothe or bagge. Celsus in some places commendeth the iuice of hotte Salte. You shall, as he expoundeth, put a little bagge into hotte water, and laye it hotte to the place diseased; puttying into the bagge nowe and then an iron slice hotte, whyles it lyeth uppon the place that is greaued, & sprinkling water lightly upon it; therefore you shall have ii slices redi, that while the one slis is put into the bag the other may be heated in the fire.
In the disease of the necke called Tetanus, which is the stifnes of the sinnewes (saith Celsus) it is neccessarie to have a moyste and warme fomentation. Therfore the moste part of men do pour often upon the neckes much hotte thinges. That procureth presently ease, but it maketh the sinews more apt to recieve cold: which ought to be avoided. Therfore it were beter to anoynt the nek with some waxed moisture, then to laye Oxe bledders, or like thinges, filled with otte oyle, or some hot plaster of bran, or rounde Pepper with figs beaten. But the best of al is to make fomentation with moist salt.
In the same we red a mervelous fomentacion for the touth. To put wilde Minte in a Basin, and water to it, somewhat above it; then to putte in hotte burnynge Flintes, the diseased gaping with his mouthe receyveth the vapoure. I harde of late of a woman delivered from a longe paine of the touth ache, whyche received gapinge the vapoure of a black flint (wherewith the streates are paved (besprinkled with wine.
The same Celsus biddeth to use fomentacions unto sore nosthrils, only w the vapor of water, out of a vessel w a narrow mouth. This appor also is ministred to hot & greuous Herods. A certain woman that had ben long sick of a Paronychia or whitlow, or il gnawing sore upo her toes, nie & nail, when now certain, litle bones were taken out, and many medicines used in vaine, she laide unto it a fomentation of the mos of a walnut tree sod in wyne, so that she held the sore place a prety whyle in that vapoure; then bound part of the mos hoat therupon, and was by and by made hoole. A fyer brand also byent, foulded in a moyst cloth is instede of a hoat fomentation in Celsus.
I have put Caret or Cumen sede beaten in a bag moystened with burning water hoat, unto the navell of them that were sick of the colick, and have had oft good succes through the same burning water set on fyre, in a bath stouf of sweeting house narowe and close everywher, the aire wareth hoat, wher in the sinewes, ioyntes, and other partes couled, are proffitably fomentated, and if it be possible to be done, they sweet also.
To move sweet and to warme the bathing place with the vapour of hoat w3ater, the commun people set great cauldrons w hoat water in their sweeting places, with chaf together (to keepe the heat longer) and sumtymes swiet herbes. Other have a pot hoot without the bath, with water and other herbes or medicines put in it, from whence the vapour entreth into the bath by a pype beneth. This other do with instrumentes and vessels, as they in Italy in the old tyme heated hoathouses. When the bathing place is already made hoat, a burning coole might be put into the pot, and dry medicines be strowed in, the perfume wherof is desyred or mist, both otherwyse & also chiefly for wemens' use, to divers diseases of the wombe, receiving the perfume by a pype. Hyppocrates describeth a peculiar vessell for this purpose. Let them put out their head the whyle, which are to weake for to abyde it, or such as it is to befeared lest they swound or chaunce into over great thirst, etc.
Sume in bathes power water or wyne, simple or mixte with medicines upon reed hoat tyle stones or bros of iron, or stones.
Sweet in bed is prouoked with hoat tyle stones foulded in moyst linnen clothes and put in to the bedde, or with tinnen bottelles filled with hot water; or with litle bagges wherin herbs sod are put yet hoat, and the better if a hoat tyle stone also be put in withall. Wull unskoured suppled in wyne or vinegar, wherunto oyll is put, Dates beaten, Bran sod in salt water or vinegar, do both repres and mollifie together. Wyne and vinegar, do repres and coule and more yet ether bread or meel, or a sponge, or ashes, or woull unwasht, or a linnen cloth, wiet in ether of thies, Celsus.
Sum put hoat ashes, or burning cooles rather in a vessell of wood, filling to the half, the rest they fyll with what herbes they list, as wormwood, mints, to comfort the stomack, either by them selves or sprinkled with a litle wyne; then bynding upon it a linne cloth they lay it the part diseased, specially where it is nedefull to heaten, to dry, to discus & to drawe sumwhat strongly. It is convenient for partes couled and to them that have gouty aches to use it with mugwort only or also chamemeil & unto the diseases of the womb, with Matricaria. This fomentacio may be made with ii vessels to be laid unto by cours. Celsus willeth men in sum place to lay about the pleaces diseased wuli perfumed with the smook of brymston.
Hereunto may be referred all suche thinges as Fuchsius & other wryt of fomentacions, apposiciouns, embroches, litle bages and insessions. The greke word aeonein signifieth the water upon and power upon, whether it be done bicause of fomentacion, that is w heat, or other cause. Galen doth prayse the perfume of the fyer stone or miln stone sprinkled with vinegar, for the taking away of hardnes of the fleshe as kirnels. Divers perfumes for the french diseases which are made with Cinabrio that is made of quicksilver, sum also with orpmet & Marchafita & etc shalt thou fynd in Nic. Maff. & certain other which have taught the heeling of this disease. The leeves dry of Tussilago made in perfumes, so the smok may be drawen in ad the mouth upon, doth help the congth and Orthopnaeu and breaketh the impostumes in the brest. The same operacion also hat the rout perfumed. Dioscorides
Fomenta are called of the Grekes Pyriamata, all things that be laide hot to the body withoute, ether to asswage the griefe, or to drawe out the matter, bothe otherwise, and also to dissolve swellings: this peradventure is done by dri fomentations rather, the other by moyste. Sometimes I would use now the one now the other both dry and moyst by course, as in gouty greues either in the feete or other ioynts, wher as it is ieopardy least the more subtill parte of the matter drawne oute, the groser be lefte behinde and made more hard. Moyst fomentations seme to prepare the matter for the drye, to extenuate and make selender, to mollefy, to digest, to make them vapor out; some peradventure do none of these, accordinge to the diuersitie of the matter. But dry fomentations do drye and draw outward, and heaten more. Moist be ether liquid or running as simple water, or salte, Oyle, milk by itself, or with hony; herbs and flours sod in water or wine or other liquors, and laid upon a linnen cloth or bag, or put into a blader, or a spug [sponge?] moistened therin, or a linnen cloth, or wul, or a Filtrium, that is a shred of wollen cloth. Bladders or like things full of hot water or oyl.
Cataplasmata also maye be numbered amongste these, whyche are ministred hot, that is to saye hearbes sod, and beaten laide uppon a linnen cloth.
Dry are suche, as Milium, Salte, Sande, bran, Otes made hot in a kettle, and sturred aboute, are put into a linnen clothe or bagge. Celsus in some places commendeth the iuice of hotte Salte. You shall, as he expoundeth, put a little bagge into hotte water, and laye it hotte to the place diseased; puttying into the bagge nowe and then an iron slice hotte, whyles it lyeth uppon the place that is greaued, & sprinkling water lightly upon it; therefore you shall have ii slices redi, that while the one slis is put into the bag the other may be heated in the fire.
In the disease of the necke called Tetanus, which is the stifnes of the sinnewes (saith Celsus) it is neccessarie to have a moyste and warme fomentation. Therfore the moste part of men do pour often upon the neckes much hotte thinges. That procureth presently ease, but it maketh the sinews more apt to recieve cold: which ought to be avoided. Therfore it were beter to anoynt the nek with some waxed moisture, then to laye Oxe bledders, or like thinges, filled with otte oyle, or some hot plaster of bran, or rounde Pepper with figs beaten. But the best of al is to make fomentation with moist salt.
In the same we red a mervelous fomentacion for the touth. To put wilde Minte in a Basin, and water to it, somewhat above it; then to putte in hotte burnynge Flintes, the diseased gaping with his mouthe receyveth the vapoure. I harde of late of a woman delivered from a longe paine of the touth ache, whyche received gapinge the vapoure of a black flint (wherewith the streates are paved (besprinkled with wine.
The same Celsus biddeth to use fomentacions unto sore nosthrils, only w the vapor of water, out of a vessel w a narrow mouth. This appor also is ministred to hot & greuous Herods. A certain woman that had ben long sick of a Paronychia or whitlow, or il gnawing sore upo her toes, nie & nail, when now certain, litle bones were taken out, and many medicines used in vaine, she laide unto it a fomentation of the mos of a walnut tree sod in wyne, so that she held the sore place a prety whyle in that vapoure; then bound part of the mos hoat therupon, and was by and by made hoole. A fyer brand also byent, foulded in a moyst cloth is instede of a hoat fomentation in Celsus.
I have put Caret or Cumen sede beaten in a bag moystened with burning water hoat, unto the navell of them that were sick of the colick, and have had oft good succes through the same burning water set on fyre, in a bath stouf of sweeting house narowe and close everywher, the aire wareth hoat, wher in the sinewes, ioyntes, and other partes couled, are proffitably fomentated, and if it be possible to be done, they sweet also.
To move sweet and to warme the bathing place with the vapour of hoat w3ater, the commun people set great cauldrons w hoat water in their sweeting places, with chaf together (to keepe the heat longer) and sumtymes swiet herbes. Other have a pot hoot without the bath, with water and other herbes or medicines put in it, from whence the vapour entreth into the bath by a pype beneth. This other do with instrumentes and vessels, as they in Italy in the old tyme heated hoathouses. When the bathing place is already made hoat, a burning coole might be put into the pot, and dry medicines be strowed in, the perfume wherof is desyred or mist, both otherwyse & also chiefly for wemens' use, to divers diseases of the wombe, receiving the perfume by a pype. Hyppocrates describeth a peculiar vessell for this purpose. Let them put out their head the whyle, which are to weake for to abyde it, or such as it is to befeared lest they swound or chaunce into over great thirst, etc.
Sume in bathes power water or wyne, simple or mixte with medicines upon reed hoat tyle stones or bros of iron, or stones.
Sweet in bed is prouoked with hoat tyle stones foulded in moyst linnen clothes and put in to the bedde, or with tinnen bottelles filled with hot water; or with litle bagges wherin herbs sod are put yet hoat, and the better if a hoat tyle stone also be put in withall. Wull unskoured suppled in wyne or vinegar, wherunto oyll is put, Dates beaten, Bran sod in salt water or vinegar, do both repres and mollifie together. Wyne and vinegar, do repres and coule and more yet ether bread or meel, or a sponge, or ashes, or woull unwasht, or a linnen cloth, wiet in ether of thies, Celsus.
Sum put hoat ashes, or burning cooles rather in a vessell of wood, filling to the half, the rest they fyll with what herbes they list, as wormwood, mints, to comfort the stomack, either by them selves or sprinkled with a litle wyne; then bynding upon it a linne cloth they lay it the part diseased, specially where it is nedefull to heaten, to dry, to discus & to drawe sumwhat strongly. It is convenient for partes couled and to them that have gouty aches to use it with mugwort only or also chamemeil & unto the diseases of the womb, with Matricaria. This fomentacio may be made with ii vessels to be laid unto by cours. Celsus willeth men in sum place to lay about the pleaces diseased wuli perfumed with the smook of brymston.
Hereunto may be referred all suche thinges as Fuchsius & other wryt of fomentacions, apposiciouns, embroches, litle bages and insessions. The greke word aeonein signifieth the water upon and power upon, whether it be done bicause of fomentacion, that is w heat, or other cause. Galen doth prayse the perfume of the fyer stone or miln stone sprinkled with vinegar, for the taking away of hardnes of the fleshe as kirnels. Divers perfumes for the french diseases which are made with Cinabrio that is made of quicksilver, sum also with orpmet & Marchafita & etc shalt thou fynd in Nic. Maff. & certain other which have taught the heeling of this disease. The leeves dry of Tussilago made in perfumes, so the smok may be drawen in ad the mouth upon, doth help the congth and Orthopnaeu and breaketh the impostumes in the brest. The same operacion also hat the rout perfumed. Dioscorides
