[Sca-cooks] manus Christi -post 1

[Johnna Holloway]

Here's more on manus Christi. I ran the search
using the terms "manus" and "christi". There were 51 matches
in EEBO Full Text.

I should mention that I discounted all matches to the religious or 
theological writings
that seemed non-food related. Those include writings on the
Gospels, New Testament, Revelations, God’s True Saints, sermons, etc.

This search may vary as more texts are added to the project.
I did not reproduce all short citations found.
Often the medical information simply said give “manus Christi.”

I also have to mention that I have not as yet had time to run this 
search through all the facsimile texts that I own. This is probably a 
good retrospective search through a good number of the medical texts
and a not so good search through the culinary ones, given the scarcity
of those volumes in EEBO full text.


Hope this helps.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

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1533

Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523.

Title: De morbo Gallico¨.

Publication date: M.D.XXXIII. [1533] Cum priuilegio.

<>We maye gyue vnto it some excellent name, callynge it lignum vite / as
Philo the phisition called his dregges the handes of god: and thi (gap:
1 letter) daye the phisitions with great boste calle their co~fections
manus Christi, apostolicu~/ gratia dei, Antidotum, Paulium, and many
other such superstitious names. They say it groweth lyke an ashe with vs
in height/& is rounde / bryngyng forth a nutte moche like a chesse
nutte: his tymbre is oyle and fatte, in colour like boxe, but somwhat
blackyshe. And they iudge that the best, that hath most blacke: but that
whiche is lyke to boxe, differeth from that/ whiche is blacke. <>


The same information is also repeated in Of the vvood called guaiacum
that healeth the Frenche pockes, and also healeth the goute in the
feete, the stoone, the palsey, lepree, dropsy, fallynge euyll, and other
dyseases. Publication date: M.D.XXXVI. [1536] by the same author.

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1579

T. C., fl. 1579.

Title: An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste
excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue,
as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes,
bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very
necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other
tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C.

Publication date: 1579.

Page 32

To make a water against a consumption.

TAke a quarte of Rose water, as muche of womans Milke, Milke of Goates,
of Mares, or of Cowe Milke, put vnto them thirtie yolkes of Egges, well
min|gled together, and thereof still a water, whereof giue the paciente
to drinke warme firste and laste, with a cake of Manus Christi, made
with golde and Perles.


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1593

Kellwaye, Simon.

Title: A defensatiue against the plague contayning two partes or
treatises: the first, shewing the meanes how to preserue vs from the
dangerous contagion thereof: the second, how to cure those that are
infected therewith. Whereunto is annexed a short treatise of the small
poxe: shewing how to gouerne and helpe those that are infected
therewith. Published for the loue and benefit of his countrie by Simon
Kellwaye Gentleman.

Publication date: 1593.

 From The Second Treatise shewing the meanes how to Cure the plague.

Mixe all these together and so vse it as occasion requi|reth at any
time: and
giue often times a cake of Manus christi, made with Perles, for him to
eate. But if in the time of his sweate, you seé the sicke to fainte or
sowne, then apply to his temples, and the region of the harte, this
mixture following.

Manus christi made with Perles, is mentioned at least three times in
this text.

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1603

Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.

Title: A treatise of the plague containing the nature, signes, and
accidents of the same, with the certaine and absolute cure of the
feuers, botches and carbuncles that raigne in these times: and aboue all
things most singular experiments and preseruatiues in the same, gathered
by the obseruation of diuers worthy trauailers, and selected out of the
writing of the best learned phisitians in this age. By Thomas Lodge,
Doctor in Phisicke.

Publication date: 1603.

Chapter XII. Rules as touching bloud-letting, the potions and
Euacuations which are necessary for
are necessary for him that is sicke of the plague.

And in this case it is good to restore them with good broaths, wine
caudles, and egges, as wée haue héeretofore aduised. Manus Christi
perlata also is good in this case, and pleasant to the eater, which you
may giue in brothes, in buglosse water, or in the forme of a ta|blet. To
comfort the heart outwardly, vse this Epitheme that followeth.

<>Chap. XV. The maner how to withstand the most vrgent accidents that
happen in the pestilent feuer, the Botch and Car|buncle.

or to make him take a toste of bread with sugar & cinamon stéeped in
good white or claret wine: you shall giue him Diamargariton Manus
Christi with pearles, and amongest al the medicines that are proper to
comfort the vertue, the confection Alcher|mes described by Mesue in his
Antidotary) is allowed, which hath maruelous force and efficacie to
restore vertue almost extinct in the sicke, as by diuerse experiments I
am able to auow, to the valew of a drachme in buglosse water or white wine:

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1649

Royal College of Physicians of London.

Title: A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London
dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physicians in London ... by Nich.
Culpeper, Gent.

Publication date: 1649.

<>Manus Christi Simple and Pearled. [on page 146]

Take of the best Sugar a pound, Damask-rose-water half a pint, boil them
together according to art, to that thicknesse that it may be made into
Lozenges, and if toward the latter end of the decoctiom, you ad half an
ounce of Pearls prepared in pouder, together with eight or ten leaves of
gold, it will be Manus Christi with pearls.

A. It is naturally cooling, apropriated to the heart, it restores lost
strength, takes away burning feavers, and false i|maginations, (I mean
that with pearls, for that without Pearls is ridiculous) it hath the
same vertues Pearls have.

Manus Christi against Worms. [on page 146]

Take of Rhubarb four scruples, Agrick Trochiscated, Corallina, burnt
Hartshorn, Dittany of Creet, Wormseed, Sorrelseed, of each a scruple,
Cinnamon, Zedoary, Cloves, Saffron, of each half a Scruple, white Sugar
a pound, dissolve the Sugar in four ounces of Wormwood water, and one
ounce of Wormwood Wine, and one spoonful of Cinnamon Wa|ter, and then
with the forenamed pouders make it into Lo|zenges.

A. The title shews you the vertues of it, for my part I think in penning
of it, they made a long Harvest of a little Corn.

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1654

Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622.

<>Title: Lusus serius, or, Serious passe-time a philosophicall discourse
concerning the superiority of creatures under man / written by Michael
Mayerus ...
Publication date: 1654.

Lusus Serius: Serious Passe-Time > The OYSTER

... sitians are of opinion, that nothing more soveraigne, nothing more
gentle, than confections of Manus Christi pre|par'd with pearle. They
have also seve|rall kinds of Diamargaritons ...

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1665

<>Kemp, W. (William)

Title: A brief treatise of the nature, causes, signes, preservation
from, and cure of the pestilence collected by W. Kemp ...

Publication date: 1665.

<>But these Coelestial and Supernatural Medicines are of a far more
Noble and Certain Operation, and if any may be called (gap: ) The Hands
of God, these are they. Faith brings to your help Manus Christi, better
than all Confections, it applies the Lignum Vitae of the Cross, of more
effectual Ver|tue than Xylobalsamum or Lignum Aloes. It makes a
Soveraign Balsom of the most precious Blood of the Son of God, that
Incomparable and Unparalelled Phy|sician, who died himself, to save his
Patients life. Saint Paul calls it (gap: ) , The Shield of Faith, which
will defend you from the Arrow that flyeth by day; which word signifieth
also a Door, and will keep out the Terror by Night, and the Pestilence
that walk|eth in Darkness, and the Destruction that wasteth at Noon.

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1677

Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655.

Title: Medicinal councels, or advices written originally in French by
Dr. Theodor Turquet de Mayerne ... ; put out in Latine at Gevena by
Theoph. Bonetus ; Englished by Tho. Sherley ...

Publication date: 1677.

For an Illustrious Nobleman, Son to the former, inclin'd to a Con|sumption.

<>Page 17-18 states:

A Cough is the most troublesome Symptom of these kind of Diseases; for
it irritates and shakes the Lungs, and will not permit the mouths of the
Vessels to close, nor grow to|gether. Take care therefore to prepare
Bec| (gap: 1+ letters) hical, or Pectoral Tabblets of an Extract made
without the least burning, but per|form'd

with the vapour of water; let it be made of the best Liquiris, macerated
in the waters of Fluellin and Mullin: adding to it new made Penidies,
Blood Stone, and Manus Christi, composed with Pearls and Corals: