often troubled with the distillation and cough especially old men which have strait Lungs The beginning of the Asthma is counted to be Dysponia that is a certain difficulty of breathing the disease as yet increasing When the affected cannot breath without a tatling and noise then it is called the Asthma When breathing cannot be made except The Cough pining and Peripneumonia are Jovial diseases The Orthopnoia is a great difficulty of breathing with the neck strecht forth the neck be stretcht forth then it is called Orthopnoea Here it is to be observed that the Asthma is not only begot from distillations but from the proper tartar of the Lungs which remains in the Lungs separation and expulsion being frustrated as we have demonstrated in our general explication of diseases Fernelius doth here agree with Paracelsus for he saith that the clammy humour in the Generation of the Asthma doth coagulate into hail and after into stones with which we see sometime the Lungs filled when as they be cut The Peripneumonia is an inflammation of The Peripneumonia is a Pleurisie of the ancient c. Sev. p 250. Quercitanus de mediâ—ina prisc fol. 401. 402. 403. The Peripneumonia is a hot imposthume begot in the substance of the Lungs the Lungs whose root and cause are the spirits of Arsenick Sulphur and Auripigmentum which spirits do not alone in their resolved and liquid form but in their vaporous and spiritual form come unto the matrices therefore they having attained a confluence in the anatomy of the Lungs they introduce their tinctures and seat themselves and that more strongly and sooner if they have stars indued with more potent tinctures but if the tincture be more debile and weak they perfect their work by frequency and assiduity they absolve Transplantation and afterward they fetch aliments from the weaker parts as well the nigh as the remote untill they attain unto maturity from the nutriments daily attracted they constitute bodies both filthy excrementitious sanguine coagulated resolved ill-smelling red black yellow of divers colours bitter sharp and having such like signatures therefore the roots being set and the bodies constituted the continual nutrition and fermentation being digested Sev. p. 250. they expect the times of maturity and separation which being instant there bursts forth an ebullition of spirits â—ev f. 251. 252. these spirits flying forth they produce the first vapours of Fevers invested with their signatures which are permixt with the vital Elements of mans anatomy and cause coldness horrours and rigour After follows resolutions and sulphureous inflammable vapours inquinating and tincturing mans Elements with the same signatures from whence are the alterations of the pulse thirst disdain of meat restlesness watching dotings bloudy filthy and excrementitious coughing and from hence the difficulty of breathing ariseth The Galenists make a twofold Peripneumonia one which rises by it self the other which succeeds the Squincy or Pleurifie also humour is suddenly carryed from the jaws or sides into the Lungs which doth not succeed any other disease but hath his first original from it self it is caused from small and cholerick bloud coming from the right side of the heart through the arterial vein very vehemently and aboundantly into the lungs which doth not only fill the lungs veins and arteries but the whole body and cistends it above measure it is also coarctated and putrifies and causes the inflammation of the Liver not that which is collected after the manner of other inflammations but that which is effused in the whole bowel The Imposthume of the Lungs is a little Imposthume or a collection of filth in some part of the Lungs which the proper membrane doth as closely include as a chest so that scarcely any filthy matter can be breathed forth into the heart This Impostume which is named Vomica vomiteth much filth from whence it takes his name viz. Ã vomendo It is generated from the poyson of Arsenick The cause of the imposthume Iron and Sulphur or root of the Plague which is the cause of filth The Galenists say that the cause of it is a distillation of blood into some part of the Lungs following the opening bursting or eating of a vein and there it putrifies and by little it is changed into filth and at last dries and makes a receptacle for it self Surely The signs of an imposthume it is a lurking and hidden hurt for oftentimes it is neither known to the diseased nor to the Physician neither doth the diseased lose his functions nor thinks that he hath such a disease and he carries the cause of his death within his bosom Those which are thus affected are of somewhat a wan colour in their faces and their tongues are full of a certain clamminess especially when they have long abstained from meat Many die quickly in a quarter of an hour in which being anatomized there appears no other cause then the suddain disruption bursting of the Impostume in the Lungs from which filth peirces into the heart which is the enemy thereof and perchance extinguishes and overwhelms the inbred heat All those which are thus affected long before the Impostume burst have a bloudy avoyding out of the Liver and that with coughing the breath also is grievous and stinking there is a heaviness also of the body a light oppression of the brest and a difficulty of breathing but the pining doth seldome accompany them but these signs are common to other affections Paracel lib. 3. param de origine morbor ex tartaro tract 4. fol. 167. saith that from the tartar of the Lungs there is begot the Astma the Cough difficulty of breathing the Phthithis and the Hectical Feaver The Phthithis or pining is either a consumption of the whole body or of some part and it is either universal or particular The universal is The universal is without pain The particular is with pain and parox Pining is a preternatural extenuation of the body caused from the Hectick Fever The cause of the pining that which is effected with the Consumption of the whole body The particular is that which is a Consumption of one member alone The immediate cause of the universal is Phthithis is an hidden impression of the Sun of the Microcosm namely when the vital and animal spirits are as a destroyer of the Microcosm the inferiour heaven that is the native liquor and moisture preserving the body from corruption and destruction which heaven being destroyed the parts of the body melt away and pine The antecedent or remote universal cause of the Phthisis is the tartar which obstructs Thurnens in Neptuno l. 4. cap. 8. the members serving for nourishing The being of poison violates the harmony and consent of the parts and hinders the stars of the inferiour Globe whereby they are less able to produce their Roses Violets Balmmint Gold Silver Rubines Saphires Valerians Vines and Fruits from aliments So in the anatomy of health there
vinegar of roses and appropriated water When the impostumes burst forth let there be a plaister laid to made of Figs and fruits of Alkeck equally of them being bruised together so forthwith they will burst forth for poyson attracts poyson when the impostums burst and the poyson peirces unto the heart they are not poyson but are made poyson by reason of the Antipathy even as all antipathetical things if they be conjoyned degenerate into poyson The external sign of it is beheld from a line drawn from the centre of the Apostem unto the Heart Let inverted grapes if they be green be bruised if dry then macerate them in wine or distilled Vinegar and let them be put in and taken forth twice or thrice these grapes extract poyson from men and women which are far gon in the Ague and recover them again This secret and specifical virtue of this simple may worthily make us admire in regard of the efficacy of it against the symptoms of the Plague let him use in the constipation of the belly the extract of Rhubarbarum or Lysimachium let the poorer sort drink of the leaves of Lysimachium Those which have a Disentery or diarrhaea joyned with the Plague let them take in the morning noon and night of Crocus Martis in the extract of yellow Galingale untill the perfect cure Those which are exceeding hot let them take a linnen cloth and dip it in the water of Roses Vitriol and juyce of Fengreek and put it to the pulses and as soon as it is dryed up let him dip it in again for it extinguisheth the most vehement heat Quercitanus in his answer to Anbertus fol. 21. there is made a most commendable medicament of the true preparation of the liquor of the Cedar for the affects of the Plague CHAP. XXXIV Of the Leprie and the causes of it PAracels lib. 2. paramir de origine morbor ex tribus substantiis Cap. 4. saith that the Lepry is begot from exalted and sublimated Mercury by vertue of the native heat So in the 5 chap. saith that the The Lepry is an affection of the skin that is a deep and scaly roughness together with Itching caused from melancholy lying under the skin Leprosie and the Lepry and all the kinds of it are caused and generated from Salt Lib. 3. paramir de origine morbor ex tartaro tract 5. saith that the Lepry hath a liquor permixt with tartar whereupon the Paroxisme happeneth Lib. 1. de tartaro tract 4. The Lepry is nothing but a putrefaction from putrefacted seed because they are not loosened though they should eat of Ellebore and this is a principal sign of the Lepry that they are not moved with laxatives and when the urine demonstrates putrefaction by a stink it is a sign of the Lepry But these seem contrary when they are considered more accurately there is no dissention or contrariety for they are derived from one and the same fountain The Lepry is generated from the sublimation of Mercury even as in sublimation Mercury penetrates through all the pores and most narrow clifts of the glass so the liqnor of Mercury or matter of the Lepry penetrates through the superiour and inferiour parts of the body and appears in the skin with scales and filthiness The Lepry is begot of salt viz. the destruction which nature expell's outwardly hath a tartareous liquor commixed for the exulceration of the skin is manifest in the Lepry The Lepry is generated from putrefacted Sperm that is from inbred corrupted balsame from whence there follows the corruption and putrefaction of the whole body There are four Species of the Lepry the Leonina the Elephantasia the Alopecia and the Morphea lib. 2. de vita longa he makes six Species viz. Leonina The Eâ—ephant asis or the Leonâ—â—asis is a filthy and contagious Cachexia corrupting the whole body especially Corroding and Deturpating the face Elephantia Alopecia Thyra Morphaea and the Vndimia lib. 6. paragr he makes four Species of the Lepry according unto the four Elements as also he makes seven Leprys of the seven principal members The divisions and species of the Lepry though they seem to differ somewhat amongst themselves yet they are all grounded and conspire in one root but they differ in signs lib. 6. paragr de cura Leprae he divideth the Lepry into two Species and in the cure of the Lepry he saith there are two species of the Lepry viz. râ—d and white The white Lepry is so called by reason of the white cure the red is so called by reason of the red cure These are the signs of the white Lepry the white colour of the skin the stinking breath of the mouth the hoarsnesse of the voice and the dregs of the excrements are correspondent to the stinking breath of the mouth These are the signs of the red Lepry the ulceration of the skin the Serpigo with an itching and he puâ—tula The cause of the Lepry whether white or red is the destruction of Salt or balsame in the Microcosm The destruction proceeds from the being of poyson from poyson also putrefaction proceeds from whence all the species of the Lepry are The old writers said that The Cure the Lepry was incurable because they knew not the tartar Paracels lib. 3. paramir tract 5. shews the process and means of curing the Lepry and it is twofold 1. is of the preserving from putrefaction the 2. is of the cure of the Lepry Those which pertain unto conservation are the extractions of Antimony the essence of blood which is extracted from the heart vein the liquor of Pearls and Corals the specifical of the grains of Juniper balmmint Succory and Valerian Part. 5. fol. 273. The flowers of Antimony preserve the leprous from putrefaction ℈ s of them being taken once a week Those which pertain unto the cure are the vertues of Gold Minerals and Manna Turpentine and Silver with his kind Lib. 2. de vita longa cap. 3. Every cure of the Lepry is to be made by the regeneration as the transmutation of metals The regeneration of the white Lepry is to be made by the tincture of Silver and the regeneration of the red Lepry is to be effected by Gold as the Spagirians speak In the same chap. we affirm that the red Lepry may be cured by the Mercury of Gold the white may be cured by the Mercury of Silver Lib. 6. Archidox We have seen this in Lead and Antimony which they call the mine of it that they will cure the Lepry Leprosie Alopecia so also all scabs and scars Leonina Elephantia Thyriasis The magistery of Lead doth not effect this Lib. 2. Archidox de renevatione The first being of Antimony effects the same in the regeneration and transmutation of imperfect bodies which the first essence of Gold doth effect Furthermore by pains and industry all desperate and chronical diseases are cured the Lepry and his kinds by philosophical transplantation which in our Philosophy is called
superiour Globe the vital spirits of the Heart and Brain are moistened kindly of the seeds with showres serenity heat and by the fruitful falling of dew and VVestwinds and by such like fruits of the inferiour Elements which being absent and wanting defect of Radical humour pining and barrenness doth happen Both of these stars do endeavour by the aboundâ—nce of aliments to restore the melting and decayed parts and to recover the sick hastening unto rottenness Again the inferiour stars bring forth Roses Violets Balmmint Valerian Vines Fruits Gold Silver Rubines Saâ— hires continually from aliments unless the cause of sterility shall prevent not that they demonstrate the external signatures in man for they have lost their outmost Vestures by Transplantation but because they produce like properties in the spiritual bodies of mans anatomy from which the superiour stars receive nutriments and all of them are made fit for their offices and actions for transplanted Generation as abovesaid becomes worse and not better and it is hindered whereby the Roots of Generation may less be able to explain their gifts and native sciences for the spirits of Transplantations are more strong and vigorous than of the inbred But how shall the inferiour stars bring forth fruits of soundness and health out of the aliments if that the temperature of the bad properties excel and if the bowels of nourishing be faint and weak whereby they may he less able to separate the pure from the impure and the unfirm from the firm Certainly if the inferiour Heaven be destroyed and coâ—ruâ—ted of necessity the superiour Heaven must be corrupted for how will it give that which it takes not or how will it give that which it hath not From hence it is that the superiour Heaven endeavours dissolution seeing that the strength is consumed and it is destitute of nutriment for we have said that the Transplantations of times what shall I say of times but the prevarications of fruits and the confluences may bring such evils and infinite calamities yea lastly Death it self into mans Commonweal so from the Being of Nature proceeds the Being of Poison and Diseases CHAP. XIII Of Curing of Astral Diseases of the Greater and Lesser World Which rise â—rom the â—irmament of the Maâ—rocosm which rise from the Firmament of the Microcosm THere is required for the preservation of Astral Diseases first an evacuation of impurities by convenient Remedies for there lie divers seeds oftentimes of Diseases in the filthy impurities and if such impressions be contained in the body the astral are more easily admitted when as the bloud shall be impure that impurity is not to be removed by the cutting of the Vein but it is to be expelled by Diaphoretical Veins fetcht from Physical anatomy not that one exhibition or giving will suffice for preservation but every week one Dosis of Diaphoreticks is to be taken by reason of the time In the Curing of the Epidemical Diseases first it is to be respected unto the being of Poison and labour must be taken especially that the Poison be abolished and taken away speedily without deliberation by convenient Remedies No better and more excellent method of curing astral Diâ—eases can be invented of expelling the being of Poison than that which is made by swear In this Cure the chief Remedies are Diaphoretical or sudoriferous Medicines which expel the being of Poison by sweat luckily and take away and disperse the mists and poisoned spirits of the bloud especially diaphoretical or sweating Medicines are to be given which are fetcht from Astronomy and the signed art untill that all the Poison be abolished In the curing of these Diseases the Galenists are mad with reason which make purgations of the belly obstinately when as no body is present with the being of Poison but spirits for in astral Diseases astral and spiritual Concerning this look into the following Treatise cap. 16. at the end de Cura Phthisea Remedies are to be given In the Curing of the Diseases which have their beginnings and originals from the Firmament of the Microcosm first of all a Physician must know and understand Transplantation which in Philosophy is called Regeneration or begetting again for example if some be sick with the Hectick in Phthisis under the Empire or Dominion of Saturn In the Curing of this Disease we must labour with all diligence to transplant Saturn into Venus wherefore the most perfect Cure of Antimony is seen in the Hectick and Malignant are to be tempered with the Benign Phthisâ—s because it transplants Saturn into Venus These are the Mysteries of Cures the secrets of Remedies and the brevities of Manifestations So all the Stars in the Microcosm may be transplanted and made friendly unto mans Nature by the secrets of Remedies and Mysteries of Cures so all deplored and desperate diseases are abolished by this Philosophical Transplantation as the Leprosie the Leprie and all kinds of the Leprie There are the proceedings of many by which Transplantation or Regenerating is perfected is comprehended in the preparations of Antimony CHAP. XIV Of the Being of Poison THus far have we handled of the Astronomy of the greater and less World and of the stars of diseases of the Element of Heaven and the Air and also of the Cuâ—ing of astral diseases Now it is convenient that we descend to the Philosophy and diseases of the inferiour Globe namely of the Element of Earth and VVater All the fruits and effects of the Element of Earth and â—ram in Apolog. reâ—â—t fol. 10. Water have poison admixt not only medicamental and extreme hurtful and noxious but those which are called of Physicians alimental Wherefore seeing we take aliments for the preservation and nourishing of our bodies we also receive poison mixt with our aliment but if all be rightly administred in the frame of the Ventricle this poison by the admixtion of more benign and wholsome meats being tempered resolved and separated is thereby expelled or else this poison remains in the anatomy of the belly and is the cause of many most grievous diseases for the governour and faculty of the Ventricle if it have strength and power of working it separates the pure from the impure and changes the pure into a tincture and gives the tincture to the body for norishment for the conservation of life of the great Heaven in the little World but when this Spagyrian or Separatour doth not rightly execute his Functions and that the poison is separated from the aliment neither by natural nor artificial concoction of the Ventricle it comes to pass that the poison and the aliment conspire and after All the kinds of Poison are in the Tartar the conspiration follows putrefaction and digestion after digestion comes corruption which is the breeder of all diseases CHAP. XV. What the Being of Poison is THe being of Poison which is in all aliments is an excrementitious and Tartareous impurity which hath not an expulsive vertue but rather a
Ureteâ—s c. more easie to be cured That which rises from Drink is very hard to be cured But there be many Meats taken which while they nourish they receive the place of drink so there be drinks which while they quench thirst are in the place or stead of meats from these one Generation of Tartar rises not two kinds though from the commixtion of meat and drink Generation be caused yet from that commixtion only one kind arises which afterwards is separated and divided into his kinds and keeps the Nature of a Tartar either of that which is commonly begot by meat or that which is begot by drink Concerning the Tartar of meat this is to be noted that every excrement of the Ventricle passes through the Intestines in which passage it stays somewhat longer and also that Tartar which in the good separation is mixt with impure and stinking Sulphur makes a constant union and ever adheres with the spirits of the Intestines and then it produces infinite diseases almost all the kinds of the Cholick the pains of the superiour and inferiour Ventricle the obstructions of the Belly and the dissolved diseases as Dyarrhaea Dysenteria and Lienteria And these of the Tartar of meat for the more full understanding of it read the 15. Chap. We will handle now of the Tartar of Drink Urine is first separated from nutriment without the limits or place of the Ventricle which is thus to be understood the Liver attracteth nutriment and in that attraction Urine is separated from nutriment in the Mesaraical veins when as yet it passeth crude through those passages it obstructeth the Mesaraical veins and pores and other passages through which it passes from whence many obstructions and prickings arise which are ascribed to the bloud but falsly Oftentimes it comes to pass that for the abundance and reserving of Tartar the Mesaraical veins being obstructed nutriment cannot pass unto the Liver so that it comes to pass that the nutriment remains in the stomach and then follow Vomiting loathing of Meats the blasting of the body by a Planet being a kind of the Phthisis the paroxism of the stone which comes by cold and heat as in the Plague Pleurisis and such like diseases from hence the Erysipellas for the most part hath his original The same is the Generation of the Tartar from Urine in the Liver for Urine is nothing but a resolved Salt so that the Liver is made the fountain of many diseases which is a noble and excellent member yea almost serving all the parts of the body so that if it suffer any thing all the members have a compassion and also suffer and are brought into consent hereupon is the Dropsie the Fever and the Erysipellas Some fruits of trees as Pears are brought forth and produced in May but they are ripe at the sooneâ— in Autumn so also the Tartar hath times of Generation and Beginning and also of maturity So in the Ureters or urinary passages going from the Liver to the Bladder more sharp hard and strong Tartars are begot than are begot in the Ventricle Mesaraical Veins and Liver for in those passages it is perfected which as yet was crude and undigested in the Liver and when as it is perfected and digested it produces a more subtile Tartar and more grievous diseases and more difficult to be cured for subtileness is the Author of power Mark well Michale ll in Apolog. Chymica fol. 67. In the cure of the Tartar we must recur unto those things which by their property and subtilteness do not only dissolve the coagulated Tartar but also hinder the very coagulation so also the Tartar must be cured by reducing fol. 71. The cure of the said Tartar is that it be dissolved and brought into the First Matter and after this manner it is expelled There is no more excellent preservative against the Tartar than the frequent use of Butter and Oil of Olives by this means it cannot easily cleave and stick to the parts Quercitanus de med prisc fol. 327. CHAP. XIX Of the Tartar in the more principal Members THe Tartar is begot in the more principal Members not of the Tartar of Urine or of the excrement of the Ventricle but from accidental and strange excrement which breeds in that place though it arise from meat yet is it not begot of excrements All the parts and members of the body stand in need of continual nourishment and conserving for every part of the body properly hath a Ventricle which separates the impure and superadded tinctures from nutriment The Ventricle properly so called or Oeconomical Ventricle of the whole body separates the impure from the pure and communicates aliment to the whole body and all his parts That general separation of the Ventricle doth nor susfice the parts to be nourished but there is a particular separation so that every Ventricle of every part may perfect the nutriment more and separate it more exquisitely That impurity which is separated is also excrement and hath divers emunctory places as the Lungs by spittle the Brain by the nostrils the Spleen by the Veins or by the Ventricle properly so called the Reins cast forth excrement by Urine the Heart by breathing forth of that mass and fuliginous or misty matter From this excrement of the principal members a Tartar is begot and as the excrements of the principal members are most subtile so also the Tartar is most subtile and in all things is like aswell to the nutriment as the excrement for the body of Tartar which is carryed with the nutriment unto the principal members is volatile and hath a vaporous substance And this is to be noted of us that the mechanical spirits of the members do differ much amongst themselves As the mechanical spirits of the members differ much amongst themselves the mechanical spirits of the Liver differ from the mechanical spirits of the Ventricle the mechanical spirit of the Heart or Brain differs much from the mechanical spirit of the Liver in subtileness and power furthermore the volatile excrements of the members flie the mechanical spirits of the Ventricle and Liver and are conveyed to more subtile and potent spirits though the Tartar be little in the principal members yet in power it is great CHAP. XX. Of the Tartar of the Lungs Brain Heart Gall and Spleen THe Arteries are the Ventricle of the Lungs in which the nutriment of the Lungs is perfected and the pure is separated from the impure which separation the Ventricle properly so called cannot perfect but it is proper to the Lungs wherefore excrements are found in the pipes of the Lungs which differ manifestly from the excrements of the other parts in which the Tartar is closely contained for the Tartar ought to be cast forth with the excrement of the Lungs otherwise it is separated from the excrement and sticketh in the pipes of the Lungs This Tartar surpasses the Tartar of the Intestines and that which is contained in
the passages of the Urine in subtileness because it is transmutated from volatility and spirituality into a Corporeal substance The office of the Lungs was to attract Air and Spirit and to make convenient spirit for the arteries and to communicate it unto them for nourishment when as the Tartar sticks in the pipes the Lungs are hindered whereby they are less able to undergo their Functions as they should from hence many Diseases are generated as the Asthma the Cough the impediment of Breathing or difficulty of Breathing the Hectick Fever and the Phthisis and other Diseases from which Tartar all the Diseases of the Lungs are generated The Brain hath a proper Ventricle in which the mechanical spirits are which are the Authors of Attractionâ— Retentions Separations Coagulations Digestions Diâ—tributions and Expulsions As the Ventricle properâ—y so called is the Corrupter and Destroyer of all Diseases in that it doth not rightly execute his Functions so the imbecility of the Ventricles is the cause of many most grievous Diseases of which ancient Writeâ—s never make mention Furthermore it is a great thing to know the spirit from whence all the actions of the Ventricles proceed If the spirit be infirm the members also being infirm corrupt and perish When the nutriment is conveyed to the Ventricle of the Brain the mechanical spirits of the Brain separate the pure from the impure and give the pure to the Brain for nourishment but expell the impure through the emunctory places as the nostrils so without the Brain in the place of the Ventricle Tartar is begot from whence rises the Phrensie Out-raging Madness and other kinds of Madness which Diseases the old Writers have ascribed to bloud and other humours The Generation of the Stone and the Sand in the Reins is the same The Heart attracteth his own nutriment and separates the impure from the pure the excrement is that in which the Tartar lies hidden The Heart lies hidden in his case from which it expells excrement The nutriment of the Heart is the most subtile the excrement is like to a drop of clear water Now then the Tartar being coagulated by the spirit of Salt in the case of the Heart forthwith the Tartar is begot from which Generation of Tartar many Diseases are begot as the Cardialgiâ— the trembling of the Heart and other Diseases which the Galenists do badly ascribe to the humours of melancholy and choler In the Gall also as in other excrements the Tartar of humours is found as likewise the matter of Stones if it be seâ—arated and not expelled the Tartar is begot in the Gaâ—l from the which Compressions Vomitings Cholick Passions and Suffusions of the Gall are caused In the cure of these Diseases it is to be respected especially unto the Tartar and little Stones that by dissolution they be reduced into their First Matter and be consumed not unto yellow or câ—lfish choler for all the Diseases of the Gall almost are generated from Tartar The Tartar or little Stones in the Gall expell the choler and cast it forth into the Ventricle or Intestines sometime into the Liver from whence arise the kinds of the Jaundies for every Jaundies which is not removed by medicaments appropriated and convenient got and made from Vegetables hath a familiarity and similitude with the Tartar and unless the Tartar be dissolved and reduced to his matter all health is dispersed The paroxism of the Stone causes Contractures Putrefactions Cholick Passions so also the paroxism of the Tartar or Stone in the Bladder brings with it the Jaundies of the Gall Cholick Passions Contractures Compressions the Vomitings of the Heart-strings and weakness and imbecility of the Ventricle So in the Spleen or place of the Ventricle there is begot a Tartar which begets Opilations or Obsâ—uctions and the Quartan for this reason the Galenists say that the Quartan is incurable because they know not the Tartar but they say that the cause of it is melancholy or adust choler and they endeavour in vain to expell it through the Belly the Tartar remaining CHAP. XXI Of the Tartar of the Bloud Flesh and Marrow THere are Ventricles in the Bloud Flesh and Marrow and all the parts of the body which are nourished where there is a Ventricle there is a fire of digestion and a separation of pure from impure where there is a separation of impureness from the pure substance there is also excrement and where there is excrement there is also Tartar either alone or else commixt with other excrements for through the whole anatomy of the body and in all the parts of it excrement is two wayes considered it is either Sulphur or it is Salt for in every aliment three things are be considered Mercury which is nutriment Sulphur which is avoided and expelled through the Belly and Salt which is expelled by Urine As those excrements first in the Ventricle are coporal so the excrements of the other parts are volatile and spiritual for after the separation of the Ventricle sâ—iritual and volatile excrements coagulate in all the parts of the body It is an established and confirmed sentence of all Philosophers that the nature of bodies and spirits is reciprocal that bodies are resolved into spirits and spirits are transmutated into bodies furthermore Flesh Bloud and Marrow have their Ventricle and Digestion Separation Excrement and Tartar Nature expells the excrement of bloud by sweat it expells the excrements of the Flesh by Urine from whence the Urine of Bloud is as Paracelsus The driness of the bones consumes the excrement of Marrow whatsoever remaineth comes and is conveyed unto the ligaments and concavities of the bones The nutriments of Bloud Flesh and Marrow are altogether spiritual and invisible but the excrements are visible and yet they are the most subtile of all the parts in the body In the attraction of nutriment of Bloud the excrement and Tartar was also spiritual and invisible as in the distilled and circulated spirit of Wine but yet it separates both the volatile and spiritual excrement in that they are excrements whether Sulphur or Salt by a most exquisite digestion of the bloud therefore the Tartar of the bloud is subtile but it is coagulated by the spirit of Salt and is resolved and reduced by the same There is a twofold Tartar of the bloud flesh and marrow either coagulated or resolved The Tartar is begot of the Element of Water whether it be from meat and drink and therefore obnoxious to coagulation and resolution when the excrement of Tartar is not expelled forth of the veins it becometh like to a corn of sand or like to the grain Rice so also without the veins and pores such like grains of Tartar are begot though they encline more to resolution notwithstanding if they remain longer under the power of the spirit of Salt they increase into a corporeal coagulation The filth or flegm of bloud is the excrement of it if that filth be more crass and be not
agree and are linckt together by an Herculean knot and all things disagree with a deadly hatred from whence it comes to pass that like things are cured by like things and contraries are Remedies for contraries because things which agree do communicate their vertues and help so likewise contraries expel their contraries which things being so and the unity of stars in the World being celebrated it makes one cure of all diseases being divided into kinds Astral or Spiritual Material or Corporal Paracelsus in his book de morb ament saith that in Astral or Spiritual diseases Astral and Spiritual Remedies are required for whatsoever are required for a cure are contained in the power of the spirits The star of Transplantation produces Diseases The star of Generation cures them Every disease is twofold Spiritual and Corporal so the Physician ought to administer a material or spiritual Medicine In the impressions of the stars or astral diseases howsoever it must be administred we will refer the three Beings of diseases to the one star of Transplantation to whom we apply the star of Generation as a true and perfect cure CHAP. II. Of the Causes of the Pain of the Head and the true Cure of it HOw difficult and intricate the explication of diseases is the Family of Privations of the Aristotelians doth manifest and declare and the natural defects of the Platonicks granting and yielding diseases unto infiniteness as it were by the Quintessence Nature and Properties as if vain names were in the subjects for the hidden and occult seeds of diseases have obtained hidden and unknown Transplantations and Generations which are not subject to sense nor decrees of discourse Though it be so hard and difficult to explain the seeds and Generation and Transplantation of diseases nevertheless we being urged and pricked by the compulsions of vertue and verity as also by the magnanimous and couragious mind of Hippocrates and Paracelsus for we will insist in the paths of more sincere Philosophers and enter into the explication of diseases and that with better success because we have explained hitherto the great book of Nature God still helping us and we have seen more works of the Spagirical art by the Ministery or help of Fire therefore we will descend from the Head to the Foot and throughly view and search into the whole Microcosm according to his parts and places All the affections of the Head which use hath observed are partly symptoms partly diseases we divide these affections into three Orders in regard of the affected place or seat Some affections possesse the Membranes of the Head some the Substance of the Brain some the Passages some possesse the Pipes thereof The Membranes of the Head are the thin film enwrapping the Brain and the Pericrany in which pains are caused for that they have exquisite sense The dolours of the Head are twofold in respect of their efficient causes for the dolour or pain is either caused from external causes or internal causes The pain of the Head from external causes as too much labour or heat of the Sun or from the cold distemperature of the Heaven or from Gluttoning Venery grievous Smells and smiting of the Head The pain which rises from these causes is a weak and fainting pain without a fixt and vital impression The pain of the Head rising from internal causes or from fixt and vital impression proceeds either from bloud or resolution or obstruction Parcel in his 10. book Parag. de capitis adversitatibus internis The bloud produces the pain of the Head by accidental digestion that is by the bubling sorth of the spirits or wandring of the first three causes In this pain caused from bloud let the Head vein be cut and the pain ceaseth and a true cure is made thereof but if the condition of the sick cannot abide the cutting of the vein administer unto him Narcotical moistures of which kind are the liquor of Corals Rose the ever-living Root of the Nightshade Margarites and such like and they are given too within essentially or else applied outwardly in the manner of a Plaister The resolution of the vapours or Tartareous spirits beget the pain of the Head namely when the mouth of it is not shut by reason of the weakness of the Ventricle and then the vapours ascend or the spirits of the Tartareous Salt smite unto the Membranes and the Brain from hence is the pain as also the doloriferous fluxions and distillations In the cure of this disease the cause is first to be removed the Tartar being resolved in the Ventricle is reduced expelled and consumed by oil or spirit of Vitriol which is sweet like to a smell and hath a sweet sowreness also the sowr spirit of Sulphur The opilation or obstruction of the more principal bowels causes the Head-ach Paracelsus in his second book Tract 3. de Tartaro fol. 330. when there is not digestion made in the Reins and the attractive vertue hath not which it may attract then the Reins generate nutriment from the Liver but if the Liver be obstructed the Reins attract nutriment through the Back-bone from the Head and first pains are caused in the hinder part of the Head afterwards in the Hemicrany sometime it possesses the whole Head therefore in the Hemicrany and every pain of the Head the only cure is that the Reins be first cured and that the obstruction of the Liver be taken away that the Reins may have nutriment which is not only to be understood of the Reins but of other principal Members Here the sowr water of Mercury bears sway and the spirits of Vitriol and the spirits of Tartar In the pain from the Reins there is pain felt about the Reins if the pain be from the Liver there is a pain felt in the Liver if it be from the Ventricle there is a pain in the Ventricle if it be from the Matrix then the Matâ—ix feels a pain if from the Spleen the pain will be in the right side viz. in the place of the Spleen are begot the Cephalia the Hemicrania and the Cephalalgia from the Tartar of the Head lying hidden in the glew which It is then a 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 is known when as there is no obstruction of the bowels nor bubling forth of bloud nor resolution of the Venâ—â—icle hereupon is the usual pain of the Head very oâ—â—â—n affecting men for a light occasion for many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cephalia affects the whole Head or the greatest 〈◊〉 oâ— it The Hemicrania affects onely the one part and it begins by the beating of the Temples The Chephalalgie comprehends both the kinds as â—â—mp â—he Cephalalgy is a pain which man feeleth in the Membranes and sinewed parts of the Brain-pan also every disease whether it be from Fevers or the heat of the Sun or from Drunkenness or from some other evident cause In the curing of the pains of the Head there are to be administred medicines which put away pain by
grievousness of the Fever five grains of Laudanum and therewith the Fever was expelled and he sleeped six whole hours The grains of the oil of Pearls and the herb Sena administred in his proper liquor extinguishes the inflammation of the Brain The strengthning of the Brain is made by the green liquor of Silver the secret of Vitriol the oil of Bread the liquor of Saphire the liquor of Musk the balm of Sulphur the water of Silver The tincture of oriental Saffron being applied about the Nostrils or Temples will help the Frentick or Sottish men Bartholomeus extols and commends the essence of Topaze lib. 16. cap. 96. The Urine of the Frentick which is of a pale colour fore-shews and Prognosticates death green Urine with a green circle shews the most present danger of death The said green Liquor of Silver being an Excellent Medicine for all Infirmities of the Brain is thus prepared â„ž pure Silver dissolve it in Aqua fortis and precipitate it with Salt water then dulcifie the Calx with hot common water the more the better till it be fully free from the Salt tast which being done mix it well with flowrs of Sulphur then reveâ—berate it under a Muffel to a vrey subtil Calx upon which put a high rectified Spirit of Wine Tartarized and set them to digest in Balaneo moneth then distil off the Spirit of Wine and return it on again which work of Cohobation must be reiterated seven times and then have you your foresaid Calx in a Liquor which you must set in Balneo again to digest a moneth then will it become a pure green juice most prevalent in all affects of the Brain much conducing against the Stone in Reins and Bladder and very succesful in all hot Fevers CHAP. IV. Of Out-raging Madness WHen black Choler is begot by the adustion of melancholy or bloud or yellow choler then the Mania invadeth and possesseth which comes often unto the melancholy waxing hot This black humour as likewise melancholy is collected sometimes in the films of the heart sometime in the whole body sometime in the head alone when this humour is hot it causes horrible and Out-raging doting but if it puâ—rifie Of the Causes Differences and Cure of the Mania Cap. 1. Of the Treatise of Diseases of Mad-men The Mania is a great Sottishness without a Fever it bringeth a Fever but if it only boil vehemently then it causeth a solitary Out-raging madness without a Fever and also it adjoyneth the signs The Mania is of us called a furor or Out-raging madness which immitateth the doting of the melancholick neither in thought word or deed but yet with brawling chiding and shouting as likewise the man possest with it is of a terrible look Again the Mania doth impel and possesse the patients with a greater violence and trouble and perturbation of the mind so that they invade men immodestly and fiercely like wild beasts with their teeth nâ—ils and hands The signs and proper adjuncts of those which are Out-raging are demonstrated by experience The cause in which all the Galenists insist and agree of shall be manifested by Paracelsus whether it be true or false The Mania according unto Paracelsus is twofold The one which invadeth a sound man and it is a disease the other is a symptom of a disease as in the Plague and Fevers Paracelsus in his book de morbis amentum writes in the second Chap. that the Mania rises from three principles or beginnings and in the same Chap. he divides the Mania into two kinds The one is that which rises from pain when as a vapour remains in the Head the other riseth from sublimation and is coagulated in the Head In the Cure we must respect these two causes viz. that the vapours from pain be consumed and dissipated and that that be resolved and reduced which is coagulated of sublimation The Mania hath his original either from Bloud Veins Ventricle Intestines Reins Liver Spirit of Urine and the Lungs de morb amentium cap. 2. It cannot be sufficiently known where the mine and procreant cause of the Mania is for it is an astral disease The true cause of Mania is in what part of the body soever Mercury lyeth hid and is reverberated into slime and is dissolved in very strong water which being dissolved is mixt with the spirit of life and inflames it there is such a subtileness in this strong water that it will not bide in the bottom but rises up unto the top The extreme acrimony of that humour appears from sneesing which provoking quality rises from the greatest acretion which comes to pass if any receive in at his Nostrils the smell of the spirits of Aqua fortis Salt and Vitriol This reverberation of Mercury proceeds from too much heat as for example If the spirit of Salt be mixt with the spirit of life it is of such a subtilty and power that as soon as it comes to the Brain it causes the Mania and extreme madness The Cure of the Mania is twofold the one which refrigerates and coagulates the faulting matter The other which altogether disperses and consumes the matter of which it is generated The refrigeration and coagulation of the matter faulting is caused by the curing of the Falling-sickness Receive of the oil of Camphora Ê’ of the oil of Musk Ê’ mix them and administer them at every time This medicine is most excellent in the cure of the Mania for it doth wonderfully coagulace the matter of the Mania and it extinguisheth the heat of the body and the boiling of the bloud and it altereth the matter as cold changes Water into Air. This oil may be applyed outwardly about the Templâ—s and Fore-head Also these remove the Out-raging madness by a secret specifical vertue The quintessence of Silver the quintessence of Lead the quintessence of Iron the quintessence of Quicksilver the dissolving of Christal and Coral so also the appropriate extraction of Camphora the extraction of Gold The medicines which remove the hurtful matter of the Mania are these which may be applyed either outwardly or inwardly Chief sleeping medicines the quintessence of Mandragora of Opiates of the Poppy Henbane The chief Cure of the Mania consists in Laudanum prepared with Pearl lib. 2. cap. 4. he setteth down a secret of Salt Peter which so strengthneth the Brain that neither turning of the Head nor the Phrensie nor Mania can hurt it By that Salt Peter he understands in that place distilled Salt Peter with the Spirit of Wine alcosiated and rectified Again let it be circulated untill it be made spiritual volatile and essential which essence is to be administred with claâ—ied Wine Pythopaeus says that he cured some which were Out-raging mad with the spirit of Lead Read Theophrastus Tom. 7. fol. 186. he understands by Gilla Salt Peter The said Laudanum prepared with Pearl â„ž old Opium â„¥ 4. cut it in thin slices put them in a Pewter dish so that they touch not
an inflammation of The Ophthalmia is a dolorifâ—rous tumour of the outmost pannicle accompanyed for the most part with the redness of the eye and profusion of tears bloud infused from the corners of the eyes into the whole adherent membrane by this the small veins swel and those which were obscure in the white of the eye are made conspicuous and whatsoever was white begins to wax red Chief and greatest ardour and pain afflicts him which hath often the sharp flux of tears It is very much like unto the Epiphora but they are distant amongst themselves because in the Ophthalmia only the white of the eye waxeth red but in the Epiphora the eye-lids do only wax red There be two hurts of the Eltropion eye-lids the Scab and the Itching The Eltropion of the eye-lid is an incision whereby the interiour red part remains perchance it runneth forth it is caused either from some scar or abounding of flesh The Grando is a Grando hard push rising almost in the superiour eye-lid The Hordeolum Hordeolum is a hot botch almost come unto an Imposthume bursting forth of the eye-lid The cure of the flux of the eyes For the curing of the flux and pains of the eyes the medicines are to be administred which we have mentioned in the cure of the rheum The spirit of Vitriol is most deoppilative and unobstructing for it removeth all obstructions The spirit of Sulphur consumes all the humours and fluxes of the head so also the oil of Silver Medicines for the most part of Surgeons are applyed outwardly and the inward are rejected furthermore in the curing of the painful affects of the eyes it brings nothing to pass worthy of commendation If the ancient and common proverb have place to cure all diseases by one collirium then certainly it will have place here and this The vertue of Tutia may be very fitly said of Tutia or heavier soil of brass by which Paracelsus reports that he cured not only the tumors tears and pains of the eyes but the extreme pain of the eye-lids and where the growing forth of the flesh had almost taken the sight which were thought to be desperate diseases unto those Physicians which by their The preparation of Tutia profession were called Ophthalmists The common preparing of Tutia is that a hot iron be extinguished in hot white wine Theophrast doth thus apply it take prepared Tutia put it into a linen cloth after dip it in wine Application mixt with white marble and often wash his eyes with it From Sugar or Salt of Antimony a precious balm may be made for the Ophthalmia and inflammation of the eyes so that it be before dulcorated and prepared Lithargy Tutia the Oar of Copper and Spodium may be rightly prepared by the spirit of wine or distilled Vinegar and made so mild and gentle that they will remove and take away the spots and growing out of flesh of the eyes without any pain as likewise they mitigate the inflammations and most bitter pains thereof Crato spoke very familiarly to a certain Physician The Expement of Crato that this was an excellent remedy for the eyes if that one do bruise the Lapis calaminaris and beat it into small powder and mix it with the melted marrow of an Oxe after the form of a liniment with which the shut eyes are annointed but the flux is to be washed with a sharp lixivium that itching may thereby be caused He that would know more of the affections of the eyes let him read Ophthalmodulia of George Bartchius CHAP. XII Of the Diseases of the Ears their Symptoms and their Causes THe Parotis is an inflammation which The definition of Parotis The Plegmone is a hot red and hard tumor unto our feeling and also gilstering The Oedoma is a soft tumor and white not resisting our touch but yet leaveth a hole Sev. p. 285. 286. The cause of the Parotis The mechanical process in Generation The Parotis is an Imposthum in the root of the right or the left Ear. bursteth forth especially in those kernels which are behind the Ears and their roots This hath all the notes of the inflammation of bloud both the tumor redness heat and beating pain but that sometime it comes to pass that it participates of an oedema The Galenists ascribe this to the hot humours flowing together unto that place but we ascribe it to the spirits of Arsenick that such a pestilent inflammation could be caused in the place of the kernels behind the ears for we hold it impossible that the hot afflux of humours can cause such an inflammation these seeds being resolved they produce the first vapours invested with the signatures of Fevers so also there are signatures closely contained in the superficies of such sulphureal spirits which are permixt with the vital Elements of humane anatomy they beget coldness horrour and rigour resolutions and sulphureous vapours follow which are inflammable and similar corrupting polluting Sev. p. 252. the Elements with the same signatures from hence are the alterations of the pulse thirst disdain of meat loathing vomiting restlesness watching and such other incommodities The symptoms of hearing as buzzing sounding noise and every depraved hearing The causes of buzzing and singing of the ears rise from their motion and agitation of them Those which supply the place of inward causes as they be divers and diversly impelled so they produce and cause divers sounds The buzzing of the ears is The buzzing of the ears is a proternatural sound caused within the cavities of the rocky bone caused from a little wind falling down by little and little The singing of the ears rises from the interrupted course of it Sounding rises from more crass wind bursting forth more plenteously The cracking is that which rises from a valid and strong impulse Furthermore heavy hearing and deafness rises either in the brain or in the primary organ of hearing the windings of the ear being hurt and Quoâ—citatius de medicina prisc fol. 399 100. hindered The cause which either possesses the brain or primary organ of hearing is an inflammation or hurt of the humour Hippocrates said that deafness was caused Deafness is when a man can hear nothing at all from black bloud but there is a more common original of it from crass and plegmy humour altogether seated and resting This of all others is wont to make the senses and their functions sleepy Heavy hearing and deafness which is native doth not rise from these causes but from the hurt of conformation whereby either the instrument of hearing is wanting or it attaineth a bad figure The true cure of the Parotis is this first that the boiling The cure of Parotis and inflamed spirits be extinguished and natural rest be restored unto them and this is to be done by Laudanum opiatum of Paracel But rather medicaments are to be given which expel the poison
vehemently by sweat as diaphoretical Mercury diaphoretical Gold of life the flowrs of Antimony the spirits of Tartar with the addition of Paracelsus Terra sigillata given with a quantity of Mithridatum These diaphoreticks are not once to be given but twice or thrice or four times until the poison be expelled and the sick restored unto his strength Buzzing singing cracking and sounding are to be The cure of the singing cured by the internal medicaments mentioned in the rheum It is not altogether safe to put something in the A caution ears in the heavy hearing and deafness sometime this rises from vapours existing in the instruments of hearing sometime it rises from humours and obstruction If less convenient medicaments be administred the hurt is exasperated If the hurt rise from humours let there be given unto the patient three Pils of Hierapicra or bitter confection of Galen for they extract the humours from the instruments of hearing and free the head from them Artists have a Silver crooked pipe which they put in the ear and blow through it if the patient feel a cold wind then the deafness doth not rise from obstruction Crato the Physician takes Carduus Benectictus and sprinkled it with the water of a thistle and caused it to be distilled and being put into a linen cloath he putteth it into the ear of the half deaf whether they have pain or do not hear he confesseth that he found no medicine more available than this which he hath tried Some put a drop of the oil of Turpentine in the ears and they bring it back again and by this means they free many from deafness CHAP. XIII Of the Diseases of the Nostrils their Causes and Symptoms THe Nostrils are destinated for the purging of the The Ulcers of the Nostrile brain and these have their diseases The diseases of the Nostrils consist either in an Ulcer or growing forth of some flesh in the Nostrils as also in all the parts of the body Ulcers rise But these Ulcers do not rise from the excrements of the brain and their acrimony as the â—alenists fable after this manner falling down and so by their acrimony exulcerating the Nostrils But the cause of these Ulcers is contained in the bloud and veins of the nostrils as of all other Ulcers in all the parts the universal cause is Salt which is separated from the bloud and lurketh in all the veins and all the parts it is corrosive sharp sowr and bitter The destruction of Salt saith Paracelsus de origine curatione morbor t is the cause of Ulcers there is in this Salt Arsenicks putrefactive poison The Ulcers of the Nostrils for the most part are putrid from which there falls a filthy Scab and from which there runs a stinking excrement The Ozena of Theophrastus de ulceribus The Ozena Theophrast is an Imposthum The Ozena is a putrified and stinking Ulcer of the Nostrils caused from corruption of sharp humours flowing from the Brain to the Nostrils cap. 59. is called an imposthume therefore he that hath the imposthume smells ill both to himself and those which are nigh him as also he is molested with the contagion of the obscure spirits Oftentimes daily Ulcers spread abroad which exceed and putrifie the wings of the Nostril or the place within or the tender bones thereof as also the hole they eat the pallate oftentimes with great deformity and especially if they bear the form of Cardinoma or if they be produced from the filthy lues Venerea which is most frequent The fresh Ulcers being neglected oftentimes there Sarcoma grows forth a piece of flesh which is called Sarcoma of that length that it hangs forth in the Nostrils or else the flesh falls unto the jaws and then it is called Polypus for that flesh is like to the flesh of the fish Polypus is a fleshy loose and porous tumour begot in the Nostrils besides Nature which for his many feet they call Polypus Galen de compositionibus pharmacor lib. 3. cap. 3. so also de tumore praeternaturali c. 16. Aegineta lib. 6. cap. 25. The symptoms of smelling are the diminishing and The symptoms of smelling abolishing or deoriving of swelling for smelling perisheth or is diminished the passage of Nostrils or of the bone being stopped by which breath and smells are drawn and this is done either by the Sarcoma or Polypus or inflammation of bloud or heaviness If none of these signs appear the cause of hurt ought not to be referred either to the former Ventricles of the brain or unto their couples in which the sense of smelling is In these the aboundance of humours or corruption contaminates the sense and the spirits thereof sometime about those places imposthumes are caused with no Fever and less pain from which being burst sometime a pure filth is blown forth of the nose as also there flows forth filth out of ears full of filth and that by no discommodity of health The Gravedo is a flegmy distillation into The Gravedo of the Nostrils The Corysa or Gravedo is an obstruction of the holy bone in the superiour part of the nose the bone Aâ—thmoides and his membranes effused from the parts which are about the brain or the Ventricles thereof by it the head waxeth heavy and breathing is made more difficult neither can breathing be made except with a wide and gaping mouth The voice as before sounding hath some sound and is caused in the Nostrils in the beginning little after more gross â— furthermore bloud bursts forth of the nostrils the vein being burst opened or eaten which ends there The Hemorrhagy of the Nostrils is called The Hemorrhagy of the Nostrils The Hemorrhagy is a bloud bursting forth of the Vessels by the Nostrils of Physicians a violence the veins do not go from the inmost seats of the brain into the nostrils but from the mouth and palate they are sufficiently detected and large that they may be as it were an Emissary or Pipe for the superfluous bloud for the expelling the Ulcers of the Nostrils The Ozena or imposthume is cured by the herb Aristalogy Of the cure of the Impoâ—â— hum Pliny lib. 25. cap. 13. Therneâ—s lib. 5. cap. 40. cures it with Betony Fengreek Savory the stalk of Apples and Penniroyal Those which have these Ulcers The cutting of a vein are cured by the cutting of the head-vein in the chin or end of the nose Rulandus says that such Ulcers are best cured by the oil of Lead and the sweetness of Mercury by the water of Mercury by the oil of Antimony which Paracelsus describes in his Chirurgia vulner de corruptis Vulneribus so also by the balm of iron the oil of Auripigmentum and the oil of wax Paracelsus cured the Polypus which is a stink of the nostrils by the oil of Vitriol with wax The symptoms of sinelling if that they be not caused from manifest causes are
Vitriol and Coppres are profitable to those which have the peripneumonia Mercury is very available and profitable unto the Lungs for it cures all the diseases thereof Theophrast de rebus natural alibus cap. 7. saith that the subtilty of Amoer and Ambergreece effect the same cure and there he saith that the cure of the Imposthume is made by the oil of sulphur and the spirits of Vitriol The cure of the Consumption contains in it the cure of many diseases In the true cure of the Consumption as well the particular as the universal there is great regard to be had of all the principal members namely that their tartareous obstructions and that the oppilation of the spirit of life be removed and then that help be brought unto the consumed nature that is to the liquor of life or radical moisture or inferiour heaven so that the inferiour heaven may be restored and renewed The obstruction of the members and oppilation of the spirit of life is removed by the spirit of Vitriol as it is said in the beginning The heaven is restored and renewed by the mystery of Antimony and the magistery of Pearls These two indications viz. the ablation or removal of obstruction and renovation of the heaven are contained in one root of Antimony for the essence of Antimony or admirable flowr of nature consumes all the tartareous matter and openeth all the obstructions by a specifical vertue in the next place it begets a new heaven by consuming the contrary by a fiery force and by opening the obstructions it renews all nature Paracelsus calls this transmutation of nature which bears sway in the tincture of Antimony by the name of Transplantation or Philosophical Regeneration and that truly for it transmutates the bad constitution into the best temperature and as before in the Generation of the Phthisis there is made a Transplantation from good to evil so here in the cure the temperature of the bad properties is transmutated into the temperature of the best This cure viz. Transplantation and Regeneration is to be used of a Physician in all desperate and deplored diseases Namely in all chronical acute and desperate diseases Saturn bears the Scepter but Antimony holds Saturn captive and he gives the Scepter to Antimony Read the 13. Chap. in the former Treatise it is said Every disease is caused by Transplantation so every cure ought to be made by Transplantation and Regeneration c. Paracelsus puts the effect for the cause the Silver of Mercury that is the stars of the inferiour Globe which give the Silver of Mercury Paracel in lib. 5. in cura phthisis c. by the heaven understand the stars which give There is an especial vertue for the curing of the phthisis in the liquor of Margarites which renews the heaven of the Microcosm but in removing of obstructions it doth not altogether suffice Thurnens c. 2. lib. eodem cap. 9. commends the oil of Gold the magistery of Carduus Benedictus of the herb Scabious and Betony he commends the sweet water of lead which is not coloured nor is not corroding Read Paracels Tom. 4. fol. 226. when the patient by the spirits casts forth bloud set there be administred the spirits of Turpentine with the flowrs of Sulphur And this is the true cure of the phthisis and of acute and chronical diseases The said Silver of Mercury is thus prepared â„ž Quicksilver very well purged with Salt and Vinegar dissolve it in a well rectified Aqua fortis let it settle and the Quicksilver will fall to the bottom in Crystals which grind well with oil of the Salt of Tartar made per deliquium then wash away the oil and all sharpness from it then put thereon pure distilled Vinegar and let it stand in gentle heat until the Quicksilver swim on the top of the Vinegar like leaves of Silver which take off carefully by decanting the Vinegar with that which swimmeth on the top of it from what remains in the bottom filter the decanted Vinegar through a brown paper and the Silver leaves of Mercury will remain in the paper then put the siltred Vinegar upon the other part of the Quicksilver which remained in the bottom if there be not enough of the Vinegar add some more fresh to it and proceed as before so do till you have all or most of your Quicksilver in Silver leaves and so is your Silver Mercury prepared CHAP. XVII Of the diseases of the Breast ACcording unto the Galenists the Pleurisie is a plegmon of that membrane which is extended under the ribs But according unto Paracelsus and the true Physicians it is called a pleurisie when a sharp Fever suddenly invades with a cough and a pricking pain of the side with the difficulty of breathing The The Pleurisie is a hot and painful Imposthume of the membrane within towards the cavity of the Breast compassing the Ribs pleurisie is not begot from crass or small and vicious bloud but from the seeds of Arsenick Antimony Sulphur Vitriol Auripigmentum and Woolfsbane being exalted extreme and potent having got a confluence in the tunicle compassing the ribs The symptoms are almost those which are in the peripneumonia for they rise from one and the same cause These sometimes are begot from the influences of the astrals The stars of Mars Scorpio and Cancer inquinate and infect the air with griping and biting resolutions for such stars abound with the tinctures of Arsenick Sometime there are pleurisies of the bastard ribs not because they seat themselves in the Muscles and Flesh and Liver Milt Lungs and Tunicle compassing the ribs but because the spirits which are Authors of pleurisies are obliged by strange unions for the radical tinctures of all diseases conspire amongst themselves and easily admit mixtions the Authors of Transplantation The pricking of the sides is caused either from the obstruction of the Milt and Liver or from Wind. The Empyema or suppuration is a collection The Empyema is a preternatural and copious collection of bad especially excrementitious humour in the breast especially in the Lungs and Pipes thereof of filth in the Receptacle of the breast in whose deluge or flowing the Lungs are drowned it flows thither either because it happens by the Squincy or peripneumonia or because more frequently it happeneth from the pleurisie the rest you may read in the Galenists writings The true cure of the pleurisie is almost the The true cure of the pleurisie same with the true cure of the peripneumonia for they rise from one root and at the least they are distinguished in places Paracels cured the pleurisie by the extraction of bloud forth of the interiour vein of the elbow of the same side and also by administring the spirit of tartar in their drink with the water of Balmmint and by anointing the place of their pain outwardly with the oil of Field mice furthermore he affirms that he cured many with Diaphoretick Mercury Joannes Montanus saith
Phthisis of the Ventricle or Consumption is begot in all other parts of the body so likewise in the Ventricle the cause of it is above-mentioned That all things may be made more manifest and clear the Generation in the Ventricle is this when the sides or plaits in the Ventricle are obducted and covered with tartar and the passages and pores of it be obstructed there follows an oppilation of the spirits of life and from the oppilation there insues corruption and putrifaction of the whole member from hence is the Consumption of the Ventricle of which the whole body hath a compassion and feeling and deplores the destruction most vehemently it being destitute of aliment The Convulsive Hicket is a motion of the Hicket is a Convulsive and sounding motion of the Ventricle for to expel the offensive matter contained in it Ventricle which Hippocrates affirmed to be caused either from repletion or emptiness like as the Convulsion of the members from evacuation as from the immoderate flux of bloud and from immoderate purgation from repletion as in Children and those which are addicted to surfetting These are the causes of the Hicket which are wont to be adduced besides which others more grievous do exist for oftentimes spirits or malignant and poisonful vapours cause a worse Hicket of which kind we have seen in malignant and pestilent Fevers and in the inflammation of the Liver and especially when the figure of it is straitned and the heart is overwhelmed with the vehemency and malignity of the disease There is no better remedy for the preservation of the The cure Ventricle in these diseases than the vertue and power of the Vitriol of Copper so that afterward there be made a liquor and spirit from it and this is the hungry acetocity or sowrness of it which excels in so many vertues that it will consume all things which are contained in the Ventricle whether they be tartareous or sulphureous impurities as also it will comfort and corroborate the stomach that it may be able to concoct all things as the Estrich concocts and digests iron Concerning this acetosity of Copper Paracels writ in his book de morb tartareis Chap. 16. where he distinguishes sowr things into natural things and artificial The natural sowr things are hot baths and sowrness The artificial are extracted from metalls minerals and ill juices and it is the salt of them The same is effected almost as well in the preservation as the cure by the spirit of Vitriolum Vngaricum Romanum of which Paracels writes in his book de mineralibus that it is able to cure all tartareous diseases But yet not too much of it must be taken for nimiety or too much of any thing is hurtful and an enemy unto Nature therefore it must be taken with discretion that the mouth of the Ventricle may be shut Take the root of corrected Azon powder of Betony and the sweet Cane burnt into Salt let them be powdered and mixt of which powder let him take after dinner and supper the quantity of two pease but let him drink no more The confection of Anise which is for to shut the mouth of the Ventricle is made with distilled Vinegar put into it by macerating and then exsiccating the Anise for the space of 24. hours and afterward again by macerating and exsiccating it in Vinegar and so it must be done thrice for the dosis there must be given pugillum 1. after dinner and supper for the evacuating of the Ventricle there must be given iiij grains of the slowrs of Antimony in an Electurary In the resolving and consuming of the tartareous and sulphureous matter in the Ventricle Antimony is available which purges by Vomit the Belly of the confection of Urine In the griefs of the stomach the preparation of Mastick is good Take of Mastick of the Alcool of wine of Galingal distil them through an Alembick the dosis must be smal to comfort the stomach The confection of Ginger made of the Quince-apple Diacinnamon Diatrion Pepperwort oil of Wormwood oil of Mastick Balsam of Sulphur the oil of Lawrel-Berries rectified 10. or 12. drops taken in broth looses destroyes the pain and mixeth with the peccant matter c. The Cardiaca or Cardialgia is cured by the oil and magistery of Pearls Barth Anglus lib. 16. cap. 72. so doth the Saphire stone in the same book Chap. 87. waters made of Antimony cure and mitigate this disease so also waters made of Salt Peter Thurnens in Pisone lib. 5. cap. 25. Of Musk Civet Beavers stone Unicorns horn Ivory the horn and bone of the Hart there is made an excellent medicine for the Heart-aches and such other affects Josephus Quercitanus in his answer unto Anbertus pag. 21. saith that there is the same cure of the inflammation of the Ventricle and of the Squincy or Prunella or Pleurisie c. The oil of Anise 5. drops administred in wine or other decoction and the navel being anointed with it expels the hicket Read Phrisius in speculo lib. 2. part 4. tract 2. cap. 11. Barth Anglus lib. 7. cap. 45. Alexander Benedictus lib. 12. cap. 19 20 21 22 23. The magistery of Pearls made with Origanum help the concoction so the waters or subtilties of common Salt Salgemmae and Salmaris Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. The preparation of Salt Gemm that it may strengthen the digestion in the stomach and preserve from putrifaction Take of Salt Peter and common salt which are fusible and of Salgemmae ana of Gallingal let a powder be made of them and the dâ—sis four grains in the morning with a fasting stomach Read Theophrast lib. 1. de praeparatiombus tract 4. Gilliflowrs corroborate the Ventricle and head and provoke and stir up the Appetite they also help the Liver so the water of Mint with the spirit of Vitriol CHAP. XX. Of the Hurts Causes and Signs of the Liver OBstruction is very usual unto the Liver and no The obstruction of the Liver bowel is equally unto it troubled with this disease because vena porta which is dispersed through the substance of the Liver into little branches is obstructed as also other branches not less small come from vena cava unto it by which all aliment should be transported and conveyed The obstruction is caused from tartar which obstructs the veins and hinders the course of the bloud it hath these marks heaviness and distension happeneth to the right Hypochondrium with an obtuse pain and then especially when one goes to exercise presently after meat The obstruction of the Lungs is twofold one is of the veins from whence the Dropsie is the other is of the substance from whence the phthisis and inflammation are The Galenists have left this difference unexplained and have used one for the other Theophrast lib. 1. de tartaro tract 2. cap. 3. fol. 226. when the obstruction is in the Liver then man is discoriated and his colour is changed in a dayes
about the quantity of a pease If that the sucking babes have this disease let their nurses take this medicine as also let the children take it in their milk The Curative is extracted from these which follow viz. from a piece The description of the Curative of Armenian clay crocus Martis terrasigillata strigoum Corals Haematites Tormentill Shepheards purse Plantain Bittany the yellow Gallingale Mastick Frankinsense and red Saunders Because they have almost lost their strength and have sought the Physician too late they must take the Laudanum of Paracelsus to the younger sort five grains must be given to those which are come to age ten grains must be given This is the most notable medicament whereby most dangerous symptoms are cured Read Paracels lib. 1. de morbo dissoluto The spirit of Vitriol by his sowerness kills those The Cure of the Worms worms four drops of it in broth drink or meat and the flowers of Sulphur and Salt of Sulphur do profit wonderfully The citrine Stecados boyl'd in wine expels all worms out of the belly The same is wrought by the oyl of wormwood anointed upon the Navel The oyl of bitter Almonds expels worms by bitterness Take an oxes gall whole and put it upon the Navel of the child and all the worms will fly out of the body Take earth-worms dryed and pulverised in milk or other liquor and they will expell all worms through the belly Theophrast in lib. de vermibus Cap. 10. Read the preparation of Tinn Copper and Turpentine Theophrastus bids us take against the worms embaulmed ale and drink it with wormwood So also with bruised Juniper it kills the worms Centoryexpels and kills all the worms The flowers of Maudlin decocted in wine make the worms come forth The water of the flowers of Peach and the extract of the flowers of the Birch being mixt and administred or every one given by it self expels the worms The powder of Tormentel effects the same Thurnens lib. 2. Cap. 15. in Pisone CHAP. XXVI Of the diseases of the Fundament THese diseases doe happen unto the fundament viz. Inflammation Impostume Fistula Rhagades Scissura Condyloma and Haemorrhois The inflammation is The inflammation of the fundament often wont to be caused in the fundament when the blood sends forth the flowers of the seed of Arsenick and deposes the Sulphureous Arsenical seeds in the flesh The Impostume remains from the inflammation which oftner bursts forth in the cavity of the rectum intestinum then in the skin though very much filth sooner prepares a way in the softer parts The Impostume being burst the Ulcer remains purulent and filthy and that in a short time degenerates into the Fistula The Rhagades rise from the salt of the Haemorrhoides yet it is The Rhagades are Clifts or long Cuts of the lips of the Fundament an acute salt c. There are long ulcers of the Fundament by which the laps of the compassing muscle of the straight gut are cut like to those which dilacerate the under lip hands and feet The Condyloma is a tubercle or push begot The Condyloma or Ficus is a little red tubercle about tâ—e circle of the Fundament straight in the root yet broad in the top The Haemorrhoides are the Flux of blood forth of the Orifices of those veyns which are opened in the side of the Fundament like a Wart Grape or Mulberry The Haemorrhoides is the opening of the mouth of the veyn which is in the fundament from whence the bloud flows as we see at many times of the year It is derived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the blood flows through it They call the Ficus Morsca or Morsica The Fundament falls down sometime of it self sometime by the violence of The falling of the Fundament is a hanging forth of the Gut of the Fundament without the Orifice of the Fundament avoiding and the compassing muscle of the straight gut is wholly inverted and turned The cause is the resolution or looseness of the muscle caused from the aboundant perfusion of humour by which reason it is observed that this disease is usual both to children and those which are come to years If any Inflammation happen it is to be cured by Diaphoreticks The Cure If an Ulcer remain from the Impostume when as it is not rightly cured by external medicaments it is to be cured by internal medicaments and potions The Rhagades and Condyloma are cured by the oyl of Turpentine and Cammomum and nointing of Eggs. So also by the Salt of Pellitory brought into liquor Paenotus tract de sale fol. 241. saith that the Haemorrhois and the blind and external Ficus or Marsea is cured by the water of Mercury Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. Cap. 7. So also by the water of Sulphur Pitch and Musk. So also by heâ—bs as Fengreek false Ditany Dodder and Lunary So in Pisone lib. 5. Cap. 2. anoint with the balsome of Sulphur of Rulandus Paracels de natura rerum lib. 9. not far from the end saith that this disease may be cured by the oyl of Turpentine Cammomum and eggs Let it be opened with corrosives as other ulcers but yet with such as do not hurt the straight gut as are white Vitriol Atramentum or black pitch The oyl of the Laurel and oleum Hispanicum are applied to stir up the internal Haemorrhoids The brayed Onion is good to stay the Flux of the Haemorrhoides Hogs Fennil applied after the manner of an emplaister and Rubifolia administred with the nointed fruit of Palm are good for the same Read Theophrastus lib. 1. praeparat tract 11. The oyl of Corals and the oyl of Iron have the preheminency in this cure and they are true medicaments from anatomy and signed art In the curing of the falling down of the fundament astringent Medicines are to be administred Take of the Armenian earth prepared of Mastick the blossome of the wild Pomegranat Capula Acorn and Sage mix them and make a powder sprinkle this powder upon a linnen cloth and put it in the fundament and thereby the ligaments of the Fundament are strengthened and the gut Colon which went forth The said Oyl of Iron is thus prepared â„ž good spirit of Salt and as much true spirit of Vitriol distill them over together and look well to your fire leâ—t the glass break in that double spirit dissolve clean filings of Needles filter the solution through brown paper then put it in a glass Cucurbite set thereon an Alembick lute a large receiver to it then give fire by degrees distilling first the fleam then with stronger fire the Spirits so long as any will come over then let it cool and in the Alembick you shall find flowers which set in a cool and moist air and they will dissolve into pure red Oyl which keep for you use CHAP. XXVII Of the Diseases of the Reins their causes and signs FEw diseases happen unto the
pease is effective because the decoction of red pease is very diuretick and wholsome to those which are troubled with the stone The black pease cures poisons and bruises the stone The seed of the herb Saxifrage and White-plant especially cures the stone of the reyns There are some gums which expel the stone as the gum of Cherry trees drunk with wine There are some stones as Lyncurias which heals the stillicidium or dropping of urine and being drunk expels the stone So also there are some herbs and roots as Sorrel Seaholm Betony Vervin Scordion Mugwort the root of Dogs tooth Sperage Penniroyal Five finger grass the rozen of the Fir tree water Nosemart the root of the lesser Pimpernel and the root of the Nettle got in a dry place so the bloud of the Goat breaks the Adamant as also the Stone so also the powder of a Hare a Hedge-sparrow burnt glass the Lark the stone in the bladder of a Bore the little bone taken forth of the hinder joynt of the Hare the bones of the Medlar Stonecrop the gum of plums Corals and little stones of the Lobster-fish and those stones which are found in the heads of some fishes the shells of eggs forth of which young ones are excluded CHAP. XXVIII Of the diseases of the Bladder Causes and Signs THe bladder is more often affected The strong passion of the bladder is nothing but a straightnesse caused in the neck of the bladder from an obstructing stone with the Stone but very seldom with the Inflammation and Impostume sometime with the Exulceration The stone of the bladder is twofold 1. is in uncoth parts that is that which depends of the excrement of meat and drink which is conveyed from the ventricle to the reyns and from thence to the bladder The 2. is a tartar which proceeds from the salt of urine of bloud and it proceeds from the excrement of tartar or flesh The stone of the bladder is generated from the salt of urine by the Element of fire of the Microcosm The Galenists affirm the cause of this to be crass and crude juice which flows through the veyns with the urine into the cavity of the bladder where it sticks as dregs and being dryed by the heat of the place it becomes a stone Fernelius leaving their opinion saith that he found that Lib. 6. de part morb Sympt Cap. 13. every stone contained in the bladder attracts some beginning from the reyns from which it falls with a Nephritical pain if it be greater it sticks a while in the bladder and for the most part it persists and stays there and is augmented there by the aboundance of excrements which stick there untill it become a perfect and confirmed stone Read the signs of the inflammation stone and exulceration in the Galenists Diabetes Diabetes is an immoderate avoiding of urine accompanied with great thirst that is a passing is a flux of urine it is so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is passing or flowing The Diabetes is caused from the tartar of the reyns when the reyns are alltogether obstructed with tartar that tartar or coagulated matter desires moisture which when it hath attracted it the mechanical spirits of things are inquinated and corrupted with tartareous and styptical tinctures so that they cannot separate pure things from impure things but they transmit crude matter unto the bladder and expel urine as an excrement The Ischuria is contrary to this because Ischuria is a preternatural and involuntary retention of urine with an impotency to piss the urine is alltogether supprest neither is any urine avoided One cause of this suppression is astriction or obstruction and Stranguria is a frequent and painful provocation to piss with the avoiding of urine by drops this proceeds from tartar The Stranguria is a droping of urine when as urine is made by drops it is sometime with much endeavour but with no pain sometime with a vehement pain but in vain That which is made by drops is called the Ischuria that which burns and pricks is called Dysuria The Dysuria is a difficulty of urine when Dysuria is a difficult avoiding of urine forth of the bladder as urine is avoided hardly and not without pain Theophrastus lib. 1. paragr writes that the Dysuria proceeds from the most sharp tartar of the stomack The Styptical and most sharp flowers of tartar being resolved in the stomack are permixt with the aliments and conveyed with them unto the bladder Michelus in his Chymical Apology fol. 209. saith you Galenists call the tartareous resolution of the blood sometime the Exulceration of the reyns sometime the Putrefaction of the bladder sometime the Apostem of the reyns sometime the Stone of the bladder because you see slimy things bloudy crass and stinking evacuated with the urine with great pain Theoph. in tract de tartare de morbis tartareis Cap. 21. saith that there is not a more excellent medicine for the consummated stone then crystal and these words he had added he is happy which can prepare it this is the preparation Take of Crystal of sal Armoniacum pulverize them and elevate them after the manner of the Spagirians and that seaven times extract Ascali from this elevated and sublimated crystal let the dosis with distilled water be in the water of Petrosiline c. The salt of tartar and the oyl of tartar which is of a golden colour will effect the same so also take a little March Hare and dip it in Rhenish wine untill she be suffocated and dye then burn the whole substance of it in a Pipkin give of this powder with a modicum of theriaca unto the patient before he go into the bath after he comes out of the bath let him make water before he eat or drink and then the patient shall find the stone resolved wonderfully he may also take this powder with the water of Parsley The Crabfish expels the sand and stone of the bladder and reyns very effectively he that useth it often need not fear the stone Theophrastus lib. de renib Cap. 15. burn the bloud A most certain experiment and the skin of a Hare in an incocted pipkin that they may be bruised to powder give a spoonful to the patient in hot water in the morning with a fasting stomack the stone being liquified and resolved is avoided with the urine We have seen this and therefore not to be doubted of he that doubteth let him make an experiment and let him put a most hard stone in hot water and a spoonful of his powder and the stone will presently resolve with an admirable virtue which is beheld in the powder So also take the stone cut out of mans bladder Theophrast tract 2. de morbis ex tartaro saith bruise it in a mortar extract the oyl by the Alembicum as the oyl of philosophers of which give in white wine for the space of 14. days every morning and evening
of the menstruum that the menstruums may flow forth according to the prescript of â—ature which thing is effected by the essence of Gold or as Paracelsus speaks the rozen of Gold it also cures the Cancer in all the parts both of men and women The essence of Mercury and Coral the secret of Antimony and the liquor of the Philosophers effect the same The Schirrhus is expell'd by the dissolution expulsion and consumption of tartar and that from Anatomy and signed at Copper cures all the affects of the Womb and the essence of the Vitriol of Copper doth the same for Copper bears dominion over the womb and privities Nature it self expels the mass The essence of the Vitriol of Copper doth cure the Inflammation as also the Dropsie most excellently The essence of common salt of Sal maris and Sal gemmae effects the same The essence of Mercury cures the Rhagades the Condyloma the Haemorrhoides both in womans privity and the fundament they are also cured by the essence of Sulphur oyl of Cammomil and oyl of Eggs. The said essence of the Vitriol of Copper is thus prepared â„ž filings of Copper put them in a copper vessel and moisten them well with strong vinegar set them in gentle heat or in the Sun till they be dry then moisten them again with vinegar and dry them as before so do four times let them be very well dryed at the last Then with hot water wash away all their green Tincture filter that green water an â—in the paper will remain a yellow earth which may be kept for other uses the green filter'd water coagulate on gentle heat till it become thick and having sufficient quantity of that thick juice distill it by degrees of fire so will ascend a thick substance sticking to the Alembick which then you must take off and with a stick put it down again into the Cucurbite and so you must do as oft as it ascendeth and when it will rise no more but remain in the bottom of the Cucurbite then let it cool take it out and by Retort distill in strong fire the stronger the better then will ascend first a white sour spirit then a yellow sour spirit and lastly some bloud red drops with a white cloud when no more will come over then let it cool take then all that distilled over put it in a Cucurbite and with gentle heat distill off all the spirit make not your fire so strong as to force over any of the yellow spirit and a thick substance will remain behind a blackish red matter which extract with a well rectified spirit of wine as often with fresh spirit as it tingeth it red then distill both together by Retort and afterwards separate the spirit of wine in gentle Balneo and so have you the essence of the Vitriol of Copper CHAP. XXXI Of the Symptoms and Causes of the Womb. PAracels lib. 11. paragr fol. 412 saith The superfluous Flux of the Menstruum is an immoderate and preternatural evackation of menstruous bloud forth of the veins of the Matrix which brings an hurt to the whole body that there are two diseases in the Matrix viz. Retention and Superfluity the menstruum is an excrement of the Matrix c. The superfluity of the menstruum's vacuation is caused from the poyson of Mars which is the fountain and original of The Gonorrhaea is a preternatural and involuntary Flux of seed forth of thei vessels all fluxes The Gonorrhaea is a dissolution or paralysis of the genital members Cap. 8. de gutta It is called the strangling of the womb the Suffocation of the Matrix because it strangles the spirits of the members with poyson lying in the Matrix as in the centre and bursting forth Thurnens in herbario fol. 12. saith that it is a species of the Epilepsie Paracels fol. 71. 81. calls it the falling disease of the matrix You may read more in Paracels lib. de amentibus titled de suffocatione intellectus So also de caducis lib. 2. part â— de caduco matricis Paracels lib. de Icteritia cap. 2. annotat The precipitation and suffocation The Suffocation of the matrix is a preternatural ascending of the womb towards the superiour parts hindring the motion of the Diaphragma is nothing else than a Jaundise of the Matrix You may read the cure of them both in the same place Cap. 3. fol. 353. 354. lib. de caduco 9. de caduco matricis fol. 416. Paracels in his archidox sets down the magistery of the milt of an oxe for a specifical medicament The Cure of the Matrix for to provoke the menstruum in the suppression this he faith is a most excellent medicament The essence of Corals the oyl of Iron or potable Iron have the Pre-eminence in restriction or binding Paracels rehearses in his cures that a certain woman had the Flux of the menstruum very long and so abundantly that she often fell into a deliquium animi and he cured her with the oyl of Vitriol in the water of Plantain and of Corneola The magistery of the Loadstone from anatomy and the signed art effects the same in the Flux of the menstruum the stellicidium or dropping and the white Flux of the womb The diseases of Mars are those which are perfectly cured by the spirit of Iron existing in the Loadstone The specifical medicine is Arsemart Shepherds purse put in the shoes Laudanum Perlatum without the musk of aramanthis drunk in white wine restrains the aboundance of menstruum Mathiolus in Dioscordium commends the preparation of Corals for the restraining of the menstruum and Flux Read I heophrast tract 3. praeparat lib. 1. tract 2. Trochisks of terra sigillata stay all the Fluxes of bloud as also the Haemorrhoids the Gonorrhaea in women is cured in women as likewise in men by the magistery of Pearls from the signed art of the Heaven for the Margarites and Pearls are begot from seed that poisonful matter which follows the lues Venerea pertains to the cure of the lues Venerea The root of Briony which hath boyled in wine is profitable for the strangling of the Matrix Matthiolus says I knew a woman obnoxious almost every day for many years unto the Strangling of her privity and she was cured by drinking white wine in which the root of Briony had boiled after she went to bed and she used this medicament for a years space and afterward she felt no annoyance or hurt Three drops of the spirit of the Vitriol of Copper taken in liquor is a most excellent medicament against all the affects of the matrix So also take Sal armoniacum and a little more of Saffron pulverise them and give it in wine It is certain and approved that Harts-horn pulverised and given in hot wine is effective and profitable in the Cholick of the Matrix so also terra sigillata given with hot wine is very profitable A specifical remedy of the