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A06401	An easie, certaine, and perfect method, to cure and preuent the Spanish sicknes Wherby the learned and skilfull chirurgian may heale a great many other diseases. Compiled by Peter Lowe, Arellian: . . .	Lowe, Peter, ca. 1550-ca. 1612.	1596 (1596)	STC 16872; ESTC S109939	58,902	42

for it is an enemy to thys dysease vse onely the decoction of Gaiac Salsparill or Chine according to the temperature of the diseased Vse a little exercise for rest is hurtfull except there be great payne in the ioynts or in some other part Let not the exercise be violent for it dissolueth the naturall heate sleepe not long because it fills the head with vapors VVe must also obserue the passions of the minde chiefely mellancholy Be alwaies merry for then the naturall heate doth preuaile and so helpeth much to the cure Greefe feare and anger do much hinder the operation of the Medicines We must take heed to the excrements that the vapors ascend not to the head and other principal parts So the Patient must haue often Clysters made after thys manner Recipe maluae Althea violarea et Mercurialis an ma. i. Beulliant ad lib. 1. Addendo olei Violati vnc quat Cassiae vnc i. Salis drag i. fiat Clyster Which you must vse at the least euery three dayes or euery foure dayes foure drams of my confection Next vnder the Pharmacie we shall obserue all kindes of medicins taken inwardlie namely Decoction Syrrops Aposymes Iuleps Purgations Conserues Electuaries Clysters Gargarismes Pessers and Baths which shall be made onely of running water warmwise which we call Balneum aquaedulcis yet ye may copose it according to the diuersity of the accidents and temperature of the diseases as ye shall heare at large in my surgery in the chapter of Baths Yet commonly we make them of water wherein is put Mallowes Violets Pellitory of the wall Fumitory Patience Plantine Cammomell Mellelot dry Roses of each a handfull and it shall be well done to seeth those hearbs a little before you put them in the Bath The Medicins which be applyed outwardly are comprehended vnder the Pharmacy like as oyntments playsters Serots Oyles Kataplasmes Embrocations Fomentations Epythemes Sassats Synapismes and Perfumes the which things must be vsed according to the kind of the sicknes for to take away the euill humor contayned in the body But first the body and humors must be prepared with conuenient remedies as hereafter you shall heare to the end the euacuation may be the easier surer First of all the body shall bee gently purged with Confection Hamet or some such lyke thing the next day open the vaine most apparant a reasonable widenes if there be plenitude Afterward vse the remedies set downe by Ioh. Deuigo cap. de morbo Gallico for the preparation of the humors or this that followeth Recipe Syru de fumo terrae minori vnc 1. de succo Endiuiae drag 6. Aquary Endiuiae capil ven et fumit vnc 1. The Patient shal vse of thys the space of three or foure dayes one ounce euery day two howres before meate Afterward he shall be purged with thys medicine Recip sol senae mund vnc ss sem foenic. dulcis drag 1. Bullian in s q. decocti pectora Et in col dissole diapr sol drag 2. Syr. ros sol ex agar sena vnc 1. fiat potio quam cap. 3. horis ante insculum Afterwarde hee shall bathe himselfe 3. or 4. dayes and sweat a little in the bed when he is come out of the bath These things being done he shall vse thys syrrop the space of fiue or sixe dayes Re. Fumit cicor capil ven Enula Camp Buglossi Endiuiae an m. 1. ss Pollitrei m. ss Polipod passul Sebesten an vnc 1. Prunor. dam. num 25. Pomor acetosori vnum tantum parum conquassatu●● vini Granatori lib. ss Aquam Endiuiae Fumit Buglossi an lib. 1. ss Bulliant omnia secundū artem ad consumpt tertiae partis deinde colentur Et col add Zacli q. 5. Cum vnc 2. Succi Fumit et Endiuiae De quo patiens sumet in aurora vnc 1. ss Vel vnc 2. Cum aquis capil ven et Endiuiae atque Fumiterrae The humors being so prepared the body shall bee purged after thys manner Recipe Cathol drag 10. dissol in decoct cicor Agrim Borag in quo bullierint fol. Senae drag 2. Cum sem foenic. dulcis addendo syr Ros Pallidari vnc ss fiat potio sumenda 3. horis insculum The next day hee must bee let blood in the Basilike or median dexter These things beeing well performed are very needfull for the preparation of the humors And these things must alwaies be vsed before the generall cure The Chirurgian which is the thyrd putteth in execution these thinges if hee be learned and wise as hee ought and well furnished with things belonging to his Art knowing not only the Chirurgery but also the principles of Phisick as well in the Theorick as Practick by reason that it is requisite for him to ordaine both dyet and pharmacy otherwise hee is vnperfect Gallen saith in his introduction to Phisick that Pharmacie hath neede of Diet and Chirurgerie in lyke manner Chirurgerie hath need of Diet and Pharmacie There are three other things to be obserued of the Chirurgian to wit the essence the cause and symptoms of the maladie as ye haue heard the diuesitie of the temperatures and the fit remedies for curing hereof for these things beeing vnknowne the true cure hardlie followeth but onely by hazard and not by rules of Arte as the blind man casteth his staffe For these causes wee must not meruaile at the malignitie and crueltie of thys sicknesse nor the sore torments of the sick for there are manie euill disposed persons in all Countries who endanger a great manie Patients by not vsing of fit remedies taking one medicine for all sorts of this disease which is much against reason For according to the temperature and nature of the parties diseased the remedie must bee changed as Gallen hath written at large in his bookes De locis affectis There are also many who professe to knowe secrets and diabolick charmes for curation hereof but all such things are false the Authors there of are worthie to be most greeuously punished for such things cause the sicknes to waxe more rebellious so that hardlie afterwards it obeyeth anie remedie and then the poore Patient dieth most miserably These things happen by not knowing the nature of the maladie and remedies not the varietie of the bodies and the nature of the partie infected VVee must vnderstand that strong people as Labourers Marriners and such as are vsed to sore labour endure more violent remedies stronger euacuations then those which are weaker and more delicate as women sick folks tender children Eunuches and such like for such persons the medicine must be gentler and the euacuations lesse otherwise in vsing of strong remedies ye put them in danger of death Heereby it may easilie appeare that according to the temperature we must diuersifie the remedies for in sanguine and chollerick complexions we must vse other medicins then in the phlegmatick and melancholick So that those which say they haue secrets and drinks for all sorts are rather to be

it is excellent for dislocations that happen of internall causes it both dryeth and comforteth We read that Charles the fift Emperour being greeued with the Gout was cured by the decoction hereof It is reported by men of credite that in Countries where it groweth it healeth the Spanish sicknes and all the symtoms that follow thereof without vsing any other remedy We see by experience that it far passeth Gaiac It hath vertue to make fat those that are leane as commonly they are who haue been tormented with this sicknesse These vertues and sundry other are sette downe by Garcius Abortus Mediciner to the Vice-roy of the Indies It may bee giuen to all ages and temperatures also in Feuers which may not be doone with Gaiac There is another kind of it brought out of Florida which is not altogether of such vertue as thys The 10. Chapter Of the nature of Quick-siluer and the true preparation thereof IFinde great diuersitie of opinions amongst the Auncients touching Quicksiluer for the most part esteeme it to be cold and humide Auicen in his second canon noteth it to be cold and moyst in the second degree Gulielmus Placentinus Arnaldus de villa nouae and Placarius thinks it to be cold in the fourth degree which may easily be perceiued for it is troth that it repelleth the humor from the circumference to the centre causeth by the great coldnes hereof Palsie and trembling and the members to be inflexible as sayth Plinie Dioscorides and Palmarius Auicen saith that it causeth a stincking breath with dimnes of the sight falling of the teeth which we see to be true in such as haue thys sicknes and haue often been rubbed therewith Some esteeme it to bee hote and dry but few approued Authors are of that opinion There are two kinds of it naturall and artificiall the naturall is found in the vaines and denns of the earth as sayth Plinie and Dioscovides and is called by them Hydargirus It is found also amongst Mettals as reporteth Dioscarides in his first booke The artificiall is made of Minium and scrapings of Marble as writeth Vitruvius in his seauenth booke of his Architecture Some of it is found drawn out of Lead and is easily knowne from the other being of cullor browne and black and of substance thick leauing some rest behind like the excrements of Leade which is not meete forthys purpose That which is cleane white and subtile is good Neuerthelesse hauing chosen the most proper for our vse it must be yet prepared and purified after this sort folowing First you shal take so much of it as you will vse and boyle it 6. or 7. howres in water putting in such things with it as haue the vertue to coroborate comfort the parts netuouse as also to purifie it like as Sage Rosemary Camomell Melilot Tyme with other neruall hearbs That being done straine it through a cloth then after extinguish it according to the maner which you shall heare hereafter and incorporate it with a little Swines greace Being well compounded you must melt it on the fire thē taking it of you shal perceiue the Quicksiluer seperated from the greace the excrement and leaden substance shall remaine in the same greace Hauing so done you shall strayne it through a peece of Leather to the end that it may be very pure then after extinguish it againe to the effect that you may the better incorporate it with other Swines greace or with such medicaments as you shall heare If you will haue your oyntment white and neither blacke nor gray you must make it after thys order insuing Take your Quicksiluer and beate it in a morter with Vinegar and salt then poure out that Vinegar and salt and put in new and so beat it with 3. or 4. sundry shyftings and so your oyntment shall be white But to extinguish the same you must put into the morter with it a little syrop of Roses or oyle of Petroly or iuyce of Lemmons or fasting spittle or a little oyntment wherein Quicksiluer hath beene put for that is the best and will soonest extinguish it Then beate them together till such time as there be not any apparence of the Quicksiluer least that beeing not well extinguished it should returne to the old forme So being well quenched as is requisite you shall make your oyntment hauing likewise prepared the Swines greace in thys manner Melt it on the fire and boyle it with the hearbs before mentioned or with others of like vertue beeing all chopped small then all being boyled together you shall straine it through a cloth and mingle with it a little Iris of Florence which wil take away the sauour of the greace then after compose the oyntment thus Recipe axungiae suilae lib. 1. olei Cammomillae et Anetini an vnc i. Radicum anulae parum cōtrito vnc quat therebentinae venetae vnc ss Argenti viui preparati vnc quat Incorporentur omnia simul spatio viginti quatuor horarum fiat linementum vt decet I vse alwayes in stead of the Swines greace the oyntment called Rosatum meseuis and put to one pound of thys oyntment fiue ounces of Quicksiluer oyle of Bayes and Anniseede of eyther halfe an ounce so with that I gyue euery day one friction or once in two dayes according to the temprature and strength of the Patient the which must be considered by the skilfull Chirurgian The 11. Chapter Of the generall cure of the Spanish sicknes AS for the curing of thys disease it shall be requisite to vse all the 3. parts of Phisicke which are Chirurgery Dyet and Pharmacy first of all we must obserue the dyet which is the forme of life for as Auicen sayth the disordered course of life may corrupt the best complexion being well gouerned may correct the worst Then let vs begin the cure of thys disease by good gouernment of lyfe in the sixe vnnaturall things which are the ayre the meate and drinke and all that wee vse for our sustenance the motion and rest of our body vnder the which is comprehended venerie sleepe and waking the retention and repletion the affections of the minde these thinges must be obserued for without the obseruation of them it will be hard to cure this sicknes The ayre must be cleane pure and temperat The meate ought to bee nourishing and of easie digestion that neither ingenders thicke nor sharpe humors It must be more dry then moyst abstayning from fish salt flesh all kinde of spyces and fruites because these ingender euill humors Abstaine also from all manner of Pulse as Pease and Beanes also from Beefe Swines flesh Goats Hares and Rammes flesh from all sort of Water-foule Onyons Colewoort and all kind of rootes these are hurtfull and breede euill blood Eate onely Mutton Veale Kid Chickins Doue Partridge such like you may also vse the broth of them Your bread must be of Wheate eyther Bisket or at the least well baked Abstaine from Wine