the Law 3 And sutable to what Truths the Gospel holds forth To which is added The Misery of those Men that have their Portion in this Life only on Psal 17.14 5 A Treatise of Earthly-mindedness Wherein is shewed 1 What Earthly-mindedness is 2. The great Evil thereof on Phil. 3. part of the 19. verse Also to the same Book is joyned A Treatise of Heavenly-mindedness and walking with God on Gen. 5.24 and on Phil. 3.20 6 An Exposition on the fourth fifth sixth and seventh Chapters of the Prophesie of Hosea 7 An Exposition on the eighth ninth and tenth Chapters of Hosea 8 An Exposition on the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth Chapters of Hosea being now compleat 9 The Evil of Evils or the exceeding sinfulness of sin on Job 16.21 10 Precious Faith on 2 Pet. 1.1 11 Of Hope on 1 John 3.3 12 Of Walking by Faith on 2 Cor. 5.7 Mr. Burroughs his fifty nine Sermons on Matth. 11.28 29 30. Are Printing A Godly and Fruitful Exposition on the first Epistle of Peter By Mr. John Rogers Minister of the word of God at Dedham in Essex Mr Rogers on Naaman the Syrian his Disease and Cure Discovering the Leprosie of Sin and Self-love with the Cure viz. 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Touching the Structure understand in short it was my desire to bring into a smal compass the Brief delination of al diseases in a manner with their signs causes differences and Cure that the diligence of the forenamed Authors might be joined hereunto Among Diseases I thought fit to put external ones in the first place both because t is fit to begin with such things as are best known to sence and because t is thought the first practice of Physick that ever was was conversant about them Chiron is reckoned to have been the first Physitian that ever was and had his name from the most excellent skil in Chyrurgery I have marshalled the Signâ— before the Causes that I might assist the natural method of humane Conception in the finding out of things when this or that symptom is related I enquire into other signs The disease being known I proceed
Culpepers Idea of Practical Physick THE Idea Of Practical Physick IN TWELVE BOOKS VIZ. 1 The Art to preserve Health 2 Of the Preternatural Disorders of Mans Body and their Signs 3 Of Medicaments 4 Of the Art of Healing 5 Of the general Cure of Diseases 6 Of External Diseases 7 Of Feavers 8 Of Head Diseases 9 Of Middle-belly Diseases 10 Of Lower-belly Diseases 11 Of Venemous Diseases 12 Of Childrens Diseases These Twelve Books are of excellent Use for all yong Students in Physick They contain the Marrow of all the Works of Daniel Sennertus and Fernelius and twenty five Physitians more mentioned in the Authors Epistle They are of so high esteem with many Learned Doctors of Physick that they have been read by them to their Scholers as the best extant in their kind Written in Latin by John Johnston Professor of Physick in the famous City of FRANCFORT And Englished By Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology And W R. LONDON Printed by Peter Cole Printer and Book-seller at the Sign of the Printing-Press in Chornhil near the Royal Exchange 1657. The Printer to the Reader Courteous Reader FInding by Experience how hardly such Gentlemen as Study Physick in our Mother tongue are induced to read with patience and consideration the Speculative Rules of the said Art both as I conceive because of the seeming difficulty thereof compared to books of mere Practice and because of the undue hast that the foresaid Gentlemen are wont to make to practice upon the sick moved by Covetousness Vain-glory or I know not what other evil spirit not knowing or little considering how much the Reading of some such good Book is necessary to enable a Man to Practice By which unhappy error they prove rather Empyricks and Quacksalvers than rational Physitians which nevertheless they would willingly be thought to be to remedy so great a mischief I have diligently sought and at last by direction of my good Angel found such an Institution so coupled with practice and such a practice so walking hand in hand with an Institution such a practical Institution and Institutional practice and both in so cleare a Method so witty and concise a stile and furnished with such ample and delightful variety of al things any way concerning the contemplative or practical part of Physick that I have al the Reason in the World to hope the publication hereof wil prove an effectual Remedy to the foresaid very grievous malady acquainting the mere English Physitian with such skil in the Theory of his Art as he hath hitherto nauseated to receive from any thing yet published in our Language I need not spend time to praise our Author this learned ingenious polite Piece of his wil sufficiently do that which he being chose Professor of Physick in the far renowned City of Francfort See the Authors own Epistle following the Catalogue of Books by me Printed and not able to read his Lectures because of some troubles there did publish to supply that defect as the best manuduction to young students into that noble Art And it is become of so high esteeme beyond the Seas that the learned Professor of Physick at Leipsich Dr. John Micael did use to bring it up into his Pulpit as his Physical Bible if I may so say out of which he daily read his text and made Sermons of that Art to his admiring Disciples What remains Courteous Reader but that thou meet my Endeavours for thy good and the good of my Country with a chearful Countenance and a joyful Heart and to take heed thou be none of those Fooles Who have a price in their hand to get wisdom but have no Heart to it Prov. 17.16 But I have better hopes of thee Friendly Reader though many such there are in the World Farewel Thy Friend to Serve thee if thou please Peter Cole The Names of Books printed by Peter Cole Printer and Book-seller of London and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange Twelve new Boosk in one Volum of Nich. Culpeper All called the Idea of Practical Physick 1 The art to preserve Health 2 The preternatural disorder of mans body and their Signs 3 Of Medicaments 4 Of the art of Healing 5 Of the general Cure of Diseases 6 Of External Diseases 7 Of Feavers 8 Of Head Diseases 9 Of milde Belly Diseases 10 Of Lower belly Diseases 11 Of Venemous Diseases 12 Of Childrens Diseases Twenty seven Books of Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrologie formerly published The first seventeen Books Are al called the Practice of Physick Wherein is plainly set forth The Nature Cause Differences and several sorts of Signs Together with the Cure of al Diseases in the Body of Man Being a Translation of the Works of that Learned and Renowned Doctor Lazarus Riverius now living Councellor and Physitian to the present King of France Above fifteen thousand of the said Books in Latin have been sold in a very few Yeers having been eight times printed though al the former Impressions wanted the Nature Causes Signs and Differences of the Diseases and had only the Medicines for the cure for them as plainly appears by the Authors Epistle 18. A Sure Guide to Physick and Chyrurgery That is to say The Arts of Healing by Medicine and Manual Operation Being an Anatomical Description of the whol body of Man and its parts with their Respective diseases demonstrated from the Fabrick and use of the said Parts In Six Books of Riolanus translated and adorned with an hundred eighty four Figures cut in Brass 19 Veslingus Anatomy of the Body of Man Wherein is exactly described the several Parts of the Body of Man illustrated with very many larger Brass Plates than ever was in English before 20 A Translation of the New dispensatory made by the Colledg of Physitians of London Whereunto is added The Key to Galens Method of Physick 21 The English Physitian enlarged being an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the vulgar Herbs of this Nation wherein is shewed how to cure a mans self of most Diseases incident to Mans Body with such things as grow in England and for three pence charge Also in the same Book is shewed 1 The time of gathering al Herbs both Vulgarly and Astrologically 2 The way of drying and keeping them and their Juyces 3 The way of making and keeping al manner of useful Compounds made of those Herbs The way of mixing the Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease and the part of the Body afflicted 22 A Directory for Midwives or a Guide for Women Newly enlarged by the Author in every sheet and illustrated with divers new Plates 23 Galens Art of Physick with a large Comment 24 A New Method both of studying practising and Physick 25 A Treatise of the Rickets being a Disease common to Children wherein is shewed 1 The Essence 2 The Causes 3 The Signs 4 The Remedies of the Disease
to the variety of Causes I have endeavored to reduce al to the Differences both that the disease might be thereby more exactly known and the diversity of the Cure more accurately expressed If you shal ask what Authors I follow you may please to take notice that I did long since Collect this Introduction to the Practice of Physick out of the Volums of Daniel Sennertus that most renowned Physitian whose method and order I do now also welneare in al things follow With him I have compared Fernelius Joel Capivaccius Liddelius Aquapendens Petraeus Ferdinandus Fabricius Martinus Collutius Fracastorius Fallopius Quercetanus Zacutus Lusitanus Crucius Platerus Septalius Heurnius Ferrandus Hochstetterus Untzerus Mynsichtus Beckerus Hart-mannus Stockerus and others al which you shal find cited in their places As for Medicaments I have set down those which I have found most highly commended by the best Physitians Nor have I concealed such as in my Travels I have obtained from certain brave men nor such as I found in the Study of Mattheus Vechnerus of blessed memory cheife Physitian to the King and my Father in Law such a Physitian as this Country of ours has hardly afforded his equal and which makes most of al to his praise a man void of Dissimulation Boasting and pompous haughtyness of mind And many times I have only pointed at the Medicaments by naming them and their Authors that I might thereby provoke young Students to read the said Authors and least that if I should have set them down at large young persons would have abused them by a dangerous presumption Concerning the Use what it is and when the student is to employ the same I shal now speak As to the former you have here an Introduction into those vast works of Saxonia Mercatus Massaria Capivaccius Radius Sennertus touching the diseases of Mans body This work wil serve instead of a book of common-places into which al that a man reads may be referred as to an Index whether they be such things as I have not touched or serving to correct some error for I beleeve I may easily have erred enlargement or clearing up of what is said As to the latter the student of Physick is first to be wel read in the Speculative Rules of the Art before he Practice Also he is to have skil in the Nature of Plants Minerals Anatomy and Chimistry And this is that which I thought fit to acquaint thee with Studious Reader Farewel THE CONTENTS OF ALL THE TWELVE BOOKS OF THE Idea of Practical Physick PROLOGUE BOOK I. Of that part thereof which we cal Hygieine TItle I. Of things not Natural in General 1 Chap. I. Touching things not Natural that are assumed or taken into the body 2 Article I. Of the Air. ibid Article II. Of Meat 5 Point 1. Of the differences of Meats ibid Point 2. Of the sorts or kinds of Meats 7 Point 3. Of Sauces bread and the time of Eating 16 Article III. Of Drink 18 Chap. II. Of Non-natural things done by a Man 20 Chap. III. Of Non-natural things externally used 23 Chap. IV. Of Non-natural things which are voided and retained 24 Title II. Of the Method of preserving Health ibid Chap. I. Of preservation of Health in general ibid Chap. II. Of preservation of Health in special and first of the good Habit. 25 Article I. Of preserving the Health of wel habited persons ibid Point 1. Of preserving the Health of Infants Children and youths ibid Point 2. Of preserving the Health of middle-aged persons 89 Point 3. Of preserving the healths of old People ibid Article II. Of preserving the Health of Intemperate persons 26 BOOK II. Treating of the Preternatural Affections or Disorders of Mans Body and their Respective Signs TItle I. Of a Disease in general 1 Chap. I. Of the Nature of a Disease ibid Chap. II. Of the Diagnostick signs of a Disease 4 Chap. III. Of the Diseases Event or Issue 6 Title II. Of the Causes of Diseases 11 Chap. I. Of the internal Causes in general ibid Chap. II. Of the internal Causes of diseases in special 12 Article I. Touching Humors ibid Point 1. Concerning Humors offending in Quantity or a Plethora so called ibid. Point 2. Of Humors offending in Quality or Cacochymia so called ibid. Point 3. Of Humors offending in their Motion Place and whole Substance 13 Article II. Of Winds 14 Article III. Of things totally against Nature ibid Title III. Of Symptomes 15 BOOK III. Touching Medicaments TItle I. Of Medicaments in general 1 Title II. Of the sorts of Medicaments and their Differences 3 Chap. I. Of simple Medicaments ibid Article I. Of such Medicaments as are dug out of the Earth ibid Article II. Of Vegitable Medicaments 4 Article III. Of animal Medicaments 8 Article IV. Of Medicines taken from the Body of Man or the little World 9 Chap. II. Of Compound Natural Medicaments 9 Article I. Of the Medicinal Wels. ibid Article II. Of Baths 10 Chap. III. Of Compound artificial Medicaments in general 11 Chap. IV. Of Compound artificial Medicines in special 12 Article I. Of Internal Medicamedts ibid Point 1. Of internal fluid Medicaments ibid Point 2. Of internal solid Medicaments 14 Point 3. Of internal Medicaments of a middle Consistence 15 Article II. Of external Medicaments 16 Point 1. Of external fluid medicaments ibid Point 2. Of external solid medicaments 13 Point 3. Of external medicaments of a middle consistnce 14 Point 4. Of external indifferent medicaments 19 Chap. V. Of medicaments denominated from their faculties ibid. Article I. Of altering Medicaments ibid Point 1. Of hot medicaments ibid. Point 2. Of cold medicaments 20 Point 3. Of moistâ—â—ing medicaments 21 Point 4. Of dry medicaments ibid. Point 5. Of medicaments digestive Emollient Hardening and Losening 22 Point 6. Of medicaments which Rarifie condense stop and open the mouths of the Vessels ibid. Point 7. Of Attenuating Aperient and incrassating medicaments 23 Point 8. Of Obstructive and Deobstructive medicaments ibid. Point 9. Of Anodines and Narcoticks 24 Article II. Of medicaments which cause motion ibid. Article III. Of medicines which generate somewhat ibid. Point 1. Of Ripeners Quittor-breeders and Flesh restorers ibid. Point 2. Of Sodderers and Scar-bringers 25 Point 3. Of milk and Seed-breeders ibid. Article IV. Of corrupting medicaments ibid. Article V. Of medicaments which take somewhat away 26 Point 1. Of purging medicaments ibid. Point 2. Of Vomitories and Diureticks 28 Point 3. Of Hydroticks and Diaphoreticks ibid. Point 4. Of medicaments which purge the Brain 29 Point 5. Of Expectorators ibid. Chap. VI. Of medicaments denominated from the parts of the body ibid. Article I. Of Cephalick medicaments ibid. Point 1. Of Cephalick medicaments which are hot ibid. Point 2. Of cooling Cephalick medicaments 30 Article II. Of Ophthalmick medicaments ibid. Article III. Of Chest medicaments 31 Point 1. Of Heating brest Medicaments ibid. Point 2. Of cooling Chest medicaments ibid. Article IV. Of Cardiac or Heart-Medicines ibid. Point 1. Of Heating
Heart-Medicines ibid. Point 2. Of cooling heart-medicaments 32 Article V. Of Stomach Medicaments ibid. Point 1. Of hot Stomach Medicaments ibid. Point 2. Of stomach cooling Medicaments 33 Article VI. Of Epatick Medicaments ib. Point 1. Of hot Liver Medicaments ibid. Article VII Of Splenetick Medicaments ibid. Point 1. Of hot Splenetick Medicaments ibid. Point 2. Of cooling stomach medicaments 34 Article VI. Of Liver-medicaments ibid. Point 1 Of Heating Liver-medicaments ibid. Point 2. Of Liver coolers ibid. Article VII Of Splenetick Medicaments 35 Point 1. Of warming spleen medicaments ibid. Point 3. Of cooling spleen Medicaments ibid. Article VIII Of Nephritick Medicaments ibid. Point 1. Of heating Nephriticks or Kidney-remedies ibid. Point 2. Of cooling Nephriticks 36 Article IX Of Vterine Medicaments ib. Point 1. Of heating Vterine or Womb-Medicaments ibid. Point 2. Of Womb-cooling Medicaments ibid. Chap. VII Of vegetable Medicaments referred to the seven planets 37 BOOK IV. Of the Method of healing in General and in Special TItle I. Of the Method of healing in general 1 Title II. Of the Method of healing in special 2 Chap. I. Of the Additional Method ibid. Chap. II. Of the abstructive Method in generall 3 Chap. III. Of the abstractive Method in special and first of the taking away of Causes 4 Article I. Of the taking away of Causes which offend in Quantity ibid. Article II. Of the Removal of Causes which offend in the Quality 5 Point 1. Of alteration ibid. Point 2. Of Purgation 6 Point 3. Of provocation of Vrine Vomiting and sweating 8 Article III. Of the Removal of Causes offending in Motion 9 Point 1. Of Revulsion and Repulsion ib. Point 2. Of derivation and Interception 10 Article IV. Of the Removal of causes offending in place 11 Point 1. Of Softening and Discussing ib. Point 2 Of Suppuration and Atraction ibid. Article V. Of Expulsion of wind called Carmination ibid. BOOK V. Touching the Removal of Diseases TItle I. Of the Diseases of Similar parts and their Cure 1 Chap. I. Of the Method of knowing and curing distempers without matter ibid. Chap. II Of the diseases of distemper with matter 2 Chap. III Of Diseases springing from Hidden qualities 3 Title II Of Organical Diseases 4 Chap. I Of Diseases of Conformation ib. Article I. Of diseases of Figure ibid. Article II. Of diseases of the Cavities 5 Point 1. Of diseases of the Cavities consisting in Excess ibid. Point 2. Of diseases of the Cavities in defect 6 Article III. Touching Diseases of the Surface ibid. Chap. II. Of diseases of Number ibid. Chap. III. Of diseases of Magnitude 7 Article I. Of Tumors ibid. Point 1. Of an Imposthume 8 Point 2. Of the Hole in an Imposthume 9 Article II. Of diseases consisting in magnitude diminished ibid. Chap. VI. Diseases in Situation 10 Article I. Of Luxation ibid. Title IV. Of Diseases of Unity dossolved 11 Chap. I. Of Vlcers ibid. Chap. II. Of Wounds 13 Chap. III Of Fractures 16 Title II. Touching Symptomes and their Removal 17 A single Chapter Of pain in general ibid. BOOK VI. Treating of External Diseases Title I. Of the several sorts of Tumors 1 Chap. I Of Swellings or Tumors Caused by Blood ibid. Article I Touching over great Corpulency ibid. Article II. Of an Inflamation 2 Article III. Of the Bubo or Inflamation so called 3 Article IV Of the Phygetlon Phyma Furunculus or Felon Tumor so called ibid. Article V. Of the Tumor Parotis 3 Article VI. Of Nail-sores Kibes and Chilblains 4 Article VII Of an Ecchymoma ibid. Article VIII Of a Carbuncle ibid. Chap. II. Of Tumors springing from Choller 5 Article I. Of an Erysipelas or Tumor so called ibid. Article II. Of Herpes or the Shingles 6 Chap. III. Of Tumors springing from Flegm ibid. Article I. Of the Tumor cald Oedema ibid Chap. IIII. Of Tumors proceeding from the Melancholick Humor 7 Article I. Of the Tumor called Scirhus ib. Article II. Of a Cancer ibid. Chap. V. Of sumors springing from Wheyish Salt and Cholerick Humors mingled together 8 Article I. Of Scabyness ibid Article II. Of the Phlyctaenae Sudamina Sirones and Vari Tumor so called 9 Article III. Of the Epinyctides Alphus and Leuce ibid Article IIII. Of the Impetigo and Gutta Rosacea 10 Chap. VI. Of Tumors wherein the Humor is included in a proper Membrane ibid Chap. VII Of Tumors arising from a solid Substance 11 Chap. VIII Of Tumors caused by solid parts falling from their due Situation ibid. Article I. Of Aneurisma Varix and Elephantiasis by the Arabians so called ibid. Chap. IX Of Malignant Tumors 12 A single Article Of the Elephantiasis ibid. Title II. Of Diseases of the Skin 13 Chap. I. Of Lentigines Ephelides Naevi-materni Infantum Maculae ibid Chap. II Of the Maculae Hepaticae itch and bad smels ibid. Title III. Of the Diseases incident to the Hair 14 Chap. I Of falling off of the hair ibid. Chap. II Of the Porriga and Plica 15 Title IV Of Ulcers in Particular ibid. Chap. I Of the Gangraena ibid. Chap. II Of the Sphacelus 16 Chap. III Of Burnings 17 Title V Of Luxations in Particular 18 Chap. I Of Luxations of the Jaw-bone the Clavicula and the Vertebrae ibid. Chap. II Of Luxation of the Humerus Cubitus Radius and the Fingers ibid. Chap. III Of Luxations of the Thigh Knee and Ankle 19 Title VI Of Fractures in Specie 20 Chap. I Of the more usual fractures of the bodies ibid. Chap. II Of less frequent fractures ibid. BOOK VII Touching Feavers TItle I Of Feavers in General 22 Title II Of Unputred Feavers 23 Chap. I Of the feaver Ephemera ibid. Chap. II Of the feaver Sinocha Simplex 24 Title III Of Putrid Feavers in General ib. Chap. I Of continent putrid feavers 26 Article I Of the Synochus putrida ibid Chap. II Of a continual Periodick feaver in General 27 Articke I Of a Primary continual feaver ibid Point 1 Of a continual Tertian feaver ib. Point 2 Of a continual quotidian or every day feaver 28 Point 3 Of a continual quartan feaver 29 Article II Of a continual Symptomatick feaver ibid. Chap. III Of an intermitting feaver or Ague in general 30. Article I Of a tertian intermitting feaver or tertian Ague 31 Article II Of a Quotidian intermittent 32 Article III Of an intermitting feaver or quartan ague 33 Article VI Of compounded feavers particularly the Semitertian 34 Title IV Of the Hectick Feaver 35 Title V Of Malignant Feavers 36 Chap. I Of malignant feavers in general ibid. Chap. II. Of the several sorts of malignant feavers 37 Article I. Of the smal Pox ibid. Article II Of the Measles and such like breakings forth 38 Article III. Of the spotted feaver ibid. Article IV. Of the Hungarian disease 39 Article V. Of the sweating sickness the malignant feaver with Cramping and that with the cough and catarrh ibid. Title VI. Of Pestilential Feavers 40 A single Chapter Of the Pestilence ibid. BOOK VIII Of the Diseases of the Head TItle I. Of the Diseases of the
Belly ibid. An Appendix Concerning the Gout 88 BOOK XI Concerning Poysonous Diseases TItle I. Concerning the French Pox. 1 Title II. Of Poysons 4 Chap. I. Of Poysons digged out of the Earth ibid. Chap. II. Of Vegetable Poysons 5 Chap. III. Of Poysons from live Creatures ibid. BOOK XII Of the Diseases of Children TItle I. Of the Diseases of the Head 1 Title II. Of the Diseases of the middle Belly 8 Title III. Of the Diseases of the lower Belly 9 Mris. Culpepers Information Vindication and Testimony concerning her Husbands Books to be Published after his Death SO great are the Afflictions wherewith our Heavenly Father hath been pleased to exercise me his poor Handmaid that I have not only lâ—ved to see my dear Husband the Stay and Solace of my Life taken from me but a hath been my hard hap also to see his Reputation and Memory which wil be dear to al Posterity for the Works he hath written for the Common Good of this Nation blemished and Eclipsed by the covetous and unjust Forgeries of one who though he calls himself Nathaniel is far from being an Israelite in whom there is no guile who was not content to publish a Hâ—dgpodg of undigested Collections and Observations of my deâ—r Husband deâ—â—ased under the Title of Culpâ—per's last Legacy but to make the Deceit more taking be stâ—â—led his Forehead so far and brased it so hard as not to be ashamed to forge two Epistles one in mine and the other in my Husbands Name of the penning of which he nor I never so much as dreamed And yet he impudently affirmeth in my Name that my Husband Laid a severe Injunction on me to publish them for the general good after his decease and that they are his last Expeâ—ences in Physick and Chyrurgery And in the Title of his Book he said They are the choycest and most profitable secrets resolved never to be published til after his Death Al which Expressions in the Title and Epistles are as fals as the Father of Lyes and every word in them forged and feigned And he know wel enough that no discreet honest man that was a friend to my Husband or me would ever have agreed to such 〈…〉 and dishonest practices and therâ—fore I desire all Courteous Readers of the Writings of my Husband to take notice of this Deceit and to assure themselvs that it never entred into his head to publish such an undigested Gallimoffery under the promising and solemn Name of his Last Legacy and that whereby he gained his Reputation in the World as the Imposter makes him speak in his forged Epistle And I desire any in different Reader that hath observed my Husbands lofty and Masculine manner of expressing himself in his Prefaces and Epistles Dedicatory whether in case he had been minded or disposed to take so solemn a farewel of the world as the Forger makes him to do whether I say he would have done it in such a whining fashion and so in the Stile of a Balade-maker as to say And now if it please Heaven to put a period to my Life and Studies that I must bid al things under the Sun farewel Farewel to my dear Wife and Child farewel Arts and Sciences farewel aâ— worldly Glories adiew Readers Certainly my Husband would have been far more serious and material in such a case as any discreet man wil Judg. Neither can it be thought that in such a solemn Valediction he could possibly forget his wonted respects to the Colledg of Doctors to whom he did so frequently address himself in divers of his writings Courteous Reader I shal say no more touching the abuse of the Book-seller only to prevent as much as concerns me thy being abused for the future know That my Husband left seventy-nine Books of his own making or Translating in my hand and I have depositâ—â— them into the hands of his and my much honoâ—ed Friend Mr. Peter Cole Book-seller at the Printing-Press neer the Royal Exchange for the good of my Child from whom thou mayest expect to receive in print such of them as shal be thought fit to serve thee in due season without any Disguises or Forgerigs unto which I do hereby give my attestation Also my Husband left seventeen Books compleatly perfected in the hands of the said Mr. Cole for which he paid my Husband in his life-time And Mr. Cole is ready and willing on any good occasion to shew any of the said seventy-nine Books or the seventeen to such as doubt thereof And if any Person shal question the Truth of any part of this Vindication or Epistle if they wil take pains to come to â—e I wil face to face justifie the truth of every word thereof as I have subscribed my Hand â—hereunto in the presence of many witnesses I profess in tâ—â— presence of the great God the searcher of al hearts before whom Mr. Brooks and I must one day give an account of al our Actions That I have not published this Epistle or Vindication out of any disrespect to Mr. Brooks for I much respect the man and would be glad to serve him to my power but only to cleer my Husband from the folly and weakness cast upon him by the means above expressed And out of tenderness to Mr. Brooks I first â—â—â—ed other means of keeping and afterwards of repairing my Husbands Credit and then stayed long to see if he would repair in any measure the wrong done to my Husband and my self I desire to be From my House next door to the Red Lyon in Spittle-fields October 18. 1655. Your Servant in and for the Truth Alice Culpeper Mris. Culpeper did the 18. of October subscribe this Epistle in Vindication of her Husband's Reputation before Ten Witnesses as she had done another Epistle on the ninth of October almost in the same words with this except neer the Conclusion THE FIRST BOOK OF THE IDEA OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Of that part thereof which we cal Hygieine Title I. Of things not Natural in General HYgieine is a part of practical Physick prescribing the means and way of preserving and maintaining the Health by the use of things not Natural Things not Natural we cal those which albeit they are to be accounted and reckoned in the number of things Natural yea and moreover as such that are necessarily required both to defend and preserve the health while it is enjoyed and likewise to restore and recover it when absent and lost yet notwithstanding they do not any way constitute either the Essence or the Nature of the body whilst it lives but on the other side often affect and disturb the Body of Man and impair the health thereof From whence it is that some have distinguished and reduced them under these two Heads viz. of things healthful and unhealthful The Prescription is spoken to and compleated in two parts The former whereof enumerates and recounts those things that are not Naturall and declareth in what manner they affect
which is inferior to that of Cowes and obstructs more 14. Goats milke which is a little hotter than the foresaid of thinner substance and less nourishment and more apt to loose the Belly 15. Mares milke which by the thinness and heat of the wheyish substance wherewith it abounds is exceeding detersive and clensing 16. Asses milke which is colder thinner and more wheyish than the rest less nourishing and less obstructing it exceedingly clenses and loosens the Belly without any acrimony or biting II. Whey in regard of its watry and Flegmatick substance cooles and moistens in respect of its sharp Salt and Flegmatick parts it clenses III. Butter helps the breast and Lungs brings up flegm and is good for cold and dry Coughs taken in great Quantity it loosens the Belly and is endued with a strong faculty to digest discuss concoct and lightly bring up When it is old it attains an Acrimonious Quality IV. There are some Differences of Cheese 1. Some is new and soft which is preferred before that which is hard old because it nourishes more passes sooner through the belly 2. Some is of a thin and loose substance which is more wholsome than that which is compact 3. Another sort is Clammy and dry which is accounted bad 4. Sheeps Cheese which is concocted more easily than other sorts and affords better nourishment 5. Cowes milk cheese which is next in goodness to sheeps Cheese 6. Goats milk cheese which is worse than either of the former as being doubtless more hot and thin 7. The best cheese is void of Eyes and holes not over salted nor foul with hairs nor wheyish nor old nor hard nor Ranke See Gesner of milke and things made of milke and Nardius in his Physical Analysis of milke IV. The fourth kind of meates but worse than those of four footed beasts are Fishes whose qualities wil be best explained by their Differences and parts Viz. Their flesh and other Members I. The Differences are taken I. From the Place in respect whereof some breed and live in lakes and ponds others in Rivers some are Sea-fish both such as hant the stony places near the shore and such as live in the Maine Sea others live partly on land partly in the Water others are digd out of the Earth touching al which observe these following Rules 1. Pond-fish because they are muddy and little exercised are ful of Excrements 2. Lake-fish that live in great lakes which are watered with Fountaines and Rivers are better than the former 3. River-fish which swim in troubled Waters that receive the filth of great Cities are offensive to the stomach are of thick substance and difficultly voided forth such as live alwaies in cleare Waters are better than pond or lake fish Sea-fish that live in an Northerne Sea open to the winds by reason of their exercise and the purity of the winds have excellent flesh 5. Maine Sea fish which live in the bottome of the Ocean are of hard flesh are hardly digested but they afford plenty of nourishment to the Body 6. Shore fish because they live upon the scum and purgings of the Sea may be disliked and because they haunt in such places as are inlightened with the Sun beams and by continual exercise such Excrements as are collected from their food are dissipated they are to be preferred before such as live in the Maine Sea 7. Stoney place hanting fish which keep alwaies one place and food are easie to digest of good juyce abstersive light and little nourishing such as roame up and down by reason of their continual motion and the cuffs they receive from the billows are of an hard flesh 8. Fish Dug out of the Earth have hard and unpleasant flesh and Seneca records they were found so bad and destructive that al died that did eat of them 9. Such as live on Land and Water by reason of the variety of their diet and motion are hardly allowed as good to preserve strength 10. Fish of the same kind and sort differ in goodness and badness according to the healthyness unhealthyness of the place wherin they live Some are better in the Ocean than in the Mediterranean seas and contrary wise II. From their Substance in respect of which fishes are 1. Of an Hard flesh which are disallowed especially if they be clammy withal 2. Soft of Flesh which are best of al if their Flesh be also tender and short 3. Of a middle Nature which have short but not soft flesh such as are mullets III. In regard of Age in which respect note 1. That little fish if hard of flesh are disliked as also the softer because they have a slimy substance 2. That old Fish do by their Age lose much of their flesh 3. That those of middle Age are most approved because they are neither slimy nor dry IV. In regard of their food 1. Some Eat flesh and are of an hard and dry substance 2. Others live upon slime and mud which are of Clammy substance 3. Such as feed upon Roots and Herbs have soft and short flesh c. But of these see my Books of Fishes II. Among the Parts of Fishes used in Diet in the Cheife is their Flesh In respect of it therefore 1. The Stock fish though being new t is short tender of good Juyce and easily digested yet being dried it affords a thick nourishment hard to digest and which cannot be overcome save by a strong Stomach 2. The Sole Flounder and Place being fresh and new have white and good flesh and such as affords plenty of good nourishment and which is not easily corrupted When they are dried they are harder 3. The flesh of a Salmon is tender most grateful to the Palate easily digested affords good Juyce Viz. While it is young 4. Trouts are the best of al fish that breed in the fresh waters easily digested of much good and thin Juyce the biggest are not the best in regard of their fatness and clammyness Those are most esteemed of which are sprinckled with red spots and have red flesh 5. Gudgeons afford wholsome nourishment are of good tast easie to digest and abide not long in the stomach 6. Millers Thumbes are like to Gudgeons 7. A smal Pike or Pickerel has a very short flesh not hard to digest and easily distributed some count it to have an hard flesh The River Pike is better than that of the Pond 8. The Sea-Perch is according to Diphilus tender not ranke easily digested the River Pearch has flesh that is not indeed so short yet is it not hard to digest nor is it of bad Juyce others say it affords a weake nourishment which is easily dissipated 9. The Carpe has moist flesh ful of a watry ratheâ—â—han a Clammy Humor and has much Excremâ—â—titious Juyce That is most commended which breeds in swift streams and pure waters It must not be eaten with variety of other meats but by it self 10. The Barble has exceeding white flesh easily
that it cannot afterwards contract it self And in case the Reins do not draw unto themselves the Wheyish moisture remains mixed with the bood and being spread al over the Body it affords matter for the Dropsie and Cachexy III. Seed unseasonably retained causes heavyness of the whol body and if it be corrupted it Causes most greivous accidents being voided in too great a Quantity it dissipates the natural heat weekens the whole Body heaps up crudities hurts the Nerves brings the Palsie and weakness of the mind Title II. Of the Method of preserving Health Chap. I. Of preservation of Health in general THe Method of preserving Health is a Doctrine which prescribes rules how to use the Non-Natural things in such manner as to preserve the body in health The End thereof is therefore the Conservation of Health which consists in Preservation of the temper of the whol body and a I its parts and of their specifical proprieties and occult qualities and of the due shape of the Organick parts and of that unity which is common to hoth Those Precepts are either most General General or Special I. The most General are as it were common principles by which convenient diet is governed and they are these following I. That whatever is according to Nature must be preserved II. That we must alwaies aime at a Mediocrity For too much of any thing is an Enemy to nature which Phocylides excellently expressed Eate and drink and discourse with moderation Moderation is the best thing in the world and Excess is destructive III. That sudden changes are to be avoided For much at once or suddenly to empty or fil to heat or cool or any other waies to alter the body is dangerous as Hippocrates has it in his second book Aphorisme 51. IV. We must not lightly alter Custom For Custom is a new nature and things to which we have been long time accustomed though bad are not so troublesome as those to which we have not been used as Hippocrates in his 50. Aphorisme of the second Book instructs us Now after what manner Custome is a new Nature and what power it has over our actions natural vital and animal and over the parts of our bodies see in Renatus Moreau upon the 15. Chapter of Schola Salerni p. 215. and Senertus in his Paralipomena page 48. V. Bodies perfectly in health must be cherished with things like such as recede from the exact state of Health ought by little and little modrately to be reduced to a contrary condition VI. We must so far be careful to preserve occult proprieties as that the temper of the body may not be hurt VII The inbred Heat of al the parts must be preserved with things moderately hot and moderately astringent II. The General precepts concerning the nonnatural things wil be delivered best according to their order in which we reckoned them in the foregoing Title I. The Aire therefore 1. Must be chosen temperate pure not stinking free as being most healthful and that aire must be avoided which is ful of corrupt exhalations 2. We must by al means avoidâ—â—â—hopping out of an hot aire into a cold or 〈◊〉 â—f a cold into an hot 3. A cold aire must be altered by a fire by hangings by a stove an hot with cold water powred out of one vessel into another or sprinkled upon the floore by strewing of roses water lillyes boughs of willow and Agnus Castus A moist with a bright fire and perfumes a drie by sprinkling of water and with moistning herbs a pestilential with burning aromatick woods and franckincense 4. Those that have leisure must walk out into the fields to enjoy the open aire 5. In the the morning 't is good to walk about the mountaines in the evening about the fountaines and rivers both because the Aire is in those parts more pure and bright and about the fountaines and rivers 't is lightened and clarified by the fetting Sun also because in the morning we are not very hot by reason of the foregoing night in the Evening in regard of the heat of the Midday sun we may be delighted with the coole aire of the waters II. Touching meat we must observe some things in general and some in special I. In general observe 1. That we must choose such meats as are most temperate and familiar to our Natures such as wel bak't bread flesh of beasts and such things as they afford for food fishes c. Of bread the best is that which is wel leavened ful of eyes wel kneaded and wel baked in an oven not too hot seasned indifferently with salt and made of the best wheate 2. Also we must use a most simple diet and of several sorts to avoid satiety provided that it be not at the same meale of different substances and different qualities but of the same nature that it may be digested with the same heat in one and the same space of time and that we eat not over much 3. We must have a special Eye to custom by the power whereof some have fed on poyson without hurt 4. The worser but more pleasing meat and drink is to be preferred before that which is better and not so delightful For the Stomach greedily artracts straitly embraces and happily digests such kind of meats II. Particularly we must have an Eye to the Quantity Choyce Sawces Time and Order of which I shal treat when I handle the diet of persons of a middle Age. III. Of the rest there is nothing to be said in general only this may be added that we must according to the advice of Celsus take heed lest in health we consume that which should assist us in sickness It is better daily to use moderate exercise to prevent the collection of superfluours excrements than to use purgations or other medicaments Read more of this subject in the Guide to Physick and Chyrurgery Riverius Practice of Physick and his Observations and the London Dispensatory Al of the last Editions Englished by me Chap. 2. Of preservation of Health in Special and first of the good Habit. Article 1. Of preserving the Health of wel habited persons Point 1. Of preserving the Health of Infants Children and youths SO much shal suffice to have said of preservation of Health in general let us now see how health is to be preserved in several sorts of people And this preservation is either of wel constituted or Intemperate persons Wel habited or wel constituted persons are either Infants both such as are in the womb and such as are born or Children or Youth or Men of Middle Age or Old Men. I. Children in the Womb wil fare wel if the woman with child shal do some things and avoid other some Among things to be avoided are 1. Aire which is moist and southern the stink of candles put out and which arises from Castoreum brimstone and such like things 2. Also the smell of strong herbs as rue penneroial Mint and of sweet smelling
fresh water long sleep and shun the use of hot and dry things 2. Persons hot and moist if moderately such preserve their Temperament and follow al things moderately lest contracting plenty of Excrements they sal into putrid Diseases 3. Cold persons require both hot meats which stir up heat and consume it not and seasonable Evacuation of Flegmatick Excrements 4. Dry Constitutions must have moist meats and baths of fresh Water 5. Such as are Cold and Dry have an unhappy constitution which must be holpen with long sleep frictions which strengthen the Natural heat and discuss it not and with a bath of fresh Water 6. In Cold and moist persons coldness must be corrected and the moisture preserved as much as may be Temperate exercises do stir up the Natural heat whereby it is inabled to conquer the moisture II. Persons Declining because in regard of a Plethorick and Cacochymical disposition encline to sickness must in the first place use rest and abstinence and in case these suffice not they require Blood-letting and purging Therefore at the beginning of the spring Flegmatick and Melancholly Humors about the end thereof Choler and about Autumn black Cholerick Humors are to be purged A pil of Aloes Rosata taken an hour before supper but not too often lest it hurt the Liver may suffice to Empty the matter which sticks in the stomach and first passages III. Touching persons neither sick nor wel but recovering two things are to be observed 1. That they fal not back again into their sicknesses 2. That they may soon recover their perfect health And therefore 1. Because such reliques as are left in Diseases after the Crisis wont to cause relapses if there be as yet any superfluous matter remaining it must be drawn away by little and little and the parts are to be Roborated 2. If there be no matter over the Body must be carfully nourished with moist Diet easie of digestion and of good nourishment 3. Bodies that have been long extenuated must be repaired by little and little such as have been suddenly decaied must be quickly repaired 4. These things are chiefly to be used which respect the Causes of the weakness and may resist the Morbifick Dispositions And so much for the Method of preservation of Health THE SECOND BOOK OF THE IDEA OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Treating of the Preternatural Affections or Disorders of Mans Body and their Respective Signs The INTRODUCTION SO much may suffice to have spoken touching Hygieine or the Art of Preserving Health The Second Part of Physick followes termed Therapeutice which teaches the way to know all Infirmities which impair the Health of Mans body and being known by certain convenient Remedies to remove the same if possible It s End therefore is to remove if possible the preternatural Dispositions of the body and to restore health lost Its Parts are likewise two 1. General which treats of the Nature Signs Causes Differences and Cure of the praeternatural Affections of the Body both in General in particular in Conjunction 2 Special which treates of such preternatural affections as refer to the particular parts of the Body The former is again subdivided into four parts In the First we shal treat of the Nature and signs of praeternatural affections The Second declares the Medicaments The Third laies open the general method of curing The Fourth treates of the first differences of Diseases and delivers their Cure considered in gross Title I. Of a Disease in general Chap. 1. Of the Nature of a Disease THose Affections or disorders which praeternaturally infest the Body of Man are three A Disease its Cause and its Symptome A Disease is the Inability of the living parts of Mans body to perform their natural Actions ariseing from their praeternatural Constitution Concerning which we are to consider 1. The Subject 2 The Times 3 The cause 4 The Differences 5. The Signs 6. The Issue or event Of the first four we shal treat in this Chapter assigneing peculiar Chapters to the two last I. The Subject is the liveing parts of mans body both spermatick and sanguine both in reference to their matter to which Temperament and occult qualities belong as also to their structure to which conformation and unity do appertaine Sometimes altogether sometimes many sometimes only one of these is affected II. The times are four 1. The Beginning in which the disease iâ— crude nor are there any signs of coction or corruption contrary thereto present althings are remiss unless the matter being agitated does infest some one part more than the rest til it is either dissipated or thrust out into the Circumference of the Body and healthily disposed diseases their causes being removed do sometimes vanish 2. The Augment or Increase wherein the Symptomes grow more burthensome and the signs either of Coction or contrary Corruption begin to appeare 3. The State in which there is the greatest combate betwixt Nature and the Disease the signs of Life and Death do manifestly shew themselves and all things are vehement and if any Remission appeare the reason is because nature being weakened gives over and is no longer able to oppose her against the morbifick Causes 4. And lastly this Declination or Decrease in which the disease being overcome by nature grows gentle and no man dies at this time unless through the fault of himself or the Physitian or the disease changing into a worse Touching all these times note in general 1. That each of these being not of equal length in all diseases is subdivided after the same manner so that the beginning hath its beginning Augment and Declination and so the rest 2. That Intermitting Diseases have their particular times in each fit 3 That Diseases which receive nourishment in winter are finnished in Summer and contrariwise unless they are terminated within the circuit of certaine daies III. When we speak of Causes we do not consider any material cause For a disease hath no such cause its subject being instead thereof nor do we intend the formal cause for that is explained in the definition nor of the final because those things have final causes which consist in perfection whereas a disease consists in defect thereof also it is bred and receives growth by accident but we speak of the Efficient Causes which are considered either in respect to the disease or absolutely or according as the things themselves are The former are sundry I. Remote which either works as procatarctick causes which 1 Are either in the Body or without and therefore have not recourse with externals 2. They are called external because they belong not to the Constitution of the body 3 When manifest causes as a sword c. may be the immediate cause of a disease they are reckoned with the former 4. They stir up and put in motion such causes as lie hidden in our Bodies so that they sensibly affect our bodies as Watchings 5. Of their own nature and force they cannot cause a great disease
or they act after the manner of antecedent causes which continue hidden dispositions in the body which a disease may follow upon which nevertheless are not conjoined therewith only are defined by power of acting and are only found in diseases joined with matter finally because the internal as related to the disease may be both antecedent and conjunct causes they have not recourse with them II. Next which adhere to the diseases themselves in the body of man so that suppose the causes you must supose the diseases take away the causes you remove the diseases Hence they are termed continent and conjunct causes III. Per se of or by themselves by whose power the disease doth exist and by accident which cause the same by the Interposition of some other thing IIII. Privative which act by absence and Positive which work by their presence V. Comon and Proper VI. Finally external and internal of which we shal treat hereafter IIII. The differences of diseases are either Essential and primary of which and their cure we shal treat in the fift book or Acidental which are taken from the Number Magnitude Duration Manner Event Order Subject Causes Seasons of the yeare and Place For I. In respect of Number a disease is either 1. One which possesses but one part or many parts but without any Interruption which is either simple which is joyned with no other disease and hath the simple nature of one only sort or compounded which consists of many diseases concurring in the same part whether they be of the same kind or not and in Case it be joined with the Cause or some grievous symptom t is termed Comitatus as that Solitary which has neither the cause nor any grievous symptom joined with it 2. Many one of which is not in the same part which is possest by another and these either hurt a common action and are called Complicati or Impliciti or one contributes somewhat to the generation of another and they are termed Connexi 3. By Sympathy which falls out when either a part receives some humor or vapor from another place or when it is forced to receive a matter of which it ought to be free or when the spirit a necessary Instrument to the souls actions is hindred of its influxe or when matter necessary to the action is denied this happens either by reason of the sympathy of the parts which is either of the kind or of continuity by the nerves and membranes of which Senertus treats elegantly in the 39. page of his Paralipomena or of one work or of neighbourhood or by reason of their strength and weakness hence comes either a Diadosis of the Humor passing from a noble to an ignoble part or a Metastasis from an ignoble to a noble 4. Disjoned which being fixed in disjoined parts do neither hurt the same action nor confer any thing to the mutual generation one of another II. In respect of Magnitude Diseases are 1. Smal which hurt the Action less than those sort of diseases are commonly wont to do or stick in the more Ignoble parts 2. Great which either hurt a Constitution and part very necessary to life or Goe very far from the natural state or have some bad quality annexed or they deject some faculty by hurt of which the life is endangered or they take up a large place III. In respect of Duration diseases are 1. Long which move slowly 2. Short which moves quick 3. Continentes which are alwaies moved with one and the same motion til they are quite ended 4. Continui which continually afflict but are heightned and abated at certaine intervals of time 5. Intermittentes which have periods and Fits and therein their several Modes and figures 6. Acute which are terminated on the fourteenth day peracuti on the seventh day Perperacuti on the fourth day Acuti ex decidentia which are terminated on the forryeth day 7. Critical which are finished by some great mutation by evacuation or translation 8. Not critical which are ended by diminishing peece meale IIII. In respect of the Manners or Conditions they are 1. Benigni gentle wel affacted having no greivous symptom besides nature 2. Maligni malignant which have somewhat of an occult pravity 3. Pestilential which come by Intection V. In respect of the event they are 1. Healthy which end to health 2. Doubtful of which many are saved and many die 3. Deadly which kil alwaies or for the most part either because they destroy that action by which life consists or proceed from matter which wil not admit Coction or because their Focus is so far of that medicaments cannot reach so far without loosening their strength VI. In respect of their order they are 1. Ordinate which keep their Mode or Figure 2. Erratick which neglect the same 3. Relapsative which when they are thought to be quite finished returne againe VII In respect of their subject they are 1. Vniversal which afflict the whole Body 2 Particular which molest one or more parts 3. Cognati which are suitable to the temperament constitution of Body Age Season of yeare c. 4. Minus cogniti less of kin which are contrary thereunto they are of Men Women Infants Boyes Young Men Old men VIII In respect of the Causes they are 1. Exquisite or legitimate which spring from one simple Cause 2. Spurious or bastard which proceed from mixt humors 3. Haereditory which spring from fault of the seed or mothers blood 4 Conjenit which happen from the first original through fault of right shaping though the Parents had not the same disease 5 Adventitious which come by some accident 6 Fientes which though produced cannot exist without the matter continue 7 Facti which abide the causes being removed IX In respect of the time of the yeare they are Spring sickness Summer sickness Autumn sickness and Winter sickness X. In respect of place they are 1. Sporadick which being of different sorts do assault sundry persons at the same time and in the same place 2. Common or Pandemial which either are never but in one Country only or which somtimes in one somtimes in many places afflicts many together 3. Epidemii Epidemick or vulgar which at some certain time now in some one Country other whiles in many do infest many folks at the same time and they are for the most part pestilential Chap. 2. Of the Diagnostick Signs of a Disease THe Diagnostick Signs of a Disease do respect 1. The Disease in it self 2. Its times 3. The Parts affected 4. The Differences of the Disease 5. And lastly all these together And they are either common to many and divers persons or proper to one Disease which are either inseparable or proper and inseparable together or Pathognomonick and Essential to the Disease and recurrent therewith or Assident and supervenient I. A Disease in it self is known 1. From things Essentially inherent in External Diseases most easily without help of any other signs in internals
Congelation The former is altered by things moderatly hot and moist least the force of heat should dissipate the Humor the latter by opening the pores with an aiery moisture the last by things hot and moderately dry Medicaments exquisitly Emollient applied to the principal members or parts near them do bring the life in danger II. Discussion is a convenient dissipation of an humor sticking in some part and softned by insensible transpiration caused by diaphoretick Medicaments 'T is called Digestion and Resolution I added and softned For humors hardened cannot be discussed unless they be first softned To convenient Dissipation is requisite 1. That it be undertaken before the Body be evacuated 2. That it be not used in such as have hot Veins and Livers 3. That Dissipaters be used in the State and Declination and that in the Augment they be mixed with Repellers 4. That they be not biting nor vehemently hot lest the thinner parts evaporating the thick become dryed and hard as a stone Point 2. Of Suppuration and Attraction I. Suppuration is the convenient mutation of an Humor that cannot be discussed into Quittor by ripening medicaments The Conveniency hereof requires 1. That it be chiefly practised when Blood offends for Blood is best changed into Quittor choler and melancholy hardly by reason of that degeneration whereby they raise Cancers and malignant ulcers 2. That it be not rashly practised upon the internal Parts 3. That among external parts it be not practised about the Joynts 4. That it be not overmuch or overstrong otherwise it wil dispose the part to a gangrenous Putrefaction II. Attraction or drawing is the convenient Motion of matter infixed into a part by drawing medicaments These Medicaments are either more gentle which are termed Rubifyrs or more strong which are Bladder-raisers Crust-procurers and Causticks The Rules of Conveniency respect Causticks and Vesicatories or Bladder-raisers In respect of the former 1 We must not come to Causticks before we have tried Rubifiers and Vesicatories for Causticks take somthing from Nature 2. That they be then used when there is danger least the part should perish and especially when there is fear least abundance of matter should putrefie the Bone 3. That when there is need of little burning we are to use an Instrument of Brass and an Iron one when we are to burn much 4. That Consideration be had of the Age Strength of the Patient and the swellings whereunto they are applied for many instead of the Kings-Evil swellings have burnt the jugular Veins In respect of Vesicatories it is requisite 1. That they be not applied to accute diseases nor to external Parts exulcerated nor to the region of the Lungs when they are exulcerated because by them the ulcers are exasperated or to gristley parts and such as are bare of flesh because by burning they grow black 2. That after the flesh is swelled the Cicatrized Part is become black and blew the Patient is pained we desist least the part be stupified 3. That before they be laid on the place be tubbed til it look red Article 5. Of Expulsion of Wind cal'd Carmination Carmination is a convenient dissipation of the Winds arising in mans body by carminative or Wind-expelling medicaments That this dissipation may be conveniently affected medicaments discussing winds ought not to be administred before the matter be diminished otherwaies more flatulencies wil be raised by rarefaction of the matter THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE IDEA OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Touching the Removal of Diseases Title I. Of the Diseases of Similar parts and their Cure Chap. 1. Of the Method of knowing and curing distempers without matter SO much may suffice to have spoken of the methodical removal of Causes which ought to be handled a part from the particular cosideration of the causes themselves the general method for the removal of Causes follows which must of necessity be jointly handled with the prime differences of the diseases themselves seeing it comprehends not only the diseases but the Causes also signs and differences of the diseases The primary and essential differences of diseases are those whereby they are divided into Similar organical common Similar diseases are either of distemper or of hidden Qualities A distemper is either without matter or with matter A distemper without Matter is a declinanation of the temperament of a mans body from its natural constitution induced by certain causes proper for such an Effect By temperament you must not understand that which is called temperamentum ad pondus wherein there is equal proportion of the qualities but that which is termed temperamentum ad justitiam wherein the qualities are not in equal though in a wel ordered proportion which is convenient for some kind of actions 2. Understand temperament both simple and compound 3. The temperament of Mans body not only as it is mixt but also and principally as it is liveing whether it be inbred or influent The Sings are taken from the differences The Causes are principally external of which in the same place The Cure is performed by Alteration if you precisely consider the distemper it self but this disease does not long last without matter T is divided into four sorts I. One is hot in which heat abounds T is knowen from such things as may exhalt and encrease sweat and from such as are the Effects of Heat so encreased It arises cheifly from five things viz. Motion of the Mind and Body Putrefaction The nearness of some hot thing the mixture of somthing that is hot and stoppage of the Body 'T is cured with cooling medicaments whether simple or compound taken in or outwardly applyed Where we observe 1. That alterations consisting of heat and cold are most easily cured 2. That an hot disease in a Body which is naturally cold must be vanquished by remedies that are strong 3. That cold medicaments have four degreers II. Another is cold in which cold exceeds 'T is known from causes which induce cold and symptoms which follow the same It arises from such things as either are of their own nature cooling or suffocate the innate Heat or overwhelm or dissipate the same or withdraw its nutriment The Cure is undertaken by heating its medicaments first such as are more gentle afterwards the stronger sort See the Medicaments in the Institutions of Physick III. Another is moist when moisture overcomes It is knowen by the antecedents and consequents It arises from the neighbourhood of moist things and which hinder the transpiration of most evaporations 'T is cured by drying Medicaments IV. Another is drie in which dryness prevailes 'T is known by former kinds of signs It springs from contrary Causes viz. Alteration of dryers and overmuch resolution and and paucity of aliment 'T is cured by moistners V. Another is compound that is to say Hot and dry or Hot and moist Cold and dry or cold and Moist Of which we need not to say much For it may easily be gathered what it is and how to
taken they escape without halting If towards the Hip commonly they halt after it Both because the bowing tending outwards it is easily crooked Towards the inside and towards the outside it bunches out like a bow as also because being but one single bone it cannot easily be kept in its place It growes together in the space of fifty daies Chap. 2. Of less Frequent Fractures TO the less ordinary Fractures there appertain the Fractures of I. The Nose which is either equally flatted so as to make a saddle-Nose or it is broke only on the one side or it is writhen aside by the Gristle or the bones thereof are broke into smal fritters There is Joyned somtimes a wound and somtimes and Ulcer is raised within the Nostrils Unless the Nose be immediately rectified it must for ever remain deformed II. Of the lower Jaw-bone whose bone is either broken so athwart that the Bones nevertheless do in some measure hold together or so that one bone sticks out above another and one tooth sticks out beyond another They are consolidated within twenty dayes unless Inflamation happen Also the teeth remain sound III. Of the Clavicula or channel bone which is broken either athwart and is easily reduced into its natural seat by extending and compressing the same with a mans fingers or long-waies which has alwaies some Eminency which can hardly be brought into order It s fracture is knowne by the touch and by the pian It is soddered together within the space of twenty daies IIII. Of the Scapula and that either in respect of the shoulder tip and then Inequality is perceived if the hurt part be compared with the sound or in respest of the broad part Then a certain cavity is perceived by the touch the Arme just against it is benummed If the fracture be in the neck of the Scapula or in the Jointing of the shoulder Inflamation is soon caused because of the veins Arteries and nerves which spring from the Vertebraes of the Neck V. Of the Brest-bone whose fracture is known by the bones giving way when pressed with the finger by shortness of breath c. and it is dangerous because of the Neighbourhood of the noble parts VI. Of the Ribs which are either so broken that the extremities of the broken bones do neither go in nor stick out And then few are either Feverish or spit blood Or so as that the Ends of the Bones are out of their places Then the flesh above the broken Rib is blown and heaved up and if the place be pressed with the hand a noise is heard of the departing Air. Inflamation Feavers Impostumes do for the most part follow Or the whole Ribs are not broken Then there is neither great pain nor a Feaver VII Of the Back-bone which frequently by reason of the hurt ensuing to the spinal marrow the Membranes and the Nerves especially if the fracture happen by the Vertebra's of the Neck proves deadly especially if a palsie either of the Arms and Hands or of the Legs and Feet do follow thereupon VIII Of the Patella or Whirl-bone of the Knee which is known by inability to go and an hollowness which is perceived in the place of the fracture It happens either long waies and then the bones are easily joyned together again Or athwart or slanting Then no art can so help it as to hinder the Patient from halting IX Of the Bones of the Feet which is wont to be caused by an heavy and strong thing 'T is easily known by sight and touch because the parts are fleshless It is not so dangerous See Galen upon Hippocrates of the Joynts and Fractures And so much shal suffice to have spoken touching External Diseases THE SEVENTH BOOK OF THE IDEA OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Touching Feavers HItherto we have treated of the external Diseases of the Body The internal are either universal which affect the whol Body or Particular which vex some parts only The Vniversal are Feavers A Feaver is considered generally or specially Generally considered 't is divided into Non-putrid and Putrid Hectick Malignant and Pestilential Title I. Of Feavers in General A Feaver in general is an hot Distemper of the whole Body arising from an Heat Preternaturally kindled in the heart and by means of the spirits and blood through the Veins and Arteries diffused into the whol Body and hurting the natural actions thereof by a Crowd of Symptomes The Part affected is the Heart wherein the heat is first kindled and soon after the whol Body at least in respect of the noble parts somtimes For the Heat being diffused possesses the parts either Habitudinally or Habitually Also their temper consisting in the innate and influent Heat is changed Now this Distemper is joyned somtimes with dryness other whiles with Moisture Hence though the feaverish heat do alwaies tend to dryness yet oft times the disposition of the Body upon which that heat acts and the moisture do hinder the Body from falling into a Morbifick Dryness The Cause is whatsoever kindles Heat in the Body Now heat is kindled 1. By Motion whiles the rest of the parts by frequent smiting one against another causing a conflux of more Humors than can be discussed do grow hot 2. By Putrefaction while by the external Heat the internal is called forth 3. By Contact and Nearness of some hot thing 4. By stopping of the pores and interception of sharp vapors and Sooty steams which makes the body unhealthy and this is the Principal Cause without which other Causes can hardly effect any thing 5. By the mixinre of some hot thing The CURE of a feaver in general is performed by Alteration wherein such a progress must be used as that the Cause be not fomented and by mitigation of Symptomes The principal Symptomes are 1. Thirst the inner coat of the stomach being either parched with the burning heat or soaked with an hot sharp and nitrous Humor 2. Hiccuping sharp and biting Humors twitching and nipping the Stomach 3. Vomiting either by reason of an hot and Chollerick Humor or a very cold Humor or of a thick and Clammy matter or some Vapour 4. Loosness of the Belly when the stomach is so far irritated that it can in no wise embrace or digest the meate and when liquors extreamly cold are drunk down 5. Dryness Blackness and Roughness of the Tongue by reason of sooty Vapours which so burn the same that the Spittleish moisture is consumed which arise somtimes from a clammy humor sticking about the Teeth jaws beclam fur the Mouth 6. Lipothymia and Syncope Swowning and Fainting which somtimes proceeds from the permicious nature of the Humor and somtimes from rusty green or black Choler fermenting and coming out of the Veins into the Heart 7. Shortness of Breath occasioned by the oppression of the Midrif through the fervency of green Choler boyling about the heart or by plenty of Humors somtimes t is caused by the heat of the Heart or Lungs when
that are not natural and such as produce humidity such as are showers of rain the moon beams c. It is cured 1. by Alteration we his archived by such things that being in their own nature moderatly drung are mingled with coolers and not strong sented or perfumed but internally by decoctions and especially that of China Guajacum into the which a little veal broth to allay and qualifie its driness is to be put Externally there must be prescribed Embrocations and those little baggs that we commonly cal sacculi made of millet or Hirse salt throughly dried by the fire the roman nigella or nightshade commonly called Gith or pepper wort c. 2. by a diet conformable unto that that is pâ—escribed to such as use the decoction of Guajacum IV. The fourth and last species is dry towit when the Brain recedes unto an excessive and immoderate dryness It is known by the hollowness of the eyes want of sleep deformity of the face the sharpness of the senses and the Causes afore going It arises from External causes but more especially from the over great evacuations of the body excessive and frequent waterings fasting or an over spare diet melancholly or sadness of the mind and overmuch Study It is cured 1. by Internal moisteners as for instance the emulsion of the greater cold seeds and Violet flowers or externals such as is the top or froth of whey 2. By a diet more than ordinarily moist such as is the fat broths made of yong flesh eggs rere boiled and sup't up and a bath of sweet water c. And here Salt must be very sparingly eaten or rather altogehher carefully avoyded V. A Fifth and last Species or kind of the Brains distemper is Compound the Nature and reason whereof may be known from the connexion of the simple or single distempers so that it is no way requisite or necessary that we here speak any thing more concerning it Chap. 2. Of the Distemper of the Brain with Matter THe distemper of the brain with matter is the declination thereof from its due temper caused and brought upon it both by external and internal causes towit the humors and flatulencies or windinesses The SIGNS are the Progress of the internal causes and the alteration and change of the disease at the first apearances of the Moon The CAUSES are internal towit humors and Winds or windiness which proceed either from the weakness of the brain or else from the repletion of the inferior parts The CURE is performed I. By an Evacuation and that as wel General where a regard must be had unto the Pills that are to be taken towit that in respect of their ingredients ought to be made most efficacious and then given in the morning unto the whole Body which ought to be purged unto the absence and presence of a Feaver lest that there be an Evacuation of such things as are not concocted unto the Clysters that are to draw back the peccant matter and these are by no means to be omitted as Special where in the first place are to recounted those Medicaments that are usually thrust or put up into the Nostrils we cal them Errbina and these ought to be such as are most of al drying provided notwithstanding that there be nothing amiss in the Eyes and Nostrils Secondly Those things that provoke unto sneezing we term them sternutatoryes especially if the Head be filled with Vapors and within cherish a gross and thick snotty matter Thirdly Apophlegmatisms if the Lungs be free from an Ulcer and the Humors not over thin Fourthly Those Remedies which we cal Cauteries Setacea Topicks c. II. by Correction of the Distemper It is divided in a Threefold manner I. The first is according to its Essence when the matter is generated in the Brain It is known by this that those Symptomes that follow upon the Affect do presently appear that they continually afflict unless haply the matter be generated in the Head by certain intervalls and degrees and that the Causes affecting the Head went before It ariseth as wel from a fault in the Brain through an ill concoction as from the retention of the excrements thereof by reason of the hurting of the expulsive Faculty or its passages The Cure differs not from that which hath been before spoken of and of which we shal speak further in the following discourse Another division of the Brains distemper is by Consent or sympathy when the matter is transmitted and derived unto the Head from some other place It is known by the general signs of which we have spoken in the first Book and first Title thereof It proceeds likewise from the same causes of which we have there at large treated In the Cure 1. We ought to begin with the part transmitting but if there be any Crisis there is nothing to be applied unless there be a vehement motion of the matter 2. There must be a Revulsion or drawing back by opening of a Vein in the Arms or Thighs by Cupping-Glasses by Clysters by frictions or rubbings and by cauteryes 3. There ought to be used repulsion or Driving back by Medicaments made of Vinegal and Roses we cal these Oxyrrhodina unless there be a discovery made either of a Feaver or a Catarrh or overmuch watchfulness and want of sleep by reason of some wound either in the Cranium or skul or else in the Membranes of the Brain 4. There ought an interception to be made The Differences whereof are various according to the Variety of those parts from which the matter is sent 1. From the whol body as in Feavers and then we must rather study to make use of revulsion and Evacuation than Repulsion or driving back 2. From the Stomach Spleen Liver Rains Womb Diaphragme or Midriff and the External parts And then it is known by the effects of the transmitting parts and accordingly the Cure is to be taken from them II. Another is from a wind or vapor which is known by the sense and feeling of an Extension or stretching out or by an heaviness in the part affected a kind of singing noise in the Ears the extraordinary beating of the Arteries and the Vertigo or lightness and giddiness of the Head It ariseth from the same causes of the which we have already spoken in treating of the causes in general unto the which in special there may be added as thereunto appertayning scents or smels to wit things of an ill Savor Vapors arising from Metals the smoke of coals c. It is Cured diversly according to Nature and diversity of its species or several kinds It is divided in a two fold manner 1. The former division is taken from the external Causes as Metalline Vapors c. And this is expelled by Zedoary by the smoak of coals in which case as the remedies thereof there is required an Air free from al il Savors Treacle Water and Sternutatories or such things as cause Sneezing by the wind either
Cause Or else it proceedeth from the compression of the brain and the fracture of the skul of which see further in their own propper places Or else it is from the Coalescence or knitting together of the Arteries from their first rise and their entering into the scalp or Skul by that general and common passage through the brain touching which there is hardly any thing to be certainly determinded while the Patient liveth III. Another is from a Vapor ful of windiness generated and bred in the brain which by an inordinate motion being poured forth into the Veins and Arteries doth so trouble and disturb the Animal spirits by driving to and fro that they thus become to be circularly moved and turned round and then they exhibite and represent unto the common sense or Phantasie this fals and feigned species and appearance of things otherwise than indeed they really are It is known by that vehement pain and dul heaviness of the head a long continued tinging and hissing Noise in the Ears and a certain kind of hurt and detriment of the external senses This Evil or Malady is very frequent and such as surpriseth a man upon a very smal and light occasion and yet it lasteth and as we use to say sticketh long by him It ariseth from causes that generate and breed winds and windiness and more especially if the wonted Evacuation be suppressed It is Cured either in the Paroxysm of which we have before spoken or out of the Paroxyim 1. By the Evacuation of the Matter that fomenteth and supplieth these Vapors and that as wel a general as a particuliar one Some there are that are a fraid to prescribe and there are others again as fearful to take those Medicaments that Practioners term Erâ—â—â—â—es which are to be taken up into the Head by the Nostrils to open and purge the brain 2. by Revulsion or drawing back of the said matter as also by Derivation and Discussion of the same by Vesicatories Cauteries frictions and lotions of the Head 3. By Corroborating and strengthening the Brain both by external and internal Remedies Among the specifical and Appropriate Medicaments those that deserve the greatest commendation are the dung of the Peacock one dram thereof by weight macerated in Wine strained and so drunk up the extract of Scorzonera the Roots of Doronicum an excellent drug brought out of Mauritania eaten Bears Ear the fat of Does and land Snakes by annoynting the Temples therewithal the pouder of Silk-worms dryed and strowed upon the Crown of the Head Very effectual likewise for this purpose are the spirits of Rosemary the Chymical Oyl of Yellow Amber Hippocrates his Treacle the pouder of the Right mineral Cinnabar half an ounce thereof Margarites prepared and red Corals prepared of each two scruples Saffron one scruple and then add to the aforesaid ingredients the leaves of Gold in number ten and so let it be administred the dose is one scruple in the water of lillies of the Valley and lastly the electuary of Saxony It is divided into that which is from extream hot blood and then there is present a redness of the Face and a beating of the Arteries In the Cure especial regard is to be had unto the opening of a Vein and that cheifly and primarily of the Basilike if a Plethory accompany the distemper and then presently after of the Cephalick or head vein if the peccant matter abound most or only in the head It is not to be drawn forth al at once but by many Essaies at several times by intervals We ought not to be over rash in attemping the cutting or opening of an Artery and into that that is from a pituitous or Flegmy Humor Then the place where we have treated of the Flegmatick distemper is to be consulted An Evacuation after that a Clyster hath first of al been administred may very conveniently and successfully be expedited by the extract of the Pils called Cochiae from half a scruple to a scruple by a Lixivium and a Balsam See further hereof in Agricola in his first Book 38. Chap. IV. Another there is from an extream windy Vapor elevated from other parts It is known by this that there went before it no hurt or annoyance of the sâ—â—ses and that the distemper afflicteth the paâ—â— frequently and by fits and withal there are present the signs of the part affected It ariseth either from the stomach either pirrocholick or ful of bitter choler or Pituitous and Flegmatick or else by reason of its imbecillity corrupting al the food that comes within it and then the Cure must cheifly respect and be directed unto the stomach And here take place as most requisit and proper a grain or two of Frankincense taken after meals the confection of Fennel of Coriander Sugar of Prunella Saccharum Rosatum or Sugar of Roses the electuary of the Conserve of old red Roses Diacydonium simplex that is an electuary of the conserve of Quinces the spirit of vitriol and the Syrup of mints For what remayneth to be done in this Cure see more in the diseases of the stomach Or else it ariseth from the Liver Spleen Womb whol Body as it usually happeneth in Feavers and then in this case there ought to be an especial Care and regard had unto the Nature and condition of the parts affected and the Various Symptomes Chap. 4. Of the Symptomes of the Imagination and the Ratiocination when they are hurt THe symptoms hurting the imagination and the Ratiocination or rational faculty are the hurt of the Memory dotage a Phrensie Melancholy madness and Raging or raving which we term Hydrophobia Article I. Of the hurt of the Memory The hurting of the Memory is a diminution or utter abolition of the same arising from Causes that hurt the dryness of the Brain conjoyned with a moderate heat and very necessary as to the memory and so by means rendring the Animal spirits either torpid that is over dul and sluggish or else which is as bad inordinately moveable There is no need of SIGNS for the very actions of the sick party discover the Symptomes The CAUSES that hurt the temperament of the brain that is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the memory either they weaken and diminish the Native heat and that likewise either Externally as do al things of a Poysonous Nature al Narcoticks applied to the fore part and likewise the hinder part of the Neck or else Internally as doth a temperament cold and moist which either affecteth Children and ancient people by reason of their Age or else it afflicteth others by reason of meat and drink that is of a cold and moist Nature or by reason of a Gross and thick Air sicknesses and other Causes of which we have already sufficently spoken in the cold distemper Or otherwise they dissolve the said Natural heat such as are externally al Philtra or amorous potions watchings excessive thought fulness Medicaments that are hot of quality Internally hot Diseases
Shal be thought fit and sufficient the Trochisques of Poppy of Mynsichtus If the humor be salt then Spike is to be added and in those that are Asthmatical al sorts of Odoriferous suffumigacions and perfumes are to be shunned So soon as they awake in the morning that that hath flown down into the Breast is to be Evacuated Another is Suffocative and choking which with great violence floweth to the Lungs and Heart Unto this we must with al possible speed apply a Remedy by Revulsion by Clysters Frictions Applications of Emplasters the hair being first cut short or shaven that have in them a power to suspend and keep off the Catarrh inunctions and often anoyntings of the Nostrils with the balsam of yellow Amber Suffumigations c. In this case likewise there is not known a more present Remedy than a Vomit in regard that it also driveth and casteth forth whatsoever is stuffed and impacted into the Lappets of the Lungs III. Another is from a Matter that is gotten together in the brain through some default of the said brain Another is a certain matter that is communicated unto the brain either from a colder stomach and a Hotter Liver or else from some other Bowels In the Cure of this the parts commanding are especially to be heeded and due provision is to be made for them And those that find themselves subject and liable unto more frequent Catarrhs these ought every month a little before the new of the Moon gently to purge the Body and more especially if their belly be dry and costive The Wine of Pope Adrian which is so extreamly commended against Catarrhs is Composed of the Rinds of al the Myrobalans together with ther Kernels first of al dryed of each two drams and an half Cinnamom one dram Cloves Galangal Cubebs Cardamon's Grains of paradise of each half a scruple Red Roses dry one dram and half the flowers of Rosemary or Anthos and of Lavender of each half a dram wel beaten together and then mingled with seaven measures of Wine Title III. Of the Diseases of the Eyes Chap. 1. Of the Affects of the Eye-Lids WE have thus finished the Affects of the Brain the Diseases of the Eyes either they affect the parts encompassing about the Globe of the Eye or the constituting the same or else they touch and affect the whol globe it self of the eye Those parts that surround and encompass the Eye are the Eye-Lids the Eye-brows and the angular flesh at the corners thereof The Maladies and affects of the Eye-Lids are I. That we cal Trachoma or a certain roughness of the internal part of the Eye-Lids It is known by the redness thereof the itching and as it were the sticking out of Millet grains It ariseth from an adust humors that is Salt sharp and biting and oftentimes likewise from over sharp Collyries It is Cured by the Evacuation of the body by the averting and turning away of the matter by Repercussives by the application of Topical first those that we cal Emollient or mollitying and qualifying the Acrimony of the peccant humor and then by and by such Topicks as cleanse as for instance Aloes dissolved in Rose Water and Myrrh dissolved in a Womans Breast Milk which ought now and then to be intermitted lest that they over forcibly make an impression of their strength upon the Eyes and by rubbing of the Eye-Lid inverted and turned the inside outward with Sugar Candy even until the blood follow It is divided in a two-fold manner I. Into that we cal Dasutes in which the Eye-Lids are only red rough and itching Sycosis in the which there are sticking out as it were the smal grains or seeds of Figgs Tylosis in which the part being exulcerated contracteth to it self a scissure and callosity or an insensible hard and thick Skin and that we term Psorophthalmia or a scab of the Eye which affecteth the whol Eye-Lid and specially toward the corners of the Eyes and this is Cured Universal and general Remedies being first premised by a Liniment of Roses and adding thereto a very little of Tuty prepared II. It is divided into that which hath its original from the blood in which the itching is not so great as in the former from yellow Choler in which there are smal pustules or pushes from Salt Flegm out of which there passeth forth more of the serous or wheyish humor and lastly from black Choler or Melancholy in the which that which cometh forth is discoloured Black and Blewish II. The second Malady and affect of the Eye-Lids is that we cal Emphysema a Tumor or swelling of the Eye-Lids which happeneth either from external Causes to wit the spiders touch the stinging of the wasp the Bee or the Nettle and then a Bee bruised and beaten to pieces is to be imposed upon the place Treacle and the Juyce Of Plantaine are to be spread and the place anoynted therewith Or else from Causes internal to wit a Hot humor where the Ophthalmick of Rhasis hath its place and is of singular use A Waterish and Wheyish humor in Feavers of long continuance watchings and in the Cachexy and here Fomentations of a Decoction that Mollifyeth and scattereth are rightly and fitly administred III. The third Affect is termed Coalitus when either the Eye-lids grow together one to the other or else with the white or the horny or both those Tunicles of the eye It is not to be Cured without much difficulty if the Eye-Lids wholly grow together but seldom or never if they grow together with the Cornea or horney Tunicles but more easily if it stick only unto the eye in the extremity thereof and if it be only as it were agglutinated or glewed together unto the Adnata Tunicle It ariseth either from an Vlcer negligently and unskilfully Cured in the which whatever in the healing thereof might have been drawn forth hath been agglurinated and here in this case opening of the part affected taketh place or else it hath its Original from a Flegmatick and Viscid or clammy matter flowing unto the eye-lids and here we are to make use of Revulsion by Vesicatories and likewise Repulsion or driving back of the aforesaid matter IV. The Cancer whether exulcerated or not of which we have sufficiently spoken before in the second Book V. Inversion which we may likewise cal Ectropium to wit the turning inside outward of the lower Eye-Lid arising 1. from a Resolution or Palsie of which see elsewhere 2. From the Increasing of the flesh in the internal part which is either to be consumed by Medicaments or else wholly to be taken away by section and cutting thereof 3. From the ill curing of the wound or Vlcer where likewise incision hath its fit and proper place Or else it is that which we term Lagophthalmos to wit of the superior eye-Lids proceeding from the undue conformation or ill frame thereof which in regard of its composure wil hardly admit of any Cure 2. From the custom
and the whol winter Young pigeons of three or six weeks old of which the thighes and belly are the principal parts An Hen of a yeare old in January February and March and chickens of six or seven weeks age A Turkey-Hen in the winter her breast and belly whose chick is best in the spring of two or three months old A Partrich from October to the spring in al its parts but cheifly in the wings Whose chick of six or eight weeks old in July August and September is meat for a Prince A Phesant in Autumne and winter in its wings rather than Legs whose chick of six or eight weeks old in the Summer is most sweet meat A Thrush of a month old in Autumne and winter III. Among four footed beasts are approved the Oxe from September to March especially if he be five yeares old his chiefe parts are the Breast Loines and Muscles of the Hips A Rabbit in winter and summer it s back parts hips and wings An Hare in cold winter A Leverit or young hare of two or three months old at al times A Kid in the spring of a month or two old it is better to eat of its hinder parts ribs belly head and feet than other parts of the Body An Hogg of two yeares in the winter the flesh on its back-bone Loines Ribbs Eares and Feet A Pigg at any time A Calfe from December to May its Loins breast Belly Head Liver Kidneyes I forbeare to speake of Fishes that I may not outgoe the bounds of a compendium III. Of Sawces touching which observe 1. That strong healthy persons must use very little sawce 2. Wee must abstain from such as differ much from our constitution 3. Wee must use such as come nearest the temper of the meats we eate 4. In the Summer and such as are of a chollerick Constitution cold sawces must be used in the winter and in flegmatick Constitutions hotter may be allowed 5. Wee must so use sawce as never to eat more than the heat of our stomach can digest IV. We must have regard to the time that is to say how often and when we must take food Touching both which points observe in general 1. That we must not eat much and often as the champions of old were wont to doe because that is good neither for the body nor the minde 2. It is better to eat often and a little than much at once for so neither shal the stomach be oppressed nor the body Pined 3. So often at our pleasure as we feel our selves hungry Now this varies according to age Temperament kind of Life custome yet the most healthy course for such as are exercised with moderate labours is to eate twice a day hard labours may eat four times a day Nor must we eat as soon as ever we feel our selves hungry nor must we defer too long after Hunger summons us For the former breeds crudities the orifice of the stomach being provoked by reason of its exquisite sence of feeling the latter fils the stomach with bad humors 5. Cholerick persons lean people such as use much exercise must feed often For the former doe easily faint away through fasting especially if choler be shed out into their stomach The latter have their bodies apt to transpire and spend The over exercised doe dissipate much 6. To cold and moist persons to fat and corpulent such as are busyed with little or indifferent labours less meat is to be given for the contrary reasons A Temperate man may eat twice a day 8. Because al the meat is not digested in the stomach at one and the same time but one part descends into the guts before another there needs no such subtile enquiry about the space of time which must goe betweene dinner and supper Provided there be no manifest signs of Crudity and repletion the supper may be foure five or six houres after dinner 9. We must so keep to an houre of eating that we sometime transgress the same least exact custome may occasion some danger when we are forced to miss our time 10. We must alwaies have great regard to custom For those that are accustomed to eat twice a day if they miss their dinner are troubled with heart-burning sharpeness of urine c. 11. Although t is Scarce determinable whether a man that is in health wel tempered and at his owne dispose should eat more largely at dinner or at supper seeing there are strong reasons on both sides and concoction in the stomach seems to be better by day than by night as we finde by experience that it is better in the night than in the day yet is it certain that some kind of meats are better at dinner than at Supper as onions and other vaporous meates and that not only old persons but those also which deflect from a good state of health and are troubled with Catarrhs weakeness and swimming of the Head ought to sup more sparingly than dine V. Of order in respect whereof note 1. Because al meats are changed into chyle and those that are foonest digested are drawn by the Liver spleen and guts it matters not with reference to Coction and generation of Chile in such as are in Health what meats are eaten first and what last yet it is best to take liquid meats before those that are sollid because they are sooner reduced into act and by their fermentation doe help the Coction of the other meats also to take laxative meats before such as are binding if the mouth of the stomach be not loose beneath lest being retained long in the stomach they bind the belly such meats as are apt to corrupt must be taken before others that the orifice of the stomach being loosened they may the more easily pass away astringents before Laxatives if the retentive faculty of the stomach be weake 2. Corruptible meats are most conveniently eaten alone an houre or two before any other lest being of a divers Nature they defile and corrupt the Chylus II. Touching Drink take these Rules 1. We must drink so much that our meat do not swim in our stomachs Moderate drink moistens the body cherishes the spirits helps the distribution of meat c. Overmuch drownes the heat of the body breeds cruditie disturbs the mind 2. We must drink between whiles at our meals and we may drink after meat if our meat pass not easily out of the stomach but not til digestion is over If you drinke during your digestion Coction is troubled and the meate is drawn crude unto the Liver 3. We must not drink fasting because it weakens the nerves 4. It is most convenient to drink a little and often at meals than to fetch al off at a draught or two the former manner quenches thirst the latter breeds fluctuation in the stomach But see touching dinners and suppers Bernhardus Paternus and Stuckius in his first book of the Feasts of the ancients Chap. 14. III. The Affections ought to
be moderate and therefore we must be obedient to reason whose part it is to bridle them IV. The motion of the Body ought to vary according to the Nature of several Bodies the time place and manner And therefore 1. Leane persons must be moderarly moved strong persons strongly respect being had to custome touching which Hippocrates Persons used to daily labours although they are weak and old do more easily undergoe their daily labours than persons unaccustomed though strong and yonge 2. While a man is hungry or meat remains undigested upon his stomach he must not labor for if he doe the nourishment wil be drawn undigested into divers parts of the body but he must not continue too long fasting neither for then the natural heat wil be dessipated and bad humors wil be brought into the stomach 3. Motion must goe before and follow after eating but such as is light The former removes such excrements as stick in the narrow passages the latter brings down the meat into the bottom of the stomach 4. Those whose head is weak or ful must not walke in the Sun 5. Motion and Rest must follow one another interchangably 6. Men must leave off exercising when their face begins to be coloured and sweat begins to break forth 7. A man must not study presently after meat least the heat be called forth of the stomach and the brain be filled with vapours V. Sleep as to the time ought so long to continue til the meat is digested and the spirit restored It must not therefore be continued beyond nine hours nor must it be less than sixe Nor is sleep in the day time commendable unless a man have passed the greatest part of the night without sleep otherwise the Head wil be filled with vapours Also that sleepe is not allowable which is after Sun-rise which by its beames opens the passages of the body and cals forth the humors and spirits from the Centre to the Circumference as for the manner of lying in bed it ought to be upon one side begining on the right that the stomaches digestion may be assisted by the Liver the thighs and armes being moderatly contracted the head a little high the rest of the body as softly reposed as may be As for the place the moon-beames must be avoided Let the bed be soft fit to keepe off the injuries of the aire Whether the Head should be covered or no I leave as a thing doubtful VI. Touching Baths observe these following rules 1. They ought to be neither frequent nor long for they dissipate natural heat and cause a redundancy of il humors 2. We must not goe into the bath before our meat be digested least crudities be drawn into the body 3. We must not eat nor drink in a bath 4. We must come out of the bath before we we be weary nor must we eate or drink before the heat be expired Concerning washing of the head and feet I shal only ad what followes The former is not good in Head-ach or Catarhs in other cases it opens the pores and le ts out fumes the latter drawes humors from the Head VII Excrements because they are daily accumulated ought also daily to be voided forth And therfore 1. A man should goe to stoole as soone as he rises 2. If he cannot doe that his belly must be moved with the broath of an hen and other lenitive 3. The Excrements of the third Digestion must be expelled by exercises Point 3. Of Preserving the healths of old People By old people I Vnderstand such as have attained to fifty yeares age But their Age is divided into green old age which reaches from the begining of the eight septinary to some part of the ninth and old age it selfe precisely so called The part of Physick which takes care hereof is termed the Regulation of old age Now we shal provide wel for the health of Aged persons if we shal observe some things in General other things in special I. In General we must indeavor because in old age the body daily dries away that the said dryness may be prevented and that a diet hot and moist may be used II. In Particular I. Let the Air be hot and moist and let the cold winter air be conquered and driven away by Art II. Let their Nourishment be of good juice and easie to digest some commend honey to wast away flegme and let them take a less quantity than formerly lest too much over whelm their natural heat Let them eat thrice a day rather than twice nor let them ever if possible offende in the Quantity of their meat Somtimes let them change their Diet. III. Let their drink be either thin Wine fragrant of middle Age fleâ—m colored or yellow or mead or beer IV. Let them avoid passions of the mind least their weak Natural heat be dissipated or suffocated and a consumption be caused V. Their accustomed exercises are not wholly to be omitted but let them use light exercise before meat Moderate frictions are commended that heat being excited after sleep the distribution of their meat may be more happily accomplished VI. Let their Sleep be long and let want of sleep be removed by washing their feet near bed time and other sleep procuring Remedies VII Let their Excrements be conveniently and seasonably voided forth and because aged persons are commonly costive because of the dryness of their remper let them use emollient and abstersive things as honey Figs Raisons terpentine c. See Sebizius of the Diet of aged people Article II. Of Preserving the Health of Intemperate Persons By intemperately Complexioned Persons we understand three kinds of men which deflect from the best temper Viz. Such as are simply Intemperate which indeed want their most exact health yet can sufficiently perform the actions of life nor are inclining to any Diseases Declining Persons which are turning from a temperate state towards some Disease which is known by the threefold kind of Symptome and if they be not helped they fal into the said Disease and Persons recovering who recollect themselves from some Disease For the first for Hygieine particularly so called for the middle sort Prophylactice for the last Analeptice takes care I. Touching Intemperate Persons note 1. In General If they are not to be reduced into a better condition they must be preserved with things alike in general and in special or as they are wont to speak in quantity and degree if they may be reduced they are by little and little to be used to contraries 2. That an not and moist temper because convenient to our Nature must in no wise be Changed 3. It Dry Distemper must be kept off as much as may be II. In Particular 1. Hot and dry persons lest they over inflame a fretting heat or heape up sharp Excrements must avoid hot soultry aire hot meats anger over great Meditations they must drink plentifully but the drink must not be strong They must use frequent Baths of