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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46939	Enchiridion medicum, or, A manual of physick being a compendium of the whole art, in three parts ... : wherein is briefly shewed 1. the names, 2. the derivation, 3. the causes, 4. the signs, 5. the prognosticks, and 6. a rational method of cure ... / by Robert Johnson, Med. professor.	Johnson, Robert, b. 1640?	1684 (1684)	Wing J816; ESTC R440	137,158	342

wasting of the whole body the spittle is thick and of various colours If the Ulcer of the Lungs and Consumption hath not been long and the strength of the sick remains there may be hopes of recovery e contra The Hectick Fever is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. ab habitu quod in habitu corporis vel in partibus solidis consistat It is an unnatural heat which hath seized upon the solid parts and wasteth the moisture of them The heat in an Hectick Fever is but little and therefore rarely troublesome to the sick except one or two hours after meat at which time the heat is a little sharpned and increased which may be known by an over frequent though weak Pulse but it soon returns again to its former equality But here it will not be amiss to shew you that there is a threefold moisture in the body viz. bloud in the Veins and Arteries a dewy substance in every part and also a glutinous moisture which doth not onely nourish but moistneth it and keepeth the substance of each part together In the beginning when the moisture begins to fail the Hectick Fever is not easily discerned because there is still sufficient moisture to entertain the natural heat but if by the long continuance of the Hectick Fever the radical moisture of the solid parts begins to consume it may then be easily known for there follows a continual and lingring leanness of the whole body which being reduc'd to its extremity may be call'd in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in English an extenuating Fever The Latin Authours call it Marcor which signifies Corruption or Rottenness It is an immoderate dryness and Consumption of the whole body by reason of the defect of the substantial humidity There are two degrees of it according to Galen the one is when this extenuation of the body is in fieri in consuming the other is when it is in facto esse or consummate in which the body is reduc'd to such leanness that it seemeth to be nothing else but a walking Sceleton The causes of an Hectick Fever are External or Internal The External causes are all that may occasion any of the other Fevers for oft times Hectick Fevers are observ'd to follow other diseases and especially Fevers of one day proceeding from a great errour in Diet and also from continual and intermitting Fevers when they are very vehement but most frequently from Inflammations of the Bowels especially of the Lungs for when an Ulcer follows then the whole mass of bloud is infected by matter and gets a singular glutinousness which being communicated to the other humours spoils them with the same fault and renders them unfit to perform the natural Functions rightly Sometimes Hectick Fevers are observ'd to arise immediately from excess of the nonnatural things as most vehement anger too much watchings immoderate sorrow continued labour want of food c. The Internal cause is the over viscousness of the bloud and humours because of which not onely the appetite of all food is diminished and at length dejected but the nourishment of all the parts of the body is dayly decreas'd for when there is loathing of food then fermentation separation of usefull from unusefull parts sanguification generation of the Animal Spirits c. is hindred and destroyed whence the toughness and sluggishness of Choler Spittle the juice of the Pancreas and Lympha is dayly augmented and the evil becomes by degrees greater and at length incurable If you perceive that there is so much of the radical moisture remaining as is able to cherish the natural heat which you may discern if the colour of the body be fresh if the figure be decent if the proportion of the parts be according to nature and the sick can in some good measure perform all actions you may conceive some hopes of recovery But if the Body be extenuated almost like a Sceleton viz. when the body seemeth to be nothing else but Skin and Bone as the vulgar proverb is acquaint the sick with the danger least Death seize upon them unprepared Nevertheless if the sick implore your aid of Christian Charity withdraw not what comfort you are able to procure unto them The Cure of a Consumption and Hectick Fever will differ not a little according to the diversity of causes producing them When an Hectick Fever comes with or succeeds Fevers with or without fits then upon their account the cure may be varied according to the divers harm of the humours differently peccant If a Consumption or Hectick Fever be caused by purulent matter from an Ulcer of the Lungs c. then you must endeavour to free the bloud and humours from matter which may be done by any Antimonial medicines rightly prepared perhaps before all others whether they be Diaphoreticks Purgers or Vomiters as experience doth manifest for it hath been observ'd even in a Phthisick and an inveterate great Ulcer of the Lungs to bring away a good quantity of matter by Stool and Urine so that then for many days no matter was cast forth by a Cough Among common things all Vulnerary plants are good used in Decoctions Let this or one like it be a form of a Decoction in this case Take the Roots of Plantain Comfry Round-birthwort Liquorish of each two ounces Fennel Scabious Plantain of each two handfulls Figs Raisons of the sun stoned of each four ounces let them be all cleansed bruised and boiled in three quarts of Barley-water till a third part be boiled away then strain it and add Syrups of Hore-hound and Hyssop of each two ounces Laudanum opiatum ten grains Mix it Let the sick drink two ounces of this Decoction oft in a day and if you add one or two drops of Balsam of Sulphur with Oil of Annise-seed to every draught it will be the more effectual The Balsam prepared of the truly Sulphureous and inflameable Flowers of Antimony is most excellent in this distemper if it may be had which may be taken as the Balsam of Sulphur Also those medicines may be used which mildly amend and correct the viscousness and glutinousness of all the humours for which I commend all mild Aromaticks and Oily Volatile Salts as that cut and alter every viscous humour and reduce it into its natural state Those medicines are to be selected as do most conduce to and agree with the constitution of every sick person Vitriolated Tartar is an excellent medicine which will agree with all constitutions and may be taken from ten to twenty grains every other morning in a little warm Broth. Also the following medicine is very effectual Take the Powder of Cream of Tartar and Tartar Vitriolated of each half a drachm Volatile Salt of Harts-horn Salt of Amber of each ten grains Mix it for two doses which may be taken in Chicken Broth in the morning These choice medicines will conduce much to cleanse the bloud