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A90749	Platerus golden practice of physick fully and plainly discovering, I. All the kinds. II. The several causes of every disease. III. Their most proper cures, in respect to the kinds, and several causes, from whence they come. After a new, easie, and plain method; of knowing, foretelling, preventing, and curing, all diseases incident to the body of man. Full of proper observations and remedies: both of ancient and modern physitians. In three books, and five tomes, or parts. Being the fruits of one and thirty years travel: and fifty years practice of physick. By Felix Plater, chief physitian and professor in ordinary at Basil. Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick, and the liberal arts. Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick, and astrology.	Platter, Felix, 1536-1614.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670. aut; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. aut	1664 (1664)	Wing P2395A; ESTC R230756	1,412,918	573

blood which stretcheth the Member in men as we shewed in defect of Venery If Seed be plentiful it causeth Sanguin men Plenty of seed and heat is the cause of a Venereal Itch. by reason of fulness or heat of the Vessels which continually attract blood which desires expulsion where it aboundeth to be Lascivious Especially when the Seed is hotter then ordinary and sharper Sharpness of seed is the cause of Frensie of the Womb in Women so called this we have shewed may come of eating hot Spices or Medicines And of hot humors and sharp not in the Womb of salt Flegm and Choller as is usual but from the seed which is venemous and sharp from the heat of which comes the unsatiable Itch which is usual in unclean Women who infect men therewith Men when they are thus infected have a running of the Reins which sends it forth but women have it not so usually Some say that the cause why Lepers are not Lecherous is because they are separated from women and constrained to be abstinenr Seed raised from its Vessels Shaking of the Seed causeth a Venereal Itch. and desiring passage causeth Itch and is scarse hindered from flowing for this is the condition thereof while it is sound and in its own place except it abound that it doth not much prick But when it is removed it is very troublesome to get forth so it is for by imagination dreams and handling Seed may be spent by both Sexes When much Arterial blood sils the Yard and continueth The cause of Priapismus or Erection preternatural is the plenty of blood gathered in the Privities it causeth Priapismus or constant standing with a desire of which we now speak But it may hapen that there may be Erection before the blood come to prick the part and a desire afterwards from thence Also it may come from heat of the Reins and parts adjacent by blood caused from lying upon the back upon feather beds or boards which posture makes blood come sooner to the part and makes Erection and greater Appetite as experience sheweth And heat of the bed makes men rise at midnight as the Proverb is If it come from other causes as Pain Inflamation Wind or Water it belongs to another treatise The Cure If Men or Women are provoked to Venery to prevent unlawful acts The Cure of the Venereal Itch and Frensie and of Priapismus the heat is to be allay'd by hindering increase of Seed and heat thereof as also of blood and preventing the commotion of Seed Thus Purges are chiefly requisite when foul and sharp humors corrupt and sharpen the Seed and cause lust To cool lust we give things that quench or that dry though hot if they consume it by a propriety nor do we spend time to Cure and expel wind which is not the cause as we said we give them evening or morning often for the effect will not quickly be seen Sallats at supper of Lettice Purslane Mints with Vinegar are proper without Spices And this Electuary Take Conserve of Water-lillies and Mints of each an ounce Lettice and Coleworts candied six drams seeds of Agnus Castus so called from its vertue one dram and an half Rue half a dram Coral one dram Crystal half a dram Camphire a scruple with syrup of Purslane Make an Electuary A convenient Pouder Take Snakweed roots one dram Mints Rue Water-lillies dried of each half a dram the seeds of Vitex one dram and an half Hemp seeds Grapes Lettice of each one dram and an half Crystal one dram Camphire a scruple make a Pouder take a dram in broath or syrup of Purslane or with a little Sugar or made into Tablets with Rose and Lettice A convenient Syrup Take juyce of Lettice and Purslane of each two ounces juyce of Mints half an ounce Violet and Rose-water of each an ounce Vineger of Roses half an ounce Sugar three ounces Boyl them to a Syrup give an ounce often The Decoction of Lettice Purslane Endive Mints is good in broath Cold water drunk in great quantity allaies lust Some affirme that they can take away all desire and use of Venery with Wine in which the Fish called Mullus is infused others give forty Pismires in drink Outwardly cool the Feet Privities Loynes so to wash the Yard in cold water makes it presently fall this remedy my Father told me a learned man used who the first year of his Mariage lost his Wife and Child at once in Child-bed that he night die a Widdower without desire of Women Things that Potentially cool mixed with driers and applied by Fomentation to the Privities extinguish lust as the Decoction of Lettice Plantane Purslane Willows Water-lillies and the like Especially if they be applied to the Feet with Vinegar The juyces of the same to foment the Stones adding a little Vinegar and Camphire is better and injected into the Womb doth the same for Women Vinegar of Roses doth the like It is good to anoynt the Reins with this Take Oyl of water Lillies two ounces juyce of Lettice one ounce and an half Vinegar half an ounce boyl them to the consuming of the juyces add seeds of Vitex one dram Camphire half a dram white Wax a little Make an Oyntment Unguentum Album with Camphire or that cooler of Galen for the Reins with Camphire doth the same And also Plates of Lead to the Reins Sugar and Crystal of Lead with Oyntments and Correcters given in a smal quantity are commended by the Chymists The smel of Camphire stupifieth lust therefore they teach that it is to be worn to preserve chastity which it doth by touching it or tying to the Arms And Vitex and Vervain they say doth the same Great fasting doth somewhat allay lust especially abstinence from hot Meats Spices and Wine which rule they ought to observe which pretend to chastity by abstaining from certain Meats as the Friers who pretend to mortifie by eating of Shel-fish and Botargo and the like in the holy time of Lent The sorrow of mind and grief take away lust And Diseases with pain whether hot or cold By letting blood something is abated but it cannot make the Body lean or weak without some other inconvenience It is reported that one cured his Wife of her unsatiable desire by opening all the usual Veins And Hippocrates teacheth by the example of the Scythians that the opening of the Veins behind the Eares maketh Sterility and Impotency Gelding is the extream remedy for extream Lechery and taking off the Yard is the surest way for which cause they say Origen Gelt himself And I know a Priest that having been often punished for sin in that kind did the same and Masters usually do so to their Servants to whom they commit their Wives but they deserve this punishment best that sin in Adultery and Fornication and therein persevere The surest remedy is Mariage which is granted by God to all that want the gift of Chastity CHAP. 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Face like a cancerous Tumor These Pustles be they in one or more places A general Cancer fewer or more do certainly declare an Elephantiasis and if these appear not you cannot judg directly except other signs concur There are other Tumors which are in the Mouth the Palat and Jaws more or fewer yellow blew which are signs of the same such as are in Hogs and therefore in Germany they look in their Mouths and if they find them they will not eat of their flesh There are also Ulcers especially between the Toes and in the Soles of the Feet in the thick skin there and in the Hands also in the Elbow and other Joynts These Ulcers pierce through the skin and seldom go farther but are broad with hard swollen Lips easily bleeding like Carcinomata and because the tumor is like a Cancer and the Ulcer resembleth a cancerous Ulcer This Elephantiasis is called an universal Cancer Neither do the Ulcers feel any pain nor the Tumor though they be molested hence they are supposed to be void of feeling besides these Ulcers creep and being cured in one place they break forth in another From these alone rightly understood we may determine the Leprosie but surer when the other agree They who are infected pretend they were burnt to take away suspicion because they resemble the Scars of burnings Experience shews that the Ulcers and Tumors in a Leprosie want feeling So November 22. 1625. a young Man of three and twenty years of age being to be searched for a Leper who was full of such tumors and Leprous Ulcers and signs and therefore judged to be a Leper I being brought in with many other Physitians by my Father of pious Memory to give censure thrust a Needle into a Tumor on the outside of the right Arm being high to the bottom in the presence of them all and the Patient being blind-fold perceived it not There are Ulcers in the Nostrils and they are worst which eate the spungy Bones thereof and make the Nose fall off and corrode on further and eat through the Palat and Uvula and the Jaws and if they get down to the Wind-pipe do kill the Patient as also when they are too corroding in the Nose Somtimes the Swelling of some parts declare the Leprosie as the broad Grisle of the Ear growing thick swollen or broad as an Elephants from whence it is called Elephantiasis Also the Nostrils are dilated which makes the Face very uncomely especially when the Nose between them is flat which also hinders breathing also the other parts of the Face swell besides the tumors as also the eye-brows so that the red hangs out and seems horridly Also the Hands and Feet are swollen when the rest of the Body is lean If a skin be grown over the Eye it is an Argument of the Leprosie if other signs agree And if it be in the larger corner grown thick it gets over the Pupilla and hinders the sight as we shewed in the Hurt of sight Sometimes the skin of the Leper is rough in the Feet Hands Face and Ears and also in the Head and Eyebrows where are also Dandrough and Scabs somewhile blew or black with little or no itching The skin is also cleft in some places especially the Hands and it is hard and scirrhous the Nails are also cleft and bent there is also a Scab dry and stinking over the whol Body which seems to pollute the whol Body more then an Elephantiasis which is only in the Head and Joynts and that called Psora by the Greeks is most desperate and taken for Elephantiasis as we shewed in Psora but being not the same it must be distinguished And the Greek Leprosie is not to be called the Arabian Leprosie which is the Elephantiasis except other more certain signs accompany it Also the hair falls off both from the Head which is bald as also the Chin so that the Beard is either fallen or very thin and from the Eye-brows The strange colour may help the Discovery of this Disease which is not fresh but pale yellow black and dark especially the Face and the Eyes are red or blew Also if Veins under the Tongue are black and swollen but this sign I have little regarded The Functions are not hurt at the first wherefore they feeling no pain neglect their cure till more manifest signs appear And then they have defect in the Operations by the Increase of the Distempers mentioned especially in breathing which is hindered by the stoppage of the Nose so that they breath with open Mouth and by Ulcers and Tumors in the Nose so that their Voice is hoarse and the Party grows in danger of being choaked and so they many times die when notwithstanding other accidents they might live Also the Senses are hurt in the continuance of the Disease as the sight with a filme in the Eye which either hinders sight or makes blind Also the touching is so stupified that the skin feels not any offense in the part and therefore they try them chiefly by the prick of a Needle But Experience sheweth that is not alwaies true but only in the swollen Feet which have long been so and want Heat to be felt as if dead this I have tried by pricking them to the bottom neither did they bleed but onely water And this made them think that in all Leprosies there is want of feeling or it was because the ulcers and tumors are without feeling as we shewed therefore they suppose all the Body insensible As for other Functions except by the continuance of the Diseases the strength fail they can perform any actions as eat concoct digest as found Men and if poor they beg for Meat Moreover lust is not gone from them because by many instances they are proved wanton and though they impute it to other causes yet we suppose it to be from their being kept from their Wives And they can procreate as appears by their Wives lest with Child though they were Leprous long before and also they beget leprous Children There is nothing voided which doth especially declare this Disease though many Chyrurgions and Physitians say they may be known only by their blood which the People beleeves and therefore they bleed all they examine and pronounce by the blood as it is black blew or gravelly Others strain it and seek for worms which they say is the true sign others try the blood thus they throw hot Salt into the blood and if it dissolve not or if Vinegar mix not with it it is a true sign of the Leprosie But we that have above thirty years diligently searched into the Blood of Lepers do plainly declare that neither we nor our Chyrurgions could ever find any sign of Leprosie from the blood but it was either like sound Men or not much different corrupted or infected or so bad as in a Feaver or Jaundies And we declare the same concerning Urin which the vulgar esteem so much of for