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A15599	The general practise of physicke conteyning all inward and outward parts of the body, with all the accidents and infirmities that are incident vnto them, euen from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote: also by what meanes (with the help of God) they may be remedied: very meete and profitable, not only for all phisitions, chirurgions, apothecaries, and midwiues, but for all other estates whatsoeuer; the like whereof as yet in english hath not beene published. Compiled and written by the most famous and learned doctour Christopher VVirtzung, in the Germane tongue, and now translated into English, in diuers places corrected, and with many additions illustrated and augmented, by Iacob Mosan Germane, Doctor in the same facultie.; New artzney buch. English	Wirsung, Christof, 1500?-1571.; Mosan, Jacob.	1605 (1605)	STC 25864; ESTC S118564	1,345,223	940

signes to be found than age as are to be séene in very old folkes Now to come to the remedies of this kind of consumption this patient shall vse as néere as he may all warme and moist things He must often bathe himselfe in fresh warme water and vse many moystening clisters as the broth of Lambes heads of tripes of Hens and the like for these are very commodious for him because they moisten the bowels and refresh and nourish the liuer But you must put hereto neither salt nor any spice that they be not too sharp and may be held in the longer You must also take for this Clister not aboue sixe ounces of broth at once but in foure and twentie houres you are to minister thrée or foure Also the rubbing or bathing of the externall parts after meales is greatly commended and as Hony in the Ague Hectica is very hurtfull so is it in this disease Marasmode very commodious Further all light meates are passing good for him that are not slimie as fresh broth reare egges with a thinne and pleasant wine being measurably vsed and such like Item all the salues plaisters and other things which are prescribed for the Feuer Hectica may also be vsed in this sicknesse But for these diseases speciall héed is to be taken of cold and of all things as in any way consume the radicall humiditie Those that wil haue any further declaration of this infirmity let them reade that which hath bene said in the description of the consumption or feuer Hectica The thirteenth Chapter Of the long lingring Agues THe long continuing of Agues dependeth vpon thrée kinds of causes First when any one hath an outward sore which hardly will be cured Secondly if the patient or the Phisition euer mistake or kéepeth some bad order Thirdly this is also procured by some outward occasion as by the time of the yeare by continuall raine by the nature of the countrey by the vnhailnesse of the dwelling place by great care and troubles of mind But when it is knowne that there are none of these foresaid occasions then must it of necessitie depend on the fourth cause that is on a grosse tough and slimie humor If therefore you will haue remedy against the continuing of Agues then must you cure and take away the foresaid causes with their contraries For that these long continuing Agues are commonly caused by an obstruction of the liuer whereto these things following are principally good to wit sirupus Diarrhodon de Cichorio de Lupulis de Eupatorio de capillo Veneris Oxymel compositum de Bysantijs de Radicibus Item the decoction of Adiantum Harts toong Agrimony Wormewood Endiue Cicorie of all or of some of them The common pestilentiall pilles called Ruffi and Rubarbe Cassie Hiera picra conserue of Prunes Agaricus and sirupe of Roses laxatiue are also excellent good Item you must boile also Parsly roots with your meate the wine shal be mingled with water wherein Cinnamome Annis séed Coriander and Fennell rootes are sodden You must annoint the liuer with the salue that is described in the third part the twelft chapter and third § beginning thus Take oyle of bitter Almonds c. in which place you shall find many moe other remedies against the obstruction of the liuer through heate and cold For the liuer being deopilated and opened then will the long lingring Ague be easily mitigated The fourteenth Chapter Of swellings that follow after the Ague IT commeth oftentimes to passe that some haue their féete swolne after the long continuing of an Ague then vse a bath to sweate in and take one ounce of the distilled water of Cammomill flowers which hath bene drawne onely out of the yellow séedes of the flowers You must boyle in the water of this bath Sloe leaues and therewithall bathe and sweate In the bathing you shall forbeare from drinke but this bath is more commodious after some phlegmaticke Agues than after any hote Agues and what order of diet is to be obserued after a lingering Ague when the patient beginneth to recouer hath beene sufficiently shewed and declared in the third Chapter and the twelfth § The fifteenth Chapter Of the Plague THis most noisome terrible and perillous malady of the plague is called of the Gréekes Epidemia and of the Latinists Lues Pestis and Pestilentia which last name we also vse This malady is described by Galen after this manner The Plague is a sicknes that doth infect all or at the least very many men and is caused of the venemous ayre Or thus The Plague is a disease that either spéedily killeth or soone forsaketh a man And where such sicknesses get the vpper hand there distresse and misery aboundeth for it hath bene seene by experience that it hath made away men cattel and fowles of the aire yea many thousands of fishes in the waters and that not onely villages and townes haue bene depriued thereby of all their inhabitants but also great cities and countries haue by the same bene made desolate The causes of the Plague §. 1. OF the naturall causes of the Plague there are as many opinions amongst the Philosophers as there are causes that procure it as namely of venemous vapors of the earth that are infected by some earthquakes or if a countrey be hot moyst full of stenches full of lakes or still standing waters and cloyed with stench of dead bodies as it oftentimes befalleth after great wars and slaughters but especially is the aire infected as is abouesaid through sinne whereby it may diuersly be venomed Also when the aire is warme and moist and that it doth raine much in time of heate with a Southerly wind whereof we will not at this present make any further discourse but they that desire to haue any ampler description hereof may reade ouer the Philosophers and other learned Phisitions But howsoeuer this is the most certaine cause of this sicknesse that God the Lord for our manifold sinnes and wickednesse to wit idolatrie incredulitie and ingratitude hath vsed this Plague and many afflictions moe as hunger warre and shedding of blood to punish the foresaid sinnes and transgressions These are his rods and scourges euen the ministers of his wrath to chastice the wicked world as through his Prophets he hath foresaid and threatned the world and as both holy Scriptures and heathen writers testifie that it hath afterward ensued accordingly Signes of the Plague to come §. 2. FIrst it is a certaine signe that the aire is infected and that a plague is to be expected if in the end of the sommer there appeare Comets or any other impressions which men cal flakes of fire starres that fall or shoote and such like in the element which proceede of vapors that are drawne out of the earth into the aire and there are kindled whereby both men and cattell are infected Secondly when any vnaccustomed heape of beasts are séene as of Frogs Toades Grashoppers Mice and Wormes which oftentimes

his children and familie to féed and find them honestly and well to supply their wants to estéeme of friends to beware of enemies and to take care for the Commonwealth If then at length peraduenture he come to any preferment office or gouernance in that place where he liueth he is not onely constrained to set behind and omit his owne affaires and businesse but is hated also and enuied of others now soroweth dow ioyeth for his countries estate now with one thing now with another troubled and vexed in mind Furthermore the turmoile and paines he taketh resteth neither night nor day otherwhiles called vpon for one matter straight way for another and then at the last reapeth his paines for his labour and is rewarded with ingratitude yea oftentimes he is endangered of goods of honour of life and all Thus with much trauell with many perils and with great pains gaineth he nothing but gray haires and old age Old age a sicknesse of it selfe And to conclude what is old age else then a very sicknesse it selfe féeble weake full of sorowes and an heape of cares not regarded and estéemed of those that should most account of it I will not rehearse here the temptations of sathan vexations and troubles in mind pricking of the conscience and many other heauie matters which age is subiect vnto but end with this that the old man goeth with one foot in the graue and hath nothing more surer then death at his doore When we beginne to bethinke with our selues either what sicknesses we haue had withstood or what we haue séene in others and what diseases we are subiect vnto what strange how diuerse and what incurable calamities euen from the hower of our birth till our dying day are incident vnto vs as leprosie falling sicknes lamenesse blindnesse deafnesse c. Out of all which we may easily gather and euidently see that our short life is nothing else but a long dying day in that which all miseries méet This may well be a iust cause to admonish vs to thinke vpon another home which is promised and prepared for vs of that most cunning Phisition and Sauiour of our soules Christ Iesus which we shall find to be without all troubles or cares without wants and without end The second Chapter The causes of mans miseries and wretchednesse THe reason of man as alwaies if hath done euen from the beginning séemeth to complaine greatly The cause of mans wretchednesse that our nature shold be subiect vnto so many infirmities miseries and calamities yea it doth as it were chide with God and accuse him of tyranny for creating of man so wretched And in very déed a worldly minded man that neither acknowledgeth God nor the cause of his naturall imperfections might easily be brought and carried away with such like opinions and with great reason bewayle the infinite wretchednesse of mankind séeing he findeth no creature on the face of the whole earth that is vexed with so many aduersities but man onely But contrariwise they that are indued with the knowledge of God and godlinesse will not accuse him of tyrannie that is most gentle will not accuse him of euill that hath created and made all things most perfect and good nay that neuer could or would do harme Adam was created in the beginning sound and whole perfect wise absolute and without any blemish or spot whatsoeuer but by disobedience transgressing the commandement of God in that he would without contradiction be made like vnto God and know both good and euill which he did of his owne stubborne head and in despite and contempt of his Creator herewith hath he not onely brought and wrought vnto himselfe but vnto all his posteritie after him an euerlasting mishappe and infelicitie as a well worthie and deserued punishment for his and our misdéedes together Wherefore sinne is the first and onely cause of all our distresse of all our sicknesses and heauinesse here on earth which hath brought vs to that estate that after all our turmoyling paines taking we must at the last tast and take death as a merit and payment for our sinnes This if a godly man consider with himselfe Christians beare their crosse with patience and as Saint Paul saith sigheth for sinnes fake then doth he beare the crosse patiently acknowledgeth it to be a fatherly warning and rebuke vseth due and true meanes First calleth to God euen from the bottome of his heart committeth both his life and his death into his hands afterwards commeth vnto Phisicke the which it hath pleased God of his mercie to ordaine for the behoofe and néede of man and hath taught it his seruants the phisitions Also it is his will and pleasure that we should vse his creatures in our necessitie and giue him praise and thankes for them And to the end the aforesaid meanes might the better be vsed he hath mercifully lent and sent vs the Phisition and phisicke and hath shewed vs a way by which those meanes might best be wrought And to the end this might in our natiue language be better published and shewed abroad I thought good not to burie but to employ this litle talent of mine which for this end and purpose I haue receiued of God In which worke my purpose and intent is to begin and diuide the bodie of man orderly from the crown of the head and so descend downward from ioynt to ioynt til I come to the sole of the foote and withall to shew what infirmities euery part and member is most subiect vnto And lastly how and by what meanes they may be cured But séeing this cannot be done without phisicke and phisitions helpe I thought it best first to shew the iust dignitie and woorthie praise of them both before we go forward with our intent and purpose The third Chapter Of the necessitie profite and praise of Phisicke The neede and praise of Phisicke SEeing it hath pleased almightie God that we should with many infirmities of bodie and with great and heauie troubles and vexations of mind runne on and continue this our race and pilgrimage on earth and that we might preserue this lumpe of clay flie and auoide those things that might harme it take away the incident infirmities and to kéepe our bodies a pure habitation for God and his holy Spirit as it pleaseth him to grant vs life he hath also of his infinit mercie and goodnesse created as is aboue shewed naturall and effectuall meanes reuealed them and in pitie so bountifully by the art of Phisicke imparted and communicated vnto man that Iesus Sirach saith in this manner Honour the Phisition with that honor that is due vnto him because of necessitie for the Lord hath created him for the most high commeth healing and he shall receiue gifts of the King The knowledge of the Phisition lifteth vp his head and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration The Lord hath created medicines of the