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A43020	Morbus anglicus: or, The anatomy of consumptions Containing the nature, causes, subject, progress, change, signes, prognosticks, preservatives; and several methods of curing all consumptions, coughs, and spitting of blood. With remarkable observations touching the same diseases. To which are added, some brief discourses of melancholy, madness, and distraction occasioned by love. Together with certain new remarques touching the scurvy and ulcers of the lungs. The like never before published. By Gideon Harvey, M.D.	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1666 (1666)	Wing H1070; ESTC R221901	86,504	264

frustration in her Love inflames and turns to a more malign venene putrefaction whose fumes do easily intoxicate poison the Brain Notwithstanding though all sorts of madness imply so difficult a cure because of the deep latency of a venene cause in a noble part yet this kind of madness that 's occasioned by Love in the commencement yeelds to the easiest cure viz. by slackning the bridle of chastity whereby vent is given to the putrefying Sperm and the ascending malign Spermatick fumes revell'd drawn back And by that sort of cure I have heard of several Women reduced to their perfect wits and of two or three Maniacks Mad-mer who although impelled into that distemper through an adust malign Hypochondriack Melancholy were set to rights again by the kindness of their Mistresses for which cure there can no other reason be given than that Venereal evacuations do potently revell or draw from the head whereby the said Melancholick fumes are retracted downward and refrigerate cool the adust humors that inflame the Brain and lastly abate that over plenitude of raging spirits Moreover we may observe that Italians though extremely disposed to a Maniack Madness through their adust Melancholick temperature and studious course of life yet it 's a very rare thing to hear of any Maniacks among them and that certainly for no other reason than their frequent use of Women which the indulgence of their Religion has made Universal on the contrary in those Countreys where the severity of their Laws doth strictly enjoyn chastity upon the Inhabitants as in Holland though the coldness of the Climat and their cold Dyet doth oppositely resist Maniack Madness yet there is not a Town so small but is provided with a Bedlam for to secure those numbers of Maniacks both Men and Women Neither is the benefit of this sort of evacuation so particular as to relate only to individuals but that the publick also partakes of it as in Turky Italy and Spain and other Countreys where Polygamy having many Wives and Scortation Whoring are tolerated they find it renders their Subjects both Men and Women more tractable and obedient to Government and seldom are known to rebel questionless by subtracting great quantities of spirits which are so copious in the Sperm the Plethory whereof would otherwise render them viz. the Spirits turbulent and furious On the other side where that kind of liberty is restrained their Subjects do oft fall into furies and rebellions against the Magistrate as appears too often in these Septentrional northern climats the reason is as before because the said Plethory and retention of Sperm renders the Spirits furious and mad This premissory discourse doth not infer so great a dammage from an over-repletion of Sperm but that the detriment of an over-evacuation may be equal or rather surmount it Henricus ab Heer in his observations relates the Cure of one of his Patients whom finding suddenly reduced to the lowest ebb of weakness could suspect no other cause but his over-pleasing his Wife in which surmisal the Patients Urin replenish'd with whitish Spermatick Filaments and his confession after he had recovered his Speech confirm'd him This doubtful Cure gave a sufficient testimony of the danger he was precipitated into through that Venereal Syncope Neither is this the sole Disease those furious Goats arrive to but are oft strucken with tremblings of the joynts Palsies Gouts and other neuritick Sinewy Diseases Two years ago I had a Flemmen in Cure at London his Disease was a Ptisick in a dangerous degree or Asthma oft excurring to an Orthopnoea a Ptisick in the worst degree the cause a Metastasis or translation of tartarous humours from his joynts to his Lungs for it seems his preceding Disease was the Gout which was droven inwards through the unskilfulness of his Physician into his breast Hereupon I inquired into the first occasion of this Arthritick of the joynts malady whether it was Hereditary or acquired by ill Dyet or by what other external cause to this he gave me a full satisfaction ingeniously confessing that when a young man and marryed to a lusty Frow he had so travailed himself off his Legs in yeelding to his Wifes insatiableness that about a year after he fell into an Universal tremor trembling of all his joynts that when going his Legs trembled under him and was no sooner recovered of that but Arthritick pains succeeded which afterwards exchanged into an incurable Ptisick Several other evils this kind of excess produces but most frequently a Consumption of the Back which Hippocrates stiles a Tabes Dorsalis appropriating it most to young-men surfeiting themselves with the first tasts of their Nuptial wedding delights The immediate cause of this Consumption is an insupportable loss of Animal spirits those that move the joynts engendred by the Medulla Spinalis or Marrow of the Back and the Brain which said losse of spirits must necessarily occasion a great weakness of the Back and Brain and consequently of all those parts that depend on them viz. the joynts as the Legs Arms c. 2. The Brain and Back suffering so great a draught of Animal spirits must necessarily draw a great proportion of Vital blood to recruit themselves and furnish the other parts that do so immoderately draw from them whereby the fleshy and other parts being deprived of their nutriment must consequently be extenuated and if continued reduced to a perfect Consumption That an excessive evacuation of Sperm doth subtract such a large quantity of spirits i● plain to those that conceive the generation and constitution of it viz. it 's constituted and generated out of a copious plentiful conflux flowing of Animal spirits transmitted sent from the Brain and Marrow of the Back through proper chanals leading into the Testicles Cods whose office is to abstract the purest part of them and so to knit and unite them into a thick fluid body Whence taking our Calculation from the essence of wine abstracted from its first body it appears probable that the Sperm being an essence abstracted from a great quantity of Animal spirits which again are essences abstracted from a large proportion of Vital blood doth in the quantity of a dram contain as many Animal spirits as are contained in an ounce within the Nerves which ounce of spirits can be abstracted from no less than eight ounces of Vital blood if so you may easily apprehend what dammage the body must suffer by a small loss of Sperm That Sperm is ultimately abstracted from Animal spirits is evident in regard the Brain and Back do so immediately partake of the Symptoms of an immoderate evacuation viz. a great weakness and pain of the Back a contracting pain of the Sinews in the Neck and all the Muscles of the Body and obtusion dulness of the senses both internal and external c. I could insert many other arguments clearly demonstrating that assertion but that my compendious design will scarce permit To conclude I shall only add two ways

sensible falling of the countenance whence it 's a common objection when Maids do suddenly grow thin-jawed and hallow-eyed they are certainly in Love Neither is there cause wanting for so subitous sudden an alteration where there is such a lingring sighthing sobbing and looking after the return of the absent object the thoughts so fix'd that they are imployed upon nothing but the past Vision the mind all that while so disturbed and perplex'd with hopes doubts fears possibilities and improbabilities that the heart strikes five hundred sorts of Pulses in an hour and hunted into such continual palpitations through anxiety oppression and distraction that as the saying is fain would it break if it could By means of all which alterations violent motions frights fears and other passions the Animal spirits of the brain and Vital of the heart spirits suffer such losses and dispersions that we see its ordinary for young Wenches to be reduced to faintings sownings and extreme weaknesses to the admiration of their parents whence such subitous and effrayable frightful symptoms should source take their rise Galen among the rest of his remarques lib. de pracogn ad Posthum cap. 6. tells us of a Woman patient of his whom he found very weak in bed continually tossing and tumbling from one side to the other and totally deprived of her rest No extern or intern cause could he discover of this malady neither would she contribut any thing of her own confession though he oft required it of her which kind of mute dumb deportment gave him suspicion of some melancholy or love business the woman was troubled with however he repeated his visits the second and third time though with as little satisfaction as before but at last it happened one came to visit her and told her she had been at the Theater where she had seen Pylades one of the Players dance whereupon Galen observed her to change her countenance and immediately feeling her pulse found it to beat very various and disturbed a sign of some trouble of the mind and so perceiving the same disturbance of her pulse as oft as Pylades was discoursed of was confirm'd in his opinion that all those symptoms were a product effect of her love Aretaeus lib. 3. cap. 3. instances likewise a young man involved in the same passion and surprized with the worst of symptoms And beyond all this Valer. Max. lib. 5. cap. 7. records Antiochus the only Son of the King Seleucus deeply fallen in love with Stratonica his Mother-in-law who piously dissembling his burning passion praecipitated himself into a most dangerous Consumption the cause whereof his Physitian Erasistratus could in no-ways descry before such time as Stratonica entring the room moved a blushy colour in his face and rendred his aspect vivacious lively but deserting him he soon relapsed to the same paleness and languor faintness which ebbing and flowing of his countenance with the uncertainty of his pulse certifyed Erasistratus of some love wound his Mother had struck upon his heart and declaring this accident to the King his Father almost cast down with grief for his Son now ee'n strucken with his last fate he soon yeilded his dearest wife for a remedy to Antiochus considering it was chance striving with his unparallel'd modesty and bashfulness had reduced him to that extremity Hippocrates shewed himself no less skilful in discerning the discriminous dangerous state of Perdiccas King of Macedonia occasioned by the doting love he harbour'd in his breast for Phila one of his Fathers Concubines whose presence at any time excited a great alteration of his pulse But these passages that resent so much of natures impressions do in no wise merit to be admired at when brutish dotings prove so efficacious in impelling bodies into a marcour extreme leanness as Historians verifie of a rich Athonian and indifferently descended who spying a marble Statue erected in a publick place of Athens and very curiously wrought grew so passionate upon it that he spent whole nights in imbracing it at last desirous to impropriate this object to himself wooed the Senat to part with it offering to lay down a treble value but they censuring it impious to make Merchandize of what belonged to the publick denyed his importune request whereupon he increased in fondness and bestowed a Golden Crown upon it Cloathing it also with rich and costly Apparel adored and oft prostrated himself before it which the Senat judging indecent forbad him making any more addresses to their Statue The young Athenian finding himself deprived of his joy and delight fell into a Consumption and before that could limit the course of his life he cut his own throat This passion was not so ridiculous but it was exceeded by the King Xerxes whom many Authours affirm to have been strangely inamoured upon an Oak which he would oft hug and kiss as if it had been some pretty Woman Many more modern instances we could produce to illustrate the force of this sort of passion upon bodies which we refer to another place These commotions of the mind and body do after a short continuance menace threaten a Consumption by oppressing the heart and its vital spirits with such throngs of blood and spirits that are impelled and propt into its Ventricles small hollow rooms within the heart whereby the heart is choak'd and obstructed in its pulsation beating and consequently hindred from transmitting vital blood to the parts which for want thereof must necessarily wither and dry away moreover in that case the blood grows thick and muddy for want of motion and so acquires an ill quality and causes obstructions as we have expressed in the preceding Chapter besides the spirits growing dull and stupid do not perform their office in drawing the blood to the several parts which must necessarily add very much to the wasting of the body Lastly if those love frights prove very violent the blood and spirits returning in great streams to the heart may not only suddenly choak it but also extinguish its Innate spirits and so that doting passion happens to terminate end into a mortal Syncope swoun thus Euryalus a Knight belonging to the Emperour Sigismund taking leave of his Mistriss Lucretia of Siena praecipitated her into such a Love fit that within a few hours after she Ghosted which course Euryalus was like to have steered upon the news of that sad accident had his passion not been diverted by some recreation his friends gave him The like fate befell a Dutch Gentlewoman upon the sudden death of her Puppy dog which she doted upon beyond imagination as the Scene afterwards attested But young blossom'd Girls seem to be troubled with another Divil within 'em to augment increase the fire of their doting hell and that 's their Mother which must ever and anon be a fuming up to their throats upon the least disturbance of their Amours love as I have oft been a Spectator of several that fell into most terrible fits of the Mother five

disgrace of being deposed of all his Offices and Dignities Fates not much differing from this befell also Cardinal Woolsey and many other Grandees upon the like occasions In fine it 's a common observation among the Spanish Polititians that the surest Stratagem to be quite rid of a Statesman that stands in the way and besides to avoid popular clamours and censures is to depose him of all his dignities and imprison him where without question the apprehension of his disgrace or the pernicious air of a Prison will soon set a period to the course of his days or at least put him upon some revengeful attempt whereby he may be rendred a riper object for a publick Scene This by the way to illustrate to you the danger of a pain in the Soul and the near sympathy there is between her and the body Touching the manner of causality whereby grief effects such fierce symptoms viz. a sudden Death and a lingring Consumption may be collected out of the preceding discourse upon an Amorous Consumption to wit the former is caused through a full and sudden irruption breaking in of thick Melancholique blood into the Ventricles narrow rooms of the heart thereby choaking the vital spirits and putting a stop to the hearts pulsation which if intermitted but three or four Pulses portends a certain death The latter is atchieved by a gradual suppression of the vital spirits through heavy tartarous dreggish blood which namely the spirits defecting must necessarily cause an extinction of the innate heat and spirits for whose nutrition they are designed and so consequently a perfect Consumption must be the ultimate issue Add hereto the restlesness and intermission from sleep grieved persons are molested with whereby the blood is much dryed the spirits consumed and melancholy increased Moreover as melancholick blood doth so much suppress the vital spirits so it 's very unapt for ministring matter for new spirits or being converted into flesh because of its grosseness and crudity Neither doth that blood continue long so as I said before but acquires an acrimony whereby it 's much intended heightned in its devouring and consuming quality CHAP. X. Of a Studious Consumption MOderate labour of the body is universally experienced to conduce to the preservation of health and curing many initial beginning Diseases but on the contrary the toyle of the mind to destroy health and generate Maladies by attracting the spirits out of the entire body from their task of Concoction Distribution and Excretion to the brain whither they carry along with them clouds of vapours and excrementitious humours of the whole thereby excessively annoying the brain and its faculties impelling it into various Diseases as Catarrhs defluxions of humours stupors numness imminution lessening of the memory and imagination impairs of the external senses as dulness of hearing or seeing imbecillity weakness in stirring or walking c. Likewise the other parts of the body being deprived of their spirits sustain very considerable damages as the Stomach happeneth to be weakned in its Concoction whence crudities and loss of appetit the Spleen and Liver in their Offices of defaecation whence vitious melancholick dreggish sulphurous blood and obstructions of the Bowels and Vessels the Heart in its distributing the blood to all the parts of the body and strength of pulsation whence an Atrophia or want of nutriment in the parts the immediate cause of a Studious Fastard Consumption Add hereto a sedentary sitting life appropriate to all Students crushing the bowels and for want of stirring the body suffers the spirits to lye dormant and dull whence costiveness dispersing malign putrid fumes out of the Guts and Mesentery a thick double skin that tyes the Guts together into all parts of the body occasioning head-ach flushing of the blood to the head feavers loss of appetit and disturbance of Concoction It is beyond imagination to conceive the sudden destructive effects of a Studious life some eight or ten years since there dyed at Abington one Pendarves an incomparable hard Student and Minister of that Town who being dissected his Lungs were found to be withered and dryed up into an exact resemblance of an ordinary Spunge in point of substance and bigness The like Emblems we find frequently in Universities where Scholars daily drop away of Consumptions Neither is it an extraordinary observation to see Consumptions in the Faces of hundreds of the late Preaching Divines witness else their thin Jaws and number of Caps CHAP. XI Of an Apostematick Consumption APostems although internal do rarely cause Consumptions before they break unless seated amongst the Glandules in the Mesentery where I have observed them to occasion a very discernable extenuation which Symptom seems very strange in that case since a Physician can scarce find any sensible cause of so visible an evil the principal intrails giving no sign of the least distemper and the appetit consisting as formerly In such a case many would impute the foresaid Consumption to obstructions no other cause disease or part appearing suspicious for a deep latent Apostem in the Mesentery if of no great mole bigness cannot be sensibly discovered but by conjecture only since the touch cannot penetrate so deep as to reach it because of its deep situation neither can the relation be expected from the Patient because the part affected is inseusible In the Hospital at Leiden some twelve or fourteen years ago I observed the like accident in a boy who perceiving his flesh to shrink every day more and more although without the least sense of any disease that should cause it applyed himself to a Physician of the Town where he then lived who imputed the cause of his Consumption to obstructions of the Liver and Spleen a trodden Sanctuary for hidden diseases and prescribed him a Deoppilative opening and Purgative Apozem not questioning his Cure The youth finding no benefit doubted his Doctor had mistaken the Disease upon this resolves to go to the University to see what the Professors could make of it who all cryed out against Hypochondriack Obstructions except Prof. Lindanus who conjectured it might be some hidden abscess in the Mesentery which breaking some few days after was discovered to be an Apostem of the Mesentery by the evacuation of the matter by stool How an Apostem in the Mesentery breaking causes a Consumption of the parts is apparent viz. by immitting purulent fumes into the Arteries and Veins corrupting and affecting the blood with a malign quality which proving very offensive to the parts in subverting and poysoning their innate temperature is rejected by 'em whereby they are forced to wither for want of nutriment The said purulent vapours crowding into the substances of the principal and sub-principal parts viz. the Heart Brain Spleen and Liver do likewise so infect poison and destroy their Innate temperaments that they immediately begin to languish in their offices to the great prejudice of all the body But it 's not so manifest by what means an Apostem

account Avicen countermands letting blood in cholerick bodies because he esteems the blood which he chiefly here intends pure blood and Phlegm a fraenum bilis or a bridle of the Gall obtunding dulling its acrimony and fierceness Thesis 6. Choler being set in fire and acting upon Melancholy or rather calcining it into small acuated sharp pointed minimal bodies is by their incorporation with it self rendred acrimonious and bitter whence I conclude Choler accidentaly bitter and acrimonious but not in it self This bitterness and acrimony varies in intenseness and remisness according to the degree of calcination of Melancholy and proportion of Choler it is admixt to Thesis 7. Choler by the premisses is evidenced of being capable only of flaming and kindling a Feaver in the body and consequently Melancholy calcined by the flames of Choler must remain the sole cause of acrimony and corrosion and inclusively of occasioning Ulcers both within and without the body Thesis 8. The heart beating vigorously and strong doth together with its Sulphurous flames expell the foresaid calcined melancholy to the circumference especially if the said humour be but diluted water'd with the serosity waterish liquor of the blood Neither is this sole vital faculty sufficient to exterminate turn out noxious humours to the periphery or outward parts unless the animal faculty be concurrent with it to supply the Fibres with Animal Spirits which do not only render them strong to expel but sensible of feeling the least sting of any offensive humour whence they are immediately prick'd or spurred to contract themselves and by means of that contraction to expell If on the contrary the heart beats weak and the animal faculty be found faintish the foresaid acrimonious humour remains within and causes internal erosions Moreover notwithstanding the strength of both faculties the humours expelled to the circumference are apt now and then to regurgitate flow back by reason of obstructions in the capillar very small like hairs veins terminating in the extremeties Hitherto we have discoursed of the same causes how they happen to engender several Diseases though in the same bodies but at different times That which falls next in consideration is an answer to the fourth Query of the Chapter preceding viz. Why the same corrosive humour should sometimes prove Anarrhopous flowing upwards and generate Diseases in the upper parts and otherwhiles Catarrhopous flowing downwards impressing maladies upon the lower The occasion of the various diversion of the foresaid humour is situate partly in the disposition of the part Mandant the strength and weakness of the vital and animal faculty the parts transmitting or giving passage the disposition of the part recipient receiving and the qualification of the humour transmitted The part Mandant sending or expelling is here chiefly intended for the place where this acrimonous humour is generated and harth or spring whence it sourceth and crupts The place is where the acrimonious nourishing humours are primarly first concocted or receive the form of humours and where they are afterwards further wrought purifyed and clarifyed This assertion probably will accuse many parts more than what ordinarily Physicians have their eye upon The Stomach is a part that primarly digests and converts Victuals transmitted thither into a whitish or cineritious like ashes humour called the Chyle which if it be not exactly dissolved into an even thorough melted juice must necessarily abound with thick and gross admixtures Now it 's a current saying among us that the fault of the first concoction or digesture is not amended in the second vitium primae coctionis non corrigitur in secunda wherefore the chyle being transmitted crude and gross into the Vessels and arriving in the Spleen and Liver sticks in the capillar veins and keeps in the heat or hot steems that should arise out of their Parenchymae or fleshy substance to ferment attenuate and defaecate clarify the blood The heat of those entrails being thus inclosed and pend up redoubles and gradually after it hath extremely dryed and scorched burns and calcines them into a kind of fixt Salt which according to the nature of the Victuals whence they received their constitution and the intension of heat proves a Nitrous Vitriolat or Armoniack Salt The Spleen in this case is found to contain a Mine more frequently producing an Armoniack and Vitriolat Salt with a small admixture of a coagulated Sulphur The Liver is the more fertil parturient of Nitrous and sometimes of a Vitriolat and Armoniack tartar but with so copious a commixture of coagulated thickned choler or Sulphur that it ought rather to be named a Cinnabrin or Aeruginous Sulphur from the greater proportion of Sulphur to a far smaller of Salt The heart we conceive to be the sole mine of Arsenical Sulphur whose pernicious steems insulting upon the Vital Spirits produce malign and spotted Feavers The Stomach is likewise oft stuff'd between its tunicks coats and in the smaller branches of Vessels that are inserted into its body with the dregs of obstructive crude chyle whereout such Salts and Sulphurs are calcined and extracted as in acrimony and corrosion prove no wise inferiour to those engendred in the Spleen or Liver since produced with so intense a heat as is required for the first solution of the hardest food and probably a stronger heat being raised to a higher pitch by obstructions and the ebullition of some of those acrimonious bodies already engendred That the Stomach is so common a spring of Consumptive sublimations and distillations needs no other proof than the sense of the Patient attesting a great clog and oppression at his Stomach oft crying out if that were removed he should be well besides his nauseousness vomiting and difficulty of digesture he finds his gullet all along very sore rough and stuffed with humours subliming upwards which sometimes may not reach so high as his brain but are imbibed by the tonsils and other Glanduls about the Throat where in like manner aforesaid they are dissolved into an oyl and so distill between the Membranes of the Aspera arteria into the Lungs To this the remedies argumentum à juvantibus add an unquestionable verdit Vomitives being twice or thrice exhibited in the beginning or augment do oft eradicate the mineral cause of a Consumption Likewise Lohocks and Syrups that are so usually prescribed do immediately seem to abate and demulce the hoarseness and violence of a Cough by mollifying the ruggedness of the intern tunick of the Gullet and thickning or rendring the matter of the Cough that ascends upwards between the tunicks of the foresaid Oesophogus more glib or slippery So that we must not imagine that Syrups or other expectoratives do ad-advantage in Coughs by slipping down between the Epiglottis for as I instanced before that must necessarily occasion a greater Cough and difficulty of respiration Neither is' t probable they circulate about to the heart and Vena arteriosa to arrive to the Lungs for before that time their sweetness whereby they are

not different from those in an Asthma saving there is only a Cough wanting to make up the train The cause of this Lung-growth is imputed to a superficial sanious or ichorous exulceration whose matter being somewhat glutinous cleaves to the foresaid Pleura and dryes up to it whereby it 's fastned The truth hereof is evidenced in the dissected bodies of those that were Lung-grown whose Lungs are ever found ichorous and mattery near the place of adhaesion witness the dissected bodies of Ferdinand the Emperour and Francis the French King whose Lungs according to the Testimonies of Gesner and Holtzach were not only deprehended fastned to the sides of the breast but in a great part putrefied and sanious But whether those filaments threds that serve in lieu of ligaments to tye the Lungs to the Pleura being shortned by a strain or imbibition of humours may not produce a Consumption seems not improbable an Asthma it 's certain they do and consequently may attract humours to the Lungs and prove an accidental cause of overheating and overdrying the heart for not expiring the fuliginous steems that issue thence and not inspiring fresh air sufficient to cool and moisten it on the other hand these said filaments being overmuch relaxed or broken do induce that accident which may be properly stiled the Rising of the Lights Some other infrequent rare Consumptions may happen but such as scarce appear among ten thousand Consumptives and therefore shall forbear their insertion committing their narrow search to Physicians their proper industry CHAP. XXVIII Of the Procatarctick or external causes of Pulmonique Consumptions THose Procatarcticks that required a larger comment as love grief c. we have discoursed of in particular Chapt. others that are limitted in a narrower extent of speculation and particularly such as promote English Bodies beyond those of other Nations into Consumptions we intend to treat of here To begin with these latter it 's not improbable the causes must be inherent in those non naturals whose quality and our use of them differing from other Nations transport our bodies beyond theirs into extenuations and Marcours 1. We differ extremely from all others in our dyet Flemmings and Germans buy flesh meat by the pound and eat it by ounces we buy meat by whole joynts and eat it by pounds 2. They usually boyl and roast their meat until it falls almost off from the bones but we love it half raw with the blood trickling down from it delicately terming it the Gravy which in truth looks more like an ichorous or raw bloody matter 3. Flesh once a week is a variety to their great ones once a month a delicacy to their Burgers Citizen's and once a year a feast to the rabble and that at their Kermisses or Fairs only But their thriving dyet the hogs has taught 'em viz. Cabbage Turnips Salates Butter-milk Whey c. Which renders them alike not only in fatness but in manner of humour witness their Brawny Necks Fat Trype Guts and grunting hoggish deportments But here on the other hand great and small rabble and all must have their Bellyes stuffed with flesh meat every day and on Sundayes cramb their guts up to the crop with pudding 4. Neither is the difference only in the eating part but drinking they overwhelming their panch daily with a kind of flat Scarbier or Rotgut we with a bitter dreggish small liquor that savours of little else than hops and muddy water The wine they so much debauch themselves with is a kind of crude dull stumd Burdeaux we with Canary Thus we have parallel'd the dyets of two Nations in order to a further examination of their different effects rendring those of a squabbish lardy habit of body us of a thinner though more fleshy appearance and some who by their stronger natures exercise or labour are equally matcht to digest and subdue that mass of flesh they daily devour acquire a double strength to what those Hermits receive from their Herbage But since we experience that sort of feeding doth scarce improve our carcasses beyond a lean habit and the contrary dyet to stuff the hides of our Neighbours with a large proportion of Grease and Tallow gives us argument to impute to it a great part of the occasion that inclines us so much to Consumptions Wee 'l insist a little further upon the matter first touching our so greedy devouring of flesh especially Beef and Mutton whereof there is a greater quantity consumed in England than in all Spain France Holland Zealand and Flanders as I can demonstratively make appear to you by this sole instance you 'l grant there are more gloves worn here then in all Holland Zealand and Flanders besides for from the highest to the lowest they usually go with their hands in their Pockets in the Summer and in the Winter hold 'em to their Noses to blow 'em warm Next we wear out more Shooes here by two thirds than all France where it 's universally known the paysantry goes barefoot and the middle sort throughout all that Kingdome makes use of Wooden Clogs Now this considered that notwithstanding the great number of gloves and shooes worn out here besides millions of pairs that are transported hence to the Barbado's Virginia and many other Plantations we abound so much with Hides Gloves Sheeps and Neats Leather that we furnish the better part of all Christendom with them which is a certain sign there must be an incredible number of Sheep and Oxen killed whose flesh since we make no forreign Merchandize of saving only of their Skins and Hides must necessarily be all consumed among us But to declare to you the great mischiefs which is my chief business this flesh greediness heaps upon us a Plethory fulness of blood both ad vasa and vires is the first and immediate effect the next a Plethora ad vasa an over fulness of the Veins and Arteries with blood doth easily upon a small commotion or heat of body fall or other accidents burst a Vein in the Lungs whereupon commonly follows an Ulcer and soon after a Pulmonique Consumption Moreover note that a Plethory produced by immoderate eating of flesh is more impetuous and turgent and therefore so much disposed to burst a Vein whereas any other Plethory engendred of Fish Milk or Herbs being less turgent and diluted with waterish humours seldom swells to that height The Plethora ad vires a fulness of blood that oppresses the strength is the evident cause that renders us universally lean by suppressing our spirits and hebetating dulling their vigour whereby they are not only incapacitated of digesting the alimonious humours into flesh but of attracting blood to the parts to nourish them which defect reduces the body to a leanness and if continued to a Consumption Lastly know that flesh meat being so nutritive and likewise hard of digesture doth abound with the most and worst dregs of any other kind of meat especially if not totally digested as seldome it is

by those that glut down such immeasurable proportions of flesh These dregs immediately perfuse the blood with melancholy cause obstructions of the Spleen and Liver and stick in the capillar insertions of the Stomach being soon incinerated and calcined into such Salts as we premitted in the preceding Chapter which after a short interlapse of time produce Coughs Ptisicks and at last a Pulmonique Consumption For a further proof hereof wee 'l add a dictate or two of Hippocrates lib. de veter Med. he saith that Meat eaten in greater quantity than what is convenient tabefyes consumes the body And lib. de loc in homine he speaks thus If the body conquers the meat it eats it flourishes but if it be overcome and yeilds the body grows lean Now let 's pass to the other part of your Dyet that so much admired Mistress of your fond Palats Canary to whose debauchery a far greater number of Murders may be imputed than to the fury of the Sword What malignant Feavers Dysenteries pernicious Consumptions doth it impell English bodies into Sack drinkers that sometimes have over balasted their panch with that liquor do by their beastly return of it present their Spectators with a view what a most filthy corrosive greenish oyl it s converted into by the preternatural heat of their Stomach which in length of time being congested in some considerable quantity and floating in a violent stream through the Vessels is the cause of so many malign Feavers as generally reign here towards the latter end of the Summer This is the the account of its acute quick and violent effects it 's Chronical of a longer protraction ones are a vehement drying and inflammation of the bowels and humours whereby great and obstinate obstructions are engendred by drying away and absorbing the subtiler and more waterish part of the humours and leaving the grosser behind which soon turns to an adust melancholy the further effects whereof have been sufficiently declared already Neither are the meaner sort of people destitute of their Ambrosia who must needs every day after Sunset bestow three pence out of their groat in Strong Beer a liquor that attributes the better half of its ill qualities to the Hops being an inland drugg conconsisting of an acrimonious fiery nature setting the blood upon the least Cacochymy vitious humours into an Orgasmus a violent working by an ill ferment it yeilds to the Stomach Liver and Spleen which doth likewise render the humours fiery adust and melancholique Small Beer though it partakes less of the Hops yet according to their proportion corresponds in offensive and insalubrious unwholsome qualities whence we may observe that Patients in Feavers and many other distempers receive a sensible prejudice from that rot-gut though the quantity of Hops be less by the foresaid Orgasmus it excites By this you may judge since small Beer at the best proves so unwholsome a drink what it doth at worst perhaps being brewed with a thick muddy and clayish water which the Brewers covet the rather because of adding a body or substance to the drink which the dead remainder and small quantity of Malt can in no wise contribute to it now to give a strong tast to this dreggish liquor they fling in an incredible deal of Broom or Hops whereby small beer is rendred equal in mischief to strong The third Endemick cause whence we derive our extenuating diseases is the Air which as I have expressed to you before in Chapt. o. obtains a more particular and immediate power from its continual commerce with our Lungs and Vital spirits of committing violence upon them and the Vitals There is none who hath traversed the least tract of ground beyond his native Soil but can attest the strange alterations the Air produces upon bodies especially if diseased The Air o' th Alps subjects the Inhabitants there to distillations to their throat which congested do in a short space swell into a huge mole the Indian Air disposes Northern bodies to Dysenteries the Spanish Air engenders the Kings evil that of Padua a blindness where I remember I took notice of several blind folks but whether the Air of that place had produced that accident in them or whether they came from other places thither to be cured by stroaking their eye-lids over Saint Antonio di Padua's Tomb by which means great numbers as they told me have been reduced to their perfect sights I inquired not The Air at Rome is likewise very pernicious especially all the Summer at which time as I was informed there no person will hazard to travel towards Naples for fear of incurring that dangerous phrensie and burning Feaver which the change of Air unavoidably brings upon them especially upon those that return from Naples to Rome among whom scarce one in a hundred escapes though they use the extremest remedies as actual cauteries and scarifications for their recovery What calamitous effects the Air of this City wrought upon us the last year you may read in my Discourse of the Plague In fine there 's no cause of questioning but that the Air doth evidently concur to the production of several Diseases and particularly of this English Endemick but through what means or disposition it 's that I am about to illustrate to you The situation of this Island is such as disposes it to a continual clowdiness which in the Summer renders the Air cooler and in the Winter warmer The matter whereout those perennal clouds are raised is the Sea that cirrounds us which clouds so attracted the westerly winds blowing three fourths of the year do continually blow upon us in lieu whereof if eastern winds did perflate our clime more frequently would not only blow away those misty clouds but exceedingly clarifie and refresh our Air. These clouds as they are raised out of the Sea so they still partake of the salin saltish bodies they drew up with them thence which descending upon us by degrees and being perfused through the Air do through their salin acrimony corrode our weak Lungs and with their thick foggy substance obstruct the Bronchia Pulmonum or Lung-pipes This Pulmonique indisposition of the Air is very much heightned in great Cities especially where a great quantity of Sea-coal is burned as here in London where the number of Brew-houses Cooks and Smiths Shops besides all other Private houses Brick and Lime Kills about the City makes smoak that at a distance London appears in a morning as if it were drowned in a black cloud and all the day after smothered with a smoaky fog the consequence whereo● proves very offensive to the Lungs in two respects 1. By means of those Sulphurous coal smoaks the Lungs are as it were stifled and extremely oppressed whereby they are forced to inspire and expire the Air with difficulty in comparison to the facility 〈◊〉 inspiring and expiring the Air in the Country as people immediately perceive upon their change of Air which difficulty oppression and stopping must needs at

length wast the Lungs and weaken them in the function 2. Those fuliginous smoaks partly consisting of salin corrosive steems seem to partake of the nature of Salt armoniack whereby they gnaw and in time Ulcerate the tender substance and small veins of the Lungs That coal smoak is of so corrosive a quality is easily experienced by those that are beset with smoak in a room whose eyes it bites and gnaws that it forceth 'em to water and by pricking their Throat and Lungs puts them into a dry Cough These salin corrosive steems are very much intended by the addition of those that exhale from Houses of Office Pissing places and other nasty stinks and fumes great Cities are ever pester'd with Another great cause of the frequency of Consumptions among us and especially about the City is a continuated descent of weak Pulmonique Children from Consumptive Parents who propagate and transfuse their Pulmonique Seminaries to their whole subsequent generation which occasions so many hundreds to drop hence every year to the Countrey for fresh air Hitherto we have insisted upon those causes that effect Consumptions Endemick to this Island there remains a citation of such others as indifferently may produce that malady in any other Countrey Immoderate feeding upon Powder'd Beef Bacon Salt Fish Pickled Meats Anchiovi and debauching with Brandy Sack and other strong Wines and Spirits do inflame and acuate the blood whereby it 's capacitated to corrode the tender veins of the Lungs whereupon follows spitting and coughing up of blood A fall and according to Hippocrates lib. 2. de Morb. vehement exercise or labour violent vomiting a blow upon the breast calling a lowd do oftimes occasion a vein to burst in the Lungs Catching cold on the breast by going cool in the morning or evening as many do by leaving their Doublets unbuttoned or women by running up and down in their Smock sleeves or lying naked with their breast in the night doth impell the blood suddenly into the Lung-veins whereby being overfilled burst into an effusion of blood Those that are naturally destitute or have lost their Uvula palat are likewise very incident into a rupture of a Lung vein in admitting the cold air without that previous alteration the Columella palat contributed by hindering the cold air to irrupt suddenly into the Lungs The eating of a Sea hare is thought to corrode the Lungs by a Specifick property Pliny lib. 7. 2. writes that there is a certain people in Aethiopia whose sweat precipitates any into a Consumption whom it touches Consumptions do frequently arrive upon a sudden suppression of the Haemorrhoids piles witness Hippocrates 6. Aph. 12. If upon curing of Haemorrhoids that have ran long you do'nt leave one there is danger of a Dropsie or Consumption because nature was wont to evacuate its burden of vitious Melancholique and Cholerick blood out at those veins which passage being stopt it 's forced to regurgitate upwards to the Lungs the like happens upon the stoppage of Womens courses which if not suddenly look'd to sets them undoubtedly into a Consumption Dropsie or some other dangerous Disease as Hippocrates lib. 2 de Morb. also observes viz. Si virgo ex suppressione mensium in tabem deveniat c. What constitution of the year is most like to engender Consumptions Hip. tells us First for moist Consumptions that survene distillations of sharp putrid fleam a moist and southerly Autum upon a dry and Northern Summer is apt to produce them 3. Aphor. 13. Secondly dry Consumptions generally appear upon a long continuation of hot and dry weather 2. Aphor. 16. per squalores vero tabes c. The season or time of year for Consumptions is the Autum 3. Aphor. Autumno invadunt Febres Hydropes tabes c. CHAP. XXIX Of the Signs of a beginning or growing Consumption THe surest cure for a Pulmonique Consumption is to prevent it in those that are naturally inclined to that evil or have but lately conceived the Seeds of it and are just a budding But because the preventive part is frequently neglected upon hopes of waring it out or by changing the air or for want of knowing the state they are in which to discern in the commencement is difficult even to Physicians themselves who are not seldom mistaken in that point the impending danger where of requires a mature caution I shall delineate such natural and adventitious dispositions as appear suspicious 1. To descend from Phthisical Parents or such as were Pulmonique that is affected with any kind of trouble in their Lungs be it a Cough difficulty of breathing Asthma or a Pulmonique Consumption is a great argument since it 's observed that Consumptions prove so hereditary and that sometimes in a strange manner viz. some deriving their extenuating Diseases from their Grandfather though their immediate Parents did not seem troubled with the least kind of distemper in their Lungs The reason is because those hereditary seeds remained dormant in their Parents and never were reduced in actum which never the less were transfused into their Children in whom they might be raised to growth 2. Brothers or Sisters taking their passage through that Disease to their Graves leave an ill omen to the remainder of their kin 3. Whom nature hath shaped with a great head long neck narrow breast and shoulders sticking out like wings and a lean habit of body seem very much inclined to a Consumption 4. Such as are subject to thin sharp Coughs itching of the Eyes a tickling in their Throat pains of their Sides and do not thrive upon a good dyet are prepared for a Consumption 5. To omit letting blood at certain seasons that the body is accustomed to or to escape bleeding at the Nose or avoiding blood by the Haemorrhoids if usual or for women to be obstructed in their courses argues danger 6. Especially at the fall and in persons aged from Eighteen to Thirty five years 7. To be apt to spit blood oft though it distills from the head or is expressed out of the terminations of veins in the Throat signifies a Phthisical inclination is dangerous because it 's a sign the blood is sharp and thin and may upon a small provocation vent its fury upon the Lung veins 8. And lastly any of the Procatarcktick causes mentioned in the Chapter preceding or the beginning of this Treatise or any other Disease producing a durable leanness and dryness of body with a short dry or moist Cough portends an ill consequence as you may observe out of Hipp. 2. Aph. 3. in all Diseases it's better for the belly to be thick on the contrary when the belly is very thin and very much consumed it 's dangerous CHAP. XXX Of Signs Diagnostick and Prognostick of the several kinds of spitting of Blood SInce spitting of blood haimoptysis doth so frequently forerun Ulcers in the Lungs it 's requisite I should tell you what kind of spitting of blood forespeaks danger of a Consumption Wherefore know that