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A59999	A short compendium of chirurgery containing its grounds & principles : more particularly treating of imposthumes, wounds, ulcers, fractures & dislocations : also a discourse of the generation and birth of man, very necessary to be understood by all midwives and child-bearing women : with the several methods of curing the French pox, the cure of baldness, inflammation of the eyes, and toothach, and an account of blood-letting, cup-setting, and blooding with leeches / by J.S., M.D.	J. S. (John Shirley), M.D.; Shirley, John, 1648-1679.	1678 (1678)	Wing S3496; ESTC R38236	39,001	140

and hurtful and is either of the whole body chiefly performed by Phlebotomy Sweat and Purgation or of the several parts by their respective Conduits as the Brains by the Eyes Nose and Eares the Lungs by the Wind-pipe c. In all Evacuation three things are to be observ'd and considered The Quantity Quality and manner of Excretion V. g. The Empieme being opened the excluded matter ought to be answerable in quantity to that which is included The most laudable is white even and as little stinking as may be And lastly all must be purged out at one time least the Patient suffer too great an Effusion of Spirits The Passions of the Soul or Perturbations of the Mind are very prevalent to alter the Bodies Constitution for as the Banished Poet saith Unda locusque nocent causa valentior istis Anxietas animi quae mihi semper adest The Sea and place do hurt but yet I find A greater Cause the torment of my mind We wil therefore brie●ly expound their Effects A moderate Ioy dilates the heart and distributes abundance of Spirits to the Face and other parts it helps Concoction and renders our habitude more chearful and pleasant Anger or Wrath performs the like effusion but much more rapid and swift● It kindleth sometimes the Humours so much that it makes them apt to receive a sharp volatile Salt which is thought the cause of putrid Feavers and produceth also other Symptoms yet it may be profitably used to quicken the natural heat and render it more active when it is almost prostrated Sorrow and Fear draw heat and blood suddenly to the Heart whence the forces do presently fall and sometimes death immediately follows the Vital Faculty being over whelmed with Blood and Spirits This I conceive sufficient since all other Passions of the mind may be referred to these three or four Those things are termed against nature which may procure the destroying and ruine of the Body They are the cause of Diseases Disease it self and its Accidents or Symptoms The Cause of a Disease is Whatsoever doth any way contribute to the being or increase of it Which though Physitians give them many distinctions may nevertheless all be referred to the efficient especially divided in 1. External 2. Internal For Alas How many things may extinguish our light The humours within us maintain an equal fight and least it be too long Death hath a Pike a Ball a Sword a Knife a Stone and an Arrow to cut our feeble thred c. The External Cause cometh from without the Internal hath its seat in the Body and is either 1. Antecedent that yeilds aptitude to a sickness Or 2. Conjoyn'd which immediately and of it self perfects it They are also co-ingendred with the Patient or have accesse to him after his Birth A Disease is A disposition against Nature immediately and of it self hurting the actions The same is Simple or Complicated The first is when there is no plurality or composition of Diseases The second When it is followed of many Symptoms or when the Cause is so connexed with it that it may be lookt upon as a particular Sickness Diseases are of a threefold species 1. Intempery 2. Evil Conformation 3. Solution of Continuity The first is an Indisposition of the Similary parts caused by the excess of a single Humour or the Exuberance of more The last whereof is called naked or conjoyned with a Vice of the same Humours and is termed equal as being ●qually spread throughout the whole Body or inequal as affecting only some particular part of it There are four sorts of evil Conformation Namely in 1. Figure 2. Magnitude 3. Number 4. Scituation Solution of Continuity is a common Disease of the Similary and Organical parts which hath several Names according to the places where it is incident For in the Flesh it is called Helcos in the Bones Cathagma in the Nerves Spasma The Symptoms of a Disease are the Effects and Productions of it To wit 1. A hurt action that is 1. Abolished 2. Diminished Or 3. Depraved 2. A Vice in the Bodyes Habitude 3. Vitiated Excretions Of the aforesaid Precepts are collected two Intentions 1. What is to be done 2. And if it may be done But the third belongs to Art viz. How it must be done The Practice whereof is better declared in the Words annexed and the following Chapters that do briefly comprehend what doth belong to a Chirurgeon The Indications are of three first and principal Species viz. 1. The first is drawn from the natural things which do Indicate their conservation by the use of things like to themselves and of this kind are the Indications drawn from 1. The strength and forces of the Patient which to preserve the proper Cure is often to be delayed for without them the Chirurgeon can effect but little 2. His Temper viz. 1. Sanguine 2. Cholerick 3. Phlegmatick 4. Melancholy 3. The Habitude of his Body 1. Soft and delicate 2. Lean or Fat. 3. Tall or Short Least he lose that Symetry which Nahath allotted him 4. The Condition and Nature of the part affected Wherein we consider 1. It s Substance whether if Similary it be 1. Hot. 2. Cold. 3. Moist 4. Dry. If Organical 1. Principal 2. Or Ignoble If it be 1. Of a quick Sense 2. Or Stupid and Dull And lastly it s 1. Form 2. Figure 3. Magnitude 4. Number 5. Connexion 6. Action or Use. 5. The Age for many Diseases cannot be Cured in Old Age. 6. The Sex for Women are easier purged than Men. 7. The Season of the Year for Hot meat is convenient in Winter Cold in Summer Moist in Autumn and Dry in the Spring 8. The time of the Disease for what is convenient in the beginning is not so in the progress state or end II. The second is drawn from the things not Natural Which do indicate their Alteration as if Air does conspire with Nature against the Disease it ought to be kept otherwise it must be altered III. The third is taken from the things against Nature which indicate their Ablation and are 1. The Cause of a Disease 2. The Disease it self 3. The Symptoms Which do often indicate contrary things but then this is the Rule When there is Complication the first Remedies ought to take away 1. The most Dangerous 2. The Cause 3. That without which nothing can be done As 1. Loss of Blood 2. Fluxion 3. Intempery A SHORT Compendium OF The PRACTICAL Part OF CHIRURGERY CHAP. II. Of Impostumes HAving thus far treated of such Theorems and Institutions as are wholly necessary to be known of all Well wishers to Chirurgery let us now say something of the Practical part thereof since it is almost impossible to treat perfectly of the Theorical unless the same do give some urgent occasion of it and in this it resembles the three Parts of Curative Physick that can hardly be separated from one another for as a French Poet doth intricately say Quand

Vapours for in these cases it falls together and oppresseth the Nerves of the several Sen●es that their Objects cannot be transmitted And Dreams which happen during Sleep have their origin partly ●rom the inequality of the Spirits issuing ●rom the Souls Domicil and partly from the occurring impressions of Memory Spirits are defined A thin invisible aethere all and most quick substance arising from the subtilest parts of the Blood t● be the Vehicle of all necessary actions The Antients did divide it in 1. Implanted 2. Adventitious Whereof the first is denyed by some who conceive it impossible that the● same cause acting in the same manner should last so long and produce so many and often contrary Functions They were formerly divided as th● Faculties were in 1. Natural 2. Vital 3. Animal But Sylvius de le Boe admits none bu● the Animal and other Moderns the V●● tal under which they comprehend th● Natural and the Animal taking th● subtilest parts of the Blood arising fro●● the left Ventricle of the Heart for th● first which are turned in the Brains int● the Animal serving First To sundry motions of the Sou● and Body Secondly To the exercising of the internal and external Senses 3. To the alteration of Humours Native Heat is a proper and special quality to all animated creatures whereby they live and exercise their functions uses and necessary operations Thus I think to have briefly explained not only the Natural things but also their Annexes except the manner of living which if it be watry and moist ●s obnoxious to diseases of that temper but if it be hot and dry the contrary must be expected In sum it appears by the Premises that the Body of Man is a Microcosme composed of several parts wonderfully effig●r●ted and adorned with sundry Functions created to be for a certain time the Domicil or dwelling place of the Rational Soul so that not without cause the German Poet exclaimes O Edles wundertheir zur weisheit auserkohren Uoll geist voll luft voll got vom himmel selbst gebohren Du Herr du Eben bild und auszug allerwelt Der unter ies den lauff der hohen sterner stelt Du weise Creatuur c. O thou noble Animal wonder to wisdom chosen Full of Spirit and God from Heaven it self rosen Thou Lord Type and extract of the whole Univers Disposing under thee the course of the high stars Thou creature full of Wit c. Those things are called not natural which do not enter in the Bodies composition but by a right use whereof it may long be maintained healthful and sound They are 1. Air. 2. Eating and Drinking 3. Motion and Quiet 4. Sleeping and Watching 5. Repletion and Evacuation 6. The Passions of the mind In the administration of all which we ought to consider 1. The Quality 2. Quantity 3. Manner of Using A free open serene and thin Air is to be esteemed the best as also the East and North Winds but the South and Western are held unwholsom The simpler our diet is the healthful●er it is to be esteemed for as Hora●e saith the variety of meat is very noxious viz. nam variae res Ut noceant homini credas memor illius escae Que simplex olim tibi sederit at simul assis Miscueris elixa simul conchilia turdis Dulcia se in bilem vertent stomachoque tumultum Lenta feret pituita vides ut pallidus omnis Coenâ desurgit dubiâ That thou mayst know how various things offend Think but what single meat did once defend Thee from approaching hunger but at last Roasted with boyld and Birds with Shels thou hast Together mixt In Choler what is sweet Will turn it self and thy Stomack surfeit With slimy Phlegm Consider then how pale Each riseth from his Seat and doubtful Meal Meats affording a good juice and substance are doubtless the wholsomest and nevertheless in expending them the sicknesses nature the strength age and labour of the Patient are to be perspicuously considered whereunto an inveterate custom is to be added for Country Men and Labourers convert meats of an easy digestion into Choler but extract a laudable substance of a courser● diet and thus Consuetudo valet longos mansura per annos Illaque Naturam vires si sumpserit aequat A constant use a second nature proves And if increast with equal force it moves Neither did the Antients neglect Order in Eating for they esteemed that what was easily decocted should enter first into the Stomach and that Lubrick meat ought to precede those that are Astringent But it is now believed that those niceti●s may be omitted since the Aliments are all converted in one mass whence the Chylus is afterward separated Whereunto I shall only add these two Verses of Drinking Aut nulla ebrietas aut tanta sit ut tibi curas Eripiat si quae est inter utrumque nocet Be never Drunk or so much let it be As to asswage thy Cares else 't will hurt thee Motion comprehends all kind of exercises the same ought to be moderate and we ought to leave it when Sweat begins to break out through the Pores for immoderate Labour weakens the Body and is very pernicious as Ovid saith of himself Me quoque debilitat semis immensa Laborum Ante meum tempus cogit esse senem Otia corpus alunt animus quoque pascitur illis Immodicus contra carpit utrumque labor Continual Toyl weakens my weary Limbs And makes me Old before my time be come Body and Mind by Rest are fed it seems But too much Work precipitates their doom Sleep as we said before Is a cessation from motion and sence whose Office is the restoring of the Bodies former strength It s proper time is Night an hour or two after Supper The first lying not being first on the Right Side as many believe but on the Left where the bottom of the Stomach is and the meat ought to lye and about morning when concoction is ended on the Right neither should it exceed the space of Fight hours wherewith if some are not satisfied certainly the sooner Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt The Fates will give sufficient time to sleep Dreams do in some manner indicate what ex●retion will be in the Crisis for if red and fiery they presage a Cholerick one if moist and watry a Phlegmatick Moderate watching quickens the senses and diffuseth heat and blood through the whole Body But if it be immoderate it weakens the same dries up the Spirits and spoiles the brains Temperature Repletion is either of quality or of quantity The first is seen in the Hectick Feaver or Marasmus The second hath a relation to the containing parts and is measured by their distention or to the Bodies strength when the same is fuller of humours than it can well bear The repletion of a single humour is called Cacochimy that of more Pletora Evacuation in the strictest sence Is an effusion of such humours as are superfluous

till the Wine be consumed a strong expression being made add Galbanum Bdelium Euphorbium Myrrhe Castoreum Bear Duck and Storks Grease of each two ounces Make a Salve in the Form of a Liniment whereunto a little Wax if needs be may be added Exercise and Frictions are also very powerful to awake the part affected and cause the motive Spirits to flow in There is another accident when the Patient either by weakness proceeding from the loss of Blood poysonous Vapours or the sight of dreadful Objects falls into frequent Swounds It is discerned 1. When Paleness invades the Face with a Cold Sweat 2. If a Coldness of the whole Body be perceived 3. And if the Party do suddenly Fall when it is in the Paroxysme It is prevented by casting cold Water in the Diseased's Face but if it proceeds from too great Evacuation the Patient must be softly collected on the Ground or on his Bed and a little Bread dipped in VVine given him to taste whereat the Spirits may return But if it proceeds from Poysonous Vapours Let the Patient drink out of a Spoon a little Treacle and Mithridate dissolved in VVine That which comes of Fear is easily cured the Object being removed with encouraging and comfortable Admonitions The loss of Blood Pain and Feaver whereunto Wounds are subject do often distract the Patient in a temporary Phrensy called Delirium which is defined A tempor ary perturbation of the Phansy and other mental Functions Besides the Causes above mentioned poysonous Vapours and a Lesion of the Diaphragme do not seldom effect its Production this last having a plain communication with the Brain by the Nerves of the sixth Conjugation If it proceeds from an Obstruction of the Spirits the same Remedies must be used as when the Body is subject to Swounding but if it coms from an Inslammation of the Brain Diet and Purgation must be instituted and the Hair being shaved the Head being bathed over with Exorodine applying upon it the Plaister of Diacalcitheos dissolved in Rose-water and Vinegar and Sleep provoked by the use of Broths wherein you must boyl refreshing Herbs and a knot of VVhite-poppy Seed and pleasant Company diverting the Patient from other sad thoughts and representations of mournful things may also be very conducible to his health and recovery Of Wounds made by Fire Armes THE Industry of men ever clear sighted to their own destruction having for about 200 yeares since found out a very speedy way to it namely Gun-powder and fire-armes Whose hurts being often waited on by other accidents it obligeth us to treat especially of their Curation They are either simple or composed with dilaceration distemper and tumor Their signs are commonly a round Figure little effusion of Blood a swelling of the part and a greenish livid colour In the first apparel the wound ought to be dilated if the wounded parts conformation can permit it that unnatural Bodies if there be any may be sought out and expelled with the matter In doing which if it be possible the patient must be scituated as he was when he received the wound After the extraction of strange Bodies we must prevent pain and fluxion The first by the repelling and lenitive Remedies above described and the Cataplasme appointed for its sedation The last by Diet and Purgation whereunto Clysters are commonly used lest Catharicks might cause too great an agitation of Humours Thence we must proceed to Suppuration as in all other contused Wounds whereunto that which is called digestive and the following Oyl are most conveniently used Recipe Oyl of Violets four pound wherein boyl two young Cats new brought forth till the bones be loosed off adding Earth-worms duly prepared one pound Let them boyl together on a slow fire adding Turpentine of Venice and strong-water three Ounces To be kept in a Glass till there be occasion to make use of it But if there be any danger of Gangrene we use profitably of Egyptiacum dissolved in Wine c. When the wound is brought to Suppuration detersive Medicaments must be applyed such as is the following Recipe Water of boyled Barley the juice of Plantain Parsley Agrimony and of the lesser Centory of each an Ounce let them all boyl together and in the end of the Decoction add Turpentine of Venice three Ounces Hony of Roses two Ounces flower of Barley three Ounces Saffron one Scruple Mix all together and make a cleansing Oyntment Lastly having care to prevent other accidents according to Art the Wound must be brought to a perfect Cure and Sanation Of Gangrenes BUT since Gangrene is often a concomitant of Wounds made by Fire-Armes and other Contusions it will not be amiss here to expound its Nature Signs and Curation It is defined The mortification of a part affected with inflammation And is only distinguished from a Sphacelus by the more or less this last being only when the part is quite mortified and dead The onely Remedy being then its Amputation The general Cause of Gangrene is a corruption of the parts natural Heat by Cold external Heat want of Nourishment stopping of Transpiration or by the dreadful effects of some poysonous substance Its proceeding is two-sold either with some humours in flowing or without it We have deduced the signes of it in the Chapter of Impostumes And for its Curation since that which hath its origin from the second cause is the most general and may in some measure be a Rule for Curing the rest Take these following Precepts If the Body be in the least Plethorical Phlebotomy and Purgation being celebrated the Air by Nature or Art ought to be cold and dry and the Patients diet of the same temper Amongst Topical Remedies Egyptiacum boyled with some Aloes in salted Water adding a little Strong Water in the end is deservedly much esteemed as also the Phadagenick water or the Gray Salve which is made by adding a Drachm of corroding Sublimate to an Ounce of Basilicon in the mean time to defend the Body from the Influxion of Morbisical Humors and putrid Vapours the following defensive may be applyed on the diseased part and often renewed Recipe Oyl of Roses and Myrtle of each four Ounces the juice of Plantain Solanum and Housleek of each two Ounces the whites of Eggs five Bole Armeny and Sealed Earth reduced in a subtil powder of each an Ounce with as much Oxycraton as is needful If it be too Intense and yeilds not to Catharticks and Topical Remedies we are obliged to use actual Causticks And lastly if that will not serve we must proceed to the part 's Amputation which is the only approved Remedy in a Sphacelus wherein observe that to stop the effusion of Blood actual Causticks are almost out of Use the binding of the Vessels being found more commodious Of that Operation see Fab. ab Aqua ●endente in his Chirurgical Operations but now the Stiptick Elixir of Doctor Williams overcomes all other Remedies Where Bones are discovered they use the

Tincture of Aloes extracted with Spirit of Wine and to fortify the part they boyl Aromatick Herbs in Red Wine c. CHAP. IV. Of Ulcers ACcording to our intended scope this Chapter is dedicated to ex●plicate the Theorems of Ulcers and the manner of Curing them They are defined Solutions of Conti●nuity caused by the Mordacity of corrodin● humours rather hurting in quality than in quantity Their external Causes are the excesse● of cold and heat for as saith the Physians Poet. Sunt diversa quidem mala frigoris atque caloris Sed tamen amborum simili nocet Ulcere virus The pain of heat and cold are different To make an Ulcer yet they both conse●● Whereunto is added the apposition of ●harp medicaments blowes contusions and the touching of impure things Their disterences are expressed in the following Discourse An Ulcer is either 1. Simple Varying either by First Proper differences as 1. Figure 2. Quantity 3. Quality Whence it is termed Round Angular Strait Crooked Long Short Broad Deep c. Or Secondly By differences Common and A●cidentar As 1. It s Durance 2. Aspect 3. Generation 4. Affected part And thus they are New Old Appearing Hid Incult Burnt Fleshy Nervous c. 11. Or Composed either with First A Diseases Cause whence it is called 1. Cachochymical 2. Cathartick 3. Poysonous c. Secondly A Disease it self as 1. Intempery 2. Tumor 3. Incommoderation Hot or Moist Phlegmous or Erisipelous Burnt Callous Thirdly Its Symptoms whence it is called Gnawing Filthy Painful c. A gnawing Depascence Ulcer is discerned by the parts exesion attrition cavity and hollowness The stinking exhaleth a putrid unpleasant and cadaverous smell The Sordid is discerned by the crassity and viscosity of its Excrements and the softness of the flesh overgrowing it whereunto if a hardness of the lips be joyned it is deservedly termed Fistulous A Cancrous Ulcer is horrible to look on its lips being overturned are hard livid and moist That which is called Discrative is caused by the humours Intempery And Cacoethes is so termed for the difficulty of healing it The Catherick receives nourishment of some broken or dirupted Vessel or proceeds from an evil disposition of the whole Body Ulcers having had their beginning during a Disease or before it growing livid pale or dry plainly indicate the proximity of Death their livid or pale colour being not only the sing of Cholerick or Atrabiliary humours causing them but also manifesting an extinction of the natural heat That which renders the Cure of Ulcers difficult is commonly a penury of Blood the Bodies evil constitution as also that of the Air the sordidness of the Ulcer and the rottenness of some Bones In simple Ulcers Desiccation is only required and the breeding of flesh in them whereunto the red desiccative Salve and Unguentum Aureum are convenient But in composed ones we must have an eye to the most urgent then to the Cause and lastly to the Disposition without whose taking away the Ulcer cannot be cured Pain is often an accident of Ulcers whereunto must be provided as is declared in the Chapter of Impostumes having a special regard to the humour causing it If there be any Bone corrupted it must be touched with an actual Caustick of hot Iron and such Remedies used to breed flesh in the Ulcer as are above declared in doing which two sorts of excrements do commonly appear namely a thin matter and a thick sordity both which must be purged by drying and detersive Medicaments Whereof take that mentioned in the former Chapter But sublimate Water or the Brown Salve of Felix-●urts are more powerful Then the Cicatice must be induced over the Ulcer to which end the powder of Burnt Alum and Caleanthum are wont to produce speedy and wished Effects CHAP. V. Of Fractures and Dislocations A Fracture or Bone breaking is an accident so dreadful that not without cause the Physitians Poet being about to speak of it makes this deprecation Infandum dictu cunctis procul absit amicis Sed fortuna potens omen convertat in hostes That cursed evil light on none but Foes And Fourtune keep our Friends from the like blows A Fracture is defined A solution of continuity in the Bones and its Causes are all such things as may break cut bruise and quash whereby are also to be understood falls from high places and the like Their differences are manifold for some are termed perfect others imperfect some are simples others composed with hemoragy inflammation gangrene c. They receive a common difference from their figures long transverse strait or crooked Whereunto are added that which is called in Greek Raphanidon when the bone is broken short in two pieces Cariedon when it falls in small Fragments loose from one another and Asphitidon when it is ground small as meal or flower A Fractures existence is known by a vehement pain of the affected part the impotency of it the change of its natural Figure and chiefly by the vacuity which appears to the fingers touching it For the Prognostick in moist weather and in youth Fractures are sooner healed than in dry weather and in old age But the precise time of the over-growing Callus cannot be positively assertained that depending of the Body's and ambient Air 's disposition as also of the Bone's thickness Yet Hippocrates saies the Nose is glutinated in three days the Iaws the Clavicles and Ribs in six the Cubit in nine the Brachium in twelve and the Tibia in fifteen Which may be a Rule for the rest When the Bones are broken near the Joynts their motion is thereby rendred stiff and difficult and if there be great Contusions the part loseth its motion and the Patient is in danger of Death The Cure of Fractures and Dislocations being in many respects one and the same we shall speak joyntly of them both in the end of this Chapter A Dislocation therefore is defined The detrasion of a Bone out of its proper place And it is either Simple by it self or Composed with other Diseases Its Signes are the same as those of Fractures the place of indisposition and its Cavity being the chief differenees Dislocations affecting but the Joynts and causing but an imperfect vacuity in the Dislocated Place If the H●●d be luxated Death immediately follows Recent luxations are easier and sooner cured than Old ones those that are invetcrated are wholly incurable and such as are not far divided are easier reduced in their Seat than far separated ones The common and general Cure of Fractures and Dislocations is performed by 1. Setting the Bones in their natural position 2. Retaining them there 3. Correcting the accidents The first of these is performed by extending the broken or dislocated part from its origin either with the Hands or some fit Instrument then setting it in its due place so that no eminency or roughness be found to alter the figure of it The second point is obtained by the application of restraining and

the Region of the Womb and in Summer the Skin of a Sheep newly flaid to the whole Belly and about the Loynes which must be taken away about six hours after the Patient having rested that time and the Hipp●gaster must be anointed with the following Oyntment Take Sperma Ceti two Ounces Oyl of sweet Almonds and Hypericon of each an Ounce and half Goats Suet an Ounce Oyl of Mirrhe an Ounce and Virgin Wax as much as needs Make an Ointment to be used twice a day About the Navel may be applyed a Plaister of Galbanum with some grains of Zibet Muscus in the middle and about the whole belly Gaulbiers Cloth described by Ambrose Parry But if the Patient be much tormented with Wind the following Power is esteemed excellent Take preserved Anniseed two Drams Nutmeg and burnt Harts-horn of each one Dram and a half Dates-stones three Drams Aloes Wood and Cinamon of each two Drams make a subtil Powder whereof give her one Dram in a Cup of warm White-Wine As for the Child as soon as the same is brought forth it ought to be cleansed from all impurity With Oyl of Roses or of Myrtle Which some do with warm Water and some astringent Wine and then anoint the Child with the said Oyls taking special care whether the Child be not infected with a Chalky Matter in the Mouth which is called the White Canker for then it must be carefully cleansed with a little clout fastned to a stick and dipped in a composition of Oyl of Sweet Almonds Honey and Sugar then having explored whether there be no vice in the conformation or construction of the bodies parts for if there be any it must be maturely corrected the Child must be gently swadled and laid in his Cradle If the Mother or a Nurse will have her Milk stancht Take Oyl of Roses and of Myrtle of each three Ounces Rose-Vinegar one Ounce mix them together and anoint therewith her Breasts four times a day and after the anointing spread them over with Powder of Myrtles applying thereupon the following Plaster Take Powder of Mastick and Nutmeg of each two Drams of Cypress-Nut three Drams of Myrtle and VVild Granate Flowers of each one Dram and a half Ireos of Florence half an Ounce Oyl of Myrtle three Ounces of Venice Treacle two Ounces and Virgins VVax as much as sufficeth Some take a Spong dip'd in the dec●ction of Cumin Seed or Coriander laid in very strong Vinegar and apply it to the Breasts as a secret Both may be much furthered by applying setting Cups between the Thighs and on the Sides of the Umbilick As for the Rest which is but little accessary to the Doctrine of the Generation of Man the Reader is remitted to those that have treated specially thereof as Capuraeins Pareus c. CHAP. VII Of the Venerean Disease THE just punishment of God upon our sins hath for some hundred years since produced a Disease unknown as some think to Antiquity called the Venerian or French Pox which may be defined An Indisposition composed of all other Diseases and their Accidents engendred by a contagious touch but most commonly by impure Copulation whence the Seed of several Men Fermenting ariseth a Venenous either fixt or volatile acid Salt having usually its seat in gross and viscid Flegm whence it procceds to the Invasion of the other Humours It is divided according to its time and progress in Particular and Universal The first degree of the former being when there appeaes Venerean Ulcers and Cancers The second when there is a Virulent Running of the Reins The Universal is when the Virulent Salt spreads it self through the whole Body and infects most of the parts thereof Its Signes are an intense and vehement Pain of the Ioynts Ulcers in the hidden Parts An Inflammation of the Mouth Pustles over the whole Body and specially on the Forehead Lastly Knobs and roughness of the Bones and a falling off of the Hair with other Accidents If the Disease be Recent and the Body in Youth or young Age the season of the Year being favourable the Cure is easily performed but if the Disease be Inveterate and complicated with many accidents If the Patient hath in vain been under Cure and begins to be extenuated by a Consumptive leanness proceeding from a Dissipation of the Natural Moisture the Disease must be esteemed incurable and only tried to be palliated The Cure of it is performed in four manners Namely 1. By the Decoction of Guaiack wood Sarsaparilla China Root and Sassafras which is the gentlest way and fittest for the first degrees 2. By Unction 3. By Plaisters 4. By Suffumigation rejecting that 〈◊〉 taking Mercury inwardly as noxious The first is thus reduced in Act A pound of Guaiac being cut in small pieces is decocted in Balneo Mariae with eight pounds of Conduit Water to the dissipation of the third part and in the end some Cinnamon being added to it the Patient must take of it something warmed five or six Ounces at his usual Meals keeping himself afterwards very warm to provoke sweat which must be instantly wiped off And thus using a very spare Diet the same method must be continued as long as the Patients forces can with facility suffer it The second manner is more effectual if the Disease be Recent The Body being well disposed and prepared the Patient is shut up in a warm Chamber and Closet and the Friction being begun proceed from those parts which pain less to those that are more painful and having a special care to the quantity of Medicaments whereof the Indication is drawn from the ●emper and Srength of the Patient the ●●oynts and Emunctories of the noble parts are usually anointed with the following Liniment Take prepared Quicksilver six Ounces Sublimate half a Dram quick Brimstone half an Ounce fresh Porks grease one pound the yolks of three Eggs Oyl of Laurel and Turpentine of each two Ounces Old Treacle ●nd Mithridate of each half an Ounce let ● Liniment be made according to Art But I rather approve Mercury alone mixt with Hogs grease since it doth not expel the Material Cause of this Disease by any occult or specifick virtue ●eeding Correctives but only by its mo●ion joyning naturally it self with all acid moisture and as Mercury dissolved in the Spirit of Nitre or Aqua Fortis cor●oding the mouth and opening the 〈◊〉 whence the Humors flow till their acidity be evacuated But before the Friction the Body must be judiciously prepared for if dry subjects be not sufficiently humected the heat of the Stomack sublimates the Mercury whence proceeds a Dia●hae● with Gripings of the Gutts and if it be stopt there follows a Constipation a Feaver Inflammation of the Throat or a Phrens● with Convulsions and sometimes the party becomes Deaf Blind c. Contrariwise if Moist Bodies be not well exsiccated by Sudorisick Decoctions the Mercury draweth with him to the Throat a great quantity of Humours with swelling of the