relapse to which this Disease is more obnoxious than an other Chap. VIII Of the Stone in the Kidneys WHen any one is seized with a Fitt of the Stone setting aside all other remedies let him presently drink a Gallon of Posset drink wherein two ounces of the Roots of marsh Mallows have been boyled and let the following Glister be injected Take of the Roots of marsh Mallows and Lillies each one ounce of the Leaves of Mallows Pellitory of the Wall and of the Flowers of Camomile each one Handful of Flax and Fenugreek seeds each half an Ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a Pint and a half dissolve in in the strained Liquor brown Sugar and syrup of Marsh-Mallows each two ounces mingle them make a Glister As soon as he has rendred all the Posset drink by Vomiting and rejected the Glister let him take thirty of my Cordial drops in a Glass of White wine and compose himself to rest on his Bed But to prevent this Disease let him drink Acton or Richmond Waters or other Purging waters often especially when he finds a pain in his Back or heat of Urine And every Summer if his Condition will allow of it Tunbridge Waters or the like for the space of a Month or Whey for the same time when he has not an opportunity to drink these Waters Riding ou Horse Back is also very good for prevention But it is to be noted that if the Stone is too large to pass neither the Waters nor Riding are proper for some old Men have hastened their end by attempting in vain to Cure this Disease by such Remedies the Stone by this means being thurst forward when it was too big to pass If a Bloody Vrine be occasioned by the Stone in the Kidnies take two ounces and a half of Manna dissolved in a quart of Whey once a Week for some Months and when you are to Walk or Ride be sure to drink a large draught of small Beer before you go out and in the way if you stay long a broad Chap. IX Of Vomiting and Loosness call'd Cholera Morbus THis disease is easily known for there are violent Vomitings and an Evacuation of ill Humours with great difficulty and trouble by Stool there is a violent Pain of the Belly an Heart Burning Thirst a quick Pulse and often Convulsions Fainting and a Coldness of the extream Parts and such lik Symptoms which Frighten the By-standers and kill the Patient in Twenty four Hours For the Cure of this dreadful Disease proceed in the following manner boyl a Chicken in about 3 Gallons of Spring water and let the Sick drink several large Draughts of it a little warm or for want of it Posset-drink At the same time a good quantity of the Liquor will serve for several Glisters to be given successively untill all the Liquor is consumed and evacuated upwards and downwards The Filth being ejected by these means which require three or four Hours give twenty of my Cordial drops in a spoonful of Cinnamon-water or the â—ike But it must be carefully noted that if the Vomitting and Loosness continue many Hours suppose ten or twelve and the Sick is worn out so that the extream Parts â—ax cold and the use of the Liquor above mentioned has been neglected you must immediately give my Corâ—iâ—â— drops as above directed and Sixteen of them must be also given Morning and Evening daily till the Sick has recovered his Strength and Health Chap. X. Of hard Labour THat is said to be hard Labour which does not observe the due and ordinary course of Nature and longer time is spent in it and the pains are more violent than usual and the Symptoms that accompany it are more grievous Many causes may be assigned for it both external and internal the internal depend on the Mother the Womb or the Child As to the Mother the natural Weakness of the whole Body may make the Labour difficult or her Age she being too Young or too Old or it may be occasion'd by Diseases which she had with her Big-belly Leanness on two much dryness of the Body or Fat compressing the passages of the Womb or the ill-conformation of the Bones encompassing the Womb as in those that are Lame may also occasion it Wind swelling the Bowels a stone on preternatural tumour in the Bladder that presses the Womb may be the cause So may the ill Constitution of the Lungs or the parts serving respiration for the holding of the Breath is very necessary to help the exclusion of the Child As to the Womb various Diseases of it may render the Delivery difficult as Tumours Ulcers Obstructions and the like As to the Child hard Labour is occasioned when by reason it is Dead or Putrified or any way Diseased it cannot confer any thing to it's own exclusion Also when the Body or Head of it is large or when there are many so Twins most commonly cause hard Labour or when it is ill situated as when the Hands or the Feet offer first or when one Hand or Foot comes out or when it is doubled or when the Membranes break too soon so that the Water flows out and leaves the Orifice of the Womb dry at the time of exclusion Or when the Membranes are too thick so that they cannot be easily broken by the Child The external causes depend on things necessary and contingent things necessary are those which are commonly call'd non-natural so Cold and Dry air and a North wind are very injurious to Women in Labour because they bind the Body and drive the Blood and Spirits to the inner parts and they are very injurious to the Child coming from so warm a place Hot weather also dissipates the Spirits and weakens the Child Crude meats and such as are difficulty Concocted and those that bind taken in a great quantity before Labour render it difficult the Stomach being weakened and the common passages contracted which ought to be very open in this Case Drowsiness hinders the Action of the Mother and Child and shews that nature is Weak The unseasonable motion of the Woman much retards the Delivery as when she refuses upon occasion to Stand Walk Lye or Sit or flings her self about unadvisedly so that the Child cannot be Born the right way being turned preposterously by the Restlesness of the Mother The retention of such things as should be evacuated at the time of Labour as of Urine that swells the Bladder or excrements in the right Gut the Pâ—â—es also much swelled narrow the Neck of the Womb and so hinder natures endeavours Lastly violent Passions of the mind as â—ear Sorrow and Anger make the Labour difficult To things Contingent ought to be referred a Blow a Fall or a Wound which may much obstruct Labour also the want of By-standers which ought to assist the Woman namely strong Women or Maids which may lift her up just at the time of her Delivery An unskilful Mid-wife that
ounces of Blood again on the first day or else the day following and so the third day and after this manner four times one day after another when the pain rages violently But if the disease be more moderate and less dangerous and if the Patient being weak cannot well bear Bleeding so often it must not be repeated again after it has been twice used till a day or two be past betwixt each Bleeding You 'l seldom find that a confirmed Pleurisie can be cured in grown People with less than the loss of forty ounces of Blood or thereabouts tho' in Children once or twice Bleeding is most commonly sufficient All the time of the Disease care must be taken that the Patient be not over-heated and therefore he must be taken every day out of his Bed and kept up some hours according to his strength for if he be kept continually in Bed neither so large and an evacuation of Blood nor other Remedies how cooling soever will sometimes do any good Presently after the last Bleeding it will be convenient to give a gentle Purge Chap. XVI Of Swooning THe next and immediate cause of this Disease is a defect of the Vital Spirits When any one is seized with a fainting Fit you must lay him on his Back and sprinkle Water on his Face and provoke Sneezing put some good Wine or Cinnamon-water into his Mouth call him aloud shake him pull him by the Nose double his Fingers pull his Hair and rub him If he faints for want of Nourishment you must refresh him with a piece of Bread dipt in Wine If he faint by reason of a malignant quality give a scruple of Venice-Treacle dissolved in some Cordial Water If he faints by reason of immoderate Evacuations he must be refreshed by good Meat and Drink Sleep and Rest If it proceed from too great loss of Blood lay him in a Bed with his Head downward sprinkle his Face with cold Water and give a little Wine mixed with Water If it proceed from Purging give twelve of my Cordial Drops in a spoonful of Cinnamon water and let him lie on a Bed If Fainting proceed from a fright or fear Blood must be let FINIS The INDEX Apoplexy pag. 1. Bleeding at Nose 4. Blood Spitting 5. Blood Vomitting 5. Bloody Vrine 15. Carus pag 1. Child-Bed Purgations suppressed 24. Cholora Morbus 15. Colick 9. Coma 1. Convulsions 7. Courses immoderate 22. Labour hard 16. Lethargy 1. Loosness 12. Miscarriage 19. Mother-Fits 10. Pleurisie 26. Quinsey 25. Sleepy Diseases 1. Stone in the Kidnies 14. Swooning 28. Twisting of the Guts 13. Vapours 10. Vomitting 15. Advertisement The following Medicines are prepared by the Author and are to be Sold at his House at the Angel and Crown in Basing-lane being the Second Turning in Bread-street from Cheapside 1. 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If from too great a quantity of Blood a sleepy Disease is feared the Patient must be sufficiently Blooded and the utmost endeavours must be used to make the Hemorrhoids flow than which nothing can be more advanâ—agious Purging must be also ordered to prevent a Relapse Take of the Pill of Amber and of the lesser Coeh each two scruples of the best Castor six grains of Oyl of Amber a sufficient quanty mix them make 12 Pills take six for a Dose and the other six three days after Or take my Pills which are excellent in these diseases After Purging let the Sick use the following Medicine Take of the Conserves of the Flowers of Male-Peony and of Rosemary each one Ounce of the Bark of Citron Candied â—â—x drams of the Species call'd Diambra aud Dianâ—bos each one dram of Castor Powdered two scruples of compound Spirit of Lavender half a dram with a sufficient quantity of the Syrups of Gilly-flowers and of compound peony make an Electuary Give the quantity of a Nutmeg Morning and Evening daily and let the Sick take two spoonfuls of Black Cherry-water and ten drops of my Cephalic Tincture Morning and Evening presently after the use of the Electuary Take of Amber Powdered one ounce sprinkle the fourth part of it upon the Head every night at Bed time Chap. II. Of Bleeding at Nose Bleeding at the Nose comes at any time of the Year and afflicts those chiefly that are weakly and of a very hot Constitution and more frequently when they are Old than when they are Young In this Case you must do all you can to restrain the violent heat and ebullition of the Blood from whence arises the said unusual Extravasation and to turn the fore of it another way To which end Bleed often in the Arm and take away Blood freely order also a Cooling and Thickening Diâ— as three parts of Fountain-water and one of Milk boyled together and drank Cold roasted Apples Barly Broaths and such like things as are made without Flesh order the Sick to keep from Bed for some time daily and give a gentle cooling Glister every day and let it not be once omitted Give also a draught made of half an ounce of Diacodium and Cowslip-water at Bed time to quell the fury of the Blood but because a sharp humour often accompanies Bleeding at Nose and the like which being mingled with the Blood furthers it's motion and opens the Orifices of the Veins besides revulsion and cooling I usually give the following Purging potion when the Disease is even at it's height Take of Tamarinds half an ounce of sena two drams of Rhubarb one dram and an half Boyl them in a suffâ—cient quantity of water to three ounces of the strained Liquor add of Manna and Syrup of Roses solutive each one ounce make a Potion and after it has done working I give at Bed time a draught made of two ounces of water of Red Popies and one ounce of Diacodium and when the Bleeding is gone quite off I give the Patient some purging potion again As to outward Applications a Linnen Bolster dipt in cold Water wherein Sal prunella has bin disolved may he applyed to the Nape of the Neck and to both the sides of it often in a day and after Bleeding and Purging the following Liquor may be used Take of Hungarian Vitriol and Allom each one ounce of Flegm of Vitriol half a Pint Boyl them till all is dissolved filter the Liquor when it is cold and seperate it from the Cristals that sometimes rise To the remaining Liquor add a twelfth part of Oyl of Vitriol And put a tent dipt in this Liquor into the Nostril from whence the Blood flows and keep it in two days Rags moistened in this Liquor and applyed stop Blood from what parts soever it flows Spitting of Blood which betwixt Spring and Summer befalls weakly People of a hot Constitution whose Lungs are infirm and rather Young People than Old is almost of the same nature with the Bleeding at the Nose and requires almost the same Method of Cure only it will not bear Purging by which especialy if repeated the sick is apt to fall into a Consumption but Bleeding used often a Glifter injected every day a draught made of Dâ—a odium taken at Bed-time and a Dyet thickening and cooling will do the Business effâ—ctually Chap. III. Of Vomiting of Blood VOmiting of Blood from what cause soever it arises is very dangerous for if too great a quantity of Blood be evacuated their is danger of Death if it coagulate in the Stomack and corrupt there it occasions â—ainting It must be cured by Medicines that cause a Reâ—ulsion of the Blood from the Stomach and by such as attemperate it and stop the opening of the Veins And first because an orderly Diet is of great use in this case the common Diet ought to be astringent and cooling as Barley-broths Almond and Rice diet Water-gruel and especially Starch boiled in Milk whereunto may be added a little Rose-water hard Eggs may be also used dipt in Vinegar also Bread dipt in Water and Chicken Broath with Wood-sorrel Purslain and Plantian boyled in it But at the beginning of eating some astringent things should be taken as a Quince baked under the ashes Medlars or the like Let the Sick abstrain from all Salt Pepper'd and Fryed Meats and also from such things as yield a great deal of nourishment unless the Weakness of the Sick requires that they should be taken sparingly He must drink but little and when he does it must be Water wherein iron has bin quenched with a little juice of Lemon in it The Sick must not expose himself to the Winds nor to the rays of the Sun he must Sleep moderately and his Body must be kept open Bleeding must be used sparingly and it must be repeated The Members must be rubbed and bound and cleansing Glisters must be injected Cupping-glases must be applyed to the Buttocks Legs and Loins Let two spoonfuls of Vinegar and Water mixed be given if there be a suspition of clotted Blood for by the use of it it may be easily disolved and driven from the Veins of the Stomach and they will be stop'd thereby foment the Region of the Stomach also with it cold Let the Sick take Morning and Evening four ounces of the juice of Plantain cold Take of old Conserve of Roses and of Comfry Roots each one ounce of Marmalade of Auinces half an ounce one Myrobalane candied troches of Amber and Lemnian earth each two drams of coral prepared and of Saffron of Mars each one dram with Syrup of dryed Roses make an Electuary and let the Sick take the quantity of a Nutmeg Morning and Evening Troches of Amber do not only bind but also disolve clotted Blood and therefore are frequently to be used Tincture of Coral made with the juice of Lemons is also very good But when the Blood is evacuated violently and cannot be stoped by the
Mother and an Inflamation which is suddenly communicated to the Belly which thereupon becomes much swelled and blown up there happens also a great difficulty in Breathing Choakings Beating of the Heart Fainting Convulsions and often Death it self if the Suppression continues And if the VVoman outlives it she is in danger of an Abscess in the VVomb and afterwards of a Cancer or there may happen great Imposthums in the Belly also the Gout Sciatica and Lameness or an Inflamation and Abscess in the Breast The Causes of the Stoppage of the Child-bed Purgations proceed either from a great Loosness or strong Passions of the Mind also from great Colds and cold Drink To bring the Child-bed Purgations well down let the VVoman avoid all Perturbations of Spirit which may stop them let her ly in Bed with her Head and Breast a little raised keeping her self very quiet that so the Humours may be carried downwards by their natural tendency let her observe a good Diet some what hot and moist and apply the Plaster mentioned in the Chapter of Vapours to her Navel Take of the Conserves of Roman Wormwood and of Ruâ— each one Ounce of the Troches of Myrth two Drams of Castor English Saffron Volatile Salt of Salarmoniak and of Assafoetida each half a Dram with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the five opening Roots make an Electuary Let her take the quantity of a large Nutmeg every third Hour drinking upon it three or four Spoonfuls of the following Mixture Take the Waters of Pennyroyal and Balm each three Ounces of Compound Briony Water two Ounces of Sypup of Mugwort three Ounces and an half of Saffron two Drams of Castor tyed up in a Rag and hanged in the Glass one Scruple mingle them If these things are used presently upon the Suppression they generally take it off Chap. XIV Of Quinsey A Quinsey comes at any time of the Year especially between Spring and Summer and chiefly seizes Young Men and such as are of a Sanguine Complection and Red Haired People more than any other The Sick shiver and shake presently a Fever follows and a little after a Pain and Inflamation of the Jaws and if the Sick be not presently relieved he can neither-Swallow nor draw his Breath so that he is under the Apprehension of being Strangled by reason the Jaws are stoped by the Inflamation and Swelling There is great danger in this Disease for it sometimes destroys a Man in a few Hours In order to the Cure Bleed presently in the Arm and take away a large quantity of Blood and presently afterwards open the Veins under the Tongue and then touch the inflamed parts with Honey of Roses made very sharp with Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur and the following Gargarism must be used often not in the common way for it must be kept in the Mouth without motion till it wax hot and then it must be spit out Take of the Waters of Plantain Roses and Frogs spawn each four ounces the Whites of three Eggs turned to a Water by beating of White-Sugar-candy three drams make a Gargarism The Patient must also take daily of the Emulsion to be mentioned in the cure of a Pleurisie the next Morning bleed again unless the Fever and difficulty of swallowing abate and defer purging till the next day but if both these are lessened give presently the Lenitive Purge mentioned in the Chapter of the immoderate Flux of the Courses If the Fever and other Symptoms are like to be troublesome after Purging they will be quelled by Bleeding repeated as before and by applying a large and strong Blister to the Neck and by a Glister of Milk and Sugar injected every Morning except when the Sick purges through the whole course of the Disease the use of all kinds of Flesh and their Broths are to be forbid and the Patient must be dieted with Oatmeal and Barley broths roasted Apples or the like and he must drink Small-beer and he must keep from Bed some Hours every day Chap. XV. Of a Pleurisie THis Disease is very frequent and comes at any time but especially betwixt Spring and Summer it chiefly seizes those that are of a Sanguine Constitution and often Country People and those that are accustomed to hard labour it most commonly begins with a shaking and shivering and then heat drough restlesness and other symptoms of a Fever follow After a few Hours but sometimes it is much longer before this symptom comes the Patient is seized with a violent pricking pain in one of his sides about the Ribs which sometimes reaches towards the Shoulder-blades sometimes towards the Back-bone and sometimes towards the Breast he Coughs frequently which occasions great pain so that sometimes he holds his Breath to prevent Coughing the matter which is spit up at the beginning is little and thin and often sprinkled with particles of Blood but in the process of the Disease it is more and more concocted and mixed with Blood Tho' this Disease has an ill Name and is of it self more dangerous than any other yet if it be well managed it is easily cured and indeed as certainly as other diseases As to the cure ten ounces of Blood must be taken presently away from the Arm of the side affected then presently after Bleeding give the following draught Take of Red Poppy-Water four ounces of Salprunella one dram of Syrup of Violets one ounce mingle them â—ake a draught Take of Sweet Almonds number seven of the Seeds of Melons and Pompions each half an ounce of the Seeds of White-Poppies two drams beat them together in a Marble Mortar pouring gently upon them a pint and a half of Barley-water of Rose-water two drams of Sugar-candy half an ounce mingle them make an Emulsion give four ounces every fourth hour Pectorals must also be taken frequently Take of the Pectoral decoction a quart of the Syrups of Violets and Maiden-hair each one ounce and an half mingle them make an Apozem Let him take half a pint thrice a day Take of the Oyl of Sweet-Almonds two ounces of the Syrups of Violets and Maiden-hair each one ounce of Sugar-candy half a dram mingle them make a Linctus of which let the Patient lick often in a day Oyl of Almonds by it self or Linseed-Oyl is often used with good success As to diet you must forbid all Flesh and the Broaths of it tho' never so thin but the Patient may be dyeted with Oaten and Barley Broaths and Panada and let him drink of a Ptisan made of Barley-water and the Roots of Sorrel and Liquorish aud sometimes Small-beer Anoint the pained side Morning and Evening with the following Ointment applying upon it a Cabbage-leaf Take of the Oyl of Sweet-Almonds two ounces of Ointment of Marsh-mallows and Pomatum each one ounce mingle them make an Ointment The Sick must persist in the use of the said Remedies through the whole course of the Disease If the pain be very violent you must take away ten