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A69834	Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...; Technē iatrikē. English	Galen.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing C7517; Wing G159; ESTC R22670	55,815	130

you would disperse any humor from the lower parts of the Body let the Medicine be strong lest it lose its strength before it come at the afflicted part neither need you fear the superior parts will be afflicted by such Medicines seeing the cause of the affliction lies not in them neither are the Medicines to be apropriated to them Then consider That the parts afflicted by such de●luxions some are rare loose and soft by Nature others thick and hard by Nature the former are easily emptied you must use sharper Remedies to the latter The Indications then must be taken both from the substance of the afflicted part and also from the Formation and Scituation of it for example if it happen so that the Liver be afflicted by Humors in the small Vessels thereof which Humors are thin viscuous thick or superaboundant Is it not the readiest way first to separate these by extenuating meats and drinks and change them into another substance Then in the second place to empty those by passages which are large and not by those that are narrow whereas you cannot bring them thither without extenuating for there are large passages Meatus in the Liver as well as narrow which pass to the Vena Cava as the narrow doth to the Vena Porta It is no such difficult matter then when Humors are thick and tough in the Liver to evacuate them by drawing them to the Vena Cava by such Medicines as have a drawing quality that so they may be cast out by Urine But besides these here is another Indication to be taken from the Liver it self Suppose it be so weakned by moistning Medicines or Cataplasms that it is unabled not only to perform its own Office but weakens the Veins also in such a case you must mix some binding things with your Medicines but seeing the Liver lies so low 't is some Question whether the binding Medicines be not weakned before they come at it unless they be mixed with some things else of more subtil parts as Spices are If you make up your Medicines of such Spices as bind Nature when she hath gotten two Qualities to serve her turn in one Medicine will operate the stouter Culpeper I know at present none better for such a purpose than Cinnamon and Cassia Lignea and if you mix a little Spodium amongst them it will not do amiss Galen Also take another Animadversion Have a care the Natural temper of the part afflicted be not distempered by the Humor flowing to it if it be Flegm that flow to it it may be it is too cold if Choller too hot you must cure this distemper before ever you can restore the Member to its pristine health and strength and this is to be cured by its contraries namely cold by heat and heat by cold and herein also you must be well versed namely how hot and cold every Member by Nature ought to be for how can you tell else when it exceeds its due proportion in cold or heat or when you have cooled or heated it enough Chap. 96. Of Diseases according to Number HAving spoken enough of these things we come now to such whose Number is not according to Nature and seing their difference is twofold one in which some part is deficient the Cure of which is by subministring to Nature the other which is superaboundant which ought to be cut off either by Iron or Fire or Medicines which have a burning quality all these may be cured 't is true but n●w ones cannot be gotten in their rooms that are wan●●ng some there are that though they cannot be genera●●● again yet somthing may be made in lieu of them ●s ● Bone being taken away you ●ay put in some substa●ce different from both Bone and Flesh ●●●●e●d of it for there is a certain Callus Flesh 〈◊〉 in the room of it which though it seem like Flesh at first yet in process of time it grows to the hardness of a Bone so also any Member being cut off seeing we cannot make its like in substance we may make the like of it in shew that so the Body may the better retain its beauty Culpeper A right Worshipful Business and teacheeh a man thus much knowledg That he may make a wooden Leg. Chap. 97. Of Diseases according to Magnitude AS for Diseases according to Magnitude when the bigness of the parts of the Body are according to nature they are as they should be if any parts be bigger or smaller than they should be you should take away from those that are too big or if that cannot be withdraw the matter to another place cherrish those that are deficient in bigness and take away those that superabound this was spoken to more at large before Chap. 98. Of Diseases according to Scituation VVE come to that other kind of Healthful causes which amends such parts as are out of place as Luxations Ruptures c. this is done by some violent stretching or stroke or else by some dilation or breaking of the Continent Twofold then also is the way of Cure the one is by reducing it to its proper place the other by strengthning the part after it is reduced Chap. 99. Of Preservative Causes THis Chapter seems to contain in it the Sum of all what hath hitherto been spoken of Preservatives there are three Kinds 1. Such as have respect to men in perfect Health 2. Such as regard men not in perfect Health 3. Such as belong to men that are Sick The first maintains Health the other two attain it The whol Basis of this is chiefly busied about Humors which ought neither to be too thick nor too thin neither too watry nor too many nor too hot nor to cold nor too biting neither subject to Putrefaction nor yet of a Venemous Nature for when any of these are encreased they engender Diseases The Intention of Cure of this is Alteration and Evacuation They are altered when they are either concocted by the Body it self or by some other Faculties which have a Medicinal Force or Operation as by such things as expel poyson they are evacuated by Purges Clvsters Sweatings and Vomitings these are common Evacuations proper are such as are apropriated to certain parts and places of the Body the Bowels are purged by Stool the Liver by Urine the whol Body by Sweat the Head by Sneezing the Lungues by Coughing c. Besides there are some sorts of Purges which draw the Humors from all parts of the Body as Pills Chap. 100. Of that part of the Art which refresheth Old Age SUch Food Diet and Medicines as refresh and restore are most fit for Ancient People The Disposition of Ancient people is the best Disposition but yet Blood in them is but little neither is their Vital 〈◊〉 Animal Spirit much their sollid parts are dry therefore is their strength weak and their whol Body cold The Healthful Causes which amend this Disposition that I may comprehend them all in one

Blood Troches of Maudlin and Wormwood or either of them you may find the way to make them in my Translation of the London Dispensatory are very good for such a one to carry about him and now and then to eat a little also to drink a Decoction of Guajacum with the like weight of Raisons of the Sun especially if a Dropsie be feared as often is upon such a distemper For Simples you may use Cinnamon Galanga Agrimony Harts-tongue Maudlin Wormwood A draught of Wormwood Beer is a good Mornings Draught for such people Water-crestes Hys●p Spicknard Fennel Origanum Centaury Betony Chamomel c. Chap. 44. Signs of a cold and dry Liver IF the Liver be too cold and dry so is the Body also because it is nourished by the Liver the Veins are smal the Blood little and the Body lean Culpeper Galen hence for a while gives you Signs of the general Constitution of the Body and I shall piece in with my might with him there I added nothing here to his briefness for that cause If the Liver be colder and drier than it ought to be the Body is Melancholly and consuming you may take this Pro confesso in such a case you must proceed thus ● Eye the Spleen for there must needs be a fault either there or a stopping in that Branch of the Vena Porta which carries the Melancholly Juyce to it you may strengthen and amend that with Calamint Capers and Caper Bark Tamaris and Tamaris Bark Bettony Wall-flowers Wormwood Dodder Hartstongue ●pithimum If you think the Spleen be too hot use Endive Succory Lettice and Liverwort 2. Eye the Heart for all Melancholly vapors afflict that especially the way how to do it you have in the 36. Chapter 3. Restore the consumed Flesh and Snails are the best things that I know for it for Man being made of the slime of the Earth all slimy things restore his Nature when it languisheth and therefore they play the wise men indeed if a man may speak by contraries that first purge away the slime of the Snails before they use them Chap. 45. Signs of a hot cold moist and dry Temperature of the Testicles THe hotter the Testicles are the proner is the Man to Venery the more Boys he gets his Privities are soon Hairy judg the clean contrary by a cold temperature of those Parts moisture of the Testicles makes much and watry Seed but driness of those Parts gives but little Seed and that little is dry Chap. 46. Signs of a hot and dry temperature of the Testicles THe Seed Procreative of such people is hot dry and thick yet most fruitful and engenders usually the strongest Children such people be they Men or Women it matters not much are very prone to Venery they have soon Hair about their Privities and the Parts about them even to their Navil upwards and the midst of their Thighs downward but as they are prone to Venery so are they soon satisfied and are offended with compulsion to that sport Culpeper If you perceive too much heat in those Parts for omne nimium vertitur in vicium use cooling Herbs as Endive Succory Housleek Lettice Plantane Purslane these clarified in Whey are very good and wholsom as also Roses Water Lillies Cucumers the Seeds of Cucumers and Melones of Poppies both white and black c. Chap. 47. Signs of a hot and moist temperature of the Testicles IF moisture be joyned to heat of the Testicles as it is in many People of a Sanguine Complexion they ●re not so full of hair about their Privities as the former are they abound more in Seed yet is not their Appetite to Copulation so great they suffer less detriment by the often use of the Act than the former do for in deed and in truth they receive more detriment by abstinence from the Act than by operating in it Culpeper I take this to be the Temperature the Testicles should be of and therefore it is needless to prescribe Remedies only I care not greatly if here I be a little critical against the Colledg of Physitians it comes so pat in my way I know not well how to avoid it and therefore harken to me that God may hearken to you Is not Seed of Man take Man for both Sexes as the Latins take Homo and the Greeks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Is not I say the Seed of Man hot and moist which is the Causa Formans of the Child is not the Mothers Blood whereof the Child is formed naturally hot and moist also is not the Cell of the Womb in which the Child is formed hot and moist were your wits then a wool-gathering or did you dream waking when you wrote in your Book of the Rickets that a Child newborn before its Complexion be altered by any Medium is cold and moist of Constitution I pray if ever your Book deserve another Impression let that be amended or else defaced with a Deleatur for an Error of the first Magnitude Chap. 48. Signs of a cold and moist temperature of the Testicles THe Indications of a cold and moist temperature of the Testicles are smoothness and moisture about those parts averseness to the Sports of Venus they care not whether ever they come to that School or not the Seed is thin watry and unfruitful and either produceth no Conception at all or else but a weakly sickly puny Girl at the best Culpeper This hath need enough of Remedy in whomsoever is afflicted by it let such eat the quantity of a Nutmeg of Diasutyrion every morning you may have it at the Apothecaries or if you please to make use of my Translation of the London Dispensatory you have there the way how to make it your selves As for Simples Rocket Nettle Seeds Barnet Mugwort Penyroyal Lovage the Roots of Satyrion Maddir and Eringo the Berries of Bay and Juniper Nutmegs for Herbs Peony Sinkfoyl and Mother or Time Calaminth Featherfew and Rue Chap. 49. Signs of a cold and dry temperature of the Testicles THe Seed is thick and very little Culpeper Such People usually love their Study better than the Sheets you may remedy it with such Food as are Natu●ally hot and windy and by eating such Creatures as are lustful and fruitful as Crabs Lobsters Shrimps Sparrows Quails Partriches Eggs the Stones of Cocks and Lambs you have plenty enough of them in my Directory for Midwives As for Simples we advised before Pease and Beans are good for such as also Parsnips and Skirrets Figs Pinenuts Galanga c. Chap. 50. Of the Habit of the whol Body WEE told you before that the Habit of the whol Body usually followed the Nature or agreed with the Constitution of the Heart and the Liver but of the two it is most assimilated to that which hath the strongest first quality in it which for that cause it is called effective Take then notice That we call that the Habit of the Body which is presented to the

Men must use 1. Such meats as are hot moist and easie to digest 2. Such drinks as make the Humors thin and purge the blood by Urine My third Principle consists in Excrements of the Body These consist in Fulness and Emptiness which I shall devide and speak of both apart and therefore 1. Of Fulness in which consider 1. Its Substance 2. Its Kinds 3. Its Differences 4. Its Place 5. Its Cause 6. Its Signs 7. Its Cure 8. Its Accidents First Fulness in Substance is 1. Of Nourishment either profitable or unprofitable 2. Of Spirits either gross or thick or subtil and thin 3. Of Humors either good or bad 4. Of Excrements which are diverse Secondly The kinds of Fulness are either in Quantity or Quality 1. In Quantity in respect of Nourishment or Humors In respect of Humors 1 When all the Humors abound which the Greeks call Plethora the Latins Plenitudo and we properly may call Fulness and this happens either in the Veins or Arteries 2 When only one Humor abounds Puta Choller Flegm Melancholly 2. In respect of Quality when the Humors are hotter colder thicker thinner salter sowrer c. than is fit and this is called Carochymial Thirdly Its Differences are 1. Universal possessing the whol Body 2. Particular possessing only some part thereof Fourthly The place is different according to the matter offending be it Nourishment Spirits Humors or Excrements Fifthly The Cause is either General or Particular 1. General is 1 Meats corrupted in digestion for want of heat when the Stomach is not hot enough to digest the meat 2. Humors being either Plenitude or Cacochymia which what they are you had before 2. The Particular Cause is either of Spirits or Excrements Sixthly The Signs are different answering to the diversity of the Causes Seventhly Cure must be 1. According to the matter offending and place offended 2. The Evacuation of Plenitude is by Bleeding of Cacochymia by Purging Eighthly The Accidents are diverse according to the cause offending and place offended Having now spoken of Fulness what remains but that in sober sadness we speak a word or two of Emptiness in which consider 1. Its Definition 2. Its Kinds 3. Its Differences 4. Its Causes 5. Its Signs 6. Its Cure First The Definition of Emptiness consists 1. In want of Nourishment Spirit or Radical moisture 2. In the deminishing of these either in the General or Particular Secondly Its Kinds are 1. General when the whol Body grows thin weak slender or empty 2. Particular when any part of the Body was served the same Sawce Thirdly Its Differences are 1. Universal in the whol Body 2. Particularly in some part Fourthly Its Causes are 1. By Art as Purging Bleeding Sweating c. 2. By Accident as 1. By Obstruction of the Passages either of Vital heat or the Nutritive Faculty or avoiding of Excrements 2. By a Flux which either washeth away the Natural substance or hinders either Nourishment or Spirits from a particular place in the Body Fifthly The Signs of this is an Atrophia which is nothing else but a wasting or consuming of the whol Body or some particular part Sixthly The Cure is done 1. By removing the Cause 2. By restoring the lost substance My Fourth Principle consists in sleeping and watching which because they are inconsistent together we will treat of them apart in some particulars yet because Nature hath joyned them together so will I do also in others In sleep consider 1. What it is 2. Its Cause 3. Its Time 4. Its Quantity First Sleep is Rest and Quietness of the Body of the Mind and of the Spirits Secondly The Cause of sleep is 1. A sweet Vapor sent unto the Brain 2. The coldness of the Brain turns those Vapos into Humor● 1. Stopping the Conduits of the Nerves thereby prohibiting motion 2. Stopping the Sensoria or waies of the Sences thereby prohibiting understanding 3. Prohibiting the Spirits and thereby withstanding instigation to action Thirdly As for the time of sleeping the day-time is disliked and the night accounted only fitting Fourthly The Quantity of sleep is six seven or eight Hours according to the Complexion of the party of which you have plentiful information before The Difference of sleeping and watching are only Moderate and Immoderate I shall joyn them together in the first and see if I have writ enough to separate them in the second Both sleeping and watching moderately used for if you use the one immoderately you must needs do both so 1. Comforts Nature much 2. Refresheth the Memory 3. Cheers the Spirits 4. Quickens the Sences 5. Revives the Animal Vertue 6. Strengthens the Body 7. Helps Digestion 8. Expels Excrements The Vices of them both are far different and although I can close with those that have written Ethicks in this That all Vertues are a Medium between two Vices yet in other of their Tenets I cannot because some of them lead men to Atheism The Immoderate use then of sleeping and watching I shall speak of apart Immoderate watching 1. Makes giddy Brains 2. Fills the Body full of Rhewm 3. Dries the Brain 4. Breeds Aposthumes 5. Troubles the Spirits 6. Causeth Crudities 7. Makes Fools Immoderate sleep 1. Dulls the Sences 2. Causeth superfluous Excrements 3. Makes dull wits especially in old folks and Children 4. Retains the Excrements 5. Overmoistens the Brain 6. Fills the Brain full of Crudities I am now come to my Fifth part which consists in Exercise and Rest and this I shall wholly take apart In Exercise consider 1. What it is 2. Its Difference 3. Its Effects First Exercise is either Of the Body as cleaving of Logs c. Or of the Mind as Study c. Or of both as the Art of Defence c. Secondly The Differences of Exercise are 1. Moderate which is neither too much nor too little 2. Immoderate which is either Vehement or Excessive Thirdly The Effects of Exercise I shall take apart and I do not know but I may lawfully do so seeing neither God nor Nature have joyned them together Moderate Exercise 1. Stirs up Natural Heat 2. Equally distributes the Spirits 3. Opens the Pores 4. Wasts the Excrements of the third digestion 5. Strengthens the Body Sences and Spirits 6. Comforts all the Members 7. Profits Nature much Immoderate Exercise 1. Hurts the Body and all the Parts of it 2. Wasts dries consumes and wearies the Body and Spirits 3. Overthrows Natures Actions Thus having done with Exercise 't is best to write a word of Idleness or Rest. Rest is either Moderate or Immoderate Moderate Rest 1. Comforteth and refresheth Nature 2. Maintains Health in a good Decorum 3. Recruits a tyred Brain 4. Strengthens the Body in General the Sences and Members in Particular Excess in Rest or extream Idleness which you please 1. Dulls the Mind the Sences and Principal Instruments of the Body 2. It causeth Crudities evil Humors evil Excrements cold Sicknesses infinite Infirmities 3. Hastens old Age 4. Causeth Deformity