seame of their head or os triquetrum Cure by unction with oyle of fleabane see Chap. 2. mixed with oyle of sweet almonds or alone by it selfe Let their body be kept soluble Also they may bath their head in water in which strawberry leaves Stoole Bath violet leaves and flowers mallowes and other hearbes that have a moistning vertue have beene boyled CHAP V. Of Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of plentitude or blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of blood HItherto I have written of Head-ach comming through alteration of the bare quality only I now come to Head-ach caused of fulnesse and abundance of blood I call fulnesse in this place that which the Greekes call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is when all the four humours abound and be encreased in their proportion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or when blood onely abounds The cause This is caused commonly of eating all such things as ingender abundance of humours in the body as meates and drinkes of great nourishment plentifully taken as also the neglecting and omitting exercises bathes sweatings and usuall purgings bleedings and evacuations The signes be these Signes the face and the eyes be ruddy the veines be swoln so that the least and smalest may be easily seene the pulse is great and vehement the urine reddish and thick the veines of the temples beate more hard strong and vehement then those at the wrest the paine of the head is heavinesse Let the sick be in a cold and dry aire if you can get no such place naturall Cure make it so by art Let his diet be spare Aire let him avoyd things that nourish plentifully as egges flesh c. Let his drink be barly water in which cold hearbs have been boyled as endive Meat succory purselane lettuce Drinke or only barly water with a little Cinnamon Let him use meane exercise Exercise rubbing his body often if his body be soluble and no feaver let him bath often In the beginning of the disease let him blood in the cephalica of that arme on which the griefe lies most if that appeare not take the middle veine Bleeding if bleeding in the arme suffice not let them bleed in the forehead If age or weaknesse or both prohibit bleeding use cupping glasses to the shoulders to draw backe the blood Cupping These done use medicines externall that are cold and astringent Vnction wherewith you are furnished in the second Chapter You must in this disease have a special care that the body be kept soluble if necessity require and neither feaver nor weaknesse hinder Purging give a decoctum Sennae with rubarbe and agricke at i. ʒ iv ℥ After this you may apply such medicines to the head Repelling as disperse the disease and dissipate and repell the humours such be mallow seedes fenugreck seeds chamomel flowers melilot flowers either in bathes liniments or oyles as you think fit Also you may bind the lower parts of the body hard Bindings as the things to call or draw back the humours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of Choler CHAP VI. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of Choler The cause HEad-ach comming of cholericke humours is caused of all such things as heate and drye the head unnaturally as care anger paine labour watching fasting eating of meates that be cholericke as Garlique Onions pickled herrings and other meates extraordinary salt c. The signes be these the pains be like his that hath headach by reason of heat Signes but that only they have a more sharp and pricking pain as though awles or bodkins were thrust into their heads their face is pale and wan their head is moderately hot bitternesse of the tongue drinesse of the eyes nose and tongue this disease chanceth most to young and flourishing yeares to such as are cholericke of complexion to them that take overmuch businesse in hand and the like Let the sicke abide in a cold and moist aire which may be procured by the Art specified in the second Chapter Cure as by sprinkling the Chamber with cold water Aire by strewing the Chamber with cold herbs and moist flowers and branches of trees their mentioned Let his whole diet be moist let him eat meates that be moist and of good juyce Meates give them Endive Succory Lettice Purslaine small fishes that live in gravelly Rivers Let his drinke be water only Drinkes in which a little Cinnamon hath been boyled but let him altogether abstaine from Wine and strong drinke Let him be kept quiet Sleepes and have long sleepes you may provoke sleep by the rules in the second Chapter let him be merry and refraine from all perturbations of mind Purges You must refrain purging there be a feaver In the beginning of the cure you must purge the cholericke humour with medicines fit for the purpose such be Hiera picra Electuary of the juyce of Roses Rubarb Pillulae aureae Alephanginae c. ☞ But if it chance the cholericke humours do rest quietly in any part of the body as many times it doth and so becometh adust and burneth the place where it lyeth and maketh the man uncapable of receiving purging medicines you must use preparatives to alter and concoct the humour till it appear by the urine to be digested the best way of all to do this is to administer a spoonfull of Vineger of Squils every morning fasting and let the party walke a quarter of an houre after it if you find that too hot as you seldome shall administer it in an ounce of Julep of Roses or Syrupus acetosus Also you may give an ounce of pulp of Cassia at night when he goes to sleep or lenitive Electuary Bolus If they be very costive as it is the nature of choler ☜ to procure costivenesse administer clisters of the mollient herbs viz. Mallows Beetes Violets Clisters Pellitory and Mercury of each a handfull boyled in a quart of ☜ water to three quarters of a pint in which being ☜ strained mingle Diacatholicon i. ℥ Mel rosarum i. ℥ species Hierae picrae i. ʒ make it into a clister Also you may use Oyle of Fleabane for unction in the manner and forme prescribed in the second Chapter Vnct on Beware of ♂ If the disease for all these medicines continue still viralent and malignant Boxing you may apply cupping glasses between the shoulders and friction or rubbing of the armes and legs time and care convenient being used 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of Wind. CHAP. VII Of the Headach coming of Windinesse The cause IT is a cause of eating abundance of windy things besides the nature of the body and other things were such as were apt to ingender wind It is known by a distention or stretching within the head Signes and that without heavinesse or beating as also by noise in the ears
Let all meats and drinks that ingender wind be utterly avoyded Diet. ☞ If the Infirmity lie onely in the Head and ascend from no other part beneath as many times it is caused onely by weaknesse and imbecillity of the head then inward medicines profit little But you must use Concoctive and Discussive medicines things that concoct wind Concoctives as Fenugreekeseed Linseed Chamomel Yolkes of egges Saffron Hens greace ☞ Goose greace c. Last of all use Discussives such as be Oyle of Dill ☞ and Rew Discussivs Lupines Barley meal Lilly roots Nigella c. But if it come from vapours that ascend from some other part Clisters you must empty the belly with a strong Clister that doth dissolve wind made of of the emollient herbes Anniseeds Carraway Fennell and Cumminseeds adding to the decoction Benedicta laxativa halfe an ounce of the Electuary I meane for this glister draws the vapours ☞ down from the head After this you must strengthen the member that it ingender wind no more Cautions whether it be the stomack liver or spleen it were tedious and superfluous to recite the manner how to strengthen all those parts and others beside these which may in their owne affliction afflict the head also for I purpose if the Lord give me life and health and time to write severally and distinctly of all the diseases in every part of the body Then may you apply to the head things repulsive and driving backe Repulsives such be Vinegar Pomgranate rinds and flowers Wormwood Merlilot Mints Plantain ☜ Walwort Shepherds burse Nutmegs Purslaine Housleek Laurell leaves c. If heat be joyned with wind in the head Unctions use Oyle of Roses which is both repulsive digestive and ☜ discussive mingled with Vineger which is both repulsive and discussive and also attenuating But if there be cold mixed with the wind then use Oyle of Dill and Camomell mingled with the juyce of Rew and Vinegar If the headach continue still malignant use sneezing with white Helebore Sneezing but beware of catching cold of the head after it After all this to strengthen the head Cucusa and repell the relicts of the disease make a Cucusa of these herbs dryed that is sew them betwixt two caps see Chap. 3. Page 7. viz. Roses Knotgrasse Willow leaves Nightshade Marjoram Mother of time Hysop Rue Also the savours of Castoreum Muske Ambergreece and to take Venice treacle or Mithridate inwardly Smels are medicinall for the disease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 caused by the Stomack CHAP VIII Of Headach caused of the Stomack HItherto of diseases caused principally in the head it selfe Cause now a word or two of pain of the head that cometh by consent from other places of the body and first of that which is caused by some evil affection of the stomack and that is caused by some sharpe humour for the most part that aboundeth in the stomack especially in the mouth of it from whence corrupt vapours arising doe ascend into the head It may be knowne by that gnawing and biting paine they feele in their head Signes by their pronesse and desire to vomit also if the sicke fast and suffer hunger long their paine is more vehement for through long abstinence the malice of the humour encreaseth Cure by vomiting In the cure of this disease outward medicines will doe no good the best way of cure is by vomimiting but first prepare the humours by giving Vineger of Squils two or three spoonfuls Consider the strength of nature in the proportion of the vomit Purging or four if two or three worke not divers mornings before the vomit which may be infusion of Crocus metallorum i. ℥ s for many time the humors are viscous and sticke fast If you suppose the stomacke be furred after vomiting give a scruple of Mastich pils every night going to bed for a week or such a matter As for strengthning the stomacke after the disease is cured I shall speake plentifully when I come to speak of the diseases in the stomack So also if headach come from the liver or spleen or any part you shall have plentifull remedies when I come to speak of the places where the cause lies which is needlesse here for take away the cause the effect ceaseth CHAP. IX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of drunkennesse Cause Of Headach caused by drunkennesse THe causes are evident enough for hot Wines Strong-Waters and strong drinks fill the brain with vapours and so much the more if the braine be hot by nature if the os triquetrum be close shut and the sutoriums close shut for they beare drinke lesse before they be drunke then others in which they are more open Cure consisting in evacuation and refrigeration The cure consisteth chieflly in these two things evacuation refrigeration If the Wine be yet indigested give a vomit in the first place If the headach remain after you must use refrigeration to drive backe the vapours that ascend into the head that doth especially above all things Oyle wherein Ivy leaves have been boyled by anointing the head and temples and forehead To prevent drunkennesse are many medicines left by the ancients to posterity Preventions but for mine own part I as yet never tried any of them as to eat six or seven bitter Almonds every morning fasting to drinke a draught of Wormwood-beere sirst in the morning also to burne swallowes in a crucible feathers and all eate a little of the ashes of them in the morning CHAP. X. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of feavers Of Headach caused of Feavers IF Headach molest those that have Feavers Praefatio you ☜ must consider whether the body be laxative or not for astringency in Feaves alwayes causeth headach Vel caeli vel signi incertum est puta signi if it be then you must consider whether it began with the feaver or came onely the feaver increasing near the Crisis or when the Moon comes to the opposition of that signe and degree she was in at the decumbiture if she or her beames reach but the place give no physick for vomiting or flux of blood by the nostrils will follow But if the headach began at first with the feaver it is caused through vapours dispersed abroad through the vehemency of the feaver Cause as it were boyling up and ascending into the brain and the brain also for the most part in this disease is weak and not able to repell it but fit to receive it If age permit you may use bleeding If strength permit you may use cupping-glasses but the chief remedy is by remedying the feaver for the cause being taken away Cure Tolle causam tollitur effectus the effect ceaseth and I intend hereafter to write a tractate only of feavers to which I now refer it CHAP. XI 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The dignotions of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke in Latin Cephalaea in English an old and invetterate headach it may be knowne from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by these notes it hath been of long continuance exceeding painfull hard to cease every light occasion as noise loud speech cleer light moving drinking of Wine strong smels or the like causes sharp or violent fits the diseased desires to lie in the dark to be quiet often supposing that their heads are stucke with a hammer also some doe feele those things that are about their head as though they were bruised or racked this disease sometimes doth continue painful alwayes sometimes it comes by fits with intermission so that sometimes they thinke themselves perfectly whole This disease doth vex Women ☜ more then men In some the pia Mater or skin that ☜ knits the senses together which lyeth round the braine within the dura mater is vexed in some onely the ☜ Pericranium or skin that covereth the skull round is vexed It is caused either by abundance of blood and other humours or by the sharpnesse of the humours Cause contained either within or without the scull inflaming the head also it is caused through weaknesse of the head If the pain invade the sicke with heavinesse Signes it sheweth the disease to proceed of fulnesse and abundance of humours if it come with pricking gnawing and shooting it betokeneth sharpnesse of humours if it beat like pulses it betokeneth inflammation if there be felt distention or stretching out without beating or heavinesse it comes of wind if there be beating with it it is a hot wind if heavinesse there are humours as well as wind if the paine be felt superficially or outwardly the disease lies in the Pericranium if inwardly it lies in the Pia Mater and then is there alwayes a paine in the rootes of the eyes for the tunicles of the eyes have their beginning from the brain ☜ As for diet and aire the cause being knowne Cure you may easily gather out of the former Chapter If it come through abundance of humours you may in the first place let blood Oyle of Vervaine used in Unction is an approved medicine unles there be inflammations or feavers joyned with it for them use Oyle of Fleabane both considered as in the former Chapters Have a great care that sleep be moderate and the body soluble You may also for fear of Relapsing purge the head with strong Gargarismes made with juyce of Leeks Pellitory of Spain long Pepper Mustard or the like Or by sneezing if the infirmity lie within the scull CHAP. XII Of the Megrim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek Description in Latin also Hemicranium in English the Megrim is a painfull evill lying in the one halfe of the head only the right side or the left and is distinguished by the seame that runneth all along the scull from the middle part of the forehead to the hinder part of the head or nape of the neck this pain cometh often by fits and in some the griefe is felt without the scull in some within and that deepe in the braine in some in the Muscles near the Temples It is caused by ascending or flowing of many vapours or humours Cause or by the Arteries or by both and sometime it proceeds from the brain it selfe thrusting out its excrements and superfluities when the passages are stopped The Signes whereby you may know whether vapours Signes or humours do abound whether they be hot or cold whether within the scull or without may be drawne out of the former Chapters only this I adde if the pain lie in the Pericranium the pain is so vehement that they canot suffer their heads to be touched with ones hand Their Dyet what they should eat and what they should eschew Diet. may be gathered out of the former Chapters according to the diversity of the causes yet let them by all meanes avoid all such things as send sharp vapors up into the Head as Garlique ☜ Onions Mustard Raddish roots c. If the Infirmity lie without the Scull Cure as most commonly it doth comb the head if the pain lie on the right side with a combe made of the right horn of a Ram I suppose it were best the Ram were killed when the Sun * Or at least when Mars is there is in Aries if it lie on the left side with a comb made of the left horn of a Ram and this for ought I know may do it if the disease lie within the Scull If it lie near the Temples among the Musces rub them often either with your hand or with a cloth till they be hot when the pain is over and that many times remedyeth the disease if it lie there Also Euphorbium mixed with Oyle and put into the ear on that side the paine lies take more or lesse Euphorbium according as the parties senses are dull or quicke a scruple of Euphorbium is enough for an ounce of Oyle and one drop is sufficient to put into the ear at one time Also Euphorbium dissolved in Vinegar and applyed by way of Unction to the grieved part of the head profiteth much But beware you use not Euphorbium if the disease come of hot Humours or Vapours Also Earthworms beaten to powder Snailes ☜ Peach kernels Goats dung mingled with Vinegar of Squils are medicinall If it comes of hot Humours use those medicines prescribed for the headach coming of hot humours If it come of plenitude use blood betting In fine purge the Humour that causeth the Disease CHAP. XIII Of Vertigo or swimming in the Head VErtigo is a Disease wherein a man thinketh all that he sees turnes round Description it is a Disease my selfe have been often for many yeares terribly vexed withall insomuch that at the last I many times fell down in a swoon and fainted This Disease often turneth to the Falling-sicknesse as it had almost done in my selfe though after much and vast expence of Physicke one Vomit absolutely cured me therefore I shall be more large in the signes of this Disease This Disease is caused through inordinate moving of Vapours that are windy Cause contained in certain parts of the Brain this Disease is caused either because the Brain it selfe is ill-affected or of Vapours ascending from the Stomack thither the Braine it selfe is offended by a Humour aeriall from whence a windy spirit moveth inordinately about and troubleth the apprehension so that all things the man seeth seeme to turne round also the Brain is offended by the mouth of the Stomack when windy exhalations are carried from thence to the Brain which happeneth by corruption or putrefaction in the Stomack the Vapours of which being penetrating move about the Brain Galen makes a great stir and so also doth Hippocrates to prove two sorts of
Caution nor any windowes open North or South for the one cooleth I should think the East were worst the other stuffeth the head If it come through age Physicke availes little If the memory fail suddenly either falling sicknesse or Apoplexy is following Prognostica for cure of which use such meanes of prevention as you shall be taught to cure them when they are come in their proper chapters If it come of other causes viz. of cold heat the braine of drinesse moysten the braine Things medicinall Cure are Castoreum Oleum de lateribus Rew Balme Betony Rosemary Marjoram Of Compound confectio anacardina Diamosebum dulce Diambra Mithridate Theriacha These not only remedy memory lost but helpe and mend it being dull CHAP. XVII Of Catalepsis Name◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 detentio occupatio congelatio Description 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke is called in Lattin Occupatio detention and Deprebensio Moderne Writers call it Congelatio in English it is called congelation or taking and by the ignorant struck with a Planet It is a sudden detention and taking both of body and mind both sense moving being lost the sick remaining in the same figure of body wherein he was taken whether he sit only or whether his mouth and eyes were open or shut as they are taken in the disease so they remaine This disease is a meane between a Lethargy and a frenzie Cause for it commeth of a melancholly humour Therefore in respect of coldnesse it agreeth with a Lethargy and in respect of drinesse with a frenzy and the effects are in a medium between them both Sometimes abundance of blood is joyned with the melancholly humour and sometimes only pure melancholly both invade the hinder part of the braine They that are taken with this disease are alwaies taken sudddenly Signes both speech and sense are taken from him he neither speaketh nor heareth his breath scarcely to be perceived he lies like a dead man his pulse is small weake and very thicke his egestion and urine are either very little or none at all which seemes to proceed from want of sense for the sick abounds most commowly with moysture For melancholly is an humour dry in operation ☜ not in quality Their face is sometimes red and that is when blood is mingled with the melancholy and sometimes swarth and then pure melancholly oppresseth the eyes in this disease remaine immoveable as though they were frozen The diet is different according to the cause Diet. only in generall let him avoyd all such meates and drinkes as send vapours up into the head also water is hurtfull be cause it swelleth the spleene Barly water wherein Cinnamon hath been boyled is good If blood abound and strength and yeares permit Bleeding let him blood in the Cephalique of the arme as much as strength will permit If melancholly abound Clisters cleanse the gutts with clysters made of things proper for melancholly such be borrage buglosse fumitory time epithimum polipodium ☜ senna cassia fistula confectio Hamech c. If the head be hot coole it with oyle of fleabane Refrigeration if too cold heat it with oyle of vervaine Black hellebore corrected with Cinnamon is very medicinall so is mother of time Cure If trembling accompany the disease give Castoreum As for other remedies you may find them in the chapters of frenzie and lethargy before and in the Chapter of melancholy which is to follow after CHAP. XVIII Of the Apoplexie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke and Latin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also called an Apoplexy in English and is a disease wherein the fountaine and originall of all the sinewes is affected Definition and so every part of the body doth suddainly lose sense and motion throughout the whole body If this stopping come only in one halfe of the body Cause it is called the Palley of which hereafter The Apoplexie is caused by a grosse tough and clammy humour ingendred for the most part by drunkennesse which being crude fills the principal ventricles of the braine It is caused also by a fall or a blow which bruiseth and shaketh the braine and causeth the humours to ☞ flow thither Also those that are brought up in hot countries when they come to live in cold countries many times the cold only congealeth the humours and causeth the disease There goeth before this disease a sharpe paine in the head Signes a swelling of the veins in the neck the vertigo and brightnesse before the eyes coldnesse of the extreame parts without cause known panting of the whole body slownesse to move and gnawing of the teeth while they sleepe their urine is little in quantity and black like rust or canker of mettall and hath a residence like meal they lack sense altogether and lie with their eyes shut as though they were asleep and snort The vehemency of this disease may be known by their impediments in breathing if their breathing differ but little from another mans that is in health it shewes the disease is but weake but when they can hardly be perceived to breath at all it is the strongest Apoplexie and little better is theirs where the breath seemes to be stopped for a while and then fet with great violence This disease happens most frequently to aged people flegmaticke folke and to such as use such diet as encreaseth ☜ flegme This disease is seldome cured and seldomer but it leaves the dead palsey behind it and then it is but halfe cured ☜ A strong Apoplexie for the most part kills a man in 24 hours many times in halfe the time ☜ Bleeding is a desperate physicke for an Apoplexie well befitting such a desperate disease for it kills or cares quickly ☜ Provoke him to stoole with mighty sharpe and strong clysters Stoole Bind the thighes hard and rub them vehemently Ligaments You may shave the head and bath it with oyle of Rew Camomel or Dill. Vnction You may fasten Cupping-glasses good store to the shoulders Cupping You may burne stinking things under his nose as Caâ—â—oreum Assa Foetida Saga-penum Galbanum Nasalia You may provoke him to sneeze with white Hellebore Sneezing You may apply Castoreum and Euphorbium with vinegar to his head Cucufa Vomit You may provoke him to vomit with turbith minerale ☞ mercurius vitae or lac sulphuris which is the best medicine I know Lacsulphuris I take it doth not procure vomit but is diaphoretical Thus much for the cure of an Apoplexie if it may be cured CHAP. XIX Of the dead Palsey in one side 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Resolutio in English the dead palsey 't is a disease wherein the one halfe of the body either the right side or the left doth lose either sense or moving Definition or both
regard the Patients strength his naturall temper the time of the yeare age and usuall custome of the sicke and accordingly order your Physick If the natural temper of the body be cholericke you must feed them with meat at the beginning of the fit â—â—â—tioâ— for it is very subject if the body be kept fasting to turn to an acute rotten Feaver See the body be kept laxative Stoole if he go not naturally to stoole provoke him with an emollient Clister Finally Bath so soon as the fit begins to wane bath him in a warm bath made with sweet hearbs boyled in water for that will open the pores and let out the vapours CHAP. IIII. Of Synochus non pistrida being a Feaver which lasteth three or four dayes THis Feaver is caused 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quid either because the small pores of the skin are stopped Cause or because the body it selfe is moderately thickned through cold or after bathing or by sharpe binding medicines heat of the Sun or any other thing that dries the skin It may be thus knowne First by touching Signs for the skin is harder and more compact then it was wont to be Secondly by the heat which at first seemes gentle and easie but after you have held your a hand while you shall feel it sharper Thirdly the Unine is not much altered from its naturall substance and colour for this disease lies in the spirits not in the blood Fourthly the body fals not away but their eyes are swollen and fuller of moisture then usually Fifthly the pulse is equall swift vehement and frequent Cure Bleeding For cure of this disease you may safely draw out so much blood as age strength and the season of the year permit After bleeding use things that clense and scowr Abstergents such are Oximel Hysop Origanum Smallage and observe whether the heat abate by this diet ☜ For if by the third day you find little heat left Bath you may safely bath him with such things as are scouring such be Orris and Aristolochia roots Smallage salt-peeter boyled in water and honey But if the Feaver then increase or on the fourth day then either you were mistaken at first in the disease or else the Feaver is altered and some humour putrified CHAP. V. Of a rotten Feaver called Synochus putrida Synochus putrida quid SYnochus putrida is a Feaver which holds from the beginning to the ending without any great mutation or sensible change and may well be called a constant or stable Feaver Of this are three sorts I described them in the second Chapter This Feaver is caused by the rotting of all the humours equally within the Vessels Cause and especially in the great Vessels about the arm-holes and share and this chanceth when fervent heat is kept in by violent binding and stopping which is within the body for when heat and moist things cannot breath out they putrifie and rot presently Therefore this feaver is seldome ingendred in thin spare folke nor in cold bodies nor old age but in such as abound in blood of grosse fat or fleshy bodies or stuffed with hot excrements This is properly known from Synochus non putrida Signes because there are signes of rottennesse in the Urine and the pulse of a man sicke of this but not so in the former The other signes all agree with the former The Cure of this feaver ‑ must begin with blood-letting Cure Bleeding and that in the beginning of the disease if you can Cold drinke is most perilous in this disease Caution first because it causeth obstructions and hindreth the attenuation of the clammy humours Secondly cold drinkes hurt weake members some by drinking cold drinke in this feaver have gotten such sore throats that they could not swallow in some the Stomacke is hurt that they could not digest in some the Bladder generally that part that is weakest is most subject to hurt and being hurt cannot performe its proper office But blood-letting you may use at any time if strength permit provided it be not upon a full stomacke Such as have this feaver have alwayes loosnesse and sometimes vomit up Choler Let his drinke be barly water Diake sweetned with syrrup of Violets and a little Oyle of Vitrioll to make it tart Let his diet be light of digestion Meat and let him eat it at his usuall times of eating for then it will digest best Also Oranges Lemmons Oxymel and Verjuyce are medicinall for him CHAP. VI. Of continual Feavers called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke is a continuall feaver that hath some certaine slacking betweene the fits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet no absolute intermission till the end of it and by this only it is knowne from Agues or intermitting feavers therefore I shall omit the signes till then Cause This feaver is caused by rotting of one particular humour only within the Vessels I shewed it in the first and second Chapters I remit you to that I shall only treat of that which is called of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by it selfe in the next Chapter for that is the most dangerous and wind up the rest together in this A Compendium of the cure of Feavers In the generall cure of feavers of this sort these things must be considered First the Feaver Secondly the rottennesse In the Feaver In the feaver two things must also be considered First How that part which is already kindled and inflamed may be remedied 2 How that which is not kindled may be letted and hindred from inflammation Also two things must be considered touching the rottennesse or putrification In the rottennesse First how the humours already putrified may be healed Secondly how those that are not putrified may be kept from putrefaction Heac qui non animadvertit errabit nimis In the begining of the feaver if strength and age permit Bleeding let blood for that lets out the inflamed blood and cooles the rest Obstructions The body thus cooled you must cure the obstructions and that without heating the Patient lest you increase the feaver and cause more putrefaction This is best done by Clysters Clysters and sweates for Clysters take only the common decoction with Molossus Sweats and Diacatholicon For sweates you may use either Venire treacle Matthiolus his great antidote Serpentary roots Electuarium de ovo Consideratis considerandis To stop and hinder the humours not inflamed from inflaming use cooling juleps made with barly water Harts-horne Ivory Scorzonera roots Zedoary c. Syrupe of Violets c. To prevent putrefaction avoyd all meats I mean flesh and all broths of flesh To bring away humours already putrified boyle a white Lilly roote in White-wine and let him drinke it For outward medicines Vine branches Water Lillies Lecalia Endive Succory Wood-sorrel Sorrel Lettuce Knot-grasse Vinegar these
stood and hang it up if the weather be hot and dry upon a white thorn else in the chimney corner and as fast as that dries the swelling will cease and the pain go away 184. The water wherein Lavender hath been boyled will take away any spot or stain out of any cloth 185. Let the Image of a Lyon be engraven in a plate of Gold Andreas Cordulensis when Sol is in Leo let not the Moone behold the sixt house nor yet the Lord of the Ascendant behold Saturn nor Mars if it be not a Systeam too rare to find neither let the Moon behold them this strengthens the heart being worn against it as also pains in the back being worn against that 186. Also if Trochisks be made with Olibanum Goats blood Idem and sealed with the said plate and afterwards dissolved and drunke in White-wine it breakes the stone in the Reins and Bladder 187. The whitest of Frankincense Razis Mizaldus beaten in powder and drunk in White-wine wonderfully encreaseth the memory and is profitable for the brain and stomack 188. Any part of the bone of a mans arm with the biggest end of a goose-wing being born about one that hath the quartane Ague Mizaldus Geber cures them 189. The powder of earth worms of mice dung and of a Hares tooth put into the holâ— of a rotten tooth it will drop out without any instrument 190. There is a stone to be found in the head of a long Snaile Mizaldus which being beaten into fine powder and blowne into the eye takes away the web spots or other infirmities that anoy it 191. A spoonfull of Aquavitae Lemnius sweetned with sugar and a little grated white-bread put in it that it may not anoy the brain nor harme the liver taken every day preserves folke not onely from Lethargies and Apoplexies but also from all cold diseases 192. Take one part of Gentian and two parts of Centaury bruise them and infuse them five days in a convenient quantity of Wine then distill them This water being drunk preserves the body in health Julius Euonimus resisteth the plague causeth a good colour cureth Imposthumes and Ptisicks stuffings of the stomack and spleen provoketh the terms purgeth choler and corrupt blood healeth inward wounds the biting of venemous beasts and cleers the sight 193. A most excellent remedy for the Plague is this Take Ivy-berries when they are ripe â—lexis and dry them then take halfe a dram of the powder of them in Plantane water and sweat upon it 194. Stamp Chelondine and apply it to any tetter or Ringworm and it will quickly cure it 195. The same hearb by like usage will take away any black spot from any part of the body 196. Let the party that is troubled with the tooth-ach lie on the contrary side and drop two or three drops of the juyce of Rew into his eare on that side his teeth ake and let it remain there an hour or two it will not only take away the pain for the present but he shall never be troubled with it after 197. For womens breasts that are sore beat a handfull of figs well and mix them with a little hogs greace and apply it to the breast as hot as can be suffred if the breast be ready to break it will break it else not 198. Take good saffron in powder and mix it with as much black sope and spread it on the fleshy side of a peice of leather and lay it to the navel of one that cannot make water and in one hour you shall see the effects of it 199. The Roots of Holly-okes Pet. Hisp stamped with hogs greace and applied to the Gout helps it in three dayes 200. Verjuyce sod and put hot into a tin bottle with a narrow mouth and the mouth of the bottle held to the eare that the fume may go up into the head helps the head-ach and noyse in the eares and if any quick thing be gotten into the eare it will quickly bring it out FINIS A TREATISE OF THE PESTILENCE With its PREVISION PROVISION PREVENTION By NICHOLAS CULPEPPER Student in Astrology and Physick Printed in the Year 1655. A TREATISE OF THE PESTILENCE COnsidering the reigning and raging of this Disease in London and divers other Townes and Cities in England and that large experience I have had in it now these ten yeares considering also the terrible horrour and affright that seizeth on most men and women to this day though the disease have beene no stranger to London this twelve yeares if the disease be but within a House or two of them yea some if it be but in the Street as though they were all dead men I thought good to write a small Tractate of the Disease studyed from the grounds of Physick and confirmed by dayly experience to leave behind me for the benefit of Posterity or my Survivers be they who they will which may be as a Present and a more honest helpe to them then running away for hereby their minds being guided by more true charitable and neighbourly principles they may doe good to themselves and others and benefit their owne experience in Physicke as I have done before them Galens three adverbs Citò Longè Tardè And this small treatise for I hate prolixity may stand them in as much and more stead then Galens three adverbs Citò Longè Tardè to runne away quickly and farre and to returne not in a long time which he saith though untruly is worth three Apothecaries shops well furnished Cause threefold The causes of this disease are three yet all subservient the one to the other The first cause is the great conjunctions of the superiour Planets meeting in Signes Cause 1 ruling such and such Countries and Cities or in Signes opposing or squaring such Signes The second is a corrupted and unwholsome Aire Cause 2 which is caused by such meetings of the Planets The third is putrified humours hot blood addust and burned Cause 3 caused by breathing in such corrupt Aire and if the diet before were perverse it addes fuell to the fire and fills the body with superfluous humours A word or two now to satisfie men concerning the common feare of infection which makes many rich men which might and ought to maintaine poore visited people yea many Physicians whose duties it is to administer physick to them to fly away so that in time of great infection you may heare more cry out for lack of bread and meanes necessary then for anguish of the disease Hence also came that unnaturall and inhumane custome of shutting up houses that are visited thereby sadding and dejecting their spirits and thereby making way for the disease as I shall shew anon and taking men from their usuall imployments which is a digester of humours and a preserver of health Nay if the disease be infectious as in their opinions it is it is plaine murder to shut
the blood XI Amongst all the rest of the entrailes the Liver is most subject to obstructions XII Therefore such Medicines as hinder Obstructions or help them being made are appropriated to the Liver And they are such which cut and attenuate without vehement heat such as have both a clensing and a binding quality XIII Inflammations commonly follow obstructions and they require cooling things yet will not any cool thing serve the turne but such as are hepaticall XIV Take heed in the use of cool things that you extinguish not the faculty of concoction or so cool the Diaphragma which lies very neer that you hinder respiration CHAP. VI. Of Splenicalls I. THree excrements are especially beheld in the breeding of blood a watry humour cholar and melancholy II. The proper seat of Chollar is the Gall the watry humour goes to the Reines the thicker part of the blood the Spleen challengeth to its selfe III. This is either adust by too violent heat and then it is called Atra Bilis or thick and terrene of it selfe and that is properly called Melancholly IV. From hence now is the force and nature of Splenicall Medicines found out V. For Atra Bilis often produceth Madnesse and pure Melancholly * hardness Scirrhus and viciates the concoction of the Blood whence follows Dropsies and also breeds obstructions VI. Splenicals therefore are of two sorts some appropriated to Atra Bilis some to Melancholly for of purging I shal write nothing here but leave that to the last Chapter VII Atra Bilis is tempered by cooling and moistning yet is it not so hot that it should need things extremely cold VIII Such are those which we wrote of amongst the Cordialls that cause mirth by keeping Melancholly vapours from the heart IX Melancholly humour is removed by cutting and opening Medicines which differ from Hepaticks because they want adstriction for the Spleen seeing it wants concoction needs no adstriction X. Moreover the Spleen is not only obstructed by Melancholly humour but also made hard XI The cure of this is wrought by Emollients which must not be given inwardly lest they hinder the concoction of the Ventricle but applyed outwardly CHAP. VII Of Renalls and Vessicalls I. THat the watry humour may be separated from the blood nature hath added the Reins to the rest of the bowells II. Because a Man should do something else besides continually pisse the Bladder was added to containe the Urine III. Both of these are easily corrupted by the vices of the Urine IV. The Urine is stopped by Stones or Inflammations or gross humours therefore Medicines appropriated to the Reines and Bladder which are called Nephritica and Cystica and to be distinguished into three parts 1. Some cool 2. Some cut grosse humours 3. Others break the Stone V. The constitution of the Reines and Bladder is such that binding things are extream dangerous to them because they stop the Urine VI. Those Medicines are then proper to the Reins and Bladder which are lenitive cut and extenuate without violent heat VII Onely take this caution that seeing the Bladder is farther from the Centre of the body than the Reines it requires stronger Medicines lest their strength be consumed before they come at the grieved place CHAP. VIII Of Hystericalls I. TOuching provoking and stopping the termes shall be spoken hereafter in another Treatise II. The Womb thus resembles the Brain and Ventricle that it manifestly draws to Cephalicks and Aromaticks and flies from their contraries III. For this is confirmed by daily experience that in the fits of the Mother which is the Womb turned upwards stinking things applyed to the Nose and sweet things to the Matrix reduce it but sweet things applyed to the Nose and stinking things to the Matrixe produce it IV. In fallings out of the Womb we use the contrary V. This made some Sots ascribe the sence of smelling to the Womb whereas indeed and in truth that such things please the Brain and nervous parts is not because of their smelling but because they are friendly to it by their own substance VI. The Stomach is offended with stinking things and a man that hath no smell will vomit them up againe why because they are obnoxious to it VII So also the Womb is offended with stinking things not because it smells them but because they are adverse to its nature VIII For Smels are the judges of Medicines by which nature teacheth what is fit and convenient for it selfe IX So then those Medicines are hystericall which by binding stop the ternes or by inciding provoke them of which more hereafter or such as are gratefull to the Womb which are known by a sweet or aromaticall savour CHAP. IX Of Arthriticalls I. THe Joynts are most infested with capitall diseases and therefore cured with Cephalick Medicines II. The reason is soon given which is because they are of a nervous quality III. Those things are appropriated to the Joynts which have a drying and heating quality with a certaine light adstriction IV. Besides such things as are appropriated to the Joynts by a peculiar appropriation or astrall influence of which knot-Grasse is one and therefore by some called Joynt-wort V. Yet take notice of this that because the joynts are more remote from the Centre they require stronger Medicines than the brain doth VI. As to what belongeth to paines in the joynts this is the manner of proceeding VII Pain is either taken away or asswaged but its true cure is by taking away what causeth it VIII Yet sometimes so great is its fury that we must give Anodines before we can meddle with the cause and that especially when it causeth heat influxion of blood or inflammation IX Besides the Medicines which take away the cause of paine are very hot and therefore to be forborne in such cases X. Also the manner of easing paines is twofold for if you regard the pain it selfe use Anodines if the heat use refrigeratives XI Also take notice of thus much that flegm compacted in the joynts when it is teazed a little causeth pain and influxion XII Such Medicines as take away the cause of such paine are strong cutters and drawers which neither agree with Choller nor blood XIII When you perceive that there is attraction and discussion enough made so that the pain is ceased and the cause of it taken away use adstrictions to strengthen the joints that they may not easie recite more deflexions CHAP. X. Of Purges THis last Chapter I shall divide into these parts Of purging Med cines 1. Of their Election 2. Correction 3. Of the time of purging 4. Manner of purging 5. Part I. Of Purging Medicines I. PHysitians for want of other things to trouble their heads make a great business whether Purges work by a hidden or manifest quality whereas the Heavens teach me a better lesson II. These two questions are to be answered 1. What humour is to be evacuated 2. What medicine to do it by III. For as the
CULPEPERS LAST LEGACY Left and bequeathed to his dearest Wife for the publicke good BEING The Choicest and most profitable of those Secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his Breast and resolved never to be publisht till after his Death CONTAINING Sundry admirable Experiences in severall Sciences more especially in Chyrurgery and Physick Viz. Compounding of Medicines Making of Waters Syrrups Oyles Electurries Conserves Salts Pils Purges and Trochischs With two particular Treatises the one of Feavers the other of Pestilence as also other rare and choice Aphorisms fitted to the understanding of the meanest Capacities Never publisht before in any of his other Works By NICHOLAS CULPEPER late Student in Astrology and Physick Printed for N. Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill 1655. Master Culpepers Wifes Accompt HAving in my Hands these my Husbands last experiences in Physick Chyrurgery c. composed out of his dayly practice which he laid a severe injunction on me to publish for the generall good after his decease therefore to stop the mouths of malicious Persons who may be apt to abuse and slander his labours and to discharge that duty and debt of gratitude due to his name from one so neerly related to him I do hereby testifie that the Copy of what is here printed is truly and really his owne and was delivered to my trust among his choicest secrets upon his death-bed and I do further approve the printing thereof and having viewed them see nothing in them but what is his own To the truth of all which I do here subscribe my hand A. Culpeper WORTHY READERS My Works have hither to been so well knowne unto you and have merited such just applause in the world though envyed by some illiterate Physitians that I am the more confident to goe on doing that good which you have received by my former Labours Viz. 1. Dispensatory 2. English Physitian 3. That incomparable peece of Semiotica Uranica enlarged 4. Catastrophe Magnatum 5. Directory for Midwifes c. This my last Peece the reserve of all the rest I had never thought to have published till now finding indisposition of body to be such as that I have no other way left to continue my owne fame and that happy gratitude which I owe to my Country but by publishing these my last Remaines which I have left to my dâ—â—rest Wâ—f◠〈◊〉 my Legacy being the choicest Secrets which I lockt up in my breast and never made knowne in any of my former Workes And now Reader to speak more fully in the praise of you be confident what thou hast here is what I have gained by my constant practice and by which I have obtained a continuall reputation in the World not doubting but you will receive that satisfaction and advantage which I was ever assured of my selfe and now if it shall please Heaven to put a Period to My Life and studies that I must bid all things under the Sun farewell farewell my dearest wife and Child farewell Arts and Sciences farewell all Worldly glories Adiu Readers Nicholas Culpeper CHAPTER I. Of HEAD-ACH in general with its several Names and Kinds Three sorts of pain in the head OF Head-aches or pains in the head simply there are three sorts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek in Latin Capitis dolor in English the Head-ach The second is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Cephalaia in English a continued or inveterate Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Hemicranium in English the Megrim The two former possesse the whole head the latter only the one halfe of it By head I meane in all this treatise onely the scalpe or so much onely of the Head as is covered with haire I question whether all internal pains in the head afflict the eyes but only such whose seat is near the optique nerves And here is pain ingendred sometimes without the scul sometimes within If it lie within the scull there is paine at the roots of the eyes by reason of the immediate influence from thence to the braine if without the scull there is no pain there The first sort of headach called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cometh of diverse causes as heat cold drinesse blood choler wind vapor from the stomack drunkennesse feavers each of which to discourse of will require a several Chapter Severall sorts of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CHAPT II. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of heat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of heat BY Heat I mean only a hot distemper without any kind of moisture or humour It is caused for the most part by the vehement heat of the Sun note that it is extream hurtfull to the braine to stand bareheaded in the Sun The cause ☞ It is also caused by immoderate running jogging or moving especially to such as are not used to it though it be most perillous to those that are used to it it is caused also by being long near the fire through anger and furiousnesse and by hot diseases and smels of hot things The Signs of headach coming by heat are besides immoderate pain Signes you shall feele their Head burning hot when you touch it their skin dryer then it was wont to be their eyes looke red they sleep little or not at all and are delighted by sprinkling or anointing their head with cold things and find ease by it other causes may be known by the relation of the Patient Cautions for the sicke Let the air and Chamber where the sick abideth be cold by nature or else you must make it so by art as by keeping it continually washed by strewing there flowers and herbs and branches of trees that are of a cold nature Aire as Roses Violets Water-lillies Vine-leaves Bryer-boughs Willow boughs Endive Succory or the like also to poure water out of one Vessell into another near him to let him smell to Nose-gayes of cold flowers Great heed must be taken that the Patient sleep well Sleepe yea more than he usually was wont to do if he sleep not well as most labouring of this disease do not provoke him to sleepe with Diascordium if that will not doe use Laudanum two grains if that will not doe use three grains encreasing it till it come to six if he sleep not sooner let his Chamber be quiet free from noise and wrangling for that causeth perturbation of mind Let his meat be but little Meat and let that little be of good digestion as chickens birds that delight in Mountains and dry places rabbets c. let it be dressed with cold herbs as lettice endive purslain and verjuyce also Almond-milke Pomgranates Raisons of the Sun Drinke I doubt water is not so good in cold countries I think a cool julip were better and ripe Pears are wholsome for him but
either totally or partially But note here that the palsey that followeth the Apoplexie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is properly and particularly called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the palsey sometimes sesne only is lost and not moving sometimes moving and not sense and sometimes both sense and moving yet the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies properly loss of motion A word to satisfie the curious Quest that may aske why sometimes sense only and sometimes motion only should be lost You must note that the faculty of motion Answ as well as that of sense flowes from the brain as from the fountaine and is derived from thence by the nerves to the instruments of sense and motion and so either sense or motion is lost according as the sinews that convey sense or motion are affected in the disease therefore it being considered that divers members participate in two kinds of sinews the one for sense the other for motion I doe not yet understand this the doubt is easily cleered One sinew may be hurt and motion is lost the other may be hurt and that fare then sense is lost and motion remains both are hurt and then farewell pro tempore sense and motion If members participate but of one sinew as few do perhaps none yet Gallen saith some do and at present I cannot contradict him I rather adhear to this judgment lesse vertue is required for feeling then for motion saith he and so if the sinew be much hurt sense and motion are both lost if it be but little hurt onely motion is lost The matter indeed is scarce worth disputing for or writing of and therefore I proceed The Original of this disease lies sometimes in the Brain Description and sometimes in the marrow of the backe If the disease lie in the back as but seldome it doth then is the face firme and then sometimes halfe sometimes the whole body is paralitick according as the halfe or whole marrow of the backe is vitiated If it come from the Brain it lies only in some particular Pellicles thereof for if the whole Brain be vitiated it is an Apoplexy These things being first duly considered we come to the cause It is caused through vehement and inordinate cold Cause or through grosse and clammy Humours that stop the passages that the animal vertue cannot passe freely from the Centre to the Circumference If it come from the back it is caused through Inflamation or hard swelling without sense called Schirrus hapning at the backe bone or nigh to it or other siinewy part dependant thereon whereby the sinews are pressed together and so stopped that the animal vertue cannot passe It may happen by ablow or wound The Disease is so apparent that it needs no Signs The Palsey is no acute oâ— sharpe Disease Prognostica and for the most part is curable ☞ It chanceth for the most part to ancient people and beginneth commonly in the Winter time If the Palsey come by a cut or wound it is incurable and very difficult if the Paralitique members wane or wan lesse and lesse for then it sheweth the parts to want spirit naturall as well as animal Let his Diet be extenuating and drying Diet. let his Meat be easie of digestion and roasted viz. Birds that frequent dry grounds Almonds Raisons of the Sun Pine Nuts For Pot-herbs Herbs let him use Fennel Pursley Hisop Marjoram Sage and Savory Let him eschew Water-fowl Caution Fish and all other meats that are cold and moist and flegmaticke Let the Aire he abides in be hot and dry Aire if not make it so by Art Let him drinke no Wine but Hippocras Drink and let him use Cinnamon in all his drink or broth It is good for him to indure as much thirst as he can Let his sleeps be but mean Slâ—epe and let him not sleep at all in the day Let him use as much exercise as well he can Exercise Let him be merry and cheerfull Mirth and fly anger vexation and other perturbations of the mind If there be signes of Plenitude Bleeding you may draw out blood moderately for feare of over-cooling of the sound side else forbear If he have not a Stool once a day Clisters provoke him with a Clister Acetum Scilliticum Cure or Vinegar of Squils taken two spoonfuls every morning fasting is a soveraign medicine So is also Castoreum Sneezing If it lie in the Brain sneezing is good which you may provoke with white Hellebore but let it be in the Evening the party in bed and their head wrapped warm for fear of after-claps Unction Also use Unctions to the nape of the necke for their the marrow of the hacke hath its passage to the Brain use first weak ones such as Oyle Chamomel More properly the Brain hath its passage to the spinalis medulla Bath Dill St Johns Wort or Earthworms Then after some dayes such as are stronger as Oyle of Bricks or Tile-stones Castoreum and Euphorbium Wherewith you may anoint all the paralitique members wrapping them up hot afterwards in a Fox skin Also you may make a Bath with St Johns Wort Rosemary Staechas Sage Marjoram and Camomel boyled in Water wherewith you may bath the paralique members before you anoint them Ceratum Also this Cerecloth is excellent to apply to the paralitique members Take of Oyle ii â„¥ Oyle of Pepper i. â„¥ ss Oyle of Euphorbium ii Ê’ Aqua vitae ii â„¥ ss juyce of sage Marjoram or cowslops of each ii â„¥ ss Galanga iii. Ê’ Pellitory of the wall and pepper of each a dram Staechas and Rosemary of each ii Ê’ EuphorbiumÊ’ ss boyle it till the Aqua vitae be consumed then strain it and put wax enough to it to make a Cerecloth Also you may make a quilt for his head with Hysop Cucufa Marjoram St Johns Wort Sage Rew Bay-leaves of each ii Ê’ Spikenard Mastich Castoreum and Staechas of each ii ℈ Cloves Mace Nutmegs of each i. ℈ red-rose-leaves well dryed halfe a handfull make of them a quilt as you are taught Chapter 3. Use these medicines to the head if the disease lie there to the nape of the necke and the back bone if the disease lie there CHAP. XX. Of the Palsey in one Member ALthough any expert man may draw out of what hath beene written before the cure of the resolution of any member the radix being the same yet to satisfie the unskilfull I thought good to write a line or two If any member be paralitique search from what root the sinews come that supply that member and mend it there at the root with the former medicines There is also a kind of Palsey called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Tortura oris in English wrinesse of the mouth this you may cure also by the aforesaid medicines
besides yoâ— may hold a looking-glasse before him that he may see what an ugly face he makes and so labour to amend it CHAP XXI Of the Falling-sicknesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek the Latins call it Morbus Comitialis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the English the Falling-sicknesse It is a Convulsion drawing and stretching of all the parts of the whole body not continually but at sundry times with hurt of the mind and sense It is so called because it attacheth both the sense and feeling of the head and also of the mind Three causes of Falling-sicknesse There be three causes of the Falling-sicknesse The first is caused when the disease lieth only in the Brain and that is caused two wayes 1. When grosse tough and clammy Humours flegmaticke stop the passage of the spirits animal in the Pellicles of the Brain 2. See my Anatomy of the brain When the same opilation is caused by Choler Secondly it is caused through the evill affect of the Stomacke sending up vapours thither which the brain labours to repell and by the reluctancy causeth the disease Thirdly it is caused through a cold aire which the Patient may feel creeping up from one member or another to the Brain but this chanceth but seldome especially in these climates There goeth before this disease Signes an unwise state of the body and mind sadnesse forgetfulnesse troublesome dreames headach continuall fulnesse in the head especially in anger palenesse in the face inordinate moving of the tongue many bite their tongues as soon as the fit takes them they fall down their limbs are drawn together they snort and sometimes cry out many tremble when the fit comes upon them and run round but the pecullar signe of this disease is foaming at the mouth This disease happeneth most to young folke Let the Aire the sicke abides in Aire be hot and dry if the disease be caused of Flegme let it becold and moist Diet. if it be caused of Choler Let him eschew all meats that are hard of digestion and stopping and such as are of a dilative quality Vomit Cure My thinks I might have bestowed the pâ—ins to have quoted a few more medecines yet seeing â—is as t is see my recepts and all Wine the older the worse If the Disease proceed from the Stomack cleer it by a vomit The best remedy which is most sure and approved is a Male piony root dug up ☉ in ♌ rising on sunday morning the Moone encreasing Aries culminating hung about their necks which by a hidden planetary vertue cureth it Also the juyce of piony roots dog up at that time and made into a syrrup with Sugar taken inwardly doth the like CHAP. XXII Of Convulsion and Cramps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek in Latin Convulsio in English Convulsion and Cramp Definition is a Disease in which the sinews are drawne and pluckt up together against ones will There are divers kinds of this Disease Kinds three of these kinds lie in the neck The first is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Distentio it is when the necke remaineth altogether immovable so that it cannot be turned any way but must alway be held straight forward The second is called Tentio ad anteriora when the head or necke is drawn down towards the brest The third is called Tensio ad posteriora when the head is drawn backward The fourth kind of Convulsion is that which usually is called the Cramp and is a drawing together of the sinews of some particular limb The fift is that which is usually called Convulsion-fits and a wreathing or drawing up together all the sinews on the one side of the body This Disease is caused through fasting fulnesse Cause pricking of an Artery or the biting of a venemous beast that the venome come to the Nerve The fift of these is only mortal and takes away many young Children For Children Spirit of Castoreum Cure Aqua paralitica Mathioli Aqua antepileptica langij are medicinall For aged people if it come of fulnesse Of fulnes purge and vomit then use the precedent medicines If it come of fasting Fasting it is more perilous the best remedy that I know then is the decoction of China roots Pricking of a nerve If it come by pricking an Artery as many times it doth in blood-letting through the unskilfulnesse of the Chyrurgion or unrulinesse of the Patient If it be much hurt the only way I know is to cut it quite asâ—â—der and lose the use of the limb to save your life Stinging of venemous creatures If it come by stinging of any venemous creature make the wound bigger and draw out the poyson with Venice treacle applyed to it plaster-wise Finally wear for the Cramp a Ring made of a Rams horn the Ram slain ☉ in ♈ in the houre of the Sun he either rising or culminating CHAP. XXIII Of the Mare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Incubus is a Disease that happens onely in the night to people in bed wherein they conceive themselves over-pressed with a great weight which almost strangles them The ridiculous conceits of the vulgar The simple sort call it the Mare and conceit and affirm that they feel it with their hand and hear it fall down in the chamber yea I have heard one affirm she heard it come in at the gate The truth or rather falshood of all this will appear in the description This Disease is caused of excessive drinking Cause also of continuall rawnesse of the Stomack whence are sent grosse and cold Vapours which fill the ventricles of the Brain letting the dispersing of the faculties thereof by the sinews This Disease alwayes invades those that are asleep Description and most of all such as lye upon their backs Signs they suppose a great weight lyes upon them and stops their breath that they cannot move and dream that they are almost strangled and would cry out but their voice is stopped and inâ—â—ed they groan pittifully at last being something wakened and able to stir the passage is opened and they eased This Disease though seeming light is not to be neglected Caution by reason of its affinity with the Apoplexy and Falling-sicknesse Let him never lie on his back Let his Diet be such as breedeth not wind nor is of a dilative quality Diet. Blood-letting Cure If there be signes of fulnesse use bleeding Let him not go to bed till digestion be perfected Vinegar of Squils taken two spoonfuls in the morning fasting and if digestion be weak I have been my selfe and have known others strangely troubled with this disease since the writing hereof and in a farre different manner from what he e is written but the margent is too small to hold the Story one spoonfull presently after meat digesteth the humours and cures
the Disease Keep the head and neck alwayes warm Also you may take inwardly such things as strengthen the braine such be Aromaticum Rosatum Diamoscum dulce Diambra Dianthon c. CHAP. XXIV Of Madnesse Difference betwixt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek is a Disease which the Latins call Insania and Furor in English Madnesse and Fury they that have this Disease be unruly like wild Beasts The difference betwixt this and the Frenzy is this A Feaver alwayes accompanies a Frenzy but never this Disease called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Madnesse It is caused of much blood flowing up into the Brain Cause sometimes this blood offends in quantity only and sometimes in quality when it is melancholy The super fluity of melancholly causeth alienation of mind and causeth the man to be foolish and beside ☜ himselfe I shall onely in this Chapter treat of madnesse coming of blood Signes There goeth before Madnesse weaknesse of the head tickling of the ears shinings before the eyes great watchings strange thoughts approach the mind heavinesse of the head a ravenous appetite a forwardnesse to bodily lust the eyes stare and seldome either winke or beckon If it come of blood only they laugh continually and the sicke thinketh he seeth before his eyes things to laugh at If any Choler be mingled with the blood then the pricking and swift moving of the brain makes them angry irefull moving and bold In the first place bleed them Bleeding ☞ and then by the colour of the blood you may discerne easily the quality predomnate If it be a Woman breath a veine in the ankles for ☞ that provokes the termes Let their Diet be such as breeds little blood till they are almost starved In many the humours is waxed grosse and setled by long continuance and such are worst to cure though perhaps they be patientest for the time yet looke for them to be furious enough when the humour is stirred and made thinner If it come of blood only you may draw away blood abundantly from the arm under the tongue from the forehead from the fundament with leaches If Choler be mixed with the blood I refer you to the Chapter of Frenzy If of Melancholy the next Chapter shall instruct you only let him eat little drink no strong drink nor wine sleepe much and go to stool orderly CHAP. XXV Of Melancholie BY Melancholie here I mean not the simple complexion for without that none can live but the alteration of the complexion in quantity quality or seat It commeth without a feaver Description and is engendred of melancholy occupying the mind and changing the temperature of the brain It is caused three waies Sometimes it is caused of the common vice of melancholy blood Caused 3 waies being in all the veines of the body and so hurteth the braine Sometimes the blood only in the brain is altered Had this been to do again I could have done it ten timâ—s better the blood in other parts of the body being safe And sometimes it is ingendred through inflammation about the spleene and so sending up melancholy vapours thither The most common signes be fearefulnesse sadnesse hatred strange imaginations For some think themselves bruit beasts and counterfet their noise and voyce Signes my selfe knew one this present yeare 1645. that thought him selfe only a man and all other men beasts that came to devour him and stood with a staffe to beat every one that came neer him whom I perswaded that he was made of a black pot and if he did not speedily get him into his house I would throw a stone at him and break him which was so upon his imagination that he threw away his staffe and ranne in and would suffer none to touch him for feare they should break him Innumerable such fancies are mentioned by Authors which I forbear to mention This is according to the cause if the cause be fear then they thinke others will kill them if of grief they seek to kill themselves if of love the naturall blood is infected because the liver is the seat of love I want room guesse the rest by these As how one conceited he had a fish in his blood another durst not pisse for feare he should drowne the world a third conceited he had no head and a fourth that he was made of butter all which and the waies and meanes by which they were cured you may read in A. P. his Chirurgery but to proceed Many desire death and some do kill themselves others are afraid of death and thinke their best friends when they see them determine to kill them some laugh some weep some think themselves inspired with the holy Ghost and prophecie of things to come Also the state of their body is slender black rough dry and hard in touching and altogether melancholious This is caused through excessivenesse of some passion as love joy griefe c. or through much study watching stopping of the Hemoroides or Menstrua or the eating of wicked and melancholicke meats But in such in whom it is caused by the Spleen they have rawnesse much wind sharpe belchings burnings and greivousnesse of the sides the sides are drawn upwards and many times they have Inflammations there Also Costivenesse little sleep troublesome and naughty dreams swimming in the head and sound in the eares Let him abhor melancholy Diet. Diet Let the Aire he abides in be hot and moist Aire Let his Meat be hot and moist of good digestion and breeding good blood Young Borrage boyl'd and buttered is good meat for him Black Hellebore corrected with Cinnamon Purge is a good purge for him so is decoction of Epithimam Fumitory is a soveraigne hearb for the disease and so is betony If the infirmity lie in the whole body Bleeding you have no other remedy but you must bleed him often because all the blood is corrupted If it lie in the head only bleeding is needles only follow his humours and comfort him with Cordials and Cephaliques that strengthen the braine such be of simples Betony Red-roses Harts-tongue Endive ☜ Borrage buglosse and Violet flowers Of compounds Aromaticum rosatum Diamoscu dulce Anacardina Laetificans Galleni Dianthon species cordiales temperatae c. And his best Doctor is Dr Merry-man But if it proceed from the Spleen for Simples use Centaury Penyroyall Wormwood and Germander and Bay-berries apply to the region of the Spleen an Emplaster of Melilot for the Spleen Also you may provoke them to sneeze with Betony in powder snuffed up in their nose Sneezing There are divers other manners of cure which I omit here my scope being in this place to treat of it as it annoyeth the brain only I may happen to write of the redundance of all the complexions severally and distinctly by themselves to which I refer you CHAP. XXVI Of Trembling or shaking of
any Limb called commonly the shaking Palsey THis Disease commonly goeth a little before death especially in acute diseases and sursers and then it is an evident signe death is near It many times troubles aged people and then it is incurable It is also caused by fear Cause then remove the fear and the trembling is gone Sometimes it comes by accident as immoderate cold taken abundance of grosse thicke and clammy humours much drinking of Wine c. There needs no signs to be shewed For Diet Diet. use such things as cut divide and extenuate let him eschew all things that hurt the sinews all Wines The best cure that I know Cure which indeed is sufficient I have knowne men of ninty years of age kept from this infirmity Question lesse such things as strengthen the Nerves are excellent I am sorry I was so briefe only at night when they go to bed by rubbing their fingers between their toes and smelling to them Yet if you be troubled with it already your best way is first when you have learned what humour it is that troubles you to purge out that humour In this Treatise are many Aphorismes which are marked with a hand in the Margent which the studious in Physicke especially young Students if they please to write them out by themselves may find wonderfull usefull Plures gulâ periêre quà m gladio FINIS FEBRILIA OR A TREATISE OF FEAVERS In Generall By NICHOLAS CULPEPPER Student in Astrology and Physick Printed in the Year 1655. I Revised this Treatise of FEAVERS the Method of which was Galen's This I am confident it containeth most excellent Truths Nich. Culpepper CHAP. I. A Table of FEAVERS A Feaver is an unnatural heat ingendred In the Spirits In the Humours In the fleshie parts In the Spirits it causeth Ephemeris or an one day Feaver Synochus non Putrida or a Feaver lasting three or four dayes In the Humours it causeth a rotten Feaver and the Humours rot Within the Vessels Without the Vessels Within the Vessels All the Humours rot and so cause Sinochus putrida Onely one Humor so by Putrefaction Of Choler a continual Tertian Of Flegm a continual Quotidian Of Melancholy a continuall Quartane Without the Vessels by putrifaction Of Choler an intermitting Tertian Ague Of Flegm that is Sweet an intermitting Quotidian-Ague Glazen it causeth Epialos Of Melancholy an intermitting Quartane Ague In the fleshy parts it causeth Hective Feavers Marasmos CHAP. II. A Comment upon the Table of Feavers A Feaver is an unnaturall heat which taketh its beginning at the heart Definition and is spread from thence through the whole body by the arteries and veines hurting or letting thereby the operation of the parts thereof The body of man is generally divided by Hippocrates into three parts The things contained the thing containing and the thing that gives life and motion to both 1. The things contained are humours 2 The thing containing the humours is the flesh 3 The spirits give life and motion to both In all these three distinctly and severally happen feavers For if this unnatural heat for a man may be naturally hot and is hotter at one time then at another yet hath no feaver be kindled in the Spirits it causeth either a feaver which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine diaria in English an one day feaver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because in this feaver there chanceth but one fit and that lasteth nor above a day For and that lasteth not above a day For as a bottle filled with hot water heats the bottle so the spirits being inflamed heat the body or Sometimes it causeth a feaver called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non putrida Three sorts of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it commonly lasteth if it be rightly handled not above three dayes the Latines call it diaria but very improperly Of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there are three sorts Some continue with equal vehemence from the beginning to the latter end 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Greekes call this Some alwaies encrease by little and little untill they end and such the Greekes call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Againe some decrease or diminish by little and little 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and those the Greekes call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Moreover if only one humour do putrifie and rot within the vessels it causeth a feaver the Greekes call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a continuall feaver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for although there be remission in this feaver between the shaking fits yet the feaver never leaves him before he be either cured of it or killed by it Difference between 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that here in this lies the difference between Synochos and Synochys the former hath no remission in the fit but only one continued fit the latter hath alwaies remission or slacking though no intermission as is in agues In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but one fit in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 many Three sorts of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oâ— this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are also three sorts For if the putrefaction be of choler only it causeth a continual tertian called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If flegme putrifie within the vessels it causeth a continuall quotidian But if melancholy a continual quartan Difâ—â—ence between remitting and interm t ing feavers Yet all these differ from intermitting Feavers called by the Vulgar Agues farre and wide though the fits are distant alike For first though the humours that cause them both be the very same yee in these remitting Feavers the humour is contained within the Veines but in intermitting Feavers commonly called Agues it is dispersed through the members and so through their violence of spreading the Feaver intermits for a time Secondly this continual though remitting Feaver still remaines between the fits though not with the same violence but an intermiting Feaver or Ague totally to the Patients apprehension ceaseth till the next fit come Of which now a word or two Febris interpolain Three sorts This Feaver is very fitly called in Latine Febris interpolata because the fits renew at their time it is called by some Febris deficiens Of this also are three sorts 1 Tertian 2 Quotidian 3 Quartan A pure intermiting Tertian is caused of choler rotting without the Vessels Tertian An exquisite quotidian is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is caused of sweet flegme patrifying or rotting without the Vessels Quotidian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For if the flegme that putrifie be glazen it causeth a Feaver called Epialos Epialos is a Feaver wherein the Patient feeles both heat and cold immoderately in all parts Epialos quid both at one time and
anger the Ague lesse In this Aguâ— you must have a great care of the Spleen for that is the receptacle of Melancholy Therefore you may anoint the left side with oyl of Capers Vng ex succis aperitivis or any opening splenetick Medicine CHAP. X. Of a Quotidian Feaver or Ague IT is caused of sweet Flegm Cause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putrified without the Veins it is called of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but if the Flegm that putrifies be glazen which is the coldest of all flegms it engenders a Feaver called Epialos In this Feaver called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Patient feeleth vehement heat and vehement cold both at one time in all parts of his Body In the beginning of a Quotidian Signs the Pulse is unequall slow little and weak nothing like neither Tertian nor Quartane neither for extremity of heat nor cold neither do they thirst much because the Vapour is moist and smoaky It most vexeth flegmatick persons But this also is compleatly perfectly and speedily cured by that excellent Herbe Cinquefoil so used as before was specified As for all mixed kinds of Agues I need not write but I commend this as a soveraign cure for them all And God-willing I intend to make proof of it in continuall Qâ—otidians Tertians and Quartanes CHAP. XI Of an Hectick Feaver AN Hectick Feaver is a Disease wherein an unnaturall heat is kindled throughout the fleshy and massie parts of the Body Hectica Febris quid They that have this Feaver feel no pain neither do they know the rules of Art excepted that they have any feaver at all because all the parts of the body are equally hot and so there is no reluctancy This Disease is caused two wayes Cause First through want of Physick or a skilfull Physitian in other feavers which having consumed the Humours seize upon the flesh Secondly they sometimes begin of themselves as of sorrow anger wearinesse burning of the Sun c. When these feavers consume and waste the body as indeed without speedy cure they alwayes do then Galen cals them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. de inaequali intemperie and this Marasmos saith he is incurable and to make this seem as though it were true he tels a long tale of the snuffe of a candle which saith he being put out mutters to pieces but if you put Oyl to it it makes it burn with more violence so quoth he this feaver if you go about to extinguish the heat the party dyes instantly but if you add moisture to him his feaver burns more violently But Experience the best Artist makes no difference between Hectick feavers and Marasmus but shews plainly that all Hectick feavers are wasting and also curable therefore I shall leave Doctor Galen and follow Doctor Experience in this Disease and therefore now to the purpose The Signs of this Disease are these Signs Their eyes are wonderfull hollow as though they were sunk in their heads their moisture is consumed so that you may see the bones of their Eye-brows stick out there hangeth at the hair of their Eye-brows gum or filth as though they had gone a long journey in the dust their skin is hard and dry and their eyes wink often as though they were sleepy when indeed it is far otherwise with such as have this Disease for they can hardly be brought to rest they pine to skin and bone and if you look upon their Belly it looks as if it had no bowels in it the Pulse is weak and often and continually after meat the feaver is encreased and the Pulses are augmented in greatnesse The Cure consists in cooling and moistning Cure which must be done both outwardly and inwardly Let the Aire the Sick abideth in Aire be cold and moist if it be not so naturally make it so by Art whereof you have examples in my Treatise called Crit. Cephal Let his Meats be such as moisten Meats and breed good and active Blood such are Lamb-stones Cocks-stones Lobsters Prawns Eggs boiled soft Paritich Larks c. For Herbs Herbes let him use Lettuce Endive Succory Spinage Mallows c. Let his Drink with his Meat Drink be onely water wherein Cinamon hath been boiled Let him drink new Milk abundantly Milk provided he have no feaver of putrifaction or rottennesse joined with it Hee may eat freely Raisons of the Sun Fruits and Almonds Cherries Prunes Pomegranates and figgs Let him eat often Caution and but little at a time For Cordials Cordials he may use Diarrhodon abbatis Diatragacanthum frigidum Diapapaver and species Cordiales temperatae Diamargariton frigidum For Syrrups Sirrups let him use Syrrup of Violets Endive Lettuce Water-Lillies and Vinegar Let him nrink Emulsions made of Barly-water Emulsion Almonds the four greater cold Seeds and white Poppy-seeds sweetned with Sugar Lastly Unctions let his body be kept continually anointed with pure oyl Olive and nothing else Many in this Disease vomit up all their Meat so soon as they have eaten it Caution which indeed I forgot before in such cases make their Emulsion of Mint water instead of Barly-water as before for only by this Medicine alone have I known Galen's supposed incurable Disease cured FINIS Physical APHORISMS Reader Give me leave to begin and I will not be beholding to time for leave to make a Preamble APHOR. I THE whole ground of Physicke is comprehended in these two words Sympathy and Antipathy the one cures by strengthning the part of the Body afflicted the other by resisting the malady afflicting 2. Many People are troubled with strange Visions especially in the night time strange lights strange sights appeare and sometimes voyces are heard let such avoid drinking Wine and as much as may be strong Beer for Melancholy is the cause of this which strong liquor attenuates and makes it fly upwards 3. The ashes of Hens feathers or Hens bones burnt and applyed to the place is an excellent remedy to stop bleeding in any part of the body 4. Toads Spiders and Frogs or their Spawn have the same effects but they doe it by Antipathy because the blood flyes from its enemy and there if a dryed Toad be but held in the hand of one that bleedeth the blood presently ceaseth and retireth back to the Centre 5. Take two or three Toads and boyle them in Oyle very well and this Oyle will by unction quickly cure any red face or any rednesse of the skin out of question by the former reason 6. Take the Seeds of Red Nettles beat them into powder and take a dram of it at a time in white Wine it procures chastity they say and is a far better medicine to rout Asmodeus the leacherous Devil then the liver of a fish 7. The marrow of a Goose wing and the older the Goose is it is so much the better a little of it being
handfulls of Cummin-seed very well and boyle it in a pottle of white-Wine to a quart and drink a good draught of it morning and evening and in a fortnight it will help him 158. Put the feet of a hen in hot embers till the skales come off Pet. Hisp then rub your warts with those skales and they will be gone 159. Beat a pound or two of Hemp-seed very well then moysten it with a little wine and set it over the fire in an earthen pan well glassed till it be so hot you cannot endure your hand in it then put it into square baggs and presse the oyle out It is a very precious oyle for taken inwardly it makes men pleasant and merry valiant and hardy fierce to fight voyd of fear Outwardly by unction it giveth a comely face 160. A pint of Aqua Composita a Bullocks gall and an ounce of Pepper beaten very small and all boyled to a save cures any Sciatica ach or gout being applyed to it and changed once in twelve hours 161. Both Agrimony and Purslain are such enemies to warts Pet Hisp that they will go away if they be rubbed with the juyce of either of them 162. For Cods that be swolne without any rupture this do Take of Cummin seed in powder barly-meal and honey of each alike quantity fry them together with a little sheep suet and apply it to the Gods 163. For sore and swelled throats first rub your hand upon the bare ground and then presently rub the throat with it do so often times and you shall quickly perceive both sorenesse and swelling will quickly go away 164. Posset and curd is an admirable thing to ripen any boyle carbuncle or felon and when it is ripe there is nothing better to break it then unslaked lime mixed with black sope 165. Fill an Egg-shell newly emptied with juyce of Howseleek set it in the hot embers and take the scum from it then strain it and you have an excellent remedy for hot burning pricking eyes 166. Agrimony Bettony Sage Plantane Ivy-leaves and Rose-parsley boyled in Wine and the decoction drunk is a notable remedy for such as are bruised by falling 167. If you burn Turpentine upon a hot plate of Iron and give two drams of it at a time Em. Ben. Vict. Faventin in powder in Saxifrage water it will break the stone in the bladder also by taking it once or twice a week it keeps such safe from the stone as are subject to breed it 168. Lavender boyled in water and halfe a pint of the decoction drunk morning and evening helps such as have the palsey 169. Take a pint of Aqua Composita and put a handfull of Ivy-leaves into it and stop it close and they will consume in it two or three spoonfuls of it taken at a time is a most excellent remedy for the Strangury 170. Take a pound of black sope a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a pint of Aqua vitae a quarter of a pint of juyce of Rew boyled together till it be thick makes an admirable plaister for the Sciatica remove it not in two or three dayes 171. Take of the wood of Ivy cut it in little peices of Ivy-berries and the gum of Ivy of each a like weight let the wood be dryed then put it in a pot that hath two or three little holes in the bottom Rogeriuâ— Euonimus then set another potup to the brim in the earth and put the bottom of the first pot into the mouth of the last luting it round with past so that the uppermost pot that holds the ingredients may be all above the Earth then make a fire round about it and there will a black oyle distill into the neither Vessell very soveraigne for old aches and pains comming of a cold cause 172. Empty an Egge of all the white and fill up the voyd place of the shell with the juyce of flower-deluce then warme it a little in the hot embers and give it every morning to one that hath the Dropsey and it makes them avoyd the Hydropicall humour downwards 173. An admirable medicine to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the menstruis in women Galen any aches impediments in the back and liver it allayes the heat in Feavers and causeth sleep Take Cinnamon Cassia Lignia Opium of each two drams mirrh white and long pepper of each one dram Galbanum one dram all being beaten into powder that can be beaten make it into a masse with clarified honey and let the party diseased as before take two pills of it no bigger then a pease at night going to bed 174. Take the quantity of an Almond of a Buls gall and mix it with two or three spoonfuls of wine Wicker and let a woman that hath a dead child in her body drink it and she shall instantly be delivered 175. An excellent oyle for old wounds sores Issues Vlcers Apsius quoted by George Baker Aches paines in the back Hemorrods Gout c. Take of old white-Wine a quart old oyle three pints Carduus benedictus Valerian sage with the flowers if you can get it of each a quarter of a pound of the leaves and flowers of St Johns wort halfe a pound let the hearbs and flowers be infused in the oyle and wine four and twenty hours then boyle it in an earthen vessell well glassed or a brasse Vessell till the wine be consumed stirring it now and then for feare of burning then take it off and strain it and adde to it a pound and an halfe of Venice turpentine and boyle it again a quarter of an hour then adde to it Olibanum five ounces Myrrh three ounces Sanguis draconis one ounce let it boyle a little till the Myrrh be dissolved then take it off and when it is cold put it in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the sunne ten dayes before you use it 176. The body of a Birch tree Mathiolus Dioscorides cut down in the spring time and laid in the fire doth yeild great store of water which water being drunke is of wonderfull force to breake the stone in the Reins 177. The smell of Bitumen Rew Mizaldus Monardus or the smoak of it burning is of wonderfull force against the fits of the Mother 178. The leaves and Barke of a Willow tree sod in Wine doth case the gout being bathed with it 179. A Diamond held to the head that akes Hollerius quite takes away the pains thereof 180. Peices of Amber tyed to the nape of the neck Mizaldus helps the watring of the eyes 181. The same hung about the neck helps distillations of the throat Mizaldus 182. Letharge of Silver boyled in Vinegar and the skin washed with it Mizaldus makes it exceeding white 183. If any great Beasts as Horses Kine c. be lame mark where the lame or swelled foot doth stand and cut up a turfe where the foot
clenseth so much the more it hinders conglutination XII Therefore speciall regard must be had of the time that the clensing things be given at beginning and glutinative at the latter end XIII Thus you see what things are accidentally Pectorall viz. such as are Emollient or cut tough viscous flegm or make thick thin defluctions or qualifie sharpe humours or ease the roughnesse of the Artery XIV Such are Naturall Pectoralls whose Genuine property is to strengthen the Breast and Lungs CHAP. III. Of Cordialls I. AS the brain is the seat of the Sences so is the heart of the Affections it is also the fountaine of Life and the originall of Heat II. Its properties are two 1. To give Life to the Body by its heat 2. To give vigour to the Will by its affections III. Such things as cheer the minde strengthen the heart it selfe or refresh the spirits are called Cordialls IV. Yet are not all Cordialls of one and the same nature for whereas the heart is variously troubled either with anger or love or fear or hatred or sadnesse or other affections it is refreshed either by temperating or taking away the same V. But although such things as cause Love or mitigaty Anger or take away Feare or Sadnesse c. may properly be called Cordialls yet belong they not to my scope at this time if my secrets in nature will not yet furnish you with them you may in time have those that may VI. The truth is these are afflictions of the Minde or that which I hold to be the Soule and therefore are of a higher nature than this Treatise aims at VII For I hold Man to consist of three parts a Spirit which goes to God that gave it a Soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a Body which is terrene and must returne to the Earth from whence it came VIII My scope is here to speak of those things which properly afflict the heart IX The heart is afflicted by too much heat by poysons by filthy vapours X. Against these the heart is assisted in a threefold manner viz. by cooling the heat of Feavers resisting poyson and strengthning the heart by a peculiar property XI Yet whatsoever cools is not Cordiall for Lead is as cool as Pearls yet is not a Cordiall as Pearls are XII Neither whatsoever resists Poyson is Cordiall but onely such as succour the heart oppressed by it XIII Such things as resist Poyson are called Alexiteria and Alexipharmica XIV Nâ—ither doe they all operate after one and the same manner for some strengthen the heart against Poyson in generall others by a certain Antipathy are opposed to one particular kinde of Poyson XV. Such things as strengthen the heart doe it either by planetary Influence which Doctors call a hidden way because it is hidden from such who instead of viewing the wonders of God in the Creation are filling their pockets with his Dunghill XVI Or else they doe it by similitude of substance XVII Or else by a forcible drawing away of what offends it XVIII And indeed all Cordialls may be called by the name of Alexiteria or Antidotes or counter poysons because they strengthen the heart which is the nature of poysons to assault however it seemed otherwise to Physicians XIX So then as Smells refresh the Animall Spirits Aromaticalls the Naturall so such things as keep melancholly vapours from the heart refresh the vitall spirit of Man CHAP. IV. Of Stomachicals I. MEdicines appropriated to the Ventricle are called Stomachicalls although the Stomach be not the Ventricle but the Orifice of it or the inferiour part of the throat which you will II. The Ventricle is afflicted with three kindes of Maladies 1. Appetite lost 2. Concoction weakned 3. The retentive faculty viciated III. To provoke appetite Those things which provoke appetite are usually of a gratefull sharpenesse IV. These by the Latines are called Orectica after the Greek name V. But although appetite be hindred by diverse causes as the Stomach repleated by Chollar or putrefied humours c. yet those things which purge these are not properly called Orecticks but onely such things as by sharpnesse contract the Stomach and by a gratefull tast delight it VI. Those things further concoction Concoction which either cherish the Ventricle by convenient heat or Aromaticall faculty or strengthen it by Astrall propriety VII Of which latter take this one the internall skin of the * Vâ—z heâ— Gâ—zzâ—â—d Ventricle of a Hen helpeth concoction exceedingly nothing like it and thereby resisteth all diseases proceeding from want of digestion which are as frequent as Atomes in the Sunne VIII The Retentive faculty being viciated Retention causeth belching vomiting and fluxes IX These are corrected by astringent Medicines and yet some astringent Medicines are very adverse to the Stomach therefore use onely such as are Stomachicall X. The way of use Orecticks ought not be given to a foule Stomach XI Such things as help Concoction the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and they ought to be given before meat XII The reasons are 1. Because heat is to be stirred up in the inferior not in the superiour part of the Ventricle 2. Because the Ventricle ought to be made warm before it receive the food XIII The manner of administration of such things as binde the Ventricle is to be regulated according to the end of giving them XIV Against vomiting give them after repast against Fluxes before XV. For being given after they drive the nourishment downwards and are more subject to cause a Fluxe than to stop it CHAP. V. Of Hepaticals I. HEpaticks may be divided into these three divisions 1. Such as delight the Liver 2. Such as adde strength to it 3. Such as take away its vices II. Taste and Appetite are sent before and committed to the Tongue and Stomach for the dignotion of food by which both the quality and quantity is judged III. The Meseraick veins also have their office to draw convenient nourishment IV. Such things then are delightfull to the Liver which are delightfull to these V. I put all these together because many times Taste and Appetite affect that which the Meseraik veines dislike and that 's the reason many times men affect those meats which agree not with them VI. Also the Liver is delighted with some Medicines as well as nourishments VII For all such things as are sweet the Liver greedily draweth to it VIII Such things as strengthen the Liver doe gently binde IX For concoction requires adstriction to keep together both the heat and the humor to be concocted least it be dispersed X. Yet the Liver needs not so great adstrictions as the Stomach because the passages of the Ventricle are more open and large but the veines of the Liver by which it either draws the chyle or distributes the blood to the rest of the body therefore the adstriction must not be great least it obstruct the Liver or hinder the distribution of