of the Patient sometimes it sticks so fast over the ball of the eye or betwixt the Christal Humors and the Tunickle Rhagois so as to tender the sight in the beginning of this disease certain fumes and Spirits do present themselves to the sight this disease is caused from cold and moist humors that fall on the Optick Nerve If this disease be of long continuance it cannot be cured but if that which is congealed by rubbing be rent asunder and doth not remain so long but grows together again and is of a sad white colour there is still left some hopes of the cure Of the French-Pox THe French-Pox it is a fowl and contagious disease which often proceeds from the immoderate use of Venery the beginnings of this disease are small but in time it vitiates the humors spirits membranes tendons flesh and bones and perverts the temperature and substance of the whole body the Liver is chiefly affected as appears from the bad Concoction of the Stomach the not propension to Venery laziness falling off of the hair it begins in the groins and privy members with little pushes in the Urine which in time do send forth clammy and corrupt blood heat of Urine effusion of seed several coloured spots appearing in the upper part of the body a pain in the sinews heaviness in the head hard swellings appear in the forehead and other parts which at last become great Ulcers so as to corrupt the bones The cause of this disease is a filthy quality communicated by touching but for the most part by the act of Venery as the privy members have a thin and rare substance taken in time this disease admits of cure but otherwise is incureable For the cure of this disease the air must be moderately hot for cold hinders the operation of the medicines the Patients diet must be sparing his bread twice bak't he must feed on the best fowl when he purges sod meats are best for him such as are windy breed gross humors those which inflame the blood are bad for him he must exercise himself till he sweats to expel the moist matter he must purge twice a week his sleep moderate he must abstain from Venery and shun all perturbations of mind Of the weakness of the Stomach THe weakness of the Stomach in Latine called Debilitas Ventriculi is a disposition of the alterative faculty wherein either the nourishment is not altered or not well concocted the faculty of the Stomach failing the crudity of the Stomach doth follow by some external cause The sign of a difficult concoction is when the Stomach doth not boil after the accustomed manner or is surcharged with fumes and vapors sometimes weakness after a disease is the cause The indigestion of the Stomach thus weakned raw humors must needs be gathered together either hot or cold disturbing the Stomach by some outward quality which is followed with a loathing of meat and a loading of the Stomach belchings vomitings caused by Phlegmy and putrified humors the relish then communicated to the pallate being sweet and watrish and much spettle voided without coughing or heming that crudity is worst which is caused by ill nourishment and very bad in those which do abound with Choller The air the Patient breaths should incline to heat as he ought to be kept warm his diet must be easie of digestion and moderate neither must he receive any other meat till the former be digested he may drink good Wine his head laid high and his sleep not to be disturbed he ought to be moderately merry and to avoid all perturbations of mind Of the Squinancy THis Disease is an inflamation of the Throat or of the highest part of the Gullet hindering the breath and swallowing when the fault is neither in the breathing nor swallowing This Disease by reason the upper part of the Gullet is choakt up doth threaten present danger by strangling If the inner parts of the Throat are affected then the Patient is in great danger this pain is sharp and the Patient breaths with difficulty he swallows with difficulty and that which he drinks doth often run out at his Nose This Disease is caused by blood which is carried thither by the Ingular Veins for in these Veins there is plenty of blood If the inflamation be in the inward Muscles that Squinancy is very dangerous within three or four dayes it is very likely to kill the party and although that the Patient may think himself well yet he is taken away with a sudden suffocation The air where the Patient resides must be temperate free from wind his diet liquid and soft he must shun those things that may heat his blood he must abstain from Wine and Exercise speak little his sleep shorter then ordinary it used to be if it be too long those that watch with him must awake him out of it his belly must be loosened and his minde kept merry Of involuntary Pissing INvoluntary pissing called Diarberes is a default of the Kidneys a swift passage the drink being nothing altered through the body an inmeasurable thirst following In this Disease the Kidneys are affected it is known by the heat felt in the Reins and the insatiable thirst If the Patient strives to hold his urine his Stones Hips and Loins swell such heat felt in those inward parts as if the Bowels were burnt This distemper is sometimes caused by sharp humors in the Kidneys by brinish Phlegm or a pernicious quality fixt to the blood or humors fastned to the Reins This distemper causeth a great driness and consumption of the body If the person have a burning Feaver he cannot be cured because his radical moisture is wasted The air in which this Patient lives must incline to cold and moist his diet such as will breed good but thick juyce such as will qualifie the sharpness of the humors salt and sharp meats as also such as provoke urine are not good the belly must be kept loose by art or nature Rest is best for this Patient because it stayes the motion of the humors Of the Inflamation of the Eyes THe Inflamation of the Eyes called Opthalmia is an inflamation of the Tunicle or Membrane growing close to the eye spread over all the Membrane from the corners of the eyes This evil takes its beginning from the Pericranium from whence Veins are conveighed to the eyes through the forehead and temples The part affected is chiefly the eye where redness appears and it is oftentimes swelled so that the Tunicles and parts near adjoyning are sore stretched this is either caused by the fulness of blood by which the Membrane growing next to the eye is filled or stretcht or else by phlegmatick blood and then it is not so stretcht or else by thin sharp Choller running from the temple and corner veins secretly into the eye-veins then such tears gush out of the eyes that the next parts seem burnt the Pupilla is in danger of being exulcerated if
is the most convenientest I will speak first of it This kind is no other then a certain descending down of the Intestines in Scrotum the cause of the which is when the Peretoneum is broken or relaxed in the place where the Spermatick vessels do pass which comes commonly by some vehement strain as by vehement running leaping lifting or vehement crying and such other like the signes to know when the Intestines is descended into Scrotum is when he lies they will easily be put up again without any manner of trouble or may be reduced the Patient standing with ones hands and in the reducing you shall hear a gurguling or noise and by this you may know it from Zirbus because that when the Zirbus is put up it makes no noise and also it is not so painful the other signes shall be declared when we come to speak of the Herni Zirbale When this kind is not very farre gone and that it be not compleat the best way is to cure it by Medicines as well to be taken inwards as to be applyed without that is to say with emplaisters and so by convenient trussing and boulstering steept in the Juyce of Herbs convenient 〈◊〉 Ruptures which are of astringent and glutinative â—aculty I have seen many by these aforesaid Medicines have been perfectly cured yet nevertheless if for the oldness of it that it be not to be cured by these means then you must come to the last remedy which is by cutting for the executing of the which I wish all men to chuse an expert Chyrurgeon and not to trust too much to these Runners about and as for this kinde it may be cut without taking away of the Testicle Of Herni Zirbale HErni Zirbale which the Greeks do call Epiplocele is another thing then the falling of Zirbus which is a grease that covereth the Guts into Scrotum the which most commonly falls within Didimes but yet sometimes by the breaking of the Didimes it falls out the causes as well inward as outward are the same which cause Herni Intestinale for look how the Peretoneum is broken or relaxed in the other even so doth it in this the signes are much like also saving that it is much more softer for in the touching it handleth like Wool and is also less painful and it is more difficult to put up then the Herni Intestinale and in the reducing makes no noise this kind is less dangerous then the others by reason that the pain is less and also because that the excrement is not in it as it is in the Herni Intestinale Now here is a special thing to be noted in this kind which the common cutters do use that is they do use to cut away the Zirbus which is discended within Didime without either tying or cautrising and so there followeth a flux of Blood which having no issue but is retained in the belly there doth corrupt which causeth most perilous accidents and most commonly death Of the relaxation of the Peretonium called Herni Inguinale HErni Inguinale is a descending of the Intestines or Zirbus into the Groins which the Latines call Inguina the which sort doth never go further then the Groin for when the Intestines or Zirbus doth pass thorow the Peretoneum then it is either Intestinale or Zirbale for this kind is nothing but a relaxation of the Peretoneum The causes are as of the others aforesaid and it is easily to be known by the roundness and it will be more easily reduced then any of the others you may know when the Intestines is descended by noise that it will make though not commonly yet most oftennest as hath been said of Enterocele but if it be the Zirbus it makes no noise and is much more softer and not so painful Of the kinds of Hernies which be by similitudes or improperly called WE have spoken of those three kinds of Herni which are properly called now it remains â—o speak of the five kinds which are by similitudes and first we will begin with the Aquose which is no other thing then a certain watrish tumor of Croton increased by little and little and for the most part lies between Heritroides and the Spermatick vessels howbeit sometimes it may be contained between Dartos and Heritroides and between Dartos and the Scrotum as many learned men have written the signes are that the Scrotum doth wax big by little and little and for the most part without pain and the tumor is heavy and glistering and hard principally when the Scrotum is filled it waxes in length and doth not return as doth the Intestinale and Zirbale but remains at one stay This kind if that the water have long lien there and so corrupted the Testicle it must be taken away Of Herni Charneuse HErni Charneuse which the Greeks do call Sarcocele is a tumor against nature in the Scrotum which there doth grow to a certain scireuse flesh and doth much resemble the Verequeses or Swelled Veins the causes of the which are by the gathering together of abundance of gross humors which nature cannot rule because of the weakness the signes are unequable hardness and inflamation which doth alwayes remain in the part that is to say the Didime and doth alwayes increase with pain being unequal and not even wherefore Guido saith that this kinde and Vanqueuse are very dangerous Hernie Verequese HErnie Verequese is an appearance of Veins not accustomed about the Testicles and other parts contained within Scrotum The causes are gross humors gathered together as melanchollick blood and such like which nature cannot disperse because of weakness The signs are repletion of the Veins about like to the twigs of Vines with softness of the Testicle or Dideme This kinde if it be not very great and far gone it may be healed by solutive Medicines The Hernie Ventose HErnie Ventose is a tumor of the Cods increased by winde and from the imbecillity or weakness of the part affected it is known by the swelling of the Cods and Yard which glistereth like unto a slikt paper it comes suddenly and is round and light if that there be not another humor joyned with it It is to be cured with Carnificatives as Oleum Nucum Oleum Anethinum Costinum c. And there may be added too of Seeds and Herbs as Semen Anisi Carvi Faeniculi Agni casti Ruta Calaminta Origani c. Hernie Humorale HErnie Humorale is an Aposthume contained likewise in the Cods which is ingendred of humors hot and cold not much declining from the natural habit which may lie between Scrotum and Dartos or between Heretroydes and Dartos or onely within Heritroydes as for the causes the signs and curation are like to other Aposthumes Now that I have declared the definition causes and signs of Hernies it shall not be amiss to expound in few words those parts which must be opened when any of these kindes are cured by handy operation and this is
shall onely treat of that pain that doth follow asharp disease by the inflamation of the inner skin for if the inflamation be in the outward Muscles or if the pain be great because of windiness this is but a basterd Pleurisie and the Patient is without a Feaver The signs of this disease besides the difficulty of breathing and a vehement Cough is a pricking pain which plainly doth demonstrate that the membranes and some other tender parts are affected this pricking pain sometimes spreads it self over the sides and breast sometimes to the short Ribs to the Channel-bone of the Throat so that the Patient is forced to breath short and thick also there is a continual Feaver because the inflamation doth border on the heart the Pulse is thick not too great hard and unequal and by that means tough and like to a saw a cough also cometh withal the first day and then nothing cometh at length spettle is voided and comes up coloured according to the nature of the excrements and it is also moister there are many other signs the cause for the most part is blood running from the hollow Veins into the Ribs thin Veins sometimes it is caused by Phlegmy blood and then the disease is longer of continuance and the spettle frothy and white sometimes the blood is Chollerick and then a sharper disease is caused The suppression of the Hemrhoides or monethly tearms will cause a Pleurisie this disease is dangerous to old men to Women with childe and such as have been sick twice or thrice of it it vexes the Patient more in the night then day time whosoever is sick of a Pleurisie and is not cleansed in fourteen dayes they turn to supuratiâ—â— This disease kills by choaking or too mâ—ch pain or by the translation of the matter into the Lungs whereby the Consumption of them is caused and also Ulcers The air the Patient lives in must be temperate somewhat inclining to heat his meat easie of digestion he is not to drink Wine till the disease be abated he may be permitted longer then ordinary sleep his belly must be kept loose Of the Bleeding at the Nose THe Bleeding at the nose called Hemorrhagia doth signifie a Bleeding at the Nose whether it doth come immediately from the Nostrills carried thither by the Veins of the palate through which for the most part nature doth expel the superfluous blood of many or else whether it comes from the Veins of the Head further off but in general it doth signifie any bleeding whether it be of Nose Womb or any other part of the body when blood comes forth moderately in the beginning of a Pleurisie Impostume Squinancy Burning Feaver Small Poxs it is alwayes for the best yet this Bleeding in some other diseases is Critical foreshewing death the Nostrills are chiefly affected but not alwayes the essence of the Nostrils but they are affected by the consent of some other part the Veins by which this blood is cast out at the Nose run from the palate and Mouth into the Nostrills and sometimes from the head when too much blood is voided the colour of the face waxeth pale the body is of a leaden colour the outward parts are cold and a swooning follows and many times after death Oftentimes bleeding at the Nose is caused by nature which doth by this means expel the excrements and which is troublesome to the body Sometimes it is caused by the evil affection of the Veins wherein the blood is contained and the blood runs out of the Veins the Veins being opened by the plenty of blood which they could not contain There are sundry other causes If bleeding have continued long swooning weakness and too much cooling of the Liver Lachexia or the Dropsie is to be feared Bleeding at the Nose without coldness of the outwards parts is mortal The air the Patient should live in must be somewhat cold his meat must be such as doth nourish well and easie of digestion he must avoid exercise and speak little he must avoid all passions of the minde especially anger Of the Falling-sickness THe Falling-sickness is a Convulsion of all the parts of the body not continual but that which cometh by distances of time the minde and senses being thereby hurt This disease doth either happen when the brain hath the cause of the disease in it self which is usual or by the evil effect of the mouth of the stomach or from some other part underneath by which the venemous effect creepeth into the brain through secret passages the Patient feels the cause of this Disease like a vapour of cold winde to be carried to the brain by the continuity of the other parts from the part of the body wherein the Disease is chiefly seated the cause of this Disease being for the most part a venomous vapour carried up from some lower part of the body into the brain and then the Patient doth suddenly fall with a Convulsion The brain is the part affected either by it self or by the consent of the stomach or by some other parts The fit comes oftentimes suddenly with much foam which because it is slimy may be drawn out at length yet in a gentler Falling-sickness this doth not appear when the Patient is deprived of his senses he falls to the ground with a violent shaking of his body his face is wrested his eyes turned upwards his chin somewhat driven to his shoulder and oftentimes he voids seed and ordure against his will his Muscles are loosened all these are signs of a strong fâ—t Sometimes their teeth are so fast closed together that they are in danger of stifling paleness of the face inordinate motion of the tongue pain and heaviness of the head forgetfulness sadness troublesome dreams are ushers to this Disease the Patient being taken with a giddiness sometimes darkness and divers dim glisterings appear before his eyes This Disease is for the most part caused by abundance of melancholâ—ck and phlegmatick humors from whence corâ—upt venomous and stinking vapors break out whereby obstructions are caused in the passages â—f the brain and the passages of the spirits are â—â—ereby hindred by this means the brain and the roots of the Sinnews shrink and as it were tremble in the expelling of that which is obnoxious whether it be vapor or humor This disease frequents children because they are of a moister brain then yong men next to these men oâ— a full growth and old men least of all This Disease is more incident to men then women and usually it doth stick close to the Patient unless it be taken away by medicines in the minority If the Disease be vehement and come often on the Patient it is incurable but if a quartane Ague or any longer Feaver surprize him iâ— portends health The air wherein the Patienâ— lives must be hot and dry his meat mixed with such things as do dissolve and extenuate the humors exercise of the body and frication of thâ— head are prevalent
the moderate use of Venery is healthful his excrements must be voided iâ— due time and if Nature be deficient herein Arâ— must be used his sleep must be moderate and his minde pleased Of Rheum RHeum in Latine called Catarrhus is a distillation commonly taking a deflux of humors and excrements from the head or brain into the other parts of the body and because thâ— brain is of a cold and a moist nature and dotâ— want plenty of nourishment by reason of thâ— largeness thereof so likewise it doth breed many excrements and the slight distemper being cold and moist will further it for vapors senâ— from the lower parts get up thither and these being thickned by reason of the brains thinness are entertained and even as these superfluous humors are sent back again to some one or other part of the body oftentimes in the first Ventricle if they do not offend much in quantity and then they are soonest purged by the Pallat sometimes they spread through divers places when they flow too much and then they are voided at the Nose Pallat Ears or Eyes and they do often fall into the Stomach and Lungs from whence several diseases are occasioned The Brain is most affected as may appear by those things which are voided at the Mouth Nose and Pallat and then it is a more continual disease neither is any hurt of any other part perceived whereby it may be cherisht but while it is caused by other parts of the body it will the better be known by its proper signs This is an affection which is caused by moderate excretion if the excrements of the head fall on the Lungs it doth cause for the most part hardness of breathing and a great Cough and Hoarseness bringing pain and soreness to the aforenamed places the hot distemper of the brain is sometimes the cause the great weakness thereof being oftentimes the cause sometimes it is occasioned from the brains cold and moist distemper for then the nutriments conveighed to the brain are not well digested whereby many superfluities are gathered and store of excrements lodged in the brain Surfeits and too much fulness encreases this Disease or by too much sleep also by the weakness of the digestive and expulsive faculty of the brain If the humor fall from the head to the nose it is but a small grief if to the throat worse if to the lungs worst of all for the lungs are in danger of being exulcerated from whence comes a Consumption the Winter season is very obnoxious to this disease because of the uncertainty of the weather The air the Patient lives in should be moderately hot and rainy weather as also Northern and Southern blasts must be avoided his meat must be very easie of digestion and such as breeds good blood his sleep must be moderate and sometimes in the day time his head must be so covered that neither too much cold nor too much heat offend it his body must daily either by art or nature be emptied of excrements he must use moderate exercise and shun the passions of minde Of the Pain of the Stomach THe pain of the Stomach called Cardialgia is a painful sense of the mouth of the stomach caused by a biting matter This distemper hath an affinity with the Disease called Cardaica passio which is in like manner a Disease oâ— the mouth of the stomach caused by corrupt humors and such as are biting and violent which either came from some other place or else werâ— there generated and gathered together Thâ— Cardaica passio differs from this Disease becausâ— this is caused by biting humors but that is caused by virulent humors venomous and so malign that a very hot and sharp Feaver accompanies it The mouth of the Stomach is primarily affected the heart being hereby hurt because of the nearness a pinching pain with biting and fretting being felt under the Breasts grissels In this Disease there is a gnawing biting and pricking of the stomach there is an oppressing pain there whereby the Patient breaths with difficulty sometimes the belly doth cast out the chollerick stuff and sometimes he doth vomit choller a Feaver seldom comes with this In this Disease the appetite is abated the Patient is in more pain before then after meat this Disease is often caused by sadness for by those causes Choller comes into the stomach whereby bitings and gnawings are caused sometimes by inflamation or by sharp or phlegmy humors if this Disease comes without a Feaver it is less dangerous Let the air the Patient lives in be cold either by art or nature his meat easie of digestion and such as is least subject to corruption rest asswages the pain his sleep must be moderate â—is belly must be rendred answerable to nature â—erturbations of his minde are to be shunned especially choller Of the Gout THe Joynt-Gout is a feebleness of the Joynts and pain coming upon them at several diâ—â—ances of time for the most part it is caused by 〈◊〉 Flux which windeth it self betwixt the Ligaments Films and Tendons of the Joynts for in this disease the Joynts do first receive the Humor which at length doth insinuate into the Films adjoyning sometimes there is a Gout in the fingers sometimes in the knee sometimes in the hips from whence it spreads it self to the Thighs Calves of the Legs and to the end of the Feet yet this Gout sticks not in the Hip but is fastned above the Hip at the toâ— of the Buttock if the Gout stick in the feet ' tiâ— called Podagra or the Feet-Gout whether it bâ— in the ankles soles of the feet or great toeâ— joynt sometimes it seizes on the shoulder-joynts and turning-joynts of the Back-bone oâ— Chine sometimes not any knitting of thâ— bones is free from this pain The parts affecteâ— are the joynts tendons ligaments films of thâ— parts of the body which either knit or inviron the bones are here affected and sometimes thâ— Membranes are filled and stretcht the Patient iâ— tormented for a long space when this Diseasâ— doth first surprize him yet the pain is but little by the use of evil diet almost all the joynts oâ— his body suffering alike sometimes not one parâ— of the body being free from this Disease In thâ— Feet or Hip-Gout for the most part no swellinâ— doth appear but in the Hand and Knee-Gout swelling redness and heat by extream pains aâ— easily to be perceived sometimes an inflamatâ—on is caused and then the appetite is lost anâ— the Patient is troubled with watchings and Feaver The cause of every Joynt-Gout is foâ— the most part great store of phlegmatick humors or some other humors overflowing in the greater Veins the Liver and Head so that the parts are therewith surcharged and that these parts may likewise be free of this burthen they do cast these excrements upon the joynts ligaments and tendons and films whereby they are filled stretcht and weakned There are four causes of these superfluities of humors the
immoderate use of strong Wine Venery crudities and feebleness of the parts to which may be added the relinquishing of accustomed exercises and suppression of evacuation This disease is an an hereditary Disease The pains of the Feet-gout trouble the Patient at the Spring time and Autumn if this Disease be not cured before the Patient comes to his perfect growth it will not be pefectly cured The air the Patient lives in must be temperate inclining to heat and driness such meats as do moderately nourish are good and such they must eat but sparingly when their Disease hath left them they may use exercises otherwise not their sleep must be moderate for too long sleep cherishes this Disease his belly must alwayes be kept loose the use of Venery is hurtful all perturbations of the minde are to be avoided Of Congelation COngelation called Catalepsis is a sudden detaining both of soul and body with the which whosoever is taken the same figure of body doth neverthelesse remain he abides sitting or lying if he did either sit or lie when the fit took him By some this disease is stiled an awaking amazement because the disease takes away sense and motion in all parts of the body this disease agrees in some things but differs very much in others from an Apoplexy In this disease the brains hinder-part is chiefly affected the animal part being hurt as well imaginative as sensitive and motive In this disease the Patient is dumb his body is bereft of sense and motion and though he retain the form of one being awake yet his minde and senses are asleep and that on such a sudden that the lookers on are amazed This disease in so vehemently seizing on the Patient that he rather thinks he is transported to heaven then dead the minde is assaulted so violently that the person in this distemper remains in the same figure wherein he was when he was stricken he can neither void excrements make water by reason of the senses dulness his pulse beating little and faintly but in the mean time equal This affect is caused by a cold and weak distemper of the brain whereby the brain and animal spirits are congealed and dried up not onely cooled A cold and dry matter causeth this disease as melancholly the air cold and dry the mixture of Phlegm and Choller when both overflow they are in great hazzard of life that are taken with this disease if this disease be strong it is hardly to be cured The air the Patient lives in must be hot and moist his meat Ptisan Cream his drink small white Wine and somewhat a stringent Of the Frenzy A Right Frenzy is an inflamation of the brain and the films thereof bringing with it a sharp Feaver doating and alienation of minde it is a kinde of a madness both dreadful and dangerous because this disease is generated in part which is the chief sense of the faculties of the Soul and because a true Frenzie hath its beginning from a false it will be convenient first to treat of a false Frenzie It is an alienation of the minde with disquietness without an impostume of the brain and it doth follow a Feaver caused by Blood or Choller doatings do not fret and grieve so much as they do that are possest with a true Frenzie and as the Feaver doth increase or decrease so the fate of the Frenzie is increased or decreased especially in the hour of the Crisis or conflict betwixt Nature and the Disease In these Feavers dry Vapors get up into the Brain whereby the animal parts are disquieted sometimes Impostumes are the cause of this disease The parts affected are the Pia mater or dura mater In this distemper there is a continual and dry Feaver and as the Patient sleeps very disquietly so his watchings are more troublesome he breaths by fits he will if he be not lookt to start out of his bed suddainly he will weep sing and cry out the Patients tongue is withered black he is very thirsty his Urine is thin and fiery sometimes white and thin then he is in great danger This distemper is caused with too much blood and such a one is mad with Laughter yet he dotes less and is not so Feaverish but when it is caused by burnt Choller then is the Patient stark mad and must needs be bound as he is in this distemper very strong A Feaver is the inseparable companion of this disease this is a most sharp and dangerous distemper and speedily kills if present remedy are not given for all kindes of Frenzies are mortal being bred in the place where the souls principal part is resident The air the Patient remains in must be temperate and bright no variety of Pictures must remain in his sight his diet must be such as may moisten and cool the body he must avoid too much motion frictions on the lower parts are to be used especially when the disease is milder sleep must be procured by Local Medicines and such as are received in at the mouth the Excrements of the Belly must be evacuated for if they are kept in they do encrease the disease perturbations of his minde are to be avoided Of the Dropsie THe Dropsie is such a passion that it is not without plenty of watry humors because the blood-making-faculty is vitiated it is a long disease for the most part caused by the coldness of the Liver There are three kindes of Dropsies Anasarca which is a dispersing of Phlegmy humors over the whole body In this Disease the body increaseth most unnaturally for it is all over swelled and an humor mixed with Phlegmy Blood is spread over all the body between the skin and the flesh and the body doth suck it up even as a sponge sucks up water and by reason of this an ill colour passes over the whole body The second sort of Dropsie called Ascites is that when great store of windes but greater of water are gathered together in one place which doth lie between the Guts and the Stomach In this Disease first the belly and Abdomen by little and little then the Thighs are swelled and all the other parts of the body by little and little wax lean but when there is a greater store of winde then water whereby the Abdomen is stretcht beyond measure called Timpanites then rather a noise of winde then water is perceived if the belly be strook for there is the sound of a Tabor from whence this Disease hath its name The natural colour of the face in this Disease is not altered the Liver is the part affected for hereby the blood is generated and from this the Dropsie is caused by the primary affect of the Liver and then the Cough comes withal because the hugeness of the Liver causeth the obstructions of the Lungs also the Excrements are not very liquid Sometimes this Disease is caused by the consent of the Misentery Spleen Stomach Meseraick Veins and Jejunium intestinum whereof
a weakness of such Veins doth follow as did convey food to the Liver and then Excrements are heaped together in the lower parts untill they are corrupted and so surcharge the body and afflict the Patient with a Lax. The Patient in this disease is for the most part troubled with a Feaver and doth thirst very much especially if he be troubled with Ascites and because of Salt and putrefied humors he loaths meat The colour of the face is whitish hardness of breathing and heaviness of the body concurs also Swellings of the Feet because of the far distance of the heart In Anasarca the whole body is weakened and doth Faint and Swell equally yet for the most part the Swelling is in the Shins and the Feet so that if the Fingers are thrust into the flesh the prints of them will remain a long time The great coolings of the Veins and Liver is the cause of this long sore disease this happens to the Liver by it self or else by the coldness of the Spleen Guts Misentery Midriff which sometimes because of their obstruction somtimes because of their weakness draw not unto them too much blood also it is caused by the Bleeding at the Nose by immoderate running or by staying of the monethly Courses or Hemrhoids for so the natural heat is choaked by the loss of Spirits in the blood sometimes it is caused by the Flux of the belly or stomach if they do last long for the natural spirits and native heat are scattered There are many other causes if ulcers arise in the body by water that is between the flesh because of the great plenty of humor it is hardly cured He who is supurated or have a Dropsie when he is cut or burnt if that water or matter doth run out he dies presently also if a Cough doth seize on him he is in great danger Of all these Dropsies the Timpanites is the worst He that is in a consumption many times fall into a Dropsie because the evil is communicated to the Liver for matter and venomous filth having found a way into the Liver gets in and sticks fast therein and so doth corrupt the substance of it The air where the Patient lives should be clear and somewhat inclining to heat and driness moist and windy air do increase this Disease In this distemper a supper of roast meat is better then sod his meat must be easie of concoction flesh broth must not be given except the Patient takes Purges he may drink thin Wine but not sweet because this will not quench his thirst as it is good in this Disease to indure hunger so to thirst long is dangerous moderate exercise frictions and the Baths are good he may sleep in the night time but not much the Excrements must be answerable to nature he must abstain from Venery and even as fear and sadness do hurt very much because they hinder digestion so anger and some of the other passions will be very good for him Of spitting of Blood SPitting of Blood is any avoiding of Blood at the mouth Blood is also voided from many other places of the body here care ought to be had in observing whether the Patient was wont to Bleed at the Nose or no for from thence it doth fall into the Stomach and Throat and from thence into the Lungs but for the most part it doth turn and harden into a cold if then one spit blood and yet did not Bleed at the Nose formerly then it comes from some peculiar part blood is often voided from the Gums and Mouth it self and then the Spittle is of a bloody colour and very little is voided out and that without a Cough if it do come from the Throat or Weezel-pipe then it is voided by Hemmings not by Cough and the continuated parts of these places do appear loosened if the Tongue be thrust out but if it did come from the Head a pain of the Head and heaviness went before a noise in the Ears the Forehead Veins rise they have a kinde of a heat and blood in the Mouth and a tickling is felt in the Palate if it doth run into the Throat from whence by often Hemming it is cast out oftentimes the Patient hath a desire to Cough but cannot but if the blood doth come from the Lungs then is the blood foamy and then it is voided by frequent Coughing and without pain and at sundry times and as oft as blood is voided because some great Vein is burst then plenty of blood is cast up no cause except that known it being as it were cast up by Vomit but if blood be cast up because some Vein in the Lungs is gnawn which is oft caused by a sharp humor falling down then it is voided by degrees a little now and a little then unless some great Vein be fretted asunder for then it runs out in great abundance for this is very dangerous for then follows a Cough or a Feaver sometimes some part of the Lungs being rotted is voided by a Cough and this is the surest sign of the Lungs exulceration much more might be written of the peculiar parts affected and of the signs This distemper is often caused by fulness and by a great quantity of blood which doth offend the body and some peculiar parts of the body more particularly so that hereby the vessels mouths are opened Of this is a good habit of body immoderate use of hot nutriments and Wine suppression of tearms and then there is no pain but rather a lightsomness of the body which before was dull and then also there is not too great a quantity thereof and it is not very foamy or red Women without any danger of Consumption have been eased by this shedding of blood in the suppression of their tearms To omit other causes that might be rendred of this distemper it will be very necessary to take notice that if the Lungs are ulcerated there is danger for then there is danger of a Supuration and Consumption when a Vein in the Lungs is opened and burst yet there is some hope if the substance of the Lungs be sound yet a Consumption signifies danger if the blood which comes out of the rupture of a vein falling upon the Lungs be there detained by which means the Lungs are inflamed and putrefied for at length the substance of the Lungs will be corrupted and putrefied there is also danger when a great Vâ—â—â— is opened or broke for that the heart may be suffocated from the plenty of blood voided from thence Spitting of blood if it be caused by a corrosion of the Lungs is incuâ—able if from the Breast there is less danger Spitting of matter it is a sign the Lungs are exulcerated this disease if it continue long will turn into a Consumption The air the Patient lives in should be somewhat inclining to cold and dry the Patient must avoid sun-shine and a bright fire his meat must be such as doth cool
Balm Salt c. The third Annise Folefoot Calamint Commine Fennel Hyssop Mints c. The fourth Garlick Cresses Mustard Celandine the great For moist diseases these medicines are good Of the first degree dry Cabbage Beats Cammomile Fennel Beans Fenigreek c. Of the second Dill Mugwort Shepheards-pouch Dodder Lintils Honey Rosemary Of the third Wormwood Germarder Hyssop Juniper five-leaved Grass Organ Horehound c. Of the fourth Garlick Cresses Mustard-seed wilde Rue Dry diseases have these medicines Bugloss Mallows Turnips Endive for the first degree The second Violets water Lilly Lettice Purslane c. The third and fourth degrees as these are evil supplied by strange simples so are they recompensed by increase of quantities of moist in the two first degrees And thus much touching medicines belonging to the cure of diseases in one part of the temper which being in two parts and without humour require either temperings the simple qualities aforesaid in divers simples or natures wherein such two do exceed which because they be as plentiful as those I have before mentioned and that hereof none makes doubt I will not touch If this double distemper rise of humour as for the most part it doth then is that humour to be diminished or altogether to be voided out of the body and then the distemper remaining to be altered The humors are properly to be voided by purgation otherwise there be diverse as exercise fastings sweating urine and such like But properly the vacuation of Phlegm Choler Melancholly which are the causes of this double distemper belonging to purging medicines which purgations as the greatest doubt is of natures provision in them so they being supplied by our own Countrey Soil the greatest part of this controversie may seem to be decided Purgations are either by vomit or by stool by vomit our native soil ministreth great choice as very gently The Radish roots with the seed the Pepon root and Nettle-seed with more vehemency Folefoot leaf and root the middle bark of the Walnut-tree and the long blossoms thereof and yet most vehemently the seeds of Broom and the flowers thereof and these for vomit By the stool and first to purge choller the flowers and leaves of the Peach-tree Violet flowers and seeds comparable with Rhewbarb the great garden Dock called the Munks Rhewbarb Damask-roses wilde Saffron the powder of Fetherfew all the kinde of spurges the root of the wild Cowcomber the root of Briony and Coloquintida Melancholly is purged with Coloquintida the Oak Fern the juice of Mandrake the flowers of Broom Barefoot and Antimony Phlegm and water are purged with Coloquintida the juice of Rhineberries the gross bark of the Elm the juice of the root of Walwort of Elder the garden Flowerdeluce root juiced The dry leaves of Laurel the Seawithwinde scurby weed These are a show of our English store of Purgers which if they be too strong then are they to be ministred in smaller quantity mixed with those of feebler working if too weak then are they to be sharpned with quicker If they offend any part they are to be corrected partly with cordials and partly with medicines respecting such parts as they annoy Which wants are not onely to be charged upon our Countrey medicines seeing even the best of forreign purgers are to be touched with the same As Scammony is corrected with Quinces otherwise it troubleth the stomach with a griping and gnawing it purgeth over vehemently it hurteth the liver and is an enemy to the heart and doth exulcerate where it passeth and procureth dysenteries that is to say ulcers in the guts Turpeth is corrected with Ginger and long Pepper Mastick with oil of sweet Almonds and Sugar else overthroweth it the stomach troubleth and overdrieth the body Coloquintida with oil of sweet Almonds Gum Tragacanth or Mastick else troubleth it vehemently the whole body procureth the bloody Flix and miserably tormenteth the guts So Agarick requireth to be steeped in wine with Ginger and Cloves yet scarce abstaineth it from overthrowing the stomach Cassia marreth the stomach and requireth to be mixed there with stomach medicines The excessive driness and binding of Rhewbarb is corrected with some moistning syrup Aloe requireth Mastick and Gum Tragacanth to mitigate the fretting thereof Sene marreth the stomach and either through windiness or through vehemency of scouring tormenteth the body and therefore needeth Ginger Cinamon or Spike sweet Prunes fat Broth and Raisins Hermodactiles offend the stomach and cause winde and require Ginger Cumine or Spike and to be short there is no purger of strange drugs which requireth not correction of great faults which correction is taken from such medicines as respect those parts chiefly which the purgation doth annoy whereof such is our store that in all parts we be sufficiently armed therewith but of these shall hereafter be spoken Now if any man think for want of Cassia Manna Sene Rhewbarb these humors cannot be voided or not so well let me then know how the Grecians wanted them and yet found no lack using onely Scammony Helleborus and Colocynthis Aloes and Agarick for their chief purgations The other being brought in of late in comparison by the Arabians who both in knowledge of Physick and in the works thereof were far inferiour to the Grecians to whom I say I mean the ancient of them in Galens time and before neither Manna nor Cassia nor Sene nor Rhewbarb nor Hermodactyles were known either at all or at the uttermost for purgers and as for Manna Fuchsius saith that certain having been about the mount Libanus made report that the inhabitants of that mountain having eaten their fill thereof neither feel themselves any whit troubled therewith nor their bodies loosed but use it for an ordinary sustenance whereby again appeareth a great diversity of working of strange medicines according to the variety of Countreys But what should we say of the nature of Purgers it is doubtless one of the hardest points at this day in all natural Philosophy neither minde I at this present to deal therein but this may I say as by preparation one nature may according to the variety thereof receive divers yea contrary vertues so seemeth it to me that this vertue of purging may be procured to natures of themselves destitute thereof by preparation Divers and in a manner all the mettals and minerals being burnt and washed give over their fretting nature And Quicksilver which of it self is not sublimed or precipitated becometh a vehement scouring medicine so likewise Antimony before it be turned into glass or oyl is not known to purge the body which being done is greatly commended against the Dropsie the French Pox Melancholly and divers other diseases which it cureth by purging so that it seemeth art of preparation as it maketh no nature that being a work of the universal nature so may it not onely be a preparer but even a maker of medicines which medicines are not natures as hath been before declared but qualities in natures
even as health and sickness are not of the nature of mans body but even accidents thereto Which being certain let us then consider what an infinite variety of medicines would arise of things the same being used not onely entire but diversly prepared and even corrupted wherein the industry of Alchmistes is verily greatly to be commended and far more excellent then the common Pharmacopolia rather so to be called then Pharmacopoiya by the skill whereof diverse Natures in one thing are so exactly severed every one having a diverse operation Now oft-times because the Humour to be purged is gross and tough and so hardly yieldeth to the Medicine or hath some other evil quality wherewith it might greatly hurt the parts whereby it passeth Nature not forgetting this point hath as abundantly supplied such helps in this behalf as need requireth as for the preparing of Choler Plantine Roses the Verjuice of the Grape Endive Succory Sorrel Sperage c. For Melancholly Violets Borage Bugloss Baulm Fumitory Doddar Ceterach or Fingerfearn c. For Phlegme Fenel Parsley Betony Nep Penerial Thime Savory Germander c. Of these I less stand upon because the preparers of humors are least in controversie although from hence may an argument be drawn not lightly to be passed over to prove the store of purgers seeing nature hath ministred sufficiency of preparers and as it were Harbingers to the purgers of Countrey yield But I will draw to an end and thus much shall suffice for this present purpose to have bin said of Medicines belonging to the cure of all Diseases in the Complexion The other kinde of Diseases are in the frame of the Body and of those if quantity be superfluously increased and that in the whole body medicines which do vehemently waste as those of the third degree hot diminish the same If in the part onely medicines which we call eaters and fretters dispatch the same as Copperas the ashes of Spurge burnt Allom Mercury sublimed and precipitate Verdigreece burnt Salt c. If measure be diminished and that without loss of substance the glewing medicines bring cure whereof our native soil is so stored that for Wounds the Surgeons need neither send into Barbary nor India as Plantine Hounds-tongue the flowers and leafs of Willows Yarrow Carduus Benedictus Betony Scabious Verven Elm-leaves Adders-tongue Moon-wort Herb-turpence Selfheal and these if the wounds be in the fleshy parts If it be breaking of Bones such are joyned with fine flower the brain of a Dog with Wool and the white of an Egg the Holilock-root the moss of the Oke Glew Roses Wormwood c. If there be loss of substance in the fleshy parts either by wound or ulcer Incarnatives fail us not as Barley meal Fenigreek-flower Figbene-meal and to be short all such as be of the first degree hot and dry without eagerness or fellness Now the diseases in the straitness of Passages or Obstructions if they arise of the humors aforesaid and in those places whereto the medicine may conveniently come then are they to be set free by purging If upon other causes or in such places whereto the force of the medicines which purgeth cannot come or hardly entereth or of such causes as be no humours but through some other strange matter or by straitness of the vessels wherethrough the passage is then are other remedies to be used whereof we have great plenty as softners loosers and such as enlarge the pores of the body of which sort are such as be not above the first degree hot as Camomile Lilies new Butter Swines-grease Lin-seed Fenigreek Briony-root all Marrows Also Medicines which make the matter thin or cut it and divide it into sundry parts of which sort are they of the second degree hot to the third degree as Dill Pennerial Savery Organ Thime Marjoran Saint-Johns wort Worm-wood c. Now if the humour prepared be to be voided by place medicine then Salt Salt-water Lye Ashes Allom and Lime take place and if more vehemency be needful Calamint wilde Cresses Treacle Mustard Garden Cresses Mustard-seed Nettles Dragons all the Spurges are to be numbred among the best and if these serve not the root of Crowfoot will make the supply If the humour cannot be voided conveniently except it be altered into another matter of which sort is pent blood out of the veins then are ripening medicines first to be applied as Butter Wheat-flower Sorel Horse-hoof Lilies Marsh-mallows Onions roasted which are all singular ripeners If the matter be tough and clammy the scourers avoid that inconvenience Endive Succory red Roses Plantine Housleek Agrimony Betony Honey Horehound Wormwood Baulm Pimpernel Watergermander c. Now if the matter which stoppeth be the stone as in the Kidneys or Bladder then are these Medicines most convenient for that use Grummel-seed Goats-blood the juice of Mugwort Seahulver-root the stones found in the great Snails heads Radish-roots Saxifrage c. If any hard matter be in other parts the softners and wasters and dissolvers are to be applied Thus much touching the cure of Obstructions and strait Passages which according to the variety of place where they light cause sundry Diseases or rather take to them sundry names As in the Brain the Apoplexy in the bladder of Gall the yellow Jaundies in the Spleen the black in the Sinnews of motion the Palsie or trembling in the Lungs Asthma c. Now if these Passages be too large they are to be stopped and straitned with cooling and drying medicines of which sort in a manner are all of sharp and sowre taste as Vine leaves the Bryer and Bramble Barberries Medlers and Services Quinces and such as are of themselves or by mixture with liquor clammy as Wheat-flower Bean-flower the white of an Egge Plaister washed Lime Litharge and Ceruse Now moreover because in all good cure not onely the cause of the Diseases is to be oppugned but the part also to be strengthned which must needs partly by the cause of the disease and partly even by the conflict of the same cause with the medicine be feebled that nothing be wanting unto us for the restoring of health nature hath provided even speciall munition for every part of the body that the whole furniture against all diseases might be compleat As for the Head Anniseeds Folefoot Betony Calamint Eyebright Lavander Bayes Marjoran Piony Sage Rue or Herbgrace Lettice the Leaves and Flowers of Water-lilies Roses Garden Nightshade For the Lungs Calamint Dragons Licorice Enula campana Hyssope Linseed Horehound the Lungs of a Fox Scabious Water Germander Barley garden Poppy Violets Horsehoof For the Heart Bugloss Borage Saffron Baulm Basil Rosemary Violets the bone of a Stags heart Roses For the Stomach Wormwood Mints Betony Baulm Mint Quinces Medlers Sorrel Purslane For the Liver Dartspine or Chamepitys Germander Agrimony Fenel Endive Succory Liverwort Barbaries For the Spleen Maidenhair Sperage Fingerfearn Doâ—der Dâ—â—der of Thime Hops the bark of the Ash-tree For the Kidneys Seahulver Grumel
Culpeper WHat this Treatise concerns the Title shews the Margine shall also shew you what Planet and Sign of the Zodiack every Herb is under all the several parts of the Body handled in this manner open to you my own Moddel of Physick and draw the Curtain which hath so long blinded the Eyes of the Vnderstanding both of ancient and moddern Physicians here is revealed those hidden qualities A Common-wealth is well hope up with such Physicians which they harping at and onely groaping for could never give a reason of like mad men rather then Naturalists But I desire here to be helpful not critical therefore I shall about the Business promised in the Title by him who loves and delights in the Works of the Lord. Nich. Culpeper Spittle Fields Sol 6. Libra 1649. BAum is of a cherishing nature Sol. Leo. and wonderfully resists passions of the Heart faintings â—nd swoonings it makes the man lightsome and â—lithe merry and chearful it comforts and chears â—he spirits and takes away fears cares and destracted thoughts arising from Melancholly or â—ddust Choller It is hot and dry in the second degree strengthens the inward parts exceedingâ—y helps digestion and opens obstructions of the Brain it naturally preserves the vital Spirits Heart and Arteries from melancholly vapours and is profitable in the bloody Flux and a notable meat for such as have the Gout a sovereign Antidote for such as are poisoned by eating Mushromes I suppose it took its name Balm from its sovereignty in curing Wounds Scordium Jupiter Leo. or Water-Germander is of a heating drying and binding quality and provokes both Urine and the Tearms in Women it is a great Antidote against poison and helps the gnawing pains of the Stomach or Sides comming either through cold or obstructions it stops the bloody Flux easeth the Lungs of old Coughs and rotten Phlegm it keeps bodies from putrefaction resisteth Pestilence Small Pox Meazles faint spots Purples and some are of opinion it withstands any Epidemical Disease whatsoever It comforts and strengthens the Heart exceedingly and nothing better to kill Worms whether in the Stomach or Belly boiled in Vinegar and the place bathed with it helpeth the Gout Vipers Bugloss is a deadly enemy to poison Venus Leâ— and poisonous Creatures there grows enough of it about the Castle Walls at Lewis in Sussex whosoever eats of it shall not be hurt by venemous Beasts that day Crollius in his Basilica Chymica will furnish you with enough such notions it chears and comforts the Heart expels sadness and causeless Melancholly it allayes the heat of the Blood and the fury of Agues by cooling the spirits it procures abundance of Milk in Nurses especially the seed of it it mightily easeth pains in the Back and Reins Jupiter Sol. Burnet is hot and dry in the second degree and is a great friend not onely to the Heart and Liver but also to the whole body of man a little of it put in Wine is not onely delightful to the taste but also wholesom for the body It refresheth the heart quickens the Spirits exceedingly driving away melancholly and indeed the opposition of the house of Saturn to Leo shews that the heart and vital Spirits are impeached by nothing so much as by Melancholly it defends the body from all noysom vapors from ill Air and Pestilence and indeed whatever defends from ill Air must needs defend from all Epidemical diseases for it is the Planets corrupting the air nor the A piece of Colledge nonsence in this time of Fluxes Brewers corrupting their drink that causeth Epidemical diseases It is admirable good in fluxes whether they be of blood or humors whether they be internal or external it stops the whites in women belching and vomiting and is a very good wound Herb for all moist sores Venus Taurus Sorrel is cooling and binding drying in the second degree it opposeth the sting and venom of Scorpions so exceedingly that a man can feel no hurt by them It succors the heart and blood as also the Vital Spirits over-pressed with heat whether you take the Root Herb or Seed if any planet from Scorpious cause the malady this is the cure It resisteth putrefaction exceedingly in the blood and restores weak decayed stomachs it stops fluxes and helps the immoderate flowing of the terms it strengthens the Reins and Kidneyes and hinders the breeding of the Stone neither is there a better remedy in the world for Scrophula or the disease called the Kings evil or any other disease in the neck or throat Violets Venus I can give but little reason if I were asked why I set Violets amongst the Cordials unless I should plead tradition All Physicians have reckoned Violets among the Cordial flowers for my part I believe nothing less they cool inflamations be they internal or external they are especially appropriated to inflamations in the neck and throat fundaments and matrix falled down and inflamed they cool the heat of the Reins thereby resisting the Stone and stopping miscarriages Difficult labours in women thence arising they are excellent in Feavers and Plurisies and hot Rhumes and horseness of the throat Strawberries Venus I know no reason why I may not put in Strawberries here as well as either Violets or Sorrel for neither of them are proper in this place for the heart being the original of heat in the Microcosme no cold thing is properly or per se appropriated to it Strawberries are cold in the first degree the fruit cold and moist temperate the root dry and binding in general they refresh the Spirits ready to faint for heat they cool the liver and blood abate the fury of Chollerick diseases help Palpitation of the heart the yellow Jaundies Inflamations whether internal or external they are excellent in sore mouths sore throats Ulcers in the privitives fasten loose teeth Scabs Itch Tetters and other Martial infirmities of the skin Jupiter Leo. Borage and Bugloss their natures being the same I put them both together they are hot and moist and naturally appropriated to keep the vapors of melancholly from the heart and bridle the unruly passions of the vital Spirit which my Theory of Chyrurgery will manifest to you they make the heart joyful and glad cheerful and merry it clarifies the blood exceedingly opens obstructions of the Liver and helps the yellow Jaundies and by clarifying the blood and removing the addust and sharp humors there must needs be a gallant internal remedy for Scabs Itch Pimples and other infirmities thence arising They help swoonings and passions of the heart and restores such as are pined away either by Consumptions or any other lingring sickness Ros-Solis Sundew It is alwayes moist in hot weather Sol. Cancer yea the hotter the sun shines upon it the moister are the leaves thence it took its name It is excellent good for hot salt Rhumes that distill down upon the Lungs Ulcers in the Lungs coughs shortness of
be made clean or the Nodes taken away and sometimes leave the Bone foul By the which means they purchase to themselves both shame and infamy for within four or five moneths the Ulcers open with great corruption of the Bone Moreover they commit an errour touching the Unction for they anoint the Head the Region of the Heart and other noble parts against all reason and also all the whole body over which is the occasion of many a mans death Therefore to amend these errors when you see that this disease is confirmed and that there are hard Ulcers hard Swelling or Nodes it is the most surest way to mundifie the said Ulcers and to open the Nodes with acaustick then you shall make incision in the Node unto the corruption of the Bone and then apply Praecipitatum or else Pledgets with Basilicon and Praecipitatum mingled together this done you shall take away the corruption of the bone And then after that you may safely use your Unctions made with Axungia Gummes Minerals Oyles and Mercury also if you adde thereto of fine Treacle or Mithridatum it will be the better You shall anoint the Shoulders the Muscles of the Back the Loins the Hips the Thighs the Knees and all the outward members as Legs and Arms. But you must take very good heed that you touch not the Head the Region of the Heart the Somach nor the ridge of the Back Also you must have a good respect to cease your anointing in such order that you bring not too many accidents to the mouth whereby the Patient may utterly lose the use both of his Tongue and Teeth Because that so many ignorant Chyrurgeons have taken upon them this cure without either discretion in applying the Unction or ordering of the Patient I have thought good to write two or three words touching the ordering of the Patient When the body is prepared with apt and meet Medicines as well Syrrups Decoctions Purgings and opening of the Vein according to the disposition of the body the Patient shall be placed in a place naturally hot or else otherwise made warme which must be free from all cold having the doors windows and other open places closely stopt for the cold Air is very hurtful both for the Sinewie parts and also for the working of Medicines for it will diminish and hinder the actions thereof And in this case there are many which commit great errors which are worthy of reprehension for as well in the Winter as in the Summer they anoint the Patients in great and large Chambers where very much Air entreth Wherefore at the beginning of this cure if the place be not very close and warm you shall make a Pavilion with Coverings and such other like round about a fire by the which means you shall keep the cold Air from the Patient But if it be possible it is better to have a little Chamber close and warm and also continually a pan with Coles in the midst of it If it be so that the Patients be so weak that they cannot abide the heat of the fire or would be loath to be seen naked as Women or Maids you shall anoint them lying in their Beds First the Patient shall put out one Arm and then the other and so the rest of the parts shall be anointed one after another And you shall use the Patients from time to time to such a course as is required against the disease The third Error is concerning Wounds piercing into the Breast IT fortuneth oftentimes that the Wounds pierce the hollowness of the Breast so that great quantity of blood doth fall down into the bottom of the same and there doth stay upon the Diaphragma also the heaviness of the said blood oppresseth the Diaphragma Diaphragma is two Muscles which go overthwart the Breast and separateth the Heart from the Liver and putrefieth and ingendreth an evil Qualtity The which putrefaction sending Vapors to the heart causeth a continual Feaver and commonly death within ten dayes Of the which the common Chyrurgeons have no consideration or else by their ignorance they know not the cause and so the Patient is destitute of all help Wherefore when you see that the Wound pierceth into the Thorax or Breast you shall take good advisement in searching out diligently whether the Blood be descended into the lower part of the Diaphragma the which may be known by the stinking of the Breath and by the relation of the Patient which doth feel the Blood quivering or shaking inwardly And also commonly his face will be of a reddish or high colour by reason of the Vapors which ascend up And note that at the which side the blood doth most remain in lying upon the same side the Patient shall feel less pain then upon the other because that the said blood oppresseth the Lungs and the Diaphragma the Chyrurgeon ought to have a good respect to the signâ— above written and whilest that the strength of the Patient is yet remaining it shall be needful to make way for the said blood to be evacuated between the fourth and fifth rib a hand breadth or a little more from the ridge of the back and your Incision-knife being very sharp also you shall do it by little and little very gently in cutting Mesopleuria or the Muscles between the ribs it ought to be done toward the lower part of the said Muscles for the Vein which nourisheth them and the Ligaments which giveth them their moving and feeling are placed more above then below After that the Incision is made you shall let out the corrupted blood by little and little according to your discretion and it shall sufficc to evacuate every dressing five or six ounces this done it shall be very profitable to use the wonted Potions which you shall finde in the writings of learned Practitioners which have largely written of the said potions and by this means above written I healed four in one year The which cures without the aforesaid remedies could never have been done for the which I give unto God most hearty thanks The foruth Error touching the applications of the Traepans Terebelles for fractures of the Head IN the fractures of the Scull there are committed great errors touching the application of the Traepan principally when the bone is broken in many parts for they have no consideration of the shivering of the Scull but apply the Traepan by the which means they press down the shivers of the bone upon the Dura Mater and rent or tear it in such order that it produceth grievous accidents whereby commonly death ensueth Wherefore in this case you shall have a good consideration before that you apply the Traepan for it is better if it be possible in this case to use other Instruments as Eleviatories Cisers Lenticuli or such other like to make way for the bruised matter which depresseth the Dura Mater it shall be the better and less danger for the Patient By this means I
to be noted first that the Testicles are covered with three Tunicles the first of them takes his original of the skin and is called Scrotum or Purss the second which takes his original of the Peretoneum and is called Dartos the third which is proper to the said Testicle and is called Heritroides these two last do not onely cover the Testicles but also the Spermatick vessels as well they which bring the substance wherewith the Sperm is made which are named Preparans as them which bring the Sperm to the neck of the Bladder which is called Ejaculatores or expelling the which goes up to Ossa pubis Phlebotomy displayed OR Perfect Rules for the letting of Blood GAllen Ipocras and Avicenna and other Masters of Physick accord and say That lettting blood of the Vein and that is called Phleobatomatum or it is ventosing carving or cutting and letting blood of any of these wise is good for mans health of body for Blood immingled with other humors that is too much or else corrupted by the cause of much sickness it is therefore good to know which Veins in a man should be let blood and for what Sickness The Vein in the Forehead is good for the Frenzie and aking of the Head and for the Megrum and for the Morphew and Scab in the Face for the Posthumes in the Eyes both hot and cold The Vein in the Heart is good for a mans minde and for the Rhume that is within the Forehead and for the watering Eyes The Veins in the Temple is good for the Megrum and for the Head-ache of the Eyes and that hath long lasted for the sickness of the Eyes for ache in the Eyes and for the great heat in the Temples The Veins behinde the Ears is good for the Blains and Pimples of the Head for the Megrum and Ache of the Head it helpeth mans minde it is good for Tooth-ache and for the Gums and for all vices in the Mouth and it purgeth the Rhume of the Head The Veins in the corner of the Eyes next the Nose is good for the Megrum for all the sickness of the Eyes and for the Sight Cephica tum prius apta The Vein in the top of the Nose it purgeth the Brain it is good for Ache and Flux of the Eyes and for the Ache of the Nose The Vein in the Cheeks is good for the Megrum and for Spots or Scabs in the Head The vein in the Mold is best for to bleed and for to wash thy Head with the same bloud The Veins of the over Lip and the nether be good for hot Blains in the Mouth and for Aposthumes and for hot evils in the Mouth or Gums The Vein under the Tongue is good for Posthumes and Rhumes of the Head and Gums and all manner of vice of the Eyes Mouth Tongue Tooth-aching and Blains of the Nose Mouth Gums and for the Aposthumes and swellings under the Throat The Veins under the Chin is good for the Kings-evil and for Sauce-flean for Spots and Blains in the Face and other Aches of the Eyes the Gums and for Ache in the Nose The Veins of the Neck before is good for the Squinancy and for all manner of Aposthumes and Swellings that come from the Head to the Ears or to the Gums that causeth the Tooth-ache when the breath beginneth to be short The Vein of Liver that is called Bosilica it is good for the Jaundies and for chafing of the Liver and for all manner of Dropsies and it is good for all evils in the Breast and aking of the Back Shoulders Sides and Stomach and for the Posthume that is called Pleusis The Head Vein that is called Cephanica it is good for the Megrum and for Head-ache and for madness of the minde for ache and all other vices in the Eyes Teeth Tongue the Squinancy and other evils that come to the Throat The Heart Vein that is called Cardiaca ut medium it is gentle Purgacions for it draweth bloud and humors of all the body but namely it is good for the Sickness and Purgations of the Heart Breast Stomach Liver and Lungs The Vein above the Thumb is good against all Feavers and most Feaver quartane and for evils of the Gall and for streightness of the Breast The Vein between the Thumb and the Fore-finger let bloud for the hot Head-ache for Frensie and madness of Wit and for Sickness of the Head Cephanica let the blood of the Vein in the Forehead if it be needful The same vein of the left hand is good for Lithargy and afterward bleed in the Forehead The Vein which is between the little finger and the next thereto is called Salva cella you must let blood in the right hand for Aposthumes and Sicknesse in the Stomach and for all evil humors about the Liver The same Vein on the left hand is for to let bloud for Imposthumes and gathering of evil humors about the Milt and Spleen it is good for the black Jaundies The over Vein in the Yard is good for the Cramp and for Sctatica passio for swelling of the Womb for the Dropsie and for the Stone The nether Vein of the Yard is good for the sides for the Reins Bladder for swelling of the Stones and for the Emerodes The Vein beneath the knee helpeth the knees and it is good for aking of the thighs and the joynts that is called Sciatica passio The Veins beneath the knees both within and without is good for the Liver Sides and Thighs and for the matter that is above and to draw downward The Vein in the Hams is best for holding of Womens Purgations for it is the next matter as saith Aviceri and also it cleanseth mans body The Vein that is under the Knuckle which is called Sophena It is good for Aposthumes Swellings and akings and other evils that comes to mans body from the Head to the Foot it asswageth them it is good for the Stone and letting of urine it helps the Matrice and womens purgations it is good for the Seab that is called Malum mortum de Bassilica The Vein that is under the Knuckle without that is called Sianca it is good for aking that is in the Thighs and goeth down to the Legs and to the Feet and for the Podagar and for the Seab it helpeth most the aking of the Thighs and Joynts that is called Sciatica passio The Vein that cometh to the great Toe on either Foot it is good for the Gout in the Eyes for Blans and Spots in the Face and for Postumes and Evils of the Stones for the Blood for Cankers Festers and Sores in the Thighs and Legs and for withholding of Womens Purgations As for the time of letting Blood to wit that neither in hot weather nor yet in great cold nor in rainy weather nor in misty weather nor in the weather of great tempests nor in the old Moon nor in the new that is to say four dayes before the change
and Ribwort or a Poltis made of the same with a little Barley-meal and Vinegar if withal you exercise your body much and apply this to the Region of the Liver you shall finde it an excellent cure 4 Fill a Pot almost full with the Juyce of Plantane and binde a Linnen cloth over the Pot and upon the Linnen cloth put wood-ashes in that manner set it over the fire and let it boyl till half be consumed strain out what remains unconsumed and give three or four spoonfulls of it every morning to them that are afflicted with the Dropsie and you shall see the wonderful effects of it 5 Goats blood dried on the fire and a drachm of it given at a time in the morning in any convenient Liquor will soon help the Dropsie 6 Take the Juyce of white Briony Roots and mix it with its double weight of Honey 't is an excellent Purge for such as have the Dropsie but give not too much at a time 7 The Bark of the Root of an Elder-tree is a very good remedy for the Dropsie being boyled in Water and the Decoction drunk and yet in all probability the Bark of the Root of Dwarf Elder is better then it if you cannot with convenience get the Bark of the Root take the Bark of the Branches there cannot be much difference if there be any at all 8 Mustard-seed dried and beaten into powder a drachm of it taken every morning in good Wine helpeth the Dropsie it is a gentle remedy and usually sure yet this is certain one remedy will not cure one disease in all Bodies if it would there need be but one remedy for one Disease 9 Hyssop boyled in Wine and the Decoction drunk not onely cureth the Hidropical humors but also hindreth them that they cannot ingender again 10 If those that have the Dropsie be anointed with common durt such as is found in cart wayes or upon cart wheels in a very short time it cureth them 11. The speedy and quaint way to cure the Dropsie is to let the Patient drink every morning a spoonful of the Piss of a Black Goat if you cannot with convenience get a Black Goat get a Black Sheep and let him drink a spoonful of his piss in the Decoction of Spikenard 12 A man 's own Urine being drunk is very good in this Disease 13 The fat of a Dolphin melted and drunk with Wine helpeth such as are sick of the Dropsie 14 The powder of a Load-stone drunk with Milk cureth the Disease CHAP. 4. Of the Spleen THe Spleen is a small member in the body of Man lying in the left Hippocondria but it is an exceeding troublesome part and often subject to Diseases and when it is iseased it disturbs the whole body 2 The decoction of the inner Rinde of an Ash-tree being made in White Wine and a good draught of it drunk in the morning whilst the stomach is empty is a certain remedy for such as are troubled with the Spleen 3 A Poltis made with Goats dung and strong Vinegar and moistened with a little Sheeps suet and applied to the left side and often renewed makes the Patient whole 4 Make a Decoction with Harts-tongue Cetrarh and White Wine and let the Patient drink of it thirty mornings together and it will help them of the Spleen 5 The leaves of a Willow-tree or if the season of the year afford ye not the leaves take the Bark stamp it with Salt and apply it Plaisterwise to the left side it appeaseth the ache and grief of the Spleen 6 Ivy-leaves used in like manner work the same effect 7 Harts-tongue Agrimony the leaves of Willows and Ivy being boyled in Water and Honey and the decoction drunk easeth the hardness and other ill qualities of the Spleen 8 The powder of a Fox dried upon hot coles if it be given to drink doth utterly waste the Spleen 9 The Twigs of Willows boyled and the Decoction drunk for common drink doth the like 10 Penniroyal boyled with Salt and applyed to the grief taketh away the ill humors of thâ— Spleen 11 That plaister which is called Amoniacum cum Cicuta being spread upon Leather and applied to the Region of the Spleen is an excellent good remedy 12 Bind the Spleen of a Dog to the Region of the Spleen of the Patient and it will help him in one night CHAP. 5. For the Yellow Jaundies TAke an Apple and cut off the top and pick out the Core then put into the Apple a drachm of Turmerick powder and ten or twelve grains of Saffron whole put on the top again roste it by a gentle fire then take it off and adding a little butter to it mash it all together and eat it last at night going to bed this doing in few nights will cure you 2 A Medicine for the Yellow Jaundies which seldome fails is this to swallow down Lice alive you may swallow them down in what you please 3 The Urine of the Patient drunk with Juyce of Horehound helpeth the Jaundies 4 Ivory in powder is a very good help for the Jaundies 5 Yet in my opinion Spodium which is nothing else but burnt Ivory is far better because it strengtheneth the Liver exceedingly and it is impossible the body should be afflicted with the Yellow Jaundies and not both Liver and Spleen exceedingly weakened 6 The proper cause of the Yellow Jaundies is a stoppage in the Biliar pores 7 The Juyce of Cammomile given to drink to the Patient diseased with the Yellow Jaundies is a presenr remedy CHAP. 6. Of the Stone THe cause of the Stone either in the Kidneys or Bladder is the heat of either part which hardneth the gross slimy substance into a Stone 2 Goats Blood dried and beaten into powder being taken inwardly is a very good remedy 3 The powder of Burnt Grashoppers is also very Good 4 If the Region of the Bladder be anointed often with the Blood of a Fox the Stone will break incontinently as appears for if you put a Stone into the Blood of a Fox it will break in three dayes time 5 And here take notice by the way that many times people in avoiding gravel have some great Stone stick by the way in the passage of the Yard which is many times forced to be taken out by cutting in such a case if the party did but hold his Yard in the warm Blood of a Fox it would in a short time be made small enough to come out of it self without any such troublesome or painful remedy 6 And although it is very probable the Blood of a Fox is not alwayes at present to be had yet it may be dried and kept for use whereby it may be alwayes had at present and may be dissolved in any convenient Liquor when there is need of its use and of all Liquors I suppose Vinegar to be the best because of its piercing quality 7 Take nine Ivy berries and beat them into powder and give them to
kinde of Excrement is common to all living Creatures as well Beasts as Men for which cause Nature as a wise Mother hath provided that every concoction hath its excrement or superfluity the Stomach sends out dung the Liver Urine the Veins Sweat so after the third and last concoction which is done in every part of the body that is nourished there is left some profitable blood reserved by Nature for Procreation which blood we call the Generative Seed the timely evacuation whereof avails much for the bodies health for by it the body is made light and disburthened of Phlegm and other superfluous humors which otherwise would wax rank as may be observed in ancient Maids and some chaste Schollers for besides their secret flames and imbridled affections which dispose their mindes to extravigant imaginations we see them also ill complexioned by reason of such vaporous fumes which ascend up towards their cloudy brains To pass over other inconveniences they are subject to as the Green-sickness the Night-mare the Spleen the palpitation and trembling of the heart and their polluted dreams the best advice I can give such persons is to marry in the fear of God and chiefly those are required who are Sanguine or lean for such persons abound with blood Physicians hold the Winter to be the best time for Carnal Copulation and in the Spring-time when Nature is desirous without the help of Arts and Drugs and at night when the stomach is full and the body somewhat warm that sleep immediately after it may lenifie the Lassitude caused through the action thereof In the Summer in May and July when the Spittle thickens on the ground it cannot be so wholesome nor in frosty wâ—ather Immoderate Venery weakeneth the strength hurts the brain extinguisheth radical moisture and hasteneth on old age and death the Spâ—rm or Seed of generation being one of the greatest comforters of life which being wilfully shed or lost hurteth more then if he should bleed forty times as much That Batchelors and Maids may drive away their unclean dreams at nights let them refrain from Wine and Venerious Imaginations not use to lie in soft Beds let them read the Bible and moral Philosophers use exercises let them eat Agnus Castus in English Park and they shall finde a strange effect to follow Of Bathing BAthing in cold Water so that the same be clear clear from Rain or a silver colour'd Brook in the summer time before meats doth wonderfully delight nature provoke the appetite and is very good against Rhumes the Dropsie and Gout and causes digestion you shall finde it wonderful expedient sometimes to bathe the head with hot Lee made of ashes after which you must cause one presently to pour three or four quarts of cold water then let the head be dried with cold Towels the suddain powring down of the water stirs up the natural heat of the body quickneth the memory keepeth from baldness In the summer washing of the hands often doth much avail the eye-sight In the Winter time when the Water is cold and Frozen this kinde of artificial Bath is very expedient and wholsome take two pounds of Turpentine four ounces of the Juyce of Wormwood and Wilde Mallows one ounce of fresh â—â—cor one dram of Saffron mingle them and seethe them a pretty while and being hot wet four Linnen cloathes therein and therewith bathe your self or else make a Bath after this manner take Fumitory Enula Compana Leaves Sage Fetherfue Rosemary and Wormwood of each a handful or two seethe them in a sufficient quantity of water till they be soft and put as much as a Walnut of Allom and a little Brimstone powder and therewith bathe the affected places of the body he that uses these bathes in convenient time may live healthfully for by them superfluous excrements are extracted in sweat But with this caution I commend Baths that no person that is distempered through Venery Gluttony Fasting Watching or violent Exercise do enter into them Diet for a Feaver and Ague I Do advertise every one that hath a Feaver or an Ague to eat no meat six hours before his fit doth take him and in no wise as long as the Ague doth endure to put off his shirt or dublet nor to rise out of the bed but when need shall require and in any wise not to go nor take the open Air for such provision may be had that at the uttermost at the third fit he may be delivered of the Feaver Let the Patient beware of casting his hands and arms at any time or to spraul with his Legs out of the bed it is good for the space of three fits to wear continually Gloves and not to wash the hands He is to eat little and those temperate meats to refrain from Wine Beer and Cider and all other things whatsoever that are not of a very light digestion Diet for the Chollick and the Stone THe Iliack and Chollick are ingendred of ventosity the which is intrused or inclosed in two Guts the one is called Ilia and the other is called Colon for these two infirmities one must beware of cold and it is not good to be long fasting and necessary to be laxative but in no wise to be constupate These things following are not good for those which have these aforesaid infirmities new bread stale bread new ale they must abstain also from drinking of Beer of Cider of Red Wine and Cinamon also refrain from all meats that Honey is in from eating of cold Herbs Beans Pease Pottage beware of fruits and of all things the which do ingender winde For the Stone abstain from eating of Red herring Martilmas-beef and Bacon salt fish salt meats Beware of going cold about the middle especially about the Reins of the back and make no restriction of wine and water nor seege that water would expel Diet for several kindes of the Gout They which are troubled with the Gout or any kinde of it I do advertise them not to sit too long forgetting to exonerate the bladder and the belly when need shall require and also to beware the Legs hang not without some stay nor that the Boots or Shoes be not over strait Whosoever hath the Gout must refrain from drinking of new Ale of Beer and Red Wine Also he must not eat new Bread Eggs fresh Salmon Eels Fresh Herring Pilcherds Oysters all shell fish he must avoid the eating of fresh Beef of Goose of Duck and of Pigeons he must beware of taking of cold in his Legs or riding or going wetshod Beware of Venerous acts after refection or after or upon a full stomach from all things that ingender evil humors and are inflative Diet for the Lepors HE that is infected with any of the four kindes of Leprosie must refrain from all manner of Wines and from new drinks and strong Ale let him beware of riot and surfeiting let him abstain from eating of Spices Dates from Tripes Puddings and all inwards of Beasts Fish
never saw any of those fat and therefore I suspect their goodness certain it is old Pikes are hard and tough to digest young ones called Jacks are too waterish and moist one of the middle growth is the most likely to nourish Of Roaches ROches according to the old Proverb a sound as a Roach are accounted incapable of any disease hence we account them wholesome they are full of bones which make them the less regarded Of Salmon SAlmon is a fat tender short and sweet flesh it soon glutteth and fills the stomach they are most commended which go furthest up iâ— fresh Rivers those worst which are taken nearest the Sea salt Salmon loseth a double goodness one of a good taste the other of a good nourishment Of Smelts SMelts so called because they smell so sweet their flesh is of the finest lightest softest and best juyce of any fish their excellency is in the Winter when they are full of spawns The Western are most esteemed Of Trouts TRouts in Northumberland are very large others smaller they are very pleasant and good meat for sound persons Of wilde tame Fowl and small Birds That a Partridge of all Fowls is soonest digested it is a restorative meat comforts the brain and the stomach augments carnal lust The woodcock is a meat of good temperature quails Plovers and Lapwings nourish but little for they ingender melancholy humors yong turtle Doves and Pheasants ingender good blood A Crane is hard of digestion and doth ingender evil blood A young Hernsew is lighter of digestion then a Crane A Buzzard well killed and ordered is very nutritive The Bittour is not so hard of digestion as is the Hernsew A Shoveler is lighter of digestion then a Bittour All these are noisome except they be well ordered and dressed A Pheasant-hen a Moor-cock and a Moor-hen except they do sit are very nutritive All manner of wilde Fowl which live by the water are hard of digestion Of tame domestical Fowl OF all tame Fowl a Capon is best is most nourishing and is soonest digested A Hen in Winter is good and nutritive and so are Chickens in Summer especially Cockrels and Pullets the which are untrod the flesh of a Cock is hard of digestion the broth or gelly of 〈◊〉 Cock is restorative Pigeons are good for cholâ—erick and melanchollick persons Geese and Ducks except the green Geese are not of easie digestion Young Pea-chickens half a year old breed good nourishment Of small Birds All manner of small Birds are good and light of digestion except Sparrows Titmouses Colmouses and Wrens the which eat Spiders and Poison are not commendable Of all small Birds the Lark is best the Black-bird the Thrush Rasis and Isaack praise yong Stares but I do conclude because they are bitter in eating that they ingender Choller Of Beef BEef is an excellent meat if the Beast be yong and is not Cow-flesh for old Beef and Cow-flesh do ingender melancholly and gross humors If it be moderately powdred that the gross blood by salt is exhausted it doth make an English man strong Martinmas-beef which is called hanged Beef in the smoak is not wholesome it may fill the belly and cause one to drink but it is naught for the Stone and evâ—â— of digestion and makes no good juyce Of Mutton and Lamb. MUtton with Rasis and Averroyes is good meat but Gallen doth not commend it and surely they hint at some reason considering that this Beast is so soon infected nor dotâ— there happen so great a Murren and Sickness to any four-footed Beast as doth to the Sheep Notwithstanding if the Sheep be fed in a good Pasture and fat and do not flavour of the Wool it is good for sick persons for it doth ingender excellent blood Lamb is moist and phlegmatick it is not good for old persons except of a melancholly complexion nor for phlegmatick men to feed except very moderately Of Veal VEal is a nourishing meat for it is soon digested Whereupon many Authors hold the opinion that it is the best flesh and the most nutritive meat that can be for mans sustenance Of Pork and Bacon WHereas Gallen with other ancient and approved Doctors praise Pork in holy Scripture it is not allowed for a Swine is an unclean Beast and doth lie upon stinking and filthy soils and with stercorous matter Pork if it be of an old Hog not clean kept it ingenders gross blood humects too much the stomach if the Pork be young it is nutritive Bacon is good for Carters and Plough-men which labour but if they have the Stone and use to eat it they will endure great misery Of Brawn BRawn is an usual meat in Winter amongst Englishmen it is hard of digestion The Brawn of a wilde Boar is much better then the Brawn of a tame one Of Pigs PIgs especially Sow-pigs are nutritive and made in a gelly is a restorative if the Pig be fleaed the skin taken off and then stewed with restoratives as a Cock is stewed to make a gelly A young fat Pig is wholesome if it be well ordered in the roasting the skin not eaten Of Kid. YOung Kids flesh is praised above all other flesh as Avicen Rasis and Averroys affirm it is temperate and nutritive although it be somewhat dry Of wilde Beasts THe opinion of all ancient Physicians was and is that Venison is not good to eat principally for two causes The first is that this Beast doth live in fear and his timerosity causes melancholly humors The second cause is as it doth ingender chollerick humors it is a Lords dish good for an Englishman for it doth animate him to be as he is which is strong and hardy Of the Hare A Hare maketh a Gentleman good pastime and better for the Hounds or Dogs to eat the Hare after they have killed it then man for it is not praised The Scripture saith The Hare is an unclean Beast In Physick Hares flesh is dry and doth ingender melancholly humors Of Rabbits COneys flesh is good but Rabbits flesh is best of all wilde Beasts for it is temperate and doth nourish and singularly praised in Physick for all things the which doth suck is nutritive Of the Head Brains Fat Skins Fins Marrow Blood Tongues Stones and Inwards of Flesh or Fish THe Heads of Fish and the Fat especially of Salmon and Conger is not good for them which are disposed to Rheum the heads of Lampries and Lamprons and the string which is within them is not good to eat refrain from eating of the skins of flesh and fish and burned and brown meat it ingenders viscus humors and Choller and Melancholly and makes opilations The Brains of any beast are not wholesome except the brains of a Kid for they are evil of digestion and hurt the appetite and stomach they are cold moist and viscus A hot stomach may eat them but they ingender gross humors The brains of a Woodcock and of a Snipe and such like are commestible the
fore-part of all manner of beasts and fowls are more hotter and lighter of digestion then the hinder parts are The marrow of all beasts are hot and moist are nutritive if well digested they mollifie the stomach and take away the appetite wherefore one should eat Pepper with it The blood of all beasts and fowls are not wholesome but hard of digestion All the inwards of beasts and of fowls as the heart the liver the lungs tripes trilibubs with all the entrails is hard of digestion and doth encrease gross humors The fat of flesh is not so much nutritive as the lean it is best when lean and fat is mixt one with another The tongues of beasts are hard of digestion and of little nourishment The stones of a Cockrel and stones of other beasts are very nourishing Of roasted boiled bak't fried meats BEyond Sea at the Universities boiled meat is used at dinner and roast to supper as boiled meat is lighter of digestion Broiled meats are hard of digestion and naught for the Stone fried meat is harder of digestion then broiled it ingenders Choller and Melancholly Bak't meat buried in paste is not praised in Physick All manner of flesh which is inclined to humidity should be roasted and all flesh which is dry should be boiled Fish may be sod roasted broiled and baken every one after their kinde and use and fashion of the Countrey as the Cook and the Physician may agree and devise For a good Cook is half a Physician Of the Roots of Borage and Bugloss THe Roots of Borage and Bugloss sod tender and made in a succade do ingender good blood and a wholesom temperance Of Elisaunder and Elina Campane THe Root of Alisaunder sod tender and made in a succade is good for to destroy the Stone in the Reins of the Back and Bladder the Roots of Elina Campane sod tender in a succade is good for the breast for the lungs and for all the interial members of man Of Parsley and Fennel THe Roots of Parsley sod tender and made in succade are good for the Stone and to make a man piss Fennel sod is good for the lungs and the sight Of Turnips and Parsnips TUrnips boiled and eaten with flesh augments the seed if they be eaten raw and moderately they provoke a good appetite Parsnips sod doth encrease nature and are nutritive and expels urine Of Raddish and Carrets RAddish roots doth break winde and do provoke urine but they be not good for those which have the Gout Carrets sod augment and encrease nature and cause urine Of the Roots of Rapes RApe roots if they be well boiled nourish if they be moderately eaten immoderately they ingender ventosity and offend the stomach Of Onions ONions provoke to Venery and Sleep and if a man drink sundry drinks they rectifie and reform the variety of the operation of them they cause a good appetite Of Leeks LEeks open the breast and provoke urine cause and encrease bad blood Of Garlick GArlick of all roots is much used in France and some other Countreys it opens the breast and it doth kill wormes in the belly which the Lumbrici Ascarides and Cutuibicini which are small little long worms that tickle in the fundament it also heats the body and desolves gross winds Of Cabbage CAto in his book De re rustica writes too highly in praise of Cabbages as he judges them to be a sufficient medicine against all diseases some are of opinion if they are eat raw before meat with Vinegar that they preserve the stomach from Surfeits and the brain from drunkenness this I am certain of that if they are constantly eat they injure the sight except the eyes are very moist they cause and break winde the opinion of most writers is that they are not so wholesom as Lettice being hot in the first and dry in the second degree Of Asparagrass NO kinde of Herbs nourish more being freed from their bitterness and eaten hot they are temperately moist and exceed not in heat the first degree they increase Venery strengthen the Liver and help conception Of Musk Melons MUsk Melons are not so moist or cold as the ordinary sort of Melons are they ingender better blood and descend more speedily into the belly fruits of this kinde are dangerous not to be eaten presently out of the ground but rather let them lie a week though that they are ripe that there watrish moisture may be abated Garden Pompeons and Melons may lie in a warm Kitching till Christmas Of Potata Roots POtata roots nourish mightily either Sod Bak't or rosted the newest and heaviest are the best they ingender much flesh blood and seed Of Raddishes RAddishes cause rank belchings are hardly digested they burn the blood ingender Lice cause Leanness spoil the eye-sight and corrupt the whole mass of nourishment Of Skirret Roots SKirret Roots have a long string within them which taken away before they are sod makes them eat exceeding sweet they are of a milde and temperate nature agreeing with complexions did we know all the vertues of them they would be more nourished then they are in our Gardens Of Borage and Bugloss BOrage doth comfort the heart ingender good blood and causeth mirth so doth Bugloss which is taken of more vigour strength and efficacy Of Artechokes and Rokat THere is nothing usually to be eaten of Artechokes but the heads of them when they are almost ripe sodden tender in the broth of Beef or with Beef eat them at dinner they increase nature and provoke Venery Rokat doth increase the seed stumulate the flesh and doth help digestion Of Succory and Endive SUccory doth help the Stomach and keep the head in temper and qualifie Choller Endive is good for them which have hot and dry hot Stomachs Of white Beets and Purslane WHite Beets are good for the Liver and for the Spleen are abstercine Purslane doth abate the ardor of lasciviousness and mittigates heat in the inward parts of the head and eyes if preserved in brine it heats and purges the stomach it is cold in the third degree and moist in the second Of Time and Parsley TIme breaketh the Stone desolves winde and causeth Urine Parsley breaks the Stone causeth Urine is good for the Stomach and causeth a sweet breath Of Lettice and Sorrel LEttice extincts Venery causeth milk in womens Breasts it is good for a hot Stomach provokes sleep increases blood temperates it Sorrel is good for a hot Liver and also for the Stomach being sod it looseth the belly in the time of the Plague taken fasting sucking or chewing some of the Leaves it preserues against infection the seeds thereof brewed and drunk with Wine and water are good against the Chollick and the stopping of Fluxes excellent against overcharged Stomachs Sorrel possets are soveraign in sundry distempers This Herb is cold in the third and dry in the second degree Of Marigolds MArigolds the Herb and Flowers are of great use with us amongst other
accompanied with a loathing of meat frequent belchings and extream pains in the Reins The cause of this Stone is a gravelly and sandy constitution and immoderate heat of the Kidneys for the most part of a gross and slimy humor Those that are troubled with this Disease are loose bodied and do often vomit this Disease in old men is hardly cured The air where the Patient lives must be clear and bright his diet moderate he may drink small Wine he must avoid exercise his belly must be kept loose he may sleep more then ordinary his minde being free from perturbations Of thickness of Hearing SUch men as cannot understand a loud voice such men we say are deaf sometimes the cause of this effect is in it self sometimes by accident when as the Brain or Nerve through which this faculty is conveighed is hurt This Disease is known by the Patients complaints and answers this Disease is sometimes caused by the distemper of the Brain by gross or cold humors thrust into the ears and there fastned this Disease if it slowly increase in process of time brings with it an incureable deafness The air for the Patient to live in must be hot and dry he is to abstain as much as may be from meat especially from those that breed gross vapors his drink must be small Wine his exercise moderate his belly kept loose by art or nature Of Madness MAdness or Fury is an inflamation of melancholly to the great fierceness and alienation of the mind Such as have this Disease rage like beasts Madness differs from a Phrenzie as a Feaver is the companion of a Phrenzie from which madness is free the part affected is the Brain which doth appear by the hurt of the principal functions of the minde The signs of this disease are various sometimes laughing singing then sad fearful rash doating crying out threatning skipping leaping then serious c. This Disease doth chiefly arise from the distemper of the Brain from hot or melancholly humors so much sometimes dried up as to turn to black Choller sometimes by yellow Choller over-burnt or the boiling of the blood Young persons are most subject to it it is an ill sign if the Patient have no stomach a good if Ulcers arise in the face The air the person lives in must be temperate his diet liquid broths and moistners of the body his drink Barley-water by no means Wine except his disease came by fear moderate exercise more then usual sleep strangers must not see him Of Shortness of Breathing CAlled the Asthma it is a thick and a fast breathing without a Feaver such as is usual to them which run this disease often pestreth the Patient so that he cannot breath except he hold his neck streight up and if he lies down it almost choaks him in this distemper the Wind-pipes branches scattered into the Lungs distance are affected The Patient in this distemper findes a heaviness at his breast and feels a straitness and shrinkings coughs often and voids nothing in old men this disease is never cured hardly in young men The air the Patient breaths must be hot and dry he must forbear such meat as breed gross and slimy matter his exercises must be little his sleeps in the day time those in the night very moderate his mind not perturbed Of the Worms THis disease is for the most part caused by the stopping of the passages of the vessels through which the Gall is conveyed from the Liver and Spleen into the Bowels by reason of gross humors which do heat the Liver and generate plenty of Gall therein these Worms which do breed in the Bowels are called Lumbrici or Belly Worms there are others which are called Ascarides like to Mites which breed in rotten Cheese It is evident that Worms are of several kindes as they breed in many parts of the body in rotten Ulcers in Teeth in Ears and Kidneys but the Guts are for the most affected Those that are troubled with the Ascarides have an extream itch in their fundament and narrow Guts have a desire to go often to the stool after they have voided somewhat they are not so much troubled The cause of worms commonly is rottenness or gross Phlegmy and slimy matter apt to corrupt with a putrefying heat which accompanies all these which doth prepare this matter and then it is wrought by the perfusion of natural heat which gives life to the Worms many persons of age and stature have slighted the Worms till their Guts have been fretted and brought into danger of death For the remedy the air must be temperate the meat such as breed good Juyce Let the Patient eat largely or else the Worms will gnaw their Gutts for wants of sustenance the excrements of the Belly must be kept loose Of the Plague THe Plague is caused by unusual and pernicious putrefaction sometimes the constitution of the body is so different from the natural temperature that it is altogether changed into a pernicious and poysonous quality This disease is sometimes caused by corrupt and poysonous exhalations by Carrion by the evil influence of the Stars which is then the immediate hand of God and properly called the pestilence when it proceeds from outward causes 't is called a pestilent Feaver or the Plague the air infected first gets into the heart the air being subtle thin and apt to get into the pores it first infects the Genital Spirits then the Radical Moisture at last the whole substance of the body This disease first begins to discover it self by the Patients unquietness loss of his appetite the members dull and heavy the head aking the stomach pained the spirits decayed strength failing especially the Vital with many other Symptomes except the disease be supernatural and then the signs are so gentle that they can scarcely be perceived the infected air which is a great cause doth not onely weaken the humors and spirits of the body but also the sollid substance of the heart The Plague of all other diseases is most dangerous for although the signs are good yet suddenly the Patient dies the danger is the greater if no Pushes or Carbuncles break forth it is also as dangerous if they break and run in again this disease is consummated and brought to its full ripeness in four and twenty hours if a cold sweat arise on the body the face and eyes look black the spirits are cast down extraordinarily and the Patients excrements that are voided diversly coloured it is a sign of death The air must be rectified by sweet perfumes every day they must not be spared At the beginning of the disease the diet must be cooling the sleep short for by long sleeping the corrupt matter turns again to the heart Venery must be eschewed the belly kept loose and the minde freed from all careful perturbations Catarracta or Suffusion IS when the sight is by little and little dulled by a slimy humor frozen from Ice and droping over the eyes
the tears that flow from the eyes are salt and hot The Patients air must be dry cold and obscure his meat somewhat cooling and little nourishing he must eat little in the first dayes of his cure his sleep must be long his belly evacuated and his minde kept pleasant Of the Night-Mare THe Night-Mare called Incubus is a Disease in which one doth think that a great weight lies on him in his sleep it differs from the Falling-sickness as the cause of it is venomous so is not the Hag or Night-Mare there being no Convulsion as in the Falling-sickness The part affected is the Heart-walls or part of the Midriff the sense of the Patient in his sleep is stupified he supposes himself to be stifled insomuch that he cannot speak a word he groans and his fancy is so disturbed that he thinks a Spirit is there whence the anguish of his minde is caused so that he desires to cry out but cannot from hence is caused the heating or rather boiling of his blood so that his spirits being attenuated and his pores opened the Patient suddenly starteth up This Disease is caused from gross cold Phlegm as also from melanchollick blood settled about the Heart and Veins of the Breast from whence cold vapors are belched out He that useth a slender diet is seldom troubled with the Night-Mare but doth frequent those that have many crudities They that lie on their sides are very seldom troubled with it If this Disease be of any long continuance it doth threaten the Falling-sickness or the Apoplexy Madness or Hypocondraick Melancholly and other Diseases The air where the Patient lives should be temperate hot and bright his meat easie of digestion of good juyce not windy he must eat sparingly especially at supper he must not sleep in the day time his belly must be kept loose and his minde quiet Of a Convulsion A Convulsion called Spasmus is a Convulsion or shrinking of the Sinnews an effect of which doth force them and the Muscles unwillingly to that disposition of body which they did enjoy by the benefit of the animal faculty when they were in perfect health this being an involuntary motion in the part which did usually move of its own accord The Brain is first affected and chiefly and then the face with the whole body is taken with a Convulsion which doth happen to those that have the Falling-sickness in which accident the roots of the Sinnews are hurt the brain being shrunk doth joyn all its force together for the expelling of that which is hurtful The brain is sometimes first affected and then the face with the whole body is shrunk up together but for the most part a Convulsion doth happen to the Muscles in determinate parts whereby the part affected doth plainly shew that the Muscles are grieved The signs of this Disease are the stretching of the Sinnews which if long with the Patient do exceedingly waste the strength while all parts under the head are annulled The efficient cause is either fulness or emptiness fulness is caused by blood and then a Convulsion happeneth suddenly it is also caused by a phlegmy humor which doth winde it self as the blood doth into the Sinnews and Muscles this causes a Palsie The emptiness of a Sinnew takes more deliberation in growing upon a Patient this is occasioned by the Ague Hunger Melancholly violent Sweating Vomiting excessive Venery or Inflamations in the sinnewy parts A Convulsion which is caused by a Wound and of Heleborus is mortal This Disâ—ase is also incureable if it be caused by emptiness Let the air of the Patient be hot and dry his diet rather roast then sod instead of Wine when the Disease first seizes he may be permitted to drink honied water wherein Sage and Cinamon are boiled exercise must be avoided the neck and back-bones of the sick person must be rubbed his sleep moderate his excrements answerable to his belly his minde quiet Of Choller CHoller is an immoderate perturbation of the Stomach and Bowels whence malign humors break forth upwards and downwards This Disease is often so violent that it deprives one of Life within the space of a day or two without a Feaver the substance of the body being consumed by vomits and stools for excrements come often out with such force that the spirits are expelled with the humors the upper and lower part of the stomach is primarily affected the bowels being distempered by the stomachs disburthening of it self through them The signs that make known that these parts are affected are vomits and evacuation a chollerick sowre and stinking matter is vomited upwards and downwards for many hours as if the Patient had drunk great store of such stuff This Disease is gathered together in all the body or in the Gall Bladder Misentery or Bowels This Disease is sharp but the strength of it is dissolved in a short time The air the Patient lives in must be cold and bright if he be strong a little quantity of meat will suffice him he should forbear eating for two dayes he may drink then strong Wine in this Wine thin plates of Gold should be quencht he must sleep very gently and shun the passions of the minde Of the Head Ache. THis disease is sometimes caused from the location of the Head sharp Vapors and Swelling humors ascending from the lower parts assaulting the Head because as the brain is of a cold and moist temperature superfluity of excrements are therein generated which if they encrease and are not avoided by the expulsive faculty in time disturb the Head with Aches the Head-Ache occasioned by an ague quaffing or some other external cause is by the Latines called Cephallalgia the Films of the brain is much troubled with this disease which by reason of their tenderness the least pains are sharp and tender to them but the substance of the brain is more grosser so that the pain that seizes thereon is duller and more loading this disease is sometimes caused from cold and Phlegmy matter this matter by the grossness and sliminess doth stop the narrow passages of the Head the pain that comes by a hot is more vehement then that which comes by a cold distemper an old pain caused by cold matter is hardly to be cured especially in old men a Head-Ache continually vexing is the forerunner of madness especially if the Vomit appear somewhat rusty it also presages other diseases The Air where the Patient lives should be hot and dry roast meat is better then boiled exercise and sleep must be moderate let him lie with his head raised up and somewhat covered he must avoid Vomiting and discontents of mind Of the Cough CAlled Tussis is a violent breathing causing much breath or spirit speedily to break forth as it endeavours by its force to discharge sharp excrements which do molest the Lungs and hinder the passages or which do any other way offend the body this motion is caused by nature which doth force the
dull and is benummed Physicians call this an imperfect Palsie the Harbenger of a Palsie why the sense doth sometimes perish and motion abides this happens because some parts do participate of a two-fold kinde of Sinnews this Disease hath great affinity with the Apoplexy and sometimes is caused by a weak Apoplexy and then it is called Paraplexia herein they differ the Apoplexy seizeth upon all the parts of the body depriving them both of sense and motion The Palsie seldom or never leaves the head without motion or sense but the other parts of the body lose both motion and sense and that in a different manner for if the beginning of the marrow of the Back-bone be affected all parts under the face do sympathize with it if but one half of the back be affected all parts that have relation also suffer but if the before-mentioned parts are not hurt but some particular Sinnew of some part of the body is loosed that part whereof this nerve is joyned shall also lose sense and motion In this disease as hath already been said the marrow of the Back-bone is affected which is the original of all other Sinnews wherefore the Practitioner ought to take pains in Anatomy to know where this mischief keeps its first residence One evident sign in this Disease is that if the palsied part be lifted up it falleth back again it is soon cool and in time withers the Patients urine is for the most part white and sometimes inclining to redness when this mischief is at the full height the Pulse is faint slow little and soft it is caused by a cold and moist distemper sometimes by an Imposthume or some other tumor crushing the sinnews by a wound a fall a fracture too strait a ligature laxation of bones in the back by a stroak but for the most part it is caused by thin and waterish humors derived from the brain which do insinuate into the pores and substance of the Sinnews and so the Sinnews being made too soft are loosened and slackned and do suck in so much moisture that they stop the head of the Sinnews whereby the passage of the animal faculty is hindred which hath its original from the brain A Palsie which is caused by the cutting of a Sinnew overthwart is incurable A Palsie caused in the Winter and in old men is seldom or never cured because natural heat is deficient in them The air wherein the Patient lives should be hot and dry procured by a fire if the season of the year require it or by a perfume of Cloves and Rosemary his meat must be such as heat and dries his diet must be slender till the fourteenth day for it is very good for the Patient to be abstenuous his drink must be small he must avoid sleep in the day time and trouble of minde Of the weakness of the Liver THe weakness of the Liver comes by distemper without any manifest evil in that Bowel the proper and principal faculty of the Liver is the blood which doth come to it by the property of its own substance and cannot be weakned of a suddain by any distemper for the distemper must needs take deep root before it hurt the substance of the Liver or dissolve the strength thereof but by what distemper soever this is caused the Liver doth not perform its proper duty except it be by halfs In this disease as hath been said the Liver is chiefly affected as will appear by its own functions hindred the blood is not well digested and then the blood which is voided by stool is watrish which shews that the nutrement was well concocted in the Stomach and began to be concocted in the Liver but not perfected because of the Livers weakness This disease scatters the Spirits native heat dissolves the strength and actions of the Liver 't is most probable that a cold distemper is the cause of the Livers weakness if the distemper be but light the colour of the face is white the Excrements stink a little few are voided the Patients Urine is thin there are many other conjectured causes if the weakness of the Liver hath been of a long continuance it is scarce to be cured and in time is changed to be an evil habit of the body from whence a general weakness is caused or else it turns to the Dropsie A temperate air is good for the Patient meats that are easie of digestion and do moderately heat his drink may be thin and Odoriferous Wine his sleep must be moderate his minde cleared from discontents Of the Chollick THe Chollick is a continual passion of the Bowel which is called Colon there follows it a difficulty of voiding of the Excrements and winde at the lower parts a grievous pain and sore pricking comes by fits because this bowel is thick and sinewy whereupon if any hurtful thing creep into its Tunicles it is not presently driven out this disease hath affinity with the Iliaca passio but in the Iliaca passio the pain is more vehement the looser Gut called Colon is chiefly affected the pain of this disease is vehement as if the person were bored through with an auger it is stirred up in the inside of the Bowel this pain is inconstant for sometimes it doth pinch one side and then another though it doth chiefly molest the right side and from thence is carried to the left The Chollick is eased by Lenitive glisters and fomentations there are many causes of this disease a several matter running to the Guts because of their wideness or else it is caused from an inflamation of the same part or by a sharp biting humor or by slimy and gross humors or by a thin Phlegm that is in the Film of the Colon and because that Bowel is the receptacle of winde the Chollick is often caused by them when great plenty of them is gathered together in those places or else it is caused by slimy and gross Phlegm sticking in the common passages or from a tumor remaining in the Bowels whereby the Guts are strongly pressed that the winde can hardly get forth the Chollick doth often turn into a resolution or looseness of the Sinews into a Joynt-Gout into Iliaca passio or a Dropsie of all Chollicks that is the worst which is caused by an inflammation The air the Patient lives in must be temperately hot inclining to driness yet the native heat of the outward and former parts of the belly must be kept hot with warme cloaths his meat must be easie of digestion such as doth generate few superfluities it must be moist not windy nor slimy his drink may be strong Wine exercise is good before meat and rest afterwards they may sleep in the day time Of the Pleurisie THe Pleurisie is an inflamation of the thin and small skin which cloathes the Ribs on the inner side called in Latine Pleura from whence this disease takes its name there are many pains of the side but in this place I
afterwards circulate it in a pellican forty dayes and reserve it for your use others distil it oftner and it is the better Chap. 21. To make an Aqua vitae Composita for men of a cold Complexion or Region HAving already discoursed at large of Aqua vitae Simplex we now proceed to give you the way of preparing several compound waters and first of such as ought to be administred unto men of a cold complexion or unto such as labour under any disease proceeding from a cold cause which is this Take Zuiziberis albi Cinamomi Cubeb Recent Gariâ—ph Nucis Muscati Macis electi Cardamomi Zedoari Galangae Piperis longi of each equal parts bruise them grosly and to one part of these Species adde six parts of simple Aqua vitae put them in a long Cucurbite placing thereon a blinde Alimbeck and let it stand to digest fourteen dayes afterwards distil in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire then put the feces again upon the distilled matter and let it digest eight dayes more It may also be distilled without an Alimbeck but that way is not so good And when it hath been distilled three times the first water is called Aqua benedicta the second Aqua vitae composita and the third Aqua balsami Some also adde to the composition hereof Fol. salviae Rutae Castorei recentis Corticis Citri Baccarum lauri Florum Lavendulae Florum Rorismarini ana two drams these are all to be distilled with the aforesaid species alwayes adding to one part of species six parts of simple Aqua vitae This water is good for all diseases of the head proceeding from phlegmatick humors to be taken in the morning the quantity of two drams in one ounce of the best Wine Some use to dip a crust of bread in this water and others to anoint the head with this water adding to half an ounce hereof Betony water one ounce But beware that you do not give this water in any disease or grief of the head proceeding from a hot cause unless some cold Medicine be mixed therewith which may temperate the heat of this water This water doth strengthen the memory being drunk fasting the quantity of half an ounce mixed with Rosemary water and the hinder part of the head being anointed or washed therewith and let dry of it self it is good also against madness if you cut off the hair of the head and apply to the head clothes wet in this water mixed with water of Marjoram and Rosemary you shall perceive a wonderful operation It is also good for the Palsie being mixed with Sage-water and the members often bathed therewith and it being drunk upon an empty stomach with water of Lavander-flowers It is good to take away all spots of the face and all infirmities of the eyes It hath a marvellous operation to take away all pains in the Teeth A Comb being dipped herein and the head combed therewith it adorns the hair and preserves them from becoming hairy it cures all scabs in the head recovers lost hearing Bombast being dipped therein and applied to the Ear. Wounds being washed therewith it heals them wonderfully and suffers no putrified flesh in a Wound Being taken fasting it is powerful against all Poyson against all Cankers Fistula's and the Dropsie and the Stone in the Bladder it helps Conception in a Woman being taken fasting if the obstruction thereof proceed from a cold cause Being drunk with Galangal and Gentiana and Bombaste wet therein and applied to the Matrix provokes the Tearms If this Water be put upon Fish Flesh or any other Meats they will not corrupt nor putrifie neither will flies blow thereon If the body be fomented therewith it is good against the Jaundies and all trembling of the Members and against all filthiness of the mouth and nose A Cloath being dipt herein and applied to the Stomach wonderfully helps digestion A Cloath wet therein and applied to the Stomach helps Convulsion fits Let those who labor under the Iliack passion drink often thereof it is good also against the Falling-sickness and the Hemerhodes It is much praised by Albertus Magnus for its wonderful operations in the Palsie Chap. 22. An excellent Compound Water used by the Emperour Frederick the Third TAke Aq. Vita simp rectificat four pound vini opt four pound Cinamomi three ounces Garioph nucis moscatae ana one ounce Zuizib albi one ounce and half Macis half an ounce Zedoariae half an ounce Galangae 2. drams Cubeb Hys an half an ounce Radicis benedictae 1. ounce Salviae florum Lavendulae an half an ounce Melissae iris Balsamithae an one ounce Rosarum albarum one ounce and half Bruise all these and put them in a great Cucurbite which will hold fifteen or sixteen pound adding Zachari albi three ounces Passular ficuum pinguium an six ounces Camphorae half an ounce Aquar Rosarum Endiviae florum Sambuci an two pound put them altogether into the Cucurbite luting it well and set it in the â—un twenty dayes viz. ten dayes before Midsummer day and ten dayes after Then strain out the water and distil it by an Alembick and keep it in a dry place it is a soveraign Cordial for a cold stomach and wonderfully preserves the whose body in health The Dose is the quantity of half a spoonful but let it not be given to a Woman when she hath her Menstrue Chap. 23. An excellent Compound Water against all Vlcers and Poyson c. TAke Salviae twelve ounces Nucis Muscat Gariop Zuizib albi Gran. Paradisi Cinamomi an four drams Ol. Laurini one ounce Castorei recentis one dram Spinae Indicae Rorismarini an half a dram florum Rorismar one dram Folior Rutae one ounce Fol. Majoranae one dram Corticis Citri two drams Let all these be new if you can get them but if you have them not new then take the old dried flowers and pulverize them and put to them the best white Wine you can get then set them in a digestive to putrifie a moneth This digestion may be made in Balneo Mariae in the first degree of heat afterwards distil it by an Alimbeck in Balneo Mariae then adde the water again to the Feces and distil it in Balneo again twice over afterwards distil it in ashes and reserve the water carefully in a glass close stopt The Vertues of this Water ANy Meat wet in this Water retains an excellent sapour and odour It is good against pestilentious airs and expels the venom thereof out of the body it cures all infirmities of the Eyes and defects of the Sight It marvellously cures Wounds they being washed therewith it dryeth up all hidropical humors It is good against all diseases of the Lungs Spleen and Milt of the intestines and of the head it takes away all spots out of the face filth of the Mouth and Nose mitigates the pain of the Teeth procures good digestion purifies the blood and consumes corrupt blood and
these Lieutenant Medicines serve at all turns in the place of the right Medicines for so should Ginger serve the turn of Folefoot to purge by Vomit which it cannot no more then curds of Cow milk can soften and supple like butter or the dung of the Stock-dove purge like Euphorbium or the Dock-root draw phlegme from the Head like Pellitory which Galen notwithstanding maketh substitutes of these Medicines which have such operation I conclude therefore seeing Navigation cannot afford us either the Simples which we seem to need and those which it doth both corrupt and counterfeit in the greatest part we have neither to crave thereof in this point aid much less to trust thereunto Now the Simples being but for the most part bastard Ware how can the Compounds that amount of the same be other then counterfeit Whereupon as Cardanus saith in his Method of Curing The wise Magistrates of Venice have oftentimes forbidden the making of Triacle and Mithridatum because the Simples could not be had whereby they should be compounded Which if Venice the greatest Mart in this part of the World of such Wares cannot a vouch what can we hope for from other places That a man would marvel to see the great store of them in all shops of Apothecaries under the names of Triacle and Mithridatum of Andromachus and it being required in Triacle before it be used it should have a time as it were of mellowing which of Galen in his Book of Triacle to Piso is extended to twelve years and of Paulus Aegineta in his seventh Book by seven years for those that are bitten or stung of venemous beasts or have drunk poison or are infected with the pestilence and in other diseases from â—en years till it be twenty of age I marvel what assurance we have of the age of this Triacle which is ordinary in use or if we have none how we dare use it at adventure knowing by age the vertue thereof hath no small alteration I would these inconveniences were the smallest which I have but briefly and as it were for a taste run over yet were even they sufficient to stay our overhasty use of such strange Merchandize and to move us to betake us to those we know both in the Blade and in the Seed in the Root and in the Fruit and know the Air the Hill the Valley the Meadow where they grow But this trust upon Out-landish Medicines have much more nearly touched us then so If a man would say by his overhasty embracing whatsoever strange Nations do as it were purge over unto us we drink divers times rank Poison instead of wholesom Medicine I think it would justly move us to be advised and not to pass over the enquiry of a reason why such a one should think so being one whose vocation tendeth to the charge of the health of mens bodies The right Hermodactiles are commended for excellent Medicines against all Pains in the Joynts as the Gout the Schyatica and such like from which they purge gross Phlegme Doronicum Romanum hath great commendation for comforting the Heart expelling Poison against the Cough for avoiding of Humours which overcharge the Chest which are great vertues doubtless in them both Now if they 〈◊〉 the shops as they bear the name of these Medicines so carried not with them instead of thesâ— vertues dangerous poison then should I havâ— less cause to exhort our Nation to be take theâ— to their Gardens and Fields and to leave thâ— Banks of Nilus and the Fens of India Thâ— common Hermodactils being a kinde of poyson called Ephemerum so named because with such swiftness it chargeth and overchargeth our vitaâ— spirits that it killeth him that hath taken it iâ— one day The other commonly called Doroticum Romanum and used for an especial Cordial so that it hath place in the electuary of precious Stones in the electuary of Amber in the cordial Powder this Doronicum I say calleâ— of Mathiolus Demoniacum that is to say Divelish noting thereby the vertues thereof is no baser poison then a very kinde of Aconitum by Mathiolus experience which he confesseth himself before having been abused by the common error first to have learned of Jacobus Antonius Cortusus a man very skilful in the nature of Simples which Jacobus taught him the experience by giving it to dogs which it killeth Now if by reason no such danger happeneth to us by the use of them they seeming not so dangerous we are to understand they be given in small quantity and mixed with divers remedies against poison the good Providence of God providing so that otherwise they should not be ministred as in the purging Electuary of Diacnicis Hermodactils are bridled with Cinamon and the powder of Diatragatanthum frigidum where indeed â—t hath somewhat too large scope being better â—empered in Benedicta with Cloves Parsleyâ—eed Galanga and Mace and in the Pills of Herâ—odactils with Aloe Mirobalans Bdellium the â—eed of Herbgrace which have force against poiâ—on the which small quantity of them being â—ndled and dulled with other Medicines especiâ—lly such a resist the force of poisons is not deadly â—nto us although great hurt thereof must needs â—nsue I have stood the longer upon this point â—f strange Medicines in answering the suppy by Navigation the rather because it seemeth most â—o make against us in the maintenance of our â—ome Medicines and breedeth as it were a loathâ—omness of those blessings of God which we daily â—ay at commandment enjoy But hitherto hath â—nely been shewed the corruptions and counterâ—eting of forreign Medicines which belongeth to â—ertain onely and not to all although those â—ertain be the chief and of greatest price and â—hat being foreseen the provision out of strange â—nd far distant Nations may seem well to stand â—ith that Providence we speak of and except â—hey be in respect of their strangeness hurtfull â—r unprofitable unto us the skill of Sailing beâ—â—g a means to present them at our need Naâ—ures care should seem no whit to be blemished â—he reasons which I have before alledged I â—ave to the indifferent Reader to consider of â—nd because I am so far urged I easily stick â—ot to hold that we receive no small hurt â—om all all the kindes of strange Medicines whereof I yield these few reasons which follow Our English Bodies through the nature of the Region our kinde of dyet and nourishment our custome of life are greatly divers from those of strange Nations whereby ariseth great variety of humors and excrements in our bodies from theirs and so the causes of Diseases rising upon breach of diet the diet being of another sort must needs be unlike whereupon although their humors be in kinde and in a generality agreeable to ours as Blood Choler Phlegme Melancholy and such like yet rising upon other matter then the same in us and otherwise framed by a far other state of body by reason of a diverse kinde of life the Medicines which help them
must needs hurt us not finding the like cause to drive with and this no doubt is the cause why we are not able to bear such dose oâ— quantity of their Medicines as those Nations are to whom they be native Besides they workâ— in our Bodies after a far more unkinde manneâ— then they report them to do in theirs nay they destroy us and help them which is an argument to me that every Medicine hath a relation to the Diseases of the inhabitant which if it bâ— profitable to strangers yet doth it by a constraint and not half so kindly The Greeks aâ— it may appear by Dioscorides in his fourth Book and Chapter one hundred fifty and two treating of Scammony are able to bear a greater quantity yea double then we of Scammony whicâ— is an ordinary purger with us Who saith thirtâ— grains thereof may be given with twenty of black Heleborus and sixty of Aloe to make a just purgation and of Scammony alone sixty grains Now common experience teacheth us the great odds betwixt Scammony raw as they call it and the same corrected which we name Dacrydium both in vehemency of purging and tormenting the body yet hardly dare we pass above twenty grains of the same and this mixed with Cordials and stomach Medicines Moreover their slender correcting of it doth argue it to be far less noisom to them then to us who correct it onely or at the least are contented with the correction thereof by a little Salt and and Pepper or a little Ginger who for the plenty of excellent Simples which we both want and know not and for their skill in the nature of those we correct with might as well have qualified it as we who first wash it in Rose-water wherein Cytrea Myrobalanus Spike and Cinamon have been boiled in which also we let it steep four and twenty hours then dry it then mix it again with oyl of sweet Almonds and some Goom for Tragacantha and last of all bake it in a Quince covered round with paste Who hath not horror of the torments which both the Hellebores brings to the body yet saith Paulus Aegineta in his seventh Book and fourth Chapter The black Helleborus purgeth yellow Choler from the whole body without pain which canndt be verified of our bodies howsoever it be in theirs and therefore we fear to minister the Powder thereof in any sort but the steeping onely of the barks of the roots from twenty grains to sixty they being bold to take a whole dram thereof in substance which is more then treble the quantity for one dose These strange workings of these forreign Drugs in our Bodies and a more gentle and kinde working in theirs doth it not manifestly declare unto us that they were not created for us do they not force us oftentimes with peril of our lives to give them over that the Patient knoweth not divers times whether he should stand rather to the courtesie of his Disease then of his Potion There is a Simple which hath not many years been in use brought out of India and highly commended called Mechoaca it purgeth gently say they without vexing or grieving the body without anoying the stomach greatly and ceaseth purging at your pleasure with a little supping These be great vertues doubtless and I wish we could finde them in Mechoaca for Experience the touchstone hath bewrayed it in our bodies to be of a far other operation it tormenteth the body it annoyeth the stomach much neither doth a supping stay the vehemency of purging and this have I partly by mine own experience found in Mechoaca and partly by the experience of my friends who upon the use thereof have much complained of these accidents That juyce or rather milk of Poppy which is brought out of Asia named Opium it is not unknown to all the World what a marvellous force it hath in benumming the sense of Feeling and utterly extinguishing the natural Heat of the body so that we fear to give thereof into the body above the weight of two grains and those corrected with Saffron Castorium and such like lest it cast the Patient into such a deep sleep as he needeth the trump of the Archangel to awake him Now the same Opium being taken of the Turks Moors and Persians bringeth to their wearied and over-travelled bodies a marvellous recreation in such sort as they ordinarily use it therefore as a present remedy not in the quantity of two grains or twenty but even an whole ounce or twain at once And Hollerius in his Scholia upon his Chapter of Phrensey saith That Rondelet a learned Physician and the French Kings Professor at Montpellier reported unto him that he had seen a Spaniard take thereof into his body half an ounce at one time without hurt Wherefore if the difference of our bodies from those of strange Nations be so great that the thing which helpeth them destroyeth us that â—ureth them without annoyance doth vehementâ—y torment us I would wish us to be better advised then to be so ready to embrace them as â—o contemn in comparison of them the Mediâ—ines which receive as it were a taming and â—re broken unto us by our own soil neither art â—hou here to look the Wisdom of the Physician should consider the variety and divers dispositions of the Bodies by Age Complexion Region Sex c. and thereafter to temper these Medicines and so to avoid the dangers for â—he question is not of the manner of using these things for then should such consideration have place but even of the very nature which no manner of use can alter Yet are these Simples most excellent creatures of God made for the use of men but not for all men and although we may receive help from them by a certain generall community that our bodies have with those of Arabia Barbary and the rest yet no doubt as I have shewed in a few so we receive by the use of them so much the less good by them as we most differ from them and that which wanteth of the performance of good to us must needs turn us to much harm the unhelping part as I may call it always working and so ever harming Neither do I see why the Medicines of India or Egypt should be laid upon us more then the Indian or Egyptian diet which is to eat Lyzards Dragons and Crocodiles for if the proper Medicine doth alwayes regard his proper adversary which causeth the disease as no doubt it should do then there being a great difference betwixt our humors and theirs as much in a maner as is betwixt the flesh of a Crocodile and of a tender Capon our medicines which are to fit us must needs be of another kinde then theirs which in our bodies not finding such humors and excrements as that strange diet doth ingender must needs seize upon the very substance of our bodies to have somewhat to work on which painful working especially of the purgers causeth