sufficient quantity of white Wax make it up into an Oyntment Or take Oyl of Roses Violets of each three Drams Oyl of Foxes Camomil of each two Drams with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make them into an Oyntment to which add the Mueilages of the Roots of Marsh Mallows Linseed Fanugreek of each half an Ounce And anoint the parts therewith as afore directed and after you have anointed them cover them with a hot Sheep Skin Lamb or Cat and when it is cold make it hot again with Oyl of Lavender and Dill c. You may give to the Patient Cordial Julips wherein is mixed Spirit of Castor and Spirit of Lavender and such like And purge the Head with the following Gargarisme Take Roots of Pellitory of Spain and the Seeds of Rocket of each half an Ounce being bruised boil them in one Pint of Wine to the consumption of half and add thereto Oxymel of Squills two Ounces Hiera Piera half an Ounce wherewith let the Patient Gargle his Mouth every Morning fasting And make use of the sneesing powder made as followeth Take Marjoram Euphorbium Pellitory of Spain of each two Scruples and dry it being beaten to a fine Powder snuff a small quantity thereof up into the Nostrils CHAP. IX Of the Catarrh ACatarrh is an unnatural defluxion of an excrementitious Humour falling from the Head to the inferiour parts as to the Nostrils Mouth and Throat c. and doth cause Appilation it is caused Coryza and when it doth descend to the parts of the Throat it is called Branchus and when it falleth to the Breast or to the Lungs then it is called the Catarrh The cause of this Disease is often either through outward coldness or heat also of Vapours arising from too much or evil nourishment sometimes by the Odor or Scent of hot and cold things also by the over much use of Venery especially in those who are animated thereunto through the use of provoking Medicines other violent Exercises and too much sleep c. also doth cause this Distemper The Symptoms or Signs are heaviness in the Head dulness of the Senses long sleep and much snorting a snotty running Nose more then ordinary spitting the body often or altogether Costive and much troubled with Wind. If this Disease come of a very cold Humour the Patient will be sensible of much cold the Face pale the Spittle sweet sour Belchings slimy and watry Matter and a general Flegmatick constitution of body If the Humour distilling is hot it will appear by the redness of the Face thirst salt and very sharp inflamations pains and Ulcers in the Mouth and most commnoly a cholerick constitution of the whole body There are two sorts of Catarrhs the one hot the other cold The hot Catarrh is cured by Medicines which discharge the Matter found offending which doth thicken and take away as also by Correcting the distemper of the parts sending and receiving the same So forthwith let Blood especially where the Body is full if age and strength will permit and take it by degrees forth of the Liver or middle Vein in the right Arm or as occasion serves open the Vein under the Tongue After which give to the Patient the following Potion Take Rubarb four Scruples Myvabelans rubbed with Oyl of sweet Almonds one Scruple and a half Yellow Sanders ten Grains infuse them in a sufficient quantity of Purslain and Letuce Water after which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Roses Solutive and Manna of each eight Drams make it up into a Potion and give it in the Morning all at once Or make use first of the following Glister Take the Flowers of Violets and Camomil Dill Mallows Mercury wild Betouy of each one handfull Cut and Bruise them small and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half then strain it and to one Pint of the strained Liquor aâ—â— Hiera simple one Ounce and a half Oyl of Camomil three Ounces common Salt one Dram. Mix them well together and put it up into the Fundament Glister ways You may give to the Patient to drink a decoction made of Tamarinds and cold Herbs to which you may add some purging Medicines as Senna Rhubarb c. Or make use of the following Julip Take the four great cold seeds white Poppy Seeds of each two Drams Plantain Purslant and Letuce of each one handfull Red Poppies Violets and Water Lillies of each half a handful boil them in a sufficient quantity of running Water to one Pint strain it and add thereto Syrup of dryed Red Roses and Violets of each one Ounce and a half being mixed together divide it into three parts and drink one part thereof first and last so long as need require Or instead thereof use the distilled Water of the forementioned Herb or the Emulsions of the four cold Seeds which are all of a specifick vertue to thicken the Humour And also make use of the Oyntment made as followeth Take Oyl of Roses and Water Lillies of each one Ounce Rose water half an Ounce Vinegar of Roses two Drams Mix them well together in a Silver Dish over some Coles and anoint the Head therewith and with Lint apply it warm to the Temples An excellent Foot Bath for the Catarrh Take three Quarts of Lye made of wood Ashes red Wine one Quart add thereto Camomil and Bay Salt of each one handfull Let them boil together for a small time and bath the Feet therewith first and last Or Take Betony Dill and Camomil Flowers the Leaves and Flowers of Poppies and willow Leaves of each a good quantity and make a Bath therewith and bath their Feet therein as afore directed after which apply to the Soles of the Feet warm the green Buds or Leaves of the Oak bruised and beat well together with a small quantity of Salt and Vinegar The more to restrain the flux and thicken the Humour Take Syrup of Poppies dryed Red Roses and Syrup of Violets of each two Ounces of which take an Ounce thereof every night going to Bed Or Take the Species called Diatragacanth frigid one Dram Conserve of old Red Roses three Drams fine Bole washed in Rose Water and the Powder of Mastick of each one Scruple and a half with the Syrup of dryed Red Roses make it into an Electuary according to Art whereof take as much as a small Nut every night last Another to spose the Gatarrh or defluxion of Rheume Take the finest Bole washed in Rose Water and prepared two Drams the best white Starch one Dram Gum Arabick and Gum Tragacanth White Poppy Seed of each half a Dram beating all into fine Powder add thereto Conserve of Red Roses two Ounces and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Poppies make them up into an Electuary whereof let the Patient take often the quantity of half a Wallnut The Cure of the cold Catarrh consists in the preparing and evacuating of the offending Humors and by the clear
Linseed of each two drams Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine one dram with a sufficient quantity of Wax make it into an Ointment and anoint the Brest therewith as afore-directed for it doth not onely molifie but discuss the matter offending CHAP. XIX Of the Pleuresie THe Pleuresie is an inward Inflammation or a Postumation of the upper Skin girding the Ribs c. This Disease is often times caused through abundance of hot Blood flowing preternaturally to the fore-mentioned upper Skin The principal Signs are Difficulty of Breathing a very troublesome Cough a continual Feaver and a violent Pricking pain a sharp and hard Pulse As touching the Cure In short if the Body do abound with filthy Humours or be full of Blood forthwith open the Liver-Vein on the same side for with so doing Blood is not onely drawn but the part grieved quickly purged After Blood-letting especially the Body being Costive make use of the following Glister or if the Disease be not violent make use of the Glister before Bleeding Take the Leaves of Spinage Mallows Mercury both sorts of Endives and the Leaves of purple Violets of each one handful Barley not bruised one ounce boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and to one pint thereof add of Cassia newly drawn one ounce and a half fresh Butter half an ounce Oyl of Violets and Camomil of each two drams Common Salt one dram being well mixed together make a Glister and put it up according to Art Or take of the Lenitive Electuary six drams Syrup of Violets and Roses of each half an ounce Cream of Tartar two scruples the Distilled Water of Cichory or Fumatory four ounces being mixed together take it in the morning all at once And if the Patient have still a Feaver Take fresh Pruuns one pound Blew Currans half a pound Wood-Sorrel one good handful boil them in three quarts of Spring Water to the consumption of the third part and strain it and let the Patient drink often thereof Take one Pippin the Core being taken out and fill the hole with the Gum called Olibanum after which toast it till it become soft then take off the skin from the Apple and mix them well together and take it all at once for to admiration it removes the pain I having made trial thereof one hundred times The Powder of Olibanum taken from one scruple to one dram in the Pap of a roasted Apple at night doth the same and with less trouble Some to ease the violent pain in this Discase give Laudanum and Syrup of Poppies c. but they must be taken in small quantities lest they stop spitting and bind the brests from which sometimes death follows so attempt them not without good advice Take Horse-dung and infuse the same in the distilled water of Carduus for a small time then strain it and give thereof to the Patient for it also powerfully disperses and abates the pain Or take the powder of Hens-dung which is white one dram Carduus water four ounces Syrup of Violets half an ounce and give it to the Patient warm for it hath the aforementioned virtue Or take Hempseed bruised one ounce white Hens-dung and Stone-Horse-dung of each half an ounce infuse them for twelve hours in six ounces of Carduus-water strain it and drink it off warm all at once Or take from one scruple to a dram of prepared Goats Blood in the aforesaid water for it doth effect the same Or you may take the Spirit of Soot from five drops to ten in Carduus-water and the bright flakes of Soot made of wood fire beaten into fine powder and given from two scruples to one dram is of excellent use and very safe You may apply outwardly the following Fomentation c. Take the Flowers of Dill Melilot and Camomil of each two or three handfuls Bran the Powder of Fennugreek Linseed and Melons of each an ounce and a half boil them in a sufficient quantity of water and bath the part grieved therewith or put some of the Decoction with the Herbs into Bladders or dip therein a large spunge and apply it to the part affected hot Or make use of the Plaister made as followeth Take the Flowers of Tapsus Barbatus Camomil and Dill of each half a handful Fennugreek Anniseed and Linseed of each a quarter of an ounce Barly-flower two ounces being all bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water till they become somewhat thick after which add thereto the Oyl of Camomil and Dill of each one ounce boil them again and then add the Yolks of two new-laid Eggs and Saffron beat into Powder one scruple and a half and make a Plaister thereof which apply warm to the part affected Some use Cupping-glasses with Scarification which I shall leave to the discretion of the Ingenious Physitian CHAP. XX. Of the Ptisick or Consumption THough the Ptisick signifies a Consumption yet it may be most properly taken for that Leanness of Body which follows an Ulcer in the Lungs This Disease is commonly caused through sharp fretting and gnawing Humours which falls from the Head upon the Lungs It is also caused through Blood and matter which continue after the breaking out of the same in such that have the Pleuresie and sometimes the Dropsie and French Disease c. are the very principal Causes of the Consumption The chief Signs of this Distemper are known by flowing of flegm from the Head upon the Lungs which causeth a Tickling and small Cough the Spittle somewhat hot and bitter the whole Body wasteth and the flesh becomes exceeding loose the Hair falls off the Nostrils very thin and sharp the Temples fallen down the Eyes hollow the Balls of the Cheeks swarthy or Leaden coloured the Shoulder-Bones stick out the Patient often vexed with a Hectick or burning Fever and breathes with much difficulty the Nails become pale and crooked the Stomach and Belly often tormented with violent pain and much troubled with thirst and if the Lungs are ulcerated what the Patient spits will be of a strong foetid or stinking Smell And the Cure often proves very difficult However in the first place let the Patient if possible be removed into some wholesome place where the Air is clear and temperate neither too hot nor too cold And if you perceive the Lungs to be ulcerated purge once a week with the following Medicines especially where the Body is not become very lean Take Cassia newly drawn one ounce the fine Powder of Liquorish two scruples and make a Bolus thereof which give to the Patient in the morning Or take of the choicest Manna from one ounce to two ounces and dissolve it in Chicken-Broth c. and drink it off as afore-directed Or take Liquorish Raisins of the Sun stoned Flowers of Bugloss and Violets of each three drams Barly one ounce and a half Jujubes four in number being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water
to three or four ounces to which add two ounces of the distilled water of Scabios wherein have been first infused Yellow Sanders and the best Rubarb of each four scruples Manna one ounce Syrup of Roses three drams add the two latter last being mixed together make a potion thereof which take in the morning But in the beginning of this Disease you may give stronger Purges nothing more proper than my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they above all purging Medicines carry off the salt and sharp Catarrh which is the principal Cause of such Ulcers After which make use of the following Medicine with which I have done wonders in such cases Take White-Rose-water one ounce white Sugar-Candy six drams the Yolk of one new-laid Egge new Milk warm from the Cow or made so a quarter of a pint being beaten well together let the Patient drink it all at once repeating the same morning and evening for some time together You may believe me this very Medicine is worth an hundred times the price of the Book which I freely communicate To young Children you may make use of a wholesom Womans Milk and being mixed as aforesaid will serve three or four times but the best way is still to make it up fresh so take but the third or fourth part of each Goats Milk is also of wonderful use more especially if taken as afore-directed And be assured that Milk is one of the best Medicines against the Ptisick or Consumption Another Excellent Remedy against the Consumption Take all the Blood that will be had forth of a Pig or Swine in his full strength and stir it as it is drawn forth that it may not congeal to which add the Powder of Cloves Cinamon Mace and Ginger of each one ounce Saffron and the Flowers of Rosemary of each two drams and forthwith distil it in a Glass with a very gentle fire The Dose is from three Spoonfuls to six or eight in so much Tent or Sack three times a day Or take the Powder called Pulvis Haley one ounce Conserve of Red Roses two ounces Conserve of Cowslips one ounce with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Violets make them up into an Electuary and make it somewhat sharp by mixing therewith some few drops of Oyl of Vitriol or Sulphur And take thereof first and last as much as a Walnut for it is of wonderful profit to such that are Hectick Or take Flower of Brimston and the powder of the best Frankincense of each one scruple Saffron three grains put them into an Apple the Core being cut forth and roast it after which let the Patient eat it with White Sugar-Candy for ten or twelve dayes together New strong Ale wherein is boiled Burdock-Roots Liquorish and Honey is of Excellent Use as I have often proved and the Poor may with much ease attain to this Drink The Herb Burnet made into fine Powder and White Sugar-Candy of each one dram taken often in Broth is also very good Or take White-Wine three pints Sugar-Candy four ounces the Roots of Elicampane one ounce Green Coltsfoot two ounces Violet Flowers one ounce and a half the Roots of Angelica ten drams being cut and bruised very small boil them in a Stone Bottle close stopped the Cork tied down with a piece of strong Linnen Cloth for three hours in a pot of water and open it not till it be cold after which strain it and take three or four spoonfuls first and last and at any time of the day With this very Medicine after I had gently purged a Painter I perfectly cured him in few days though he was by all his friends left for a dead man he was so much consumed and did stink that none could endure to come near him I know an eminent Physitian and several other persons that have for these many years been preserved by the foresaid Medicine taking it according to my Directions and by taking the old Conserve of Red Roses when he took not the former Sugar of Roses drunk in New Milk made as followeth is also of most admirable Use Take of the best Red-Rose-Buds the whites being cut off and dried suddenly in the Sun two ounces Double-Refined-Sugar two pounds being melted in the Juice of Roses and Rose-Water of each four ounces Being by degrees consumed put in the powder of the Rose-Leaves and mix them well together and put it upon a Marble Stone and make it up into Lozenges according to Art Natural Balsom is of excellent use for such that have Ulcers in the Lungs if you make White-Sugar-Candy up into Pills as big as Gray Pease therewith and take one fasting every Morning for some Time together CHAP. XXI Of the Pain in the Stomach PAin in the Stomach is commonly caused through corrupt and poysonous fretting Humours contained therein and oftentimes by Worms gnawing the Tunicles thereof Sometimes through sharp and salt flegm and through putrid matter sent into the Stomach from some imposthume broke either in the Brest or Liver Sharp Vapours from close corrupt Humours sometimes cause pain sometimes wind contained in the hollow part of the Stomach doth not onely cause pain therein but swelling c. If the pain of the Stomach be caused through flatulent or windy matter make use of the Glister made as followeth Take Calamint Penniroyal Rue Origan the lesser Centaury of each one handful Comin-seeds Annis Fennel and Carrot-seeds of each two drams being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half then strain it and adde to one Pint thereof Benedicta Laxativa one ounce Diacatholicon half an ounce Oyl of Rue and Dill of each one ounce the Chymical Oyl of Juniper and Bay-berries of each seven drops being well mixed together make a Glister thereof and put it up according to Art Or take Hyppocrass and Sack of each half a pint Oyl of Rue and Aqua-vitae of each one ounce Oyl of Cinamon and Juniper of each six drop being mixed well together put it up Glister-ways Or take of the best White-Wine twelve ounces Oyl of Amber Cloves Juniper and Cinamon of each five drops mix them together and put it up warm for it giveth present ease After which Take of the Pills of Hiera with Agarick two drams Oyl of Nutmegs and Janiper-berries of each five drops mix them together and make thereof fifteen Pills of which let the Patient take two at night and three in the morning until they are all taken But if the pain cometh from sharp and Cholerick Humours or Flegm Imposthumes or Ulcerations there is no better Medicine than my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills The more to ease the pain Take Diaphaenicon three or four drams Phylonium Romanum two scruples the distilled Water of Camomil four ounces Syrup of Mints half an ounce being mixed together give it to the Patient going to Bed for this very Medicine hath done much good Or take Diasatyrion one ounce Sal Prunella half an ounce Oyl of
Belly often costive or bound and yet I have known many subject to a continual Flux And sometimes the Spots in the Legs are broad and are very black leaden-colour or blew and they often swell and sometimes the Legs become so much ulcerated that the Shin-bones lie bare which Disease if not timely prevented in some Constitutions will turn into a kind of Leprosie c. In this Disease there are also pains in the Shoulders Arms Back Sides Hips Thighs and Legs especially upon the Shin-bones which are much like those of the Pox and may perhaps deceive the Physician where the Scurvy is Rare and the Pox common But they may with ease be distinguished For the pains of the Pox are between the Joints and if they continue long there follows Nodes or Knots and there are or have been other signs as the Running of the Reins Ulcers in the Privy Parts sometimes in the Throat Pallat Mouth and Nostrils Buboes in the Groin all which come most commonly from Unclean Women But the pains in the Scurvy seiz upon all parts indifferently and there are many other Symptoms of it as aforesaid at least a melancholy Constitution and the matter is truly known if the Patient will in truth affirm that he hath not had Carnal Copulation with Vnclean Women There are many other Symptoms of the Scurvy which for Brevity-sake I shall here omit And so Demonstrate a Certain Safe and Alsolute Way of Cure which is as followeth If the Body be Plethorick or full Let Blood if strength will permit but in small quantity and that chiefly in the Hemorrhoid-Veins by Leeches but if you perceive the Spleen affected in particular then open the Middle-Vein in the Left Arm but if the Liver be more affected open the Liver-Vein in the right Arm or the Basilica or Middle-Vein But be sure not to attempt Phlebotomy if it be not in the beginning of the Disease For when the Distemper is deep rooted and hath spread it self over the whole Body Bleeding may then prove destructive So begin with the Medicine following which doubtless will prove to be very profitable Take the Bark of Ash Tree the Bark of Cappers of each two drams Pollipody two drams and a half the Roots of Black Hellebore first boiled in the distilled Water of Balm and dried three drams Fennel-seeds Annis-seeds of each half a dram the Roots of China two drams of the Four Great Cold Seeds of each one dram the Leaves of Wormwood Betony and the lesser Centaury Germander Cetarach of each half a handful Thyme Epithimum of each one Pugil the Leaves of Senna and the best Rhubarb of each two drams Conserve of Burrage Balm and Fumatory of each one ounce being cut and bruised boil them in three pints of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and let the Patient drink a quarter of a pint two hours before Supper repeating the same as need require Or take of the best Senna two drams the choicest Rhubarb one dram being bruised infuse them in five or six ounces of the Distilled Water of Wormwood for the space of one night after which strain it and add thereto Diacatholicon two drams the Electuary of Roses one dram Syrup of Epithimum half an ounce mix them together and take it warm in the morning fasting after it six hours ☞ But the most infalliblest way that I can in truth direct you to for the Cure of this now Common Disease is to make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they so highly Purifie and Sweeten the Blood that no other Medicine can be compared to them in the Cure of the Dropsie and Scurvy with all other sharp salt and watry Humours And with them make use of the Diet-Drink directed first in the Chapter of the Dropsie page 156. Or sometimes make use of the following Medicines Take Brook-lime Water-Cresses the lesser Celandine Wormwood and Fumatory of each one handful Red-Dock-Roots one pound Horse-Radish four ounces being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of small Ale with a quart or more of VVhite-wine to the consumption of the third part being strained keep it for use of which let the Patient take a quarter of a pint first and last Or take Hysop Germander Betony Cetarach Carduus Asarum Agrimony Burrage and Bugloss of each one handful the Flowers of Tamarisk and Doder of Time of each one ounce the Bark of Cappers Tamarisk and Ash of each two ounces Pollipody of the Oak and Red-Dock-Roots of each two ounces and a half being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of small Ale mixed with VVhite-wine to the Consumption of the third part and drink thereof as afore-directed Or take the Juice of Water-Cresses and Brooklime of each one ounce the Juice of Fumatory two ounces mix them and make a Potion thereof which drink every morning fasting Or take the Juice of both sorts of Scurvy-grass White-wine and the Juice of Oranges of each one pint being mixed together drink thereof first and last three or four spoonfuls at a time Or take the Juice of Lemons Sorrel Brooklime and Water-Cresses Fumatory and White-Wine of each an equal quantity being mixed together take thereof as afore-directed Always observe to drink it warm so you may take thereof notwithstanding the taking my Pills which with them will prove certainly effectual in this Distemper After you have purged sufficiently with my Pill if much broke out make use of the following Ointment Take Ointment of Roses three ounces the white Ointment with Camphire two ounces Sal Prunella one ounce Mercurius Dulcis Ginger Burnt Allum of each half an ounce make them into an Ointment with Oil of Roses and Juice of Lemons according to Art Or take Red-Dock-Roots and Elicampane of each one pound the Buds or Leaves of Elder two handfuls Rosemary and Bay-Leaves of each one handful Cloves one dram being cut and bruised boil them in May-Butter or Hogs-fat to an Ointment and if you please to every pound thereof add two ounces of the Flower of Brimstone and anoint the Pustules or Scabs therewith for it will heal the greatest Scab or Itch with the use of my Pills Such that have the Scurvy in the Gums notwithstanding taking of my Pills let them take Vinegar of Squills and Plantane Water and gargle therewith Or take Crab-Verjuice and Scurvygrass-Water of each alike and add thereto a small quantity of Honey and Allom and gargle therewith as afore-directed Or make use of some of the Medicines directed p. 91 92 c. CHAP. XXVI Of the JAUNDICE THe Jaundice according to most Authors is nothing but a Yellow Colour of the whole Body proceeding of Choler spread all over the Skin and yet the Liver safe as in the Crisis of Diseases often-times the Jaundice is caused and doth happen when the Blood is corrupted without a Fever or some external Cause and is made Cholerick as it falleth out by the biting of Venomous Beasts It
also may be caused through inflammation or change of the temperament of the Liver Sometimes it is caused through Embecillity or Weakness of the Bladder that receiveth the Choler which doth not attract or draw as it formerly did the Cholerick Humour from the Liver unto him and so leaveth the Blood impure Sometimes it is caused through Obstruction and Weakness of the Vessels whose Mouths are derived from the Gall to the Liver and therefore attracteth not the Cholerick Humour And oftentimes through obstruction or stoppage of the Passages that do go to the Bowels The manifest Signs of the Jaundice are in short as followeth A Yellow Colour throughout the whole Body more especially in the Vvhite of the Eyes the Balls of the Cheeks and near the Temples are of a pale colour the Tongue seems bitter and oftentimes Hiccoughs and Cholerick Vomits also Laziness and Itching about the Body c. The Jaundice is various according to the variety of the Causes That which comes from the stoppage of the bag containing the Gall because its passages are nearer the Guts the matter cleaving thereunto is with much ease sent into them if the stoppage proceed not from a Stone for that sometimes renders the Disease uncurable because it cannot be dissolved If the Jaundice come from an inflammation and hardness of the Liver it is most dangerous for oftentimes one ends in an Imposthume the other in a Dropsie If in the latter if taken in time it is certainly cured The Cure of the Jaundice may be performed as followeth Take the best Rhubarb fifteen grains Saffron twelve grains Diaprunis solutive the Electuary of the Juice of Roses of each three drams make them up into a Bolus with fine Sugar and take it two or three times one after the other especially if the Body be of a very ill Habit. Or take my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills according to Directions for therewith I have cured several past all hopes with the use of the following Drink Take Celandine one handful the Tops of Sea-Wormwood Centaury of each half a handful the Roots of the best Madder half an ounce Cinamon half a dram Saffron twelve grains infuse them for the space of twelve hours in eight ounces of the best White-wine strain it and sweeten it with Sugar and drink it every morning three or four hours before Dinner Or take the Leaves and Flowers of St. Johns-wort the Leaves and Roots of Celandine of each half a handful the Bark of the Barbary Tree Goose-Dung Ivory of each three drams Saffron one scruple and a half tie the Saffron and Goose-dung up into a Cloth and boil them all together in equal parts of the distilled VVater of VVormwood and VVhite-wine to the Consumption of half then strain it and sweeten it with Sugar Being divided into three parts drink one part thereof every morning fasting and repeat the same Decoction if need require Or take Castile-Sope scraped very small half an ounce the best English Saffron one dram dried and rubbed to Powder mix them together and put it into three or four Pippins the Cores being first taken forth then rost the Pippins by degrees after which take off the Skins and mix them well together and take thereof as much as a large Walnut first and last until it be all taken and if need require repeat the same For I will assure you that it is a very Excellent Medicine Egg-shells dried before the fire till they are almost black beaten to Powder and the quantity of a dram given in VVhite-wine first and last with ten grains of Saffron is also very good Or dry the Livers of Rooks and make thereof Powder which give to the Patient the quantity of a dram at a time in VVhite-wine Or take the fresh dung of a Goose that eats Grass in the Spring time and dry it and make it into fine powder or the Dung of a Hen the white part thereof being reduced to powder and a dram at a time taken as aforesaid have given help in few days Or take Sheeps-Dung one handful the Bark of the Barbary-Tree half a handful and infuse them for one night in one quart of Ale and White-wine mixed together strain it and drink it off in the morning fasting This do for six or seven days together if occasion require The same virtue hath Stone-Horse Dung infused as aforesaid and to my knowledge have both done great Cures So hath Hogs Lice bruised and about forty or fifty infused all Night in VVhite-wine and strained and taken in the morning fasting for some time together Or take Album Graecum and Akorns of each two drams being in fine powder give it at at three times to the Patient in VVhite-wine A Live Trout or Tench cut open and applied to the pit of the Stomach for some time is an infallible Remedy against the Jaundice The Jaundice being as it were cured and yet the Eyes remain Yellow give to the Patient two drams of Venice-Treacle and let him sweat as strength will permit After which let his Face and Eyes be washed with the Distilled VVater of Bean-Flowers and Rose-Water in equal parts mixed together and it will cause the Yellowness to depart CHAP. XXVII Of the Stone in the Kidneys THe Stone in the Kidneys is caused through a perpetual crudity or rawness of the Stomach whereby abundance of tough gross and earthy Humours are heaped together and being of a fiery heat about the Reins parcheth the Humours and baketh them together into a Stone They differ much both in figure colour and sharpness for they are often found to be black sometimes pale or of a whitish colour The Sign of this Disease is violent pain in the Reins insomuch that the Patient can hardly turn his Back-bone there is also abhorring of Meat and motion to Vomit the Urine is made but in very little quantity and many times wholly stopped sometimes there is voided Blood the bottom of the Urine gravelly which shews some motion of the Stone from the Reins The Stones that are light smooth and round pass forth with some ease but those that are long sharp and jagged are sent forth with violent pain To help this most violent Distemper if the Body be full of Excrements make use of the following Glister Take Pellitory of the Wall Maiden-hair Mercury Mallows and Marsh-Mallows of each one good handful Water-Cresses one handful and a half Smallage Fennel Parsly and Linseed of each two or three drams Bran and the Roots of Flower-de-luce of each one ounce being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of the third part then strain it and take thereof one pint to which add Honey of Roses and Cassia newly drawn of each one ounce Hiera Picra half an ounce Oyl of Rue Camomile and Dill of each one ounce Sal Prunella one dram and a half mix them together and make a Glister thereof which minister to the Patient as need require Or take
Lapis Lazuli of each 15. or 20. Grains make them into seven Pills with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Fumatory And take them as afore directed Or Take Heira Picra Simple and make it up into Pills as big as Gray Pease And take thereof three at a time every second or third night at the hour of sleep for they are of excellent use and good against vicious Juice which oftentimes Furr the Tunicles of the Stomack and for such idle fancies as the Brain suffers thereby The Pills of Faetidae taken once or twice aweek are also a very good remedy against the Vertigo So are my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills taken two or three at a time more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient For they above any yet found out are of most excellent use to cleanse the Stomack of all pituitous matter so hinders the ascension of Vapours from thence that so frequently hurt the Brain The like Vertue they have in all other Distempers that affect the same which in the following discourse shall be more plainly demonstrated Medicines which strengthen the Stomack and Brain in this distemper are made as followeth and are exceeding profitable Take Misselto of the white Thorn or Oak Gallingal Mace of each one Dram and a half Nutmegs Rosemary of each one Dram Cloves half a Dram Sugar one Ounce mix them and beat them into fine Powder and take the quantity of one Dram every night going to Bed for fourteen days together Or Take Mustard Seed and Hemp Seed of each a like quantity and infuse them in Vinegar 24. hours then strain it and take thereof one or two Spoonfulls at a time every morning fasting Or Take Cummin Seed and infuse it for the space of 12. hours in the best White Wine Vinegar after which dry it very well then take two Drams thereof Fennel Seed Anniseed Anacardii of each half an Ounce Hysop Marjoram Cardamoms Cubebes Rosemary of each two Drams Gallingal Mace Nutmegs of each one Dram double refined Sugar five Ounces Mix and make all into fine Powder and take a small quantity thereof every day after Meals upon toasted Bread so long as it lasts or make it up into an Electuary with Syrup of Betony and take it as afore directed To strengthen the Brain if the Vertigo come of a cold cause Take dry Marjorum Cinamon Cloves of each one Scruple Cubebes Mace Nutmegs of eech one Dram Rocket Seed two Drams being cut into small pieces mix them well together of which let the Patient take a small quantity and chew in his mouth every morning fasting as long as need shall require and each time let the Nostrils be stopped till the tast thereof be gone forth of the Mouth If Flegm be the cause of this Disease the following Gargarisme will prove of special use However it will be requisite if Flegm be not the cause Take Rocket Seed half an Ounce Pellitory of Spain three Drams Betony and Marjoram of each half a handfull cut and bruise them and boil them in White Wine and Water of each half a Pint to the consumption of half strain it and add thereto three Ounces of Honey of Roses and gargle therewith once or twice a day for it doth most wonderfully attract or draw the pituitous matter from the Brain c. So doth the Juice of Black and Red Beets or the Juice of Sow Bread being snuffed up into the Nostrils If the Disease prove violent you may safely bleed in the Cephalick Vein not too much at a time but take it forth at several times least the Patient faint When the body is purged according to the aforesaid directions apply blistering Plaisters to the Nape of the Neck and Hand-rists or apply Cupping Glasses to the hinder part of the head with scarification CHAP. V. Of the Falling Sickness THe Falling Sickness is a Convulsion or for the most part a praeternatural motion of the whole body and most commonly depriveth the Patient both of Reason and Sense There are three differences in this Distemper The first is caused when this Disease cometh only through the disease in the Brain as it falleth out when sharp Choler or gross and tough Flegm doth obstruct the passage of the Spirit in the Ventricle of the Brain and if this distemper cometh of a gross humour it doth suddenly seize upon the Patient and is quickly gone again The second Cause is through an evil affect in the Orifice of the Stomack that may be when the Brain laboureth to expel the Vapours that arise up to it from the Stomack The third cause is from Vapours which ascend by consent from most parts of the Body or else from some particular Member which the Patient may perceive like to cold Air creeping up to the Brain but this doth but seldom happen The signs of the Falling sickness are many in some sadness and forgetfulness c. in others a foolish state both of Body and Mind troublesome dreams the Head-ach and fullness in it more especially in passion or anger the Face commonly pale and the motion of the Tongue inordinate and oftentimes they bite it As soon as this Disease seizeth upon the Patient he falls down and is plucked up together he snorts and sometimes cries out many tremble and turn round The only sign of this Disease is foaming at the Mouth which happens most to Children and young people In the fit of the Falling Sickness as soon as the Patient falleth down open his Mouth with a stick the haft of a Knife or with the handle of a Spoon and after his Mouth is made clean by taking away the foam with a Rag or Feather give him to drink the following Julip Take the distilled Water of Lavender three Spoonfulls Syrup of Cowslips one Ounce Spirit of Vitriol or the Oyl of the same well rectified 20. Drops beingmixed together give it as afore directed The Chymical Oyl of Angelica given in the foresaid Water and Syrup doth also take away the Fit Or Take Red Coral Pearl prepared of each half a Scruple Vnicorns Horn two Scruples the Skull of a man hanged or killed by chance half a Dram the Roots and Seeds of Peony of each half a Scruple Musk three or four Grains being mixed and made into fine Powder give to the Patient in the Fit from half a Dram to two Scruples or a whole Dram to the stronger sort first infused for a small time in the distilled Water of Lavender Or Take white Helleber Marjoram of each one Scruple Castor and Euphorbium of each four Grains being mixed and made into fine Powder blow a small quantity at a time through a Quill up into the Patients Nostrils Or Take the Seeds of Nigella half a Dram Nutmegs Peony Roots Mumma of each 10 Grains dryed Marjorum six Grains Musk two Grains all being made into Powder blow it up into the Nostrils as afore directed Those and such like I will assure you are
white Sugar in a stone Bottle close stopped and set in a pot of water for two or three hours but open not the Bottle till it be cold then strain it and keep it for use of which give to the Child one or two Spoonfulls at a time for I will assure you it is a very excellent remedy and has cured many which have been lest past recovery Or give to the Child in the very Fit all the Gall of a Black sucking Puppy being choaked in the distilled water of Tile-flowers but for a Girl take the Gall of a Bitch Whelp There may be safely Blistering Plaisters applyed to the Nape of the Neck Cupping Glasses to the Shoulders and Loins with Scarification provided the Child be a year and half or two years of Age. CHAP. VI. Of the Apoplexie AN Apoplexie is a sudden privation both of the Sense and Motion of the Body and an interruption of the Animal Functions There are two sorts of Apoplexies the one strong the other more mild the strong is a most sharp Distemper and strangleth a Man forthwith or if not presently prevented turneth to a Palsey and is seldom cured But the milder sort is curable for in it both Motion and Sense remain but both very stupid heavy and exceeding dull The cause of the Apoplexie is too frequently in these dayes drunkenness falls from high places blows c. also it hapneth of Flegmatick Humours which doth fill and obstruct at one time the principal Ventricles of the Brain very cold Air which congeals or thickens the moist Excrements of the Brain is also oftentimes the cause of this distemper and it frequently cometh through gross melancholy humours The Symptoms or Signs of this deadly distemper are violent pains in the Head swelling of the Neck Veins a Vertigo and a brightness or a kind of glittering before their Eyes panting of the Body a coldness of the extream parts without any cause visible dull and slow in motion and in sleep oftentimes gnaw their Teeth their Urine little in quantity and black much like to Rust and the Canker in Mettals and hath a setling in the bottom like to flower Such that are troubled with the Apoplexie have not always evil Symptoms perceived before hand but fall down suddenly as if they were struck with Thunder and they lie with their Eyes fastned and snort without Sense Motion or Understanding differing from the dead only by Breathing and that with much difficulty This Disease for the most part happens to old men that are decrepit and of a Flegmatick Complexion and to the great drinkers of Brandy and decayed Wine too much made use of in these dayes were the Truth known The Cure of the milder sort of Apoplexie may be performed as followeth If the Cure be not too desperate in plethorick or full Bodies where strength will permit open the Cephalick Veins but take not away too much blood at a time but rather at several times I have often seen the Jugular Veins on both sides the Neck opened not without wonderfull success However bleeding ought not to be attempted without very good advice But give to the Patient the Glister made as followeth Take Lavender Hysop Pennyroyal Centaury Marjoram Betony Rue Origan Sage of each half a handfull Seeds of Fennel Carawayes Seselis Agarick Pollipody Pulp of Colocynthis of each two Drams cut and bruise them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half then strain it and to one Pint of the strained Liquor add thereto Sal Gemme one Dram and a half Hiera Picra one Ounce and a half Oyl of Rue Castor and Bay-berries of each half an Ounce the Extract of black Hellebor one Scruple mix them altogether and make a Glister thereof Or Take hard Honey half an Ounce Euphorbium half a Scruple the Powder of Colocinthys twenty Grains Sal Gemma two Scruples boil them together and make Suppositories thereof and fix Threads thereto that after they are put up into the Fundament you may draw them forth at pleasure When you have done thus provoke the Patient to Sneese with the following Powder Take Pellitory of Spain Marjoram white Hellebor of each half a Scruple Euphorbium and Castor of each five Grains being made into fine Powder snuff it up into the Nostrils or blow it up through a Quill but a little at a time Or make use of the Powder directed in the Chapter of the Falling sickness made as followeth Take the Seeds of Nigella half a Dram Nutmeg Mumia Peony Roots of each ten Grains dryed Marjoram six Grains Musk two Grains all being made into fine powder blow a small quantity thereof up into the Nostrils For it is most wonderfully effectual in the Fit of the Vertigo Falling Sickness and Apoplexie In places where such ingredients cannot be soon obtained take Nutmeg Ginger and sweet Marjoram or Ginger alone and blow it up into the Nostils as afore directed Or let the Patient smell to Galbauum Castor Opoponax or Sagapenum which will be a means to raise and stir him up It will also be necessary to annoint the Patients Back bone with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Euphorbium Castor of each one Ounce Oyl of Costinum one Ounce the Oyl of Petraeleum and Juniper of each two Drams with a sufficient quantity of Virgins Wax make it into an Oyntment And take every Morning fasting the quantity of a Nutmeg of the Electuary made as followeth for it is a great preseruative against the Apoplexie Take the Conserve of Sage Betony of each half an Ounce Rosemary one Ounce Venice Treacle three Drams the Confection of Anacardit two Drams Diambra and Diamoschi Dulcis of each one Dram Powder of Castor and Seeds of Rocket of each half a Dram with Syrup of Betony make them up into an Electuary to which mix Oyl of Vitriol two Scruples Oyl of Cinamon ten drops stirring it well together Or Take Rosemary and Lavender-flowers of each one handfull Roses Violets Staechados Origan of each half a handfull Pellitory Peony Roots Gallingal of each half an Ounce Sea or Mountain Onign two Drams Cubebes one Dram Cloves Cardamoms Cinamon of each twenty Grains being cut and bruised boil them in one Pint of the distilled Water of Marjoram and a Pint and a half of Betony Water mixed together after which strain it and sweeten it with half a pound of the best Sugar or with eight or ten Ounces of the Syrup of Staechados and take thereof three or four spoonfulls every Morning fasting Purging Medicines proper in this Disease are made as followeth Take Extract of black Hellebor from 10 Grains to 15 Rosin of Colocynthis three Grains Spirit of Sal Armoniack six drops Tartar Vitriolatum Powder of Castor of each ten Grains with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Sage make them into a Potion which you may take every third Morning if need require Or Take Pills of Euphorbium Cochiae Aureae of each 15 or 20 Grains
Steers Gall six Ounces of the best Aqua Vitae Oyl of Turpentine three Ounces boil it again two or three walms and keep it for use With which precious Balm anoint the paralitick Member twice a day How to Cure the Palsey in the Tongue First let the body be well purged with the Pills afore directed Or Take of the Pills of Assaiereth Cochia Troches or Extract of Agarick of each two Scruples with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Sage make them up into Pills ten in number whereof take two at night and three in the Morning The next day take Mustard made with Elder Vinegar and often chew in your mouth in the same manner you may use Pellitory of Spain Mustard Seed or hold in your mouth half an Ounce of Spirit of Lavender mixing therewith one or two Grains of the Powder of Euphorbium all which have been known of wonderful effect In such cases some apply blistering Plaisters to the Nape of the neck For the Palsey in the Hands Take Elder-leaves and make a decoction thereof in strong Beer add thereto good store of Mustard and bath your hands therein hot Some rub the Hands with Camomil with good success Or anoint them well with the Oyntments afore directed and wear Hare Skins upon the parts affected For the Palsey in the Bladder and Yard When the Palsey is in the Bladder the Urine is stopped and sometimes it passeth away without the consent of the Patient So annoint the lower part of the Belly and Privy parts with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Nard Rue Cummin of each half an Ounce Opoponax Castor and Galbanum dislolved in Butter of each a quarter of an Ounce being mixed well together use it as afore directed and inject a small quantity thereof into the Bladder warm but if the Urine be stopped then first force the Patient to make Water by putting up into the Yard a Catheter The Palsey in the Yard doth also stop the Urine the Sperme and doth hinder Copulation So make use of the same Remedies directed for the Bladder Or take the Oyl of Pepper Euphorbium and Costinum of each an equal quantity with Wax make them up into an Oyntment and anoint the Yard therewith You may anoint the Hips and Loins with the Oyntment directed for the Back and give the Patient to drink Medicines that will provoke Urine Also the Spirit of Castor or the Powder thereof in the distilled Water of Lavender is very effectual Or let him make use of the Medicines made as followeth that have power to erect the Yard Take Diasatyrion one Ounce Powder of Castor one Dram being mixed together take the quantity of a large Nutmeg at a time And Bath the Yard with Wine wherein hath been boiled Sage and Elder with a small quantity of Pellitory of Spain CHAP. VIII Of the Convulsion or Cramp THe Cramp is a Disease in which the Sinews are drawn or pluckt up against the Patients will Of which there are three sorts The first is called in Latine Distentio and that is when the Neck doth remain altogether without motion and not to be turned to either side but must be held upright The second is called Tensio ad Anteriora in which Disease the Head and Neck are drawn down to the Breast The third is called Tensio ad Posteriora in which Distemper the Head is attracted or drawn backward down to the Shoulders and Back The Causes of this Disease according to Hypocrates are supposed to be two that is to say fullness and emptiness of the Sinews in the body and sometimes it hapneth through the biting and stinging of venemous Creatures and the over much use of Venery more especially when it is made use of upon a full Stomack is the cause of this Disease and many times it is caused through Embecillity or weakness and by the loss and want of Blood If the Convulsion or Cramp be caused of fullness give to the Patient Diet that is hot and dry But if it be caused of emptiness his diet ought to be moist therefore let him be nourished with fat Broths and Flesh of easy and light digestion Let his Drink be small and thin Wine c. except he chance to be in a Feaver then let him make use of Barley Water and the decoction of Cinamon and let him also be provoked to sleep with Diacodium or with the Syrup of Poppies c. He ought to use no exercise neither Medicines that empty the body and let his drink be such that is frequently given in Hectick Feavers The following Glister will also prove of excellent use Take Betony Marjoram Sage Mercury wild Betony and the lesser Centaury of each half a handfull Caraway and Coriander Seeds of each half an Ounce being bruised and cut small boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half strain it and take one Pint thereof to which add Hiera simple one Ounce and a half Diaphaenicon one Ounce Oyl of Rue two or three Ounces Sal Prunella one Dram mix them well together and make it up into a Glister which administer warm to the Patient After which if the body be Plethory or full let blood and that in a large quantity out of the middle Vein but take it forth by degrees and not all at once After which give to the Patient the Drink made as followeth five Ounces at a time first and last Take Betony Marjoram Sage Hysop of each one handfull Carduus Water Germander the lesser Centaury of each half a handfull Annis and Caraway Seeds of each half an Ounce cut and bruise them small and with three Pints of Mede or Metheglin mixed therewith boil them for an Hour and a half after which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Staecados and Betony of each three Ounces and take it as afore directed warm After which make use of the following Pills Take the Troches of Agarick Sagapen Pills of Faetida of each one Scruple Troches of Alhandal five Grains with Honey of Roses make them up into five Pills which let the Patient take after his first sleep You may anoint the parts affected especially the Nape of the Neck and Back with the Oyntment and Oyl directed in the Chapter of the Palsey Or bath the parts with the following Bath Take Ground-Pine Sage Betony Camomil Origan the Roots of Marsh Mallows Elicampane of each two Ounces Seeds of Faenugreek three Ounces Sulphur one Pound Alum half a Pound being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water and make a Bath thereof with which bath the Patient in the Morning before dinner and rub it well in over all his body if need require or else in the particular Member that is affected After which anoint the Nape of his Neck and Back and all parts affected with the Oyntment made as followeth Take Oyl of Earth-worms white Lillies of each half an Ounce Oyl of Costinum Turpentine of each three Drams with a
apply it to the Belly as afore-directed You may anoint the Belly often with the following Ointment Take the Flower of Linseed Fenugreek Beans and Barly of each two ounces the Ointment called Vnguentum Agrippae one ounce and a half the seeds of Negella Daucus and Marsh-Mallows of each one dram Euphorbium Roch-Allum Frankincense of each one dram and a half fine Bole and quick Brimstone of each two drams Orris Roots three drams Oil of Rue white Lillies Orris Elder and Camomile of each one ounce Oil of Turpentine ten drams with a sufficient quantity of Bees VVax make thereof an Ointment and anoint the Parts swelled therewith before a good Fire Or take the Ointment of Sowbread Marsh-Mallows the Ointment called Vnguentum Martiatum of each one ounce and a half Oyl of Roses Rue Sage Elder and White Lillies of each half an ounce Mix them together and anoint the Parts therewith as afore-directed For they are not onely beneficial in the Tympany being the worst of Dropsies but in Ascites And in that Dropsie called Anasarca c. But assure your selves where my Pills are made use of in time there will be little or no need of outward applications ☞ For they alone have in them a Specifique or Particular Vertue totally to root out the Dropsie of all kinds and to strengthen the Liver and the rest of the Principal Bowels through the Coldness and VVeakness of which most Dropsies proceed Yet notwithstanding instead of ordinary Drink make use of either of the Drinks made as followeth seeing that oftentimes they conduce much to the Cure Take the Bark of Elder Red Sage Ground Ivy or the Herb called Alchoof Smallage the Roots of Fennel Aron and Pollipody of the Oak Scurvygrass and Brook-lime of each half a pound the best Juniper-Berries one pound Ginger one ounce being cut and bruised tie them up into a thin Cloth and hang it in an Earthen Stein and pour thereto a sufficient quantity of New Ale or Beer such that are abse may add some Rhenish or VVhite-wine so let it work together when fit to drink make use thereof Or take Clivers and Elder-Bark of each three or four good handfuls Galsingal one ounce being cut and bruifed boil them in six Quarts of small Ale to the consumption of half then add thereto three Quarts of the best White-wine and let it just boil up the second time strain it and drink thereof when dry as of ordinary Drink Or take the Bark of the Roots of Elder two handfuls Sasaphrass Sarsaperilla of each two ounces Winter Cinamon and Winter Cherries of each one ounce and a half the Seeds of Alexander one ounce being cut and bruised very small boil them in six quarts of White-wine to the consumption of the third part strain it and sweeten it with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows and drink thereof a quarter of a pint hot first and last Or take White-Wine four quarts the best Nutmegs and Winter-Cherries of each twenty in number being cut and bruised boil them to the consumption of the fourth part then strain it and keep it for use of which Liquor let the Patient drink a small quantity at a time when he pleaseth for it will not only comfort the Spirits and strengthen the Liver but with My Pills cause much Urine Or take Diacurcuma Dialacca of each two drams Troches of Rhubarb one dram with a sufficient quantity of the Conserve and Syrup of Wormwood make them up into an Electury and let the Patient take the quantity of a Nutmeg at pleasure for it strengthens the Liver to admiration To eat often of the Conserve of Sea-Wormwood is also very profitable Sweating is of wonderful profit in this Disease So if it cannot be gained through exercise as by walking in the Summer time in the Sun or in a warm room in the Winter-season make use once a week upon a day you take no Pills of the Medicine made as followeth Take Venice-Treacle one dram and a half Diaphoretique Antimony ten grains Salt of Wormwood and Salt of Tartar of each five grains being mixed together take it upon the point of a Knife or in a Glass of hot Sack and sweat as strength will permit Or take Carduus-Water three ounces the Spirit of Saffron and Treacle-Water of each one ounce Syrup of Balm and Clove-Gilliflowers of each six drams the Chimical Oyl of Sulphur ten drops mix them and make a Potion thereof which take in the morning and sweat as directed CHAP. XXV Of the SCURVY SCORBVTI as Authors say is a barbarous word and formerly unknown to most of the Ancient Physicians especially those of the Southern Parts and derived from the Danes Which Disease was supposed to be that which Pliny maketh mention of in his Natural History The Principal Causes of the Scurvy comes from a thick and saltish Constitution of the Air being corrupt as the Air near the Sea fenny foggy or moist places which infect by the unwholesome Vapours coming from the same Also the eating of salt Meat and Bread twice baked Fish over-much dried in the Smoak rusty Bacon and many other sorts of Diet which are of corrupt nourishment decayed Beer and stinking Water do cause this Disease Likewise it comes through the Obstruction of the Spleen the course of Melancholy being hindred and mixed with the rest of the Blood infecteth the whole Body with Corruption and violent wasting The grosser part falling down staineth the Legs with spots of divers colours the thinner part being carried up doth defile the Gums with sharp salt and fretting humours and filthy growing of flesh between the Teeth The Symptoms or Signs of the Scurvy are in chief as followeth A pricking and grievous pain in the Head a stinking Breath or evil savour of the Mouth Jaws and Teeth the Gums bleed and are often red and itch and soon corrupt the Teeth loose black and rotten Spots in the Face Body Thighs and Legs at first commonly Red but afterwards Blew Purple-colour or Black sometimes Yellow c. which proceeds from the serous corrupt and filthy part of the Blood which being unfit to nourish the Body is sent forth The Patient is often troubled with a suffocation and as it were choked up the Heart panteth the Stomach is puffed up the Left Side is commonly swelled there are perceived frequent Sighings Belchings Cramps and Windiness motions to Vomit sometimes the Patient is feverish at other times tremble and shiver with cold and upon a sudden hot again sometimes heavy dull and melancholy disability to walk upon a sudden their Breath fail and it is with very much difficulty if they use but the least motion when they offer to rise or sit but upright they are almost ready to die their Spirits so much fail them but when they lie down they seem to be much refreshed and breathe not with so much difficulty and for the most part their Appetites are sharp and greedy of Meat and desire to eat often the Stomach seldom failing but the
the Chapter of Ulcers in the Reins are also very profitable in this Disease Or take Mastick Red Corral Dragons-Blood White Amber Camphir of each two drams Agnus Castus three drams two Nutmegs Cinamon one dram being made into fine Powder mix them together and make it up into Pills with one ounce of Cypress-Turpentine whereof let the Patient take five at a time first and last Or take Gum Guaicum and Turpentine washed in Plantane-water of each one ounce the Powder of Galls so much as is sufficient to make the rest up into Pills which you may take as afore directed But attempt none of these or such-like Medicines until such time the Body be very well purged lest the Remedy prove worse than the Disease And to avoid trouble purge with my Pills for they will effect your desire CHAP. XXXII Of the FRENCH POX THe POX is a Contagious or Infectious Disease and undoubtedly for the most part gotten by Carnal Copulation with corrupt and unclean VVomen and may well be called The very Plague of Venus Some years past there was but little knowledge of it among us but now it is become frequent and daily bringeth with it many horrid and detestable Evils and very sad and troublesome accidents which in the beginning is but small yet in process of time the Patient wanting an honest and able Physician groweth to such a height that it doth not only corrupt the Humours and Spirits but exceedingly offend the Nerves Membranes Tendons Flesh and Bones and at length destroys all other parts of the Body perverting the Temperature and whole substance thereof from whence proceedeth divers sorts of Excrements This most sinful and cursed Disease is very occult and doth lie hid in the Body many months before it is perfectly discovered And the principal Part affected is the Liver as may appear by the natural Actions for in the Stomach there is an evil Concoction from whence ariseth a vast alteration of Colour a great indisposition of Body the Appetite to the sports of Venus as it were altogether dejected or lost it hath relation to the whole substance of the Liver rather than to the Heart or Brain and it doth assault the natural spirits rather than the vital and animal which being corrupt must needs infect the Liver from whence followeth shedding of hair itching about the privy parts filthy stinking Ulcers and virulent Gonorrhea's c. The Cause of this most silthy Disease Is a sordid and malignant quality containing in it self a very profound Contagion communicated from one person infected to another by Carnal Copulation with foul Women as afore-mentioned and the parts serving for Generation are for the most part infected first by reason of their tender and pure substance and in the like manner this malignant quality is communicated to the Mouth and Throat and to the Skin and the more weak the natural Faculties and Virtues of the Liver are the sooner doth it infect from whence it often falls out that many using one filthy VVoman are as it were all infected but such men who have their natural Faculties vigorous or strong are not so soon infected The Signs of this most horrible Disease Are Buboes in the Groin Pustules and Ulcers in the Yard and Urinary Passages after which doth follow a light poysonous matter with a kind of Distillation and burning or scalding heat in the Urine sometimes accompanied with a Gonnorrhea the Patient most commonly is sorely tormented with violent pain in the Head Neck Shoulders Arms Back Knees Legs and Shin-Bones spots not onely in the Head and about the Temples but in several other parts of the Body do often arise which are sometimes red and sometimes yellow which will for a short time be gone and then return again and then become more virulent which doth at last corrode or eat the Skin from whence ariseth many other filthy Ulcers not only in the Throat but in the Mouth Tongue Jaws and Nostrils c. Commonly the Hair of the Head and Beard falls off and there doth frequently appear in the Forehead and other parts of the Head Joynts and upon the Shin-Bones Nodes Knots or hard Tumours not easily to be dissolved nor cured which doth in time corrupt the very Bones and Marrow contained therein the Patient takes little rest because the pains are more violent in the night than in the day These and such like are in brief the true Symptoms or Signs of the Pox which doth not appear in all alike but in some Constitutions after one manner and in others after another Which Disease if newly taken admits of an easie Cure In order to which observe the following method Take Cassia newly extracted Syrup of Roses solutive of each half an ounce the Electuary of the Juice of Roses two drams Mercurius Dulcis ten grains with a sufficient quantity of the Distilled Water of Fumatory make a Potion thereof which take in the morning fasting Or take Confectio Hamech six drams Venice-Turpentine well washed in Rose-Water two drams Mercurius Dulcis well prepared ten grains mix them and take it as afore-directed Or take the Lenitive Electuary and Benedicta Laxativa of each three drams Mercurius Dulcis ten grains Salt of Tartar five grains being mixed together take it as aforesaid repeating the same or either of the former two or three times After which open the Liver Vein in the Right Arm the Patient not having Buboes in the Groin if so Bleeding will do much harm in drawing back the Contagion to the Liver causing the Disease to be more dangerous and painful c. Whether Bleeding may be safely attempted or not the matter is not great However let the Patient be purged sufficiently with either of the fore-mentioned Electuaries ☞ Or with my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills which by large Experience are well known to be most powerful with the Use of my Arcanum Vitae to expel this contagious Disease not onely at the beginning thereof but in such that have been tainted therewith some years Many make use of the Pills made as followeth Take Pills of Exduobus and Extract of Rudii of each one dram Mercurius Dulcis two scruples with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Cloves make them up into twenty Pills whereof take two at night and three in the morning repeating the same as need require Or take the Powder of Colocinthis Jallap Diagredium and Crude Antimony of each half an ounce Crude Mercury run through Sheeps Leather six drams being mortified with a sufficient quantity of Venice-Turpentine by beating them in a Mortar for three or four hours with a small quantity of the Oyl of Cloves make thereof a mass for Pills Or take Crude Mercury run through Leather as afore-directed one ounce and a half the best Aloes Diagredium Colocinthis and Jallap of each half an ounce Saffron three drams the sweet Oyl of Lavender-Flowers one dram with a sufficient quantity of Venice-Turpentine washed in Rose-VVater make them up into a mass for
Pills according to Art There are several other Pills made use of in this Disease not much differing from the former as those Pills called Barbarossae c. The Dose of either are from twenty grains to thirty more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient Which have been often made trial of not without good success ☞ But My Pills having not one grain of Mercury in the whole Composition doth more sweeten and purifie the Blood than any other Medicine yet found out by which means they are no less effectual in this Distemper than in the Dropsie and Scurvy c. But in that let the Patient use his own discretion And after he hath purged very well for a week or ten days together if strength will permit Let him sweat three days gently with my Arcanum Vitae or with the following Liquor the third day purge again and then sweat Thus do for twenty days together if need require Take Sarsaperilla and Lignum Vitae of each four ounces the Bark of Lignum Vitae and the Roots of China of each one ounce Burdock-Roots and Liquorice of each two ounces being cut and bruised boil them in six quarts of Running Water in a Vessel close stopped to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and take thereof one pint hot in the morning and lie three or four hours in a breathing sweat To every dose of this Liquor you may add ten or twelve drops of the Chymical Oyl of Sulphur The second Decoction of the foresaid Ingredients will serve to drink as of ordinary Drink Another Excellent Medicine to provoke Sweat in this Case Take the best Sarsaperilla cut in small pieces what you please which put in a Glass and add thereto Spirit of Sack that it may lie above it the breadth of two singers Let it so stand being covered close till the Spirit become Yellow then strain it and put it into another Glass and to half a pint of this Spirit add two ounces of Gum Guaicum in fine Powder that being dissolved add thereto one spoonful of Natural Balsom then keep it for use Whereof take two spoonfuls in Rosemary Posset and sweat as afore-directed And purge with my Pills every third or fourth day And doubt not the Cure if the Disease be not of too long continuance There are several other ways made use of in the Cure of this desperate Disease as Mercurial Ointments and Fumigations with Ciniber c. to cause Salivation Medicines inwardly given to cause the same are Turbith Minerale Arcanum Corallinum Red Precipitate Mercurius Vita and Mercurius Dulcis which is the most safest of all being well prepared and given at the beginning fifteen grains and increasing every day five grains till the Flux is sufficiently raised in which course the Patient ought not to eat or drink any thing except Posset-Drink or Mutton-Broth and such-like And after the Flux is raised he may drink of the Decoction of Sarsa China c. keeping himself therewith sometimes in a breathing sweat for Purging and Sweating is the best Cure for this Disease and most safe And to heal the Sores in the Mouth make use of some of the Waters directed in the Chapter of the Ulcers of the Mouth and and Throat For the Ulcers in the Secret Parts make use of the Waters directed pag. 84. especially the two last And apply the Powder of Album Graecum with Vinegar thereto for it doth not onely kill the Ulcers but heal You may anoint the part with the White Ointment with Camphir mixing therewith a small quantity of Mercurius Dulcis or White Precipitate in fine Powder To take away the Warts that often grow within the Fore-Skin of the Yard and Glans c. Take Orpment Quick Brimstone and Lime of each two drams the Powder of Savin half a dram mix them together and touch the Warts therewith or anoint them with Balsom of Sulphur Oil of Antimony and Oil of Quicksilver are of wonderful use in such Cases So is the Oil drawn from Mans Excrements In this Distemper You must remember to eat Meats of Light Digestion as Chickens Rabbets Mutton and Partridges well roasted For supper you may eat Raisins of the Sun stoned or blew Currans with Bread only and drink very sparingly But use as much exercise as possible for thereby many young men that have been able to indure sweating through the same as dancing playing at Tennis c. have been with the least Physick imaginable in the beginning of the Disease perfectly cured CHAP. XXXIII Of the PLAGUE THe Plague is a Disease that falleth upon many which we have had too large experience of and hath its original or beginning from a deadly putrifaction which in a very high measure doth exceed the Common Many times this deadly quality hath its beginning in our selves for it often times cometh to pass that the humours of our Bodies do so much degenerate from the natural temperature that at last it taketh unto it self a deadly venomous quality and so is forced to strive with pernicious poyson Sometimes it ariseth from external means as malignant and putrid Exhalations which are communicated to the Air and sometimes from dead Bodies not buried and from the Roots of Cabbages stinking above the Earth from standing corrupt Waters Fens and foggy places the stinking smells from slaughter-houses and Butchers Shambles doth cause Or take the Essence of Venice-Treacle and Tincture of Saffron of each a like quantity being mixed together give to the Patient one or two spoonfuls in the distilled VVater of Scabios or Bugloss every morning as afore-directed Or take Venice-Treacle Mithridate of each one ounce the Confection of Alkermes two drams the Conserve of Wood-Sorrel two ounces mix them together and take the quantity of a Walnut every morning Or take the Spirit of Sack one pint Venice-Treacle one ounce and a half Saffron two drams mix them together and let them stand close stopped for three days then filter it and keep the clear Spirit for use of which let the Patient take one spoonful every morning in the distilled VVater of Rue or Carduus Or take one dram of Venice-Treacle every morning in the distilled Water of Wood-Sorrel or alone if you find it not too hot Or take the Seeds and Bark of Citrons Zeduary Angelica Gentian Tormental Pimpernal and the Roots of Dittany of each a like being made all into fine powder take the quantity of one dram thereof in the distilled VVater of Carduus or Borrage every morning fasting Or take Juniper-Berries the Leaves of green Rue of each one ounce the Kernels of Walnuts two ounces Venice-Treacle Saffron of each two drams ten or twelve Figs beat them all well together then mix therewith a sufficient quantity of the best Vinegar and make an Electuary thereof of which take the quantity of a large Nutmeg every morning Outwardly to prevent this Disease Take Venice-Treacle one ounce Conserve of Cowslips two ounces being mixed