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cause_n	body_n	disease_n	fever_n	1,543	5	9.5930	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20501	A discourse of the medicine called mithridatium declaring the firste beginninge, the temperament, the noble vertues, and the true vse of the same: compiled rather for those which are to vse it, then for the learned.	Baley, Walter, 1529-1592.	1585 (1585)	STC 6909; ESTC S108260	28,241	71

away the iudgment and memory hurt or abolished Mithridatium by his sweete brethings quickeneth the same reduceth the braine to his temperament altereth consumeth spendeth those vapoures and bringeth man to his naturall state and when it is newe it induceth sleepe and remedieth the furyousnes of many madmen No man needeth to doubt of the mighty power of Mithridatium in curing all kind of poisons either outwardly receaued or inwardly taken being to that purpose chefly devised and of long time experienced to be therin of great force Although for the biting and stinging of venemous beastes it is supposed of lesse might then Theriacle yet it is of all men confessed much stronger to cure poisons taken into the body by potion or otherwayse So his might is great to heale all pestilent all and malignante diseases cureth the plage feauers which depend of naughty and malignant causes helpeth the french pocks the small pocks the measels and in all other inward diseases which are great and such as other medicines can not remedy Mithridatium is found to haue a speciall grace to cure them And in such desperate diseases cases when other remedies will not serue then we ought to flye to Mithridatium as Galen writeth of Theriacle For being a noble medicine of great powre it is not to be vsed in euery affect of little moment Wherefore it is written that Mithridatium cureth all infermities of the head in men and women if the same doe come of a cold cause namely it helpeth the melancholy madnes the Falilng sicknes y e Hemicrane or meagrame y e paines in the eyelids and browes the watring of the eyes the paines of the eares of the teeth of the mouth of the iawes the squinancy the appoplexy the litargie and such other cold diseases of y e head in which cases it is inwardly dronken also outwardly applyed sprede in the forme of an emplastre it comforteth y e hart doth good in the passions of the same It helpeth the diseased of the breast cureth the cough shortnes of breath spitting of bloud the pleurisy and stiches of the side the phthisike other inward diseases of the breast and loūgs In these later causes especially for stiches it is applyed outwardly spred emplastre waies and in the chough and such other diseases it is inwardly ministred with some conuenient liquor for so it cutteth the grosnes of the phlegme and maketh it easy to be auoydid openeth the pipes and enlargeth all those parts which doe serue for breathing To proceede to the affects of the stomake it prouoketh appetite remedieth ouer much desire to eat termed Canina appetentia for it drieth superfluous resolueth correcteth corrupte humores it helpeth concoctiō by increasing of naturall heate cureth euill belks inflation of the stomacke for it breaketh winde and will not suffer any thing to corrupt in y e stomacke it stayeth vomiting by strengthening the stomacke by keeping the stomacke cleane from winde superfluous and euill humores it taketh away the abhorring of meate It doth great good in all diseases of the belly paynes in y e guts called the Iliaca passio the bluddy flix and all other fluxes gieuen with the decoction of the flowers of the pomegranate called Balaustia In the colike of the belly it is very good and to ease the paynes of the belly after a purgatiue medicine it hath a speciall vertue For it taketh away the malignitie of the medicine breaketh winde and doth strengthen parts wekened by the purgatiue medicine It nourisheth diseases paynes in the sydes and about the mydriffe it helpeth the infirmities of y e kidnes and of the bladder breaketh the stone remedieth the passions of the matrix prouoketh the naturall courses in women and stoppeth the same if they doe abound For it openeth the passages by extenuating that which by grosnes doth stoppe the wayes and by making nature stronge staieth fluxes which commonly do grow immoderate by weaknes It diminisheth y e swellings hardnes of y e matrix of other parts it doth remedy y e barrennes in women maketh them fertill Mithridatiū is accompted a speciall good remedy against the payne of the ioynts to cure the goute and the Sciatica for that it drieth superfluous humores stayeth the reume maketh all parts stronge But it must be gieuen not at the first when the payn beginneth but ater when the rage of the paine is past and the body ought first to be purged before you gieue Mithridatium And it vsed before the fits of the goutes maketh greatly for preseruation to keepe one from often accessiōs of y e goute It helpeth y e diseases of the sineues y e resolution y t paulsye the crampe y e diseases called Tetanos Ambrostotonos and Opistetanos for it augmenteth naturall heate dissolueth by euaporatiō humores soken into y e syneues restoreth the spirits and strength It helpeth the shaking fits of feauers geauen twyse or thrise halfe an houre before the fitte oftentimes it doth cure the feauer quartan and the quotidian Of the vse of Mithridatium THe better to know the vse of Mithridatium we are to consider the time most conuenient to gieue it the quantity the maner of gieuing For the time we may with Galen counsaile to minister the same in no wyse vpon a full stomacke but after concoction is perfit The vsuall time and best to take it is in the morning fasting it is not so good to gieue it when the stomacke and first veines are full of crude and rawe humoures And before it be gieuen it is good to procure the belly to be loose according to Galens counsell in ministring of Theriacle in his booke ad Pamphilianum Of the quantity AS Galen writeth in his booke de Theriaca ad Pisonem so we may affirme that one quantity of Mithridatium is not to bee gieuen to all men in all times and in all diseases And the better to finde out the iust quantity wee are to remember that Galen in the sayd booke mentioneth of two quantityes gieuen of Theriacle the one referred to a hasell nut the other to a beane of Aegypt And for that he also affirmeth y t in strong diseases the greater quantity is to be gieuen and the lesser in light diseases and so in great infirmities hee ministreth the quantity of an hasell nut and in diseases of lesse force vseth the portion of the beane of Aegypt it is euident that the hasell nut importeth the greater quantity and the beane the lesser So that by Galen the greatest quātity to be gieuen of Theriacle is measured by an hasell nut and the least by a beane of Aegypt And the forme of speach which Galen vseth to expresse these quantities in my iudgement doth importe the bignesse and not the weight of the things For Galen in euery place writeth ad magnitudinem fabae aegyptiae so ad magnitudinem nucis auellanae to the michelty or bignes of a beane of Aegypt

affect For not only Mithridatiū and Theriacle but all other medicines taken in a solide and dry consistence doe stay in the stomacke longe and sustaine greater alteration than when the same is gieuen in a liquid forme For which cause when we haue intent to comfort the stomacke to help digestiō to breake wyn●e in the stomacke and belly then it is conuenient to gieue Mithridatium in drie substāce When intention is to remedy diseases in more inward parts of the body in all venimous pestilential and malignant causes we gieue the medicine dissolued with some liquore And as we reade in Galen that hee vsed not alway one liquore so he maketh mention of these of water of Mulsa that is water hony which we do cal meade or meath of mulsum that is wyne and hony mingled of acetum mulsum that is wine hony and vineger of posca that is water vineger of certaine decoctions made of hearbs rootes and seedes And it is to bee seene by Galens discourse that hee made choise of the liquores by indication taken of the countrey of the time of the yeare of the age and complexion of the patient and of the nature and disposition of the disease So that he gaue a hoat liquore as wine or wine or wine hony in cold countryes and times in aged men such as were not of hoate complexions and had not much naturall heate in diseases not ouer hoate in strong poysons Cōtrariwise in hoate regions in sommer time in such as were in the flower of their age and had cholerike and hoat constitutions dry bodies and did abound with naturall heate in hoate cholerike siknesses in great feauers he made choise of a colde liquore hauinge regarde that the liquore might contemper and mitigate in some part the quality of the medicine Which intētions applied to y e gieuing of Mithridatium it wil be easy to choose a fit liquore when we are to minister the same in it For the same circumstances will soone induce vs to make choise of a conuenient liquore wee may also learne by Galen that as the circumstnunces are to leade vs to appoyncte the quality of the liquore as is aforesayde So the disposition of the disease will teach vs to apt a conuenient liquore in substaunce for it is agreable to reason that such a liquore bee gieuen which may not only mitigate the quality of the medicine but with hauing also property to doe good in that disease may further the action of the medicine So by good reason in pestilentiall agues in malignant diseases the pockes y e measels we doe gieue Mithridatium with the dissolued water of Dragon or of Carduus benedictus or in some like decoction and we doe in such cases many times mingle with y e syrupe de acetositat● citri syrupe acetosus which things doe not only mitigate the heate of the medicine but also help and further his action In y e cough and diseases of the breaste and syde wee may with Galen choose wine and water called mulsum when y e patient is without a feauer in a feauer with water and hony called mulsa In such a● are shorte breathed it is best gieuen with vineger compoūded with scilla to them which spit bloude at the beginning with water and hony which we call meade after with water only but the medicine wil be more effectuall if you doe boyle the rootes of Comfry in it In diseases and paine of the belly with water In stoppages of the lyuer they yealew Ieaundes the Dropsie with an opening decoctiō as the decoction of the rootes of Asara bacca And in respect of the drouth in the Dropsie it may be gieuen in meade In diseases of the kidnes and bladder with the decoction of persley and in vlcers of the kidnes with wine and water in excoriation of the guttes with a decoction of Sumach to those which haue the falling sicknes if they be leaue with meade it were two lōge and to litle purpose thus perticularly to runne thorough all diseases we may easely appoint a cōuenient liquore and prescribe y e quantity of y e medicine of the liquore by y t which is written and thought I haue for example sake for examples doe best teach discoursed in many diseases appointing such liquores which Galen doth vse and best allowe of yet I doubt not but an expert man will for the present case diuise much better by indication taken of the circumstaunces before mentioned That a man well weighing these thinges may quickely knowe the true vse of Mithridatium and so not erre in the ministration thereof but gieue the same to the greate good of those which shall take it and to the honour of God whose goodnesse gieueth successe to al medicines to worke health where and when it pleaseth his holy wisdome