it is to be feared that these Ulcers may foul the Skull if the matter be very filthy for it has been observed that the Skull has been so corrupted by these Ulcers that it has fallen off and the Meninges have appeared But when there is no danger to be feared especially when the Face is not deformed nor the Eyes hurt the Ulcers ought to be left to themselves yea we ought to endeavour that the other matter be expell d and if the Ulcers vanish â—nd the Child fall sick upon it we must give Fumitory Scabious Carduus-Benedictus Harts-horn or the like to drive the humour out again and cooling and astringent things which repel the matter must not be used But the Nurse in the mean while ought to observe a good Diet and to abstain from Salt and acid things and all things that generate ill juries as Onions Garlick Radish Pulse salted Meat and the like and if her body be foul the vitious humours must be purged off for otherwise the Child will be prejudiced and the Disease increased but if the ill humours are evacuated these Ulcers will soon go off wherefore these humours should be altered and prepared with Medicines made of Borrage Bugloss Fumitory Succory Hops the roots of Polypody sharp pointed Docks and afterwards they must be purged off with the leaves of Senna Epithymum Rhubarb Black Hellebore or with Diacatholicon tryphera Perâ—â—ca or the like and afterwards you must give such things as strengthen the Viscera and attemperate and expel the other humours As Take of the Conserves of Borrage Bugloss Violets Fumitory and Succory each 〈◊〉 Ounce of the candid roots of Succory and of the bark of Citron candied â—cah half an Ounce of the Spâ—cies Diarrhodon Abatis Diamargarit frigid Harts-horn prepared each one Scruple with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Gilliflowers make an Electuary Or Take of Harts-horn prepared two Drams of Magistery of Goral one Dram of the Species Diamargarit Frigid half a Dram make a Powder whereof give the Nurse daily half a Dram or a Dram. â—ome of these Medicines may be also given to the Children as Syrup of Borrage Fumitory Polypody and Hops and the Childs Body may be evacuated respect being had to its age with Glisters with Manna or laxative raisins or the like But if the Disease continue long and here is danger that great putrifaction â—ill arise under the Scab and so foul he Skull we must use Topicks and first he head must be washed with a Deoction of Mallows and Barley or â—ith a Decoction the roots of sharp â—ointed Doke the leaves of a Mallows he greater Celandine Wormwood the Seeds of Fenugreek Vetches Lupines and Beans If you would have it abstersive you must boyl the Herbs in Wine or you may make a Lotion with roots of Marsh-mallows boyled in childs urine alone or mixed with Barley-water afterwards anoint the part with the Oyl of Roses and Bitter-Almonds mixed with a little Lytharge Or Take of the Ashes of Myrtles and Nut-shells each one Dram of Tutty one Dram and an half of old Butter washed in Rose-water one Ounce mingle them Or Take of the juice Beets of greater Celendine each one Ounce Hogs-lard two Ounces Sulphur one Dram mix them Or Take of Lytharge moistened with Oyl of Roses one Ounce Ceruss half a Dram Aloes and Frankencense each one Dram and an half Myrrh on Dram Oyls of Roses and Rue each a sufficient quantity mix them in a Morter The following is stronger Take of the powder of Red-roses of the roots of Briony Pidgeons-dung Verdegrease and Sulphur each two Drams Oyls of Junipir and Wall-flowers each a sufficient quantity mix them in a Morter and anoint the part with it every other day Or Take of Cerass and Lytharge each two Drams Balaustins and Agarick each one Dram with Oyl of Roses and a little Vinegar make an Oyntment Or having rubbed the affected part with soft Soap wash it off with a proper decoction If the Skull be hurt by the Ulcers the Scab must be first taken off and mollified with Mallows and Violets boyled in May Butter or in Lard Afterwards the Ulcer must be washed and dryed with a Lee made of the ashes of the Vine Beetch and Ash â—a little Butter being added to it when the Skull appears you must apply Honey of Roses mixed with spirit of Wine afterwards you mnst apply the powder of the roots of Birthwort and Peruvian Balsam or you may ad Turpentine washed in Tobacco-water CHAP. VII Of a Tinea IF the Ulcers continue long or are ill cured they turu to a Tinea viz. crusty and fetid Ulcers of the Head corroding the skin It is properly reckoned amongst the dieases of Children tho the adult have it too for tho grown people are sometimes afflicted with this disease yet it has its beginning in their Infancy it is called Tinea from the Moths that spoil Cloaths because these Ulcers corrode the skin as Moths do Cloaths It differs from Scabs and the Ulcers treated of in the foregoing Chapter by being dry and crusty whereas they are moist and have always an humour flowing from them and they sometimes possess other parts of the body as well as the Head but this only the Head The cause of it is a Salt and acid humour degenerating to melancholly taking its rise from the Mothers blood wherewith the Child was nourished or from the ill milk of the Nurse or Mother and by progress of time and the long continuance of the disease and neglignce for it most commonly befalls poor peoples Children it turns to this disease Moreover it is easily imparted to Infants when the cap of that which has it is put upon another infant This disease is not always the same for sometimes it is scaly sometimes viscous This disease plainly appears to sight and is commonly known for some crusty and dry Ulcers are seen upon the Head sometimes they are green sometimes yellow and sometimes of an ash-colour scarce any thing flows out of them and that which does is very fetid It is very difficult to cure that which is new and of a yellow colour and a little moist is easiest cured But that which is old â—uite dry of an ash-colour or black is very hard to cure If it seiz a Child in its infancy it can scarce be cured till the Child come to an age fit to bear the Medicines the Disease requires and the severity of the Cure and when it is cured Hair seldom grows upon the place especially if the skin be hard and testatious and does not look red when it is rubbed but if the skin be soft and looks red upon rubbing there is hopes hair may ow again tho not without difficulty The indications are the same with oâ—er Ulcers namely magnitude lessen requires Medicines that inâ—arn the lution of the continuity requires things â—at conglutinate but we cannot satisfie hese indications unless the corroding humour be taken off and this must be done
the time the Small-Pox used to last affirm they are struck in tho they have really finished their Course and they think that the symptoms which come upon their going off are occasioned by their being strucâ— in so soon for the Fever and difficulty of breathing are increased at that time and the Cough is more vexatious so that the Patient cannot sleep night nor day Children are chiefly subject to these ill symptoms which appear now at the going off of the Measles by reason of two hot a Regimen â—r hot Medicines that were used to â—orce them out and by this means â—hey are cast into a Peripneumonia which destroys more than the Small-Pox and yet the Measles are not at all dangenerous if they are skillfully managed Among the rest of the ill symptoms â— looseness often happens which either presently succeeds the Disease or continues many Weeks after it and all its symptoms are gone off not without great danger to the Patient and sometimes after a very hot Regimen the Measles are first lived and afterwards black â—ut this only happens to grown people and they are utterly lost when the blackness first appears unless they are presently relieved by bleeding and a more temperate Regimen As the Measles are much of the same nature with the Small-Pox so is the method of cure much the same hot Medicines and a hot Regimen are very dangerous how frequently soever they are â—sed by ignorant Nurses to drive the Disease from the Heart The Patient must be kept in his Bed only two or three days after the eruption that the blood may gently breath cut according to his own genius thro the Pores of the Skin the inflamed Particles which offend it he must have no more Cloaths nor Fire than he is wont to have wheâ— he is well I forbid all flesh and alloâ— Oat-meal and Early-broaths and the like and sometimes a roasted Apple hiâ— drink must be either Small-beer or Milk boyled with treble the quantity of Water I oftentimes mitigated the Cough which almost continually accompanies this Disease with a draught of some pectoral decoction or with a Linctâ—â— fitted for the purpose but above all the rest I took care to give Diacodium every night thro the whole course of the Disease For instance Take of the Pectoral Decoction one piâ— and an half of Syrup of Violets and Maiden-hair each one Ounce and aâ— half mingle them and make an Apozem take three or four Ounces three or four times a day Take of Oyl of Sweet-Almonds two Ounces of Syrup of Violets and Maiden-hair each one Ounce 〈…〉 a sufficient quantity 〈…〉 them and make a 〈◊〉 us let the Sick 〈◊〉 often of it especially when his Cough troubles hâ—m â—ke of Black-Cherry-water three Ounces of Diacodium one Oâ—nce mingle them for a Draught to be taken every night But if the Patient be an Infant the Dose of the Pectorals and of the Narcotick is to be lessened with respect to the Age. But if by means of two hot Cordials â—d too hot a Regimen the Patient be danger of his life after the Measles off which is very frequent by reaâ— of the violence of the Fever and fficulty of breathing and other accints that use to afflict those that â—e a Peripneumonia I have bled the â—allest Infants in the Arm and have â—en away that quantity of Blood which â—ir Age and strength indicated with veâ— great success and sometimes when the â—ease has been obstinate I have not fearâ— to repeat bleeding and truly it is not few Children that have been at the â—nt of Death by reason of this sympâ—n whom by God's blessing I have â—ed by bleeding nor have I found as â— any other certain way to vanquish This happens to them after the â—asles go off and is so very fatal that may well be counted the chief Minister of Death destroying even more thâ— the Small-Pox And the loosneâ— which as we said follows the Measles is also cured by bleeding for wherea it ows its rise to vapours of inflameâ— blood rushing in upon the Guts which is also common in a Plurisie Peripneumonia and other Diseases that are occasioned by an Inflamation whereby they arâ— stimulated to excretion it is bleediâ— alone that gives relief by causing a revulsion of these sharp humours and bâ— reducing the Blood to a due temper Nor is there any reason why any onâ— should wonder says Sydenham that bleed young Children whereas foâ— what I have hitherto observed says heâ— it may be as safely performed on them as on the adult And truly it is so necessary that we can neither cure the symptom above mentioned nor some other that happen to Children withouâ— it For instance by what means can wâ— deliver those that are breeding Teeâ— from Convulsions which seize them iâ— the ninth and tenth month with a swelling and pain of the Gums whereby thâ— Nerves are oppressed and inraged anâ— from whence also these Paroxysms arise but by bleeding which alone is much to 〈◊〉 preferred in this case before the most â—elebrated specificks whatever that are â—et known whereof some do hurt by â—heir adventitious heat and whilst they are â—hought to Cure the Disease by a certain â—ccult faculty they promote it by their â—anifest heat and kill the patient not â—o mention at present that wonderful â—elief which bleeding gives in the hoopâ—g Cough wherein it far surpasses all â—ectoral Medicines whatever CHAP. VI. Of Scabs and Vlcers from Milk OF all the particular diseases of the parts of the humane body that are proper to and familiar with Children if we begin with the Head and so proceed to all parts of the body these Scabs and Ulcers are first to be considered they come at the time when the Child sucks and perpetually emit a Sanies or purulent matter The Scabs are white but the Ulcers are of another colour The Scabs are also all over the body as well as in the Face whereas the Ulcers are chiefly in the Head But because the causes of them do not much differ and the method of cure is the same we will treat of them together in this Chapter they arise from excrementious humours which are serous and accid and they occasion itching These humours are collected partly in the Womb and they arise partly from a fault in the Mothers or Nurses milk and afterwards are cast out by nature upon the habit of the body It is commonly held that these Ulcers keep Children in health and not without reason for by this means nature expels the vitious humours from the inner parts of the body to the habit of it and if they vanish Children are subject to Fevers and other Diseases and Hippocrates says that if there be Ulcers in the Head about the Ears in the Face or in any other part of the body Children will be free from fits These Scabs generally go off of themselves in time but if they continue long â— Tinea is occasioned and the hairs fall off and
Constitution Leaches must be applyed to the jugular Veins and Linements must be used to the temples nostrils and neck and to the soles of the feet and glisters which empty the belly plentifully must be injected and every sixth or eighth hour specifick Remedies must be given Take of oyl of Copaiba and Castor each two drams of oyl of Ambar half a dram make a Liniment Apply to the soles of the feet the Pâ—â—istâ—r with Euphorbium spread on Leather Take of prepared Pearle of the Powder de Guttita each one dram mingle them for twelve Papers whereof let the Child take one morning and evening in a Spoonfull of the following julep drinking after it one or two Spoonfulls Take of the waters of black Cherries and of Lilly of the Vallies each two ounces of Fennel water and Compound Peony water each two drams of Syrup of red Poppies six drams Take of the powder of the seeds of Rue of Castor and Asasetida each a sufficient quantity mingle them and tye it up in a rag sprinkled with Vinegar and put it often to the nostrils Vnzerus Commends much the gall of a sucking kitling all the juice being taken out out of the bladder and mixed with a little water of Lime-flowers and given to the Child and an excellent Physician says that he knew several Children cured with this Remedy When by reason of breeding Teeth difficultly Convulsions happen this symptom is secondary and less dangerous and therefore does not require the first and chief work of healing in this case we are more solicitous to ease the pain and to take off the Fever and therefore we order a thin cooling diet and the eruption of the Teeth is to be endeavoured either by rubbing or cutting the Gums and things that are annodyne are to be applyed to the swelld and pained parts and blisters and bleeding are to be used often and we ought to procure sleep and to qualifie the fury of the blood But in the mean time temperate Medicines for Convulsions and such as do the least stir the humours are to be used and blisters often do also give relief But Children are sometimes seized with Convulsions from other occasions and accidents the cause most commonly of such is either in the head or in the bowells when the former is suspected as is wont to be known by the signs which shew watery humours heapt up in the brain the Medicines above-mentioned must be used Moreover for those who bear purging well a vomit or gentle purge must be prescribed Wine and Oxymel of Squills also Mercurius Dulcis Rhubarb and Rosin of Jalap are of good use When the cause of the Convulsions seems to be lodged in the bowels or where Worms or sharp humours in the belly are the cause for Worms a purge of Rhubarb or of Mercurius dulcis with the rosin of Jalap must be given and the following Medicines are also of use Take of the roots of Virginia Snake-weed powdered one dram of Coral calcined till it is white half a dram make a powder The dose is half a scruple or a scruple twice a day for three days following drinking upon it the dâ—â—oction of the roots of grass Take of Hiera Piera and of Venice Treacle eachone dram make a plaister for the 〈◊〉 If the Convulsions are thought to proceed from sharp humours disturbing the bowels and stomach purging upward or downward is to be ordered by turns to this end a gentle vomit of Wine of Squills or falt of vitriol is to be given if the Child is inclined to vomiting of its own accord Take of Syrup of Peony three ounces Salt of vitriol two scruples of Compound Lavender-water one dram Mingle them give a Spoonfull three or four times in an hour till the Child has once vomited or went to stool once But if evacation downward seem most proper give the infusion of Rhubarb or the powder of it or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb or Syrup of roses with Agarick and with these remedies seasonably used Convulsion fits have been often cured in Children and moreover Glisters are to be used frequently and external Medicines namely Fomentations Linements or Emplasters must be applyed to the belly Take of the leaves of Camomile cut small two handfulls put them into two bags made of fine Cloath or of Silk which being dipt in hot milk and pressed out are to be applyed successively to the Belly CHAP. XIV Of Squinting SQuinting belongs to animal Actions hurt wherewith new born babes are seized This Disease is either natural by reason of an ill conformation of the eye or is co tracted by custom the Infant turning its eye often in the Cradle to a Candle or the light ill placed or it is occasioned by a Disease when after frequent sits the muscles of the eyes are distorted If it be from the very birth it is hardly cured or when it proceeds from sits but if it arise from an ill custom it may be cured if it be taken in time but when it is let alone a long while it is in a manner incurable It is cured by placing a Candle opposite to the part whereunto the Eye is preternaturally inclined or fine Pictures or the like may be offered to the sight in the same manner and by constant and daily use the eye may be reduced to a right position or a mask may be so made that the sight may be directed right CHAP. XV. Of the Pain Inflamation Moisture Vlcers and Worms of the Ears AMongst Childrens Diseases Hippocrates reckons the moisture of the ears for the brain of Children being very moist part of the humidity is sometimes evacuated by the ears And this is seldom done without an inflamation for most Commonly if superfluous humours flow plentifully to the ears an inflamation is occasioned and pain arises from thence and when it is not discussed by reason of the moisture of Childrens bodies but turned to matter afterwards blood matter and senies flow out and sometimes Worms are bred in the ear These Dâ—seases are not to be neglected for the pain which is most commonly joined with them may kill a grown person in seven days sayes Hippocrates and much easier a Child or may occasion fits or great watchings besides because Childrens ears are very moist Worms are are apt to be generated in them and sometimes by a continual flux of humours and by foul Ulcers the bones of the ear are at length corrupted and if the Ulcer is not cured in time an incurable deafness arises and therefore the cure must be begun early And first if the pain be very violent care must be taken to quiet it but Childrens bodies cannot bear strong Medicines it is sufficient for them that their ears be fomented with warm milk with oyl of Roses or Violets or with a decoction of poppy heads or you may put into the ear the white of an Egg with a little Saffron And to cleanse the care from moisture it is good to use honey of Roses
Camomile Or Take of the Flowers of Camomile and of the tops of Dill each one handful of the Seeds of Flax and Fenâ—greek each half an ounce boil them in Wine and foment the Belly with it twice a day But if the Gripes proceed from corrupted Milk and acid Humours things that cleanse must be used give therefore Syrup of Roses solutive or Honey of Roses solutive or Syrup of Succory with Rhubark or a Glister may be injected made of a decoction of Bran and Pellitory and Syrup of Roses solutive Or Take of Barley-Water three or four ounces of Oyl of Dill one ounce or one ounce and half the Yolk of one Egg make a Glister Outwardly apply Oyl of Roses mixed with the Oyls of Dill and Camomile Chap. XXIII Of the Inflation of the Belly and Hypochondres IT often happens that the Hypochondres and Belly of Children under the short Ribs swell and are as it were inflated These Swellings arise from sucking or eating more than they can well concoct upon which account crude Humours and Wind are heapt up in the Stomach and neighbouring parts and so occasion this inflation of the Hypocondres The Disease is known by the inflation and hardness of the Stomach and the Hypochondres and the Children are afflicted with a narrowness and contraction of the mouth of the Stomach and they breath difficulty This Disease is easily cured if a good Diet be observed wherefore the Children must feed sparingly that the Crudiâ—ies may be concocted nor should they suck or eat till that which was eaten before is concocted and it is good to purge off the crude Humours with Honey of Roses solutive and the Powder of the Roots of Paeony Orris and the Seeds may be given or a Linctus may be made of the Powders with Honey or the Oyl of Sweet-Almonds and Sugar and the Hypochondres may be fomented with a decoction of the Flowers of Camomile and the Seeds of Cummin or they may be anointed with the Oyls of Camomile Rue or Lawrel Chap. XXIV Of a Loosness A Loosness is very common to Children and it most commonly happens about the time they are breeding their Teeth but sometimes also when they are not breeding their Teeth when either their Stomach or Bowels are cooled by the external Air and so a due concoction is hindred or it may happen though the Stomach be very well when it is over-burthened with too large a quantity of Meat or Drink which breeds Crudities and corrupts the Meat and Meat that is crude unconcocted and corrupted if it be not rejected by Vomit causes a Loosness A Loosness may also happen by a fault in the Milk or Meat from whence ill chyle is generated in the Stomach which provokes Nature to frequent Evacuations the humidity and loosness of the Bowels may be also a cause A Loosness appears of it self but whether it be occasioned by breeding of Teeth or from some other cause may be known by the signs of breeding Teeth If it proceed from an Intemperies of the Stomach and Bowels some external causes went before which might occasion a cold or moist Intemperies in the Stomach or Bowels If this Flux proceed from an Humour falling from the Head it may be known by a Catarrh being present and what the matter is which is evacuated may be easily known for if the Humours are crude the Meat is evacuated Unconcocted the Child is troubled with belching and the Excrements are slegmatick and white but if the Humours are hot and the Meat is corrupted those things which are evacuated are yellow or green and stink and the Child is much griped What Celfus says in general of Fluxes in the Belly is also true as to Children viz. That a Loosness for a day or more is often good for the health if no Fever accompany it and if it go off within seven days and therefore a Loosness in Children if they bear it well must not be presently stopt for corrupted Humours in the Stomach are often commodiously evacuated thereby whereas if they were retained many grievous symptoms would arise and therefore Hippocrates says in his Book of breeding Teeth that those Children that have a loosness in breeding Teeth are least subject to Convulsions But if Children do not well bear their Loosness and it takes away their Stomach and makes them weak it must be stopt and a Loosness is dangerous in Children if it come upon an acute Fever and if that which is evacuated be black In the Cure we must first consider whether the Child sucks or not and next whether it be breeding the Teeth or not for if the Child yet suck the cure must not be directed to the Child but to the Mother or Nurse and we must consider whether the Milk be good or not for if the Milk be bad it must be amended or if that cannot presently be done the Nurse must be changed The Nurse must use an astringent Diet and must abstain from Fruits and crude Meats and such as are of difficult concoction But if the Infant does not suck the cure must be directed to it but whether it suck or not the vitious Humours that are evacuated must not be unseasonably stopt especially when Children are breeding their Teeth for that which would otherwise occasion a Fever and other mischief is thereby evacuated and therefore the business must be left to Nature especially if the Flux be not large and if the Child bear it well but if it does not bear it well the cause on which it depends must be removed and the Humours must be carried off by such Medicines as afterwards bind as by Syrup or Honey of Roses solutive or with Conserve of Roses made with Manna Or Take of the decoction of the Seeds of Millium and all the Myrobalans each two or three ounces of the Simple Syrup of Roses one or two ounces make a Glister when the Humours are cleansed away if the cause be hot give the Syrups of dry'd Roses of Quinces Myrtles or Coral or the Powders of Pearl Coral Mastichs Harts-horn and Red Roses or the Powder of Myrtles with a little Dragons Blood Or Take of Nutmeg and Mastich each one scruple give them mixed with Syrup of Quinces Let the Belly be anointed with the Oyls of Myrtle Roses and Mastich As Take of Oyls of Myrtle one ounce of Oyls of Mastich and Roses each half an ounce wax a little and mingle them Or foment the Belly with a decoction of Red Roses Mullein and Plantain made in Red Wine Or Take of Red Roses and Mullein each one handful of the Roots of Cyperus two drams of Mastich half an ounce make a Linnen Bag put these Ingredients into it and boil it in red astringent Wine and apply the Bag to the Belly Or Take of Quinces boiled in Red Wine and pulped through a Sive four ounces of a Toast sprinkled with Vinegar one ounce and an half with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Mastich make a Cataplasm Or Take of
the Roots of Comfrey one ounce of the Leaves of Platain and Mullein each three handfuls of Red Roses one handful of Balaustines half an ounce boil them in Water for a Bath But if the Loosness proceeds from a cold cause and the Excrements are white give Syrup of Mastich or Syrup of Quinces mixed with Mint Water and outwardly apply Medicines made of Mint Wormwood Mastich or Cummin As Take of the Oyls of Nard Mastich Mint each half an onnce of the Powder of Coral half a dram of Oyl of Nutmeg by expression two scruples with a sufficient quantity of Wax make an Oyntment Or you may apply to the Belly Mint boiled in Wine or a crust of Bread moistened with Mint-Water or a Bag of Mint Wormwood and Red Roses Mastich Nutmeg and Cloves Chap. XXV Of Costiveness in Children IT often happens that Children are bound in their Bodies or go to Stool seldomer than they ought which happens by reason of a cold and dry Intemperies of the Bowels or because the Humours are viscid and flegmatick but this chiefly happens by a fault in the milk when the Mother and Nurses use a gross viscid and astringent Diet and drink too sparingly A hot Intemperies of the Liver Spleen or Reins may also occasion Costiveness or an obstruction of the Gall which should stimulate the Guts to excretion This Disease is manifest of it self but what is the cause of Costiveness or of going to stool seldom must be carefully considered If a natural dryness of the Guts is the cause the Belly is scarce ever orderly dischârged if gross and viscid Flegm is the cause the Excrements when they are evacuated are covered with it if any error in Diet of the Nurse or Mother be the cause it may be known by them If a hot and dry Intemperies of some neighbouring part be the cause it will be manifested by the signs of them if Choler which irritates the Guts to excretion does not flow to them the Excrecrements will not be tinctured but be white or of an Ash-colour and the colour of the Childs body will be yellow Those grown People whose Bellies are bound are sometimes very healthy Nature being accustomed to evacuate the liquid parts of the Excrements or to discuss them insensibly but it seldom happens that Children whose Bellies are bound are very healthy and it is best for Young People to have their Bellies open for when they are bound Vapours from the Excrements are cast upon the whole Body and gripes pains of the Head and other ill Symptoms are occasioned The cure of Costiveness in Children is to be performed two ways first by removing the Cause and then by loosning the Belly First we must endeavour that the cause of Costiveness be removed and if the temper of the Bowels be cold and dry Children must be frequently washed and when the Intemperies is cold you must use a Bath of hot Stomach-Herbs when it is dry you must use things that moisten as Mallows Marsh-mallows Pellitory of the Wall and Bears-breech If the Mother or Nurse have used meats which bind the Belly as Quinces Medlars Pears Beans or the like they must for the future abstain from all such things and instead of them they must use such things as molliâ—ie the Belly as Mallows Raisins Pruns and the like If the Infant be pretty big and eats as well as sucks it must abstain from all astringent things and use such things as loosen If viscid Flegm stick to the Guts and the Excrements are covered with it things that incide and cleanse must be used as Honey of Roses solutive or Syrup of Horehound or the like If any neighbouring part be hot and dry the Intemperies of it must be corrected with the Syrups of Violets or Succory or with a decoction of Barly or with an emulsion of the four greater cold Seeds and the like If the Choler does not pass from the Gall-Bladder to the Guts the obstructed passages must be opened with a decoction of the roots of Grass of Fennel Asparagus Maiden-hair and the like But we must not always wait till the Causes are taken away for the Belly must be seasonably loosned to prevent ill symptoms which may be done by external and internal Medicines Amongst Externals are Suppositories which may be made of Honey and Salt or with crude Honey put into a Rag or with Lard Soap or the root of Mallows besmeared with Butter Or Take Mouse-dung half a dram with Goats-suet make a Suppository But Nature must not be accustomed to the too frequent use of Suppositories for if so she will not ease the Belly unless she be provoked by them it is therefore better to use Glisters and other external things which may also remove the cause of the Disease and correct the dryness of the Guts or carry off the viscid Flegm according as their is occasion As. Take of common Oyl three or four ounces of brown Sugar two or three drams the Yolk of one Egg of Salt three grains make a Glister Or Take of the Roots of Marsh-mallows half an ounce of Mallows and Pellitory of the Wall each half an handful of the Flowers of Camomile one pugil of the Seeds of Flax and Fenugreek each one dram boil them in Water In three five or six ounces of the strained liquor according to the age of the Child dissolve two or three drams or half an ounce of Cassia of common Oyl one ounce or one ounce and an half with the Yolk of one Egg â—ake a Glister Such things may be apâ—lied to the Navel as loosen the Belly â— Oyl of Sweet Almonds alone or with grain or two of Scammony or Colouintida or Butter or Hen-fat with ulls gall or with the Juice of Sowread Or Take of Aloes two drams of the Gall of Bull one dram of Scammony one â—ruple with a sufficient quantity of Butter â—ake an Oyntment fill a Walnut shell with â— and apply it to the Childs Navel And the whole Belly may be anointed with an emollient Oyntment As Take of fresh Butter and of Hens and â—ucks Grease each half an ounce of Oyls â—f Sweet-Almonds and of Flax each three â—rams of Calves Marrow of Oyntment â—f Marsh-Mallows each two drams with â— little Wax make an Oyntment Or Take of the Leaves of Mallows and Marsh-mallows each one handful of the â—eeds of Flax and Fenugreek each half an â—unce of Figs number six boil them in Water and pulp them through a Sive and add of Butter and of Hens-fat â—ach one ounce of Oyntment of Marsh-mallows half an ounce of Saffron one Scruple mix them make a Cataplasm to be applied to the Belly If you would have it loosen more forcibly you must add Aloes and other Purgers or you you may make a Cataplasm of fine Flower and Juice of Dwarf-Elder But you must take notice that these Cataplasms and other Purging medicines applied to the Belly must not touch the stomach To the Children that are pretty big you must
of Frankincense Mastich and Myrrh each one scruple make a Powder put it in Cotton and apply it to the Fundament or you may make a fume of the Powder But because it cannot well be received by the Child fume rags dipt in Alom-water and apply them to the Anus and leâ—t it should fall down again the Child must keep its Legs together and if they are very young their Legs must be bound with a swaith Chap. XXX Of the Stone in the Bladder THe Stone is frequently generated in Childrens Bladders and very seldom in their Reins whereas on the contrary old Men are generally afflicted with the Stone in the Kidneys The Stone in the Bladder in Children is chiefly generated by Milk and if it be impure not only Stones but also other Diseases are generated but all impure Milk does not breed the Stone but only that which is made of gross and viscid Meats and of such as are apt to breed the Stone especially if the Child suck greedily and burthen the Stomach with those things that generate crudities But because we see many Children fed with Milk and with Pap and yet are not troubled with the Stone other Causes must be added namely first some weakness of the Liver and Stomach upon which account the Meat is not well concocted and that which is unprofitable is not seperated but much of the earthy and Stone making Juice remains in the Chyle and moreover the hot intemperies of the Reins is a cause As soon as there is any rudiment of a Stone new Matter gathers about it daily and grows to it but Boys are more subject to the Stone than Girls because the urinary passages in Women is shorter and more open than in Men and therefore the Matter which is apt to produce the Stone is easier ejected in Women You may know the Stone in Children by the following Signs they make water with pain and oft render it drop by drop yea often the Urine is quite suppressed and that Urine which is evacuated is sometimes clear as water sometimes as white as Milk or like Whey and sometimes some Blood is evacuated with the Urine and Sand appears with the Urine Moreover Infants perceive an itching in the virile Member and therefore they frequently scraâ—ch it and at length there is sometimes an erection The Stone in the Bladder is a very desperate â—isâ—â—sâ— for tho' it does not presently kill â—eâ— if it be not presently cured it increâ—ses daily and afterwards it cannot be reme ieâ— any other way than by cutting o extraction of the Stone which is very dangerous for if the Stone be large Children many times dye as well as grown People If from the difficulty of Urine and other signs it appear that the Child is disposed to the Stone we must endeavour all we can to prevent the breeding of it and therefore the Stomach must not be filled with too much Meat and the Nurse and Infant must abstain from all Meats that are gross and viscid and apt to generate the Stone and the Belly must be always kept loose and the breeding of the Stone must be prevented by external and internal Medicines and therefore a Bath must be prepared forthe Infant made of Mallows Marsh-mallows Pellitory of the Wall Parsly Dill and of the sâ—eds of Flax and Fenugreek After the Bath the parts about the Bladder must be anointed with Ointment of Marsh-mallows and Oyls of white Lillies and Scorpions and a Cataplasm must be afterwards applied made of green Pellitory of the Wall boyled in the Oyl of white Lillies and Camomile and give the Child a scruple or two of the Powder of Crabs-eves or of white Amer or of Goats-blood prepared in Parsly-water and it may be useful sometimes to give half a dram of Cyprean Turpentine Chap. XXXI Of the difficulty and retention of the Vrine SOmetimes Children render their Urine with difficulty and pain and often by drops and sometimes it is quite stopt In Children there are two causes of this namely that gross humour whereof the Stone is generated which also occasions a Stranguary and disury and then the Stone which occasions a suppression of Urine the causes which generate this gross humour are gross and viscid Milk Pap made oâ— Flower and Milk and Cheese The retention of the Urine plainly appears if there be a difficulty of Urine it may be known by being rendred by drops and by the crying of the Child and the Urine is gross and turbid if there be a Stone that may be found by the Catheter and thereby it may be removed from the Orifice of the Bladder to make a passage for the Urine This is a very dangerous Disease for if it proceed from gross Matter it will turn to the Stone if it be not timely removed If the Suppression of Urine proceed from the Stone it is as dangerous as the Stone it self and suppression of the Urine it self is dangerous especially in Children because no natural evacuation in them can be suppressed without danger The cure therefore must be begun early and it is in a manner the same with that which was proposed in the foregoing Chapter of the Stone namely the causes of the difficulty or suppression of the Urine must be removed therefore care must be taken in the first place that the Nurse and Child use such Meats which do not conduce to the production of the humour that generates the Stone and then Medicines must be given that purge these humours as Honey of Roses solutive Cassia and Turpentine afterwards Baths Fomentations and Unctions made of those things which are proposed in the foregoing Chapter and let such Medicines be taken inwardly as are mentioned there for those which can expel the Stone can carry off the humour that generates it and the water of Sea-grass Rest-harrow Filipendula and a decoction of Vetches are useful If the Stone obstruct the Orifice of the Bladder it must be removed thence by laying the Child upon its Back and shaking its Legs or by the Catheter Chap. XXXII Of Incontinence of Vrine CHildren when they are very Young and when they lye in the Cradle and know not what is filthy or neat make Water in their Cloaths and so by custom they sometimes do so when they are grown up in sleep and some also when they are awake for the Muscle that shuts the Orisice of the Bladder is accustomed to let the Urine go when it is irritated by the quantity of it But sometimes there is also a weakness of the Muscle proceeding from a Cold and moist Intemperies of it contracted from abundance of gross and cold Humours which are in the tender Age or it may proceed from an Obstruction and Compression of the Nerve of the Sphincter and sometimes a Stone hinders the shutting of the Bladder This Disease is not easily known in Infants for then it is reckoned to proceed from their tender Age and when they are a little grown it may proceed from