or long 13 Verie olde men do most easilie in dure fasting and next to thē those of middle age young men not so wel children worst of all and amongst thē chiefly those which are of the more chearefull quicke and liuely nature then the rest 14 They which growe and increase haue great store of naturall heate therfore because they neede plentifull and copious nourishment we must aboundantly supply the same otherwise the bodie is consumed But in olde men there remaineth but little heate therfore they need not so much norishmēt to kindle the same for a small fire is extinguished with aboundance of fewel for that cause feuers which happen to olde folk are not so sharpe because their bodies are not so hoat 15 The venters by nature are most hoat in winter and the spring time the sleeping most long wherfore at those seasons wee ought to afford most meat because they haue most naturall heate wherby it commeth to pass that they need more aboundant and plentifull food Of which thing the differences of ages and the bodies of Champions and wrestlers are manifest arguments 16 A moist diet is profitable to all perplexed with agues but especially to children others which haue accustomed to vse such diet 17 We must consider whom it may bee conuenient to feede once or twise more or lesse and by little little we must attribute something to the season region ages and custome 18 Sickely folke doe most hardly brook store of meat in sommer in winter most easily in the spring time not so easily 19 Nothing must be giuen to them neither must they bee constrayned to take meat which haue fits returning at certaine determined courses but we ought to diminish foode before manifest tokens appeare to iudge of the disease 20 We ought not to moue alter or change those things which are or haue beene iustly determined by nature either with medicines or other procurements but to let them alone 21 Carry those things which are to be drawne out thither whither they shall seeme to incline and bend by such wayes and places fittest for cōueiance expulsion 22 We must moue with medicine those things which are concocted digested and not those things which are rawe and vndigested Neither in the beginning of diseases vnlesse they be prouoked by their owne force and violence which verie seldome commeth to passe 23 Things euacuated and purged are not to be estimated by the multitude but aduisedly to be considered if those things be auoided sent forth which should ought to be and if also the Patient doe easily indure it Also when it is needfull we must euacuate euen to souning fainting of life if the Patient be able to indure it 24 In sharpe diseases and in their beginning we ought seldome to vse a purging medicine Neither must it be done without great aduise iudgement 25 If those things be auoided and purged vvhich should be it doth good the sick can easily suffer it but if the contrarie be euacuated they do painefully indure it The end of the first section of the Aphorisms Now foloweth the second The Argument of the se cond Section of Aphorisms THIS second Section of which the vniuersal and ful scope or intention cannot well be assigned and set downe hath many things appertayning to the Doctrine of Ages Signes Nature purgation 1 IF sleepe bring paine and labour in the disease it is a mortall signe but if it bring ease and mitigation of paine the signe is not deadly 2 When a Delirium rauing is appeased by sleep it is a good signe 3 Sleepe and watching if they be immoderat shal exceed a mean are euill 4 Neither satietie neither hunger neither anie other thing which shall exceede the measure of nature can be good or healthfull 5 Wearinesse and dulness proceeding of their owne accord do signifie diseases to come 6 They which suffer pain of any part of the bodie and doe not almost feele the paine haue their vnderstanding distempered and diseased 7 Bodies extenuated and wasted with long sickness are to bee restored and refreshed by little and little but those which haue been brought lowe quickly and in short time are sooner to be restored 8 If any man eating meate after a sicknesse doth not recouer strength it argueth his bodie is burdened and oppressed with too much store of food But if the same happē to one feeding meanely we must vnderstand that he hath need of euacuation 9 By how much the more thou shalt nourish cherish impure corrupt bodies by so much the more thou shalt harme and hurt them 10 He which will purge bodies must make them fluxible and apt to flovve before 11 It is more easie to be restored with drink thē with meate 12 Those things which are left behind after the Crysis in the bodie after sickness they are wont to bring forth back-sliding diseases againe 13 The night which goeth before the fitte and inuasion is wont to bee tedious and grieuous to them to whom the Crysis is caused but the night following is wont to be more easie and light 10 The alteration of the excrementes not made to the worse part in the fluxes of the bellie is good 15 When the vpper parts of the throate or gullet are sore or a breaking out of wheales do arise in the bodie it behooueth vs to look vpon the excrements for if they shall be cholericke the bodie is also sick but if they shall be like the excrements of sound persons the bodie may bee cherished without danger 16 When hunger beareth swaie wee must rest from much stirring or labour 17 When ouermuch meate is receiued against nature it causeth sicknesse as the manner of curing diseases proceeding from repletion doth declare 18 The excretions and auoydings of excrements are wont to bee quick if they come of those things which doe nourish speedily and plentifully 19 Praedictions and foretellings of death or health in sharp diseases are not altogether certaine 20 They which in young age haue their bellie moist and loose in old age haue it drie and hard and contrariwise they which beeing young men haue their wombe or bellie drie and costyue being aged haue the same moyst and laxe 21 Drinking of strong wine putteth away hunger 22 Diseases which are bred of sacietie and surfeting are cured by euacuation and those which proceed from emptiness are cured by fulness and in other things contraries are the remedies of cōtraries 23 Acute and sharpe diseases are iudged and determined within fourteen daies and haue their Crysis 24 The fourth daie is the Index of the seuenth the eightth daie the beginning of the week following Also the eleuenth daie is to be considered for that is the fourth day of the second week And againe the seuenteenth day is to be considered for that is the iiij from the fowrteenth and the seuenth from the eleuenth 25 The Quartan feuers of the summer are for
the comming of the Quartan they are deliuered and freed 71 Those which haue their skinnearid withered and drie doe dye without sweate but those who haue their skinne loose and open do end their life with sweate 72 Those that are diseased with the Iaundis are not much molested with windinesse The end of the fift Section of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates Here followeth the 6. Section The Argument THIS sixt Section dooth almost altogether concerne that part of the Art which foretelleth good and euill things to happen in diseases 1 In a long lubricitie and slipperinesse of the guts if a sowrish belching do happen which was not before it is a good signe 2 Those which haue their nostrils more moist then others by nature and their seede also doe inioy their health but badly but those which haue the contrarie properties doe leade their life more healthfully 3 In long difficulties pains or fluxes of the bowelles a loathing of meate is euill and with a feuer it is more euill 4 Vlcers or soares which are smooth and glaber are maligne and euill 5 In the paine of the sides and of the breast and of the other parts wee must learne if the sicke do differ much or keepe at a staie 6 The diseases and infirmities of the kidneies and bladder are of hard difficult curation in old men 7 Dolours and paines of the bellie being aloft in the vpper part are more light and easie not being aloft are more tedious and forcible 8 Vlcers or sores arising in the body of those which are diseased with the dropsie are not easily cured 9 Wheales being broade are not very full of itching 10 Corrupt matter water or bloud issuing out by the nostrils mouth or eares dissolueth and cureth a vehement grieuous headache 11 The Haemorrhoids happening to those which are troubled with melancholy and paine of the kidneies are good and profitable 12 Vnless in the cure of the Haemorrhoids which haue long continued there be one veine kept open it is to bee feared that a dropsie or consumption will shortly follow 13 The hicket or yexing trobling or vexing vs is put away by sneesing 14 If water flowe from the veines of him which is diseased with the dropsie to the bellie the disease is dissolued if nature it selfe make euacuation 15 Vomiting comming by the benefit of nature dissolueth and riddeth away a long flux or loosenesse of the bellie by reason of the retraction drawing back of the humours which did bend downwards 16 A loosenesse of the belly happening to one afflicted with a pleurisie or the disease of the lunges named peripneumonia is an euill thing 17 It is a good thing for him which is troubled with a watrish running of the eies called lippitudo to be taken with a flux and loosenesse of the bellie 18 It is a deadly thing when the bladder is wounded or the braine or the heart the midriffe anie small gut the stomach or the liuer 19 A bone perished or cut off or a cartilag gristle or sinew or any little parcell of the eye lid or the praeputium beeing diminished doe not growe or ioine together 20 If bloud flowe into the belly contrarie to nature it corrupteth and is putrified of necessitie 21 If the swelling of veins in the legs named varices or the Haemorrhoids shall happen to them which are madde and frantick then the disease of madnesse is dissolued 22 Breaches or fluxes of humors which do descend frō the backe to the elbow are dissolued by opening of a veine 23 If feare and sadnesse doe continéw long it is a signe of melancholie 24 If anie small or slender gut bee wounded or pearced it dooth not close or grow togither againe 25 If the cholericke tumor Erysipelas being outwarde be returned inwards it is euill but if being inward it be turned outwards it is a good thing 26 Those burning feuers are dissolued with dotage or rauing in which there are trembling shakings 27 If the corruption matter or water do flowe out altogether at once from them which are burnt by catire or cut by the Chirurgion for the cure of the inwarde apostumation betweene the lungs and the breast or of the dropsie thē the diseased shall die without all doubt 28 Eunuches or gelded men are not diseased with the gout neither do wax bald 29 A woman is not troubled with the gout vnlesse her monthly termes doe faile her 30 A young stripling is not troubled with the gout before he hath vsed venerie 31 Drinking of strong wine or a bath a fomentation phlebothomy or letting of bloud or a purgation doth cure paines of the eies 32 Those which slammer are taken most commonly with a long flux of the bellie 33 Those which haue sower belchings are not much subiect to a plurisie 34 Great swelling veins named varices are not incident to them which are balde but yet they haue their haire growing againe on their head to whom the swellings veins do happen being balde 35 If a cough come vpon them which are diseased with a dropsie it is an euill thing 36 Phlobotomie or bloud-letting cureth the difficultie of making vrine but we must opē the inward veins 37 If a tumour appeare in the neck to him that is diseased with angina it is a good thing 38 Those which haue hidden or deepe Cancers are not to bee healed or cured of them for they which are healed die sooner and those which are not cured of them liue the longer 39 A convulsion is caused either by repletion or by euacuation so is also the hicket or yexing 40 Those which haue paine at the Hypocondrium without an inflammation are cured by a feuer hapning to them 41 If corrupt matter giue forth no signification nor signe of it self in the bodies of the diseased the cause that it dooth not disclose it selfe nor appeare is either for the grossenesse and thicknesse of it selfe or of the place 42 If the liuer vvaxe hard to them which are affected with the yellow iaundis it is an euill thing 43 The spleneticke which are taken with a bloody fluxe of the bowels do die of a dropsie or a slipperinesse of the bowells called a lientery following a long fluxe 44 They die within seauen daies to whom the disease named Ileos or pain in the small guts shall happen after a strangurie vnlesse a feuer comming vpon them store of vrine shall issue forth 45 If vlcers continew a yeer or longer the bone of necessitie must growe fowle and bee corrupted and so hollow cicatrizes are caused 46 Those vvhich become crookt backt by shortness of wind or a cough before they attaine to ripenesse of age doe die quickly 47 Those are to be let bloud or purged in the spring time to whome opening of a veine or purging may do good 48 The difficulty of the intestins and guts comming vpon them which are diseased with the splene viz. with hardnesse is good 49 Goutie diseases the inflammation
the will which is caused by the debilitie of the braine beeing weake and ouer-moist for which cause thou shalt do no more but drop into the eye for xv dayes togither two drops of the water of Tapsus barbatus called in english Hagtaper Againe Rue being dryed and beaten into powder and mixed with hunny and vineger and boyled and after strained through a linnen cloth and the eyes therewith anointed will restraine the vveeping and teares thereof the patient must auoide all things that do euaporat fly vp to the braine if the cause proceed from choler or from bloud it shall bee diuerted by bloud-letting if the cause proceede from fleame it is good to purge with pilles of aureae and imperiales take heede of gargarisms masticatories and apophlegmatismes Bathes of warme vvater are verie conuenient so they bee vsed in the morning fasting for that draweth the matter to the vtter parts If the matter be sharpe applie a repercussiue about the forehead framed with the white of an egge and bolearmonicke and so applyed vpon a peece of linnen cloth If the cause haue proceeded from fulnesse or much drinking of wine let him vse a spare dyet and open the head veine and let him purge with the pils of the 5. kindes of myrobalans his dyet must bee drie for hee must auoid all broaths and liquid things sower grapes and vnripe beeing burnt in an earthen pot to powder and searced verie finelie and put into the eyes doe remoue awaie the teares and rednesse of them A singular remedie for the eyes is to take true frankincense and melted at the fire and so seauen times extinguished in red rosewater and thereof instill into the eye that weepeth An excellent medicin for the eyes that weep for a pearle and dimnesse is this Take halfe an ounce of tutia one dram of red corrall burne them in a vessell of earth then adde thereunto halfe a dram of sine pearle and then beat them small into verie fine powder in a stone mortar and then searce it finely thorough silke and then put therof into the eye this is a great secret How to cure debilitie weaknesse of the sight HIs dyet must be good as in ophthalmia let his head bee well combd with an iuorie combe let him behold things that are greene and beholde himselfe in a steel glasse the vse of triphera dooth comfort very much because it hindreth euaporations by reason of the myrobalans Let him take after his meals Diacitoniton the confection of Coriander prepared Diapliris and sugar of roses in an hot cause Venerie lust is hurtfull and all things that are vaporous Rapes either rawe or boiled are very good Wine vnlesse it be in small quantitie is verie hurtfull There must not be made any stroÌ„g euacuation least the spirits be dissolued An excellent vvater which dooth preserue the sight and good against all manner of spots is in this manner Take Celendine rue endiue betonie roses Silermontaine mallows maiden haire of euery one three handfuls let them be infused in pure white wine for the space of 24. howers and then distilled A Collyrium for the eies which hath bin approued is to take tutia prepared 2. scruples aloes hepaticke one scruple cloues halfe a scruple white vitriol sixe graines and make a fine powder Then take rosewater fenell water of eyther two ounces let it warme vpon the hot imbers then mixe the powder therewith and after a while straine it and put therof into the ey in the mouing An Electuarie which dooth cleare and comfort the sight Take the flowers of eye-bright and of betony of either one ounce fenelseed three drams cubebs maces cinamon and cloues of either one dram long peper halfe a dram let all be made into fine powder then take of the iuice of Rue clarified one ounce and a halfe clarified hony one pint boyle the iuyce with the honie to a perfection and then adding three drams of zedoarie to the former powder make an Electuarie A powder to comfort the sight TAke betonie veruin eyebright celendine hysop penny rioll sage all these being dried in the sunne of euerie one halfe an ounce horehound fenel-seed wild time Coriander prepared the seed of maiotaÌ„ of euerie a dram ginger saffron cloues cubebs nutmegges cinamon long peper galengall of euery one halfe a dram rosemary flowers the citren rynde of euerie one a scruple and of fine white sugar three times the weight of all the rest make all into fine powder or into lozenges with the water of fenell eyebright and betony An houshold receipt for the remouing of any spot or pin and webbe of the eye TAke the iuice of houslick the quantitie that will goe into an egge shell then put therein 3. graines of pure white vitrioll let them boile togither on the hot ashes and then scum the top thereof awaie and drop thereof into the eye morning and euening and close vp the eye with a boulster of linen For all inflammations bloud shotten eies take the iuyce of a limon and drop thereof into the eyes at the entrance into the bed and close vp the eies as is aforesaide and remember that for all inflammations proceeding of an hot cause bloudletting to be the present remedie FINIS THE LIFE of Hypocrates HYpocrates by the testimony of Galen was the son of one Heraclides but others affirm him to be the sonne of Asclepius borne and brought vp in the Isle Cos. His master and instructor was the great Pythagoras Hee was by his nature inclined to goodnesse for he hated loathed and abhorred all pomp worldly pleasures and the vse of venerie Hee constrained all his scholers by an oath to vse silence and secrecie modesty affabiliti and humilitie as wel in manners as apparell He restored the science of physicke beeing lost for the space almost of fiue hundred yeeres euen from the time of Esculapius Hee was in body and stature very little but fayre and exceeding well fauoured He had a good and strong head he went slowely and softly he was verie pensiue and of few words he was no great eater nor glutton hee liued nintie fiue yeeres and vsed often this sentence Hee that wil liue in liberty let him not desire that which he cannot obtaine and hee that woulde haue that which hee desireth let him desire nothing but that which hee may obtaine In like manner He that would liue in peace in this mortall life let him conforme himselfe to him who is inuited to a feast who giueth thankes for all that is set before him and grudgeth not at any thing which is omitted He liued about the times of Eliachim of Malachi of Pereno Socrates Meaning bloud-letting Definition of the eye The cause of teares The partes of the eye Fowre colors of the eye 3. Humors of the eye The Authors opinion Black eies Gray eyes Whitish eyes Note this reason Gray eyes sure of sight Black eyes â—erfect of â—ight Definition of a Catharact Diuision of Catharacts The first curable kinde The secoÌ„d kinde The third kinde The 4. kinde Tokens of â—penesse The cure Dyet The subtance of he needle The first kinde of Catharacts The 2. kinde The 3. kinde The vertue of Olibanum The 4. kinde The first kind of catharacts vncurable The 2. kinde The 3. kinde A good medicin Bloud-letting Collyrium Emplaster A water against in inflammamation of the eye Emplaster Weeping eyes Bathes A powder for the eies Weake sight An excellent water to preserue the sight A Collyrium for the eyes Electuarie to comfort the sight