moistnesse of the Belly Eyes and Ears redness of the Eyes and difficulty of hearing We should here set down such Aphorismes which touch the Diseases of Women but we shall refer the Reader to the Chapter which speaks of the affects of the Wombe hereafter CHAP. VI. Of the Diseases of the times of the year Sect. 3. Aph. 1. THe changes of the seasons of the years breed Diseases chiefly And in them there are great mutations of heat and cold and other things are contingent according to their alteration and change Sect. 3. Aph. 4. Throughout the seasons of the year when in the same day there is sometimes heat sometimes cold we must expect Autumnal Diseases Sect. 3. Aph. 8. When the air is in a good order and setled and the seasons are well constituted such Diseases are caused which easily come to their state and are easily dissolved But in a bad constitution of the air and seasons such Diseases which hardly come to their state and are not easily dissolved Sect. 3. Aph. 19. Diseases of all kinds do afflict mans body at any time of the year but some special Diseases are both caused and expressed at particular times and seasons of the year CHAP. VII Of Diseases happening in the Spring Sect. 3. Aph. 9. IN the Autumn most acute and deadly Diseases do arise but the Spring season is most wholesome and lesse destructive Sect. 3. Aph. 18. Children and boyes live best and are most healthfull in the Spring and the first part of Summer but in the Summer until the Autumn Old men and in the remainder of the Autumn and Winter such as be of a middle age Sect. 3. Aph. 30. In the Spring season madnesse melancholly the falling evil fluxes of blood squinancies rhumes hoarseness coughs leprosies dry Itches the Disease called Elephantiasis many ulcerated pustles small swellings and pains about the joynts do appear CHAP. VIII Of the Diseases happening in the Summer Sect. 3. Aph. 6. IF the Summer season be constituted as the Spring was then we must expect Feavers accompanied with much Sweats Sect. 3. Aph. 13. But if the Summer be extraordinary dry and the North winds blow cold and if the Autumn be extreme wet with South winds expect that about the winter men should complain of Head-aches coughs hoarseness heaviness of the head occasioned by Rhumes and some of Consumptions Sect. 3. Aph. 21. Some vernall Diseases may appear in the Summer and Quotidian Feavers burning Feavers and very many Tertian and Quartans Vomitings Diarrhaeaes Sore Eyes Pains of the Ears exulcerations of the mouth putrid ulcers of the Privities and red angry pimples caused by bilious Sweats CHAP. IX Of the Diseases happening in the Autumn Sect. 3. Aph. 9. THe Autumn doth produce most acute Diseases and mortal but the Spring is most wholesome and lesse pernitious Sect. 3. Aph. 10. The Autumn season is naught for Consumptive persons Sect. 3. Aph. 14. If in the Autumne the wind be North and the air very cold and without rain the season is convenient for moist constitutions and women but to other constitutions it occasions bleer eyes acute Feavers Quotidians and to some Melancholly Sect. 3. Aph. 22. Many Aestival Diseases do arise in the Autumn and Quartane Feavers and Erratick Feavers tumours of the Spleen Dropsies Consumptions Stranguries Lyenteries and Dysenteries Sciaticaes Squinancies frequent Asthmaes Iliack passions the Falling evil Madnesses and Melancholly CHAP. X. Of the Diseases happening in the Winter Sect. 3. Aph. 11. If the Winter be extreme dry and cold and the wind North but the Spring very wet with South winds of necessity we must expect acute Feavers sorenesse of the eyes excoriations of the bowells the next Summer but especially to the Female Sex and to men of a moist constitution But if the winter be very rainy and mild and calm with South winds but the Spring extraordinary dry with North winds women with Child which expect deliverance in the Spring will abort upon every slight occasion And if they are delivered they will produce weak and sickly Children such as will suddenly dye or if they live will be alwayes sickly and small But to other people excoriations of the bowels and bleer eyes will arise but to elderly persons Fluxes killing in a small space Sect. 3. Aph. 13. A very dry and cold summer with North winds and a moist Autumn with South winds succeeding doth produce head Aches in the winter coughs hoarsenesse heavinesse in the head and to some Consumptions Sect. 4. Aph. 23. In the winter Plurisies inflamations of the Lungs Lethargies Rhumes in the head hoarsenesse Coughs pains in the Breast Sides and Loins Head-aches Megrimes and to some Ptisicks are occasioned CHAP. XI Of Diseases caused by the Winds Sect. 3. Aph. 5. SOuth winds produce dulnesse of hearing and sight with a heavinesse of the head they make the body dull and faint when such winds are prevalent we must expect such accidents in Diseases But North winds cause coughs exasperates the jaws hardens the belly suppresseth the Urine stirs up cold horrors and pains of the sides and breast When such winds are prevalent sick bodies suffer such things Sect. 3. Aph. 7. Foggs and fowlnesse of air produce acute Feavers and if the year shall be so disposed for the most part we must expect Diseases answerable to the condition and season so constituted Sect. 3. Aph. 8. A good and seasonable constitution of the air produceth such Diseases which are easily consistent and easily cured But ill constituted seasons such as are not easily consistent nor easily cured Sect. 3. Aph. 14. North and dry winde in the Autumn are commodious for moist constitutions and women but to others they beget sorenesse of the eyes acute Feavers Quotidians and to some also Consumptions Sect. 3. Aph. 15. Amongst all the seasons of the year great droughts are more wholsome and lesse destructive then continual rains and frequent showring weather Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Diseases for the most part are caused by continual Showres as long Feavers Diarrhaeaes putrid Feavers the falling evil apoplexies and squinancies But by great droughts are occasioned Consumptions Bleer eyes Sciaticks droping of Urine and Dysenteries Sect. 3. Aph. 17. Continual North winds do condense the pores of the body renders men stronger nimbler better coloured and better liking dryes the belly causeth prickings of the eyes and if the breast be possest by any preceeding grief they stir it and provoke it But South winds dissolve the body and moisten it they cause dulnesse of hearing heavinesse of the head and vertigoes they produce difficult motion to the eyes and body and moisten the belly Distinction the fifth containing the Aphorismes pertaining to Feavers THat a Physician may satisfie and perform all his intentions required find out all requisite Medicines and apply them seasonably it is not sufficient onely to preserve the strength of the Patient and remove morbifick causes but it is also necessary that he know the nature of the Disease and the part
THE EIGHT SECTIONS OF HIPPOCRATES APHORISMES Review'd and Rendred into English According to the Translation of Anutius Foesius Digested into an exact and methodical form AND Divided into several convenient Distinctions and every Distinction into several Chapters wherein every Aphorisme is Reduced to its proper Subject Whereby the Reader may easily find out any desired Aphorisme without the tedious Revolution of the whole Work Wherein also many Aphorismes are significantly interpreted which were neglected in the former Translation The next Page will shew the contents of every Distinction Facies non omnibus una Nec diversa tamen Ovid. Metam Licensed July 14. 1664. Roger L'Estrange London Printed by W. G. for Rob. Crofts at the Crown in Chancery-Lane 1665. DISTINCTION I. THE first Distinction contains all such Aphorismes which are either Diagnostick or Prognostick whereby the Practitioner may find out the Disease and judge thereof DIST. II. The second Distinction contains those Aphorismes which treat of the Regiment of Diet convenient either for healthful or sick persons DIST. III. In this Distinction are handled such Aphorismes which set down the general way of Curing Diseases DIST. IV. In this Distinction are set down such Aphorismes which concern the praeternatural Affects distributed to Mans body in every Age by the Winds and Seasons of the year DIST. V. This Distinction contains such Aphorismes which concern Feavers and their Accidents DIST. VI. This Distinction contains such Aphorismes which make mention of all the particular and Internal Diseases of the body from the Head to the Foot DIST. VII In this Distinction are contained such Aphorismes which mention all the External Diseases of Man's Body The Eight several Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes Distinction the first containing all the Aphorismes Diagnostick and Prognostick THis small Book of Aphorismes of Hippocrates doth fundamentally instruct those who shall throughly learn and observe them with all the grounds belonging unto Physick and whereas the Invention and scope of a Physician may be redived which otherwise would be infinite unto two heads that is Preservative and Curative to preserve the body of man in its integrity of healths and secondly being swerv'd from that to remove all cause which shall or may cause any preternatural affects or distemper Therefore for the more ease and and perspecuity to the Reader the Aphorismes which respect both those intentions are distinctly and severally proposed under their proper heads and being it is necessary that the Physician should rightly understand and judge by the particular Signs before he undertake or administer any Physick for the Cure whether the affects do refuse or perform their natural Actions therefore in the first place such informing Aphorismes are set down and they are these which follow CHAP. I. The Proem LIfe is short Art long Occasion sudden and dangerous Experience deceitful and Judgment difficult Neither is it sufficient that the Physician be ready to act what is necessary to be done by him but the Sick and the Attendants and all outward necessaries must be lightly prepared and sitted for the businesse Sect. 2. Aph. 4. Neither fulnesse nor emptinesse nor any other thing if it exceed a mean in nature is good Sect. 2. Aph. 5. Wearyishness or a lazy indisposition arising of its own accord is the forerunner of a Disease Sect. 2. Aph. 6. They who are grieved in any part of their body and are scarce sensible of their grief have their animal faculty distempered Sect. 2. Aph. 26. It is better that a Feaver succeed a Convulsion than a Convulsion a Feaver Sect. 2. Aph. 27. Sudden intermissions or alleviations in Diseases are not much to be trusted unto which happen without some reasons neither ought we much to fear such evils which happen without a sensible cause For many of those things are uncertain neither are they wont to continue long Sect. 2. Aph. 28. It is an ill Sign when Feaver-sick persons either retain their fulnesse of body or else are overmuch wasted and emaciated by the Disease For the one signifies a prolixity of the Disease the other weaknesse of the Patient Sect. 2. Aph. 30. The Symptomes of every Disease are most easie and light about the beginning and ending thereof but in the state and vigor most vehement Sect. 2. Aph. 31. If any man being recovered of a Disease is not profited by his meat taken orderly it is an ill Sign Sect. 2. Aph. 33. It is a hopeful sign when the Sick continues undisturb'd in mind and body after such things as have been administred unto him But the contrary if contrary things happen Sect. 2. Aph 39. Old men usually are less sick then young men but such daily Diseases as do happen unto them do commonly accompany them to their death Sect. 2. Aph. 40. Hoarsenesse and Rhumes in very old men will not be concocted Sect. 2. Aph. 42. A strong Apoplexy is incurable but a slight one is not easily cured Sect. 2. Aph. 44. Very gross and Corpulent bodies by nature dye sooner then such which are spare and lean Sect. 3. Aph. 45. Young men are chiefly freed from the Falling Sicknesse by change of Age Air and Dyet Sect. 3. Aph. 50. Such things unto which we are accustomed unto by long intervalls of time although worse are lesse irksom and troublesome unto us then such which are not familiar unto us wherefore we ought to make a change to those things which are not usual unto us Sect. 2. Aph. 53. They who have their bodies soluble are in a better condition of health especially while they are young than those whose bodies are hard and costive but in their old age they live worse because then their excrements are usually dryed Sect. 2. Aph. 54. A tall Stature of body in Youth is comely and not unseemly but in Old men it is unserviceable and worse then a short Stature Sect. 2. Aph. 30. Such intermittent Feavers are hardly to be judged which return again at the same hour the next day wherein the intermission was the day before be it at what hour soever Sect. 4. Aph. 43. If any part of the body were afflicted or troubled before the Disease the Disease doth confirm and determine it self in that part Sect. 4. Aph. 36. Such Sweats which expresse themselves in Feavers the third fifth seventh ninth eleventh fourteenth seventeenth one and twentieth seven and twentieth thirtieth or the four and thirtieth day are beneficial because they are Critical But such as do not begin upon some of those days signifie danger prolixity of the Disease and its reversion Sect. 4. Aph. 38. Sweats do declare a Disease in the body Sect. 4. Aph. 41. Much sweat in the time of sleep without some manifest cause arising doth argue that such bodies do use a more liberal dyet but if they happen to him which eateth but sparingly they tell that there is a necessity of Evacuation Sect. 4. Aph. 42. If plenty of Sweat whether hot or cold always flow the cold doth signifie a bigger
for all Feaverish persons also for Children especially and others who have been accustomed to a dyet of the same nature Sect. 1. Aph. 17. We must observe to whom we may allow food to once or twice to whom much or little or to whom meat is to be allowed by parts yet we may indulge something to the time the Region the age and custome of the patient Sect. 1. Aph. 18. We are more averse to meat in the Summer time and in the Autumn but in the Winter we can endure them best of all the Spring is the best season next the Winter Sect. 1. Aph. 19. To such whose Fits return by circuits neither give any thing nor think of any thing but substract all food from them untill the Crisis be over CHAP. II. Of Dyet convenient according to the Ages Sect. 1. Aph. 13. OLd men can most easily endure fasting next to them such who are arrived at their full Age Young men worst of all but among all Boys chiefly and among them such as are active and more prone to action Sect. 1. Aph. 14. They which grow most abound with natural heat and therefore want most nourishment for otherwise their bodies would waste And seeing that in old men there remains but little heat therefore they need but few nutriments for by many that heat is extinguished And by the same reason also because their bodies are cold acute Feavers do not frequently happen to old men CHAP. III. Of Dyet for the seasons of the year Sect. 1. Aph. 15. IN the Winter season our Stomachs are hottest and sleeps longest during those seasons therefore we may use most plentiful dyet because then there being more natural heat we need the more nutriment Sect. 1. Aph. 18. You have this Aphorisme in the preceeding Chapter of Dyet convenient in Diseases Sect. 1. Aph. 18. unto which I refer the Reader CHAP. IV. Of the quality manner quantity and other conditions required in Dyet Sect. 2. Aph. 8. THe body which after recovery from a Disease doth not regain strength by his Dyet doth overcharge nature with food but if it happen to one which eateth not much it signifies that evacuation is necessary Sect. 2. Aph. 10. The more you nourish foul and impure bodies the more you offend them Sect. 2. Aph. 11. Our bodies are more apt to be refreshed with drink then with meat Sect. 2. Aph. 16. It is inconvenient to labour when hunger oppresseth Sect. 2. Aph. 18. Such meats as nourish universally and quickly soonest digest and turn to excrements Sect. 2. Aph. 22. Evacuation cures those Diseases which are caused by Repletion and Repletion takes away such distempers as are caused by emptinesse so in other things contrary is a Remedy Sect. 2. Aph. 31. It is an ill Sign if the body be not strengthned by food taken orderly after the recovery from a Disease Sect. 2. Aph. 32. Usually all sick persons which have a good appetite to their meat at the beginning of their Sicknesse and are not benefited thereby afterwards nauseate and loath their meat but they which at the beginning of their Sickness do very much loath their meat and afterwards recover their Stomachs do live in a more healthful condition Sect. 2. Aph. 38. Meat and drink something worse but if it be better rellish'd is to be preferr'd before that which is better and lesse pleasing CHAP. V. Of Milk Sect. 5. Aph. 64. IT is hurtful to give milk to such which are troubled with the Head-ach It is bad also for Feaverish persons and such who have a murmuring in the Hypochondries For those also who are alwayes dry and thirsty It is hurtful also for such whose excrements are Cholerick or are troubled with an acute Feaver and for those who have voided much blood by stool But it is convenient for such as be in a wasting condition if they are not much Feaverish and it may be allowed in long Feavers and to faint persons so that none of the aforementioned Symptomes are present It may be given also to such as are extremely wasted CHAP. VI. Of Wine Sect. 2. Aph. 21. DRinking of Wine takes away hunger Sect. 7. Aph. 56. Wine mixed with an equal proportion of Water and drunk takes away sadnesse yawning and horror CHAP. VII Of Water Sect. 5. Aph. 26. VVAter which is soonest hot and soonest cold is most light CHAP. VIII Of Thirst Sect. 4. Aph. 19. THey who having taken a purging Potion and do not thirst while they Purge will not cease Purging until they do thirst Sect. 5. Aph. 27. It is a good Sign when they which have a desire to drink in the night time fall to sleep while they are thirsty Distinction the third containing the Aphorismes respecting the generall way of Curing Diseases IT is as requisite for a Physitian to Cure the Diseases of the body as to keep the same in strength and ability To the performance whereof he ought to be armed with a judgement Curative and Preservative the latter whereof he is enabled to perform by those Aphorismes which inform him whom what which how much where how and when he ought to Purge or Revell offensive humours CHAP. I. Of Indications in general Sect. 1. Aph. 3. THe healthful state of strong bodies arrived at its perfection when it hath attained its extremity of fullnesse in regard it cannot abide nor rest in that same state and condition is unstable Now seeing it cannot rest nor make a progresse to a better condition it remains that it must lapse to a worse For these very causes therefore it is expedient to release that more full habit of body without delay whereby the body may assume a beginning of another kind of nourishing Neither must we proceed so far that the vessels may fail for that is dangerous but we must regulate our course according to the nature and ability of him upon whom this change is to be wrought By the same reason extreme evacuations and too hasty refections or nourishings are equally dangerous Sect. 1. Aph. 19. You may be satisfied of this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Dyet in Diseases the last Aphorisme whether for brevitie sake I refer you Sect. 2. Aph. 20. You have this Aphorisme in the Chapter of the Signs by the Flux of the belly the third Aphorisme Sect. 2. Aph. 37. Physick is tedious and irksome to those who are of a good habit of body Sect. 2. Aph. 7. Those bodies which are attenuated by long intervals must be refreshed slowly but such as were suddenly wasted we may nourish speedily Sect. 2. Aph. 9. The body ought to be prepared and made soluble before it be purged Sect. 2. Aph. 22. As Evacuation doth Cure Diseases caused by Repletion so Repletion takes away such distempers which come by emptinesse so in the rest contrarily Sect. 2. Aph. 50. Those courses which we are accustomed unto by long use and continuance although worse are lesse troublesome unto us then those unto which we are not used Wherefore we
affected very exactly which will the better be performed if he be throughly acquainted with those Aphorismes which declare the Diseases of the whole body in general and those also which respect the praeter naturall affects of the particular parts of the whole body The first where of the Aphorismes of the Discovery of Feavers with their Accidents will manifest the second will be discovered by the following Aphorismes CHAP. I. Of Continual Feavers Sect. 3. Aph. 21. IN the Summer continual Feavers and burning very many Tertians and Quartans do arise c. See the third Aphorisme in the Chapter of Summer Diseases Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Continual Tertian Feavers which have their Paroxismes every third day and no intermission are more dangerous But if they remit by any means howsoever they signifie no danger to the Patient Sect. 4. Aph. 46. If frequent rigors happen in Feavers the sick being weak without intermission of the Feaver it is a mortal sign Sect. 4. Aph. 47. Excreations or spittings either waâ—… of colour bloody stinking or bilious are all bad in a continual Feaver but if such are voided which are of a good condition it is good whether they are voided by stool or Urine but if any of these things are voided and ease not the Sick they are bad Sect. 4. Aph. 48. In continual Feavers if the external parts are cold and the internal are inflamed and the Sick be extream thirsty it is deadly Sect 4. Aph. 49. In continual Feavers if the lip eye-brow eye or nose be perverted or convulsive if the sick hear not or see not which soever of these do happen do signifie death approaching Sect. 4. Aph. 50. Difficulty of breathing or a delirium happening in a continual Feaver is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 56. Sweats happening in a not-intermitting Feaver if the Feaver do not intermit are bad for the Disease is prorogued and much moisture is thereby signified to be in the body Sect. 7. Aph. 72. This Aphorisme is the same with the fifth Aphorisme of this Chap. Sect. 4. Aph. 48. Sect. 7. Aph. 73. This Aphorisme nothing differs from the 49. Aphorisme in the fourth Section mentioned before in this Chapter CHAP. II. Of Acute Feavers Sect. 2. Aph. 19. PRedictions of life or death in acute Diseases are not altogether certain Sect. 2. Aph. 23. Acute Diseases are judged by their Crisis within fourteen dayes Sect. 3. Aph 7. Foggs and stinking mists generate acute Diseases and if the year continue in the same constitution we must expect Diseases of the same nature Sect. 3. Aph. 9. Most acute Diseases and destructive are most usual in the Autumn the Spring is more wholsome and lesse pernitions Sect. 3. Aph. 11. If the winter be extraordinary dry with North winds and the Spring very rainy with South winds acute Feavers sore Eyes and Dysenteries must of necessity arise the following Summer especially in women and in men which are of a constitution more than ordinary moist Sect. 4. Aph. 37. Cold Sweats in a very acute Feaver signifie death but in a more mild Disease the prolixity thereof Sect. 4. Aph. 66. Convulsions and vehement pains about the bowels in acute Diseases are bad Sect. 5. Aph. 64. See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Milk Sect. 6. Aph. 54. Breathings with groans in acute Diseases with a Feaver are ill Sect. 7. Aph. 1. Cold or chilnesse of the extreme parts in acute Feavers is bad CHAP. III. Of Burning Feavers Sect. 3. Aph. 23. TUrn to this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Diseases of the Summer season Sect. 4. Aph. 54. They who have dry coughs lightly provoking in burning Feavers are not usually very thirsty Sect. 4. Aph. 58. If a rigour or very cold fit happen to him which hath a burning Feaver the Feaver is thereby dissolved Sect. 6. Aph. 26. Trembling happening in burning Feavers are taken away by a Delirium or Raving CHAP. IV. Of Intermittent Feavers Sect. 1. Aph. 11. ALL meat is to be avoided in the fits and Paroxisms of Feavers for it is hurtful to give meats then and we ought to fear such accident in the accesses which grow more painful or worse and worse in the circuits or intermissions Sect. 1. Aph. 12. The Diseases seasons of the year and the changing of the circuits being compared together whether they are every other day or by longer intervalls of time will declare the accessions and conditions of Diseases Moreover the same judgement may be given by such Symptomes as presently appear of that nature is spittle in Pluretick persons the which if it appears at the beginning of the Disease praedicts its brevity but if later the prolixity thereof The Urine also the excrements of the belly and the sweats when they appear do signifie unto us by Judicature whether the Disease will be easie or hard short or long Sect. 4. Aph. 30. Those intermittent Feavers are hard to be judged of wherein the Feaver returns the next day at the same hour wherein it left the Patient the day before at what hour soever it were that the dismission happened Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Feavers which afflict the Patient more violently every third day and have no intermission are more dangerous For intermissions after what manner soever contingent do signifie the Sick to be without danger CHAP. V. Of Tertian Feavers Sect. 3. Aph. 2. SEE this Aphorisme before in the Chapter of Diseases incident in the Summer Sect. 3. Aph. 2. Sect. 4. Aph. 43. See this Aphorisme before in the Chapter of Intermittent Feavers Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Sect. 4. Aph. 59. An exquisite Tertian is judged in seven fits at the longest CHAP. VI. Of a Quartane Feaver Sect. 2. Aph. 25. QUartan Feavers which begin in the Summer are usually short but such as begin in the Autumn are long especially if they continue unto the winter Sect. 3. Aph. 21. See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Intermittent Feavers the same Section and Aphorisme Sect. 3. Aph. 22. See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Autumnal Diseases the same Section and Aphorisme Sect. 5. Aph. 70. Men sick of quartan Feavers are seldome taken with Convulsions but if they were convulsive before they are freed by a succeeding quartan feaver CHAP. VII Of Quotidian Feavers Sect. 4. Aph. 63. QUotidian Feavers are dissolved by daily rigors CHAP. VIII Of Long Feavers Sect. 2. Aph. 25. QUartan Agues beginning in the Summer are usually short but Autumnal are long especially if they continue until winter Sect. 2. Aph. 28. It is an ill signe when bodies exercised with strong Feavers do stand at a stay and are nothing diminished or wasted or else are extremely and beyond reason wasted by the Disease for the one signifies a long continuance of the Disease the other the weaknesse of the Patient Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Daily showres do cause Diseases for the most part as of long Feavers fluxed putrid Feavers the falling sicknesse apoplexies and squinancies But great droughts do cause Consumptions sore eyes pains of the Joynts droppings
follow Sect. 6. Aph. 27. They certainly dye who are either burnt or cut for an impostumation of the breast or for a Dropsie if matter or water slow forth upon heaps Sect. 6. Aph. 41. When an impostumation is in the body and it gives no signification of it self the want of that discovery is either caused by the thicknesse of the matter or place wherein it is contained Sect. 7. Aph. 15. Spitting of suppurated matter from spitting of blood is naught Sect. 7. Aph. 38. Distillations upon the upper ventricle are turned into suppuration within the twentieth day Sect. 7. Aph. 44. When suppurated persons are cauterized or lanced if pure and white matter issue forth they escape but if it be somewhat bloody filthy and ill favoured they perish CHAP. XXV Of the Ptysick or Consumption Sect. 4. Aph. 48. A Dry and cold Summer with North winds and a wet Autumn with South winds cause head-aches in the winter coughs hoarsnesse and rheums and to some consumptions Sect. 3. Aph. 22. Many Diseases which are usually in the Summer appear in the Autumn as quartane and erratick Feavers diseases of the spleen dropfies consumptions lienteries and dysenteries c. Sect. 3. Aph. 29. Young men are afflicted with spittings of blood consumptions acute feavers the falling evil and many other Diseases but especially those mentioned Sect. 4. Aph. 8. In purging consumptive persons we must be very wary and fearfull in exhibiting vomitive medicines Sect. 5. Aph. 9. Consumptions happen especially from the eighteenth year of our age until the five and thirtieth year Sect. 5. Aph. 11. It is a mortal sign when the spittle of such as are in a consumption being cast upon the coals sends forth a grievous smell if the hair of the head fall off likewise Sect. 5. Aph. 12. It is an argument of death when the hair of the head of consumptive persons falls off if a loosenesse of the belly succeed Sect. 5. Aph 13. Frothy blood cast forth by spittle is voided from the Lungs Sect. 4. Aph. 14. A Flux of the belly is mortal to consumptive persons Sect. 6. Aph. 12. In the curing of the Hemorrhoids or piles unlesse one vein be left open there is danger that a dropsie or consumption will succeed Sect. 7. Aph. 16. A consumption and flux are caused by spitting out suppurated matter But when the spitting ceaseth the sick dye Sect. 8. Aph. 7. You have this Aphorisme before in the same Chapter Aph. 5. whether I refer you Sect. 8. Aph. 8. All things which incline or tend to consumptions are vehement but some are mortal but it would be advantageous if the Disease should seise the body at such a time when the season did afford some help for the Disease as the Summer for a burning Feaver the Winter for the Dropsie for that which is according to nature doth obtain the victory but in the Diseases of the Spleen it is rather cause of fear CHAP. XXVI Of the Plurisie Sect. 3. Aph. 23. BUt in the Winter season plurisies inflamations of the lungs and apoplexies Sect. 5. Aph. 8. If Pluretick persons are not clensed within fourteen dayes the matter turns to impostumation Sect. 5. Aph. 15. Pluretick persons being suppurated if they are clensed within forty dayes after the impostume is broke are freed otherwise they grow into a consumption Sect. 6. Aph. 5. We must learn whether the pains in the sides in the breast and in other parts do differ much Sect. 6. Aph. 6. A Flux of the belly succeeding a plurisie or the inflamation of the lungs is a bad signe Sect. 6. Aph. 33. They which have sour belchings are not much troubled with plurisies Sect. 7. Aph. 11. An inflamation of the lungs coming upon a plurisie is bad CHAP. XXVII Of spitting of Blood Sect. 3. Aph. 20. YOung men are troubled with spittings of blood consumptions acute feavers the falling sicknesse and many other Diseases but especially these Sect. 4. Aph. 25. Any blood whatsoever voided upward is bad but if black blood be voided downward it is good Sect. 5. Aph. 13. Frothy blood cast forth by spittle is brought from the lungs Sect. 6. Aph. 10. Matter water or blood voided by the nostrils the mouth or the ears take away the headache and the vehement pains thereof Sect. 7. Aph. 37. Vomiting of blood happening without a feaver is good but bad with a feaver and the distemper must be cured with such Medicines which have a cooling and restringent quality in them CHAP. XXVIII Of the affects of the Heart Sect. 2. Aph. 36. MEn of unblameable and perfect health do quickly faint when they are purged and such also who use ill dyet Sect. 2. Aph. 41. Such as are often and violently taken with a Sincope or Swounding without some manifest cause dye suddenly Sect. 4. Aph. 17. Abhorring of meat gnawing of the mouth of the stomach a vertigoe withdrowsiness and a bitterness in the mouth without a feaver do instruct us that purging by vomit is necessary Sect. 5. Aph. 56. A Convulsion or Sincope happening to women in the time of their purgations is naught Sect. 7. Aph. 8. Faintings vomitings and swoundings are caused by the rupture of a tumour inwardly CHAP. XXIX Of the affects of the Breasts Sect. 5. Aph. 37. IF the Breasts of a woman with Child grow slender on a suddain she is in danger of aborting or miscarrying Sect. 5. Aph. 38. If one of the Breasts of a woman with Child with Twins grow slender she will abort with one of her Children and if the right Breast grow slender she will miscarry a Male if the left a Female Sect. 5. Aph. 39. If a woman which neither is with Child nor never had Child have milk in her Breasts her monthly purgations have failed Sect. 5. Aph. 40. When blood is gathered together into a tumour of swelling about the Breasts raging or madnesse is thereby signified to those women Sect. 5. Aph. 50. If you would stop the flowing of womens courses apply very large Cupping-glasses to their breasts Sect. 5. Aph. 52. Plenty of milk runing forth of the Breasts of women with Child argue a weak Child but if the breasts are solid they argue a more strong Child Sect. 5. Aph. 53. They which are like to miscarry will have slender breasts but if their breasts grow hard they will have a pain in the breasts or in the hips in their eyes or in their knees and will not miscarry CHAP. XXX Of the affects of the Stomach Sect. 1. Aph. 15. IN the winter and spring our stomachs are most hot and our sleeps most long therefore in those seasons our meals ought to be more plentiful because when there is most natural heat our bodies need more plentiful nutriment which Ages and Wrestlers signifie unto us Sect. 2. Aph. 21. A draught of Wine takes away hunger Sect. 4. Aph. 65. A vehement heat of the Stomach and a gnawing of the mouth of the stomach in Feavers is naught Sect. 6. Aph.
full of water empty it self upon the kell the belly is fill'd with water and the sick dyes CHAP. XXXVI Of the Dropsie Sect. 3. Aph. 22. IN the Autumn many Estival Diseases happen and Quartan and Erratick Feavers Diseases of the Spleen Dropsies Consumptions c. Sect. 4. Aph. 11. When the bowels are wound and wrested about great pains about the navil and grief of the Loins are concomitant the which if it be not cured by a purging Medicine nor any other means is confirmed into a dry Dropsie Sect. 6. Aph. 8. Ulcers arising in the bodies of Hydropical persons are not easily cured Sect. 6. Aph. 11. In the Dropsie if the water flow forth of the veins into the belly the Disease is dissolved Sect. 6. Aph. 27. Empiecal or Hydropical persons being burnt or cut if either water or suppurated matter abundantly flow forth the sick certainly dye Sect. 6. Aph. 35. A cough happening to him that is sick of the Dropsie is naught Sect. 7. Aph. 5. A dysentery Dropsie or a vehement commotion of the mind succeeding raging or madnesse is good Sect. 7. Aph. 55. If an Hydropical liver issue violently forth upon the kell the belly is fill'd with water and the sick dyes CHAP. XXXVII Of the Jaundies Sect. 4. Aph. 62. IT is no good signe if the Yellow Jaundies do succeed a Feaver before the seventh day Sect. 4. Aph. 64. If the Jaundies coming upon a Feaver do appear the seventh ninth eleventh or fourteenth day the Crisis is good unlesse the right Hypochondrium be hard otherwise it is not good Sect. 5. Aph. 72. Icterical persons are not much subject to wind Sect. 6. Aph. 42. It is an ill sign if he that hath the Jaundies have a Scirrhus of the Liver CHAP. XXXVIII Of the affects of the Spleen Sect. 3. Aph. 22. MAny Diseases frequent in the Summer happen also in the Autumn and Quartan and Erratick feavers and Diseases of the Spleen c. Sect. 6. Aph. 43. When suppurated matter is in the body and doth not exhibit any signification of it self the cause either is from the grossenesse of the matter or of the place where it resideth Sect. 6. Aph. 48. A Dysentery coming in spleenetick persons is good CHAP. XXXIX Of the Flux of the Belly or Diarrhaea Sect. 2. Aph. 14. CHanges of the excrements in the flux of the belly are good unlesse they change to bad Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Diseases are usually caused by continual showers or rain as long Feavers Diarrhaeaes putrid feavers the falling sickness and apoplexies Sect. 3. Aph. 25. When Children are breeding their teeth itching and prickings of the gums feavers convulsions fluxes of the belly do afflict them and then more especially when they have begun to put forth their dog teeth and to those most cheifly who are of a more grosse constitution and have their bellies hard Sect. 3. Aph. 30. But to those who are now past their youth frequent Asthmaes plurisies inflamations of the lungs lethargies phrensies burning Feavers continual Diarrhaeaes choler dysenteries lienteries and flux of blood by the Haemorrhoidical veins in the Fundament Sect. 4. Aph. 21. Black excrements like dreggish or black blood proceeding without provocation either with a Feaver or without a feaver are very bad and so much the worse by how much the more their colour are many and bad But if they are caused by a medicine they are so much the better by how much their colours are many and not bad Sect. 4. Aph. 22. An issue of black blood either upward or downward at the beginning of any Disease whatsoever is deadly Sect. 4. Aph. 23. If voiding of black choler like dreggish or black blood shall follow to such whose bodies are attenuated either by acute feavers or continual Feavers by wounds or any other means the patient dyes the day following Sect. 4. Aph. 24. A dysentery caused by melancholly blood is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 26. If little peices of flesh are voided by stool by him that hath an exulceration of the bowels it is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 28. Bilious dejections cease if deafnesse ensue and deafnesse is taken away by bilious dejections succeeding Sect. 5. Aph. 12. When the hairs of consumptive persons fall off a flux of the belly succeeds and they dye Sect. 5. Aph. 14. A Diarrhaea coming upon a consumptive person is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 34. If a woman with Child be taken with an extreme loosenesse she is in danger of aborting Sect. 5. Aph. 65. They to whom tumours with ulcers do appear are neither taken by convulsion nor driven into rage or madnesse But they presently vanishing to such to whom this happeus backwards convulsions and distensions of the nerves are caused but if it happen forwards ragings acute diseases of the sides suppuration of humours or a dysentery doth happen if the tumors were red Sect. 6. Aph. 3. Abhorring of meat in long dysenteries is not good but worse if it come with a feaver Sect. 6. Aph. 15. A Diarrhaea which hath continued long is taken away by a voluntary vomiting succeeding Sect. 6. Aph. 16. A flux of the belly coming upon a plurisie or or an inflamation of the lungs is naught Sect. 6. Aph. 17. It is beneficial for those which are troubled with sore eyes to be taken with a loosenesse of the belly Sect. 6. Aph. 52. We must observe what things appear from the eyes by sleep for if from the white the eye-lids being open any thing appear and not caused by a flux of the belly or a purging Medicine it is a bad signe and very mortal Sect. 6. Aph. 43. Splenetick persons which are afflicted with a dysentery after a long succeeding dysentery a dropsie or lientery happens and they dye Sect. 6. Aph. 48. A dysentery coming upon the Spleen is good Sect 7. Aph. 5. A dysentery dropsie or an Exstasis coming upon raging or madnesse is good Sect. 7. Aph. 23. A dysentery succeeds sincere dejections Sect. 7. Aph. 29. A vehement flux of the belly cures that kind of dropsie which comes of white pituite and is called Lecophlegmatia Sect. 5. Aph. 30. Frothy excrements voided by stool come from the brain Sect. 7. Aph. 75. A dysentery succeeds a Diarrhaea Sect. 7. Aph. 76. A lientery succeeds a dysentery Sect. 8. Aph. 5. A flux of the belly succeeding a long Disease is bad CHAP. XL. Of a Dysentery or Excoriation of the Bowels Sect. 4. Aph. 24. THat dysentery is mortal which was caused by black choler Sect. 4. Aph. 26. In a dysentery if small peices of flesh are ejected by stool the Disease is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Splenetick persons afflicted with a dysentery after a long excoriation of the bowels a dropsie or lientery succeed and they dye CHAP. XLI Of a Lientery or levity of the Bowels Sect. 4. Aph. 12. IT is dangerous purging lienterical persons by vomiting Medicines in the winter season Sect. 6. Aph. 1. If sowre belchings which were not before succeed a long lientery
of the wombe be hard and solid it must of necessity be close shut Sect. 5. Aph. 55. If women with chiid fall into a feaver and are emaciated or made lean without some manisest cause they have difficult and dangerous travail or else are in danger of abortion Sect. 5. Aph. 58. A Strangury succeeds an inflamation of the streight intestine of the wombe or suppurated reins but the Hicket an inflamation of the liver Sect. 5. Aph. 62. They which have cold and thick wombes or else if their matrix be overmoist do not conceive for the genitive matter is extinguished in them neither they which have over dry and hot wombes because the seed is corrupted for want of nutriment But they are most fruitful which are of a middle and moderate constitution and temperature CHAP. LI. Of the Menstruum or Womens Purgations Sect. 5. Aph. 32. VOmiting of blood is stayed by the breaking forth of the monthly purgations in women Sect. 5. Aph. 33. An Haemorrhagia or bleeding at the nose is beneficial to women in the deficiency of their monthly courses Sect. 5. Aph. 36. Ill coloured purgations of women and not proceeding alwayes at their appointed seasons signifie a necessity of purging Sect. 5. Aph. 39. It is an absolute sign of the deficiency or failing of her monthly purgations if a woman who neither is with child nor never brought forth child hath milk in her breasts Sect. 5. Aph. 50. If you would stop the menstruous flux in women you must apply great Cupping-glasses to their breasts Sect. 5. Aph. 56. A Convulsion happening to women in the time of her menstruous purgations is naught Sect. 5. Aph. 57. Both the overflowing of the monthly Terms and the suppression thereof do cause Diseases Sect. 5. Aph. 60. If a Woman with child have her courses it is impossible that her child should be healthful Sect. 5. Aph. 60. If a woman have not her monthly purgations and neither horror nor feaver succeed but a nausea or abhorring of meat happeneth unto her believe her to have conceived with Child Sect. 6. Aph. 29. A woman is not troubled with the gout until her monthly purgations have left her CHAP. LII Of Conception Sect. 5. Aph. 41. IF you would know whether a woman have conceived with child or not give her water and hony mingled together when she goeth to sleep and if she have wringings and gripings of the belly she hath conceived otherwise she hath not Sect. 5. Aph. 42. If a woman be with child with a male she is better coloured than if she were with child with a female Sect. 5. Aph. 43. An Erisipilas in the wombe of a pregnant woman is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 46. They which do not conceive by reason of a preternatural grosseness have the Orifice of their wombe pressed by the Kell neither will they be pregnant or conceive until they are extenuated or grown thinner Sect. 5. Aph. 59. If a woman do not conceive and you desire to know whether she be fruitful or wil conceive apply suffumigations to her beneath she being very well wrapt close with Clothes and if the sent or smell be perceived to passe to her nostrils and mouth you may conclude her not to be unfruitful of her self Sect. 5. Aph. 61. See this Aphorisme the last but one in the sore-going Chapter of Womens monthly purgations CHAP. LIII Of Abortion or Miscarriage Sect. 5. Aph. 30. BReathing of a vein doth cause Abortion but more especially if the birth be somewhat big Sect. 5. Aph. 37. If the breasts of a pregnant woman grow thin and slender on a suddain there is danger of abortion Sect. 5. Aph. 38. If either of the breasts of a pregnant woman with child with Twins grow thin and slender she miscarries with one of her burthens if her right breast grow thin she aborts a male if the left a female child Sect. 5. Aph. 44. Women which are made lean by some preternatural cause do abort until they grow more full bodied Sect. 5. Aph. 45. They which abort the second or third month without some especial occasion have the vessels of their wombe filled with filthy matter so that by reason of that burthen they do break and cannot contain the issue Sect. 5. Aph. 55. If pregnant women fall into a feaver and are very much wasted without some sensible cause either have difficult and dangerous labour or else fall into a hazard of abortion Sect. 7. Aph. 7. A Tenasmus or a frequent and vain desire of going to stool without any performance coming upon a pregnant women doth make her abort CHAP. LIII Of the Issue and the Birth Sect. 5. Aph. 35. SNeezing happening to one troubled with the suffocation of the Matrix or else to one in hard travail is commodious Sect. 5. Aph. 48. Male Children are born in the right and females in the left side of the wombe Sect. 5. Aph. 52. Store of milk flowing forth of the breasts of a woman with child signifies a weak child but solid and firm breasts argue a stronger and more healthful child Sect. 5. Aph. 53. When the child is like to dye in the wombe the breasts of the mother grow slender but if they become hard she will have grief either in her breasts her hips in her eyes or knees and she will not corrupt her issue Sect. 5. Aph. 55. Feavers and extreme wastings happening to women with child argue either a difficult and dangerous travail to them or a hazard of abortion Sect. 5. Aph. 6. It is impossible that that child should be healthful which is bread by one who hath her monthly courses in the time of her Child-bearing CHAP. LIV. Of the affects of the Joints Sect. 2. Aph. 46. WHen two pains are felt at one and the same time in different places of the body the one doth very much obscure the other Sect. 1. Aph. 16. Great droughts cause consumptions sore eyes pains of the joynts difficulty of Urine and excoriations of the bowels Sect. 3. Aph. 20. In the spring season madness melancholly the falling evil fluxes of blood squinances rheums hoarseness coughs leprosies tetters dry itches ulcerous pimples small swellings and pains of the joynts do afflict mens bodies Sect. 3. Aph. 31. Difficulty of breathing catarrhes stranguries difficulty of making water pains of the joynts and reins vertigoes and apoplexies are incident to old men Sect. 4. Aph. 20. Extreme gripings and twistings of the bowels heaviness of the knees and a pain of the loins without a feaver tell us that purging downward is necessary Sect. 4. Aph. 31. When a sense of wearyishness occasioned by Feavers is present then tumours do arise about the joynts but especially about the mandibles Sect. 4. Aph. 32. But if any part be full of pain after the recovering from a Disease the abscesses are made to that part Sect. 4. Aph. 44. Small tumours and pains of the joynts do appear to such who have had long feavers Sect. 4. Aph. 45. They who have