beeing asswaged within fortie daies do cease 50 It must needs bee that a feuer vomiting and perbraking of choler must come vpon them which haue their braine diuided or wounded 51 Those which are in health being sodainly taken with headache and thereupon presently become dumbe and snort doe die within seauen daies vnlesse a feuer come vpon them in the meane while 52 But we ought to behold in their sleepes also if anie part of the eies do appeare vnderneath the liddes for if anie thing appeare of the white of them the eye lids not being fast closed if it doe not happen by a fluxe of the belly or by som medicinall potion it is an euil and a verie deadly signe 53 That doting which is done with laughter is not so daungerous but that which is done with earnest sadnesse is more daungerous 54 Painefull breathings in sharp diseases with a feuer as it were of such as sigh mourne are euill 55 Paines of the gowt doe most commonly afflict are prouoked in the spring and autumn 56 The falling down of humors are very dangerous in melancholicke diseases at these seasons and do declare an apoplexie or a cōvulsion madness or blindnesse 57 Also apoplexies are caused most especially from the fortith to the threescore yeers 58 If the Call Omentum shal hang forth of the bodie it putrifieth of necessitie 59 Those that are afflcted with long pain of the hips hauing the huckle bone cōming forth returning in again into his place haue clammy flegme collected and gathered together in the hollownesse of that part 60 Those which haue the huckle bone being the hed or vpper part of the thigh comming out and tormented with the ache called sciatica shal haue the thigh of feeblished and consumed and they doe halt and are lame vnlesse they are burned with hot iron instruments The end of the sixt Section of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates Here followeth the 7. Section The Argument THIS seauenth booke is altogether prognosticall and foretelling things to come in which he intreateth of the presagements and foretokens of health and death 1 Coldness of the extream parts in sharpe diseases is euill 2 Flesh black and blew because of a fowle diseased bone is an euill thing 3 The hicket after vomiting and also rednesse of the eyes are euill 4 After sweate colde shiuerings and shakings are not good 5 After madnes which the Greekes call mania a blodie fluxe the dropsie or an extasie or traunce is good 6 Abhorring of meate in a long disease and the excremēts auoided downwards without mixture of humors are euill 7 Cold shakings and fond doting after much drinking is euill 8 After the eruption of an impostume inwardly faintnesse and loosenesse of the parts of the bodie vomiting swouning doth ensue 9 After a fluxe of bloud Delirium or a convulsion is euill 10 After the Iliack passion vomiting the hicket doting and convulsion are euill 11 An impostume of the lungs named peripneumonia after a pleurisie is euill 12 A phrensie with a peripneumonia is euill 13 A convulsion or the crampe Tetanus because of hot burnings is euill 14 Astonishment and doting called Delirium thorough some blowe of the head is an euill signe 15 The spitting out of corrupt matter after the spitting of bloud is euill 16 A consumption or pthisis and a flux of the bellie comming after spitting of corrupt matter are euill signs for when the spitting is stopped the diseased doe die 17 The hicket or singult comming through an inflammatiō of the liuer is euill 18 A convulsion or delirium caused through watching is an euill thing 19 After the laying bare of a bone the inflammation and hot tumor Erisipelas is euill 20 Putrefaction or impostumation from the inflammation Erisipelas is euill 21 A fluxe of bloud after a strong pulse in vlcers is euill 22 After a long paine of the parts belonging to the belly an impostumation is euill 23 After auoyding of vnmixed excrements downewards a bloody fluxe is euill 24 Delirium or foolishness doth insue after the wound of a bone if it shall penetrate into the hollowe or voide space 25 A convulsion after the taking of a purging potiō bringeth death 26 A great coldnesse of the extreame and vtmost parts through vehement pain of of the parts pertaining to the belly is euill 27 If the disease called tenasmus shall happen to a woman with childe it is the cause of aborcement 28 If either a bone cartilag or sinew shall be cut in the bodie it doth neither increase nor growe togither againe 29 If a strong flux or loosenesse of the bellie shall come vpon him that is diseased with the dropsie named leucophlegmatia it dissolueth and cureth the disease 30 They haue a falling downe of flegmaticke humors from the head which doe auoide frothie and fomie excrements out of the belly in their laxnesse and loosenesse of the same 31 Sediments in vrins made in the time of agues like vnto course wheate meale do signifie that the sickness shall continuew long 32 Cholericke Sediments appearing in vrins but being before thinne and waterish do signifie a sharpe disease 33 Those which make diuers vrins haue a vehement disturbance and vnquietnesse in the bodie 34 The vrins in which bubbles doe swimme aloft do signifie the disease of the reines and that the infirmitie and weakenesse shall indure long 35 It is a signe that the disease is of the reines and a sharp disease to be present to them in whose vrin a fattie and thicke superficies appeareth 36 If also paines be caused to those which are diseased with the griefe of the kidnies about the muscles of the backe bone and haue the signes abouesaid if they be felt towardes the outward parts looke and expect that the Apostume shall also bee outwardly but if the paines bend and incline rather to the inwarde parts wee must then feare that the apostume shal be inwardly 37 Vomiting of bloud is wholsome to them which doe it without a feuer but if it be with a feuer it is an euill thing and the cure and remedie of the same is to bee performed vvith things that haue a cooling and a binding qualitie and virtue 38 Distillations vpon the vpper bellie doe come to suppuration and ripenesse within twentie daies 39 If anie one pisse bloud or clots of bloud and bee diseased with the disease named the stranguria the paine attaining to the part of the bellie called Abdomen or Hypogastrion the place named pecten and also to perinaeum the places and partes aboue the bladder are diseased 40 If the tong be sodainely become feeble or anie part of the bodie being astonished be benūmed without feeling it is a sign of melancholie 41 If the hicket do happen to olde men purged aboue measure it is not good 42 If the feuer be not caused of choler store of warme water powred vppon the head doth dissolue the feuer 43 A woman hath not the vse of both hands
child nor hauing bin deliuered of childe haue milke in her breasts her monthly courses haue failed her 40 Madnesse is signified to happen to those women in whose dugs or paps there is bloud collected and heaped together 41 If you will know whether any woman haue conceiued or no giue her a potion of hony water mixed togither going to sleep if she feele gripings and wringings of the belly she hath conceiued if she doe not shee hath not conceiued 42 If a woman conceiued with childe doe beare a manchilde shee is well and fresh coloured if she beare a maide childe she is ill coloured 43 If the inflammation called Erysipelas be bred in the womb or mother it is a perniuous and deadly thing 44 Those women which are verie leane contrarie to nature and doe beare children do suffer vntimelie deliuerance vntill they come to better plight and be fatter 45 Those women which being reasonable fat making abortion the second or third month without anie manifest cause haue acetabula vteri plena mucoris neither are they able to coÌ„taine the foetus because of his heauy weight but those Cotylidons being broken it falleth downe 46 Those which are fatter then Nature requireth and doe not conceiue childe haue os vteri compressed closed togither by the omentum and cal of the guts and therefore they cannot conceiue vntill they waxe leaner 47 If the wombe shall apostumate in that part where it lieth neer the hip or huckle bone it is necessary to cure it with tents lipped in liquid medicines such as the Greekes do call Emmota 48 Men children doe lie are carryed on the right side of the womb and women children rather on the left side 49 A medicine procuring sneesing put into the nostrills doth driue and force out the secuÌ„dine so that you stop the nostrils mouth close with the hand 50 If it please a woman to restraine her accustomed courses apply a very great cupping glasse to her brests 51 Those women which are conceiued with child haue the mouth or gate of the mother shut and closed vp 52 If milke flowe plentifully out of the dugs of a woman bearing a child in her wombe it signifieth that the childe is weake but if the paps be hard and stiffe they declare a stronger coÌ„ception 53 The dugges and pappes becom slender and limber to those women which shal loose their foetus But contrarilie if the pappes become hard paine shall eyther molest the pappes hips eies or the knees but they shal not suffer aborcement 54 Those women haue the mouth or gate of the womb closed or shut vp which haue the same hard 55 Childe-bearing women which are takeÌ„ with feuers or are brought to a lowe state without a manifest cause doe bring forth the birth painfully and with danger or are in hazard of life by vntimely vnseasonable deliuerance 56 If a Convulsion or swouning happen to a flux of a womans flowers it is an euill thing 57 Womens terms flowing immoderately diseases are ingendred being supprest stopt of their due course diseases do likewise happen from the wombe 58 The strangurie or dropping out of the vrin dooth happen by the inflammation of the straight gut likewise of the wombe or mother to the reins that be exulcerated also if the liuer be inflamed the hicket or yexing doth happen in the meane while 59 If a woman doe not coÌ„ceiue and thou wouldest know if she shall conceiue at all let her be wrapt and lapped round about with clothes and make a sume vnder the lower parts and if the sent bee perceiued to passe through her bodie to her nostrills her mouth knowe that shee is not barraine by any default in hir selfe 60 If the monthly purgations doe keepe their course to a woman with child it is impossible that the foetus should be in health 61 If a womans monthly courses stop and she haue neither shiuering cold nor ague comming vpon her and shee loath her meate make account that shee is conceiued 62 Those women which haue their wombe cold drie doe not conceiue and such as haue them ouer moyst cannot bee conceiued for the seede is extinguisht perished in them Also those women cannot conceiue which haue those places ouer drie and hot for the seed becoÌ„meth corrupted for want of due nâ—â—rishment But those women which haue obtained a moderate temperature of the places in respecte of both the oppositions and contrarieties doe excell in fruitfulnesse 63 The same consideration and reason is likewise to be respected in men for either through the spoungy and poery substance of the body the spirits are dissipated and scattered abroade so that they cannot cast forth seede or else the moisture dooth not issue forth because of his grossenesse thicknesse or else because of coldnesse it doth not coÌ„ceiue any heat that it may be collected in his proper place or the verie same thing doth may happen through heate 64 It is not good to giue milke to them which are troubled with headach or with agues nor to those which are troubled with the disease called status Hypochondriacus nor to those which are troubled with thirst It is also nought for them which auoide cholericke excrements downewards or to those which haue sharpe feuers or haue had some copious euacuation of bloud But it is good for those which are in a consumption so they be not troubled with any vehement feuer It is also good for long lingring and milde agues so that none of the signes before spoken be present It is good also for them which are brought lowe without any apparant reason or occasion 65 They are not much trobled with convulsions or with madnesse which haue apparant and euident tumors with their vlcers or sores But convulsions and the crampes named Tetani doe happen to them to whome the tumors shall suddenly vanish awaie if it shall happen on the hinder part of the bodie but if they happen in the forehead or forepart there hapneth madness vehement paine of the side Empiema and spitting of matter Dysenteria if the tumors or swellings shall be red 66 If no tumour nor swelling appeare in great and badde wounds it is a great euell 67 Soft tumore aregoods but those which are hard and vndigested are euill 68 To one which hath pain in the hinder part of the head the venarecta in the forehead beeing opened doth profit 69 Colde shakings and shiuerings for the most part doe begin to women from the loines and through the back do come to the head But to men they doe rather beginne in the backe part then in the forepart as from the hinder parte of the thighes and from the elbowes the raritie and thinnesse of the skinne is a token ther of which thing the hayre there growing dooth declare and manifest 70 These which are taken with a Quartane ague are not much assaulted with convulsions but if before they haue bin assayled vpon
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