Parsnip and Schirroots Leeks and dry Figs are windy but the green most Green Grapes all Nuts except those of the Pine-tree Milk all Cheese and whatsoever is taken crude Hunting and hawking are good against wind Celsus saith all fat things are windy for Galen saith they overthrow the stomach and are hard of concoction fill and swell either by wind that comes from them by a weak concoction or by rarifying the fat and make it run thin Also sweet things chiefly if gross are windy and new Wine unless it pass soon through fills with wind is hard of concoction begets gross moisture and causeth Headach Therefore Aristotle in his Problems asks directly why it is dangerous for the stomach to drink new Wine Answ Because it is undigestible and therefore puffes up the stomach and causeth a kind of Dysentery Milk is an enemy to a weak head and to the Hypochondria that are blown up with wind from a small offence it puffes the bellies of most that eat it as Hippocraies saith And Galen saith that people in health have headach and wind from eating Milk therefore it must needs be bad for such as are so affected before Therefore let windy bodies avoid Milk above all things Also Mead and Perry and Sider are windy chiefly if not boiled Hippocrates lib. 5. aph 41. bids you give Mead to women at bed-time to know if they be with child for if her belly be griped thereby she hath conceived otherwise not the pain is from wind that cannot get out the Mead causeth it for raw Honey swells the belly Ale which is usual in the North is also windy it is near that which Dioscorides lib. 2. cap. 80. called Zythus it is worse new or when not well boiled The thinner or cruder it is the less it nourisheth but it swells and cools more being but a little hotter then water Such are the Drinks of Brabant Holland and England they are commonly thick and ill boiled so that they stop the Ureters and cool and cause Stranguries breed the stone and short breathing increase flegm breed wind in the belly and pains and Colicks But old Ale that is clear well boiled and well malted which is made in private houses not to be sold do more cast off those pernicious qualities the nearer they resemble Wine But when it is carelesly brewed being it is daily used and very much the Symptoms it causeth are wonderful but chiefly great swellings and puffings up with wind so that few or none that drink this Ale but are much oppressed with winds But if the belly be loosned by much of it taken or by its sharpness and that which is superfluous be sent downward by stool or by urine or vomited up then you need not so much fear inflation by wind For it is better then water being moderately taken to quench thirst only and wash down food but not so good as Wine Also Galen saith that all the faults of water are from its coldness by which it lies long in the stomach and causeth fluctuations and turns to wind and corrupts and weakens the stomach so that it concocts worse But Wine hath a nature adverse to these faults in water it neither puffeth up the belly but takes it rather down nor stays long there by reason of its moderate heat Therefore common Ale and Beer are a medium between wine and water but nearer to water for they puff up and stay long being thick but do not so much destroy the natural heat as water or weaken the stomach The clear old Beer that is well boiled is most near to Wine for it opens the ways of digestion and quickly goes down is of good juyce and fit to mix and concoct things in the stomach and veins it puffs up little it is better then new or crude Wine and the liker it is to Wine the farther it is from the faults in water For water whether of Snow or Pond is not good chiefly for cold stomachs not for Galens reason only because if taken presently after meat makes it swim by putting it self between the meat and the stomach and making a separation and fluctuation for Wine and the best drink may do that But because it is heavy and very cold and choaks the natural heat and hinders concoction and hurts the stomach breast and lungs stops the urine causeth side-pains Dropsies Colicks and Iliacks But wind is not bred only by this or that way but too much Wine or Beer or Milk or Broths or Water though otherwise wholesome may cause wind or any slimy matter that cannot be overcome by the native heat For too much weakens the stomach and Galen saith the sign of a weak stomach is noise and fluctuation For the stomach being right is close and keeps every little it takes in close wrapt so that there is no space between And when there is a rumbling there is vacuity and it doth not exactly embrace the food and this is a loose space which suffers the moist things received to pass to and fro and make a noise Then the belly swells and the Hypochondria and there is much crudity flegm and gross humors bred If this crudity be joyned with trouble of stomach and the Patient cannot sleep it is evil For watching and pain of stomach cause a tossing in bed and wind and belching Therefore crudity is from immoderate eating and drinking and from crudity come gross slimy humours upon which if hot medicines simple or compound are given as often by ignorance they are they cause wind from the matter Also Wine though of the best and such as by its nature expels wind and any liquid thing if not by its force yet by its abundance may oppress the natural heat or by the nature of the things it is mixed with in the stomach may cause wind Moreover of all things mentioned as causes of wind none are worse then nightdrinkings upon a full stomach and going to bed with a belly full of drink or drinking between meals or presently after meat Aristotle Meteor lib. 4 cap. 3. saith that such concoction is like boiling chiefly when it is done by heat of the body in a hot and moist subject and some crudities are like meat half boiled For as when we cast much cold water into a boiling Kettle the boiling is stopt and the heat interrupted and thereby crudity remains so if you drink presently after meat the concoction is interrupted and there will be crudities which will cause fluctuation and inflation and stretching of the belly like a Drum As Galen saith you must not presently drink after meat before it be concocted For then the food will swim and the stomach cannot embrace them by reason of the moisture between Therefore to be short inflations are from three causes obstruction heat and a cold and moist distemper of the stomach For obstructions stop the wind that it cannot pass forth and gross and clammy things when made hot breed wind Gal. meth 12. and all
cold raiseth no vapours because it cannot extenuate nor dissolve nor concoct so vehement heat overcomes for the most part what is comprehended extenuates the food beyond the generation of vapours except it be such as easily turns to wind If the heat be weak it dissolves the food but doth not concoct perfectly and hence comes wind And as in external things as a cold season chiefly when the North wind blows makes the air clearer and a very hot season makes the air pure but the middle constitution of air produceth clouds so it is in Animals heat when very weak or very strong doth not cause wind but the mean between both But Galen 12. Meth. med saith that wind is not only from a mean but vehement heat as appears by their generation there mentioned and by his way of cure For he saith if by any accident a vaporous spirit be joyned with gross glutinous humours that cannot break forth of the body there is very great pain and that from two causes obstruction or heat For obstruction keeps the wind in and gross glutinous matter when it is hot causeth wind And a little after how then saith he shall we cure those pains which a cold humour shut up in the guts hath caused Not by Cataplasms and Fomentations which heat violently for all clammy humours that are gross and cold are discussed into wind by things that heat except they also strongly digest Therefore they must be cut and concocted at the same time by attenuaters which are not too hot From these words of Galen it appears that a vehement heat doth not hinder breeding of wind or discuss them being bred but will cause them from the subject matter to breed anew when they were gone Therefore Lib. 3. cap. 43. he saith we must beware of nothing more in the abundance of such humours then immoderate heat that will melt them and turn them into wind but not digest them The Italian Doctor knew this well who as Paul Aegineta saith cured almost all Colicks with cold remedies and Paul knew it when he wrote that pains from cold clammy and tough humours are to be cured with respect that the medicines be not vehement hot for so they will be melted and turned more to winds Also strong heat doth not only make wind of flegm which it cannot consume but also of any over-much moisture received as in such as have drunk too much Wine or Beer or Broth or stuffed themselves with any gross or clammy food which the heat cannot consume So vehement heat also raiseth wind This is clear in Feavers also in which though preternatural heat abound much drink swells the belly because Nature is thereby restrained Therefore three things are required in the breeding and understanding of Wind heat naturally too weak or so by oppression that the part be sensible and fit and the matter proper to produce wind CHAP. VI. Of the Differences of Wind bred in the Body THe wind is of divers natures one sort is quiet another moved The quiet is gross and of flow motion cloudy and cold that brings seldom any Symptoms but a swollen Belly and Hypochondria without much pain This troubles such commonly that drink thick sweet Ale or Milk or Water between meals chiefly for that corrupts concoction and weakneth the action of the stomach as if you should pour cold water into a boiling Kettle and thence there will be cloudy vapours and fluctuations that will swell the Belly like a Drum which will fall with sobriety and a stool or two But if it stay long between the tunicles of the guts it threatens a dangerous Colick A moved wind because it is thin and running about with great pain is like a changeable Proteus It is either cast out or retained goes forth with or without noise by the mouth or Fundament By the mouth the belch is sour or smoak-like and unsavory by the Fundament it is with or without noise These are of so much concernment in the body of man as the Stoicks according to Cicero Lib. 9. epist epist 22. said that a fart ought to be as free as a belch And Claudius Caesar made an Edict to give leave for any to fart at meat because he knew one endangered by refraining through modesty Suet in vita Claudii cap. 23. But when wind is sent out at neither part but detained it causeth a swelling a Symptom of the stomach not able through weakness to expel the abounding cloudy spirit Also Galen 3. Symp. caus lib. 6. cap. 6. saith there are divers parts of the guts in which the wind moves which though they have not distinct names yet may they so be declared that any ingenious person may understand what kind and how much the excrement is and in what part it chiefly moves For if it sound sharp and shrill it is carried through the strait gut and is more pure and aerial If it puff up it will make a small noise while it goes through the small guts but not so sharp and shrill All these noises are in the spaces of the empty gut usually make the less noise the lower they go Other noises are humming like that of Pipes which cannot give a pure sound by reason of the matter they consist of and the passage being large makes the sound greater Such winds are in the thick guts when they are empty and if any moisture be contained in them it will cause a kind of Bombus which is a rumbling which shews a moist stool to be at hand because it is from Nature moving and it is moist because it rumbled before Also the noise that follows the stool if it rumbles signifies more stools but if it be pure and clear it shews that either the gut is empty or that hard excrements are in its upper part That which is shrill is from the straitness of the passages and little moisture We might here add the different sounds of the wind in the ear but we shall reserve that for the eleventh Chapter where we shall speak of the pains of the ears CHAP. VII How many kinds of Diseases are produced by Wind. GAlen made three chief sorts of Diseases a Similary Instrumental and a Common which is the solution of unity A similary disease is that which overthrows the natural constitution An Organical or Instrumental is that which hinders the fashion in conformation number magnitude or composition The Common is when unity is dissolved in part Let us see which of these wind will produce Hippocrates Lib. de flatibus saith when a body is full of food and much wind prevails and the meat lies long in the stomach and cannot get out for abundance and the lower belly is stopt or bound wind goes over all the body and gets chiefly to the parts full of blood and cools them And if the parts be cooled where the blood comes there is chilness over all the body For when all the blood is cold the whole body must be chill Galen
there is a gross clammy flegm with a cold distemper which oppresseth the heat and it laboureth to conquer it and so causeth wind that stretcheth and is disturbant This pain is allayed by belching or vomiting flegm It is worst after meat when it is only from a cold distemper without matter For the natural heat being weak or oppressed with cold or windy meats doth dissolve them but yielding to the burthen doth not concoct them and thence ariseth wind For the Cure of this the first intention is to evacuate what is preternatural The second is with thin and hot medicines that extenuate wind to abate it and after good diet the first thing is to keep the belly loose by a Lenitive or a Suppository then if there be gross flegm at the bottom of the stomach vomit with Oxymel of Squills or the decoction of Radish Dill Arrage sometimes before sometimes after supper as the Patient is easie or hard to vomit As Take Radish two ounces stamp them add Mead or decoction of Dill strain and drink it warm for luke-warm things provoke Vomit by relaxing Or Take Dill seed Radish seed each an ounce and half Agarick a dram in Powder Boil them in water to half to six ounces strained add Syrup of Vinegar or Oxymel of Squills if the matter be very thick an ounce then give and tickle the throat with a feather If by straitness of breast or the like he cannot vomit prepare the flegm with Honey of Roses Oxymel Syrup of Stoechas and the Decoction of Rue Pennyroyal Calamints Hysop Organ great hot Seeds and purge flegm with Pil. aureae of Hiera with Agarick or simple Hiera Electuary Indi major Benedicta laxativa or the like after flegm is purged use to chew Ginger or Elicampane candied but chiefly roots of Masterwort to which I give the Prerogative in this disease Then use Diatrionpipereon Diacalaminth Dianisum Diacinamomum Electuary of Bay-berries Mithridate Treacle or the Powder of Cummin with a little Salt and Chicken Broth or Wine or Chamomil boiled in Wine with Anise Cummin Nutmeg and Oyl of sweet Almonds I suppose there is no Remedy like it also Castor half a dram Cloves half a scruple drunk in Wine or Poli montane in Wine or Oxymel or Vinegar of Squills which cuts vehemently given an ounce twice in a day in Wine Aegineta saith that the bone of a Hogs foot burnt and drunk discusseth wind Also Cinnamon water of Mathiolus alone or with Aqua vitae or Sack with Cinnamon Galangal or Wine with Rosemary Carrot seed Cummin Caraway Bay and Juniper-berries or give this Hippocras to dainty palates Take Sugar four ounces Cubebs Grains of Paradise Galangal Ginger each a dram long Pepper half a dram Cinnamon four drams Sack two pints strain them But remember to use very hot things very seldom whether simple or compound before the gross flegm be purged or vomited For all sharp things or that are very hot if they fall upon clammy flegm do raise wind which they cannot discuss and instead of Cure will do hurt and that which is good after purging is bad before Beware then you use not too weak Remedies that cannot overcome or too strong out of order and so cast the Patient into a Tympany It is good outwardly to bind the stomach strait to hinder wind and further concoction and to foment the stomach with Oyl with Rue Calamints Rosemary Cummin Anise Smallage Carrot seed Bay-berries boiled in it or boil them in Wine and foment or use Oyl of Mace or Cloves These by their thinness open the skin and extenuate discuss the wind and strengthen and warm and restore the suffocated heat and refresh by a propriety of substance You may make of these an excellent Oyntment thus Take Oyl of Mace by expression six drams Oyl of Wormwood Mastich each four drams Wood Aloes Nutmeg Cubebs Cloves each half a dram Musk Benzoin Saffron each six grains Make a Powder and with Wax make an Oyntment anoint with it hot before meat after the former Fomentation and Oyntment apply a Bag of Feathers or this Take Organ Wormwood Mints each half a handful Milium Aniseeds parched each half an ounce Chamomil Lavender Rosemary flowers each a pugil Bay-berries a dram Nutmeg half a dram Powder them grosly and quilt them in thin red Silk sprinkle Wine on it and apply it hot to the stomach Also a large Cupping-glass applied three or four times without Scarification to the belly so that it may comprehend the Navel doth often make a perfect Cure Or a hot Tile in a double cloth wet in Wine changing it when cold Thus much of the inflation of the stomach CHAP. XX. Of the Cure of windy Melancholy THis is hard to be cured for divers causes For besides the vehement obstruction of the Meseraicks with gross crude Melancholy and flegm which constantly send up wind there is a great distemper of the bowels Hence come great accidents namely stoppage of excrements from a hot Liver that drys and sucks up the moisture difficult breathing from the stomach swollen and pressing the Midriff pain of stomach from wind that stretcheth and a cold distemper belchings vomitings and putrefaction from obstruction in time by the venomous vapours whereof the Soul fainteth and there is a doting This inequality of parts hath contrary indications for Cure For the heat of the Liver requires cooling and the cold of the stomach heating And it is plain that the medicines that cut gross humours and extenuate and prepare and evacuate and discuss wind must be very hot and hot things increase the heat of the Liver and the veins and heat abounding disperseth what is thin in the humours and thickens the rest and fixeth it more and makes more wind from that humour On the contrary cold things by congealing to thicken the matter stop the passages and abate the natural heat of the stomach hinder concoction cause crudities and wind Therefore the only way is to cure by moderate Preparatives and Purges and because moderation doth little good in so great a disease it is very hard to be cured But let not difficulty frighten but begin valiantly with this Clyster Take Polypody roots Senna each an ounce Mallows Pellitory Beets red Coleworts each a handful Chamomil flowers a pugil Aniseeds six drams boil them to half to a pint strained add Diacatholicon and red Sugar each an ounce Oyl of Dill two ounces with a little Salt make a Clyster Or give this Potion Take Senna four drams Agarick a dram Ginger and Asarum roots each half a dram Infuse them twelve hours in Succory water then boil them with Aniseeds bruised to four ounces strained add two ounces of Manna Syrup of Roses an ounce Or if he be poor Confectio Hamec Electuary of Dates each a dram Syrup of Roses an ounce give it in the morning The next day if there be no hindrance open the Basilica on the right side or on the left if the Spleen be stopt to five
principal parts and falls swiftly upon sensible places and doth not only disturb them with its quality but pricks them with its thinness and stretcheth tears or wounds them for all biting or sharp causes that are moved whether hot or cold bring horrour and shaking to a living Creature Thirdly this spirit running to and fro troubles the expulsive faculty and the parts which provoked contract themselves speedily to expel the offender and so shake and tremble Therefore this wind in man being like other wind produceth the like effects Now we shall shew what it is CHAP. III. What this Wind in Man is NOne wrote better of this wind then Galen Lib. 3. de Symp. causis who saith it is a vapour raised from a humour or flegmatick meats or drinks or from weak heat But this is an imperfect definition for divers vapours go to the brain from food in the stomach as in Drunkards and in sore Eyes from consent of the stomach which are not called winds nor are they such But that flatuous spirit that is bred in the Hypochondrion from a melancholy humour is truly wind Therefore I would have this wind to be thus described more exactly A Flatus or wind is an abundance of vapours from spirits or meat or drink or flegm or melancholy raised from a weak heat in the body I say an abundance because a small vapour which the best constitution is never free from is not a wind or can puffe up As Galen Lib. 5. in Aph. 72. saith they are windy according to Hippocrates that have much wind in their bellies that is voided upwards or downwards or stretcheth the parts that hold it And Aristotle saith wind is only much air fluctuating or moving and stopped You shall know from Aristotle and what I shall say after why I call it an halitous spirit and not a vapour for none can get any certainty out of Galen in this that calls a spirit vapour wind and blast all one without distinction Therapeut 14. he saith a vaporous spirit is from juyces heated by degrees and that a vapour is an humour extenuated de Sympt caus lib. 1. de Simpl. med fac lib. 1. and Halitus is a mean or medium between the thinnest spirit and blood that is finished Lib. 3. de nat fac All these signifie the same thing therefore I shall not dispute them Nor is that against my definition that Galen saith if a greater heat fall upon a gross glutinous flegm it turns them into a thick or gross wind For though heat be strong yet in comparison of the quantity and quality of the humour it may be weak such as can raise a spirit but not lay it or dissolve it It is so in those that by intemperate drinking oppress the strongest heat We shall now shew in what parts this wind is bred CHAP. IV. Of the place where Wind is bred IN the former Chapter we shewed from Galen and Hippocrates that those were windy bodies that gathered much wind in their bellies which is voided upwards or downwards or that stretcheth the parts that hold it Hence it appears that the stomach and guts are the place of its breeding otherwise it could not go forth upward or downward So wind is bred in the Earth which after rain being warmed as Aristotle saith from above and from it self smoaketh and in this is the force of wind For when the Earth takes greatest force from water there must be most forcible vapours even as green wood burnt affords most smoak The stomach most resembles the Earth in man Galen comparing them saith that Nature made the stomach in stead of an Earth to Animals to be a store-house as the Earth is to Plants For the veins that go to the stomach such Chyle out of it to nourish the whole body as the roots of Trees do from the Earth it is a natural action in both They are alike but the Earth of it self is dry and sapless except watered it produceth no fruit but being moistned as Virgil saith it produceth winds also So our stomach is membranous and dry and except it be moderately moistned with meats and drinks it defrauds the body of its nourishment and it consumes If too much drink be taken there is fluctuation and wind for too much food oppresseth the natural heat and makes it weak but yet it will fall to work or concoct but being not able to do it exactly it raiseth vapours which it cannot discuss Then by degrees the first concoction being hindered there are gross and flegmatick humours both in the stomach and guts chiefly the Colon. If the wind be thick it stretcheth only the stomach and belly but when by degrees it is made thin by heat of the bowels that which was shut up begins to move and enlarge it self and take up more room and stir about to get forth and then all is well But if a costive body by hard excrements or tough flegm in the guts hinder its passage it runs back and roars rumbles and pains the guts and labours by force to get out For when the heat of the guts extenuates the vapours they move readily and of themselves and so are thinner and can pierce farther they run about like Thunder swiftly and open small passages and make solution of unity and cause pain in any solid part by their passage being thin What Seneca Lib. 6. nat quaest c. 8. saith of other wind agrees with this that its force is not to be withstood because a spirit is not to be conquered They only can judge of this wind who have been troubled with it Therefore as the other wind is only bred in the Earth so this is bred only in the stomach and guts as the caverns of the Earth and from thence goes to any part for the body is thin and previous full of passages for the wind to go through which when it is much and gets not forth shakes the body causeth chilness and great Symptoms after to be mentioned CHAP. V. Of the manner how Wind is bred in the Body WInd is bred from heat which is sometimes great sometimes weak and is raised from the matter after the same manner it is discussed For the strong heat of the bowels discusseth it before it get force and hinders it from breeding at the first Absolute cold raiseth no spirits as appears in extream crudities Therefore Hippocrates Lib. 6. saith that in a long Dysentery or Flux if there be sowre belchings it is good because before belching there was no sign of concoction by reason of the decay of natural heat which beginning to revive being but yet weak by reason of the small concoction it raised wind which was belched forth Therefore not great heat nor great cold but a mean between both makes wind according to Galen de sympt caus lib. 6. cap. 2. who saith it breeds in the vacuities of the stomach when flegm there contained or food is turned to vapours by weak heat For as absolute
Meth. med 12. confirms this saying that such diseases are in those that are stuffed with gross clammy food that is cold when the wind in the tunicles of the guts cannot get forth For the tunicles are double and the humour being between them is turned into wind it is gross and cold and of slow motion When it is detained it stretcheth the tunicles and the juyce whence it comes cools the guts it toucheth and they are doubly afflicted By these instances it is plain that wind by its coldness can make a similary disease that consists in distemper and also the solution of unity For there is pain and stretching of the tunicles which cannot be without laceration For there are two universal causes of pain one is an unequal distemper which comes suddenly and another when continuity is dissolved For parts dissolved by a humour or wind are pained by the separation Because if Hippocrates say cold is biting to Ulcers for no other cause but it contracts and condenseth and constringeth all parts it toucheth and so twitcheth the soft parts of the continuity and dissolves it Also if in acute fevers nervous bodies are most dried and therefore have Convulsion and if too much repletion that pulls it up and down and makes it shorter and so separates continuity how much more difficulty of solution of continuity will wind cause which for that only cause produce such strange Symptoms that require the whole care of a Physitian Thirdly it will appear by what follows that the whole Abdomen or Panch swells by wind as in a Tympany and the Liver and Spleen are wonderfully stopt thereby and hard as a Schirrhus and swollen as also the stomach and all these are instrumental diseases therefore organical diseases are also from wind Also Galen de diff morb saith when any part is swollen and so its passage stopt if that part hath no proper operation that stoppage is only called a disease but the tumour is not but only is the cause of obstruction But if the part affected hath any proper office then the obstruction and the tumour of the part are both diseases Therefore the three sorts of diseases distemper of simple parts and disorder of instrumental and solution of united parts are from wind CHAP. VIII Of the Causes of Wind. THere are few or none in the world but are troubled sometimes with winds for the stomach which is the Kitchin for the first concoction attracts the meat by the Gullet as by a long hand and embraceth and keepeth it and changeth it separating the pure from the impure casting the one into the guts but the Meseraick veins sucking the other carry it to the Liver When the stomach through weakness embraceth not the food attracted nor contains it it rumbles and tosseth about and then it cannot well concoct For it must be strong as Galen saith which consists in an excellent temper of the four qualities by which it turns the food into the proper quality of that which is nourished by help of the bowels about it the Heart Liver Spleen Reins Midriff which lye about the stomach as a great fire under a Caldron But sometimes a bad diet for none can be always punctual in the rules or some external force dissolves its strength or weakens the fire and then the virtue of the stomach abates and it alters according to the greatness or smalness of the cause Also outward cold as in cold Countries and in Northern winds piercing to the inward parts in thin and weak bodies offends the native heat Also too hot Air casts out disperseth the natural heat and takes it from the bowels and then concoction is hindered and wind bred But strong natural heat overcoming for the most part things comprehended by it extenuateth the meat more then that it can produce vapours except it be of its nature windy For the stomach though strong and force of Nature flourisheth and the heat not decayed is offended often by food that is proper to breed wind Therefore all Physick and food that is properly by its nature windy or by its coldness or multitude dissolves the strength of the stomach and oppresseth its natural heat is the cause of wind as Pulse raw Corn and Fruits All these Galen de alim fac lib. 2. saith and such as we eat before they are ripe are windy but they are soon digested therefore he argues thus in the beginning of that Book All the food mentioned in the first Book were the seeds of Plants little differing from fruits But all horary fruits are windy and all seeds more or less And boil Beans as much as you will they are windy some add Onions to prevent it because hot and attenuating things correct wind But fry them or any other pulse and they are not windy but very hard of concoction and pass away slowly and make gross juyce But any way dressed they swell the body He that will observe the distempers that follow every sort of food shall perceive a stretching of the whole body as by a wind after eating of Beans chiefly if he have not used to eat them formerly or eat up not well boiled Pease though like Beans are not so windy These are with us plentiful and usual and therefore we perceive less the hurt they do For what we eat freely and with pleasure the stomach embraceth closer and retains better and digests easier Fetches are windy also but few desire them it is good with any of these to boil Calamints Onions Dill or Pennyroyal Lentils puffe up the stomach and guts Also all Summer-fruits are like these for they are crude and full of excrements and unprofitable juyce especially when not ripe they are also flegmatick and windy Also if immoderately taken by their cold and moisture they abate the natural heat so that the stomach cannot discuss the wind it raiseth Mulberries and Plums are the worst of these chiefly green and after meat All sorts of Cherries chiefly the Spanish Cherries and Melones Pompions Cucumbers Gourds Apples Pears are alike but boiled they are less windy chiefly if eaten with seeds or hot and dry extenuaters or expellers of wind Anise or Coriander Figs saith Galen lib. de aliment nourish more then other autumnal fruits but are windy but the wind soon vanisheth because they are laxative Chesnuts eaten plentifully cause Headach swell the belly bind it and are hard of concoction Also Roots Turneps Radishes and the like are windy and Corn Milium Wheat chiefly boiled Barley but Rapes and Radishes are most windy All Fish are the like flegmatick and windy chiefly the great and the less that are slimy as the Eel and Salmon Lamprey Tench chiefly if boiled broiled or fryed they are not so windy chiefly if the flesh be soft as the Brook-fish Though Celsus lib. 2. c. 26. saith they are not windy All Pulse and fat meats do swell with wind and sweet things and Broths new Wine Also Garlick Coleworts Onions and all Roots except a
that are so have swollen bellies and whatsoever they take is easily turned into wind and they are puffed up A cold and moist stomach whether by nature or acquired by oppression of the native heat by repletion breeds only wind Therefore defend the stomach outwardly from cold air and keep the feet from cold for nerves go from them to the stomach and presently cool it and the Colick and all inflations are caused thereby sooner then any can imagine We have shewed the causes of wind we shall now shew the signs CHAP. IX Of the Signs of Wind. THe signs of wind are taken from the constitutions and matter therein predominating from flegmatick diet and windy and stretching of the Hypochondria without heaviness from belching rumbling farting swelling and wandring pain coming suddenly and suddenly vanishing from a clear tumour that yields to the touch and that sounds like a Drum Often belching and farting are also signs and ease after breaking of wind doth usually follow Or if from any cause the passage of the wind be stopt it flies back and there is a stretching pain that runs about the body and pricks like needles under the breasts between the shoulders or membranes of the ribs or other parts But these last not long because they are thin and easily turn to air They dream of flying or leaping over Rivers sometimes of Thunder and Tempests There is often noise in the ears beating in the flesh yawning and cramp in the legs arms and fingers and inclination to the Colick and other windy diseases Pain about the Navel loathing and vomiting of corrupt humours chiefly of flegm The belly is bound and will not let out so much as wind Sometimes glassie flegm with great straining is voided alone or with some few hard excrements The dung is sometimes like that of an Ox full of wind and water is on the top Also the pain is not fixed to one part but comes by fits and to many parts more grievous in one then an other The same signs are not in all Some are tormented about the Navel and the belly loose having three stools a day and yet the pain abate not It is a sign then that the wind hath gotten into the tunicles of the Colon or that it is bred of the cold distemper of glassie flegm or it is from its sharpness that comes from putrefaction and twitcheth the guts or of mixture of Choler with flegm which doth provoke the expulsive faculty Moreover when the passages are stopt from much flegm the excrements cannot pass and then the obstruction increaseth and the wind runs about in the guts and causeth much pain which we must not meddle with for cure except we first purge the glassie flegm with Clysters or flegm-purgers at the mouth But if the Colick come from wind without matter there is greater stretching and rumbling quick pains wind running to and fro to seek passage forth and they used windy meats and drinks If gross and clammy humours do melt by heat and turn to wind which is usual the signs will be mixed of both and the pain will be greater according to the cause For the force of conjunct causes is more then that of simple causes and there will be besides that pain which is like a stake fixed and comes from the coldness of the glassieflegm another vehement pain from stretching of the part that runs through all the cavity of the belly and disturbs the stomach as well as the guts For when the wind cannot get forth by reason of the stoppages nor exhale or breathe forth by reason of its thickness or the thickness of the body or the coldness of the pores and the guts cannot contain its abundance it goes back to the stomach and hinders its concoction by putting it self between the meat and the stomach and leaving a vacuity which causeth the stomach not closely to embrace the meat Hence comes fluctuation and greater swelling then the former and heaviness and difficult breathing the stomach pressing upon the Midriff This trouble and restlesness increaseth if they take meat or drink chiefly milk or water before they are well for then the stomach is more distempered and the fluctuating humour stretcheth and puffs it up more They are at ease when the meat descends to the lower parts of the belly and the wind is sent forth upwards or downwards but it is seldom sent forth while the distemper lasts but kept in both ways and if there be a belch by chance then it gives no ease Sometimes the mouth of the stomach is swollen and the pain is sometimes in the back about the Spondiles sometimes about the breast sometimes in both We shall speak of the other signs chiefly the particular that shew the parts troubled with wind among the Symptoms of wind CHAP. X. Of the Symptoms coming from Wind. THere are also divers Symptoms produced from the divers places where the wind is being a large off-spring of a fruitful Parent the solution of continuity This causeth pain All pain chiefly of the head is in the Membranes which if not offended by distemper heat or cold stroke or bad scent or sharp humours must needs be hurt by wind bred in the part which is seldom seen or sent from other parts where it abounds which is usual This wind gets between the Skull and the Pericranium or between the Skull and the Dura Mater or hard film or between both the Meaninges or films and twitcheth and pulleth them from the bone Hence is intolerable head-ach Sometimes this wind stretcheth the ventricles of the Brain and the whole inward Membrane called Pia Mater like a bladder and causeth unspeakable pain They complain that the head is sometimes stretched sometimes slackned This gets into any part quickly by its thinness and if it hath any malignant quality from the humours putrefying below in the body it disturbs the mind and reason and causeth terrible dreams melancholy dotings shakings of the head and sometimes death The Vertigo or Megrim is when the head seems to turn round The Scotoma is when there is not only a turning round but a mist before the eyes Both are from divers causes We shall speak only of that Vertigo which is from wind in the fore-ventricle of the Brain that moves disorderly This wind causeth mists and perverts the imagination hence things seem to run round and think they run round themselves and fall For a Vertigo is a turbulent commotion of thick flatuous spirits in the fore-ventricles of the Brain This wind sometimes breeds in the Brain from an uneven distemper thereof sometimes it is sent from the stomach and Hypochondria which you may gather from the Chapter afore-going Sometimes wind gets from the Brain to the Nerves and fills them and twitcheth and causeth a windy Cramp in the Fingers and Toes or Arms and Legs extending or contracting them Also this wind causeth great pain in the Ears when it is straitned about the Membranes in the Organ of Hearing
For finding no passage out it stretcheth them vehemently and tears them from the bone This distemper is known from others for there is neither heat nor heaviness except there be flagm there but only a stretching with noise or ringing Also it is of much concernment if it be much or little thick or thin move quickly or slowly For if it be much thick and move quick it will be perceived like swift flowing water or like a drum or such an instrument as makes a shrill noise with a large blast of wind If it be little or thick and move quick it is like the breaking and falling of a tree or an house or a conduit If it be much but thin and move quick it causeth jingling or ringing or ringing or like the whistling of wind in at the cranny of a door If it be much gross and move not quickly it causeth rumbling If it be little thick and move slowly it causeth a whistling or Susurrus whispering When it is much thin and moves slowly it causeth hissing They that have it are commonly dull both in the inward and outward senses chiefly in the hearing by reason of the grossness of the spirits impurity and coldness and the pain is not constant but by fits Also wind gets into the roots of the Teeth and stretcheth their Nerves or the Membrane of the Cheek-bone and causeth wonderful pain almost not to be asswaged It is easily known for it is not constant nor alike all the fit as when humours logde there but it is by fits worse and hath a quick motion like a dart Though as Galen saith the Lungs feel no pain yet being stretched there is pain felt in the breast and back from the membrane that compasseth them which hangs from breast to back by fibres As often then as wind stretcheth this membrane by its abundance or quick motion there wil be a pain in the breast or back and which is worse it sometimes breaks the veins and causeth a flux of blood and so a consumption though seldom Wind often causeth a bastard Pleurisie and sometimes difficult to be cured as when it is between the skin and the ribs or between the membranes under the ribs and pulls them from the parts they cleave to This stops the breath and keeps it from large and free passage because the side and the breast are stirred up to move in breathing Sometimes from pain it causeth a dry Cough and a Feaver and it resembles a true Pleurisie which is from a Phlegmon and many ignorant Physitians that are content with a few signs and such as shew not the disease are deceived thereby and cause dangerous Symptoms by false directions But this Pleurisie differs far from a true and to shew the signs of a true is not to our purpose but the Pleurisie of wind is with a wandring pain not long in the same place except it be a very gross and cloudy vapour It is milder by heat and fomentations and is dispersed it comes from too much cold drink or milk chiefly a great draught after exercise from cold and wet feet or other windy causes as we shewed before Also palpitation of the Heart is from wind when it gets into the Pericardium through invisible passages and cannot get out it tormenteth by a vehement Systole and Diastole contraction and dilatation so that when it extends the heart it intercepts the motion of the Artery We shall know when this is from wind and not from a humour For the humour will be much or little thick or thin That which is much and thick cannot get through the thick membrane and be dissolved into air through the habit of the body If it be much and thin though it may at length be dissolved and dryed up yet it requires longer abode it cannot quickly come and go be violent and cease this is a plain sign that then the palpitation of the Heart is from a windy substance But if it were little and thin it would easily vanish and not make that kind of palpitation Therefore it is probable that there is a thick substance or a cloudy wind which the heart labours to shake off because it oppresseth the vital faculty and by its heat and continual motion extenuates the thickness and so disperseth it and then the palpitation ceaseth which comes from surfeits idleness bashfulness or too much or sudden fear as the evident causes But the palpitation which is from humours contained in the Pericardium is different For it is perpetual seldom intermitting but in time of rest it grows worse from motion and continues often for many years even till death Fernelius saith that sometimes it hath broken the adjacent ribs and put them out of their place and dilated the Artery outward as big as the fist The other from wind is troublesom but comes by fits and is not so dangerous There are no oftner or greater Symptoms from wind then those that trouble the stomach and gut Colon the first is called Inflation the second the Colick from the part affected Inflation is from a fault from the retentive and embracing faculty of the stomach For the goodness of the stomach consists in the time of the embracing of the food being equal with the time of concoction and when it so binds up the food that there is no empty space between it and the meat But quick evacuation and corruption of meat in the lower belly follow an unfit time of retention and a weak retention causeth inflations These torment the stomach and the pain descends to the back For the stomach lies under the Midriff and begins at the Malum Punicum or Pomegranate and so tends to the left side for the upper part bends chiefly thither but the lower part bends more to the right side The hinder part lyes upon the Back-bone to which it is bound cleaving as far as the first Spondil of the Loyns The mouth of it is united not to the Back-bone but to the Diaphragma Liver Heart Spleen Guts and other parts by Membranes Nerves Arteries and Veins Hence when the stomach is stretcht with wind those parts are pained that are joyned to the stretched part of the stomach Therefore when the back parts are stretched by wind there is chiefly pain in the Loyns and Kidneys as if it were the Stone which deceives not only the vulgar but the learned sometimes so that they think them to have the stone which are stretched with wind in the stomach But this is chiefly in such as have the Colick as shall be proved When the upper part of the stomach is extended there is pain over the breast chiefly on the left side When the lower parts are stretched the Liver is sometimes pained or the other side If the mouth of the stomach be stretched the Gullet hath a Convulsion as if it were contracted with hands so that they say it is like a stick fixed and they can scarce swallow For as Galen Lib. 6. Aph. 39. saith
to the finger and the spleen is pricked and extended but without heaviness and it comes sooner When vulgar Physitians understand not these two tumours of both Liver and Spleen how blindly do they go to work with thousands of Juleps and they protract the cure that they may be largely rewarded and when they have done more hurt then good they affirm it to be a Schirrus and from Galen incurable But they are very ignorant for this cloudy wind fixed on the bowel in time by the natural heat somentations fasting an extenuating and hot diet given by women and Empericks being discussed the humour vanisheth and the pain also and the foolish Doctors contemned I exhort therefore the ingenious that love their honour and the truth to search narrowly and learn to know Symptoms from those of other diseases It is hard but excellent For many Patients as ready to dye for pain cry out only from wind which if corrupted and come from a putrid and venomous matter and run through the members with intolerable pain needs an exact Artist to know the wind and the matter producing it and distinguish the disease from others To this belongs the Tympany Dropsie when wind gets into the membranes of the belly with pain and so into the spaces Hippocrates Aph. 2. Sect. 4. speaks of this thus They that have pain about the Navel and Loyns that will not be cured by medicines will have a dry Dropsie There are three sorts of Dropsies Anasarca Ascites and Tympanides which Hippocrates calls the dry Dropsie Anasarca is a preternatural increase of the bulk of the body here the feet swell first at night chiefly after exercise or when they have long hung down they pit with the finger the body is all soft loose and pale weak and tired with the least pains it is like the Green-sickness in women only the Dropsie swells the body but in the other there is paleness and trembling of the heart in motion and shortness of wind going up stairs and the body is heavy and sluggish The cause is the same in both too much cooling of the Liver and Veins The Liver cooled the sanguification is hurt then comes crude and watry blood which taken into the hollow vein goes over all the body and there is Anasarca and if the water from the Liver stretch the skin without there will be bladders If these break the water gets into that part of the Peritonaeum which is by the lower belly and then there is the second kind of Dropsie called Ascites With this by degrees the belly is filled and it swells unmeasurably the skin being loosned and the rest of the body pines away If the body or the belly be turned the water makes a noise But in a Tympany there is no fluctuation of water but the sound of a drum when you strike or fillip the belly with your finger For Galen aph 12. sect 4. saith in these the air is beaten which is contained by the skin as in this kind of disease the wind is struck by the skin which is below Cold of the bowels and veins is cause of all these Dropsies The Ascites or watry Dropsie is from more cold the Tympany from less for water cannot be turned to wind without heat Great thirst follows all chiefly Ascites and Tympany the first because the water is salt and putrefied that is detained and the other because there is seldom wind alone in the belly without water which putrefies also the wind takes away the moisture of the stomach and then it is dry and desires drink This is thirst the desire of moist and cold or both In externals we see that though the Earth be very wet with rain yet when wind comes it dryes it wonderfully in a short time and consumes the moisture The same is done in the body for one in a Tympany hath a thirst beyond Tantalus the more he drinks the more he may and to satisfie the enemy in his bowels he destroys himself with much drink Also they in the Colick thirst from the same cause Also wind swells the Cods and the Womb it gets by invisible passages into the cavity of them or after Child-birth by the Orifice of the womb or after bathing or fomenting or it breeds there from some other cause and there is straitned and so it stretcheth the womb If the stretching be in the upper part of the womb by force of the wind sent thither it ascends and goes to the Midriff and stomach and lyes like a ball there and oppresseth it Hence it is often driven down by the hands or fists or by other solid bodies into its proper place But if either side of the womb be distended or stretcht more then the rest it gets by a Convulsion into the right or left Croyn the Pecten and the lower belly are blown up and pained sometimes a noise is heard all over the body there is belching and swelling of the Loyns and pain in the Reins and Hips and when the belly is smitten with the fingers there is a sound like a drum and the wind breaks forth at the mouth of the womb Soranus said this was called a flatuous cold As wind gets into the womb of a woman so it gets into the Cods of a man with a disease or without and is a disease by it self I have seen in a Tympany the Cods of a man swollen as big as a Hogs bladder For the wind which at first was only in the membranes of the Abdomen and Peritonaeum being now increased and requiring great space breaks them and gets into the Cods and fills also the whole body Wind also extends the Cods without a disease in man and chiefly new born children and makes the Hernia called Pneumatocele or windy Rupture Sometimes it gets within the common membrane of the stones and puffs up all the Cods alike but when it gets between the tunicles of either stone called Erythroides and Dartos then one side of the Cod is only tumified This tumour is transparent and not heavy as that of You may try it in the dark with a Wax-candle held on the part opposite to your view Priapismus a Symptom of the Yard hath two causes one is the fulness of the Arteries of the Privities the other is wind bred in the fistulous Nerve This fills the Nerve so that it swells and makes the Yard stand without a venereous desire Galen meth med 12. saith there is another kind of Priapism when the Yard extends against desire For the Nerve that makes the proper substance of the Yard being hollow and filled with wind causeth it So Priapism is a permanent enlargement of the Yard in length and thickness without desire of Venery and wind is the cause as appears by its quick rise and sudden fall which no humour could make But Palpitation goes before this Priapism of wind but not before that which is from the dilatation of the Artery We have shewed how wind fills the internal
much windy For they are cholerick and Choler will not suffer wind to raign but discusseth it But Phelgmaticks and they of a moist and cold stomach and the sanguine are troubled with wind and easily have the Colick And all know that great pains of the Colick are more dangerous then less and a total collection of excrements and wind into one part of the Colon is worse then when they run about many parts Therefore there is less danger when wind is broken by Clysters and the stools take away the pain then when not But if wind cause a a doting contraction of Nerves fainting cold limbs cold sweat constant vomiting stoppage of all excrements as it doth when it comes from venomous matter it is deadly and there is a Convolvulus It is best to be without wind or easily discuss it but this cannot be without diligent caution and good diet in the use of the six natural things CHAP. XII Of Diet to be observed by windy Bodies TO prevent breeding of wind by diet or discuss it when bred four things are to be observed chiefly in such as have bodies apt to breed it Order Manner Time and Substance The Order is that they begin not dinner nor supper with drink nor drink a great draught as the custom is after they have eaten a bit or two Drink is best when you have taken most part of the food Also let liquid things be eaten before hard and loosners before astringents and those of easie concoction before those of hard The Manner is that more food be not taken then can be concocted without difficulty by rising with an appetite and not drinking more then to quench thirst and wash down the meat which will make the body lazy and oppress the native heat Some are never satisfied except they carouse exceedingly when they eat some drink so that they can eat little or nothing this causeth fluctuation and inflation because the stomach cannot embrace the quantity Time also must be observed that they drink not fasting nor between meals or after supper or in bed nor eat before the former is digested nor sit long at meat They must abstain from gross meats they stop the narrow passages such as produce a clammy juyce hard of concoction salt Beef and Pork from cold and sowre and sharp things and all Summer-fruits crude or boiled Pulse Sallets Milk and all Milk-meats all Junkets as Fritters Pancakes Sweet-cakes c. chiefly that which our women call White-pots or that made of Eggs Butter and Honey in a Frying-pan or an Oven And from that of green Cheese Beets Paste Eggs and Oyl which the Italians call a Tart. Also the Italian Dishes are very hurtful Turtellae Lasaniae Macaroons Worms and the like made fit for the palate These fill the body with gross humours and so oppress the natural heat that the stomach concocts worse after being not able to overcome the tough and clammy humours But some will devour such trash and junkets and contemn better food and yet find no inconvenience or very little To which I answer That all food made of paste causeth gross and clammy humours and many excrements and obstructions and matter fit to breed wind But if they be taken by a good and firm stomach and well concocted which I think scarce can be and they find no hurt thereby worth notice it doth not therefore follow that they are of themselves without harm For all know that to drink great draughts is an enemy to Nature and that a medicine of Hemlock presently killed Socrates Therefore he concludes nothing that saith therefore these things are not hurtful and not to be dispraised because some Drunkards will drink off great bowls and the Athenian old Woman used to eat Hemlock and because one or two make food of paste that nourisheth For the stomach embraceth sweet things and such as are eaten with great delight more close and easier digests them Therefore three things make food which is of its own nature hurtful to be innocent and milder use or custom pleasure and a strong firm stomach For the best nourishing food hurts the stomach if it loath it and Brook-fish cause trouble to it if it be weak And let these men if they will not be admonished by me be moved with the threatning of Constantine with which he affrighteth Gluttons let them not rejoyce when they eat bad food for though they are not hurt by them at the present afterwards they will not escape To this belongs variety of meats which causeth many crudities and winds in the body For many things of divers natures are confounded and these being unequally concocted and distributed the natural heat must needs be put to it You must avoid all great and Fen-fish and such as live in mud on putrefaction their flesh is slimy and clammy cold and hath much excrement Also let windy people abstain from wine too much cooled from water and from great draughts of drink drawn from a cool Cellar chiefly when they are hot out wardly or weary after exercise or labour and from all excess of air chiefly cold which presently reacheth the stomach if not kept warm-clothed and from cold and moisture at the feet Sitting long upon cold stones hath often caused great Symptoms from wind Let him avoid idleness also and sleeping in the day these raise vapours but discuss them not set upon concoction but bring it not to perfection whence comes crude flegm the true material cause of flegm When the stomach or guts are distended or stretcht with wind let them abstain from meat and drink and feed very stenderly and be sober For when the usual diet is taken from the body or abated the native heat is not so put to it to alter and concoct food but is active and flourisheth and spreads it self and shews its strength first it concocts crudities and attenuates the gross humours cleanseth the tough takes away the cause that will breed wind sends them for that the right passages and disperseth such wind as is bred and keeps it from breeding And to be short fasting alone is sufficient to cure any disease from crudity or wind It is true that there is more trouble from the flying about of wind in the body that is empty in such as fast and use a spare diet but this will not be long for they will presently break forth and free the patient from all pain and the sooner by use of exercise For it is the Doctrine of Hippocrates Epid. 6. agreeable to this my opinion fit to be written in gold in every house That we ought not to eat to fulness and to be ready to take pains And Galen de sanit tuend lib. 2. reckons up many sorts of exercises Wrastling Fencing Running c. which we shall not speak of only let this suffice that moderate exercise at ball or fencing running or walking fasting and after the body hath discharged the excrements doth wonderfully recreate all the faculties and spread
purge with these pills Take Pilulae aureae a dram Troches of Alhandal three grains with Syrup of Stoechas make five Pills give them at midnight Or thus Take Agarick two drams Sal Gem Ginger Turbith each half a dram infuse them in Hysop and Sage-water each two ounces strain and add Elect Ind. Maj. two drams Electuary of juyce of Roses a dram Syrup of Stoechas an ounce This done often and the pain cease not let us use Topicks as Galen lib. de compos med sec loc saith sometimes wind or clammy matter is sometimes so fixed in strait passages that it requires long Cure Therefore it must be attenuated and the part dilated and the part strengthened that no more come or breed Therefore after preparatives and purges use cupping to the head without bleeding if blood abound not or scarifie the shoulders if blood abound This is very good Or roast a Turnep and take off the top and apply it hot behind the Ears and then another and so till the wind and pain pass away apply it to the side of the part pained or to both if the pain be all over This is good also for the Toothach from wind Or use Castor or Scents that pierce and extenuate or Gith-seed steept in Vinegar or anoint the Nostrils and Ears with Oyl of Castor or Spike or Oyl in which were boiled Castor Rue Calaminths Piony-seeds Then use Masticatories to take away the reliques and discuss the wind Take Mastich Pellitory-roots white Pepper bark of Capar-roots each half a dram with Vinegar of Squills make Troches to be chewed after a stool in the morning Or Take Roots of Pellitory Stavesacre each two scruples Nutmeg Ginger white Pepper each half a scruple Mastich two drams with Vinegar make Balls or discuss wind and evacuate with Neesings Take white Hellebore two scruples and half Stavesacre white Pepper each a scruple Ginger Cloves Gith seed each half a scruple with Turpentine and Wax make Errbines like great Cloves Or snuff up the juyce of red Coleworts or Danwort roots Orris with Marjoram or Bettony-water and Honey When we think the Brain is cleansed then dry and strengthen and discuss wind with a Lixivium As Galen lib. 7. de facult natural it is made of water and ashes one pound of ashes to three pints of water take most ashes of Willows and Vines and fewer of Colewort and Bean stalks This cleanseth dryes and consumes wind and tumours of flegm with Marjoram Bettony Asarabacca Bay and Juniper-berries and Rosemary boiled in it Or Take Wormwood Sage dryed Rosemary each a pugil Frankincense Milium parched red Roses dry Chamomil flowers each two drams Juniper-berries and Piony seeds each a dram Cloves long Pepper Cubebs Wood Aloes each a scruple make a Quilt of Silk Then give Diacyminum Diatrionpeperion Diacalaminth or Confection of Bay-berries fasting chiefly if the wind be cold or from a cold cause But if it be hot as Galen lib. 2. de compos med sec loc first repel with cold things then mitigate and concoct with Repellers then discuss with few Repellers by degrees ceasing from them till the medicine be most digestive and attenuating and less anodyne and then discuss Vinegar is a repeller attenuater and a discussive it is cold and thin like a clear North-wind but it must not be used along being too strong but with Oyl of Roses Purslane juyce or Nightshade or use Oyl of Roses with the White of an Egg and Vinegar with Stuphes to the Forehead CHAP. XV. Of the Cure of the Noise in the Ears from Wind. IF wind gets into the Organof Hearing and sticks there strongly as by the ringing hissing rustling cracking and murmur is gathered after general and particular evacuations as in the Chapter before use Cutters and Dryers to the Ears as Oyl of bitter Almonds of Castor Cummin Rue Spike with Vinegar and Honey if you will more discuss and attenuate Aetius saith Castor and Spike Oyls with Vinegar and Oyl of Roses do wonders dropt into the Ears and juyce of Leeks with Breast-milk or Oyl of Roses Or Take Nitre Mirrh each a dram white Hellebore half a dram Castor a scruple grinde them with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar and drop it in But first sume with a Funnel evening and morning with this Decoction Take Calamints Marjoram Centaury the less Rosemary each a handful Juniper-berries a pugil Bayes and Wormwood each half a handful Lupines ten or twelve Earth worms washed in Wine and tyed in a Clout half a pugil Water one part white Wine two parts boil and keep it for a Fume then drop in the former Or this of Solenander and stop with black Wool Take Oyl two ounces Oyl of Leeks bitter Almonds each an ounce juyce of Rue Radish each half an ounce Sack an ounce and half boil them in a glass till the Wine and the juyces be almost consumed Then add powder of Lavender Coloquintida Castor and Mastich each two grains Then stop the glass and set it three hours in Balneo then set it in another vessel in the Sun till it be clear then strain it add a grain and half of Musk. While the Fume is used chew Beans or Pease to open the passages of the Ears that the Fume may penetrate Or thus Take juyce of Garlick Calamints each an ounce Aqua vitae Oyl of Bayes and bitter Almonds each half an ounce Aloes Mirrh each a scruple Saffron four grains make a fine Powder fill two great hollow Onions therewith cover them and roast them under the Embers and strain out the juyce drop often some into the Ears chiefly morning and evening after fuming Also Wine with flowers of Chamomil and Lavender boiled therein discusseth wind very well if dropt hot into the Ears and often or a Bag made of the same and Rosemary and Lavender flowers Wormwood and Calamints and quilted and applyed after the Fume and Oyntment for all night lying upon it all the time of the use of these use Clysters that are gentle at seasons to keep the belly open lest the binding in of the excrements should heap up more new matter to cause the disease CHAP. XVI Of the Cure of the Toothach from Wind. WE shewed that wind would move very swiftly and in a moment go through the thickest bodies it is no wonder then if it get into the Nerves under the Teeth and cause intolerable pains by stretching and by its coldness Therefore the Cure is to being with common Evacuations by emollient Clysters As Take Diacatholicon an ounce and half red Sugar an ounce Oyl of Dill and of Chamomil each an ounce and half Salt a dram dissolve them in the common Decoction for Clysters a pint If after the excrements are discharged you desire to dissolve more the thickness of the wind and revel make this Take Rue French Lavender Beets Centaury the less each a handful flowers of Elder St. Johns-wort Chamomil each a pugil Bay-berries Cummin seed each half an ounce Agarick Senna each half an ounce