from being anointed with Mercury Forestus bids to anoint the Mouth with oyl of sweet Almonds But if a Gangreene or suffocation be feared Repulsives may be used when they are malignant BELLY STOPT The Cause Want of choler as in Jaundies and after purgation the choler and excrements being voided out when the choler by a sedentary life and perpetual bending of the body flyeth back to the stomach from hunger when all moisture is sucked from the starved parts which happeneth also to those that grow well Fleam covering the Intestins So in the life of J. Heurnius we read that J. Lipsius voided fleam by siege like to Guts a hot Liver hard Excrements the Palsey Laur. câ—ns 7. The cure varieth as the cause is If from hardnesse of Excrements a purging Clyster bringeth forth the thin and leaveth the thick behind wherefore you shall give two or three Clysters merely emollient After a purging Clyster emollients in meat are good Whey Malloes fat things much drink Savanarola perswaded the Duke of Ferrara when he was bound three days to walk bare-foot on a marble pavement that was sprinkled with cold water when he had gone fifty paces he went to stool exceedingly But Brasavola saith This was a dangerous remedy for Torments and Flux of the Belly might follow Some loose the Belly with rear Eggs some with the smell of Purgatives others hold them in their hands Platerus used coughing and sneezing Things are also profitably laid outwardly to the Navel In children it is stopped by Milk which is flegmatick a weak stomach error in Diet but not continual with fainting and Diet heat of the Liver and they seldom live healthfully The Cure You must oppose the cause The childs Nurse must use emollients Honey of Roses solutive may be given If the Passage for â—holer be obstructed the decoction of the Roots of Grasse Fennel Asparagus is convenient the Belly must be moved by Suppositories and Clysters The Belly must be anointed with a softning Ointment to which you may add sometimes some grains of Scammony Coloquintida let him drink such things as are loosening A BOTCH is a Tumor or inflammation of the glandulous parts in the Groins Arm-pits and under the Fars Phyma and Phygethlon differ little from a Botch The Cause is faulty Blood a Crisis a Feaver Signs Prognostick If they are not malignant they are not dangerous if they are long before they come to suppuration continue long they commonly make a Fistula they are soonest ripe under the Arm-pits later in the Groins latest under the Ears The Cure by general means A Vein is good to be opened when the defluxion ceaseth purging in the beginning and the end Topicals must never be Repellers but Drawers and Resolvers as cupping glasses Leaven Rosin Diachilum with Gums It is best to cause suppuration for being resolved they soon return the suppuration must be opened and consolidated The cure of Pockey botch is the same but that the Pox must be cured also The cure of a Pestilent Botch The tumour must first of all be scarified for so the venome is let out and the humours are attracted by pain or lay on a vesicatory after attractives as Ammoniacum Roots of Liâ—ies Scabious Onions filled with Treacle and roasted Cock chickens young Pigeons made bare at the Fundament Whelps cut in two then lay on ripeners and then digestives but the wound must be carefully kept open If you fear it will Gangreen you must hinder it See Sennertus l. 4. c. 6. d. pest l. 6. p. 4. c. 23. l. 5. p. 1. c. 6. Laur. de Lue Ven. Paraus l. 21 and 18. BULIMIA is Appetite increased but dejection of forces A dogs appetite is alwaies with vomiting as in dogs or in Diarrhaa The cause is sucking in the Mouth of the Stomach a humour that is melancholick sharp sowre want of nourishment because the heat consumeth it by reason of Worms use of scowringthings a long time as Figs and Sauce which Rondeletius found true in himself It oft times comes from the Womb. The cause of Bulimia is the cold of the stomach But how it is not credible that a flegmatick humour should prick presse forth bind fast because in living Man there is no actual cold Platerus saith It proceeds from the contraction of heat by reason of the cold round about it therefore we eat most in Winter Also Senn. thinks that the cold that encompasseth doth rend the Orifice of the stomach but doth this disease happen alwaies in Winter Signs Diagnostick of a dogs appetite If it proceed from a sowre humour it causeth sowre belchings if from want of nourishment the sick grow lean Prognostick It easily passeth into a constant vomiting the Cholick a Dropsie great hunger after diseases threateus the making it to come again In chronical diseases as the Quartane and Quotidian Feavers and in a Dropsie it is mortal The cure of Dogs appetite The cause must be evacuated chiefly by vomit Meats must be given that bridle hunger fat and clammy Ox flesh Hogs flesh the Brains of living creatures new white starch but they must be taken sparingly The most commodious alteratives are Wine Spirit of Wine Sage-wine Treacle Mithridate Evacuating with Hiora and then corroboratives Cure of Bulimia If it come by fainting it happeneth in the very paroxysm when the paroxysm is over we must not presently feed the sick but when the forces are recollected and then it is cured as is the Dogs appetite BLOOD-SPITTING The cause is either a breaking of the vessel which is known by the great flux of Blood and coming forth by heaps and by the precedent cause as a blow a fall anger much coughing or a corroding and then some sharp distillatives went before or eating of sharp things sorrow little pieces are cast forth with the Cough bloody spittings are cast out but at some times or anâ—stomesis and not by heans but by little and little some little blood is cast forth as from Venery The other signes are absent The remote cause is the stopping of wonted evacuations the fault of the Spleen or of the Liver The Subject If it come forth by spitting alone it proceeds from the Gums if by scrawing from the Throat if it be voided more plentifully and there be signs of the Head affected it cometh from the Head If by vomit from the Stomach If by coughing from the Brest Diagnostick signs If the Cough be long it cometh from the Brest by reason of the length of the way If short from the sharp artery If mean from the Lungs Blood black clotted and sometimes stinking come forth of the Brest Like froth between white and red from the substance of the Lungs A little blood from the sharp Artery A dull or no pain sheweth the Lungs to be affected a great pain the Brest Prognostick signs Spitting of blood from the Brest is dangerous from the Lungs more from the sharp Artery lesse because the vessels of the Brest are smaller and
is the Receipt of Antonius Fuchsius an Italian which see in Senn. l. c. the excellent water of Fab. and many more see Senn. l. c. CARUS is a deep sleep with losse of sence and motion the spirits being hindered yet the breathings remain free The Cause is the compression of the Scull and the Brain So Fern. saw a man for three moneths in a Carus not remembring that the Scull must be opened Forestus cured one that lay in a Carus fourteen days Obstruction of the Brain overcooling concussion motion troubling the animal spirits by a stroke or fall hurting the temporal muscle and the Carotick Arteries Narcotick force worms the Matrix the fume of coles the Moon beams Signs Diagnostick Deep sleep if pricked they feel draw themselves in If there be a Feaver it followeth the fits It differs from an Apoplex and Swooning as before from a Catoche because in Carus the Eyes are shut nor doth a man abide in the same stare he was taken From a Lethargy because a Lethargy is alwaies with a Feaver In a Carus ask questions and the sick will not answer Prognostick Carus coming upon a Feaver is mortal The Cure If it come from the first cause it is cured as a depression of the scull If from the second as an Apoplex and flegmatick Head-ach If from the third as a commotion of the Brain If from the fourth it is cured according as the hurt is If from the fifth it is cured by Antidotes as poysons are but they must be raysed the common way A vein must not be opened There is no better remedy then the eating of Cresses in saller either boyled or leasoned Forest CATALEPSIS The sick remain stiff in the same fashion they were taken yet sometimes they hear a little see remember and tell it afterwards if any thing be put into their Mouths they swallow it and go if they be driven by force The Souldiers in the siege at Mets held their Spears in their Hands the Horsmen followed the Troop both of them no lesse then almost quite frosen The Cause is a freezing vapour fixing rising from Minerals in the ground or from a melancholick humour fixing the spirits not those which already are flowen to the part but such as are subservient to the imagination in the Brain but the cold Aire brings not a Catoche but a Sphacelus and stupidity The Cure First they must be raysed 2. It is cured as head melancholy Vinegar must not be mingled in Topicals for that fixeth them also A vein may be opened if there be Indications Senn. Forest A CATARRH is a Symptome in things put forth whether it be taken generally for any kind of defluxion or specially for a defluxion upon the Lung The The Cause of the defluxion is known yet the pain draweth not but by the weaknesse of the part it cannot discusse it Lau. de Catarr The humours are things natural not natural and preternatural a hot Liver a cold Brain which is often the cause of a hot defluxion when salt steam is gathered in it and so contrarily The chief difference is from the place whence so it may arise from the Spleen or otherwise by consent and then many medicaments are in vain laid to the Head It is with or without a Feaver Signs Diagnostick or the causes are proper and collected by concourse as colour tast motion heat pain sostness of the part affected or that sends the matter If it come from the Brain it afflicteth easily long and continually If there be Intermission and if there be signs of some other part affected as the belly or Courses stopped they are caused from some other part The Cure If it come by consent that part must first be respected Revulsives draw not from the Head but pull from the part first affected yet the Brain must be strengthned If it proceed from a proper passion of the Brain and fall with force upon the Brest things that derive and stay are useful If not the 1. cause must be evacuated by generals then by topicals Also in a cold Catarrh a Vein may be opened if the Liver be hot 2. The humour prepared being evacuated the Head must be dryed by Internals and Topicals Also in a cold Catarrh conserve of Roses is commodiously mingled with hot Cephalicks Revulsion must be made by setaces chafings cupping glasses Gallen layeth on a plaster of new Pigeons dung for three hours left it should burn too much upon the place shaved for it heats and dryes wonderfully One grain of the whitest Frankincense taken at bed time is a secret The decoction of Guaiacum wood drying Cephalick powders Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 11. Med. Pract. If the Catarrh be hot give a purge a Vein must be opened Purgatives after preparatiues must be administred and Topicals that dry and corroborate must be applyed If there be danger of choaking we must draw it back by all our might with Pigeons dung Causticks Clysters Lotions Ligatures Chafings Cuppings Vesicatories Errhins Topicals and Generals We must stop it by internals also by Laudanum opiatum and Narcoticks Let the diet be drying the supper little sleep sparingly change his manner of lying if we will hold the Catarrh in the Head let the Head lye backward if it do more harme in the Head then in the Breast let the Head be lifted higher Laur. de Cat. For. Senn. CHOLERICK Passion moist is a continual and immoderate casting forth of a naughty humour both upward and downward The Cause is a sharp humour corrupted strugling about the stomach and Spleen and mesentery and Veins or poyson taken Signs diagnostick There is no Feaver but pain Inflation vomiting purging Prognostick It kills in three or four days if it end in 18. hours it hath been often healthful The Cure 1. If the vomiting be little it must be furthered by drinking much warm water for a little will turn to choler Decoction of hulled barley with Sugar or syrup of Roses Goats whey or of Cows with syrup of Roses 2. If vomiting be immoderate the belly must be moved therefore give whey or broth with Manna or syrup of Roses solutive Cast in a Clyster emollient and cooling with Diacatholicon Cassia If the belly purge too much cause vomiting 3. If they void too much Revulsives are profitable as Ligatures of the upper parts if they vomit of the lower parts if they purge too much Also the matter must be temperd by internal and topical means A most present remedy is half a dram of Crystal alone or mixt with other things laudanum opiatum must be given often if we fear swooning 4 The Forces must be strenthened by Internalls and Topicals CHOLERICK dry Passion is the casting forth of a windy vapour above and beneath with Inflation of the Belly and noise with the pain of the sides and loyns The Cause is the weaknesse of the stomach which breedeth winds or a clammy tenacious humour with a strong heat of the stomach and Intestins which
resolves the humour into winds or else windy meat Signs Prognostick This is not so dangerous as the moist is The Cure 1. The winds must be brought out discussed tempered with Clysters of sweet oyl or of linseed or sweet Almonds with a decoction emollient and Carminative also by Topicals Oyle and wine must be given if nothing hinder 2. The matter must be evacuated by syrup of Roses solutive and tempered by broths If it be from poyson it is cured by Antidotes The COLICK in general is a pain of the Guts violent and wandring The cause 1. Is wind either from feeblenesse of heat or from strong heat and tough fleam or from a windy melancholick humour or from windy meats 2. The dung hardned the Stone worms a Hernia all which by dissolving continuity cause pain 3. A wind or humour collected between two coats Signs diagnostick It differs from pain of the stomach for that is alwaies above the Navel and often comes to the Back bone between the Shoulders because the stomach is bound to the Back bone of the ninth spondil It is eased by parbreaking It differs from pain of the Mother because the pain of the Mother is communicated to the Groins and Hips and goeth no higher then they Child-bearing went before the Courses are stopped Prognosticks The Cholick often followeth the Jaundies coming by obstruction of the Passages that choler passeth in so the Jaundies often follow the Collick for the same reason If it lasteth long it causeth a Dropsie a Hernia and Rupture of the Navel The cure 1. The cause must be taken away 2. The pain The pain is removed by Internals and emollient Topicals Baths also by Narcoticks if the cause be hot But if it be cold they make the cause of the disease worse and shortly after greater pains arise Seldom must things be given by the Mouth It is safer to give them by Clysters as one scruple of Philanium Romanum For. gives laudanum opiatum to three grains Specificals are the whitest dung of a Wolf to one dram or hanged outwardly The guts of a Wolf to one dram in liquor A roasted Lark in powder Harts-horn one dram in drink Guts of a Hen dried to one dram or half a dram of the powder of the stones of an horse washed in water and dried in an Oven Whilst the pain lasteth they must eat nothing A COLICK from Excrements from wind Signs diagnostick There went before it a stopping of the Belly with weight of the Belly pain head-ach and palpable hardnesse The Cure 1. Cast in emollient Clysters and lenitine and by degrees strong Purgatives are to be mixed until the excrements be voided if they awake not a lenitive may be given by the Mouth as Manna one ounce and half Oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce with Hen-broth Oyl of Galbanum is good with the plaister of Bay-berries applyed outwardly The last remedy is Hippocrates Bellows whereby the Intestins are so blown that they are separated from the internal Excrements in their Superficies After that a Clyster is given If it come from worms it is cured as Worms If from Hernia as a Hernia Cupping glasses applyed to the Navel have cured it miraculously The Belly must be bound with broad swath-bands This following Clyster hath helped wonderfully Take Maligo wine Oyl of Nuts which also For. commends of each three ounces Aqua vitae one ounce Oyl of Juniper and Rue of each three drams give it hot The COLICK from a cause between the Coats Signs diagnostick A most sharp pain it is fast as a stake The Cure Clysters emollient and carminatives must be given take heed of vomit by all means after let the Clysters be made sharper Carminative dissolvers as Garlick may be exhibited by the Mouth Outward Remedies help If it proceed from a sharp humour as in the Scurvey sticking in the Veins and Coats of the Intestines it is cured by Coolers moystners Internals and by Topicals that void choler c. as in the dysentery If it come from inflammation of the Intestines it is cured as an Inflammation Question Whether purging Clysters are convenient I deny it because they draw to the affected nor are they evacuated for the Belly is stopped Senn. For. Pareus A COMA that is slepy is an action diminished the influence of the spirits being hindred The cause is a Narcotick force obstruction of the Brain worms the Matrix compression of the Scull Signs diagnostick The sick sleeps long and profoundly with his Mouth open It differs from Carus because in Coma if you ask them they answer from syncope by the pulse and the face in Coma is not like to one that is dead Prognostick Aph. 1. s 2. 3. s 2. in continual Feavers it is mortal That is less dangerous that comes by consent The Cure He must be raysed purged Revulsion made the cause must be derived the Brain must be dried and strengthned If it come by consent the parts that first offend must be cured COMA that is waking is when the sick with his Eys shut striveth to sleep and cannot with a delirium or without so one sick of a Coma cut off a Monks head that was his Keeper when he slept as Heurnius saith The cause is a Narcotick vapour but it is turbulent also or joynd with a hot vapour that hinders sleep Signs Frognostick It usually changeth into Lethargie or Phrensie The cure Since it alwaies enters allmost with a malignant Feaver besides the cure of it we must oppose the malignity and venome of it make revulsion and strengthen c. COMBUSTION The differences either heat is only felt in the part or only bladders arise or an Eschar is made Prog nostick From Thunder commonly it is mortal In the Abdomen it is hardly cured the deeper the Eschars are the lesse do they pain The cure 1. The Empyreuma or Atoms of the fire must be called forth which is done by heat If the burning be small presently put the part to the fire or stove it with hot water then beat Onions in a Mortar with salt and lay them on Or take raw Onions one ounce and half salt Venice soap of each half an ounce mingle them in a Mortar pour on Oyl of Roses and of sweet Almonds what may serve Fab. obs 93. cent 4. Fresh horse dung Sage Dwarf elder Elder leaves beaten with Salt and Oyl of Nuts Quick lime washed nine times with Mallow water and Butter Oyl of Linseed juyce of Onions May butter juyce of Elder Hogs grease Camphir Oyl of Olives Lime to washed is mingled with oyl of St Johns-wort or juyce or some Cream Take Lard cut one pound melt it in Rose water strain it through a fine cloth wash it four times in water of Henbane or Plantain three new laid Egs mingle them Unguents for scaldings must be so made that they stick not too fast but may easily be wiped off If bladders be raysed they must not be opened before the third day nor after but
Feet and Hands must be bathed in water wherein Turnips especially frozen are boyled or anoint the part with oyl of wax or Bays also with Honey Turpentine If they be ulcerated anoint them with oyl of Roses boyled in the root of a Rape or Radish made hollow or with the ashes of Crab-fish with Honey and Oyl of Roses When the part is mortified it is cured as a Gangreen Child suffocated may be known if it were very well before if the Mouth and Nostrils be wet with froth if the Lungs diffected be frothy The COUGH The cause is 1. a naked distemper and then there preceeded Procatactick causes 2. A humour now what that is is known by by the spittle a Catarrh 3. Dissolved unity of the Lungs 4. Inflammation of the Liver Spleen Dropsy 5. Smoke dust sowre things and many external things Worms The cure The cause must be taken away and the Cough if it be from a Catarrh is cured as a Catarrh and by expectorating means If it come from a thin hot sharp matter after generals we must cool moisten thicken also this that followeth is good Take Honey Butter of each half an ounce Cummin-seed 1 dram mingle it give it by a spoon Forestus often prescribeth to short-winded people in a Consumption Take juyce of Colts-foot half a pound Mucilage of Marshmallowes drawn with barley water one ounce Sugar what may suffice make a Lohock fumes of leavs of Alchoof drawn up by a pipe are good 1. Generals being premised 2. If there be no Feaver 3. Whilst the forces remain 4. Fasting 5. Let it be first tried in the smallest quantity 6. If there follow difficulty of breathing it must be cured by moistnesse If there be fear lest by coughing a vein should break or the sick should be choaked or the Lungs corroded being forced to it we use Narcoticks especially if there be long watchings as syrup of Poppies Juyce of Hounds-tongue For. proved this that followeth often Take juyce of common Parsley half an ounce Womans milk one ounce powder of Cummin one scruple give it a boy to drink warm and anoint his stomach DIABETE The Cause is the retentive faculty or the Reins hurt either by plenty or by quantity of the Urines plenty of Urine is made from heat of the Liver Spleen melting the watry humour from the weaknesse of the stomach loosenesse of the passages It comes chiefly in burning and malignant Feavers Signs Diagnostick It beginneth by degrees that it can hardly be known there is heat in the bowels Prognostick It brings consumption and death if not cured at first The Cure Opening a Vein purging vomiting sweating are not good but internal and topical astringents and coroboratives which moderately cool Also Narcoticks may be used DIARRHOEA is a flux of the Belly caused by excrementitious humours The cause is the obstruction of the Veins of the Liver or weaknesse of the Liver or a preternatural disposition of the whole body with or without a Fever or a hectick Feaver burning Consumption Inflammation of the bowels whence followeth a Syntectick or melting flux or corrupt meat or worms or the Liver and choller or the Spleen and a melancholick humour or the Matrix or the Brain or hypercatharsis or toothing of Children Signs Diagnastick See the signs of obstruction and the weaknesse of the Liver If from corrupt meat such kind of meat was eaten or the stomach is weak If from the Liver or the Spleen there are signs of their infirmities and signs of any other part hurt are not Prognostick The Belly to be loose for one or some dayes is healthful so there be no Feaver and it stop in seven daies The cure If it come from obstruction first we must open by things that are good for the Liver then we must cleanse then we must bind and strengthen If it be from a sharp humour corrupt meat first we must cleanse and take off the acrimony of the humour as Take the decoction of unhulled Barley three ounces syrup of Roses one ounce Violets half an ounce A vein may be opened Then we must gently evacuate by Clysters Potions Pills of Rheubarb Mirobolans Mastick whereof make Pils which are safely given in all fluxes Take Citron and Chebul Mirobolans of each half a dram Mastick one scruple Spick fix grains with Honey of Roses make Pills Take first half a dram then I scruple not but when the greatest part of the matter is voided and if the Forces be much weakned In these two cases we must bind which is done within eight or twelve dayes first by Topicals and Diet after that by internals and all derivations as opening a vein and Ligatures to take away the flux If it come with a Feaver and be critical we must do nothing but prescribe Diet. Yet if it be too much the acrimony of the humour must be removed and we must bind and strengthen If it be more sparing we must help it forward If it be symptomical it must be cured as before If there be melting it must be cured by Restoratives and a little astringent also with Narcoticks as three heads of Poppy may be boyled in a Clyster If it happen to Children toothing it comes either from salt fleam flowing from the Head or from the Milk corrupted by a Feaver Give Honey syrup of Roses syrup of Succory with Rheubarb Then bind by Topicals DYSENTERY is an exulceration of the Intestins with a frequent bloody dejection and mattery with pain and torments of the Belly rising from a sharp eating matter peculiarly an enemy to the Intestins The Cause chiefly is a cholerick humour offensive to the Intestins by a hidden quality the remote cause eating of Grapes drinking sweet wine or cold water the humours being Coagulated and after that corrupting obs 46. cent 3. water running through leaden pipes that are old drank by reason of the plenty of Mercury and lead Ore Purgatives mingled with meat Poysons as Quicksilver Clouds malignant aire contagion Differences There are three degrees 1. Wherein are fat bodies mingled with a little moisture 2. Wherein are shavings of the Intestins 3. Wherein is the substance of the Intestins voided like peices of flesh The last of these is meant Aph. 26. s 4. Signs diagnostick They are known by the definition A Feaver is not alwayes joyned Aph. 3. s 6. It must be diligently distinguished from an Impostume in the Guts If the small Intestins be affected it makes a pricking pain blood is perfectly mixed with the dung or voided after it If the great guts either corruption swimeth above or sticketh outwardly unto them Prognostick These happen out chiefly about the Summer and beginning of Autumn Black spots behind the Ear with great thirst is mortal Women old men children are more greivously afflicted The Cure 1. The cause must be evacuated and tempered by opening a vein and purging by turns as with syrup of many infusions of damask Roses or rather first with simple infusions of Mirobolans Tamarinds Rheubarb
tincture or wine or oxymel or syrup or electuary or roles of steel The dosein substance for middle age is 1 scruple or not under 2 scruples nor above 1 dram and half be administred It is given best in the Spring and Fall for in Summer the hear in the Winter the cold hinders Let it be taken fasting and after that let the Patient walk one hour or two if the party be weak walking may be omitted Let him dine four hours after At first let it be given every third day and afterward every day Some the first days cast it off again but sometimes it is conveniently given to 30 days We must see that the steel passe thorough the Belly which is known by the black Excrements and if it come not so every 4. day we must purge with pills or Clysters After the tenth day purge gently and abstain two days from the use of it That it may descend the sooner you may add purgations to it correctors give it in pills 2. The Patient may go to the sharp waters and hot baths they that drink of them purge forth black excrements by reason of the vitrials The sowre waters called Swalbacenses Griesbachienses Egranae the hot Baths of Baden Carolius Also medicaments made of Tartar 2. The weak parts must be corrected and strengthned by internal and topical means so a cold stomack by inward heats a hot liver by topicals or by cooling Clysters or give the pulp of the citron with the shell for so it will longer stay in the stomack or whole grains of pepper Or to a man that is long fasting give some Cooler which will presently go to the Liver especially if he do not exercise moderately or give such heats that are below the heat of the Liver and which for that do not increase its distemper as Egrimony Fumitory Succory So the stomach being strengthned you may safely give cool things that concern the Liver or give such things to drink the mixture whereof is not discovered by a new and first concoction but by the second and third as Spirit of Vitriol If it come from the Courses stopt a vein must be opened ANEURISMA Is not a humour from the running forth of the arterial blood as Galen and Platerus c. will have it for so the bloud should as well spread it self broad waies because it would colour the skin because it would easily putrisie but it is a humour by the opening of the inward coat of the Arteries and by dilatation of the outward coat it is opened either by unskilful opening of a vein when as the outward coat which is the softer groweth together again and the inward coat remaineth open or from some external cause Sen. l. 5. p. 1. c. 42. Fabr. obs 44. cent 3. Diagnostick signs It is a soft humour yielding to the touch sometimes with sometimes without pulsation it differs not in colour from the other skin it yieldeth to the touch and sometime not Prognostick New Aneurisms may be cured but old not Section is most dangerous it proceeds oft times from hard child-birth also in the throat The Cure Lay on an astringent some repelling remedy A plate of lead any way The manner of cutting see in Sen. l. cit but it must not be attempted See Pareus l. 6. APPETITE Wanting the Cause Because there is either no sucking or it is not perceived 1. When nourishment aboundeth in the whole body 2. When raw humours grosse stick in the stomack 3. When there is obstruction of the veins 4. From the use â—f far sweet and clammy things Sucking is not perceived 1. When the brain is hurt 2 By reason of some disease in the mouth or the stomach as from distempers which whether it be hot or cold exceedingly causeth want of appetite Oft times it cometh from drinking of wine from worms from the matrix Some will have the Devil to be the cause of long abstinence who conveyeth meat into the body and yet there are no signs of it and the same things doth naturally happen to Beasts Some say it comes from some hidden quality some they are fed by the aire but what shall be changed into the nature of the body wasted Some say they are fed by vapours that are inherent in the aire but why then are not all men nourished the same way Some live by drinking water but many drink no water Some say that fleame sticketh in the body that cannot be wasted but many of these were not flegmatick but rather dry and costive and so old men would live long without meat Some will have it that they live by their grease melted and turned into blood but it is false that their grease is melted and floweth to the stomach and is changed into blood and by hunger it is not changed into nourishment but is discussed Fort. Liceous saith that there is no necessity of nutrition because neither the soul nor the body stand in need of it so old men are lesse nourished also generation and augmentation ceaseth Senn. saith that the cause is by reason that nothing or else not but in a long time is consumed because of a certain proportion of the humour to heat So Scal. Ex. 328. writes that coals of Juniper will keep fire a whole year unwasted but that disposition is brought upon the humor when by diffusion of a melancholy humour it is fixed that it cannot receive the activity of heat Now a peculiar quality is communicated to a melancholick humour from the Matrix for they were almost all maids at those years that the Courses are wont to break forth Signs Diagnostick If there be no sucking the forces cannot fail and there are signs of repletion but if it come from obstruction the Belly is loose If sucking be not perceived the forces are cast down Progn Aph. 33. s 2. Respiration Appetite in the sick is is excellenr Aph. 6. s 6. Want of appetite in children is dangerous but if want of appetite fall upon the beginning or vigour of the disease it is not so dangerous for they want little nourishment and if they eat well they are the worse If it fall upon the declination that is ill If in a disease the appetite be cast down and it suddenly come again that is deadly for the Brain is hurt unlesse a Crisis went before it The Cure The cause must be taken away sharp and sowre things cause hunger as also scowring things as figs sauce If it proceed from the matrix there are signs of the matrix affected Symptoms somtimes abate and there are many symptoms present How aid shall be given to the matrix See concerning Suffocation and distemper of the matrix Senn. l. 3. p. 1. s 2. c. 2. ANTHRAX or a Carbuncle is a Tumour that riseth from adust blood that is extream hot making an eschar on the part affected of a diverse colour like a rainbow with a little wheal on the head The Cause is grosse adust blood
or black choler Signs Diagnostick It begins from a smal push or from many pricking going before in a short time by way of fluxion it alwaies increaseth with extream heat and pain especially toward the evening then followeth a Feaver and a Troup of most naughty symptoms Prognostick That is most pernicious pestelential black wan which vanisheth away which is fastened near a principal part which had a Feaver going before it That which is red small not pestilent is the safest The Cure The first Indicant is a cooling of the blood by general means as Diet opening of a vein alteratives but not purgatives 2. The heart must be freed from the malignity by internals and topicals chiefly by the urine or water or decoction of Scabious 3. The cause that is joyned with it must be voided with scarification deep enough with cupping glasses Leeches yet if the humour flow thither too much lay plantain boyld with bran upon the Carbuncle to repel especially if it be neer a noble part and then wash the wound with salt water Lay not on the scarified place emollients but dryers and such as resist putrefaction as Egyptiac or meal of Orobus with oxymel or scabious or divels bit green brayed with old hogs grease the yolk of an egg and salt Pareus l. 21. hath proved often this following Take Sâ—ot 4 ounces Common salt 2 ounces 2 yolks of eggs mingle them Radish roots cut in pieces draw the poyson mightily Paracelsus If all be fruitlesse lay on a caustick for the sense is lost The Eschar must not be taken away by emollients or when the Carbuncle it self makes a crust Senn. had rather use roots of Scabious and Comfrey Radish Treacle Soot Mithridate Leaven Figs Rue wallnuts that are old vitriol c. and with these remove the crust if it impostumate round about and there appear a red circle it is a sign of future safety for the crust being taken away the ulcer will be cleansed with honey of Roses and juyce of Smallage c. The Cure of a pestilent Anthrax differs For a vein must not be opened unlesse perhaps under the Carbuncle for evacuation alwaies attractions must be applyed as Pigeons dung Sope Doves-foot Onions roasted under the embers and the uppermost of them Some say if a circle be made about a Carbuncle with a Saphire that will stop it from spreading any farther and quench the poyson Senn. l. 5. p. 1. ch 11. APOPLEXIE is a symptome whereby all the animal actions perish The cause is not obstruction of the ventricles of the brain for they breed no animal spirits experience is against it in those that are opened nor do those fall into this disease that are sick of water in their head in whom only the ventricles of the forepart are obstructed but first fleam or a melancholick humour stopping the beginning of the marrow of the back as it is demonstrated in the Varolian Section 2. Blood either running forth by a stroke or some other way and stopping that part 3. A flegmatick disposition where in the vessels of the brain extended by plethory presse upon that part 4. If a contusion of the skull presse on that part of the brain 5. From a narcotick vapour whence ariseth stupidnesse in those that are cured 6. A wound of the brain from thence an effusion or troubling of the spirits Aph. 58. s 7. Differences The strongest iâ— wherein breathing ceaseth and there is neither froth nor snorting the weaker is where there is froth with snorting The weakest where breathing is violent unequal with intermission Weakest of all when breathing is ordinate Signs Diagnostick It differs from a Lethargie because such as are in a Lethargie may be wakened and fall asleep again there is a Feaver with it Those that have an Apoplexie cannot be awakened but when they are wakened they fall into a Palsie without a Feaver This differs from Carus for in Carus breathing is entire it creepeth on by degrees being pricked they feel but it is otherwise in an Apoplexie It differs from the suffocation of the mother because in this the colour of the face is changed and made more wan but not in an Apoplexy in this the power of feeling often remaineth nor is the breathing hurt and if breathing should be hurt the pulse would be hurt also but not in an Apoplexy It differs from swooning because in swooning the colour of the face is changed the teeth the mouth the hands are fastned but they are loose in an Apoplexy in swooning there is no breathing and no pulse it differs from a strangling distillation because this strangleth a man that is sound in his sense and motion Prognostick An Apoplexy of the first and second degree is mortal Aph. 43. s 2. An Apoplexy is from the first cause which Hippocrates meaneth Aph. 42. s 2. An Apoplexy which comes from the third and fourth cause is easily cured Apoplecticks must not be buried before 72 hours be past because all the humours are moved within that time The Cure The first indicant is freeing from obstruction which is done if they can be awakened The second is the fortifying of the brain head powders described by Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 2. If it come from the first cause means to awaken them being premised if the forces will bear it and there be plenty of blood in summer spring and the party be young a vein must be opened by turns in the arm with a large orifice Or if we may not do this cupping glasses with scarification must be applyed to the Legs Arms Loyns Shoulders but not to the back part of the Thorax After this by general and by topical means the matter must be derived and voided from the head yet vomits must not be given because they would put the party in danger to be choked Strong purgations must be administred as Pills dissolved if he can swallow them 2. The brain must be fortified but if it come from the second cause there is need to open a vein or to apply cupping glasses with scarification and to use diversion evacuation and strengthening Question Whether repulsives may be used Galen useth them Forest us denyeth because this disease hastneth most quickly to its state because there is no defluxion Sen. distinguisheth and saith that it belongs to an Apoplex from the third cause ARTHRITIS is a pain or swelling with a pain of the joynts from a sharp watery humour which partly by extending partly by sharpness doth rend the membranous parts and causeth them to endure pain The Cause is a watery sharp salt lactaceous humour as is collected by the pain the hard swellings and the indisposition of them to come to suppuration heat and driness of the Liver and Spleen the diet an Arthritical disposition for though there be the same temperatenesse in diet yet one man will be Arthritical another not A suppression of urine and of sweat which alwaies almost gooth before the paroxisime Pareus l. 17. saith
whence worms like Cantharides are brought forth Sometimes the whole matter lyeth upon one part whence the whole body is freed from pain an Impostume groweth which endeth in a Fistula 2. Without swelling this often causeth learnesse with weaknesse of the joynts Diagnostick signs There are wandring fierce pains all the body over especially in the back and the Loyns First It seaseth on one part only then suddenly it fasteneth on the next the most are bound in their bellies their Urine is like to those that are well but that sometimes little worms like those thar breed in rotten cheese swim in the bottom of the urinal and are mingled with the excrements of the belly Some have a good stomach others not Prognostick The cure often extends to some weeks The Cure Empiricalls are Earth-worms provided divers wayes Some give the ashes of a quick Mole burnt with wine at the decrease of the Moon Dogmaticalls Take Serna powder 2. drams infuse this 12 hours in Betanywater 6 ounces strain it hard adde Diacarthamum half an ounce mingle it Take roots of Devils-bit 1 ounce round Birthwort 3. drams Sage Betany of each one handful Southernwood Rue Perwinkle Savin of each 1 pugil boyl all in fair water with 4 ounces of this decoction for a dose passe through a colender 5 Earth-worms thrice washed in wine powdered then mingle Treacle half a dram cinamon in powder 1 scruple Sugar what may suffice drink it and sweat upon it repeat this for some dayes together The Impostume is broke with Plantane and salt beaten in a mortar and applyed the Impostume being broken some lay on a Cataplasm of Salomons seal with Ale with the roots of the Oke-fern Others do strew on the powder of a Mole H. de Bra. ASTHMA is the hurt of Breathing without a Feaver with a noise and frequency of breathing from the straightness of the wind-pipe if it be taken properly the disease is stubborne and long The Cause use increased by the straightnesse of the wind-pipe obstructions from the plenty of the humours the thicknesse stone hard swelling that matter is seldom sent from the head it is often collected by degrees it is most commonly sent by the vein-artery or the arterious vein for should it flow often from the head there would be a cough because those that are asthmatical are commonly Cachecticall and their feet swell because it often ceaseth without expectorating because by suppression of the Emrods ariseth constipation from some swelling humour compression by sinking down and growing together constriction by grosse vapours rising from the womb Whatsoever is troublesome to the instruments of breathing if it cannot easily be removed it causeth one to Cough if hardly it causeth Asthma for there is not strength enough to cough it out but if more hardly it causeth Orthopnoea and if it cannot be cast out it is a strangling Catarrh Diagnostick signs If it come from a thick cause bred by leisure an Asthma comes by degrees and it is continual If it floweth thither it increaseth at sometimes an in Autumn winter in the night If it come from the Brain there be signs of a Catarrh If it come from the Liver there is a swelling of the Feet and an ill habit If a thick humour stop the Wine-pipe there is a Cough with a noise it is bred by degrees there is Catarrh the Patient is sound If the fleam stick in the stomach there is a Cough with a sound and seldom any thing is expectorated and the disease being obstinate and lasting long killeth a man If it proceed from the drinesse of the Lungs so Heurnius saw a mans Lungs so dry that they were like a dry Apple there is no spittle the whole body is lean Prognostick It strangleth children old folk cannot be cured Aph. 40. s 2. young people hardly It is dangerous in a sharp Feaver It is sometimes changed into Peripneumonia a Dropfy and an ill habit of the body The cure In the Paroxism the cause must be pulled back by chafings Ligatures Cupping-glasses Clysters and opening a vein if the forces will admit if the humour be thin they must purge Topicals must be emollient and resolving When the Paroxysm is extended beyond the fourth day Vesicatories must be laid ro the Back against the region of the Lungs Out of the Paroxysm the matter prepared must be evacuated then expectoratir â—eans must be given The Breast muâ—â— be annointed If it come from a Catarrh the Brain must be purged The Catarrh must be hindered Use of old Treacle is excellent as of Diacalaminth as of Aqua vitae with Elecampane then dry the matter with a decoction of Guaiacum let the diet be attenuating the drink thin wine water and honey motion before meat must not be sudden or vehement for so many have been choked APHTHAE The cause is sometime a fault in the Mouth when humours are collected in it or of the whole Body as in malignant acute Feavers or of some part as of the Head Lungs Liver Spleen Belly Matrix in children sharp milk corroding the Tongue also milk corrupting which sendeth forth sharp vapours The difference Some are new some old some malignant some not some are on the Tongue some come on the Palate some from Blood some from choler Signs diagnostick Little swellings are seen sometimes red sometimes black sometimes white sometimes black and stinking Prognosticks Stinking black ulcerated crusty inveterated in children are mortal because you cannot apply means to them by reason the parts are soft moyst whence they easily corrupt corruption of the bone in those that are of years is dangerous If they happen in acute pestilent Feavers they are deadly The cure For children take away the sharpnesse of Milk from the Nurse by general and Topical means Give the child a draught of Honey of Roses Diamoron with Oxymel First give astringent Syrups then add discussers if the Milk concoct ill suckle it not so often If that be in vain bring them to suppuration laying Figs on them or boyl Bran in water til it grow clammy strain it and add Honey to the liquor or with Milk or Mucilage or syrup of Juleps or Gargarisms or Pills to hold under the Tongue and Lohocks for Infants Where the Patient is of years the humours must first be temperd 2. The conineut cause first requires astringents and then Resolvers If they be malignant Actius prescribes the Green water or Aegyptiac or to dip the Probe in scalding Oyl or in Aqua fort is which is not strong enough to work on mettals this following repelleth Take water of Honey suckle Plantaine Nuts of each 3 ounces Flowers of dry red Roses 1. pugil strain it and dissolve in it syrup of Pomegranats and Diamâ—ron of each 1. ounce mingle them The Spirit of Vitriol 2 drops and of Honey 1 ounce is good Crato Ep. 183. For inveterate Aphthae the ashes of Fennel-root burnt either alone or mixed with Honey are most profitable Least they should proceed
the Vessel in sunder being brought to light that the heat of the parts may compress the end of it Some when the Spring comes that Frogs first cast forth their spawn take a coorse linnen cloth so much as may serve and wash it often in this spawn and lay it in the Sun to dry and this they repeat three or four times and so the cloth being dryed at the time they need it they cut a piece off twice greater then the wound and lay it on the wound BARRENNES For. prescribed this that followeth Take Saffron long Pepper Cardamnum Pellatoty of Spain of each half a dram tails of Scincus with the Reins 2 scruples Galanga 4 Scruples Rape seed Parsnip seed Rocket seed Nettle seed ash-keys of each one dram Leeks white Ginger choise Cinamon of each 2 drams Electuary diasatyrion of Mesues description 6 drams with syrup of preserved Ginger make an Electuary keep it in a Vessel of glasse Take one hour before supper the quantity of a Nut and drink a cup of wine upon it Let the Patient take about bed time one dram of this following powder with wine Take white Ginger 1 dram Gallinga 2 drams Bulls pisle 3 drams make a powder Root of Egyptian Bean raw or boyled eaten Oyl of Marjoram with Hares runnet and a little Musch The secret of Lobelius Schrekevos commends this following as revealed by God Take yolks of Eggs fresh butter Bulls pisle Chiches Galanga Satyrian Zedoary Ginger preserved Mints Cocks and Wolfs testicles of each 1 dram Rocket seed Cloves Ginger Pepper long white and black Anniseed Ash keys Cinamon of each half a dram brains of Pigeons and Sparrows well boyled and roasted of each half a pound the heart of the Indian Nut Pine kernels cleansed Fistich nuts sweet Almonds cleansed Mallow seed Mercury Hasle-nuts shaled Dates of each 2 drams boyl all in sheeps milk and water bruise them strongly and add Tailes of Scinci half a dram make a Confection with Honey of Roses or Sugar what may suffice boyl all at a soft fire for an Electuary Helidaus holds this for a secret Take Pennyroyal Origanum of each two handfuls boyl them in Malligo wine adding musk three grains let both be perfumed Also the fume of Sage boyled received The same Author giveth one or at most three grains of Amber in a rear Egg in the morning shavings of Ivory and powder of Sage of each alike the decoction of Eringo roots in wine CACHEXIA is a cold and moist distemper of the body with a symptome of the colour changed and a disease of magnitude by the swelling of the Feet The Cause is a watery Flegmatick raw blood the fault is of the Liver the Spleen of the stomach of the Brain an nicer of the Reins because the wheyish humour running back hath infected the blood stopping of the Courses too much glutting and craming themselves Signs Diagnostick A pale leady colour a soft tumour about the Eyes Cheeks Feet Hands Prognostick It often afflicts children by too much greediness old men and women It may be cured unlesse it come from an incurable disease The Cure The vicious matter must be evacuated The cause must be removed The distemper must be taken away by general remedies and topicals The Powder called Cachectical is profitable as some other powder of filings of Steel steeled wine Senn. l. 3. p. 6. s 2. c. 2. Fer. l. 9. A CANCER is a hard Tumor sharp unequal round unmoveable wan sticking deep in the Veins that swell with a black humour and are spread in the body like to a Crab. The Cause is black choler Heurnius in Aph. 38. s 6. saith there is a double poyson one putrifying which is enraged by suppurating remedies another corroding that is enraged by Cleansers Signs Diagnostick The Tumor is hot and painful and is ulcerated The Ulcer is foul and stinking the lips of it are swolne thick wan Prognostick Aph. 38. s 6. by hidden Cancers are understood such as are not ulcerated Senn. Fabr. cent 3. obs 87. No Cancers though they be of the Breasts are cured by cutting off but they will grow again Cancers of the Lips How they must be extirpated Pareus teacheth l. 6. c. 29. The Cure It is performed by exact cutting away The increasing of an ulcerated Cancer must be hindered and of one that is not ulcerated that it come not to ulceration Palliative is made 1. By Diet. 2. By evacuatives and alteratives 3. By revulsion and derivation by Issues 4. By Topicals The juyce and decoction of Nightshade Endive the flesh of Snails boyld River Crabs green Frogs Oyl of Frogs See Senn. l. p. 1. c. 20. ashes of Crabs Senn. Scabious heath Robert Chervil Dill Honey-suckles Mans dung in powder For. l. 17. ashes of Mullens of the lesser Celandine of Robert Oyl of Eggs and wan mixed in a leaden Mortar with water of Night-shade with a leaden pestle Asses milk is good and Treacle Wild Cresses bruised or in fomentation also blood-suckers laying on of Cats and young Whelps divided Powder of Galls of burnt Crabs mingled with Oyl of Roses and laid on with Lint Pareus his Plate of Lead anointed with Quick-silver is excellent and an Antidote for all malignant Ulcers but because it keepeth in vapours Forestus liketh it not Par. l. 8 bids that it be made full of holes Crato Ep. 59. Crabs eys ground small on a Marble taken in broth or wine can do much in the greatest pains of a Cancer Aegyptiac is mortal for cancerous Ulcers Fabr. l. 3. obs 86. An old woman cured a Cancer laying on Sage chewed with her Teeth For. l. c. The Cure of that is ulcerated is done by Minerals with Unguent of Tutty Diapampholigos or juyce of Nightshade clarified and stirred in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestle 8 ounces of common Tutty ten times washed in Night-shade water 2 drams of burnt lead washed likewise 1 dram Oyl of Roses half an ounce juyce of Nightshade what may suffice make a Liniment in a leaden Mortar with a leaden Pestle Some lay on daily a Hen which the Cancer eats For. l. c. Emplaister of Ceruss it is truly cured either by Section or burning or burning means If there be good blood and matter that runs from it the cure is perfect See Senn. l. c. No Atractives or Digestives profit nor Oyls or fat things except Juyces white wax and Goats suet For. l. 28. A small Cancerous push growing slowly about the Chin Mouth Nose is called Nolime tangere A Cancer in the Legs and Shanks is called a a Wolf Senn. l. c. Blood is sometimes commodiously drawn by distance of time The hearb Carduns benedictus and also the Eys of Crabs Magistral is given succesfully in water Arsemart Senn. l. 4. p. 3. s 1. c. 7. See there the manner of Section See what must be looked to concerning the Muscle of the Brest in the Anatomists A Hen cut through the middle is excellent to lay on being every day renewed Famous
the infusion whereof we give to purge the substance to bind Mechoacan Senna leaves Diacatholicon Diapheaenicon Clysters in great quantity if you would scowre the guts but small to glutinate Antidotes against poyson as Bole armenick c. 2. If the pain be vehement sometimes we must cast in such things as ease pain Give broth of oyl of sweet Almonds apply internals topicals narcoticks 3. We must bind yet not before seven dayes unlesse it be with gentle means A powder of Elder berries of Turtles and Hares burnt is commended Also the juyce of ground Ivy taken The use of Wax in a roasted Apple The Apple is made hollow and filled with white and yellow Wax it is roasted it must be eat before meat by external topicals also whatsoever many would have by revulsives 4. The Ulcer must be cleansed and filled with flesh The Diet. Much drink is naught for a Dysentery and if they grow well too much exercise That snotty white matter is not the fat of the guts nor fleam nor crust but the humours coming out of the Veins changed by the part hurt as in the whites of women Question Whether Purgatives may be given Valesius denieth it com 4. in 4. Epid. Fuchsius Massarias because Galen useth them not because they bring the humour to the part affected Senn. affirmeth it Galen knew not Rheubarb Mirobalans yet he used Honey Milk and Crato for the second reason denieth that Cauteries can be good in the Gout Ep. 167. Whether milk be good It is not good if there be a Feaver and where the Body is impure It must be given warily if whey be much it clenseth if whey evaporate with long boyling it bindeth Whether drinking water milk steeled wine be good Crato denieth it Ep. 261. Doringus obs 42. cent 3. saith That water of fresh steel that was never yet quenched will trouble the Belly but if it be drank from steel often quenched it binds the Belly Wherefore if you will bind cast away the first water Senn. will not allow this because it is of an Homogeneal nature but thinks that steeled water must be drank sparingly for the more iron is communicated to the water the more it troubles the Belly and moveth vomit neither let it stay long but quench it suddenly for if it stay long in the liquor it is turned as it were into rust and troubles more Wherefore the first water must not be poured forth Crocus Martis made by reverberation alone is good but not by dissolving by water DYSURIA is diminishing of Urine it differs from Ischuria in degree only sometimes it is with but often without pain it comes not forth by drops but sometimes in due quantity by heaps The Cause is the sensitive faculty or expulsive of the Bladder hurt or some other diseases of the Bladder Signs Diagnostick If it proceed from fault of the Ureters or Reins there is no pain no heavinesse about the share It is called hot piss which is not a diminishing of urine but when the urine comes forth as it should only with heat See the Strangury The Cure When the cause is taken away For. applyed to the Secrets of a woman in a Feaver great with child Take green Pelletary 2 handfuls Chetvil one handful and half Oyl of Scorpions one ounce and half Butter two ounces it seldom faileth You may first give a Suppository or Clyster He cured another with oyl of Camomil and of Scorpions first anointing with oyl a decoction of Rue and Dill. Fernelius saith That one Ureter being stopped the Urine cometh forth by the other For. observeth the contrary DRUNKENNES Preservatives Bitter Almonds are commended five six or ten before meat as also Peach kernels which seem to help by their diuretick force Arculamus writes That if any man eat tops of Wormwood or Rue in the morning fasting he shall be defended from drunkennesse Coleseed eaten before meat is good Platerus avoids drunkenness by drinking very sparingly at first Mnesitheus Athen. saith three things must be observed 1. To drink wine mingled 2. Not to fill your self with Junkets at the second Course 3. Sleep not before you vomit The cure Vingegar drank recovers drunken men and other sowre things For. gave small beer to drunkards and bad them sleep if they sleep not they recover not but by abstinence the next day and by taking syrup of the decoction of garden Currance Leaves of Coleworts wet in Rose water cure a drunken man if after drink you lay them to his Head Those that are dumb after drunkenness will dye saith Hippocrates unlesse a Feaver come upon it DANDRAFF It proceeds from a salt watery blood and also cholerick Some hold it for a sign of a sound brain It portends no danger It is cured by Generals Topicals softesse afterward with Detergents as with urine pickle with the decoction of Lupius with Soot with the juyce of Squills Scarification and Leeches are good The DROPSIE called Ascites Is a tumor of the Abdomen Scrotum Thighs Feet from a watery humour which sometimes presseth the Diaphragma oft times it sweateth through into the Chest whence groweth a little Cough and in time it corrupteth whence cometh a Feaver and thirst from salt vapours The water is ingendred by the parts between the stomach and the Reins the Liver in Anasarca but not in Ascites for the whole body should be hurt unlesse we shall say that it is affected in the end The water is collected in the cavity of the Abdomen not by fault of the Liver nor by reason of the straight passages to the Reins but because of little urine They make water sparingly because the water stayeth in those places It holdeth up by reason of the attraction of the Spleen hurt and obstruction of the Vessels of it or Scirrhus For the smallest part of the wheyish humour is carried by the Veins to the Reins The greatest part is drawn by the Spleen from the stomach by the short Vessel and from thence by the Arteries it is derived to the Reins It cannot be made from the faculty of making blood only hurt for though the Chylus may changed into raw blood as in Anasarca yet it cannot all be changed into water and if it were changed yet the Reins can vent it forth It floweth down into the cavity of the Abdomen and the caule by the veins by way of anastomosis and diapedesis and dissolved unity the water is often times yellow Signs There is alwaies swelling of the Feet especially toward the evening and after exercise The feet often swell when men recover from sharp diseases and long from plenty of meat or some outward cause This tumor is not dangerous if you timely help it Prognosticks Anasarca is the safest because the natural faculty is lesse hurt and the blood comes nearer to natural blood then water Ascites if it proceed from a Scirrrhus is more dangerous then a Tympanum for the rest Tympanum is worse then Ascites If it proceed from a
by Platerus observation and Smetius Winds are made of grosse matter especially of black choler and heat strong enough of it self but weaker in respect of the matter In Tympanites the heat is almost burning but the matter is melancholick Signs Diagnostick The Belly gives a sound like a Drum The cure The matter must be cause of the wind must be taken away the wind must be discussed Alwaies let Carminatives exceed Purgatives Arculanus thinks it were a singular Remedy if in a Clyster you dissolve three drams of the Electuary oâ— Bay berries you must discusse by Internals Topicals by the Plaister of Bay berries If heaters help not we must pass to Coolers the beer of the decoction of Camomil flowers is miraculous In Leucophlegmatia or Anasarca it is good to open a Vein if it come from stopping it is cured as Cachexia A DROPSY of the Womb is either in the cavity of the Matrix or in the Coats of the Marix or in the Vessels of the Matrix or it is shut in a Vessel or not It is either with Child or without Oft times it killeth the Child most frequently it makes belief of being with Child The cause is either sent from some other place or is bred in the Womb stopping of Courses Signs It is distinguished from Conception because a Dropsy of the womb is equally extended according to the largness of the womb If it last above ten months it continually waxeth greater in the following moneths In great with child it is contrary the Symproms that afflict in the first moneths grow milder in the latter The Brests that are hard are made soft In a Dropsy of the womb some blood runneth forth It is distinguished from Mola by the weight from Inflation of the womb by weight and sound from a Dropsy of the Belly because that riseth from the superiour parts and goeth down to the lower parts In a Dropsy of the Matrix it is contrary When it remaineth in the cavity the Mouth of the Matrix is shut when in a Bladder it seems to be shut If the whole Body be well and child-bearing were very tedious it cometh from the fault of womb Prognosticks If the water be not corrupted nor sharp which is collected from the Symptoms it is cured by length of time The cure If it proceed from stopping the Courses they must be voided also by opening a Vein but in other cases it is not profitable The water must be voided by injections Diureticks Purging Pessaries Externals Vomit Sneezing Clysters Fontanels are not good A DROPSY of the Brest is seldom knownz and yet it is frequent It is not likely that so much water should fall from the Head but it is either bred in the Brest or sent thither Signs A pain of the Brest that is weighty and a sound when the Body is moved A dry Cough There is danger of being choaked chiefly about the first sleep thirst lost appetite pale visage the Feet often swell Prognosticks It is seldom cured Once cured it easily returns into a Dropsy The Cure The water must at several times be evacuated by Purgatives Hippocrates orders the Incision of the Brest if the Bowels be sound By Diureticks wherewith Maximilian the 11. Emperor cured himself for twenty years and when that motion was hindered he was strangled Crato Ep. 137. Senn. commendeth Incision at the beginning DROPSY of the Head Is either within or without the Scull It runneth out by Anastomosis and diapedisis of the Veins It happeneth to children from the violence of Mid-wives in delivery Signs If it be without the Scull it is proved by the touch If within the Eys weep and are hardly shut and it is mortal The Cure Generals premised that evacuate if the age will suffer it the part must first be softned then wee must use Resolvers Spirit of Wine with a fourth part of Scabious water Also Aquapendens commends for children water of quick Lime the Lime being thrown away If these fail lay a Caustick to the hinder part of the Head The manner of cutting see in Senn. Lastly lay on remedies that dry the Brain Fab. obs 10. c. 1. found in the fore Ventricles of the Brain 18. pound of clear water DISTEMPER of the Spleen hot hath with it thirst a dry Tongue yellow colour red Face dejected Appetite a cold distemper contrarily They that have a weak Spleen are properly called spleenetick The Cure The Spleen cannot endure Attenuatives nor Relaxatives but things that bind moderately as Wormwood yet moderately lest they make a Scirrhus sweet things taken any way are hurtful and so is Vinegar Wherefore the rinds of the five opening roots must be steeped not in Vinegar but in Wine It can endure stronger Remedies then the Liver Stoppers must be chiefly avoided It is evacuated by the Piles Vomit Purging Urine bitter medicaments are the most profitable The milt of an Ox burnt in an earthen Vessel the milt of a Kid to one dram All outward remedies must be made with Posca that they may penetrate DISTEMPER of the Stomach If it be cold it is cured by Generals Topicals Topicals must be laid to the pointed grissle toward the Navel and to the back to the twelvth and thirteenth Spondils Corals are most profitable Myrobolans Chebulae and the extract of Galanga Other cold distempers of the Shoulders Matrix Intestins are cured by Generals Topicals as in the Dropsy Anasarca chiefly with the decoction of Guaiacum China c. DEAD BODY If it ly in the house or field and it be a question how it died either by Thunder or some other mischief If it be from thunder the Body smelleth of Brimstone so as Dogs c. will not touch it Under the part whole or wounded the bones are broken the wound is black If he fall on the side that was stricken Beasts fall on the contrary side If he were smitten waking his Eys are shut if sleeping contrarily The Body is not corrupted If the Question be Whether he that was wounded received the wounds dead or alive If alive the Lips of the wound are red bloody swoln wan round about He that was drowned if he were thrown in living the whole Belly swelleth with water snotty matter comes forth of his Nostrils frothy matter from his Mouth the ends of his Fingers are supposed to be excoriated DEAFNES The Cause is either the fault of the Spirits and Brain and so the other sences suffer also or the outward ears are wanting or the passage of hearing is stopped or the Tinpanum or Nerve is hurt Platerus saw an Abbot who by the Pox was blind deaf dumb Signs If it follow other diseases and the other senses be well the Nerve is affected If the Tympanum the Cause was either internal or external It is ill in Feavers unlesse it shew a Crisis The Cure The cause being removed it ceaseth If it be from fleam that must be dried and removed The water of Origanum is commended distilled with wine
all night wash your Eys with the water Water of bread kneaded with powder of Rue Fennel Ey-bright Use of Spectacles weakneth the sight unlesse you wear them for need Dud. Ep. 27. Fab. cent 1. obs 27. by often washing the Eys with cold water the sight is darkened from too much sneezing voluntarily groweth blindness Oft times things actually cold may be applyed to the Eys but not to the Ears Zach. l. 1. hist 56. For. prescribeth three medicaments for the Eys The first is of Crystal which he would use to read with The second of green glasse which he would use sometimes The third like a Pyramid not bored through of thick green glasse whose Basis should be broad enough to cover both the Eys For. used this following secret in many There is a muddy Fish greater then an Eel it is called Aelpuick the Liver whereof bound to a tyle must be set against the Sun and the liquor dropping from it must be received by a Vessel underneath With this anoint not your eys but your Ey-brows and upper Ey-lids Concave glasses profit by the circumference for those thick glasses represent all objects greater as Convex glasses make them lesse and plain glasses equal They that have Owl eys desire but little light They that have plenty of humours in their Eys have black Eys because the plenty of the humours cannot be transparent enough Cat-eyed that have but little humours cannot bear much light See the Vlcer of the Eye Epihora it is a thin watery humour like to tears in the Eys It is cured by Generals Driers Revulsives astringent Topicals c. EY-LIDS Roughnesse It is the ruggednesse of the inside of the Ey-lids with itching and rednesse and oft times with pushes like Millet seed from a sharp humour A callous roughnesse Besides Generals Revulsives Intercipients Topicals must be emollients afterwards Coolers as Rose-water or water of Dandelion lastly detergents Par. saith this that followeth is best of all If you dissolve a little Vitriol in much water of Roses Aloes Myrrh Saffron The Ey-lid inverted may be rubbed with Fig-leaves Hordeolum is a little swelling on the top of the Ey-lids neer the Brows which suppurating is like a Barly corn It is contained in a Vessel Foment it with white wax or hens grese or fasting spittle or rub it with the body of a Fly the head being cast away For. premising Generals foments it with white wax or Hens grease washed with Rose-water hot then with the decoction of Barley and Camomil Then with the blood of a Tuttle Pigeon Patridge He used on himself Rose-water two ounces Vitriol one dram he dropped one or two drops in a day into his Eye Or Rose-water two ounces Aloes half a dram If this help not it must be cut If the matter be stony as hail it is called Chalazion Ectropium is when the inward part of the lower Ey-lid appeareth inverted from a Palsey or Convulsion or wound ill cured For. cureth this with Astringents as Rose-water where in burning iron hath been quenched that which followeth he oft times proved Take new butter nine times washed in water sufficient then wash it nine times in juyce of Plantain then three in Rose-water two ounces and half Tutty prepared once washed in Rose-water and Aloes washed in Plantain water white Sieff with Opium of each one dram and half Camphir washed one scruple make an unguent anoint with it in the Evening and wash with hot water Hares Eys is when the upper Ey-lid is shorter then it should be it is either natural or from a scar or Convulsion or when Infants in their Cradles look alwaies backward or upward It is cured by Emollients If it be from a scar Incision is made above it in form of a hooked Moon An unguent must be put into the wound Aquap contrarily with rains fastned with glew to the Ey-lids joyns both Ey-lids together Hydatis is a fat substance as a piece of fat lying under the skin of the upper Ey-lid whence the whole Ey-lid in Infants becometh Oedematous The cure is made by cutting that part The whole Eye must be covered with the white of an Egg and Rose-water Lay on salt chewed with Cummin seed and Sage to dry it unlesse pain hinder Hydatica are bladders full of water in the Lungs and the Liver c. Essere are little swellings something hard with exceeding itching they suddenly seize on the whole Body like stingings of Bees they vanish of themselves They are made from watery humours They foreshew a Tertian and must be cured as a Tertian FASCINATION Is a bewitching whereby by the sight praysing or touching Men Beasts Corne do dye Fascinations of the first and second kind prevail not by force of words but by the Devil Signs If the learnedst Physitians doubt of the cause of the disease if it be forthwith in the state if preternatural things as stones are voided It is cured by prayers by purging the melancholick humours by vomit A FEVER of one day is a Feaver risen from the heat of the vital spirits to this belongeth Synoche of many days rising from the overheating of the Spirits and the thinner part of the Blood Signs Diagnostick 1. It beginneth from a precedent cause is a sign inseperable 2. The Urine is like to those that are sound 3. The pulse is next to natural 4. The heat is mild easy 5. It seizeth us without cold or shaking The causes of the heat are 1. Motion 2. Corruption 3. Nearnesse to heat 4. Constipation of the Body 5. mingling of hot things The Cure is made by Bathings frictions unguents A Putrid FEAVER Cause of putrefaction is concoction hurt by natural things and things not natural and preternatural 2. Stopping of the Pores either by Astringents or drinesse or heat of the Sun or stopping of the Vessels by plenty of clamminess or the humours 3. The calling forth of natural heat by a one dayes Feaver anger c. 4. Nearnesse to a putrid thing Signs diagnostick 1. The heat is sharp biting 2. They begin without a procatarctick cause which is a proper sign 3. The Urine Pulse differ much from natural 4. They begin with cold a proper sign 5. It returneth by fits a proper sign Question May we purge in putrid Feavers I deny Because Purgatives are hot and inflame the Feaver 2. Because before and in the dog-days Purgations are difficult by reason of the hot ambient ayre how much more by reason of a Feaverish 3. Because Purgatives are contrary to nature 4. Because neither in the beginning nor in the augmentation for all things are crude nor in the state for nature is troubled from digestion and rest is better Aph. 29. s 2. nor in the declination for in that no man dieth c. It remains that it is best to purge in the end Zach. l. 1. hist 6. 3. Whether a Feaver may rise from putrefaction It is denyed 1. Because putrefaction is no heat 2. Because all putrid things are cooled at
is mortal We must only moysten and cool yet lest the little heat should be choaked we must refresh meat must be given every four hours All are by Internals and Topicals The Antients gave cold water to the full after meat at the beginning for in the stare he would die of it or fall into a Hectick of old age it is better to give Barley water small beer They gave milk from two ounces to one pound rising by degrees Feaver Hectick pestilent The signs are a weak Pulse small swift swooning tossing restlesness watchings a delirium sleepiness an equal Feaver so without any pain they die their forces being spent For. Senn. A Feaver Quartan is known three wayes from a Quotidian because in that the first fit is strong the second milder the third most mild and so the first fit answereth the fourth the second the fifth the third the sixth A Feaver Symptomatical 1. Such as accompany the Inflammation of some of the Bowels as a Feaver called Phlegmonodes typhodes Lypyria which is cured by opening a Vein by Coolers Moystners Internals Topicals Fern. 2. A slow Feaver from a humour out of the Vessels corrupting in the substance of the Bowels 3. That which accompanyeth the corruption of the part as a Consumption 4. When either from Milk Seed Terms corrupted or Worms a Feaver groweth to which appertains the Convulsion of the Brain in children or in the Hypochondres windiness from raw humours collected in the first passages which begin to putrefy and are changed into winds A Feaver called Epialos is when in one and the same part cold and heat meet It is an intermitting Feaver they say commonly that it is made from the coldest or glassy fleam putryfying Platerus saith better that it is made when the beginning of one fit falls upon the end of another or an intermitting comes to a continual For. cureth this as a Quotidian A Feaver Syncoptical is either cholerick and continual or intermitting or flegmatick and that again continual or intermitting A continual is deadly The cure varieth as the cause is alwaies give cordials which may correct the diseased humour By all means refresh by Internals externals raise them from their swooning If need be of purging do it quickly by Manna Honey of Roses solutive Cremor Tartar c. Frequent swooning comes from the weaknesse of the upper Orifice A Feaver Assodes is that wherein the sick are troubled they are very hot and unquiet they cannot be pleased they are vexed they loath all things they have most vehement pain of their stomach and stretching of the Hypocondres The Cause is a sharp cholerick humour soaked into the Coats of the stomach It is cured with a Detergent decoction of Barley with Syrup of Roses moderate Diet cold and moist For. A Feaver called Elodes of which few have spoken is that wherein the Body is dissolved by continual sweating for where there is long sweating the Body must needs be dissolved It is cured by Dryers and such as void the Serus humour General Topical A Pestilent Feaver differs from the Plague by the vehemency of the mischief and contagion which is greater in the Plague A malignant Feaver is yet lesse dangerous and few dye of it none are infected by it There are no Pestilent Feavers of one day but putrid Continuals and some Intermitting according to Pareus L. de Peste Signs diagnostick In the beginning there is a greater weaknesse of the Forces then the nature of a Feaver or heat do cause a small pulse urine like to those that are sound and oft times also crude and the face saith Hippocrates sleep or waking oppresse them a delirium Vertigo Convulsion Vomiting Scowring It is observed that bleeding at the Nose in the beginning of a Feaver sheweth that it is malignant spots of divers colours driness of the tongue blacknesse inflammation which they call Dâ—e Breun The Cure Since two things do urge either Malignity or the Feaver If that urge most Antidotes are necessary if this we must go about the cure of it wherefore presently give Diaphoreticks as much as we can temperate for the matter admitteth not concoction Then a Vein may be opened gentle Clysters and such as bring forth the dung are useful Vomiting is sometimes good c. Then come again to Antidotes This following Electuary is excellent Take two Pome-citrons sprinkled well with Rose water and with Sugar what may sweeten them boyl that to the consistence of an Electuary A Spotted Feaver The spot differs from Freckles and other Pushes in a Feaver in greatnesse for they are not high nor long but round like Flea bites It differs from Flea bites because in Bites there appears a bite in the middle which remaineth still though you drive away the other rednesse by pressing or rubbing it Spots if they be prest vanish but return they are seldom in the face by reason of the smallness of the Arteries and the cold aire driving them back They are without ulceration pricking or risings-up Signs Prognostick If they come forth plentifully on a critical day and there follow ease it is good but if when the matter is raw as they often do they are mortal The few or many spots do not certainly shew life or death They dye whose spots are black they that have them seen in their face they whose urine is stopt The Cure First give a lenitive open a Vein before the fourth day but after the fourth forbear it Give sweating means If a Flux of the Belly come upon it stop it not unless it be too much but leave the whole work to Nature In the mean while use Alteratives and Corroboratives Apply Theriac to the Heart and Pulses with juyce of Lemmons oyl of Scorpions and use an unction of Nitre as before by Vesicatories the poysoned vapours are fitly derived from the Heart An Hungary Feaver or a disease of Hungary It is a Pestilent Feaver and cometh neer to the Plague Crato refers them to putrid continual Feavers Langius to a Causus for the heat is extream Others to a Spotted Feaver Yet here though sometimes yet alwaies there are not spots It began in the year 1566. The cause Rulandus and Jordanus say There is the highest malignity and the highest Cacochymia and that rightly but they say the Cacochymia comes from fleam 1. Because at the beginning Purgers of fleam profit but not opening a Vein 2. It is more sharp about night 3. It is more violent when the South wind bloweth and it spreadeth in cloudy weather 4. Because there is pain of the stomach 5. Because it ends by sweat and urine 6. Because it lasts beyond seven or fourteen days 7. Because it often ends by an Aposteme Sennertus holds it to be Causus yet so that there is great quantity of fleam yet not as the cause of it Signs Diagnostick An extream pain of the Head the spitting moisture of the Tongue is dried and the Tongue becomes black by the black smoke of the blood which
it is mortal INFLAMMATION of the Spleen There is pain swelling heaviness on the left side which yet oft times affects the right side and doth as it were compass a Man There is a continual Quartan Ague the Feet and Knees look red there is difficulty of breathing the Nostrils and Ears look pale it differs from obstruction because here is no great dissention it is without pain or Feaver If it proceed from wind there is no heavinesse exercise endeth the pain it is contrary in Inflammation Prognosticks It seldom suffers Inflammation but most seldome an Ulcer it is changed into a Scirrhus The Cure Open a Vein in the left Arm or in the Ankle if the Courses be stopt Then apply a Repeller as oyl of Roses with which mingle cutters or Vinegar Oyl of Camomil After that evacuate the humours prepared with true Purgatives Thirst must be endured so much as we can Afterwards Topicals must be Resolvers as the custome is INFLAMMATION of the Breasts It is cured by opening a Vein Purgatives and Alteratives Let the Topicals be Repellers but yet weak ones lest there grow a Cough difficulty of breathing Consumption Scirrhus Afterwards add Resolvers but such as are moderate lest they make a Scirrhus If it suppurate it must be helped forward if it open not of it self open it with a pen knife The Ulcer is not cured if the other Brests Milk be not dried up which will be done if she do not let the Child suck and lay on a woollen cloth wet in cold water INFLAMMATION of the Stomach Signs There is a sense of extending the Tumor often appeareth outwardly If it be the outward part the pain after meat is not so sharp but when the meat is digested the appetite is better nothing is cast forth of the Impostume If it be the internal part the pain is sharper after meat if the external when the meat is digested all the Symptoms are more vehement There is heat thirst a most hot Feaver delirium swooning vomiting It is very hardly discerned from Inflammation of the Abdomen about that Region but only by vehemency of the Symptoms The Cure Revulsion Clysters internal Repellers and outward those allmost actually cold these hot After that add Resolvers yet alwaies add Astringents and strengthners Help the pain with one ounce or two of syrup of Poppy If it suppurate cure it as suppuration and let the Diet be almost as Topicals From hot Topicals applyed to the Stomach grows Inflammation of the Liver Fab. cent 2. obs 46. INFLAMMATION of the Reins Signs Heat great pain spreading to the Bladder the Testicles and the bastard Ribs by sneezing motion the pain is encreased the sick cannot lift themselves up There is astonishment of the Leg by compression of the Nerves the outward parts are cold the Urine is at first thin in the increase red there is cholerick Vomiting and a vehement Feaver In Inflammation of the Colon the pain goeth inward and there appeareth a change rather in the dung then in the Urine If the Emroids come upon it it is good The Cure Revulsion a Clyster in a lesse quantity Alteratives without diureticks Purgatives In the declination milder Diureticks are good Topicals must be as before The matter must be evacuated by Urine INFLAMMATION of the Mesentery It is not seldom yet is it seldom known Oft times it hath a Semitertian for company there is pain of the Lungs which extends it self above and about the Stomach the Belly is stopt If it stick about the more ignoble parts the Feaver is slow without thirst the matter is often voided by the Belly It is cured as before Also the same way is the Inflammation of the Bladder and the Peritonaeum INFLAMMATION of the Testicles This is cured the wonted way Let all Topicals be so applyed that the Testicles may hang down lesse Lay an Intercipient at the side of the privities Verven boyled in Wine is commended in the declination or bread with oyl and water INFLATION of the Stomach It commeth from wind bred from causes related in the Colick There is a resisting Tumor also belching and windinesse If it come from weaknesse the signs are perceived if it come from windy nourishment the sick will declare that If it come from other matter there are oft times signs of Hypochondriacal affection In one that groweth well it threatneth to return If it last long a Tympany The Cure If the Inflation be small apply Carminatives without and inwardly as oyl of Carways three drops Plaister of Bay-berries First take away the cause by Vomit Purging c. There is no heaviness felt the pain is not continual with a noise c. The same way the windinesse of the Liver and Spleen are cured Pain of the Spleen is not in the Spleen but in the Peritonaeum and Muscles of the Abdomen from wind water causing also a windy Cramp Camomil Hierapicra are good ITCHING of the Ey-lids is cured by Generals Coolers Moistners Topicals first emollient as warm water then more sharp as water of Honey three ounces Sugar one dram Aloes one dram and half mingle them Or Aegyptiac one dram dissolved in Plantain water and dipping a soft linnen rag into it touch the Ey-lids bewaring the Eys Or Take White-wine half a pound common Salt one dram let them stand in a Barbers bason for six days or let the Urine of the sick stand for a night in the Bason or sharp Vinegar For. prepared unguent of Roses with a little Tutty It is taken away with long time swathing if every third day the Swathe be taken off and the part be fomented with warm water or water and oyl or with decoction of Camomil Balm in Wine or Pickle the Bladders must be opened they must be anointed with white unguent of Rhasis red Desiccative c. Of the Yard and Matrix is taken away with one dram of gold Lytharge infused twenty four hours in the sharpest Vinegar oyl of Violets sometimes one ounce sometimes but half half an ounce make an Unguent The juyce of dwarf Elder extracted and dryed with oyl of Roses made thick in a leaden Mortar KINGS-EVIL is a Scirrhous Tumor of the Kernels shut in a bag Oft times it possesseth all the Kernels seventy have been found in the Mesentery If it be in the Throat it is called Bronchocele These differ from other Tumors in number for they are many and take deep root Oft times it fasteneth in the Groin and under the Arm-pits It is a hard Tumor that yieldeth uot to the touch is painful The Cause is fleam or melancholy hardned Platerus saith it is made of a limentary juyce hardned when as they are not changed into matter nor corrupt but last long The Cure The antecedent cause is taken away by Generals the weaknesse of the Bowels ingendring fleam must be corrected Topicals must be Specifical Resolvers as Viper-grasse Pilewort Crowfoot Root of Sword-grasse If it will not be resolved it must be suppurated cut
Differences 1. When the Brain is primarily affected 2. By consent of the Heart and the whole Body 3. Hypochondriacal 4. From the Matrix That which comes from the Emroids the Spleen c. belongeth to the Hypochondriacal The first proceeds not from a bare distemper for else the actions should not be diminished and if it came from cold it would affect old men It comes from a humour in the Head that is too earthy Hitherto belongeth mad love or doting from too much care of the Mind hunger watchings anger The second is made from a melancholick humour either sticking in the branches of the hollow Vein and of the great Artery and from impure vital spirits whence it is almost continual there is present cold of the Heart with drynesse there went before it frights watchings c. The third is made of a Melancholick humour sticking in the Vena porta whence it afflicts by turns about the Liver the Caule the Spleen If the vapour be not communicated to the Brain it is a bare Hypochondriacal affection Hitherto conduceth rest and the Belly bound The fourth is made in Widdows that are lusty for men from stopt Courses and a melancholick humour Diagnosticks If it be the first there is a continual doting vehement the Hypochondres are well there is tinkling a Vertigo heaviness of the Head c. they trifle If it be from mad love they are merry If it be the second the whole Body is melancholick the delirium is not continual c. they easily fall into Madnesse Epilepsie c. The Cure The cause must be altered evacuated the distemper must be taken away at times the Head and Heart must be strengthned If it be mad love things that extinguish seed must be given they must change the Aire c. Vervin carried about exstinguish lust Also Mints whence grew the Proverb In time of war neither sowe nor eat Mints Opening a Vein is good Mingle with all medicaments moistners and strengthners Confectio Hamech is not so convenient Vomiting Whey in abundance for a little profiteth not Decoction of Wormwood Steel sowre waters mineral Baths baths wherewith Galen cured many Topicals laid to the Spleen and Heart the Diet must be moist Some use the Trepanum taught by chance For. cured many with a Lenitive after a decoction of Penny-royal and the lesser Centory Sometimes with syrup Byzantine some times with Mints sometimes Wormwood sometimes with Borrage Apples Bugloss easy Vomits easy Purgatives decoction of Wormwood and with Diureticks Aph 11. s 6. Scholtzius Ep. 241. where Monavius speaks of a certain noble Bohemian who died of a love potion If it be the fourth the pain is various chiefly on the left side on the Region of the Heart which sometimes seizeth on the whole Brest there is a manifest pulsation in the Back about the Diaphragma the Courses flow sparingly Let a Vein be opened in the Arm if there be Plethory If the time for the Courses be at hand in the Ankle Purge wandring melancholy which the Arabians call Kutubuth It chiefly troubleth men in February The sick cannot stay an hour in one place but wander alwaies not knowing whither they go It comes from the proper passion of the Brain they must be cured the ordinary way MEMORY It is weakned by a cold moist distemper It is cured as flegmatick Head-ach by alteratives Purgatives Strengthners Confectio Anacardina is good which is called a Confection of wise men whereby many have gained an admirable Memory the Dose is half a dram and less It drieth vehmently wherefore if any principal part be hot they get Memory indeed but they cannot live long It may be made without Castoreum that it may be more pleasant Every morning rub hard the hinder part of the Head and Nape with Ivy water distilled from the Tree three or four times in a glass Stil A secret oyl of Frankinsence Myrrh c. MEASLES They have alwaies a putrid Feaver with them sometimes Continual sometimes Intermitting The Cause is the menstrual blood the Aire the Diet. If the blood be thicker they are the Small-pox if thinner they are the Measles they break forth critically the fourth day Scowring straightness of the Breast bloody urine hoarsness are mortal For they either dy of a Quinsey or Swooning or scowring The Cure Before the Pox break forth in those that are not exceeding young if there be a continuall Feaver it is good to open a Vein otherwise not Give Lenitives or Clysters In the augmentation and the state Cordials and such things as expel Mitigaters are useful either temperate or cold as the nature of the Feaver requireth For. prescribed such a one Take Barley cleansed one pugil Liccoris scraped half an ounce red Chiches two drams all the great cold seeds of each half a dram Cordial flowers of each one pugil three fat Figs boyl them in the strained liquor dissolve syrup of Pomegranats half an ounce for two Doses Infants should according to For. be wrapt in red cloth yet so that it touch not their skin The decoction of Lintels is good but not in substance Turnep-seed Citron-seed Columbine Carduus Benedictus in form of emulsion Epithems have proved mortal Or never or cautiously must they be ripened Butter hath often done hurt They must not be opened unless they be very Malignant The ripe wheals must be anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds so they leave not filthy holes The eys are preserved with Rose-water and a little Saffron Afterwards you may add juyce of Fennel Rue Vervain Straw-berries A Saphir stone put to childrens Eys preserveth them Crat. Ep. 160. The Nostrils are preserved with Rose water with juyce of sowre Grapes Posca c. Into the Ears drop oyl of Roses Myrtils The Throat is wonderfully preserved by a Gargarism of Goats milk and Plantain water The Lungs with this following Take syrup of sweet Pomegranates two ounces Sugar Penidiate three ounces Syrup of the infusion of Roses Diamoron of each half an ounce Diatraganth frigid three drams Purest white Starch two scruples make an Electuary It is a secret Give children Figs with syrup of Pomegranates OBSTRUCTION of the Liver is made when the Veins and Arteries are stopped in the substance of the Liver Diagnosticks The sick feels heaviness and by and by after exercise or meat he feels pain in the Liver When he ascends a steep place he is pressed with an unusual difficulty of breathing the Excrements of the Belly are moist and plentiful If it be the hollow part there is thirst nauseating if the round part the Diaphragma is more pressed It commeth from a vapour and there is weight or from wind if the hollow part be affected it is more easily cured The Cure If there be Plethory opening a Vein is good that the use of aperients may be the safer all which are hot Purge the Body give aperient means be the cause hot or cold give openers as Succories Lettice the four great cold seeds with other
Vehement motion hath cured many Out of Guaicum oyl is not distilled a Spirit with difficulty An extract is made with a convenient Menstruum PIMPLS Red. They proceed from a vapour of burnt blood The best Remedy is water of Pilewort distilled from the whole plant Costus Colewort seed and Paints PISSING Involuntary proceeds from the resolving of the Bladder and the sphincter Muscle stopping of Urine is only from resolving of the Bladder Solenand commends as a secret the powder of a Cocks Throat broiled raken with red wine or soaked in Posca about night also the Testicles of a Hare burnt are commended PALPITATION of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart from vapour humours water collected in the Pericardium the Stone c. 2. From some small defect of Vital spirits 3. From preternatural heat increased which oft times hath broken the Ribs See Fern. For. saith the cause is hot or cold Galen saith in his time they all dyed before sixty years Signs If it be from wind the fit is sudden short If a humor be the cause it is longer and slower in coming It comes often from Hypochondriacal Passion and stopping of the Courses If it be from water the sick say they swim in water The Cure In young Men or in declining age opening a Vein is good and evacuating the cause The cause is discussed with oyl of Citrons or true Rhapontick two scruples that which followeth is a secret of Forestus Green Balm bruised laid on fire-hot Tyles sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar laid to the Heart Conserve of Balm Treacle water of Harts heart or an Ox is Rondeletius way The PAPS If they ly hid they are called forth according to Amatus with a glasse Vial that hath a straight Mouth which being filled full with scalding water the water poured forth again it is laid hot to the Paps The PALSEY is made when the Nerves are either cooled or moistned by fleam choler for all Choler is not sharp as appeareth in those that have the Jaundies for either their Forces are laid asleep or pressed by weight by a melancholy humour or their continuity is dissolved Prognosticks If a Member with the Palsy be made less it is not or is hardly curable But if it should proceed from cold or a humour the disease cannot be so violent nor would it resist the most vehement Remedies and those that are Cacochymical should be Paralitique Nor yet from dryth for so hectical people should be Paralitique If the feeling cease the motion remaining sound then the Nerve which is fastned into the Membrane of the part is affected that being safe which goeth into the flâ—sh The differences Weakness differs from the Colick and from the Palsey because in this the Head and marrow of the Back in that the Limbs only are affected as the cure sheweth for medicaments are laid to the part affected and the Intestins 2. In that there is oft times great pain and it goeth oft into a Convulsion 3. That is cured at first in a short time the same is the condition of a Palsey Scorputick only that in those that are sick of it there remaineth some motion and soon goeth away and returns The cause of weakness is often Cholerick and raw it cometh not from the Head because that is seldom affected in the Colick nor would the Colick cease But the very same matter is carried through the Veins into the Limbs as a Pleuresy comes from a dysentery stopt But Erastus saith Wherefore should not nature provoked by Clysters rather cast forth the matter by the Belly Answer The Passage is not free Spiegelius will have it done by the Arteries and by them the purgative force of Clysters is carried to the Heart The Cure If it be from fleam that must be evacuated by Generals taken away by Topicals The same cure is for stupidity Topical Resolvers If it come from a sharp humour as from the Colick in the Scurvey in that we must not dry so much nor respect the Brain Generals and Topicals are all useful Monav. ep 242. saith that this that followeth is good in weakness Take the fat of a Gray a Fox a Hen a Duck a Goose a Stork of each one ounce juyce of Sage and Wormwood thickned of each half an ounce oyl of Bays one ounce anoint after Bathing Specificals are Marigolds Lavender Berries and shavings of Juniper Meadsweet Primroses wine of the infusion of Marigolds Lavender for one Month one or two spoonfuls It must be set in the Sun at an open window If it come by way of Crisis the Flux must not be stopped In the Palsey of the Tongue after Generals For. opened a Vein under the Tongue Cupping glasses without scarification must be set under the Chin. Vomit is not good Gargarisms must be first attenuating then add such things as draw fleam Cauteries to the Neck The juyce of Sage alone rubbed on the Tongue recovereth the speech In a Palsey of the Weasand soft things can hardly but gross things may easily be swallowed In a Palsey of the Bladder add torrefied Turpentine Trochis Alkekengi without Opium An astringent fomentation to the neither part A Potion of the roots of Cyperus Galanga of each two drams Lignum Aloes sweet Calamus Cypress nuts Balaustia Pomegranate Pills Myrtils Acorn cups roots of our Ladies Thistle great Comfrey of each one dram Galls Frankincense seeds of Agnus Castus Rue of each one scruple c. If all fail use this that followeth approved Take Acorns I ounce half Galanga half an ounce boyl them in 2 pound of red Wine and Smiths water Frankincense 2 drams boyl strain drink them Topicals If the Yard it is cured with a Fomentation of a Ly of the ashes of a Hart and Buls pisles Foment the Spondils Prescribe such things as take away barrenness If the Fundament use drying Clysters astringent apply Cupping glasses to the Buttocks Make Fumes of the bark of the Pine-tree one ounce bark of Frankincense half an ounce Pix Colophonia Frankincense Mastrick of each three drams Castoreum one dram shavings of Harts-horn half a dram If it be from a fall apply to the part Coolers Astringents for fear of Inflammation and hot Resolvers If it be with wasting Topicals and Internals must be moderate The PESTILENCE The Cause is divine Hipp. Which Erastus ep 275. affirms to be a hidden quality of the Air. And Ep. 269. he saith purrefaction is the cause not in making but already made which cannot be corrected by altering but must be taken away by evacuating Signs It infects many is contagious it suddenly casts the Forces down the Pulse is deadly a Feaver Small-Pox Prognosticks To be well in mind and the appetite to remain is good If Vomit be absent other signs are deceitful Differences If it proceed from infection of the aire it is very contagious it quickly killeth few have Botches or Pushes breaking forth The Urine is like to sound mens there did
precede signs of the Aire affected for Beasts have died Fishes they have left their dens the waters being half dead c. If it come from corruption of humours that is known by the signs there are Spots Botches Pushes The Urine is naught a vehement Feaver afflicts also a Tertian a Quartan intermitting witnesse Pareus l. 21. Those that are scabbed are lesse troubled with the Plague A Botch to go before the Feaver is good to follow naught The Moon decreasing is deadly for the Terms come forth weaker Arist l. 7. de H. Anim. c. 2. Preservatives Chambers must be clean so much as we can A sign of this is If Eggs shaked be not corrupted and stink in 24. hours in a place infected or new Bread from the Oven So if shaked Eggs be put between him that is infected and one that is sound the Eggs but not the sound party will be infected So to those that are about to dy they put hot bread to their Mouths that the Chamber may not be infected 2. Let the Body be cleansed with moderate Purgatives and such as expel poyson as Agarick c. By convenient Diet. 3. We must preserve by taking Antidotes as Pills of Ruffus half a dram yet in old men childing-women and such as have the Emroids cauttiously Elixar vitae of Paracelsus For. commends this following even for Infants every day so much as a nut Take Nuts Figs Rue of each alike beat them severally in wooden Vessels Mingle them with syrup of juyce of Citrons it is very good Also this that followeth is to be taken to the quantity of a small Nut. Take confection of Nuts one ounce and half old Treacle Mithridate of each two drams right Bole-armenick Terra sigillata of each one dram and half with syrup of Lemmons or in Winter with syrup of Citron Pills mingle it He gave it in the Winter with Wine in the Spring with Carduus water or Scabious in Summer with Sorrel water Sometimes he added half a dram of Confectio Liberans Every morning he washeth the Face with water and Vinegar of Roses with a sweet Nodulus An unguent for the Nostrils as oyl of Scorpions to anoint the Wrists Temples Heart Nostrils Troches to be held under the Tongue A little bag for the garments Epithems Fab. obs 34. c. 2. Monavius ep 248. approves the powder of Arsnick Toads Crato is against it Ep. 167. In the Pestilence at Lausanna none died that had an Issue Fab. had two c. 4. obs 23. We must anoint under the Nails the Arm-pits and Groins Bags must be kept in the Wardrobe of cloths The Cure To open a Vein is not good if the Plague arise from contagion or fault of the air If twelve hours be past if there be spots a Flux or Botches otherwise before the eighth hour giving first a Lenitive Clyster you may do it When there is a Botch or Carbuncle draw blood on the same side setting a Cupping glasse to the Botch lest the venom be drawn inward Fern. opens the Head Vein in the Arm if the Carbuncle be under the Arm-pits the Liver Vein of the same side if it be in the Groin Thigh Hip Leg Ankle with scarifying and cupping yet he alwaies did it before eight hours After two hours he gave an Antidote if it were vomited up he gave it again He purged not before the third oft times the fourth day with Lenitives as Rheubarb Agarick Epithym c. Cassia is not convenient by reason of its moisture nor Rose water for its Astringency To drink cold water in the Plague and malignant Feavers is deadly Let them eat lustily though they have no stomach The first day he will not let them sleep on the second and third he willingly provokes it with unguent Populeum Senn. Once he moveth sweat after he opens a Vein if need be All before eight hours past Par. commends salt of Mugwort If spots comes forth Paraeus anoints the sick with Quick-silver as if they had the Pox. PTHYSICK It either followeth the Pleurisy or it proceeds from a sharp Distillation or the breaking of a Vein See Aph. 16. s 7. Rondeletins holds it commeth most from the third cause by ignorance of the Physitian who neglecting Revulsives will cure spitting of blood with Astringents There is a lingring putrid Feaver joyned with it or a Hectick from an Ulcer of the Lungs which lasts sometimes twenty years Signs of the beginning of it are a long during Cough then something bloody then mattery is cast forth the Body wasts there is a lingring Feaver hard breathing matter coming forth by Coughing the Hairs fall c. How matter is distinguished from fleam See Aph. 81. s 4. 11. s 5. The Cure The cause must be purged by Rheubarb c and Lenitives not strong Clysters It must be revulsed intercepted The disease or the Ulcer requireth detergents and Mundificatives or Expectorating means for the spittle must be bound up no way afterwards we must glutinate Fracastorius comendeth a Lohock of Turpentine with Myrrh and Bole to be miraculous Laur the juyce of ground Ivy half a pound Sugar six ounces make a syrup let him take often with a spoon Water of Alehove with Sugar of Roses To use old conserve of Roses or Species Haly against the Prhysick Erast ep 272. saith that all who had an Ulcer in their Lungs though it were not discerned yet they died by the use of Vitriol waters Conserve of Roses must be often given in great Doses Vulnerary Potions as also the decoction of Guaicum China are much commended unless there be a Hectick Feaver Fumes are good taken at the Nostrils See Cough Also the smoke of Tobacco Topicals let him often take Conserve of Roses or a little preserved roots of great Comfrey For. giveth by turns things to expectorate and glutinate and at last remains upon them that consolidate PRIAPISM is a stretching of the Yard without lust and it is not asswaged by Venery It is cured as the Fury of the Womb with Mints Especially with the root of water Lillies by hunger Vomit Chafing of the upper parts A PUSH A Fellon differs from Phlegmone by the smallness blood thickness it suppurateth of it self it paineth is an acute little swelling It is cured by suppurating medicaments after that by Sarcoticals Psydracia are red Pushes of the Forehead and the Head They are cured with Driers as with white Chalk with juyce of Housleek and with Vinegar and Lytharge Ceruss and oyl Phlyctenae called wild-fire they are little blisters from a yellowish matter and sharp they last to the fourth day Besides Generals Topicals must be Coolers and Moystners They are opened with a Needle the Ulcers must be dryed Pushes of the Cornea are cured as Ophthalmia All these comming again are most dangerous because they set upon the Forces cast down by the former matter because those that grow well require much nourishing and diseases returning require slender Diet we must deal warily here and
be removed from its place or broken with the hole whence may follow a Flux of blood or the Bone may alwaies remain wrested that the sound be not pulled forth for the unsound The Tooth being taken out let the blood run freely wash the Mouth with Oxycratum and avoid the wind That Teeth may be pulled forth without violence put in Ivy Gum or the roots of wild Cucumber steeped in Vinegar three days Henbane seed or root of the same rosted must be laid hot to the root of the Tooth but touch not the Teeth that are neer Keep the Mouth open that the spittle may run forth but swallow it not TEETH astonished The cause is a sowre tast The Cure Purslane chewed the juyce of it is good bitter Almonds small Nuts Wal-nuts Mastick dry root of Liccoris Wine Salt TEETH Pain It proceeds from a hot or cold cause or Worms in the Teeth that watery humour flows thither from the Head or from some other part Signs Prognostick A Tumor after pain is good The Cure The cause must be evacuated pulled back and derived by all means the Veins behind the Ear may be cut by Vesicatories c. Astringents must be applyed to the Fore-head and the Temples Topicals in a hot cause Rose water with a third part of Vinegar juyce of Plantain Housleek of Lettice Sorrel c. Rul useth water of Night-shade with water of Vitriol If the Gums be affected also Vinegar must be left because of its acrimony unguent of Alabaster Senn. root of sharp Docks cut in pieces and put into the aking Tooth helps wonderfully also the decoction of the leaves of Bur-docks Fer. Paraeus with three remedies cured the greatest pains of the Teeth 1. Setting on Leeches the swelling Gums being gently scarified 2. Open a Vein under the Tongue 3. The Veins behind the Ears If it be from a cold cause Garlick rosted in the embers put into the aking Tooth Aqua vitae Pepper Juniper Gum half an ounce Rhenish Wine eight ounces boyl and strain them hold the strained liquor hot in the Mouth hot oyl of Juniper and smoke of Tobacco hath been often approved Senn. Take root of Fern Cinquefoil of each three drams Bistort two drams leaves of Rue Sage Betony flowers of red Roses of each half a handful boyl them in red Wine and water of each a sufficient quantity to wash the Mouth in any cause The last means are Narcoticks Rul puts in some oyl of Camphir or some drops of the Hazle-nut tree with Cotten The last remedy is pressing a hot iron to the roots of the Teeth or Narcoticks or drawing them out yet first use the milk of Spurge and Frankincense mingled with white Starch or touch the Tooth with the distilled water of salt Ammoniac We have seen the greatest pains of the Teeth cured so soon as the Patient hath Vomited Crato ep 182. TEETH loose It either comes from too much moisture or the Pox or anointing with Quick-silver or from the Scurvey The cure If from moisture premising general dryers use Topicals hot and astringent but forbear such as black the Teeth as Pomegranate shells Balaustia Galls Vitriol binding with a golden thread is often followed with Inflammation TOOTHING of Children is about the seventh Moneth The Cure The Nurse must be cured and if it be feaverish things actually cold must not be put into the Childs Mouth By all means the Gums must be softned with a Liccoris stick or with oyl of sweet Almonds or Hens grease or Butter For. stamps the Brain of a Hare and Honey together and rubs the Gums with it the Brains of Chickens and Birds also the juyce of live Crabs bruised is commended drawn forth with the water of the flowers of Beans if the Gums be washed with it Par. l. 23. c. 67. opened the Gums with a Pen-knife The right Dog tooth of Wolf is wont to be hanged on with a silver chain TETTERS of the Greeks is nothing but the Leprosy Gelsus also cals the Leprosy Tetters but with the Latins as Pliny Tetters or Ring-worms is a sharpnesse of the skin with dry pushes and great tickling creeping to the next parts Fern. makes four kinds of Tetters 1. Itching 2. Tetters 3. The Scab with Pustuls 4. The Leprosy The cause Fernel is Choler or corrupt fleam Senn. a thin and sharp juyce mingled with a thick The Cure is the same as in Saphatus Falling out of the TUEL It comes from too much straining in Child-bed from Acrimony as in a Dysentery weakness of the Sphincter from a moist distemper cold cutting for the Stone from a fall It is cured according as the cause is In old folks it is hardly curable it is put up either by the Hand of the sick or of the Chirurgion If there be a Tumor it must be discussed by Resolvers it must be continued by taking away the cause and by Astringents in the form of Fumes also and Insessions Aetius oft times somented the Tuel with only Brine Paraus applyeth a Sponge to the Tuel wet with an astringent decoction Let him stand to do his businesse for so it will not fall out Hipp. bids to shake the sick hanging of his Feet for so the Intestin will go up again Anoint it with the spawn of red Snails Falling out of the Womb is from the same cause It is cured if you first give a Clyster of Mallows and Oyl and the Bladder being emptied let it be put up either by the Hand of the sick or of the Midwife or of the Chirurgion let her be set as in cutting for the Stone If it swell it must be fomented that it may be done the more easily Let the Chirurgion hold a great actual Cautery in his Hand and fain as if he would burn the Matrix with it so by a fright it will reduce it self It is retained by taking away the cause also by Cupping glasses with much flame set to the Navel with sweet things to the Nostrils with a rotten Egg applyed to the parts Lay on Bur-leaves to the Head Vomiting is good Topicals must be astringent Pessaries Sarcoticks must be given inwardly and used outwardly fumes of an Eels-skin seasoned with Salt Fomentations let inward means be drying as roots of China Guaicum Note that at the time the Terms should flow Astringents must not be used See Pessaries in Senn. If it corrupt that must be cut off the rest must be burnt with a Cautery Of the Uvula Some cut a new hard Egg and strew it with Ginger laying it to the crown of the Head others Oke leaves with Honey others Wallnuts bruised with Aqua vitae others leaven others Mugwort others burnt Salt See Inflammation Of the pointed Grissle It is depressed not broken from a blow a Cough humours and so presseth the stomach Signs The meat is swallowed with some pain nausearing after meat they feel weight their appetite abateth There is difficulty of breathing after labour Cachexia Consumption Jaundies It is cured by
To the Temples but set it neer by them In the Winter and full Moon Trepaning is more dangerous for the Brain swelleth It must be done in three days yet Paraeus in Winter and Summer used it after ten days When it cometh to the second Table the blood runneth forth but not alwaies for in some places the Skull is thin TREMBLING The cause is a preternatural moving Faculty burdened by the fault of the animal spirits or Nerves or nervous fibras in the Muscle If the spirit by reason of disorderly motion hath not its influence from the Brain as in anger joy fears frights for from hence the vital spirit is variously moved and so the generation of animal spirits is wanting a distemper cold and moist of the Nerves or from malignity as trembling from Quicksilver Vermilion in Gold-smiths which For. cured with only Goats milk nervous remedies from Obstruction wine The Cure If it be from a want of the spirits it is cured by Restoratives if from a humour with distemper it is cured by Generals Topicals Chymists coÌ„mend the essence of Balm in cordial water A Bath wash the trembling parts in water of Cinque-foil or decoction of Juniper berries with Wine let them dry of themselves or with water of infusion of Mugwort A Lotion with their own water Sage beer meat seasoned with Sage flesh of Storks wood Pigeons a Hares brain fried Infuse Juniper berries all night in water then let them infuse in Aqua vitae eight days swallow ten berries every day the decoction of Guaicum Monav. ep 240. after Generals giveth the extract of Calamus he foments the hands with a decoction of Wine with Sage and Aqua vitae VEINS swollen with melancnolick blood are cured by Chirurgery for above and beneath the Vein it is bound and when it is made naked of the skin the Vein is cut and the blood being let out it is cured But since this cure is difficult and oft times leaves malignant Ulcers Hier. Fabric cuts the vein bound not with great Incision but by prickings that are small Then he layeth on Medicaments of Bole armenick Dragons blood Mastick with Gum Traganth steeped in Wine of Pomegranates or Verjuyce made like a Candle and he layeth this long waies on the Vein and upon the Medicament a reed made hollow to hold on the Medicament for so the Vein consumes If there be an Ulcer joyned with it the Vein must be cut out VERTIGO is when all things seem to turn round Scotoma is when over and above the sight is darkned Why they than look down from on high should be taken with a Vertigo the cause is natural for that by looking on a thing that breedeth fear the spirits are dissipated from terrour the spirits are drawn in again whence follows a contrary Motion the common sense and imagination are primarily hurt The Cause of Vertigo is the circulation of the spirits animal by a thin vapour Scotoma is from a thick The antecedent cause sticketh either in the Brain and there be signs of the Brain affected or in the Liver Spleen Hypochondres and there be signs of them affected or from some outward cause Prognosticks They that in a Vertigo see a green or purple colour encline to the Epilepsy they that see black to the Apoplexie they that see red are thought to be more subject to madness The Cure Let the Patient alone in the fit and if the cause ascend from the lower part Revulsion must be made by frictions the Face must be sprinkled with Wine give Suppositories Clysters put sweet smells to the Nostrils hot or cold rub the Nostrils with oyl of Amber c. rub the Temples with Rosemary water the Forehead with wild Marjoram annoint the Palate with Theriac Senn. alloweth also opening a Vein but with caution If an Apoplex be feared for preservation is Carway seed soaked in Wine and then dried if daily half a spoonful be long chewed about bedtime and lastly be swallowed When the fit is over open a Vein as the Head Vein It is cured as the Head-ach by Generals Topicals Bears-ear is commended the water or extract of Scorzonera a dryed silk-worm is strewed on the Crown Take dung of a male Peacock for a Man or a female for a woman one dram infuse it all night in white-wine strain it through a linnen cloth give it for a Vertigo from a new Moon till a full Moon If it come from some other part by consent the humour prepared must be evacuated the Vapour intercepted revulsed discussed we must strengthen VOMITING too much is cured by Revulsives Clysters Oyls Frictions and principally by heating the extream parts Give Astringents before meat put Cupping glasses to the bottome of the stomach Topicals A crust of bread infused in Mint water and Vinegar of Roses sprinkled with Mastick powder baked opium An ULCER is the solution of continuity from something that corrodeth with the taking away of some parts they differ in form one is circular c. in subject in cause Diagnosticks The cause is known by the signs when raw thin quitter runs forth plentifully with pain pricking it is then beginning In the increase the matter is better and more sparingly c. If the Rest diminish it is the declination Prognosticks White matter or rather ash colour light and equal is good See Aph. 45. 4. s 6. Aph. 65. 67. 2. 21. s 7. The Cure The humour must be evacuated by Generals we must apply Digestives yet it is safest even at the beginning to mingle Detergents with Digestives unequally as Turpentine with juyce of Smallage yolks of Eggs oyl of Roses Saffron The part affected must be observed as in Phlegmone If the Ulcer be scowred too much it becommeth dry the flesh is consumed the Lips grow red there is a sense of biting If it become more dry and there be a good colour and neither quitter nor matter run forth of the Ulcer we must use Sarcoticals The purer the Ulcer groweth so much the more mild must Detergents be A scar is made with Powders or Emplaisters that heal but not in a moist form If there be for example a dry distemper the Ulcer being so long let alone the dryness must be cured most fitly with a fomentation of water and oyl warm and by Emollients If the distemper be with matter which is known by the swelling pain and plenty of Excrements before all the matter must be evacuated the parts strengthned the humour reâ—ulsed intercepted repulsed the best Repellers are Issues made in the opposite part And without these oft times Ulcers cannot be cured and old Ulcers cannot be closed unless an Issue be made in the opposite part Lay Sarcoticks on the Mouth of the Ulcer yet without biting stronger then otherwise The circumference must be washed with Repellers or some resolving Cataplasm laid on The Medicaments must be oft times changed Guido brought on the skin with a Plate of Lead If it be foul the filth shews
A Compleat PRACTICE OF Physick Wherein is plainly described The Nature Causes Differences and Signs of all Diseases in the Body of Man VVith the choicest CURES for the same By John Smith Doctor in Physick LONDON Printed by J. Streater for Simon Miller at the Star in S. Pauls Church-yard 1656. The Epistle to the Reader Courteous Reader WHen I consider that men in this our scribling age care not what foolish and nonsensical stuff they obtrude upon the world so that thereby there may but a little profit accrue unto themselves I am almost deterred from presenting to thy view this Treatise lest thou shouldst at first sight conceive it to be of the same Genius yet I hope nay am confident to find thee more ingenious then inconsiderately to passe censure without perusal of the Book it self which I presume is such as cannot but give the most judicious Reader satisfaction containing in it self not only most select Remedies for every Disease but also laying open to the meanest capacity the Causes Symptoms or Signs of them so that any one that is not either wilfully or maliciously blind cannot but plainly see this Treatise most wonderfully conducing to the publick good and such as may by Gods blessing which is in all things the Primum mobile be a means to help many at their need who either by reason of their own vvants or distance of place cannot conveniently repair to a Physitian Of those remedies the Author here makes use of I hope no one will have cause to doubt They are such as contain in them all the marrow of Sennertus Riverius and all other Authors any way Famous or Excellent a Catalogue whereof you will find hereunto adjoyned The method of the Book is new and never before attempted but such as thou wilt plainly perceive is best for the ease satisfaction of the Reader One thing more I have to say which also is one main reas of my publishing this Treatise that is The earnest desires of many learned friends of the Author that this work of his might not any longer ly in private hands or the publick be hindred of so great a benefit and that also my learned friend Doctor John Smith might be had in perpetual remembrance for his good will to his Countrey and Common-wealth April 6. 1656. Which also is the earnest desire of your real friend J. Ridgley Authors made use of in this Treatise A Arantius Arculanus B Bauhimus C Crato Celsus D Doringus F Fabritius Faber Forestus Fernelius Fuchsius Florentinus G Galen H Hippocrates Heurnius Hollerius Hen. de Braâ— Helideus Horstius Dr. Harvey I J. Lipsius L Laurentius Lobelius M Dr. Maynard Massarias Mnesitius of Athens Mercatus P Paraeus Platerus Paracelsus R Rulandus Rondeletius Riverius S Schenkius Sennertus Spiegelius Scaliger Sanenarola Schrekeros Smetius T Trallianus V Valesius W Wierus A Compleat Practice OF PHYSICK ABORTION is a symptom of things thrust out The Cause is the expulsive faculty provoked or the retentive hurt which is done by the air too much voiding of excrements motion Venery diseases natural debility of the womb or the child of the retentive faculty by the first birth the stinck of a candle put out Castoreum Galbanum from the child diseased by naughty seed from want of superfluity of nourishment from the disease of the mother distempers sharp fevers loosness of the Ligaments the womb gaping shortness of the Intestins dissolved unity of the parts adjoyning from swooning convulsion pain sneesing slipperiness of the matrix from a flegmatic humour Aph. 45. s 5. Diagnostick Signs Aph. 37 38 52. 53. Prognosticks In Abortion women are in worse condition then in natural birth for unripe apples fall not unless they be pulled oft times especially the first Abortion causeth barrenness Abortion is most dangerous in the sixth seventh and eighth moneths Preservation The cause must be resisted it oft times proceeds from a stegmatick humour Internal and Topical remedy must be astringent Specialties are Corals cochineal shaving of Ivory Take Red coral prepared I dram Pearl prepared half a dram shavings of Ivory I dram Mastick half a dram Manus Christi with Pearls 2 drams make a powder The Cure If you cannot prevent it you must by all means procure Abortion Question Whether straightnesse of the Matrix can cause Abortion It is affirmed as straightness of the stomach may case vomiting Affection Hypochondriacal is a sink of humours melancholick and oft times of slegmatick and cholerick collected in the branches of vena porta the Caeliaque artery and the Meseraiques especially in the left hypochondre by reason of the concoction of the spleen hurt without putrefaction from whence vapours that have the nature of these things and part of the humour do stir up various symptoms as loathing vomiting belching sowre corruption and burnt like sut whence it is that Senn. will have the case of Fabr. Cent. 4. obs 32. not to proceed from the seed but to be hypochondriacal many winds which Senn. will have to be contained in that cavity of Spiegelius on the left side sadnesse after meat costiveness by the drines of the vessels heat of the hypochondres urine sometime thick sometime thin troubled panting of the heart swooning thirst difficulty of breathing Vertigo falling-sicknesse palsie Wearinesse troublesomesse it differs from hypochondriacal melancholy because in the affection hypochondriacal many are not melancholy The Cause is a sink of humours collected by reason of the cold of the stomach weaknesse of the spleen hear of the liver driness of the intestines the Pancreas obstruction of the vessels especially of the Pancreas and fault of the milky veins chiefly in virgins and in women by the fault of the womb and stopping of their Courses Diagnostick signs If it come from the Spleen it is stretched out and hard the face is ill coloured If from the Liver that is stretched forth If in the Mesentery vessels c there are winds noyses and hard nesse If in the stomach concoction is hurt If from the womb there is a noise of the womb and the Courses are stopped Prognosticks The disease is obstinate by reason of a contrary temper of the bowels and grosnesse of the humour The Emrods Melancholick veins the Courses do often cure it also bleeding of the left nostril black urine Women are seldom troubled with it but never cured Thick urine is best The Cure The first Indication is that the humours must be evacuated by gentle moistures and coolers by opening the Emrods by vomit by diureticks If this be fruitlesse we must respect two things 1. Steel which is the best for all obstructions and melancholick diseases by reason of the brimstone it abounds with wherefore we must see to it that it be not over calcined for so it will rather bind the brimstony part being taken away the filings of steel or prepared steel is given which is done if the filings be steeped in vinegar dried and powdered or else the crocus or
the corrption is poured into the Chest The worst of all is ulceration Rupture is a lesse evil an opening is easily cured An ulcer of the Brest is curable but not of the Lungs The Cure If it come by rupture or opening the only Indication is to stop the blood and to heal it Therefore if a Vein be broken by coughing let the Catarrhs be stopt by all means See for the Catarrhs After that the blood must be stopt by all kinds of revulsion the quality of the blood that exceeds must be tempered the Choler must be purged by mild remedies Aloes and Scammony must be for born let Honey be mixed with all medicaments because it openeth the Passages Then we must consolidate with Syrup of Comfrey Fennel which see in Senn. Take for six days every morning 4 ounces of juyce of Nettles 1 dram of blood-stone with the water or juyce of Knotgrasse Trallianus giveth 4 Scruples It is given in Roles Electuaries infusion until the liquor be red See bleeding at the nose If all be in vain you must give Laudanum opiatum or some other Narcotick The continual use of Germander is most profitable Crato ep 184. Rul Nettle-seed Manard commendeth the Roots of the sharp Dock If matter run out by corroding of a Vein in the Brest or else spittle with blood it is cured as a Consumption which commeth from the Lungs being corroded BLEEDING at the Nose The cause is either the mouths of the Veins opened or plenty of blood and there are signs of plethory of some urging of the expulsive faculty by some sharp humour and then there are signs of Cacochimia or the weaknesse of the Retentive faculty and then often at times and for very small causes the Nose bleeds or from outward causes as provocation tickling anointing with hot things or from diairesis or diapedesis if the blood be watery if flegmatick Cacochymia do trouble the Patient Differences It either comes from the Veins of the Nose or of the thick membranes of the third sinus and then for revulsion Banhinus admonisheth that Topicals must be applyed to the hinder part of the Head oft times it cometh forth of the Artery If it be critical it must not be stopped Prognostical Melancholick and flegmatick People endure it the worst The Cure If it come by the mouth of the Veins opened by Plethory that must be taken away and the blood must be pulled back from the Nostrils by opening a Vein on the same side and make a narrow Orifice draw away at times one ounce or two or sometimes four by cuppings ventoses must be applyed to the Liver They stop it better if they be applyed to the Foot on the same side and to both Feet if blood run out at both Nostrils Yet this caution must be used that they must not stay long on the same place but before they cause fainting they must be taken off Forest will have them with scarification to the Legs and Shoulders painful Ligatures must be made to the Limbs Use chafings with Salt and Vineger You must not stop the blood by internals and topicals until revulsion be made Internals are good in any form For. gave Hogs dung mixt with Bole Armenick that it might not be discerned for this oft times stops an uncurable bleeding at the Nose Take seeds of Purflane Plantain Sorril Endive white Poppey of each one dram Roots of great comfrey ounce boyl these in sufficient water to nine ounces to the strained liquor add the syrup of Myâ—â—ils Pomegranates Poppey water Lillies of each half an ounce mingle them the juyce of Nettles and the seed blood stone The last help Narcoticks These that follow Heurnius holds for secrets Take white Poppey seed half a dram of white Henbane one scruple blood Stone one scruple red Coral one dram mingle them make a powder and with Conserve of Roses six drams for one Dose Also water of Nettles one ounce powder of Mans Skull one scruple mingle them the juyce of Nettles Purslane Plantain Yarrow By Topicals Hogs dung applyed to the Nose cold water poured upon the Wrists if there be a Feaver Let the Mouth be kept full of cold water if any thing be drawn up into the Nose this serveth at all times Juyce of Nettles and Plantain must be put into the Nose Also glutinous medicaments and Epithems and Fomentations the ashes of white paper burnt must be put into the Nose A piece of chalk held in the ring finger on the same side The Testicles must be fomented with cold water a spunge wet in Oxicratum must be put under the Arm-pits a Prony root must be held under the Tongue the Stone of a Carp held in the Mouth the root of Nigella chewed held to the Nose a Bank doller must be bound close between the Eye-brows with bands the flowers of the lesser Dasie must be held in the Hand The same taken inwardly do suddenly dissolve clotted blood Moss water of Frogs spawn If it come from Acrimony of the matter the Choler must be purged out and temperd If it proceed from diapedesis the watery humours must be purged use the decoction of Guaiacum the meats must be thickning c. Heurnius useth first Cupping glasses and Ventoses to the Feet and Liver afterwards to the second spondil of the Neck then he useth chafings Ligatures after that blood-letting then Internals and Topicals that Moss which is called Crepituslupi BLEEDING of Wounds This proceeds from solution of continuity of the Veins and Arteries It is more hardly cured if the Artery be cut long or overthwart-waies then if it be cut crosse in two for oft times Physicians perswade that if the blood cannot be stopt the Artery shall be cut crosse asunder The cure Those things being used we said before first the Orifice of the Wound or rather of the Vessel must be stopt either by pressing of the Fingers till it clots or when this in Arteries hath no place in which the blood congealeth not and but seldome in Veins the Vessel must be stopt with the Fingers or with medicaments The most convenient is that Toad-stool which is called a Fuss or that Matter beaten Intercipients must be laid upon the part affected If in vain Par. bids to take and bind the mouth of the Vessel toward the root with a needle or a thread with as much of the flesh as the part will suffer for which end we are sometimes constrained to divide the skin that covereth that part and to be long before we unbind it But if the condition of the part will not admit of this we must apply Causticks that may make a crust which Sen. alloweth not cooÌ„mends rather in the place of them Vitriol which is not escharotick but when it is burnt but when it is Crude it binds vehemently and burns but little Some strew on it powder of Crude Vitriol Others conveniently dissolve it in liquor and apply it unlesse Nerves be undet Sometimes we are forced to cut
about the third day but if the burning be in the third difference all the bladders must be cut and the Eschar must be taken away by the emollients or if it be great by scarification deeply even to the quick that passage may be made for emollients the dark fumes may breath forth or take it off with a pen knife Lay a defensive on the part If a Gangreen be feared we must prevent it Par. l. 11. Unguent of Alabaster is excellent to bring it to Cicaâ—rise Combustion by Gunpowder leaves a filthy colour with grains of powder which oft times can be put out neither by scarification nor cuppings nor vesicatories Combustion by thunder is most cured by internal Cordials and Topicals of Rue leaves Onions Theriac c. All Topicals must be made of Antidotes If the bone be broken withal common glutinatives restrain the venome c. Lay on medicaments of Angelica Roots Swallow-wort Rue leaves and also a defensative Burning of the Eyes drop in warm milk Forestus cured his son by an Emulsion of Quince seeds made in Rose water the other emollients are useful Combustion of the joynts will admit of no sharp remedies but softnesse first premising generals CONCUSSION of the Brain is made from an external cause So Hippocrates tels us of a woman killed with a box on the Ear. The signs are vomiting as in the fracture of the Scul Prognostick If the Blood be poured forth between the pia and dura mater it is past hopes The cure is made by Revulsives and Repulsives as by opening a Vein in the Arm give a Clyster A repelling Cataplasm laid on of Scordium Beans of each six ounces Oyl of Roles three ounces Vinegar what may serve the use of this is until the fourth day Cupping glasses fastned to the shoulders the next day open the Vena puppis which is above the Lambdoides The next day a Vein in the Fore-head under the tongue from the fourth day we must use Resolvers as the Cerate of Vigo or unguent of Alabaster a plaister of Ivy gumm The last remedy is to open the Scull after the second moneth Fabcent 4. obs 2. Par. l. 9. Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 20. CONTUSION with running forth of blood is when the blood is pressed forth of the Vessels by extension or breaking The cure The blood gone out of the Vessels must be evacuated either sensibly as by opening a Vein by cupping scarifying Leeches so the sick have not a continual and vehement Feaver or by internal Resolvers and sweating Baths thin Diet So Galen opened a Vein commonly though there were no fulne's then he exhibited 4 ounces of Oxycratum Topicals must be first Repulsives then dissolvers as Unguent of Alabaster which is alwayes good but at the beginning of a Feaver If a Gangreen be neer which is known by the hardnesse of the Tumor and wannesse for if it be soft it is a small contusion it must be strongly resolved with a little bag torrified c. or scarify it or open it with a knife cure it as a Gangreen Effectual is the root of Solomans seal prest bruised and laid on or steeped in wine If it be with a wound first lay on an astringent after a digestive to the parts about causing suppuration Par. l. 11. otherwise a suppurative hath no place on the part affected If it chance to infants Caesar Arantius was wont to use Section whereby by their crying and pain he brought them into very great danger Afterwards growing better skilled the first day of all he layed on a linnen cloth wet in whites of Eggs and Rose vinegar which must be often made wet after that until the ninth day he laid on a Cataplasm of flowers of Red roses leaves and berries of Myrtils of each two ounces meal of Beans and Barley of each one ounce Wormwood Betony of each half an ounce Cummin seed with black wine make a Cataplasm add oyl of Roses and Camomil of each one ounce lay it so great that it may lye on the neighbouring parts also After the tenth day he laid on the plaister Diapalma or Diacalcithcos Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 21. and concerning swellings Contusion with a fracture or wound of the Scull If much blood be run out between the Scull and the films which is known by the blood running forth at the Nostrils Ears by the heavinesse of the Head stupidnesse sleep If the Bone be pressed down and presse on the Brain which is proved by the Fingers If pieces of the Scull prick the Films which is known if while the sick bloweth his Nose he feeleth them prick or or there be a delirium the Scull must be opened or lifted up But if there be none of these first opening a Vein and giving purges of choler it is cured by a plaister of Ivy Gum So Forestus cured one by only oyl of Hyperici Vidus Vidius Lanfrancus say That it is oftner cured by Medicaments and safer then by the drepane Contusion with flux of blood by and upon the upper parts In this case 4 things are feared First Least the blood should run out too much 2. Lest it should strangle the sick 3. Lest it should congeal 4. Lest it should putrefie and seeing that congelation requires Dissolvers Ruptures means that consolidate we must apply to that which urgeth most Wherefore after opening of a Vein when blood is more seldome cast forth and seems not so fluent exhibit a resolvent as Posca allayed with water or Medicaments of the Hares runnet or Kids Avens Mugwort Red coleâ— Betony Rhabarb Rhapontick Terra sigillata Sperma ceti Crabs eys Harts horn Coral prepared Bole armenick Chervil water Decoction of our Lady leaves of the lesser Dasie Hyericon Fumitery Scabious Angelica roots Swallow-wort Seeds of Carduns Benedictus Madder Mumie is not useful for it causeth vomit c. Par. l. 11. Afterwards we must joyn together with all we can do as in spitting of blood Amber If there be paine of the Belly from congealed blood purge it forth with Rheubarb c. If there be a Cough stop the Rheum CONVULION is a depraved motion of the Muscles The cause is not Emptinesse because Hellebour will do it because it seldom happeneth in hectick and burning Feavers nor is it Repletion because in Plethory it comes not nor doth Hellebour fill The subject is the Muscles especially the nervous and fibrous parts of it when their expulsive faculty is urged whereby the animal faculty is drawn into consent as in vomiting and coughing c. If it stick fast to the part it causeth Convulsion but if the vapour or matter be moveable it causeth a convulsive motion If the muscle that is one or of one kind be affected as the bending Muscles there is a Convulsion but if two that are contrary there is made a convulsive motion In a convulsive motion the Brain is affected also but in a Convulsion but seldom If convulsion come from a wound it comes from
faulty Liver a Cough is easily moved and the Belly is hard If the Belly be loose and moist without ease the parts as the veins about the small guts are affected with a hectick heat and are the cause of ît In which case purgatives are often mortal If it follow melancholick diseases it cometh from fault of the Spleen They that are in an agony hope well which is wonderful it is sooner cured in servants then Masters young men then old men Those that have their bowels sound they in the beginning are freed of the disease by vomit scowring sweat urine The Cure 1. The remedies must be varied 2. They must abstain for some daies between from Physick 3. We must not proceed to stronger remedies unless the milder be in vain 4. Let the form be rather dry The continent cause is evacuated by purging feldom by vomit If it wander in the Abdomen and the Mesentery by sweat and urine if it be on this side the Liver Purgatives are besides the common the juyce of the root or middle shell of the dwarf Elder pressed forth not boyled with Barley water or Raysins for should it be boyled it vanisheth The Dose is one ounce Oyl is pressed forth of the berries of Elders as out of Linseed it is given to one dram The extract of the berries of dwarf Elder The grain or seed of Ricinus one or two hulled they are called grana Tilli gutta gummi which some think to be the juyce of Ricinus The juyce of our Orris with Honey Raysins Gum traganth for given by itself it burneth the Throat The juyce of wild Cucumber is not so vehement as they commonly report Mucilages are added to it The golden Spirit of life of Rul which many say is nothing else then the essence of Trochis Alhandal For. commendeth or prescribeth these that follow Take the species of the lesser Indi one dram and half root of Mechoacan four scruples roots of Elecampane Burnet of each half a scruple make a powder give a third part with wine Or Take roots of Orris dwarf Elder Parsley Smallage Kneeholme Elecampane fern of each one darm Hysop Centory Wormwood leaves of Elder which are the best Savory Finger-ferne dodder of each one handful the middle barks of Elder Gratiola Betony of each half a handful Madder roots sweet Cane sliced of each two drams Anniseed and wild Carrot seed of each one dram and half seeds of wild Saffron bruised half an ounce leaves of Senna one ounce and half Polypod of the oak half an ounce Broom flowers half a handful Juniper berries one dram Sea cole half a handful Raysins one ounce Liccoris scraped half an ounce Cinger Cinamon of each one dram boil all in sufficient water to one pound and half to the straind liquor add syrup Bizantine or Eupatory and Calamine of each one ounce make a decoction Or Take Senna leaves half an ounce Anniseed one dram leaves of Mountain Pepper half a dram Roots of green Orris a little bruised three drams and half Sea cole half a dram infuse them in nine ounces of whey boyl them and presse them out add honey of Roses two ounces for to take at twice being first strained If there be a Feaver For. puts for Mountain Pepper 4 drams and half of Rheubarb Spicknard one scruple Or Take juyce of Orris half an ounce whey two ounces and half raw Honey one ounce and half boyl them and strain them add Spicknard half a scruple Cinamon one scruple Diagridium three grains Apply purgative Topicals Liverwort and juyce of Scurvey-grasse taken daily to one ounce strengthen well Crato Ep. 123. gives with great successe the extract of the root of Orris He puts Henbane under the feet in the same Epistle For. with the only use of Garlick cured many Topicalls are Take unguent of Agrippa two ounces juyce of dwarf Elder or Elder 1 ounce boyl them to consumption of the juyce make an ointment for the Belly and the Feet If there be a Scirrhus apply emollients A certain old woman cast Frogs called land-roads alive into a pot and boyled them with oyl of Olives she annointed the Belly Feet with that miraculously This following is a secret of For. Take of the roots of dwarf Elder green six handfuls roots of Briany one pound outward bark of Elder four handfuls leaves of wild Cucumbers two handfuls Red cole six handfuls Mallow leaves two handfuls Marsh mallow leaves three handfuls grosse Bran five handfuls Camomil flowers three handfuls Mellilot flowers two handfuls dry Wormwood three handfuls boyl them sufficiently in sufficient quantity of water beat together add unguent Agri three ounces Barly meal half a pound make a Cataplasm for the Legs unto the Knees Or take juyce of Orris juyce of the roots of dwarf Elder and of Elder juyce of Briony of each one ounce unguent of Agrippa three ounces boyl them for a soft ointment A woman died by a Vesicatory applyed to her Feet Fab. obs 49. c. r. Gradus saith that it wonderfully draweth watery humours to it if living Frogs be put into an artificial Bath Paracentesis hath only place when the forces are strong and the Bowells safe otherwise the Belly quickly swelleth and other remedies are but vain when the Navel is lifted up into a large and light bladder Sanctorius saith That the Vessels of the Navel may be so dilated with an Instrument that they may void out the water If it swell not below the Navel on the right side if the Liver be ill on the left if the Spleen let it be cut three or four fingers from the White line and put in a Pipe closed with linnen that nothing may come forth but by little and little when the Physitian pleases as in Empyema The Scrotum is conveniently 〈◊〉 as is taught of Feb. cent 1. obs 48. In an that are Hydropical Rondelet saw the Pancreas hardened Sweat unlesse Nature brings it to that of its own accord will hardly profit Internals are and insensibly take away water Theriacal salts for to sweat Let Steel topical Resolvers and Fomentations alone A spunge steeped in Wine wherein Salt Bran and Mugwort are boyled Thirst is not taken away by water but by Oxycratum If there be a Feaver mingle cold things with hot burnt braffe made up in Pills from one dram to one dram and half Above the Ankle four days skin is profitably opened with a penknife a little deeper then when a Vein is opened and it must be rubbed with salt least the blood grow together and so the water is happily let forth Put Henbane leaves under the Feet A Dropsy from melting comes in a hot burning Feaver from burning heat it is cured by things that cool heat and by such as void water The Dropsy Tympanites it scarce differs from Ascites for you shall seldom find wind without water so contrarily It is also called a dry Dropsy The Cause is wind shut up in the Abdomen and also in the Intestins
from the dry hearb Gall of Patridge with equal part of oyl of Amber Water of an Ash with its salt is specifical Querc Crato Ep. 59. Carduus benedictus four handfuls infuse them twice in two pound of Carduus water distil it after 24 hours infusion he puts a clout into the Ear dipped in that water Water of bread It is seldom cured after six Moneths An old woman put one or two grains of musk into the Ear succesfully with cotten Another used the oyl of young mice steeped newly littred miraculously Juyce of Iâ—y clarified dropt in with wine Juyce of Onions with some convenient liquor Oyls of bitter Almonds Marjoram of yolks of Eggs of Hempseed of Turpentine Wax Juniper Mustard-seed Guaicum juyce of Tobacco Let all be warm put in no new till the former be well purged to which end serveth coughing sneezing three or four drops of the medicament is enough to drop in at once let the sick ly on the sound Ear. Stop the Ears with cotton Avoid unctuous things as much as is possible ECSTASIS is either true as when the mind is drawn away to contemplate heavenly things or Demoniacal as the dancing of witches to which belongeth the Ecstasis of Cardan and those of Lapland Or Natural whereby men think their dreams were so indeed and that they saw quires of Angels ELIPHANTIASIS of the Greeks or a Leprosy of the Arabians is a Cancer of the whole Body or a disease in augmented magnitude from a hot dry distemper and solution of continuity The cause is black malignant Choler the remote is Conception whilst the Terms flow a hot and dry distemper of the Liver and the Spleen Signs Diagnostick A Nose wan red Cheeks cleaving of the Nails a shrill voice stupidnesse in the Legs and the whole Body that they can scarse feel the prick of a needle If some grains of salt be cast on the blood of a Leprous person the salt dissolveth if the blood swim on clear water he is infected If the Ashes of burnt Lead swim on his water he is Leprous Lemn Prognostick It is not cured but at first The Cure Diet is prescribed opening of a Vein purging Cordials Baths after bathing give the Ashes of a Kites Head Feet and Bowels burnt in a pot but the flesh must be eaten for three days together which some hold for a secret That the use of Vipers will not suffice Palmarius observed Fernelius Erastus That it is sufficient and whereby Gisb. Horst said He cured himself and many others See Vidius Schenkius Palmarius his greatest hopes lieth in Quicksilver ELEPHANTIASIS of the Arabians is a swelling of the Foot wan and looks like an Elephants Foot It is cured at the beginning but old cannot be cured Senn. often observed that the Hands also will swell so that pressed by ones Fingers they leave pits like Oedema It is cured as before EMPYEMA is a collection of Matter in the hollow of the Brest The Cause It followeth chiefly the inflammation of the Tonsils or the Pleura of the Lungs c. Signs diagnostick If such an Inflammation went before which could not be cured there is a weight about the Diaphragma fluctuation when men change the side they lye on At last a Feaver cometh softly which is partly putrid partly hectick about the evening and morning it is fiercest A continual Cough bloody spittle if they lie hid in the right side there is felt heat and weight Hippocrates bids to lay a wet cloth to both sides where it is soonest dried there lyeth the matter Prognostick Thirst lost-Appetite loose Belly stinking spittle are deadly Oft times it degenerates to a Consumption then the Temples are mightily extenuated the Feet swell the Nails are crooked If the matter lye on the left side it is the more danger Aph. 44. s 7. 27. s 6. The Cure The matter must be let forth where Nature carryeth it For. gave a Clyster of a decoction of Barley and honey of Roses anointed the Brest with oyls of Camomil Lillies Cats grease Whelps grease using an emollient fomentation then he gave Cassia and when the urine grew thick Diureticals then a Purgative with these the Patient was cured If there be a Cough expectorating things must do it as juyce of Ivy four ounces thrice or four times in a day If all be in vain Incision must be made whilst the Forces last If the Lungs be not ulcerated cut between the four and five or five and six Rib of that side where the greatest pain is EPILEPSIE either is essential to the Brain or by Sympathy from the Stomach Marrix Worms outward parts in children and those that are of age Differences There are three degrees 1. The fall is felt before hand they fome not it lasteth not long and the sick after the paroxysm remembers all in a great Epilepsie it is worse in a mean it is betwixt both The Cure Let the sick be freed from the paroxysm which is done if so soon as the fit cometh you give one Pill of laudanum opiatum with a fourth part of oyl of Camphir or the Antepileptick Pill of the roots of Piony mans scull or oyl of Amber The Head must be laid higher a wedge must be put into the Mouth the sick must not be moved violently but not at all for the fit is prolonged by it Let him be raysed After the fit he is cured as Head-ach from fleam or melancholy by preparatives evacuatives for some time even continued for a whole moneth by Sweatings and other general means by Topicals that are proper A Partridge Liver powdered at the fire in a por and distilled with water of Yarrow in a glasse vessel Crato Ep. 104. Syrup of juyce of Carduus with the extract of sweet Cane Ep. 140. Mans blood is allowed by Zac. l. 1. hist. 23. because milk is good alwaies hang on an Amulet as Take Piony root half an ounce seeds of Male-piony one dram and half also roots of Briony Diet. Goats blood Heart of a Goat of a she Goat of an Eel are the worst eating of Turrles the best Quails are naught the Feet must be kept hot drunken people beget such as are troubled with Epilepsies If the disease be proper to the Brain the fit is more violent it comes about the new and full Moon there are signs of the Brain affected the other are well Setaces are principle good applyed to the Neck If an infant be affected it may be prevented if as soon almost as it is born you give it the Epileptick powder with milk if after milk you procure vomit which is done by pressing down the childs Tongue and put a feather anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds or some other in the Throat The Nurse must be cured as though she were sick of the Falling sickness The infant must be purged with honey or Raysins Holl. In the paroxysm they must be cured as elder people If it be from worms they must be killed and driven forth
ERYSIPELAS The Rose or Holy fire it is made not of pure Choler for that exulcerates and it would become the Shingles but from the Cholerick or more hot part of the blood Signs A Feaver with quaking shivering great pain and heat a Rose colour It is distinguished from Phlegmone 1. Because if you lay your Finger on the Rose the part groweth white the blood flying away it is not so in Phlegmone unlesse the part be pressed 2. The heat pain and Feaver are greater so that the part is often lifted up into a little bladder 3. The colour of Phlegmone seemeth blackish but of Erysipelas yellowish Prognostick Aph. 26. s 6 7 2. The Cure If there be Plethora the antecedent cause must be evacuated by opening a Vein and purging aster that the endeavour of nature must be furthered by sweating Antidotes with water of flowers and Rob. of Elders Theriac c. Some roast a Nutmeg wrapped in Flax or Hemp in the Embers and with Colambine seed so roasted they give it with Scabious water for an excellent Antidote Commonly they lay on a linnen or woollen red cloth or Barly meal The common people abhor moyst things yet a linnen cloth wet in Elder water and strongly wrung forth is fitly laid warm to it Topicals as for Scaldings if they be cold they easily cause a Gangreen better therefore is the oyl of Elders which they call golden milk then the water of Elder flowers also the water of all flowers lean bran Wierus writes for a secret That the Gall of a Carp anointed warm with a Feather upon the part affected and then a dry linnen cloth laid over it will do it If you will use cold things use them so long till the heat be something abated which the Patient will declare The Diet must be cold and moyst which also serveth for Preservatives The EYES Affected either the Coats Adnata and Cornea are affected as EYES inflamed which if it be but light from smoke heat of the Sun drinking of Wine it is called Taraxis if it be very great so that the white swell above the black it is called Châ—mosis if it proceed from Plethory or Choler only that is known by the signs it is cured by Generals by those that pull back the precedent cause first being removed The temporal Veins must be tyed Letting blood is good in the Arm of the same side though it come from Choler the Choler altered must be purged Open the Vein of the Forehead A Setace is most effectual for a long disease These first done you must come to Topicals Most often it is taken away by Generals alone Mercurial Galen Mercatus warn us that we do not apply Topicals in the begining to an Inflammation of the Eys for many have been blinded with multitude of remedies Apply them very sparingly yet to the Fore-head and Temples Repellers are safely applyed at the first Milk dropped into the Eys corrupteth and groweth sharp unlesse it be changed every hour Alwaies add to Repellers Scowrers as to Milk Saffron Sarcocolla Opiats thicken the optick Spirits let them be seldom used Alwaies mingle such things that are proper for the Eys Cold things are good for a sound Eye for preservation warm things inclining to cold if you would repel to heat if you would discusse You must not at the same time apply a Repeller to the Eye and to the Temples For. dropped into the Eys the white collyrium of Rhasis without opium half an ounce dissolved sometimes in Milk sometimes in Rose-water also with opium in extream pain In the declination Sarcocolla alone soaked in Milk to one dram or dissolved in water of Fennel Ey-bright oyl made of the flowers of Succory or Blew bottles made by setting them in the Sun An Emulsion of Poppy seed Saffron Opium of each three grains with a Cataplasm Fon. commendeth Crocus metallorum Ruland with Ey-bright water Hipp. commends Wine But Zwinger in his Theater reports that P. Ramus at Paris by too much watching fell into an Ophthalmy who when as J. Sylvius bad him to drink wine according to the Aphorism the disease increased mightily that he grew almost blind Gallen commends a Bath after Universals Sarcocolla is soaked in milk often and sparingly powred on lest it grow sowre If Chemosis be made beat the yolk of an Egg with the flesh of a Fly and with a clout lay it on Gal. EYES inflamed being dry if it be without pricking it is with hardnesse of the Ey-lids it is called Sclerophthalmia If the Eys itch with pain and swell not but are red it is called Xeropthalmia If they itch with a little flux it is called Psorophthalmia It is cured with Generals softning Topicals One gave counsel to his Patient to lay the white of an Egg with Rose-water to the Eye Roots of Celandine bruised laid on with leaven and the leaves roots bruised to be laid to the Soles of the Feet In all Inflamations of the Eys that are very great that which followeth is profitable before other Remedies Take white lead washed one ounce white Starch six drams Gum Traganth Sarcocolla Tutty prepared of each half an ounce Camphir Opium of Thebes of each one dram Rose-water what may suffice make a Mass Dissolve a little of it in Rose-water and drop it into the Eye with a Feather Infinite have been cured with it A HAW in the EYE is a little nail it is a nervous membrane commonly rising from the inward corner sticking close to the Coat adnata sometimes stretched forth to the Apple of the Eye rising from Ophthalmia the small Pox or some continual Flux The Skin is not membranous but something made up of the swelling Veins It is often Cancerous it is discerned from the weeping flesh because the roots of the Nail ever inclineth most to whitenesse Prognostick If there be a beginning of suffusion the nail may not be cured that which toucheth the pupil of the Eye should it be taken away by Chirurgery yet the scar will hinder the sight Those that are white and with narrow bottoms are more easily cured The cure Besides Generals and Astringents Topicals applyed to the Temples must be first emollient then detergent The powder of Egg-shells soaked in Vinegar and dryed are effectual if you strew the powder into the Eys For. saith there is a red nail that is moveable He prescribed first of all this that followeth Take Mallow leaves four handfuls Night shade two handfuls by reason of the Inflammation if there be any Violets water Lillies flowers of red Roses of each one handful make two little baggs boyl them in the water wring them out and moderately hot lay them to the Eye four times After this Take Camomil flowers Melilot of each one handful Fenygrec seed three ounces make two little bags five times in a day foment the Eys with them After fomentation a Collyrium was still dropped in of the juyce of Mallowes Fennel Rue very well clarified Purging was continual with
many of them make injection of some liquour which if it run at once through all the holes of the same colour it is one Fistula If it hath lasted many years and do shut suddenly it is mortal The Cure is either Palliative when by General means Revulsives Settaces and by Topicals the matter is voided and pulled back Lime water and also Ly Treacle water or True which is accomplished general means being first used and by vulnerary potions The Callous must be removed and first the Orifice of the Fistula must be enlarged either by fire or Steel instruments or which is more commodious with Tents made of Sponge Elder piths Gentian roots Bryony Rape roots as in Issues Perhaps it were not unfit to make an Issue in the opposite part long before the cure to make diversion The Callous is afterwards taken away either with fire or the Instrument or Medicaments as Unguentum Apostolorum ashes of Fig-tree decoction of Bryony root and Centory the lesse especially or with stronger as Aegyptiac They differ according to the age of the Patient and temper c. The root of black Hellebour is not safe the green water whereby sometimes the whole Callus is taken off like to a Sheath If this be in vain in a part that can admit Incision open the whole Fistula with an Instrument take off the Callus with a knife or with fire yet lay a good defensative about the part The rottennesse of the bone must be cured if there be an Eschar it must be taken away Nicol. Florentinus saith that this which followeth will draw forth broken bones and such as are rotten will eat off the dead flesh and cure the Fistula Take burnt Salt Tartar Agarick powder them mingle them with Honey See F. 570. l. 5. A FISTULA of the Chest It is almost incurable 1. Because the Muscles are in perpetual motion 2. Because the Pleura is without blood 3. Because it cannot be cut The Cure is by drying Diet vulnerary Drinks by general and Topical means a little Aegyptiac may be added to the injections If there be very much corruption a golden silver or leaden pipe may be put into the Brest full of holes streightly bound fitted with a great Spunge dipt in Wine and Aqua vitae set to the Orifice that the sick having his Nose and Mouth stopped may through that void out the filth A FISTULA of the Gums is cured by generals a decoction of Agrimony with Allum or by a Caustick or by pulling out the Tooth as Celsus thinks A drop of Ammoniacum is an excellent remedy For. Honey of Roses one ounce and one or two drops of oyl of Vitriol mingled is excellent Crato Ep. 183. WOMENS FLUX It is distinguished from an Ulcer for that which floweth from an Ulcer of the Womb is thicker and more stinking comes forth not so much will not admit copulation from the Seed because in the Flux the humour is thin or watery blood and runs alwaies The Cause is the fault of the Matrix or the whole Body or some principal part Some have fallen into this by some purging Medicament taken some after Bathing Prognostick It brings the Patient to a Dropsy a melancholick Ulcer The Cure First the cause must be evacuated the distemper of the part must be taken away the matter must be dried by general and topical means also by Diureticks See Senn. Then it must be dryed by Astringents Senn. For. The Form in the first Creation was given to natural things which as it is communicative of it self is multiplyed either by Seed as in living Creatures which are said to generate not when they generate their young but their Seed but there are in Plants forms that are distinct from the Soul as the purgative force left in the Carkase of Rheubarb sheweth Those forms may be mingled as the form of a Pear grafted on an Apple tree also the form of an Asse and a Mare also of a Man and Woman according to Senn. or it is communicated by Atoms which contain the forms in them hence is the beginning of all things that breed of their own accord A FRACTURE The signs are that we can feel the pieces of the broken bone by the touch we hear the crackling of them the part is hollow which the bone left bunched where it came in it is painful and unlike to the sound part Signs Prognostick That which is long-waies is soonest cured for there needs no reduction If it be in the joynts it is most dangerous FRACTURES of the Nose Cheek-bones Canal-bone Brest Shoulders Ribs Back-bone Ankle Heel Hand Foot fasten again in twenty or twenty four days of the Leggs and Arms in fourty days Marrow bones are sooner fastned then hard bones The cure The first scope is to reduce the bones which is done by extention which those that are moist will best endure to set them again either by the hands or by Glossocomion wherein when the bone is sufficiently extended the coard stretched must be let slack You shall know that the bones are restored if the pain suddenly cease If you feel no inequality if it be like to that is sound 2. That the bones restored may be kept so by Medicaments of the white of an Egg what is sufficient and Bole-Armenick half an ounce by forms made of linnen cloth three or four double which fill up the hollow as in the Ham or make the slenderness of the part equal as in the Wrist by Splints which because at this day we want they are made of much paper and thin Chips of Wood yet soe that the Wood be not green Fab. c. 4. obs 98. makes of soles of Shooes of plates of white Lead or Iron about the ends let them be alwaies thinner and where they lye upon the Fracture let them be thicker by wispes or wreaths made of small sticks about a finger thick wrapt up in linnen For a Fracture of the Leg or Thigh two are laid on from the Heel to the Groin that by their stiffnesse they may hold the part unmoved by boxes made of plates of Iron or Wood. The use of them is in the Bed or when they are taken out of their bed by Swaths which are either of leather as in a Fracture of the Nose or of wollen as in Inflammation where there needs no Ligature or linnen Every part must be so bound as we would have it remain If on the right side the Fracture be more eminent or in the outside you must begin to swath on the outside and bind it harder on that side but if in the inside now-a-days contrarily the first band is put upon the part disjoynted or broken and there they bind it fast with thick rollings toward the Body The second band laid on they swathe with fewer rollings toward the extrem parts The third is put upon the end of the part that is hurt and is rolled gently upward cutting the rollings of the first and second Swath-band cross-wise and
rubbing them with the green leaves of Cherry-tree or with Rose-water wherein Camphir hath been dissolved Others use Cherrytree-gum dissolved in Vinegar with a little Oate-meal Or from an inward cause as in women with Child in Maids from their Courses stopt eating of roots of red Beets c. The spots are swart sometimes as broad as ones Hand they are cured by an emulsion of Hemp-seed and the juyce of Bugloss root pressed out A FELLON Is a swelling at the ends of the Fingers with inflammation pain a Feaver tossing from a venomous humour it is held incurable Pareus often made Incision in the inward part of the Finger even to the Bone according to the length of the first Joynt it is effectual so it be done before it be ripe Let much blood run forth Then the Finger must presently be thrust into strong and hot Vinegar wherein Treacle is dissolved to call out the venome to asswage the pain Fab. obs 97. c. 1. In the beginning very often cut by degrees the only Superficies of the Skin when spots appeared which being cut the watery blood ran forth he laid on Aqua vitae with Treacle and he cured all GANGLIUM is a Tumor about the Bones of the Joynts which are covered only with skin The Cause is the weaknesse of a Nerve or a Tendon from a stroke or labour so that it cannot concoct its nourishment It belongs to Scirrhus Tumors not to Oedema as Scrofulous Tumors do It differs from Atheroma by the inequality and resisting of the Tumor It is cured by Generals The Topicals must be emollient then apply heat to it to discusse the Ganglium or break the Bladder with your hands lay on a Plate of Lead cut or burn it if you may on the Joynts you may not Bring it to suppuration if the rest be in vain A GANGRENE The hot fire as a Sphaecelus is a cold fire It is first made by too much cold 2. From a venemous quality 3. Transpiration being hindered or from superfluity of humors as in Inflamation 4. From too much outward heat 5. For want of nourishment and influence of heat which causes exstinguish al natural heat Signs If it come from the 1. cause there proceedeth a pricking pain rednesse then coldnesse numnesse If from the 2. there is swooning a continual Feaver a delirium If from the 3. the pain and pulsation is diminished without any resolution or suppuration of the Matter the colour is wan and it stinketh The part if it be black is colder then a Marble-stone and most soft If it neither move nor feel at all if it stink much and green corruption floweth it is a Sphacelus yet oft times some motion is perceived even in a Sphacelus namely when the head of the Muscle is not hurt it moveth the benummed Tendon wee must beware we be not deceived by it The Cure Evacuate the humour if there be any prescribe a Diet. The Heart must alwaies be corroborated by inward and outward means If it be from cold and the Gangrene be not yet either rub the frozen part with Snow Senn. of a Gangrene afterwards give Theriac with wine to make him sweat when the cold is something abated gentle Chafings with oyl of bitter Almonds and with Milk of the decoction of Rosemary are profitable But if a Gangrene be you must rather scarify as in that which followeth c. If it come from the second cause besides Generals opening a Vein Purgatives not violent sweating means and Cordials take place And 1. Incisions must be made if it pierce to the bone eschewing Vessels or scarification will suffice or we must burn it 2. The Incisions must be washed with a sharp decoction that is detergent of Scordium which is principally good here roots of Angelica 3. Put in Aegyptiac with Tents into the cuts so often untill the dead flesh be consumed to be cut off with a rasor which the smell colour sense of the part will shew 4. Apply over the whole part a Cataplasm that is drying and resolving 5. Upon the part affected an Astringent If it be from the 5. cause repelling means have no place unlesse there be a manifest Gangrene If there be a Sphacelus some make incision in the sound part some in the dead because in this there is no fear of symptoms or bleeding Senn. distinguisheth If the putrefaction spread no farther but ceaseth which when it falleth out there appeareth a Circle exactly red and very tender about the part affected let the incision be made in the dead part otherwise not Senn. likes Pareus his way how he stoppeth the blood See Senn. Oft times the sick many days after complain of the pain of their Foot that was cut off Also there is a Gangreen Scorbutical which beginneth commonly from an internal cause without any manifest cause about the end of the Foot with black and blew spots with a crusty dry Ulcer that yields no matter It lasteth sometimes above six Months It seizeth on the Tendons which do not so soon corrupt as the flesh it is with most bitter pains GONORRHEA comes either from the retentive Faculty hurt from a cold and moyst distemper or from watery sharp Seed provoking the expulsive Faculty It is insensible If it be from distemper it is corrected by contraries chiefly with the water and juyce of Mints Astringent Baths Driers by Generals and Topicals yet we must distinguish well whether it be Seed or a flegmatick humour that runs forth It maketh a consumption of the Back which alwayes accompanyeth Gonorrhea GONORRHEA Venereous is an inflammation of the Parastatis from unclean copulation with sharp matter pain heat of the urine extension of the Yard which may last at the least ten years The Cure At first you must cool and moisten by Clysters Lenitives opening of a Vein Generals Topicals In the declination use Resolvents as Turpentine If in making water the heat be intollerable let the Patient make water with his Yard put into a Pot full of warm Milk or water If there be an Ulcer cast in detergent means as Barly water syrup of Roses Plantain water Honey of Roses Pareus oft times addeth a little Aegyptiac Make it cicatrise with a drying and an Astringent injection If in vain then make recourse to Guaiacum GUTTA Rosacea Sometimes it is a preternatural rednesse without Pustules Bladders or Ulcers Sometimes with Pustuls and Bladders Sometimes with an Ulcer which lastly also is called Noli me tangere It infects the Nose chiefly The Cause is hot thick Blood bred from the fault of the Liver which by its thicknesse can neither go back nor be discussed It is hard to be cured The Cure The blood must be cooled by Diet opening of a Vein Cupping glasses with scarification and general means as purging the cholerick humour the Topicals are the water of all flowers which is distilled from Ox dung first let the Face be softned with the vapour of warm water Lac Virginis water of
white Lillies Solomons-seal Bean flowers c. GALLING is cured with the juyce of the hearb wild Tansey bruised with Dears suet Goats suet a tallow candle with oyl of Roses yolks of Eggs Goose grease Mucilage of Gum Traganth made with Rose water GUMS SWOLN is an inflammation of the Gums it is cured with Generals Topicals must neither be strong nor sharp Poyson must be avoided if it suppurate open it with a Lancer c. Gums with flesh growing too much about the Cheek-teeth are oft times with pain and a Feaver This followeth inflammation It is cured by binding it daily with a thread till it fall off or else by an Instrument of Iron HEAD-ACH The cause is either a bare distemper and then there is no heavinesse of the Head the Eys move easily there went before some procatarctick cause Or Matter from the common and proper signs so blood possesseth the fore head fleam the hinder part of the Head Choler the right side melancholick the left Or winds There is extension without heavinesse it quickly riseth and remits there is tinckling Or watery humour The pains are wandring distillations frequent much spittle The subject If the hair being lifted up the pain is increased which cometh not to the roots of the Eys it is without the scull If it come to the roots of the Eys it is within the scull The differences It is either by essence or by sympathy from the stomach Liver Spleen Courses Emrods stopt or from Ulcers shut up which is known if it come at distances of times if it be intended by the increasing of some other disease if there be signs of some other part affected the fore-part be most affected The Cure If it come from a naked distemper the indications are for contrary Alteratives by General Topical means If from Matter that must be voided revulsed the Head must be strengthned and altered by General Topical means Unguent of Alabaster is of wonderful force opening a Vein is alwaies good if by too great pain there be fear of inflammation Also Potions must be given in great quantities ten ounces at a time Let Sugar for pain of the Head be the whitest for that which is not so pure doth hurt In all Cephalick means for every humour you must add such as bring forth fleam That which is called Clavus is a pain in the Ey-brows from sharp matter with wind shut up between the scul and the Pericranium In Cephalick melancholy a Vein may be opened for to make proof of it Arthritick powders dry excellently which see in Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 11. Fâ—rnelius saith He never met with any Head-pain which he cured not Take Aloes the best half an ounce Species Electuary de gemmis Trium santal red Roses of each six granes with syrup of Wormwood and of Violets make a mass The dose is 1 dram twice a week two hours before Supper Scholz Ep. 121. If it be from drunkenness it is cured as Choler in the Head If from watery humours as fleam in the Head especially by sweating and diureticks Topicals must be laid to the forepart of the Head about the Fore-head Temples the Coronal suture to which alwaies add Vinegar The hinder part cannot bear it by reason of the Marrow of the Back Actual cold things may be applyed yet carefully in old people and children c. If they grow hot or dry remove them Also hot means in hot Head-ach are convenient and seldom cold things Veiven is commended a crown also of Roses Knot-grasse Clivers worn Plantain root hanged on Put under the Feet Colewort leaves beaten with Pigeons dung and Elder Vinegar lay Leaven Sope and Salt mingled upon cole leaves to the Feet it is approved See Symptoms of Feavers HERNIA of the Intestines The cause is either the falling down of the Peritonaeum or rupture or loosening Fabr. denyeth the first Ep. cent 3. annexed because in Aneurisma the starting of the Navil swelling of melancholick Veins Arteries the Peritonaeum and the Vein is dilated because in cutting for Hernia binding and Ligature of that falling down cannot be made for the parts broken are drawn one from the other The Signs A hard swelling sometimes great sometimes almost quite gone in the Scrotum pressed with the Fingers goeth back with a murmuring noise and pain if the Peritonaeum be broken it cometh suddenly if it be loosened by degrees Oft times by the sluggishness of Nature the Testicle resides in the Groin causing pain and swelling supposed to be Hernia It is cured by leaping c. Epiplocele is driven in without pain or murmuring The Cure The Intestin must be put up again if by reason of winds and hardnesse of the Excrements it cannot be sent back it must not be forced by violence but first we must apply emollients resolving If in vain cast in a resolving Clyster If this be also to no purpose by consent of the friend incision must be made in the Scrotum that the Rupture of the Peritonaeum may be made greater So the Intestine being put back again the Peritonaeum must be shut by stitching If the wind be from fleam the cure is difficult for strong discussives increase wind in which case some give oyl of sweet Almonds Suppositories and Clysters do more safely bring forth the fleam Incision I spake of before doth very seldom good Senn. It often maketh the Physitian suspected of man slaughter The Intestin put in is kept in with a Truss let the Diet be healing and astringent and all internals also must be the like Then we must be careful that the Excrements of the Belly be soft So often as the Patient goeth to stool the Intestins must be kept up with the Hand let him ly upwards some days in his bed Topicals are great Comfrey Sanicle Panfies white and black Solomons-seal Cinque-foyle Tormentil Cypress nuts Female fern Mous-ear Thorow wax Rupture wort the hearb called Holleriana because Hollerius saith that the juyce of that hearb for nine days drank in red wine doth perfectly cure Herniaes The root of Aveus of which internal remedies may be made under any form as well as Topicals The Cure by the golden paint as they call it is performed three ways either with a thread of linnen or by a leaden rod or a golden rod. Par. l. 7. Paraeus never would subscribe to take out the Testicle unlesse a Gangrene or fleshly Hernia befell them Platerus hath another way whereby Herniaes are cured without incision See Senn. A HERNIA of the Groin is a round swelling in the Groin which is easily thrust inward The Cure For. l. 27. cured it with a gentle purging Clyster with an emollient and resolvent fomentation the Intestins being thrust in again the place is anointed with oyl of Eggs Myrtils Hypericon of each what may suffice then for many daies he applyed the Cerate against Rupture and a Truss The drink was Beer of the infusion of great Comfrey with Sugar or Claret of the decoction
of Eggs another with the liquor of Snails strewed with salt the place being first rubbed with a sharp cloth he cured with oyl of Nuts decoction of Southern wood Mugwort oyl of Juniper Conies-fat Goats dung ashes of Walnut shells Mouse ashes with Honey Fat of green Frogs dried first using the Ly of the ashes of Frogs produceth hairs every where even in those that are Lepers ashes of Nigella with goldsmiths water cured one that was bald by Quick-silver For. used Goats milk and nervous things hot urine The fat of a Pike the froth of lean flesh Monav. Ep. 284. commends Ladanum chiefly HAIRS are made black by the decoction of astringent things by Internals purging fleam By Topicals the green shells of Wal-nuts Cypress-nuts Galls boyld oyl of Nuts Cadmia a Ly wherein Coliquintida is boyled Myrobolans as well inwardly as applyed outwardly Cloves Bean-stalks They are made yellow if they be washed with Ly of the Ashes of the old Cole-worts adding Barley straw Some to that Ly add green wheat Liccoris shavings of Box or put Saffron in the Ly the decoction of Broom flowers Mullens with yellow flower Citron Pills water and oyl of Honey They are made to curle if you wash them in the decoction of the root of dwarf Elder or anoint them with Harts-horn and oyl of Olives The ends of the Hairs cleave from a burnt humour It is cured by a cooling Diet by purging black choler by an emollient fomentation Worms which shorten the Hair are described by few they can scarce be seen by the Eyes they eat the ends They are killed by Vinegar of the infusion of Nettle-seed also by Scabious Southern-wood Centory c. Platting of the Hair Die Mahrflechten it troubles Men and Horses It began in Poland It is hereditary springing from the water and aire If the platting be cut off the poyson slips in again and makes dangerous affects Opening a Vein and purging are useless here HICKOP The Cause is the rending of the upper orifice which proceedeth from humours vapours rising from the Womb Hypochondres driness inflammation of the Liver a Wound of the Membranes of the Brain The cure The Ancients held their breath held cold water in their Mouth they sneezed If it be vehement Hickop cure the symptom neglecting the cause by Narcoticks as by syrup of Violets Poppeys or this following of For Take seeds of Dill or Carways one dram white Poppey seed two scruples Manus Christi with Pearls one ounce make a Nodulus infuse it in small Beer If it be by consent take away the cause if from cold by heaters if from wind likewise If it be from too much evacuation it is cured by sharp moistners If it be from plenty of meat evacuate it If it be from poyson first give a Detergent then Specifical to drink If from worms drive them out Castoreum Cumin bound to the left Wrist For. anointed the Back-bone against the Region of the Stomach with oyl of Violets he gave syrup of Violets to moisten and syrup of Mints to strengthen Astringents of syrup of Mints Wormwood are not good till the matter be evacuated YELLOW JAUNDIES is a spreading of the Gall. If it come from the straightness of the Passages or from the Vessel of the Gall the Excrements of the Belly are white there is no Feaver but heavinesse it cometh suddenly without losse of strength If effectual remedies do not profit the straightnesse proceeds from the stone If there be signs of the Liver affected that is affected If it lasteth long it threatneth a Dropsy The cure First we must open and chiefly by Dodder than which there is nothing better Saffron Agrimony Hore-hound Centory the lesse Germander Wormwood The yellow stone found in the Gall of a Bull is profitable One dram of Earth-worms with juyce of Succory roots of greater Celandine Elecampane Tartar Vitriolated Cremor Tartar dissolved in steeled Wine spirit of Salt A decoction of Straw-berries 3 handfuls Raysins four ounces Hore-hound half a handful For Children seeds of Columbines Openers and Purgatives may be mingled After that we must evacuate Galâ—l de vi purg denieth here to open a Vein For. useth it in Plethorick Bodies The Purgatives may be strong For. gave a woman with child that had the Jaundies half an ounce of Electrary of the juyce of Roses Rheubarb one scruple Diagridium one grain Spicknard three grains with water of Balm Hops Fennel of each one ounce at once It is a sign the obstruction is opened when the excrements of the Belly are again yellow coloured and the urine is not so yellow as it was If it proceed from the Colick when the Passage for Choler is stopped by stâ—am and winds it is cured as the Colick From the Colick come the Jaundies from the Jaundies the Colick If it come from heat of the Liver without a Fever here is too great quantity of choler from thence groweth a Feaver the Urine and dung are yellow the hands and Feet are hot The Cure Opening a Vein is convenient if there be Plethory the distemper must be corrected and the cause evacuated If it be critical the urine and dung hold their natural colour it must not be cured If it be symptomatical on a day that is not critical the matter not concocted invadeth It is taken away the Feaver being cured If it come from inflammation of the Liver it is cured as an inflammation of blood If it be from poyson it is cured by Antidotes Rondeletius promiseth health to women with child if these things following be laid to their Wrists and Feet Take the leaves of Missleto of the Oke two handfuls Celandine Hore-hound of each half a handful beat them in a mortar with a little wine Par. useth this that followeth Take goose dung two drams white wine three ounces drink it two hours before meat Querc gives Goose dung one dram or half a dram or dung of a white Hen half a dram for four days BLACK JAUNDIES It is commonly thought to come from the Spleen when the melancholick humor is not attracted Platerus saith preternatural Choler is the cause of it which is collected in the Vessel of the Gall and is corrupted in the meseraique Veins and gets a green and black colour from corruption Because in the Spleen there is no cavity no hollownesse nor can it be carried to the hollow Vein because it invadeth suddenly It is cured as the Yellow Jaundies by steel c. If the colour cease not it must be discussed by sweaters also by a dry Bath and after the Bath rub the Body with emulsion of Hempseed A Tench cut through the back layd to the Abdomen or Soles of the Feet draws forth the yellow and black humour The ILIACK Passion is the motion of the Guts turned wherein the Chylus is not rightly distributed and the dung is retained and at last are cast forth at the Mouth The cause is said commonly to be the inflammation of the Intestins from the hardnesse
and plenty of dung also from a Hernia or from poyson Yet Senn. doth not believe it can be from obstruction of the small Guts for the Excrements could not come forth at the Mouth but he saith that as in vomiting the circular fibres of the stomach so in the Iliack Passion the cause is in the winding of the small Guts because Clysters in the Iliack Passion are often cast forth by vomit and Suppositories also The cause of that motion is 1. The inflammation of the Intestins 2. Retention of the dung 3. Ulceration Most commonly it seizeth on the small but sometimes the great guts also Signs Diagnostick The Belly stopt Vomiting more then in the Colick the pain lesse If the small Guts be affected vomiting and nauseating is greater Prognostick All Iliack Passions are dangerous When the dung is vomited up it is mortall Aph. 44. s 6. Aph. 10. s 7. it killeth in four days The cure Emollients are useful internals and Topicals One ounce of oyl of sweet Almonds is singular Let the Fundament be alwaies fomented with Emollients Apply Emollients to the Abdomen A Bath is good fat broths softning Clysters If it come from inflammation it is cured as inflammation of the Guts If from the dung hardned it is cured as the Colick If it cannot be cured Hippocrates with a pair of Bellows separates the guts from the dung by blowing them and then giveth a Clyster If it come from Hernia it is cured as a Hernia IMAGINATION of it self neither alters nor moveth because it is an apprehending power and the action of it is immanent but only by accident so far as it maketh for desire or hate and so the natural Faculty of moving is drawn into consent which either sends or brings back the humours and the Species It produceth diseases only by frights and fears whereby the humours are moved and corrupted But if the imagination be of a great Nose a great Nose is not made It cureth not a disease by it self but so far as it makes confidence and joy It affects the Infant with ill conformation by the Passions of the mind and the motion of the humours and spirits proceeding thence whereby the forming faculty is troubled In a determinate conformation when bloody spots are made like Mulberries the Imagination doth represent such forms to the forming Faculty as the soul of the Mother so affected affects the soul in the Seed and that the Infant Regiment of INFANTS The Navil string being cut off if the Infant be plethorick let the blood run forth if it be lean let the blood be pressed inward with the Hand yet the Infant will have fewer Small-Pox if the blood be not pressed in with the Hand as Riol observed If it be of a reddish colour and cryeth aloud it is sound Let it be washed with wine of the decoction of Rose leaves Myrtils c. Galen bids strew it with Salt but amiss An Excrement like to chalk sticking in the Mouth must be wiped out with a stick tied in a clout wet with oyl of sweet Almonds Honey and Sugar All the common Joynts must be unfolded Before the Tet be offered to it give it Honey or syrup of Roses with oyl of sweet Almonds and Sugar Some say that the Mothers Milk is not good for the Child till the excremental blood that is with the after-burden be purged away But the condition of the Milk must be considered if it be bad give it not if it be wheyish Spiegelius saith it cannot hurt but it doth much profit Put no great light nor a candle neer the Child Let it ly one Month on the Back and afterwards on the side Let the light be right over against the Eys wherefore the sides of the Cradle must be vailed that the Child may look only straight forward Hanging Cradles are the best Let them sleep more then wake The Body of the Infant must be daily rubbed gently After four Months the Hands and Arms may be let loose from swath-bands Let it never accustome it self to one Breast only for so it will use but one Hand After some moneths make it Pap of Wheat-meal a little dried at fire or of the whitest Bread before it have teeth solid meats must not be given it When the teeth come forth use it to more solid meats Let it not stand too young Put it in a little Cart to learn to walk put a roundle about the Head The Child must not be removed from sucking till the number of its teeth be compleat It is best weaning it when the Moon increaseth in Spring and Autumn INFANTS Feavers They proceed either from corrupt Milk or breeding of Teeth or Worms The Nurse or Mother must be purged with Diacatholicon syrup of Roses c. Give the Infants Alteratives as the juyce syrup of Violets syrup of juyce of Lemmons water of Endive Succory Violets The Back-bone must be anointed with the Mucilage of Flea seed with oyl of Violets and Wax Lay an Astringent as oyl of Quinces to the stomach Heurnius commendeth this which followeth Take conserve of Violet flowers two ounces Borrage half an ounce Pulp of Cassia new drawn one ounce Mucilage of Flea seed half an ounce the Dose is one or two drams Syrup of Roses Violets of Succory with Rheubarb Cassia may be given c. Senn. saw a Child dy by 3 drops of oyl of Amber given to it by an old wife the Belly is loosened most conveniently by suppositories clysters whey syrup of Roses A disease of Infants called Siriasis which is an inflammation of the Brain and the Membranes which there followeth upon a hollownesse in the forepart of the Head and the Eys It comes from flegmatick blood corrupting also from milk too hot Women call this Das blatt Schissen because the Membrane of the Fountain falleth and causeth a hole In three days commonly it killeth the Belly must be loosned with oyl of Roses the Fountain must be anointed afterwards add oyl of Camomil the Nurse must use cold and moist Diet and dwell in a colder aire Fear in sleep if it come from worms or a Feaver it is cured by a particular way If it come from corrupt Milk Vomit removeth it Give Honey of Roses solutive with Milk confection of Jacinth or Coral Hang upon the Infant outwardly a Wolfs tooth Corals the horns of Italian Beetles which they call the flying Hart. Watchings If they proceed from corrupt Milk take that away if from worms remove them The Nurse but not the Childe must take sleeping Medicaments Washings of the Feet are rather profitable of Dill Mallow leaves Willows Vine leaves c. The soles of the Feet are profitably anointed with the marrow of Harts bones Oyl of Dill new is safely applyed to the Head to the Nostrils oyl of Violets with a little juyce of Lettice for an Ointment Moisture of the Ears which unlesse it be cured the Bones corroded will cause deafnesse the pain must be mitigated with
warm Milk oyls of Roses Violets Saffron To wipe away Honey of Roses is good and water of Honey put in by a Tunnel Also Orris root Myrrh Saffron All um melted in wine Inflammation of the Tonsils is cured by Repulsives as by syrup of dry Roses The Ligature of the Tongue is often loosned by Mid-wives with their nails or the edge of money but they do this oft times where there is no need be it as safe as it wil it hath been sometimes mortal Oft times there is no need of Incision Nothing of flesh is cut but only what is Nerves If it grow again together it must be cut again Faâ—r cured his own brother that was dumb to 〈◊〉 years old by cutting the string so that he ever spake plain Cent. 3. obs 28. The Catarrh is cured if Diet be observed give the Nurse a Pectoral decoction to the Child a Clyster or Suppository or a Vomit with oyl of sweet Almonds give expectorating means Anoint the Stomach cause sneezing c. Gripings of the Belly Heurnius in the first spoonful of pap gave one scruple of Anniseed very profitably Clysters Solutives Topicals are good The decoction of water of the hearb Cardiaca is given by Mid-wives for gripings of wind and that very well for that hearb mightily helps the pain of the Heart whence it hath the name Scowring when they breed Teeth proceeds from a Feaver watchings pain The heat of the Feaver troubleth the humours It is cured as Diarrhea Maw-Worms Signs The Mouth is full of spittle sleep is troubled they scratch their Noses they chew often there is a dry Cough Preservation is by Diet. Before meat give the decoction of Sebestens or roles of Diaturbith with Rheubarb decoction of grasse roots Mous-ear juyce of Lemmons Citrons two drops of spirit of Vitriol Infants cannot away with bitter things They are cured with Corallina Worm-seed Roots of white Dittany Harts-horn the water and decoction of grasse roots Remedies against the Epilepsy are fitly mingled with them If there be a Feaver we must give cold things as juyce of Lemmons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts-horn Bezar a Clyster of Milk Apply bitter things outwardly Heurnius commendeth this that followeth for Children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb from two drams to half an ounce water of grass one ounce it is given for one Dose every other day See Worms Little Dragon Because they are like little dragons the Indians are troubled with on Midsummer day Senn. saith they are true Worms with heads like black hairs Their back is pricked as with a Needle they toss themselves up and down and wax lean Heurnius saith you must rub their Back-bone and Shoulders till they wax red next only with skin pulled from fat Bacon and the hairs will appear Paraeus cured them with a fomentation of warm water afterwards with anointing with Honey and Barley meal The heads that peep forth must be pulled out with Pullers Dudith Ep. 27. cured his Children from them with a Bath into which he cast crums of Bread rubbed out one handful and a little ashes The Children being washed with the strained water the Bread shewed forth innumerable hairs the second day fewer then he anointed the shoulders with meal mingled with Vinegar which being washed away there appeared little swellings which being scraped away with a knife they were called little dragons but unless they were presently scraped off they hid themselves within they are thought by old women in Poland to be little worms INFLAMMATION is Phlegmone a swelling with heat rednesse stretching out from abundance with resistance and pulsation which are the marks to discern it from Erisipelas It is either Resolved or comes to suppuration or grows to a Scirrhus or a Gangrene The Cure The antecedent cause namely blood must be altered evacuated revulsed intercepted It must be altered by cold and moist things by reason of a Feaver It must be evacuated by hunger opening a Vein purging if there be Cacochymia it must be revulsed by opening a Vein Cupping Ligature it must be intercepted by Astringents laid on the part and a thickning Diet. If it flow from heat and pain this must be asswaged that discussed Topicals at first must be Repellers in the increase add Resolvers yet so that the other may bear the sway In the state let the Forces of Repellers and Resolvers be equal in the declination use only Resolvers Also consider the temper of the part affected for it must be cured in the flesh one way in the Nerve another the dignity so the heart must not be tryed by vehement remedies Situation so things lying deep require stronger means The shortest way must alwaies be chosen Morning sleep is allowed for then the blood moveth which by sleep is called inward If the blood neither change to matter nor be resolved Scarifications are very necessary if it come to suppuration cure it as suppuration INFLAMMATION of the Brain or Frensy comes from Inflammation of the Brain or of the Membranes or both it proceeds from cholerick blood sometimes the memory is hurt sometimes the Phantasie alone Signs A continual Feaver delirium virulent vomiting insensibilitly sharpness of the Tongue breathing great and rare urine sometimes fiery sometimes white In a bastard Frensy the breathing is sometime little there is a stretching forth of the Diaphragma there were no signs that foreshewed a Frensy If the Brain only be affected all the Animal actions are abolished except most violent motion Prognostick It often degenerates into a Lethargy also into Convulsion and Dysentery Clear urine and white dung are deadly If they were mad before and suddenly grow quiet as if they slept they dy We must not sit neer to Frantick or mad people or to those that are sick of the Plague nor let them put their Fingers to our mouths For. saith that Lud. was so hurt by mad people Fab. cent 1. obs 84. telleth how he was bitten by a Frantick woman The Cure The cause must be pulled back by opening the Liver Vein then the median-Vein it must be derived by opening the Veins of the Fore-head Nostrils under the Tongue The Orifice must be made straight Also after the third day if there be strength to endure it For. used Cuppings with Scarifications Ligatures c. Iutercipients must be applyed to the Temples We must evacuate by true Purgatives when the disease is sharpest and the matter swelleth If there be Cacochymia it must be altered by such means as prepare Choler Topicals at first must be Repellers sor strong people in Summer they must be cold otherwise warm in the augmentation we must add Resolvers c. Lay cold Epithems to the Liver and Heart Let sleep be carefully provoked by sleeping remedies The Chymists commend the Spirits of Terra sigillata distilled without any addition being yellow and sowre it is given to one scruple They must be admonished to make water The Secrets must be fomented with the decoction of Pellitory c. If the sick
be offended with light he must be laid in a dark place and so on the contrary INFLAMMATION of the Wind-Pipe Gorgareon is a pendulous kernel which if it be swollen below and small above it is called the Uvula If it swel long-waies above and beneath it is called Columella Prognosticks The Chirurgion must not meddle with it if it be blackish If you cut it there is notable danger of bleeding If you cut it our there is fear of a Consumption The Cure Generals being premised the first Topicals must be repellers yet Honey may alwaies be added in the declination add Resolvers and softners Outward means before the Flux must be Astringents laid to the sides of the sharp Artery When the Flux is made you must soften outwardly yet the Gargarisms at first must be Repellers c. If it suppurate it must be helped forward by a Gargarism If it open not of it self it must be opened with an Instrument And if a Gangrene be neer Aegyptiac is good If it be in vain the Uvula that swelleth no longer must be cut out by the Hand which is the last remedy Before and after the Gargarisms must be Astringents When it waxeth red it threatneth choaking by bleeding or let it be tied every day straight with an Instrument and a thread The bleeding is hindered by a Cautery Rul makes a fume of one dram of white Amber to take at the Mouth and layeth on the Head one ounce of old leaven by day and another at night Cherries eaten cause this Inflammation INFLAMMATION of the Jaws is the first kind of Quinsey when the inward compasse of the Jaws is inflamed the Tumor appearing inwardly and outwardly 2. When the outward muscles of the Jaws of the Neck of the forked bone of the Wesand are inflamed the Tumor spreading it self to the Brest 3. When the inward muscles of the Larynx are affected so that the Tumor appeareth neither without not within It causeth shortness of breath and the sick loll forth their Tongues like Dogs whence it is called Cynanche The second is called Paracynanche or the Mumps neither of these is the Quinsey with Dod The first is called Cynanche That which is made by the luxation of the Vertebras of the Neck is a bastard Quinsey Prognostick The mumps is the least then the Quinsey then Paracynanche which is the fourth kind when the outward muscles of the Throat are inflamed the Tumor appearing inwardly the worst in Cynanche An obscure voice froth about the Mouth a black Tongâ—e raw spittle are mortal The Cure Revulsives being premised and derivers as opening a Vein in the Arm and under the Tongue If a Feaver went before or invaded at once because the matter is wandring and swelleth experience teacheth us to purge If Inflammation went before and a Feaver follow it is not so convenient but this must be quickly done as in the morning open a Vein and purge at night for the fourth day it either suppurates or Resolves or kills but you must be very careful that the medicament move not vomit for there is fear of strangling wherefore Clysters are safer to be given Gargarisms must be Repellers at first as Take water of Honey-suckles Plantain Nuts of each three ounces flowers of dry Roses one pugil boyl them in the strained liquor dissolve syrup of Pomegranats and of Mulberies of each one ounce mingle them Forâ— for Children licking medicaments are good Fumes are not good The juyce of green Wal-nut shels clarified with Honey is commended by Galen We must begin from lighter Remedies The decoction of Oats leaves of Cherry-tree Physitians warn at the beginning to add at first some discutients least the humour should be thickned too much In the declination also Astringents must be added lest the part that is soft of it self should grow too soft For. in the declination prescribeth for a Gargarism one Swallows nest cut with the feathers Others hold for a secret ashes of Crab-fish or a Dogs dung or Hens dung anointed with Honey Alwaies mingle detergents In all Inflammations which are covered with a thin skin there sweats something through to be washed away with detergents Rondelet when the humour floweth thither cured himself and many more from the Quinsey and scrofulous swellings with Astringents which though it may be done where the body is clean and the Flux but small so in a great Flux it is mortal Topicals must be emollients after that discutients Apply Cupping glasses to the Chin or to the second and fourth Vertebra if the Jaws or their muscles be affected If it suppurate lay on ripeners afterward open the Impostume by crying aloud and the Head down-wards lest the corruption run upon the Lungs Some when the disease is desperate make deep scarification under the Chops or above the Neck by which the sick have been eased by blood or matter running forth Ivy wood is held to be specifical if you use a spoon or dish made of it The last remedy is cutting off the Larynx about the third or fourth ring Liquid nourishment is cast in by a Pipe put in the Throat and a Hogs bladder Erysipelas coming upon the Face is a good sign INFLAMMATION of the Lungs The Cause of this disease is also cholerick blood for though it be said by others to penetrate the Lungs by its thinness yet when Inflammation of the Lungs comes from a Pleuresy which often proceeds from cholerick blood it doth no hurt to it for as water sticketh in a spunge so doth this here but the cause of the Flux are as in other internal Inflammations il humours which when Nature sends away she drives forth blood also with them Signs Difficulty of breath is greater then in a Pluresy which Hippocrates calleth sublime The pain is burdning unlesse perhaps the Pleura be affected also which is often found The tongue is yellow covered with much clamminesse the Cheeks are red Thirst is great a Palsey is often made the matter flowing back into the Arteries between the sides that presse the Nerves The spittle is first coloured with matter and shortly after with blood with a kind of snoring Prognostick It is more dangerous then a Pleurisy There is no spittle or but little if it ease not the pain it is naught Aph. 16. s 6. Sneezings are ill The Cure Revulsives being premised if it proceed from the Quinsey a Vein must be opened diverse times then spitting must be procured by all means Oxymel mingled with the rest is the most convenient Topicals and other Remedies must be as for the Pluresy INFLAMMATION of the Pleura not alwaies but only when the upper part is affected hath Inflammation of the Lungs joyned with it Every pain of the side is not the Pleuresy as that which Heurnius puts us in mind of Quere c. 8. it grew from Worms in the Small-pox in the Scurvey from wind Now the Plurisy is an Inflammation of the side and Mediastinum from over hot blood with a pricking pain
a continual Feaver or else every third day or every other day or every day according as the cause is so it afflicts us with difficult and small breathing a hard pulse a violent Cough Signs diagnostick are fetched from the spittle and drawing-in the breath If there be no Feaver nor Cough nor spitting forth is is from wind Prognostick If presently on the first day there appear matter concocted and that is easily cast forth the disease will be short or will end in seven days All clear spittle is nought except it be blood Ill urine is naught good not alwaies a good sign It is worst to spit out nothing but lesse evil to spit only clear spittle It either passeth into some other disease or it is resolved c. The Cure The humour that floweth thither must be pulled back derived that which hath flowed already must be taken away you must cure the pain and the Forces Wherefore if the Plurisy be gentle an emollient and resolving fomentation may be used or rather if it be greater the Liver Vein for revulsion must be opened in the contrary side after the Flux is ceased â—â—e same must be opened in the same side to derive If the blood flow out of an Artery to open a Vein doth little good to repel or intercept we may not For. on the same side not only before but after the fourth day and also upon the eighth day opened a Vein also in the time it groweth ripe he draweth a little but warily if the Forces be strong and extream pain urge him to it For Children Cupping glasses may be applyed If it be long ere the Physitian be cal'd it is good to open a Vein on the side affected If it come from Courses stopt and the time of the Courses to flow be at hand and the stopping be suddenly made a Vein must be opened in the Ankle If the time be not at hand and the stopping come by leisure open a Vein in the Arm the usual way After this a fomentation emollient and resolving may be applyed and if there be a Feaver and malignity care must be taken of them These things premised if there be Cacochymia and the matter inclineth to the Belly which is conjectured by the noise liquid Excrements and the anguish we must purge the second fourth fifth day namely till the Flux is ended which is commonly on the fifth day For. also on the seventh day gave Diacatholicon six drams Cassia half an ounce six ounces of pectoral decoction syrup of Maiden-hair one ounce Rheubarb Senna Mechoacan agaric and medicaments that bring forth but the dung are good By Pills and Vomits many have dyed Rondeletius commends Clysters Alteratives are for the Feaver Antidotes for the Malignity yet such as secretly respect the diseaâ—e These being premiÌ„sed Specificals may be exhibited for though the disease be manifest yet there is a peculiar malignity which is cured by Specificals Also expectorating Remedies that cut oâ— thicken as the spittle is After the seventh day if the pain remain Aetius and Celsus apply Cupping glasses with scarification to the side affected Whence Senn. saith we may look for extream good or extream mischief few will endure this it must not be used but on a strong Body After the fourteenth day if it neither resolve nor suppurate we must help forward to suppurate it If it cannot be resolved the Impostume must be broken If those things profit not use something to open the Impostume some open the part But the Tumor feldom sheweth outwardly yet it is done most profitably if the part affected can exactly be found If the matter fall into the Chest it is cured as Empyema The Diet must be thin Fab. obs 31 32. c. 5. he bids open a Vein on the side affected To a Boy of seven years old that had a loosness of the Belly with a Pleuresy he gave Bezar-stone five grains red Coral prepared Terra sigillata of each half a scruple mak a Powder Take the Mandible of a Pike half a scruple Seeds of our Ladies Thistle red Coral prepared of each six grains flowers of Corn-Poppy four scruples make a Powder A pectoral unguent pectoral Rolls INFLAMMATION of the Liver is known by a heavy pain and somtimes pricking by reason of the Ligament tied to the Diaphragma For. A Feaver also cometh presently with it Thirst a dry Cough Hickop difficulty of breathing the easiest lying is on the Back the Tongue is red the Belly is bound unless there be weakness of the Liver joyned with it for then oft times the Excrements are moist or cholerick or like the washings of flesh There is cholerick vomiting if it affect the Convex part of the Liver the Tumor appeareth round outwardly and it followeth not the fibres of the skin whereby it is discerned from an Inflammation of the Abdomen The cause Fab. cent 2. obs 46. from hot Topicals of Cardamomum Cinamon laid to the stomach may cause Inflammation of the Liver obs 47. c. 2. From Cupping glasses set to the Region of the Liver for bleeding at the Nose an Inflammation of the Liver hath followed wherefore Senn. layeth Astringents rather then Cupping glasses to the Liver Prognosticks It is often mortal that which is on the Convex part causeth rather short windednesse and a Cough that which affects the Concave part causeth Vomit that is the more dangerous by reason of Symptoms It is sometimes terminated by bleeding at Nose It is critical from the right Nostril much sweat and much urine if the Convex part be affected if the Concave by Excrements and Vomiting If they be cut and there is matter like to Lees of oyl it is deadly The Cure Make revulsion by opening of a Vein before the fourth day For-Aetius also after four days also in the Liver Vein on the right side If the Convex of the Liver be ill Remedies that only bring out the dung are good if the Concave only Clysters If that Diureticks are good but here not Internals must be Coolers chiefly Succory Endive Dandelion juyce of Lemmons If it be gentle Agrimony Mayden-hair may be added sweet things are hurtful being concocted it must be broguht forth either with diureticks as syrup of Endive Byzantinus c. or with Eccoproticks according to the part affected in the declination add Mechoacan Agaric c. Topicals presently after opening a Vein must be cooling Repellers or hot but lest a Scirrhus should be made add oyl of Capers And such Astringents are convenient also in the declination mixed with Resolvers Topicals actually cold must not be applyed we must take care by all means that it suppurate not If that cannot be let the Topicals be suppurative If the matter be carried into the Intestins give Remedies to temper the sharpness of the corruption If it be not perfectly evacuated you must give a Clyster of the decoction of Barley and Honey of Roses where the matter goes there it must be evacuated If it flow into the Abdomen
helps or with a Pole or Ladder or an Instrument to set bones called Ambi. Dislocation of the Channel-bone is taken by many for Luxation of the Shoulder for the Symptoms are the same Also in 3 days the binding must be unloosed and the part must be moved variously but gently lest it should grow crooked The Thigh dislocated forward the Groins swellâ— the Buttocks are wrinkled only the hinder part of the heel toucheth the ground the urine is stopped If backward the Buttocks swell there is a hollowness in the Groin The Leg is shorter then that which is sound the Knee cannot be bent the Heel toucheth not the ground the sick stands by a staff If outwardly after some time the pain abateth the flesh about it groweth hot the head of the Bone in a neer place makes a new cavity so that the sick can go without a staff the Leg is made shorter the knee and Foot look inwards he cannot go on his Heel the Leg can be bent the whole Leg is something lesse If inwardly the lameness is less they cannot bend their Leg the Foot is longer they go with their Leg athwart outwardly leaning on a staffe they rest more on their Heel then their Toes at last a new Cavity being made they go without a staff The night MARE is the hurt of breathing and of animal actions with an Imagination of weight The Cause Senn. will have the cause to be oft times a grosse vapour stopping the hinder part of the Head But Plat. and Fern. say it is fleam and melancholy sticking about the Midriff which swells either by drunkennesse or crudity pressing the diaphragma and the Lungs and the grosse vapour exhaling into the Throat and Brain stops the Voice and troubleth the sences These two causes may be joyned together Prognostick It threatens an Apoplexy or Melancholy It is evil if it oppresseth those that are partly waking and if a cold sweat follow The Cure The sick must be raised from the fit he must be cured by General and Topical Remedies as is the Apoplex a Wolfs skin is commended for a covering of the Head Anniseed strewed in the Bed is thought to help by the smell It is familiar to children by over-eating wherefore they must not sleep presently after eating Honey is good for them to lick One dram of Piony roots must be infused in Beer for to drink MILK The more whey it hath the more it cleanseth the more Cheese namely when the whey is evaporated by long boyling the more it bindeth and gleweth Medicaments made of Milk in Summer every day in Winter must be renewed every other day for it will grow sharp and cause pains Milk hath a hot spirit in it and will make one drunk Scal. ex 87. saith that the Tartars use the thin part of Milk separated by subliming to make themselves drunk for all fat things afford spirits for Chymists and oyls differ from spirits scarce any thing but in the manner of their substance The first note of good Milk is that if you poure one drop on the Nail it will stick and not run off If it run off hardly it is too thick 2. A milky colour 3. Tast 4. Smell MILK wanting If it be for want of blood it is cured by meats of good juyce by Medicaments that breed Milk and open the Passages these are moderatly hot and attenuating The leaves roots seed of Fennel all green and new which must be observed of others also Parsley roots new Dill Basil Anniseed Rocket seed one dram or two of Earth-worms soaked in juyce of Fennel burnt Powder of Cows udder By Internals Topicals MILK too much is taken away by Revulsives Diet moderate Repellers not laid to the Brests but above the Brests by the Arms to those Veins Resolvers laid to the Brests If there be Inflammation feared you may lay Repellers to the Brests also Some happily anoint the Brests with Honey Some put in a linnen cloth wet with Vinegar of the decoction of Saffron green leaves of Nut-trees Others lay on a linnen cloth smeered with Rape-oyl and they put another over this anointed with Honey and they bind the Brests moderately Singular are leaves of Sage Smaliage Rue Chervil cut small incorporated with Oxycratum laid on warm thrice a day Topicals are also made of Mints Calamints Smallage Agnus Castus Coriander Hemlock MILK cloddering it is made by a fermenting humour but whether this be made in the Brests Senn. is doubtful because there is no hollowness there and he thinks that if Milk stay long in the Brests the whey exhaleth and the rest clodders It differs not from curding of Cheese The cure The Diet must be resolving Topicals besides Generals must be Resolvers as in a Scirrhus beginning as oyl of Lillies coming by degrees to stronger Remedies of Fennel Dill Parsly Smallage Balm Mallow-leaves Coleworts c. Inwardly give Fennel-seed Cumin Smallage Agnus Castus Eringo roots Mints Saffron Coriander-seed c. Screvelius also often cured it with green Chervil and Fennel of each a like fryed in a Pan with Butter and applyed MADNES The cause is the heat of the animal and vital spirits whereby they very easily endure cold yet it makes no Feaver though it last many years Platerus will have it to be a hidden quality The antecedent cause is either the Seed corrupted or burnt blood and the sick sing There are signs of Plethory or burnt Choler and the sick are rash bold or black Choler and there are signs of Melancholy or poysons as the blood of a Cat or Love potions Wine thunder-struck congealed Men possessed with devils speak things unknown or Emroids stopt or an Ulcer shut up The Cure must be begun by opening a Vein so Platerus saw many cured who were kept in Bedlam-houses by letting them blood threescore times here and there repeating it Choice of Veins is not necessary you must open the Emroids and Ulcers closed then you must alter Give them Whey to drink purge them the Heart must be cheered as we shall shew in melancholy Sleeping Medicaments Emperical things are the Brain of a Ram that never leaped a sheep the Brain of a Dog of but one colour Box-leaves Roots of yellow water Lillies Amulets are roots of Eringo Briony St. Johns wort Nitre is commended because it fixeth volatil things Spirit of Vitriol Let Topicals be Coolers and rather Moistners as oyl of Roses Camomil c. warm The juyce of live Crabs is held for a Topical that is specifical MARASMUS one is burning or a Hectick Marasmodes another is cold and dry It is called a Hectick of old age or a disease from old-age a third is with swooning which is hot in respect nf the Feaver cold in respect of the swooning MELANCHOLY is the vexation of the Mind fastned upon one thought without a Feaver or Fury proceeding from a Melancholick Phantasme The immediat Subject are the Brain and the Heart as the affects shew For. saw Melancholy with a Feaver
things that are hot The most useful are Wormwood Southern-wood bitter Almonds also Columbine seed The opening syrup of Sennertns of Scholtzius of Dodder From what cause soever it came Tartar Vitriolate is good which Crollius calleth a general digestive Crystals of Tartar Steel Extream mischief may come from too much use of openers When the sick hath taken an Opener let him ly on his right side Let the Topicals be aperient also For. writeth that this following helps miraculously Take of a Wolfs Liver prepared one dram and half species of Diarrhodon Abbatis Diatraganthon frigid of each half a dram Rheubarb Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar of each four grains dissolve it in the decoction of Dodder Maiden-hair with water of Fennel Bugloss Scabious hops with Sugar what may serve make rouls of three drams The Ancients gave one dram of a Wolfs Liver with Wine when there was no Feaver with a Feaver the juce of Endive Cremor Tartar Troches of Capers of Harts-tongue Topicals are unguent Fomentations c. The same way is to cure obstruction of the Spleen OBSTRUCTION of the Passage of hearing If it be from a worm slipt in that must be if it can be drawn forth alive with sweet things as with a sweet Apple roasted or laying on leaven Honey If this do not we must kill it with juyce of Wormwood Peach-kernels Centory the lesse oyl of Hazle-nut-tree Philosophers oyl Spirit of Wine juyce of the Leaves of Elder Hemp dropped in or with Oyl and Vinegar When it is killed it is brought forth by pouring in water Oyl Wine or putting in Tents dipt in Turpentine for it will stick to that or the like If they be hard things to make the Passages slippery drop in warm Oyl but if the thing swell from the humour moist things must not be applyed Sneezing must be procured the Nostrils and Mouth being shut If in vain you must take it out cautiously with Pullers Pareus moreover with the Ancients appoints cutting of the Ears which Aquapendens condemns utterly as hurtful If it be any watery thing the Antients poured in Oyl the Ear lying downward the sick must hop on the Foot on that side the Ear is affected inclining the Head upon that Ear. If in vain sneezing must be provoked or a dry Sponge must be put into the Ear. There is also another manner in Senn. Also it may be sucked forth with the Mouth a Pipe being put into the Ear but the Ear must be stopped with Wax OBSTRUCTION of the Throat by a hard thing it must be taken out with Pullers if the thing can beseen If it cannot be seen strike the Patients Neck with your fist More Vomit with oyls as of sweet Almonds or fat broth Some bid to swallow down great gobbets A Wax-candle or a leaden rule bended anointed with Honey or Oyl is thrust in and the thing is driven forth Cough must be moved by injecting sowre things Fab. obs 36. cent 1. hath described a fitter Instrument See Senn. If in vain you must commit the matter to Nature and Time and by Topicals emollient Plaisters cause it to ripen for the Inflammation being ended the thing is cast forth If any thing slip into the sharp Artery when you eat sneezing is good strike the Patients back with your fist If sand fall into the Eye Clary seed Crabs-Eys Pearls must be put into the Eye let the Eye be shut under the Ey-lid and the thing sticking to Crabs-Eys will fall out together If in vain take it out with Pullers Fab. wife took out Iron with a Loadstone OEDEMA is either Phlegmonodes Scirrhodes or Erysipelatodes The Signs are a whitish colour a soft thin Tumor the Finger pressing it leaves a print If it be otherwise it is from wind Besides Generals and the nature of the part Topicals must not be applyed until the part be first heated by Chafing It is cured either by Resolvers or Suppuratives or by Section as also Atheroma in the Vessel whereof there is matter like Pap. It is more loose and returns slower it is not so hard as a Wen nor so unequal And that out of which stones horns and nails are taken is harder and resisteth the touch Meliceris yeilds quickly and returns The matter is like to Honey Testudo and Meliceris are on the Head and Skull That which is called Talpa differs from Testudo only by hardness and belongs to Atheroma-Natta ost times is bred in the Back the Shoulders and belongs to Steatoma Lupia Pareus cut a Lupia from the neck that weighed eight pound OSSACRUM excoriated is cured Take Sheeps suet Cream of one night of each one dram white chalk half an ounce mingle them or add oyl of Roses or Quinces what may suffice It is prevented by rising with a cord hanging over the Bed let the parts be born up with a hollow pillow lay on linnen osten anointed with unguent of Roses PAIN is the action hurt or the sensitive Faculty a sad sensation The Cause It is no distemper as appears in Section extention nor dissolved unity but when as of one thing there is but one next cause solution of continuity is made from heat cold drieth with and without matter but not from moisture alone from extension and a Malignant humour The Cure All things that gently affect the sense of the part take away the pain as Arodyns the pain is not felt but the cause or they take away the distemper of it so cold things take away heat or they evacuate the matter as Cuppings purging Topicals or they tame the malignity as Aegyptiac or take away the feeling as Narcoticks Question Whether heat of the Aire can cause pain in a Nervous part as in the Ear I deny it because the ambient air is alwaies colder then the heat of the Brain Whether Pain attract Laur. denieth it because Nature should more hurt then profit but the humours more easily fall down on the part weakned and the part weakned cannot discusse the humours PAIN of the Loins In Feavers it proceeds from a diseased cause sent into the large Veins of the Loyns The Cure opening a Vein Cupping Unguent of Roses c. PILES of the Fundament are of two sorts that are outwardly and but one internal from the Vena porta Differences They are either open or blind in the Fundament or Intestin or the sphincter The blind are either bladders from fleam or warts from melancholick blood or Grapes or like Mulberries called Mariscae The Pain is not in the Veins that want feeling but in the adjacent parts from distention The Cause is the opening of the Mouths of the Veins provoked by gross burnt blood hot Purgatives as Aloes they that deny this are worthy to be whipt The internal Piles cannot be searched but by Speculum ani Prognosticks Aph. 11. s 6. In the pain of the Piles if there be not present help there groweth Inflammation or an Ulcer The blind swelling Piles unless they swell mightily and cause vehement
rather fight with medicamentary aliments then with Medicaments POYSON must alwaies be brought out the same way it went into the Body Opening a Vein purging have no place before the third day All unctuous things as Oyl Butter c. are good So Causticks will not ulcerate the part anointed with Oyl If it were taken by the Mouth the first care is to cast it forth by Vomit with fat things adding Antidotes against Poyson If it be got to the Intestins then cast in fat Clysters or give Purgatives with Antidotes as Scorzonera Citrons Sorrel Agarick Aloes Lastly give Specificals Outwardly on the Arteries beating anoint the oyl of Caravita often proved the Basis is Hypericon and Scorpions hide it in a hot carcase Sweaters Milk for meat If it were communicated outwardly let it be cured as these that follow so if one have taken Cantharides sublimate or the like use injections drinks decoctions Baths Topicals and all Internals must be Coolers Moystners If it be the biting of a mad dog close not the wound before fourty days but as often as it would cicatrice keep it open with ashes of a Vine or Fig-tree First of all make hard Ligature above the wound that the poyson spread no further Secondly Call it forth wherefore let the blood run out largely scarify the wound and enlarge it by cutting set Cupping glasses to it also other Artractives to which always add Theriac juyce of Hypericon c. as Doves-dung Urine Pickle Ducks-grease Aqua vitae Wine Vinegat Salt old Treacle Mustard Wash it with most forcible Chafing Garlick Onions Leeks Rue Germander hot Fowls dissected laid on hot but nothing doth so much good as an actual Cautery so the Poyson be not sunk too deep into the Body The Eschar scarified deep must not be removed by oyly means because they hinder transpiration Fab. obs 87. cent 1. old Treacle dissolved in Aqua vitae surpasseth all Remedies Par. with this wash the part strongly and let linnen cloths wet therein be laid to it on which lay attractives Sorrel sharp Docks beaten and laid on the juyce the decoction is good Use these till the pain and various colour cease and laudable quitter be made 3. Specificals also Coolers must be given as cause shall be With Galen above all is the ashes of burnt river Crabs two spoonfuls with one spoonful of the powder of Gentian root and strong Wine Cauteries after the third or the seventh day will not do good An Issue is profitably made on the place affected If it pierce to the inward parts we must purge forcibly by Hellebour also by Antimony saith Paraeus Wash all the Pulses every six hours with oyl of Caravita which they of old called the oyl of the great Duke of Hetruria or with the oyl of Scorpions of Mathiolus Pliny above all commends the root of the Eglantine Eat Garlick Diaphoreticks are most profitable Bird-lime of the Oke the wood is most effectual taken or applyed If madness be at hand lay Sinapisms to the Arms and Thigns Give Antidots in a double Dose whether they will or not Sleep must be avoided till the force of the poyson be broke Let them eat their fill They that come to fear the water are past cure unless they know themselves in a glass A mad Dog seeing the water is afraid of it other dogs fly away If they be taken they fawn on him If a house-Dog refuse to eat or smell to a piece of Bread sineared with the filth of the wound the Dog that bit was mad RENUNCIATIO is called a great wound 1. For the greatness of dissolved unity 2. For the principallity of the part 3. For the ill custome of the Body hurt Let the Chirurgion suspend his judgment until the ninth day lest he be deceived RINGING in the Ears The cause is some matter sticking in the Ear that moveth the Faculty Oft times it is wind lifted up from divers parts The Cure varieth Generals premised some bid take the Fume of Hemlock-seed boyled in Vinegar Fumes of Vinegar and the vapour of it with one Gall. Some apply hot bread sprinkled with Spirit of Wine to the Far resolâ—ing oyls sneezing before supper and in the morning apply Topicals for when they are fed the head is filled STONE of the Reins The cause is Tartar a andy and stony constitution of the Reins Fernelius faith a driness of the Reins Platerus heat Also Venery exercise presently after meat Meat Ayre Drink Concoction hurt Signs diagnostick A burning and painful making of water snotty Urine Belly stopt Fab. obs 63. c. 1 Sense of pain in the Glans obs 66. c. 1. Astonishment of the Leg on the side affected because the Muscle Psoas is pressed or the Nerve of it there is Nauseating and Vomiting from the Nerve of the sixth conjugation It is distinguished from the Colick pain 1. Because in the Colick the pain is most acute because the pain is extended above the Reins 2. Pain of the Colick is moveable of the stone fast 3. In the Colick rather the Belly in the Stone the water is stopt 4. The Nephritick pain by reason of the Ureters descends oft times to the Testicles but in the Colick not so 5. The Colick is most commonly sharpest on the left side by the straightness of the Colon there The cure In the Paroxysm cast in an emollient Clyster evacuant or give such a Potion of Bolus c. 2. If the Body be Plethorick open a Vein in the Arm but if it flow to the part affected in the Ankle 3. We must use all emollient internal means and external as a Cataplasm of the leaves of Pellitary Mallows beaten and boyled with the Mucilage of Linseed Fenugrec a Bath of Marshmallows and a Semicupium of softning things Internals are syrup De Althaea Fernel Also that of Eorestus so much approved Take seeds of mallows Marsh-mallows of each 3 drams red Chiches 3 drams the four great cold seeds of each 2 drams hulled Barley 2 ounces far Figs 12 Sebestens 7 scraped Licoris 1 dram boyl all in four pound of water to two pound Crato applyed Crab-fish boyled in Milk Milk with crumbs of Bread or Take juyce of Purslane thickned one dram Gum Arabick half a dram make Pills The Passages thus loosned give Diureticks to the Patient sitting in a Bath that the Stone may be moved Crato used this that followeth Take Marsh-mallows 2 drams great Raysins stoned 3 drams Veronica and ground Ivy of each one Pugil boyl them and give a draught thereof Or another of Turpentine c. If this be in vain give such things will break the Stone as blood of a Goat or of a Kid hot applyed outwardly also oyl of Scorpions The Patient must ride two miles upon a trotting horse or must go up many stairs till he be weary having taken a Diuretick or chafe him from above nether-wards with oyl of sweet Almonds set on a dry Cupping glasse to his Reins then a little lower then one
another obliquely even unto his Groins But when the pain is extream they must nor be used This must be done until the Stone fall into the Bladder Paraeus L. 16. For. Lib. 14. STONE of the Bladder When the Stone is fallen into the Bladder the pain abates Therefore then if the Forces will endure it the sick must ride or go a journey on soot also he must drink freely and forbear to make water after it as much as he can that the water being augmented the Stone may be driven forth with it In the mean while outwardly and inwardly Diureticks must be applyed When in is come into the Ureter we must be careful that it get not back but with the Fingers it must be brought to the utmost Glans the Passage being made slippery if it stay in the Glans it must be pulled out with Hooks if that be in vain it must be bored out with a piercer included in a Pipe But if it be far from the Glans and can by no Art be got out then the Yard must be cut on the side with a straight line nor above because of the Vessels not beneath for it is a Membranous part In the mean time the Ureter must be tyed with a Thread that it get not back again and the fore-skin must be drawn out as much as may be that it may cover the whole Glans Incision being made and the Stone taken forth the skin must be let go again that the whole skin may cover the Yard that is cut for so the uniting will be the easier The last remedy is cutting for the Stone See Senn. Paraeus Chirurgery I. 16 The extream means are Narcoticks but warily exhibited Crato ep 121. cured the greatest pains discussing the winds by Clyster the heat of the Bowels being increased he so anointed the Navel with oyl of Turpentine Juniper Nutmeg the Stomach with only oyl of Nurmegs he gave by the Mouth the decoction of Veronica with Wine or the decoction of Turneps with Sugar-Candy Butter or Oyle of sweet Almonds but the shell must be taken off and the water of the first boyling must be thrown away he anointed also with the water of whites of Eggs. Fernelius saith that all Stones of the bladder come from the Reins because al slimy matter is voided from the Bladder by-Urine wherefore every Stone of the Bladder if you break the shell there is a Kernel in it that was wrapped up by it it is of an ash colour and rough Fab. cent 4. obs 5. see Hist of Guilh. Laurembergius who cured a Stone of the Bladder with Medicaments Senn. l. 3. p. 8. s 1. c. 2. Waters sent to the Bladder by a Catheter can break a Stone there and one may make tryal of it by stones taken out of the Body The SHINGLES rise from yellow pure thin Choler it eateth because the choler is sharp it causeth small creeping Ulcers and excoriations that are not deep with wanness Some call it Formica but not properly The Cure is by Generals The continent cause must first be cooled as by Lettice c. It sheweth when the heat is abated digestives discussives which are useful If there be Pushes the Coolers must not be moist but dry as Willow leaves Knot grasse Aquapendens used this following Take the juyce of Tobacco three ounces yellow wax two ounces Rosin of the Pine-tree one ounce and half Turpentine one ounce oyl of Myrtils what may suffice make a Cerat For. applyed leaves of Colts-foot Paraeus found unguent of Elecampane with Mercury to be a sure remedy The oyl of Birch branches dried collected in a pewter vessel is commended If it spread daily touch the edges of the Ulcers with the oyl of Vitriol or with Aqua fortis So Pareus cured uncurable Ulcers Par. l. 6. SHIVERING It differs in degree from vehement cold The Subject is the Muscle The Cause the expulsive Faculty moved and so it belongeth to the Symptoms of the natural Faculty but because the animal faculty riseth up also to expel the mischief it is referred to animal Symptoms Gal. and others make the remote cause to be cooling and the motion of the influence of heat from the Center to the Circumference and contrarily but in vehement cold stirred up by Choler also where sharp things are put into an Ulcer or a spark falls upon the Body vehement shaking goeth before cooling Therefore the cause is some troublesome thing suddenly rending the sensitive parts in the circumference of the Body and stirring up the expulsive faculty The opinion of Galen is sometimes true In Feavers extream shaking cometh from the rending of the sensitive parts as of the stomach c. yet so that it draweth into consent the parts in the circumference of the Body as also by the vapours sent thither Cure particular is not requisite for this for it followeth other diâ—eases In Feavers the back must be anointed with hot things as with oyl of Camomil SPOTS natural according to Senn. are bred from imagination of the Mother Par. l. 23. they are made from a part of the menstruous blood sticking yet to the sides of the Matrix from a fresh Flux or from a kind of dew distilling out of the Veins before the time the greater sort incurable also those that are like Warts and wan they are to be washed with the blood of the secondine also with the Courses or the Mothers fasting spittle SPITTING often is of that spittle which is bred in the first concoction and in the third in the Brain and which falls upon the Tonsils it is concocted and voided by the Mouth sometimes it is sharp sometimes white c. The cause is fleam from the Brain or stomach chiefly falling in the morning it comes not alwaies from cold but oft times in diseases from burning heat It cometh also especially that which is made after meat from affection of the Hypochondres the Scurvy It oft times preserveth from diseases It is cured if the cause be taken away as the Catarrh by Dryers and Evacuaters SAHAFATI must not be cured in an Infant for it preserveth it from the Epilepsie yet if we must do something let the Nurse be purged gently wash the Head with decoction of Mallows Borrage Barley this being done lay on warm Cabbadge leaves anointed with Butter or of Ivy also the leaves of Orache anointed or roots of Marsh-mallows boyld in Boys urine Topicals are allowd or the juyce of Fumitory Scabious Elecampane Lytharge oyl of Nuts Hogs grease For. hath an infallible remedy for Boys and Infants Take the yolks of Eggs roasted hard sixteen Myrth one dram root of Cuckoe pint half a dram black Hellebour six grains fry them in an iron frying pan without flame until they froth then presse out the oyl and fry them so often and presse them out till they will froth no more cast away the dregs and keep the oyl in a close vessel for your use In those that are of years it is
cured by Digesters and chiefly by remedies that evacuate fleam and melancholy Till these be often used Topicals are not good which must be to soften the crusts afterwards the juyce or decoction of Fumitory sharp Dock Celandine Ivy leaves Scabious Bean-meal Galen only used burnt paper soaked in Vinegar and anointed the part affected and so cured many Urine Brine For. puts this following for a secret Take Salt butter Hogs grease of each one ounce Brimstone half an ounce Quicksilver killed with spittle one dram a certain Boy was killed by Quicksilver laid to his Head and Vitriol one scruple then Butter Hogs grease Brimstone must be melted a part in a Mortar then add the rest Cresses fried or beaten with Hogs grease Lastly it is cured as the Small-Pox with the the decoction of Guaicum fasting spittle with liquor dropping from green wood in burning Plum tree Gum things that expell the matter or Carduus Benedictus and Harts-horn are good Balsam of Peru or Turpentine boyled with water or juyce of Tobacco The SCAB A certain woman did happily cure all Scabs with juyce of Cresces and Goose grease SCIRRHUS is a Tumor which is made of melancholy or natural fleam dried by degrees in the part and is without pain Platerus saith that it may be made from nutrimental juyce thickned and hardned Diagnosticks It is hard and without pain though it be pressed The colour is wan if it be from melancholy it is cold Prognostick That which hath lost all feeling is past cure They are cured either by resolution or suppuration this is more rare and more dangerous It followeth Erysipelas Inflammation c. The Cure is wrought by Emollients we must never moysten or resolve alone but either by Courses it must be moistned and dried or together as the Ancients warn us A fume of Vinegar with a fire-stone resolveth excellently The antecedent cause must be evacuated A SCIRRHUS of the Liver followeth obstructions frequently It is seldom known there is an ill habit of the Body little Urine without a Feaver See the rest in Obstruction of the Liver It is cured as before ever adding Spicknard Saffron Mastick If the Convex part be so Topicals are principal Goose dung Sarsoparilla Fern root Succories Emollients Steel SCIRRHUS of the Spleen is known by the touch there is difficulty of breathing a wan colour weight on the left side when the Belly is full there is straightness about the Spleen If the Mouth stink the Gums be eaten Ulcers in the Legs will not be cured it is an old Scirrhus The Cure Lenitives premised Alteratives Evacuatives Opening of a Vein is seldome convenient Aperients are good to which add Vinegar and Oxymel Coolers are Succories four great Cold seeds c. chiefly Fern root Amatus denyeth Harts Tongue to be good for the Spleen We must purge by course For. exhibited this following opener for fifteen days after the use of Generals Take Fern roots half an ounce of Dodder two drams boyl them in eight ounces of White-wine and Beer to the wasting of a third part strain it and drink it at once The most effectual means is the decoction of the Tamarisk wood as Guaicum is wont to be boyled especially if it be boyled in steeled water Steel water of quick Lime Ammoniacum with Hemlock See Senn. Some tried waters natural others drink of the wood they were preserved from falling further but not cured these were made worse I think by too much drying For. values much the following Topical Take of oyl of Cappars one ounce oyl of Lillies sweet Almonds Camomil fresh Buttet of each half an ounce juyce of Bryony Sow-bread of each half an ounce boyl them to the wasting of the juyces adding Ammoniac dissolved in Vinegar two drams and half Hens grease Marrow of Calves Legs Mans fat of each half an ounce Powder of bark of the roots of Tamarisk Cappars Miltworst Fern root of each one dram Powder of the seeds of Agnus Castus Broom of each one scruple a little wax make an Unguent or a fomentation of water wherein fire-stone is quenched Fumes motion before meat is good If it be incurable they are kept alive by Diet and by purging in Spring and Autumn The SCURVEY Which in the year 1486 invaded Germany as Spangenb saith is an ill habit of the natural parts from a melancholik humour especially corrupted The Subject is that hollowness of Spiegelius into which the Liver Spleen Stomach unload their Excrements The fountaine is in the Liver the Spleen yet the Liver oft times and oft times the Spleen hath been safe The seat are the Veins and Arteries The Cause immediate is a tanateous humour bred from concoction hurt either of it self or by outward error a watery blood oft times mingled with other things if it become malignant is the next cause if it be not already the antecedent cause for it is malignant It is generated by reason of concoction hurt by things natural not natural preternatural and by the volatil salt that is in meats and ventilation wanting So Platerus determins that meat and drink may become blood under the form of vapours So it is cured by remedies full of volatil salt as by Scurvey-grasse out of which if either by length of time or by boyling the volatil salt should exhale they grow unprofitable Wherefore juyce and conserve are most profitable So meats that breed the Scurvey abound with fixed salt to be cured by volatil Vinegar makes for this and meats hardned by smoke Signs There preceeded grosse Dyet sorrow which if did precede there will be no disease but will be joyned with the Scurvey Signs at the beginning are willing laziness heavinesse of the Abdomen difficulty of breathing after exercise weaknesse of the Legs with pain the colour groweth wan a man seems to grow fat Afterwards happeneth an itching redness of the Gums a small Pulse the water sometimes clear sometimes troubled after this stinking of the Mouth a bloody swelling of the Gums the Teeth are loose the Legs have lead coloured spots and purple specks innumerable The appetire seldome fails The sick say they are sound some on certain days with and without a Feaver are more afflicted Some are boundin their Bellies others loose The Feet are spotted sometimes they swell are made lesse There are Ulcers on their Legs a crooked melancholy vein under the Tongue All symptoms of the animalfaculty Dropsy Gangrene oft times Scabs a bastard Pluresy bleeding at the Nose bloody stools opening of Veins in the Legs The Jaundies shortness of breath Wild-fire heat pain of the soles of the Feet noise of the Bones moved spongy flesh under the Ey-lids In hard breathing the sick shew the cause to be under the Diaphragma red little sands in their urine also Tartareous matter pain of the whole Body pains increasing about the Joynts pain of the Belly oft times with breach of the Peritonaeum That pain differs from the Colick because this when the Belly is loose vanisheth the
Belly is lifted up These pains oft times last beyond fourty days they make hollow the Belly they pull the right Intestine upwards so that Clysters cannot be injected but byforce the matter oft times sticks between the two Coats of the Intestins pain of the Loyns pain of the Kidnies the Joynt Gout with a Small Palsey and a wandring pain A Palsey growing suddenly quickly moveable wandring sudden Tumors trembling Convulsion sudden blindness suffocation at the first morsel of meat from a styptick vapour affecting the sharp Artery and Weason Vomiting spitting heat sudden redness of the Face and suddenly down All scorbutical people have a stinking breath wandring Feavers wherein the cold fit oft times dureth six ot seven hours The Pulse besides the reason of Feavers is slow the urines various Tertians are frequent oft times without cold Erysipelas Ulcers almost incurable Prognosticks A most slow Pulse must not affright us for it is not mortal by it self in the Scurvey At first it cured by only changing the Aire It bath been often mistaken for the Pox. Want of speech oft comes with a kind of Epileptical Convulsion from the Muscles of the Larynx contracted In the beginning of Feavers oft times Carus groweth that ceaseth of it self Swelling of the Knees are hardly cured It is an ill sign for the spots to vanish without being better The Cure â— Premising a Clyster if there be Plethora and nothing hinder also in progress of the disease a Vein must be opened directly in the Arm with a broad Lancet For. openeth the salvatella of the left hand we must oft times open in divers parts sparingly The spots indicate contrarily the matter must be altered and after that at several times we must Purge gently It is exasperated with stronger means Many have been cured without Purging If with a good urine the disease increase it is a sign that the Remedies are weaker then they should be We must open by turns adding Specificals For. Syrup against the Scurvey is made of the juyce of Scurvey grass and Brooklime with Sugar Senn. Powder of Sennâ— is this Take choice Senna leaves one ounce and half Cremor Tartar six drams Cinamon three drams Cloves Galinga of each half a dram Dâ—agridium one dram infuse for one night two or three drams of this powder in Whey strain it drink the infusion Sweet Milk the decoction of Brook-lime Cresces Mustard seed evacuations and alteratives repeated we must give Specificals as Scurvey grasse all kinds of Cresses Brook-lime which is less hot is moist is good in Feavers Mingle Scurvey grass with Brooklime it is excellent Horse Radish lesser Celandine The third kind of Howsleek which is not safe some only commend Mustard Cuckoe pint Succory Endive Sorrel juyce of Citrons Lemmons spirit of Salt Vitriol Brimstone are given most fitly in Whey by reason of their heat The decoction of Wormwood Birkmans powder with salt of Scurvey-grass Cresses Rocket seed or spirit of Scurvey grasse c. which will take flame as well as spirit of wine sowre waters then Diureticals and Diaphoreticks as Rob of Elder to three drams then Coroboratives Symptomatical diseases as the Jaundies Dropsy Feavers are never rightly cured and are often cured to no purpose by Physicians unless the Scurvey be cured the fault of the Gums is cured by abstergents as Columbines spirit of Vitriol and specificals in Gargarisms also by Scurvey grasse water Brook-lime Tobacco Masticatories powder of burnt Salt ashes of the tendrils of Veins Sage leaves Allom. The Spots are taken away with resolving Topicals eating Oranges with their Rinds is very good Milk SPHACELUS of the bones is made either from the contagion of the Aire or matter or moist medicaments It is known by sight when they grow wan partly by the Prbe when no slippery thing but many sharp things meet with it and when it easily entreth their spongie substance yet often times rotten bones are most hard If flesh brought over the bone be too soft and fluid having almost no sense if out of a wound the matter run more then it is wont or should run if the brims of the Ulcer be turned inward we must first strew in the powder of Orris root Gentian Birthwort Centory Pine bark burnt Wax Myrrh Ceruss If it be very great scrape it off with Raspers yet Fab. cent 8. counteth this dangerous not to be used but in great rottenness of the bones He rather obs 92. cent 2. strewed even in children also with great success the powder of Gum Thistle very safely upon Ulcers with rottenness of the bones the lips of the Ulcers not having any defensative Whence he collects that Diosc was deceived or else we know not the Gum Thistle of the Ancients Or if scraping Instruments be in vain the scales must be removed or taken away by a Trepane except in the Hip bones Thigh Head Spondils c. If it be to no purpose give a vulnerary Potion to expect the scaling of the corrupt Bone and not to force it off or the scales being ready to fall hasten motion but not the falling SNEESING overmuch is taken away by Lenitives Preparatives Evacuating c. by smell of cold things as Violets Roses snuff up the decoction of Poppies Roses water of Violets avoid all spices The Nostrils must be stopped the breath held smell of Bread smell of opium of Mandragora root also sneezing coming upon a mortal disease presageth safety put your Hands into cold water snuff up Milk See Aph. 13. s 6. STRANGURY is wherein the water is made by drops with pain Dysuria is otherwise taken for only diminishing of urine either with or without pain as before otherwise when the urine is not made by drops and in a due quantity without interruption but it is with pain The Cause A sharp humor sticking fast to the Sphincter of the Bladder as in Tenasmus also a stone inflammation an Ulcer sharp urine either of it self namely when by reason of crudity contracted in the Liver either the coldness of the Bladder is corrupted and becomes sharp or by the mixture of sharp humours if it be from thinness of drink exercise the raw drink is drawn to the Reins and driven forth Aph. 44. s 6. The Cure varieth as the cause is If the urine be sharp we must soften cool by Internals Topicals Emulsions For. cured himself and others when all failed with a decoction of Mallows and syrup of Violets Whey of Goats-Milk injections candle tallow anointed Nutmegs The cause of Dysuria is the fault of the urinary passages not of the Sphincter also of the Bladder STRANGLING of the Womb. The cause is a malignant vapour sent from the Seed menstrual blood and other humours sticking in the Testicles and the Pipe Fallop his Pipe and the Testicles when these hang down that being light and stretched by wind they often ascend upwards and are taken for the rising of the Mother which is alwaies fast bound This is proved by the observation of