of water thereto boyl it to half and strain it This they may drink freely at Meate and othertimes and it will not be unpleasant when they are used to it especially if you add a little Cinnamon or Sugar or Raisons boyled therein others add many things as Liquorish which causeth a Physical tast and make them loath it except you put Wine to it which is allowed but in great weakness Sleep is allowed not only at night but in the morning and before supper when they Sweat because it doth not only provoke sweat but being at rest they better indure it Let him walk about the Chamber use Frictions or Rubbings especially after Sweat let him Comb and Rub his Head Also You must keep the Belly loose which is apt to be bound by fasting and sweating Let him beware of Venery and refresh his Mind with Sport Discourse and Musick You must alwaies purge before you begin to give Guiacum for sweating to void the thick Humors and Excrements And somtimes you must purge in the time of the Dyet the rather if the Body be fowl that the Cure may proceed the better because it helpeth the operation of the Guiacum by taking away the cause of the Disease And because no certain humor as was shewed produceth this Disease therefore you must direct your purges to the constitution and to the quantity and quality of the Humors and Excrements Thus First give an Emollient Clyster to take away the Excrements from the Guts that may clense and be sharp such as are prescribed in many places Or a Suppository or give Cassia Manna some mollifing Decoction the the Infusion of Rubarb syrup of Roses Solutive syrup of Peach flowers Catholicon and other mild Electuaries or gentle Pills or Lozenges such as are Mentioned in other Diseases These being administred If the Body be ful let blood in the Arme which is not needful in the Flegmatick and leane Bodies except used to it Then prepare the Humors as we suppose they abound if they be Cholerick or sharp with syrup of Fumitory Hops Bugloss Mayden-hair Endive Succory Violets Apples or the like with proper Waters as of Scabious and the like and so let him take thse Juleps some daies together before Purging When they are Flegmatick and ful of pain we add the syrup of Stoechas or French Lavender which is very good made of Bettony and Hysop also Honey of Roses and the like with the waters of those Plants or of Calamints Bawm c. And when there is pain about the bones the water of ground pine and Prim-roses You may also prepare with Decoctions made of the same Herbs We put Spices as Cinnamon into those Juleps and Decoctions to make them pleasant Or Trionsantalon Diarhodon Aromaticum Rosatum Or give a Lozenge thereof after it Many times we purge and prepare at the same time mixing gentle purgers with the preparatives when they are weak and Cholerick or stronge purges when they are Flegmatick and Lusty Proper for the Humors we intend to oppose especially such as purge watery Salt and sharp Humors when there are Spots and Ulcers such as were prescribed in divers Diseases especially in the Itch. Or if there be pain about the bones we must give such as are prescribed in the Diseases of the Joynts from watry Humors We give these Apozems or Decoctions for five or six daies to prepare and purge Thus made Take the Herbs following with the Roots Succory Endive Dandelion Docks Sorrel Bugloss Capillar Herbs Scabious Germander of all five or six handfuls Fumitory Hops pot Mercury of each one handful Asparagus or Kne-holm and Grass Roots of each two ounces Cordial flowers three pugils red Roses two pugils Tamarisk flowers one pugil Prunes ten Raisons three ounces Sebestens or Jujubs twenty of the four great Cold seeds and Annis seed of each half an ounce Fennel seeds two drams Boyl them in Water or in the Decoction of Guiacum strained which is more proper And infuse Senna three ounces or four Polypody Carthamus seed of each two ounces Epithymum two drams Boyl them again and then add Sugar or Honey to sweeten it with a little Cinnamon In moist Flegmatick Bodies add these following Calamus Aromaticus or Galangal one ounce and an half Elicampane Bettony Majoram each one handful Rosemary and Lavender flowers of each one pugil tops of Time one pugil and an half Figs twelve Caraway seeds one dram and those that purge water bark of Elder and Dwarfe Elder one ounce and an half or stronger purgers Agarick or Rdubarb half an ounce Turbith three drams Soldanella two drams or in strong men who commonly have this Disease Hermodacts two drams in the pain of the bones Or half a dram of the Pulp of Coloquintida tied in a cloute which is strong or one dram and an half of black Hellebore If there be pain in the Head and Bones you must add things good against it and against Poyson as Tormentil roots and the like you may use the Decoctions mentioned for the Itch as that which begins thus Take the roots of Docks three ounces of Grass c. Or you may give purging Wines made of the simples of the former Decoction infused therein or that prescribed in the Itch. After preparation or purging with preparation we use strong purges if we suppose the Body not purged sufficiently we give strong Purges divers waies by adding to the last draught of the Decoction an Electuary or the like that purgeth or another Decoction Electuary or Pills considering the spots Pustles Ulcers and Pains Commonly they purge Melancholly that suppose it to be the cause of the Pox and therefore they give Confectio Hamech and Diasenna also Pills of Lapis Lazuli of Fumitory and others mentioned in Melancholly Diseases And we allow these in strong people because they Purge Choller and sharp Humors of all sorts Other Purges also mentioned in the Cure of the Scabs and if there be pains about the bones Pils of Hermodactils stinking Pils or Pilulae faetidae and others mentioned in Arthritis And many others mentioned in other Diseases which have both Scammony and Coloquintida which are used indifferently though many think they should purge but one Humor But Empericks and Chyrurgions presently purge without preperation before they use things that Evacuate by the habit of the Body and without choice of purges or careing what Humor so they do but purge sufficiently Therefore they give the strongest And among the rest Wine wherein an Apple of Coloquintida hath been all night infused or that wherein some of the lesser Spurge Seeds have been insused or they bid them swallow the seeds or they purge at first with the Decoction of Hellebore such as we mentioned in Cure of the Itch where we shewed how the Empericks cured the Itch and other Diseases only with Stybium infused which is good here also As also how good purging at first in many perverse Diseases hath excellent success as with the dry leaves of true
Decoction of Zedoary add syrup of Vinegar an ounce The second Take Treacle a dram juyce of Scabious Carduus each an ounce dissolved in Wine A third Take Treacle or Mithridate a dram Angelica roots Sorrel seeds and Hearts horn each a scruple give it with Angelica water A fourth Take Treacle two scruples Pouder of Vervain a dram Saffron seven grains water of green Nuts four ounces drink it hot 't is from Helidaeus A fifth Take Treacle a dram prepared Bole half a dram Species Liberantis and Diamarganton frigid each a scruple Sorrel Carduus and Scabious water each an ounce with half an ounce of syrup of Limons A sixth Take Treacle and Mithridate each half an ounce Electuary of the Egg two drams species liberantis a dram Bole prepared half an ounce with syrup of Sorrel make an Electuary give two drams A seventh Take Treacle a dram Vervain half a dram Saffron and Camphire each half a scruple with Nut water and Vinegar make a potion An eighth Take Treacle three drams Ginger Gamphire Sugar candy each half an ounce give a dram The ninth Take Tormeueil Dittany and Angelica roots each two drams Zedoary and Gentian each a dram Scordium two drams Vervaine a dram Ginger Camphire and Saffron each half a dram make a pouder add Treacle and Mithridate each two ounces give a dram and an half The tenth Take an onyon a little boyled steep it in Vinegar and strain it add Treacle a dram syrup of Limons an ounce you may add Garlick for strong Bodies An eleventh Take Castor half a scruple roots of Birth-wort Gentian and Treacle each half a dram give it with strong Vinegar and Sorrel water A twelfth called Mountpelior Wolf Take juyces of Rue Sage Burnet Centaury Pennyroyal Wormwood Valerian Mother-wort green Wall-nuts each equal parts Honey half as much as all boyl them to a syrup Take an ounce thereof to Treacle half an ounce Bole and sealed Earth of each two drams with Vinegar and Wine if he be not hot give it at the first lying down A thirteenth flower of Brim-stone a sâ—ruple Saffron half a scruple Frankincense half a dram Treacle a dram give it with convenient waters A fourteenth Take Treacle a dram Electuary of the Egg half a dram Oyl of Vitriol seven drops strong Vinegar an ounce Sorrel and Borage water each an ounce A fifteenth very hot Take Cookow pints or Dragon roots a dram or each half a dram Angelica roots a dram Rue and Vervam each half a dram Saffron a scruple Camphire half a scruple make a pouder give a dram with Treacle a dram dissolved in Vinegar and Scabious water A sixteenth of Laurel prepared in Vinegar Take of the Saxon Antidote and Treacle each half a dram dissolve it in Sorrel water with Vinegar of Roses six drams syrup of Limons half an ounce Some use this Fume to provoke sweat Take Sorrel Rue Scabious each a handful with Aloes Mirrh Mastick Saffron steeped in Water and Vinegar and sprinkled upon a hot Brick make a Fume for the whol Body A certain physitian to provoke sweat boyled Guajacum Tormentil Danewort and Burdock roots and with a little Sublimate Mercury dipt a sheet in it and wrapt the patient hot therein Some sweat with the Fume of Cinnabar or Antimony as in the pox Also Frictions draw forth and cause sweat or make insensible transpiration It must be done before sweat appears it is best with a hand dipt in warm water or with scaâ—let and let the body be wel covered and quiet also Friction is good after spots appear to make them come forth Vomiting is also used when Vomiting is a Symptom especially and to expel the venom by a violent motion and to cast out the Botch Some give it at the first others after a Clyster or after an Antidote others give it presently after bleeding and brag of Miracles The gentlest are of loosners and cutters as syrup of Vinegar or two ounces of juyce of Erysimum with Scabious Carduus or Bugloss water One saith that he Cured the plague miraculously with water of wood Sorrel Vinegar and Oyl of Vitriol others give Asarabacca and an Indian Nut. The Empericks give the strongest Droâ—tus writes that a Chirurgion gave a Vomit of Chalcanthum prepared presently after bleeding and did wonders Mathiolus gives five grains of Stibium with the Electuary Liberantis and an Emperick did imitate him here in 1564. Mathiolus also gives praecipitate in Sugar of Roses Or we must give Clysters and purge Before bleeding give a Clyster or suppository and it makes an Antidote work better when no Vein is opened but a Clyster given And one brag'd that he cured the plague by only a Clyster Bleeding and an Antidote Therefore we usually give Clysters if the body be not very weak Because they work speedily and loose no time That which clenseth and loosneth is best As the common Decoction with Cassia Catholicon or Tryphera Crato gives a Decoction of pauls Bettony with salt-Butter others add Barley cream to temper the Humors Purging doth little because it cannot expel the cause except nature being at first stir'd up by a strong purge cast some of the Venom out but that is dangerous because it weakneth strength is required to go through it And because they are subject to a Flux of the Belly and it may carry them away as one was by stibium given by an Emperick which he called a present Remedy who died upon the stool with violent evacuation Therefore first consider whether the body be clean or foul if clean purge not rashly for it wil do hurt if foul from whnce a putrid Feaver may arise we may purge not to expel the venom but the filth which will cause a Feaver But have a care of the strength and defer it to the declination when the state of the Disease is best if strength be at first purging may do a little good except the botch comes forth and commands forbearance nor must they hinder the chief Medicines which expel for they must be given first and nature inclines to that at first After an hour or two sweating at the first if strength be good and we perceive the putrid Feaver to over top the venom we give a gentle purge to take away filth which will increase the Feaver that when that is gone nature may be stronger Time permits not long preparatives but all the time we may give altering Medicines to allay the foul Humors and strengthen the Heart And when the venom is gone and a putrid Feaver remains we then begin to prepare and purge as in putrid Feavers When need therefore requires we may give these following with respect to the Age and constitution Tryphera persica or Sarracenica a dram with Sorrel Scabious or Bugloss water Or thus Take Yellow and Chebs Myrobalans each a dram and an half Tamarinds an ounce Cordial and Scabious flowers each a pugil boyl them and add Rhubarb a dram Cinnamon half a dram strain it and
six Polypody two ounces Carthamus seeds an ounce Senna an ounce and an half tops of Time and Epithymum each half an ounce white Hellebore a dram or more Schaenanth two drams boyl them and add of Myrobalans a dram and half add to the straining juyce of sweet Apples half a pint with Sugar make an Apozem for three or four Doses or boyl it to a Syrup Or these Pills Take Pill Indy two scruples Aggregative half a dram with juyce of Fumitory or Balm water make Pills Or these Take species Hiera without Saffron a dram and an half extract of Polypody and all the Myrobalanes each two scruples Hellebore and Scammony each a scruple Lapis Lazuly prepared half a dram Oyl of Lavender flowers three drops with syrup of Fumitory make a Mass give it from half a dram to a dram If a Cephalalgia or a long Cephalaea or Hemicrania come from flegm or waterish humors they must be purged as other Diseases of the Head mentioned Give Pills of Hiera or Allephanginae often which are good when vapors from the Stomach offend the Head or stronger as Cochy stinking Pills called Faetidae or more temperate as of Sarcocol or Agarick Or these Take species of Hiera picra two drams Agarick Turbith each a dram Troches of Alhandal Diagridium Nut-meg each half a dram Ginger a scruple Sal gem half a scruple Mastick half a dram Oyl of Cloves and Lavender flowers each two drops with syrup of Staechas make a Mass give two scruples and repeat them in old Head-aches and add Pills Cochiaee if they work not enough Or this Pouder Take Turbith two scruples Diagrydium three grains Tartar of white Wine Gingar and Lavender flowers of each a scruple with Sugar give it in broath Or this of Dr. Ruland called Pulvis Diatartar it is very pleasant Take Senna six drams Crystal of Tartar an ounce Fennel and Annis seeds each a dram Cinnamon half a dram Sugar of Roses a dram and an half or two drams make fine Pouder give a spoonful or more at a time often Or give Tablets of Diacarthamum or Diaphaenicon Or this Potion Take Liquorish six drams Calamus Aromaticus half an ounce Hysop and Marjoram each half an handful Staechas and Rosemary flowers each a pugil Figs five pair Dates three Annis and Fennel seeds each a dram Senna two drams Carthamus seeds three drams boyl them and infuse Agarick a dram Ginger a scruple strain them and dissolve Diaphaenicon and Electuary Indy each a dram make a Potion Or this Apozem Take Liquorish an ounce and an half Parsley and Grass roots each an ounce Acorus Orris and Galangal each half an ounce Bettony Sage Marjoram Hysop Vervam nnd Maiden hair each a handful Rosemary Staechas Lavender Bugloss flowers each a pugil Fennel and Annis seeds of each two drams Parsley Carua and Seseli seeds each a dram Piony seeds a dram and an half Raysons stoned twelve pair Figs eight pair Dates five pair sweet Prunes eight Polypody two ounces Senna and Carthamus seeds each an ounce and an half Agarick half an ounce Turbith three drams boyl them and add Honey as much as is fit Cinnamon two drams Ginger a dram Cubebs and Nutmeg each two drams make an Apozem for three or four Doses or a syrup if you please There are things purge the Head by the Nose and Mouth good when flegm abounds And these are best when the Humor was wont to pass that way and is stopped Also they are good in Choller and Melancholly pains but they must be used after other Evacuations Those that cause Neesing cause heaviness of Head somtimes if the Head-ach be from vapors they presently take it away as it doth from drunkards whom it comes upon and takes away Head-ach They are thus made as in other Head diseases A Masticatory to chew Take Mastick half an ounce Angelica seeds and Nutmeg each a scruple mix them with Wax or chew them in a clour A stronger Take Mastick two drams Staphisager and Pellitory roots each a dram long Pepper Cubebs and Nutmeg each a scruple make Pouder and with Wax make forms to be chewed A Gargarism Take Orris Capper and Pellitory roots each half an ounce roots of masterwort two drams Hysop Organ Sage Time each a handful Staechas and Rosemary flowers each a pugil Mustard seed half an ounce Nettle seed an ounce Nutmeg two drams boyl them in Wine and Water in a pint and half strained dissolve Oxymel of Squils two ounces An Errhine to snuffe up Take juyce of Marjoram an ounce and an half juyce of Brooklime Beets and Vinegar of Squils each an ounce Manna half an ounce Or this Liniment for the Nostrils Take Scammony a dram Gith seeds Pellitory and Sowbread roots each a scruple Gall of any Fish five drops Oxymel of Squils make an Oyntment Or put in this Pessary to the Nose Take the Medicine last aforesaid add Orobus flowers to thicken it or bruised Marjoram or a Beet root the inward being taken off or if you will neese the inward part of Hellebore like pith or the Pouder of it It is most convenient to give a Vomit when Head-ach comes from vapors rising from the Stomach as in drunkness for it presently takes away the Cause Therefore if nature doth not of herself give a vomit as we shewed in other diseases of the Head Giddiness and Drunkenness But in other cases when the Head suffereth from its self it is not good to vomit rashly while the Head akes violently Because by the strong motion and straining to vomit the Head will be shaken and blood spirits and humors sent to it which will increase the pain But a vomit may somtimes be allowed out of the fit to hinder increase of Excrements Sweating is good when Head-ach comes from watery Excrements after general purging because the Excrements are drawn forth thereby therefore in old Cephalaeas and in those pains from the French Pox they are given to Cure the disease and Symptom by way of Decoction with slender Diet for some time as we shall shew But it is not good in a hot cause or Cephalalgia because sweat cannot be raised without great heat which will increase pain In the extremity of Head-ach the last remedy is to Evacuate by the Skin of the Head for so the whol body may be cleansed by applying things thereto that make great Evacuations those that purge only the remainder shall be mentioned in the altering Medicines But these are good in old disperate Head-achs to draw the Excrements from the Membranes of the Brain and let them out These are very hot attracters of humors that consume them also Lixivium or Lie and Oyntments and Cupping-glasses or things that inflame or make the Head red or burning Vesicatories that blister or Cauteries that cause an Eschar actually or potentially They are applied behind in the Neck such as we mentioned in other diseases of the Head Cutting or Trepanning in the Head that is taking out a peice of the Skul
as Atheorema Steatoma Meliceris When Scirrhus is in a fleshy part whether it follow Inflammation which is usual The Cure of Scirrhus or grow of it self which is seldom and is either one or more together as in the Belly somtimes there is a scirrhus in the flesh or made of Glanduls or Kernels when they grow hard and confirmed without sense of pain which can neither be softned disussed or maturated or made ripe but if it be not grown to the height but it is yet sensible there is hope of Cure This Cure is to be attempted with strong Remedies because weak will not prevail first disposing and ordering the Body by Purgations if needful or other Evacuations so that if it be foul or supply the part with Humors that may not hinder the work But in respect of the scirrhus it self especially if it come from Inflammation which dryed up the Juyce or from some thick Juyce which belongs to another part brought hither there is no necissity to follow the Custome of purging thick Humors But rather to apply those things that mollifie the scirrhus make it thin and discuss it these may be either mixed together or applied severally The things prescribed for a scirrhus scrophula may do well here When we desire to soften we use Oyls Fat 's and Mucilages or slimes and things made of Gums and Gum drops there mentioned Or this Cataplasm following Take Althaea or Marsh-mallow roots and Lillies each two ounces Orris roots one ounce the four mollifying Herbs Orage Coleworts Pellitory of each about three handfuls Chamomil and Melilot flowers each one pugil Line seed and Foenugreek each one ounce and an half boyl them in Water or fat Broath stamp them and add of Hens Grease or Goose Grease or the like about two ounces Oyl of Olive and of sweet Almonds each one ounce make a Cataplasm Foment it often with a Decoction of the same Plants or Oyl of Lillies and of sweet Almonds or Oyl in which emollient things have been boiled But when we intend to soften and discuss we must apply divers Roots and Herbs and Dungs with Pouders or the like and Emplasters for the same Things good in a Scirrhus may be used here as Raddish roots beaten with Nettle roots Onions roasted in the Embers and beaten with the flesh of Snails and other things Also Misleto with Time and Grease Also Pitch or Rosin with Wax and Grease and Pouder of Marchasites called Fire stones The Blood of a Bull with Barley flower or other Flowers Those Fomentations which we commended for scrophulas may be used for to digest and soften a Scirrhus A Fumigation of Vinegar poured upon a hot stone is good in a scirrhus Or if you heat the Marcasites or Fire-stones and cast them into Vinegar or if you quench Iron in Vinegar and let the Vapor come to the Scirrhus If you rub a Scirrhus as was shewed in Scrophula before you use outward Applications they will work the better It is Rashness to attempt to cut off a scirrhus or burn it off because it is deep rooted that it cannot be taken off without Danger of much bleeding and worse Inconveniency Moreover it will be Labour in vain to take off part of it with pain and leave the rest behind to grow again We have sufficiently shewed in a Cachexy and in the Dropsie The Cure of Scirrhus and Kernels in the Belly how the Tumors in the upper part of the Belly comming from the Scirrhus of the Liver or Spleen are to be cured And if a Tumor come from a scirrhus in the bottom of the Womb The Cure of Sirrhus in the Womb. externally in the lower part of the Belly it must be cured as a scirrhus and we have shewed in the Inflammation of the Womb how it is to be ordered if it tend to an Inflammation And though it be hard to be cured of what Cause soever it comes yet it must be attempted for to abate it Wherefore after the Body is purged and prepared we give such things as are mentioned in the Scirrhus of the Liver or spleen as Pills of Ammoniacum and the like mentioned in a Cachexy which comes from that Scirrhus you may apply the things mentioned for an outward Scirrhus and for Scrophula when the Tumor is in the Belly to be felt hard As Fomentations of Oyls or Decoctions adding things that respect the Matrix As Roots of Marsh-mallows Lillies Flower-de-luce Briony Mallows Line seed Faenugreek Figs Flowers of Chamomil Violets Melilot and other softners and digesters there mentioned Mugwort Nip Flower of Featherfew Elder Dane-wort Hops And in the Declination Calaminths Penny-royal Rosemary Flowers and of French Lavender The Oyntments Plaisters and Cataplasmes mentioned in the External Scirrhus are good here made of Fat 's slimes and Gums and of Plants To these add things for the Matrix as Rue and Wormwood Also Roots of Mandraks Henbane leaves or Poppy or Hemlock boiled in Wine and made up with Oyl and Grease are excellent to which you may put Gums dissolved Dioscorides adviseth Wormwood Rue Flower of Lupines with Myrrh Galen Goose blood with Foenugreek or Lupines Diachylon with Orris is the best ordinary Plaister there are other Plaisters and Cerots mentioned in the Cure of Knots or Nodes Also Oyl of Myrtles Storax and the like Also those Pessaries mentioned in the Scirrhus of the Womb comming of Inflammation are good here with the Oyls aforesaid and Juyce of Foenugreek Also the Fumigation there mentioned Dioscorides commends the Fume of Agrimony The Cure of Atheroma Steomata Meliceris Atheroma Steatoma and Meliceris are often without hurt and therefore are neglected and turn to Imposthumes as the Tumors in the Head called Talpae or Moles and Testitudines and Snails The Cure is not so difficult as that of scrophula and scirrhus and they may be taken off when they hinder the part as we said concerning the Atheroma under the Chin. It is done as that of scrophula struma parotis and scirrhus by using first general means if need be as purging and the like and then applying particulars to the tumor that dissolve soften and ripen mentioned in Scrophula and they will do it sooner in these Tumors which are not so hard and cousume them if not yet confirmed or bring them to Imposthumes which must be broken and cured as an Ulcer Dioscorides commends Raysons stoned beaten with Rue to cure a Meliceris also sour Dock with Oyl of Roses faffron and Melilot And for a Steatoma Crowfoot flowers with a Cerot These are also good Roots of Sowbread Dragons with old Grease and Brimstone Unslaked Lime with Grease or Oyl Dogs dung or the like with Vinegar Gum Ammoniack or Bdellium in Vinegar and Honey Or this of Pitch Take Ship Pitch dissolved one ounce Pouder of Brimstone half an ounce spread them upon Leather take it off every day and wipe it and lay it on again renewing it every fourth day Also
Cure of preternatural Efflation which comes from breath depraved was shewed in depraved Breathing The Cure of preternatural Efflation Nor can you cure that Snorting which is from the straitness of the Nostrils any way The Cure Snorting but as you cure the stoppage of Breath by the straitness of the Nostrils as we shewed there as also how you should purge the Nose from Snot and Flegm Notwithstanding if it come from the fault of the Instrument when the nose is flat or strait it can scarce be taken away but it may be mended if they sleep not upon their back but side In Horses this snorting is cured by cutting the Nostrils Belching and Farting though they are good and for easement The Cure of belching and farting yet because they are unseemly they are to be restrained or to be let privately But if they be so forcible that they cannot be stayed without danger you must hinder the increase of wind and this will hinder the noise and rumbling of the Guts by taking away Crudities The Cure of noise in the Guts and by discussing of wind with inward and outward Medicines such as are prescribed in the Weakness of the Stomach to which they usually apply things proper for the Spleen in the Noise under the Ribbs usual to Virgins And this is good not because the wind cometh from the Spleen or is contained there but because the vertue of the things outwardly applied to the left side doth reach the Spleen and therefore in some measure ought to be proper for it as when you mix Seeds as Cummin and the like in baggs made to discuss wind with Rue Agnus Castus Ceterach and the like and rub the Pouders with Vinegar or when we add Oyls proper for the Spleen to the Oyntments we use to expel wind If stinking Breath come from things eaten as Garlick The Cure of a stinking breath or Raddishes which causeth belching it will shortly be gone and you may for that time keep a distance from Company or if you must needs converse use some Persumes to correct it But if it come from unclean teeth or from between or in the Hollowness of them or other filth in the Mouth then you must pick the teeth and cleanse the mouth and pull out rotten teeth If it come from the Stomach that must be purged and amended if from Diseases as the Pox they must be cured and then it will vanish If from Loosness of the Stomach when the stink comes from the Guts to the Mouth it is almost an incurable Disease in the Organ But the Stomach must be strengthened and astringed and in all these Causes sweet things must be held in the Mouth and chewed and the mouth washed with them and they must be gargled and swallowed to correct the Stink as followeth If the Cause be in the Stomach purge it with things proper to the stink of Excrements and the moistness of the Stomach Among which the Pills of Aloes are best because they cleanse the Stomach and resist Putrefaction or purging Wine with Wormwood which doth the same with Aloes and is also sweet Also other Purges mentioned in Weakness of the Stomach Among which Rhubarb and Myrobalans are the chief and best Purgers but you must mix many sweet-sented therewith to correct the stink as well Plants as Spices and therefore the Aloephangina-pills made of Spices taken often are good And we add to the purging Wine Angelica and the like that are well scented The Alteratives that are given to strengthen the Stomach must hinder the producing of Excrements and this is by good Diet which is little and drying Let him be temperate in eating of flesh because it easily putresies and let it be well spiced and with Vinegar sour Juyces of Sorrel Citrons Lemmons Oranges as also his other Meat Let his Bread be made with Caraway and Fennel-seed Let him after Meat eat Quinces Pears and other Astringents when the Stomach is loose especially Also let him eat Anise-seed Fennel and Coriander Comfits and other Pouders to be used after meat In the morning fasting let him take the Pouders Lozenges Electuaries Confections and Conserves which are good in a moist and loose Stomach mentioned in the Weakness of the stomach choosing those that are most sweet-scented as Aromaticum Rosatum Diamoschum Diambra and the like Tryphera magna is commended to make Men well coloured and of sweet Breathes And they say that Mastick often taken doth amend this Infirmity You must hold sweet things in the mouth and chew and somtimes swallow them as these following Of Simples Angelica-root is most sweet-sented but bitter also Master-wort Zedoary Nutmegs and Cloves are good Musk and Ambergreese for rich people are excellent with Sugar made into Lozenges with the Infusion of Gum Traganth made in Rose or Orange-flower-water or the like and held in the mouth to dissolve and give a good Scent To these they add Wood-Aloes Sanders Angelica-roots which are good for a weak Stomach Also a little Benzoin Besides these many sweet-sented things may be chewed as Orris and Acorus roots Cypress Elicampane Orange peels Citron peels Roses Bayes Marjoram Smallage of Parsley chewed taketh away the stink of Garlick and the like and conceals that which is from the mouth Also Dill and Anise and Sowthistle Dioscorides commends Myrrh and Mastick Mathiolus commends Gold held in the mouth Of Compounds Wine is good to wash the Mouth or to be drunk in which the Roots and Seeds of Angelica Marjoram Sage Coriander seeds and other sweet Herbs and Spices were steeped Vinegar of Roses Currance Ras-berries Straw-berries is very good mixed with other things for to wash or held in the mouth or swallowed doth presently take away the stink of things eaten Let him constantly wash his mouth with sweet red wine Vinegar Salt and Allum The Decoction of green Myrtle leaves in Wine is good to wash the mouth and the Decoction of Citrons and the like Another is made of the Decoction of Cypress roots Citron peels Roses Sanders Cloves Cinnamon There are divers sweet stilled Waters as of Roses Musk or Cloves and other Spices Salt Orange-flower-water Also Aqua vitae with the Infusion of Cinnamon and Spices The distilled Oyls of Cinnamon or other sweet things are very good either mixed or alone if the least drop be held in the mouth If the teeth be foul rub them with sweet astringent things and such as resist Putrefaction As Take Orris roots two drams Angelica half a dram Sanders Wood-Aloes Savine or Juniper one dram with a little Musk and two drams of Salt Alkali Some add Cuttle-bone Harts horn burnt Allum when the teeth are foul as shall be there declared Or mix a little Musk with Salt or Harts horn c. If the stink of the Nostrils come from an Ulcer The Cure of the stink of the Nostrils when that is cured it vanisheth of which we spake in the Ulcers of the Nostrils But if it come
with warm Water Oyl and Wine or Oyl of Chamomil Dill Rue c. Use the Oyntments mentioned for Ulcers in the disentery When there is great pain in Tenesmus anoint with Oyl of Roses Violets Water-lillies Mucilage of Fleabane yolks of Eggs or the like mentioned in the Haemorrhoids If you must heat use Oyl of Chamomil Dill Bayes Rue and the like You may make Cataplasms of the same Ingredients A warm Anodine bag is made of Milium Bran and Salt fryed with hot Herbs dryed In an Ulcer make it of astringents as Coriander seeds Myrtles Acorn cupps Galls and other Herbs mentioned in the Fomentations for a Dysentery And let him sit upon the bag boyled in red wine A Brick that is black with Smoak beaten and steeped in wine and put into a cloath is good to be applyed to the Perinaeum and Fundament when there is an Ulcer Let the Patient sit upon hot Mugwort Also warm Cloaths applyed to the Fundament and Perinaeum are good to abate pain If a Diarrhaea be a Flux of silthy Excrements and Humors The Cure of Diarrhaea by Medicine or Nature which takes away the plenty of them it must not be stopped neither in those that are sound because it preventeth Diseases nor in those that are sick from plenty of humors and evil Juyce nor in the beginning of acute Diseases for as Hippocrates shews if things which ought to be purged be purged and the Patient endures it wel it is good Nor in the declension or Crisis of a Disease which somtimes is cured thereby But it is to be stopped if it happen in sound and pure Bodies especially if there be an over purging And in sick when it is provoked or comes of it self when it will not cease and takes not away from the cause of the disease but weakneth As in internal Inflammations Pleurisie Peripneumony and in some acute and malignant pestilential Feavers and others that weakens as in Hecticks Consumptions Dropsies with which it is deadly In all which we must prevent it or stop it foretelling the danger Observing first if it be alone without other diseases with it or after it whether it came from an over purging Medicine or too much meat and drink that is crude or corrupt or from Choler or sharp humors or water Then we must evacuate the cause and abate the pricking Then we fortifie and bind the Stomach and Guts with hot temperate or cold things as the cause requires as followeth The Stomach and Guts are to be purged with gentle things least the Belly that is already moved should be too much troubled And if the tumor be water or flegm with pills for the Stomach As these of Mastick and Assaiereth and others in the Lientery Or give six drams of the Electuary of Hiera or two drams of the Pouder with one ounce of Syrup of Vinegar to take off the bitterness all dissolved in Wine and Water or Liquor convenient or sweet Wine But Pills of Hiera are better taken There are other purges to be taken in wine mentioned in Lientery and Weakness of the Stomach If the Humor be cholerick and sharp use Remedies for the Dysentery there mentioned As a Potion of Rhubarb parched or not or the Infusion thereof with Wormwood wine or Syrup or that of Mints Also you may make a Potion of the Infusion of half an ounce of yellow or chebs Myrobalans or of two drams of Myrobalans and one dram of Rhubarb Or give two scruples of the Pills of Rhubarb made with one scruple of Mastick and half a scruple of Spike with Juyce of Roses Or a bolus of the same with Conserve of Roses or Quinces or the Pouder of Rhubarb with Cinnamon and Sugar of Roses and Myrobalans if they make not the Medicine too large If you must purge in a Diarrhaea use the troches of Roses burnt Ivory Barberries the cold great Seeds with Diagredium The Tryphera Saracenica Nicolai is given in six drams when there is plenty of Humors or so much Catholicon in potions of Myrobalans and Rhubarb it is not safe to use stronger Remedies to purge in this Disease A Vomit somtimes is good to revel and take away the cause as in a Dysentery Also Sweating especially when it comes from much water And if strength will suffer use them often moderate fasting is also good to hinder the increase and to consume Humors but in people of sharp cholerick Constitutions it hurteth All Clysters are good that have astringent qualities though they be presently voided The fourth Clyster mentioned in a Dysentery is good here it is a strong astringent to the Decoction of which you may add also other astringents as Juyce of Plantane Bloodstone or drying Earths And if the humor be sharp and threaten Excoriation you may give the third Clyster there mentioned to astringe and heal But before use Cleansers if the Humor be sharp and cholerick and fret the Guts And you may mix other things if there be other Humors as Wormwood Centaury and in a phlegmatick Cause against pains and noise of wind things to expel wind as Fennel and Anise seeds Chamomil Melilot and Dill flowers or Oyls thereof If the Humors fret the Guts use Lenitives or when a violent purge hurts them they are mentioned in Dysentery As that which begins thus Take Marsh-mallow-roots one ounce Barley c. Medicines must be given in divers forms twice or thrice in a day especially that bind or that cleanse and lenisie least Nature being accustomed to one should be no way moved thereby Dioscorides commends divers Decoctions in wine and water as of Maiden-hair golden Locks Marsh-mallows Brambles Cinquefoyl or five leaved grass Piony Also wine of the Infusion of dryed Sloes and the like Moss of a tree Wormwood Snakeweed Citron peels and the like astringents Also Juyce of Plantane Solomons-seal Horstayl Gum Succory Quinces sour Pomegranates Also Syrup of Quinces Myrtles red Roses dried Barberries Currance with the waters following in Juleps Waters of Plantane Roses Sorrel Shepheards purse Services Sloes Oak leaves Or the Decoction mentioned in Dysentery One begins thus Take Tormentil roots one ounce Comfrey rorts c. Another thus Take Roots of five leaved Grass or Snakweed c. Of which you may make Syrups Or make a Syrup of the Juyces to be kept Take Juyce of Quinces three ounces of Bar-berries two ounces Juyce of Plantane or the like one ounce and an half red Wine and Rose-water each two ounces Sugar four ounces boyl them to a Syrup and add a little red Sanders it is better if two drams of Juyce of Sloes and in a cholerick Cause a little Rose-water be added to make it sharp The Syrup of Nicolas of the Decoction of Fruits and the like is good in all Fuxes of the Belly Also this distilled Water Take Yolks of Eggs boyled hard twenty Nutmeggs parched a little two ounces infuse them in red Wine Let them stand a while and then distil them according to art the dose
each one scruple wax a little Make a Liniment There are some who anoint the head with Confection Anacardine dissolved in spirits of wine Quilts and Caps also are worne night and day of things that strengthen the head of which in their place Amulets also do help if not by their own virtue at least waies by imagination as the tongue of a Lapwing hanged about one is thought by Rhases to take away forgetfulness The Amethist stone worne about one doth quicken all the senses as one writes and also that the Berill stone worne doth cause a good understanding In a dry constitution of the brain The Cure of Memoryimpaired by the driness of the Brain whence they say the memory is impaired if the body be foul it must be purged as was said of Melancholy whenas in pure bodies medicines applyed do more rightly operate Let it be moistned with meats of good-juyce such as are described in the Hectick and Melancholical Let him abstain from all drying things and immoderate evacuations especially Venery then which nothing is more hurtful He may use this Electuary at times Take of the Conserves of the flowers or Roots of Succory Bugloss Borrage Violets Maidenhair Betony each one ounce and an half Of the pouder of Diatragacantum frigidum and Triasantalum each half a dram with syrup of Violets make an Electuary Let him take the quantity of a Chesnut or one dram and an half Or let him use these kind of Tables Take of the Flowers of Bugloss Burrage Violets of each one scruple the leaves of Marjoram half a dram male frankincense one dram the Skul of a man burnt half a dram with Sugar dissolved in Violet and Rose Water make Tablets The Topicks mentioned in melancholly must be applied to the head especially this Lotion of the head and feet is very profitable Take of the Decoction of the Head and Feet of a Weather as much as is sufficient adding the herbs Bugloss Burrage Violets with their flowers if they may be had flowers of Roses Betony for hot things must be mixt with cold when we moisten as was said in melancholy each one handful Boyl them This following also is good Take of the roots of Marshmallows half a pound the herbs Betony Marjoram each one handful flowers of Violets Roses Chamomel Melilot Lavender each one pugil Boyl them in milk to wash the Head Also such an Unction is commended especially after the Lotion Take Oyl of sweet Almonds Roses each one ounce the fat of a Drake half an ounce one white of an Eg Milk half an ounce stir them together for a Liniment Chap. 2. Of a Consternation of the mind The Kinds VVE cal that a Consternation of the mind when the Senses either only opprest or almost wholly taken away either they sleep after a non-natural manner or are Stupid and that either with a languishing and resolution of the body or with an Agitation or Convulsion of it or with a Rigidity or Stiffness which four are the chief and highest Kinds of Consternation of mind particularly here to be explained That is a preternatural sleep which lasts longer then a natural and then 't is called immoderate and which doth more lull the Senses and therefore 't is called profound somtimes too great a propension to sleep or a very proprofound sleep happens to them that are well at other times it befals them in Diseases and somtimes without somtimes with a Fever somtimes also it invadeth with Ravings or with Stupidity Too great a propension to sleep in those otherwise well is a frequent fault in some men Immoderate sleep not when this befals certain natures by reason of their Age as in Infants and old folks 't is accustomary and good or by reason of the Country in which 't is natural for some to sleep night and day but when it proceeds from a cause that ought not to be whence not onely too long indulging to sleep by night they rise late in the morning but also by day time especially presently after taking of meat and chiefly in a hot place or season they are so forced to sleep that it is altogether necessary for them to sleep to which some are so prone that though they do no waies at all compose themselves to it but do somwhat to shake it off Profound sleep yet notwithstanding they fall asleep in that very work and I have seen one of them even when he drank at Table and moved the cup to his mouth in that posture fallen asleep or doing somwhat else he was wont to sleep in that form of body Profound sleep somtimes doth steal upon sound men after drinking of Wine in Drunkards or some other Narcotick taken which is not lasting if the use of them hath been gentle but if more vehement 't is turned into a Stupidity as shal be said there In a Disease heavy sleep is called Caros Coma Cataphora Lethargus Veternus Subeth in which as in that naturall they sleep with their Eyes shut and Body prostrate but in that that the internall Sences and by consequence the externall do not only rest as in a naturall sleep but are as it were overwhelm'd they are more or less dulled so that they can scarce or never be roused up and being wakned they complain of no Pain onely that they feel their Head heavy and weighty and so fall asleep again The motion also of the body is more languid yet not abolisht as in the Apoplecticall with a resolution of the Limbs neither is their breathing hindred as in them but free and easie unless in some it be depraved with yawning and noise their pulse also although it be weaker yet it doth not cease as in a Syncope Sometimes a Fever is joyned with Sleep which if it begin together with this Sleepiness with a Fever is a Lethargie it hath obtained the name of a Lethargie which notwithstanding is common to the rest also in which besides the signs of sleep a preternatural heat of the body a quick pulse a deep dyed Urin declare a Fever present but also a Caros somtimes following a Fever and is its Symptome Besides these Species of Sleep there is one also found in which though there be the greatest propension to sleep Sleep with Deliration and they express the same by lying down with their Eyes shut notwithstanding they watch and divers shapes and apparitions are presented to them or if they do sleep they are troubled with divers horrible dreams which afterwards when they awake they declare who being forced do hardly lift up their Eyes and look upon him that toucheth them but know him not and though they do feel and are moved yet they cannot rise out of the bed and do the work of one awake this they call a Cataphora or a sleepless Coma Some cal it a Typhomania as it were an astonisht madness neither may it unfitly be called a Raving sleep and be refer'd to Delirations or a heavy
the progress also purgers must be repeated the humor being first prepared especially if it be thick and they must be reiterated again if the evil yeelds not to the former and that the Patient recover It shall be prepared therefore after this manner Take of the Syrup of Bettony of Hysop each two ounces Oxymel of Squills one ounce Syrup of french Lavender half an ounce Rosemary Sage Bawmwater each two ounces make a Julep for four doses aromatize it with Cinnamon or somwhat else Or take of the opening Roots steeped in Wine each one ounce of Orice half an ounce Angelica two drams Lyquoris six drams the herbs Sage Marjoram Time ground Pine Bettony each half an ounce Anise Fennel seed each one dram Gith Parsley each half a dram the flowers of Rosemary Lavender or french Lavender Elder Primrose each two drams make a Decoction and to a pint and half add Sugar or Honey or some of the foresaid Syrups to sweeten it clarifie it and aromatize it with Cinnamon for four doses Or let these simples be infused in white Wine adding the Topps of the lesser Centory two drams because it doth very much devide Flegm Wormwood three drams to give it a good smell and let him use it If you will make the Syrup for your use add to the forementioned Decoction of bastard Saffron Sena each an ounce and an half Agarick three drams Turbith two drams Ginger one dram and with Honey or Sugar let it boil let him take one ounce at a â—ime After the same Rule you may make a purging Wine by mixing these Purgers with other things according to art A purging Potion also may be made thus Take of Agarick infused in Oxymel and Sage and Rosemary Waters one dram and an half of Ginger likewise infused one scruple strain it dissolve afterwards of Diaphaenicon and Diacarthanum each two drams and an half make a Potion By the passages destined to purge Flegm as the Mouth Nose and Eyes we must derive the Flegm from the Head with those Medicines which do this by irritating the coat of the Mouth and Nose which is very sensible that the expulsive faculty being stirred up by these may drive forth the Flegm and Tears by these parts and the Eyes adjoyning but when as they are not able to Gargle or Masticate we do not use this form of Head Purgers till they come to themselves But we rub the Palate with those things that draw forth Flegm yet in that quantity and form that if they do fal into the rough Artery of the Apoplectical they may not suffocate them Mustard seed which is very powerful doth so provoke Flegm that it presently moves teares T is boyled in Aqua vita or strong Wine and the Palate is rubbed with that Decoction or reduced into a Pouder and mixt with Honey t is anointed instead of which the common Composition will serve which being made of Mustard seed is used at meals for savce which we may have quickly ready at hand The Root of Pellitory of Spain boyled in Oxymel doth the same used after the same manner Euphorbium also dissolved in Aqua vita and other things that fire the Jaws As also Castor mixed after the like manner and given Some rub the Hierae and other Purging Electuaries on the Palate but without any fruit or benefit instead of which t is better to use the Confection Anacardine which doth somwhat inflame Or make such a Composition Take of Mustard seed long Pepper the root of Pellitory of Spain Pouder them and mix them with Honey and the juyce of Rue Horse-Radish Make an Oyntment we omit the Vinegar which they add because it duls the vertue of those acrid things as we see itcomes to pass in Onions and Radishes if they be eaten with Vinegar A vellication of the coat of the Nostrils which is very sensible doth Egregiously draw forth Flegm either dropping from the Nose without violence and flowing forth by Tares from the Eyes or with a certain violence by sneezing which if it happen to the Apoplectical is a good sign Yet this violent rousing up is not to be attempted in a Sleepiness before the matter be a little emptied least the humor yet filling the Brain being moved do oppress it or suddainly falling into the beginning of the Nerves do breed a convulsion or resolution the which is scarce to be feared in the Apoplexy when as they are no otherwise cured unless a Palsie follow it but these things may be done divers waies amongst which Errhines are less proper when as the sick do not attract them there fore this may be performed after another manner Thus Let the Nostrils be anointed with the same Oyntment which we said ought to be rubbed on the Palate or least that thicker things should stop up the Nostrils which ought to be free for respiration sake in the Apoplectical we must use these that are more thin Take of the juyces of Radish Onions Orrice of each equal parts Let a Feather dipt in these be often put up into the Nose Let the Pouders of Hellebore Pellitory of Spain Pepper Euphorbium be blowed up but in a smal quantity The actual Irritation of the Nostrils with a Fibre of Hellebor or a Hogs brissel or some thicker Hair doth powerfully worke and draw forth Flegm The smel of Onions doth wonderfully provoke Tears upon which account if the thin outward Rinde be taken off and they applied to the Nose it doth much good the smel of Mustard seed also and Radish do the same and the Leaves of Spear wort bruised and smelt to do it most powerfully These being done if so they come to themselves that they can use Errhines Masticatories Gargarismes then these must not be neglected as shall be explained in their place We will endeavor also to revel the Humor from the part affected by those things that draw to the superficies of the Body whether they do it by heat or pain the which also will work more powerfully if together by dissolving the continuity they open a passage for the Humor attracted by which it may be emptied Upon this account strong Frictions must be made with the Hands or with a rough Cloth beginning with the Head and going downwards by the Back Also of the Arms Thighs and those places which are most cold which we ought to rub til they grow hot and red adding somtime also hot Oyl or Salt For which cause also Ligatures must be made in the extream parts which may cause pain which must be somtimes loosed and tied again Lotions also of the Feet will do good of the Decoction of Sage Rue Bettony Penny-royal Calamint Dill Chamomel Roses Cupping-glasses also with a great deal of Fire must first be applied to the hinder part of the Head if perhaps the Humor may be derived through its great mouth for which cause they must by and by be applied to the hinder part of the Neck then to the Shoulder blade and Shoulders
Spirits of Wine a deadly Stupidity and also an excessive heat is raised in which case as also in others raised from the like cause we give Natural Milk and Factitious made of Almonds and Guord Seeds also Butter common Oyl and Oyl of Almonds and other Fat and mucilaginous things the which also we said were proper in corroding poysons Also Acid things given as they do quel the heat of Acrid humors and Choler so also the efficacy of Narcoricks which I am wont rather to give as Acid juyces or syrups or Vinegar it self which therefore we have said elsewhere is the most certain Remedy for Drunkenness the other things which do it by a certain propriety shal be explained in the Remedies If a malignant quality The Cure of a sleepiness stupidity from a malignant quality which we cannot rightly explain come from without from the Stroke of a Beast from whence a Sleepiness or stupidity ensues then things antipharmacal resisting these Poysons must be given such as are described in their place but if that such a Malignity be raised up in the body as in Malignant Feavers we have said that then also a Sleepiness and Stupidity doth happen and then applying those things which the malignity of the same method of cureing is to be observed which was mentioned in a Lethargy If a Daemonical Sleep delude Witches as we have said The Cure of Daemonical sleep from an evil Spirit seeing the cause is preternatural it will not be cured by natural Remedies but by prayers and amendment of life but if they refuse to do that they are worthy to be purged by sire The animal spirits being spent in the Brain The Cure of an Apoplexy from the wasting of the animal Spirits if a man become Apoplectical death it self prevents al manner of cure which we ought to foretel to be ready at hand But the Spirits being spent in the Brain by great meditations if sometime they become stupid they easily come to themselves again upon the return of the spirits The Cure of an Epilepsie Catalepsie and Stupidity from the too much profusion of the animal spirit out of the Brain but if that by some vehement affection of the mind the spirits be so carried forth that being taken with a grievous stupidity with Rigor they become Cataleptical then the evil is very pertinacious and that especially if this disease have its original from Melancholly for those thus affected are hardly cured and though they be freed from it yet they continue Stupid and Melancholly And if from Anger also they fall into an Epilepsie they are not free from danger in which species whiles they are in the Fit the same Remedies are likewise applied which are used in the rest of the Epilepical to the quickly taking off of their fits the which ceasing the cause must be turn'd away this being done if the evil do stil return whenas by that we know that the internal cause is yet present which the external did first move then the care must be fitted to the taking away of that which in a Catalepsis they apply to Melancholly in an Epilepsie to the purging of Flegm as shal be said But if that a Convulsion or which seldomer comes to pass a Catalepsis do follow from a Disease of the Nerves drawing the Brain into consent and somtimes affecting of it too the Cause it self must be diligently considered and according to that we must foretell and order the cure which we have said was in that continued Epilepsie as also somtimes in a Catalepsis but seldom hapning a certain malignant melancholly and poysonous humor consisting in the hidden parts of the body of the Veins about the inward parts of the body or also the outward parts and otherwise lurking in the habit of the body or also within the Skul arising from some fault that doth not yet destroy the brain but by course affecting the Nerves but of a milder and Shorter Epilepsie certain evaporations proceeding here and there from the inward bowels from a Causeless persevering and sometimes also Pains or only Troubles when though they have no such great cause in weak Children yet they may produce Epileptical fits but of the rest of Convulsions which are Short we said the internal causes were a poysonous humor also in the Veins in Feavers which these Convulsions do follow or otherwise Acrid Pernicious cholerick or serous humor or blood corrupted or it depends on the taking of things destructive or poysonous or proceeds from grievous pain either from a Wound or the biting of Beasts In all which species since they are all difficult we must not rashly foretel any thing of good although a fit cure and benefit of nature doth somtimes mitigate the Prognostick to wit The long continued Epilepsie so called if it begin before the time of youth and cease not when that time comes viz. when men can eject seed or when women have their courses as also that which first begins after youth is Incurable and desperate which will afflict them to the last day of their lives for a long time unless the cruelty of the symptomes doth make death more speedy but from the Shorter Epilepsie that Convulsion which is called the Worse is deadly and that also which is called the Milder species wants not its danger Which things since that they are thus these Prognosticks being premised the Cure must nevertheless be attempted which we shal not first of al divide according to the Causes seeing they are so various and abstruse but proceeding by the manner of operation we shal explain how by medicines emptying and altering found out partly by Use and partly appropriated to the Cause for some Reason we ought to heal Epilepsies and Convulsions or at leastwise to keep off or mitigate their fits Evacuating Remedies are those which do carry another way the Causes procreating or Fomenting Convulsions whether they be vapors or humors either by revelling and deriving from the part affected or by Repelling and hindring them to come to the part and that either by opening made by Cutting Sucking Burning or by Purgations ordered by divers passages of the body or by other operations outwardly applied Amongst the kinds of Cutting Phlebotomy presents it self for the lessuing of the blood which in a long continued Epilepsie wil take place if the Patient be Plethorick or the Hemthoids which before were accustomary be supprest some general eminent and appearing Vein being made choyce of for this purpose yet many do advise to open the Shoulder-vein called the Cephalick for the heads sake also blood taken from the Veins of the Ham and Ankles is very convenient and so much the more if the Courses be stopt in Women the which also some commend if taken from the Veins of the Forehead and Tongue and if we do conjecture its cause to depend upon malignant blood these detractions of blood must be often repeated whenas we have shewed that in Madness
in a Cause not very much unlike this is the Principal Remedy whence here also if it proceed from corrupt blood this kind of Remedy often used wil profit very much as also in a Catalepsis if it arise from the like reason whenas 't is sometimes cured by a Haemorhage flowing voluntarily from the Nose But in other causes placed out of blood espeally in bodies wasted with a long Epilepsie and also in Convulsions following Diseases in which the strength of the Patient suffering the Convulsion is impaired by the cruelty of the Disease it is no waies to be advised to draw blood but Scarification is not unprofitably ordered instead of bleeding in Children and Aged whenas we would rather turn the blood another way then let it out making it at those places where our intent is to draw the blood and also a Paracenthesis and Opening made by Setons and Trepanning by taking out part of the Skul-bone may be made tryal of in these desperate Diseases Sucking drawing forth blood is done by help of Leeches which being applid to the Forehead and the rest of the compass of the Head they write doth good in Curing of an Epilepsie but especially when the Hemroids are supprest being fastned to the Fundament by sucking out this blood which we can otherwise hardly provoke by any other Art in this case they are very convenient Burning made both by an actual and potential cautery as in desperate Diseases it is the last Remedy so here also the evil preserving especially if the cause be in the Head it may at length not irrationally be applied if by chance by this means the cause may be derived from the Nerves to the more ignoble parts by which means 't is reported that at Florence they are wont to burn the the Head of new born Infants to avert the Epilepsie which in those places is accostomary to Infants for which causes and being moved by experience we think it not unadvised to attempt burning with a red hot Iron the which whiles they are possest with the Fit and are stupid we may act in them without any sense of pain or by applying a Caustick to experiment the same in a long continued Epilepsie if it reject all other Remedies which some also do apply not only in that part of the Head where the Sutures meet but also in the Neck and Feet or if in some certain place an Air elevated doth cause an Epilepsie a Caustick applied to this part doth very much revel it Purgations by the appointed places of the body the Belly Mouth Nose and Womb in Women are ordered divers waies amongst which that dejection which is made by the belly carrying forth divers excrements which is wont to be caused by the use of Purgers is diversly accomplisht according to the divers kinds of Convulsions For in a long continued and falling Epilepsie whenas in all long continued diseases there is plenty of excrements that the body may be made pure it must be purged again and again by course and as often as they are heaped up anew at convenient times first by washing the Belly afterwards by preparing and bringing forth humors which give occasion of this affect In which whenas Authors as it was said do so much vary 't is no wonder that also divers purging medicines are ordered by them for many use above the rest Phlegmagoges and those which draw Flegm from the head who are perswaded that an Epilepsie is bred from that humor others who hold that Yellow or black choller is the cause contend that amongst Purging medicine Cholagoges rather or Melanagoges are more prevalent than the rest but we as we find the body either stuft or polluted with humors do fit our Remedies to the drawing forth of this or that humor making our choice of them from this especially whether there be need of Gentler or Stronger Catharticks to expell the humor ommitting that too scrupilous and obscure propriety and similitude of Catharticks with the humors we choose those which are either more mild or more efficacious as the nature of the humor and the strength and constitution of the body do require and those which are approved of by the ancient and modern especially in this case commended by the authority of Dioscorides of which sort for the Gentler we allow of Whey Agarick Seny and for the Stronger Hellebore and being according to the aforesaid intention we think them conducible in an Epilepsie but chiefly having a care that when an acrid or malignant matter doth cause an Epilepsie we do not stir the body beyond measure with too Hot or Acrid or too strong Purgers and if the cause be doubtful or abstruse that by too solicitously relying on the emptying of one humor according to the common opinion we do not more weaken the bodies than help them and also to the like fit Cathartick medicines those things must be mixed which by a peculiar vertue visit resist an Epilepsie are proper to the Nerves amongst which the juyce of Peony taken plentifully doth also loosen the Belly and those things which do prepare to if it have need of preparation all which shall be explained in things that alter and also those things which do open the Courses and Hemorrhoids if they be stopt being mixt with them do procure that they are easier provoked because the expulsive faculty is then forced divers waies But that we may demonstrate these thinge also by examples observing this method in a long continued Epilepsie as also in a Catalepsis we must thus proceed First of all the Belly must be moved that the excrements and the filth mixt with them may be brought forth from the first passages and that both before the use of Purgers and also sometimes in the Fit that they may fooner come to themselves or by course also if the belly do not sufficiently answer your desire Which may be done by any Suppositories or by putting up these following Take of Honey the juyce of Rue of each alike quantity boyl them and add towards the end as much Salt as is sufficient and a little pouder of Peony root Or cast in Clysters First Laxative then Stimulating at last Stronger appropriate both to the Brain and Nerves Of which sort this may be the chief for the Flegmatick Take of the roots of Lillies fresh Peony of each one ounce and an half of round or common Birthwort half an ounce the herbs Mallows Beets Sage Rue the lesser Century of each one handful the flowers of Lavender or french Lavender Rosemary Primrose Chamomel of each one pugil Bran one pugil Seed of Peony one dram and half Carawaies one dram make a decoction dissolve of juyce of Mercury or Beetss Honey or Red Sugar of each one ounce Hiera Piera and Logadij of each two drams Oyl of Rue one dram and an half a little Salt make a Clyster The humor abounding is prepared before Purging as it is either Flegmatick or Cholerick or Melancolick giving what
ounce Diaphaenicon half an ounce Diacarthamum Diasena of each two drams with Syrup of French Lavender and Hysop Make an Electuary for your use beginning from two drams Or in form of Pils Take the speacies of simple Hiera half an ounce Agarick two drams Rhubarb one dram and an half black Hellebore one dram Trochisks of Alhandal two scruples Lazulus stone prepared one dram the pulp of Piony seeds Arabian Saechas of each one dram Castor six grains Salt Gem one scruple with syrup of Hysop Make a Mass Let him begin with half a dram In the Gentler called the Childrens Epilepsie we must use Purgers also but the gentlest because it is not safe to purge Infants or great bellied Women with stronger which seeing they are vehemently hot in those they would too much inflame the body and in these they would expell the Child Therefore the Gentler of the aforementioned may be made use of or if they be Infants stil because they refuse ingrateful and bitter things we may give sweet things as Manna or Cassia with Sugar or give Milk in which Roses Violets Senna and the like have been boyled but if they suck stil let the Nurse also be gently purged that the Milk which they Suck may be less excrementitious To others give of this Confection of Raisons which is thus prepared convenient for this case Take of the Leaves of Senna one ounce Agarick Peony roots of each half an ounce Hysop leaves two drams infuse them in water and boyl them a little strain it then put to it one quarter and an half of Raisons boyl them again and strain it and boyl it to the consistence of Honey give first one drammaking tryal according to the age A Pouder also may be given which is thus Take of Tartar two drams Diagridium half a scruple Anise one scruple of Peony root half a dram Sugar six drams give half a dram But especially if the Epilepsie do arise from Worms those things must be made choice of which besides that they do purge may also kil VVorms of which sort are Aloe Rhubarb and we must mix with them those things which resist putrefaction as are the juyces and seed of Citrons Lemmons Harts-horn and Corals and those things which resist an Epilepsie as the root and seed of Peony Missleto of the Oak and the like and they are given in the form of Pils or Pouders or Lozenges Pills are very convenient by reason of the Aloes if they can swallow them such as these are Take of Aloes Rhubarb each one dram Wormseed Coralline the pulp Peony seed of each half a dram Diagridium six grains mix them up with Syrup of Lemmons make little Pils let him swallow them For the most part they are more pleased with Lozenges which may be made thus Take of Rhubarb one dram and an half VVormseed half a dram the pulp of Citron and Peony seed the shavings of Harâ—â— horn Ivory of each one scruple Coral two scruples Missleto of the Oak one scruple Diagridium half a scruple Sugar dissolved in Purslane water adding the juyce of Lemmons or a little Vinegar to one ounce and an half make Lozenges let him take for one dose one dram But in the worser Convulsion which casts down the strength already weakned by the cruelty of the Disease which it follows or whose cause hath a sudden progress from things external to enervate the body with Purgers is either superfluous or dangerous yet if it happen after pains of the Collick from the same humor not yet or not sufficiently purged forth then with one and the same labor by purging we shal provide against the Colick pains and Convulsions arising from thence amongst which Clysters for the most part performing both are commended above the rest although the common people do evilly think that by use of them the Convulsions and Palsies do happen which are wont to follow those Colick passions the which also being used in other evil Convulsions in which otherwise we ought not to use Purgers they are to be preferd before all other forms of Purging because they revell and in the interim do not too much offend nature Amongst the kinds of Evacuations which are made by the Mouth and Nose a Vomit wil help them when the Epilepsie hath its rise or increase from things taken or other repletions of the Stomach which also in the Fit it self being caused by thrusting down a Feather into the Throat or by other means doth make the Fit shorter if Vomiting do follow The which also may be done by Sneezing caused at the same time the which as it doth somtimes go before the falling in an Epilepsie so somtimes it ends it the which is commodiously moved in this case by blowing up of Pellitory of Spain into the Nostrils or with this following pouder Take of the roots of white Hollebore half a scruple Pellitory of Spain Pepper of each one scruple Peony root Freneh Lavender flowers of each half a scruple make a sneezing pouder Errhines put up into the Nose wil do the same such a one as this may be Take of the juyces of Rue Sows-bread of each two drams the juyce of Peony one dram Castor Gall of each half a dram Honey one dram make it like a Liniment for the Nostrils Errhines also when the Patient is out of his Fit being used by course will yeild some benefit if the head be stuft with flegm As also Spitting upon the same account caused much in a morning is convenient which as Dioscorides teacheth is here profitably moved by chawing of Pepper or by other Apophlegmatisms as masticating the following forms Take of Mastick half an ounce Roots of Pellitory of Spain three drams Cubebs Mustard seed of each one dram Root of Peony Nutmeg of each half a dram Make a Pouder mix them with Wax and make Masticatories They very much commend the root of Acorus candied and chawed a good while The Courses promoted through the Womb in the Faeminine sex both by those things which are given by the mouth and those that are put up into the orifice of the Womb and applied to the Region of that if the cause of the evil do lie in the blood retained there they do oftentimes cure an Epilepsie Amongst those things which do it these Pills are very profitable Take of Agarick trochiscate Aloes of each one dram Rhubarb one dram and an half Myrrh half a dram Castor one scruple the pulp of Peony seed half a scruple with the juyce of a Leek make Pills let him take from half a dram to a dram at midnight Also such a Pessary put up doth powerfully move the Courses Take of the root of Orice the seed of Gith of each one dram Electuarium half a scruple or Coloquintida one sâ—â—uple Castor half a scruple mix them with Honey the which let them be boyled to a convenient thickness with some part of juyce of Sows-bread or Mercury and make Pessaries To move the Haemorrhoids by
Violets tender Rushes flowers of Violets water Lillies Chamomel Feaverfew Time especially towards the end of each one pugil Guord seeds bruised one ounce Coriandar two drams seeds of Lettice Marsh-mallows Dill of each one dram of the bark or Heads of Poppy or Roots of Mandracke one ounce the Leaves of Henbane one handful Make a Decoction in the Broth of the Head and Feet of a Weather or a Calf or of Chickens or Swallows or of a Rams Lungs adding a little Wine Or thus Take of the Emulsion of the seeds of white Poppy and Guord seeds made in Violet water three ounces Milk two ounces the Mucilage of the Seeds of Fleawort one ounce stir them together and apply them A ptofitable washing or Embrocation may be thus prepared out of Vnctuous things Take of Oyl of Violets Lettice of each two ounces Chamomel one ounce the whites of Egs well benten two Womens Milk or other Milk four ounces or more Mix them deligently An Unctuous anointing or application to the Head may be made about the Temples Forehead and if it be shaved also on the Hairy part for the same intention afterirrigation when it is dry again or else without it oftentimes by it self after this manner Take of Oyl of Violets Water Lillies sweet Almonds of each one ounce Chamomel half an ounce fresh Hogs grease one ounce the Mucilage of Flax seed one ounce white Wax as much as is sufficient Make a Liniment A more simple one but nevertheless effectual may be made thus Take of the Mucilage of the seed of Flax Fenugreek Mallows Butter of each two ounces Hogs-grease four ounces the Marrow of an Ox or Hog one ounce apply it But a Compound one and more effectual will be this Take of Oyl of Violets Guord seeds of each two onuces of Poppy seed half an ounce the Mucilage of the seeds of Fleawort one ounce of the seeds of Lettice Henbane of each one dram Coriander Myrtles of each half a dram Saffron one scruple Mix them Or if they be very much troubled with Watchings Take of the seeds of Henbane white Poppy of each two drams Mandrake Root one dram Opium half a scruple Saffron six grains Mix them with Oyl of Violets one ounce Chamomel half an ounce Apply them to the Region of the Head About the declination hotter things must be added in Irringations and Oyntments made of Time flowers of Rosemary French Lavender Lavender And to strengthen the Head we must strow the following Pouders on the Hair at night and in the morning by gentle combeing clense them again Take of the seeds of Coriander half an ounce Myrtles two drams of Lettice white Poppy of each one dram Alkermes berries two drams flowers of Violets Roses each one dram and an half flowers of Rosemary Chamomel of each one dram Citron pill one dram Mace Cloves of each one scruple Make a Pouder It will be very convenient in a high Fury and Madness if we apply to the Crown of the Head the Lights of a Ram newly taken out whiles they are yet hot or if they be cold heat them again or apply a Lamb so cut open through the back and Emboweld or we may lay on the Head a young Pegion cut in the middle and sprinkled with the Pouder of Henbane and other things which shall by and by be spoken of in a Phrensie we may use for the like reason The heart also which we have taught is affected and troubled in these affects as it hath been demonstrated that it ought to be strengthned by things taken so it must be furnished with External things endued with the same vertues that it may be able to resist this venemous humor Epithems received as they ought to be in fine linnen must be applied to the Region of the Heart whiles they are yet fasting or to the Pulses such as these are Take of Rose water three ounces of Violets water Lillies Bugloss of each two ounces Balm one ounce the juyce of sweet Apples Odoriferous wine of each one ounce Vinegar of Roses of each half an ounce Seeds of Basil two drams of Sorrel one dram Wood of Aloes and Musk Sanders of each half a dram Trochisks of Camphyre Pouder Diamargaritum Frigidum of each half a dram Make an Epithem Saffron should be added if its yellowness with which it stains things did not hinder and Ambergrease also if it were not too dear Two Cordial bags may be prepared of a square figure guilted as they ought to be one of which ought to be sprinkled with Wine and Rose water and if it be too moist to be squeesed and so applied dayly and when t is removed the other dry one must be laid on and worn continually Which may be made thus Take of the four Cordial flowers water Lillies of each one dram Rosemary flowers one dran the Leaves of Balm Marjoram Coastmary of each one dram and an half seeds of Basil Citrons of each two drams Sorrel Lettice Purslane of each one dram Alkermes berries one dram Musk Sanders one dram Wood of Aloes half a dram Cloves one dram white and red Ben of each half a dram Pouder them for your use also the usual Cordial Pouders Diamargdritum de Gemmis and others may be added The Liver and Spleen must not be neglected as being principal parts also if they suffer a preternatural heat or any hurt from this filthy humor but they must be refresht also with Epithems and Oyntments Also remedies applied to certain other parts of the Body may correct its perverse distemper and refresh it as if the chief part of it be plunged in a Bath the Feet be washt the Back bone and Breast be anointed A Bath of River water will do good in young and strong bodies being somtimes repeated by swimming in it for a while when it is fitting by reason of summer or by setting in it at home being made warm or if by the addition of moistning things it be made Artificial let the patient set in it warm a little while before meat and afterwards let him rest in his bed and without using any force let him sweat of his own accord As this is Take of the Herbs Mallows both Buglosses Sallow the Vine Lettice water Lillies Violets of each one handful flowers of Chamomel Melilot of each one pugil Marsh-mallow roots two ounces Flax seed one ounce Let them be boyled in River or Rose Water to which may be added some fat or glutinous Decoction made with the parts of living Creatures or Milk for Rich Folks With the same Bath the Head may be irrigated and the Feet washed The length of the Back bone under which lie the Trunks of the Vena Cava and the great Artery in which the principal cause of the Disease is after bathing is anointed After this manner Take Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces Violets one ounce Hens grease one ounce and an half white Wax a little Mix them The Breast being anointed with the same it
will benefit those parts Gelding was wont to be used by the Antients in certain desperate Diseases as was said in an Epilepsie because it changes the temperament of a man quels his virility and vehemency and renders the Body more lax and moist in mad Men especially that have been long imprisoned and are disperate being otherwise unserviceable it is good to see what benefit can be reaped by it the which all circumstances being diligently examined t is lawful to make tryal of if other things help not Amulets must not be neglected amongst which they write thus of one that Stone found in the Mawe of a Swallow which is red tied to the right Arm is good against the Phantastical Illusions of Melancholy cures the Lunatick and Mad and makes them lovely and pleasant The Course of Living or Diet must be so ordered that both laudable hnmors may be generated and the Malignant distemper of others and evil constitution of the Body may be amended and contemperated and the strength refreshed which may be done thus An aire and place temperate and pure are convenient and also the changing of these do very much good especially if certain places be suspected or be contrary to them or do afford some occasion of sadness by which alone Diseases otherwise of long continuance and very grievous are oftentimes cured Nourishing Meat that is by its Nature of a temperate moisture is good which ought to be of a good juyce easie of disgestion and somwhat moist such as is the flesh both of Animals and Fishes not that which is old and hard and kept a long time or smoak-dryed or too salt or very much seasoned with Spices or other hot things but that which is young fresh and simply boyled or roast amongst which the flesh of a young Hauk and Night-Owl being eaten it is thought to be of force by a propriety as on the contrary the flesh of Goats wild Beasts Hares are thought to be hurtful for the causes foremention'd Milk good Chees not too much salted nor rotten Butter common Oyl and Oyl of Almonds may be granted to those that are accustomed to them Eggs also are convenient unless they do corrupt as it most easily comes to pass in cholerick Stomachs Bread made of pure flower not tainted with the faults of grain whence by reason of Darnel many have been brought to a Stupidity or Madness Levend a little salted and rightly baked is good and of Grains and Pulse Barley and all kinds of Pears so boyled and prepared that they may easily be disgested and do not puff up but Lentils and Beans are disallowed because they are thought to beget a Melancholy juyce Of Fruits Apples especially are convenient as Appropriate all manner of waies and other fleeting Fruits and those which are kept hanged up or dryed as Prunes Raisons Cherries and the like and of harder things Fresh Nuts and Almonds of Plants those that are temperate are allowed as Spinage Lettice Endive Beets both Buglesses are extold in the first place as appropriate onely Coleworts is condemned because it is beleeved to produce Melancholy the which notwithstanding I judgeing by its tast do think if it be rightly prepared that it doth rather cause good Blood then other Plants seeing it is tender and sweet There must be special care had of the Drink and we must allow somwhat to custom in those that drink Water or Wine seeing Weak-wine can no waies hurt nor Strong if it be diluted and moderately taken but seeing it makes merry it doth rather profit them but if that we see that they become more sad or more fierce by the use of it we must temper it yet more or wholly withdraw it the same judgment must be of drink and also the drinking of Whey is very much commended in these diseases because it is laxative as also Almond milk which can no waies so much assail the Head as some have thought Sleep is very much commended not so much because it moistens as they would have it but because it refresheth the body and mind and therefore if it do not invite them it must be procured by giving Soporiferous things or application of Externals as shall be explained The Inordinate motions espacially of Mad Folks must be quelled with the same Soporiferous things and they must be restrained with Chidings Blows Bonds Guards Prisons for this also as experience teacheth makes for the Cure of Mad Folks whom Empericks beat with Rods and Scourges We must procure that natural Excretions be done decently and if Nuns or Virgins do rage with a turgid matter by reason of the retention of their Seed if they marry they are cured Affections of the mind in the first place must be removed from them by Arguments especially when they proceed from no manifest cause as hath been said in the preturbation of Mind and if they pretend false causes as one the Greatness of his Nose or another Plenty of of Setpents in his body that by satisfying of them this Opinion conceaved may be taken away they must ingeniously be deceived and made believe that these are cut off or purged away by shewing some such like thing privately conveighed or by some other art they must be recreated also with pleasant things which must be offered to their Senses and with those things which we see them chiefly delighted with with which notwithstanding for the most part they are not moved or if they be altogether made they no waies understanding nor apprehending them do neglect and sleight them and are the rather more offended by them The other Symptoms which betide the Melanchollick and Mad if they be too urgent they must be corrected as shall be explained in their particular chapters amongst which Watchings also are corrected with those things which we have said must be applied to the Head and by Lotions of the Feet and if they be very troublesome by giving things that cause rest exprest in Watchings and every where in this Book a Pain of the Stomach Belly Womb a distention of the Hypochondries are corrected by Unctions Fomentations of the Belly and other things as shal be taught in their places and if any thing be given by the mouth upon that account must alwaies mix with them those things which do resist melancholly As if in plenty of Winds and bad digestion such a pouder be prescribed to be used after meat Take of the pouder Diacydonides sine speciebus two drams Anise seeds three drams Coriander prepared two drams Cinnamon three drams Squinanth half a dram Indian Leaf Marjoram of each one scruple flowers of Roses Bugloss each half a dram Pearl one dram make a pouder add Sugar the weight of them all A Hot Distemper of the Brain if it cause a Raving and it be a true Phrensie which ariseth from an Inflammation and its membranes The Cure of a Phrensie and bastard Phrensie from a hot distemper Inflammation of the brain and presently invades with a Feaver it
of each half a dram Coral one dram Mastick half a scruple with the Syrup of the Conserve of Citron pill make an Electuary Or let him use one spoonful of this pouder called Post pastum Take of Coriander seed half covered with Sugar one ounce Anise seed condite in like manner half an ounce the pouder of Diacytonites without the species one dram Diarrhodon Abbatis Red Saunders dry Citron pil of each half a dram Leaves of the greater Eyebright one scruple Mastich half a scruple Lozenges of Sugar of Roses two ounces make Pouder Lozenges may be made of the pouder of Diacytonites without the species one dram Red Coral half a dram Shavings of Ivory one scruple with Sugar dissolved in Rose water to two ounces make Lozenges A most excellent Remedy also to hinder Vapors is if the Paroxysm befall them fasting as it is wont to be to give them meat the which being taken it presently grows mild or the Vertigo Imagination Scotoma ceaseth and by this only some have been restored shunning Fasting Sleep because it discusseth Vapors doth help very much in these cases Plaisters Cerecloaths are applied outwardly to the Region of the Stomach if the Vapors proceed from thence and the Mesaraick Veins that they may hinder them which they wear in the night As a Plaster of Mastick or some other made for the Stomach malaxed with some astringent Oyl or Galens Cerecloath for the Stomach Or such a one Take of red Roses Leaves of Wormwood of each two drams dried Citron pil Labdanum of each half an ounce Mastich two drams Pouder them and with Oyl of Quinces or Mastich adding Wax make a Cerecloath If these Vapors rise from about the region of the Womb let the same Plasters of Mastich or pro matrice be applied to that part and let the Woman wear it for some time unless the stoppage of the Courses forbid it for when they flow they must be omitted If a Vapor ascend like an Air from some other part of the Body as the Feet or others doth create a Vertigo as hath been said then the washing of those parts doth very much divert it as also if it be done in other causes The which may be done thus Take of the Leaves of Sage Rosemary Celtick Spike Groundpine St. Johns wort flowers of Chamomel Roses Lavender as much as wil suffice boyl them in Wine and Lye Afterwards let him anoint his Feet with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Bays Worms Wall-flower of each one ounce Aqua Vitae half an ounce a little Salt boyl them for your use If necessity urge very much Oxyrrhodines must be applied to the Head which may repel vapors and if it continue we must add things more strongly astringent as Juyce of Plantane And successively such a Cap may be worn as Take of the roots of Galangal the true Acorus Citron pill of each one dram Coriander seed two drams Myrtles one dram flowers of Roses Rosemary of each half a dram Cloves half a dram make a Pouder for a Cap. Some have put Remedies upon the Eyes in Imaginations and Scotomaes which we think superfluous seeing the Vapor doth no waies reach unto the Eyes In course of Diet let all things be moderate the meat simple not too much also let them drink Wine sparingly or diluted let too much motion of the body be avoided and chiefly too much agitation or bowing down of the Head and let them beware of looking on things wheeling about or very bright and let them abstain from too much agitation of the mind by study and watching They think that Crystal worn is of very great force in a Vertigo and for the same benefits sake they drink out of a Cup made of it or they put crystal into their Cups It hath been said that a Repletion of the Brain from a watry The Cure of a weakness of the sight and Verigo proceeding from a watry and flegmatick humor of the Brain serous and flegmatick humor doth cause a Vertigo by its fluctuation and wind and by an afflux of the same humor to the optick Nerve Blindness doth sometimes arise or by an irrigation of it an Amblyopie and besides these hurts of the sight which are by reason of the Brain it hath been demonstrated that no other faults of the Eye prejudicing the sight can be caused from flegm or any afflux of such a humor which can neither enter the Net-like Nerve nor the Eye and therefore we apply this Method of Cure only to these Diseases which is due only to this cause neither do we refer it as others have done to Suffusions or other affects of the Eye which also they beleeved did proceed from an influx of flegm But here although such a Cure be convenient as is due to a Carus Apoplexy and other flegmatick Diseases of the Brain and therefore perhaps ought not any more to be repeated in this place yet that we may understand after what manner they are to be applied to the sight in these Diseases we wil here explain But a Vertigo springing from thence is dangerous if there be a great Repletion of the Head such as hath been demonstrated we have often found which seeing it can hardly be taken away somtimes it ends in a Carus and Apoplexy the which it presageth as also an Amblyopie if it happen from thence in space of time is converted into blindness which sometimes is wont to be at the first presently from the beginning the humor flowing abundantly the prevention of which therefore in a Vertigo and Amblyopie springing from thence we shal study to Remedy this following manner First we wil endeavor to take away those excrementitious serous and flegmatick humors of the Head by Emptying Revelling and driving them from the brain then by heating the brain which doth generate them and again is moistned and cooled by them and by strengthening it by those things which are appropriate to it the Nerves and the Eyes and also the hindring that the cause be not generated anew or fomented which shal be performed by Remedies applied inwardly and outwardly by Purging by the stool by the Mouth and Nose or by drawing away of Blood Or by things applied to the Head or other parts consenting with it or by giving things that alter and by course of diet not neglecting Amulets Purgations by the stool for drawing away of flegm from the Head and for hindering that the cause be not generated anew are thus methodically ordered A Goading and sharp Clyster is premised the which also is profitably injected by intervals or weekly And in these hurts of the sight it wil be thus more applicable Take of the fresh roots of Orrice Peony each two ounces the herbs Centory the less Betony Rue Eyebright Fennel of each one handful flowers of Camomel Lavonder or french Lavender of each one pugil Fennel seed two drams Carawaies one dram Senna which by a propriety is good for the Eyes half an ounce Agarick
The Cure of the defect of sight from the horny Coate cover'd with a Pannicle and Ungula somtimes may be hinder'd that it increase not being increased it scarce yeilds to Medicines though most strong it may be cut off if it grow not to the horny Coate if it be harden'd like to a Nail it yeilds to no Remedies In the Elephantiacal as neither the Disease so neither can this part of that Disease residing in the Membranes of their Eyes be taken away Yet somtimes it may be hinder'd that they be not wholly made blinde which of all things which otherwise they suffer is to them most miserable The Cause which is an afflux of blood we will endeavor presently at the beginning to draw forth Revel Derive by Bleeding Scarification Setons Causticks that the evil do not encrease also by a slender course of Diet and many Sweats and Purges fit for a foul body The Topick Remedies ought to be vehemently drying and unless they help they must at last be corrodeing We must make choice of the strongest of them which we said did clense away white specks and those which we commanded to be applied to the Eyelids here must be laid on the pannicle it self and Pouders seeing they dry more strongly must be laid on the Pannicle it self not neglecting the more liquid mixtures which we drop into the Eyes in the interim applying certain things to the Eyelids that they may do good by turns and somtimes also applying a Fomentation to prepare the Eye as hath been said there We may use at the beginning the pouder above mentioned in the white Specks then we must proceed to a stronger the which yet must dry without biting and therefore it ought often to be repeated which shal be made thus Take of Curall Tutty each one dram Pummy stone Egg-shels each half a dram the stone of Dates and Myrobolans each two scruples make a most fine Pouder if it be sprinkled with Vinegar or Urine and dried it will be more effectual Or thus a stronger Take of the pouder of Diarrhodon Abbatis one dram the bone of the Fish Sepia burnt Lizards dung each half a dram the Bloodstone two scruples Sugar Candy make a Pouder A stronger yet Take of burnt Lead Antimony the stone Calaminaris each two drams Tutty white Lead each one dram and an half the ashes of Horstail the bone of the Fish Sepia burnt each one dram make a pouder wash it with Smiths astringent water and dry it for your use Mixtures are made thus Take of the compound water described in the white Specks distilled with Urin steeped in a Brass vessel and to six ounces add the pouder of Nabath Lizards dung the bone of the fish Sepia each half a dram being poudered mix them first in Mucilage of Fenugreek seed made in the foresaid water and use it Or a thicker after this manner Take of the juyce of nuripe Grapes and Lees of Oyl and of sowr Pomegranates dried each two drams add of the pouder of the bone of the fish Sepia and Lizards dung each half a dram mix them Or thus Take of the pouder of Nabath two drams Tutty prepared White Lead washed each one dram the bone of the fish Sepia burnt and washt half a dram Sarcocol Myrrh Aloes Lycium each one scruple the Gaul of Birds or fishes two scruples mix it with Honey and the white of an Egg for an Oyntment Of corroding Compositions that is convenient which in the white Specks is prepared of Vitriol the rust of Brass Antimony the Marchasite Or a Colliry of Coppras but applied warily because it is strongest of all and 't is made thus Take of burnt Brass Coppras each half a dram Rust of Brass two drams Salt Ammoniack Niter Arsnick Sublimate each one dram make a most fine pouder poudring it much and long mix it in the mucilage of Gum Tragacanth make Trochisks one of which dissovle with the Mucilage and apply it warily Rondoletius commends the pouder of Precipitate I have often used my Caustick which at first time burns but presently abates Manual operation is made two waies by Ligature and by Cutting If the Veins which nourish the Panuicle be bound about the root then the growth of that flesh must needs be hindred or if it be already grown it must needs wither which may be done with a crooked Needle thrust under the Vein drawing the thred under it and tying it this if it be made of Silk or of a Bristle or of a Womans hair wil be more commodious because then it scarce putrifies Also if those veins be opened that the blood flow forth and it be often repeated the same will be effected The Pannicle is cut off after this manner as I have seen it done the Patient is placed in a chaire and the Eye is first prepared as hath been said in the cutting a suffusion then a Needle containing a strong thrid is thrust through under the Panicle yet so that it hurt not the Horny Coate and laying hold on both the ends of the thrid drawn under it drawing it a little way upwards t is raised from the horny Coate and afterwards is cut from it with a sharp Razor or Knife by degrees and warily that the horny Coate be not hurt the which being done if the black of the Eye appear clear the sight returnes But if otherwise or that the Pannicle hath so grown to the horny Coat that it cannot wholly be taken from it the operation wil be in vain Section being made the pain will be allaid in the same manner as hath been said in the cutting of a Suffusion and that it be not generated again anew it will be prevented by cutting of the Veins of the adnate coat if they swel again and laying on drying things and lest the Eye if by chance it were ulcerated should grow to the Eye-lid we ought to hinder it by often moving the eye If the bright part of the horny coat be possest with a strange humor so that either a depravation or darkness of the sight doth follow than if choller which in those troubled with the Jaundies is wont to dye the white of the Eye and what is more rare doth make a yellow aspect of all things be carried thither that vanishing of its own accord this fault ceaseth or it is taken away by some abstersive Lotion as shal be said in the Jaundies But Blood being poured forth into the Diaphanous part of the horny coat if that Depravation of the sight doth happen The Cure of the darkness or depravation of the sight from Choler Blood or matter in a hyposphagma and hypopyon in which all things appear Red or Livid in the said Hypophagma or if it penetrate the horny coat also and under that concrete by the hole of the Apple or being converted into matter in the said Hypopyon it darkens the sight then the cure must be ordered thus If there be Pain and an Inflammation be feared
conformed or labour of a Distemper they may also dammfie the Hearing which faults because they are hidden we cannot attain to them by our senses but know them only by their signs If the Artery which goes under this part be filled with a plentifull or hot spirit or it be too much agitated in it then a strong pulse being made in the Ears there is a beating sound in the Ears the which notwithstanding is more manifestly felt when the Ear is shut as hath been said formerly and if it be more vehement when it is open it also depraves that sound which comes from without the which as it comes to pass that the pulse is more intense by the vehement heat of the body in the rest of the Arteries so here also in the Artery of the Ear as it is felt after strong exercise sometimes in Baths and also in acute Diseases pains of the Head this pulsation creates trouble in the Ears the same also happens by motion and violent agitation of the spirits as we see in a swooning beginning the spirits flying away and the same ending those returning again there is felt a pulse and tingling in the Ears by which from the relation of the Patient we know that swooning is at hand the which also happens in many affections of the mind by reason of the same commotion of the spirits A thin and subtil vapor as it can enter the smallest passages so doubtless it doth sometimes penetrate hither through the narrow holes of which sort we have shewed in our Anatomical work that there are six that do end in this inner chamber of hearing and transmit their vessels and so they may not only deprave the Brain by affecting it as hath been said formerly as also we have shewed formerly that the sight is depraved by Vapors only assaulting the Brain and not entring the Eye seeing there is no way for them but also by reason of the said holes some of which end hither from the inward parts of the Skul others meeting without the Skul do not reach hither also seeing there are many waies 't is certain they may come even to the Organ of Hearing which when it comes to pass it must needs be that a Hissing Tingling and noise is offered to the Hearing and this is more commonly the cause of preternatural Sound than an influx of humor as shal be said by and by seeing it is often wont to come to pass in Drunkards or others and in many Diseases from Vapors somtimes thinner and cholerick as they call them and somtimes thicker that their Ears for that cause do tingle and make some other noise which doth last long the vapors persisting for a time or they being presently dissipated it doth vanish And this is the chief cause why after a Crisis in acute Diseases which accompanied with a pain in the head amongst other symptomes the Hearing in those that recover health doth suffer some hurt oftentimes of long continuance the matter which was then the conjunct cause of the Disease of being resolved out of the Veins into Vapors and emptied by sweats and insensible transpirations and part of it breaking out of the head through the aforesaid waies into the capacity of the Hearing and staying there awhile Wind or Air may cause the same which if it break into this inner chamber of the Hearing and be carried through a narrow way as it were by force it makes a hissing if through another hole so framed as it is wont to be fashioned in a pipe it causeth a tingling but if it run through larger passages and through the windings of that place it makes some other noise this often happens if it be driven thither by force as when the Nostrils being prest and the Spirit or the Air being vehemently impulsed we would blow our Nose Somtimes it comes to pass that part of it doth break through the hole from the largeness of the Nostrils to the double channel of the Organ of Hearing as we have shewed in our Anatomical work and doth raise a Hissing or Tinglingt that oftentimes lasts long Somtimes the Air breaking forth again the same way presently it ceaseth which comes to pass the sooner by swallowing often as I my self have often experienced this Wind also in the chamber of Hearing may be raised from an internal cause if from excrementitious moistures collected about the Periostia of the Skul and converted into Wind they be heaped there whence in ancient Head-akes and Pains of the Head and about the Bones in the French Pox a Tingling of the Ears is very troublesome A humor falling down or purged from the Head into this inner Cavity of the Ear through the hole which admits the Auditory Nerve A humor in the inner chamber of hearing is the cause of the defect of hearing as if it be plentiful it causeth Deafness or thick hearing so if it be subtile and little it depraves the Hearing and if this happen from a desluxion of it it comes suddenly if it be heaped up there by degrees this hurt also grows by degrees all which for the most part do beget a Disease of long continuance and persevering seeing the humor is hardly discust here but this proceeds from a Catarrh which falls down also to other parts and somtimes from the head to this part and it is known by the signs of that not only in that hurt but also by other appearances the which is familiar to the aged by reason of their plenty of excrements and accustomary to some natures from their Infancy that it molest the Organ of Hearing as it may come to pass by reason of the Country as in the Alpine Regions we see that many for this reason have difficult hearing from their Birth or presently in process of their age together with the Kings-evil familiar with them for the like cause and also in acute Diseases by a Crisis chiefly as hath been said formerly not only the cause of the Disease converted into a Vapor doth enter this chamber but also oftentimes part of the excrementitious or cholerick humor doth fall into it somtimes pure somtimes mixt with Blood stil as some would have it and breeds a more pertinacious hurt than if it were caused by a Vapor Default of the Confomation and structure of the Organ of Hearing is also hurt which seeing in this inner chamber 't is made up of the auditory nerve The fault of conformation in the inner chamber of Hearing and its parts is the cause of the defect of Hearing the Drum and three Bones and Labyrinths of this chamber in which soever that happens it may hurt the hearing By reason of the Auditory Nerve not rightly formed or carried from the Birth it somtimes falls out that they are born deaf and we know that it happens by reason of the Nerve because most of them are also dumb seeing the Tongue which wanted many Nerves for the sense of Tasting Touching and the exercise
lasting fault in the Speech or Hands or elswhere nor doth a particular Palsie less require a long Cure which also sometimes ends in a General one whose foreteller it often is Somtimes also a Palsie is Dangerous because it threatens an Apoplexy in which unless it be cured it is wont often to terminate and kil the Patient yet in the Interim if we proceed rightly in the Cure of a Palsie and desist not in a Disease of long continuance and the sick be obedient and nothing more grievous doth hinder that somtimes succeeds happily or from a more General one the humor not subsisting about the Original but in the process it is changed into a Particular one Which Cure we wil so order that in relation to the Cause The Method of Curing in a flegmatick Palsie we wil revell another way from them derive or purge out of the body the humor that possesses the Nerves or otherwise discuss or consume it in the part and prevent that new Excrements be not generated from which these humors are either increased or fomeneed but in Respect to the Disease we must correct the Cold and Moist distemper in the Nerves Last of all by occasion of the Symptoms we must strengthen the weak parts and allure the Spirits again and Vertue to the Muscles and must provide for the strength of the whol body Which ought to be done in this order first of all we turn our selves to those things which purge by the Stool and before we use the Stronger we wash out the common Excrements of the Guts and their dregs by things taken and Injected for so this filth being first cast off the strength of Purgers being not broken by them doth the better disperse it self afterwards we must prepare the Flegmatick Humor with hot incisive things that are appropriate which being done we must administer Purges which do egregiously solicite nature for the calling forth of humors from the depth and for the casting of them forth by this natural way destin'd for the purging of Excrements and so may revell them from the part affected all which if they help not presently in this Disease of long continuance they must be often repeated that we may continually accustome nature that she rather empty her self that way we must also attempt evacuations by other parts yet that which is made by stool going first as by the Mouth and Nostrils which are done either to prevent a new Colection of Excrements which seeing they are wont to be heaped up in the first concoction not rightly performed Vomiting upon that account must be caused both by things taken and actually or chiefly that excrements of the Brain which the brain is wont naturally to expel by these passages may be allured hither and so may be diverted that they follow not the course of the Nerves Which is done by putting things into the Mouth and Nostrils also we draw forth the humors through the habit of the body by insensible transpriration manifest Sweats by giving those things which can move them or by outwardly applying them or by motions of the body or we assay it with manifest openings also we heat and strengthen the parts giving and applying divers Remedies which by drying may wast the humor in the interim we must preserve the Strength both by Nourishments taken and other things rightly administred by which the body is preserved But these things which are administred both by reason of the Cause the Disease and Accidents we do perform either by things taken or swollowed into the stomach or by thing thrusts up into the Guts or into the capacity of the Mouth and Nostrils or by things outwardly applied to the body the palsied Members the Back-bone the Head or by encompssing Air or Motions of the Body and Mind or by manifest Openings of which we wil treat in this order The Remedies which we give to the Sick to be taken and swallowed although oftentimes they perform many things together yet they are chiefly given to cause Expurgations by the stool by Vomit by Sweats or other waies or they are given for Nourishment for Strength sake with which also we mix things Medicinal or for the preparation of the Humors before Purging or to Heat and Strengthen the Nerves The Remedies given to purge the Humors and Excrements by Stool which with the same labour sometimes also do alter too are some of them Gentler which are used before other Purgers and their Preparations and are used by course to keep the belly open which by long lying and sluggishness is wont easily to be bound they are chiefly given in the form of Pills Of usual Pils Assaireth are convenient because they have French Lavender in them Alephanginae because thep contain many Spices which adding of Agarick wil be more effectual and whiles the matter flows Rhubarb may be added Mastich and Castor that they may heat more powerfully After this manner Take of Pills Assaireth two drams Alpehanginae one dram and an half Agarick Rhubarb each one dram Mastich half a dram Salt gem one scruple Castor half a scruple with syrup of French Lavender make a Mass let him take one scruple for a Dose by course Or they are prepared of other things Take of Turpentine half an ounce let him take it by it self or diluted with Honey and water of Groundâ—ine and 't is an appropriate purging and singular Remedy for the Palsie to which some add the Species of Hiera and give it often Of convenient Liquids taken after the same manner also a Minoration as they cal it or gentle purge may be made Then stronger purgers must be given yet scarce before the fourteenth day after the invasion of the Disease which times is to be spent in the preparation of the Humors least that as it often comes to pass in Diseases from Defluxions whiles it yet flows it be stirred more by the use of these things especially if Gums which diffuse the matter do enter into these compositions as it often happens in Pils which are therefore to be omitted if we must purge sooner and certain astringent things are rather to be mixt The most convenient form of Pills will be this Take of Pills Faetidae Cochiae of each one scruple Opopanax half a scruple with syrup of French Lavender Make Pills If they work not enough they may be quickend with five grains of Trochisks of Alhandal One dram of Pills of Ground-pine given will do the same with great success of which afterwards Such a Potion may be taken instead of the Pills Take of the Electuary Diaphaenicon the greater Indum of each two drams syrup of Diacnicum six drams Cinnamon water two drams Ground-pine water as much as is sufficient make a Potion Or Take of the tables of Diacarthamum of thy description one dram and an half Lozenges of Citron solutive two drams Dissolve them with Sage water for one draught A Decoction may be made instead of these Take of the seeds of
that is fallen thither This Masticatory is good Take Nutmeg two drams Long Pepper Cubebs Galangal Water-cresse sceds Mustard seed each one dram Salt Gum Elemi each half a dram Mastick one dram and an half Turpentine which is highly commended and with Wax make Pills add half a scruple of Castor These Pils are excellent to be held all night under the Tongue Take Bayberries one dram Castor and Euphorbium cach six grains with the Infusion of Gum-traganth made in Rose water make Pils It is admirable to rub the Tongue with Mithridate and Castor And to wash the mouth with Brine or a Decoction of red Wine Sage and Salt Or this Take Acorus roots one ounce Galangal Cypress Costus Nutmeg each half an ounce Sage Marsoram each one handful boyl them in Water and Wine and add Honey of Rosemary flowers make a Gargarism Black-Cherry water to wash the mouth and to drink is vulgarly admired in loss of Speech but this is better Take Black-Cherry water Lavender Sage and Pennyroyal water each equal parts Anoynt the mouth often Some have written it as a secret that the juyce of Nettles put into the Ears restoreth the Speech The same external medicines are to be used as in the Palsie And the Oyntments and things which are applied to the original of the Nerves are to be applied to the nape of the Neck and let the Jaws be anoynted therewith Sinapisms Dropaces Vesicatories and Cauteries which draw back are to be applied to the hinder part of the Head If there be plethory it is good to let blood under the Tongue in the Palsie thereof upon the same side and to apply Cupping-Glasses under the Chin and the hinder part of the Head It is good to bid them use the Tongue and endeavor to speak If Voyce Speech or Breathing be hindered 't is a Desluxion upon the Muscles The Cure of want of Breathing which distendeth and inflameth them whether it be in the narrow Muscles of the Jaws or of the breast or upon the Diaphragma it shal be spoken of in Pains and Defluxions But if it come from the Diaphragma which is so troubled with Vapors that Nocturnal Suffocation or Fits of the Mother follow then because this Symptom is most urgent The Cure shal be as followeth If a Vapor arise from the Praecordia and hinders the Midriff in the Sleep The Cure of Incubus or Night-mare and brings danger of choaking as in the Incubus it is dangerous for fat folks and Children Otherwise if it continues it sends the Vapors to the Brain and causeth worse accidents as Hypochondriack Melancholly or Madness or Falling-sickness for the cause is the same only the part affected differreth and if the brain be much hurt it may turn to an Apoplexy Therefore it is good to prevent it betimes and the Crudity and Cacochymie and Repletion in the first passages is to be taken away And the Vapors are to be kept from rising to hurt the Diaphragma or other parts either in the Fit or out of the Fit and to be diverted and discussed as we shewed in the Melancholy Epilepsie Catalepsie and the like Diseases from the same cause This is done first by purging the thick Excrements by Clysters or otherwise and then letting blood if it be much or impure Then clense the Cacochymy by vomit and purge as the humor is especially with things against Melancholy and Wind that are good for the Head and Falling-sickness Then use particular Evacuations provoke the Haemrhoids or Courses if they be stopped and purge the Excrements of the Brain by the Nose And in the mean while to make a good Concoction give apply things to the Stomach avoid Crudities and things breeding Excrements and Wind. Look to the Head for the Imagination is hurt and to the Heart by reason of Fear and to the Breast for it is troubled All these must be respected out of the Fit In the Fit use Clysters and then outward Applications that draw down vapors and these may be continued after for prevention of the Fit If you give no Clyster use this Take Diacatholiconsix drams Diasenna Solutiva one dram give them alone or in Wormwood Water Pils Take Species Hiera of Galen half a dram Aggregative one scruple with Syrup of Stoechas make Pills The Humor is prepared thus Take Syrup of Hysop for the Head and Breast Stoechas and Lavender Honey or Rosemary of Bugloss each â—â—e ounce Oxymel simple half an ounce Wormwood Mints Succory Bugloss and Peony water each three ounces give it for three or four times with Nutmeg Or thus Take Fennel Asparaguâ— and Liquorish roots each one ounce Peâ—ny roots and Capar bark each half an ounce Bâ—ttony Hysop each one handful Endive Succory Bugloss Agrimony Hops each half an handful Bugloss flowers one pugil Raisons stoned one ounce Annise and Fennel seed each two drams Dodder one dram Schaenanth one dram boyl them to a pint strain it and dissolve Oxymel two ounces Sugar one ounce Diarrhodon Abbatis one dram for four Doses In Crudities Infuse in Wine Fennel roots two ounces Capar barks half an ounce Galangal three drams Wormwood Germander Groundpine each three drams Cordial flowers each two drams Fennel and Parsley seed each one dram Then purge Take Liquorish half an ounce Raisons one ounce Anise seed two drams and an half Cordial flowers one pugil Epithymum Senna each half an ounce boyl them and add to the straining Rhubarb one dram barks of black Helebore prepared half a dram if the Patient be strong or increase the quantity of Senna Ginger Grains of Paradice each half a scruple strain it and give it with half an ounce of Syrup of Roses Or give other Potions with Diasenna or Pils of Cochy c. Evacuate at divers times by the former or by Magistral Syrups Electuaries c. mentioned in Melancholy Diseases Let these Pils be in readiness Take Species Hierae Archigenis one dram Black Hellebore prepared one scruple Agarick Rhubarb each half a dram Epithimum half a dram Peony seeds and roots each half a dram with Honey of Squils make a Mass let him take three or four or more bigger or less as they work Let him use them often fasting fome hours before Dinner or Supper Hiera Archigenis alone wil do the same Spare Diet and avoiding Suppers is excellent especially if it come from Surfets Let him beware of crude and windy things that stretch forth the Belly and increaseth shortneness of Breath Let the Diet be of good juyce and easie Concoction with warm Spices For Drink Wine is forbidden because it disturbs the mind and Water because it puffeth up and Mead is allowed but in young people by reason of the Honey which turneth into choler it is not so good We allow Wine moderated with Water as in other melancholly Diseases A Honey-water for old men that are flegmatick Take Liquorish one ounce Fennel half an ounce Raisons stoned two ounces Annise seed one dram Bugloss flowers one pugil
Poppyes make a Mass give half a dram at Bed time It is good in Defluxions when they continue to sweat after purging Alteratives shall be declared which stay the Catarrh if it cause a Cough with their healing and drying quality rather then with astringing and which Expectorate by thickning if the humor be thin by cutting if it be thick by cleansing if it stick also to Lenifie the passages and stupefie many whereof were mentioned in Asthma especially to cut and cleanse The solid forms for a Cough are to be held long in the Mouth and they stop the Catarrh from falling to the Wind-pipe and mix with the spittle or to be chewed as troches little things like Lupines or Tablets dry like Pills to be held under the Tongue at bed time for in sleep they are held better and are not presently Swallowed down when Melted These may be also held in the Cheeks where they hinder not the Speech and get into the Wind-pipe better when you speak The root of Liquorish is so held and chewed which Lenifieth and cleanseth and the juyce thereof but it is a little unpleasant alone Sugar Candy especially that sticks to the Glass where syrup of Roses or Violets are kept is also good for the same The white Troches called Bechici are more usual But the red are better by reason of the Bole or these Take the best Bole one dram Mastick Starch of each half a dram Spike Gum Traganth Arabike of each one scruple Camphyre two grains Penidies and Sugar Candy of each two drams with Mucilage of Fleabane make little Balls The black are Compounded of juyce of Liquorish with Storax c. There are yellow Troches also very pleasant and good Take Starch three drams Liquorish two drams Elicampane Orris of each half a dram Angelica half a scruple Saffron six grains Penidies and Sugar-candy of each two ounces with infusion of Gum Traganth make Troches add Oyl of Annis seeds two drops The usual Lozenges are Diatragacanth Frigid Diapenidion without the Species Sugar of Roses in a hot cause In a cold Diaireos simple and Solomonis Diatragacanthum Calidum c. A Linctus or Eclegma is usual for a Cough because it goes down by degrees and comes to the breast it is to be taken with a Liquorish stick In a hot cause Lohoch of Fleabane Marsh-mallows of Mucilages in others Lohoch Sanum of Pine-nuts of Fox Lungs Coltsfoot and Coleworts Many are made without Pouders and Lenifie more Others are Unctious and the better for that to which things of other vertue are added And this kind is good for Children because it smels like meat and is sweet Junkets of Butter or May butter are usual in Germany and very good taken by little or licked Take Starch one ounce dissolve it in Milk boyl it to a pultis add fresh Butter four ounces Sugar a good quantity when it is cold it grows hard An Eclegma of Oyl excellent for a Cough Take Oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn one ounce Sugar-Candy half an ounce Mucilage of Fleabane made with Rose water half an ounce lick it often This Mucilage is Lenifying Take Mucilage of Lineseed Fenugreek Fleabane Quinces all made with Rose water one ounce and an half Penidies one ounce Infusion of Gum Traganth in Rose water or Cinnamon water half an ounce Sugar-candy or Penidies as much as will make a Linctus This is good to Lenifie and loosen the Mouth and Belly Take Cassia Manna of each three drams Penidies and Sugar-candy of each two drams Oyl of sweet Almonds and fresh Butter of each as much as will make a Loboch Of which let much be taken if you will Purge much Or Take Turpentine one dram one yolk of an Egg fresh Butter two drams Honey half an ounce Mix them lick it Syrups and Robs are made of Decoctions and juyces for to be licked Syrup of Myrtles is most usual Also of Violets Jujubies in a hot cause in another of Liquorish Maiden hair Hysop The Rob or thick juyce of fruits boyled is used instead of Honey which in a thin Defluxion moveth it too much Or use this Take Liquorish Pease shels of each three ounces Raysons Currants Figs of each four ounces Prunes ten Jujubies Sebestens of each twelve pair boyl them tel the fruits are dissolved strain them and boyl them to a Rob. Or thus of Juyces Take juyce of Coltsfoot red Cole Purslain of each one ounce juyce of Horehound Hysop Sage of each half an ounce juyce of Liquorish two drams Sugar and Honey of each three ounces Boyl them to a Syrup Or of a Decoction in a cold cause Take Liquorish Marsh-mallows of each one ounce and an half Elecampane Oâ—ri Fennel of each one ounce Angelica two drams Comfrey half an ounce Maidenhair Hysop Pennyroyal of each one handful Horehound half a handful Annis seed one ounce Fennel seed half an ounce Line seed three drams Fenugreek two drams Violets and Rosemary flowers of each one pugil Pease shels cleansed two ounces Raysons stoned three ounces Figs twelve Jujubies and Sebestens of each ten pair Boyl them strain them and add Honey and Sugar of each four ounces and a little Cinnamon Boyl it to a Syrup Those that have Pouders if they be not finely sifted will cause coughing They are diversly made As of Seeds and Roots thus Take Line seeds Fenugreek of each a dram Nettle seed Bryony root Marsh-mallows Orrice Elicampane of each half a dram Gum Traganth one scruple juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Oxymel one dram Make a Lohoch Or of Fruits stoned Take sweet Almonds Pinenuts of each an ounce Gourd and Melon seeds of each half an ounce Penides and Sugar-candy of each an ounce Manna half an ounce with syrup of Violets or Liquorish Make a Lohoch This of Sulphur is good Take the best Sulphur one dram Orrice half a dram Sugar-candy one dram and an half Make a pouder let it be licked or taken with a rear Egg. For Compound Pouders In a hot cause Take pouder of Diatraganth frigid Diapenidies without species of each one dram Lohoch of Fleabane Coltsfoot of each half an ounce Penides and Sugar-candy of each six drams Mallows and Cotten seed of each half a dram Line seed one dram Liquorish one dram and an half with syrup of Jujubies Make an Eclegma It is good to give things with Meat and Drink for a Cough though they work less because they mix with the spittle and leave their Vertues therewith Also to Eat Figs Raysons and Prunes It is a usual Medicine for a Cough to steep Figs in Aqua vitae and then dry them and after eat them Also Almonds Pine and Pistach nuts alone or candied March pane and other sweet Meats also and the junkats mentioned of Butter Also Meats of Barley and Oats and of Beans ccording to Dioscorides Especially Barley and Almond Milk is excellent to stop a Catarrh as we shewed in Asthma Or this taken some spoonfuls towards bed Take Barley Meal Starch of each
and hard as nuts-shels bones because they press the Membranous side of the Wind-pipe which is joyned to the gullet and so straiten it breathing and swallowing are also hindered even as both passages suffer the same when from external injuries tying or dislocation of a spondil The dryness of the Gullet is the cause of difficulty of Swallowing and are contracted when the Gullet is inwardly straitend by a Tumor of the Neck or Inflammation or Defluxion Obstruction of the Gullet is the cause of difficult swallowing the Patient swallows with difficulty Also when it is corroded or pricked it cannot suffer things to pass for pain with inflamation And this comes from sharp things or vapors or humors As a Boy that eat fish greedily and was choaked with a sharp bone that fixed in the Gullet after a great Tumor and Inflamation Of the causes mentioned some hinder Vomiting when it should be Obstruction of the Gullet is cause of Vomiting hindered The streightness of the Stomach causeth difficult Vomiting but not all because Vomiting being more forcible Natural and Voluntary motion will sooner make way then swallowing which is only from our will Besides these Diseases of the Gullet if it be in a streight place it cannot be dilated and so Vomiting is hindered Hence it is that they that have streight Breasts and short Necks are unfit to vomit Vomiting is difficult from the fault of the Stomach And the streightness of the Neck causeth the same If it be not too loose nor the right Orifice too large as it is naturally and therefore men that have good Stomacks concoct well yet being sick and stirred to Vomit by Medicines or Excrements yet they cannot vomit but with great pain And contrarily they who have too much dilated their Stomach by gluttony and drunkness vomit upon the least occasion When a sharp and hot humor boyles in the stomach A boyling humor in the Stomach is the cause of difficult belching as we shall shew in Cardialgia or hartburning it causeth a desire to belch from the breaking of those bubbles which it raiseth and which send forth a wind or burning vapor to the Mouth of the stomach but because the wind is dispersed before it come into the Gullet there is no belching And if a Humor stick fast in the Stomach A tough humor in the Stomach is the cause of difficult Vomiting and Solicite vomiting yet it wil not cause it because it cannot come forth but the things taken may be vomited up Though often the Humors are vomited and the meat retained though but lately eaten by natures choyce to cast out the worst as we shall shew in immoderate Vomiting The Cure That we may know what to do in difficulty of swallowing vomiting and belching we shall speak of each Particularly If difficulty of swallowing come from the Nerves affected and the Muscles of the Jaws loosned The Cure of the difficulty of swallowing which is a kind of Palsie in a general Palsie it is the worse because it signisies that not only the pairs of Nerves in the Back but also those of the sixth and seventh Conjugation are hurt Except it be a Particular Palsie as of the Tongue and parts adjacent which is also bad and threatneth a general The same Cure is to be used as in the Palsie in respect of the causes If it come from a Defluxion of water to the Nerves it must be purged revelled and consumed and the part confirmed Amongs which Mustard held in the Mouth is excellent as I shewed And Pellitory of Spain it draws water plentifully And Tablets of Nuâ—megs according to my uncles receit are excellent Also Gargarismes that reach the Muscles of the Jaws As this Take Calamus half an ounce Sage Rosemary each one handful Lavender flowers one pugil Cypress Nuts four Nutmegs two Cloves one dram boyl them in Water and the fourth part Wine and in one pint and an half dissolve Honey of Rosemary and Squils of each two ounces Vinegar of Squiis half an ounce Or thus Take â—â—amoron Oxymel of squils of each one ounce and an half Sage and Lavender water of each four ounces Make a Gargle There are many Oynâ—menrs for the Neck mentioned in the Palsies to which add these Take Oyl one ounce Oyl of Spike Masitch of each half an ounce Labdanum Frankincense Storax of each half a dram with a little Wax make a Liniment If it be a kind of Spasmus The Cure of difficulty of swallowing which is a kind of Convulsion it must be cured as that is And the Topicks applied as in the Palsie It is deadly from a wound as we shewed in Spasmus If it be from heat in Feavers see Feavers and cool with Epithems The Cure of difficult swallowing from the dryness of the Gullet to the Liver chiefly and Gargarisms and Linctus as in hoarsness that comes from roughness of the Chaps give moist meat Unctions Broths Barley Cream Emulsions c. If the body fallen in be thick The Cure of difficult swallowing from things fallen into the Wind-pipe or sticking or Membranous we must use divers arts upwards and downwards Oftentimes things are driven down by a great draught of water or washed off if they stick or with a piece of Bread or by neesing but chiefly by vomiting which is easier if they can first take a great deal of Water and Oyl and as Rhasis saith if we strike the Neck of the Patient If the thing may be seen and laid hold upon we have Instruments for to take it out as the forceps c. And other bending things that may fit themselves to the passage and so we thrust it down as a thick stick of a birchen broom or Beets or any thing they will bend and not break being green If it be dry soften it in hot Lead or anoynt it with Oyl Rhasis useth Lead But a Wax Candle dipp'd in Oyl is best They say that a peice of a Spunge tied to a string and swallowed down and after much water is drunk to swel it pulled up again will fetch any thing out of the Throat but this is best in thin and sharp things that trouble the Gullet for it can do nothing except the Spunge be swallowed This may be done by a great bead which will be swallowed more easily and may be done often We give Oyl or Butter to make the part slippery and anoynt the Throat to enlarge it If a Hors-leech creep into the mouth and stick to the Gullet Rhasis shews the cure But we advise it to be pul'd out with the Forceps if it may be laid hold upon or provoke it to ascend with drinking hot water and holding afterwards cold in the mouth or we drive it downwards as other Worms with things that displease them as by drinking Vinegar eating Salt things Onions Garlick Mustard and the like that are contrary to Worms as shal be shewed in their places When the Gullet is
or a stone in both together Consumption obstruction drying of both Kidneys or ureters or the absence of one ureter is the cause of suppression of Urin. which is seldom Or when in burning feavers both the ureters are dryed up or when one ureter is wanting or twisted and the other stopped as I saw in an Anatomy And if these be the Causes and the Bladder empty there is no pain from distention nor desire to Piss There is seldom defect in pissing from the largness of the Bladder except it be wounded A wound in the Bladder causeth Suppression of urin when it is empty as in a Fisher that pissed from a hole in his Groyn and not from the Yard Pissing is chiefly hindered from the Neck of the Bladder when it is obstructed and this being a narrow passage is easily stopped or straitned by cold and then there is pain or by outward compression with long sitting or the like in regard of the stoppage of that part between the Fundament and the Yard through which the Urin passeth in men Or by inward compression by the streight Gut filled with Excrements or Wind. The same may come from Inflamation of the parts adjacent or a great Tumor The Urin is most stopped when after long retention the Bladder is stretched much and the Neck thereof so contracted that it cannot be opened This is incident to them that sit long at banquets and are ashamed to rise and make water or otherwise for want of a convenient place stay so long that they cannot Piss Doting people that are very contemplative forget Pissing and other Functions which depend upon the will in part Doting or Delirium is the cause of Ischuria Moreover in the Convulsion or twisting of the Neck of the Bladder Also the twisting of the Bladder by a Rupture is the cause of Ischuria as we shewed in the convolvulus of the Guts Urin may be wholly suppressed as we shewed in the Fisherman whose bladder from a Rupture in the Groyn fel into the Cods and lay stretched out and voided no Urin but by a Catheter while an ignorant Chyrurgion let it out by cutting thereof which gave ease to the patient with great danger from which being freed he pisseth yet through a Fistula that remains by drawing forth a tent wherewith it is stopped If it come from obstructions of the Neck of the Bladder A Stone in the Bladder flopping it causeth Ischuria and Strangury it is a stone usually that stops it if it be a great one or a little one that passeth into the Yard in men As we shall shew in the pains of the Reines A Caruncle or Callus from an Inflamation not well cured An excrescence in the Neck of the bladder or humor is the cause of Ischury or Strangury being in the same passage causeth stoppage of Urin as also Warts and clotted blood and matter though not of so long continuance other humors cannot cause it because that they come not to the Bladder and if they do Stupefaction of the bladder is the cause of little and seldom Pissing they are so mixed with the Urin that they can get easily forth therewith When the Nerves of the Bladder are afflicted and the sting is lost the expulsive faculty acteth not as it is the cause as of not going to stool so of not pissing Also when there is no pricking of Urin and the Bladder is not ful yet we may make water by pressing the bladder with the Muscles of the Belly which cannot be in going to the stool except the expulsive faculty help by our own will because there is need of more force to send forth thick humors then Urin. Therefore though the bladder and its Neck and Sphincter be stupefied yet Urin may be voided as in the Palsie and when the Sphincter is loosned there is involuntary pissing because it is the office of that Muscle to retain not expel the Urin. But it is true that if the Bladder be Stupified we piss more seldom as when it is of exquisite sense more often Because the expulsive faculty forceth out will to make water as we shall shew in often Pissing The Cure If Pissing be seldom What we must foretel and do in defect of pissing from what cause soever from drinking little or dry Diet much sweat or purging or in less quantity it needs no Cure because it doth no hurt But if it come from stoppage of the bowels in dropsies the Serum being so retained that they piss less then they drink which causeth a Tumor of the Belly we shall shew the Cure therefore in the Dropsie If it come from thickness of the Serum through things taken in there must be a contrary Diet and thinner drink If from the Kidneys and Vreter on both sides which is seldom seen if there be no Urin in the Bladder it is mortal and incurable If from a wound of the Bladder so that the Urin fals into the Belly or comes forth at the Wound either they die or as we shewed there is a Fistula through which they piss but it is rare as is also the bladder falling into the Cods which had been deadly without the chance mentioned If it come from cold because it causeth pain it shall be mentioned there If from compression of the Neck of the bladder it ceaseth when the Excrements and Wind are voided If Urin long held stretch the Bladder and there be Inflamation or Tumor the Cure is to be applied to them If it come from a Stone Caruncle or other Tumors or Humor which stoppeth the passage when these impediments are removed the Urin is voided If from the Stupefaction of the bladder the pissing be slower you must not meddle therewith for when it is ful it will come forth or by straining at stool We shall now shew what Medicines are to be used internal and external to provoke Urin in divers causes Remedies to provoke Urin and help Pissing especially when the Serum is thick and the passages about the Bowels Reigns Bladder and Vreters are stopped These are called Diureticks that cause it to be more or quicker either by increasing of the Serum or making it thin and fluid and seperated from the blood that it may pass easily from the Kidneys to the bladder or by making the Serum and Urin hotter and sharper to stir up the expulsive faculty as we shall shew One dram of the Powders following are to be given in a good quantity of Wine Ale or Milk or other convenient Liquor and if you will keep them long make them into Troches The first Take Water-cress seeds one dram and an half Pouder them The second Take Acrons and Hazel nuts dryed in an Oven of each one dram and an half give it with Goats Milk morning and evening The third Pouder Take Madder roots Asarum Fennel Parsley Lovage Water cress Nigella winter cherry seeds of each one dram Valerian half a dram make
and active and they who have less are weak and sooner die And when that flourishing humor is consumed like Oyl by the heat of the spirit by degrees in age men grow more weak and dry Among internal and external causes Diseases that dissipate the influent and fixed spirits are the cause of weakness all great Diseases dissipate the vital spirits if they continue long and at length consume the innate spirits with the radical moisture wherewith it is joyned from whence the weakness is more or less Great and often Evacuations either by chance or willingly Evacuations that dissipate the natural fixed and also the influent heat cause weakness or in Diseases exhaust and dissipate the spirits and abate strength especially if good humors be voidded as Seed in the running of the Reins or by Venery Also great bleeding purging by reason the stirring of the spirits abate strength as in Diarrhaea's and great and often sweating and much pissing Also the sudden effusion of things besides nature as of Water in the Dropsie matter in an Empiema doth weaken These violent excretions being painful as in a Dysentery weaken more Great pain which violently stirreth the spirits Pain moving the spirits causeth weakness to bring them to the part afflicted with the blood for help causeth weakness and if it be very great fainting Especialy if the part suffering Pain of the Mouth of the Stomack cause of Cardiaca or fainting have great affinity with the Heart Hence it is that they who have the Cardialgia or Heart pain are very weak by reason of the consent of the Stomach with the Heart and do easily faint this fainting is called Cardiaca And so it is in other painful and long Diseases Great and sudden Passions of the Mind Trembling of the Spirit is the cause of weakness fainting because then the spirits are carried in and out with force cause debility and somtimes fainting and death Thus we have seen some swoon with joy that hath thrown the spirits outward and have read that others have died so In anger the spirits are so inraged that they look red in the Face And when the spirits presently return as the paleness following sheweth they are in little danger of life but they are weakned thereby as appears by their trembling and there remains a weariness though anger be over Nor is the cause of men not dying with anger as with joy because angry men are stronger as is supposed in regard old men and sick men that are peevish are easily moved to anger But it often hapens that by great fear the spirits being violently moved some die and many are weakned And shame and bashfulness may cause the same by which they say Homer died Also if the passions be of long continuance and strong as sadness and fear and the like they stir the spirits with continual Cogitation and at length consum them and as they say dry the bones and this is a Consumption of the Spirits A strong and constant heat doth not only dissipate the spirits but consumes them Heat dissipating the spirits and consuming their nourishment is the cause of weakness and their nourishment as when the body is weakned by heat fire labor there is fainting somtimes And in Feavers it is so especially in a Causon or burning Feaver And in a Hectick the accidental heat of the heart though not great yet continuing devours the radical moisture of the heart and solid parts and the spirits and causeth weakness and Consumption A cold distemper quencheth the native heat Cold restraining the native heat is the cause of weakness or makes it less so some have been frozen to death And others have been killed with staying long in cold water Also some parts are benumed and blasted with cold or so weakned that they come not again to themselves And this may come to the Stomach by drinking cold water And hither may be referred those that for want of excercise bring not the native heat into action and grow stupid Also the parrs grow weak by using things inwardly and outwardly that are Potentially cold a long time they grow weak but the native heat is not wholly extinct as by actual cold Although hitherto it hath been believed to come from Narcoticks that are very cold which as we shewed do not kil by cooling but by stupefying the brain Nor do we grant that the Pores being obstructed that the heat is Suffocated for want of fanning or Eventilation for as we shewed the Skin hath Pores not to let in Air but to let out other things A Maligne quality affecting the Heart or mixed with its spirits A Maligne quality in the Heart is the Cause of weakness causeth an extinction of native heat thereof and by consequence of all the Body or diminisheth it and begets a Syncope or weakness or Death according toits divers qualities So when the Air is infected men in the Plague suddenly faint are weak and die or in swouning Feavers which alwaies begin with fainting And when Poyson is taken or bred in the Body it gets to the Heart and endangers life and causeth weakness And this may happen to other parts when Poyson is more contrary to them then to the Heat If a Wound peirce the left Ventricle of the Heart A Wound in the Heart is the cause of weakness and Death the spirits suddenly vanish and there is sudden Death And if the right or it peirce the Superficies or cuts the Coronal Veins they die suddenly from great bleeding I suppose non can scape if the substance only be hurt and divided because a principal part cannot endure it Fernelius writes that he saw one that consumed before he died of an Ulcer in the Heart that came from an inward cause The like may be from a Tumor which is rare and not known but by dissection because the Heart feels not I faw in 1644. in a Woman that I opened of a Dropsie in the Breast such a swolen Heart loose and greater then it should be with the Vessels especially the Arteria Aorta three times bigger then usual and both the Ventricles especially the left and the Langs and Cavity of the breast silled with waterish blood Also a great corruption in other parts extinguisheth the native heat The Cure We shall shew how it is to be done in diverse weaknesses The Cure of weakness and swouning and chiefly in general Imbecility and great fainting which also may be for particular weakned parts although in their Symptoms we shall also speak thereof We must act and prognostick acctording to the diversity of the cause of weakness If it come from want of Air and breathing we shewed the Cure in the defect of Breathing If it be from the birth or old age we labor in Vain because natural causes cannot be changed nor radical moisture renewed If it be from Evacuation it is worst from Venery or bleeding which is in a Dropsie If
from sweat it must be stopped as we shall shew in its place If from pain take away the cause and allay the pain for pain of the Heart causing swouning vomit purge and strengthen the Stomach as in Cardialgia some die of joy and that weakness which is from other passions if it continue especially from fear it is hard to be Cured If it come from a hot or cold distemper Cure it by contraries A Maligne quality Plague or Poyson often killeth for which we use Evacuations and Antidotes A Wound in the Heart is deadly and a corruption of the parts thereof uncurable These things observed though the evil be desperate yet with Restauratives and Cordials we may ply them to the last breath that if there be any hope and the weakness not fixed cure them And we may be the bolder if it come from Evacuation Pain or Passion or after a Disease And if there be a Syncope we may remove it and prevent it Examples of all which do folfow Let the Diet be of good juyce Cordials and in little quantity easie concocted give them little and often Especially if old men are lately sick or such as have had great Evacuation And if they cannot digest thick give broaths things strained or Jellies A good Julep Take Capon broath and boyl Rise therein with Borrage add the yolk of an Egg and a little Rose Vinegar or a little juyce of sharp Apples or Citrons or Wine Marjoram Nutmeg Saffron and Salt Or boyl and strain the flesh of a Capon in broath and give it with the rest The German dish of yolks of Eggs Wine Sugar and Butter doth restore excellently The Gravie of a roasted Capon mixed with the yolk of an Egg the fat being taken off and boyled with Nutmeg and Salt doth the same There are divers jellies As Take a Capon and Mince it with a little Veal salted and Spiced with a little Wine and boyl it in Balneo Mariae and take the juyce and strain it from the fat and keep it till it congeal in a cold place This may be given by it self or with others Wine doth suddenly and greatly refresh as experience sheweth give it alone or with Sugar let it be well sented and sweetish or mix Cinnamon therewith It is good in swouning to give a sop in Wine with juyce of Apples Lemmons Pomegranats and Cinnamon The Medicines to refresh the Spirits and preserve them are these Take the julep of Roses two ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce give it often Or thus Take the juyce of sweet sented sower Apples half an ounce Sack and Cinamon water of each two drams Or thus in the Heart pain Take of Balm and Lavender flower water of each half an ounce Cinnamon water juyce of Lemons or of Apples and Sack of each two drams Juleps are usual in Feavers and in thirst As Take syrup of Violets Bugloss water Lillies of each one ounce julep of Roses one ounce and an half Rose Bugloss and Balm water of each two ounces Cinnamon water half an bunce give two or three ounces A Distilled water to restore Take the broath of a Capon and Oxes or Dears Hearts well boyled four pints Sack one pint an Orange or a Lemon cut in pieces Galangal Balm of each one dram Cinnamon half an onnce Cloves two drams Coriander and Basil seeds Roses Scabious and Bugloss flowers of each one dram Saffron one scruple Harts horn and Ivory shavings of each one dram Distill a Water Or thus Take dried Citron peels Angelica roots Balm Borrage flowers Basil seed of each half a dram Cinnamon three drams Cloves and species of Diamargariton Frigidum of each one dram Infuse them in spirit of Wine give one or two spoonfuls with Sugar of Roses or white Wine Cordial Potions to be given at the point of Death to refresh Take Confectio Alchermes one scruple species Diamargariton Frigidum half a dram syrup of the juyce of Citrons half an ounce syrup of Poppies three drams with Rose Bugloss and Cinnamon water make a Cordial This is good in extremity with more Poppy water Or thus which is good against Poyson Take Confectio de Hyacyntho half a dram or Diamargariton Frigidum Diamoscum dulce of each half a dram Syrup of the juyce of Citrons one ounce with Scabious and Balm water make a Potion Treacle is good if fainting come from Poyson or an evil Medicine Also Lozenges of Sugar of Roses and Diamargariton Frigidum Or these Take species of Diamargariton frigidum of the Electuary of Gems or Cordial species of each half a dram Oyl of Cinnamon four drops Sugar dissolved in Rose water two ounces Make Lozenges Or Take Coral one dram Precious stones Pearles Ivory of each half a dram Citron seeds Sorrel and Basil seeds of each one scruple Cinnamon Mace of each one dram wood Aloes one scruple Musk two grains with Sugar make a Pouder or Lozenges To these you may add the Oyls of Pearls Coral or the like Portable Gold or spirits drawn called Elixirs are commended by Chymists to strengthen and hinder old Age. And they attribute much to their holy Oyl of mans blood Take of a sound mans blood of thirty or forty years old three pints Sperma Ceti Marrow of Oxe bones of each one pound Distill them in a Lembeck well luted keep the last water which is red and they say will change with the Moon give three drops in Wine or Cordial water Sweet scented things refresh and fetch swouning people again we shall mention some only to be applied to the Nose which are at hand Apply Vinegar of Roses with a Spunge or Cloth to the Nose or mix it with Penniroyal bruised or Basil or let him smel to Wine They use to chew Cloves and breath into the Mouth and Nose of the Patient Or this Take Cloves yellow Sanders Roses of each one dram Camphire one scruple beat them with Vinegar and apply them to the Nose Or Take Rose water one ounce juyce of Apples and Vinegar of Roses of each half an ounce Cloves half a dram Oyl of Spike one drop apply it to the Nose Or anoynt it with Civet or Chymical Oyls of Cloves and Cinnamon with white Wax Apply Epithems to the Heart and Pulses As Take Rose water three ounces Wine that is sweet scented two ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce juyce of sweet Apples or Lemmons half an ounce Cloves one dram Saffron one scruple Or this Take water of Roses Balm Scabious of each two ounces Vinegar of Roses juyce of Apples of each one ounce species Diamargariton frigidum one dram Camphire one scruple Saffron half a scruple Make an Epithem You may boyl Pouders put into Bags in Wine and apply them Take Cloves two drams Gallia Moschata one dram Saffron half a scruple Basil seed one scruple Camphire half a scruple Or anoynt the Pulses Take Oyl of Cloves and Cinnamon of each three drops and mix them with a little Wax Anoynt the Heart with those mentioned
was beloved he discovered a Disease to be from the mind that is Love This Palpitation of the Heart is sooner in weak people and such as are disposed to it Stirring of the Spirits causeth palpitation of Heart in them that are subject thereto the least exercise wil cause it in some One confessed to me that he had it presently in the act of Venery and was so troubled therewith that except he gave over he should be stifled as it fel out afterwards This pulsation also is greater when the spirits are dissipated from other causes as at the point of Death when they are vanished though there be great weakness by which nature labors to assist them in the greatest danger by this motion and recollection of Spirits When the Spirits grow hot with the blood Over-heating of the Spirits is the cause of quick and great pulsation there is great motion of the Heart and Arteries not so much because the spirits are hot and unquiet but because they then are sooner spent that what is suddenly lost may be suddenly repaired Whether it come from the external causes as the Fire or Fume or from internal and the rather if the Heart grow hot and continue so as in a Feaver Or if the heat come from motion of the body or exercise in heat Or when the mind is so affected that not only the Spirits are troubled but set on fire thereby as in anger Or when all these concur As we knew a Noble man that playing at Tennis was so hot and angry and so moved in the Pulsation and Respiration that he could not recollect himself nor could the motion cease but he died suddenly When the Arteries are too full of blood and too much dilated thereby in regard they ought not to be filled as the Veins are that there may be room for the Vital spirits the Pulsation which before was not perceived when moderate is felt by the Patient and that vehement Diastole about the Heart and great Arteries mentioned in the Palpitation of the Heart is raised Especially when the blood floweth to the left Ventricle of the Heart and to its Ear which may be much enlarged to the great Artery whereby they are too full and extended And it ceaseth when it flows from those parts and doth not more lift them up and dilate them Or it molesteth continually if an Artery be so dilated as Fernelius observed Yea that the great Tumor called Aneurisma doth follow And if this Aneurisma be within in any part of the great Artery or in the breast Throat under the Ribs or in the Ear of the Heart which wil be very much stretched it causeth a perpetual Pulsation as an external Aneurism and is the cause of that Palpitation of Heart which lasteth so long and kils so many as some have observed in Anatomy It is plain that this Palpitation comes from plenty of Arterial blood Plenty and heat of Arterial blood that fils the Arteries causeth palpitation of Heart because the Arteries have nothing else in them And Galen seems to grant it when he saies all such are cured or eased by bleeding And this pulsation is greater by how much the blood and the spirits mixed therewith which fill the Arteries are the hotter Fernelius witnesseth that he saw such blood in the Arteries burnt like black choller And we prove that that cholerick hot blood is gathered in the Mesaraick Arteries and and sent to the great Arteries by these Arguments Because as such juyce as is frequently bred in the mesaraick Veins from meat and drink doth inflame pollute the blood being carried from the branches of the Gate-vein to the hollow vein so doth it get into the mesaraick Arteries which are joyned to those Veins and so into the greater Arteries and so to the Heart and so filleth them and doth what is mentioned And the rather because these mesaraick Arteries are branches of the great Artery but the meseraick Veins come not from the hollow Vein nor are joyned to it but by the substance of the hinder Hence is this Disease so usual in Virgins from the stoppage of their Courses which begets an evil habit and in those that have Hypochondriack Melancholy In which as the fulness and foulness of the Venal and Arterial blood causeth Cachexy and Melancholy so do they cause palpitation of the Heart and Arteries Some say this may be from Wind filling the Arteries which we cannot allow because none hath observed that the Veins can be filled therewith Nor do we grant that vapors gathered about the Midriff Spleen or Womb and so sent into the Arteries and Heart or a thick vapor shut into the Heart that came from another place as some have written can so fill it that they may cause this Pulsation As for other causes of palpitation of which they write especially wind or water in the Pericardium we count them not the true cause of Palpitation but of some fluctuation when the body is moved as may appear by the noise in the breast as we shal shew in preternatural Swoons in the body Other Diseases of the Heart besides these mentioned may cause it to move inordinately and quicker as heat that moves the Spirits and disperseth them and too great Repletion by the blood of the Arteries Such are those that so offend the Heart it moveth violently to cast them off rather by a natural sensation than by feeling which the Heart wanteth A Venemous quality from within or without A malign quality stirs up the Heart to palpitation doth cause palpitation or any malignity in the arterial blood which fils the Arteries causeth the same by stretching them and by troubling the Heart I understood that one who died of a continual Trembling of the Heart had a Bone or Gristle found in his Heart The Cure That Palpitation which comes from vehement motion of mind or body The Cure when it comes from vehement motion or Heat ceaseth when they cease as we shewed in Short-breathing which is joyned therewith But when many causes concur it is dangerous as we shewed When it comes from plenty of blood it is dangerous and lasting Cure of Palpitation of heart and troublesom by continual motion but wasting of the Spirits many have dyed hereof others have long been troubled therewith many have been cured by removing the cause And because the Cause is commonly about the Meseraick Vessels which are distributed in the natural parts and there is the plethory and filth it is cured as Cachexy Cachochymie and Hypochondriack Melancholly which are usualy joyned therewith By preventing too great increase of Blood Humors and Wind and such humors as chiefly abound by purging of Choler and strengthening the natural parts and mixing Cordials with all things And in regard it is hard to evacuate the conjunct cause in the Artesies and Heart we must strengthen them with Cordials Thus. Letting of blood except some thing hinder is good according to Galen
Serpent Dipsas such humors Galen saith may breed in the body and be turned into Poyson That it is no wonder that women with Child and Virgins that want their Terms should have the Pica Or others a depraved appetite from a Cacochymy or evil juyce The Cure Of the three kinds of evil Appetite if Hunger or Thirst cannot be satisfied The Cure of Bouimos or great Appetite of Thirst and Pica or if it be they are sick or pained at heart or Vomit or purge or if they be weak and faint for being satisfied this is to be cured And it is more easily done in Hunger than Thirst and great Hunger is easier taken away than satisfied When strange things are desired that must not be neglected because it signifieth a preternatural cause in the body as also because they delight in such things and think they cannot hurt which they find otherwise First be temperate in eating and drinking not too much nor too little especially after long fasting and sickness and then take a little and often such as is of good juyce and nourisheth wel and is easily concocted In other causes eat things that fil much and are solid and not soon digested yet in small quantity for as an evil custom maketh Gluttons and Drunkards that they are not well except ful so a good and decent custom takes away immoderate appetite and brings it into good order Vomiting is good if there be an evil humor that causeth it and if it come not of it self provoke it And in Dogs Appetite at the first before it is too violent provoke it to take away the cause In other cases vomiting increaseth it except it come from choler In which also thirst is raised which ceaseth when that is spent Purging is good in these cases mentioned both against Thirst and Hunger not in other except there be a Diarrhaea in which you must help nature to take away the cause with things that are gentle and astringe First preparing the Humor All these we choose by other observations than by the sharpness of flegm or melancholly And though purging cause thirst if it come from Choler they may be used If it come from Worms give bitter things to drive them down We use hot and dry things for the stomach when this Disease comes from humors after they are purged Which do not alter the coldness of the stomach but heat and dry it causing thirst which cureth hunger give meat actually and potentially hot spiced and sweetned which are best fasting And sweet Wine that is strong and spiced and Aqua vitae which the labouring people drink in the morning that they may better endure hunger Also hot medicines for the stomach as sweet sharp burning and wel scented Or anoynt foment or Plaister the stomach with hot things Or use exercise and Baths Things that loosen or are fat or viscous subvert the stomack and by greasing it take away the sense and Appetite as Butter Oyl Fat Glutinous as Calfes and Sheps Feet and if they be loathsom they are the better as they speak of roasted Dormice Things take away Appetite by propriety by their adverse force or loathsomness As Wine in which an Ele hath been drowned causeth men alwaies to loath Wine But this must do it by another quality if they that are ignorant of it are cured thereby Antidotes do the like if it come from venom Others stupifie the sense of the stomach as we shewed in the causes of dejected Appetite And Wine or spirit thereof taken fasting doth the same not by heating but stupifying And the infusion of nightshade roots in Wine Also Treacle and Mithridate with Wine are stupifying by reason of the Opium And other Opiates though no Antidotes abate Appetite but it will return again by taking Vinegar Cold and moist things Cure all sorts of thirst And Rhazis saith that cold or cold water hurts the actions of the Stomach largely taken and cold Air cures Hunger Drink doth this chiefly by wetting the dry Belly if it be actually cold and potentially also Water actually cold which we shewed to be potentially temperate is best either crude or boyled to take away the windines Or with sour Juyces or Vinegar or with Spirit of Vitriol-waters cure Thirst Wine may be given to them that are used to it especially if small or mixed with Water Also Milk to young Children and such as use it and Whey But they are prohibited in Diseases in which they corrupt easily An Emulsion of sweet Almonds in water called Almond-milk is pleasant Or Decoctions as that of Barley-water or beaten Bread or of cold Seeds or of Prunes Cherries Raysons with Cinnamon Anise Fennel c. Broaths of Flesh-Capons let the Fat be taken off restore and quench Thirst Beere or Ptisan with Juyces As Take Water two quarts Juyce of Pomegranates or Grapes two ounces Sugar half an ounce boyl them a little Or of distilled Waters Take Sorrel and Endive water each two pints Juyce of Currance and Grapes or Pomegranates each three ounces Juyce of Lemmons or Apples boyl them and sweeten them a little Julep Alexandrinum Take Rose-water one pint Sugar half a pound boyl them to a consistance add Water boyled Or thus Take Water one pint Rose-water four ounces Juyces of Cherries or Grapes two ounces Sugar four ounces boyl them Sharp Syrups as of Currance or Goos-berries Grapes Medlars Cherries Prunes Pomegranates Sorrel or Vinegar with Water or distilled Waters or Syrup of Violets The Juyce of ripe Anguriae or Pomegranates is good Other solid things to chew made of Sorrel or wood-sorrel Lettice Purslane Endive Succory Bugloss-flowers in Sallets Coleworts Rapes Apples boyled Bar-berries Medlars Peaches Apples Cherries Prunes Pomegranates Bar-berries Grapes Raisons green or dryed Liquorish chewed quencheth Thirst Also Sugar candy with Syrup of Violets held in the Mouth Manna Sugar of Roses and Conserves with Spirit of Vitriol Conserve of Violets candied Lettice Coleworts Guords Citrons Or Take Conserve of Roses two ounces of Sorrel one ounce of Violets Bugloss Water-lillies of each half an ounce of Currans as much as will make a sharp Electuary Take the Mucilage of Fleabane and Quince seed Gum Traganth extracted with Rose water with Sugar or Syrup convenient Make a Linctus Take of the Mucilages mentioned one ounce Syrup of Grapes half an ounce with Sugar Make a Linctus Or put seeds of Fleabane and Quinces in a clout and add Sugar cool it in water and lay it upon the Tongue Take the four cold seeds of each one dram Purslane seed Search juyce of Liquorish of each half a dram with Gum Traganth make Troches to hold in the mouth Or Troches of Salt-peter that is Salprunella with Sanders and Suger and Gum Traganth It is good to cool the mouth with water and Vineger Candied Coleworts or with Rose water or Sorrel water c. or to hold Crystal or a Stone or Ice in the mouth and chang it often Some anoynt the Tongue with Mucilage of seeds and
Oyl of Roses Cold air Cures thirst by cooling the Lungs if it come from them and by correcting the heat of the whol body in regard the Tunicle of the Mouth and of the stomach are all one Baths for the Feet and Hands of cold water and change of Linnen doth the same Also Epithems applied to the Liver and Heart And anoynting of the Throat and Neck with Oyl of Violets Water-lillies Willows Poppies Some anoynt the Head in Feavers with the same because the Nerves of the Head consent with the stomach but I suppose it doth good by provoking sleep Hippocrates saith that sleep slaketh thirst not because it moistneth as some say but because heat is carried outward by sleep as appeareth by sweating which is then most easie to be cause Rest is good because it keeps the body cool And also little talk for much increaseth thirst CHAP. XIV Of Defect of Bleeding The Kinds THe wants of bleeding which is divers waies at set times differ first in respect of the place as they are not or not sufficient either from the womb Fundament or Nostrils or the like A suppression of the Terms is when the monthly Evacuation of women Stoppage of Terms by the womb for forty years in which they are fit to bear Children is wanting and they are neither with Child nor give suck Some women but it is rare never have them and without inconvenience these are Virago'es because they are like men Others have had them but they stopped and never returned Some have wanted them a whol year or some months In whom Laziness presageth Diseases Then follows heart pain want of Appetite and loathing with inclination to Vomite Palpitation of heart and Arteries Head-ach troublsome dreams palness of face and crudity of urin discovereth it And as these are preternatural in Plethory and Cacochymy so are they Natural in Women with Child whose Terms are stopped they vomit in the first month Also suppression of Terms is when they flow too slowly for the constitution in less quantity or shorter time then is meet This causeth inconveniences There is another flux of the womb after Child-bearing that is necessary Want of cleansing after child-bearing and continueth some dayes more abundant then the monthly the blood is called Lochia If these flow not they cause great Diseases Colick and Convulsion There is a flux at the Fundament in both sexes called Haemorrhoids Stoppage of Haemorroids in some Natures either once in a year or at a certain time this is said to be stopped when it hath been and is called suppression of Hemorrhoids Physitians explain this defect chiefly when there are other accidents from the retention of them as Cacochymy Cachexy Quartan Feaver Melancholly and the like The Patient disdaining the Flux Complains not of the want of it but when he is Pained by the swollen Veins which cannot open which are called the blind Hemorrhoids Some have a natural Evacuation at the Nose The want of bleeding at Nose at a set time which are young and Plethorick and bleed at no other part as women that want their terms that are with child or Virgins before they have them And hither may be refer'd the critical evacuations in Diseases If any of these are stopped the Physitian must endeavor to procure them If blood flow another way though somtimes it doth good Defect of bleeding by other parts yet in regard it is not so according to nature it belongs to the defect of Natural bleeding if it stop The Causes The defect of these bleedings is either from the want or foulness of blood or from the stoppage or straitness of the Veins Women fit to conceive must have more blood then is fit to nourish the body to nourish the Child if they do conceive 〈◊〉 to be purged forth at the end of the month if they conceive not If this plenty of blood be wanting or not sufficient there is little or no Flux of the Terms And though this want of blood may come from divers causes yet all do not cause this suppression There are Women but few in which as nature before they are ripe to conceive A manly Constitution is the cause of suppression of Terms breeds no more blood then will nourish the body so she keeps the same course when they are fit to conceive these are barren and without other inconveniences These are called Virago'es from their manlike constitution From want of juyce of which blood should be made Spare Diet causeth the same the Terms flow less rather then cease because nature keeps the the same order when blood doth not abound Yet there may be a defect of Terms from long fasting or use of bad meats so that the body may grow very lean In sharp Diseases the blood being spent by violent heat Blood sent another way causeth want of Terms and Hemorrhoids if it continue long the same may be but being short it rather causeth a Flux then stops and often in a Crisis cureth the Disease And great Fluxes by provoking the expulsive faculty provoke the Terms except they be bloody and then they hinder as the Terms hinder them and bleeding at the Nose So these Fluxes are stopped by deriving of the blood to another part And the cheif cause of suppression of Humorrhoids is when nature retaines or sends it otherwaies Thickness of blood causeth also suppression of Terms and Hemorrhoids when it will not flow being too thick from the juyce of meats eaten or want of serum to carry it And this is the cause that in Cachectickes Thickness of blood causeth suppression of Terms and Hydropicks the Terms are stopt the serum or whey sweats through the Veins and when a Vein is opened the blood is thick and if it stand like red or white Coral Crude and impure blood Crudities and impurity of blood causeth suppression of Terms if it be thick as it will be when it is cold as we have observed with a thick skin at the top or foul will not flow by the Terms for the purest blood is sent to nourish the Child and to breed milk If therefore it be foul or there be obstructious then the Terms are wanting Therefore Cachectickes Leucophlegmaticks or Virgins in the Green-sickness while their blood is bad have not the Terms but when it is putrified have Hence it appears that this natural flux of the Terms is not for to discharge foul blood according to the vulgar error which will rather hinder it if it abound And it is not from the quality of blood that is evil but from the quantity abounding And it is preternatural when it is immoderate or without order And we shall shew that women after they are past the Terms may so bleed And though the impurity of the blood cause the Flux of the Hemorrhoids it is no argument why the Terms should flow from impurity naturally for they differ greatly for though foul blood be usually
against that one dram Mallow seeds half a dram Mirrh Cinnamon of each a scruple Sugar two drams give it at twice in white Wine and Piony water or the like Or this Decoction Take Piony roots half an ounce Maiden hair Celandine of each one handful Mugwort half a handful Violets a pugil red Pease a pugil Barley half a pugil make a Decoction add Sugar and Cinnamon one dram and Schenanth half a dram for two Doses We give stronger if nothing hinder us As Take Mugwort Vervaine Celandine Juniper berries boyl them in Wine give it to be drunk Or these Pills Take Birthwort roots one dram Mirrh half a dram Pepper one scruple with juyce of Leeks make Pills take half a dram The rest are like those former that provoke Courses as Infessions of Marsh-mallows Chamomil Mugwort and the like and Oyntments Fumes Pessaries Frictions Ligatures Cupping-glasses Bleeding in the Foot somtimes considering the strength and accidents If the Haemorrhoids have been usual and stop The Cure of the stopping of the Haemorrhoids and we perceive manifest danger at hand thereby we must study to move them again As somtimes we do when they never were before if the cause of the Disease may be carried that way as we ought to do when the cause of Feavers and Melancholly and the like lies in the Meseraiks Also when the blood labors for passage at Haemorrhoids being swoln we must help nature Thus Somtimes we purge by stool by reason of the impurity of the blood which is retained in the Haemorrhoids suppressed because they have power to stir up and provoke the Haemorrhoids as well as purge specially if things proper for that be added as Aloes Coloquintida and the like as we shewed in the Terms the examples of which may be refer'd to this treatise As the Electuarium Haemagogon and the like which is good to provoke both Courses and Haemorrhoids Topicks are better for moving the Haemorrhoids than the Terms because the Veins appear more than in the womb somtimes they are outward and swell though somtimes more inward and blind but alwaies easily to be reached by Medicines This may be done with Ovntments this is the mildest Take roots of Orris Sowbread each half an ounce tops of Centory Motherwort each two drams powder them add Oyl of Nuts a fingers breadth above them juyce of red Onions one ounce boyl them a little and strain them and anoynt therewith Or thus Take Bacon the rind and Membranes taken off one ounce Hogs-gall half an ounce Pigeons dung two drams Niter half a dram make an Unguent Another Take Hiera Piera Benedicta Laxativa each two drams roots of Sowbread Birthwort Centaury the less each one dram make an Oyntment with Gall and Honey These are stronger Take juyce of Leeks and red Onions each one ounce Hogs or Ox gall six drams roots of Sowbread pulp of Coloquintida and Euphorbium each half a scruple with Honey make a Liniment if you add the juyce of Esula or Lathyris it wil be strong but remove it if it burn It is better in form of Suppository if the Haemorrhoids are inward and be not sore thus Take Honey Juyce of Onions Gall each one ounce and half boyl them add Hiera Piera one dram Myrrh half a dram Sowbread roots half a dram Sal Nitre a little make a Suppository add a little Hellebore it wil be stronger The root of Orris made like a Suppository and dip'd in Gall or in Oyl of Orris is good A head of Garlick or Onion doth the same if you take off the outward skin and thrust it in and a Sowbread root green Baths or outward Fomentations and Clysters such as provoke the Terms are good in this case We use Leeches to the Haemorrhoids to draw the blood that after they may keep their course We anoynt the Veins with blood to make them fasten and set them on with a reed This is the surest and most certain Remedy Friction with a rough cloth or Figg leaves or with Borrage doth open or prepare them We may do it also with a Lancet if the Veins appear but we must be wary of missing the Veins some prick them with Bristles til they bleed and open the Veins in the Feet but not so properly for the Haemorrhoids proceed from the branches of the Gate-vein and not from the hollow vein as the menstrual do and because none of them come forth to the skin there can be no proper Evacuation It is not amiss to provoke bleeding at Nose The Cure of defect of bleeding at the Nose where it hath been usual and is stopt especially when any Diseases of the Head Eyes or Ears are approaching to prevent them and cure them except nature of her own accord open the Veins in the Nose And this is no small help to a Cure It is a difficult matter by reason of their smallness and distance to open them with a Lancet but some do it with Bristles It is best to fil the Nostrils with a Pessary made of sharp and rough plants and to smite them as with Yarrow Burrage Madder Goof-grass and the flowers of Reed-grass or the like An Oyntment of Mints and Honey or Madder and Oyl doth the same Diascorides saith that the Decoction of the root of Crocodilium or smal Crocus being drunk causeth bleeding at the Nose In other parts as under the Tongue or in the Forehead Arms The Cure of want of bleeding in other parts or Feet as when they itch from the foulness of blood requiring the evacuation which was formerly made in that place and which nature of her self sometimes forceth out as we often observed in Horses if it be requisite to bleed for the prevention or Cure of a Disease it is best done by a Lancet and to make the veins appear you may first foment them with Decoction of Saâ—â— or the like And it is good to heat the body with things given internally and applied outwardly to make the blood thin that it may be the betaer evacuated CHAP. XV. Of the Want of Sweating The Kinds VVE call this a Disease when the Evacuation made by the pores of the skin with moisture called Sweat is stopped when it is necessary and ought to be Or when a Vapor comes forth instead thereof Or when the Sweat ought to be general through the whol body and yet only some few parts as the Head or Feet do sweat This is somtimes in found people that are plethorick or full of humors Cacochymical The suppression of usual Sweating or of evil habit and moist-bodied who use to be refreshed by Sweating which when they want is called suppression of Sweat When men by exercise or Baths labor to provoke Sweat for preservation of health and cannot The want of such Sweating as is necessary for health then is there a want of Sweating which is requisite for health And this we have observed to be in some who by no means or bathing could produce
Diasatyrion of Nicolas one dram was invented for the same use also Confectio Anacardina which inflameth highly Another may be made thus Take Satyrion and Eryngus roots candied each one ounce Ginger candied Conserve of Acorus each half an ounce Pine and Pistacha Nuts each three drams the Kernels of Indian Nuts one dram Line seed and Ashen keys each two drams Roeket seed one dram and an half the Electuary of the three Peppers one dram the species of Diambra and Diamoschu each half a dram Cinnamon one dram of Stags or Buls pizle and Scincus of the Sea dried each half a dram for Women add the dried matrix of a Hare and an ounce of Sugar add Honey as much as is fit for an Electuary give two drams or more The nauseous Pils are thus made Take of Mouse-dung half a dram Rocket seed a dram Pepper half a dram spanish Flies the wings taken off five mix them with Turpentine give a dram You may make a Syrup to be kept til you have occasion thus Take the green roots of Eryngus Satyrion and Parsneps each two ounces roots of Pellitory and Dracunculus each half an onnce Rocket two handfuls Watercresses Hedg-mustard each one handful Rocket seed half an ounce Line seed Ash-keys Asparagus seed each two drams Anise seed which is thought to cause Milk half an ounce Dates five boyl them in white Wine and add to the strained Liquor Sugar Cinnamon and Pepper boyl them to a consistence or height give an ounce alone or with white Wine We have observed that gentle Purges corrected with hot Spices whether they work or not do vehemently provoke Venery so that before they work they cause erection as some have confessed to me who thought I had mistaken in my intention when I gave the Medicine Sweet scents provoke not only by refreshing but by heating and piercing as Amber-greece Musk Civet In men outward applications are best for the Yard and beneath by the heat whereof the blood may come to erect that part and that blood may come into the seminal vessels to make seed we anoynt the Stones Loyns and Privities and sometimes the soles of the Feet these are made of hot Attractives Of usual Oyls thus Take of Oyl of Pepper Euphorbium and Castor each equal parts Or thus Take Juyce of Rocket Watercresses Aqua vitae each an ounce Pellitory roots two drams Mustard seed one dram Euphorbium half a dram Line seed Oyl one ounce and half boyl and strain them Otherwise Take Oyl of Nutmegs by expression two drams Oyl of Spike two drams Oyl of Cloves half a scruple mix them for an Oyntment Without Oyls thus Take the Gall of a Bore or Hogg one dram Civet half a scruple Honey anoynt the Yard and parts adjacent if you add three or four spanish Flies it wil be better Oyl of Ants which have wings made by boyling of them in Sallet Oyl is excellent Also the Fat of a Hedg-hog A good Oyntment Take roots of Pellitory Pepper Ginger Mustard seed each one dram Euphorbium half a dram Castor one scruple dried Ants half a dram pouder them add Oyl of Spike and a little Wax make an Oyntment They say that if the right Toe be anoynted with Oyl of Spanish Flies it will provoke Venery which we cannot deny to be possible from the vertue we have declared in them for provoking bloody Urin of which we have experience These Oyntments in the Loyns and Privities of Women stir them up when dull But privately before Copulation let the man anoynt his Yard wit Civet or Gall of a Hen. The use of hot natural Baths is counted the best Remedy to restore heat in cold and decaied persons Also other Baths and Fomentations for the Feet and other parts being actually and potentially hot do the same As the Decoction of Flower-de-luce roots Nep Calamints Nettles Marjoram Rocket Hedg-mustard Lavender flowers and of Chamomil and the like It is good to wrap the Feet in soft furrs which by their gentle tickling stir up Women and effoeminate Persons to preserve the Heat and prevent Cold. Somtimes weakness is taken away by manual Operation in a Man when the Fore-skin is so strait that it will not uncover the Head of the Yard we stretch or divide it by cutting In women when the neck of the womb is too strait or covered with the skin called Hymen or with a Callus we open it with a thin Groat or Instrument made on purpose to cut both sides Other things belong to the Cure of Incantations as shaking of the Pillows pissing through the wedding-ring or the Axle-tree of the Plough or the changing of shifts before they go to the sport shiftings of the left Foot and the like these belong not to us Nor care we for Amulets to which much is attributed They say the ashes of a black Lizard carried in the left hand cause Erection and in the right hand hinder it Imagination and apprehension of former sport provoke Venery extreamly by remembrance beholding or hearing of things passed and much more touching Sweet affections as Joy advance Sorrow and grief hinder the Act This joy is brought by recreating the senses as the Sight the Hearing and the rest especially by Musick CHAP. XVIII Of Lust or Leehery The Kinds WE call that Lechery which is an immoderate inclination to Venery A Venerial Itch. and it is either continual or an often itching and lust which being unsatisfyed disturbeth and provokes people to sordid nasty actions except they have government This is somtimes in Males and Females but differeth in that men are sooner hot Women are longer cooling There is another kind which is far worse and preternatural Lustful fury called an insatiable frensie in lust which when it is excercised hath no allay but grows higher and is unsatisfied This is oftner in Women then Men as weakness is oftner in men then women As in foul and pocky women or the like which have the Priapismus or Frensie of the womb so called The History of impudent Semiramis and of other sheweth that some have been so and unsatisfied with innumerable men and this Disease occasioneth many to try unlawful things and to fal into great sins to appease lust And somtimes when the fury of the womb comes they desire Copulation with beasts as she of whom I spake in the treatise of Madness which desired the English Dogs to Lime her This is more seldom in men though some are so Lascivious Priapismus or immoderate erection that they can do it often in one night not naturally but by the pride of appearing strong and by provocations and forcing these have somtimes a venemous Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins This is called Priapismus Tentigo or Satyriasis from Satyrs painted with standing Yards And there is another Disease called by that name which we shall after mention The Causes All Causes of immoderate lust come either from much seed sharpness or motion which stir up Venery or from
naturally closed and after Conception closeth and openeth not but when there is a supertaetation or taking too much If the substance of the womb be too hard or want blood The cause of barrenness is the hardness and driness of the womb it is a great cause of want of Conception for a Woman is then fit to conceive when the womb which is thick and nervous and unfit for conception while it remaineth so becomes fleshy and soft by heat and affluxion of blood and as in salt Bitches we see their privities swollen so doth the Orisice in a Woman and the clift is larger to entertain the seed But if it continue in its natural condition or grow harder there can be no Conception because the Orifice wil not open and receive the seed And this is from the constitution and temper thereof from the original the substance thereof is too dry otherwise it is only in age and then but natural because they then cease to breed but if it be hard before old age it makes sound Women barren and so they remain This befalls them who by too much Lechery and the like have dried the Womb or them whose wombs are hard by a Tumor or after an Inflammation But if blood doth not moisten the womb When the substance of the womb is not moistened with blood it is barren which is required for the enlarging softning thereof and for the increase of the Infant either not at all or by suppression of the Courses or come not to the bottom of the womb by reason of the hardness thereof or streightness of the Veins or Obstructions it comes to pass that Viragoes or Women that never had Courses or that have them so much that they cannot be dispersed into the Veins for want of heat are barren And hence it is that they who have long abstained from the use of man or not conceived for other causes and made their womb without blood through want of exercise causing it to flow rather to the Veins of the neck of the womb to be purged by Courses by reason of discontinuance or want of practise when they grow old though they use a man they conceive not so easily as they who keep a constant moderate excercise from their youth The weakness of the womb is the cause why it is not fit for Conception Weakness of the Womb is the cause of barrenness for the functions thereof being hurt the chief whereof is the conceiving of seed it cannot attract or retain it This is from the birth or from coldness or other Diseases these are slow to Venery and subject to other Diseases of the womb The Cold and moist distemper besides the cold and dry is a hinderance of conception A moist distemper of the Womb is the cause of barrenness and this is usually lookt at in Cure as being the most usual This comes from moist excrements in the womb made from evil and crude nourishment which moisten and loosen the orifice or from too much Lechery in Whores which causeth slipperiness in the part This cannot be from a defluxion into the Womb beause there is no passage besides the body purgeth the excrements by the usual veins monthly But in both when it comes from defect in the blood the women that conceive not are of an evil habit and ill-colored The Cure If a Woman conceive not The Cure of defect of Conception which hath no defect of the Venereal act or in her Husband we must diligently search out the cause thus If it come from want of seed which is most the mans fault then let them seldom engender and use things to encrease seed as we shewed If from the crudeness of seed or foulness we we must cause good blood and strengthen the vessels that breed seed If it come from a fault of the Yard of the man which hath a hole in the wrong place the Fistula must be cut or first opened otherwise and after united together and healed up that the seed may come the right way If this be from the birth it is incurable If Barrenness be caused from the Wombs defect as when it is hard or the orifice closed with a Tumor or hurt by Child-bearing the Cure is desperate in women otherwise sound which have either never conceived or have been hurt at the time of Travail as in those who never have their Courses In others who want Conception from Weakness Moistness Coldness or excrements abounding in the womb which have their Courses disorderly or are troubled with the Whites or other such like there may be Cure First let her be purged observing her constitution Remedies to procure Conception and the humor abounding and whether shee have her Courses duly or the whites Generally thus Take Catholicon one ounce Syrup of Roses solutive two ounces with Burrage and Mugwort water make a Potion Then open a Vein if shee be plethorick Then give this preparative Take Syrup of Mugwort and Maidenhair each one ounce and an half Burrage Mugwort and Nep water each one ounce with a little Cinnamon make a Julep give it three mornings Or this Decoction Take the opening roots steept in Wine each half an ounce Eryngus roots one ounce roots of Elicampane Valerian and Masterwort each half an ounce Mugwort Motherwort Nep Pennyroyal Germander Ladies-mantle Marjoram of each one handful both Buglosses roots and Leaves Succory Endive Fumitory each one handful Wall-flowers Broom and Rosemary Burrage and red Pease each a pugil Anise and Fennel seed each a dram Parsley seed Siler montane and wild Parsnep seed each a dram beat boyl and clarifie and sweeten them with Cinnamon and Sugar make an Apozem for three doses or four or five or make a Wine of the Infusion of them If we wil have it purge when the body is foul we add Liquorish two ounces Asarum roots two drams Pot-Mercury one handful Raisons twenty pair Senna and Polypody each one ounce and an half Carthamus seeds bruised six drams give them boyled as formerly with Wine and Water Then purge with this Potion Take Rhubarb four scruples Cinamon one scruple Infuse them in Wine and Endive-water strain and dissolve therein the solutive Electuary of Citrons and Diaphenicon two drams syrup of Roses solutive two ounces make a Potion If Pills be taken Take Pills of Cochiae Agregative and sine quibus each a scruple mix them with white Wine into Pills After purging give a dram of Triphera magna without Opium in the morning We also keep the body loose with ordinary Pills or Electuaries before bathing or use of outward medicines as Take Catholicon two ounces Diaphenicon one ounce Cassia newly drawn two ounces Pulp of Sebestens one ounce syrup of Roses solutive one ounce and an half mix them take it with Pease broath or Wine or in a Bolus Usual Pills are either the former Or. Take the Aromatick pill called Alephangina and that of Agarick each one dram and an
over all the Body do suffer divers waies The Senses in the Face as Seeing Hearing Smelling Tasting have not such great pains as the Sense of Feeling and are sooner allayed Of these we shall speak in the first Chapter Page 187. The sense of Feeling which is through the whole Body hath divers greivous and continuing pains as Heat Cold Itching Tickling Pricking Burning Cutting And we shall shew their differences as they are through the whole Body or the parts thereof All the parts of the Body that have the sense of Feeling can scarse be pained at once Yet many parts together or some outward parts as the Skin may have a general pain And when the Body is weak or loose albeit it seemeth to be pained all over yet because the Patient complaineth rather of want of Motion and strength you may seek for the Cure thereof in our Treatise of Weakness and defect of strength and Motion when the whole Body hath a distemper if it be great all sensible parts may be offended And this cannot come of a cold distemper so that every part is at the same time affected except it be deadly but of a hot So in Feavers all the parts of the Body are inflamed and all sensible parts are offended of this we shall speak in the Feavers the second Chapter Page 187. There are pains of all sorts of some parts of the Body And these are either hidden or more manifest in divers parts The hidden pains are inwardly in the four distinct parts of the Body The Head Neek Breast and Belly and the Cavities thereof and are distinguished according to those parts The pains which are in the inward part of the Head within the Skull shall be spoken of in the third Chapter Page 235. Of the pains of the Head The pains that are in the inward Cavities of the Face shall be described as followeth The pains in the Eyes shall be spoken of in the fourth Chapter Page 241. Of Pain in the Eyes Those in the Cavities of the Ears in the fifth Chapter Page 251. Of the Pains of the Ears Those of the Nose in the sixth Chapter Page 253. Those of the Mouth in the seventh Chapter Page 255. Those of the Bones of the Mouth in the eight Chapter Page 258. Of the Tooth-ach The pains which are in the inward parts of the Neck shall be spoken of in the ninth Chapter Page 263. Of the Pain of the Jawes The pains which are in the Cavity of the Breast shall be treated of in the tenth Chapter Page 269. Of the Pain of the Breast The pains which are in the Cavity of the Belly or Panch shall be thus treated of The pains which are in the upper part about the Heart shall be spoken of in the eleventh Chapter Page 277. Of pains of the Heart Those on the Sides shall be spoken of in the twelfth Chapter Page 294. Of Hypochondriak pains The other Pains shall be spoken of in the thirteenth Chapter Page 305. Of pains of the Belly Other pains in the parts adjoyning to the Belly manifest themselves by things voided as by Stools or Urin of these we shall speak in the treatise of things cast forth Other pains which are in certain holes and parts thereof shall be hear declared The pains in the inward parts of the Privities shall be mentioned in the fourteenth Chapter Page 391. Those in the Arse shall be spoken in the fifteenth Chapter Page 393. The pains that are outward in the Body are more manifest and are thus distinguished Some are more deep and profound these shall be spoken of in the Pains in the Habit of the Body sixteenth Chapter Page 396. Those which are more outward and higher and appear more shall be mentioned in the seventeenth Chapter Page 408. Of the Pain of Superficies of the Body CHAP. I. Of the Griefs of the Sight Hearing Smelling and Tasting The Kinds ALthough that Irksome sense which the Touching feeleth be properly called Dolor yet we may call them molestations or Troubles which the other Senses endure by that name when the Function is not lost but offended This comes diversly to the Sight Hearing Smelling and Tasting from whence there are divers kinds which are easie to be perceived but not to be described or named The Offence of the Sight or Hearing The Insuavity of the Smelling or Tasting The Dolor of the Sight or Hearing we call The offence of them and and the Dolor of the Smelling or Tasting we call insuavity or want of Rellish The Causes These four mentioned dolors of the Senses comes from the violent quality of their objects which doth strike upon or disturb them from the object of the sight by Brightness of the Hearing by Grating of the Smelling by Stink from the object of the Tast by its unsavoriness A Splendor or great Light if it be vehement Splendor or Brightness causeth the offence of Sight as of the Sun or Flame or come suddenly to the Eye as of Lightening molesteth it Hence it is that men shut their Eyes at the sight of them And the sense of Feeling perceiving the molestation in the Eyes and Nose caussneesing to shake them off as we shewed in Sternutation Also Light when it is discolored and shines much and long and strikes much upon the Sight is an enemy unto it A great Noyse by Crying Ringing of Bels Noyse hurts the Hearing Trumpeting or Drumming or otherwise coming suddenly especially neer the Ears as of a Musket or Cannon hurts the Hearing A strong Stink or Smel as of Soot or things burnt A Stink hurts the Smelling or from Excrements molesteth the sense of Smelling And somtimes by twiching of the Nostrils and provoking their sense of Feeling they cause neezing and by offending the Neighbor Pallate and Tast they cause Loathing and Vomiting An unpleasant and ungrateful savor as bitterness or extream saltness or sourness or the like coming externally from things taken in or from external humors or exhalations An evil Relish is the cause of Insuavity sent to the sense of Tasting causeth molestation and also offendeth its sense of Feeling The Cure Take away the Cause and the Effect ceaseth If it be external which useth to offend all the four Senses it either quickly ceaseth or may be allayed If internal which only hurteth the Tast it is amended by purging of evil humors and repressing of stinking vapors If offence remaineth by an impression upon the senses it is to be cured by evacuations and things that alter and change the impression as too much Light by Darkness offensive Colors by such as please the Eye Stinks by Sweets evil Relishes by savory meats as we shewed in the depravation of the senses CHAP. II. Of Feavers The Kinds AFeaver called Puretos is a Disease in which the whol body is inflamed with a preternatural heat which continueth it begins with cold and shivering and brings forth divers molestations and symptomes There are two chief kinds of Feavers
heat there is not a simple heat but a compounded feaver with putrefaction And this is the cause why a Synoch not ending the second or third day becomes putrid This is known by the signs of an Ephemera and simple Synoch the one whereof is that the heat began externally And this is the reason why fulness of blood which many say is the cause of putrid feavers causeth a change of simple feavers into putrid Foul or evil blood which hath the seeds of corruption in it or is disposed thereunto if it be gone so far by its plenty or corruption that nature cannot order it that is amend or purge it causeth by putrefaction divers putrid feavers differing according to the place wherein or the matter of which the putrefaction is These are foreseen before they come by a constitution not perfectly sound nor sick by reason of some secret fault in the blood in which there is a laziness haviness and pain of the Head troublesom dreams stretching of the sides or Hypochondria Heart pain Nauseousness loathing of Meat change and stink of usual Excrements or not usual as sweat spitting vomiting belching This fault of blood comes either from things taken in or from Excrements retained or from outward things Things taken as meat and drink which are the matter of which blood is caused if they be of evil juyce or corrupt cause this fault in the blood Meats of evil juyce though after they are eaten they are somwhat changed by concoction and turned into blood yet in regard the former condition remains if they be often taken produce these putrid feavers which are popular or common when the meats ordinary eaten by most people from necessity are such as Herbs and Fruits or Corn eaten in too much plenty when unsound as in time of dearth these infect the blood and cause Epidemical Feavers in Cities and Armies Also if the food be naturally good and be putrified before it be taken it infects the blood As when they are too old or corrupt by too much moisture whether Flesh Fish or Cheese by stink and Putrefaction being long taken infect the Blood and cause Feavers And common Feavers come by corrupt Water Bread or Flesh at Sea or from Corn that is mowed up wet Those most easily corrupt being eaten which have much Excrementitious moisture as summer fruits the eating of these in summer abundantly causeth Feavers in Autumn or the Spring following Things that nourish as Mâ—â—k and Eggs or sweer things soon corrupt in hot Stomacks and turn to Choler which causeth other Diseases rather then Feavers So do hard Meats and slimy when the Stomack Liver or Spleen are afflicted for want of concoction cause crude blood and obstructions rather than Feavers Except there be other accidents The retention of the Vapors and Excrements of blood usually sent forth by insensible Transpiration or sweat infects the blood and causeth Feavers This may be from divers causes from idlness and sluggishness of nature in expelling of Excrements obstruction of the Skin and pores thereof and want of Aire Not that the blood is inflamed and then corrupted for want of Air through the pores to cool it as we shewed in the causes of a Diary Feaver Nor that it can come from a sudden cold taken in while the body is hot But because the skin being made thick the Excrements usually purged by the pores cannot come forth And because the body cannot be refreshed with Air to consume the moist Excrements under the skin As we may observe by things kept in close places where fresh Air comes not they grow mouldy and musty so by the long retention of these moist Excrements for want of Air the blood may be infected and Feavers follow When the Air is infected with evil Vapors from stinking Carkases and taken constantly into the body it infects the Spirits Blood and Heart and causeth putrid Feavers and they are somtimes popular when many live in it and are disposed for it Or contagious when the putrefaction comes from the breath or sweat of sick men This is from a malignant or venemous quality rather then a simple corruption The vessels not continued to the heart of veins and arteries are only the meseraicks Corruption of blood in the meseraicks is the cause of intermitting putrid Fevers branches of the gate-vein which comes from the liver dispersed through the bowels in the lower belly and no where else never coming forth to the skin but in the Fundament where they are called Haemorrhoids For the Arteries which accompany these as also those that accompany the branches of the hollow Vein coming all from the great Artery are continued to the Heart thereby Therefore if a humor corrupt in the meseraicks though their passage be intercepted by the substance of the Liver in which all their branches are yet because the branches of the hollow Vein are also in the same substance of the Liver and are joyned to the mouths of of the branches of the Gate-vein and because there is a constant passage of the Blood in the Liver by them And also because the Arteries coming to the Heart are joyned to the Meseraicks in the Spleen Stomach and Guts By this communion and vicinity it happens that as oft as evil vapors rising from the Meseraicks do fill the branches of the hollow Vein and great Artery they pass that way to the Heart and cause putrid Feavers by their stink but these are not continual but intermitting And because the putrid Matter is not far from the Heart in continual Feavers they may a little intermit but not wholly cease For the Heart once on fire before it be wholly quenched and a new vapor in the Veins that come unto it must have fits at certain times As we shewed Also this is from other Causes a filthy vapor in the Meseraicks which causeth a Feaver which doth not constantly touch the Heart with the same force by reason of the distance this is not alwayes unequal but wholly ceaseth by reason of the stoppage of passages to the Heart And so long intermitteth while the putrid Matter confined to its fire swells and sends forth a vapor to the Heart with some of it self For it being abundant and of an evil quality provoketh Nature to send it into the branches of the hollow Vein and great Artery and so into the Heart where it causeth Feavers to continue so long till all the fuel be burnt up or sweat out After which manner a Feaver wholly ceaseth till a new fit cometh by a new motion and heat of the Matter sooner or later and not in the same form As shall be shewed Now let us consider what humor it is that putrifieth in the Meseraicks what is the conjunct cause of intermitting Feavers and the antecedent Cause of Corruption The humor contained in the Meseraicks is Blood yet not so pure as that in the Liver purged from the waterish and cholerick Excrements and fit for nourishment although some part
This is a principal Remedy because the Cause lurketh in the Blood and in the branches of the hollow Vein from whence the blood is drawn for with the blood some corruption is taken away as we may plainly see at the first bleeding for nature throws some of the cause of the Fever into the great Veins in the skin which makes them swel where it is most and perceiving this at the first opening of the Vein I ever thought it best to open the Vein which swelled rather than another because they all come in one place from the hollow Vein against the Throat and the Chirurgeons may use this observation rather than those of the the signs in Heaven Also hereby is the Heat abated The time for bleeding is the beginning of the fever to hinder the increase of the Discases and to take away some of the Cause while there is strength And if it be neglected at first it may be done in the increase But in the state and heigth which is sometime sooner or later we must avoid it lest we hinder the motion of Nature For as Hippocrates saith if any thing be to move let it be moved in the beginning but when the Disease is at a stand be quiet The quantity of blood must be taken according to the cause and the Disease As for the Cause if the blood be foul let it run if not stop it sooner And if the foulness was not seen when it ran forth being hot as it appears when cold and congealed at it again if need require and again if there be no hinderance and the strength permits In respect of the Disease measure the blood also in a putrid Synoch or in a simple which is in a Plethorick body loose much blood And in a Causon or burning Feaver by reason of great heat although they condemne it who suppose it to come from pure choller which we deny In other Feavers as the heat is more or less bleed more or less observing the constitution and strength The accidents removed by bleeding are Head-ach and Doting which are usual in these Feavers and the vulgar observe most In which because the matter is carried to the Head after a general Blood-letting bleed at the Feet and scarifie in the extream parts to make revulsion And to derive the matter open the Vein of the Fore-head especially in a Delirium or under the Tongue especially when you fear Inflammation in the Neck Jawes or Tongue Also Scarification is good in the Neck and Shoulders Somtimes we purge the Humors and Excrements to prepare and remove the cause that nourisheth increaseth and also produced the Feaver The cause may be the retention of Excrements in the Guts and Stomack These may two waies hurt first if they be many the Veins being empty by bleeding take filth from the Meseraicks which they drew from the Guts Therefore before blood-letting we loosen the Belly Secondly if we will purge humors and the Excrements of the Belly be not first cleansed nor the body as Hippocrates saith made fluid the Medicine will be hindered by them and take less of the rest away And therefore we give Laxatives afore purges But thirdly and chiefly in regard there are divers putrid and chollerick Excrements in the Belly if they be long kept by their stinking vapors they will increase the heat of the Heart or the parts near which they can reach unto for as we shew'd they cannot come to the Heart and so make the Feaver and its Symptoms especialy thirst and Head-ach greater Therefore it is good to prevent costiveness all the time of the Disease with giving Laxatives Such as may cleanse and not inflame temperate and moist and cooling In these following forms Clysters work soonest and are best and therefore we give them before bleeding which must not be delayed These by moisture wash the Guts and provoke not nor inflame as things given at the Mouth and they bind not after as usually they do And they may be given the whol time of the disease if there be costiveness by reason of heat when we dare not stir up nature with other things as in the state of the Disease Make an easie loosning moistning cleansing cooling Clysters thus Take Barley and Bran each a pugil Mallows Violets each two handfuls Housleek three or four leaves boyl them and in a pint dissolve Honey two spoonfuls Salt butter three spoonfuls juyce of Beets one ounce Make a Clyster The following is more pricking and cleansing Take the four Emollients Blites Spinach Beets Cole Lettice each an handful Marsh-mallow roots one ounce Pellitory and Mercury each half an handful Prunes ten Linseed half an ounce Gourd seeds half an ounce bruised instead of Cold seed which are usually musty boyl them and in a pint dissolve red Sugar and Honey each one ounce these cleanse and resist corruption Oyl of Violets three ounces two yolkes of Egs Cassia or Diapruns simple one ounce Turpentine of the larke Tree dissolved with the yolk of an Egg two drams this is most pricking with a little Salt Make a Clyster When you will cool more as in a Causon Take the Emollients Lettice Purslane Housleek and Endive each one handful flowers of Violets Water-lillies and Barley each a pugil Gourd seeds half an ounce Melon seeds two drams sweet Prunes ten boyl them and in a pint dissolve red Sugar one ounce Honey of Violets one ounce and an half Cassia half an ounce juyce of Lettice an ounce with a little Salt make a Clyster If the party be flegmatick or old and the Feaver not violent such as they called a Quotidian continual then choose more temperate things and mix gently hot things and more abstergents or clensers Thus Take Mallows Pellitory Mercury Beets each one handful Barley and Bran a pugil Raysons and Figs each twelve pair Fennel and Carua seed each one dram and an half Cordial and Chamomil flowers each a pugil boyl them and in a pint dissolve Honey of Roses and red Sugar each two ounces juyce of Beets or Mercury one ounce Oyl of Chamomil and Violets each an ounce and an half with a little Salt make a Clyster Suppositories may be instead of Clysters if they cannot be given these will provoke nature to thrust out the Excrements the common is that of Honey and Salt or that of Figs or yolks of Egs and Salt or a Sugar Violet comfit for Children Things are given to loosen before bleeding and purging Thus In a Bolus As Take Cassia new drawn pulp of Tamarinds each half an ounce with Sugar or without it make a Bolus Or Take Diacatholicon Diaprunes simple each three drams with Sugar make a Bolus In a Potion Thus for the Delicate ladies Take Manna one ounce and an half give it in Pease broath Or Take Damask Prunes ten Raysons stoned half an ounce Dates four Cordial flowers one pugil Gourd seeds half an ounce Melon seeds bruised two drams make a Decoction dissolve Cassia syrup of Roses solutive
continue made with cold things to abate heat and thin to make humors thick and that resist putrefaction and that cleanse adding alwaies openers that the Humors may pass Urin Sweat or Stools And these are the better when they suppress heat and are prepared for the Heart and Liver which two parts are most hot These preparatives are given according to the cause and constitution of the sick In a burning Feaver called Causon which is an acute Disease and grants not long truce we purge and alter with the coldest things In Synochus which is usually in sanguin persons prepare the Humors thus Take syrup of Lemons or of the juyce of Citrons syrup of Vinegar and Violets each one ounce and an half water of Sorrel Endive Purslane Bugloss each two ounces mix them give it three daies together Or thus Take syrup of Pomegranats Lemons and Sorrel each an ounce of water Lillies half an ounce Violet water Lilly and Lettice water each two ounces Or thus Take syrup of juyces of Endive Plantane and Purslane each half an ounce Endive Plantane and Purslane water each two ounces syrup of Currans half an ounce In a Tertian and in Cholerick bodies the same things are good because they allay Choler Or thus Take syrup of Sorrel Vinegar and Violets each an ounce water of Sorrel Bugloss and Endive of each two ounces drink it two or three daies In Quotidians and Phlegmatick bodies and old folk Take Honey of Roses Oxymel syrup Bizantine each an ounce waters of Maidenhair Succory and Grass each two ounces In quartans and Melancholick bodies Take syrup of Violets Bugloss Borrage and Fumitory of each an ounce Purslane Fumitory Bugloss and Borrage water each an ounce and an half make a Julep for three draughts all these may be mixed with the Pouder of Sanders or you may give after every draught a Lozenge of Trionsantalon or Diarhodon Urin must be provoked and sweat for when the matter is concocted and prepared nature doth usually send it out those waies these are done by Aperitives which make thin but you must observe whether nature moveth by Urin or Sweat most if they piss more then they drink or the Urin be thick or if they Sweat you must provoke that way most to which nature inclines The Divreticks which open and attenuate must not be not but moderated howsoever with cooling things And somtimes purgers may be mixed therewith if the body be bound It is done by this Decoction Take roots of Succory and Grass each an ounce Liquorish Fennel and Parsley each half an ounce Maidenhair and Endive each an handful Polypody roots six drams Senna half an ounce Annis seeds a dram of the great and smal Cold seeds each half a dram Cordial flowers a pugil Parsley seeds half a dram boyl them dissolve in the Liquor the sryup of the opening Roots two ounces syrup of Roses one ounce make a Potion for twice Things that only provoke Urin may be given three or four times and then the purgers again If nature provoke Urin you may leave out the purgers least you hinder her intention The Decoction of Sparagus in broath provokes Urin and juyce of Pomegranats And this Julep Take syrup Bizantive of Endive each an ounce water of Endive Maidenhair Wormwood each an ounce If you will open more Take Honey of Roses Oxymel syrup of Maidenhair each seven drams Water or Decoction of Grass roots Sparagus Succory each an ounce Make an Emulsion to provoke Urin thus Take seeds of Gourds half an ounce Melon seeds two drams Cowcumber Pompion Endive and Purslane seeds each a dram beat them and with Endive water make an Emulsion with syrup of Sorrel one ounce and an half The simple Emulsion of the Cold seeds is also good to take away waterish Humors Pills for to provoke Urin are made thus Take the troches of Roses Eupatorium each half a dram of Cappars in Melancholick persons a scruple with Smalage water make Pills give them every other day drinking after a little Barley and Fennel water Fontanonus gives water of Maidenhair with Barley and Fennel water only If nature incline to sweat as she doth about the decliuing of the disease she must be helped by art The Diureticks aforesaid by opening and making thin do help and other Drinks and Juleps Stilled waters alone being very thin are usually given as we shewed in a simple Synoch to which the Chymists add spirits of Vitriol two or three drops or spirit of Niter or of Salt which strongly resist putrefation Anoynting of the Back and other parts causeth sweat Thus Take Oyl of Chamomil and Dill each half an ounce Oyl of Violets and sweet Almonds each an ounce wet your Hands first in Aqua vitae and then use it Friction is good also to draw the matter outward Altering Medicines are such as cool and moisten the heat of the fever and resist putrefaction These strike at the Cause and mend the symptoms that come from heat as Head-ach Watching Restlesness Therefore use Coolers and Moisteners in all Fevers especially Violent when the blood is burnt and putrid Sharp things are best for they cool and resist putrefaction also if you add things that open Obstructions But there you must not cool suddenly as in a simple Synoch but by degrees lest Concoction of humors be hindred which cannot be made with Coolers only for the corrupt part ought to be concocted This is done by the means following For ordinary drink water is desired and is good to cool moisten and allay thirst it is given Crude or Boyled or prepared It may be given Crude if the Stomach be not weak some wil not give it til the humors are prepared Sometimes there is much given at a Draught as in a Causon or Synoch or Tertian to quench the great heat and some by sweating thereupon have been presently cured And lest it be overcome by the heat of the stomach and turned into Choler as they say they give it often And Averroes saith that he saved many times by giving four pints before Concoction And if there be any hurt perceived by it Vomiting cureth it and laying hot cloths to the belly Boyled Water is better than crude in a weak Stomach because it is not so windy Somtimes it is compounded with things that nourish and resist putrefaction and make it pierce or otherwise correct it Barley is accounted the best of Nourishers and Coolers Therefore we give Barley-water which nourisheth very little in a good quantity Bread beaten in Water til it be white makes it nourishing Salt-peter beaten with the white of an Egg in a Spring-water makes a cooling Drink that resists putrefaction And so doth a little Sugar used the same way Almonds made like Milke with Water in a Mortar is usual in Germany But it nourisheth too much and must not be given in great quantity because little nourishment is required and it is better for Food than a Julep to quench thirst with cold seeds it makes
othertimes to permit it according to age custome and as they are well or ill after it that it be not immoderate or unseasonable And if the patient be long without sleep to give and apply things to provoke it Frictions instead of excercise in regard they cannot perform more do stir up the strength to expel the cause of the disease A resolute mind also not too sad especially confidence in God and his Minister the Physitian with hope of safety in this or the life to come is a great help to strength As for Medicines we have shewed restorers among the alterers which also hold up the strength besides which we have declared many in our treatise of Sowning and in swoning Feavers When the strength is wholly dejected give this julep Take Rose Bugloss and Scabious water each one ounce and an half Cinnamon water made with Wine for the heat thereof is not then to be feared half an ounce Species Diamargariton frigid half a dram strain them and add Manus christi perled one ounce juyce of Lemons one dram give a spoonful at a time Or thus Take Confectio Alkermes a dram if there be no loosness which will be provoked by the Lapis Lazuli in it syrup of Poppies half an ounce Cinnamon water two drams with Bugloss water give it somtimes with a little added The external things to be applied to the pulse and Heart are mentioned in the alterers As for the Symptoms many of them are mentioned in the Cure of the cause and the disease though some require a peculiar cure which shall be shewed in the practice but here we shall shew briefly how we are to proceed Head-ach and doting that follows presently after which are the chief are amended with the things that are given against the cause and the disease because they suppress vapors and burning in the Head Yet when they are strong we open the Vein under the Tongue and use Scarification Cupping and Frictions for revulsion And apply to the Head topicks at first to repel then to asswage pain and afterwards to discuss as we shewed in the Treatise of Head-ach We hinder too much watching or waking with sleeping Medicines and Narcoticks in time of necessity mixed with Cordials above mentioned and coolers to correct them because they would heat alone given and increase Head-ach If they sleep too much we take it off with revelling means Thirst is quencht with cold drink and sharp many give candied things which cause it by sweetness Also it is allayed as we shewed by sleep restlesness is abated with cold things especially drink and by changing the place which by continuance in they make hot and by taking cool Air. We shall shew hereafter the Cure of the Tongue Mouth and Jaws inflamed and the quinsie which is in Feavers also of the dryness and clamminess of the Mouth and blackness of the Tongue The pain of the Heart is cured by anoynting of the Stomach The Swoning as we shewed afore The heat of the Hypochondria or sides by things applied to the Liver and Reins as we shewed For the shortness of breath we anoynt the breast in a Diarrhaea or Flux we apply things to the belly and give inward things that bind without heat as syrup of quinces when the body is bound we give Laxatives If a Hectick is suspected from the leanness of the body we apply to the Heart and Breast Epithems and moistning Oyntments and give often the mentioned Cordials and such as shall be explained in the Cure of the Hectick Intermitting putrid Feavers are Tertians or quartans simple The Cure of intermitting putrid Feavers whereof some have one well day others two or double which come every other day and these are either equisite made of a simple Humor or bastard from mixed Humors of divers kinds We make no more kinds of these which others mention are either comprehended under these or not known we shall speak of Feavers Compounded of intermitting and continual by themselves The judgment of all these is more certain then of continual Feavers for as I say tertian are shorter if exquisite and in Summer or Spring but longer if bastard and begin in harvest quartanes are longest that begin in Autum they continue ordinarily six months and somtimes but three and by want of knowledg are kept somtimes a whol year All double Feavers keep their own nature These Feavers of themselves are not deadly although the exquisite are very sharp because their cause lycth far from the Heart in the lower belly about the Excrements as we shewed for whence also it may better be purged Except it be carried into the great Veins and cause a continual Feaver which is dangerous It hapens also often that if intermitting Feavers last long or come often that new diseases follow from hurt of the Liver Spleen Stomack and Guts and greater Symptoms as the Colick Jaundies Dropsie and the like by error of the Patient or Physitian We shall shew the Cure of all both Tertian and quartans Because they are all from the same cause that is choller and in the same place that is the Meseraicks although some have treated of them in respect of diversity of Humors natural and preternatural making bastard Tertians from Citrin yellow Choller which is mixed with thin flegm or from yolk-like Choller which is mixed with thick flegm calling both of them Tertians of greater fame and call the other a Tertian of less fame which is mixed with Melancholick juyce and prescribe a particular Cure for that which comes of green Choller like verdigreese And will have the divers bastard quartans from not only the burnt dregs of blood but from Choller and Flegm burnt And will have quotidians not only from simple flegm but sweet sower salt glassie called Epiala and Lipyria and say they come from that flegm mixed with Melancholly or Choller and teach a particular Cure for them all as also of Syncopal or Swouning Feavers as if they were divers kinds Hence come the many confused treaties of Feavers and the diversity of purges according to the diversity of humors that cause them as they suppose which if any should follow they may as soon Cure their patient by leaving the whol work to nature which often times doth it alone Therefore we shal speak of the Cure of all Agues or intermitting fevers together First shewing what is to be done by Evacuations to remove the Cause and by Alterers and Restorers or Stengtheners and to be observed in Diet. And last what is to be done to the Symptoms In respect of the Cause we must take it away or abate it by Evacuations which we shewed was putrid cholerick blood in the Mesaraick Veins And if thin be not first taken away they which go about by other means to hinder the fits and stop their course and the motion of Nature by which shee shakes off some of the Cause as most Empericks and unlearned Physitians do bring greater Diseases as Colick Jaundies
each two drams Epithymum two drams Aniseeds two drams boyl and dissolve in them Diacatholicon and red Sugar each an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces Chamaemel one ounce with Salt make a Clyster In flegmatick persons when flegm is much in the Guts use this to clense more Take Liquorish two ounces Mallows and Beets with the roots Pellitory and Betony each a handful Barley and Bran each a pugil Agarick two drams Figs ten great cold seeds each two drams Fennel seed three drams after boyling ad Diaphenicon and Hiera Picra each two drams red Sugar and Honey of Roses each an ounce Oyl of Violets and Chamaemel each an ounce and an half with a little Salt make a Clyster Two or three Suppositories given in a day work somtimes better than Clysters If at the beginning the Stomach be disturbed with Crudities Flegm or Choler as we may perceive by the Heart-burning which usually accompanieth it Loathing and Vomiting before bleeding or when it is not required when we give a diminishing Medicine or a Vomit Diminishing Medicines clense the Guts and Stomach from Crudities and thick excrements by these as Hippocrates saith we make the body fluid These are given in the day of rest and are not to be choosen with that curiosity we use in continual fevers when the heat is constant These are of three sorrs as Clysters are In exquisite Tertians when the heat is great Take Cassia ten drams pouder of Aniseed or Liquorish a scruple with Sugar make a Bolus give it alone or with Endive or Succory water Or Take Cassia and pulp of Tamarinds each half an ounce Aniseed and Sugar as abovesaid Or Take Cassia half an ounce syrup of Roses solutive or juyce thereof and syrup of Violets each an ounce with Succory and Bugloss water make a Potion Or Take Damask Prunes ten Tamarinds twelve boyl them in Broath or Water strain and drink it This is stronger Take Rhubarb four scruples Spikenard one scruple infuse them in Endive water and dissolve Cassia half an ounce syrup of Roses solutive an ounce make a Potion In long melancholick quartans Take Cassia one ounce pouder of Epithymum one dram with Sugar make a Bolus or dissolve it with Bugloss water Or Take Epithymum two drams boyl it in Broath and add two ounces of Manna Or Take Prunes ten Dates two Epithymum two drams Cordial flowers a pugil dissolve in the strained Liquor boyled Catholicon six drams syrup of Peach flowers an ounce make a Potion This is stronger Take Confection Hameck one dram and an half Catholicon half an ounce dissolve it in Bugloss and Fumitory water In flegmatick persons give the same or stronger Take Catholicon half an ounce Diaphaenicon two drams with Sugar make a Bolus Or Take Dates five Prunes ten Raisons ten pair Figs four Liquorish half an ounce boyl them and dissolve Diaphaenicon and Diacarthamum each a dram If they wil rather have Pils Take Pils of Agarick Rhubarh or Mastich two scruples Or these stronger Take Aggregative Pils half a dram with syrup of Roses make Pils A Vomit often doth good and is to be reckoned among these for it takes away the crudity and flegm of the Stomach and Choller also if by the motion of the Feaver it get thither but if the Body be bound it must be first loosned as we shall shew when we declare that the cause may be taken away by the same Medicine where we shall mention Vomits we must begin with the weakest We must also purge to take away the putrid matter of the Feavers from the Meseraicks This doth it by degrees and cureh the Feaver but first we take away the thick Excrements and then prepar the Humors if it be at the beginning but afterwards if the matter be much it seeks away out of it self and needs no preparation And then natures motion must be helped but if the Feaver abate not we must come again to preparatives and purges three or four times in obstinate Agues At the first prepare and purge thus for preparation is necessary in intermitting and continual Feavers also because the matter lieth in the Meseraicks which is foul and needs more preparation and concoction and we must hinder putrefaction and open the passages that the matter may come from those Veins into the Guts by Medicines purging which that they may work better some anoynt the Hypochondria with Oyl of Chamomil and white Wine These are divers according to the Ague and the constitution In acute Tertians to allay heat expel putrefaction and quench Choler Take syrup of Sorrel and Vinegar each six drams syrup of Endive and Violets each half an ounce Endive and Sorrel water each three ounces make a Julep to take three daies Or thus Take syrup of Citrons or Lemmons an ounce syrup of Endive and Violets each half an ounce Endive and Lettice water each enough give it thrice For the Poor Take Sugar two ounces Wine-vinegar half an ounce Decoction of Barley and Endive a pint and an half juyce of Ribes or sharp Apples an ounce boyl them then give it three or four times Or this Take roots of Succory and Dandelion the whol each half a handful Endive Lettice Liverwort Sorrel each a handful flowers of Bugloss and Violets each a pugil of the great cold seed each a dram boyl them and in a pint and a half dissolve syrup of Sorrel and Vinegar each two ounces or Pomegranate Wine four ounces give it at four or five times In long Bastard Tertians with obstructions Take Oxymel simple an ounce syrups of Endive and Succory each half an ounce Water of Maidenhair Endive Succory each an ounce make a Syrup repeat it three or four times Or Take Oxymel and syrup of Succory compound each an ounce syrup of Maidenhair half an ounce Endive water and of Maidenhair each two ounces mix and repeat them as afore Or thus Take roots of Succory Grass Asparagus Plantane each an ounce Fennel and Parsley roots each half an ounce Endive Succory Dandelion Maidenhair and Liverwort each a handful Bettony half a handful the four cold seeds each two drams Endive and Purslane seeds each a dram Fennel Annise and Parsley seed each half a dram Barley a pugil Prunes six Cordial flowers each a pugil boyl them and dissolve Oxymel simple three ounces persume it with Sanders one dram make a Julep for three or four Doses For the Poor Take Honey Water and Vinegar to make it sharp In quartans prepare thus in the beginning while the heat is great for by continuance the heat abateth Take Oxymel simple syrup Byzantine each one ounce and an half syrup of Fumitory an ounce water of Bugloss Borrage and Hops each three ounces give it at thrice Or thus Take syrup of Sorrel Byzantine Bugloss each an ounce and an half Fumitory Bugloss Borrage and Endive water each three ounces Or this Decoction Take roots of Bugloss Brambles Sparagus Succory steept in Wine each an ounce Fennel and Parsley roots each half
Applications to the Wrists Temples and Ankles are used They are such as either divert or revel the matter from the Heart and are sharp or such as alter the distmper of the Heart so that it will not easily be enflamed by the vapor and defend it being sharp and temperate and cooling somtimes mixed with piercing things to reach the Heart A burning blistering Medicine is made thus Take leaves of Crow foot or Dove foot bruised with Salt and Vineger or the leaves of Thlapsus bruised with Salt and Vinegar or of Shepheards purse of Dentilaria Rondeletij Rue Savine Marigold Angelica Nettles As thus Take Elder leaves Rue Marigold and Nettles each a handful bruise them with Salt and Vinegar or apply Garlick and Onyons bruised to the Wrists The more cool are Take Plantan and Sowthistle of each a handful bruise them and with a little Soot of a Chimney Salt and Vinegar apply it Or this which makes a black spot and a little corrodeth Take the inward bark of the Hazel Tree steep them in Vinegar and apply it I have used this often with good success Also bread steept in Vinegar and applyed to the Pulses This Remedy is approved by many Take a little Oyntment of Poplar tree and mix it with clean Cobwebs make great Pills apply two to the Arms two to the Feet and two to the Temples with a Vine leave before the fit Repeating them after if they Cure not at first Anoynt the Pulses Back and Body The Pulses Thus Take juyce of Rue Boys piss each equal parts wash the Pulses before the fit Or Take Oyl of Chamomil and boyl Spiders therein anoynt the Pulses and Back-bone or Oyl of Toads For the Back to prevent shaking Take Oyl of Chamomil three ounces Oyl of Bays one ounce Oyl of Castor half an ounce Spiders and Earth worms each ten Aqua vitae two ounces boyl them till the Aqua vitae be consumed and anoynt Mathiolus saith that anoynting from Head to Foot with Oyl in which the balls made of Anthemis flowers are dissolved cureth Agues Some commend the Fume of Cats dung Others give Anthemis in Clysters There are divers Amulets these are accounted of many the most infalible a Spider hang'd about the Neck in a Nut shel Mouse-ear gathered in the decrease of the Moon tied in a knot of cloth about the Neck or to cary the Snail stone Jasper stone or to hold a Mole in your Hand in the time of the fit til it die We will omit superstitious Characters and Charms as trifles And although we have shewed the Cure of Symptoms yet we shall here speak of them as they are in the time of the Feaver If watchings and Head-ach by reason of Vapors do offend we hinder the vapors from rising and provoke sleep If sleep be too much we look to that We use things mentioned among the alterers against thirst and dryness of Tongue by heat and Vapors Evacuations restore Aperite and when the disease declineth we study to hinder it least they eate too much In Swounding Feavers we look first to the Symptom and if it come from choller in the Mouth of the Stomach the sharpness thereof must be allayed And then we give strengtheners If there be pain in the Stomach from yolky or Leek-like Choler or from Wind with rumbling or from too much drink they must be cured with things that abate sharpness strengthen and discuss Winds A Loosness often comes from Choler which must be cured as we shewed in pain of the stomach by Clysters as that of Barley water and red Sugar two ounces There is somtimes a Colick with the Ague by reason of Choler in the Guts and somtimes after when the cause is not removed and it is cured as I shewed in the Colick They say it comes from Glassey flegm in the fever Leypira but we have shewed that a fever cannot come from this most cold humor There is often also Cachexy or ill-habit Dropsie hardness of the Hypochondria Oedaeamatous tumors in the Legs in long fevers by reason of the hurt of the internal bowels the cure of which is in their places In the declining there is a Leanness from Atrophy or want of nourishment or from the beginning of an Hectick after a double and acute fevers In a quartan often there is a Tumor behind the Ears And sometimes Worms are voided to which we shal prescribe particular Medicines A continual putrid malignant solitary Fever The Cure of continual putrid Fevers which is often epidemical or simply malignant called by Rondoletius symptomatical is cured as a putrid fever that is not malignant and also a semi-tertian which some account malignant As for the predictions they must be made by the same signs shewed in Putrid Continual fevers These signs being doubtful in putrid nor malignant and their Judgment uncertain are more uncertain here where there is malignity which so insinuateth it self into the heart that when signs of concoction appears the Patient dies of a sudden unexpectedly Morover Nature doth not keep her critical motions so orderly as in fevers not malignant being more oppressed And therefore we must be more wary here of pronouncing our Judgment of Life or Death from signs among which the spots like Flea-bitings or black foretel Death The Cure of malignant fevers is done as in other simply putrid And we take away stil some of the Cause which is putrid and malignant and we alter the heat with things that cool and resist putrefaction and hold up the strength and prevent other accidents We Evacuate both blood and Humors as followeth We prescribe bleeding by Lancet or Scarification as in continual putrid with respect to the strength We purge other Humors as in other putrid fevers with things added to resist malignity such as we shewed in malignant fevers that send out Small-Pox and Meazles We also provoke Urin and Sweat as in others We also use Alterers adding to Coolers resisters of Corruption and Cordials as sharp things and external applications We keep up the strength by Diet and Cordials and more in these malignant than in other fevers therefore allow a little sharp Wine somtimes to refesh We correct accidents as formerly shewed The Pestilent Fever or the Plague being a contagious Disease proceeding from an external venemous quality passing from body to body by the touch or by the Air. We shal shew how to preserve the sound and cure the sick Preservation is made by declining the external Cause The preventing and cure of the Plague or correcting it or preparing the body to prevent Infection albeit the seeds of the Plague are hidden and pierce into the body unknown to us We decline the Cause by avoiding the place where the Plague is as sar as our calling piety and honesty wil permit and the Garments and cloaths infected the Houses and Streets and in regard we know not where it is many carrying the seeds of it with them that are not infected we avoid the
out the putrid malignant cause in the blood by many pustles outwardly but if not they are dangerous especially if pustles be in the Jaws Lungs or Eyes But in people of age whether the Fever send forth Pustles or Spots because the cause is alwaies malignant and hath long lurked in the blood never purged out or not having the small Pox in their Infancy it is dangerons and it observe the course of malignant Fevers which are popular or epidemical though this is seldom We Prognosticate by the Pustles for if they come forth when signs of Concoction appear in the Urin and the pulse is better and the accidents of the Fever abated it is a good sign if otherwise it is ill If a pestilent Fever brings forth the Pustles rather than others which is seldom seen it is deadly And we have shewed that many thousands of Infants have been so taken away The Cure is when the Fever is come and we suspect the pustles wil come forth because it is ordinary in that place or because they appear we must help Natures motion to expel them and the rather when the cause is malignant with the expulsive medicines mentioned and order the Fever with Evacuations and Alterations look to the strength and correct the accidents Thus. We give the expulsive medicines mentioned to expel from the Center to the circumference at the first with respect to the cause whether putrid malignant or pestilential to yong weaker old stronger beginning with the weakest means thus Take Figs dried twelve Barley and Lentiles each a pugil boyl and drink them Or Take Lentiles and Barley each a pugil dried Figs twelve Jujubes fifteen Dates four Raisons twenty pair Liquorish half an ounce boyl them you may add Sugar and a little Saffron Or add to the same Fennel seed two drams Quince seeds Gum traganth and Gum lac each a dram Saffron half a dram boyl them The Arabians make it thus Take dried Figgs seven drams Lentiles and Gum lac each three drams Gum traganth and Fennel seeds each two drams boyl them to the third part If there be Obstructious and a foul body Thus Take Grass and Asparagus and Fennel roots each an ounce Liquorish an ounce and an half Sorrel and Maidenhair each an handful Cordial flowers a pugil Figs twenty Raysons stoned twelve pair Fennel seeds a dram boyl them dissolve in a draught of it syrup of Citrons or Limons half an ounce Mithridate a scruple with waters of Sorrel and Marygold Also Take Carduus seeds a dram Nape seeds a scruple Citron seeds half a scruple Sorrel seeds half a dram bruise them and add Carduus Sorrel and water of Pauls-Bettony each an ounce and an half make an Emulsion add syrup of Limons or Citrons an ounce Harts horn burnt a scruple Pearl half a scruple Bole half a dram Diamargariton frigid half a scruple make a Potion Or Take Barley and Lentil water and a dram of Sorrel seed Grains of Paradice a scruple Citron seeds half a dram boyl them add sealed Earth a scruple give it Or give our Antidote in Pouder if the heat be not great mentioned in the Cure of the Plague Or thus Take roots of Mock chervil which is never omitted if it be to be had two ounces roots of Tormentil white Dittany each two drams Cordial flowers a pugil Sorrel a handful Lentils half a handful Earth of Lemnos a dram boyl them in two pints of water sweeten it with Sanders and five ounces of Sugar drink often Or this which makes the Pustles come forth speedily Take Monckes Rhubarb Tormentil white Dittany and Grass roots each an ounce steep them in spring water boyl them to the consuming of the third part add Sugar four ounces Vinegar an ounce or juyce of Citrons an ounce or an ounce and an half of the syrup thereof drink it two or three daies If the Feaver be great This Take syrup of Citron Vinegar or Limons with hoyled water or Sorrel water and Bole and Bezoar stone drink it Anoynt the Back to fetch out the Pustles as some do the whol Body Thus Take Oyl of sweet Almonds an ounce and an half Oyl of Chamomil half an ounce the resumptive Oyntment an ounce Or use this Fomentation Take Chamomil and Melilot flowers of each a pugil Mallows a handful boyl them Let the Patient be in bed and keep from the Air. Also Scarifications with Cupping-glasses upon the Shoulders fetch out the Pustles and Spots when they appear And rubbing with a red cloath The vulgar think the beholding red things makes the Pustles red and therefore cover them with scarlet If the Fever be a Synoch it is good to bleed at the first to take out some of the inflamed putrid or malignant Blood and abate the Cause in Men and big Children not in Infants The Spanish Physitians taught by the Jews did formerly and now also with the French Physitians open Veins in Children in this Disease but not when the Spots or Pustles do appear least natures motion be hindered If the Fever be very malignant which bringeth forth these Pustles or the Patient in years give the following Loosen the Belly at first before Blood-letting if it must be least the Excrements increase the heat with a Clyster or Laxative Or give this Potion to Men and Children in a less quantity Take Violets a pugil Sebestens and Jujubes of each ten Tamarinds three drams boyl them and add Manna an ounce Cassia ten drams Some men must have stronger purges but take heed of a Fluz or Dysentery and add alwaies somthing to resist Malignity As thus Take Rhubarb four scruples Spike half a scruple Scordium half a dram yellow Myrobalans a dram and an half infuse them in Sorrel and Carduus water strain and dissolve syrup of Peach flowers and Roses with Senna each an ounce Or Take Tryphera persica six drams Manna an ounce and an half syrup of Limons an ounce of Violets and Roses each an ounce with Sorrel Scabious and Carduus water make a Potion Or these Pills Take Aloes two scruples Rheubarb a scruple Myrobalans half a scruple Agarick a scruple with syrup of Sorrel make Pills Or this Clyster Take Mallows Beets Mercury Sorrel Bugloss Borage each a handful Balm half a handful Cordial flowers Bran and Barley each a pugil boyl and strain them add Tryphera persica an ounce Cassia six drams Honey an ounce Oyl of Violets three ounces with a little Salt make a Clyster Use alterers to cool and resist corruption as in a continual putrid Fever and Malignant It is not good to use cold things outwardly for fear of Repercussion or striking in the matter Restore strength as there with Lentils and Barley and give no Wine till the declination We have shewed else where how to order the Pustles If there be a Diarrhea or Flux in the begining for in the end it often cureth by the venemous Humors in the Guts you must mix the Troches of Spodium or burnt Ivory with expulsives
the like And in infectious Diseases it may come from the Contagion as in the French Pox where the quality doth not only outwardly torment the Periostium and Pericranium causing outward pain but the inward films or Meninges causing inward which somtimes are both together And the Plague or venemous quality hereof or of any other poyson may cause Head-ach by its enmity to the Brain as wel as the Heart and not by the heat of the Fever only though both may be causes of this Head-ach together as when a putrid Fever is joyned with a malignant When the disposition or disposition of the Head is to be pained Weakness of the Brain or a disposition to suffer causeth head-ach it comes from very small occations this dispositionis the cause of Cephalaea Hemicrania we cal this a patible or suffering disposition but we know not how to explain it unless we call it too much sensibility or that which comes from the Parents Hereditary Or unless it comes from an evil custom in such who have often been pained or be a weakness which makes the Head more ready to suffer such as is after long diseases of the head wounds or French Pox caused by long and continual gathering of excrements in the Head Evil shape called Mala conformatio is somtimes cause of a continual Head-ach A fault in the Organ or part causeth Head-ach as when the sutures or seams in the Skul especally the Dart-like suture called Sagittalis is so closed or defective that there can be no transpration of vapors and sooty excreements This may come from a preternatural rockey or hard constitution of the Skul in the Crown as I have felt and seen often The Cure A hot Cephalalgia comes from a hot The Cure of Cephalalgia Cephalaea or Hemicrania of what cause soever cholerick or sanguine vapor whether pure or impure which overheats striketh and twitcheth the brain and this comes from external or internal causes of themselves or by consent in hot diseases of the Stomach or other parts as in Feavers especially If it comes of it self by Blood flowing to the Head it must presently be drawn away and driven down and the heat raised thereby allayed and the pain asswaged least it renew the flux and the residue discussed and consumed If it come by consent from vapors sent up the Cure is to be directed to the Disease of which this Head-ach is but a Symptom and the cause of this symptom especially the fuel from whence these vapors arise must be purged and the vapors are to be stopped and drawn from the Head and discussed a cold Head-ach if it come from external cold either of it self departeth or is cured by moderate heat by degrees easily A flegmatick Head-ach if new called Cephalalgia Cephalaea or old called Hemicranaea must be cured as other diseases arising from the excrements of the Brain by general and particular evacuations of the Brain and by altering and strengthening and discussing the humors gathered and fetching them forth by secret or manifest waies opened by Nature or Art Head-ach from Narcoticks especially Wine or other things that are offensive to the Btain or from malignant vapors is cured by evacuateing these causes and suppressing their strength If it be from the French Pox it is strong and not cured but by many and great Evacuations as I shewed in those Diseases of which Head-ach is a symptom But we shall shew here what is to be done chiefly against this symptom of pain by evacuations and altering medicines proper to the several Kinds and Causes of Head-ach Remedies to take away the Cause are either to draw away the blood and with that humors and vapors from the part affected or the heat or the humors upward or downward by the Mouth or Nose or by sweating or particularly by the Skin of the Head Blood-letting when plenty and heat causeth Head-ach is appointed to repell or pull it from the place affected and to derive and direct it We make Revulsion by opening the Veins remote from the Head and this must be done at the first while the blood floweth to the part And it wil also prevent an unaccustomed Headach in plethorick persons to bleed Spring and fall either in the Arm or Foot or pained side opening the Vein most apparent or that called Cephalick or head-vein in the Arm. or that in the great Toe proper against the Head-ach called by the same name In women open the Saphena especially if the courses be stopt In all which you must observe the quantity in a pure plethory you must bleed more in an impure less with respect to the constitution of the Body And if the Disease wil give leave first loosen the Belly we derive the blood when much is flown to the part by the Veins neer the Head First opening a Vein for Revulsion after the Flux is stopped and a new not feared This may be done by opening the external jugular Veins in the Neck as the Arabians teach and others that speak of the Cure of old Head-aches but for the danger of stopping them by reason of their largeness and swelling from strong Ligature and Extension of Voice And the rather because when they bleed much they cause Sterility or Batrenness as Hippocrates saith Therefore it is better especially if the disease be in the Fore-head to open the Branches of the Veins in the Temples or Forehead And because in the opening of them the Throat must be bound to make the veins appear and drive blood into the Head it is better to open the Veins under the Tongue which are branches of the internal jugular in the Mouth Or you may open other branches in the Nostrils Or apply Horsleeches to the tip of the Nose or behind the Ears or upon the external jugulars Many commend the opening of an Artery when there is strong pulsation and heat especially if there be a giddiness called Vertigo which is done as we shewed in the Fore-head Temples or behind the Ears Cupping-Glasses are used to supply the former or after other bleeding to advance because they draw blood and if scarification be made evacuate it These are to be applied to the sides of the Neck the Shoulders Arms Hips and Buttocks beginning above and so going down often the same day or the day following Scarrifying also afterwards if we wil make strong attraction Also it is good to scarifie between the Thumb and fore-finger especially in a Vertigo or in the Wrists some use it to the Ears By Frictions we attract the heat which are good not only to draw away blood but humors and vapors which cause pain These are made in the Arms Back and Feet beginning above It is good to comb the Head often if it be done gently it causeth dissolving of humors if strongly attraction of humors to the superficies of the Head This is best in old Head-aches or in the declining of the other Ligatures or binding of the
extremities revel more powerfully than frictions or rubbing Also washing of the body with a hot Decoction of Herbs good for the Head draws humors and Vapors from the Head And asswageth pain as we shal shew Glysters are good and usually afore bleeding because they supple the belly and take away excrements and after also to draw down blood spirits and vapors if they be sharp and well applied And in constant heat they must be given often the belly being bound for the Disease comes or is increased by excrements retained which send up vapors In a hot cause especially Fevers use this Take Mallows Violets Marsh-mallows Beets Mercury red Coleworts which besides their pricking resist Vapors and Drunkenness each a bandful Bettony proper for the Liver half a handful Violets a pugil Chamaemel flowers half a pugil Barley Bran each a pugil cold seeds half an ounce Fennel seed a dram boyl and add Honey of Violets and red Sugar each an ounce Juyce of Beets or Mercury an ounce and an half Cassia an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces Butter an ounce with Salt make a Clyster In other Causes especially old pains Take Lilly roots two ounces the Emollients Beets or Mercury red Coltworts Pellitory of the Wall Bettony Sage Hysop each a handful flowers of Chamomil Lavender or Staechas Rosemary and Bran each a pugil Figs ten Annis and Fennel seeds each a dram boyl them and add Hiera prica and Diaphaenicon each two drams red Sugar and Honey of Rosemary each an ounce and an half juyce of Mercury or Beets an ounce Oyl of Chamomil and Lillies of each an ounce and an half with a little Salt make a Clyster If the pain come from Humors or Vapors from them or evil quality in them or if the uncleaness of the Body increase or nourish it we give divers purges such as are for other Diseases of the Head coming from the same cause differing in respect of the cause and constitution when the cause or nature is hot we use gentle and moderate but in others stronger and hotter respecting the Head in all giving before them Clysters or letting blood preparing the Humor first if need be And we purge often if the cause require as in the Head-ach from the French Pox. Thus In Cholerick Body we prepare before purging Thus Take Syrup of Endive two ounces syrup of Violets and Sorrel each an ounce Succory and Bugloss water each four ounces Vervaine water which is proper for the Head two ounces and Bettony water an ounce give it at thrice and a Tablet of Diarrhodon after every draught In Melancholly thus Take syrup of both Bugloses each an ounce and an half syrup of Harts-tongue and Epithymum of each an ounce Bugloss Vervain Balm and Bettony water each two ounces take it as the other In flegmatick and old pains where the heat is not great Take Honey of Roses Oxymel simple and syrup of Maiden hair each an ounce and an half syrup of Hysop and Staechas each an ounce Marjoram Bettony Vervain Balme Hysop and Sage water each as much as is fit give it as the other with a Tablet of Diamoschum after every draught Or this Decoction Take Fennel roots two ounces the true Acorus or Calamus an ounce Liquorish an ounce and an half Bettony Marjoram Sage Vervain each an handful Lavender Staechas and Rosemary flowers each a pugil Annis and Fennel seeds each a dram Raysons stoned two ounces boyl them and add Honey then clense it and add Nut-meg and Sugar give it three or four mornings As for purges if the pain come from a hot humor blood or choller they are as we shewed in Fevers and other hot diseases that cause Head-ach Or thus Take Cassia Tamarinds Prunes of each half an ounce take it with Sugar or Whey Or thus Take Cassia six drams Electuary of juyce of Roses two drams Diaprunis a dram syrup of Roses an ounce and an half with Bugloss and Rose water make a Potion Or give this Decoction Take Beet roots green an ounce Dock roots half an ounce Violets two drams Bugloss flowers a dram if fresh two drams Cold seeds of each two drams Annis seeds a dram Prunes and Tamarinds each six pair Polypody six drams Senna half an ounce boyl them and to one Dose add syrup of Roses an ounce or six drams of the infusion of Rhubarb this may be repeated often Or this infusion Take Rhubarb four scruples yellow Myrobalans two drams Spike half a scruple bruise them and sprinckle them with a little Wormwood Wine till they are soft then infuse them in Whey or Endive and Vervain water strain them and add Diaprunis two drams syrup of Violets an ounce give it We use this Apozem often in Cholerick persons which tempereth the Humor Take roots of Succory Bugloss Beets each an ounce Endive Succory Borage each a handful Mercury half a handful Cordial flowers each a pugil four great cold seeds each two drams Purslane Lettice and Annis seeds each a dram red Pease a pugil Raysons stoned and Tamarinds of each an ounce and an half Prunes twelve Sebestens ten pair Polypody two ounces Senna an ounce and an half Carthamus seeds an ounce boyl them and add juyce of Roses two ounces Manna an ounce with Sugar and Cinnamon make an Apozem for three mornings If he had rather have Pills use those of Assajereth which are good for Head-ach coming from the Stomach or Aggregative or sine Quibus a dram of either In Melancholick persons when the cause is not so hot purge as in other Diseases of the Head caused by Melancholly Or thus Take Catholicon half an ounce Diaphaenicon two drams Hamech a dram take it with Sugar or an ounce of syrup Fumitory or with Whey or Cock broath Or use this Decoction Take Bugloss roots an ounce bark of Tamarisk half an ounce Bugloss and Scabious flowers each a pugil Staechas french Lavender half a pugil Melon seeds a dram and an half Raysons stoned an ounce Prunes ten Dates five Polypody six drams Senna half an ounce tops of Time two drams boyl and infuse them Indian and chebs Myrobalans each a dram strain them and add syrup of Roses and Peach flowers each half an ounce with Sugar and Nutmeg make a Potion repeat it if need be Mesues syrup of Apples made with black Hellebore or that with white Hellebore corrected by Rondeletius is good an ounce and an half given alone or with convenient Liquor Or this Take the opening roots steep'd in white Wine Vinegar barks of Capars and Tamarisk each six drams Liquorish an ounce Bugloss with the roots Fumitory tops of Hops Eupatorium by Mesues called Ageratum Maiden-hair Cetrach Germander Ground-pine each a handful Balm and Elder each half a handful Cordial flowers and Tamarisk each a pugil Staechas and Chamomil flowers each half a handful Fennel and Annis seeds each two drams Parsley and Dodder seed each a dram Raysons stoned an ounce and an half Figs and Prunes each ten pair Dates
sharp Also remove other Impediments as glewing of the the Eyelids together which is painful when they are opened the glew therefore slime or sand must be gently taken off with the hand and Rose water if need be in which some Mucilage or white of an Egg is Other filth that is in the Eyebrows before the Pupil especially to hinder the sight must be gently thrust to the corners and there taken out When tears flow the less you wipe your Eyes if they be sore the less you wil offend them but if you must dry your Eyes do it gently by pressing not wiping Blood-letting is good against sore Eyes if the pain comes from flux of blood thither as in an Ophthalmy and Aegilops and in an Ulcer or Wound when we fear a new flux of blood by reason of pain especially if there be Inflammation and Plethory or fulness then they must bleed much and often in the same or divers veins the Shoulder-vein in the Arm is opened for Revulsion or that which appears most on the same side the Eye is sore while blood flows to the Eye according to the Arabians also in the Thumb or Foot some open that between the Shoulder-blades When we intend to fetch the blood and derive it from the part where it is we open nearer veins as in the Forehead Temples or under the Tongue Or some wil in the fore part of head And it is good to take blood from the Nose any waies As we shewed in Head-ach opening of an Artery is excellent against an Opthalmy or great old pain of the Eyes or an Epiphora which hath continued long for when the serous humor descends by the outward Veins which causeth weeping there is a certain Cure Paracentesis or a Seton or opening of the skin of the Head at the root of the hinder part and so putting a skein of Silk or Hair through it to keep it open is the last Remedy in an Epiphora to divert the flux In a long flux whether Epiphora or Ophthalmy or the other it is an excellent way to burn or cut an Issue in the Neck opposite against the sore Eye or in the middle of the Nape or in the coronal suture of the Head Cupping-Glasses are good in all fluxes whether blood or water in the Eyes alone or with Scarification especially if it be blood they must be applied to the sides of the Neck upon the Shoulders and Arms and repeated often if need require for they revel and derive mightily Some highly esteem of Scarifying of the Ears on that side the Eye is sore I should like of better the making an Issue in that part of the Ear which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines Hircus or Goat and the same is excellent in an old Tooth-ach Leeches applied in Head-ach are as good as other bleeding And Friction of the body to revell Also to loosen the Belly with Clysters or Suppositories to clense the Guts before bleeding or with Laxatives is good These revell also if often given they may be made more mollifying or sharper as you please as we shewed Also light purging to take away the binding of the Belly which hurteth the Eyes and to take away the first excrements must be given in all cases as in Inflammation lest stinking vapors should offend but we must take heed of hot things in them without cool to temper them These are also good in a false Ophthalmy which hath no inflammation but heat and redness in which stronger may be used especially in the progress of the Disease when tears begin to molest Examples of these are in cholerick Diseases and in Head-ach from a hot cause but add to them alwaies things proper for the Eyes Prepare first thus Take syrup of Violets an ounce syrup of Water-lillies and of red Roses dired each half an ounce with Vervain Rose and Plantane water make a Julep drink it often Then purge thus Take syrup of Roses an ounce and an hal syrup of Violets an ounce Diagridium two or three grains with Endive and Rose water drink it Or Take syrup of Roses solutive with the Infusion of Senna which is thought proper for the Eyes an ounce and an half drink it with Whey Or Take Cassia an ounce Electuary of juyce of Roses two drams with Sugar make a Bolus or give it in Bugloss water Or Take Rhubarb four scruples yellow Myrobolans a dram sprinkle them with Wine to take out the strength then infuse them in Rose and Violet water strain them and add syrup of Roses an ounce Or this Decoction Take Fennel roots half an ounce Cordial flowers a pugil Fennel seeds half a dram Violet seeds a dram Tamarinds an ounce Prunes six yellow Myrobalans three drams Senna two drams boyl and dissolve syrup of Roses or Violets half an ounce The Pill Sine quibus proper for the Eye doth the same in half a dram If water flow to the Eyes and tears fall we use stronger purges and hotter especially in Epiphora or Ophthalmy when the humor is not so hot and in Ulcers with Fluxes as in the weeping Fistula they are almost the same prescribed in melancholick and slegmatick Head-ach A Preparative Take Honey of Roses an ounce syrup of Bettony and Maiden-hair each half an ounce with Celondine Bugloss and Succory water and a little Sanders give it and repeat it Or When a Flux is more than heat Take syrup of Hysop an ounce of Staechas and Bettony each half an ounce with Fennel Vervain and Eyebright water make a Potion Then purge with cooling Purges while redness and heat remain but if Flux and tears are most use things to purge flegm and if the Disease be old Epiphora or Ophthalmy or Ulcer repeat them often These are the best Pils of Fumitory Sine quibus or Lucis majores a dram of either with Eyebright Vervain or Fennel water or syrup of Staechas Or Pilcochie or Aggregative may be given Or Diacarthamum Diaphoenicon or our Diacaryon and other purgers of flegm and water with proper waters for the Eyes Or this Decoction Take Fennel roots an ounce and half roots of Calamus and Liquorish each an ounce green Fennel Eyebright Vervain Celondine Fumitory each a handful Rue half a handful flowers of Rosemary Stoechas and Roses each a pugil Fennel seeds and Siler montane each two drams Senna two ounces and an half Carthamus seeds bruised two ounces boyl and infuse in it hot Agarick three drams Rhuharb two drams this is used in watry fluxes Spikenard half a scruple strain them and with Cinnamon and Sugar give it three mornings If this purgeth not sufficiently give Pils We have shewed fit Purges for the Eyes in the Cure of slegmatick humors in the Brain producing weakness of sight And how the Head and Stomach is after to be strengthened In a hot Cause it is not good to purge by the mouth or Nose for that wil inflame them and cause bleeding and inflammation of the Eyes nor sneesing
these Take Oyl of biter Almonds of Peach kernels Chamomil Melilot Dill alone or together When the pain is intollerable Take Oyl of Henbane seeds half a dram Castor half a scruple Saffron six grains Or Take a hollow Onyon and put into it Castor Euphorbium each half a scruple Opium six grains fil it with Oyl of bitter Almonds roasted in the Embers strain and use it Or Take a piece of a Snakes skin boyl it in Oyl of Worms add Sows or woodlice and strain it you may add a little Oyl of Scorpions Or Take juyce of Pellitory Horehound each an ounce Oyl of Bayes an ounce and an half Ox gall a scruple Hens grease a little boyl them til the Juyces are spent anoynt and drop into the Ear. A little Spunge dipt in Vinegar with a little Salt is good to be applied close to the Ears This Decoction or the Fume thereof is good for the Ear. Take Organ Pennyroyal Rue Baies each a handful Wormwood half a handful Chamomel Melilot and Dill flowers each a pugil Bay Elder or Ivy berries each an ounce Faenugreek seeds two drams Carua seeds a dram boyl them in Wine and Water Make Bags of these Driers Or thus Take Panicum a pugil Organ Marjoram each a handful Chamomel flowers a pugil Saffron half a dram pouder them for a Bag. Or Take roasted Onyons and Leeks each three ounces beat them add meal of Line seed and Foenugreek each half an ounce Peach kernels an ounce boyl in Milk and stamp them add Goose grease an ounce Oyl of Dill or Earth-worms or Butter two ounces Saffron a scruple They say it is good against pain to rub the Ear with Garlick because it draweth the matter outwards but the roots of Squils Sowbread Cuckow-pints or Dragons are stronger Some apply green Tobacco leaves to the Ears and then dry them and apply them again If an evil malignant quality as in a long Head-ach and French Pox produce pricking in the Ears with noise The Cure of pain in the Ear from malignity after long and strong evacuations by Sweat especially it ceaseth with the Disease and if any remain it is taken away by the Topicks mentioned in a cold cause and moist in the Cure Provocations Itchings and other pains of the Ears The Cure of pain of the Ears and Itching from Irritation or Provocation if they come from filth in them or that falls into them we shewed you how they may be removed in the hinderence of Hearing The violent hurts which cause a Wound The Cure of a pain of the Ear by a wound are cured as other puncturs and wounds First if Inflammation be feared let blood and repell it with things put into the Ears Then drop in things that asswage pain and stop the Flux after use Driers and Healers as we shewed in Ulcers CHAP. VI. Of Diseases or Griefs of the Nostrils The Kinds THe Kinds of Pains or Diseases in the Nostrils are divers There is an often Itching Itching or tickling in the Nose or Tickling Sneesing follows it somtimes and the Nose droppeth Somtimes it is Burning Burning in the Nose and the Nostrils are hot and red and inflamed with a tumor within or Inflammation that obstructeth the passage Somtimes there is a pain like an Ulcer and blood is blown out An ulcerous pain in the Nose or hard flegm Or Snot or stinking matter and there is a stink in the Nose which the people presently perceive more than the Patient in that called Ozaena And there is a deformity of the Nose therewith which spoileth the whol Face The Voyce is hoarse and as coming from a hollow place the Palate is eaten through with a great hole and the breathing is hindered as we have seen alwaies in the Elephantiasis often in the French Pox. The Causes The Grief of the Nostrils proceeds from a Disease which is either Irritation or Provocation or a hot distemper or solution of continuity The Nostrils being very sensible are easily provoked The Irritation of the Nostrils causeth itching and tickling hence comes tickling or itching and somtimes sneesing from the same Causes that we shewed sneezing proceed as externally from light and splender strong scents things put into the Nose that are sharp or intetnally from thin blood in the Vessels or from waterish and sharp blood with tears that come from the Head and twitch the Nostrils And Choler which is usually purged at the Ears may be brought to the Nose and cause the same A great heat may cause burning in the Nose A hot distemper and Inflammation of the Nostrils is the cause of burning pain to which is joyned somtimes a true Inflammation with tumor and obstruction as may happen from an outward hurt or internal when the cause is very pricking from whence the Nostrils are usually afflicted as in Coryza where the Nose is outwardly red and inflamed as woll as inwardly A Solution of continuity within or Excoriation Excoriation wound or ulcer is the cause of ulcerous pain in the Nose or Wound or Ulcer reacheth somtimes outwardly These may be from picking as with the Nayles or burning Errhines or Nose Medicines such as we use in Cure of Polypus Somtimes from a sharp defluxion that hath long passed that way the Nose is ulcerated inwardly and outwardly with the help of often blowing it There are in the spungy bones at the bottom of the Nose foul stubborne and long Ulcers somtimes such as corrode and creep on somtimes they pirce the thick runicle of the pallate and eat of the bridg of the Nose which causeth it to fal Often also the bones which are near the upper Jaw are consumed and leave a great space in the palate through which a stink hath passed that anoyed the whol room where we were And it is manifest that worms have been bred of this filth and come forth These may be from the causes mentioned Worms in the Nose as if the Nose be deeply hurt or the Ulcer neglected or the remedies come not to the part by reason of its moysture and cannot have operation These called Ozaenae come chiefly from the Flux of burning or malignant humors sent by nature to the part and there are perverse and cancerous Ulcers and tumors But because this is not only in this part but a malignant humor and quality in other places especially the Membranes as in the Elephantiasis and French Pox then they of the Nose grow together with other putrid and Malignant Ulcers which eate away the Nose and the bones and produce other accidents The Cure If the itch of the Nose come from provocation The Cure of itching of the Nose from provocation remove the cause whether internal or external and if it cease not qualifie it As we shewed in neesing which often followeth and shall be shewed in defluxions and in Coryza If the Nose be hot or inflamed then there is redness heat and tumor external The Cure
an Ulcer and the Thrush neglected In an Elephantiasis or Leprosie and in the French Pox though they use no Quick-silver and in the Scurvy by reason of their venemous quality as shal be shewed there are Ulcers in the Mouth and Jaws The Cure If Inflammation and preternatural heat of the parts of the mouth come from other Diseases The Cure of heat Inflammation of the Tongue Jaws Cheeks and Palate as Fevers they must be first cured as we shewed in Fevers by letting blood for the Fevers and Sweating and by cooling the Heart Liver and Reins restraining the corruption and preserving the strength But chiefly for the Tongue when much afflicted to prevent a Squinsie and Death by the Inflammation going to the Jaws open the Vein under the Tongue although you have let blood before for the Fever and use diversions by Cupping Scarifying Rubbing often and things that heat and keep down foul vapors and quench the great heat not only for the Fever but for the tongues sake Examples of which we shewed in Fevers In other Causes use diversions as in Fevers by bleeding and the like as when the Gums are inflamed in the Tooth-ach Lest the mouth be inflamed by the use of quicksilver before you apply it wash the mouth often with Milk fat Broath Butter or Oyl of sweet Almonds and anoynt the Tongue therewith If it be a simple heat wash the mouth with cold things and moisten it if it be dry and if you fear Inflammation Astringe and Repell adding Clensers by reason of the slime in the Mouth and somtimes Resisters of Venom and then use Digesters and Ripeners if it tend to an Imposthume We shewed in the hurt of Tasting what wil allay the heat and driness of the tongue When in the beginning of an Inflammation we will repel and cool together use these following Spring-water and Rain water astringe a little and Wine Vinegar or Rose Vinegar added to sharpen it Also waters of Violets Water-lillies Night-shade Purslane Lettice and these Astringents Rose water Plantane Privet Honey-suckle and Myrtle water chiefly water of Self-heal used with Vinegar or other waters for it cooleth not much of it self Thus Take water of Prunella or Self-heal four ounces Rose Plantane Straw-berry and Purslane water of each two ounces Rose Vinegar and Honey of Rose each an ounce with a little Allum or a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol and then it will bind more Also sharp Juyces as of Mul-berries Bay-berries Grapes Cherries Oranges Limons Citrons and Sorrel with Vinegar or alone and the juyce of Lettice is counted best these may be chewed or the juyce taken often Or you may boyl the Fruits and wash the Mouth with the Decoction Or give the Juyces with Honey or alone Or the syrups made of them chiefly that of Mulberries may be mixed with Mouth water or licked In the French Pox syrup of Violets with the Decoction of Barley and Roses cureth the Inslammation The vulgar High-dutch use the distill'd water of that Liquor in which they pickle Cabbages called Sumpistbren or the liquor it self if it be shaken together To which you may add other juyces A cooling and repelling Decoction Take Violet leaves Lettice Plantane Prunella or Self-heal Willow Sorrel Vine Straw-berry each a handful red Roses Antirrhinum the great Mallows Barley each a pugil Gourd seeds two drams Bar-berries a dram soure Berries ten pair soure Prunes six boyl them in Water and sharp Wine add a little Sugar and Honey of Roses use ir so or with Juyces or Syrups Another more astringent Take Mouse-ear Privet Self-heal Plantane Brambles Myrtles each a handful red Roses Water-lilly Barley Vetches each a pugil Prunes or Cherries Cornil berries or Cervises or Quinces some few Bar-berries dryed an ounce boyl all in red Wine add Honey three ounces syrup of Pomegranats two ounces wash the Mouth therewith In the increase of the Inflammation add Digesters thus Take Liquorish an ounce Self-heal two handfuls Plantane a handful Hysop half a handful Mallow flowers red Roses each a pugil Sage and Rosemary flowers of each half a pugil Beans and Lentiles of each an ounce Fenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce Acron cups six drams Figs ten Raysons not stoned twenty pair boyl all in Water add a little Wine and two ounces of Honey syrup of dryed Roses an ounce syrup of Mul-berries half an ounce Or thus Take Self-heal two handsuls Ground-sil Cross-wort Honey-suckles Plantane Hysop Sage Maiden-hair each a handful red Roses a pugil Myrrh two drams a little Saffron and two ounces of Honey boyl them in Water add a little Allum Or thus Take Water of Self-heal six ounces Plantane Rose Sage and Hysop water each two ounces Honey of Roses and a little Allum I have done much in these Inflammations with deep Ulcers with Salt-peter prepared called Lapis prunellae dissolved in Sage water washing the Mouth warm therewith In Inflammations ready to ulcerate from the use of quick-silver some anoynt with Treacle Aqua vitae and Vinegar or distil a water of them and add Bole or other dryers by this they believe the Poyson of the quick-silver is taken away and they also wash with a Decoction of Lignum vitae When Inflammations tend to Maturation Take Marsh-mallow roots an ounce and an half Figs twelve Dates six Tamarinds and Cassia with the seeds ten Fenugreek and Lineseed each half an ounce Mallows and Chamomil flowers each a pugil boyl them in Goats Milk dissolve the white of an Egg and a little Honey and Safron If the Inflammation be not only in the Tongue but in other parts you may anoynt under the Chin at first with repelling Oyls as of Roses after with discussers as Oyl of Chamomil and Lillies If the Inflammation under the Tongue tend to suppuration make Cataplasmes of Marsh-mallow roots Linseed and other meats with Saffron these asswage pain and ripen or boyl them in Milk and wash the Mouth We shall shew the forms of these and such as open Impostums in the treatise of Inflammations of the Jaws If a quinfie be joyned with an Inflammation of the Tongue or follow it there are Medicines In solutions of continuity Pustles The Cure of Pustles Rawness clefts and â—â—â—ers of the Moâ—th and Tongue Rawness Clefts and Ulcers if they come from an internal cause that must first be evacuated If they come from other causes yet if the body be foul or Plethorick the Cure will be sooner done after purging If the cause be malignant that must be first taken away as in the French Pox Leprosie and Scorbute If that cannot be taken away the Ulcers that come from thence can never be cured these first done apply Topicks for Pustles Fissures Rawness and Ulcers In Pustles if there be an Inflammation the Medicines there are proper if they are without Inflammation they break of themselves and leave an Ulcer which must be cured as the Thrush If they continue long and are troublesome apply Leaven to ripen
Emplaster for the crown or hinder part of the head Take Pitch two dragms Frankincense Mastick Labdanum each a dragm with Gum Ammoniak dissolved in Vinegar Make a large round plaster A stronger drawer Take Pigeons and Mouse Dung two dragms seeds of Melanthium infused in vinegar a dragm Frankincense Mastick each a dram and half with Galbanum dissolved in vinegar and honey anacardine Make a Plaster A Pouder for the Head morning and evening after rubbing and combing Take Mastick Gum of Ivy each a dram and half Citron peels Galangal red Roses Organ Gith seeds and Coriander prepared in vinegar Bay berries red Saunders each a dram Nutmegs and Cloves each half a dram grains of Kermes two scruples Salt a dram When other medicines cannot be swollowed use Clysters before bleeding and after if need be to provoke stools and draw down humors If the Inflamation of the Jaws come from flux of blood of what kind soever give emollient and cooling Clysters as in Fevers as this Take the common Decoction Cassia an ounce course Sugar an ounce and an half oyl of Violets three ounces with a little Salt When you wil provoke more and draw down Take Mallowes Beets roots and all an handful Bran a pugil boyl them add Honey of Violets an ounce and an half Electuary of the juice of roses half an ounce Hiera picra two drams oyl of Violets three ounces with juice of Mercury or Beets an ounce and a little Salt make a Clyster If a bastard Quinzy come from a waterish defluxtion or swelling of the tonsils or falling down of the Uvula use Clysters prescribed in those Defluxions Or this Take Mallows Marsh-mallows Arrach roots and all each an handful Orris roots an ounce Sage and Marjoram each half an handful Chamoemel Melilot and Lavender flowers and Bran each a pugil Carna seeds two drams boyl them add Hiera Colocynthidos three drams Honey of Roses two ounces oyl of Chamoemile and of Nuts each an ounce and an half with Salt make a Clyster we use Errhines to the nose to divert Flegm from the tonsils and Palate or masticatories that cut Flegm and fetch it from the Jaws Somtimes instead of Clysters we give if they can swallow liquid things in Inflammations of Cassia Tamarinds Manna dissolved in syrup of Roses Violets and the like as in Fevers In other Defluxions stronger Remedies are given as Hiera Picra commended in a Bastard Quinsie two scruples in Pils after a short Supper they say it cured many of the Quinsie in Rome when it was deadly Also a Decoction of a dram of Turbith with Liquorish Manna or Cassia is good if often given Prepare the humors with thickners if it be hot as syrup of Violets Poppies an Emulsion of Cold seeds Rose water or Diacodium and other things in a Catarrh Or if the Defluxion be cold give things to correct it as syrup of Maidenhair Bugloss or Scabious water Or thus Take Liquorish an ounce Maidenhair Bugloss each a handful Violets Scabious each a pugil Raysons stoned Jujubes Sebestens each six pair Barley a pugil the four cold seeds each a dram and an half boyl them and in a pint and an half dissolve simple Oxymel and Honey of Roses each an ounce and an half Sugar an ounce make a Julep for three or four Doses with a dram of Diatragacanth frigid Also the Decoction and Water of Violets In a cold cause give syrup of Hysop Horehound and Liquorish with Colts-foot and Horehound Water Or thus Take roots of Elicampane two drams Liquorish six drams Hysop a handful Figs ten Dates five Anise seeds two drams Rosemary flowers a pugil boyl them and in a pint and an half dissolve Honey of Rosemary two ounces Sugar an ounce and an half Sugar candy an ounce make a Julep for some Doses with a dram of species Diareos To the place affected we apply Topicks inwardly and outwardly The Topicks for a true and false Quinsie ininwardly Mouth-waters or things to lick or Fumes outwardly things to the Neck as the part is affected In a Quinsie from what Defluxion soever you must use Repellers at the beginning while the matter flows with Coolers if it be true or without if it be a false Quinsie after a Defluxion add Concocters and Resolvers which we use alone at last alwaies while there is pain and straitness give Lenitives to asswage pain and dilate the passages with other things and things which clense and cut tough flegm which useth to stick there in a cold Defluxion the examples are as followeth At the first give Repellers the first Gargarism Take Rose Plantane Honey-suckle water each four ounces add Vinegar or Pomegranate Wine or the juyce of sour fruits and two ounces of Diamoron or Honey of Roses Another Take Plantane water four ounces Rose water two ounces Sugar of Roses or Honey of Roses an ounce Allum a dram boyl them a little or dissolve A third Take Pomegranate peels flowers of Pomegranates Cypress nuts each an onnce and Teazle Galls half an ounce Lentiles red Roses each a pugil Myrtle seeds half an ounce Plantane seeds two drams boyl them in Water and Honey and in ia pint dissolve Diamoron sour Pomegranate Wine four ounces add a little Allum to make it stronger Repelling Pouders are blown in as of Plantane leaves and red Roses and the like In progress of the Disease use Repellers and Dissolvers together As Take water of Self-heal Plantane VVillow each three ounces Cassia Diamoron each an ounce Or Take Liquorish an ounce Cypress roots peels of Pomegranates each half an ounce Pomegranate leaves two drams red Roses a pugil Figs six Dates three Raisons twelve pair Jujubes and Sebestens each six pair Barly a pugil Faenugreek and Lineseed each half an ounce boyl them and in a pint dissolve Diamoron compounded with Saffron and Myrrh two ounces Cassia and Oxymel each an ounce The juyce of Ivy drunk from three drams to half an ounce is good to repel and digest This Plant is so powerful in Diseases of the throat and Neck that the Vulgar think Spoons made of Ivy do good At length use Resolvers and Concocters and Clensers Thus a Gargarism Take water of Dwarf-Elder and Self-heal water each an ounce Hysop and Rose water each two ounces Or this Decoction Take Liquorish an ounce roots of Dwarf-Elder and Radish and Oris each half an ounce red Roses Mallow Chamaemel and Elder flowers each a pugil Hysop half a handful Radish seed two drams Faenugreek seed half an ounce Figs ten Dates five Bran a pugil boyl and in ten ounces dissolve Sapa Honey of Roses each an ounce and an half Swallows nest two drams Myrrh Mummy each a dram Saffron Sal Armoniack each half an ounce Or this Take species of Diaireos a dram Pepper half a dram Saffron and Myrrh each a scruple Juyce of Liquorish a scruple with syrup of Hysop two ounces make a Lenitive Or thus Take Pepper half a dram Saffron and Myrrh each half a scruple
the Mucilage dissolve Penides It is good also though the Gulet ly deep to apply outwardly things prescribed against Inflamation of the Jaws If there be an Imposthume after Inflamation in the Gullet and break not things swallowed against the Quinzie are good and the Imposthume may be opened with an Instrument such as we mentioned in the dissiculty of swallowing for drawing things out of the Gullet It is good in all Inflamations of the Jaws and parts thereof to put oyl of sweet Almonds hot into the cars Amulets are allowed as the head of a Viper hung about the neck Or if you strangle a Viper in a scarlet string and after hang the string about your neck it wil do miracles in this case according to Galen Also hang Paeony roots about the neck Or Colewort roots for the diseases of the Uvula As for other accidents especially in a Quinzie we allow a slender Diet And Drink to allay thirst if they can swallow with Barley Raisons and Sugar we allow but little Sleep and let the Ayr be pure and cool For fear of Suffocation let the Patient ly with his head high and apply other things to the cause of the disease to preserve strength and to take away straitness of passage If there be an Ulcer after an Imposthume in the Quinzie Topical remedies against an Ulcer after an Imposthume in a Quinsie known by the matter voided take heed least it get to the Lungs and swallow it not but spit it out continualy Therefore clense the Ulcer diligently with Gargles of Wine and Honey Or with Milk or warm Whey and Sugar Or with Barley Lentile and Figg water with Honey of Roses Then use driers as Steeled Milk or Milk with Comfrey roots boyled in it or mixed with Bole or other things to be mentioned in ulcers of the Jawes If the Ulcer come outward it must be cured as other external Ulcers If there be an Ulcer left after Suppuration of an Inflamation of the Almonds and palat The Topical remedies for the Ulcers of the Almonds and Palate or other external causes presently apply topical means But if it come from evil humors in other diseases cure that disease first as shal be shewed As if it came from a Defluxion first purge the body for that and make other diversions as in other Defluxions as we shewed in other diseases of the Jaws from Defluxions With the aforesaid topical Clensers and Driers being strong as we shewed in Ulcers of the mouth we may cure these profound or deep Ulcers or with these following proper for the Palate ulcerated or rotten As Goats milk or Cows or Sheeps milk with Flints or Steel quenched therein it will clense and heal the Ulcer Comfry Agrimony Plantane Nightshade and Endive water are excellent Also juyce of Agrimony Coleworts Vervain Shepheards-purse and syrup of Mulberries Or the Decoction of Dogs-tongue and Herb Robert Danewort and Burnet To which Waters Juyces or Decoctions add Sugar or Honey of Roses to clense more and they will be stronger with Oxymel of Squils and Allum Also apply to the Uvula Honey of Roses and Allum Also to dry strongly Take fine Bole two drams Dragons blood a dram Ceruss Tutty each half a dram burnt Harts-horn a scruple with juyce of Shepheards-purse make a Liniment Or boyl Frankincense Sarcocol or Myrth in Wine and wash Or use Allum water prescribed in Ulcers of the Mouth Or this Take Sugar half a pound Allum two ounces Salt an ounce distil a Water Or use Lime-water that is Water with Lime quencht in it Or Sublimate Water to touch the Palate warily with them A Pouder Take quick Sulphur two drams Allum a dram Mastick Frankincense Myrrh each half a dram Pellitory roots and burnt Harts-horn each a scruple make a fine Pouder to which add four ounces of sublimated Wine If the Ulcer in the Uvula cannot be cured cut it off speedily before it eat off the Palate and other parts neer or burn it as we shewed If the Ulcer or rawness of the Gullet come from a sharp Defluxion Topical Remedies for the rawness or excoriation of the Gullet or a hot Vapor ascending these must be first turned away if they continue the Flux must be stopped and the Jaws lenified and the sense of feeling a little abated Or if it be wounded from sharp things that stil stick there take them out by the Art explained in dissicult swallowing Then Cure the Ulcer with Topicks choosing such in a simple excoriation which gently clense and dry and that may be swallowed down to the part affected without trouble Such as we shewed in Ulcers of the Jawes after a Quinsie to Gargle with which swallowed will cure a sore Throat If the Ulcer lie deep and be foul you must use stronger Clensers and Driers Also if it be wounded from things swallowed use the Remedies prescribed in the Ulcers of the Tonsils and Palate made of fat Earths Bole or Lemnos Earth and drying fruits juyced as Acacia green Grapes and Dragons blood Or those that are made of Gums as of Frankincense c. and other Astringents and Driers mentioned in the Inflammation of the Jaws Also use such Fumes as are in the Ulcers of the mouth mentioned to dry And the outward means mentioned in Quinsie CHAP. 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Of the Griefs or Pain of the Breast The Kinds THe inward Greefs or Pains of the Breast are either Molestations only in divers strait passages of the Breast following divers Diseases Of these we spake in Breathing hindered because the Breath is either hindered or depraved thereby Of true pains in the Breast some are alone others mixed A false Pleurisie A Pain alone is when without other great accidents there is a pricking in either side especially in breathing in some certain place or moving hence comes the false Phrensie but not a true because there is neither Cough nor Fever except there be some other accident If this pricking be great the breathing is little and short A pricking pain because if it be great the pain is increased and therefore the Party breaths gently Of this there are two sorts differing in the Cause the one is from Wind the other from Flegm If they come outward with tumor and pain they belong to external tumors to be mentioned in the habit of the body Of mixed pains especially with a Cough or Fever some are pricking A true Pleurisie called true Pleurisies and are sometimes in one side somtimes on the other in a certain place especially in breathing which is also little and short and very hot This pain is greater when they lie upon the sound side then when they lie upon the Back or the side affected Another pain in the Breast unaccompanied with the aforesaid accidents is great Peripneumonia contracting as it were the Breast and Back and drawing aside the Clavicle with greater straitness than the other with pricking of the Breast sometimes before or behind or on both sides
portion into the substance of the Lungs which produceth the Inflammation accompanied with a Synoch from whence it came And therefore the same causes of a Synoch as we shewed in Feavers are the causes of these Inflammations As Surfetting Drunkenness because they cause Fulness and make the Blood too hot are the causes of Synochs in young and old men that live deliciously therefore they are counted the cheif caufes of peripneumony and pleurisie and therefore they prescribed Abstinence from Wine and sat Flesh and Fish as Eels from whence they say the peripneumony cometh because the Blood groweth too fat from eating of fat Meats and therefore may be sooner inflamed except these fish have a peculiar force to inflame as the Sea-Hare hath to ulcerate the Lungs Hence it is that in Spring and in the time when Synochs are rife these Inflammations are most usual in these ages especialy which are subject to a Synoch not only with an outward Erysipelas but that which produceth a peripneumony These Inflammations are sooner in the Lungs then any other part If with the causes of a Synoch there be also a disposition in the Lungs to receive them which disposition is the natural Heat and plenty of Blood and thinness of Substance in the Lungs as also a weakness accquired from a disease which hath caused a Cough To which are added other causes which make them come out of the Vessels and flow to the Lungs as a hot distemper from Air Anger or a hot Disease as a Fever or an outward Cold by Air which pierceth the Breast and Lungs hence it is that this may be when the Veins are astringed Also vehement motion or pain about the Breast or other things that draw blood to the breast As in that Woman which conceived with Child in old age when her breasts that were formerly lank grew great by the flowing of blood to them to breed milk and fell into a Pleurisie And I have observed that divers Women in the middle of their time of breeding especially in the Spring after a cold Winter from a sudden cold and moisture have fallen into Pleurisies by reason of much blood flowing to the breasts to breed Milk These Causes except there be a Synoch scarse produce an Inflammation alone but rather a spetting of blood Or if they produce an Inflammation in the Breast without a Synoch asoregoing there will be only a simple Pieurisie by reason of the Muscles affected from the girding Membrane Or if the Lungs be also inflamed in both the Fever coming from thence will not be a Synoch which is the next cause of a pleurisie and peripneumony and begins with these Inflammations or goes before them but wil be symptomatical as we shewed in Fevers The Cure The Cure varieth as the Disease is divers which produceth these pricking pains in the Breast And it is eithere an Iuflammation of the Lungs in a true Pleurisie and peripneumony or of the Membrane in its pleurisie or a distension from Wind or tumor in the two kinds of false pleurisies called Flatulent and Flegmatick The Inflammation of the Lungs both in a Pleurisie and Peripneumony is dangerous The Prognesticks of a true Pleurisie and Peripneumony but most in a peripneumony by reason of the nearness of the Heart both cause Death either in the fourth or fifth day or in the fourteenth or twentieth When it tends to health it passeth the second or third week and first the pricking ceaseth then the Fever and last the Spitting of Matter but if it continue above the time mentioned and the Fever ceaseth not but is lingring it is to be feared that it wil turn to an Empyema or phthisis These following rules wil declare how these Diseases wil end If from the Lungs inflamed they presently spit mixed matter it is good especially if they Cough and expel it easily if otherwise it is bad This if it be blood or matter such as cometh from the part inflamed which is the Lungs it is allowed But if from the beginning the blood flows plentifully for some daies or cease and return again it snews great hurt of the Lungs But the sooner they spit matter white or concocted and the more easily and plentifully it is voided the better it is unless it be sent forth in such abundance as I have seen in a man that had a peripneumony und was ready to die that it fill a Bason this is a sign that the Inflammation is great and that a suppuration follows and also Death Purulent matter though yellowish is not bad till it be Yellow that whch is green is worse and black worst of all that which is white slimy and cleer prolongs the Disease That Inflammation that comes from pure blood is more gentle that which comes from cholerick or impure blood is worse and shorter but that which comes from flegmatick blood is longer but not so shatp And that which follows other long and acute Diseases is harder to be cured The peripneumony especially or the pleurisie in old people is deadly Great difficulcy of Breathing shews the greatness of the Inflammation or a great collection of the matter which suddenly flowing to the branches of the rough Artery causeth mote trouble and they breath with snorting and if they do not presently spet and hawk it forth it strangleth Cold of the outward parts the Face sunk and the pulse little foreshew Death as in other Diseases If the Fever be strong with Heat Thirst and Watching the danger is more if gentle less If there be a Delirium or Doting which useth not to be in these Diseases nor from the Fever accompanying them It is a mortal sign because it useth to come upon the distemper of the Septum or Diaphragma Bleeding at the Nose cannot be had in the beginning both in respect of the Fever and also for Revulsion But towards the end it weakneth especially if much Plentiful voiding of Urin and Sweat if they come seasonably cures the Fever and if they piss matter they suppose the matter come from the Lungs and the Diseases to be sent out of the way But if matter can be carried from the Lungs by the hollow Vein which is more manifest rather than by the other obscure veins in the Breast which joyn to the Emulgent which some men so diligently seek for and bragg that they have found out then in other Diseases there may be such a passage but this is very rare because in those that have been extreamly phthisical and empyematous no such thing hath been seen A Diarrhaea presageth Death for though some have thought otherwise yet little of the cause of the Disease can be purged by stool But if the Diarrhaea come at the first from other causes and stay not long it may be harmless especially if it take away any filth which may increase the Fever And I have often seen Pleurisies after I have given Oyl of sweet Almonds with pouder of a Bores tooth to go away
which hindereth sleep Also there must be a Natural voiding daily of the Excrements to ease the Stomach from them but too much Evacuation especially by Venery as it weakens the whole Body so it doth the Stomach and troubles of Mind but recreation is good Vomiting is good in all fulness of the stomach Romedies fit for to cleanse the stomach for if it be pained by stretching it is presently eased thereby if it can be which is hard when it is much dilated when breath is difficult Especially vomiting is good when there is heaviness from crude flegmack humors And from weakness in which it is good every month otherwise if there be no Excrements it will do hurt especially if they be unfit or unacustomed to it And in wind when there is no other Humor vomiting is not to be used rashly It is caused by tickling the Throat and rubbing the Stomach or by gentle vomits or such as clense and cure if there be flegm that is tough As Oxymels or syrup of Sorrel with warm water or Decoction of Radishes Beets Arach seeds Asarum and Agarick or stilled water of Nuts and Radishes In weakness we add hot and bitter things and that Cut As wormwood Wine before or Syrup thereof with waters or Decoctions mentioned In all these Causes belching is good to take off the swelling and the Cause if nothing but wind It comes of it self after meat by bending we may willingly hold but not send out a bulch For they which make such a noise like belching do not break wind forth but Air that they first suckt in and which they send from the Gullet not the stomach And it is Caused by Fomentations and hot things actually and potentially so as follow Clysters do well when the Stomach is burdned with Meat or Humors or stretcht with wind to stir up nature and open the lower parts and empty the Guts And in weakness of the stomach if the belly be bound they may be somtimes given especially if they work but little and are not Compounded Of strong things which are forbidden in weakness of the Stomach But we may use sharp Clysters to draw down and such to expell wind if it come from them such as shall be prescribed in the colick If the stomach be desturbed by crude humors or flegm or wind from them or from weakness it is good to purge often but with gentle things that we offend not the stomach Yet in necessity we use strong purges with correctors for such things as offend the stomach and strengthenres The forms whereof we shall mention in relation only to those diseases of the stomach which we have declared Because there are purgers in general for the stomach in other diseases mentioned here and there Pills are thought best for the stomach by reason of the Aloes that is in them which is thought the best purger for the stomach though it stinketh and causeth loathing and by reason of its bitterness and unpleasantness can be very ill taken This Aloes is a thick juyce as it is brought to us and the redder it is the better it is that is if it be of a redlike yellow and it is called Aloes Cuccotrine or rather Succocitrine from its Citron color And when it is hollowed within like a Liver and Brittle it is called Aloes Hepatica But it may be made better by praeparation when it is poudered and washt from its filth by which means it is never the less operative in purging though it be commonly thought otherwise But it is stronger when it is poudered and infused in convenient liquor and dissolved by steeping and then juyce that swims at the top poured of from the residents often and then brought into a Body If this liquor be Wine or spirit thereof or other spiced Drink or Decoction it will warm and strengthen the stomach the more and if it be done in wormwood Wine the cleansing and losning vertue will be the greater I am very much pleased with Aloe rosate with Rhubarb thus made Take the purest succotrine Aloes three ounces washt it nine times in the juyce of Damask Roses and dry it as often then add the pouder of red Roses three drams Rhubarb a dram and of the extract of Rhubarb half an ounce Spicknard a scruple with syrup of Wormwood make a mass for Pills Also the essence of Aloes is thus make Take Aloes succotrine three pound or sour pouder it and put it into a glass with Sorrel water five fingers above it put it in Balneo two or three daies then pour off the Tincture which is reddish and add again Sorrel water but not so much and put it in Balneo again and pour of the tincture do this till the water will take no more tincture still all these tinctures in Balneo till there remain in the bottom a matter like Honey shining and reddish let this be mixed by degrees with juyce of Roses and dryed so often till three pints of the juyce be consumed Keep this essence Of this preperation we give a dram or half a dram as often as we please when we will gently loosen and not hurt but help the concoction With other juyces they are made stronger and better for the stomach Let Aloes be finely poudered and sprinkled with juyce of Roses and dryed and then poudered again and so thrice ordered it will less heat this is called Aloes rosata If it be done with juyce of Wormwood it is better for the stomach instead of which you may use thick juyce of wormwood which they call the extract with the Aloes You may add other alterers to Aloes to make it work to your purpose as when we will heat the stomach spices when we will strengthen Mastick Roses Spike when we will clense more Asarum and Myrrh when we will concoct Saffron and the like as in the Pills of Hiera simple and Alephanginae called Aromatical from the plenty of Aloes which we use chiefly in a loose and weak stomach and are called stomach Pills and the Pills called Asajereth which have Myrobalans in them And we may add to it other purgers when the stomach is very foul but they must not be enemies to the stomach Thus are the Pills to be taken before meat made with Rhubarb and Aloes called Aggregative the lesser of Mesue and Pills of Rhubarb and Agrimony proper for the Liver or those of Mastich made with Agarick or those mixed of both called de Tribus and imperial which have Senna or those which have Turbith called the Stomach pills of Turbith These Pills are used divers waies by themselves or mixed These we sharpen with stronger when we will have them work more and rather with those that have Scammony then that which is more offensive to the Stomach In immitation of all which we may make new stomach Pills thus only to purge the Stomach from Excrements with Correcters which help them rather then alterers which may be given better without purging In a
When those Bowels that lye upon the Diaphragma are inflamed for then Breath is hindered and there is a Cough and the stomach disturbed And when the Liver is inflamed Choler is vomited or there is a looseness or Jaundies and the Reins inflamed make the Urin sharp And if an Ulcer follow an Inflammation in these parts as appears by pissing of matter from the Kidneys and we see in Anatomies in the Liver and Spleen or if there be a hardness left from the Inflammation not well discussed there will be accidents that will follow accordingly A stroak or contusion or the like made outwardly upon the parts may be the cause of the Imflammation as also very hot things taken in may inflame the Liver and Spleen as well as the stomach which lyeth near them The chief Cause of Inflammation of the Liver is drinking much cold water in a great heat which makes a sudden repercussion And the Cause of the Inflammation of the Kidneys is the stone which seeks a passage forth and gets into the Vreters and causeth great pain and flux of blood This stone increaseth the Disease by being together with the Inflammation All these Causes of Inflammation kindle a symptomatical Feaver But when blood is hot in a Synoch Feaver without these Causes as we shewed in Feavers and sent upon any of the Bowels aforesaid it may cause these Inflammations which follow a Feaver as their cause And it may be also from plenty of blood when a Feaver goes not afore but follows after which blood breaks out of the Vessels and causeth an Inflammation If this Blood if it be in the Liver impure and not well purged from Choler causeth an erysipelated Phlegmon and the great Heat that comes from thence by which the Bowels seem to burn whence comes the burning Feaver called Typhodes And the same things happen if there be a true Erysipelas from pure Choler spread through the substance of the Liver from the Gall. And this may come also from the Causes mentioned that produce other Inflammations If the Liver or Spleen be obstructed by a Humor The obstruction of the Liver Spleen or Kidneys causeth a blunt and heavy pain in the Hypochondria so that they are more heavy there is a weight in the sides This is seldom from a Humor in the Kidneys but from a Stone or Gravel This heaviness increaseth as if a weight lay thereon if there be a hard Tumor Scirrhus or Oedema in the Liver or Spleen This may be in the Kidneys from the same tumors with great pain and heaviness The Causes of all these shall be mentioned in other great accidents We shall not speak of Wind which some will have to be a cause of pain in the Liver or Spleen because it cannot be in such quantity there as to cause it by stretching neither is the inside of those parts sensible neither do we see how it can be in the Kidneys From a Stone bred in the Liver or the Gall or from sand or gravel A stone and sand in the Liver or Gall is the cause of heavy and dull pain in the Hypochondria gathered and returned there is felt a Heaviness as from a Tumor This may be as I have seen in Anatomies and it hath been observed that much red Gravel like Blood hath been voided in a Disease of the Liver and by finding stones in the Livers of Beasts We may collect that the same may be in a man These hapning cause this pain and other Symptoms such as come from a stopped Liver as we shall shew we cannot affirm that Stones may breed in the Spleen but from that general rule that they may breed in any part of the Body because we never saw nor heard of any Stones of divers sorts The stone or sand in the kidneys is the cause of heaviness in the Hypochondria and gravel in the Kidneys and Vreters cause the Nephritick pain which is either a Heaviness only in the Reins gentle and dull when the Gravel lyeth still or the Stones sticks to the kidney but the pain is greater when much Gravel is gathered there or the Stones be great or many with pricking and cutting and numness in the Leg on that side from compression of the Nerves in the Loins or pissing of Blood from great motion which maketh the stone beat upon the substance of the Kidneys and somtimes of matter and some part of the stone These accidents are greater and longer when the stone is long detained and grows up in one place and especially when it grows so that it fills the Reins and swells them as we have seen great branched stones in Anatomies Or when the substance of the Kidneys is worn away and the stone is wrapt in the Membrane only as in a purse where the Kidney was Hence must needs be great pain and I opened a Woman that in her life time complained for many years of such a pain and often miscarried and found it so Also I opened a woman that after a mischance pined away and died in whom besides other accidents I found both Kidneys eaten away and full of matter and two great square stones in the right Kidney and two in the left one like a cross another like an almond with many other little ones This is usual for others have told me as much I saw also a stone in the outward Fat of the Kidney that grew to the tunicle which was great but caused no pain because it was hollow and light If the Stone get from the Kidneys into the Vreters A Stone and Gravel in the Vreters is the cause of Nephritis the pain is greater and hath the aforesaid Symptoms first Vomiting from the consent of the stomach and because flegm is vomited they suppose that the pain come from that but that came from the stomach because it could not so suddenly come from the Kidneys The Urin is then waterish and crude because the Choler is carried another way by vomiting and pain That pain which is from the Stone getting into the entrance of the Vreters when it returns to the Kidneys again ceaseth or is less but it increaseth when it descendeth through the narrow passages of the Vreters by stretching them and so it lasteth till it gets into the Bladder and then it ceaseth suddenly And this pain may come from Gravel that passeth slowly through the Vreters especially in the strait passages which have been so enlarged in some that I have opened that they have pissed Stones and Gravel without pain The Cause that breeds Gravel and Stones is Flegm according to the vulgar opinion which is so dry by the heat of the Kidneys that first it is Earth then a Stone But in regard Mudd or Slime is rather bred of dryed Flegm and it cannot be further hardned by any Art or Nature nor that that chalky matter which is found in the Joynts comes from Flegm as we shall shew in the Diseases of the Joynts or
and by giving cleansers to keep the Stones from growing to the Kidneys and to break them and bring them down But in curing of the pain of the Stone which sticketh in the Passages we must relax the passages break the Stone and labour to get it forth all which shall be now related as also the Diet and Exercise and Purgers and Clysters and alterers and outward remedies There must be moderation and choise in meats and Drink which must be of good juice because the stone taketh its Original from them Meat must be Temperate and very little salted very salt and dry things must be forborne for from these comes the cheif earthly Matter Also very sharp and hot things that dry and heat the Kidneys as Sawsages and Spices rather then crude glutiners and things they thought breed Flegme for these cause a thick juice which maketh Obstructions but not the earthly Matter except there be some other cause for that is layd aside in the serum in which they are washed as we shewed in the Causes Therefore Cheese which they forbid so earnestly as the great Cause of the Stone cannot do it but by its saltness and sharpness but fresh Cheese Milk and milkie meats and other fresh meats though they be glutinous cannot breed the Stone Modetate Exercise before meat is good to remove the Stone which fixeth by Idleness Therefore they void Stones more after exercise then after Sleep and the Urine made at that time is best to judg by Therefore when the Stone is little and sticks in the Kidneys Moderate Exercise is good but when great it causeth pain by moving it and in an old disease strong and violent motion of the Loyns tears the flesh from the Stone and causeth pissing of Blood and an Ulcer Neither do some allow exercise presently after meat least it be distributed before concoction and carried to the Kidneys to breed matter for the Stone but this Crudity will rather breed Obstructions and other Diseases then the Stone as we shewed Immoderate Venery dries and weakens the Reins and disposeth them for the stone and if there be a stone it stirreth it and causeth pain Therefore they who have lived long without the use of Women when they marry are subject to the Stone which they never formerly perceived being old men as we have observed often Also loosness of Body in orderly going to stool hinders the increase of Excrements And not holding of the Urin when it urgeth prevents the fixing of the Gravel If the Body be foul purge Spring and Fall and oftner to prevent not only Flegm which some think is the cause of the stone but all humors And to take away the cause of the stone use gentle things that carry the salt and wheyish Matter from the Reins and cleanse the Blood as they say such as shall be mentioned for the Cure For when the fit of the stone is we use Laxatives or Clysters to take away Excrements and Wind then Purges but not violent that they may not meddle with the cause which is rather to be looked at in the time of prevention then of cure But such as may gently move the stone drawn mixed with things that break it as we shall shew Cassia is excellent to prevent and in the fit also an ounce or more with syrup of Violets or Sugar candy or with the Decoction of Liquorish or Sebestens or convenient Waters or seeds of Winter-cherries or Gromwel or a dram of Pouder of Turpentine with Oyl of sweet Almonds to abate pain Also Turpentine two drams with the yolk of an Eg convenient Liquor Sugar or Honey or with Cassia Or with Benedicta laxativa or two drams of the pouder thereof with Sugar A loosning and cleansing Decoction Take Liquorish an ounce and half Raisons stoned an ounce Sebestens ten pair Prunes five pair Pease a pugil the four great cold seeds half an ounce Anise-seeds three drams Senna and Polypody each an ounce Violets a pugil boyl them and add Sugar syrup of Violets or Roses for two draughts It is better to add Fennel and Parsley-roots each an ounce Saxifrage and Marsh-mallow roots each half an ounce Mallows Maidenhair each an handful Dill-flowers a pugil Alkekengi-berries two drams and make the quantity of Senna an ounce and half and to add Rbubarb and Agarick A purging Wine Take Senna an ounce Carthamus-seeds a dram Agarick or Rhubarb two drams Liquorish an ounce opening Roots half an ounce Violets and Mallows each two drams Berries of Alkekengi Anise and Lovage-seed each a dram Currance four ounces add Wine three pints drink this to prevent the stone and when it begins to purge A preventing Electuary and to be taken in the fit Take Cassia two ounces and half Prunes and Sebestens each an ounce juyce of Liquorish two drams with syrup of Violets make an Electuary give an ounce with things against the stone and some scammoniate Electuary as that of Juyce of Roses Diaphaenicon Elescoph and Benedicta laxativa a dram and half Or give the gentle Electuaries with Rhubarb and Senna as Catholicon and Lenitive and the like alone or with the Decoction mentioned Or gentle Pills with things that break the stone Or these Take species Hiera and Benedicta laxativa half a dram with Turpentine make Pills Or a dram of Benedicta Or this Pouder Take Senna an ounce and half Rhubarb two drams Turbith three drams Ginger a dram Cinnamon two drams Polypody three drams Gromwel and Burdock-seeds each a dram Broom-seeds half a dram Orris a dram the four great cold seeds each a scruple make a pouder give two drams Clysters suddenly take away pain by taking out the Excrements and Wind which would increase it by pressing upon the Ureters and Reins And also by coming to the part being anodyne and if they be narcotick especially and which break the stone Then do they help in a threefold respect As this against the Stone Take the emollient herbs roots and all Pellitory Bettony Groundsel Beets or Mercury each a handful Chamomil Melilot and Dill-flowers each a pugil Liquorish two ounces red Pease Bran each a pugil Figs ten Bay-berries three drams Alkekengi-berries two drams Gourd Foenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce Fennel and Caraway seeds each a dram and half boyl them in Water and Wine or Broath strain and add Honey or sugar an ounce and half Cassia an ounce Benedicta or Hiera two drams Oyl of sweet Almonds Nuts Olives or Butter each an ounce Turpentine two drams with Salt make a Clyster If the Pain be great add two drams of Philonium Romanum Or you may use the anodyne Clysters for the Colick adding things proper for the stone Or thus Take Oyl of Chamomil Dill Lillies sweet Almonds each an ounce and half Oyl of scorpions Goose grease and sweet Butter each two ounces Turpentine dissolved with the Yolk of an Egg an ounce and half Saffron a dram with Milk make a Clyster add Opium half a scruple if there be
of the Bladder inflamed only it extendeth larger with outward redness and tumor binding of the Belly and stoppage of Urin and a Feaver which leaves behind it a sharp pricking pain with voiding of matter by the neck of the womb and hardness somtimes and Fainting and other Hysterical accidents As we shewed in other places The Causes The Diseases of the Nervous bowels in the Cavity of the Abdomen cause these pains that is of the Guts Bladder and Womb in Women The Guts fill almost the whole Belly The cause of the pain of the Belly from the Guts and they being very sensible the pain is great They are thick or thin Guts and the pain is distinguished according to the Gut That which is in the thick Guts which come from the Colon is called the Colick that in the Skin is called Iliack And because the thin Guts are most about the Navel the Iliack pain is more there But because the thick Guts are placed about them and reach from the right side to the left as high as the Hearts lodge down to the Fundament the Colick is chiefly in them The Diseases of the Guts that cause these pains are stretching or cold or flegmon Tumor or burning or disorder of the Guts from their place Too much stretching of the Guts Stretching of the Guts causeth pain of the belly especially with irritation causeth pain this comes from excrements and wind when they fill too much or stop and cannot pass Somtimes excrements and wind are in great measure carried to the Guts which fill and stretch Plenty of Excrements and wind in the Guts causeth pain and cause pain but if the passages are open it lasteth not but goes away with rumbling farting belching or purging This pain follows eating of raw Fruits Crudities and taking of a Purge before it worketh And it is worse when there is Choler or other sharp Humors as we shall shew in Diarrhaea Somtimes the excrements and wind stop in the guts and cause pain which is fixed somtimes in the part stopped Or else wandereth and is most where the Excrements and wind are most This pain is often in the thick Guts Excrements and wind stopping in the windings of the Colon cause the Colick which are full of thick Excrements and wind as in the great winding of the Colon on the left side in the begining of the straight Gut when the Excrements stay in the crooked passage and when they labor to get out the part seems to be bored or peirced and there is a Tumor to be felt and the pain decreaseth when the Excrements go back and increaseth when they return This stoppage is from Excrements which suddenly stop this crooked passage or from dryness hardness or toughness or slyminess of the same which will not let them rise up as we shewed in the causes of binding of the Belly Also in the Cells or hollows on the sides of the Colon that swel forth like a half circle Excrements retained inthe cells of the Colon cause the Colick when the Excrements are hardned and dryed therein they cause pain not only by weight and stretching but by stopping and hindering the others from coming forth Especially if they have lien long Also other hard bodies may do the same if they get in as stones of fruit or Chesnuts eaten which have caused the Colick to my knowledg with other hard meats and binding of the Belly also Also little bones taken from Hens Feet boyled in one that eat many for a Diet stuck long in the Guts of a Woman and caused the Colick and after a Clyster she voided abundance of them and was cured Also I knew one that had the Colick from eating much Cheese and voided it by Clysters and also Mites or Cheese worms by Urin. Also Fernelius saith that he hath found by dissection that the colon hath been almost closed up with flegm if it were not some other Excrescens and caused the Colick And he writeth that in a certain Embassador there was a hard body bored through in the passage of the Colon under the stomach as appeared by the Tumor which caused the Colick which after six years he voided being a foot long and then was cured This may come also from stones that breed in the Guts which the same Fernelius saith he hath seen as big as Wall-Nuts or Chesnuts and voided by stool I once saw one Lump like a stone so voided When the passage of the Excrements is stopped in the smal Guts The Cause of the Iliack passion is the stoppage of the smal Guts it causeth the Iliack pain and this is rather in the straight passage over against the right Kidney where they joyne to the thick Guts then any where else Then there is that grievous pain called the Colick vulgarly both in the right side from the stoppage and in the smal Guts about the Navel from the Excrements and there is Costiveness till Medicines take it away and it so continueth till the obstruction is quite removed And if the Excrements retained are Cholerick or Evil or Corrupt by long tarrying and grown sharp or malignant the Guts will be twiched and the pain the greater And although they somwhat provoke nature to void them by their sharpness yet because they cannot be carried to the thick Guts while the obstruction lasteth the Belly continueth bound but if the obstruction did not hinder them they being many would cause a Diarrhaea or the Disease of Choler or by sticking to the Guts a Dysentery rather then that Iliake passion with costiveness This they cannot do in the smal Guts being shut up there but they cause cruel pains till the obstruction is removed And from this choler long detained come other great accidents as Jaundies Fevers and somtimes a Convulsion from consent of the Nerves and the like as we shewed It hapens also from the total stoppage of the straight passage of the Gut or from neglect or from its stubbornness that will not yeild to Medicines that the Excrements are so gathered that they return back to the stomach and are vomited up with much detestation Hence is the Disease called Ileus or Misereremei The cause of this obstruction whether it be easie or hard to be opened may be hard tough Excrements And a natural narrowness of the passage or a continual use of hot things which dry the Guts and make them narrow there Or hard meats or hard bodies that breed there as we shewed As Fernelius sheweth that a Maid that had taken a Medicine of Quinces was stopped found in the smal Guts that they break If the smal Guts are rowled together in any other passages Rowling together or tangling of the Guts causeth Convolvulus so that the passage is stopt then the Excrements stop and the Wind and heaped together do stretch the Guts and cause the Iliack pain called Convolvulus in which when it is not far from the Duodenum they vomit their Excrements and
excellent in a Clyster to take away pain Or half a scruple of Opium half a dram of Castor and a pint of Oyl of Rue or Dill. Suppositories are good to provoke alter and abate pain Some give them to expel wind which they can hardly do The common are of Honey and Salt adding Hiera Mouse-dung Coloquintida They say that a Snakes skin rub'd upon a brass Bason and burnt is good to be put into the Fundament against the colick And to anoynt inwardly with Juyce of Lettice and Opium or with an ounce of Oyl of Dill a scruple and half Castor and a scruple of Opium put in with wool or any Suppository of Opium Purgers are useful when Clysters are refused to remove the cause and open the Belly when the cause is high but beware of strong which will increase pain they are good afore clysters to draw the Matter down as I do in colicks Purging Wines are best for the Guts when clysters are refused for they fetch the Excrements out of secret places better then clysters And I had rather use them for the Wines sake that correcteth the Purgers that they offend not the Stomach and Guts we give Examples of them in the pain of the Heart This is best for the Guts Take Grass roots and Fennel roots each six drams Roots of Calamus Elicampane Masterwort each half an ounce dryed Citron peels and wormwood each three drams Marjoram Calamints Penny-royal Groundpine Rosemary flowers red Roses Chamomil flowers each two drams Bay-berries three drams Caraway and Smallage seed each two drams Fennel seed three drams Senna two ounces Agarick half an ounce Turbith two drams these are corrected by the wine bruise and slice them for four pints of wine or more give a Draught when the Belly is bound of the Infusion or gentle Decoction thereof This wine is good against Choler or sharp Humors Take Succory roots an ounce wormwood half an ounce Violets and bugloss flowers each a pugil Aniseeds and Violet-seeds each two drams Polypody an ounce and half Senna an ounce Rhubarb two drams Spike half a dram Use it as the former Or make a Decoction or Syrup of the same The Broath of an old Cock with coleworts loosneth the Belly with a little caraway or Fennel seed against the wind Or thus Take an old Cock after sighting unbowel and stuff him with Mints Marjoram Time Savory each two handfuls Chamomil and Rosemary flowers a pugil Annis Fennel and Caraway seeds each half an ounce Galangal or Calamus three drams Polypody Mock-saffron Senna each an ounce Tarter half an ounce with Sal Gem or common Salt boyl them in water to Halfes as I shewed in Asthma drink a good draught Or give Turpentine half an ounce as in the stone with Hiera Benedicta or the like Or Cassia with Annis Fennel or Caraway seeds to loosen Also these Electuaries Catholicon Diaphaenicon Indum Majus Elescoph Hiera picra or of eight or of fifteen things Benedicta or the like with a Decoction of hot plants with spiced wine Or gentle Pills of Hiera of eight things of Spices with half a scruple of Castor or stronger if the binding be great bewaring of coloquintida or Agarick or Turbith for they twitch the Guts when given in substance Two scruples or three of Tartar clenseth flegm or cream of Tartar often washed and dryed again as I use it in the purging Decoctions of Senna Bryony roots black Hellebor or the like Or that purging Pouder for the stone A Plaster of Sea spunge seeds hulled and beaten with Wax and laid to the Belly loosneth it To prevent the Humors must be prepared before purging and to cure also They must be such as cut flegm when it is cold and tough as that with Glasses as we shewed in Heart-ach by Syrups Waters Decoctions Somtimes a Vomit prevents the Colick and is good at the first and in the Iliake Choler-Vomiting must not be stopp'd Oyl of Palma Christi drunk doth the same and takes away pain Let the Dyet be thin and sparing in the fit and before bewaring of crude windy hard or binding meat and in the fit when the cause is cold give hot cutting and discussing Spices and strong wine without water or at least Spiced water with Cinnamon and Pepper as in Cardialgia and weakness of Stomach These hot Spices are not good when there is Cholerick Excrements And wine must be given moderately because it hurts the Nerves and a Convulsion is feared nor may sower things be allowed though they temper choler because they cause pain If the Excrements are still hard give moist fat Meats and Oyls and Butter When you fear the Convolvulus give brown bread poyled and the water cast off and made into a Pudding with Hogs grease or Butter Or a Lark roasted and eaten with Cock broath Or the broath of an old Cock or of Snails Or Decoctions of Calamus grass Elder Calamints Rue Chamomil Dill Melilot or Rocket flowers in Water or Cock broath with Wine Honey or Sugar Some commend the Decoction of Southernwood others Pellitory in Wine with sugar or Wormwood with Cummin seeds or Horse-radish Wine and Sugar and Seeds and Spices as Calamus Galangal Nutmeg Cloves infused or boyled gently in Wine with a little Saffron and Sugar or those for a weak Stomach mentioned Also the juyce of Sulphurwort with an Egg. Or blood of an Eele Or water wherein a Dears Pizle was washed Or four ounces of distil'd water of Herb Trinity Dogs tongue Elder or Broom flowers or flowers of Chamomil Bean shales or of Tizil or of Cow dung or a spoonful or two of Cinnamon water A Compound water Take Ginger half a pound Cinnamon Cloves Nutmeg Zedoary Galangal each two ounces Mastick half an ounce bruise and infuse them in Wine distil them and give two or three spoonfuls against wind add two drams of Mints Fennel and Anniseed each half an ounce The Compound Aqua vitae mentioned in Heart-ach from a cold cause is good Oyls do good also by slipperyness and mollifying the Excrements as Sallet Oyl well washed if it be old and rancid six ounces to asswage pain or Oyl of sweet Almonds Nuts or Lineseed taken alone in a good quantity or with broath to which Oyls you may add Sugar and Sack the third part or two drams of Aqua vita or other distilled waters An excellent Remedy Take Oyl of sweet Almonds or Salet Oyl for Poor people four ounces of the best Sack an ounce and an half syrup of Poppy half an ounce Oyl of bitter Almonds and of Peach kernels are good against the Colick and Iliake as well against the Stone to be drunk also Oyl of Bayes with some drops of the Chymical Oyls of Cinnamon Cloves or Mace Some commend the Oyl of Turpentine or Vitriol above the rest And six drops of the Sky colour'd Oyl of chamomil flowers newly drawn which is better when made of Roman chamomil There are also good pouders mentioned in cardialgia from a cold cause or
after she had whelped and she presently had pains Pills Take Opopanax Sagapenum each a dram Castor Gentian each half a dram Spike a scruple Saffron half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort make Pills Give half a dram or a dram In great Pains give Opiats as in the Colick especially Triphera magna proper for the Womb a dram and half with Wine or Mugwort-water with Mace a scruple and Saffron half a scruple in pouder Or give Treacle and a little Castor therewith Foment make Baths for the Feet proper for the Womb with Decoctions of Herbs Seeds and Spices as chiefly for the Womb Mugwort Motherwort Bayes Balm Nip Costmary Grapes Savin great Celandine Swallow-wort roots Wall-flowers Misleto of the Oak Carot seed and the like Or bags mentioned in Pain of the Guts Anoynt also with Oyls as that of Bayes Wall flowers Orris Lillies Water-lillies Nard Elder Or use Oyntments with Oyls and Juyces of Herbs and Gums or Plaisters as that of Bay-berries Or Cataplasms of the Plants mentioned and Lillies and Onyons boyled mixing Oyls or that of Cow dung and Cummin seed with Honey and Wine or with Henbane if the pain be great Use also Injections made of Decoctions and Juyces of Plants but they reach but to the neck of the womb and therefore cannot take away pain nor Pessaries except it be by provoking the Terms But Fumes or Smoaks go into the Womb therefore they are better then Injections if they be taken into the Body from a Decoction Also sweet things of Musk and Ambergrease put into the womb refresh it And rubbing of the Feet from the Thighs downwards Cupping-glasses applied to the Hips cause diversion The Inflammations of the Womb and Bladder The cure of the inflammation of the bladder and womb if they cause pains in the lower part of the Belly by reason of the joyning together of these parts are cured alike as we shall here shew Inflammations are very dangerous in parts so exquisitely sensible especially in the womb when it is inflamed from hard travail which causeth many Women to die in Child-bearing Also if an Inflammation be in the Bladder from an Ulcer or Stone it endangers the Patient In both if there be an Ulcer or Scirrhus caused by it the case is difficult and if a Gangraene follow death is at the door The cure of both Inflammations is as of others by revelling or drawing by the matter when it first floweth to the part by repelling or driving back and by abating the Heat and presently after the Flux is ceased by consuming and discussing it And if these Inflammations produce other Diseases as is usual in the Neck of the Bladder and Womb they shall be spoken of in their places But you must do as followeth against the Inflammations First open a Vein in the Arm to revel and then in the Foot to derive in both cases except there be any hinderance as a Flux in Women in Travail in or after a mischance Use Scarification and Cupping to the Thighs and Buttocks But in the Inflammation of the Womb if the Terms flow too much scarifie and cup the parts above Give Clysters to open the Belly cool and abate pain and they are good at the first For being given in at the straight Gut they communicate their vertue to to the womb and bladder to which they are closely seated They must be such Clysters as are mentioned for the Inflammation of the Kidneys and Guts And such as abate pain being made of Milk to which when we wil cool to some purpose we add Juyce of Nightshade Violets Mallows and the like Apply outwardly Remedies before and behind first Coolers and Repellers but not strong Astringents as in other Inflammations least Hardness follow Afterwards in the increase we add Dissolvers which we use at the conclusion alone And if it tend to Suppuration we use Ripeners A cooling and somwhat repelling Cataplasm Take Roots of Marsh-mallows two ounces Plantane Shepheards-purse Teazel Vine leaves and Violet leaves two handfuls boyl and stamp them add Meal of Barley and Lentils three ounces Fleabane seed half an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces make a Cataplasm Or eight ounces of the Decoction distilled Water or Juyce of the said Plants with an ounce and half of Vinegar is a good Epithem for the same And it will be stronger with half an ounce of Bole or Sanguis Draconis An Oyntment Take Oyl of Violets an ounce and half Oyl of Roses or Myrtles each an ounce add two ounces of juyce of Nightshade or of the Plants mentioned and an ounce of Vinegar and boyl them in the Oyls or make them up with Turpentine You may add Bole also to make it more astringent A Cataplasm to be used in the increase of the disease Take Marsh-mallow roots three ounces Lilly roots an ounce Housleek Plantane Nightshade and Endive two handfuls Chamomil Melilot flowers each a pugil Figs and Dates each six pair boyl and stamp them add Bean flower and of Paenugreek and Linseed each two ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Oyl of Lillies an ounce Saffron a dram The Cerot of Galen made of Housleek is good Or this Oyntment in the progress of the Disease Take Oyl of Chamomil an ounce and half Oyl of Lillies and Rosemary and Linseed each half an ounce juyce of Housleek and Sowthistle each an ounce Mucilage of Foenugreek an ounce and half Conies grease an ounce Saffron half a dram with Wax make an Oyntment You may use Fomentations also when there is pain with the Decoction of Henbane and other Herbs mentioned An anodyne Cataplasm Take Crumbs of Bread half a pound boyl them in Milk add two or three Eggs beaten Mucilage of Linseed and Fleabane each an ounce Butter or Oyl of sweet Almonds three ounces Saffron half a dram In the declination of the Disease use digesting Plaisters as of Melilot Marsh-mallows Diachylon with Orris and the like Or this Take Bdellium Galbanum Opopanax each half an ounce Storax two drams dissolve them in juyce of Motherwort and Chamomil with a little Aqua vitae and make a Cataplasm A Bath in the Declination to take away the residue is made of Mallows Marsh-mallows Lillies Flowers of Chamomil Melilot Elder Rosemary Seeds of Line and Foenugreek And if the Womb be troubled of Marjoram Motherwort Mugwort Penny-royal Wall-flowers Agnus castus Spike or Schaenanth If it will not be digested bring it to maturation with this cataplasm Take Wheat flower four ounce Meal of Barley and Linseed each two ounces Figgs six pair boyl them in Milk and bruise them add three Yolks of Eggs and Hens grease two ounces Or use Ripeners mentioned against other Diseases Injections because they come not easily to the bladder in men and cannot be without pain to both Sexes in the use of the catheter cannot be in the time of Inflammation but when the Urin is stopped to open the passages of which we spake And because the body of the womb by reason of the
with Juyce of Thapsia or of Mulberry-roots Or with Sandarack and Grease or Earth Cimonia and Vinegar or make Plaisters of the Stone Asius with Pitch and Rosin according to Dioscorides Who commends Earth Cimolia Samia Burning Stone Ostracites Alabaster and get also the pouder of a Whetstone when it comes off by whetting Iron alone or with Honey Dioscorides commends pouder of Ivory for a Felon And Hartman commends Balsom of Sulphur with a Clout to be used before and after Suppuration and opening for the same You may also add Urin Lye and white of Eggs to the Juyces mentioned Or use a Decoction of Litharge in Vinegar with whites of Eggs added and Ceruss Or the Oyntments of Ceruss and Litharge mentioned in Erysipelas Or Diachylon magnum or Ireatum or Diapalma or Colcother or Plaister of Calcitis of Avicen to digest or Triapharmacum of Litharge by Mesue Dioscorides saith that the Root of Lyons foot is a good Amulet against Furunculus If there be a little Tumor from a Contusion The Cure of a Contusion with Inflammation or with Tumor not inflamed without a manifest or great wound for of wounds with contusion and inward Fractures we spake elsewhere it goes of it self away or by discussers and the blewness vanisheth If it be great and an Inflammation seared or come first use Repellers then Discussers not as in Phlegmon but with respect to the bruised Flesh and congealed Blood And if it will not be discussed but suppurate then use Ripeners as in Imposthumes and after cure it as an Ulcer To hinder the Flux of Blood at the first after Blood-letting and other Revulsions mentioned in Phlegmon If you will use Repellers when the flesh is bruised and hath much Blood you must not cool as in a Phlegmon and bind but apply them to the circumference of the part con used not upon itt least the blood by them by congealed and stopped Therefore apply Repellers and Discussers also such as are prescribed for an Inflamation in the progress as Oyl of Roses and Myrtles with whites of Eggs or Mucilage of Fleabane with astringent Pouders of Myrtles Roses Pomegranate flowers Snakeweed roots Tormentil Dragons blood Bole Mastick Or thus Take Lentils two ounces Myrtle seeds and Pomegranate flowers each two drams Roses Sumach and Tamarisk each a dram Acacia Mastick each two drams Frankincense Aloes Dragons blood each a dram with Oyl of Roses Turpentine and Wax make a Plaister or Liniment If there be no fear of Inflammation discuss the congealed Blood though no Tumor appears but pain only for then to be sure the matter lyeth deep And give internal Potions if you fear any part to be broken or blood to flow into the Cavities or part contused and there to congeal These internal Potions do cure alone very often in that case when there is pain and little or no tumor These shall be spoken of with vulnerary Potions but these following are the external Remedies Cataplasms and Emplasters of Wormwood Chamomil Melilot flowers or Roses boyled in Oyl and Wine adding Bean flower or Mummy Sanguis Draconis each a dram to a pound If the Head be bruised add Bettony and Head herbs but not too hot if you fear Inflammations from the pain Or use pouder of Wormwood with the white of an Eg. Or Bran boyled with pouder of wormwood and Vinegar adding Oyl of Roses or Chamomil Or Lilly Dragon roots with Honey and Goats dung Or Bean flower with Oxymel and Tar if the Nerves be bruised or Orobus meal Or Snails bruised with Foenugreek or Bean flower Or Cow dung and Oyl of Roses An excellent Cataplasm to take away blewness in contusions Take pouder of Comfrey roots boyl them in water and Honey to a pound add Juyce of Rue and Wormwood each an ounce and an half Cummin seed two drams Or Take Comfrey roots in pouder a pound Pouder of Chamomil Melilot flowers and Wormwood each an ounce Bean and Faenugreek meal each three ounces Butter and the Oyls mentioned two ounces Saffron half a dram make a Cataplasm add Juyces and Cummin seeds This dissolves the contused mortified Flesh Anoint with hot Oyls as of Chamomil Dill Lillies Elder Dane-wort or add Repellers as Oyl of Myrtles Or Take Capons grease and Turpentine dissolved in Honey and Aqua vitae Or use the Oyntment made of a Goose in Podagra mentioned with a little Cummin and Wormwood in pouder Or use Dialthaea with Oyl of Violets Earth-worms Rue Chamomil Goose grease Butter and Mummy and it is best when after anointing you sprinkle upon the part pouder of Cummin seed Or Oyntment of Alabaster Agrippa Ceruss or Oxycroceum Or a Lixivium of Vine ashes with Vinegar Salt and Honey Or the Asnes of Vines applied with Vinegar Or wash with Urin or Aqua vitae applied with a clout hot and quickly after will hinder the swelling and discuss the blood At the conclusion to dissolve the matter foment with the Decoction of Dwarf-elder roots Osmond Sanamunda wormwood Penny-royal Mousewort Chamomil Melilot Elder flowers and Roses Or wrap the part in a hot Sheeps skin new flead off or in an Ox skin or put the part into a hot Dunghil In the conclusion of the Ears Dioscorides anoints with Sulphur Honey and wine and applies Onions and Bran. If the Glanduls swell or be inflamed or the Stones you are instructed what to do in the Tumors of the Glanduls The Swelling of the Glanduls with pain The Cure of Bubo and Parotis with Inflammation which is called Panus Phyma chiefly in the Groyns and Arm-pits or behind the Ears called Parotis If it be without Inflamation with pain as in young people that are growing or when they swell from scabs and pains in the part adjacent they are not much to be regarded But we must prevent the Flux and keep them from being handled as Children do and use revellers and derivers if need be If the Tumor and pain be great or the Inflammation is begun or in being And comes from pure blood it is called Phygethlon or Panus when great if it be less and from impure blood it is called Phyma Bubo or Parotis And these either come alone or with long acute and malignant Diseases or in the French Pox or Plague with or without Inflammation And then first of all we evacuate revel and derive by Blood-letting and purging in respect of the Disease accompanying the Tumor by which means alone the body being handsomly purged Veneral Buboes are cured somtimes As for Topicks at first if there be great Inflammation by reason of the pain you must use Narcoticks and Anodynes But you must not use repellers as in other Inflammations except there be an Inflammation in the Adenes from an external cause because the venemous humor which causeth the Diseases is commonly purged forth by these Emunctuaries Therefore this motion of nature is rather to be helped and the tumors to be drawn forth with loosners to make it flow and gentle heaters that
Tumor differing from a Phlegmon The Cure of a Cancer growing by degrees without Inflammation and of a fleshy substance deeply fixed and when it is ulcerated differing from other Ulcers by its fixed lump of Flesh and the claws and turning in of the Lips hurting by its venemous quality rather then by pain and heat hath a different Cure from other Tumors and Ulcers First you must prognosticate for if it be newly begun and be little it is not to be known but by skilful Physitians and it is usually neglected And therefore you must declare that the growth thereof is hard to be hindered And if it be grown it is worse and if it be at the height it can never be cured and if it be ulcerated it is deadly except it can be taken out by the Roots Therefore at the first beginning there is hope when it is confirmed there is less or none especially if it be ulcerated therefore palliate it thus And in regard we have no certain known Antidote against the malignant quality and matter that produceth and nourisheth a Cancer we cannot resist it For if that were known we could cure it as other tumors but it will not be discussed And if we should go about to soften and suppurate it as unlearned Chirurgions do we should make it worse and sooner ulcerate Therefore let us endeavor by al means to hinder its growth while it is growing and after to keep it from an Ulcer and if it be ulcerated to keep it from corruption while it may be or let us at first while there is strength utterly root it out or after when it is desperate In the mean space all the time let us keep the Body clean and preserve the strength and oppose Symptoms To hinder its growth while there is strength in the beginning and when the Body is plethorick let blood scarifie and cup in the parts distant or near to revel and derive Against this also the Flux of Haemorrhoids and Terms is a good help We purge also from the beginning to take away the plenty of Humors and hinder the growth of the Cancer than to abate Melancholy which is thought to be the cause of the Cancer for purging cannot take away the venemous quality thereof as of others as in the French Pox wherein we purge strongly to cure it therefore in a Cancer the Body being weak it is not safe nor profitable Forms for Purges are described in other Diseases therefore we shall not here repeat them The Patient must be refreshed with very good Diet as in Hectick Feavers chiefly with Meats made of Cray-fish or Broath thereof which hath a propriety as they suppose from the Name rather then thing for it is nothing like a Cray-fish in the shape They must forbear salt and sharp meats that it may not ulcerate wine is good for them And they must have Cordials inwardly given and outwardly applied as in Hecticks Especially such as resist Venom mentioned in pestilent Feavers and such as shall be mentioned in venemous Ulcers they are better then vulnerary Potions which are ordinarily given in this case of a Cancer ulcerated And they highly commend that of Pyrola and ground Ivy boyled in Wine against Cancers in Womens Breasts As for Topicks while the Cancer is whole we labour to hinder the growth and ulceration thereby by Dryers and Astringents which have a propriety to fix and harden it This is done by many Repercussives mentioned in Erysipelas and Phlegmon made of Plants and their Juyces besides the Anodynes and unctious Medicines Polytrichum is the best Herb in this case and Herb Robert which is called divine and Cancer-healers Also Ceterach Coriander Agrimony Polygonum And Moulin Plantane Endive Nightshade Shepheards purse Comfrey Sanguisorba Dock Galiopsis Housleek Moonwort These are to be bruised and applied with Vinegar or Juyce of green Grapes Or thus Take Roots of Moulin and Docks each two ounces Polytrichum two handfuls stamp them with Vinegar add pouder of burnt Cray-fish half an ounce make a Cataplasm Another Take Meal of Lentils or Pease a pugil Kernels of rotten Nuts or parched bruised six boyl them in Vinegar The Flesh of Sea-crabs which are more like a Cancer or Cray-fish or Snails or Froggs is good boyled and applied You may apply the Juyces of the Herbs mentioned with Vinegar Or thus Take Juyce of Plantane Nightshade Endive Housleek and of the rest two ounces Rose-vinegar an ounce Oyl of Roses or Myrtles two ounces Turpentine half an ounce stir them in a leaden Mortar add Pomegranate and Citron peels each a dram Bole two drams burnt and washt Lead a dram Camphire half a dram anoint often therewith A Plate of Lead is good to keep down a Cancer In an ulcerated Cancer we dry and astringe more The Cure of a Cancer ulcerated to abate the stink and putrefaction and constant gleeting of blood which bring death And if any part be corrupt we must endeavor to take it off with Medicines and to root out the Cancer by manual Operation The Plants mentioned are good to dry and now in an Ulcer add Nettles Rue St. Johns-wort Danewort Scabious Knotgrass bruised Or use the Juyces or Pouders with Oyl of Roses Pouders also or Ashes of Cray-fish or Crabs Snails Froggs Weezles brains Mans dung dryed in an Oven and other Dryers as Stones of Myrobalans or Olives or Shoo-soles or of the Herbs mentioned or of old Willow Psithia Pomegranate flowers Seeds of Irion Galiopsis pouder of Harts horn also of Lead burnt and washt of Ceruss crude Antimony Tutty Pompholix Litharge Also of Bole Milstone Gypsum burnt and the rubbing of Whetstones These may be mixed with Juyces or stampt Herbs and applied Or apply stampt Raisons and Rue and Coleworts boyled in Milk with Sugar to drive away the stink or lay on Bay leaves A good Oyntment Take Juyce of Moulin Herb Robert or Polytrichum an ounce Honey three ounces pouder of burnt Stones of Myrobalans two drams Ashes of burnt Crabs a dram make an Oyntment This is better Take Juyce of Plantane Shepherds purse Agrimony and Vinegar five ounces Oyl of Roses or Myrtles four ounces Turpentine an ounce stir them in a leaden Mortar add Litharge half an ounce Lead burnt and washt Bloodstone each two drams crude Antimony a dram Coral burnt and washt two scraples â—earl a scruple Camphire a scruple Ashes of rabs a dram make an Oyntment to which you may add the pouders above mentioned especially that of Mans dung Also use Oyl of Eggs stirred in a leaden Mortar Or Diapompholygos or plaisters of Lead to dry a cancer ulcerated Keep it clean washt with Vinegar and Juyces of Herbs or with stronge Lye of Fig-tree ashes or Willow or Juniper or with Urin They will be stronger if you add Vitriol The distilled Water of Mans dung and Coriander is highly commended This following pouder preserved an old Man many years in a Cancer from putrefaction stink and bleeding it was all over his Cheek
Or thus Take Letharge two drams Sulphur two drams Niter or sal Gem a dram Verdigreese half a dram with Honey make an oyntment Or make an oyntment of Allum and Wine Lees. Or use Ink to dry because of the Allum Vitriol and Galls Or Pompholygos white oyntment of Rhasis with dryers as Allum Niter Or wild Goats dung as Dioscorides prescribes or Cow dung with Wine and Vinegar Or pouder of the heads of salt-fish as Herrings or wooll and Leather and pine tree bark burnt to a pouder dry well when they are sprinkled upon a Herpes or Teter or mixed with oyl Or Take two drams of those burnt pouders roots of round Birthwort Pomegranate flowers Myrrh each a dram Olibanum a dram and an half sprinckle it upon the Teter first rubbing it and anoynting with Oyl of Ash tree Dioscorides commends the pouder of Snayl shells A good somentation for both sorts of Herpes or Teter is a distil'd water of Dock roots sliced and steep'd in Vinegar a day or two or of Citron peels with Allum Or thus Take of plants mentioned three handfuls with myrtle leaves or Olive Dock roots or Birthwort each an ounce Pomegranate peels and Galls each six drams Lupine seeds an ounce myrtle seeds half an ounce Acacia Hypocistis each six drams boyl them in Forge water with a little sharp wine to wash the Herpes Esthiomenus add Frankincense and myrrh to cleanse more half an ounce Or wash with Lye and old Wine wherein the things mentioned have been boyled Or with Vitriol dissolved in Vinegar and Water Or Take Sublimate a dram and an half Lytharge two drams Borax half a dram Camphire a scruple boyl them in two ounces of proper water and wash the Teter or we stop the eating thereof with things that shall be mentioned in corroding Ulcers Or Take Dock roots three drams great Celandine a handful Allum Sulphur each an ounce Salt a pugil with Wine and Vinegar boyl them and let the vapor be received so that it touch the Tetter Or apply plates of Lead after the Tetter is anoynted and steep them first in Vinegar Salt or Allum water In the Tetter called Esthiomenus it is good to rub it til it bleed And then the clensers appled will work the better Or burn of the corrupt flesh with an actual or potential Cautery as in Carbuncles The Scab is of many sorts as the moist Scab The Cure of the common Scab Itch Scald Terminthus Epinyctis Impetigo Prurigo Psora and Greek Leprosie which is either ordinary or feirce spreading as Tinea or Scald Terminthus Epinyctis or the dry Scab as the Itch called Prurigo Impetigo or Psora or Greek Leprosie we shall speak of the Cure of all together in the Cure of the Itch. The Phlyctaenae are blisters when the scarf Skin is seperated from the true and are cured as the corrosions of the Skin Of moist Scabs the vulgar is most gentle and easie to be cured but when it often returns it is stubborn and if not cured will turn to a worse sort The next called Fera is worse but curable and if neglected it turns to a worse sort That which is worst is called Manans or spreading it is difficult to be cured and is insectious in Children and deformeth the Hair by eating it off The Terminthus and Epinytis are easily cured Among the dry Itches Prurigo is easiest to be cured and Impetigo more hard and Psora is most difficult and they are turned from one into another if neglected and easily return in Spring and Fall And at length they turn to the Greek Leprosie which is incurable though it cease it will return with an ugly crust consuming the patient and itching And it is taken for the Elephantiasis by them that cannot distinguish Also those may be cured alike as for general helps Evacuations and Alterers because they come from Cholerick salt sharp and malignant humors as in the Causes they must be purged and let blood and the alterers must be greater or less according to the disease with respect to the constitution and the Excrements abounding as followeth In the moist Itch you must let blood if Age or other things forbid not because the Anticedent cause is salt serum which is cholerick and sharp in the blood and this will partly come forth by bleeding Which must be rather done when there is Plethory or fulness which causeth pustles The Vein opened must be for general or particular Evacuation of that Member which is most infected In the dry Itch though there be not such moist pustles yet because the blood is very unclean you must bleed also especially if the skin be red as in Prurigo which shews heat This must be done before purging often and every month you must Cup and Scarifie or apply Horsleeches And the Terms and Haemorrhoids must be provoked in them that are used to them as we shewed in the want of them In all kinds of moist or dry Itches you must purge often when the body is foul and in Psora which is worst if every day or every other day for a long time especially Spring and Fall And this must be by fit Medicines that purge cholerick salt and sharp humors from the Guts and Meseraicks and so from the Mass of blood adding alwaies things that resist sharpness of humors And choosing such as inflame not the body too much These purges are to be found in other diseases of choller and melancholly stronger or weaker Especially in intermitting feavers and continual putrid As well such as are prescribed before bleeding to cleanse the Excrements in the belly as strong purges and the preparatives to be taken before them As that Apozem mentioned in a Synoch with Erysipelas and the purges prescribed against Melancholly or these Let them drink whey morning and evening especially of Goats Milk so much as may purge this is pleasant for Children Or dissolve some pleasant things therein as Manna or syrup of Roses or Violets or of Peach flowers with a little Diagredium if need be Or give some other purging syrup therein that may be taken Or give of Roses Fumitory Hops and of Bugloss Docks and Apples Or make a little at a time because it will soon decay as of whey or old Cock broath two pints with Mercury Beets Fumitory Hops Elder flowers or Danewort buds Senna Polypody Epithymum Damask Roses with a little Sugar or Honey Or give usual syrups to purge unclean blood as the gentle syrup of Roses Violets Peach flowers made of their infusions or juyces with Sugar or Honey Juyce of Fumitory or Hops or Mercury or Rhamnus solutive or the juyce of its berries Thus Take the grains or seeds of the drying thorn called Merla through ripe bruise them and keep them in an Earthen vessel eight daies warm take a pint of the juyce and as much fine Sugar mak a syrup with Cinnamon and Ginger of each six drams Cloves two drams This syrup is not good only for Scabby people but
Elephantiasis continue increase and are desperate as the Disease is For Cure of all these you must thus proceed first with general helps as Evacuations when the body is full or foul by bleeding or purging then you must look at the Cause whether it be a salt cholerick or waterish humor and give things particular for that as particular Purges often in stubborn Ulcers as in the Scab and other Diseases from evil juyce sweating is good to through out the humors and cures the French pox and the Ulcers also And a spare Diet as shal be shewed in the Pox. If a Vein dilated called Varix do nourish an Ulcer it must be opened to bleed or the Vein cut off which is more necessary as we shal shew In all sorts of Ulcers keep a good Diet and the body clean that it may cure the better Topicks are to be used to remove impediments for Nature alone must cure as in other excoriations and wounds these Impediments are either moisture or filthy humors these removed Nature nourisheth the part and heals it up some medicines that remove Impediments are Clensers or Driers up of humors more or less the gentle Driers breed flesh the strongest make an Escar we shal speak first of them that breed flesh next of them that make the skin grow Medicines that breed flesh are Clensers and Driers that purge the matter that fouls the Ulcers or eats it away The next are dryers which suck up the moysture which remains in Ulcers after they are cleansed these put it into a condition fit to be cured and breed flesh these are called breeders of flesh as if they did it as we shewed in wounds for the Impediments removed Nature makes flesh of the same Nourishment which fils up the Ulcer Others are stronger dryers which destroy the evil Humors that corrupt the Ulcers and make them spread these are seldome used alone but with clensers that also kill Wormes if there be any so that we shal not mention a private Cure for Wormes To these Cleansers we add Dryers which are so moderate that they take away that Gleeting which remains in Ulcers after they are cleansed and make it fit to produce new flesh these are called incarnatives as if they did of their own force breed it when Nature did it by being freed from the Impediment of Moysture and making a Glew of the Nourishment of the part which is hurt in a Wound and flesh in a hollow Ulcer that grows to the sound part and so fills it up by degrees and unites that which was divided These Incarnatives must not dry so much as to dry up the Nourishment with the moysture that is the Impediment as when they are to consume a foul Humor or make a Scarr nor must they clense nor bind as in wounds for Ulcers must be filled up with flesh and not united as wounds but of some that cleanse not much nor bind but dry Incarnatives may be compounded and one and the same Medicine may cleanse and heal more or less as we shall shew Unguents or plaisters which are applyed or put into Ulcers cleanse or dry strongly or moderately and are as followeth The oyntment of the five Meals is the chief cleanser for Ulcers that is of Lupines Orobus Beans Wheat Barley with Honey or Sugar and Vinegar if you will clense more Or this of Smallage Take Juice of Smallage one part Honey of Roses two or three parts with Turpentine dissolved in the Yolks of Eggs make an Oyntment Or boyl the Juice with Honey and Beanflower to an Oyntment Of Milky Juyces as of Endive Succory Dandelion Sowthistle with Juice of Smallage Beets Plantane Roses Pellitory Avens you may also make cleansing Oyntments Or this of bitter Juyces as Horehound Wormwood Centaury or sharp as Arsmart Celandiue Orris Onyons or Squills with as much Honey of Squills Turpentine and Meal To these three you may add Myrrh and Frankincense to cleanse more and when it begins to be clean Sarcoocol or when you will cleanse more Allum or Calcanthum or burnt Virriol Or of the Juyces mentioned you may make Oyntments with Oyl as much with Honey and Vinegar boyling them with other Clensers til the Juices are consumed and adding Pouder of Gentian Birthwort Myrrh Aloes with Beasts Gall and Honey is a great Clenser in corrupt Ulcers and lowsie You may make clensing Oyntments of Plants thus Take Radishes Onyons each an ounce and an half Gentian and the green bark of Dwarf-Elder each an ounce bark of Capars and Hermodacts each half an ounce Wormwood Horehound Celandine Smallage each a handful scape and bruise them boyl them in white Wine then bruise them again and boyl them in a pound of Butter or Oyl with the fourth part Honey to an Oyntment Or Take green Orris roots Colewort leaves and Rue bruise them add Faemigreek meal Salt and Honey and Vinegar Or boyl Colewort leaves with Bean flowrs for Ulcers in the Breasts or apply the roots of Asclepias or Swallow-wort or Clensers bruised Or Herb Robert roots and all in pouder boyled in Wine and Oyl to a Cataplasm is good in watery Ulcers or Rose-cake or Hors-dung Of the Astringent pouders following and Honey you make Oyntments with Vinegar and Oyl or wax and Oyl of Roses Or when you wil clense more Take roots of Orris Briony Sowbread Dragons and use them as before Or use Oyntment of Agrippa made of Briony wild Cowcumbers Squill Orris Fern Dwarf-Elder Or this Take the pouder of the roots mentioned half an ounce meal of Lupins Frankincnese Aloes Myrrh each a dram and an half Oyl omphacine two drams Honey of Squils an ounce Oyl of Mastich an ounce and an half Oyl of Turpentine half an ounce with Wax make an Oyntment add to make it stronger Tartar and Verdigreese Or thus Take Briony roots three drams Cuckowpint or Dragon roots a dram and an half Galls Savine or Pine bark burnt a dram Verdigrease half a dram with Honey make an Oyntment Or this green plaster Take Verdigreese three drams Myrrh Frankincense each half an ounce Wax Rosin Turpentine each four drams make a Plaster or with Oyl or Suet an Oyntment Or boyl Tartar with Honey Or Verdigrease with Honey and Vinegar or use Aegyptiacum which is best in filthy Ulcers Or Oyl of Antimony to clense which because it cures wounds almost incurable is called the Wound-oyl it is thus made Take Aqua vitae rectified three or four ounces Glass of Antimony Mastich Frankincense Aloes Myrrh each an ounce pouder them and let them stand in a warm place in a close vessel til they putrifie them distill them by an Alembick increasing the fire by degrees first you wil have a stinking spirit then a sweet keep them close stopt Or mix burnt Sal Armoniack with Tartar Verdigreese and Honey There are Oyntments called Incarnatives which heal Ulcers when they are clensed Sarcocol and Honey is the chief to produce flesh by drying Or you may make five sorts of Oyntments
Take Litharge red Lead earths Rossin Camphire Oyls and Greases with Poplar oyntments wine of Pomegranates Decoction of Myrtles Barley Plantane Nightshade wood-lime In Gun-shot this Plaster is good at the first Take Bole two ounces Sanguis Draconis an ounce Ceruse or Litharge halfe an ounce Barley meal an ounce and half pouder of Earthwormes half an ounce especially if the Nerves be hurt dried Centaury two drams Sewet dissolved in oyl of Roses an ounce with Turpentins make a plaster you may add white Diachylon to it Or this Take Juyce of Plantane Nightshade Housleek tach an ounce Vinegar half an ounce Oyl of Violets Roses water-Lillies and Turpentine each an ounce boyl them till the Juices be consumed add the Pouders of the Plaster afore mentioned Against a Prick with a Thorn Take Juyce of Plantane Shepherds-purse Nightshade Oyl of Roses each four ounces boyl them till the Juices be consumed add Litharge Ceruse Cadmia of both sorts each half an ounce Lead burnt and washed Scales of Brass each two drams with Turpentine six ounces and an half In an Inflammation of the Puncture of a Nerve use this Plaster Take Barley and Lentil Meal each two ounces Bean or Lupine or Orobus flower each an ounce boyl them in wine Vinegar and Honey or Oxymel to a plaster Then add things against pain and proper for a Punctures as was there shewed For Ulcers of the Leggs with Erysipelas use Unguent of Roses Turpentine and yolks of Eggs with Oyntment of Line Against Pain in Ulcers or Wounds from Inflammation or Medicines you must use Anodynes round about as in Inflammations as that of Cow Dung and Narcoticks if need be In the Puncture of a Nerve wee shewed what was to be done against pain from thence If there be fear from the Puncture of a Nerve of a Convulsion as often there is it is good to prevent Death to cut in the place pricked or a little above If a wound or Ulcer be Oedematous we must labour to drye up the Moisture about them which causeth tumor The Cure of Oedematous Ulcers with the strongest driers and then apply about things against the Oedema A Gangreen is the Beginning of the Corruption of a Member The Cure of a Gangreen and is hardly cured Sphacelus is a perfect mortification so that the part is dead and must be cutt of least it insect the quick and cause death While there is any hope and there is Pain and Sense scarrifie quickly with many and deep Scarrifications Or use Horsleeches or apply them after Scarification Let the part scarified be fomented with hot water thrice a day Or with strong lye of Barbers of Decoction of Lupines or Lye of Fig-tree ashes Or with Sea or other Salt water The Chyrurgeons use suddain Fomentations before or after Scarification as follows Take roots of Briony Raddish each two ounces Leavs of Galeopsis and ground Ivy each a handful Juniper topps a pugil boyl them in Wine add Vinegar for a Fomentation with Syrups In a Gangreen in the Privities foment with Decoction of Mugwort Wormwood Violets Strawberries Althaea in Wine it hath made the Corrupt Part fall from the Sound Or Take ground Ivy and Juniper topps boyled in Milk it is a rare experiment Dioscorides useth boyled Coleworts with Honey or Lettice beaten with Meal of Darnel Old Wallnutts or the green Rinds are also good Or Galeopsis and Briony roots and all Or Agrymony and Roses beaten with Vinegar of Raddishes and Salt Or flower of Orobus Darnell Pease Barley with Honey and Salt Or this Cataplasine Take Meal of Lupines Lentils Beans six ounces Pomegranate peels two drams dryed Roses a dram Bole Myrrh each half an ounce Salt an ounce Juyce of VVormwood or Nettles ground Ivy or Pomegranates three ounces Vinegar an ounce with Honey and Turpentine and three Yolks of Eggs and Oyl of Nutts or Roses that it dry not to soon Or add to the residence of the Decoction for a Fomentation Old Wallnutts kernells an ounce and half Meal of Orobus and Pease each two ounces Honey an ounce and half Salt half an ounce make a Pultis Unctious things as Oyls and Oyntments are not so good for they cause putrefaction except it be a little to digest and keep the Pultis moist An experienced Plaster is made of Savin pouder with Leaven oyl of Lineseed Nuts or Yolks of Eggs or of Tartar After washing lay on Aegyptiacum with Allum Use Causticks as Milk of spurge if putrefaction continue Or mix Arsenick with the Pouder of Mans Bones and Mandrake roots are added to prevent Pain I suppose others add roots of five leaved Grasse After the foul flesh is gone from the sound cure it as a wound You may use strong cleansers and that take of flesh mentioned in excrescent Ulcers When the Bones are corroded Careous or black The Cure of Caries or foulness of Bones there is Cares or rottenness of them in evil deep and hollow Ulcers that reach to the Bones and defile them and it hinders cure of the Ulcer and hurts the member if it continue To take it away at first you must thrust medicines to the bottom of the Ulcer opening it first if it be strait by a dry tent which when it is moistened from the wound will swel and dilate it as with a Gentian root which also clenseth or with a spunge bound hard first take a Suppository or the like or open it by cutting This done put in Clensing medicines and Cathereticks or Eaters that wil take away corruption from bones as wel as corrupt flesh The chief Scaler of a Bone is Oyl of Vitriol and Antimony Aqua fortis and Aqua Regia all these I have used with happy success in foul bones and venemous Ulcers with foulness of bones and in the French Pox. But if this cannot be taken off as when there is roughness upon the bone we lay the bone bare and make it even with a sharp Instrument for that purpose or we cut off that which is above til the bone be smooth and clean again Somtimes we burn the foul bone with actual Cauterys and then the burnt part fall off from the sound of it self This is done in divers parts where the bone is foul and also in the end of the Fingers where the bones use suddenly to be corrupted by Paronychia or Fellon it must be done presently that the foul joynt being taken away the next may be preserved This done and the Bone made clean you may cure the Ulcer with its proper Remedies as the nature thereof requireth FINIS THE THIRD TOME IN TWO BOOKS Which are the FOURTH and FIFTH OF THE Whole Work A TREATISE OF HUMANE INFIRMITIES THE FIRST BOOK Containing the Infirmities or Diseases of the Body THe Infirmities of the Body are called Organical Symptomatical or such as cause Diseases and many of them are to be seen and felt Some destroy the shape and fashion of the Body Others change the colour thereof and are known
defect when one or two teeth are wanting which causeth Deformity if from before may be supplied with artificiall teeth made of bone which I have known some constantly to wear and they have not been discoverable from true The want of Hair being a Disease in number deficient The Cure of Nayls fallen off when the Roots are gone cannot be repaired because it is impossible to restore any part of the Body being quite taken away Also when the Pores of the Hairs grow together that defect cannot be cured Wherefore in a true Baldness and Scar in the Skin or when the Pores any waies unite or in an Alopecia when the hairs are gone at that Root to labour to restore them is to wash a black More white But in the want of hair when they are so fallen that none appear The Cure of the Beard fallen off yet if the Roots and Seeds remain then they may be restored by Art or grow again of themselves But if this defect be in magnitude wanting as we said when the hair grows no more as in Eunuchs or slowly the Pores being little as in some this cannot be cured by Art in others it is difficult to be attempted though divers things are used yet the success is slow and not before Nature attempts it of her own accord In the Cure of these defects a prognostick being alwaies presupposed leaving that which is desparate we must begin the Cure of the rest at the cause which is first to be removed whether externall or internall if it come from evill Excrements which must be evacuated by purging or by the habit of the Body then we must proceed to topicall Medicines to the part fit for the Generation of hair If it come from evill Juyce the cause must be purged away and that which is in the Blood must be clensed and the evill Concoctions amended and good Blood be produced for nourishing the wholl Body and also for the Hair which purges if they be often and strong by drawing from the Habit of the body the cause that corrupts the hair and the malignant quality in the French Pox will cure both the falling of Hair and the Disease that causeth it Purges are to be administred according to the Excrements that abound and because these sharp and salt Humors are carried with blood and water by the Veins to the Pores of the Skin where they destroy the Roots of the hair let the Purge be proper for these Humors such as is given against Scabs Itch and the ring Worms in treating whereof we have shewed divers Forms as when an evill quality in the French Disease hurteth the hair you must use the same Purge which is good against that Evacuation by the Habit of the body doth more directly throw off that filth which lyeth at the Roots of the hair and sweating or breathing by insensible transpiration doth it but first purge then sweat principally in the falling of Hair in the Poâ— which comes from Venom you must cure it by the habit of the Body and so you will cure the Pox also as we shall shew hereafter where we shall prescribe divers Sudorificks by things taken in we can hardly produce Hair although it may be done by some things which throw the Excrements to the Skin and this is the judgement of those who think the hair proceeds from Excrements and therefore they prescribe such things which may effect that As Figs which by a proper Faculty do send Excrements to the Skin they conclude them so from the vulgar Opinion that Figs beget Lice which they say come from filth in the Skin caused by Excrements driven thither by the Figs when the filth that produceth Lice comes rather from externall things cleaving to the Skin The cause of this opinion was because the seeds of Figs in shape and multitude resemble Lice and they also crack in the teeth and between the Nayls others for the driving of Excrements to the Skin to produce hairs give Treacle by reason of the troches of Vipers which is in it supposing that Vipers flesh taken into the body can cast off as Vipers do their Skins and throw the Excrements to the skin for producing of hair It is certain that Treacle by causing sweat doth rather throw out the Excrements that are about the Skin than bring them thither And if Vipers flesh can throw off a skin it will rather drive Excrements from the Body then lodg them there as we have showed in the Cure of Elephantiasis Lastly since it is certain as we have shewed at large that Hair is not nourished of Excrements or Vapors unknown much less are they made of the same but they rather fall away by Excrements when they come to the Roots and they as other cartilaginous Bodies and Nayls are nourished from the Blood with a Juyce proper for them we cannot perswade our selves that Excrements being driven to the Skin can produce Hair but contrarywise you may produce Hair better by removing of Excrements and throwing them out of the Body The chief end in curing fallen hair by the French Disease is to expel that Venom outwardly by sweat and so you must do if you will cure any kind of Baldness which comes by congestion of Excrements The hair of the Head Beard Eye-brows is to be restored by things outwardly applied to the part such which increase hair by an occult quality as are many things fetcht from living Creatures and known by Experience or such as be drying and astringent as most are which are used for this purpose and the reason is because they dry and make thicker the Juyce that is brought to the Roots of the Hair which makes it a more fit Nourishment for them Or by such as raise Blisters by drawing the juyce to the Superficies and apply to the Roots of the hair to nourish the same of which either single or mixed you may make Medicines for growing of hair In the beginning of hairs to fall to prevent it and preserve what remains if it be far gone we must mix very strong astringents with the other that the Pores may be closed And we add stronger dryers and digesters to these when evill Humors lie about the Roots to destroy the Hairs some teach that the hair may be preserved from falling in a venemous Disease as the French Pox by using Lenitives as Milk which tempereth the Venenosity All these Medicines of what kind soever whether they bring hair again or produce and preserve it are applyed divers waies or they are used as washes and Fomentations many made of Plants are diversly applied as the Root of Water lilly Leaves of Beets and Coleworts with Salt the Daffodill Root with Vinegar the Dogs tongue leaves with Swins Grease or the like and when you will bring Nourishment to the Hair mix Onions Garlick Squills and Raddishes or the Root or Leaves of Crowfoot or Watercresses or wild Mustard and the like The Pouders of divers Plants are mixed
suck The Cure of breasts consumed women use to apply an Acorn cup or half a Nut shell filled with Rosin of the Larix tree to the place where the Niple is wanting and let it stay on some time The Gums being naked as it were without a thick Skin The Cure of Gums consumed being worn away may be restored This is done first by taking away any thing that is rotten about them then rubbing them often with Vinegar of Squils or Oyl and Honey which is stronger with the pouder of Dragon roots and Honey or with Aegyptiacum and Wine and the like clensers and resisters of putrifaction mentioned in the Ulcers of the Mouth Afterwards let them often rub the Gums with drying things that breed flesh and glew the same to the Teeth as with this Pouder Take of Orris Root one dram of the Meale of Oroby two drams of Frankincense or mastich one dram of Sarcocol half a dram of burnt Allum one scruple of Angelica Roots for to give a Sent or Cipress roots as Dioscorides will have or Cloves or of Mosch or Ambergreese a little so make a Pouder Birthwort roots may well be added but they are bitter and Mirrhe but it is unpleasant therefore instead thereof Take Benzoin or Storax Sanguis Draconis is good to be mixed therewith and also Blood stone The ashes of Pennyroyal are good according to Dioscorides burnt Harts horn or Ivory and things aforesaid which six Teeth especially when they are loose by reason of the consuming of the Gums there are also things to rub the teeth mentioned in the Rottenness of teeth that are good Calcine Frankincense and Mastich and mix them with Honey a little pouder of Coral with Salt and Allum and rub therewith The Troches made of Orobus and Honey are used The Ponders may be made up with Honey or Oxymel of Squills into Troches and so dryed and kept for use The straigtness of Orifices as of the Womb and Praepuce or Foreskin if it be such The Cure of straight Orifices as doth not only bring Deformity but hinder Action is to be dilated by incision This may be done safely in a Phimosis by cutting off the Foreskin which is usuall in Circumcision When the womb is too narrow a division made by Infection hath been often practised The Cure of Phimosis though it be more painfull and difficult then the other Therefore first you must begin with the safer way of practise by somenting the part with things that loosen moisten and mollifie as Fomentations and Baths Oyntments or Pessaries such as are prescribed in the hardness of the womb which while you use you must put in a Tent somwhat large made of a dry Gentian root or a Sponge tyed close together that as it swells it may enlarge the Orifice by often use That Leanness which is not by a Consumption but Naturall The Cure of the Leanness of the Body and its parts is seldom altered Otherwise flesh or fat may be caused by things that increase blood and nourishing Juyce as good Diet and rest Natural Evacuations Motions of Body and Mind these will bring a better Habit to the Body When Breasts are lank and hang down they are unseemly The Cure of lank and loose Breasts and women that love to be neate desire their Cure this is done by applying things that make them harder and firmer such astringent and drying things which we said would hinder the growth of Breasts When parts are disproportioned and cause Deformity The Cure of the uncomely Figure of parts besides what is from number or magnitude of which we have spoken as a Head Nose or Mouth imshapen if they be so Naturally they are incurable as also the Teeth and Nayls If the Hair be too curling and much we cut it off The Cure of over curling Hair if little pluck it out but this being not very unseemly is not to be tampered with except it be troublesome as when in the Eye-brows and from thence they bend into the Eyes These hairs are to be rectified by often touching them with the slime of a Snaile or with Glew They say they will grow again when pulled out if the Pores be anointed with Oyl in which a Lizard hath been boiled or with Frogs blood especially if it be mixed with the pouder of Laurel root or the ashes of Organ Some desire their Hair may curle Things that cause Hair to curle and this is done by the use of strong astringents such as were mentioned among those which black the hair as the Decoction of Galls Pomegranate peels Cypress Nuts Pomegranate flowers and the like made into a Lixinium to which they ad things that cause curling as Daffodill roots and Dwarfe Elder roots and Leaves with the seed of Henbane Also Oyntments made of the same are used as Take of Oyl of Myrtles and Mastich two ounces Oyl of Henbane half an ounce Juyce of Myrtles and Vinegar each one ounce boyl them then add the ashes of Chestnuts Hedghog and Pine nuts each half a dram the shavings of Pams horns Gum Arabick and Draganth each one dram Myrrh half a dram Honey at much as will make an Oyntment They say Mucilages boyled in Water or Lye will do the same if made of Marsh-mallows roots Linseed Foenugreek and Fleabane seed and Gum Arabick this they beleeve will so soften the hair that they will be fitter to curle or the Pores being loosned thereby and made larger the hairs will come forth more crooked Others add Fern-roots Beets and Lythargy and when the hairs are dry anoint with Oyl of Myrtles Some anoint with the Roots of Dwarf Elder mixed with Oyl Women do more certainly with crisping Irons and when they go to Bed they twist them and with great pains put them under their Head geare and in the morning being combed out they continue curled the whol day If there be a Division of any part which should be united whether after the Cure of some wound The Cure of the separation of parts which should be united at of the hare Lip or Naturall if it be in a fleshy part it may be united as that of the upper Lip which Children are born with called a hare Lip in Dutch Hasenschart it will be united if it be cut on both sides and after the Lips be joyned together with Needles wrap about with Silk or with sowing and a Plaister laid over till it be cured this you may try in any other part where there is Deformity or Hindrance and in fleshy parts it will be done but scarsely in other parts Also these may be artificially united if you first take of the skin upon each side and apply sticking Plaisters to the sides with double or treble Clouts and Buttons with which and good Ligature the parts divided will be drawn together and united If the Gums be separated from the Teeth by biting hard things The Cure of Gums separated from the Teeth
you must chew upon the sound side if from gravel upon the Teeth called Tophi they must first be taken off otherwise flesh will not grow but being taken off the flesh will grow at the Roots of the teeth and so be united unto them Therefore the Remedies are such as clense of which we spoke in the Foulness of teeth and of things that breed flesh in the consumption of the Gums for it is done by clensing breeding flesh and drying which causeth Glutination Mouth waters which dry and astring are good as Take of Comfrey roots five leaved Grass Orris each one ounce of Birthwort and Alheal each half an ounce of Angelica and Cypress roots each two drams of Burnet Vervain St. Johns-wort Pennyroyall each one handfull of red Roses one pugil Pomegranate flowers two drams yellow Myrobalans three drams Oroby seeds two drams Mastich and Frankincense each one ounce boyl them in Wine and Honey adding a little Vinegar of Squills and Cinnamon let him wash his Mouth often therewith you may also add a little Allum When teeth are broken or divided or hollow and rotten The Cure of broken hollow and rotten Teeth they cannot be repaired and therefore if they offend must be pulled out but if they be usefull in regard the next Teeth are gone you may keep them provided that you prevent farther Corruption This is done by washing the Mouth often with the Decoction of Capar leaves the leaved Grass Birthwort Cypress Leaves of Mints Galls Nigella seeds Bay berries made in Wine and Vinegar or with Smiths water The Decoction of Spurge root in Vinegar is the best and if Allum be added it is the stronger Or let him wash his Mouth with Sage or Rosemary Water mixed with Salt and Wine Or with Vinegar of Squills if it be not strong enough Rub the corrupt Teeth with the things mentioned for clensing in that Chapter which by drying take away Corruption or this Pouder Take of Cuttle-bone two drams burnt Coral and Harts horn each one dram Mastich and Allum each half a dram make a Pouder Or with the ashes of Organ Rosemary and Pellitory of the wall mixed with Honey and Salt We put into a hollow Tooth the pouder of Galls roots of Sulphur-wort Staphisager Penny-royall and sometimes Borax To take away Teeth when unserviceable the Cyhrurgions use Paces and the like Instruments among which that like a Goats hoof is best some are so active that the standers by think they do it without Labour and they are wondered at and go about deceiving the people with expectation of far greater things which they profess some cannot be drawn out as easie as those that are loose especially when they are broken or rotten This may be done by Burning for so the Roots become dry or the Teeth broken so that they may easily be taken out And this is done by an actuall Cautery or potential or Aqua fortis or Milk of Spurge Sory as in the pain of the Teeth is mentioned Dioscorides saith that the Root of Ranunculus or Juyce of Sowbread doth the same And other things though they are not caustick as the Root of the black Chamaeleon the Juyce of Celandine the Lyes of Oyl the Liquor of that comes out of the Cedar and the prickie of a Forkefiish They suppose that a Tooth will fall out if you put Gum of Ivy into it the fat of a green Frog or of a Cookow or with the blood of a Lizard If you deffend the other teeth with Leaven or wax and apply to the nollow Tooth the pouder of the root of a Mulbery tree which hath been first infused in Vinegar it will full out Also the Root and Leaves of black Henbane laid hot to the Teeth Also wild Coloquintida infused in Vinegar then poudered and boyled with Honey or Take the grease of Froggs Juyce of Celandine and Aqua vitae in equall parts and apply it Or the Juyce of Celandine and Mugwort with Vinegar The Colewort worm applyed doth the same and the water of Sal Ammoniack The teeth will fall out if rubbed with the pouder of Nettle seed and Galbanum equall portions Though the ruggedness and clefts of the Nayls cannot be made even and smooth The Roughness and clefts of the Nayls yet as they grow they may vanish which that it may be better done and the like not succeed first use gentle means As Pitch Wax Rosin melted and applyed also Mastick Colophony and Turpentine dissolved adding sometimes Sulphur or Brimstone Also Raisons by themselves or with Opoponax Dioscorides commends Dock roots in Vinegar and the lesser Celandine and Cypress Also Watercresses and Linseed are approved To which add Cummin Costus roots with Honey and the Pulp of Raisons or Grease sometimes Allum and Salt The stronger Medicines are the Roots of Crowfoot Arsnick with Bird-lime or Gum Serapine or Wax or Sue or Oyl Or Cantharides with Oyl of Roses or the like If the hair be not all cleft it is usually neglected but to cure The cleaving of the Hair you must pluck away that thin part and anoint the ends of the remaining Hairs with the Gall of a Beast and then use a Decoction to cause Hair of Southernwood Capillâ—â— herbes and Cane roots and others aforementioned They spend time in vain who joyne them together with Mucilage or Bird-lime or Glue When the Dandrough falls not but with Rubbing it is neglected The Cure of Dandrough or it falls away with only combing rubbing and washing with Soap But when it abounds and falls continually upon the cloaths as when it is to be seen in the Beard then it must be cured first by purging if it comes from Excrements or the Disease cured that causeth it The Topick Medicines are to be such as consume and clense filth which causeth it and they must be strong or weak as it is fixed alwaies mixed with Lenitives least they exasparate the Skin too much Washings are divers first common Lye or Barbars Sudds with Soap and Rubbing Or Sudds with Juyce of Beets and a little Vinegar also Honey and a little Gall of a Beast Or Urine or salt Water or Wine alone or with the things mentioned Washing with hot water will asswage the smarting of the Skin after the use of clensers if afterwards you wash with water in which Mallows and Foenugreek have been boiled The Decoction of Willow leaves and bark is commended Or the Decoction of white Spinage Coleworts and Roots or of Mallows Pellitory of the wall Sopewort Lupines Beanes Foenugreek Melons and berries of the Spindle tree also Roots of wild Cowcumbers and Squills Divers Oyntments are used as this Take of the Oyl of bitter Almonds or Nuts two ounces of Oyl of Violets Flower-de-luce or Wall flower each one ounce the juyce of Spinage two ounces and an half Vinegar half an ounce boyl them a little and add the gal of an Ox three drams Brimflone two drams Vitriol one dram Niter half a dram make a Liniment which
first to generals and particulars The Cure of Generals is directed at the cause whether it be the nourishing Juyce Choller Blood or Seed That Cachexy which comes from crude and imperfect juyce The Cure of Cachexy or evil Habit of body in which flourishing Colour is lost and Paleness is brought in or the like if there be a Cacochymy or evil digestion there with and it come from the weakness of the Liver or spleen not yet confirmed or from Obstructions from Humors not yet fixed is easier cured But if this weakness of the Bowels in Sanguification or Obstruction is fixed then it is easily turned into Leucophlegmacy or white Dropsie or into the Dropsie Ascites of which two sorts of Dropsies the first is easiest cured except some other Distemper be joyned therewith A Cachexy is most difficult and can scarce be cured if there be exceeding weakness of the Bowels or great Obstruction coming from a hard fixed gravelly Matter as also if there be Hardness Scirrhus or any Tumor in these parts which causeth the Dropsie Ascites it is incurable A Cachexy must be cured according to the cause which we said is the weakness of the Liver Spleen Meseraiks a cold or hot Distemper an Obstruction and hardness or Tumors in the same which if they have been brought by any external or internal cause that must first be removed as evil Diet great loss of Blood too much Venery and the like which we know have been the Original of these Distempers and do still nourish the same Then the Filthiness which is brought thereby must be purged and in the mean time if it come from Weakness we must strengthen if from a cold or hot Distemper we must alter that if from an Obstruction we must open if from a Hardness or hard Tumor we must endeavor to mollifie and dissolve it by Medicines internal and external using those things especially which are proper for these parts affected and are therefore called Hepatical or Splenetical Medicines or at least you must mix them with others and add those things which strengthen the Stomach if it be weak All these Medicines we shall reduce to two Heads because one Medicine if compounded of divers things may be applied to divers Causes And under one Head we shall lay down those things which are proper to one or more of the Causes in Imbecillity or Weakness in a cold Distemper Obstruction Hardness or hard Tumor under the other Head we shall propound those Medicines which are fit for the cure of a Cachexy coming of a hot Distemper because this requires a cure by it self something different from the other We shall begin with that cure which is to be done with the Medicines under the first Head by this way following In these kinds of cachexies sometimes you may open a Vein if the Liver be stopped and full by which the blood being moved the evil Humors in the Vessels of the Liver may with the Blood be a little abated especially if there be a cochymy in the Blood it will be convenient to draw it forth and this is done in the right Arm where the lowest Vein is most convenient and therefore is called the Liver vein which also may be opened in the Hand or in the Foot if there be Suppression of the Termes in the like Diseases of the Spleen if there be a cacochymy also in the Veins you must open the Vein in the left Arm or the Salvatella which is proper when the Spleen is distempered The opening of the Haemorrhoids is very profitable by drawing from the Meseraiks in the stoppage of the Liver Spleen or Meseraiks and also by letting forth the cacochymy or evil Juyce Vomiting in the Obstructions of the Liver or Spleen is good not only by taking away crudities but by stirring up Nature to send them forth and this is best and easiest after Meat Clysters which mollifie provoke and open Obstructions are to be injected and are made of the common Decoction with the opening Roots red Vetches the four great cold seeds and dissolve therein some purging Electuaries and sometimes a quarter of a Pint of Vrine and half an ounce of the sharpest Leaven besides common Oyls or of Cappars and flower-de-luce Or you may use the Glysters mentioned in Leucophlegmacy Purges are appointed in Obstructions so Nature being moved may alwaies thrust some of the stoppinges forth also they are good in weakness of the parts Distemper or Hardness because many Excrements are gathered And they are made of such as purge choller or Flegm and Melancholy in the Distemper of the Spleen because it is thought Melancholy Juyce doth abound there and you must add such things as respect the Stomach and discuss wind if it tend to a Leucophlegmacy or white Dropsie or things that expel Water if it tend to the Dropsie Ascites as is mentioned but here these following are good for a cachexy A Decoction proper in the Obstruction of the Liver Take of Liquoris Roots one ounce and an half of Succory and Flower-de-luce Roots each one onnce of Smalage Roots half an ounce of Asarabacca Roots two drams of Chamaepytis or Ground pine Germander Agrimony Maiden-hair each one handsul of Fennel seeds two drams of Parsley and Rocket seed each one dram of Elder-flowers one pugil Raisons two ounces Senna one ounce and an half of Carthamus seeds bruised and Pelypody of the Oak each one ounce make a Decoction in Water and the third part Wine and infuse in the strained Liquor of Rhubarb half an ounce Agarick three drams Ginger one dram Spikenard half a scruple strain it and add as much Sugar as is sufficient and aromatize it with Cinnamon and Cloves for three doses Of the same things dry a Wine may be made by infusion in four or five pints which will work better and it will be stronger if you add Wormwood two drams Topps of Centaury one dram Birthworth Roots and Squills prepared two drams Another Decoction for the Spleen Take of the bark Cappar Roots and Tamarisk each one ounce macerate them in Water and the third part of Vinegar Germander Ceterach each one handful of both the Bugloss-flowers and Broom flowers each one pugil of Fennel seeds two drams of Park leave seeds one dram of Raisons stoned six drams of Polypody one ounce and an half Senna one ounce make a Decoction for three doses aromatized with Cinnamon and sweetned with Sugar or syrup of Maiden-hair or the like Or thus Take of Capar bark one ounce Pot Mercury Fumitory Time Epithimum each one handful Broom flowers Tamarisk Rosemary Borrage and Bugloss flowers each one pugil of Raisons ten pair Sebestens five pair Senna one ounce Polypody one ounce and an half make a Decoction in the strained Liquor insuse Myrobalans Chebs or others half an ounce Rhubarb two drams strain it and add as much Sugar as is sufficient for three doses if the barks of the Roots of black Hellebore be added it is the better A plainer
cause this Divulsion and Separation of the Membranes Any part falling from its Seat outwards causeth the Hernious or Rupture Tumors called Cele and this is either a Gut or the Cawle which cause this when they fall from the cavity of the Peritonaeum under the skin or into the Codd The Cause of the falling out whereof shall be mentioned with those of the Womb and Anus The Cure We shall first distinguish the Cure of divers sorts of swellings in respect of the causes nemely as they come from Flegm which we call crude Juyce or water or wind or from the nourishing Juyce either mixed with some or more of them or as they come from Milk Blood or Seed As for the Tumors that come from some part fallen called Caelae because they come from another place we shall speak of them in things cast off and in things cast forth The Cure of Tumors that comes from crude Juyce if first in regard of the Swelling of the whol Body and Leucophlegmacy from thence and then in regard of particular Parts as Oedema If Leucophlegmacy be simple The Cure of Leucophlegmacy or white Swelling of the whol Body although the whol Body be swollen and in Ascites the Belly and the Feet are only swollen yet is it easier cured then the Ascites because the hurt of the bowels is less and the weakness which gets this crude blood may be amended with more difficulty if it tend to an Ascites and not at all if it be joyned with it In old men it is hardly cured although it be long lingered You must begin the Cure as in a Cachexy because it is the Original of it and they depend upon the same cause long continuing you must correct the Distemper and Weakness of the Liver and Spleen by removing first the cause if it come from too great a Flux of the Terms Pills or other bleeding then you must strengthen them if there be Obstruction you must open it with moderate Aperitives and Cleansers least they provoke the Flux if there be any and with stronger Apertives if there be no Flux which may also move the Terms if they be stopped all both by inward and outward means Alwaies evacuate the crude watery Humors which are in the Stomach Guts and Veins or the Habit of the body by Purges Sweats and Urin. Also by Topical external Medicines to the parts most swelling which may take away the Matter by discussing and consuming it But in a Leucophlegmacy where there is also much Whey or that which is with an Ascites there must be the same Cure with Ascites by drawing out and and consuming the water with Remedies according to the cause The Remedies used for Anasarca or a Dropsie so called are as followeth You must purge the Stomach from crudities and open Obstructions with cleansers such as were prescribed in a cachexy with things that purge water if it be serous or watery As Take of the four or five opening Roots each one ounce of Orris and Elicampane each half an ounce of Asarum two drams of the Barks of Cappar roots Ash and Tamarisk barks each six drams of Liquorish one ounce and an half Succory with the Root of Endive Groundpine Maiden-hair Maudlin Fumitory Hops each one handful of Wormwood and Thyme each half an handful of Elder flowers Broom and Tamarisk flowers each one pugil of Raisons stoned ten pair of Anise and Fennel seed each one dram and an half of Endive and Dodder seed each one dram of the four cold great Seeds two drams of Polypody one ounce and an half of Senna two ounces of Epithymum half an ounce make a Decoction and in the straining infuse three drams of the Troches of Agarick of Rhubarb half an ounce strain it and add two ounces of Syrup of Roses solutive or of juyce of Roses one ounce of Sugar as much as wil make an Apozeme for five or six doses make it sweet with Cinnamon Spike Schaenanth and Sanders and if you must use more encrease the quantity of Sugar and make a Syrup half or fully boiled To this in a watery Leucophlegmacy you may add Soldanella or pot Mercury or Carthamus seed c. A Wine Take of Succory roots one ounce and an half of Fennel and Orris roots each one ounce of Elicampane half an ounce of Asarum two drams of Tamarisk bark one ounce of Wormwood Groundpine Agrimony Thyme and Epithimum each two drams of the Topps of the lesser Centaury Cordial flowers Smallage seed or Parsley and Fennel seed each one dram of Senna one ounce and an half to these you may add Soldanella one dram Agarick in Troches and Rhubarb each three drams of Spikenard one scruple infuse them in as much Wine as is sufficient for five doses An ordinary Drink Take of Rhubarb four scruples of Troches of Agarick one dram of Spikenard six grains steep them in white Wine and after pour Wormwood or Centaury water thereon and strain them adding Syrup of Roses solutives or some Physical Decoction of pot Mercury and Soldanella if there be more water make a Potion These Pills Electuaries and Lozenges which we mentioned in a Cachexy are good here adding things that purge Water Glysters which cleanse and expel wind are here useful As Take of the Emollient Herbs three handfuls Mercury or Beets Penny-royal Calaminths each one handful of Chamomil Elder and the lesser Contaury flowers each one pugil of Orris Elicampane and Asarum roots each one ounce of Fennel Caraway and Cummin seed each two drams make a Decoction in water with Barley or Pease and dissolve benedicta Laxativa or Hiera half an ounce of Oyl of Rue and Dill each one ounce and an half with a little Salt make a Glyster You may ad the Decoction of Wormwood Marjoram Chamaepyts or Groundpine Rosemary flowers Staechas Lavender and Broom flowers also Agarick with Brine Urine or Led and other Laxatives and Oyls An abstergent Glyster not so strong Take of the Urine of a Boy one pint to which add Lye Oyl of Chamomil or Lilly two ounces make a Glyster Vomiting is good to cleanse the Stomach where the beginning of Crudity is this is done by things mentioned in Diseases of the Stomach Bleeding may be in the Feet to provoke the Terms if they be wanting And they who are used to bleed and are full of crude Blood may loose a little because some crudity is there by evacuated as appears when it is setled at least it can do no hurt if it cool not the bowels too much Sweating because it consumeth much of the Humor both out of the Habit of the Body and the Veins is good because thereby the tumor decreaseth and must be every day if they may be endured with Exercise and Rubbing and these alone do discuss the Matter Or they are provoked with Guaicum and Sassaphras boiled or with other Softners that are not violent Or with this Decoction Take of Milium seeds peel'd two ounces of Spring-water
two pints boil them to four or five ounces to the straining add as much white wine let him drink it hot it wonderfully provokes Sweat Syrup of St. Ambrose made after the like manner doth the same thing and it is pleasant to give to Children in the Dropsie Another Sweat Take Treacle one ounce and an half of Calamus Aromaticus a quarter of a pound boil them well stopped in a measure and an half of red wine till the third part be consumed let him take a Draught every Night at Bed-time hot as much in the morning to sweat Some drink Treacle-water The Rob or Juyce boiled thick of Elder or Dwarfe-elder dissolved with convenient water with the Decoction of Milium or Flower de-luce-water or of Carduus benedictus may also be taken Attractives to strengthen the Bowels take away Obstructions and provoke Urin to take away Hardness if there be any as in the Ascites are also good as we shewed in a cachexy where you may take your choice of Decoctions Syrups Juyces Wines stilled Waters Oyls Lyes Urins Natural waters As drinking of Vitriol waters with good caution and to be forbidden if the Stomach or Liver be weak or cold also conserves Pouders Potions Electuaries Pills which you may there chuse To which these may be added good for to strengthen and help the Concoction of the Stomach and to avoid crudity A good Decoction Take of opening Roots one ounce and an half of Drop-wort one ounce of Agrimony Maiden hair Germander Groundpine Dodder Marjoram each one handful of Hysop half a handful of Anise seed and Fennel seed each one dram of Elder flowers one pugil make a Decoction with a little wine and water adding a little Cinnamon Spike Schaenanth and Sugar for an Apozeme For doses if you will purge add a little Carthamus and Polypody You may make wine of the Infusion of these things Or this Decoction experienced Take of Juniper-berries half a pound of Elicampane and Briony roots each half an ounce of Thyme Marjoram Rosemary Topps of Rue Mugwort each half an handful boil them in four pints of water sweeten and perfume it let him drink it some times Another Take of Rhapontick two ounces of Wormwood Horehound Ceterach each one handful boil them wine and water to the consuming of the third part Or boil thus the Roots of Acorus Penny-royal and Ivy. The Syrup of Wormwood is good against Crudity and of Bettony made of its Juyce with Sugar Also wormwood and Bettony-water mixed with other Openers as with Enula Marjoram Mints boiled c Also mix Pouders for the Stomach with Openers as Diacalaminth Diagalanga Aromaticum rosatum and Cordials when they are weak made of the Gems Also Pouders after Meat for Concoction Also conserve and candied Bettony Acorus Ginger Marjoram Staechas Rosemary Citron barks of both Buglosses for concoction and strength Or this Take of the Conserve of Succory flowers of Smallage roots each one ounce of the Conserve of Orris roots of Marjoram of Bettony and Bugloss flowers each half an ounce of Gum Lack two scruples Coral half a dram of Cinnamon one dram of Galangal and Fennel seed each half a dram of Spikenard half a scruple of the ashes of Hens guts and Gizard skins one scruple with the Syrup of the five Roots or the like make an Electuary Let him drink water after it made of proper things and the Liver of a Wolf added will make it better Or Take the aforesaid Conserves adding of the species of Triasantalon or Diarrhodon half a dram of Diagalanga and Dialacca each one scruple of the ashes of Hens Gizard skins and Guts half a scruple mix them for an Electuary it will be better to mix any cachectick Pouder mentioned in Discolouration This Electuary is good Take of Orris roots two drams of bitter Almonds one ounce and an half of Anise and Fennel seeds each one dram of Sugar the weight of all These Pills are good and also provoke the Terms and Urin and mollifie Tumors Take of Rhubarb one dram and an half of Gentian and Birthwort roots Madder bitter Costus each one dram of Smallage seed Ammeos Juniper-berries each half a dram of Sehaenanth Spike each one scruple of Gum Lack one dram and an half Mastich half a dram with Juyce of Orris or Agrimony make Pills or with bitter Almonds Troches Pills of Gentian better then the other Take of the extract of Gentian one dram of Centaury the less and Carduus each half a dram of Rue and Wormwood each one scruple of the Pouder of the lesser Centaury four scruples of the Troches of Myrrh one dram and an half of the Troches of Agrimony and Capars each one dram of Wormwood half a dram with the Elixir proprietatis make a Mass of Pills the dose is from two scruples to a dram stronger are these Take of Rhubarb Madder roots Valeria Asarum each one dram of Savine Marjoram Smallage seeds each half a dram of Spike half a scruple twelve Spanish Flies the small winges taken off of Ammoniack dissolved in strong Vinegar one dram with the Syrup of the five Roots make a Mass give from half a dram to two drinking upon it the Decoction of Pease and Parsley Or Take of the aforesaid Pouder with the Gum dissolved and bitter Almonds blanched one ounce and an half of Melon seeds two drams with syrup of Maudlin or of Orris make an Electuary a dram is the dose drinking after the Decoction of Melons or Pease External Medicines mentioned in the Diseases of the Liver or Spleen are good Oyntments and Emplasters Fomentations and the like choosing the fittest for the Cause to which you may add these following fit for the Stomach An Epithem for the Liver Take of Smallage roots one ounce and an half of Asarum half an ounce of Wormwood one handful of Bugloss Borage and Elder flowers each one pugil of Dodder seeds two drams of Endive and Sorrel seed each one dram of all the Sanders each one dram and an half of Spike Cassia Lignea or Schaenanth each half a dram boil them in wine and water to foment the Liver you may also anoint the Liver with the cerot of Sanders Anoint the Stomach to expel Crudities thus Take of the Oyl of Wormwood and Mints each one ounce Oyl of Mastich Quinces and Spike each half an ounce of Mastich two drams of Sanders and Cypress each one dram Cloves half a dram wood Aloes one scruple Wax as much as will make an Oyntment Or anoint with Nerve-Oyl Compound An Emplaster is made of the same with Pouder of Wormwood Mints Mastich with more wax and Gallia moschata or the Emplaster for the Stomach For swollen places to allay them somtimes apply Discussives and if water abound Consumers and many things mentioned in Ascites as these Sweat is caused by dry Baths or moist or Stuphes and so the matter is consumed and the Swellings and sooner in this then Ascites made of the things there mentioned If you cover the
black Hellebore poudered and made into Pills with Aloes After Evacuation made you must refresh the Body a day or two with Conserve of Bugloss Borrage Roses Stoechas Rosemary Marjoram Treacle or Mithridate and the like Among Cordials those of Guiacum are best and they give the Pouder with Conserves and Electuaries And the Chymists Magnifie the Salt thereof others use the Pouder or Salt of Sarsaperilla There are usual Purges for the time of the Cure when they take their Sweats to keep the Body open to be given between Sweats divers Times You may make Syrup of the Decoctions mentioned that will keep or use the Syrups prescribed for the Itch as that of Hellebore or of Apples and that of Montanus made of Juyces or you may purge with Electuaries or Pills The Cure may be also by other Sweats besides Guiacum and good Diet and purging such as are good also against other cold Diseases And although they tast not nor smel like Guaicum yet they are thought to have a propriety to cure the Pox as Sarsaparilla and China fetcht from the Indies and known since Guaicum to be good They make a sweat of Sarsaparilla roots which are long and slender of like tast and no scent thus Take Sarsaparilla sliced three ounces Water twelve pints let them be infused as Guaicum was and boised to the third part which you must strain and keep this quantity you may increase or diminish as you please They drink this Decoction every morning for some weeks and somtimes at evening and sweat first purging the Body and at several times after as we shewed concerning Guiacum Use the same order for Air Meat and Drink and make a second Decoction of the same for ordinary Drink and the like There is another made of China which comes from China in the East Indies to cause sweat this Root is thick red and without tast and the Decoction is reddish not unpleasant nor offending the Stomach and thus made Take China roots that are ponderous two ounces cut them in slices add twelve or eight pints of Water steep them and boil them as the former keep it being strained very close stopped least it grow sour or to prevent that boyl half the quantity and repeat it This is taken as the rest and it provokes sweat and the Patient must be governed as formerly and purged and a second Drink made of the same Roots as formerly And being thrice boiled they have some Vertue and may be drunk while other is prepared There is another Root lately come from the Indies called Sassaphras of which a Sweat may be made used as the rest for this and other Diseases thus made Take the Wood with the Bark sliced into Chipps two ounces and with twelve or eight pints of Water infuse them and boyl them as formerly and give the same quantity as of the other this is pleasant and better taken because it disturbs not the Stomach nor breeds wind as may be gathered by its scent resembling Anise and sweet Fennel seed There are sweating Decoctions for the Pox made of three or four of the former Roots mixed they add to half a pound of Guaicum one ounce and an half or two ounces of Sarsaparilla and boyl them with eight pints of Water as the former Or instead of Sarsaparilla one ounce of China Or we mix Guaicum China and Sarsaparilla in the same quantities and boyl them or we take less of Guaicum and more of the rest To these we add Sassaphras because it gives a good smell and tast and is of the same Vertue These must be used in the same quantity and with the same order and government as the former and an ordinary Drink must be made of the same by a second Decoction Somtimes they make Compound Decoctions with many other things added to these which they add many times to Guaicum and Sarsaparilla but seldom to Sassaphras and China least they loose their scent somtimes they add things to correct as when Guaicum is too hot Succory and Lettice yet though it hath a little sharpness it doth not inflame the Body and if you take away the sharpness it will not sweat so well and rather hinder then profit as also by those things the pleasant tast is taken away and it will be loathsom somtimes they use things to increase the Heat and cause more Sweat as Asarum roots Elicampane and Spices and the opening Roots and herbs Baulm Time Marjoram and the like Nigella seeds sometimes things good for the head and joynts if pain be there as Bettony Groundpine Rosemary and Lavender flowers sometimes things to purge the Blood as Fumitory Hops Bugloss Elder Dwarfe-elder Orris and the like And to dry the Body more they use Amber Frankincense and Benjamin By this mixture they make the Decoction of less force and more unsavory so that the Patient will not take it especially when they ad Gentian that is so bitter and Mummy which stinketh then it is abominable But if you will add to the Decoction any thing to allay the Heat or to provoke sweat or the like it is less unpleasant when you boyl the Roots in the Waters of those plants which are for that purpose You may make your Decoction in Arsemart water which is beyond all the other for its admirable propriety for cure of the pox it is made of the Herb at the end of September and all October by Distillation Besides these many mix gentle and strong purgers with Guaicum while it is boiled as Polypody Asarum Epithymum Carthamum Agarick and other bitter things as aloes and if the pain be in the Joynts Hermodactyls And somtimes the strongest as Hellebore and Coloquintida Which purging Decoctions if they be given at first before sweating and used in the times of Intermission are good Or if we intend not to cure the pox by sweating but by purging we may use them instead of other purges constantly or by fits with Intermission It is found by Experience that other plants besides Guaicum Sarsaparilla China and Sassaphras make a good Decoction for the same And hence we gather that these work the Cure of the pox rather by sweating then by any hidden Vertue such Decoctions are made of these following A Decoction made of yellow Box which is hard like Guaicum doth the same but because it is not so pleasant as Guaicum we take not a whol pound to twelve pints of water I have cured poor people with Juniper and it is sweet and somwhat sharp I took the Chips not so much as of Guaicum but half so much or three parts and with twelve pints of water I boiled and used it as the former to these you may add Guaicum and other Roots and it is an excellent Sweat and safe although from Dioscorides some speak against it as destructive which often use shews to the contrary and I judge that place of Dioscorides to be false and so do others We doubt not but a
Marrow each one ounce and an half Oyl of Lillies Chamomil Dill Bayes Worms or Foxes each half an ounce Oyl of Spike or Turpentine two drams Euphorbium Frankincense each half an ounce Storax six drams Hermodactyls two drams Castor one dram with Wax make a Cerot They say the Oyl of Guaicum allayeth the pains Wash the Legs pained with Mercury-water it is the best for Pains and Nodes as is mentioned Some say that Fomentations and Oyntments of things without Quick-silver will allay the pain being temperate and anodine or takers away of pain or heating much the Nerves But we have shewed that actual and potential heat doth increase these pains except Quick-silver be mixed Besides it is good to purge often with Pills Potions and the like mentioned in the Gout and Head-ach which alone somtimes takes away the Reliques of the Disease and with other Medicines to the part they are more effectual especially if you give between things that strengthen and if the Head ake give peculiar Medicines therefore Sweating also by Decoctions mentioned doth take away the after pains especially with purges and Medicines to the part Stilled Waters are the best for it as that of the Decoction of Guaicum or that of Treacle mentioned in the general Cure given in Potions Narcoticks or Stupefactives are sometimes given to asswage pain with good success because they also bring rest and cause sweat and they may be taken without hurt Therefore Treacle is so good to cause sweat and asswage pain and the rest the stupesie called Narcoticks The Nodes or Swellings in parts without flesh as the Fore-head or Head or Shins or Backs of the Hand depart when the pox is cured and if it be by Unctions or Fume the sooner because they are anointed with the other parts but if the Cure be by internal things and the Knots or Nodes remain you must cure them by Unction and Fumigation and the whol Disease is not perfectly cured adding more Oyls and Gums and Grease to the Oyntments The Emplasters mentioned are good for these especially that of Vigo which sostneth and consumeth them Or this Cerot Take Gum Ammoniack Opopanax each two ounces dissolve them in Aqua vitae Goose grease Hens or the like each one ounce and an half the Marrow of Veal or Goats bones one ounce Labdanum Storax each two ounces Storax liquid one dram Pouder of Hermodactyls Orris each three drams Cinnabar one dram Quick-silver dissolved with Tâ—rpentine six-drams with Oyl of Worms and Wax make a Cerot Or boyl Briony roots and Orris roots in Wine to half a pint ad Gum Ammoniack Galbanum and the like dissolved in Aqua vitae to three ounces Liquid Storax Bears grease horse Marrow each one ounce Quick-silver kill'd with Turpentine two ounces make a Plaister Or take black Briony roots and fill them made hollow with precipitate keep it in a moist place then take out the Mercury and anoint it with the Juyce of the Root Mercury water is good against Nodes to wash as mentioned especially when it raiseth Blysters as it usually doth and burns the skin and this is done by adding more Mercury or some Arsenick as we shewed That Froath which is skummed off at the boiling of guaicum doth discuss the Nodes if it be often used You may use the strongest of those Remedies which were prescribed for taking away other Nodes as we shewed in tumors especially those of Quick-silver And the Stupefactive Roots and Herbs will do good applied as is shewed As Briony roots bruised and applied without Quick-silver doth wonders Some boyl Rhubarb and Aloes in one part of Lye and half a part of Soap till it come to a Plaister with Wax Also they foment the Nodes which softning Decoctions mentioned in Scirrhus and Knot-gout and other hard tumors A Bag filled with Oats and boyled and often applied hot is accounted good for the same The Nodes are cut out if they will not away but hinder the Patient as we shewed in the Cure of other Nodes And if they be not near the Joynts or Nerves as in the Head or if their be fear that the Bone is foul they may be burnt with an actual Cautery and if the Head or Shins be infected so that the Bone will not scale you must take it out with a pair of Forcipes or little tongs if the skin of the Brain appear you must desend it with red silk or fine linnen before you lay a Plaister to the Ulcer and cure it as a Head-wound The Ulcers external and internal that come in the Pox if they be small are cured with the general way but if they be fixed and filthy they must have a particular Cure least they infect the parts adjacent and the Bones and it must be speedily administred after the general In the external Ulcers of the Face about the Mose Lips the Privities or Eundament you must first cleanse them if foul and if hollow apply Incarnatives and then heal them up if the Bones be foul they must be scaled As I shewed by Remedies mentioned in the Cure of malignant ulcers where these are comprehended and in the general Cure of foul Bones by actual and potential Cauteries Chiefly in the Ulcers of the Pox they which contain Quick-silver Sublimate or Precipitate or Cinnabar all made thereof are the best because they are contrary as I shewed to the Disease such as is prescribed in the Cure of Ulcers beginning thus Take Quick-silver one ounce Turpentine c. and that following for the Ulcers of the Legs Or that made of others there mentioned as Apostolorum and the like adding four ounces of Quick-silver with half an ounce of Turpentine dissolved or one dram of Sublimate or precipitate or mixing equal parts of the general Oyntments for the Cure of the Pox and for the Cure of Ulcers together or another there mentioned good against Pustles and Ulcers this may be used to the Ulcers after fluxing c. as we said there if the Ulcers be filthy Cinnabar Verdegreese and Sublimate must be added and if you fear the Bone is foul add one ounce of Myrrh more And if the Bone be foul add six drams of Euphorbium which will take Scales that are rotten from the sound Bone The pouder of white Hellebore roots Agarick Senna added also do cure those perverse Ulcers Oyl of Guaicum is commended above the rest also of Antimony of Bricks and Juniper They also teach that the Foam or Skum arising from Guaicum boiled cures these Ulcers Other internal Ulcers in the Pox although as we said of external they must have a general Cure yet it is good in the time of the cure and after if they continue to apply particulars to them Which differ not much from them that are used to other Ulcers which are in the same places without the Pox. For in the Ulcers of the Nose which are internal we proceed as we do in other Ulcers of the Nose by sternutations or
that the total and perfect Cure of the Scurvey is by Evacuation and things that alter by manifest or secret Vertue contrary thereunto by which also the cause is taken away and the Distemper amended We must evacuate those Humors which we perceive chiefly to abound and because that Melancholy is thought the chief which is in the Meseraick Veins about the spleen or in the same they study to evacuate that onely by bleeding purging and sweating They bleed if the Body be full before purging in the Arm and Hand on the left side sometimes in the Foot especially in Women when the courses stop Also the opening of the Haemorroids is very profitable After a Clyster or the cleansing of the Guts from Excrements and Blood-letting if need be we prepare the superfluous Humors and evacuate them And because they are Melancholy you must prepare and purge with the same things that we used for the pox as therein at large is mentioned But you must not continue so long purging as in the pox but only at first somtimes repeating them To which Remedies you must add things that open Obstructions especially in the Bowels and Spleen which are the occasion of Melancholy therefore you may use the remedies prescribed to prepare and purge Melancholy and to open Obstructions mentioned in other Diseases of Melancholy and they will be more fit here if you mix those things that alter and are properly enemies to this Disease Sweating is good in the Scurvey as well as in the pox but it must not be of so long continuance but after purging now and then in a morning in the Bed or in a hot House if strength will permit Therefore the Decoction of Guaicum Sarsa and Sassaphras and the rest mentioned in the pox are good Or we may give treacle or mithridate or which is better the thick Juyce of Dwarse-elder Elder or Juniper adding to three ounces of these one ounce and two drams of Syrup of Poppies or give the stilled Waters mentioned in the altering Medicines We use things that alter the maglignant Distemper of the Scurvey which are by a secret propriety contrary thereunto Some Plants which are sharp which Experience teacheth have a propriety against the Scurvey among the which Scurvey grass is the chief a sharp Herb like Water-cresses this all men conclude to be the Antidote against it Whether it be eaten in Sallads or made into a conserve with sugar and eaten often or the Juyce be boiled to a Syrup and so taken or it be boiled in Milk or Wine or Ale and drunk constantly or the distilled Water thereof Water-cresses are judged to be of the same Vertue taken as Scurvey-grass or with it Brook-lime also is good though it be not so sharp Wild Purslain also or great Stone-crop which is a little biting may be added to these Also the Herb and especially the seed of Mustard which candied with Honey like sweet-meats is excellent not only for the Cure but the prevention of the Scurvey There are divers other things that correct the Distemper at the first in the Liver and Spleen by opening Obstructions which are mentioned in the like Diseases of Melancholy in the form of Decoctions Syrups Infusions in Wine distilled Waters Conserves Electuaries Pouders and Tablets and Pills made thereof Which are made of these following which are openers of Obstructions and good against the spleen the five opening Roots Avens Restharrow Elicampane Rhubarb and Monkes Rhubarb the Leaves of Fumitory Thyme Epithymum Polypody Bugloss Germander Agrimony Tamarisk Celandine Burnet and bitter things as Gentian Squills Hedg-hysop Wormwood four things Sorrel Wood sorrel and of the hotter Medicines for cold people as Bettony Mints Sage Rosemary Staechas Organ Hysop Mugwort Rue Bay-berries also of Spices as Nutmeg Mace of Minerals as Vitriol Steel Iron Bezoar-stone and the like Cordials As for the Symptoms of the Scurvey the Tumors and Ulcers of the Gums you must use such Remedies as in the Diseases of the Gums drying Waters with such things as are properly against the Scurvey as Decoctions of Scurvey-grass Brook-lime Water-cresses or the Waters or Juyces thereof Also the Juyce of Oranges crude and boiled especially in the filth of the Gums to wash and to drink inwardly Also Lapis prunellae or Salt-peeter prepared mixed with the things mentioned or with Sage Self-heal Privet-water or the like is an excellent Remedy for the Ulceration of the Mouth and Gums approved by Experience If there be Ulcers in other parts the like Medicines are to be applyed The spots in the Leggs and elsewhere because they vanish when the Disease is cured require not a peculiar cure and if any remain after use the Remedies against spots in Discoloration 〈◊〉 after accidents be as Contraction or Resolution of Members or Leucophlegmacy or a Dropsie you must direct your Cure at that and proceed as we shewed in the like cases in Motion Hurt and Tumors CHAP. V. Of Consumption of the Body The Kinds VVE call that a Consumption when the Body or any part thereof is consumed or decayed for if they grow leaner we spake of that in Deformity when Magnitude is diminished also when the internal parts are consumed as the Bowels Liver Spleen Kidneys without Corruption as hath appeared by Anatomies as also it may be found in the Lungs Heart and Brain we have spoken thereof in the Hurt of the great Functions But of outward Consumption whereof we here speak There are two sorts one when the whol Body another when any parts thereof is wasted or consumed Somtimes the whole Body consumed in thickness Leanness or Slenderness and not in length which seems to be increased in some there is a falling away or Leanness and if it come from want of Nourishment it is Airophia as shall be declared in the Causes but if the whole Body or the greatest part consume it is called Tabes and then the Temples of the Face fall in and the Eyes and the Nose grows sharp such a Face is called Hippocrates Face because he so described it also the Cheek bones stick out the Mouth keeps open except the Beards of Men keep them from being perceived In the Breast all the Ribbs are visible and the Grisâ—le like a sword between them is bent the shoulder blades are like wings and the Channel bone like a bow under which there is a deep pit and they stick out the Back bone is plainly seen but the Belly is fallen down and seems empty except a Dropsie follow the Neck is slender long and unequal and the external Larynx or Bone called Adams apple is visible the Buttocks are lank the Hipps fleshless the Coccyx or three lower bones is like a Tayl the Legs Arms Hands and Feet are lean and withered and they seem swollen about the Joynts because the adjacent flesh is lost the Nails grow longer and at length crooked sometimes the Roots are so consumed that when they grow again the hinder part grows lower and there is
fastned to the Board C the Girdle there divided The seventh Instrument or Truss is made of Iron onely for the Groyn where the Rupture is with an Iron-Girdle as the former This is made of thick and broad Plate of Iron with an Iron-spoon of the same breadth joyned to the Joynt that it may move lined with Leather and stuffed where it toucheth the Rupture which is held with the Iron-spoon As may be seen in the Figure following The seventh Truss open A the Iron-Plate B the Iron-Spoon C the Convex or bunching part of the Spoon covered with Leather D the Iron-shâ—ll which thrusts the Spoon down E little Holes through which the Leather is sewed to the Plate F the Iron-Girdle as in the fifth Figure For the Ruptures of other parts as of the Navel and the places adjacent Trusses are made of Cotton or Iron-Girdles as formerly which goes about the Belly where the tumor is with a Bolster or wooden or Iron-Plate to press it down as you may artificially invent which Girdle may be held up with Girts about the Shoulders or fastned to the Doublet Also we keep the Rupture from falling down by taking away the Cause that drives it out as much Meat and Drink and such things as breed many Excrements and wind because they fill the Guts and make them strut out To this end also we purge with Medicines mentioned in the Diseases of the Stomach and Colick To which we add astringents for the Rupture as Rhubarb Myrobalans and the like mentioned in the Dysentery or we add some of the Decoctions following You must give no Clysters in Ruptures for if the Guts be out they fill them and increase the tumor and keep them from being put up And if the small Guts be out whether Clysters can scarce come yet in regard it is hard to distinguish them and the Clysters may somtimes get thither it is better to forbear except after the Guts are put up when there is a great costiveness In the falling out of the Cawle called Epiplocele because Clysters cannot be sent thither if the Belly be full of Wind and Excrements you may administer them with good success Also Cold doth hurt in Ruptures especially when they are out for it wil make them swell therefore beware of it Also take heed of violent Exercise straining or whooping for they contract the Belly and thrust out the Guts Also Venery is evil if forcibly used Rest is most convenient not only to prevent it but also to cure it As we shall shew For the Cure of the breaking of the Rim of the Belly or when the passage thereof is enlarged in the Groyn or opened about the Navel we give and apply many things or if they will not do we use Incision We give inwardly such things as are mentioned for glutinating of wounds which by their drying and binding vertue do help the Rimme when it is loosned or broken by their glutinating force if the Lipps of the wound are not yet grown hard and then they can do little except they can make new flesh to stop the passage These must be used long for many weeks that their vertue may reach to the part affected For this purpose you may use wound-drinks mentioned in the Cure of Wounds Or of other Plants green or dry boyled in wine or the like or made with Honey or Sugar into a Syrup As we shewed in Wound-drinks The simple Decoction of Knot-grass or Salomon-seal which is called Rupturewort for its vertue in Ruptures or of Sanicle or that of Fernelius which is called Royal Osmond made in wine is excellent The Compound Decoction of these three is also good Or with three coloured trinity Violets called Jacea or Knapweed or Ladies-mantle Mugwort Bettony Agrimony Horstayl Burnet Mousear Thorow-wax Cresswort each one handful Comfrey roots one ounce and an half Madder and Snakeweed each one ounce round Birthwort half an ounce Flowers of Mullein and St. Johns-wort each one pugil Cypress-nuts half an ounce Southernwood and Water-cress seeds each one dram Anise seeds two drams boyl them in Wine and Water till the third part be consumed to four pints and drink thereof or with Honey or Sugar make a Syrup There are others for the same which may be boyled with the former as Daffodil roots or Avens or Bearfoot or Mary-thistle or Lady-gloves or Hog-fennel roots the Leaves of Comfrey Golden-Rod Avens Plantane Adders-tongue Strawberries Mullein Primrose Bears ears Orpine Yarrow Tansey Hemp Sage Calamints and the rest mentioned in Wound-drinks The Arabians commend a Goats head boyled with the Hair and the Hair of an Hare boyled You may make a Wine with the Infusion of the best of the things mentioned being dryed and it will be less distasted and drunk longer Some Juyces drunk do the same one ounce at a time with Wine or other Liquor or boyled thick to an Extract one dram at a time Or with Honey or Sugar made into a Syrup and given one ounce and an half The Juyce of Rupturewort is best then of trinity Violets and Osmond Fern and of great Comfrey roots and one dram of the Juyce of Gentian roots according to Dioscorides and the Juyce of Butchers broom the Juyce of other Plants mentioned in the Decoction also the Juyce of Laserpitium The stilled Waters of Ladies-mantle Comfrey Horse-tayl Plantane red Roses and others mentioned drunk alone or with other Remedies There are also Potions for the Rupture made of one dram of pouder with red wine or a Decoction or stilled waters or with water and Milk for Children or with a rear Eg or the like with Sugar or Honey if you please As these following simple or mixed the chief is of Rupturewort and Horse-tongue roots of the Leaves of Adders tongue of Roots of Swordgrass wild Orris or three coloured Violets Also the pouders of Horstayl Shepheards purse Ladies-mantle Thorow-wax also of the Roots of Comfrey Valerian Birthwort Snakeweed Tormentil five leaved Grass Briony Also Dioscorides commends the pouders of other Herbs as of Bettony Liverwort Cuckow bread Balsom Woodbine Marygolds Rock Comfrey Burdock roots Elicampane Lovage Seeds of Watercresses and Countrey Mustard and of other Plants mentioned for Decoctions Also the pouder of Earth worms and of the worms of Byzant the Filings of Steel of the Bloodstone Amiantum and of Osteocolla which glews bones together Also of Fat Earths sealed and other dryers Also the pouders of Troches of Amber Ivory or Bole or of Diacydonium made of Quinces without the Species with some convenient Liquor These may be taken in pouder with Sugar or made into Lozenges with the same with proper waters and things good for the Stomach and to expel wind for that sills the Guts and increaseth the tumor As Take Coriander seeds prepared one dram Caraway or Cummin and Water-cress seeds each half a dram Rupture-wort one dram and an half Horstongue or Adders tongue or Horstayl one dram Comfrey roots Pomegranate peels each half a dram Bole one
as we shewed may do well here in this solution of the Continuity of the small Fibres or Veins You may make other Pessaries of pouders in the aforesaid Oyntments if they be first mixed with the white of an Egg the Infusion of Gum Traganth or Mucilage of Comfrey or of Quinces and put into a bag And if these Pessaries be troublesom you may make others as big as your finger for the night only of the same things Or you may wet wool in Vinegar and the white of an Egg and sprinkle the pouders thereon and put it in Another Pessary prescribed for the Whites begins thus Take Galls or Acorn-cupps c. is good here Some commend an Eg that a Hen hath sitten upon some daies beaten and put up with wool There is a way among women to keep the womb from falling out by carrying a round Ball therein which must be so big that it fills the Privities and not be put in by great force It must be smooth slippery and light that it may not hurt the tender parts with its roughness or weight and hard that it may better hold up the womb and dry that it may take in no Moisture least it fall out again It is made thus of Cork or Beets by glewing two pieces together if one be not big enough brought into a ball or a bottom of thread and let it lye in melted wax till it be covered over therewith Which she must thrust up with a string fastned thereto to take it out and let her wear it day and night and not take it out but when she is to use a Man This though it be a little troublesom yet it is better then to have the womb fall out This trick have I shewed to many women in a miserable Condition which hath cured them among whom one which a long time before had not known her Husband conceived with the ball in her womb which she voided when she was delivered of a Boy with her Secundine or after-birth You may use Injections with a Syringe for the same made of the Decoction mentioned for a Fomentation and this is best There is a strong Injection made of few things Take Galls three ounces Moss two ounces Comfrey roots one ounce Vine ashes two drams boyl them in Forge-water and the third part of red Wine for an Injection There are also Fumes for the same made of the same Decoction for a Fomentation hot which is very piercing and good As those of Comfrey roots Snakeweed Cabbage stalks Box topps The Fumes of Frankincense Mastick Amber Labdanum Bitumen Pitch Colophony with stinking things are stronger as Galbanum Castor and that abhominably stinking Divels Dung with other astringent Pouders or they may be made into Troches with Rosin Orpiment is very drying but in regard the smâ—ak thereof is hurtful you may better use Varnish That Fume which is prescribed for the Whites that begins thus Take Mastick two drams Frankincense c. is good here Experience teacheth that the Smoak of dryed Cow dung is very good And the Hoof of a Mule burnt doth the same miracles with the Smoak in this case Many things mentioned to stop the Terms outwardly or inwardly are good here to astring but it is better to forbear them least they stop the Courses except the time be past They suppose that the womb follows sweet things and flies from stinkes and therefore they apply the sweets to the Nose and the stinkes to the Privities Somthing vomiting will fetch it up but it is too forcible and so is neesing and rather presseth down the Entrals The womb is kept up by lying down and while the woman is so it remains in its place Also Conception keeps the womb from falling out and while she is with Child it cannot fall down because it grows larger with the Child and cannot fall out till after Child-birth it grows little again The Fundament by straining The Cure of the falling out of the fundament and the straight Gut may be turned out and somtimes it will return again with ease but if this be at every stool and the Patient weak and the Muscles relaxed it is hard to be cured and not at all if it be torn from the Membranes to which it was fastned For the Cure first begins at the Cause and then look at the Disease which is the falling out of the Part. To avoid the Cause if straining at stool be it keep the Body loose with Clysters and Medicines and good Diet. If it come from hard travail or from cutting of the Stone it will be gone when they are over Then you must have a care to put up the part and keep it in by divers means The Fundament is put up by the Hand of the Patient or of the Surgeon pressing with his fingers or with a clout for that purpose And if it be swollen or inflamed which hindereth its going up you must first cure them As we shewed in the Falling out of the womb when it is swollen We keep in the Fundament that it fall not out again by divers Remedies either such as astringe and stop the Passages or that unite the separated parts or by things which amend the temper of the Fundament when it is too cold or weak or loose and relaxed by which means it cannot keep up And this is done by things given inward or applied outward to the Fundament or injected into it If it come from Solution of Continuity you may give somthings prescribed in the Falling out of the womb to consolidate or heal but abstain from strong Astringents least you make the Belly more hard and cause greater straining which will force it forth But if the Fundament come forth by loosness through the Falling down of an humor you must use things that purge and alter which are mentioned in the Palsie The same things that are prescribed by way of Fomentation and Pouders for the falling out of the womb may be used for the falling out of Fundament and straight Gut and they will do the same by holding up and fixing the Part. You may also use other pouders such as were used to the womb in form of a Pessary as a Suppository here anointing before As we shewed least they should by their sharpness get forth again Or this pouder Take Galls two drams Pomegranate-flowers one dram and an half Mastick Frankincense each one dram Amber Sanguis Draconis each half a dram burnt Harts horn and Antimony each one dram make a fine pouder You may add Bitumen Pitch and Cockle shells salt-fish Dogs dung and Hogs brisles and the like burnt Or take some of the pouders mentioned in the Oyntment for the Falling down of the womb or anoint the sundament when it is forth with that Oyntment Fume or Smoak is best because the thick and moist things will not be so well retained as that prescribed for the Falling out of the womb especially that of the Decoction of Mullein with Vinegar
And the same is done by Irritation if there be more heat or sharpness then is fit as we shewed in the Causes of Lechery Also the same Seed by pricking through the Imagination only of the Act which is usual in dreams and the like thoughts being moved and sent forth causeth Pollutions sleeping and waking Also this comes from the heat of Seed so that it is sooner ejected in the Action then it ought or some part comes forth before the Act. And also that it comes forth with Heat and Burning But if there be great sharpness in the Seed from Infection or Corruption then follows the virulent Gonorrhaea or venemous Running of the Reins comming commonly from the French Pox. And this may come before they have the Pox from some other Venom which was gotten by Infection of other seed in Copulation and so turned corrupt and sharp by which means not only this foul and involuntary Excretion comes by the sharpness but also in continuance of time an ulcer and pissing of matter The involuntary Flux of Seed in the Gonorrhaea The weakness of the Seed-vessels is the Cause of a Gonorrhaea comes from the weakness of the Spermatick Vessels when the seed is watery and not concocted to the likeness of milk for then being thin it easily comes from its place without sense or with very little and without any Cause or with the least pricking not only in the Yard but Fundament when the stools are very hard or as Fernelius speaks of one when a Clyster is given And this weakness comes from distemper especially cold or want of Natural Heat in the Parts or the whol Body which makes the Seed so watery For it is not likely that the Waterishness of the Seed should come from Flegm because it is made of blood which though it be crude and watery yet the stones and breasts do alwayes take the purest blood to make seed and milk in foul Bodies full of Excrements as appears by men of evil Habit of Body getting Children and women that nourish their Children by giving suck when their Blood is impure Also Weakness comming from the loosness of the seed-vessels produceth somtimes a Gonorrhaea when the places containing the seed in their windings and the Vessels that carry it are too large and loose so that it may easily fall out This loosness comes from often Venery in a short time somtimes sooner somtimes later to luxurious People by which the baggs of seed being often emptied and filled and from the loss of spirits are so loose and weak that the seed is thin and watery By the opening the mouths of the Seed-vessels which make it of Blood The Anastomosis or opening of the mouths of the Seed-vessels is the Cause of imperfect and bloody Seed there comes bloody seed or blood instead thereof in Copulation when by the often Action in a short time the Vessels that contain the seed are so empty that they draw blood or imperfect seed from the mouths of the seed-vessels opened by this sucking And this sucking comes from the Lechery or Heat of the Womb as is said of African Women as it happned to a Soldier a while since that lying forcibly with a Countrey-wench was so brought down that after often Lechery he voided bloody seed and by that means fell into a Consumption that caused his death There is also an involuntary Effusion of Seed from a Disease in other parts The shaking of the Seed-vessels in a Convulsion is the Cause of loss of Seed when the Seed-vessels suffer by consent as the Nerves in a Convulsion in which through the forcible shaking which moveth the whol Body the Spermatick vessels being shaken do cast out seed somtimes especially when it abounds even as by the same violence through the pressing of the Muscles of the Belly the Bladder being pressed sends forth the Urin. And this is rather the Cause of loss of seed in Convulsions then the Convulsion of the Muscles of the Seed although they also suffer For though in the Act of Venery they help the Effusion by gentle opening the Vessels yet they do it not before the seed be out of its bag and is carried by them wherefore in Convulsions they do not help the Effusion but the disorderly motion drives it from its place Neither doth the Loosning of these Muscles in an Apoplexy cause the flux of seed as it doth of Urin because these Muscles are made for Retention and not as the Sphincter The Cure If the involuntary flux of feed in both sexes The Cure of the Gonorrhaea be by Nocturnal Pollution from plenty of seed it is not regarded because it never comes but when it aboundeth and hurts not much and is cured either by Marriage or if not by abstaining from things that increase it and provoke it forth But if the Gonorrhaea come from hot and sharp seed that must be tempered And if from weakness of the Vessels it be made too watery it flow too easily or cannot be contained by reason of the loosness of the Vessels by too much Venery because it weakneth the Vessels must be strengthned and the seed thickned all which may be done by the following Remedies applied to the Causes of the Gonorrhaea Somtimes we purge if the seed grow to sharpe and watery from colerick and watery Blood to cleanse it so that it may afford good matter to make seed And with such things as are fit for the Humor abounding these are so ordinary they need not be mentioned here Things that alter are given to stay this Flux according to the diversity of the Cause And if it be from plenty of seed we diminish it with Dryers and that by a proper quality destroy it or consume it if from heat and sharpness we allay them with cool and gentle Remedies If it be too thin and watery we thicken it if the Vessels that contain it are weak or loose we strengthen them with astringent hot and proper things All which are partly done with the Remedies mentioned in Saelacity or Lasciviousness especially if the Gonorrhaea come from plenty or heat of seed which causeth Lechery and partly with these following which are fit for the Gonorrhaea that comes from any Cause A drying Pouder that bindeth and worketh by Propriety Take Roots of Orris Agnus Castus seeds and Coriander prepared each one ounce Seeds of Plantane Roses Rue Winter-cherries Mints each half a dram Amber and red Coral each one dram Frankincense Mastick half a dram make a fine Pouder give one dram by it self or with Sugar of Roses or some convenient Liquor When you will dry and astringe more you may ad these following to the former as Myrtle seeds Bay-berries Sumach Yarrow Agnus Castus Rue Roses and Ceterach Acorns Pomegranate flowers the Pouder of the Guts and Gizards of Hens Bulls or Dears pizles Hair of an Hare burnt Ivory Bole Blood-stone Crystal For to allay the heat and sharpness of the seed Take the
four great cold Seeds two drams the four less cold Seeds especially of Purslain Lettice or Sorrel each one dram of Water-lilly roots or flowers and Roses each one dram and an half of Gum Abarick or Traganth parched one dram make a Pouder to which you may add the third or sourth part of the Pouder aforesaid Some add Camphire to cool or because it quencheth the seed by a secret Quality A Decoction extinguishing the heat and sharpness and staying the Flux Take of Orris and Water-lilly roots each one ounce the Leaves green or dry of Agnus Castus Coriander Ceterach Yarrow Sumach Plantane and Lettice each one handful Mints and Rue each half a handful Roses and Water-lillies each one pugil of the four great cold Seeds half an ounce of the four less two drams Plantane and Purslain seed each one dram Myrtles two drams Winter cherries half a dram boyl them in Water and red wine and in three pints of the strained Liqnor dissolve two ounces of Syrup of Quinces and with Sugar boyl it to halfes Let him drink it often The Syrups of Purslain Plantane and others made of the Juyces and Decoctions of the aforesaid Plants or of sharp things as Citrons Pomegranates or Myrtles is also good Also the Juyces of those Plants and the distilled Waters of the same Also Conserves and Candies alone or with the Pouders or Syrups aforesaid Sheeps Milk or stilled Milk often drunk temper the sharpness of the seed Also an Emulsion of the cold seeds of Almonds and of white Poppy seeds and others mentioned in heat of Urin. We somtimes use Clysters in this cause as Topicks to the part because their strength will reach from the Guts to the seed-vessels they are made according to the Cause of a cooling Decoction if heat be the cause with dryers and astringents mentioned in the Decoction and others as Oak leaves Cypress Pomegranate flowers and the like boyl them in Water red Wine or a little Vinegar Some use drying Injections of Tutty and the like into the Yard Also Baths Fomentations Oyntments which repress Lechery may be here used Also a Fomentation of the Codds made of the Roots of Dogs-tongue or of a Decoction of the Herbs mentioned for Decoctions and Pouders For strengthning of the Vessels that contain and carry the Seed when they are weakned or loosned when the Gonorrhaea is old or subject thereto The Natural hot Baths that bind are good for some time continued Or other artificial Baths of the vertue to which you may add hot things to cherish the Native Heat as Rosemary Marjoram Lavender and the like Also if Heat be the Cause you may use Oyntments to cool dry and astringe such as work by propriety to the Reins or Codds Among which this is excellent Take Oyl of Myrtles Mastick Quinces each three ounces Oyl of Orris two ounces Juyce of Plantane Purslain Lettice Mints and Vinegar each one ounce and an half boyl them till the Juyce be consumed add Cypress roots or Galls Orris roots Agnus Castus-seeds each one dram Juyce of Sloes two drams Spikenard one scruple with Wax make an Oyntment The Oyl of Camphire is commended to the Codds and Seam or Seate A thin leaden Plate applied at night to the Back as it will restrain Lechery so will it cure the Gonorrhaea A Pillow stuffed with Wool with Agnus Castus and Rue laid under the back is also good Opening of a Vein is good if it come from plenty of seed especially where there is Plethory to take away the cause of seed Let them be dieted as in salacity or Lechery mentioned and use much Vinegar for it wonderfully allayes the heat and sharpness of meat and seed And if the seed be too thin let them eat gross meats as Lentils parched Beans with Vinegar also Pine-nuts Almonds Rice also Turtle and Parsnips A virulent Gonorrhaea is not to be cured and stopped as another The Cure of a virulent or venemous Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins because it comes from corrupt seed which will hurt if retained by ulcerating the parts but you must provide that better may follow that which Nature sends forth And this is compleatly done by curing the Fench Pox if it be joyned therewith But if it come after the Pox which leaves an Ulcer in the Yard which sends forth this matter then you must cure it as a mattery Excretion as was shewed there Also if this malignant Gonorrhaea come from another impure Copulation because it turns to matter it must be cured as this Other involuntary Excretions of seed in Epilepsies and Convulsions The Cure of Seed flowing forth in Convulsions because they do no hurt and neither the Patient nor they about him observe it is not regarded Too much Venery which causeth Faintness The Cure of too much Venery requires no other Cure but abstinence from immoderate use thereof And for that end I have in Salacity mentioned Medicines to quench the Heat And let the Body after be restored by nourishing and refreshing Diet as we shewed in the involuntary Excretion of Seed When seed is spent sooner then it ought The Cure of too quick Effusion of Seed in the beginning or preparation to Venery by which means the act is imperfect and unprofitable for Conception because it is too hot and moist you must take those things mentioned in the Gonorrhaea from Heat and Moisture and this will be cured with more ease then that which is involuntary if it be corrected and the Diet continued CHAP. V. Of Voiding of Blood The Kinds THat Excretion of Blood which is according to Nature in Womens Courses and at the Nose or Haemorrhoids turneth preternatural if it flow by places not ordained for the same or if the blood offend in quantity or quality as we shall shew But if blood be spet out vomited pissed or void by stool with other Humors mixed the Cure shall be mentioned in those Excretions If blood come forth at the Eyes though little Bleeding of the Eyes which is very seldom it is preternatural Or if the Ears send forth blood or matter with blood Bleeding at the Ears I saw one that used to bleed at the Nose who had a great beating pain of his Head with redness of Face and bled both at Nose and Ears very plentifully The Nose often bleeds and it is called the Haemorrhagia Bleeding at the Nose And because it is usual and Natural with some it is not counted preternatural till it is immoderate and the Patient faint or die as it hapneth to some both sound and sick And in some Disease of the Nose blood flows forth with snot Pure Blood seldom flows from a Mans Yard without Pissing Bleeding at the Yard and then it is preternaturalâ— and painful Somtimes Blood instead of Seed is voided in Copulation which as I shewed is rather imperfect seed In Women there is a preternatural Flux of blood from the passage of the urin Voiding of
of the Nose that come from the jugular Vein that ascendeth by the Jawes to the Brain being opened by Anastomosis cause an Haemorrhagy The Cause of this Anastomosis is the plenty of blood which Nature desires to discharge by these tender Veins in that place of the Nose which are more easily opened in Men who have no easier Passage for it For that Evacuation which they have by the Haemorrhoids which is seldom and but in some is onely of that blood which is in the branches of the Gate-vein But in Women if they be so full of blood that it cannot be sufficiently discharged by the menstrual Veins of the womb or when the Terms are stopped Nature doth often send it forth by the Nose And this Haemorrhagy though it be not usual yet it is Natural except it be immoderate Also when Blood is too hot it opens the Veins of the Nose either when it is so hot by Nature or by Motion Sunning or Baths Or if it be inflamed in hot Diseases of the Head or Feavers it breaks forth at the first or in the heighth of the Disease by Crisis or judicially Also thin blood and more watery and mixed with Choller which sooner pierceth the Mouths of the Vessels causeth bleeding at the Nose Hence in evil Habit Dropsies and Jaundies although blood abound not this bleeding may be But if more Causes agree the Flux will be the greater And this is oftner and greater if the Veins be loose by Nature or often purging Also it flows and is increased by force as violent and often blowing of the Nose which opens the Veins by force of the blood thither If the Veins in the Neck of the Womb that come from the hollow Vein be opened by Anastomosis there is great Effusion of blood For as when these open at their set time they cause the Natural Flux of the Terms so when they open at other times they cause a prâ—â—â— natural Flux which is immoderate or the like which is unseasonable but like to the Courses which we mentioned before When the Mouths of the Veins are open by plenty of blood sent thither in a Plethory and they bleed sooner and oftner which is unseasonable or when they bleed at the appointed time but immoderately Or when the blood there by its Heat and Thinness opens the Mouths of the Vessels and causeth an immoderate Flux Or when Nature discharging her self by this way of Superfluities with the Blood at the time of the Courses or otherwise causeth this unusual and large Flux In which the Blood is sometimes watery and somtimes impure But this Flux is greatest when much blood either pure or impure is in the Veins of the Womb from the long stoppage of the terms and suddenly breaks forth and so enlargeth the Mouths of the Veins by its violence that blood is not only out of the womb but other great Vessels which supply and the Body left as it were without blood And as this is in the Veins of the Neck of the Womb so it is in those of the bottom thereof in Women that have had their Courses long stopped which swells their bellies as we shewed in Tumors and when they open suddenly they cause a dangerous Flux Somtimes there is a Flux of Blood from violence when the Mouths of the Veins of the Neck of the Womb are only opened without Solution of Continuity And this is often at the first Copulation not by reason of the skin called Hymen being broken as they suppose because a Membrane hath no blood and if it came from thence it should be torn away But which is more probable it is from that sudden and strong enlarging and dilating of the Orifice of the womb or from the Rubbing of the Neck of the Womb which it hath not felt before that the menstrual Veins are a little opened and send forth blood like the Courses or at least some Sprinklings Also there may be a Flux of Blood at the womb from Medicines that open the Veins thereof especially if they be strong or things put into the womb as Pessaries c. And there may be an immoderate Flux after Child-birth from the Causes that the Terms over-flow and as it is Natural to have the Vessels open and bleed so it is preternatural when the quantity is too great or the blood too thin As the Haemorroids come Naturally from the opening of those Veins which come from the branches of the Gate-vein yet they flow not so as the Terms by which it is necessary that that blood in women that are fit to conceive which is laid up for the nourishing of a Child should be avoided every month till they do conceive but onely then when the blood in the Meseraicks aboundeth or is hot and chollerick as we shewed in the Causes of intermitting Feavers that Choler is chiefly increased and aboundeth there not carried into the hollow Vein or purged by the Gall and therefore is sent forth by the Fundament which is near and which is ordained for other Evacuations also So when these Veins are too open or too long closed Nature being provoked by the plenty of blood or the Heat thereof or by Choler which may cause great Diseases endeavors to make an immoderate Flux and the rather when the Veins are so open that they cannot close themselves From which Cause I shewed you that two very Learned Men who lived a sedentary Life and procured the Haemorroids by Art were brought to such a violent Flux which could not be stopped but caused their Death But if Nature being moved neither by Repletion or Impurity of blood but by other Causes doth send forth good Blood from the Meseraicks without Necessity this Flux will be preternatural neither usual nor profitable By the opening of the Veins of the skin blood cannot flow through it or the Pores nor by the Rarefaction or Diapedesis of the skin can blood strain through the like Sweat because it is thither and the Pores very little except the skin be divided but if it be under the skin with the Sweat there it stayes and causeth the Hypochyma or Suffusion of Blood which I spake of And although as I shewed in the Boy with the Dropsie it was sprinkled about the body yet it past not through the skin but stuck in the Pores and this is very rare There are many Fluxes of blood that come from the Solution of Continuity in divers parts The dividing of the veins in the Eyes ears Yard Womb Fundament Skin is the cause of Bleeding which differ in that Respect If the Tunicles of the Eye be rubbed when they itch or divided the Veins may be hurt and they may bleed though but a little Also they may bleed from the hurting of the horny Tunicle For I observed in a Boy that had a piece of sharp Glass in the Pupilla of his Eye which I drew forth that the blood was discussed without any hurt If the inward Veins of the
the Danger There is Vomiting of blood but seldom Vomiting of Blood in Diseases that have others joyned therewith and in women that want the terms in which blood is vomited alone or mixed with them somtimes more plentifully pure or mixed somtimes clodded and tough like Pitch and black somtimes like Ink which a famous Lawyer vomited in abundance and purged also Not only purging of blood but great Diseases follow this Vomiting There is also a Vomiting of Excrements by themselves or with Humors mentioned Vomiting of Dung when the dung of the belly which should be sent forth by stool is vomited at the mouth of which we shall speak when we treat of the wrong passage of the Dung. The Causes It is necessary in all Vomiting that the Stomach be troubled from whence the expulsive Faculty is stirred up to expel that which troubles it and throws out all or some part that is in the Stomach into the left upper Orifice and so into the Gullet by the help of the Midriff which is near to it This Vomiting is called the subvertion of the Stomach The stomach is thus affected either when it is troubled or oppressed or pricked And the sooner when the Cause is great or many meet or when the stomach hath a most exquisite sense and easily suffereth or loosned from an evil custom of Vomiting cannot so righty contain the meat and cannot contain them when they are too many or unpleasant The Cause of the troubling pressing or pricking of the stomach is either from external force or from things taken in or from the Humors Excrements and other things in the Stomach Outwardly the rubbing of the stomach The trouble oppression or pricking of the stomach either from outward force or things taken in is the cause of preternatural Vomiting or violent thrusting or bending forward or motion by Wagon or Ship especially after much eating or drinking or lying down after Drunkenness causeth Vomiting by disturbing the meat in the stomach The Finger or a Quill or the like thrust into the throat by tickling the tunicle of the mouth which consents with the stomach causeth it by labouring to expel what offends it to throw out whatsoever is contained therein From too much meat and drink especially wine the stomach being too full vomiteth and the rather if they offend the stomach And this may come from a Physical Diet. If things be taken that are loathsom they are vomited up again As unusual meats as we shewed in Loathing and such as Nature abhors or filthy and abhominable things either by chance or necessity the very conceit or imagination of which maketh some vomit Also ill-scented things as medicines especially Purges cause a Loathing and therefore are often thrown up again some meats are loathed not because they are unpleasant but because they are contrary to some Natures so that if by chance they be eaten they are spewed up again In many Diseases where meat is loathed any smell of Food flesh especially fat or roasted which is of it self pleasant is loathsom and they vomit it up Medicines taken that prick the stomach or burn it or that purge as Hairs cut or shavings of the Nails will provoke Vomiting and if they work long or violently they are the Cause of hurtful Vomiting Other vehement medicines especially purges do the same by troubling the stomach And they are vomited as soon as taken or when they begin to work they cause the pain at the Heart and so Vomiting But chiefly corroding medicines or poysons taken by chance or otherwise In which Vomiting whatsoever juyce humors or Excrements are in the stomach are thrown out together or a sunder But chiefly thin Choler as we see after the giving of Stibium or the like it hath been voided by basons full Which was not in the stomach or Guts before because there were no symptoms of it but it was forced by Nature from the Meseraicks through the violence of the medicine as we shall shew in Vomiting of Choler Besides many things swollowed by chance Choler pricking the Stomach is the cause of the vomiting thereof have caused Vomiting Among Humors and Excrements Choler is the chief cause of Vomiting either fasting or in Diseases of Choler And if it be clammy as that like yolks of Eggs or sharp as the green and black it pulls and burns the stomach and makes not only Vomiting but purging and the more if it be plentiful and sent to the Guts especially the thin Guts which are united to the stomach And it is greater or lesser as it is more or less offensive to the Stomach and Guts This Choler breeds in the stomach from meats which are too hot and of sharp cholerick Juyce or turns such by Corruption in the stomach As appears by the use of Cowcumbers and Melons as we shewed in the Disease of Choler Also Choler that is sent from the gall and corrupted may turn to such and cause the same Also when it hath been long in the Meseraicks till it corrupt Choler may get into those parts and cause the Disease of Choler As we shewed in the Causes of intermitting Feavers how it was gathered in the Meseraicks and of what it was made Somtimes vomit is raised from other Humors and Excrements which fill The Cause of Vomiting of Flegm is the fulness of the Stomach or Loathing or offend the stomach As from crude Juyce made of meat not well concocted which flowing in the stomack and filling it with wind compels it to vomit it up four for the most part Or from other sharp Juyces besides Choler made of the Corruption of meat Whence come Vomitings not long after eating or when Concoction is beginning Also Vomiting may come from any Flegm or from tough Matter in the Stomach long retained or from water which cause Loathing as we shewed in the Want of Appetite Or from other immoderate things especially if there be other evil Humors mixed These alone or with other Humors bred in the stomach or sent thither offending the stomach cause Vomiting in divers Cacochymicks and in Women that are with Child and want their Terms or others that have not conceived by reason of the filth stopped with the terms and in the beginning of Feavers and other malignant Diseases when the stomack consenteth or is hurt by them As we shewed in the Causes of these Diseases Blood getting into the Stomach by the Meseraick Veins which go through the same Vomiting of blood from the stomach filled with the blood from the meseraicks or rising from the Veins of the Guts is the Cause of Vomiting blood and as the Blood is so is the Vomiting somtimes watery filthy or black such as is laid up in the Meseraicks as we shewed in Feavers sometimes when it hath been long in the stomach it grows thicker Now it gets out of the Veins either from the plenty thereof as we shewed in the stopping of the Terms that Women with Child may
and Water and with Sugar make a Syrup It is good to eat Beans Kidney-beans Lentils Dioscorides directs twenty two Lentils Divers Stomach-pouders mentioned in the weakness of the stomach which are astringent as Aromaticum Rosatum and Gary ophyllatum Rosata Novella and Diagalanga Or make this astringent Pouder Take Roots of Cypress Galangal Acorus Cassia Lignea each one dram and an half Nutmegs Mace Cloves each one dram Schaenanth Spike Wood Aloes each half a dram Pepper and Ginger each half a scruple make a Pouder which will be stronger but less pleasant with Marjoram Mints Roses each half a dram Mastick or Frankincense two scruples These are given with Wine and Sugar Also there are many Conserves and Candyes good as that of old Roses Mints Marjoram Citrons Nutmegs and the like You may apply to the Stomach strengthners and astringers mentioned in the weakness thereof choosing those which are best scented Anoint the Stomach with Oyls there mentioned which strengthen and bind And least the greafiescent offend the stomach keep the Head off and use some sweet Scents Or sprinkle some sweet Pouders there mentioned after anointing or mix sweet things with the Oyntment Oyl of Nutmegs is good for that The Oyntment mentioned for a moist and loose stomach is good if you sweeten it It is better to apply Plaisters least by chasing the stomach you cause Vomiting as that of Mastick mentioned in the weakness of the stomach Also the Fomentations there which strengthen and astringe which are the better for being sweet-scented The sweet pouders also there are to be sprinkled here upon the Oyntments and to be applied in bags to the stomach Also use the Cataplasms without the unctious things which are well-scented and there mentioned The Juyce of Mints with Leaven laid like a plaister to the Stomach and Guts doth quickly cure Vomiting of flegm and wind And the same is good for cholerick Vomiting and the Disease Choler Also Cupping Dropax Ligature Amulets are good but best in Vomiting of Choler Remembering alwayes a spare and convenient Diet. If Vomiting come from Choler or a sharp Humor The Cure of cholerick Vomiting and the Disease Choler from corrupt Meat or otherwise which pricks the Stomach when these are voided you must provoke rather then stop it But if it be often in Cacochymicks because it is worse then that of flegm and causeth hurt threatning diseases it must be cured As also when it is immoderate and vehement And in regard Vomiting is the chief symptom in the Disease Choler and so dangerous The cure in general must be aimed at This Disease of Choler is most acute and dangerous if it come without a manifest Cause but it is less dangerous when it is from eating of Cowcumbers Mellons or the like turned into Choler And it threatneth Death if the Pulse be weak the Heart beat and faint with Hickocks and Convulsions And if the Pulse intermit and the Urin be blew and the outward parts cold Death is at hand Your aim in curing of these immoderate Vomitings of Choler or sharp Humors is to cleanse away the Choler that sticks so fast with other Humors alwayes regarding the Disease and other Symptoms if there be any and to abate their force and drive them down when they ascend too much And then to strengthen the Stomach and Ou ts by astringents And if need require to take away their sense of feeling with inward and outward Applications And to have regard to the strength and to drive away all accidents approaching and to mind the flux of the belly in Choler which are all done by these following The Vomits mentioned in Heart-pain from Choler are good here to take away the Cause These also evacuate Choler that cleaveth and stop the violent Flux of the Belly by Revulsion Also Purges mentioned for the Heart-ach from Choler chiefly Myrobalans and Rhubarb with Spike which corrects it and stops all Fluxes giving alwayes things which stop the Vomiting by drawing the Choler downwards The things mentioned in Dysentery are good in the Disease Choler because the belly flows too much when the Choler sticks to the Guts Stronger remedies are not given but to prevent in such as are subject to it And therefore in the time of the Disease abstain from them Clysters are best to draw down Choler which cleanse and allay Heat Many Alteratives are good which are mentioned in cholerick Heart-ach if you choose those that bind and are not nauseous as also these Sour Fruits raw or boyled eaten or used as Sauce or the Juyces thereof in Meats if not too ripe as Grapes Cherries Medlars Services Cornil-berries also four Popherbs or eaten with Vinegar candied Cabbage topps and Turneps The conserved or candied four Fruits are good also Myrobalans Citron barks candied Conserve of Roses and Sorrel Also the Juyces of the same four Fruits and Herbs without Meat stay vomiting Also vinegar drunk alone after a surfeit or Drunkenness as it allayes Drunkenness so it hinders vomiting Wormwood-wine cures the vomiting of Choler therefore Drunkards use it for their mornings-draught when pain of the Heart forerunneth it Also to drink cold water after Meat will stay vomiting Those four Syrups mentioned in Heart-pain are good given alone or with Sortel-water And you may add which is the best of the Syrup of four Pomegranates four parts of Mints one part Or boyl the Juyces of both to a Syrup or boyl a little Mints with the Syrup of Pomegranates therein The Chymists give some drops of the Oyl of Pearl in this Disease You may make a Pouder to be given in wine or otherwise thus Take Pulp of Quinces or of sour Pears Medlars or Services or Cornil-berries dryed before they be ripe half an ounce dryed Citron peels one dram Galls half a dram Cynk-foyl roots Sorrel seeds and of Plantane Grapes Barberries Sumach Pomegranates Roses Coriander each one dram Roses and wild Vine each half a dram Antispodium of Ivory or Harts horn red Coral each one dram and an half Crystal half a dram Pearls one scruple Bole or other fat Earth one dram Hypocistis half a dram red Sanders and Gross Cinnamon each one dram make a Pouder Also the Pouder of Mastick Frankincense Amber with the Yolk of an Eg and a little Salt Also Pouder of three leaved Grass Chesnuts-shells Mallow-seeds Cherry Gum drunk with wine The Moss of Trees called Lungwort and the Leaves of Harefoot with the Seed is commended by Dioscorides Also Diacydonites without the Species Troches of Spodium with Sorrel seeds Also Troches of Frankincense is good except the scent offend as that of Rhasis of Frankincense Mastick Bole Amber Champhire Gallia Moschata with Cloves to sweeten The Pouder of Liquorish with Ivory and Cinnamon given in Broath stayes both Vomiting of Choler and Flegm and are good after the taking of a Purge Also the Electuaryes and Candyes mentioned in Heart-pain Or this Take Conserve of Quinces two ounces Citron peels candied Conserve of Roses each
Dysury As from the matter which comes from Ulcers in the Reins and other corruption in foul Bodies ripened by the heat of the Reins These may cause burning and matterry urin together Matter without Ulceration causeth foul Urin without other accident except heavyness in the Reins Corrupt Urin from matter like milk is like the former except the colour when there is also heat which though it come from the Reins as the other is more salt as appears when it is dry being like white salt in colour and tast And I collect that it comes from the saltness of the Serum in the Reins made thick and concocted because when it is more hard it turns to sand or a stone as we shewed in the Stone From Seed in Men Seed out of its place is the Cause of scalding Urin. moved from its place and not sent forth pricking and burning may come scalding urin for seed by Nature is sharp and in its one place it doth no hurt as Choler in the Gall but going forth and sticking in the passage it corrodes and exulcerates which causeth heat of urin As it is in them who have nocturnal Imaginations or diurnal Lusts which stirs up the Seed without action or spending This is in old men from the little quantity of seed and insufficient extension of the Yard and in sick people and causeth scalding Urin. In a venemous Gonorrhaea the same happens from corrupt Seed Corrupt Seed is the Cause of â—â—alding urin in the Running of the Reins so that it runs not only from the sharpness but also corrodeth the passage especially when any part sticks by the way and causeth scalding Urin. There is a dropping of Urin with pain and desiring to piss A Stone in the bladder is the cause of hot urin from a stone in the neck of the bladder which pricketh and iâ— it be great is burdensom These Stones fall first from the Kidneys by the Ureters into the Bladder and there being kept they increase dayly by the Urin which washeth them As we shewed in the Causes of the Stone of the Kidneys And in Hypochondriack Pains where we shewed how sand and stones which are the causes of preternatural Pissing grow in the Kidneys and somtimes in the Liver There comes Pissing of Blood from the Solution of Continuity in the Reins and Bladder The Solution of Continuity in the Kidneys Bladder is the cause of Pissing of Blood when the substance of the Reins is wounded or bruised But usually from a Stone in the Kidneys which rubbs and chaffs them till they bleed which blood is mixed with water and pissed forth and separateth from the urin to the bottom when it is settled But if the urin be too long in the bladder then it is so mixed with blood that it will not be separated This also happens when a stone moved from its place cannot get forth but by forcing a passage bruiseth the Reins with its hardness or unevenness or when it is forced by external motion through the pressing of the Reins by which means the Hypochondria are also troubled and so causeth bleeding within which blood being rendered with the urin signifieth the stone in the Reins especially if there be other signs therewith And if there be an Ulcer in the Kidneys therewith the Stone by chaffing it causeth it to void not only matter but blood A Stroak in the Bladder or a Wound piercing to it may cause bloody Urin or a touch with a Catheter which is an Instrument to let out urin Also a stone striving to pass the neck of the bladder may cause bloody urin and then onely some few drops come after the urin is made with great pain And t his is one of the infaillible signs of the Stone When the Sphincter Muscle which is the Cause of the stopping of the Urin is wounded A Wound upon the Sphincter muscle of the bladder is the cause of involuntary Pissings there is involuntary Pissing as is usual in cutting for the Stone and though the wound be cured yet by reason of the hurt of the Muscle the urin cannot be contained Somtimes there is a preternatural flux of the urin from a wound of the bladder A Wound in the bladder is the cause of urin passing that way not only by the cutting for the stone but by other external means As when there is an Incision made for a fleshy rupture in the Groin as I shewed in the want of Pissing how one alwayes pissed that way And we saw one that gored with an Ox whose horn pierced through his bladder that voided urin at both Orifices And this may be from any other Wound in the Bladder From an Ulcer in the Kidneys followeth a pissing of Matter with urin An Vlcer in the Reins is the cause of pissing matter which settleth at the bottom which causeth pain in pissing if it be sharp with other accidents The cause of the Ulcer is an Inflammation Those Causes of Solution of Continuity in the substance of the Reins mentioned may cause pissing of blood if the wound be not cured but turn'd to an Ulcer When there is a wound in the neck or bottom of the bladder The Ulcer of the bladder is the cause of pissing hot matter there is pissing of Matter with Urin and somtimes without where the wound is in that part of the neck which is farther from the bladder This matter makes the urin stink Or is pressed with difficulty and sticks to the bottom of the chamber-pot And then there is hot pissing because the ulcer is disturbed and then the matter is sharp This Ulcer comes from a wound That strange pissing of the Dung and Bones mentioned Hurt of the neck of the bladder is the cause of pissing of dung bones or terms comes from an Ulcer in the neck of the bladder This Ulcer comes from a Wound in the neck of the womb or strait Gut which eats into the bladder And hence womens terms are mixed with Urin. Somtimes Blood is pissed from solution of contiguity by Anastomosis or Diapedesis of the Vessels The Anastomosis or Diapedesis of the Veins of the Reins is the cause of pissing of blood when through plenty of blood or founlness thereof in Plethory or Diseases from thence Nature purgeth blood from the emulgent veins into the Reins and from thence by the Ureters into the Bladder And then the blood is voided without pain or other distemper And as I shewed Feavers have been cured thereby but seldom And it is probable in the wench that had the plague and pissed blood before she died that Nature was stirred up by the force of the venom to throw it out that wayes which it could not compleat The thinness of the blood is the Cause of the Anastomosis or Diapedesis of the Vessels of the Reins which causeth pissing of blood By which means before the blood is separated from the Serum in the Kidneys Guts
of Roses in the morning as it stops the running of the reins so doth it the burning of troubled urin from the reins and bladder ulcerated To these Pouders you may add Opium as in the Troches of Winter-cherries Or other Narcoticks as in scalding urin which I have observed a hundred times and more being taken every night in this and other painful Diseases hath allayed the pain and refreshed the Patient that he hath lived though without it he could not for pain Healing and narcotick Pills Take Frankincense and Mastick each one dram Myrrh Storax and Gum Traganth each half a dram the Barks of Mandraks one dram Henbane seed half a dram Opium and Juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Wine each one dram with Syrup of Poppies make Pills give one or more as you shall think fit Injections are not for the Kidneys but for Ulcers of the Bladder to which they scarce reach in men by reason of the bending and length of the Yard but return again though not in women and if the Instrument be thrust to the neck of the bladder it will hurt the ulcer yet they are to be used for necessity For making whereof take Cleansers and that also dry which is hard by reason of the constant moisture and things that abate heat of urin as those Anodine Injections there mentioned They are made of Milk which asswageth pain cleanseth and healeth Womens and Cows Milk asswage pain best or Goats with Sugar or Honey Water and Whey when you will heal use Sheeps milk or other boyled and mixed with Sugar or Honey Also the Decoction of Barley with Bean shales Sugar and Honey Wine is good to cleanse if white and thin with some drops of Spirit of Vitriol Also Whey and some drops of Spirit of Vitriol injected with a Syringe doth cleanse A Decoction for an Injection to cure ulcers Take the Roots of Comfrey one ounce and an half the dryed barkes or skins of Pompions one ounce Horstayl Plantane Nightshade each one handful Rosemary and St. Johns wort flowers each one pugil the four great cold Seeds six drams boyl them in Barley-water in a pint where of dissolve four ounces of Sugar or Honey If you must dry more add Mousear Solomons-seal Shepheards-purse Ceterach Bettony Herb Robert Dassodil roots which glew well also plantane and purslaneseeds Adding also the Juyce of Plantane Horstayl Shepheards rod also Starch Also the Waters of those Plants are good especially plantane or Myrtles Brambles or Olive tops Roses Centaury of St. Johns-wort Also steeled Water or wherein Iron is quenched or melted Lead hath been often infused There are glewing mixtures for Injections As Take Sarcocol steeped in Milk one dram the Infusion of Gum Arabick or Traganth half a dram made in an ounce and an half of Plantane-water Ceruss half a dram Dragons blood one scruple dissolve them in Milk or a Decoction or stilled Waters This oyly Injection heals ulcers Take Hens dung fry it in a pan with Butter or Oyl omphacine then put them in cold Water preserve the Oyl that swims at the top Mix with these somtimes things that asswage pain as the Decoction of white poppy seeds Rinds of Mandraks or Mucilages the white of an Eg and Opium in case of great pain In obstinate Ulcers the Decoction of Litharge is good two ounces in plantane or Rose-water four ounces Or mix with the Injections mentioned Bole Cadmia or Brass ore called Lapis Calaminaris Tutty Ceruss Lead burnt and washed Antimony and the Juyce from the grinding of a Bloodstone And in filthy ulcers a little Myrrh The troches of Alkekengi and Gordonius are good to be taken at the mouth and those of Amber sealed Earth Spodium dissolved in the Liquors aforesaid Some drying Collyriums for the Eyes are good here as that white one and the yellow one and that of Frankincense of Rhasis also of Tutty and the like of Ceruss Sarcocol Frankincense Gum Traganth Arabick Starch which asswage pain with Opium A little Aegyptiacum is good when ulcers are very foul The Chymists commend the spirit of Mercurius dulcis with plantane or Horstayl-water injected to cure ulcers in the Yard and Bladder cool Oyntments for the reins are good to cool the urin As we shewed in burning urin You must anoint the privities and perinaeum or seam with Oyl of Roses or Violets with Oyl of Myrtles Quinces and a little Vinegar if the pain threaten Inflammation To these Unguents are added Ceruss Litharge Juyce of plantano and Horstayl to dry the ulcer yet they do little outward and because by astringing outwardly they will stop the passage of urin it is better to use relaxing Oyntments to open as Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil which also stay pain You may make Fomentations of the same for the pecten or perinaeum as of Mallows Chamomil Melilot with Coolers if there be heat as Water-lilly roots and flowers Violets c. The Diet must be as in the Cure of scalding Urin without an ulcer and glutinous Meats that cover the ulcer to keep it from sharpness Fat things soul ulcers and are not here good Other thick pissings as of matter The Cure of turbulent pissing from the Reins or of milkie white from the Reins not yet ulcerated come from a filth that is bred there and mixed with the urin because they cause heat in pissing and by continuance also excoriation of the bladder that causeth an ulcer must be cured This is done by purging the Body from foul excrements and humors which cause the filth to grow to the reins and is turned into matter then by cleansing the reins with things mentioned in the Cure of the Ulcer of the Kidneys Among which Turpentine is excellent and Milk and the like with Lenitives which take away heat mentioned in Heat of Urin which allay the acrimony of urin and of this matter also As for the Pissing of Matter which comes from Imposthumes in the Liver or other parts The Cure of pissing of matter from the Liver and other parts besides the Reins and Bladder or from an Empyema a Pleurisie or Peripnumony In these you must help Nature in her motion and not stop with things that cleanse the filth of the blood by urin mentioned in Feavers and for the rest go to the Disease rather then the Symptom If Pissing of Blood come from a stone which grateth upon the Loins The Cure of pissing blood from the stone through motion because there is then but little blood mixed with urin and it continueth not but when motion ceaseth the urin comes to its colour again it requires no other Cure but that of the Stone which is the cause thereof As we shewed in the Cure of the Stone But if Pissing of Blood come from the Kidneys The Cure of pissing of blood from Anastomosis or hurt of the Reins being too full of blood which Nature sends forth with the urin being impure or too thin it must be cured if it contiune And
cause an Inflammation of the guts which is somtimes joyned with a Dysentery And by reason of strong irritation when the guts are not ulcerated through the opening of the mouths of the vessels there may be voiding of blood by stool seldom pure often clotted and somtimes black as we shewed Or there may be a bloody Flux like a Dysentery with an Inflammation in which without an ulcer of the guts blood flows with great pain a Feaver and straining As we have observed in Infants opened that have been thought to die of a Dysentery If this irritation be in the end of the strait gut The irritation of the strait gut is the cause of Tenesmus or an ulcer then by reason of the exquisite sense of the part there is a continual provoking to stool and is the cause of Tenesmus which if it come from an ulcer hath signs of blood and matter this is the first kind of Tenesmus If Choler flow or other clammy Matter it causeth the second sort of Tenesmus if nothing the third And then the strait gut is provoked or molested with the stone in the bladder that lies near it or with a tumor or hard excrements or heat which inflameth the urin or from worms called Ascarides As shall be shewed This Tenesmus which hath needing or straining without voiding of any thing may come from cold gotten into the Fundament And this irritation may open the Haemorrhoids and then pure blood is voided Some Diseases of the stomach and guts cause Dejections with less pain Pain of the stomach or guts is the cause of Dejection then irritation as the being burdened with excrements and humors and other bodies or when they are so many that they cannot contain them longer being preternatural and of an evil quality which provoketh Excretion Hence are divers sorts of Dejections In all which the stomach and guts do sooner void excrements when they are dilated or loosned The Faeces of the Belly and the Chyle coming upwards The stopping of the guts is the cause of vomiting Excrements by reason of the stoppage of the guts cause this preternatural Excretion by vomit the cause of which stoppage we shewed in the Convolvulus and in the Cure of the Rupture When the guts are wounded A Wound in the guts is the cause of voiding excrements thereat the excrements come out there if it pierce the belly and wound the guts and if the thick guts are wounded thick Excrements flow out if the thin thin And if the Jejunum be wounded the Chyle comes forth And somtimes being turned into a Fistula the Excretion remains there and the Patient liveth And this is when the lips of the wounds of the guts and belly grow together which is sooner in a fleshy part of the belly And then if the ulcer be not closed as I have seen it turns to a Fistula and le ts out the excrements and keeps them from falling down This is like that of the bladder As we shewed in preternatural Pissing That voiding of dung at the womb A Wound in the strait gut is the cause of Excrements from the womb and by urin mentioned comes from an ulcer in the strait gut which joyns to the neck of the womb and bladder The Causes of all these Diseases of the Stomach and Guts from whence these preternatural Excretions arise besides wounds ulcers and obstructions from whence the excrements are sent forth by vomit urin or the womb As we shewed in the Iliack passion are from these following If purging medicines do so stir up the expulsive Faculty of the Stomach and Guts that they work too strong Purges cause over purging bloody Flux or too long there is super-purgation And though this cometh commonly from strong medicines yet gentle things as Cassia Manna may cause it by their cleansing quality being dry unctious and provoking Nature by contrariety Some purges are sharp and hot as Spurge wild Cowcumber Coloquintida Laurel and these do not only over purge but ulcerate by corroding and inflaming and cause Dysenteryes or bloody Fluxes by opening the veins If the force of them reach to the Fundament it causeth Tenesmus as from Coloquintida or they open the Haemorrhoids And the same may be done by Clysters and Suppositories forcibly thrust up which cause a Tenesmus And this may be done by the violent use of a Clyster-pipe Besides purges Clysters and Suppositories the cause of Diarrhaea and Tenesmus poyson may cause Diarrhaea's and Dysenteryes Among which the pouder of a Loadstone drunk is the cause of a Dysentery Also other sharp and pricking things swallowed Also Poysons and some Meats Drinks but they stay seldom in the Guts Meat and Drink by plenty and corruption or crudity causeth preternatural Dejections especially when swallowed down and being crude they lie heavy breed wind disturb or being moist loosen or fat and cause slipperiness and so produce a diarrhaea Or things that easily corrupt cause a Diarrhaea sooner being turned into bad humors Of which we shall speak Or things that breed many Excrements Mud or Filth or sordid Matter by their plenty and adverse quality may cause a Diarrhaea This may be partly from the Meat that will easily be so corrupted and from the Stomach which is apt to pervert them As we shewed in Weakness of the Stomach But if meat remains crude without any concoction there is Lientery when it is much and burdensom to Nature and thrown out as taken in This is when things are taken that either cannot be digested but with great difficulty or when the stomach is so weakned as that it cannot concoct as I shewed in Weakness of the Stomach also a Scar left in the stomach from a wound is reported to be a cause when these causes meet there is a Lientery and if they be at a certain time from meat that many eat or the like there is a popular Lientery which they suppose comes from the Air. Sharp pricking Humors that burn and corrode cause preternatural Dejections Choler is the cause of Diarrhaea Dysentery or Tonesmus as yellow and black Choler which if bred in the stomach and guts or sent thither from the gall or meseraicks by its plenty or in Diseases as in Jaundies and Feavers being mixed with the Flegm and slime of the Guts and with water or serum made milder causeth only a Diarrhaea which sends forth moist froath yellow or black Excrements as the Choler is But if the Choler bemore malignant such as corrodes and grips the guts whereit can lie longer then in the stomach then it produceth a Dysentery with Inflammation or Ulcer or such a bloody Flux as was mentioned as Choler is which flows with the blood and excrements either yellow green or black Also the same Choler descending to the end of the strait Gut and there sticking if it be clammy by provoking or ulcerating the part causeth Tenesmus And this may follow a Dysentery by reason of
Choler brought thither by it This Choler may come from the same causes with that of the Disease Choler and is chiesty in young people that eat much green Fruit which corrupt and turn into holer and therefore they have the Dysentery chiefly in Autumne when the Fruite is plentiful and the rather when the Fruit is not kindly but worm-eaten or as Rondoletius saith when they eat astringent Fruit which stops the passage of the former This Dysentery is popular or epidemical when many have it A Diarrhaea may also come from other sharp Humors that gripe like yellow or black Choler Other sharp Humors are the causes of Dysentery Dyarrhaea and Tenesmus or are corrupt and malignant when they are qualified with flegm Or a Dysentery or Tenesmus may come from the same being more sharp and not qualified And if these Dysenteryes have a malignant cause they are epidemical And these humors come from evil diet or humors in the stomach and guts or meseraicks As it is often in malignant and pestilential Feavers that the putrid humors or venom in the plague which is very hot being sent by the force of Nature to the guts as the common shore and there retained doth provoke and prick them and somtimes ulcerate As I have often observed in the small Pox that the guts have been ulcerated by the humors which hath caused a deadly or long lasting Dysentery These are either joyned with the feavers or follow them Also in other venemous Diseases as in the French Pox when the malignant humor is carried by Nature or medicines into the guts as by Quick-silver it will cause a Diarrhaea or Dysentery as well as a flux or ulcer in the mouth Somtimes Flegm mixed with dung or humors or water Flegm is the cause of Diarrhaea enesmus and Flux of the Brain causeth Diarrhaea's and is somtimes most pervalent especially at the conclusion when all other excrements are purged away And this Flegm is bred in the stomach and guts being somtimes waterish slimy or glassie from the causes thereof somtimes it is sent thin like water by the meseraicks with other humors from divers parts of the body And this may come from the brain to the stomach and guts being froathy and cause the flux of the brain according to Hippocrates Aphorism which teacheth that they who have froathy excrements have a flux of Rhewm from the brain The cause of which defluxion of flegm from the brain was mentioned in Defluxes Also it is affirmed that salt flegm gathered about the Fundament may cause a Tenesmus And if it be not very sharp there well be no ulcer but only a straining This pricking in this kind of Tenesmus comes not from the sharpness or saltness of the slime but from its sticking by which it cleaves to the gut being very sensible and continually provoketh a needing and straining to discharge it The Serum or Whey mixeth it self with the Blood and other other Humors and Excrements And the greater quantity there is of it the more thin are the stools Especially in a Diarrhaea where the stools are like water because the serum mixeth with and moderateth the sharp and cholerick humors and this serum is made in the first concoction for moist meat and drink or it is sent to the guts by the meseraicks and carrieth divers humors with it either by nature or medicine in time of repletion and causeth a Diarrhaea thus mixed And it appears that this could not come from the serum that sweats through the meseraicks because the quantity is great and the flux is constant and so much cannot be retained in the stomach and guts nor can the moisture taken in at the mouth cause it being somtimes very little Neither is that an objection that being mixed with blood it receives no colour from it when the sweat from the whole body and the water that comes from wounds and to the reins by the emulgents is not bloody And after a vein is opened when the blood is settled the water or serum is separated from it It cometh to pass but seldom Bloody Serum or Whey is the cause of a Liver-flux that Serum is voided in a Liver-flux in great quantity like water wherein flesh was washed tinctured with blood which it receives from the blood in the meseraicks And yet in other fluxes of water are not discolour'd or red The question is how this should be Some say the weakness of the liver is the cause and want of sangnification And although this may be the cause of abundance of serum and crude blood which causeth a Diarrhaea yet because the tincture is seldom there must be another cause not ordinary in the liver and meseraicks As the thinness of the meseraick blood or the dilatation or opening of the mouths of the vessels And the cause hereof is rather the heat then coldness of the liver as appears by the heat thirst and burning about the Hypochondria with a Feaver somtimes and somtimes after as also in regard it is cured by cold things rather then hot From this heat of the Liver and Constitution of blood with the Anastomosis or opening of the Veins caused by this heat it comes to pass that the Serum returns the same way tinctured with a little blood and falls into the Guts causing this bloody tincture in the flux of serum as in a Dysentery from an ulcer that opens the mouths of the veins That Slime which besmeareth the stomach and guts Slime in the stomach and guts is the cause of slimy Dejections and blood slime is the cause of a Dysentery cannot alone cause a preternatural Dejection because it comes seldom forth alone but when it is mixed with other excrements being much in quantity The cause of the abounding of this is clammy meat which breeds excrements But that slime which is in a Dysentery if it be voided more then other excrements causeth the white Dysentery and the same causeth a Tenesmus This slime from the ulcerated substance of the guts which being membranous causeth such matter as we see in the ulcer of the bladder which at first hath some signs of blood and is after white matter And because it is gathered into the strait gut about the Fundament it being thick comes forth alone in this Disease Therefore we count this Slime Matter rather then flegm which some account salt flegm that hath only a force of pricking when it is not so And the needing in a Tenesmus comes rather from the hurt of the gut which is very sensible then from this flegm though sharp As for the Slime which Fernelius saith is voided without pain which some think to be Matter it is he saith the dreggs of blood from the veins of the Fundament in long melancholick Diseases as the Whites in women We shewed formerly how Matter like Slime comes from a Dysentery and Tenesmus and also from a Colick Besides these Matter in a Dysentery from an Ulcer is
ounces with astringent Syrup and convenient Waters or dissolve half an ounce of Triphera Saracenica in a Decoction of Citrine and Indian Myrobalans Catholicon is given to one ounce with Rhubarb and Myrobalans and the like also Hiera Agarick one dram by Dioscorides which purgeth strongly and is not sharp if it be given with Honey or Syrup of Roses and Rhubarb Some give Carthamus seeds in Whey Others the Pulp or Decoction of Tamarinds which allays the heat of Choler It is dangerous to use stronger which wil inflame the Guts Vomiting is only alowed in a Dysentery when the cause reacheth to the stomach and is nourished from it And if it come from a burning Medicine or poyson Blood-letting will do little good because little is taken from the Meseraicks thereby which send the Blood into the Guts and it weakens Yet when the Hemorrhoids open of themselves and flow not too much they do good Sweating doth stop this Flux and must be used while there is strength with Coverlidds Bricks Bottles or the like provoking of urin doth the same by carrying the matter in part to the Ureters as with this Take of the four great cold Seeds beaten with their shells each two drams Maiden-hair half an handful Asparagus roots one ounce or Seeds thereof one dram Sumach three drams Coriander and Anise-seed each one dram and an half boyl them in Broath and let him drink it when he is thirsty If the thick Guts are hurt Clysters are good because they reach to the part but if the Ulcer be deep in the sinal Guts they cannot so well reach the part and are not so proper but only to take away pain and the Excrements and to stop the Flux gently You must give them in smal quantity when the great Guts are hurt and in larger when the small are hurt that they may reach the part which if they do they must be repeated These are made of Lenients Cleansers and Astringents against the sharp corroding Humors and the Ulcer Lentive Clysters allay the sharpness of Humors and defend the Guts take away pain prevent further hurt are given at any time alone or mixed as with Stupefactives to take away pain and stop the Flux These are good also to cure the Ulcer if they be mixed with Cleansers and Dryers Cleansing Clysters must be first given to take away the Humor that provoketh and wash the Ulcer with dryers And must be continued while the Ulcer is foul and least these should prick the parts being very sensible or inflame them they must be moderate except the Ulcer be very foul And then you use Lenitives after if they cause pain or mix Lenitives therewith Drying Clysters must be used after cleansing to heal the Ulcer with which use things to glew As we shewed in Excoriation and Ulcers Among which they which dry most and bind are best These if they be strong are used in the conclusion after weaker mixed with cleansers if the Ulcer be foul And when we use strong Astringents for the violence of the Flux we add glutinous things that they may not exasperate And we do not hinder healing but cause it to be more safely done These forms following are best Among lenitive Clysters Milk doth not only take away pain but cleanseth and healeth That cleanseth most which hath most Whey And it will heal more if you quench Stones or Iron in it to consume the Whey It is more operative and takes away pain better if to one pint you add one or two yolks of Eggs or four ounces of Mucilage of Fleabane or Quince seeds or one ounce of fresh Suet which heals Excoriations As was shewed Goats suet is best and then Dears especially that taken from the Kidneys which is hardest This in a great pain is given with an equal proportion of Oyl of Roses When we must cleanse and lenifie together we add one ounce and an half of Sugar or Honey to the Milk And if we will heal or glew more three or four ounces of the Juyce of Plantane Cream of Barley or Almonds or an Emulsion with Rice is good to be injected Mutton-broath or Chicken-broath with yolks of Egs or Mucilages are good here as in the Colick A lenitive glutinating Decoction Take Marsh-mallow roots one ounce Barley or Rice one pugil Line-seed or Foenugreek Quince seeds one ounce Fleabane seeds half an ounce and against wind Anise-seeds two drams Chamomil or Dill flowers one pugil make a Decoction in Milk or Broath adding yolks of Eggs Suet and Oyl as in the Clyster of Milk To all these Decoctions you may add in time of pain Philonium one or two drams especially Persicum which stops Fluxes or one or two scruples of Cynogloss pills or as I have done often with good success one ounce and an half of Syrup of Poppies You may use one scruple or one dram of Opium with the former but it is better when it is dissolved in Compositions and fermented In time of extream pain we are constrained to use oyls alone which otherwise being greasie and enemies to the Ulcers we omit them as Oyl of sweet Almonds or of Roses that is more astringent especially Omphacine or a little Oyl of Quinces or Myrtles with Mucilages and yolks of Eggs. The common cleansing Clyster is this Take Barley-water one pint course Sugar or Honey two ounces When we will lenifie also add to it two yolks of Eggs. And to astringe use Oyl of Roses instead of common oyl and one dram of Turpentine dissolved with the yolk of an Egg to cleanse and heal Whey alone or Hydromel that is mead cleanseth to which you may add the former Another cleansing Clyster Take Liquorish one ounce and an half Figgs Raisons each two ounces Bran one pugil Barley Pease Lentils or Lupines two ounces boyl them in Whey or Mead and dissolve therein Sugar or Honey A stronger in foul Ulcers add to the former Pellitory and Beets or Centaury Wormwood and Gentian boyled in weak Lye And if corruption follow use stronger as Lye or Piss salt Water Brine or pickl'd Some use Aegyptiacum as in outward Ulcers or Ovntments of Orpiment The safest of which are mentioned in the Ulcers of the Mouth and are to be carefully used with Milk Barley â—ream or Rice and the like To glew and heal an Ulcer a gentle drying Clyster is made of burnt Milk with Flints or Steel quenched therein and Roses boyled Another is of Barley-water and Rice parched and one pugil of red Roses with two yolks of roasted Eggs Honey of Roses and if you will have it stronger one ounce of Juyce of Plantane The third Clyster to glew and astringe Take Comfrey-roots and Mullein each one ounce lantane and Consound each one handful red Roses and parched Barley each one pugil Myrtle seeds two drams Grapet half an ounce boyl them in Cistern-water and dissolve Honey of Roses one ounce and an half a White of an Eg or Gum Traganth one ounce Goats suet two ounces Juyce
of Plantane or Solomons-seal one ounce make a Clyster The fourth Clyster to astringe and dry the Ulcer Take Roots of Snakeweed or Tormentil one ounce and an half Comfrey one ounce Shepheards purse or Rod Solomons seal or Rupturewort Horstayl Monsear each one handful Pomegranate flowers Acorn-cupps Cypress-nuts each two drams Lentils and parched Rice each one pugil boyl them in Forge-water add Juyce of Plantane two ounces and two yolks of roasted Eggs make a Clyster To these Decoctions Astringents and Healers may be added as Sanicle Wintergreen golden Rod other wound-herbs also Myrtles Mastick-tree Olive Sumach Ceterach Agrimony Brambles Bloodworr Osier Sparrow-tongue Flowers of Chamaeleon Galls Pomegranate-peels and the Juyces of astringent Fruits and Juyces of Plants aforesaid Juyce of Plantane alone or with Milk or Barley-water is good two drams of Gum Traganth dissolved in a Clyster or infused in Rose and Plantane water and so mixed is excellent The Infusion of Gum Traganth with Juyce of Plantane or Goats suet is also good Also the Mucilage of Quince or Fleabane seed with water of Plantane or Shepheards-purse and an astringent Decoction Gum Arabick is as good as Traganth also Frankincense Mastick Sarcocol these dissolved glutinate and do not exasperate the Ulcer as strong Astringents Dryed Juyces as Acacia Hypocistis Dragons blood a dram or two dissolved in Clysters cause astringency Also red Wine from the grinding of the Bloodstone with Plantane or Rose-water two drams added to the rest doth glutinate and stop the Flux of Blood Also fat Earths that are not rough but drying and smooth as Bole and Terra Lemnia are good to be mixed two drams with the former The Troches of Amber or the white troches of Rhasis two drams with Milk Juyce of Plantane or Decoctions or with other Clysters are good here as in the Excoriations and Ulcer of the Bladder And if you add Opium it will abate the pain Other Pouders are not necessary because they settle at the bottom and provoke and exasperate the part Yet some add burnt Paper and burnt Vitriol Oyntments are too greasie as of Roses Pompholyx Diapalma Divinum though some use them Some commend the Blood of a Dear in a Dysentery If the Disease be in the upper Guts there are other Medicines to be taken at the Mouth besides Purges to lenifie cleanse and cure Cow milk lenifieth cleanseth and healeth all inward Ulcers and is given with Honey or Sugar of Roses when you will cleanse or Goats milk But if you desire to heal more give Cow or Sheeps-milk which hath had Flints Iron or Steel quenched therein Take three ounces of Cow milk one ounce of Juyce of Plantane and as much of Sugar of Roses and it will heal You may boyl Comfrey roots in the Milk Veal-broath that is strong of the Flesh is best Also Rice-porrage is good to heal And a Decoction of Barley and Liquorish with Sugar or Honey to cleanse A healing Decoction Take Roots of Tormentil one ounce Comsrey and Marsh-mallows each half an ounce Plantane Shepheards-purse each one handful red Roses dryed one pugil Sumach or Grapestones two drams boyl them in Rain-water and a little red Wine add to the straining Sugar of Roses Let him drink it at twice or thrice Or Take Cynkfoyl roots or Bistort Snakeweed one ounce Water-lillies six drams Yarrow or Horstayl one handful wild Vine one pugil Plantane seeds and Sorrel seeds and Dock seeds each two drams boyl them in Plantane-water and a little Wine and dissolve therein the Syrup of Quinces or the like make a Potion give it as the former You may add to these Decoctions the Roots of Avens Fern Sorrel Polemount Water-plantane and these wound Herbs as Consound Wintergreen Mousear Straw-berry leaves wild Tansey Sanicle golden Rod Willow-herb Scordium Agrimony Knot-grass or Rupturewort Harts tongue Balsom Perwinkle Oak leaves Brambles Myrtles and Mastick-tree To these we add Discussers of wind as Chamomil flowers Anise-seeds We mix Rhubarb to take away the Cause of the Disease As Take Rhubarb parched one dram Coriander parched two drams infuse them in red Wine or Juyce of Quinces let them boyl and strain them add Syrup of dryed Roses one ounce and an half make a Potion for two doses If you add one dram of Acacia or Hypocistis it will be stronger Or two or three drams of Bole or Spodium or half an ounce of Mastick boyled alone in Rose or Plantane-water Dioscorides commends Wax boyled in Broath The Decoction of Ass dung is counted a secret to be drunk after boyled in wine with things to take away the scent The Decoction of Earth-worms is also good but let not the Patient know it Physical Wines are made of burnt red wine with Steel or Gold quenched therein or Tormenril and Snakeweed roots boyled which makes the wine more astringent and not unpleasant To which you may add Sugar or Cinnamon that it m y be like Hippocras You may boyl ripe dryed Sloes in red wine and it will be astringent and pleasant and other astringent Fruits Some highly commend Rice boyled in red wine Also Juyces as of Quinces boyled are good one spoonlful or two at a time or of other Fruits that are not too sour to cause torments as of Pears Pomegranates of the middle sort of which wine is made pressed with the peels Also the Juyce of Cornil-berries and the like Three or four ounces of the raw Juyce of Plantane heals and takes away Inflammation alone or you may give it with Milk or Broath Hollerius saith that the Juyce of Ground-Ivy drunken hath saved the lives of many Some give the milkie Juyce of English Galangal Some sharp Syrups not too sour are given by spoonfuls as of Quinces alone or boyl'd in Wine Myrtles or red Roses or of Juyce of Plantane or the Decoctions mentioned with Sugar Boyl one ounce of Water-cress seeds parched in a pint of Syrup of Quinces Also Juleps are good and quench thirst as that of Roses or Plantane water boyled Or give the Syrup with steeled water or stilled waters or Rose budds or of Privet Plantane Shepheards-purse Oak Goos-grass Let the Diet be of nourishing Papps As of boyled Rice in Milk with yolks of Eggs and Juyce of Ground-Ivy by which Lerius in his History saith many Sea-men almost killed with Dysenteries have been recovered Also Rice boyled in Almond milk And if Steel or Gold be quenched in the Milk it is the better Also Starch boyled with Eggs beaten and with Rose-water Sugar and Butter or Veal suet is good Also Milium boyled in Milk with yolks of Eggs or drink the pouder thereof with a roasted Eg. Oate-meal or the Grewel made thereof is used in Germany To these Papps of Rice Oats Starch Milium you may add Bean flower Tormentil roots seeds of Plantane Sumach and Bole. Or two drams of Virgins wax sliced and boyled in the same Bread also made with whites of Eggs Pouder of Galls or Pomegranate peels is good to be given in
The Cure of clotted blood voided by stool be voided from the opening of the vessels by reason of strong purging or the like or by vomiting it is dangerous And we have known some die suddenly thereby For the Cure thereof you must use such things inward and outward As we mentioned in Vomiting of Blood A Tensmus is less dangerous then a Dysentery The Cure of Tenesmus because the Cause is in the end of the Guts which may be easily reached with Medicines only the difficulty is caused and the cure prolonged by the pricking and provoking to stool which will not let a Medicine be retained though it be gentle and by the foulness of the Ulcer The end of curing is according to the diversity of the cause For if it be the first kind of a tenesmus with ulceration and voiding of slimy matter with blood or if it come of it self or follow a dysentery in regard the ulcer is in the strait Gut it must be cured as a dysentery with the like medicines But if only Irritation produce the other kind of tenesmus in which the Excrements are cholerick and sharp the remedies must be such as abate the sharpness and heat and then such as cleanse and heal In the third kind of tenesmus where there is needing without Excretion you must remove it with respect to the cause as if it come from hard Excrements they must be mollified if from cold the part must be warmed If it come from a Stone in the Bladder that passeth the Gut or from worms or from the passage of the Bladder the cure was shewed in those diseases In other causes you must use these remedies following Purges are seldom given because the Humor that causeth it is in the extremities of the Guts except they be to take away the antecedent cause which may increase the disease And then use such as are prescribed for a dysentery if there be an ulcer such as purge and bind If the cause be otherwise use other Evacuations such as are gentle least the belly be provoked too much Things given at the mouth can have but little operation open the Guts which are so remote yet if they be given in great quantities to lenifie and heal the Ulcer or often their vertue will reach to the part As Milk or Barley water drunk much and often The Decoction of Bettony and Sage mentioned against the tenesmus Clysters are chiefly given in this case because they come near to the part affected and wash it and that they may be long kept they must be little in quantity and be given often with care that the pipe offend not Lenifying Clysters are good in all sorts of tenesmus whether the part be corroded ulcerated or provoked by straining and pain to mitigate the pain and allay the sharpness These were prescribed in Dysentery of Milk Decoctions and Oyls as you will have them cleanse or heal If there be a stinking Ulcer in tenesmus or pricking from slime you must use cleansing Clysters As in a disentery of Whey Water and Honey Barley-water and the like Healing Clysters are only used in tenesmus from ulceration made of things mentioned in a Dysentery Turpentine unwashed or washed in Plantane water or Nightshade water put into these Clysters makes them cleanse and heal better Mollifying Clysters are used in a tenesmus when the Excrements are hard To which you may add Laxatives if there be a needing and no voiding of stool If the Humor be cold or caused by cold or wind use things to heat and discuss wind and things gently warm do also asswage pain When we will mollifie and loosen we take the decoction of the five mollifying Herbs Line-seeds Foenugreek with Oyl and other Fat 's that loosen If we will heat and expel wind we use hot Herbs as Organ Calamints both Penny-royals Baulm Hysop Sage Marjoram Bay leaves Rue Flowers of Chamomil Melilot Dill Rosemary Stoechas or French Lavender Caraway and Fennel seeds Such Clysters are mentioned in the Colick from Excrements Wind and Cold. In every tenesmus you may use Suppositories to abate pain and then such as cure Corrosions and Ulcers if they cause it these must do good to the part which they touch if they can be retained for the part is so sensible that it is provoked by the touch of any hard thing therefore the Suppositories must be gently made of these following Goats suet made like a Suppository takes away pain and Excoriation And it is better if you first melt down the Suet with Poppy and Henbane seeds and then cast it into a mould like a Suppository to take away pain And also if you put some drops of Oyl of those Seeds or half a scruple of Opium dissolved in Oyl of sweet Almonds And it will heal better if you add Starch or Gum traganth poudered or infused in plantane-water Or thus infuse a little Gum traganth in plantane water let it not be too thin and mix it with Mucilage of Fleabane or Quinces and the yolk of a roasted Egg and while they are hot with a little white Wax make a suppository if it be too soft dip Cotton or Silk therein and apply it To these you may add the Narcoticks mentioned To these pouders may be added to cure great Corrosion but they must be very sine least they offend As of Ceruss Tutty prepared Bole Pomegranate flowers and other dryers that are not sharp If you will astringe more add the Juyce of Sloes Dragons blood with the Infusion of Gum Traganth Rhasis makes a healing and anodine Suppository of Lycium which is the Juyce of Brambles When the Excrements are hard use mollifying Suppositories and Laxatives with hot things to expel wind As we shewed in Clysters for the Colick Some are made of Labdanum and Storax with hot Oyls The Fumes and Vapors mentioned for a dysentery are good here Besides which make Fumes of strong dryers that smoak much as of Pitch Bitumen Amber Colophony Turpentine Rosin Sarcocol Some add a little Brimstone and steep them first in Vinegar If you must heat more use the Vapour of the Clyster there mentioned or the Fume of Savine boyled in Wine and Vinegar You may make a Fomentation to heal the Ulcer in Tenesmus of Plants mentioned in the Dysentery or a Bath A Fomentation of the Decoction of Myrrh cureth a tenesmus that follows a dysentery If much Blood be voided Take Mullein with the Roots two handfuls red Roses one pugil Pomegranate peels and Galls each half an ounce boyl them in two parts of Iron-water and one of Wine You may add half an ounce of Prmegranate flowers or of Pine barks It is stronger with half an ounce of Allum To heat you may make Fomentations of Plants in the Clysters mentioned for the Fundament and lower parts of the Belly And they may sit in the same To which if there be Corrosion we add Plantane and Mullein or Mullein only boyled in Wine if the Haemorrhoids be open Or foment
purged by the Hemorrhoids yet it is easie in those that are accustomed to them Obstruction of the Veins Obstruction of the bowels and elsewhere causeth the same causeth defect of natural bleeding chiefly in the great Vessels or those of the part by which blood should flow Because the natural distribution to parts that should void it is hindered As we may observe that cupping or bleeding hinders bleeding by revulsion and bleeding at the foot provokes Terms Hence is it that Cachectickes have not the Terms so much because they have impure blood but because of obstructions And when the Meseraicks are obstructed the Hemorrhoids flow not which causeth great Diseases by putrefaction as Feavers Melancholly Epilepsies which are not cured except the Hemorrhoids return If the obstruction be in the part by which they bleed the flux is stopped Obstruction of the parts that should bleed as the Veins of the Neck of the Womb stopped hinder the Terms the Veins of the Womb stopped hinder the after flux if of the Nose the like Either by thick blood or other humors Straitness of the Veins and of their orifices stoppeth blood Fat a Callus or scarre causeth stoppage of Terms as when fat grows too much in the Womb or a scar remains after an Ulcer or other hard Tumors A Tumor also causeth suppression of Hemorrhoids by which last the Veins in the Fundament may also be stopped Especially if they be swollen hard as shall be shewed in the blind painful Hemorrhoids The Womb also may be so naturally formed that the Veins may be wanting Evil Conformation Or Weakness causeth want of Terms or closed in such as never had Terms called Virago s. Although it be the common opinion that a cold distemper stops the Terms and therefore they take heed of Cold and cold Meats and impure it to eating of cold things Yet these parts cannot be so cooled that the Orifices of the Veins should be stopped except cold keep the blood from flowing freely Or comes after the native heat is weakned which weakneth the expulsive faculty and makes the terms flow less and more seldom The Cure In the Defect of terms keep this method of the rest we shal speak hereafter If it be when the woman is not fit for Children it is natural and not medled with The Cure of Terms suppressed You must not attempt til fourteen and when they are evil colored And if they stop after forty four they must not be recalled nor when the woman hath conceived or giveth suck although there be more blood than is needful and some have their terms somtimes then Nor at a time when they use not to flow except to prepare the Body but in that week wherin they used to flow must you givethings to provoke them especially if they be strong Or when there are signs of them as pain of the back and the like or have drops appear It is impossible to bring down the Courses in them which are from the Birth of a man-like constitution or have the Veins closed when they never had them and are barren If they cease for want of blood or fault thereof it is in vain to attempt their recovery in lean people but it is better to repair the blood by good diet And then they wil come of themselves If they have been turned another way and flow not at the Womb they must be brought thither again If foulness of blood or obstruction of the bowels cause it we must open them and clense the blood and give things that provoke the Terms And these are to be used in the stoppage of the Haemorrhoids when the foul blood remains in the meseraick Veins A hard Scirrhus or Callus in the neck of the womb if it hinder the Courses must be taken away And then if the Terms flow not they must be provoked If the Veins of the womb be so hidden with Fat that they cannot bleed it must be consumed by Fasting In other causes as thickness of humors and obstruction of the Veins of the womb or coldness we must proceed as followeth when we intend to move them Purges are good if they be stopped by reason of the foulness or impurity of the blood which though they provoke the expulsive faculty and cause dejection or going to stool yet because they also stir up and move the veins of the womb they so provoke the Terms also Wherefore when Courses flow to abate them and prevent them in Women with Child we dare not give Purges And in those that are stopt we often do more by purges that are mixed with things that provoke the Terms than with such things as only provoke them And these we proportion to the humor abounding whether it be Flegm Choler or Melancholy We first loosen the belly with Catholicon Hiera or the like Then we prepare the humor thus Take syrnp of Mugwort and the five roots of each one ounce and an half Oxymel simple one ounce water of Mugwort Motherwort each two ounces and an half water of Pennyroyal and Nepp each one ounce make a Julep for three or four doses sweetned with Cinnamon Or this Decoction Take the five opening roots steept in Wine each half an ounce roots of Madder and Eringus each six draws Valerian roots half an ounce Mugwort Pennyroyal Motherwort Balm Nepp Germander Chamaepytis or Groundpine Time each a handful Tops of Hops and red Pease each a pugil Bayberries half an ounce Anise and Fennel seeds each two drams Parsley and Dodder seed each one dram and an half Flowers of Rosemary Elder and of both Buglosses each a pugil roots of Polypody one ounce make a Decoction sweeten it with Sugar and Cinamon and give it several daies Then purge with this Potion Take of Catholicon six drams Agarick one dram the species of Benedicta Laxativa half a dram Saffron five grains make a Bolus with Sugar or drink it with Rosemary or Wormwood Wine Or thus in cholerick bodies Take Tryphera Persica six drams Rhubarb one dram Spike one scruple Electuary of the juyce of Roses one dram Syrup of Roses solutive one ounce with Bugloss and Fumitory water make a Potion Or this Decoction Take Liquorish one ounce Red Pease a pugil Mugwort a handful Annise and Fennel seed each two drams Cordial flowers a pugil Polypody roots Carthamus seed Senna of each half an ounce Epithymum two drams make a Decoction Infuse Agarick two drams strain it and add one ounce of syrup of Roses solutive for a Potion Or this Pouder Take Turbith four scruples Agarick two scruples Cinnamon Ginger of each half a dram salt Gem one scruple Saffron five grains Sugar two drams make a Pouder give it in white Wine which hath Mugwort infused or the like Or these Pills Take the species of Hiera and Benedicta Laxativa each half a dram Pil Faeridae one scruple or more according to the strength make Pils with white Wine It is good to purge with things
which makes the Eyes red and weeping In other cases when Tears are without Heat or from Ulcers things to chew called Masticatories or Gargle called Gargarisms draw Humors to the Mouth by the Nose from the Eyes And so the Head is purged and the Flux stopped after other Purgings These may be done by Errhines or things to snuff but that by Sneesing they disturb the Eyes for tears flow Naturally and preternaturally from the Eyes through the Nose and it is good to help it Sore Eyes are not to be clensed by Vomir for by straining the Blood flows to the Eyes and Tears are produced and the Cause is increased or renewed and the Pain also Sweating is not good in hot Diseases of the Eyes because the Eyes would be inflamed more by it But if there be Ulcers without heat and tears then Sweating is good to dry the body and consume Excrements and it may be often with sparing Diet. In the declining of an Ophthalmy Baths are good to consume the reliques and wine though both are nought at first while the Eyes are hot It is good to provoke Urin to take away the cause and waterish humors Therefore in Fistulaes of the Eyes we give drinks that dry and provoke Urin. Thus Tansey red Coleworts Agrimony male Fearn Dropwort burnet Ceterach each a handful of Myrrh half a handful roots of Lquorish an ounce red Pease two pugils boyl them take it for five draughts sweeten it with Sugar give it for the weeping Fistula of the Eye We use things to consume the humors in the Head in an Epiphera and Ulcer in the Eye These dry and strengthen the Head inwardly and outwardly such as we prescribed in diseases of the Head Some are good to be lookt upon and to be carried about as in an Ophthalmy it is good to look upon an Agate and to carey a Dock root dig'd up in the Moon increasing and to put the stone found in the Gall of an Ox into the Nose as some think We stop the humor flowing to the Eyes whether it be blood or water by the passages and by coolers to strike them away in an Ophthalmy or beginning of an Aegilops and in an Epiphora and in other causes when a Flux is feared They are applied near to or upon the Eye being first closed To the parts near which humors flow we apply these on that side the pain is over all from one Ear to another if both Eyes suffer Somtimes down upon the Cheeks They are good in an Ophthalmy to asswage the force of the blood appli'd upon the jugulars And they are such as astring and dry and cool and they are safer near then upon the Eye Epithems made of a cloth strained from convenient Liquor or a Spunge spueezed that more get into the Eye are good in a true Ophthalmy or in great heat They repercuss more when they are actually cold but very cold as Snow must not be used for it may hurt and as I knew make blind They are mentioned in hot diseases of the Head Only leave out Oyls and Vinegar which hurt the Eyes These may be applied to the Forehead or jugilares and mixed with very cold things An Epithem of juyce of Plantane with the white of an Egg is good Emplasters because they stick long and fal not into the Eye may be applied to the said places And renued every third day if need be As in other Defluxions Or thus Take Mastick Frankincense Varnish each two drams Starch or finer Flour a dram with the white of an Egg and infusion of Gum Traganth make a Plaister Another Take Pitch and Oyl of Myrtles Varnish Frankincense make a Plaster this is good to the nape also Or this Astringent Take Bole half an ounce Dragons blood conserve of Sloes each two drams Pomegranate peels and Galls each a dram make a Pouder and with the white of an Egg and red Vinegar make Emplasters for the Forehead and Temples A better Take Bole burnt Chalk Blood-stone each two drams Vitriol half a dram Asphaltum Frankincense Mastick Varnish each a dram and an half Dragons blood Conserve of Sloes Acacia Pitch each a dram flowers and peels of Pomegranats Galls Cypres nuts each half a dram Pouder them and add Starch half an ounce with infusion of Gum Traganth the yolk of an Egg and Vinegar and Oyl of Roses make a mixture Or a Plaister of Mastick or that for the Rupture Some stop Fluxes with a scruple of Opium in one Plaster and if there be Head-ach we allow it to help and for Poppy seed instead of white Poppy seeds we mix syrup of Poppies The ordinary defensative is of Bole Vinegar and whites of Eggs this applied behind the Eares is good also in an Ophthalmy Of these with Oyls you may make Oyntments to anoynt about the Eye especially if it swel they must be thick that they may stick and not fal into the Eye and used at nights when the Eyes are shut Such may be made of juyces without Pouders least when the Oyntments are dry they fal into the Eyes Take juyce of Plantane two ounces red Vinegar an ounce white Vitriol a scruple Dragons blood Acacia Hypocistis or conserve of Sloes Labdanum each half a dram dissolve them and add white of an Egg and Oyl of Roses and a little Turpentine Somtimes they are applied upon the closed Eye and Lids for these are too strong to be put into the Eyes and Astringents which would make Eyes rough which ought to be smooth Or thus Take fat Bole three drams Barley flowers an ounce and an half infusion of Gum Traganth in Myrtle or Rose water an ounce Camphire half a dram with Cream and juyce of Plantane to keep it moist make an Emplaster apply it to the closed Eye Coolers do the same as we shall shew for stopping of blood at the first and after in stopping of Tears Topicks or Medicines applied to the Eye Or put in to it Topicks in all kind of sore Eyes are either Simple waters or mixed with others called Collyria are in form of Troches to be at hand for use and they may be dropt in injected or put into the great corner of the Eye or upon the Ey-lids Some have a Silver and Bone Pen which they rowle in wet Pouders and put into the Eye then they close the Ey-lids and draw it through leaving the Pouder behind Somtimes we blow very fine Pouders into the Eye ground upon a smooth stone or a little Plaster upon the great corner and the Nose And others by way of Fomentation these are divers in respect of the Cause and distemper if from heat cold drouth or in respect of the Flux of blood in an Ophthalmy or Aegilops or of water as in an Epiphora or in respect of wounds as in a Phlyctaena Excoriation Ulcer Fistula A simply hot distemper without Flux that causeth only itching The Cure of itching or pricking in the Eye is cured by preventing a