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
hissing in the Ears as in Hurt of Hearing Chapter the eight Page 80. The Smelling is also Abolished Diminished or Depraved as in defect of Scent and Depravation of scent of these in Hurt of Smelling Chapter the ninth Page 87. CHAP. I. Of a Weakness of the Minde The Kinds of it A Weakness of the Minde may be said to be whenas any one is less able in Apprehension or Wit in Judgment or Reason and Memory then an ingenious and industrious Man Which somtimes happens in Diseases at other times befals those that are not Sick but otherwise Well of which we will here Treat But somtimes these internal senses are all of them together dulled Dulness of the Minde and both Wit Judgment and Memory fail and then it may be called a dulness of the Minde Otherwise some want Wit when they scarcely learn to speak Of slowness of Wit and they apprehend Learning and other Arts with difficulty and it may be called a slowness of Wit Somtimes they are void of Judgment Imprudence a defect of judgment in judging of those things which they have apprehended and this may be called Imprudence For the most part the Memory is weakned when they hardly retain those things which they have apprehended and learned and it s called Oblivion of which fault many do complaine Oblivion especially the Aged and therefore Physitians have made mention of that only almost in their Cures The Memory impaired under their Titles of the Memory impaired whereas the defects of the other internal senses also have the same Causes and the same Cure which we shall at once apply to them all The Causes But the Brain which is the organ of these senses The Part affected is here affected the which notwithstanding is not so vehemently hurt that these internal senses are wholly abolisht or together with them the external senses also and motion as it doth happen in grievous hurts of the Brain But that more or fewer senses are weakned and those more or less that happens according as the whol substance of the Brain is affected or only part of it not as the formost middle or hindermost ventricles are affected as some would have it furthermore these things vary according to the Nature of the Disease with which the Brain is afflicted as shall be said Some have contracted and derived this weakness Haereditary from their Parents by inbred Causes Weakness a Cause of the Mindes weakness whence it often comes to pass that as the ingenious and industrious do beget their like so drones beget drones which is easily collected by their Signs that they were such from their Infancy and had such Parents This happens to some by reason of Age whence old folks become for the most part forgetful and somtimes dul by reason of the defect of native heat unless it happen from some distemper of the Brain as shall be said by and by A Concussion or blow of the Head leaving behind it some weakness in the Brain may also be the cause of it Also too great a shedding of Blood from what part of the Body soever or some other too great evacuation exhausting the Spirits on which score also too much Venery doth very much impare the senses especially the Memory Also a Disease of long continuance destroving the native heat especially of the Head as after a Carus also after Melancholy and Convulsion we have seen men become very forgetful Or a Malignant Disease or proceeding from some Poyson of which nature perhaps that was which given to Ulysses companions by Circe took away the remembrance of all things past the which also somtimes Love Potions have done and the unhappy use of Narcoticks may do the like One writes that by reason of a Wound struck deep into the seat of the Eye one did so far loose his Memory that he was fain to learn a new the grounds of learning whenas before he was skilled both in Greek and Latin Also when the Functions of the Minde are more remisly imployed then the native heat growing dul with idleness and not brought into act they proceed but singgishly Which also may happen upon the contrary reason to wit if the Minde be disquieted with too much study thoughts watchings cares Yet when the Memory for the most part is first hurt especially in the aged their judgment notwithstanding continues acute That it doth not happen to them only by reason of weakness though by this means also it may happen may be elegantly collected thus because their Minde which through the whol space of their life hath received so many Species Images and Conceptions of things is so overwhelm'd with them that it cannot long retain those new ones which it receiveth as if there were no more place left for them whence also it comes to pass that old men do firmly retain to the last those things which they apprehended when young but those things which they treat and think of now strucken in Age they indeed do easily conceive and they judg right and well but they presently forget them again in like manner after some sort as we see most old men to see and judg of things far distant more rightly then of those neer hand the which notwithstanding doth proceed from another cause as we shall explaine in the weakness of the Sight Furthermore and if the Minde be distracted with divers Studies and be overwhelm'd at once with many things it comes to pass that the sense being Intent on many things is not only less fit for each particular but also that while these things do confound one another and one is hindred and obscured by another as when two griefs molest one part the more vehement is wont to obscure the other the Memory of that which is weakest doth presently also vanish The imperfection of the instrument also doth make the internal senses more languid The fault of the instrument is a Cause of the weakness of the Minde In tender Infants whose Brain is yet more soft and fluid and not yet perfected by grouth it performs but dul operations In those of riper age also if the Brain hath not obtained its just bulk and then for the most part they have a smal Head An uncomely Figure of the Brain and a perversion of its Scituation caused either by Nature or by Violence doth cause the same which is hardly known unless the Head answer to the form of the Brain The Temperament of the Brain changed from its Natural state The temper of the Brain changed doth cause a weakness of Minde as yet not producing more grievous Diseases of the Brain doth also cause that sluggishness of the internal Senses And that especially when it is more moist then it ought to be by Nature which Physitians hold to be the chief cause of the Memory impaired and that because in a more moist Brain and therefore softer the Images of things imprinted can less remain But we
believe that comes to pass because it becomes more languid to exercise its Operations But the cause of this Moisture somtimes depends on some cold and moist Disease of the Brain foregoing from which though for the most part it be taken away yet this moist constitution imprinted on it doth remain which also may be from external causes of the Air and Medicines But this defect is known to proceed from Moisture because then they are sleepy and by other signs of a moist Brain Also a more dry constitution of the Brain is held to be the Cause because they hardly apprehend things and because in a dry Body things are more difficultly imprinted and many also do teach that this Driness may be the cause of Oblivion and declare the Cure of the Memory impaired by Dryness whenas after burning Feavers after too much watching and study the memory becomes treacherous which we have taught formerly to happen rather from a weakness contracted thence The Cure The defect of the internal senses is incurable if it happen from a weakness contracted from the Parents A Praediction or by reason of Age or from some eminent hurt of the Brain or if it arise from a perverse conformation of the Brain Also that praeternatural constitution imprinted on the Brain whether it be moist or dry is hardly corrected yet for the correcting of that to which Physitians do chiefly apply their Cures in treating of the Memory hurt we also shall shew the manner of operation how those faults may at least be corrected if not wholly taken away Exercise As it doth set an edge on all dul functions The Cure of the weakness of Minde from weakness and a too moist temper of the Brain and as it were bring them into Act may also do good here in the operations of the Minde if they be dulled by reason of the sluggish and remiss use of them Also in a weakness although it can scarce be mended since that the native heat is renewed by exercise and custome is a second Nature the exercise of the Minde may do somwhat at least in this But in a moist temper of it when as the agitations of the Minde doth consume Excrements it will do good This may be done by often exercising these Functions of the Minde those especially which are done with pleasure since nothing is to be done against Nature and those either all together or singly the Wit if they learn to speak learning languages and arts by which the apprehension and Wit is made acute which otherwise growes dul by idleness The judgment if they discerue and judg of things especially things scrupulous and that often as we see many ignorant of law by use to have acquired a natural knowledg and prudence in the laws They may whet the Memory by studying to remember and retain and committing other arts to Memory in which this is particularly to be observed that those things which are conceived and repeated in the evening after supper before sleep do remain more firmly imprinted in the morning Also a rest of the Functions of the minde being wearied with too much use and watchings and so at length weakned doth much refresh them Which is done if they moderat themselves from the too much study of knowing or handling of things and from the immoderate affections of the Minde if they sleep at due times and as much as is needful whenas sleep is the rest of the Minde and by it the internal actions of sense are respited unless in some sort they do a little exercise themselves in dreams As concerning Evacuations if the sluggishness arise from a too moist constitution of the Brain and there be plenty of Excrements in the Brain they must be emptied successively as is wont to be done in Diseases of the Brain arising from flegmatick and serous Humors which may be done by this Method The common Excrements must first be washed away with this fallowing Clyster or the like as Take of the Herbs Mallows Marsh-mallows Pellitory of the Wall Beets Mercury Betony Sage Hysop of each one handful the flowers of Chamomel Melilote Elder Lavender of each one pugil Bran one pugil Fennel and Caraway seed of each three drams make a Decoction Dissolve in it of the juyce of Mercury one ounce of Honey one ounce and an half Oyl of Rue two ounces of Benedicta Laxativa or some strong Hiera half an ounce of Salt one dram Make a Clyster Then the humors must be prepared with this Decoction Take of the Roots of Orrice the true Acorus Elecampane of each half an ounce Pellitory of Spain it helps the Memory much Galangal Ginger of each two drams the Herbs Betony Marjoram Time of each half an ounce Balm two drams the flowers of Lavender or Spike Sage French Lavender of each two drams Rosemary flowers three drams Liquorish six drams Annis and Fennel seed of each one dram and an half Caraways one dram Cubebs half a dram Make a Decoction in Wine and Water And in a pound and an half of that strained Dissolve of Honey or Sugar as much as is sufficient Aromatize it with Cinnamon and Nutmeg For five or six mornings A Wine may be made with the infusion of these with the Honey and Sugar if they like sweet things if not you may substitute Wormwood in their room with whose smel they are much delighted and abhor not the bitterness of it The same may be done with Syrups if less pains and more gratefulness be required Take of the Syrups of Betony and French Lavender Honey of Roses of each half an ounce of the Water of Betony and Marjoram a double quantity Aromatize it with Cinnamon Let him drink as often of it as was said of the Decoction This being done Purge the Body with these Pills Take of Cochiae Pills two scruples of Castor t is peculiarly good half a scruple with sweet Wine Make up Pills Or with this potion Take of the electuary Diacarthamum two drams or one Dose of any other Phlegmagoge of Agarick infused in Oxymel one dram Syrup of Liquorish one ounce the Waters of Balm and Betony as much as is sufcient And make a Potion This being done and the Brain strengthned as it ought to be after purging if the Head be stil excrementitious these things may be repeated presently or at fit time or by interuals Which may be done by a Syrup which may be prepared out of the precedent Decoction adding Senna wild Saffron Agarick Turbith to which we may add Sea Fennel since that if it be new it doth purge Flegm and with an addition of Sugar and Honey Boyl them to a consistence Also the usual Pills that purge Flegm may be made use of Wines are less proper if they ought to be kept long when as they do easily corrupt but if purging be to be used for five or six daies together they may be made of the same things as the Decoction was infused in Wine Also if
can cause a Carus and by its heat a Feaver and one and the same thing can be cold and hot when as contraries are inconsistent in the same subject we shall assign a far different cause of a Lethargie by and by when we treat of a Carus caused by consent and that not much different from the Carus which follows Fevers They teach also that flegm not simply but mixt with choler doth cause a watchful stupidity or Catalepsis for this reason Fleam causeth Sleep Choler Watchings and so from the mixture of contrary causes are produced contrary effects which indeed might be if they were in divers places but two contraries mixt and confounded in the same subject do produce a certain middle effect or rather one compounded of them both than contrary for which reason these causes were found out rather from the effect than their certain signs that they might shew by what means at the same time a man might be stupid and watchful not sleeep since t is impossible to sleep and watch at the same time and attribute to each its proper humors Blood also continued as yet in the ventricles of the brain Blood the cause of a Carus and Apoplexy as there is at other times a great quantity of it there so it abounding more yet if it be more crude serous cold by oppressing the brain may make it more stupid or by cooling it may make it sleepy The which doubless a pain of the head praeceded and somtimes doth still remain its companion and this is known by a fulness of blood and redness of the face Aetius tels us that from much blood abundantly and suddenly overwhelming the substance of the Brain that Species of a Catalepsis is generated from which a yong man was freed by a flux of blood from his nose which flux of blood being often accustomary in solution of Diseases by natures motion cannot therefore argue this Disease proceeding from blood for which we shal propound another cause as we can neither grant that lighter species of it called an Aphony when the voice only is intercepted to proceed from a fulness of blood intercepting the passage of the animal spirit as Hollerius writes for which we shal by and by alleadg another cause Neither can we allow that an Epilepsie which some also have delivered from plenty of blood possessing the Ventricles of the Brain and obstructing the passages of the spirits doth arise from this humor and after this manner As neither from Blood or a melancholly or Cholerick juyce from which some teach that species of a Catalepsis is generated which is wont to happen to persons melancholical and by reason of the coldness and driness of that humor the spirits to be so congealed as was said in the like distemper which we have denied to be for that reason and from Melancholly we have thought to proceed melancholly accidents rather than those of a Catalepsis unless some other cause be joyned as shall be said neither can we by any means admit an Fpilepsie also to arise from the same obstructing the Ventricles as some have spred abroad these opinions when as the aforementioned affects as lasting no longer but seazing and ceasing by course have no fixt cause in the Brain but happen that being affected only by consent as shal afterwards be declared The Blood carried out of the Vessels if infused into the substance of the Brain it breeds not an Inflammation and then a Phrensie would follow but it obstruct the Windings and Ventricles by suddenly filling of them and it oppress the beginning of the Nerves then it causeth a Stupidity and Apople yâ—â— as it often happens a Vein being broke and that somtimes by reason of a fulness of the Vessels especially in those in whom some accustomary Haemorrhages of the Courses Haemrods or Nose are stopt in whom yet living and after their death I have observed that a great quanttity of blood hath broken forth from their mouth and nose that somtimes I have perswaded my self that this was the chief cause of an Apoplexy The same may happen from an external violent cause as a Contusion of the Brain from a Blow or Fall although the substance of the Brain be no waies wounded that the blood also may fil up the Cavities of the Brain and its substance in those places especially where it is contused as Women do daily see comes to pass in the Brain of Buls killed with a Hatchet whenas they first purge the Brain from the clotted blood before they boyl it fromwhence it must needs be that an Apoplexy doth suddenly arise unless the blood presently break forth by the Nostrils Ears and other parts or adjoyning passages as sometimes also it doth or if the fall be lighter there follows rather a lighter obstupulesency though oftentimes also the flux of blood turned into clots and retained a long time if it putrifie it causeth a Phrenzy Convulsions which before death do follow Lethargies and Apoplexies and kill the Patient But also from the same violent external cause if the substance of the Brain be hurt by Contusion or by cutting or pricking seeing it is a principal part whose action is then destroyed it must needs be that an Apoplexy doth suddenly follow A hurt of the Brain is the cause of a Stupidity Apoplexy Or if the Skull be only broken thereby or deprest so that it press the Brain lying under it it happens also that a Stupidity doth follow Or if from some stronger force the bulk of Brain rush together and press the beginning of the Nerves an Apoplexy likewise follows all which are made manifest from the causes foregoing A hard preternatural Tumor A Tumor of the Brain is the cause of a Stupidity and Apoplexy affecting rather by its weight than distemper causeth a Stupidity by degrees ingendred with the Tumor but of long continuance which is hardly discovered till after death the Skull being opened as was found in Noble Bonecourtius who for some years like to one astonisht as was said before lay Stupid viz. a great hard Glandule being generated over a callous body with plenty of humor which watring the Brain did cause a sleepiness joyned with a Stupidity as we have formerly expounded this kind The cause of which might be a blow with which he was struck on the head although it were done a long time before he fel into the disease but they being ignorant also of the true causes of a Catalepsis phancying many other besides those above mentioned they have thought also that it might proceed from a Tumor of the Brain And some also have writ that a Lethargie doth proced from a flegmatick Imposthumation the which whenas we have formerly shewed that a Fever could not be caused from any cause lying in the brain the same we assert cannot happen here and some also have held that an Abcess may be the cause of it the which notwithstanding generated in the brain from hot
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
Nerves also and other parts t is no wonder that these are somtimes born as we have described either deaf or dum or crooked or or otherwise faulty the which certainly is the chief Cause of Original Folly as somtimes this apparent Deformity of theirs doth shew somtimes t is not discovered but by opening after Death So also we do not deny that this may happen from an evil Distemper of the Brain Distemper the cause of Foolishness the which notwithstanding seeing it cannot be rightly explained nor corrected is no further to be enquired into It hath been somtimes found out that a certain black speck in the brain or membranes discovered by Dissection A speck in the brain the cause of Madness hath been the Cause of Madness as sometimes also Putrefaction bred in some part of the Membranes of the brain Putrefaction in the Brain the Cause of Madness from which t is likely that filthy Vapors being continually raised did trouble the Spirits which some also have delivered may happen from Worms generated in the Brain Worms in the Brain the Cause of Madness which hidden faults seeing they are first manifested after Death by opening the Skull we can hardly conjecture what they are while the Man lives unless in General from this because other signs are wanting here which should demonstrate other Causes The Cure In the Cure the Causes must be distinguisht and the Remedies fitted to them which we said were either a malignant Spirit or a drunken or poysonous Quality an agitation or perturbation of the Spirits a bot Distemper and some faults of the Brain The preternatural Cause proceeding from the Divel as it doth no waies belong to the Physitian The Cure of those possest with the Divel so neither the Cure for the Divel is forcibly expel'd by the Prayers of Divines and godly people in the Name of Jesus as Christ cast forth Divels and gave his Disciples that Power but also the Divel somtimes feining himself of his own accord to be put to flight by certain Words and Ceremonies of men doth delude Mortals If Drunkenness arise from Wine and other inebriating things as hath been said The Cure of Drunkenness from a temulent quality after some hours the Vapors being discust especially by the intervention of sleep they come to themselves of their own accord and if Vomiting follow it it is good upon which account Avicen thought it good to be drunk once a month But if they continue this Course of life the Nerves being weakned by reason of their frequent stupidity which is discovered by this even then to come to pass if presently after that they have not yet drank immoderately they begin to stutter and stumble they become Tremulous Paralytical Gouty Hydropical as shall be said in those places Therefore that they may have a Care of themselves they are to be admonisht from Drunkenuess and to be frighted by declaring the Danger of it and if they cannot refrain some have delivered that this may be effected that they shall wholly loath Wine by strangling an Eele in Wine or a Frog or the barbel Fish or the Rotchet Fish being putrefied in it or the Sea Grape and that Wine afterwards being drunk off But if sometimes a Necessity of drinking and contending in Cups do urge as this is brought into use as a Civil thing at Banquets to the great hurt of mankind for prevention it hath been observed that these things following being taken before do prevent Drunkenness or at least wise make it more gentle Five or fix bitter Almonds eaten before meat Wormwood also whose Wine notwithstanding the Swillers do use rather the day after a Fox that they may correct their Stomach offended with Choller whenas to contemperate that they fil themselves with drink again from whence these Verses If thou be hurt by drinking over night Rise early to 't this Medicine is full right Rue because it makes the Cup safe as the Verse sounds is commended for this use which I think is rather said so because it preserves from Poyson Coleworts taken at meat hinder Drunkenness and so doth its Seed If one drink Milk fasting he shall be safe that day Pliny teacheth that the Lungs of Creatures roasted eaten and do keep of Drunkenness other express by Name the Lungs of Sheep One writes that the pouder of Swallows burnt being taken will not suffer one to be drunk to Aeternity A pouder hindring Drunkenness may be made thus of which give one spoonful with Austere Wine Take of the seeds of Coleworts one dram Coriander half a dram Camphire two grains make a pouder A more Compounded one may be made thus of which give one spoonful or two drams with Wine of Pomegranates or with some other acid stiptick or with cold Water or with Sugar let it be reduced into the form of Lozenges Take of the seeds of coleworts one dram of Plantane Purslane Bar-berries each half a dram Coriander prepared two drams flowers of red roses water-lillies red Sanders each half a dram Mastich Amber each one scruple burnt Ivory one scruple salt half a scruple Camphire six grains make a pouder This may be used in the form of an Electuary and given before drinking Take of conserve of Roses the Rob of Currance and Barberries each half an ounce bitter Almonds branched and bruised twelve seeds of Coleworts one dram red Roses one dram Syrup of Slots as much as is sufficient make an Electuary An elegant Syrup of which one ounce ought to be taken before they drink Wine Take of the juyce of white Coleworts sour Pomegranates Currance each two ounces Vinegar one ounce boilthem together for your use They are less foxed who drink larest not till their stomach is well filled with Victuals but they quickly who hasten to drink Wine fasting or presently at the beginning of a Meal Outwardly Ivy applied to the Head like a Garland or the Juyce of it moved to the Head keeps off Drunkenness Also the wearing of an Amethyst stonâ— is beleeved can do the like But to cure those that are already drunk that the wine may do them the less hurt Vomiting doth very much help or if you give them acid things presently at the end of the Meal or the sooner the better and let them be taken plentifully because as it was said in Narcoticks they weaken the efficacy of the Wine of which sort are these following Frumenty of Milk and Barley flower with Vinegar also sour Milk as it is wont to concrete Sour Apples eaten also acid Peaches and their juyce as also Quinces The Heads of Coleworts condite and Rapes till they grow acid as our Country men are wont to prepare them do very much help Vinegar drank diluted with water or taken by it self in a good quantity is an Antidote against Drunkenness with which a certain eminent Foxer for a long time being dayly drunk was wont to guard himself that he might take no hurt by it
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
boyling hot whiles it is empty and the vapors then being hindred are the more freely carried upwards it happens that the said accidents are troublesome to the cholerick whiles they are yer fasting and that upon the taking of meat because the vehemency of Choler is abated and the vapors represt they grow milder and at last cease the which happens also the vapors in the head being discust of their own accord and so much the sooner by how much they are more subtile till new evaporations being made these evils do return but it is known that this proceeds from Choler by the bitterness of the mouth and gnawing at the mouth of the stomach which they call the heart and by other signs of this humor which also somtimes brings with the same labor a pain of the Head too with a Vertigo The same vapors proceeding from the Mesaraick Veins in which the cholerick juyces are wont oftentimes to abound as hath been shewed elsewhere as by those vapors raised from the same place and carried upwards by the Veins and Arteries intermitting Feavers hypochondriacal Melanchollies do invade a man by intervals so also they oftentimes raise the said symptoms which is done the vapors being carried upwards from thence through the Veins and somtimes through the Arteries which are annext to the Mesaraick Veins then especially when those vapors are subtile that they induce rather these accidents than Perturbations of the mind which hath been shewed do rather proceed from their malignity the which therefore do somtimes produce Vertigoes only or as they are qualified Images and Scotomies together with them or without them which we had rather alleadg as the truer cause than Pretend Crudities from which Wind rather than these like Vapors are generated But also from some other seat of the body these like vapors raised from a thinner blood through the Veins and Arteries may cause the same as from that part which is about the Womb as the Courses being stopt this symptom also doth happen as other also oftentimes upon this account and from some part of the Foot or of another member a vapor proceeding like to some Air being carried upwards as we have observed it hath been the Cause of an Epilepsie so also of a Vertigo whence somtimes Vertigoes go before an Epilepsie and presage that wil presently follow when from the like vapors vellicating the Brain Epilepsies also may be caused as shal be said in its place But the cause of these diseases sometimes consists in the Head it self in which not only spirituous hot and plentiful blood collected may cause the same as hath been said formerly but also from humors contained there the like Vapors raised and mixt with the spirits may produce these accidents which we do beleeve doth arise rather from the Blood of the Vessels and Ventricles of the Brain and the humors mixt with it than from flegm the which also we do not deny to be a cause of the Vertigo but not because it sends forth vapors but after this manner now to be explained 'T is certain that a Repletion of the Brain caused by a watry humor The Fluctuation of a watry flegmatick humor in the Brain is the cause of a Vertigo as well that Serous as Flegmatick doth cause that Vertigo which is wont to precede and threaten an Apoplexy or Carus which being frequent and of long continuance unless it be prevented is wont to terminate in these Diseases with great danger of life but it doth not this by cooling and moistning the brain seeing this agitation of the spirits which is in a Vertigo would so rather be hindred than promoted but this comes to pass when filling up the windings and spaces of the Brain by its great plenty filling the Skul and also generating plenty of Wind which are oftener ingendred from waterish humors than Vapors it waves in it for then as in the cover of the heart water abounding doth cause a Palpitation of the heart when it is stirred so here also it every where filling the Brain when the Head is moved the humor being stirred and following the motion of the Head as we have said of the spirits it gives such a sense to the head which doth sufficiently appear by their relation who complain of such a fluctuation and the Skul being opened we have often found an immense plenty of this humor as hath been said in an Apoplexy and in him in whom even now we said that the Arteries too were grown hard we have found so great plenty of it that the Skul being opened it hath come forth by floods the which together with that obstruction of the Arteries producing a double cause of the Vertigo made it so lasting and incurable in which that humor for continuance watring the Brain had bred that Carus of which he died But it is known that this is the cause of a Vertigo not only from that sense of fluctuation but also from other signs of flegm abounding explained in a Carus and Apoplexy to which those that are prone become at once sleepy and more stupid and at last fall into these Diseases unless prevented By occasion of the Visory Nerve implanted into the Eye and dilated like the form of a Net The Visory or Net-like Nerve in the Eye is the cause of the hurt of seeing most discommodities of the fight do happen seeing that is the principal Organ of seeing and that for the most part by consent of other parts when by reason of them it is disappointed of those things which are required to Seeing viz. the spirit and the proper object or else it cannot rightly enjoy them for otherwise being immersed in the Eye 't is so grounded that 't is scarcely troubled with any disease unless by consent of the Brain It is disappointed of the Animal spirit either altogether in blindness A Privation of the animal spirit in the Net-like Nerve is cause of Blindness or darkness of sight or in part in a weakness of the sight by reason of the Optick Nerve such as are Distemper Compression Hurts and Weakness proceeding rather from the defect of spirits than that fansied thickness and subtlty of them The same happens also the spirits flying from the visory Nerve towards their beginning in the Eye prest a long time and by consequence the Net-like Nerve by reason of humors filling up the Eye it sometimes happens that they are afterwards so long blind til the spirits return again And also the spirits being too much idle in the visory Nerve and as it were laid asleep or being retreated when there is no use of them the Nerve it self being made dull in those who being kept in darkness for a long time as in Prison or other dark places have seen nothing for a long time when they return into the light they scarce recover their fight or slowly or never any more And seeing the Animal spirit hath a constant need of the vital this by swooning
largenss of the Nostrils we often see in others and somtimes we try it in our selves But the chink of the Larynx scarce labors of any other Disease unless when by consent it is hindered or prest by the neighboring parts as from the Vertebrae of the Neck Luxated of which hath been spoken already For it can scarcely happen that it be relaxt more than is fit by a Humor seeing it is convenient for it alwaies to be moist that it should be torn seeing it is a thick Membrane is impossible as also it is very hard to be wounded The passage of the rough Artery or Wind-pipe The binding of the pipe of the rough Artery is the cause of Suffocation from the Head even to the Lungs if it be intercepted by outward force the Neck being bound up as shal be said in the Gullet it brings strangling and if it be prest by the first Vertebrae of the Neck luxated it causeth difficulty of breathing which Hippocrates called the sixth sort of Squinzy The rough Artery can scarce be filled otherwise with things that fall into it but as I said breathing may be stopped about the sides thereof And they that are drowned are not choaked so much by the Influx of Water as by the hinderance of the passage of the Air. And if any thing fal into the passage and hiâ—â—er breathing it is by its sticking fast and causing a continual Cough The connexion and Obstruction of the Lungs are the Diseases that cause a Dyspnaea The Cause of Dispnaea or difficulty of breathing is the connexion of the Lungs with the Breast The connexion of the Lungs with the Convex part of the breast being streighter than it should be suffers them not to move freely and makes them short-winded in motion This by Anatomies hath been found to have been natural to some and to others from a fall or Pleurisie The Obstruction of the Lungs causeth an Asthma When the Lungs are stopped inwardly in the branches of the rough Artery that are dispersed through them there is a difficulty of breathing because the Air cannot freely pass This comes often from a watry humor falling from the Head in time of sleep and lying down without sense by degrees through the rough Artery to the Lungs which staying in the narrow branches thereof and growing slimy and stopping the passage it causeth breathing with Snorting and noise and a Cough And if by reason of the toughness thereof it cannot be hawked forth it causeth a long Disease called Asthma which by a new defluxion at night time and in moist weather and after a Surfet is not violent And if the defluxion be great and suddenly fill the passages that were formerly stopped it causeth the Suffocating Catarrh The same may come from the Excrements of the Lungs there long detained and made thick For as the Brain by reason of the plenty of Blood which filleth the Cavity of the membranes being crude continually gathereth Excrements so the Lungs whose vessels are ful of blood if it be excrementitious or crude it causeth many excrements so that it is not necessary that all the flegm which is spet up must come from the Head to the Lungs Both these Causes are discovered by the flegmatick constitution of the body and the signs of abounding flegm and rattling and other hurts mentioned A white chalky matter and hard is made rather of the Lungs than of flegm which is slimy like Bird-lime but not crumbling This obstructing inwardly the branches causeth that long Asthma wherein there is no sign of flegm And the same may cause the Stone in the Lungs which is hard brittle smooth or rough according as the vessels are as we have seen Anatomies And such have been coughed out after a long and otherwise incurable Asthma which were the cause thereof The Compression of the Breast is the cause of difficult breathing The Diseases that hinder the Breathing besides the Muscles of the Breast mentioned in those which hinder the motion both of the Lungs and Breast both which are required to breathing This is when it is outwardly compressed or when astringent things are laid thereon as common Physitians suppose The hardness of the gristles of the breast is the cause of Dyspnoea If the Gristles of the Ribs which are about the Breast to cause the more easie motion be turned into a hard substance like the other Ribs which happens in some through age in some sooner especially in Women by reason of their Breasts held up thereby for then the breast cannot be sufficiently dilated And this makes them sigh when they have great breasts and lie upon their backs When a Rib or two are broken and thrust inward The Ribs thrust inward causeth difficult breath because they hinder the dilatation of the Lungs and the motion of the breast they hinder breathing And so do the Ribs dislocated and the Vertebrae or spondits of the back bent inwards These two hurts as they may come by an external force to the Ribs so Fernelius testifieth that a Rib hath been broken by great palpitation of the body which I rather beleeve might be displaced If the Cavity of the Breast be filled with matter in an Empyema and Corruption of the Lungs The Repletion of the Cavity of the Breast is the cause of Dyspnoea or Water in a Dropsie Or Blood from a Vein broken If these be in great quantity they cause a Dyspnoea by hindering motion of the Lungs Breast and Midriff Also Wind may cause the same if in the Breast as I gathered from one in a Dyspnaea who had a noise about his breast with no rattling The Cure If Breath be stopped from Fainting of the Heart The Cure of want of breath in Swooning when strength returneth they recover And what must be done in Swooning shal be shewed in the defect of strength If men in Apoplexies from a distemper of the Brain are in danger of Suffocation The Cure of Defect of breathing from an Apoplexy we shewed what must be done in the Consternation of mind Also when breath is stopped by Convulsions If there be Defect of Breath The Cure of want of Breathing Speech in a Palsie Cramp and other Diseases of the Nerves Voyce or Speech by reason of the Nerves in a particular Palsie or Convulsion it must be cured as a Palsie or Convulsion If it come from the Cramp you must give things to prevent a general Convulsion as was there shewed And if it come from Loosness of the Nerves you must proceed as in a Palsie by purging and altering When the Speech or Voyce is lost things applied to the Mouth and Throat are best because they draw forth flegm by the right way and being neer the part affected consume and alter the humor Masticatories and Gargarisms are most proper not such as draw flegm thither as in the Palsie of other parts but which dry and draw out the humor
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
of which we speak in defect of strength Pills Take Amber half a dram Smaragds Hyacints of each two scruples Pearls one scruple Basil seeds one dram Camphire half a scruple with juyce of Citrons make a Mass give half a dram Bags for the Heart of red Silk quilted sprinkled with Wine or Rose water or Balm water Thus Take Citron peels Balm Spiknard Baies red Roses Rosemary Lavender Borrage of each one dram Basil seed two drams seeds of Citrons Mirtle berries of each one dram Cuchineel half a dram Sanders wood Aloes Cloves Mace of each half a dram Coral one dram precious stones half a dram Troches of Camphire Species Diambra of each one scruple Make a Pouder for a Bag. Anoynt the Heart and Pulses morning and evening with this Take juyce of Mother-wort Oyl of Spike of each half an ounce boyl them a little add Oyl of Cloves half a scruple Camphire one scruple Saffron half a scruple with Wax Make a Liniment add a little Musk. Or this Epithem Take Rose water three ounces Balm Lavender water and Wine of each one ounce and an half Camphire one scruple Heat Balm upon a hot Tile and sprinkle it with Wine and apply it to the Heart Perfumes go to the Heart speedily As this Take Balm Basil Gilly flowers dried of each two drams Angelica roots dryed Citron peels of each one dram Saffron half a scruple Camphire six grains tie them in a clout and sprinkle them with Rose and Balm and Wine and let it be smelled to A Fomentation is good to the left side with a Spung wet in this Decoction Take Chamomel and Melilot flowers of each one pugil Annis and Fennel seeds of each two drams Fenugreek half an ounce Boyl them in Wine It is good to rub the Limbs especially the Legs and left side And to apply Cupping-glasses to the left side or Hypochondria Rest doth allay the Palpitation as motion increaseth it Camphire hung about the Neck is reported to be excellent CHAP. XII Of want of Appetite The Kinds WE call it a Defect or want of Appetite when men neither hunger nor thirst or when they disdain certain things which are to be eaten and drunk Some hunger not at convenient times that is Anorexia or Appetitie dejected when the Stomack is empty and the Appetite is wholly or for the most part gone this is called Anorexia and if they disdain or loath Meat and suppose it unpleasant which is pleasant it is called Nausea and Apositia Nausea or loathing and if all meat be refused Asitia If this be in some men except the cause be manifest it presageth Diseases because all men require meat that are sound In some it is a usual Symptom of Diseases and therefore in Children and Beasts though they cannot otherwise declare it we take it for a certain sign of sickness if they refuse to eat If they thirst not and refuse all drink Aposta or not drinking it is called Oligoposia or Aposia this is rare for though some sound men drink little and live upon moist meats which is seldom yet is it ordinary that they which desire no meat desire drink and they which Eate desire drink In Diseases though the appetite of meat be dejected yet they are so far from being not thirsty that they are very dry so that they had rather have moist things then other If usually happens that things that are usually eaten Loathing of some Meats and are pleasant to the tast as most nourishments are and sower sweets that are clean and good are disdained of some And this is either by an aversness of nature to some things which abhors them and by which they receive hurt as we have known by many concerning Cheese who though they eate Milke and Butter they disdain Others hate Wine by nature called Abstemious men from Abs which signifyeth without and Temetum which signifyeth Wine Others hate other things This is also usual in Diseases they hate some meats that nourish and not only for being fleshy fat and unctious but for the scent Also sweet things which most love are disdained by them and Wine Others refuse things offered from a distaste supposing their tast to be otherwise as we shewed in Drepraved Tast The Causes In regard the Stomach desires by its natural sense Meat and Drink it is necessary that it should be afflicted in all kinds of defect of Appetite so that it either looseth sense of hunger of thirst wholly or in part or is afflicted with a contrary sense and loathing of all Meats or of some This may be from the lightest afflictions of the Stomach because the Stomach must be well constituted that it may rightly hunger or thirst and therefore this Disease is so frequent both in sound and sick And it is either from its constitution or Repletion or Offense or Distemper or Weakness The Stomach hath originally such a constitution A certain constitution of the Stomack is the cause of loathing of divers Meats or temperature many times from innate causes that it disdaineth some things as Cheese or Wine which other natures abhor not Which temperature we cannot describe but that it delights in some meats and refuseth other as some creatures can digest things that a man cannot as Birds do Stones and Estridges Iron Yet the Apprehension of the Mother being with Child hath been a cause from her dislike and loathing of certain Meats especially if she were troubled with the Pica or longing which made an impression upon the Child And we have seen Children refuse the same as soon as they were born this loathing they bring with them into the world Apprehension is the cause of loathing of some Meats Also we find that the constitution of the Stomach in other causes is so changed by apprehension that it refuseth those meats that it is wont to take because they have been taken either immoderately or indecently or uncleanly Or because in Diseases they have been abhorred as after a Feaver we have known some long abstain from Flesh others never eat any more thereof Custom is another nature and therefore we delight in things we have usually eaten from Infancy Want of Custom is the cause of Loathing and abhor things that are universal though rare and Savory And this is the cause why divers kinds of Creatutes are not used but in extremity and that they who use themselves to eat Frogs and Snails take delight therein which cause Loathsomness to those that never eat them before And why Raw flesh and the like unclean things are nauseous to people that are used to a clean Diet. Repletion of the Stomach which stupifieth the sense thereof takes away appetite which is caused by the Chyle which it maketh and retaineth too long as when it is cleansed from the Chyle it desireth more meat to make new therefore while the old Chyle remaineth it desireth no more meat And this comes from the defect of distribution of the
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
in cold or distilled water in a good quantity You may give Conserves thus Take Conserve of Roses one ounce Conserve of Sorrel and Barberries each half an ounce Candied Citron peels half an ounce with Syrup of Barberries Or thus Take Conserve of Roses Sorrel Barberries if the Belly be loose each two drams Coral one dram red Sanders half a dram with Sugar of Roses make a Conserve We alter by external Remedies to the Heart Liver and Reins that are cold by consent of which parts all the body is cooled To the Heart with this Epithem Take Rose water three ounces Bugloss and Burrage water each two ounces Vinegar of Roses half an ounce Juyce of sour Apples and Lemmons each two drams red Sanders a dram To the Liver with this Take Endive and Sorrel water each three ounces Vinegar of Roses half an ounce Spikenard a scruple mix them We anoynt the Reins with Galens white Cerote or Oyntment of Sanders It is good to bath in sweet water in the declining of the fever to refresh and to discuss the Reliques if after you anoynt with Oyl the whol body or Back-bone Friction or Rubbing is also good in the declining of a fever to dissolve the Vapors raised from the hot blood if it be gentle with a hot Cloth and anoynt the body with Oyl of Chamaemel Sleep Refresheth takes away Thirst and provokes Sweat For correcting the accidents let the Diet be thin and nourishing to sustain strength as Barley-Cream Ptisans Almond milk boyled fruits with other Cordials to restore the Patient Let Head-ach Watching Doting Thirst Driness of Mouth Roughness of Tongue be amended as we shewed how But if the the former things be rightly administred they cease of themselves A Continual solitary fever though it hath divers kinds as a Continual Tertian The Cure of Constant putrid Fevers Quotidian Quartan and that called inordinate which is most usual and a putrid Synoch and Causon yet because their Cause is the same that is blood corrupted in the Veins though the species or kinds are different in respect of the place and blood we shal speak of the Cure of them altogether because most if not all the Remedies may be applied in part to every one As for the Prediction in regard Hippocrates saith the Judgment of acute Diseases meaning Fevers is uncertain we must not rashly pronounce Health or Death But we may declare danger or good hope by observing signs and accidents and chiefly the Critical daies and among them those called Indices or declaring daies to foretel what will be from the signs in those daies following good or bad from whence as the Ancients did so can we with wariness pronounce somthing all things diligently considered for if the Crisis ought to tend to the best which leads to health upon the directory day good must happen which is the seventh of the first week the fourteenth of the second and the twentieth not one and twentieth of the third And after in the same order the twenty seventh thirty fourth and fortieth These are indicated by the fourth the eleventh and seventeenth and the rest alwaies going before them three daies and therfore are called Indices If the Crisis or Judgment ought to be for the worst which brings Death the Directory fals upon an evil day which is the sixth or eighth or tenth or twelfth that is an uncertain Crisis in which the fever abates not at all and therefore called Imperfect or doubtful tending to good or evil at its return This is often the third fifth or ninth day But the Prognostick signs and accidents by which we judg of the event of fevers are these chiefly that follow The Urin is to be observed all the course of the fever because the matter is in the Veins and therfore it is much changed If it be Saffron-like or high as Gold it shews heat or purging of Choler by Urin. Black shews greater heat and danger except the melancholick humor sent forth by a critical evacuation cause it If it be thin of what color soever or crude it is worse than thick if it be perspicuous or to be seen through whether thin or thick it is good because it is neer to the natural Troubled Urin portends no ill if it come so from the cold Air external because that which is concocted is usually so if it be pissed so it is evil except it be critical or a natural discharge a sediment in the Urin is good if it stay at the bottom and together not dispersed equal white and thickish especially in a critical day That Urin which is otherwise is worse The pulse doth declare chiefly the heat and strength which the oftener and quicker it beats especially in the Diastole or dilatation shews greater Heat And as it is small or great declareth the strength An unequal intermitting creeping Pulse signifies no good Difficult Breathing small and strained is not good Sweat which the Patient liketh and wetteth the whol body and is hot is good If it stink and come in due time it is not hurtful Cold sweat is ill and a forerunner of Death Much Pissing is good and in a good Critical day takes away the Fever Bleeding at the Nose and Courses coming unseasonably do not ease but coming critically cures the fever A Loosness or Diarthaea following except it help to take away some of the cause weakneth and is dangerous And black stools shew malignity If the sharpness of the fever be constant and the body burning continually or if it be dayly or twice or thrice in fevers called inordinate and quotidians it is dangerous Tossing of the body restlessness casting off cloaths and going to the feet as Hippocrates saith shews the greatness of the fever and loss of strength If Sleep cause trouble it is an ill sign according to Hippocrates When the Temples fall the Nostrils are sharp the Tongue dry and black the outward parts cold they are evil signs And a sudden consumption of the body spoken of in a melting Causon Long and often Swounding Hiccupping Sighing continuing Convulsion and Carus are perverse and deadly accidents Though Nature cures continual putrid fevers The Cure of continual putrid Fevers which only doth it somtimes yet by the help of a Physitian shee doth it better and sooner If any part of the cause which maketh it or increaseth it be evacuated and the heat altered and the strength be preserved to the state and crisis Let us take away symptoms if they remain and be violent which is done by divers means Things that Evacuate the Cause which produced nourisheth and increaseth severs comprehend by blood-letting evacuation of Humors and Excrements by stool Urin and Sweat Bloodletting except hindered by fear of Swounding and weakness which appears in a swounding fever by the moving of the Choler in a Diarrhaea is the the chiefest means to abate the Cause and the Accident It wil take away the cause to open any apparent Vein in the Arm.
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
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
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
there is a wandring pain with rumbling about the Navil The cause of this is Inflammation or wind when alone or with other Excrements it fils the smal Guts so that they are like puddings stretched and twisted as we have seen This can scarse be from wind alone except there be obstructions from the causes mentioned which hinder its passage whereby the Guts are filled and twisted Also the rowling or tying of the Guts especially the smal from over exercise or from a fall upon the Belly when the Stomach and Guts are full of Meat and Excrements if it be not carefully cured will cause a deadly Convolvulus as it did in a Cousin of mine who leaping over a Ditch fel with his Belly against the further banke and the second day after vomited his Excrements and dyed In whose Body I sound the smal Guts tied in knots and stretched with wind upwards but empty beneath when the Guts were put into their places the wind broak forth by great farts Another twisting may be from the failing of the smal Guts out the Cavity of the Peritoneum into the Cods in a Rupture when they stay long there and cannot be put up The same Symptoms follow only the pain is then in the Groyn where the Peritonaeum or Caule is broken As shall be shewed in Ruptures Great cold in the Guts causeth torments as in the Stomach Refrigeration of the Guts causeth pain Either from outward cold or from things taken in actually too cold for the Stomach and Guts joyning to it and colon that is adjacent Also Clysters too cold actually or potentionally may cause the same The same may come from cold wind that comes from cold drink or crudities which may cause pain by stretching also if they be many Also from a cold and crude humor from sharp meats or fruits Although flegm be counted the chief cause of pain yet it must be only that which is cold as that called Glassie flegm which being bred in the Guts is very cold pierceth and knaws other kinds of flegm can cause no great pain either with their quantity or quality Inflammation of the Ileon Inflammation of the Colon causeth the Colick or in the smal Guts causeth the Iliake pain in the Colick or streight Gut the Colick And there is a fixed inflamed stretching beating pain inwardly in the part with a Feaver and other accidents of Inflammation with Costiveness though when the thick Guts are afflicted The Inflammation of the thin Guts causeth Convolvulus there is a vain Needing If the smal Guts are inflamed and the tumor is great then by reason of their rowling together because nothing can pass the Excrements are vomited this is the usual cause of Convolvulus in which Tumor I have observed a little blewness And if the Inflammation Imposthume and break matter is voided The cause of this Inflammation is blood sent from the Meseraicks into the substance of the Guts by reason of its plenty or thinness or by reason of great pain or other hurt wound or bruise Besides the flegmon or Inflammaon of the Guts A burning from choler in the Guts causeth the Iliack passion there may be a burning in the smal Guts causing the Iliack rather then Colick though it be commonly so called which is violent long and hath bad Symptoms when the choler is not in the space within but in substance of the Guts as I know by long observation and certain signs And it infects them and corrodeth and burneth as we shewed might be in the stomach and have found upon dissection by a yellow spot after death both in the Stomach and Guts This is the cause that the choller staies so long and so fast and brings such lasting pains that return when they are abated and they are worse when the choller is worse and is so hot and so much that it causeth Erysipelas Hence come grievous accidents because the Guts are very sensible being Nervous and the other Nerves suffer therewith especially when the choler gets to the Back-bone and Marrow where the Guts grow to it by the Mesenterie as Fernelius saith he found it also Convulsions and Palsies that may come from Choler and evil Humors in the Guts obstructed From whence as we may gather that Choler is the cause so may we conclude it from other signs of choler in the Urin and the like And this Choler sticking fast to the Guts cannot so soon get down as that which is there from obstruction and causeth a loosness as it doth when it gets into the lower parts Therefore in this case and in the former from obstruction though it come from Choler the Body is not open as in other Diseases but bound This Choler somtimes coming from the Gall as it may offend the substance of the Stomach as I shewtd so it may also offend the neighbor Guts to which it is naturally carried It comes often from evil chyle or two much juyce and is mixed with the blood in the Meseraicks being not sufficiently purged in the Gall by reason of the great quantity and obstructions when it is carried with the blood to the Guts through the Meseraicks and Guts into the substance of them as an Erysipelas This being gathered and retained in the Meseraicks causeth divers diseases and especially feavers as we shewed and being sent by nature to the Guts except it be carried away by a Loosness or Diarrhaea through the mouths of the Vessels which is usual or by the bleeding of the Haemorrhoids causeth great pains by infecting of the Guts These pains are joyned with other Diseases when the Choler is in the Veins as Iliake passions and other Diseases of Choler and Feavers as I shewed in intermitting Feavers The Bladder lying in the lower part of the Belly before causeth pain there The cause of the pain of the Belly about the Bladder is from the Bladder especially when it is ful and stretched forth We shall speak of the Diseases of the Neck of the bladder elsewhere For they cause pain in pissing The Diseases that cause pain in the Bladder are either distention that is stretching or Inflammation of the same The Urin is the chief cause of stretching of the Bladder The cause of the destending pain of the Bladder is the stretching thereof which when it is in great quantity retained causeth a pain in the lower part of the Belly with a swelling and stoppage of Urin of which we speak in suppression of Urin. This cannot come from wind because it cannot get into the Bladder though it may be bred there by the crudity of Urin long retained and cause a greater stretching This Wind and Urin is seldom seperated for the frothing of Urin when it is rendered or made comes rather from the external Air then any internal wind This stretching cannot be from the stone because it cannot grow so big neither doth a stone cause pain in the Bladder till it gets into the Neck
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
Shoulder inthe Arm. In all kinds the pain is increased by Motion of the Joynt and touching except in the Hip and Shoulder and then when the pain comes outward These pains come suddenly unto some There is usually a Tumor with Redness Heat and beating in the Podagra and Chiragra first or last and somtimes in the Gonagra or Arthritis especially in the Joynts without Flesh Somtimes it is an Oedema without Redness But in the pain of the Shoulder and Hip in the fleshy parts there is no such appearance or tumor In continuance of time in the Podagra and Chiragra there will be knots in the Joynts of the Fingers and Toes And when they are opened there comes forth a thin or tough white Matter or like Chalk And somtimes they turn to hard uneven stones which hinder the Motion of the Joynt And I have seen sometimes such knots from the bending of the Arm to the Wrists growing as it were together and when they have been broken there hath come forth a white Pultis and in one troubled with the Gout it was in his Ear. And another Merchant long and greivously troubled with the Gout The same kind of chalkie Matter was all over his Body and the very Eye-brows also and it turned to knots and then came forth As we shewed in Feavers there is a Synoch in every general Gout and often in the Podagra Chiragra and Gonagra and somtimes in the Hip and Shoulder-gout It begins first with Chilness and there is Thirst and Restlesness the Pulse is high and the Urin red There are somtimes other accidents in Arthritis And we have known a Cramp to follow the Joynt-gout which hath been worse then it self The pain about the great Bones besides that which is in parts without flesh Pains about the Bones of which we spake in the Pain of the Joynts and that without the Skull of which in Head-ach is of two sorts The one is chiefly about the Head bones the other is about many other Bones There is a kind of pain about the Head or Forehead An external Cephalaea which is lasting which is called an external Cephalaea or Head-ach differing from the internal mentioned This is about the Bone and is augmented by being touched It somtimes springs from an internal Head-ach or is joyned with it or is alone outwardly on both sides or on the right or left as a Haemicrania Sometimes it is like a Nail driven into one part Clavus and called Clavus Somtimes it makes Nodes in the Forehead like that in the French Pox and in other Bones There is another kind of outward pain in the Head Outward Heaviness of the Head which goes before other pains from Defluxion into the Joynts and fleshy parts In which somthing seems to lye heavy upon the Head and there is outward as if the skin were flead off and increaseth with touching of the Hair especially And oftentimes there is a Swelling soft and oedematous broad and dispersed about the Neck and hinder-part of the Head and other accidents as in the Heaviness of the Head coming within the Skull especially when they meet together There is another kind of pain about many Bones from a Disease not known by the Antients that was brought from the Indiies The French Pox or Neopolitane first called the Neopolitane then the French Disease The contagious French Pox. And because it comes by Copulation the Venereal Pox. Of which there are divers kinds as I shall shew and this pain about the Bones is one and is called the contagious Pain or Pox. This pain being near about the Bones is chiefly in the middle Seat without the Flesh either in Latitude or Longitude as in the naked inside of the Leg and about the Shoulders Homoplate and Arms and before in the Breast which bony part can scarce suffer from another internal Cause And therefore the Pox is known only by this sign somtimes Also there is pain without in the Head especially in the Forehead to the Eye brows and about the Temples sixed like an outward Cephalaea This pain is violent and implacable pulling as it were the skin from the bones and not to be touched It increaseth towards night and is not abated as other pains but augmenteth by heat And therefore in bed they are worse and it comes by degrees not suddenly as Arthritis Somtimes there are hard Tumors or Nodes in the Forehead Skins and insides of the Hands which are unequal and increase And other accidents as Falling of the Hair Spots Pustles and Ulcers as we shall shew The Causes It is necessary that in all Pains of the Habit of the Body mentioned that the sensible parts be affected as the Muscles Membranes and Nerves from whence come stretching pains or pains from compression solution of continuity simple distemper congestion of Humors Influxion or evil Quality Vehement Stretching of the parts causeth this pain Distention or Stretching is the cause of pain where other Symptoms are greater by immoderate Motion in Exercise and Labour Hence comes the stretching lazy pain mentioned And violent motion when the Muscles are contracted with the Cramp As we shewed in Spasmus Also it comes from Extension of the Muscles by straining which cause Bleeding such as is in inflamed or ulcerated Laziness or such as increaseth by touching and motion This pain is somtimes in the broad Muscle of the Breast which moveth the Arm coming from strong holding of the bridle in riding sometimes in the Feet and Knees from riding in short Stirrups Or in the Back from stretching of the Membranes and Ligaments by the great Bowels lying upon them or by a Tumor as in divers Diseases of the Liver Spleen Guts Mesentery and Womb and in women with child as we shewed Or it is from wind that is bred by moisture or weak heat or coming from other parts which lifteth up and stretcheth the muscles as we shewed in windy Cramp And if it be between the membranes it is a pain like that from Defluxion but not so fixed but wandring and stretching and not long lasting And if it come to the skin the pain is with palpitation or beating as we shewed Also Compression of the parts may cause pain without breaking of the skin which if it is A Compression is the Cause of pain in which the Symptomes are greater belongs to Diseases of the skin As from long lying in a great Disease when there is a pain in the Back and in other sensible parts and from external violence as when from pressing of the Elbow there is a numness and pricking of the two Fingers Or when the Bones are out of their places and lye upon the Muscles Membranes or Nerves there is pain which is greater and longer when there is Swelling or Heat as when there is a great pricking pain from a violent motion of the Back or Neck or from Bones out of Joynt while they lye upon these
parts and hinder motion As we shewed in want of Motion from a Dislocation The same pain may be from broken Bones out of their place which tear the parts and hinder motion as we shewed in want of Motion from a Fracture Or from the Spondils of the Back broken out which cause Pain Swelling and Ulcers before they come forth as I knew in a Child of seven years old who was born crook-baked and had a Tumor in his left Shoulder out of which came many small bones of his Back with much matter Solution of Continuity internal in a sensible part causeth pain Rupture is the cause of pain in the Hernia as when the Membrane about the Belly is broken Especially when the guts come forth and there is an Hernia As for other sensible parts as Muscles and Nerves they can scarce be broken without an external force Of these we shall speak in the Diseases of the Skin Also Distemper causeth pain Distemper causeth pain with other Symptoms joyned whether cold or hot If it be outward it is to be referred to Diseases of the skin if inward it comes from Defluxion or congestion of Humors as shall be shewed And in the Fits of Agues the pain felt in the Back and Members comes first from Cold and then from heat because the Cause lyeth in the great Vessels which are near the Back and inflame the Nervous parts An Humor heaped which is corrupt from evil Nourishment or Weakness of Concoction or crude Congestion of Humors causeth an external Head-ach causeth pain in the bloodless parts about the Bones Periostium and Membranes where by reason of Cold they are more easily heaped up and more slowly discussed This is often in the Head between the skul and skin by reason of the plenty of Veins which afford Excrements which cannot easily be discussed by reason of the thickness of the skin Hence comes Cephalaea or Heach-ach external This may be in other places upon bare Bones like that in the French Pox with Swelling and Nodes when the Nourishment of the part aboundeth and turns to a Callus as shall be shewed in external Tumors Also when these Humors are heaped without the Skull Congestion of Humors causeth outward Heaviness Congestion of Humors causeth the Joynt-gout there comes a pain external which goes before Defluxions and Joynt-gouts The same Excrements about the bloodless Region of the Joynts not flowing from other parts may cause a kind of Joynt-gout This comes by degrees not suddenly as that which comes from a Defluxion nor doth it cause great pain and the tumor is only oedematous This Arthritis or Joynt-gout seldome comes first but follows the other which comes from Defluxion when the part is weakned from which Defluxions new Excrements are gathered Hence they are free from the Gout but there is some sign of it either from Defluxion or Congestion of Humors Or if there be another kind of Arthritis from both as a Sciatica It lasteth long and hath great changes A Defluxion of Humors causeth sudden pains A Defluxion of Humors causeth the Joynt-gout and other pains and they are either simple Defluxions or Arthritical The Humors either flow from within the Vessels or otherwise Humors congested without the Vessels that cause these two sorts of pain are supposed either flegmatick or waterish but a waterish Humor or pure Whey flowing to these parts causeth resolution or tumor without pain rather then with great pam And therefore it must be mixed with other Excrements and then as it is more cholerick sharp or salt or evil it stretcheth and tearing the part more or less and causeth pain accordingly The Original of this serous Humor comes from the Head and flows downwards And it is somtimes congested in the inward part thereof within the Skull from the Blood which is plentiful in the Head when it is crude or impure And when any part thereof is unfit for Nourishment and will not be concocted there are Excrements in the Brain which fall down and cause pain Before which there was a Heaviness in the Head from the Matter heaped up and other accidents Also excrementitious blood sent to the Brain comes from the weakness of the first or second Concoction or from its Crudity and the rather if the Brain be weak Hence it is that though good blood be bred in the first Concoction yet because it cannot be assimilated or brought into substance in the third there are many Excrements and more when it is not at first well concocted or mixed with Excrements This cause of the weakness of the Brain is either from the Parents or from age and Disease especially from Wine and Venery the one stupefying and the other spending the Spirits and both weakning the Nerves and Brain and taking away strength Of the excess of which the Gout is the punishment The plenty of this humor in the brain causeth it to flow down or external cold wind or moistness that pierceth the Brain and straineth and squeeseth it or heat of the Sun or Baths causeth Defluxions rather by opening the passages and stirring up the Faculty to expel then by melting the Flegm as they call it Also great motion that shakes the Head by Neesing Coughing or the like causeth the abounding Humor to slow down And we have shewed that the same humor may be without the Skull and flow down and cause pain before which was Head-ach or Heaviness and Swelling of the skin And also we shewed the Cause why Humors are easily gathered there And the same Causes that made the Humor flow which was internal may move the external as cold and heat and sooner as we ordinarily may perceive The Defluxion of this Humor which is both within and without the Skull is divers For if that flow which is in the Skull it causeth Diseases in the Habit of the Body and others also as it falls into the bottom of the skull into the three cavities For if it fall into the upper chamber next the Forehead then it is strained through the holes of the straining Bone and comes like clear water out of the Nose and is called Coriza If it fall into the middle Cell or Chamber which goeth to the Pallate with many holes it either passeth thin presently or continueth and turneth thick into Snot and so is blown out at the Nose or hawked out Or if it flow towards the Eyes it is turned to Tears as we shall shew in things sent forth But if it follow the passage of the Nerves in the middle cell or fall into the hinder Cavity of the Skull which is lower and larger through the great hole behind which contains the the narrow from whence come the pain of Nerves it fals into the Habit of the Body into fleshy parts or Joynts and causeth the Gout Also when the Humor gathered without the Skull flows down under the skin it causeth pains according to the parts as we shall shew If it
foul may be painful Of which as the shape is divers we shall speak in Deformity The Causes The Causes of all pains in the superficies of the Body as tickling itching pains of cold or heat compressions roughness contusion all without an appearent Character also of redness or Erysipelum Tumors Inflammations Impostumes Cancers Pustles Scabs Clefts Corrosions Wounds and Ulcers in which there are signs which are the disease it self are cold or hot or dry distemper of blood or other Humor gathered in those parts or Solution of continuity When the parts are not used to be touched as the soals of the Feet sides Want of usual touching causeth tickling Arm-holes and Privities they are subject to ticklishness or when any thing toucheth the Face gently or creepeth there is tickling or titillation A cold distemper Cold causeth pain causeth the cold pain in the superficies of the Body from Air Wind or Water or Snow or Ice and not solution of continuity by freesing that presseth forth the thin moisture This pain is greater when the part is Nervous or not used to cold or Air. Therefore the Face because it is not covered though it be very sensible yet it is not so sensible of cold as other parts that are usualy covered Also cold is very grievous to Ulcers or wounds that have the skin off And this pain is greatest when there is a sudden change from very hot to very cold If this happen to the Hands as it is usual there is that great pain in the the Fingers ends called in high Dutch Kuneglen A hot distemper causeth a hot pain from the Air Heat causeth pain made hot by the Sun or otherwise or from water or the like when there is burning in the body and not Inflammation Also this hot pain may come from too many cloths which disturb and cause sweat Also the body is inflamed with excercise And there may be preternatural heat in the Hands and Feet from internal causes which some attribute to the heat of the Liver Also in hot diseases especially Feavers there is a perplexing heat internal and external Dryness of the skin causeth that roughness which offendeth the touch Dryness is the cause of pain from touching of rough things in tender people especially This roughness may also come from external Air that is dry or from the touching of dry and astringent things When the skin is made hard by labor it rather diminisheth the sense of touching Dryness is the cause of clefts then depraveth it Somtimes the skin is extraordinarily cleft as in the Hands Feet Lips Fundament c. This dryness may come from the causes mentioned or from cold or heat as in Feavers we find the skin cleft and the Lips from the heat of breath And there may be clefts in the Hands and Feet from cold Air and water And in extraordinary cold that is long when it beats upon a part where the skin is thick there may be great clefts which turn to Ulcers they are called Perniones As in the soals of the Feet and Palms of the Hands and in the Ears and Nostrils because they want flesh to defend them This the cold doth by astringing drying and wrinkling the Skin And if it extinguish the heat it is most dangerous Blood flowing to any superficial parts as to the Skin Flesh and Glandules causeth divers diseases When it doth not only moisten the parts which is natural for nourishment but fil and inflame them And if blood flow to the skin except the scarf skin which admits no blood it causeth Erysipelas in which there is redness from the blood shining through the scarse skiâ— Blood flowing to the skin is the cause of Erysipelas and its kinds and before it is sixed or swollen the part being pressed the redness flies away and returnes again as we see in other parts it comes to pass from the blood coming and going in the Cheeks But if the blood be hot the burning is the worst pain and it is as the blood is For if it be thin and hot there is a simple Erysipelas which comes and goes sooner If it be thick there is a great Erysipelas Phlegmon if waterish there is Erysipelas oedematous this is gentler but longer If the blood be Cholerick the Erysipelas turns yellow and burns more and eats off the scarf skin If the choller be green or black it is seen by the color and ends in perverse Ulcers or malignant if it be infectious If the blood be gathered in the flesh and skin Flux of blood to the skin and flesh causeth Tnmors and Inflammations it causeth swelling and Inflammation with redness and pain from distention and heat and when the blood is discussed the Tumor is gone If it suppurate or grow ripe Suppuration causeth Impostumes it is an Impostume which breaking makes an Ulcer and the matter is more when the blood is much and the substance of the part corrupted And if the Inflammation increase and the humor be perverse and corruption follow especially a wound in the Nerves Slidwasser from a corrupt wound Corruption of the part causeth Gangren Natural heat extinct causeth a Sphacel that pernicious Ulcer called in high Dutch Slidwasser which gleets with Water is begotten and the Nerves being corrupted there is less of motion But if the Inflammation increase and there comes no suppuration but corruption of the natural heat be extinct a Sphatel If blood flow upon the flesh rather then the skin as upon the Muscles outward in the belly breast neck or back there are Inflammations but not red or manifestly swollen as in other as in the Pleurisie and Quinsies If the blood flow to divers places there will be pustles as I shewed And if it be in the pores there will be many little scabs These Inflammations are divers in respect of the blood if it be pure the Inflammation is simple If thin and not only gathered but dispersed partly upon the skin it causeth a Phlegmon with Erysipelas if thick the Inflammation will be blewer called a Scirrhus which rather follows then accompanyeth an Inflammation If the blood be waterish the Phlegmon wil be Aedematous in which the Serum sent further into the skin makes an Aedematous tumor about as we see blood doth when sprinkled upon linnen If other humors as choller yellow green or black or sharp and malignant be in the blood the Inflammation is worse and the heat of the blood when the Inflammation lyeth deep will make the rotten flesh part from the sound in a Coate which will be in the tumor when opened as in furunculus If Blood flow upon other parts distinct from the flesh and skin Flux of blood upon the glandules causeth the Bubo Parotis Phygthlon Phyma and gathereth together it causeth a hot tumor and inflammation as when it fals upon the kernels or glandules in the Emunctuaries This is usual because nature sooner dischargeth her self in ignoble parts
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
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
winded especially when he goes up hill or lieth down and it is the chief Symptom he complains of which also foretelleth a Dropsie before a tumor appear and when it comes it increaseth and from the beginning about Midnight after Concoction there is a pressing pain at the Heart and then short breathing and they are in Danger of choaking by which they are constrained to sit up like men in an orthopnaea Breathing with their Neck stretched out And when they lie on the one side either right or left they cannot lie long for shortness of wind on either side but are forced to lie upon their Backs At last the Disease increasing they cannot lie down at all because they are straight tormented thereby and they continue Day and and Night strait up and their Head bowed to their Breast for better breathing sitting long they spend the remnant of their daies miserably There strength decaies for want of lying down there Appetite is lost there is constant Thirst little Urin made the Urine is somtimes high red or Gold coloured and thick somtimes crude and watery somtimes not changed There is another kind of Dropsie Ascites A Tympany joyned with an Ascites in which the belly is far more extended and soundeth like a Drum being beaten in which you may hear a Noise upon motion with other accidents like the former onely the Feet swell not alwaies as in other kinds and this is a Tympany with an Ascites In the Dropsie Tympanites only the belly swells A Tympany alone and is stretched like a Drum from whence it is so called In which the stretching is so great that being strook it sounds like a Drum and being compressed it presently riseth nor will it keep an impression long as an Ascites doth These breath freer then they in the Ascites nor do they find any difficulty of breathing by lying down neither do their Legs or other parts swell besides there are Noises heard in the Belly and they have pain sometimes and are weak There is another Kind of Tympany in which with the aforesaid accidents The Tympany of the Guts there is a stoppage Pain and Vomiting with the Symptoms of the Disease of the Ilion Gut and Colon. The Belly also grows great Naturally as after Conception and somtimes besides Nature in a false Conception when there is a Mole with Conception or without so that a Woman seems great with Child thereby of which three kinds of tumors of the Belly we shall treat here shewing what they are and by what signs they are known That growing of the Belly which is in Women great with Child The growing of the Belly in a Woman with Child albeit being Natural it concerneth not us here yet that we may distinguish it from unnatural and shew that it comes not from any Disease which women do pretend which have been irregular and would conceale their bleeding and that we may pronounce some certainety or probability of Conception and that we may not mistake in this prediction which is easie in regard the women that have conceived are at the beginning especially very doubtful and do exceedingly desire to know and therefore do ask Physitians advise and send their waters we shall shew by signs accidents and Experiments how you may know that a woman hath conceived The Constitution of a woman fit to conceive doth with other signs make somwhat for the Knowledg of Conception This as they write is when besides the soundness of Body and Temperature which is thought to be best when contrary to the Mans she hath broad Loyness a large belly not too fat especially about the Privities But since we see those that are not such do conceive of what temper soever fleshy or lean nay the very least like Pigmyes we can gather great Matter from thence We hold her sit for Conception who is between fourteen and forty five and hath Parents that are fruitful Also if she have formerly conceived there is a stronge presumption if there be a doubt that she hath conceived It is necessary that before Conception she have Knowledg of a Man to enquire this of married people is in vain in others Necessary which when they will not confess it must be discovered by divers Arts among which this is one when there is great Suspicion if the Physitian by the water shall affirm that she is defiled because the vulgar people think a Physitian can tell any thing by the water or else the Parents and Magistrates shall force confession by threats Also if a woman shall perceive after the Use of a Man that she kept the Seed and that it went not out again although through Modesty she will not declare it it is a great sign of Conception especially if at that time she perceived any contraction of the Womb or sucking with great pleasure and that her Seed met with the Man 's at that time If the Terms stop which kept formerly their course it is a great and chief sign of Conception by which women presently judg themselves with Child and casting their account from the first Moneth after Copulation they collect the time of their lying in And if they doubt their Conception they will freely tell a Physitian when they stopped both they which are honest and others also though they which pretend other causes of their stopping And although in women with Child there is somtimes some evacuation of Blood from the Womb at some times yet is it be small and keep no order as the terms did it is not a sign of not conceiving and if the woman at the time she conceived gave suck and wanted her terms as it is usual and afterward though not presently the terms wholly stop it is probable she hath conceived and for this cause when Mothers perceive it they wean their Children If the belly grow bigger by degrees no accidents of a Disease being present it is a main sign of Conception especially if the tumor be most under the Navel and if it be hard and gathered together not pitting after impression as in the Ascites and not stretched out as in a Tympany and keeps the same Magnitude only except its gradual increase and grows not bigger when the Body is upright as in the Ascites and less when she lies down nor hath a tumor as in the Ascites suddenly fallen down when she turns upon one side when it is thus if it be not a false Conception or other Tumor joyned with a true as we have feen for then the belly swelling violently the Women are in Danger of Suffocation through shortness of Breath by which somtimes they die except by Abortion or by lying if they can attain to it they are freed pouring forth much water together with the Child The growing of the Breasts if other things be alike is a sign of Conception because in Diseases they rather decrease if they have Milk it is not to be doubted which we conjecture is made before it
was grown very big We also saw a woman loose a great deal of Blood with great Pulsation from the opening of a Vein which could scarce be stopped although many Remedies were applyed having a beating Tumor after the wound was healed which declared it to be an Aneurism And this came either because the Artery was cut by chance in the fleshless bending of the Arm where the Tumor was by reason of the blood ebbing and flowing under the skin after the wound was healed in the skin and not in the Artery Or because the Mouth of the Artery was fresh dilated before the incision was made and that caused that when the skin was cut there was a Flux which caused a Tumor after the cut was healed Neither can an Aneurism not be from the Arterial blood when it is under the skin and corrupted although this may be when blood is sent from the Veins into the empty spaces yet when Blood leaping from the Artery thus opened returns again and the skin is instead of an Artery it may be without concretion as when it is in the Artery And because this cannot be in the Veins an Aneurism cannot be from venal Blood A watery serous Humor produceth in divers places both general and particular Tumors because it is contained in divers parts of the body as in the veins which are dispersed all over and Bowels into which they are sent or in other Vessels being separated from the blood from which places somtimes simple Water otherwhiles mixed with other Humors comming forth produceth divers kinds of Tumors differing exceedingly as they are in the cavity of the Abdomen or Belly Codds Groyns or in the superficies of the Body either in the inferior parts only or al over as shall be shewed in particulars A serous Humor like Water getting into the Cavity of the Belly Water sent into the Cavity of the Abdomen is the cause of the dropsie Ascites or Abdomen causeth the Dropsie Ascites and then the belly swells more or less according to the quantity of the Water and is somtimes so full that it grows very large in which by tapping we have seen taken from the Living and found somtimes in the Dead threescore pound weight and above of water when much had formerly run out at the Feet which water doth not only burden with its weight but by pressing lying and hindering the free Motion of the Diaphragma or Midriff causeth difficulty of breathing of which they so complain and especially when the water goes more to the Midriff and oppresseth it hence it is that they breath better when they are standing for then the water goes downwards And if the same water weaken the Bowels Liver Spleen Veins Stomach and Guts by making them too moist or by its saltness or sharpness from mixture with other Humors or by its Corruption through long continuance till it stink make them too dry the Mesentery Cawle and Reins will be dryed and drawn up and the Fat clodded as we have seen Or if this water corrode the exulcerate in any part or putrifie the same we have seen the Cawle yellow and stinking in many as well as contracted and the Midriff hath been found the same in and opening of Hydropical People if this happen or if any other Bowels be hurt by this Water it will produce worse Symptoms in the hurt Functions of natural parts as want of Appetite Thirst Cachexy Atrophy and Diarrhaea and the like as by Corruption and Gangren of the Stomach by the water long contained therein a Vomiting with Heat and vehement Inflammation of the Oesophagus or Wezand which I saw in an Hydropical Woman which a liltle before her Death vomited often abundance of black stinking Water with great Inflammation of the Throat The cause of this water in the capacity of the Belly is from the parts of the lower belly which contains the Water or from the Bowels that are ordained for Sanguification as the Liver Spleen Reins or from the Veins which go through those parts and the rest or from the Bladder that holds the water from which if they be divided or the continuity dissolved by Diapedesis by which it is strained or Anastomasis by which the Mouths are open this water falls as shall be shewed in particulars Fernelius witnesseth that there is no Dropsie but it is caused by the solution of the continuity or Division of the Parenchyma or substance of the Liver And this by Anatomy we have often known And that chiefly when the substance of the Liver is cleft and gapeth from whence the water passing by it from the Vessels of the hollow and gate Vein and sweating under the Coats being there constrained fills them with water and makes them like bladders by separating the Tunicles from the parts under them which being broken the water runs into the Belly we have often seen these Bladders very large and clear growing to the Liver and Spleen in Men dead of the Dropsies and in an Ape and Butchers find the same in Cattel And when these coats are corroded the water falls directly into the belly The great Dryness of the substance of the Liver which makes it grow less is the cause of these clifts in the Liver And this came rather by a hot then cold Distemper as appears by the great Thirst of Hydropical People and the high Colour of their Urin and other signs of heat rather then cold and in regard they have it that time most deliciously with spiced meats and drink the strongest wine and so continue being young or aged at which time they fall into a Dropsie by reason of the Dryness of their bowels and they jestingly complain that they are troubled with water though they never drank it in their lives And this we have observed to have been the chief cause of dropsies in our Country and we perceive that a perpetual thirst in Drunkards which they long have had from the hot Distemper of their bowels which makes them ever drinking is a most sure fore-runner of a Dropsie if another Disease doth not prevent it by Death This also may come by heating of the Bowels immoderately with hot Medicines with which Women labour to warm the Stomach and Womb or when they have other cold Diseases These bowels may also be dryed and cleft by hot sharpe and constant Diseases as Feavers and Jaundies and therefore the Dropsie which sheweth rather the signs of heat then cold followeth these Diseases From a hard Tumor of these Bowels either all over them or in any part in the concave or convex part of the Liver or in the Spleen may these Clefts come from a Scirrhus of the Liver or Spleen or any other Tumor which will turn to an Imposthume Or there may be such openings by which the water may fall into the Abdomen because from this Hardness the Tunicle quickly cleaveth and if it imposthume and ulcerate then there is way made for the water as shall be said in
body by which it passeth with crude blood to the nourishing of the Parts and as the blood nourisheth them with crude Juyce so this watereth them And the Cause of the mixture of this serous Humor with the crude is the abundance of it in the Veins When there are Causes which produce these serous Humors joyned with the weakness of the Bowels that do sanguifie or make blood so that they cannot sufficiently compleat it as we shewed in the Leucophlegmacy Among which this was chief the immoderate increase thereof which most say is in the Liver and is Naturally produced at the second Concoction so that if the Liver be weakned or cooled because it cannot make the Chylus into Blood they say it turns it into Whey But these Arguments may proove that Whey and Serum is not made in the Liver but in the first Concoction and it takes its form presently from thence because being partly made in the Stomach with the Chyle of the best Juyce some part thereof is thinner as Whey in Milk and is of the same use with the Chylus of which it is a part and comming partly from the Humors abounding through eating and drinking and made thinner it hath the form of Whey and being sent into the Guts with other Excrements it is carried from the Mescraick Veins into the hollow Vein with the Chylus and without it as we see some who piss out Drink too much taken presently being suddenly snatcht to the Liver Hence it is that we must attribute the abundance of Serum to too much drinking and use of moist things which administer matter unto it rather then to the fault of the Liver except we will as some do call that crude Juyce which is made by defect in the Liver a serous Humor or because the separation of the Whey imperfect at the makeing of the Blood cannot be handsom but there is more Whey in the Blood then is needful and is not separated as in other places makes it more watery for this cause we may pronounce that the Serum or Whey is not only made by the Liver but also gathered into the Veins more plentifully And so to determine the Leucophlegmacy comes from the weakness of the Liver And this is chiefly when there is not a sufficient Evacuation by Urin the attractive Faculty of the Kidneys being weakned or when usual sweating is stopped which may be the only Cause without the Distemper of the Liver of water in the Veins And this is sooner when the Diet is such as breeds water These causes meeting make a Leucophlegmacy in which the whey or water called Serum is more then the crude Juyce or such as comes from only Serum when the Imbecillity of the Liver is absent As we have seen some who have swollen only by drinking a great Draught without fetching breath when they were very hot by reason of the Heat which carried the Humor suddenly into the Veins and thence into the Habit of the Body and the same hath been when a body hot and sweating was exposed to the Air through the strikeing in of the water And it sometimes happens that the water being carried from the Meseraick Veins into the Belly from the Causes aforesaid and so into the Habit of the Body that the Dropsie Ascites is produced with that called Anasarca and so they both are united Water falling into some parts and there gathered Water in the Feet may cause a swelling without a Dropsie causeth Swellings as when it is in the Feet of which we spake without the Dropsie Ascites it causeth a Tumor like that of a Dropsie being soft such as we described formerly And this is when together with the crude Nourishment which causeth Oaedematous Tumors it falls from the inferior parts into the Feet Or when in Diseases of the Feet as the Erysipelas Oedematous or the like these Excrements are carried with other Humors into the Feet and cause these Diseases and when the other are discussed the Tumor remaineth Or when by a Defluxion into the Eyes there is an Epiphora or Moistness and weeping which makes the Eye-lidds swel which was spoken of in the Eyes Or when in the Declination of other acute Diseases Nature disburdning the remainder of the Excrements with the water into the lower parts the Feet do swell and the sooner because having long kept the bed and their Feet up when they begin to walk the Humors flow downward This tumor of the Feet in men that are in Health is counted a good sign because the reliques are so carried away And because such thin Humors are quickly discussed it continueth not long unless it be such as shewed it self at first in the Feet which a Dropsie followed this deceiveth many and it may be discovered by other accidents which accompany a Dropsie We have formerly shewed that there hath been a Tumor in the skin Water in the Leggs the cause of particular tumors there upon the Longitude thereof only from a serous humor and because it came suddenly it was a sign that it t would go suddenly away though it pitted with strong Impression And this was sent by Nature by reason of the plenty of it as appeared by the Parties continual Sweating and by reason of the thinness and sharpness which caused Itching And there was also a Loosness of the Feet and a contraction If water be sent under the skin into any outward part Water gathered under the skin of the Head the cause of Hydrocele if it separate the skin from the part and fill the space between it causeth a Tumor as under thick skins of the Head in the Tumor called Hydrocelephale comming from plenty of water there breeding and gathered together And when water is under the skin of the Navel Water in the Navel is the cause of Hydronphalon the Tumor called Hydromphalon is raised being carried thither by the Navel-vein enlarged or by reason of the plenty thereof or from other causes while the Passage is not dryed as we shewed in a Dropsie may be When water is in the Eye-brows there is a swelling Water in the Eye-brows Cause of their Swelling and the sooner with tears and rubbing because they will often Itch. Somtimes there is a sudden Defluxion of Blood into the Eye with water with Swelling and Redness as if there had been a stroak comming and going about the ball of the Eye These have I seen in two Children of evil Habit of Body having pain in the Limbs and the running Gout Also when water is under the scarfe Skin Water under the skin of the Eye the Cause of Phlyctana if it be separated from the parts beneath and the Mouths of the Veins that end there and stop them causeth the Bladder called Phlyctaena And this will be so in other parts The cause is the abundance of whey brought thither and hindered from passing through the Pores by Sweat and therefore it getteth under the skin and lifteth it
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
require a general Cure proper for the Pox and also some particulars they shall be declared in the Cure of the Pox. The Nodes in the Head-ach in the Fore-head vanish when the Head-ach is gone usually but if they remain you must evacuate and use external Applications mentioned The callous Nodes which come not from a Disease Of Callous Nodes which eates the Periostium or skin upon the Bone but from over much Nourishment by Bone Juyce so that it seems to be a new Bone growing to the other Or which come after a broken bone are hard to be taken off but continue the whol Life But if they be offensive we shall study to remove them with outward Remedies Not using Evacuations because they come from an outward Cause We may apply things mentioned for the Gout or for Scrophula And we know by Experience that Narcoticks or Stupefactives do much by which we have dissolved desperate Nodes in Men and Beasts Taking the Roots of Mandracks Leaves of Henbane and Hemlock boiled in Vinegar for a Fomentation and Cataplasm to which Bee-nettles may be added Plaisters and Oyntments of Quick-silver are as good here as in the Pox. To soften Nodes use the Cerot of Oesypum which is made of Oyl of Chamomil Orris Oesypum or Grease of Sheeps-wool Rosin Turpentine Mastick Wax Spikenard and Saffron Also the Plaister of the Son of Zachary made of Nerve-Oyl Oesypum or Grease of Sheep-wool Goose grease Marrow of a Cow bone Turpentine Bdellium Ammoniacum Mastick Storax Aloes Foenugreek and Chamomil with Saffron There is another of Calfes suet Olibanum Juyce of Squills and Wax also the Oesypum'd Plaister of Paul and the Diapente of Democritus The Nodes are somtimes cut off especially when they grow towards the Joynts and hinder the Motion And this Operation is safest when they are upon the bare bone only covered with the skin This is done first by opening the skin and laying them bare and then with a sharp knife with one cut taking them from the Bone and by curing the wound which may be done by burning but not safely nor quickly If the Callous Tumors of the Nailes come from any Hurt The Cure of the callous Tumor of the Nails it will be gone as the Nails grow out and are paired But if from an internal Cause they become uneven and thick they will not be made thin yet we must attempt it if we suppose the Distemper of the Body was the Cause by removing that and by external Remedies Emplasters and Baths which soften that we may still cut off the Tumor that the new Nails may grow thinner A Callus in the Hands The Cure of the Callus or thickness of the Skin is a sign of labour and no dishonor and in the Heel doth strengthen the Motion and therefore requires no Cure besides if there be rest it will peell off and a new skin succeed But if they grow to be an hinderance in touching or going as Cornes then we must use Softners And chiefly Baths for the Hands and Feet of warm water and softning Plants mentioned in Clysters that mollifie and in the Baths for a Scirrhus with Grease and fat Tripe-broath and Oyls Also Oyntments Plaisters of Oyls Grease Mucilages and Gums mentioned in Scirrhus and things that soften a Corn. Among the which Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar is most softning After bathing pare the Hands Nails and Feet about the Heel with a Pumex Stone or File We took away a Corn in the side of the Foot which was very troublesom and hard with our Cautery that causeth no pain The Cure of Scars or Callus in the skin The Cure of Scars is not accounted needful especially in Soldiers to whom a wound in the Face is honorable because it argues they saced their Enemy and ran not Also when it comes from any other Cause if it be even with the skin as a white Lye it is neglected because it is like the skin and must not be altered to another Color least it be more apparent But when it sticks forth or is uneven we must make it with cleansing Remedies equal with the skin such as follow The Decoction of wild and Garden Poppy for a Fomentation Also the Water of Lilly or Bean flowers and that of Mans dung commended by some Also Oyl of Myrrh and Yolks of Eggs of bitter Almonds Peaches Dates or instead thereof beat the Kernels and rub the part The Common People rub it with fasting Spettle The Liquor that sweats through Eggs roasting in the Embers The Grease of the Fish Thymalus Or an Oyntment of Rocket and Mustard seed with Ox Gall. Or of Borax Camphire and Grease or Marrow Oyl of Nutmegs boiled in Vinegar and Niter is commended of Dioscorides An Oyntment Take of the Roots of wild Cowcumber or Dragons Orris Reeds each two drams Mellon seeds and Raddish roots each one ounce Harts Horn or burnt Egg-shells each half a dram white Chalk Crystal or Amiantum one dram and an half Frankincense one dram Sugar Candy three drams Gum Traganth infused or the Mucilage of Foenugreek one ounce with Oyl or Grease Make an Oyntment If these avail not use strong Cleansers Corroders and Burners if you will take it quite away Such as we shewed in Discoloration to take away Spots You must also pare it with a Pen-knife as a Callus If the Scar be deep like a pit you cannot make it even unless you first cut or burn it and they fill up the Cavity with new flesh and after heal it But in the pits after the small Pox through the Face and Nose The Cure of the pits of the small Pox. because strong things cannot be well applied there is little hope of Cure great Men would have spared for no cost to have it done for their Children if possible If any thing be done it must be softners and attracters to raise the flesh and make it even As the Decoction of Lillies Calfes feet which will do but little and this is rather to be prevented in the Cure of the small Pox as we shall mention there The Cure of the pit of the Navel growing too deep is neglected The Cure of the pitting of the Navel because being private it is no Impediment as also that tumor which comes from the growing of it hard but we shall shew the cure of the Navel Rupture and Water-rupture Warts and Cornes either depart of themselves The Cure of warts cornes or are not regarded when they are not visible but when in the Face or Hands as Warts or when they cause pain and hinder motion as Cornes we may cure them easier then other hard tumors though they have deep Roots and be hard yet being in the Pores and not fastned to the true skin as one with it nor covered with it as other tumors and being without seeling so that you may apply what you please the Cure is easier which we thus order that
discovery as also of the Pulse which hath no Alteration The Venereal Disease called by that name The French Pox. because it comes from Venery and because it is there frequent and came from thence the Neapolitan Disease or French Disease may be more truely called the Indian Disease thence it came first doth corrupt the body with as many accidents as the Elephantiasis and makes it filthy sick and uncomely And in this there is great pain and if it be alone it is referred to the pains about the bones but if it be mixed with other accidents it is to be referred hither And these accidents are to be diligently searched into because it is infectious and that it being known betimes the unsound may be separated from the sound for which end there are proper Hospitals These accidents following are the chief The Hair usually falls off in the French Pox which is a sign One kind of French Pox. especially about the Temples Forehead and Eye-brows and in men the beard falls and this is a more certain sign if other accidents concur albeit if there be no sign of another Disease it will be a sign of the Pox alone and also if they confess that they have had to do with unclean Women The skin is sometimes sprinkled with small Spots Another kind of French Pox. red and like Fleabits or Freckles dark yellow or blew in many places in the Face Neck Breast Belly Privities somtimes all over And we have somtimes seen these Spots so joyned together that the skin hath been broadly infected especially in the Breast and Back and somtimes in the Belly or other places which being pressed the strange colour flew away and the pit was white and presently returned to its former colour These Spots either alone if we can discover no other cause thereof besides unclean Copulation declare the beginning of the Pox or some small kind of it as also the falling off of the Hair alone or with other accidents they will be more certain and shew the Disease to be worse High Pustles without pain are somtimes in the skin The third kind of french Pox. reddish or yellowish round hard and covered with a dry Scurfe in the Forehead Ears Nostrils Jaws and in the Head also in the Neck Breast Arms and other parts and these certainly declare the Pox. Besides there are divers malignant Pustles in the inward parts the Mouth Jaws Nostrils and Praepuce or Foreskin of a mans Yard and Womens Privities these if many together do certainly signifie the Pox especially if other signs went before or come after In Children infected these Pustles in the Mouth are the chieft sign of it There come also filthy Ulcers from the Pustles mentioned in divers parts yet chiefly in the tender parts of the skin Face Nose Lips and about the Privities and that cancer in the Praepuce or Fore-skin of the Yard and those in womens Privities also in the Jawes Mouth as the little sores called Aphthae or thrush Nostrils and in the Posteriors Some of these creep on and corrode the subject parts and corrupt the bone and bring hurt to the parts either by Lameness or loss of the same Others disfigure the Face by eating off the Nose others corrode the Lips so that they cannot drink or sup which must be done by the lips as I have seen Others have eaten through the Palate and consumed the Vvula whereby the voice hath been hoarse and they have spoken through the Nose and snuffled Also these Ulcers corrupt the Glans Nut or Head of the Yard and makes them unfit for Venery as we shewed in corroding Ulcers such as hinder Functions and Actions By these especially if many together and mix'd with other accidents we certainly discover the French Pox. Pains about the Bones without flesh as in the Shins The fourth kind of the French Pox. Shoulders Head Fore-head and Temples somtimes in the Breast which is only pained in this Disease These pains are great and worst towards night and when they are touched neither will they be asswaged with Anodines or Stupefactives as other parts but worse thereby These if without other signs are to be referred to the pains in the Habit of the Body And if they be joyned with other accidents they make a distinct Pox from the rest and it is easily known Besides these there are other accidents which are signs of the Pox which being alone because they may be also in other Diseases cannot determine certainly except after copulation with unclean Women they cause a suspicion And then also we cannot undoubtedly pronounce it the Pox except there be other signs for before ever the pox was known there were venereal Buboes or Swellings in the Groin without Infection that came by Copulation and other accidents which we shall explain And if they come from the Pox there will presently be other signs as pain about the Bones falling of Hair Spots or Pustles These following accidents are both in the Pox and in other diseases and are exactly described elsewhere therefore we shall but touch upon them here The Swelling in the Groin called Bubo venereus sometimes breaks forth in the beginning and vanisheth presently or if it remain it grows hard or comes to matter nor is it unlike that Bubo which is without the Pox. These are Swellings called Condylomata in the Privities of a Woman and of a Man also which are also like those that are without Infection There are clifts also in the Hands and Feet and the skin in the Palm of the Hand being thick comes off without pain as we shewed it may without the Pox. It is observed that the Nails and Hair also fall off Somtimes there are Nodes or Knots in that kind of pox which is about the bones with pain in the Forehead Shins and other parts without flesh as we shewed in pains about the Bones which are without the Pox and yet very like it Somtimes there is matter that flow from the Privities both of Man and Woman fouling their Linnen with a yellowish stain which follows a venemous Matter or Seed mentioned in the infectious or virulent Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins this is joyned with the Pox and is somtimes without it There is also here a burning of Urine with dropping of the same as in other Diseases As for the other accidents that hinder Actions because they come not of themselves from this Disease but by accident from other Causes and Diseases if they grow troublesom being general and belonging to other Diseases of continuance and do not constitute the Pox neither can we take any certain signs thereof from them we willingly pass them by As we counted it also to be superfluous to predict or foretel any thing hereof by the Urin or Blood being contrary to experience and we think it sit to cherish the people in their Folly of supposing all things may be known by urin The Scurvey is called by Pliny and
Mother Although God sometimes inflicts this as a Punishment with that means It is a received Opinion that one Body will infect another and therefore they are separated one from the other and it appears to be so because the Infection being in the external parts and skin only nay by touching or lying together especially in Mariage may easily be conveighed to the skin of another or by the use of the same Cups or Spoons or taking in of meat which the infected have chewed it may get first into the Mouth and then into other parts As we shewed the venom of the Pox and of beasts could infect by spettle And they are soonest infected that are of a like temper as those of a Kindred as we have upon search found two or three Brethren infected in the same Family Or they have some capacity to receive it which we can scarce declare but it is such because when many have been together in the same danger onely one or two have been infected Also they say that other Creatures infected therewith may infect Man-kind for although Beasts have somwhat like the Leprosie as tumors in the Jawes in Hogs yet because it is not every way the same neither have they other signs of it as men have it is either not the Leprosie or another kind and will infect only beasts of their own kind and not men Also we daily find by Experience that poor people eat daily meazled Hogs and yet have no signs of Leprosie I have observed that a Woman with Child that longed for meazled Pork and eat much of it brought forth a Son who had meazly Pustles all along his Back-bone very like those of Swine spread abroad continuing a while and then vanishing without any other inconvenience We shall affirm little but leave it to every Mans Experience whether from the biting or stinging of venemous beasts or touching only of Venom or drinking or smelling as they say of basil this Leprosie can come or not although the people have divers Opinions thereof It appears this Infection may come from Humors very often because many Leprous Persons have not taken it by Insection and we see often them that have conversed long with Lepers and been married to them to have remained sound Therefore because we cannot perceive any other Cause from whence it should arise we conclude that it comes from within Moreover we cannot say that these Humors from whence the venemous Quality comes into the parts arise from Distemper or Corruption as is generally beleeved because they produce no other Diseases or accidents or signs of the same which use to arise from the change of Humors in that manner but that a certain venemous Quality produceth a Disease like it self And this may be bred in the Blood and with that property by which it can onely hurt some places according to the Nature of poyson it hurts only the skin and Tunicles only and no other part For the doing of which and that its force may come to the Supersicies of the Body it is not needful that all the blood be corrupted for then it would kill the Party but some part thereof Or if this poyson being against Nature be driven to the exteriour parts by it the Cause with its Effect produced will stick there only where the Infection brake forth and no longer be in the Blood although it came originally from thence and so corrupt the substance of the parts and that will corrupt the nourishing Juyce as I shewed and so cause and nourish and Elephantiasis These venemous Seeds in the Blood except the Blood be first insected and then the parts of the Body from it may come from some Corruption in the same or Putrefaction in which the blood may be turned into Venom as in other poysons whereof we have spoken in other Diseases among which as some are said to come from the Terms which are accounted venemous so they say the Elephantiasis comes also not only in a Woman when her Courses are stopped but in a Man by Infection when he hath had to do with a menstrous Woman or in a Child conceived at that time All which come not from the menstrual Blood because it is not of its own Nature in sound women filthy as we shewed except that it or other blood for other Causes contract such evil as may produce the venemous Seeds of an Elephantiasis And it is hard to judg by bleeding whether it comes from meat or a Disease afore going or what kind of Venom it is but by the effect In the Cause of the Elephantiasis begin other Humors as Melancholy as some think it is or any other and if it proceed not from its certain quality though hurtful or if it be Naturally in Humors preternatural or become such from Corruption because other Diseases come from thence which are not found in an Elephantiasis but then also it wil come from the corruption of them from whence these Humors receive a venemous and malignant Quality fit to produce an Elephantiasis they will produce it that as we shewed of Blood by driving it the outward parts of the body and by infecting them It is thought that this Leprosie is contracted by extream Cold external of the Body when men have been long in Water Air or Snow or after vehement Heat as bathing they endure a great cold or when they cool a hot Tumor as Erysipelas too suddenly But because other accidents come from thence as when there is extream cooling the extinguishing of Natural Heat and Mortification of the part we cannot make this a cause of the divers accidents in this Leprosie Nor can we affirm that other Tumors and Ulcers in these outward parts can be turned into this Disease although many think it to be possible in an Erysipelas and Herpes because when they are changed into a malignant Scab which the Greeks call a Leprosie they take it for a kind of Elephantiasis from which it differs as I shewed And if any external Diseases should turn into this the Humors that caused them must first of Necessity turn into a venemous Quality by Corruption In the French Pox that Venom which produceth it The part affected in the French Pox. is chiefly in the Membranes which causeth Diseases there and Pain as we shewed As pains about the Periostium or Skin or Bone where there is no flesh in the Head Shins Breast and Nodes in some places But the Elephantiasis chiefly in the skin the mouth Jawes Nostrils causeth the Hair to fall Spots Ulcers c. The Disease of the French Pox is a Distemper of these parts An evil quality is the cause of the French Pox. and such a venemous quality as is fit not only to produce such accidents as are in the Elephantiasis but more and great pains as appears by what is said in Elephantiasis and in the second Book of the Pox. Where we have at large declared where and how this Venom comming of
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
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
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
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
not to be referred to a preternatural Birth but to evil conformation or Deformity from the Birth as we shewed in Deformity The taking away of parts from the body The taking off of parts that constitute the Body although it may be a Disease in number diminished or if they come piece meal in magnitude diminished where we made mention of them yet they may be reserred hither As if the Eye be thrust out of its place or if any humor as the watery Crystal or glassie Humor of the Eye should flow forth or if part of the Brain should come forth at the Nose the Teeth pull'd out of the Mouth the tongue cut off the Lungs be spit up the Guts fall out as in the Haeretick Arrius by a divine Judgement rather then by a Natural Cause Or which is usual when from a wound any part of the Brain Lungs Liver or Spleen comes forth as we said in the Hurt of those parts The Causes The Causes of the Excretion or Voiding of an Infant or of any parts that constitute the body is the solution of Contiguity or things near or of Continuity as shall be shewed Natural Birth when the Child comes ripe and quick into the world The separation of the Vessels of the Child which were joyned to the Vessels of the Womb is the Cause of Natural Birth is when the child 〈◊〉 so grown that the Mother can no longer contain it but it must have have more Air for life and more nourishment and if it should grow bigger it could not get out of those strait Passages Therefore provident Nature ariseth and moveth it by the expulsive Faculty separating the Veins and Arteries by which the bed of the Infant or Secundine was joyned to the womb without any hurt even as the stalks of ripe Fruit fall easily from the tree driveth down the Iâ—â—â—ant by the help of the Mother and so brings it forth not without pain labor sweat and bleeding by reason of the opening of the Veins in the Womb and Secundine more or less in all Women In a preternatural Birth The separation of Vessels before the Child is ripe is the Cause of Abortion when the Child is sent forth unripe by Natur 's force dividing the Connexion of the Vessels there are somtimes less accidents then in a Natural if the Child be small But if there be this Separation of Vessels by a greater force and solution of continuity and tearing which stirrs up Nature to the work there are greater accidents as Pains and Bleeding There are divers Causes of the dividing of the Vessels The Separation of the Vessels by the violent Motion of Body or Mind is the Cause of Abortion and spurring of Nature to the work which procure Abortion if the Child be shaken by violent Motion of the Body so that the Vessels by which it hangs to the womb are divided Nature especially when near the time will send it forth so it may be driven down by leaping as Hippocrates speaks of the tyre-maker that cast away her Child voluntarily also it may come by other violent motions especially of the lower parts by riding running or other violent Motion It may come also with pressing of the Belly by some external Injuries or with strong tying of the Muscles of the Belly or from couging vomiting neesing crying scowring by which also in a Natural Birth the Delivery is helped As the Excrements of the belly so the Child also may be driven down in a Convulsion made by the compression of the Muscles and a violent motion of the body As we saw one that without Sense aborted in the fit of a Convulsion and wondered when she came to her self what had been done to her Belly Also Nature stirred up by Passions of the Mind through the vehement Agitation of the Spirits will cause Abortion as by Fear Anger and other Passions hath been ordinarily seen especially if they swound for then the Child is deprived for that time of vital Spirits with the Mother from whom it receives them When Nature is stirred up by things taken or applied Abortion caused by stirring up of Nature it voided divers things and so also the Child as by the use of purging Medicines which force Nature violently so that not only the Excrements but the Child also is voided Also by the use of those things mentioned in the want of Terms and bringing forth either taken in or applied to the womb by opening the Passages and provoking the womb by a Propriety to provoke Terms or driving down the Child Abortion may be caused The expulsive Faculty is compelled somtimes by humors that burden the womb to void not onely them but the Child also especially by blood which if it be too plentiful for the nourishing of the Child and not consumed by it about the Veins of the Womb it burdeneth Nature which labours to throw it out and sometimes the Terms comming upon a Woman with Child the Child is also sent forth with them Therefore when women with child have their Terms they are in danger to miscarry Or if the Terms be provoked by opening a Vein in the Foot the same may happen and therefore women with Child must not be let Blood in the Foot Also the Terms will sooner be provoked if the blood be thin cholerick or foul and unfit to nourish the Child When the womb is moistned with water so that it is too loose to hold the Child that it is the chief cause of Abortion as some say And if it were so it must needs be without it and moisten the Orifice of the Neck of the womb which is close shut in women with Child because it cannot be in the womb whose cavity is filled with the Child and if it could be there it could not so loosen it nor can it do it when in the Neck of the womb because it cannot remain there and there must be a greater cause of Abortion then that The chief Abortion is from a dead Child Separation of vessels by a dead child is the Cause of Abortion because then Nature labours to void it as being burdensom the causes of dead Children are divers As external force to the belly being great as a Stroak or Contusion Want of Nourishment by which it decaies and at length dieth this is not easie for while the Mother liveth the Veins can scarce be so empty that there is nothing for the Child Moreover though the Mothers blood be impure and foul the Child will have the best of it hence it is that we have observed that women in Ptysicks and Hecticks have gone their time and brought well But it may happen that if a woman with Child have her Terms violently and long the Veins of the womb and all other parts will be so exhausted that the Child must want Nourishment And this is so if for the Causes aforesaid the Child being alive the Vessels are separated from them of the womb
And then it can live no longer not only because it wants Blood but because it wants vital Spirits by reason of the Separation of the Arteries and cannot take breath The Mothers by certain signs do know that the Child in the womb hath a Disease and is sick and like to die but those are not easily determined till Birth nor then except there be visible manifestation as I said of the Dropsie But without doubt Children in the womb have some Diseases as a hot Distemper must needs be in the Child when the Mother hath a Feaver which is in all Parts and also in the Child Or when the woman hath another Disease she may communicate it to the Child or she being full of evill Humors may conveigh them into the Child with the blood and so it may be cacochymical or of evil Juyce or she may give it the Pox or Plague and this is not without a great cause because the Child takes the best and most agreable to it and though the Mother be sick the Child may be sound As Children that sucked their Mothers of the Plague have been by us observed to escape it when others have died Yet I knew a Child born of the mother when she had the small Pox to be full of the same Also it is thought that things taken by the mother or applied to her womb may bring a malignant quality destructive to the child as many Medicines which do kill children and are Poyson Some Diseases that come from the Seed in conception to the child appear sooner some later and kill him before his Birth or continue by him after they are mentioned in Deformity in Diseases original There is a Solution of continuity A Wound or an Ulcer is the Cause of taking away a part that constituts the Body divers waies in the voiding of parts that constitute the Body as a wound when part of the substance of the brain Lungs Liver Spleen is cut off and comes out by the wound or the teeth or tongue is cut off they or some of its Humors fall out which also may come from an Ulcer Also the Brains may come out at the Nose by a contusion as we shewed in Wounds of those parts The Cure A natural and legitimate Birth when the Child comes ripe forth in due time he must not be delivered but well ordered and if it be difficult assisted Concerning which how the Mother and the Midwife should behave themselves we shewed in the defect of Child-birth When travail is past then you must have a care of the Mother and child The Gournment of the Mother and Child after Labor for the Mother you must mitigate her pain and provoke her Flux after Labour and strengthen her thus Let her be raised up gently in her bed that she faint not and give her broath and wine and good Scents to refresh her and let her be moderate in eating and sleeping and keep her out of the Air till she grows strong and her womb be brought to its former Condition which will be sooner if her Belly be rouled gently down As for the Child let him be washed in hot water from his filth and wiped with Feathers and anointed with cream or butter or Oyl of sweet Almonds then roul him and lay him in a Cradle and rock him to sleep and to learn him to suck hold him to the breast it is best to try that as soon as he is washed for comming thirsty out of the bath he will presently lay hold on the Teate and suck After Abortion or Miscarriage there is no other order to be observed then after travail And you must after take heed that it cometh not again which it is probable it will if she hath been formerly subject to it And this is done by things given and applied before conception and when she is with Child Before the woman hath conceived which she may be certain of The preventing of Abortion before Conception if she hath not used a man since her Abortion you must consider diligently if there be any secret cause in her body by reason whereof though she do conceive and the child be formed for if the Seed conceived presently flow forth it is not a true but fase Conception and the cause of barrenness as we shewed yet she doth not keep it And this is done by observing her constitution whether she be Plethorick or Cachymick of much or evil blood and as the Humor aboundeth you must cleanse the body by bleeding purging sweating and good Diet. Or if she have a Disease or Fault in the womb which may cause this you must study to amend it But if there be no Humors appearing that can be thought prejudicial you must strengthen the womb that the child hereafter may stay by Medicines mentioned in Sterility external and especially baths which they say are best and therefore they sit in hot baths often After the woman hath conceived which she knoweth by certain signs To prevent Abortion after Conception then you must take care that she may go out her time and that the child may be lusty But if you perceive it to be dead you must not do so and if you be certain thereof you must use things that provoke Abortion for either the child or Secundine remaining will be the Death of the Mother There are divers things good to retain and keep up the child after you have removed all causes that may hurt it or remove it Sometimes it is good to let blood if we perceive that abortion came from blood abounding about the womb the former time by reason of Plethora in regard she had her Terms in the time of her being great and if we see they begin to flow again as they did you may let blood in the Arm not the Foot because that will move the terms nor is litting blood to be feared as the Ancients thought when people with Child are full of blood for I never knew any miscarry thereby though it hath been done twice or thrice and have seen divers wounded and that have lost much blood and yet the child hath not been the worse yet is it not to be done rashly but a little must be taken at once and more the next month and the third time if need require Also you must not be rash in purging women with child that are apt to miscarry except the body be too much bound and then administer Clysters of some opening gentle Medicine or if the body be very foul then you may give some stronger Purge and that will do no hurt but good for many women by chance not knowing they were with child have taken Purges and had a great looseness and the Child not the worse neither did they miscarry There are things that prevent Abortion by altering which have an astringent Quality to fix the Vessels by which the Child is tyed to the womb and these add strength to the womb and vigor to
great quantity you must rather hinder the flux of blood into the Stomach then stop the vomiting with inward and outward means And you must hinder the Flux with things that dissolve congealed Blood in the stomach which causeth dangerous accidents Thus Blood-letting can draw but little from the Meseraicks which fill the Stomach and Guts with Blood Yet in Plethory or Fulness when the cause requires it you may open a proper vein And if the Terms be stopp'd open that in the Foot Revulsion of this Blood-vomiting is also made with Cupping-glasses to the Hypochondria under the Ribbs in the Belly below the Stomach or to the Hipps when the Terms are stopp'd Also with Ligatures and Frictions of the extream parts especially of the Thighs Purge not except the Disease do require it and then not with strong medicines But with a little Rhubarb to take away the congealed blood which will bind also afterwards or with Syrup of Roses Also if blood be voided by vomit and stool congealed and black give Clysters to cleanse and stop the mouths of the veins such as are for a Dysentery And when clots of blood stick in the Guts Water and Vinegar will dissolve them Let him eat Pap of Starch Rice Barley flowers Gelly and Milk The White of an Eg and Mucilage of Quince seeds and Gum Traganth extracted with Rose-water or Plantane well beaten may be given alone or with Sugar pellets or Sugar of Roses or with red Wine or Vinegar of Roses Or make a Syrup of the Juyces mentioned boyling them with Sugar or of the Herbs with one pugil of red Roses Pomegranate flowers half an ounce red Sanders one dram boyl them in Iron-water with Vinegar and Sugar to a Syrup The usual Syrups are good as of Myrtles Quinces dry-Roses Bar-berries of unripe Grapes of Plantane-water also drunk or Water of Nuts to dissolve blood Let him drink steeled Water with one ounce of Mastick white Coral half an ounce Crystal or Jasper two drams or Vinegar and Water A Pouder Take Bloodstone two drams red Coral one dram and an half Bole Acacia each one dram Gum Arabick or Traganth parched half a dram make the Pouder add the Roots of Snakeweed Pomegranate flowers Horstayl each half a dram of Henbane seeds let him take one dram with Wine alone or with a little Water and Sugar two drams or make Lozenges thereof with Sugar boyled in Plantane-water To dissolve clotted Blood give Amber true bitumen Mummy or the Runner of a Kid c. The Pouders usual are of the Troches of Amber of Lemnos Earth which both stop blood and by reason of the Amber dissolve it when congealed Also the Troches of Antispodium with Sorrel seed These are better because of the Poppey therein A good Electuary Take Conserve of Comfrey roots and old Roses and Quinces each one ounce Troches of Amber or Lemnos Earth or the Pouder mentioned two drams and if he be faint the Pouder of Diamargariton frigidum or of Gemms half a dram with Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary or with Sugar Lozenges give as much as a Chesnut and let him drink after it some distilled Water that is proper One dram of Philonium Persicum is highly commended to which you may add half a dram of Rhubarb to dissolve the congealed Blood Outwardly the Fomentation and Epithem described in Vomiting of Choler are good as also the Oyntments and Plaisters there Or these Take Oyl of Myrtles and Quinces each two ounces and an half Juyce of Plantane or the like one ounce and an half Vinegar of Roses one ounce boyl them till the Juyce is consumed add Acacia and Hypocistis each one dram make an Oyntment or add Mastick half an ounce Bole two drams Pomegranate flowers and peels Galls and Sumach each one dram with Wax make a Cerot or with Rosin an Emplaster CHAP. X. Of Pissing The Kinds THat Pissing by which the Urin in Males Preternatural Pissing passeth through the Yard in Women through their pissing place is Natural But when it is involuntary or immoderate or often or little or thick or bloody or cometh by a wrong passage it is preternatural When the Urin flows out of its own accord Involuntary Pissing without the Will of the Patient it is involuntary And this is somtimes without Feeling as in Apoplexies Palsies and Swoundings And some who have been cut for the stone have it for ever There is another involuntary Pissing which they have who piss their Beds Pissing of Bed especially Infants if it be a fault in them It is unseemly in young people that know it and ought to avoid it But worse when they come to years It is called immoderate when it is too much Immoderate Pissing too often or unseasonable as in Drunkards They fill themselves with wine and rise from meat to piss This is thought unseemly among people of reputation which hold Drunkenness for a great shame as indeed it is There is another immoderate Pissing when it is not after large Drinking but oftner then it ought to be For which cause they cannot tary long in Assemblies but are forced to go forth and piss But that is chiefly immoderate Pissing when they piss more then they drink or eat of moist meats This is in sound Folkes which are called Vritici without another infirmity And in sick in the Crisis or Declination of a disease And because it is profitable and not hurtful it is not preternatural except it continue to the loss of strength which will easily decay by such an Evacuation There is another in the Disease called Diabetes but seldom Diabetes Dipsacus which is a large and unmoderate Pissing when what is drunk is little or nothing changed with an unquenchable thirst from whence it is called Dipsacus when the Body is hot and consumeth There is another Dropping of urin Strangury often and little Pissing when the Urin is voided by drops called Strangury which is somtimes without pain Of which we spake in the want of Pissing There is often a burning pain in pissing called scalding Urin or Dysury Hot Pissing scalding Urin Dysury or difficulty of urin though this word is more proper to pissing with difficulty or pain as Dysentery is in the Guts then to little Pissing In this Disease while the Urin drops there is pain but when it comes more freely it begins at the Conclusion And continueth a little after and begins again before the next Pissing causing such a straining that it produceth horror and sweat A grievous pain in Males about the end of the Yard or Glans which is then touched hence the Germans call this cold Pissing though it be hot Women are pained also in the passage for Urin. This Dysurie or Difficulty of Pissing troubles young and old somtimes without other Diseases and is short if it come from the taking of any thing or from some cause that continueth not as we shall shew Somtimes it is longer in which there
are some signs of a foul Body Somtimes it is with other Diseases as in thick Pissing when it is mattery slimy or like Milk with Urin for the Diseases of the Reins Bladder or other parts Also in the Ulcer of the Yard and Bladder matter is voided alone and Seed involuntary in a Gonorrhoea or Running of the Reins especially when it is venemous As we shall shew concerning them Somtimes symptoms of the Stone in the Bladder are with this Dysury as Itching about the Privities standing of the Yard sense of Heaviness about the Fundament into which if the Finger be thrust the Stone in the Bladder may be felt also straining with crude Urin sometimes thick and bloody and sometimes it is quite stopped There is often turbulent or thick pissing as of matter which settles in the urinal like a Pultis Thick Pissing and mixeth again with the urin when it is shaked and goes to the bottom again when it settleth It is somtimes white without scent somtimes stinking somtimes white Filmes do fly in the Urin as in the Ulcer of the Kidneys As we shall shew Somtimes it is without scalding but with heaviness and pain of the Reins somtimes with scalding They say that pissing of Matter may be from an Imposthum in the Liver which is rare and from a Pleurisie or Peripneumony or Empyema which is most rare and seldom There is another thick Pissing of Slime with the Urin which sticks to the bottom of the Urinal like Glew after the Urin is poudered out this is from the Ulcer of the Bladder and then there is also scalding of Urin. Also this slime is voided alone As we shall declare in the Excretions of the Yard without Urin. Another thick Pissing is like Milk Milkie Pissing and then there is a great white sediment at the bottom of the Urinal and is mixed with the urin when it is shaked I have observed this in my self and others somtimes for many daies and somtimes at certain hours especially at night after Exercise without other accident except heat in Pissing and straining after Pissing of Blood Pissing of blood is when the Urin is coloured like blood In which after settling there is a thick and black sediment This is often with other accidents in the Stone of the Kidneys and after violent Exercise also in the Stone of the Bladder And if there be an Ulcer there is Matter with Blood They who use the Catheter have often a little blood in the Urin. And they who have had a great 〈◊〉 or Stroak piss blood And they who have taken Cantharides or Spaâ—â—â— flies or the like Otherwise there is seldom Pissing of Blood Only in Feavers it may be a Crisis or for Judgment And I knew a Maid in a pestilential Feaver that pissed some chamber-pots full of blood before she dyed Also Bloodhath been pissed without a Disease As we shall shew in the Causes of all sorts of Pissing Blood There are also other kinds of preternatural Pissing Urin of a preternatural color or mixed As when the Urin is of another strange colour mixed with sand slime which shew Diseases or the approaching of them Of these we shal not speak because when the Disease is cured they vanish Here may be mentioned Urin with dung Urin mixed with dung bones or the terms as we shewed in the preternatural Voiding of Excrements of the Belly or with bones or the like which we spake of in preternatural Excretion Or with the Terms as we shewed in their preternatural Flux Somtimes the Urin flows another way as out of a Wound The Flux of urin by a Wound as in cutting for the Stone it flows at the Perinaeum till it be healed The same may be about the loins and lower parts of the Belly from a wound there As we knew one who made no Urin but at his Groins for many years The Causes The Cause of all preternatural Pissing as involuntary immoderate often little thick bloody dyed or mixed is from an evil custom or Disease in the Reins or Bladder as a hot Constitution or weak a cold or hot Distemper or forcing or solution of continuity or contiguity Or from a Disease by consent of the Bladder Or some Disease in a part like the Reins and Bladder Somtimes often pissing is from an evil custom An evil custom is the Cause of often Pissing for when Nature is not disordered by Diet she keepeth her order and time for voiding the Excrements of the belly And if you disorder her by any means or forcing it will not be seasonable Therefore Infants that have long pissed their beds are familarly troubled therewith an it continues with them when grown up which is unseemly Some kinds of Pissings come from the Constitution of the Reins and Bladder The Constitution of the Reins and Bladder As when there is exquisite sense in the bladder which being pricked by the urin sends it forth before the time And this may be the cause why Children piss a bed except they be raised at night And if to this exquisite sense there be a sharpness of Urin it will be rendered oftner and sooner scaul'd as shal be shewed A Natural Heat of the Kidneys may cause more Heat and weakness of the Kidneys is the cause of often Pissing and oftner Pissing because heat makes a sooner separation As also weakness when the retentive Faculty cannot retain the Urin long enough This is often from the Birth through want of heat or from the loosness and softness of the Vessels or from much drinking Or from immoderate Venery which weakens these parts When the Bladder is weak loose or soft there is often Pissing Or when it is over-stretched and too thin which is from the birth in some or from long retention of Urin in Assemblies Also strong Imaginations in a Dream may cause this when they dream they piss in a convenient place which stirres up the expulsive Faculty When the retentive Faculty is weakned by a cold distemper in the reins and bladder there is often Pissing A cold Distemper of the Reins is the Cause of often Pissing this is from external cold so cold at the Feet by consent of these parts may cause Pissing Many think that Diabetes comes from a hot distemper but the Reins are many times hot without that distemper And if the Reins were very much inflamed pissing would not be increased but diminished or suppressed and the attractive vertue rather destroyed then increased Moreover though there be Thirst and Consumption with the Diabetes or often Pissing yet it is not proved to come from the heat of the reins Because thirst may come from want of moisture through continual pissing And the heat of the whole Body cannot be kindled only from the heat of the Reins without an Inflammation whence pissing will be diminished neither can the Body be consumed thereby Therefore there is another cause of Diabetes which is seldom seen