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A35394	Culpeper's school of physick, or, The experimental practice of the whole art wherein are contained all inward diseases from the head to the foot, with their proper and effectuall cures, such diet set down as ought to be observed in sickness or in health : with other safe wayes for preserving of life ... / by Nich. Culpeper ... ; the narrative of the authors life is prefixed, with his nativity calculated, together with the testimony of his late wife, Mrs Alice Culpeper, and others.; School of physick	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Gadbury, John, 1627-1704. Nativity of Nicholas Culpeper.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7544; ESTC R9312	234,529	544

English it is as th● Latine word soundeth we may call it Herb A●gel or The Angelical or Angel-like Herb. 〈◊〉 what occasion this excellent name was first gi●● unto it I know not unless it were for the ●●cellent Vertues thereof or for that God made 〈◊〉 known to man by the ministry of an Angel I suppose the former cause rather to be true howsoever as I am not able to prove the other so I think no man can give any good reason to the contrary For this we know that God hath made his Angels ministring Spirits to serve us for the safeguard of our souls and also of our bodies But upon what occasion soever the name was given it is excellent and so are the properties Angelica is hot and dry at least in the third degree All the later Writers agree upon this and experience proveth the same that it is goo● against Poison pestilent Airs and the Pestilence it self The Practicioners of Germany writ● thus of it If any man be suddenly taken either with the Pestilence or with any Pestilent Ague with too much sweating let him drink of the powder of the root half a dram mingled with a dram of T●eacle in three or four spoonfuls of the water of Angelica distilled from the roots and after his going to bed covering himself well ●t him fast at the least three hours after which if he do he will begin to sweat and by ●he help of God he shall be cured of his dis●ase For lack of Treacle one may take a whole ●ram of the Root of Angelica in powder with 〈◊〉 much of the distilled Water as aforesaid 〈◊〉 ●ill have the same effect The Root of Angelica well steeped in Vine●●r and smelt to in time of the Pestilence 〈◊〉 the same Vinegar being sometime drunk ●●ing preserveth from infection But in my ●●dgement it is better to take an Orenge or ●emon cut off the top pick out the meat prick full of small holes put into it a piece of spunge 〈◊〉 fine linen cloth dipped in the foresaid Vine●●r and smell unto it The water distilled out of the roots of An●●lica or the powder of the same is good against ●●awing and pains of the belly occasioned with ●●ld if the body be not bound withall It is ●od against all inward diseases as the Pleurisie 〈◊〉 the beginning before the heat of the inflama●●●n be come into the body for that it dissolveth 〈◊〉 scattereth abroad such humors as use to cause ●●e Pleurisie Moreover it is good for the dis●ases 〈◊〉 the Lungs if they come of a cold cause and 〈◊〉 the Strangurian if from a cold cause or of a ●●pping It is good for a woman that is in tra●● It expelleth winde that is in the body and ●eth the pain that cometh from the fame The 〈◊〉 ●t may be sod in wine or water as the nature ●he sick requireth The juice of the root put into an hollow tooth taketh away the ache the same effect hath the distilled water being put in at the ear The juice and water of Angelica quickens the eye sight and breaks the little films that cover the eyes causing darkness of the sight Of the roots of Angelica and Pitch may be made a good Emplaister against the bitings of mad beasts The water the juyce or the powder of this root sprinkled upon the diseased place 〈◊〉 a very good remedy against old and deep fore●● For they do scour and clense them and cover the bones with flesh The water of the same in a cold cause is good to be laid on places diseased with the Gout and Sciatica For it stancheth the pain and melteth away the tough humors that are gathered together The seed is of like vertue with the root The wilde Angelica that groweth here in the low woods and by the water-side is not of such vertue as the other is howbeit the Chyrurgeons use to seethe the root of it in Wine to heal green wounds Thes● properties I have gathered out of German● Writers I have not as yet proved them all m● self but divers of them I have proved and hav● found them to be true I have set down th● pill of an Orange or Lemmon the me●● whereof is also commended by Physicians to b● both a preservative good against poison an● the infection of the Pestilence Late Writers affirm that the roots of Angelica are opposite to all poison and infectio● If any be infected with the plague or poisone● they give him immediately to drink a dram of the powder of this root with Wine in the winter and in summer with distilled water of Carduus benedictus then get him to bed and cover him until he have sweat foundly The same root being taken fasting in the morning or but held in the mouth doth keep and preserve the body from the evil of the air The leaves of Angelica pounded with the leaves of Rue and Honey are very good to be laid to the bitings of mad dogs presently taken after the hurt the Wine being drunk wherein the root or leaves of Angelica hath been boiled To conclude I have thought good to write of these Herbs Carduus Benedictus and Angelica either because they are not known to many or else that Artists would have their secret vertues concealed But I do not think it fit that any thing should be secret which may be profitable for my Countrey For God hath not made any thing for the use of a few but for the commodity of all men And we that are the children of God ought to frame our selves so that we may be like affectioned unto our Father who is beneficial to all men who hath made his sun to shine and his rain to rain upon the wicked as well as upon the good that is to say who feedeth all both good and bad by heat and moisture which proceed from the Sun and the rain all things grow upon the earth whereby our lives are maintained I conclude that forasmuch as Almighty God is good unto all men we ought to be like minded and not to keep secret nor to hide any thing that may profit one another I wish all men rightly to use the good creatures of God and to give him hearty thanks for all his benefits Fragmenta Aurea The first Golden CENTURY OF Chymicall and Physicall Judiciall APHORISMES AND Admirable Secrets BY Nich. Culpeper Gent. late Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed for Nath. Brook at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhill 1659. Fragmenta aurea The first Golden Century of Chymical and Physical Judicial Aphorismes and admirable Secrets 1. THe Hoofs of the forefeet of a Cow dryed and taken any way Mizaldus increase milk in Nurses the smoke of them being burnt drives away Mice 2. If you fry Earth-worms in Goose-grease and drop a drop or two of the Grease warm being strained in your ear helps the pains thereof I suppose you had best first slit them and wash them in white wine 3. The

kinde of Excrement is common to all living Creatures as well Beasts as Men for which cause Nature as a wise Mother hath provided that every concoction hath its excrement or superfluity the Stomach sends out dung the Liver Urine the Veins Sweat so after the third and last concoction which is done in every part of the body that is nourished there is left some profitable blood reserved by Nature for Procreation which blood we call the Generative Seed the timely evacuation whereof avails much for the bodies health for by it the body is made light and disburthened of Phlegm and other superfluous humors which otherwise would wax rank as may be observed in ancient Maids and some chaste Schollers for besides their secret flames and imbridled affections which dispose their mindes to extravigant imaginations we see them also ill complexioned by reason of such vaporous fumes which ascend up towards their cloudy brains To pass over other inconveniences they are subject to as the Green-sickness the Night-mare the Spleen the palpitation and trembling of the heart and their polluted dreams the best advice I can give such persons is to marry in the fear of God and chiefly those are required who are Sanguine or lean for such persons abound with blood Physicians hold the Winter to be the best time for Carnal Copulation and in the Spring-time when Nature is desirous without the help of Arts and Drugs and at night when the stomach is full and the body somewhat warm that sleep immediately after it may lenifie the Lassitude caused through the action thereof In the Summer in May and July when the Spittle thickens on the ground it cannot be so wholesome nor in frosty w●ather Immoderate Venery weakeneth the strength hurts the brain extinguisheth radical moisture and hasteneth on old age and death the Sp●rm or Seed of generation being one of the greatest comforters of life which being wilfully shed or lost hurteth more then if he should bleed forty times as much That Batchelors and Maids may drive away their unclean dreams at nights let them refrain from Wine and Venerious Imaginations not use to lie in soft Beds let them read the Bible and moral Philosophers use exercises let them eat Agnus Castus in English Park and they shall finde a strange effect to follow Of Bathing BAthing in cold Water so that the same be clear clear from Rain or a silver colour'd Brook in the summer time before meats doth wonderfully delight nature provoke the appetite and is very good against Rhumes the Dropsie and Gout and causes digestion you shall finde it wonderful expedient sometimes to bathe the head with hot Lee made of ashes after which you must cause one presently to pour three or four quarts of cold water then let the head be dried with cold Towels the suddain powring down of the water stirs up the natural heat of the body quickneth the memory keepeth from baldness In the summer washing of the hands often doth much avail the eye-sight In the Winter time when the Water is cold and Frozen this kinde of artificial Bath is very expedient and wholsome take two pounds of Turpentine four ounces of the Juyce of Wormwood and Wilde Mallows one ounce of fresh ●●cor one dram of Saffron mingle them and seethe them a pretty while and being hot wet four Linnen cloathes therein and therewith bathe your self or else make a Bath after this manner take Fumitory Enula Compana Leaves Sage Fetherfue Rosemary and Wormwood of each a handful or two seethe them in a sufficient quantity of water till they be soft and put as much as a Walnut of Allom and a little Brimstone powder and therewith bathe the affected places of the body he that uses these bathes in convenient time may live healthfully for by them superfluous excrements are extracted in sweat But with this caution I commend Baths that no person that is distempered through Venery Gluttony Fasting Watching or violent Exercise do enter into them Diet for a Feaver and Ague I Do advertise every one that hath a Feaver or an Ague to eat no meat six hours before his fit doth take him and in no wise as long as the Ague doth endure to put off his shirt or dublet nor to rise out of the bed but when need shall require and in any wise not to go nor take the open Air for such provision may be had that at the uttermost at the third fit he may be delivered of the Feaver Let the Patient beware of casting his hands and arms at any time or to spraul with his Legs out of the bed it is good for the space of three fits to wear continually Gloves and not to wash the hands He is to eat little and those temperate meats to refrain from Wine Beer and Cider and all other things whatsoever that are not of a very light digestion Diet for the Chollick and the Stone THe Iliack and Chollick are ingendred of ventosity the which is intrused or inclosed in two Guts the one is called Ilia and the other is called Colon for these two infirmities one must beware of cold and it is not good to be long fasting and necessary to be laxative but in no wise to be constupate These things following are not good for those which have these aforesaid infirmities new bread stale bread new ale they must abstain also from drinking of Beer of Cider of Red Wine and Cinamon also refrain from all meats that Honey is in from eating of cold Herbs Beans Pease Pottage beware of fruits and of all things the which do ingender winde For the Stone abstain from eating of Red herring Martilmas-beef and Bacon salt fish salt meats Beware of going cold about the middle especially about the Reins of the back and make no restriction of wine and water nor seege that water would expel Diet for several kindes of the Gout They which are troubled with the Gout or any kinde of it I do advertise them not to sit too long forgetting to exonerate the bladder and the belly when need shall require and also to beware the Legs hang not without some stay nor that the Boots or Shoes be not over strait Whosoever hath the Gout must refrain from drinking of new Ale of Beer and Red Wine Also he must not eat new Bread Eggs fresh Salmon Eels Fresh Herring Pilcherds Oysters all shell fish he must avoid the eating of fresh Beef of Goose of Duck and of Pigeons he must beware of taking of cold in his Legs or riding or going wetshod Beware of Venerous acts after refection or after or upon a full stomach from all things that ingender evil humors and are inflative Diet for the Lepors HE that is infected with any of the four kindes of Leprosie must refrain from all manner of Wines and from new drinks and strong Ale let him beware of riot and surfeiting let him abstain from eating of Spices Dates from Tripes Puddings and all inwards of Beasts Fish

for us no not for the Nations where they grow else would they not sell them away If we shall needs use them saith he let them be bought for sweet perfumes and sweet oyles and dainties or to serve superstition because when we pray we burn Frankencense and Costus And thus much out of Pliny whose judgement as it is ancient of a thousand years so is it of him who most diligently sought out the mysteries of nature and published them for the use of posterity Now if haply it be objected that Pliny might well verifie that of Italy which England cannot performe we must understand that Pliny reasoneth from nature which serveth for all nations of the world as well as for Italy and directeth his Pen not onely against the medicines strange to Italy but even against all that are far fetched and dearly bought as appeareth plainly by his words To this sentence of Pliny I will adde the judgement of two Physicians of late time lest Pliny being no Physician should be thought an unsufficient testimony Fuchsius in his first Book of compounding of Medicines and seventy six Chapter thus agreeth with Pliny If we were not so carried away with the admiration of strange things and were not fools saith he who had rather use medicines fetched from strange and far countries contemning our native medicines then such as grow in our gardens we might make honey serve in stead of Manna But with the exceeding cost and charge which those medicines put us unto we are worthily punished for our folly Loe here two witnesses the one a great Philosopher and the other both a Philosopher and a Physician comparable with the best of late dayes The third witness with Pliny and Fuchsius is Martino Rulandus to whom the students of Physick owe much for his Medicina practica and other works This Rulandus in his Preface to Medicina practica hath these words thus in English We have simple medicines easily had homely of our own countrey of Germany to be bought with little money or none at all ready saith he and intreated of in writing by which onely all kindes of diseases are certainly and undoubtedly cured oftentimes better and much more easily believe reason and experience saith he and that with no hurt or danger then with the long compounds of the Apothecaries which are costly evil gathered without knowledge of the Physician oftentimes unperfectly mixed and unskilfully confused and as unskilfully boyled oftentimes putrified and by age of force wasted slovenly and with great negligence confected In which words Rulandus briefly hath comprehended in a manner all the discommodities of strange Medicines These testimonies I rather have alleadged gentle Reader that thou mayest know this my opinion is not mine onely and new sprung up from the leasure of a Student who might easily be overtaken with a speculation which never could be shewen in use and practice but hath with it the voice of authority and suffrages of excellent Philosophers and Physicians although they have not of purpose and in a set Treatise handled this Argument as thou sees which notwithstanding containeth indeed the matter of a great Volume Hitherto hath been shewed the great inconveniences and dangers which rise of the use of strange Medicines by reason by experience by authority of Phisolophers and Physicians If my reason be evil gathered the experience false the authority not authentical what have I lost thereby A few hours meditation and a few lines writing or my credit impaired will some say If my credit could either buy such vertues to strange Medicines as they carry the name or purge the shops of counterfeit stuff or redeem the harms they have done I would verily esteem as much of the change as he which made exchange of Brass for Gold Although I ween it be a propriety to mans weakness unavoidable of any to erre and therefore if obstinacy be not therewith coupled alwayes found pardon But if my Arguments rise from the causes and effects of these foreigners and causes and effects of our bodies which are of all Arguments the most forceable to establish or overthrow any thing to be decided by reason and the authorities such as justly exception cannot be taken against blame me not gentle Reader though I be carried into this perswasion my self and of a love and zeal to benefit thee have published that which I have conceived of this Argument If I be deceived in my judgement of strange Drugs which I wish with all my heart I were these reasons the woful experience the authority of such men have induced me Which if all may be answered that which seemed more then doubtful before shall by this Controversie shine most clear and truth as it were wrought with the fire of reason receive greater strength and perfection Thus much touching the unableness of strange merchandise to perform unto us sufficiency yea any measure of medicines as belonging unto us properly and the discommodities of them Now if strange medicines serve not our turns and all medicines be either strange or home-born it must needs follow that the home medicines are most naturall and kinde to us except a man would say all medicines bring harm unto us which is not of the nature of a medicine being an instrument of performing remedies unto us or if it were so yet have we this by experience that strange medicines do more annoy us then strangers yea destroy us and restore them wherefore home medicines and of our Countrey yield of equity must necessarily perform the same to us which their medicines do to them Else I would know why we should be inferiour unto them or one Nation more priviledged that way then another the need being common and the providence of God all one yea such as rather then remedy should need the chariot of the Sun to fetch it from one end of the world to the other or be so far to seek as our common Druggs are he hath linked the remedy in many things so straitly to the cause of our hurt that even the self same which harmed us carrieth with it amends As the Scorpion rubbed upon his stinging cureth the same Likewise the Rany divided and applyed hot to the wound cureth her venemous biting and so the Pastinaca marina as it bringeth most dangerous hurt it refuseth not being thereto applied to minister remedy Which practise of nature might verily move us to think her meaning is not to send us either into Arabia or India for aid for our griefs but thereby to commend her care unto us and give occasion of praising Gods providence and stirring us up to make diligent search into our own provision and to make better trial then we are wont of the same Wherein the great liberality of GOD appeareth in such large measure that rather superfluity then sparing may be noted herein in that both one simple nature carrieth with it the vertue of many medicines and many simples remedies against such diseases as we

reason sounder which is drawn from that Divine Providence to the practice thereof And if Galen had that religion in him being a Gentile and groping onely in the mist of natural knowledge of God could not satisfie himself with a Psalm or Hymn as he himself calleth it of seventeen staves every staff containing an whole Book for thus he himself calleth his Books of the use of Parts of the wisdom of the most wise God esteeming that duty more acceptable unto him then sacrifices of an hundreth Oxen or the most costly perfumes and incense Let it not be harsh in thine ears gentle Reader to hear now and then the goodness of our God his Wisdom and Providence to be both intreated of and advanced of a Christian Physician and to Christians to whom the Son of righteousness hath shined and scattered those mists of natural darkness and hath given the earnest of immortality And be assured there is no truth in Philosophy but may stand with ye rather may rest and be upholden of Christianity But let us proceed Julius Bassus Nicerates and Petronius Niger as saith Dioscorides thought their countrey Medicines and those which the native soyl yielded most worthy to be exactly intreated of them belike either thinking them sufficient for the inhabitants or more agreeable with them Which homely practice of the Nations where he travelled Dioscorides confesseth to have been the matter whereof he compounded his golden Book of Medicines which at this day remaineth a rich storehouse to all Physicians Now then I would know why we should more be provided of Medicine against one disease then another of our countrey yield Is it because such diseases which require strange Medicines are more dangerous or less If more dangerous then should the remedy for them be more at hand then for other if less why are then the strange Medicines esteemed as most forcible And if we be less subject to such diseases as are cured with them and so the absence of them may seem tollerable why then are Tertian Agues chiefly cured with Thamarines and Rhewbarb Whereof the one cometh out of India and the other for the most part out of Barbary Whatsoever nature is yielded to any Nation it serveth either for nourishment or Medicines or being neither nourishment or Medicine is plain poyson Now a subduction being made of each of these one from the other what part shall we think will nourishments leave to Medicines A far greater doubtless then they themselves be and as they exceed nourishments so greatly do they and beyond all comparison exceed the poysons Wherefore if the most of creatures in every Nation be a fit matter of Medicine greatly no doubt are all Nations stored with them which store declareth that as diseases partly rise of breach of Diet and partly through poysons so Nature would furnish us with Medicines in number answerable to the causes of both which being not sufficient argueth that Nature misseth of her purpose having sufficiently declared her endeavour but Nature alwayes bringeth her works to perfection except in case of Monsters which are not ordinary Wherefore her will she being an instinct of Gods ever going with the execution thereof must needs perform that to us which he pretendeth in the variety But that thou mayest gentle Reader have better hold and greater assurance of the sufficiency of thy Countrey Medicines I will set down briefly according to the variety and sorts of all diseases cured with medicine Medicines taken from our native soyl answerable unto them and effectual to cure them And because Medicines have relation to diseases I will first touch the diseases and thereto joyn the Medicines All diseases are either in the complexion or frame of the body such as are in the complexion are all cured by Medicine which I named in the beginning of this Treatise one of the instruments of Physick Of disease● in the frame these onely are cured with Medicines Quantity superfluously increased or diminished obstructions over streightness or over largeness of passages in the body These are onely the diseases properly to be cured with medicine other diseases which rise of these either of their own accord vanishing by the cure of these or else to be cured by surgery as evil figure and shape through want of proportional quantity that being restored the figure forthwith returneth or if not rather is to be cured with help of hand And luxation of joynts and evil coupling of parts if they rise of distemper onely that being taken away with medicines returneth oftentimes with it good situation of parts Likewise the situation perverteth through distemper the complexion being restored the other consequently do follow Now having declared in general the diseases which onely require medicine that every disease may have his proper one I will subdivide them more particularly joyning to every disease that medicine which thereto belongeth The diseases in the complexion are either in all the parts of the temper thereof or in one or twain In the whole complexion are such as are ingendred of venemous causes and those either ingendred in the body or happening thereto outwardly they which are ingendred with age in the body are Cankers Leprosies Falling-sickness Suffocation of the matrix through Nature corrupted Swounding through corruption of Worms ingendred in the body and these be the diseases of venemous causes bred in the body Such as happen thereto by outward occasions are either by poison taken into the body or by outward ●ouching procured taken into the body as the poison of Toads Henbane Nightshade Hem●ock Ratsbane Quicksilver and such Minerals ●nd last of all infected Airs causing Pestilence ●nd Carbuncles Such as are outwardly procu●ed are either without wounds or with wounds without wounds infection passing from one to ●nother as the French Poxs With wounds ●enemous bitings and stingings of beasts as of ●erpents and mad Dogs And these are all the ●iseases said to be in the whole temper of the ●ody which having first shewed to be suffici●ntly cured by home Medicines in like manner ●ill I prosecute the rest And herein gentle ●eader thou art not to look I should set down ●ll Medicines which our native soyl is known to ●estow upon us for cure of these diseases which ●ould grow to an infinite Volume I herein ●eferring thee to the works of those who of pur●ose have written of the nature of Simples and ●re Authors of Practice but it shall I hope suf●●e for this purpose to pick out amongst a great ●any those of choice for these diseases And ●st to begin with Cankers which being not ex●cerated but remaining humors are cured if ●ith any medicine by the juyce of Nightshade ●ll the sorts of Endive and Succory with Agrimony with Saint Johns wort wilde Clary called Oculus Cstristi the flesh of Snails boiled Crayfishes green Frogs and to conclude with all kinde of Metals and Minerals and among them Lead howsoever it be used is most sovereign If it be exulcerated then

shall onely treat of that pain that doth follow asharp disease by the inflamation of the inner skin for if the inflamation be in the outward Muscles or if the pain be great because of windiness this is but a basterd Pleurisie and the Patient is without a Feaver The signs of this disease besides the difficulty of breathing and a vehement Cough is a pricking pain which plainly doth demonstrate that the membranes and some other tender parts are affected this pricking pain sometimes spreads it self over the sides and breast sometimes to the short Ribs to the Channel-bone of the Throat so that the Patient is forced to breath short and thick also there is a continual Feaver because the inflamation doth border on the heart the Pulse is thick not too great hard and unequal and by that means tough and like to a saw a cough also cometh withal the first day and then nothing cometh at length spettle is voided and comes up coloured according to the nature of the excrements and it is also moister there are many other signs the cause for the most part is blood running from the hollow Veins into the Ribs thin Veins sometimes it is caused by Phlegmy blood and then the disease is longer of continuance and the spettle frothy and white sometimes the blood is Chollerick and then a sharper disease is caused The suppression of the Hemrhoides or monethly tearms will cause a Pleurisie this disease is dangerous to old men to Women with childe and such as have been sick twice or thrice of it it vexes the Patient more in the night then day time whosoever is sick of a Pleurisie and is not cleansed in fourteen dayes they turn to supurati●● This disease kills by choaking or too m●ch pain or by the translation of the matter into the Lungs whereby the Consumption of them is caused and also Ulcers The air the Patient lives in must be temperate somewhat inclining to heat his meat easie of digestion he is not to drink Wine till the disease be abated he may be permitted longer then ordinary sleep his belly must be kept loose Of the Bleeding at the Nose THe Bleeding at the nose called Hemorrhagia doth signifie a Bleeding at the Nose whether it doth come immediately from the Nostrills carried thither by the Veins of the palate through which for the most part nature doth expel the superfluous blood of many or else whether it comes from the Veins of the Head further off but in general it doth signifie any bleeding whether it be of Nose Womb or any other part of the body when blood comes forth moderately in the beginning of a Pleurisie Impostume Squinancy Burning Feaver Small Poxs it is alwayes for the best yet this Bleeding in some other diseases is Critical foreshewing death the Nostrills are chiefly affected but not alwayes the essence of the Nostrils but they are affected by the consent of some other part the Veins by which this blood is cast out at the Nose run from the palate and Mouth into the Nostrills and sometimes from the head when too much blood is voided the colour of the face waxeth pale the body is of a leaden colour the outward parts are cold and a swooning follows and many times after death Oftentimes bleeding at the Nose is caused by nature which doth by this means expel the excrements and which is troublesome to the body Sometimes it is caused by the evil affection of the Veins wherein the blood is contained and the blood runs out of the Veins the Veins being opened by the plenty of blood which they could not contain There are sundry other causes If bleeding have continued long swooning weakness and too much cooling of the Liver Lachexia or the Dropsie is to be feared Bleeding at the Nose without coldness of the outwards parts is mortal The air the Patient should live in must be somewhat cold his meat must be such as doth nourish well and easie of digestion he must avoid exercise and speak little he must avoid all passions of the minde especially anger Of the Falling-sickness THe Falling-sickness is a Convulsion of all the parts of the body not continual but that which cometh by distances of time the minde and senses being thereby hurt This disease doth either happen when the brain hath the cause of the disease in it self which is usual or by the evil effect of the mouth of the stomach or from some other part underneath by which the venemous effect creepeth into the brain through secret passages the Patient feels the cause of this Disease like a vapour of cold winde to be carried to the brain by the continuity of the other parts from the part of the body wherein the Disease is chiefly seated the cause of this Disease being for the most part a venomous vapour carried up from some lower part of the body into the brain and then the Patient doth suddenly fall with a Convulsion The brain is the part affected either by it self or by the consent of the stomach or by some other parts The fit comes oftentimes suddenly with much foam which because it is slimy may be drawn out at length yet in a gentler Falling-sickness this doth not appear when the Patient is deprived of his senses he falls to the ground with a violent shaking of his body his face is wrested his eyes turned upwards his chin somewhat driven to his shoulder and oftentimes he voids seed and ordure against his will his Muscles are loosened all these are signs of a strong f●t Sometimes their teeth are so fast closed together that they are in danger of stifling paleness of the face inordinate motion of the tongue pain and heaviness of the head forgetfulness sadness troublesome dreams are ushers to this Disease the Patient being taken with a giddiness sometimes darkness and divers dim glisterings appear before his eyes This Disease is for the most part caused by abundance of melanchol●ck and phlegmatick humors from whence cor●upt venomous and stinking vapors break out whereby obstructions are caused in the passages ●f the brain and the passages of the spirits are ●●ereby hindred by this means the brain and the roots of the Sinnews shrink and as it were tremble in the expelling of that which is obnoxious whether it be vapor or humor This disease frequents children because they are of a moister brain then yong men next to these men o● a full growth and old men least of all This Disease is more incident to men then women and usually it doth stick close to the Patient unless it be taken away by medicines in the minority If the Disease be vehement and come often on the Patient it is incurable but if a quartane Ague or any longer Feaver surprize him i● portends health The air wherein the Patien● lives must be hot and dry his meat mixed with such things as do dissolve and extenuate the humors exercise of the body and frication of th● head are prevalent