To the Temples but set it neer by them In the Winter and full Moon Trepaning is more dangerous for the Brain swelleth It must be done in three days yet Paraeus in Winter and Summer used it after ten days When it cometh to the second Table the blood runneth forth but not alwaies for in some places the Skull is thin TREMBLING The cause is a preternatural moving Faculty burdened by the fault of the animal spirits or Nerves or nervous fibras in the Muscle If the spirit by reason of disorderly motion hath not its influence from the Brain as in anger joy fears frights for from hence the vital spirit is variously moved and so the generation of animal spirits is wanting a distemper cold and moist of the Nerves or from malignity as trembling from Quicksilver Vermilion in Gold-smiths which For. cured with only Goats milk nervous remedies from Obstruction wine The Cure If it be from a want of the spirits it is cured by Restoratives if from a humour with distemper it is cured by Generals Topicals Chymists coÌ„mend the essence of Balm in cordial water A Bath wash the trembling parts in water of Cinque-foil or decoction of Juniper berries with Wine let them dry of themselves or with water of infusion of Mugwort A Lotion with their own water Sage beer meat seasoned with Sage flesh of Storks wood Pigeons a Hares brain fried Infuse Juniper berries all night in water then let them infuse in Aqua vitae eight days swallow ten berries every day the decoction of Guaicum Monav. ep 240. after Generals giveth the extract of Calamus he foments the hands with a decoction of Wine with Sage and Aqua vitae VEINS swollen with melancnolick blood are cured by Chirurgery for above and beneath the Vein it is bound and when it is made naked of the skin the Vein is cut and the blood being let out it is cured But since this cure is difficult and oft times leaves malignant Ulcers Hier. Fabric cuts the vein bound not with great Incision but by prickings that are small Then he layeth on Medicaments of Bole armenick Dragons blood Mastick with Gum Traganth steeped in Wine of Pomegranates or Verjuyce made like a Candle and he layeth this long waies on the Vein and upon the Medicament a reed made hollow to hold on the Medicament for so the Vein consumes If there be an Ulcer joyned with it the Vein must be cut out VERTIGO is when all things seem to turn round Scotoma is when over and above the sight is darkned Why they than look down from on high should be taken with a Vertigo the cause is natural for that by looking on a thing that breedeth fear the spirits are dissipated from terrour the spirits are drawn in again whence follows a contrary Motion the common sense and imagination are primarily hurt The Cause of Vertigo is the circulation of the spirits animal by a thin vapour Scotoma is from a thick The antecedent cause sticketh either in the Brain and there be signs of the Brain affected or in the Liver Spleen Hypochondres and there be signs of them affected or from some outward cause Prognosticks They that in a Vertigo see a green or purple colour encline to the Epilepsy they that see black to the Apoplexie they that see red are thought to be more subject to madness The Cure Let the Patient alone in the fit and if the cause ascend from the lower part Revulsion must be made by frictions the Face must be sprinkled with Wine give Suppositories Clysters put sweet smells to the Nostrils hot or cold rub the Nostrils with oyl of Amber c. rub the Temples with Rosemary water the Forehead with wild Marjoram annoint the Palate with Theriac Senn. alloweth also opening a Vein but with caution If an Apoplex be feared for preservation is Carway seed soaked in Wine and then dried if daily half a spoonful be long chewed about bedtime and lastly be swallowed When the fit is over open a Vein as the Head Vein It is cured as the Head-ach by Generals Topicals Bears-ear is commended the water or extract of Scorzonera a dryed silk-worm is strewed on the Crown Take dung of a male Peacock for a Man or a female for a woman one dram infuse it all night in white-wine strain it through a linnen cloth give it for a Vertigo from a new Moon till a full Moon If it come from some other part by consent the humour prepared must be evacuated the Vapour intercepted revulsed discussed we must strengthen VOMITING too much is cured by Revulsives Clysters Oyls Frictions and principally by heating the extream parts Give Astringents before meat put Cupping glasses to the bottome of the stomach Topicals A crust of bread infused in Mint water and Vinegar of Roses sprinkled with Mastick powder baked opium An ULCER is the solution of continuity from something that corrodeth with the taking away of some parts they differ in form one is circular c. in subject in cause Diagnosticks The cause is known by the signs when raw thin quitter runs forth plentifully with pain pricking it is then beginning In the increase the matter is better and more sparingly c. If the Rest diminish it is the declination Prognosticks White matter or rather ash colour light and equal is good See Aph. 45. 4. s 6. Aph. 65. 67. 2. 21. s 7. The Cure The humour must be evacuated by Generals we must apply Digestives yet it is safest even at the beginning to mingle Detergents with Digestives unequally as Turpentine with juyce of Smallage yolks of Eggs oyl of Roses Saffron The part affected must be observed as in Phlegmone If the Ulcer be scowred too much it becommeth dry the flesh is consumed the Lips grow red there is a sense of biting If it become more dry and there be a good colour and neither quitter nor matter run forth of the Ulcer we must use Sarcoticals The purer the Ulcer groweth so much the more mild must Detergents be A scar is made with Powders or Emplaisters that heal but not in a moist form If there be for example a dry distemper the Ulcer being so long let alone the dryness must be cured most fitly with a fomentation of water and oyl warm and by Emollients If the distemper be with matter which is known by the swelling pain and plenty of Excrements before all the matter must be evacuated the parts strengthned the humour reâ—ulsed intercepted repulsed the best Repellers are Issues made in the opposite part And without these oft times Ulcers cannot be cured and old Ulcers cannot be closed unless an Issue be made in the opposite part Lay Sarcoticks on the Mouth of the Ulcer yet without biting stronger then otherwise The circumference must be washed with Repellers or some resolving Cataplasm laid on The Medicaments must be oft times changed Guido brought on the skin with a Plate of Lead If it be foul the filth shews
cured by Digesters and chiefly by remedies that evacuate fleam and melancholy Till these be often used Topicals are not good which must be to soften the crusts afterwards the juyce or decoction of Fumitory sharp Dock Celandine Ivy leaves Scabious Bean-meal Galen only used burnt paper soaked in Vinegar and anointed the part affected and so cured many Urine Brine For. puts this following for a secret Take Salt butter Hogs grease of each one ounce Brimstone half an ounce Quicksilver killed with spittle one dram a certain Boy was killed by Quicksilver laid to his Head and Vitriol one scruple then Butter Hogs grease Brimstone must be melted a part in a Mortar then add the rest Cresses fried or beaten with Hogs grease Lastly it is cured as the Small-Pox with the the decoction of Guaicum fasting spittle with liquor dropping from green wood in burning Plum tree Gum things that expell the matter or Carduus Benedictus and Harts-horn are good Balsam of Peru or Turpentine boyled with water or juyce of Tobacco The SCAB A certain woman did happily cure all Scabs with juyce of Cresces and Goose grease SCIRRHUS is a Tumor which is made of melancholy or natural fleam dried by degrees in the part and is without pain Platerus saith that it may be made from nutrimental juyce thickned and hardned Diagnosticks It is hard and without pain though it be pressed The colour is wan if it be from melancholy it is cold Prognostick That which hath lost all feeling is past cure They are cured either by resolution or suppuration this is more rare and more dangerous It followeth Erysipelas Inflammation c. The Cure is wrought by Emollients we must never moysten or resolve alone but either by Courses it must be moistned and dried or together as the Ancients warn us A fume of Vinegar with a fire-stone resolveth excellently The antecedent cause must be evacuated A SCIRRHUS of the Liver followeth obstructions frequently It is seldom known there is an ill habit of the Body little Urine without a Feaver See the rest in Obstruction of the Liver It is cured as before ever adding Spicknard Saffron Mastick If the Convex part be so Topicals are principal Goose dung Sarsoparilla Fern root Succories Emollients Steel SCIRRHUS of the Spleen is known by the touch there is difficulty of breathing a wan colour weight on the left side when the Belly is full there is straightness about the Spleen If the Mouth stink the Gums be eaten Ulcers in the Legs will not be cured it is an old Scirrhus The Cure Lenitives premised Alteratives Evacuatives Opening of a Vein is seldome convenient Aperients are good to which add Vinegar and Oxymel Coolers are Succories four great Cold seeds c. chiefly Fern root Amatus denyeth Harts Tongue to be good for the Spleen We must purge by course For. exhibited this following opener for fifteen days after the use of Generals Take Fern roots half an ounce of Dodder two drams boyl them in eight ounces of White-wine and Beer to the wasting of a third part strain it and drink it at once The most effectual means is the decoction of the Tamarisk wood as Guaicum is wont to be boyled especially if it be boyled in steeled water Steel water of quick Lime Ammoniacum with Hemlock See Senn. Some tried waters natural others drink of the wood they were preserved from falling further but not cured these were made worse I think by too much drying For. values much the following Topical Take of oyl of Cappars one ounce oyl of Lillies sweet Almonds Camomil fresh Buttet of each half an ounce juyce of Bryony Sow-bread of each half an ounce boyl them to the wasting of the juyces adding Ammoniac dissolved in Vinegar two drams and half Hens grease Marrow of Calves Legs Mans fat of each half an ounce Powder of bark of the roots of Tamarisk Cappars Miltworst Fern root of each one dram Powder of the seeds of Agnus Castus Broom of each one scruple a little wax make an Unguent or a fomentation of water wherein fire-stone is quenched Fumes motion before meat is good If it be incurable they are kept alive by Diet and by purging in Spring and Autumn The SCURVEY Which in the year 1486 invaded Germany as Spangenb saith is an ill habit of the natural parts from a melancholik humour especially corrupted The Subject is that hollowness of Spiegelius into which the Liver Spleen Stomach unload their Excrements The fountaine is in the Liver the Spleen yet the Liver oft times and oft times the Spleen hath been safe The seat are the Veins and Arteries The Cause immediate is a tanateous humour bred from concoction hurt either of it self or by outward error a watery blood oft times mingled with other things if it become malignant is the next cause if it be not already the antecedent cause for it is malignant It is generated by reason of concoction hurt by things natural not natural preternatural and by the volatil salt that is in meats and ventilation wanting So Platerus determins that meat and drink may become blood under the form of vapours So it is cured by remedies full of volatil salt as by Scurvey-grasse out of which if either by length of time or by boyling the volatil salt should exhale they grow unprofitable Wherefore juyce and conserve are most profitable So meats that breed the Scurvey abound with fixed salt to be cured by volatil Vinegar makes for this and meats hardned by smoke Signs There preceeded grosse Dyet sorrow which if did precede there will be no disease but will be joyned with the Scurvey Signs at the beginning are willing laziness heavinesse of the Abdomen difficulty of breathing after exercise weaknesse of the Legs with pain the colour groweth wan a man seems to grow fat Afterwards happeneth an itching redness of the Gums a small Pulse the water sometimes clear sometimes troubled after this stinking of the Mouth a bloody swelling of the Gums the Teeth are loose the Legs have lead coloured spots and purple specks innumerable The appetire seldome fails The sick say they are sound some on certain days with and without a Feaver are more afflicted Some are boundin their Bellies others loose The Feet are spotted sometimes they swell are made lesse There are Ulcers on their Legs a crooked melancholy vein under the Tongue All symptoms of the animalfaculty Dropsy Gangrene oft times Scabs a bastard Pluresy bleeding at the Nose bloody stools opening of Veins in the Legs The Jaundies shortness of breath Wild-fire heat pain of the soles of the Feet noise of the Bones moved spongy flesh under the Ey-lids In hard breathing the sick shew the cause to be under the Diaphragma red little sands in their urine also Tartareous matter pain of the whole Body pains increasing about the Joynts pain of the Belly oft times with breach of the Peritonaeum That pain differs from the Colick because this when the Belly is loose vanisheth the
A Compleat PRACTICE OF Physick Wherein is plainly described The Nature Causes Differences and Signs of all Diseases in the Body of Man VVith the choicest CURES for the same By John Smith Doctor in Physick LONDON Printed by J. Streater for Simon Miller at the Star in S. Pauls Church-yard 1656. The Epistle to the Reader Courteous Reader WHen I consider that men in this our scribling age care not what foolish and nonsensical stuff they obtrude upon the world so that thereby there may but a little profit accrue unto themselves I am almost deterred from presenting to thy view this Treatise lest thou shouldst at first sight conceive it to be of the same Genius yet I hope nay am confident to find thee more ingenious then inconsiderately to passe censure without perusal of the Book it self which I presume is such as cannot but give the most judicious Reader satisfaction containing in it self not only most select Remedies for every Disease but also laying open to the meanest capacity the Causes Symptoms or Signs of them so that any one that is not either wilfully or maliciously blind cannot but plainly see this Treatise most wonderfully conducing to the publick good and such as may by Gods blessing which is in all things the Primum mobile be a means to help many at their need who either by reason of their own vvants or distance of place cannot conveniently repair to a Physitian Of those remedies the Author here makes use of I hope no one will have cause to doubt They are such as contain in them all the marrow of Sennertus Riverius and all other Authors any way Famous or Excellent a Catalogue whereof you will find hereunto adjoyned The method of the Book is new and never before attempted but such as thou wilt plainly perceive is best for the ease satisfaction of the Reader One thing more I have to say which also is one main reas of my publishing this Treatise that is The earnest desires of many learned friends of the Author that this work of his might not any longer ly in private hands or the publick be hindred of so great a benefit and that also my learned friend Doctor John Smith might be had in perpetual remembrance for his good will to his Countrey and Common-wealth April 6. 1656. Which also is the earnest desire of your real friend J. Ridgley Authors made use of in this Treatise A Arantius Arculanus B Bauhimus C Crato Celsus D Doringus F Fabritius Faber Forestus Fernelius Fuchsius Florentinus G Galen H Hippocrates Heurnius Hollerius Hen. de Braâ— Helideus Horstius Dr. Harvey I J. Lipsius L Laurentius Lobelius M Dr. Maynard Massarias Mnesitius of Athens Mercatus P Paraeus Platerus Paracelsus R Rulandus Rondeletius Riverius S Schenkius Sennertus Spiegelius Scaliger Sanenarola Schrekeros Smetius T Trallianus V Valesius W Wierus A Compleat Practice OF PHYSICK ABORTION is a symptom of things thrust out The Cause is the expulsive faculty provoked or the retentive hurt which is done by the air too much voiding of excrements motion Venery diseases natural debility of the womb or the child of the retentive faculty by the first birth the stinck of a candle put out Castoreum Galbanum from the child diseased by naughty seed from want of superfluity of nourishment from the disease of the mother distempers sharp fevers loosness of the Ligaments the womb gaping shortness of the Intestins dissolved unity of the parts adjoyning from swooning convulsion pain sneesing slipperiness of the matrix from a flegmatic humour Aph. 45. s 5. Diagnostick Signs Aph. 37 38 52. 53. Prognosticks In Abortion women are in worse condition then in natural birth for unripe apples fall not unless they be pulled oft times especially the first Abortion causeth barrenness Abortion is most dangerous in the sixth seventh and eighth moneths Preservation The cause must be resisted it oft times proceeds from a stegmatick humour Internal and Topical remedy must be astringent Specialties are Corals cochineal shaving of Ivory Take Red coral prepared I dram Pearl prepared half a dram shavings of Ivory I dram Mastick half a dram Manus Christi with Pearls 2 drams make a powder The Cure If you cannot prevent it you must by all means procure Abortion Question Whether straightnesse of the Matrix can cause Abortion It is affirmed as straightness of the stomach may case vomiting Affection Hypochondriacal is a sink of humours melancholick and oft times of slegmatick and cholerick collected in the branches of vena porta the Caeliaque artery and the Meseraiques especially in the left hypochondre by reason of the concoction of the spleen hurt without putrefaction from whence vapours that have the nature of these things and part of the humour do stir up various symptoms as loathing vomiting belching sowre corruption and burnt like sut whence it is that Senn. will have the case of Fabr. Cent. 4. obs 32. not to proceed from the seed but to be hypochondriacal many winds which Senn. will have to be contained in that cavity of Spiegelius on the left side sadnesse after meat costiveness by the drines of the vessels heat of the hypochondres urine sometime thick sometime thin troubled panting of the heart swooning thirst difficulty of breathing Vertigo falling-sicknesse palsie Wearinesse troublesomesse it differs from hypochondriacal melancholy because in the affection hypochondriacal many are not melancholy The Cause is a sink of humours collected by reason of the cold of the stomach weaknesse of the spleen hear of the liver driness of the intestines the Pancreas obstruction of the vessels especially of the Pancreas and fault of the milky veins chiefly in virgins and in women by the fault of the womb and stopping of their Courses Diagnostick signs If it come from the Spleen it is stretched out and hard the face is ill coloured If from the Liver that is stretched forth If in the Mesentery vessels c there are winds noyses and hard nesse If in the stomach concoction is hurt If from the womb there is a noise of the womb and the Courses are stopped Prognosticks The disease is obstinate by reason of a contrary temper of the bowels and grosnesse of the humour The Emrods Melancholick veins the Courses do often cure it also bleeding of the left nostril black urine Women are seldom troubled with it but never cured Thick urine is best The Cure The first Indication is that the humours must be evacuated by gentle moistures and coolers by opening the Emrods by vomit by diureticks If this be fruitlesse we must respect two things 1. Steel which is the best for all obstructions and melancholick diseases by reason of the brimstone it abounds with wherefore we must see to it that it be not over calcined for so it will rather bind the brimstony part being taken away the filings of steel or prepared steel is given which is done if the filings be steeped in vinegar dried and powdered or else the crocus or
tincture or wine or oxymel or syrup or electuary or roles of steel The dosein substance for middle age is 1 scruple or not under 2 scruples nor above 1 dram and half be administred It is given best in the Spring and Fall for in Summer the hear in the Winter the cold hinders Let it be taken fasting and after that let the Patient walk one hour or two if the party be weak walking may be omitted Let him dine four hours after At first let it be given every third day and afterward every day Some the first days cast it off again but sometimes it is conveniently given to 30 days We must see that the steel passe thorough the Belly which is known by the black Excrements and if it come not so every 4. day we must purge with pills or Clysters After the tenth day purge gently and abstain two days from the use of it That it may descend the sooner you may add purgations to it correctors give it in pills 2. The Patient may go to the sharp waters and hot baths they that drink of them purge forth black excrements by reason of the vitrials The sowre waters called Swalbacenses Griesbachienses Egranae the hot Baths of Baden Carolius Also medicaments made of Tartar 2. The weak parts must be corrected and strengthned by internal and topical means so a cold stomack by inward heats a hot liver by topicals or by cooling Clysters or give the pulp of the citron with the shell for so it will longer stay in the stomack or whole grains of pepper Or to a man that is long fasting give some Cooler which will presently go to the Liver especially if he do not exercise moderately or give such heats that are below the heat of the Liver and which for that do not increase its distemper as Egrimony Fumitory Succory So the stomach being strengthned you may safely give cool things that concern the Liver or give such things to drink the mixture whereof is not discovered by a new and first concoction but by the second and third as Spirit of Vitriol If it come from the Courses stopt a vein must be opened ANEURISMA Is not a humour from the running forth of the arterial blood as Galen and Platerus c. will have it for so the bloud should as well spread it self broad waies because it would colour the skin because it would easily putrisie but it is a humour by the opening of the inward coat of the Arteries and by dilatation of the outward coat it is opened either by unskilful opening of a vein when as the outward coat which is the softer groweth together again and the inward coat remaineth open or from some external cause Sen. l. 5. p. 1. c. 42. Fabr. obs 44. cent 3. Diagnostick signs It is a soft humour yielding to the touch sometimes with sometimes without pulsation it differs not in colour from the other skin it yieldeth to the touch and sometime not Prognostick New Aneurisms may be cured but old not Section is most dangerous it proceeds oft times from hard child-birth also in the throat The Cure Lay on an astringent some repelling remedy A plate of lead any way The manner of cutting see in Sen. l. cit but it must not be attempted See Pareus l. 6. APPETITE Wanting the Cause Because there is either no sucking or it is not perceived 1. When nourishment aboundeth in the whole body 2. When raw humours grosse stick in the stomack 3. When there is obstruction of the veins 4. From the use â—f far sweet and clammy things Sucking is not perceived 1. When the brain is hurt 2 By reason of some disease in the mouth or the stomach as from distempers which whether it be hot or cold exceedingly causeth want of appetite Oft times it cometh from drinking of wine from worms from the matrix Some will have the Devil to be the cause of long abstinence who conveyeth meat into the body and yet there are no signs of it and the same things doth naturally happen to Beasts Some say it comes from some hidden quality some they are fed by the aire but what shall be changed into the nature of the body wasted Some say they are fed by vapours that are inherent in the aire but why then are not all men nourished the same way Some live by drinking water but many drink no water Some say that fleame sticketh in the body that cannot be wasted but many of these were not flegmatick but rather dry and costive and so old men would live long without meat Some will have it that they live by their grease melted and turned into blood but it is false that their grease is melted and floweth to the stomach and is changed into blood and by hunger it is not changed into nourishment but is discussed Fort. Liceous saith that there is no necessity of nutrition because neither the soul nor the body stand in need of it so old men are lesse nourished also generation and augmentation ceaseth Senn. saith that the cause is by reason that nothing or else not but in a long time is consumed because of a certain proportion of the humour to heat So Scal. Ex. 328. writes that coals of Juniper will keep fire a whole year unwasted but that disposition is brought upon the humor when by diffusion of a melancholy humour it is fixed that it cannot receive the activity of heat Now a peculiar quality is communicated to a melancholick humour from the Matrix for they were almost all maids at those years that the Courses are wont to break forth Signs Diagnostick If there be no sucking the forces cannot fail and there are signs of repletion but if it come from obstruction the Belly is loose If sucking be not perceived the forces are cast down Progn Aph. 33. s 2. Respiration Appetite in the sick is is excellenr Aph. 6. s 6. Want of appetite in children is dangerous but if want of appetite fall upon the beginning or vigour of the disease it is not so dangerous for they want little nourishment and if they eat well they are the worse If it fall upon the declination that is ill If in a disease the appetite be cast down and it suddenly come again that is deadly for the Brain is hurt unlesse a Crisis went before it The Cure The cause must be taken away sharp and sowre things cause hunger as also scowring things as figs sauce If it proceed from the matrix there are signs of the matrix affected Symptoms somtimes abate and there are many symptoms present How aid shall be given to the matrix See concerning Suffocation and distemper of the matrix Senn. l. 3. p. 1. s 2. c. 2. ANTHRAX or a Carbuncle is a Tumour that riseth from adust blood that is extream hot making an eschar on the part affected of a diverse colour like a rainbow with a little wheal on the head The Cause is grosse adust blood
from being anointed with Mercury Forestus bids to anoint the Mouth with oyl of sweet Almonds But if a Gangreene or suffocation be feared Repulsives may be used when they are malignant BELLY STOPT The Cause Want of choler as in Jaundies and after purgation the choler and excrements being voided out when the choler by a sedentary life and perpetual bending of the body flyeth back to the stomach from hunger when all moisture is sucked from the starved parts which happeneth also to those that grow well Fleam covering the Intestins So in the life of J. Heurnius we read that J. Lipsius voided fleam by siege like to Guts a hot Liver hard Excrements the Palsey Laur. câ—ns 7. The cure varieth as the cause is If from hardnesse of Excrements a purging Clyster bringeth forth the thin and leaveth the thick behind wherefore you shall give two or three Clysters merely emollient After a purging Clyster emollients in meat are good Whey Malloes fat things much drink Savanarola perswaded the Duke of Ferrara when he was bound three days to walk bare-foot on a marble pavement that was sprinkled with cold water when he had gone fifty paces he went to stool exceedingly But Brasavola saith This was a dangerous remedy for Torments and Flux of the Belly might follow Some loose the Belly with rear Eggs some with the smell of Purgatives others hold them in their hands Platerus used coughing and sneezing Things are also profitably laid outwardly to the Navel In children it is stopped by Milk which is flegmatick a weak stomach error in Diet but not continual with fainting and Diet heat of the Liver and they seldom live healthfully The Cure You must oppose the cause The childs Nurse must use emollients Honey of Roses solutive may be given If the Passage for â—holer be obstructed the decoction of the Roots of Grasse Fennel Asparagus is convenient the Belly must be moved by Suppositories and Clysters The Belly must be anointed with a softning Ointment to which you may add sometimes some grains of Scammony Coloquintida let him drink such things as are loosening A BOTCH is a Tumor or inflammation of the glandulous parts in the Groins Arm-pits and under the Fars Phyma and Phygethlon differ little from a Botch The Cause is faulty Blood a Crisis a Feaver Signs Prognostick If they are not malignant they are not dangerous if they are long before they come to suppuration continue long they commonly make a Fistula they are soonest ripe under the Arm-pits later in the Groins latest under the Ears The Cure by general means A Vein is good to be opened when the defluxion ceaseth purging in the beginning and the end Topicals must never be Repellers but Drawers and Resolvers as cupping glasses Leaven Rosin Diachilum with Gums It is best to cause suppuration for being resolved they soon return the suppuration must be opened and consolidated The cure of Pockey botch is the same but that the Pox must be cured also The cure of a Pestilent Botch The tumour must first of all be scarified for so the venome is let out and the humours are attracted by pain or lay on a vesicatory after attractives as Ammoniacum Roots of Liâ—ies Scabious Onions filled with Treacle and roasted Cock chickens young Pigeons made bare at the Fundament Whelps cut in two then lay on ripeners and then digestives but the wound must be carefully kept open If you fear it will Gangreen you must hinder it See Sennertus l. 4. c. 6. d. pest l. 6. p. 4. c. 23. l. 5. p. 1. c. 6. Laur. de Lue Ven. Paraus l. 21 and 18. BULIMIA is Appetite increased but dejection of forces A dogs appetite is alwaies with vomiting as in dogs or in Diarrhaa The cause is sucking in the Mouth of the Stomach a humour that is melancholick sharp sowre want of nourishment because the heat consumeth it by reason of Worms use of scowringthings a long time as Figs and Sauce which Rondeletius found true in himself It oft times comes from the Womb. The cause of Bulimia is the cold of the stomach But how it is not credible that a flegmatick humour should prick presse forth bind fast because in living Man there is no actual cold Platerus saith It proceeds from the contraction of heat by reason of the cold round about it therefore we eat most in Winter Also Senn. thinks that the cold that encompasseth doth rend the Orifice of the stomach but doth this disease happen alwaies in Winter Signs Diagnostick of a dogs appetite If it proceed from a sowre humour it causeth sowre belchings if from want of nourishment the sick grow lean Prognostick It easily passeth into a constant vomiting the Cholick a Dropsie great hunger after diseases threateus the making it to come again In chronical diseases as the Quartane and Quotidian Feavers and in a Dropsie it is mortal The cure of Dogs appetite The cause must be evacuated chiefly by vomit Meats must be given that bridle hunger fat and clammy Ox flesh Hogs flesh the Brains of living creatures new white starch but they must be taken sparingly The most commodious alteratives are Wine Spirit of Wine Sage-wine Treacle Mithridate Evacuating with Hiora and then corroboratives Cure of Bulimia If it come by fainting it happeneth in the very paroxysm when the paroxysm is over we must not presently feed the sick but when the forces are recollected and then it is cured as is the Dogs appetite BLOOD-SPITTING The cause is either a breaking of the vessel which is known by the great flux of Blood and coming forth by heaps and by the precedent cause as a blow a fall anger much coughing or a corroding and then some sharp distillatives went before or eating of sharp things sorrow little pieces are cast forth with the Cough bloody spittings are cast out but at some times or anâ—stomesis and not by heans but by little and little some little blood is cast forth as from Venery The other signes are absent The remote cause is the stopping of wonted evacuations the fault of the Spleen or of the Liver The Subject If it come forth by spitting alone it proceeds from the Gums if by scrawing from the Throat if it be voided more plentifully and there be signs of the Head affected it cometh from the Head If by vomit from the Stomach If by coughing from the Brest Diagnostick signs If the Cough be long it cometh from the Brest by reason of the length of the way If short from the sharp artery If mean from the Lungs Blood black clotted and sometimes stinking come forth of the Brest Like froth between white and red from the substance of the Lungs A little blood from the sharp Artery A dull or no pain sheweth the Lungs to be affected a great pain the Brest Prognostick signs Spitting of blood from the Brest is dangerous from the Lungs more from the sharp Artery lesse because the vessels of the Brest are smaller and
is the Receipt of Antonius Fuchsius an Italian which see in Senn. l. c. the excellent water of Fab. and many more see Senn. l. c. CARUS is a deep sleep with losse of sence and motion the spirits being hindered yet the breathings remain free The Cause is the compression of the Scull and the Brain So Fern. saw a man for three moneths in a Carus not remembring that the Scull must be opened Forestus cured one that lay in a Carus fourteen days Obstruction of the Brain overcooling concussion motion troubling the animal spirits by a stroke or fall hurting the temporal muscle and the Carotick Arteries Narcotick force worms the Matrix the fume of coles the Moon beams Signs Diagnostick Deep sleep if pricked they feel draw themselves in If there be a Feaver it followeth the fits It differs from an Apoplex and Swooning as before from a Catoche because in Carus the Eyes are shut nor doth a man abide in the same stare he was taken From a Lethargy because a Lethargy is alwaies with a Feaver In a Carus ask questions and the sick will not answer Prognostick Carus coming upon a Feaver is mortal The Cure If it come from the first cause it is cured as a depression of the scull If from the second as an Apoplex and flegmatick Head-ach If from the third as a commotion of the Brain If from the fourth it is cured according as the hurt is If from the fifth it is cured by Antidotes as poysons are but they must be raysed the common way A vein must not be opened There is no better remedy then the eating of Cresses in saller either boyled or leasoned Forest CATALEPSIS The sick remain stiff in the same fashion they were taken yet sometimes they hear a little see remember and tell it afterwards if any thing be put into their Mouths they swallow it and go if they be driven by force The Souldiers in the siege at Mets held their Spears in their Hands the Horsmen followed the Troop both of them no lesse then almost quite frosen The Cause is a freezing vapour fixing rising from Minerals in the ground or from a melancholick humour fixing the spirits not those which already are flowen to the part but such as are subservient to the imagination in the Brain but the cold Aire brings not a Catoche but a Sphacelus and stupidity The Cure First they must be raysed 2. It is cured as head melancholy Vinegar must not be mingled in Topicals for that fixeth them also A vein may be opened if there be Indications Senn. Forest A CATARRH is a Symptome in things put forth whether it be taken generally for any kind of defluxion or specially for a defluxion upon the Lung The The Cause of the defluxion is known yet the pain draweth not but by the weaknesse of the part it cannot discusse it Lau. de Catarr The humours are things natural not natural and preternatural a hot Liver a cold Brain which is often the cause of a hot defluxion when salt steam is gathered in it and so contrarily The chief difference is from the place whence so it may arise from the Spleen or otherwise by consent and then many medicaments are in vain laid to the Head It is with or without a Feaver Signs Diagnostick or the causes are proper and collected by concourse as colour tast motion heat pain sostness of the part affected or that sends the matter If it come from the Brain it afflicteth easily long and continually If there be Intermission and if there be signs of some other part affected as the belly or Courses stopped they are caused from some other part The Cure If it come by consent that part must first be respected Revulsives draw not from the Head but pull from the part first affected yet the Brain must be strengthned If it proceed from a proper passion of the Brain and fall with force upon the Brest things that derive and stay are useful If not the 1. cause must be evacuated by generals then by topicals Also in a cold Catarrh a Vein may be opened if the Liver be hot 2. The humour prepared being evacuated the Head must be dryed by Internals and Topicals Also in a cold Catarrh conserve of Roses is commodiously mingled with hot Cephalicks Revulsion must be made by setaces chafings cupping glasses Gallen layeth on a plaster of new Pigeons dung for three hours left it should burn too much upon the place shaved for it heats and dryes wonderfully One grain of the whitest Frankincense taken at bed time is a secret The decoction of Guaiacum wood drying Cephalick powders Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 11. Med. Pract. If the Catarrh be hot give a purge a Vein must be opened Purgatives after preparatiues must be administred and Topicals that dry and corroborate must be applyed If there be danger of choaking we must draw it back by all our might with Pigeons dung Causticks Clysters Lotions Ligatures Chafings Cuppings Vesicatories Errhins Topicals and Generals We must stop it by internals also by Laudanum opiatum and Narcoticks Let the diet be drying the supper little sleep sparingly change his manner of lying if we will hold the Catarrh in the Head let the Head lye backward if it do more harme in the Head then in the Breast let the Head be lifted higher Laur. de Cat. For. Senn. CHOLERICK Passion moist is a continual and immoderate casting forth of a naughty humour both upward and downward The Cause is a sharp humour corrupted strugling about the stomach and Spleen and mesentery and Veins or poyson taken Signs diagnostick There is no Feaver but pain Inflation vomiting purging Prognostick It kills in three or four days if it end in 18. hours it hath been often healthful The Cure 1. If the vomiting be little it must be furthered by drinking much warm water for a little will turn to choler Decoction of hulled barley with Sugar or syrup of Roses Goats whey or of Cows with syrup of Roses 2. If vomiting be immoderate the belly must be moved therefore give whey or broth with Manna or syrup of Roses solutive Cast in a Clyster emollient and cooling with Diacatholicon Cassia If the belly purge too much cause vomiting 3. If they void too much Revulsives are profitable as Ligatures of the upper parts if they vomit of the lower parts if they purge too much Also the matter must be temperd by internal and topical means A most present remedy is half a dram of Crystal alone or mixt with other things laudanum opiatum must be given often if we fear swooning 4 The Forces must be strenthened by Internalls and Topicals CHOLERICK dry Passion is the casting forth of a windy vapour above and beneath with Inflation of the Belly and noise with the pain of the sides and loyns The Cause is the weaknesse of the stomach which breedeth winds or a clammy tenacious humour with a strong heat of the stomach and Intestins which
Feet and Hands must be bathed in water wherein Turnips especially frozen are boyled or anoint the part with oyl of wax or Bays also with Honey Turpentine If they be ulcerated anoint them with oyl of Roses boyled in the root of a Rape or Radish made hollow or with the ashes of Crab-fish with Honey and Oyl of Roses When the part is mortified it is cured as a Gangreen Child suffocated may be known if it were very well before if the Mouth and Nostrils be wet with froth if the Lungs diffected be frothy The COUGH The cause is 1. a naked distemper and then there preceeded Procatactick causes 2. A humour now what that is is known by by the spittle a Catarrh 3. Dissolved unity of the Lungs 4. Inflammation of the Liver Spleen Dropsy 5. Smoke dust sowre things and many external things Worms The cure The cause must be taken away and the Cough if it be from a Catarrh is cured as a Catarrh and by expectorating means If it come from a thin hot sharp matter after generals we must cool moisten thicken also this that followeth is good Take Honey Butter of each half an ounce Cummin-seed 1 dram mingle it give it by a spoon Forestus often prescribeth to short-winded people in a Consumption Take juyce of Colts-foot half a pound Mucilage of Marshmallowes drawn with barley water one ounce Sugar what may suffice make a Lohock fumes of leavs of Alchoof drawn up by a pipe are good 1. Generals being premised 2. If there be no Feaver 3. Whilst the forces remain 4. Fasting 5. Let it be first tried in the smallest quantity 6. If there follow difficulty of breathing it must be cured by moistnesse If there be fear lest by coughing a vein should break or the sick should be choaked or the Lungs corroded being forced to it we use Narcoticks especially if there be long watchings as syrup of Poppies Juyce of Hounds-tongue For. proved this that followeth often Take juyce of common Parsley half an ounce Womans milk one ounce powder of Cummin one scruple give it a boy to drink warm and anoint his stomach DIABETE The Cause is the retentive faculty or the Reins hurt either by plenty or by quantity of the Urines plenty of Urine is made from heat of the Liver Spleen melting the watry humour from the weaknesse of the stomach loosenesse of the passages It comes chiefly in burning and malignant Feavers Signs Diagnostick It beginneth by degrees that it can hardly be known there is heat in the bowels Prognostick It brings consumption and death if not cured at first The Cure Opening a Vein purging vomiting sweating are not good but internal and topical astringents and coroboratives which moderately cool Also Narcoticks may be used DIARRHOEA is a flux of the Belly caused by excrementitious humours The cause is the obstruction of the Veins of the Liver or weaknesse of the Liver or a preternatural disposition of the whole body with or without a Fever or a hectick Feaver burning Consumption Inflammation of the bowels whence followeth a Syntectick or melting flux or corrupt meat or worms or the Liver and choller or the Spleen and a melancholick humour or the Matrix or the Brain or hypercatharsis or toothing of Children Signs Diagnastick See the signs of obstruction and the weaknesse of the Liver If from corrupt meat such kind of meat was eaten or the stomach is weak If from the Liver or the Spleen there are signs of their infirmities and signs of any other part hurt are not Prognostick The Belly to be loose for one or some dayes is healthful so there be no Feaver and it stop in seven daies The cure If it come from obstruction first we must open by things that are good for the Liver then we must cleanse then we must bind and strengthen If it be from a sharp humour corrupt meat first we must cleanse and take off the acrimony of the humour as Take the decoction of unhulled Barley three ounces syrup of Roses one ounce Violets half an ounce A vein may be opened Then we must gently evacuate by Clysters Potions Pills of Rheubarb Mirobolans Mastick whereof make Pils which are safely given in all fluxes Take Citron and Chebul Mirobolans of each half a dram Mastick one scruple Spick fix grains with Honey of Roses make Pills Take first half a dram then I scruple not but when the greatest part of the matter is voided and if the Forces be much weakned In these two cases we must bind which is done within eight or twelve dayes first by Topicals and Diet after that by internals and all derivations as opening a vein and Ligatures to take away the flux If it come with a Feaver and be critical we must do nothing but prescribe Diet. Yet if it be too much the acrimony of the humour must be removed and we must bind and strengthen If it be more sparing we must help it forward If it be symptomical it must be cured as before If there be melting it must be cured by Restoratives and a little astringent also with Narcoticks as three heads of Poppy may be boyled in a Clyster If it happen to Children toothing it comes either from salt fleam flowing from the Head or from the Milk corrupted by a Feaver Give Honey syrup of Roses syrup of Succory with Rheubarb Then bind by Topicals DYSENTERY is an exulceration of the Intestins with a frequent bloody dejection and mattery with pain and torments of the Belly rising from a sharp eating matter peculiarly an enemy to the Intestins The Cause chiefly is a cholerick humour offensive to the Intestins by a hidden quality the remote cause eating of Grapes drinking sweet wine or cold water the humours being Coagulated and after that corrupting obs 46. cent 3. water running through leaden pipes that are old drank by reason of the plenty of Mercury and lead Ore Purgatives mingled with meat Poysons as Quicksilver Clouds malignant aire contagion Differences There are three degrees 1. Wherein are fat bodies mingled with a little moisture 2. Wherein are shavings of the Intestins 3. Wherein is the substance of the Intestins voided like peices of flesh The last of these is meant Aph. 26. s 4. Signs diagnostick They are known by the definition A Feaver is not alwayes joyned Aph. 3. s 6. It must be diligently distinguished from an Impostume in the Guts If the small Intestins be affected it makes a pricking pain blood is perfectly mixed with the dung or voided after it If the great guts either corruption swimeth above or sticketh outwardly unto them Prognostick These happen out chiefly about the Summer and beginning of Autumn Black spots behind the Ear with great thirst is mortal Women old men children are more greivously afflicted The Cure 1. The cause must be evacuated and tempered by opening a vein and purging by turns as with syrup of many infusions of damask Roses or rather first with simple infusions of Mirobolans Tamarinds Rheubarb
the infusion whereof we give to purge the substance to bind Mechoacan Senna leaves Diacatholicon Diapheaenicon Clysters in great quantity if you would scowre the guts but small to glutinate Antidotes against poyson as Bole armenick c. 2. If the pain be vehement sometimes we must cast in such things as ease pain Give broth of oyl of sweet Almonds apply internals topicals narcoticks 3. We must bind yet not before seven dayes unlesse it be with gentle means A powder of Elder berries of Turtles and Hares burnt is commended Also the juyce of ground Ivy taken The use of Wax in a roasted Apple The Apple is made hollow and filled with white and yellow Wax it is roasted it must be eat before meat by external topicals also whatsoever many would have by revulsives 4. The Ulcer must be cleansed and filled with flesh The Diet. Much drink is naught for a Dysentery and if they grow well too much exercise That snotty white matter is not the fat of the guts nor fleam nor crust but the humours coming out of the Veins changed by the part hurt as in the whites of women Question Whether Purgatives may be given Valesius denieth it com 4. in 4. Epid. Fuchsius Massarias because Galen useth them not because they bring the humour to the part affected Senn. affirmeth it Galen knew not Rheubarb Mirobalans yet he used Honey Milk and Crato for the second reason denieth that Cauteries can be good in the Gout Ep. 167. Whether milk be good It is not good if there be a Feaver and where the Body is impure It must be given warily if whey be much it clenseth if whey evaporate with long boyling it bindeth Whether drinking water milk steeled wine be good Crato denieth it Ep. 261. Doringus obs 42. cent 3. saith That water of fresh steel that was never yet quenched will trouble the Belly but if it be drank from steel often quenched it binds the Belly Wherefore if you will bind cast away the first water Senn. will not allow this because it is of an Homogeneal nature but thinks that steeled water must be drank sparingly for the more iron is communicated to the water the more it troubles the Belly and moveth vomit neither let it stay long but quench it suddenly for if it stay long in the liquor it is turned as it were into rust and troubles more Wherefore the first water must not be poured forth Crocus Martis made by reverberation alone is good but not by dissolving by water DYSURIA is diminishing of Urine it differs from Ischuria in degree only sometimes it is with but often without pain it comes not forth by drops but sometimes in due quantity by heaps The Cause is the sensitive faculty or expulsive of the Bladder hurt or some other diseases of the Bladder Signs Diagnostick If it proceed from fault of the Ureters or Reins there is no pain no heavinesse about the share It is called hot piss which is not a diminishing of urine but when the urine comes forth as it should only with heat See the Strangury The Cure When the cause is taken away For. applyed to the Secrets of a woman in a Feaver great with child Take green Pelletary 2 handfuls Chetvil one handful and half Oyl of Scorpions one ounce and half Butter two ounces it seldom faileth You may first give a Suppository or Clyster He cured another with oyl of Camomil and of Scorpions first anointing with oyl a decoction of Rue and Dill. Fernelius saith That one Ureter being stopped the Urine cometh forth by the other For. observeth the contrary DRUNKENNES Preservatives Bitter Almonds are commended five six or ten before meat as also Peach kernels which seem to help by their diuretick force Arculamus writes That if any man eat tops of Wormwood or Rue in the morning fasting he shall be defended from drunkennesse Coleseed eaten before meat is good Platerus avoids drunkenness by drinking very sparingly at first Mnesitheus Athen. saith three things must be observed 1. To drink wine mingled 2. Not to fill your self with Junkets at the second Course 3. Sleep not before you vomit The cure Vingegar drank recovers drunken men and other sowre things For. gave small beer to drunkards and bad them sleep if they sleep not they recover not but by abstinence the next day and by taking syrup of the decoction of garden Currance Leaves of Coleworts wet in Rose water cure a drunken man if after drink you lay them to his Head Those that are dumb after drunkenness will dye saith Hippocrates unlesse a Feaver come upon it DANDRAFF It proceeds from a salt watery blood and also cholerick Some hold it for a sign of a sound brain It portends no danger It is cured by Generals Topicals softesse afterward with Detergents as with urine pickle with the decoction of Lupius with Soot with the juyce of Squills Scarification and Leeches are good The DROPSIE called Ascites Is a tumor of the Abdomen Scrotum Thighs Feet from a watery humour which sometimes presseth the Diaphragma oft times it sweateth through into the Chest whence groweth a little Cough and in time it corrupteth whence cometh a Feaver and thirst from salt vapours The water is ingendred by the parts between the stomach and the Reins the Liver in Anasarca but not in Ascites for the whole body should be hurt unlesse we shall say that it is affected in the end The water is collected in the cavity of the Abdomen not by fault of the Liver nor by reason of the straight passages to the Reins but because of little urine They make water sparingly because the water stayeth in those places It holdeth up by reason of the attraction of the Spleen hurt and obstruction of the Vessels of it or Scirrhus For the smallest part of the wheyish humour is carried by the Veins to the Reins The greatest part is drawn by the Spleen from the stomach by the short Vessel and from thence by the Arteries it is derived to the Reins It cannot be made from the faculty of making blood only hurt for though the Chylus may changed into raw blood as in Anasarca yet it cannot all be changed into water and if it were changed yet the Reins can vent it forth It floweth down into the cavity of the Abdomen and the caule by the veins by way of anastomosis and diapedesis and dissolved unity the water is often times yellow Signs There is alwaies swelling of the Feet especially toward the evening and after exercise The feet often swell when men recover from sharp diseases and long from plenty of meat or some outward cause This tumor is not dangerous if you timely help it Prognosticks Anasarca is the safest because the natural faculty is lesse hurt and the blood comes nearer to natural blood then water Ascites if it proceed from a Scirrrhus is more dangerous then a Tympanum for the rest Tympanum is worse then Ascites If it proceed from a
by Platerus observation and Smetius Winds are made of grosse matter especially of black choler and heat strong enough of it self but weaker in respect of the matter In Tympanites the heat is almost burning but the matter is melancholick Signs Diagnostick The Belly gives a sound like a Drum The cure The matter must be cause of the wind must be taken away the wind must be discussed Alwaies let Carminatives exceed Purgatives Arculanus thinks it were a singular Remedy if in a Clyster you dissolve three drams of the Electuary oâ— Bay berries you must discusse by Internals Topicals by the Plaister of Bay berries If heaters help not we must pass to Coolers the beer of the decoction of Camomil flowers is miraculous In Leucophlegmatia or Anasarca it is good to open a Vein if it come from stopping it is cured as Cachexia A DROPSY of the Womb is either in the cavity of the Matrix or in the Coats of the Marix or in the Vessels of the Matrix or it is shut in a Vessel or not It is either with Child or without Oft times it killeth the Child most frequently it makes belief of being with Child The cause is either sent from some other place or is bred in the Womb stopping of Courses Signs It is distinguished from Conception because a Dropsy of the womb is equally extended according to the largness of the womb If it last above ten months it continually waxeth greater in the following moneths In great with child it is contrary the Symproms that afflict in the first moneths grow milder in the latter The Brests that are hard are made soft In a Dropsy of the womb some blood runneth forth It is distinguished from Mola by the weight from Inflation of the womb by weight and sound from a Dropsy of the Belly because that riseth from the superiour parts and goeth down to the lower parts In a Dropsy of the Matrix it is contrary When it remaineth in the cavity the Mouth of the Matrix is shut when in a Bladder it seems to be shut If the whole Body be well and child-bearing were very tedious it cometh from the fault of womb Prognosticks If the water be not corrupted nor sharp which is collected from the Symptoms it is cured by length of time The cure If it proceed from stopping the Courses they must be voided also by opening a Vein but in other cases it is not profitable The water must be voided by injections Diureticks Purging Pessaries Externals Vomit Sneezing Clysters Fontanels are not good A DROPSY of the Brest is seldom knownz and yet it is frequent It is not likely that so much water should fall from the Head but it is either bred in the Brest or sent thither Signs A pain of the Brest that is weighty and a sound when the Body is moved A dry Cough There is danger of being choaked chiefly about the first sleep thirst lost appetite pale visage the Feet often swell Prognosticks It is seldom cured Once cured it easily returns into a Dropsy The Cure The water must at several times be evacuated by Purgatives Hippocrates orders the Incision of the Brest if the Bowels be sound By Diureticks wherewith Maximilian the 11. Emperor cured himself for twenty years and when that motion was hindered he was strangled Crato Ep. 137. Senn. commendeth Incision at the beginning DROPSY of the Head Is either within or without the Scull It runneth out by Anastomosis and diapedisis of the Veins It happeneth to children from the violence of Mid-wives in delivery Signs If it be without the Scull it is proved by the touch If within the Eys weep and are hardly shut and it is mortal The Cure Generals premised that evacuate if the age will suffer it the part must first be softned then wee must use Resolvers Spirit of Wine with a fourth part of Scabious water Also Aquapendens commends for children water of quick Lime the Lime being thrown away If these fail lay a Caustick to the hinder part of the Head The manner of cutting see in Senn. Lastly lay on remedies that dry the Brain Fab. obs 10. c. 1. found in the fore Ventricles of the Brain 18. pound of clear water DISTEMPER of the Spleen hot hath with it thirst a dry Tongue yellow colour red Face dejected Appetite a cold distemper contrarily They that have a weak Spleen are properly called spleenetick The Cure The Spleen cannot endure Attenuatives nor Relaxatives but things that bind moderately as Wormwood yet moderately lest they make a Scirrhus sweet things taken any way are hurtful and so is Vinegar Wherefore the rinds of the five opening roots must be steeped not in Vinegar but in Wine It can endure stronger Remedies then the Liver Stoppers must be chiefly avoided It is evacuated by the Piles Vomit Purging Urine bitter medicaments are the most profitable The milt of an Ox burnt in an earthen Vessel the milt of a Kid to one dram All outward remedies must be made with Posca that they may penetrate DISTEMPER of the Stomach If it be cold it is cured by Generals Topicals Topicals must be laid to the pointed grissle toward the Navel and to the back to the twelvth and thirteenth Spondils Corals are most profitable Myrobolans Chebulae and the extract of Galanga Other cold distempers of the Shoulders Matrix Intestins are cured by Generals Topicals as in the Dropsy Anasarca chiefly with the decoction of Guaiacum China c. DEAD BODY If it ly in the house or field and it be a question how it died either by Thunder or some other mischief If it be from thunder the Body smelleth of Brimstone so as Dogs c. will not touch it Under the part whole or wounded the bones are broken the wound is black If he fall on the side that was stricken Beasts fall on the contrary side If he were smitten waking his Eys are shut if sleeping contrarily The Body is not corrupted If the Question be Whether he that was wounded received the wounds dead or alive If alive the Lips of the wound are red bloody swoln wan round about He that was drowned if he were thrown in living the whole Belly swelleth with water snotty matter comes forth of his Nostrils frothy matter from his Mouth the ends of his Fingers are supposed to be excoriated DEAFNES The Cause is either the fault of the Spirits and Brain and so the other sences suffer also or the outward ears are wanting or the passage of hearing is stopped or the Tinpanum or Nerve is hurt Platerus saw an Abbot who by the Pox was blind deaf dumb Signs If it follow other diseases and the other senses be well the Nerve is affected If the Tympanum the Cause was either internal or external It is ill in Feavers unlesse it shew a Crisis The Cure The cause being removed it ceaseth If it be from fleam that must be dried and removed The water of Origanum is commended distilled with wine
decoction of Mallows Fennel Rue Ey-bright Fumitory Rheubarb Senna made like Claret After softning detergents as juyce of Mallows Fennel Rue clarified with the Gall of an Eel and Sugar-candy afterwards also a little white Vitriol was added After that juyce of Rue and Celandine double of Fennel lesse of Vitriol one dram and half Verdigrease five grains and the party was cured A certain Matron cured the poor with this following water Take the Entrals of a Pike and together with the Gall Liver Bowels cut them small in pieces add one handfull of Fennel and distill them The juyce crushed forth of Pismires The green of brasse corrodeth lesse when it is burned then unburned That which Covers the whole Pupil the Chirurgion must not meddle with Par. A Cloud wherein the sick seem to look through smoak is from a humor compacted in the Cornea A white spot is made either from a scar and it is incurable or from fleam collected between the Cornea They are cured by Generalls Topicals emollient and detergent with the juyce of Pimpernel with a blew flower and first with Rosemary flower water water of Honey if it cannot be cured the white colour is taken away with the juyce of sweet Pomegranates If a yellow colour in the Jaundies seize on the Cornea receive the vapour of Vinegar cast on a burning tile by the Eys the decoction of Rheubarb if Choler of Agarick if fleam drop into the Eye snuff up into your Nostrils Blood-shot is an effusion of blood in the Adnata and Cornea from a stroke a fall It is cured if it be greater with topicals revulsives repelling then with discutients alone With the decoction of Fenygrec exactly cleansed or in the form of a fomentation Pigeons blood Colewort leaves boyld and applyed new Cheese If it be old it requireth stronger means tops of Hysop beaten tied in a sinnen cloth let down into boyling water laid warm to the Eye takes out the blood that it will stick to the cloth Root of Devils-bit Root of Solomons seal Vine water Hypopion is when Matter is gathered under the Cornea there went Blood-shot before running of the Eyes inflammation Fern. cureth that as the Haw Galen Paraeus by opening the Cornea to the Iris Or they affect Vvea as The falling down of the Vvea by reason of the unity of the Cornea disolved If a small part of the Vvea fall down it is called Myocephalus if a greater part Staphyloma the greatest is called Clavus when it is grown a Callous No man hath cured Staphyloma but a little pipe artificially drawn may derive them by Channels If it be from an Ulcer of the Cornea it is curable if it come from a Rupture or wound it is also cured Dilatation of the Pupil called Mydriasis when the Apple is greater then it should be It is either natural or cometh from extension from dryness or flowing thither of humours from a stroke a fall too much holding their breath in women with child All things seem lesse to these men but the humour doth not affect the whole Vvea otherwise the Apple would be made lesse for the weight of the Vvea would contract it but the Pupil The same is to be said of drinesse If it come from drinesse it must be softned if from a humour it must be evacuated revulsed resolved by Topicals it must be restrained Fern. useth this following Take dry Roses dry Mints Spicknard of each two drams Bark of Frankincense Mirrh of each half a dram Saffron one scruple Pompholyx Acacia Spodius all of them washed one dram washed Aloes half a dram powder them sift them make Trochis with Gum Traganth dissolve one of them in Rose water A Cataract Suffusion is the obstruction of the Pupil by a humour Paraeus saith by a skin It groweth between that space that is between the Cornea and the Crystaline humour It is counted counterfeit by the Ancients The black is incurable Copulation makes for this about the break of day they see clearest because a few spirits are dispersed by a great light by a lesse they are collected It is made also from the subtilty of the spirits from the finenesse of the Body from Dilatation of the Pupil Generals premised Revulsives Topicals resolving the hot breath of one that eateth Fennel must be often received the Eys being gently rubbed with the Fingers If it be old see first if it be ripe the sign where of is if he can see nothing but light can distinguish nothing Those are incurable that are not dilated by rubbing the Ey-lids so That which is with a consumption of the Eys that which followeth great diseases those that are green black yellow wan plaister-colour Contrarily those that are chest-nut colour sky colour sea green are curable 2. Let the Moon decrease let it be two or three days after the full let her not be in Aries let there be no pain of the Head nauseating Cough Let the Needle be of iron let the sick look with his Eys toward his Nostrils then the needle must be thrust in the middle space between the lesser Cornea and the Iris avoiding the Veins and the Cataract must be thrust down from above downwards laying on the white of an Egg with Rose water Let the Eys stay bound up to the eighth day Or they affect the weeping piece of flesh as Excathis which is a Tumour of that flesh from blood It is cured by Topicals corroding by Generals with the Iron Rhyas is a diminishing of it which followeth other diseases It is cured by Sarcotick remedies Squinting comes from a Convulsion of the Muscles It is either natural or from a faulty situation of the Crystalline Or without any manifest cause they hurt the sight as Amblyopia which is called Gutta serena wherein the Eye and the Apple remaining clear the sight is depraved Myopia is when they see only what is before their Eys Nyctalopia is when men see nothing in the night sometimes well These are cured by Generals rather then Topicals If the cause be in the Brain the other senses suffer with it If it began suddenly it is obstruction If by degrees it is either distemper or restraint It begets too great light in the Eye by the heat reflected and so hurts A white colour is by dilating of the Pupil Topicals are the secret of Maximilian the Emperor namely distilled water of fresh Goose dung a Goats Liver eaten roasted the vapour of it boyled the liquor droping from it in roasting it must be anointed Rondelet found this to be more effectual if the leaves of Fennel Celandine Rue be stuck into it The powder is strued into the Eye The meats must be seasoned with salt of Eybright Saphyr water called so from the colour See Sennertus the species of Occonis c. also the Collirium or Sieff that follows is useful Take water of Fennel and Ey-bright of each four ounces Tutty prepared one ounce and half the best Aloes one scruple infuse them
many of them make injection of some liquour which if it run at once through all the holes of the same colour it is one Fistula If it hath lasted many years and do shut suddenly it is mortal The Cure is either Palliative when by General means Revulsives Settaces and by Topicals the matter is voided and pulled back Lime water and also Ly Treacle water or True which is accomplished general means being first used and by vulnerary potions The Callous must be removed and first the Orifice of the Fistula must be enlarged either by fire or Steel instruments or which is more commodious with Tents made of Sponge Elder piths Gentian roots Bryony Rape roots as in Issues Perhaps it were not unfit to make an Issue in the opposite part long before the cure to make diversion The Callous is afterwards taken away either with fire or the Instrument or Medicaments as Unguentum Apostolorum ashes of Fig-tree decoction of Bryony root and Centory the lesse especially or with stronger as Aegyptiac They differ according to the age of the Patient and temper c. The root of black Hellebour is not safe the green water whereby sometimes the whole Callus is taken off like to a Sheath If this be in vain in a part that can admit Incision open the whole Fistula with an Instrument take off the Callus with a knife or with fire yet lay a good defensative about the part The rottennesse of the bone must be cured if there be an Eschar it must be taken away Nicol. Florentinus saith that this which followeth will draw forth broken bones and such as are rotten will eat off the dead flesh and cure the Fistula Take burnt Salt Tartar Agarick powder them mingle them with Honey See F. 570. l. 5. A FISTULA of the Chest It is almost incurable 1. Because the Muscles are in perpetual motion 2. Because the Pleura is without blood 3. Because it cannot be cut The Cure is by drying Diet vulnerary Drinks by general and Topical means a little Aegyptiac may be added to the injections If there be very much corruption a golden silver or leaden pipe may be put into the Brest full of holes streightly bound fitted with a great Spunge dipt in Wine and Aqua vitae set to the Orifice that the sick having his Nose and Mouth stopped may through that void out the filth A FISTULA of the Gums is cured by generals a decoction of Agrimony with Allum or by a Caustick or by pulling out the Tooth as Celsus thinks A drop of Ammoniacum is an excellent remedy For. Honey of Roses one ounce and one or two drops of oyl of Vitriol mingled is excellent Crato Ep. 183. WOMENS FLUX It is distinguished from an Ulcer for that which floweth from an Ulcer of the Womb is thicker and more stinking comes forth not so much will not admit copulation from the Seed because in the Flux the humour is thin or watery blood and runs alwaies The Cause is the fault of the Matrix or the whole Body or some principal part Some have fallen into this by some purging Medicament taken some after Bathing Prognostick It brings the Patient to a Dropsy a melancholick Ulcer The Cure First the cause must be evacuated the distemper of the part must be taken away the matter must be dried by general and topical means also by Diureticks See Senn. Then it must be dryed by Astringents Senn. For. The Form in the first Creation was given to natural things which as it is communicative of it self is multiplyed either by Seed as in living Creatures which are said to generate not when they generate their young but their Seed but there are in Plants forms that are distinct from the Soul as the purgative force left in the Carkase of Rheubarb sheweth Those forms may be mingled as the form of a Pear grafted on an Apple tree also the form of an Asse and a Mare also of a Man and Woman according to Senn. or it is communicated by Atoms which contain the forms in them hence is the beginning of all things that breed of their own accord A FRACTURE The signs are that we can feel the pieces of the broken bone by the touch we hear the crackling of them the part is hollow which the bone left bunched where it came in it is painful and unlike to the sound part Signs Prognostick That which is long-waies is soonest cured for there needs no reduction If it be in the joynts it is most dangerous FRACTURES of the Nose Cheek-bones Canal-bone Brest Shoulders Ribs Back-bone Ankle Heel Hand Foot fasten again in twenty or twenty four days of the Leggs and Arms in fourty days Marrow bones are sooner fastned then hard bones The cure The first scope is to reduce the bones which is done by extention which those that are moist will best endure to set them again either by the hands or by Glossocomion wherein when the bone is sufficiently extended the coard stretched must be let slack You shall know that the bones are restored if the pain suddenly cease If you feel no inequality if it be like to that is sound 2. That the bones restored may be kept so by Medicaments of the white of an Egg what is sufficient and Bole-Armenick half an ounce by forms made of linnen cloth three or four double which fill up the hollow as in the Ham or make the slenderness of the part equal as in the Wrist by Splints which because at this day we want they are made of much paper and thin Chips of Wood yet soe that the Wood be not green Fab. c. 4. obs 98. makes of soles of Shooes of plates of white Lead or Iron about the ends let them be alwaies thinner and where they lye upon the Fracture let them be thicker by wispes or wreaths made of small sticks about a finger thick wrapt up in linnen For a Fracture of the Leg or Thigh two are laid on from the Heel to the Groin that by their stiffnesse they may hold the part unmoved by boxes made of plates of Iron or Wood. The use of them is in the Bed or when they are taken out of their bed by Swaths which are either of leather as in a Fracture of the Nose or of wollen as in Inflammation where there needs no Ligature or linnen Every part must be so bound as we would have it remain If on the right side the Fracture be more eminent or in the outside you must begin to swath on the outside and bind it harder on that side but if in the inside now-a-days contrarily the first band is put upon the part disjoynted or broken and there they bind it fast with thick rollings toward the Body The second band laid on they swathe with fewer rollings toward the extrem parts The third is put upon the end of the part that is hurt and is rolled gently upward cutting the rollings of the first and second Swath-band cross-wise and
be offended with light he must be laid in a dark place and so on the contrary INFLAMMATION of the Wind-Pipe Gorgareon is a pendulous kernel which if it be swollen below and small above it is called the Uvula If it swel long-waies above and beneath it is called Columella Prognosticks The Chirurgion must not meddle with it if it be blackish If you cut it there is notable danger of bleeding If you cut it our there is fear of a Consumption The Cure Generals being premised the first Topicals must be repellers yet Honey may alwaies be added in the declination add Resolvers and softners Outward means before the Flux must be Astringents laid to the sides of the sharp Artery When the Flux is made you must soften outwardly yet the Gargarisms at first must be Repellers c. If it suppurate it must be helped forward by a Gargarism If it open not of it self it must be opened with an Instrument And if a Gangrene be neer Aegyptiac is good If it be in vain the Uvula that swelleth no longer must be cut out by the Hand which is the last remedy Before and after the Gargarisms must be Astringents When it waxeth red it threatneth choaking by bleeding or let it be tied every day straight with an Instrument and a thread The bleeding is hindered by a Cautery Rul makes a fume of one dram of white Amber to take at the Mouth and layeth on the Head one ounce of old leaven by day and another at night Cherries eaten cause this Inflammation INFLAMMATION of the Jaws is the first kind of Quinsey when the inward compasse of the Jaws is inflamed the Tumor appearing inwardly and outwardly 2. When the outward muscles of the Jaws of the Neck of the forked bone of the Wesand are inflamed the Tumor spreading it self to the Brest 3. When the inward muscles of the Larynx are affected so that the Tumor appeareth neither without not within It causeth shortness of breath and the sick loll forth their Tongues like Dogs whence it is called Cynanche The second is called Paracynanche or the Mumps neither of these is the Quinsey with Dod The first is called Cynanche That which is made by the luxation of the Vertebras of the Neck is a bastard Quinsey Prognostick The mumps is the least then the Quinsey then Paracynanche which is the fourth kind when the outward muscles of the Throat are inflamed the Tumor appearing inwardly the worst in Cynanche An obscure voice froth about the Mouth a black Tongâ—e raw spittle are mortal The Cure Revulsives being premised and derivers as opening a Vein in the Arm and under the Tongue If a Feaver went before or invaded at once because the matter is wandring and swelleth experience teacheth us to purge If Inflammation went before and a Feaver follow it is not so convenient but this must be quickly done as in the morning open a Vein and purge at night for the fourth day it either suppurates or Resolves or kills but you must be very careful that the medicament move not vomit for there is fear of strangling wherefore Clysters are safer to be given Gargarisms must be Repellers at first as Take water of Honey-suckles Plantain Nuts of each three ounces flowers of dry Roses one pugil boyl them in the strained liquor dissolve syrup of Pomegranats and of Mulberies of each one ounce mingle them Forâ— for Children licking medicaments are good Fumes are not good The juyce of green Wal-nut shels clarified with Honey is commended by Galen We must begin from lighter Remedies The decoction of Oats leaves of Cherry-tree Physitians warn at the beginning to add at first some discutients least the humour should be thickned too much In the declination also Astringents must be added lest the part that is soft of it self should grow too soft For. in the declination prescribeth for a Gargarism one Swallows nest cut with the feathers Others hold for a secret ashes of Crab-fish or a Dogs dung or Hens dung anointed with Honey Alwaies mingle detergents In all Inflammations which are covered with a thin skin there sweats something through to be washed away with detergents Rondelet when the humour floweth thither cured himself and many more from the Quinsey and scrofulous swellings with Astringents which though it may be done where the body is clean and the Flux but small so in a great Flux it is mortal Topicals must be emollients after that discutients Apply Cupping glasses to the Chin or to the second and fourth Vertebra if the Jaws or their muscles be affected If it suppurate lay on ripeners afterward open the Impostume by crying aloud and the Head down-wards lest the corruption run upon the Lungs Some when the disease is desperate make deep scarification under the Chops or above the Neck by which the sick have been eased by blood or matter running forth Ivy wood is held to be specifical if you use a spoon or dish made of it The last remedy is cutting off the Larynx about the third or fourth ring Liquid nourishment is cast in by a Pipe put in the Throat and a Hogs bladder Erysipelas coming upon the Face is a good sign INFLAMMATION of the Lungs The Cause of this disease is also cholerick blood for though it be said by others to penetrate the Lungs by its thinness yet when Inflammation of the Lungs comes from a Pleuresy which often proceeds from cholerick blood it doth no hurt to it for as water sticketh in a spunge so doth this here but the cause of the Flux are as in other internal Inflammations il humours which when Nature sends away she drives forth blood also with them Signs Difficulty of breath is greater then in a Pluresy which Hippocrates calleth sublime The pain is burdning unlesse perhaps the Pleura be affected also which is often found The tongue is yellow covered with much clamminesse the Cheeks are red Thirst is great a Palsey is often made the matter flowing back into the Arteries between the sides that presse the Nerves The spittle is first coloured with matter and shortly after with blood with a kind of snoring Prognostick It is more dangerous then a Pleurisy There is no spittle or but little if it ease not the pain it is naught Aph. 16. s 6. Sneezings are ill The Cure Revulsives being premised if it proceed from the Quinsey a Vein must be opened diverse times then spitting must be procured by all means Oxymel mingled with the rest is the most convenient Topicals and other Remedies must be as for the Pluresy INFLAMMATION of the Pleura not alwaies but only when the upper part is affected hath Inflammation of the Lungs joyned with it Every pain of the side is not the Pleuresy as that which Heurnius puts us in mind of Quere c. 8. it grew from Worms in the Small-pox in the Scurvey from wind Now the Plurisy is an Inflammation of the side and Mediastinum from over hot blood with a pricking pain
Differences 1. When the Brain is primarily affected 2. By consent of the Heart and the whole Body 3. Hypochondriacal 4. From the Matrix That which comes from the Emroids the Spleen c. belongeth to the Hypochondriacal The first proceeds not from a bare distemper for else the actions should not be diminished and if it came from cold it would affect old men It comes from a humour in the Head that is too earthy Hitherto belongeth mad love or doting from too much care of the Mind hunger watchings anger The second is made from a melancholick humour either sticking in the branches of the hollow Vein and of the great Artery and from impure vital spirits whence it is almost continual there is present cold of the Heart with drynesse there went before it frights watchings c. The third is made of a Melancholick humour sticking in the Vena porta whence it afflicts by turns about the Liver the Caule the Spleen If the vapour be not communicated to the Brain it is a bare Hypochondriacal affection Hitherto conduceth rest and the Belly bound The fourth is made in Widdows that are lusty for men from stopt Courses and a melancholick humour Diagnosticks If it be the first there is a continual doting vehement the Hypochondres are well there is tinkling a Vertigo heaviness of the Head c. they trifle If it be from mad love they are merry If it be the second the whole Body is melancholick the delirium is not continual c. they easily fall into Madnesse Epilepsie c. The Cure The cause must be altered evacuated the distemper must be taken away at times the Head and Heart must be strengthned If it be mad love things that extinguish seed must be given they must change the Aire c. Vervin carried about exstinguish lust Also Mints whence grew the Proverb In time of war neither sowe nor eat Mints Opening a Vein is good Mingle with all medicaments moistners and strengthners Confectio Hamech is not so convenient Vomiting Whey in abundance for a little profiteth not Decoction of Wormwood Steel sowre waters mineral Baths baths wherewith Galen cured many Topicals laid to the Spleen and Heart the Diet must be moist Some use the Trepanum taught by chance For. cured many with a Lenitive after a decoction of Penny-royal and the lesser Centory Sometimes with syrup Byzantine some times with Mints sometimes Wormwood sometimes with Borrage Apples Bugloss easy Vomits easy Purgatives decoction of Wormwood and with Diureticks Aph 11. s 6. Scholtzius Ep. 241. where Monavius speaks of a certain noble Bohemian who died of a love potion If it be the fourth the pain is various chiefly on the left side on the Region of the Heart which sometimes seizeth on the whole Brest there is a manifest pulsation in the Back about the Diaphragma the Courses flow sparingly Let a Vein be opened in the Arm if there be Plethory If the time for the Courses be at hand in the Ankle Purge wandring melancholy which the Arabians call Kutubuth It chiefly troubleth men in February The sick cannot stay an hour in one place but wander alwaies not knowing whither they go It comes from the proper passion of the Brain they must be cured the ordinary way MEMORY It is weakned by a cold moist distemper It is cured as flegmatick Head-ach by alteratives Purgatives Strengthners Confectio Anacardina is good which is called a Confection of wise men whereby many have gained an admirable Memory the Dose is half a dram and less It drieth vehmently wherefore if any principal part be hot they get Memory indeed but they cannot live long It may be made without Castoreum that it may be more pleasant Every morning rub hard the hinder part of the Head and Nape with Ivy water distilled from the Tree three or four times in a glass Stil A secret oyl of Frankinsence Myrrh c. MEASLES They have alwaies a putrid Feaver with them sometimes Continual sometimes Intermitting The Cause is the menstrual blood the Aire the Diet. If the blood be thicker they are the Small-pox if thinner they are the Measles they break forth critically the fourth day Scowring straightness of the Breast bloody urine hoarsness are mortal For they either dy of a Quinsey or Swooning or scowring The Cure Before the Pox break forth in those that are not exceeding young if there be a continuall Feaver it is good to open a Vein otherwise not Give Lenitives or Clysters In the augmentation and the state Cordials and such things as expel Mitigaters are useful either temperate or cold as the nature of the Feaver requireth For. prescribed such a one Take Barley cleansed one pugil Liccoris scraped half an ounce red Chiches two drams all the great cold seeds of each half a dram Cordial flowers of each one pugil three fat Figs boyl them in the strained liquor dissolve syrup of Pomegranats half an ounce for two Doses Infants should according to For. be wrapt in red cloth yet so that it touch not their skin The decoction of Lintels is good but not in substance Turnep-seed Citron-seed Columbine Carduus Benedictus in form of emulsion Epithems have proved mortal Or never or cautiously must they be ripened Butter hath often done hurt They must not be opened unless they be very Malignant The ripe wheals must be anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds so they leave not filthy holes The eys are preserved with Rose-water and a little Saffron Afterwards you may add juyce of Fennel Rue Vervain Straw-berries A Saphir stone put to childrens Eys preserveth them Crat. Ep. 160. The Nostrils are preserved with Rose water with juyce of sowre Grapes Posca c. Into the Ears drop oyl of Roses Myrtils The Throat is wonderfully preserved by a Gargarism of Goats milk and Plantain water The Lungs with this following Take syrup of sweet Pomegranates two ounces Sugar Penidiate three ounces Syrup of the infusion of Roses Diamoron of each half an ounce Diatraganth frigid three drams Purest white Starch two scruples make an Electuary It is a secret Give children Figs with syrup of Pomegranates OBSTRUCTION of the Liver is made when the Veins and Arteries are stopped in the substance of the Liver Diagnosticks The sick feels heaviness and by and by after exercise or meat he feels pain in the Liver When he ascends a steep place he is pressed with an unusual difficulty of breathing the Excrements of the Belly are moist and plentiful If it be the hollow part there is thirst nauseating if the round part the Diaphragma is more pressed It commeth from a vapour and there is weight or from wind if the hollow part be affected it is more easily cured The Cure If there be Plethory opening a Vein is good that the use of aperients may be the safer all which are hot Purge the Body give aperient means be the cause hot or cold give openers as Succories Lettice the four great cold seeds with other
Vehement motion hath cured many Out of Guaicum oyl is not distilled a Spirit with difficulty An extract is made with a convenient Menstruum PIMPLS Red. They proceed from a vapour of burnt blood The best Remedy is water of Pilewort distilled from the whole plant Costus Colewort seed and Paints PISSING Involuntary proceeds from the resolving of the Bladder and the sphincter Muscle stopping of Urine is only from resolving of the Bladder Solenand commends as a secret the powder of a Cocks Throat broiled raken with red wine or soaked in Posca about night also the Testicles of a Hare burnt are commended PALPITATION of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart from vapour humours water collected in the Pericardium the Stone c. 2. From some small defect of Vital spirits 3. From preternatural heat increased which oft times hath broken the Ribs See Fern. For. saith the cause is hot or cold Galen saith in his time they all dyed before sixty years Signs If it be from wind the fit is sudden short If a humor be the cause it is longer and slower in coming It comes often from Hypochondriacal Passion and stopping of the Courses If it be from water the sick say they swim in water The Cure In young Men or in declining age opening a Vein is good and evacuating the cause The cause is discussed with oyl of Citrons or true Rhapontick two scruples that which followeth is a secret of Forestus Green Balm bruised laid on fire-hot Tyles sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar laid to the Heart Conserve of Balm Treacle water of Harts heart or an Ox is Rondeletius way The PAPS If they ly hid they are called forth according to Amatus with a glasse Vial that hath a straight Mouth which being filled full with scalding water the water poured forth again it is laid hot to the Paps The PALSEY is made when the Nerves are either cooled or moistned by fleam choler for all Choler is not sharp as appeareth in those that have the Jaundies for either their Forces are laid asleep or pressed by weight by a melancholy humour or their continuity is dissolved Prognosticks If a Member with the Palsy be made less it is not or is hardly curable But if it should proceed from cold or a humour the disease cannot be so violent nor would it resist the most vehement Remedies and those that are Cacochymical should be Paralitique Nor yet from dryth for so hectical people should be Paralitique If the feeling cease the motion remaining sound then the Nerve which is fastned into the Membrane of the part is affected that being safe which goeth into the flâ—sh The differences Weakness differs from the Colick and from the Palsey because in this the Head and marrow of the Back in that the Limbs only are affected as the cure sheweth for medicaments are laid to the part affected and the Intestins 2. In that there is oft times great pain and it goeth oft into a Convulsion 3. That is cured at first in a short time the same is the condition of a Palsey Scorputick only that in those that are sick of it there remaineth some motion and soon goeth away and returns The cause of weakness is often Cholerick and raw it cometh not from the Head because that is seldom affected in the Colick nor would the Colick cease But the very same matter is carried through the Veins into the Limbs as a Pleuresy comes from a dysentery stopt But Erastus saith Wherefore should not nature provoked by Clysters rather cast forth the matter by the Belly Answer The Passage is not free Spiegelius will have it done by the Arteries and by them the purgative force of Clysters is carried to the Heart The Cure If it be from fleam that must be evacuated by Generals taken away by Topicals The same cure is for stupidity Topical Resolvers If it come from a sharp humour as from the Colick in the Scurvey in that we must not dry so much nor respect the Brain Generals and Topicals are all useful Monav. ep 242. saith that this that followeth is good in weakness Take the fat of a Gray a Fox a Hen a Duck a Goose a Stork of each one ounce juyce of Sage and Wormwood thickned of each half an ounce oyl of Bays one ounce anoint after Bathing Specificals are Marigolds Lavender Berries and shavings of Juniper Meadsweet Primroses wine of the infusion of Marigolds Lavender for one Month one or two spoonfuls It must be set in the Sun at an open window If it come by way of Crisis the Flux must not be stopped In the Palsey of the Tongue after Generals For. opened a Vein under the Tongue Cupping glasses without scarification must be set under the Chin. Vomit is not good Gargarisms must be first attenuating then add such things as draw fleam Cauteries to the Neck The juyce of Sage alone rubbed on the Tongue recovereth the speech In a Palsey of the Weasand soft things can hardly but gross things may easily be swallowed In a Palsey of the Bladder add torrefied Turpentine Trochis Alkekengi without Opium An astringent fomentation to the neither part A Potion of the roots of Cyperus Galanga of each two drams Lignum Aloes sweet Calamus Cypress nuts Balaustia Pomegranate Pills Myrtils Acorn cups roots of our Ladies Thistle great Comfrey of each one dram Galls Frankincense seeds of Agnus Castus Rue of each one scruple c. If all fail use this that followeth approved Take Acorns I ounce half Galanga half an ounce boyl them in 2 pound of red Wine and Smiths water Frankincense 2 drams boyl strain drink them Topicals If the Yard it is cured with a Fomentation of a Ly of the ashes of a Hart and Buls pisles Foment the Spondils Prescribe such things as take away barrenness If the Fundament use drying Clysters astringent apply Cupping glasses to the Buttocks Make Fumes of the bark of the Pine-tree one ounce bark of Frankincense half an ounce Pix Colophonia Frankincense Mastrick of each three drams Castoreum one dram shavings of Harts-horn half a dram If it be from a fall apply to the part Coolers Astringents for fear of Inflammation and hot Resolvers If it be with wasting Topicals and Internals must be moderate The PESTILENCE The Cause is divine Hipp. Which Erastus ep 275. affirms to be a hidden quality of the Air. And Ep. 269. he saith purrefaction is the cause not in making but already made which cannot be corrected by altering but must be taken away by evacuating Signs It infects many is contagious it suddenly casts the Forces down the Pulse is deadly a Feaver Small-Pox Prognosticks To be well in mind and the appetite to remain is good If Vomit be absent other signs are deceitful Differences If it proceed from infection of the aire it is very contagious it quickly killeth few have Botches or Pushes breaking forth The Urine is like to sound mens there did
rather fight with medicamentary aliments then with Medicaments POYSON must alwaies be brought out the same way it went into the Body Opening a Vein purging have no place before the third day All unctuous things as Oyl Butter c. are good So Causticks will not ulcerate the part anointed with Oyl If it were taken by the Mouth the first care is to cast it forth by Vomit with fat things adding Antidotes against Poyson If it be got to the Intestins then cast in fat Clysters or give Purgatives with Antidotes as Scorzonera Citrons Sorrel Agarick Aloes Lastly give Specificals Outwardly on the Arteries beating anoint the oyl of Caravita often proved the Basis is Hypericon and Scorpions hide it in a hot carcase Sweaters Milk for meat If it were communicated outwardly let it be cured as these that follow so if one have taken Cantharides sublimate or the like use injections drinks decoctions Baths Topicals and all Internals must be Coolers Moystners If it be the biting of a mad dog close not the wound before fourty days but as often as it would cicatrice keep it open with ashes of a Vine or Fig-tree First of all make hard Ligature above the wound that the poyson spread no further Secondly Call it forth wherefore let the blood run out largely scarify the wound and enlarge it by cutting set Cupping glasses to it also other Artractives to which always add Theriac juyce of Hypericon c. as Doves-dung Urine Pickle Ducks-grease Aqua vitae Wine Vinegat Salt old Treacle Mustard Wash it with most forcible Chafing Garlick Onions Leeks Rue Germander hot Fowls dissected laid on hot but nothing doth so much good as an actual Cautery so the Poyson be not sunk too deep into the Body The Eschar scarified deep must not be removed by oyly means because they hinder transpiration Fab. obs 87. cent 1. old Treacle dissolved in Aqua vitae surpasseth all Remedies Par. with this wash the part strongly and let linnen cloths wet therein be laid to it on which lay attractives Sorrel sharp Docks beaten and laid on the juyce the decoction is good Use these till the pain and various colour cease and laudable quitter be made 3. Specificals also Coolers must be given as cause shall be With Galen above all is the ashes of burnt river Crabs two spoonfuls with one spoonful of the powder of Gentian root and strong Wine Cauteries after the third or the seventh day will not do good An Issue is profitably made on the place affected If it pierce to the inward parts we must purge forcibly by Hellebour also by Antimony saith Paraeus Wash all the Pulses every six hours with oyl of Caravita which they of old called the oyl of the great Duke of Hetruria or with the oyl of Scorpions of Mathiolus Pliny above all commends the root of the Eglantine Eat Garlick Diaphoreticks are most profitable Bird-lime of the Oke the wood is most effectual taken or applyed If madness be at hand lay Sinapisms to the Arms and Thigns Give Antidots in a double Dose whether they will or not Sleep must be avoided till the force of the poyson be broke Let them eat their fill They that come to fear the water are past cure unless they know themselves in a glass A mad Dog seeing the water is afraid of it other dogs fly away If they be taken they fawn on him If a house-Dog refuse to eat or smell to a piece of Bread sineared with the filth of the wound the Dog that bit was mad RENUNCIATIO is called a great wound 1. For the greatness of dissolved unity 2. For the principallity of the part 3. For the ill custome of the Body hurt Let the Chirurgion suspend his judgment until the ninth day lest he be deceived RINGING in the Ears The cause is some matter sticking in the Ear that moveth the Faculty Oft times it is wind lifted up from divers parts The Cure varieth Generals premised some bid take the Fume of Hemlock-seed boyled in Vinegar Fumes of Vinegar and the vapour of it with one Gall. Some apply hot bread sprinkled with Spirit of Wine to the Far resolâ—ing oyls sneezing before supper and in the morning apply Topicals for when they are fed the head is filled STONE of the Reins The cause is Tartar a andy and stony constitution of the Reins Fernelius faith a driness of the Reins Platerus heat Also Venery exercise presently after meat Meat Ayre Drink Concoction hurt Signs diagnostick A burning and painful making of water snotty Urine Belly stopt Fab. obs 63. c. 1 Sense of pain in the Glans obs 66. c. 1. Astonishment of the Leg on the side affected because the Muscle Psoas is pressed or the Nerve of it there is Nauseating and Vomiting from the Nerve of the sixth conjugation It is distinguished from the Colick pain 1. Because in the Colick the pain is most acute because the pain is extended above the Reins 2. Pain of the Colick is moveable of the stone fast 3. In the Colick rather the Belly in the Stone the water is stopt 4. The Nephritick pain by reason of the Ureters descends oft times to the Testicles but in the Colick not so 5. The Colick is most commonly sharpest on the left side by the straightness of the Colon there The cure In the Paroxysm cast in an emollient Clyster evacuant or give such a Potion of Bolus c. 2. If the Body be Plethorick open a Vein in the Arm but if it flow to the part affected in the Ankle 3. We must use all emollient internal means and external as a Cataplasm of the leaves of Pellitary Mallows beaten and boyled with the Mucilage of Linseed Fenugrec a Bath of Marshmallows and a Semicupium of softning things Internals are syrup De Althaea Fernel Also that of Eorestus so much approved Take seeds of mallows Marsh-mallows of each 3 drams red Chiches 3 drams the four great cold seeds of each 2 drams hulled Barley 2 ounces far Figs 12 Sebestens 7 scraped Licoris 1 dram boyl all in four pound of water to two pound Crato applyed Crab-fish boyled in Milk Milk with crumbs of Bread or Take juyce of Purslane thickned one dram Gum Arabick half a dram make Pills The Passages thus loosned give Diureticks to the Patient sitting in a Bath that the Stone may be moved Crato used this that followeth Take Marsh-mallows 2 drams great Raysins stoned 3 drams Veronica and ground Ivy of each one Pugil boyl them and give a draught thereof Or another of Turpentine c. If this be in vain give such things will break the Stone as blood of a Goat or of a Kid hot applyed outwardly also oyl of Scorpions The Patient must ride two miles upon a trotting horse or must go up many stairs till he be weary having taken a Diuretick or chafe him from above nether-wards with oyl of sweet Almonds set on a dry Cupping glasse to his Reins then a little lower then one
be removed from its place or broken with the hole whence may follow a Flux of blood or the Bone may alwaies remain wrested that the sound be not pulled forth for the unsound The Tooth being taken out let the blood run freely wash the Mouth with Oxycratum and avoid the wind That Teeth may be pulled forth without violence put in Ivy Gum or the roots of wild Cucumber steeped in Vinegar three days Henbane seed or root of the same rosted must be laid hot to the root of the Tooth but touch not the Teeth that are neer Keep the Mouth open that the spittle may run forth but swallow it not TEETH astonished The cause is a sowre tast The Cure Purslane chewed the juyce of it is good bitter Almonds small Nuts Wal-nuts Mastick dry root of Liccoris Wine Salt TEETH Pain It proceeds from a hot or cold cause or Worms in the Teeth that watery humour flows thither from the Head or from some other part Signs Prognostick A Tumor after pain is good The Cure The cause must be evacuated pulled back and derived by all means the Veins behind the Ear may be cut by Vesicatories c. Astringents must be applyed to the Fore-head and the Temples Topicals in a hot cause Rose water with a third part of Vinegar juyce of Plantain Housleek of Lettice Sorrel c. Rul useth water of Night-shade with water of Vitriol If the Gums be affected also Vinegar must be left because of its acrimony unguent of Alabaster Senn. root of sharp Docks cut in pieces and put into the aking Tooth helps wonderfully also the decoction of the leaves of Bur-docks Fer. Paraeus with three remedies cured the greatest pains of the Teeth 1. Setting on Leeches the swelling Gums being gently scarified 2. Open a Vein under the Tongue 3. The Veins behind the Ears If it be from a cold cause Garlick rosted in the embers put into the aking Tooth Aqua vitae Pepper Juniper Gum half an ounce Rhenish Wine eight ounces boyl and strain them hold the strained liquor hot in the Mouth hot oyl of Juniper and smoke of Tobacco hath been often approved Senn. Take root of Fern Cinquefoil of each three drams Bistort two drams leaves of Rue Sage Betony flowers of red Roses of each half a handful boyl them in red Wine and water of each a sufficient quantity to wash the Mouth in any cause The last means are Narcoticks Rul puts in some oyl of Camphir or some drops of the Hazle-nut tree with Cotten The last remedy is pressing a hot iron to the roots of the Teeth or Narcoticks or drawing them out yet first use the milk of Spurge and Frankincense mingled with white Starch or touch the Tooth with the distilled water of salt Ammoniac We have seen the greatest pains of the Teeth cured so soon as the Patient hath Vomited Crato ep 182. TEETH loose It either comes from too much moisture or the Pox or anointing with Quick-silver or from the Scurvey The cure If from moisture premising general dryers use Topicals hot and astringent but forbear such as black the Teeth as Pomegranate shells Balaustia Galls Vitriol binding with a golden thread is often followed with Inflammation TOOTHING of Children is about the seventh Moneth The Cure The Nurse must be cured and if it be feaverish things actually cold must not be put into the Childs Mouth By all means the Gums must be softned with a Liccoris stick or with oyl of sweet Almonds or Hens grease or Butter For. stamps the Brain of a Hare and Honey together and rubs the Gums with it the Brains of Chickens and Birds also the juyce of live Crabs bruised is commended drawn forth with the water of the flowers of Beans if the Gums be washed with it Par. l. 23. c. 67. opened the Gums with a Pen-knife The right Dog tooth of Wolf is wont to be hanged on with a silver chain TETTERS of the Greeks is nothing but the Leprosy Gelsus also cals the Leprosy Tetters but with the Latins as Pliny Tetters or Ring-worms is a sharpnesse of the skin with dry pushes and great tickling creeping to the next parts Fern. makes four kinds of Tetters 1. Itching 2. Tetters 3. The Scab with Pustuls 4. The Leprosy The cause Fernel is Choler or corrupt fleam Senn. a thin and sharp juyce mingled with a thick The Cure is the same as in Saphatus Falling out of the TUEL It comes from too much straining in Child-bed from Acrimony as in a Dysentery weakness of the Sphincter from a moist distemper cold cutting for the Stone from a fall It is cured according as the cause is In old folks it is hardly curable it is put up either by the Hand of the sick or of the Chirurgion If there be a Tumor it must be discussed by Resolvers it must be continued by taking away the cause and by Astringents in the form of Fumes also and Insessions Aetius oft times somented the Tuel with only Brine Paraus applyeth a Sponge to the Tuel wet with an astringent decoction Let him stand to do his businesse for so it will not fall out Hipp. bids to shake the sick hanging of his Feet for so the Intestin will go up again Anoint it with the spawn of red Snails Falling out of the Womb is from the same cause It is cured if you first give a Clyster of Mallows and Oyl and the Bladder being emptied let it be put up either by the Hand of the sick or of the Midwife or of the Chirurgion let her be set as in cutting for the Stone If it swell it must be fomented that it may be done the more easily Let the Chirurgion hold a great actual Cautery in his Hand and fain as if he would burn the Matrix with it so by a fright it will reduce it self It is retained by taking away the cause also by Cupping glasses with much flame set to the Navel with sweet things to the Nostrils with a rotten Egg applyed to the parts Lay on Bur-leaves to the Head Vomiting is good Topicals must be astringent Pessaries Sarcoticks must be given inwardly and used outwardly fumes of an Eels-skin seasoned with Salt Fomentations let inward means be drying as roots of China Guaicum Note that at the time the Terms should flow Astringents must not be used See Pessaries in Senn. If it corrupt that must be cut off the rest must be burnt with a Cautery Of the Uvula Some cut a new hard Egg and strew it with Ginger laying it to the crown of the Head others Oke leaves with Honey others Wallnuts bruised with Aqua vitae others leaven others Mugwort others burnt Salt See Inflammation Of the pointed Grissle It is depressed not broken from a blow a Cough humours and so presseth the stomach Signs The meat is swallowed with some pain nausearing after meat they feel weight their appetite abateth There is difficulty of breathing after labour Cachexia Consumption Jaundies It is cured by