The Head must be dryed by all means First of all let the Crust be removed by a vapour of warm water with Fat Butrer washed in Rose water the Crusts must be cast out by sneezing Afterwards Verjuyce with Honey is good juyce of Hore-hound Calamint juyce of Pomegranates boiled in a brasse vessel Mirrh Allum Rondel cured Ozaenas which neither French men nor Italians could cure by the fume of Candles made of red Wax lighted received at the Nostrils through a straight Tunnel Celsus commendeth juyce of Cresses with Allum The juyce of Calamints or Galens powder Some commend this that followeth Take red Roses Myrtils sweet Calamus Angelica Gentian Mace Cloves of each half a dram Camphir Ambergrease of each four grains Musk six grains make a powder If that fail Salt Armoniac with Vinegar An ULCER of the Stomach is cured by Generals as opening a Vein Lenitives Vomit is mortal With easy meats Raw Honey is detergent when you must glew together add Gum Traganth with an Astringent decoction without Acrimony Let the meat be moyst a decoction of Figs Dates Prunes Raysins milk yolks of Eggs drink Hydromel and a vulnerary Potion An ULCER of the Bladder comes also by Cantharides Yet Senn. though he had applyed them to all parts of the Body a hundred times never observed it Signs are pain in the Privities so oft as the sick maketh water matter blood a Tenesmus difficulty of urine Priapismus The matter is more tenacious and clammy then matter of the Reins It is cured by tempering the humors by Coolers and Moisiners then we must scowre by Internals and injections Principally the Troches of Gordonius are profitable See them Conserve of Roses Bole armenick Milk oglutinate Vulnerary drink ULCER of the Reins The urine is made without impediment matter is mixed with the urine it stinketh lesse See Aph. 76 77. 81. s 4. It is cured as an Ulcer of the Bladder Whey Make an Emulsion of the four cold seeds with Milk If the matter come forth sparingly glutinate use vulnerary drink WEARINESS One kind is not natural or drying which followeth labour another natural this is either ulcerating which makes a sense of pricking in the circumference of the Body from a sharp vapour or humour as from cholerick or black Choler or extensive from Plethory or any humour that is not sharp or from hot blood which they that feel complain that their parts are as it were bruised or broken and it ariseth from Plethory and Cacochymia together or of leannesse when motion is difficult by reason that the flesh and fat of the Muscles is consumed after long diseases The Cure When Wearinesse riseth from the humours about the Muscles and in the circumference of the Body they must be taken away If from Cacochymia that must removed by rest sleep spare diet and that breeds good juyce and by moderate drinking of Wine In ulcerating weariness Purging in extensive opening a Vein in Phlegmonodes both these are good if it be from labour it is not onely cured by rest but by labour but not-so-much WHEALES angry or Pimples of sweat rising in the Neck Brest Arms c. they proceed from cholerick sweat exasperating the skin of which see Aph. 21. s 3. WHEALS rising in the night that vex us in the night and are of divers colours It is never greater then a Bean it exulcerateth it is cured as the cause is WORMS A Lotion of bitter things kills Lice a shirt stayned with Saffron and worn a while wonderfully a washing with Lavender water Barly bread and Paper burnt of each a like quantity made up with Bores grease takes away Cyrones WORMS are either round or the Bots or broad these either Gourdfashion or lesse like to a Gourd Signs of round worms are pain and great prickings of broad worms an obscure pain other signs are common They are cured by things that kill worms as by Corallina to one dram in powder Tanfey seed roots of Primrose Wormwood Hore-hound Citron seeds Angelica bitter Almonds Powder of worms is suspected by Tabexnae Montanus Water of the decoction of Graffe Harts-horn shavings of Ivory juyce of Lemmons Plantain Purssain Endive Sorrel To children give grasse water one ounce with syrup of juyce of Lemmons or some grains of Salt are put into the Mouth Spirit of Vitriol Elixar proprietatis broad worms require stronger Medicaments as many Walnuts chiefly roots of Fern of which powder half a dram may be given to an Infant to those that are grown one dram or two drams Treacle dissolved in juyce of Lemmons Hiera Yet sweet things must be mingled here and Clysters that are sweet must be given to allure them downwards being killed cast them forth with Diaturpeth with Rheubarb in rouls Sebestens with a decoction of syrup of Peach flowers Aloes Agarick The Bots are cured by suppositories For anointed the Belly with this following Take oyl of Egs Lillies Oxgall juyce of Onions fried with new Butter of each two drams mingle them He gave this following Take Aloes half a dram red Coral or Diatraganth frigid ten grains with Scabious water make three Pills lest the Aloes should cause heat let him sup upon it one spoonful of juyce of Citrons He gave a child of three years old more then one scruple of burnt Harts-horn Those things that are applyed outwardly as Gall c. must not be laid to the stomach Heurn used this following for children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb two drams to half an ounce Grasse water one ounce for one Dose every other day For. cured a Boy that for one year was miserably afflicted with the decoction of Wormwood and little Centory to another he gave juyce of Pomegranates one spoonful oyl of Olives half a spoonful mingle them It is a secret of the French Queens The same gave what followeth for one Dose to a great bellyed woman in a Feaver Take Harts-horn burnt seeds of Zedoary Purssain of each half a scruple mingle them For children let Harts-horn burnt be put into Raysins without stones For the Bots the experiment of Aetius is good namely a Suppository made of old salt Bief the fat being taken off WARTS A Nail a swelling of the Fundament namely when a wrinkle of the skin groweth hard Thymus namely a Wart with a narrow bottom and a large supersicies of a colour reddish like Thyme flowers A Fig wart is a great Thymus a Crest from preposterous Venery These are oft times malignant The cause is thought to be a flegmatick melancholick humour Platerus takes it to be the moist nourishment of the skin and the Cuticula Warts are oft times contagious The Cure By Medicaments as Fallop commendeth the leaves and juyce of Willows Purstain stampt being wet with its juyce also leaves and flowers of Marigolds Figwort roots of Cuckoe pint Sow-bread fresh Celandine Nigella with urine The liquor that runs from the flowers of Mullens set in the Sun in a glasse of its own accord Gum Succory the juyce running from
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
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
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
or black choler Signs Diagnostick It begins from a smal push or from many pricking going before in a short time by way of fluxion it alwaies increaseth with extream heat and pain especially toward the evening then followeth a Feaver and a Troup of most naughty symptoms Prognostick That is most pernicious pestelential black wan which vanisheth away which is fastened near a principal part which had a Feaver going before it That which is red small not pestilent is the safest The Cure The first Indicant is a cooling of the blood by general means as Diet opening of a vein alteratives but not purgatives 2. The heart must be freed from the malignity by internals and topicals chiefly by the urine or water or decoction of Scabious 3. The cause that is joyned with it must be voided with scarification deep enough with cupping glasses Leeches yet if the humour flow thither too much lay plantain boyld with bran upon the Carbuncle to repel especially if it be neer a noble part and then wash the wound with salt water Lay not on the scarified place emollients but dryers and such as resist putrefaction as Egyptiac or meal of Orobus with oxymel or scabious or divels bit green brayed with old hogs grease the yolk of an egg and salt Pareus l. 21. hath proved often this following Take Sâ—ot 4 ounces Common salt 2 ounces 2 yolks of eggs mingle them Radish roots cut in pieces draw the poyson mightily Paracelsus If all be fruitlesse lay on a caustick for the sense is lost The Eschar must not be taken away by emollients or when the Carbuncle it self makes a crust Senn. had rather use roots of Scabious and Comfrey Radish Treacle Soot Mithridate Leaven Figs Rue wallnuts that are old vitriol c. and with these remove the crust if it impostumate round about and there appear a red circle it is a sign of future safety for the crust being taken away the ulcer will be cleansed with honey of Roses and juyce of Smallage c. The Cure of a pestilent Anthrax differs For a vein must not be opened unlesse perhaps under the Carbuncle for evacuation alwaies attractions must be applyed as Pigeons dung Sope Doves-foot Onions roasted under the embers and the uppermost of them Some say if a circle be made about a Carbuncle with a Saphire that will stop it from spreading any farther and quench the poyson Senn. l. 5. p. 1. ch 11. APOPLEXIE is a symptome whereby all the animal actions perish The cause is not obstruction of the ventricles of the brain for they breed no animal spirits experience is against it in those that are opened nor do those fall into this disease that are sick of water in their head in whom only the ventricles of the forepart are obstructed but first fleam or a melancholick humour stopping the beginning of the marrow of the back as it is demonstrated in the Varolian Section 2. Blood either running forth by a stroke or some other way and stopping that part 3. A flegmatick disposition where in the vessels of the brain extended by plethory presse upon that part 4. If a contusion of the skull presse on that part of the brain 5. From a narcotick vapour whence ariseth stupidnesse in those that are cured 6. A wound of the brain from thence an effusion or troubling of the spirits Aph. 58. s 7. Differences The strongest iâ— wherein breathing ceaseth and there is neither froth nor snorting the weaker is where there is froth with snorting The weakest where breathing is violent unequal with intermission Weakest of all when breathing is ordinate Signs Diagnostick It differs from a Lethargie because such as are in a Lethargie may be wakened and fall asleep again there is a Feaver with it Those that have an Apoplexie cannot be awakened but when they are wakened they fall into a Palsie without a Feaver This differs from Carus for in Carus breathing is entire it creepeth on by degrees being pricked they feel but it is otherwise in an Apoplexie It differs from the suffocation of the mother because in this the colour of the face is changed and made more wan but not in an Apoplexy in this the power of feeling often remaineth nor is the breathing hurt and if breathing should be hurt the pulse would be hurt also but not in an Apoplexy It differs from swooning because in swooning the colour of the face is changed the teeth the mouth the hands are fastned but they are loose in an Apoplexy in swooning there is no breathing and no pulse it differs from a strangling distillation because this strangleth a man that is sound in his sense and motion Prognostick An Apoplexy of the first and second degree is mortal Aph. 43. s 2. An Apoplexy is from the first cause which Hippocrates meaneth Aph. 42. s 2. An Apoplexy which comes from the third and fourth cause is easily cured Apoplecticks must not be buried before 72 hours be past because all the humours are moved within that time The Cure The first indicant is freeing from obstruction which is done if they can be awakened The second is the fortifying of the brain head powders described by Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 2. If it come from the first cause means to awaken them being premised if the forces will bear it and there be plenty of blood in summer spring and the party be young a vein must be opened by turns in the arm with a large orifice Or if we may not do this cupping glasses with scarification must be applyed to the Legs Arms Loyns Shoulders but not to the back part of the Thorax After this by general and by topical means the matter must be derived and voided from the head yet vomits must not be given because they would put the party in danger to be choked Strong purgations must be administred as Pills dissolved if he can swallow them 2. The brain must be fortified but if it come from the second cause there is need to open a vein or to apply cupping glasses with scarification and to use diversion evacuation and strengthening Question Whether repulsives may be used Galen useth them Forest us denyeth because this disease hastneth most quickly to its state because there is no defluxion Sen. distinguisheth and saith that it belongs to an Apoplex from the third cause ARTHRITIS is a pain or swelling with a pain of the joynts from a sharp watery humour which partly by extending partly by sharpness doth rend the membranous parts and causeth them to endure pain The Cause is a watery sharp salt lactaceous humour as is collected by the pain the hard swellings and the indisposition of them to come to suppuration heat and driness of the Liver and Spleen the diet an Arthritical disposition for though there be the same temperatenesse in diet yet one man will be Arthritical another not A suppression of urine and of sweat which alwaies almost gooth before the paroxisime Pareus l. 17. saith
the corrption is poured into the Chest The worst of all is ulceration Rupture is a lesse evil an opening is easily cured An ulcer of the Brest is curable but not of the Lungs The Cure If it come by rupture or opening the only Indication is to stop the blood and to heal it Therefore if a Vein be broken by coughing let the Catarrhs be stopt by all means See for the Catarrhs After that the blood must be stopt by all kinds of revulsion the quality of the blood that exceeds must be tempered the Choler must be purged by mild remedies Aloes and Scammony must be for born let Honey be mixed with all medicaments because it openeth the Passages Then we must consolidate with Syrup of Comfrey Fennel which see in Senn. Take for six days every morning 4 ounces of juyce of Nettles 1 dram of blood-stone with the water or juyce of Knotgrasse Trallianus giveth 4 Scruples It is given in Roles Electuaries infusion until the liquor be red See bleeding at the nose If all be in vain you must give Laudanum opiatum or some other Narcotick The continual use of Germander is most profitable Crato ep 184. Rul Nettle-seed Manard commendeth the Roots of the sharp Dock If matter run out by corroding of a Vein in the Brest or else spittle with blood it is cured as a Consumption which commeth from the Lungs being corroded BLEEDING at the Nose The cause is either the mouths of the Veins opened or plenty of blood and there are signs of plethory of some urging of the expulsive faculty by some sharp humour and then there are signs of Cacochimia or the weaknesse of the Retentive faculty and then often at times and for very small causes the Nose bleeds or from outward causes as provocation tickling anointing with hot things or from diairesis or diapedesis if the blood be watery if flegmatick Cacochymia do trouble the Patient Differences It either comes from the Veins of the Nose or of the thick membranes of the third sinus and then for revulsion Banhinus admonisheth that Topicals must be applyed to the hinder part of the Head oft times it cometh forth of the Artery If it be critical it must not be stopped Prognostical Melancholick and flegmatick People endure it the worst The Cure If it come by the mouth of the Veins opened by Plethory that must be taken away and the blood must be pulled back from the Nostrils by opening a Vein on the same side and make a narrow Orifice draw away at times one ounce or two or sometimes four by cuppings ventoses must be applyed to the Liver They stop it better if they be applyed to the Foot on the same side and to both Feet if blood run out at both Nostrils Yet this caution must be used that they must not stay long on the same place but before they cause fainting they must be taken off Forest will have them with scarification to the Legs and Shoulders painful Ligatures must be made to the Limbs Use chafings with Salt and Vineger You must not stop the blood by internals and topicals until revulsion be made Internals are good in any form For. gave Hogs dung mixt with Bole Armenick that it might not be discerned for this oft times stops an uncurable bleeding at the Nose Take seeds of Purflane Plantain Sorril Endive white Poppey of each one dram Roots of great comfrey ounce boyl these in sufficient water to nine ounces to the strained liquor add the syrup of Myâ—â—ils Pomegranates Poppey water Lillies of each half an ounce mingle them the juyce of Nettles and the seed blood stone The last help Narcoticks These that follow Heurnius holds for secrets Take white Poppey seed half a dram of white Henbane one scruple blood Stone one scruple red Coral one dram mingle them make a powder and with Conserve of Roses six drams for one Dose Also water of Nettles one ounce powder of Mans Skull one scruple mingle them the juyce of Nettles Purslane Plantain Yarrow By Topicals Hogs dung applyed to the Nose cold water poured upon the Wrists if there be a Feaver Let the Mouth be kept full of cold water if any thing be drawn up into the Nose this serveth at all times Juyce of Nettles and Plantain must be put into the Nose Also glutinous medicaments and Epithems and Fomentations the ashes of white paper burnt must be put into the Nose A piece of chalk held in the ring finger on the same side The Testicles must be fomented with cold water a spunge wet in Oxicratum must be put under the Arm-pits a Prony root must be held under the Tongue the Stone of a Carp held in the Mouth the root of Nigella chewed held to the Nose a Bank doller must be bound close between the Eye-brows with bands the flowers of the lesser Dasie must be held in the Hand The same taken inwardly do suddenly dissolve clotted blood Moss water of Frogs spawn If it come from Acrimony of the matter the Choler must be purged out and temperd If it proceed from diapedesis the watery humours must be purged use the decoction of Guaiacum the meats must be thickning c. Heurnius useth first Cupping glasses and Ventoses to the Feet and Liver afterwards to the second spondil of the Neck then he useth chafings Ligatures after that blood-letting then Internals and Topicals that Moss which is called Crepituslupi BLEEDING of Wounds This proceeds from solution of continuity of the Veins and Arteries It is more hardly cured if the Artery be cut long or overthwart-waies then if it be cut crosse in two for oft times Physicians perswade that if the blood cannot be stopt the Artery shall be cut crosse asunder The cure Those things being used we said before first the Orifice of the Wound or rather of the Vessel must be stopt either by pressing of the Fingers till it clots or when this in Arteries hath no place in which the blood congealeth not and but seldome in Veins the Vessel must be stopt with the Fingers or with medicaments The most convenient is that Toad-stool which is called a Fuss or that Matter beaten Intercipients must be laid upon the part affected If in vain Par. bids to take and bind the mouth of the Vessel toward the root with a needle or a thread with as much of the flesh as the part will suffer for which end we are sometimes constrained to divide the skin that covereth that part and to be long before we unbind it But if the condition of the part will not admit of this we must apply Causticks that may make a crust which Sen. alloweth not cooÌ„mends rather in the place of them Vitriol which is not escharotick but when it is burnt but when it is Crude it binds vehemently and burns but little Some strew on it powder of Crude Vitriol Others conveniently dissolve it in liquor and apply it unlesse Nerves be undet Sometimes we are forced to cut
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
is mortal We must only moysten and cool yet lest the little heat should be choaked we must refresh meat must be given every four hours All are by Internals and Topicals The Antients gave cold water to the full after meat at the beginning for in the stare he would die of it or fall into a Hectick of old age it is better to give Barley water small beer They gave milk from two ounces to one pound rising by degrees Feaver Hectick pestilent The signs are a weak Pulse small swift swooning tossing restlesness watchings a delirium sleepiness an equal Feaver so without any pain they die their forces being spent For. Senn. A Feaver Quartan is known three wayes from a Quotidian because in that the first fit is strong the second milder the third most mild and so the first fit answereth the fourth the second the fifth the third the sixth A Feaver Symptomatical 1. Such as accompany the Inflammation of some of the Bowels as a Feaver called Phlegmonodes typhodes Lypyria which is cured by opening a Vein by Coolers Moystners Internals Topicals Fern. 2. A slow Feaver from a humour out of the Vessels corrupting in the substance of the Bowels 3. That which accompanyeth the corruption of the part as a Consumption 4. When either from Milk Seed Terms corrupted or Worms a Feaver groweth to which appertains the Convulsion of the Brain in children or in the Hypochondres windiness from raw humours collected in the first passages which begin to putrefy and are changed into winds A Feaver called Epialos is when in one and the same part cold and heat meet It is an intermitting Feaver they say commonly that it is made from the coldest or glassy fleam putryfying Platerus saith better that it is made when the beginning of one fit falls upon the end of another or an intermitting comes to a continual For. cureth this as a Quotidian A Feaver Syncoptical is either cholerick and continual or intermitting or flegmatick and that again continual or intermitting A continual is deadly The cure varieth as the cause is alwaies give cordials which may correct the diseased humour By all means refresh by Internals externals raise them from their swooning If need be of purging do it quickly by Manna Honey of Roses solutive Cremor Tartar c. Frequent swooning comes from the weaknesse of the upper Orifice A Feaver Assodes is that wherein the sick are troubled they are very hot and unquiet they cannot be pleased they are vexed they loath all things they have most vehement pain of their stomach and stretching of the Hypocondres The Cause is a sharp cholerick humour soaked into the Coats of the stomach It is cured with a Detergent decoction of Barley with Syrup of Roses moderate Diet cold and moist For. A Feaver called Elodes of which few have spoken is that wherein the Body is dissolved by continual sweating for where there is long sweating the Body must needs be dissolved It is cured by Dryers and such as void the Serus humour General Topical A Pestilent Feaver differs from the Plague by the vehemency of the mischief and contagion which is greater in the Plague A malignant Feaver is yet lesse dangerous and few dye of it none are infected by it There are no Pestilent Feavers of one day but putrid Continuals and some Intermitting according to Pareus L. de Peste Signs diagnostick In the beginning there is a greater weaknesse of the Forces then the nature of a Feaver or heat do cause a small pulse urine like to those that are sound and oft times also crude and the face saith Hippocrates sleep or waking oppresse them a delirium Vertigo Convulsion Vomiting Scowring It is observed that bleeding at the Nose in the beginning of a Feaver sheweth that it is malignant spots of divers colours driness of the tongue blacknesse inflammation which they call Dâ—e Breun The Cure Since two things do urge either Malignity or the Feaver If that urge most Antidotes are necessary if this we must go about the cure of it wherefore presently give Diaphoreticks as much as we can temperate for the matter admitteth not concoction Then a Vein may be opened gentle Clysters and such as bring forth the dung are useful Vomiting is sometimes good c. Then come again to Antidotes This following Electuary is excellent Take two Pome-citrons sprinkled well with Rose water and with Sugar what may sweeten them boyl that to the consistence of an Electuary A Spotted Feaver The spot differs from Freckles and other Pushes in a Feaver in greatnesse for they are not high nor long but round like Flea bites It differs from Flea bites because in Bites there appears a bite in the middle which remaineth still though you drive away the other rednesse by pressing or rubbing it Spots if they be prest vanish but return they are seldom in the face by reason of the smallness of the Arteries and the cold aire driving them back They are without ulceration pricking or risings-up Signs Prognostick If they come forth plentifully on a critical day and there follow ease it is good but if when the matter is raw as they often do they are mortal The few or many spots do not certainly shew life or death They dye whose spots are black they that have them seen in their face they whose urine is stopt The Cure First give a lenitive open a Vein before the fourth day but after the fourth forbear it Give sweating means If a Flux of the Belly come upon it stop it not unless it be too much but leave the whole work to Nature In the mean while use Alteratives and Corroboratives Apply Theriac to the Heart and Pulses with juyce of Lemmons oyl of Scorpions and use an unction of Nitre as before by Vesicatories the poysoned vapours are fitly derived from the Heart An Hungary Feaver or a disease of Hungary It is a Pestilent Feaver and cometh neer to the Plague Crato refers them to putrid continual Feavers Langius to a Causus for the heat is extream Others to a Spotted Feaver Yet here though sometimes yet alwaies there are not spots It began in the year 1566. The cause Rulandus and Jordanus say There is the highest malignity and the highest Cacochymia and that rightly but they say the Cacochymia comes from fleam 1. Because at the beginning Purgers of fleam profit but not opening a Vein 2. It is more sharp about night 3. It is more violent when the South wind bloweth and it spreadeth in cloudy weather 4. Because there is pain of the stomach 5. Because it ends by sweat and urine 6. Because it lasts beyond seven or fourteen days 7. Because it often ends by an Aposteme Sennertus holds it to be Causus yet so that there is great quantity of fleam yet not as the cause of it Signs Diagnostick An extream pain of the Head the spitting moisture of the Tongue is dried and the Tongue becomes black by the black smoke of the blood which
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
it is mortal INFLAMMATION of the Spleen There is pain swelling heaviness on the left side which yet oft times affects the right side and doth as it were compass a Man There is a continual Quartan Ague the Feet and Knees look red there is difficulty of breathing the Nostrils and Ears look pale it differs from obstruction because here is no great dissention it is without pain or Feaver If it proceed from wind there is no heavinesse exercise endeth the pain it is contrary in Inflammation Prognosticks It seldom suffers Inflammation but most seldome an Ulcer it is changed into a Scirrhus The Cure Open a Vein in the left Arm or in the Ankle if the Courses be stopt Then apply a Repeller as oyl of Roses with which mingle cutters or Vinegar Oyl of Camomil After that evacuate the humours prepared with true Purgatives Thirst must be endured so much as we can Afterwards Topicals must be Resolvers as the custome is INFLAMMATION of the Breasts It is cured by opening a Vein Purgatives and Alteratives Let the Topicals be Repellers but yet weak ones lest there grow a Cough difficulty of breathing Consumption Scirrhus Afterwards add Resolvers but such as are moderate lest they make a Scirrhus If it suppurate it must be helped forward if it open not of it self open it with a pen knife The Ulcer is not cured if the other Brests Milk be not dried up which will be done if she do not let the Child suck and lay on a woollen cloth wet in cold water INFLAMMATION of the Stomach Signs There is a sense of extending the Tumor often appeareth outwardly If it be the outward part the pain after meat is not so sharp but when the meat is digested the appetite is better nothing is cast forth of the Impostume If it be the internal part the pain is sharper after meat if the external when the meat is digested all the Symptoms are more vehement There is heat thirst a most hot Feaver delirium swooning vomiting It is very hardly discerned from Inflammation of the Abdomen about that Region but only by vehemency of the Symptoms The Cure Revulsion Clysters internal Repellers and outward those allmost actually cold these hot After that add Resolvers yet alwaies add Astringents and strengthners Help the pain with one ounce or two of syrup of Poppy If it suppurate cure it as suppuration and let the Diet be almost as Topicals From hot Topicals applyed to the Stomach grows Inflammation of the Liver Fab. cent 2. obs 46. INFLAMMATION of the Reins Signs Heat great pain spreading to the Bladder the Testicles and the bastard Ribs by sneezing motion the pain is encreased the sick cannot lift themselves up There is astonishment of the Leg by compression of the Nerves the outward parts are cold the Urine is at first thin in the increase red there is cholerick Vomiting and a vehement Feaver In Inflammation of the Colon the pain goeth inward and there appeareth a change rather in the dung then in the Urine If the Emroids come upon it it is good The Cure Revulsion a Clyster in a lesse quantity Alteratives without diureticks Purgatives In the declination milder Diureticks are good Topicals must be as before The matter must be evacuated by Urine INFLAMMATION of the Mesentery It is not seldom yet is it seldom known Oft times it hath a Semitertian for company there is pain of the Lungs which extends it self above and about the Stomach the Belly is stopt If it stick about the more ignoble parts the Feaver is slow without thirst the matter is often voided by the Belly It is cured as before Also the same way is the Inflammation of the Bladder and the Peritonaeum INFLAMMATION of the Testicles This is cured the wonted way Let all Topicals be so applyed that the Testicles may hang down lesse Lay an Intercipient at the side of the privities Verven boyled in Wine is commended in the declination or bread with oyl and water INFLATION of the Stomach It commeth from wind bred from causes related in the Colick There is a resisting Tumor also belching and windinesse If it come from weaknesse the signs are perceived if it come from windy nourishment the sick will declare that If it come from other matter there are oft times signs of Hypochondriacal affection In one that groweth well it threatneth to return If it last long a Tympany The Cure If the Inflation be small apply Carminatives without and inwardly as oyl of Carways three drops Plaister of Bay-berries First take away the cause by Vomit Purging c. There is no heaviness felt the pain is not continual with a noise c. The same way the windinesse of the Liver and Spleen are cured Pain of the Spleen is not in the Spleen but in the Peritonaeum and Muscles of the Abdomen from wind water causing also a windy Cramp Camomil Hierapicra are good ITCHING of the Ey-lids is cured by Generals Coolers Moistners Topicals first emollient as warm water then more sharp as water of Honey three ounces Sugar one dram Aloes one dram and half mingle them Or Aegyptiac one dram dissolved in Plantain water and dipping a soft linnen rag into it touch the Ey-lids bewaring the Eys Or Take White-wine half a pound common Salt one dram let them stand in a Barbers bason for six days or let the Urine of the sick stand for a night in the Bason or sharp Vinegar For. prepared unguent of Roses with a little Tutty It is taken away with long time swathing if every third day the Swathe be taken off and the part be fomented with warm water or water and oyl or with decoction of Camomil Balm in Wine or Pickle the Bladders must be opened they must be anointed with white unguent of Rhasis red Desiccative c. Of the Yard and Matrix is taken away with one dram of gold Lytharge infused twenty four hours in the sharpest Vinegar oyl of Violets sometimes one ounce sometimes but half half an ounce make an Unguent The juyce of dwarf Elder extracted and dryed with oyl of Roses made thick in a leaden Mortar KINGS-EVIL is a Scirrhous Tumor of the Kernels shut in a bag Oft times it possesseth all the Kernels seventy have been found in the Mesentery If it be in the Throat it is called Bronchocele These differ from other Tumors in number for they are many and take deep root Oft times it fasteneth in the Groin and under the Arm-pits It is a hard Tumor that yieldeth uot to the touch is painful The Cause is fleam or melancholy hardned Platerus saith it is made of a limentary juyce hardned when as they are not changed into matter nor corrupt but last long The Cure The antecedent cause is taken away by Generals the weaknesse of the Bowels ingendring fleam must be corrected Topicals must be Specifical Resolvers as Viper-grasse Pilewort Crowfoot Root of Sword-grasse If it will not be resolved it must be suppurated cut
it burn it a Plate of Lead must be laid on the Tumor rubbed also it is taken away by Ligature with Horse-hair which must be tied every day straighter till it fall off for want of nourishment The Kings of France cure them by their touching LETHARGY Is an invincible necessity of sleeping and the sleep is heavy with a delirium and hurt-memory and a continual Feaver The Cause with the Antients was fleam collected in the Head which by its moisture and cold breeds astonishment and by its putrifying heat causeth watchings but this is impossible The cause is rather a Narcotick vapour elevated in concomitant Feavers as a Quotidian Continual bastard Tertian and Semitertian or if it come on without a Feaver from flegmatick blood causing Inflammation When as For. observeth there is such an Inflammation oft times which ends in Sphacelus and so there is a double cause of Lethargy Diagnosticks Being stirred up they scarce answer being asked they forget all the pulse is great by reason of breathing but small from forgetfulness Their Urine is like Beasts urine It differs from Carus by a Feaver Prognosticks They dy in seven days if they passe them they escape Sweat often Trembling Convulsion Hickop are mortal Swelling a Palsey swellings behind the Ears succeeding a Lethargy if the Lethargy cease it is good else mortal If a Leach set to the Fore-head will not stick or if you rub your Fore head with Bread or fat Bacon and offer it to your Dog and he refuse it it is mortal Men say the same holds for all pains in the Head The Cure Consists chiefly in Revulsives and opening a Vein which must be quickly ordered sometimes more sparingly in cold weather when it cometh from flegmatick blood sometimes more largely Opening a Vein of the Fore-head or Foot Cupping glasses Scarifications Chafings and Ventoses set to the Neck Suppositories Clysters Leaches are useful Purge afterwards for it is a sharp disease Then apply repelling Topicals In a flegmatick Head-ach For. useth no Repeâ—â—ers but in the Lethargy they must be wakened we must not leave off Revulsives after this it is cured as a flegmatick Head-ach both outwardly and inwardly If in vain lay Synapisms to the shoulders and the crown strengthen the Head The Chymists commend sweet oyl of Vitriol extract of Castoreum and chiefly the Brimstone of silver Hairs burnt anointed on with Vinegar Castoreum Hares-brains roasted and Bisquet are Antidotes LIENTERIE is when the meat is sent forth raw not concocted It proceeds either from the retentive Faculty of the Stomach and Intestins hurt or the expulsive faculty of them provoked If the first the Colick went before no pain is felt if the latter the Colick did not go before and bitings are felt Prognosticks Aph. 1. s 6. It brings to a Consumption If the latter it foresheweth a Dysentery The Cure If the first if there be matter it must be evacuated by the Belly or by Vomit of the decoction of Barley unhuld Myrobolans Rheubarb Agarick c. Corobboratives Astringents Fern. at last gave the yolk of an Egg spread over with the powder of one Nutmeg roasted on a hot tyle If the latter detergents moderately dryers Purgatives must be given The Acrimony of humours must be tempered as in the Dysentery Lientery is a continual flux it is the Colick by turns LUXATION The cause is either internal as the humours or external as a fal or heriditary as when the Cups are not hollow enough or the Ligaments too loose Differences 1. When the head of the bones fall out of their Cups 2. When bones joyned gape asunder as the Shoulder blade may recede from the Shoulders the cubite bone from the Radius the major fossile from the minor 3. When with Luxation there is a fracture joyned as when the Epyphysis is pulled from the Bone that is more easily restored this never because the Ligaments are either broken or weakened this is altogether incurable Diagnosticks The same as in Fractures True Luxation causeth loss of motion partly so difficulty of motion If it be from the loosnesse of the Ligament Luxation is made by degrees and is easily driven the contrary way The Finger goeth into the joyning no Body resisting Prognost Dry Bodies are more hardly put out of their places and harder to be reduced moist Bodies contrarily The cure If there be Inflammation let it be taken away before you reduce the Bone If there be a wound and a Fracture together Hippocrates thinks it best not to go about to reduce it for to try that brings death certainly if you let that alone there is only fear of lamenesse Old dislocations before they be attempted to reduce must be softned with Topicals Or if you reduce a Dislocation with a Fracture and Inflammation come upon it the Bone restored without violence must be put again out of the place First of all you must extend wherein first you must see that you hold it straight So when the Shoulder is out or the Spondils or the Bones of the Thigh the whole Body but in a Luxation of the Throat-bone of the Elbow the Hand the Knee the Foot the Leg the part affected must be held very straight by him that helpeth lest the whole Body follow the extension 2. That you may pull either with your Hands or Instruments so far until the head of the bone be placed out of the Region of his cavity and be free let there be a distance betwixt the bone dislocated and the Cavity that so the Lips of the Cup may remain unhurt 3. That the heads of the Bone gently moved before and carryed about may be put into their cavity the same way that they fell out which you shall find to be well done by the crackling and whilst this is done the stretching of the cord must be slackned otherwise it is not possible Secondly it must be fitly bound with an astringent medicament as in a Fracture 3. The Symptoms must be corrected The channel Bone being dislocated many are deceived supposing it to be a dislocation of the Shoulder LUXATION of the Spondils inwardly is death Yet Fabr. teacheth a way to cure it but not a safe one Outwardly it is a bunch it must be cured by putting it back again with an iron Brest-plate made full of holes It proceeds either from Asthma or some outward cause or abundance of humours Hitherto belongeth that mischief when the sick hath tried to lift too great a weight here the eleventh Spondil is commonly shaken it is not dislocated but remains shogged There is a pain of the Back about the stomach the appetite is cast down with vomiting sometimes the Head-ach in children chiefly there is a Feaver almost malignant In people of years this is cured as Luxation by some The red potable ointment is given with profit Crabs-eys Senn. The Shoulder is reduced either with a Napkin with a neck knit fast or with the Chirurgions heel or with the higher shoulder of one that
helps or with a Pole or Ladder or an Instrument to set bones called Ambi. Dislocation of the Channel-bone is taken by many for Luxation of the Shoulder for the Symptoms are the same Also in 3 days the binding must be unloosed and the part must be moved variously but gently lest it should grow crooked The Thigh dislocated forward the Groins swellâ— the Buttocks are wrinkled only the hinder part of the heel toucheth the ground the urine is stopped If backward the Buttocks swell there is a hollowness in the Groin The Leg is shorter then that which is sound the Knee cannot be bent the Heel toucheth not the ground the sick stands by a staff If outwardly after some time the pain abateth the flesh about it groweth hot the head of the Bone in a neer place makes a new cavity so that the sick can go without a staff the Leg is made shorter the knee and Foot look inwards he cannot go on his Heel the Leg can be bent the whole Leg is something lesse If inwardly the lameness is less they cannot bend their Leg the Foot is longer they go with their Leg athwart outwardly leaning on a staffe they rest more on their Heel then their Toes at last a new Cavity being made they go without a staff The night MARE is the hurt of breathing and of animal actions with an Imagination of weight The Cause Senn. will have the cause to be oft times a grosse vapour stopping the hinder part of the Head But Plat. and Fern. say it is fleam and melancholy sticking about the Midriff which swells either by drunkennesse or crudity pressing the diaphragma and the Lungs and the grosse vapour exhaling into the Throat and Brain stops the Voice and troubleth the sences These two causes may be joyned together Prognostick It threatens an Apoplexy or Melancholy It is evil if it oppresseth those that are partly waking and if a cold sweat follow The Cure The sick must be raised from the fit he must be cured by General and Topical Remedies as is the Apoplex a Wolfs skin is commended for a covering of the Head Anniseed strewed in the Bed is thought to help by the smell It is familiar to children by over-eating wherefore they must not sleep presently after eating Honey is good for them to lick One dram of Piony roots must be infused in Beer for to drink MILK The more whey it hath the more it cleanseth the more Cheese namely when the whey is evaporated by long boyling the more it bindeth and gleweth Medicaments made of Milk in Summer every day in Winter must be renewed every other day for it will grow sharp and cause pains Milk hath a hot spirit in it and will make one drunk Scal. ex 87. saith that the Tartars use the thin part of Milk separated by subliming to make themselves drunk for all fat things afford spirits for Chymists and oyls differ from spirits scarce any thing but in the manner of their substance The first note of good Milk is that if you poure one drop on the Nail it will stick and not run off If it run off hardly it is too thick 2. A milky colour 3. Tast 4. Smell MILK wanting If it be for want of blood it is cured by meats of good juyce by Medicaments that breed Milk and open the Passages these are moderatly hot and attenuating The leaves roots seed of Fennel all green and new which must be observed of others also Parsley roots new Dill Basil Anniseed Rocket seed one dram or two of Earth-worms soaked in juyce of Fennel burnt Powder of Cows udder By Internals Topicals MILK too much is taken away by Revulsives Diet moderate Repellers not laid to the Brests but above the Brests by the Arms to those Veins Resolvers laid to the Brests If there be Inflammation feared you may lay Repellers to the Brests also Some happily anoint the Brests with Honey Some put in a linnen cloth wet with Vinegar of the decoction of Saffron green leaves of Nut-trees Others lay on a linnen cloth smeered with Rape-oyl and they put another over this anointed with Honey and they bind the Brests moderately Singular are leaves of Sage Smaliage Rue Chervil cut small incorporated with Oxycratum laid on warm thrice a day Topicals are also made of Mints Calamints Smallage Agnus Castus Coriander Hemlock MILK cloddering it is made by a fermenting humour but whether this be made in the Brests Senn. is doubtful because there is no hollowness there and he thinks that if Milk stay long in the Brests the whey exhaleth and the rest clodders It differs not from curding of Cheese The cure The Diet must be resolving Topicals besides Generals must be Resolvers as in a Scirrhus beginning as oyl of Lillies coming by degrees to stronger Remedies of Fennel Dill Parsly Smallage Balm Mallow-leaves Coleworts c. Inwardly give Fennel-seed Cumin Smallage Agnus Castus Eringo roots Mints Saffron Coriander-seed c. Screvelius also often cured it with green Chervil and Fennel of each a like fryed in a Pan with Butter and applyed MADNES The cause is the heat of the animal and vital spirits whereby they very easily endure cold yet it makes no Feaver though it last many years Platerus will have it to be a hidden quality The antecedent cause is either the Seed corrupted or burnt blood and the sick sing There are signs of Plethory or burnt Choler and the sick are rash bold or black Choler and there are signs of Melancholy or poysons as the blood of a Cat or Love potions Wine thunder-struck congealed Men possessed with devils speak things unknown or Emroids stopt or an Ulcer shut up The Cure must be begun by opening a Vein so Platerus saw many cured who were kept in Bedlam-houses by letting them blood threescore times here and there repeating it Choice of Veins is not necessary you must open the Emroids and Ulcers closed then you must alter Give them Whey to drink purge them the Heart must be cheered as we shall shew in melancholy Sleeping Medicaments Emperical things are the Brain of a Ram that never leaped a sheep the Brain of a Dog of but one colour Box-leaves Roots of yellow water Lillies Amulets are roots of Eringo Briony St. Johns wort Nitre is commended because it fixeth volatil things Spirit of Vitriol Let Topicals be Coolers and rather Moistners as oyl of Roses Camomil c. warm The juyce of live Crabs is held for a Topical that is specifical MARASMUS one is burning or a Hectick Marasmodes another is cold and dry It is called a Hectick of old age or a disease from old-age a third is with swooning which is hot in respect nf the Feaver cold in respect of the swooning MELANCHOLY is the vexation of the Mind fastned upon one thought without a Feaver or Fury proceeding from a Melancholick Phantasme The immediat Subject are the Brain and the Heart as the affects shew For. saw Melancholy with a Feaver
another obliquely even unto his Groins But when the pain is extream they must nor be used This must be done until the Stone fall into the Bladder Paraeus L. 16. For. Lib. 14. STONE of the Bladder When the Stone is fallen into the Bladder the pain abates Therefore then if the Forces will endure it the sick must ride or go a journey on soot also he must drink freely and forbear to make water after it as much as he can that the water being augmented the Stone may be driven forth with it In the mean while outwardly and inwardly Diureticks must be applyed When in is come into the Ureter we must be careful that it get not back but with the Fingers it must be brought to the utmost Glans the Passage being made slippery if it stay in the Glans it must be pulled out with Hooks if that be in vain it must be bored out with a piercer included in a Pipe But if it be far from the Glans and can by no Art be got out then the Yard must be cut on the side with a straight line nor above because of the Vessels not beneath for it is a Membranous part In the mean time the Ureter must be tyed with a Thread that it get not back again and the fore-skin must be drawn out as much as may be that it may cover the whole Glans Incision being made and the Stone taken forth the skin must be let go again that the whole skin may cover the Yard that is cut for so the uniting will be the easier The last remedy is cutting for the Stone See Senn. Paraeus Chirurgery I. 16 The extream means are Narcoticks but warily exhibited Crato ep 121. cured the greatest pains discussing the winds by Clyster the heat of the Bowels being increased he so anointed the Navel with oyl of Turpentine Juniper Nutmeg the Stomach with only oyl of Nurmegs he gave by the Mouth the decoction of Veronica with Wine or the decoction of Turneps with Sugar-Candy Butter or Oyle of sweet Almonds but the shell must be taken off and the water of the first boyling must be thrown away he anointed also with the water of whites of Eggs. Fernelius saith that all Stones of the bladder come from the Reins because al slimy matter is voided from the Bladder by-Urine wherefore every Stone of the Bladder if you break the shell there is a Kernel in it that was wrapped up by it it is of an ash colour and rough Fab. cent 4. obs 5. see Hist of Guilh. Laurembergius who cured a Stone of the Bladder with Medicaments Senn. l. 3. p. 8. s 1. c. 2. Waters sent to the Bladder by a Catheter can break a Stone there and one may make tryal of it by stones taken out of the Body The SHINGLES rise from yellow pure thin Choler it eateth because the choler is sharp it causeth small creeping Ulcers and excoriations that are not deep with wanness Some call it Formica but not properly The Cure is by Generals The continent cause must first be cooled as by Lettice c. It sheweth when the heat is abated digestives discussives which are useful If there be Pushes the Coolers must not be moist but dry as Willow leaves Knot grasse Aquapendens used this following Take the juyce of Tobacco three ounces yellow wax two ounces Rosin of the Pine-tree one ounce and half Turpentine one ounce oyl of Myrtils what may suffice make a Cerat For. applyed leaves of Colts-foot Paraeus found unguent of Elecampane with Mercury to be a sure remedy The oyl of Birch branches dried collected in a pewter vessel is commended If it spread daily touch the edges of the Ulcers with the oyl of Vitriol or with Aqua fortis So Pareus cured uncurable Ulcers Par. l. 6. SHIVERING It differs in degree from vehement cold The Subject is the Muscle The Cause the expulsive Faculty moved and so it belongeth to the Symptoms of the natural Faculty but because the animal faculty riseth up also to expel the mischief it is referred to animal Symptoms Gal. and others make the remote cause to be cooling and the motion of the influence of heat from the Center to the Circumference and contrarily but in vehement cold stirred up by Choler also where sharp things are put into an Ulcer or a spark falls upon the Body vehement shaking goeth before cooling Therefore the cause is some troublesome thing suddenly rending the sensitive parts in the circumference of the Body and stirring up the expulsive faculty The opinion of Galen is sometimes true In Feavers extream shaking cometh from the rending of the sensitive parts as of the stomach c. yet so that it draweth into consent the parts in the circumference of the Body as also by the vapours sent thither Cure particular is not requisite for this for it followeth other diâ—eases In Feavers the back must be anointed with hot things as with oyl of Camomil SPOTS natural according to Senn. are bred from imagination of the Mother Par. l. 23. they are made from a part of the menstruous blood sticking yet to the sides of the Matrix from a fresh Flux or from a kind of dew distilling out of the Veins before the time the greater sort incurable also those that are like Warts and wan they are to be washed with the blood of the secondine also with the Courses or the Mothers fasting spittle SPITTING often is of that spittle which is bred in the first concoction and in the third in the Brain and which falls upon the Tonsils it is concocted and voided by the Mouth sometimes it is sharp sometimes white c. The cause is fleam from the Brain or stomach chiefly falling in the morning it comes not alwaies from cold but oft times in diseases from burning heat It cometh also especially that which is made after meat from affection of the Hypochondres the Scurvy It oft times preserveth from diseases It is cured if the cause be taken away as the Catarrh by Dryers and Evacuaters SAHAFATI must not be cured in an Infant for it preserveth it from the Epilepsie yet if we must do something let the Nurse be purged gently wash the Head with decoction of Mallows Borrage Barley this being done lay on warm Cabbadge leaves anointed with Butter or of Ivy also the leaves of Orache anointed or roots of Marsh-mallows boyld in Boys urine Topicals are allowd or the juyce of Fumitory Scabious Elecampane Lytharge oyl of Nuts Hogs grease For. hath an infallible remedy for Boys and Infants Take the yolks of Eggs roasted hard sixteen Myrth one dram root of Cuckoe pint half a dram black Hellebour six grains fry them in an iron frying pan without flame until they froth then presse out the oyl and fry them so often and presse them out till they will froth no more cast away the dregs and keep the oyl in a close vessel for your use In those that are of years it is
cured by Digesters and chiefly by remedies that evacuate fleam and melancholy Till these be often used Topicals are not good which must be to soften the crusts afterwards the juyce or decoction of Fumitory sharp Dock Celandine Ivy leaves Scabious Bean-meal Galen only used burnt paper soaked in Vinegar and anointed the part affected and so cured many Urine Brine For. puts this following for a secret Take Salt butter Hogs grease of each one ounce Brimstone half an ounce Quicksilver killed with spittle one dram a certain Boy was killed by Quicksilver laid to his Head and Vitriol one scruple then Butter Hogs grease Brimstone must be melted a part in a Mortar then add the rest Cresses fried or beaten with Hogs grease Lastly it is cured as the Small-Pox with the the decoction of Guaicum fasting spittle with liquor dropping from green wood in burning Plum tree Gum things that expell the matter or Carduus Benedictus and Harts-horn are good Balsam of Peru or Turpentine boyled with water or juyce of Tobacco The SCAB A certain woman did happily cure all Scabs with juyce of Cresces and Goose grease SCIRRHUS is a Tumor which is made of melancholy or natural fleam dried by degrees in the part and is without pain Platerus saith that it may be made from nutrimental juyce thickned and hardned Diagnosticks It is hard and without pain though it be pressed The colour is wan if it be from melancholy it is cold Prognostick That which hath lost all feeling is past cure They are cured either by resolution or suppuration this is more rare and more dangerous It followeth Erysipelas Inflammation c. The Cure is wrought by Emollients we must never moysten or resolve alone but either by Courses it must be moistned and dried or together as the Ancients warn us A fume of Vinegar with a fire-stone resolveth excellently The antecedent cause must be evacuated A SCIRRHUS of the Liver followeth obstructions frequently It is seldom known there is an ill habit of the Body little Urine without a Feaver See the rest in Obstruction of the Liver It is cured as before ever adding Spicknard Saffron Mastick If the Convex part be so Topicals are principal Goose dung Sarsoparilla Fern root Succories Emollients Steel SCIRRHUS of the Spleen is known by the touch there is difficulty of breathing a wan colour weight on the left side when the Belly is full there is straightness about the Spleen If the Mouth stink the Gums be eaten Ulcers in the Legs will not be cured it is an old Scirrhus The Cure Lenitives premised Alteratives Evacuatives Opening of a Vein is seldome convenient Aperients are good to which add Vinegar and Oxymel Coolers are Succories four great Cold seeds c. chiefly Fern root Amatus denyeth Harts Tongue to be good for the Spleen We must purge by course For. exhibited this following opener for fifteen days after the use of Generals Take Fern roots half an ounce of Dodder two drams boyl them in eight ounces of White-wine and Beer to the wasting of a third part strain it and drink it at once The most effectual means is the decoction of the Tamarisk wood as Guaicum is wont to be boyled especially if it be boyled in steeled water Steel water of quick Lime Ammoniacum with Hemlock See Senn. Some tried waters natural others drink of the wood they were preserved from falling further but not cured these were made worse I think by too much drying For. values much the following Topical Take of oyl of Cappars one ounce oyl of Lillies sweet Almonds Camomil fresh Buttet of each half an ounce juyce of Bryony Sow-bread of each half an ounce boyl them to the wasting of the juyces adding Ammoniac dissolved in Vinegar two drams and half Hens grease Marrow of Calves Legs Mans fat of each half an ounce Powder of bark of the roots of Tamarisk Cappars Miltworst Fern root of each one dram Powder of the seeds of Agnus Castus Broom of each one scruple a little wax make an Unguent or a fomentation of water wherein fire-stone is quenched Fumes motion before meat is good If it be incurable they are kept alive by Diet and by purging in Spring and Autumn The SCURVEY Which in the year 1486 invaded Germany as Spangenb saith is an ill habit of the natural parts from a melancholik humour especially corrupted The Subject is that hollowness of Spiegelius into which the Liver Spleen Stomach unload their Excrements The fountaine is in the Liver the Spleen yet the Liver oft times and oft times the Spleen hath been safe The seat are the Veins and Arteries The Cause immediate is a tanateous humour bred from concoction hurt either of it self or by outward error a watery blood oft times mingled with other things if it become malignant is the next cause if it be not already the antecedent cause for it is malignant It is generated by reason of concoction hurt by things natural not natural preternatural and by the volatil salt that is in meats and ventilation wanting So Platerus determins that meat and drink may become blood under the form of vapours So it is cured by remedies full of volatil salt as by Scurvey-grasse out of which if either by length of time or by boyling the volatil salt should exhale they grow unprofitable Wherefore juyce and conserve are most profitable So meats that breed the Scurvey abound with fixed salt to be cured by volatil Vinegar makes for this and meats hardned by smoke Signs There preceeded grosse Dyet sorrow which if did precede there will be no disease but will be joyned with the Scurvey Signs at the beginning are willing laziness heavinesse of the Abdomen difficulty of breathing after exercise weaknesse of the Legs with pain the colour groweth wan a man seems to grow fat Afterwards happeneth an itching redness of the Gums a small Pulse the water sometimes clear sometimes troubled after this stinking of the Mouth a bloody swelling of the Gums the Teeth are loose the Legs have lead coloured spots and purple specks innumerable The appetire seldome fails The sick say they are sound some on certain days with and without a Feaver are more afflicted Some are boundin their Bellies others loose The Feet are spotted sometimes they swell are made lesse There are Ulcers on their Legs a crooked melancholy vein under the Tongue All symptoms of the animalfaculty Dropsy Gangrene oft times Scabs a bastard Pluresy bleeding at the Nose bloody stools opening of Veins in the Legs The Jaundies shortness of breath Wild-fire heat pain of the soles of the Feet noise of the Bones moved spongy flesh under the Ey-lids In hard breathing the sick shew the cause to be under the Diaphragma red little sands in their urine also Tartareous matter pain of the whole Body pains increasing about the Joynts pain of the Belly oft times with breach of the Peritonaeum That pain differs from the Colick because this when the Belly is loose vanisheth the
plentiful and clammy If it be corrupt and that from too weak a Medicament there is a stink and the Ulcer appeareth whitish If it corrode there is pricking pain alwayes increasing It is cured by Generals Topicals detergent as with spirit of Wine Fleshy excrescence in Ulcers cometh either from too much blood or because Sarcoticks are laid-on that dry not sufficiently If the first the flesh is good if the latter loose spongy If the first it is cured by fasting c. The latter with greater Dryers Epuloticks and Corrosives without pain The green water is good which Senn. oftimes commends as Take raw Alum Verdigrease of each two drams boyl them in eighteen ounces of Wine till a fourth part be consumed strain it then add Camphir one dram dissolve it in spirit of Wine one ounce and add it to the former If the Ulcer be with a hard Circumference and the hardners will not yield to Emolients the hard and wan flesh is most fitly cut out to the quick flesh that scarifying may be made and strong Detergents used If the Ulcer be with a Tumor eating not only the Cucula but also the flesh it is called an eating-Ulcer It comes from a sharp humour not so thin as in Wild-fire nor so thick as in a Cancer It is cured as an Ulcer with tumor and distemper That Ulcer is very ill bound up three or four times a day unless it be by reason of extream pain Let there be an Ulcer within the Leg alittle above the Ankle afflicting with great pain that is hollow corrupt joyned with corruption of the Bone circular with brawny swollen Lips compassed with inflammation and swollen melancholly Veins Suppose this be propounded to be cured Generals first premised first of all you shall ease the pain taking away the cause of it by Softners Coolers Narcoticks so the pain with the Inflammation being asswaged wash away the rottenness In the mean time by the way you shall make the Ulcer corner-ways you shall cut off the brawny substance of it you shall correct the putrefaction you shall make the Bones scale the Ulcer being cleansed must be filled with flesh brought to cicatrise Par. Querc commendeth the Sugar of Saturn to be miraculous Vulnerary drinks An ULCER of the Eye is known by sight and if it be in the Cornea there preceedeth a white Push a little Ulcer the Cicatrix is made white if it be in the Adnata it will be red It is cured by Generals Revulsives Intercipients laid to the Temples Anodyns Detergents as with Sugar Honey Myrrh Saffron Frankincense water of Strawberries three parts Sugar one part distilled when they have been eight days in digestion in Balneo Rue Horehound Ey-bright water Infusion of Sarcocolla Aloes c. bound in a linnen clout and pressed forth Take Frankincense Mastick of each one scruple Myrrh Aloes Succotrine of each half a dram Tutty prepared one dram Sarcocolla infused half a dram powder them mingle them with the white of an Egg and juyce of Quinces make Troches to be dissolved in Fennel water Give internal means to restore the sight as Take Conserve of Ey-bright one ounce and half Betony Rosemary of each one ounce roots of Elecampane candied two drams Fennel candied half an ounce extract of Rue seed half a scruple the essence extract or spirit of Valerian roots half a scruple Siler mountain one dram Sage Rue Vervain of each half a scruple with syrup of Betony or Staechados make an Electuary let it be taken at Bed-time Strew salt of the powder of Ey-bright on their meats Montan. ep 75. relates that he saw one use it by the Nostrils because the Ulcer was not well cured Vitriol in small quantity dissolved in much Rose water serveth instead of all Detergents For. premising a Lenitive purgeth with Fennel Ey-bright Senna leaves Pillulae Lucis to one dram Opening a Vein Cupping Scarifying fomentation of Mallows two handfuls flowers of red Roses one dram and half Quince seeds one dram and half cleansed Barley one pugil boyl all in ten ounces of fountain water add water of Mallows Roses of each half an ounce soment it twice in a day he dropped in the Collyrium following Take Troches that are white of Rhasis for the Eys without opium two scruples Rose water two ounces mingle them and drop it in lay upon it a double linnen cloth wet in the former fomentation after that in the fomentation was infused Fenugrec seed exactly washed two drams and half of Quinces two drams in a Nodulus after that Ey-bright water half an ounce was added to the Ey water after that in the same Collirium was put a little Sarcacolla soaked in Brest milk then a little Frankincense Saffron with the Mucilage of Fenugree seed At first let the sick sleep on the opposite side until the matter break forth in the side affected Venatius for an Ulcer of the Eye ill cured was commanded to forsake Padua An ULCER of the weeping flesh namely an Aegylops For. because of the danger doth not willingly undertake the cure of it If it were not yet ulcerated after Generals there is need of repelling means after that add Discussives as rank nuts If it be suppurated open it in time cleanse it Verdigrease of it self is a secret If it be with rottennesse of the Bone there is need of a Canstick Fab. cured them with Setons An ULCER of the Ear. Signs are pain burning great pricking in the Ear matter This sometimes is sent forth from the Brain inflamed which is easily known Sometimes as in children from the impurity of the Brain without an Impostume in the Veins of the Brain and Passages of the Ears matter is bred and there is no pain and the matter once spent is heaped up again The cure By Generals Topicals Detergents as juyce of Betes Horehound oyl of bitter Almonds juyce of Onions with Honey of Roses or Mel Rosarum the side is anointed with unguent of Alabaster juyce of wake Robin Briony the matter that comes forth must be put-by with wooll with Honey-water afterwards with Wine then with Oxymel The Probe must be wrapped with Wool The pain is taken away with a piece of Frankincense infused in Milk till it be dissolved and drop'd in by drops If there be Plethory and the matter runneth not yet out of the Ulcer pain urging a Vein is fit to be opened Galen for old Ulcers ufeth scales of Iron powdred beaten with Vinegar and seven times dryed then with Vinegar it is boyled to the thickness of Honey The matter must be drawn forth by a great Syringe unless it come forth it self An ULCER of the Nostrils If it be new and stink not it is easily cured if old and stinking hardly it is called Ozaena which oft times gives suspition of a Cancer It is most difficult to cure it hath crusts The Cure Generals premised also the decoction of Guaicum and a vulnerary drink Let the Topicals be Astringents and Discussives mingled