men up in an infected and mortall Aire But I shall prove by sollid arguments The Plague not infectious Arg. 1. that the Pestilence is not infectious My first Argument I frame thus That disease that infecteth one man that commeth neere it infecteth all men that come neere it But the Plague infecteth not all Therefore it infecteth none The minor is cleer as the Sunne My Major I prove from the universal course of nature The fire warmeth one man it warmeth all the water wetteth one man it wetteth all because their nature is so to do a sword woundeth one man it woundeth all that are strooke with it the universall current of nature runneth so therefore the Plague if it infect one man must infect all But some will say all mens bodies are not full of humours Object if they were all would be infected I answer then by my Opposites argument the fault lies in the humours that are within Answ the body not in the infection which is without if he fly will these putrified humours continue in his body and he remain in health if so how then come diseases Or will an infected Aire change a disease which would be but bad at the best if so shew a Rule in Physick and I am satisfied * You may find some notable proofes to the contrary in my Astrologicall experiences But clense the body of these humours let all men do so and then come to a visited person and then by my Opposites own confession they will not be infected and how then can the disease be infections and infect no body My second Argument I frame thus That disease Arg. 2 the raining of which may be fore-seene by more secret causes in nature long before it come can not be increased by visiting the sick nor diminished by abstaining from them But the Pestilence may and always is foreseene long before it comes Therefore you will have it never the soonner by visiting those that are sick of it nor escape ever a whit the longer by abstaining from it The Major is cleere for if the cause come the effect must needes follow Signs of a Plague to come For the proofe of the minor I shall produce twelve signes of a Plague to come which appeare some of them above a yeare yea some of them above two yeares before it come The first is Phanomena in the Aire great meetings of superiour Planets whereby not only the time but also the place where the Pestilence will most rage may be gathered as this Autumnall Pestilence in London 1645. was by Mr Booker in his Almanack for that yeare which was penned at Midsomer 1644. also by Mr William Lilly his Anglicus peace or no peace left at the Printers Decemb. 1644. The learned in Astrology may satisfie themselves without me also blazing starres and other strange meteors and supernaturall sights and apparitions in the Aire The second is the changing of the seasons hot weather out of its season and cold out of its season hot and dry weather a long time upon south winds and many raines upon North-windes The third is when the small pockes and measels vex not only children but men and women of perfect age especially in the Spring The fourth is the winds holding along-time in the south or west The fifth is a darke and troubled Aire a long time without either raine or cleere weather or if after a long drought it raine without thunder The sixt is when women conceived with child do suffer abortion for every light and slight cause The seventh is when in summer time after raine abundance of frogs of diverse colours gather together The eight is a great number more then ordinary of flies spiders and creeping things are seene in the spring The ninth is death of four-footed beastes and fishes The tenth is birds forsaking their nests and leaving their egges there The eleventh is dearth of corne and grain The twelft is a hot and moyst temperature of the yeare But say some Object if the Plague be not infectious what is the reason when it comes into a house sometimes all the house are sick of it and sometimes dye of it This might be sufficiently answered by a retortive Answ All diseases come by Ill directions therefore not by infection Else no nativity can safely be verified by accidents Prevention If so be the Plague be infectious what 's the reason many times but one in a house hath it and all the rest though perhaps they kept a worse diet yet escape any that hath any judgement in nativities can give a reason of it easily Well be it infectious or not infectious prevented it may be as may other demonstrations of the Planets if discretion be used and therefore now to the purpose And in the first place let such as would avoyd this disease avoyd the feare of it for feare changeth the blood into the nature of the thing feared the imagination ruling the spirits natural as is manifest in womens conceptions Secondly let your body be kept soluble if it be not so naturally take a scruple of Pillutae Ruffi Pestilentiales at night when you go to bed Thirdly if your body be full of blood bleed so much as strength and age permit Take a spoonfull of Vinegar of Squils * three or foure times a day viz. Fewer times will serve the turne at ten of the clocke after dinner at foure in the afternoon and after Supper Take the quantity of a Hazle nut of this Electuary invented by Mithridates that renowned King of Pontus and the first Author also of that Electuary that beares his name to this day Mithridate every morning often also used by the Emperour Charles the fift of the vertues of which I have had large experience it is thus made Take of greene Rew gathered in the houre of Sol halfe a handfull blew Figgs six and as many Walnuts with forty Juniper berries and a little Bay-salt beat into an Electuary Let all passions and perturbations of mind be ☞ avoyded together with all violent motions for these inflame the blood so also doth drinking much Wine Let the house be kept clean and pure and alwayes a good fire in it Let the diet be of good juyce quicke of digestion and let him eat sharpe things with his meats such as Vinegar Verjuyce Oranges juyce of Lemmons and Citrons or Pomegranates and let all fruits be avoyded except such as are sowre Let not the stomack be charged with excesse either of meat or drink In Summer-time let the blood be cooled with coole hearbs as Endive Lettuce Purslain Succory and let the drinke be Whey clarified with them Let him use the smels of Ladanum Styrax Calamitis Camphyre Cinnamon Nutmegs wood of Aloes liquid Storax c. Lastly these things are preventionall being taken inwardly and resist the Disease consideratis considerandis viz. Angeliica roots Zedoary Bole Armenicke Terra Lemnia Mithridate Treacle Tormentill and Petasitis roots and Citron pils with
Vertigo the one called Teneâ—â—â—â— of a Vertigo of some Scotoma and this say they is the most dangerous because it often turns to the Falling-sicknesse Indeed I grant the dark Vertigo turneth soonest to the Falling-sicknesse because it commeth of Atra bilis or Choler adust but Fuchsius thinks they erre that think the Diseases to be two because they differ a Tittle in quality and truly so do I. All Gallen's words may not be Authenticks no nor Hippocrates his neither and neither Fuchsius nor my self were nor are so simple but we know Choler yellow will turn black and adust in the Tunicle of the Stomack and cause no other difference then changing the quality not the nature of the Disease But enough of this I proceed to the Signs A darknes or mist appeareth before their eys that are troubled with this Disease Signs and that upon every light occasion especially if they drink but a cup of strong drink or wine or if they turn round for it chanceth to them if they turn round once as it doth to others when they turn round often times so that sometimes they fall down Also the same effect it brings to him to see another man or a wheel or the water run round therefore let such objects be avoided for the vital spirits beholding it turn about also and so the moving of the Humour that causeth the Disease is troubled unequall and inordinate When this Disease lyeth in the brain only without relation to the stomack there followeth sound in the ears pain in the head sometimes vehement and heavinesse there also the smelling and other senses are detrimented their fits are chiefly when the Sun doth heat them or when their head is hot by some other means for Heat doth dissolve the Humours and then they turne about the Brain And indeed for ought I know a cleer Sun-shine day is hurtfull for those in whom the Disease proceeds from the Stomack as mine did and I found the same extreamly prejudiciall to me Those in whom the Disease proceedeth from the Stomack feel a gnawing in their Stomack before the fit come and a disposition to vomit and are as though they were heart-burnt Also thus you may know of what Humour the Disease ☞ comes by the apparent colour of things to their eyes for if they appear yellow the Disease comes of yellow Choler if reddish or bloody it comes of Blood and is ☞ apt to fall into a frenzy or madnesse if dark it comes of Atra bilis and is a fore-runner of the Falling sicknesse ☞ or Apoplexie And thus much for example sake Also these Diseases are most violent in that time of the year that suiteth best with their nature as Choler in Summer Melancholy in Autumn c. If this Disease be caused by Vapours that ascend from the Stomack Cure as mine did Vomiting is a speedy cure and the onely cure I could find Cautions For only that winde causeth Whirlwinds Let the sick avoid the beams both of Sun and Moon all Winds especially South winds nor let him behold any thing that moves round nor any deep thing Let him avoid fasting and fulnesse all meats that engender winde that are of a dilative quality and send Vapours up to the head such be Milk Onions Garlick Leeks Let him eschew sleep in the day saith Galen but for mine own part I found ease in nothing else Let his Meat be of good Juice Diet and good Digestion If the Disease come of Blood use Blood-letting Let the Sick avoid perturbation of mind anger fear sadnesse loud crying and singing Let him not keep his Head too hot nor abide in an Aire too hot or too cold and let him stir his Head as little as may be In a word keep his Stomack clean with Vomits and his Head with Pil. Alephanginae Acetum scilliticum is a soveraign remedy and Southernwood is the Herbe proper for the Disease CHAP. XIV Of Frenzie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Description 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek in Latine also Phrenitis in English a Frenzie is a Disease that troubles the minde dangerous and difficult to cure it differs from Madnesse thus Definition a Feaver ever accompanies a Frenzie but never Madnesse A Frenzie is a continuall Madnesse and Furie with raging and vexation of mind Division accompanied with an acute Feaver caused through inflammation of the Brain or the films thereof Three sorts of Frenzies There are three internall senses in the Head Imagination Judgment Memory and a man may be frenetick or as our common English word saith Frantick in any of these Some are frenetick onely in Imagination imagining they see things they do not and yet do give a right judgment of things they do see and remember every man and call him by name in such fantasie onely is distempered Other apprehend things truly yet judge falsly of them as a Patient I had that judged his father would kill him and therefore fled his presence as also that he was some great person There the seat of Judgment is chiefly vexed The third is compound of these two and they erre in every thing and know no body nor remember any thing and in such the Brain is totally distempered The Frenzie is caused of abundance of Choler Cause and cholerick Blood either in the Brain or films thereof and if the Choler be adust the Disease is vehement and pernicious Besides Signs a terrible Feaver and Madnesse for the most part they cannot sleep if they do sleep at all it is troublesom many times when they do sleep they start up out of it suddenly and rage and cry out furiously they babble words without order or sense and very seldom answer directly to a question their Water many times is thin and cleer and if it be so it is so much the worse many times the softlier you speak to them the louder they answer Their Eyes are blood-shotten bleared and staring and sometime dry and sometimes full of sharp and scalding tears most of them pull and tear all the cloaths about them to pieces their Pulses are small weak and slow and they fetch their breath but seldom that which cometh of Blood causeth inordinate laughter and Choler immoderate fury also such must be bound in their beds they forget every thing speedily that they either do or say I have seen one call for a Chamber-pot and so soon as he had it either had forgot what it was or else forgot to pisse in it Concerning the usage of the Sick Aire if it be winter let the aire be warm if in summer let it be cold a whited wall is best for diversity of colours or pictures are naught Some are troubled with light in their Fits and some with darknesse therefore you had best try them both and let him have light that is afraid of darknesse and keep him dark that is offended with light but if the Sick be indifferent between
the blood XI Amongst all the rest of the entrailes the Liver is most subject to obstructions XII Therefore such Medicines as hinder Obstructions or help them being made are appropriated to the Liver And they are such which cut and attenuate without vehement heat such as have both a clensing and a binding quality XIII Inflammations commonly follow obstructions and they require cooling things yet will not any cool thing serve the turne but such as are hepaticall XIV Take heed in the use of cool things that you extinguish not the faculty of concoction or so cool the Diaphragma which lies very neer that you hinder respiration CHAP. VI. Of Splenicalls I. THree excrements are especially beheld in the breeding of blood a watry humour cholar and melancholy II. The proper seat of Chollar is the Gall the watry humour goes to the Reines the thicker part of the blood the Spleen challengeth to its selfe III. This is either adust by too violent heat and then it is called Atra Bilis or thick and terrene of it selfe and that is properly called Melancholly IV. From hence now is the force and nature of Splenicall Medicines found out V. For Atra Bilis often produceth Madnesse and pure Melancholly * hardness Scirrhus and viciates the concoction of the Blood whence follows Dropsies and also breeds obstructions VI. Splenicals therefore are of two sorts some appropriated to Atra Bilis some to Melancholly for of purging I shal write nothing here but leave that to the last Chapter VII Atra Bilis is tempered by cooling and moistning yet is it not so hot that it should need things extremely cold VIII Such are those which we wrote of amongst the Cordialls that cause mirth by keeping Melancholly vapours from the heart IX Melancholly humour is removed by cutting and opening Medicines which differ from Hepaticks because they want adstriction for the Spleen seeing it wants concoction needs no adstriction X. Moreover the Spleen is not only obstructed by Melancholly humour but also made hard XI The cure of this is wrought by Emollients which must not be given inwardly lest they hinder the concoction of the Ventricle but applyed outwardly CHAP. VII Of Renalls and Vessicalls I. THat the watry humour may be separated from the blood nature hath added the Reins to the rest of the bowells II. Because a Man should do something else besides continually pisse the Bladder was added to containe the Urine III. Both of these are easily corrupted by the vices of the Urine IV. The Urine is stopped by Stones or Inflammations or gross humours therefore Medicines appropriated to the Reines and Bladder which are called Nephritica and Cystica and to be distinguished into three parts 1. Some cool 2. Some cut grosse humours 3. Others break the Stone V. The constitution of the Reines and Bladder is such that binding things are extream dangerous to them because they stop the Urine VI. Those Medicines are then proper to the Reins and Bladder which are lenitive cut and extenuate without violent heat VII Onely take this caution that seeing the Bladder is farther from the Centre of the body than the Reines it requires stronger Medicines lest their strength be consumed before they come at the grieved place CHAP. VIII Of Hystericalls I. TOuching provoking and stopping the termes shall be spoken hereafter in another Treatise II. The Womb thus resembles the Brain and Ventricle that it manifestly draws to Cephalicks and Aromaticks and flies from their contraries III. For this is confirmed by daily experience that in the fits of the Mother which is the Womb turned upwards stinking things applyed to the Nose and sweet things to the Matrix reduce it but sweet things applyed to the Nose and stinking things to the Matrixe produce it IV. In fallings out of the Womb we use the contrary V. This made some Sots ascribe the sence of smelling to the Womb whereas indeed and in truth that such things please the Brain and nervous parts is not because of their smelling but because they are friendly to it by their own substance VI. The Stomach is offended with stinking things and a man that hath no smell will vomit them up againe why because they are obnoxious to it VII So also the Womb is offended with stinking things not because it smells them but because they are adverse to its nature VIII For Smels are the judges of Medicines by which nature teacheth what is fit and convenient for it selfe IX So then those Medicines are hystericall which by binding stop the ternes or by inciding provoke them of which more hereafter or such as are gratefull to the Womb which are known by a sweet or aromaticall savour CHAP. IX Of Arthriticalls I. THe Joynts are most infested with capitall diseases and therefore cured with Cephalick Medicines II. The reason is soon given which is because they are of a nervous quality III. Those things are appropriated to the Joynts which have a drying and heating quality with a certaine light adstriction IV. Besides such things as are appropriated to the Joynts by a peculiar appropriation or astrall influence of which knot-Grasse is one and therefore by some called Joynt-wort V. Yet take notice of this that because the joynts are more remote from the Centre they require stronger Medicines than the brain doth VI. As to what belongeth to paines in the joynts this is the manner of proceeding VII Pain is either taken away or asswaged but its true cure is by taking away what causeth it VIII Yet sometimes so great is its fury that we must give Anodines before we can meddle with the cause and that especially when it causeth heat influxion of blood or inflammation IX Besides the Medicines which take away the cause of paine are very hot and therefore to be forborne in such cases X. Also the manner of easing paines is twofold for if you regard the pain it selfe use Anodines if the heat use refrigeratives XI Also take notice of thus much that flegm compacted in the joynts when it is teazed a little causeth pain and influxion XII Such Medicines as take away the cause of such paine are strong cutters and drawers which neither agree with Choller nor blood XIII When you perceive that there is attraction and discussion enough made so that the pain is ceased and the cause of it taken away use adstrictions to strengthen the joints that they may not easie recite more deflexions CHAP. X. Of Purges THis last Chapter I shall divide into these parts Of purging Med cines 1. Of their Election 2. Correction 3. Of the time of purging 4. Manner of purging 5. Part I. Of Purging Medicines I. PHysitians for want of other things to trouble their heads make a great business whether Purges work by a hidden or manifest quality whereas the Heavens teach me a better lesson II. These two questions are to be answered 1. What humour is to be evacuated 2. What medicine to do it by III. For as the
both let the strongest have light and keep â—â—e weakest darkest Let his dearest friends come to him and let some speak friendly to him and let some of them speak harshly and roughly to him for there is no rule with such persons unlesse they stand in awe of some body If strength permit Bleeding let him bleed largely in the arme and two or three dayes after under the tongue Keep his body laxative Stool Force him to sleep with Opium Sleep if his body be strong you need not fear to give him four or five grains at a time also hang soporiferous things about his Head as Mandrakes Nightshade Poppy Henbane c. and anoint his head and temples with oyl of Poppy if he sleep not without these Let his drink be water Drink in which Cinamon hath been boiled Let his meat be exceeding little Meat and let that little be of very good and speedy digestion Also I have found by experience Cure Castoreum to be very medicinal for the Disease taken inwardly For other Medicines your best way is to labour to remove that Humour which causeth the Disease of which Medicines you may be furnished in the peculiar chapter belonging to the particular Humour CHAP. XV. Of the Lethargie IN direct opposition to a Frenzie Description is the Disease called a Lethargie which causeth sluggishnesse and an inexpugnable desire to sleep This word Lethargie is a Greek word compounded of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies forgetfulnesse and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies slothfull or dull and therefore in stead of Veternus the common Latine word it might be better or at least better in my opinion be called Oblivio iners a sluggish forgetfulnesse Names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Subeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is affirmed by many good Phisicians that there is such a Disease as Coma Vigilans but as yet I never saw any possessed with it This sluggish Disease hath gotten many names it is called by some Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Arabians Subeth of some Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say they is of two sorts Coma somnolentum or a sleepy Coma the other called Vigilans coma or a waking Coma because such as have Lethargies seem to be awake many times when they are not Many have thought these Diseases to be all different because different places have given it different names yet all confesse the cause of them all to be the same and then the difference can be onely in the Complexion of the party grieved It is caused of Flegm Cause which cooleth the Brain overmuch and moistneth it and thereby provoketh sleep They are alwayes in a profound and dead sleep Signes their Pulse is great and striketh seldom and beateth as though it were in water they fetch breath seldom and weakly and are so sluggish and sleepy that they can hardly be forced to answer to a question sometimes they will open their eyes if you cry aloud to them but they instantly shut them again they are exceeding forgetfull and alwayes talk idly in their sleep they gape and yawn often and sometime keep their mouth open as though they had forgot to shut it some are costive Cure others laxative their Urine is like Beasts Urine stinking some tremble and sweat all over Let the chamber wherein the Sick doth lye Aire be very light and very warm Let his Diet be such things as extenuate Diet. cut and dry and let it be seasoned with Anniseed Cummin-seed Pepper Cinamon Ginger Cloves c. For Pot-hearbs let him use Sparagus Parsley Fennel and such like and after eating binde the extream parts viz. the Thighs hard that the Vapours ascend not up into the Head You may burn Brimstone under his Nose Nassaliâ— or assa foetida to awake him Give him strong Gargarisms Gargarisms made with Pellitory of Spain and Mustard also you may safely put a whole spoonfull of Mustard into his mouth at once Also you may boil Time Penny-royall and Origanum in Vinegar and dip a spunge in it and hold it alwayes to his Nose You may shave off his Hair and keep his Head alwayes moistned with Vinegar of Roses also it is excellent to let it drop down from some high place upon the crown of his Head Povoke him often to sneeze with white Hellebore Sneezing Also Clisters in this Disease you may safely administer sharp and scowring Clisters with Collocynthis Agrick Electuary Benedicia laxativa species hierae picrae and the like in the common decoction The Disease declining purge Flegm Castoreum is also exceeding medicinal for this Disease Purge either taken inwardly or applied outwardly CHAP. XVI Of Forgetfulnesse THe losse of Memory chanceth sometimes a-alone and sometimes Reason is hurt with it It is caused of Lethargies and other soporiferous Diseases Cause for they being ended many times leave Forgetfulnesse behind them and then it comes of a cold distemper This coldnesse hath sometimes drinesse joined with it and sometimes moisture and sometimes nothing but a bare distemper to know this you must diligently observe the causes whence it ariseth The causes are two internal external if they be internal either abundance of Flegm or Melancholy is the cause of it if there be no signs of these abounding then it comes of some external cause unlesse it come through extream old age The external causes you may know by the relation of the sick or those that are about him if any disease have newly passed and so turned into oblivion if medicines were applied outwardly on administred inwardly which extreamely cooled the brain or if it came of study watching c. If the memory be but a little hurt Signes it shews the braine to be but a little cooled if reason be also hurt then the disease is vehement If it come of a dry distemper the sick watcheth much and can hardly be brought to sleepe If moysture only offend then are they heavy inclined to sleep and their sleepes are long and troublesome If cold be joyned with the moysture it is a perfect Lethargy though perhaps but breeding and then the excrements are many at the mouth and nose proceeding from the braine If melancholy be the cause he will not be very desirous of sleepe nor voyd excrements from his brain besides all circumstances and the state of his whole body incline to cold and drinesse For to give a true judgment of a disease you must consider the complexion of the party the region that he lives in the times of the yeare the state of the aire and the diet he hath used Let his diet be different according to the cause of his disease as for example Diet. if it come of coldness let it be hot c. But what ever the cause be the aire must not be cold nor the roome darke
regard the Patients strength his naturall temper the time of the yeare age and usuall custome of the sicke and accordingly order your Physick If the natural temper of the body be cholericke you must feed them with meat at the beginning of the fit â—â—â—tioâ— for it is very subject if the body be kept fasting to turn to an acute rotten Feaver See the body be kept laxative Stoole if he go not naturally to stoole provoke him with an emollient Clister Finally Bath so soon as the fit begins to wane bath him in a warm bath made with sweet hearbs boyled in water for that will open the pores and let out the vapours CHAP. IIII. Of Synochus non pistrida being a Feaver which lasteth three or four dayes THis Feaver is caused 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quid either because the small pores of the skin are stopped Cause or because the body it selfe is moderately thickned through cold or after bathing or by sharpe binding medicines heat of the Sun or any other thing that dries the skin It may be thus knowne First by touching Signs for the skin is harder and more compact then it was wont to be Secondly by the heat which at first seemes gentle and easie but after you have held your a hand while you shall feel it sharper Thirdly the Unine is not much altered from its naturall substance and colour for this disease lies in the spirits not in the blood Fourthly the body fals not away but their eyes are swollen and fuller of moisture then usually Fifthly the pulse is equall swift vehement and frequent Cure Bleeding For cure of this disease you may safely draw out so much blood as age strength and the season of the year permit After bleeding use things that clense and scowr Abstergents such are Oximel Hysop Origanum Smallage and observe whether the heat abate by this diet ☜ For if by the third day you find little heat left Bath you may safely bath him with such things as are scouring such be Orris and Aristolochia roots Smallage salt-peeter boyled in water and honey But if the Feaver then increase or on the fourth day then either you were mistaken at first in the disease or else the Feaver is altered and some humour putrified CHAP. V. Of a rotten Feaver called Synochus putrida Synochus putrida quid SYnochus putrida is a Feaver which holds from the beginning to the ending without any great mutation or sensible change and may well be called a constant or stable Feaver Of this are three sorts I described them in the second Chapter This Feaver is caused by the rotting of all the humours equally within the Vessels Cause and especially in the great Vessels about the arm-holes and share and this chanceth when fervent heat is kept in by violent binding and stopping which is within the body for when heat and moist things cannot breath out they putrifie and rot presently Therefore this feaver is seldome ingendred in thin spare folke nor in cold bodies nor old age but in such as abound in blood of grosse fat or fleshy bodies or stuffed with hot excrements This is properly known from Synochus non putrida Signes because there are signes of rottennesse in the Urine and the pulse of a man sicke of this but not so in the former The other signes all agree with the former The Cure of this feaver ‑ must begin with blood-letting Cure Bleeding and that in the beginning of the disease if you can Cold drinke is most perilous in this disease Caution first because it causeth obstructions and hindreth the attenuation of the clammy humours Secondly cold drinkes hurt weake members some by drinking cold drinke in this feaver have gotten such sore throats that they could not swallow in some the Stomacke is hurt that they could not digest in some the Bladder generally that part that is weakest is most subject to hurt and being hurt cannot performe its proper office But blood-letting you may use at any time if strength permit provided it be not upon a full stomacke Such as have this feaver have alwayes loosnesse and sometimes vomit up Choler Let his drinke be barly water Diake sweetned with syrrup of Violets and a little Oyle of Vitrioll to make it tart Let his diet be light of digestion Meat and let him eat it at his usuall times of eating for then it will digest best Also Oranges Lemmons Oxymel and Verjuyce are medicinall for him CHAP. VI. Of continual Feavers called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke is a continuall feaver that hath some certaine slacking betweene the fits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet no absolute intermission till the end of it and by this only it is knowne from Agues or intermitting feavers therefore I shall omit the signes till then Cause This feaver is caused by rotting of one particular humour only within the Vessels I shewed it in the first and second Chapters I remit you to that I shall only treat of that which is called of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by it selfe in the next Chapter for that is the most dangerous and wind up the rest together in this A Compendium of the cure of Feavers In the generall cure of feavers of this sort these things must be considered First the Feaver Secondly the rottennesse In the Feaver In the feaver two things must also be considered First How that part which is already kindled and inflamed may be remedied 2 How that which is not kindled may be letted and hindred from inflammation Also two things must be considered touching the rottennesse or putrification In the rottennesse First how the humours already putrified may be healed Secondly how those that are not putrified may be kept from putrefaction Heac qui non animadvertit errabit nimis In the begining of the feaver if strength and age permit Bleeding let blood for that lets out the inflamed blood and cooles the rest Obstructions The body thus cooled you must cure the obstructions and that without heating the Patient lest you increase the feaver and cause more putrefaction This is best done by Clysters Clysters and sweates for Clysters take only the common decoction with Molossus Sweats and Diacatholicon For sweates you may use either Venire treacle Matthiolus his great antidote Serpentary roots Electuarium de ovo Consideratis considerandis To stop and hinder the humours not inflamed from inflaming use cooling juleps made with barly water Harts-horne Ivory Scorzonera roots Zedoary c. Syrupe of Violets c. To prevent putrefaction avoyd all meats I mean flesh and all broths of flesh To bring away humours already putrified boyle a white Lilly roote in White-wine and let him drinke it For outward medicines Vine branches Water Lillies Lecalia Endive Succory Wood-sorrel Sorrel Lettuce Knot-grasse Vinegar these
or any of these beaten and the juice mingled with oyl of Roses and wool dipped in it and applied to the Stomack mightily allay the heat But have a care by all means that you do not apply this at the beginning of the Feaver for then the heat lies inward ☜ and this will add more violence to it but onely when the heat is come to the externall parts for then it cherisheth the Lungs and provoketh sleep Provoke sleep with Diascordium Sleep if that prevail not use Laudanum But have a care of Opiats at the beginning of the Disease ☜ For Cordials Scorzonera-roots Bezoar Cordials Sirrup of Citron-pils and Syrrup of Balm of Fernelius Confection of Alchermes and de Hiacyntho Electuarium de Ovo any of these may be administred consideratis considerandis CHAP. VII Of a Burning Feaver called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qad Cause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek is called in English a Burning Feaver or continuall Tertian It is caused of Choler rotting or putrifying within the Veins together with the Blood Those that have this Disease Signes their Tongue is dry rough black with gnawing of the Stomack immoderate thirst and watching their Dung is liquid and pale Let the place wherein the Sick lies be cool Cure Aire the aire sweet if it be not cool mâ—kâ— it so by art of which you have examples in my Criti a Cephalica vol. 3. lib. 2. Let him drink for his ordinary Drink Drink water wherein Barly Cinamon and such Herbs as cool and ☞ moisten such be Lettice Sorrell Wood-sorrell Purslane c. have been boiled Also Syrup of Violets Violet and Straw-berry-leaves Water-lillies and Verjuice juice of Lemmans and Oranges are medicinal With the other Medicines mentioned in the former Chapter and Bleeding If these Medicines prevail not Blisters but the Humours ☞ flow up and lye heavy on the Head which you may know by their talking idly you must apply Blisters to the in-side of the Wrests and the in-side of the Calves of their Legs If that prevail not but you perceive their case desperate Pidgeons apply Pidgeons to the soles of their Feet But if in a desperate case it oppresse their Stomack or Heart I have known six grains of Mercurius Vitae cure them yet in my opinion Lac Sulphuris had been better CHAP. VIII Of an Intermitting Tertian Feaver commonly called a second dayes Ague OF all Agues this onely is mortall yet the other two ☞ may turn to another Disease that may kill but they kill not themselves And this Ague though sometime it be mortall yet is ☞ of all other most frequent and if rightly handled easiest cured It vexeth young folks most I suppose the reason why this Ague is most frequent to be because Choler by reason of its heat Cause is most apt to stir with violence This Disease is caused of Choler pure sincere and unmixed carried with violence by the sensitive parts of the Body This Disease happeneth usually to persons Cholerick by nature in their flourishing age and in Spring time Signs The signs of this Disease are a vehement Cold rigour and stiffnesse in the beginning of the Fit the Patient thinketh his Body is pricked soreness of the Bones as though they were nipped an exact order and equality of the Pulse for as the Feaver encreaseth the Pulses are raised in strength vehemency and frequency In the vehemency of the Feaver it causeth thirst and burneth up the Patient his Breath is swift and hot as fire and requireth drink immoderately their Urine cholerick subrufe and something yellow The longest fit of a Tertian endureth but twelve hours When these Fits come sooner and sooner the Disease ☜ getteth strength over nature but if later and later the ☜ Disease loseth strength Galen's mistakes Galen saith men labouring of this Disease vomit Choler At the writing hereof and it is the seventh of February 1645 6. I have cured above twenty of this Disease and it is like seen more yet never knew nor saw any vomit at all I have known enough vomit sinee When I was a Boy I had the Disease constantly every Spring though Galen saith it comes onely in the heat of Summer Gal. ad Glauconem yet never to my memory had so much as a pronenesse to vomit The usuall Cure of this Disease Cure is by Vomiting and Sweating But I have found out a more certain and speedy and indeed never missing Cure Let the Air the sick abides in be clear and penetrating Aire Both this and Qâ—otidian Agues I never missed cure by giving onely Cinquefoil gathered in the hour of Jupiter if it be possible he being above the Earth and truly I should think it were the better if the Moon were aspected to him but I never observed it This I have given in Powder both in common Vinegar and Vinegar of Squils I have observed the number of the Leaves I have given viz. one for a Quotidian three for a Tertian c. and I have observed it I have given the Decoction thereof and all of them still did the Cure in three Fits sometimes in two therefore I hold it the most soveraign Medicine for Agues in the world CHAP. IX Of a Quartane Feaver or Ague THis proceedeth of Melancholy putrifying and rotting without the Veins This Feaver doth not invade the Sick with that rigour and stiffnesse that the former doth Cause but the cold is like the cold a man feels in an hard frost Signs as though it would break his Bones and doth not seem to prick him as the other doth Their Urine is white and thin and as it were strained from some grosse matter Their Urine is white and thin and as it were strained from some grosse matter It commeth commonly about Harvest land stayeth without cure till next Spring and is a stubborn Humour to be dealt withall For many a time and often this Ague by violent Medicines ☜ as Vomits c. is turned to a double Quartane and so the Patient hath two sick dayes and but one well day Saturn the causer of this Ague is a sullen Planet and the Disease takes after him therefore deal gently with it at first you had better please a sullen potent adversary then displease him I never had any Patient of this Disease since I knew the vertues of the Herbe Cinquefoil it is very probable it will cure this as well as other Agues * Since I have done the Cure with it Bleeding I dâ—siâ—e these Hellebores may be let alone in this Disease for old Saturn will not be Vexeâ— Yet if Blood abound you may let blood in this Ague and if it look black draw out good store Also black Hellebore corrected with Cinamon may be given And white Hellebore if it may be given inwardly at all it may in this Disease But let these be given on the well dayes for then they
anger the Ague lesse In this Aguâ— you must have a great care of the Spleen for that is the receptacle of Melancholy Therefore you may anoint the left side with oyl of Capers Vng ex succis aperitivis or any opening splenetick Medicine CHAP. X. Of a Quotidian Feaver or Ague IT is caused of sweet Flegm Cause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putrified without the Veins it is called of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but if the Flegm that putrifies be glazen which is the coldest of all flegms it engenders a Feaver called Epialos In this Feaver called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Patient feeleth vehement heat and vehement cold both at one time in all parts of his Body In the beginning of a Quotidian Signs the Pulse is unequall slow little and weak nothing like neither Tertian nor Quartane neither for extremity of heat nor cold neither do they thirst much because the Vapour is moist and smoaky It most vexeth flegmatick persons But this also is compleatly perfectly and speedily cured by that excellent Herbe Cinquefoil so used as before was specified As for all mixed kinds of Agues I need not write but I commend this as a soveraign cure for them all And God-willing I intend to make proof of it in continuall Qâ—otidians Tertians and Quartanes CHAP. XI Of an Hectick Feaver AN Hectick Feaver is a Disease wherein an unnaturall heat is kindled throughout the fleshy and massie parts of the Body Hectica Febris quid They that have this Feaver feel no pain neither do they know the rules of Art excepted that they have any feaver at all because all the parts of the body are equally hot and so there is no reluctancy This Disease is caused two wayes Cause First through want of Physick or a skilfull Physitian in other feavers which having consumed the Humours seize upon the flesh Secondly they sometimes begin of themselves as of sorrow anger wearinesse burning of the Sun c. When these feavers consume and waste the body as indeed without speedy cure they alwayes do then Galen cals them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. de inaequali intemperie and this Marasmos saith he is incurable and to make this seem as though it were true he tels a long tale of the snuffe of a candle which saith he being put out mutters to pieces but if you put Oyl to it it makes it burn with more violence so quoth he this feaver if you go about to extinguish the heat the party dyes instantly but if you add moisture to him his feaver burns more violently But Experience the best Artist makes no difference between Hectick feavers and Marasmus but shews plainly that all Hectick feavers are wasting and also curable therefore I shall leave Doctor Galen and follow Doctor Experience in this Disease and therefore now to the purpose The Signs of this Disease are these Signs Their eyes are wonderfull hollow as though they were sunk in their heads their moisture is consumed so that you may see the bones of their Eye-brows stick out there hangeth at the hair of their Eye-brows gum or filth as though they had gone a long journey in the dust their skin is hard and dry and their eyes wink often as though they were sleepy when indeed it is far otherwise with such as have this Disease for they can hardly be brought to rest they pine to skin and bone and if you look upon their Belly it looks as if it had no bowels in it the Pulse is weak and often and continually after meat the feaver is encreased and the Pulses are augmented in greatnesse The Cure consists in cooling and moistning Cure which must be done both outwardly and inwardly Let the Aire the Sick abideth in Aire be cold and moist if it be not so naturally make it so by Art whereof you have examples in my Treatise called Crit. Cephal Let his Meats be such as moisten Meats and breed good and active Blood such are Lamb-stones Cocks-stones Lobsters Prawns Eggs boiled soft Paritich Larks c. For Herbs Herbes let him use Lettuce Endive Succory Spinage Mallows c. Let his Drink with his Meat Drink be onely water wherein Cinamon hath been boiled Let him drink new Milk abundantly Milk provided he have no feaver of putrifaction or rottennesse joined with it Hee may eat freely Raisons of the Sun Fruits and Almonds Cherries Prunes Pomegranates and figgs Let him eat often Caution and but little at a time For Cordials Cordials he may use Diarrhodon abbatis Diatragacanthum frigidum Diapapaver and species Cordiales temperatae Diamargariton frigidum For Syrrups Sirrups let him use Syrrup of Violets Endive Lettuce Water-Lillies and Vinegar Let him nrink Emulsions made of Barly-water Emulsion Almonds the four greater cold Seeds and white Poppy-seeds sweetned with Sugar Lastly Unctions let his body be kept continually anointed with pure oyl Olive and nothing else Many in this Disease vomit up all their Meat so soon as they have eaten it Caution which indeed I forgot before in such cases make their Emulsion of Mint water instead of Barly-water as before for only by this Medicine alone have I known Galen's supposed incurable Disease cured FINIS Physical APHORISMS Reader Give me leave to begin and I will not be beholding to time for leave to make a Preamble APHOR. I THE whole ground of Physicke is comprehended in these two words Sympathy and Antipathy the one cures by strengthning the part of the Body afflicted the other by resisting the malady afflicting 2. Many People are troubled with strange Visions especially in the night time strange lights strange sights appeare and sometimes voyces are heard let such avoid drinking Wine and as much as may be strong Beer for Melancholy is the cause of this which strong liquor attenuates and makes it fly upwards 3. The ashes of Hens feathers or Hens bones burnt and applyed to the place is an excellent remedy to stop bleeding in any part of the body 4. Toads Spiders and Frogs or their Spawn have the same effects but they doe it by Antipathy because the blood flyes from its enemy and there if a dryed Toad be but held in the hand of one that bleedeth the blood presently ceaseth and retireth back to the Centre 5. Take two or three Toads and boyle them in Oyle very well and this Oyle will by unction quickly cure any red face or any rednesse of the skin out of question by the former reason 6. Take the Seeds of Red Nettles beat them into powder and take a dram of it at a time in white Wine it procures chastity they say and is a far better medicine to rout Asmodeus the leacherous Devil then the liver of a fish 7. The marrow of a Goose wing and the older the Goose is it is so much the better a little of it being
put into the eye breaks the web there though it be never so strong or of so long continuance 8. The Milke of a Womans breast is excellent for the foregoing infirmity of the eyes only with this Proviso if the party afflicted be a Male let it be the milke of a Woman that bare a Male if a Female the contrary 9. When People have gotten an inflammation in any wound the vulgar say they have gotten the Ague in it as 't is familiar when Womens breasts are inflamed to say they have the Ague in their breasts a speedy way and as cheap as speedy that I may not keepe such a quarter about the name as the Colledge of Physitians did about the Rickers is to take malt flower and make it into the forme of a Caraplasme or Pultis with Vertjuyce and apply it be the place in Arm Leg or Breast or elswhere either with wound or without 10. Hollyhock leaves boyled to a Pultis in milke works the same effect in the same causes 11. A most admirable remedy if not the best of remedies for a Consumption is to goe into the Country in plowing-Plowing-time and follow the Plow that so the smell of the earth being newly broke up may be taken in at the nose if this may not be by reason of the season of the year or poverty of the Patient then let it suffice to go out into the field every morning and dig up a fresh turse and smell to it an hour or two together 12. Take five white pease and chew them very well then swallow them downe then hold thy breath as long as thou canst thou shalt find it an excellent remedy against the heart-burning 13. For a Rupture this doe give the Patient two or three spoonfuls of the juyce of comfry every morning I know no reason but that the curious may make it into a syrupe then apply the bruised hearb mixed with its equall quantity of Dazies to the place and let him keepe his bed nine dayes by which time he will be well 14. Take a Jay pull off her feathers and pull out her guts then fill her belly full of Cumminseeds then dry her in an Oven till she be converted into Mummy a dram of her being beaten into powder seeds and all is an excellent remedy for the Falling-sicknesse being taken in any convenient liquor every morning put in Piony water 15. Rew bruised and worne under the fect next the skin is an excellent remedy for a quartan Ague 16. If deafnesse come of stopping in the passages of the eares as usually it doth no better remedy in the World then to inject white Wine into the ear being first a little warmed for the ears abhor cold and if you mix a little spirit of Castoreum with it t will be so much the better 17. The powder of burnt Harts-horn let it be well burnt viz. till it be white and rub your teeth well with it and it will keepe them exceeding white and safe from rotting 18. To eat the liver of a mad dog being first dryed and beaten into powder a dram at a time is sufficient is an excellent yea the best of remedies for the biting of a mad dog 19. If an Earwig be gotten into a mans ear you will say it will kill him but presently or so soon as you can conveniently get a mellow sweet apple and having cut a hole in it lay the hole so cut to the eare then lie down on that side and the Earwig will come out to the apple 20. The leaves of Agrimony bruised and boyled in hony and the head that is open moulded plaistered with it helps the disease 21. The juyce of Rue mixed with vineger and the head washed therewith remedies all superficial evils of the head and strengthens it to boot 22. A draught of the same drunk going to bed helpeth such as speak in their sleepes 23. Rew stamped with hony and salt helpes swellings in the knees 24. For broken bones in the head make an oyntment with Agrimony Betony and Hogs-grease with which anoynt the sore and tent it if need be also let the patient drink the juyce of Betony and Agrimony or a very strong decoction of them a quarter of a pint every morning 25. Take an Owl pull off her feathers and pull out her guts salt her well for a week then put her into a pot and stop it close and put her into an oven that so she may be brought into Mummy which being beate into pouder and mixed with Boares grease is an excellent remedy for the Gout anoyncing the grieved place by the fire I fancy this receit much it standing to good reason that a bird of ☽ should help a disease of ♄ and therefore define a dram of the pouder may be taken inwardly every morning 26. Also take notice that the foregoing way is the best way to convert any thing into Mummy and so the Jay before mentioned is to be used 27. If a man be feaverish and cannot sweat for sweating usually helpes such take brook lime and stamp it and having added a little vineger to it apply it to the soles of his feet and it will quickly rout the feaver and withall provoke sweat 28. For any ach or swelling in the knees bruise Rue and lovage and having boyled them a little in a little honey apply them warme to the griefe 29. The inner rind of Elder or dwarf-elder which is held to be better boyled in like manner in bores grease takes away paines in the feet and thighes I know no reason neither indeed do I beleeve there is any why the former should not take away paines in legs as well as in the knees both of them being under the houses of ♄ viz. ♑ and ♒ 30. If any sweat too much bruise lettice and linseed together and apply them to his stomack 31. Make a strong decoction of Centaury in stale ale then having strained it wel boyle it with two third parts of honey viz. imagine there be a pound of your decoction then take two pound of honey boyl it into a syrup a spoonful of this taken in the morning helps the yellow Jaundice strengthens the heart helps digestion and provokes Appetite 32. A pultis made with linseed and chick-weed bruised and boyled in water a little sheeeps suet being added at the latter end is excellent good for one that hath met with a woman a little two hot for his turn I mean to apply it to his members 33. Make vineger of vervain as you make vineger of Roses only make it of the leaves not of the flowers of vervain and this helps the head-ach the head being bathed with it this recepts I fancy much 34. A most excellent remedy for an imposthume in the head is to apply warm to it a red rose Cake moistned a little either with womans breast milk or else with red rose vineger 35. Also a handfull of Betony leaves and halfe an ounce of Cummim seeds
many other things too tedious to rehearse And thus much for Preventions I come now to Provision for it when Prevention is too late Twelve signes of one infected And first of all that Provision may be timely I begin with the signes of one infected which are twelve The first is when the outward Members be cold the inward Members being burning hot The second is heavinesse wearinesse Sloth and indisposition of the whole body and difficulty in breathing The third is paine and heavinesse in the head The fourth is carefulnesse of the mind and sadnesse The fist is a marvelous inclination to sleepe for the most part for sometimes watching and raving vex them The sixt is a frowning eye The seventh is losse of Appetite The eighth is immoderate thirst and often vomiting The ninth is bitternesse and drinesse of the mouth The tenth is a pulse swift small and deepe The eleventh is Urine for the most part turbulous thicke and stinking although I have seene the Urine of some that from the beginning of the disease to the time of their dissolution differed nothing from the Urine of healthy men and indeed the Prognostication in my opinion was the worse for I as yet never knew but two whose Urine was so and both were delivered by death and not preserved by Physicke and therefore considering that Vrina est meretrix you must have an eye to the precedent and subsequent signes and signe The twelfth and most certaine signe of all is if there appeare risings behind the eares under the Arme-boles or in the groyne without any manifest cause knowne or if Carbuncles arise suddenly in any other member These when they arise shew nature is strong and able Prognostica because it thrusteth the venome from it in the beginning of the sicknesse yea many times before the body perceives it selfe sicke These Carbuncles appearing shew which of the vitals is most affected with the malady for if they appeare about the eares the braine is most annoyed because that is the purging place of the braine If the rising appeare under the Arms the malady lyeth heaviest upon the heart for that is the purging place of the heart But if it appeare in the Groyne the Liver is most infected for the Groyne is the purging place thereof But if no rising at all appeare it foreshews weaknesse of nature and is most dangerous for nature is weake and not able to expell the venome When those spots appeare that are called Tokens they shew the whole blood universally is corrupted but of these hereafter If you feele your selfe infected first upon a full stomacke Cure-Vomit take a vomit presently Also in the beginning of the disease Bleeding let him bleed on that fide that the rising appears if it appeare in the Necke bleed him in the Cephalica on that arme viz. if it be on the right bleed him in the right arm if on the left side of the the neck on the left arm If the rising appear under the arm bleed him in the Basilica of the arm on that side the Carbuncle appears But if it appeare in the Groyné breath the vein in the Ankles of the same side If none at all appear consider which parts are most greived with pains and aches and proceed in blood-letting according to the former rules Sweating also is a soveraine remedy Sweat which you may affect by some such medicines as these Mithridate Venice Treacle Matthiolus his great Antidote his Bezoar Water Serpentary roots Electuarium de Ovo Let his blood be cooled with this or the like Julep Julep and let him drinke no other drinke Take of Harts-horne and Ivory of each â„¥ ss of the flowers of Violets Bâ—rrage Buglosse Clove-gilly-flowers Rosemary and Marigolds of each ii Ê’ of the rootes of Petasitis and Zedoary of each iii. Ê’ of the rootes of Scorzonera i. â„¥ boyle them all in a pottle of water to a quart adding toward the end of the decoction of Saffron and Cochaneal of each ten graines straine it and adde to the decoction syrrup of Violets clove-gilly-flowers and Melissaphylli Fernelii of each an ounce Oyle of Sulphur twelve drops let him drinke a draught of it so often as he is a dry If he be astringent Clyster keepe his body soluble with Clysters Refresh and strengthen him with Cordials Cordial such be Confectio de Hyacintho Confectio Alchermes Electuarium de ovo species Cordiales temperatae Trochisci Galliae Moschatae Magisterium perlarum Corrallorum pulvis Gasconiae Bezoar orient these or any of these consideratiâ— considerandis Provoke him to sleepe with Diascordium Sleepe if he sleepe not but have a care of Opiates in the beginning of the disease If he vomit much as some vomit up all they eate or drinke stay it with Spiritus menthae If swelling arise consider first whether it be likely to breake or not For risings that you may know if it lie deepe in the flesh and look white it is not likely to breake you must then anoynt it with oyle of Lillies or Chamomell If it rise to a head looke red and lie not deep it will breake then take a young Pigeon pull off the feathers from her taile and hold her bare fundament to the swelling and it will draw out the venome Some lay Venice Treacle to it and with good successe Venice Treacle attractive for Venice Treacle draweth the poyson to it and doth not cast it from it as some Physicians ignorantly affirme for proofe of which consider that all hot things are of an Attractive quality Treacle is hot Arg 1 therefore Actractive All purges draw the humour to them and having gotten it together nature casts it out for Rhubarbe that purgeth choler is purely Cholericke it self and therefore draws its like so Venice Treacle draws the venemous humour to it selfe and having gotten it into the tunicle of the stomack or other place farre from the Vitals nature will deale well enough with it Secondly if the Attractive faculty be hot Arg 2 and drie then must all hot and drie things be attractive But the attractive faculty is hot and drie Thirdly if the originall of all heate be attractive Arg 3 so are the Branches But the originall and roote of all heate is attractive as the Sun so then are the Branches But enough perhaps too much of this Sometimes the swelling falls downe again and blacke and that comes through cold taken and is a desperate signe for you must be very carefull of taking cold in this disease But when it is too late to prevent the remedy is presently to take a Pigeon and with a sharpe knife cut her through the breast to the back break her open and apply her yet alive to the place If this do no good apply a Cupping-glass to the place for though this remedy be desperate yet I have knowne it save a mans life When the sore is broken apply a Melilot plaister to
it and tent it with Linimentum Arcei and make no great haste to heal it up Lastly if tokens appeare which by most ignorant people is affirmed Tokens and firmly beleeved to be an infallible signe of death although I know two living at this time and four or five more since the writing of this in London that were full of them and yet recovered first I will tell you what I knew my selfe a young man was let blood after he had the tokens upon him whereby part of the corrupted blood was let out and the rest cooled and he lived above a fortnight after and then died his Father denying to let him have any Physick in all that time because he said he was marked for death whereas Cordialls and nourishing diet might happily have preserved his life Another remedy for those that have tokens is something more desperate which is this whilst naturall heate remaines wrap him up naked in a blanquet wet in cold water and that will set him in a most violent sweate and purge out the corruption from the blood Venitque Salutifer Orbi NICH. CULPEPER FINIS Reader These Books following are printed for Nath. Brooks and are to be sold at his shop at the Angel in Cornhill 1. TImes Treasury or Academy for Gentry for their acomplishment in Arguments of discourse habit fashion summing up all in a Character of Honour by Ri. Brathwait Esq 2. Morton on the Sacrament In Folio 3. That excellent piece of Physiognomy and Chiromancy Metoposcopie the Symmetricall proportions and signall Moles of the body the subject of Dreams to which is added the art of Memory By Rich. Sanders Fol. 4. Theatrum Chymicum Britannicum containing severall Poeticall Peices of our famous English Philosophers which have written the Hermetique Mysteries in their ancient Language By the truly noble Elias Ashmole Esq 5. Catholike History collected and gathered out of Scripture Councils and ancient Fathers in answer to Dr. Vone's Lost Sheepe returned home By Edw. Chisenhal Esq 6. Tactometrica or the Geometry of Regulars after a new manner in Solids with usefull Experiments with new Experiments never before extant for Gauging A work usefull for all that are employed in the Art Metricall By John Wyberd Dr. in Physick 7. An Astrologicall discourse with Mathematicall Demonstrations proving the influence of the Planets and fixed stars upon Elementary bodies By Sir Chr. Heydon Knight 8. Magick Astrology vindicated by H. Warren 9. Catastrophe Magnatum By N. Culpeper 10. Ephemerides for the year 1652. by N. Culpep 10. Judiciall Astrology vindicated and Daemonology confuted By W. Ramsey Gent. 11. The History of the Golden Ass 12. Teratologia or a discovery of Gods wonders manifested in former and modern times by bloody Rain and Waters By L. S. 13. Fons Lachrymarum or a fountain of Tears with an Elegy upon Sr Ch. Lucas by I. Quarles 14. Oedipus or a Resolver of Secrets in Nature and resolution of Amorous Naturall Problems By G. M. 15. The Celestial Lamp enlightning every distressed soule from the depth of everlasting darknesse By Tho. Fettrisplace 16. Noctural Lucubrations with Epigrams and Epitaphs By R. Chamberlain 17. The unfortunate Mother A Tragedy By Tho. Nabs 18. The Rebellion A Comedy By T. R. 19. The Tragedy of Mâ—ssalina by Na. Richards 8 20. A Treatise of Contentation Fit for these sad and troublesome times By Jos Hall late B. of Exon. and Norwich 12. 21. The grand Sacriledge of the Church of Rome in taking away the Sacred Cup from the Laity at the Lords Table by Daniel Featly D. D.4 22. The cause and cure of Ignorance Error and Prophaness or a more hopeful way to Grace and Salvation by R. Young 8. 23. A Bridle for the times tending to still the murmuring to settle the wavering to stay the wandering to strengthen the fainting by I. Brinsley Minister at Yarmouth 24. Comforts against the fear of death wherein are several evidences of the work of Grace by J. Collins of Norwich 25. The Zealous Magistrate a Sermon by Tho. Threscot 26. Britannia Rediviva a Sermon before the Judges Aug. 1649. by J Shaw Minister of Hull 27. The Princess Royal A Sermon before the Judges Mar. 24. 1650. by J. Shaw Minist of Hul. 28. New Ierusalem in a Sermon for the Society of Astrologers Aug. 1651. 29. Cabinet of Jewels discovering the nature vertue value of pretious Stones with infallible Rules to escape the deceit of all counterfeit by T. Nicholes 30. Quakers cause at second hearing being a full answer to their Tenets 31. Divinity no Enemy to Astrology a Sermon for the Society of Astrologers for the yeare 1653. by Dr. Tho. Swadlin 32. Historical Relation of the first planting of the English in New England in the yeare 1628. to the year 1653. and all the material passages happening there Exactly performed 33. Select thoughts or Choice Helps for a pious Spirit beholding the excellency of her Lord Jesus by J. Hall B. of Nor. A new peice 34. The holy Order or Fraternity of Mourners in Zion To which is added Songs in the night or Chearfulnesse under Affliction by Ios Hall Bishop of Norwich A new peice FINIS The first Part of Culpepers last Legacies his Physicall Chyrurgicall Remaines An INDEX for the Treatise of the HEAD OF Headach in Generall with its severall Names and Kinds Chap. 1. Page 1. Of the Headach called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of heat Chap. 2. Page 2. Of the Headach coming of cold Chap. 3. Page 4. Of the Headach coming of driness or moysture Chap. 4. Page 6. Of the Headach coming of plenitude of blood Chap. 5. Page 98. Of the Headach coming of choler Chap. 6. Page 9. Of the Headach coming of windinesse Chap. 7. Page 11. Of Headach caused from the stomack Chap. 8. Page 13. Of Headach caused by Drunkennesse Chap. 9. Page 14. Of the Headach caused by feavers Chap. 10. Page 15. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chap. 11. Page 16. Of the Megrim Chap. 12. Page 18. Of the Vertigo or swimming in the Head Chap. 13. Page 20. Of Frenzie Chap. 14. Page 23. Of the Lethargie Chap. 15. Page 26. Of Forgetfulnesse Chap. 16. Page 28. Of Catalepsis Chap. 17. Page 30. Of the Apoplexie Chap. 18. Page 32. Of the dead-Palsie on one side Chap. 19. Page 34. Of the Palsie in one member Chap. 20. Page 38. Of the falling sicknesse Chap. 21. Page 39. Of Convulsion and Cramps Chap. 22. Page 40. Of the Mare Chap. 23. Page 42. Of Madnesse Chap. 24. Page 43. Of Melancholy Chap. 25. Page 45. Of trembling or shaking in any limb called commonly the shaking-Palsie Chap. 26. Page 49. A Table of Feavers Chap. 1. Page 1. A Comment upon the Table of Feavers Chap. 2. Page 1. Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or an one day Feaver Chap. 3. Page 5. Of Synochus non putrida which is a Feaver that lasteth three or four dayes Chap. 4. Page 8. Of a rotten Feaver called Synochus putrida Chap. 5. Page
Teeth sound and free from paine is to keep them clear 2. To make Teeth white Dip a little piece of white cloath in Vinegar of Quinces and rub your Gums with it for it is of a gallant binding quality and not onely makes the Teeth white but also strengthens the Gums fastens the Teeth and also causeth a sweet breath 3. For the Tooth ache Boyle Wheat bran stale Ale together till it be as thick as Mustard let it stand while it is cold then strain what you can out of it and adde to what you have strained the like quantity of juyce of Rew make it into paste which paste tye up into a little bag of fine Linnen cloath lay one of them between your Cheek and your aking Tooth lye down on that side and let the water run out at your mouth this using three or foure times will not onely cure the Tooth-ache but also clense the brain 4. Another Take Hounds-tongue and stamp it and fry it with Butter and make a Plaister of it and binde it to the Cheek on that side the pain is on 5. Another Take a pint of the strongest White-wine Vinegar you can get a handfull of Sage a quarter of a handfull of roots of red Nettles and as much Oaken rind boyle all these together and wash your mouth with it 6. To make teeth fall out of themselves Take the root of a Mulberry-tree lay it in steep in strong Vinegar then take it out and dry it in the Sun beat it into powder doe but touch a tooth with that powder and it will drop out 7. For rotting of the teeth Wash thy mouth often with the water of Mother-wort the water of Vervaine will doe the like 8. For the Tooth-ache Take Ivy-berries and bruise them and when you have done so boyle them in strong White-wine Vinegar wash your mouth with the decoction and lay the Ivy-berries hot to your cheek 9. Another Roast an egge hard and when you have done put to it a spoonfull of Salt and two spoonfuls of White-wine Vinegar beat them all together to a pap very well and now and then put a little into your mouth 10. To make childrens teeth cut Take the brains of a Hare or the brains of a Hen and rub the childs Gums with them once or twice a day and it will make the Teeth cut without pain 11. Another Take the Tooth of a Colt of a yeare old and hang it about the neck of the child and this will doe it if Mizaldus say true And now give me leave to quote an experiment of my own one of my children breeding Teeth extreme hardly having read this in Mizaldus it seemed to me impossible to get a Colts tooth of a yeare old wherefore I bought a Calves head and took one of its teeth and hung about its neck and the very first night three of its Teeth cut which because its very unusuall so many Teeth should cut in one night I cannot but ascribe some virtue to the Medicine Besides all this I am of opinion that the tooth of a dead man hung about the neck of a child will doe it far better than either I am not determined to give my reasons at this time yet will I give you a verisimile for it the Tooth of a dead Man born about a man instantly suppresseth the paines of the Teeth as I have often found my selfe when all other remedies have failed me and if this be true why not the other 12 To fasten Teeth Seeth the Roots of Vervaine in old Wine and wash your Teeth often with them and it will fasten them 13. For the Tooth ache Take the inner rinde of an Elder tree and bruise it and put thereunto a little Pepper and make it into balls and hold them between the Teeth that ake CHAP. VII Of the Gums and their Infirmities 1. For a Scurvy in the Gums TAke Cloves and boyl them in Rosewater then dry them and beat them into powder and rub the Gums with the powder and drink the decoction in the morning fasting an houre after it Use Red-rose water for that is the best 2. For a Canker in the Gums Take halfe a pinte of White wine a quarter of a pinte of water an ounce of burnt Allum a handfull of Cinkfoyle roots bruised boyle all these in an Earthen pot for the sharpnesse of Allum will make vert-de-greese of a Brass vessell over a gentle fire till halfe be consumed scum it well strain it and keep it in a glasse till you have occasion to use it and when you have occasion wash your Gums with it 3. Another Take herb of Grasse or Rew which you will stamp it and presse out the juyce and mixe it with as much strong Vinegar the best way is to put the Vinegar to it after you have well beaten it and so strain them out hard both together when you have occasion to use it wet a Linnen rag four or five times doubled in the aforesaid juyce and apply it to the Gums if the Canker be very great and eating mixe a little burnt Allum with it 4. For rotting and consuming of the Gums Take Sage water and wash your mouth with it every morning and afterwards rub your mouth with a Sage leaf CHAP. VIII Of the Face and its infirmities 1. The Cause IT is palpable that the cause of rednesse and breaking out of the Face is a venomous matter or filthy vapour ascending from the Stomach towards the Head where meeting with a Rheum or Flegm thence descending mixeth with it and breaketh out in the Face Therefore let the first intention of cure be to cleanse the Stomach 2. Caution Negative Let such as are troubled with red Faces abstaine from salt Meats salt Fish and Herrings drinking of strong Beer strong Waters or Wine Garlick Onions and Mustard yea if it be a Welch Man or Woman he must abstain from toasted Cheese and Leeks and that is a Hell upon Earth to them 3. Caution Affirmative Let them use in their broths and stewed meats Purslane Sorrell Wood-Sorrell Lettice Sparagus tops and roots the tender tops of Hops Endive and Succory let them alwaies keep their bodies laxative and sleep with their heads high 4. For a red Face Take Sow-thistles Borrage Sorrell Purslane French Barley Parsly roots and Liquorish boyl them together in running water and drinke a draught of the decoction first in the morning and last at night 5. To make the Face faire Boyl Rosumary flowers in White wine and drinke a draught of the decoction every morning and wash your face with another part of it yet in my opinion it were a better way by farre to take a pound of Rosemary flours and put them into a rundlet to a Gallon of white-Wine shake them together and let them stand so a Moneth then strain it out and keep the Wine for the aforesaid use 6. Another Wash your Face with Bean floure water yet in my opinion Burnet water is the
best though my Author hold the contrary 7. For a white Scurfe in the Face Take a pinte of Vineger in which dissolve an ounce of Camphir let them stand together close stopped 14. dayes saith my Author but it is very probable halfe the time will serve the turne then wash your face with it every morning this hath holpen a Gentlewoman that had a Scurf in her Face divers yeares as though she had been a Leaper 8. For Freckles in the Face Anoynt thy Face at night going to bed with the blood of a Hare or of a Bull the next morning wash it off againe and this though it make one look more like a Fury than a Man it will cure him 9. Another Stamp Sellendine presse out the juyce and mixe it with the like quantity of White wine and anoynt your Face with it at night when you goe to bed 10. For a blasted face If it be a Man take red honey suckles if a Woman white honey suckles presse out the juyce of them and anoynt your Face with it at night going to bed this receipt seeming to me very rationall and is therefore most pleasing I shall explaine what here is meant by Honey suckles and herein I will Imitate Aristotle so farre as to tell you First what it is not Secondly what it is First it is not those Honey suckles which climb up in Hedges which the Latines call Caprifolium and the English Wood-bind or Honey suckles Secondly it is that which is commonly called Medow trefoyle by Physitians in Sussex it is commonly called Honey suckles 11. For a face full of red Pimples Dissolve Camphir in Vinegar and mixe it and the Vinegar with Sellendine water and wash thy face with it this cured a Maid in twenty dayes that had been troubled with the infirmity halfe so many yeares 12. Another Take Honey suckle leaves and distill them and wash your Face with the water use the same Hony suckles as I told you before this cured a woman that had her face full of white scales and it so perfectly cured her that she was never troubled with them againe 13. Another Also another woman was troubled with such an infirmity that if she had been by the fire but a little and afterwardes gone into the Aire her Face would have been as full of red spots as it could hold just like a drunken womans and she was helped by this following remedy she took Frankincense and beat it into powder with Saffron and cast the powder upon a Chafing dish of Coals and receive the smoak of it with open mouth and using of it often was helped 14. To take away the marks of the small Pox. Take the juyce of Fennell beat it luke-warme and when the small Pox are well skabbed anoynt the Face with it divers times in a day three or four dayes together 15. Another But I am confident the best remedy that is not onely to prevent the Scarres of the small Pox but also to cure deep wounds or Ulcers without a scarre is to anoynt the place with Oyl of Eggs. 16. For a red Face Take a handfull of Scurvy-grasse and a handfull of Tutsan leaves boyl them well in Ale and strain it and drinke a draught of it every mornining I desire you to be cautious in using this Medicine in giving of it to young people for Tutsan leaves consume the seed abundantly and causeth barrennesse CHAP. IX Of the Throat and its infirmities THe vulgar way in curing Diseases of the Throat which is yet in use with our pitifull Physicians is Album-graecum anglice a Doggs-turd a very sweet Medicine no lesse pleasing than profitable 2. A Caution Diseases in the Throat most commonly proceeds of Rheum descending from the head upon the trachaea arteria or wine pipe in such causes there is many times no other cure than first to purge the body of Flegme and then the head of Rheum as you were taught in the first Chapter 3. For hoarsenesse Take of Sugar so much as will fill a common taster then put so much rectified spirit of Wine to it as will just wet it eat this up at night going to bed use this three or four times together 4. Another If the body be feaverish use the former Medicine as before onely use Oyl of sweet Almonds or for want of it the best sallet Oyle in stead of spirit of Wine 5. Another Take penny royall and seeth it in running water and drinke a good draught of the decoction at night going to bed with a little Sugar in it 6. For the Quinsie Take notice that bleeding is good in all inflammations therefore in this It were very convenient that a syrup and an oyntment of Orpine were alwaies ready in the house for such occasions for I know no better remedy for the Quinsie than to drinke the one and anoynt the throat with the other but be sure you doe not drinke the oyntment and anoynt your throat with the syrup CHAP. X. Of the Breast and Lungs and their infirmities 1. For a Cough in a young child RUb his Stomach well when he goes to bed with Oyle of Roses and then lay a warme cloath to it and in three or four nights so using he will be cured 2. For weaknesse of the Lungs Beat the Lungs of a Fox into powder and take a drachm of the powder every night in Rosewater or if you will you may take it in the morning If any ask the reason why Electuary of Fox-Lungs is not better tell them that many compositions consist of so great variety of simples that the one of them spoiles the operation of the other 3. For inflammation of the Lungs Dissolve Sugar-candy in Rose-water and drink no other drinke 4. Another Also it is very good to anoynt the breast often with Oyle of Violets or Oyle of Water-Lillies 5. For stoppings of the Breast Take the Gum of a Cherry tree and dissolve it in old Wine and let the sick drinke thereof and it will open his pipes gallantly better than a sledge and wedges 6. Another Take Figgs and slit them and fill them full of Mustard then boyl them in White wine eate the Figgs and drinke the Wine CHAP. XI Of Womens Breasts their infirmities and cures 1. For sore Breasts that are broaken TAke Wheat flower Yolks of Eggs and the juyce of Plantane mixe it together till it be thick like an Oyntment spread it upon a cloath and apply it to the sore breast if there be any holes in the Breast dip a Tent in this oyntment and tent them with it and lay a Plaister of the same over it 2. For sore Breasts Take a handfull of Figgs and stamp them well till the kernells are broken then temper them with a little fresh grease and apply them to the Breast as hot as the Patient can indure it will presently take away the anguish and if the Breast will break it will break it else it will cure it without breaking 3. An