let there be prepared Carminative Decoctions or such as expel wind or bitter Decoctions in which are dissolved Electuary Diacatholicon Diaphoenicon or of Laurel berries or Species Hierae Also to these Liquors it is usual to add the Infusion of Crocus Metallorum three or four ounces or of the Emollient Decoction one pint add of Venice Treacle dissolved with the yolk of an Egg one ounce or an ounce and a half or Take of sound Vrine one pint of Venice Turpentine dissolved one ounce and a half of Molossus one ounce mix them and make a Clyster I have known this oftentimes to bring great help the reason of which seems to be for that the Balsamick Particles of the Turpentine comfort the Intestines and besides being received by the Blood in the Veins and with it circulated thorow the whole Body moves the Urine so that by such a Clyster plenty of water follows and always is rendred with a smell like Violets Perhaps also the Particles of the Turpentine being every where diffused either move the stagnating Morbific matter or incline the acetous or otherways degenerate to a better disposition Whilst the Intestines are thus washed with Clysters and are cherished within Fomentations are likewise to be applied to the outer parts of the Belly Take of the leaves of both the Mallows of Mercury of Pellitory each four handfuls of the Flowers of Elder Chamomil and Melilot each two handfuls the head of a Sheep cut in pieces Let them be boiled in as much Spring-water as will suffice strain it and use it for a Fomentation with hot linnen stuphes dipt in it and wrung forth and shifting them apply them by turns Repeating them as often as the more strong pains do come upon them In the intervals Pultesses or Oyntments may be administer'd Make a Pultess of bruised Herbs adding to it of oaten meal what will suffice which may be laid to the belly covering it with little square bags made for that purpose Let one of these at a time be made hot in a pan set over hot coals with the Oyl of Earth-worms or of Frogs lay them on warm shifting them as soon as one grows cold Or Take of the Oyl of Earth-worms or of Frogs what will suffice and anoint the pained part after the Fomentation and lay upon it a thin sheet of fine brown paper dipt in it The Caul of a Lamb or the Lungs or the Inwards of any other Beast being laid warm to the Belly and so shifted sometimes wonderfully eases the pain I have observed in some Constitutions and temperaments that Fomentations or Bathings made of hot things and applied hot have rather made the pains worse than eased them wherefore in these cases it will seem good to prescribe Fomentations of the solutions of Nitre or of Sal Armoniack or other Chymical Liquors as in the pains of the Gout and sometimes as Septalius says of pure cold water But if the torments of the Belly do not remit by the use of these Hypnoticks must be used which being given in a just Dose oftentimes give great truces In the mean time that the tired Spirits may be refreshed and strength preserved there must be yet instituted a farther provision against the Disease Take of liquid Landanum Tartarisated from sixteen drops to twenty let it be given going to sleep in a spoonful of the water of Chamomil flowers drinking after it six spoonfuls of the same water Let it be repeated every other or every third night if the pains be very great In a more hot Constitution Take of the water of Chamomil flowers three ounces of the Syrup of Poppies half an ounce of Aqua mirabilis two drams make a draught to be taken at the hour of Sleep In the mean time whilst these things are doing for the allaying the pains evacuating Remedies have their turns for the discussing or at least for the loosning the matter impacted in the morbid nests to wit that both the Colick Mine may be wholly extirpated and also that the supplements or its cherishment be cut off that they may not more increase For these ends a Vomit where it is convenient and a gentle purging ought to be ordered and also in an hot temperament where there is a Feavour or where it is feared letting of Blood Take of the Sulphur of Antimony from five grains to seven or eight of the Conserves of Borrage one Dram let it be given in the Morning with government In this case may be given according to the judgment of the Physician present either an Infusion of Crocus Metallorum or of Mercurius Vitae The Emerick Tartar of Mynsicht the expression of the leaves of Asarum and in more tender Constitutions Salt of Vitriol and Wine and Oxymel of Squills Purges must be given only in a small Dose and such as are choice lest they move a nauseousness in the stomach of the sick Take of the Resine of Ialap of Scammony each five grains of the Cream of Tartar one scruple of Cinnamon powdered four grains make a Powder or let it be reduced into Pills or into a Bolus with the Conserves of the Flowers of Borrage or Damask Roses Take of Scammony sulphurated half a scruple of the Cream of Tartar fifteen grains of Diaphoretick Antimony one scruple make a Powder and let it be given after the same manner If there be not a Feavour a Dose of Stomach Pills cum Gummi may be given or of Amber by it self or with the Resine of Ialap Take of Pill Rudii twenty five Grains or half a dram of Laudamon one grain make four Pills let them be taken at the hour of rest These at first cause sleep and Purge in the morning Or Take of Calomelanos one scruple of the Resine of Ialap six grains of Scammony four grains of Ammoniacum what will suffice make four Pills to be taken going to rest In a long and tedious Colick when all other Remedies help little or nothing I have often known this Medicine being once or twice given to have moved Salivation with the greatest ease to the sick For when the morbific matter being heaped together and thorowly impacted in the nervous Infoldings and other places about the Abdomen could not be moved by any other Medicines the Mercurial Particles every way unfolding themselves easily dissolve it and divide it into small bits and drive it up and down hither and thither and at length wholly dissipate it Wherefore in a long and pertinacious Colick a gentle Salivation sometimes may be very happily administer'd Baths and Sweating Medicines are ordinarily wont to be prescribed in the pains of the Colick but as to our observation very rarely with success For that these by shaking the Blood and nervous humor cause them to lay up still more matter into the Colick Mine yea and that matter there deposited to grow more hot and raging and very rarely wholly shake it off Diureticks are wont
what Causes the Blood is wont to be moved and to bring 〈◊〉 to the distempered Head The Blood delivers to the head the morbific matter received from any other part A Flux of the Serum sometimes from meer fullness Sometimes from other Causes Sometimes the watry humor suffering a flux offends the Head Hence in those that have the Headach as in Convulsive Diseases there is often a clear and copious Vrine The recrements of other parts often carried violently to the head with the Serum The evacuation of the Serum thorow its right ways being suppressed brings its flux to the Head 3 The nutritious juice sometimes the cause of the Headach either 1 Because it is carried with the Blood into the Head 2 Because not being agreeable to the blood it stirs up its effervescency Sometimes the evident causes of the Headach are Convulsions somewhere begun and continued by the passage of the nerves into the Head Convulsions beginning after off are sometimes signs of an Headach shortly to follow Sometimes also the cause of it Coâ—vniâ—â—â—e Headaches seem to arise so from the Viâ—â—era not from Vapours But this sympathetick Distemper perâ—â—ps proceeds elâ—ewhere by reason of an evil ferment communicated to the blood So sometimes it seems to be caused from the Ventricle The Head and the Stomach intimately conspire and mutually affect one another 2 How the Head-ach seems to arise from the Spleen The like reason is for this Disease arising from the Liver Mesentery or Womb. The kinds of habitual Headach are noted It is either Continual â— Intermitting The Fits of the intermitting either periodical or certain â—â— iâ—certain and wandring The prognostick of the 〈…〉 is â—asie or diffiâ—â—lt to secured also the 〈◊〉 of the Disease safe or dangerous By what signs we may pronounce it safe and easie to be cured By what difficult By what scarce possiâ—le By what dangerous Accidental Headach easily cured The habitual affords more indications Two chief scopes of Cure 1 To cut in two the Bed â—â— Root of the Disease 2 To root out the Conjunct Cause The â—â—st or Tinder of the Disease the blood serum nourishing juice nervous Liquor and the Recrements caried thorow the Blood How the inordinations of the Blood may be taken away and prevented The pain of the Head from the serous heap â—ow to be cured Phlebotomy Purges Pills Purging Powders An emetick Powder An Apozem A decoction of woods A Cephalick Decoction impregâ—ated with the Tincture of Coffee Tâ—e Headach from other barious mixt with the serum how to be cured The Headach arising from any Inward how to be cured Rais'd up from the fault of the nourishing Iuice how to he handled Frequently follows the Small Pox and Measles Easily cured An Electuary A Iulep Antiscorbutick Remedies good for it The Headach raised up from the vice of the nervous humour how to be cured It s fault either private or particular Or universal and then letting of blood or stronger Purges are not convenient Remedies called Cephalicks proper here Of which sort are these which are convenient in Disâ—ases of the Brain and in these kind of Headaches A great many of these every where to be found in Physical Books An Electuary Iulep A distilled Water Tablets Tinctures Spirits The use of millepedes notably helps The other part of the conjunct Cause consisting in the weakness or evil conformation of the distempered part how to be handled We are not to despair of the Cure Here those Medicines are only profitable that cut off the inkindling or root of the Disease Chyrurgical Remedies chiefly help here of which are 1. Plasters Medicines raising Whelks and Blisters Liniments Fomentations and Bathings help not An Embrocation or a dipping of the head in cold water oftentimes helps Issues Issues made upon or near the distempered place help little The opening of the Skull cry'd up by many but rarely or never attempted Whether salivation in inveterate Headaches without any suspicion of the Venereal Disease ought to be administred The means and manner of salivation by Mercury unfolded Salivation not always safe wherefore to be suspected in Headaches What the cutting of the Artery may profit in this Disease Nevertheless in this Distemper it is often helpful and by what means is shown Farriers use the like practice And perhaps it may be convenient for the curing of strumous or running humours such as the Kings Evil. The History of a continual and a deadly Head-ach A continual and inveterate Headach passing into a Lethargy A second History of an incurable Headach in a most noble Lady labouring with it for twenty years Remedies of every kind for the curing this Headach try'd in vain Conjectures concerning the reason of this cruel Disease A third History of a deadly continual Headach A conjecture concerning the reason of the Disease A fourth History of an Head-ach excited from a fiery Swelling or an Inflammation of the Meninges An History of an Headach raised up from an Impostâ—ume in the Meninges A continual Headach we always to be accounted incurable An intermitting Headach whose Fits are uncertain are so frequent that we need shew no instances of it The sixth History of a periodical intermitting Headach The Cure of the same The reason of this Case unfolded The seventh History of the same Distemper excited by the default of the nervous Liquor The Cure of it The reason of the Case unfolded An Instance of an intermitting Headach which seem'd to be excited from the womb The eighth History of an intermitting Headach seeming to aâ—ise from the Stomach A reason of this Case delivered The like reason is for other Headaches seeming to arise from the Spleen Liver Mesentery c. The Seat of the Lethargy is the same with that of Sleep and Memory to wit about the Shell of the Brain By this name both the Fits of the Lethargy are called And also the soporiferous disposition or Sleepiness Of which there are various kinds The continual Sleepiness the Coma c. In every Lethargick Distemper there is an excess of Sleep and a defect of Memory The essence and causes of natural and non-natural Sleep rehearsed The causes of preternatural Sleep are An infartion or obstruction of the outward part of the Brain and a recess of the Spirits from thence Sometimes this sometimes that is the cause The Lethargy oftentimes from the serous heap overflowing the outward part of the Brain And sometimes from a Dropsiâ— of the whole Brain Not only a plenty of humour but the malignity often causes this Disease The proâ—atarctick causes of the Lethargy In what respect they are in fault Both the Blood begetting evil humours and sending them to the Brain and the Brain too easily receiving them Vpon what occasions the Brain is prone to the Lethargy The evident causes of this Disease Another conjunct cause of the Lethargy consists in the afflicting the Spirits with some narcotick How opiates causes Sleep How they operate in the Ventricle 〈…〉
well as the other Animal Functions Who are said to be Foolish or to talk idly This is either shorter as the Delirium or longer and with a Feavour called Phrensie or without a Feavour as melancholy madness stupidity What the Delirium is It s formal Reason The Causes of the Delirium 1 Either from the Blood Or 2 From exterior Spirits planted in the nervous Stock By what and how many ways the Delirium is caused by the Blood 1 By reason of its too great heat 2 By reason of untameable Particles carried from it into the Brain 3 By reason of malignant Particles suffused from it 4 By reason of Effluvias or venomous Particles obtruded also on the Brain 5 By reason of its afflux being denied to the Brain How a Delirium proceeds from the irregularities of the exterior Spirits The Prognostick of a Delirium It s Cure Of the Phrensie what it is The Paraphrenesis Their Conjunct Causes The Phrensie not from the Inflammation of the Meninges The Paraphrenesis not from the Inflammation of the Diaphragma Wherefore breathing is hurt in this Disease The formal Reason of the Phrensie This Disease proceeds from the burning of the Animal Spirits The Inflammation of the Meninges stirs up rather the inveterate Head-ach or the Lethargy than the Phrensie Prosper Martianus also asserts this Chymical Spirits in their distilling are sometimes inflamed So the Animal Spirits What the Indisposition of the Brain is to the Phrensy The Procatartick Causes of the Phrensy which are partly in the Blood and Partly in the Brain The evident causes of the Phrensie The differences of it The Prognostick The Cure of the Phrensie Phlebotomy Clysterâ— A Iulep An Apozem A Drink Hypnoticks External Medicines causing Sleep Epithems The means for the preserving of strength Cordials The Histories of sick persons in Hippocrates Lib. Epidem A notable History The Distemper of the Animal Spirits being after a 〈◊〉 manner as it is the cause of the Phrensie so it is of Melancholy Madness and Stupidity The definition of Melancholy That it is a Distemper of the Brain and Heart Its Examples or Types various and almost infinite Melancholy is â—ither 1. Vniversal or 2 Particular The primary Phaenomena of a Melancholick Dâ—â—â—rium From what disposition of the Spirits they proceed As they are compared to Light they are called opacous or full of darkness These kind of Spirits in Melancholy compared to those in Chymical Liquors 1 They are not like the Spirit of Blood as they should be 2 Nor like the Spirit of Wine Such rather in the Phrensie 3 But these are like acid Spirits distilled out of Salt Vinegar Box and such like 4 Stygian Waters are like the Nature of the Animal Spirits in Madness The formal Reason of Melancholy aptly represented by acetous Chymical Liquors There are three chief affections of these which agree with the Animal Spirits in Melancholy 1 Effluvias falling away from these Liquors are perpetually in motion In like manner also the Spirits in the Phantasie of a Melancholick person 2 Effluvias from acetous Chymical Liquors do not proceed far In like manner the imagination of a Melancholick Person though always employ'd comprehends only a few things And therefore every thing is conceived with a greater Image than it should be 3 Effluvias from acetous Liquors do not evaporate so much from open Pores as they make new And in like manner the Animal Spirits whilst they form in the Brain new Tracts produce unwonted and incongruous Notions In Melancholy after the Animal Spirits being for some time vitiated the Conformation of the Brain is also hurt The Affection of the Praecordia in this Disease as to fear and sadness is delivered After what manner the Corporeal Soul is affected in these two passions The cause of either depends partly on the blood and partly on the Animal Action of the Heart The procatartick Causes of Melancholy are Partly the acetous Nature of the Spirits and partly the Melancholy Dyscrasie of the Blood The Distemper begins sometimes from this sometimes from that How it begins from the Spirits and the Animal Government By what means this Disease arises from the Blood Melancholy doth not arise from an atrabilary humour heaped up in some place or mine By what means according to the Antients it is said to arise from the Head How from the Womb. How from the Spleen How from the whole Body The Differences of the Disease 1 In respect of its first Subject 2 By reason of Temperament of the Sick In respect of the next Cause as it is singular or conjunct In respect of the Imagination diversly hurt The Prognostick of this Disease The Cure of the Disease The evident Cause first to be removed Three primary Indications 1 Curatory The healing of the Spirits is best performed by admonitions and artificial inventions concerning the business of Life Yet oftentimes there is need of Medicine besides The Preservatory indication concerning the Procatartick Causes of the Disease Phlebotomy Purging Vomiting Vomitories Purgers Pills Powders Syrups Altering Medicines are of the greatest moment and not pargiâ—g Medicines as the Antients thought An Electuary A Iulep A Distilled Water Lozengâ—s An Apozem Spaw-Waters Chalybâ—ates Steeled Medicines Whey Broths Iuices of Herbs A Bath Hypnoticks The first History An Example of Melancholy beginning from the Spirits The Cure The second History An Example of Melancholy arising from the Blood The Curatory Method proposed Vniversal Melancholy De Morbis Convulsivis Cap. 2. Particular Melancholy is excited by reason of two sorts of Affections concerning Good or Evil. Love-Madness The Reasons of Symptoms in mad Love Iealousie Superstition and Desperation The reason of the Symptoms The imaginary Metamorphosis of Melancholick Persons Madness and Melancholy are akin The Subject of Madness are the Animal Spirits The dispositionâ— of which are like to Stygian Water Three chief Accidents in Madness Which are also to be found in Stygian Water 1 The Particles of this are always in motion And in like manner the Animal Spirits in Mad-men 2 The Effluvia's of Stygian Water every where make new Pores and Passages In like manner also the Animal Spirits in Mad men 3 The Effluvia's of Stygian Water are diffused far In like manner as the Animal Spirits in Mad-men What the Conjunct Cause of Madness is How the Animal Spirits acquire a disposition like to Stygian Water It is shewed in the first place that corrosive and as it were Stygian Particles are begot in the humane Body Wherefore the Nervous Liquor oftentimes becomes corrosive Because the volatile Salt most easily degenerates into an acid and most sharp with the acquired Sulphur Hence the Reasons of Tumours and Vlcers in the Kings Evil and the Cancer are given Hence also the Madness of the distempered Spirits The Original of Madness either from the Spirits themselves or from the Blood It begins for two occasions from the Spirits 1 By Reason of a violent Passion by which They
or other Distempers of the Brain or nervous System if it be not in a short time altered for the better or gives not place to Medicines it remains for the most part incureable 3. If that a total resolution follows from a total obstruction in the beginning of the oblong Marrow or from the Back-bone being vehemently hurt and that sense and motion are both taken away the Distemper is hardly or scarce at all to be Cured 4. Those who are once cured of a Palsie arising from an evident solitary cause do not so easily relapse into the same as when the Disease depends upon a procatartick cause 5. A Palsie happening to men of years to Cacochymical very Scorbutical and intemperate persons although the Distemper be not very great is difficultly Cured As the Palsies are manifold and are from diverse causes so the Cure is not to be instituted always after one manner but after a various method to wit appropriate to every kind of this Disease For the most part there are these three kinds of it or rather there are three means of healing of which there ought to be had concerning the Cure of this Disease now this now that or now another to wit because resolution whatever or in what place soever it be is either caused 1. from an external accident as a stroke a fall a wound excess of cold or the like suddenly Or 2. It succeeds to some other Distemper as the Apoplexy Carus Colick or a long Feavour Or 3. It is primary and a Disease by it self by degrees excited and depending upon a procatartick cause or a previous provision Concerning each of these we shall speak particularly 1. Therefore when the Palsie is caused by reason of some accident with a vehement hurt there are not many intentions of healing but only that the part hurt may recover its pristine conformation And first of all that the Blood and other humors flowing to it being weak and distemper'd and staying there might not increase the hurt Phlebotomy is most requisite in this case and presently to be celebrated then the belly being made slippery by the use of Clysters and a slender dyet if the matter requires it let there be instituted either easily digested meats or moderate Hydroticks or water meats to wit that whilst the sick is kept in bed he may continue in a gentle sweat that all the superfluities may copiously exhale from the hurt part and that the Spirits being gently agitated may repeat their former ways and tracts within those Pores and passages so unlocked by the warm Effluvia's For this end the Powder ad Casum described in the Augustan Pharmacopoea or as it is in ours is of common use let there be given of Irish Slate to the quantity of about a dram in a draught of white Wine warm'd or of Posset-drink made of it and repeated every six or eight hours Besides if there be at hand the Decoctum Traumaticum let it be taken ever now and then frequently in Posset-drink or a Decoction of the Roots of Madder or of Butter-bur or of St. Iohns-wort Flowers Further in the mean time let the distemper'd part be carefully lookt to which may be easily known partly from the hurt inflicted and partly from the loosened members If there be any thing dislocated in it you must take care that as soon as it can it may be put again in its place if a Tumor Contusion or a wound be excited they are to be succour'd by Balsams Liniments Stuphes or Fomentations or Pultesses But if nothing preternatural appears outwardly let a Plaster of Oxycrocium and of Red-lead each alike what will suffice be laid upon it and let the sick be kept quiet and in a moderate heat for three or four days If the resolution remains confirmed and the afflux of new matter be not feared let more resolving and discussing Remedies be applied to the distemper'd places wherefore make use of Fomentations and hotter Oyntments yea natural Baths if they are at hand or at least artificial Sometimes it may be expedient for the distemper'd Members to be wrapped in Horse-dung or in warm grains and to be kept so for some time and lastly between whiles besides the use of these to add Clysters and gentle Purges But if no help follows these administrations the sick ought then to be handled with the like long method and with the same Remedies as those that have an habitual Palsie or any other coming upon other Diseases and confirmed which means of Cure for every common Palsie more deeply rooted shall be shewed anon 2. When the Palsie coming upon a Feavour Apoplexy Carus or other Cephalick or Convulsive Diseases is greatly and suddenly excited first the Physician ought to endeavour the taking away of the conjunct cause which hath almost ever its seat in the oblong or spinal Marrow Wherefore at the beginning of the Disease Blood-letting and Purging if nothing shews the contrary Clysters Vesicatories Cupping-glasses Sneezing Powders Oyntments and other administrations used in Cephalick Diseases to wit which by any means may shake off or pull away the deadly matter fixed to the Medullary Trunk or to the little heads of the Nerves coming from it are to be made use of If that at first the force of Medicine effects nothing within fifteen or twenty days for that the Distemper is radicated and become habitual it must be expunged by a long method and equally by preservatory as well as curatory Indications of which we shall speak anon 3. The habitual Palsie depending upon a procatartick cause whether it be in fieri or in disposition or whether it be made or in the nest or bird either requires a peculiar means of healing There are two chief causes of the former in both which the Curatory Method respecting only the fore-leading Causes is designed after the like manner to wit whether any falling dangerously ill of the Palsie or growing well of it relapses into danger the same Remedies almost are to be insisted on The intentions therefore of healing are First That the offices of Chilification and of making of Blood be rightly performed and matter for the procreating the Animal Spirits be supplied both laudable and sufficient to the Head then Secondly That the Brain being still firm and well made the heterogeneous Particles being excluded it may admit all that are fitting and rightly exalt then into Animal Spirits For these ends I think convenient to propose the following method which ought to be varied according to the various constitutions of the sick In Spring and Fall that they enter into the ordinary course of Physick yea the whole year besides some Remedis are in constant use Blood-letting is not always convenient to all men But though we forbid this it is not for the same reason with the Ancients supposing the Palsie to be a cold Disease but because the Animal Spirits are both procreated out of the Blood and
being dipt in this let it be applied warm Take of red Lead three ounces of distilled Vinegar one quart let them digest for several days and use this liquor by it self or else the water drawn of by distillation Also a Water distilled made of a Tincture of Verdigriese distilled in Vinegar often times allays the pains I had from a Gentleman oftentimes heavily obnoxious to the Gout that he in the most cruel torments of this Disease had always present ease from a Fomentation of the water distilled from the contents in the stomach of an Ox fresh killed For the extream torments of the Gout outward Narcoticks ought sometimes to be applied Take of the leaves of Henbane and of Hemlock each three handfuls let them be put into boiling water and as soon as they grow tender let them be taken out These being bruised add to them of the Powder of Chamomel flowers about two drams and the yoalk of one Egg make a Poultesse Or take of the Tincture of Saffron made in the Spirit of Wine four ounces of Camphor of Opium each one dram let them digest close shut and warm till they are dissolved anoint the pained part with this liquor There are to be found other innumerable Medicines of this sort in Medical Books and are every where ordinary and wont to be prescribed almost by every vulgar person which also suffices for the fulfilling of the other Intention to wit the repercussion of the Humors when it is seen necessary As to what respects Resolving and Discussing Topicks they are not required to be of the same kind which open only the Pores and evaporate the Serum and make the Blood circulate as in an Inflammation or a white hard swelling but whos 's Saline Particles being destinated for the opposing those Salts of the Goutish Mine may either by embracing them carry them sorth of doors or by precipitating them may suppress them from their painful heats Wherefore in this Disease when Fomentations or Pultesses of Chaâ—â—mel Mallows Marsh-mallows Line and Fenegreek seeds bring little or no help yea by loosning the nervous parts do oftentimes much hurt the Salt of Armoniack or Sea Salt or Nitre or of Vitriol quick Lime and dissolutions of the like or distilled Liquors always troublesome to other humors or pains are wont to give the greatest help These kind of Liquors in the Goutish Fits to be applied to the grieved part are variously prescribed by Quercitan Crollius Hartman and other Chymists and as other famous Physicians have often â—ound them by experience good and approved of them we may conclude that they are helpful for the aforesaid reason There will be no need here to repeat the forms of these though I could easily set down many other preparations of this sort yet I shall here give you one or two of them only Take of Sal Tartari and Armoniac powdered each two ounces put them into rain or spring water two quarts and with a linnen cloth dipt in it warm apply it Take of the Spirits of Vitriol not rectified one pint of Sea Salt calcined and powdered one pound distil them in a Glass retort in sand a very pure Spirit of Salt will come forth which being expulsed from its lodging by a Vitriolick Stagma leaving the possession easly ascends To the dead head pour two pints of the Spirit of Wine digest it close and warm adding of Camphor two drams let it be applied warm to the grieved part with linnen rags Take of the Filings of Iron of the Flowers of Sal Armoniack each six ounces mingle them well by pounding them together let it be distilled in a Glass retort till the Flowers are sublimated to the Caput Mortuum being pounded pour the Spirits of Wine digest it and keep it for use I have heard of some that for the allaying of the pains of the Gout have inclosed the distempered foot in a little Bay filled with Sea Salt calcined and powdered from which they have still expected a certain and sudden help In the declination of the Fit for the strengthening the part and for the shaking off the relignes of the Morbific matter Plasters are profitably applied which however are not all convenient to all but for some more for others less hot But the most efficacious to most people are those in which are Red Lead Ceruse and Soap boiled with Oyl Or Take of the Plaster of Red Lead two parts of Paracelsus one part wax them and spread them upon Leather 2. Internal Remedies for the pains of the Gout that are made use of are only Narcoticks or such as stupefie which ought to be administer'd in cruel and long torments Of these we shall chiefly commend Preparations of Opium with Salt of Tartar or its Tincture Further for this use the Laudanum of Paracelsus or that of London Pills of Styrax and Cynogloss or Dogs Tongue Syrup de Maeconie or of Poppies Treacle Andromach and Diascordium are wont to be helpful or give ease The Indication Preservatory or so called respects the taking away of the foregoing causes of the Gout wherefore that the fits of pains may more rarely or less or not at all infest them For this end Evacuating Altering and Corroborating Remedies together with an exact dyet are prescribed to be given out of the Fits 1. Gouty people therefore ought constantly to be purged Spring and Fall and then also it will be expedient to Vomit if nothing gainsays it and sometimes afterwards at intervals to repeat them Let those who are indued with a more strong stomach and Praecordia take Emetick Minerals prepared out of Antimony or Mercury Those who are of a more tender constitution may take after the eating of slippery meats Wine of Squills or the Salt of Vitriol with Posset drink and then the stomach being filled with warm water or simple Posset-drink or with the leaves of Carduus boiled in it let Vomiting be twice or thrice or oftner provoked For Purging to be often celebrated also at convenient times between the forms of purging Medicines already prescribed are convenient enough Or Take of the strings of black Hellebore cleansed one ounce of Lignum Aloes and of Cloves each two drams bruise them and pour to them of the Spirits of Wine not rectified one quart let them digest warm and close shut for several days The Dose two or three spoonfuls in the morning twice or thrice in a week and let Vomiting and Purging be always begun before the Aequinoxes lest perhaps the Fit being first begun should pervert the course of the Medicine Letting of Blood or the opening of the Hemorrhoidal Vessels are sometimes convenient Spring or Fall in an hot temperament and for such as are indued with a more sharp Blood Cauteries made in the Arms and between the shoulders are profitable to every one almost obnoxious to this Disease But besides altering Medicines Antidotes so called by the Ancients against the Gout are of known
it self by reason of some foregoing cause before lying in the Blood or Brain then a Vomit or Purge being given at the beginning when the matter is flowing doth oftentimes more hurt than good because the Humors whilst in motion are more shaken and agitated and when they cannot be subdued and brought away they drive them into the distempered part On the second day if the numness doth not remit let Phlebotomy be repeated if the Pulse shew it fitting or else instead thereof take forth blood from the Shoulders after Scarification by Cupping Glasses then a little after if nothing hinders let a Vomit or Purge be administred Take of the Sulphur of Antimony five grains of Scammony sulphurated eight grains of the Cream of Tartar six grains mingle them make a Powder let it be given in a spoonful of the afore prescribed Iulep Or Take of Scammony sulphurated twelve grains of the Cream of Tartar fifteen grains of Castor three grains make a Powder and let it be given after the same manner In the mean time let altering Medicines or such as derive the matter from the place the same or such like be still continued On the third day and afterwards ought to be applied such things which are forbid at the beginning of the Disease for fear of a new Fluxion viz. Errhines or things that Purge the Head at the Nose Sneezing Medicines or Powders Apophlegmatisms or Medicines which draw the Humors from the head by the mouth Further it is then sometimes expedient to apply the warm intrails of some animal new killed to the forepart of the Head after the hair is clipped or shaven off and often changed also sometimes to foment those places with a Discussing and Cephalick Decoction or Fomentation but before all other Topicks I have known great help brought from a large Vesicatory or Blistering with many running sores made all over the compass of the Head I saw two sick with the Lethargy after the Disease held long and that not only the Memory but almost all knowledge was lost Cured chiefly by this Remedy for in both of them the â—â—eyed places when they could not be easily covered poured forth great plenty of thin matter about half a pint every day It will not be needful to set down any more Medicines of this nature being commonly and every where to be had it now remains that we illustrate what we have said with some Histories of sick people which I shall here add A Country-man about thirty years old of a Phlegmatick Complexion something inclining to Sanguine being a long time obnoxious to frequent Headaches about the beginning of Winter became sleepy and very stupid and one day whilst he was following the Plow in the Fields lying down on the ground he fell into a profound sleep and when he could not be awakened by his servant and others calling him he was carried home and put to bed his Friends in the mean time expecting that after he had finished his sleep he would awake of himself After the space of twelve hours being past when he could not be awakened by pulling thumping noise and other means they sent for me as soon as I came I applied Blistering Plasters large ones all about the hinder part of the Neck then taking from him about sixteen ounces of Blood I caused him to take a strong Clyster and his Face and Temples to be anointed with Oyl of Amber and Frictions and painful Ligatures to be applied to his Legs Also I prescribed him to take oftentimes in a day Spirit of Sut with a Cephalick Julep Notwithstanding he lay all that day stupid without any sense and if being provoked by some strong or hard pulling he lifted up himself a little and opened his Eyes presently falling down again and shutting them he fell into his continual sleep again About Evening I took care to have Cupping Glasses with a great flame to be applied to his shoulders which done he began a little to awake and about that time he had a great stool and very much Serum flowed forth from the Blisters the Plasters being taken off then we had great hopes of his health And therefore at every turn remedies being applied that night awaking in the morning following he knew his Friends and answered aptly to those who interrogated him But as yet the whole cloud was not vanished but that being sleepy he remained several days oblivious till at length being purged twice he perfectly grew well This case has the exact type of the Lethargy properly so called where for the conjunct Cause it had an heaping up of abundance of Serum about the compass of the Brain and then a breaking in of it into its infoldings and when by a timely use of Remedies the flowing in of new matter was hindered and that which lay upon the part was partly supped up into the Blood and partly being rarified into Vapours and Effluvia's was shaken off the Cure of the Disease quickly and wholely followed An Oxford Gardiner being sick of a Feavour about the height of the Disease instead of a Crisis he fell into a continual Sleep and lay drowned in it for three or four days so that he could not be awakened by the use of any Remedies But at length his Head being shaven Blistering Plasters were applied all over his Head and many running sores left open and awakening he recovered the use of his senses a little But his Memory being almost wholely lost he became so stupid that he remembered the name of no Man nor their words and remained like a Bruit When he had thus remained foolish for the space of almost two months and still very sleepy the cloud began a little to be dispelled and at length he returning to his wonted labour was in indifferent good health but he never had afterwards the same vigor of mind and wit as he had before this Disease In this case you have an example of a Lethargy coming upon an ill Cured Feavour in which the Morbific Matter by a sudden translation of it into the outward part of the Brain had for a little while filled not only all the Pores and passages but also had so hurt their Conformation that the Spirits being for some time excluded and at length freed they could not recover their former paths or wonted tracts till of a long time after I remember very well the example of a Lethargy arising from the use of Opiates in a Country Village where I lodged by chance one night by reason of the foulness of the weather For being about to go to bed mine Host asked me if I would visit two poor people his Neighbours distemper'd after a wonderful and miserable manner When I shewed my self ready to do the office not only out of Charity but led also by curiosity I was carried willingly into a small and poor Cottage where I found the Father an old Man and his Son both of them in
become also Elastick in the motional Fibres by reason of the bloody Copula therefore if plenty of this be taken away they grow weak and deficient Which thing indeed I have observed in many and for the most part languishings and tremblings to have been begun in the Arm out of which the blood had been taken However in some indued with a sharp and hot blood and apt to flame forth too much though disposed to the Palsie it is sometimes convenient to let blood a little and sparingly About the Aequinox a Purge ought to be instituted and after due times between to be iterated three or four times But first if nothing oppose let a Vomit be given of the Salt of Vitriol Sulphur of Antimony or an Infusion of Crocus Metallorum or of Mercurius Vitae then let there be taken Pills of Amber or of Aloephanginae by it self or with the Resine of Ialap every seventh or eighth day At other times we prescribe Cephalick Remedies such as in the sleepy Diseases viz. Electuaries Powders Spirits and Volatile Salts Tinctures Elixirs with distilled Waters and Apozems sometimes these sometimes those or others Let Issues be made in the Arm or Leg yea in fat people and such as are full of ill humors in both together or between the shoulders Let them drink all the year medicated Beer of Sage Betony Stechades Sassafrass Wood and Winterines Bark Wine and Women ought to be forbidden or but moderately to be used If that the Palsie be excited after a previous disposition either of one side or in some members and that it still continues notwithstanding the first attempt of Medicine a long and complicated method is always requisite and oftentimes doth not suffice for not only the Disease or its conjunct cause or its foregoing severally but all together ought to be opposed for which ends Phlebotomy being for the most part interdicted only a gentle Purge and rarely is convenient Besides some chief Cephalick Medicines and Antiscorbuticks are wont to help against the foregoing cause of this Disease But all of this sort are not convenient to all yea as we have observed in the Scurvey according to the various Constitutions of the Sick there are also Remedies of a diverse kind and virtue For to Cholerick Paralyticks to wit in whose sharp and hot Blood there is much of Salt and Sulphur and very little of Serum the more hot Medicines and indued with very active Particles are not agreeable yea are often hurtful which things notwithstanding are very profitable to Phlegmatick persons whose Blood is colder and contains much of Serum and but few active Elements Wherefore for this twofold state or condition of sick persons it seems convenenient that we institute here a double Method of Cure and two classes of Medicines of which these may be given to cold Parlyticks and those to the hot In the former case for the taking away the Procatartick cause after Vomiting and Purging being rightly instituted I was wont to prescribe according to these following forms Take of the Conserves of the leaves of the Garden Scurvy-grass of Rocket made with an equal part of Sugar each three ounces of Ginger Candied in India half an ounce of the rinds of Oranges and Lemons Candied each six drams of the Powder of the Claws and Eyes of Crabs each four scruples of the Species of Diambre two drams of Winterens Bark one dram and a half of the Roots of Zedoary the lesser Galingal of Cubebs the Seeds of Water-Cresses Rocket each one dram of the Spirits of Scurvy-grass Laevender each two drams of the Syrup of Candied Ginger what will suffice to make an Electuary Take of it about the quantity of a Walnut at eight of the Clock in the Morning and at five in the Afternoon drinking after it a pint of the following Decoction warm or Coffee with the leaves of Sage boiled in it six ounces of or â—per Wine three ounces Take of the shavings of Lignum Sanctum six ounces of Sarsaparilla and of Sassaphras each four ounces of white and yellow Sanders of the shavings of Ivory of Harts-horn each half an ounce infuse them according to art and boil them in sixteen pints of Spring water till half be consumed adding of Crude Antimony in Powder and tyed in a rag four ounces of the Root of the Aromatick Reed of the lesser Galingal each half an ounce of the Florentine Iris one ounce of Cardamums six drams of Coriander Seeds half an ounce six Dates make a Decoction to be used for ordinary drink Going to sleep and first in the morning let a Dose of the Spirits of Sut or Harts-horn or of Armoniacal Amber or of Blood c. be taken with three ounces of the following distilled water Take of the leaves or roots of Aron one pound of the leaves of Garden Scurvey-grass of the greater Rocket of Rosemary Sage Savory Thyme four handfuls of the Flowers of Lavender three handfuls the outer rinds of ten Oranges and six Lemons of Winterans Bark three ounces of the roots of the lesser Galingal of Calamus Aromaticus the Florentine Iris each two ounces of Cubebs Cloves Nutmegs each two ounces all being cut and bruised pour to them of white Wine and of Brunswick Beer or Mum each four pints distil it in common Stills and let all the liquor be mixed together Sometimes in the place of the Electuary may be taken for fifteen or twenty days a Dose of the Tincture of Sulphur Turpentined of the Tincture of Antimony or of Amber Also sometimes Elixir Proprietatis or of Poeony let them be taken in a spoonful of distilled Water drinking after it three ounces of the same Also sometimes the following Powders or Lozenges may be taken by turns in the medical course Take of the Powder of Vipers flesh of Monpillier prepared one ounce of the hearts and livers of the same half an ounce of Species Diambre two ounces make a Powder take one dram once or twice a day with the distilled Water three ounces or with Viper Wine with a Decoction of the leaves of Sage of the root and seeds of the Burdock and the Candied roots of Eringo made of Spring-water what will suffice and boiled to one moiety six or eight ounces in the Morning warm expecting to sweat after it Take of Bezoartick Mineral Solar half an ounce of Cloves powdered two drams mingle them make a Powder and divide it into twelve parts let one be taken after the same manner twice in a day between these kind of Remedies gentle purging may be often used Take of the Powder of the picked roots of Zedoary the lesser Galingal each half a dram of Species Diambre one dram of the Powder of the seeds of Mustard Rocket Scurvygrass Water-Cresses each half a dram make of them all a fine Powder add to it of the Oyl of the purest Amber half a dram and with white Sugar dissolved
whence the trembling of the Heart and Praecordia after the fit ibid. the Incubus of it self rarely dangerous ibid. its prognosticks 144. its Cure ibid. how infants and boys obnoxious to this Disease ought to be handled ibid. Insects appear to have fiery Souls because they want sulphurous and nitrous food 8 Instances of passion merely Physical 46 Instinct natural what it is 34. what it brings to Brutes ibid. examples of it ibid. it dictates to them what 's wholesome what not 35. leads not only to simple actions but to very complicate ones ibid. yet those always and in all of one kind only ibid. how 't is wont to be compared with acquired notions 37. and with the impressions of sensible things ibid. with habits learned from example or institution ibid. with notions learned from experience and imitation ibid. Intellect in man presides o're the imagination c. 38. and discerns its errors sublimates its notions and divests them from matter and contemplates immaterial substances judges and directs its propositions deduces from these others more sublime thoughts beholds it self by a reflected action and contemplates other things remote from sense as God c. 39. it depends upon the Phantasy 41. by reason of the various constitution of this and the Brain Souls seems unequal 42 Issues made upon or near the distemper'd place help little 119 K. ALL Knowledge from sense 57 L. LEthargy its seat the same with that of Sleep and Memory 125. its Fits are call'd by this name ibid. and the soporiferous disposition also 126. of which are various kinds ibid. its causes ibid. to 128. what things belong to its theory 129. the chiefest of its symptoms ibid. by what means the other faculties of the Soul as the knowing desiring and locomotive are affected ibid. it s evil reaches also to the cerebel ibid. hence breathing often hurt or altered ibid. which proceeds â—ot from the inflammation of the midriff ibid. its Fever from whence ibid. and 130. none dyes without one ibid. its prognosticks ibid. its cure 131 to 133. Histories ibid. its ends or limits as to the places distempered are constituted ibid. some sleepy distempers lesser than it the Caros greater ibid. Light Colours and Images the same substance 75. Light and Flame their differences 76. wherefore Light either reflected or refracted goes forward only in streight lines ib. it can pass through a Chamber in the mean time not to be perceiv'd ibid. 't is primary or secundary ibid. the differences of these 77 Lobster its Anatomy 11 12 Local motion stir'd up by the appetite 36 Love how excited 50. it and hatred transitory passions 51. its object set up like an Idol in the Phantasy and worshipped 50 Love-madness 199. reasons of its symptoms ibid. Lucid part of the Soul 22. shines diversly 31. alteration of the flamy part impressed by it 32 Lungs how differ in Birds and four footed Beasts 17. for what end perforated in Birds ibid. M. MAdness and Melancholy are a-kin 201. the subject of Madness are the Animal Spirits the disposition of which are like to Stygian Water ibid. three chief accidents in Madness which are also to be found in Stygian Water 201 202. the conjunct cause of Madness what it is ibid. the original of Madness either from the Spirits themselves or from the Blood 203. it begins from the Spirits from two occasions ibid. by what means it comes upon Melancholy 204. how upon a Phrensy ibid the original of Madness sometimes from the Blood ibid. it is either hereditary the reason of which is shown 204. or acquired and so either by reason of errors in the six non-naturals or by reason of Poysons ibid. History of a mortal Madness from eating the leaves of Wolfs-bane ibid. the reasons of the symptoms of Madness explained 205. wherefore mad-men are audacious ibid. from whence their immense strength ibid. wherefore they are never tired ibid. wherefore they are not easily hurt ibid. the differences in respect of the original magnitude and time ibid. the prognosticks ibid. the cure from the indications of continual Madness 206. the curatory indication as to discipline ibid. as to Medicines ibid. the preservatory indication consists in altering Medicines as whey c. specificks c. ibid. the vital and curatory indications 208 Melancholy its definition 188. 't is a distemper of the Brain and Heart ibid. its Examples or Types various and almost in finite ibid. 't is either universal or particular ibid. the primary Phaenomena of a melancholick Delirium and from what disposition of the Spirits they proceed ibid. as they are compared to light they are call'd opacous or full of darkness 189. these kind of Spirits in Melancholy compared to those in Chymical Liquors ibid. they are not like the Spirit of Blood as they should be nor like the Spirit of Wine for such is rather in the Phrensy ibid. but these are like acid Spirits distill'd out of Salt Vinegar Box and such like ibid. the formal reason of Melancholy aptly represented by acetous Chymical Liquors ibid. there are three chief affections of these which agree with the Animal Spirits in Melancholy 190 191. in Melancholy after the Spirits being for some time vitiated the conformation of the Brain becomes also hurt 191. in this Disease the affection of the Praecordia as to fear and sadness is delivered ibid. after what manner the corporeal Soul is affected in Melancholy and Madness ibid. the cause of either depends partly on the Blood and partly on the Animal action of the Heart ibid. the Procatartick causes of Melancholy are partly the acetous nature of the Spirits and partly the Melancholy discrasie of the Blood and the distemper begins sometimes from this sometimes from that 191 192. how it begins from the Spirits and the Animal Government 192. by what means it arises from the Blood ibid. Melancholy doth not arise from any atrabiliary humour heaped up in some pâ—ace or mine ibid. by what means according to the Ancients 't is said to arise from the Head ibid. how from the Womb ibid how from the Spleen ibid. how from the whole Body 193. the differences of this Disease in respect of its first subject and by reason of the temperament of the Sick and in respect of its next cause as it is singular or conjunct and in respect of the imagination being diversly hurt ibid. its prognosticks ibid. in the Cure the evident cause is first to be removed ibid. and herein are three primary indications first Curatory c. 193 194. secondly Preservatory c. 149 altering Medicines are here of greatest moment and not purging as the Ancients thought 196. Histories of this Disease 197. particular Melancholy is excited by reason of two sorts of affections concerning good or evil 199 Melancholick persons their imaginary Metamorphosis 200 Metamorphosis imaginary of melancholick Persons 200 Millepedes notably help in the cure of the head ach 118 N. NEmesius attributes sense and perception to corporeal Souls and farther the
distilled Water Tablets Chalybeats or Steel-Medicines Spirits Powders Cases and Examples of the Sick The first History The second History The Reason of the Case described The third History The Seat of the Apoplexy A Description of the Disease It s Subject The spontaneous Functions only deficient in the Apoplexy The opinions of others concerning this Disease The Theory of this Disease is best shewn by the famous Dr. Webfer Another Reason given by the Author The Exclusion of the Blood from the Brain does not easily happen Because all the Arteries communicate one with another and some of them supply the defects of the others A total Exclusion of the blood from the Brain sometimes hapning causes a terrible Syncopy This depends oftenest on the motion of the heart being hindred and so either because of the Cardiack Nerves being bound together Or By reason of the Spirits in the Cerebel being hindred from their flowing into the Nerves Hence there is a twofold Apoplexy one in the Brain the other proper to the Cerebel The Theory of the former delivered This Disease either accidental or habitual The cause of the former is either a great breach of the unity in or near the middle of the Brain Or a sudden stupefaction or extinction of the Spirits 1 A Solution of the unity either from blood let forth of the Vessels Or 2 From an Imposthume or the breaking of an Vlcer Or 3 From a Deluge of the Serum An extinction of the Spirits from Opiates or from immoderate Drinking of hot Waters The operation of Opiates as it is assigned by the famous Webfer The formal reason of the habitual Apoplexy 1 What its Conjunct Cause is It consists in the Pores of the callous Body being suddenly stop'd and the Spirits being driven away by the contact of malignant matter What the nature or disposition of the morbifick matter is The procatarctic Cause of the habitual Apoplexy The differences of this Disease Its Prognosticks The Curatory Method What is to be done in the Fit In what position the Sick ought to be kept Phlebotomy Other ways of Administration noted Vomiting Medicines Comforters Cupping-glasses Hot or glowing Iron The preservatory Method Purging and Bleeding Spring and Fall Cephalick Remedies An Electuary A distilled Water Lozenges Spirits and Tinctures Tea Coffee and Chocolate prepared how to be made and taken A Powder Medical Aâ— Examples A very rare History An Anatomical Observation The middle of the Brain which is the Seat of the Apoplexy is also the Seat of the Epilepsy The streaked Bodies the Medullar Trunks and the Nerves are the Seat of the Palsy what the Palsie is It s Conjunct Causes are Obstruction of the passages and the Impotency of the Spirits In the Palsie either motion or sense only or both together is hurt Spontaneous motion is abolished by reason of the ways being obstructed either in their beginnings or the middle passages or about the ends The ways are obstructed by Impletion or Compression or by a breaking of the Vnity An obstruction in the streaked Bodies causes the Vniversal Palsie or the Palsie of one side Why sense is not hindred as well as motion in every Palsie In an universal Palsie why all the Muscles of the Eyes and Face are not loosâ—ed A Compression of the streaked Body sometimes stirs up the Palsie A Paralytick obstruction doth sometimes happen in the Oblong and Spinal Marrow A Palsie often succeeds stupidity or becoming foolish A Palsie sometimes from the pressing together of the Marrowy Cord. Sometimes from the unity being broke The Seat of the Palsie sometimes in the Nerves themselves which are either obstructed or compressed or the unity broken 1 An Obstruction Sometimes in the beginning of the Nerves 2 Sometimes in the middle 3 Or in their utmost processes The other conjunct cause of the Palsie to wit the impotency of the Spirits Often arises from narcotick or vitriolick Particles by which the Spirits are put to flight In every Palsie the matter is not so thick or cold as it is vitriolick or other ways infestous to the Spirits The blasting or withering in Trees like the Palsie The more remote foregoing causes of the Palsy which are two 1 More remote to wit a vicious Blood and for that reason pouring forth a deadly matter upon the head 2 Nearer to wit a weak and loose Brain admiting the evil Particles The Palsy is either a primary Distemper and a Disease of it self Or secondarily viz. Coming upon or succeeding other Diseases Wherefore the Palsie often succeeds Convulsive Diseases Wherefore the Distemper of the Colick 3 Wherefore the Gout The evident Causes of the habitual Palsie Want or paâ—city of Spirits oftentimes the Cause of the Spurious or Bastard Palsy For this Reason Old Men are obnoxious to this Disease 2 Also Scorbutical Persons and such as are full of ill humours 3 Also others long sick Hence some dare not venture on local motion Others endeavouring cannot bear them long The Impotency of the Spirits proceeds in some measure from the default of the explosive Copula 2 The kind of Palsy in which Motion and Sense are hurt at ones 3 Kind in which sense only is affected Wherefore feeling is sometimes lost and motion safe What is the proper Organ of feeling The Prognostick of the Palsy It s Cure Three means of healing according to which this Disease is 1. Either accidental 2. The off-spring of another Disease 3. Habitual 1 The Cure of the former A Powder for a Fall Topicks to be applyed to the Distempered part 2 How the Palsie coming upon another Disease is to be cured The Cure of the habitual Palsie Whilst it is In fieri or doing The Intentions of healing respect the Blood and the Brain Bloodletting A Purge Cephalick Remedies 2 How the Disease in habit is to be cured Bloodletting and Purging cautiously and rarely to be admitted Altering Medicines ought to be given with choice How the Palsy is to be healed in a cold temperament Electuary Coffee A Decoction Spirits A Distilled Water Tinctures and Elixirs Powders Lozenges Pills How the Cholerick or hot Palsie is to be cured An Electuary A Distilled Water Chalybeats or Steeled Medicines A Decoction The juice and expressions of Herbs Pills Topick and particular Remedies Vniversal Remedies 1 Diaphoreticks They are not to be administred indifferently to all They often hurt the Cholerick Sweating Medicines Stoves Baths Natural Baths When the use of Baths is hurtful in the Palsie Salivation Vomitories Histories and Examples of Paralyticks The Example of the Palsie habitual excited of it self The first History The Reason of it The second History more rare and notable An Anatomicâ— Observation â— which the Caâ— is explained â— The third History The Reason of this The fourth History The Câ—rt expoposed The Reason of it The fifth History shâ—wing when the Baths are hurtful An example of the Palsie from a Lethargy The Distempers of the Brain follow in which Reason is hurt as