Oak Peony roots of each one ounce Castoreum Sage of each half an ounce Bay-berries Mans skul burnt of each one dram Venice treacle Mithridate both of the best six drams clarified Honey two pounds mix them for an Electuary Take Pulvis Arthriticus Paracelsi two ounces clarified Honey a sufficient quantity mix and make an Electuary it is an excellent purge for this purpose the pouder here ought to be prepared with Mans skull levigated instead of other bones 13. Purging extracts In this cause Quercetan's Extract of black Hellebor is a very admirable thing so also the Extractum Benedictum in Our Pharmacopoeia Or this following Take extract of black Hellebor a scruple resin of Scammony five grains Volatile salt of Amber ten grains Chymical Oyls of Rue and Amber of each two drops Oyls of Cinnamon and Cloves of each one drop mix them for a dose 14. Purging Morsels Take Gummy Turbith three drams Diagrydium one dram and half resin of Scammony two scruples Cinnamon Ginger Nutmegs Galangal of each half a dram red Coral prepared half a scruple conserve of Peony half an ounce Oyl of Sage six drops Sugar dissolved in waters of flowers of Lilly Convally and of the Lime tree a sufficient quantity make Morsells dose half an ounce In our Pharmacopoeia and Doron you will find some of Mynsichts very excellent for this purpose 15. Purging pills Take Pil. Cochie two scruples Pil. Arabicae one scruple Troches Alhandal three grains Oyl of Sage one drop mix and make twenty five Pills Or Take Extract of Pil. Cochiae half a dram or two scruples Extract of black Hellebor five grains Oyl of Rue one drop mix and make fifteen Pills But among all the purgatives Extract we know none better than Our Family Pills which we have constantly Used with wonderful success It is a Medicament that caries off all humors works briskly and yet without griping or making sick unless the Stomach be very foul 16. From minerals c. Some purge with Lapis Armenius given in three scruples and mixt with Hira picra verum in Comitialibus inveteratis dixit Sennertus nullum adeo efficax medicamentum invenisse ut hoc medicamentum purgans multósque se novisse desperatos ab alijs medicis vel hoc solo persanatos fuisse Among Chymick and metalick Medicaments Antimony and the preparations thereof are highly commended as the Vitrum Flores Crocus c. of which latter the Aqua benedicta Rulandi is made Mercurius Vitae also is in great Estimation among some Physicians but it ought to be well prepared and very cautiously given 17. Whichsoever of the Medicaments here enumerated or any other of like kind not here named the Physician shall be pleased to make use of they are not suddenly to be given over but to be long used as Galen himself admonishes in his counsel for the Cure of an Epileptick Child where he commends a Medicament of squills to be used at least for forty days Oxymel of squills prepared with Vinegar Or rather the juyce of squills with Honey in an Epilepsy whose seat is in the Genus nervosum is very much praised being continued to be taken for forty days or more from two drams to two ounces before dinner and in strong bodies also before Supper a proper Purge being taken in the use hereof once a week 18. Among simple Medicaments Trallianus commends the roots of Pyrethrum being beaten into pouder and taken with Honey a spoonful thereof being taken at a time till eleven spoonfuls are taken at certain intervalls experientia inquit probatum est auxilium ne ipsius utilitatem contemnas But squills Pyrethrum and such like hot Medicaments are not to be given but in bodies of a Cold humid and Pituitous constitution or where the Cause of the Disease shall pertinaciously adhere to the inferior Venter and then also if they be mixed with Specific ksor proper Antepilepticks they will yet be so much the more powerfull 19. Now if by the continuall use of Medicaments the appetite to food should be hurt that at length as the disease by degrees is overcome will return again of its own accord yet however in the mean season it will be prudence in the Physician at certain Intervalls to to desist from the other Medicaments and to exhibit such things as may corroberate or strengthen the Stomach for if that be overturned or weekned it can never perform its duty in the Concoction and alteration of the designed Medicaments whereby the greatest part of the labour pains cost and Medicines will be bestowed in Vain 20. The second part of the first Intention is performed by Sudorificks which send those noxious humors through the pores of the skin which lay beyond the reach of any purgative or Vomit Here the Decoction of Lignum Guajacum has place and indeed it is no mean thing for as Jacchinus testifies by the use hereof with a drying and extenuating Diet many Epilepticks have been perfectly cured but the Use thereof was continued not only for some days but for some weeks Others there are which as highly commend the Extracts of Cardus Ben. Calamus Aromaticus and Gentian and it is known by certain Experience that the Decoction of those three being taken for an hundred days together has cured highly Scorbutick Epilepticks who had been given over as incurable by several eminent and Learned men but then during the whole time of drinking of that Decoction they did continually every day all day long chew Gentian in their Mouths which of how great vertue that alone thing is in the Cure of this disease I dare not be bold to say to speak the whole truth least I should be thought to Romance if any one will but please to make the tryal they may perhaps in less than a weeks time see the reason of the thing 21. Antepileptick Sudorificks Quercetanus in his Pharmacopaeia dagmatica restituta cap. 8. has this following preparation Take raspings of Box-wood two ounces and half raspings of Juniper-wood roots of Peony Misletoe of the Oak of each an ounce and half Lignum Rhodium Harts-horn of each five drams Ivory China roots of each half an ounce seeds of Card. Ben Citron peels of each an ounce digest twenty four hours in warm Peony water eight pints boyl to the consumption of a third part and at the end of the boyling add flowers of the Line-tree and of Lilly Convally of each two pugils then strain it out for use dose five or six ounces Bezoar stone also Pulvis exchelis Cancrorum compositus and Bezoar minerale are of good use To these add decoctions of Sarsa parilla of China of Sassafras of the wood of Misletoe of the Oak roots of Cink-foil and Tormentil with other things of like nature Or this of Sennertus Take raspings of Guajacum one pound Misletoe of the Oak three ounces Peony roots one ounce Fountain water twelve pints infuse all twenty four hours boyl to the consumption of a third part and then
Almonds are very agreable as also the Conserves of Violets the flowers of Water-lillies Nenuphar and Borrage 13. If the Belly be not in good temper you may administer a Clyster let it be such a one as is both emollient and nutritive made of the broth of Mutton Capons and Hens with the Yolks of four Eggs and a little of the powder of Saffron Mace and Cinnamon-water 14. The part affected and the marrow of the Back is to be anointed with the following things Take Mans fat the Oyl of Violets and sweet-Almonds of each two ounces the juyce of Earth-worms three ounces mix and apply them warm 15. If the Convulsion be by consent that is to say if it proceed from pain inflamation and tumefacton then the pain is to be asswaged the inflammation is to be extinguished and the tumefaction of the Member is to be resolved and dissipated in which Case the following Oyntment is agreeable even to a wonderful manner 16. Take Oyl of Sage Dill Cammomil Foxes the juyce of Earth-worms Mans grease of each two ounces Oyl of Turpentine Aqua vitae of each one ounce Saffron one dram mix them and make a Liniment 17. Ambrosius Paraeus who deserves eternal Encomiums does exceedingly commend the following Liniment to be used in Diseases of the Nerves chiefly those which arises from a cold cause Take Sage Ground-pine Marjoram Rosemary Rue Lavender of each one handful the flowers of Cammomil Melilot Dill-Hypericon of each two pugils Bay and Juniper-berries of each two ounces the roots of Pyrethrum two drams Mastick Benjamin of each one ounce and half Turpentine one pound Oyl of Earth-worms Dill and Whelps of each six ounces Oyl of Turpentine three ounces Mans-grease two ounces Crocus one dram white Wine one pound and half Wax a sufficient quantity bruise those that are to be bruised and pulverise those that are to be pulverized afterwards let them be boyled in a double vessel with the several Oyls and grease above mentioned and then make a Liniment according to Art adding in the end three ounces of Aqua vitae 18. But if the Convulsion proceed from evil and malignant vapours afflicting the Brain and other noble parts the digestion and suppuration of the Wound must be accelerated and although cold defensitives impede the Elevation of the vapours yet because thâ—y retard the suppuration of the wound and â—urt the Nerves they are not to be used but with great judgment 19. This one thing I shall add that to those Liniments which are applyed to the Wound there be always added some Treacle Mithridate and the Bezoar stone 20. Mithridate also Treacle the Bezoar-stone Harts-horn and other Alexipharmacks taken in at the Mouth does agree very well an Epithem is to be applyed to the region of the Heart as also to his Wrists Fabritius Hildanus de Gangrena cap 26. LXXIV A Convulsion in a fat Man 1. A man fat thick and flegmatick about the age of five and thirty having after supper a great pain in his Head was suddenly taken with an universal Convulsion through his whole Body insomuch that I never before had seen the like 2. For his Leggs and Arms were not only convulsed but also the muscles of his Breast yea a most violent Convulsion had seized the whole Body he lay speechless with his Mouth shut if he had been pricked there followed a contraction of the Hands and Feet but he had some Sense so that it did not appear to be an Apoplexy 3. This Fit continued two whole days and three nights till Death gave him a Quietus est 4. Coming to him at night I ordered Frictions and Ligatures and having by an Artifice opened his Mouth I ordered Oxymel to be put into his Mouth as also a sharp Clyster to be injected 5. In this difficult Case I did press earnestly for consultation with Cornelius Ericius my Colleague whose Sentiments of the Disease and of the Necessity of the Clyster which was prepared was the same with mine 6. We agreed in giving him for a gentle Purge for he was very phlegmatick one dram and half of Pil. Cochiae dissolved in a little Sage-Water by this he had three stools yet he continued as he was 7. At night returning again we anointed the whole Nape and the whole Back-bone with the Oyl of Turpentine mixed with the Oyl of Foxes and we did exhibit again Pil. Cochiae but was nothing the better 8. Afterwards the following Sternutatory was prescribed Take white Hollebore black Pepper Staves acre of each one scruple and half beat them into a fine Pouder and then by a Quill put it up into the Nostrils 9. But this also did no good for it did not cause Sneezing which without Controversy was a mortal Sign at the same time his Teeth being opened a little of the following Compound was poured into his Mouth very often 10. Take the Conserve of the Flowers of Rosemary one ounce Mithridate half an ounce choice Treacle three drams Oxymel simple and Squills of each half an ounce Syrup of Staechas half an ounce mix them neither was any thing the better by this for he dyed the third night Petrus Forestus Lib. 10. Observ 103. LXXV A Convulsion arising from a pain in the Joints 1. A certain noble Woman having a long time kept her Chamber by pains in the Joynts and growing thereby flegmatick she was sadly afflicted almost every year with the Gout and at length the pituitous matter being imbibed in the Nerves she had a mighty Convulsion 2. Among many things we prescribed for Diet this one thing we thought convenient to be taken in stead of Wine viz a kind of Mead made of the Decoction of Marjoram Sage Betony with a little Cinnamon and Honey 3. We did commend frictions of the Vertebrae and Neck and that she would avoid all perturbations of the mind and to keep the Body always in a good Temper we ordered for her the following Clyster Take roots of Marsh-Mallows white Lillies of each half an ounce Sage Betony Hysop Rue of each one handful the Flowers of Carduus Benedictus Rosemary Cammomil Centaury the lesser Herb Mercury of each one handful and half Staechas one pugil Carthamus-seed half an ounce Caraway and Fennel-seed one dram and half Polypâ—dy half an ounce Bran one pugil white Agarick one dram and half boyl them all together in common Water to one pound of the straining I add Benedictum laxativum half an ounce Electuary of Hiera Picra three drams Oyl of Lillies Oyl of Cammomil of each one ounce and half with a little Salt make a Clyster 4. But if this will not do because of the hardness of the Belly I would advise a more emollient Clyster of the Decoction of Mallows and Marsh-Mallows c. 5. The minoration of the pituitous matter being made by Pil. Hierae simplex we endeavoured for the better Evacuation of the same to render the matter more thin and fluxile by Syrups made of the Decoction of Sage Marjoram
of Squills for an Epilepsy 346 a Gargarisms antepileptick 354 b Gargarisms in convulsions 472b Gangreen 606 a Genus Nervosum hurt 382 a Gluttony 33 a Gout 217 b 378 a Guajacum dangerous in an inveterate Head-ach from the Pox 52 b H Haemorrhoides 108a 412b 630b Haemorrhage 387 b Head-ach 1 a 39 b Head-ach with the Kings evil 2 a Head-ach from the Pox 3 b 5 a 6 a 11 b Head-ach in a young Virgin 5 b 7 a Head-ach with a pain in the Neck 6 a Head-ach with appetite lost 7 a 8 b Headach noise in the ears 7 b Head-ach with many Symptoms 7 b 9 a Head-ach with Cough difficulty of breathing 8 a Head-ach with pain of the Stomach 8 b Head-ach cured by an Issue 9 b Head-ach cured by Horse-leeches 9 b Head-ach cured by bleeding 10 b Head-ach from the heat of the Sun 10 a Head-ach with other Infirmities 10 b Head-ach mortal 11 a Head-ach in a semitertian 12 b Head-ach nocturnal 13 a Head-ach contumacious 15 a Head ach with a Catarrh 15 b Head-ach from vehement Labour 15 b Head-ach from cold 16 a Head-ach cured by purging the Brain 16 b Head-ach its Cause 39 b Head-ach its Prognosticks 41 b Head-ach from a simple Intemperature its cure 42 a Head-ach from heat and moisture its cure 43 a Head-ach from cold and dryness 43 b Head-ach from cold and moisture its cure 44 a b Head-ach from Vapours its cure 50 b Head-ach from a Feaver 50 b Head ach from the Pox its cure 51 b Head-ach from the hurt of the Cranium or menings of the Brain 54 a Heat of the Back 413 a Hectick 182 a Hiccough 606 b Hoarsness 145 b Horstius his Remedies against the Apoplexy 705 b Hypochondriack Meloncholy Scurvy 46 a 51 a Hysterick Fits 369 b 395 b Hypochondriack Melancholy 376 a Hydromel 667 b Hydromel tartarisatum apud Thonerum 755 a I Incubus 501 a see Night mare Infusion of Rhubarb 750 a Infusion of Sena ibid. Infusum purgans è foliis Sena Sennerti 75 b Infusum Vomiterium Sennerti ib Infusum alium Sennerti ib Inflamation of the Eye-lids 32 a b Injection for the Womb 257 a Joels Experiment for a Pocky Head-ach 53 b Ischuria 221 b Iuyce of Calamus Aromaticus to prepare 190 a L Laudanum volatile nostrum 552 b Laudanum simplex apud Poterius 757 a Laudanum vniversal poterij ib Laudanum for a Megrim 17 b Laudanum how taken 111 a b Laudanum for a Catarrh 120 b Lambitive for a Catarrh 170 b Langius his Epileptick water 278 b Laxative Wine 203 a 439 a 440 b 441 b 442 a Leprosy 524 a Lethargy 378 a 581 a 631 b Lixivium for strengthning and drying the Head 198 a Liquor lithontriptick 398 b Liniment of Paraeus against Convulsions 447 a b Liquor antiparilytic Sennert 663 b Linimentum ad Paralysin Valeriota 674 a Lotion for the Feet 199 a Lungs vlcered 133 a M Masticatories 39 b Madness 323 a Maxy his Secret for the Epilepsy 340 b Masticatories in Convulsions 472 a b Mad Dog biting 480 a b Megrim what 61 a Megrim from the Pox 17 a Megrim in a hot scorbutick Body 18 b Megrim in a cold scorbutick Body 20 a Megrim from a foul Stomach 20 b Megrim from Blood over-heated 21 a Megrim from a phlegmatick Stomach 21 b Megrim from a blow on the Head 21 b Megrim with Cough and shortness of breath 22 a Megrim with a Catarrh c 22 b 28 a Megrim with sphacelation of the Brain 25 a Megrim from a Cold 26 b Megrim with the Cramp 26 b Megrim in a Woman lately delivered 27 a Megrim cured by opening an Artery 27 b 30 a 33 a Megrim cured by a flux 29 a Megrim Inveterate 29 a b Megrim in the Winter 30 b Megrim with Pain of the Eyes 32 a Megrim from a cold humor 33 b Megrim form a hot cause 34 a Megrim Periodiok 35 b Megrim its names definition kinds 61 a Megrim its signs 61 b Megrim its prognosticks 62 a Megrim its cure 62 a b Megrim from Wind and Cold its cure 63 b Megrim from consent of the Womb 64 a 245 b 256 a Melancholy 46 a 51 52 a 145 b 318 a 374 a Mercury what 38 a b Mesues liquor in passions of the Heart 647 b Mortification 606 a Morphew 47 a Mouth sore 150 b Montagnanus his Antidote against the Epilepsy 346 Mulsum antiparalyticum 667 b F Neurotick Wine in an Epilepsy 255 a Nerve or Tendon pricked 392 b Neuroticks or Nerve Medicaments 474 a b Nicholas his Experiment for resolving and remitting of Pain 449 a Night-mare 501 a 511 b Night-m in an aged man 501 b Night-m with the rupture 502 a Night-m with vomitting 503 a Night-m with running Pains 503 b Night-m in a young Maiden 504 a Night-m in a young man 505 b 508 a 511 a 512 b Night-mare from obstruction of Courses 507 a 509 a Night-mare upon healing an old Vlcer 508 a Night-m in a Man with a vehement Catarrh 510 a Night-mare in one melancholy 511 b Night-mare in general 512 a Night-m in a Child 514 a Night-m its Signs 515 b Night-m its Cause 516 b Night-m its Prognosticks 518 a Night-mare its cure 518 b O Obstructions of the Womb 481 a Obstructions of the Mesentery 379 b Obstruction of Courses 568 b Old Head-ach 11 a Old Head-ach with breakings out 14 a Old Head-ach with pain of the Womb 14 b Oleum Buxi a Quercetano 749a Oleum Picis nigrae ibid. Oleum Hypericis magistrale Poterii 759 b. Oleum ad Paralysin ibid. Ophthalmy 34 a Opisthotonos 457 b Opisthotonos what 465 a Orvietan of Platerus 473 b Oyl of Guajacum 749 a Oytment against the Palsy 590 b P. Pathology of Diseases 39 a Pathology of the Head-ach 39b Pathology of a Cephalaea 55 b Pathology of the Vertigo 101 a Pain at Stomach 134 b Pathology of the Epilepsy 333 a Palpitation convulsive 407 b Pathology of Convulsions 465 a Pathology of Contractures 493 a Pathol. of the Night-Mare 515 a Pathology of the Tremor 539 a Pathology of the Palsy 648 a Pathology of the Apoplexy 724 a Palsy with a Catarrh 551 a Palsy in a young Man by lying in the cold 556 b Palsy by taking cold after Sweating 560 b Palsy by drinking water too plentifully 561 b Palsy with Contraction 567 b Palsy with Obstruction of Courses and a Dropsy 568 b Palsy by sitting in the Snow 570a Palsy of the upper parts 570 b Palsy in an aged Man 573 b Palsy mortal 574 b Palsy with Cholick pains and retention of Courses 535 a Palsy by taking cold in swiming 577 a Palsy in a middle aged Woman 578 b Palsy in a middle aged Man 619 b 621 a Palsy in a fat Man ibid. Palsy with the scorbute 579 b Palsy in a Woman with Lethargy 581 a Palsy cured by Opiates 585 a Palsy with Hiccough 606 b Palsy in a young Girl 607 a Palsy
from the Cholick 608 a 641 a Palsy of both Leggs 608 a Palsy in ancient person 608 b Palsy gentle 610 a 613 a Palsy of the Tongue 611b 615a 642 a b 603 b 644 a Palsy from Flegm 612 a Palsy after an Apoplexy 613 b Palsy easily cured 614 b Palsy variously cured ibid. Palsy on a sudden 615 a Palsy after an Apoplexy 615 b Palsy of the Tongue hapning suddenly 616 a Palsy of the Bladder ibid. Palsy of the Yard 618 a Palsy with Atrophia of the Legs 618 b Palsy in a young Woman after Child birth 621 b Palsy in a healthy Man 622 b Palsy in a Child 623 b Palsy arising from the Cholick 624 a 625 a 629 b Palsy upon a Feaver 624 b Palsy with defect of the of Speech 626 b Palsy and Apoplexy 627 b Palsy cured 630 a 631 b Palsy pissing blood 630 b Palsy 632 a 632 b 637 a Palsy and Lethargy 631 b Palsy in a noble Man 632 b Palsy on one side 637 a Palsy of the Legg 638 b Palsy with Convulsion Cramp 639 a Palsy in the Tongue and Arm 603 a Palsy with pain in the Head 643 b Palsy cured in a Man of fifty years of age 643 b Palsy universal 645 a Palsy cured by Paracelsus 647b Palsy in a cholerick Constitution 675 b Palsy its signs 641 a Palsy its Causes 651 a Palsy the Prognosticks 656 a Palsy Idiopathetick 657 a Paralysis by consent from other Diseases 667 b Palsy from evident Causes cured 680 b Palsy of the Tongue 618 a Palsy in a Man of 70 years of age 592 a Palsy of the Ey-lids 592 b Palsy of the Tongue cured ibid. Palsy of the Gullet 593 a Palsy of the Sphincter Muscle 594 a Palsy in a very old Man 595 a Palsy in an aged person 596 a Palsy or resolution of the lower parts 596 b Palsy in the Tongue and Fingers 597 a 598 a Palsy 598 b Palsy in one side of the Body 603 a Palsy in an ancient Gentlewoman ibid. Palsy by taking cold in the Rain 604 a Palsy with grievous Symp. 604b Palsy in the Tongue c. 605 a Palsy in a young Gentleman 605b Palsy with Gangreen c 606a Pectoral Rouls 184 a Pills against the Gout 52 a Pills for a fume 172 a Pilulae debiles fortes 137 b Pills of Hermodacts of Platerus 757 b Pilulae Cephalica Grulingij ib. Pilulae Laudinae Hystericae Poterij 758 a Pilulae Catholicae Poterij ib. Pilulae Polyerestae Poterij ib. Pil. Balsami Sulphuris Poterij ib. Pil. Cephalicae primae Poterij ib. Pil. Cephalicae secundae Pot. ib. Pilulae Martialis apud Poterium 758 b Pilulae Martialis astringes-Poterij ib. Pilulae ad calculum Sennerti ib. Pilulae de Iva arthretica 659 b Plaister for the Crown of the Head 172 a Platerus his Antidote against the Epilepsy 346 b Platerus his strong purging Pills 757 b Platerus his compound purging Syrup 660 b Potestates what 38 a b Pomanders Odoriferous 85 a Pouder to check distillation 198a Pouders Antepileptick Compound 363 b Potestates convulsivae 376 b Potestates Nervosae 376 b Pouder Lithontriptick 398 b Pouder Convulsive 445 b Potential Cautery of Platerus 761 a Potential Cautery of Sennertus ibid. Another ibid. Principal kinds of Diseases 37 a Procatartick cause of the Head-ach 39 b Proeguminine cause of the same ibid. Prognosticks of a Headach 41 b Prognosticks of a Cephalaea 56b Preservative Rouls 220 a Preservative from the Epilepsy 309 a b Pricking of a Nerve or Tendon 392 b Preservatives from the Apoplexy 717 b Preparatio in Icteritia Poterij 761 a Preparitio in Ascite Poterij 761b Preparitio in vernibus Poterij ib. Pulvis Diatartara Rulandi 50 a Pulvis Stomachalis 168 a Purgative potion 182 a Purgative Wine against an Epilepsy 342 b Purging Diet ibid. and 483 b Purging specifick Electuary ad Epilepsy ibid. Purging Decoctions against the Epilepsy 356 b Purging Syrups Antepileptick ibid. Purging Wines Antepileptick 357 a Purging Electuaries Antepileptick ibid. Purging Extracts Antepileptick 357 b Purging Pills Antepileptick ib. Pulvis Epilepticus Kolreuteri 364 a Purging convulsive Electuary 445 b Pulvis Aromaticus Plateri 755b Pulv. ad calculum Plateri 756 a Pulvis Bezoardicus Grulingii ib. Pulvis digestivus Poterii ibid. Pulvis Nephriticus Poterii ibid. Pulvis Odoriferus praestantissimus Poterii ibid. Pulvis Ambrae grisae Sennerti 756 b Pulvis ad pestem Sennerti ibid. Pulvis ad Asthma Sennerti ibid. Pulvis purgans Sennerti ibid. R. Recipe's for the Vertigo 100a b Recipe's for the Epilepsy 319 b 333 a Remedies for a Catarrh 197 a Remedies against Convulsions 445 b Riverius his specifick Electuary against the Epilepsy 346 a Rigor extream 376 a Risus Sardonicus 466 b Rondeletius his advice in the Falling-sickness 291 a Rouls Antepileptick 365 a Roger Dixons Wine against Convulsions 388 b S. Salt what 38 a b Sarsaparilla its special Virtues Sacculus Stomachalis 168 b Scirrhus of the Spleen 22 b 23 b Scotoma 37 a 73 a Scurvy 46 a 47 b 85 b 136 a 137 b Scorbute 579 b Sena laxativa Wieri 325 b Serpent Viper or Adder biting 480 a b Slow Feaver 602 b Solenander his Pills 139 a b Spirit what 38 a b Spleen pained 41 a 149 b Specifick against the Epilepsy 242 a 252 a 253 a 259 b 303 a 304 a 339 b 340 a b Specifick Electuary for the Epilepsy 342 a Specifick against Worms in an Epilepsy 353 b Specifick Antepileptick Compound 360 b Spirit Lithontriptick 399 a Spleen disaffected 440 b Spasmos Caninus 464b Spasmos what 465 a 466 b Speech defective 626 b Spiritus Matricalis Camphoratus Thoneri 748 b Spiritus Mastiches Compositus Sennerti 749a Spiritus absinthij cordialis Sennertus ibid. Stomach pained 47 b 84 a 134b Stomachical and Cephalical Antidote 141 a Sternutatory of Joel against an Epilepsy 343 b Sternutatorys Antepilept 359b Stone and Gravel in Reins and Bladder 370 b 372 b 374 b 394 a 397 b Strabismus what 466 b Sternutatories in Convulsions 472 a Stupefaction 718 a Sulphur what 38 a b Sudorifick dose 140 b Suffocation 120 a 156 a b Sudorificks Antepilepticks 358b Sudorificks Antepileptick Chymical 359 a Sulphur bath 497 b Swooning fits 73 a Swallowing impeeded 200 b Swallow water compound 345 b 475 b Sweating bath 419 a Syrup of Peony more simple Syrup of Peony more compound of Platerus 345 a Syrups Antepileptick compound 364 b Syrupus de Manna laxativus pro pueris Infantibus Thoneri 54 b Syrupus fructuum cucumeris asinini Poterij ib. Syrupus Magistralis Plateri ib. Syrupus laxativa Catholica Senneiti ibid. T. Tabulae Diacnici Plateri 755 a Tabulae absynthis Plateri 755 b Tabulae nucis Moschatae Plateri ibid. Terms stopt 369 b Terror and Affrightment 390 a Tetanos cured by Valescus 402b Tetanos in a Maiden 460 b Tetanos what 465 b Tincture for the Megrim 18 a Tincture of Wormwood 116b Tinctura antiparalytica 669 a Tinctura alia
Pickled Sawces Of Herbs to be used Sallatwise he may Eat freely Lettice Purslane and Cucumbers and then take long Sleeps 6. If his Belly be Costive let him now and then Take a little Sal Prunellae dissolved in fair Water and sweetned with syrup of Roses solutive Or it may be loosned by an Emollient Clyster made of Chicken or Mutton Broth twelve ounces plus minus Oyl Olive four ounces Sugar three ounces mix dissolve and let it be exhibited warm 7. If these things do not you must give Damask Prunes to Eat together with the Syrup thereof which have been first Boyled or Stewed with choice Sena one ounce thereof to a pound and a half of Prunes with a sufficient quantity of Water XXXIII A Head-ach proceeding from heat and moisture 1. As in the former so here we must perform the Cure by things opposite in Nature In regard the Disease proceeds from heat and moisture we must make application of things cold and dry but herein we must be very cautious of using things too cold least we thereby so close the Pores as to hinder the Particles of heat from Exhaling 2 Therefore whatsoever is applied though it be cold by Nature it ought to be actually hot or at least warm that whilst the Medicament by its Energetick Property may cool and dry the part so also by its external Action it may attract and draw forth the heat thereof 3. For that external heat is as great an Instrument of cooling as the application of the coldest thing in Nature And what the Medicament does Essentially perform by its own Energy it doubles accidentally by its external heat For as much as by opening and keeping the Pores open it gives place for all the fiery Particles to transpire as aforesaid 4. Therefore in the first place Take Plantain Water four ounces Infusion of Galls two ounces Sal Prunellae two drams mix and dissolve and foment the place pained therewith warm 5. Or thus Take Poppy Water four ounces Opium two dram dissolve them and apply to the part pained warm with double Cloaths Spunges or Rose Cakes 6. If these do nothing we must come to stronger and more forcible Remedies Take strong Leaven fitted for making of Rye-Bread four ounces Opium three drams mix them well together and with a sufficient quantity of Poppy-Water make a Cataplasm 7. Internally you may give this Take Conserve of red Roses three ounces Conserve of Corn Poppy flowers Conserve of Water-Lillies-flowers of each two ounces Conserve of Wood and Garden Sorrel of each one ounce Oyl of Sulphur sixty drops mix all well together of which let the Patient take about half an ounce in the Morning fasting just before Dinner at Noon and last at Night going to Bed 8. Let his Diet be cooling and dry let his Bread be Leavened his Food dressed with Pickled Sawces and things in their Nature cooling 9. If it be apparent that moisture abounds very much in quantity Cupping glasses or Vesicatories must be applyed either to the Nape of the Neck or Shoulders or rather in My Opinion to the Soles of the Feet by reason of the great consent betwixt the Head and the Feet XXXIV The Cure of the Head-ach from cold and dryness 1. In the first place the use of Topicks are advised which warm and humect Take Oyl of Camomil two ounces Oleum Nardinum one ounce Oyl of Nutmegs by expression three drams mix and anoint the part affl cted also Pouder of Nutmegs may be drawn up the Nostrils for that immediately and wonderfully gives ease in a Head ach proceeding from a cold Cause 2. Or Take Oyl of Roses Oyl of Rue of each one ounce Camphir dissolved in a little Chymical Oyl of sweet Marjoram two drams mix them and anoint therewith it is a Potent Remedy and gives present ease 3. A Cataplasm made of Turneps being Baked and applyed as hot as can be endured eases the pain to admiration and humects and softens the place The same does New Bread out of the Oven being applyed as hot as it can be endured A Cataplasm made of Onions and Oyl of Roses has done great matters in this Case The same also does Garlick made into a Cataplasm with Oyl of Rue and applyed to the place pained 4. If these things prevail nothing Take Oyl of Roses three ounces Oyl of Rosemary Chymical one ounce Oyl of Amber half an ounce mix them well with these anoint the part pained twice or thrice a day applying over after anointing a Cataplasm made of Colewort leaves this remedy you shall hardly find ever fail 5. However this is not all that is to be done for those persons of a cold and dry Constitution if so be they are often afflicted with the Head-ach there will be a necessity for us to endeavour to alter the Habit of the Body which is done by things of a heating and humecting Nature Let him often take Balsam of Peru mixt with Oyl of Nutmegs by expression in equal quantities of this the Patient may take every Night going to Bed and every Morning fasting the quantity of a dram at a time Drinking after it a little glass of Sack it has a mighty power in it to warm and comfort both Head and Stomach 6. So also the Tincture of Black Pepper made with the spirit of Wine digested till it be near blood Red it may be given in Beer Ale Wine Broth and Milk from ten drops to twenty thirty forty or more it restores in Consumptions and refreshes the Animal Spirits almost to a Miracle 7. Among the number of those things which are chief to warm and comfort a cold Head and Brain nothing is indeed more powerful than the Spirit and Oyl or Power of Rosemary to be taken in the Morning fasting in a small Dose and the Spirit and Tincture of Castoreum given in a Glass of Wine as aforesaid 8. The Sick may Eat and Drink Milk or Whey because they are accompanied with a moistning quality So also new Cheese-Curds before they are made into Cheese and also Candied things as Citron Orange and Limon-peels Nutmegs preserved or candied green Ginger and what Drink he drinks he may sweeten it with Syrup of Clove Gillyflowers or Marsh-Mallows XXXV The Cure of the Head-ach proceeding from cold and moisture 1. It is two-fold first where the Intemperature is simple without any greater abundance of moisture than the natural habit of the Body or secondly It is a Disease of Repletion wherein moisture does very much abound above the said natural habit 2. If it be the first you are to Bath the Forehead Temples and other parts pained with things that mightily heat and dry Take Oyl of Nutmegs by expression one ounce Chymical Oyls of Rosemary Limons and Oranges of each one dram mix them and anoint the place pained therewith 3. If the pain be extream Take Chymical Oyls of Anniseeds Oyl of Rosemary Oyl of Sage of each one dram Camphir half a dram mix and anoint
from a cold or moist Humour Or from Water contained in the Cavities being the Excrements of vitiated Blood which the more easily make an Impression thereon from the weakness of the part 6. And sometimes it is caused from a Bladder of Water contained in the foremore Ventricle of the Brain to which I was an Eye Witness 7. For a person Dying of a Vertigo accompanied with a Feaver being opened we found no other Cause of his Disease nor of his Death but a Bladder of Water about the bigness of a small Hens Egg lying in the foremost Ventricle of the Brain 8. This Man for many years had been obnoxious to a Vertigo otherwise constantly in perfect Health and lived to the Age of seventy years at first the fits came but two or three times a year afterwards they came once a month and as the Man grew older and older the Disease grew stronger and the Paroxisms grew more frequent and of a longer continuance so that he had a fit once a Week 9. The last Fit he complain'd That all things turned round violently and although he leaned upon a Table call'd out vehemently for some body to hold him for he should fall by the hasty turning round of things he desired forthwith to go to Bed and whilst he lay still he seemed to be somewhat pacifyed but upon the least turning of his Head or any part of his Body he cryed out that the Bed and House would be turn'd topsy-turvy all this was without any Convulsion Frenzy or Madness or the least appearance of a Feaver except about four or five hours before his Death 10. If it be Sympathetick it is by consent from some other part as the Indisposition of the Stomach or other Viscera if it be from the Stomach it is known from the Weakness thereof Sickness at the Stomach want of Digestion Crudity Pain and Wind afflicting that Bowel from whence an Evil Blood is generated filling the Ventricles of the Brain with many Recrements 11. Or from a fermentation of the Blood from whence windy or flatuous Vapours arises filling the said Cavities 12. If it be caused by consent from any other part you may know it from the Indisposition of the said part pain or weakness thereof In a Woman if it proceeds by consent from the Womb she must have been troubled with affections from the Womb a long time before-hand 13. A third Cause is from a Windy Vapour generated or arising from Hypochondriack Melancholy which is known by the Signs of that Distemper 14. The fourth and last Cause is either from the ill Confirmation of the Cranium and parts adjacent wherein there may be some extuberance in the inward Table of the Skull compressing the Brain or a Compressure thereof by a Fracture of the Cranium or a Conglutination of the Vessels of the Brain viz. of the Arteries or Veins from all which causes the Animal Spirits upon the least occasion being disturb'd excite a Vertigo 15. It remains now That we enquire into the Cause of the Darkness of the Sight which we Judge to be from Vapours or Wind vehemently assaulting the forepart of the Brain thereby Clouding and Confounding the Animal Spirits wherein the Images or appearances of things directed to the Brain by the Optick Nerve are rendred unequal and clouded or darkened so that there is either a false appearance of things as when they turn Round or no appearance at all by reason of the darkning of the Sight 16. And this is done in the Brain by the confusion of the Animal Spirits through a preternatural Agitation or Commotion and not in Eyes themselves For that the Spirits are inwrapped with those cloudy Vapours in the highest part of the Brain which gives the Original to the Optick Nerves LIX The Prognosticks of a Vertigo 1. If the Disease be Retent or in one that is Young or if the Paroxism be not vehement but suddenly over the Sick is without Danger and the Cure may be easily performed the same also if it be without darkness of Sight 2. If it be Originally in the Brain or of any long continuance the Paroxism vehement and not suddenly passing over the Cure will be more difficult 3. If it comes Haereditarily from the Disposition of the Parents or from a Native weakness of the Brain it is for the most part without Cure 4. So also if it arises from the ill Confirmation of the Cranium unless the Sick can give any particular Description of the place so afflicted that a part of the Skull may be taken out whereby the Extuberance of the inward Table Compressing the Brain may be removed or those windy Vapours or excrementitious Humours exciting a Vertigo may be Evaporated and drawn away 5. If it has been of long continuance and in Aged persons it is for the most part Incurable so also if it proceeds from a Bladder of Water in the Ventricles of the Brain unless the Skull be opened and the said Bladder be taken out 6. Those afflicted with a Bladder of Water although out of the fit almost always complain of dullness and heaviness of that part of the Head where it lies as did the person we spoke of before and I doubt not if the Skull were but timely opened and the Bladder removed it might be the means to save many a Patients Life 7. An affect not much unlike this is often seen in Calves which when the Country-man sees to be Vertiginous by their turning round he commonly opens the forepart of the Head and by taking out a Bladder of Water saves the Life of his Beast which otherwise would suddenly dye 8. If it proceeds by consent of other parts The Prognosticks depend upon the removing of the said Indispositions for so long as they remain there is no hope of the Cure of the Vertigo 9. If it proceeds from Hypochondriack Melancholy or a Vapour generated in the Brain the Cure will be exceeding difficult to be performed For as much as the Melancholy Humour is hard to Conquer or overcome 10. In cold and moist Constitutions it is apt to degenerate into an Apoplexy Epilepsy or Lethargy LX. The Therapia or Method of Cure and first of a Simple Vertigo or without Dimness of Sight 1. The Cure of a Simple Vertigo is not very difficult and has commonly but two Intentions The First is to discuss the flatulent Spirit troubling the Ventricles of the Brain or to still and quiet the too great Emanations of the Animal Spirits Secondly to comfort and strengthen the Brain hurt or weakened by the said flaculency and Irregularities of the Spirits 2. The first Intention is performed by heating Cephalicks anointing or bathing the Coronal Sutures Temples Forehead and Nostrils with spirit of Rosemary Lavender Carraways Sage Juniper Savin or sweet Marjoram all which have a mighty power to discuss any Ventosity lodged in the Cortex of the Brain 3. But above many other things we commend the following as such of which we have
15. To weak Constitutions you may give Benedicta Laxativa from three to six drams So also Carocostinum Electuarium Amarum Magistral majus Diacarthamum or Catholicon which last may be given from six drams to one ounce and half 16. But above all to strong Bodies we commend Confect Hamech which may be given from three drams to six mix with half an ounce of Electuarium Lenitivum and so taken in White or Rhenish Wine 17. Those that cannot take solid things may take the following Liquids Decoctum Epithymi compound is of singular use given to four ounces in the Morning fasting Or this Take Decoctum Epithymi two ounces and half syrup of Buckthorn an ounce and half mix them to be taken in the Morning fasting 18. In a more cold Constitution the Vinum Antepilepticum Mynsichti or the Vinum Purgans Mynsichti either of them taken from two ounces to four in the Morning fasting twice a Week are of excellent use in this Cure 19. To these add the Tinctura Cathartica Clossaei Tinctura Cathartica Mylij Tinctura Catholica Phlegmagoga Grulingij Tinctura Senae Composita Tinctura Cathartica Magistralis and our Catharticum Argenteum all which are of singular use in the Cure of an inveterate Scotoma 20. But in the mean season while these Derivations are making you are to consider the State of the Bowels If the body be costive you may exhibite the Enema specificum Mynsichti Enema pituitum purgans or Enema in Capitis Affectibus Mynsichti or this following Take Herb Mercury Beets Mallows Wormwood Betony Centory the less flowers of Camomil and Dill of each half an handful bruise and boyl all in a sufficient quantity of Water to the Consumption of the half strain and to fourteen ounces thereof add Oyl Olive and Oyl of Dill of each one ounce and half Honey of Roses one ounce Hiera simple two ounces Salt a dram mix and make a Clyster to be given warm which exhibite with a Clyster Syringe 21. For Derivation Cupping-glasses may be applyed to the Shoulders or Hips with or without Scarification or in the place thereof you may apply Vesicatories and Cauteries to both the Soles of the Feet which derive the matter from the Head wonderfully 22. If the Head be stuffed with many Excrements you may use Errhines either Solid or Liquid also such Masticatories as we speak of in in the Cure of the Head-ach from a cold and moist Temperature 23. However the Juyce of Sweet Marjoram may be used without Exception or a dram of the Pouder of Euphorbium dissolved in a quart or somewhat more of White Wine it makes an Evacuation above Imagination and causes a strong derivation of the Humours by the Nostrils 24. Now here is to be considered Whether the Disease is of it self or Complicate with the Scurvey or any other Disease In these Cases you must always mix with your Medicaments in their Preparation Antiscorbuticks or other Medicaments proper against the Disease Concomitant 25. Dr. Willis commends this following Take Pilulae de succino twenty five grains Resin of Jallap six grains Tartar Vitriolated seven grains Balsam of Peru enough to make them into four Pills to be taken at Night going to bed or early the next Morning 26. His Vomit is this Take sulphur of Antimony five grains Cream of Tartar ten grains Castoreum two grains make a Pouder which take with good Government 27. The third Intention is for removing the Procatartick Cause this is done by observing a good Diet such as may not generate Wind or Vapours nor breed cold moist and pituitous Humours his Drink ought to be a small ordinary Decoction of Guajacum for that Authors affirm to be a specifick in the Curing of the most Inveterate Vertigo If the Sick at any time drinks Wine let it be either Canary or Rhenish wherein the Powers of Rosemary or Wormwood have been droped from 15 to 30 or 40 drops 28. In the Morning fasting he may take one of the following Medicaments Take Conserve of Male-Peony flowers six ounces Pouder of the Root of the same one ounce Pouder of the seeds of the same two drams Amber Coral Pearls levigated two drams and half Salt of Coral a dram with the syrup of Coral a sufficient quantity make an Electuary Dose two drams Morning and Evening Drinking after it about three ounces of this following distill'd Water Take of the fresh leaves of Tree Misleto six handfuls the Roots of Male-Peony Angelica of each a pound and half white Peacocks dung two pound Cardamoms bruised two ounces Castoreum three drams Let all be cut small and bruised to which affuse White Wine or Whey made with White Wine eight pound distil to dryness mixing all the Liquors together 29. This following Electuary has been used with great success Take Conserves of Rosemary flowers five ounces Conserves of the Flowers of Sage and Betony of each one ounce and half Pouder of Male Peony roots and seed of each one ounce two Preserv'd Nutmegs Pouder of a dead mans skull Misletoe of the Oak of each one ounce and half native Cinnabar levigated three drams syrup of Male Peony-flowers enough to make it into an Electuary Dose two drams Morning and Evening 30. Tincture of Luna may be given from six to sixteen drops in Rhenish Wine or Black Cherry-water 31. Doctor Willis commends the following Tables Take Pouder of Male Peony Root half an ounce Red Coral prepared species Diambrae of each two drams and half Pouder of Male Peony flowers one dram mix them to which add white Sugar ten ounces dissolve them in Peony Water and boyl them to a height making Lozenges weighing half a dram a piece let one or two of them be eaten often in a day 32. Take Pouder of Male Peony roots one ounce and half Pouder of the seeds of the same Coral and white Amber levigated of each three drams Pearls levigated Pouder of the Flowers of Male Peony fresh gathered bruised and dryed in the Sun of each two drams Sugar Candy one ounce mix them let a dram of this Pouder be taken twice a day with a draught of Tea or a draught of the Decoction of Sage and Rosemary sweetned 33. For poor people Willis orders this Take Pouder of the leaves of Misleto dryed in the Sun let it be given a dram at a time twice a day or Take whitest dung of Peacocks in Pouder six ounces Pouder of Male Peony Roots one ounce Sugar two ounces mix them Dose a Spoonful twice a Day in some convenient Liquor 34. For this Intention also the Volatile Salts and Spirits of sal Armoniack Soot Hartshorn Elks-hoof and Mans skull are of great use for they nourish and comfort the Brain and Animal Spirits and destroy all those things which would any ways obfuscate cloud or trouble them 35. To these may be added Tinctures of Coral and Antimony which have a great prevalency so also the Tincture of Peacocks Dung drawn with the rectified Spirit of Wine some
he lies on Back be fomented with such a Decoction as this Take Pisidia an Earth so called from the place whence it comes in Virtue like fine Bole Balaustins Cypress-nuts Gauls each an ounce Allum three ounces boyl them in Bean-water for a fomentation Then lay on the Rupture-plaster mixed with the former Pouders Ex Consiliis Fernelij XXXI A Catarrh or Flux of Rhume into the Lungs 1. I Understand by the Relation of a most Skilful Physician that a Gentelwoman about six and thirty yeares old who had bore many Children has for these three years been troubled with a fluxion of Rhume into her Lungs which Causes her to Cough and is like sometimes to Choak her especially when her Courses began to flow which fluxion though it have Continued long yet there is no Sign of her Lungs being corrupted she not being fallen away in her Body nor is there any appearence of a Feaver nor is the digestive faculty defective 2. But it is now to be feared lest humours putrifying or becoming more sharp should exulcerate the Lungs And that which is most of all troublesome she feels a perpetual Coldness in her Head of which she vehemently complains 3. Now to stop this defluxion many Learned Physicians have appointed several Medicaments whereby they have provided for the health of the whole Body and the parts affected viz. her Head and Lungs yet there is no good done the same Symptomes continuing which did before trouble her 4. And therefore she desires Remedies from me to stop that old defluxion of Rhume into her Lungs and to free her from these hazards she is subject unto 5. Which that I may do it more conveniently Wee must first Consider the Cause thereof which being Known may be opposed by proper Remedies I Conceive the principal Cause thereof to be a cold and moist Distemper of the Brain which from the Reliques of its Aliment and the Vapours arising out of the lower parts into the Head does generate many Wheyish humors which by the Energy of the Brain are driven out into the Lungs 6. This Cause by chance may be assisted by a distemper of the Liver which is over-hot especially in a Body not enjoying the Benefit of transpiration such as is the Body of a very fat Woman and the Lungs having a long time Receiv'd this defluxion they are thereby filled and so a Periodical Phthissick is caused by fits which come at uncertain distances of time 7. In the first place I conceive it very necessary that the humour Collected in the Head be hindred from falling into the Lungs and secondly that what is already gathered in the Lungs be brought up by the help of Medicines with Coughing and spiting 8. And these endeavours may accomplished if her whole Body be purged this fall of the Leaf with Pills good for the Head viz. Aggregative Pills and sine quibus Agarick being added to them which let her take twice a month after her first sleep 9. But before the Pills are taken her Body must be Purged with a Decoction of Sena made in a Pectoral Decoction wherein Agarick and Rhubarb must be infused and an ounce of Syrup of Roses added to the strained Liquor 10. To these you may add the frequent use of Clysters and her Body being Purged open the Basilica Vein of her Right Arm and take two small Porringers of Blood 11. And because the defluxion upon her Lungs proceeds from her Head apply a Cephalick Fomentation made of lie of Vine branches wherein Orrice Root of Florence Calamus Aromaticus Schenanth Betony Marjoram Sage with Sena leaves are boyled adding to the end of the Decoction a fourth part of Red Wine with this foment her Head in the morning for the space of an hour which being dried anoint it with Nard oyl and Chymical oyl of Turpentine with a little Aquae Vitae a long time together laying thereon Cotton Wool filled with pouder of Florentine Orrice Marjoram and Sage 12. Which if it do no good and the Coldness continue apply then the Plaster de Betonica of the larger Composition adding thereto Benjamin Storax Pitch and hot Cephalick Pouders as of Orrice-root Cypress-root Marjoram with a little Tupentine but the Hair must be first shaven off 13. From these we must come to Cauteries which must be applied to the top of her Head avoiding the Sutures let her in the Winter continue her Cucufa and Head Coverings Let her Nostrils continue open and if they happen to be stopped she must use first Liquid Errhins then more strong ones which are not otherwise to be used in this sort of Disease 14. To strengthen her Head make a Confect of Conserve of Rosemary-flowers Treacle Methridate preserved Citron peels preserred Nutmegs mix with Conserve of Colts-foot and Bâ—rruge and all made up with syrup of Staechas in the form of an Electuary 15. And her Lungs in whose wind pipes very much Flegm is contained must be Cured with pectoral or Cough Decoctions made of the Roots of Elicampane Florentine Orrice Dragons with Betony Hyssop Savory and other Cough Medicaments Also a Lohock must be provided of the Root of Aron or Cucko-pintle and of dragons Roasted under the Embers which being beaten must be mixed with the pulp of Sebestens Jujubes Raisons of the Sun and Diatragacanthamum Frigidum all being made up into a Lick-pot with syrup of Maiden hair let her frequently take it from a Liquorice stick The pouder of Fox Lungs may be added thereto It will be also good for her to suck in the steam of a Pectoral Decoction with open Mouth Ex Consiliis Fernelij XXXII A Catarrh with loss of Appetite 1. The most Illustrious Lord Lord William Compton President of Wales being afflicted with a Distillation from the Head to the Gums and also with lost Appetite I Cured as followeth 2. Take Sena well picked from the stalks half an ounce Rhubarb two drams Agarick one dram Cinamon six drams Infuse them all for twelve hours in Borage and Succory water warm of each ten ounces in the Morning they were boyled to the wasting of four ounces after being strained six or seven times and sweetned with four ounces of Sugar 3. He took of this two ounces when he went to Bed with which in the Morning he had a great stinking stool that being the 21 of April on the day following in the Morning he took five ounces of the said Decoction by which he had 8 stools 4. The day after he took Pil. Aureae de Rabarb of each one dram by which be had 13 stools After the third stool he began to be better there being Broth taken 5. The Body being well Purged the following Decoction was administred take China sliced two drams Sassafras cut in thin round peices half an ounce Boyl them in eight pound of Water till half be wasted of this he took four ounces at the least for eight days every fourth day taking two scruples of Pil. Ruffi And so was Cured Hall on
66. LXXVII A Catarrh feaveral Epidemicall Anno. 1658. 1. In respect of the preceeding violent frost of the Winter and the succeeding Immoderate heat of the Summer no one living could remember such a year the Excesses of heat and cold being both so extream 2. From the Ides of December almost to the vernal Equinox the Earth was covered with Snow and the North Wind constantly blowing all things were Frozen Also afterwards from the begining of the spring to the begining almost of June the Wind being still in the same Corner the season was more like winter then spring unless now and then a hot day happened between 3. While the Winter continued unless that a Quartan Feaver contracted in Autumn Infected some among our Country-men there was a moderate state of Health and freedom from Popular Diseases 4. The Spring coming on an Intermitting Tertain as used to do every year before fell upon some 5. About the end of April a Distemper arose suddenly as if sent by some Blast of the Stars which laid hold on very many together that in some Towns in the space of a Week about a thousand people fell sick 6. The particular Symptom of this disease and which first afflicted the Sick was a troublesome Cough accompanied with great Spitting and a Catarrh falling down upon the Palate Throat and Nostrils as also a feaverish Distemper Joined with heat and thirst want of aptite a spontaneous weariness and a grievious Pain in the Back and Limbs 7. But the Feaver was so remiss in some that they could go abroad and follow their affairs in the time of their sickness yet complaining in the Interim of want of strength and of languishing a loathing of Food a Cough and a Catarrh 8. In some a very hot Distemper plainly appeared that being thrown into bed they were troubled with Burning Thirst Waking Hoarsness and Coughing and that scarcely without any Intermission 9. Somtimes there came upon this a bleeding at the Nose and in some a Bloody-spittle and frequently a Bloody-flux and those who were taken with this disease being of an Infirm body and a decaying Age not a few died of it but the more strong and almost all of a healthfull Constitution Recovered 10. Those who of this disease sickned and died for the most part died by reason of the strength being leasurely wasted and serous heap more and more gathered together in their Brest with the Increase of the Feaver and the difficulty of breathing like those sick of an Hectick Feaver 11. We are to Enquire concerning this Disease what Procatartick cause it had that it should suddenly arise in the middle of the spring and almost the third part of manking should be distempered with the same in the space of a Month then the signs and symptoms being carefully Colected the formal Reason of this disease as also its Crisis and way of Cure ought to be Assigned 12. It is Known by Common Experience as well as by the Testimony of Hippocrates that the Northern Wind is most apt to produce Catarrhs but why the Catarrhs did not spread at least in some peculiar places all the Winter and Spring but only in one Months space and then Joyned with a Feaver and that this distemper should become Epidemical doth not so plainly appear 13. I know many deduce the Cause from the vnequal temper of the air at that time which although for the most part very Cold yet the North wind somtimes lessening there would be a day or two very hot between wherefore from this occasion as from Cold taken after heat men Commonly fall sick 14. But indeed for Exciting the distemper so suddenly rising and commonly spreading there is required besides such an occasion some great precedent Cause or Predisposition though the other perhaps might suffice for an evident Cause for to afflict them with this Distemper 15. We ought to suppose that all men almost were prone and inclinable to this Disease otherwise no Evident Cause could have Exercised its Power so potently on so many wherefore it seems very likely that this sickness had its Origin from the Intemperance and inordination of the year and as the Autumnal intermitting Feaver going before was the product of the preceeding immoderate heat so this Catarrhal Feaver depended altogether upon the following part of the year being so extreamly Cold. 16. For the blood being fermented by the very hot Summer and Inclinable to the Feaver before described then being made more sourish by the Urgency of the Autumn and apt for a Quartan Feaver after wards being a little Eventilated by reason of the strong Cold of the Winter and hinder'd from its due Perspiration Returned yet its discrasy or Evil disposition and readily broak forth on the first occasion given 17. Wherefore when the blood in the middle of the Spring as the Juice of Vegetables being made more lively and also began to Flower and grow Rank by reason of the continued stoppage was straitned in its Circulation and easily made prone to a Feaverish Effervescency and as the serous water redounding in the blood could not Evaporate outwardly because of the Pores being still straightned by the Cold Restagnating within and chiefly falling upon the Lungs where it might be moved about instead of an outward breathing forth Excited so frequent and troublesem a Cough 18. The original therefore and formal Reason of this Disease are founded cheifly upon two things viz. That there happened together a greater Effervescency of the blood than Usual from the coming on of the Spring and also a stoppage or great Constriction of the Pores Excited by the too great cold of the foregoing Season that therefore there was not a free space granted to the blood flowing or Luxuriating in the Vessels the business being after the same manner as if wine began to grow hot should be put into vessels Closely shut up for by this means either the Vessels or the liquor were in danger to be lost 19. Wherefore to be Concise the Cause that this Disease began in the middle of the Spring having presently spread largely seised very many was not the blast of a malignant Air whereby the Sick were distempered as if struck with a blasting but at this time the blood being Inspired by the Constitution of the Spring and so Luxuriating and apt to grow hot was Contracted or straitened in its motion and the Effluvies being constrained inwardly could not be sufficiently Eventilated or cooled 20. Every year tho temperate it is usual in the Spring and Autumn for some Epidemical Diseases to Reign because at this time the blood being as it were Restored Flowers a new and therefore Intermitting Feavers and somtimes the small Pox ordinarily spread in this season 21. Wherefore t is no wonder after a great unequal Constitution of the year and not Natural when in the Spring the blood boyling up more lively within the Vessels by Reason of transpiration being hindred could not be freely Circulated and sufficiently
spoonfull or two of the oyl of sweet Almonds in a little warm drink or secondly in the place of this two spoonfuls of our Asthmatick water Thirdly let there be taken somtimes a little of the syrup of Jujubes or fourthly use the folowing Morsels 2. Take species diatragacanthon frigidum diaireos simplex of each four scruples the flower of sulphur a scruple Citron-peels candied and cut very small six drams white sugar dissolv'd in Pauls Betony-water four ounces make morsels to which add four drops of the Oyl of Citrons 3. Fifthly but if any danger threatens from thinness and saltness use the following Rouls Take of the seeds of white Poppy three drams and half the water of Colts foot one ounce of Pauls Betony of Roses of each half an ounce make an Emulsion in which dissolve three ounces and half of white sugar to which add species Diatragacanthon frigidum one dram and make Rouls according to Art 4. By these he began to grow somewhat better but fearing a Relapse he desir'd me to give him somewhat that might purge the Body comfort and strengthen the Bowels as a Nodul put in wine a draught whereof he may take at dinner and supper 5. Take Mechoacan ten drams yellow Sanders four scruples Roots of Bryony half an ounce Nutmegs two drams leaves of Sena half an ounce white sugar Candy two drams oyl of Cinnamon one dram Grains of Chermes two scruples Citron-peels dried one dram and half mix and make a Nodul 6. Secondly he may use Morsels one whereof is to be taken at once Morning and Evening Take the salt of Coral one dram and half Pearls prepared half a dram Citron-peels candied one ounce Conserve of Rosemary flowers two drams white sugar dissolved in the waters of Cinamon and Roses four ounces and half oyls of Citrons seven drops of Annis three drops of Nutmeg expressed Confectio Alkermes of each one scruple make Morsels according to Art and guild them 7. Thirdly let the following plaister be applied to the Region of the Bowels Take pouder of Nutmegs one dram and half Amber one dram Mastich two drams roots of Bistort Frankincense Pomegranate peels Myrrh red Roses of each two scruples Blood-stone red Sanders of each half a dram Plaister of a Crust of Bread of each three drams oyl of Quince of Turpentine ship-Pich and Wax of each a sufficient quantity make a Plaster quadrangular-wise which spread on red silk 8. Fourthly the person may use the following water in the place of Morsels to the quantity of one spoonful Take Aqua Vitae 3 ounces Cinnamon Water one ounce mix them and therein dissolve Confectio Alkermes one scruple the salt of Coral one dram Work it well and then filter it through brown Papper and by these Medicaments the person Recovered Ex Grulingij Cent. 1. Observe 22. LXXXV A Catarrh falling from the Head upon the Jawes accompaned with a difficulty of Swallowing by reason of some internal Tumor 1. A Gentleman of a flegmatick Constitution having a Cold moist Brain it being a very wet and rainy Winter was miserably afflicted with a Catarrh which fell upon the Head to the Jaws and Pallate where there was bread such a Tumor that the person was in danger of Suffocation 2. The following Remedies were prescribed to be taken Take the plaister of Melilot Barly-meal Lint-seed of each two drams Faenugreck one dram and half one yolk of an Egg flowers of Camomil two drams oyls of Chamomil of Violets and Wax of each half an ounce make a Plaster and apply it warm to the Neck 3. Take oyl of sweet Almonds Camomil of of each one ounce Oyntment of Marshmallows one ounce and half oyl of Anise eight drops make an Oyntment wherewith the Neck may be anointed before the application of the Plaster 4. Make a Mucilage of the seeds of fleawort with Rose-water one ounce and half the seeds of Quinces three drams the syrup of Liquorice and of Violets of each half an ounce syrup of Mulberries two drams honey of Roses half an ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds two drams Oyl of Anise three drops white sugar Candy two drams Sal Prunellae one scruple Self-heal water half an ounce mix them and let him lick now and then thereof 5. Now for stopping the Defluxion and for strengthening of the Head he may take Mastich Mace Citron-peels Camomil flowers of each two drams Gum of Juniper Frankincense Cloves Rose-water macerated and exsiccated of each one dram red Roses Myrtles Amber of each half a dram let them be pulverised and being put between two silks make a Cap for the Head Ex Grulingij Cent 1. Observ 24. LXXXVI A Catarrh Cured with the use of Tobacco 1. A certain great Man was subject to a Chronick Catarrh which was taken away with pouder of Tobacco snuffed or drawn up the Nostrils and a decoction of Sassafras for his Drink after other things had been used in vain 2. The preparation Take Tobacco leaves one dram and half Marjoram one scruple Musk one grain make a fine pouder to which add a few drops of Oyl of Anniseeds Thoneri lib. 2. Observ 2. LXXXVII Of the mighty power of Tobacco observed in Curing Catarrhs 1. There is no Plant in the World for its many excellent Virtues in removing all kinds of diseases both internal and external that deserves such an Elogy as Tobacco especially in Catarrhs and Rhumes the fume and powder thereof being exhibited it s Fume satisfies the Appetite and removes hunger by the virtue of this Plant persons have fasted three or four dayes without any discernable hurt 2. It is fit then to enquire into the Cause of such a strange Effect seeing it appears somewhat disagreable to reason that any alliment should be conveyed to the Stomach from its fume 3. Nicholas Monardus a Spaniard tells you the Indians somtimes wandering in the desert places and wanting food have deceived their craving appetites by Chewing the bigness of a large Pea of Tobacco and have continued a Journey of four dayes without Meat or Drink and yet without any sense of hunger and thirst and ascribes the Cause of this to a watery kind of flegm drawn from the Head by the Operation of Tobacco which being swallowed serves instead of Nourishment 4. But a more occult Cause may be assign'd than this viz. a certain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or stupefactive quality making an impression upon the mouth of the Stomach which inables the person to abstain from Meat and Drink till its Energy is spent and then the Appetite returns 5. The root thereof mix'd with the Conserves of Roses and Violets has been given to extinguish Thirst and it is not unlikely it can produce this effect For there are little Nerves belonging to the Jaws which reach the mouth of the Stomach which being stupifyed there remains no sense of Appetite Thoneri lib. 2. Observ 3. LXXXVIII A Catarrh from pituitous Humours 1. A certain Gentleman being subject to shortness of Breath and a Catarrh I
with their immoderation the native heat of the Stomach or by extenuating the Region of the Stomach and Belly in so much that they wast and pine away 8. Moreover the Vessels of Sanguification often generates Catarrhs For the serous humidity yet crude is too hastily and soon Attracted by the Stomach which afterwards because the fault of the first Concoction is not amended in the sccond by the vehement attraction of the vessels being naturally hot and dry comes and remains in the mass of the venal and arterial Blood and from the ebullition and boyling of the Blood is caried thence to and gathered in the head as their proper Receptacle 9. It is no wonder then that the head abounds with humid and moist Vapours when besides these there are many external Causes which concurr to produce this effect such as the Retention of usual Evacuations the South Winds c. 10. This is plain in the present Case because the hot and dry constitution of the Vessels of sanguification are discern'd by these signs Galen proposes to wit the Coldness and weakness of the Stomach in digesting which proceeds either from its inequal temperature or from some hurt receiv'd from an external object and defluxions from the Head often falling down thither 11. As to this Gentlemans Head which did abound from his younger years with an Excrementitious humidity the reason must be That it being hoter than what it should be did attract too readily the serous matter and for the above-mentioned Causes did cherish and nourish the same 12. Next as to the great pains he endured about the Temples the reason thereof is the matter still encreasing and growing outragious did endeavour an Egress and so did vellicate the sensible parts the too great humidity of the Brain did dull and blunt the Internall senses and did also Cause a kind of dullness and torpor of the Animal Spirits which might occasion that weakness of the Brain whereof he complained 13. The reasons why his Appetite was very much abated was the falling down of the serous matter upon the Ventricle which hindered the Concoction another reason was the humectation of the Stomachical Nerves slowly exciting a sensible Appetite 14. Now follows the Indications first that the too hot and dry intemperature of the Vessels of Sanguification be corrected secondly That the matter copiously running to the Head be driven back Thirdly That the matter of the Catarrh gathered in the Head be resolved derived and evacuated 15. Now as to the first of these we prescribed him a Purgation to be taken every half year for the Evacuation of the serous humidity then a Lentive Hydragogue to be taken in the spring of the first tops or buds of Elder dryed with a slow heat the quantity of one dram in the Decoction of Prunes 16. In the fall it will be convenient to Use the syrup of Buck-thorn a description whereof you may know by Soliander and in Our Dispensatory 17. This or the like being done I advised the oppening of a Vein by which not only the serous and wheyish Blood may be deminished but all the Venial kind may be helped â—y an amicable refrigeration 18. After which this following long digestive will not be inconvenient which is to be thus prepared Take Roots of Succory one ounce and half Parsly Liquorice of each half an ounce leaves of Fumetory Centory the lesser of each one handfull and half the flowers of Elder half an handful the seeds of Fennel one dram and half boyl them in the whey of Goats milk thrice distilled strain to a pound and half and take of the decoction twice every day for the space of a fortnight four ounces 19. These being continued let him afterwards take morsels of Mechoacanna five drams with a fasting Stomach to purge withall drinking the decoction of pease for cleansing 20. Neither are sweats to be neglected on the following days but first you must take either the Electuary or Rob of dwarf Elder half an ounce dissolv'd in the water of the flowers of Elder or the spirit of dwarf Elder half an ounce mixed with the water of Fumitory two ounces or other Hydrotick Medicines as burnt Harts-horn Terra sigillata Lapis Bezoar c. 21. Lastly for Corroberating and for prevention of too great heat use often the following pouder about two hours before Meat Take Conserve of Roses Vitriolated one ounce and half species Diarrhodon Abbatis one dram the syrup of Conserve of Citron-peels a sufficient quantity make an Electuary 22. For the second to wit That the matter flowing to the Head be drawn back which I judge may be done by taking those things Inwardly which restrain and repress the crude Exhalations ascending from the Vessels of Concoction of such use are the Morsels mentioned above whereof every Evening before sleep two drams may be taken Diacydonium simplex half an ounce after meat and also the fourth part of a Confected Nutmeg being good for to Cause rest 23. Outwardly Baths of proper herbs were prescribed such as the decoctions of the flowers of Sage Bay-tree Garden Thyme the flowers of Camomil Betony and red Roses 24. Frictions and Ligatures are to be used in the time of bathings and evacuations of the Menstrua may be made by opening the Veins in the Legs Or a Cautery may be made in the left Thigh 25. As to the third viz. the attenuation derivation and evacuation of the matter flowing together inwardly we may try to Effect this by Masticatories therefore some grains of Mastick may be chewed frequently in the morning 26. Or according to Fernelius Take sugar Candy one ounce and half Mastich half an ounce Long-peper Pyrethrum staves-acre of each one dram make Pills to be put into Noduls and then to be broken between the Teeth 27. Also sternutatories may be used begining first at those more light to wit the Water of Marjoram drawing it up often when it is a little warm Or Take the Roots of Beets one ounce whole Barley Liquorice Currans of each half an ounce Water ten ounces Honey two ounces make a Decoction to a third part in the strained liquor macerate the roots of Pyrethum one dram the tops of Marjoram the seeds of Nigella of each one pugil after twenty four hours let the liquor be expressed which is to be snuft up the Nostrils pretty warm 28. Outwardly let the Air be dry and without being too warm which if otherwise by loosening the Humours would fill the Head and for convenient suffumigation you may use some of the Pouder of styrax Calamita a little of white Amber being added 29. Or troches may be made for a fumigation viz. Take styrax Calamita Benzoin of each one dram and half Tacamachacca two drams Cloves Cinnamon of each one dram Conserve of Roses a sufficient quantity for incorporating some drops of the water of Cinnamon being added make Troches for a fume for the Richer sort Musk five grains may be mixed therewith 30. Little bags for the
came into my thoughts which possibly may not be unwelcome to you 4. A certain Country-man hard by being a long time afflicted with an Epilepsy sent for an Emperick being then about the Age of forty this Man gave him a violent purge which wrought both up and down at one time by the benefit of which even against the opinion of Hippocrates lib. 2. Aphor. 42. he was freed from the Falling-sickness 5. But immediately after he was through the Obstruction of the Optick Nerves deprived of his sight he lived four years but never recovered his sight 6. Another example I shall give you of the like effect of this bad Artist's Skill another Country-man being for many years troubled with the Epilepsy and being now arrived at the twentieth year of his Age received a violent purging Potion from the aforesaid Emperick he was thereby freed indeed from that Disease but yet very unhappily 7. For not long after the peccant humours did flow down in such an abundance that besides an Inflamation in his right Eye he had an insufferable pain in his Head which with the continual flux of the humours brought at last the loss of his sight of that Eye 8. Now that his other Eye might be preserved I prescribed him some Medicaments to be taken now and then after a few days For it is dangerous to Cure suddenly if it be not safely too 9. Therefore Hippocrates prudently admonishes in lib. 1. Aphorism 22. not crude but concocted humours are to be healed and removed 10. A crude humour says Butinus because of its thickness and coldness is in motion flow nor does easily yield to Physick thence from the commotion of them bad Symptomes follows and so much the worser oft time by how much the Medicine is gentler in its attraction and the humour by its grossness stronger in its resistance or more fixed or is immur'd between strait passages Hildanus Cent. 5. Observ 5. LXVIII A Falling-sickness arising from one of the Legs 1. A certain Noble Youth being afflicted many years with the Epilepsy askt my advice That it was the Falling-sickness the affections did declare the signs of which were that the principal Faculties together with Sense and Motion were subverted When yet notwithstanding the perceiving it before hand the short stay of the fit it not often invading nor the disturbed Functions being altogether corrupted or vitiated do rather argue it to be a symtom than an absolute Epilepsy or rather a middle symptom intervening between an Epilepsy and a Vertigo 2. Of this Disease there are three kinds the first proceeds from the vitious temper of the Brain another by consent from the Stomach the third from any other part of the body this last is known by this token that it falls not suddenly without warning but the Patient has a discerning of it some little time before it comes 3. And indeed such was this of Our Patient it cannot be accounted of the first kind for before the fit he discerns as it were a kind of subtle Spirit or Vapour to arise or ascend by degrees from his said Leg and from the great Toe of the same to the Brain and without doubt there the fountain of the Disease is fixed 4. But when as it is wont to be with many men the exhalations from the inferior parts into the Head are as it were perpetual in whom such a symptom as here in our Patient does not arise it is most evident that the exhalation contains in it a malignant and venemous quality which offends the Brain 5. And it is very agreeable that the Legg from whence the cause comes should have been long vexed with Fluxes and Ulcers whereof although the Patient be free yet it is most likely that there remains a bad quality in some part by reason of which the matter there gathered partaking of that Venom and touching the Brain by certain Intervals hurt its Faculites 6. But when it might be said That he was often troubled with the pain of the Stomach and with the Cholick it is not dissentaneous that he is thus afflicted through the Sympathy of these parts 7. The Cause of this Distemper is a cold humour and from thence it may be concluded the Disease is Chronick the continual pain of the Stomach as well as the pain of the Cholick do testify and shew the Temperament to be cold and moist 8. The Curative Indications are these viz. the evacuation of the cold humors the warming of the Stomach the strengthening of the Concoction the drying warming and strengthning of the Legg and when the Head receives matter transmitted from any other Cause it is a certain sign that it is afflicted with weakness 9. Therefore endeavours must be used to strengthen it that it may be the better able to resist and beat off the assaults of such Enemies although this Disease be of its own nature very grievous yet there is great hopes to be conceived of a recovery 10. For according to Hippocrates those young Men that are afflicted with the Falling-sickness are freed very much by the change of Age times seasons and Diet and some that are Epileptick before they arrive to the ripeness of Age meet with a change 11. As to the Cure although the humour to be evacuated seems to require no light Medicines yet by reason of age I think it better to use them Therefore then I shall be content with one simple Medicament But that being repeated let him take every other day about an hour before Supper one dose of pil Ruffi with pil Agarick of which this is the composition 12. Take the best Aloes Ammoniacum of each one ounce the best Myrrh half an ounce bruise them a part and then mix all together with Aromatick Wine make a paste Dose one pill the weight of a scruple let them be taken to at least two drams and every other day let him take three spoonfuls of Oxymel simple 13. Evacuation being made the flatuous humours are to be discussed and the Ventricle to be strengthened taking for some days a Confection of Ginger to the quantity of a Walnut in the morning with an empty Stomach 14. Diatrion pipereon Galeni simplex is the best also before Eating let his drink be of Wormwood-wine in the place of salt add to all his Meat the pouder which is made of Sugar two ounces Cinnamon half an ounce 15. Let his Legs be rub'd often in a bath made of a Lixivium in which are boyled Marjoram Wormwood Roses Sage Betony Rosemary Lavender with the addition of Wine 16. The Finger from whence that venomous Vapour proceeds must be anointed at night before sleep with Treacle dissolv'd in aqua vitae 17. It will be a very good praecaution if before the fit even while he feels it a coming that he use things to bind the parts as either the root of the Finger the Ankles and Knee 18. Great care is to be had of the Head a Lixivum being often adhibited in
of an approaching Epilepsy and sometimes of a fit ready to come in those that have had it already but all these signs are not to be expected to be found in one person but some of them in one some in another according to their various Natures and Dispositions Qualifications Habits and Constitutions CXLVII The various Causes of the Falling-sickness 1. There are many Causes of an Epilepsy which arise in part from the quantity or quality of the matter causing 2. The place where the prime Cause lodges is within the Encephalon and springs from the indisposition of the parts within the Skull 3. But it may be demanded how that can be in those kinds of this Disease where the Paroxysm begins in the extream parts and ascends by degrees up to the Head 4. Truly this seems only to be so and happens by meer Accident For that the Morbifick Cause subsists about the Encephalon it self thereby causing immediately a great insensibility and dis-order with a vehement Contraction of most of the Members and Viscera 5. By which it appears that the Encephalon and original of all the Nerves are possessed with the Morbifick Cause 6. The opinion of Galen was that an Epilepsy was caused from an imperfect obstruction of the Ventricles of the Brain but the true Cause of an Epilepsy is from the sudden Rarifaction and Explosion of the Animal Spirits inhabiting of the middle the Brain and these are the first and immediate Cause of this Disease by which the Brain being as it were blown up and tumefied is rendred insensible and the Nerves appending thereto are put into Convulsions whence comes the sudden accession of the Fit the deprivation of both the internal and external Senses 7. The Procatartick Cause of the tumultuating of the Animal Spirits we do not just now deliver that being known almost to every one but the Proeguminine Cause deserves a little to be enquired unto 8. For that the Animal Spirits should be so rarifyed as to tumultuate and to make those preternatural Explosions of their own accord is not reasonable to believe but there must be somewhat that must go before as the Act of the sensitive Soul to stir up those kinds of perturbations viz. 9. There must be something which must obstruct their regular and natural Motions and this in some persons which we have seen opened that dyed of an Epilepsy was either a bag of water in the Cavities of the Brain or a viscous water or other corrupt matter yellow green blew c. filling the said Ventricles by reason of which the said Spirits assemble together in a tumultuous manner as aforesaid 10. These Spirits making their explosions upon the the original of the Nerves and indeed the Nerves of the whole Body affect the other spirits in the nervous system by way of Consent whence it is that though the Disease seem to begin in the Hand or Foot yet the original thereof is absolutely in the Brain it self 11. Barbet says that the nearest Cause is the Lympha vitiated in the Brain and irritating the Nerves by its sharpness and indeed he was not far off from the Truth 12. For Nature being hurt by such a kind of sharpness sends as it were Floods of Spirits towards the relief of the parts afflicted but by reason of this vitiated Lympha falling upon the original of the Nerves the influx of the Animal Spirits is hindered whence follows immediately Convulsion 13. And by reason that the Community betwixt the nervous Systeme and the animal Spirits is cut off by the Matter interposing thence follows the so sudden deprivation both of Reason and Sense and of all regular motions 14. Decker is of the opinion that it is an acid Lympha that Causes this Obstruction and indeed that is most probable because that nothing can prick or vellicate so much as acid things and all Obstructions made by Acids are commonly great and the Coagulations difficult to be dissolved 15. Whence it is That Diseases arising from an Acid Salt as for certain the Epilepsy does are of so difficult Cure 16. Deckers saith That from the Thumb of the left Hand he had somtimes observ'd a sharp matter to be mov'd towards the Heart and Brain so that the Patient was sensible of it 17. This is nothing but what we said before of this Disease proceeding by consent from the extream parts 18. But the chief Observation that Deckers makes hereof is this That the said Thumb being bound had sometimes kept back the Fit and that the sick had been several times so delivered from the approaching Fit 19. This is confirm'd by Galen de locis affectis lib. 3. cap. 5. Also Johannes Schenkius de Epilepsia Lib. 1. Obs 82. affirms the same 20. I knew the person very well that had it arising from the Foot aforementioned 't is probable the same thing might have succeeded in him but my Youth and want of Skill in Physick for it is near twenty years since hindred my putting the thing in tryal 21. If it proceeds from the Womb pains of Loins does preceed for those Women are for the most part troubled with vehement Head-aches 22. The remote Causes thereof says Barbet are to be sought in the milky Glandules the Womb and other parts for whatever it is whether it be Choler Flegm the Pancreatick juyce the Seed or menstruous Blood that makes the Lymphatick Juyce sharper easily causes an Epilepsy 23. The Brain not being rightly disposed the region of the Brain is by all concluded to be the primary seat of this Disease 24. But Willis will by no means admit water heaped up within the Ventricles of the Brain nor a thick viscous humor impacted in the passages of its Pores to be the Conjunct Cause of this Distemper for saith he such Causes are begot by degrees and would shew some certain signs before hand of their first coming upon one 25. To which we answer that so they do else how comes it to pass that we have so many previous signs of an approaching Epilepsy as we have a little above enumerated 26. But saith he the assault of the fit being over such a matter could not wholly be discussed in so short a time but that from its Relicts some impediments of the Animal Functions would remain which rarely happens in the Epilepsy unless it be inveterate 27. To which we Answer that there is no such need that the matter should be wholly discussed in so short a time for it has been observable that the intervals between each fit comes not so much from the discussion of the matter as by the quieting of the Animal Spirits which force their way through the Obstruction 28. So that when the continuity of the nervous System is made up with the original fountains of the Animal Spirits the Fit passes off but when the obstructing matter fluctuates afresh and dissolves again that continuity then there comes an accession of a new fit 29. From hence it may certainly be
a dram mix them with the Civet and then with the Musk and Ambergrise in fine pouder if you please you may add Pouder of Cloves half a dram Peacocks dung two scruples the Dose from half a scruple to a scruple or more 79. If this prevails not we must be necessitated to come to the use of Opiats of which our Gutta Vitae is inferiour but to few being given from fifteen drops to twenty five or thirty in a glass of Sack 80. Or if the Sick likes not this they may take our Laudanum beginning first with a small Pill of two grains and so encreasing it by degrees to six or eight grains or more 81. To these you may add all the Opiats we have ennumerated in cap. 4. sect 142. § 55 ad 63. aforegoing where you have a large Catalogue of them and to which we refer you 82. There are multitudes of other things which are specificks against this Disease which we have gathered together in the last Edition of Our Synopsis Medicinae lib. 3. cap. 29. sect 94. § 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. 83. Outwardly for Topicks we advise that the Head and Coronal Sutures as also the Forehead Temples Nostrils Back-bone Hands and Arms Feet and Legs being extreamly well bathed Morning and Night with the Powers of Rosmary Sassafras Oranges Limons sweet Marjoram Sage Lavender Amber or any of them or a Compound mixture of them together or with the Apoplectick Balsam of Horstius or Mynsicht or the Balsamus Catholicus Steinbergij Balsamus Polychrestus Mynsichti the Balsamus Mnemonicus Sennerti Balsamum Nervinum Schroderi Balsamum vitae Balsamum Paralyticum Horstij Balsamum Paralyticum Clossaei or the Balsamus Cephalicus all which you may see in Our Pharmacopoeia in their proper places Applying over the Coronal Sutures the Epileptick Emplaster of Valesius at sect 73. § 4. above 84. If at last these things being used nothing prevails we must come to the last and only remedy which is the Trepaning and opening of the Skull to let out those malign Humors or Vapours 85. The following superstitious Observation Joel saith Has been proved by experience That the day before John Baptists day at the bottom of the root of Mugwort others say at the root of Plantane certain Coals like burnt or dead Coals will be found which being reduced into pouder and given a dram at a time in water of Tile-flowers or of flowers of Lilly-Convally will quickly and infallibly Cure 86. I fear this is a Monkish Cheat and that the Coals were designedly before hand put there because they are not to be found at the same time at the roots of all the Plants of the same Species but only at the roots of some which the promoter of the Miracle can before hand directly go to I once saw those Coals at the bottom of two or three Plantane-roots which my Director after the digging up of two or three in vain did find out but we dug up above twenty more at the roots of which we could find no such thing which made me to mistrust the deceit 87. Yet Deckers saith That they are almost always to be found under Mugwort being very old acid roots consisting of much Volatile salt it may be as he says I will not much contend 88. The usual Amulets which are born and worn by hanging about the Neck are Vervain Peony Misletoe of the Oak Elks-hoofs Hypericon c. Take Peony-roots Misletoe of the Oak of each one ounce Elks-hoofs Nutmegs Cloves Mace of each two drams Rue Hysop of each a dram and half pouder them grossly and put them into red Sarsnet to be hung about the Neck CLI Of an Epilepsy caused by Distemper of the Womb. 1. Although from what we have already said the signs causes judgments and method of Cure of an Epilepsy may be known proceeding from what cause soever yet by reason that which arises from distempers of the Womb is more eminent and remarkable we shall here say somthing to it in particular 2. This distemper is much more grievious than that which preceeds simply from a Distemper of the Brain because the Symptoms concomitant are more numerous and vehement It is to be known as before is said from a preceeding Distemper of the Womb wherewith the Sick has been for some time afflicted as Tumors Wounds Ulcer Wind Filthiness c. from whence comes pain stink putrefaction fits of the Mother so called c. 3. If the cause be from the Womb affected the Sick seldom or never foams at Mouth but there are present also all or most of the Symptoms of Hysterick fits for there is not only a Convulsion as in a simple Epilepsy but there are also present other Symptoms proper to the part afflicted 4. Some Authors take the cause from foetid vapors arising from the Womb proceeding from a malign and putrified matter not always of one kind but somtimes proceeding from the seed somtimes from the Blood sometimes from vitious humours which infest sometimes one part somtimes another somtimes the Heart and then it causes Fainting and Swooning fits and somtimes the Brain whence comes a Vertigo Apoplexy or an Epilepsy 5. If those vapours or that matter be much and plentiful the Disease will be of longer continuance If little it will be the more easily discussed if it be malign many evil Symptoms will remain after the Fit is over if not the sick will be pleasant and merry 6. An Epilepsy arising from distemper of the Womb will be as perdurable as that Distemper nor will there be any hopes of curing the one till a way be found out to remove the other 7. Yet it is not so rebellious as a true and simple Epilepsy though the accidents or symptoms be much more heavy and grievious and somtimes it is cured by the bare application of fit Hysterick Medicaments and so perfectly as that it returns no more Indicationes Curativae 8. The Indications of Cure are two-fold as in a pure Epilepsy to wit either in the Paroxysm or out of it The Cure in the fit is to be directed to take away the strength and malignity of the Convulsive affection which how that is to be performed we shall remit you to what we have already spoken hereof save that in composition with those things you will do well always to mix Hystericks especially such as may affect the Womb by their proper Odour as well as by their specifick qualities 9. Out of the fit the Cure is to be instituted as in that of fits of the Mother adding thereto such things as are specificks in the Cure of the Epilepsy but this is to be chiefly noted that whereas the Head is the principal part afflicted so also such things as strengthen the Head and Brain are principally to be made use of 10. Sennertus commends this following as an excellent thing Take Roots of Peony Scorzonera of Bryony Misletoe of the Oak of each half an ounce Polypody of the Oak one ounce Rue
drams seeds of Anise of Fennel and of Hartwort of each two drams flowers of Bugloss and Rosemary of each a handful and half make a Decoction in fair water strain and in a pint thereof infuse pure Agarick one ounce Ginger Galangal Rubarb of each two drams strain again and with white sugar make a syrup which aromatize with a little Cinnamon in pouder with this the Body ought to be once or twice a Week cleansed during the whole Cure if the Sick cannot take a purge in this form let them take it in the form of Pills as above-mentioned 22. The Body being sufficiently cleansed the Head and Womb may be corroborated with some of the things abovenamed or with this following Take choice Venice Treacle five ounces of the best spirit of Wine a pint Camphir two drams digest in a glass close stopt in Horse-dung or sand for a Week then distil in Balneo with a gentle heat so that the Alembick may not grow very hot draw off about a third part and repeat the distillation three times the Dose is one Spoonful Morning and Evening adding thereto four drops of the Oyl of Vitriol or six drops of the Tincture of Coral and sweetening it a little with white Sugar 23. Or this which may be exhibited in the time of the Paroxysm also Take syrup of the juyce of Peony one ounce syrup of the juyces of Rue and of Bawm of each half an ounce liquid extract of Castoreum two drams extract of Juniper-berries a dram and half extracts of Angelica and Zedoary of each one scruple of the former spirit two drams Lavender-water one ounce mix them Dose one spoonful 24. Among the number of Corroboratives are accounted Mithridate and Venice Treacle Confect of Alkermes Diamoschu dulcis Bezoar stone given with Scorzonera water but most effectual things are the Oyl and Powers of Amber which may be given in the fit as also to provoke the Terms 25. If the Courses be obstructed you must use with your Corroboratives such things as provoke them among which some highly commend this Take green branches of the Fir or Pitch-trees one handful Mugwort half a handful tops of Juniper bark of the Beech-tree of each a handful Celandine leaves of the Alder-tree of each half a handful roots of swallow-wort and round Birthwort of each five ounces make a Bath in fair water for the sick to sit in for about half an hour The Belly and lower parts after bathing may be anointed with this Take Oyls of Rue and Bays of each an ounce Chymical Oyls of Aniseeds of Cloves and of Camomil of each a dram mix them CLII. The Cure of an Epilepsy by consent from the Stomach 1. If vapours arising from the Stomach to the Head be the cause of the Falling-sickness it is known by a certain pain going before a perturbation and sickness at Stomach with a kind of heaviness or weight about the Precordia want of Appetite weakness of the Concoctive Faculty belching of Wind with other like Symptoms 2. The Sick also upon the accession of the Fit is sensible of it before-hand and it oftentimes comes upon an emptiness of the Stomach or too long fasting 3. Children are often affected with this Disease from this very cause when either the Milk is corrupted in their Stomachs or it was before hand of a vitious quality from some evil habit of Body in the Nurse and then it is known by gripings in the Bowels of Child the Ordure being either of a Saffron or of a Verdigrise like colour 4. In order to the Cure purgation is necessary and that kind of Purgation by Vomit more especially if the Sick is apt to that evacuation The Bilious humor Physicians say needs no preparation but thick tough and viscous flegm they say ought to be prepared before-hand for evacuation that it may be the more easily expelled which thing Dr. Willis stoutly denys Sennertus advises to prepare the matter by taking Honey of Roses Oxymels Syrups of Betony stoechas and such like 5. If the Sick is not apt or does not easily Vomit the cause may be removed by things which work by Stool as Hiera picra pilulis ex Aloe in a cholerick cause Agarick Jallap in a flegmatick cause sena Hellebor c. in a melancholy cause 6. In this case the stronger Purgers are not to be used lest they draw too much or new matter to the Ventricle and thereby augment the Disease by a continued hurting or weakning of it 7. The Stomach being cleansed you must strengthen it with proper corroboratives In a hot cause you may apply Topicks made of Oyls of Quinces of Roses of Olives Omphacine of Water-Lillys of Lettice of Nightshade c. in a cold cause Medicaments made of Mastich Mint Wormwood Cloves Nutmegs and such like 8. Inwardly let the Food be given warm and temperate in respect of quality not sharp or salt or fat or oyly and Trallianus forbids the drinking of Wormwood or other bitter things lest lying in the Ventricle they should be converted into Choller yet doubtless where the cause is from cold moist and indigested flegm things hot and bitter can do no hurt however other things of a warming Nature may easily be given instead thereof as Coriander-seeds Betony Cheb Myrobalans preserved Nutmegs which come from the Indies extract of Juniper-berries rolls of Aromaticum Rosatum and Caryophilatum Syrups of Mastich and Cinnamon c. from which various Medicines various Compositions may be made according to the humour abounding If the cause be from heat and bitter and choller you may use Conserves of Wood-Sorrel Marmalade of Quinces Quiddony of the same Oyls and Spirits of Vitriol Salts Sulphur Nitre c. of which also things may be compounded 9. Now in the mixion while you are compounding things to fortify the Ventricle you must be sure not to forget such things as are Specificks against the Disease afflicting to wit the Epilepsy for by this means the Sick will soon be restored to his pristin Health 10. Take Conserves of Roses of Betony and of Peony of each two ounces extract of Juniper-berries half an ounce pouder of Mans skull four scruples Indian green Ginger preserved half an ounce Oyl of Vitriol ten drops with syrup of the Conserve of Citron-peels and juyce of Peony-flowers make an Electuary 11. Take pouder of Cloves two drams extracts of Peony of Calamus Aromaticus of Carduus of each one dram Indian green Ginger condited two drams with sugar a sufficient quantity make Morsels 12. Take Mans skull prepared Peony-roots Scorzonera Nutmegs Misletoe of the Oak of each one dram seeds of Anise and Fennel of each one dram white Amber Peony-seeds Peacocks-dung of each half a dram Cubebs Anacardiums Galangal Tormentil roots Virginian Snake-roots Rosemary-flowers of each a scruple white sugar two ounces make all into fine pouder Dose two scruples to two drams CLIII Of an Epilepsy arising from Worms 1. If any one be taken with Epileptick Fits and the Cause
humors that possess the substance of the Nerves and habit of the body 3. The Topical remedies are Oyls Oyntments and Liniments with which the Neck Back-bone and all the contracted parts shall be anointed The Oyls are Oyls of Foxes Bays Camomil Worms Turpentine Costus and of Castoreum 4. The Oyntments are Vnguentum Arragon Agrippae de Althaea Martiatum 5. This may be the form of a Liniment Take Oyls of Camomil and Bays of each two ounces Oyl of Foxes one ounce Oyntments of Marsh-mallows and Martiatum of each half an ounce Fox grease one ounce Aqua Vitae an ounce and half Wax quantum suffiâ—it mix and make a Liniment for use Or thus Take Oyls of Worms of Spike and of Castor of each three ounces Mans grease one ounce Sulphur vive half an ounce Wax a sufficient quantity mix and make a Liniment Or thus Take Oyntments of Martiatum and Agrippa of each three ounces Oyl of Turpentine an ounce and half Oyl of Sage half an ounce Aqua Vitae one ounce Wax an ounce and half mix and make a Liniment 6. As to the Diet it ought to be slender and sudorifick with the Decoction of Guajacum because by these remedies the gross tough and viscous excrements which are in fault are digested Paraeus lib. 9. cap. 10. XXVIII The cure of a Convulsion caused by Inanition or emptiness 1. A Convulsion proceeding from Inanition is to be cured by the use of those things which have a natural power to nourish and restore and therefore there ought to be prescribed a Diet consisting of Meats full of good Juyce and Nutriments as Broths and Jellies of Capons Piegons Veal and Mutton boyling therein Violet and Mallow-leaves 2. Conserves must be ordained which may strengthen the debilitated Powers and humect the habit of the Body such as are the Conserves of Bugloss Borrage Violets and Water-Lillies The following broth will be profitable Take Lettice Bugloss Purslane of each an handful of the four greater cold seeds of each half an ounce Barberries one dram half an ounce is better let them all be boyled with a Chicken and let the sick take the Broth every Morning 3. If thirst is vehement the following Julep will be good Take Rose-water four ounces Violet-water half a pint white Sugar four ounces mix them and give it by degrees 4. If the sick is bound in his Body emollient and humecting Clysters are to be exhibited made of the Decoction of a Sheeps-head and Feet Mallows Marsh-mallows Pellitory of the Wall Violet-leaves and other things of like nature with them Or that the remedy may the more speedily be made let the Clyster be composed only of Oyl and Milk 5. Topick remedies may be made in the form of Liniments and Baths A Liniment may be made after this manner Take Oyls of Violets and sweet Almonds of each two ounces Oyls of Lillies and Earth-worms of each one ounce fresh Hogs-lard three ounces new wax a sufficient quantity mix and make a Liniment with which let the whole spine and part be anointed 6. The form of an emollient and humecting Bath Take leaves of Mallows Althaea Parietary of each six handfuls seeds of Time and Fenugreek of each half a pound boyl them in spring-water a sufficient quantity adding at the end Oyl of Lillys nine ounces make a bath into which let the sick eater whilst it is moderately warm 7. When he shall come forth of the Bath let him be dryed with warm Cloths or rest in his Bed avoiding Sweat But if the sick is able to undergo the charge it will be good to order a bath of Milk or Oyl alone or of them equally mixt together Paraeus lib. 9. cap. 10. XXIX The cure of a Convulsion by Sympathy and Pain as by the puncture of a Nerve bite of a venomous Beast c. 1. A Convulsion which is caused both by consent of pain and communication of the affect is cured by remedies which are contrary to the Dolorifick cause If it proceeds from a Puncture or venomious bite the wound must be dilated and enlarged by cutting the Skin that so the venenate matter may flow forth the more freely for which purpose also Medicines which are of a thin and lâ—quid câ—nsistence but of a dry and digestive faculty are to be poured in to call forth and dissolve the Virulency 2. Of this kind are Venice Treacle and Mithridate which may be dissolved in Aqua Vitae with a little of some Mercurial Pouder for this is a noble Antidote and admirable Alexipharmacum Also Cupping-glasses and Scarifications will be good 3. The condition also of all Dolorifick causes is to be opposed by the application of contrary Remedies as if pain by reason of a pricked Nerve or Tendon shall cause a Convulsion it must presently be resisted by proper Remedies as Oyls of Turpentine or Euphorbium mixt with Aquae Vitae and also with other remedies appropriated to the punctures of the Nerves 4. If the Pain proceeds from excess of cold because cold is hurtful to the Brain the spinal Marrow and the Nerves the sick shall be placed in a hot Air such as that of a Hot-house or Stove all the spine of his Back and convulsed parts must be anointed with the hot Liniments above mentioned for that is much better than to expose the Patient suddenly to a very hot fire or warm Bath 5. In the mean time the Chyrurgian ought to take diligent heed that as soon as the signs of the Convulsion to come or at hand or already present do shew themselves that he put a stick or some other wooden thing between the Patients Teeth left they be fast locked up by the pertinacious contraction of the Jaws for many in such a Case have bit off their Tongues 6. For this purpose he ought to be provided of an Instrument called Speculum Oris which may be dilated and contracted according to your mind by means of a Screw Paraeus lib. 9. cap. 11. XXX A Convulsion in a young Man 1. A Young Man had a Convulsion so that he could not bend his Back-bone by help of this following Medicament he could presently walk nimbly 2. Take of rank Butter and old Lard of each three ounces Bdellum Ammoniacum of each half an ounce Myrrh Castoreum of each three draws Flowers of Staechas and Rosemary of each one pugil Nutmegs and Cloves of each one drachm a young Kitling or little Cat unbowelled and striped and cut in peices stop the Belly of a Goose with these things and sew it up and roast it on a Spit and the first Liquor that drops cast away the next save in a Dripping-Pan half full of Vinegar to anoint the cramped or convulsed Back This is a divine Medicine Riverius lib. 4. observ 308. XXXI A rare kind of Convulsion 1. A certain Soldier by a Bullet out of a piece of Ordnance was wounded in his right Arm the Bullet took his whole Arm away only that part next his Shoulder was left as much as
is to be frequently instilled by which you shall recover strength and allay the vehemency of the Disease 3. To Anoint also the Back-bone twice or thrice a day with the Oyl I have above commended cannot but be very profitable Georgius Horstius lib. 2. Observ 45. LXVII Convulsions by consent from the Womb. 1. A Gentlewoman did complain that she had for above half a year felt a torturing pain in the Womb a wind arising from the left Hypochondria with pain the Arms and Mouth being also convulsed 2. First a decent and proper Diet being ordered I advised the following things Take species Hiera Simplex half a dram Castoreum assa Faetidae of each half a scruple Ammoniacum Opopanax of each fifteen grains Galbanum five grains Cinnamon half a scruple Saffron four grains mix them with the water of Mugwort make Pills number twenty five and guild them take five or six at once and let them be repeated every eight day 3. Afterwards with the following water you may use this bagg Take the Faeculae of Briony one scruple the salt of Mugwort half a scruple mix them put them up into a paper for one dose and to be continued so for five doses 4. Take water of Mugwort Penny-royal of each three ounces Cinnamon one ounce mix them 5. This following Emplaster is to be applieâ— also and to be carried always on the Navel Take Emplaster of Galbanum six drams the Magnet reduced into a powder mix them and malax them with the Oyl of Castoreum and make a plaister to be spread on Leather by the help of these she was free from all fear or fits of this Disease for the space of two years Georgius Horstius Tom. 2. lib. 2. Observ 50. LXVIII A Convulsion in another person 1. 'T is necessary I give rules for diet your meat must be such as affords a good Chyle and is easy of concoction as Mutton Veal Goats-flesh Hens Cocks Capons Partridges all wild-fowls c. of Corns Wheat Barley and Oat-meal of Fruits Apples Pears Damescens and others both boyled and otherways dressed 2. Of Herbs these folowing are good Sage Time and Mother of Time Hyssop Penny-royal Marjoram Rosemary Mint Origanum Savory also Fennel Cumin Dill Mugwort Beet Spinage Blit somtimes Turnip Skirrets fresh Eggs and Butter with good Broths pure Wine and Beer clear and not too strong 3. Sleep must not be presently after meat nor in the day time neither must violent motions or exercises be used after eating these rules being carefully observed we must then endeavour to eradicate the pestilent and malignant matter 4. And first according to the measure of strength you must make use of a specifick Electuary two or three days you may take the quantity of half an ounce thereof and about four hours after and in the Evening you may take Broth wherein is a little Rosemary Mother of Time Savory or Sage 5. After this purge the following remedies may be used alternately for a whole month and after the first Evacuation of the Body if perhaps the Cure commences in the New-moon let them take every day for five or six days one dram of the convulsive powder 6. After this on the sixth or seventh day and indeed the next after the first quarter of the Moon they must take again half an ounce of the said purgative Electuary then let them continue the convulsive powder to the time of full-Moon 7. Which being done let them repeat the same quantity of the Electuary and so let them proceed to the third week or to the new Moon untill the malady is in some good measure remitted and the Members by renewed strength appeare more brisk and lively 8. Which being effected they may desist from the constant use of Remedies yet they may reassume one dram of the convulsive pouder a little before the new Moon but chiefly in Winter about the months of December and January 9. And let them cause Sweat by taking a sufficient quantity of Treacle and somtimes for strengthning of the Members let them chew of Peony roots Elecampane Sage Rue Juniper-berries Cummin c. 10. As to the affected Members and the comforting of them It will be convenient that once every day the whole Marrow of the Back-bone from the first Vertebra of the Neck to the last Vertebra of the Os Sacrum be well anointed with one or the other of these Oyls to wit the Oyls of Foxes sweet Almonds Earth-worms Castoreum c. 11. Or if these cannot be had then make use of Goose or Hens grease or the Marrow in the bones of a Calf the Sewet of Mutton or the Fat of a Calf one or the other of these following being mixed therewith as Earth-worms Castoreum Cammomil flowers Rosemary Dill Origanum Savory Mother of Time Primroses Rue a little Wine or broath of Hens being added they being all boyled to the consumption of the Wine or Broth make a liniment for the whole Back bone 12. But if any person should find any great tumor or pain about the region of the Spleen and Liver or any other part of the Body let him take some of the above mentioned herbs and boyl them in Wine for a fomentation and afterwards anoint the part well and moreover the Members that are oftenest afflicted with convulsive motions especially after sweating should be gently rubbed with warm cloaths 13. And afterwards let him bath with spirit of wine in which are infused for a Night the flowers of Primroses Lavender Rue Sage Betony or Castoreum it self 14. Or the said spirit of Wine may be mixed with the distilled water of Lavender for which purpose let him always wear Gloves and Shoo 's made of Wolf's or Cats-skins the continual use of which is good for preserving the Members in their due strength 15. And if the Feet require it you may prepare a Bath of Betony Mother of Time Primroses and Cammomil the Feet being bathed therein you may gently rub them dry with a warm cloth 16. But if all these means should not be sufficient then Issues are to be made both in Leggs and Arms which are to be kept open until the malady be discernably remitted But if this Evil be not yet eradicated then he must repair unto the natural Baths Georgius Horstius lib. 8. cap. 6. LXIX Of those who are in the Paroxysm 1. If any should be suddenly taken with Convulsions and held in the Paroxysm immediately after he has felt the pain runing over his Hands and Feet let him rub the affected Member with the spirit of wine above mentioned and extend the parts contracted and bow the members that are distorted 2. But if the vellication does not yet cease then ligatures are to be made use of towards the parts afflicted 3. If the hand for example sake be grived then the ligature is to be in the Arm between the Elbow and Shoulder if the Foot or Legg be afflicted then the ligature is to be applied to the Thigh between the huckle-bone and
the Knee and the part affected is to be kept tyed till the malignant vapour and the sense of pain shall altogether vanish away 4. And if the vellication and pricking should longer continue then the ligature may be somtimes loosned whereby the member may more liberally receive the blood and the enlivening spirit which being done let him presently bind on the ligature and so let him proceed alternately until there be a remission which pain and vellication at length ceasing he may unbind the Ligature 5. This being done let him take one dram of the convulsive powder or half an ounce of the counvulsive Antidote well dissolved in a little broth for defending the Brain and principal members and dissipating the venomous vapours in the same 6. But if that malignant humor give him so long thruce as to lie in Bed then he may if strength will permit cover himself well with coverings till he sweat and so those vapours by insensible transpiration be evaporated 7. These Remedies are to be alternatly reiterated even till a total intermission of the Disease and pain which being done let him the next day take for a purge half an ounce of the purging Electuary Observing all things exactly according to former prescriptions Georgius Horstius lib. 8. cap. 7. LXX Other universal remedies designed for the cure of this Disease 1. Of these there are chiefly three to wit the purging convulsive Electuary the convulsive Antidote and the convulsive Powder 2. The first viz. the puging convulsive Electuary is this Take Diaphaenicum Solidum four ounces the Electuary of the juice of Roses two ounces and half the convulsive Antidote or Treacle here described two ounces the powder of Hermodacts cleansed from the upmost Bark Turpentine Esula of each one dram Diagrydium Castoreum of each two scruples Ginger Costus Cloves of each one scruple the seeds of Rue Cummin Crocus of each half a scruple mix them and with the syrup of Roses solutive make an Electuary 3. The convulsive Antidote Take the rootâ— Peony Misleto of each two ounces Castoreum Sage of each two ounces Bay-berries Mans-skull burnt of each two drams Treacle of Alexandria choice Mithridate of each twelve ounces clarified Honey two pound mix them for a Treacle Electuary 4. The convulsive powder Take the powder of the roots of Swallow wort Elecampane Devills-bite Avens Peony of each one ouncâ— and half Bay-berries half an ounce the tops of Sage Mother of time Rosemary-flowers of each two drams Species Diamoschi Dulcis Plirisarconticon Dianthos of each one dram mix them and make a powder 5. After this manner have we delineated the convulsive Disease with its cure and we have by experience found that the above named Remedies has given such abundant help to Nature that this stubborn dangerous Disease has been overcome and all its symptoms vanished Georgius Horstius lib. 8. cap. 9. LXXI These following things are also good for the Convulsion 1. Make a fomentation of the leaves and flowers of the Tile-tree boyled in Wine after the fomentation take for anointing the parts the Oyl of Line-seed Goose-grease mixed with the Oyl of Cinnamon the Oyl of Earth-worms mixed with Turpentine Take the Oyl of Cammomil one ounce of Earth-worms half an ounce Castoreum the powder of Earth-worms of each half a dram mix them 2. Treacle dissolved in the Oyl of Scorpions and Castoreum is of good use if the distemper proceed from a cold Cause Gregorius Horstius vol. 3. lib. 2. cap. LXXII A Convulsion in a certain Matron 1. A certain Matron was for some days afflicted with horrible fits of a Convulsion accompanied with a kind of foolishness her body was sometimes so imâ—etuously shaken that scarsly two of the strongest men could hold her 2. I having observed that she loathed all kind of Medicaments I advised that her Husband who had been for some time absent should be called and her Members which had been for some days shaken and wasted to be anointed with the following Oyntment 3. Take the Oyl of the flowers of Slotanus one ounce the Oyl of Earth-worms of Foxes of Camomil of Lillies and white Roses of each half an ounce and mix them 4. From that time I never knew that she was ever taken with convulsive fits or other Diseases all the time she lived with her Husband who was a Physitian Fabritij Hildani cent 6. Observ Chururg 26. LXXIII Convulsions considred in general 1. A Convulsion is two fold either universal or particular an universal Convulsion is three-fold either the Head and whole Body is contracted and drawn to the Breast or the Head Neck and the rest of the Body is convulsed and drawn to the hinder parts and Back or the whole remains immoveable and inflexible to either part 2. A particular Convulsion is only that which seises one part 3. This Disease either proceeds from repletion or emptiness or from the putrid malignant Vapours elevated to the Brain and the original of the Nerves 4. All Convulsions are dangerous but particularly that which proceeds from emptiness the Nerves being too much dried by immoderate Purgations vomits a burning Feaver c. cannot be easily moistened or humected and oft-times the strength is loosened and destroyed by the sharpness of the Disease before the Nerves can recover their former Humectation and be reduced to some good temper 5. Wherefore Hippocrates did rightly pronounce a convulsion from Hellebor to be deadly because of the immoderate Evacuation which also an incurable siccity and driness does follow 6. The same Author affirms that a Convulsion occasioned by a wound is also incurable because of the hurting and inflamation of the Nervous parts by which great pain comes which by consent grievously afflicts the Brain 7. A Convulsion from Malignant and venomous vapours is no less dangerous For by them the Brain is not only afflicted but also the Heart to which the vapours are carried by the Arteries 8. In the cure of this Disease the cause is to be looked to If the Convulsion proceed from repletion according to Hippocrates it requires evacuation wherefore a good Diet is to be instituted the Body is to be Purged and a vein is to be opened and the part affected and the whole marrow of the Back-bone is to be anointed with the following Oyntment 9. Take Oyl of Earth-worms of Foxes of each two ounces Oyl of Turpentine of Wax of Castoreum of each half an ounce Mans grease three ounces juyce of Earth-worms one ounce mix them and apply them hot 10. But if the Distemper proceed from inanition and siccity purgative Medicine and blood letting must be avoided and meats that are moistning or humecting and nutritive must be used 11. If the Patients thirst be great then the following potion may be exhibited Take the water of Bugloss Roses and Violets of each four ounâ—â—s syrup of Violets four ounces mix them and make a Julep which the sick may take as often as he pleases 12. Emulsions of the cold seeds and the Milk of sweet
Ground-Pine Germander Hysop and the like the Syrup of Staechas Honey of Roses and the Syrup of Betony being added 6. First for Purgation we exhibited these following Pills Take Pills of Assajaret and Agarick trochiscated of each half a dram with Honey of Roses make seven Pills 7. Let her take afterwards the following Apozem Take the bark of the roots of Barsley Fennel Butchers-Broom Asparagus of each half an ounce the Flowers of Rosemary one pugil Hysop Marjoram Sage Germander Ground-Pine Betony of each one handful Annise and Fennel one dram and half Carthamus-seeds half an ounce Polypody of the Oak one ounce Tyme one pugil make a Decoction in water to one pound of the straining you may add Syrup of Staechas Calamint Honey of Roses strained of each one ounce aromatize it with a little Cinnamon Mace and Nutmeg and let it be after the manner of a Claret 8. I did purge her again with the following Pills Take Pil. Faetidae Cochiae Pil. Hermodactylis of each one scruple Castoreum three grains make seven Pills 9. And after I had used dry Cupping-glases with Scarification in the shoulder blades and hipps we then made use of Masticatories and Apophlegmatisms for these not only divert but also draw the matter from the Head and hinder the Defluction thereof from the Brain to the Nape and Vertebrae Treacle Mithridate Diamoschi Conserve of the Flowers of Sage and Rosemary were taken and outwardly the Back-bone as also the other convulsed Members were first anointed with the Oyl of Foxes and Earth-Worms then with the Oyl of Costus and an Ointment made of Bdellum rowling all up in the skin of a Wolf 10. The Members were for some time kept in a Decoction of Whelps in Wine and Oyl 11 And that Experiment of Nicholas which resolves and remits the pain was not neglected Take a fat Goose open it and throw away the Garbish and after you have put into the Belly thereof a Cat cut in small peices with Lard Myrrh and Frankincense sow it up putting it on a Spit which roast then set a Dish under it wherein is Vinegar in which the first Fat dropping was laid aside but that which distilled afterwards was reserved for Vse 12. Let the Goose after this be boyled in the said Vinegar and the greatest part of the Fat will be separated and will swim above the Vinegar which being mixed with the first anoinâ— therewith the convulsed Members 13. I have known some to be freed from pain by using only a Bath of common Oyl with a Decoction of Earth-Worms but the Members must be contained within the hot Oyl and a Plaister of Earth-Worms must be applyed to the affected Parts 14. Caesar Landulphus said he was cured by Cats-mint common Oyl Worms and the Oyl of Fâ—xes although he had a Convulsion in his Hipps and Leggs it returning about half a year after was presently well by taking Sarsa-Parilla Forestus Lib. 10. Observ 104. LXXVI A Convulsion in an old Man 1. A certain old man of Delf having a Convulsion in his Neck and Arm I exhibited to him Pil. Cochiae with a small quantity of Castoreum afterwards I gave him Pil. Cochiae Fetidae and his Neck also being anointed with the Oyl of Lillies Earth-Worms and Foxes this old Man recovered even to a Miracle 2. Also another sick Person was freed from Convulsions thus a Vein was opened then a Decoction was made of Sage Betony Marjoram Staechas and the like to which was added also Syrup of Staechas and the Pills above mentioned were exhibited then Errhins and cephalick Purges were administred 3. After this we came to use Topicks first anointing the parts with Oyl of Lillies and Cammomil and then for greater Discussion we proceeded to the use of the Oyls of Rue Bays Orris Ducks and Goose grease and at length of Petroleum a little Aqua Vitae being added as also a little of the Pouder of Castoreum with Marsh-Mallows and Martiatum Forestus Lib. 10. Observ 106. LXXVII A Convulsion from too great Repletion of the pituitous Juice 1. A Man drowsy and flegmatick every day filling himself with thick Beer and living a very idle life being about the age of forty fell suddenly into a Convulsion of the Arms and Leggs 2. Having understood by several Causes and Signs that his Convulsions proceeded from too great plenty of the pituitous Juice or Humors I ordered that according to Celsus he should keep a continual Fire in his Chamber it being cold Weather which does certainly offend the Parts 3. I took care that the Belly was kept in a good Temper the Cream of Ptisan was ordered for him as a Diet as also rear Eggs Chickens or a Broth in which Hysop the Mother of Tyme Sage Elder Savory were boyled 4. I praescribed to him a Clyster which having purged him sufficiently I ordered him to use twice a day continually the following Decoction Take Sage Marjoram Cowslipps Betony Bay-leaves the flowers of Rosemary and Staechas of each one handful make a Decoction in Aqua Mulsa for one pint 5. Afterwards I purged him with the following Pills Take Pil. Cochiae and Fetidae and of Agarick of each one scruple with Betony water make five Pills after the purge of Actius I did exhibite one dram of Castoreum with Sage-Water 6. After one or two days his Head being purged again with Errhines and Apophlegmatisms I ordered one dram of choice Treacle with two ounces of Aqua Mulsa 7. And I anointed his Neck Back-bone and the inferior Vertebrae with the Oyl of Spike of Costus and Castoreum the Oyl of Pepper and Earth-Worms by which Remedies he was at length cured Petrus Forestus Lib. 10. Observ 107. LXXVIII A Convulsion from outragious Choler 1. One dwelling in the City of Delf who was intemperate and a great Feeder fell under the Praedominancy of fierce and sharp Choler by reason of continual Crudities being taking with a violent Griping and Evacuation as well above as below he fell into swooning Fits which brought him into a Convulsion of the Hands and Feet and a Contraction almost of all the Muscles 2. For the Muscles of his Breast Throat Neck Back and Belly were so convulsed that every one that saw him looked upon him as one just ready to expire for subduing of this stubborn Malady I proposed the following Drink for cleansing the Ventricle from that sharp and gnawing Humor 3. Take the Decoction of Barley not husked three ounces Syrup of the manifold Infusion of red Roses one ounce mix them 4. By this he vomited up many cholerick humors and had several watery Stools 5. For his swooning his Face was often sprinkled with Water and Wine was often held to him to smell at Frictions were also used afterwards both for repressing the Impetuosity of Choler Vomiting and Loosness as also his great Thirst and frequent Swooning Take Rob de Ribes two ounces Rob of Cherries Syrup of Quinces of each one ounce Lozenges of Sugar pearled one ounce and half mix
Trembling of the Joints without any Pain 1. There was a certain woman who above twelve or more years had her left Side in continual motion against her will whilst she waked her left Eye always twinkled her Lips always moved in the action of opening and closeing them together her Arms Fingers and Feet were always stiring yet all this was without any sense of Pain when she slept all was quiet and without motion 2. There was another also about the age of forty a Man Melancholick and Corpulent whilst he was performing some part of his office as a Minister had an Involuntary motion of his left Foot 3. As to the first intention I would rub the Back-bone chiefly about the end of the Neck and the begining of the Os Sacrum universals being praemissed with Aqua aurea Langij the water of Swallows being added with Castoreum and the spirit of Lillys Convally five pints in which infuse a nodul made of Castoreum the flowers of Lavender Staechas the leaves of Rue Sage Betony Rosemary-flowers Camomil Camphir c. After some few days you may decant the clear and use it as aforesaid 4. Also a fomentation to be used before the former things would do much good Take the leaves of Sage Rosemary Germander Ground-pine Betony the flowers of Staechas Chamomil Bay and Juniper-berries c. boyl them all in Wine 5. As to the second intention his Thigh and down the Leg to his very Toe as also his Hand and Fingers is to rubed and fomented with a new sponge in a decoction of Sage-Wine 6. Afterwards a Balsam made of Mans fat is to be used frequently Take Mans fat six ounces clear Turpentine so much the fat of a Badger and a Fox of each three ounces the Oyl of Bays Mastich and Spikenard of each half an ounce Bay-leaves Germander Sage Marjoram of each one handful Aqua vitae rectificate eight ounces steep them in water for the space of twenty four hours afterwards distil them 7. I ascribed much good to the spirit of Tartar well rectified to be exhibited by way of friction Oleum distillatur Galbani Cratonis may be profitably applyed outwardly whose use may be also convenient for the first intention unless the smell offend 8. In the third place I shall say nothing to the government of the whole but I am altogether of opinion that nature may be succored by Infusum Spleneticum Laxativum which being done in the next place I would have exhibited twice a week pil Marocostin one scruple before Supper 9. And in the Morning not omitting universal Corroboratives I would give in the first place Elixir proprietatis Paracelsi then let the Spirit of Turpentine distilled with Vinegar obtain the second place 10. I would strengthen particularly the Head by using Amber-grise with the Extractum ligni Aloes a sufficient quantity of Sugar dissolved in the water of Lilly-Convally make all into Rowls 11. A Drink made of Sorrel is not inconvenient because of the Concurrent affection of the Spleen I do also advise for draining the superfluous humors and strengthening the parts affected a Drink rather then a Bath made of the decoction of China with Sarsaparilla and Sassafras these are the remedies I think proper for this worthy Gentleman Gregorius Host lib. 8. Observ 15. XVIII Of Trembling and shaking 1. This Disease is accompanied with two sundry movings one is while the member is constrained through heaviness and Grief to creep downwards the other is while the member is carried upward from his natural course and faculty 2. This evil is caused altogether through weakness of the Sinews which does plainly decipher old age but privately it cometh of other causes such as a cold temperature of nature cold drink taken either immoderately or out of season especially in Feavers moreover the abundance of Cold Gross and Clammy humors together with too great plenty of Wine unmixt as also old age and fear are the causes thereof 3. There needs no signs to know either the evil or the causes of it because it may be known either by sight or the Patients words or the state of the Body 4. Let the Diet be so ordered that it may be clean contrary to the causes of the Disease and let his Meat be such as will be easily digested and distributed such as Broths Birds and delicate kind of Fishes 5. Against an abundance of gross and clammy humors it is good to use those things that have a power to divide extenuate and cut but he must avoid all things which do hurt the Sinews and chiefly the drinking of Wine that is unmixed he must drink Wine that is mixed with Water or Hydromel or Ale 6. For the Cure they which do Tremble or shake through some manifest error they must altogether abstain from things that are hurtful 7. But if they do Tremble thorough drinking of Wine until they by delivered from the Disease let them drink in the interim Hydromel with the decoction of Sage and Betony 8. If the shaking proceed from cold and and gross humors then minister the Cure which is ascribed for the Palsy and the Cramp coming from Repletion letting of Blood only excepted 9. You must anoint the outward parts of the Body with Oyls that will heat and cover it with soft Wooll then fasten Cupping-glasses without scarification from the first shutting of the Joints which may be drawn to the outward part of the skin and so thereby humors may the easier be discussed and driven away 10. Also it is good for the Sick to drink daily five grains of Pepper with one ounce and half of Mulse there are moreover certain other simple Medicines which being taken do help Trembling that is Castoreum root of Althea decoction of Agrimony and the Brain of an Hare 11. The Medicines and especially the Oyntments which are prescribed for the cure of the Palsy are to be used here as remedies against this Disease Barrows method lib. 1. cap. 29. SCHOLIA The THEORY of a TREMOR or TREMBLING By the Author W. Salmon XIX The Pathology of a Tremor or Trembling and first of the notation thereof 1. The Names It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Tremor and in English Trembling or Shaking 2. The Definition Tremor est motus voluntarius depravatus quo qui laborant membra libere movere et propensa vel suspensa servare non possunt sed membrum à facultate animali in altum sublatum pondere suo deprimitur iterumque à faculte motrice erigitur Trembling or shaking is a symptom of the hurt of the Animal faculty and depravation of the Motive by reason of which the parts can neither move freely nor keep their station being lift up by the moving faculty and then depressed downwards by their own weight whence comes a Trembling motion 3. The kinds or differences Although some make these as kinds or differences of a Tremor that it is either greater or lesser Or that it is either of the
Line-seed the roots of Althaea of each one ounce Ammoniacum Serapinum dissolved all Night in White-Wine of each half a dram Frankincense Mastick of each two drams Oyl of Foxes one ounce Wax half an ounce make a Cere-Cloth according to Art spread a small quantity of this Ointment upon Leather according to the largness of the wounded Member by which Remedy the Person found himself to be much better 3. We have given you several Examples of Persons that have been taken with the Palsy by this or the like Accidents Some by Bruises Blows and Wounds in the Head and Neck have fallen first into a light Apoplexy then into a Palsy the History of which and their proper Cures as also their Causes and Signs we have given you in their peculiar Places 4. We have likewise told you how difficult or rather incurable this Disease is which is most evident in old Men who are scarcely ever freed from it 5. If a Trembling and Feaver follow upon a Palsy and that also which comes from a Blow or Wound provided the Nerves be not too much bruised and torn it is possible that such a Palsy may be cured but on the contrary a Palsy that is occasioned by some signal Contusion or tearing asunder of the Nerves is really incurable 6. Avenzoar according to the Judgment of Galen says That if the Nerves which serve Respiration be wounded there is emâ—nent danger of sudden Death 7. If the resolved Member grow nothing less nor is weak nor corrupted there is some hopes of a Cure but on the contrary if it grows discernably feebler and smaller and the native Colour perishes it portends no good nor easy Cure to the Patient 8. In the Cure of a Palsy or the resolution of the Nerves from a Wound or any other extrinsical Cause the whole Body is to be purged or Blood is to taken or both is to done and the Humors which have their influx upon the resolved Part are to be diverted and strict Rules of Diet which have been above prescribed are to be followed 9. Proper Topicks should be also set against this mighty Disease outwardly diverse Remedies are to be applyed and made use of in a Palsy proceeding from a Wound such as Emplasters Cataplasms Ointments Fomentations Cupping-Glasses and the like 10 Guido did use this one Liquor very well described by Mesues in the Passions of the Heart with which the whole Back is anointed and it is this Take choice Myrrh Aloes Spikenard Sanguis Draconis Frankincense Mummia Opobalsamum Opopanax Bdellium Carpobalsamum Ammoniacum Sarcocolla Saffron Mastick Gum Arabick liquid Styrax of each two drams or two drams and half choice Labdanum Castoreum of each two drams and half Musk half a dram choice Turpentine the weight of them all pulverize those which are to be pulverized let them be all mixed with the Turpentine then put them into an Alembick which distil over a gentle Fire and receive for Vse the subtil Liquor 11. Guido de Cauliaco did add to this pretious Liquor Herbs proper for and dedicated to the Palsy and as he witnesses it did help more effectually Petrus Forestus Lib. 6. Observ Chirurg 20. C. A Palsy cured by Paracelsus 1. One saith he was troubled with the Palsy whom I cured only with the Essence of Wall-Flowers drawn with the Spirit of Wine 2. Note First it is to be supposed that this Essense was either a Tincture drawn from the dryed Herb with the best rectified Spirit of Wine such as will fire Gun-Pouder Or otherwise such an Essence as is made of the Juyce of the Herb with an addition of Spirit of Wine as we have taught in our Doron Medicum Lib. 1. Cap 15. Sect. 2. § 1. where you shall receive further Satisfaction Salmon 3. Note That as to the use of the Medicament it is possible that he might as well give it inwardly in any proper Vehicle good against the Palsy as apply it outwardly to the Part by Bathings and Fomentations Salmon 4. A compleat Palsy or benummedness and loss of Motion A Boy fifteen years old falling down a stone pair of Stairs had his Arm and Leg benummed and void of moving whose Neck with the hinder Part of the Head and all the Back-bone I anointed with this following Ointment 5. Take Fox Grease two ounces Oyl of Earth-Worms one ounce Oyl of Bricks half an ounce mix them together and anoint therewith It was accordingly done and in short space no Wound Swelling or Palsy appeared in him Paracelsus SCHOLIA The THEORY of a PARALYSIS or PALSY By the Author W. Salmon CI. The Pathology of the Palsy and first of the Notation thereof 1. The Names It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Paralysis Resolutio Nervorum and in English the Palsy Paralysis à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est resolvi dicitur for that the Nerves and the Muscles in whom also the Nerves are inserted are so resolved and weakned that they are wholly unfit to exercise the Motum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or voluntary Motion 2. The Definition Est videlicet Paralysis motus in Parte una vel pluribus abolitio nonnunquam Sensus simul aboletur ob Spirituum animalium ad motuum spontaneum necessariorum Defectum Sennertus Paralysis Resolutio Nervorum est ubi aut totum Corpus excepto Capite aut alterutrum Latus aut Corporis duntaxat aliqua Pars videlicet Pes Manus aut Lingua Motu ac Sensu simul aut Motu tantum privata est Joel Paralysis describitur nempe quod sit Partium nervosarum à debita tensitate Resolutio sive Relaxatio cujus ratione Motus Sensus nempe aut alter tantum simul uterque in toto Corpore vel in quibusdam Partibus debito more exerceri nequit Willis A Palsy is a loss of Sense and Motion in some Parts of the Body by reason of the stopping of the Conduits or Passages of the animal Spirits Riverius Among these Willis his Definition is the most ample viz. that it is namely the Palsy a Resolution or Relaxation of the nervous Parts from their natural or due Habit by which means Motion and Sense to wit either the one only or both together in the whole Body or in some Parts can not be exercised after their due Manner But Joel wil have it that if the whole Body together with the Head be affected it is not a Paralysis but an Apoplexy and indeed most Authors say That an Apoplexy is an universal Palsy of the whole Body 3. The Kinds or Differences It is either universal call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which the whole Body the Head excepted is affected Or particular called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which some Part or Parts are seised therewith 2. It is either on both Sides of the Body called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or on the one half or Side of the Body and is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But some Authors use all these Terms
If the Palsy is in the Legs the Nerves affected are about the bottom of the spinal Marrrow and the Vertebrae of the Os Sacrum And thus we must seach out for the place whence the Nerves spring which are dispersed to those Parts which are afflicted with the Palsy 17. From these things it is apparent what Conjugations of Nerves are most afflicted and that in universal Palsies there is for the most part an affliction of the whole Genus Nervosum or nervous System which many time comes to pass from the effects of Poyson and the Contamination of the neurotick Juyce by the fuliginous Vapours of Arsenick Antimony and Quick-Silver 18. Galen relates a Story of a Man who in a cold stormy Time by wraping his wet Cloak about his Neck was taken with a Palsy in his Hand And of another who had a Palsy in three of his Fingers occasioned by a Fall from his Chariot upon his Back whence he concluded that some part of the Nerves of the seventh Vertebrae were hurt in their original to which place applying the means after he had in vain opplyed Medicines to the Fingers he compleated a Cure 19. The Signs of the Causes of a Paralysis are drawn from the primary Causes the Diseases aforegoing the Temperament and Habit of the Patient and therefore when external cold and moist Causes go before as also old age a pituitous habit of Body cold Weather cold and moist Diet or an Apoplexy has preceeded they are Signs of a paralytick Disposition nere at hand 20. Moreover a Catarrh long flowing and at length suddenly stopt without taking away the morbifick Matter is a sign of an approaching Palsy unless the matter of the Catarrh be suddenly conveyed some other way for otherwise it commonly falls upon some noble Part or diverts it lelf to the original of the Nerves in the Brain and of this Case we have had two or three singular Examples all incurable CIII Of the various Causes of a Paralysis or Palsy 1. The general Causes of a Palsy are all those which hinder the Passage of the animal Spirit into the Nerves and Muscles which by how many ways and by what Artifice those hinderances are done we shall in what follows more particularly declare 2. A Paralysis therefore happens when the animal Spirit does not sufficiently invigorate or actuate the Nerves and their Ramifications which is caused either by an Obstruction of the Passages by which they should flow to the respective Parts or from the imbecility and paucity of the said Spirits whereby either their activity is hurt or they are wanting so as that the Nerves can not be sufficiently repleat or filled up therewith 3. Hence the Variety of Palsies comes from great and universal Obstructions a compleat and perfect Palsy arises in which both Motion and Sense are both abolished and this comes not only from the substance of the matter obstructing but also from a malign Quality affecting even the Spirit it self this Obstruction of the Passages of the Spirits happens either in the first Sensory to wit the streaked Bodies or in or nere the medullar Trunks Or in the Nerves themselves to wit either in their beginnings or middle or ends viz in the very Fibres themselves 4. If the first Sensory or spinal Marrow is affected it either obstructs the whole Spine whence comes an universal Palsy below the original Obstuction Or one half thereof whence comes a Palsy only on one Side Or it obstructs the original of the Nerves of some particular Coâ—jugation or Pair either on one Side alone or on both at the same time whence a Palsy is caused in this or that particular Part or Member only 5. Now these Obstuctions are made either 1. by a forrein Matter impacted in them Or 2. by Constipation and Compression from matter abounding without them and that may be either from some particular Tumor offending in Magnitude whereby the Nerves are constipated or compressed Or from a large Flux of Humors out of the Vessels flowing upon and overpowering them Or 3. by solution of Unity by a Bruise or Wound Or 4. and lastly from the excess of heat and cold the Spirits being also in part wasted by the one and as it were congealed by the other 6. An Obstruction in the first or common Sensory or streaked Bodies causes either a general Palsy or a Palsy of one Side And this is the chief Reason why such-like Palsies follow upon an Apoplexy Lethargy or Carus for that in those Diseases the Conduits of the callous Body are at first affected from whence upon the passing off of those Diseases there is many times a Translation of the morbifick Matter into the marrowy Passages of one or more of the Corpora striata whence it is that the Afflux of the animal Spirit into the Genus Nervosum is hindered either in one or both Sides And here if the Obstructions be very great Sense and Motion both are abolished but if not the motive Faculty only suffers loss And if it be but a very small Obstuction the motive Faculty has only been deprived or diminished not taken away 7. But why Sense should not be hurt as well as Motion in every Palsy is manifest as aforesaid from the Magnitude of the Obstuction For if the Obstruction is truly so great as to deprive any Member or Part totally of the animal Spirit then Sense and Motion both cease for that they both are performed and invigorated by the same Nerves and Fibres within the same marrowy Passages But if the Obstruction is small then a small Portion of the animal Spirit is distributed so much as may manage the sensitive Faculty but the motive is hurt forasmuch as it can not be performed but by a larger Proportion or Measure of the said Spirit 8. Moreover a Palsy may be caused not only from the Obstructions of the Corpora striata but also from the Compression of the same by Blood extravasated within the inferiour Cavity of the Brain or a large quantity of Lympha or serous Matter lying upon the same and pressing them together by which means the medullary Conduits will be so straightned as to hinder the Afflux of the Spirit into the same 9. But somtimes the morbifick Cause affects the oblong or spinal Marrow though rarely by an Obstuction yet somtimes by Constipation and Compression and somtimes by a Solution of Continuity whereby a Palsy is excited Now Obstructions are not here so easy to be made for that the obstructing Matter in the Head does not easily fall beyond the Corpora striata but the poysonous Miasms may affect the Spirits and so cause a kind of Paralysis Hemiplegia a Numness or depraved Operation of the Part or Parts 10. But in either the oblong or spinal Marrow especially the latter a Palsy may be excited from a Compression or Solution of Continuity by a Bruise Apostume or Wound by means of which the Blood or serous Humor may flow within the Hollowness or
of the Members and that the serous humours which the Nerves had imbibed might trouble him no more we applyed a dry Stupha every Morning for a whole month 16. Our Sudorifick Antimony was given him to cause him to Sweat at length by the foregoing Medicines we delivered our Patient both from the Apoplexy and Palsy and a thin and light Diet being oâ—served still by him he yet lives in perfect health Petrus Johannes Faber Cur. 40. L. An Apoplexy in a young Girl 1. A Girl ten years of Age after bathing of her self fell into an Apoplexy which proceeded from a flux of gross humors into the Vessels and parts of the Head wherein consisteth the feeling and moving of the whole Body 2. She snorted much in her Sleep and trembled all over her Body I cured her with Oleum Cranij humani giving it with Spirit of Vitriol in Lavender-water Paracelsus LI. An Apoplexy in an elderly Man 1. One Caspar Mayr a Carpenter in the City of Lauginga being about fifty years of Age was taken with a strong Apoplexy of which through the help of God I cured him 2. Being called to him I exhibited the following Sternutatory Take Meal of Darnel pouder of Nigella-seeds pouder of white Hellebor of each a scruple Marjoram Rosemary Sage of each half a dram Musk two grains make all into a subtile Pouder 3. Of this Pouder about the quantity of three pease was blown up into his Nostrils with a Quill by which he sneezed strongly 4. After the Sneezing I gave Oleum Heraclinum to about half a spoonful to be swallowed by little and little by virtue of which almost miraculously he presently came to himself began to speak and know the By-standers 5. Being asked concerning his Disease how he was taken he answered he knew not how he was affected nor that he was deprived of all Sense and Motion however being now fully come to himself he called to mind that before he was taken with this Disease he was afflicted with a pain of the Head and a streightness of the Brest 6. And indeed through the mercy of God he recovered his perfect Health beyond the opinion of all men Martinus Rulandus Cent. 7. Cur. 44. SCHOLIA The THEORY of the APOPLEXY By the Author W. Salmon LII The Pathology of the Apoplexy and first of the Notation thereof 1. The Names It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à percutiendo in Latin Apoplexia and in English the Apoplexy a word denoting percussion wherein after a wonderful and admirable manner the sick is struck dumb and sensless 2. The Definition Est omnium corporis partium motus ac sensus repentina privatio omniumque animalium functionum interceptio Joel It is defined by Riolanus to be an abolition of Sense and Motion with Respiration hurt which at last brings snorting and suffocation by reason of thick flegm flowing out of the Funnel and obstructing the Larynx or Wind-pipe which does oftentimes and unexpectedly invade a Man or follow some other sleepy Disease all the Ventricles of the Brain but especially the fourth being obstructed wherein unless the matter be discussed in the Spinal Marrow Death unavoidably follows Anot. lib. 4. cap. 2. Fernelius saith That an Apoplexy is a Disease bred by an obstruction of the Rete Mirabile the afflux of arterial Blood out of the Heart into the Brain being thereby intercepted Willis saith Apoplexia vi vocis percussionem denotat propter stupendam affectûs naturam quasi aliquid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 continentem Sideratio appellatur namque ea correpti tanquam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aut numine invisibili perculsi subitò ad terram concidunt atque sensu motu privati totâque functione animali nisi quod respirant cessante quasi exanimes aliquandiu jacent quandoque mortem obeunt sin reviviscunt saepenumero paralysi universali aut hemiplegiâ afficiuntur The Sense of the word Apoplexy denotes percussion and by reason of the stupendious quality of the Distemper containing as it were somthing super-natural it is called a Sideration or Blasting for those struck therewith being as it were Planet-struck or struck with an invisible power fall suddenly on the ground and being deprived both of Sense and Motion and the whole Animal Function ceasing save that they breath they lye for a long season as if Dead and somtimes dye indeed but if they revive they are many times taken either with an universal Palsy or else with a Palsy of one side Riverius saith It is a most deep sleep and a total privation of Sense and Motion breathing excepted wherein the Sick neither opens his Eyes answers nor feels when he is hurt breathing also with difficulty Apoplexia morbus est gravissimus qui primò caput obsidet protinus ac subitò sensu motu universum corpus privat ita ut exitus spiritus animalis a cerebro prohibeatur vitalis aditus à corde ad cerebrum praepediatur à percutiendo nomen habet quôd qui ea laborent veluti de coelo percussi videantur Avicenna apoplexiam definit quod sit otiositas sensus motus per interceptionem spiritus sensitivi motivi ab oppilatione ventriculorum cerebri The Apoplexy is a Disease suddenly depriving the whole Body of Sense and Motion and causing all the Animal Functions to cease breathing only excepted wherein the Sick lies for a season as if Dead 3. The Kinds or Diferences 1. The Apoplexy is either accidental coming of a sudden and falling indifferently upon any Man though not at all predisposed thereto for which no preventive method can be instituted Or it is habitual from a constant disposition in some Men because of which they are at first only exercised with light approaches thereof or rather Symptoms afterwards the Paroxysms are evident but gentle but at length they become more grievous and of which at last they for the most part dye 2. The Apoplexy is distinguished according to its degrees as Sennertus teacheth Lib. 1. Par. 2. Cap. 23. into gentle strong and strongest The gentle is that in which the Sick breaths freely and easily becomes sensible again The strong Apoplexy is that wherein the Sick breaths with very great difficulty and as it were with violence snorting and foaming at Mouth The strongest and most dangerous is that in which all Sense and Motion immediately cease through the whole Body the breath also being stopt in these there is neither snorting nor foaming but the Sick lyes as if perfectly Dead and they ought not to be buried before three days be over for it has been found that in that space of time some so seized have revived again 3. The Apoplexy is also two-fold according to the place the one is seated in the middle of the Brain the other in the Cerebellum 4. It is either from causes conjunct and procatartick or from causes evident as some external violence LIII The signs of an Apoplexy 1. The person before
thereof be from Worms it is known by these following signs The sick oftentimes grates their Teeth and that many times or for the most part in their Sleep there are also many sower Belchings which by little and little filling the Mouth with an acid humor the Teeth be set extreamly on edge as if they had been eating of sowr things and commonly the Breath stinks or smells not well 2. They are often taken with a trembling of the extream parts and many times are affrighted and vehemently cry out in their Sleep there is also an Itching of the Nostrils and end of the Nose causing a great desire to rub the same about Evening or in the Night time the sick is troubled with much spitting somtimes there is a great heat and flushing in the Face and that of a sudden with a pain and gnawing of the Stomach and Bowels 3. And in some persons there is a contraction of the Muscles of the Abdomen with a grumbling of the Guts and torment costiveness of Body dry Cough Hiccough or some ill tast in the Mouth and somtimes the Worms are seen to come away in the Ordure or Excrements voided by Stool and in some persons there is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of some particular Member in others an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the whole body the body pining away by reason the most of or the principal nutriment is devoured or consumed by the Worms which Nature had otherwise designed for the nourishment of the Body 4. The Cure is not difficult especially if the Disease has been of no long continuance but if the true cause of the Epilepsy is from Worms unless the Sick can be freed from them he will never be cured of his Epileptick Distemper 5. If the Disease be caused of Worms and it has been of a very long continuance then although the Worms which seem to be the Proeguminine cause be taken away yet will not the fits leave the Sick for that by the long continuance of the Distemper a new nearer cause will be generated And this I had twice experience of in two Children who being afflicted with Epileptick Fits arising from Worms for 8 or 9 years together that although I perfectly freed them both from the Worms yet the Epilepsy left them not till much more means was afterwards used whereas another person troubled with the same Disease arising from the same Cause having been but a little while troubled therewith by freeing him from the Worms he was perfectly cured of his Epilepsy also 6. The Cure ought to be performed by mixing Antepilepticks with such things as kill and expel the Worms Take Mercurius dulcis a scruple salt of Mans skull fifteen grains saccharum saturni three grains mix for a Dose to be given at night going to bed purging the Sick the next Morning with a fit Dose of the Infusion of Sena and Carraway seed 7. The following thing is commended by Sennertus Take fine Aloes washed or extracted a dram and half scammony Troches Alhandal of each half a scruple distilled Oyl of Wormwood two drops Oyl of Myrrh and Zedoary of each one drop mix and make a Mass of Pills Dose from a scruple to half a dram in the Morning fasting but if the Body of the Sick be difficult to work upon it will be better to take it over night or about Mid-night 8. If the Worms lye really in the Bowels and not in the Stomach it will be good to give the Antepileptick Medicament by the Mouth but the Medicine killing the Worms by the Fundament in form of a Clyster As Take pouder of Mans skull a scruple salt of the same six grains Oyl of Rue two drops Conserves of Roses two drams mix and give it over-night the next Morning give the following Clyster Take Mutton-broth a sufficient quantity according to the Age of the sick Tincture of Colocynthis from an ounce to two ounces sal Armoniack two drams mix them and give it warm it is an excellent thing 9. After sufficient purging with any of the aforegoing Medicaments or others that may be proper for the same or with Mercurius dulcis which as Sennertus saith may be given from sixteen grains to a scruple or more you may exhibit the following specifick Take Elks-hoof prepared six drams Mans skull prepared four drams Ox horns prepared Diamoschu dulcis red Coral Pearls Emeralds Crystals all prepared Terra sigillata of each two drams seeds of Nigella of Rue of Peony white Ditany Nutmegs Misletoe of the Oak salt of Harts-horn of each one dram roots of Peony Harts-horn prepared Pea-cocks-dung Scordium Marjoram Coralline of each three drams Musk and Ambergrise of each half an ounce mix all in a fine pouder Dose from half a dram to a dram in black Cherry Wine 10. Take salt of Mans skull Mercurius dulcis choice Rubarb Musk Ambergrise of each fifteen grains extracts of Sena and Rubarb of each half a dram mix them together for a Dose and give it at night going to bed with this I cured a Maiden Gentlewoman being given but six times at due intervals having been above three years afflicted therewith CLIV. The Cure of a pure or simple Epilepsy present in the fit 1. The Cure preventive of an immediate impending Paroxâ—sm is performed in the opinion of some great Physicians by adhibiting one Pill of Laudanum Opiatum to four parts of which one part of Oyl of Camphir is added or these following Antepileptick Rouls Take pouder of Peony-roots gathered in a fit time one dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral Mans skull prepared Misletoe of the Oak of each a dram and half white Sugar dissolved in Tile-flower water a sufficient quantity make according to Art a Confection in Tablets 2. Or you may exhibite four or five drops of the Essence or Powers of Castoreum in a glass of Tile-flower-water Or in defect thereof two or three drops of choise Oyl of Amber or twenty or thirty drops of the Powers of the same in the Epileptick Water of Langius or Aqua Vitae Matthioli Or this following draught Take the Epileptick Water of Langius one ounce syrup of Peony almost half an ounce spirit or Oyl of Vitriol four five six or seven drops mix them to be immediately drunk 3. Or you may give a spoonful or two of this following Potion Take Waters of the flowers of Peony of the Tile-tree of Wall-flowers of Herb-Trinity of each an ounce and half Essence of Peony one dram salt of Mans skull twelve grains salt of Vipers five grains syrup of the juyce of Peony half an ounce mix them for a draught Or Take Tincture of Castoreum and of Peacocks dung Tincture of Arabian Mummy of each a dram black Cherry Wine four ounces mix them and drink it having taken just before it a dram of choise Venice Treacle 4. The Cure in the Paroxysm First let the position of the body of the Sick be rather upright than otherwise and rather in a light and chearful