Errhine of Turbith mineral 685 b Decoctum Catharticum Rulandi 9 a Decoctum Melanagogum 205 b Decocta Cepbalica 666 b Decoctum alterativum aperitivum Grulingii 753 b Decoctum vulnerarium Poterii 754 a Decoctum aliud vulnerarium Poterii ibid Decoctum astacorum Poterii ib Decoctum Coronopi Poterii ibid Decoctum purgans Sennerti ibid Decoctum evacuans humores mixtos Cratonis 754 b Diet for a pocky Head-ach 4 b 52 b Diet for a pocky Megrim 18 b Diet for a Head-ach 49 a Diet in a Vertigo 45 a Diet for a cold scorbutick Catarrh 139 a Diet purging 140 b Diet for an Hysterick Catarrh 142 b Diet for an Epileptick Child 245 a b Diet for an Epileptick Melancholy Woman 247 b Diet for a scorbutick Epilepsy 248 b Diet for an Epilepsy essential in the Brain 250 b Diet for a splenetick Epilepsy 252 b Diet for a general Epilepsy 344 a Diet for a Convulsion from the Cholick 367 b Diet for a Fistula 485 b Diseases of Intemperature 37 a Diseases of Repletion 37 b Diseases of Ablation ibid. Diseases of the Head 39 a Distillation into the right Eye 151 b Difficulty of Breathing 184 a 198 a 202 b Dropsy 568 b Dysentery 151 a E Electuarium arthriticum 173 b Electuarium phonoscorum 213 a Electuary against the Epilepsy 259 a 276 a Electuary of Mejeris against the Epilepsy 314 b Electuaries antepileptick compound 364 b 365 a Electuary against the Stone 395 a Electuary of Lithontriptick 399 a Electuary convusive 445 b Electuarium de Tamerendis apud Thonerum 757 a Electuarium arthriticum Plateri ib Elixir vitae Plateri 749 b Elixir panis ibid Elixir restorativa 750 a Emplaster vulnerary for the head 55 a Emplastrum Cratonis for the Epilepsy 311 a Emplastrum Antepilepticum Sennerti 366 b Emplaster for the Region of the heart 413 a Emprosthoton 451 b Emprosthotonos what 465 a Emplaster strengthning 484 a 486 a 487 b Emplastrum Diaphoreticum Adriani Mynsichti 492 a Emplastrum contra Rupturam Grulingi 760 b Emplastrum Mercurii vivi ibid. Emplastrum de vipera Poterii ib. Epilept Pouder of the Author 107 a b Epidemick Feavers 191 a Epilepsy 239 a see Falling sickness Epileptick Emplaster of Franciscus Valesius 294 a Epileptich Convulsion 311 b Epileptick motion 317 b Epileptick Persons 332 b Epilepsy its Names Definition and Kinds ' 333 a Epileptick Convulsions 464 a Errhines solid 3 a 45 b Errhines liquid 45 b Erastus his ancepileptick water 278 a Errhines of Platerus 343 b Errhines antepileptick 359 b Experiment for a pocky head-ack 53 b Extractum Bryoniae compositum Grulingii 750 b Extractum Mechoacannae compositum Grulingii ibid. Extractum arthriticum Grulingii ibid. Extractum Citrii Platerii 751 a Extractum adversus pestem Poterii ibid. Extractum aliud Poterii ibid Extractum Ligni Guajaci Poterii ibid. Extractum antivenereum Poterii ibid. Extractum antivenereum purgans Poterii ibid. Extractum hystericum Poterii 752 Extractum hystericum aliud Poterii ibid Extractum in Uterinis affictibus Poteris ibid. Extractum hystericum roborans Poterii ibid. Extractum sive Confectio uterina a quod am Empirico Chymico reperta apud Poterium 752 b Extractum catholicum Poterii ib. Extractum catholicum aliud Poterii ibid. Extractum nephriticum Poterii ib F Fasting 48 b Fainting of the Spirits 85 b 143 b Falling-sickness in a Child 239 a 263b 260 a 268 b 271 a 279 a Falling-sick in a young Girl 240 a 270 b 263 a 319 a 324 b 325 a Falling-sick in a young woman 241a 260 a 270 b 306 a b 307 a b Falling sick in a middle aged man 242 a 325 a b 326 a Falling sick in another girl 243 a Falling sick in an antient Man 243 b 277 b 321 b 322 a 324 a 325 a Falling-s in another ancient man Falling s in a woman 224 a 332b Falling-s in a Child 244 a b. 325b 331 a Falling-s in a little boy 245 a 265 a b 261 b 283 a 308 a 330 b 331 b Falling s in a Melancholy woman 245 b 256 a 318 a Falling s with the Scurvy 248 b 270 a Falling sic with disaffection of the stomach 249 a Falling sic essential in the brain 250 a 278 a 301 b Falling sic cured by a Sternutatory 251 a Falling sic with pain of the scleen Gout 252 a Falling sick with Obstruct of urine 253 a Falling sick in another young girl 254 a Falling sick in an old Woman wch became paralytick 255 a b Falling sick in an elderly matron 257 b Falling sick in a boy with a soald head 258 b Falling sickness in a Consumptive 259 a Falling-sickness with the Dead-Palsy 260 b Falling-sickness with fits of the Mother ibid. Falling-s after Child-birth 266 a 298 a Filling-s in a Woman with Child 266 a b Falling-s in a Man 266 b Filling-s cured by Stibium 267a Filling-s from an old Vlcer stopt 267 b Falling-s in a frighted boy 268b Falling-s in a Man from regurgitation of his Vrine 269a Falling-s Hereditary 269 a Falling-s by consent from the Stomach 261 a 369 b 281 a 282 b 294 a Falling-s with Lunacy in a Maid 271 a Falling-s from a Tumor in the Hand 273 a Falling-s from too great Intention of Mind 275 a Falling-s with concussion of the whole Body 276 b Falling-s with many other Symtoms 262 a 327 b Falling-s arising from Blood 263 b Falling-s cured by a Caustick 264 a Falling-s cured by Tobacco 264 b Falling-s from the Womb 283 a 331 a Falling-s from distemper in the Feet 284 a Falling-s in a young Man 285b 332 a b Falling-s arising from one of the Legs 286 a Falling-s cured by Guajacum 288 b Falling-s beginning with a Vertigo 300 a Falling with Convulsions 305b Falling-s from trouble of mind 308 b Falling-s from translation of the morbifick Matter 310 b Falling-s with Convulsions 311a Filling-s with a bastard Palsy 313 a Falling-s from Vapours and humours and the Cavities of the Brain 316 a Falling-s with the Cholick 316b 317 a Falling-s in a Youth 521 a b 522 b 523 a b Falling-s from Madness 323 a Falling-s in an aged Woman 326 b Falling-s with the Stone 327 a Falling-s with obstruction of the Lungs 328 b Falling-s from vehement Passion 330 a Falling-s its Pathology 333 a Falling-s its Signs 333 b Falling-s its causes 335 b Falling-s its Prognosticks 337b Falling-s in Infants its Cure 338 b Falling-s its Cure in elder persons 341 a Falling-s from distemper of the Womb 348 a Falling-s by consent from the Stomach 351 b Falling-s arising from Worms 352 b Falling-s simple its Cure in the Fit 353 b Falling-s pure or simple its cure out of the Fit 355 b Family-Pills virtue to kill Worms 571 b Family-Pills good against the Stone 598 a Feaver 43 a b 108 a 143 b 147 a Feaver epidemick 191 a Feaver Synoch 215 b Feaver burning 401 a Feaver 412 b 624 b Fumigation against the Catarrh 199 b G Galens Remedy
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
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
this cause for the most part possessing the substance of the Brain or its Ventricles should rather induce an Apoplexy than Convulsions However in the mean season we do not deny but that the cause of an Epilepsy or Convulsions may oftentimes lye in the Head for that we meet with many faults within the skull in the membranes of the Brain in its substance and in it humors which raging with their poysonous and malign quality at set times as the nature of the Venom may be by provoking the Membranes and Genus Nervosum do cause either a long continued and almost incurable Epilepsie or Vehement and horrid Convulsions 21. But the nature of the Venenate cause as also of other Poysons we can no otherwise know than as by dissections made somtimes a speck or little spot is discovered somtimes some black or frothy humor in some inward part of the skull or bone or membrane or Brain it self and somtimes nothing at all can be discerned But then that it is of a poysonous quality we gather from this for that there is no manifest cause of any great moment yet nevertheless such horrid symptoms are produced which although they kill not the sick will yeeld to no remedies 22. This Venenate cause also lying in the Bowels may produce the like long continued and rebellious Epilepsies or Convulsions as Poysons taken into the Stomach and Guts which have somtimes the properly of begetting an Epilepsy or Convulsions Or meat changed into the nature of Poyson Or Excrements assuming a Venenate quality contained in those places as also in the Womb or other parts Of all which that these are the causes and do lie in the Veins is known and judged from the affctes concuring with them Or from others offering themselves about the Praecordia and Heart-strings or in the Veins Or from the disaffection of the Stomach or Womb. 23. The Veins in like manner if they be filled with Malign and Poysonous humors of this kind as it often hapens in Malignant and Pestilential diseases as such as are Epidemicall and Contagious where the Malignancy doth besiege the Heart and more especially the Genus Nervosum do after a more particular manner excite deadly Convulsions such as are wont to happen in Feavers so much not by reason of the great hurt of the Nerves from extream heat as from the venenate quality of the humor assaulting the Animal spirits both in the Blood and Nerves Or if without any such Pestilential Epidemical or Contagious disease the humors heaped up in the Veins should be changed into a Poysonous property inimical to the Brain and Nerves then Epileptical Convulsions would rather be induced than the others more especially if the Melancholy humor should meet with such a transformation which somtimes brings along with it a deep hypochondriacal Melancholly foolishness frenzy or Madness and from this cause does proceed a long continued and incurable Epilepsie 24. Moreover as a Venenate cause raised from the same may cause some short Madness being produced from matter collected in the Meseraick veins whether Lacteal or other so that may also produce rather Epileptick Convulsions than Hypochondriacal Melancholy whence also some think that a Catalepsie is caused which we hold to arise from subtil Vavapours ascending from a contaminated malign or venenate Melancholy humor and with a Vehement and sudden motion striking or smiting the Animal spirits and Genus Nervosum 25. Also in Women such matter is wont more usually to be heaped up in or about the Vains of the Womb where also the Blood retained and corrupted rather than the seed which seldom is affected with such a Malignity except in the furor rage or Madness of the Womb doth cause Convulsions such as are often to be seen in Virgins and Women Hysterical who never yet had their Courses or have them praeternaturally stopt whether before or after Childing 26. That the like quality may be bred or contained in the habit of the body which may cause Convulsions or Epilepsies experience doth daily testifie from which Galen and Fernelius write they have observed that Air in an Epileptick Child ascending from his Foot in one example and the like air or Vapour runing from the Crown through the outward parts of the Head in an other example did cause Epileptick fits as often as they came or returned and this very thing I my self have three or four times observed in so many special examples wherein the air or vapour ascending upwards seemed to the Sick as if he had put his Foot Leg or Arm leisurely into cold water deeper and deeper the vapours gradually proceeding not much unlike to the rising of the cold superficies of the said water And it has also been somtimes observed that an Air or Vapour runing from the Hand where afterwards an Apostem has bred as also from the Feet or upper places has don the like 27. That the like Poyson entring the body from without many cause Convulsions or Epilepsies for the like reason as the bitting of Venomous Beasts especially of the Viper or a mad Dog the sting of Scorpions the reception of Arsenick sublimate or other venenate and Corosive things the same quotidian Experience doth largely witness and particularly in the biting of a mad Dog besides the symptom of Madness and other cruell indications Convulsions are at length excited through the Malignity of the Venene spirit whereby the Patient is carried off and I once saw Convulsions arise from poysonous smells hastily assaulting the Animal spirits in the Brain which was don in a lusty young Man who hastily and unadvisedly received the fumes of very strong spirit of Niter by which he was immediately cast into most cruel Convulsion fits 28. These things being premised for the better understanding of the matter we shall now come to deliver our Observation which is of a Convulsion arising from a hurt of the Genus Nervosum by a blow received on the hinder part of the Head and vertebrae of the Neck how great the blow was I will not determine this I am sure of it brought dreadful Convulsions upon the sick so vehement that life was despaired of 29. The sick was immediately committed to a warm bed Roger Dixon the Chyrurgian and my self being sent for the fits often returned for the strength of the Convulsive motion being spent and the fit as it were going off the sick scarcely seemed to be free but new Convulsions were forthwith excited Roger was for letting him Blood which although it was a blow I was in this cause utterly against believing that if any such evacuation was necessary that Nature would provoke it however in the mean season all the external parts behind were bathed first with the Queen of Hungaries water then with the Powers of Amber and that not slightly also some few drops of the Powers of Rosemary were conveyed up his Nostrills they as also his Forehead and Temples being extreamly well bathed therewith by which without doubt the
take the pains to Instruct and Direct me in the Writing of so many great and laborious Books as I have published and at length after the loss of so much time and so great labor and pains in such tedious undertakings be so generous as to give me not only all the profit of the Copies but also the Reputation and Honor of being the Author of the same too X. But as Detraction could be only the Mans aim so the lying report is answerable to its Authors Reputation both to be believed and trusted alike And therefore I think the incredibility of the Story is as great a Refutation as any thing I can possibly give although I here call the Great God to Witness that I never personally consulted or received any Instructions or Directions from any Man or Men Living or Dead in order to the Composing or Writing the least part imaginable of any thing I have made publick to the World William Salmon The INDEX Note That a stands for the first Colume and b for the second A. ABscess in a sheep 49 b Abscess in the Intestinum Rectum 73 b Advice to a paralytick person 585 b Afterpains 397 a Amulets for the Epilepsy 304 a 348 a 355 a Antepileptick Wine 344 b Antepileptick Rouls 353 b Antepileptick Specificks 358 a 360 a b Antepileptick Waters 361 a b 362a b Antepileptick water of Dornavius 362 a Antepilept Pouders compound 363 b Antepileptick Topicks 365 b Antidote Convulsive 445 b Antidote Epileptick of George Phaedro 362 b 363 a Antihysterick water 137 a Antihecticum Poterij 761 b Apophlegmatisms antepilept 359 b Apoplexy and Vertigo 50 a Apoplexy 613 b 615 b 627 b Apoplexy in an elderly woman 682 a 715 a Apoplexy in a sanguine Complexion 683 b Apoplexy in an old Woman 686 b Apoplexy in a poor Man 688 a Apoplexy in a middle aged Man mortal 689 a b Apoplexy after a Catarrh 690 a with a Catarrh 716 b Apoplexy in scorbutick body 691 b Apop in a robust Constitution 693 a Apoplexy in a lazy Monk 694 a Apoplexy in hot and moist Constitution 696 a Apoplexy ending in a Palsy 696 b 714 a 717 a Apoplexy turned into a Palsy 697 a 619 b 703 b Apoplexy from Melancholy 700 a Apoplexy from a Wound 671 b 702b Apoplexy danger from a Wound 703b Apoplexy from concussion of the Brain 705 a Apoplexy in a noble Virgin 706 a Apoplexy in old Age 706 b 708 b 711 a 715 b 372 b good for it 722 a Apoplexy from Blood by a fall suddenly 712 a b Apop from a fluid dissolved Brain ib. Apop from fluctuation in the Head ib. Apoplexy stupefaction and Palsy of the Tongue 718 Apoplexy from Worms 718 b Apoplexy continuing 3 days 719 a Apoplexy cured in an ancient Woman 720 b Ap. from a bruise being drunk 721 b Apoplexy with Palsy cured 723 a Apoplexy in a young Girl 724 a Apoplexy in an elderly Man ib. Apoplexy its signs 725 b Apoplexy its Causes 726 b Apoplexy its Prognosticks 731 a Apoplexy its Cure in the fit 732 a Apoplexy habitual its Cure 736 b Appetite lost 82 b 134 b Atrophia 618 b Aqua hirundinum Sennerti 360 b Aqua hirund. Kolreuteri 361 a Aqua Picarum composita Sen. ib. Aqua Paeoniae composita Flusswasser dicta 362 a Aqua Antiparalytica 667 b Aqua Quercetani Langii 668 b Aqua contra Paralysin 668 a Aqua alia ib. Aqua Carbunculi Sennerti 691 a Aqua Vitae good against the Apoplexy 722 a Aqua fellis Plateri 745 a Aqua Vitae Narcotica Plateri ib. Aq. Bezoardica rubra Grulingi ib. Aqua Pestilentialis Grulingii 746 a Aqua dysenterica Dorncrelii 746 b Aqua Matricalis seu de Melissa composita Thoneri ib. Aqua Theriacalis Cephalica Thoner ib. Aqua hirundinum Thoneri 747 a Aqua Asthmatica apud Thoner ib. Aqua contra calculum Fuchsii apud Thonerum ib. Aqua Cardiaca adversus Venena contagium Poterij 747 b Aq. adversus contagium Poterii ib. Aqua Nephritica Poterii ibid. Aqua Antepileptica Apoplectica Poterii 748 a Aqua Hysterica Poterii ib. Aqua Hydrotica Poterii ib. Aqua febrifuga Poterii 816 a Aqua Zingiberis Poterii ib. Aqua fortis apud Poterium ib. Aqua viridis Plateri 759 a Aqua Opthalmica Sennerti 759 b Archaeus what 38 a b B. Balsam for the Brain 49 b Bdlsam of Galbanum 476 b Balsamum foeniculi Johannis Wolfii apud Thonerum 749 b Balsamum praestantissimum Poterii ib. Balsam Sulphuris Sennerti 759 b Balsamum Mercurii Sennerti ib. Balsamum Mercurii viridis Sennerti ib. Balsamum vitrioli Sennerti 760 a Balsamum Veneris Sennerti ib. Balsamum Saturni Sennerti ib. Barley Cream to make 232 a Bath for Contractions 492 b 497 b Baths for Convulsions 477 a Bitings of a Serpent or mad dog 480 ab Breath-short 134 b Broth of Foxes flesh 477 a C. Capital Rowls 49 a Carminative Pouder 49 a Cattarrh 48 a 87 a 108 a Cat with Suffocation 120a 215a 221 b 222 b Cat with a Tumor in the Throat Feaver Haemorrhoides c. 108 a Cat with obstruction of the Lungs and Consumption 129 a Cat in a Woman hysterical 130 b Cat in one paralytick 132 a Cat from riding in tâ—e Cold ibid Cat with ulcerated Lungs 133 a Cat with shortness of breath want of Aâ—patite and pain at Stomach 134 b 166 a Cat with the Scurvy 136 a 155 b Catarrh with swooning 137 a Cat with Head-ach Scurvy ib b Cat thin falling on the breast and joints 139 b Cat with Hysterick Fits and pain of the left Side 141 b Cat with Cough Feaver fainting Fits 143 b 145 a 147 a 215 a b Cat with other symptoms 144 a 218 b Cat-falling on the Lungs 145 a 153 a 159 b 219 b 199 a b 146 b Cat with hoarsness 145 b 147 a 154 b 168 b Cat on the Joints 146 a Cat with sweating 147 b Cat with a diseased Spleen 149 a Cat with Melancholy 149 b Cat with sore Mouth 150 b Cat with a Dysentery 151 a Cat with head-ach 151 a 163 b 208 b Cat complicated 152 a Cat with loss of appetite 154 a Cat. with the Vvula fallen 155 b Cat suffocative 156 a b 177 b 178 a 179 a b 189 a 222 b Cat upon the breast 157 a 159 b 183 a b 213 b 224 a 197 a 199 a b Cat upon the Eyes 158 a 216 b Cat hindering swallowing 160 b Cat with Cough Head-ach c. 161 b 222 a 224 b Cat from sharp salt matter 162 b 186 a Cat with Pain of Ears and Teeth 164 a Cat by consent of the inferiour Parts 164 b Cat from various causes 165 b Catarrh simple 169b Cat complicated 173 a Cat cured by Cauteries 175 a Cat salt 175 b 176 b 202 a b 205 a 217 a 222 a 225 a Cat from evil humors 176 a Cat from coldness of stomach 181 b Cat with hectick and consumption 182 b Cat with compression of the
ibid. Tincture of Corn-Poppy flowers 750 a Tongue paralytick 605 a Tongue palsied 611 b Torture of the Mouth 456 a 462 b Trochisci sublinguales 169 a Tragea of Crato 213 a Troches of Solenander for a Catarrh 236 b Troches of Mastich 463 a Tragaea for strengthening the Brain ibid. Trismos what 466 b Tremor 522 a Tremor from drunkenness with Leprosy 524 a Tremor from drunkenness 525b Tremor with a vehement Catarrh 526 a Tremor from Worms 527 b Tremor in an aged Man 528 a Tremor from weakness ibid. Tremor from affrightment 530a Tremor from overstraining the Head 530 b Tremor from perturbation of Spirit 531 b Tremor of the Limbs 533 a Tremor in an aged Woman ib. Tremor of the Hands 533 b Tremor of the Muscles of the Cheek-bone 534b Tremor of the Members 535 a Tremor with heaviness 536 a Trembling involuntary without pain 537 b Trembling and shaking 538 a Tremor its Signs 539 b Tremor its Causes 540 a Tremor its Prognosticks 544 b Tremor the Cure 545 a V. Vesicatory for a Head-ach 5 a Vertigo with dimness of sight 37 a Vertigo with weakness of sight 39 a Vertigo from a fall 40 a Vertigo with a disaffected Womb 41 a Vertigo in a Child 42 a Vertigo Mortal 41 a b Vertigo with a malign Feaver 43 a Vertigo in a young Girl 44 a Vert. with pain of the Head 45a Vertigo cured by a Cautery 45b Vertigo with Hypochondriack Melancholy and Scurvy 46 a Vertigo with Head-ach and dbasness 47 a Vertigo with Head and Stomach ach and Scurvy 47 b 84 a Vertigo from fasting and watching 86 a Vertigo with Head-ach and darkness of sight 49 a Vertigo in a sleep from an abscess in the Brain 49 b Vertigo and Apoplexy from a Contusion 50 a Vertigo not far from an Epilepsy 50 b Vertigo that lasted many years ibid. Vertigo from Melancholy 51 a Vertigo and Melancholy 52 a Vertigo with Swooning fits 73 a Vertigo from the Spirits 73 b Vertigo from an abscess in the Intestinum Rectum 73 b Vertigo in a flegmatick habit 74 b Vertigo from a weakness of the Brain 75 a Vertigo essential in the Brain 77 b Vertigo from Choler 78 b Vertigo from a cold viscous flatulent humour 79 a Vertigo from a disaffection of the Stomach 80 a Vertigo with weakness of the Sight 80 b Vertigo with loss of Appetite 82b Vertigo scorbutical and fainting of the Spirits 85 a 86 a Vertigo dark 87 a Vertigo with a Catarrh ibid. Vertigo which became an Epilepsy 87 b Vertigo Idiopathetick with various symptoms 89a 92 a 97b Vertigo with a Convulsion 90 a 92 b Vertigo with corruscation of spirit 90 b Vertigo in an ancient Man 91 a Vertigo with troublesom sleeps 97 a Vertigo from the Stomach 97 b Vertigo with flux of blood 99a b Vertigo concomitant with other Diseases 100 a Vertigo its Names Definition and kinds 101 a Vertigo its Signs 101 a b Vertigo its Causes 101 b Vertigo its Prognosticks 103 a Vertigo simple its cure 103 b Vertigo with dimness of sight its cure 104 b Vertigo from windy vapor 107 b Venenate cause of a Convulsion 386 a b Vertues of the natural Balsam of Chili 762 a Vina Medicata clarata 666 b Vinum Hippocraticum Langij 667 a Vin. Chalibiatum Poterij 753 a Vinum purgans Sennerti ibid. Vinum purgans in hypochondriacis Sennerti ibid. Vinum aliud ejusdem Sennerti ibid. Vinum aliud Sennerti ibid. Vlceration of the Lungs 133 a Vlcer of the Ventricle or Stomach 400 a 479 b Unguentum anserinum 673 a Unguentum de sapone Cratonis ibid. Uvula fallen 155 b W. Watching 48 b Water of Swallows comp 345 b 475 b Water of Mans Blood 345 b Waters antepileptick compound 360 b Weakness of the Brain 75 a Weakness of sight 80 b Wine for a Vertigo 51 b 52 a Willis his Vomit for a Vertigo 106 a Willis his Elixir of Vitriol for the Epilepsy 503 b Wine medicinal for a Catarrh 199 a Wine of Roger Dixon against Convulsions 388 b Willis's water against the Palsy 658 a Wormwood Tincture 116 b Worms 368 b 378 a 570 a 416 b 479 b 570 a IATRICA SEU Praxis Medendi The PRACTICE of CURING BEING A Medicinal HISTORY of many Famous Observations in the Cure of DISEASES performed by the Author hereof Whereunto is added By Way of SCHOLIA a Complete THEORY or Method of Precepts wherein the Names Definitions Kinds Signs Causes Prognosticks and various Waies of CURE are methodically Instituted Digested and Reduced to Vulgar Practice Together with several Of the Choisest OBSERVATIONS of other Famous Men as Forestus Horstius Hildanus Rulandus Thonerus Valeriola Zacutus Platerus Riverius VVillis and some others which are fall'n into the Author's Hand in Manuscript All of them Digested under their proper Heads The first Volume Containing above an Hundred and sixty remarkable Hâ—stories and Observations of the Authors in the Cure of the Headach Megrim Vertigo Catarrh Falling-Sickness Convulsions Contractures Incubus Tremor Palsy and Apoplexy both simple and complicated with other Diseases as the Lethargy Perturbation of Spirit Weakness of Sight Drunkenness Melancholy Extreme Rigor Consumptions Vniversal Weakness Gouts Sciatica Rumatism Wounds in the Head Pricking of a Nerve or Tendon Kings-Evil French Pox burning and malign Fevers Suffocation of the Lungs Oâ—structions of the Lungs Vlcer of the Lungs Coughs Colds Asthma's Want of Apetite Surfeiting Pain of the Stomach Hoarsness Vlcers of the Stomach Vomiting fits of the Mother Pain of the Spleen Scirrhus of the Spleen Obstructions of the Mesentery Convulsions of the Mesentery Pains of the Back and Womb Stoppage of the Terms Stoppage of Vrine Gravell and Stone in the Reins and Bladder Rupture of the Bowels Fistula's Cholick VVorms Leprosy Scurvy c. wherein you will find an exact Account of the Medicines exhibited with the Order of their Exhibition Various Dose and Success thereupon A Work of singular Use to all the Practisers of the ARTS of Physick and Chyrurgery whether Physicians Chyrurgians Apothecaries or charitable and well disposed Gentlemen and Ladies who have espoused the Afflictions of the Poor and Needy Performed by WILLIAM SALMON Med. Profess living at the Blue Balcony by Fleet Ditch nere Holborn-Bridg London London Printed for Th. Dawks His Majesties British Printer in Thames-street Also are sold by T. Passinger at the three Bibles on London-bridge 1684. IATRICA seu Praxis Medendi Salmon's HISTORY of Famous Cures LIBER I. Of Diseases of the Head Num. 1. July 27. CHAP. I. Of the Head-ach I. § 1. THE 28 of March Anno 1664. A poor laboring man one Jacob Fuller who had several years been troubled with an inveterate or old Head-ach commonly called Cephalea fell into our Hands after he had for more than 14 years at times bin tampering with many other famous Physicians to no purpose § 2. The Constitution of his Body was thin lean and spare so that the sick seemed to be in an absolute Atrophia
or Consumption and so we had concluded but that his good Appetite and continued strength of Body with some other signs were good Indications to the contrary however he was of a cold dry and saline habit of body and of a very Melancholy and mistrustful mind § 3. The most predominant Symptoms in the Paroxysm were vehement pain over the whole head but more especially in the hinder part thereof watchfulness or want of sleep with an exceeding wrestlessness accompanying and a great desire to drink § 4. The Cause seemed to lye hidden and indeed had troubled many Wise men to dive into it the Stomach seemed well so that no indication could be taken from thence at last in Discourse I asked him if he never had some violent blow upon his Head chiefly behind which after a while recollecting of himself he told me that about 18 years since for so long this Head-ach had continued at fits he fell down from an high building and hurt the hinder part of his Head so that it did bleed extreamly yet without any Fracture of the Skull If he at any time did bleed at Nose it proved Critical and he was freed from the pain I viewed the place of the Head hurt and there was a bunching out more than ordinary about the bigness of half a Hens Egg which buching had remained ever since I concluded that some matter obstructing remained which hindred the direct circulation of the Animal Spirits and Blood § 5. The Indications of Cure seem'd only to be two 1. To take away the matter offending or obstructing 2. To strenthen the Brain Animal Spirits and parts afflicted § 6. In order to the first intention I caused the hinder part to be opened just below the Tumor which was done with an actual Cautery piercing even to the Bone which the Chyrurgeon did excellently accomplish afterwards leaving it as an Issue only by the Nostrils was exhibited an Errhine made of the Juyces of Primrose leaves and Roots and of Sweet-Marjoram This was exhibited thrice a week for about twelve times By means of the Issue the Tumor aforesaid was suddenly abated and in a short time wholy taken away a vast quantity of filthy matter continually running out thereat by the Nostrils the Cavities or Ventricles of the Brain were admirably cleansed so that the sick became very lightsome nor in three weeks time had any return of the Fit although its usual time of repetition before was two or three times a Week § 7. In order to the second Indication we caused the Hair to be shaven off from the Occiput Vertex and Sinciput and immediately to be anointed with this Balsam Take Oyl of Spike Oyl of Limons Oyl of Rosemary of each twenty drops all Chymically made Oyl of Mace by expression two Drams mix them well together and anoint therewith Inwardly we gave this Take Powers of Rosemary of Angelica of Cloves of Lavender of each half an Ounce mix them Of this we Ordered 30 drops to be given every morning fasting and last at Night going to Bed in two or three spoonfuls of Sack His thirst was quenched by a solution of Sal Prunellae in fair Water and Sugar This course being pursued the Patient became well § 8. After ten weeks the man let his Issue behind dry up and in about six weeks after his Head ach came again he repaired to me and I caused it to be opened again after which he remained well for many years II. § 1. A young Woman of about 23 years of Age had been for 10 years troubled with a Cephalaea and no Remedy in all that time could be procured her parents made their Application to me She was of a cold and phlegmatick Constitution neither Fat nor Lean of a white soft and smooth Skin and had often been troubled with a quotidian Ague § 2. She had paleness of Countenance and in the time of the paroxism the pain was equally spread over her whole Head moreover she had many strumous swellings about her Neck and Throat nor had she to these years ever had her Courses § 3. Her youth strength of body and chearfulness when the fit was off gave good hopes of Recovery § 4. The Cause was without doubt Obstructions of the Stomach Womb and Mesentery for she oft complained of a great sickness at stomach and many times refused her Food as also of a great heaviness or kind of dull pain about the middle of her Belly § 5. I prescribed things gently purging and opening then I gave her proper Emeticks afterwards things which purged downwards more powerfully then about the New of the Moon such things as provoked the Terms Lastly such things as might strengthen and comfort the Stomach Womb and other Bowels § 6. The first thing I gave her was Pilulae Ruffi which she took to half a Dram for 4 Nights going to bed drinking the next day about 8 Ounces of Finkius his Steeled Wine and some drops of Oyl of Sulphur in Ale The fifth morning following I gave her a Dram of Salt of Vitriol in Broth this cleansed her stomach admirably and brought up much flegm and filthy matter whereby she seemed much more cheerful this I continued for three times giving it every other day upon the eleventh day I gave Pilulae ex duobus a Scruple wich I repeated upon the thirteenth and fifteenth days giving still upon the intermediate days the Steeled Wine of Finkius This done upon the sixteenth day and for eight days following which proved to be the New and first quarter of the Moon I gave her this following Tincture Take blood-red Tincture of black Pepper made in Spirit of Wine two Ounces Tincture of Gum Guajaci made in like manner three Ounces mix them together of this she took morning noon and night in a Glass of White or Rhenish Wine so much as she could endure well to swallow this in the time prescribed produced her Courses This done I caused her for three Months together to take every morning and night 30 drops of Elixir Proprietatis made with tartarized Spirit of Wine and to drink them in Rhenish or Sack after which she became perfectly well III. § 1. An ancient Woman who had been for more than 20 years troubled with this kind of Head-ach was cured as we shall presently relate although her Age for she was above 64 years old and melancholy habit of body with the long continuance thereof gave many discouragements to the Physician § 2. The Cause proceeded from cold and viscious humidity or pituitous matter lodged in the Ventricle of the Brain as a perpetual stoppage of the Head speaking in the Nose as it were and continual drousiness gave some Demonstrations of § 3. She had often taken Purges of all sorts Vomits Antimonials c by other Physicians they had applyed Vesicatories to her Neck and Shoulders the Seton to the Nape of the Neck caused her to have several Issues in her Arms and other parts many times
the nights sleep had brought to the head a new supplement of morbifick matter the like Fit returned in the morning which perhaps as the sleep had been shorter or longer was moved now within the Brain and near the nervous origine Willis de Convulsivis Chap. 5. Obs 5. XLIV A Vertigo in an Ancient Woman 1. A vertuous woman aged 67 yet of a fresh and florid Countenance fat in Body when she had been for some while obnoxious at first to a swelling of the Face and very grievious Fits of the Head-ach the Winter being cold she fell into a very troublesom Vertigo which was accompanied with a trembling of the heart a fainting away of the Spirits and a frequent Inclination and striving to Vomit being lay'd on her Bed she was afflicted with a grievous Giddiness or swimming of the head with swooning and Symptomatick Vomiting if at any time she opened her Eyes or turn'd her from one side to another 2. Having visited this woman I conjectur'd That the Cause of her sickness was the Convulsive matter translated from the exteriour Region of the Head to the most inward Recesses of the Encephalon by whose Inspiration or heterogeneous Copula the animal spirits being touched while they leaped forth inordinately towards the Brain they excited the vertiginous distemper 3. And while they rushed suddenly upon the heads of the Nerves the Scotomy disorder of the Praecordia and endeavoring to vomit a large Vesicatory or blistering Plaster being applyed to the nape of the Neck and behind her Ears Clysters daily administred as also the use of the spirits of harts-horn frequently and of a Cephalick Julap she recovered within a few days Willis de Convulsivis Cap. 5. Obs 3. XLV A Vertigo with a Convulsion 1. A noted person 34 years old being for a long time subject to a Cough with great and thick spitting having the pores of his skin very open he was wont to sweat continually and every night to be wet with it 2. About the beginning of the spring he perceived those usual Evacuations to happen more sparingly In the interim he complain'd of the fulness of his hands and feet and as it were a certain swelling or puffing up so that he feared a Dropsie coming upon him besides he was afflicted in his head with a Giddiness and frequent Vertigo 3. This Evil increasing light Contractions and sudden Convulsions were ordinarily excited about his lips and other parts of the mouth and face also presently after the morbifick matter flowing upon the beginnings of the wandring pair and intercostal Nerves he was troubled with a trembling and leaping of the heart and with a frequent faintness of the vital spirits as if a Leipothemy or swooning was fallen upon him 4. I know that there are not a few who ascribe these Convulsive Passions which grievously infest and afflict the Precordia to the Vapours arising from the spleen but it seems much more correspondent to Reason to deduce them from the Convulsive matter laid up in the Brain and rushing upon the beginnings of the Nerves because a translation of some Excrements from some other parts to the head goes before 5. And that it is so laid up within the Compass of the Encephalon the almost vertiginous Disease and the Convulsions of the parts of the Mouth and Face testifies it plainly 6. Wherefore I thought good to prescribe to this man Remedies according to the Method hereafter shewn I could here propose many Observations of this Nature in whom the Morbifick matter subsisting near the beginnings of the Nerves stir up light Spasms or Convulsions only of the Viscera or members with a Vertigo because a portion of this matter descending from the Head enters more deeply the Pipes of the Nerves and so strows the tinder or enkindling of the Explosive seed as it were Gunpowder about their middle and ultimate Processes and enfoldings Willis de Convul Chap. 5. Obs 3. XLVI A Vertigo with Coruscation of the spirits 1. A certain Parson sixty years of age was afflicted about three months with a light Vertigo and a frequent coruscation of the Spirits in the forepart of the Head 2. At length the Disease increasing and waxing heavier he became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as it were sometimes dead in so much that when he was walking he often fell down flat on the ground 3. As to the Cure I followed this Method First I prescribed Phlebotomy with light Catharticks at certain intervals to be repeated as also Electuaries and Mixtures such as I have before mentioned Vesicatories and other Administrations were not neglected 4. About a fortnight after perceiving no relief to the person by these Medicines I exhibited a Vomit of the Salt of Vitriol and the Infusion of Crocus Metallorum by taking of which having ten easy Vomits he grew immediately well 5. And having applyed to him alterative Cephalicks for about a fortnight he perfectly recovered and from that time for the space of six years after he took every Spring and Fall a Vomit with some other Medicines Willis Exercitationes Patholog Cap. 7. Obs 1. XLVII A Vertigo in an ancient man 1. A certain Gentleman about 66. years of age being for a long time obnoxious to a light Vertigo which was wont to be sometimes but occasionally excited became at length grieviously afflicted with this Distemper in so much that he grew very oblivious and forgetful 2. After he had been sick about three Weeks I went to Visit him finding him vastly altered and the Vigour of his Ey-sight and Countenance sensibly decay'd about the Evening he was Feaverish and his Pulse did beat high and swift 3. Therefore I commanded a little Blood to be taken out of his Arm and 6 or 7 daies after I ordered some blood to be drawn out of the Hemorrhoidal Veines then Vesicatories to be applyed to his Neck and afterwards behind his Eares I was careful also that Cauteries should be applyed for making two large Issues between the Shoulder-blades and that he dayly took inwardly Cephalick Medicines of every kind at Physical hours 4. In the space of a Month he began to recover and to walk abroad and to attend his domestick and other affairs 5. But having contracted a Cold by going abroad in the beginning of Winter he fell into a Feaver attended with a greater Perturbation of the Spirits and towards the evening he doted every day in so much that he knew not what he spoke and acted 6. Howbeit within 7 or 8 daies after by letting Blood and a thin Diet his Feaver vanished and the affection and disposition of the Brain was altered from its former state For the Vertigo being ceased he became forgetful and Paralytick in the whole right Side 7. Being often asked concerning the Condition of his Head as whether it was clear and lightsom or whether it was free from a Scotomie and confused Phantasms He answered It was never better with him as to these things for he knew his own Infirmity his
Neighbours Friends and such as came to visit him but could not Remember scarcely the names of any of them 8. When at any time he entred into the Discourse of Affairs he wanted words to express the sense of his thoughts at length there was not only a total Resolution in the right Arm and Leg but also a mighty tumor Oedematosus in them both insomuch that his Cure and the prolongation of his daies was so much doubted as that there was scarcely the least hope left 9. However I did not desist from the Method of Cure and the Assistance of the learned and skilful Physician Dr. Wharton but with joint Counsells for the Benefit of the sick we prescribed solutive Pills to be taken at certain times and at other days we ordered Cephalick Antiscorbutick and Antiparalytick Medicines to be taken at physical hours and a Plaster of Gum and Balsoms to be applyed to the head being first shaved as also the Parts affected to be annointed with Oyls and Balsams and strongly rub'd 10. While these things were used with some good Success as to the perspicuity and clearness of his Intellect he fell but by what means I know not into a Feaver about the middle of Winter every night he was afflicted with great heat and thirst and broken and interrupted Sleeps his Tongue was parched and rough his Pulse high and his Urine red 11. We did forbear Phlebotomy because of his Age Palsy and chiefly the Dropsy which was begun in the right side but yet a thin diet of Barly and Oatmeal Broths being Prescibed him we did exhibit from day to day Julleps Apozems and other Medicines provoking Sweat and Urine the Issue at the Shoulder-blade running at this time very plentifully 12. The sick was much better both in respect to his Memory and the Palsy and every day recovering from both these affects together with the Feaver he arriv'd at perfect health and continues so 13. In this sick person the motion and various alterations of the morbifick matter was very notable for that adhering to the Meditullium of the Brain to wit the Callous Body did excite an outragious Vertigo the same was afterwards augmented and as it is probable diffused farther into the Meanders and turnings of the Brain and so procured oblivion in the first affect 14. Afterwards the same matter moved by the Feaver and a little discussed or driven back partly falling into the one streaked body did bring a Palsy of one half of the Body partly coming into the compass of the Brain did almost deprive him of his Memory the calous body in the mean while obtaining as it were a clearness or serenity 15. Lastly It was not without the help of the other Feaver that the morbifick matter being driven out of all its Forts should be wholy defeated Willis Exercitat Patholog Cap. 7. Obs 2. XLVIII A Vertigo Ideopathetick 1. Being wearied with the importunate complaints of one afflicted with a Vertigo after many things had been used in vain I prescribed to be taken twice every day for the space of a Month about a spoonful of the following pouder drinking thereupon a draught of the Decoction of Sage or Rosemary impregnated with the Tincture of Coffee 2. Take the Roots of Male Peony two ounces and the flowers of the same bruised and dryed one ounce the white dung of Peacooks half a pound white Sugar two ounces make a pouder 3. It is scarcely credible how much good this person found in that Remedy after a Month he came to visit me but he seemed as it were another or a new man being free of his Vertigo he went briskly about his Affairs Willis Exercitat Pathol. Cap. 7. Obs 3. XLIX A Vertigo Convulsive 1. Some years since a stranger who lodged in this City sent for me I suspected at the first sight that he was possessed and believed that he had more need of a Conjurer than a Physician he was forty years old who at set times of the year for the space of three years had been wont to be afflicted with Convulsive motions 2. Whilst he by chance lodged here for a few daies about his occasions growing melancholy he had a fit of his Sickness greater than usual 3. He was wont for two or three dayes before hand to sensibly feell the coming of his Disease viz. from a great commotion within the forepart of the Head and almost a continual Vertigo and frequent dimness of his Eyes 4. But the fit coming upon him his Eyes at the first were variously roled about and inverted then a certain bulky substance like a living Creature was seen to creep from the bottom of his Belly upwards towards his Heart and Breast and from thence to his Head 5. I pressing his Belly with my Hand felt very discerningly this kind of motion and as long as I hindred this round thing from ascending with both my Hands and all my strength he found himself indifferently well 6. But as soon as this swelling creeping upwards by degrees had reached the Head presently the Members of the whole body were cruelly pulled together insomuch that he would dash himself against the Walls or Posts as if possest by an Evil Spirit he could hardly be held and restrained by four strong men with all their force but that he would leap from them and fling out his Arms Feet and Head here and there with divers kinds of motions 7. When he forbore strugling or leaping out his Members would be strongly extended and his Muscles stiff as if troubled with the Cramp 8. Such a fit would last about a quarter of an hour then coming to himself he would talk soberly and walk about in his Chamber he knew what he had suffered and asked pardon of the standers by 9. Immediately after he began to draw his Eyes inward and so swiftly to roul them about then presently the Convulsive Distemper returning acted over again the same Tragedy and after this manner he would have five or six of these kind of Convulsive Fits within the space of three hours 10. In the midst of one of these Fits a Vein in his Arm being opened and a large Orifice made the blood issued out leisurely and was seen presently to be Congealed it did not flow about in the Dish after the manner of Liquors with a plain and equal superficies but like melted Suet dropped into a cold Dish one drop being heaped upon another it grew to a heap 11. If this Distemper had hapned to a Woman it would have been presently concluded That it was the Mother or Hysterical and the cause of it would have beee ascribed to the fault of the Womb especially because the ascending of something like a bulk began the fit from the bottom of the Belly 12. But when this common ordinary solution which is oftenest the subterfuge of Ignorance cannot be allowed in this case it seems most agreeable to reason to refer all those Symptoms to the Evil affection of the Brain
had been of many years standing and continual so instead of giving now and than a Dose of violent Pills it had been much better to have Instituted a gentle and constant Purging Diet which he might have taken if occasion had been for an hundred days together and such an one as follows I instituted him 11. Take new Ale four or five gallons put into it these following things Sena fourteen ounces Polypody Juniper-berries well bruised Coriander-seed Zedoary all of them well bruised of each half a pound dryed Rosemary Betony Sage Stoechas of each four ounces Bay-berries hull'd and grossly bruised Sal Prunella of each two ounces put them into a Bag with a stone in it to make it sink and let them Work up with the Ale after four or five days he drank of it every Morning a little draught and accordingly encreased or diminished the quantity as he found it to Purge him 12. This quantity being taken I Caused him to repeat it again adding to the former Ingredients these Scurvy-grass Brooklime Water-cresses Tarragon of each three handfuls all bruised Mustard-seed bruised Horse-radish root Rocket-seed of each two handfuls and half he continued the taking of this last quantity till it was all spent which Purging very gently and pleasingly carried off the Morbifick matter and thoroughly cleansed his whole Body 13. But that we might not seem only to remove the Conjoyned Cause by Purging only I Caused him to take the following Dose to Sweat upon Take choice Bezoar Mineral twelve grains Oriental Bezoar ten grains Volatile Salts of Amber and Hartshorn of each eight grains Viper Pouder a scruple mix them together with half a dram of Mithridate and give it the Sick to Swallow for a Dose to provoke Sweat drinking after it a little choice Canary mixed with six drams of Treacle Water being in his Bed and well covered this Caused him to Sweat very powerfully and from whence he Confessed he had wonderful relief 14. As to Topicks his Stomach Head and Temples was anointed with this following Balsam Take Oyl of Nutmegs by expression one ounce Opo-balsamum half an ounce distilled Oyl of Nutmegs of Rosemary of sweet Marjoram and of Sassafras of each one dram mix and anoint therewith Morning and Evening keeping those parts warm 15. The extream parts either benummed after the manner of a Palsy or pained in the Joynts resembling a Gout I Caused every Morning and Evening to be anointed with the following Medicament Take Powers of Amber six ounces choice Camphir one ounce dissolve it therein and herewith Bath well the afflicted parts 't is not to be imagined what sudden and great relief he received therefrom 16. For in the extremity of his Pain the said Pain would vanish in a Moment and although Lame he would be able to go very well in two or three days time 17. Now 't is to be observed that during the time of his Purging I ordered him to Swallow whole every Night going to bed twenty five or thirty grains of choice white Olibanum or Mastich sometimes the one sometimes the other with about ten grains of pure white Ginger cut into very small bits 18. The time of Purging being wholly over viz. so long as he was drinking the two former quantities of Diet I caused him to take every Morning fasting half an ounce of this following Electuary whereby the Stomach Head Brain and Animal Spirits were mightily relieved Comforted and Strengthened 19. Take the soft or Melligenous extract of Juniper-berries half a pound Viper pouder Pouder of Zedoary of Nutmegs of each one ounce and half Pouder of white Ginger of Cloves of each half an ounce Camphir a dram Venice Treacle three ounces extracts of Virginian Snake-root and Contra yerva of each two ounces mix them for a Stomachical and Cephalick Antidote This is very good against all sorts of salt and sharp Catarrhs moisture of the Brain coldness and weakness of the Stomach and Paralitick and Arthritick Distempers 20. At Night going to Bed he took two three or four grains of my Laudanum the use of these two last Medicines he constantly took Morning and Night for five or six Weeks together by the use whereof he became perfectly Restored and was free from all the said disaffections for more then seven years afterwards XII A Catarrh in a Gentlewoman accompaned with Hysterick fits and an exceeding Pain on her left side supposed an affection of the Spleen 1. This Gentlewoman being about thirty years of Age had been obnoxious to a Catarrh almost from a Child with swellings in her Throat and Almonds of the Ears soreness and difficulty of swallowing but of late to wit for four or five years last pass the Catarrh was almost Continual and she had with it a great dejection of Spirit 2. She would sight often and complain of a great pain in her left Side and many times would be overtaken or seised with fits of the Mother the Cause thereof she apprehended to be from an unnatural Marrage being allied to a man extreamly wicked almost in all senses 3. She was a very Comely Lady and brought with her a great Fortune but was almost at first slighted and abused by her Husband whence arose a great discontent of mind which seising and Continuing long upon her begat a kind of Melancholy habit 4. Not long after she was as she thought afflicted with the Pain of the Spleen which she Conceived was encreased by taking an extream Cold however a Pain she had in her left Side and that almost continually her Catarrh was almost always the same causing her constantly to spit and very much afflicting her in the Night 5. The begining of this Discontent brought also upon her those Hysterick fits the Cause of which is a preternatural Convulsion of the Nerves of the Mesentery and Middriff or Diaphragma whereby that exceeding great rising up into the Breast not much unlike a Ball or Globe is made 6. And I am the more Confirmed in this opinion That these Fitts are often Caused as aforesaid and not always simply from the Womb from that singular observation of Dr. Willis who beheld the same in a Man where the old supposed Cause was impossible to be Suspected and in the time of my practise I have seen two such lâ—ke examples which has very much confirm'd me in this Judgment not that I will totally deny any Cause to be Inherent in the Womb in all persons 7. For I doubt not but where there are great Obstructions of the Matrix and that part abounds with many stinking and noysom humours it being as it were the very sink of a Womans Body that Vapours may be Emitted from thence and that it may also have a share in the Cause of Hysterick Paroxisms 8. The original Cause of the Catarrh I attribute to be in part from a Discrasy of the Blood and in part from a natural weakness of the Brain whereby it is made more apt to Receive the Recrements of the second
of which two things alone the Child was perfectly recovered II. The Falling-sickness in a Girl of fourteen years of Age. 1. This Girl had four years or more been troubled with this Disease being of a fat and corpulent Body pale Complexion smooth skin and extreamly well Featered her Parents applyed themselves to many Physicians but they all mistaking the Cause exhibited their Medicines in Vain 2. But this Maiden from her Infancy up till she was between nine and ten years of Age had been troubled with a continual running of the Nostrils which by some accident or occasion was stoped after it had been stoped half a year or somewhat more she fell into the Falling sickness 3. From whence I did Conjecture that a cold pituitous matter lodged in the Cavities of the Brain might be the Cause thereof for which reason sake I exhibited to her the following sharp Clyster 4. Take Mutton-broth twelve ounces Infusion of Crocus Metallorum three ounces Tincture of Colocynthis half an ounce Oyl two ounces mix and make a Clyster this wrought four or five times upon her whereby her Body seemed to be sufficiently opened 5. I also made a Revulsion by applying a Vesicatory to the Crown of the Head which being healed up I applyed others to the Soles of the Feet whereby a strong derivation was made 6. Six days after I gave her this Vomit Take syrup of squils an ounce and half Infusion of Crocus Metallorum half an ounce extract of black Hellebor a scruple dissolve mix and give it early in the Morning fasting this gave her eight or nine pleasant Vomits and brought forth a very great quantity of green viscous matter after which she seemed more lightsome and pleasant 7. Four days after this Vomit I gave her this following Purge Take Pilulae Rudij a dram Colocynthis in pouder a scruple Resin of Jallap ten grains with syrup of Peony make a mass adding six drops of the Oyl of Lavender divide it into four Doses to be taken every fourth Morning 8. The purging being over I gave her my Specifick Antepileptick Pouder which was given from a scruple to half a dram 9. Notwithstanding all this sixteen days after she had another fit but much more gentle than the former and of shorter continuance I then gave her a Dose of my Carthartic Argenteum viz. one whole dram mixed with six drams of the Syrup of Squils this made her to Vomit stoutly and to bring up a great deal more of that filthy viscous eruginous matter 10. Afterwards I gave her this following Pouder Take pouder of the roots and seeds of Male-peony of each one ounce Bay-berries Zedoary Rosmary of each half an ounce Misleto of the Oak six drams Peacocks-dung 4 drams Musk native Cinnabar of each two drams Ambergrise one dram make a fine Pouder and mix them Dose from a scruple to a dram every Morning and Night going to bed 11. But by reason there was a stoppage in the Head of a certain Rhume which used to flow out by the Nostrils I caused these following Errhines to be administred Take White Wine six ounces Euphorbium four grains dissolve the Euphorbium therein and let the Liquor be Injected up the Nostrils this brought much filth that way 12. Afterwards I caused her to use the following solid Errhines Take Confectio Hamech half an ounce fine Pouders of Scammony of Cambogia of Agarick of each two drams Pouder of Colocynthis Ginger of each half a dram Euphorbium in very fine Pouder ten grains mix and make a mass of solid Errhines of which little Rouls may be made to put up the Nostrils 13. These I made her use every Night or every other Night a little before she went to bed she kept them not long in her Nostrils because I desired not that they should draw very strongly but I made her use them often to accustom the humidities of the Brain to make a passage through the Nostrils which Current had been stop'd for full four years 14. And that every thing might be made more firm I applyed again Blisters to the Soles of the Feet by which a great quantity of Water was drawn out of the Head by the use of these means afore-treated within three months time she was perfectly well 15. Another Maid about sixteen years of Age was siezed with the Epilepsy as the former several things were tryed without success afterwards her Parents sent for me I looked upon her but conceived her to be past recovery however I was urged to give her somthing 16. I first purged and cleansed her Stomach then I removed the Obstructions of the Head I gave her things to comfort and fortify the Head and such things as were specificks so counted by all Physicians but all these things were done in Vain for after five Weeks time she dyed in one of her Fits 17. Being Dead a large quantity supposed to be more than a pint of a thick glutinous matter flowed from the Nostrils after which came a little Blood 18. From hence in part the Conjunct Cause of the Disease may be seen but how things were within we cannot tell her Parents not being willing to have her opened III. The Falling-sickness in another young Woman about twenty years of Age. 1. This person had been afflicted with the Falling-sickness for above two years and a quarter she was of a sanguine Complexion a very pleasant Creature but yet hitherto never had her Courses which I conceived to be the principal Cause of her Disease 2. What her other Physicians gave were mostly Specificks against an Epilepsy not reguarding at all to bring forward the Course of Nature I was sent for and upon enquiry finding the Obstruction aforesaid I forthwith gave her these following Pills it being about eight days before the change of the Moon 3. Take fine Aloes two drams Resin of Jalap Castoreum in fine Pouder of each half a dram mix them and with syrup of Garden Tansy make a mass of Pills adding also six or eight drops of the Oyl of Savin of this I gave her twenty five grains every Night for four Nights 4. After which I gave her this following Pouder Take Zedoary round Birthwort roots Bay-berries of each one ounce Borax Dittany of Creet Saffron of each one dram seeds of Nigella Calamint dryed Savin of each half an ounce red Myrrh Jallap of each two drams make a fine Pouder and mix them Dose from half a dram to a dram every Night going to bed 5. By these means the young Lady came to the benefit of Nature and her Courses came down laudably to wit in good Proportion and Colour 6. This being done I emptied her Stomach with a gentle Vomit then I drew Blysters upon both her Feet so that the Disease which used to come once a day came not above once a Month whereby I was encouraged to proceed further 7. I gave her the following Pouder Take native Cinnabar Mans Skull Misleto of the Oak of each a like
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
preserve him for the future from such like Accidents and therefore I ordered the following Diet to be taken as his ordinary Drink Take spring water eight quarts Juniper berries well bruised four ounces Liquorice rasped Figs slit Raisons of the sun stoned Currants of each two ounces Caraways bruised one ounce Fennel seeds half an ounce boyl all together to the Consumption of about three quarts then strain let it settle well decant the cleare and sweeten it with white Sugar then bottle it up and let him drink it as his ordinary Drink 8. But because I saw there was a preternatural matter lodged in the Stomach which ought to be taken away and which continually afflicted him and oftentimes stirred up such like fits as the former I evacuated his Stomach with the following Dose Take Carduus water a pint Infusion of Crocus metallorum one ounce Salt of Vitriol two scruples mix them for a draught This wrought effectually with him so that he evacuated both upwards and downwards a very large quantity of filthy green and otherwise discoloured matter this dose was twice more repeated upon every fourth day 9. And that we might be sure to take away the proximate cause wholly I ordered him to take of my Family pills with Aloes once a week for six or seven weeks together which he exactly performed whereby his Body was perfectly cleansed and all that matter which formerly used to Gripe him was now perfectly taken away whereby the cause of the Convulsion was radically removed 10. However I was not wanting as to the Convulsion it self and therefore I caused all the Convulsed parts and other parts in which was any weakness or feebleness to be bathed Morning and Night with the powers of Amber these things had indeed such an Effect upon him as that he was never after troubled with any more Convulsive fits though yet the wind would sometimes a little disturb him but nothing like as in former times 11. However to prevent this I caused him constantly Morning Noon and Night to take of this following Electuary Take Electuarium ad Tabidos four ounces pouder of Bay-berries half an ounce powers of Carraways of Rosemary and of Sassafras of each three drams mix them dose as much as a hazle nut drinking a little glass of warm diet before mentioned or of mul'd Sack after the same 12. His Back-bone from the Vertebrae of the Neck to the Os Coccygis as also the whole region of of the Abdomen were more especially and carefully bathed with the aforementioned powers of Amber twice a day for about fourteen days he by using these meanes was perfectly restored to health so as that his fits never returned any more 13. By this very method I cured two other Men and one Gentlewoman which were all afflicted in like manner with Convulsions proceeding from the Wind Cholick they were all so admirably cured and restored that none of them except the Woman had a second fit after we had began to attempt the Cure and she had but one fit after which is a thing worthy the remarking Also one I cured simply by taking some few doses of my Family Pills and bathing all the places affected with only the powers of Amber used as aforesaid morning and night II. Convulsions caused in a little Boy from Worms 1. A Child of about seven years of Age often fell into Convulsion fits and no cause could be discerned whence they should proceed several Physicians and Doctors were sent for yet so abstruse was the reason of those fits that they could discover nothing from whence they could proceed however they attempted the Cure and many things were given but all in Vain although the meanes was continued for some months together 2. At length I was desired to give the Child a visit which was in the absence of the Paroxysm but to all appearance he ailed nothing except when I came near him I found his Breath to stink most egregiously I enquired of his Parents whether that symptom had been from his Birth or only came lately by Accident and they told me that they had not observed it in their Child for above five or six months which made them also concern'd whence that should arise 3. I further enquired of them if the Child never complain'd of his Belly-aking they told me That was ordinary with him every Morning and the only complaint which he had which they thought proceeded from wind in his Stomach for that after eating he was wont to be very well again except at such times as his Convulsion fits seiz'd which was always at uncertain hours 4. Upon this I conceived that all the former Doctors and Physicians had hitherto perfectly mistaken the Cause I then told his Parents that I much feared that the Child was troubled with Worms and therefore enquired again whether he had ever voided any or not they answered me No never any such thing being observed to come from him 5. However I was strongly perswaded that Worms were the chief causes of that Convulsive disposition and this I was the more perswaded to because by his Friends relation he would not only startle much in his sleep but those Convulsive fits would also seiz him when he was fast asleep which to me was no small argument of Worms 6. I provided therefore against them and in the first place I ordered the Parents to give the Child of my Family pills with Aloes for that I knew by manifold experience that no better Medicament could be given in the World to remove that cause they were given three little Pills at a time and the second dose brought away two large worms above seven inches long by Vomit and by Stool he had six or eight such other Worms besides a great number of little small worms of about an inch long 7. I ordered the use of these Pills to be continued so long till the Child ceased to evacuate any Worms at all which was not till he had taken the ninth dose after that he avoided no more the number of great Worms which he avoided was about seventeen the number of the lesser they were so many could never be told he took the Pills however thirteen or fourteen times for security sake but after the ninth dose no more worms came away the doses of the pills were repeated after every third or fourth day they wrought very well and without the least griping of the Bowels of of the Child 8. Outwardly I also caused the Stomach and Belly and all the Convulsed parts to be bathed morning and evening very well with the Powers of Amber which was don for six or eight days together and by the use of this means the Child was perfectly freed from all his Convulsion fits and from thence forth rested very quietly in his bed without any disturbance in his sleep as formerly 9. However for comforting and restoring the tone of the Inwards parts and to prevent the breeding of more Worms for the future
the whole nervous systeme was throwly heated and the cause of the Convulsion dissolved which by a Cart load of Internal medicaments could never have been so exquisitely and so suddenly performed moreover the Nerves themselves were mightily corroborated and strengthen'd 10. But during all the time that this was a doing outwardly inward Medicines were not wanting to be used for I sent down also with the said powers of Amber the spirit of Saffron which she much desired and confest she found much good in the powers of Cloves and the Potestates Convulsivae and Nervosae which I ordered her to take either as her Stomach liked or alternatim in Sack as aforementioned these things she failed not to perform and in one months time became perfectly well beyond mine or her Friends expectations 11. But whereas she was troubled with an extream watching so that for some times she could not sleep for two or three days and nights together I ordered her now and then to take in the evening twenty five thirty or forty drops of my Guttae Vitae in Sack and so repose upon it which she did several times and in a short time removed that troublesom symptom moreover after that she became well I ordered her to continue for some time the use of the former internal nervous Medicaments and matutine reception of the Elixir proprietatis VIII Convulsion fits in a Child proceeding from Worms 1. The exquisitness of the cure and the speedy performance thereof makes me to insert this example A little Boy of four or five years old was of a sudden seiz'd with Convulsion fits and that without any praevious cause that his Relations or by-standers could apprehend these fits had afflicted the Child for about two months coming somtimes once in two days and somtimes once a day and somtimes twice a day 2. A stranger accidentally seeing the Child advised its Parents to give it of my Family Pills two at a time every Morning fasting or every other morning according as they found them to work and to continue the use thereof for a week or longer they did so the Pills purged the Child without any Pain and in about ten or twelve days time brought away about fourteen long worms a span or more in length after which the Convulsions ceased of their own accord and the Child presently mended and grew exceeding well upon it 3. This thing was don some years since but of late Mr Hollier told me he gave them to a young Girl who had not been well and the cause of whose Disease seemed to be very abstruse one or two doses at most brought a way from her several hundreds of Worms after which she persently mended and grew very well IX Convulsion fits attended with a Lethargy which were Mortal 1. A young Maiden about seventeen years of Age was seized with Convulsion fits as it was thought by taking cold in the Snow being put to Bed some of the Neighbour-hood advised her Parents to make her drunk with Brandy in hopes of a Cure it was don and the Maid drunk about three quarters of a pint or better of that liquor whereupon being overcome with it she became very sick and afterwards went to sleep the next day the Creature awaked not about noon they disturbed her but she desired still to sleep 2 Hereupon I was sent for because they feared their Child would dye when I came to her another Convulsive fit seized her again which after a while went off but the sick remained sleepy after this manner she continued for a week or more 3. Considering her condition I presum'd it to be a Lethargy which accompanied the Convulsion they desired my help but truly I plainly told them I knew not well what to do however outwardly I advised to bath all the External parts Head Temples Vertebrae of the Neck and Back-bone as also the parts afflicted with the Convulsion with Powers of Rosemary which was don but no amendment succeeded this was don for about eight days but the Lethargy still increased as for internal Medicaments we could get nothing down her Throat It was once attempted but she was in danger of Choaking so that for the future we totally desisted to offer any thing of that kind 4. Upon the fourteenth day after her first seizure she was taken with her last fit upon which by reason of the Extremity thereof she expired after she was dead above half a pint of matter not much unlike thick Milk came as I suppose out of her Head by her Nostrills which smelt as strong of Brandy as if it had been Brandy it self which gave me a satisfaction that the Brain was hurt therewith and the Animal spirits being confounded were overcome whence proceeded her Lethargy drousiness stagnation of the naturall juyces and obstruction or rather a suffocation of the Vital flame XX. Convulsion fits arising from Excessive pains of the Gout in both Feet and Ankles 1. A Woman about forty years of Age having been for about three or four years past troubled with the Gout was at last so exceedingly afflicted therewith that she became bed-rid This pain by reason of an accidental taking of Cold it happening in the middle of Winter was increased and raged to that extremity that the sick fell into Convulsion fits which vehemently afflicted her 2. I was forthwith called to her assistance where her Husband related to me the whole progress of her Disease which was very strange and admirable a Physician and Chyrurgian which had been before me had taken away from her at four several times and all in the space of eight days above forescore ounces of Blood hoping therefrom for amendment and Cure but the sick instead of growing better upon it grew worse and worse every day and at length became as is before related Convulsive 3. Moreover she was afflicted with an obstruction of her Courses which by no artifice they could provoke so that the condition of the Gentlewoman seemed to be desperate upon this I caused the parts afflicted to be well bathed with my Guttae vitae and then applyed over the same my Emplastrum Arthriticum inwardly I gave this Bolus Take Venice Turpentine a dram Venice Treacle half a dram Extract of Thebain Opium two grains Oyl of Vitriol ten drops mix altogether for a dose this she swallowed and drank after it a little Glass of Rhenish wine and sugar This was again repeated at night and given twice a day for four days by which the sick had wonderful ease and the Convulsion fits much abated moreover her Terms which had been obstructed for more than fourteen months were provoked and came down very well 4. A little respite from the Paroxysm being obtained I gently purged her with my Family Pills the which she took once a week for six or eight weeks together by the use of which she confest her Body to be exceeding well cleansed and they procured to her also an exceeding good Stomach so that she eat
Plaisters and Cataplasms be laid to the soals of the Feet and other means of administration such as are commonly prescribed for the curing of the stupor or insensibleness ought to be used 48. In like manner if on the evil days or Crisis of this Feaver a Phrensie or Madness should come remedies appropriate to those distempers made use of 49. Secondly But if either with or without this sort of displeasure brought to the Head the Lungs also have taken the evil of this Disease so that the sick not yet free from the Feaver seems to fall into a wasting or Consumption with a troublesom Cough with abundance of thick and often discoloured spittle Medicines commonly prescribed for such kind of distempers are convenient enough 50. Wherefore pectoral Decoctions Electuaries Syrups distill'd Waters of Milk and Snails and other Remedies of the like nature ought diligently to be made use off the Forms of which may be found in the before described Cases 51. Thus far we have described the continual Feaver for the most part convulsive and arising no less from the fault of the nervous Juice than of the Blood I will here farther propose an Example of a Disease having the likeness of an intermitting Feaver but radicated chiefly in the nervous Juice the nature of which kind of Distemper for that is very rare and truly pertinent to our convulsive Pathology will appear from the following History 52. A noted Woman very young and indued with a more weak Constitution of Brain and nervous Stock and for causes very obnoxious to convulsive Distempers after she had conceived with Child about the fourth Month of her being big cold being taken she was greivously afflicted with asthmatical Fits and besides with a frequent sinking down of her Spirits 53. But by the use of Remedies indued with a volatile Salt she grew well within a fortnights space but after that about fourteen days an unwonted and truly admirable Distemper fell upon this Gentlewoman 54. One Morning awaking after an unqiuet Sleep that night she felt a light shivering over all her Body as if she had had the Fit of an Ague frâ—quent Yawnings and Reachings with an endeavour to vomit followed thereupon 55. And then her Urine which was but now of a Citron Colour and of a laudable Substance became pale and waterish moreover about her Loins and Hypochondria and in other places Pains with light Convulsions running about here and there were excited 56. Which kind of Symptoms plainly convulsive with her frequent making a of limpid Urine continued in the Morning almost to Evening in which space of time a great quantity of water at least three times more than the Liquor she had taken was rendred in the mean time neither was the Heat great nor did Thirst trouble her nor was her Pulse increased 57 In the Evening the aforesaid Distempers ceased and her Urine became of a Citron Colour and moderate and besides all night she enjoyed a moderate Sleep then in the Morning following about the same hour the Fit returned accompaned altogether with the like Symptoms and so dayly acted the same Tragedy 58. Visiting this Gentlewoman after she had been sick in this manner for twelve days I framed the Aethioloâ—y of the aforesaid Case to wit that this Disease chiefly radical in the nervous Stock did depend upon the Effervescenoy and Flux of the Humor watering the nervous Parts 59. For it might be suspected that this water being diffused from the Blood made degenerate by reason of the suppression of her Terms upon the Brain and nervous Stock became more sharp and serous than it ought to be and for that Cause incongruous to the containing Parts 60. Wherefore being gathered together to a plenitude by the nights sleep did provoke them and stirr them up for the expulsion of it every where into wrinklings and contractions hence shiverings yaunings stretchings and wondring pains were excited in the whole Body 61. Furthermore from the solid parts after this manner contracted and shaken not only the nervous liquour but also the nutritious every where laid up the solid parts but not truly assimulated were shaken of 62. And then either Latex being exterminated from its receptacles and received by the Veins or Lymphaducts or water-carrying Vessels was rendred to the mass of blood from whose bosom before it had acquired a Lixival tincture from it being at last cast forth by the reins constituted a clear and copious Ruin 63. But that this distemper observed such exact periods the reason is because the nervous water being supplied with an equal dimension did arise to a fulness of runing over daily at the set time 64. Therefore also the urine appeared concocted and yellow before and after the fit because then its matter consisted only from the Serum of the blood afterwards during the convulsive fit the limpid humor being shaken off from the solid and nervous parts and passing quickly thorough the blood adulterated the colour and quantity of the urine 65. I prescribed to this big-bellied Woman Phlebotomy and besides a pouder composed out of Coral Pearls Ivory and other Cardiacks to be taken thrice in a day in a proper liquor 66. Morning and Evening she took of the Tincture of Antimony twelve drops whose singular effect in the too great flux of urin I have many times experienced by the use of these all the symptoms ceased in a short time Willis de morbis convulsivis cap. 8. LIX A Convulsion in a young Maiden 1. I was sent for some years since to come and visit a noble Virgin who was sick almost after the same manner but somthing worse For these almost perpetual involuntary motions came by turns to wit shakings of the Head and members or defluctions or movings about here and there 2. Besides she was afflicted with a very troublesom and wonderful Convulsion of the Diaphragma and Muscles serving for breathing For every minute of an hour and oftner her back-bone was suddenly bent in about its middle and together her Brest shooting out forward 3. And her Hypocondria being drawn inwards she made a loud sobbing now double now threefold but still with a less and less noise 4. This kind of motion and ebbing of a crashing noise was wont to come for many hours and so that she might be heard through the whole house 5. And when any short interval of this hapned she was compelled presently to shake or writh together her Arms and Hands and somtimes her Legs and Feet and also to fling about most furiously her Head and by and by to hold her Neck as if it were stiff and unmoveable 6. And then in speaking her Tongue would be taken after that manner that she would repeat the same word very often yea somtimes twenty times at least 7. When the convulsive motions tormented her stongly in her outward Members she was free a little while from that noise in the Throat and this space of intermission she called her time of ease 8. Tho'
Nerve or Tendon through an enraging of the animal Spirits so vehemently as to bring the Brain into consent so it is likewise caused by the biting of a Viper or other venemous Creature by a Wound made with a poysonous Weapon or Poysons taken inwardly or things of a vehement sharp or malign quality as Spirit of Nitre Oyl of Vitriol Aqua Fortis c. by which the said Spirits are immediately corrupted and polluted and in whose defence by reason of the effusion of Spirits into the Nerves out of the Brain the motive Power of the Nerves and Muscles are more strongly than ordinary excited to exercise their Faculties but with so much violence and inordinacy to expel their Enemy that forthwith the Tumor and lateral Extension of the Nerve is made which is the modificative or formal Cause of the Disaffection 17. Now in this Case if by this great affluense of Spirits the Poyson or corrupted Matter is overcome there is presently a cessation of the Fit but whilst with equal Force they hold the Contest the Fit continues and if the poysonous Matter or Enemy proves too strong for the Forces which are sent in to natures relief the sick for the most part dyes in the Fit 18. Nor is the Case very different where the remote Cause is from Worms in the Bowels or the vehemency of Cathartick and Emetick Medicaments taken inwardly which stimulate the expulsive Faculty of the Stomach and Guts and too much excite those Parts such are several malign Preparations of Antimony Euphorbium Hellebor Spurge Asarabacca Aron roots and other things of like quality which too violently solicite nature at once both by vomiting and stool which somtimes by their Vehemency produce even deadly Convulsions and after the same manner all sharp and acrid humors whether Choler Flegm or Melancholy falling upon the Nerves and by their Acrimony exciting Pain cause Convulsions and convulsive Motion and this is evident in the Cholick Fits of the Mother Epilepsies and other Diseases a-kin to them 19. And indeed when and wheresoever the animal Spirits are hurt corrupted or assaulted by any forein sharp malign poysonous or heterogene matter even then and there will Convulsions certainly be produced whose strength and force will be according to the strength and force of the matter assaulting or offending if it be little and weak the Convulsion will be small and inconsiderable But if it be great and strong the Convulsion excited will also be answerable If this Assault be begun in the Brain the disaffection will be the more admirable and acute and for the most part is mortal But if it happens in any other part of the Genus Nervosum the danger and magnitude of the Disease will be according to the Part or Parts afflicted 20. Moreover in a Spasm or Cramp which is a particular or singular Convulsion that which happens in the extream Parts as the Hands Arms Thigh Hips Legs or Feet or in the Neck or under the Chin is caused for the most part through a sharp and sudden Cold which giving a disaffection to the animal Spirits immediately causes them to tumultuate and assemble themselves together in order to expel their Adversary from whence arises by reason of their so hasty Unition and Affluence to the part not only a Collision whence is in part the extremity of the Pain but also from their too abundant Afflux a great and hard Tumor in the Nerve and Muscle which by reason of the sensibleness and tenderness of the Part adds also to the anguish of the sensitive Soul for that there is a great lateral extension whereby the Nerve or Tendon is contracted in Longitude 21. A convulsive Motion is caused for the most part from a sharp and pricking matter which provokes the Nerves but after a differing manner afflicts the animal Spirits for in a true Convulsion that which afflicts the animal Spirits seizes upon them and is joyned fast to them so as that it can by no means be removed till Nature overcoming and casting it off the Fit ceases to be at present and the contraction is resolved but in a convulsive Motion the matter causing it is not fixed fast to the Spirits but is loose and apt to slide off being a spirituous humor or vapour full of acrimony and malignity as is often generated in malignant Feavers 22. These convulsive Motions are also caused for the most part from the Brain and Nerves suffering by Sympathy Consent or Compassion as we may more properly speak and then we call it Convulsio sympathetica This Sympathy is either from their simple suffering together in respect of Similitude in Substance and Faculties Or from their proximity or neerness Or from a spirituous Poyson and Malignity invading the Original of the Nerves And it is many times caused by consent from the Mouth of the Stomach through an aeruginous or cankred Choler made spirituous or volatile or joyned to some malign volatile Salt Or through Worms Poyson or other sharp Matter which gripes and gnaws or corrodes the Bowels Or from consent with the Womb Mesentery Diaphragma or Praecordia as it often-times falls out in Hysterical Fits Swoonings Swellings of the Stomach Suffocation c. CXI Of the Prognosticks of Convulsions 1. Universal Convulsions are much more dangerous than such as are particular by so much as the hurt of the whole nervous System exceeds the hurt of a particular Nerve 2. Convulsions in many parts especially in those near the Brain are very dangerous so also those which are in the Muscles of the Brest because they hinder breathing and may suddenly endanger suffocation 3. Convulsions in Infants are much more dangerous than in those of Elder years and they are for the most part mortal in very aged people because of weakness and the continual exhausting through the lesitude of the Pores of the Animal Spirits so also if it comes of too much bleeding or vehement Purging for the same reason and in these two latter cases it is for the most part mortal 4. Hippocrates saith sect 2. Aph. 37. that it is better that a Feaver follows a Convulsion than a Convulsion a Feaver for a Feaver coming upon a Convulsion by its excessive heat warms the parts and dissolves the Convulsion by taking away the cause but on the contrary a Convulsion coming upon a Feaver shews Malignancy and is for the most part deadly 5. Convulsions coming upon the taking of Poyson are generally mortal unless the Poyson can be forthwith retracted 6. A Convulsion arising upon Frensy is deadly Aetius saith That he never hard of any that was so taken that ever recovered and the reason is plain because the Animal Spirits are assaulted in their Original or Fountain and the Convulsion is of the whole nervous system 7 A Tetanos is said to be Mortal within four days but saith Hippocrates sect 5. Aph. 6. if it continues longer it is cured for the great stretching of all the Muscles hinders breathing so that
an Incubus which did so extreamly afflict her that she grew weary of her life 2. Many Physicians were consulted who indeed pierced not into the cause of her disaffection and in order to her cure they first let her Blood which was repeated six times and Blood was taken from her to the quantity of eighty or ninety ounces and her Doctors ordered her this following Julep exactly as it is taken off from the Apothecaries file Take Fumitory and Cowslip-water four ounces syrup of Violets three ounces Tinctura of Saffron twelve drops mix them of this she was to take four spoonfuls Morning and Night and it was repeated for twelve or fourteen days but did her no good then they prescribed this Take Plantane-water Doctor Stephens his water of each three ounces syrup of Clove-gilliflowers one ounce and half syrup of Betony an ounce spirit of Earth-worms half an ounce mix them This was continued according to order for about three weeks more with several Baths Fomentations Anointings c. But all to no purpose 3. At length they sent for me and complaining of the ill success of the former Doctors withall told me of a perpetual Sckness of her Stomach vomiting and swelling of her Belly with strange vapors and fancies filling her Head at certain times with a long and tedious stoppage of her Courses upon which complaint we adhibited the following things 4. In the first place I gave her a vomit with my vomiting Lâ—zenges the preparation of which you will hereafter have in my Chymistry which wrought admirably with her gave her five lusty vomits and six or seven stools by which she found great relief but I fearing her Stomach not to be sufficiently cleansed repeated it again the third day following which wrought again admirably and brought away yet a larger quantity of more filthy and evill coloured matter upon which the Woman concluded herself well 5. Her Courses being not yet produced we thought it necessary to do somwhat more least her Disease should return again for this cause sake I ordered her to purge every other day with Angelick Pills of Grulingius which she did taking about ten or twelve doses of the Pills and in the intervalls of purging I also ordered her to take the Elixir proprietatis thirty drops at a time in Sack Morning Noon and Night half an hour or more before eating 6. By observing this course her Terms were effectually provoked and came down plentifully and this our so miserably afflicted Patient not only came to have a good colour in her Face but also had a good Stomach eat her Food well and digested it moreover a pain which she complained of that she felt in her left Side about the region of her Spleen left her and she seemed to be restored to her perfect health 7. However to consummate the Cure and to corroborate all the weakned Viscera I ordred her to take the following Electuary Morning and Night going to bed and to drink after the same a glass of Rhenish Wine and Sugar and so to repose herself to rest Take choise Venice Treacle two ounces and half Indian green Ginger Indian preserved Nutmegs candied Citron peels of each two ounces conserve of Rosemary flowers Spicknard in finâ— pouder of each one ounce Extracts of Gentian of Contrayerva and Virginian Snake-rooâ— of each half an ounce mix and beat them all well together and keep them for use 8. Of this Electuary she took the quantity of a large Nutmeg Morning and Night for about fifteen or sixteen days and became thereupon perfectly well It not only strengthned the Stomach and other Viscera but also brought down her Terms in due order and perfectly removed those ascending vapours which before so much afflicted her IX An Incubus or Night-Mare coming upon the healing up an old Vlcer 1. A Man near forty years of age having had an old Ulcer upon his left Leg which had run many yeares had it cured or healed up by a very skilful Chyrurgion upon which not long after he was afflicted with the Incubus which continually assaulted him every Night so that he could scarcely take any rest all which he imputed to the too hasty healing-up of his Ulcer without due Purgation 2. Upon this he sought out to Physicians for Remedy who gave him many Purges but all in vain at length they concluded that it arose from a certain kind of Hypochondriack Melancholy which seizing upon his Spirits wrought that Indisposition But the Man who was well enough in his wits nor any thing out of his Senses was of another opinion and therefore desired of them a more mechanick remedie which might operate upon his Body not his Soul 3. At length wearied out with his Doctors he sent for me to whom he made a relation of his grief I concluded it to be partly from the turning of the humor partly from an indisposition of the Stomach because we see that an Incubus seldom or never invades any one without a preternatural Distemper of the Stomach and in this our Patient there was almost a continual disposition to vomit nor since the healing up of the aforementioned old Vlcer could he scarce ever eat any thing with a stomach but was either afflicted with loathing sickness at Heart or vomitings 4. These symptoms being considred I first evacuated the Stomach with Asarabacca by which he had about eight vomits this don I purged him well with my Family Pills with Aloes but notwithstanding all these things his Incubus could not be wholly taken away but though not so violent yet would often return so that his fears of the Disease was worse to him than the Distemper it self for this cause sake I thought convenient to make him an Issue in his Leg that part of the matter or humor which used to flow out by the Ulcer might there have some evacuation which being artificially performed this our sick Patient in a little time began to be brought to his wonted health 5. However after having sufficiently purged and vomited him as aforesaid by the aforegoing things I thought it necessary to give such proper specificks as might sympathize with the parts afflicted but be Antipathetical to the Disease of which kind are all Antepilepticks Antapoplecticks and Aromatick Cephalicks 6. But the thing which was particularly given to this our Patient was first Electuarium ad Tabidos which was constantly given him every Morning fasting to the quantity of a hasle nut at a time at noon before eating he took twenty drops of the spirit of Harts-horn in a glass of Sack and at Night going to Bed he took this following Electuary Take Zedoary Bay-berries Winters-Cinnamon of each in fine pouder one ounce Nutmegs Ginger Radix Serpentaria Dittany of Creet of each half an ounce Saffron Cochenele fine Bole Terra sigillata of each two drams long Pepper half a dram all being in fine pouder mix them and add thereto thrice their weight of pure Virgin Honey and make an Electuary according
and the loss of above an hundred ounces of Blood accompanied with a vehement Catarrh and a violent Cough Hoarsness and Wheezing 11. I also cureâ— a young Gentlewoman of a like affliction who had been formerly seized with the dead Palsy through her whole right side the said Palsy was cured by an ancient Physician but a Trembling of all the extream Parts was left behind which by the aforegoing Method was perfectly taken away in about ten weeks time after she had been afflicted therewith above three years V. A Tremor or Trembling in a little Boy from Worms 1. This Child was taken with a Trembling of the whole Body like as one affrighted or in an Ague and yet truly it was neither but it was not continual as other Tremblings but came frequently and by Fits which as the Event after proved arose form Worms in the Stomach for he avoided more than twenty long round Worms of a Span or more in length 2. When the Physicians were called to see the Child they could not tell what to make of his Disease nor to imagine from what cause his Tremblings came it was as aforesaid by Fits but the Paroxysm would last somtimes three four five or six hours and that in so extream a manner as was to the wonderment of the By-standers the Child being also all the while free from Pain but he had other times very great torment in his Bowels and would vehemently cry out like one in extream Misery 3. This Trembling was frequent with the Boy by Fits for eighteen Months during which time many things were given without the least imaginable Succâ—ss at length an Aunt of the Child 's advised the Parents to make use of my Family-Pills only for the name sake and the repute they had in the World They gave it two Pills of the Composition with Aloes they wrought well and brought away four long Worms dead 4. From this Accident they now câ—njectured at the Cause and gave it twâ— Pilâ—s more which again brought away three such other Worms for this cause they reiterated the Dose and withall took up a resolution to give the same till those Worms ceased to come away they gave them after this four or five times till the Child had avoided three and twenty of those long Worms after which the Child voiding no more they ceased giving them and he remained thenceforth in perfect Health It had been a kind of impiety to have with held this Observation any longer although it might more properly have been placed under another Title or Head VI. A Tremor or Trembling in an aged Man 1. This Tremor befell a Man of about eight and fifty years of age all his extream Parts so trembled that with his Hand he was not able to lift a Cup to his Mouth nor scarcely feed himself when I first saw him I feared it might fall to him by reason of his age but he would not be perswaded but that it came to him by an overstraining of himself striving to lift or remove somthing which was above his Power he was a lusty fat Man and of a gross Body 2. Requesting my Help I advised him to the drinking of Viper-Wine and the taking of Viperine Medicaments he took the Wine every Morning fasting for two or three Months together and the Electuarium ad Tabidos the quantity of a Nutmeg an hour before Dinner drinking after it a glass of Ale or Wine in which forty or sixty dops of the Tincture of Castor were dropt 3. Moreover I advised him constantly to take the volatile Salt of Mans-skull in all the Liquor which he drank and never so much as once to drink without it unless at meals and then I prescribed the volatile Salt of Amber to be taken in stead thereof 4. At Night going to bed he took from one dram to two drams of this following Composition Take Venice-Treacle Extracts of Gentian of Contrayerva and of Virginia snake-root of each two ounces Extract of Saffron and of Cocheâ—ele of each an ounce choice Myrrh fine Aloes of each half an ounce volatile Salts of Amber and Harts-horn of each six drams Indian green Ginger an ounce and half mix and beat up all into an Electuary to be taken as aforesaid 5. Every Morning and Night I caused his Head and Temples to be bathed with the Powers of Rosemary as also his whole Back-bone from the highest Vertebra of the Neck to the Os Coccygis together with all his extream Parts as his Fingers Hands Arms Thighs Legs Feet and Toes to be extreamly well bathed with the Powers of Amber in like manner twice a day from which in a very short time he found much Comfort and Relief and was compleatly cured of this trembling Disease in less than three Months time 6. Another Man who had a Tremor fallen upon him in the sixtieth year of his age I cured in like manner but whereas he complained to me of an exceeding weakness of his Stomach and how that he could scarcely eat any Food or if he did he was always apt to vomit it up again I caused him every day towards the end of the cure to take Powers of Worm-wood in a glass of Sack by which he found a very great Relief nad outwardly I caused him to bath his Stomach with the Powers of Nutmegs by means of which the tone of the Stomach was strengthned so that he could both eat and digest any kind of Food and eat almost at any hour of the day or night 7. A Gentlewoman of about forty yers of age corpulent and very fat was also seized with such a like Tremor and I cured her also by the former Method save that before I began the said Course I purged her very well with my Family-Pills with Aloes by which many evil humors were carried off and whereas her Courses were obstructed they were brought down again and reduced to their natural order VII A Tremor or Trembling arising from over-great Weakness 1. A Lady having at several times lost above an hundred and fifty ounces of Blood being supposed to be in a Consumption sell into a Tremor or Trembling of all the extream Parts of her Body being then in the thirtieth year of her age this Trembling more discomposed her than all her other illness because she feared it was the forerunner of an approaching Palsy 2. She consulted de novo with several Physicians and great Doctors about it who after a long course of Physick gave her over as uncurable at length by the advise of some Friends she applyed herself to me requesting my assistance after an inquiry into her Condition I found it to proceed purely from weakness which as I conceive was occasioned partly from the loss of the quantity of Blood above named and partly from the improper Physick which had been given her as well as from the force of her Disease so that I ascribed a great part of the external cause to the male-practice of her learned Doctors 3. Her
by lying one Night too long upon his Arm became Palsied in that part so that he wholly lost the use of it many things meerly Galenical were tryed upon him for about eight weeks together but without the least success at length he was cured by taking inwardly only Powers of Carawaies Morning Noon and Night chiefly in a glass of choice Canary and bathing the Paralytick members first with Powers of Aniseeds then anointing with the Oyl mentioned at § 39. aforegoing by the use of these things he was perfectly restored in about fourteen or sixteen days time VII A Palsie in one part with a Contraction in another 1. A Man about twenty four years of age had a Palsie on his right side occasioned as was thought by too long lying upon it but in his left Hand a Contraction for all his Fingers were so contracted or drawn up that they could not by force be stretched out but continually stood bent 2. In regard he was of a prety fat and corpulent Body I prescribed him to Drink this following Diet Take Guajacum finely rasped half a pound Sarsaparilla Sarsafras China of each seven ounces Rosemary Lavender sweet Marjoram Time Hyssop Savory Savin Peneroyal Fetherfew Tansie Mint Angelica of eight ounces boyl all in eighteen quarts of water after an infusion of twenty four hours in a sand or other gentle heat to the consumption of eight quarts then strain out by pressing let it settle and decant of the clear liquor which bottle up being first well sweetned with white Sugar and a little Tincture of Spanish juyce of Liquorice putting into each bottle a Clove slit in two This he took as his constant Drink and the same quantity was four times repeated but at Meat I somtimes permitted him a glass of Wine or Hippocras 3. Every seventh day I purged him with a Tincture of my Family Pills by which a large quantity of cold pituitous and slimy matter was brought away he took it with observation as in other purges and at a months end I caused him to sweat very well with Bezoar mineral in Hartmans chair being heat with rectified Spirit of Wine he continued nere an hour in the Chair and then went into a warm Bed where afterwards he sweat again plentifully 4. During the time of his sweating I corroborated his Spirits with this Cordial Take spirit of Saffron three ounces Cinnamon-water four ounces Syrup of Citron-peels two ounces Bawm or Mint-water two ounces mix them together in a glass by shaking Of this he now and then took a spoonful in the time of his sweating when he found himself to grow faint 5. Every Morning fasting I caused him to take the Magistral Spirit of Earth-worms in a glass of Hippocras at Noon he took half an ounce of the spirit of Juniper-berries in the same Vehicle a little before Dinner and at Night going to Bed this following Bolus Take Extracts of Saffron of Gentian of Contrayerva of Angelica-roots of Peony-roots and of Juniper-berries of each half a scruple volatile Salt of Harts-horn sixteen grains mix them together Having swallowed it down he drank after it a glass of Hippocras and so composed himself to rest 6. Outwardly I caused the Paralytick members to be well anointed with this following Oyl Take Oyl of Ben a pound Oyls of Juniper-berries and of Rosemary of each three ounces mix them together with this he was well anointed Morning and Evening for about a week then was applyed over all the palsied parts the Ceratum Paralyticum Riverij which was renewed every fourth day and ten times repeated but with this direction that every time before the application of the new Cere-cloth the said palsied parts were first bathed with the Oyl above mentioned See the said Cerate in Our Doron Medicum lib. 3. cap. 5. sect 11. 7. The Contraction on the left Hand was cured by this mixture Take Palm Oyl six ounces Chymical Oyl of Aniseeds three ounces mix them well together By the constant anointing with this Oyl the contracted parts were after a marvelous manner restored to their pristin state for Oyl of Aniseeds has a specifick virtue and power in helping and healing almost all disaffections of the Nerves chiefly where Contractions and Convulsions are praevalent by the use of these things the young Man was restored to his perfect health VIII A Palsie in a middle aged Woman with obstruction of her Courses and a Dropsy 1. This Woman being nere forty years of age through an extream Cold which she took in Travelling was seised with a Palsie together with a great obstruction of her Courses she fell under several Physicians Hands who being ignorant of the cause of her Disease or true state of her Body gave her many things but all in vain at length her Disease continuing upon her she fell withall into a Dropsie her whole Body being very much swelled from Head to Foot so that all her learned Doctors which then frequented her declared her uncurable 2. In this miserable condition by the advice of Friends she made her application to me Her state of body was truly deplorable and dangerous yet by the following means she was in no long time restored to her perfect health That the obstruction of the Terms might contribute much to her present distemper not any that understands the Art of Physick can make any doubt In consideration whereof I thought it necessary first to provoke them which I did by giving this following Bolus some few days before the full Moon Take Electuarium Diacarthamum one dram fine Aloes in Pouder half a dram mix them together This she took late at Night going to bed and it wrought early the next Morning she drinking then a little Posset-drink to make it work the more pleasantly It gave her eight stools and brought away many windy and watery excrements This she took every other day for about six times save the Dose of the Aloes was after the first time augmented to two scruples 3. By the often exhibition of this Purge her Courses were at length provoked and they came down very plentifully and well by which she received much benefit and comfort Moreover by this continual purging her hydropical Distemper was manifesty diminished though not perfectly taken away now whilst her Courses were coming down I desisted the aforesaid purging but to promote them the more effectually during the whole time of their flowing I caused her to take half a spoonful of Elixir Proprietatis in a glass of Rhenish or White-Wine Morning and Night 4. There are many other things which are thought powerfully to provoke the Terms in Women but I have truly found nothing so effectual as fine Aloes for that by a certain specifick Force opens the mouths of all the sanguiferous Vessels chiefly in the lower parts and performs that in five or six times taking which other Medicaments designed for the same purpose will not do in twenty times 5. The time of the flowing of her Courses being over
always afflicted her at set times so that she could tell before hand when a fit thereof would take her 3. Now the cause of the vomiting was without doubt from preaeternatural matter offending the nervous Tunicles of the Stomach which matter might be either those maw-Maw-worms the principal cause of that Pain she complained of or from some sharp humor collected or bred there but the cause of the periodical vomiting came from a new aggression of matter for after the matter at present offending was cast forth by the force of vomiting she seemingly became well as to that nor had she any more inclination thereto till the periodick time returned again which was commonly once in six or seven days but the Pain of her Stomach occasioned by the Worms still continued 4. But that we might be a little more curious than ordinary we a little Mathematically considered the cause thereof and we found the vomiting fit always or for the most part took her upon the Moons approach to the Conjunction Quartil and Opposition of Saturn from whence I concluded that it was a cold sowr unpleasant heavy melancholy humor which at those times was congregated together and afflicted her 5. That she had certainly worms was very evident not only from that gnawing at Stomach which she daily complained of but also from the coming away of them at several times both by vomit and stool and she often evacuated them upon taking of the Juyce of Centory the less which she was advised to by an old Woman 6. Having considered and well weighed her Distemper with the complications thereof I began the Cure with purging the which I performed with my Family Pills with Aloes she took them seven several times and they brought away from her about seventeen or eighteen long Worms of about seven or eight inches long I have given them several times for this very occasion with very great success whilst I was writing over this observation viz. 15. November 1683. I had a Letter sent to me from one Mr John Cordel of St. Jves in Huntinton-shire with the following account 7. Sir Your Pills begin now to be in request the first box that I sold of them brought from the Man that took them about thirty Worms some of them was half a yard long and one of them was eight foot and half long it was measured by a Carpenters Rule 8. Now as to the Periodical vomiting I conceived it in vain to attempt the cure thereof by Emeticks simply for that upon the revolution of certain times it exactly returned again which made me believe the Distemper proceeded from a general Discrasy of the Blood not a simple disaffection of the part and therefore that we ought to amend the general habit of the whole Body rather than apply ourselves to the peculiar symptom 9. For the removal of this cause therefore I gave such things as had a mighty power to alter the Blood among Vegetables I chose the Virginian Snake-root because of its singugular virtue in overcoming the Poyson of the Rattle-Snake which it performs in a moment and besides which no other vegetable upon earth is yet known to have power to answer that intention notwithstanding the Poyson of the Rattle-Snake transcends almost infinitly the power of all other Poysons Vegetable Mineral or Animal and transfuses its mortal malignity by contaminating the whole mass of Blood and nervous juyce and so extinguishing the vital flame 10. Among Animalls I made choise of the Viper and Toad because of their admirable effects the one in curing of a Leprosy though radicated which is an universal disaffection and contamination of all the juyces in the whole Body the other to wit that of the Toad in amending the watery disposition of the mass of Blood and taking away its evil and malign quality in the case of a Cancer which Experience has confirmed it has performed with a marvelous dexterity beyond all other things 11. Among Mâ—nerals I chose Gold and Antimony the one for its infinite diffusive power the other for its admirable effects not only of purifying Gold it self but also of cleansing and altering the whole mass of Blood in Mans body which it singularly performs beyond any other Mineral whatsoever being also a great friend to nature and as it were a kind of natural Balsam to the humane life correcting all its exorbitancies healing its disaffections and restoring and comforting one of its Essential parts to wit the Radical Humidity 12. From these reasons I made of the choice of the aforesaid particulars and out of them such Preparations as might be most condusive to the removing of the present Malady with respect also to the Paralytick Distemper Of the Virginian-snake-root I made a Tincture in rectified Spirit of Wine and also an Extract Of the Viper Viper-Wine and also a Pouder of Vipers Of the Toad a Salt of Toads Of Gold an Aurum Potabile And of Antimony Basil Valentine his Tincture 13. Out of these things I compounded these following Medicaments first an Extract Take Extract of Virginian-snake-root of a middle consistency six ounces Pouder of Vipers three ounces Salt of Toads half an ounce Aurum Potabile two drams mix them and bring it into the just consistency of an Electuary by adding a sufficient quantity of the Tincture of Antimony This Electuary the Patient took every Night going to bed the quantity of two drams at a time or better drinking after it a glass of Viper-Wine and continued the use thereof so long till the whole quantity thereof was spent 14. Secondly a liquid Mixture Take Viper-Wine from two to three ounces Tincture of Virginian-snake-root Tincture of Antimony of each two drams Aurum Potabile ten drops mix them for a Dose to be given every Morning fasting and to be continued every day so long aâ— the former Electuary lasts by the use of these things the Blood became truly purified and the periodical vomiting was perfectly taken away and truly with the use of Topicks also as follows the Paralytick Distemper was completely cured 15. But notwithstanding all these things we were not unmindful of the miserable Convulsions of the Mesentery which were attended with manifold symptoms and therefore while the other Medicaments were exhibited these following things were given in the intervals between Morning and Night Take choice Venice Treacle one dram Musk fourten grains Ambergrise six grains Indian green Ginger three drams mix and make a Bolus adding a little quantity of juyce of Alkermes This she took every day an hour before Dinner for eight days drinking after it this Take choice Hippocras Orange flower-water of each four ounces mix them for a draught 16. About four in the After-noon she took this mixture Take choice Hippocras six ounces Powers of Caraways Powers of sweet Fennel-seed of each thirty drops mix them for a draught By the use of these things together with bathing the whole region of the Abdomen with Powers of Aniseeds Morning and Night these
Betony Rosemary Origanum Calamint Staechas Marjoram wild Time of each half a handful roots of Acorus new Orris of each an ounce and half Bay-berries Pellitory of Spain Cubebs Nutmegs the three Peppers of each half a dram flesh of Squills an ounce roots of wild Cucumbers two drams Ground-pine Germander of each a pugil live Sulphur powdered half an ounce Oyl of Castoreum half a pound Oyl of Bays of Rue of each two ounces Aqua vitae half a pint Orange flower-water three ounces the strongest-Wine a quart boyl all these till the Wine is consumed to the strained liquor add Sagapenum Opopanax Bdellium of each two drams Castoreum two drams Mace Nutmegs Storax Cloves Lignum Aloes of each two drams long Pepper half a dram Balsam two ounces Oyl of Liquid Amber one ounce Vnguentum Martiatum Aregon Agrippae of each an ounce Oyl of Tiles of Turpentine of each two ounces Oyl of Mace of lignum Guajacum of each one ounce Oyl of the Pepers of Rosemary of Anise of Salt Angelica of Sulphur of Thyme of each an ounce Oyl of Euphorbium an ounce and half grease of a wild Cat Goose grease of each two ounces Badgers grease three drams Vipers grease a dram Oyl of Foxes an ounce Marrow of a Cows leg two drams juice of Dwarf-Elder Sage Bawm of each two ounces mix all and with a sufficient quantity of Wax melted in the foresaid Oyls reduce them to the form of an Oyntment of a middle consistency Zacutus Lusitanus lib. 1. Observ 34. XXIII A Palsy after Child-birth 1. Though the Palsy be a Disease bred of cold and clammy Juyce yet it somtimes arises from an humor somwhat hot in which case all Physicians grant Blood-letting to be necessary 2. But if the Palsy arise after Child-birth the menstrual Blood being suppressed out of what Part Blood is to be drawn those that write of Womens Diseases do not determine although it is a doubtful Question and full of difficulties 3. I remember that I have seen Women that have had a real Palsy in their Legs when after Child birth their Courses have not flowed in such a measure as might answer to the fulness of their Blood 4. These Women being taken with a burning Feaver the Physicians tormented with Purgations and local Remedies applyed to the Parts affected and exceeding hot Baths being extreamly affraid to let any blood 5. For if Blood be taken from the Arm it suppresses their Courses if from their Feet the Blood will be drawn to the Parts affected and the humors rushing violently down they make the Disease worse 6. But because this Disease took its original from a vapourous matter transmitted from the Womb to the original of the Nerves breeding in them an obstruction stopping the way by which the animal Spirits descend and hindering the sense and motion of the lower Parts and she had not been duly purged after her Child-birth and the Feaver hence arising was urgent and the Woman being ruddy of a musculous and well compacted Body and having broad Veins full of Blood I boldly took a good quantity of Blood from her right Ankle after which Evacuation the cause of the obstruction being taken away she began to move her Feet and so being let blood again in her other Foot her Legs recovered their sense and motion Zacutus Lusitanus Lib. 1. Observ 35. XXIV A Palsy in a Man of seventy years of age 1. A certain lusty and strong Souldier being in the seventieth year of his age having in the Eastern Countries served forty years in the Wars and consequently being much wasted and broken with hard marching and labour worn out with watchings and stricken in years he seemed of a thin Body and spare of Flesh yet his Body was musculous his Colour fresh his Veins large and full of Blood and as himself related he had during his past Life been troubled with few Diseases and those gentle which commonly were terminated and cured with bleeding at the Nose to which he was subject at the approach of the Spring all which proceeded from the abundance of Blood as his hot and moist Complexion declared 2. This Man was taken with a Palsy on his left Side which arose as it appears from what had been said from the plenty of Blood obstructing and the moisture thereof slackning his Nerves for he had a deep Redness in his Face and he voided red Spittle mixed with snotty Flegm and that without any Cough or straining 3. Being called to him although in regard of his age the Disease seemed incurable or at least it would continue long yet I entred upon the Cure in this manner having in the first place injected an emollient Clyster I drew Blood from the Basilica Vein of his right Arm. 4. And a great Company of Remedies being prepared to attenuate Heat and strengthen visiting him in the Evening he told me he found some sense in his palsied Arm and Leg. 5. I growing bolder though he was in years opened a Vein again on the following day and putrifyed Blood being voided he said he had his Feeling perfectly in his Arm For which cause since he was better and his bodily Forces were more vigorous the Burthen being taken off and the Passages being opened being let blood again the next day he began to stir his palsied Members 6. And lastly after the fourth blood-letting without any external Medicament applyed to the Parts by the motion of his Arm and Leg it appeared that he was perfectly cured Zacutus Lusitanus Lib. 1. Observ 36. XXV A Palsy of the Eye-lids 1. A certain Person travelling in the depth of Winter through the Snow fell into a Palsy of his Eye lids for they lost their sense insomuch that he could not move either his upper or lower Eye-lids for they stuck so closs together that they could not be parted but with an Instrument or with a Mans Nails for him to see 2. This Man after general Remedies respecting his whole Body and Head and diverse particular Applications was chiefly helped by an Ointment made of Balsam mixt with Aqua Vitae Zacutus Lusitanus Lib. 1. Observ 59. XXVI A Palsy of the Tongue cured by opening the Veins under the Tongue 1. The Flesh of the Tongue is soft rare lax like a Spunge which is covered with a very thin Membrane common to the Mouth and Palat into which the Nerves of the third and fourth conjugation are disseminated 2. These being palsied and the fault being communicated from the Brain viz. the way being intercepted and stopped by thick Blood and the free Passage both of the moving and sensitive Faculty being hindered a certain young Man fell into a Palsy of the whole Tongue for it wholly lost both Tast Motion and Speech 3. This Man tryed many Remedies which are wont to be contrived for an universal Palsy These things being done he had an Issue made in the Nape of his Neck and drank a Decoction of Ebony many days together 4. He took many times
Calamint red Sage of each one handful Succory Endive Agrimony common Maiden-hair the white Maiden-hair the golden Maiden-hair of each two handfuls fat dryed Figs number ten Raisons stoned choice Tamarinds of each one ounce the roots of Peony half an ounce the seeds of the same three drams the seeds of Fennel of bastard Lovage of each two drams the seeds of Daucus one dram the Cordial-flowers one pugil of Stoechas of Sage of Elder of Broom of each half a pugil fresh Agarick tyed up in a Cloath six drams make a Decoction in a fufficient quantity of Water strain take of the Colature one pound and half in which dissolve a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Oxymel simple Syrup of Maiden-hair of each three ounces the Pouder of Diarrhodon Abbatis two drams Nutmegs one dram Ginger half a dram make an Apozem clarified and aromatized of which one may take every Morning six ounces 3. Take fresh Castoreum two drams the Ashes of Maiden hair one dram dissolve them in Oxyrrhodinum then put all into the form of an Oyntment whereby a part of the Head being shaved may be anointed 4. Take the following Masticatory Pyrethrum boyled in a sufficient quantity of Oxymel chew thereof three or four times a day a good space after eating 5. Take old Treacle two drams Castoreum two scruples a little of the Juyce of Marjoram mix and anoint the Pallat. 6. Take Marjoram Thym Hysop Penny-royal Calamint of each one handful the flowers of Stoechas two pugils the seeds of Rue three drams of Fennel one ounce make a Decoction whose Vapours must be taken up into the Nostrils 7. The following Electuary is to be used Take Conserves of old Râ—ses one ounce the flesh of Quinces consected and dipt in Rose-Water six drams the Pouder of Quinces without the Species three drams red Coral calcin'd and washed in Rose-Water the seeds of Coriander diligently prepared of each two drams Sugar of Roses tabulated a sufficient quantity make a Mixture of which after eating take one spoonful 8. Let him abstain from Wine because of the Fumes which sends it up the Head as also because of a Feaver Albertinus Bottonus apud Scholzium Cons 325. XXVIII An Apoplexy from Blood 1. A plethorick Woman red coloured a Ministers Wife going to Market and taking up Money that lay upon the Table fell suddenly she bleed at Mouth and Nose and died presently 2. This I saw in another and in diverse others at the point of Death somtimes after they were newly dead the cause of this I shewed to be from Blood Plat. Observ Lib. 1. Pag. 14. XXIX An Apoplexy by a fall 1. A Country-man coming home from the City having sufficiently wet his Palat with Liquor fell down by the way and could not rise nor speak he was carried home but all imputed this Accident to his Drunkenness 2. The next day after the drunken fit was over he remained Dumb and one side resolved with the Palsy and the other was hot 3. And because I thought it came from Blood I advised Phlebotomy but it was neglected because they alledged he was too weak to be let Blood then I commanded that his body should be well rubbed 4. And because he had difficulty in Breathing his Breast was ordered to be anointed with the Resumptive Ointment 5. At length he began to hawk out blood and take broth but he was very hot Therefore I gave him the following Julep Take syrup of Vinegar Bugloss Violets of each an ounce Primrose and Chervil Water of each two ounces let him drink it at twice Morning and Evening 6. The Night before he had a Suppository he opened a Vein in his Arm and the day following took this Purge Take Rubarb a dram Mummy a scruple Electuary of juice of Roses a dram and half with Chervil-water the next day he took Conserve of Rose and Prim-roses and so was perfectly cured Platerus Lib. 1. Pag. 15. XXX A sudden Apoplexy 1. An old man fell suddenly in the Street void of Sense and Motion and was Dumb I gave him a little Elixir Vitae made of many Infusions which was by drops put into his Mouth he had also a sharp Suppository and the day following he could swallow again 2. I gave him the Elixir Vitae again with Lavender-water And the next day this Potion Take Tablets of Diacarthamum of my description two drams Diagridium half a scuple with Lavender and Sage-water make a small Potion He purged well with it and came well to himself 3. I also advised this Hydromel Take Honey and Water and Rocket-seed a dram boyl them he drank it for his Wind and was perfectly cured Platerus Observ Lib. 1. pag. 15. XXXI An Apoplexy from a fluid or moist dissolved Brain 1. An old Woman of Montpessul was suddenly taken with an Apoplexy and died 2. We opened her Head in the Monastery and found that in the thick film or Meninx her brain did swag too and fro and when the Dura Mater was opened there ran over all her Face a thick Liquor like white broath and stuck in rags upon it this Case and its Causes I shewed Platerus Observ Lib. 1. Pag. 16. XXXII The fear of an Apoplexy from a Heaviness and Fluctuation in the Head 1. A strong noble Man who lived intemperately feared an Apoplexy by reason of a certain heaviness of his Head and fluctuation as if his Head was great and empty and opened and shut like a Purse sometimes he was bad at other times better as to his Head but in other respects he was well except melancholy and dull 2. I judged it to proceed from flegm and water in the Skull by many circumstances I bid him be of good cheer because he was young he promised obedience and I ordered this following 3. Take Diaphoenicon two drams Diacatholicon half an ounce syrup of Roses solutive an ounce with a little Cinnamon-water make a Potion it wrought indifferent well 4. The day after the Vein in his Arm was opened for he was square bodied and Plethorick 5. Then he had this Apozem Take Fennel-roots one ounce Orrice half an ounce Acorus Cyprus Elecampane each two drams Liquorice six drams Fennel Vervain Eye-bright Betony Fumitory of each an handful Tyme Hysop of each an handful and half Stoechas Rosemary Borage-flowers each a pugil Fennel-seed two drams Carraway Anise Seseli Siler mountane Rue-seed of each a dram Raisons ten pair Sena two ounces Polypody Carthamus-seeds of each an ounce Turbith two drams Rubarb a dram and half Cinnamon two drams Spike a dram with sugar and Cinnamon make an Apozem he drank it four times and it wrought very well 6. He had three Cupping-glasses to both sides of his Neck and Shoulders with Flame in the Morning thrice and the fourth time with Scarification These with the Purge was to make Revulsion after that he was thus purged 7. Take Orrice-root half an ounce Liquo rice-roots an ounce Sage Marjoram of each an handful Lavender and Rosemary flowers of
Dose from half a dram to three drams 4. Aurum Diaphoreticum Poterij Take of the most fine Gold one part Mercury of Antimony a sufficient quantity dissolve and make an Amalgama boyl this with a gentle fire for the space of four days in a glass Vessel a Cubit and half high whose inferiour part let be large and broad but the superiour narrow and long let the fire be gentle and continual In this manner the Amalgama will be turned into a most rubicund Pouder which for fifteen days circulate with Spirit of Wine in Horse-dung then draw off the Spirit so have you Diaphoretick Gold Dose from four to six or eight grains in some proper Conserve Wine or Broth. 5. Theriaca Metallorum Poterij Take revived Mercury four parts stellified regulus of Antimony two parts most fine Gold one part melt the Gold with the Regulus to which add the Mercury made hot by it self mix them together and make an Amalgama which Pouder upon a Porphory stone This matter boyl with a gentle heat in a sufficient quantity of the Hemophroditick Balneum till the whole is well fixed dose from six to ten grains 6. Antihecticum Poterij Take the Electrum minus prepared of the regulus of Antimony and Mars together with Jupiter in equal proportion but some say that Jupiter must be in double proportion pouder them very finely add and mix well therewith Sal Niter poudre in a tripple proportion calcine them in a crucible with a gentle Detonation and keep them in a red hot heat for some hours being cold wash away the Salt by many affusions of fair warm water then dry the Pouder between Papers keep it for use Dose from five grains to seven 7. Terra Sancta Rulandina apud Rolfincium Take well streaked Hungarian Antimony two pounds put it upon a red hot plate of Iron or a Tile or into a red hot Iron or Earthen Crucible continually stir it with an Iron rod till it is reduced to a Calx But note That if you be not careful in governing your fire it will run into heaps and must be again beaten and calcined till it turns into a grey Calx and ceases to fume It gently moves the Belly the infusion being given thus Take Terra Sancta one ounce Wine half a pound let them stand one night in Infusion Dose from one ounce to two according to age and strength XXIV The Vertues and Vses of the Natural Balsamum de Chili 1. There is lately brought from Chili a Province in America a most excellent Natural Balsam differing both from that of Peru and Tolu but no ways inferiour in Virtues and Excellency as the several Experiments made by several learned Physicians in the curing of Diseases has given evident demonstration 2. It is a Remedy that no Man under the Sun can Compose being a Natural Balsam Distilling from a small Tree in Chili bearing a Leaf something differ-from an Olive-Leaf It is without doubt the most precious of all Natural Balsams by reason of its great Virtue and admirable odour excelling all others even the most fragrant 3. It eases all manner of Pains in any part of the Body coming of Cold or Wind chiefly pains of the Stomach indigestion and want of Appetite corroborating and strengthning of it after a wonderful manner It cures all Ulcers of the Breast and Lungs Reins Bladder or Womb Inward Bruises Spitting of Blood and such like It helps shortness of Breath Coughs Consumptions Wheasings Hoarsness Asthma's and other Diseases of both parts 4. It is excellent against the Falling-sickness Apoplexy Convulsions Palsy Lethargy Tremblings old Head-achs Megrims Vertigo's and other cold and moist diseases of the Brain and Nerves being inwardly taken as shall be hereafter directed and outwardly annointed upon the part It strengthens the Brain comforts the memory and fortifies all Senses both Intâ—â—nal External beyond any other Natural Balsam 5. It kills Worms whether in old or young cures Ruptures although of many years standing and dissolves the Stone and expels it as also Sand Gravel or Slime or any other thing which may obstruct the Urine or stops up its passages So that it 's believed there is scarcely a better Remedy for that purpose upon Earth for it gives ease in the vehementest Pains being constantly taken for a time perfects the Cure 6. It eases also all Chollick pains Gripings Wind in the Stomach or Bowels and perfectly cures all Fluxes Bloody-Fluxes Excoriations and such other like distempers of the Guts It cures deafness pain and noise in the Ears to a wonder a drop or two being put into the Orifice of the Ear and kept in with a little Cotton dipt in the same 7. It cures the Green-sickness in Virgins and provokes the Terms in Women being taken from Ten to Twenty Thirty or Fourty drops in a Glass of White-Wine as shall be anon directed Morning and Night for a Week together It cures also Barrenness promotes Conception and causes easie and speedy delivery to Women in Travel and in a great measure prevents or takes away after-pains taken to the quantity aforesaid in a Glass or Juniper or Cinnamon-water 8. The way and manner of taking it Inwardly In Diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves gives it in Rosemary or Cinnamon-Water or in Canary For the Stone and other Diseases of the Reins and Bladder you may give it in Rhenish-Wine For the Cholick and diseases of the Bowels you may give it in Juniper-Water For Palsies Gouts and Weaknesses of the Nerves and Joynts you may give it in some Antiparalytick-Wine If the Sick cannot take it in any proper Wine or Water it may be given mixt with any proper Syrup If it cannot be so taken it may be made up into Pills with some fit Powder as of Zedoary Nutmeg Cinnamon Bayberries Cubebs or what the Physitian shall think more proper and so gilded for by this means it will be taken without nauseating you give it from half a dram to two yea to three drams acccording to Age and strength and it may be given Morning and Night for a Month two or three togethâ—â—â—â—out any prejudice 9. And 〈…〉 â—â—â—tain that this Balsam is one of the greatest Specincks in the cure of the Palsy Scurvy and Gout that is it transcending all other Medicaments but it ought to be constantly given and in a due Dose and with those advantages that it may not nauseat the Stomach So taken it performs more than any other Natural Balsam it cleanses the whole Body of all Impurities Mundifies the whole Mass of Blood Heals all inward Bruises Wounds Ulcers or Excoreations whether in the Bowels or Lungs and otherwise restores decayed Nature to a miracle carrying off all its Faeculenties by Urine and Stool The Merchant that has brought it over has only intrusted it to be Sold with Mr. Thomas Passenger at the Three-Bibles on London Bridge where it may always be had in any quantity ready put up in square Glasses Sealed with the Balsam
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