their poysonous and adverse quality at set times as the nature of the poyson is by soliciting the membranes and nervous kind do cause that long continued Epilepsie and almost incurable Yet the nature of which cause as also of other poysons we can no otherwise know then as by dissection made somtimes a Speck is discovered somtimes some humor black or froathy in some inward part of the Skul or bone or membrane or brain but somtimes nothing at all but that 't is a poysenous faculty we collect from this because it is not with a manifest cause or of such moment nevertheless produces such horrid symptomes and yet in the interim doth not kil the man nor yeilds to no Remedies And also this poysonous cause lying in the bowels produceth the like long continued and peâ—inacious Epilepsies as poysons taken in the Stomach and Guts which have some propriety of begetting an Epilepsie or meat changed into the nature of poyson or excrements putting on a venenate quality conteined in those places or also in the Womb as they would have it Of all which that these are the causes and do lie in the veins is judged and known from the affects concurring with them as hath been said or from others offering themselves about the heart strings and the veins and from the faults of the womb and stomach The Veins also if they be filled with malignant and venenate humors of this kind as it often happens in pernicious diseases especially in the pestiferous epidemical and contagious and that malignant vertue do besiege not only the heart but especially the nervous kind then deadly Convulsions do follow such as are wont to happen in Fevers not by reason of too much extinction of the Nerves from vehement heat but by reason of the malignant nature of the humor or also if without these diseases a humor heaped up in the veins changed into a malignant quality do put on that nature inimicous to the brain and Nerves that induceth rather epileptical accidents than others as in melancholy that such a poysonous quality is there also wont to cause the true melancholy and madness we shal shew in the alienation of the mind then I suppose that long continued and incurable Epilepsie doth chiefly proceed from this cause as also a poysonous cause raised from the same place doth cause that madness that lasts so long the which also for the like reason 't is probable doth happen in the mesaraick veins such matter being collected there which do produce rather an Epilepsie than hypochondriack melancholly where also many do write that a Catalepsis is conteined to wit a melancholly humor which we moreover hold to be malignant from whence vapors raised up do cause it And the manner of curing a Catalepsis they apply to this place and humor as we shall by and by shew And also in Women such matter is wont more commonly to be heaped up about the veins of the Womb where also the blood reteined and corrupted rather than the seed which we think can scarce come to that malignity doth cause Convulsion such as are often wont to happen in Virgins and Women that are hysterical their courses being stopt before and after their childing and it may also give an occasion for a Catalepsis That the like quality may arise in the habit of the body and cause an Epilepsie experience witnesseth with which Galen and Fernelius being instructed they write that they have observed the one that an Air in an Epileptick Child ascending from his Foot the other that a Vapor running from the Crown through the outward parts of the head did give occasion of the Epileptical fits as often as they came and we also have somtimes observed that an Air running from the hand where afterwards an Imposthume hath bred as also from the feet other or places hath done the like That the like poyson entring the body from without doth occasion Epilepsies for the like reason as in other Countries the bitings of virulent Beasts especially of the Viper and stinging of the Scorpion do shew so in our Countries 't is manifest that it doth happen from the biting of a mad Dog and besides the symptomes of madness and other cruel ones they are endangered by Convulsions and at length by many fits the Patients are carried away 'T is not yet sufficiently manifest whether there be any things found out which can produce an Epilepsie anew only by their malignant smel yet that epileptical fits are furthered by the smel of some things is certain which do it either by a certain propriety of which are reckoned the ashes of an Asses hoof Goats horn Weathers feet burnt also the smel of Bitumen Myrrhe Smallage and also the breathings of the Goats flesh or the Liver of the Hee-Goat and so much the more if they be eaten or because by a vehement and subtile vapor they assail the head and the nerves made weak by the continuance of this disease as also Wine which besides this doth easily alof its own nature trouble the Nerves they occasion Epileptical fits The Cure In these kind of cases proceeding from the brain all the operation of the Physitian which consists in prediction and Cure must be applied to the Cause nor neglecting in the mean time that symptome which is most urgent If therfore from a simple distemper cold and moist imprinted on the brain as we have said in old folks might happen by reason of their age The Cure of sleep and stupididity from a cold distemper or from a disease of long continuance they become sleepy or stupid yet are not altogether sick as that is hardly corrected so this fault is hardly taken away yet this distemper may be somewhat mended as was said in a weakness of the mind generated from the like causes by the same altering medicines and nourishments both taken and applied As also if the stupidity happen from a cold and dry distemper those things wil serve which are spoken of there in mending of the same distemper but if a stupidity follow the brain actually cooled by the external air or wind it wil be amended by applying of skins and feathers and other things actually hot also by suffumigations which because they serve also in a flegmatick cause they shall there be explained more fully But if a heavy sleep be from flegm or an afflux of a cold humor or from the excrements of the brain as was said The Cure of a Carus and Apoplexy from flegm although the common people despair of them which they judg not opprest with sleep but toucht with an appoplexy and indeed they are not free from danger yet the hopes of Cure is not to be cast off whenas many of them are cured unless some grievous accident supervene as a Convulsion and the humor putrefying an accute Feaver as shal be said do accompany it as in a Lethargie which in old folks is deadly though I have seen also after some
after birth which is ordinary come from this cause as shal be shewed And then they growing together and being forced before the time the birth is more difficult with pain and bleeding and Inflammation of the Womb sometimes with a Feaver and danger of life The same symptomes follow when the Secundine remaineth fast either being whol or rent And also after a fall stroak or taking of a violent medicine there is untimely birth Or from the violent usage of the Midwife taking these pains for Throws they do often provoke with great danger of life And some I have known die of the â—ame and some I have cured These pains of the Womb go before Throws in many for which they send for the Midwife which increaseth them but should rather use hysterical means to mitigate them for these pains do rather hinder the Throws than further them Sometimes there is difficulty and impossibility of bringing forth from the Orifices of the Womb within and the neck without and the cleft of the Privities through which the Infant must pass The inward orifice of the Womb. It is also no wonder if there be hard Travail when the inward orifice of the womb is so streight when the Woman is with Child that nothing can pass in or out and the orifice of the neck of the womb without is no larger than to receive the yard and they both must be so inlarged as to let the Infant pass through And the more when they are by nature straiter and harder The outward orifice of the neck straitned as in those who have not of a long time had Children and old women which all have hard delivery Or if they be drier in regard the water which moisten the passages is spent The Infant may stop in the Privities when they are too strait or short The straitness of the Privities because they cannot be enlarged as the orifices and swel as they do in Bitches in Women the Privity is alwaies of the same largeness as shal be shewed in Conception Also the straitness of the neck of the womb to the Privities is the cause of hard Labor The straitness of the neck of the womb although it be large yet it must be stretched to let out the Child and this stretching causeth pain then as Rondeletius supposeth the separating of the Secundine from the Matrix he was mistaken in thinking that Travail was without pain when the Secundine remained fast For we shewed that if the time be come that wil separate without pine And I have often observed that the pains continued when the Secundine remained Also there follows bleeding from the opening of the Menstrual Veins in the Neck of the Womb which is stretched as in the time of the Terms And that part of the Neck suffers not where it lieth under the bones of the Privities in a strait place which also containeth the strait Gut Although it be larger in Women then in Men by reason of the loosning and Relaxing of the Grisles which joyns the bones and the going back of the Rump except the Woman be strait and short loyned being of little stature and then the difficulty will be increased And also when the strait Gut is ful of Excrements or the Rump pressed in by sitting They report that fat women especially about the Womb Whether fat can cause hard Travail have hard Travil though experience teacheth the contrary neither is there any fat in the Womb or its Neck And that fat which is without in the Belly cannot hinder except it be by making them more heavy or slow in the time The Cure If the Child be too big to be delivered A Praediction especially if it come not from the Womb it will die there and the Mother will be in danger if it come forth she usually dieth of the second or third Child if she breed them so great Also when the Child comes cross or the Orifices or passages be strait Many women that have the Secondine growing to them after Travil do die If she hath a mole we shall shew in depraved Conception what is to be foretold and done for that In all cases if the strength be abated much and she faint bleed or have a Feaver it is dangerous If these dangers are feared we must prevent in time The forewarning and Cure of difficult Travil before the delivery by a good Diet. And nothing must be given to provok before the last month Let her Diet be sparing and of little nourishment if she use to bear great Children and be fat Let her abstain from Wine or drink it with water let her bleed in the middle of her being with Child and if she be plethorck let it be done again a while after and let her not sleep too much Presently after Conception let weak people be refreshed with good Diet. Let the Diet be moist and slippery if the Orifices be strait and let her use Baths In the last month let things be used to make easie Deliverance but not before the throws Let some light things be given then to provoke especially Baths and Oyntments to loosen the passages Increasing their strength by degrees as the time draws on and when the throws come proceed to strong expellers of the Child And at last if the Child be certainly dead or the Secundine not voided use the strongest things such as would have killed the Child had it been living and therefore were not to be used before All these are to be performed in and before the Birth either by the Husband or the Mother or the Midwise or by the Chyrurgion or by the Physitian by remedies taken or applied Many teach and it is agreeable to reason that if a man use his wife often a little before or in time of the Birth the Labor will be easie and she will be more lightsome Travil is quickned by the help of the Mother if she stand up often and walk in the last month up a hill especially at the time of dilivery The endeavor of the Mother is very necessary for nature cannot do it alone therefore she must strain and contract the Muscles as when she goes to the stool And when she perceives her pains coming being taught by the Midwife that her delivery is at hand for she must not be forced before least the Child be delivered without the Secundine as I shewed She must hold her breath strain and contract the Muscles of her belly to expel as much as possible and the Midwife with others must exhort her thereunto And let her be put upon a stool that is hollow and that will not keep the Rump from going back and so let her lean backwards Or if more force be required let her stand up and lean or be held up by the Arms. If fatness hinder let her Face be down towards the ground to her Knees And let her take large steps when she is wearied with straining and knock her
Want of Conception The Kinds WHen a Woman is of Age to Conceive and hath her Courses naturally Barrenness and hath the use of a Man and conceiveth not it is called Sterility or Barrenness And if she have conceived and brought forth and after brings not forth which is usual in the space of three or four years it is a defect of Generation which is necessary for the propagation of mankind Of those which are thus barren some are sound of a good habit of Body and are often fatter then those which have born Children and look not quickly so old But oftentimes there are defects of the Womb joyned with this defect Viragoes or manlike Women either they never had their Courses and therefore called Viragines and because they also engender not Or their Courses which they had either flow not or little and disorderly with difficulty and discolored This often hapneth to such as have the whites a Disease usual with barren Women And they have other inconveniences which either cause barrenness or come from thence As when some bring forth only Females which may hinder the Progeny of the Name The Causes The Cause why a Woman conceiveth not when there is no defect perceived in the Venerial act is either because she receives not the Seed into the Womb or retains it not being received And this happneth from the Seed or Genitals of the Man or Woman This comes from the occasion of mans Seed The Cause of Barrenness from the Man is little Seed or Crudity when it is not sufficient in quantity or fit for Generation and though a Woman receives it either there is no Procreation or it s in vain as a Mole whereof we shall speak for if there be not so much as will fill the Cavity of the Womb which therefore was made little a Child cannot be conceived And this is the cause that if the Seed be not enough for Generation but often by too much Venery or running of the Reins abated that such Generate not as they who use it seldom and either for Procreation or health sake are very temperate Hence it is that old men marrying young maids get Children as my Father after fourscore in regard they are less hot and eager then young men and go to it but seldom Also if the Seed be not concocted but crude thin and waterish or too cold and with spirits or the like which takes away the vertue it cannot beget Children This comes from weakness of the Vessels or mixture of evil humors and from the causes mentioned in Impotency and Lechery somtimes there is a secret fault in the Seed which doth not hinder Procreation which passeth to the Children and shews it self then and conveighs the like to the Grandchild when it is of the age the Father was when his disease first appeared Hence it is that the Gout Leprosie and the like are propagated It is probable that this defect is in the seed of the Man when he begets no Males but Females The seed of a Man and Woman is the cause why Males or Females are begotten because it is weaker than the Womans which beareth away the Bell for the sex It is better to impute the secret causes to the seed than to the temper or the change of the sex or to the seeds coming from this or that Stone for a Man with one Stone of what temper soever may beget Children of both sexes It is necessary for Generation that the Womans seed should be mixed with the mans When Barrenness is from the Woman it comes from Crudity impurity or want of seed for the Generation of a Faemale as may be seen by the likeness of the Mother in both now if the seed be defective or be in less quantity than is fit Barrenness is by the womans cause and oftener than by the man for a Woman without seed may suffer Copulation but a man without is unfit for it and this is the cause why Whores which spend their seed for gain so that they are sapless cannot conceive though they receive And if if it be impure crude or the like not only Harlots but other Women are impotent and diseased But if the temper of the Womans seed be the same with the Mans they say there can be no generation from the equality but diversity But we affirming the seed to be hot do not place the generative vertue in it but in the seemly temper of them both It seldom happens that a man is in fault by reason of the Yard so it can but act for though it be not so long as others it hindreth not but the seed may be sent into the Womb if there be no other obstacle for the womb being then hot and greedy after seed easily condescends and takes it in But if the hole in the head of the Yard which sends forth seed and Urin The opening of the Yard being wrong is cause of defect in Conception be not in the middle so that it may directly aim at the inward Orifice of the womb but in the side or beneath as I have known in some who have been born so or if there be a Fistula beneath so that it is not sent to the mouth of ths womb it is nothing worth If Barreness come from the Womb it is seldom caused by the neck thereof but by accident as it hinders Copulation as I said But this may be often caused from the Orifice of the bottom of the womb or the substance thereof The inward Orifice of the womb The largeness loosness closeness of the orifice internal of the womb is the cause of Barrenness or that clift which is close and narrow and openeth at the time of Conception drawing the seed unto it if it be too large though then it easily receive the seed yet because it reteineth not it long enough it is the cause of barrenness This comes from an evil birth when the child hath been violently taken away by reason of the bigness or ill posture when it is so stretched that it cannot return as in other cases to its former proportion And this is the cause why many times Women after difficult Travail never conceive again some Women also are unfit for Conception by reason of the loosness of the Orifice by moist excrement either in the Womb or the neck thereof by reason of the Whites And when the Orificeis shut up so that it cannot be opened there canbe no Conception because the seed cannot be admitted this may be naturally or by a scar or excrescence of flesh after the parts have been ulcerated or torn in hard Travail by which means the outward Orifice though larger hath been closed as I shewed before It is seldom stopt from other causes What they say of Fat in the neck or bottom of the womb we have shewed cannot cause barrenness but the cause is the not opening of the womb in conception for at other times it is
Troches of Gallia and Alypta Moschata put one upon the Coales Or this not so pleasant Take Mastick Frankincense Storax Labdanum of each a dram Cloves Cinnamon Nutmegs Cypress nuts yellow Sanders of each half a dram Castor a scruple Make a Pouder sprinkle a little upon the Coales Things that are put into the womb are called Nascals and if they be far put in Pessaries they are to purge the womb from moisture after Purging and the Terms when the whites flow before bathing or at that time for two or three nights continuance or to make the Courses flow kindly a little before they appear Thus Take Mercury leaves green bruise them and put them in a silk bag anoynted with Batter If it be too sharp use Honey and yolks of Eggs. Or thus Take Pulvis Benedictus half an ounce Agarick three drams Gith seed one dram Goats-gall one dram and an half Pease flower one ounce with juyce of Mercury or Beets Make a Pessaty To heat and dispose the womb for Conception after bathing and Fumes when she is in bed let her use the following Remedies all night the three last nights of bathing Thus Take Triphera magna without Opium one ounce Mastick half an ounce Storax one dram the runnet of a Kid or Hare half an ounce Civet or Musk half a scruple make Pessaries in Bags Or thus Take Mastick half an ounce Frankincense three drams Ivory shavings one dram and an half Cypress nuts one dram Balm Nep Cloves Spicknard of each half a dram Civit or Musk half a scruple or one scruple of Castor with the Runnet of a Hare or Kid and three drams of Storax Make Pessaries In Viragoes whose womb is hard and dry it must be enlarged thus Take Goose and Hens grease Mucilage of Faenugreek made with Wine yolks of an Egg each half an ounce Rosin of the Larch tree Runnet of a Kid of each two drams Orris roots three drams Storax two drams Wax Musk and Castor Make Pessaries You must anoynt after bathing the Navil and Groins above the Privities Oyl Moschalinum is the best Or thus Take Oyl of Wall flowers of Nard Hens and Goose grease of each half an ounce Storax two drams Cloves Mutmegs Mace of each a dram wood Aloes Schaenanth of each half an ounce Gallia moschata one dram Wax as much as will make a Liniment This is best Take Oyl of Marjoram and Cloves by distillation of each a scruple Oyl of Nutmeg by expression one dram Civit and Musk some grains with Wax make a Liniment for the Navel and Womb some daies after bathing before she come to her Husband She must have a Plaster also to the Reins and Perinaeum to cause the womb to attract Seed and strengthen to retain it at the same time or when bathing Fumes Oyntments and Pessaries are over and she begins again to go to her Husband using it continually or at least every night to the last week wherein she expects her Courses As this Take the Plaster for the Womb one ounce Gallia moschata one dram Storax one dram and an half Cloves one dram Mastick two drams with Oyl Moscheline Make a Plaster If the Terms be stopt a month or two and we fear she is sped with Child you must rest and expect a week or two and let her be quiet and except they return let the Plaster following be applied to the parts aforesaid to keep Conception and prevent Abortion and she must keep it on every night Take Emplaster of Mastick an ounce Snakeweed roots three drams Cyprussnuts Hypocystis of each two drams red Sanders red Roses Cloves of each a dram with Oyl of Mastick Make a Plaster Decent Copulation is very necessary for Conception and it must be when both Male and Female have a vehement desire and it is better when desired from long want of enjoyments then from provocatives And this is the cause why men returning from Travail and Women from bathing or abstinence from Venery do sooner procreate Then it must be ordered that both seeds may meet at the time and not be presently parted And when the Woman thinks she hath her due let her abstain til the Child be grown to the Womb and well confirmed If they go to it a day or two after the Courses then there is hopes of Conception somthink the best time to hit is when they have their Terms But we think it may be done at any time while the Womb is hot as was shewed There are some that teach divers filthy postures to cause Conception and which is worse paint them forth If a man afore Copulation anoynt his Yard with Civet in regard the Womb is delighted with the scent thereof some think the Seed will be sooner received They report that the smel of Civet Amber greese Musk in baths or Cloves or Pillows especially at night maketh Women apt to Conception That a Male may be conceived The Reason of getting Males or Females rather then a Female some think it may be by their using both a hotter and dryer Diet then ordinary that Males are gotten which are of the hottest Nature Others say that if a man before Copulation eate the Matrix of a Hare and the woman take the Stones dryed and Poudered in white wine a Male will be begotten Or if the man anoynt his Yard with Goose grease and Turpentine three daies before Copulation Some think that of the Seed of the right stone the Males are begotten and the Females of the Seed of the left And that by binding this or that stone at the time of Copulation a Male or Female may be begotten These follow Aristotle who adviseth this to be done to Cattle But this is fals as may be seen in those that are Gelt of one stone and yet beget both Sexes as we shewed Also reason teacheth that except the binding be so straight that the Seed Vessels be intercepted the passage of Seed cannot be hinder'd And if that be done the man cannot be without great pain and so will have little mind to the sport I 'le warrant you Others thinks that Males are begot in the right side and Females in the left side of the womb and therefore advise women to turn on the right side after Copulation Others Superstitiously bind the right Foot with a white rowler of a Boyes and the left Foot with a black THE SECOND TOME IN ONE BOOK Which is the THIRD OF THE Whole Work Of Dolors or Griefs or Pains BY Dolor we understand here every Molestation or trouble of the five Senses of which sick people complain more then of the hurt of any Function which is joyned therewith we therefore shall not speak in this Book of Pain or Dolor as it is in the sense of Feeling but as it is in all the Senses These Dolors are distinguished in respect of the senses wherein they are for all the senses may be offended but divers waies For the four senses in the Face and the fifth which is
that are joyned to it causeth stretching or tearing pain in the Hypochondria when the Peritonaeum or Cawle is stretched are caused from the affliction of the Bowels as Liver or Spleen which are joyned to the Cawle or from the Vessels of the womb which grow to the Back and by the Cawle Hence it is that pains of the Womb reach thither or from the stretching of the Peritonaeum in a Tympany or in Women with Child there is a little pricking or by continuance a great pain as in the Hernia or Rupture The Causes of all these shall be laid down in other great accidents which befal The Stomach being on the left side under the Hypochondrion A Disease in the stomach causeth a Hypochondriack pain is pained about the lodge of the Heart before with a pain called Cardialgia on the left side especially in the Hypochondriack Melancholy when there is rumbling and burning As is shewed in Melancholy The pain of the Colon which is placed under the Stomach The Colick causeth the Hypochondriack pain from one side to the other is also in the Hypochondrion but stayes not but runs about the Belly As shall be shewed in the Colick The Cure We shall mention only here the Cure of those Diseases with pain in the Hypochondria The cure of heavy dul or stretching pain from the Liver Spleen Reins or Cawle For the Cure of the Diseases of the Liver Spleen Reins Cawle which we mention here only for the pain sake because the pain in them is dul shal be shewed in other Symptoms as Cachexy Jaundies Dropsie and the like by which they are more manifest then by the pain The cure of pains from the stomach Colon or Womb. Also if there be pain in the Hypochondria from the Stomach Womb or Colon reaching thither because the pains of the stomach are more in the region of the Heart and of the Colon and Womb more in the lower Belly where they lye we have shewed the Cure of that in Pains of the Heart and of those Pains in the Belly And here we shall only declare the Cure of the Pain where it chiefly shews it self in respect of its cause as it comes from the Inflammation of the Liver Spleen or Kidneys called Hepatitis Splenitis or Nephritis Or from the Peritonaeum or Cawle vulgarly called Spleneticus The Inflammations and Erysipelas of the Liver and Spleen The cure of the Inflammation of the Liver Spleen and Kidneys are dangerous and often deadly and if they imposthume and leave an Ulcer or be ill cured and a Hardness or Scirrhus follow they cause a Dropsie and incurable Diseases The Inflammations of the Kidneys are more easily cured they are worst when the Stone is there also If they leave an Ulcer it is also very stubborn as shall be shewed The Method in the cure of all these Inflammations is the same as in others that is while they are coming to divert the Blood another way from the part or by repelling and deriving it and to allay the Heat and Burning and to discuss the remainder or if that may not be to ripen it And if there be Hardness Scirrhus or Imposthume and after that is broken an Ulcer which may be both in Liver Spleen and Kidneys we shall shew what is then to be done in other Symptomes that come from thence Against Inflammation use the following Remedies Blood-letting diverts the Blood while it is flowing to the part another way especially in the Inflammation of the Liver or Kidneys which have great Branches from the hollow Vein And in the Phlegmon of the Spleen also it must not be neglected though it hath Veins only from the Gate Vein for reasons shewed in Inflammation of the Stomach Therefore in the Inflammation of all the the three parts except any thing prohibit open suddenly that Vein which most appeareth on the same side and bleed plentifully for Revulsion and if there be great Plethory or Fullness open the same Vein again or that in the Hand on the same side either against the Thumb or little or middle Finger according to Rhasis And in the Inflammation of the Kidneyes open the Vein in the Foot The Haemorrhoids being Branches of the Gate Vein if they be opened derive much from the Inflammation of the Spleen and revell from other Inflammations Cupping Glasses to the Hipps and Buttocks or that side do revell and derive in the Inflammation of the Reins The Ancients did use them the day after bleeding to the right Hypochondrion when the Liver was Inflamed after scarification and applyed them the next day again to the same place others used them only at the Declination to take away the residue without Scarification Also Ligatures and Frictions of the extream parts are good at the first as in other Inflammations to revell And Clysters before Bleeding and when the Body is bound as it useth to be in these Inflammations or Suppositories are good And Clysters because they reach into the Colon and come near to the part and cool are best at the first and are as altering Topicks such as are prescribed in Fevers A loosning Clyster that a little provoketh Take Mallows Roots and all Beets and for the Kidneys Pellitory of the wall each an handfull Violets Bran each a pugil Lineseed an ounce Anniseed a dram boyl and strain them dissolve Honey Butter and Oyl each an ounce and half Pulpe of sweet Prunes or Cassia an ounce with a little Salt make a Clyster A cooling Clyster Take the emollient Herbs and Roots Purslane Gourd leaves each an handful Violets Mallows and Chamomile flowers each a pugil Linseed six drams four great cold seeds an ounce Barley a pugil boyl and dissolve Honey of Violets halfe an ounce Cassia an ounce Oyl of Violets and Water-Lillies each an ounce and half If they cannot take Clysters give a Laxative take heed of Purgers for fear of more Flux and Inflammation Cassia therefore is not very safe But we give things that loosen without heat and pricking as Prunes and other loosning fruits and Spinach Mallows Violets boyled in Broaths Whey syrup of Violets and Roses and the like In the declination or after the fourth day when heat abates to take away the reliques when the Liver or Spleen are afflicted we give a gentle Purge because they can discharge themselves by the Meseraicks into the Guts And the rather when the Disease is in the hollow part of the Liver into which the Gate-vein branches it self and if Choler boyling in the Gall or sent out causeth an Erysipelas In these cases we may give Cassia or some gentle Purger Or this Decoction which cleanseth and openeth Take Liquorish two ounces Grass and Kneeholm roots each an ounce red Pease a pugil Senna an ounce Polypody an ounce and half Cordial-flowers a pugil Anise-seed three drams Fennel seed and Dodder each a dram boyl them strain and add syrup of Roses an ounce and half syrup of the two Roots an
of the Bladder inflamed only it extendeth larger with outward redness and tumor binding of the Belly and stoppage of Urin and a Feaver which leaves behind it a sharp pricking pain with voiding of matter by the neck of the womb and hardness somtimes and Fainting and other Hysterical accidents As we shewed in other places The Causes The Diseases of the Nervous bowels in the Cavity of the Abdomen cause these pains that is of the Guts Bladder and Womb in Women The Guts fill almost the whole Belly The cause of the pain of the Belly from the Guts and they being very sensible the pain is great They are thick or thin Guts and the pain is distinguished according to the Gut That which is in the thick Guts which come from the Colon is called the Colick that in the Skin is called Iliack And because the thin Guts are most about the Navel the Iliack pain is more there But because the thick Guts are placed about them and reach from the right side to the left as high as the Hearts lodge down to the Fundament the Colick is chiefly in them The Diseases of the Guts that cause these pains are stretching or cold or flegmon Tumor or burning or disorder of the Guts from their place Too much stretching of the Guts Stretching of the Guts causeth pain of the belly especially with irritation causeth pain this comes from excrements and wind when they fill too much or stop and cannot pass Somtimes excrements and wind are in great measure carried to the Guts which fill and stretch Plenty of Excrements and wind in the Guts causeth pain and cause pain but if the passages are open it lasteth not but goes away with rumbling farting belching or purging This pain follows eating of raw Fruits Crudities and taking of a Purge before it worketh And it is worse when there is Choler or other sharp Humors as we shall shew in Diarrhaea Somtimes the excrements and wind stop in the guts and cause pain which is fixed somtimes in the part stopped Or else wandereth and is most where the Excrements and wind are most This pain is often in the thick Guts Excrements and wind stopping in the windings of the Colon cause the Colick which are full of thick Excrements and wind as in the great winding of the Colon on the left side in the begining of the straight Gut when the Excrements stay in the crooked passage and when they labor to get out the part seems to be bored or peirced and there is a Tumor to be felt and the pain decreaseth when the Excrements go back and increaseth when they return This stoppage is from Excrements which suddenly stop this crooked passage or from dryness hardness or toughness or slyminess of the same which will not let them rise up as we shewed in the causes of binding of the Belly Also in the Cells or hollows on the sides of the Colon that swel forth like a half circle Excrements retained inthe cells of the Colon cause the Colick when the Excrements are hardned and dryed therein they cause pain not only by weight and stretching but by stopping and hindering the others from coming forth Especially if they have lien long Also other hard bodies may do the same if they get in as stones of fruit or Chesnuts eaten which have caused the Colick to my knowledg with other hard meats and binding of the Belly also Also little bones taken from Hens Feet boyled in one that eat many for a Diet stuck long in the Guts of a Woman and caused the Colick and after a Clyster she voided abundance of them and was cured Also I knew one that had the Colick from eating much Cheese and voided it by Clysters and also Mites or Cheese worms by Urin. Also Fernelius saith that he hath found by dissection that the colon hath been almost closed up with flegm if it were not some other Excrescens and caused the Colick And he writeth that in a certain Embassador there was a hard body bored through in the passage of the Colon under the stomach as appeared by the Tumor which caused the Colick which after six years he voided being a foot long and then was cured This may come also from stones that breed in the Guts which the same Fernelius saith he hath seen as big as Wall-Nuts or Chesnuts and voided by stool I once saw one Lump like a stone so voided When the passage of the Excrements is stopped in the smal Guts The Cause of the Iliack passion is the stoppage of the smal Guts it causeth the Iliack pain and this is rather in the straight passage over against the right Kidney where they joyne to the thick Guts then any where else Then there is that grievous pain called the Colick vulgarly both in the right side from the stoppage and in the smal Guts about the Navel from the Excrements and there is Costiveness till Medicines take it away and it so continueth till the obstruction is quite removed And if the Excrements retained are Cholerick or Evil or Corrupt by long tarrying and grown sharp or malignant the Guts will be twiched and the pain the greater And although they somwhat provoke nature to void them by their sharpness yet because they cannot be carried to the thick Guts while the obstruction lasteth the Belly continueth bound but if the obstruction did not hinder them they being many would cause a Diarrhaea or the Disease of Choler or by sticking to the Guts a Dysentery rather then that Iliake passion with costiveness This they cannot do in the smal Guts being shut up there but they cause cruel pains till the obstruction is removed And from this choler long detained come other great accidents as Jaundies Fevers and somtimes a Convulsion from consent of the Nerves and the like as we shewed It hapens also from the total stoppage of the straight passage of the Gut or from neglect or from its stubbornness that will not yeild to Medicines that the Excrements are so gathered that they return back to the stomach and are vomited up with much detestation Hence is the Disease called Ileus or Misereremei The cause of this obstruction whether it be easie or hard to be opened may be hard tough Excrements And a natural narrowness of the passage or a continual use of hot things which dry the Guts and make them narrow there Or hard meats or hard bodies that breed there as we shewed As Fernelius sheweth that a Maid that had taken a Medicine of Quinces was stopped found in the smal Guts that they break If the smal Guts are rowled together in any other passages Rowling together or tangling of the Guts causeth Convolvulus so that the passage is stopt then the Excrements stop and the Wind and heaped together do stretch the Guts and cause the Iliack pain called Convolvulus in which when it is not far from the Duodenum they vomit their Excrements and
thereof And then because it hindereth pissing we shall speak thereof in the Chapter of painfull pissing If the Bladder be inflamed in the substance of it The Inflammation of the Bladder is the cause of the burning pain thereof it causeth a pain in the Privities with redness and tumor also when the Bladder is wrapped in the Caule and the tumor is greater when the Excrements and Urin want passage This Inflammation somtimes turns to an Imposthume and then for the time the pain is yet greater and when that is broken there is an Ulcer and painful pissing of matter Also this Inflammation may leave a Scirrhus such a one as I saw gtowing very large in the Bladder of a Cow that was broken by accident and cured again Also this Inflammation if it be not well cured turns to a Gangraene And I once saw a Bladder black within when I opened a dead Fryar Some external accident may cause this Inflammation of the Bladder or pain from the stone or an Ulcer to which Diseases an Inflammation is somtimes joyned of the Bladder and Kidneys also when the body is Plethorick and fit to receive it Because the Womb is in the same lower part of the Belly The cause of pain in the Womb and the Vessels thereof and lyeth under the Bladder and the bottome thereof especially being stretched reacheth into the Belly the pains are alike in both And because the Ligaments of the Womb by which it hangeth reach to the Hips and Loyns they are pained also and of them we shall here speak but we have treated of the pains of the Neck of the Womb in its place But all the pains of the Womb in the bottom or Body or Ligaments thereof some whereof reach to the Neck as in the Bladder come from stretching or from Inflammation The stretching pain in the bottom of the womb The stretching of the bottom of the womb causeth the pain after Child-bearing comes chiefly from outward Cold taken in after Child-bearing while the inward Orifice of the womb is large and open for want of keeping warm by which means the Air gets in and fills and stretcheth and weakneth it and by cooling causeth pain This is called the pain after Child-bearing At another time this pain cannot come from taking in of Air because before Conception the womb is smal and thick and the cavity which is to be filled with Seed in time of Conception is very straight and after conception also when it grows bigger with the Child the inward Orifice is close shut and the womb full Nor from wind bred in the Body because if it get into the straight cavity of the womb or breed there it cannot so stretch the womb to cause pain because it is very thick Neither can water cause pain for the same reasons Though some suppose that the womb may be like a bladder inlarged and have an Inflammation from wind and water as they call it For though the womb be larger in some women by Nature or by much moisture which loosneth it yet it cannot be so filled and stretched that pain may follow And if the repletion be great there will be rather a weight and heaviness then a pain as it is when the Child is great but the weight of the Child by stretching the Ligaments may cause a kind of pain but it is in the Groins and not in the Loins as we shewed So then there is no other stretching pain of the womb but what is after Child-bearing The stretching of the vessels is the usual cause of pain in the womb caused either from the substance of it or from the Membranes and Vessels by which it hangeth but from Humors retained and then it may reach to the sides as we shewed in Hypochondriack pains as when the courses are stopped or disordered or foul This foulness comes from foul blood and humors in women of evil habit that want their Courses which do so fill stretch or provoke the part they that cause pain especially when they are hot and send up Vapors and produce other Accidents especially the suffocation of the womb as we there shewed The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb and neck also The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb causeth the burning pain thereof causeth pain with divers accidents as we shewed This as that of the Bladder may leave an Imposthume Ulcer Scirrhus or Gangraen And the cause external may be a Stroak or Bruise or internal abundance of blood about the womb upon stoppage of the Terms when they flow not into the neck but into the substance of the womb and cause Inflammation according to the diversity of the blood The Cancer of the womb And if the quality thereof be malignant it may cause a Cancer which shall be mentioned in Diseases of the Neck of the Womb because it is commonly in that part The womb is chiefly inflamed from difficulty of Deliverance The Inflammation of the womb after Child-bearing causeth the second sort of pain after child-bearing great pain and straining either while the child or after birth remain or after they are gone which causeth a Feaver And this Inflammation is rather the cause of many womens death then the retention of the after-burden and the pain they have comes from the Inflammation as well as from the Air that gets into it and is then greater and more dangerous The Cure The Cure is different according to the part affected and the variety of Causes as the Bowels are stretched cooled or inflamed by Blood or Choler And is to be applied to the stretching or Inflammation of the bladder or womb The stretching of the Bowels from what cause soever The cure of the Colick pain of the womb Convolvulus from stretching or cold if it cause the Coeliack and Iliack pain must be cured the same way as also when it comes of Cold. And if it come from the abundance of excrements and wind with pain and rumbling if they come forth as they use to do by Fasting Belching or a Flux you must take the same course as in Diarrhaea If these Excrements cause a stoppage in the thick Guts and so by stretching the Colick it is easier cured then in the small Guts especially when they are evil and increase continually for then Iliack passion which is so deadly and hard to be cured will return and cause Convulsions and Palsies and the like which though the pain cease destroy the Patient And if the stoppage be so hard that it cannot be opened but the thin Guts are so full of Excrements that they are sent back into the Duodenum then follows the deadly convolvulus or Spewing up of Excrements or Iliack or knots or tanglings of the Guts In all which cases except when the Guts are knotted or an Iliack pain from a Rupture for then you must rather look to the putting up the Gut then to the Iliack Passion the cure is
Loosners if Clysters may not be given as Syrup of Violets Roses the Decoction of Fruits Raisons Prunes Sebestens Violets with Rhubarb or Cassia and other Loosners not too hot Let the Diet be such as in Inflammations internal and in cholerick Diseases and give no Wine for fear of a convulsion Let it be of things that properly help the Guts which are not too hot and Anodyne and also Narcotick at last mixed with Purgers In both cases anoynt with Oyl of Violets sweet Almonds chamomil Dill with Butter and Mucilage of Seeds of Foenugreek and Line Quinces and with Fat 's Also use a sweet Bath and a Fomentation made of the clyster and Ingredients And a cataplasm of the residents of the clysters and of Barley-meal Lime and Foenugreek seed with Butter Fat 's and Oyls It is good in the Iliack to apply cupping-glasses with Scarification in an Inflammation to the Groins And Amulets mentioned If from tumbling or leaping The cure of the Iliack from Knots comming in the Guts or a Fall upon the Belly the Guts be knotted and the Excrements stopt so that they begin to be vomited up you must cut open the belly by way of Longitude where the pain or tumor is and so skilfully place the the Guts in order again This is the last and only Remedy If stretching of the Bladder and Womb cause pain The cure of the stretching pain of the Bladder and urin and of pains after birth we spake of that in the Bladder in the stoppage of Urin if the stone cause it we spake thereof in painful Pissing If the Womb be stretched by wind or cold external after birth let the woman be kept very warm and bound with a rouler below If it continue use Medicines for the womb that are hot But if the pains of the womb come from evil humors about the Vessels and Ligaments such as go before or follow the stoppage of the Terms or such as is after they cease by reason of age and foulness Then first purge away the filth and make the courses come as we shewed The remedies are the same for pains in the womb as for the Guts when we desire to heat and expel wind These hot remedies that expel wind and are anodyne are mentioned in the Pains of the Guts and are proper for pains in the womb when they come after Birth from cold Air and continue long or be joyned with other cold Distempers of the Womb. And because that the Womb and Guts are refreshed with hot things the things that provoke the Courses are to be allowed Hence it is that because they observed that hot remedies agreed with both the Womb and Guts they supposed that these pains of the womb came from Cold but they agree with the womb for other causes mentioned and the rather when those remedies which heat the Guts and discuss wind and asswage pain are mixed with things proper for the Womb otherwise the Womb-medicines differ little from those of the Bowels but use them as followeth and they will better help the pain of the womb Hence it is that they called the Pains of the Guts the Pains of the Womb in both Sexes Men and Women And gave things that they observed good for the Guts for the Womb. These remedies being hot and expellers of wind and Anodynes are chiefly good against pains of the Womb when they come after Child-bearing from cold Air and are joyned with other Diseases Bleeding will do little good except in the Foot to provoke the Courses or for other Evacuations in another part The same Purges prescribed for pains of the Guts are good here And because Turbith doth trouble the Guts and cause pain it must be given for the Womb from a dram to four scruples in pouder with a scruple of Ginger and a little Cinnamon and Sugar in Nutmeg-water Also the Clysters against Pains in the Guts are good here whether emollient pricking heating or expellers of wind because they go to the straight Gut and there heat the Womb which is joyned unto it especially if you add some Womb-herbs thereunto As thus Take Mugwort Calamints Penny-royal each a handful Chamomil and Melilot flowers and Dill tops each a pugil Aniseed six drams Foenugreek and Linseed half an ounce Bran a pugil boyl and add Honey of Rosemary an ounce Oyl of Wall flowers three ounces Benedicta laxativa and Hiera simplex each half an ounce red Sugar an ounce with a little Salt make a Clyster Another Take Oyl of bitter Almonds six ounces Goose grease two ounces Turpentine dissolved with two Yolks of Egs half an ounce give it in Chicken broath Mugwort-water is as good for the womb as the guts And Oyl of bitter Almonds drunk in a good quantity Some give Oyl of Scorpions And the juyce of Horse dung alone or with Wine Decoctions to be drunk hot alone or with Sugar or Honey and Cinnamon The first Take Schaenanth two drams boyl it in Mugwort-water give it hot at twice or a Decoction of Spike or two drams of both for four times Another Take Motherwort half an ounce Nutmeg two drams boyl them in white Wine Give it at twice A third Take Juniper-berries two drams Anise and Caraway seed each a dram boyl it in Wine give it A fourth Take Motherwort six drams Roots of Devils bit half an ounce Juniper-berries two drams Aniseed half an ounce Caraway and Carot seed each a dram Nutmeg half an ounce Schaenanth and Spike each a dram boyl them in Wine strain it sweeten it for three or four doses The Infusions mentioned for weak Stomachs and others in Wine and Aqua vitae are here good And the things given in substance as follow Mints or great Balm called Greek Mints is good in Broath or Drink or Cakes and Juniper-berries Also Pouder of the Roots of Masterwort Zedoary Gentian a dram or a dram and half with Wine Another Compound Pouder Take Roots of Motherwort half an ounce of Masterwort and Devils bit each two drams of white Dittany Zedoary Gentian each a dram Juniper-berries a dram and half Aniseed two drams Carot Ameos Cummin seed each a dram Schaenanth two drams Mace Spike each a dram Ginger Pepper each half a dram Saffron half a scruple make a Pouder give a dram in Wine or add a double quantity of Sugar or make Lozenges or an Electuary with Honey Diacyminum is good in pains of the Womb and Diamargaritum calidum when there is Weakness A pleasant but good Pouder Take Cummin seed infused in Aqua vitae and dryed a dram Ameos and Ginger each half a dram Castor a scruple give a dram with wine Or a dram of the Jaws of a Trout poudered in Water of Chamomil is excellent when the pain is before the Courses Rondeletius saies that the Pouder of a dryed Secundine or After-birth cureth the pains after Child-birth And because other Beasts eat them they have no such pains and he saith that he took it from his Bitch
straight orifice will not admit Injections they are not profitable except but by what they do outwardly to the neck or bottom of the womb being inflamed And then use the Decoction of the Herbs mentioned for a cataplasm or the waters or Juyces of them to repel at first and in the progress use the Decoction of the cataplasm which we prescribed to be used in the increase Or make a Pessary for women of the Herbs beaten up with Meal Pain chiefly requires Injections as of Milk and whites of Eggs beaten with Oyl of Henbane or a little Opium or of a Decoction of Poppy or Henbane seed or Marsh-mallow seed or the Juyce of it or other narcoticks mentioned in Pain of the Belly Or Triphera Saracenica In the Declination make Injections of things that take away the residue and soften to prevent Scirrhus as of Galbanum a dram and half dissolved in Oyl of Lillies or Wall flowers an ounce Storax a dram Marjoram water four ounces Or Take the Decoction of wild Time four ounces and add the ashes of Mans bones and two ounces of Balm-water make an Injection Or this Pessary Take Galbanum Storax each a dram Labdanum half an ounce Coney Goose or Ducks grease enough make a Paste and put it in a silk bag Also a Fume of Sagapenum Storax Benjamin will consume the refidue Give Lenitives in both Inflammations as Prunes cassia Syrup of Violets Roses Whey and no stronger till the Declination Give coolers in Diet as cool Herbs and Water and Syrups Waters and conserves that cool mentioned in Feavers And things to provoke urin by a cleansing moisture as Emulsions of the cold Seeds Decoction of Pease or Whey CHAP. XIIII Of the Pain of the Privities The Kinds THe pain of the Privities is divers in respect of the Sex we have spoken of the outward pains in their place The pains inwardly in the Yard being in the passage to the Bladder The pain of the Yard which is for the Piss and Seed and chiefly in the time of pissing with discharge of Matter with great straining shall be spoken of in things sent forth And the pain in the Codds or Inflammation because it appears outwardly shall be spoken of in the Externals as if there be a pain and tumor from a Rupture in Ruptures The pains in the Privities of Women The pain of the Privities in Women are either where the two passages of the Bladder and neck of the womb appear or deeper and are divers either with Heat or Ulcer This pain is either with Inflammation only The Inflammation of the womb or with a Tumor and that which is in the bottom of the womb is most usual of which we spake in pains of the Belly This Inflammation is apparent and turns somtimes into an Imposthume Scirrhus or Gangraen There is another pain with heat and tumor The Cancer of the neck of the womb in the Cancer of the womb more usual and apparent then that in the Body of the womb In which there is a tumor at the first as in other Causes with a little pricking onely and then increasing by degrees it grows heavy and troublesom with burning and at length it ulcerateth and turns to a Carcinoma and then there is a venemous Humor and Blood flowing from the womb with other great accidents The third Pain is called Condyloma Condyloma in the Privities of women and is with heat and swelling or excrescens within the womb It is worse when there is an Inflammation This is somtimes both in the Privities and Fundament and in the Fundaments of Men of which in its place A tearing or pricking pain is called the Ulcer of the womb The ulcerous pain of the Womb. and it is either inwardly or more outwardly and may be touched and increased by Medicines or Copulation And then blood or thin matter comes forth Or thick white concocted not stinking or it is crude and waterish or green yellow or black and the same matter is sometimes pissed forth And we have known it come forth of the Fundament and Excrements come forth of the womb and some have observed it is in the Bladder or Panch What kind of Ulcer it is whether Excoriation onely or a profound deep Ulcer whether creeping or with swollen Lips hard or turned in it may be seen or felt or else if deep seen by an Instrument With this are divers other Symptoms And if the Ulcer comes to the Orifice of the Bladder there wil be burning and often pissing If it be malignant the Vital Functions are weakned or if joyned with other Diseases as the French Pox there are many Symptoms The Causes The pains in the Privities of Women come from Diseases of the neck of the womb or Privities and they are either Inflammation or Cancer or Condyloma or Ulcer Inflammation being chiefly in the neck of the womb or in the womb Inflammation is the cause of burning pain in the womb causeth pains with heat burning or tumor as it is greater or less pure or impure or Erysipelas where the heat is greater and no tumor The internal Cause of this Inflammation is Defluxion of Blood to the menstruous veins in the substance of the womb Or difficulty of travail may cause it because the neck of the womb is very sensible and the Orifice narrow And somtimes there is an Inflammation of these parts from the Orifice which is shut in Virgins with the Hymen or Membrane when they are much pained at the loss of their Virginity or at other times when the woman is straight and the man large And it may come also from Pessaries or corroding Medicines A Cancer in the hollow of the womb causeth pain with burning and pricking and swelling which somtimes turns to an Ulcer And this is caused by a malignant Humor sent to the Neck of the Bladder The kinds and causes of which shall be shewed in an external Cancer A Condyloma in the womb causeth the pain above mentioned and is in the Fundament Also by reason of the same Causes to be mentioned An Ulcer in the Cavity of the womb An Ulcer in the womb is the cause of an ulcerous Pain or the Privities causeth ulcerous pains and other accidents that are more as the pain is greater For if it be a simple Excoriation with the skin off there will the pain be small by reason of the exquisite Sense of the part If there be a great hurt or wound the pain wil be greater and the blood come If a simple Ulcer the pain will be less but with a Flux of Matter if it be foul the Ulcers be eating called Nomae or when they are deeper Phagadaenica the pain is longer because there wil be a Flux of Matter If the Ulcer reach the Neck of the Bladder there will be painful Pissing If it eat through the womb and the strait Gut there will be Matter by stool and the Excrements that should have passed
not to be referred to a preternatural Birth but to evil conformation or Deformity from the Birth as we shewed in Deformity The taking away of parts from the body The taking off of parts that constitute the Body although it may be a Disease in number diminished or if they come piece meal in magnitude diminished where we made mention of them yet they may be reserred hither As if the Eye be thrust out of its place or if any humor as the watery Crystal or glassie Humor of the Eye should flow forth or if part of the Brain should come forth at the Nose the Teeth pull'd out of the Mouth the tongue cut off the Lungs be spit up the Guts fall out as in the Haeretick Arrius by a divine Judgement rather then by a Natural Cause Or which is usual when from a wound any part of the Brain Lungs Liver or Spleen comes forth as we said in the Hurt of those parts The Causes The Causes of the Excretion or Voiding of an Infant or of any parts that constitute the body is the solution of Contiguity or things near or of Continuity as shall be shewed Natural Birth when the Child comes ripe and quick into the world The separation of the Vessels of the Child which were joyned to the Vessels of the Womb is the Cause of Natural Birth is when the child 〈◊〉 so grown that the Mother can no longer contain it but it must have have more Air for life and more nourishment and if it should grow bigger it could not get out of those strait Passages Therefore provident Nature ariseth and moveth it by the expulsive Faculty separating the Veins and Arteries by which the bed of the Infant or Secundine was joyned to the womb without any hurt even as the stalks of ripe Fruit fall easily from the tree driveth down the Iâ—â—â—ant by the help of the Mother and so brings it forth not without pain labor sweat and bleeding by reason of the opening of the Veins in the Womb and Secundine more or less in all Women In a preternatural Birth The separation of Vessels before the Child is ripe is the Cause of Abortion when the Child is sent forth unripe by Natur 's force dividing the Connexion of the Vessels there are somtimes less accidents then in a Natural if the Child be small But if there be this Separation of Vessels by a greater force and solution of continuity and tearing which stirrs up Nature to the work there are greater accidents as Pains and Bleeding There are divers Causes of the dividing of the Vessels The Separation of the Vessels by the violent Motion of Body or Mind is the Cause of Abortion and spurring of Nature to the work which procure Abortion if the Child be shaken by violent Motion of the Body so that the Vessels by which it hangs to the womb are divided Nature especially when near the time will send it forth so it may be driven down by leaping as Hippocrates speaks of the tyre-maker that cast away her Child voluntarily also it may come by other violent motions especially of the lower parts by riding running or other violent Motion It may come also with pressing of the Belly by some external Injuries or with strong tying of the Muscles of the Belly or from couging vomiting neesing crying scowring by which also in a Natural Birth the Delivery is helped As the Excrements of the belly so the Child also may be driven down in a Convulsion made by the compression of the Muscles and a violent motion of the body As we saw one that without Sense aborted in the fit of a Convulsion and wondered when she came to her self what had been done to her Belly Also Nature stirred up by Passions of the Mind through the vehement Agitation of the Spirits will cause Abortion as by Fear Anger and other Passions hath been ordinarily seen especially if they swound for then the Child is deprived for that time of vital Spirits with the Mother from whom it receives them When Nature is stirred up by things taken or applied Abortion caused by stirring up of Nature it voided divers things and so also the Child as by the use of purging Medicines which force Nature violently so that not only the Excrements but the Child also is voided Also by the use of those things mentioned in the want of Terms and bringing forth either taken in or applied to the womb by opening the Passages and provoking the womb by a Propriety to provoke Terms or driving down the Child Abortion may be caused The expulsive Faculty is compelled somtimes by humors that burden the womb to void not onely them but the Child also especially by blood which if it be too plentiful for the nourishing of the Child and not consumed by it about the Veins of the Womb it burdeneth Nature which labours to throw it out and sometimes the Terms comming upon a Woman with Child the Child is also sent forth with them Therefore when women with child have their Terms they are in danger to miscarry Or if the Terms be provoked by opening a Vein in the Foot the same may happen and therefore women with Child must not be let Blood in the Foot Also the Terms will sooner be provoked if the blood be thin cholerick or foul and unfit to nourish the Child When the womb is moistned with water so that it is too loose to hold the Child that it is the chief cause of Abortion as some say And if it were so it must needs be without it and moisten the Orifice of the Neck of the womb which is close shut in women with Child because it cannot be in the womb whose cavity is filled with the Child and if it could be there it could not so loosen it nor can it do it when in the Neck of the womb because it cannot remain there and there must be a greater cause of Abortion then that The chief Abortion is from a dead Child Separation of vessels by a dead child is the Cause of Abortion because then Nature labours to void it as being burdensom the causes of dead Children are divers As external force to the belly being great as a Stroak or Contusion Want of Nourishment by which it decaies and at length dieth this is not easie for while the Mother liveth the Veins can scarce be so empty that there is nothing for the Child Moreover though the Mothers blood be impure and foul the Child will have the best of it hence it is that we have observed that women in Ptysicks and Hecticks have gone their time and brought well But it may happen that if a woman with Child have her Terms violently and long the Veins of the womb and all other parts will be so exhausted that the Child must want Nourishment And this is so if for the Causes aforesaid the Child being alive the Vessels are separated from them of the womb
Fernelius who distinguisheth this Passage of the Rimme into that which is internal and that which is external faith that in the Gut-rupture and cawle Rupture the inward Rimm or Skin must needs be broken and the outward only enlarged It may be he meant that it was so in Women that these Ruptures came from the Relaxation of the Rimme of the Belly in the Groin where they have as we shewed a peculiar Vessel For he saith that there is a Tendon sent from the Groine to the Rimme of the Belly which strengthneth it and so also the Guts and cawle But in regard that Vessel is not so membranous and thin as the enterance of the Rimme but is nervous and hard and therefore is not so easily enlarged the Guts or Cawle cannot fall into the Groin by the relaxing thereof except it be broken When the Rim of the Belly is enlarged without being broken The cause of Navel-rupture is the enlarging of the Rim of the Belly there there may be a Navel-rupture also and this appears because in great straightness especially of Woman in travail the Navel often swells by the Guts through straining sent chiefly to that part of the Rim where there is a short Passage in the Navel which appeared at the birth in the Navel string and after grew together and there distending or stretching the Rim and when the straining is over and the stretching the swelling goes clean away and returns no more which would not be if it came from the breaking of the Passage for which cause as we perceive plainly that the Navel-rupture continues not so we may collect that the Rupture which remains comes from the Rim of the Belly so stretched by the Causes aforesaid that it cannot return which cannot be in other parts of the rim of the Belly but that in the Groine without a breaking thereof From the Dissolving or Division of the Neck of the Womb The cause of the falling out of the Womb is the dissolving of the connexion of the Neck thereof from the parts unto which it is knit comes the Falling out thereof For the Womb being chiefly held up by its Neck upon which it resteth and unto which it grows firmly and in other parts being free from all connexion or joyning that it may better dilate and enlarge it self in Conception except on each side a little and that loosely to the Rimme of the Belly it cannot be that it should fall all to the Privities except the Neck thereof which is so fastned thereto that it cannot be separated do also follow And because this cannot be without the rending of the fibrous Connexion which is made by the Neck and Parts adjacent The immediate cause of the Falling of the Womb must be the dissolving of the Connexion of the Neck thereof And if this dissolving be in some part onely near the womb the womb will hang down in the Privities with some part only of the Neck turned but if the Neck of the Womb be wholly separated from the parts under it then the Womb will all hang forth with the Neck turned inside outward and the womb will not be so turned in the bottom but as it was when in the Belly the Orifice onely being open drawing with it the Membranes and the Rimme which is joyned to them with the Vessels and Stones And this may be without a Rupture only from the Looseness of the Membranes which can stretch much as we see in Dropsies when the Belly is swollen how the Rim thereof is stretched although the womb hath been long down as appears in that when it is put up again Women may conceive which could not be if the Vessels were divided from it The womb it self causeth chiefly this Separation of the Neck of it from the Fibers or small Veins by which it is joyned to the parts adjacent though not strongly and therfore it may be without great hurt or bleeding when it is forcibly so drawn down that it brings the Neck with it either suddenly or by degrees when there is less force first tearing the Veins next to it and then turning out the neck downward which hanging forth makes it fall more down by degrees through the weight thereof The womb is thus driven down by great and often straining The forcible untying of the Neck of the Womb is the cause of the wombs Falling down by blowing the wind or otherwise which presseth downward the Guts and Womb especially in a womans throws in child-birth when the travail is hard and the womb gets too much downward with the Child and the rather when the Child getting through with difficulty thrusts the Neck of the Womb down and so untieth it from the Veins Or if the Secundine or after Birth sticking still to the womb be so driven by the Midwife that the womb is driven down also with the Neck thereof For these Causes after Child-bearing the womb falls down and those Women which have often brought forth and endured such Midwives are presently troubled therewith or when they grow old The same may come from Leaping or the like Shaking of the Body and the Womb may hang out thereby Also from the Neck of the Womb it self besides when it is pull'd away by the Womb there may be a Falling out of the same when it is separated by Force from the parts beneath by violent and frequent Copulation as in Harlots which are continually rubbed or from some Corruption in the Neck by which we once saw the womb fallen out Also from other Causes this Falling down of the womb can scarce proceed As for the looseness of the Ligaments or of Muscles by which some thought the Womb did hang which they say comes from the Force mentioned and by which the womb is driven down or from the plenty of Humors that wet the Membranes We since there are no such Muscles because as we shewed the womb must be free and Membranes so loosned that they may follow the womb nor so fast tyed as they ought to be if the womb hang by them cannot grant the Falling out of the womb to be from the looseness thereof For although the womb be loosned and the Vessels stretcht beyond their bounds yet can it not fall through the Privities except the Neck be separated also which only holds it in Nor can the breaking of the Membranes be the Cause as some say because we found in the Anatomy of a Woman whose Membranes were putrified and consumed long before her death as appeared by a Flux of stinking matter that the womb moved not out of its place but was firm As for the watery Humor which they say causeth the Falling out of the Womb we shewed that it could not do it by moistning the Ligaments and now declare that in Women that have the Dropsie in whom the womb and its Membranes swimms in water the womb falls not out yet it may come to pass in the Whites that the neck of
Passages are loosned As we shall shew in the Whites that water and flegm comes from the Veins As we shewed that the Terms come from the veins of the neck of the womb A moist Humor coming from the Veins to the neck of the Womb is the Cause of the Whites so the Whites come from the same and not from the Cavity of the womb as some dream because that is so narrow that it cannot hold such a quantity as usually floweth neither can it be contained therein or pass through the veins which are small and are not enlarged till the woman be with Child as it may through the Veins of the neck of womb which are larger And this is when this excrementitious Humor is mixed with blood or with the terms which makes it ill-coloured or after the terms are gone when it presseth by the same wayes they did for which Cause it is called the white Terms And this may be at other times when Nature is burdened both in such as have or such as are past their Courses As it is somtimes in women with Child In whom in regard the inward Orifice of the womb is closed it cannot flow from the cavity of the womb but from the neck and in them who are not with Child it is the same Nor is it a wonder that nature should purge these Excrements by the same way that blood is evacuated because she doth the like in other Vessels ordained for other Evacuations And the reason why they are white and without Blood is because Nature dischaâ—geth them at that time when there is no blood to be sent forth As also because Nature separates the blood from the Impurity and keeps it and sends out the Excrements as noxious Which Excrements if serous or watery come from the whey if flegmatick from crude blood if mattery from blood stained And if other Humors be mixed as yellow green or black Choller it is discoloured therewith And if they be sharp or the whey salt then by pricking and burning in the Parts to which it sticketh it causeth Itching and sense of Heat and if it continue long ulcerateth But when it is alone it flows without sense like water or the white of an Egg beaten nor is it then noxious except it be immoderate The Cause of these Excrements in the Blood which feed this Flux is that which is eaten or taken in and the weakness of Concoction and of those Bowels which separate the Excrements as in a Cachexy of which we spake sufficiently These Excrements are sent forth by nature when she is burdened and the sooner if there be weakness of the womb as may be from divers Causes and also from this Moisture which wets and cools the Part. As also when Nature is stirred up to expel them by other means As we have known women who never had the whites before after they have taken a Purge which stirred up Nature have had them And many have had the same by sitting long in a Bath not from Infection as they have thought from other that were in at the same time But Nature throwing out Excrements by bathing doth cause the whites which are too thick to be sweated forth That water which is swet forth through the whol Body is serous Serous Matter getting through the Pores is the Cause of Sweat and mixed with blood gets into the Superficies of the Body by an obscure solution of contiguity of the skin it goes through the Veins This Solution of Contiguity comes from the opening of the Pores or Anastomosis or Rarefaction of the Skin or Diapedesis For then the Serum being very thin passeth through the Pores of the skin and causeth Sweat being either drawn or driven thither Serum or water is attracted by Heat external for then that with the Blood is snatched to the superficies of the body and goes through the skin as water is distilled from Plants as I shewed And the rather when the water is made thin and hot that it may pierce And if there be plenty or if it be thin sharp or cholerick it will be more easily drawn out by the heat And as Heat doth cause a Natural sweat so if it be vehement or long it is preternatural This Heat is from Exercise or Baths dry and moist and the immoderate use of these causeth immoderate Sweats Therefore Baths are said to weaken In Diseases as Feavers though the whol Body burn yet it scarce sweats till Nature expells the Cause thereof by sweat which is in intermitting Feavers when the heat ceaseth in the day of rest and in continual Feavers when they decline For when the Body is hot and Nature is busie in the Concoction of the Cause of the Disease it cannot be sent forth by sweat but when it is prepared and made thin it may Nature drives water to the Superficies of the Body where it is burdened therewith and then the expulsive Faculty labours to cast it out by sweat Nature is burdened when the quantity or quality of the Serum is offensive when it is too much in the Veins for want of Evacuation by Urin then when it cannot be purged from the blood otherwayes it is sent forth or drawn forth by sweat Therefore they which piss little sweat much especially they that use moist Diet and drink much If it be offensive in quantity and be impure by mixture of other Humors and so burdensom to Nature it is sent forth by sweat as well as urin In Cacochymicks or Bodies of evil Juyce Sweats are not Natural but are stinking or clammy and somtimes discoloured now all over the Body and somtimes in some places only wherefore some sweat in their Hands and Feet and are filthy as we shall shew in Filth All these Sweats are evil and forerunners of Diseases If the Cause of a Disease be in the Blood part whereof is Serum as in Feavers Nature if she can find no other way as the Urin sends it forth by sweat And this if it comes kindly is healthful though it stink and be discoloured But if it be immoderate or not sufficient or at an unconvenient time when Nature is not prepared for Expulsion it is evil and unprofitable This is usual in Contagious Diseases Nature oftentimes sends forth the evil Quality with the Whey with Sweat which is sometimes healthful and somtimes deadly And if it come when Natural Heat begins to be extinguished and the Body is outwardly cold then a cold sweat will appear All which we have mentioned in such Diseases Also when Nature is moved by Passion and drives the Spirits inward or outward there will be sweat which will presently be cold if the heat go in as in a swounding and in the pangs of Death There follows a Flux of moisture from solution of continuity in any part of the Body Moisture getting into the openings of the skin is the Cause of the flux and if the skin be only scratched the water is little as
Dysury As from the matter which comes from Ulcers in the Reins and other corruption in foul Bodies ripened by the heat of the Reins These may cause burning and matterry urin together Matter without Ulceration causeth foul Urin without other accident except heavyness in the Reins Corrupt Urin from matter like milk is like the former except the colour when there is also heat which though it come from the Reins as the other is more salt as appears when it is dry being like white salt in colour and tast And I collect that it comes from the saltness of the Serum in the Reins made thick and concocted because when it is more hard it turns to sand or a stone as we shewed in the Stone From Seed in Men Seed out of its place is the Cause of scalding Urin. moved from its place and not sent forth pricking and burning may come scalding urin for seed by Nature is sharp and in its one place it doth no hurt as Choler in the Gall but going forth and sticking in the passage it corrodes and exulcerates which causeth heat of urin As it is in them who have nocturnal Imaginations or diurnal Lusts which stirs up the Seed without action or spending This is in old men from the little quantity of seed and insufficient extension of the Yard and in sick people and causeth scalding Urin. In a venemous Gonorrhaea the same happens from corrupt Seed Corrupt Seed is the Cause of â—â—alding urin in the Running of the Reins so that it runs not only from the sharpness but also corrodeth the passage especially when any part sticks by the way and causeth scalding Urin. There is a dropping of Urin with pain and desiring to piss A Stone in the bladder is the cause of hot urin from a stone in the neck of the bladder which pricketh and iâ— it be great is burdensom These Stones fall first from the Kidneys by the Ureters into the Bladder and there being kept they increase dayly by the Urin which washeth them As we shewed in the Causes of the Stone of the Kidneys And in Hypochondriack Pains where we shewed how sand and stones which are the causes of preternatural Pissing grow in the Kidneys and somtimes in the Liver There comes Pissing of Blood from the Solution of Continuity in the Reins and Bladder The Solution of Continuity in the Kidneys Bladder is the cause of Pissing of Blood when the substance of the Reins is wounded or bruised But usually from a Stone in the Kidneys which rubbs and chaffs them till they bleed which blood is mixed with water and pissed forth and separateth from the urin to the bottom when it is settled But if the urin be too long in the bladder then it is so mixed with blood that it will not be separated This also happens when a stone moved from its place cannot get forth but by forcing a passage bruiseth the Reins with its hardness or unevenness or when it is forced by external motion through the pressing of the Reins by which means the Hypochondria are also troubled and so causeth bleeding within which blood being rendered with the urin signifieth the stone in the Reins especially if there be other signs therewith And if there be an Ulcer in the Kidneys therewith the Stone by chaffing it causeth it to void not only matter but blood A Stroak in the Bladder or a Wound piercing to it may cause bloody Urin or a touch with a Catheter which is an Instrument to let out urin Also a stone striving to pass the neck of the bladder may cause bloody urin and then onely some few drops come after the urin is made with great pain And t his is one of the infaillible signs of the Stone When the Sphincter Muscle which is the Cause of the stopping of the Urin is wounded A Wound upon the Sphincter muscle of the bladder is the cause of involuntary Pissings there is involuntary Pissing as is usual in cutting for the Stone and though the wound be cured yet by reason of the hurt of the Muscle the urin cannot be contained Somtimes there is a preternatural flux of the urin from a wound of the bladder A Wound in the bladder is the cause of urin passing that way not only by the cutting for the stone but by other external means As when there is an Incision made for a fleshy rupture in the Groin as I shewed in the want of Pissing how one alwayes pissed that way And we saw one that gored with an Ox whose horn pierced through his bladder that voided urin at both Orifices And this may be from any other Wound in the Bladder From an Ulcer in the Kidneys followeth a pissing of Matter with urin An Vlcer in the Reins is the cause of pissing matter which settleth at the bottom which causeth pain in pissing if it be sharp with other accidents The cause of the Ulcer is an Inflammation Those Causes of Solution of Continuity in the substance of the Reins mentioned may cause pissing of blood if the wound be not cured but turn'd to an Ulcer When there is a wound in the neck or bottom of the bladder The Ulcer of the bladder is the cause of pissing hot matter there is pissing of Matter with Urin and somtimes without where the wound is in that part of the neck which is farther from the bladder This matter makes the urin stink Or is pressed with difficulty and sticks to the bottom of the chamber-pot And then there is hot pissing because the ulcer is disturbed and then the matter is sharp This Ulcer comes from a wound That strange pissing of the Dung and Bones mentioned Hurt of the neck of the bladder is the cause of pissing of dung bones or terms comes from an Ulcer in the neck of the bladder This Ulcer comes from a Wound in the neck of the womb or strait Gut which eats into the bladder And hence womens terms are mixed with Urin. Somtimes Blood is pissed from solution of contiguity by Anastomosis or Diapedesis of the Vessels The Anastomosis or Diapedesis of the Veins of the Reins is the cause of pissing of blood when through plenty of blood or founlness thereof in Plethory or Diseases from thence Nature purgeth blood from the emulgent veins into the Reins and from thence by the Ureters into the Bladder And then the blood is voided without pain or other distemper And as I shewed Feavers have been cured thereby but seldom And it is probable in the wench that had the plague and pissed blood before she died that Nature was stirred up by the force of the venom to throw it out that wayes which it could not compleat The thinness of the blood is the Cause of the Anastomosis or Diapedesis of the Vessels of the Reins which causeth pissing of blood By which means before the blood is separated from the Serum in the Kidneys Guts
swelling or cleft and a continual Itching And when they are taken out they cannot be seen to move but upon a clear glass These are called Chirones from the Hand in Greek and Acari The Causes All kinds of Worms or Lice breeds of Juyce or Filth Worms breed of Juyce that putrefieth by heat which is either Chyle or any putrid Matter The Lumbrici of the Guts breed of chyl in the hungry Gut called Jejunum Chyle is the cause of long Worms where any of it which is not sucked away by the Meseraicks because it is too thick or too fat but is wrought by the heat of the guts through long continuance into one or more living worms This Chyle is produced from the eating of certain meats which afford matter for worms For which cause chiefly Infants that seed too soon upon flesh and have not milk that is convenient are so troubled with worms These worms as they breed of this Juyce so are they nourished thereby And when they consume it they cause a great appetite And if they creep into the guts they torment them with tickling sucking and pulling and cause griping and Fluxes And if they get up to the stomach whether they may easily go from the smal guts then by molestation and hindering of concoction they cause accidents and diseases of the Stomach and Lientery And if they gnaw the mouth of the Stomach they produce Symptomes of the Heart and Brain And if they rise upwards to the Jawes and Nostrils they trouble them But they cause the greatest accidents when they are killed and putrefied in the small Guts and send up stinking vapors to the Heart and Brain which cause Convulsions and Feavers It is thought that worms a long time retained can so gnaw the Guts that they may pass through the Belly about the navel or Groyns But this is not probable for they have neither sharp bills nor open nor teeth and by sucking they cannot do it Therefore if worms come forth there these come from some Imposthume in the outward parts and are not Lumbrici or long worms but such as breed in Ulcers And if they come from the Guts there was first a wound which made the passage But if worms come downward from the small Guts with the Excrements into the Gut Colon then if they pass presently through they come forth alive at the Fundament Or if they be mixed with the Excrements and kept long they are cast forth dead with the Excrements Ascarides or little Worms in the Fundament and elsewhere Slime or flegm is the cause of ars-Ars-worms and Noseworms come from a putrid matter which getting a new heat from putrefaction produceth divers worms according to the diversity of the matter which is simple or compound Ascarides come from Flegm or Slime long kept in the folds of the thick Guts and they will lie long there till they are sent forth by the Excrements Also from flegm long lodged and putrefied in the cavities of the Nose may come worms And that hairy or downy Canker-worm which we reported to be sneesed out from a womans nose was so bred From Matter not only ripe Matter is the cause of worms in the Nose Ears and Lungs and Teeth but putrefied in Ulcers of the Nose and external Ulcers of the Ears And from that in the Navel come worms And from that in the Lungs ulcerated come worms which are spit forth And if they be found in the teeth they come from the putrefaction in the cavities thereof Ascarides or Arse-worms come more usually from Meat that easily putrefieth Meat eaten that putrefieth is the cause of arse-Arse-worms and teethworms and such as are pissed forth as Flesh Cheese Fruits when it sticks in the windings of the thick Guts then from Flegm Because we may perceive that such things being out of the Body produce the same The same things sticking long in a hollow tooth may produce worms VVe shewed formerly that some worms bred of cheese were pissed forth and it is probable for they are very like mites And the Patient as we shewed in the Colick lived long upon Cheese and voided a quantity of it by the use of a Clyster Of which Cheese long retained and putrefied in the Guts it is probable that these worms bred And were sent by the Meseraicks with the Serum or whey into the hollow Vein and so into the Kidneys and Bladder And this is easie because they are very little bodies And in regard thicker Humors and bodies do pass the same way And this is the reason why others have pissed worms from eating Cheese which had them or bred them after it was eaten For in another corruption of Humors either in or out of the Veins it is seldom seen that worms are voided by urin And every corruption doth not produce worms of this form like mites but ascarides or the like Nor can they be from the ulcers of the Reins and Bladder because they come from Ulcers in another form Lice breed from filth sticking to the skin which filth proceeds from Vapors Filth of the skin is the cause of Lice Sweating and the Excrements of the Skin both under and above it in Children and poor people and such as are nasty in certain parts of them where they putrefie Especially in hairy parts because filth will stick faster there and can be less taken off then from the smooth skin Especially in the Head where they are most abundant smal at the first and sticking to the skin but being nourished by the nourishment that comes to the skin they grow great and march about the Head and somtimes into the Garments and other parts of the Body But if this Filth have any other Infection besides the excrementitial moisture as about the Privities where there is a venemous Vapor in unclean persons it causeth a worse Progeny and then the Lice are worse stick deeper in the skin called Crab-lice These come from Copulation when the hairy parts are united From that which causeth Scabs being retained under the thick skin of the palm of the Hand The Venom of humors is the cause of Lice in the Hand and corrupted proceed those little Lice under the scarfe skin called Chirones as appears by the Pustles and Scabs that are at the same time there And the thickness of the skin in the Palm of the Hand is the cause why they are rather there then in another part which keeps these thin Excrements from being discussed And the same may be in the Soles of the Feet The Cure Lumbrici or long Worms bred in the thin Guts The Cure of long Worms staying long and nourished with Chyle are not known when they do no hurt And without other Remedies pass through the Guts with the Excrements or get upwards but seldom through the Mouth and Nose But when they do hurt either alive or dead by staying in the Guts and producing accidents in tender Bodies especially and endanger
shewed the force in Elephantiasis And for Figgs they thought from the likeness of the seeds to Lice that they bred them but were deceived VVashing often with Lye rubbing and combing the Head is good to take away Grease and Dandrough and in other parts of the Body VVe use strong Dryers and Cleansers to the Disease it self to kill the Lice and take away filth that breeds them which are bitter or sharper They cannot do it by being taken inwards But some eat Garlick or drink it with the Decoction of Organ to kill Lice and Worms And some Countrey-fellows eat Garlick to keep off the flies Outward things are best to kill them and take away Itching as Lotions for the Head and other parts As this Take Birthwort one ounce and an half Hellebore roots half an ounce Beets Arsmart Wormwood Horehound Tamarisk Tops of the lesser Centaury each one handful Staphisager Lupins each half an ounce Berries of the Spindle-tree and Agarick two drams boyl them in Lye And wash the part affected It is stronger with Salt Allum or Niter or Vinegar especially of Squills When we wash the Head we use things proper for it as Bettony Sage French Lavender For Lice in the Eye-brows wash with Vinegar and Aloes and Salts A Pouder to drive Lice from the Hair Take Staphisager two drams Salt three drams Aloes one dram Cinnabar two drams The Oyntment also of Quick-silver mentioned is best here for it kills infaillibly all sorts of Lice and Itch. It may be thus made Take Quick-silver one dram Turpentine two drams Hoggs grease Butter or Oyl six drams make an Oyntment Or instead of Quick-silver use two drams of Cinnabar which is made of Quick silver and Brimstone Or for the Lice in the Hands use one dram of Sublimate instead of Quick-silver There are other Oyntments of Staphisager and Grease Thus Take Staphisager half an ounce white Hellebore one dram and an half Pepper Niter each one dram Grease Butter or Oyl with a little Wax make a Liniment To these add some of that with Quick-silver or one dram of Sandarck The usual Oyntment in shops is this Take Staphisager white Hellebore Salt Quick-silver Hoggs grease Oyl of Bayes Soap and Vinegar Another Oyntment of bitter things Take Aloes two drams Myrrh Gum of Ivy each one dram Hogs gall or of an Ox one dram and an half Quick-brimstone Allum each one dram Oyl of Wormwood or bitter Almonds as much as will make a Liniment A Paste made of Ox gall or other Gall and Meal of Lupins and held in the Hands long kills the worms there The linnen Clouts that Gold-smiths use when they guild Silver with Gold and Quick-silver applied to the part kill Lice insaillibly The Fume of Henbane seed taken into the Palm of the Hands kills the worms there But we suppose it rather allayes the Itch as anointing with the Oyl of Henbane seed or Poppies or Syrup of Poppies or a little Opium dissolved in Aqua vitae Smoak your Cap with Tobacco and the Lice will be killed Also Tobacco ashes and Piss cureth Crab-lice The worms in the Hands are picked out with a needle not thrust in deep to wet the part and hinder the sight of them And then wash the Hands with Wine or Vinegar Salt Allum or Niter often A very fine Comb will take them out of the Head Or a rubbing Brush which is invented for that purpose with which Women daily cleanse their Childrens Heads CHAP. XIV Of the Voiding of living Creatures or Animata The Kinds THose Bodies are called Animate which live are nourished and grow like Plants and yet have no sense or motion They are preternatural and so is the Voiding of them These are chiefly from the Womb and the Fundament There is an insensible and unmoving Body called a Mole sent forth from the womb A Mole without shape being soft flesh without bones full of veins covered with a skin Somtimes it is more membranous and still without shape such as I saw voided by a woman through the use of a Pessary after eigteen years barrenness Somtimes it is like a Sea-star as I have seen and cast into the water to the great amazement of the Beholders and somtimes it is of other forms This casting forth of a Mole is like a mischance or abortion before or after the time with such striving and voiding of blood And the accidents before are like those of Women with Child We spake of the Tumor of the Mole and its accidents and causes in the Tumors of the Belly The like but seldom come from the Fundament The long Membrane from the guts called Fascia The broad worm or fillet of the Guts called Taenia of divers kinds One is like a long Ribband like the smal Guts as long as they but not hollow a fingers breadth this they cal a flat worm but it is a Taenia or Fillet of the guts nothing like a worm nor is it alive or moveth coming forth so long that the Patient is frighted least his Guts should come forth In which there are black stroaks a fingers space distant all a long like the Vertebrae or Spondils This Taenia The Gourd-worm though very long is of many little parts which may be divided and they are like the Seeds of Gourds and are so called from thence This is seldom whole but in pieces every one of which is called a Gourd-worm but they are only pieces of the long Fillet or Fascia There is another kind of Taenia as long as the rest The Ligula or round point from the Guts but not so broad round like a worm and even called Ligula or a point it moveth not seldom seen from men but usually from doggs whol or broken not coming forth till it be drawn out There are no accidents of this Disease but the sudden fright and the Patient is well Except there be a greediness before and a heaviness in the Belly And if any part remain and stink the Symptoms are worse then if worms died in the Belly The Causes The Cause of these Bodies breeding is either Seed or Chyle VVe shewed in the Swelling of the Belly Conceiving of imperfect Seed is the cause of a Mole that imperfect Seed caused a Mole And the cause of voiding it is that of Abortion the expulsive faculty of Nature burdned with the preternatural weight which divideth the Vessels by which it grows to the womb and sends it forth the proper way And the sooner when there is external help Of which we spake in Abortion As we shewed long worms bred of Chyle that is too thick or fat The Chyle is the cause of the Taenia and gourd-Gourd-worm so if it be so much that it be in the thin Guts from the Stomach to the Colon growing thereto that Membrane called a Taenia is caused This Chyle is not in the whole compass of the Guts but in some part as broad as it comes forth only there where the
sleep with terrible dreams another Species of it is described the common people call them Exstatical as if they were taken with an Extasie Hither also may be refer'd the Daemoniacal sleep of Witches Diabolical sleep in which they think that they are carried through the Air feed deliciously dance and lie with the Devil and waking they continue in the same error I have seen another kind somwhat like to these in a certain Baron who for a long time astonisht and sleepy Sleep with Stupidity did nothing according to reason he would ask for no meat nor take it unless thrust in by force neither would he go to bed unless compel'd but all day long leaning with his Arm on the Table and with his eyes shut he sate as one asleep neither would he answer any thing unless asked and often admonisht and then that which was little to the purpose A Stupidity with a Languidness or Resolution of the body is called Obstupescentia Ecplexis or an Apoplexy and t is an affect in which they do not sleep Stupidity with a resolution is an Apoplexy but astonisht they lie stupid like stocks all the Sences alike and motion also being abolisht together which accidents are somtimes more mild at other times more grievous in which both the internal and external senses are taken away together whence they have understanding of nothing neither do they see though some of them do seem to look upon a man with fixt eyes neither do they hear a noise neither do they show any sign of sence though you prick them or burn them Also being deprived of all motion of the body in a moment they fall down and all their members being resolved do languish they neither speak nor swallow breathing only remaining and that very obscurely the blowing forth of which from the mouth or nostrils can somtimes hardly be discern'd by the motion of a piece of Cotton applied to them or the motion of the breast to detect that by the motion of a cup of water placed on the breast or the breath is drawn with a great deal of difficulty and noise as in dying people the pulse being in the interim full and strong in this difficulty of breathing but discovering it self to be very unequal and that so long till their Senses returning tthey come to themselves again which happens in a gentler species of it or if it be more grievous they continue resolved or if it be worst of all their breath being wholly taken away they are by and by choaked froth then flowing out of their mouth A Stupidity with a Convulsion or vehement agitation of body is called an Epilepsie and 't is an A Stupidity with Convulsion is an Epilepsie disease in which all the Senses are suddenly taken away and the whol body for a time is shaken and pulled with an inordniate motion assailing a man by turns or fits which because it doth suddenly apprehend one hath the name of Epilepsie because it puls him the name of Convulsion of which we meet with chiefly two different kinds in as much as one is of Continuance another Short The Diuturnall is that which lasts long and whether it happen before the age of youth and doth not leave them when that comes or whether it begins first after that age for the most part it assails the sick for the whole life time somtimes at certain times hours daies months years or changes of the Moon whence 't is also called the Lunatick Disease whose Functions because it doth not suddenly destroy them but only weakens them by degrees therefore it comes to pass that when they are free from the fit they can nevertheless go about their business and because they fall if they be taken with this evil whiles they are about their business hence also it is called the Falling sickness and whenas their sudden fall and horrid symptoms are wont to strike a great terror so that some from the apprehension of it only have presently fallen into the same affect and upon that account most men do fly the sight of them and if it happen in a Congregation of people as in our age in assembles the company is dissolved amongst the Ancients their meetings upon the same cause were dissolved whence called by them the Comitial Disease which name it retains which also by reason of its pertinacy was called the Great Sontick and Herculean Disease and 't is to this kind to which they have applied the name of Epilepsie rather than to the rest when notwithstanding it agrees with them all The Short and not so continued Cinvulsion is which either presently ceases or at leastwise is not protracted so long as the former which again as 't is either Gentler or Worse is divided into two Species The Gentler though it be not free from danger is accounted that whose cause is neither great not persevering as that which happens to Infants when their Teeth first break forth or Worms disturb them and by amd by ceaseth and that which befalls Virgins before their Courses flow but they coming it remits and that which betides great-bellied Women chiefly at the first month but at the middle time of their going or after the birth presently ends This that they might not bring fear by the dreadful name of the Falling-sickness because it often happens in Child-hood they call the Childrens Disease mitigating the cruelty of the Disease by the smoothness of the name The Worse and highly dangerous Species is which following grievous diseases as Wounds Fevers pains of the Collick and others at any age somtimes with one or two fits somtimes with more and that continual or somtimes with intermitting accessions doth perplex the Patient with a terrible aspect and for the most part kil him or if he be helped yet somtimes it leaves behind it the worst of symptoms as Contraction of the Limbs hurts the Voice and Senses or other discommodities which Species they call a Convulsion or Spasm only not an Epilepsie when notwithstanding those affected with this Species are no less suddenly taken in this case than the Epileptical and cal that general to difference it from a particular Convulsion or Spasm of which kind also there may be found in the Senses being unhurt only some parts are convelled we shall shew in the hurts of motion But this Species if it happen to Children as it is wont often to kill them both Infants and of riper years they call it also the Childrens Disease The accidents in all the Species of an Epilepsie both continued and short do almost concur the same and they may as well vary in all as well those which are observed in the hurts of the senses as of motion For all the Internal senses and by consequence the External too are abolisht in all the whol time they are possest with the fit they understanding judging or feeling nothing at all wherefore they refrain not from violent motions though thereby they hurt
themselves and after they come to themselves they remember none of those things they have sufferd neither do they know that they have sufferd this evil unless they be told of it or suspect it by taking some signal from the marke of some hurt left behind as a Wound or Contusion All Motion also both voluntary which wholly depends on our power and that which is performed by help of Nature as breathing and evacuating and that of the Pulses which Nature alone performs continuing in all these Species distinguisheth the Epileptical from the Apoplectick and Syncopal in whom these motions do fail the Pulse only remaining in the Apoplectick The which notwithstanding being deprived in the Convulsive doth cause that they fal and use inordinate motions But they fall not by reason of a privation of the senses but because their whol Body at once and of a suddain is convelled so that unless they be forewarned by a Vertigo which is wont somtimes to go before it or being taught by Custome of the fit at a day or hour if it be wont to come at set times they have a care of themselves being seazed with it whiles they are upright they presently fall down like to the Apoplectick and those that fall into Swonings and as t is commonly said are free neither from Water nor fire but are in the greatest jeopardy by danger of the fall and if upon this account t is less danger for those who lying in their Bed by reason of some sickness cannot fall when the Convulsions come upon them yet they are more hazarded by the cruelty of the Disease So that every Epilepsie is horrible and abominable which the ancients therefore called the sacred Disease as sent by the Gods by way of punishment and others have Superstitiously imposed the Names of the Gods on it They also so stir their Body with inordinate motions That oftentimes t is all of a fire and the pulse becomes more swift and somtimes sweats break forth Wreathing and distorting their Back Neck Head Arms Feet into divers Figures and with them beating and shaking every thing in the way as the Bed Walls Ground bruising and wounding their own Limbs gnashing with their Teeth set and bitterly biting their Tongues if they be out rowling their Eyes about which being opened and very much drawn asunder as also the bending of the Face towards the hinder parts do usually give the first sign of the fit assailing which at length in the end of the fit lying as men wearied and astonisht they keep fixt and sterne til they come to themselves again Their breathing also is very unequal whenas somtimes they hold it for a while so that from the stopping of their breath and vehement striving they somtimes cast forth their ordure and Urine and seed to especiif it abound But at other times they fetch their Breath with difficulty and noise both when an Epilepsie of the Womb hath the said strangulation its companion and cause and when Flegm falling upon the Jawes and Nostrils hinders it and they bring forth a froth at the Mouth and Nose arising from Flegm confused and stirred there with the Air which happens not to the Apolectick and Strangulated unless they die saith Hippocrates and oftentimes they make a noise with crying out But these accidents which we have related as they come on a suddain so the fit ceasing they presently remit Yet somtimes certain relicks of them do remaine and the senses being yet weakned they cannot rightly understand Reason or remember any thing or an alienation of Minde coming upon it they do all things amiss and blaspheme or they break forth into a great Laughter perhaps that which Cicero calls Sardonian and that till a new fit return which is wont to attend these foretelling signs but before and after these fits some particular convulsions somtimes either went before or remain as a distortion of the Mouth a difficulty of swallowing or a spasme of some other parts as shall be explained in its place or that Spasme which they call Flatulent which somtimes also threatens Convulsions if it be by reason of the Nerves as shall be said as also that convulsive Palpitation which also caused from an affect of the Nerves doth oftentimes along while forego an Epilepsie and remain still in the Members after it and exercise it self or other Symptomes of motions do somtimes trouble them as with Gesticulations somtimes Dancings or some other disturbance of the Limbs and tremblings of them A Stupidity with Rigidness of Body is a rare and wonderful affect A Stupidity with rigidness is a Catalepsis which is called a Catoche or Catalepsis that is a laying hold off which they cal also a Congelation whenas they are as stiff as if they were frozen in which all the internal senses and external are suddainly abolisht but only the motion of the Body is depraved whenas they keep that form which the Body had before it was seazed on with this evil whether Lying Sitting or Going and being taken like a statue they cannot change it neither of their own accord nor by compulsion and with their Eyes open whence they have called it the watchful Stupidity yet blâ—hd and altogether speechless breathing in the interim not taken away or very much hindred nor the Pulse But it happens also in some A Stupidity with hearing remaining that though they lie rigid like a stock without motion and speech yet nevertheless they perceive those things which the standers by do speak off and can afterwards relate them which they have called Ecstatick But others remaining in the same state like to dead Men although they heard nothing A Stupidity with motion remaining nor saw not now being prickt fet nothing yet if any thing were put into their Mourh they swallowed it and being lift up do stand being forced do walk and keep their Members fixt in that posture as they are bent for them In a certain Woman thus taken only the Belly and Breast were very much moved all the rest of the Body being stupid The Causes In all the foremention'd kinds of Sleep and Stupidity with Languishing Convulsion or Rigor it must needs be that the Brain is affected whenas all motion and sense proceed from that Neither here as they would have it are the Functions diversely weakend as the former middle or hinder Ventricles of the Brain are hurt nor as the Brain is affected before or behind whenas the substance of the Brain doth on every part perform its Functions but as it is more or less hurt it looseth more or fewer Functions For if the hurt be great so affecting the Brain that all the senses be abolisht then it must needs be that motion also doth cease other Functions in the interim remaining which the Brain is not the cause of as the Pulse which the Heart yeids and whenas the motion of breathing is partly Natural partly Voluntary and therefore doth proceed from the Or-Organs
of both motions both the Midrif and Lungs t is no wonder that that also if the Brain be very much hurt so that all Voluntary motion do cease as it comes to pass in the Apoplectical the Midrif or Muscles of the Breast then contributing nothing to Motion but the Lungs only after a sort moving themselves stil and whils they are dilated and filled with Air which they do by their prover Natural motion a little lifting up the Breast do a little while Persevere but very much hinderd and difficult so that unless that hurt of the Brain do speedily cease the Patient must needs be choaked breathing being wholly taken away but when voluntary motion is not wholly taken away with the senses that then respiration doth remain still more free But if the Brain be affected with a less affect compared to the former by which the senses are only opprest as in a sleepiness or gentle Stupidity then motion though it do rest a little by reason of Sleep and Consternation yet nevertheless it doth persevere or if this come to pass only by reason of the spirits of the Brain only extravagant as shall be said in a Convulsion and Catalepsis that motion doth also continue and they sooner return to themselves as shall be explained how this comes to pass in the Particular causes from which these proceed But the causes of all Consternation of Minde that happen are either some offect so hurting the Brain which gives Sense and Motion by it self or by consent that these its Functions do more or less fail as are Distemper Repletion from a flegmatick or sanguine Humor some eminent hurt a Tumor a distemper of the Brain proceeding from a Vapor or Malignant quality or a defect of the Animal spirits of the Brain of all which causes and their effects we will now treat in Particular A cold Distemper only without matter altering the Brain A cold Distemper the Cause of Stupidity a Moist of immoderate Sleep because it is wont to hurt the Functions may make it Stupid And if it be Moist too which is seldom without matter it may also cause Immoderate Sleep as somtimes by Reason of Age or the continuance of a Disease a distemper left in the Brain doth make men perpetually Prone to Sleep or as it was said in the Weakness of the Minde more dul which we have taught doth happen rather by reason of Weakness then Coldness Or induced by other causes especially from the cold external Air the North Wind blowing outwardly cooling the Head or by the Pores percing to the Brain it may cause a great Stupidity They write also that a watchful Stupidity or Catalepsis may arise from a Cold and dry distemper congealing the Spirits but whenas the Spirits cannot be congealed or if they could be then a greater Stupidity would follow we cannot at all allow of this That Convulsions are somtimes caused from Dryness which they call Inanition is a common opinion which doth not happen in this Convulsion but in a Particular one as we shall there explaine Flegm is very often the cause of Sleep and Supidity under which Name we comprehend all the Watery Cold and Moist Excrements of the Brain which immoderately heaped up within the Skul as the Brain doth ever and a non heap up such things from Flegmatick blood varried up to it and the weakness of the part if it be supprest and flow not forth through the passages appointed for it then if it perfuse the substance of the Brain with a large humor and cool it it causeth a Carus Or if by its long impulse it so moisten the same that that great bulk of the Brain becoming more soft and lax do suddainly flow abroad and sink and press the original of the Nerves at the basis of the Skul proceeding from the Brain and stop the passage of the Animal spirit it procures a grievous Apoplexy As when Flegm doth suddainly fill the Ventricles or Cavities of the Brain not by obstructing whenas the Animal Spirit is not seated in them but every where in the substance of the Brain and Nerves neither doth it pass through the Ventricles but after the same manner by oppressing the basis of the Brain it may also induce an Apoplexy the which notwithstanding if the humor descending from them do follow the course of the Nerves may end in a Palsie That all these things are thus in a Carus and Apoplexy we have learnt from the dead because this humor hath somtimes flown from their mouths in a plentiful manner And we have observed also by diligent dissection that the thick Membrane of the Brain open'd in some abundance of Humor hath presently lept forth by the Region of the Head and descended even to the Breast and the very substance of the Brain in a certain old Woman which died of an Apoplexy dissolved like to Cream after the same manner hath run all over her Face But we know that these affects proceeded from the Cause by the precedent constitution of the Body especially in old Age which is Obnoxious to this evil and from a cold constitution of the season and Air and because they have first complained of a heaviness in the Head and a weight with slaggishness darkness of the sight and also of a want of that accustomary voiding of Flegm by the Nose and Mouth and because in the dead of an Apoplexy especially oft times a great quantity of Flegm flows forth by the said passages From the same Flegmatick Humor obstructing the passages of the Brain many have written that as an Apoplexy so also an Epilepsie may be caused and therefore as in that so in this that all the senses are abolisht but do presently return again because the Brain by concussion doth speedily shake it of and then that motion with the senses doth no way cease here as is an Apoplexy because the Ventricles are not altogether but only in part obstructed or as others will have it the former only are obstructed the hindermost being unhurt so that a portion of the Spirits may nevertheless pass by to the Nerves Which though it may be condemned for many things yet let it suffice to have brought this especially to destroy this opinion viz. that if a sufficient quantity of the Animal Spirits did not descend the Functions of the Brain would rather follow to be impared in sense and motion then partly abolisht partly depraved and that if Flegm were the cause and that suddainly shaken of from the Brain did flow down it would induce that Palsie which is wont to follow an Apoplexy for the same Reason They teach that Flegm putrifying in the Brain doth Cause a Lethargie and a Feaver its companion is kindled from thence but whenas we have shewed in Feavers that from the Putrefaction of Flegm especially in the Head that a Feaver can in no wise be kindled and we find no reason how the same Flegmatick Humor being putrified by its coldness
Spirits of Wine a deadly Stupidity and also an excessive heat is raised in which case as also in others raised from the like cause we give Natural Milk and Factitious made of Almonds and Guord Seeds also Butter common Oyl and Oyl of Almonds and other Fat and mucilaginous things the which also we said were proper in corroding poysons Also Acid things given as they do quel the heat of Acrid humors and Choler so also the efficacy of Narcoricks which I am wont rather to give as Acid juyces or syrups or Vinegar it self which therefore we have said elsewhere is the most certain Remedy for Drunkenness the other things which do it by a certain propriety shal be explained in the Remedies If a malignant quality The Cure of a sleepiness stupidity from a malignant quality which we cannot rightly explain come from without from the Stroke of a Beast from whence a Sleepiness or stupidity ensues then things antipharmacal resisting these Poysons must be given such as are described in their place but if that such a Malignity be raised up in the body as in Malignant Feavers we have said that then also a Sleepiness and Stupidity doth happen and then applying those things which the malignity of the same method of cureing is to be observed which was mentioned in a Lethargy If a Daemonical Sleep delude Witches as we have said The Cure of Daemonical sleep from an evil Spirit seeing the cause is preternatural it will not be cured by natural Remedies but by prayers and amendment of life but if they refuse to do that they are worthy to be purged by sire The animal spirits being spent in the Brain The Cure of an Apoplexy from the wasting of the animal Spirits if a man become Apoplectical death it self prevents al manner of cure which we ought to foretel to be ready at hand But the Spirits being spent in the Brain by great meditations if sometime they become stupid they easily come to themselves again upon the return of the spirits The Cure of an Epilepsie Catalepsie and Stupidity from the too much profusion of the animal spirit out of the Brain but if that by some vehement affection of the mind the spirits be so carried forth that being taken with a grievous stupidity with Rigor they become Cataleptical then the evil is very pertinacious and that especially if this disease have its original from Melancholly for those thus affected are hardly cured and though they be freed from it yet they continue Stupid and Melancholly And if from Anger also they fall into an Epilepsie they are not free from danger in which species whiles they are in the Fit the same Remedies are likewise applied which are used in the rest of the Epilepical to the quickly taking off of their fits the which ceasing the cause must be turn'd away this being done if the evil do stil return whenas by that we know that the internal cause is yet present which the external did first move then the care must be fitted to the taking away of that which in a Catalepsis they apply to Melancholly in an Epilepsie to the purging of Flegm as shal be said But if that a Convulsion or which seldomer comes to pass a Catalepsis do follow from a Disease of the Nerves drawing the Brain into consent and somtimes affecting of it too the Cause it self must be diligently considered and according to that we must foretell and order the cure which we have said was in that continued Epilepsie as also somtimes in a Catalepsis but seldom hapning a certain malignant melancholly and poysonous humor consisting in the hidden parts of the body of the Veins about the inward parts of the body or also the outward parts and otherwise lurking in the habit of the body or also within the Skul arising from some fault that doth not yet destroy the brain but by course affecting the Nerves but of a milder and Shorter Epilepsie certain evaporations proceeding here and there from the inward bowels from a Causeless persevering and sometimes also Pains or only Troubles when though they have no such great cause in weak Children yet they may produce Epileptical fits but of the rest of Convulsions which are Short we said the internal causes were a poysonous humor also in the Veins in Feavers which these Convulsions do follow or otherwise Acrid Pernicious cholerick or serous humor or blood corrupted or it depends on the taking of things destructive or poysonous or proceeds from grievous pain either from a Wound or the biting of Beasts In all which species since they are all difficult we must not rashly foretel any thing of good although a fit cure and benefit of nature doth somtimes mitigate the Prognostick to wit The long continued Epilepsie so called if it begin before the time of youth and cease not when that time comes viz. when men can eject seed or when women have their courses as also that which first begins after youth is Incurable and desperate which will afflict them to the last day of their lives for a long time unless the cruelty of the symptomes doth make death more speedy but from the Shorter Epilepsie that Convulsion which is called the Worse is deadly and that also which is called the Milder species wants not its danger Which things since that they are thus these Prognosticks being premised the Cure must nevertheless be attempted which we shal not first of al divide according to the Causes seeing they are so various and abstruse but proceeding by the manner of operation we shal explain how by medicines emptying and altering found out partly by Use and partly appropriated to the Cause for some Reason we ought to heal Epilepsies and Convulsions or at leastwise to keep off or mitigate their fits Evacuating Remedies are those which do carry another way the Causes procreating or Fomenting Convulsions whether they be vapors or humors either by revelling and deriving from the part affected or by Repelling and hindring them to come to the part and that either by opening made by Cutting Sucking Burning or by Purgations ordered by divers passages of the body or by other operations outwardly applied Amongst the kinds of Cutting Phlebotomy presents it self for the lessuing of the blood which in a long continued Epilepsie wil take place if the Patient be Plethorick or the Hemthoids which before were accustomary be supprest some general eminent and appearing Vein being made choyce of for this purpose yet many do advise to open the Shoulder-vein called the Cephalick for the heads sake also blood taken from the Veins of the Ham and Ankles is very convenient and so much the more if the Courses be stopt in Women the which also some commend if taken from the Veins of the Forehead and Tongue and if we do conjecture its cause to depend upon malignant blood these detractions of blood must be often repeated whenas we have shewed that in Madness
Nerves also and other parts t is no wonder that these are somtimes born as we have described either deaf or dum or crooked or or otherwise faulty the which certainly is the chief Cause of Original Folly as somtimes this apparent Deformity of theirs doth shew somtimes t is not discovered but by opening after Death So also we do not deny that this may happen from an evil Distemper of the Brain Distemper the cause of Foolishness the which notwithstanding seeing it cannot be rightly explained nor corrected is no further to be enquired into It hath been somtimes found out that a certain black speck in the brain or membranes discovered by Dissection A speck in the brain the cause of Madness hath been the Cause of Madness as sometimes also Putrefaction bred in some part of the Membranes of the brain Putrefaction in the Brain the Cause of Madness from which t is likely that filthy Vapors being continually raised did trouble the Spirits which some also have delivered may happen from Worms generated in the Brain Worms in the Brain the Cause of Madness which hidden faults seeing they are first manifested after Death by opening the Skull we can hardly conjecture what they are while the Man lives unless in General from this because other signs are wanting here which should demonstrate other Causes The Cure In the Cure the Causes must be distinguisht and the Remedies fitted to them which we said were either a malignant Spirit or a drunken or poysonous Quality an agitation or perturbation of the Spirits a bot Distemper and some faults of the Brain The preternatural Cause proceeding from the Divel as it doth no waies belong to the Physitian The Cure of those possest with the Divel so neither the Cure for the Divel is forcibly expel'd by the Prayers of Divines and godly people in the Name of Jesus as Christ cast forth Divels and gave his Disciples that Power but also the Divel somtimes feining himself of his own accord to be put to flight by certain Words and Ceremonies of men doth delude Mortals If Drunkenness arise from Wine and other inebriating things as hath been said The Cure of Drunkenness from a temulent quality after some hours the Vapors being discust especially by the intervention of sleep they come to themselves of their own accord and if Vomiting follow it it is good upon which account Avicen thought it good to be drunk once a month But if they continue this Course of life the Nerves being weakned by reason of their frequent stupidity which is discovered by this even then to come to pass if presently after that they have not yet drank immoderately they begin to stutter and stumble they become Tremulous Paralytical Gouty Hydropical as shall be said in those places Therefore that they may have a Care of themselves they are to be admonisht from Drunkenuess and to be frighted by declaring the Danger of it and if they cannot refrain some have delivered that this may be effected that they shall wholly loath Wine by strangling an Eele in Wine or a Frog or the barbel Fish or the Rotchet Fish being putrefied in it or the Sea Grape and that Wine afterwards being drunk off But if sometimes a Necessity of drinking and contending in Cups do urge as this is brought into use as a Civil thing at Banquets to the great hurt of mankind for prevention it hath been observed that these things following being taken before do prevent Drunkenness or at least wise make it more gentle Five or fix bitter Almonds eaten before meat Wormwood also whose Wine notwithstanding the Swillers do use rather the day after a Fox that they may correct their Stomach offended with Choller whenas to contemperate that they fil themselves with drink again from whence these Verses If thou be hurt by drinking over night Rise early to 't this Medicine is full right Rue because it makes the Cup safe as the Verse sounds is commended for this use which I think is rather said so because it preserves from Poyson Coleworts taken at meat hinder Drunkenness and so doth its Seed If one drink Milk fasting he shall be safe that day Pliny teacheth that the Lungs of Creatures roasted eaten and do keep of Drunkenness other express by Name the Lungs of Sheep One writes that the pouder of Swallows burnt being taken will not suffer one to be drunk to Aeternity A pouder hindring Drunkenness may be made thus of which give one spoonful with Austere Wine Take of the seeds of Coleworts one dram Coriander half a dram Camphire two grains make a pouder A more Compounded one may be made thus of which give one spoonful or two drams with Wine of Pomegranates or with some other acid stiptick or with cold Water or with Sugar let it be reduced into the form of Lozenges Take of the seeds of coleworts one dram of Plantane Purslane Bar-berries each half a dram Coriander prepared two drams flowers of red roses water-lillies red Sanders each half a dram Mastich Amber each one scruple burnt Ivory one scruple salt half a scruple Camphire six grains make a pouder This may be used in the form of an Electuary and given before drinking Take of conserve of Roses the Rob of Currance and Barberries each half an ounce bitter Almonds branched and bruised twelve seeds of Coleworts one dram red Roses one dram Syrup of Slots as much as is sufficient make an Electuary An elegant Syrup of which one ounce ought to be taken before they drink Wine Take of the juyce of white Coleworts sour Pomegranates Currance each two ounces Vinegar one ounce boilthem together for your use They are less foxed who drink larest not till their stomach is well filled with Victuals but they quickly who hasten to drink Wine fasting or presently at the beginning of a Meal Outwardly Ivy applied to the Head like a Garland or the Juyce of it moved to the Head keeps off Drunkenness Also the wearing of an Amethyst stonâ— is beleeved can do the like But to cure those that are already drunk that the wine may do them the less hurt Vomiting doth very much help or if you give them acid things presently at the end of the Meal or the sooner the better and let them be taken plentifully because as it was said in Narcoticks they weaken the efficacy of the Wine of which sort are these following Frumenty of Milk and Barley flower with Vinegar also sour Milk as it is wont to concrete Sour Apples eaten also acid Peaches and their juyce as also Quinces The Heads of Coleworts condite and Rapes till they grow acid as our Country men are wont to prepare them do very much help Vinegar drank diluted with water or taken by it self in a good quantity is an Antidote against Drunkenness with which a certain eminent Foxer for a long time being dayly drunk was wont to guard himself that he might take no hurt by it
of each half a dram Coral one dram Mastick half a scruple with the Syrup of the Conserve of Citron pill make an Electuary Or let him use one spoonful of this pouder called Post pastum Take of Coriander seed half covered with Sugar one ounce Anise seed condite in like manner half an ounce the pouder of Diacytonites without the species one dram Diarrhodon Abbatis Red Saunders dry Citron pil of each half a dram Leaves of the greater Eyebright one scruple Mastich half a scruple Lozenges of Sugar of Roses two ounces make Pouder Lozenges may be made of the pouder of Diacytonites without the species one dram Red Coral half a dram Shavings of Ivory one scruple with Sugar dissolved in Rose water to two ounces make Lozenges A most excellent Remedy also to hinder Vapors is if the Paroxysm befall them fasting as it is wont to be to give them meat the which being taken it presently grows mild or the Vertigo Imagination Scotoma ceaseth and by this only some have been restored shunning Fasting Sleep because it discusseth Vapors doth help very much in these cases Plaisters Cerecloaths are applied outwardly to the Region of the Stomach if the Vapors proceed from thence and the Mesaraick Veins that they may hinder them which they wear in the night As a Plaster of Mastick or some other made for the Stomach malaxed with some astringent Oyl or Galens Cerecloath for the Stomach Or such a one Take of red Roses Leaves of Wormwood of each two drams dried Citron pil Labdanum of each half an ounce Mastich two drams Pouder them and with Oyl of Quinces or Mastich adding Wax make a Cerecloath If these Vapors rise from about the region of the Womb let the same Plasters of Mastich or pro matrice be applied to that part and let the Woman wear it for some time unless the stoppage of the Courses forbid it for when they flow they must be omitted If a Vapor ascend like an Air from some other part of the Body as the Feet or others doth create a Vertigo as hath been said then the washing of those parts doth very much divert it as also if it be done in other causes The which may be done thus Take of the Leaves of Sage Rosemary Celtick Spike Groundpine St. Johns wort flowers of Chamomel Roses Lavender as much as wil suffice boyl them in Wine and Lye Afterwards let him anoint his Feet with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Bays Worms Wall-flower of each one ounce Aqua Vitae half an ounce a little Salt boyl them for your use If necessity urge very much Oxyrrhodines must be applied to the Head which may repel vapors and if it continue we must add things more strongly astringent as Juyce of Plantane And successively such a Cap may be worn as Take of the roots of Galangal the true Acorus Citron pill of each one dram Coriander seed two drams Myrtles one dram flowers of Roses Rosemary of each half a dram Cloves half a dram make a Pouder for a Cap. Some have put Remedies upon the Eyes in Imaginations and Scotomaes which we think superfluous seeing the Vapor doth no waies reach unto the Eyes In course of Diet let all things be moderate the meat simple not too much also let them drink Wine sparingly or diluted let too much motion of the body be avoided and chiefly too much agitation or bowing down of the Head and let them beware of looking on things wheeling about or very bright and let them abstain from too much agitation of the mind by study and watching They think that Crystal worn is of very great force in a Vertigo and for the same benefits sake they drink out of a Cup made of it or they put crystal into their Cups It hath been said that a Repletion of the Brain from a watry The Cure of a weakness of the sight and Verigo proceeding from a watry and flegmatick humor of the Brain serous and flegmatick humor doth cause a Vertigo by its fluctuation and wind and by an afflux of the same humor to the optick Nerve Blindness doth sometimes arise or by an irrigation of it an Amblyopie and besides these hurts of the sight which are by reason of the Brain it hath been demonstrated that no other faults of the Eye prejudicing the sight can be caused from flegm or any afflux of such a humor which can neither enter the Net-like Nerve nor the Eye and therefore we apply this Method of Cure only to these Diseases which is due only to this cause neither do we refer it as others have done to Suffusions or other affects of the Eye which also they beleeved did proceed from an influx of flegm But here although such a Cure be convenient as is due to a Carus Apoplexy and other flegmatick Diseases of the Brain and therefore perhaps ought not any more to be repeated in this place yet that we may understand after what manner they are to be applied to the sight in these Diseases we wil here explain But a Vertigo springing from thence is dangerous if there be a great Repletion of the Head such as hath been demonstrated we have often found which seeing it can hardly be taken away somtimes it ends in a Carus and Apoplexy the which it presageth as also an Amblyopie if it happen from thence in space of time is converted into blindness which sometimes is wont to be at the first presently from the beginning the humor flowing abundantly the prevention of which therefore in a Vertigo and Amblyopie springing from thence we shal study to Remedy this following manner First we wil endeavor to take away those excrementitious serous and flegmatick humors of the Head by Emptying Revelling and driving them from the brain then by heating the brain which doth generate them and again is moistned and cooled by them and by strengthening it by those things which are appropriate to it the Nerves and the Eyes and also the hindring that the cause be not generated anew or fomented which shal be performed by Remedies applied inwardly and outwardly by Purging by the stool by the Mouth and Nose or by drawing away of Blood Or by things applied to the Head or other parts consenting with it or by giving things that alter and by course of diet not neglecting Amulets Purgations by the stool for drawing away of flegm from the Head and for hindering that the cause be not generated anew are thus methodically ordered A Goading and sharp Clyster is premised the which also is profitably injected by intervals or weekly And in these hurts of the sight it wil be thus more applicable Take of the fresh roots of Orrice Peony each two ounces the herbs Centory the less Betony Rue Eyebright Fennel of each one handful flowers of Camomel Lavonder or french Lavender of each one pugil Fennel seed two drams Carawaies one dram Senna which by a propriety is good for the Eyes half an ounce Agarick
bodies fall into the rough Artery being it is of exquisite sense Things falling into the rough Artery cause a Cough and cannot so much as have a touch of them a cough is caused and it is greater if the things be rough or sharp As it is when in eating or drinking any thing goes the wrong way in at the Larynx or Wind-pipe as it often happens to them that speak when they are eating which enlargeth the wind-pipe Water Wine or a crum of bread gets in or the like which cause coughing by which they are sent out at the mouth or Nose Also dust or pouder may be drawn into the Wind-pipe and cause the same And if the like be snuffed or drawn into the Nose with the breath Things snuffed into the Nose the cause of neezing being sharp and pricking they cause neesing as Pepper Pellitory Hellebore or sharp juyces And if they get into the Wind-pipe with the Air they cause coughing Also things that burn the Jaws Things held in the mouth cause spitting and prick the mouth chewed or held therein provoke spittle as Pellitory Stavesacre and the like A watry humor thin or thick A humor from the Brain causeth a Cough simple or mixed with choler which is salt or is chewed in a Catarrh if it fall into the Wind-pipe it causeth a Cough which is greater according to the quantity or sharpness of the humor And it continues when the Flux continueth and is rather dispersed than sent forth by coughing All these are milder when the humor is watery and not sharp as when it falls at night only and is easily spit up the next morning Also the same humor falling from the head into the mouth or Wind-pipe causeth a hauking which brings it into the mouth and so sends it forth A humor from the head is the cause of hauking If it be tough and sticketh long it causeth a hoarsness by making an inequality in the part which hinders the voyce or it lies under the Tunicle and swels it Use of Quick-silver is the cause of spitting When filth is sent hither from the whol body it causeth a constant spitting as after anoynting with Quick-silver by which means an ulcer may be caused which may cause hoarsness If the humor from from the head be sharp and thin An humor from the head is the cause of sneesing and flow to the Nose it causeth by pricking neesing and often sniffling in the disease Coryza and if it continue Inflammation and ulcers from the heat of the humor When Blood falls into the Jaws it is hauked out Blood falling down is the cause of hauking and cough when into the Lungs it is coughed out And if it be sharp and about the Nose it causeth neesing which foregoeth bleeding at the Nose Also Flegm in the Lungs from their crude nourishment causeth coughing which continues according to the toughness as we shewed in Asthma Flegm or Gravel in the Lungs the cause of coughing As also stones or gravel growing there especially if they be in the greater branches of the Wind-pipe where the sense is more exquisite and laboureth to get forth Also matter in the Lungs causeth coughing Matter in the Lungs the cause of a cough of flegm long conteined and ripened or of excrementitious blood without an Ulcer for which cause in the Pleurisie and Peripneumony it is gathered rather from the Inflammation of the Lungs than strained through the Lungs from the breast which causeth coughing as I shal shew there somtimes it comes from an Ulcer or Imposthume of the Lungs and 't is alwaies spit up in Consumptions In all which if the matter be white concocted and temperate the Cough is milder but if yellow green black sharp or stinking it is worse Also the matter in a Pleurisie and Peripneumony sweating through the Lungs at the first causeth a Cough Matter and blood in the Lungs cause a Cough And Blood in the passion of Blood-spitting Evil Vapors causeth Hickets If the Midriff in malignant Feavers be troubled with evil vapors and stir'd to send them forth it is contracted and suddenly relaxed as we shewed in Convulsions and causeth the same in the Hickets as we see in deadly Diseases And in a burning Feaver when the Midriff is dried this cannot be but a dfficulty of breathing If the Midriff be wounded with the Stomach it causeth depraved motion for the Midriff lieth upon the stomach and hath the same Tunicle with the Stomach and the Nerves therefore it must needs consent therewith And when the stomach laboureth to expel any the Midriff moves to resist it with the other Muscles of the breast as it doth assist the Muscles of the belly to press down the Excrements by stool If any thing offending the inward sides of the stomach only The pricking of the stomach is the cause of Hickets be to be cast off the motion of the Hicket is sufficient by which the Midriff shakes the stomach and helps the expulsive faculty that it may cast the matter sticking thereto into the hollow of the stomach and mix it with the rest And then the pricking ceaseth and also the motion of the Midriff except the matter cleave again to the stomach and then the Hickets return The Stomach is pricked thus by sharp things or such as burn or are enemies unto it as Pepper Onions Purges Poyson stinks or cholerick malignant humors there bred or sent thither When the stomach is offended by consent of the inward Tunicle Heart-burning the cause of Nesing nature strives to disburden it by a stronger motion which is Neesing by which they which have pain at the Heart are suddenly refreshed because the matter is by that means shaken into the stomach And by the same consent not only with the stomach The Cause of Cough and Sneesing from stomach and Guts but guts and bowels adjacent there is a dry cough as it appears in Children that have the Worms which cause a dry Cough by their disturbing of the stomach and Colon and somtimes Neesing before which the Nose itched by the consent of the same Tunicle And in other obstructions of the bowels the Midriff being burdened with their weight there is a dry Cough Belching is a stronger motion than Hickets for the Midriff helps the stomach Wind the cause of Belching when it is filled with Wind to throw it out which swels like the matter that caused it When the matter is more solid as meat and Drink and humors Trouble in the stomach the cause of Vomiting there is a stronger motion of the Midriff and Muscles of the breast by Vomiting by which the stomach is not only forced but turned by which the matter and air is sent forth with great noise by an unaccustomed way This Vomiting is caused by things in the stomach that offend in quantity or quality as we shal shew in Excretion and things cast out Also the
strieghtened within or stopped by a Tumor The Cure of difficult swallowing from a Tumor Inflammation or Desluxion or hurt by things taken in if there be pain the Cure shal be mentioned in the pains of the neck If it be pressed by external Injuries or loosning of the Spondil From Compression of the Gullet in regard it hinders breathing which is the greatest danger we shewed in Respiration what should be done If Vomiting be profitable to prevent Diseases The Cure of hard Vomiting as Avicen commends it once in a month or oftener or if it be necessary in Diseases to expell things that trouble the Stomach and if it be difficult by reason of the unfitness of the Constitution by reason of the short neck and streightness of the breast and mouth of the stomach it is often inconvenient to force it But if in such natures it is necessary and there be striving without success We have shewed in divers Diseases where Vomiting is required how to provoke it by filling the Belly and subverting it as they call it and tickling the Jaws and Throat We shal shew in Cardialgia or Heart-burning The Cure of difficult belching how that imperfect Belching with heat of stomach is to be cured CHAP. VII Of the Defect of Dejection or going to Stool The Kinds THere is a Defect of natural Excretion of Excrements from the Belly and it is called Constipation or Astriction or binding of the Belly Belly-bound In which either nothing is voided and the Belly is wholly stopped Or the Excrements are voided seldom or less than is fit or with great labor and straining This is somtimes in sound people whose nature is to go seldom to stool Or according to Hippocrates it comes from the change of age so that they who are in youth loose-bodied are bound in old age and so contrarily In others it is from an evil custom and life as shal be shewed and is the cause of diseases It is a Symptom in divers Diseases both of the lower belly joyned with Heart-pain Colick Jaundies Ruptures and other accidents And of the Head with pain giddiness and the like And in Feavers this is a familiar symptom And in other diseases it is so usual that it is the first and last symptom of which the Patient complaineth The Causes The Guts containing the Excrements must needs be afflicted in every Constipation or binding either primarily when they are stopped or secondarily when they have lost their expulsive faculty When the Guts are straitned so that the passage of the Excrements is hindered the Belly is bound And this straitness may come from astriction or Convolution We call it Astriction when the Guts have lost their slippriness Driness of Excrements is the cause of Constipation or binding and are dried and wrinkled or when they are bound and made straiter Hence is it that Driers Binders sower and sharp things taken as they astringe the Gullet and wrinkle the Jaws so if they be taken imoderately especially fasting they stop the Guts and their passages and bind the belly And this may come from long fasting and too much evacuation And from heat that drieth the guts or rather the Excrements as we shal shew Some say that the Guts may be pressed and stopped by a Tumor in the Mesentery but we think it not to be possible because when a Woman is with child that great Tumor dorh not cause constipation without some other accident The thin Guts are somtimes so rouled together in the disease called Convolvulus Convolution or rouling together of the Guts the cause of Constipation or Costiveness so that they are closed and the Excrements cannot descend but are vomited up either with pain called Ileon when the Guts are inflamed or with repletion of excrements without Inflammation as we shal shew in pains But this is most usual in Ruptures when the Guts fal into the Cods from the breaking of the Peritonaeum by reason of the evil position of the Guts There is an ordinary Constipation from the Obstruction of the Guts with proper Excrements Obstruction of the Guts by excrements is the cause of Constipation not only when they abound but when they are dry hard thick clammy and hinder the Excrements that follow This is usually in the Orifice where the thin Guts use to open themselves into the thick by reason of the straitness there where they have been so fixed that the constipation hath been deadly as we have observed in Anatomy This is often in the Colon in the great turning thereof before it comes to the Rectum by the hard dung reteined and stopping and binding the Belly with the pain of the Colick And somtimes such hard dung is in the Arse-gut and not voided without great straining or help of Art The dung grows hard when the meat is too solid and dry as we see in Dogs that eat bones especially when they drink little The same comes from the use of hot and dry meats And it is in hot natures when the Liver and parts adjacent are too hot in whom if they go not every day to stool through long sitting riding or lying in the bed because the excrements fall down better when the body is upright or moved the Excrements grow hard from their internal heat that drieth them Hence it is that Senators Riders and old Men complain of costiveness And as it comes from moderate heat so may it come from hot diseases and Feavers From fasting also the Guts and excrements that remain may be dried not only in the time of fasting but after if they be very hungry And that because nature being exhausted draws whatsoever chylus or humor is in the meat to recruit her by the Mesaraicks and so leaves the Excrements dry and hard Hence it is that after a long Disease when the Patient eats much he complains of a constipation And though they who nourish wel have rather a dry than moist belly the Guts can scarce be so stopped by any thing but Excrements Stopping of the Guts by other things besides excrements is the cause of constipation for things that are swallowed though great and hard if they pass the Gullet may also pass the Guts except they stick in the Fundament And what is written of the stone in the Guts it is rare and can scarce be so big as to stop the Guts except dung as they say be turned to a stone If the Guts lose their pricking and the expulsive faculty doth not move them Loss or Dulness of sense is the cause of Costiveness our wil is also at rest being not admonished thereby and there is no dejection This is when the Guts either feel not or very little from the fault of the Nerves of the sixth or seventh conjugation from whence the Nerves of the Guts arise And in a general stupefaction they suffer with the other Nerves and there is no dejection as here in particular The same
Serpent Dipsas such humors Galen saith may breed in the body and be turned into Poyson That it is no wonder that women with Child and Virgins that want their Terms should have the Pica Or others a depraved appetite from a Cacochymy or evil juyce The Cure Of the three kinds of evil Appetite if Hunger or Thirst cannot be satisfied The Cure of Bouimos or great Appetite of Thirst and Pica or if it be they are sick or pained at heart or Vomit or purge or if they be weak and faint for being satisfied this is to be cured And it is more easily done in Hunger than Thirst and great Hunger is easier taken away than satisfied When strange things are desired that must not be neglected because it signifieth a preternatural cause in the body as also because they delight in such things and think they cannot hurt which they find otherwise First be temperate in eating and drinking not too much nor too little especially after long fasting and sickness and then take a little and often such as is of good juyce and nourisheth wel and is easily concocted In other causes eat things that fil much and are solid and not soon digested yet in small quantity for as an evil custom maketh Gluttons and Drunkards that they are not well except ful so a good and decent custom takes away immoderate appetite and brings it into good order Vomiting is good if there be an evil humor that causeth it and if it come not of it self provoke it And in Dogs Appetite at the first before it is too violent provoke it to take away the cause In other cases vomiting increaseth it except it come from choler In which also thirst is raised which ceaseth when that is spent Purging is good in these cases mentioned both against Thirst and Hunger not in other except there be a Diarrhaea in which you must help nature to take away the cause with things that are gentle and astringe First preparing the Humor All these we choose by other observations than by the sharpness of flegm or melancholly And though purging cause thirst if it come from Choler they may be used If it come from Worms give bitter things to drive them down We use hot and dry things for the stomach when this Disease comes from humors after they are purged Which do not alter the coldness of the stomach but heat and dry it causing thirst which cureth hunger give meat actually and potentially hot spiced and sweetned which are best fasting And sweet Wine that is strong and spiced and Aqua vitae which the labouring people drink in the morning that they may better endure hunger Also hot medicines for the stomach as sweet sharp burning and wel scented Or anoynt foment or Plaister the stomach with hot things Or use exercise and Baths Things that loosen or are fat or viscous subvert the stomack and by greasing it take away the sense and Appetite as Butter Oyl Fat Glutinous as Calfes and Sheps Feet and if they be loathsom they are the better as they speak of roasted Dormice Things take away Appetite by propriety by their adverse force or loathsomness As Wine in which an Ele hath been drowned causeth men alwaies to loath Wine But this must do it by another quality if they that are ignorant of it are cured thereby Antidotes do the like if it come from venom Others stupifie the sense of the stomach as we shewed in the causes of dejected Appetite And Wine or spirit thereof taken fasting doth the same not by heating but stupifying And the infusion of nightshade roots in Wine Also Treacle and Mithridate with Wine are stupifying by reason of the Opium And other Opiates though no Antidotes abate Appetite but it will return again by taking Vinegar Cold and moist things Cure all sorts of thirst And Rhazis saith that cold or cold water hurts the actions of the Stomach largely taken and cold Air cures Hunger Drink doth this chiefly by wetting the dry Belly if it be actually cold and potentially also Water actually cold which we shewed to be potentially temperate is best either crude or boyled to take away the windines Or with sour Juyces or Vinegar or with Spirit of Vitriol-waters cure Thirst Wine may be given to them that are used to it especially if small or mixed with Water Also Milk to young Children and such as use it and Whey But they are prohibited in Diseases in which they corrupt easily An Emulsion of sweet Almonds in water called Almond-milk is pleasant Or Decoctions as that of Barley-water or beaten Bread or of cold Seeds or of Prunes Cherries Raysons with Cinnamon Anise Fennel c. Broaths of Flesh-Capons let the Fat be taken off restore and quench Thirst Beere or Ptisan with Juyces As Take Water two quarts Juyce of Pomegranates or Grapes two ounces Sugar half an ounce boyl them a little Or of distilled Waters Take Sorrel and Endive water each two pints Juyce of Currance and Grapes or Pomegranates each three ounces Juyce of Lemmons or Apples boyl them and sweeten them a little Julep Alexandrinum Take Rose-water one pint Sugar half a pound boyl them to a consistance add Water boyled Or thus Take Water one pint Rose-water four ounces Juyces of Cherries or Grapes two ounces Sugar four ounces boyl them Sharp Syrups as of Currance or Goos-berries Grapes Medlars Cherries Prunes Pomegranates Sorrel or Vinegar with Water or distilled Waters or Syrup of Violets The Juyce of ripe Anguriae or Pomegranates is good Other solid things to chew made of Sorrel or wood-sorrel Lettice Purslane Endive Succory Bugloss-flowers in Sallets Coleworts Rapes Apples boyled Bar-berries Medlars Peaches Apples Cherries Prunes Pomegranates Bar-berries Grapes Raisons green or dryed Liquorish chewed quencheth Thirst Also Sugar candy with Syrup of Violets held in the Mouth Manna Sugar of Roses and Conserves with Spirit of Vitriol Conserve of Violets candied Lettice Coleworts Guords Citrons Or Take Conserve of Roses two ounces of Sorrel one ounce of Violets Bugloss Water-lillies of each half an ounce of Currans as much as will make a sharp Electuary Take the Mucilage of Fleabane and Quince seed Gum Traganth extracted with Rose water with Sugar or Syrup convenient Make a Linctus Take of the Mucilages mentioned one ounce Syrup of Grapes half an ounce with Sugar Make a Linctus Or put seeds of Fleabane and Quinces in a clout and add Sugar cool it in water and lay it upon the Tongue Take the four cold seeds of each one dram Purslane seed Search juyce of Liquorish of each half a dram with Gum Traganth make Troches to hold in the mouth Or Troches of Salt-peter that is Salprunella with Sanders and Suger and Gum Traganth It is good to cool the mouth with water and Vineger Candied Coleworts or with Rose water or Sorrel water c. or to hold Crystal or a Stone or Ice in the mouth and chang it often Some anoynt the Tongue with Mucilage of seeds and
Oyl of Roses Cold air Cures thirst by cooling the Lungs if it come from them and by correcting the heat of the whol body in regard the Tunicle of the Mouth and of the stomach are all one Baths for the Feet and Hands of cold water and change of Linnen doth the same Also Epithems applied to the Liver and Heart And anoynting of the Throat and Neck with Oyl of Violets Water-lillies Willows Poppies Some anoynt the Head in Feavers with the same because the Nerves of the Head consent with the stomach but I suppose it doth good by provoking sleep Hippocrates saith that sleep slaketh thirst not because it moistneth as some say but because heat is carried outward by sleep as appeareth by sweating which is then most easie to be cause Rest is good because it keeps the body cool And also little talk for much increaseth thirst CHAP. XIV Of Defect of Bleeding The Kinds THe wants of bleeding which is divers waies at set times differ first in respect of the place as they are not or not sufficient either from the womb Fundament or Nostrils or the like A suppression of the Terms is when the monthly Evacuation of women Stoppage of Terms by the womb for forty years in which they are fit to bear Children is wanting and they are neither with Child nor give suck Some women but it is rare never have them and without inconvenience these are Virago'es because they are like men Others have had them but they stopped and never returned Some have wanted them a whol year or some months In whom Laziness presageth Diseases Then follows heart pain want of Appetite and loathing with inclination to Vomite Palpitation of heart and Arteries Head-ach troublsome dreams palness of face and crudity of urin discovereth it And as these are preternatural in Plethory and Cacochymy so are they Natural in Women with Child whose Terms are stopped they vomit in the first month Also suppression of Terms is when they flow too slowly for the constitution in less quantity or shorter time then is meet This causeth inconveniences There is another flux of the womb after Child-bearing that is necessary Want of cleansing after child-bearing and continueth some dayes more abundant then the monthly the blood is called Lochia If these flow not they cause great Diseases Colick and Convulsion There is a flux at the Fundament in both sexes called Haemorrhoids Stoppage of Haemorroids in some Natures either once in a year or at a certain time this is said to be stopped when it hath been and is called suppression of Hemorrhoids Physitians explain this defect chiefly when there are other accidents from the retention of them as Cacochymy Cachexy Quartan Feaver Melancholly and the like The Patient disdaining the Flux Complains not of the want of it but when he is Pained by the swollen Veins which cannot open which are called the blind Hemorrhoids Some have a natural Evacuation at the Nose The want of bleeding at Nose at a set time which are young and Plethorick and bleed at no other part as women that want their terms that are with child or Virgins before they have them And hither may be refer'd the critical evacuations in Diseases If any of these are stopped the Physitian must endeavor to procure them If blood flow another way though somtimes it doth good Defect of bleeding by other parts yet in regard it is not so according to nature it belongs to the defect of Natural bleeding if it stop The Causes The defect of these bleedings is either from the want or foulness of blood or from the stoppage or straitness of the Veins Women fit to conceive must have more blood then is fit to nourish the body to nourish the Child if they do conceive 〈◊〉 to be purged forth at the end of the month if they conceive not If this plenty of blood be wanting or not sufficient there is little or no Flux of the Terms And though this want of blood may come from divers causes yet all do not cause this suppression There are Women but few in which as nature before they are ripe to conceive A manly Constitution is the cause of suppression of Terms breeds no more blood then will nourish the body so she keeps the same course when they are fit to conceive these are barren and without other inconveniences These are called Virago'es from their manlike constitution From want of juyce of which blood should be made Spare Diet causeth the same the Terms flow less rather then cease because nature keeps the the same order when blood doth not abound Yet there may be a defect of Terms from long fasting or use of bad meats so that the body may grow very lean In sharp Diseases the blood being spent by violent heat Blood sent another way causeth want of Terms and Hemorrhoids if it continue long the same may be but being short it rather causeth a Flux then stops and often in a Crisis cureth the Disease And great Fluxes by provoking the expulsive faculty provoke the Terms except they be bloody and then they hinder as the Terms hinder them and bleeding at the Nose So these Fluxes are stopped by deriving of the blood to another part And the cheif cause of suppression of Humorrhoids is when nature retaines or sends it otherwaies Thickness of blood causeth also suppression of Terms and Hemorrhoids when it will not flow being too thick from the juyce of meats eaten or want of serum to carry it And this is the cause that in Cachectickes Thickness of blood causeth suppression of Terms and Hydropicks the Terms are stopt the serum or whey sweats through the Veins and when a Vein is opened the blood is thick and if it stand like red or white Coral Crude and impure blood Crudities and impurity of blood causeth suppression of Terms if it be thick as it will be when it is cold as we have observed with a thick skin at the top or foul will not flow by the Terms for the purest blood is sent to nourish the Child and to breed milk If therefore it be foul or there be obstructious then the Terms are wanting Therefore Cachectickes Leucophlegmaticks or Virgins in the Green-sickness while their blood is bad have not the Terms but when it is putrified have Hence it appears that this natural flux of the Terms is not for to discharge foul blood according to the vulgar error which will rather hinder it if it abound And it is not from the quality of blood that is evil but from the quantity abounding And it is preternatural when it is immoderate or without order And we shall shew that women after they are past the Terms may so bleed And though the impurity of the blood cause the Flux of the Hemorrhoids it is no argument why the Terms should flow from impurity naturally for they differ greatly for though foul blood be usually
when they have immoderate bleeding other waies Or when they have in time of giving suck an acute disease which makes them lean Also when the foulness of the Blood is such that it is brought to the Breasts for Milk is made of the purest blood which was the Childs food in the womb Also thickness of the blood as it is the cause of stopping the Courses hinders increase of the milk wholly or in part because it cannot get into the Veins of the Breasts Milk also is wanting when the Veins of the Breasts are stopped by some hard Tumor or otherwise Stoppage of the veins of the Breasts nipples without passage or absent or hurt cause the want of giving suck Or when there is no passage in the Nipples Or when Nipples are wanting which comes from scratching when young Women have itching Breasts being marriageable this causeth Ulcers which either stop the passage or leave a Callus or hardness which doth it Also the clifts and pains which Women have from their strong-mouth'd Children when they suck may hinder giving suck while they cease The Cure If it comes from want of blood shee must be high fed The Cure of want of Milk if from evil humors purged if from thickness of blood it must be attenuated or made thin if from hurt of Breasts or Nipples they must be cured as we shewed elsewhere For this we must use things that by a propriety cause Milk Medicines to cause or increase Milk or make the blood so thin by heat that it wil pass into the Breasts Milk Eggs Udders of beasts and brains are good not only for their nourishment but for the property in them to increase milk Also such Fruits as have a milky juyce as Almonds Pine-Nuts and the like eaten or drunk in Emulsions The Germans use a Broath of Eggs Wine Butter and Sugar Also Rise-milk Broath of Coleworts Mallows Rocket Dill Fennel Parsley is good and though Lettice is said to increase milk we cannot believe it because it extinguisheth seed Onions boyled or roasted are also good And the root of purple-flowr'd Goats-beard boyld in Broath As Barly and Pease broath The best Wine nourisheth and warmeth and is good for Nurses These Decoctions also Take Barley one pugil Fennel and Parsley each one handful boyl them and add Sugar Or thus Take Eryngus roots half an ounce Mallows Polygala Fennel Parsley Dill Rocket Basil Mints each one handful Barley Pease each a pugil Line-seed two drams boyl them drink it with Sugar every morning Of juyces thus Take juyce of Sowthistle and of Goats-beard each half an ounce give it with white Wine and Sugar The Decoction of Earth-worms in Flesh broath with Fennel and Barley is good but let not the Nurse know what she taketh Dry things are less profitable yet some seeds are commended whose herbs are better As Take Annise seed two drams Fennel seed one dram Rocket and Nigella seed each half a dram make a Pouder give two drams with any fit Decoction Or Take Pouder of Earthworms three ounces Sugar half an ounce Annise seed one dram Ginger and Cinnamon each half a dram make a Pouder give a spoonful with some Decoction Or Take Crystal in fine pouder me dram or Coral That which comes from the Alpes called Lac lunae given one dram is accounted good Divers things are applied to the Breasts for the drawing of Milk unto them As hot Fomentations which enlarge the Veins And bruised Mints Or make this Plaster Take Parsley Fennel and green Mints each one handful boyl and stamp them add Barley meal one pugil Storax two drams Nigella seed one dram Oyl of Lillies two ounces make a Cataplasm Some use Sinapisms and Dropaxes made of Mustard or stinking Gums to attract Milk but they are too violent and inflame Friction of the Breast is better And Cupping-Glasses to the Arm-holes upon the great Veins which bring the milk to the Breasts and look blew are good Also to let them be often sucked or milked Also if Nipples be wanting there may be an Instrument made of hollow Glass for the Child to suck CHAP. XVII Of the Defect or Want of Copulation The Kinds THere is a Defect of the Venereal act when the Male and Female cannot perform or weakly joyn together Men are more deficient than Women for the man doth more in that act than the Woman And they are called Impotent which cannot ingender at all for want of erection Impotent men Weak men and such as do it faintly with small extension are called weak men and when they spend no seed in the act whether done strongly or faintly Imperfect Veuery they are called Imperfect men Nor is it a Defect when it is done but seldome because that may be surest And the more moderate the better In Women this defect is rare through fault of the Member which will alwaies receive while it is sound neither doth it wont to recruit as mans doth nor are they confin'd to a certain time of lust as Bitches Venery hindered and imperfect women Yet somtimes there is a defect in the Womb apparent or close so that they cannot or at least with difficulty they endure a Man and will not retain him long And so Venery is hindered as it is imperfect when there is none or smal pleasure in the act especially if they have not been tired but alwaies dislike as I have known three women who advised with me that for many years never perceived any more pleasure then by an external touch Venery extinct in women and this is called Venery extinct The Causes We must search out the cause in both sexes of this defect whether the members be unsit for the act or seed cannot be spent or whether the seminal Vessels which contain the Seed and conveigh it be disordered This act is defective from the want of a Yard somtimes The cause of weakness or impotency in man is the evil shape hurt or numness of the Yard as some are born Eunuchs others have lost it by accident or by force somtimes by loss of a part as a stone by gelding somtimes by smalness of the Yard as Hermophrodites which resemble women and have but a very smal Yard somtimes by largness or thickness so that the Womb cannot receive it without torment somtimes by crookedness or windy swelling like a pudding as in Hydropical Persons or by an excrescence hurt or Ulcer especially in the Glans or Prepuce by which means it cannot endure any force by unclean Copulation or violent acting or when the Prepuce or Foreskin is so straight that it will not come from the Glans for these causes either the action is not performed or difficultly and imperfectly And it is caused also by a cold distemper which hinders the flowing of blood to the part which is requisite as I shall shew for the distension or stretching of it And when it is stupified and insensible from hurt of the Nerves
blood which stretcheth the Member in men as we shewed in defect of Venery If Seed be plentiful it causeth Sanguin men Plenty of seed and heat is the cause of a Venereal Itch. by reason of fulness or heat of the Vessels which continually attract blood which desires expulsion where it aboundeth to be Lascivious Especially when the Seed is hotter then ordinary and sharper Sharpness of seed is the cause of Frensie of the Womb in Women so called this we have shewed may come of eating hot Spices or Medicines And of hot humors and sharp not in the Womb of salt Flegm and Choller as is usual but from the seed which is venemous and sharp from the heat of which comes the unsatiable Itch which is usual in unclean Women who infect men therewith Men when they are thus infected have a running of the Reins which sends it forth but women have it not so usually Some say that the cause why Lepers are not Lecherous is because they are separated from women and constrained to be abstinenr Seed raised from its Vessels Shaking of the Seed causeth a Venereal Itch. and desiring passage causeth Itch and is scarse hindered from flowing for this is the condition thereof while it is sound and in its own place except it abound that it doth not much prick But when it is removed it is very troublesome to get forth so it is for by imagination dreams and handling Seed may be spent by both Sexes When much Arterial blood sils the Yard and continueth The cause of Priapismus or Erection preternatural is the plenty of blood gathered in the Privities it causeth Priapismus or constant standing with a desire of which we now speak But it may hapen that there may be Erection before the blood come to prick the part and a desire afterwards from thence Also it may come from heat of the Reins and parts adjacent by blood caused from lying upon the back upon feather beds or boards which posture makes blood come sooner to the part and makes Erection and greater Appetite as experience sheweth And heat of the bed makes men rise at midnight as the Proverb is If it come from other causes as Pain Inflamation Wind or Water it belongs to another treatise The Cure If Men or Women are provoked to Venery to prevent unlawful acts The Cure of the Venereal Itch and Frensie and of Priapismus the heat is to be allay'd by hindering increase of Seed and heat thereof as also of blood and preventing the commotion of Seed Thus Purges are chiefly requisite when foul and sharp humors corrupt and sharpen the Seed and cause lust To cool lust we give things that quench or that dry though hot if they consume it by a propriety nor do we spend time to Cure and expel wind which is not the cause as we said we give them evening or morning often for the effect will not quickly be seen Sallats at supper of Lettice Purslane Mints with Vinegar are proper without Spices And this Electuary Take Conserve of Water-lillies and Mints of each an ounce Lettice and Coleworts candied six drams seeds of Agnus Castus so called from its vertue one dram and an half Rue half a dram Coral one dram Crystal half a dram Camphire a scruple with syrup of Purslane Make an Electuary A convenient Pouder Take Snakweed roots one dram Mints Rue Water-lillies dried of each half a dram the seeds of Vitex one dram and an half Hemp seeds Grapes Lettice of each one dram and an half Crystal one dram Camphire a scruple make a Pouder take a dram in broath or syrup of Purslane or with a little Sugar or made into Tablets with Rose and Lettice A convenient Syrup Take juyce of Lettice and Purslane of each two ounces juyce of Mints half an ounce Violet and Rose-water of each an ounce Vineger of Roses half an ounce Sugar three ounces Boyl them to a Syrup give an ounce often The Decoction of Lettice Purslane Endive Mints is good in broath Cold water drunk in great quantity allaies lust Some affirme that they can take away all desire and use of Venery with Wine in which the Fish called Mullus is infused others give forty Pismires in drink Outwardly cool the Feet Privities Loynes so to wash the Yard in cold water makes it presently fall this remedy my Father told me a learned man used who the first year of his Mariage lost his Wife and Child at once in Child-bed that he night die a Widdower without desire of Women Things that Potentially cool mixed with driers and applied by Fomentation to the Privities extinguish lust as the Decoction of Lettice Plantane Purslane Willows Water-lillies and the like Especially if they be applied to the Feet with Vinegar The juyces of the same to foment the Stones adding a little Vinegar and Camphire is better and injected into the Womb doth the same for Women Vinegar of Roses doth the like It is good to anoynt the Reins with this Take Oyl of water Lillies two ounces juyce of Lettice one ounce and an half Vinegar half an ounce boyl them to the consuming of the juyces add seeds of Vitex one dram Camphire half a dram white Wax a little Make an Oyntment Unguentum Album with Camphire or that cooler of Galen for the Reins with Camphire doth the same And also Plates of Lead to the Reins Sugar and Crystal of Lead with Oyntments and Correcters given in a smal quantity are commended by the Chymists The smel of Camphire stupifieth lust therefore they teach that it is to be worn to preserve chastity which it doth by touching it or tying to the Arms And Vitex and Vervain they say doth the same Great fasting doth somewhat allay lust especially abstinence from hot Meats Spices and Wine which rule they ought to observe which pretend to chastity by abstaining from certain Meats as the Friers who pretend to mortifie by eating of Shel-fish and Botargo and the like in the holy time of Lent The sorrow of mind and grief take away lust And Diseases with pain whether hot or cold By letting blood something is abated but it cannot make the Body lean or weak without some other inconvenience It is reported that one cured his Wife of her unsatiable desire by opening all the usual Veins And Hippocrates teacheth by the example of the Scythians that the opening of the Veins behind the Eares maketh Sterility and Impotency Gelding is the extream remedy for extream Lechery and taking off the Yard is the surest way for which cause they say Origen Gelt himself And I know a Priest that having been often punished for sin in that kind did the same and Masters usually do so to their Servants to whom they commit their Wives but they deserve this punishment best that sin in Adultery and Fornication and therein persevere The surest remedy is Mariage which is granted by God to all that want the gift of Chastity CHAP. XIX Of
naturally closed and after Conception closeth and openeth not but when there is a supertaetation or taking too much If the substance of the womb be too hard or want blood The cause of barrenness is the hardness and driness of the womb it is a great cause of want of Conception for a Woman is then fit to conceive when the womb which is thick and nervous and unfit for conception while it remaineth so becomes fleshy and soft by heat and affluxion of blood and as in salt Bitches we see their privities swollen so doth the Orisice in a Woman and the clift is larger to entertain the seed But if it continue in its natural condition or grow harder there can be no Conception because the Orifice wil not open and receive the seed And this is from the constitution and temper thereof from the original the substance thereof is too dry otherwise it is only in age and then but natural because they then cease to breed but if it be hard before old age it makes sound Women barren and so they remain This befalls them who by too much Lechery and the like have dried the Womb or them whose wombs are hard by a Tumor or after an Inflammation But if blood doth not moisten the womb When the substance of the womb is not moistened with blood it is barren which is required for the enlarging softning thereof and for the increase of the Infant either not at all or by suppression of the Courses or come not to the bottom of the womb by reason of the hardness thereof or streightness of the Veins or Obstructions it comes to pass that Viragoes or Women that never had Courses or that have them so much that they cannot be dispersed into the Veins for want of heat are barren And hence it is that they who have long abstained from the use of man or not conceived for other causes and made their womb without blood through want of exercise causing it to flow rather to the Veins of the neck of the womb to be purged by Courses by reason of discontinuance or want of practise when they grow old though they use a man they conceive not so easily as they who keep a constant moderate excercise from their youth The weakness of the womb is the cause why it is not fit for Conception Weakness of the Womb is the cause of barrenness for the functions thereof being hurt the chief whereof is the conceiving of seed it cannot attract or retain it This is from the birth or from coldness or other Diseases these are slow to Venery and subject to other Diseases of the womb The Cold and moist distemper besides the cold and dry is a hinderance of conception A moist distemper of the Womb is the cause of barrenness and this is usually lookt at in Cure as being the most usual This comes from moist excrements in the womb made from evil and crude nourishment which moisten and loosen the orifice or from too much Lechery in Whores which causeth slipperiness in the part This cannot be from a defluxion into the Womb beause there is no passage besides the body purgeth the excrements by the usual veins monthly But in both when it comes from defect in the blood the women that conceive not are of an evil habit and ill-colored The Cure If a Woman conceive not The Cure of defect of Conception which hath no defect of the Venereal act or in her Husband we must diligently search out the cause thus If it come from want of seed which is most the mans fault then let them seldom engender and use things to encrease seed as we shewed If from the crudeness of seed or foulness we we must cause good blood and strengthen the vessels that breed seed If it come from a fault of the Yard of the man which hath a hole in the wrong place the Fistula must be cut or first opened otherwise and after united together and healed up that the seed may come the right way If this be from the birth it is incurable If Barrenness be caused from the Wombs defect as when it is hard or the orifice closed with a Tumor or hurt by Child-bearing the Cure is desperate in women otherwise sound which have either never conceived or have been hurt at the time of Travail as in those who never have their Courses In others who want Conception from Weakness Moistness Coldness or excrements abounding in the womb which have their Courses disorderly or are troubled with the Whites or other such like there may be Cure First let her be purged observing her constitution Remedies to procure Conception and the humor abounding and whether shee have her Courses duly or the whites Generally thus Take Catholicon one ounce Syrup of Roses solutive two ounces with Burrage and Mugwort water make a Potion Then open a Vein if shee be plethorick Then give this preparative Take Syrup of Mugwort and Maidenhair each one ounce and an half Burrage Mugwort and Nep water each one ounce with a little Cinnamon make a Julep give it three mornings Or this Decoction Take the opening roots steept in Wine each half an ounce Eryngus roots one ounce roots of Elicampane Valerian and Masterwort each half an ounce Mugwort Motherwort Nep Pennyroyal Germander Ladies-mantle Marjoram of each one handful both Buglosses roots and Leaves Succory Endive Fumitory each one handful Wall-flowers Broom and Rosemary Burrage and red Pease each a pugil Anise and Fennel seed each a dram Parsley seed Siler montane and wild Parsnep seed each a dram beat boyl and clarifie and sweeten them with Cinnamon and Sugar make an Apozem for three doses or four or five or make a Wine of the Infusion of them If we wil have it purge when the body is foul we add Liquorish two ounces Asarum roots two drams Pot-Mercury one handful Raisons twenty pair Senna and Polypody each one ounce and an half Carthamus seeds bruised six drams give them boyled as formerly with Wine and Water Then purge with this Potion Take Rhubarb four scruples Cinamon one scruple Infuse them in Wine and Endive-water strain and dissolve therein the solutive Electuary of Citrons and Diaphenicon two drams syrup of Roses solutive two ounces make a Potion If Pills be taken Take Pills of Cochiae Agregative and sine quibus each a scruple mix them with white Wine into Pills After purging give a dram of Triphera magna without Opium in the morning We also keep the body loose with ordinary Pills or Electuaries before bathing or use of outward medicines as Take Catholicon two ounces Diaphenicon one ounce Cassia newly drawn two ounces Pulp of Sebestens one ounce syrup of Roses solutive one ounce and an half mix them take it with Pease broath or Wine or in a Bolus Usual Pills are either the former Or. Take the Aromatick pill called Alephangina and that of Agarick each one dram and an
than to be the Receiver of Melancholy nor finding any other black Choler than that which is made of the yellow cannot be convinced that such a humor in the Spleen can produce either quartan or other Agues And if they call the melancholick juyce corrupted so and make it the cause of a quartane we wil not grant that to be in the substance of the Spleen or elswhere distinct from the blood whose dreg it is But if they understand by it the thickest part of the blood in that they confirm our Opinion which teacheth that some of the blood in the Mesaraicks corrupting causeth intermitting fevers because Faeculent blood is rather in the great Veins of the Mesaraicks than in the smal of the Spleen by reason of the plenty of Arteries filled with thin rather than thick blood In which Mesaraicks if corruption in the dregs of blood causeth quartans as they grant then they must confess that the cause of Tertians is from the same blood but in a divers part as we shewed But we do not affirm either excrementitious choler gathered out of the Veins whether yellow green or black to be the cause of intermitting fevers if it putrifie in regard it is a very hot and sharp humor being in the Belly especially if it corrupt or be heated more and it causeth rather Colicks Heart-pains Vomitings and Cholerick fluxes by pulling the parts than Fevers except by inflammation through pain there be a little fever which seldom follows these Diseases And if it be so hot it cannot stay so long to raise corrupt vapors and send them to the Heart to cause a fever but this being moved and hot by a feverish heat brings forth accidents that signifie Choler as we shewed of which the fever is rather the cause than Choler the Cause of of the Fever which being naturally mixed with the excrements and corrupting with them and sending stinking vapors doth not infect the superior parts They say that superfluous flegm in the Stomach Guts Mesentery and about the Bowels corrupting causeth Agues called Quotidians and if it be glassie or sharp Epiala's And some say that the corruption of waterish flegm causeth a gentle Fever in Dropsies called Leucophlegm and Cachecticks But how can slegm which is cold get so much heat from putrefaction that it may produce sharp and hot vapors to cause Fevers because if it be long kept and the part be hot it wil turn rather slimy than putrid And no Authors mention any kind of putrid flegm moreover these Fevers answer to the three humors excrementitious as they say viz. to Flegm Choler and Melancholy And there is another cause of Epiala in which heat and cold are both at a time As for the waterish flegm that brings a Fever we shal shew treating of the serum that serum is the cause there of and not flegm For as Serum or Whey washeth the blood and by its moisture allay's the heat and the Choler in the Blood in the Jaundies So when it is mixed in the Meseraicks with Cholerick blood putrified in a great quantity it causeth lingring and long bastard Fevers But this Whey being separated from the blood into the Abdomen that is Belly or Breast or under the Skin and there contained a long time corrupting and turning stinking and sharp as we have often seen it green and stinking when it hath been let out in Dropsies It causeth little Feavers especially when it is near the Heart being hot and thin and corrupting the parts that contain it Such Feavers are in Virgins that have the green sickness saith Fernelius Fleshy moist Bodies because they easily corrupt and so have a preternatural heat beget putrid Fever caused by the humors which are out of their vessels whether they be Natural as parts of the Body or contained in the Body as a dead Child or Secundine or preternatural as Worms Corruption of some parts of the body Corruption of some parts causeth gentle symptomatical Feavers causeth gentle putrid Fevers if any part of the corruption or Vapor from it get to the heart And these are of long continuance especially if there be corruption of any noble part or neer the Heart by which means viz. the continuance of the Fever and corruption of the part the body consumeth This corruption begins from some humor fixed and stinking corroding or infecting the part Or from an Ulcer or Imposthume after Inflammation or outward hurt or a Vein broken We shal shew the reason why this falling in some parts causeth Fevers in others not In the Phthisis or Consumption the Lungs are usuallyulcerated corrupt and filthy and consumed for the most part and the heart being constantly by their neerness infected there is a gentle symptomatical Fever which turns into an Hectick which from the loss of a noble part makes the whol body lean and destroyeth it Corruption of the Liver and Spleen by reason their substance is alike cometh from the same causes in both which we find often after Death with great stink and it brings lingring symptomatical Fevers which produce Atrophy and Cachexy and the vulgar take to be Hecticks from the want of blood most usual in Virgins and Children such Children may have at the time of sucking and in the smal Pox when they refuse drink and want moisture to cool them the Liver growing hot hard or swollen Corruption of the Reins causeth no constant Fever because it goes away by Urin neither doth the body pine away for if one Kidney be consumed the other wil officiate for it so a man may be long preserved The Brain and the Heart being noble parts cannot be corrupted to produce a Fever while a man is living Though Ulcers have been observed in the Heart which have caused Death before a Fever Also corruption in the Membranous parts about the Stomach Guts Bladder and Womb the Mesentery and Cawl causeth a lingring Fever Also in any part of the body inward or outward and the farther from the Heart the corruption is the more uneven is the Fever and intermitting If the Child in the Womb with the Secundine joyned by the Vessels to the Womb be putrified and continue til the Womb be infected and other adjacent parts as I have seen there is a Fever of the same sort which disturbeth the body after a divers manner and is long if the Patient die not Also preternatural things bred in the body Corruption of preternatural bodies causeth lingring symptomatical Fevers as Worms or Flesh joyn to other parts corrupting and infecting other parts produce the same Fevers which shake and consume the body but not except they corrupt albeit Infants that have live Worms are feverish and it is like a Synoch from an external cause sharp not gentle and as that hath other accidents so in this Children have Worms A great heat with a malignant quality strikeing the Heart gets constant malignant Fevers and if it infect others contagious thus differing as the heat
Cachexy either with the Fever or after it Therefore first take away the Cause by Evacuations by which means the heat of the Disease and the symptoms wil be abated This is done as followeth Taking of blood from the mesaraicks is the chiefest Remedy because the Cause is in it to Cure Agues as opening the branches of the hollow Vein is to Cure continual Fevers But none of the Mesaraicks come to the skin to be cut open as the branches of the hollow Vein do nor is it safe to make them bleed by corroding Medicines as hath been done by the use of Coloquintida whereby the blood is sent into the Stomach and Guts and so forth by Vomit and Stool for fear of Dysenteries or Bloody fluxes Therefore we do it thus The Flux of the Haemorrhoids cures not only Quartans but Tertians of all sorts though of long continuance when all meanes fail And it is no marvail since these Veins are branches of the Mesaraicks and evacuate by bleeding the cause of the Disease Therefore if the Haemorrhoids bleed naturally as in some they must not be stopped and if little they must be provoked But in Quartans which last long it is most proper by reason the blood is thick and best let out this way especially if nature incline that way by some signs of blood or itching of the fundament it must be helped This is done by beginning with Fomentations and applying of Leeches which is the best way of all or rubbing with Fig leaves or the like as we shewed in the Hemmorrhoids Some open them by cutting but this must be warily done fot fear of a wound in the Fundament which I have known to cause grievous pain If the Courses be stopt in Women although these come not as the Haemorthoids from the Mesaraicks but from the branches of the Vena Cava and so seems to take away none of the Cause of the Fever yet because it is natural and ought to be at a set time and though the whol body is made foul thereby they must be provoked And so the body wil be clensed and it wil do as much as blood-letting Especially in regard nature useth to clense her self this way and it may be there is some passage from the Mesaraicks to it by reason of their neer joyning These Veins although by reason of their smalness they open not wide yet when they are ful they are stretched as the rest Therfore provoke the terms if they flow not or flow disorderly divers waies first by opening the Saphena this wil either provoke the terms or take away the matter and although a Vein was opened afore for general Evacuation yet the next day you may open the Saphena by which means the fever either presently ceaseth or more easily removeth with help of other medicines Also Purges do not only void the Excrements but open the Haemorrhoids and terms as we shal shew Somtimes we allow and somtimes disallow of opening a Vein in the skin It is to be omitted in exquisite tertians and others which have great heat by reason of the burning Choler which causeth them Also in flegmatick persons and aged and the rest it is not to be done rashly as the Vulgar do who make it the chief â—art of the Cure for it can do no good because it takes away none of the conjunct cause of the fever But often being done rashly the matter is snatcht into the hollow Vein and of an Ague it becomes a fever or Continual of Intermitting Or the pure blood being sent from the meseraicks to fil up the emptiness of the branches of the hollow Vein that which remaineth behind being cholerick putrid becomes more fierce for want of good blood to temper it Hence it is that I observed more hurt than good by opening Veins in Agues except it be when we fear some inflammation of some internal part In plethorick and cacochymick bodies we allow it for these reasons when the plethory or fulness is great which is known by the constitution and red and thick Urin and when there is heat after a fever it may be allowed upon the wel day Although somtimes in the beginning of a Fit it hindereth it by repressing the heat and Vapors that ascend yet it cannot be good because the motion of nature is hindered by which some of the cause of the Disease is taken away Therefore blood must be let in time of rest or intermission especially in double fevers not in the beginning but in the increase or state of the Disease in Tertians scarce before the third or fourth Fit which useth tobe the greatest foretelling the greatness of the following fi lest they think it comes from blood-letting choosing the common broad Vein in the Arm rather than the Liver or middle Vein let the quantity be from five to eight ounces In quartans 't is thought good to open the Vein in the left Arm after they have bin a while for they must be gently ordered at the first lest they turn double or treble or the strength do fail which ought be kept by reason of the length of the Disease which it usually hath Or if you open the Vein called Salvatella next to the little finger in the lest hand they say it is a special cure for a quartan We allow a Vein to be opened in Cachecticks or bodies of evil habit because the blood in the Mesaraicks is not only impure either before the fever begins for impure bodies are easily taken with these Agues or in the time of the Ague to take away some of the matter lest the Fever increase or a new one And if the blood taken be foul let it bleed longer and in quartans if it be thick and black blood more otherwise stop it and if need require at it again another time But lest the the Choler should be more fierce after the blood is taken away give a little cooling syrup of Lernmons or Violets presently upon it or a little good Broath In Agues or inteâ—mitting severs we purge the thick humors by Vomit and Purges and the thin by Sweat and Urin. First we give things to purge the Guts and clense them both in the beginning and in the progress of the Disease And this is done before bleeding and other medicines that the medicines following may work better and lest bleeding should draw the excrements into the Veins Clysters do it soonest as those mentioned in continual fevers but we must alter them according to the Disease and constitution In Tertians and very hot fevers they are thus made Take roots of Marshmallows one ounce the four Emollients each an handful Barley a pugil Gourd seeds half an ounce boyl them and add to a pint and an half Cassia half an ounce Honey of Violets an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces with Salt make a Clyster In quartans Take of the four Emollients Mecury and Beets each a handful Bugloss roots two ounces Prunes ten the four great cold seeds
sweet Balsom Take distilled Oyl of Cloves and seeds or roots of Angelica five drops with white Wax and a little Mosch Anoynt Or with this Take juyce of Cardiaca and Balm each two drams dissolved Camphyre in Aqua vitae half a dram Saffron a scruple with Honey make a Liniment for the Pulses Not only Empericks but some learned men commend highly some poysons to be applied to the Heart to defend it from the Plague Mathiolus highly extols Oyl of Scorpions thus easily made Take two drams of right Oyl of Scorpions with Treacle a dram apply them to the Pulses with a clout Some add Rhubarb as the Oyl of Scorpions of Clemens Some commend this of Arsnic Take white and red Arsnic each equal parts make a Pouder add the white of an Egg or Mucilage of Traganth to make a hard Cake which must be carried about the Heart in a double Scarff Somtimes Arsnic is mixed with cordial Pouders thus Take fragments of precious stones coral Pearl and Hearts-horn each a dram Orris half an ounce Saffron a scruple white Arsnic an ounce Orpiment half an ounce make a Pouder for a Bag with a little Ambergreece Some do mix with good success two ounces of the Pouder of a Toad If the Liver be anoynted with Oyntments that cool and strengthen some think the body is safer from the plague Some hold it for a great secret to anoynt the Emunctuaries as the Arm-holes and Groins with Benzoin Storax Labdanum and Litharge Also to keep open old Ulcers is good in time of plague to preserve And an Issue in the Arm or Legg In the year 1564. a Monke at Leyden in time of the plague had a hole in his Cod with an Hellebore root kept open by which he preserved himself and perswaded others to use the same for safety Amulers are highly esteemed a Nut-shel filled with Quick-silver stopped and â—anged about the Neck This is commended by Marsilius Ficinus by many examples and by others some say it must touch the region of the Heart They think Saphires Smarradgs Hyacinths Unicorns horn and Ivory about the Neck do the same Also Five-leav'd grass and Dittany roots and Bettony with the roots held in the hand The Cure of a pestilential fever is divers according to the humor they suppose it comes from which they evacuate But we say it came from a pestiferous quality infecting the body and therefore aim at the opposing and altering that considering the age of the Person First we give a prognostick because all Plagues are dangerous and more die than live In which there is no hope and the Physitian labors in vain except in the space of twenty four hours Nature throws all or most part of the poyson from the Heart Spots are deadly when they appear because they are not critical Buboes and Carbuncles appearing give hopes of recovery Sudden loss of strength especially Swounding and outward cold are evil signs If a woman with child having the Plague miscarry as shee commonly doth shee dieth usually The Cure is by Nature and the Physitians help for many do recover Therefore we strike at the Disease keep up strength and correct symptomes We said the Disease was a venemous quality fixed in the Heart and so upon the whol body in the similar parts with a preternatural heat and fever Therefore we first labor to take away this quality from the Heart and the humors which increase the same And to alter the venemous force thereof and abate the heat Things that evacuate this poyson and put it from the heart and expel the humors that increase the fever must be used in this order and manner Blood-letting was the first and usual means And many perswaded themselves that much poyson was taken from the the heart thereby But it is a general rule that it must not be til ripe age And in women with Child not so much as in the Foot for fear of miscarrying for others I cannot perceive how bleeding can take the Venom from the heart or body when it is not conteined in the blood but it rather is a cause of drawing the Plague more inwardly the Veins being emptied Besides the motion of nature is hindered thereby which at first labors by Sweat and Pustles and swellings to expel it And the strength which should be kept to encounter with the Disease is lost Neither doth it bring so much good as hurt for taking away the cause or cooling the heat which is not very great in the Plague for the reasons aforesaid Therefore they are all to be blamed that observe not these circumstances but let blood rashly except in Children though Nature be laboring to sweat it forth or cast out Botches and though they see many die after bleeding they wil go on their road of bleeding presently and plentifully But we are to bleed only when the Plague is in a plethorick or cachectick body which causeth not a simple fever by plenty of blood but a putrid Synoch and then the heat and symptoms wil be abated And then it must be sparingly done to preserve strength and not at all except the repletion mentioned require it if there be weakness For we have often found by experience that more people in yeers have scaped that were not blooded than that were Some approve no bleeding but such as is til the Patient fainteth and brag of many that have been cured thereby We think it safer to omit it than rashly to use it and if it doth good it is more for the fever than the venemous quality which is not in the blood but comes to the heart from without and so cannot be expel'd by bleeding The time if it must be is at first within twenty four hours or not at all And if sweat appear as usualy it doth it must be defer'd til it be past and it must not be stop'd either by bleeding or nakedness which is required when the Vein is opened But when sweat is past and the Patient is refreshed with meat or medicine it may be done if need require or before sweat if it appear not nor must we stay to loosen the body first as at other times before bleeding for there is no dallying If pain be take blood from the side if not take the common Vein Open the Saphena or Vein in the Foot if there be a swelling in the groyn If it be above open the Arm or Hand-vein on that side If under the Arm-holes open the Basilick vein if under the Ears the Head vein if in the Face under the Tongue Some clap on Cupping-glasses to the Carbuncles before bleeding that the venom sent thither may stay there and be drawn inward by bleeding by which way we have known bleeding do much hurt And I have observed that Empericks have with very ill success raised blisters with Vesicatories upon the Botches at first appearance Some do draw the venom out at the orifice after bleeding apply Scordium or Jack of the hedg which is of
Epithem An Oyntment for the the Heart and Pulses or to be applied twice a day with Scarlet Take Treacle half an ounce juyce of Limons half an ounce Rose-vinegar two drams Camphire a scruple Saffron half a scruple Musk three grains Or use Vinegar in which Angelica Roots are steeped Or this Emplaster Take red Roses poudered boyl them well in Rose-water with Vinegar juyce of Apples Citron peels Sanders make a Plaster for the Pulses Mathiolus anoynts the Pulses with Oyl of Scorpions And the Balsom mentioned among the Antidotes is as good Or the Bag there mentioned Use to cool the Liver cold and strengthening means as in the cure of putrid Fevers and to the Reins Rose-vinegar to the Head if it be hot And to the stomach strengthening Oyntments if it be weak And because the Stones have great consent with the principal parts apply this to moderate the heat Take Rose Water four ounces Rose Vinegar half an ounce Sack an ounce juyce of Pomegranates half an ounce wet cloaths therein and apply them It is good to change the Air and place and remove the Patient from others that are infected and change his shirts sheets bed Pillows and sprinkle the chamber with Rose Vinegar Lavender Rose and Citron water and in summer to strew Herbs and Fruit and to perfume as we shewed in the Antidotes To keep strength use this Diet. Contrary to all other acute continual Fevers Let meat be given ofen but little at a time and they must be compel'd to eat if they refuse Let it be of good nourishment that a little may serve As Broath or Chickens Kid wood Fowl Partridg Veal and these make divers dishes and Gellies avoid Eggs which easily corrupt and fat things and give fruits and things allowed in putrid Fevers and let this meat be eaten with Vinegar or shap Juyces Let the Drink be Juleps mentioned or Capon Ale or Broath or of Veal and Calves feet Wine temperately taken is allowed This is a pleasant Water Take the flesh of the Loyn of Veal half a pound and a Calfs foot wel clensed add Sugar two ounces boyl them in Water add a dram of gross Cinnamon and strain it Let them not sleep while they sweat some keep them from it twenty four hours after the Botch appears But in regard sleep refresheth and carrieth the heat outward rather than inward as I shewed it must not be hindered Let him rejoyce and be in good hope either of Cure or eternal happiness The Botch and Carbuncle are the chief symptoms their cure shal be shewed hereafter and how the Venom shal be dawn out The first thing is to hold up the strength as we shewed And if swouning or Heart-beating come give Cordials and apply them outwardly If swouning be from the stomach anoynt and comfort that and give a little Wine or a sop in juyce of Pomegranates-Grapes and Wine put the Hands and Feet in warm water and rub the Face and other parts Take away Doting and Watching with a puppy applyed or with Opiates or washing externally If sleep be much use Vinegar of Roses Asswage thirst with this Julep Take water newly distilled of Sorrel and Bread each six ounces Rose and Scabious water each four ounces Vervain and Bugloss water each two ounces with Sugar make a Julep Or with this Take conserve of Sorrel and Roses each an ounce Rob de Ribes an ounce and an half Diamargariton frigid a dram with Sugar of Roses make a Candy If a Diarhaea come it is dangerous then give a Clyster of Barley water and Sugar And Take Tormentil roots half a dram or Bole with red Wine and anoynt the Belly with astringents Women with Child do often miscarry when they are infected this is deadly and to be much regarded The other Symptoms as of the Tongue and Jaws are cured as in putrid Feavers The Fevers that come from the biting of venemous beasts The Cure of venemous Feavers inflaming the Heart kil in a few hours or in the first day except prevented The Cure is by drawing the Poyson forth at the Wound and by an Antidote as we shewed in Poysons If the Feaver be great use Cordials inwardly and outwardly as I shewed to chear the spirits A simple Hectick whether it follow continual Diary The Cure of a Hectick fever or putrid burning or intermiting Fevers not that which is melting and a Symptom of a burning Fever or free from that Fever which caused it is to be Cured according as it is either in the beginning or increase or setlement In Children and Infants because their Heart is easily altered in temper it may be sooner Cured if not confirmed but it is difficult in Men and Women And in old people uncurable The cause of this disease is the temperament of the Heart and the whol Body made hotter and dryer not nourished by a Humor or Excrement when the Body is freed from the Fever that caused it Therefore purges are needless except the Excrements and Crudities increase by long continuance of the Disease and then gentle Clysters or Laxatives may be given But we must chang the temper of the Body And hold up the strength that decaies And amend the accidents if any be At the first we must alter the dryness with moistners of the Heart and Limbs and gentle coolers because the heat is not violent and may be allay'd by temperate and moderate coolers Some give Narcoticks or Medicines to cause sleep to cool the Body but we say they are not cold and rather inflame the Body as I shewed and therefore give them not but when sleep is wanting In the progress when the Consumption is begun we refresh with nourishers that are moist for they will disperse themselves sooner through the Body This is done by internal and external means We give them a moistning Diet that refresheth boyl'd things moisten most and roasted increase the radical moisture more Veal Kid and Porke brains of Hogs and Calves are commended Also the stones of beasts that are not very Lecherous as of Sheep Calves and young Kids And Hens flesh Capons or Pullets fed with Barley or crammed with Dow made up into pills with Cray-fish Frogs flesh and Wheat flower or Barley flower Also Birds boyled or moist roasted for Galen saies meat over roasted turns easily into choller but I rather lay the fault in the Dripping the brains and stones of these are best Also Brook fish Cray fish Turtles of the woods and water Frogs are good meat in Hecticks and Snailes but some disallow of them because they are so slymy The Carthusian Friers make up the tailes of Cray-fish with Barley Almonds and Sugar which is excellent And yolks of Eggs boyled with Wine and Sugar called in Dutch Beinwarme and green Cheese Also a Panado of bread boyled in broath Or this Take crums of bread steept in Milk and add Almond Milk Rose water and Sugar Or Barley cream made with broath Also Almonds Pine nuts Pistachas alone or with
these Take Oyl of biter Almonds of Peach kernels Chamomil Melilot Dill alone or together When the pain is intollerable Take Oyl of Henbane seeds half a dram Castor half a scruple Saffron six grains Or Take a hollow Onyon and put into it Castor Euphorbium each half a scruple Opium six grains fil it with Oyl of bitter Almonds roasted in the Embers strain and use it Or Take a piece of a Snakes skin boyl it in Oyl of Worms add Sows or woodlice and strain it you may add a little Oyl of Scorpions Or Take juyce of Pellitory Horehound each an ounce Oyl of Bayes an ounce and an half Ox gall a scruple Hens grease a little boyl them til the Juyces are spent anoynt and drop into the Ear. A little Spunge dipt in Vinegar with a little Salt is good to be applied close to the Ears This Decoction or the Fume thereof is good for the Ear. Take Organ Pennyroyal Rue Baies each a handful Wormwood half a handful Chamomel Melilot and Dill flowers each a pugil Bay Elder or Ivy berries each an ounce Faenugreek seeds two drams Carua seeds a dram boyl them in Wine and Water Make Bags of these Driers Or thus Take Panicum a pugil Organ Marjoram each a handful Chamomel flowers a pugil Saffron half a dram pouder them for a Bag. Or Take roasted Onyons and Leeks each three ounces beat them add meal of Line seed and Foenugreek each half an ounce Peach kernels an ounce boyl in Milk and stamp them add Goose grease an ounce Oyl of Dill or Earth-worms or Butter two ounces Saffron a scruple They say it is good against pain to rub the Ear with Garlick because it draweth the matter outwards but the roots of Squils Sowbread Cuckow-pints or Dragons are stronger Some apply green Tobacco leaves to the Ears and then dry them and apply them again If an evil malignant quality as in a long Head-ach and French Pox produce pricking in the Ears with noise The Cure of pain in the Ear from malignity after long and strong evacuations by Sweat especially it ceaseth with the Disease and if any remain it is taken away by the Topicks mentioned in a cold cause and moist in the Cure Provocations Itchings and other pains of the Ears The Cure of pain of the Ears and Itching from Irritation or Provocation if they come from filth in them or that falls into them we shewed you how they may be removed in the hinderence of Hearing The violent hurts which cause a Wound The Cure of a pain of the Ear by a wound are cured as other puncturs and wounds First if Inflammation be feared let blood and repell it with things put into the Ears Then drop in things that asswage pain and stop the Flux after use Driers and Healers as we shewed in Ulcers CHAP. VI. Of Diseases or Griefs of the Nostrils The Kinds THe Kinds of Pains or Diseases in the Nostrils are divers There is an often Itching Itching or tickling in the Nose or Tickling Sneesing follows it somtimes and the Nose droppeth Somtimes it is Burning Burning in the Nose and the Nostrils are hot and red and inflamed with a tumor within or Inflammation that obstructeth the passage Somtimes there is a pain like an Ulcer and blood is blown out An ulcerous pain in the Nose or hard flegm Or Snot or stinking matter and there is a stink in the Nose which the people presently perceive more than the Patient in that called Ozaena And there is a deformity of the Nose therewith which spoileth the whol Face The Voyce is hoarse and as coming from a hollow place the Palate is eaten through with a great hole and the breathing is hindered as we have seen alwaies in the Elephantiasis often in the French Pox. The Causes The Grief of the Nostrils proceeds from a Disease which is either Irritation or Provocation or a hot distemper or solution of continuity The Nostrils being very sensible are easily provoked The Irritation of the Nostrils causeth itching and tickling hence comes tickling or itching and somtimes sneesing from the same Causes that we shewed sneezing proceed as externally from light and splender strong scents things put into the Nose that are sharp or intetnally from thin blood in the Vessels or from waterish and sharp blood with tears that come from the Head and twitch the Nostrils And Choler which is usually purged at the Ears may be brought to the Nose and cause the same A great heat may cause burning in the Nose A hot distemper and Inflammation of the Nostrils is the cause of burning pain to which is joyned somtimes a true Inflammation with tumor and obstruction as may happen from an outward hurt or internal when the cause is very pricking from whence the Nostrils are usually afflicted as in Coryza where the Nose is outwardly red and inflamed as woll as inwardly A Solution of continuity within or Excoriation Excoriation wound or ulcer is the cause of ulcerous pain in the Nose or Wound or Ulcer reacheth somtimes outwardly These may be from picking as with the Nayles or burning Errhines or Nose Medicines such as we use in Cure of Polypus Somtimes from a sharp defluxion that hath long passed that way the Nose is ulcerated inwardly and outwardly with the help of often blowing it There are in the spungy bones at the bottom of the Nose foul stubborne and long Ulcers somtimes such as corrode and creep on somtimes they pirce the thick runicle of the pallate and eat of the bridg of the Nose which causeth it to fal Often also the bones which are near the upper Jaw are consumed and leave a great space in the palate through which a stink hath passed that anoyed the whol room where we were And it is manifest that worms have been bred of this filth and come forth These may be from the causes mentioned Worms in the Nose as if the Nose be deeply hurt or the Ulcer neglected or the remedies come not to the part by reason of its moysture and cannot have operation These called Ozaenae come chiefly from the Flux of burning or malignant humors sent by nature to the part and there are perverse and cancerous Ulcers and tumors But because this is not only in this part but a malignant humor and quality in other places especially the Membranes as in the Elephantiasis and French Pox then they of the Nose grow together with other putrid and Malignant Ulcers which eate away the Nose and the bones and produce other accidents The Cure If the itch of the Nose come from provocation The Cure of itching of the Nose from provocation remove the cause whether internal or external and if it cease not qualifie it As we shewed in neesing which often followeth and shall be shewed in defluxions and in Coryza If the Nose be hot or inflamed then there is redness heat and tumor external The Cure
same with that of other Inflammations namely plethory or fulness of Blood or Heat or thinness of the same which sends it self thither rather than to another part by reason of the disposltion of the place this comes often from a Synoch Fever when the Blood is first burnt in the Veins and then a part therof is sent thither as I shewed in Fevers hence Quinsies and Instammations of other parts as Gullet Mouth Tongue are the symptoms of these Fevers that begin with them or come presently after them Also Blood carried thither from other Causes may make Inflammations in the Throat but a Fever is not joyned therewith except it come from other Causes But it may come from the pain which these parts receive from other Diseases or from Inflammation of the Jaws by actually or potentially hot things as Pepper Cuckowpints Laurel given in jest sometimes Or from very cold Drink while the body is hot by reason of the sudden repercussion when the blood flieth back and returneth again with force because the blood is stir'd up and sent out of the Veins except it come from a Synoch as we said Also I observed that this came from too much straining in Child-bearing the blood being driven to the upper Veins of the Neck in a Woman that died And it is probable that it may come from other strainings roaring or holding breath at going to stool A Humor falling from the Head A defluxion into the Jaws Tonsils Palate is the cause of a Bastard Quinsie falling of the Almonds and Uvula under the tunicle of the Palate if it be carried to the Muscles of the Throat wil cause a Bastard Quinsie which is stronger or weaker as the Flux is upon the inward or outward muscles as we shewed in the Flux of Blood and for that Cause wil cause a tumor more or less apparent but if the Flux fall upon the upper Glandules or Tonsils or the Palate only which being a loose and soft piece of Flesh easily receive the humors it will cause the Paristhmia and Columella The natural and efficient cause is the same with that of all Defluxions the adjuvant or helping cause is a fitness of the parts to receive it because they are close under the Head or because they are loose or weak and they are sooner hurt if they have formerly been oftended from other Causes The Solution of Continuity causeth pain expressing the sense of an Ulcer This is an Ulcer An Ulcer in the Jaws Tonsils or Almonds Palate Gullet is the cause of an ulcerous pain and Consumpion of the Palate an Excoriation or Rawness or Wound in the Jaws from divers causes An Uulcer comes often after the said Inflammations of the Jaws Tonsils and and Palate suppurated and turned to an Imposthume after breaking or from a sharp defluxion that first caused a tumor or presently exulcerated there comes an Excoriation of the tunicle of the Jaws Tonsils or Gullet which infects the Palate and eats upon other parts adjacent Also it may come from a malignant matter which seizeth upon the membranes so much in the Leprosie and French Pox hence come those stubborn Ulcers in the Palate and Jawes and Nostrils that eat up the Glandule and Uvula Also the Gullet may be cleft and excoriated from Vapors that are hot and sharp in malignant and sharp burning Fevers from whence they may feel pain a long time after in swallowing down to the Stomach A Wound in the Jaws and Gullet causeth an ulcerous pain in them Also a pain in the Gullet may be from sharp and pricking things fallen by chance into the Jaws and Gullet that would them and the greater if there be an Inflammation If these wounds come externally they shall be spoken of in external wounds The Cure If these diseases come from a defluxion of humors upon the parts of the jaws Praediction or Foretelling and there is Inflamation in the first sort of a true Quinzy it is very violent and kils in eighteen houres space the other is sharp and is judged the second third or fourth day at farthest The hope of Cure is more when the tumor is outwardly and admits of applications and may be better clensed when broken The third is less dangerous because the tumor is outward That which is in the lower Glandule is more or less doubtful of Cure as it is joyned with any kind of Quinzy The safest is the Inflamation of the Tonsills and Palate because they are more visible or of the Gullet to which Remedies may be swallowed except the Inflamations bring greater danger by spreading to other parts But if a Defluxion of any other humor cause a bastard Quinzy it is not without danger if it obstruct inwardly that is better which extends outwardly and causeth a tumor in the Neck That humor that fills the Almonds and Pallate is casier cured As for the Cure The Cure of a true and false Quinzâ— Paristhmia Uvula Columella or Gulet inflamed or swallow by taking away the Cause it differs as the Defluxion is of blood or an Inflammation of the Jaws or Almonds or Tonsill or Palate or Gulet the cure of which agrees in many things or as the Defluxion is of another humor upon the Jaws in a bastard Quinzy or upon the Tonsills or Uvula or Guler then the cure differs from the former In al we proceed as followeth In every Inflamation of the Jaws or any part of them a vein is to be opened when it is great or to prevent it from being great especialy when the body is plethorick in a Quinzy especialy it must be quickly done open a vein in the arm first for revulsion that that which is most visible or the cephalike or head vein which is most usual or that by the thumb bleed foundly and if need be often Hippocrates perscribes the vein under the breasts to be opened for women or that in the foot if their courses be stopt In women with child bleed also but sparingly after revulsion open that vein under the tongue for derivation the same day or presently after because the disease is acute Archigenes opens the forehead vein others that in the neck In a cold Defluxion if there be pain or streightness bleed also Cupping glasses to the shoulders neck and under the breasts do the same especialy if they be placed in a Quinzy in the top of the neck upon the second Vertebra that they may breath and swollow better and they are better with scarification which is good also under the Chin and in the Cheeks also Horsleeches may be applyed instead thereof and in great necescity Vesicatories and Causticks to the neck or head this is done by way of prevention to those that are subject to this disease all these are good in other Defluxions Also Frictions and Ligatures and washings are good in al Defluxions to cause revulsion We apply to the head things that stop fluxes and strengthen it after purging An
portion into the substance of the Lungs which produceth the Inflammation accompanied with a Synoch from whence it came And therefore the same causes of a Synoch as we shewed in Feavers are the causes of these Inflammations As Surfetting Drunkenness because they cause Fulness and make the Blood too hot are the causes of Synochs in young and old men that live deliciously therefore they are counted the cheif caufes of peripneumony and pleurisie and therefore they prescribed Abstinence from Wine and sat Flesh and Fish as Eels from whence they say the peripneumony cometh because the Blood groweth too fat from eating of fat Meats and therefore may be sooner inflamed except these fish have a peculiar force to inflame as the Sea-Hare hath to ulcerate the Lungs Hence it is that in Spring and in the time when Synochs are rife these Inflammations are most usual in these ages especialy which are subject to a Synoch not only with an outward Erysipelas but that which produceth a peripneumony These Inflammations are sooner in the Lungs then any other part If with the causes of a Synoch there be also a disposition in the Lungs to receive them which disposition is the natural Heat and plenty of Blood and thinness of Substance in the Lungs as also a weakness accquired from a disease which hath caused a Cough To which are added other causes which make them come out of the Vessels and flow to the Lungs as a hot distemper from Air Anger or a hot Disease as a Fever or an outward Cold by Air which pierceth the Breast and Lungs hence it is that this may be when the Veins are astringed Also vehement motion or pain about the Breast or other things that draw blood to the breast As in that Woman which conceived with Child in old age when her breasts that were formerly lank grew great by the flowing of blood to them to breed milk and fell into a Pleurisie And I have observed that divers Women in the middle of their time of breeding especially in the Spring after a cold Winter from a sudden cold and moisture have fallen into Pleurisies by reason of much blood flowing to the breasts to breed Milk These Causes except there be a Synoch scarse produce an Inflammation alone but rather a spetting of blood Or if they produce an Inflammation in the Breast without a Synoch asoregoing there will be only a simple Pieurisie by reason of the Muscles affected from the girding Membrane Or if the Lungs be also inflamed in both the Fever coming from thence will not be a Synoch which is the next cause of a pleurisie and peripneumony and begins with these Inflammations or goes before them but wil be symptomatical as we shewed in Fevers The Cure The Cure varieth as the Disease is divers which produceth these pricking pains in the Breast And it is eithere an Iuflammation of the Lungs in a true Pleurisie and peripneumony or of the Membrane in its pleurisie or a distension from Wind or tumor in the two kinds of false pleurisies called Flatulent and Flegmatick The Inflammation of the Lungs both in a Pleurisie and Peripneumony is dangerous The Prognesticks of a true Pleurisie and Peripneumony but most in a peripneumony by reason of the nearness of the Heart both cause Death either in the fourth or fifth day or in the fourteenth or twentieth When it tends to health it passeth the second or third week and first the pricking ceaseth then the Fever and last the Spitting of Matter but if it continue above the time mentioned and the Fever ceaseth not but is lingring it is to be feared that it wil turn to an Empyema or phthisis These following rules wil declare how these Diseases wil end If from the Lungs inflamed they presently spit mixed matter it is good especially if they Cough and expel it easily if otherwise it is bad This if it be blood or matter such as cometh from the part inflamed which is the Lungs it is allowed But if from the beginning the blood flows plentifully for some daies or cease and return again it snews great hurt of the Lungs But the sooner they spit matter white or concocted and the more easily and plentifully it is voided the better it is unless it be sent forth in such abundance as I have seen in a man that had a peripneumony und was ready to die that it fill a Bason this is a sign that the Inflammation is great and that a suppuration follows and also Death Purulent matter though yellowish is not bad till it be Yellow that whch is green is worse and black worst of all that which is white slimy and cleer prolongs the Disease That Inflammation that comes from pure blood is more gentle that which comes from cholerick or impure blood is worse and shorter but that which comes from flegmatick blood is longer but not so shatp And that which follows other long and acute Diseases is harder to be cured The peripneumony especially or the pleurisie in old people is deadly Great difficulcy of Breathing shews the greatness of the Inflammation or a great collection of the matter which suddenly flowing to the branches of the rough Artery causeth mote trouble and they breath with snorting and if they do not presently spet and hawk it forth it strangleth Cold of the outward parts the Face sunk and the pulse little foreshew Death as in other Diseases If the Fever be strong with Heat Thirst and Watching the danger is more if gentle less If there be a Delirium or Doting which useth not to be in these Diseases nor from the Fever accompanying them It is a mortal sign because it useth to come upon the distemper of the Septum or Diaphragma Bleeding at the Nose cannot be had in the beginning both in respect of the Fever and also for Revulsion But towards the end it weakneth especially if much Plentiful voiding of Urin and Sweat if they come seasonably cures the Fever and if they piss matter they suppose the matter come from the Lungs and the Diseases to be sent out of the way But if matter can be carried from the Lungs by the hollow Vein which is more manifest rather than by the other obscure veins in the Breast which joyn to the Emulgent which some men so diligently seek for and bragg that they have found out then in other Diseases there may be such a passage but this is very rare because in those that have been extreamly phthisical and empyematous no such thing hath been seen A Diarrhaea presageth Death for though some have thought otherwise yet little of the cause of the Disease can be purged by stool But if the Diarrhaea come at the first from other causes and stay not long it may be harmless especially if it take away any filth which may increase the Fever And I have often seen Pleurisies after I have given Oyl of sweet Almonds with pouder of a Bores tooth to go away
with a plentiful Diarrhaea The Method of Cure for both is The Cure of a true Pleurisis and Peripneumony to divert the Blood that flows to this noble part so to prepare that which is flown to the Lungs and inflames them that it may be coughed and spet forth because except Nature do it of her self it is in vain to purge it by Urin or Stool Also still abate the pain in the Pleurisie which is very pricking and in both cases inlarge the Breast and hold up the strength alwaies having an eye to to the Fever as we shewed in Fevers therefore abstain from hot things and use temperate things that incline rather to cold all which are done as followeth The Defluxion of Blood to the part is diverted best by Blood-letting and the heat of the Fever abated therefore neglect it not though the Patient be very young for we observe that in other cases and bleedings by cuts and falls they can loose much blood without danger and in this Disease they wil find much ease by it nor let it be omitted in women with Child or old People nor when the Disease comes from impure and cholerick blood nor when the pain goes down to the Hypochondria But for these causes do it moderately rather than omit it Blood-letting must be suddenly while the matter is flowing the first day at what time of day or night soever it be or if it hath been neglected do it the next or the third day taking much at a time or six ounces at a time often if the first bleeding do not abate the Disease bleed then thrice a day or two or three daies together after the third or fourth day except you fear the increase of the Discase or a Relapse from a new Flux of Blood for which cause after many daies if there be strength you may bleed again you must not bleed rashly You must open a Vein in the Arm because the Veins are larger and neerer the part either the middle Vein or that which most appeareth which is alwaies best And what vein soever in the Arm is opened whether it be on the right or left side the blood comes from the hollow Vein from whose upper part above the heart the veins of the Arm come and therfore by consequence blood is drawn from the right side of the Heart into which the hollow Vein is joyned before it ascendeth and so also blood is drawn from the Lungs by the veiny Artery by which the blood flows from the right side of the Heart to the Lungs Except because the hollow vein is more on the right side and sends blood into the right side of the Heart and only sends out the vein without equal or not paired to the right side only you desire to open the Vein in the right Arm for a directer way of bleeding which some think to be necessary in a Peripneumony and Pleurisie Yet in a Pleurisie it is thought better to open a vein on that side that is pained than on the contrary side as the Arabians do who first open the contrary Arm for Revulsion and then for Derivation not only from the right order and direct flowing of the Vessels on that side because the same may be good in a Pleurisie as wel as a Peripneumony the Lungs being as I shewed affected in both but because in a Pleurisie the veins on that side where the pain is are more swollen with blood Therefore if the pain be on the right side open the Vein in the right Arm if on the left open the vein in the left Arm by reason of the Defluxion of blood caused through pain And if the Vein in the Arm appear not open that in the Hand on the same side by which if the blood come freely there will be a greater Revulsion and if not a less Also it is good to bleed in the Foot or by the Fingers after bleeding in the Arm especially in Women who have this disease from stopping of the terms Cupping-glasses to the Shoulders Emunctuaries and Groyns make Revulsion and the more if there be Scarification these help the other bleeding or supply when the other cannot be Also Frictions and Ligatures of the outward parts cause Diversion or a Decoction to wash and rub the Hands and Feet but it must be such as doth not heat Some adventure to use a Caustick to the sids but it is neither safe nor profitable nor Cupping-glalsses to the Breast Clysters are given to loosen the Belly before bleeding if it be bound they are to be cooling and gentle such as are mentioned in Fevers and other internal Inflammations and Quninsie And some advise clensing Clysters at the end of the Disease if the matter tend from the Breast to the Guts lest it should hurt them which they think to be possible Loosners are better than purgers for it is not convenient in Inflammations of the Breast to give purgers both because the matter cannot be purged by stool from thence as also because they heat the body and cause a Diarrhaea which useth easily to come with much hurt to the patient These Laxatives must be good for the Breast whereof Manna is the chief Next syrup of Violets three ounces or Cassia or simple Diaprunes two ounces alone or with pectoral Decoction Or thus Take sweet prunes Raisons stoned each an ounce Violets a pugil boyl and dissolve Cassia half an ounce Manna an ounce make a potion After the seventh day the Ancients used stronger purges the humor being first prepared but these are best in a false pleurisie as I shewed or if the true pleurisie ceaseth they are good against accidents that remain otherwise they hurt more We give to drink things that cause easie Coughing and Spitting because the Humor being fastned to the Lungs and not to the Membranes girding them can-cannot be sent a better way This is done by Lenitives to the parts and such as first thicken the Matter to stop the Flux of Blood if it be thin and to make it more fit to be spit forth and then by Concocters Clensers and Cutters if it be too thick and slimy Or by things to ripen and cause matter to be spet forth lest it lying long there the Lungs be corrupted by it and a phthisis caused Or if Nature endeavors to throw it out by stool or Urin which is rare and perhaps a meer Fansie by such things as help Nature therein These are done as followeth Lohochs to be swallowed by degrees and so communicate their Vertue better to the Lungs are the best As the usual tablets of Diatragacanth frigid and Dia penidies without the species held in the Mouth Or a Lohoch made of them with syrup of Jujubes or Violets to be licked Or this Take the species of Diatragacanth frigid two drams Penidies a dram with the Syrup aforsaid make a Lohoch adding half an ounce of the Diacodium if the Cough be great others add Conesrve of Violets but it is
Inflammation It is somtimes pure somtimes with an Erysipelas when the blood that flows to it is very thin and hot and then the heat is greater An Inflmmation is seldom in the stomach because it feeleth any hurt and presently rouleth up and down or never except it be from great violence as a contusion or stroak upon the Stomach being full or from taking of very hot things actually or potentially as Spanish-flies or Sublimate Also it may be from heat of the blood in the Meseraick Veins in Feavers or other Diseases sent to the Stomach without any outward Cause And this Inflammation is turned somtimes into an Imposthume and then the pain increaseth and when it breaks matis vomited A simple cold Distemper whether dry or moist though some deny it being an enemy to the Nerves A cold distemper of the stomach causeth knawing of the Heart causeth pain in the stomach which is with knawing and as it were Fainting This comes from exposing the naked stomach to the cold air in lean people especially when they go not warm cloathed and are hot or sweat and then open their breasts From whence I have known great complaints of Heart-ach with Fainting This may come also from other cold things as Water and the like The same may come from drinking cold Water or Wine with Snow-water or Milk especially when the Body is hot as often people do From whence many grievous accidents have been to my knowledg The same may come from a cold Humor suddenly falling upon the Stomach from the Head which causeth Loathing and Compression or from glassie four Flegm flowing to the Stomach for that which breeds in it by degrees moistneth and loosneth it and rather causeth weakness then pain except it cause Heaviness by the quantity as shall be shewed When the Stomach is stretched or burdned A stretching heaviness or a compression of the stomach is the cause of a pressing and somtimes of a knawing pain in the Heart or pressed inwardly or outwardly it hath a pressing pain and somtimes knawing this may come from divers following causes Meat rather then drink which sooner goeth through and as Hippocrates saith sooner filleth then meat being taken abundantly burdens the stomach and stretcheth it Especially after a supper hence the old saying ut sit nox Levis sit tibi Caena brevis If you 'l have a good Night Let your Supper be Light For they who feed too freely hinder the free motion of the Diaphragma thereby which causeth difficulty of breathing so that they are in danger of Suffocation as one whom I knew that eat bread for a wager and a Virgin that had crammed her self with Chesnuts were and an old woman that died with eating of too much Meat and Eggs upon an Easterday The same may be also when any hard thing is taken into the Stomach as when it is filled with Cherry stones or other hard substance as the Mountebancks that eat flint stones for Money Wind filling the stomach causeth a stretching pain The inflation of the Stomach and the cause thereof which is called the Inflation of the Stomach This comes from crude waterish and windy meats and drinks or a humor of that nature Or from crudity of the Stomack or from want of Concoction which being bred there stretcheth it and if it be much in quantity maketh it heavy The same may come by a humor that comes out of the Guts into the Stomach which is rare and then the belching is sower and as of roasted flesh If Air be taken into the stomach as somtimes by greedy drinking it doth the same if it be any quantity and remains there but this is seldom because after meat taken in it is forced up again by belching But if Wind or Air be mixed with meat as we see in Puddings while they are filling then it sooner offendeth and stretcheth the stomach A crude flegmatick excrementitious humor being in the stomach from crudity or from the Head by Defluxion offendeth it by distemper if it be cold and by compression also if it be much and turns into wind This crudity comes from weakness of the stomach or want of Concoction And if thereby crude flegm be produced it causeth the disease called the turning of meat into flegm A hard preternatural tumor in the stomach as a Call us after some hurt such as I have seen in the stomach of a Swine that was wounded formerly there and in the bladder of a Cow or any other hardness or scirrhus that breeds therein doth burden and molest it and the more after meat Also the stomack may be afflicted by the parts adjacent when too ful or obstructed or swollen or hard they press upon it or inflame it As by the Liver over it or the spleen under it or the Reins near to it or the Diaphragma inflamed or by the colon Gut growing to it when it is stretched Also from the bending inward of the sword bone when it is so confirmed the stomach may be offended when it is ful and stretched and hits against it And it will be so till the meat is digested or the stomach fals off by the patients lying upon his Back This I have known in many The same may be from outward hard and heavy things lying thereupon not for guarding or keeping warm the stomach but to make the body slender which women much delight in and therefore use busks and streight bodies These offend the stomach especially after meat and they endure it patiently for pride feels no pain Twitching and also tickling of the Stomach Twitching of the Stomach is the cause of the knawing of the Heart causing straining and vomiting and turning of the stomach as they call it produce the pain that goes before This is greater and longer in those that cannot vomit or with much difficulty do it This is caused by all things that provoke loathing and vomiting and is in all diseases that have the turning of the Stomach Also by worms rather moving then sucking the mouth of the stomach which is very sensible A strong provocation doth more turn and offend it A strong irritation of the stomach is the cause of a knawing or burning pain of the Heart as when vomits are given of Hellebore Sribium precipitat which burn knaw or prick the mouth of the stomack or poyson taken which offends both Stomack and Heart and causeth both Cardialgia and Cardiaca Or sharp Food as Onyons Leeks rotten Cheese or burning food as Water-cresses Water-Parsley or the like after the eating of which they especially who have hot stomachs feel burning and knawing Also this pain may come from meat which is not of it self sharp but turneth so by corruption in some Stomacks which easily corrupt as from sweet fat and stinking meats and moist As Eggs Milk Cowcumbers and other such fruits these by corruption do not cause a cold matter as they suppose but that which is sharp and cholerick The
dissolve the Imposthume as this with a Spunge Take Wormwood Mints and Snakeweed each a handful Chamomil and Dill-flowers each a pugil Faenugreek and Bean-meal each an ounce Mastick two drams Nutmeg a dram boyl them in Wine for a Fomentation Then anoint with this Take Oyl of Wormwood and Chamomil each an ounce and half Turpentine half an ounce Mucilage of Marsh-mallows and Foenugreek-seed each two drams Mastick a dram and half Cloves a dram with Wax make an Oyntment Or this Cataplasm Take green Wormwood a handful and Mints half a handful stamp them add Bran and Linseed-flowers each an ounce Roses and Chamomil-flowers in pouder each a dram Mace half a dram add Oyl of Wormwood Or use Melilot-plaster dissolved with Oyl of wormwood If the Inflammation do imposthume The cure of an Imposthume of the stomach after Inflammation ripen it with remedies in the Quinzie given at the mouth And with things there outwardly prescribed only ad some things that may respect the Stomach being a more noble part As this Cataplasm Take Orris and Lilly-roots each two ounces Wormwood and Mallows each a handful Chamomil-flowers and Roses each a pugil boyl them in Wins and Water stamp them and add Wheat-flour four ounces Lineseed poudered an ounce yellow Sanders a dram Saffron half a dram Oyl of sweet Almons two ounces make a Cataplasm Or use the Emplaister of Diachylon with Orris and Oyl of Mints To open the Impostume use things mentioned in a Quinsie Or this Take Wheat flower four ounces Pigeons dung half an ounce Oyl of Wormwood an ounce Honey an ounce make a Plaster Also Roaring Neesing Coughing and rubbing of the Stomach and Vomit will break the Imposthume If they vomit matter give Barley water and Sugar to clense with Honey of Roses Then strengthen the Stomach as in imbecility The Cure of Cardialgia from a cold Stomach If coldness of stomach come from outward injuries or cold water drunk and produce Cardialgia give and apply hot things actually and potentially so And the pain will be abated Of which we shall speak in Imbecility of the stomach from cold And also of that cold that comes from a humor for Imbecility is the cause of both But if the cold be so great that not only the stomach but parts adjacent suffer a Dropsie or Cachexy follow which comes by drinking much cold water when they are very hot we shall speak of the Cure of that in the hurts of the bowels As the cause is so must Distention The Cure of Cardialgia from Destention Inflammation and aggravation of the Stomach by Wind Meat Humor Tumor or Bowels adjacent or outward injuries Aggravation or Inflammation of the Stomach be cured If it come from Wind which proceeds from Meat Humor or weak Concoction it causeth a stretching pain because there must be good dyet to hinder the breeding of Wind and Evacuation and hot remedies used to help concoction and discuss wind inwardly and outwardly we shall speak of it in weakness of stomach from crude humors If the Stomach be stretched by Air taken in with drink except it be belched forth again we shall Cure it as in the Cure of wind If there be stretching and heaviness from plenty of things eaten and compression after Concoction and Digestion by excercise it will away But if it be great and will not yeild by reason of the quantity or quality it must be vomited up or purged the stomach strengthened All which are used against those causes that weaken the stomach and because there is also weakness we shall speak of it in Imbecility of the stomach As also if this stretching or heaviness comes from a crude humor we shall speak of it there because that is the cause of weakness and this is the cause of that If it come from a hard Tumor after a wound or a Scirrhus although it be difficult and there will be alwaies some heaviness after meat especially and weakness let the Cure against weakness be sufficient yet use Emollients as soon as you suspect it and consume it if you can The best way is to give Turpentine pills with Gum Ammoniack and Mastick often Or these Take Gum Ammoniack dissolved in juyce of Orris Mastick each a dram Storax Myrrh Ladanum each half a dram with juyce of Orris make pills give half a dram often Or give a drop or two of Oyl of Myrrh or Mastick with Sugar or otherwise And apply outwardly things mentioned in the hardness of Liver and Spleen Or thus Take Mallows or Wormwood each a handful Chamomil flowers a pugil Schaenanth two drams Figs twelve boyl them in Wine stamp them and add Gum Ammonick and Bdellium dissolved in the Decoction and Myrrh of each two drams with Honey make a Cataplasm If the stomach be oppessed by the Liver Spleen Reins Colon Midrife being stopt stretched swollen hardned or inflamed Cure it as in these diseases for the heaviness will not away till they be removed nor the difficulty of breathing though they complain least of them If it come from the crookedness of the sword Gristle bent inwards and pressing the Stomach it is incurable and no rest can be till the patient lye upon his Back that the Stomach may remove from it or till there is a compleat Concoction If it come from hard things outwardly pressing remove them and if they have done any hurt mend it If the twitching of the stomach cause loathing rather then pain The Cure of Cardialgia from twitching and tickling of the stomach Cure it as in loathing If worms cause tickling expel them and any other Disease that causeth it If there be Irritation or reaching with pain knawing The Cure of Cardialgia from Irritation or provoking or from things swallowed or from Medicines or from poyson bad Dyet or evil humors pricking or burning caused by things swallowed that wound the Stomach first remove them if possible not by force as vomiting for so the stomach wil be closed and the things that hurt will stick faster but by things that make way and wash and make them descend that they may not hurt the entrals for they do not easily fix though sharp but are cast down by the Stomach and Guts as other hard things and stop not till they come at the straight passage of the Fundament For we think it impossible as some say that they should pass through the Veins by the Meseraick and Gut out at the skin Yet we have observed from a Famous Chirurgion from whose mouth I had it with great admiration of the hearers that a Needle swallowed which stayed long in the body came out at the Reins by the right Kidney in an Ulcer And I my self saw and handled a piece of Glass which came out by Urin by a strong Diuretick after a great and sharp pain in the Uriters and fit of the stone These are washed away with great draughts of fat things especialy which relax the passages as of
it is like the Joynt of the Finger this we shewed may be in a Womans Privities also and the Fundament in both Sexes It is more painful when there is Inflammation If this Tumor appears outwardly is called Ficus being like a Fig or Verruca or a Wart which hanging down is called Thymus Somtimes it is like a Grape or Mulberries I have seen it rough and hard like a Cocks Comb. And it is either alone or joyned with the French Pox. A Pain with sense of an Ulcer in the Fundament is within An ulcerous Pain in the Fundament and differs from that which produceth a Tenesmus or Needing because there is not so much straining In this being soul there is Matter voided alone or in the first Excrement at stool Somtimes it is hollow and a Fistula as goes either to the Womb and Bladder out of which parts it after floweth and sometimes it is pissed forth And when the Patient farteth it cometh forth of the womb if the Ulcer be there Also Ulcers of the womb and neck of the bladder as was there shewed have gone sometimes before and ended in an Ulcer in at the Fundament Hither are also wounds to be referred which first bleed and after turning to Ulcers send forth Matter The Causes Diseases that Cause pains in the Fundament are either Inflammation or Haemorrhoids or Condyloma or Ulcer Inflammation causeth burning pain with swelling or without Inflammation is the cause of burning in the Fundament and it is grievous because the part is very sensible And it may come from the same Causes as a Tenesinus or needing when the streight Gut is ulcerated and from other outward hurts as a wound or stroak or from wiping the Arse with a paper that hath had Pepper in it as I knew or with the Hand that had Ginny pepper as I knew in one that complained from thence of the fire of Hell as he said The blind or painful Haemorrhoids from the Veins in the Arse which bleed in some as the Veins of Womens Privities at certain times is with a swelling not that the Vein it self is pained so much being not very sensible but because the parts adjacent are stretched and pained which are very sensible this is greater with inflammation when the part is extended Therefore when blood is brought to the end of the Veins to be purged by the Haemorrhoids if the mouths of the Veins be not open from whence the Haemorrhoids are called blind or when they open with difficulty the blood being stopt and increased and laboring to get forth forceth and teareth the Veins more or less as it is in quantity And they feel most pain when the Hemorrhoids first break forth Because the Vessels were never opened before And when the blood would get forth at some external Vein in the Fundament It is hard to be opened because the Mouth of the Vein is made hard by the hard Excrements But it gets easier forth when it opens a Vein in the broad part of the streight Gut where they are softer But these mouths of Veins may be hurt also by hard Excrements or other straining as we see in Women in travil who have the Haemorrioids This pain from the causes aforesaid is greater when the blood stopped is sharp or Malignant And also the swelling Haemorrhoids have divers forms according to the diversity of the mouths of the Veins and Flesh and Blood thereabouts Candyloma causeth pain in the Arse Privities of Women also An evil Humor is the cause of Condy loma in the Arse and Privities of Women for the parts are alike Nervous And we know the Humor to be Malignant when there are Ulcers in the Privities and Groyns and also Candylomas in the Privities and Arse This Humor being venemous is infectious and breeds Figgs or Warts or other Excrescences And how this comes to pass we shall shew in the French Pox Bubo and Cancer An Ulcer of the Arse is somtimes the cause of pain and matter voided An Vlcer or Wound in the Arse causeth an Vlcerous pain this comes from an Inflamation turned to an Impostum that brake and ulcerated and when it is deep it is foul also or from a foul Ulcer in a Tenesmus or from the causes that produce Inflammation and Ulcer there mentioned Or from an Ulcer of the Neck of the Womb or Bladder that eateth thither Or from a wound by external or internal means The Cure The Cure is in order according to the Disease the Haemorrhoids Condyloma Inflammation and Ulcer are cured divers waies The blind Haemorrhoids by which we mean a swolen Vein in the Arse that is stopt and ful of pain if it be not well ordered The Cure of the blind Hemorrhoids will be inflamed and cause an Ulcer and other diseases This may be prevented when it comes with ease and is not hindered at its usual time but furthered as we shewed in stoppage of Haemorrhoids It is cured by turning away the blood which is the cause and nourisher of it and allaying the pain to prevent Inflammation and then by drying and discussing the Tumor And if it Ulcerate it must be cured as other Ulcers We must revel the blood that it may not flow to that part to stretch or inflame it especially if there be then an Inflammation by opening a Vein in the Arm and then derive it by opening a Vein in the Foot Ankle or Ham. Or by Cupping the sides to revel and the Hips to derive Or by Leeches to the Fundament if pain or Inflammation forbid not The Belly must be kept loose that the Excrements may not hurt being hard and by straining With fruits and herbs in meat and broaths or with Cassia Manna or the like Or with Clysters if they can endure the Pipe Or with the Decoction of Restharrow consume them according to Dioscorides Or give the Pouder of Moulin with Milk to abate the swelling alone or with Barley meal as much or fryed with Eggs and Butter for some daies which is a secret Or the juyce of Moulin alone or with Penidies or in a syrup or with Liquorish Pouder make an Electuary thereof Also Bdellium and Galbanum sostned with syrup of Plantane or Mullein and made Pills give a dram Or Narcoticks in great pain Topickes are applied with a Tent or if liquid by a Syringe or by sprinkling or blowing them in Anodynes abate pain and heat also with Stupefactives many whereof consume the Piles Boyl yellow Quinces or Herb True-love in Oyl Or make Oyl of Gourd seed Poppy Henbane or yolks of Eggs or Indian Nuts or De-been or Jesamin Or use this Liniment of Oyl of Roses Violet water Lillies Willows or Lineseed or sweet Almonds with other Anodynes or fresh butter the yolk of an Egg raw or roasted You may add Goose grease or Hens or Hops or the grease of Goats or Dears kidneys or Marrow of a Veal bone Pomatum or Aesypus or white Wax washt to make an Oyntment
conclusion of boyling you do add half an ounce of Verdigreese it wil be green and beter Or Take the pouders above mentioned and with as much Rosin of Turpentine distil a Water first then an Oyl Or Take the pouders aforesaid three ounces add Mummy Gum Arabick Sagapenum Sarcocol Sanguis Draconis Opopanax each half an ounce Labdanum Benjamin Storax Calamita each two drams Amber six drams Spike three drams Storax liquid two drams Turpentine as much as all distil them This Balsom will be better with Verdigreese Some add Spices that Balsomes may be good in cold Diseases and pleasant as Nutmeg Cloves Cinnamon Galangal Cubebs Wood Aloes Zedoary which do little for wounds also Musk and Ambergreese others ad Castor and Euphorbium for cold Causes So make a Balsom of Rhubarb oyl of Roses or Worms with Frankincense Mastick Opoponax Camphire by boyling and straining Or Take old Oyl a pint Wine half a pint juice of Daffadil and Sideritis each three ounces Turpentine two ounces Gum Elemi Frankincense Mastick each an ounce and half Sanguis Draconis Aloes each an ounce Roots of Comfrey and Birthwort each six drams flowers of St Johnswort halfe an ounce boyl them gently and strain out the oyl Or Take Common Oyl or of Linsced eight ounces Oyl of Bayes two ounces Oyl of Turpentine an ounce Oyl of Juniper berries distilled or of Spike or Petroleum half an ounce Turpentine two ounces Colophony Mastick each an ounce Aloes three drams burnt Brasse two drams white Calacanthum a a dram Set them hot in a brass Vessel stirring them till they are green strain it or boyl it and add Verdigreace three drams add Oyl of Cloves Another Balsome that cures presently Take Liquid Storax Myrrh Sanguis Draconis Carpobalsome Gum Arabick Sarcocol Bdellium Opopanax Aloes Hepatick each a dram Oyl of Mastick two drams Venice Turpentine as much as all digest them eight dayes in a hot place then distill them The Chymists Balsamum Take flowers of Sulphur thrice calcinated two ounces Camphire a dram and half pouder them add Oyl of Turpentine four ounces distill an Oyl Liquid Varnish is added such as Joyners use A Balsome Take Oyl of Linseed a pint Gum of Varnish Mastich each an ounce and half Frankincense half an ounce Litharge an ounce Chrystal poudered or burnt Bones half an ounce white Calcanthum three drams boyl them gently add Turpentine oyl of Spike or Petroleum each half an ounce and strain it adding Verdigrease two drams this is our Balsome and it is excellent Turpentine with Yolks of Egges and Honey cures smal Wounds Or use Juyces of Herbs with Honey Yolks of Egges and Turpentine with drying Pouders mentioned Or Take Juice of Roses Plantane each two ounces Vinegar an ounce Oyl of Roses Omphacin three ounces Oyl of Yolks of Eggs and Turpentine each an ounce boyl them to the Consumption of the Juyces add Litharge Ceruse Tutty each two drams Allum a dram Omphacium three drams and a little Wax Or use Juice of Tobacco with oyl and Turpentine Pitch and wax boyled this is in great request Juice of Nettles and Urine cures wounds wonderfully For Head wounds Take Juice of Bettony six ounces Oyl of Roses Turpentine Wax each two ounces Womans Milk or Butter Wine or Vinegar each an ounce and half boyl them to an oyntment or with Rossin make a Plaster Another for the Head Take Topps of smal Centaury Leavs of woodbine dryed Bettony poundered each two ounces and an half Steep them in Wine boyl them and add Honey two ounces Milk an ounce Turpentine and Wax each six ounces boyl them till the juices are gone add Frankincense Mastick Gum Arabick or Elemi each an ounce and with Turpentine make a Plaster If the Skull be broken Take Juyce of Vervain Bettony Burnet Periwinkle Celandine Smallage each an ounce Turpentine four ounces wax two ounces boyl them til the Juyces be consumed add Comfrey roots and round Birthwort each half an ounce Orris roots two drams Sarcocol Myrrh Mumy Amber each a dram and half make a Plaster Or Take Honey of Roses two parts Oyl of Roses or of Eggs one part Turpentine half a part mix and dip a Scarlet Silk therein and put it into the Fracture the Chymists use Oyl of Turpentine and Oyl of Myrrh Some use the inward bark of the Tile Tree to roul the Wound or Paper wet in Wine Or Sponge Or Spiders Webs to glew smal Wounds and stanch Bood Or Puffoyst which drieth and glutinateth Or boyl or steep a Rowler in Allum water Or Bruise Herbs with Meal Or thus Take Comfrey roots and Alkanet Celandine Centaury Acrons beat them with Oyl of Roses and Grease Fomentatations are made or Injections of Comfrey Bugle Selfeheal or Saracens consound Rock Comfrey Sideritis St Johns-wort Pyrola Adders tongue Crowfoot Yarrow Achillea Mousear Dogs tongue Burnet Agrimony Horstaile Vervain Strawberry leaves Pauls Bettony Hedg-Hyssop Scordium Woad five leaved Grass Centaury the less Eupatorium Lysimachia Ground-pine great Celandine Tobacco also of Birthwort Tormentile Snake-weed Smyrnus Lycopsis Centaury the great Poterium Daffadil roots bark of Elme Tile Tree Pine Leaves of Cypress Myrtles Oaks Elm Medlars Cornil pear tree Sumach Cistus Helianthemum Verbascum Shepherds purse Plantane Lonchitis Moonwort Vitex Polyenemus wild Coleworts Anagallis Solomans seals Polygonum Goosgrass Clymenus Argemone great white Bottles Herb Trinity Balsam Conyza Erigerus Goats beard Bettony Sage Polymontane Rosemary and Roses Flowers of Labrusca Myrtle seeds Juniper Berries Acrons Dates Boyl them in Water or Wine adding Vinegar and drying Pouders and Allum Or wash Wounds with the distilled water of them Or distill this Take Juice of Plantane Agrimony St Iohns-wort twelve ounces white Wine three ounces Allum three ounces Mastich Frankincense each half an ounce Orpiment a dram whites of two Egges Destill a water Or you may still a water with a strong Fire out of pouder of Bricks and Wax washed often in Wine Some use the water that is in the Leaves of Elme You may make fine Pouders with Allum to sprinkle upon Wounds of the Ingredients for the Plaster Or for the Head especially if the Skul be broken of Orris Birthwort Flower of Orobus and Frankincense Myrrh and Sarcocol or Aloes and Sanguis Draconis or of bark of Pitch tree and of All-heal roots and Capers and Cypress roots and when there are scales of Bones in the wound use scales of Brass Pumice stone and Crocus Martis in pouder and for the Head grains of Kermes Saunders Cypress nuts and Myrtles and when you will dry more Tutty and Antimony If the Brain appear Sprinkle Aloes alone Mans Blood or Goats dryed is a good Pouder to glutinate wounds Or the red Liquor of the Blood-stone rubbed upon a whet-stone or the white Liquor of the Galactitis dryed There are also Potions to cure wounds called Vulnerary good not only when they peirce to the Stomach and parts whither they can reach but for wounds in the Breast and other parts and some say these Potions are of that
with a moderate heat it will not do the like and after the other way the teeth will also come forth Also Nayles and beasts Hooses with greater heat will come off The tender parts may be consumed by knawing and rotting Medicines as the Jaws and flesh in the Eyes c. Corroding and putrefying Medicines are the cause of consuming of the parts and fal of Hair and there are things called Psilothra or Depilatoryes which take away hair by Art these do it rather by consuming the Roots of the hairs then by opening the Pores Some of the Deformities mentioned come from internal causes namely from divers Humors and Diseases or by one part forcing another as I have shewed as by Blood since the parts are not only nourished and augmented by it so long as a Man groweth but after whatsoever is consumed is restored by the same And this consuming of parts comes from the Blood divers waies either in respect of its Quantity and the Fatness of the parts if the Blood abound in quantity it makes the parts too fleshy by too much Nourishment and this is not only when Bodies are growing but afterwards Plenty of Blood is the cause of much Flesh and then they grow exceeding fleshy and if this come not hereditary from the seed and blood of the Parents it must needs come from Blood Hence it is that plethorick Bodies are so carnous or fleshy of which Plethory or Fulness as there are divers causes so often and plentifull feeding is not the least This Appetite is stirred up by exercise of body because by that Meat is quickly distributed therefore Men that exercise moderately grow fleshy and gross as it was with the wrestlers in old time Rest also which is the contrary may cause the same for they which are idle and sedentary and given to much eating seeing they spend little of the substance of their Bodies and still are devouring grow very big and gross This grossness may also come from the suppression of Naturall Evacuation of blood Hence Women at that time when their courses leave them although formerly when they had them constantly and nourished their Children they were lean and slender grow very corpulent and gross From these causes you may gather that as from the aboundance of Blood flesh is produced so by the want hereof there is Leanness and Slenderness The want of blood cause of leanness But as the blood causeth flesh to be more or less so it maketh some parts to be greater or lesser as when the Juyce made thereof is more proper or less agreeable to such a part This is so in that time wherein people grow as then both soft and hard parts as bones increase but after only those parts increase which are decreased by externall injuries The aboundance or want of nourishment is the cause why some parts are bigger then others as Nayles Hair which grow thick and long or fall as in the teeth Nayles and Hair but after a divers manner for in the Teeth if one be not worn away by another which is opposite in chawing then the nourishing juyce abounding makes the tooth that hath no opposite to grow longer then the rest but in the Nayles and Hair if they have too much Nourishment they grow not only soon longer but thicker The cause of Nayles growing so is strong motion about the Roots thereof when the Hands are often violently exercised and there is an extraordinary attraction of Juyce hence is it that labouring Men have thickest Nayles This also may come by often paring especially if before they be bathed in warm water for then the juyce attracted makes them by degrees more thick The same is in hair which when it first comes forth like down upon the Chin if it be often shaved growes apparently thicker and longer It may also happen that from the defect of that juyce which nourisheth Nayles and Hair that that which growes after cutting is thinner then the former But it is more usuall that they should fall from the dryness of the Roots for want of Nourishment especially hair wherefore when Medicines are made for growing of hair they attract juyce by their heat as we shall shew in the Treatise thereof by which the Root is mantained for the want of juyce is the cause of baldness for though hair grows upon the Skin of the head and continue some time there yet after some long before aged some at the aproach of old Age grow bald because the Head grows less fleshy and is made up of bones skin and membranes therefore that part is soonest dry and so becometh bald This may come also from externall injuries which dry the body as from internall Cares from which Histories mention that Men have not only become gray suddenly by drying the hair but also bald by drying up the Moisture In other parts of the Body as the Nayles if from the same juyce which nourisheth other extuberances arise in regard they are tumors we shall speak of them in their order There is also another Fault in the figure of parts from the aboundance of Nourishment The nourishing juyce sweating forth is the cause of uniting the parts for by the nourishing juyce some parts that ought to be disjoyned are united for if the Skin be taken off and parts by Nature separated be laid together the juyce which cometh forth from both will unite them for this like Glue conjoyneth wounds and bones If the Blood be fat the body is sat Fatness in blood is the cause of fatness in body and the contrary if lean it is lean for seeing all blood consists of a fat matter as Milk of a buttery matter and that by sweating from the Veins in the membranous parts and not by congealing through cold as it was supposed in regard the Body is alwaies actually hot inwardly but of its own Nature grows together being separated from the Blood and so joyns to the Members as Glue increasing the substance of the Body as there is more or less of it in the Blood so there is more or less of it gathered together for the increase of the Body from which cause rather than from Flesh are bodies greater or less but this happens not to the whol Body but to those places in which Naturally fat is used to be more then in others as in the Belly and breasts of Women c. The reason why there is more or less fat in Blood is from the quantity of blood for in much blood there must be much Fat and hence Bodies grow more fat and fleshy or more lean and thin But if Blood not only in regard of its aboundance hath much Fat in it but also of its own Nature though it abound naturally in quantity be over fat which appears by that which swims at the top after it is taken out which the vulgar Chyrurgions call Flegm then those Bodies are more fat than fleshy which Fatness comes not only
suck The Cure of breasts consumed women use to apply an Acorn cup or half a Nut shell filled with Rosin of the Larix tree to the place where the Niple is wanting and let it stay on some time The Gums being naked as it were without a thick Skin The Cure of Gums consumed being worn away may be restored This is done first by taking away any thing that is rotten about them then rubbing them often with Vinegar of Squils or Oyl and Honey which is stronger with the pouder of Dragon roots and Honey or with Aegyptiacum and Wine and the like clensers and resisters of putrifaction mentioned in the Ulcers of the Mouth Afterwards let them often rub the Gums with drying things that breed flesh and glew the same to the Teeth as with this Pouder Take of Orris Root one dram of the Meale of Oroby two drams of Frankincense or mastich one dram of Sarcocol half a dram of burnt Allum one scruple of Angelica Roots for to give a Sent or Cipress roots as Dioscorides will have or Cloves or of Mosch or Ambergreese a little so make a Pouder Birthwort roots may well be added but they are bitter and Mirrhe but it is unpleasant therefore instead thereof Take Benzoin or Storax Sanguis Draconis is good to be mixed therewith and also Blood stone The ashes of Pennyroyal are good according to Dioscorides burnt Harts horn or Ivory and things aforesaid which six Teeth especially when they are loose by reason of the consuming of the Gums there are also things to rub the teeth mentioned in the Rottenness of teeth that are good Calcine Frankincense and Mastich and mix them with Honey a little pouder of Coral with Salt and Allum and rub therewith The Troches made of Orobus and Honey are used The Ponders may be made up with Honey or Oxymel of Squills into Troches and so dryed and kept for use The straigtness of Orifices as of the Womb and Praepuce or Foreskin if it be such The Cure of straight Orifices as doth not only bring Deformity but hinder Action is to be dilated by incision This may be done safely in a Phimosis by cutting off the Foreskin which is usuall in Circumcision When the womb is too narrow a division made by Infection hath been often practised The Cure of Phimosis though it be more painfull and difficult then the other Therefore first you must begin with the safer way of practise by somenting the part with things that loosen moisten and mollifie as Fomentations and Baths Oyntments or Pessaries such as are prescribed in the hardness of the womb which while you use you must put in a Tent somwhat large made of a dry Gentian root or a Sponge tyed close together that as it swells it may enlarge the Orifice by often use That Leanness which is not by a Consumption but Naturall The Cure of the Leanness of the Body and its parts is seldom altered Otherwise flesh or fat may be caused by things that increase blood and nourishing Juyce as good Diet and rest Natural Evacuations Motions of Body and Mind these will bring a better Habit to the Body When Breasts are lank and hang down they are unseemly The Cure of lank and loose Breasts and women that love to be neate desire their Cure this is done by applying things that make them harder and firmer such astringent and drying things which we said would hinder the growth of Breasts When parts are disproportioned and cause Deformity The Cure of the uncomely Figure of parts besides what is from number or magnitude of which we have spoken as a Head Nose or Mouth imshapen if they be so Naturally they are incurable as also the Teeth and Nayls If the Hair be too curling and much we cut it off The Cure of over curling Hair if little pluck it out but this being not very unseemly is not to be tampered with except it be troublesome as when in the Eye-brows and from thence they bend into the Eyes These hairs are to be rectified by often touching them with the slime of a Snaile or with Glew They say they will grow again when pulled out if the Pores be anointed with Oyl in which a Lizard hath been boiled or with Frogs blood especially if it be mixed with the pouder of Laurel root or the ashes of Organ Some desire their Hair may curle Things that cause Hair to curle and this is done by the use of strong astringents such as were mentioned among those which black the hair as the Decoction of Galls Pomegranate peels Cypress Nuts Pomegranate flowers and the like made into a Lixinium to which they ad things that cause curling as Daffodill roots and Dwarfe Elder roots and Leaves with the seed of Henbane Also Oyntments made of the same are used as Take of Oyl of Myrtles and Mastich two ounces Oyl of Henbane half an ounce Juyce of Myrtles and Vinegar each one ounce boyl them then add the ashes of Chestnuts Hedghog and Pine nuts each half a dram the shavings of Pams horns Gum Arabick and Draganth each one dram Myrrh half a dram Honey at much as will make an Oyntment They say Mucilages boyled in Water or Lye will do the same if made of Marsh-mallows roots Linseed Foenugreek and Fleabane seed and Gum Arabick this they beleeve will so soften the hair that they will be fitter to curle or the Pores being loosned thereby and made larger the hairs will come forth more crooked Others add Fern-roots Beets and Lythargy and when the hairs are dry anoint with Oyl of Myrtles Some anoint with the Roots of Dwarf Elder mixed with Oyl Women do more certainly with crisping Irons and when they go to Bed they twist them and with great pains put them under their Head geare and in the morning being combed out they continue curled the whol day If there be a Division of any part which should be united whether after the Cure of some wound The Cure of the separation of parts which should be united at of the hare Lip or Naturall if it be in a fleshy part it may be united as that of the upper Lip which Children are born with called a hare Lip in Dutch Hasenschart it will be united if it be cut on both sides and after the Lips be joyned together with Needles wrap about with Silk or with sowing and a Plaister laid over till it be cured this you may try in any other part where there is Deformity or Hindrance and in fleshy parts it will be done but scarsely in other parts Also these may be artificially united if you first take of the skin upon each side and apply sticking Plaisters to the sides with double or treble Clouts and Buttons with which and good Ligature the parts divided will be drawn together and united If the Gums be separated from the Teeth by biting hard things The Cure of Gums separated from the Teeth
winded especially when he goes up hill or lieth down and it is the chief Symptom he complains of which also foretelleth a Dropsie before a tumor appear and when it comes it increaseth and from the beginning about Midnight after Concoction there is a pressing pain at the Heart and then short breathing and they are in Danger of choaking by which they are constrained to sit up like men in an orthopnaea Breathing with their Neck stretched out And when they lie on the one side either right or left they cannot lie long for shortness of wind on either side but are forced to lie upon their Backs At last the Disease increasing they cannot lie down at all because they are straight tormented thereby and they continue Day and and Night strait up and their Head bowed to their Breast for better breathing sitting long they spend the remnant of their daies miserably There strength decaies for want of lying down there Appetite is lost there is constant Thirst little Urin made the Urine is somtimes high red or Gold coloured and thick somtimes crude and watery somtimes not changed There is another kind of Dropsie Ascites A Tympany joyned with an Ascites in which the belly is far more extended and soundeth like a Drum being beaten in which you may hear a Noise upon motion with other accidents like the former onely the Feet swell not alwaies as in other kinds and this is a Tympany with an Ascites In the Dropsie Tympanites only the belly swells A Tympany alone and is stretched like a Drum from whence it is so called In which the stretching is so great that being strook it sounds like a Drum and being compressed it presently riseth nor will it keep an impression long as an Ascites doth These breath freer then they in the Ascites nor do they find any difficulty of breathing by lying down neither do their Legs or other parts swell besides there are Noises heard in the Belly and they have pain sometimes and are weak There is another Kind of Tympany in which with the aforesaid accidents The Tympany of the Guts there is a stoppage Pain and Vomiting with the Symptoms of the Disease of the Ilion Gut and Colon. The Belly also grows great Naturally as after Conception and somtimes besides Nature in a false Conception when there is a Mole with Conception or without so that a Woman seems great with Child thereby of which three kinds of tumors of the Belly we shall treat here shewing what they are and by what signs they are known That growing of the Belly which is in Women great with Child The growing of the Belly in a Woman with Child albeit being Natural it concerneth not us here yet that we may distinguish it from unnatural and shew that it comes not from any Disease which women do pretend which have been irregular and would conceale their bleeding and that we may pronounce some certainety or probability of Conception and that we may not mistake in this prediction which is easie in regard the women that have conceived are at the beginning especially very doubtful and do exceedingly desire to know and therefore do ask Physitians advise and send their waters we shall shew by signs accidents and Experiments how you may know that a woman hath conceived The Constitution of a woman fit to conceive doth with other signs make somwhat for the Knowledg of Conception This as they write is when besides the soundness of Body and Temperature which is thought to be best when contrary to the Mans she hath broad Loyness a large belly not too fat especially about the Privities But since we see those that are not such do conceive of what temper soever fleshy or lean nay the very least like Pigmyes we can gather great Matter from thence We hold her sit for Conception who is between fourteen and forty five and hath Parents that are fruitful Also if she have formerly conceived there is a stronge presumption if there be a doubt that she hath conceived It is necessary that before Conception she have Knowledg of a Man to enquire this of married people is in vain in others Necessary which when they will not confess it must be discovered by divers Arts among which this is one when there is great Suspicion if the Physitian by the water shall affirm that she is defiled because the vulgar people think a Physitian can tell any thing by the water or else the Parents and Magistrates shall force confession by threats Also if a woman shall perceive after the Use of a Man that she kept the Seed and that it went not out again although through Modesty she will not declare it it is a great sign of Conception especially if at that time she perceived any contraction of the Womb or sucking with great pleasure and that her Seed met with the Man 's at that time If the Terms stop which kept formerly their course it is a great and chief sign of Conception by which women presently judg themselves with Child and casting their account from the first Moneth after Copulation they collect the time of their lying in And if they doubt their Conception they will freely tell a Physitian when they stopped both they which are honest and others also though they which pretend other causes of their stopping And although in women with Child there is somtimes some evacuation of Blood from the Womb at some times yet is it be small and keep no order as the terms did it is not a sign of not conceiving and if the woman at the time she conceived gave suck and wanted her terms as it is usual and afterward though not presently the terms wholly stop it is probable she hath conceived and for this cause when Mothers perceive it they wean their Children If the belly grow bigger by degrees no accidents of a Disease being present it is a main sign of Conception especially if the tumor be most under the Navel and if it be hard and gathered together not pitting after impression as in the Ascites and not stretched out as in a Tympany and keeps the same Magnitude only except its gradual increase and grows not bigger when the Body is upright as in the Ascites and less when she lies down nor hath a tumor as in the Ascites suddenly fallen down when she turns upon one side when it is thus if it be not a false Conception or other Tumor joyned with a true as we have feen for then the belly swelling violently the Women are in Danger of Suffocation through shortness of Breath by which somtimes they die except by Abortion or by lying if they can attain to it they are freed pouring forth much water together with the Child The growing of the Breasts if other things be alike is a sign of Conception because in Diseases they rather decrease if they have Milk it is not to be doubted which we conjecture is made before it
do suppose themselves with Child There is the same Suspicion of Virgins if this happen to them when the belly swells and the courses stopt because they have no other Disease or accidents which use to accompany the stoppage of the Terms nor a Dropsie nor other Symptoms from want of which signs we easily distinguish this Tumor from that in Diseases For this is distinguished by us from that Swelling of the belly that comes from either 〈◊〉 or false conception if the Woman be past the years 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ception or is not come to them being too young and 〈◊〉 we may be deceived except they be very young or very old but not if she be a Virgin and too that is difficult if she please to conceal her having had copulation with a Man In the mean time because this Tumor is not so gathered together hard and equal as it is in Women with Child and they that have Moles and because their Breasts do not increase nor do they perceive any Motion of the child and in regard there are signs of Plethory or Fulness of a bad constitution by faintness paleness a pressing pain about the Stomach and beating of the Heart and a change of Urin into worse and in regard other accidents happening the belly swells larger and rumbleth by these signs we may gather that this Tumor of Belly comes not from conception and the woman is not with child Also the Symptoms in this case being greater then in a Mole shew it is no Mole as when the time of bringing forth is past there is suspicion and chiefly when after a large Flux of blood the belly either suddenly or by degrees falleth down without any Mole which somtimes is voided before that time of conception somtimes after And if the Effussion of blood be very great it weakneth the Party and leaves mischief behind or else kills her Particular Extuberances are such as are in some places only in the Superficies here and there and in the open cavities as the Eyes Mouth Privities And they are many and of divers sorts and somtimes gathered together or spread abroad And they are distinguished first thus some comming forth in the places mentioned do there remain of these we shall speak first others go in again and of those we will speak last Those Tumors which continue in their places as Tumors spread abroad which cannot return as is said are divers some are softer others harder Soft Tumors which yeeld more or less to the touch as they are more or less extended and being pressed they either rise presently up again or else have an impression remaining are divided into Tumors of the flesh and Tumors of the Skin A carnous Tumor or Tumor of the flesh which resembleth new made flesh covered with skin and full of Veins A Sarcoma or carnous Tumors is called Sarcoma Sarcites or rather Sarcosis hyposarcosis or excrescency of flesh this stretcheth or hangs from the body more or less the Tumor being greater or less round or long or otherwise and it is sometimes burdensom by its weight and hinders Action This may grow in any external part of the Body having skin as the whole body hath of divers formes of which we have seen a baker carry one many years to the end of his life round as big as his Head hanging at his Neck with a narrow Root Also not long since there was a Child brought to me who had a great round Carnosity with red Veins and a narrow Root upon his Loins in the middle of the back Bone After wounds or ulcers are cured there may remain proud flesh where they were Proud Flesh In the Codds there is also such a fleshy Tumor which grows to the Stones called Sarcocele Sarcole or fleshy Rupture all Tumors in the Codds are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Ruptures and the Germans call this Carnstel from Caro flesh This is easily distinguished from the Rupture or falling down of the guts called Enterocele though they be both in the Codds because it will not yeeld to a compression nor will it be put up into the Belly but growing by degrees not suddenly falling down as in the Rupture of Guts falling called Enterocele it will be fixed and remains united to the Stone somtimes including or covering it all over This tumor somâ—â—â—â—â— grows very great and hangs down filling the 〈…〉 stretching them and is very troublesom with 〈…〉 â—et not painful nor discoloured 〈…〉 an old Tumor very great full of Gristies beside◠〈◊〉 glandulous or spungy flesh cut off by a great Surgeon and after divided into divers parts by my Father of pious Memory Inwardly there are fleshy Tumors in divers parts of divers shapes The Sarcoma or fleshy Tumor of the Nose covered with a Membrane and often in the Nose there is a little rising of flesh called Sarcoma which if it increase and grow forth of the Nostrils or hang by the Jawes is called Polypus because it is round and long like the fish so called Polypus and sticks to the Nostrils by a Nerve root and by Veins which is red also like the inward Skin of the nostrils but without pain by which and by its softness it differs from a canker for if this be in the Nose as we see somtimes it is hard and pricking and grows often very big and ends in a Carcinoma But a Polypus besides the filthiness of it doth onely hinder the voice and breathing by stopping the Nose and is seldom bred without some hurt before going in the Nose contrary to that of a cancer This they say increaseth and decreaseth with the Moon Sometimes there grows a carnosity in Womens Privities The fleshy Tumors of womens Privities and we have seen one called Clitoris between the Lips of the Matrix so great that it was as long and as thick as a Goose neck and hung down like a great pudding which she had all her life time which is the cause as I suppose that many are taken for Hermaphordites because it lookes like a Mans Yard And this Excrescency is often in the Anus of men and women Condyloma with pain and other accidents called a Condyloma as we shewed in pains In the mouth and cheeks especially in the Gums there is also proud flesh The proud flesh of the Teeth when out grows them such as covers the Teeth especially the Grinders and it is called superincarnation of the Teeth there is also in some parts of the Gums about the roots of the Teeth a little Caruncle or piece of flesh which is called Epulis Epulis I had of them at the farther end of the rank of my Teeth which was soft red lank and thick which had but a small root which sometimes was bigger somtimes less and so it continueth still bringing no impediment In the Eyes that little flesh which is Naturally there in the comer grows sometimes larger like a push which besides its
was grown very big We also saw a woman loose a great deal of Blood with great Pulsation from the opening of a Vein which could scarce be stopped although many Remedies were applyed having a beating Tumor after the wound was healed which declared it to be an Aneurism And this came either because the Artery was cut by chance in the fleshless bending of the Arm where the Tumor was by reason of the blood ebbing and flowing under the skin after the wound was healed in the skin and not in the Artery Or because the Mouth of the Artery was fresh dilated before the incision was made and that caused that when the skin was cut there was a Flux which caused a Tumor after the cut was healed Neither can an Aneurism not be from the Arterial blood when it is under the skin and corrupted although this may be when blood is sent from the Veins into the empty spaces yet when Blood leaping from the Artery thus opened returns again and the skin is instead of an Artery it may be without concretion as when it is in the Artery And because this cannot be in the Veins an Aneurism cannot be from venal Blood A watery serous Humor produceth in divers places both general and particular Tumors because it is contained in divers parts of the body as in the veins which are dispersed all over and Bowels into which they are sent or in other Vessels being separated from the blood from which places somtimes simple Water otherwhiles mixed with other Humors comming forth produceth divers kinds of Tumors differing exceedingly as they are in the cavity of the Abdomen or Belly Codds Groyns or in the superficies of the Body either in the inferior parts only or al over as shall be shewed in particulars A serous Humor like Water getting into the Cavity of the Belly Water sent into the Cavity of the Abdomen is the cause of the dropsie Ascites or Abdomen causeth the Dropsie Ascites and then the belly swells more or less according to the quantity of the Water and is somtimes so full that it grows very large in which by tapping we have seen taken from the Living and found somtimes in the Dead threescore pound weight and above of water when much had formerly run out at the Feet which water doth not only burden with its weight but by pressing lying and hindering the free Motion of the Diaphragma or Midriff causeth difficulty of breathing of which they so complain and especially when the water goes more to the Midriff and oppresseth it hence it is that they breath better when they are standing for then the water goes downwards And if the same water weaken the Bowels Liver Spleen Veins Stomach and Guts by making them too moist or by its saltness or sharpness from mixture with other Humors or by its Corruption through long continuance till it stink make them too dry the Mesentery Cawle and Reins will be dryed and drawn up and the Fat clodded as we have seen Or if this water corrode the exulcerate in any part or putrifie the same we have seen the Cawle yellow and stinking in many as well as contracted and the Midriff hath been found the same in and opening of Hydropical People if this happen or if any other Bowels be hurt by this Water it will produce worse Symptoms in the hurt Functions of natural parts as want of Appetite Thirst Cachexy Atrophy and Diarrhaea and the like as by Corruption and Gangren of the Stomach by the water long contained therein a Vomiting with Heat and vehement Inflammation of the Oesophagus or Wezand which I saw in an Hydropical Woman which a liltle before her Death vomited often abundance of black stinking Water with great Inflammation of the Throat The cause of this water in the capacity of the Belly is from the parts of the lower belly which contains the Water or from the Bowels that are ordained for Sanguification as the Liver Spleen Reins or from the Veins which go through those parts and the rest or from the Bladder that holds the water from which if they be divided or the continuity dissolved by Diapedesis by which it is strained or Anastomasis by which the Mouths are open this water falls as shall be shewed in particulars Fernelius witnesseth that there is no Dropsie but it is caused by the solution of the continuity or Division of the Parenchyma or substance of the Liver And this by Anatomy we have often known And that chiefly when the substance of the Liver is cleft and gapeth from whence the water passing by it from the Vessels of the hollow and gate Vein and sweating under the Coats being there constrained fills them with water and makes them like bladders by separating the Tunicles from the parts under them which being broken the water runs into the Belly we have often seen these Bladders very large and clear growing to the Liver and Spleen in Men dead of the Dropsies and in an Ape and Butchers find the same in Cattel And when these coats are corroded the water falls directly into the belly The great Dryness of the substance of the Liver which makes it grow less is the cause of these clifts in the Liver And this came rather by a hot then cold Distemper as appears by the great Thirst of Hydropical People and the high Colour of their Urin and other signs of heat rather then cold and in regard they have it that time most deliciously with spiced meats and drink the strongest wine and so continue being young or aged at which time they fall into a Dropsie by reason of the Dryness of their bowels and they jestingly complain that they are troubled with water though they never drank it in their lives And this we have observed to have been the chief cause of dropsies in our Country and we perceive that a perpetual thirst in Drunkards which they long have had from the hot Distemper of their bowels which makes them ever drinking is a most sure fore-runner of a Dropsie if another Disease doth not prevent it by Death This also may come by heating of the Bowels immoderately with hot Medicines with which Women labour to warm the Stomach and Womb or when they have other cold Diseases These bowels may also be dryed and cleft by hot sharpe and constant Diseases as Feavers and Jaundies and therefore the Dropsie which sheweth rather the signs of heat then cold followeth these Diseases From a hard Tumor of these Bowels either all over them or in any part in the concave or convex part of the Liver or in the Spleen may these Clefts come from a Scirrhus of the Liver or Spleen or any other Tumor which will turn to an Imposthume Or there may be such openings by which the water may fall into the Abdomen because from this Hardness the Tunicle quickly cleaveth and if it imposthume and ulcerate then there is way made for the water as shall be said in
in their Legs after they are delivered they commonly vanish And if either Man or Woman have them continually they regard them not till they trouble them But if they itch or pain them or turn to an Ulcer they must be cured because while they continue the Ulcer cannot be cured as we shewed in the Kind of Ulcer For the Cure first consider the Plethory and evil Habit or Juyce in the blood and this must first be cured by letting blood and purging as we shewed Then we must apply things that may repress and consume the filthy blood that stretcheth the Veins And that with Lotions or Fomentations with a Decoction made in Forge-water or Lye or Urin of Fennel roots Bugloss the great Agrimony Laurel Cole worts of Rosemary Elder and Lavender flowers Cypress nuts Sloes Lupine seeds Cole-wort seed with Salt and Allum and if you will astringe more with Vitriol Or with this Fomentation or Epithem Take burnt Chalk three ounces Bole or fat Earth one ounce and an half Acacia or dryed Sloes one ounce Sanguis Draconis six drams Myrrh half an ounce strong Vinegar one pint and an half Lye three pounds with a little Salt and Vitriol we stop the flux by Ligatures or Roulers about the part beginning from below upwards as we shewed in Oedema alone or with a Fomentation afore or we wet the Rouler in the Fomentation and strain which will be stronger thereby especially if it be made of Sloes Somtimes we cut off the great Vein which nourisheth the Ulcer when it hinders the Cure of the Ulcer if there were no Ulcer we would not do it because dangerous if but opened It is better therefore to bleed in the other Leg for Revulsion But when we will cut a Vein out that nourisheth the Ulcer first you must mark its Passage above with a Pen as it comes from the Ulcer and then open the skin by longitude and lay the Vein bare then rub the Blood down and tye the Vein above and cut it beneath in length to let out the blood then bind it next to the Ulcer and cut it that part of the Vein which is between the two Ligatures and so the way will be stopped by which the Ulcer was fed The small crooked Veins in the Codds Privities of women and Eye-brows or in other parts of the skin because they hinder not are not regarded but if you will do any thing you must revel the blood from the part and repel and discuss it as in Inflammations only your astringents must not here be so cold least the Blood congeal Cirsocele is when the spermatick vessels are swollen The Cure of the Stone vessel rupture and if it hinder not the Seed it is not regarded because it is hard to be taken without Gelding and except it grow great like a flesh Rupture it is not attempted but you must use Fomentations and the like before it comes to that Aneurisma that is a Tumor from the opening of the artery The Cure of Aneurisma when the blood thereof gets under the skin when it is old is not curable because the blood cannot be repelled by astringents or the mouth of the Artery lying deep be shut Nor may we open it because the Patient would certainly die of a Flux of Blood which cannot be stopped Therefore if at the first Repellers and Closers of the Artery mentioned in Haemorragy or Bleeding do nothing we must leave it except we will use a Ligature or Plate of Lead to keep it down As for an internal Aneurism because it hath no external Tumor of which we spake but produceth the Heart beating we have shewed how it must be ordered when we treated of Palpitation of Heart and Cachexy Tumors comming from Seed as that which is Natural of the Belly in Women with Child require nothing but good Government to prevent Abortion or Miscarriage as shall be shewed in the Treatise of unseasonable Births The tumors of a Womans Belly from a Mole The Cure of the Belly swollen with a Mole is to be mentioned in things cast off because the cause is not to be certainly known till the Mole is brought forth The Cure of particular Tumors is not here to be repeated The Cure of tumors that are from the Birth if they come from the Seed at the Birth as Sarcomata Kernels Struma's and the like because they are to be cured as those CHAP. IV. Of Defoedation or Defilement The Kinds UNder the Name of Defoedation we understand those Infections which defile the Body with many Diseases so that they are that infected with them must leave the society of sound Men. Of this there are two Kinds principally The one is old called Lues Elephantica or Leprosie the other new called the Lues Venerea or French Pox. The body is many waies defiled by them with such as are common to both as tumors pustles ulcers and falling of the Hair and others that are proper to them in particular Pains and Hindrance of Functions There are also other Infections that have been first known our age that defile the Body and are proper to some Countreys among which the Scurvey is most known usual in the North of which we shall speak here leaving other Infections to them that know them It is called Elephantiasis The Leprosie called Elephantiasis from the Likeness of the Patient to an Elephant his Ears growing thin and broad like wings they are called Lepers from the Roughness of their skin and from their Lyon like looks it is called Leontiasis and because they are Lecherous Satyriasis In this there are divers accidents which are to be searched and described because they shew how it came and they who have it are to be examined by the command of the Magistrate and separated from the sound that we may judg rightly and not mistake as usually and offend either sick or sound In regard I have been thirty years appointed and have examined above six hundered suspected of the same I will faithfully declare first the Diseases they have and then the Actions hurt and examine the things cast off that we may know how to judg of the same The outward Infirmities are chiefly in the Heads and Joynts and the Searchers do scarce examine any other part and yet give sure Judgment In the Joynts they examine the Hands and Feet Fingers and Toes and Nails and above the Knees to the Thighs above the Elbow to the Shoulder and in the Head they search the Mouth Eyes Nose inside and outside Face Ears and Hair Eye-brows and Beard and the tumors and ulcers there to judg by them alone or together There are oftentimes little tumors in the Leprous upon the Face and Joynts in the Face upon the Fore-head and Cheeks and making them look wildly which first discover the Disease and are in the Arms Backs of the Hands and in the Feet and Thighs These are moveable and without pain and are blewish red especially in the
Mother Although God sometimes inflicts this as a Punishment with that means It is a received Opinion that one Body will infect another and therefore they are separated one from the other and it appears to be so because the Infection being in the external parts and skin only nay by touching or lying together especially in Mariage may easily be conveighed to the skin of another or by the use of the same Cups or Spoons or taking in of meat which the infected have chewed it may get first into the Mouth and then into other parts As we shewed the venom of the Pox and of beasts could infect by spettle And they are soonest infected that are of a like temper as those of a Kindred as we have upon search found two or three Brethren infected in the same Family Or they have some capacity to receive it which we can scarce declare but it is such because when many have been together in the same danger onely one or two have been infected Also they say that other Creatures infected therewith may infect Man-kind for although Beasts have somwhat like the Leprosie as tumors in the Jawes in Hogs yet because it is not every way the same neither have they other signs of it as men have it is either not the Leprosie or another kind and will infect only beasts of their own kind and not men Also we daily find by Experience that poor people eat daily meazled Hogs and yet have no signs of Leprosie I have observed that a Woman with Child that longed for meazled Pork and eat much of it brought forth a Son who had meazly Pustles all along his Back-bone very like those of Swine spread abroad continuing a while and then vanishing without any other inconvenience We shall affirm little but leave it to every Mans Experience whether from the biting or stinging of venemous beasts or touching only of Venom or drinking or smelling as they say of basil this Leprosie can come or not although the people have divers Opinions thereof It appears this Infection may come from Humors very often because many Leprous Persons have not taken it by Insection and we see often them that have conversed long with Lepers and been married to them to have remained sound Therefore because we cannot perceive any other Cause from whence it should arise we conclude that it comes from within Moreover we cannot say that these Humors from whence the venemous Quality comes into the parts arise from Distemper or Corruption as is generally beleeved because they produce no other Diseases or accidents or signs of the same which use to arise from the change of Humors in that manner but that a certain venemous Quality produceth a Disease like it self And this may be bred in the Blood and with that property by which it can onely hurt some places according to the Nature of poyson it hurts only the skin and Tunicles only and no other part For the doing of which and that its force may come to the Supersicies of the Body it is not needful that all the blood be corrupted for then it would kill the Party but some part thereof Or if this poyson being against Nature be driven to the exteriour parts by it the Cause with its Effect produced will stick there only where the Infection brake forth and no longer be in the Blood although it came originally from thence and so corrupt the substance of the parts and that will corrupt the nourishing Juyce as I shewed and so cause and nourish and Elephantiasis These venemous Seeds in the Blood except the Blood be first insected and then the parts of the Body from it may come from some Corruption in the same or Putrefaction in which the blood may be turned into Venom as in other poysons whereof we have spoken in other Diseases among which as some are said to come from the Terms which are accounted venemous so they say the Elephantiasis comes also not only in a Woman when her Courses are stopped but in a Man by Infection when he hath had to do with a menstrous Woman or in a Child conceived at that time All which come not from the menstrual Blood because it is not of its own Nature in sound women filthy as we shewed except that it or other blood for other Causes contract such evil as may produce the venemous Seeds of an Elephantiasis And it is hard to judg by bleeding whether it comes from meat or a Disease afore going or what kind of Venom it is but by the effect In the Cause of the Elephantiasis begin other Humors as Melancholy as some think it is or any other and if it proceed not from its certain quality though hurtful or if it be Naturally in Humors preternatural or become such from Corruption because other Diseases come from thence which are not found in an Elephantiasis but then also it wil come from the corruption of them from whence these Humors receive a venemous and malignant Quality fit to produce an Elephantiasis they will produce it that as we shewed of Blood by driving it the outward parts of the body and by infecting them It is thought that this Leprosie is contracted by extream Cold external of the Body when men have been long in Water Air or Snow or after vehement Heat as bathing they endure a great cold or when they cool a hot Tumor as Erysipelas too suddenly But because other accidents come from thence as when there is extream cooling the extinguishing of Natural Heat and Mortification of the part we cannot make this a cause of the divers accidents in this Leprosie Nor can we affirm that other Tumors and Ulcers in these outward parts can be turned into this Disease although many think it to be possible in an Erysipelas and Herpes because when they are changed into a malignant Scab which the Greeks call a Leprosie they take it for a kind of Elephantiasis from which it differs as I shewed And if any external Diseases should turn into this the Humors that caused them must first of Necessity turn into a venemous Quality by Corruption In the French Pox that Venom which produceth it The part affected in the French Pox. is chiefly in the Membranes which causeth Diseases there and Pain as we shewed As pains about the Periostium or Skin or Bone where there is no flesh in the Head Shins Breast and Nodes in some places But the Elephantiasis chiefly in the skin the mouth Jawes Nostrils causeth the Hair to fall Spots Ulcers c. The Disease of the French Pox is a Distemper of these parts An evil quality is the cause of the French Pox. and such a venemous quality as is fit not only to produce such accidents as are in the Elephantiasis but more and great pains as appears by what is said in Elephantiasis and in the second Book of the Pox. Where we have at large declared where and how this Venom comming of
And then it can live no longer not only because it wants Blood but because it wants vital Spirits by reason of the Separation of the Arteries and cannot take breath The Mothers by certain signs do know that the Child in the womb hath a Disease and is sick and like to die but those are not easily determined till Birth nor then except there be visible manifestation as I said of the Dropsie But without doubt Children in the womb have some Diseases as a hot Distemper must needs be in the Child when the Mother hath a Feaver which is in all Parts and also in the Child Or when the woman hath another Disease she may communicate it to the Child or she being full of evill Humors may conveigh them into the Child with the blood and so it may be cacochymical or of evil Juyce or she may give it the Pox or Plague and this is not without a great cause because the Child takes the best and most agreable to it and though the Mother be sick the Child may be sound As Children that sucked their Mothers of the Plague have been by us observed to escape it when others have died Yet I knew a Child born of the mother when she had the small Pox to be full of the same Also it is thought that things taken by the mother or applied to her womb may bring a malignant quality destructive to the child as many Medicines which do kill children and are Poyson Some Diseases that come from the Seed in conception to the child appear sooner some later and kill him before his Birth or continue by him after they are mentioned in Deformity in Diseases original There is a Solution of continuity A Wound or an Ulcer is the Cause of taking away a part that constituts the Body divers waies in the voiding of parts that constitute the Body as a wound when part of the substance of the brain Lungs Liver Spleen is cut off and comes out by the wound or the teeth or tongue is cut off they or some of its Humors fall out which also may come from an Ulcer Also the Brains may come out at the Nose by a contusion as we shewed in Wounds of those parts The Cure A natural and legitimate Birth when the Child comes ripe forth in due time he must not be delivered but well ordered and if it be difficult assisted Concerning which how the Mother and the Midwife should behave themselves we shewed in the defect of Child-birth When travail is past then you must have a care of the Mother and child The Gournment of the Mother and Child after Labor for the Mother you must mitigate her pain and provoke her Flux after Labour and strengthen her thus Let her be raised up gently in her bed that she faint not and give her broath and wine and good Scents to refresh her and let her be moderate in eating and sleeping and keep her out of the Air till she grows strong and her womb be brought to its former Condition which will be sooner if her Belly be rouled gently down As for the Child let him be washed in hot water from his filth and wiped with Feathers and anointed with cream or butter or Oyl of sweet Almonds then roul him and lay him in a Cradle and rock him to sleep and to learn him to suck hold him to the breast it is best to try that as soon as he is washed for comming thirsty out of the bath he will presently lay hold on the Teate and suck After Abortion or Miscarriage there is no other order to be observed then after travail And you must after take heed that it cometh not again which it is probable it will if she hath been formerly subject to it And this is done by things given and applied before conception and when she is with Child Before the woman hath conceived which she may be certain of The preventing of Abortion before Conception if she hath not used a man since her Abortion you must consider diligently if there be any secret cause in her body by reason whereof though she do conceive and the child be formed for if the Seed conceived presently flow forth it is not a true but fase Conception and the cause of barrenness as we shewed yet she doth not keep it And this is done by observing her constitution whether she be Plethorick or Cachymick of much or evil blood and as the Humor aboundeth you must cleanse the body by bleeding purging sweating and good Diet. Or if she have a Disease or Fault in the womb which may cause this you must study to amend it But if there be no Humors appearing that can be thought prejudicial you must strengthen the womb that the child hereafter may stay by Medicines mentioned in Sterility external and especially baths which they say are best and therefore they sit in hot baths often After the woman hath conceived which she knoweth by certain signs To prevent Abortion after Conception then you must take care that she may go out her time and that the child may be lusty But if you perceive it to be dead you must not do so and if you be certain thereof you must use things that provoke Abortion for either the child or Secundine remaining will be the Death of the Mother There are divers things good to retain and keep up the child after you have removed all causes that may hurt it or remove it Sometimes it is good to let blood if we perceive that abortion came from blood abounding about the womb the former time by reason of Plethora in regard she had her Terms in the time of her being great and if we see they begin to flow again as they did you may let blood in the Arm not the Foot because that will move the terms nor is litting blood to be feared as the Ancients thought when people with Child are full of blood for I never knew any miscarry thereby though it hath been done twice or thrice and have seen divers wounded and that have lost much blood and yet the child hath not been the worse yet is it not to be done rashly but a little must be taken at once and more the next month and the third time if need require Also you must not be rash in purging women with child that are apt to miscarry except the body be too much bound and then administer Clysters of some opening gentle Medicine or if the body be very foul then you may give some stronger Purge and that will do no hurt but good for many women by chance not knowing they were with child have taken Purges and had a great looseness and the Child not the worse neither did they miscarry There are things that prevent Abortion by altering which have an astringent Quality to fix the Vessels by which the Child is tyed to the womb and these add strength to the womb and vigor to
and is to be felt only or it only hangs out a little and grows forth more and more except it be prevented and this is called the Descending or Falling down of the womb And if Inflammation or Corruption happen not when the womb hath long been forth and ill ordered there useth to be no great accidents but filth hinderance in walking and a sense of weight so that the Belly and Loyns seem to be drawn down but otherwise if the woman can put it up again as usually it is she may use a man and conceive and go out her time without the Falling of it down while she is with Child The Fundament externally like a purse internally is made of the end of the Muscles of the strait Gut The Falling out of the Fundament if it be let more forth then at the time of going to stool is usual and cannot be put up again into the Body but remains outward with some part of the Fundament it is called the Falling down of the Fundament Somtimes it is without any other Disease as when by straining it comes forth and continues longer or shorter and comes of it self or with little trouble into its place again Somtimes though it be put up it presently especially at the stool comes forth again this is usual in Children and somtimes in Men. Somtimes the strait Gut falls down and swells so that it cannot be put up or with much difficulty Sometimes it is red and inflamed and will endure to be touched that it may be put up Sometimes it falls out without sense The Looseness of the Fundament and cannot be drawn up at will this is called the Palsie of the Fundament We have seen the Codds open and the Stones hang far out The Falling out of the Stones The Eye cannot hang far out of its place as we shewed in Deformity The Falling out of the Eye and if it stick far out it is called the Falling out thereof The Tongue sometimes hangs out of the mouth The comming forth of the Tongue and this is called the hanging forth of the Tongue The Causes The Cause of the comming forth of the Guts Cawle Womb Fundament Eye or Tongue is either from some opening and the Rimme of the Belly or weakness and dissolving of the Neck of the womb or the turning of the Fundament or strait Gut outward or the loofening of the knitting of the Eye or Tongue or a wound of the Codds By the opening of the Rimme of the Belly which keepeth the Guts and Cawle in the same if the Guts or Cawle fall through the opening then there is a Rupture or Falling out of which we spake in Tumors And this opening of the Rimme is either when it is broken or dilated The Falling forth of the Guts and Cawle is from the breaking of the Rimme of the Belly The Cause of the rupture of the guts called Enterocele and of the Cawle called Epiplocele that causeth the Swelling called Hernia or Rupture of which there are divers sorts according to the Diversity of Parts where they fall for if it be in the Groin and in the male-kind so that the Rim be open which covereth the Stones and seminary Vessels the Guts get through the opening and so lye under the skm which is called Enterocele and sometimes into the Codds and cause a great Swelling when much falleth down or when they are stretched with wind or with Excrements And if they be hard it is selt and if there be wind they make a noise being pressed And if the Guts stay there and cannot be put up because they are stretched and rouled together because the Passage of the Excrements is stopped they are thrown up again But if part of the Cawle fall into the Groin by the aforesaid it is called Epiplocele and the Tumor remains there not going lower because the Cawle being short and scarce reaching beyond the Bone of the Privities cannot fall so low as the Guts except some part of it be broken when the Rimme is broken and then it may fal into the Codd which cannot be put up again We saw one in the Groin very big which we knew was the Cawle by feeling of it to be unequal with Knobs of hard Fat which we knew was broken by the quantity or relaxed as we shall shew but being without pain it was neglected and the Patient lived not long after If the Rimme be broken in the groin of a Woman The breaking of the Rimme is the Cause of the Rupture in the Groins of Women where a certain Vessel passeth by it outwardly in the Groine then there is the Rupture called Enterocele or Gut-rupture in Women which is sometimes very great And if the Cawle fall there which is longer in Women then in Men the Tumor is larget then in Men and is called Epiplocele or Cawle-rupture But if the Rimme be broken in another part of the Belly and the Guts The Cause of Navel-rupture or the Cawle get there under the skin if it be in the Navel it is called Omphalocele Navel-rupture or Exomphalocele or Rupture about the Navel if in any other part it is called Hernia or Rupture which you may know by touching whether it be the Guts for then they will make a noise but the cawle will not and the Guts make a larger Tumor then the Cawle The Rimme is broken either by a Stroak or Fall or vehement Leaping or Vaulting into a Saddle as I have observed Also by great straining when the Belly is pressed by the Muscles in Labour or Travail with Child or going to stool also in Children by crying Also by a cut when the skin is healed and the Membrane left open or the like A Portion of the Guts or Cawle may fall down The Dilatation of the Rimme is the Cause of ruptures only by the enlarging or dilating of the Rimme of the Belly by which the Seed Vessels descend into the Codds This comes not speedily but by degrees with often straining for when the Guts are carried to the enterance of the Rimme of the belly they work themselves through or break through when the force is great And that this may be so and that the enterance of the Rimme of the Belly may be so dilated and opened without breaking it appears in that more narrow and thick parts may be so enlarged as the Ureters through which a Stone falls down as we shewed And this we have seen to be by degrees And in a Rupture-dropsie when after Death we opened him we found a round hole not cut or broken by which the Guts fell into the Codds by which that thin part of the Gut which is above the blind Gut was carried to the bottom of the Codd which was full of Water and it grew firmly to the Rimme in the whol Passage and the Patient while he lived and was in Health otherwise voided his Excrements orderly and complained of no pain
the womb being continually moist and therefore too loose that the womb being compelled by other Causes may easier slip down and the neck may yeeld more easily and be inverted Some teach that besides this Falling down that the womb while in the Belly may be moved on one side and get also up to the Stomach But being it grows to the neck and is compessed every where with the guts abiding commonly in the middle it will not easily get into other parts and will rather go downwards then upwards Except perhaps it grow so that it take up more room then formerly as we see in Women with Child and then also it rather goes downwards by its weight and the Belly is more swollen and harder beneath For which reasons and the other accidents in the Mother-fits we declared in the Cure of them that they come rather from Vapors that arise from the womb then from the ascending of the womb it self The Falling out of the Fundament is from the Inversion or straight Gut The cause of the falling out of the Fundament is straining for then it swells as when going to stool the Fundament sticks out with straining to let out the Excrements till it be drawn in again so that if by great force and straining with hard Excrements it be so brought down that it brings a part of the straight Gut with it it is the cause of its staying out The same may be from other causes that bear down as in Child-birth when the Delivery is hard the Fundament also falls out also from forcing about the Fundament as in the Tenesmus or needing or in the Flux called Dysentery And we have seen in an Incision made in the Rimme or Peritonaeum near the Fundament for taking a stone out of the Bladder that through pain the Fundament hath been by straining thrust out and the Yard also though in an Infant and little hath been swollen and stood And I have observed in some Children troubled with the Stone that they had not only this coming forth of the Fundament alwayes when they strained to make water but an Extension of the Yard especially in the Head and Fore-skin from their often handling of it through pain which were the undoubted signs of the Stone in the Kidneys And if the Fundament be so thrust out by straining that the straight Gut be drawn from the Mesentery or middle Membrane by which the Guts are held then they cannot be put up or kept in although the Muscles be right against the Fundament to draw it in again gently yet if it be far forth and tied with no Ligaments the Muscles alone cannot do it because if the Fundament be far out they will fall out also It may come from the weakness of the Muscles which draw in the Fundament after stool The Loosness of the Muscles of the fundament is the cause why it cannot be drawn in and constrain it up that the Fundament may be so far forth that it cannot be drawn in by which means the Fundament may be said to be forth but not to fall out except Force or Straining perceeded because it is not so retained by these smal Muscles that when they cease to act it should presently fall out of the Body in which it was included without any Force These weakness which makes the Muscles unable to draw back the Fundament that falls out by stool bofals them which have often had the Falling of it out or it comes from too much cold of the part which is very sensible by sitting upon a cold stone or the like or by staying in the cold Air or Water which touch the Fundament Many suppose that Falling of the Fundament The Loosness of the muscles is the cause why the fundament cannot be drawn back and that which is called the Palsey of the Fundament comes from Loosness of the Muscles through a Defluxion upon the Nerves But it is improbable that a particular Palsie of this part should be alone without any other part affected from the Defluxion Nor is it probable that a Defluxion which must needs fall in abundance to cause a Palsey should fall only into the lowest part of the os sacrum where these slender Nerves are accompanied with these Muscles and not rather sill the whol Cavity of the os sacrum by which means the Nerves might be dissolved Therefore if there be a Palsie in the Muscles of the Fundament it would be in the whol Body or in the inserior parts as well as there And though there be a great Resolution of parts in an Apoplexy we find none there nor doth the Fundament fall forth nor in any other Palsie when all the lower parts are resolved yet the Patient can go to stool and draw in the Fundament and though it be weaker for the Disease yet it falls out For which cause if difficulty of drawing back of the Fundament be from the Nerves which comes soldom it comes from a Palsie caused by a Defluxion and we suppose that it comes from compression of the Nerves or contusion by Fall or Stroak about the Crupper or from some great Coldness of the part which is not only upon the Muscles but Nerves When the Connexion of the Eye with its hollow roundness is loosned The Connexlon or Fasting of the Eye being loosned by a Contusion is the cause of its coming forth it falleth out and this comes by fome violent Cause because it is so fixed to the place that when it is brought to the Table boyled it can scarce be got out Yet the Eyes fall out by a great Contusion of the head by a Fall or Stroak And scarce by another means except they start out a little by straining as in Child-birth crying or roaring and so seem bigger yet they fall not out by that means but only stick out of which we spake in Deformity because by straining they cannot be much dissended but a little forced by the Muscles Some think that the Eye may fall out by the stretching of the Globe with Wind and Moisture gathered before it but since we find no Cavity in the Eye but it is full every where and there is no way for these to get in or can they be bred in the Eye or come from other parts we cannot yeeld to them As we shewed in the Causes of pains of the Eyes from Wind and Filmes which they suppose to come from Defluxion of Water The Falling out of the Tongue may be from the loosning of its Connexion The loosning of the Connexion of the tongue from a contusion is the cause of its coming forth it is so strong bound by Muscles a Coate and Ligaments that it must be done by great Force But it happens from a Contusion of the Neck or Breast as when theeves are racked their Tongue sticks out and it may also come by other means I saw one whose Stones hung out by a wound which was given upon his Codd
of the Nose that come from the jugular Vein that ascendeth by the Jawes to the Brain being opened by Anastomosis cause an Haemorrhagy The Cause of this Anastomosis is the plenty of blood which Nature desires to discharge by these tender Veins in that place of the Nose which are more easily opened in Men who have no easier Passage for it For that Evacuation which they have by the Haemorrhoids which is seldom and but in some is onely of that blood which is in the branches of the Gate-vein But in Women if they be so full of blood that it cannot be sufficiently discharged by the menstrual Veins of the womb or when the Terms are stopped Nature doth often send it forth by the Nose And this Haemorrhagy though it be not usual yet it is Natural except it be immoderate Also when Blood is too hot it opens the Veins of the Nose either when it is so hot by Nature or by Motion Sunning or Baths Or if it be inflamed in hot Diseases of the Head or Feavers it breaks forth at the first or in the heighth of the Disease by Crisis or judicially Also thin blood and more watery and mixed with Choller which sooner pierceth the Mouths of the Vessels causeth bleeding at the Nose Hence in evil Habit Dropsies and Jaundies although blood abound not this bleeding may be But if more Causes agree the Flux will be the greater And this is oftner and greater if the Veins be loose by Nature or often purging Also it flows and is increased by force as violent and often blowing of the Nose which opens the Veins by force of the blood thither If the Veins in the Neck of the Womb that come from the hollow Vein be opened by Anastomosis there is great Effusion of blood For as when these open at their set time they cause the Natural Flux of the Terms so when they open at other times they cause a prâ—â—â— natural Flux which is immoderate or the like which is unseasonable but like to the Courses which we mentioned before When the Mouths of the Veins are open by plenty of blood sent thither in a Plethory and they bleed sooner and oftner which is unseasonable or when they bleed at the appointed time but immoderately Or when the blood there by its Heat and Thinness opens the Mouths of the Vessels and causeth an immoderate Flux Or when Nature discharging her self by this way of Superfluities with the Blood at the time of the Courses or otherwise causeth this unusual and large Flux In which the Blood is sometimes watery and somtimes impure But this Flux is greatest when much blood either pure or impure is in the Veins of the Womb from the long stoppage of the terms and suddenly breaks forth and so enlargeth the Mouths of the Veins by its violence that blood is not only out of the womb but other great Vessels which supply and the Body left as it were without blood And as this is in the Veins of the Neck of the Womb so it is in those of the bottom thereof in Women that have had their Courses long stopped which swells their bellies as we shewed in Tumors and when they open suddenly they cause a dangerous Flux Somtimes there is a Flux of Blood from violence when the Mouths of the Veins of the Neck of the Womb are only opened without Solution of Continuity And this is often at the first Copulation not by reason of the skin called Hymen being broken as they suppose because a Membrane hath no blood and if it came from thence it should be torn away But which is more probable it is from that sudden and strong enlarging and dilating of the Orifice of the womb or from the Rubbing of the Neck of the Womb which it hath not felt before that the menstrual Veins are a little opened and send forth blood like the Courses or at least some Sprinklings Also there may be a Flux of Blood at the womb from Medicines that open the Veins thereof especially if they be strong or things put into the womb as Pessaries c. And there may be an immoderate Flux after Child-birth from the Causes that the Terms over-flow and as it is Natural to have the Vessels open and bleed so it is preternatural when the quantity is too great or the blood too thin As the Haemorroids come Naturally from the opening of those Veins which come from the branches of the Gate-vein yet they flow not so as the Terms by which it is necessary that that blood in women that are fit to conceive which is laid up for the nourishing of a Child should be avoided every month till they do conceive but onely then when the blood in the Meseraicks aboundeth or is hot and chollerick as we shewed in the Causes of intermitting Feavers that Choler is chiefly increased and aboundeth there not carried into the hollow Vein or purged by the Gall and therefore is sent forth by the Fundament which is near and which is ordained for other Evacuations also So when these Veins are too open or too long closed Nature being provoked by the plenty of blood or the Heat thereof or by Choler which may cause great Diseases endeavors to make an immoderate Flux and the rather when the Veins are so open that they cannot close themselves From which Cause I shewed you that two very Learned Men who lived a sedentary Life and procured the Haemorroids by Art were brought to such a violent Flux which could not be stopped but caused their Death But if Nature being moved neither by Repletion or Impurity of blood but by other Causes doth send forth good Blood from the Meseraicks without Necessity this Flux will be preternatural neither usual nor profitable By the opening of the Veins of the skin blood cannot flow through it or the Pores nor by the Rarefaction or Diapedesis of the skin can blood strain through the like Sweat because it is thither and the Pores very little except the skin be divided but if it be under the skin with the Sweat there it stayes and causeth the Hypochyma or Suffusion of Blood which I spake of And although as I shewed in the Boy with the Dropsie it was sprinkled about the body yet it past not through the skin but stuck in the Pores and this is very rare There are many Fluxes of blood that come from the Solution of Continuity in divers parts The dividing of the veins in the Eyes ears Yard Womb Fundament Skin is the cause of Bleeding which differ in that Respect If the Tunicles of the Eye be rubbed when they itch or divided the Veins may be hurt and they may bleed though but a little Also they may bleed from the hurting of the horny Tunicle For I observed in a Boy that had a piece of sharp Glass in the Pupilla of his Eye which I drew forth that the blood was discussed without any hurt If the inward Veins of the
in Scarification Incision Burning in Water-pusles or Hydropick Leggs but if the Orifice be large by cutting pricking tapping in a Dropsie or when water is taken out of the Codd or from watery Tumors Or when it comes from an Ulcer it is larger The Cure Some Tears are to be cured The Cure of Tears some not For if they come from a Cause that continueth not as Passion of Mind or be provoked by Brightness Scents Smoak and the like they will be gone when they are removed And these are to be avoided that are subject to Tears But those Tears that come from a lasting Cause which returns require Cure And if they are joyned with Redness Heat and Itching as in Epiphora or Flux of the Eyes and come from thence it is cured as that is Also if tears be with an ulcer of the Eye or Lachrymal Fistula and come from thence they must be first cured before the tears will cease And in regard these Diseases of the Eye are hard to be cured the tears from them are hard to be cured also Except it happen as somtimes it did in the Cure of a Lachrymal Fistula that it grows so big or there be so great a hole from the eating away of the bone of the internal corner of the Eye that all the water falls no longer by the Eye but from the Nose If often or constant tears be without the Diseases mentioned by reason of water flowing not by usual Passages but into the Eyes it must be cured Thus the Humors that abound in the Head must be purged and they are to be hindered in their Passage and the Flux sent from the Eyes to another Passage and stopped the tears consumed and the Eyes strengthened Thus you must purge by stool by mastication or chewing by sneesing for though sneesing cause tears yet because it sends them to the Nostrils it doth good such as are prescribed in Defluxions and the Pain they cause in the Cough Ophthalmy or Inflammation of the Eyes and in Weakness of Sight Sweating often doth chiefly take away those Moistures from the Head and whol Body which may be done by the Decoction of Guaicum and other Sudorificks long continued because Baths are not so good for the Eyes As we shewed in Defluxions We hinder the increase of these Humors by a wholsom slender Diet by applying and giving things to the Head that dry and strengthen and by Fumigations mentioned there VVe divert or turn away these from the Eyes by Cupping-glasses Frictions and other things that revel and derive And last of all use Causticks and Vesicatories to the Neck behind and to the Shoulders And use actual and potential Cauteries to thoseparts or to the Crown of the Head Every day after he hath combed his Head let him rub his Neck with a rough Cloth this is good against all Defluxions Apply Dryers and Binders to the Fore-head and Temples to hinder the comming down of the Humor especially the Emplaster mentioned in the cure of a salt rhewm in the Eyes At Bed-time use things to the Eyes at their corners that they may be better kept in with Cotton or Spunge the Patient sleeping upon his back or Oyntments or Pouders or Fumigations Those are prescribed in Epiphora and in the Cure of the Ulcer of the Eyes as that Pouder in Epiphora which begins thus Take Cadmia or Brass Ore c. Or thus Take Antimony prepared or that of Blood-stone Smoak of Frankincense c. and that of Salt and the Collyria or Eye-medicines made of white Vitriol and the strong astringent Pouder there mentioned And the Oyntments mentioned for the Ulcers of the Eyes both white red and black and that with Sarcocol c. And the three Collyriums of Rhasis called Eleiser of Lead and Polycreston leaving out the Opium in the two last Besides these you may add some drying Waters as of Myrtle Honey-Suckles Sumach Agrimony Privet leaves wild Vine Osiers or of sharp Fruits Pomegranates and Sloes distilled The Decoction of the same is good chiefly of Pomegranates and Dioscorides commends the Decoction of plain Tree leaves He also commends Buck-wheat and dryed Flower Also the Pouder of Ebeny This is an excellent Oyntment to put into the corner of the Eyes Take the Juyce of sour Pomegranates or of Bramble tops or Roses as much as you please boyl it to the consumption of half mix it with Pouder of burnt Myrobalans sour Grapes and add a little of that Juyce which is taken from a Blood-stone or a Hone such as Barbers set Raysors with being rubb'd with another Whet-stone and convenient Liquor And other drying Pouders Burnt Vittiol with Sugar dissolved in Water is excellent In regard the dropping at the Nose and Snot is an Excrement of the Brain The Cure of the dropping at the Nose you must rather prevent the increase of the Humor then stop it In the Coryza or Pose The Cure of the Coryza or Pose water slows from the Nose abundantly and the Nostrils are offended and the Parts adiacent which brings also a Cough You must purge the Excrements of the Brain and the Defluxion as there mentioned Not neglecting the Nostrils which are sore but using things against Inflammations and Ulcers If a Water-flux from the Ears be little and do no other hurt The Cure of matter from the Ears you need do nothing but take away the Humor in general and if it be large use things that hinder the increase of the Humor and purge it with water-purgers and Diureticks that is by urin of which there are divers in the Cure of the Dropsie Ascites If it be thick Snot and flows not so readily as the other you must use Cleansers such as are used to purge the Ears there mentioned The Whites although women have them without hurt a long time yet at length it makes them discoloured and slothful and unfit to conceive and distastful to Men for which Cause they desire much to be cured which is difficult when it is old and scarce absolutely to be done so but it will return And if the Whites be malignant then besides the Filthiness and Stink there are hurts in the neck of the womb to the bottom and ulcers And somtimes other Diseases are caused by the too great Evacuation The way of Cure is to hinder the Bleeding of these Humors in relaxation to the Stomach and so fetch them out of the Body and consume them and to draw them and turn them from the womb and to dry and strengthen the Part. But if other Diseases be joyned therewith that came before or after it as Cachexy Dropsie then you first must look to them and those parts that are ordained for Concoction and are faulty must be amended If barrenness follows and the woman be troubled therewith you must aim at both in the Cure And if Conception be hindered by moistness or plenty of Excrements you may use the Course mentioned in the Cure of Barrenness But
the Danger There is Vomiting of blood but seldom Vomiting of Blood in Diseases that have others joyned therewith and in women that want the terms in which blood is vomited alone or mixed with them somtimes more plentifully pure or mixed somtimes clodded and tough like Pitch and black somtimes like Ink which a famous Lawyer vomited in abundance and purged also Not only purging of blood but great Diseases follow this Vomiting There is also a Vomiting of Excrements by themselves or with Humors mentioned Vomiting of Dung when the dung of the belly which should be sent forth by stool is vomited at the mouth of which we shall speak when we treat of the wrong passage of the Dung. The Causes It is necessary in all Vomiting that the Stomach be troubled from whence the expulsive Faculty is stirred up to expel that which troubles it and throws out all or some part that is in the Stomach into the left upper Orifice and so into the Gullet by the help of the Midriff which is near to it This Vomiting is called the subvertion of the Stomach The stomach is thus affected either when it is troubled or oppressed or pricked And the sooner when the Cause is great or many meet or when the stomach hath a most exquisite sense and easily suffereth or loosned from an evil custom of Vomiting cannot so righty contain the meat and cannot contain them when they are too many or unpleasant The Cause of the troubling pressing or pricking of the stomach is either from external force or from things taken in or from the Humors Excrements and other things in the Stomach Outwardly the rubbing of the stomach The trouble oppression or pricking of the stomach either from outward force or things taken in is the cause of preternatural Vomiting or violent thrusting or bending forward or motion by Wagon or Ship especially after much eating or drinking or lying down after Drunkenness causeth Vomiting by disturbing the meat in the stomach The Finger or a Quill or the like thrust into the throat by tickling the tunicle of the mouth which consents with the stomach causeth it by labouring to expel what offends it to throw out whatsoever is contained therein From too much meat and drink especially wine the stomach being too full vomiteth and the rather if they offend the stomach And this may come from a Physical Diet. If things be taken that are loathsom they are vomited up again As unusual meats as we shewed in Loathing and such as Nature abhors or filthy and abhominable things either by chance or necessity the very conceit or imagination of which maketh some vomit Also ill-scented things as medicines especially Purges cause a Loathing and therefore are often thrown up again some meats are loathed not because they are unpleasant but because they are contrary to some Natures so that if by chance they be eaten they are spewed up again In many Diseases where meat is loathed any smell of Food flesh especially fat or roasted which is of it self pleasant is loathsom and they vomit it up Medicines taken that prick the stomach or burn it or that purge as Hairs cut or shavings of the Nails will provoke Vomiting and if they work long or violently they are the Cause of hurtful Vomiting Other vehement medicines especially purges do the same by troubling the stomach And they are vomited as soon as taken or when they begin to work they cause the pain at the Heart and so Vomiting But chiefly corroding medicines or poysons taken by chance or otherwise In which Vomiting whatsoever juyce humors or Excrements are in the stomach are thrown out together or a sunder But chiefly thin Choler as we see after the giving of Stibium or the like it hath been voided by basons full Which was not in the stomach or Guts before because there were no symptoms of it but it was forced by Nature from the Meseraicks through the violence of the medicine as we shall shew in Vomiting of Choler Besides many things swollowed by chance Choler pricking the Stomach is the cause of the vomiting thereof have caused Vomiting Among Humors and Excrements Choler is the chief cause of Vomiting either fasting or in Diseases of Choler And if it be clammy as that like yolks of Eggs or sharp as the green and black it pulls and burns the stomach and makes not only Vomiting but purging and the more if it be plentiful and sent to the Guts especially the thin Guts which are united to the stomach And it is greater or lesser as it is more or less offensive to the Stomach and Guts This Choler breeds in the stomach from meats which are too hot and of sharp cholerick Juyce or turns such by Corruption in the stomach As appears by the use of Cowcumbers and Melons as we shewed in the Disease of Choler Also Choler that is sent from the gall and corrupted may turn to such and cause the same Also when it hath been long in the Meseraicks till it corrupt Choler may get into those parts and cause the Disease of Choler As we shewed in the Causes of intermitting Feavers how it was gathered in the Meseraicks and of what it was made Somtimes vomit is raised from other Humors and Excrements which fill The Cause of Vomiting of Flegm is the fulness of the Stomach or Loathing or offend the stomach As from crude Juyce made of meat not well concocted which flowing in the stomack and filling it with wind compels it to vomit it up four for the most part Or from other sharp Juyces besides Choler made of the Corruption of meat Whence come Vomitings not long after eating or when Concoction is beginning Also Vomiting may come from any Flegm or from tough Matter in the Stomach long retained or from water which cause Loathing as we shewed in the Want of Appetite Or from other immoderate things especially if there be other evil Humors mixed These alone or with other Humors bred in the stomach or sent thither offending the stomach cause Vomiting in divers Cacochymicks and in Women that are with Child and want their Terms or others that have not conceived by reason of the filth stopped with the terms and in the beginning of Feavers and other malignant Diseases when the stomack consenteth or is hurt by them As we shewed in the Causes of these Diseases Blood getting into the Stomach by the Meseraick Veins which go through the same Vomiting of blood from the stomach filled with the blood from the meseraicks or rising from the Veins of the Guts is the Cause of Vomiting blood and as the Blood is so is the Vomiting somtimes watery filthy or black such as is laid up in the Meseraicks as we shewed in Feavers sometimes when it hath been long in the stomach it grows thicker Now it gets out of the Veins either from the plenty thereof as we shewed in the stopping of the Terms that Women with Child may
great quantity you must rather hinder the flux of blood into the Stomach then stop the vomiting with inward and outward means And you must hinder the Flux with things that dissolve congealed Blood in the stomach which causeth dangerous accidents Thus Blood-letting can draw but little from the Meseraicks which fill the Stomach and Guts with Blood Yet in Plethory or Fulness when the cause requires it you may open a proper vein And if the Terms be stopp'd open that in the Foot Revulsion of this Blood-vomiting is also made with Cupping-glasses to the Hypochondria under the Ribbs in the Belly below the Stomach or to the Hipps when the Terms are stopp'd Also with Ligatures and Frictions of the extream parts especially of the Thighs Purge not except the Disease do require it and then not with strong medicines But with a little Rhubarb to take away the congealed blood which will bind also afterwards or with Syrup of Roses Also if blood be voided by vomit and stool congealed and black give Clysters to cleanse and stop the mouths of the veins such as are for a Dysentery And when clots of blood stick in the Guts Water and Vinegar will dissolve them Let him eat Pap of Starch Rice Barley flowers Gelly and Milk The White of an Eg and Mucilage of Quince seeds and Gum Traganth extracted with Rose-water or Plantane well beaten may be given alone or with Sugar pellets or Sugar of Roses or with red Wine or Vinegar of Roses Or make a Syrup of the Juyces mentioned boyling them with Sugar or of the Herbs with one pugil of red Roses Pomegranate flowers half an ounce red Sanders one dram boyl them in Iron-water with Vinegar and Sugar to a Syrup The usual Syrups are good as of Myrtles Quinces dry-Roses Bar-berries of unripe Grapes of Plantane-water also drunk or Water of Nuts to dissolve blood Let him drink steeled Water with one ounce of Mastick white Coral half an ounce Crystal or Jasper two drams or Vinegar and Water A Pouder Take Bloodstone two drams red Coral one dram and an half Bole Acacia each one dram Gum Arabick or Traganth parched half a dram make the Pouder add the Roots of Snakeweed Pomegranate flowers Horstayl each half a dram of Henbane seeds let him take one dram with Wine alone or with a little Water and Sugar two drams or make Lozenges thereof with Sugar boyled in Plantane-water To dissolve clotted Blood give Amber true bitumen Mummy or the Runner of a Kid c. The Pouders usual are of the Troches of Amber of Lemnos Earth which both stop blood and by reason of the Amber dissolve it when congealed Also the Troches of Antispodium with Sorrel seed These are better because of the Poppey therein A good Electuary Take Conserve of Comfrey roots and old Roses and Quinces each one ounce Troches of Amber or Lemnos Earth or the Pouder mentioned two drams and if he be faint the Pouder of Diamargariton frigidum or of Gemms half a dram with Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary or with Sugar Lozenges give as much as a Chesnut and let him drink after it some distilled Water that is proper One dram of Philonium Persicum is highly commended to which you may add half a dram of Rhubarb to dissolve the congealed Blood Outwardly the Fomentation and Epithem described in Vomiting of Choler are good as also the Oyntments and Plaisters there Or these Take Oyl of Myrtles and Quinces each two ounces and an half Juyce of Plantane or the like one ounce and an half Vinegar of Roses one ounce boyl them till the Juyce is consumed add Acacia and Hypocistis each one dram make an Oyntment or add Mastick half an ounce Bole two drams Pomegranate flowers and peels Galls and Sumach each one dram with Wax make a Cerot or with Rosin an Emplaster CHAP. X. Of Pissing The Kinds THat Pissing by which the Urin in Males Preternatural Pissing passeth through the Yard in Women through their pissing place is Natural But when it is involuntary or immoderate or often or little or thick or bloody or cometh by a wrong passage it is preternatural When the Urin flows out of its own accord Involuntary Pissing without the Will of the Patient it is involuntary And this is somtimes without Feeling as in Apoplexies Palsies and Swoundings And some who have been cut for the stone have it for ever There is another involuntary Pissing which they have who piss their Beds Pissing of Bed especially Infants if it be a fault in them It is unseemly in young people that know it and ought to avoid it But worse when they come to years It is called immoderate when it is too much Immoderate Pissing too often or unseasonable as in Drunkards They fill themselves with wine and rise from meat to piss This is thought unseemly among people of reputation which hold Drunkenness for a great shame as indeed it is There is another immoderate Pissing when it is not after large Drinking but oftner then it ought to be For which cause they cannot tary long in Assemblies but are forced to go forth and piss But that is chiefly immoderate Pissing when they piss more then they drink or eat of moist meats This is in sound Folkes which are called Vritici without another infirmity And in sick in the Crisis or Declination of a disease And because it is profitable and not hurtful it is not preternatural except it continue to the loss of strength which will easily decay by such an Evacuation There is another in the Disease called Diabetes but seldom Diabetes Dipsacus which is a large and unmoderate Pissing when what is drunk is little or nothing changed with an unquenchable thirst from whence it is called Dipsacus when the Body is hot and consumeth There is another Dropping of urin Strangury often and little Pissing when the Urin is voided by drops called Strangury which is somtimes without pain Of which we spake in the want of Pissing There is often a burning pain in pissing called scalding Urin or Dysury Hot Pissing scalding Urin Dysury or difficulty of urin though this word is more proper to pissing with difficulty or pain as Dysentery is in the Guts then to little Pissing In this Disease while the Urin drops there is pain but when it comes more freely it begins at the Conclusion And continueth a little after and begins again before the next Pissing causing such a straining that it produceth horror and sweat A grievous pain in Males about the end of the Yard or Glans which is then touched hence the Germans call this cold Pissing though it be hot Women are pained also in the passage for Urin. This Dysurie or Difficulty of Pissing troubles young and old somtimes without other Diseases and is short if it come from the taking of any thing or from some cause that continueth not as we shall shew Somtimes it is longer in which there
The Cure of clotted blood voided by stool be voided from the opening of the vessels by reason of strong purging or the like or by vomiting it is dangerous And we have known some die suddenly thereby For the Cure thereof you must use such things inward and outward As we mentioned in Vomiting of Blood A Tensmus is less dangerous then a Dysentery The Cure of Tenesmus because the Cause is in the end of the Guts which may be easily reached with Medicines only the difficulty is caused and the cure prolonged by the pricking and provoking to stool which will not let a Medicine be retained though it be gentle and by the foulness of the Ulcer The end of curing is according to the diversity of the cause For if it be the first kind of a tenesmus with ulceration and voiding of slimy matter with blood or if it come of it self or follow a dysentery in regard the ulcer is in the strait Gut it must be cured as a dysentery with the like medicines But if only Irritation produce the other kind of tenesmus in which the Excrements are cholerick and sharp the remedies must be such as abate the sharpness and heat and then such as cleanse and heal In the third kind of tenesmus where there is needing without Excretion you must remove it with respect to the cause as if it come from hard Excrements they must be mollified if from cold the part must be warmed If it come from a Stone in the Bladder that passeth the Gut or from worms or from the passage of the Bladder the cure was shewed in those diseases In other causes you must use these remedies following Purges are seldom given because the Humor that causeth it is in the extremities of the Guts except they be to take away the antecedent cause which may increase the disease And then use such as are prescribed for a dysentery if there be an ulcer such as purge and bind If the cause be otherwise use other Evacuations such as are gentle least the belly be provoked too much Things given at the mouth can have but little operation open the Guts which are so remote yet if they be given in great quantities to lenifie and heal the Ulcer or often their vertue will reach to the part As Milk or Barley water drunk much and often The Decoction of Bettony and Sage mentioned against the tenesmus Clysters are chiefly given in this case because they come near to the part affected and wash it and that they may be long kept they must be little in quantity and be given often with care that the pipe offend not Lenifying Clysters are good in all sorts of tenesmus whether the part be corroded ulcerated or provoked by straining and pain to mitigate the pain and allay the sharpness These were prescribed in Dysentery of Milk Decoctions and Oyls as you will have them cleanse or heal If there be a stinking Ulcer in tenesmus or pricking from slime you must use cleansing Clysters As in a disentery of Whey Water and Honey Barley-water and the like Healing Clysters are only used in tenesmus from ulceration made of things mentioned in a Dysentery Turpentine unwashed or washed in Plantane water or Nightshade water put into these Clysters makes them cleanse and heal better Mollifying Clysters are used in a tenesmus when the Excrements are hard To which you may add Laxatives if there be a needing and no voiding of stool If the Humor be cold or caused by cold or wind use things to heat and discuss wind and things gently warm do also asswage pain When we will mollifie and loosen we take the decoction of the five mollifying Herbs Line-seeds Foenugreek with Oyl and other Fat 's that loosen If we will heat and expel wind we use hot Herbs as Organ Calamints both Penny-royals Baulm Hysop Sage Marjoram Bay leaves Rue Flowers of Chamomil Melilot Dill Rosemary Stoechas or French Lavender Caraway and Fennel seeds Such Clysters are mentioned in the Colick from Excrements Wind and Cold. In every tenesmus you may use Suppositories to abate pain and then such as cure Corrosions and Ulcers if they cause it these must do good to the part which they touch if they can be retained for the part is so sensible that it is provoked by the touch of any hard thing therefore the Suppositories must be gently made of these following Goats suet made like a Suppository takes away pain and Excoriation And it is better if you first melt down the Suet with Poppy and Henbane seeds and then cast it into a mould like a Suppository to take away pain And also if you put some drops of Oyl of those Seeds or half a scruple of Opium dissolved in Oyl of sweet Almonds And it will heal better if you add Starch or Gum traganth poudered or infused in plantane-water Or thus infuse a little Gum traganth in plantane water let it not be too thin and mix it with Mucilage of Fleabane or Quinces and the yolk of a roasted Egg and while they are hot with a little white Wax make a suppository if it be too soft dip Cotton or Silk therein and apply it To these you may add the Narcoticks mentioned To these pouders may be added to cure great Corrosion but they must be very sine least they offend As of Ceruss Tutty prepared Bole Pomegranate flowers and other dryers that are not sharp If you will astringe more add the Juyce of Sloes Dragons blood with the Infusion of Gum Traganth Rhasis makes a healing and anodine Suppository of Lycium which is the Juyce of Brambles When the Excrements are hard use mollifying Suppositories and Laxatives with hot things to expel wind As we shewed in Clysters for the Colick Some are made of Labdanum and Storax with hot Oyls The Fumes and Vapors mentioned for a dysentery are good here Besides which make Fumes of strong dryers that smoak much as of Pitch Bitumen Amber Colophony Turpentine Rosin Sarcocol Some add a little Brimstone and steep them first in Vinegar If you must heat more use the Vapour of the Clyster there mentioned or the Fume of Savine boyled in Wine and Vinegar You may make a Fomentation to heal the Ulcer in Tenesmus of Plants mentioned in the Dysentery or a Bath A Fomentation of the Decoction of Myrrh cureth a tenesmus that follows a dysentery If much Blood be voided Take Mullein with the Roots two handfuls red Roses one pugil Pomegranate peels and Galls each half an ounce boyl them in two parts of Iron-water and one of Wine You may add half an ounce of Prmegranate flowers or of Pine barks It is stronger with half an ounce of Allum To heat you may make Fomentations of Plants in the Clysters mentioned for the Fundament and lower parts of the Belly And they may sit in the same To which if there be Corrosion we add Plantane and Mullein or Mullein only boyled in Wine if the Haemorrhoids be open Or foment
prevented If every morning you wash with water Wine 〈…〉 a little Vinegar and rub the Teeth and after use Dentifrices if need require and then wash them again with the same If this should be done dayly as the Teeth need no less washing then the Hands they might be kept clean and sound til old age except some other accident and without these they cannot be kept clean white and uncorrupted Eating keeps the Teeth clean therefore on that side where the Teeth are rotten and they cannot shew is sooner infected and there are scales Therefore let them use to eat one both sides When meat fastned in the Teeth is picked out somthing is taken from the sides because it cannot be so easily come at when it is lodged within as when any filth is without Therefore it is good to dip the Tooth pickers made of wood as was shewed in Salt or Allum water You must take off the hard slakes with Iron Files or flegms for that purpose made broad or sharp CHAP. XIII Of the Voiding of Living Creatures The Kinds THere are some Living Creatures bred in the Body which are wholly besides nature as also the voiding of them And they are either Worms or Insects or Lice As for Fleas it is a doubt whether they be bred in mans body or not but no doubt they come from others There are divers kinds of Worms that come from divers parts of the Body Worms voided by Stool which are like other Worms The long worms are called Lumbrici Long Worms because they are like Earth worms They are round sharp at the both ends like Earth worms shewing neither head nor tail whitish and hard usual in Children They are voided more or fewer usually dead and somtimes alive Divers accidents accompany them the gentlest are pain of the belly gnawing at the Heart sighing a dry Cough Itching of the Nose therefore they rub it constantly grating of the Teeth restlessness heavy dreams which makes them suddenly awake and cry out The great accidents are greediness vomiting loosness Lientery Feaver Convulsion and Swouning The short worms that come from the Fundament are called Ascarides Arsworms they are round like Mites in Cheese or Worms in Ulcers These are voided alive with the Excrements with great itching and bring scarse any other accidents They reckon flat worms with these but because they neither live nor move as the other but are long membranes that grow in the body we shall mention them in other excretions Such Worms come also out at the mouths of Children in their sleep Worms comming out at the mouth and from others at other times causing Vomiting I cannot omit the mentioning of a monsterous worm very great behind the Head like a Canker worm hairy with a black shell like a beatle upon the back with many Legs like an Ear-wig voided by a souldier vomiting after long heart pains Some thought that worms breed in the Teeth within Worms of the Teeth being deceived by the smal Fibres found in broken teeth as in cavities of great bones Some thought them to be Nerves Others Wormes But they may be in hollow teeth The Lumbrici or long worms will come out at the Nose Worms in the Teeth or Mouth and cause itching Somtimes little worms have been blown out at the Nose from an Ulceration there A Bergen Physitian affirmed seriously to me that he saw a hairy worm with many Feet like an Ear-wig sneesed out at the Nose by a woman which a long time before felt a great Itching about her Fore-head It was shewed in Ulcers of the Ears that worms come forth with matter VVorms in the Ears VVorms coughed up VVorms pissed forth Some affirm that men in Consumptions have coughed up worms I saw a Man who had the Colick of whom I spake in the Colick that made Urin with infinite small worms like mites in cheese swimming alive therein which dying sanke down in a great lump to the bottom And I saw the same after in others And have since read of divers that have seen the same VVe shewed in verminous or worm Ulcers VVorms in Vlcers how they bred there VVe have seen in the bottom of the navel a long round worm Navel-wormes such as breeds in meal that thrust it self forth and drew in again Some affirm that the long worms of the Guts have come forth at an Ulcer which hath pierced through the Belly and Guts VVorms in a wound of the Belly It is reported that in some Diseases there are worms in the Arms Dracunculi or little dragons Leggs Thighs and sides called Dracunculi in high Dutch Mittfross But we leave the description of them to them that have seen them Besides these kinds of worms VVorms remaining inclosed in the Body others are bred in the Body where there is no passage for them to get out But after death are found in dissection or Anatomy of which neither the Patient that complained of other Diseases nor the Physitian knew These belong not to things voided or Excreta but to other accidents where they shall be spoken of Under the Heart it is reported that worms breed which prick and molest VVorms under the heart but they express not the part being deceived with those worms that rise to the mouth of the stomach and there molest the Heart For they cannot breed any where about the Heart or Pericardium or under it because it grows to the Midriff Lice come from divers parts of the Superficies of the Body Phtheiriasis or the lousie Disease and cause an Itching molestation which is called Phtheiriasis The kinds whereof are distinguished by the parts of the Body Lice breed most in hairy places Lice in hairy Parts especially the Head usually in Children and poor people and somtimes in other unclean persons When they are grown they are broad with many feet equal because they leap not but creep And they have a black spot in their backs sometimes The young ones are called Nits Somtimes they grow in the Beard and Eye-brows and cause Itching there But are little and are quickly routed from those small quarters Also in the Hair under the Arms VVorms that eat the Hair some teach that the Hair of the Head and Beard may be eaten and cleft with worms or lice scarce visible There are Lice found fastned to the skin about the hairy parts of the Privities Lice that grow to the skin or crab-lice that cause grievous itching and pricking and stick very fast Which the French call Morpions Or kil-Doves because they are like the Lice in Dove-cots that kill Pigeons We call them Crab-lice because they resemble the Crab-fish These somtimes creep into other parts and there stick in the skin There is a peculiar sort of Lice that breeds in the Palms of the Hands Hand-lice and in no other part except the Soles of the Feet under the skin which causeth a little
the same Herbs boyled in Wine Vinegar and Water is also good Also Baggs filled with the remainder of the Herbs or the same dryed in pouder or sprinkled after anointing You may apply things to the Stomach if you suspect the worms to be there as wormwood Mints Aloes c. And if there be a Flux ad Oyl of Mastick Quinces Spike Roses Pouder of Mastick Roses Cloves and the like proper for the Stomach Some approve of Oyntments for the Heart of things that kill worms and Cordials these are good in Faintings and reach to the Stomach Some apply them to the Pulses also and Temples and Back-bone Chiefly this following Take Aloes an ounce Myrrh two drams Saffron half a dram â—â—â—er them and add juyce of Citrons Lemmons or Orangeâ—â— or Rose vinegar for an Oyntment Instead hereof you may moisten the pestilential Pills in the Juyces and apply them to the Heart Or this Oyntment Take the three things mentioned and add Citron seeds peeled Ivory shavings burnt Harts horn each one scruple red Coral half a dram Piony seeds If you sear a Convulsion two scruples Cloves wood Aloes each one scruple mix them with Juyces as the former for an Oyntment or a Plaister Treacle may be mixed so also with Pouders or Juyces and applied to the Heart or Pulses The Urin of a Boar that is found in his Bladder mixed with Oyl and hung in the Smoak is good to anoint the Pulses and Temples This Oyl following also to the Heart Pulses and Temples is highly commended It is made of Oyl of Scorpions in which Treacle Aloes Myrrh Scordium Gentian white Thistle Gith and Vinegar are boyled Others make Epithems for the Heart adding to the former Wormseed Cordial pouders Piony seeds and mix them with the Oyntments Of Amulets they say that Garlick hung about the neck kills worms and yellow French Lavender Ascarides that breed in the thick Gut The Cure of Ars-worms are often voided with Excrements greater or less And if they come to the fundament and cause Itching they must be cured VVhich is done by keeping the Excrements from too much putrefaction with good diet and purging and things that resist putrefaction as sour Juyces and other Dryers as Harts horn and others mentioned in the Cure of Worms Also such things as draw them down or kill them They are cured as the long worms with Purges and proper Medicines But especially with Clysters and Suppositories for things taken at the mouth loose their vertue before they come to the part For Suppositories they are to be put into the Fundament and tyed with a threed being made of things that allure them As Flesh Fat Lard a little Salt or of a Fig the inside outward or of a Beet root or Cabbage stalk spread over with Honey Also a Suppository of boyled Honey without Salt with Pulp of Figs or Raisons boyled and put up doth bring them forth though it come not it self whole forth And to kill them mix Aloes and Gall of an Ox with Honey without Salt at first that it may be kept in the longer Clysters to kill these worms are the same with the former in a less quantity Or this Take Gentian and Birthwort roots each one ounce Wormwood Horehound Arsmart Calamints each one pugil Lupins one ounce boyl them adding the Gall of an Ox Goat or Hog two drams Sal Gem one dram make a Clyster You may add Hiera Benedicta Laxativa or some bitter Oyls Also a Clyster of Lye Pickle Brine or Urin kills these worms in the Arse Anoint the Fundament with Quick-silver Rosin and Grease mixed or anoint a Suppository therewith this is the best Remedy to cure these Arse-worms For the Cure of all these Worms you must as here prevent the cause that breeds them and kills them and carry them away The Cure of worms in the Nose As the worms in the Nose must be cured by curing the Ulcer as we shewed in Ulcers And by the smoak of Leek seed Wormwood and Aloes taken into the Nose They are cured by curing the Ulcer The Cure of worms in the Ears as was shewed in Ulcers of the Ears And with the Juyce of Calamints and Hemp and as Dioscorides shews with the Juyce of Capar roots or Urine boyled in a Pomegranate shell and dropped in And with other things there mentioned The Cure of worms coughed up If from an inward Ulcer of the Lungs worms be coughed up which is seldom you must cure the Ulcer as we shewed in the Phthysick If pissing of worms comes from eating of any thing The Cure of worms pissed forth as Cheese mentioned Let them abstain from it Bitter The Cure of worms in Ulcers sharp and cleansing things cure lousie Ulcers and kill worms in them as Juyce of Wormwood Centaury Garlick Leeks Onions and Galls of Beasts Or a Decoction of Hellebore Dittany Gentian roots Wormwood Centaury Calaminth Horehound in Lye with Bran. Or the Pouder of Dandelion Hogs-snout sprinkled upon the Ulcer Especially the Oyntment of Quick-silver VVe have cured the worm that lyeth in the Navel The Cure of worms in the Navel and drawn it out with Flower of Lupins boyled in Vinegar without any hurt If worms breed in a hollow tooth The Cure of worms in the Teeth they cannot remain long there but fall out or are easily taken out when the teeth are cleansed And if they stay and be thought the cause of the tooth-ach stop the teeth with Aloes and Camphire mixed with aqua vitae Or take in the Smoak of Leek seed Wormwood and Aloes cast upon fire The Smoak of Henbane seed taken in with a Funnel cures the worms in the teeth as those in the Hands Some write that by the taking in of those Fumes to allay the Tooth-ach there are bred things like worms They say that worms are bred under the Heart The Cure of worms under the Heart and are killed with drinking of the Juyce of Garlick Radish and Water-cresses and if there be a suspicion of their breeding by an Itching about the Heart that may be from the worms that suck the Mouth of the Stomach nevertheless give the same Remedies Those Lice that march about are more easily cured The Cure of Lice then they that are fixed to the Skin they have been in such swarms in some diseases that they have caused death But this is rather imputed to Divine Judgement then to Natural Causes The Cure is first of the Cause then of the lousie Disease The Cause which is Nastiness must be prevented and taken away By Evacuations if there be foulness of blood thereby or Plethory which causeth the abundance of them Such as we shewed in the Cure of the Itch. Among which Sweats are excellent to cleanse the skin either with a dry or moist Bath To the Evacuations joyn a good Diet for some things drive the Excrements to the skin and breed Lice as Figs and Vipers flesh Of which we
the Eyes Some things creep in or are thurst into the Ears The voiding of things got into the Ears which cause a noise and deafness As we shewin the Cure of Deafness before they come forth Things that are drawn by breathing into the Nose The voiding of things gotten into the Nose and cause itching are voided by sneesing And sometimes things taken at the Mouth came out at the Nose Some things that fell from the nose into the moth The spitting out of things gotten into the Mouth are spit forth or coughed out if they fall upon the rough Artery Or things taken at the mouth which offend the stomach are vomited up The vomiting of external things got into the Body or that stuck in the Gullet And somtimes things given as a Clyster have been vomited at the Mouth Divers things taken which disturb the Stomach are cast out at the Podex and some without disturbance and some things are put into it or creep into it and come forth again Some things have gotten into the Matrix and come forth again Voiding of things got into the womb bladder breasts c. Some things taken have been pissed out Others have been swallowed and sent out of womens breasts Some say that things taken or by Witch-craft thrust into the Body have been voided at divers places Hitherto may be referred things that get into the skin and under the Nails and come forth again The Causes Many are the things which by chance get into the Eyes Ears Nose Mouth Womb and Podex and come forth as they went in or otherwayes or that hath been in the outside of the Body It is impossible to repeat them all let the chief suffice and those of most concernment or which are most usual and how they got in Many times Flies get into the Eyes by chance and get out again as Dust Things fallen into the Eye Moates Hairs Sand Gravel mentioned in the Causes of the Pain of the Eye where we shewed how the Eye-brows getting into the Eyes caused pain The things that get into the Ears Things in the Ear. and out again are chiefly water when they swim also Fleas and Lice Chinches Ear-wiggs and other creeping things as worms the earwig is most feared Somtimes other little things such as get into the Eyes mentioned in Deafness as a Cherry-stone which getting into the Ear of a Child terrified the Parents that it might grow there There are also small things in the Nostrils by breathing Things in the Nose and are either presently blown out or sneesed forth or falling into the Mouth are spit out or upon the rough Artery and are coughed out Other little Creatures that creep into the Nose in sleep cannot stay long because they provoke sneesing by tickling There are divers things that get into the Mouth Things gotten into the mouth is the cause of their voiding by stool vomit or urin that are voided by stool or vomit with griping of the Belly or without Some kind of Meats eaten are thrown out again not only unconcocted as in a Lientery-flux but when the Stomach is sound and yet they are unconcocted and come forth as they went in because they were taken in too great quantity for concoction being fat or unctious and then there is a voiding of fat as we shewed or are too hard to be concocted As we shewed in the Colick how one voided Cheese that he had long before eaten immoderately And we saw two maids which after Clysters voided abundance of Chesnuts And one in a Dysentery voided Chesnuts which he had plentifully eaten some weeks before For the most part that which cannot be concocted in a mans stomach is sent out unchanged as in beasts as are Cherry and Prune stones and Cornil-berry stones and of the like Fruits as Medlars that are as stones very hard five of which were sent to me for stones of the Kidneys which upon Examination I discovered You may plainly see the skins of things as Fruits and the like in the stools unchanged when the insides are digested especiallly after eating of Pease which the vulgar count unholsom therefore I saw many Hens bones voided by a woman after a clyster who had eaten hens feet for a diet Besides Meats many other things are taken in and voided As some Creatures quick some dead which being whole could not be digested come forth so contrary to other Creatures who swallow mice serpents and the like as I have a Cod fish swallowed a Beetle and digest them whole and though it be alive yet they hurt them not As it is manifest that a foolish fellow swallowed an Eel by jesting and voided it by stool the next day after great torments dead and as it were flead I knew a Soldier that in his sleep upon the ground had a Lizard that crept into his Mouth to his Stomach by which he was miserably tormented but voiding bones by stool he was free Some Fools and Melancholick persons that hear noise in their Guts by wind perswade themselves that they have swallowed Snaks and the like as Froggs by drinking of Froggs-spawn when they swam in the River But this is false because if these or other Creatures get into the Belly which is hard to be done they can live no longer but are stifled and killed with heat Hairs are swallowed and voided again and if you look upon them while hot you wil think they are alive by their motion Thus the people think true and I knew an Impostor that gave little short threads in pills to make them think they voided worms and after shewed them how they moved and deceived many I have seen and have by me balls of hair found in the stomachs of Calfes and Goats made of hair they swallowed compacted and knit together and hard all over The like may be in a Man if he should swallow hairs as they delight to do Some earthy things are voided as swallowed as sand Clay Stones and Metals As a Fool who for gain sake swallowed Flints as big as Nuts suddenly and filled his Stomach so that you might hear them rattle wash them and swalow them again in our sight And I saw a woman that had swallowed Quick-silver who voided it in my Chamber while she was declaring to me the same These no man can digest being hard and earthy as Sand and Stones but I have observed certainly that sheep digest them and Wolves in time of famine preserve themselves by eating Clay and I keep by me stony Clay taken out of the Stomach of a Wolfe as a rarity Many Artificial of Earth or Wood swallowed by chance except they stay in the Guts are voided by stool as a bullet which some swallow for death Other Drunkards and mad Men swallow glass that they have chewed One Drundard swallowed a spoon wherewith he was eating Milk being thrust by his Companion which the next day hung at the Fundament and was voided after