from a cold or moist Humour Or from Water contained in the Cavities being the Excrements of vitiated Blood which the more easily make an Impression thereon from the weakness of the part 6. And sometimes it is caused from a Bladder of Water contained in the foremore Ventricle of the Brain to which I was an Eye Witness 7. For a person Dying of a Vertigo accompanied with a Feaver being opened we found no other Cause of his Disease nor of his Death but a Bladder of Water about the bigness of a small Hens Egg lying in the foremost Ventricle of the Brain 8. This Man for many years had been obnoxious to a Vertigo otherwise constantly in perfect Health and lived to the Age of seventy years at first the fits came but two or three times a year afterwards they came once a month and as the Man grew older and older the Disease grew stronger and the Paroxisms grew more frequent and of a longer continuance so that he had a fit once a Week 9. The last Fit he complain'd That all things turned round violently and although he leaned upon a Table call'd out vehemently for some body to hold him for he should fall by the hasty turning round of things he desired forthwith to go to Bed and whilst he lay still he seemed to be somewhat pacifyed but upon the least turning of his Head or any part of his Body he cryed out that the Bed and House would be turn'd topsy-turvy all this was without any Convulsion Frenzy or Madness or the least appearance of a Feaver except about four or five hours before his Death 10. If it be Sympathetick it is by consent from some other part as the Indisposition of the Stomach or other Viscera if it be from the Stomach it is known from the Weakness thereof Sickness at the Stomach want of Digestion Crudity Pain and Wind afflicting that Bowel from whence an Evil Blood is generated filling the Ventricles of the Brain with many Recrements 11. Or from a fermentation of the Blood from whence windy or flatuous Vapours arises filling the said Cavities 12. If it be caused by consent from any other part you may know it from the Indisposition of the said part pain or weakness thereof In a Woman if it proceeds by consent from the Womb she must have been troubled with affections from the Womb a long time before-hand 13. A third Cause is from a Windy Vapour generated or arising from Hypochondriack Melancholy which is known by the Signs of that Distemper 14. The fourth and last Cause is either from the ill Confirmation of the Cranium and parts adjacent wherein there may be some extuberance in the inward Table of the Skull compressing the Brain or a Compressure thereof by a Fracture of the Cranium or a Conglutination of the Vessels of the Brain viz. of the Arteries or Veins from all which causes the Animal Spirits upon the least occasion being disturb'd excite a Vertigo 15. It remains now That we enquire into the Cause of the Darkness of the Sight which we Judge to be from Vapours or Wind vehemently assaulting the forepart of the Brain thereby Clouding and Confounding the Animal Spirits wherein the Images or appearances of things directed to the Brain by the Optick Nerve are rendred unequal and clouded or darkened so that there is either a false appearance of things as when they turn Round or no appearance at all by reason of the darkning of the Sight 16. And this is done in the Brain by the confusion of the Animal Spirits through a preternatural Agitation or Commotion and not in Eyes themselves For that the Spirits are inwrapped with those cloudy Vapours in the highest part of the Brain which gives the Original to the Optick Nerves LIX The Prognosticks of a Vertigo 1. If the Disease be Retent or in one that is Young or if the Paroxism be not vehement but suddenly over the Sick is without Danger and the Cure may be easily performed the same also if it be without darkness of Sight 2. If it be Originally in the Brain or of any long continuance the Paroxism vehement and not suddenly passing over the Cure will be more difficult 3. If it comes Haereditarily from the Disposition of the Parents or from a Native weakness of the Brain it is for the most part without Cure 4. So also if it arises from the ill Confirmation of the Cranium unless the Sick can give any particular Description of the place so afflicted that a part of the Skull may be taken out whereby the Extuberance of the inward Table Compressing the Brain may be removed or those windy Vapours or excrementitious Humours exciting a Vertigo may be Evaporated and drawn away 5. If it has been of long continuance and in Aged persons it is for the most part Incurable so also if it proceeds from a Bladder of Water in the Ventricles of the Brain unless the Skull be opened and the said Bladder be taken out 6. Those afflicted with a Bladder of Water although out of the fit almost always complain of dullness and heaviness of that part of the Head where it lies as did the person we spoke of before and I doubt not if the Skull were but timely opened and the Bladder removed it might be the means to save many a Patients Life 7. An affect not much unlike this is often seen in Calves which when the Country-man sees to be Vertiginous by their turning round he commonly opens the forepart of the Head and by taking out a Bladder of Water saves the Life of his Beast which otherwise would suddenly dye 8. If it proceeds by consent of other parts The Prognosticks depend upon the removing of the said Indispositions for so long as they remain there is no hope of the Cure of the Vertigo 9. If it proceeds from Hypochondriack Melancholy or a Vapour generated in the Brain the Cure will be exceeding difficult to be performed For as much as the Melancholy Humour is hard to Conquer or overcome 10. In cold and moist Constitutions it is apt to degenerate into an Apoplexy Epilepsy or Lethargy LX. The Therapia or Method of Cure and first of a Simple Vertigo or without Dimness of Sight 1. The Cure of a Simple Vertigo is not very difficult and has commonly but two Intentions The First is to discuss the flatulent Spirit troubling the Ventricles of the Brain or to still and quiet the too great Emanations of the Animal Spirits Secondly to comfort and strengthen the Brain hurt or weakened by the said flaculency and Irregularities of the Spirits 2. The first Intention is performed by heating Cephalicks anointing or bathing the Coronal Sutures Temples Forehead and Nostrils with spirit of Rosemary Lavender Carraways Sage Juniper Savin or sweet Marjoram all which have a mighty power to discuss any Ventosity lodged in the Cortex of the Brain 3. But above many other things we commend the following as such of which we have
of an approaching Epilepsy and sometimes of a fit ready to come in those that have had it already but all these signs are not to be expected to be found in one person but some of them in one some in another according to their various Natures and Dispositions Qualifications Habits and Constitutions CXLVII The various Causes of the Falling-sickness 1. There are many Causes of an Epilepsy which arise in part from the quantity or quality of the matter causing 2. The place where the prime Cause lodges is within the Encephalon and springs from the indisposition of the parts within the Skull 3. But it may be demanded how that can be in those kinds of this Disease where the Paroxysm begins in the extream parts and ascends by degrees up to the Head 4. Truly this seems only to be so and happens by meer Accident For that the Morbifick Cause subsists about the Encephalon it self thereby causing immediately a great insensibility and dis-order with a vehement Contraction of most of the Members and Viscera 5. By which it appears that the Encephalon and original of all the Nerves are possessed with the Morbifick Cause 6. The opinion of Galen was that an Epilepsy was caused from an imperfect obstruction of the Ventricles of the Brain but the true Cause of an Epilepsy is from the sudden Rarifaction and Explosion of the Animal Spirits inhabiting of the middle the Brain and these are the first and immediate Cause of this Disease by which the Brain being as it were blown up and tumefied is rendred insensible and the Nerves appending thereto are put into Convulsions whence comes the sudden accession of the Fit the deprivation of both the internal and external Senses 7. The Procatartick Cause of the tumultuating of the Animal Spirits we do not just now deliver that being known almost to every one but the Proeguminine Cause deserves a little to be enquired unto 8. For that the Animal Spirits should be so rarifyed as to tumultuate and to make those preternatural Explosions of their own accord is not reasonable to believe but there must be somewhat that must go before as the Act of the sensitive Soul to stir up those kinds of perturbations viz. 9. There must be something which must obstruct their regular and natural Motions and this in some persons which we have seen opened that dyed of an Epilepsy was either a bag of water in the Cavities of the Brain or a viscous water or other corrupt matter yellow green blew c. filling the said Ventricles by reason of which the said Spirits assemble together in a tumultuous manner as aforesaid 10. These Spirits making their explosions upon the the original of the Nerves and indeed the Nerves of the whole Body affect the other spirits in the nervous system by way of Consent whence it is that though the Disease seem to begin in the Hand or Foot yet the original thereof is absolutely in the Brain it self 11. Barbet says that the nearest Cause is the Lympha vitiated in the Brain and irritating the Nerves by its sharpness and indeed he was not far off from the Truth 12. For Nature being hurt by such a kind of sharpness sends as it were Floods of Spirits towards the relief of the parts afflicted but by reason of this vitiated Lympha falling upon the original of the Nerves the influx of the Animal Spirits is hindered whence follows immediately Convulsion 13. And by reason that the Community betwixt the nervous Systeme and the animal Spirits is cut off by the Matter interposing thence follows the so sudden deprivation both of Reason and Sense and of all regular motions 14. Decker is of the opinion that it is an acid Lympha that Causes this Obstruction and indeed that is most probable because that nothing can prick or vellicate so much as acid things and all Obstructions made by Acids are commonly great and the Coagulations difficult to be dissolved 15. Whence it is That Diseases arising from an Acid Salt as for certain the Epilepsy does are of so difficult Cure 16. Deckers saith That from the Thumb of the left Hand he had somtimes observ'd a sharp matter to be mov'd towards the Heart and Brain so that the Patient was sensible of it 17. This is nothing but what we said before of this Disease proceeding by consent from the extream parts 18. But the chief Observation that Deckers makes hereof is this That the said Thumb being bound had sometimes kept back the Fit and that the sick had been several times so delivered from the approaching Fit 19. This is confirm'd by Galen de locis affectis lib. 3. cap. 5. Also Johannes Schenkius de Epilepsia Lib. 1. Obs 82. affirms the same 20. I knew the person very well that had it arising from the Foot aforementioned 't is probable the same thing might have succeeded in him but my Youth and want of Skill in Physick for it is near twenty years since hindred my putting the thing in tryal 21. If it proceeds from the Womb pains of Loins does preceed for those Women are for the most part troubled with vehement Head-aches 22. The remote Causes thereof says Barbet are to be sought in the milky Glandules the Womb and other parts for whatever it is whether it be Choler Flegm the Pancreatick juyce the Seed or menstruous Blood that makes the Lymphatick Juyce sharper easily causes an Epilepsy 23. The Brain not being rightly disposed the region of the Brain is by all concluded to be the primary seat of this Disease 24. But Willis will by no means admit water heaped up within the Ventricles of the Brain nor a thick viscous humor impacted in the passages of its Pores to be the Conjunct Cause of this Distemper for saith he such Causes are begot by degrees and would shew some certain signs before hand of their first coming upon one 25. To which we answer that so they do else how comes it to pass that we have so many previous signs of an approaching Epilepsy as we have a little above enumerated 26. But saith he the assault of the fit being over such a matter could not wholly be discussed in so short a time but that from its Relicts some impediments of the Animal Functions would remain which rarely happens in the Epilepsy unless it be inveterate 27. To which we Answer that there is no such need that the matter should be wholly discussed in so short a time for it has been observable that the intervals between each fit comes not so much from the discussion of the matter as by the quieting of the Animal Spirits which force their way through the Obstruction 28. So that when the continuity of the nervous System is made up with the original fountains of the Animal Spirits the Fit passes off but when the obstructing matter fluctuates afresh and dissolves again that continuity then there comes an accession of a new fit 29. From hence it may certainly be
of which two things alone the Child was perfectly recovered II. The Falling-sickness in a Girl of fourteen years of Age. 1. This Girl had four years or more been troubled with this Disease being of a fat and corpulent Body pale Complexion smooth skin and extreamly well Featered her Parents applyed themselves to many Physicians but they all mistaking the Cause exhibited their Medicines in Vain 2. But this Maiden from her Infancy up till she was between nine and ten years of Age had been troubled with a continual running of the Nostrils which by some accident or occasion was stoped after it had been stoped half a year or somewhat more she fell into the Falling sickness 3. From whence I did Conjecture that a cold pituitous matter lodged in the Cavities of the Brain might be the Cause thereof for which reason sake I exhibited to her the following sharp Clyster 4. Take Mutton-broth twelve ounces Infusion of Crocus Metallorum three ounces Tincture of Colocynthis half an ounce Oyl two ounces mix and make a Clyster this wrought four or five times upon her whereby her Body seemed to be sufficiently opened 5. I also made a Revulsion by applying a Vesicatory to the Crown of the Head which being healed up I applyed others to the Soles of the Feet whereby a strong derivation was made 6. Six days after I gave her this Vomit Take syrup of squils an ounce and half Infusion of Crocus Metallorum half an ounce extract of black Hellebor a scruple dissolve mix and give it early in the Morning fasting this gave her eight or nine pleasant Vomits and brought forth a very great quantity of green viscous matter after which she seemed more lightsome and pleasant 7. Four days after this Vomit I gave her this following Purge Take Pilulae Rudij a dram Colocynthis in pouder a scruple Resin of Jallap ten grains with syrup of Peony make a mass adding six drops of the Oyl of Lavender divide it into four Doses to be taken every fourth Morning 8. The purging being over I gave her my Specifick Antepileptick Pouder which was given from a scruple to half a dram 9. Notwithstanding all this sixteen days after she had another fit but much more gentle than the former and of shorter continuance I then gave her a Dose of my Carthartic Argenteum viz. one whole dram mixed with six drams of the Syrup of Squils this made her to Vomit stoutly and to bring up a great deal more of that filthy viscous eruginous matter 10. Afterwards I gave her this following Pouder Take pouder of the roots and seeds of Male-peony of each one ounce Bay-berries Zedoary Rosmary of each half an ounce Misleto of the Oak six drams Peacocks-dung 4 drams Musk native Cinnabar of each two drams Ambergrise one dram make a fine Pouder and mix them Dose from a scruple to a dram every Morning and Night going to bed 11. But by reason there was a stoppage in the Head of a certain Rhume which used to flow out by the Nostrils I caused these following Errhines to be administred Take White Wine six ounces Euphorbium four grains dissolve the Euphorbium therein and let the Liquor be Injected up the Nostrils this brought much filth that way 12. Afterwards I caused her to use the following solid Errhines Take Confectio Hamech half an ounce fine Pouders of Scammony of Cambogia of Agarick of each two drams Pouder of Colocynthis Ginger of each half a dram Euphorbium in very fine Pouder ten grains mix and make a mass of solid Errhines of which little Rouls may be made to put up the Nostrils 13. These I made her use every Night or every other Night a little before she went to bed she kept them not long in her Nostrils because I desired not that they should draw very strongly but I made her use them often to accustom the humidities of the Brain to make a passage through the Nostrils which Current had been stop'd for full four years 14. And that every thing might be made more firm I applyed again Blisters to the Soles of the Feet by which a great quantity of Water was drawn out of the Head by the use of these means afore-treated within three months time she was perfectly well 15. Another Maid about sixteen years of Age was siezed with the Epilepsy as the former several things were tryed without success afterwards her Parents sent for me I looked upon her but conceived her to be past recovery however I was urged to give her somthing 16. I first purged and cleansed her Stomach then I removed the Obstructions of the Head I gave her things to comfort and fortify the Head and such things as were specificks so counted by all Physicians but all these things were done in Vain for after five Weeks time she dyed in one of her Fits 17. Being Dead a large quantity supposed to be more than a pint of a thick glutinous matter flowed from the Nostrils after which came a little Blood 18. From hence in part the Conjunct Cause of the Disease may be seen but how things were within we cannot tell her Parents not being willing to have her opened III. The Falling-sickness in another young Woman about twenty years of Age. 1. This person had been afflicted with the Falling-sickness for above two years and a quarter she was of a sanguine Complexion a very pleasant Creature but yet hitherto never had her Courses which I conceived to be the principal Cause of her Disease 2. What her other Physicians gave were mostly Specificks against an Epilepsy not reguarding at all to bring forward the Course of Nature I was sent for and upon enquiry finding the Obstruction aforesaid I forthwith gave her these following Pills it being about eight days before the change of the Moon 3. Take fine Aloes two drams Resin of Jalap Castoreum in fine Pouder of each half a dram mix them and with syrup of Garden Tansy make a mass of Pills adding also six or eight drops of the Oyl of Savin of this I gave her twenty five grains every Night for four Nights 4. After which I gave her this following Pouder Take Zedoary round Birthwort roots Bay-berries of each one ounce Borax Dittany of Creet Saffron of each one dram seeds of Nigella Calamint dryed Savin of each half an ounce red Myrrh Jallap of each two drams make a fine Pouder and mix them Dose from half a dram to a dram every Night going to bed 5. By these means the young Lady came to the benefit of Nature and her Courses came down laudably to wit in good Proportion and Colour 6. This being done I emptied her Stomach with a gentle Vomit then I drew Blysters upon both her Feet so that the Disease which used to come once a day came not above once a Month whereby I was encouraged to proceed further 7. I gave her the following Pouder Take native Cinnabar Mans Skull Misleto of the Oak of each a like
this cause for the most part possessing the substance of the Brain or its Ventricles should rather induce an Apoplexy than Convulsions However in the mean season we do not deny but that the cause of an Epilepsy or Convulsions may oftentimes lye in the Head for that we meet with many faults within the skull in the membranes of the Brain in its substance and in it humors which raging with their poysonous and malign quality at set times as the nature of the Venom may be by provoking the Membranes and Genus Nervosum do cause either a long continued and almost incurable Epilepsie or Vehement and horrid Convulsions 21. But the nature of the Venenate cause as also of other Poysons we can no otherwise know than as by dissections made somtimes a speck or little spot is discovered somtimes some black or frothy humor in some inward part of the skull or bone or membrane or Brain it self and somtimes nothing at all can be discerned But then that it is of a poysonous quality we gather from this for that there is no manifest cause of any great moment yet nevertheless such horrid symptoms are produced which although they kill not the sick will yeeld to no remedies 22. This Venenate cause also lying in the Bowels may produce the like long continued and rebellious Epilepsies or Convulsions as Poysons taken into the Stomach and Guts which have somtimes the properly of begetting an Epilepsy or Convulsions Or meat changed into the nature of Poyson Or Excrements assuming a Venenate quality contained in those places as also in the Womb or other parts Of all which that these are the causes and do lie in the Veins is known and judged from the affctes concuring with them Or from others offering themselves about the Praecordia and Heart-strings or in the Veins Or from the disaffection of the Stomach or Womb. 23. The Veins in like manner if they be filled with Malign and Poysonous humors of this kind as it often hapens in Malignant and Pestilential diseases as such as are Epidemicall and Contagious where the Malignancy doth besiege the Heart and more especially the Genus Nervosum do after a more particular manner excite deadly Convulsions such as are wont to happen in Feavers so much not by reason of the great hurt of the Nerves from extream heat as from the venenate quality of the humor assaulting the Animal spirits both in the Blood and Nerves Or if without any such Pestilential Epidemical or Contagious disease the humors heaped up in the Veins should be changed into a Poysonous property inimical to the Brain and Nerves then Epileptical Convulsions would rather be induced than the others more especially if the Melancholy humor should meet with such a transformation which somtimes brings along with it a deep hypochondriacal Melancholly foolishness frenzy or Madness and from this cause does proceed a long continued and incurable Epilepsie 24. Moreover as a Venenate cause raised from the same may cause some short Madness being produced from matter collected in the Meseraick veins whether Lacteal or other so that may also produce rather Epileptick Convulsions than Hypochondriacal Melancholy whence also some think that a Catalepsie is caused which we hold to arise from subtil Vavapours ascending from a contaminated malign or venenate Melancholy humor and with a Vehement and sudden motion striking or smiting the Animal spirits and Genus Nervosum 25. Also in Women such matter is wont more usually to be heaped up in or about the Vains of the Womb where also the Blood retained and corrupted rather than the seed which seldom is affected with such a Malignity except in the furor rage or Madness of the Womb doth cause Convulsions such as are often to be seen in Virgins and Women Hysterical who never yet had their Courses or have them praeternaturally stopt whether before or after Childing 26. That the like quality may be bred or contained in the habit of the body which may cause Convulsions or Epilepsies experience doth daily testifie from which Galen and Fernelius write they have observed that Air in an Epileptick Child ascending from his Foot in one example and the like air or Vapour runing from the Crown through the outward parts of the Head in an other example did cause Epileptick fits as often as they came or returned and this very thing I my self have three or four times observed in so many special examples wherein the air or vapour ascending upwards seemed to the Sick as if he had put his Foot Leg or Arm leisurely into cold water deeper and deeper the vapours gradually proceeding not much unlike to the rising of the cold superficies of the said water And it has also been somtimes observed that an Air or Vapour runing from the Hand where afterwards an Apostem has bred as also from the Feet or upper places has don the like 27. That the like Poyson entring the body from without many cause Convulsions or Epilepsies for the like reason as the bitting of Venomous Beasts especially of the Viper or a mad Dog the sting of Scorpions the reception of Arsenick sublimate or other venenate and Corosive things the same quotidian Experience doth largely witness and particularly in the biting of a mad Dog besides the symptom of Madness and other cruell indications Convulsions are at length excited through the Malignity of the Venene spirit whereby the Patient is carried off and I once saw Convulsions arise from poysonous smells hastily assaulting the Animal spirits in the Brain which was don in a lusty young Man who hastily and unadvisedly received the fumes of very strong spirit of Niter by which he was immediately cast into most cruel Convulsion fits 28. These things being premised for the better understanding of the matter we shall now come to deliver our Observation which is of a Convulsion arising from a hurt of the Genus Nervosum by a blow received on the hinder part of the Head and vertebrae of the Neck how great the blow was I will not determine this I am sure of it brought dreadful Convulsions upon the sick so vehement that life was despaired of 29. The sick was immediately committed to a warm bed Roger Dixon the Chyrurgian and my self being sent for the fits often returned for the strength of the Convulsive motion being spent and the fit as it were going off the sick scarcely seemed to be free but new Convulsions were forthwith excited Roger was for letting him Blood which although it was a blow I was in this cause utterly against believing that if any such evacuation was necessary that Nature would provoke it however in the mean season all the external parts behind were bathed first with the Queen of Hungaries water then with the Powers of Amber and that not slightly also some few drops of the Powers of Rosemary were conveyed up his Nostrills they as also his Forehead and Temples being extreamly well bathed therewith by which without doubt the
Betony Rosemary Origanum Calamint Staechas Marjoram wild Time of each half a handful roots of Acorus new Orris of each an ounce and half Bay-berries Pellitory of Spain Cubebs Nutmegs the three Peppers of each half a dram flesh of Squills an ounce roots of wild Cucumbers two drams Ground-pine Germander of each a pugil live Sulphur powdered half an ounce Oyl of Castoreum half a pound Oyl of Bays of Rue of each two ounces Aqua vitae half a pint Orange flower-water three ounces the strongest-Wine a quart boyl all these till the Wine is consumed to the strained liquor add Sagapenum Opopanax Bdellium of each two drams Castoreum two drams Mace Nutmegs Storax Cloves Lignum Aloes of each two drams long Pepper half a dram Balsam two ounces Oyl of Liquid Amber one ounce Vnguentum Martiatum Aregon Agrippae of each an ounce Oyl of Tiles of Turpentine of each two ounces Oyl of Mace of lignum Guajacum of each one ounce Oyl of the Pepers of Rosemary of Anise of Salt Angelica of Sulphur of Thyme of each an ounce Oyl of Euphorbium an ounce and half grease of a wild Cat Goose grease of each two ounces Badgers grease three drams Vipers grease a dram Oyl of Foxes an ounce Marrow of a Cows leg two drams juice of Dwarf-Elder Sage Bawm of each two ounces mix all and with a sufficient quantity of Wax melted in the foresaid Oyls reduce them to the form of an Oyntment of a middle consistency Zacutus Lusitanus lib. 1. Observ 34. XXIII A Palsy after Child-birth 1. Though the Palsy be a Disease bred of cold and clammy Juyce yet it somtimes arises from an humor somwhat hot in which case all Physicians grant Blood-letting to be necessary 2. But if the Palsy arise after Child-birth the menstrual Blood being suppressed out of what Part Blood is to be drawn those that write of Womens Diseases do not determine although it is a doubtful Question and full of difficulties 3. I remember that I have seen Women that have had a real Palsy in their Legs when after Child birth their Courses have not flowed in such a measure as might answer to the fulness of their Blood 4. These Women being taken with a burning Feaver the Physicians tormented with Purgations and local Remedies applyed to the Parts affected and exceeding hot Baths being extreamly affraid to let any blood 5. For if Blood be taken from the Arm it suppresses their Courses if from their Feet the Blood will be drawn to the Parts affected and the humors rushing violently down they make the Disease worse 6. But because this Disease took its original from a vapourous matter transmitted from the Womb to the original of the Nerves breeding in them an obstruction stopping the way by which the animal Spirits descend and hindering the sense and motion of the lower Parts and she had not been duly purged after her Child-birth and the Feaver hence arising was urgent and the Woman being ruddy of a musculous and well compacted Body and having broad Veins full of Blood I boldly took a good quantity of Blood from her right Ankle after which Evacuation the cause of the obstruction being taken away she began to move her Feet and so being let blood again in her other Foot her Legs recovered their sense and motion Zacutus Lusitanus Lib. 1. Observ 35. XXIV A Palsy in a Man of seventy years of age 1. A certain lusty and strong Souldier being in the seventieth year of his age having in the Eastern Countries served forty years in the Wars and consequently being much wasted and broken with hard marching and labour worn out with watchings and stricken in years he seemed of a thin Body and spare of Flesh yet his Body was musculous his Colour fresh his Veins large and full of Blood and as himself related he had during his past Life been troubled with few Diseases and those gentle which commonly were terminated and cured with bleeding at the Nose to which he was subject at the approach of the Spring all which proceeded from the abundance of Blood as his hot and moist Complexion declared 2. This Man was taken with a Palsy on his left Side which arose as it appears from what had been said from the plenty of Blood obstructing and the moisture thereof slackning his Nerves for he had a deep Redness in his Face and he voided red Spittle mixed with snotty Flegm and that without any Cough or straining 3. Being called to him although in regard of his age the Disease seemed incurable or at least it would continue long yet I entred upon the Cure in this manner having in the first place injected an emollient Clyster I drew Blood from the Basilica Vein of his right Arm. 4. And a great Company of Remedies being prepared to attenuate Heat and strengthen visiting him in the Evening he told me he found some sense in his palsied Arm and Leg. 5. I growing bolder though he was in years opened a Vein again on the following day and putrifyed Blood being voided he said he had his Feeling perfectly in his Arm For which cause since he was better and his bodily Forces were more vigorous the Burthen being taken off and the Passages being opened being let blood again the next day he began to stir his palsied Members 6. And lastly after the fourth blood-letting without any external Medicament applyed to the Parts by the motion of his Arm and Leg it appeared that he was perfectly cured Zacutus Lusitanus Lib. 1. Observ 36. XXV A Palsy of the Eye-lids 1. A certain Person travelling in the depth of Winter through the Snow fell into a Palsy of his Eye lids for they lost their sense insomuch that he could not move either his upper or lower Eye-lids for they stuck so closs together that they could not be parted but with an Instrument or with a Mans Nails for him to see 2. This Man after general Remedies respecting his whole Body and Head and diverse particular Applications was chiefly helped by an Ointment made of Balsam mixt with Aqua Vitae Zacutus Lusitanus Lib. 1. Observ 59. XXVI A Palsy of the Tongue cured by opening the Veins under the Tongue 1. The Flesh of the Tongue is soft rare lax like a Spunge which is covered with a very thin Membrane common to the Mouth and Palat into which the Nerves of the third and fourth conjugation are disseminated 2. These being palsied and the fault being communicated from the Brain viz. the way being intercepted and stopped by thick Blood and the free Passage both of the moving and sensitive Faculty being hindered a certain young Man fell into a Palsy of the whole Tongue for it wholly lost both Tast Motion and Speech 3. This Man tryed many Remedies which are wont to be contrived for an universal Palsy These things being done he had an Issue made in the Nape of his Neck and drank a Decoction of Ebony many days together 4. He took many times
take the pains to Instruct and Direct me in the Writing of so many great and laborious Books as I have published and at length after the loss of so much time and so great labor and pains in such tedious undertakings be so generous as to give me not only all the profit of the Copies but also the Reputation and Honor of being the Author of the same too X. But as Detraction could be only the Mans aim so the lying report is answerable to its Authors Reputation both to be believed and trusted alike And therefore I think the incredibility of the Story is as great a Refutation as any thing I can possibly give although I here call the Great God to Witness that I never personally consulted or received any Instructions or Directions from any Man or Men Living or Dead in order to the Composing or Writing the least part imaginable of any thing I have made publick to the World William Salmon The INDEX Note That a stands for the first Colume and b for the second A. ABscess in a sheep 49 b Abscess in the Intestinum Rectum 73 b Advice to a paralytick person 585 b Afterpains 397 a Amulets for the Epilepsy 304 a 348 a 355 a Antepileptick Wine 344 b Antepileptick Rouls 353 b Antepileptick Specificks 358 a 360 a b Antepileptick Waters 361 a b 362a b Antepileptick water of Dornavius 362 a Antepilept Pouders compound 363 b Antepileptick Topicks 365 b Antidote Convulsive 445 b Antidote Epileptick of George Phaedro 362 b 363 a Antihysterick water 137 a Antihecticum Poterij 761 b Apophlegmatisms antepilept 359 b Apoplexy and Vertigo 50 a Apoplexy 613 b 615 b 627 b Apoplexy in an elderly woman 682 a 715 a Apoplexy in a sanguine Complexion 683 b Apoplexy in an old Woman 686 b Apoplexy in a poor Man 688 a Apoplexy in a middle aged Man mortal 689 a b Apoplexy after a Catarrh 690 a with a Catarrh 716 b Apoplexy in scorbutick body 691 b Apop in a robust Constitution 693 a Apoplexy in a lazy Monk 694 a Apoplexy in hot and moist Constitution 696 a Apoplexy ending in a Palsy 696 b 714 a 717 a Apoplexy turned into a Palsy 697 a 619 b 703 b Apoplexy from Melancholy 700 a Apoplexy from a Wound 671 b 702b Apoplexy danger from a Wound 703b Apoplexy from concussion of the Brain 705 a Apoplexy in a noble Virgin 706 a Apoplexy in old Age 706 b 708 b 711 a 715 b 372 b good for it 722 a Apoplexy from Blood by a fall suddenly 712 a b Apop from a fluid dissolved Brain ib. Apop from fluctuation in the Head ib. Apoplexy stupefaction and Palsy of the Tongue 718 Apoplexy from Worms 718 b Apoplexy continuing 3 days 719 a Apoplexy cured in an ancient Woman 720 b Ap. from a bruise being drunk 721 b Apoplexy with Palsy cured 723 a Apoplexy in a young Girl 724 a Apoplexy in an elderly Man ib. Apoplexy its signs 725 b Apoplexy its Causes 726 b Apoplexy its Prognosticks 731 a Apoplexy its Cure in the fit 732 a Apoplexy habitual its Cure 736 b Appetite lost 82 b 134 b Atrophia 618 b Aqua hirundinum Sennerti 360 b Aqua hirund. Kolreuteri 361 a Aqua Picarum composita Sen. ib. Aqua Paeoniae composita Flusswasser dicta 362 a Aqua Antiparalytica 667 b Aqua Quercetani Langii 668 b Aqua contra Paralysin 668 a Aqua alia ib. Aqua Carbunculi Sennerti 691 a Aqua Vitae good against the Apoplexy 722 a Aqua fellis Plateri 745 a Aqua Vitae Narcotica Plateri ib. Aq. Bezoardica rubra Grulingi ib. Aqua Pestilentialis Grulingii 746 a Aqua dysenterica Dorncrelii 746 b Aqua Matricalis seu de Melissa composita Thoneri ib. Aqua Theriacalis Cephalica Thoner ib. Aqua hirundinum Thoneri 747 a Aqua Asthmatica apud Thoner ib. Aqua contra calculum Fuchsii apud Thonerum ib. Aqua Cardiaca adversus Venena contagium Poterij 747 b Aq. adversus contagium Poterii ib. Aqua Nephritica Poterii ibid. Aqua Antepileptica Apoplectica Poterii 748 a Aqua Hysterica Poterii ib. Aqua Hydrotica Poterii ib. Aqua febrifuga Poterii 816 a Aqua Zingiberis Poterii ib. Aqua fortis apud Poterium ib. Aqua viridis Plateri 759 a Aqua Opthalmica Sennerti 759 b Archaeus what 38 a b B. Balsam for the Brain 49 b Bdlsam of Galbanum 476 b Balsamum foeniculi Johannis Wolfii apud Thonerum 749 b Balsamum praestantissimum Poterii ib. Balsam Sulphuris Sennerti 759 b Balsamum Mercurii Sennerti ib. Balsamum Mercurii viridis Sennerti ib. Balsamum vitrioli Sennerti 760 a Balsamum Veneris Sennerti ib. Balsamum Saturni Sennerti ib. Barley Cream to make 232 a Bath for Contractions 492 b 497 b Baths for Convulsions 477 a Bitings of a Serpent or mad dog 480 ab Breath-short 134 b Broth of Foxes flesh 477 a C. Capital Rowls 49 a Carminative Pouder 49 a Cattarrh 48 a 87 a 108 a Cat with Suffocation 120a 215a 221 b 222 b Cat with a Tumor in the Throat Feaver Haemorrhoides c. 108 a Cat with obstruction of the Lungs and Consumption 129 a Cat in a Woman hysterical 130 b Cat in one paralytick 132 a Cat from riding in tâ—e Cold ibid Cat with ulcerated Lungs 133 a Cat with shortness of breath want of Aâ—patite and pain at Stomach 134 b 166 a Cat with the Scurvy 136 a 155 b Catarrh with swooning 137 a Cat with Head-ach Scurvy ib b Cat thin falling on the breast and joints 139 b Cat with Hysterick Fits and pain of the left Side 141 b Cat with Cough Feaver fainting Fits 143 b 145 a 147 a 215 a b Cat with other symptoms 144 a 218 b Cat-falling on the Lungs 145 a 153 a 159 b 219 b 199 a b 146 b Cat with hoarsness 145 b 147 a 154 b 168 b Cat on the Joints 146 a Cat with sweating 147 b Cat with a diseased Spleen 149 a Cat with Melancholy 149 b Cat with sore Mouth 150 b Cat with a Dysentery 151 a Cat with head-ach 151 a 163 b 208 b Cat complicated 152 a Cat with loss of appetite 154 a Cat. with the Vvula fallen 155 b Cat suffocative 156 a b 177 b 178 a 179 a b 189 a 222 b Cat upon the breast 157 a 159 b 183 a b 213 b 224 a 197 a 199 a b Cat upon the Eyes 158 a 216 b Cat hindering swallowing 160 b Cat with Cough Head-ach c. 161 b 222 a 224 b Cat from sharp salt matter 162 b 186 a Cat with Pain of Ears and Teeth 164 a Cat by consent of the inferiour Parts 164 b Cat from various causes 165 b Catarrh simple 169b Cat complicated 173 a Cat cured by Cauteries 175 a Cat salt 175 b 176 b 202 a b 205 a 217 a 222 a 225 a Cat from evil humors 176 a Cat from coldness of stomach 181 b Cat with hectick and consumption 182 b Cat with compression of the
Diaphrama 182 b Cat upon Breast and Lungs difficulty of breathing 184a 186a 213b Cat with suffocation and Epilepsy 188 a Cat in a Child 188 a 189 a Cat sharp 191 a 223 a Cat with an epidemick feaver 191a Catarrh badly oured 194b Cat cured with Tobacco 201 b Cat from pituitous humors 201 b Cat ideopathetick 192 a Cat salt with Cough difficulty of breathing 202 b 208a 219a 222 b Cat from wheyish humors 201b 202b Cat from thick Rhume 203 a Cat from weakness of the Brain 203 b 204 a Cat with loss of Hearing 204 b Cat from weakness of the Nerves 205 b Cat with a slow Feaver 206 b Cat with Head-ach Cough difficulty of breathing 198 a Cat inveterate 170 a 205 b 207 b Cat in a Woman with Child 207 b Cat causing a Cough 208 a Cat from intemperature of the stomach 211b Cat thin from the Brain 212 b Cat. upon the Jaws 214 b 200 b Cat with the Gout 217 b Cat almost desperate 217 a Cat with Pain of the Loins Attrophia 218 a Cat upon the stomack 220 b 197 a Cat in a cholerick Person 225 a Cat flowing to the right Side 225 b Cat with Cough Vomiting 225 a Cat its notationas name definition kinds 227 a Cat its Signs 227 a b Cat its Causes 227 a Cat its Prognosticks 229 b Cat the method of cure in a hot constitution 230 a Cat the Method of its Cure in a cold and moist Constitution 322 b Cat fierce and vehement its cure 234 a Cat of many years standing 197 b Cardialgia 185 a Caesars Secret against the Epilepsy 293 b Caesar Landulphus Cured of Convulsions by Catmint and Sarsaparilla 449 b Cephalaea 2 b 5 a 11 a Cephalaea with Struma 2 a Cephalaea with breakings out 14 a Ceph with pain of the Womb 14 b Cephalaea its Names Signs and Cause 55 b Cephalaea its Prognosticks 56 b Cephalaea in a cold and dry Body its Cure 57 a Cephalaea in a cold and moist Body its Cure 57 b Cephalaea scorbutick 58 a 60 a Cephalalgia in a Matron 13 b Cholagogue of Joel 231b Cholick 316 b 317 a 367 a 480 b 624 a 625 b 629 b â—hymical principals what 38 a b Chocolate of Dr. Willis 739 a Coriza 215 b Cough 143 b 161 b 202 b 208 a 215 a b 219 a b 198 a Conditum polichrestum 168 a Conditum epaticum 168 b Collyrium for the Eyes 35 a Collirium Sennerti 759 a Composition admirable against the Stone 372 a b 376 a Consumption 22 b 24b 129 a 182 a Courses obstructed ib. Convulsions of Stomach Mesentery 570 b Convulsions 367 a Convulsions from the Cholick ibid Convulsions in a little Boy from Worms 368 b 378 a 416 b 461 a Convulsions with Hysterick fits Terms stopt 369b 399b 395b Convulsions from stone in the Reins 370b 372b 374b 394 a 397 b Convulsions with Hypochondriack Melancholy and extreme Rigor 376a Convulsions with a Lethargy 378 a Convulsions from the gout ibid. Convulsions from obstruction of the Mesentry 379 b Convulsions in a young Child 380b 389a 405 a 414 a 416 a 457b 464a Convulsions from a hurt of the Genus nervosum 382a Convulsion from terror and afrightment 390 a Convulsions from pricking of a Nerve or Tendon 392b 453a Convulsions after great repletion 393 a 402b Convulsions from an Vlcer in the Ventricle 400 a Convulsions with a burning Feaver 401 a Convulsions of a Woman in Labour 401 b 408 b Convulsion from Emptiness 403 a Convulsion by consent of pain 303b Convuls in a young Man 304 a 417 a 457 a Convul from a Wound 304 b Convulsions in an ancient Man 405 b 418 b 449 b Convulsions with loss of memory and sight heavy sleep 405 b Convulsive Palpitation 407 b Convulsion in a young Woman 409 b 413 b 419 a 420 b 428 a 429 b 431 b 433 b 438 b Convulsion in a Lady with Child 411 a 428 a Convulsion suddenly happening 412 a Convulsion with flux of Haemorrhoides Feaver 412 b Convulsions from Green Choler 415 a Convulsion happening in Winter 416 b Convulsions of the Hands 418 b Convulsions in a middle aged Man and Woman 418 a Convulsions in an ancient Woman 422 a 423 b Convulsion with a Feaver 424 a b 428 a 438 b Convulsion in the extream parts 443 a Convulsions by consent from the Womb 443 b 452 b Convulsions considred in general 446 b Convulsion in a fat Man 447 b Convulsion from Pain of the joynts 448 b Convulsion from the Pituitous humor 449 b Convulsion from Choler 450 a Convulsion of the Nerves of the Neck 451 a Convulsion with hardness of the Nerve 451 b Convulsion from a Wound in the Throat 453 b Convulsion from a fall 455 b Convulsion of the Mouth 456 a Convulsion Opisthotonos 457 b Conv. in the Abdomen 458 a Convulsion flatulent 458 a Convulsion Doglike 458 b Convulsion in the Head 458 b Convulsion with involuntary Laughter 461 a Conv. in the lower Jaw 464 b Convulsion Epileptick 464 a Convulsion their notation viz names definition kinds or differences 465 a Convulsion its signs 465 b Convulsion its Various causes 466 a Convulsive motion how caused 469 a Convul its prognosticks 469 b Convul singular its cure 470 b Convulsion primary its Cure 471 a Convulsion by consent from other parts its cure 478 b Conv. from the Cholick 480 b Convulsion from Obstuctions of the Womb 481 a Contraction 567 b Contusion 50 a Contraction of the right Arm 481 a Contraction of the Arm in an old Man 482 a 484 b 486 a Contr. in the left Ham 482 a b Contraction Incurable 482 b Contraction of the Fingers 483 a Contraction in the Instep with a Scrophulous Tumor 483 a Contr. on in both Hands 484 a Contraction with a Fistuals 485 a Contraction from Epileptick fit 486 b Contraction with Convulsion 486 b Contraction from the Gout 487 a Contraction with the Palsy 487 b Contraction of the right Leg 489 a Contraction of the left Leg with Tumor of the Knee 490 a Contrastion of the Arm from a nerve prickt 491 a Contraction of both Hands and Feet 490 b Contraction and Pain of the Back 492 b Contractures names definiton kinds 493 a b Contractures their Signs 493 a Contractures their causes 493 b Contractures their Prognosticks 495 b Contractures their Cure 496 a Contraction or Shrinking of Sinews 462 a b Convulsive Pain in a noble young Woman 440 q Cramp 639 b Cramp in the Head 458 b Cramp in a very strange manner 380 b 458 a Cramp in the Calves of the Legs 396 a Cramp and a wry Mouth 460 b Cramp in the Neck 464 b Cramp its cure 470 b D Darkness of sight 49 a Dark Vertigo 87 a Decoction of Mastich wood 236 a b Decoction of Guajacum first and second 288 b 305 a Decoction of Carduus Benedictus 320 b 163 b Decoction of Sarsaparilla 582 a Deafness in a Vertigo 47 a Deckers
Errhine of Turbith mineral 685 b Decoctum Catharticum Rulandi 9 a Decoctum Melanagogum 205 b Decocta Cepbalica 666 b Decoctum alterativum aperitivum Grulingii 753 b Decoctum vulnerarium Poterii 754 a Decoctum aliud vulnerarium Poterii ibid Decoctum astacorum Poterii ib Decoctum Coronopi Poterii ibid Decoctum purgans Sennerti ibid Decoctum evacuans humores mixtos Cratonis 754 b Diet for a pocky Head-ach 4 b 52 b Diet for a pocky Megrim 18 b Diet for a Head-ach 49 a Diet in a Vertigo 45 a Diet for a cold scorbutick Catarrh 139 a Diet purging 140 b Diet for an Hysterick Catarrh 142 b Diet for an Epileptick Child 245 a b Diet for an Epileptick Melancholy Woman 247 b Diet for a scorbutick Epilepsy 248 b Diet for an Epilepsy essential in the Brain 250 b Diet for a splenetick Epilepsy 252 b Diet for a general Epilepsy 344 a Diet for a Convulsion from the Cholick 367 b Diet for a Fistula 485 b Diseases of Intemperature 37 a Diseases of Repletion 37 b Diseases of Ablation ibid. Diseases of the Head 39 a Distillation into the right Eye 151 b Difficulty of Breathing 184 a 198 a 202 b Dropsy 568 b Dysentery 151 a E Electuarium arthriticum 173 b Electuarium phonoscorum 213 a Electuary against the Epilepsy 259 a 276 a Electuary of Mejeris against the Epilepsy 314 b Electuaries antepileptick compound 364 b 365 a Electuary against the Stone 395 a Electuary of Lithontriptick 399 a Electuary convusive 445 b Electuarium de Tamerendis apud Thonerum 757 a Electuarium arthriticum Plateri ib Elixir vitae Plateri 749 b Elixir panis ibid Elixir restorativa 750 a Emplaster vulnerary for the head 55 a Emplastrum Cratonis for the Epilepsy 311 a Emplastrum Antepilepticum Sennerti 366 b Emplaster for the Region of the heart 413 a Emprosthoton 451 b Emprosthotonos what 465 a Emplaster strengthning 484 a 486 a 487 b Emplastrum Diaphoreticum Adriani Mynsichti 492 a Emplastrum contra Rupturam Grulingi 760 b Emplastrum Mercurii vivi ibid. Emplastrum de vipera Poterii ib. Epilept Pouder of the Author 107 a b Epidemick Feavers 191 a Epilepsy 239 a see Falling sickness Epileptick Emplaster of Franciscus Valesius 294 a Epileptich Convulsion 311 b Epileptick motion 317 b Epileptick Persons 332 b Epilepsy its Names Definition and Kinds ' 333 a Epileptick Convulsions 464 a Errhines solid 3 a 45 b Errhines liquid 45 b Erastus his ancepileptick water 278 a Errhines of Platerus 343 b Errhines antepileptick 359 b Experiment for a pocky head-ack 53 b Extractum Bryoniae compositum Grulingii 750 b Extractum Mechoacannae compositum Grulingii ibid. Extractum arthriticum Grulingii ibid. Extractum Citrii Platerii 751 a Extractum adversus pestem Poterii ibid. Extractum aliud Poterii ibid Extractum Ligni Guajaci Poterii ibid. Extractum antivenereum Poterii ibid. Extractum antivenereum purgans Poterii ibid. Extractum hystericum Poterii 752 Extractum hystericum aliud Poterii ibid Extractum in Uterinis affictibus Poteris ibid. Extractum hystericum roborans Poterii ibid. Extractum sive Confectio uterina a quod am Empirico Chymico reperta apud Poterium 752 b Extractum catholicum Poterii ib. Extractum catholicum aliud Poterii ibid. Extractum nephriticum Poterii ib F Fasting 48 b Fainting of the Spirits 85 b 143 b Falling-sickness in a Child 239 a 263b 260 a 268 b 271 a 279 a Falling-sick in a young Girl 240 a 270 b 263 a 319 a 324 b 325 a Falling-sick in a young woman 241a 260 a 270 b 306 a b 307 a b Falling sick in a middle aged man 242 a 325 a b 326 a Falling sick in another girl 243 a Falling sick in an antient Man 243 b 277 b 321 b 322 a 324 a 325 a Falling-s in another ancient man Falling s in a woman 224 a 332b Falling-s in a Child 244 a b. 325b 331 a Falling-s in a little boy 245 a 265 a b 261 b 283 a 308 a 330 b 331 b Falling s in a Melancholy woman 245 b 256 a 318 a Falling s with the Scurvy 248 b 270 a Falling sic with disaffection of the stomach 249 a Falling sic essential in the brain 250 a 278 a 301 b Falling sic cured by a Sternutatory 251 a Falling sic with pain of the scleen Gout 252 a Falling sick with Obstruct of urine 253 a Falling sick in another young girl 254 a Falling sick in an old Woman wch became paralytick 255 a b Falling sick in an elderly matron 257 b Falling sick in a boy with a soald head 258 b Falling sickness in a Consumptive 259 a Falling-sickness with the Dead-Palsy 260 b Falling-sickness with fits of the Mother ibid. Falling-s after Child-birth 266 a 298 a Filling-s in a Woman with Child 266 a b Falling-s in a Man 266 b Filling-s cured by Stibium 267a Filling-s from an old Vlcer stopt 267 b Falling-s in a frighted boy 268b Falling-s in a Man from regurgitation of his Vrine 269a Falling-s Hereditary 269 a Falling-s by consent from the Stomach 261 a 369 b 281 a 282 b 294 a Falling-s with Lunacy in a Maid 271 a Falling-s from a Tumor in the Hand 273 a Falling-s from too great Intention of Mind 275 a Falling-s with concussion of the whole Body 276 b Falling-s with many other Symtoms 262 a 327 b Falling-s arising from Blood 263 b Falling-s cured by a Caustick 264 a Falling-s cured by Tobacco 264 b Falling-s from the Womb 283 a 331 a Falling-s from distemper in the Feet 284 a Falling-s in a young Man 285b 332 a b Falling-s arising from one of the Legs 286 a Falling-s cured by Guajacum 288 b Falling-s beginning with a Vertigo 300 a Falling with Convulsions 305b Falling-s from trouble of mind 308 b Falling-s from translation of the morbifick Matter 310 b Falling-s with Convulsions 311a Filling-s with a bastard Palsy 313 a Falling-s from Vapours and humours and the Cavities of the Brain 316 a Falling-s with the Cholick 316b 317 a Falling-s in a Youth 521 a b 522 b 523 a b Falling-s from Madness 323 a Falling-s in an aged Woman 326 b Falling-s with the Stone 327 a Falling-s with obstruction of the Lungs 328 b Falling-s from vehement Passion 330 a Falling-s its Pathology 333 a Falling-s its Signs 333 b Falling-s its causes 335 b Falling-s its Prognosticks 337b Falling-s in Infants its Cure 338 b Falling-s its Cure in elder persons 341 a Falling-s from distemper of the Womb 348 a Falling-s by consent from the Stomach 351 b Falling-s arising from Worms 352 b Falling-s simple its Cure in the Fit 353 b Falling-s pure or simple its cure out of the Fit 355 b Family-Pills virtue to kill Worms 571 b Family-Pills good against the Stone 598 a Feaver 43 a b 108 a 143 b 147 a Feaver epidemick 191 a Feaver Synoch 215 b Feaver burning 401 a Feaver 412 b 624 b Fumigation against the Catarrh 199 b G Galens Remedy
from the Cholick 608 a 641 a Palsy of both Leggs 608 a Palsy in ancient person 608 b Palsy gentle 610 a 613 a Palsy of the Tongue 611b 615a 642 a b 603 b 644 a Palsy from Flegm 612 a Palsy after an Apoplexy 613 b Palsy easily cured 614 b Palsy variously cured ibid. Palsy on a sudden 615 a Palsy after an Apoplexy 615 b Palsy of the Tongue hapning suddenly 616 a Palsy of the Bladder ibid. Palsy of the Yard 618 a Palsy with Atrophia of the Legs 618 b Palsy in a young Woman after Child birth 621 b Palsy in a healthy Man 622 b Palsy in a Child 623 b Palsy arising from the Cholick 624 a 625 a 629 b Palsy upon a Feaver 624 b Palsy with defect of the of Speech 626 b Palsy and Apoplexy 627 b Palsy cured 630 a 631 b Palsy pissing blood 630 b Palsy 632 a 632 b 637 a Palsy and Lethargy 631 b Palsy in a noble Man 632 b Palsy on one side 637 a Palsy of the Legg 638 b Palsy with Convulsion Cramp 639 a Palsy in the Tongue and Arm 603 a Palsy with pain in the Head 643 b Palsy cured in a Man of fifty years of age 643 b Palsy universal 645 a Palsy cured by Paracelsus 647b Palsy in a cholerick Constitution 675 b Palsy its signs 641 a Palsy its Causes 651 a Palsy the Prognosticks 656 a Palsy Idiopathetick 657 a Paralysis by consent from other Diseases 667 b Palsy from evident Causes cured 680 b Palsy of the Tongue 618 a Palsy in a Man of 70 years of age 592 a Palsy of the Ey-lids 592 b Palsy of the Tongue cured ibid. Palsy of the Gullet 593 a Palsy of the Sphincter Muscle 594 a Palsy in a very old Man 595 a Palsy in an aged person 596 a Palsy or resolution of the lower parts 596 b Palsy in the Tongue and Fingers 597 a 598 a Palsy 598 b Palsy in one side of the Body 603 a Palsy in an ancient Gentlewoman ibid. Palsy by taking cold in the Rain 604 a Palsy with grievous Symp. 604b Palsy in the Tongue c. 605 a Palsy in a young Gentleman 605b Palsy with Gangreen c 606a Pectoral Rouls 184 a Pills against the Gout 52 a Pills for a fume 172 a Pilulae debiles fortes 137 b Pills of Hermodacts of Platerus 757 b Pilulae Cephalica Grulingij ib. Pilulae Laudinae Hystericae Poterij 758 a Pilulae Catholicae Poterij ib. Pilulae Polyerestae Poterij ib. Pil. Balsami Sulphuris Poterij ib. Pil. Cephalicae primae Poterij ib. Pil. Cephalicae secundae Pot. ib. Pilulae Martialis apud Poterium 758 b Pilulae Martialis astringes-Poterij ib. Pilulae ad calculum Sennerti ib. Pilulae de Iva arthretica 659 b Plaister for the Crown of the Head 172 a Platerus his Antidote against the Epilepsy 346 b Platerus his strong purging Pills 757 b Platerus his compound purging Syrup 660 b Potestates what 38 a b Pomanders Odoriferous 85 a Pouder to check distillation 198a Pouders Antepileptick Compound 363 b Potestates convulsivae 376 b Potestates Nervosae 376 b Pouder Lithontriptick 398 b Pouder Convulsive 445 b Potential Cautery of Platerus 761 a Potential Cautery of Sennertus ibid. Another ibid. Principal kinds of Diseases 37 a Procatartick cause of the Head-ach 39 b Proeguminine cause of the same ibid. Prognosticks of a Headach 41 b Prognosticks of a Cephalaea 56b Preservative Rouls 220 a Preservative from the Epilepsy 309 a b Pricking of a Nerve or Tendon 392 b Preservatives from the Apoplexy 717 b Preparatio in Icteritia Poterij 761 a Preparitio in Ascite Poterij 761b Preparitio in vernibus Poterij ib. Pulvis Diatartara Rulandi 50 a Pulvis Stomachalis 168 a Purgative potion 182 a Purgative Wine against an Epilepsy 342 b Purging Diet ibid. and 483 b Purging specifick Electuary ad Epilepsy ibid. Purging Decoctions against the Epilepsy 356 b Purging Syrups Antepileptick ibid. Purging Wines Antepileptick 357 a Purging Electuaries Antepileptick ibid. Purging Extracts Antepileptick 357 b Purging Pills Antepileptick ib. Pulvis Epilepticus Kolreuteri 364 a Purging convulsive Electuary 445 b Pulvis Aromaticus Plateri 755b Pulv. ad calculum Plateri 756 a Pulvis Bezoardicus Grulingii ib. Pulvis digestivus Poterii ibid. Pulvis Nephriticus Poterii ibid. Pulvis Odoriferus praestantissimus Poterii ibid. Pulvis Ambrae grisae Sennerti 756 b Pulvis ad pestem Sennerti ibid. Pulvis ad Asthma Sennerti ibid. Pulvis purgans Sennerti ibid. R. Recipe's for the Vertigo 100a b Recipe's for the Epilepsy 319 b 333 a Remedies for a Catarrh 197 a Remedies against Convulsions 445 b Riverius his specifick Electuary against the Epilepsy 346 a Rigor extream 376 a Risus Sardonicus 466 b Rondeletius his advice in the Falling-sickness 291 a Rouls Antepileptick 365 a Roger Dixons Wine against Convulsions 388 b S. Salt what 38 a b Sarsaparilla its special Virtues Sacculus Stomachalis 168 b Scirrhus of the Spleen 22 b 23 b Scotoma 37 a 73 a Scurvy 46 a 47 b 85 b 136 a 137 b Scorbute 579 b Sena laxativa Wieri 325 b Serpent Viper or Adder biting 480 a b Slow Feaver 602 b Solenander his Pills 139 a b Spirit what 38 a b Spleen pained 41 a 149 b Specifick against the Epilepsy 242 a 252 a 253 a 259 b 303 a 304 a 339 b 340 a b Specifick Electuary for the Epilepsy 342 a Specifick against Worms in an Epilepsy 353 b Specifick Antepileptick Compound 360 b Spirit Lithontriptick 399 a Spleen disaffected 440 b Spasmos Caninus 464b Spasmos what 465 a 466 b Speech defective 626 b Spiritus Matricalis Camphoratus Thoneri 748 b Spiritus Mastiches Compositus Sennerti 749a Spiritus absinthij cordialis Sennertus ibid. Stomach pained 47 b 84 a 134b Stomachical and Cephalical Antidote 141 a Sternutatory of Joel against an Epilepsy 343 b Sternutatorys Antepilept 359b Stone and Gravel in Reins and Bladder 370 b 372 b 374 b 394 a 397 b Strabismus what 466 b Sternutatories in Convulsions 472 a Stupefaction 718 a Sulphur what 38 a b Sudorifick dose 140 b Suffocation 120 a 156 a b Sudorificks Antepilepticks 358b Sudorificks Antepileptick Chymical 359 a Sulphur bath 497 b Swooning fits 73 a Swallowing impeeded 200 b Swallow water compound 345 b 475 b Sweating bath 419 a Syrup of Peony more simple Syrup of Peony more compound of Platerus 345 a Syrups Antepileptick compound 364 b Syrupus de Manna laxativus pro pueris Infantibus Thoneri 54 b Syrupus fructuum cucumeris asinini Poterij ib. Syrupus Magistralis Plateri ib. Syrupus laxativa Catholica Senneiti ibid. T. Tabulae Diacnici Plateri 755 a Tabulae absynthis Plateri 755 b Tabulae nucis Moschatae Plateri ibid. Terms stopt 369 b Terror and Affrightment 390 a Tetanos cured by Valescus 402b Tetanos in a Maiden 460 b Tetanos what 465 b Tincture for the Megrim 18 a Tincture of Wormwood 116b Tinctura antiparalytica 669 a Tinctura alia
ibid. Tincture of Corn-Poppy flowers 750 a Tongue paralytick 605 a Tongue palsied 611 b Torture of the Mouth 456 a 462 b Trochisci sublinguales 169 a Tragea of Crato 213 a Troches of Solenander for a Catarrh 236 b Troches of Mastich 463 a Tragaea for strengthening the Brain ibid. Trismos what 466 b Tremor 522 a Tremor from drunkenness with Leprosy 524 a Tremor from drunkenness 525b Tremor with a vehement Catarrh 526 a Tremor from Worms 527 b Tremor in an aged Man 528 a Tremor from weakness ibid. Tremor from affrightment 530a Tremor from overstraining the Head 530 b Tremor from perturbation of Spirit 531 b Tremor of the Limbs 533 a Tremor in an aged Woman ib. Tremor of the Hands 533 b Tremor of the Muscles of the Cheek-bone 534b Tremor of the Members 535 a Tremor with heaviness 536 a Trembling involuntary without pain 537 b Trembling and shaking 538 a Tremor its Signs 539 b Tremor its Causes 540 a Tremor its Prognosticks 544 b Tremor the Cure 545 a V. Vesicatory for a Head-ach 5 a Vertigo with dimness of sight 37 a Vertigo with weakness of sight 39 a Vertigo from a fall 40 a Vertigo with a disaffected Womb 41 a Vertigo in a Child 42 a Vertigo Mortal 41 a b Vertigo with a malign Feaver 43 a Vertigo in a young Girl 44 a Vert. with pain of the Head 45a Vertigo cured by a Cautery 45b Vertigo with Hypochondriack Melancholy and Scurvy 46 a Vertigo with Head-ach and dbasness 47 a Vertigo with Head and Stomach ach and Scurvy 47 b 84 a Vertigo from fasting and watching 86 a Vertigo with Head-ach and darkness of sight 49 a Vertigo in a sleep from an abscess in the Brain 49 b Vertigo and Apoplexy from a Contusion 50 a Vertigo not far from an Epilepsy 50 b Vertigo that lasted many years ibid. Vertigo from Melancholy 51 a Vertigo and Melancholy 52 a Vertigo with Swooning fits 73 a Vertigo from the Spirits 73 b Vertigo from an abscess in the Intestinum Rectum 73 b Vertigo in a flegmatick habit 74 b Vertigo from a weakness of the Brain 75 a Vertigo essential in the Brain 77 b Vertigo from Choler 78 b Vertigo from a cold viscous flatulent humour 79 a Vertigo from a disaffection of the Stomach 80 a Vertigo with weakness of the Sight 80 b Vertigo with loss of Appetite 82b Vertigo scorbutical and fainting of the Spirits 85 a 86 a Vertigo dark 87 a Vertigo with a Catarrh ibid. Vertigo which became an Epilepsy 87 b Vertigo Idiopathetick with various symptoms 89a 92 a 97b Vertigo with a Convulsion 90 a 92 b Vertigo with corruscation of spirit 90 b Vertigo in an ancient Man 91 a Vertigo with troublesom sleeps 97 a Vertigo from the Stomach 97 b Vertigo with flux of blood 99a b Vertigo concomitant with other Diseases 100 a Vertigo its Names Definition and kinds 101 a Vertigo its Signs 101 a b Vertigo its Causes 101 b Vertigo its Prognosticks 103 a Vertigo simple its cure 103 b Vertigo with dimness of sight its cure 104 b Vertigo from windy vapor 107 b Venenate cause of a Convulsion 386 a b Vertues of the natural Balsam of Chili 762 a Vina Medicata clarata 666 b Vinum Hippocraticum Langij 667 a Vin. Chalibiatum Poterij 753 a Vinum purgans Sennerti ibid. Vinum purgans in hypochondriacis Sennerti ibid. Vinum aliud ejusdem Sennerti ibid. Vinum aliud Sennerti ibid. Vlceration of the Lungs 133 a Vlcer of the Ventricle or Stomach 400 a 479 b Unguentum anserinum 673 a Unguentum de sapone Cratonis ibid. Uvula fallen 155 b W. Watching 48 b Water of Swallows comp 345 b 475 b Water of Mans Blood 345 b Waters antepileptick compound 360 b Weakness of the Brain 75 a Weakness of sight 80 b Wine for a Vertigo 51 b 52 a Willis his Vomit for a Vertigo 106 a Willis his Elixir of Vitriol for the Epilepsy 503 b Wine medicinal for a Catarrh 199 a Wine of Roger Dixon against Convulsions 388 b Willis's water against the Palsy 658 a Wormwood Tincture 116 b Worms 368 b 378 a 570 a 416 b 479 b 570 a IATRICA SEU Praxis Medendi The PRACTICE of CURING BEING A Medicinal HISTORY of many Famous Observations in the Cure of DISEASES performed by the Author hereof Whereunto is added By Way of SCHOLIA a Complete THEORY or Method of Precepts wherein the Names Definitions Kinds Signs Causes Prognosticks and various Waies of CURE are methodically Instituted Digested and Reduced to Vulgar Practice Together with several Of the Choisest OBSERVATIONS of other Famous Men as Forestus Horstius Hildanus Rulandus Thonerus Valeriola Zacutus Platerus Riverius VVillis and some others which are fall'n into the Author's Hand in Manuscript All of them Digested under their proper Heads The first Volume Containing above an Hundred and sixty remarkable Hâ—stories and Observations of the Authors in the Cure of the Headach Megrim Vertigo Catarrh Falling-Sickness Convulsions Contractures Incubus Tremor Palsy and Apoplexy both simple and complicated with other Diseases as the Lethargy Perturbation of Spirit Weakness of Sight Drunkenness Melancholy Extreme Rigor Consumptions Vniversal Weakness Gouts Sciatica Rumatism Wounds in the Head Pricking of a Nerve or Tendon Kings-Evil French Pox burning and malign Fevers Suffocation of the Lungs Oâ—structions of the Lungs Vlcer of the Lungs Coughs Colds Asthma's Want of Apetite Surfeiting Pain of the Stomach Hoarsness Vlcers of the Stomach Vomiting fits of the Mother Pain of the Spleen Scirrhus of the Spleen Obstructions of the Mesentery Convulsions of the Mesentery Pains of the Back and Womb Stoppage of the Terms Stoppage of Vrine Gravell and Stone in the Reins and Bladder Rupture of the Bowels Fistula's Cholick VVorms Leprosy Scurvy c. wherein you will find an exact Account of the Medicines exhibited with the Order of their Exhibition Various Dose and Success thereupon A Work of singular Use to all the Practisers of the ARTS of Physick and Chyrurgery whether Physicians Chyrurgians Apothecaries or charitable and well disposed Gentlemen and Ladies who have espoused the Afflictions of the Poor and Needy Performed by WILLIAM SALMON Med. Profess living at the Blue Balcony by Fleet Ditch nere Holborn-Bridg London London Printed for Th. Dawks His Majesties British Printer in Thames-street Also are sold by T. Passinger at the three Bibles on London-bridge 1684. IATRICA seu Praxis Medendi Salmon's HISTORY of Famous Cures LIBER I. Of Diseases of the Head Num. 1. July 27. CHAP. I. Of the Head-ach I. § 1. THE 28 of March Anno 1664. A poor laboring man one Jacob Fuller who had several years been troubled with an inveterate or old Head-ach commonly called Cephalea fell into our Hands after he had for more than 14 years at times bin tampering with many other famous Physicians to no purpose § 2. The Constitution of his Body was thin lean and spare so that the sick seemed to be in an absolute Atrophia
or Consumption and so we had concluded but that his good Appetite and continued strength of Body with some other signs were good Indications to the contrary however he was of a cold dry and saline habit of body and of a very Melancholy and mistrustful mind § 3. The most predominant Symptoms in the Paroxysm were vehement pain over the whole head but more especially in the hinder part thereof watchfulness or want of sleep with an exceeding wrestlessness accompanying and a great desire to drink § 4. The Cause seemed to lye hidden and indeed had troubled many Wise men to dive into it the Stomach seemed well so that no indication could be taken from thence at last in Discourse I asked him if he never had some violent blow upon his Head chiefly behind which after a while recollecting of himself he told me that about 18 years since for so long this Head-ach had continued at fits he fell down from an high building and hurt the hinder part of his Head so that it did bleed extreamly yet without any Fracture of the Skull If he at any time did bleed at Nose it proved Critical and he was freed from the pain I viewed the place of the Head hurt and there was a bunching out more than ordinary about the bigness of half a Hens Egg which buching had remained ever since I concluded that some matter obstructing remained which hindred the direct circulation of the Animal Spirits and Blood § 5. The Indications of Cure seem'd only to be two 1. To take away the matter offending or obstructing 2. To strenthen the Brain Animal Spirits and parts afflicted § 6. In order to the first intention I caused the hinder part to be opened just below the Tumor which was done with an actual Cautery piercing even to the Bone which the Chyrurgeon did excellently accomplish afterwards leaving it as an Issue only by the Nostrils was exhibited an Errhine made of the Juyces of Primrose leaves and Roots and of Sweet-Marjoram This was exhibited thrice a week for about twelve times By means of the Issue the Tumor aforesaid was suddenly abated and in a short time wholy taken away a vast quantity of filthy matter continually running out thereat by the Nostrils the Cavities or Ventricles of the Brain were admirably cleansed so that the sick became very lightsome nor in three weeks time had any return of the Fit although its usual time of repetition before was two or three times a Week § 7. In order to the second Indication we caused the Hair to be shaven off from the Occiput Vertex and Sinciput and immediately to be anointed with this Balsam Take Oyl of Spike Oyl of Limons Oyl of Rosemary of each twenty drops all Chymically made Oyl of Mace by expression two Drams mix them well together and anoint therewith Inwardly we gave this Take Powers of Rosemary of Angelica of Cloves of Lavender of each half an Ounce mix them Of this we Ordered 30 drops to be given every morning fasting and last at Night going to Bed in two or three spoonfuls of Sack His thirst was quenched by a solution of Sal Prunellae in fair Water and Sugar This course being pursued the Patient became well § 8. After ten weeks the man let his Issue behind dry up and in about six weeks after his Head ach came again he repaired to me and I caused it to be opened again after which he remained well for many years II. § 1. A young Woman of about 23 years of Age had been for 10 years troubled with a Cephalaea and no Remedy in all that time could be procured her parents made their Application to me She was of a cold and phlegmatick Constitution neither Fat nor Lean of a white soft and smooth Skin and had often been troubled with a quotidian Ague § 2. She had paleness of Countenance and in the time of the paroxism the pain was equally spread over her whole Head moreover she had many strumous swellings about her Neck and Throat nor had she to these years ever had her Courses § 3. Her youth strength of body and chearfulness when the fit was off gave good hopes of Recovery § 4. The Cause was without doubt Obstructions of the Stomach Womb and Mesentery for she oft complained of a great sickness at stomach and many times refused her Food as also of a great heaviness or kind of dull pain about the middle of her Belly § 5. I prescribed things gently purging and opening then I gave her proper Emeticks afterwards things which purged downwards more powerfully then about the New of the Moon such things as provoked the Terms Lastly such things as might strengthen and comfort the Stomach Womb and other Bowels § 6. The first thing I gave her was Pilulae Ruffi which she took to half a Dram for 4 Nights going to bed drinking the next day about 8 Ounces of Finkius his Steeled Wine and some drops of Oyl of Sulphur in Ale The fifth morning following I gave her a Dram of Salt of Vitriol in Broth this cleansed her stomach admirably and brought up much flegm and filthy matter whereby she seemed much more cheerful this I continued for three times giving it every other day upon the eleventh day I gave Pilulae ex duobus a Scruple wich I repeated upon the thirteenth and fifteenth days giving still upon the intermediate days the Steeled Wine of Finkius This done upon the sixteenth day and for eight days following which proved to be the New and first quarter of the Moon I gave her this following Tincture Take blood-red Tincture of black Pepper made in Spirit of Wine two Ounces Tincture of Gum Guajaci made in like manner three Ounces mix them together of this she took morning noon and night in a Glass of White or Rhenish Wine so much as she could endure well to swallow this in the time prescribed produced her Courses This done I caused her for three Months together to take every morning and night 30 drops of Elixir Proprietatis made with tartarized Spirit of Wine and to drink them in Rhenish or Sack after which she became perfectly well III. § 1. An ancient Woman who had been for more than 20 years troubled with this kind of Head-ach was cured as we shall presently relate although her Age for she was above 64 years old and melancholy habit of body with the long continuance thereof gave many discouragements to the Physician § 2. The Cause proceeded from cold and viscious humidity or pituitous matter lodged in the Ventricle of the Brain as a perpetual stoppage of the Head speaking in the Nose as it were and continual drousiness gave some Demonstrations of § 3. She had often taken Purges of all sorts Vomits Antimonials c by other Physicians they had applyed Vesicatories to her Neck and Shoulders the Seton to the Nape of the Neck caused her to have several Issues in her Arms and other parts many times
might as afore-time meet with the Mercury yet by reason of its sweetness it would not gnaw upon it whereby those fermentations workings and struglings might in some measure be prevented and thereby also the pain of the head § 6. Secondly I concluded That the Alteration of the humor could not be accomplished but with the alteration of the habit of the whole body whereby the Blood and all the other juyces might be changed to a perfect sweetness This we thought would be best accomplished with a Diet fit for that purpose § 7. I enquired what kinds of Diet those were which he had formerly taken and found them to be mostly made of Guajacum and its Bark whose acid Spirits we have often found to have been the Cause of such like accidents after the plentiful taking of Mercury § 8. Being thus prepossessed I ordered a Diet to be thus made Take Spring-water twenty four quarts mealy Sarsaparilla two pounds infuse it warm all Night in the Water the next morning take it out and split it in two or three pieces after which boyl it for 6 or 8 hours or till the Liquor is nearly half boyled away at what time the water will be of a pretty high colour in this water dissolve juyce of Spanish Liquorice one Ounce strain and bottle it up with half an Ounce of white Sugar and a Glove in each Glass of this let the Sick take a Bottle or two every day not drinking any other Liquor besides unless upon some extraordinary occasion This Diet I continued for almost an hundred days § 9. During the time of taking this Diet I purged him twice a week or twice in 8 or 10 days with Aurum Vitae of Sennertus and with the Lunar Pills the which I caused to be given alternately or by turns first the Aurum Vitae and about 3 4 or 5 days after the Lunar Pills which I gave to gr iiij these things wrought exceeding well the first upwards and downwards the lattâ—r only downwards this Alternation was continued for 10 times viz. 10 Doses of the Aurum Vitae and 10 of the Lunar Pills § 10. This course was begun luckily for in about a months time he found an apparent abating of his pains and in about two months time he felt little or none of them in 3 months time they were totally vanished so that the Patient concluded himself well as indeed he proved to be for it proved according to Our Prognosticks viz. That as the juyces of the Body became sweetned so those pains would diminish decay and be perfectly eradicated Now that Sarsa sweetens the Blood above all other things by us known Our large experience has given us a satisfactory demonstration but it no ways answers the Intention unless it be long taken and the Liquor be made very strong thereof by boyling therein at least 7 or 8 times the proportion assigned by others The Chapter of the Head-Ach continued Numb 2. July 29. VI. Another Observation of an Inveterate Headach proceeding from a Veneral Cause 1. It happened in a young Woman of about 26 years of Age who seemed to be cured of the Pox about 3 years before However she had remaining this Inveterate Head-ach besides certain large Gummosities in both Shins which causing also continual nocturnal pains brought her into an Atrophia of the whole Body 2. This person I cured in all respects as the former and with as happy a success but to her Shins I applyed this Vesicatory Take Crums of Bread moisten them with Vinegar with which mix a sufficient quantity of Cantharides in Pouder this spread upon Leather and apply 3. This Cataplasm drew large Blisters upon both Legs which was drawn for three or four days and then healed up after they had been well five or six days the Vesicatory was repeated and then in like manner drawn healed up the same thing was done the third time after which all the nocturnal pains vanished and returned no more VII An old Headach from the violent running of a Race 1. The Physicians thought this to be from some commotion of the Brain occasioned from the said violent running but I think they were deceived and rather judg it to be from fuliginous vapors filling the Ventricles of the Brain arising from the rarifaction of the juyces of the part and parts adjacent through being too much heat 2. This seemed to be true for the Disease returned with great violence at fits and these fits only came upon him upon the long exercise of some violent motion and the over-heating himself which caused the humor to be rarified but being over when he became calm temperate and cool those vapors did condence whereupon the pain ceased 3. In order to his Cure he had been often purged upwards and downwards let Blood Sweat had Blisters Cupping-Glasses c. outwardly Anodyn Oyls and Oyntments were applyed the Arteries also were opened solid Errhines were used to the Nostrils with proper and convenient Diets but all without success 4. At last I with some other Physicians judged him uncurable unless the Skull was opened with a Trepan which was done at a distance from the Sutures by this means the evil Air breathed out and the Sick was perfectly cured after twenty days the Wound was healed up 5. But this kind of Cure ought with great caution to be undertook because of the Hazard in doing of it Or not without all other things first prove insuccessful and withal you ought to be sure of a Skillful and Experienced Chirurgian VIII An extream pain of the Head in a young Virgin 1. The Maiden was about 14 years of Age of a sanguine merry and cheerful disposition not yet having her Courses 2. The pain was vehement afflicting her whole Head but chiefly the hinder part and it so raged that it made the Sick almost distracted having now continued nine days 3. Three Physicians were sent for they all with one consent ordered a Carminative Clyster to be given over-night The next day and for 3 times every other day to purge her with a scruple of Cochia minor they anointed all the Head with cooling Oyntments for that it seemed to be inflamed but all these things did no good 4. At length I was sent for a relation was made to me of all that was done and my Counsel was earnestly requested I advised that with what convenient speed they could they should apply hot Bread out of the Oven viz. houshold penny Bread and that it should be laid as hot too as the Patient could bear and every time it cooled to be renewed till the pain was gone The loaf was split in the middle and the crummy part applyed And that likewise the same should be attempted upon any return of the Paroxism My advise was followed and upon the first application the pain ceased This very practise I have used upon many Scores of people with the same happy success IX An Head-Ach with a mighty pain in the Neck
here is to be noted That such as recover of this Disease remember nothing past no not their Disease or any thing relating to it 10. As to the Cure Authors order a plentiful letting of Blood and often as 3 or 4 times the same day therein placing the only hope of Remedy because a great quantity of Blood possesses the soft and moist substance of the Brain and no other revulsion can be made so great as by Blood-letting even to the drawing out of almost all the Blood in the Veins and here the saying of Prudent Celsus may be noted That it is better to experiment a doubtful Remedy than to leave the Sick to apparent and certain danger and that many things are rightly done in time of eminent danger which otherwise ought to be omitted Sharp Clysters may also be given every day to bring the humors downwards also Cupping-glasses may be applyed with deep Scarrification to the Shoulders and Back Frictions and Ligatures to the extream parts Vesicatories to the Neck and Arms The Saphena in the Legs may be opened then the Forehead Veins after the Arteries in the Temples next the Vein at the tip of the Nose lastly set Horse-Leeches behind the Ears See my Synopsis Medicinae lib. 3. cap. 29. sect 28. The rest of the Cure you may find where we treat of a Frenzy Lastly if you find the Disease decline you may gently resolve by applying Bread hot out of the Oven 11. As to my Patient I very much feared his Death and that there was a real Sphacelation of the Brain His Parents urged me to do something Blood-letting and other things for revulsion were done before sufficiently so that they need not to be repeated at the request of his Friends I gave him though unwillingly a Dose of the Lunar Pills and ordered Tincture of Luna and Oyl of Sulphur to be given in all his Drink but alas early the next morning the Youth had surrendred his Vital Breath His Head was afterwards opened and the Brain on the right side which was the side on which the pain was was perfectly Sphacelated or mortified which was the true Cause of his Death XI A Megrim proceeding from a Cold taken 1. A labouring Woman of about 36 years of Age having taken a great cold was extreamly perplexed with a violent pain in her head on the left side so that at first it even distracted her 2. It had been but of 3 weeks continuance but very extream my Counsel was desired therein I gave her half a dram of Pilulae ex duobus for she was of a strong body it wrought very well and gave her 12 Stools Three days following I Sweat her with 15 grains of Bezoar mineral mixed with half a Dram of Mithridate giving her after it this Take Aqua Vitae Matthioli that is Aqua Coelestis one ounce Syrupus Bizantinus compound one ounce and half Camomil water three ounces mix them This made her Sweat for 10 or 12 hours powerfully and upon the fourth day following it was repeated again 3. Outwardly I caused her head to be bathed 4 or 5 times a day with the Quintessence or Powers of Sassafras and to snuff the same up her Nostrills then her head to be bound up so was she in 8 days time perfectly cured All the Drink she took during this time was almost boyling hot or as hot as she could endure it XII A Megrim with the Cramp in many parts of the body 1. The Sick in Winter time had been 4 days troubled with this Megrim which seemed to arise from a cold taken and a disaffection of the Stomach for he had not only the Cramp seized him in his Arms Thighs and Calfs of his Legs which came from sitting down upon the Snow but he had also Convulsions of the Stomach and violent reachings to Vomit which much excited the Pain of his head 2. Inwardly I prescribed this Take Powers of Sassafras six ounces Saffron 2 Drams Cochenele in pouder one dram Infuse three days of this I ordered him to take half a spoonful at a time or somewhat more in a little Glass of Canary and this to be done 3 or 4 times a day This wonderfully comforted and healed his Stomach it cheared his heart also and mightily revived his Spirits and by a specifick property gave ease not only to the pain of the Head but to all the Convulsive parts in like manner for in this Case there is scarcely the like Medicament in the whole republick of Medicine 3. Outwardly I caused the Head Nostrils and all places where the Cramp had seized to be well bathed twice a day viz. morning and night with the Powers of Amber these mightily resolved and discuss'd the matter of the Cause and also nourished and cherished the native heat which seemed to be hurt But the Head I caused to be bathed with the said Powers three or four times a day and so to be bound up By the use of these remedies the sick was freed from all his Grief in about ten days time XIII A Megrim in a woman which had lately been delivered 1. It was upon the right side of her Head by reason of taking cold from a Casement being left open the Wind blowing upon her as she lay in her Bed 2. She had been delivered about sixteen days before and was well cleansed so that no fault could arise from thence nor indeed was there any thing more or less than the alteration of the Temperament of the part 3. The pain was vehement upon her by fits but the fit would sometimes last eight or ten hours upon her and encreas'd so vehemently as to cause an alienation of mind but when the extremity was off from her she was never absolutely freed from it but only a kind of remission 4. It had now been upon her 8 daies she sends for me and desired my Assistance relating to me what past whereby I apparently saw that the pain arose not from matter abounding nor from blood over heated but only from a simple intemperature of Cold for the side where the pain was was always cold and in the time of the fit extream cold as if it was numbed 5. From hence I concluded That if I could but throughly warm the part I should remove the pain hereupon I caused the head to be well annointed with oyl of Sassafras then hot bread out of the oven to be laid to and to be repeated for 2 or 3 times this did her good and gave her ease after the bread had been thrice applyed I ordered her head to be anointed morning and night with Oyl of Sassafras and so a flannel to be laid-over it and to be bound up as also to annoint the inside of her Nostrils and this to be continued for so long time till she felt her self wholy freed from her pain which was in about 14 daies time 6. However during all this while that we might be sure to strengthen the Brain also with the
Our business to conserve and restore the strength of the body by a good Diet and exhibition of Corroboratives with proper Epithems by which at length the pain ceased and a little time after he recovered his Health 7. This flux of blood may be thought to proceed from the Spleen because that for many years before he laboured under a hardness and Scirrhus of the Spleen the blood also was black which sufficiently denoted it and the Spleen also has its first influx into the Ventricle which doth appear because always before the excretion of this a dust and coagulated blood for a whole day or longer he complained of loathing and a great weight at the bottom of his stomach with the feeling of much pain Hildanus Cent. 2. Obs 9. XVII Another Inveterate Megrim 1. A Noble Matron was trouble◠with a long and sharp pain in the left side of her Head which in a cold and moist time was most vexatious to her Many and various Medicines were exhibited both internal and external by the Praescription of Physicians but all in vain 2. At length I was called and having diligently enquired into the Cause of the Disease found that about 4 years and an half before she had been afflicted with a most vehement pain of the Teeth on the left side of the Jaw which ceasing this pain on the same side of the head was left remaining from hence I concluded this pain to arise from the roots of corrupt and rotten Teeth inspecting the Mouth I found the roots of four rotten Teeth in the upper Jaw 3. I perswaded her to have those rotten roots of Teeth drawn forth which being willing to she promised but I prescribed to her a fit Diet and purged her with this following Medicament Take roots of Parsly Fennel and Pollipody of the Oak of each half an ounce Flowers and Leaves of Betony Leaves of Agrimony Veronica Dodder of each half a handful Bugloss and Rosemary Flowers Tops of Marjoram of each a pugil or little handful Seeds of Annise and Fennel of each two Drams Sena cleansed half an ounce boyl all in Water to the Consumption of a third part strain and in four ounces of straining macerate and infuse choice Rubarb two drams Agarick newly Trochiscated Cinnamon Ginger of each one dram strain by pressing hard out and dissolve therein Benedictae Laxativae two drams make a Potion 4. The next day Cupping-Glasses being applyed to her Shoulders and nape of her Neck she was eased Afterwards I prescribed this following Apozem Take roots of Succory Fennel Parsly Grass Pollopody of the Oak of each one ounce Flowers and Leaves of Betony Leaves of Veronica Dodder Scabious of each one handful◠Flowers of Bugloss Rosemary Tops of Marjoram Time of each two Pugils Seeds of Annis Fennel of each half a dram Liquorice scraped or rasped raisons stoned of each an ounce boyl them in pure water and strain out in a pound and half of the straining infuse and digest Sena cleansed two ounces choice Rhubarb half an ounce Agarick newly Trochiscated two drams Cinnamon and Ginger of each one dram Infuse for a Night and strain out by pressing strongly To the Colature or straining add Syrup of Roses solutive compounded with Rhubarb Agarick and Sena three ounces Syrup of Betony two ounces mix them and make an Apozem for four Doses to be taken in the morning fasting 5. The Apozem being all taken in the morning while her stomach was empty I drew forth her rotten teeth The day following I gave her these Pills Take Pilulae aureae Cochiae Agregativae of each a Scruple Diagredium Troches Alhandal of each four Grains with Syrup of Betony make five Pills which roul in pouder of Cinnamon 6. At last for some few days twice a day I adhibited this following Fomentation Take flowers and leaves of Betony Flowers of Rosemary of Camomil of red Roses of Staechas tops of Marjoram and Wormwood of each half a handful Aniseed Wood of Guajacum finely rasped of each an ounce cut and bruise them and put them into a bag big enough to cover the whole part pained boyl it in red Wine and apply it hot By the use of these things through the Divine help she was perfectly made well Hildanus Cent. 2. Obs 10. XVIII Another Megrim cured by opening an Artery 1. A Megrim caused from Blood too hot thin and vapourous and not to be overcome by any remedies is cured by opening of the Temporal Arteries whether it be within or without the Scull for thereby there is a certain evacuation of the conjoyned matter of blood and Spirits 2. This I have often experienced but specially in the Prince à Rupe Surionensi to whom many great Physicians as Chaplain the Kings Physician and Castellain the Queens chief Physician and Lewis Duret who notwithstanding could help him nothing by Blood-letting Cupping Baths Frictions Diet or any other kind of Remedy whether inwardly taken or outwardly applyed 3. I being called said that there was only hope one way to recover his Health which was to open the Artery of the Temple on the same side that the pain was for I thought it probable that the Cause of his pain was not contained in the Veins but in the Arteries in which case by the Testimony of the Ancients there was nothing better than the opening or bleeding of an Artery whereof I have made tryal upon my self to my great good 4. When as the Physicians had approved of this my Advice I presently betake my self to the Work and chuse out the Artery in the pained Temple which was both the more swoln and beat more vehemently than the rest I opened this as we used to do in the bleeding of a Vein with one incision and took more than two Porringers of Blood flying out with great violence and leaping the pain presently ceased neither did it ever molest him again 5. Yet this opening of an Artery is suspected by many for that it is troublesome to stay the gushing forth of the Blood and cicatrize the place by reason of the density hardness and continual pulsation of the Artery and lastly for that when it is cicatrized there may be danger of an Aneurisma 6. Wherefore they think it better to divide the Skin than to separate the Artery from all the adjacent Particles and then to bind it in two places and then to divide it as we have formerly told you must be done in varices 7. But this is the Opinion of men who fear all things where there is no cause for I have learned by frequent Experience that the apertion of an Artery which is performed with a Lancet as we do in opening a Vein is not at all dangerous and though the consolidation or healing thereof is somewhat slower than in a vein yet will it be done at length and so that no flux of Blood will happen if so be that the Ligation be fitly performed and remain so for four days with fitting Pledgets Paraeus Lib.
former Decoction which being drank I prescribed these Pills to be taken after Midnight Take Pilulae Cochiae Aggregativae de Agarico of each one scruple Troches Alhandal three grains make seven Pills from which he had seven or more Stools 5. At last he had the Decoction of Guajacum adding capital Herbs I ordered the part affected to be anointed with Oyls of Rue and Bays mixt with the Alabaster Oyntment All these things being accordingly used the sick became well Foresti Lib. 9 Obs 59. XXV A Megrim from a hot Cause with an Ophthalmia 1. Jacob Purmeran laboured under a Megrim a hot and sharp Catarrh descending with an Ophthalmia and great pain of his Eyes things which were very cold were applyed by a Woman Emperick before universals both to the Head and Eyes whereby the Man almost 70 years old was made blind the pain continually growing greater and greater so that at length upon the 17. day of May I was called to him 2. His Belly was somewhat bound therefore I prescribed the following Bolus Take Cassia new drawn six drams Cassia with Sena two drams Diacatholicon a dram and half Fennel-seeds in pouder ten grains make a Bolus which sprinkle with white Sugar Candy this made him go well to stool 3. The following day in the place of Letting Blood by reason of the mans great Age I would have applyed Cupping Glasses with Scarrification but he refusing I ordered him to Drink twice a day of this following Decoction Take of the Rinds of Succory roots of Fennel Liquorice scraped of each half an ounce green Fumitory two handfulls Fennel tops of Hops Endive Succory Borrage Bugloss Sorrel of each a handful Betony half a handful Fennel seed three drams the four greater cold Seeds of each half a dram Damask Prunes fifteen Tamarinds half an ounce Raisons stoned one ounce Jujubes Sebestens of each five make of all a Decoction in Whey Strain it and to a pound and half thereof add Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb Syrups of Endive and Fumitory Oxysaccharum simplex of each half an ounce Aromatize it with Species Diarrhodon abbatis first cleansed adding Sugar to fit the Taste 4. The Decoction being taken I would willingly have given him Pills but the Old-man being very Morose did of his own head utterly refuse the same Into his Eye I instilled the Collyrium made of the white Troches of Rhasis dissolved in Rose-water afterwards I used Womans milk mixt with Fennel water And the part affected of the head I anointed with Vnguentum Populeon afterwards I added a very little of the Alabaster Oyntment with which the Pain was somewhat abated after which I was no longer retained in the cure 5. But a few days being past the Megrim returned as also the pain of the Eye became vehement presently he sends for his Woman Empericks by whom his Grief was encreased though from them he expected his Health whereupon he causes me to come to him again together with Alardus the Younger a Physician lately come out of Italy he called us upon the ninth day of June 6. For the Megrim which now was without Inflamation we used the Alabaster Oyntment anointing the part of the Head afflicted then we applyed Cupping-Glasses with scarification which he now consented to by which the pain was something eased 7. In the mean season by reason of the length of the Disease and the accession of much Flegm in old age we ordered him to take this Decoction Take Betony Endive Succory Fennel of each one handful Sage half a handful Flowers of Staechas of both kinds Roses of each one pugil Fennel seed a dram and half boyl all in Betony and Fennel Waters To eight ounces of the straining add syrups of Betony and of Staechas of each an Ounce and half mix well for two Doses Then being become willing to take Pills we ordered him these to be swallowed after midnight Take Pilulae aureae Cochiae of each one Scruple with Fennel Water make five Pills which though slowly gave him three stools But the Bowels were before irritated or moved with this suppository Take pouder of Hiera Picra a Scruple Diagredium Coloquintida in fine pouder of each three grains Honey one ounce with a little Salt make a Suppository But how I know not unless it be put up the Fundament by help of a Pipe 8. After these things we caused him to use Masticatories but Errhins and Sternutatories we used not because of his Eyes Take Mastick a dram Cubebs a scruple Black Pepper half a scruple roots of Pellitory of Spain and Bark of Caper-roots of each two scruples pouder them finely and tye them up in Linnen with a thread making three several Masticatories which morning after morning fasting chew for a quarter of an hour so will much flegm flow by the Mouth 9. In the mean while immediately after purging and the application of the Cups drop this following Collyrium into the Eye Take Rose water distilled in Balneo maris two ounces Womans milk one ounce mix them Take Aloes Epatica a Scruple Gum Arabick Tragacanth Sarcocol of each half a scruple Tutia prepared Quince-seeds Sumach a little pulverized of each half a Scruple these being bruised and tyed up in a linnen Rag hang in the aforesaid Water and Milk which press letting the pressed-out Liquor distil into the Eye three or four times a day by these means he was at length restored to his Health Foresti Lib. 9. Obs 60. XXVI A Megrim which came once a Month. 1. A Woman aged 40 years was once a month but sometimes twice or thrice much troubled with a pain on the right side of her head which commonly ended with a Vomiting and in her Fit she could neither walk nor stand 2. This Vomit was first exhibited Take the Vomiting Infusion one ounce this wrought six times the next day she took these Pills Take Pills of Amber two drams Fernelius his Cephalick Pills one dram make fifteen Pills She took threâ— of them before Supper every day till they were spent 3. After them she took this Decoction Take Sarsaparilla 4 ounces water five quarts Infuse 24 hours then slice after boyl to the Consumption of the half and strain it out Dose a good draught morning and night when she went to Bed 4. For ordinary Drink she took the second Decoction of the same made in seven quarts or more of Water boyling it without Infusion till a third part be wasted Cooks Observ Cent. 1. Obs 23. XXVII A periodick pain in the hinder part of the Head 1. My Counsel was desired by an honest Matron who was troubled with a tedious and Periodical pain of the Head which in every eight days vehemently molested her It lay in the hinder part of the Head from the place where the Head is joyned to the Neck reaching to the Crown and it was as if it had been a boring it extended it self also to the Temples but chiefly on the left side and to the left ear being accompanied
Skull c. XXIX Of the Head-ach its Name Definition and Kinds 1. The Name in Greek is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Capitis Dolor and in English the Headach 2. The Definition It is a sensation of pain afflicting the Head either Internal or External scituate between the first Vertebra of the Neck and the Roots of Eyes and laterally between the Bones of the Temples on either side 3. The Kinds The Head-ach is three-fold first when it is neither Vehement nor Inveterate or old arising suddenly from some present Cause secondly when it is Inveterate or old being of many years continuance coming and returning at certain Periods of time without any apparent praevious Cause thirdly When it afflicts the one half of the Head either right or left of all which we shall speak in order XXX The Pathalogy of the first sort of Head-ach before named and first of the Cause thereof 1. It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin by Barbarous Writers Soda which is indeed an Arabick Word and by us in English simply the Head-ach It is sufficiently known by the pains excited through the whole Head the general Causes are two-fold the first is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the primitive or first but remote Cause the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the internal Cause and is indeed for the most part the effect of the first Cause 2. The Procatartick or external Cause is either from Blows Sun Air Wind or from some violent Motion as Falls and great Exercises or vehement Intemperature of heat or cold dryness or moisture The Proegumenine or internal Causes are from a simple Intemperature of the part being too cold hot moist or dry or from some peternatural matter Super abounding arising for the most part from some sulphurious Vapour or flatulent Spirit either simply in the part or by consent from the Stomach or other parts 3. If the Cause be from a simple Intemperature of heat whether External or Internal the first is known by the Relation of the Sick as whether he has been in the heat of the Sun or Fire or has been using any Violent Motion or Exercise whereby the part may be Inflam'd the second or Internal Cause is known first by the sulphurious and hot habit of Body and the super-abundant heat of the part which may be known by touching Moreover if hot things be applied to it the Sick is Inraged but if cold things the Sick is Refresh'd and the pain is Eased 4. If it be from a simple Intemperature of cold the Procatartick or External Cause may be known by the Relation of the Sick as whether he has taken cold or has been laid in a cold place c. the Proximate or near Cause is known first from a cold habit of Body secondly from the frigidity of the part by touching of it the Face also is of a pale or wan Colour lastly The Sick is Refreshed by hot things but the pain is excited or enraged by the application of cold things 5. Now in both the foregoing Cases of heat and cold they are both of them joyned either with dryness or moisture if they be joyned with dryness it is known by the dry habit of the Body by the dryness and hardness of the part roughness of the Skin and want of Excrements from the Head either by the Nostrils or Palate but if moisture be the Concomitant of the aforesaid Qualities it is known by the humid habit of the Body laxity softness and delicate colour of the Skin as also by a great many Excrements flowing from the Head by the Nostrils or Palate and the aptness of the Sick to have a Catarrh 6. If it arises from a flux of matter from the Brain it is known first by the evil Diet and course of Life going before in the Sick in whom by reason of Idleness too plentifull Eating and Drinking and giving himself over to a Sensual and Debauched course of Life many evil Humours are generated which afflict the Head either by consent from the Stomach or by corrupting of the Blood whereby the Brain is filled with many Excrements which sensibly hurt the internal Menings 7. If it be by consent from the Stomach it is known by a preceeding weakness and illness of the Stomach aptness to Vomit want of Appetite and an ill Digestion by means of which the Ventricle being filled with Wind sends Vapours up into the Brain which abounding in the Cavities stretches the Menings by which there is a Sensation of pain 8. Sometimes the Procatartick Cause is from Drunkenness with too much filling the Ventricle and weakning of it a flatulent Spirit is generated which in the form of Vapours ascending up into the Head afflicts the Tunicles aforesaid as also by an intimate mixtion with the Chyle an evil Blood is made containing many Excrements which being upon the least occasion fermented causes Vapours to arise and so hurts the Tunicles aforesaid 9. If it be from a Feaver or the French Pox it is known by those Diseases going before whose Causes is the same with the Cause of the said Diseases and the Removal of which must be only by the Extirpating of the Disease Causing 10. If it be from a hurt in the Skull as a Contusion Wound or Fracture the Procatartick Cause is evident to the Senses the Proximate or near Cause is the Solution of continuity or unity in a Contusion there is a livid Colour of the Skin together with the swelling of the part and pain in a Wound there is a Solution of continuity with a Rupture of the Vessels in a Fracture the Symptoms are according to the magnitude thereof where the Skull is depressed upon the Menings the following Symptoms are very greivous as Vomiting a pungent or pricking pain sometimes an Apoplexy or Convulsion somtimes a loss of the Voice Reason and Understanding which for the most part are Mortal signs If so be the Blood flows through the Fracture of the Cranium upon the Dura Mater it endangers the Corrupting thereof 11. The parts afflicted in all these Cases are the Menings of the Brain and the Pericranium or thin Skin covering the Convex part of the Skull if it afflicts the Menings the pain is Internal and within the Skull Physicians commonly know it by the Extension of the pain to the Roots of the Eyes because they say and truely enough For that the Tunicles of the Eyes have their Original and Rise from them but this cannot be the true sign For that others as Fernelius do affirm That a pain in the External part of the Head afflicting the Pericranium will affect the Roots of the Eyes also for as much as they have membranes from the Pericranium in like manner It may be then demanded by what sign or signs the Pain of the Head within the Skull afflicting the Menings may be known from an External Pain of the Head afflicting the Pericranium 12. To this
Rose-water make Tablets I advised him broth in the morning with sweet Marjoram and Mace or a poached Egg with Carraway seed and Salt and he recovered Plateri Obs Lib. 1. From my House at the Red Balls in Salisbury-Court Fleetstreet where my Synopsis Medicinae Dispensatory and Horae Mathematicae are to be had London Printed for T. Dawks and L. Curtiss Sold by T. Basset J. Wright and R. Chiswel 1681. The Chapter of the Vertigo continued Numb 19. XXV A Vertigo or Scotoma with swooning Fits 1. A Gentleman with a red Beard and a clear Complexion for little cause being Fasting would sometimes fall into a Swooning first he had gripings in his Stomach and vapors ascending so that his sight was darkned and he had a Vertigo and except he sate down he feared Swooning or an Epilepsy 2. I prescribed for him thus Let him eat Confections after meals Conserve of Roses and Quinces and not fast long let him eat Broths with Marjoram and Nutmeg or rear Eggs with Nutmeg and Marjoram 3. After Meals let him take one of these Tablets Take Nutmegs two Cinnamon Cloves Galangal of each a dram Eye-bright Marjoram Lavender flowers of each half a dram Diamargariton frigidum a dram Fennel-seed half a dram with Sugar dissolved in Rose water five ounces make Tablets 4. Let him take the following pouder in Wine Take Orrice roots six drams Galangal Calamus Elecampane Angelica Wormwood Ground-Pine Germander Eye-bright Betony of each half an ounce Roses Rosemary flowers Sage tops of Time of each three drams Carraways Fennel and Coriander-seed of each two drams beat them into a fine Pouder a spoonful of which steep twenty four hours in a pint of Wine then strain it out and drink it for two mornings and afterwards Broth which continue for a Week or more 5. In his Fit let him eat one of these Tablets and afterwards take the same also Take Oyls of Anniseeds and Cinnamon of each 8 drops Oyls of Pearl and Coral of each three drops mix them with Sugar dissolved in Rose-water an ounce and a half make Tablets and drink Wine or Cinnamon Water presently after it 6. Let him at times use this Cordial Water Take Bawm half an Ounce Cordial flowers of each two drams Basil seed a dram Cloves two drams a piece of a Deers-Heart washed in Wine Sack or choice Canary a quart distil them of this water and Cinnamon Water take of each an ounce Syrup of Juyce of Citrons half an ounce mix them This he took both in and out of his Fit Plateri Obs Lib. 1. Pag. 235. XXVI A Vertigo proceeding from the Spirits in the Arteries and Vessels in the Head 1. We have found out another Cause of a Vertigo proceeding from the Spirits in the Arteries and Vessels of the Head by Dissecting a certain Merchant our Countryman who being many years sick of a Vertigo was neither able to walk nor to rise out of his Bed but he would fall down 2. In this Man the Veins of the Brain and all its Arteries from their rise and ingress within the Skull in their whole passage through the Brain were grown together and become hard distinguished with little Glandules in their whole progress 3. From the Obstructions of these Vessels the Spirits being impeded and retained in the Brain are wheeled about by a light motion and breed an incurable Vertigo Plateri Prax. Med. Lib. 1. Cap. 7. XXVII A Vertigo from an abscess in the Intestinum Rectum 1. James Proyen a man of a very gross body and short of Stature in the year 1553. towards the latter end of February being from home was seized on by a Vertigo by reason of which he supposed all things to be turned about and himself to be carried about hither and thither as it were wheeled up and down and that in so violent a manner that he fell to the ground 2. Some then being near him and beholding him thus giddy-headed took him up and carried him to his own home but his Senses not at all returning to him I was sent for to come to him when I came he complained of a certain pain and palpitation of his Heart for the abating of which Symptoms I prescribed these following Lozenges when likewise he had great weakness in his Pulse 3. Take the Species Aromaticum Rosatum Diarrhodon abbatis Trionsantalum Diatragacanthon frigidum of each one Scruple choice Cinnamon beaten to pouder pouder of the roots of Tormentil Ivory rasped Pearl prepared of each a Scruple and an half beat all these into small pouder and dissolving a sufficient quantity of Sugar in water of Bawm Betony and Bugloss make hereof Lozenges by these means both his palpitation and pain at Heart were cured 4. Yet notwithstanding he still continued Giddy-headed if he turned or moved any way from his Bed for the Chamber seemed to him as it were turned about in a round Circuit two days after he complained of a pain in his Breast but being bound in Body and not going often to stooll by using Suppositories he had a free course 5. Then by the help of this Bolus following he had two stools Take of pure Cassia six drams Diacatholicon Diaprunum simplex of each two drams pouder of choice Cinnamon one dram and an half Anniseed beaten to pouder one Scruple and an half mix all these together with sugar and make of them a Bolus But this pain was likewise abated by anointing his Breast from his Belly upwards with my pectoral Oyntment 6. In the mean while there arose again yet another great pain in his Intestinum Rectum about his Fundament so that he could sleep neither day nor night I supposing it to arise from an Ulcer in the Fundament and he likewise being again bound in body having taken this following Bolus did void and that with much ease many viscous and mattery Excrements mixed with Blood 7. Take of pure Cassia Diacatholicon of each five Drams Diaprunum Lenitivum one Dram and an half Agarick trochiscated one scruple mixing therewith Sugar make of them a Bolus Then to ease the pain in his Fundament we annointed it with the Oyl of Yolks of Eggs and of sweet Almonds mixed together but forbearing for several days the pain in his Fundament again encreased and he was again bound in his body he took therefore twice in a day of this Potion and had every day atleast four purulent and viscous Stoolls notwithstanding which his pain yet departed not though afterwards he was never more subject to the Vertigo Take of Fumitory Betony Violets Bugloss Maiden-hair of each one handful white Beets red Colworts for cleansing the Vlcer of each half an handful of scraped Liquorice half an ounce choice Sena cleansed one ounce Polypody of the Oak half an Ounce Epithymum two drams Damask Prunes Number fifteen of Raisons of the Sun stoned of hull'd Barly of each one Pugil make a Decoction in Whey to one pound strain and sweeten it with Sugar-Candy By the use of this Remedy
the nights sleep had brought to the head a new supplement of morbifick matter the like Fit returned in the morning which perhaps as the sleep had been shorter or longer was moved now within the Brain and near the nervous origine Willis de Convulsivis Chap. 5. Obs 5. XLIV A Vertigo in an Ancient Woman 1. A vertuous woman aged 67 yet of a fresh and florid Countenance fat in Body when she had been for some while obnoxious at first to a swelling of the Face and very grievious Fits of the Head-ach the Winter being cold she fell into a very troublesom Vertigo which was accompanied with a trembling of the heart a fainting away of the Spirits and a frequent Inclination and striving to Vomit being lay'd on her Bed she was afflicted with a grievous Giddiness or swimming of the head with swooning and Symptomatick Vomiting if at any time she opened her Eyes or turn'd her from one side to another 2. Having visited this woman I conjectur'd That the Cause of her sickness was the Convulsive matter translated from the exteriour Region of the Head to the most inward Recesses of the Encephalon by whose Inspiration or heterogeneous Copula the animal spirits being touched while they leaped forth inordinately towards the Brain they excited the vertiginous distemper 3. And while they rushed suddenly upon the heads of the Nerves the Scotomy disorder of the Praecordia and endeavoring to vomit a large Vesicatory or blistering Plaster being applyed to the nape of the Neck and behind her Ears Clysters daily administred as also the use of the spirits of harts-horn frequently and of a Cephalick Julap she recovered within a few days Willis de Convulsivis Cap. 5. Obs 3. XLV A Vertigo with a Convulsion 1. A noted person 34 years old being for a long time subject to a Cough with great and thick spitting having the pores of his skin very open he was wont to sweat continually and every night to be wet with it 2. About the beginning of the spring he perceived those usual Evacuations to happen more sparingly In the interim he complain'd of the fulness of his hands and feet and as it were a certain swelling or puffing up so that he feared a Dropsie coming upon him besides he was afflicted in his head with a Giddiness and frequent Vertigo 3. This Evil increasing light Contractions and sudden Convulsions were ordinarily excited about his lips and other parts of the mouth and face also presently after the morbifick matter flowing upon the beginnings of the wandring pair and intercostal Nerves he was troubled with a trembling and leaping of the heart and with a frequent faintness of the vital spirits as if a Leipothemy or swooning was fallen upon him 4. I know that there are not a few who ascribe these Convulsive Passions which grievously infest and afflict the Precordia to the Vapours arising from the spleen but it seems much more correspondent to Reason to deduce them from the Convulsive matter laid up in the Brain and rushing upon the beginnings of the Nerves because a translation of some Excrements from some other parts to the head goes before 5. And that it is so laid up within the Compass of the Encephalon the almost vertiginous Disease and the Convulsions of the parts of the Mouth and Face testifies it plainly 6. Wherefore I thought good to prescribe to this man Remedies according to the Method hereafter shewn I could here propose many Observations of this Nature in whom the Morbifick matter subsisting near the beginnings of the Nerves stir up light Spasms or Convulsions only of the Viscera or members with a Vertigo because a portion of this matter descending from the Head enters more deeply the Pipes of the Nerves and so strows the tinder or enkindling of the Explosive seed as it were Gunpowder about their middle and ultimate Processes and enfoldings Willis de Convul Chap. 5. Obs 3. XLVI A Vertigo with Coruscation of the spirits 1. A certain Parson sixty years of age was afflicted about three months with a light Vertigo and a frequent coruscation of the Spirits in the forepart of the Head 2. At length the Disease increasing and waxing heavier he became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as it were sometimes dead in so much that when he was walking he often fell down flat on the ground 3. As to the Cure I followed this Method First I prescribed Phlebotomy with light Catharticks at certain intervals to be repeated as also Electuaries and Mixtures such as I have before mentioned Vesicatories and other Administrations were not neglected 4. About a fortnight after perceiving no relief to the person by these Medicines I exhibited a Vomit of the Salt of Vitriol and the Infusion of Crocus Metallorum by taking of which having ten easy Vomits he grew immediately well 5. And having applyed to him alterative Cephalicks for about a fortnight he perfectly recovered and from that time for the space of six years after he took every Spring and Fall a Vomit with some other Medicines Willis Exercitationes Patholog Cap. 7. Obs 1. XLVII A Vertigo in an ancient man 1. A certain Gentleman about 66. years of age being for a long time obnoxious to a light Vertigo which was wont to be sometimes but occasionally excited became at length grieviously afflicted with this Distemper in so much that he grew very oblivious and forgetful 2. After he had been sick about three Weeks I went to Visit him finding him vastly altered and the Vigour of his Ey-sight and Countenance sensibly decay'd about the Evening he was Feaverish and his Pulse did beat high and swift 3. Therefore I commanded a little Blood to be taken out of his Arm and 6 or 7 daies after I ordered some blood to be drawn out of the Hemorrhoidal Veines then Vesicatories to be applyed to his Neck and afterwards behind his Eares I was careful also that Cauteries should be applyed for making two large Issues between the Shoulder-blades and that he dayly took inwardly Cephalick Medicines of every kind at Physical hours 4. In the space of a Month he began to recover and to walk abroad and to attend his domestick and other affairs 5. But having contracted a Cold by going abroad in the beginning of Winter he fell into a Feaver attended with a greater Perturbation of the Spirits and towards the evening he doted every day in so much that he knew not what he spoke and acted 6. Howbeit within 7 or 8 daies after by letting Blood and a thin Diet his Feaver vanished and the affection and disposition of the Brain was altered from its former state For the Vertigo being ceased he became forgetful and Paralytick in the whole right Side 7. Being often asked concerning the Condition of his Head as whether it was clear and lightsom or whether it was free from a Scotomie and confused Phantasms He answered It was never better with him as to these things for he knew his own Infirmity his
Neighbours Friends and such as came to visit him but could not Remember scarcely the names of any of them 8. When at any time he entred into the Discourse of Affairs he wanted words to express the sense of his thoughts at length there was not only a total Resolution in the right Arm and Leg but also a mighty tumor Oedematosus in them both insomuch that his Cure and the prolongation of his daies was so much doubted as that there was scarcely the least hope left 9. However I did not desist from the Method of Cure and the Assistance of the learned and skilful Physician Dr. Wharton but with joint Counsells for the Benefit of the sick we prescribed solutive Pills to be taken at certain times and at other days we ordered Cephalick Antiscorbutick and Antiparalytick Medicines to be taken at physical hours and a Plaster of Gum and Balsoms to be applyed to the head being first shaved as also the Parts affected to be annointed with Oyls and Balsams and strongly rub'd 10. While these things were used with some good Success as to the perspicuity and clearness of his Intellect he fell but by what means I know not into a Feaver about the middle of Winter every night he was afflicted with great heat and thirst and broken and interrupted Sleeps his Tongue was parched and rough his Pulse high and his Urine red 11. We did forbear Phlebotomy because of his Age Palsy and chiefly the Dropsy which was begun in the right side but yet a thin diet of Barly and Oatmeal Broths being Prescibed him we did exhibit from day to day Julleps Apozems and other Medicines provoking Sweat and Urine the Issue at the Shoulder-blade running at this time very plentifully 12. The sick was much better both in respect to his Memory and the Palsy and every day recovering from both these affects together with the Feaver he arriv'd at perfect health and continues so 13. In this sick person the motion and various alterations of the morbifick matter was very notable for that adhering to the Meditullium of the Brain to wit the Callous Body did excite an outragious Vertigo the same was afterwards augmented and as it is probable diffused farther into the Meanders and turnings of the Brain and so procured oblivion in the first affect 14. Afterwards the same matter moved by the Feaver and a little discussed or driven back partly falling into the one streaked body did bring a Palsy of one half of the Body partly coming into the compass of the Brain did almost deprive him of his Memory the calous body in the mean while obtaining as it were a clearness or serenity 15. Lastly It was not without the help of the other Feaver that the morbifick matter being driven out of all its Forts should be wholy defeated Willis Exercitat Patholog Cap. 7. Obs 2. XLVIII A Vertigo Ideopathetick 1. Being wearied with the importunate complaints of one afflicted with a Vertigo after many things had been used in vain I prescribed to be taken twice every day for the space of a Month about a spoonful of the following pouder drinking thereupon a draught of the Decoction of Sage or Rosemary impregnated with the Tincture of Coffee 2. Take the Roots of Male Peony two ounces and the flowers of the same bruised and dryed one ounce the white dung of Peacooks half a pound white Sugar two ounces make a pouder 3. It is scarcely credible how much good this person found in that Remedy after a Month he came to visit me but he seemed as it were another or a new man being free of his Vertigo he went briskly about his Affairs Willis Exercitat Pathol. Cap. 7. Obs 3. XLIX A Vertigo Convulsive 1. Some years since a stranger who lodged in this City sent for me I suspected at the first sight that he was possessed and believed that he had more need of a Conjurer than a Physician he was forty years old who at set times of the year for the space of three years had been wont to be afflicted with Convulsive motions 2. Whilst he by chance lodged here for a few daies about his occasions growing melancholy he had a fit of his Sickness greater than usual 3. He was wont for two or three dayes before hand to sensibly feell the coming of his Disease viz. from a great commotion within the forepart of the Head and almost a continual Vertigo and frequent dimness of his Eyes 4. But the fit coming upon him his Eyes at the first were variously roled about and inverted then a certain bulky substance like a living Creature was seen to creep from the bottom of his Belly upwards towards his Heart and Breast and from thence to his Head 5. I pressing his Belly with my Hand felt very discerningly this kind of motion and as long as I hindred this round thing from ascending with both my Hands and all my strength he found himself indifferently well 6. But as soon as this swelling creeping upwards by degrees had reached the Head presently the Members of the whole body were cruelly pulled together insomuch that he would dash himself against the Walls or Posts as if possest by an Evil Spirit he could hardly be held and restrained by four strong men with all their force but that he would leap from them and fling out his Arms Feet and Head here and there with divers kinds of motions 7. When he forbore strugling or leaping out his Members would be strongly extended and his Muscles stiff as if troubled with the Cramp 8. Such a fit would last about a quarter of an hour then coming to himself he would talk soberly and walk about in his Chamber he knew what he had suffered and asked pardon of the standers by 9. Immediately after he began to draw his Eyes inward and so swiftly to roul them about then presently the Convulsive Distemper returning acted over again the same Tragedy and after this manner he would have five or six of these kind of Convulsive Fits within the space of three hours 10. In the midst of one of these Fits a Vein in his Arm being opened and a large Orifice made the blood issued out leisurely and was seen presently to be Congealed it did not flow about in the Dish after the manner of Liquors with a plain and equal superficies but like melted Suet dropped into a cold Dish one drop being heaped upon another it grew to a heap 11. If this Distemper had hapned to a Woman it would have been presently concluded That it was the Mother or Hysterical and the cause of it would have beee ascribed to the fault of the Womb especially because the ascending of something like a bulk began the fit from the bottom of the Belly 12. But when this common ordinary solution which is oftenest the subterfuge of Ignorance cannot be allowed in this case it seems most agreeable to reason to refer all those Symptoms to the Evil affection of the Brain
again to be repeated to which I added syrup of Meconium one pound which he took in all respects as the former by the taking of which last We did not only confirm and secure to us the healthful Disposition of the Lungs but the Catarrh was also in some Measure mended thereby the next Intention is to remove the Catarrh for which I ordered an ordinary Decoction to be made with Guajacum Sarsa Liquorice and the Carminatitve seeds which he was to take as his daily Drink 7. In the next place I gently Purg'd him with this following Liquor Take White-wine a pint Sena two ounces Ginger a dram Cream of Tartar two drams digest all Night or if you will a Day and a Night in a sand heat then strain it sweeten with a little white Sugar and keep it for use This he took about three ounces at a time in the Morning fasting and it did purge him notably I Caused him to repeat it every five or six Days for four times 8. In the Intermediate Days of Purging and also for sometime after the Purging was over I caused him at Night to take a little Pill of the following Composition Take Thebian Opium extracted with the spirit of Wine and Inspissated to a thickness to make Pills thereof one ounce Venice Treacle five drams Liquid storax two drams Chymical Oyl of Wormwood one dram mix them all well together and with Ginger in fine pouder a sufficient quantity make up a mass of Pills 9. The Dose is three grains which may be Continued augmenting half a grain every third or fourth Day for thirty forty or sixty Days as necessity shall require with the continual taking of this Medicine for two or three Months the sick was perfectly Recovered and Restored to his former Health LONDON Printed for Th. Dawks and L. Curtiss The Chapter of the Catarrh continued Numb 33. III. A Catarrh with a great Obstruction of the Lungs in a Young Married Woman accompanied with a deep Consumption 1. The Person thus afflicted was about twenty eight years of Age and for eleven years past had been in some measure troubled with these Griefs the habit of her Body by what I could gather when she was formerly in Health was Sanguine but by reason of the long continuance of her Disease she became of a cold and moist Temperature so that she seem'd to be wholly made up of Flegm for she spit a vast quantity of frothy pituitous matter 2. Her Body became so emaciated and wasted that she seem'd to be a very Skeleton her Lungs was so obstructed and stopt and the difficulty of Breathing so great that for more than ten years she could not lye along in her Bed upon her Back 3. Nor when I came to her could she in the least express her Self by Words and her Breath so short as if she had been Breathing her last in so much as that I could scarcely believe she could Live two or three hours to an End and the By-standers feared she would not Live till the next Morning 4. The Cause of this Disease was originally a fierce Catarrh which followed her more or less for ten or eleven years as aforesaid as it was related to Me whence came her thin and Consumptive Body and the evil Disposition of the Lungs aforementioned 5. She declined by degrees but for many years as was said before could not lye along in her Bed however the two last years were remarkable for the height of her indisposition and the two last months before I took her in hand the Distemper seem'd as if it had arriv'd to its Extremity so that now she must have Remedy or inevitably Perish 6. Many things all along were used to Restore this wretched Creature but all in vain and by Relation it cost her Husband some hundreds of pounds but to the great dis-advantage of this miserable Soul for instead of being benefitted by what was administred to her she became very much worse 7. In order to this Cure there are three principal Intentions the first to open the great and mighty Obstructions of the Lungs without which Death would speedily take Possession the second is to take away the Conjunct Cause of the Disease thirdly to fortify and strengthen the weakened parts that for the future they might rightly perform their Functions whereby also the consumed Carcass might be repleat and filled again with Flesh 8. The first Intention which was opening the Obstructions of the Lungs was performed by these following Medicines Take Canary a pint Tincture of the Juyce of Liquorice three ounces spirit of Sal Armoniack forty drops mix them for a Pectoral of this I ordered her to take a Spoonful every two hours in a little Glass of Rhenish Wine sweetned with Sugar and not to fail of the constant taking of the same till it was gone 9. In the Intermediate times between the taking of each Spoonful I ordered her often to take with a Liquorice stick this following Syrup Take Syrup of the Juyce of Citrons four ounces syrup of the Juyce of Scurvy grass two ounces syrup of Maiden-hair one ounce Volatile Sal Armoniack two drams dissolve it in half an ounce of Mint-water and mix it with the former Syrups to be taken in the Intervals as aforesaid 10. She began to take of those Medicines about four a Clock in the Afternoon and by eight the next Morning she fetcht her Breath indifferent well and could a little use her Tongue she still continued the use of these things and in about two days time more she not only Breath'd very freely but also spake exceeding well and in her own Opinion as well as ever she did in her Life 11. About a Week after she could lye down all along in her Bed which by her own Confesssion was more than she had done for ten years before for that the Catarrh was so Vehement and Suffocative that she could never attempt it without danger of Choaking 12. I ordered her for her ordinary Drink a Decoction of Guajacum Sarsa Liquorice Carminative Seeds which I caused to be Sweetned for her dayly Drink and withal that she should continue and repeat the use of the aforesaid Medicines for two or three months if occasion were 13. After twelve days were over I ordered her to take every Night a Pill of the Laudanum described in the aforegoing Observation and according to the Method there directed 14. And that she should every Morning fasting for the Restoring Comforting Strengthening and Confirming the weakened parts of her Poor Consumptive Body take a dram or two drams of our Electuarium ad Tabidos and drink after it a glass of choice Canary for that mightily Restores takes away Weaknesses and repleats a lean Body with Flesh 15. During the time all those things were a performing I caused her Head to be anointed Morning and Night with Chymical Oyl of Rosemary one part mix'd with the Oyl of Nutmegs by expression three parts 16. Moreover her Stomach
had been of many years standing and continual so instead of giving now and than a Dose of violent Pills it had been much better to have Instituted a gentle and constant Purging Diet which he might have taken if occasion had been for an hundred days together and such an one as follows I instituted him 11. Take new Ale four or five gallons put into it these following things Sena fourteen ounces Polypody Juniper-berries well bruised Coriander-seed Zedoary all of them well bruised of each half a pound dryed Rosemary Betony Sage Stoechas of each four ounces Bay-berries hull'd and grossly bruised Sal Prunella of each two ounces put them into a Bag with a stone in it to make it sink and let them Work up with the Ale after four or five days he drank of it every Morning a little draught and accordingly encreased or diminished the quantity as he found it to Purge him 12. This quantity being taken I Caused him to repeat it again adding to the former Ingredients these Scurvy-grass Brooklime Water-cresses Tarragon of each three handfuls all bruised Mustard-seed bruised Horse-radish root Rocket-seed of each two handfuls and half he continued the taking of this last quantity till it was all spent which Purging very gently and pleasingly carried off the Morbifick matter and thoroughly cleansed his whole Body 13. But that we might not seem only to remove the Conjoyned Cause by Purging only I Caused him to take the following Dose to Sweat upon Take choice Bezoar Mineral twelve grains Oriental Bezoar ten grains Volatile Salts of Amber and Hartshorn of each eight grains Viper Pouder a scruple mix them together with half a dram of Mithridate and give it the Sick to Swallow for a Dose to provoke Sweat drinking after it a little choice Canary mixed with six drams of Treacle Water being in his Bed and well covered this Caused him to Sweat very powerfully and from whence he Confessed he had wonderful relief 14. As to Topicks his Stomach Head and Temples was anointed with this following Balsam Take Oyl of Nutmegs by expression one ounce Opo-balsamum half an ounce distilled Oyl of Nutmegs of Rosemary of sweet Marjoram and of Sassafras of each one dram mix and anoint therewith Morning and Evening keeping those parts warm 15. The extream parts either benummed after the manner of a Palsy or pained in the Joynts resembling a Gout I Caused every Morning and Evening to be anointed with the following Medicament Take Powers of Amber six ounces choice Camphir one ounce dissolve it therein and herewith Bath well the afflicted parts 't is not to be imagined what sudden and great relief he received therefrom 16. For in the extremity of his Pain the said Pain would vanish in a Moment and although Lame he would be able to go very well in two or three days time 17. Now 't is to be observed that during the time of his Purging I ordered him to Swallow whole every Night going to bed twenty five or thirty grains of choice white Olibanum or Mastich sometimes the one sometimes the other with about ten grains of pure white Ginger cut into very small bits 18. The time of Purging being wholly over viz. so long as he was drinking the two former quantities of Diet I caused him to take every Morning fasting half an ounce of this following Electuary whereby the Stomach Head Brain and Animal Spirits were mightily relieved Comforted and Strengthened 19. Take the soft or Melligenous extract of Juniper-berries half a pound Viper pouder Pouder of Zedoary of Nutmegs of each one ounce and half Pouder of white Ginger of Cloves of each half an ounce Camphir a dram Venice Treacle three ounces extracts of Virginian Snake-root and Contra yerva of each two ounces mix them for a Stomachical and Cephalick Antidote This is very good against all sorts of salt and sharp Catarrhs moisture of the Brain coldness and weakness of the Stomach and Paralitick and Arthritick Distempers 20. At Night going to Bed he took two three or four grains of my Laudanum the use of these two last Medicines he constantly took Morning and Night for five or six Weeks together by the use whereof he became perfectly Restored and was free from all the said disaffections for more then seven years afterwards XII A Catarrh in a Gentlewoman accompaned with Hysterick fits and an exceeding Pain on her left side supposed an affection of the Spleen 1. This Gentlewoman being about thirty years of Age had been obnoxious to a Catarrh almost from a Child with swellings in her Throat and Almonds of the Ears soreness and difficulty of swallowing but of late to wit for four or five years last pass the Catarrh was almost Continual and she had with it a great dejection of Spirit 2. She would sight often and complain of a great pain in her left Side and many times would be overtaken or seised with fits of the Mother the Cause thereof she apprehended to be from an unnatural Marrage being allied to a man extreamly wicked almost in all senses 3. She was a very Comely Lady and brought with her a great Fortune but was almost at first slighted and abused by her Husband whence arose a great discontent of mind which seising and Continuing long upon her begat a kind of Melancholy habit 4. Not long after she was as she thought afflicted with the Pain of the Spleen which she Conceived was encreased by taking an extream Cold however a Pain she had in her left Side and that almost continually her Catarrh was almost always the same causing her constantly to spit and very much afflicting her in the Night 5. The begining of this Discontent brought also upon her those Hysterick fits the Cause of which is a preternatural Convulsion of the Nerves of the Mesentery and Middriff or Diaphragma whereby that exceeding great rising up into the Breast not much unlike a Ball or Globe is made 6. And I am the more Confirmed in this opinion That these Fitts are often Caused as aforesaid and not always simply from the Womb from that singular observation of Dr. Willis who beheld the same in a Man where the old supposed Cause was impossible to be Suspected and in the time of my practise I have seen two such lâ—ke examples which has very much confirm'd me in this Judgment not that I will totally deny any Cause to be Inherent in the Womb in all persons 7. For I doubt not but where there are great Obstructions of the Matrix and that part abounds with many stinking and noysom humours it being as it were the very sink of a Womans Body that Vapours may be Emitted from thence and that it may also have a share in the Cause of Hysterick Paroxisms 8. The original Cause of the Catarrh I attribute to be in part from a Discrasy of the Blood and in part from a natural weakness of the Brain whereby it is made more apt to Receive the Recrements of the second
66. LXXVII A Catarrh feaveral Epidemicall Anno. 1658. 1. In respect of the preceeding violent frost of the Winter and the succeeding Immoderate heat of the Summer no one living could remember such a year the Excesses of heat and cold being both so extream 2. From the Ides of December almost to the vernal Equinox the Earth was covered with Snow and the North Wind constantly blowing all things were Frozen Also afterwards from the begining of the spring to the begining almost of June the Wind being still in the same Corner the season was more like winter then spring unless now and then a hot day happened between 3. While the Winter continued unless that a Quartan Feaver contracted in Autumn Infected some among our Country-men there was a moderate state of Health and freedom from Popular Diseases 4. The Spring coming on an Intermitting Tertain as used to do every year before fell upon some 5. About the end of April a Distemper arose suddenly as if sent by some Blast of the Stars which laid hold on very many together that in some Towns in the space of a Week about a thousand people fell sick 6. The particular Symptom of this disease and which first afflicted the Sick was a troublesome Cough accompanied with great Spitting and a Catarrh falling down upon the Palate Throat and Nostrils as also a feaverish Distemper Joined with heat and thirst want of aptite a spontaneous weariness and a grievious Pain in the Back and Limbs 7. But the Feaver was so remiss in some that they could go abroad and follow their affairs in the time of their sickness yet complaining in the Interim of want of strength and of languishing a loathing of Food a Cough and a Catarrh 8. In some a very hot Distemper plainly appeared that being thrown into bed they were troubled with Burning Thirst Waking Hoarsness and Coughing and that scarcely without any Intermission 9. Somtimes there came upon this a bleeding at the Nose and in some a Bloody-spittle and frequently a Bloody-flux and those who were taken with this disease being of an Infirm body and a decaying Age not a few died of it but the more strong and almost all of a healthfull Constitution Recovered 10. Those who of this disease sickned and died for the most part died by reason of the strength being leasurely wasted and serous heap more and more gathered together in their Brest with the Increase of the Feaver and the difficulty of breathing like those sick of an Hectick Feaver 11. We are to Enquire concerning this Disease what Procatartick cause it had that it should suddenly arise in the middle of the spring and almost the third part of manking should be distempered with the same in the space of a Month then the signs and symptoms being carefully Colected the formal Reason of this disease as also its Crisis and way of Cure ought to be Assigned 12. It is Known by Common Experience as well as by the Testimony of Hippocrates that the Northern Wind is most apt to produce Catarrhs but why the Catarrhs did not spread at least in some peculiar places all the Winter and Spring but only in one Months space and then Joyned with a Feaver and that this distemper should become Epidemical doth not so plainly appear 13. I know many deduce the Cause from the vnequal temper of the air at that time which although for the most part very Cold yet the North wind somtimes lessening there would be a day or two very hot between wherefore from this occasion as from Cold taken after heat men Commonly fall sick 14. But indeed for Exciting the distemper so suddenly rising and commonly spreading there is required besides such an occasion some great precedent Cause or Predisposition though the other perhaps might suffice for an evident Cause for to afflict them with this Distemper 15. We ought to suppose that all men almost were prone and inclinable to this Disease otherwise no Evident Cause could have Exercised its Power so potently on so many wherefore it seems very likely that this sickness had its Origin from the Intemperance and inordination of the year and as the Autumnal intermitting Feaver going before was the product of the preceeding immoderate heat so this Catarrhal Feaver depended altogether upon the following part of the year being so extreamly Cold. 16. For the blood being fermented by the very hot Summer and Inclinable to the Feaver before described then being made more sourish by the Urgency of the Autumn and apt for a Quartan Feaver after wards being a little Eventilated by reason of the strong Cold of the Winter and hinder'd from its due Perspiration Returned yet its discrasy or Evil disposition and readily broak forth on the first occasion given 17. Wherefore when the blood in the middle of the Spring as the Juice of Vegetables being made more lively and also began to Flower and grow Rank by reason of the continued stoppage was straitned in its Circulation and easily made prone to a Feaverish Effervescency and as the serous water redounding in the blood could not Evaporate outwardly because of the Pores being still straightned by the Cold Restagnating within and chiefly falling upon the Lungs where it might be moved about instead of an outward breathing forth Excited so frequent and troublesem a Cough 18. The original therefore and formal Reason of this Disease are founded cheifly upon two things viz. That there happened together a greater Effervescency of the blood than Usual from the coming on of the Spring and also a stoppage or great Constriction of the Pores Excited by the too great cold of the foregoing Season that therefore there was not a free space granted to the blood flowing or Luxuriating in the Vessels the business being after the same manner as if wine began to grow hot should be put into vessels Closely shut up for by this means either the Vessels or the liquor were in danger to be lost 19. Wherefore to be Concise the Cause that this Disease began in the middle of the Spring having presently spread largely seised very many was not the blast of a malignant Air whereby the Sick were distempered as if struck with a blasting but at this time the blood being Inspired by the Constitution of the Spring and so Luxuriating and apt to grow hot was Contracted or straitened in its motion and the Effluvies being constrained inwardly could not be sufficiently Eventilated or cooled 20. Every year tho temperate it is usual in the Spring and Autumn for some Epidemical Diseases to Reign because at this time the blood being as it were Restored Flowers a new and therefore Intermitting Feavers and somtimes the small Pox ordinarily spread in this season 21. Wherefore t is no wonder after a great unequal Constitution of the year and not Natural when in the Spring the blood boyling up more lively within the Vessels by Reason of transpiration being hindred could not be freely Circulated and sufficiently
Palsey was without pain only with a little numbness joyned with a trembling and weakness of the parts it continued upon her to her dying-day nor by the greatest help of Art could she meet with any the least benefit much less a Cure 7. In this person the Morbifick matter first afflicted the Brain whence came the Epilepsy but by a translation of the said matter to the Original of the Nerves and thereby to their various Branchings the Disease was changed from a Falling-sickness to a Palsey 8. This Woman after that the Epileptick Fits had left her and the Palsy had siezed her by I know not whose advice began to take Opiates which she continued the use of for some years and as she conceived with a manifold advantage to her self 9. She always said she found her self better after the taking of the Opiate than before and conceived it added very much strength to her for that after she had been used to it a while if she pretermitted for one night the taking thereof she should be the next day sick heavy and unpleasant and stomachless as to her Food 10. After the taking of the Opiate for a year or somewhat better she came to a good use of one of her Hands and she could also a little use the other which benefit no body could beat her out of but that she received it from the assiduous taking of the Opiate 11. And did verily believe that had not her great Age been an obstacle in the way that very Medicament alone would have restored her to her perfect Health such was her opinion and for any thing that I know there might be somewhat of Truth in it 12. But however the consideration of this Observation makes me believe that there is yet a greater excellency and vertue in Opiates than the World is awar of and I doubt not but some experiments of this kind might more confirm this Judgment 13. I remember Roger Dickson a Chyrurgian in Thames-street told me that he had once a Paralytick Patient to whom he gave upon occasion a Dose of an Opiate for rests sake after which his Patient would never let him rest without some few doses of it by her which she took for six or eight months together and thereby became Cured of a Palsy which had afflicted her many years XVII The Falling-sickness in a middle aged Woman proceeding from Melancholy 1. A Gentlewoman about forty years of Age having had for a long time a great deal of discontent upon her Spirit was extreamly troubled with Melancholy and to that degree afflicted with this pernitious humor that she has confessed that she had many times tempted to make away her self but the Cause or Reason of this trouble she would never reveal to any one 2. Some thought it to be unlawful Love and some thought it to be Discontent others some private grudge between her and her Husband but those that had been her associates and familiar acquaintances for many years knew the contrary but guessed it to be from other things 3. Some thought it to be a discontented Mind because she could not attain that Glory Pleasure Fortune and such like in the World as her equals had arrived to or that her ambitious Spirit might aspire after although she then lived happily genteely and free from any care trouble or turmoil 4. But what ever the true original of her Melancholy was I could never learn nor hear her confess this Melancholy discontented Condition so far increased upon her as to render her very unhappy in her person made her very thin and lean brought upon her great weakness so that sometimes she would Faint or Swoon away 5. Afterwards as the evil increased these fits degenerated and from Fainting and Swooning Fits she became affected with other Fits not much unlike the Mother 6. After these had afflicted her for about four or five months they still augmenting their force became at length Epileptical in so much that when or wheresoever they siezed her she fell down with a great Crying out and a froath and foaming at the Mouth 7. She had been under a Knights hands reputed a great Physician by whose advice and directions her Husband said he had spent two hundred pounds but without the least amendment he rather thought she grew worse and worse 8. When I understood what was done I partly conceived the cause of the miscarriage for whatsoever Antepileptick Specificks he might give her he gave her nothing which might repress these Hypochondriack disaffections and distempers of the Womb. 9. Moreover her Courses had been preternaturally stopt for about two years together during all which time she had a very large flux of the Whites which was a great trouble and weakning to her 10. I began in the first place to give her things that might evacuate the Melancholy humor among which was an Infusion of Rhubarb and Sena in white Wine with black Myrobalans and a small proportion of Castoreum with this I gently purged her for many days together 11. In the next place I provided an Injection for the Womb which was thus made Take Plantan water three quarts Infusion of Crocus Metallorum six ounces spirit of Wine eight ounces fine Aloes in pouder half an ounce or something more Roch Alum Salt of Vitriol of each three drams Saccharum Saturni two drams juyce of Liquorice one dram sal prunellae six drams mix dissolve decant the clear from the faeces filter it through brown Paper and keep it for use 12. With this I caused the Womb to be Syringed three or four times a day and somtimes oftner by the use of which Medicine and the internal means afore-mentioned I perfectly removed and cured her of this great flux of the Whites at which the Woman was very much pleased and became much more chearful than before 13. And because through the oppression of the Melancholy humor her Spirits had been much cast down I caused her to take the following things Take juyce of Alkermes six ounces choice Canary eight ounces blood red Tincture of Castoreum five ounces spirit of Hartshorn two ounces Salt of Mans Skull three drams white sugar candy in fine pouder half a pound mix all well together dissolve it over a gentle fire and keep it for use 14. Of this she took two large spoonfuls every Morning fasting drinking immediately after the same about an ounce or somewhat more of the best Angelica Water by the constant use of this Medicament she confessed her self to be so much cheared and revived so that she was in great hopes she should once again be well 15. Now although these Medicines had not done much as to the Epilepsy for indeed they were not levelled against it yet they had much abated the vehemency of her fits and also had altered the times of their coming so that whereas she had used to have them sometimes two or three times a Week or oftner she had them not now once a Week and sometimes
gave of it and my Expectations in about ten or twelve times taking thereof the Youth was freed from his Epilepsy nor had he it ever any more XX. An Epilepsy in a Consumptive person 1. Whether the Epilepsy was the cause of the Consumption or the Consumption the cause of the Epilepsy I will not determine because their beginnings were so nearly together 2. This our Patient was about twenty four years of Age a young man formerly fleshy and of a good strong habit of Body to appearance before this Disease siezed him though now become exceeding thin and lean at the first coming of the fits they afflicted him but seldom as once every change and full of the Moon 3. But afterwards growing stronger upon him they came every quarter of the Moon and now at the time of undertaking of this Cure sometimes once or twice a day 4. 'T was an Epilepsy arising from the extream parts for he could feel it coming upon him in his Fingers and Toes a considerable time before it took away his Senses so that he could tell the by-standers that the fit was coming and also provided a place to fall down in 5. This Disease he told me crept so sensibly upon him and he could as easily discern it creeping up both his Legs and his Arm as if he had thrusted them down gradually into cold water 6. During this affliction as there was a pining of his whole Body so he had a very weak Stomach seldom desiring to Eat nor well digesting when he had Eaten For this purpose I gave him the following Emetick Take Crocus Metallorum six drams Salt of Vitriol two scruples mix and give it in a little Broth this wrought very well with him and gave him about eight Vomits and five Stools 7. The fifth day following I gave him a dram and half of my Catharticum Argenteum which wrought excellently both upwards and downwards 8. This done I caused him to take in all his Drink six or eight drops more or less of the Antepileptick Spirit of Vitriol or so much at least as might make this Liquor so sharp as he could conveniently drink it and this I ordered him to continue the use of for some certain time whereby his Stomach was comforted and strengthened and he began to eat his Food in good order 9. Morning and Evening I ordered him to take of this following Electuary Take Electuarium ad Tabidos four ounces Misleto of the Oak in pouder pouder of Male-peony roots and seeds Mans Skull levigated of each six drams native Cinnabar Pea-cocks dung pouder of the Liver of Frogs dryed of each four drams Musk in fine pouder one dram and half Ambergrise in fine pouder half a dram Civet half a scruple mix all together and with syrup of the juyce of Male-peony flowers make an Electuary according to Art 10. Of this he took the quantity of a Chestnut every Morning fasting and every Night going to bed which was continued for near a quarter of a year together 11. Outwardly his Stomach Hypochonders and Back-bone from the Vertebrae of the Neck down to the Os Coccygis was anointed with this following Balsam Take Oyl of Nutmegs by expression four ounces Oyl of Amber Oyl of Rosemary Oyls of Rue of Sage and sweet Marjoram all Chimical of each half an ounce mix them well together and anoint as aforesaid 12. His Head was shaved and bathed all over with the Powers of Amber Morning and Night over which was put this following Emplaster Take Rosin per Rosin Venice Turpentine of each four ounces Oyl of nutmegs by expression three ounces sheeps Suet ship Pitch of each one ounce Oyl of Amber two ounces and half Wax a sufficient quantity melt mix and make an Emplaster which apply over the whole Head after bathing as aforesaid 13. By the constant use of these Medicaments our Patient in the space of ten Weeks was perfectly Cured but he continued the use of the Medicines for some time after Observations from other AVTHORS XXI A Falling-sickness in a Child 1. A Boy three years old had a fit of the Falling-sickness from which he was freed with the Smoak of Tobacco 2. It was done by a Servant drawing it out of a Pipe and blowing it into the Mouth of the Boy being open the Child fell a Vomiting and the fit ceased Riverius Cent. 2. Observ 160. XXII The Falling-sickness in a young Maiden 1. I have often experienced and can testify the same by many Witnesses that Peony gathered under its proper Constellation viz. when the Moon is descendant in the sign Aries does remove the Falling-sickness only by external application 2. And I caused a certain Virgin of eighteen years of Age who had been troubled with this Disease from her Child-hood and dayly fits being in the Hospital to wear it about her Neck and Arms after which she was perfectly cured 3. Hence it is apparent of what consequence Astrology is in the practice of Physick Riverius Cent. 4. Observ 387. XXIII The Falling-sickness accompanied with a Dead Palsy 1. A Girl named Katherine Bognole ten years old of a flegmatick Constitution broad well-set Body was afflicted five or six Months with the Falling-sickness by fits almost every day yea sometimes twice or thrice in a day which was attended with a privation of motion and sence in her right Arm. 2. This Girl being brought into our Hospital in the month of December 1643. in the first place I prescribed her a potion purging flegm with a Cephalick Decoction which after some days was repeated and she used between whiles Preparatives and specifick Medicaments but without success 3. At length I gave her about two drams of Montagnana his Opiate four or five days together which being over she began to move her Fingers and soon after her whole Arm she was not so frequently taken with Fits of the Falling-sickness afterwards 4. So that within twenty days taking every Morning of the foresaid Opiate she was perfectly cured of both Diseases 5. The Opiate was made as followeth Take Roots of Male-peony Staechas Costus of each ten drams Agarick five ounces Pellitory of Spain Carraway-seeds Anniseed Assa faetida and Aristolochia Rotunda of each two drams and a half juyce of Squils and choice Honey of each one pound and two ounces let the juyce of squils and Honey boyl together over a gentle fire unto a good consistence then add the Pouders and make then all into an Electuary Let the Dose be two drams every Morning three hours before Meat Riverius Cent. 4. Obs 395. XXIV A Falling-sickness proceeding from the Mother 1. The Wife of Mr. Polemarchus de Sumenes was divers years together vexed with many Symtoms of the Mother which had a resemblance of the Falling-sickness 2. She tryed many Medicines prescribed by able Physicians but all in vain 3. At last by advice of a Woman she took the flesh of a Wolf brought into Pouder wearing a piece of the same flesh salted continually
concluded That the middle of the Brain is always the primary Seat of the Epilepsy and that originally the morbifick Cause is stored up in that Region 30. But the Distemper growing inveterate it gradually spreads it self through the whole Brain enlarging its dominions after a wonderful manner scattering the Morbifick Matter every where up and down which subjects the whole much like Garrisons in Conquered Countries keeping the vassallated people under subjection 31. Its dominions being enlarged through the whole Head extends it self likewise to the nervous Appendix so that the semination of the Disease like lightning is diffused thorough the whole nervous Systeme but sometimes one Nerve is more affected than another whence Convulsions follow sometimes in one part somtimes in another 32. And if the nervous System be universally a like affected the Convulsion generally affects the whole Body 33. The Cause why Epilepticks fall down with violence is partly from the surprize and sudden coming of the fit whereby all their Reason and Sense is taken from them and partly from the Convulsion of the Nerves adjacent to the Head which being strongly contracted the whole Body is vehemently carried forth and falls violently 34. From these Contractions other parts become swelled and tumifyed as the Lungs maxillary Glandules both upper and lower out of which the Lymphatick Juyce being strongly pressed and squeesed forthwith the Spittle appears like foam at the Mouth CXLVIII The Prognosticks of an Epilepsy 1. The Epilepsy is a Disease hard to Cure if it be inveterate or of long continuance it is so much the more difficult and the Idiopathetick is harder to Cure than that which is by consent 2. That which is in Infants is of all the easiest to Cure and much more easy while it is Recent the Child having had but few fits 3. That which is Hereditary is never to be cured and antient Physicians were of the opinion that if it happened to people which were much in years that it was also incurable but experience has contradicted that 4. For we have known people above fifty years of age Cured but we confess it has been with great difficulty 5. In some persons it is cured without the help of Physick in whom siezing upon them young it has continued ten twelve or fourteen years but at their arriving at puberty or ripeness of age or in Virgins at the coming down of their Terms the Disease of its own accord has left the Patient 6. Though in this Case I am very apt to believe that there might be some congruous and benevolent Directions in Heaven of the principal Stars or principal Significators which might be adjuvant to the Native at that time 7. If all the Functions be abolished the Convulsion vehement and strong the Paroxysm of long continuance and Excrements flow forth of their own Accord the Cure will be exceeding difficult 8. If it comes from external Causes or evil Diet Surfeiting or Drunkenness the Convulsion mild and the fits not long the Disease will not be very difficult to Cure 9. Hippocrates says That an Epilepsy coming in Boys at fourteen years of age and in Girls before twelve is curable but after the age of twenty five it is incurable as appears by his Sect. 5. Aphor. 7. and of this opinion is Galen but the latter part of this Prognostick as we said before is not always true 10. A strong Epilepsy often kills the Patient in the fit or else turns into an Apoplexy by reason of the strength of the Symptoms whereby there is a great Concussion of the Brain and a profligation of the strength of the whole Body 11. Riverius tells us a strange kind of Story that somtimes the Concussion of the Brain will be so great in the fit that some pieces of the Bones called Processus Mamillares will come out of the Nostrils 12. If the Falling-sickness comes of Melancholy it commonly degenerates into Madness by which means the morbifick matter offends the very substance of the Brain it self whereby being corrupted it obfuscates or darkens the Animal Spirits whence comes a Melancholy Dottage 13. If the Epilepsy proceeds from a thick Lymphatick Juyce it for the most part degenerates into an Apoplexy or Palsey 14. If a Quartan Ague or a violent burning Feaver comes upon an Epilepsy it commonly Cures it because by the vehemency of the heat the Morbifick matter comes to be dissolved rarifyed and discussed 15. If the fits are often repeated and every time grow stronger and stronger the Animal Faculties will be quickly obliterated by reason of which the Vital Spirits come to be tainted from whence the Vital Functions comes by degrees to be profligated 16. And this seems to be by consent of the Nerves serving the Praecordia so that at length the whole Body languishing the Pulse being quell'd the Vital flame is not long after extinguished 17. The reason why this Disease often ends in a Palsy Madness or Melancholy is from the conformation of the Brain being depraved by the manifold and tumultuous rushings forth of the Animal Spirits whereby its natural state is so perverted that the morbifick Particles of another kind are admitted whereby the Animal Spirits are either fixed or become dull and sluggish being depressed by the Morbifick matter afflicting 18. If the Falling-sickness happens to Children and they be not freed from it about ripeness of age being overcome by a new and natural fermentation of the Blood the Disease will continue and 't is much if it be not incurable to Death CXLIX The Method of Curing the Epilepsy and first of the Cure of Infants 1. The Cure of the Falling-sickness in Children differs something from that in elder people for that in the latter strong Evacuations are commonly used which we cannot do in Children nor indeed is there that need and necessity because such a heap of morbifick matter cannot be supposed to be in them as is in those of elder years 2. The chief things we use to Children are Revulsives Discussives and Specificks 3. For Revulsion Blysters may be applyed to the nape of the Neck or behind the Ears or an Issue may be made behind the Ear whereby the Morbifick matter is plentifully drawn away or the Seton may be applyed to the nape of the Neck which may run for two three or four Months 4. Blystering Plasters also applyed to the soles of the Feet may be very profitable for by reason of the consent of parts they sometimes Cure to a miracle 5. Issues a so in the Arms and Legs are also approved of by many Learned and Experienced men if the Child be two or three years old Cupping-Glasses with Scarification may be applyed to the Shoulders Loins or both 6. I knew a Chyrurgian which lanced the Head and cut many deep flashes even to the Cranium whereby the Child bled extreamly after which he healed them forthwith up again upon which the Child recovered and had no more fits 7. If the Paroxysm be
tedious and violent and a watery humor flows forth at the Nostrils it will be good to shave the Head of the Child and to apply a Vesicatory over the whole Head this I have known sometimes to Cure at the first drawing it may be repeated if occasion be two or three times 8. It cannot be done in vain but with great advantage to the Sick forasmuch as that the watery juyce or degenerated Lympha which is the Conjunct Cause of the Disease is clearly drawn away 9. And this is more admirably done and with greater advantage in Infants than in persons of elder years because as yet in Children the Sutures of the Skull are not perfectly closed whereby not only the aforesaid degenerated Lymphatick Juyce but also the preternatural Vapours lodged in the Cavities of the Brain are drawn forth 10. This done the Soar being healed we must make use of Discussives of which the Powers of Amber are of mighty force being Bathed upon the whole Head so all the Powers of Sage Rosemary Lavender sweet Marjoram Thyme Tansey Featherfew Savory and such like 11. For they pierce and penetrate through the flesh Pericranium and softness of the Skull whereby not only the Menings of the Brain but the Brain it self are marvellously dryed comforted and strengthened and the Animal Spirits themselves recreated 12. The Temples Forehead and Nostrils ought to be bathed with the same and this ought to be done twice a day for two or three Weeks together 13. After which the Epileptick Emplaster of Franciscus Valesius may be applyed to the Coronal Sutures for as much as it is said that that Plaster alone never fails of the Cure the Composition and Preparation whereof you may see sect 73. § 4. aforegoing of this Chapter 14. Moreover it will be profitable that the the Hands and Feet should be bathed with these Potestates or Powers aforenamed not only because it might probably have a rise from those parts but also by reason of the consent and sympathy of the same 15. The third Intention consists in the exhibiting of proper Specificks if the Child be two three or more years old the Gilla Theophrasti or Salt of Vitriol may be profitably given 16. For as Paracelsus says They are specificks in rooting out the Falling-sickness especially in Children for by gentle Convulsions of the Stomach they cause Vomiting whereby the root of the peccant matter is taken away the Stomach cleansed and strengthened from whence an laudible Chyle is generated whereby strong and salutiferous Spirits are bred in the Heart and Brain 17. This same salt of Vitriol may be given two three or four times according as you see the Disease increase and it is so safe that it may be given even to young Children the Dose to Children is ten grains to half a dram according to their Age and Strength 18. If it be given by a wise Hand it will not only evacuate the humor upward but also derive a part of the morbifick Cause downwards 19. Some commend Hiera picra or the Infusion thereof in a proper Liquour truly the thing is good but 't is too bitter to be given to Children 20. The following things I have proved as Specificks in this Case Take pouder of Male-peony seeds and roots of each one dram and half pouder of Mans skull salt of Hartshorn and pouder of Nutmegs of each a dram Elks-hoof prepared half a dram mix them in a fine Pouder Dose from 15 grains to half a dram 21. Take Castoreum a dram and half prepared Amber half a dram pouder of Peony-seeds and Peacocks dung of each two scruples Oyl of Lavender ten drops mix them Dose ten grains to a scruple 22. Take Nutmegs a scruple pouder of Peony-roots and seeds of each two scruples Misleto of the Oak one dram Castoreum Mans skull prepared Musk in fine pouder of each four scruples mix them together and make an Electuary with the Extract of black Cherries Dose one dram to two drams giving after it a little Cinnamon water 23. Take Tincture of Castoreum Tincture of Mans skull of each an ounce Tincture of Lavender-flowers Tincture of Saffron of each six drams spirit of Mans skull half an ounce Powers of Amber two drams mix them the Dose one dram or more in proper Liquor 24. Take Water of the flowers of the Line-tree Water of the flowers of the Lilly Convally of each six ounces syrup of the juyce of Alkermes syrup of the juyce of Male-peony-flowers of each four ounces spirit of Angelica the greater Composition spirit of Castor of each three ounces strong Cinnamon-water Aqua Coelestis of each two ounces and half Powers of Rosemary Sage Lavender Origanum and sweet Marjoram of each half an ounce white sugar enough to sweeten them well mix all together and so you have a Liquor whitish red of which you may give the Child half a spoonful every Morning and Evening alone or in a glass of Sack 25. With this following Pouder I have cured several Take choice Musk one dram Ambergrise Cochineal Salt of Mans skull of each a scruple mix and make a Pouder which may be given with a little Conserve of red Roses drinking after it a Glass of choice Canary 26. Also our Epileptick Pouder which we have commended in the Cure of the Vertigo is inferiour to very few things 27. Riverius commends this Take Peony-seeds a dram and half Lavender-flowers a pugil Amber two scruples make a fine pouder 28. Columna saith That the root of Wild Valerian given in pouder in Milk has cured very many 29. Vntzerus commends the Gall of a black sucking Puppy but of a Bitch for a Girl to be taken to three or four drops in Tile-flower water he saith it will cure to a Miracle 30. Riverius commends the Back-bone and the Members contracted to be anointed with this following Liniment Take Oyl of Rue Oyl of Earthworms of each two ounces Oyl of Castor a dram and with a little Aqua Vitae make a Liniment it ought to be well rub'd in twice a day Morning and Evening 31. That learned Man and great Chymist Maxy commended to me this as a great secret that would never fail Take Venice Treacle Confect of Alkermes of each half an ounce salt of Mans skull fine pouder of Cocheneel Musk in subtle pouder of each two drams Ambergrise a dram mix and make an Electuary of which the quantity of a Nutmeg may be given the Child every Morning 32. He also commended to me salt of Vipers mixed with equal parts of salt of Mans skull and Musk as a remedy that had scarcely any equal 33. Moreover he told me from manifold and large experiences that all fixt Alchalies if often and long taken would infallibly Cure this Disease for that they enervated the Acid juyce and the sowerness of the Blood which he conceived to be the Cause of this Disease 34. And that he knew more to be cured by taking of Volatile and Fixt Alchalies such as are Salt
thereof be from Worms it is known by these following signs The sick oftentimes grates their Teeth and that many times or for the most part in their Sleep there are also many sower Belchings which by little and little filling the Mouth with an acid humor the Teeth be set extreamly on edge as if they had been eating of sowr things and commonly the Breath stinks or smells not well 2. They are often taken with a trembling of the extream parts and many times are affrighted and vehemently cry out in their Sleep there is also an Itching of the Nostrils and end of the Nose causing a great desire to rub the same about Evening or in the Night time the sick is troubled with much spitting somtimes there is a great heat and flushing in the Face and that of a sudden with a pain and gnawing of the Stomach and Bowels 3. And in some persons there is a contraction of the Muscles of the Abdomen with a grumbling of the Guts and torment costiveness of Body dry Cough Hiccough or some ill tast in the Mouth and somtimes the Worms are seen to come away in the Ordure or Excrements voided by Stool and in some persons there is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of some particular Member in others an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the whole body the body pining away by reason the most of or the principal nutriment is devoured or consumed by the Worms which Nature had otherwise designed for the nourishment of the Body 4. The Cure is not difficult especially if the Disease has been of no long continuance but if the true cause of the Epilepsy is from Worms unless the Sick can be freed from them he will never be cured of his Epileptick Distemper 5. If the Disease be caused of Worms and it has been of a very long continuance then although the Worms which seem to be the Proeguminine cause be taken away yet will not the fits leave the Sick for that by the long continuance of the Distemper a new nearer cause will be generated And this I had twice experience of in two Children who being afflicted with Epileptick Fits arising from Worms for 8 or 9 years together that although I perfectly freed them both from the Worms yet the Epilepsy left them not till much more means was afterwards used whereas another person troubled with the same Disease arising from the same Cause having been but a little while troubled therewith by freeing him from the Worms he was perfectly cured of his Epilepsy also 6. The Cure ought to be performed by mixing Antepilepticks with such things as kill and expel the Worms Take Mercurius dulcis a scruple salt of Mans skull fifteen grains saccharum saturni three grains mix for a Dose to be given at night going to bed purging the Sick the next Morning with a fit Dose of the Infusion of Sena and Carraway seed 7. The following thing is commended by Sennertus Take fine Aloes washed or extracted a dram and half scammony Troches Alhandal of each half a scruple distilled Oyl of Wormwood two drops Oyl of Myrrh and Zedoary of each one drop mix and make a Mass of Pills Dose from a scruple to half a dram in the Morning fasting but if the Body of the Sick be difficult to work upon it will be better to take it over night or about Mid-night 8. If the Worms lye really in the Bowels and not in the Stomach it will be good to give the Antepileptick Medicament by the Mouth but the Medicine killing the Worms by the Fundament in form of a Clyster As Take pouder of Mans skull a scruple salt of the same six grains Oyl of Rue two drops Conserves of Roses two drams mix and give it over-night the next Morning give the following Clyster Take Mutton-broth a sufficient quantity according to the Age of the sick Tincture of Colocynthis from an ounce to two ounces sal Armoniack two drams mix them and give it warm it is an excellent thing 9. After sufficient purging with any of the aforegoing Medicaments or others that may be proper for the same or with Mercurius dulcis which as Sennertus saith may be given from sixteen grains to a scruple or more you may exhibit the following specifick Take Elks-hoof prepared six drams Mans skull prepared four drams Ox horns prepared Diamoschu dulcis red Coral Pearls Emeralds Crystals all prepared Terra sigillata of each two drams seeds of Nigella of Rue of Peony white Ditany Nutmegs Misletoe of the Oak salt of Harts-horn of each one dram roots of Peony Harts-horn prepared Pea-cocks-dung Scordium Marjoram Coralline of each three drams Musk and Ambergrise of each half an ounce mix all in a fine pouder Dose from half a dram to a dram in black Cherry Wine 10. Take salt of Mans skull Mercurius dulcis choice Rubarb Musk Ambergrise of each fifteen grains extracts of Sena and Rubarb of each half a dram mix them together for a Dose and give it at night going to bed with this I cured a Maiden Gentlewoman being given but six times at due intervals having been above three years afflicted therewith CLIV. The Cure of a pure or simple Epilepsy present in the fit 1. The Cure preventive of an immediate impending Paroxâ—sm is performed in the opinion of some great Physicians by adhibiting one Pill of Laudanum Opiatum to four parts of which one part of Oyl of Camphir is added or these following Antepileptick Rouls Take pouder of Peony-roots gathered in a fit time one dram Magistery of Pearl and red Coral Mans skull prepared Misletoe of the Oak of each a dram and half white Sugar dissolved in Tile-flower water a sufficient quantity make according to Art a Confection in Tablets 2. Or you may exhibite four or five drops of the Essence or Powers of Castoreum in a glass of Tile-flower-water Or in defect thereof two or three drops of choise Oyl of Amber or twenty or thirty drops of the Powers of the same in the Epileptick Water of Langius or Aqua Vitae Matthioli Or this following draught Take the Epileptick Water of Langius one ounce syrup of Peony almost half an ounce spirit or Oyl of Vitriol four five six or seven drops mix them to be immediately drunk 3. Or you may give a spoonful or two of this following Potion Take Waters of the flowers of Peony of the Tile-tree of Wall-flowers of Herb-Trinity of each an ounce and half Essence of Peony one dram salt of Mans skull twelve grains salt of Vipers five grains syrup of the juyce of Peony half an ounce mix them for a draught Or Take Tincture of Castoreum and of Peacocks dung Tincture of Arabian Mummy of each a dram black Cherry Wine four ounces mix them and drink it having taken just before it a dram of choise Venice Treacle 4. The Cure in the Paroxysm First let the position of the body of the Sick be rather upright than otherwise and rather in a light and chearful
the whole nervous systeme was throwly heated and the cause of the Convulsion dissolved which by a Cart load of Internal medicaments could never have been so exquisitely and so suddenly performed moreover the Nerves themselves were mightily corroborated and strengthen'd 10. But during all the time that this was a doing outwardly inward Medicines were not wanting to be used for I sent down also with the said powers of Amber the spirit of Saffron which she much desired and confest she found much good in the powers of Cloves and the Potestates Convulsivae and Nervosae which I ordered her to take either as her Stomach liked or alternatim in Sack as aforementioned these things she failed not to perform and in one months time became perfectly well beyond mine or her Friends expectations 11. But whereas she was troubled with an extream watching so that for some times she could not sleep for two or three days and nights together I ordered her now and then to take in the evening twenty five thirty or forty drops of my Guttae Vitae in Sack and so repose upon it which she did several times and in a short time removed that troublesom symptom moreover after that she became well I ordered her to continue for some time the use of the former internal nervous Medicaments and matutine reception of the Elixir proprietatis VIII Convulsion fits in a Child proceeding from Worms 1. The exquisitness of the cure and the speedy performance thereof makes me to insert this example A little Boy of four or five years old was of a sudden seiz'd with Convulsion fits and that without any praevious cause that his Relations or by-standers could apprehend these fits had afflicted the Child for about two months coming somtimes once in two days and somtimes once a day and somtimes twice a day 2. A stranger accidentally seeing the Child advised its Parents to give it of my Family Pills two at a time every Morning fasting or every other morning according as they found them to work and to continue the use thereof for a week or longer they did so the Pills purged the Child without any Pain and in about ten or twelve days time brought away about fourteen long worms a span or more in length after which the Convulsions ceased of their own accord and the Child presently mended and grew exceeding well upon it 3. This thing was don some years since but of late Mr Hollier told me he gave them to a young Girl who had not been well and the cause of whose Disease seemed to be very abstruse one or two doses at most brought a way from her several hundreds of Worms after which she persently mended and grew very well IX Convulsion fits attended with a Lethargy which were Mortal 1. A young Maiden about seventeen years of Age was seized with Convulsion fits as it was thought by taking cold in the Snow being put to Bed some of the Neighbour-hood advised her Parents to make her drunk with Brandy in hopes of a Cure it was don and the Maid drunk about three quarters of a pint or better of that liquor whereupon being overcome with it she became very sick and afterwards went to sleep the next day the Creature awaked not about noon they disturbed her but she desired still to sleep 2 Hereupon I was sent for because they feared their Child would dye when I came to her another Convulsive fit seized her again which after a while went off but the sick remained sleepy after this manner she continued for a week or more 3. Considering her condition I presum'd it to be a Lethargy which accompanied the Convulsion they desired my help but truly I plainly told them I knew not well what to do however outwardly I advised to bath all the External parts Head Temples Vertebrae of the Neck and Back-bone as also the parts afflicted with the Convulsion with Powers of Rosemary which was don but no amendment succeeded this was don for about eight days but the Lethargy still increased as for internal Medicaments we could get nothing down her Throat It was once attempted but she was in danger of Choaking so that for the future we totally desisted to offer any thing of that kind 4. Upon the fourteenth day after her first seizure she was taken with her last fit upon which by reason of the Extremity thereof she expired after she was dead above half a pint of matter not much unlike thick Milk came as I suppose out of her Head by her Nostrills which smelt as strong of Brandy as if it had been Brandy it self which gave me a satisfaction that the Brain was hurt therewith and the Animal spirits being confounded were overcome whence proceeded her Lethargy drousiness stagnation of the naturall juyces and obstruction or rather a suffocation of the Vital flame XX. Convulsion fits arising from Excessive pains of the Gout in both Feet and Ankles 1. A Woman about forty years of Age having been for about three or four years past troubled with the Gout was at last so exceedingly afflicted therewith that she became bed-rid This pain by reason of an accidental taking of Cold it happening in the middle of Winter was increased and raged to that extremity that the sick fell into Convulsion fits which vehemently afflicted her 2. I was forthwith called to her assistance where her Husband related to me the whole progress of her Disease which was very strange and admirable a Physician and Chyrurgian which had been before me had taken away from her at four several times and all in the space of eight days above forescore ounces of Blood hoping therefrom for amendment and Cure but the sick instead of growing better upon it grew worse and worse every day and at length became as is before related Convulsive 3. Moreover she was afflicted with an obstruction of her Courses which by no artifice they could provoke so that the condition of the Gentlewoman seemed to be desperate upon this I caused the parts afflicted to be well bathed with my Guttae vitae and then applyed over the same my Emplastrum Arthriticum inwardly I gave this Bolus Take Venice Turpentine a dram Venice Treacle half a dram Extract of Thebain Opium two grains Oyl of Vitriol ten drops mix altogether for a dose this she swallowed and drank after it a little Glass of Rhenish wine and sugar This was again repeated at night and given twice a day for four days by which the sick had wonderful ease and the Convulsion fits much abated moreover her Terms which had been obstructed for more than fourteen months were provoked and came down very well 4. A little respite from the Paroxysm being obtained I gently purged her with my Family Pills the which she took once a week for six or eight weeks together by the use of which she confest her Body to be exceeding well cleansed and they procured to her also an exceeding good Stomach so that she eat
as also morning and night at other times by the use of which things she found an unexpressible good and in a short time a perfect cure 6. However by reason she complained of a fullness and heaviness at her Stomach I resolved to give her a Vomit which I did with extraordinary good Success with my white Emetick Troches or Lozenges made of Mercurius Vitae they gave her six vomits and three stools viz. half a dram of the Lozenges which contained about three grains of the Mercurius Vitae After the taking of this Vomit but once she became so pleasant and easy that she thought her self in Heaven 7. By these examples and many more which I might hereafter set forth it is manifest of how great force the Powers of Medicaments are in general and in particular the Powers of Amber as also those of Limons Oranges Rosemary Sassafras c for that in a moment they comfort and restore the whole Genus Nervosum and that even by External application in which manner of use they do more in a small quantity momentarily than a Cart load of other Medicaments can do though given inwardly now if they do such great things by bare outward application what may they do being also inwardly given especially in all those Diseases where the Cause is more inward but their operations are not wonderful if we consider their absolute purity subtilty and Volatility with their Comfortative and mighty penetrative power and force XXI A vehement Cramp in the Calves of both the Legs and other Parts 1. A man of about thirty years of Age was much troubled with the Cramp in the Calves of his Legs somtimes it was in one Leg somtimes in the other and somtimes in both and somtimes it would seize other Parts as the brawny part of the Arm under the Chin c. 2. The Convulsion would be vehement causing a Tumor of the Nerves in the middle of the Musculous Part as big as ones Fist doubled which in a quarter of an hour or thereabouts would resolve and go totally away yet for the most part leaving a great Soreness and Weakness and such an exceeding Debility as that he was not able to go for a day or two or sarcely set his Foot on the Ground 3. He had tryed many things but without Effect as well Internals as Externals and outwardly almost all the Galenick hot Oyls and Oyntments had been applyed but in vain as aforesaid and now his Disease increased more and more upon him in so much that upon the least Cold the Cramp would seize him upon those Parts and with such Violence and Torture to make him roar and cry vehemently out as if he had been a killing and if in bed he durst not many times thrust his Feet streight down or put them in a cold Place or yawn for fear of a Fit of the Cramp taking hold of him which for the time afflicted him with that Vehemency that he hath many times said He beleived it to exceed the very pangs of Death 4. At length he made his Complaint to me and I perceiving it to come absolutely from a cold Cause caused him to bath the Part very well with the Powers of Amber twice a day viz. Morning and Evening and to continue the use thereof for some few days to wit eight or ten or more this he did and in less then fourteen days time was perfectly well to his great Satisfaction 5. Another man much in the same manner afflicted in the same Parts and with like Vehemency as also on both sides of his Neck was cured by bathing the Parts afflicted with the said same Powers of Amber Morning and Night for some few days rubbing the Medicine well in for about a quarter of an hour at a time he was so perfectly cured that he had not so much as a Fit thereof for several years after 6 After the same manner and with the same Medicament have I cured more than forty others that had been a long time afflicted with the Cramp and could meet with no Remedy and some of them who had been so often seized therewith that it had brought upon them such a Debility and Weakness of the Parts as to render them almost wholly useless even these with the use of this only thing have I so perfectly restored through the Blessing of God as their Disease never after returned nor in the Cure of them did I give the least of any thing inwardly nor use any thing outwardly except that only thing which for its excellency worth and certainty of its Operation I could not be silent in but communicate from the Giver of all good so great a Blessing to the World It is indeed a most Excellent and Admirable Medicine and as far as any thing can be said to be certain it may be really pronounced of this Medicament in the Cure of this Disease 7. A woman in Child-bed having lain in about two days was seized with After-pains and the Cramp in the middle of her Thigh The whole Abdomen as also her Thigh I caused to be bathed well with the Powers of Amber every two hours This had such Effect that in a quarter of an hour after the Application thereof her After-pains went away and by the Blessing of God in twenty four hours space she was so perfectly freed both from Them and the Cramp that they returned no more upon her 8. And this I was willing to insert here though out of its proper Place for the sakes and benefit of all women in Child-bed who labour under that great Affliction I have used it to a Multitude of women afflicted with After-pains and can speak it in the presence of God that I never in that Case used it in Vain and therefore commend the same to all Nurses Mid-Wives and Charitable Gentle-women to keep by them and have it always in a Readiness for the use of their poor afflicted Neighbours 9. That these After-pains are nothing but a Cramp or Convulsion of the nervous parts of the Mesentery and Abdomen being hurt both by over-much straining and also by Cold taken in at time of Delivery I am fully perswaded the Reason and Evidence of which I may more fully prosecute in an other place however this is manifest that the same Medicament which not only gives Relief but also cures the Cramp in other Persons as suddenly and immediately resolves these After-pains in Women in Child-bed and so perfectly takes them away as to return no more for that bout 10. And I remember I was once called to a Woman who had laboured under those pains for about seven days and nights without any hope of Cure Multitudes of things having been applyed to no purpose but the Disease rather still getting ground upon them she was given up to Despair and all about her esteemed her to be no better than a dead Woman when I saw her her case was so desperate that I could promise nothing but I caused
five or six stools 8. The following day she had another Fit but less but by the aforsaid Fame and Oyntment she was well amended 9. Inwardly were given two spoonfuls of compound Water of Briony at night she tooâ— two of the aforesaid Pills coming to her in the Morning I found her eased of the pain of her head and stomack 10. The eleventh of February she was gently afflicted with the Mother and a light Feaver to prevent which I gave Extractum Hystericum two drams with Aqua Hysterica a sufficient quantity make ten Pills she took one in the Morning fasting and so she became well 11. March the 28th she fell again into the Mother with Convulsion of the Eyes the said Convulsion having grieved her two days before she was afflicted with the Mother 12. Take Pills of Peony Ground-Pine Hiera Agarick of each two scruples Pills of Amber Ruffi of each one drams Extractum Hystericum two drams with Aqua Hysterica make a Mass of this there were made five of a dram covered with Gold and of these she took three at bed-time By these she was delivered Hall upon Englsh Bodies Cent. 2. Obser 44. XL. A Convulsion in a Woman 1. A Woman of Stratsord was suddenly taken with Convulsion of Face and Eyes loss of Speech her Matrix carried from its proper place and so cast down she looked like the very Image of Death somtimes vehemently opening anâ—â—â—sting her Eyes hither and thither was cured as followeth 2. Take Castor one dram Juice of Rue a spoonful Sage-Water two ounces Syrup of Mugwort one ounce She was constrained to take it 3. To her Nose were applyed stinking things within the space of few minutes she both speak and stood up 4. The next day this Take Species Hiera with Agarick half a dram pil Faetidae Peony of each one scruple the Feculae of Briony Diagrydium of each six grains make five Pills They were taken in the Morning with care 5. Afterwards Take Briony root three drams Senna half an ounce Ginger half a scruple Cinnamon one dram Sugar one ounce infuse them for a night in hot Whey one pound and half of this infusion was taken five ounces for several days together with which the Cure was perfected Hall upon English bodyes Cent. 2. Observ 57. XLI A Convulsion with flux of the Hemorrhoides Feaver c. 1. Thou O Lord which hast the power of Life and Death and drawest from the gates of Death I confess without any Act or counsel of Man but only from thy goodness and Clemency thou hast saved me from the bitter and grievious symptoms of a deadly Feaver beyond the Expectation of all about me 2. Restoaring Me as it were from the very Jaws of Death to former Health for which I praise thy name O most Merciful God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ praying thee to give me a most thankful Heart for this great Favour for which I have cause to Admire thee 3. About the fifty seventh year of my age from August 27. 1632. to September 29. I was much debilitated wich art immoderate flux of the Hemorrhodes yet daily was I necessiated to go to several places to Patients 4. A hardness being contracted by riding the flux was stayed for fourteen days after that I fell into a most cruel torture of my Teeth and then into a deadly burning Feaver which then raged very much killing almost all that it did Infect 5. For which I used the following method which by the help of God succeeded first I purged thus Take Rhubarb infused one dram it was infused in three ounces of some proper water syrup of Diaireos one ounce Electuary of juyce of Roses three drams these gave four stools 6. Afterwards I used decoction of Harts-horn and so the Disease was almost cast out by Urine it flowed vrey much for four days space that I was not only much emaciated but also weakned so that I could not move my self in my Bed without help 7. I also had Convulsion of the Mouth and Eyes then was a Pigeon-cut open alive and applied to my Feet to draw down the Vapours For I was often afflicted with a light Dilirium 8. Then my Wife sent for two Physicians I had used a Clyster with Emollient herbs and an Electuary Diacatholicon and Lenitivum the Physicians my Friends prescribed the following of which I swallowed the quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day Take Electuary of Gems hot two drams Species Plerisarconticon one dram Lozenges of Sugar pearled one ounce Conserve of Bugloss and Violets of each two ounces syrup of Wood-sorrel an ounce syrup of Violets half an ounce Limons one ounce Oyl of Vitriol six drops make an Electuary 9. The twenty seventh of September I was thus purged Take Electuarium Lenitivum one ounce and half Worm-wood four ounces mix them It gave three stools 10. At the hour of sleep I took Diacodium surup of red Poppies with Diascordium 11. For the heat of the Back Take Refrigerans Galeni one ounce and half Cerat of Sanders half an ounce juice of Housleek white Wine Vinegar of each one spoonful make a soft Oyntment 12. An Emplaster for the region of the Heart Take Labdanum six drams Styrax Calamitae half an ounce species Aromatica Rosarum Musk four grains mix them 13. I was again thus purged Take syrup of Diairees one ounce and half Electuary of the juice of Roses three drams Cichory water a sufficient quantity 14. It is to be obsserved before the Physicians came there were drawn seven ounces of Blood from the Liver-Vein and three days after were Leaches applied to the Hemorrhoides and thence removed ten ounces 15. After which I took the decoction of Harts-horn thus I was pretty well able to take Meat Then I used Chalybiate wine with juice of Scurvy-grass and syrup of Sceletyrbia Foresti and purged once a week with Pulvis Sanctus syrup of Diaireos and infusion of Rhubarb 16. For the pain of the Teeth I used Oleum Ligni Heraclei After I was troubled with Itching in the Scrotum which was cured with our decoction of Sarsa with Antiscorbutick herbs And so I became perfectly well praised be God Hall upon English bodyes Cent. 2. Observ 60. XLII A Convulsion in a young Woman 1. The Daughter of Alderman Smith aged about twenty two from diminution of her Courses and fear fell into ths Mother with Convulsion of the Eyes and darkness of sight it continuing all the Fit together with distortion of the Neck and palpitation of the Heart as also a Feaver so that she tossed up and down in her Bed 2. In the time of her fit I commanded to distil into her Mouth three spoonfuls of Hysterick water afterwards I fumed her with Vngula Caballina which delivered her from her fit 3. To prevent the fit was given as followeth Take Castoreum pulverised half a dram pil Faetidae one dram make seven Pills guilded this purged her well and delivered her from the symptoms 4. Lastly
Plaisters and Cataplasms be laid to the soals of the Feet and other means of administration such as are commonly prescribed for the curing of the stupor or insensibleness ought to be used 48. In like manner if on the evil days or Crisis of this Feaver a Phrensie or Madness should come remedies appropriate to those distempers made use of 49. Secondly But if either with or without this sort of displeasure brought to the Head the Lungs also have taken the evil of this Disease so that the sick not yet free from the Feaver seems to fall into a wasting or Consumption with a troublesom Cough with abundance of thick and often discoloured spittle Medicines commonly prescribed for such kind of distempers are convenient enough 50. Wherefore pectoral Decoctions Electuaries Syrups distill'd Waters of Milk and Snails and other Remedies of the like nature ought diligently to be made use off the Forms of which may be found in the before described Cases 51. Thus far we have described the continual Feaver for the most part convulsive and arising no less from the fault of the nervous Juice than of the Blood I will here farther propose an Example of a Disease having the likeness of an intermitting Feaver but radicated chiefly in the nervous Juice the nature of which kind of Distemper for that is very rare and truly pertinent to our convulsive Pathology will appear from the following History 52. A noted Woman very young and indued with a more weak Constitution of Brain and nervous Stock and for causes very obnoxious to convulsive Distempers after she had conceived with Child about the fourth Month of her being big cold being taken she was greivously afflicted with asthmatical Fits and besides with a frequent sinking down of her Spirits 53. But by the use of Remedies indued with a volatile Salt she grew well within a fortnights space but after that about fourteen days an unwonted and truly admirable Distemper fell upon this Gentlewoman 54. One Morning awaking after an unqiuet Sleep that night she felt a light shivering over all her Body as if she had had the Fit of an Ague frâ—quent Yawnings and Reachings with an endeavour to vomit followed thereupon 55. And then her Urine which was but now of a Citron Colour and of a laudable Substance became pale and waterish moreover about her Loins and Hypochondria and in other places Pains with light Convulsions running about here and there were excited 56. Which kind of Symptoms plainly convulsive with her frequent making a of limpid Urine continued in the Morning almost to Evening in which space of time a great quantity of water at least three times more than the Liquor she had taken was rendred in the mean time neither was the Heat great nor did Thirst trouble her nor was her Pulse increased 57 In the Evening the aforesaid Distempers ceased and her Urine became of a Citron Colour and moderate and besides all night she enjoyed a moderate Sleep then in the Morning following about the same hour the Fit returned accompaned altogether with the like Symptoms and so dayly acted the same Tragedy 58. Visiting this Gentlewoman after she had been sick in this manner for twelve days I framed the Aethioloâ—y of the aforesaid Case to wit that this Disease chiefly radical in the nervous Stock did depend upon the Effervescenoy and Flux of the Humor watering the nervous Parts 59. For it might be suspected that this water being diffused from the Blood made degenerate by reason of the suppression of her Terms upon the Brain and nervous Stock became more sharp and serous than it ought to be and for that Cause incongruous to the containing Parts 60. Wherefore being gathered together to a plenitude by the nights sleep did provoke them and stirr them up for the expulsion of it every where into wrinklings and contractions hence shiverings yaunings stretchings and wondring pains were excited in the whole Body 61. Furthermore from the solid parts after this manner contracted and shaken not only the nervous liquour but also the nutritious every where laid up the solid parts but not truly assimulated were shaken of 62. And then either Latex being exterminated from its receptacles and received by the Veins or Lymphaducts or water-carrying Vessels was rendred to the mass of blood from whose bosom before it had acquired a Lixival tincture from it being at last cast forth by the reins constituted a clear and copious Ruin 63. But that this distemper observed such exact periods the reason is because the nervous water being supplied with an equal dimension did arise to a fulness of runing over daily at the set time 64. Therefore also the urine appeared concocted and yellow before and after the fit because then its matter consisted only from the Serum of the blood afterwards during the convulsive fit the limpid humor being shaken off from the solid and nervous parts and passing quickly thorough the blood adulterated the colour and quantity of the urine 65. I prescribed to this big-bellied Woman Phlebotomy and besides a pouder composed out of Coral Pearls Ivory and other Cardiacks to be taken thrice in a day in a proper liquor 66. Morning and Evening she took of the Tincture of Antimony twelve drops whose singular effect in the too great flux of urin I have many times experienced by the use of these all the symptoms ceased in a short time Willis de morbis convulsivis cap. 8. LIX A Convulsion in a young Maiden 1. I was sent for some years since to come and visit a noble Virgin who was sick almost after the same manner but somthing worse For these almost perpetual involuntary motions came by turns to wit shakings of the Head and members or defluctions or movings about here and there 2. Besides she was afflicted with a very troublesom and wonderful Convulsion of the Diaphragma and Muscles serving for breathing For every minute of an hour and oftner her back-bone was suddenly bent in about its middle and together her Brest shooting out forward 3. And her Hypocondria being drawn inwards she made a loud sobbing now double now threefold but still with a less and less noise 4. This kind of motion and ebbing of a crashing noise was wont to come for many hours and so that she might be heard through the whole house 5. And when any short interval of this hapned she was compelled presently to shake or writh together her Arms and Hands and somtimes her Legs and Feet and also to fling about most furiously her Head and by and by to hold her Neck as if it were stiff and unmoveable 6. And then in speaking her Tongue would be taken after that manner that she would repeat the same word very often yea somtimes twenty times at least 7. When the convulsive motions tormented her stongly in her outward Members she was free a little while from that noise in the Throat and this space of intermission she called her time of ease 8. Tho'
not give any help as the former to the sourness of the Throat it may be hence gathered that the salt particles of the blood and humors coming away by the urine had a two fold state or condition to wit of fixedness and fluedness 35. Wherefore the serum imbued by them became now of this now of that nature For it seems that the saline particles being degâ—nerate within the mass of the blood remained fixed and rendred the urine for the most part lixivial 36. But those which flowed without the blood in the nervous juice or were laid up about the solid parts did degenerate into a flux or acetousness and therefore from these being derived into the emunctiores of the Mouth that noted sourness of the Mouth and Oesophagus proceeded 37. Moreover when these kind of particles being gathered to a fullness in the nervous juice and solid parts did swell up and arising to a fluxion boyled up into the blood presently these being sent away from thence in heaps through the Reins rendred the urine encreased in quantity sourish 38. But for as much as the saline particles being of a diverse condition and that those of the same kind could not be mingled together they mutually moved against one another and break their forces therefore the salt urine and not the sour healed the sourness of the Throat 39. It appears by a vulgar Experiment that the most sharp spirits of Vitriol by the mixture of the salt of Tartar or any other lixivial grows very mild and yet from thence appears that the acid humor sweating out into the parts of the Mouth and Throat of this Gentlewoman came near the nature of sharp Vitriol 40. Because the fume of Tobacco being taken at the Mouth of the sick person was wonderfully sweet as it happens to such who have before-hand tasted Vitriol Willis de morbis convulsivis cap. 9. Observ 2. LX. A Convulsion in a noble Virgin 1. Because we treat here of admirable Convulsions which do not ordinarily happen and whose nature and causes ly deeply hid for the better illustration of these kinds of distempers we will yet shew one or two more cases no less wonderful than the former 2. About ten years since I visited the Daughter of a certain noble Man afflicted after this manner with convulsive motions that some thought her possessed with an evil Spirit 3. This Beautiful and well shaped Virgin about the age of sixteen begotten of a Paralytick Father without any evident cause about the Winter Solstice began to grow very ill 4. At first she was troubled with the Head-ach though not after a grievous manner as also for many days with a giddiness then she felt now in one of her Arms then in another a trembling and sudden contraction which kind of Convulsions returning often in that day endured scarce a moment 5. The next day sitting in a Chair near her Sister suddenly leaping out she took several Jumps successively with wonderful Agility every Jump being several foot in length then when she was come to the further part of the Chamber she stood leaping a great while in the same place and every time a great height 6. When her Legs were quite tired with leaping she fell on the Floor and presently she flung her head here and there with wonderful Violence as if she would shake it from her Neck 7. As soon as she ceased from this Motion for weariness presently the same Fury invaded her Hands and Feet so that she was forced violently to exercise her Members by striking the Walls or Posts or by beating the Pavement 8. When by reason of Shame or Modesty before her Freinds and the By-standers she did with some kind of violence hinder her self from these Motions for all the while she was her self and spake soberly the Distemper being sent inwardly she was very much afflicted with a very great Oppression of the Heart which caused her to sob and bemoan her self 9. When she would ease her self the Fury being transmitted to the Muscles of the outward Limbs she was forced presently to leap about to fling here and there her Head or Arms as also to run about the Chamber or to beat the Ground with her Feet 10. Because these kinds of vehement Motions of her Limbs or Viscera in the Tragedy of the Dâ—stemper did mutually relieve themselves returning as it were in a Round 11. Coming the fifth day after this Lady was sick I gave her a Vomit of the Infussion of Crocus Metallorum Wine of Squills and Salt of Vitriol by which she vomited seven times cankered Oyl or Choler in great plenty with the Mixture of a sharp and as it were vitriolick Humor 12. The next day ten ounces of Blood was taken from the Saphena Vein besides she took twice a day Antidotes of the Pouders of pretious Stones of Mans Skull and the root of Male-Peony By the use of these within a week she seemed to be cured and she continued for many days afterwards free from the aforesaid Distempers 13. But after two weeks at the time of the full Moon she fell into a Relapse of the same Disease more cruel than before for besides those wonderful Leapings and vehement Conversions and Roulings about of her Head and Members she was forced besides to fetch often a most rapid Course round about her Chamber 14. She began at this time by the praescriptions of others to take anti-hysterical Medicines and purges at certain set Intervals but without any Help 15. At last I being sent for because she seemed indued with a strong Habit of Body and with a notable Fierceness of Spirits I gave her a stronger Emmatick by which she vomited forth ten times greenish Choler like to Rust with Flegm sharp like Stygian Water and she was suddenly eased 16 After this I gave her every Morning a Draught of white Wine dilated with the water of Black-Cherries with Sows or Hog-Lice bruised and infused therein and strongly pressed forth 17. By the use of these she seemed presently to be cured and was well above a Month and when afterwards the Distemper being about to return she felt at any time some Fore-runners presently by the use of the Vomit and the expression of the Millepedes or Cheslogs she averted the approach of the Disease 18. Within three Months she so far recovered her former Health that she has now lived these many years free from those kinds of convulsive Distempers But from the time the convulsive Passions wholly ceased she was somtimes troubled about the parts of her Mouth and Throat with a Defluction of a most sour Humor like the vitriolick Stagma 19. Besides somtimes she was obnoxious to the Pica or longing of Women and at somtimes also to the Cough with a discoloured Spittle threatning a Consumption notwithstanding which by Remedies used in these kinds of Cases she was easily cured 20. As to the Aetiology or rational Account of the aforesaid Case there is no reason that we should fear
nature would contribute something as to adding strength to it 7. Now to effect that intention We applyed that most admirable Emplaster of Mynsicht viz. his Diagalbano Crocatum a Medicament never sufficiently to be commended by the application whereof our feeble Patient in two or three months time was perfectly restored to my great Credit and the exceeding satisfaction of his indulgent Parents II. A Contracture of the Arm in an old Water-man in Southwark 1. This old Man aged about seventy for the space of seven or eight year had lost the use of his left Arm by reason of a Contracture so that he could not in any wise attend his Calling the poor old Man desired my help which I granted and performed the Cure as followeth 2. First I bathed the Contracture very well with the Spirit of Aniseeds then I caused it to be anointed with Oleum Nervinum after which I applyed Emplastrum de minio simplex made with Vinegar and Oyl without Wax it was boyled and taken off whilst it was red a little before it was going to turn black 3. In this Cloths was dipt and applyed to his Arm and about six or seven of these plasters or Sear-cloths performed the Cure 4. The poor old Man was able to give me nothing for my Cure but only gave me of his own free will a bottle of Sack However not long after as a further token of his graâ—â—ful spirit he helped me to a better Patient from whom I Received about fifteen or sixteen pound III. A Contraction in the left Ham in a certain Virgin 1. It was occasioned through a fall and a hurt in the part or parts adjacent being ill cured the Contracture was new but by reason the joint was great as also the parts contracted I was the more dubious of the Cure however being encouraged by the Friends of the party affected 2. I applyed the following things with success beyond Imagination first I caused the part affected to be very well bathed with the Spirit of Aniseeds then I anointed it very well with the expressed Oyl of Mace after which we applied for forty days together or more the Cataplasmum de stercore humano the praeparation of which you may see in our Doron lib. 3. cap. 7. sect 9. 3. The Cure succeeded much contrary to my expectation For the Patient could walk without Crutches or so much as halting 4. The like Cure I performed in a Child using only the same Medicaments IV. A Contracture in the Ham with a lameness of both the Ankles 1. This being a Youth about fifteen or fixteen years of age had this disaffection upon him by reason of a fall first I bathed all the weakned and disaffected parts with the Spirit of Aniseeds afterwards with the Powers of Amber 2. Immediately after I anointed with Oyl of Mace by expression after which I applied Emplastrum diasulphuris Rulandi by which my Patient seemed to be cured save only a weakness remained upon the parts lately disaffected 3. After the application of the Emplaster about eight or nine weeks it being renewed once in three days I caused the said weakned parts to be bathed with a strong tincture of Myrrh made with the best rectifyed spirit of Wine whereby the sick in a short time became perfectly well V. A Contraction Incurable 1. A young Man about seventeen or eighteen years of age was taken with the Sciatica by which he was vehemently afflicted this Disease either by nature or the Artifice of Empericks degenerated and the matter was translated into an Apostem on the outside of the Thigh which being opened a great quantity of corruption came out 2. But by the ill-management of the cure or unskillfulness of the Chyrurgion the Apostem fistulated and made Coney-borroughs as it were thorugh the whole Thigh which afterwards by another hand was Cut up and the bone laid open to be scaled being black and corrupted in many places 3. After two years time the Patient was in a sort cured leaving only a great Contraction of the Ham and one runing Fistula-sore which was no great trouble to him yet this evill Effect it had that thereby the whole Humidum Radicale was drained away the sick dying in a miserable Consumption 4. In his Life-time almost a thousand things were applyed to restore the contracted Hand but all in vain 5. Being dead I was desirous to see the contracted Tendon which being laid open and freed from the rest of the flesh and Vessels it had contracted not a Gristley but a kind of Boney hardness to the great Admiration of the Spectators this hardness by degrees decreased till it left the Nerve in its own natural state VI. A Contraction of the Fingers cured by a Woman Emperick 1. She first anointed the contracted parts with the Oyl of Cammomil which being don for two or three days she caused the Patient to hold her Hands in a hot Cows-Paunch for an hour or two which was five or six several times repeated 2. In the Intervalls of which and afterwards she only applyed this following Cataplasm Take Oleum Nervinum one ounce Oyl of Cammomil Oyl of Euphorbium of each half an ounce fresh Cow-dung half a pound mix them well together and apply them to the part affected 3. By the use of these meanes the Patient was in about five or six weeks restored again to perfect health VII A Contraction of the In-step with a scrophulous Tumor 1. This was supposed at first to come through a strain but whatever the cause there was a great flux of ill-digested humors to the part afflicted whereby followed a Contraction of the In-step with a great Tumor thereof and in the Ankle and indeed a swelling of the whole Foot Insomuch that the Patient a Youth about ten or eleven years of age could not go and was forced to keep his bed for many weeks together 2. Many things were used to resolve the Tumor and great Discussives were applied but all in vain at length we applied things to ripen it and to bring it to a Suppuration which in convenient time was done 3. The Tumor ran at first a great deal of thin matter afterwards the Sanies run more thick being broke we applied this following Cataplasm 4 Take Venice Turpentine two ounces Oyl of Roses one ounce Yolks of Eggs number two with Bean-Meal a sufficient quantity make a Cataplasm which apply 5. The Tumor seemed cavernous or hollow whereupon we cast thereinto with a Syringe this following Injection Take plantain-Water a pint Salt of Vitriol two drams Saccharum Saturni half a dram Tincture of Aloes made of white Wine one ounce and half Infusion of Crocus mutallorum Spirit of Wine of each two ounces mix and make an Injection to be cast in warm twice a day 6. The Tumor Lameness and Sore continued more than a year upon him Insomuch that the Friends of the Person were advised by several Chyrurgions to have it laid open 7. But by reason of the
things therein as beating with a Pestel in a Mortar For here the Pores being mightily opened by the continual grasping of that heavy and hard matter there is first a too great exhausting of the animal Spirits in the part secondly a loss of part of the neurotick Juyce Blisters being raised these it is true after the first or second occasion would easily grow well again and the Parts come to their prist in State but a continual Exercise of the same Work as it is a continuation of the Cause so at length it causes so great an Irregularity as is scarcely ever to be retrieved 4. And the reason is the same in those who have crooked Backs and cannot raise themselves up straight for that they have for a long time carried heavy Burthens for which Cause the animal Spirits being obstructed in their Course are driven back to their Center and the neurotick Juyce likewise in like manner exhausted by unnatural Swearing and other insensible ways of Evacuation and withall a continuation of such like drudgery for several years an evil habit is at length caused so that for the want of Spirits and exsiccation of the nervous Juyce these wretched Creaturâ—s go all their days after bending downwards and these things may also come to pass in those who have long and often laboured under a Tetanos or other Species of Convulsions from whence there is the same loss of Spirits and exsiccation of the said neurotick Juyce the which humor being wasted by the aforementioned causes such a Consumption and leaness appears manifestly in the Muscles of the Limbs even outwardly especially in the greater that their Nerves and Tendons feem to consist rather of Fibres than Flesh and to represent dry Cords rather than soft Nerves 5. This is also caused in part from a defect of Fat which is wont first of all to be wasted by the aforesaid causes when as it growing both extrinsically to their Membranes and being intrinsically inbred with the Fibres of certain of the greater Muscles chiefly anointing and bathing them therewith as it were that they might be the easier extended and contracted in Motion being now deprived thereof renders them unfit for motion whence also follows a Consumption of that which Physicians call Ros Cambium Gluten or Glue with which the Tendons in like manner are wont to be smeared all which happens often-times from the force of an external Heat being too great and persevering long which doth as it were shrink up the Tendons and Muscles as well as dry them 6. Hence the Difference between a Convulsion and a Contraction is much more manifest a Convulsion proceeds only from the Irritation of the Nerves not their exsiccation but a Contraction from the exsiccation of the said Nerves either from too frequent and long Irritations or the Causes first above mentioned which every Artist is desired to take notice of and so it appears that a Convulsion is only a hurt of the animal Spirits in the Genus Nervosum c. A Contraction a cutting them off from the Part affected whence arises the aforesaid exsiccation and shrinking up But such an exsiccation can scarcely be caused from any internal heat though in the most burning Feavers And in an Hectick the Body being otherwise almost wasted yet the Members do not appear contracted except by accident in the Tongue or in the Midriff being over dryed c. 7. After these manners the Muscles almost proper to every part may be hurt whence only particular Contractions of those Parts do ensue Of one Part only if its particular Muscle be hurt Or more if one Muscle send Tendons to many Parts but these things never simply befal a Nerve being so small and slender a Part but they may be effected in the Tendon of a Muscle because it is so strong 8. Some Authors say That a Contraction may be caused from a pituitous or encrementitious humor falling upon and filling the body of the Muscle or Tendons which being thereby distended and made shorter it thereby attracts the Part into which it is inserted from whence they inferr that a Contraction may be caused but I should rather think that if an humor fallen down upon the Muscles possesses their spaces by which they are joyned together that it should rather cause a Pain and upon that account a difficulty of motion than a Contraction of the Part and if it bedew or smeer the Nerves or Tendons a Palsey should rather ensue 9. And this is a certain Truth that the Parts being deprived of animal Spirits their Functions must necessarily cease for from them are communicated to the Muscles the Power of moving and to the sensible Parts the Power of feeling and therefore if the Nerve be wholly destitute of them the remaining Part thereof from the place affected even to the Part into which it is inserted becomes useless the same comes to pass if its continuity with the Part be broken for then the passage of the said animal Spirits is interrupted And this may be somtimes when the Nerves are so straightned that the animal Spirits which require a free passage through them can no longer pass or fill them up or not sufficiently for that though they be most thin and subtile and do illustrate the Nerves like the Rays of the Sun yet nevertheless they may be hindred even as the Sun-beams also may be stopt And this happens if a Nerve or Tendon be so prest in any part of it that its substance doth wholly sink down Or if its substance be so condensed also whereby the passage of the said Spirits are interrupted 10. And the same may come to pass as well as from a solution of continuity straightness of the Nerves condensation preternatural Tumor simple Distemper c. from some fault of the Organ which may arise either from internal or external Causes hurts by compression ligatures blows c. whereby plenty of humor flowing from the adjacent Parts in those narrow places compresses the Nerves with its weight whereby is intercepted the passages of the animal Spirits as is aforesaid the which being detained by so much the longer stop by so much the more the humors become thicker and mucous which cooling and compressing the substance of the Nerves or Tendons destroys their proper temper and so hinders them from ever being filled with or enjoying the said animal Spirits any more 11. And truly this was the reason why we handled Contractures in this place for although they seem to be rather Diseases of the extream Parts yet being for the most part if not always caused from a hurt of the animal Spirits and Functions the Fountain of which resides in the Brain we thought good rather to treat of the same amongst Diseases of the Head and therefore have here added these few Observations and brief Theory as an Appendix to the Chapter of Convulsions being the first that ever we saw in print of this kind XXIV The Prognosticks of Contractures 1. Contractions
an Incubus which did so extreamly afflict her that she grew weary of her life 2. Many Physicians were consulted who indeed pierced not into the cause of her disaffection and in order to her cure they first let her Blood which was repeated six times and Blood was taken from her to the quantity of eighty or ninety ounces and her Doctors ordered her this following Julep exactly as it is taken off from the Apothecaries file Take Fumitory and Cowslip-water four ounces syrup of Violets three ounces Tinctura of Saffron twelve drops mix them of this she was to take four spoonfuls Morning and Night and it was repeated for twelve or fourteen days but did her no good then they prescribed this Take Plantane-water Doctor Stephens his water of each three ounces syrup of Clove-gilliflowers one ounce and half syrup of Betony an ounce spirit of Earth-worms half an ounce mix them This was continued according to order for about three weeks more with several Baths Fomentations Anointings c. But all to no purpose 3. At length they sent for me and complaining of the ill success of the former Doctors withall told me of a perpetual Sckness of her Stomach vomiting and swelling of her Belly with strange vapors and fancies filling her Head at certain times with a long and tedious stoppage of her Courses upon which complaint we adhibited the following things 4. In the first place I gave her a vomit with my vomiting Lâ—zenges the preparation of which you will hereafter have in my Chymistry which wrought admirably with her gave her five lusty vomits and six or seven stools by which she found great relief but I fearing her Stomach not to be sufficiently cleansed repeated it again the third day following which wrought again admirably and brought away yet a larger quantity of more filthy and evill coloured matter upon which the Woman concluded herself well 5. Her Courses being not yet produced we thought it necessary to do somwhat more least her Disease should return again for this cause sake I ordered her to purge every other day with Angelick Pills of Grulingius which she did taking about ten or twelve doses of the Pills and in the intervalls of purging I also ordered her to take the Elixir proprietatis thirty drops at a time in Sack Morning Noon and Night half an hour or more before eating 6. By observing this course her Terms were effectually provoked and came down plentifully and this our so miserably afflicted Patient not only came to have a good colour in her Face but also had a good Stomach eat her Food well and digested it moreover a pain which she complained of that she felt in her left Side about the region of her Spleen left her and she seemed to be restored to her perfect health 7. However to consummate the Cure and to corroborate all the weakned Viscera I ordred her to take the following Electuary Morning and Night going to bed and to drink after the same a glass of Rhenish Wine and Sugar and so to repose herself to rest Take choise Venice Treacle two ounces and half Indian green Ginger Indian preserved Nutmegs candied Citron peels of each two ounces conserve of Rosemary flowers Spicknard in finâ— pouder of each one ounce Extracts of Gentian of Contrayerva and Virginian Snake-rooâ— of each half an ounce mix and beat them all well together and keep them for use 8. Of this Electuary she took the quantity of a large Nutmeg Morning and Night for about fifteen or sixteen days and became thereupon perfectly well It not only strengthned the Stomach and other Viscera but also brought down her Terms in due order and perfectly removed those ascending vapours which before so much afflicted her IX An Incubus or Night-Mare coming upon the healing up an old Vlcer 1. A Man near forty years of age having had an old Ulcer upon his left Leg which had run many yeares had it cured or healed up by a very skilful Chyrurgion upon which not long after he was afflicted with the Incubus which continually assaulted him every Night so that he could scarcely take any rest all which he imputed to the too hasty healing-up of his Ulcer without due Purgation 2. Upon this he sought out to Physicians for Remedy who gave him many Purges but all in vain at length they concluded that it arose from a certain kind of Hypochondriack Melancholy which seizing upon his Spirits wrought that Indisposition But the Man who was well enough in his wits nor any thing out of his Senses was of another opinion and therefore desired of them a more mechanick remedie which might operate upon his Body not his Soul 3. At length wearied out with his Doctors he sent for me to whom he made a relation of his grief I concluded it to be partly from the turning of the humor partly from an indisposition of the Stomach because we see that an Incubus seldom or never invades any one without a preternatural Distemper of the Stomach and in this our Patient there was almost a continual disposition to vomit nor since the healing up of the aforementioned old Vlcer could he scarce ever eat any thing with a stomach but was either afflicted with loathing sickness at Heart or vomitings 4. These symptoms being considred I first evacuated the Stomach with Asarabacca by which he had about eight vomits this don I purged him well with my Family Pills with Aloes but notwithstanding all these things his Incubus could not be wholly taken away but though not so violent yet would often return so that his fears of the Disease was worse to him than the Distemper it self for this cause sake I thought convenient to make him an Issue in his Leg that part of the matter or humor which used to flow out by the Ulcer might there have some evacuation which being artificially performed this our sick Patient in a little time began to be brought to his wonted health 5. However after having sufficiently purged and vomited him as aforesaid by the aforegoing things I thought it necessary to give such proper specificks as might sympathize with the parts afflicted but be Antipathetical to the Disease of which kind are all Antepilepticks Antapoplecticks and Aromatick Cephalicks 6. But the thing which was particularly given to this our Patient was first Electuarium ad Tabidos which was constantly given him every Morning fasting to the quantity of a hasle nut at a time at noon before eating he took twenty drops of the spirit of Harts-horn in a glass of Sack and at Night going to Bed he took this following Electuary Take Zedoary Bay-berries Winters-Cinnamon of each in fine pouder one ounce Nutmegs Ginger Radix Serpentaria Dittany of Creet of each half an ounce Saffron Cochenele fine Bole Terra sigillata of each two drams long Pepper half a dram all being in fine pouder mix them and add thereto thrice their weight of pure Virgin Honey and make an Electuary according
by lying one Night too long upon his Arm became Palsied in that part so that he wholly lost the use of it many things meerly Galenical were tryed upon him for about eight weeks together but without the least success at length he was cured by taking inwardly only Powers of Carawaies Morning Noon and Night chiefly in a glass of choice Canary and bathing the Paralytick members first with Powers of Aniseeds then anointing with the Oyl mentioned at § 39. aforegoing by the use of these things he was perfectly restored in about fourteen or sixteen days time VII A Palsie in one part with a Contraction in another 1. A Man about twenty four years of age had a Palsie on his right side occasioned as was thought by too long lying upon it but in his left Hand a Contraction for all his Fingers were so contracted or drawn up that they could not by force be stretched out but continually stood bent 2. In regard he was of a prety fat and corpulent Body I prescribed him to Drink this following Diet Take Guajacum finely rasped half a pound Sarsaparilla Sarsafras China of each seven ounces Rosemary Lavender sweet Marjoram Time Hyssop Savory Savin Peneroyal Fetherfew Tansie Mint Angelica of eight ounces boyl all in eighteen quarts of water after an infusion of twenty four hours in a sand or other gentle heat to the consumption of eight quarts then strain out by pressing let it settle and decant of the clear liquor which bottle up being first well sweetned with white Sugar and a little Tincture of Spanish juyce of Liquorice putting into each bottle a Clove slit in two This he took as his constant Drink and the same quantity was four times repeated but at Meat I somtimes permitted him a glass of Wine or Hippocras 3. Every seventh day I purged him with a Tincture of my Family Pills by which a large quantity of cold pituitous and slimy matter was brought away he took it with observation as in other purges and at a months end I caused him to sweat very well with Bezoar mineral in Hartmans chair being heat with rectified Spirit of Wine he continued nere an hour in the Chair and then went into a warm Bed where afterwards he sweat again plentifully 4. During the time of his sweating I corroborated his Spirits with this Cordial Take spirit of Saffron three ounces Cinnamon-water four ounces Syrup of Citron-peels two ounces Bawm or Mint-water two ounces mix them together in a glass by shaking Of this he now and then took a spoonful in the time of his sweating when he found himself to grow faint 5. Every Morning fasting I caused him to take the Magistral Spirit of Earth-worms in a glass of Hippocras at Noon he took half an ounce of the spirit of Juniper-berries in the same Vehicle a little before Dinner and at Night going to Bed this following Bolus Take Extracts of Saffron of Gentian of Contrayerva of Angelica-roots of Peony-roots and of Juniper-berries of each half a scruple volatile Salt of Harts-horn sixteen grains mix them together Having swallowed it down he drank after it a glass of Hippocras and so composed himself to rest 6. Outwardly I caused the Paralytick members to be well anointed with this following Oyl Take Oyl of Ben a pound Oyls of Juniper-berries and of Rosemary of each three ounces mix them together with this he was well anointed Morning and Evening for about a week then was applyed over all the palsied parts the Ceratum Paralyticum Riverij which was renewed every fourth day and ten times repeated but with this direction that every time before the application of the new Cere-cloth the said palsied parts were first bathed with the Oyl above mentioned See the said Cerate in Our Doron Medicum lib. 3. cap. 5. sect 11. 7. The Contraction on the left Hand was cured by this mixture Take Palm Oyl six ounces Chymical Oyl of Aniseeds three ounces mix them well together By the constant anointing with this Oyl the contracted parts were after a marvelous manner restored to their pristin state for Oyl of Aniseeds has a specifick virtue and power in helping and healing almost all disaffections of the Nerves chiefly where Contractions and Convulsions are praevalent by the use of these things the young Man was restored to his perfect health VIII A Palsie in a middle aged Woman with obstruction of her Courses and a Dropsy 1. This Woman being nere forty years of age through an extream Cold which she took in Travelling was seised with a Palsie together with a great obstruction of her Courses she fell under several Physicians Hands who being ignorant of the cause of her Disease or true state of her Body gave her many things but all in vain at length her Disease continuing upon her she fell withall into a Dropsie her whole Body being very much swelled from Head to Foot so that all her learned Doctors which then frequented her declared her uncurable 2. In this miserable condition by the advice of Friends she made her application to me Her state of body was truly deplorable and dangerous yet by the following means she was in no long time restored to her perfect health That the obstruction of the Terms might contribute much to her present distemper not any that understands the Art of Physick can make any doubt In consideration whereof I thought it necessary first to provoke them which I did by giving this following Bolus some few days before the full Moon Take Electuarium Diacarthamum one dram fine Aloes in Pouder half a dram mix them together This she took late at Night going to bed and it wrought early the next Morning she drinking then a little Posset-drink to make it work the more pleasantly It gave her eight stools and brought away many windy and watery excrements This she took every other day for about six times save the Dose of the Aloes was after the first time augmented to two scruples 3. By the often exhibition of this Purge her Courses were at length provoked and they came down very plentifully and well by which she received much benefit and comfort Moreover by this continual purging her hydropical Distemper was manifesty diminished though not perfectly taken away now whilst her Courses were coming down I desisted the aforesaid purging but to promote them the more effectually during the whole time of their flowing I caused her to take half a spoonful of Elixir Proprietatis in a glass of Rhenish or White-Wine Morning and Night 4. There are many other things which are thought powerfully to provoke the Terms in Women but I have truly found nothing so effectual as fine Aloes for that by a certain specifick Force opens the mouths of all the sanguiferous Vessels chiefly in the lower parts and performs that in five or six times taking which other Medicaments designed for the same purpose will not do in twenty times 5. The time of the flowing of her Courses being over
in the efficient causes are divided in these three the six nonnatural things the exhibition of Medicines and the action of the Hands 6. The Diet which is proper is such as has a Tendency to warm and dry the Air must be endowed with the same qualities and if the Climate you live in afford you not that benefit you must repair to the place where it must be had 7. Mountanous places and Lakes are to be shuned but if the Air be extream cold it may be corrected with Fires of dry Wood and Cloaths made of skins or furred 8. You are to correct the badness of the Air by dryed Marjoram Staechas Bays Time Rue Origanum Hysop and such like there are some who commend the fumes of Musk Amber and the wood of Aloes 9. Aegenita prescribes that the sick be carried to Maritime places although Avicenna says that moist exhalations are excited and drawn up in the firmament from the next Sea 10. Cold no doubt is an Enemy to the Nerves the Brain and Marrow of the Back-bone 11. As to Meat and Drink they must be both moderate all Physitians almost condemn the use of Wine and advise the drinking of water wherein Honey has been put to which I think may be added a little Cinnamon it may be also qualified with the wine of sweet Pomegranates 12. Let his Bread be choice and well fermented somtimes Bisket may be used let his Meat be for the most part roasted 13. Young Cocks who have never trode a Hen are mightily commended and Fowls that keep in Mountanous places being seasoned with Pepper Cinnamon and such like things 14. Season also the Eggs you eat with Pepper and Cinnamon but they must not be too much boyled and the Yolks are only to be eaten 15. Milk and things made of Milk Fishes all kind of Pease and fruits are condemned the fruits of the Pine tree if moderately taken are commended and are very proper for Paralytick persons 16. A pickle or seasoning with Sage Mint Time Pepper Cinnamon and Cloves tempered and mixed with the Wine of Pomgranats is approved of 17. Beware of day sleeping and of sleeping immediately after meat 18. The Belly must be always kept in good tune if nature be stubborn Clysters must be prepared of the decoction of Figs dryed Centuary the lesâ— having its flower but not its root as some would have Dill Fennel Beets one ounce of Hiera picra Oyl of Dill the Yolk of an Eg and Salt being added 19. The use of Venus is hurtful yet motion warms and attenuates an Author says that vehement wrath and passion did restore one that was Paralytick to his Health to wit Titus the Son of Vespasian 20. Deep and serious thoughts as also Melancholy does hurt extreamly 21. According to Avicenna the administration of Medicines and the Method of Cure ought to be otherwise in the beginning of the Cure than it is in the progress and so on the contrary 22. For about a fortnight Clysters are to be used and easy Medicines then we must proceed to more efficacious Remedies 23. Now as to the present cause For it appears that this is the third or fourth year of this Disease I judge it necessary that powerful and efficacious Medicines be often made use of and repeated whereby the humors might be concocted and often evacuated either by stool or vomit 24. After two or three purges are taken of which any of them shall endure about fifteen days more or less let them be afterwards exhibited fifteen or twenty or forty days more 25. Sudorificks are convenient 26. Outwardly let there be exhibited some remedies such as Emplasters Artifical waters Masticatories Gargarisms Oyntments Perfumes Errhines Frictions Ligatures Cupping-glasses Vesicatories shaving of the Head Cauteries 27. Blood-letting if at all it should be done in the begining of the Disease 28. I do not disapprove of what a late Author writes that in long chronick Diseases there should be ten days of Intermission of the use of Medicines 29. But if the sick notwithstanding all evacuations and nutritive Medicines be nothing the better the same must be repeated again concoctions Evacuations things aleviating and comforting 30. And lastly dry Baths must be used or natural Sulphur Alum and Nitrous Baths 31. For a digestive the syrup of Staechas is proper Oxymel of Squills Oxymel compound and the like 32. Let a decoction be made of Sage Rue Ground-pine Cowslips Daisies Hysop Time Origanum Pyrethrum Carduus Sanctus Betony Asarabacca the wild black Vine or Briony Bugloss the root of Masterwort and the like 33. Things fit for evacuating are Pills made of Euphorbium Pilulae faetidae Majores Pilulae Hermetis with Troches of Colocynthis and the like 34. Vomit may be provok'd with four ounces of the decoction of Radish seeds three ounces of Oxymel simple being added 35. This may be rendred more efficacious this way let the Radish be pierced through in the holes put a peice of white Hellebor then dig up some part of the Earth and lay it there for some days which being done throw away the Hellebor and wash and bruise the radish and let the sick take the juice thereof 36. Treacle and Mithridate does comfort the quantity of a dram and no more may be taken once every day but at divers hours and very cautiously 37. Sagapenum or Opopanax or assa Faetida are of powerful vertues for this purpose according to the received opinion of some learned Men. 38. Some have cured the Palsy by exhibiting Hiera gilded Pepper gilded being also added others by exhibiting every Night gilded Castoreum and gilded Pepper 39. There are some who give two drams of the confection of Anacardina which suddenly provokes Sweat and brings a Feaver which I have here inserted because I have found it prescribed by experienced Physitians though by me it is scarsly allowable 40. One of the Modern Physicians does greatly approve of this following Electuary if half an ounce thereof be taken thrice a day that is to say three hours before Dinner two before Supper and when the person goes to Bed 41. Take the Brains of a Hare fryed in a Frying-Pan one pound the juice of Sage the roots of Acorus of each three drams Cinnamon Cloves Pepper of each half a dram Turpentine washed in water of Ground-pine three ounces Sugar dissolved in Ground-Pine-water a sufficient quantity make an Electuary 42. Another thing he advises after evacuations to make use of dry Baths after which he orders the taking of Treacle for many days 43. Another advised which I take to be very proper for the purpose that when they come out of the Bath the Neck be rubbed and the marrow of the Back-bone either with fresh Orrice root cut or the root of the Lilly until the part be red with rubbing then let it be fomented with a long Spunge according to the length of the Back-bone 44. Dip the Spunge in the following decoction Take the flowers of Cammomil Ivy Sage Staechas Marjoram
Calamint red Sage of each one handful Succory Endive Agrimony common Maiden-hair the white Maiden-hair the golden Maiden-hair of each two handfuls fat dryed Figs number ten Raisons stoned choice Tamarinds of each one ounce the roots of Peony half an ounce the seeds of the same three drams the seeds of Fennel of bastard Lovage of each two drams the seeds of Daucus one dram the Cordial-flowers one pugil of Stoechas of Sage of Elder of Broom of each half a pugil fresh Agarick tyed up in a Cloath six drams make a Decoction in a fufficient quantity of Water strain take of the Colature one pound and half in which dissolve a sufficient quantity of white Sugar Oxymel simple Syrup of Maiden-hair of each three ounces the Pouder of Diarrhodon Abbatis two drams Nutmegs one dram Ginger half a dram make an Apozem clarified and aromatized of which one may take every Morning six ounces 3. Take fresh Castoreum two drams the Ashes of Maiden hair one dram dissolve them in Oxyrrhodinum then put all into the form of an Oyntment whereby a part of the Head being shaved may be anointed 4. Take the following Masticatory Pyrethrum boyled in a sufficient quantity of Oxymel chew thereof three or four times a day a good space after eating 5. Take old Treacle two drams Castoreum two scruples a little of the Juyce of Marjoram mix and anoint the Pallat. 6. Take Marjoram Thym Hysop Penny-royal Calamint of each one handful the flowers of Stoechas two pugils the seeds of Rue three drams of Fennel one ounce make a Decoction whose Vapours must be taken up into the Nostrils 7. The following Electuary is to be used Take Conserves of old Râ—ses one ounce the flesh of Quinces consected and dipt in Rose-Water six drams the Pouder of Quinces without the Species three drams red Coral calcin'd and washed in Rose-Water the seeds of Coriander diligently prepared of each two drams Sugar of Roses tabulated a sufficient quantity make a Mixture of which after eating take one spoonful 8. Let him abstain from Wine because of the Fumes which sends it up the Head as also because of a Feaver Albertinus Bottonus apud Scholzium Cons 325. XXVIII An Apoplexy from Blood 1. A plethorick Woman red coloured a Ministers Wife going to Market and taking up Money that lay upon the Table fell suddenly she bleed at Mouth and Nose and died presently 2. This I saw in another and in diverse others at the point of Death somtimes after they were newly dead the cause of this I shewed to be from Blood Plat. Observ Lib. 1. Pag. 14. XXIX An Apoplexy by a fall 1. A Country-man coming home from the City having sufficiently wet his Palat with Liquor fell down by the way and could not rise nor speak he was carried home but all imputed this Accident to his Drunkenness 2. The next day after the drunken fit was over he remained Dumb and one side resolved with the Palsy and the other was hot 3. And because I thought it came from Blood I advised Phlebotomy but it was neglected because they alledged he was too weak to be let Blood then I commanded that his body should be well rubbed 4. And because he had difficulty in Breathing his Breast was ordered to be anointed with the Resumptive Ointment 5. At length he began to hawk out blood and take broth but he was very hot Therefore I gave him the following Julep Take syrup of Vinegar Bugloss Violets of each an ounce Primrose and Chervil Water of each two ounces let him drink it at twice Morning and Evening 6. The Night before he had a Suppository he opened a Vein in his Arm and the day following took this Purge Take Rubarb a dram Mummy a scruple Electuary of juice of Roses a dram and half with Chervil-water the next day he took Conserve of Rose and Prim-roses and so was perfectly cured Platerus Lib. 1. Pag. 15. XXX A sudden Apoplexy 1. An old man fell suddenly in the Street void of Sense and Motion and was Dumb I gave him a little Elixir Vitae made of many Infusions which was by drops put into his Mouth he had also a sharp Suppository and the day following he could swallow again 2. I gave him the Elixir Vitae again with Lavender-water And the next day this Potion Take Tablets of Diacarthamum of my description two drams Diagridium half a scuple with Lavender and Sage-water make a small Potion He purged well with it and came well to himself 3. I also advised this Hydromel Take Honey and Water and Rocket-seed a dram boyl them he drank it for his Wind and was perfectly cured Platerus Observ Lib. 1. pag. 15. XXXI An Apoplexy from a fluid or moist dissolved Brain 1. An old Woman of Montpessul was suddenly taken with an Apoplexy and died 2. We opened her Head in the Monastery and found that in the thick film or Meninx her brain did swag too and fro and when the Dura Mater was opened there ran over all her Face a thick Liquor like white broath and stuck in rags upon it this Case and its Causes I shewed Platerus Observ Lib. 1. Pag. 16. XXXII The fear of an Apoplexy from a Heaviness and Fluctuation in the Head 1. A strong noble Man who lived intemperately feared an Apoplexy by reason of a certain heaviness of his Head and fluctuation as if his Head was great and empty and opened and shut like a Purse sometimes he was bad at other times better as to his Head but in other respects he was well except melancholy and dull 2. I judged it to proceed from flegm and water in the Skull by many circumstances I bid him be of good cheer because he was young he promised obedience and I ordered this following 3. Take Diaphoenicon two drams Diacatholicon half an ounce syrup of Roses solutive an ounce with a little Cinnamon-water make a Potion it wrought indifferent well 4. The day after the Vein in his Arm was opened for he was square bodied and Plethorick 5. Then he had this Apozem Take Fennel-roots one ounce Orrice half an ounce Acorus Cyprus Elecampane each two drams Liquorice six drams Fennel Vervain Eye-bright Betony Fumitory of each an handful Tyme Hysop of each an handful and half Stoechas Rosemary Borage-flowers each a pugil Fennel-seed two drams Carraway Anise Seseli Siler mountane Rue-seed of each a dram Raisons ten pair Sena two ounces Polypody Carthamus-seeds of each an ounce Turbith two drams Rubarb a dram and half Cinnamon two drams Spike a dram with sugar and Cinnamon make an Apozem he drank it four times and it wrought very well 6. He had three Cupping-glasses to both sides of his Neck and Shoulders with Flame in the Morning thrice and the fourth time with Scarification These with the Purge was to make Revulsion after that he was thus purged 7. Take Orrice-root half an ounce Liquo rice-roots an ounce Sage Marjoram of each an handful Lavender and Rosemary flowers of
Dose from half a dram to three drams 4. Aurum Diaphoreticum Poterij Take of the most fine Gold one part Mercury of Antimony a sufficient quantity dissolve and make an Amalgama boyl this with a gentle fire for the space of four days in a glass Vessel a Cubit and half high whose inferiour part let be large and broad but the superiour narrow and long let the fire be gentle and continual In this manner the Amalgama will be turned into a most rubicund Pouder which for fifteen days circulate with Spirit of Wine in Horse-dung then draw off the Spirit so have you Diaphoretick Gold Dose from four to six or eight grains in some proper Conserve Wine or Broth. 5. Theriaca Metallorum Poterij Take revived Mercury four parts stellified regulus of Antimony two parts most fine Gold one part melt the Gold with the Regulus to which add the Mercury made hot by it self mix them together and make an Amalgama which Pouder upon a Porphory stone This matter boyl with a gentle heat in a sufficient quantity of the Hemophroditick Balneum till the whole is well fixed dose from six to ten grains 6. Antihecticum Poterij Take the Electrum minus prepared of the regulus of Antimony and Mars together with Jupiter in equal proportion but some say that Jupiter must be in double proportion pouder them very finely add and mix well therewith Sal Niter poudre in a tripple proportion calcine them in a crucible with a gentle Detonation and keep them in a red hot heat for some hours being cold wash away the Salt by many affusions of fair warm water then dry the Pouder between Papers keep it for use Dose from five grains to seven 7. Terra Sancta Rulandina apud Rolfincium Take well streaked Hungarian Antimony two pounds put it upon a red hot plate of Iron or a Tile or into a red hot Iron or Earthen Crucible continually stir it with an Iron rod till it is reduced to a Calx But note That if you be not careful in governing your fire it will run into heaps and must be again beaten and calcined till it turns into a grey Calx and ceases to fume It gently moves the Belly the infusion being given thus Take Terra Sancta one ounce Wine half a pound let them stand one night in Infusion Dose from one ounce to two according to age and strength XXIV The Vertues and Vses of the Natural Balsamum de Chili 1. There is lately brought from Chili a Province in America a most excellent Natural Balsam differing both from that of Peru and Tolu but no ways inferiour in Virtues and Excellency as the several Experiments made by several learned Physicians in the curing of Diseases has given evident demonstration 2. It is a Remedy that no Man under the Sun can Compose being a Natural Balsam Distilling from a small Tree in Chili bearing a Leaf something differ-from an Olive-Leaf It is without doubt the most precious of all Natural Balsams by reason of its great Virtue and admirable odour excelling all others even the most fragrant 3. It eases all manner of Pains in any part of the Body coming of Cold or Wind chiefly pains of the Stomach indigestion and want of Appetite corroborating and strengthning of it after a wonderful manner It cures all Ulcers of the Breast and Lungs Reins Bladder or Womb Inward Bruises Spitting of Blood and such like It helps shortness of Breath Coughs Consumptions Wheasings Hoarsness Asthma's and other Diseases of both parts 4. It is excellent against the Falling-sickness Apoplexy Convulsions Palsy Lethargy Tremblings old Head-achs Megrims Vertigo's and other cold and moist diseases of the Brain and Nerves being inwardly taken as shall be hereafter directed and outwardly annointed upon the part It strengthens the Brain comforts the memory and fortifies all Senses both Intâ—â—nal External beyond any other Natural Balsam 5. It kills Worms whether in old or young cures Ruptures although of many years standing and dissolves the Stone and expels it as also Sand Gravel or Slime or any other thing which may obstruct the Urine or stops up its passages So that it 's believed there is scarcely a better Remedy for that purpose upon Earth for it gives ease in the vehementest Pains being constantly taken for a time perfects the Cure 6. It eases also all Chollick pains Gripings Wind in the Stomach or Bowels and perfectly cures all Fluxes Bloody-Fluxes Excoriations and such other like distempers of the Guts It cures deafness pain and noise in the Ears to a wonder a drop or two being put into the Orifice of the Ear and kept in with a little Cotton dipt in the same 7. It cures the Green-sickness in Virgins and provokes the Terms in Women being taken from Ten to Twenty Thirty or Fourty drops in a Glass of White-Wine as shall be anon directed Morning and Night for a Week together It cures also Barrenness promotes Conception and causes easie and speedy delivery to Women in Travel and in a great measure prevents or takes away after-pains taken to the quantity aforesaid in a Glass or Juniper or Cinnamon-water 8. The way and manner of taking it Inwardly In Diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves gives it in Rosemary or Cinnamon-Water or in Canary For the Stone and other Diseases of the Reins and Bladder you may give it in Rhenish-Wine For the Cholick and diseases of the Bowels you may give it in Juniper-Water For Palsies Gouts and Weaknesses of the Nerves and Joynts you may give it in some Antiparalytick-Wine If the Sick cannot take it in any proper Wine or Water it may be given mixt with any proper Syrup If it cannot be so taken it may be made up into Pills with some fit Powder as of Zedoary Nutmeg Cinnamon Bayberries Cubebs or what the Physitian shall think more proper and so gilded for by this means it will be taken without nauseating you give it from half a dram to two yea to three drams acccording to Age and strength and it may be given Morning and Night for a Month two or three togethâ—â—â—â—out any prejudice 9. And 〈…〉 â—â—â—tain that this Balsam is one of the greatest Specincks in the cure of the Palsy Scurvy and Gout that is it transcending all other Medicaments but it ought to be constantly given and in a due Dose and with those advantages that it may not nauseat the Stomach So taken it performs more than any other Natural Balsam it cleanses the whole Body of all Impurities Mundifies the whole Mass of Blood Heals all inward Bruises Wounds Ulcers or Excoreations whether in the Bowels or Lungs and otherwise restores decayed Nature to a miracle carrying off all its Faeculenties by Urine and Stool The Merchant that has brought it over has only intrusted it to be Sold with Mr. Thomas Passenger at the Three-Bibles on London Bridge where it may always be had in any quantity ready put up in square Glasses Sealed with the Balsam
strain and add thereto Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb two ounces and half Syrup of Apples purging one ounce Oyl of Vitriol enough to make it tart It was divided into two equal parts the first Dose gave four Stools the other seven 7. The humor thus prepared he took the afore-prescribed Pills three at night and two in the morning which gave five Stools when these were ended he took the Carminative pouder aforementioned at § 4. adding to it Confect of Alkermes two Scruples In the morning he used the aforesaid Rotulae or Rouls by which means he was perfectly Cured Cooks Observ Cent. 2. Obs 39. XIX A Vertigo in a Sheep proceeding from an Abscess in the Brain 1. In the year 1634. Decemb. 24. in the Shop of Nicholas Kite he made mention of his Sheep among which one was troubled with a Vertigo or Giddiness This Disease one who dealt in Sheep affirmed to be incident to the fairest of the Flock and that hereby their whole Brain would be turned into water and then they would fall down dead on a sudden 2. The Chirurgian therefore commanded That one of these sheep which was weakned by this Giddiness and turning round should be killd and sent me the head to my house that I might open it and diligently search into this Symptom 3. Whereupon opening first the Skull and looking upon both the Membranes the Substance of the Brain and the first and second Ventricles I found not one drop of Water and then searching into the third and fourth Ventricles there was also no sign of any water but the third was filled with a great quantity of Blood 4. Afterwards I lifted up the Organs of Smelling with the boney handle of my Anatomical Knife and on the left side between the Brain an the Pia Mater I found an Abscess like the Bladder of a fish full of very clear water and near the left Eye the Substance of the brain black I wondred that the Brain it self being affected in this Disease the Sheep should not labor rather under an Apoplexy or Palsy than a Vertigo Sculteti Obs 10. XX. A Vertigo and Apoplexia from a Contusion 1. In the year 1645. Jan. 25. I dissected the head of one of my own sheep which died of the like Vertigo and taking off the Skull I examined the substance of the Brain with all its Bruisings and presently on the left side as it were of the hinder part of the head under the Dura Mater I found a bag of the bigness of a Fishes bladder filled with water and little worms such as are bread in cheese for it began to putrefie at bottom 2. This coated Tumour being bigger than an hens Egg had insinuated it self into the Substance of the brain that it did somewhat press upon the third Ventricle This sheep as the shepherd reported turned it self round about all the day that she died chiefly towards night 3. That which hapned to sheep may happen to Men and Women I observ'd together with John Buray Barber and Geoge Riedlin Chirurgion the same effect in the brain of Mary Schmarkmaennen who after a Contusion of the forepart of the head which I cured for a whole year complained very much only of a Giddiness And one time sitting at Supper she was taken with a Violent Apoplexy and died suddenly 4. Her Parents desired me That I would open the Skull either for the taking away or else confirming the suspicion they had conceiv'd that one had poysoned her The skull being opened and the brain being look'd into I found a Tumor on the left side both as to its coat and matter contained in it not unlike the former of the bigness of an ordinary Hen's Egg and partly compressing the third Ventricle 5. I gave this Answer to those who demanded What might be the Cause of this Tumor contain'd in a Coat and perhaps no ill one that the Brain being violently shaken in that part had contracted a weakness and the Nourishment flowing towards it was converted into that matter and not into the substance of the Brain 6. From hence it is evident That blows on the head are very much to be look'd after there being scarce any of so perspicacious a wit and judgment whatsoever that the disposition of the inward parts to corruption may not sometimes escape his Knowledg Sculteti Observ 11. XXI A Vertigo not far from an Epilepsy 1. An aged Friend of mine had a Vertigo which sudenly seised him sometimes before meat sometimes after in which because the house seemed to turn round he fell and laboring to hold himself he scratch'd the Earth with his nails and beat it with his feet as in the Epilepsy only his senses failed not 2. After his fit he had Headach and vomited tough flegm but before the Vertigo invaded him he complained of a heaviness and pain at his stomach He frequently used Pills to prevent the fit and a simple and moderate dyet and took a pouder after meals to help his Concoction 3. But by leaving the use of these things he fell down in publick so that every body thought that he had the Falling-sickness I gave him a Vomit of Asarum-roots boiled in Wine and it did him good he continued that Vomiting with another of the Infusion of Antimony he vomited easily only felt a little Cramp in his Thighs 4. When the Disease came again he drank this Wine and so never fell after though he had a light Vertigo nor did he complain of it Take Sena two ounces Turbith half an ounce Agarick three drams Wormwood two drams Ginger Coriander-seeds Centory Marjoram of each a dram Pepper half a dram infuse them in a quart of Wine Let him drink it some daies he lived sound long after and was almost 70 years old but on the 6 of January 1596. falling into a Wine-cellar he died Plateri Observ lib. 1. XXII A Vertigo that lasted many years 1. An Italian Merchant of a good Complexion and habit of Body in the strength of his Age was by degrees taken with a Vertigo which so increased that he could neither walk nor sit up in his Bed he lay night and day in Bed and eat and drank as if sound and slept well growing very fat and so continued many years only the Itch troubled him sometimes at length he fell into a Caros or Lethargy and slept deeply and died 2. To find out the Cause we opened the Skull round with a Saw and the thick film or Meninx being cut abundance of Water flew out Moreover part of the Skull separated clave to the Dura Mater and could not be divided without tearing of it all the hollows and turnings of the Brain were inwardly full of water 3. The Vas Venosum and all the Arteries were hard in knots and they were swoln every where from which we apprehended That the water long gathered in the head and flowing there was the cause of the Vertigo and Caros following and of the Obstruction of the Arteries
Plateri Obs lib. 1. XXIII A Vertigo proceeding from Melancholy 1. In the year 1611. A Noble Man of Burgundy was vexed with a Vertigo loss of Memory and Sight in the morning chiefly when fasting and studying together with heaviness of the Head and inward Senses with sadness and fear that hindred all his Actions kept him from Company and made him love solitariness he had often defluxions upon his Back and Joynts with pain 2. In his Letter he sent to me he said he had been 25 years thus troubled and had used the chief Physicians in all Europe but to little purpose he sent me the Advises of those Physicians and I perceived they all agreed that it was Hypocondriack Melancholy among whom these following were whom I name for their Honour viz. Alvarus a Spanish Physician Bernard Bertram of Padua Capalonius an Italian Franciscus Guiamez of Rome Auger Ferrer of Tholouz Riolanus Physician to the French King Alexander Buchinel Anthonius Darinet Anthonius Porreus and Pascotus Burgundians whose praescripts against Melancholy he used from 1582. to 1602. 3. He used also divers Evacuations the Decoction of Guajacum with a spare Diet and Sweating The year following he used the lead Baths and three years after the sharp Waters of Griespake and other things against Melancholy as Purgers Vomitories Alterers and Clysters 4. After the use of these he was still uncured and weakned and complained sadly as melancholy persons use to do in his Letter to me in September 1608 he desired my advice in short and told me he was weary of many Medicines I answered that the Cure would be difficult because his complexion was fixed being melancholy so long 5. I promised not much but gave gentle things as this Wine which he never used before Take of the five opening roots of each an ounce barks of Elder and Dwarf-Elder of each six drams bark of Tamarisk two ounces bark of Caper-roots an ounce Sassafras an ounce and half Wormwood Germander of each an handful and half Ceterach Bawm Ground-pine of each a handful flowers of Borrage Bugloss Scabious of each two pugils Broom-flowers a pugil Fennel-seeds an ounce Carraway seeds two drams seeds of Siler-montanus a dram bruise them and put them into a vessel with the shavings of Juniper and add fifteen measures of Wine I suppose a measure here understood differs not much from a quart some say it is a pint and half stop it well and keep it in a Wine Cellar 6. After 8 days three measures were drawn out and in them were infused Sena two ounces Rhubarb six drams Mechoacan Epithymum Cinnamon of each half an ounce Cloves a dram I called the former his preparing this latter his purging Wine Also I gave him some of my Troches of Wormwood He drank the preparing Wine in the morning two hours afore dinner and took with it a little Chicken Broth for three days and the fourth day a draught of his purging Wine it purged gently 7. In the year 1609. in March he sent me word that he liked his Wine well but the Gout he had made him forbear it but after his Gout was gon he renewed it again thrice and at the Vintage with new Wine 8. In November following he wrote to me again after he had the Gout that he had an Erysipelas in his Leg and a Feaver with it as he used but since he never had any Disease in his Head and therefore desired only now some preservatives against the Gout to abate it I sent him my Pills and Electuary against the Gout that he might use them one after the other Pills against the Gout Take Hermodacts cleansed half an ounce Aloes Turbith Mechoacan of each a dram Rhubarb Myrobalans Citrine and Chebs Mastich of each a dram Euphorbium two scruples round Birthwort a scruple seeds of Hypericon Ginger Cummin of each half a dram Diagredium half a dram Sal-gem half a scruple with juyce of Ground pine make Pills The Gout Electuary Take Germander Ground-pine seeds of Hypericon of each an ounce Sarsa round Birthwort of each six drams Angelica two drams Betony-flowers Cloves Harts-horn and Ivory rasped Amber of each one dram Coral half a dram make a fine pouder and with syrup of Sugar made with Rose-water make an Electuary The Troches or Tables of Wormwood Take Nutmegs two drams Cinnamon Ginger of each one dram Zedoary roots of Master-wort of each half a dram leaves of Marjoram and Wormwood of each a scruple Pepper half a scruple with Sugar dissolved in the thin Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth make Troches or Tables Plateri Obs Lib. 1. XXIV A Vertigo and Melancholy from a Fright 1. One of our Senators being naturally Melancholick was so affrighted at the sudden fall of an Epileptick that he fell into a pain and palpitation of the Heart Vertigo Megrim and Watching he used many things and the Spaw Waters which he had there In the year 1596. I was sent for 2. The 29 day of September I prescribed this Electuary Take Conserve of Roses Citron Peel candied of each half an ounce conserve of Marjoram two drams conserves of Rosemary flowers Bugloss Mint of each a dram species de Gemmis Diamargariton frigid of each a scruple syrup of Poppies an ounce mix them Of this he took a dram and half at bed time and immediately after an ounce of this Water Take Waters of Cinnamon an ounce of Bawn half an ounce choise Canary two ounces in which dissolve sugar of Roses half an ounce 3. I prescribed this Epithem for his Palpitation at Heart to be used once in a day Take Rose-water three ounces Waters of Bawm and Lavender white Wine of each an ounce and half Camphir a scruple mix them You may first dissolve the Camphir in a little Spirit of Wine After anoint the region of the Heart with this Take juyce of Motherwort Oyl of Spike of each half an ounce boyl them a little and add Oyl of Cloves half a scruple Camphir a scruple Saffron half a scruple with Wax make a Liniment Then apply to the Heart this Bagg Take Citron-peels dryed yellow Sanders of each a dram and a half wood of Aloes Spikenard Lavender and Rosemary-flowers of each a dram Basil-seed Cloves Mace Diamargariton frigidum Troches of Camphir of each half a dram make a Pouder for a bagg to be quilted in 4. Inwardly also I gave him this Wine Take Bawm Citron-peels of each a dram Bugloss-flowers a dram and half Rosemary-flowers Basil-seed of each half a dram Cloves two drams Mace a dram Cinnamon half an ounce Sugar six ounces Infuse them in Wine give a draught now and than after he complained of want of sleep I gave him every night a spoonful of Diacodium this did good and caused Sweat 5. Now the Vertigo was worst for which he took these Tablets Take pouder of Diacidonium without species Nutmegs of each a dram Eye-bright Marjoram Lavender-flowers of each a scruple red Coral two scruples Ivory rasped a scruple with Sugar dissolved in
the Knee fixt as it often comes to pass the Foot is drawn upwards by continually drawing it down while they sit or are doing any thing or by hanging a Weight to it oftentimes depressing it the which will be neatly performed if two oblong Plates hollow in the middle filled to the Leg and hinder part of the Hips and joyned about the Joint by Interposition of an Engine and turning it as long as the Patient is able to endure the Foot be forced by degrees from the upper Part downwards 17. Also it is conveniently performed in other places after the same manner by an Engine fitted with Screws commonly called a Compress the Figures of which for some particular Parts you may see in my Synopsis Medicinae with their particular Explication and Use because if it be turned by degrees pressing Parts to which it is applied it forceth the fixt Member and because the Engine or Instrument so turned remains immoveable the same doth return and sustain the Member as far as it shall have forc't or thrust it the which we have made tryal of with Success the Instrument being neatly and ingeniously made 18. Moreover if a Finger remains extended a Ring being put upon it which must be contiguous and made fast to another Ring applied on the next Finger whiles this Finger is moved the other which is fixt being continually forced will be at length constrained to yield and bow And indeed all fixt Members if they be very prejudicial in that Scituation they must be continually drawn into a better and less incongruous Form by Force either of Instuments or otherwise as we said even now 19. If the loss or hurt of motion be by a hard Tumor Callous or Skar affixed to the Tendons and Ligaments and by which also there is a compression of the Nerve whereby a Palsy as it were is caused in some other Part there can be no other kind of Cure but by the use of Emollients such as we have above rehearsed but if a Palsey should be caused from a Compression of the Nerve by reason of too hard Ligature or closeness of the compress then the Ligatures must be loosned or the Instrument removed and taken away which done if a numbness or Palsy does still continue the Spirits must be recalled by long and strong frictions and application of Neuroticks and Antiparaliticks and such as are Powers of Amber of Aniseeds of Castoreum and such like 20. Lastly having tryed all external means that are before mentioned in vain before you come to the use of Instruments or Cutting you may make tryal of Mercuriates which have an exceeding great power of Resolution and performing in this kind more than all other things upon Earth however in this Case you must make use of your Mercury Crude as it were to wit either made into an Amalgama with Lead or Tin or kill'd with Spittle or juyce of Limons and then mixt with some proper Cerot or soft Emplaster which has a natural dissolving power joyn'd with it Or you may use Vigo's Emplastrum de Ranis with three four or six times the proportion of Mercury to what is ordinarily prescribed and in the same proportion you may mix it with other Emplastick Bodies you may use it Emplasterwise without danger and the Mercury must be mixt in the proportion aforesaid or else it will perform next to nothing If this does not you must be necessitated either to use the compress with fitted Screws or come to cutting Libri Primi FINIS IATRICA seu Praxis Medendi Salmon's HISTORY of Famous Cures LIBER II. Of Diseases of the Head CHAP. I. Of the Incubus The AUTHORS Observations I. Incubus or Night-Mare 1. A Young Man about twenty five years of age was for several years troubled with this Disease and so great a weight seem'd to oppress his Stomach that be could not stirr any part of his Body it seised upon him commonly between sleeping and waking and so to the apprehension of the sick he strove mightily with himself but when he came to himself he found no member out of its place 2. First when it came it was towards the latter part of the night and he had but few fits which came somtimes once or twice a week in process of time they were more frequent and at length came to that exorbitancy that they would return fifteen or twenty times in a night with a certain kind of fearfulness so that the Patient was not able to endure them 3. The next day he looked pale as if his Eyes were sunk in his Head And as the vulgar phrase is as if he had been hag-ridden 4. He was of a gross and corpulent Body would eat plentifully and drunk freely without undergoing any kind of labour or exercise coming to me he requested my help and I cured him with the following things 5. First I cleansed his Stomach with a fit dose of Crocus Metallorum every other day this was repeated for three times Afterwards I ordered his Body to be purged with my Family Pills with Aloes the use of which were repeated six times taking a dose every fifth or sixth day 6. In the interim he drank constantly this following decoction Take Rosemary Sage sweet Marjoram Thyme Winter-savory of each four ounces boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water till the quarter part be consumed then strain out without expression sweeten it with double refined Sugar and bottel it up with a Clove in each bottle of which the sick took one every day 7. Moreover I ordered his Stomach to be anointed with Oyl of Mace by expression every Morning and Night and for some few days at the beginning of the Cure Rose cakes dipt in Vinegar of Roses were bound warm to his Temples at Night going to bed by the use of these means the fits were not only suddenly abated but the Patient was in about six weeks time perfectly cured 8. A Maid servant also in the same family was cured of the same Disease by using the same means with very little difference II. The Incubus or Night-Mare in a very aged Man 1. Although this Disease is seldom or never cured in aged people but that for the most part it degenerates into an Apoplexy of which they die yet this in my opinion is rather from the formal than efficient cause For as much as if the Incubus proceeds from a bladder of water in the Brain which I twice saw in persons that died Apoplectick the Disease may be supposed to be incurable 2. But where the formal cause is either from a distemperature of the Stomoach or disaffection of the Spleen whereby an excrementitious Blood or vapours are generated in the Brain in this case I cannot conceive but this Disease may be cured in persons of what age soever provided no other mortal symptom interveen from any other present cause and without doubt this latter is the case of our present Patient 3. For although he was very aged and
had been for many years troubled with this Distemper yet the Paroxysms of this Disease were never excited in him but upon eating food of evill juice or some disorder or Intemperature in his Diet or excess in Drink or from the quality of the things received 4. For when he drank strong Wines he was sure to be troubled with it the next Night so also when he did eat red Herrings nor could he remember that he ever in his life but that he had some fits the next night after the eating of red Herings so also after other things which bred wind and vapours from which so long as he abstained so long he would be commonly free 5. But at length being wearied with the reiteration of them by reason of his age he desired of me if possible some remedy but I knowing how difficult it was to perform such a Cure in old people was loath to undertake it 6. However at length by many perswasions I gave him the following things Take fair water twelve quarts Fumitory Spleen-wort Maiden-hair Angelica Borage Bugloss Missleto of the Oak of each one handful fresh Polypody-roots bruised twelve ounces boyl all to the consumption of almost the half In the scalding liquour infuse for a day and a night the best Alexandrian Sena three ounces Caraways bruised six drams after strain out without pressing sweeten it with double refined Sugar and bottle it up for use of this he drank about a pint a day which gently purged him every day whereby the old man had much relief 7. After the taking of these bottles I ordered him to take Elixir proprietatis from twenty to thirty drops in a glass of Sack twice a day for about a month together by this means his Stomach was so strengthened that the generation of Crudities and vapours were for the future prevented so that the person could eat the things above named without being vexed with fits following the same nor so far as I could learn was he ever troubled with them any more till his dying day III. The Incubus or Night-Mare in a person that was troubled with a Rupture 1. This Disease is of pernitious consequence in those troubled with Ruptures unless they be very careful of themselves although there be little or no motion of the parts yet there is a great perturbation of the Spirits which somtimes increases the Rupture of the Peritoneum as it fell out in this our Patient 2. For when the fits first seized him the Rupture was very small and inconsiderable but after the fits Increased upon him and grew strong although he was one that did no exercise nor labour yet the Rupture was considerably augmented of which he could render no other reason but his great striving or strugling in the night as he thought 3. Which indeed although there was no real stirring of the parts might come to pass here as in another like case where a fissure or fracture of the Skull is made on one side by striking a blow on the other 4. And it has been observed in several Examples that many people from the meer turgency of the Spirits have had Varicis and Anurisms made which are Diseases far more wonderful and unlikely to be made by the Actions of the Spirit than that which we here treat of 5. This person being very much afflicted and troubled in his mind by reason of the Rupture made his application to me whom I Cured after the method following 6. First I caused a gentle Clyster to be given made of emollient herbs afterwards I exhibited another stronger in which was put three ounces of Crocus Metallorum 7. Then I caused his Body to be gently purged with the following Decoction Take spring-water three quarts of the best Sena three ounces Sal Prunellae two drams digest in a gentle heat twenty four hours strain them out without pressing of this the sick drank half a pint every Morning 8. In the mean season I caused the Rupture to be bathed Morning and Evening with Elixir proprietatis with the application of a substantial truss which truss I ordered him to wear Night and Day after his purgative potions were over 9. I ordered him to take Elixir proprietatis twenty five or thirty drops at a time in a glass of choice Canary or Tent the which he did with good success For after a months time the Paroxysm of his Disease returned no more and the Patient seemed to be perfectly cured 10. But as to the Rupture after a months bathing of it with Elixir protrietatis I caused him to apply our Rupture Plaster of Ox-galls with the truss aforementioned by the assiduous and constant wearing of which he confessed the said Rupture to be consolidated in little more than three months time the composition preparation vertues and use of this Rupture Plaster you may see in our Doron Medicum lib. 3. cap. 6. sect 1. to which I refer you IV. An Incubus or Night-Mare with Vomiting 1. This person was a young Woman lately married after which she was exceedingly troubled with the Incubus every Night so that she could have no quiet and the affliction was so extream that she oftimes protested she was afraid to go to Bed nor could she lye down on the bed in the day-time but if she fell never so little in a flumber she was sure to be overtaken with fits of the Incubus 2. Moreover all the time she was afflicted with these Paroxysms she had an exteream and assiduous vomiting so that she could scarcely keep any food in her Belly whereupon she became exceedingly ill so that most people concluded her to be in a most deep Consumption 3. Yet had she neither Cough wheasing nor spitting being in this sad condition she desired my assistance whereupon hearing the relation of her Distemper as abovesaid I concluded there must be a mighty foulness of the Stomach which was the chief cause of all her Evills 4. Whereupon after the exhibition of an emollient Clyster I gave her this following emetick dose Take infusion of Crocus Metallorum six drams salt of Vitriol two scruples white Wine three ounces mix them together it was given in the morning fasting it produced eight vomits and ten or twelve stools 5. The matter first vomited up seemed to be a tough viscous or thick Flegm afterward there came forth a matter thick yellow green and of almost all sorts of colours such a horrible kind of filthiness with stink that I never saw to come from any Patient before and that also in an excessive quantity 6. For this cause sake I repeated the same dose again it brought forth matter again much like the former but nothing so plentiful a quantity the same dose I reiterated once more by which means her Stomach was very thoroughly cleansed so that she seemed to be a new Creature hereby not only her vomiting but also the Paroxysms of the Incubus were totally abolished 7. However to consummate a perfect cure I ordered her to take