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A60638	Iatrica, seu, Praxis medendi, The practice of curing being a medicinal history of above three thousand famous observations in the cure of diseases, performed by the author hereof : together with several of the choicest observations of other famous men ... : wherein for the most part you will find 1. the constitution of the body of the sick, 2. the symptoms predominant, 3. the cause of the disease, what? 4. the exact method which was taken in the cure, 5. an exact account of the medicines exhibited, with the order of their exhibition, various doses and success thereupon ... / perform'd by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.	1681 (1681)	Wing S431; ESTC R2357	1,104,756	801

Agarick Rosin of Jalap of each four Grains Sal Armoniack three Grains Elaterium two Grains Tartar Vitriolate ten Grains Oyl of Lavender one Drop mix and make Pills for one Dose This I repeated every fourth or fifth morning 9. In this interim of Purging I prescribed this following to be taken every morning fasting to six Ounces Take Parsly water two Pounds Juyces of Plantane and Fumitory clarified of each one Pound and an half Juyces of Oranges three Pound mix them At noon I ordered this to be taken Take Plantane Water a Pint Syrupus de-quinque radicibus three Ounces Spirit of Sal Armoniack a Scruple mix them for three Doses to be taken for three days just before Dinner At Night this Take Fumitory-Water a Quart Harts-Horn calcined half an Ounce Sal Prunellae three Drams mix boyl all a quarter of an Hour then strain and sweeten with Syrup of Harts-Tongue Give it for four Doses for four Nights going to Bed This Course I continued with her for three Weeks 10. Lastly that I might the more effectually cool the Blood and alter the hot Constitution of the Body I Ordered her to take Oyl of Salt in all the drink she drank and to make it as tart as she could well endure it and this to do at least 5 6 or 7 times a day by following this Counsel she became perfectly well in about three weeks time being freed as well from her Scurvy as her Megrim III. A Megrim proceeding from a Scorbute in a Cold Constitution 1. This is a famous Example An ancient Woman about 55 years old who had at times been for more than seven years troubled with this Pain which as all Physicians judged and truly enough to proceed from the Scurvy she had diversity of Symptoms in the Skin as Spots in the Leggs Pustules and Ulcers swellings in the Gums looseness of Teeth and a kind of Erratick Itching all over her whole body to which add this violent pain over the one half of her head 2. She had been under other Physicians hands who had often let her Blood cup't her upon each Shoulder had Issues in both Arms and both Legs given her Clysters and purged her with a vast number of Cephalick Pills but all to no purpose 3. After all this she came to me requesting my Directions and declaring all that had been done as aforesaid by which I perceived they had not levelled at the cause of the pain but directed their aim at a wrong mark When I had a little viewed and examined the Woman I found the Scurvy to be the root of the matter and the Scurvy in a cold Constitution and therefore thought in my own Breast That unless I directed my intentions of Cure to that I should necessarily miss the desired end as well as those who had gone before me 4. In the first place I cleansed her Bowels with this Clyster Take Mutton Broth twelve ounces Tincture of Colocynthis an ounce and half Oyl of Aniseeds one dram well mixed with Sugar three ounces put all together and give it warm In all her Drink but chiefly in Horse-radish wine to take about 12 or 14 drops of Spirit of Sal Armoniack four or five times a day I gave her a dram of Sal Vitrioli in Chicken Broth which I repeated every morning for three times then I purged her four times twice with the Lunar Pills and twice with the Golden Spirit of Life of Rulandus the making of which see in my Dispensatory giving them alternately every third day 5. When all these things were done I ordered her to drink the Antiscorbutick Wine of Mynsicht see it in my Dispensatory lib. 4. cap. 12. sect 11. for 14 or 16 days together dropping into every draught thereof 8 drops of the Spirit of Sal Armoniack afore-mentioned 6. For Topicks I ordered to her head hot Bread and it to be repeated as occasion required then the places pained to be bathed with Powers of Amber and Juniper-berries of each a like quantity mixed together Lastly That the Ventricles of the Brain should be evacuated with the solid Errhins mentioned in Cap. 1. Sect. 4. § 5. foregoing 7. And to consummate the Cure I ordered my Patient the Electuarium ad Tabidos which see in my Doron Medicum lib 2 cap. 22. s●ct 1. to be taken every morning fasting and just before Dinner a dram at a time it not only strengthens and comforts all the weakned and enfeebled parts but is a most excellent Cephalick and a very great Antiscorbutick And at Night going to Bed an ounce of the Conserves of Scurvygrass Water-Cresses and Brook-lime made up into a Mass with Sugar the Herbs being in equal proportion Thus in a months time the Sick became perfectly well IV. A Megrim proceeding from a certain foulness of the Stomach 1. This was in a Plough-man of near 40 years of Age and had been of about a twelve months continuance The man was of a black swarthy Countenance dull-spirited slow both of motion and speech and of a cold dry and melancholy habit of body 2. His great Complaint was of a heaviness at Stomach bad appetite and worse digestion so that sometimes he Vomited up what he had received with a great deal of other thick black and nasty matter 3. I gave him an ounce of the Infusion of Crocus Metallorum mixed with an ounce of Oxymel of Squills and three ounces of Carduus water with this he purged both upwards and downwards and his Stomach seemed to be well cleansed five days after I repeated the same and again a third time and he became well From my House at the Red Balls in Salisbury-Court Fleetstreet where my Synopsis Medicinae are to be had London Printed for T. Dawks L. Curtiss sold by T. Basset J. Wright R Chiswel 1681. The Chapter of the Megrim continued Numb 6. August 13. V. A Megrim arising from Blood over-heated 1. A young man of a good habit and constitution of body over-heating himself in Hay-time or Harvest fell into a very strong Feaver with a mighty pain on the right side of his head The Country people used many things to him whereby his Feaver was mightily abated or in a manner gone but the pain of his head continued 2. He came to me and gave as clear a Description as he could of his Disease by which I found that the true Cause was too great a heat and fermentation of the Blood not yet totally suppressed 3. I ordered him Spirit of Sal Armoniack 12 drops to be taken in fair water morning and night and to be continued for about 10 days time During which time I ordered him to Drink 5 6 or 8 drops of Oyl of Sulphur in all the drink he drank and to take it about 5 or 6 times a day by this means the heat of his Blood was allayed and the pain went away without any kind of Purging VI. A Megrim proceeding from a Stomach oppressed with Flegm 1. A certain young

mightily commend Chalybeats as syrup of Steel Tincture of Steel and such like to which may be added the Volatile spirit of the Vitriol of Steel all these things to be exhibitted in proper Cephalicks 36. Our Epileptick Pouder inferiour to none of the former may be given twice a day and is made as follows Take Musk one dram Pouder of Male Peony Roots of Mans skull of Rosemary flowers Ambergrise of each half a dram salt of Amber Volatile Salt of Peacocks Dungs salt of Hartshorn native Cinnabar choice Civet of each a scruple mix them in fine Pouder Dose from twelve grains to a scruple or more once a day especially in the Morning fasting 37. If the Disease be stubborn and Inveterate and the Paroxisms often return the said Pouders may be taken Morning and Night 38. If the Vertigo proceeds from a Windy Vapour besides what we have already prescrib'd the Sutures of the Head ought to be anointed with Chymical Oyls of Rosemary or Sassafras mixed with Civet and the following Dose is to be given at Night going to Bed Take Laudanum from three to five grains Ambergrise five grains Musk ten grains make it into one or 2 Pills with Balsam of Peru or Liquid storax 39. If it arises by consent from the Stomach after evacuating and cleansing of the Stomach as aforesaid you may give every Morning or Noon before Eating forty drops of the Elixir Proprietatis or as much of the Powers or Tinctures of Common Wormwood for that they fortify the Stomach exceedingly and prevent the generation of Winds and Vapours 40. If it rises from the Womb or any other part you must have Respect to those Symptoms and parts concomitantly affected of which we shall say nothing here Save in all Hysterick Cases we commend the Bolus at § 9. in the former Section to be two or three times or more repeated Or The Epileptick Pouder at § 36. aforegoing Or the Pills of Musk and Ambergrise at § 38. but even now described than which there are but very few things superior See more hereof in Our Synopsis Medicinae lib. 3. cap. 29. sect 4. of the last Edition CHAP. IV. Of a CATARRH The Authors Observations I. OF a Catarrh with a great Tumor of the Throat Feaver Hoemorrhoids c. 1. When I began this Work I thought of an uninterrupted continuation thereof to the perfecting the same But it pleased the most Wise God to deal otherwise with me and for a season to put a stop to this my Design for being seized for some Weeks with a Catarrh at last I was taken on Wednesday the 16 of August 1681. with the Piles or Hoemorrhoids in so vehement a manner as that in two hours time they were as big outwardly as a small bunch of Grapes a thing not only unnatural but almost past all belief The vehemency of their pain excited a Lypirias or continual Symptomatick Burning Feaver and a strong binding up of the Bowels together with a great Tumour of the whole Collum chiefly of the Tonsillae Columna Larynx Pharinx and parts adjacent 2. The Author hereof is the object of this Observation I have lived for more than twenty years with as much Moderation and Temperance I think as any body else could do for in all that long time I never took more Physick than one single Purge of Sena if there was any inequality of my Habit of Body it was inclinable to cold and moisture and somthing of late to Melancholy which caused a kind of Pining or wasting away of my Flesh Whether it should arise from any Grief of Mind or my Sedentary Course of Life I cannot easily determine It might be doubtless from them both this I take to be as the prime first or remote natural Cause 3. What farther helped on my Disease as far as I can apprehend was taking of cold by sitting 2 or 3 hours in a Cellar drinking with a Friend a Bottle or two of Cider after the Drinking of which in about two hours time as aforesaid I was afflicted with the Piles a Disease I was formerly subject to and which I commonly Cured before breaking with once or twice anointing with Oyl of Amber though now it would do me no Service and in about two hours after their beginning they were miraculously increased to the bigness of a small bunch of Grapes to which bigness they never formerly attained and then it was commonly the Work of six or seven days 4. The Pain was vehement so that for three Days and Nights I had scarcely any intermissions of Ease but a continual Crying and Roaring out Several Physicians and Chyrurgians were with Me but their Counsels availed nothing as to the giving me Ease although many of them were put in Execution and might be probably enough expedients in other Cases at last I conceived That by reason of the magnitude of the Tumor its black color and extravasation of the Blood that if the Blood was not taken away suddenly that the Tumor might be diminished a Gangreen must necessarily ensue Moreover the pain was so great that as a Feaver was already excited with a Soreness of the Throat so unless ease was suddenly procured nothing but a perfect Delirium or Frenzy could be forthwith expected 5. In order to the doing of this I caused one John Sare a Chyrurgian then present with me forthwith to apply Leeches to the part which was done and a great deal of very pure Blood was drawn away to the value as he Judged of about nine or ten Ounces so that the Tumour was apparently abated After the Leeches which were many had done Sucking he fomented the said Piles for about three hours or more with Linnen Cloths dipt in hot Claret-Wine the best and roughest that could be gotten notwithstanding all this Bleeding and fomenting I had scarcely the least imaginable Ease till about twelve hours after at what time I fell into a little Slumber or Sleep which was the first rest or sleep I met with from my first falling ill 6. Ease thus happily Succeeding together with a continual asswaging of the Tumour I caused the Piles to be anointed with Vnguentum Diapompholigos and a Cloth spread with the same to be applyed to them this gave me immediately more and incredible ease the anointing and application of fresh Oyntment was continued and renewed every three hours in so much that the said Piles speedily vanished and in about eight or nine days time they became perfectly well without the least imagination of their returning again to this Day But they left behind them a strong Lypiria or Symptomatick continual putrid Feaver together with a Tumor of the whole Collum or Neck and Throat both external and internal a hard binding up of the Bowels and a vehement Diaphoresis or Sweating 7. But some other Causes were thought Concomitant with the aforementioned Conjunct Causes for that in the progress of this Sickness even from the beginning to the end thereof it had almost infinite

the Arse-Gut in a certain old Man whose Excrements came away against his Will which proceeded from a cruel Epilepsy For after that it had miserably tormented him for a Month together being attended with most greivous Symptoms it ended in a Palsy of his Arm and Arse-Gut 8. Nor should you think this strange for Galen taught the same 4. Acut. 27. Avicen confirm'd 1. 3. Tract 5. Cap. 8. And as the Apoplexy turns to the Palsy so the Epilepsy in many turns to the Palsy c. This is confirmed by Erastus Lib. 4. Disput contra Paracelsum and by Salius ad Cap. 19. Altomar 9. For the Apoplexy doth very frequently turn to the Palsy because the cause hereof is much greater the Obstruction being confirmed and hard to remove and the Brain languishing and therefore it can neither discuss the thick Humor nor transmit the same to places ordained for Excretion and contrary causes do frequently happen in the Epilepsy 10. Somtimes though seldom if the Epilepsy be greivous and afflicts the Patient with frequency of Fits and is near of Kin to the Apoplexy it ends in a Palsy as Costaeus in Com. Avicen learnedly explained the matter 11. Wherefore frequently the Apoplexy somtimes the Epilepsy ends in a Palsy with this distinction that Contradiction is solved in Galen who Vallesius saith doth manifestly contradict himself Lib. de locis manifeste pugnantibus contradict 6. Whereas thus he is to be understood in 4. de loc 2. saying That only an Apoplexy turns to a Palsy See Amasus 4. Cen. 22. Zacutus Lusitanus Lib. 2. Obs 158. XXIX Of the Palsy in Arms and Legs 1. A certain worthy Gentleman fell into a Palsy of both his Arms his Hands his Fingers and Feet to whom being called I observed that this Disease sprang from too much Repletion wherefore I fell upon this following brief methode of Cure 2. Th first day I gave him an ounce of my Aqua Benedicta with as much fair Water mingled therewith This Potion made him Vomit much Cholerick and Flegmatick matter 3. On the third day I gave him a dram of Extract of Esula in four ounces of Pea's-broth which being mixed strained and pressed out he drank in the Morning and he was orderly purged 4. On the fifth day he began by my advice to use a Decoction of Sarsaparilla prepared after this manner Take Sarsaparilla bruised one ounce infuse it twenty four hours in Water and Wine of each one pint and half and boyl it half away Of this he took in the Morning in his bed seven ounces hot and being well covered with Cloaths he did sweat plentifully a long time together 5. After this sufficient and very proper Sweating I opened his Vena Basilica with great success 6. His Diet was drying and moderately heating after all this he began to grow well and to recover the perfect Motion of those parts which had been Palsied Martinus Rulandus Cent. 1. Cur. 3. XXX Of the Palsy in a very aged Man 1. One John Fux of the Village of Altepain being seventy five years old was taken with the Palsy for his right Arm was deprived both of Sense and Motion which grievious Disease was accompanied with pain in the Stomach loathing of Meat and difficulty of Breathing 2. For the Cure of which Symptoms I began this following Method first I purged his Breast Stomach and whole Body with this following Potion Take of the Decoction of Sena three ounces Benedicta Laxativa one dram Extract of Esula one scruple Ginger ten gra●ns mix them this I gave him in the Morning fasting which purged him very well and he was much the better 3. His Body being well purged for five days together he took by my advice the quantity of a Pease of this following Pouder which caused him to sneez often and to void much thick and clammy Snevil out of the Ventricles of the Brain the Pouder was thus made 4. Take Darnel Nigella-seeds white Hellebor-root of each one scruple Marjoram Rosemary Sage of each half a dram Musk two grains make all into very fine Pouder 5. His Diet was spare drying attenuating and moving Urine his Table-Drink was Wine wherein Rosemary had been steeped also every Morning he drank half an ounce of Aqua Vitae wherein Rosemary had been also steeped 6. The Original likewise of the Nerves and his whole Arm were many times rubbed with hot Cloaths And so by these few Remedies fit for an old Man his Arm beyond all expectation within the space of seven days recovered its sense and motion to God only be immortal Praise Martinus Rulandus Cent. 2. Cur. 54. XXXI Of the Palsy in a Gentle-Woman from drinking Water 1. A certain Gentle-Woman who for the recovery of her Health took a Journey for Bristol for she thought she was afflicted with the Stone for which she drank St. Vincents-Well Water too greedily to the quantity of eighteen pints a day so that thereby cooling her Body too much she fell into a Palsy 2. She afterwards went to the Bath where being purged and using the Bath she was restored returning home in rainy tempestuous Weather that Night she was assaulted with the Mother with Fainting and a light Palsy on the left Side to whom being called I helped by the following things 3. Take Aloes lucid two drams Agarick trochiscated new made Rhubarb of each one dram the Barks of Caper roots Winterian-Cinnamon Tamarisk of each one scruple the Fecula of the roots of Briony and Aron of e●ch half a scruple Castor one dram and half Cream of Tartar half a dram Spirit of Amber four grains with Syrup of Fumetory compound a sufficient quantity make Pills number six of one dram Of which she took three at Night when she went to bed which gave her four stools the next day 4. For the Wind of her Stomack Take Species Diambrae one dram the Oyls of Sage chymical of Nutmegs of Cloves of each four drops Sugar dissolved in Rose-Water two ounces make Rowls to be taken after Meat 5. For the Palsy Take Spirit of Rosemary Oyl of Amber of each an equal part with which her Neck was gently anointed 6. For Fainting Take Species Plerisarchonticon half an ounce fine Sugar two ounces mix them Dose half a spoonful this delivered her both from her fainting and trembling at Heart with which she had been often troubled it is a Pouder worth Gold which I always carry about with me 7. She used also this Decoction Take Guajacum eight ounces Bark of the same Rosemary Sassafras Sarsaparilla of each one ounce Betony Sage Lavender Germander of each one pugil roots of Elecamparte Peony Orrice Citron Peels dryed of each one ounce Spring-Water six pounds infuse them for four and twenty hours in a hot place after boyl them in a close Vessel then straining sweeten it with Sugar and aromatize it with Species Diambrae half a dram She took six ounces of it in the Morning and sweat and as much at four a clock in the

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