thereof And then because it hindereth pissing we shall speak thereof in the Chapter of painfull pissing If the Bladder be inflamed in the substance of it The Inflammation of the Bladder is the cause of the burning pain thereof it causeth a pain in the Privities with redness and tumor also when the Bladder is wrapped in the Caule and the tumor is greater when the Excrements and Urin want passage This Inflammation somtimes turns to an Imposthume and then for the time the pain is yet greater and when that is broken there is an Ulcer and painful pissing of matter Also this Inflammation may leave a Scirrhus such a one as I saw gtowing very large in the Bladder of a Cow that was broken by accident and cured again Also this Inflammation if it be not well cured turns to a Gangraene And I once saw a Bladder black within when I opened a dead Fryar Some external accident may cause this Inflammation of the Bladder or pain from the stone or an Ulcer to which Diseases an Inflammation is somtimes joyned of the Bladder and Kidneys also when the body is Plethorick and fit to receive it Because the Womb is in the same lower part of the Belly The cause of pain in the Womb and the Vessels thereof and lyeth under the Bladder and the bottome thereof especially being stretched reacheth into the Belly the pains are alike in both And because the Ligaments of the Womb by which it hangeth reach to the Hips and Loyns they are pained also and of them we shall here speak but we have treated of the pains of the Neck of the Womb in its place But all the pains of the Womb in the bottom or Body or Ligaments thereof some whereof reach to the Neck as in the Bladder come from stretching or from Inflammation The stretching pain in the bottom of the womb The stretching of the bottom of the womb causeth the pain after Child-bearing comes chiefly from outward Cold taken in after Child-bearing while the inward Orifice of the womb is large and open for want of keeping warm by which means the Air gets in and fills and stretcheth and weakneth it and by cooling causeth pain This is called the pain after Child-bearing At another time this pain cannot come from taking in of Air because before Conception the womb is smal and thick and the cavity which is to be filled with Seed in time of Conception is very straight and after conception also when it grows bigger with the Child the inward Orifice is close shut and the womb full Nor from wind bred in the Body because if it get into the straight cavity of the womb or breed there it cannot so stretch the womb to cause pain because it is very thick Neither can water cause pain for the same reasons Though some suppose that the womb may be like a bladder inlarged and have an Inflammation from wind and water as they call it For though the womb be larger in some women by Nature or by much moisture which loosneth it yet it cannot be so filled and stretched that pain may follow And if the repletion be great there will be rather a weight and heaviness then a pain as it is when the Child is great but the weight of the Child by stretching the Ligaments may cause a kind of pain but it is in the Groins and not in the Loins as we shewed So then there is no other stretching pain of the womb but what is after Child-bearing The stretching of the vessels is the usual cause of pain in the womb caused either from the substance of it or from the Membranes and Vessels by which it hangeth but from Humors retained and then it may reach to the sides as we shewed in Hypochondriack pains as when the courses are stopped or disordered or foul This foulness comes from foul blood and humors in women of evil habit that want their Courses which do so fill stretch or provoke the part they that cause pain especially when they are hot and send up Vapors and produce other Accidents especially the suffocation of the womb as we there shewed The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb and neck also The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb causeth the burning pain thereof causeth pain with divers accidents as we shewed This as that of the Bladder may leave an Imposthume Ulcer Scirrhus or Gangraen And the cause external may be a Stroak or Bruise or internal abundance of blood about the womb upon stoppage of the Terms when they flow not into the neck but into the substance of the womb and cause Inflammation according to the diversity of the blood The Cancer of the womb And if the quality thereof be malignant it may cause a Cancer which shall be mentioned in Diseases of the Neck of the Womb because it is commonly in that part The womb is chiefly inflamed from difficulty of Deliverance The Inflammation of the womb after Child-bearing causeth the second sort of pain after child-bearing great pain and straining either while the child or after birth remain or after they are gone which causeth a Feaver And this Inflammation is rather the cause of many womens death then the retention of the after-burden and the pain they have comes from the Inflammation as well as from the Air that gets into it and is then greater and more dangerous The Cure The Cure is different according to the part affected and the variety of Causes as the Bowels are stretched cooled or inflamed by Blood or Choler And is to be applied to the stretching or Inflammation of the bladder or womb The stretching of the Bowels from what cause soever The cure of the Colick pain of the womb Convolvulus from stretching or cold if it cause the Coeliack and Iliack pain must be cured the same way as also when it comes of Cold. And if it come from the abundance of excrements and wind with pain and rumbling if they come forth as they use to do by Fasting Belching or a Flux you must take the same course as in Diarrhaea If these Excrements cause a stoppage in the thick Guts and so by stretching the Colick it is easier cured then in the small Guts especially when they are evil and increase continually for then Iliack passion which is so deadly and hard to be cured will return and cause Convulsions and Palsies and the like which though the pain cease destroy the Patient And if the stoppage be so hard that it cannot be opened but the thin Guts are so full of Excrements that they are sent back into the Duodenum then follows the deadly convolvulus or Spewing up of Excrements or Iliack or knots or tanglings of the Guts In all which cases except when the Guts are knotted or an Iliack pain from a Rupture for then you must rather look to the putting up the Gut then to the Iliack Passion the cure is
And the same is done by Irritation if there be more heat or sharpness then is fit as we shewed in the Causes of Lechery Also the same Seed by pricking through the Imagination only of the Act which is usual in dreams and the like thoughts being moved and sent forth causeth Pollutions sleeping and waking Also this comes from the heat of Seed so that it is sooner ejected in the Action then it ought or some part comes forth before the Act. And also that it comes forth with Heat and Burning But if there be great sharpness in the Seed from Infection or Corruption then follows the virulent Gonorrhaea or venemous Running of the Reins comming commonly from the French Pox. And this may come before they have the Pox from some other Venom which was gotten by Infection of other seed in Copulation and so turned corrupt and sharp by which means not only this foul and involuntary Excretion comes by the sharpness but also in continuance of time an ulcer and pissing of matter The involuntary Flux of Seed in the Gonorrhaea The weakness of the Seed-vessels is the Cause of a Gonorrhaea comes from the weakness of the Spermatick Vessels when the seed is watery and not concocted to the likeness of milk for then being thin it easily comes from its place without sense or with very little and without any Cause or with the least pricking not only in the Yard but Fundament when the stools are very hard or as Fernelius speaks of one when a Clyster is given And this weakness comes from distemper especially cold or want of Natural Heat in the Parts or the whol Body which makes the Seed so watery For it is not likely that the Waterishness of the Seed should come from Flegm because it is made of blood which though it be crude and watery yet the stones and breasts do alwayes take the purest blood to make seed and milk in foul Bodies full of Excrements as appears by men of evil Habit of Body getting Children and women that nourish their Children by giving suck when their Blood is impure Also Weakness comming from the loosness of the seed-vessels produceth somtimes a Gonorrhaea when the places containing the seed in their windings and the Vessels that carry it are too large and loose so that it may easily fall out This loosness comes from often Venery in a short time somtimes sooner somtimes later to luxurious People by which the baggs of seed being often emptied and filled and from the loss of spirits are so loose and weak that the seed is thin and watery By the opening the mouths of the Seed-vessels which make it of Blood The Anastomosis or opening of the mouths of the Seed-vessels is the Cause of imperfect and bloody Seed there comes bloody seed or blood instead thereof in Copulation when by the often Action in a short time the Vessels that contain the seed are so empty that they draw blood or imperfect seed from the mouths of the seed-vessels opened by this sucking And this sucking comes from the Lechery or Heat of the Womb as is said of African Women as it happned to a Soldier a while since that lying forcibly with a Countrey-wench was so brought down that after often Lechery he voided bloody seed and by that means fell into a Consumption that caused his death There is also an involuntary Effusion of Seed from a Disease in other parts The shaking of the Seed-vessels in a Convulsion is the Cause of loss of Seed when the Seed-vessels suffer by consent as the Nerves in a Convulsion in which through the forcible shaking which moveth the whol Body the Spermatick vessels being shaken do cast out seed somtimes especially when it abounds even as by the same violence through the pressing of the Muscles of the Belly the Bladder being pressed sends forth the Urin. And this is rather the Cause of loss of seed in Convulsions then the Convulsion of the Muscles of the Seed although they also suffer For though in the Act of Venery they help the Effusion by gentle opening the Vessels yet they do it not before the seed be out of its bag and is carried by them wherefore in Convulsions they do not help the Effusion but the disorderly motion drives it from its place Neither doth the Loosning of these Muscles in an Apoplexy cause the flux of seed as it doth of Urin because these Muscles are made for Retention and not as the Sphincter The Cure If the involuntary flux of feed in both sexes The Cure of the Gonorrhaea be by Nocturnal Pollution from plenty of seed it is not regarded because it never comes but when it aboundeth and hurts not much and is cured either by Marriage or if not by abstaining from things that increase it and provoke it forth But if the Gonorrhaea come from hot and sharp seed that must be tempered And if from weakness of the Vessels it be made too watery it flow too easily or cannot be contained by reason of the loosness of the Vessels by too much Venery because it weakneth the Vessels must be strengthned and the seed thickned all which may be done by the following Remedies applied to the Causes of the Gonorrhaea Somtimes we purge if the seed grow to sharpe and watery from colerick and watery Blood to cleanse it so that it may afford good matter to make seed And with such things as are fit for the Humor abounding these are so ordinary they need not be mentioned here Things that alter are given to stay this Flux according to the diversity of the Cause And if it be from plenty of seed we diminish it with Dryers and that by a proper quality destroy it or consume it if from heat and sharpness we allay them with cool and gentle Remedies If it be too thin and watery we thicken it if the Vessels that contain it are weak or loose we strengthen them with astringent hot and proper things All which are partly done with the Remedies mentioned in Saelacity or Lasciviousness especially if the Gonorrhaea come from plenty or heat of seed which causeth Lechery and partly with these following which are fit for the Gonorrhaea that comes from any Cause A drying Pouder that bindeth and worketh by Propriety Take Roots of Orris Agnus Castus seeds and Coriander prepared each one ounce Seeds of Plantane Roses Rue Winter-cherries Mints each half a dram Amber and red Coral each one dram Frankincense Mastick half a dram make a fine Pouder give one dram by it self or with Sugar of Roses or some convenient Liquor When you will dry and astringe more you may ad these following to the former as Myrtle seeds Bay-berries Sumach Yarrow Agnus Castus Rue Roses and Ceterach Acorns Pomegranate flowers the Pouder of the Guts and Gizards of Hens Bulls or Dears pizles Hair of an Hare burnt Ivory Bole Blood-stone Crystal For to allay the heat and sharpness of the seed Take the
blood by the passages of urin without pissing with great pain when the stone is taken out of the Bladder The Natural Flux of the Terms is preternatural if it be not at the night time or be longer The immoderate Flux of the Terms or in great quantity or after they have been long stopped or when women have been thought with Child by reason of the greatness of their bellies through that stoppage and then have them suddenly and in great quantity with great weakness and hazard of life But that Flux is preternatural and different from the Flux of the Terms In old Women there is a Flux of blood from the womb different from the Terms if when the Terms are past and the Woman is old it come without order sometimes more somtimes less remaining long which we call not the Courses but an Haemorhagy of the womb Faintness Palness and evil Habit followeth these preternatural Purgations of blood from the womb either pure or mixed And after a long stoppage if there come suddenlya great Flux it weakneth and somtimes kills I observed in three Women which were past their Courses this Haemorrhagy or Bleeding of the womb in one it lasted above two years in the other a long time and in one of them with such great pain of the womb almost continuing a whol year not yeelding to any Medicines it continued till death Somtimes the Flux after Child-birth is so great that the woman is much weakned thereby Bleeding after Child-birth And this is not only after a Natural birth but after Abortion with great Danger There is another Flux of Blood from the womb at the first Copulation of the woman Bleeding in the time of deflowring and Copulation when she looseth her Virginity such as when she hath her Terms and this because it is counted the sign of Virginity and therefore ought to follow is not counted preternatural or hurtful Also this bleeding in Copulation is afterward and with great pain There is another Flux at the Fundament besides that of a Dysentery The immoderate Flux of the Haemorrhoids Needing or Liver-flux which is common in both sexes called Haemorroids as any other flux of blood may be called Which albeit it is usual and profitable to some Tempers and Constitutions especially of Men and somtimes of Women when old especially comming not in order like the Courses but once twice or thrice in a year yet is it preternatural when it is immoderate and flows too long or returns too often and causeth Faintness Weakness Paleness evil Habit and Dropsie as we shewed in other Fluxes of blood In this Flux the Blood is separated from the other Excrements being almost pure and not so black as blood that flows from other parts And if it be discoloured or impure it will be rather very red or yellow then otherwise When this Flux comes in a Disease and doth not good as when it comes in order curing the Disease but hurt by its violence making the Body weak it is preternatural Also that which comes not Naturally but by a violent Cause as shall be shewed and therefore is unprofitable especially when painful and hurt followeth is preternatural Besides this Flux of the Haemorrhoids Another bleeding at the Fundament different from the Haemorrhoids there are other preternatural from the Fundament As that which is of little blood appearing comming from a violent Cause with Itching and Pain Hither may be referred that bleeding in women when the Terms come not only from the womb but Fundament This is seldom but somtimes it hath ulcerated the Parts It can scarce be without a Miarcle as in our Savior The drops of blood from the Pores of the Skin that Blood should sweat through the Pores of the skin But we saw once in a Child that had a Dropsie most of his Pores bloody as if his Body had been sprinkled with blood and yet the blood did not flow or foul the Linnen Blood usually flows from the body Bleeding by wounds or Orifices not naturally by its orifices and wounds great or small either made for bleeding by Art or by Chance as we shall shew here and as was declared in Wounds and the like Divisions of the Skin and Diseases Blood flows but little from the skin when that is only divided without other hurt When a Vein is opened it leaps out abundantly and this will weaken the strength if immoderate As also when there is no need and when it is done rashly and from an evil Custom by which means many have grown weak and old before their time In the opening of an Artery the Blood being hot leaps by starts and if it continue it brings weakness and worse accidents As it hapned in the opening of an Aneurism there was a total loss of blood and strength which causeth Death We have feen in the Feet a Vein open of it self as in Phlebotomy and it hath flowed in great quantity into the Shoes be for Notice hath been taken thereof And we have seen the same in the crooked Veins of the Thighs And some say that it hath been so in the Face Arms Breast and under the Ribbs from whence if it should come at night and not be discovered it would be as dangerous as bleeding over much from opening of a Vein by Art This is rare in Men but usual in Horses when they are very hot but it doth no harm When I was at School I saw my School-fellow that sat next me bleed at the small Vein in the tip of his Nose very much and often and it opened of it self and this came from the heat of his Body by violent Exercise Somtimes the Blood flows more or less from the Habit of the Body in Wounds and Amputations and it is so great somtimes that it causeth great weakness except it be stopped Somtimes Blood flows from the internal Cavities of the Belly Breast Head c. In wounds there or falls into the Cavities And if this be immoderate it weakneth and if it be contained in the Cavities it grows together and putrifies and brings greater Symptoms then those that come from a Wound The Causes The Causes of all these Kinds of Bleeding from divers Parts of the Body is either from the Solution of Continuity by opening of the Mouths of the Veins or the solution of Continuity from the Hurt done to some Veins or parts underneath Some comes from the opening of the Mouths of the veins according to their diversity The opening of the mouths of the Veins or Anastomosis in the Ears nose neck of the womb strait gut or skin is the Cause of bleeding in those Parts The inward Veins of the Ears opened by Anastomosis somtimes bleed much and this comes from the plenty or the thinness of the blood in the head but seldom for then Nature would rather send it forth by the Veins of the Nose except it flow both wayes as we shewed The inward Veins
Spirits of Wine a deadly Stupidity and also an excessive heat is raised in which case as also in others raised from the like cause we give Natural Milk and Factitious made of Almonds and Guord Seeds also Butter common Oyl and Oyl of Almonds and other Fat and mucilaginous things the which also we said were proper in corroding poysons Also Acid things given as they do quel the heat of Acrid humors and Choler so also the efficacy of Narcoricks which I am wont rather to give as Acid juyces or syrups or Vinegar it self which therefore we have said elsewhere is the most certain Remedy for Drunkenness the other things which do it by a certain propriety shal be explained in the Remedies If a malignant quality The Cure of a sleepiness stupidity from a malignant quality which we cannot rightly explain come from without from the Stroke of a Beast from whence a Sleepiness or stupidity ensues then things antipharmacal resisting these Poysons must be given such as are described in their place but if that such a Malignity be raised up in the body as in Malignant Feavers we have said that then also a Sleepiness and Stupidity doth happen and then applying those things which the malignity of the same method of cureing is to be observed which was mentioned in a Lethargy If a Daemonical Sleep delude Witches as we have said The Cure of Daemonical sleep from an evil Spirit seeing the cause is preternatural it will not be cured by natural Remedies but by prayers and amendment of life but if they refuse to do that they are worthy to be purged by sire The animal spirits being spent in the Brain The Cure of an Apoplexy from the wasting of the animal Spirits if a man become Apoplectical death it self prevents al manner of cure which we ought to foretel to be ready at hand But the Spirits being spent in the Brain by great meditations if sometime they become stupid they easily come to themselves again upon the return of the spirits The Cure of an Epilepsie Catalepsie and Stupidity from the too much profusion of the animal spirit out of the Brain but if that by some vehement affection of the mind the spirits be so carried forth that being taken with a grievous stupidity with Rigor they become Cataleptical then the evil is very pertinacious and that especially if this disease have its original from Melancholly for those thus affected are hardly cured and though they be freed from it yet they continue Stupid and Melancholly And if from Anger also they fall into an Epilepsie they are not free from danger in which species whiles they are in the Fit the same Remedies are likewise applied which are used in the rest of the Epilepical to the quickly taking off of their fits the which ceasing the cause must be turn'd away this being done if the evil do stil return whenas by that we know that the internal cause is yet present which the external did first move then the care must be fitted to the taking away of that which in a Catalepsis they apply to Melancholly in an Epilepsie to the purging of Flegm as shal be said But if that a Convulsion or which seldomer comes to pass a Catalepsis do follow from a Disease of the Nerves drawing the Brain into consent and somtimes affecting of it too the Cause it self must be diligently considered and according to that we must foretell and order the cure which we have said was in that continued Epilepsie as also somtimes in a Catalepsis but seldom hapning a certain malignant melancholly and poysonous humor consisting in the hidden parts of the body of the Veins about the inward parts of the body or also the outward parts and otherwise lurking in the habit of the body or also within the Skul arising from some fault that doth not yet destroy the brain but by course affecting the Nerves but of a milder and Shorter Epilepsie certain evaporations proceeding here and there from the inward bowels from a Causeless persevering and sometimes also Pains or only Troubles when though they have no such great cause in weak Children yet they may produce Epileptical fits but of the rest of Convulsions which are Short we said the internal causes were a poysonous humor also in the Veins in Feavers which these Convulsions do follow or otherwise Acrid Pernicious cholerick or serous humor or blood corrupted or it depends on the taking of things destructive or poysonous or proceeds from grievous pain either from a Wound or the biting of Beasts In all which species since they are all difficult we must not rashly foretel any thing of good although a fit cure and benefit of nature doth somtimes mitigate the Prognostick to wit The long continued Epilepsie so called if it begin before the time of youth and cease not when that time comes viz. when men can eject seed or when women have their courses as also that which first begins after youth is Incurable and desperate which will afflict them to the last day of their lives for a long time unless the cruelty of the symptomes doth make death more speedy but from the Shorter Epilepsie that Convulsion which is called the Worse is deadly and that also which is called the Milder species wants not its danger Which things since that they are thus these Prognosticks being premised the Cure must nevertheless be attempted which we shal not first of al divide according to the Causes seeing they are so various and abstruse but proceeding by the manner of operation we shal explain how by medicines emptying and altering found out partly by Use and partly appropriated to the Cause for some Reason we ought to heal Epilepsies and Convulsions or at leastwise to keep off or mitigate their fits Evacuating Remedies are those which do carry another way the Causes procreating or Fomenting Convulsions whether they be vapors or humors either by revelling and deriving from the part affected or by Repelling and hindring them to come to the part and that either by opening made by Cutting Sucking Burning or by Purgations ordered by divers passages of the body or by other operations outwardly applied Amongst the kinds of Cutting Phlebotomy presents it self for the lessuing of the blood which in a long continued Epilepsie wil take place if the Patient be Plethorick or the Hemthoids which before were accustomary be supprest some general eminent and appearing Vein being made choyce of for this purpose yet many do advise to open the Shoulder-vein called the Cephalick for the heads sake also blood taken from the Veins of the Ham and Ankles is very convenient and so much the more if the Courses be stopt in Women the which also some commend if taken from the Veins of the Forehead and Tongue and if we do conjecture its cause to depend upon malignant blood these detractions of blood must be often repeated whenas we have shewed that in Madness
and active and they who have less are weak and sooner die And when that flourishing humor is consumed like Oyl by the heat of the spirit by degrees in age men grow more weak and dry Among internal and external causes Diseases that dissipate the influent and fixed spirits are the cause of weakness all great Diseases dissipate the vital spirits if they continue long and at length consume the innate spirits with the radical moisture wherewith it is joyned from whence the weakness is more or less Great and often Evacuations either by chance or willingly Evacuations that dissipate the natural fixed and also the influent heat cause weakness or in Diseases exhaust and dissipate the spirits and abate strength especially if good humors be voidded as Seed in the running of the Reins or by Venery Also great bleeding purging by reason the stirring of the spirits abate strength as in Diarrhaea's and great and often sweating and much pissing Also the sudden effusion of things besides nature as of Water in the Dropsie matter in an Empiema doth weaken These violent excretions being painful as in a Dysentery weaken more Great pain which violently stirreth the spirits Pain moving the spirits causeth weakness to bring them to the part afflicted with the blood for help causeth weakness and if it be very great fainting Especialy if the part suffering Pain of the Mouth of the Stomack cause of Cardiaca or fainting have great affinity with the Heart Hence it is that they who have the Cardialgia or Heart pain are very weak by reason of the consent of the Stomach with the Heart and do easily faint this fainting is called Cardiaca And so it is in other painful and long Diseases Great and sudden Passions of the Mind Trembling of the Spirit is the cause of weakness fainting because then the spirits are carried in and out with force cause debility and somtimes fainting and death Thus we have seen some swoon with joy that hath thrown the spirits outward and have read that others have died so In anger the spirits are so inraged that they look red in the Face And when the spirits presently return as the paleness following sheweth they are in little danger of life but they are weakned thereby as appears by their trembling and there remains a weariness though anger be over Nor is the cause of men not dying with anger as with joy because angry men are stronger as is supposed in regard old men and sick men that are peevish are easily moved to anger But it often hapens that by great fear the spirits being violently moved some die and many are weakned And shame and bashfulness may cause the same by which they say Homer died Also if the passions be of long continuance and strong as sadness and fear and the like they stir the spirits with continual Cogitation and at length consum them and as they say dry the bones and this is a Consumption of the Spirits A strong and constant heat doth not only dissipate the spirits but consumes them Heat dissipating the spirits and consuming their nourishment is the cause of weakness and their nourishment as when the body is weakned by heat fire labor there is fainting somtimes And in Feavers it is so especially in a Causon or burning Feaver And in a Hectick the accidental heat of the heart though not great yet continuing devours the radical moisture of the heart and solid parts and the spirits and causeth weakness and Consumption A cold distemper quencheth the native heat Cold restraining the native heat is the cause of weakness or makes it less so some have been frozen to death And others have been killed with staying long in cold water Also some parts are benumed and blasted with cold or so weakned that they come not again to themselves And this may come to the Stomach by drinking cold water And hither may be referred those that for want of excercise bring not the native heat into action and grow stupid Also the parrs grow weak by using things inwardly and outwardly that are Potentially cold a long time they grow weak but the native heat is not wholly extinct as by actual cold Although hitherto it hath been believed to come from Narcoticks that are very cold which as we shewed do not kil by cooling but by stupefying the brain Nor do we grant that the Pores being obstructed that the heat is Suffocated for want of fanning or Eventilation for as we shewed the Skin hath Pores not to let in Air but to let out other things A Maligne quality affecting the Heart or mixed with its spirits A Maligne quality in the Heart is the Cause of weakness causeth an extinction of native heat thereof and by consequence of all the Body or diminisheth it and begets a Syncope or weakness or Death according toits divers qualities So when the Air is infected men in the Plague suddenly faint are weak and die or in swouning Feavers which alwaies begin with fainting And when Poyson is taken or bred in the Body it gets to the Heart and endangers life and causeth weakness And this may happen to other parts when Poyson is more contrary to them then to the Heat If a Wound peirce the left Ventricle of the Heart A Wound in the Heart is the cause of weakness and Death the spirits suddenly vanish and there is sudden Death And if the right or it peirce the Superficies or cuts the Coronal Veins they die suddenly from great bleeding I suppose non can scape if the substance only be hurt and divided because a principal part cannot endure it Fernelius writes that he saw one that consumed before he died of an Ulcer in the Heart that came from an inward cause The like may be from a Tumor which is rare and not known but by dissection because the Heart feels not I faw in 1644. in a Woman that I opened of a Dropsie in the Breast such a swolen Heart loose and greater then it should be with the Vessels especially the Arteria Aorta three times bigger then usual and both the Ventricles especially the left and the Langs and Cavity of the breast silled with waterish blood Also a great corruption in other parts extinguisheth the native heat The Cure We shall shew how it is to be done in diverse weaknesses The Cure of weakness and swouning and chiefly in general Imbecility and great fainting which also may be for particular weakned parts although in their Symptoms we shall also speak thereof We must act and prognostick acctording to the diversity of the cause of weakness If it come from want of Air and breathing we shewed the Cure in the defect of Breathing If it be from the birth or old age we labor in Vain because natural causes cannot be changed nor radical moisture renewed If it be from Evacuation it is worst from Venery or bleeding which is in a Dropsie If
Meazles come from the same Feavers A Synochus pure putrid malignant pestilent or venemous is joyned with the Measles and as the other are pusles so these are spots red and broad over the body and especially the Face and Breast Some Children have them both but at divers times the Feaver is alike in both In putrid malignant Feavers red spots such as after flea-bites or black or blew break forth in the height or state of the Feaver these are signs of malignity and Death Sometimes there is a broad spot under the breast as I saw in a maid before her Death in a malignant Feaver And in the yeer 1649. I saw a blew spot which turned black upon the Heart of an old woman before her death and her neighbour died of a Carbuncle in that place where it appeared ten years before when he had the Plague The like in a Pestilent feaver shew the infection and death and are called the tokens In venemous feavers divers spots declare the Poyson Also a smal Ephemera or pure Synochus may be with the Gout Colick Stone bloody Flux and breeding of teeth and in hard travil but this hath no great Symptoms A pure Synochus which degenerateth at the end may have other pain and accidents from internal Inflamations but if it follow them it is not long or vehement nor dangerous but by reason of the Inflamation If the feaver be first and the Inflamation follow which is somtimes very sudden and doubtful which was first if there be a cough of bloody and filthy matter in the Lungs and a pain as the Pleurisie or heat and stretching pain in the Liver or Spleen with this feaver it lasteth longer then a single Synochus and according to the Disease accompanying it is longer or shorter or changed into a putrid feaver As in the causes shall be shewed The accidents of these feavers are less then â—â—ose of a single Synochus they seldom have the Head-ach although the Symptoms of the Disease accompanying be great and dangerous And they are not called by the name of a feaver But if a doting in a true Phrensie or Suffocation in a quinsie which follow these feavers as the Inflamation of the Tongue follow the Disease called in High-dutch Brenne come here upon the companion of the feaver is as the former Albeit other dangerous accidents for which these are called very sharp Diseases come from the Disease There is with a Cough and mattery spitting and Consumption The Tysick accompanies a Hectick Feaver at first a gentle feaver which turneth into a Hectick this is not unlike a simple feaver but kills at a distance This heat being smal breeds no great Symptoms except at the night The Puls is often swift and inequal but not strong when the feaver increaseth by reason of the Patients weakness The Urin is little changed There is somtimes a gentle Symptomatical feaver joyned with Cachexy or evil habit Cachexy or evil habit joyned with a gentle Feaver which is either when the body is swolen and discoloured as in Leuco-Phlegmatia or grown less as in Atrophy the heat of this feaver is not sharp but so gentle that the Patient feels it not Like a Hectick for which it is usually taken It is commonly in new born Children and when they are weaned and in Virgins before they have their Terms It is known by sharp breathing beating of the Heart and Consumption of the body which is seen by the sticking forth of the Sword-bone in the breast and of the Ribs and Shoulders it turns somtimes into a true Hectick and is cured by taking away the Disease that caused it When the After-birth a dead Child A gentle Feaver from the Retention of foul humors or the like or Worms or congealed Blood is retained there is a preternatural heat and a Feaver known by the Puls and other signs that last not long because the cause is not of long continuance as shall be shewed This is at first gentle and Symptomatical Intermitting Feavers that go and come at certain times Intermitting Feavers are of one sort and are called impure Acute because there is an apparent molesting heat which is pricking and impure Yet in respect of the daies in which they come they are divers These are solitary or alone not accompanied with others as continual feavers are for though they produce another Disease yet it is distinct from the feavers Besides they follow not Diseases for as we shall shew in the Causes when a Disease causeth a feaver it must be continual nor are they Symptomatical but Primary and begin of themselves But intermitting feavers are single as the continual are in which not one alone but two or three sorts come in divers fits and therefore it is called a single a double or a triple intermitting feaver Any of these joyned with a continual is Compound as the Semitertian or the like wherein the Patient is alwaies in a feaver The Course of this Acute impure intermitting feavers of what kind so ever is the whol time of the other somtimes for a week or longer or for many months In which time a feaver coming extraordinary in the time of the sit by which we know the time This is properly called the worst time of the feaver and the time of rest is called remission both which are named from their circuite which from the accession either returnes the same day or the following third fourth or fifth Those that return the third day are the most frequent called Tertians An intermitting Tertian and somtimes they come at the same hour often sooner but later when they decline The accession of these feavers is somtimes at four hours twelve or fourteen hours distance and there are so many sits or more before it ceaseth They are most in Summer and young people When they come in Autum and in old men they last longer and are dangerous They which come the fourth day are called Quartanes and are usual An intermitting Quartan either sooner or later the fits are as long or longer then those of a Tertian and the whol course seldom lasting less then three or six months Somtimes above a year or two These begin in Autum and scarse ever leave till the beginning of the next Spring and are more frequent with people of a middle Age. They which come the next day are called quotidians An intermitting Feaver and Amphimerinae The acession is eight hours and the intermission six according to the ancients but we know it not These Quotidians are of the kind of Tertians or quartans not a new sort for if either seaze upon a body and another feaver followeth as is usual either presently or a little after of its own nature or of another sort Then there being divers one cometh one day and another the other so there are divers accessions or fits dayly not equal nor at the same hour till one is gone and the other returnes to its former order
after she had whelped and she presently had pains Pills Take Opopanax Sagapenum each a dram Castor Gentian each half a dram Spike a scruple Saffron half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort make Pills Give half a dram or a dram In great Pains give Opiats as in the Colick especially Triphera magna proper for the Womb a dram and half with Wine or Mugwort-water with Mace a scruple and Saffron half a scruple in pouder Or give Treacle and a little Castor therewith Foment make Baths for the Feet proper for the Womb with Decoctions of Herbs Seeds and Spices as chiefly for the Womb Mugwort Motherwort Bayes Balm Nip Costmary Grapes Savin great Celandine Swallow-wort roots Wall-flowers Misleto of the Oak Carot seed and the like Or bags mentioned in Pain of the Guts Anoynt also with Oyls as that of Bayes Wall flowers Orris Lillies Water-lillies Nard Elder Or use Oyntments with Oyls and Juyces of Herbs and Gums or Plaisters as that of Bay-berries Or Cataplasms of the Plants mentioned and Lillies and Onyons boyled mixing Oyls or that of Cow dung and Cummin seed with Honey and Wine or with Henbane if the pain be great Use also Injections made of Decoctions and Juyces of Plants but they reach but to the neck of the womb and therefore cannot take away pain nor Pessaries except it be by provoking the Terms But Fumes or Smoaks go into the Womb therefore they are better then Injections if they be taken into the Body from a Decoction Also sweet things of Musk and Ambergrease put into the womb refresh it And rubbing of the Feet from the Thighs downwards Cupping-glasses applied to the Hips cause diversion The Inflammations of the Womb and Bladder The cure of the inflammation of the bladder and womb if they cause pains in the lower part of the Belly by reason of the joyning together of these parts are cured alike as we shall here shew Inflammations are very dangerous in parts so exquisitely sensible especially in the womb when it is inflamed from hard travail which causeth many Women to die in Child-bearing Also if an Inflammation be in the Bladder from an Ulcer or Stone it endangers the Patient In both if there be an Ulcer or Scirrhus caused by it the case is difficult and if a Gangraene follow death is at the door The cure of both Inflammations is as of others by revelling or drawing by the matter when it first floweth to the part by repelling or driving back and by abating the Heat and presently after the Flux is ceased by consuming and discussing it And if these Inflammations produce other Diseases as is usual in the Neck of the Bladder and Womb they shall be spoken of in their places But you must do as followeth against the Inflammations First open a Vein in the Arm to revel and then in the Foot to derive in both cases except there be any hinderance as a Flux in Women in Travail in or after a mischance Use Scarification and Cupping to the Thighs and Buttocks But in the Inflammation of the Womb if the Terms flow too much scarifie and cup the parts above Give Clysters to open the Belly cool and abate pain and they are good at the first For being given in at the straight Gut they communicate their vertue to to the womb and bladder to which they are closely seated They must be such Clysters as are mentioned for the Inflammation of the Kidneys and Guts And such as abate pain being made of Milk to which when we wil cool to some purpose we add Juyce of Nightshade Violets Mallows and the like Apply outwardly Remedies before and behind first Coolers and Repellers but not strong Astringents as in other Inflammations least Hardness follow Afterwards in the increase we add Dissolvers which we use at the conclusion alone And if it tend to Suppuration we use Ripeners A cooling and somwhat repelling Cataplasm Take Roots of Marsh-mallows two ounces Plantane Shepheards-purse Teazel Vine leaves and Violet leaves two handfuls boyl and stamp them add Meal of Barley and Lentils three ounces Fleabane seed half an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces make a Cataplasm Or eight ounces of the Decoction distilled Water or Juyce of the said Plants with an ounce and half of Vinegar is a good Epithem for the same And it will be stronger with half an ounce of Bole or Sanguis Draconis An Oyntment Take Oyl of Violets an ounce and half Oyl of Roses or Myrtles each an ounce add two ounces of juyce of Nightshade or of the Plants mentioned and an ounce of Vinegar and boyl them in the Oyls or make them up with Turpentine You may add Bole also to make it more astringent A Cataplasm to be used in the increase of the disease Take Marsh-mallow roots three ounces Lilly roots an ounce Housleek Plantane Nightshade and Endive two handfuls Chamomil Melilot flowers each a pugil Figs and Dates each six pair boyl and stamp them add Bean flower and of Paenugreek and Linseed each two ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Oyl of Lillies an ounce Saffron a dram The Cerot of Galen made of Housleek is good Or this Oyntment in the progress of the Disease Take Oyl of Chamomil an ounce and half Oyl of Lillies and Rosemary and Linseed each half an ounce juyce of Housleek and Sowthistle each an ounce Mucilage of Foenugreek an ounce and half Conies grease an ounce Saffron half a dram with Wax make an Oyntment You may use Fomentations also when there is pain with the Decoction of Henbane and other Herbs mentioned An anodyne Cataplasm Take Crumbs of Bread half a pound boyl them in Milk add two or three Eggs beaten Mucilage of Linseed and Fleabane each an ounce Butter or Oyl of sweet Almonds three ounces Saffron half a dram In the declination of the Disease use digesting Plaisters as of Melilot Marsh-mallows Diachylon with Orris and the like Or this Take Bdellium Galbanum Opopanax each half an ounce Storax two drams dissolve them in juyce of Motherwort and Chamomil with a little Aqua vitae and make a Cataplasm A Bath in the Declination to take away the residue is made of Mallows Marsh-mallows Lillies Flowers of Chamomil Melilot Elder Rosemary Seeds of Line and Foenugreek And if the Womb be troubled of Marjoram Motherwort Mugwort Penny-royal Wall-flowers Agnus castus Spike or Schaenanth If it will not be digested bring it to maturation with this cataplasm Take Wheat flower four ounce Meal of Barley and Linseed each two ounces Figgs six pair boyl them in Milk and bruise them add three Yolks of Eggs and Hens grease two ounces Or use Ripeners mentioned against other Diseases Injections because they come not easily to the bladder in men and cannot be without pain to both Sexes in the use of the catheter cannot be in the time of Inflammation but when the Urin is stopped to open the passages of which we spake And because the body of the womb by reason of the
Superficies of the body that divides the skin and flesh also this comes not at first as a wound from an external Cause but from a Pustle or Tumor or a Wound or of it self We spake of Ulcers with Tumors or Pustles in Cancer Carbuncle Herpes and Scab Here we shall speak of Ulcers after Inflammation and Imposthumes broken with matter or flesh or after an Erysipelas when the Blysters are broken Or of such as come from foul Wounds or Humors They are all simple or Compound A simple Ulcer is when there is onely foulness when it is not hollow Simple sordid Ulcers plain and cavous it is called a plain Ulcer when there is hollowness from lost Flesh as when it follows an Imposthume and is round it is called a cavous Ulcer If it be long or like a Burrough or Channel coming forth it is called sinuous and if the passage go strait a fistulated Ulcer All have filthy matter but the hollow most A sinuous Ulcer it is white of a mean consistance called concocted sweet and equal Or discoloured waterish or crude unequal or stinking There are also thick slimy Matter about Ulcers and Wetness The pain is not so great in them as in Inflammations or Imposthumes breeding only it is lancing and increased with touching or tenting And if Ulcers be in the parts ordained for motion or go to the Bowels they hurt the Functions Compound Ulcers are divers especially that with proud Flesh which would be ill cured Compound ulcers if before it be removed Other Ulcers are sinuous and girt about with a Tunicle within Growing ulcers without flesh fending forth no humor from the flesh which is not naked and cannot be cured till the Cavity be filled with flesh Fistula They are called Fistulaes especially if they be large and strait as I have seen one that began at the neck and went down the Back to the Hip voiding much matter And I have seen many little Fistulaes in the Perinaeum that when to the Bladder through which the Urin alwayes dropt And I saw in my Fathers dayes in a Palatinate Begger a horrid Fistula in the lower Belly with many holes that sent forth matter like seed And 1652. I saw a Woman with a Fistula in her Privities and strait gut with a Tumor and many Holes who went to a simple bragging Chirurgion who by Causticks caused Inflammation and Death There are also Ulcers with hard Lips called Callous Callous ulcers and cannot be cicatrized or healed these are called Dysepulota And they which are malignant shal be spoken of hereafter There are other to be cured called Cacoethe Ulcers of evil Habit. not of themselves but by reason of the part to which they cannot be fixed as a corrupt or rotten Bone as we shal shew there They are worse when there is Inflammation or Erysipelas Phlegmonous Vlcers with Redness Tumor and Pain if the tumor be an Oedema it swells with less pain but is harder to be cured The corrupt Ulcers whose flesh is white like Bacon are worst Erysipelated oedematous Vlcers and when it is soft and swollen and when clear water comes forth These Ulcers come from wounds in the Joynts Corrupt Ulcers with water where it is membranous and nervous without Flesh The German Chirugions call them Glidwasser or water of the Joynts and fear least it gangraene by reason of the pain Contraction and Corruption Of this sort is Paranychia or the Inflammation in the Fingers end that corrupteth the Joynt Paronychia ulcerated as we shewed in Inflammations To these are referred Ulcers with stinking Flesh Foul ulcers and such as corrode when the Flesh is yellow A verminous ulcer green or black with stinking Matter and Worms called Verminous these somtimes gangraene Besides these Perverse ulcers Eating Ulcers Nomae there are Ulcers from malignant Humors or other Ulcers or from Erysipelas ulcerated these eat and are hollow called Nomae and when they eat the skin only Phagedaenica and because they spred Serpentia or creeping when they are hard to cure Phagadaenica they are called Cacoethe These are in divers parts but especially in the Leggs Perverse Ulcers in the Leggs which are apt to receive Humors and Erysipelas above the Ankle they use to be broad there and to eat the flesh away This may be lasting for many years in old men full of Humors which wets mens clouts and bleeds upon the least occasion and is full of pain with Heat Redness and Tumor round about and somtimes with an oedematous Swelling Somtimes the Vein upon the Ulcer is swollen and blew A varicous Ulcer which comes thither with many windings in the Leggs and feeds it this is called a varicous Vlcer from Varix a Vein dilated Eating Ulcers that are malignant from the French Pox A malignant pockie Vlcer A Cancer in the Yard besides those in the Jawes Nostrils and Privities of Women are in the Praepuce and Glans of Mens Privities also which destroy the Yard this is called Cancer And that is a leprous Ulcer Leprous Vlcers which is in Elephantiasis in the Jawes Nose Soles of the Feet and Palm of the Hand and Arm-pits and other parts of the Arms and Feet which are Phagadaenous that is devouring and have swollen hard Lips without pain as we shall shew in Elephantiasis Corruption in the Superficies is either in the Flesh or in the Bone Corruption in the supersicies of the body Corruption in the Skin Flesh Membranes Nerves and Compound Vessels is called a Gangraen Gangraene usually it follows Inflammations somtimes it comes from other causes In this the part begins to lose its natural color and wax blew suddenly or by degrees and then black with swelling of the part and pain very great before a total corruption from which poyson constantly flows that wets the skin and flesh and makes it softer which being corrupted either opens of its self and ulcerates or with Scarification by which we labor to cure The wounds lye deep and swell with lips and at last if it be not prevented the part is destitute of all natural heat pulse and sense and is very stinking and hollow Sphacelus Syderation And then it is called Sphacelus and Syderation If there be foulness of bones they are either corroded in parts and made rough and uneven Corrupt bones Caries or corruption is so manifest that the part is black and comes from the sound and quick part or corrupts the whol bone as in Paronychia the joynts of the Fingers and mortifyeth and is called the Caries of the bone This corruption of the bones is with an Ulcer in the skin and flesh from which it cometh for the most part and through which it is to be seen being deep and to the bone And therefore though of it self a corrupt bone feel no pain yet the Ulcer joyned thereto and which cannot be cured whiles the bone is
and Neck Take Galls and Pomegranate peels each an ounce Gypsum burnt two ounces Bole an ounce Litharge and Cademia each half an ounce round Birthwort three drams burnt Lead two drams pouder of Crab shells a dram make a sine pouder or a plaister of them with Honey and Turpentine We use Sal Gem or Allum to take away corrupt Flesh with an equal part of pouder of Earth worms Or mix therewith Juyce of Briony or Dragons Or Aegyptiacum to resist putrefaction These are stronger Orpiment and Tartar equal parts steep them in Vinegar and make a pouder Or Take Crystal Arsnick two drams Cookowpint roots an ounce make a pouder Or Take Orpiment a dram Verdigreese two drams white Wine a pint infuse them pour of the clear and boyl it till the third part remain use it with a little Rose-water Or Take Sublimate a dram Rose Plantane and Nightshade water four ounces boyl it a little The last Remedy is cutting it forth by the roots if strength will permit It is in vain to try when it is deep and grows to the Flesh Membranes and Veins for if a portion remain it will grow again And if it be great and near great Veins there is danger of great bleeding which is dangerous if it be not presently stopt But somtimes it may be wholly cut out with a part of the sound flesh As when it is in the Thigh or Arm. And if you cut a great space above the Cancer and take it away it will grow again as I observed in a Maid who had a cancer cut from her Knee The Cancer in the Breast is taken away with cutting the breast clean off But if any Root remain in the Ribs it will return Give me leave to relate the Cure of a Cancer which was told me by a Friend Take white Arsnick â—inely poudered one part Roots of Cookowpints poudered four parts Chimney soot as much as will make it grey or ash coloured keep this pouder for your use the older the better it will last five years Sprinkle this pouder as thick as the back of a knife upon an ulcerated Cancer taking heed that it touch not the sound flesh lay it thickest in the middle because the middle Root of the Cancer is commonly biggest then lay thereon a pledget wet with spittle that it may stick with the pouder otherwise it will not work The Patient must be dressed thus after meat and touch not the the cancer but with wooden Instruments There are some cautions to be used in the application of this pouder by reason of its divers operations for in some it causeth pain in other not it pierceth to the Veins or Roots of the cancer and there it sticks fast so that it cannot be taken away without breaking of them It must therefore be used but once because its force remains till it takes all away with it And no other medicines must be applied but round about in the circumâ—erance as broad as two â—ingers you must lay Deâ—ensives or Repellers to hinder Inflammation As Take Bole Arsnick Oyl of Roses and Vinegar Also there is a great flux of blood sometimes from the piercing force of the medicine which breaks the Veins with yellow and sharp matter apply then nothing but dry double clouts as often as they are wet for it will be but a day or two and will take away all pain This done expect the Cancer to fall from the sound flesh of its own accord within eighteen or twenty dayes for if the least Root be broken by force before that time the cure is dangerous to be begun again The separation being made of the cancer from sound flesh use this pouder to the Ulcer Take fine Olibanum Mummy Mastick Myrrh Aloes Sarcocol each a dram Opopanax half a dram wash them in Plantane and Rose-water and make a fine pouder you may increase the quantity of Mastick Olibanum Myrrh and Sarcocol to make it sharper After you have laid this pouder thick upon the Ulcer use this Oyntment upon a pledget Take Litharge of Gold two ounces Mummy an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce and half with a little Rose-vinegar stir them in a leaden mortar and make it a soft Oyntment with Oyl of Roses It is sufficient to cure the Ulcer if you apply these two once a day at first there will come forth a slimy white thick matter which must be dayly wipt away till the Cure is by Gods assistance compleat A Carbuncle or Anthrax if it be not pestilent The Cure of a simple Anthrax or Carbuncle pestilent weakneth and is difficult and dangerous when it is near the Heart when it is dry or sends out venom and not matter with great Inflammation A pestilent Carbuncle destroys by the pestilent Feaver which goes with it and hurts the Joynts and destroys if it be in the noble Parts For cure of both cleanse the whole Body and use alterers when it is pestilent look to the Feaver rather then the Carbuncle and let blood according to the part it is in As we shewed in pestilent Feavers In other Carbuncles bleed and purge in respect of the Plethory and Cacochymy and Inflammation to revel and derive Use coolers agreeable to the Feaver and Cordials inwardly and outwardly and a refreshing Diet and cause sleep if it be wanting though in a carbuncle it is forbidden least thereby venom should be drawn to the Heart but by heat external and sweat in time of sleep we see the contrary that the heat goes outward Therefore keep them not from sleep as is usual When a Carbuncle is not pestilent we use Topicks to repress the Inflammation when it is we attract the Venom we open and ripen it in both cases and then cure it as an Ulcer In an Anthrax not pestilent we only lay Repellers round about where the Inflammation is and that at first such as are in Phlegmon mentioned as the Defensive of Bole and that of Juyces or the Oyntments as that of Ceruss Or we use the Emplaster of Arnogloss to cool and concoct at first or all a long the Cure it is made of Plantane Meal of Lentils or brown Bread adding Galls at fiâ—st to repel more and to concoct more Meal of Orobus and Beans and Honey In a pestilent Carbuncle at first we attract poyson as in a Bubo pestilent as we there shewed with a Cock cut in two or a Pigeon or Frog or Toad or with the Rump of a Cock or Pigeon after the part is scarified or with Cupping-glasses or Horsleeches or with the mouth of a desperate Fellow to suck it or with the Instrument by which Womens breasts are drawn We open both sorts of Carbuncles to let out the venom or humor at first by scarifying and in the progress especially when it waxeth black with deep cuts least they gangraene which will cause death and wash them with salt Water We also use Causticks to attract the venom in both And when it begins to corrupt we use
Take Litharge red Lead earths Rossin Camphire Oyls and Greases with Poplar oyntments wine of Pomegranates Decoction of Myrtles Barley Plantane Nightshade wood-lime In Gun-shot this Plaster is good at the first Take Bole two ounces Sanguis Draconis an ounce Ceruse or Litharge halfe an ounce Barley meal an ounce and half pouder of Earthwormes half an ounce especially if the Nerves be hurt dried Centaury two drams Sewet dissolved in oyl of Roses an ounce with Turpentins make a plaster you may add white Diachylon to it Or this Take Juyce of Plantane Nightshade Housleek tach an ounce Vinegar half an ounce Oyl of Violets Roses water-Lillies and Turpentine each an ounce boyl them till the Juices be consumed add the Pouders of the Plaster afore mentioned Against a Prick with a Thorn Take Juyce of Plantane Shepherds-purse Nightshade Oyl of Roses each four ounces boyl them till the Juices be consumed add Litharge Ceruse Cadmia of both sorts each half an ounce Lead burnt and washed Scales of Brass each two drams with Turpentine six ounces and an half In an Inflammation of the Puncture of a Nerve use this Plaster Take Barley and Lentil Meal each two ounces Bean or Lupine or Orobus flower each an ounce boyl them in wine Vinegar and Honey or Oxymel to a plaster Then add things against pain and proper for a Punctures as was there shewed For Ulcers of the Leggs with Erysipelas use Unguent of Roses Turpentine and yolks of Eggs with Oyntment of Line Against Pain in Ulcers or Wounds from Inflammation or Medicines you must use Anodynes round about as in Inflammations as that of Cow Dung and Narcoticks if need be In the Puncture of a Nerve wee shewed what was to be done against pain from thence If there be fear from the Puncture of a Nerve of a Convulsion as often there is it is good to prevent Death to cut in the place pricked or a little above If a wound or Ulcer be Oedematous we must labour to drye up the Moisture about them which causeth tumor The Cure of Oedematous Ulcers with the strongest driers and then apply about things against the Oedema A Gangreen is the Beginning of the Corruption of a Member The Cure of a Gangreen and is hardly cured Sphacelus is a perfect mortification so that the part is dead and must be cutt of least it insect the quick and cause death While there is any hope and there is Pain and Sense scarrifie quickly with many and deep Scarrifications Or use Horsleeches or apply them after Scarification Let the part scarified be fomented with hot water thrice a day Or with strong lye of Barbers of Decoction of Lupines or Lye of Fig-tree ashes Or with Sea or other Salt water The Chyrurgeons use suddain Fomentations before or after Scarification as follows Take roots of Briony Raddish each two ounces Leavs of Galeopsis and ground Ivy each a handful Juniper topps a pugil boyl them in Wine add Vinegar for a Fomentation with Syrups In a Gangreen in the Privities foment with Decoction of Mugwort Wormwood Violets Strawberries Althaea in Wine it hath made the Corrupt Part fall from the Sound Or Take ground Ivy and Juniper topps boyled in Milk it is a rare experiment Dioscorides useth boyled Coleworts with Honey or Lettice beaten with Meal of Darnel Old Wallnutts or the green Rinds are also good Or Galeopsis and Briony roots and all Or Agrymony and Roses beaten with Vinegar of Raddishes and Salt Or flower of Orobus Darnell Pease Barley with Honey and Salt Or this Cataplasine Take Meal of Lupines Lentils Beans six ounces Pomegranate peels two drams dryed Roses a dram Bole Myrrh each half an ounce Salt an ounce Juyce of VVormwood or Nettles ground Ivy or Pomegranates three ounces Vinegar an ounce with Honey and Turpentine and three Yolks of Eggs and Oyl of Nutts or Roses that it dry not to soon Or add to the residence of the Decoction for a Fomentation Old Wallnutts kernells an ounce and half Meal of Orobus and Pease each two ounces Honey an ounce and half Salt half an ounce make a Pultis Unctious things as Oyls and Oyntments are not so good for they cause putrefaction except it be a little to digest and keep the Pultis moist An experienced Plaster is made of Savin pouder with Leaven oyl of Lineseed Nuts or Yolks of Eggs or of Tartar After washing lay on Aegyptiacum with Allum Use Causticks as Milk of spurge if putrefaction continue Or mix Arsenick with the Pouder of Mans Bones and Mandrake roots are added to prevent Pain I suppose others add roots of five leaved Grasse After the foul flesh is gone from the sound cure it as a wound You may use strong cleansers and that take of flesh mentioned in excrescent Ulcers When the Bones are corroded Careous or black The Cure of Caries or foulness of Bones there is Cares or rottenness of them in evil deep and hollow Ulcers that reach to the Bones and defile them and it hinders cure of the Ulcer and hurts the member if it continue To take it away at first you must thrust medicines to the bottom of the Ulcer opening it first if it be strait by a dry tent which when it is moistened from the wound will swel and dilate it as with a Gentian root which also clenseth or with a spunge bound hard first take a Suppository or the like or open it by cutting This done put in Clensing medicines and Cathereticks or Eaters that wil take away corruption from bones as wel as corrupt flesh The chief Scaler of a Bone is Oyl of Vitriol and Antimony Aqua fortis and Aqua Regia all these I have used with happy success in foul bones and venemous Ulcers with foulness of bones and in the French Pox. But if this cannot be taken off as when there is roughness upon the bone we lay the bone bare and make it even with a sharp Instrument for that purpose or we cut off that which is above til the bone be smooth and clean again Somtimes we burn the foul bone with actual Cauterys and then the burnt part fall off from the sound of it self This is done in divers parts where the bone is foul and also in the end of the Fingers where the bones use suddenly to be corrupted by Paronychia or Fellon it must be done presently that the foul joynt being taken away the next may be preserved This done and the Bone made clean you may cure the Ulcer with its proper Remedies as the nature thereof requireth FINIS THE THIRD TOME IN TWO BOOKS Which are the FOURTH and FIFTH OF THE Whole Work A TREATISE OF HUMANE INFIRMITIES THE FIRST BOOK Containing the Infirmities or Diseases of the Body THe Infirmities of the Body are called Organical Symptomatical or such as cause Diseases and many of them are to be seen and felt Some destroy the shape and fashion of the Body Others change the colour thereof and are known
was grown very big We also saw a woman loose a great deal of Blood with great Pulsation from the opening of a Vein which could scarce be stopped although many Remedies were applyed having a beating Tumor after the wound was healed which declared it to be an Aneurism And this came either because the Artery was cut by chance in the fleshless bending of the Arm where the Tumor was by reason of the blood ebbing and flowing under the skin after the wound was healed in the skin and not in the Artery Or because the Mouth of the Artery was fresh dilated before the incision was made and that caused that when the skin was cut there was a Flux which caused a Tumor after the cut was healed Neither can an Aneurism not be from the Arterial blood when it is under the skin and corrupted although this may be when blood is sent from the Veins into the empty spaces yet when Blood leaping from the Artery thus opened returns again and the skin is instead of an Artery it may be without concretion as when it is in the Artery And because this cannot be in the Veins an Aneurism cannot be from venal Blood A watery serous Humor produceth in divers places both general and particular Tumors because it is contained in divers parts of the body as in the veins which are dispersed all over and Bowels into which they are sent or in other Vessels being separated from the blood from which places somtimes simple Water otherwhiles mixed with other Humors comming forth produceth divers kinds of Tumors differing exceedingly as they are in the cavity of the Abdomen or Belly Codds Groyns or in the superficies of the Body either in the inferior parts only or al over as shall be shewed in particulars A serous Humor like Water getting into the Cavity of the Belly Water sent into the Cavity of the Abdomen is the cause of the dropsie Ascites or Abdomen causeth the Dropsie Ascites and then the belly swells more or less according to the quantity of the Water and is somtimes so full that it grows very large in which by tapping we have seen taken from the Living and found somtimes in the Dead threescore pound weight and above of water when much had formerly run out at the Feet which water doth not only burden with its weight but by pressing lying and hindering the free Motion of the Diaphragma or Midriff causeth difficulty of breathing of which they so complain and especially when the water goes more to the Midriff and oppresseth it hence it is that they breath better when they are standing for then the water goes downwards And if the same water weaken the Bowels Liver Spleen Veins Stomach and Guts by making them too moist or by its saltness or sharpness from mixture with other Humors or by its Corruption through long continuance till it stink make them too dry the Mesentery Cawle and Reins will be dryed and drawn up and the Fat clodded as we have seen Or if this water corrode the exulcerate in any part or putrifie the same we have seen the Cawle yellow and stinking in many as well as contracted and the Midriff hath been found the same in and opening of Hydropical People if this happen or if any other Bowels be hurt by this Water it will produce worse Symptoms in the hurt Functions of natural parts as want of Appetite Thirst Cachexy Atrophy and Diarrhaea and the like as by Corruption and Gangren of the Stomach by the water long contained therein a Vomiting with Heat and vehement Inflammation of the Oesophagus or Wezand which I saw in an Hydropical Woman which a liltle before her Death vomited often abundance of black stinking Water with great Inflammation of the Throat The cause of this water in the capacity of the Belly is from the parts of the lower belly which contains the Water or from the Bowels that are ordained for Sanguification as the Liver Spleen Reins or from the Veins which go through those parts and the rest or from the Bladder that holds the water from which if they be divided or the continuity dissolved by Diapedesis by which it is strained or Anastomasis by which the Mouths are open this water falls as shall be shewed in particulars Fernelius witnesseth that there is no Dropsie but it is caused by the solution of the continuity or Division of the Parenchyma or substance of the Liver And this by Anatomy we have often known And that chiefly when the substance of the Liver is cleft and gapeth from whence the water passing by it from the Vessels of the hollow and gate Vein and sweating under the Coats being there constrained fills them with water and makes them like bladders by separating the Tunicles from the parts under them which being broken the water runs into the Belly we have often seen these Bladders very large and clear growing to the Liver and Spleen in Men dead of the Dropsies and in an Ape and Butchers find the same in Cattel And when these coats are corroded the water falls directly into the belly The great Dryness of the substance of the Liver which makes it grow less is the cause of these clifts in the Liver And this came rather by a hot then cold Distemper as appears by the great Thirst of Hydropical People and the high Colour of their Urin and other signs of heat rather then cold and in regard they have it that time most deliciously with spiced meats and drink the strongest wine and so continue being young or aged at which time they fall into a Dropsie by reason of the Dryness of their bowels and they jestingly complain that they are troubled with water though they never drank it in their lives And this we have observed to have been the chief cause of dropsies in our Country and we perceive that a perpetual thirst in Drunkards which they long have had from the hot Distemper of their bowels which makes them ever drinking is a most sure fore-runner of a Dropsie if another Disease doth not prevent it by Death This also may come by heating of the Bowels immoderately with hot Medicines with which Women labour to warm the Stomach and Womb or when they have other cold Diseases These bowels may also be dryed and cleft by hot sharpe and constant Diseases as Feavers and Jaundies and therefore the Dropsie which sheweth rather the signs of heat then cold followeth these Diseases From a hard Tumor of these Bowels either all over them or in any part in the concave or convex part of the Liver or in the Spleen may these Clefts come from a Scirrhus of the Liver or Spleen or any other Tumor which will turn to an Imposthume Or there may be such openings by which the water may fall into the Abdomen because from this Hardness the Tunicle quickly cleaveth and if it imposthume and ulcerate then there is way made for the water as shall be said in
Fernelius who distinguisheth this Passage of the Rimme into that which is internal and that which is external faith that in the Gut-rupture and cawle Rupture the inward Rimm or Skin must needs be broken and the outward only enlarged It may be he meant that it was so in Women that these Ruptures came from the Relaxation of the Rimme of the Belly in the Groin where they have as we shewed a peculiar Vessel For he saith that there is a Tendon sent from the Groine to the Rimme of the Belly which strengthneth it and so also the Guts and cawle But in regard that Vessel is not so membranous and thin as the enterance of the Rimme but is nervous and hard and therefore is not so easily enlarged the Guts or Cawle cannot fall into the Groin by the relaxing thereof except it be broken When the Rim of the Belly is enlarged without being broken The cause of Navel-rupture is the enlarging of the Rim of the Belly there there may be a Navel-rupture also and this appears because in great straightness especially of Woman in travail the Navel often swells by the Guts through straining sent chiefly to that part of the Rim where there is a short Passage in the Navel which appeared at the birth in the Navel string and after grew together and there distending or stretching the Rim and when the straining is over and the stretching the swelling goes clean away and returns no more which would not be if it came from the breaking of the Passage for which cause as we perceive plainly that the Navel-rupture continues not so we may collect that the Rupture which remains comes from the Rim of the Belly so stretched by the Causes aforesaid that it cannot return which cannot be in other parts of the rim of the Belly but that in the Groine without a breaking thereof From the Dissolving or Division of the Neck of the Womb The cause of the falling out of the Womb is the dissolving of the connexion of the Neck thereof from the parts unto which it is knit comes the Falling out thereof For the Womb being chiefly held up by its Neck upon which it resteth and unto which it grows firmly and in other parts being free from all connexion or joyning that it may better dilate and enlarge it self in Conception except on each side a little and that loosely to the Rimme of the Belly it cannot be that it should fall all to the Privities except the Neck thereof which is so fastned thereto that it cannot be separated do also follow And because this cannot be without the rending of the fibrous Connexion which is made by the Neck and Parts adjacent The immediate cause of the Falling of the Womb must be the dissolving of the Connexion of the Neck thereof And if this dissolving be in some part onely near the womb the womb will hang down in the Privities with some part only of the Neck turned but if the Neck of the Womb be wholly separated from the parts under it then the Womb will all hang forth with the Neck turned inside outward and the womb will not be so turned in the bottom but as it was when in the Belly the Orifice onely being open drawing with it the Membranes and the Rimme which is joyned to them with the Vessels and Stones And this may be without a Rupture only from the Looseness of the Membranes which can stretch much as we see in Dropsies when the Belly is swollen how the Rim thereof is stretched although the womb hath been long down as appears in that when it is put up again Women may conceive which could not be if the Vessels were divided from it The womb it self causeth chiefly this Separation of the Neck of it from the Fibers or small Veins by which it is joyned to the parts adjacent though not strongly and therfore it may be without great hurt or bleeding when it is forcibly so drawn down that it brings the Neck with it either suddenly or by degrees when there is less force first tearing the Veins next to it and then turning out the neck downward which hanging forth makes it fall more down by degrees through the weight thereof The womb is thus driven down by great and often straining The forcible untying of the Neck of the Womb is the cause of the wombs Falling down by blowing the wind or otherwise which presseth downward the Guts and Womb especially in a womans throws in child-birth when the travail is hard and the womb gets too much downward with the Child and the rather when the Child getting through with difficulty thrusts the Neck of the Womb down and so untieth it from the Veins Or if the Secundine or after Birth sticking still to the womb be so driven by the Midwife that the womb is driven down also with the Neck thereof For these Causes after Child-bearing the womb falls down and those Women which have often brought forth and endured such Midwives are presently troubled therewith or when they grow old The same may come from Leaping or the like Shaking of the Body and the Womb may hang out thereby Also from the Neck of the Womb it self besides when it is pull'd away by the Womb there may be a Falling out of the same when it is separated by Force from the parts beneath by violent and frequent Copulation as in Harlots which are continually rubbed or from some Corruption in the Neck by which we once saw the womb fallen out Also from other Causes this Falling down of the womb can scarce proceed As for the looseness of the Ligaments or of Muscles by which some thought the Womb did hang which they say comes from the Force mentioned and by which the womb is driven down or from the plenty of Humors that wet the Membranes We since there are no such Muscles because as we shewed the womb must be free and Membranes so loosned that they may follow the womb nor so fast tyed as they ought to be if the womb hang by them cannot grant the Falling out of the womb to be from the looseness thereof For although the womb be loosned and the Vessels stretcht beyond their bounds yet can it not fall through the Privities except the Neck be separated also which only holds it in Nor can the breaking of the Membranes be the Cause as some say because we found in the Anatomy of a Woman whose Membranes were putrified and consumed long before her death as appeared by a Flux of stinking matter that the womb moved not out of its place but was firm As for the watery Humor which they say causeth the Falling out of the Womb we shewed that it could not do it by moistning the Ligaments and now declare that in Women that have the Dropsie in whom the womb and its Membranes swimms in water the womb falls not out yet it may come to pass in the Whites that the neck of
the wounded part above the rest Also by stuffing it if deep we stop or restrain it this is done with soft Lint And if things be added that will also stanch blood it will be the better as these following Spiders webs thrust into small wounds of the skin because being light and thin they get into every part and stop the blood not so much by drying as by filling the part and glutinating the Lips by help of the blood which grows hard and these are better with Mill-dust The Down of Flowers and Fruits and Cotton or Lint with Hares hair are good with Plaisters that stanch blood but without well cleansed if put into small wounds The round Mush-room or Fuzball being very light laid upon the vein or thrust into the wound sticks close and keeps the Blood from flowing especially mixed with other Pouders or Plaisters The spungy skin in old Trees between the Bark or Touch-wood laid upon small wounds is also good Also a Spunge laid on or thrust in if the wound be large And if the Artery be dilated as in an Aneurism opened and bleed because it requires large stuffing a Spunge is good yet the flux was so great and the Orifice so large that the Spunge would do no good to one Man but he bled to Death of an Aneurisin opened There are divers things laid upon the part first such as dry bind and glew as the Pouders alone or with Lint or the like or with Glew like a Plaister either laid upon the Vein or Artery or upon the wounds or put in when it is deep and bound on for divers dayes till the fear of bleeding is over and then after gentle moistning taken off Also if the wounds be deep a Plaister is put in And when it is after cutting off an Arm or Legg let the pouders be put into a Bladder and laid on and the Bladder tyed fast about Those Plaisters were mentioned in the Cure of Wounds and they are to be applied at first to stop the flux and heal the wound As that of three parts of Bole and Frankincense c. to glew the lips of the wound and to heal them as that with Frankincense and Myrrh or that of Galen which is one part Aloes two parts Frankincense with the White of an Egg and Hairs of an Hare and others there mentioned beginning thus Take Galls c. Or Take Colophony c. Some that are mentioned against Fluxes in the Eyes are good here as that which begins thus Take Mastick Frankincense c. Or Take Bole half an ounce Sanguis Draconis c. without Oyl of Roses Also Pouders of burnt things ashes of Froggs Worms Asses or Horses dung Eg-shells Spunge Rags Cotton Paper Nettles Also Soote burnt Blood Rosin poudered Gum Arabick and Traganth parched Also Blood-stone Stibium burnt Lead Also other fat Earths besides Bole. And Downs mentioned of Flowers and Fruits as that in the shells of Chesnuts or Cotton Down or Lint All which mixed with the Pouders mentioned for Plaisters and incorporated with the things mentioned may be applied like a Plaister Or you may apply the pouders with the Juyce of Plants as of Plantane Solomons-seal Shepheards-purse or Blood made into a past with some Glew or Rosin to make it stick There are other Fumes as that which we saw stopped presently the blood of a Theif that had both his Hands cut off It was thus made The Wife of the Executioner put the wrist where the hand was cut off into a Hen in which she had made a large Orifice about the Rump and tyed her with the feathers to the part and so he lived till he was brought to Execution without any great loss of blood And this Course have I taken often with good success when fingers have been cut off This remedy may be used in other parts by tying it fast upon the part when it is cut or slit in the middle whether it be Hen or Chickin or the Lungs of a Sheep bleeding or other fresh Entrals such as we prescribed for the Cure of a Phrensie Also Mans blood or other blood hot and mixed with Bran to a past may do the same A Linnen-clout three or four times doubled and dipped in Frogs-spawn when squeesed will surely stop blood and it is usual to keep Clouts dipp'd in the Spawn of Froggs at the time of the year for the same purpose The last remedies are Causticks which cause an Eschar and stop the Blood Burnt Vitriol is the best or Copperas what Colour soever it is of or burnt upon a hot Iron till it be red which the Chymists call Colcothar with burnt Allum and burnt Tartar or Wine-Lyes Or if you will have it burn more a little Arsenick or Sublimate which you may apply with the White of an Egg and a little Lint Quick-lime poudered doth the same which you may make of more force with the other Somtimes we add other astringents which allay their violence and by straitning the part stop the blood as that pouder for healing Plaisters for Wounds which begins thus Take burnt Bones c. also Vitriol and burnt Allum Also things which are used to take down proud flesh which begins thus Take burnt Allum three drams Pomegranate-flowers c. Or Take Vitriol half an ounce Allum c. especially the corroding pouder there mentioned The Spirit of Vitriol dipp'd in Cotton and applied to the Vein doth astringe and somwhat burn which if it ly deep must be stopped in as you do for an hollow tooth Aqua fortis doth it more powerfully so applied and burns more Of which sprinkled upon filings of Iron you may make Crocus Martis from the yellow Colour so called which you may use for the same Clouts wet in Vinegar or Steel-water wherein the Physical Stone hath been quenched and dryed Or in Aqua fortis or Oyl of Vitriol often dryed and wet will do the same The actual Cautery is the last which will presently stop Blood if you can touch the Veins or Arteries This is done with a hot Iron proportioned to the wound either small pointed or flat or with a round bottom for great wounds such as are used in Disinembring But this is done with small success especially when the amputation or cutting off is in a thick fleshy part because the burning reacheth not to the Veins but only to the flesh And by this lingering before the Plaister is put on there is a great loss of Blood and the new pain which comes after the pain of amputation doth much weaken the Patient If you thrust the remaining part of a finger cut off into melted Pitch and presently pull it out it will stop Blood not only by the burnining of the wound but by the sticking of the Pitch thereon which will grow hard and stop the Veins And this you may do in other parts If you lay Cotton upon the wound and set it on fire it will by the flame insinuating into the wound stop wonderfully and
also if it come from a hurt in the Reins with these medicines following We revel or pluck back the blood when it flows too much by blood-letting and cupping in the extream parts but if the Loins be cupped the blood would be drawn thither from the great Veins If the Flux come from the blood being watery or unclean it must be cleansed with gentle purgers that astringe as we shewed in all other Haemorragies We stop the Flux with things that thicken the blood and stop the passages with some things that stupesie the sense as follow Pouders are given with Sugar of Roses or an Eg or steeled Milk or Sheeps milk or old red Wine Syrup of dryed Roses Myrtles or convenient Waters These are proper pouder of Horstayl Yarrow Comfrey roots Snakeweed five leaved Grass Myrtle seeds Date-stones Maudlin according to Dioscorides wild Cummin seed Bole or sealed Earth Blood-stone red Coral which dissolves the clotted blood Amber burnt Ivory Gum Traganth Arabick Acacia and the like The troches also of Amber Winter-cherries of Gordonius and such as bind mentioned in the Ulcers of the Reins that allay the heat of the urin Waters Juyces and Decoctions of Plantane Purslane Yarrow Shepheards-purse Sumach Quinces and the like Also Narcoticks as Philonium Persicum as in other Fluxes and other Troches with Opium And with Henbane seeds as in Spitting of Blood Anoint the Reins with this Take Bole or other glutinating Earth half an ounce Rinds of Pomegranates or Galls two drams Dragons blood Allum each one dram with Oyl of Myrtles the White of an Egg and a little Vinegar make an Oyntment or Plaister Juyce of Plantane instead of the Oyl is better Mix Juyce of Purslane with Barley-flower and apply it to the Reins If Pissing of Blood come from taking of Cantharides or Spanish flies The Cure of pissing blood from taking of Spanish Fliks we give things which allay the heat of urin by which the mouths of the emulgent Vessels are opened and this Flux is raised chiefly the Decoction of Line-seed and steeled Milk Emulsions of the great cold Seeds white Poppy seeds and sweet Almonds Also Oyl of Almonds Roses whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane seed And if it continue other remedies mentioned If Pissing of Blood come from a hurt of the bladder The Cure of pissing of blood from hurt of the bladder in regard much blood cannot flow from so few veins you must apply remedies to the hurt or wound both at the mouth and by Injections And if it continue use the remedies mentioned and the Oyntments to the bladder If clotted blood stop the bladder we give things to dissolve it as Amber Kids Runnet and the like mentioned in want of Pissing from clotted blood chiefly Savory dissolves blood in the bladder And if you put the Yard into a hollow Raddish the clotted blood will come forth When the Urin comes forth at a Wound as when you cut for the stone The Cure of preternatural pissing from a Wound there is no way but to cure the wound When a wound pierceth the lower parts of the belly and bladder and the urin comes forth cure only the wound but if it be incurable as usually it is the urin will pass that way till death neither will the ulcer grow together As we shewed in the Cutting of a fleshy Rupture when the bladder was divided so that the wound turned into a Fistula and the Patient pissed through it without other inconvenience because the urin fell not into the belly but came forth Somtimes as in him that was gored with an Ox through the belly and bladder when the wound is cured the urin turns to its proper passage which we suppose was done because the wound was in the fleshy part of the bladder which will grow together and be healed otherwise in the membranous part it will not except the wound be near to some flesh which is pierced unto which the membrane may grow so that the hole in the bladder may be covered with a Callus and the urin return to its Natural passage CHAP. XI Of Dejection or going to Stool The Kinds DEjection is commonly that Excretion which is by the Belly by which the Excrements thick and thin are voided with divers Humors This is preternatural when the Excrements voided are too many and is called Diarrhaea Preternatural Dejection Or when other humors are mixed with the excrements or raw flesh in the Lientery Or the Chyle in the Coeliack passion mentioned or blood in the bloody flux or matter or fat mentioned in the unctious Dejection And if things are voided as worms and other things taken we shall mention them in a Chapter by themselves Also that is a preternatural Excretion of the belly when the excrements pass the wrong way Of which we shall speak in order Diarrhaea is a Flux of the Belly Diarrhaea or Flux of the belly over purging if it come after the taking of a purge it is called an over-purging this is a preternatural immoderate and often going to stool when the dung and other excrements and humors are voided often more or less These are first thick then thin and watery of divers colours ash-coloured clay-like yellow black equally or unequally tinctured many times mixed with white thick clammy flegm This excrement is somtimes waterish frothy clammy clear and white like Froggs spawn somtimes thick like melted glass as we have seen after a stool without evil scent Somtimes frothy Flegm is voided in abundance The Flux of the Brain and then it is called the Flux of the Brain from whence it comes somtimes it is yellow cholerick and froathy somtimes black and thick These because they are voided thick and but few rather cause a needing or Tenesmus then a Dirrhaea Of which we shall speak which continually molesteth without voiding much and with great difficulty In Dirrhaea's there are somtimes pains of the belly greater and less with stretching and rumbling especially at first Somtimes there is a heat in the Fundament and desire to void often especially in Tenesmus Somtimes there is pain of the stomach or heart as they say with vomiting yet not so violent as in the Disease Choler mentioned in Vomiting by which the meat chyle slime flegm or choler in the stomach is vomited up somtimes other natural faculties are hurt and there is a Feaver Lientery is a preternatural Dejection of the belly Lientery in which the meat eaten is little changed but comes forth with other excrements in a Flux not so great as a Diarrhaea Somtimes with noise of the stomach and belly and hurt of Natural Functions The Coeliack passion is that preternatural Excretion of the Belly Caeliack passion whether it be more or less in which the Juyce made of the meat eaten or the Chyle impersectly concocted or crude and moist of an Ash or Clay-colour thick and whitish somtimes more or less pure is sent forth And the Patient
of the Belly that hath pierced the Guts The Cure of Excrements voided by wounds and and Fistula's the wound must be cured And if it be deadly as usually it is when great or if the Excrements fall with Blood into the hollow of the Belly then it ends with death But if the wound be turned into a fistulated Ulcer then the Excretion is permanent and incurable But if this wound not only in the skin and flesh but in the Guts grow together by a Callus as we have seen or by the flesh that grows near to it As we shewed in Wounds of the Bladder This filthy Excretion may be cured and the Patient may live And in these desparate wounds if they be large so that you may see the Guts that are wounded or if you enlarge them you may put in a silver Pipe or rather of Lead and bind the Gut strongly thereupon which hath saved many from their Graves CHAP. XII Of filthy Excretions The Kinds VVHen other Excrements besides those mentioned come from the Body they are preternatural as from the parts following There is alwayes Filth in the Ears Filth from the Ears and it comes not forth but by being taken out it is commonly like wax yellow and thick somtimes hard and discoloured other wayes This causeth Itching when there is much and hinders Hearing as we shewed in the Hurt of Hearing There is somtimes Filth in the Nostrils that is thick moist or dry white yellow Filth from the Nose or black sticking so that it cannot be taken off without hurt or filling the Nose of an ugly aspect when it is forth And esepecially when Children or other nasty people swallow it Besides Matter and Tears there is thick Filth from the Eyes white or yellowish Filth in the Eyes in bleareyed people and others as I shewed in the Diseases of the Eyes Filth sticketh in the Corners of the Mouth which are called in Latin Bridles Filth in the corners of the Mouth and ulcerateth it it continues long Sometimes in sluttish women there is Filth in the Privities besides other Fluxes Filth in the Womb. and also in the Glans of Mens yards that is covered with the Fore-skin which causeth a stink Filth sticketh in many places to the Skin Filth from the Skin thin and thick which makes a stink like that of a Goat called in high Dutch Brietelen as if by long continuance in a place like a Hen hatching of Eggs they had contracted it They who have sweating Feet have filth and stink this is usual Filth between the Toes especially in Summer which is offensive to their Companions And between the Toes there is thick black Filth that stinketh As also under the Arms and in other hairy places where it easily sticketh The Teeth are often foule all over Filth of the Teeth or at the Roots And the Filth is either soft like Pap or yellow sometimes hard and like Gravel And somtimes they are black as with Soote The Causes The Colour and Bitterness shews Choler is the cause of filth in the Ears that Choler is the cause of the Filth of the Ears This Choler comes with water or whey into the cavity of the Ear and the water sweats out and the Choler grows thick And it appears that it comes not from the inward passage of the Ear because it hurts not the drum nor the hearing but by stopping the Ear outwardly The watery Humor which moistneth the Eyes and Ears Water is the cause of filth in the Ears Eyes Nostrils and Privities being made thick by continuance causeth the filth in the corners of the Eyes and the yellow filth in the ears And from Moisture especially if they have the Whites womens Privities smell strong And the filth between the Glans and Praepuce in men which stinketh and causeth Itching is from corruption of Seed or a slimy Humor And the same Humor dryed in the Nostrils by hot air causeth the filth there which sticks so close especially in the night if the Head lie back so that the moisture cannot come to the Nostrils From usual Vapors and Sweats which come from the Body Sweat causeth the filth in the Feet and Skin that smell strong like a Goat in slovenly people the skin grows foul and stinketh And Nature throws them to the extream parts whereby men that sweat have stinking Feet especially in Summer And when filth is long kept in strait places or hairy as in the Arm-holes Groyns Privities and between the Fingers and Toes it sends a noisom Scent Those fluffs that foul the Teeth being thick and clammy Meat is the cause of foul Teeth and Corners of the mouth come from Meat that is slimy and sticks thereto by chewing except they be rubbed and washed And also those in the Mouth that cause Ulcers if they be not cleansed come from the same Spittle being slimy fouls the Teeth Spittle is the cause of foul Teeth especially when the meat eaten makes it more tough or hot breath when the mouth shut dryeth it And when the teeth are idle and chew not any hard thing as bread which useth to cleanse them they are foul Hence it is that they which chew with one side of the mouth only have the other side filthy and that Filth grows hard like gravel discoloureth and maketh the teeth uneven And this may come from serous earthy matter in the Spittle growing to the Teeth As we shewed other Stones may grow especially where the Teeth are rough and about the Gumms and where they are worn This Filth will grow hard and over the teeth if they be not cleansed Also in the French Pox the Spittle defiled with Quick-silver which blacks the teeth and makes them loose From a hot Breath in hot Diseases Vapors are the cause of foul Teeth or malignant Vapors in the Plague the Teeth and Jawes may be likewise affected The Cure We shewed in the Hurt of Hearing how the Ears are to be cleansed The cure of Filth in the Ears The Eyes must be cleansed as in Epiphora and Tears And in the eyes The Filth in the Nostrils may be taken out with the Finger In the Nose if not let Milk or other Liquor be snuffed up first Filth must be wiped from the Mouth which the Spittle and Meat causeth In the corners of the mouth Or if there be an Ulcer it must be cured as the Ulcers of the Mouth It is taken of with water In the Skin especially if warm And if it is much by bathing And if it be too slimy and tough greasie and stinking it must be washed of with cleansers and oyly things As with Lye of Ashes with Lime somtimes if we will have it stronger which hath also a fat Slime besides its cleansing vertue Soap is of the same force being made of ashes Lime and Suet boyled hard adding a sweet scent as Orris roots Oyl is