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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62269	Paidōn nosēmata· = or Childrens diseases both outward and inward. From the time of their birth to fourteen years of age. With their natures, causes, signs, presages and cures. In three books: 1. Of external 2. Universal 3. Inward diseases. Also, the resolutions of many profitable questions concerning children, and of nurses, and of nursing children. By J. S. physician.	J. S.; Vaughan, William, fl. 1664, engraver.	1664 (1664)	Wing S79; ESTC R219790	64,761	200

putrifies it doth resemble the nature of Choler not that it is true pure Choler because it cannot be imagin'd how heat before the Disease or in it can make the most hot humour as Choler is in the head that is moist and almost water nor pure Phlegme because it is cold and moist and the humidities of Children are hot therefore old men waxe gray because they abound with Phlegme Children not because they abound not with Phlegme that is cold and moist The External causes are a very hot Air blows falls Milk that is very hot by the Nursés using hot drinks Milk hath the power of making one drunk and one observes well tender Kids of Goats are made mad with Milk and there is no doubt but the tender Brain of Children are much offended by the Milk of Nurses The Signs are the Hole and cavity of the Anterior part of the head because the heat of the Inflammation dries the Brain which being drye the Skull is deprest and sunk with its own weight and makes a hollownesse of the eyes by the same cause is a heat of the whole body and dryness continual Feaver palenesse of Countenance weaknesse losse of Appetite want of sleep and a loosness of the Belly Prog. This Disease is very dangerous in Children because they are more easily extenuated by their heat it is wont to kill in three days afterwards there is hopes the Disease declines and the strength increases The Cure is in 1. Dyet let the Nurse drink only water and use such Meats which greatly cool as Ptisan and Barly Broth with the Emulsions of the Seeds of Poppy-Broths with Lettice and Endive the Nurse and Child are to be kept in a cold Air in great quiet of mind and body Purges are unprofitable or hurtful but if the Child be costive his belly may be loosned with a common Suppository or this Clyster Take of Barly water Three Ounces of Whey Five Ounces red Sugar half an Ounce mingle them Outwardly use two Ounces of the Oyl of Roses with the Yelk of an Egge it mitigates pain concocts and dissolves the humour the Juice of Lettice Pomkins and Melons the flesh whereof may be pounded and the Juyce prest out and the Leaves of Lettice steep'd in it and laid upon the head or a Cloth dipp'd in the Juice These Medicaments are often to be changed lest by staying too long on the head they heat and dry and hurt as much as help and in the Winter they are to be laid on lukewarm in the Summer cold Nor is it safe to exceed these cold remedies and use the coldest lest the temper of the Brain is destroyed When the Inflamation is appeased then leave the use of the cooling remedies and use discussive ones and first such as are gentle the yelk of an Egge of Oyl of Cammomile two Ounces mingle them afterwards a stronger discutient Take the Flowers of Cammomile the Leaves of Penny-royal and Dill Bran tyed in a Cloth half a Pugill boyl them according to Art then take half a pint of the said Decoction the Oyl of Cammomile and Anniseed of each an Ounce shake them well together and apply them warm to the Head CHAP. VII Of the running at the Nose Cough and difficult Breathing THe running at the Nose Cough and difficult Breathing in Children are the effects and issue of a Distillation which as some observe is the mother of all Evill and is a desluxion of a petuitous humour into the parts subjected if the matter flowes to the Nose it is called the Pose and running at the Nose if it descends to the breast and is expelled by the Spirit that goes out it 's called a Cough but if the same matter falls upon the Lungs and stops the ways of the Spirit and oppresses the body of the Lungs it produces a difficulty in breathing this matter seldome makes hoarsness in Children because sucking Children by their daily use of Milk cleanses the Phlegme that it doth not stick about the Jawes in those that are elder hoarsnesse is seldome because they are hot about the Jawes which dryes up the Phlegme These Distempers are Symptomes and effects of a very moist Brain sometimes cold because Infants draw Air more cold then they were used to which cools the Brain and it is sometimes hot by its natural temper which is very hot by Air that is hot Fire Smoake too hot cloathing of the head and the gluttony and intemperance of the Nurse The Signs are manifest of the Cough Poze and difficulty of Breathing if they come from a hot cause the Child sneezes often the colour of the countenance of the Child is florid and red the Jawes are red and whilest the Child sucks the Breasts are heated that the Nurse perceives the heat If from a cold cause there is seldome sneezing no change of the Colour of the Countenance no heat perceived in the mouth Prog. These Distempers are not dangerous if they be not neglected otherwise they produce Broken Bellies and other Diseases and often Death The Cure is 1. in Diet let the Air be temperate without Excesse avoid Wine and Meats that are windy and grosse and such as flye to the head as Spice and meats prepared with them If the matter is cold a little Spice and hot meats may be allowed but sparingly for all which fly to the head are apt to attenuate and loosen both the cold and hot matter which causes these Distempers and many others 2. Evacuating and diverting the humour by loosning the Belly of the Child by a Clyster or Suppository or by a Vomit which is very good to evacuate the Phlegme which you may do by dipping your finger in Hony and pressing down the Tongue of the Child also to evacuate the matter Take of the Hony of Violets one Ounce of the Powder of Ocymi one dram mingle it and put it in the Mouth of the Infant and then give him the Breast in a cold cause Mirrh and Hony are commended In a hot cause Take one dram of the Seed of White Poppy of Tragacanthy half a Dram of the Seed of a Goard three Drams bruise them all and with a Decoction of Sobestens make a Liquor or you may powder them and take half a Scruple mingle them with a little hony of Violets and give it the Infant to lick If the Breath be difficult with the Cough use the Syrrup of Hyssop in the place of the Hony of Violets It is also convenient to keep the Breast of the Child easie and not straight that it may dilate wherefore annoint the Breast and Back with the Oyl of sweet Almonds which is also good if it be swallowed and taken inwardly CHAP. VIII Of the pain and humidity of the Ears THe pain of the Ears is reckoned by all Physicians amongst the Diseases of Children It is a grievous sense which vehemently affects the parts about the passage of hearing which is very sharp in regard the inward parts of the

an Ichor thin waterish humour and that it is by Ebullition appears in the heat colour and Accidents that happen By this we may resolve our selves 1. That in our dayes scarce any man but hath this Disease because it is hereditary which came first by the fault of the Stars which affected all or almost all and now is propagated As Indians now generate children with long heads which in former Ages they endevoured to make by Art and now is become a natural disposition 2. This Disease is mortal to some and not to others by the abundance and badness of humours and ill constitution of body that the blood and Ichors boyling causes an unquenchable Fire and remedilesse putrefaction besides the badnesse of the Air and errors in the ordering of the person 3. They happen most to Children because they are full of blood and thin waterish humidity and abound with heat being nearest to the principle of Generation besides they are given much Motion 4. They that have most thin and waterish humours have most breakin gs out and the thicker and more tenacious the humours are the worse the marks and deformities are 5. The face is most troubled because of the Ebullition of the blood the vapours ascend to the head and so impetuously that neither the Spirits of the head or face or the Air to which the face is exposed can resist besides the face is moist and rare and apt thereby to receive them 6. The Feet and hands next to the face are chiefly troubled notwithstanding the Skin is hard because of the Sympathy between these parts and the Liver which is seen in a hot Liver by the burning of the hands and feet 7. The Small Pox troubles the eyes more then the Meazles because the matter is thicker and can be lesse resisted and repelled 8. The Small Pox is contagious and infectious by the boyling of the blood which sends vapours at a great distance which enter into other persons and infect them as it is in those that have sore eyes and by the Hereditary Propriety so that consanguineous persons are more easily affected in regard of the Similitude of their temper and for that reason whole Families in a Plague are destroy'd 8. Some have this Disease twice very rarely thrice almost all once because this Hereditary Disposition only disposes and continues as long as the Seminary parts in which it is implanted doth remain which most commonly is consum'd the first time the Blood is inflam'd and set on fire especially the second time when the Blood Ferments 9. Scars and blemishes are left chiefly in the Face Lips and Foreskin because the Skin of them is without Flesh or hath but very little and therefore difficult to heal The mediate causes of the Small Pox are 1. Internall hot and moist temper soft and fat habit of body and tendernesse of Age. Boys are more dispos'd to it then Girles by the disparity of heat in them boys being hotter 2. External hot and moist Air Southern constitution Spring time and an hot and moist region or Contagion or other things that move or corrupt the thin and waterish part of the Blood By what hath been said the Small Pox may be defin'd to be a disease having Pustules in an outward part of the Skin with a continual Feaver by the peculiar Effervessency and Ebullition of the Ichorous Blood excited by the expulsive faculty The Signes that this Disease is Imminent and coming which either immediately accompany the Disease or proceed it are Pain in the Neck and Breast with a heavinesse of the Eyes Itching of the Nose Shortnesse of Breath Suddain trembling and starting Often Sneesing Urine sometimes muddy sometimes sound weepings of the Eyes and tears falling of their own accord from them a continuall Feaver The Signes of the Disease present are manifest being little swellings and spots in the Meazles they are Red and not high in the Small Pox they first appear as the head of an Needle or Pin immediately after they are greater and red and daily increase untill they are ripen'd grow white are made an Ulcers and Soars and are dryed up Presage If the Small Pox and Meazles are White and a few appear without any other accident or if many appear and the Feaver is diminish'd and other accidents and the breathing easie there is no danger If the Small Pox are black or green or if few or many appear and the other accidents are worse and exasperated and the breathing difficult then it is pernitious and Mortall They who dye of the Small Pox dye either with a Sounding an Inflamation with which they are strangled or a looseness of the Belly which destroys the strength of the Child The Cure is in 1. Preserving the inward and outward parts the outward are call'd so because they are seen and they are the Eyes Ears Nose and Mouth The internall are Liver Lungs and chiefly the Guts the eyes are frequently troubled with heat and a tenacious Ichor that Exulcerates them whereby the Children cannot sleep which is helpt by cooling and moderately binding Medicaments as the water of Roses or Plantain mix'd with Sumach Take of the water of Roses and Plantain of each five Ounces Sumach half an Ounce infuse them all night and with a little white of an Egge mix them wet a little Cotten in it and wet the eye often with it if there be pain and Itching take the water of roses and milk and add a little Myrrh to them the scratching of the Eyes are to be avoided If the Ears be pain'd itch and run let them be kept open if the pain be great dip a Spunge in hot water with the Oyle of roses and lay it to the Ear the scratching whereof is very hurtfull The Nose is defended from Ulcers if Roses or Plantain be boil'd in water and the steam taken in at the Nosthrills The Mouth is helpt by this Gargarisme Take of the water of Barly one Pint and an half the leaves of Plantain and Flowers of Roses of each one Dram to which you may adde the Juice of Barbaries or Orange and wash the mouth with it 2. In helping of nature in expelling the humour which is perform'd by 1. Dyet that is convenient The Air is to be temperate or rather somewhat hot that the Pores may be opened and the coming forth of the Small Pox promoted therefore let the child be kept in a close room that the cold Air by no means may come in by the opposition of the Air many Children have dyed with a Benigne and gentle Small Pox the matter of the Disease being repercuss'd to the interior Parts let a red cloth be laid next the Skin which is conceiv'd by divers to be helpfull by a similitude it hath with the boyling Blood Be carefull your cloathing be not too much lest the Child be Smothered and Swound and so provide that the outward Parts are rather hot then cold but that neither the heat of the Air