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A69834	Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...; Technē iatrikē. English	Galen.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing C7517; Wing G159; ESTC R22670	55,815	130

Apprehension a sound Judgment a stable and firm Memory shews a good Brain dulness of Apprehension apish Judgment and Forgetfulness shew a bad Brain fickleness in Opinion shews a hot Brain stability in Opinion shews a cold Brain And yet here are two sorts of Indications which I think I have passed by though I promised them in the beginning the one of which concerns Natural Operations the other things without we shall speak of them hereafter Culpeper This Chapter although very short yet in my Opinion very pithy I shall but ad a little to honest Galen in it he tells you That a good Judgment a nimble Apprehension and a retentive Memory argue a good Brain they do so yet in few men shall you find all three of them excellent then consider the Apprehension lies in the fore part of the Brain and that 's the reason rubbing the Forehead quickens the Apprehension Judgment lies in the middle and Memory in the hinder part of the Brain then do but consider which of these three is weakest which strongest in you and you may know which part of your Brain is weakest and which strongest Chap. 13. Signs of a good temper of the Brain IF the Brain have obtained a good temper of the four first Qualities Viz. Heat Cold Driness and moisture the Operations thereof are alwaies moderate and seldom exceed the golden mean the excrements which it avoids by the mouth Nose Ears or Eyes are moderate It is not very subject to be hurt by external Heat Coldness Driness or Moisture for if the temper within be good it keeps external distempers from harbouring there The Hair is of a dusky red when Infants of a dusky yellow when Youths and yellow when Men they curl somthing but not much neither are they easily bald and yet the colour of the Hair doth indeed belong not only to the temper of the Brain but also to the Region Men live in and also to the temperature of the Humors without the Skull Culpeper I like a man that is not ashamed to call in his Errors as Galen here doth and not daub over the old ones with a Plaister of new ones as our Colledg did in mending their Dispensatory indeed Galen is in the truth diverse Regions give diverse colours of Hair usually as most Welch men have light or yellow Hair most Spaniards black also the temperature of Brain alters not the Hair at all unless by accident as it heats or cools the adjacent parts but the Humors without the Skull and that 's the reason in great Surfets usually the Hair comes off and every one that knows any thing knows that the Liver is the Principal part afflicted in a Surfet Chap. 14. Signs of a hot Brain SIgns of a hot Brain besides those we named before are the Forehead looks reddish and feels hot the Veins on the white of the Eyes appear plain and red the hair is hard and curling they are soon bald and the hotter the Brain is the sooner are they bald the excrements which come from the Brain by the Mouth Nose Ears and Eyes are but few and those few argue drought their Head is filled especially such as keep no regular diet with unconcocted excrements hot Meats and Drinks hot air and hot smels cause Headach they sleep but little and that little is very unquiet Culpeper Such whose Brain is too hot are almost continually troubled with Headach Dreams of fighting and quarrelling their Apprehension is exceeding quick and their smel good when you find these Symtoms in one that is troubled with Headach cool the Brain Chap. 15. Signs of a cold Brain THe Indications of a Brain which is colder than it ought to be are very many excrements appear in their proper places which we shewed before the hair is black soft smooth and not curling it is a long time after the Child is born before the Hair grow they being evilly nourished at beginning such are easily offended by cold causes and being so offended are troubled with heaviness in the Head and distillations from it their Face is pale neither is their Forehead hot the Veins in their Eyes are not seen in the least they are dull witted and mightily given to sleep Chap. 16. Signs of a dry Brain THe Indications of a dry Brain are very few superfluities accuteness of Wit and sences they watch much their Hair is hard and rugged yet quickly grows it curls yet are they soon bald Chap. 17. Indications of a moist Brain THe Signs of a Brain that is moister than it should be are plain Hair no waies curling plain and soft they never are Bald their Wits are dull and stupid never able to get the Phylosophers Stone their Sences are not good many excrements flow from the Head they have tears at will much and deep sleep These are the Signs of a simple distemper of the Brain Chap. 18. Signs of a hot and dry Brain OF Compound Distempers we shall first give the Indications of a hot and dry Brain in which Distemper but very few superfluities of the Brain are avoided for there are but few to avoid they have excellent quick and nimble Wits they watch much their Sences are good their Hair grows soon in Youth yet are they subject to be bald their Hair curls their Forehead appears red in colour and hot in feeling Culpeper I am of Opinion that simple distempers seldom distemper the Brain not because they are not offensive but because they never go alone and my reason is because they are Compound in every Element as the fire is not only hot but also dry the water not only cold but also moist and that 's the reason I gave you not any comment upon the Simple distempers to proceed A hot and dry distemper of the Brain usually causeth continual Headaches and the more it exceeds the golden Mean in heat and driness the greater is the pain as for the curling of the Hair and baldness which Galen speaks of I find they do not alwaies happen true for Aries which is a hot Sign gives thick Hair and never baldness unless Sol be in it if it do then but for Remedies of such a distemper of the Brain use Fumitory Willow Leaves Lettice Hops Water Lillies white Poppy Seeds Roses Violet Leaves and Flowers Strawberry Leaves the Seeds of Endive Succory Musk-Millions and Pumpions you may use them which way you please they are all harmless Also if the pain be extream and sleep fly from you take two grains of Laudanum Londinense at night going to bed Chap. 19. Signs of a hot and moist Brain IF Moisture be joyned to Heat and both of them surpass the golden Mean there follows a high colour of the Face the Eyes are hot and burning and look red the Veins of the Temples seem great the excrements of the Head are many yet seem well concocted all hot things whether taken inwardly or applied outwardly cause them to have a stretching distention and heaviness in