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A96258	De variolis & morbillis: Of the small pox and measles: with their definitions, distinctions, causes, differences, signs, prognosticks, and cures, with cautions in aire and diet to prevent them. Also cordiall remedies, by which we may preserve our bodies from them, with locall medicines of excellent vertues to be applied outwardly or carried in the hand, to repel the venemous and pestiferous aire from entring into the body. / By Anthony Westwood, practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery at Arundel in Sussex.	Westwood, Anthony.	1656 (1656)	Wing W1486; Thomason E1674_3; ESTC R208425	17,580	92

like St. Anthony's Fi●e which are discussed within five or seven dayes without suppuration are called in Latine Morbilli in English Measles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Papulae Sunt Goreus eruptiones leves humorum percutem Variolae Sunt pustnlae in summa cute 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Morbilli verò Seunertus sunt maculae aut tubercula parva Subjectum est cutis quae Morbilli quid ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicitur The Small Pox are Pustles and the Measles Spots which arise in the top of the skin by What the Small Pox and Measles are reason of the impurity of the corrupt blood sent thither by the force of Nature This Impurity is the relicks of the menstruous blood remaining in the body of the Their matter Infant being of that matter from whence it drew nourishment in the womb It is stirred up at the first opportunity of a hotter summer or a hidden malignity in the aire and boyling up or working with the whole mass of the blood spread or shew themselves upon the whole surface of the body There is as much difference between the Small Pox and the Measles as there is betweene a Carbuncle and a pestilent Bubo for a Bubo and Carbuncle are tumors of a near effinity so that the one doth scarce come without the other consisting of one kinde of matter unlesse that which maketh the Bubo is more grosse and clammy and that which causeth the Carbuncle more sharp burning and raging by reason of its greater subtilty These Carbuncles and Buboes do rise in divers parts of the body but especially where the Glandules are because the expulsive faculty being provoked by a malignant quality does expel the pernicious matter from the internall parts especially the more noble ones to the externall so that from the Brain she sends it to the Glandules or Kernels behinde the Eares from the H●art to the A mpits from the L●ver to the Groyns whence swellings under th● E●res called Parotides ●●d those in the G●●yn called Bubones do arise For the Small Pox arise of a more grosle and viscous matter but the Measles of a more subt●l and hot The Measles yeild no marks but certain small spots without any tumour and they either red purple or black There is another kinde of Pustles common to children called the Chrystals they are white and as it were bladders full of a wheyish humour these cause no danger within three dayes they break and dry up The Small Pox are extuberating Pustles white in the midst but red in the circumserence yet they are scarce known on the first or second day they appeare but on the third and fourth day they bunch and rise into a tumour and are white before they scab but the Measles remain still the same The Small Pox prick like needles by reason of a certain acrimony and cause an itching the Measles doe neither because the matter is not so acrid and biting That Feaver which is commonly attended by the Small Pox and Measles may justly be reckoned among malignant and p●stilential Feavers because it is epidemicall and contagious and kills very many Of the cause of the Small Pox and Measles Sennertus in his Tomus secundus De cause variolarum morbillorum fol. 191. hath these words concerning the cause of the Small Pox and Measles Causam pr●x●mam continentem variolarum morbillorū referunt in immūditiem ● primo ortu in sanguine relictam ex sanguine materno quem monstruum vocart quo ●oe●us in utero matr is alitur c. Riverius saith thus Songuinem vero maternum esse veram causam variolarum morbillorum inde praecipue colligitur quod ex bominum millibus vix unum reperire lice it qui semel saltem in vita hos affectus non patiatur At morbus omnibus hominibus cō●unis à causa aliqua com ouni necessariò dependet qualia sunt generationis principia semen nimirum sanguis maternus But that the Seed cannot be the cause he goes farther and gives this reason At semen non potest esse causa variolarum morbillorum cum ab to morbi haereditarii tota vita perdurantes oriantur c. The meaning of these two learned and judicious Authors is this That the mothers blood is the true cause of the Small Pox and Measles and that it is hence chiefly gathered because among many thousands of men it is hard to find one who once in his life hath not had these diseases But a disease common to all men must needs depend upon some common cause such as are the principles of Generation viz. the Seed and Mothers Blood But the Seed cannot be the cause of the Small Pox and Measles because from it come hereditary diseases such as last a mans life-time as some Gouts which are affirmed by the most judicious Authors to be engrafted and here ditary from the parents yet they doe not deny but that there are some Gouts which are adventitious caused by externall causes and errors in Diet. It remains therefore that the Small Pox and Measles spring from the Mothers Blood with which the child is nourished in the womb for therein be it never so pure some impurities are found which communicate their pollution to the parts of the child and that pollution of the parts doth defile the masse of blood and being provoked by some occasion doth make the same to boyle by help whereof the blood ferments is purified both it the parts aforesaid Riverius saith farther that the Arabians do manifest this by a cleare example of Wine which being poured whiles it is new into a musty or il-qualited vessel receives that ill quality frō the vessel but when it begins to work and purifie it cleanseth both it self and the vessel It is not to be wondred at that the breaking out of the Small Pox and Measles is sometimes so long deferred as that some have them at mans estate for those impurities doe not substantially remaine in the body as many imagine for they would be corrupted by long stay and acquire a most grievous putrefaction But onely an evil quality is by them imprinted upon the parts of the child which in processe of time infecting some part of the humours becomes offensive to Nature which then rouzing her self doth drive those infected portions of the humors into the skin And although the Small Pox are wont to break forth in the whole body yet they appeare in greatest quantity in the face feet and hands which are the Emunctories of the Liver whence it comes that such as have hot Livers have red and rubied Faces and feel● intense heat in the palmes of their hands and soles of their feet it followes that the Small Pox and Measies must come out there more than any where else The Expulsion therefore of Small Pox and Measles is caused by an Ebullition of the the blood which Ebullition saith Avicen Duplex

it is thus made Take of new-laid Egges one hundred boyle them untill they be hard and take out the yolke and cut them in pieces and put them into a fryingpan untill they turne reddish and yeild a faity moisture then take them and put them hot into a hair bag and presse out the oyle It is the practise of many that when the Pox be ripe to bore them thorough with a golden or silver needle lest the quittor tarrying long in them should leave holes in the part But experience has taught that the Pox being bored are longer in healing and doth longer hold their cruft because of the weaknesse of naturall heat caused in the part by boring whereby more deformed scarres are left behind The internall parts may be preserved with a decoction of Lentils and Tragaganth described before Such Pox as arise in the Os faxe mouth palate and throat with hoursenesse and difficulty of swallowing may be helped by Gargarismes made with Barley-water Plantine-water with some syrup of red Roses and Mulberries dissolved therein The Lungs are preserved by Pulmo syrup of Jujubes deyed Roses white Poppies Myrtils Pomgranates Water-lillies and the like Sometimes tedious itchings solicite the Patient to scratch especially in the palmes of the hands and soles of the feet because the thickness of the skin in those parts hinders the eruption of the Pox which you shall help if you cause those parts to be fomented pretty hot with a decoction of Marshmallowes Barley Lupines or with a decoction of Pellitory of the Wall one handfull flowers of Cammomel and Melilote of each half a pugill boyle them in a pint of Scabious-water with this liquor hot often let the itching pox be moistned The Excoriations and Ulcers which arise from deep and malignant Pox are to be cured with Vnguentum Album well camphorated When the Feaver is past and the Pox begin to fall let them eat Bread and Butter or a potched Egge let their Beer be warmed with a Toste and sweetened with a little Sugar and when they have drunk let them eat the Toste to cleanse their mouth throat As for sucking Children such things shall be given to the Nurse as may infringe and overcome the strength of the malignity she shall take broths with Purslain Lettuce Sorrell Succory Borage and French Barley She shall shun all salt spiced and baked meats she shall drink decoctions of Licorish Raisons and Sorrel roots She shall also take purging Medicines as if she were sick of the same disease that so her milk may become medicinable Cautions in Aire and Diet to prevent the Small Pox and Measles No prevention seemed more certain to the Anoients than most speedily to remove into places far distant from the infected place and to be slow in their return thither again But those who by reason of their employments cannot change their habitation must principally have care of two things The first is that they strengthen their bodies the principall part thereof against the daily imminent invasions of the pestiferous and venerate aire The second is that they amend and purge the corruptions of the venenate malignity by smells and perfumes resisting the poyson thereof Let moderate exercise precede your Meales Let the belly have due evacuation either by Nature or Art Let the heart the seat of life and the rest of the bowels be strengthened with Cordialls and Antidotes Make choice of a pure Air and far remote from stinking places for a cloudy or mifty air such as is infected with grosse and stinking vapours duls the spirits dejects the appetite makes the body faint and ill-coloured oppresseth the heart and is the breeder of many diseases Kindle a cleare fire in all the lodging chambers of the house and perfume the whole house with Aromatick things as Fankinsence Myrrhe Benzoin Landanum Styrax Lavender Rosemary Marjoram Cloves pieces of Firre Juniper and let your clothes be aired in the same Excesse in diet is to be shunned for thence proceeds obstruction and preparation of the body to putrefaction Women must be very carefull that they have their courses duly for stopping besides the custome they easily acquire corruption and draw by contagion the rest of the humours into their society Of the Cordiall remedies to preserve our bodies from the Small Pox and Measles The roots of Angelica is a singular remedy against all infections taken by evil and corrupt aire if you hold a piece of it in your mouth or chew the same between your teeth it doth most certainly dr●ve away the pestilentiall aire Zedoary is an excellent root held or chewed in the mouth so are the roots of Scoizonera and Contra-ye●va condited Treacle-water two ou●ces with the like quantity of Sack is much commended being drunk and rubbing the nostrils mouth and eares with the same The Electuary following is very effectuall Take of the best Treacle three ounces Juniper-berries and Carduus-seeds of each one dramme and a half of Bolearmoniack prepared half an ounce of Damargariton Frigidum the powder of Harts-horn and red Cor●ll of each one dramme mix them with the syrup of Citions as much as will make all into a I quid Electuary take every morning the quantity of a Filberd in two spoonfuls of Scabious-water These following Tablets are also very profitable Take the roots of Angelica Ga●tian Zedoarie Elecampane of each halfe an ounce of Citron and Sorrel-seeds of each a dram of the dried rinds of Citrons Cinamon Bay Juniper-berries Saffron of each two scruples of Conserve of Roses and Bugloss of each two ounces and fine hard Sugar as much as is sufficient make thereof Tablets of the weight of half a dram take one of them in a morning and before meat two hours one at a time Mithridate and London or Venice-Treacle are commended above all Cordialls adding for every half ounce of each of them one ounce and a half of Conserves of Roses or of Bugloss and two or three drammes of Bole-Armoniack prepared Of these being incorporated make a Conserve it is to be taken in the morning the quantity of a Filberd Take of preserved Citron and Orange pills of each two drammes of Conserve of Roses and the roots of Buglosse of each six drammes of Citron seeds one ounce of Anis and Fennel-seeds of each two drammes of Angelica-roots three drammes sugar of Roses as much as sufficeth make it into a body of a Conserve and take a little of it before you goe abroad every morning The pills of Ruffus are accounted most effectuall preservatives so that Ruffus himself saith that he never knew any to be infected that used them the composition of them is thus Take of the best Alloes half a dramme of Gum-Amoniacum two drammes of Myrrhe two drammes and a half of Mastick two drammes of Saffron seven graines make them all into fine powder and incorporate them with the juice of Citrons or the syrup of Lemmons and make thereof a Misse and take the weight of half a dramme every morning two or three hours before meat and drink the water of Sorrell after it The Alloes doth cleanse and purge Myrrhe resists putrefaction Mastick strengthens Saffron exhilerates and makes lively the spirits Of Locall Medicines All aromatical astringent or spirituous things have proper vertues against ill and infectious aires and to strengthen the heart and the brain Of this kind are Rue Balme Rosemary Scordium Sage Wormwood Nutmeg Cloves Saffron the roots of Angelics and Lovage and such like which must be macerated one night in sharp Vinegar and Aqua vitae and then tyed in a knot as big as an egg or rather let it be carried in a sponge soked in the said infusion Take Cinamon and Cloves beaten together with a little Saffron in equal parts of vinegar of Roses and Rose-water into which you must dip a sponge which rowled in a fair linnen cloth you may carry it in your hand and often smell to Or take of Wormwood half a handful ten Cloves of the roots of Gentian and Angelica of each two drammes of Vinegar and Rose-water of each two ounces of Treacle Mithridate of each one dramme beat and mix them all well together and let a sponge be dipped therein and used as abovesaid Or you may make Pomanders the form of which is thus Take of yellow Sanders Mace Citron pills Rose-leaves of each two drammes of Banzoin Ladanum Storax of each half a dramme of Cinamon and Saffron of each two scruples of Camphire and Ambergreece of each one scruple of Musk three graines let them all be made into powder and with Tragaganth dissolved into Rose-water make a Pomander And for the same purpose you may carry about with you sweet powders made of Ambergreece Storax Orris Nutmegs Cloves Mace Saffron Benzoin Musk Camphire Roses Violets Marjoram and such like of which being mixed together powders may be compounded and made Many more Receipts I could set down both for the intentions curative and preservative but I hope these flowers of the most learned experienced Sennertus Riverius Bartholomeus per Dulcis Hollerius Fuchsius Parius and divers other Authors with the known experience of my Father's and my own may suffice untill the next oppertunity FINIS

BE Variolis Morbillis OF THE SMALL POX AND MEASLES With their Definitions Distinctions Causes Differences Signs Prognosticks and Cur●s with Cautions in Aire and Diet to prevent them Also Cordiall Remedies by which we may preserve our Bodies from them with locall Medicines of excellent vertues to be applied outwardly or carried in the hand to repel the venemous and pestiferous aire from entring into the body By Anthony Westwood Practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery at Arundel in Sussex LONDON Printed by J. G. for H. Seyle at the Black Boy over against S. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1656. To the Honourable and singularly vertuous Mrs. Margaret Morley of Glyn in Sussex The Author consecrateth these his Labours Honourable Mrs. THe principall motive which impelled mee to consecrate the subsequent Treatise unto your Name is the same which at the first invited me to pen it and that was to publish it to the benefit of the Towne and Countrey wherein I live that every one that would but take the paines to peruse this little Tract make triall of the receipts of Physick and Chirurgery at large declared therein might much benefit themselves doe much good to their acquaintance friends Honoured Mistress nothing hath more afflicted me than the death of him who truly honoured you in his life and was truly beloved by you to his death your dear Brother my best Friend William Morley Esquire who died of this contagious disease the Small Pox. I shall ever admire and proclaim his vertues and goodness who of his innate noble disposition loved all his followers in generall as his fellow-souldiers I wept for him at his death as for a Brother and after death saw him honourably buried as a Souldier but I 'le lament no more his death who is translated into a better life nor weepe for him that is in joy nor put on mourning clothes for him that is clothed with Immortality whom death hath parted I hope blessed eternity shall at length bring together again So I leave him and returne to you I have strived to shape my subject to the affection of so honourable a Patroness as your self to whom I dedicate this rude piece which I could have wished might have been undertaken by a more able workman vouchsafe therefore to shroud under your protection this unpolished worke which I offer not as a Present but as a Homage I owe you And therefore the marke I chiefly aimed at was not at any vain hope of praise to my self which how little I hereby deserve I am not so weak but to perceive but to leave a testimony to my Countrey how much I desire her benefit and to your self how much I am bound to remain Mistress Yours in all dutisull observance A. Westwood The PREFACE TO The Reader Courteous Reader THe chiefest thing that induced me to publish these Collections was a principall aim at the good of these in the town wherein I live which hath been much visited with these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Variolae or Small Pox. And therefore I have adventured to divulge many receipts of my Fathers who lived an able Physitian and in great practice above fifty yeares in this Town of Arundell I have also set down many receipts by me daily practised and therefore need no probatum to be annexed with divers varieties not published by any heretofore which I hope will be to the great benefit of all such as shall have occasion to practise any thing herein contained where I strive not to set forth an eloquent style as if it were some fancy-delighting History but a plain way to help the poorer sort I here produce a thing serious and for the generall good especially of those whom it shall please God to visit with this disease Some perhaps will think that those who knowing such things would be loth to publish them and make their Science common but I am rather of the mindes of those who once a yeare writ in the temple of AEsculapius all the cures they had performed and by what remedies and I think with Aristotle that a good thing is the better the more common it is and as Cicero saith we are not born to our selves if any thing in this small Tract may bring glory to God any good to his People I have my desire and aim I will not stand to amplifie any further because all that I seek in this book is to eschew prolixity for I know there are a sort of Criticks that will rather carp at a fault than amend it But Reader I end craving thy faveurable acceptation which will encourage me to publish a very necessary Tract of the Diseases of Women and Children intituled De Morbis mulierum infantium Thus much I thought good to acquaint thee with wishing thee all happinesse Thy well-wishing Friend Anth. Westwood Upon the death of my very good friend Dr. JOHN WESTWOOD GReat Westwood ' s fall'n let my lamenting Verse Doe its last duty to thy mourning Herse All we can doe is but to let men see How much we owe unto thy memory Great soul discharg'd of thy base mould whose All And ev'ry part we justly Spirit call Though here he liv'd not here his free desires Were alwayes quickned with celestiall fires Thy high born soul tow'rd to its proper place Restless unwearied till 't bad run its race 'T is true thy body made us think thee Clay But thy refined self did more display Vnto our second thoughts whilst we could spy Thy Vertues speak so much Divinity Through that darkesome veyle who could not see Thy Lynce ●y'd soul peep at Eternity This world was but the trouble of thy mind Which now by separation is resin'd And like it self thy now sublimed Sprite The veyl being drawn enjoyes its Eagle sight What once in contemplation thou didst see By death thou hast a full discovery Enjoy thy Trophies Death what thoss bast done Is but to make the blind enjoy the Sun Instead of hurting thoss hast set him free Lately a Pris'ner now at liberty Triumph then in thy Conquest who 'l deny To lose this life to catch Eternity But now I 've found thy plot great Westwood ' s Art Hindred thy Spoils lockt up thy rusty dart His skill like a strong Bulwark did withstand The fatall strokes of thy destroying hand When thou hadst past thy Sentence he could give Beyond all hope a wonderfull Reprieve Nay thou hadst miss'd him had not feeble Age Made him the object of thy cruell rage Then to encounter him when 't was too late Nature succumbing to divert his fate 'T was well advis'd to strike when the last sand Was run Stout Champion bid a bound man stand This is thy Trophy thus thou' rt magnified Naturs consum'd Oyle spent Sand out he died F. Haddon Doctor of Physick DEVARIOLIS ET Morbillis Of the Small Pox and Measles THe Small Pox is Variolae quid called in Latin Variolae Those little Aspetities of the Sk●n