and more windy 8. Rostock beer which quenches thirst expells the Urine nourishes little and is good in the summer time 9. Servestan beer which hangs long in the hypochondria and sometimes causes sharpness of Urine 10. Newburg beer in Thuringia which is wel boyled and nourishes if it be taken too plentifully it causes dimness of sight some have grown blind by too much use thereof 11. Erfurt beer which conduces very much to health 12. Torgave beer which breeds good blood and by its aromatical tast strengthens the principle members 13. Wittenberg beer which is like the Rheue beer being ill-boyled 14. Rauschenburge beer which is commended against the stone 15. Paderborn beer which breeds thick blood 16. Beer of Brabant Gelder and Zutphen which breeds the scurvy 17. Flanders-beer which is very commendable especially their double beer 18. English beer which makes the drinkers fat 19. The Rhemsh beer which is for the most part base and hurtful 20. Colen beer which is better than that of Brabant I pass over the differences taken from the vessels which also change the faculties They are kept sometimes in pitched sometimes in unpitched vessells Mead and Metheglin do for the most part Heat more than wine especially if spices be added thereunto But it easily turns to choler because of the Honey Chap. 2. Of non-natural things done by a Man NOn-natural things which are done are passions of the Mind Motion and rest of the Body sleepe and waking which are of great moment towards the preservation or violation of Health Touching affections of the Mind and their Action upon the Body these things are cheifly to be observed 1. That Moderate affections preserve health and make no change in the Body 2. Such as pass their bounds oft times disorder the body and sometimes bring sudden Death 3. If you consider the good Affections or passions 1. Love if it exceed because it vehemently inflames the spirits in the Heart endeavouring to draw the thing beloved to it self and therfore sending the spirits forth to meet it does often times cause palpitation of the Heart sometimes madness fainting c. 2. Cheerfulness if it be moderate recreates the Heart and vital spirits if it be sudden and in too great a quantity it so dissipates the spirits which the Heart therein sends into the outward members because of its over great dilatation that it oftentimes brings death 3. In Evil Affections or Passions 1. Sadness by little and little dissolves the spirits cooles and dries the body spoiles digestion causes watching and breeds melancholy diseases 2. Fear dissolves the strength of the Body by reason of the sudden recourse of the Heat Blood and spirits into the outward parts causes a smal pulse with refrigeration of the external parts and is sometimes the cause of sudden gray haires even in young Men. 3. Anger in which the Spirits and Blood do as it were boile in the Heart and are violently moved from the inner to the outward parts it agitates the spirits and Humors Heats the whol body and breeds Fevers Tremblings of the joints and Palpitations of the Heart do often invade angery persons Also women are thereby brought into danger of Abortion Anger hardly ever kild any body because the Spirits are therein freely and forcibly moved if any died upon occasion of anger of necessity there was some other natural disorder in the body II. That Motion is necessary for Health is hence apparent in that by encreasing natural Heat it furthers Nutrition by moving and agitateing the Spirits it discusses vapors and excrements it makes the body after a sort hardy by adding solidity to the parts by their mutual Attrition Now according to its Differences it works diversly upon the Body of Man The best is that which exercises al parts of the body alike The next to that is whereby al parts are moved but not equally the lightest of al is that which exercises one only part I. Two much Motion exhausts the spirits and solid parts cooles the whole body dissolves the strength of the Muscles Nerves and Ligaments and hurts the Eye-sight II. Swift motion renders the body thin and compacted III. Slow motion rarifies and encreases the Flesh IV. Vehement motion makes the body hard lively but leane withal V. Continued and equable Motion because the members are weakened thereby as being much it wearies the more VI. Vnequal motion because it is parted with spaces of rest wearies less VII Distinguished and ordinate motion brings less wearyness since Interruption brings rest and the rest is cause of less wearyness VIII In hot places it burns more in moist places it moistens because the bodies being rarified by exercise are most readily disposed to receive al the qualitie of the Air and Places IX Among motions caused by a mans self I. Leaping without Intermission stirs up natural heat but hurts the Head by concussion and the Breast by compression while the back is bowed Leaping on high is good for the Hips but bad for the breast Downwards to leap clenses the Head from superfluities and strengthens the things With Springing it is good for old Diseases of the Head and brings matter which tends upwards downe into the lower parts 2. Running if it be Vehement is good for Fat and moist bodies but it is bad for such as are troubled with any kind of Head-ach If Running be moderate it excellently warms the Body excites appetite and though at first it move defluxions yet it afterwards in tract of time stops them A long course fore right by little and little performed diffuses the flesh but renders the bodies thicker Backward if it be gentle it is good for the Head Eyes stomach Loins A Circular motion distends the flesh and belly and very much offends the Head uphil t is bad for the Breast and thighs Downhil it very much affects the head it shakes the bowels troubles weake hips upon plain ground it does al that has been said The body being covered by moving sweat it moystens and heats the flesh but it makes the bodys il colored because the pure air does not come at them to clense the same The body being naked it draws out great plenty of sweat it brings away the humors in invisible exhalations and does more burne the body 3. To excercise ungirt by hurling a weight by reason of the vehement straining to throw the same the vehemency of the motion and bending of the muscles does make limbes to grow firme and purges them from excrements but this excercise must not be used by such as have weake Breasts and Kidneys 4. Darting is useful to get a good habit of Body and therefore Aesculapius and Apollo were thought to be the first Masters of darting 5. Moderate walking abroad continued without resting makes the body pure it helps defluxions and suppression of the courses Swift walking does heat much and abates the greatness of the flesh Slow walking is convenient for ancient and weake people because it
softens bodies exhaust with immoderate Labours and purges them by opening the Pores Too much walking takes away the trembling of the body dispels winde and very much disorders weak heads Much walking does help such as are troubled with Infirmities of the Head and Chest and whose lower parts are not nourished Little walking is fit for such as must walke after meat and who feel an heaviness in their bodies Long walking righ out is good for the head but it does too much drinke up the humidities Long and Quick is good for the Hickup A short walke compounded of motion and rest by reason of the frequent turning and returning is laboursome and weakens the head by frequent turnings With labour of the thighs and going upon the heels it is good for a moist Chest and a convulsioned wombe To goe on tiptoe is good for such as are blear eyed and costive in their belly To goe uphil does more weary the body because it is as it were loaded in that motion it moves sweat and hinders the breath and it is exceeding bad for weak Knees To walk down-hil draws from the Head to the inferior parts but it weakens the Thighs To walk through even Plains affects the body by the Universality of the Motion such motion is sooner finished by reason of its affinity with Nature To walk upon uneven grounds is good for such as are soon weary with walking walking over rough grounds fils the Head Walking over deep Sands makes most of al to stablish and strengthen al the parts of the body To walk in a close place subjects a man to intemperate vitious and thick aire which fils the whol Body To walk in the open Aire if by the Sea-side it dries and attenuates thick Humors if by Lakes and Riâ—ers it moistens but is bad for Epileptick persons if in the maine Land it is not so good as by the Sea if in the dew it moistens not without dammage if in places not subject to the wind Causes Humors to exhale and digests Excrements and is commended in Collicks proceeding from a cold Cause if in the North wind it Causes coughing but it quickens the senses if in the South wind it fils the Head and loosens the Belly if in the West wind t is the wholsomest of al other if in the South-East wind it smites the Body if in the Sun it hurts a mans Head it melts what is hot and makes that which is dry yet dryer Touching walking in the shadow observe I. That we must avoid trees ful of dew because the surface of the trees being melted by the dew an harmful liquor drops upon the bodies of such as walk under them which bites and Chops the outward parts 2. That walking is most wholsome which is performed under the Myrtle lawrel or bay and among sweet-smelling Herbs When the Skie is clear it lightens a man exhales Vapors through the pores makes a man breath wel When the Skie is Cloudy it causes heavyness fils the Head In the Morning loosens the Belly expels sluggishness caused by sleep procures appetite and is good for moist constitutions for it dries up the Humors out of the passages An Evening walke prepares a Man to sleep disperses inflations and hurts a weak head After Meat a little walk is good for those that are accustomed thereto and whose meat does hardly descend 6. Standing upright universally considered is bad for such as have a weak Back or are troubled with Inflamation and Ulcers of the Kidneys Considered particularly before meat it is good to void the Excrements of the Belly for persons asthmatical and to provoke Urin and strengthens the Legs but t is not fit for such as are subject to swimmings in their Head because in that posture the Vapors mount into the Head After meat if it be Moderate it assists the descent of Meat into the bottom of the Stomach if it last long it sends plenty of Vapors into the upper Region of the Body it throws down a multitude of Humors into the nether parts weakens the Chest and vitiates the Bladder and the whole Action of making Water To stand in the shade has the same effect as walking therein the difference is only in more or less To stand in the Sun does burn a man more in the Summer time then to walk therein and in a body impure it very much hurts the Head c. X. Of motions caused by another there is 1 Riding on horseback which if it be quiet and slow breeds great wearyness and makes men unfruitful as to generation if the pace be Swift and not very frequent it makes those that ride enclined to bodily lust by continual motion and rubbing of the genital parts and shakes the body in a weary some manner and is very bad for the Chest if it be upon a Trotting horse it offends the head the Neck the back and Buttocks but it brings gravel from the Kidneys to Ride ful Speed or on Galiup is too heating duls the senses and offends the Eyes 2. Gestation or being carried in general in persons sound and sickly encreases Natural heat and discusses the multitude of the matter but in persons that cannot sleep it brings rest by digesting those excrements which slip â—rom the Head into the Stomach c. Particularly Riding in a Coatch if it be not violent is good in diseases of the Head and fluxions of the Bowels but it is hurtful to Epileptick persons because the motion of the wheeles makes then giddy if a man ride with his Face to the hind Wheels t is good for a weake sight and helpes much the Obfuscation thereof If it be very fast Celius commends it to make a man lean that is over Fat. In an Horse-litter t is convenient for healthy people that are to follow their business after dinner and it was anciently the manner to carry sick people on that fashion in an horse-litter Lethargick and Nephritick persons lay along c. For so the Morbifick matter was made fit for Expulsion those that were troubled with some light and long lasting Diseases and were in the perfect declination of Feavers did sit To be carried in a Chair or Sedan is good for cold Natures and which evidently decline But of al these Exercises consult the learned treatise of Mercurialis de Arte Gymnastica which I shal peradventure over-look and cause to be again published with some notes of mine IV. I shal not need to speak of Rest al that can be said may be collected by any one from what we have spoke of Motion III. Sleep is also necessary for preservation of Health and likewise to refresh the wearied Members of our bodies and to restore the spirits which are the Soules Instrument in the performance of her Actions If it be moderate not only the wearyed forces of the body are thereby refreshed and the spirits washed with dayly labors repaired but also the heat is drawn inwards by which means the Aliments and crude
and the whol winter Young pigeons of three or six weeks old of which the thighes and belly are the principal parts An Hen of a yeare old in January February and March and chickens of six or seven weeks age A Turkey-Hen in the winter her breast and belly whose chick is best in the spring of two or three months old A Partrich from October to the spring in al its parts but cheifly in the wings Whose chick of six or eight weeks old in July August and September is meat for a Prince A Phesant in Autumne and winter in its wings rather than Legs whose chick of six or eight weeks old in the Summer is most sweet meat A Thrush of a month old in Autumne and winter III. Among four footed beasts are approved the Oxe from September to March especially if he be five yeares old his chiefe parts are the Breast Loines and Muscles of the Hips A Rabbit in winter and summer it s back parts hips and wings An Hare in cold winter A Leverit or young hare of two or three months old at al times A Kid in the spring of a month or two old it is better to eat of its hinder parts ribs belly head and feet than other parts of the Body An Hogg of two yeares in the winter the flesh on its back-bone Loines Ribbs Eares and Feet A Pigg at any time A Calfe from December to May its Loins breast Belly Head Liver Kidneyes I forbeare to speake of Fishes that I may not outgoe the bounds of a compendium III. Of Sawces touching which observe 1. That strong healthy persons must use very little sawce 2. Wee must abstain from such as differ much from our constitution 3. Wee must use such as come nearest the temper of the meats we eate 4. In the Summer and such as are of a chollerick Constitution cold sawces must be used in the winter and in flegmatick Constitutions hotter may be allowed 5. Wee must so use sawce as never to eat more than the heat of our stomach can digest IV. We must have regard to the time that is to say how often and when we must take food Touching both which points observe in general 1. That we must not eat much and often as the champions of old were wont to doe because that is good neither for the body nor the minde 2. It is better to eat often and a little than much at once for so neither shal the stomach be oppressed nor the body Pined 3. So often at our pleasure as we feel our selves hungry Now this varies according to age Temperament kind of Life custome yet the most healthy course for such as are exercised with moderate labours is to eate twice a day hard labours may eat four times a day Nor must we eat as soon as ever we feel our selves hungry nor must we defer too long after Hunger summons us For the former breeds crudities the orifice of the stomach being provoked by reason of its exquisite sence of feeling the latter fils the stomach with bad humors 5. Cholerick persons lean people such as use much exercise must feed often For the former doe easily faint away through fasting especially if choler be shed out into their stomach The latter have their bodies apt to transpire and spend The over exercised doe dissipate much 6. To cold and moist persons to fat and corpulent such as are busyed with little or indifferent labours less meat is to be given for the contrary reasons A Temperate man may eat twice a day 8. Because al the meat is not digested in the stomach at one and the same time but one part descends into the guts before another there needs no such subtile enquiry about the space of time which must goe betweene dinner and supper Provided there be no manifest signs of Crudity and repletion the supper may be foure five or six houres after dinner 9. We must so keep to an houre of eating that we sometime transgress the same least exact custome may occasion some danger when we are forced to miss our time 10. We must alwaies have great regard to custom For those that are accustomed to eat twice a day if they miss their dinner are troubled with heart-burning sharpeness of urine c. 11. Although t is Scarce determinable whether a man that is in health wel tempered and at his owne dispose should eat more largely at dinner or at supper seeing there are strong reasons on both sides and concoction in the stomach seems to be better by day than by night as we finde by experience that it is better in the night than in the day yet is it certain that some kind of meats are better at dinner than at Supper as onions and other vaporous meates and that not only old persons but those also which deflect from a good state of health and are troubled with Catarrhs weakeness and swimming of the Head ought to sup more sparingly than dine V. Of order in respect whereof note 1. Because al meats are changed into chyle and those that are foonest digested are drawn by the Liver spleen and guts it matters not with reference to Coction and generation of Chile in such as are in Health what meats are eaten first and what last yet it is best to take liquid meats before those that are sollid because they are sooner reduced into act and by their fermentation doe help the Coction of the other meats also to take laxative meats before such as are binding if the mouth of the stomach be not loose beneath lest being retained long in the stomach they bind the belly such meats as are apt to corrupt must be taken before others that the orifice of the stomach being loosened they may the more easily pass away astringents before Laxatives if the retentive faculty of the stomach be weake 2. Corruptible meats are most conveniently eaten alone an houre or two before any other lest being of a divers Nature they defile and corrupt the Chylus II. Touching Drink take these Rules 1. We must drink so much that our meat do not swim in our stomachs Moderate drink moistens the body cherishes the spirits helps the distribution of meat c. Overmuch drownes the heat of the body breeds cruditie disturbs the mind 2. We must drink between whiles at our meals and we may drink after meat if our meat pass not easily out of the stomach but not til digestion is over If you drinke during your digestion Coction is troubled and the meate is drawn crude unto the Liver 3. We must not drink fasting because it weakens the nerves 4. It is most convenient to drink a little and often at meals than to fetch al off at a draught or two the former manner quenches thirst the latter breeds fluctuation in the stomach But see touching dinners and suppers Bernhardus Paternus and Stuckius in his first book of the Feasts of the ancients Chap. 14. III. The Affections ought to
spaces or deeply impacted in its glandules and putrefying by the accession of external heat The signs are a slow feaver for the most part a semitertian a pain in the Loins sometimes on both sides sometimes in the right which extends it self to the fore part of the belly above and about the Stomach costiveness of body chylous stools which for the most part a thin matter doth follow somtimes sincere and yellowish sometimes mixt with the excrements It differs from the pains of the stomach of the womb Chollick and Stone by the signs expressed in them From the Fatness of the Belly because this may be al comprehended in the hand because it cleaves to the upper skin and may be separated from the muscles of the belly From a tumor of the muscles of the belly because that where 't is prest causeth paine and doth not so much bind the body The Cause is explained in the definition the blood is poured forth thither because the way for it to the guts is stopt either by astringent things which happens in a dysentery ill cured or by plenty of thick clammy humors suddainly rushing to the guts The Cure must not be neglected for 't is dangerous both by reason of the feaver with which the patient wasts and by reason of the putrefaction by which the mesentery is corrupted But 't is extended somtimes to the fortieth day somtimes to the eighty somtimes it lasts al the life time a feaver and collick paines somtimes returning somtimes ceasing 'T is performed as in other inflamations only note that the coolers ought to be more benign least the matter be more impacted The purgers must be none or gentle nor in the beginning lest more be attracted but when the inflamation tends to concoction Neither is Cassia safe enough in the undertaking of the Cure As concerning the Differences somtimes the Guts also are inflamed and then al things are worse Somtimes the Inflamation sticks about the glandules and then they are lighter Somtimes the neighbouring Liver is drawn into consent and then a burning Feaver for the most part goes before the evil afterwards tending to suppuration a slow Feaver follows II. Impostumations that do molest the Mesentery are various for 1. If you consider the place either they are above the Navel or beneath it or about it 2. If the Constitution somtimes the Mesentery is found made up of many great Schirrous Tumors Somtimes Stones are found in it Somtimes it hath infinite Impostumations without sense and pain included in their proper bagg and conteining a Gypseous glutinous or liquid matter But they are hardly known and somtimes not till after death yet if the Belly be swelled and the Symptomes present and there are no signes at hand neither of a dropsie nor of some other Disease of affinity with it we ought to suspect them But they are voided prodigiously Somtimes of its own accord this filth breaks forth by the stool and oftentimes fetching a circuit it returnes again Somtimes being copiously poured forth between the Peritoneum and Muscles of the Belly it either fals into the Cavity of the belly breaking the Peritoneum or breaks outwardly by an impostumation c. Somtimes this happens the patient bearing it wel somtimes it hastens his death Concerning their Cure these things in general must be noted 1. That the belly ought alwaies to be loose 2. We must make hast with resolving materials but light that have an aromatick vertue mildly astringent 3. Amongst detersives Mercatus his Syrupe of Steel bears the Palm 4. To Consolidate Cypres Turpentine any way prepared is to be preferd before al especially if the matter offending lurks in the Loyns and about the Kidneys 5. For the speedier ripening of the impostumation a Bath of sweet water must be often used 6. That the strength is exceedingly confirmed with the essence of Arsmart and Oyl of vitriol 7. Sharp things ought to be avoided because by their penetrating and abstersive Faculty they corrode the Ulcers and destroy the temper Chap. 3. Of the Pain of the Mesentery and the affects of the Caul and Pancreas THe pain of the Mesentery is a said sense of it which ariseth from a hot and sharp matter thrust into the menbranes of it afflicting with a perpetual Pain of the belly and Loins by intervals especially the time of Autum drawing neer and somtimes is dispersed into the head and whole body The Signs of that to come are a Jaundice disposition conspicuous in the eyes and every where about the temples the appetite lost a heaviness increasing in the Hypochondries seldome going to stool ruddy Urin. Of that present a strong suppression of Wind and Excrement a vehement Pain of the Belly and Loyns a casting up of Medicines by vomit little success of Clysters c. The strength is not to be Judged by the Puls for that is smal in al great pains Of that Increasing the sick cast off al Hopes the stone for the most part gathers strength the neighbouring Muscles of the Belly and the Peritoneum from the internal putrefaction gather Corruption the pains diffuse themselvs into the whol compass of the belly nay they pass to the utmost joynts yet chiefly to those of the shoulder and Feet at last Convulsive motions possess them It is distinguished from the pains of the Womb Kidneys Ileon Sciatica by the signs which are delivered there The CAUSES are sharp putrid Humors endewed with a quality immicous to al the bowels especially the liver and stomach which after Nature hath in vain tryed to empty by stool are cast into the Mesentery which is nothing else than the peritonaeum doubled and fastend to the Loins The CURE is doubtful if the pains be low because they are the stronger If they be felt above the navel and are not dissolved by any Medicines because they end in a dry dropsie If pains of the Kidneys succeed by reason of the neerness of the mine of corruption If new obstructions succeeding the evil from thence grows more fierce Of little or no hopes if vomitings molest cold sweats and often hickops If they last long the patients be feaverish and loath meat because 't is to be feared least the paine proceeding to the head do suddenly kil them after the manner of convulsions if watchings preserve and be vehement If an inverted course of nature draw neer If a hectick arise or a suppuration of the peritoneum and neighboring parts 'T is performed I. By taking away of the Causes where do take place 1. Glysters which to mollefy ought to be made of Goats milk with cassia and oyle of violets To clense we must ad a little hiera picra and honey of violets 2. Purgers by intervalls repeated if you perceive obstructions by the ruddy water gentle from which notwithstanding we must exclude manna by reason 't is abundantly windy 3. Preparatives and openers of the decoction of Scorzonera grass strawberries with the cordial flowers to which we must premise
them up into a certain thick white substance for their use and spending 2. Pease which are cold dry and windy especially those that are green they are Experimentally found to hurt the Nerves the Broth or Pottage made of them is better than their substance 3. Lentils which generates an Aliment that is both cold and thick of hard digeston filling the Head with gross Vapors very hurtful to the Eyes and the breeder of much thick blood especially if they be Eaten with Salt flesh 4. A smal Pulse called Cicers which by Reason of their abstersive faculty are most commonly sought out and made of for Physical purposes Dioscorides writeth that those that use them thereby gain a fair fresh color 5. A sort of Pulse yet smaller than the former called Chichlings which obtain a mean and stand as it were in the middle place between those kind of meats that are of good or ill Juyce and easily or with much ado concocted and converted into nutriments 6. Vetches which suggest a grofs and thick Juyce and such as is only fit and good for nothing else to generate black choler or Melancholy and to render the Body costive through overmuch binding the Belly III. Vnder Potherbs and in the Number of Garden Plants fit for Food Herbs or Leaves Stems or Branches Roots and Fruits are Comprehended For as touching Seeds I shal here speak nothing of them I. Among Leaves and branches are 1. Lettuce which of al Pot-herbs is absolutely the best and yieldeth more matter for the generating of Blood than other Pot-herbs by its coolness it excellently qualifieth and allayeth the boyling heat of the stomach procureth sleep and tempereth the heat of the Kidneys But if a man feed too much thereon it then extinguisheth the seed Two ounces of the Juyce hereof taken at once or for one Dose Kils unavoidably It is Eaten raw with Oyl Salt and Vinegar 2. Endive which according to the Opinion of Galen hath its qualities like unto those of the Lettice aforesaid In other places it is far fetcht and stored up until the winter months For in those places their custome is with a smal threed to bind together round like a Globe the Leaves hereof so soon as they are come to perfection and so to preserve them covered in earthen Vessels 3. The Colewort and Cabbage which is cold and dry hard of concoction which affords an Aliment that is thick and gross that exhales up into the Head Fuliginous Vapors disturbeth the sleeps of those that eat it and extreamly weakeneth and Dulls their sight It s hurtful quality may be corrected if we take it Boyled in flesh Pottage The Juyce thereof hath in it a tart Acrimonious quality such as excites and provoks the Belly to void its Excrements That which hath its Leaves spread al abroad is far wholsomer and better than that which groweth al of a Head which for distinction sake we cal the Cabbage It is allowed to be eaten by working and laborious people but then for a corrective Pepper must be added and eaten therewith 4. Spinach or Spinage which cools and moistens generateth serous or wheyie humors and is somwhat offensive by its treasuring up windiness unless you mingle therewithal for a corrective Pepper Salt and Butter 5. Mallows which yeildeth little nourishment causeth a flux and loosness of the Belly and borroweth a grateful acceptable tast from butter and other Condiments 6. The like may be said of the herb Arach or Orach and Blite which latter is likewise a kind of Spinach 7. Beets are cold and dry and of different parts the Juyce thereof cleanseth the substance of it bindeth the Body howbeit it removeth the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen The Ancients were wont to add thereto Wines and Pepper 8. Asparagus or Sperage unto which the tender young branches of the Hops are very neer of kin as being of a temperate Nature they afford but little aliment and that likewise none of the best this Asparagus is very grateful to the pallate excites and provokes the appetite it cleanseth expels Urine and purifieth the Kidnys 9. Water-cresses which by reason of their heat are commonly used instead of a condiment or Sauce Aequineta hath added this further of it to wit that it is an enemy unto the Stomach and that it breeds an il Juyce In time past the use of it was wont to be very frequent and familier with the Persians in their ordinary diet 10. Mustard which is of a tart and sharp tast and is withal most apparently hot and dry And thereupon it is placed and recounted among those Condiments or Sauces which attenuate thick and gross meats It is in the Vintage time mingled and throughly moystned with new Wine or Must from whence it hath the name of Mustard II. Of Roots there are 1. The Onyons that afford but very little nourislment but they are of a hot nature they cut attenuate heat and inflame the Blood and the thinner parts of them being discussed and scatterred they leave behind them a gross and thick Juyce they incite and provoke unto Venery cause distracted and turbulent dreams and are very offensive unto the Head Eyes Teeth and Gums especially in those that are cholerick 2. Garlick which in the Month of May is by many of the French eaten with fresh butter and of which beaten together with Wal-Nuts in a Morter they prepare and make that Garlick sauce that we term Alliatum In Garlick crude and raw there is not Aliment at al and in that which is boyled there is very little and that also none of the best By its extraordinary great heat and dryness it attenuates and cuts asunder the thick Humors and moreover it is a most exquisite Remedy for the correcting of the pravity of waters that are gotten together in the Abdomen or Belly and a special help and means for the enduring of cold 3. The Leek which hath almost the same properties and qualities with the Forementioned It is chollerick and greatly hurtful to such as are of weak Brains it duls the sight of the eyes and being often eaten it begets choler of a Greenish color much like unto the Leek it self If it be in the beginning of the meal Eaten raw with Salt it then freeth the stomach and Belly from gross and thick Juyces 4. The Reddish which together with Salt we use to eat raw But it is fitter to be used instead of a sauce or sallad in regard it is extraordinary hot and withal sharp and tart tiring and wearing out the Teeth It collecteth together the scattered spirits breaketh the windiness of the stomach by causing ructures or belchings provoketh Urine and expelleth the gravel out of the Kidneyes That Garden Raddish is accounted the best which is brittle and easily broken Unto the former may be added the wilde or horse Raddish which hath in a manner the like vertues and properties with the Garden Raddish and is more frequently made use of for
by the mediation of other Signs 2. From the Causes which are either present or have preceded 3. From the Bodies Disposition which depends upon Hereditariness Age Sex Kind of Life Dyer and Evacuations omitted 4. From Actions Natural Vital Animal which are hurt abolished diminished depraved and that suddenly or slowly 5. From things voided forth viz. Urine Dung Swear Spittle c. 6. From the Qualities of the Body changed color smel c. which yet do signifie rather the Cause than the Disease II. The Times of the Disease whose knowledg is necessary were it but in respect of the state when if ever the signs of perfect Coction appear and good Crises do happen are known 1. By the Idea of the Disease be it long or short 2. From the time of Year Dyer Countrey Temperament Strength c. Hot things are the Causes of hot and acute Diseases Patients strength in a disease not deadly signifies a short disease it shews 't will last long 3. From the Mutations of the fits in which their Anticipation coming later duration and vehemence are to be observed of which also see Authors 4. From the Symptomes of Diseases which are light at the beginning strong and fiercest in the state 5. By Coction and Crudity which is either proper to one kind of diseases as spittle in the Pleurisie or common to many III. The Parts affected are known 1. From the Causis Things taken in done Retained Excluded and incident from without Some are more apt to one part than another also at some season the Lungs are chiefly insested other whiles the Stomach c. 2 From things Essentially inherent or by propriety of the Part and the diseases inherent in the parts 3. From the Actions hurt unless they be hurt by some external accident especially by pain of which we shal treat hereafter in a peculiar Chapter 4. From things voided forth in which substance quantity quality and Mixture are to be observed 5. From qualities changed IV. The Signs of the first and Essential Differences of Diseases shal be explained in the fift Book in respect of the accidental which we have above propounded Observe I. Touching Diseases by Sympathy 1 That they encrease or decrease with the Primary Disease and are deserted by the Primary 2. That they infest not continually by certain fits unless matter be continually supplied 3. By things helping or hurting applied to the other they are helpt or hurt II. Touching acute Diseases that they from the very beginning and the first three daies are extreamly burdensom to the sick and have grievous symptomes because they proceed from hot sharp thin and movable Humors which vehemently provoke Nature III. Concerning malignant diseases 1. That they arise from Causes both external and internal which are offensive by their whol substance 2. That in them the Patient is frequently unquiet though he cannot tel of any vehement or dangerous symptom that in the beginning the Patient is often held with a deep sleep is not eased by sweats or other Evacuations shivers grows hot bleeds at Nose without any appearing Cause but in other respects they seem troubled with a slow Feaver with signs as it were of Recovery and upon a light occasion faint away They talk continually and their Tongue is black and rough 3. That the same diseases after a light Remission the malignity having spred it self through the Humors are most suddenly and vehemently exasperated 4. That in them the paines which were do remit and abate without either Excretion or Riseing the pulse in respect of the feverish Heate haveing an unwonted parvity with Inequality and Frequency V. All those promiscuously regarding signs are afforded by the differences of Urines and Pulses I. The differences of Vrines are taken from their Consistence Quantity Quality things mixed with and contained therein 1. As for what concerns the Consistence Thin urine argues too much drinking a strong obstruction of the Kidnies and Uriters and want of natural heat proceeding only from distemper Defect of that salt which is wont to be resolved out of the meat Thick argues oppression of the heat by abundance of Humors indifferent shewes vigorous Heat an exquisite digestion of the stomach Liver and veins Cleare and transparent perfect concoction goodness of Humors whence afterwards it makes a sediment Troubled proceeding from the cold of the aire and admitting amendment by the fires Heat in continual Fevers argues a rudiment of Coction Troubled which is made so shewes diseases of the Kidneyes or bladder plenty of crude thick and clammy humors out of which many thick flatulencies being produced they are mixed with the Urine and hinder the matter from descending sudden obstruction of the Liver Spleen Reines c. Solution if it happen suddenly Confused which is in all parts alike and hath no Hypostasis shewes diseases in the veins and properly confusion corruption putrefaction of the Blood and Humors which are in the greater veines and therefore 't is only observed in fevers and those continual and malignant Fatty defilement of the alimentary Humor which flowes into the parts so that it cannot be converted into their substance whereupon dissolution followes II. As for the Quantity much signifies immodreate drink diuretick Medicaments cold distemper and cold pressing and squeezing forth moist diet Heat of the Kidneyes attracting water shut up in some place resolving of the Body into liquor either of its own accord or by force of Heat to which fatness is joyned Little shewes little or hard drink overgreat sweates plentyful stooles obstruction of the Kidnyes Ureters Bladders Neck and Bladder vehemency of feverish heat the drinks turning to the bodies nutriment which sometimes happens to such as are in away of recovery from some disease III. In respect of the smell fragrant Urine intimates the use of Terpentine Musk Benzoin c. For from internal causes such Urines can hardly proceed Stinking Vrine argues eateing of rotten cheese garlick an Ulcer of the Kidnies Privities neck of the bladder putrefaction of humors if it be fresh of the Substance if an old stench IIII. In respect of color white urine if thin and transparent argues plenty and thinness of drink strong obstruction of the Mesentery Liver or kidnies great imbecillity of digestion defect of color and somtimes the ascent thereof to the belly Head or some part in the Habit of the body if thick obscure or like milk it argues abundance of thick flegm Red and withal transparent argues Heat of the Liver or a fever if thick and yellowish it argues the mixture of yellow or vitelline choler a phlegmon of the Liver or an exquisite scirrhus Safron-color'd argues the use of Rhubarb Safron or Fenel obstruction of the Gall-bladder and then Linnen cloathes dipt therin receive a tincture Bloody shewes the weakness and slapness of the Liver an ulcer and contusion of the Kidnies and Loines Wine grape colored shewes adustion of blood and the change thereof into black choler Green argues
faculty Which do not shut close because it happens either through Convulsion of the eyes Muscles or because the faculty is so weak that it cannot not perfectly mannage the Eye lids 3. The Teeth if they grind not being accustomed so to do because they signifie Madnes or death if they are clammed with a glutinous Humor 4. The Nose if distorted for it argues convulsion Sharp because it argues great weakness of nature Itching unacustomarily unless it foretel bleeding to follow because it portends the patient wil rue by reason of store of humors and vapors ascending to the Head 4. Eares lead coloured black contracted cold because they are tokens of the native heate extinguished 5. The Tongue dry hard black if it appeare so with other signs and the patient thirst not because it argues either distraction or extinction of the Faculty and consequently death 6. The Hypochondria inflamed or pained stretched unequal extenuated because they signifie either exceeding dryness or wind or Inflamation of some part there seated Pulsing which signifie either the head inflamed or much wind riseing from a boiling humor into the head foreshow perturbation and with unstable Eyes Distraction unless this pulsing presage the Crisis 7. Nailes lead-coloured and black if the Body be withal heavy for t is a deadly signe But if the Patient be lightsom and there be some other good signe the disease tends to an Impostume or Riseing III. The knowledg of the Manner how a disease wil terminate respects what ever we have already said touching the crisis and involves many questions For the queries wil be 1. Whether the disease shal end in a Marasmus or utter consumption 2. Or by solution 3. Or by crisis and if so 4. Whether the Crisis wil be by excretion and if so by what and what manner of excretion 5. Or by Translation 6. Whether the Crisis be very good indifferent or bad 7. When the Crisis shal happen I. Touching the knowledg of a Diseases Termination by Marasmus or solution I need not say much For if the disease out last the critical daies and those of acute diseases per decidentiam it wil terminate either by solution or Marasmus II. By Crisis a disease wil terminate 1. If it be great and accute or seem smal malignity lurking therein 2. If it arise from matter hot thin and sharp which is apt to provoke nature howbeit in a long disease some critical evacuation may likewise happen if the disease for some fits preceding have been more vehement than ordinary 3. If the strength of Nature be so rigorous as to overcome the disease 4. If perturbations happen in the body in reference to the animal vital and natural actions III. A disease wil terminate by excretion 1. If it be acute from a thin and sharp matter and the Crisis be expected at the beginning 2. If Nature be strong the pulse high the waies open and nature accustomed to swear or other evacuation 3. If it be summer II. If it ought to terminate by bleeding at the Nose 1. The Hypochondria are distended without paine which is followed by shortness of breath not long-lasting 2. There wil soone follow paine of the Head and Neck redness of the face and eyes shineing and darkness before the eyes apparitions are seen There is raveing pulseing of the Arteries in the temples also the puâ—e in the wrists is vehement 3. Lastly when the Nose-bleeding is at hand the patient begins to rub and scratch his nose all which signs are more certaine if the Age and Nature of the patient and the present constitution of the aile be suitable III. If by vomiting the humors wil move towards the stomach whence wil follow paines therein with headach dizziness and darkness of the sight the upper lip wil be ful of motion they spit much and thin there wil be stomach sickness shakings coldness of the Hypochondria hardness of the pulse an unequal difficutty in breathing IV. If by sweat which is most usual there goes before suppression of urine shaking and the absence of the signs of other evacuations when the sweat breakes forth the pulse wil be soft waveing the skin soft the external parts wil wax hot and an hot vapor wil break forth V. If by stool there wil be no proper signe but the signs of other excretions wil be absent there wil be belchings and Inflation of the Belly paine of the Loins Heavyness of the knees sometimes the belly being loose the urine is suppressed VI. If by urine the signs of other excretions wil be absent the patient wil not be very unquiet About the Bladder there wil be sence of inflation and heavyness of the Hypochondria The urines wil begin to be encreased The Belly wil be bound with a kind of heat VII If by Hemorrhoides then the Patient hath been accustomed to them the signs of other Excretions wil be absent there wil be heat or paine about the Back-bone with tension of the Loines Crises are seldom made by them VIII If by the Courses the signs of other excretions wil be absent the time of their flux wil be neare There wil be heat of the Loines with paine and stretching of the Hypochondrias and other signs foregoing the flux of Courses IX If by many places We shal observe the signs of many excretions X. The excretion wil be good 1. If the peccant humor be voided and that digsted 2. If in just quantity and on a critical day 3. If in a right manner altogether and by fitting places IV. A disease wil be terminated by Translation or a Rising 1. If it be acute and the matter thick 2. If the virtue be weak and the urines have been long time thin and crude 3. If Nature have a propensity to those places the season of the yeare be cold the patient ancient and the signs of a Crisis by excretion be wanting II. The Riseing happens in the superior parts if the matter be thin in the inferior if it be not so thin and nature strong III. It wil be good 1. If the matter be digested 2. If it have a laudable substance and rise high-pointed 3. If it ripen equally 4. If it quickly suppurate and be in an outward and ignoble part V. The Crisis is then best when the critical signs forementioned have preceded If signs of coction and crudity went before If it were foreshowen in an Indicatory day If it happens upon a judicatory day If such matter has been voided as is suitable to the nature of the disease If the patient after the Crisis be freed from the disease and its symptomes It is indifferent if exquisite signs of coction have not preceded if it happen in the augment or a little before the state or at least when coction begins to be celebrated in which case bleeding at Nose is the most convenient of al excretions if it be not foreshowen on the Indicatory day if it happen in the leape-day if the evacuation suit not with
arise Which is performed either by steeping the Member in hot water or by Application of a Linne Cloath wet in Lie or Application of Onions beaten in a Mortar with salt which nevertheless is not good for burns in the Eyes Exceeding Commendation is given to an Oyntment made of one part of Oyl-Olive and two parts of whites of Egs beaten together and frequently anointed on with the Feather of an Hen. 2. By opening the bladders the third day after their arising when the Scarf-skin begins to breed on fresh I. Another sort is indifferent great which is known hereby in that the part is forthwith swelled and inflamed Pustles arise wherein is contained a thin subtile water of a yellowish color the Patient complaines his skin is stretched T is Cured 1. By Cutting the Pustles that the hot and sharp Humor may flow out 2. By application of Defensatives least Humors and blood may flow to the part affected 3. By Application of tht Oyntment of Fabricius made of three ounces of fresh butter washed in Rose-water Oyl of Violets Yolks of Egs and of sweet Almonds of each half an ounce Barley meal one ounce and half Saffron one scruple Mucilage of Quince seeds one ounce Wax as much as shal suffice III. Another is extream which is known hereby that in the very moment that the thing burning sticks to the body pustles arise but fal soon after the skin beneath is black or livid and Lead-colored If pricked it feels dully When the Crust fals off a putrid and profound Ulcer arises T is Cured 1. By cutting the pustles or bladders that the water which is contained in them may be dryed up 2. By Separation of the Escar the second or third day which if it cannot be effected it must in many places be cut with a Pen-knife See Fabricius his â—yntment 3. If a Gangraena begin the Cure must be applied thereunto 4. The Eschar being separated the Ulcer must be clensed filled with flesh and covered with a Skar IIII. Another is from Gunpouder in which the grains of the pouder must be taken out with a Needle or some ther Instrument If they cannot be taken out the pustles must be fuffered to arise If they arise not they must be riased by vesicatories and cut the pouder must be taken forth and the place must be washed with a Decoction of Fenugreek c. Another sort comes from thunder in which case sweat must be provoked by some Antidote The Arteries Lips Tongue Nostrils must be anointed with Treacle wine The Escar being removed Mundificatives and flesh-breeders corrected with Bezoarticks are to be applied If a bone be broken the Vulgar astringent Cataplasmes are to be avoided V. One sort is of the Face in which the Medicine of two Egâ—whites Oyl of Roses two ounces Rose water one ounce has place Another is of the Eyes in which case warm brest Milk must be dropped on If a Crust be raised we must use Emollient fomentations lest the Eye lids be drawn back The skin must many times with both hands be drawn back Another is of the Joynts in which the afflux of Humors must be stopped Pain ass waging Topicks are to be applied least the Nerves be contracted or the joynt become crooked we must be very Vigilant c. But touching al these see Wilhebmus Fabricius Hildanus his Treatise of Burnings Title V. Of Luxations in Particular Chap. 1. Of Luxations of the Jaw-bone the Clavicula and the Vertebrae THe first kind of external Diseases are Luxations and they either of upper Limbes or of the Lower To the former belong the Luxation or Disjoynting of the Jaw-bone the Clavicula the Spine and Ribs the shoulder the Arms the Hands and finger joynts 1. The Luxation of the Jaw-bone is caused towards the fore part of the Face the foremost and sharp process like a beak being slipt beneath the Jugular T is known hereby both because the nether Jaw sticks out foremost and the process sticks out by the said jaw as also because the mouth continues alwaies open It arises from too much opening the mouth and gaping and stretching the Jaws whether it be by yawning or by taking some burthen by the teeth and lifting it high up yet is it hardly done because of the strength of the Muscles wherewith it is fastened to the upper parts The Cure is undertaken 1. By Reposition least the Belly void choler or vomiting be raised and it must be suddenly procured least the Brain be drawn to consent by reason of the Nerves inserted into the temporal Muscles touching which see Authors 2. By Praecaution of Inflamation and other Symptomes If the Patients neck be pained a vain must be opened in the Arme. 3. By Retention of the replaced Bone c. T is divided two manner of waies 1. Into that of one side of the Jaw and then the jaw with the Chin is bent towards one side the mouth is distorted the teeth answer not one to another And into that of both sides of the Jawes and then the whole with the chin hangs over towards the brest The temporol Muscles are stif A certain eminency is perceived in both parts 2. Into that which happens only to persons of ripe years and that has been here described and into that which betides Infants in whom because the Mandibula is divided into two parts and is joyned together in the middle of the Chin by a large gristle the said gristle being loosened by afflux of Humors or the bone being separated from the gristle which in grown persons turns to a bone it may be disjoyned towards the right or left side II. The Clavicula is disjoyned either towards the Breast-bone or contrary wise towards the top of the Shoulder-blade but seldom by reason of its firme connexion with both the bones T is known because the shoulder swels and in the place from whence the Clavicula is slipt there is a manifest Cavity T is Cured with difficulty and for the most part the Arme is deficient in some of its motions A strong binding must be used III. Luxation of the Vertebraes is either outwards or inwards T is easily Cured in Children hardly in persons grown up Chap. 2. Of Luxation of the Humerus Cubitus Radius and the Fingers TO the Laxation of the upper Limbs there likewise belongs Luxation of the Humerus Cubitus Radius and Fingers I The Luxation of the Humerus or Shoulder is when the Head thereof which is round inserted into a shallow Cavity and fenced with a very loose Ligament slips out of its proper place It arises for the most part from a violent cause stretching of the Arme c. T is divided into that which is caused under the Arm-pit and then somwhat round and hard is sensibly felt under the Arme the Cubitus suddenly becomes more distant from the Ribs It may be restored either by turning round the Head of the Humerus about the neck of the Scapula or by the Heel or
also voided by Urine not much at once as in persons of good constitution nor with pain of the Kidneis as in solution of the fatness of the Kidneys but slowly and a little at a time Sediment like bran is seen in the Urine without any Disease in the bladder swelling of the Thighs and a looseness which threatens Death Another is when the Fibrous and Membranous substance is violated by the Feaverish heat Hence follows the Marasmos which happens somtimes to Young and Old Preternaturally somtimes through defect of Aliment and extinction of the natural heat either in regard of Age or of some Scirrhous Tumor See thereof Joel in the foresaid Tome II. One sort is simple to which what has been before said in general may be applied Another is Complicated and that either with a Putrid intermittent and then the greatest part of the Heat remains in fiery and the least is come into Act. The fit being finished the places of the Arteries grow hot the other parts are temperate The Pulse looses not its frequency and swiftness and the Patients meat does not eucrease strength Or with a Continual Putrid and then t is hardly known The dry heat remains after the end of the declination or of the whole Feaver The Body is more extenuated The Urine is fatty and Oyly Title V. Of Malignant Feavers Chap. 1. Of Malignant Feavers in General HItherto we have treated of Benigne or wel affected Feavers the Malignants come next which are Generally or specially to be considered Malignant Feavers generally considered are Feavers arising from some hidden cause partaking of a Venemous kind of Quality causing more grevious Symptomes than ordinary and yet not killing many or suddenly Their SIGNS are great weakness from the begining without any manifest Cause more than the Feaver and Feaverish heat could probably produce Pulse frequent Smal Weak or if the Pulse being natural seem to deceive t is known by the presence of other Symptomes The Vrins are some times in the first daies like those of heathly persons somtimes thick colored troubled having a thick red and troubled sediment The Heat milder than sutes with the Nature of the Disease and Symptomes A Mass of Symptomes animal Vital and natural Swellings or spots break forth c. The CAUSE are either the Disposition and Plenty of Humors or Contagion The CURE is Hard if greater and more constant Symptomes appear Dropping of blood at the beginning signifies the working of the Humors their bad Quality and the Patients weakness T is performed bp Bezoardicks and other things of which in the Differences The Differences of Malignant Feavers are taken from the Causes I. Some are from the Bad Dispositions of Humors and their Plenty whether in the stomach about the Midrif or in the first waies They are known by Stomach-sickness Pain Heat Bitterness of the Mouth anxiety and other tokens They arise either from corrupt meats or from some other cause Are Cured 1. By Blood-letting which ought to be Practised after the Evacuation of the first waies by Lenitive Medicaments least a greater Ebullition and working of the Humors becaused and that before the fourth day 2. By giving of Sudorificks which neither augment the Feaver nor are very strong that either the Body may be disposed to sweat or at least the Malignity may be expelled 3. By alteration and preparation with such things as stop the Commotion of the blood and refist the malignity thereof The Juyce of Citrons Pomegranates and the Root of Scorzonera are commended c. Yea and also the spirit of Vitriol with other Syrups unless the Patients be aged and lean and unless their Lungs be otherwise diseased than through flegm stopping the Vessels IIII. By Purgation which ought to be effected by gentle Medicaments and scarce before the fourteenth day V. By giving cooling diureticks if the matter of the Disease go that way VI. By application of Topicks to the Pulses and the heart al the time of the Disease VII By mitigation or taking away such Symptomes as shal happen VIII By Diet in which we must abstain from wine unless faintings happen A Decoction of Harts-horn with such a Quantity of spirit of Vitriol as may cause a grateful acidity to which a little Julep of Roses or Viollets may be added must be given They are divided two waies I. Somtime there is no Poyson but the Disease is urgent by reason of the Causes Vehemence or some evil quality conjoyned Somtimes there is an hidden Venemous Quality 2. Somtimes the Putrefaction and Malignity are equal Somtimes the Putrefaction is greater than the Malignity Where the first waies must be Evacuated not only by Clysters but also by Syrupe of Roses solutive Cassia Tamarinds c. Somtimes the Malignity is greater than the Putrefaction Some arise from Contagion in which the Cure ought to be undertaken by Sudorificks and Antidotes and Nature must be assisted if she expel any thing Chap. 1. Of the several sorts of Malignant Feavers Article I. Of the smal Pocks MAlignant Feavers specially considered contain under them Feavers with smal Pocks Meazels and such like Eruptions the spotted Feavers Sweating-sickness of England The Hungarian Disease the Feaver with the Cramp and the Feaver with a Catarrb and Cough The Smal poxe are pustles arising by means of the expulsive faculty on the surface of the skin and parts that hold proportion with the skin with a continual feaver by reason of a peculiar boiling of the Blood The SIGNES of the smal poxe when present are needless for they appear to our Eyesight That they wil shortly come forth is signified by paine of the head with heaviness of the eyes also of the neck and back itching of the nostrils Diminution of Respiration dryness of the cough trembling of the Feet the when patient turns frequent sneesing panting of the heart The Vrin is somtimes like that of Healthy bodies the vitious matter being driven into the outward parts of the body somtimes it is troubled by reason of the great working of the Humors Tears bursting out of the eyes without any cause of sorrow A feaver raise by the working and boiling of the humors Spod breaking forth of the Body c. The CAUSE is either external viz. Impurity of the Mothers Blood which the infant in the womb atracts in the last months because there is none purer This blood being drawn into the whole fleshy substance is for some yeares insensibly hidden at length no longer able to beare it it begins to ferment like new wine or beere that works by which frementation or working the pure is seperated from the impure the impurity is drawn forth by a certain kind of Crisis and the Heat is â—mmunicated to the heart and a feaver raised Or external or contagious when out of Bodies so diseased a sickly vapour is comunicated to another or the Air which by reason of the Influence of the stars or other causes does either rupt the humors or set them in agitation
Strike in it must be called forth either by fixing a Cupping Glass or with a 0734 0 pultis of Radish Root and Scrophulary the great with a little of Salt Vinegar When it comes far out it must be drawn to the more ignoble parts from the Neck to the hollow of the hand from the Groins to the soles of the Feet To this purpose there is an useful Cataplasme made of two ounces of the greater Scrophulary Root Radishes one ounce beaten and with one ounce and half of the strongest Leaven and boyled in Wine Vinegar and so made into a pultis and applied to the Palm or hollow of the Hand or the Sole of the Foot or that side on which the bubo is It must be renewed three or four times in a night Being Fixed 1. it must be often drawn with a Cupping-Glass and store of flame without Scarrificatian 2. The Cupping-Glass being removed let it be covered with a ripening Cataplasme and drawing made of the Roots of Scrophularia Salt Black Sope and strong Leaven boyled in Vinegar 3. After six hours let a Cupping-Glass be again set on and let the Skin be cut with a Lancet or smal Knife 4. Let a Cataplasme ripening and drawing made either of a great Onion hollowed filled with Treacle and roasted in the Embers til it be soft or of the middle rind of Elder boyled in Cream and mixed with Leaven be laid on at Night and often renewed 5. Let the Tumor the following day be either cut or brok and the Blood water squeezed forth and let a mundifying or clensing plaster of Turpentine wash't in Scordium water and honey of Roses mixed therewith be applied Touching the Carbuncle and Feaver which is also entertained by certain symptomes see in their proper places See concerning the Plague Peter Salius Diversus Joel Tom. 5. Sect. 3. Septaliws in a peculiar Treatise and Valerius Martini And so much cancerning Feavers THE EIGHTH BOOK OF THE IDEA OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Of the Diseases of the Head Title I. Of the Diseases of the Brain Chap. 1. Of the Distemper of the Brain without Matter HItherto we have treated of Diseases in the general the Particular now follow and these are either such as are not Venemous or such as are Venemous Unto those belong the Diseases of the Head the middle and the lowermost belly commonly called the three Regions The Diseases of the Head are either those of the Brain or of the Eyes or Ears or of the Nostrils or of the Tongue or of the Lips or of the Face or of the Mouth or of the Teeth or of the Gums or of the Cheeks or of the Wesand or Windpipe or lastly of the Jaws and Tonsils Unto the Diseases of the Brain are referred as thereunto belonging a distemper which the Latins cal Intemperies the straightness or stoppage of its passages Commotion Inflamation Hydrocephalius being a cold Disease thereof proceeding from water and Flegm Contusion wounds and Fractures The distemper or Intemperies either is without matter or else with matter The Distemper of the Brain without matter is the declining thereof from its due and right temper through some external causes For the Signs and Causes see of them in the differences The CURE is performed by Alteration and Purgation lest that the Body if it be either Plethorical or Cacochymical should attract more Vapors It is divided into four species or kinds I. the first of them is hot when the Brain declines unto an immoderate or overgreat heat It is dscerned and known by the beating of the Temples the agitation within the Cranium or Skul by the sleep which is either none at al or else very short and by the instability and mutabillity of the Imagination It ariseth from external hot causes to wit Aire meat drink exorbitant affections c. It is to be cured 1. By alteration and that by cooling mediacments as wel internal as external and these not over strong especiallly in children and women having in them a mean and indifferent astrictive quallity left that the humors should be either attracted or dissipated not too frequently applied and made use of lest that they should introduce and cause a kind of sencelessness or stupidity and then lastly they are to be mingled with dissolvers when the distemper is in 't is declination The cheif and principal of them are the leaves of Lettice and Purslan the flowers of Roses Waterlily white and Red Popy and Saunders wood together with those medicaments that are pre-prepared and made out of those such as are fomentations which are to be corrected with such things as penetrate by reason of the thinness of their substance as doth Vinegar c. These remedies are to be applied to the forehead Temples and Sutures So soon as they begin to wax hot they are to be changed neither are they to be tyed on or covered with thick clouts or linnen often doubled For Embrochations and washings of the Feet are most in request the Leaves of Sengreen vine Leaves and the Leaves of the Willow Tree The flowers aforesaide as also of the Elder Tree and the root Rhodia a cataplasm made of willow Leaves and Vine buds 2. By Evacuation for the cause before alledged 3. by a diet inclineing to coolness more than ordinary II. The second is Cold when the Braine declineth unto an excessive or over great coldness And this is known by the swelling of the eyes the palness of the face the heaviness of the head propension to sleep slothfulness and slugiggishness It proceedeth from things external that either are cold in themselves or at leastwise induce and cause cold It is cured 1. By Evacuation if the body be Cacochymical 2. by Alteration which is effected by the use of things External and internal that are hot and these must be taken after meat and never before The cheif of them are the Roots of Piony taken out of the earth at the waning of the Moon the root of round Aristolochia Castorium The flowers of staechas or cotten weed primrose pealings of the bark of the linden or tyle tree of flowers of lillyes of the vally of Rosemary Bettony Marjoram Black chery water the water of swallows Treackle water The Quintesence of Rue of Rosemary of Succinum or yellow amber Of condites the Indian met nutmeg treacle Mithredate the restorative Confection called Anacardina and Alpermes Distilled Oyls as of the Wood Guajacum and of sassafras taken either in waters or else in smal morsels The leaves of Rue Wild bettony and the right Verveyn Balsams of Lavender Rosemary yellow amber Cloves nutmeg c. 3. by a diet somewhat inclining to warmth where likewise suffumigations have their use and place III. The third is Moist when the brain inclineth unto an overgreat humidity or moistness It is known by the humidity that appeareth in the nostrils and the eyes by the Catarrhs that follow upon it and the propension unto sleep It ariseth from some external causes
when cold or hotter then is usual for the remedying whereof such things as are thereunto opposit are necessarily required and very serviceable Another proceeds from things internal whether overhot or overcold 2. There is another Species of it by its Essence and then a pain and heaviness of the Head undoubtedly preceded without any affects of the inferior parts This is to be cured by internal discussives and the scent of things that are appropriate unto the Head There is another kind thereof that is by Consent or agreement with some other parts and then the Neck veins are distended the Urins in the top or superficies of them filled ful of little windy bubbles winds arise either by the fore part with the extension or stretching out of the Breast and the beating of the Arteries at the very bottom thereof or else by the hinder or back part together with a distension of the Veins and Arteries of the same aforesaid part They arise from other parts that lie underneath In the Cure regard is to be had first of al unto revulsion or drawing back the offending matter by Clysters somwhat stronger than ordinary and next unto repulsion or driving byck the said peccant matter externally by Application of things made up of Vinegar and Roses as above said and internally by the Conserve of Roses c. And then lastly special regard ought to be had unto Evacuation by purgers corrected with Carminatives III. Another Division is from the Humors and this is either proceeding from the Blood or else it is Cholerick or Flegmatick or serous and wheyie or otherwise it is Melancholy and Adust as consisting of burnt Choler I. The Sanguin Distemper of the Brain proceedeth from the blood either over thin or too thick It is known unless it proceed from some external Cause by the extension and heaviness of the Head Especially when the South West wind blows the redness of the Eyes the gentle and moderate heat and by the pain of the forepart thereof from the Ninth hour of the Night unto the third hour of the morning or day following It ariseth from a Plethory and its Causes It is derived into Act and made to appear by the extream and over vehement affections and passions of the Mind much drinking of wine and by such other things that cause heat or pain in the Head The Cure must forthwith be set upon and attempted lest that an inflamation or some other affect should flow therefrom And this is accomplished 1. By the Diversion of that blood that is flown into it by opening the Cephalick or Head Vein or else the Saphena and Foot Vein if there be a suppression of the Monthly Courses or of the Hemorrhoides for by no means we are in this case to attempt the opening of an Artery for fear that the Tumor Aneurisma should follow which aforesaid blood-letting doth both Evacuaâ—e or empty forth and draw back the peccant humor as also by the Application of Cupping-Blasses unto the Loyns shoulder blades and Neck and likewise by a gentle Evacuation as also by repulsion or driving back which is effected by the Use of repellers that in the winter are potentially cold but in the Summer time actually such if the sick person be young unless there be present a Catarrh and this repulsion ought to be instituted by frictions or rubbings II. By a sensible drawing forth of the blood that hath flown in by the passage of the Nostrils rubbed hard and chafed with Milfoil or Yarrow by opening of the Vein that runneth strait along into the forehead if it be the hinder part that is affected by Discussion and by a Convenient Diet. II. The cholerick distemper of the Brain proceeds from the Superabounding of choler It is known by that sharp and pricking pain especially on the right side by the extraordinary burning heat by the depravation of the actions of the Brain by the many and those very yellow excrements of the Ears and lastly by the bitterness of the Mouth It ariseth from Causes generating Choler It is divided into that which is such by its Essence in which the Cure is to be administred I. By opening the Vein of the right Arm after a gentle Clyster and without the ordayning of any preparative before it if there be not any Feaver present II. By Preparation if it be needful by cooling and moistening Cephalick Medicaments which ought to be more or less strong according to the power and strength of the choler III. By Purgation with Aloticks that is such Medicaments as have Aloes for their basis and other Remedies that are specially appropriated unto the Brain IV. By wasting and consuming the remainders or reliques where Camphire by reason of the over much want of sleep ought carefully to be avoyded V. By Digestion in the use of digestive Medicaments VI. By a Diet that is wholly opposite unto the distemper And Secondly it is divided into that which is by Consent in which we are to proceed according to that way and Method formerly mentioned and laid down III. The Pituitous or Flegmatick distemper of the Brain is known by the signs alleadged and mentioned in the cold distemper of the Brain The sleep in this case is very profound and deep or at lestwise over much unless haply the Flegm being loosened and dissolved a Catarry and Cough be thereupon excited The pain is most of al in the hinder part of the head afflicting the Patient from the third hour of the night unto the ninth There is likwise an extraordinary paleness in the face unless perchance it happen to be colored or as it were painted al over with a certain kind of redness through the dayly continual residence of a part of the blood brought and derived thiâ—her It ariseth from Causes generating flegm more especially from a cold Brain a hot and moist Liver which transmits thiâ—her a sort of blood that is ful of Vapors The Cure hereof is something difficult especially in the winter time and this very Disease doth easily degenerate and turn into the Apoplexy and Palsie The cure is porformed I. By Alteration after the clearing and Evacuation of the first waies and passages and this must be done by Cephalick Medicaments hot and dry at first benign and gentle and afterward by degrees stronger and these ought frequently to be reiterated and here we may prosperously Act by the Decoction of Chyna Root Guajacum and Sassafras II. By Purgation now and then interposed during the time of Alteration and here the Pills Assajereth Aureae and Cochiae or the Extract of these have their place and use III. By a particular Evacuation by medicines put up into the Nostrils by Masticatories Gargarisms washings of the Mouth c. IV. By the Application of Topical Remedies among which Fomentations Embrochations Sacculy or little baggs by al which the matter is insensibly evacuated have their place and use V. By Application of a Cautery unto the coronal Suture or else by
Functions be hurt and empaired if there be a trembling of the Tongue if a kind of cold stiffness infest and invade the Patient after he hath voided downwards white Excrements if there appear to fal from the Nostrils a black drop and that such is sincere or bright in regard that it proceeds from a very vehement adustion and lastly if they scrape together Straws c. It is Performed if at al I. by Revulsion or drawing back of that Humor that floweth in either by opening of the Cephalick Vein or else 1. Of al the Median or middle Vein if there be present great store of the Humor but yet not unto fainting or swooning away or otherwise by Cupping-Glasses with a profound and deep Scarification in the parts both above and beneath or else by some other kinds of Revulsions 2. By Repulsion or driving back by the frequent use of Repellers unless the matter tend towards and as far as the skin of the Head or else by the applying unto the head being close shaven Remedies a little warm tempered and qualified with Vinegar that is not over strong if there be not present either an internal or an External heat or if there be any such heat then by Medicaments that are cold 3. by Interception by the rolling of swath bands about the Neck 4. by a gentle Purgation II. by Evacuation of the Humor that is already flown in and this must be performed by opening the Veins of the Head those of the Nostrils those under the Tongue and the Aplication of Vesicatories and a Cupping-Glass unto the fore part of the Head By Discussion through the use of Medicaments made up of discussives the Alabastrine unguent III. by a Diet in the which emptiness and over long fasting must be avoyded as pernitions and extream hurtful c. It is divided after a Threefold manner I. The first species in the division is that which Precedes a Feaver in which we are allowed to purge while the feaver is absent more especially if there be present an extraordinary cacochimy cupping-glasses are to be imposed applyed unto the very top of the crown with scarification following therupon Another kind thereof followeth the Feaver in which likewise we may purge with those Medicaments that are gentle and moderate especially if the turgency or heightening of the Matter require it II. Another sort thereof ariseth rather from blood than Cholor in which a greater quantity and portion of the blood is to draw forth by opening of a Vein but then there is likewise another which proceedeth from Choler rather than from blood in which we ought rather to purge than use any other means III. Another is an Inflamation of the Membranes of the Brian unto which the signs before alleadged do very fitly agree Another there is of the substance of the Brain it self in which there is at the first a pain seizing the Head which by the hinder part thereof penetrates even unto the very nook of the Neck In this distemper the sick persons do not dote but yet notwithstanding they lose both their external and internal senses they likewise speak very little or not at al c. Chap. 6. Of the Tumor Hydrocephalus in the Head HYdrocephalus is a swelling of the Head arising from the collection of some serous or wheyish Humor in some one part or other of the Members that constitute the Head There is in this distemper no need at al of SIGNS for the disease may be sufficiently known by the very sight of the party It is rather the disease of Infants than of persons of years and strength The CAUSE is a Humor that is waterish wheyie and somtime dreggy yea moreover also bloody The CURE is exceeding doubtful as wel because the distemper is in a Noble part as likewise because the subject part is very tender as also in regard that an Apoplexy or a Lethargy do easily soon seize upon the party But the cure if there be any is to be Performed I. By drawing forth the Water with Hydragogues sweats Urine Medicaments that insensibly discuss and dry and by opening the part affected II. By Reducing of the Brain unto its pristine temperament by hot Cephalick Remedies The Difference is taken from the Scituatiof the Humor For one kind hereof is from a water sticking between the Skin and the Pericranium and then the Tumor is soft transparent by candle light or the light of the Sun as also it being void of pain yieldeth unto the touch and immediatly ariseth up again being pressed together it exhibites a motion of a fluctuating water It yeeldeth more easily unto the Medicaments that are prescribed and may be wholly taken away be the alone opening and cutting thereof There is another Species or kind thereof proceeding from a water as aforesaid consisting and residing between the Pericranium and the Cranium or Skul Then a pain affecteth the party and in this case a two-fold Section or cutting part affected is to be administred Another kind hereof there is from a water as above said gathered together betwixt the Cranium or Skul and the Membranes Then the swelling is not so soft as usually but the pain is far greater and the forehead is born out forward more than usually and likewise also the Disease is almost 〈◊〉 not altogether incurable Chap. 7. Of the Contusion or Bruising of the Head A Contusion of the Head is a smiting or knocking together of the same the external part thereof mean while for the most part appearing sound and entire by somthing that is weighty hard obtuse and blunt The SIGNS are manifested by those things that went before the blood is poured forth out of the Veins and there is an excited soft Tumor or swelling black and blewish and yet without any great or much pain The CAUSE is expressed in the definition The Skin being for the greatest part whol and unhurt there are notwithstanding smal Veins opened under the same The CURE is in such manner to be instituted that I. The great afflux or flowing to of the Humors may be prohibited and that by blood-letting if the Contusion be greater than ordinary as also by laying to and applying repellers and astringents which are often to be removed and changed lest that they become overhot The hair of the Head being close shaved off the place is then to be anointed with the Oyl of Roses about the time of the pains mitigation II. Let the Blood that is poured forth under the skin be Evacuated by the insensible Application of a betony plaister the Cerot or searcloth of Vigo that of simple or red Lead or de minio de Matris ilva de quatia dei c. III. The Suppuration if it may not be impeded is to be helped on furthered by Triapharmacon which is compounded of one part of sweet Oyl two parts of common water wheaten Meal as much as wil suffice unto al which the Yolk of an Egg is to be added
There is here Good hope of a cure if there appear on the fourth day good and promising Signs if pus to wit snot or filth or water flow forth by the nostrils ears or eyes But is somewhat doubtful if there be present with it an acute feaver and that the ut in be white because then the choler is carried upwards and an inflamation is greatly to be feared if the Patient vomit up that which is Eruginous or in color like unto brass and that the Party be over long kept awake and deprived of his rest especially if a deafness accompany it in regard that by reason of the choler that is gotten together they suddenly fal into a violent and vehement madness if they be surprised with a Congelation or taking as we cal it together with a stoppage of the belly a fierce and wild countinance and that the face be extraordinarily red and fiery because then they are suddenly surprised with a crick in the neck that affect which we usually terme opisthotonos if likewise there happen together with it a sound or ringing in the ears without a Feaver if there accompony it a vertigo or giddiness in the head a hoarsness of the voice and a benummedness in the hands for then they sudenly become either appoplectical or Epileptical and Apoplexy and Epilepsie or falling sickness most commonly following thereupon But there is no hope at al or if any very little if where â—â—it was very vehement it suddenly vannish away and conceal it selfe there following no alleviation by the crisis if the extream parts become exceeding cold because that the native heat being drawn back a Phlegmon may easily be excited if it happen to be with an acute feaver and that on the fourth day there appear some pernitious sign or other if a sound person so soon as he is surprised and taken herewith become instantly speechless and snort and yet is not afflicted with any strong feaver wherby probably he might be freed from the aforesaid distemper The Cure if there by any is performed I. By mettigation of the pain either by anodines of river craw-fish beaten wel together with rose vinegar vervain water and the root thereof wel bruised and imposed on the part affected the Allabastrine unguent before mentioned al which ought to be applied unto the suâ—ures and temples or else by narcotick remedies which may only be applied unto the forehead and layd thereon II. It is to be accomplished by removai of the Causes and strengthening the part touching which see further in the differences The Differnces of the Cephalalgy are many and those very various I. One difference hereof is symptomatical of which we here treat Another is Critical which beginneth not to afflict the patient from the first rise of the dâ—stemper but much about the time of the Crisis and then the breathing suddenly becometh short and very difficult the Hypecondria being drawn back the veins are swoln and the arteries beat in the Temples the cheeks wax red and tears flow forth of their accord the patient not being able to withstand it the sick party streacheth his nostrils with his hands and then most commonly there floweth a streaming forth of the blood II. Another is External which seizeth the pericranium is perceived in the very superficies reacheth unto the roots of the eye-lids is exasperated by the compression of the hairs and hands Another internal which becomes easy and moderate upon the very touch especially if it be without any distention and it extendeth it self even unto the roots of the eyes III. Another is from Causes External to wit 1. Ebriety with beer in which the herb Chamaepence is boiled easily and soon causeth And then the matter fluctuating in the stomach is to be cast forth thence by vomit The leaves either of the Colewort or Cabbage throughly moistened in warme water or else the leaves of Rue wel brused together with rose vinegar are to be applied The head is to be al over wet and besprinkled with the spirit of wine and the feet are chafed and rubbed with salt and vinegar 2. By a Contusion stroke wound in which case the cure is to be sought for above in and from their proper places 3. By the heat of the sun the heat of a Bath and of the soucherly winds And then the head is to be delt withal by cooling fomentations c. 4. By the use of other things offensive such as are dates walours chestnuts Filbirds toad-stools hempseed the seeds of Coriander not prepared Frankinsence styrax and Mirh if moderatly taken c. Another is from Internal causes to wit 1. From a distemper without matter which if it be hot the pain is vehement and the head becommeth hot if it â—e cold the pain lasteth so much the longer and the head is cold In this case the little rols or cakes of diamâ—scum dulce and a little bag of heating Cephalicks are very convenient If it be dry the pain is moderate dul and notacute and there went before causes that were extreamly efficating and drying 2. From a distemper with matter which is either from blood and then the paine is more gentle and moderate which cheifly seizeth the fore part of the head and increaseth before the time of repast The Cure is to be sought in its due and proper places Or else it hath its original from yellow choler and then the pain is extreamly pricking and corroding and for the most part fasteneth upon and seizeth the right side of the fore part of the head In the cure those things that are most fit and likely to effect it are Epithenâ—s of Opiat Laudanum with rose water vesicatories applied unto the neck the smelling of rose water with Camphire washing of the head with a decoction of agarick together with the flowers oscamomil scarification of the lips of the ears c. or else it procedeth from flegm and then a pain afflicteth the patient on the right side or the hinder part of the head rather then else where Medicaments good and sucessful against this malady are oxymel with squils the water of the flowers of the elder tree of penyroyal of rosmaâ—y with cristal of nitre the shels of peaches beaten together with verveyn water the oyl of nutmeg pressed or drawn forth the Balsam against the Apoplexy that of yellow amber and the sacculus or little bag of Hartmannus Or else it ariseth from blak choller or melancholly and then the watchings are very extream greivous together with a pain of the left side of the hinder part of the head Let the cuâ—e be sought for in iâ—s proper place 3. from a wind and then the pain wandereth as it were and flyeth up and downe hiâ—her and thither it puffeth out and extendeth the part where it is often returning and running back again at some certain constant hours of the day It is discussed scattered if so be that the temples and the coronal suture be frequently anoynted and
Pils so much used by Solanander and Mathiolus 4. by exciting and provoking of sweats with the Hidrotick of Quercetan and the sudorifick of St. Ambrose unto which there must be added Guajacum china Treacle Bezoardicum Lunare together with other apropriate remedies al which are to be followed and attended with frictions of the neck or the spina dorsi with onions and the new fresh root of the flowerdeluce 5. by a particular evacuation of the brain by errhines Apophlegmatisms c. 6. by the application of Topical remedies where have their place frictions rubbings and chaifings with the water leaves infused in Malmesey Bathes with formicetes Rubifications or rubbing the part til it become red with green Nettels and other suchlike inunctions with the unguent of vipers the unguent likewise of the several sorts of pepper the Unguent of Castor the grease of the wild Cat mans fat c. Natural or Artificial hot baths touching which se further in Heurnius his method 7. by a diet that is hot and dry concerning which consult the Practitioners in Physick Another is from the straightness or narrowness of the Nerves which is caused 1. By an obstruction proceeding from a pituitous flegmy humor and other things that are subservient hereunto and conducing unto the purpose aforesaid Then the cure hath regard unto the Cause touching which we have spoken sufficiently above 2. a Constipation from some tumor or swelling that hath its first rise in the substance of the spinal marrow or of some nerve 3. Compression and that either from some external cause or else from a Tumor c. III. Another is from those Causes that dissolve or make a solution of unity in the nerves in the number of which there is 1. a Contusion fal or blow And then a vein is to be opened lest there should happen an afflux unto the contused or bruised part Astringents together with discussives are likewise to be applied and layed upon the part affected unless haply there be present an inflamation 2. a dissection and for this there is no remedy at al to be had 3. a relaxation or loosening of the vertebrae of the Back suddenly caused of the which sufficient hath been spoken in the second Book Another is from things narcotick as for examples a touching of the sea fish Torpido quick-silver and the immoderate unseasonable drinking of wine which rendereth the spirits extreamly stupid and dul and here in the cure whereof there ought to be a special regard had unto the nature and quallity of the Cause IIII. Another is Colical when a humor from the intestines is moved not so much unto the begining of the orifice or first enterance of the nerves as unto the very muscles and tendons The Cause hereof is a thin humor that is both chollerick and wheyish In the Cure we must deal cheifly and principaly by clisters that so the perverse motion of nature may be inverted A vein is to be opened if there be present a Plethory and orver great abundance of pure and good blood We ought then to purge with gentle purgers as we terme it by an Epicrasis or an often reiterated evacuation and drawing forth of the peccaut matter leisurely and by degrees some now some then and not al at once Let sudorificks then follow administred in primrose water and the water of Lilleyes of the vally The spirit of Niter is also of excellent use in this case Another is that which we terme Scorbutick touching which see more in the Scurvy Another is that we cal Hysterical of which also we may see more in its own proper place Article VI. Of a spasm or convulsion A Spasm is an involuntary perpetual and painful Retraction or drawing back of the Muscles towards the place of their original and first beginning arising from the abbreviation and shortening of the nervous or sinewy parts which is evermore attended and followed with a Rigor or Extream stifness and a depravation of the figure shape and symmetry of the foresaid parts The part affected is a Muscle and especially a Tendon The SIGNES are apparent of themselves the Muscles are in such manner drawn back that the parties are altogether immovable toward and unto the contrary The CAUSE is either a certain matter pulling and twinging the expulsive facculty of the parts or else some disease voilently stretching out the nervous parts and this sticketh fast either in the beginning and sourse of the nerves to wit the Brain or in the Spinal marrow of else in some one peculiar nerve There is hardly any CURE to be had or hoped for if it be from hellebore if it arise and appear after a Phrensy if it proceed from a wound especially in the brain by reason of a filthy stinking and corrupt matter pulling and twinging the nerves The Cure is very difficult although not altogether without hopes if those parts that are situate neer unto the brain be affected and suffer if it happen primarily by the consent of some nerve in regard that then the sick person cannot possibly hold out and endure by reason of the vehemency of the Symptoms if it arise from an abundant flux of blood if it follow upon the monthly Courses in women if it attend and follow upon feavers or if it chance to be accompanyed with vehement and accute pains about the bowels or intrals It is more easie if those parts only are surprized and siezed upon that are more remote from the brain and consequently the less noble and considerable if it be by the consent of the Brain unless the affect that the brain lyeth and laboureth under be pertinatious obstinate and unyielding The Cure ought therefore to be Instituted according to the Nature and disposition of the Causes of which more fully in the Differences The Differences of a Spasm are very many and Various I. One is Vniversal which affecteth the whol body The Cause whereof either It is in the Brain and then together with the body the Muscles likewise of the Face are also drawn and pulled together and suffer a Convulsion or else it is in the Original and beginning of the Spinal Marrow from whence it happeneth that the Muscles that move the Head and the spinal Marrow are retracted and drawn back And then either the body with the Neck and Head is drawn to the inner parts from whence ariseth that we term Emprosthotonos or else the twelve Mulcles that extend the Head being affected the aforesaid parts are drawn backward from whence is that we cal Opisthotonos or otherwise the Muscles and Nerves as wel the anterior as the posterior being al of them affected the whol body remayneth altogether inflexible and unmoveable from whence ariseth that we cal Tetanos with the which whosoever are affected either they die within four daies or else if they pass and out-live these they then escape and recover Another is Particular of the Eye Mouth c. Of which we shal see further in the proper place
at ful of the moon it groweth exceedingly and about the change or new moon it becomes altogether as flaggy and smal in appearance c. It hath its Rise from viscous and Clamy humors and cheifly from flegm mingled with the blood which falling down from out of the brain unto the exulcerated nostrils sticks fast in the Ulcers The Cure is by al means to be hastened lest that it turn into the Cancer It is accomplished either by Chirurgery or by cutting it off of which see further in the Practical Authors Or else by Pharmacheutickâ— or medicinal remedies and among them universal and general medicaments being first premised about the new of the moon therâ— are to be administred either the oyl of vitriol uncorrected dropt into wooll and after the flesh shal have been scarrified so applied unto the part affected or else tents of the Gentian Root by the prescript of Hartman or Joel his liniments It is divided after a twofold manner I. One is soft and white which being void of al pain is the more easily and the sooner cured Another inclining somwhat unto a Reddish color which is more difficult in the curing Another Livid or black and blewish which refuseth by any means to be cured and soon degenerateth into a cancer In this affect there are commended the yolks of new laid eggs beaten together in a leaden morteâ— even unto a blackness and then made up into the form of an unguent with one scruple of Camphire Another hard in which Emollients in the form of a fomentation ought to be premized II. Another is profound and deep which in regard that it is neerer unto the brain is therefore withal the more dangerous Another such as is to be discerned by the eyes and hath its existence and being somewhat more outwardly Chap. 2. Of the Hemorrhage or Bleeding of the Nostrils THe Hemorrhage is an immoderate excresion and in the whole kind thereof besides and above the course of nature of the blood by the veins of the nose the said veins being divided rarefied or opened The thing we are now treating of is to be understood of that homorrhage that is Symptomatical and not of that which is meerly Critical which is caused in Feavers by the strength and vigor of nature with signs foregoing of concoction and a Crisis on that day the Judgment is to be made and which dischargeth and terminateth the disease The SIGNES of this Affect are of themselves sufficiently manifest It is foreknown by that Anarropia as they term it or tending upwards of the humors unto the superior parts the which is signified by the pain of the head and neck the heaviness of the temples the dimness of the Eyes the extension or stretching forth of the Hypochondrium involuntary tears difficulty of breathing c. The CAUSES are whatsoever it be that can open divide or rarefie the veins of the nose of al which we shal make mention in the differences The CURE is difficult if it be so immoderate and immeasurable that in cholerick bodies the Choller inflaming and burning the blood the face becometh of a Citron or oringe color in Flegmatik bodies the flegm being multiplied of a leaden color and in melancholly bodyes of a black and duskish color and if it flow forth to the quantity of four pints therof if it befal such as are Phlegmatick and melancholly in regard that they are more cold thereby than are the sanguine or Chollerick if it affect those that are of an high and red color with a certain kind of pain in the head if it doth not terminate and put an end to that disease wherein it happeneth and that a chilness and stifness follow thereupon because that the body being exhausted of spirits is extreamly cooled and chilled and by this means breedeth diseases that last and continue a long while It is not at al to be attempted in those persons that in a burning Feaver are afflicted with pains in the head together with aches in the neck and the whole body and where there is present a weakness with a kind of trembling in regard that this putteth an end unto the disease in those whose monthly Courses fail them in those that are afflicted either with deafness or the distorsion of the back bone and a difficulty of breathing or else with a strong pain in the inferior parts al other things being thereunto answerable and correspondent It is very doubtful if in the affects of the Liver it flow from out of the left nostril and in the affects of the spleen out of the right nostril and especially if it be accompanied with a sweating of the Breast or head if it happen to those that are Feaverish and that thereupon when they begin to Recover the belly is humectated and becommeth overmuch moystned in regard that the nattural innate heat being debilitated a dropsie is very likely to follow thereupon if it happen to be attended with weake faint and as we cal them cold sweaâ—s and therewithal a kind of chilness because that hereby is signified and shown an extream and overgreat dissollution and subversion of the Spirits if in an accute disease it hath together with it joyned a quick and suden motion of the eyes a turbulent and troubelsom sleep frequent watchings or want of duesleep it in acute and burning Feavers on the fourth day there issue forth drop by drop a thick gross and black blood together with other Sympcoms because this argueth evidenceth the imbicility or weakness of nature and lastly if such a bleeding chance to be in diseases of long continuance It is wrought and accomplished I. By Revulsion by opening of the median vein provided that the said venesection be moderate and as often as there shal be cause Repeated on that side the nostril is of out of which the said blood floweth as also by cupping-gasses applied unto the hypochondria if the blood be not naught by Frictions c. II. By those Medicaments that stanch and stop the Hemorrhage or bleeding flux and those either such as are Cooling or astringent and binding or of an agglutinating Nature or else lastly such as act and operate by a secret and occult quallity and theâ—e aforesaid medicaments either to be outwardly applied or else drunk in and taken down inwardly In the number of those Remedies that are internal and to be taken into the body the cheif that we know of are beleeved to be these Sperniolae compositum or the composition of frogs mentioned and prescribed by Crollius three or foure grains hereof to be administred in the water of the herb shepards pouch Crocus Martis with the Juyce of Quinces and some few grains of Opiate Laudanum the Syrup of Coralls of Quercetan in a Chalybeat water the Extract of Crocus Martis three grains therof with plantane water the sperm or seed of frogs collected in the spring time dryed and then drunk with wine Among the External Remedies the unguent of Quercetane
greater hopes of safety in regard that the Inflamation advancing into the outward parts may possibly be drawn forth and digested Another is that we cal Paracynanche the which seizeth upon the Neck alone and the Muscles thereof that appertain unto the Tongue and the Hyoid bone This of al the rest is least to be feared as having least danger in it because of its distance from the Throat as also by Reason of the constitution of the parts affected which being Kernelly soft and loose may the better without any difficulty receive the Humor that floweth unto it in regard that the Muscles of the Larynx are not inflamed neither the way and passage of breathing intercepted and stopt V. One is that which is dissolved and removed by a Diaphoresis or Sweat the Cause thereof being thereby diverted drawn back Evacuated or at least dispersed and scattered Another that is Cured by Maturation and the Evacuation of the Pus or corrupt Matter out of it being first opened Another which is terminated and ended by the Translation of the Peccant matter unto some other Part which is known by the sudden and unexpected cessation of the swelling and the pain and likewise by the alteration and change of the Pulse The matter is Transferred 1. Vnto the Brain and then there followeth a grievous pain of the Head a Phrensie and a Dotage 2. Vnto the Muscles of the Neck and then there is usually produced and excited an extream pain a swelling and somtimes a Convulsion 3. Vnto the Lungs and the Pleura Membrane and then there ariseth a pain of the Breast Cough and difficulty of breathing 4. Vnto the Heart whereupon a Trembling swooning and an obscure and weak pulse affect the Diseased Party Title II. Of the Diseases of the Throat A Single Chapter Of those Kernels we cal Strumae and of Bronchocele a swelling in the Throat THe Diseases of the throat are Strumae and Bronchocele I. Strumae commonly called Scrofulae or the Kings Evil in the Throat are swellings in the Glandules or Kernels generated of thick and Clammy Flegm and included in their own proper Membrane There is no need here of many SIGNS the swellings are round Pendulous and hanging easily moved if touched and such as are separable from the Skin The CAUSE is flegm which is somtime alone but other while conjoyned with Melancholly it ariseth from Meats that afford a Crude raw and thick Juyce and thereupon it is most Familiar unto Infants and such as are yet in the state of Childhood It may especially likewise be thrust and made to appear by those Waters that contein in them Mercury or Quick Silver such as are those in Carinthia Styria and about the Alpes It is somtimes together with a nourishing Juyce if the said Juyce offending in quantity be not wholly consumed and wasted by Nature sent unto the Glandules as unto the more ignoble parts The Membrane in which they are included is never by the Formative Faculty produced in Vain or to the end it should be idle and of no use For when as the Memberane is distended by the Superfluous Humor in great abundance thereunto flowing and haply likewise thereby broken Nature then attempteth as it were the contexture and forming of a new kind of Membrane The CURE dependeth cheifly upon the Particulars following I. The matter that is the Cause thereof ought to be Evacuated II. The same matter is to be wholly wasted and consumed with the Herb Scrophularia commonly called blinde Nettle and Water Betony the Root of the dead Nettle the Roots of Herbs Filipendula and Gladiotus but especially the Root of the shrub Ruscus or Butchers broom of which there is to be taken after it hath been reduced into a smal pouder every day for a while one dram thereof in wine III. The said matter is to be cut and dissipated by Emollient Topicks And for this purpose there are commended the Leaves of the Cypress Tree the pouder whereof being sprinkled with Wine let it be so made up into one Mass or Lump and then let the aforesaid Strumae or kernels be anoynted therwith for two or three daies IV. It is to be suppurated and when it is brought unto Pus or Matter then the swelling is to be opened the Pus or filth to be emptyed forth the hollow or Cavity thereof to be throughly cleansed and purged and lastly to be filled up again with Flesh II. Branchocele is a swelling in the throat sticking and strutting forth so that it taketh up much room arising from a windiness and conjoyned with an extension The aforesaid windiness breaketh in under the Skin and the general Membrane that is situate under and knit unto the Skin in the more inward parts of the Neck It is Caused by the Air which when the Skin whose Membrance in that place is more thick and somwhat more red than else where is violently pulled away from those seats and places that are subjected unto the Aspera Arteria or rough Artery and the Anterior Muscles of the Neck by some extraordinary vehement streining of the Body and this often cometh to pass whilest the breath is long held in that so the Excrements or the infant in Child-bearing may the better and more speedily be thrust forth or when Trumpets are strongly blown and thereby the Cheeks extreamly swollen and puffed out and being rent and divided as aforesaid it causeth and produceth there a void and empty space to prevent a vacuity breaketh in and so elevateth and lifteth up the Skin and Membrane into a Tumor or Swelling Title III. Of the Diseases of the Aspera Arteria or the great rough Artery THe Diseases of the Aspera Arteria are Asperity or roughness Narrowness or streightness Wounds and Vlcers I. Asperity or roughness which is a want or defect of the Natural Smoothness is known by the hoarsness of the Voice Either from Externals as from Oyl if by Reason of its Age or frying therewithal it become Rank from Nuts from dust from Smoak c. Or else from Internals either Humors fallen down from the Head or else A Vapor striking upon the foldings thereof It is to be Cured by those Medicaments that moisten Mollifie and make smooth and these Medicaments termed Arteriacal either they are wholly void of al kind of Mordicacity and biting quality to wit Butter Milk Sweet Must the Decoction of Raisons Liquorice Jujubes Tragacanth or withal abstersive as Sugar the Honey or Juyce of dryed Figgs the Sugar of Penidies the Syrup of Violets and of Jujubes or else with a kind of Acrimony and Tartness as Hyssop the Flower-de-Luce Roots Nettle Seed spike Frankincense and Mirrb But that which is here most profitable and expedient is that sort of Pills that we term Bechichae likewise the Troquisches Bechici and the Oyl of Sweet Almonds with Sugar Candy II. The streightness or narrowness of the Rough Artery is known from the difficulty of breathing and the fear of a neer approaching suffocation
to be dissolâ—â—d should putrefie For the Dissolving hereof excellent good is that broth that is made of the stalks of the Herbs following together with an Ablution or washing of the Paps with Water Wine and Vinegar mingled together a Fomentation of the Decoction of Marsh-Mallows Fenugreek and Melilote c. A Liniment laid thereupon of the Oyl of Roses Sweet Almonds the Juyce of Smallage and Parsly and Vinegar in which there hath been first dissolved the Curd or Runnet of a Hare The Water of Hemlock is thought to be good for both the foresaid Purposes And so much of the Diseases of the Chest or middle Region THE TENTH BOOK OF THE IDEA OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Concerning the Diseases of the lower Belly Title I. Of the Affects of the Gullet Chap. 1. Of the Diseases of the Gullet THe Diseases of the lower venter comprehend under them the affects of the Gullet stomach Guts Anus Mesentery Liver Spleen Kidneys Bladder Genital Parts in Men and Women the Navel and Belly The Diseases of the Gullet are Distemper Tumor Straitness Wounds and Vlcers Article I. Of the Distemper and Tumor of the Gullet 1. The Distemper of the Gullet is a recession of it from its Native to a preternatural Temper it s known by the swallowing being hurt 'T is divided into a hot one which happens from without from fumes pouders c. from within from Vapors in burning Feavers a hot and dry Distemper of the Womb and then there is perceived a Redness and Roughness on the Tongue with thirst which is cured by cooling means somwhat clensing 2. into a cold one which either proceeds from too cold drink or otherwise and is taken away by things that heat 3. Into a moist one which issues from the Defluxions of catarrhes Salivation c. and Causeth a Relaxation of the Gullet so that the lower part of it and the upper mouth of the Stomach lie open 4. Into a dry one which ariseth from dry things and Causeth Roughness and is Cured by suppings of Chicken Broth or fresh butter II. A Tumor of the Gullet is its excess in its Magnitude 'T is known by the pain in swallowing most of al in the hinder part and back by the stoppage in swallowing so that if a great bit be to be swallowed somtimes the drink runs through the Nose it proceeds from the same Causes from which we said Tumors in general did arise 'T is often hard to cure because it endangers Suffocation but after the same manner as other tumors viz. In the beginning by replling means in the Augment by external and internal resolvers in the state by discusives let vomits be avoided for fear of suffocation unless when t is come to suppuration that the Tumor ought to be broke 'T is divided I. Into a hot one with which is Joynd a Feaver great thirst pain in the Cure of which bleeding takes place and into a cold one in which the pain is less and in the Cure of which the repellers ought to be gentle the resolvers and discussives stronger II. Into that which possesses the upper part of the Gullet and then meat cannot go down and into that which infects the lower part and then the Meat after it hath descended a little way stops there Article II. Of the Straitness wounds and Vlcers of the Gullet I. The Straitness of the Gullet is when its Passage is Contracted 't is known by this that liquids are easier swallowed than solid things 'T is divided according to its Causes for one is from external Causes as from astringent medicines or some things swallowed and then the business is known from the standers by or the Patient himself it must be cast up by vomiting or Coughing or furthered by moistning and Emollient means applied outwardly and inwardly or be thrust down with a Spunge Dipt in Oyl of sweet Almonds or taken out with that excellent Instrument of Fabricius Hildanus Another Cause is from a Tumor Worms ascending out of the Stomach and Guts from Scorbutical and Hypochondriacal Vapors distending the Gullet and compressing the rough Artery from the Luxation of the Vertebrae of the Neck and back which may be seen in their proper place Another is from thick Flegm kurdled milke c. Sticking in it where Oxymel of squils and vomits takes place II. The Wounds of the Gullet in respect of their Causes are twofold for either they are Caused by a weapon and then the situation of the wound shows it if vomiting happen somwhat is cast forth through it and t is hardly Cured Or from some smal bones swallowed and then t is easily manifest Medicines that are grateful to the Stomach ought to be administred III. An Ulcer of the Gullet is known by the pain when some sharp sour or Salt thing is swallowed though in little quantity by its biting and by the casting up of matter 'T is hard to be Cured because the parts wil scarce grow together in a Membranous body It hath its Differences from the Causes for one is from external corroding things as Aqua Fortis mercury Sublimate and then we must work with Lenient Vomits and such as are clammy as the Mucilage of quince Seeds Fat broths Another is from a wound Tumors imposthums another from the casting up of sharp Humors c. Chap. 2. Of the Symptomes of the Gullet AMongst the Symptomes of the Gullet the Principal one is the hurt of swallowing which is twofold for one is by Reason of the resolution of the Gullet the faculty being hurt by Reason of the Resolution of the Nerves of the sixth or seventh Conjugation it s known by this that solid things are easier swallowed than liquids as being thrust down with less labor for these require a greater force to make them yeeld to the impulsive Body It ariseth either from a Defluxion and then there is felt a heaviness in the Head a distension of the Neck and the Rheum it self or from some other Disease t is dangerous and ought to be cured by Medicines good against Palsies the Second is by Reason of Convulsions which ariseth also from a wound and t is most dangeous in old people There is another from the affects of the part of which we have treated formerly Title II. Of the affects of the Stomach Chap. 1. Of the Diseases of the Stomach THe Affects of the Stomach are either diseases or Symptoms to those belong distempers Tumors wounds and Vlcers the other see hereafter Article I. Of the Distemper of the Stomach in general The Distemper of the Stomach is a preternatural constitution of its similar Parts in the first qualities The SIGNS of that are the hurt appetite and concoction a change in the Excrements a heaviness in the Stomach and waving of it and distillations from the Head which most commonly happen The CAUSE is whatsoever can Internally or Externally alter it The CURE is performed I. By the alteration of the distemper by contraries then the Medicines ought
hangs forth like a Taile The SIGNS and CAUSES are the same as in a Tentigo only that Women fear Copulation The CURE is also the same if it must be cut off it must be done either with a Horse Hair or a silken thred dipt in sublimate water or by Iron Article II. Of the straitness of the Neck of the womb The straitness of the Neck of the womb is either a stopping of the same or of the Orifice of the womb either by compression or a growing together The SIGNS are the Flux of the Courses denied in them in whom they were wont to flow through the Neck a sense of pain with a weight The CAUSE is either natural when it affects from the birth or accidental of which in the Differences The CURE varies according to the Nature of the Differences The Differences are taken from the Part and the Causes I. One is of the outward Orifice which is called of the Pudendum in which the Courses which flow both by the neck and by the womb are disappointed there can be neither Copulation nor Conception because neither the seed nor the man is received Another of the inward which is called the Orifice of the Womb in which the seed received presently flows forth again conception can in on wise be II. One is by way of Compression which is Caused 1. By a Fat Caule lying on the mouth of the womb 2. By a stradling of the Thighs 3. By a stone in the bladder 4. By a Tumor in the right Gut of which in their place Another is by way of growing which is caused 1. Either from the birth and then either flesh stops it which is red to sight soft to touch or a Membrane which is white to sight hard to the touch In the Cure 1. The Part being moistned with warm Fomentations it must be cut streight up taking Care that the Neck of the Bladder be not hurt 2. The humor must be drawn forth and a tenâ—must be applyed dipt in a suppurating Medicine 3. And astringent pouder must be had in readiness for fear of a Flux of blood 4. The following daies the place must be washt with honey water and we must act with things that Cicatrize 2. Or after the birth cheifly from an Vlcer and then either the sides of the Neck are grown together in which case we must use incision but very warily or there is a Callous substance which first must be cut off with a Pen Knife or a Spongy and Luxuriant flesh in which first of al we must use dryers and discussives as brithwort Frankincense Myrrh Mastick afterwards we must apply corrosives without pain at last we must cut it Article III. Of the pustles Condylomata and Hemorrhoids of the womb Pustles of the womb are little bunchings arising in the neck of the womb which by their Acrimony do Cause itching and pain The SIGNS are Itching Pain a folling down of Scales like flower to which we must add a Speculum Matricis that the affect may be the better discovered The Cause is cholerick sharp adust and thick humors which emptied into moist and loose places do insinuate and immerse themselves in them The CURE respects the causes universals being premised where amongst preparatives prevaile syrup of Fumitory of succory with the decoction of hops topicks discussing and mitigating the humor especially baths and halfe baths which must be followed with washing the part with wine and niter But these must be often repeated They are divided into benigne and malligne or venereal which are stuborn and contagious they ought to be washt with the water made of aloes the quantity of one vetch flower of brass the quantity of half a vetch flower of brass the quantity of half a vetch pouder'd and mixt with white wine one ounce plantane water and of rose heads each one ounce and kept in a wide mouthed glass II. Condylomata are swellings of wrinkles in the necke of the womb with heate and paine There is no need of Signes because they appeare to the eyes oftentimes if there be many they resemble a smal bunch of grapes The wrinkles hang forth like knobbs which appear in the fist clutched But they swel more when the courses flow The CAUSE is Thick and Adust humors The Cure in general respects the taking away of the causes and repercussion and drying As concerning the Differences Some are with an inflamation in which the pain and heat is greater the condylona is hard In the Cure we must act with anodyne half baths and perfusions Others without an inflamation which if they be new we must repel and dry if cold and inveterate we must first mollefie then disgest and dry Here take place the pouder of egg-shels burnt the oyntment of trochisks of steele one dram redeuced into pouder and mixt with oyl of roses and wax adding halfe an ounce of the juice of mulein The oyntment of the mad apple concerning which see a Castro l. 2. c. 25. de Morb. Mulier If the condiloma yeild not to these medecines it must be cut off by an instrument and astringent pouder strewed on III. The hemrods of the wombe are smal swellings like unto the hemrods of the anus raised in the necke of the wombe by an afflux of Feculent Blood The Subject is the neck of the womb for there they are where the veins doe end as in the hemrods of the anus and these are lift up by an afflux The Signs are manifest for they are discovered by the sight if a speculum matricis be applied the women looke pale and are troubled with a weariness The Cause is Feculent blood which when sometimes it flows to these veins not at its due time there stopping it becomes thicker that it cannot penetrate the orifices The Cure is order'd 1. By revulsion by opening a vein in the arme 2. By derivation by opening another in the ankle They are divided twofould I. Some are painful which by the paine it selfe are distinguisht from the courses and are cured by things that mitigate the same especially half baths and the Cataplasme of a Castro l. 2. c. 26. de Morb. Mulier And also with opium which notwithstanding is safer in the hemrods of the anus Other without pains to which what is and shal be said ought to be applied II. Some are open which flow either moderately and then the business ought to be comitted to nature Or too much so that the strength is dejected and there is feare least an evil habit of body be induced and then for revulsion blood must be taken from a vein of the arme at several times For purging myrobalanes tamarinds and rhubarb serve At last we must act with things that stop blood Others are blind from which no blood at al flowes forth The Cure is perfected by emptying of blood by emollition and fomentation of the part with mollefiers and things opening the mouthes of the veins and discussing the matter By artificially opening
may be distended though it be thick as in conception and be retained there as in a mola and because the altering and retentive faculties being never idle do change the diseased seed into wind Another when 't is in the coats of the same and then the mouth of the womb may be open by reason that the winde is concluded in a narrow place the sound goes forth and the pains are greater and extended further the evil is more difficult to cure than that in the cavity Article IV. Of an inflamation of the womb An inflamation of the womb is a tumor of the same from the putrefaction of blood fallen into its substance troublesom with many symptomes and somtimes turning to a scirrbus somtimes to an impostumation The signs are various the tumor it self appears in the region of the womb with a heat and pain a shutting up of the womb drawing of it towards the inward parts but the whol neck of it appeares ruddy little veins swelling every where with blood like to a spiders webb There is a difficulty of breathing which shew a pleuresy because the outward coat of the womb being extended which ariseth from the peritoneum and is fastened to it those parts also to which it coheres are distended The excrements of the belly and bladder by reason of the heat and dryness of the belly and compression of the passages are detained The bulk of the belly somtimes appeares empty and the belly is filled with water and the navil strutts forth and the mouth is slender and of a suddain a few and evil courses follow A continual and burning Feaver afflicts by reason of the consent of the womb with the heart by arteries and great vessels somtimes a lypirias by the motion of the humors towards the inward parts There is a pain of the breasts with an inflation of them by reason of the consent of the groins the hipps the midrife the cannel bones the forepart of the head which is extended to the roots of the eyes and it ariseth from vapors of blood putrefying carried up to the head by the arteries which run through the neck from both parts of that called the infundibulum into the fore part of the head The cause is blood which somtimes is pure somtimes mixt with choler somtimes dyed with black choler It slides thither or slides forth for common causes viz. the detaining of it in the time of the courses or after a delivery by the occursion of the cold air 'T is attracted by heat or pain which is caused either by abortion hard labor violent drawing forth of the secundine long walking when the courses are at hand or by a troublesom carrying if the young one be either great or ill placed The cure is difficult especially if the whol womb be possest or suppurated for a sordid ulcer arising from thence doth at length kil the patient with a slow Feaver None at al if there be an erysipelas because the young one it self dies by reason of the exceeding heat whence follows abortion which kils the mother If it turne to a deadly gangreen 'T is cured as in other inflamations where note that for revulsion we must not open a veine in the leggs when as these veins draw the blood to the womb but in the arme when as the blood flows from the liver and the veins adjacent to it For derivation a veine in the ham may be opened unless the patient be great with child least abortion be caused Topicks ought to be applyed cooling and moistning without any astriction 'T is thought that the decoction of mother of time prepared with steeled water and outwardly applyed with sponges doth stop it by a certain propriety The Differences are taken from the part it self I. One is of the whol womb in which the symptomes afore mentiond do evidently afflict and few indeed do scape Another is of the other side in which the heat passes to the hipp by reason of the ligaments of the womb which are carried thither the legg of the same side is hardly moved the groins of that place are inflamed II. One is of the hinder part in which the belly is bound the paine doth more afflict the loins and backbone Another of the fore part in which because it coheres to the bladder the urine is stoppt or made with difficulty the pain goes more towards the pubes Another of its bottom in which the lower part of the belly is so pained that it cannot endure to be touched and the pain is extended more to the navel III. There is one which turns to a scirrhus in which al things become milder a weight and heaviness is felt in the neighboring parts the evil is of long continuance and is often terminated in a dropsy of the womb Another to an imposthumation in which al things are increased til suppuration is made horrors without order invade them for the most part about the evening the impostumation being broke but it breaks either into the cavity of the womb which is safer or 't is poured Forth into other parts somtimes the urine somtimes the belly is stopt with a swelling of the pubes and the sense of somthing waving Article 5. Of a scirrhus of the womb Ascirrhus of the womb is a hard swelling of the same and resisting without pain produced from a thick earthy and faeculent humor The SIGNS are besides other general ones to wit the Courses at the beginning are supprest or flow too little the evil increasing there is a great flux of blood by intervals either the Mouths of the Veins being opened more than is fit or the Womb not being able either to receive or retain the accustomary quantity of blood 'T is distinguisht from a Mola because in this if the Courses flow they flow disorderly and the Breasts also swel with Milk which in a Scirrus are extenuated c. The CAUSE is an earthy and feculent humor to wit a thick blood somtimes flegmatick somtimes Melancholical which happens in the declining Age and troubles them which have been sick of a Pica Malacia or bulimus oftentimes from an inflamation ill cured by reason of the too much use either of coolers or discussives The CURE is difficult both because things dryed a long time cannot be mollefied and because the Native heat is exhausted in parts affected with a Scirrus and because while the Humor is mollefied it may easily turn to a Cancer by taking putrefaction The proceedings of the cure differs not from others 'T is divided in respect to the part affected One is in the substance it self in which the Womb lies upon the Hip and Back and there Causeth a pain Another in the Neck which is discovered by the touch of the finger 't is easier cured than the former If it be in the upper part of the Neck the Woman is hurt in Copulation and the bladder is prest by the Tumor if it be in the lower part the
by this way those Excrements which could not be driven forth by sweat The cure must be hastened for it makes women Barren for the most Part unless perhap it be emptyed through the Vessels of the Neck of the womb it casts the same into an Atrophy consumption Melancholy Dropsie Falling down of the womb swounings and Convulsions Hence though at the beginning 't is scarce Cured yet afterwards 't is more difficult For the whol body accustomes it self to cast off the Excrements through that way and the womb being rendered weaker collects Excrements It varies according to the nature of the Causes The Differences are taken from the part that sends them and the colour of the blood I. One is from the whol which is known by this that there are signs of a Cacochymy in the whol body the flux is more plentiful In the Cure 1. Bleeding must be shunned both because the Humors ought not to be recalled into the Veins to pollute the blood and because the strength is dejected by the long continuance of this affect and the body wasted 2. Discussion is very wel performed by Decoctions of Guajacum China and lentisk wood c. 3. For drying the Root of dropwort is very much commended For binding the pouder of mans bones the ashes of Capons dung in rain water Zacutus his Plaister l. 9. c. 11. Prax. History which ought to be applyed to the Kidneys 4. Sleeping on the back must be avoided least by the heat of the Loyns the humors be carried towards the womb 5. Frictions of the upper parts are good for aversion Another is from some part besides the womb and then there are signs of the part affected in the cure we must have regard unto it II. One is from the womb which is known by this that there are signs of the womb affected the flux is not so plentiful It ariseth from the distemper of it of which in the Cure we must have a regard Suffumigations of Frankincense Labdanum Mastick Saunders are wel applyed but from what Cause soever it ariseth baths do most good Concerning a Gonorrhaea if any thing ought to be known let it be sought from those things which are said concerning a mans gonorrhaea Chap. 2. Of the Symptomes more familiar to those that live out of Wedlock Article I. Of the Virgins Disease THe Symptoms more familiar to those that live unmarried are the Virgins disease the suffocation of the womb the madness of the womb and the melancholy of women The Virgins disease otherwise the white the Virgins the Pale the Lovers Feaver is a change of the natural color in the Face into a greenish and pale proceeding from the abundance of crude Humors 'T is called the Virgins because it appertains most of al to Virgins and truly to the Fairer endued with a white colour thence the Tincture from crude Humors is the easier The Face it self wil afford us the Signs to which add other Symptomes as the pain of the Head somtimes madness the Humors and Vapors being carried thither and mixt with Melancholy a difficulty of breathing with a palpitation of the heart if they stir with a smal and frequent pulse of the Arteries in the Neck back and Temples by Reason of the lifting up of Vapors from the heating of the thick blood inordinate and erratick Feavers by reason of the Putrefaction of the Humors manifold affects of the Stomach amongst which loathing of meat by reason of the unhappy distribution of the Chyle A Pica from the abundance of evil humors in the coats of the stomach Vomiting from the great plenty of crude Humors both a distension of the Hypochondries from the reflux of the Menstruous blood to the greater Vessels and a rumbling from the tumultuation of wind A swelling as wel of the whol body with a laxness and softness from the plenty of the Humor as either of the Eye-lids especially in the morning after sleep when in the night the heat hath raised more Vapors and serour Humors than could be discussed or of the Legs and Feet especially about the Ankles from the abundance of serous Humors The CAUSE is the crudity and plenty of Humors arising either from the suppression of the Courses or from the Native straitness of the Vessels or from that acquired by eating of wheat Loom Chalk earth Nut-Meg drinking of Vineger c. Or from the obstruction of other bowels For the Menstruous blood the Passages not being open doth regurgitate to the greater Veins and Bowels obstructs the Vessels and over whelms the heat Hence ariseth evil concoction in the Bowels and the Humors are carried to the habit of the body The CURE is accomplisht 1. by bleeding especially in the Ankle if the malady be new and the blood is not turnd into another humor If it ariseth from the Evacuation of blood supprest 2. By Purging premising Preparatives 3. By opening obstructions in which we must have respect to al the bowels the suppression of the Courses must most of al be minded There are commended Steel prepared Scorzonera Root Bezoar stone Oyl of Crystals c. In the diet Vineger must be voided Article II. Of the Suffocation of the womb The Suffocation of the womb is a heap of Symptomes opposing somtimes the natural actions somtimes the Animal somtimes and more often the vital by periods joyned with a coldness of the whol Body proceeding from a malignant Vapor raised from the womb 'T is called also the Suffocation of women the strangling from the womb the Hysterical passion c. The SIGNS are either of that at hand a wearinness of the whol body with a weakness of the Legs a paleness of the Face with a sad look a nauseousness which is seldome succeeded with vomiting oftentimes a certain wearisomness and loathing of meat and that somtimes with a murmuring and rumbling of the belly somtimes without these Or of that present in which a Vapor raised up to the heart and stopping the vital spirits a smal fainting away is Caused the Pulse is changed a little the body grows cold the spirits recurring to the heart fear and desperation moves the patients the same thrust to the Head and Jaws somtimes the Jaws are bound up and the Patient seems to be suffocated The motion of the breast and Midriffe is hindered the Animal spirits being stopt and breathing is almost intercepted the sick living in the mean while by Transpiration somtimes a madness of the womb is added with prating and fury somtimes other kinds of madness arise Somtimes sleep and a drowsie Disease is induced in which the woman falling as astonisht lies without motion without sense with such smal breathing that she seems dead Or of the fit declining and then a certain Humor flows forth from the Privities the Guts murmur by and by the Eyes are lift up the Cheeks grow red sence and motion return Somtimes a coldness at the time slides from the Head by the Neck into the shoulder and Arme which
because the blood it self partly by its unaccustomedness and the narrowness of its own accord flow thither In the cure 1. bleeding beares the palme that the nourishment of the mola may be withdrawn and it must be larger if the woman be plethorick more sparingly it not so in the ankle or ham 2. Strong and often repeated purging 3. Opening of the courses 4. Chyrurgery of which see Authors Prevention requires 1. That Copulation be not too often especially in bodies not strong enough by reason of the generation of weak seed 2. That it happen not when the courses are at hand or flowing or when the womb labors of a distemper See the Differences in physical observations for this mass is not only without bones and bowels but somtimes 't is more membranous viscous fast together not yeelding to iron Somtimes it presents a long forme rhomboidal c. somtimes 't is destitute of all life somtimes it lives the life of a plant Somtimes 't is voided with a child without one after one and somtimes a dysentery goes before the voiding of it Article 2. Of the Symptoms of women with child The symptoms of women with child are in a threefold Difference Some happen at the first time of their bearing in the belly and they are 1. A cramp troubling especially the leggs which is taken away by anointing them by the fire with oyl of bays putting on afterwards hot rowlers 2. The pain of the Sciatica with oyl of Venice turpentine anointed on drives away 3. Loathing of meat which ariseth from the suppression of the courses the better part of the blood going to the young one the worse remaining in the veins from whence by agitation vapors are sent to the mouth of the stomach with the humors a vitious quality is imprinted on it and which ceases of its own accord when the young one is grown greater 4. A Pica or a desire to absurd meats for taking away of which serves the water distilled in the month of May from vine leaves 5. A nauseousness and vomiting which if it be easy ought not to be stopt if difficult 't is not free from danger 6. Torments and pains of the belly which are raised by the wind from the humors about the womb and somtimes do cast women into swouning fitts 7. A loosness which must be timely remedied least abortion follow 8. A pain in the teeth from part of the sharper humor carried thither 9. A pain of the head and vertigo from the vapors sent forth distending and troubling it Others trouble in the middle months of their bearing and are I. A cough from a sharp vapor or the veins of the breast which by reason of the concussion of the muscles of the belly watchings pain of the head is dangerous 2. A palpitation of the heart and faintings which if it arise from plenty of blood is a forerunner of abortion and is cured by bleeding 3. Pains of the loyns and hipps either from the blood supprest falling upon the vessels of those places or from the child growing bigg 4. A flux of blood from the womb nose hemrods which is caused 1. From a rupture of the vessels of the womb by evident causes which are known from the relation of the patient 2. From plenty of blood and then the woman is endued with a good color she beares the flux wel there is less danger if so be the flux be not too much 3. From the weakness of the young one not attracting the blood and then for the most part either the birth is protracted beyond the due time or is difficult or abortion follows there are signs of the weakness of the child that is 1. Either the woman is troubled with a looseness of body by which the nourishment is withdrawn from the young or her courses flow often when she is with child or the mother is often or long sick whence ariseth a fault of the nourishment or the breasts which were swelled ful before are extenuated for want of nourishment in the common veins of the womb and breasts or the young one which already had began to move or ought to move either is not moved or moves weakly 4. From evil humors goading the expulsive Faculty and then sharp things coloured stinking flow forth with pain there are signs of a cacochymy Others happen in the last months as is 1. A stoppage of the urine which ariseth from a compression of the neck of the bladder by the womb it happens cheifly when they stand 2. A hardness and slowness of the belly which ariseth either from a compression of the gutts made by the young one it self or by an extraction of the moisture caused by the same in women that have a hot and dry liver and spleen 't is dangerous because by a violent straining to evacuate al the parts in the belly being ful some dammage may easily ensue 3. A tumor and inflation of the veins either in the leggs by reason of the weakness of the liver of which in its place or by the suppression of the more serous blood and then the women with child for the most part bring forth girles We must forbeare from the cure because the humor is emptyed with the after purgation after the delivery unless walking be hindered or in the hipps that they become as it were varicous which proceeds from the same cause 4. clefts of the skin of the belly by reason of the distension especially at the first birth which are prevented with the anointing of laxative liniments as are marrowes oyles 5. The effusion of water which in the time of bearing is collected between the membranes that involve the young one which wants not danger because both the young one perceives some trouble from thence and a hard labor follows for want of moisture Article 3. Of the symptomes about the delivery The symptomes that happen about the delivery are also not a few I. An untimely flux of blood before the birth whence is a weakness of strength and swounings In the cure of which emptyers must be shunned the aire forbidden cordialls and strengthners must be given when the mouth of the womb opens it self the membrane must be broken and the infant brought forth II. Abortion when the child is born before the lawful time of bringing forth which is feared if the breasts be extenuated because it is a sign that either the blood does fail in the veins common to the womb and breasts or that by the violence of the young one or rupture of some vessels it doth rush to the womb If plenty of milk flow from them If the great bellyed woman have often pains about the belly and loins which end towards the pubes os sacrum with a certain endeavor to cast forth of her womb If after them blood either pure or ichorous or warer flow forth It ariseth in general from the fault of the expulsive faculty of the womb which is irritated either by the young one
Rue Galick gentian must be applyed Inwardly we must act with things alexipharmacal By an Hors-leech which if it be ill applyed that the wound go not wel a Cataplasme of Agrimony bruised must be laid upon it If it have got into the Guts t is voided by applying to the Anus Oxe dung dryed moderately hor strewed with the pouder of woodworms or castor first casting in a Clyster only of the juyce of Onions VI. By a Toad which infects somtimes by breathing on somtimes by urin cast upon plants In the Cure let Treacle be given to drink with the Decoction of Rue Let pure wine be drank liberally plenty of sweat be provoked in a bath VII By the fish Araneus which is either taken inwardly into the Body or by a blow sends its poyson to the Body which way soever it be a swelling of the Belly involuntary Tears a desire to Piss a distension of the Yard in young men a relaxation of it in old men does afflict them In the Cure inwardly Treacle is wel given after a Vomit outwardly the place bit must be often washed with Salt water VIII By Fleys Waspes and Spiders whose sting must be taken out and the place afterwards washt with Salt water and the Creatures bruised must be laid on the wound to suck out the Poyson THE TWELFTH BOOK OF THE IDEA OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Of the diseases of Children Title 1. Of the diseases of the Head WEE might here now stop and conclude our little work but that the diseases of children do hinder us in which we meet with some things singular Concerning them therefore we wil speak very breifly in this last book as an appendix and we shal not unprofitably divide them into the diseases of the head middle and lower belly The diseases of the Head in Children are I. A milky crust achores and favi or ulcerous bunchings out arising cheifly in the head but somtimes in the whol body pouring forth of their holes somtimes mattery They arise from a humor conteining partly thick partly thin serous salt and nitrous parts either collected in the womb or out of it by default of the milk In the cure if no evil be feared things that drive it out must be administred as syrup of fumitory burnt harts-horn the nurse must be purged the matter offending be qualified by giving syrup of burrage fumitory c. if an eminent putrefaction be feared under the crust the head must be washt with an emollient decoction afterwards gentle drying ointments must be applyed if the skul be hurt we must provide for that II. Asiriasis or inflammation of the brain and membranes which a hollowness of the forehead and eyes doth follow 'T is known by this that the bones of the fore part of the head at their upper part where the coronal and sagittal future do meet are as it were membranous the lower parts of them al are hard It may arise also from the milk if the nurses use spirituous and hot drinks As Lucretius is Author that the goats tender young ones are made with milk and wine In the cure wee must endeavor that the brain be not hurt with the too much use of things cooling III. A falling sickness which proceeds 1. From a fright all occasions of which must be avoided 2. From milk corrupted in the stomach and then a vomit is best 3. From Worms moving themselves in the Guts of which Care must be taken 4. From hard breeding of Teeth which must be promoted 5. From the smal Pox Meazles and Feavers which also must be Cured 6. From a primary affect of the Brain the Cure in general respects both the time of the fit and the time after the fit There is comended the Emrald stone The Stone found in the stomach of Horseleeches opened about the opposition of the Sun and Moon Elkes Hoofe put into the left Eare a vomit here A Nodulus of Harts-horn prepared Salt of Corals Crystal prepared the wood of Missleto of the Oake put into the drink and renewed every fifth day a Plaister made of white Amber Frankincense Mastick of each one dram and an half Galbanum Opoponax of each one scruple Misleto of the Oake two drams Amber Greese six grains Musk three grains Male piony Seeds half a dram Labdanum one dram and an half with a litte Oyl of Nutmegs and sprinkled over with the pouder of Cubebs The Forehead and Neck also may be anointed with Oyl of white Amber IV. Feats in sleep which because they arise from impure and filthy Vapors mixt with the Animal Spirits and troubling them raised from the Stomach therefore they happen to Infants that do greedily such In the Cure we must see that the Infants do not too much ingulfe themselvs in Milk or that bad Milk be not generated or that the little ones be not carryed to bed on a ful stomach Let the stomach about its Orifice be anointed with Oyl of Quinces Mastick with Oyl of Nut-megs before they sleep let a rowle of Diamoschum dissolved in Milk be given and unless they be very hot let a little Treacle be given weekly V. A Convulsion of the joints in the Hands and Feer which ariseth from the plentiful heaping in of thick Milk and with which they are for the most part troubled about the time of breeding of teeth In the Cure we must have a care of a cold and hot distemper the Neck and joynts must be conveniently anointed VI. Too much Watchings which for the most part do arise From sharp Vapors raised from the Milk corrupted in the stomach somtimes they rise from Feavers or some painful affect In the Cure 't is better ther the soles of the Feet be anointed with the Marrow of Deers bones than that strong Hypnoticks be given by which they are made more stupid VII A Squinting which is Cured in the new born if the light be placed on the contrary part to which the Eyes decline or a Vizard with holes be put on the Face of which See Hartman VIII A Moisture of the Ears arising from the moisture of the brain heaping up many Excrements in which we must not be over hasty in the Cure The Vrin of Children distilled dropt into the Eare is commended Title II. Of the Diseases of the middle Belly THe Diseases affecting the middle Belly in Children are I. Hard breeding of Teeth which is known by this that 't is the time of Toothing which happens about the beginning of the seaventh Month the Infants often put their fingers in their Mouths the Nurses feel their Nipples to be griped stronger the place where the Teeth endeavor to break forth looks white a great pain afflicts them especially when Dog Teeth are cutting with watchings a loosness Convulsions The Cure is of good Hopes if the Belly be loose if an acute Feaver happen because the matter causing the Convulsion being wasted by the Feaver the convulsion ceaseth If the Teeth break forth in the Winter or spring