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A90749	Platerus golden practice of physick fully and plainly discovering, I. All the kinds. II. The several causes of every disease. III. Their most proper cures, in respect to the kinds, and several causes, from whence they come. After a new, easie, and plain method; of knowing, foretelling, preventing, and curing, all diseases incident to the body of man. Full of proper observations and remedies: both of ancient and modern physitians. In three books, and five tomes, or parts. Being the fruits of one and thirty years travel: and fifty years practice of physick. By Felix Plater, chief physitian and professor in ordinary at Basil. Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick, and the liberal arts. Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick, and astrology.	Platter, Felix, 1536-1614.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670. aut; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. aut	1664 (1664)	Wing P2395A; ESTC R230756	1,412,918	573

it in Wine or Cinnamon or Plantane or Rose-water Or thus Take Cummin seed wild Parsnip and Carrot seed each one scruple Cloves half a scruple Or Take Cummin wild Carrot seed each one dram Gith Agnus castus Rue Piony Dittany roots each two scruples Amber Crystal Jet each one scruple Cloves Cinnamon Pepper wood Aloes each half a scruple Musk five grains make a Pouder give a dram in Liquor or with four ounces of Sugor make a Tragema or Lozenges or with Honey or Syrup of Mugwort an Electuary Pills of stinking things are made thus Take Castor one scruple Assa faetida half a scruple Myrrh Galbanum Sagapenum each one scruple with Honey of Squills make Pills take half a dram Or of very sweet things thus Take Musk six grains Benzoin half a dram Sugar one dram with Cinnamon-water make Pills give half a scruple Suppositories revel Vapors Take Honey one ounce and an half boyl it to a consistence add Hiera Cummin and Nigella seeds each one scruple Sal Gem. half a scruple make Suppositories A Clyster doth the same Take Bay and Juniper-berryes each one ounce Penny-royal Calamints Rue Savine each one handful Cummin two drams boyl them and dissolve Hiera Coloquintidos two drams Oyl of Wall-flowers and Rue each one ounce Salt one dram make a Clyster Provoke vomiting with the singer or a feather in the Throat Put pouder of Mustard into the Nose in the sit to provoke Neesing or a little white Hellebore therewith some blow up Rhubarb with good success if she sneese it is good by which we perceive life Strong Scents are applied to the Nose that stink in the Fit which drive down the Womb being sensible thereof as some suppose But we think they do good by dispersing vapors and stir up strength in the Heart and Brain whether they pierced being subtile and because they stir up the expulsive Faculty which was a sleep that they may come to themselves therefore we bid them smell such out of the fit Castor because it is strong is good to smell too Also Assa foetida Galbanum Opoponax Bitumen and the like Trefoyl that stinketh Petroleum Rue and Chimches both Domestick and in Plants which stink moist horridly Also Onions and Garlick which have a piercing sharp Scent Also strong Vinegar in a spunge or mixed with Castor and Sulphur to anoint the Nose A stinking Fume is better of burnt Feathers Leather horn Hoofes Candles ends put forth Or these Troches Take Castor one scruple Assa foetida half a scruple Pitch half a dram with Turpentine make Troches light one and take in the vapors at the Nose with a Funnel but not too thick least it suffocate To the womb pleasant things are applied to fetch it down by delight but we suppose that they do it by piercing being hot and so discuss the vapors sooner A Fume for the womb with a funnel Take Storax Benzoin of each one dram wood Aloes half a dram Musk five grains with the infusion of Gum Traganth Make Troches and lay them dry upon the Embers Or thus Take Troches of Gallia Moschata Mesues and Nicolai These scent a sweet scent if they boyl in Rose-water The Privities must be anoynted with Civet by the Midwife Or this Linament Take Gallia Moschata Mesues one dram Pouder Diamoschu Diambra of each half a scruple Civet three grains Saftron six grains with Oyl of sweet Almonds or Been Make a Linament Or mix Musk Amber or Civet in Cotton Or this Pouder Take Storax Benzoin Gallia Moschata of each one dram Cloves Cinnamon wood of Aloes of each half a dram Saffron half a scruple This may be sprinkled with Rose-water and put into a bag and used like a Pessary Or this which is not only well sented but provokes the Termes Take Balm Marjoram of each one dram Cloves Mace of each a dram Pepper Saffron of each one scruple Jet Pitch of each half a dram Salt Peter one scruple Alipta Moschata which hath Camphyre half a dram with Oyl of Bayes and Lillies and a little Storax Make a Pessary Or others for the Termes which are there mentioned They which think it comes from stoppage of seed apply sharper and provoke the seed by divers Arts. Which we omit because we speak of another cause yet w●●llow lawful Copulation which revels and provokes Terms and alters the Nature of Virgins These are applied to the Navil and Share A Cataplasm Take Fern leaves Lovadge with the roots of each one handful Rue half a handful Boyl them in Wine and with Grease make a Cataplasm Or thus Take Honey and Figs equal parts boyl them in Wine and Water beat them and add Oyl of Spike and Dill. Also Flax from the Spindle dipt in Oyl of Dill. Also Henbane bruised with Oyl of Spike applied to the Navil An Emplaster for the Share Take Galbanum one ounce Storax one dram with Oyl of Spike and Pouder of Cloves Another Take Emplastrum Ceroneum or for the Mother one ounce Troches of Alipta Moschata one dram Storax half a dram with Oyl of Spike Make a Plaster It is good to wash the Feet to divert and strengthen the Womb As Take Orris roots Lovage Fern Motherwort Calamints Nep Penny-royal of each one handful Chamomil flowers one pugil Juniper and Bay-berries of each half a pugil Carrot Carway and wild Parsnip seeds and Agnus Castus seeds of each one dram Coriander two drams Boyl them in Water add a little Wine A Bath of the same after purging or to go to the hot Baths is good Frictions also or rubbings of the Lungs and Soles of the Feet with Salt Vinegar and Oyl of Bayes are good in the fit Also pul the Ears Nose and Hair upon the Privities Bind the Hips aboue the Knees and the Hypochondria with a Girdle Apply a great Cupping Glass below the Navel and smal ones to the Hips Apply a Dropax and Sinapisme to the Loyns and Share A Cautery in the Coronel suture is good if the Head be afflicted If the Terms be stopped open a Vein in the Foot and Scarifie under the Ham and apply Horsleeches to the Ankle Let her avoid cold Air in the lower parts chiefly and Feet which must alwaies be kept warm Let her exercise moderately and sleep moderately and not be disturbed in mind And if in other Diseases the Diaphragma or Midriff be hindered by Wind or Humors from other parts The Cure of short Breathing from wind and humors in the Belly The Cure is by those Diseases as in the Wind of the Colick Stomach Repletion Tympany Dropsie Hardness of the Bowels and Schirrhus It is done by Vomiting with the Decoction of Radish The Cure of Suffocation by Mushrooms or with dried Hen-dung and Oxymel Or Take Oxymel one ounce and an half Sal Niter half a dram and drink after it Wine of the Infusion and Decoction of Wormwood and Balm If the Instruments of Breathing Voyce and Speaking as the Mouth Jaws Palate Tongue Rough Artery Lungs

Bay-berries an ounce Cummin seed an ounce Sulphure six drams Niter two drams make pouder add Barley meal two ounces with Vinegar Honey and Turpentine make a plaster Dioscorides commends Scammony boyled in Vinegar and mixed with Barley meal against the Sciatica Or Take Pitch two parts Sulphure one part pouder them and lay them upon a paper dipt in Aqua vita lay it on after bathing especially let it stick while it fal off of it self Or Take Tar half a pound white Hellebore and Sulphur vive each an ounce and an half Euphorbinm half an ounce Aqua vitae an ounce incorporate them with the Aqua vitae last and stirring continually apply it warm Or apply Frogs spawn or boyl it in a covered Pipkin and apply the fat that swims Or apply Snailes bruised with their shels Also put whol live Snails shels and all into a strainer a handful and a handful of salt and thereupon a handful of Danewort seeds and then snailes again and after that salt and seed four or five laies on upon the other and hang the strainer in a Cellar and take the Liquor that drops out which is glutinous and put it in a glass to the sun for four dayes and then anoynt the part Or apply the flesh of Cray-fish boyl'd and beaten with Briony roots and Aqua vitae Or boyl beaten Harts horn with white Wine till it be thick and apply it Or a pickled Herring Or Wolfes Flesh or Veal half roasted Or the Skin of a Dog Or hot Cow dung it will presently ease pain to which add Oyl of Roses at the first and in the declination Oyl of Chamomil or Honey If there be a Tumor Take Cow dung a pound Sapa an ounce Bean and Foenugreek flower each two ounces Cummin an ounce with Oxymel Or thus Take Goats dung and Bean flower each equal parts make a Cataplasm with Wine and Oyl add Salt when the pain is abated Or white Dogs turd and Pellitory boyled in strong Vinegar Also apply Stuphes or Spunges or Baths in the Sciatica and Knee Gout and other Defluxions made of Calamus Elicampane roots centaury and to strengthen of Cypres Nuts Calamints Ground pine Germander Wormwood fouthern-wood Bettony Prim-rose sage Marjoram Rose-mary Pennyroyal Mints Chamomil Melilot flowers and of Dill Staechas Lavender boyled in water adding wine lie or urin When you will dry more add an ounce of Sulphure vive and of sal Niter and sal Gem each half an ounce Or with a Decoction of Turneps and Sowbread Foment Or with distill'd water of Moulin and red wine or Ox Galls or Soap distil'd Or Take Sage Rue Groundpine Wormwood and others mentioned in Sciatica for Fomentations four handfuls Sulphure Salt each two drams Wine two measures distill a Water and Foment Another Take green and white Vitriol each an ounce Camphire two drams Aqua vitae and white wine each a pint Foment with clouts dipt therein Or with Salt and Vinegar Sulphure and Vinegar water and Niter Or quench Lime in urin and soment or in Vinegar Or Take Lime and sulphure each three ounces and with Oyl made of Bole and wild Cowbumbers make an Oyntment use it hot Or hath the feet in a Lie made of Hemp. Or make bags of the dry Herbs mentioned Or of Milium and Bran and salt and Chamomil flowers Or rowl the Knee with scarlet spread with salt Fumes are good also again the Defluxion and pain and to strengthen out of the fit and to dry up the humor especially in the declination Made of a Decoction of proper Plants as of white Dittany Pennyroyal Wormwood Rosemary staechas Chammomil flowers boyled in Water Wine or Lie In the Sciatica put green Sage in a hollow Tile red hot and stir it that it burne not and sprinkle it with Vinegar and and apply the Tile so that the vapor may come to the Hip. Or use these drying Fumes with Cotten wooll or clouts as of Mastick Frankincense Myrrh and Amber Labdanum Benjamin Storax Gallia and dryed Herbs as Rosemary and the like with two ounces of Cinnabar and half a dram of Orpiment made into Troches with Turpen●ne in the Sciatica If the fourth sort of French Pox The Cure of the French Pox. which is with pain about the bones come from an evil quality because the Cure is as the other by divers great evacuations and alterations as in the Pox with Ulcers and the like therefore we shall refer the Cure of it thither If there be pains about the bones The Cure of an outward Head-ach from a malignant quality from an evil quality or external Head-ach as in the Pox you must cure it as an old Head-ach and if that will not do use stronge Evacuations and Topicks as in the French Pox as those of Quick-silver which cure this malignant pain when all things fail If the humor falling down and causing Arthritis hath perversity in it The Cure of a sort of malignant joynt Gout it will not be cured but with strong things and topicks that have Quick-silver as Emplaister of Vigo As for the malignity The Cure of pain coming from malignity when feeling is depraved which depraveth the sense of feeling in regard it is in the humor that is fallen down such as causeth numness and palsie it must be cured as they are with strong means And therefore we shall not here lay down any new Method of curing the same CHAP. XVII Of Pains in the Superficies of the Body The Kinds VVE call those Pains in the Superficies of the Body which are in the skin and part adjacent and near it of which there are divers kinds differing in this respect that some are alone and others have other appearent diseases with them Among the solitary pains of the superficies of the Body A tickling in the superficies of the body without any other dis●ases apparent without any other diseases the first is tickling which though it seems pleasant yet if it be much it is very troublsom as in the soles of the seet under the Arms in the pits or in the sides and the like Hereunto belongs the Itch in the skin Itch. without other manifest sign such as goes befor the skab and as is in the parts with Hair as the Head Privities from divers causes which shall be declared so troublesome that it causeth scrubbing and tearing the skin with the Nayles By which means they are so refreshed and pleased that they feel not the pain or hurt There are other pains in the superficies of the body without other manifest disease Pain from heat that come from outward causes as from heat and excercise without Inflammation of the skin but with heat pricking and itching to which the heat in the palms of the Hands and soales of the Feet may be referred Also there is a tearing and biting pain from cold in the superficies Pain from cold especially at the fingers end To this may be referred the Molestation

from the Feaver and pestilential they are small at the first and then grow great and have often an Anthra● or Carbo with them Also in the glandulous parts of the Superficies as the Papps and Stones Tumors in the Papps and Stones are outward Tumors as in the Glanduls mentioned when they are inflamed swollen hot red and pained This is called Inflammation of the Papps and stones which turnes often to a scirrhus Or somtimes these pars swel without a manifest Instammation and are stretched and pained as the breasts with milk and the stones in the colick Also these kinds of Inflammations are in other spungy parts of the body Tumors with Inflammation of divers parts as in the heels when they swel are rough and hot and then ulcerate and are often lost or in the Glans or head of the yard whose Inflammation somtimes makes a great tumor so that the praeputium or foreskin streight binds it at the root This is likewise in the prepuce and in womens Privities and in the Fundament And in the Mouth and Lips and Eyebrows with great pain by reason of exquisite sense and it often turnes to perverse ulcers and Gangrens Also in the gristly parts in the superficies as in the Nostrils and Ears there is Inflamation and the gristles are made foul thereby when it increaseth and the Nose faleth But Inflammation in the joynts is with greater pain and hurt as in the Arms and Legs And this is often in the joynts of the fingers and toes about the roots of the Nayles Paronychia Pannaritium and this Inflammation is called Paronychia and Pannaritium which a Sphacelus often followeth and corruption of the outward bone and somtimes of the inward bone of the finger whereby it laid bare or lost and the Nerves and Tendons hurt this is called the worm because pain seems to creep while it is inflamed and turns to an impostume There is another Inflammation between the Thumb and forefinger with a tumor called by the Germans Grippelen or fork because it is between the fingers Fork or Grippelen An Impostume Apostume or Impostume is a tumor which follows other humors in the superficies it is called Abscessus because the skin comes from the flesh This may come from all sorts of Inflammations except they be insensibly dissolved as from a flegmon in general or from Tuberculum whose Impostum is called Furunculus And from Phygethlon whether it be a Bubo or Parotis and soonest from a Phyma Also it may come from swelling of the paps and stone and other spungy parts or gristly inflamed And from the joynts inflamed which are very troublesome and that from the Paronychia or Inflammation in the finger if it Impostumate is perverse and deep and corrupts the Nerves and bones All these Impostumes coming from divers Inflammations are divers If the Inflammation be only superficial the humor greater or lefs shining and hard at first and after grows soft and pointed which is called the Eye out of which the matter labors to get forth which you may perceive by the motion of it being touched it is of one sort And it is of another sort when it comes from an Inflammation that lyeth deeper for then it is not so eminent somtimes it is almost wholly hidden till by a pustle breaking which the Chirurgions cal Exitura or outlet it appears This is of the same color with the skin and makes a doubt whether there be an Impostume or not Exitura or outlet of the Chirurgions we conclude that there is matter because pain is still felt there and because it is wet like dew and being pressed with the finger the matter seems to go back and there is a hollow When an Inflamation turns to an Impostume the pain doth not abate but increase rather and creaseth not till it be opened and it itcheth when the matter labors to come forth Nor doth a Feaver with Inflammation cease but increaseth with the pain while the Impostume or matter breedeth according to Hippocrates The matter in an Impostume is divers as pus or sanies or flesh which comes from the ulcer A Cancer is a tumor which cometh of it self in the superficies of the body that hath more malignity then pain Canter for which cause the Chirurgions cal other perverse Tumors and Pustles as a Furuncle and Carbuncle by the name of Cancer as that under the Eye and the Polypus in the Nose and the Gangreen of the Gums and Ulcers of the prepuce And they call an Elephantiasis with Tumors and Ulcers in divers parts a Cancer also as we shew'd From these a true Cancer called Carcinos differs much Wolf or Noli me tangere Which is called also Lupus or Wolf because it devours the flesh and Noli me tangere or touch me not because it will not endure sharpe Medicines This may be in any part Hips Legs Knees Arms Neck Face and Breasts often and in the privities and in the Mouth and Lips It begins at first with a little tumor scarse to be seen then it is as big as a pease then as an Hazel-nut then as a great Apple hence it is called Cancer from creeping on and resembling a crab not the Astacus or Crayfish to whose Legs the Veins are compared but the true sea Crab called Gallus marinus which is round as this tumor is uneven and with tubercles or little swellings and full of Veins swollen about blew and black hard also and with a crust like a crabs shell and sticking close to the part And Archigenes saies it is so called because it holds whatsoever it catcheth The pain is little or none at the first which causeth the neglect but it is known by the pricking of the skin like a needle which increaseth with the tumor At length this tumor is laid naked by the opening of the skin A Cancer ulcerated and then it is called Carcinoma or a Cancer ulcerated out of this comes filthy Sanies or thin matter stinking yellow green first and then black Carcinoma The flesh is uneven and corrupt and grows out like Ice-sickles with hard and inverted Lips which are somtimes so big that they have covered a great part of the face and made the Ear seem to grow thereto as I have seen When this Carcinoma or Cancer ulcerated is naked it bleeds by which through want of strength with a gentle feaver comes death which I observed in a Dyer in little Basil in 1552. whose right Cheek was swollen to the great corner of his Eye with Ulcers with Lips turned in and stinking in the hollow all over which bled often very much and after great misery with a gentle feaver brought his much desired Death The chief kinds of Pustles are scabs Papulae and Carbuncles Pustles in the superficies of the body which have divers kinds under them these are less then Tubercula yet they itch with burning and Inflamation and somtimes without

in their Legs after they are delivered they commonly vanish And if either Man or Woman have them continually they regard them not till they trouble them But if they itch or pain them or turn to an Ulcer they must be cured because while they continue the Ulcer cannot be cured as we shewed in the Kind of Ulcer For the Cure first consider the Plethory and evil Habit or Juyce in the blood and this must first be cured by letting blood and purging as we shewed Then we must apply things that may repress and consume the filthy blood that stretcheth the Veins And that with Lotions or Fomentations with a Decoction made in Forge-water or Lye or Urin of Fennel roots Bugloss the great Agrimony Laurel Cole worts of Rosemary Elder and Lavender flowers Cypress nuts Sloes Lupine seeds Cole-wort seed with Salt and Allum and if you will astringe more with Vitriol Or with this Fomentation or Epithem Take burnt Chalk three ounces Bole or fat Earth one ounce and an half Acacia or dryed Sloes one ounce Sanguis Draconis six drams Myrrh half an ounce strong Vinegar one pint and an half Lye three pounds with a little Salt and Vitriol we stop the flux by Ligatures or Roulers about the part beginning from below upwards as we shewed in Oedema alone or with a Fomentation afore or we wet the Rouler in the Fomentation and strain which will be stronger thereby especially if it be made of Sloes Somtimes we cut off the great Vein which nourisheth the Ulcer when it hinders the Cure of the Ulcer if there were no Ulcer we would not do it because dangerous if but opened It is better therefore to bleed in the other Leg for Revulsion But when we will cut a Vein out that nourisheth the Ulcer first you must mark its Passage above with a Pen as it comes from the Ulcer and then open the skin by longitude and lay the Vein bare then rub the Blood down and tye the Vein above and cut it beneath in length to let out the blood then bind it next to the Ulcer and cut it that part of the Vein which is between the two Ligatures and so the way will be stopped by which the Ulcer was fed The small crooked Veins in the Codds Privities of women and Eye-brows or in other parts of the skin because they hinder not are not regarded but if you will do any thing you must revel the blood from the part and repel and discuss it as in Inflammations only your astringents must not here be so cold least the Blood congeal Cirsocele is when the spermatick vessels are swollen The Cure of the Stone vessel rupture and if it hinder not the Seed it is not regarded because it is hard to be taken without Gelding and except it grow great like a flesh Rupture it is not attempted but you must use Fomentations and the like before it comes to that Aneurisma that is a Tumor from the opening of the artery The Cure of Aneurisma when the blood thereof gets under the skin when it is old is not curable because the blood cannot be repelled by astringents or the mouth of the Artery lying deep be shut Nor may we open it because the Patient would certainly die of a Flux of Blood which cannot be stopped Therefore if at the first Repellers and Closers of the Artery mentioned in Haemorragy or Bleeding do nothing we must leave it except we will use a Ligature or Plate of Lead to keep it down As for an internal Aneurism because it hath no external Tumor of which we spake but produceth the Heart beating we have shewed how it must be ordered when we treated of Palpitation of Heart and Cachexy Tumors comming from Seed as that which is Natural of the Belly in Women with Child require nothing but good Government to prevent Abortion or Miscarriage as shall be shewed in the Treatise of unseasonable Births The tumors of a Womans Belly from a Mole The Cure of the Belly swollen with a Mole is to be mentioned in things cast off because the cause is not to be certainly known till the Mole is brought forth The Cure of particular Tumors is not here to be repeated The Cure of tumors that are from the Birth if they come from the Seed at the Birth as Sarcomata Kernels Struma's and the like because they are to be cured as those CHAP. IV. Of Defoedation or Defilement The Kinds UNder the Name of Defoedation we understand those Infections which defile the Body with many Diseases so that they are that infected with them must leave the society of sound Men. Of this there are two Kinds principally The one is old called Lues Elephantica or Leprosie the other new called the Lues Venerea or French Pox. The body is many waies defiled by them with such as are common to both as tumors pustles ulcers and falling of the Hair and others that are proper to them in particular Pains and Hindrance of Functions There are also other Infections that have been first known our age that defile the Body and are proper to some Countreys among which the Scurvey is most known usual in the North of which we shall speak here leaving other Infections to them that know them It is called Elephantiasis The Leprosie called Elephantiasis from the Likeness of the Patient to an Elephant his Ears growing thin and broad like wings they are called Lepers from the Roughness of their skin and from their Lyon like looks it is called Leontiasis and because they are Lecherous Satyriasis In this there are divers accidents which are to be searched and described because they shew how it came and they who have it are to be examined by the command of the Magistrate and separated from the sound that we may judg rightly and not mistake as usually and offend either sick or sound In regard I have been thirty years appointed and have examined above six hundered suspected of the same I will faithfully declare first the Diseases they have and then the Actions hurt and examine the things cast off that we may know how to judg of the same The outward Infirmities are chiefly in the Heads and Joynts and the Searchers do scarce examine any other part and yet give sure Judgment In the Joynts they examine the Hands and Feet Fingers and Toes and Nails and above the Knees to the Thighs above the Elbow to the Shoulder and in the Head they search the Mouth Eyes Nose inside and outside Face Ears and Hair Eye-brows and Beard and the tumors and ulcers there to judg by them alone or together There are oftentimes little tumors in the Leprous upon the Face and Joynts in the Face upon the Fore-head and Cheeks and making them look wildly which first discover the Disease and are in the Arms Backs of the Hands and in the Feet and Thighs These are moveable and without pain and are blewish red especially in the

discovery as also of the Pulse which hath no Alteration The Venereal Disease called by that name The French Pox. because it comes from Venery and because it is there frequent and came from thence the Neapolitan Disease or French Disease may be more truely called the Indian Disease thence it came first doth corrupt the body with as many accidents as the Elephantiasis and makes it filthy sick and uncomely And in this there is great pain and if it be alone it is referred to the pains about the bones but if it be mixed with other accidents it is to be referred hither And these accidents are to be diligently searched into because it is infectious and that it being known betimes the unsound may be separated from the sound for which end there are proper Hospitals These accidents following are the chief The Hair usually falls off in the French Pox which is a sign One kind of French Pox. especially about the Temples Forehead and Eye-brows and in men the beard falls and this is a more certain sign if other accidents concur albeit if there be no sign of another Disease it will be a sign of the Pox alone and also if they confess that they have had to do with unclean Women The skin is sometimes sprinkled with small Spots Another kind of French Pox. red and like Fleabits or Freckles dark yellow or blew in many places in the Face Neck Breast Belly Privities somtimes all over And we have somtimes seen these Spots so joyned together that the skin hath been broadly infected especially in the Breast and Back and somtimes in the Belly or other places which being pressed the strange colour flew away and the pit was white and presently returned to its former colour These Spots either alone if we can discover no other cause thereof besides unclean Copulation declare the beginning of the Pox or some small kind of it as also the falling off of the Hair alone or with other accidents they will be more certain and shew the Disease to be worse High Pustles without pain are somtimes in the skin The third kind of french Pox. reddish or yellowish round hard and covered with a dry Scurfe in the Forehead Ears Nostrils Jaws and in the Head also in the Neck Breast Arms and other parts and these certainly declare the Pox. Besides there are divers malignant Pustles in the inward parts the Mouth Jaws Nostrils and Praepuce or Foreskin of a mans Yard and Womens Privities these if many together do certainly signifie the Pox especially if other signs went before or come after In Children infected these Pustles in the Mouth are the chieft sign of it There come also filthy Ulcers from the Pustles mentioned in divers parts yet chiefly in the tender parts of the skin Face Nose Lips and about the Privities and that cancer in the Praepuce or Fore-skin of the Yard and those in womens Privities also in the Jawes Mouth as the little sores called Aphthae or thrush Nostrils and in the Posteriors Some of these creep on and corrode the subject parts and corrupt the bone and bring hurt to the parts either by Lameness or loss of the same Others disfigure the Face by eating off the Nose others corrode the Lips so that they cannot drink or sup which must be done by the lips as I have seen Others have eaten through the Palate and consumed the Vvula whereby the voice hath been hoarse and they have spoken through the Nose and snuffled Also these Ulcers corrupt the Glans Nut or Head of the Yard and makes them unfit for Venery as we shewed in corroding Ulcers such as hinder Functions and Actions By these especially if many together and mix'd with other accidents we certainly discover the French Pox. Pains about the Bones without flesh as in the Shins The fourth kind of the French Pox. Shoulders Head Fore-head and Temples somtimes in the Breast which is only pained in this Disease These pains are great and worst towards night and when they are touched neither will they be asswaged with Anodines or Stupefactives as other parts but worse thereby These if without other signs are to be referred to the pains in the Habit of the Body And if they be joyned with other accidents they make a distinct Pox from the rest and it is easily known Besides these there are other accidents which are signs of the Pox which being alone because they may be also in other Diseases cannot determine certainly except after copulation with unclean Women they cause a suspicion And then also we cannot undoubtedly pronounce it the Pox except there be other signs for before ever the pox was known there were venereal Buboes or Swellings in the Groin without Infection that came by Copulation and other accidents which we shall explain And if they come from the Pox there will presently be other signs as pain about the Bones falling of Hair Spots or Pustles These following accidents are both in the Pox and in other diseases and are exactly described elsewhere therefore we shall but touch upon them here The Swelling in the Groin called Bubo venereus sometimes breaks forth in the beginning and vanisheth presently or if it remain it grows hard or comes to matter nor is it unlike that Bubo which is without the Pox. These are Swellings called Condylomata in the Privities of a Woman and of a Man also which are also like those that are without Infection There are clifts also in the Hands and Feet and the skin in the Palm of the Hand being thick comes off without pain as we shewed it may without the Pox. It is observed that the Nails and Hair also fall off Somtimes there are Nodes or Knots in that kind of pox which is about the bones with pain in the Forehead Shins and other parts without flesh as we shewed in pains about the Bones which are without the Pox and yet very like it Somtimes there is matter that flow from the Privities both of Man and Woman fouling their Linnen with a yellowish stain which follows a venemous Matter or Seed mentioned in the infectious or virulent Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins this is joyned with the Pox and is somtimes without it There is also here a burning of Urine with dropping of the same as in other Diseases As for the other accidents that hinder Actions because they come not of themselves from this Disease but by accident from other Causes and Diseases if they grow troublesom being general and belonging to other Diseases of continuance and do not constitute the Pox neither can we take any certain signs thereof from them we willingly pass them by As we counted it also to be superfluous to predict or foretel any thing hereof by the Urin or Blood being contrary to experience and we think it sit to cherish the people in their Folly of supposing all things may be known by urin The Scurvey is called by Pliny and

prevented If every morning you wash with water Wine 〈…〉 a little Vinegar and rub the Teeth and after use Dentifrices if need require and then wash them again with the same If this should be done dayly as the Teeth need no less washing then the Hands they might be kept clean and sound til old age except some other accident and without these they cannot be kept clean white and uncorrupted Eating keeps the Teeth clean therefore on that side where the Teeth are rotten and they cannot shew is sooner infected and there are scales Therefore let them use to eat one both sides When meat fastned in the Teeth is picked out somthing is taken from the sides because it cannot be so easily come at when it is lodged within as when any filth is without Therefore it is good to dip the Tooth pickers made of wood as was shewed in Salt or Allum water You must take off the hard slakes with Iron Files or flegms for that purpose made broad or sharp CHAP. XIII Of the Voiding of Living Creatures The Kinds THere are some Living Creatures bred in the Body which are wholly besides nature as also the voiding of them And they are either Worms or Insects or Lice As for Fleas it is a doubt whether they be bred in mans body or not but no doubt they come from others There are divers kinds of Worms that come from divers parts of the Body Worms voided by Stool which are like other Worms The long worms are called Lumbrici Long Worms because they are like Earth worms They are round sharp at the both ends like Earth worms shewing neither head nor tail whitish and hard usual in Children They are voided more or fewer usually dead and somtimes alive Divers accidents accompany them the gentlest are pain of the belly gnawing at the Heart sighing a dry Cough Itching of the Nose therefore they rub it constantly grating of the Teeth restlessness heavy dreams which makes them suddenly awake and cry out The great accidents are greediness vomiting loosness Lientery Feaver Convulsion and Swouning The short worms that come from the Fundament are called Ascarides Arsworms they are round like Mites in Cheese or Worms in Ulcers These are voided alive with the Excrements with great itching and bring scarse any other accidents They reckon flat worms with these but because they neither live nor move as the other but are long membranes that grow in the body we shall mention them in other excretions Such Worms come also out at the mouths of Children in their sleep Worms comming out at the mouth and from others at other times causing Vomiting I cannot omit the mentioning of a monsterous worm very great behind the Head like a Canker worm hairy with a black shell like a beatle upon the back with many Legs like an Ear-wig voided by a souldier vomiting after long heart pains Some thought that worms breed in the Teeth within Worms of the Teeth being deceived by the smal Fibres found in broken teeth as in cavities of great bones Some thought them to be Nerves Others Wormes But they may be in hollow teeth The Lumbrici or long worms will come out at the Nose Worms in the Teeth or Mouth and cause itching Somtimes little worms have been blown out at the Nose from an Ulceration there A Bergen Physitian affirmed seriously to me that he saw a hairy worm with many Feet like an Ear-wig sneesed out at the Nose by a woman which a long time before felt a great Itching about her Fore-head It was shewed in Ulcers of the Ears that worms come forth with matter VVorms in the Ears VVorms coughed up VVorms pissed forth Some affirm that men in Consumptions have coughed up worms I saw a Man who had the Colick of whom I spake in the Colick that made Urin with infinite small worms like mites in cheese swimming alive therein which dying sanke down in a great lump to the bottom And I saw the same after in others And have since read of divers that have seen the same VVe shewed in verminous or worm Ulcers VVorms in Vlcers how they bred there VVe have seen in the bottom of the navel a long round worm Navel-wormes such as breeds in meal that thrust it self forth and drew in again Some affirm that the long worms of the Guts have come forth at an Ulcer which hath pierced through the Belly and Guts VVorms in a wound of the Belly It is reported that in some Diseases there are worms in the Arms Dracunculi or little dragons Leggs Thighs and sides called Dracunculi in high Dutch Mittfross But we leave the description of them to them that have seen them Besides these kinds of worms VVorms remaining inclosed in the Body others are bred in the Body where there is no passage for them to get out But after death are found in dissection or Anatomy of which neither the Patient that complained of other Diseases nor the Physitian knew These belong not to things voided or Excreta but to other accidents where they shall be spoken of Under the Heart it is reported that worms breed which prick and molest VVorms under the heart but they express not the part being deceived with those worms that rise to the mouth of the stomach and there molest the Heart For they cannot breed any where about the Heart or Pericardium or under it because it grows to the Midriff Lice come from divers parts of the Superficies of the Body Phtheiriasis or the lousie Disease and cause an Itching molestation which is called Phtheiriasis The kinds whereof are distinguished by the parts of the Body Lice breed most in hairy places Lice in hairy Parts especially the Head usually in Children and poor people and somtimes in other unclean persons When they are grown they are broad with many feet equal because they leap not but creep And they have a black spot in their backs sometimes The young ones are called Nits Somtimes they grow in the Beard and Eye-brows and cause Itching there But are little and are quickly routed from those small quarters Also in the Hair under the Arms VVorms that eat the Hair some teach that the Hair of the Head and Beard may be eaten and cleft with worms or lice scarce visible There are Lice found fastned to the skin about the hairy parts of the Privities Lice that grow to the skin or crab-lice that cause grievous itching and pricking and stick very fast Which the French call Morpions Or kil-Doves because they are like the Lice in Dove-cots that kill Pigeons We call them Crab-lice because they resemble the Crab-fish These somtimes creep into other parts and there stick in the skin There is a peculiar sort of Lice that breeds in the Palms of the Hands Hand-lice and in no other part except the Soles of the Feet under the skin which causeth a little

swelling or cleft and a continual Itching And when they are taken out they cannot be seen to move but upon a clear glass These are called Chirones from the Hand in Greek and Acari The Causes All kinds of Worms or Lice breeds of Juyce or Filth Worms breed of Juyce that putrefieth by heat which is either Chyle or any putrid Matter The Lumbrici of the Guts breed of chyl in the hungry Gut called Jejunum Chyle is the cause of long Worms where any of it which is not sucked away by the Meseraicks because it is too thick or too fat but is wrought by the heat of the guts through long continuance into one or more living worms This Chyle is produced from the eating of certain meats which afford matter for worms For which cause chiefly Infants that seed too soon upon flesh and have not milk that is convenient are so troubled with worms These worms as they breed of this Juyce so are they nourished thereby And when they consume it they cause a great appetite And if they creep into the guts they torment them with tickling sucking and pulling and cause griping and Fluxes And if they get up to the stomach whether they may easily go from the smal guts then by molestation and hindering of concoction they cause accidents and diseases of the Stomach and Lientery And if they gnaw the mouth of the Stomach they produce Symptomes of the Heart and Brain And if they rise upwards to the Jawes and Nostrils they trouble them But they cause the greatest accidents when they are killed and putrefied in the small Guts and send up stinking vapors to the Heart and Brain which cause Convulsions and Feavers It is thought that worms a long time retained can so gnaw the Guts that they may pass through the Belly about the navel or Groyns But this is not probable for they have neither sharp bills nor open nor teeth and by sucking they cannot do it Therefore if worms come forth there these come from some Imposthume in the outward parts and are not Lumbrici or long worms but such as breed in Ulcers And if they come from the Guts there was first a wound which made the passage But if worms come downward from the small Guts with the Excrements into the Gut Colon then if they pass presently through they come forth alive at the Fundament Or if they be mixed with the Excrements and kept long they are cast forth dead with the Excrements Ascarides or little Worms in the Fundament and elsewhere Slime or flegm is the cause of Ars-worms and Noseworms come from a putrid matter which getting a new heat from putrefaction produceth divers worms according to the diversity of the matter which is simple or compound Ascarides come from Flegm or Slime long kept in the folds of the thick Guts and they will lie long there till they are sent forth by the Excrements Also from flegm long lodged and putrefied in the cavities of the Nose may come worms And that hairy or downy Canker-worm which we reported to be sneesed out from a womans nose was so bred From Matter not only ripe Matter is the cause of worms in the Nose Ears and Lungs and Teeth but putrefied in Ulcers of the Nose and external Ulcers of the Ears And from that in the Navel come worms And from that in the Lungs ulcerated come worms which are spit forth And if they be found in the teeth they come from the putrefaction in the cavities thereof Ascarides or Arse-worms come more usually from Meat that easily putrefieth Meat eaten that putrefieth is the cause of Arse-worms and teethworms and such as are pissed forth as Flesh Cheese Fruits when it sticks in the windings of the thick Guts then from Flegm Because we may perceive that such things being out of the Body produce the same The same things sticking long in a hollow tooth may produce worms VVe shewed formerly that some worms bred of cheese were pissed forth and it is probable for they are very like mites And the Patient as we shewed in the Colick lived long upon Cheese and voided a quantity of it by the use of a Clyster Of which Cheese long retained and putrefied in the Guts it is probable that these worms bred And were sent by the Meseraicks with the Serum or whey into the hollow Vein and so into the Kidneys and Bladder And this is easie because they are very little bodies And in regard thicker Humors and bodies do pass the same way And this is the reason why others have pissed worms from eating Cheese which had them or bred them after it was eaten For in another corruption of Humors either in or out of the Veins it is seldom seen that worms are voided by urin And every corruption doth not produce worms of this form like mites but ascarides or the like Nor can they be from the ulcers of the Reins and Bladder because they come from Ulcers in another form Lice breed from filth sticking to the skin which filth proceeds from Vapors Filth of the skin is the cause of Lice Sweating and the Excrements of the Skin both under and above it in Children and poor people and such as are nasty in certain parts of them where they putrefie Especially in hairy parts because filth will stick faster there and can be less taken off then from the smooth skin Especially in the Head where they are most abundant smal at the first and sticking to the skin but being nourished by the nourishment that comes to the skin they grow great and march about the Head and somtimes into the Garments and other parts of the Body But if this Filth have any other Infection besides the excrementitial moisture as about the Privities where there is a venemous Vapor in unclean persons it causeth a worse Progeny and then the Lice are worse stick deeper in the skin called Crab-lice These come from Copulation when the hairy parts are united From that which causeth Scabs being retained under the thick skin of the palm of the Hand The Venom of humors is the cause of Lice in the Hand and corrupted proceed those little Lice under the scarfe skin called Chirones as appears by the Pustles and Scabs that are at the same time there And the thickness of the skin in the Palm of the Hand is the cause why they are rather there then in another part which keeps these thin Excrements from being discussed And the same may be in the Soles of the Feet The Cure Lumbrici or long Worms bred in the thin Guts The Cure of long Worms staying long and nourished with Chyle are not known when they do no hurt And without other Remedies pass through the Guts with the Excrements or get upwards but seldom through the Mouth and Nose But when they do hurt either alive or dead by staying in the Guts and producing accidents in tender Bodies especially and endanger