moisture by the Liver the Microcosmicall Jupiter chasing and beating the right side of the Stomach The Stomach hath also a Latitudinall Muscle or will which makes the expulsive faculty It is naturally cold moist cold to compresse the superfluity moist to make the matter slippery and fit for ejection also to work a sutable disposition in the body It is a necessary operation by it after the seperation of the pure from the impure the Elements from the Caput Mortuum or rather foeces is removed and carried away all that is needlesse or prejudiciall to nature It is under the dominion of the Moon with whom you may joyne Venus being of the same nature whose Epitome or Microcosmicall substitute viz the braine sendeth a branch of Nerves to the Stomach and thereby furnisheth it with humours cold and moist fit for expulsion I shall now hasten to give you a short description of the Heart Liver Spleen and Kidneys c. CHAP. VI. Of the Heart I Now come to speak breifly of the Heart who is the principall of all other members and the beginning of life he is set in the mid'st of the Breast by himselfe as Lord and King of all the Members And as a Lord or King ought to be served of his subjects that have their living of him so are all the Members of the body subjects of the Heart they receive their living from him and in many wayes they do him service He is the same in the little world as the Sun that glorious Lampe of Heaven is in the great world It is called Sol Corporis as the Sun is called Cor Coeli because their operations are so like The vitall Spirit hath its residence here why then should antiquity with ignominy be brought to the Barr and condemned for saying the Heart lives first and dyes last he being the Fountaine and beginning of life it must needs follow that it is the first thing in man that lives and the last that dyes Here is to be noted that the heart hath blood in his substance whereas all other members have it in their Veines and Arteries It is bound to the back part of the breast by certaine Ligaments which Ligaments though they touch not the substance of the Heart yet in the over part they spring forth of him By which he appeares to be King of the members and Center of the Mocrocosmicall planetary Hiarchy Moreover the Heart hath two Ventricles or Concavities and the left is higher than the right the cause of its hollownesse â—s to keep the blood for his nourishing and â—…e to abate and temper the great heat which is included and shut up in the Concavityes As he is Sol Corporis and Center of the rest of the members and ruler of the family he communicates to them Life and Motion yet by his heat he attracts what is needfull for himselfe from the other members as a subsidy or tax imposed upon his subjects And therefore to the right Ventricle of the Heart cometh a Veine from the great Veine called Venakells which receiveth all the substance of the blood from the Liver this Veine I say passeth from Venakelis to the right ventricle of the Heart and bringeth a great portion of the thickest and purest blood to nourish the Heart The residue that is left of this is made more subtill through the virtue and heat of the Heart and then sent into a concavitie or pit in the midst of the Heart between the two Ventricles therein it is made more hot and pure and from thence it passeth to the best Ventricle and there is engendred in it a Spirit that is clearer brighter and subtiller then any Corporeall or bodily thing which is engendered of the four Elements for it is a mean between the Body and the Soul Wherefore of the Philosophers it is likned more to heavenly than earthly things And here I shall taket leave to digresse and tell you of some things wonderfull touching the Heart If we credit Avicenna Some have wanted a Heart and to this purpose I could recite other mens opinions but I shall not trouble the readers head with such things which seem to my selfe impossible Valerius Maximus speaketh of one Aristomanes Messenius who killed 300. Lacedemonians who had a hairy Heart Beneventus reports the same of a certaine thiefe Columbus observed a young man that wanted the pericardium which is a thin skin involving the Heart as in a purse and he was much troubled with swoonding fits It hath been the opinion that a man cannot live a moment scarsely who hath received a wound in the Heart And good reason too seeing the life depends upon the safety of the Spirits the Heart being the shop and making thereof when the Heart is wounded it is necessary that the generation of the Spirits cease Yet Nicol. Malerius relates a History of one Andreas Hasevanger who was one of the Lifeguard of Count William of Nassaw governour of Frisia c. who received a wound in the Breast by his fellow Souldier Anno 1607. on the 22 of August in the evening and died the 8th of Septemper following one houre after Sunrising his body being opened to search for the wound by the aforenamed Nicol. Malerius and two other Chirurgions in the presence of severall Souldiers of note they found that the wound had entered the right cavity of the Heart and that part of the Heart was almost consumed the left part remaining entire which is the cheife habitation of the vitall spirits By this meanes he lived 16 dayes which had been impossible if the left ventricle had been wounded But to proceed from the left Ventricle of the Heart springeth two Arteries the one having but one Coat and therefore is called Arteria Venalis which carryeth blood from the Heart to the Lungs which blood is vaporous and fit for its nourishment and carrieth back aire from the Lungs to refresh the Heart See here the Harmony and freindly Agreement between the Microcosmicall Sun and Mercury the first affordeth of his own nutriment to nourish the other whilst the other rewards him with aire to refresh him The other Arterie hath two Coats it is called Vena Arterialis or the great Arterie of which springeth all the other Arteries that spread to every member of the body which carieth the Spirits which are the treasures of the Souls virtue Thus it passeth till it come to the braine and be made an animall Spirit as you have heard before in the third Chapter at the Liver it is made nutrimentall and at the Testicles generative Thus by the Heart is made a Spirit of every kind and like the Sun in the Heavens by his royall presence he doth conferre life and liberty to his suppliants I might here tell you why these Arteries have two coats namely because one is not sufficient to withhold the vitall Spirits carried in them their motion being so violent Againe the thing carried about being so precious a treasure
I have somewhat altered and that for two Reasons First some I have altered to make them more strong and efficacious Secondly others I altered when I was enforced to use for want of one Ingredient another of the same nature This Book swelled to such a bigness that I was forced to contract my self in the two last and to be somewhat briefer then I intended Thus courteous Reader I have for thy sake exposed my self to the dangerous and sharp Teeth of the envious Detractors which is a great hazard especially in this polished Age among so many fine and curious Wits who scarcely can approve of any thing though never so judiciously composed Yet if it find acceptation with thee I have my end and shall receive sufficient encouragement to undertake somewhat more for thy benefit which I shall suddainly do if I find this give content If any fault committed by my Pen or the Press pass uncorrected excuse it Accept it with a chearful heart and as I freely impart so do thou what ever profit or knowledge thou gainest thereby freely for the good of thy Neighbour to the honour of God and praise of this Laudable Science and for the further encouraging of him who now is farther to be Thine in all Offices of Love J. TANNER From my Lodging at Mr. Cambridge's house next door to the Sign of the Kings-Arms in Kings-street Westmin A general Table of all the principal Contents of this Book The Table of the First Book CHap. 1. A Physical Description of Man Page 1 Chap. 2. A more particular Description of Man p. 4 Chap. 3. A Description of the Head p. 6 Chap. 4. Of the parts belonging to the Head p. 11 Chap. 5. Of the Stomach and its faculties p. 19 Chap. 6. Of the Heart p. 21 Chap. 7. Of the Lungs Liver c. p. 25 Chap. 8. Of the Reins and Kidneys p. 29 Chap. 9. Of the Generative Parts p. 32 Chap. 10. The Conclusion p. 36 The Table of the Second Book CHap. 1. Of the nature of Physick and Office of a Physitian Page 39 Chap. 2. Of Diseases of the Head Cephalaea and Megrim pag. 42 Chap. 3. Of the Frensie pag. 48 Chap 4. Of Madness pag. 52 Chap. 5. Of the Apoplexie Lethargie and Sleepy Disease pag. 56 Chap. 6. Of the Vertigo page 62 Chap. 7. Of the Palsie page 67 Chap. 8. Of the Convulsion page 71 Chap. 9. Of a Catarrh or Defluxion page 75 Chap. 10. Of Diseases of the Eyes proceeding from obstruction of the Optick Nerves page 83 Chap. 11. Of a Cataract page 88 Chap. 12. Of the enlarging or straitening of the Pupilla page 94 Chap. 13. Of the Pin and Web page 107 Chap. 14. Of the Inflammation of the Eyes p. 108 Chap. 15. Of the Cancer and Rupture of the Cornea page 116 Chap. 16. Of Diseases of the corners of the Eyes and Eye-lids page 118 Chap. 17. Of Diseases of the Ears page 124 Chap. 18. Of Diseases of the Nostrils page 134 Chap. 19. Of bleeding at the Nose page 142 Chap. 20. Of the Diseases of the Tongue page 146 Chap. 21. Of the Diseases of the Teeth page 150 Chap. 22. Of Diseases of the Gums page 165 Chap. 23. Of the Ulcers of the Mouth page 167 Chap. 24. Of a loose and inflamed Columella and Diseases of the Tonsils page 169 Chap. 25. Of the Quinzie page 171 Chap. 26. Of the Asthma page 175 Chap. 27. Of the Pleurifie and inflammation of the Lungs page 179 Chap. 28. Of Empyema page 183 Chap. 29. Of spitting of blood page 185 Chap. 31. Of the Consumption or Ptisick page 189 Chap. 32. Of the Palpitation of the Heart page 194 Chap. 33. Of Swooning or Syncope page 197 Chap. 34. Of want of Appetite page 201 Chap. 35. Of a depraved Appetite page 205 Chap. 36. Of the Thirsty Disease page 208 Chap. 37. Of Evil Digestion page 210 Chap. 38. Of the Hiccough page 213 Chap. 39. Of Vomiting page 215 Chap. 40. Of Cholera page 218 Chap. 41. Of pain in the Stomach pag. 220 Chap. 42. Of the Inflammation Ulcer and Imposthume of the Stomach pag. 229 Chap. 43. Of the Chollick page 223 Chap. 44. Of the Illiack Passion page 230 Chap. 45. Of the Lientery and Caeliack Passion p. 233 Chap. 46. Of the Flux Diarrhaea p. 235 Chap. 47. Of the Dysentery or Bloody Flux p. 238 Chap. 48. Of the Tenasmus p. 243 Chap. 49. Of the Flux of the Liveâ— p. 244 Chap. 50. Of the Worms p. 247 Chap. 51. Of the immoderate Flux of the Hemorrhoids p. 251 Chap. 52. Of the pain of the Hemorrhoids p. 254 Chap. 53. Of a hot distemper of the Liver p. 257 Chap. 54. Of the inflammation of the Liver p. 259 Chap. 55. Of the obstruction of the Liver p. 264 Chap. 56. Of the Schirrhus of the Liver p. 268 Chap. 57. Of the Jaundise p. 269 Chap. 58. Of the Dropsie p. 272 Chap. 59. Of the obstruction inflammation and tumour of the Spleen p. 279 Chap. 60. Of Hypochondriack Melancholy p. 281 Chap. 61. Of the Scurvey p. 285 Chap. 62. Of the Stone in the Kidneys p. 288 Chap. 63. Of the Stone in the Bladder p. 294 Chap. 64. Of the inflammation of the Reins and Bladder p. 296 Chap. 65. Of the Ulcer of the Reins and Bladder p. 299 Chap. 66. Of extraordinary pissing p. 302 Chap. 67. Of involuntary pissing p. 304 Chap. 68. Of the stoppage of Urine and Strangury p. 306 Chap. 69. Of the scalding of the Urine p. 309 Chap. 70. Of pissing of blood p. 311 Chap. 71. Of the Green-sickness p. 314 Chap. 72. Of the stoppage of the Terms p. 317 Chap. 73. Of the immoderate Menstrual Flux p. 320 Chap. 74. Of the Whites p. 323 Chap. 75. Of the Mother p. 326 Chap. 76. Of the inflammation ulcer and hard swelling of the Womb p. 333 Chap. 77. Of the swelling of the Womb by wind or water p. 337 Chap. 78. Of the falling down of the Womb p. 341 Chap. 79. Of Barrenness p. 343 Chap. 80. Of Miscarriage p. 349 Chap. 81. Of hard Travel in child-birth p. 351 Chap. 82. Of the Gout and Sciatica p 356 Chap. 83. Of the one day Feaver p. 363 Chap. 84. Of the Feaver Synochus non putrida p. 365 Chap. 85. Of continual putrid Feavers p. 366 Chap. 86. Of the Hectick Feaver p. 375 Chap. 87. Of the Tertian Ague p. 377 Chap. 88. Of the Quotidian Ague p. 380 Chap. 89. Of the Quartan Ague p. 381 Chap. 90. Of the Pestilence p. 386 Chap. 91. Of the Small Pox and Measles p. 394 The Contents of the Third Book CHap. 1. Of a green Wound p. 398 chap. 2. Of a contused wound and a Bruise p. 404. chap. 3. Of Wounds by biting or stinging of any creature venemous or not p. 407 chap. 4. Of a Wound in the Nerves Tendons Ligaments Veins and Arteries p. 409 chap. 5. Of Luxations and Fractures p. 413 chap. 6. Of accidents happening to wounded persons p. 417 chap. 7. Of
it had need of the better keeping This Arterie is called the pulsative Veine I might here frame a large discourse of the pellicles of the Heart which open and shut to receive the blood Also the two little eares by whom commeth in and passeth out the aire I might say much of the pannicles which as some think have their originall from dura mater as namely pericardium called of some Capsula Cordis which springeth of the upper pannicle of the Midriffe and covereth the Heart of the which springeth another called Mediastinum which parteth the breast in the mid'st and keepeth that the Lungs fall not over the Heart such a rule hath the Architect Spirit given to each part as Starrs to move in their severall Orbs There is another pannicle that covereth the ribs of whom the Midriffe taketh its beginning But this being beyond my intended scope I will put an end to this Chapter of the Heart CHAP. VII Of the Lungs Liver c. THe Lungs is made of a substance very soft and spongeous supple to draw and to inforce from like a paire of bellows it is an instrument of respiration whereby the heart is refreshed drawing unto it the blood the Spirits and the aire and disburthening it selfe of those fumes and excrements which oppresse it It is naturally cold and dry accidentally cold and moist naturally cold and dry waying about the Heart abateing his beat by its refreshing blast it is accidentally moist by reason of Catarhs and Rhewmes which it receiveth from the Braine There are three principall parts in the Lungs considerable one is a Veine coming from the Liver which bringeth with it the crude and undigested part of the Chile to feed the Lungs Another is Arteria Venialis coming from the Heart bringing the Spirit of life to nourish the Lungs The third is Trachia Arteria that bringeth aire to the Lungs and it passeth through all the left part of them to do its office The Lungs is divided into the five portions or pellicles three on the right side and two on the left side if in case any impediment or hurt should happen any in one part the other should be ready to supply the office But I forbeare any further description of the Lungs and come to the Liver which is a principall member in the little world representing the Planet Jupiter Quasi juvans pater hot and moist inclining towards the right side under the short ribs The forme of the Liver is Gibbous or Bunchy on the back side on the other side hollow like the inside of an hand that it might be pliable to the stomach as a mans hand is to an apple or any thing that is round to further its digestion for his heat is to the Stomach as the heat of a fire is to the pot which hangeth over it It is the Store-house of the blood the Fountaine of the Veines the seat of the naturall nourishing faculty or vegetative soul ingendred of the Blood of that Chile which it draweth from the Meseraique Veins and receiveth by the Vena porta which entereth into the concavities thereof and afterwards is sent and distributed through the whole body by the help of Vena Cava which ariseth from the bunch or branches thereof which are in great numbers as the Rivers from the Ocean The naturall and nutrimentall faculty hath its residence in the Liver and is dispersed through the whole body with the Veins from which are bred four perticular humours viz Blood Choller Flegme and Melancholly It is so excellent and necessary a member that I dare not give credit to their opinions who say it may be wanting in a man as some say it was in one Mathias Ortelius a Merchant in Antwerp Blood is made of meat perfectly concocted in quality hot and moist Jupiters darling the most perfect and necessary humour the other three being superfluities yet necessary too The blood thus concocted is drawn out by the Vena cava whose branches ramefying upwards and downwards carrieth and conveigheth it to all other members of the body for their nourishment where by a third digestion it is transmuted into the flesh Choller is made of meat more then perfectly concocted it is the spume or froth of blood it clarifieth all the humours heats the body nourisheth the apprehension It is in quality hot and dry it fortifieth the attractive faculty as blood doth the digestive it moveth man to activity and valour it is under the planet Mars whose residence is in the Gall which is an officiall member a purse or pannicular vesicle placed in the hollownesse of the Liver whose office is to receive the Cholerick superfluities which are engendered in the Liver as aforesaid Which Purse or Bagge hath three holes or necks by the first it draweth to it selfe the choler from the Liver that so the blood be not hurt by the choller By the second it sendeth choller to the bottome of the Stomach to fortifie the attractive faculty And lastly it sendeth choller regularly to every gut from one gut to another to clense them from supersluities and drosse Flegme is made of meat not perfectly digested it fortifieth the virtue expulsive what it is and what tho other faculties are you have heard in the fifth Chapter and maketh the body fit for ejection it is kind to and fortifieth the Braine by its consimilitude with it it is antipatheticall to the apprehension and doth much injure it therefore flegmatick persons have but weak apprehensions It is cold and moist in quality its receptacle is in the Lungs it is governed by the Moon and Venus Therefore it qualifies choller cooles and moisteneth the Heart as you heard before in the description of the Lungs thereby sustaining it and the whole body from the fiery effects which continuall motion would produce Melancholly is the sedement of blood it is cold and dry inquality it maketh men sober solid and staid fit for study or any serious emploiment It curbs the unbridled toys and fooleries incident to the sanguine complexion it stayeth wandering and idle thoughts and reduceth them home to the Centre It is like a grave Counseller to the whole body It is governed by the Planet Saturn it strengtheneth the retentive faculty and its receptacle is in the spleen which in the body is placed on the best side transversly linked to the Stomach Hollerius reports that a woman at Paris was found without a Spleen And Pliny in his naturall History saith that in Cawnus men are born without it and hence the common people thought that it might be safely cut out of Footmen and Horses and as it hath been wanting in some so it hath abounded in others Fallopius observed three that lay one upon another One was seen so great that it weighed above 20 pounds Colum. Anatom Another had a Milt weighed 23 pound Where it increaseth the body decreaseth because it sucks away too much Chilus from the Liver Therefore fitly did Trdjan liken the Spleen
Plague poison worms putrified or the Mestrues stopped and conveighed as before may be the cause of Palpitation To these adde excesse in quantity or quality of bloody Cholerick or watry humors oppressing the Veins Arteryes or Ventricles of the heart Likewise Inflammation Imposthumation or Tumors happening in the Arteries of the Lungs near the heart or in the Pericardium may be the cause of Palpitation A Second cause is a preternatural heat by which the Spirits are inflamed and the motion of the heart and Arteries is encreased and this sometimes though seldome ariseth from an inward cause often from an outward as anger violent excercise and the like The third cause is the defect of Spirits caused by hunger watching anger joy fear shame or great Diseases or any thing which dissipateth the Spirits which the heart labouring to recover encreaseth its motion and causeth Palpitation The Diagnosis or knowledge of this Disease is easie for it may be felt heard or seen The causes must be distinguished by their proper signes A hot distemper is known by often breathing by a Feaver and heat of the breast and a desire of cold things If wind be the cause it is subject to Variation and raised by a small motion the breath is difficult a mist before the eyes and a noise in the eares c. If the Disease commeth from humors in the heart or Pericardium it comes not suddainly nor goeth away quickly The nature of the humor you may gather from their Symptomes Water in the Peticardium is hard to be known but we may conjecture it by the weaknesse of the Pulse the heart seems to be almost suffocated in water If Malignant and Pestilent humors cause it the Patient fainteth a losse of the pulse and strength c. If it come by consent from other parts their proper signes declare it If a Tumor be the cause the motion of the heart is different from the natural and the pulse is various if the Tumor be in the pericardium and hard the disease is constant and the Patient decays without manifest cause To the Prognostick I say it is a dangerous Symptome because the motion of the heart by which life is preserved is hindered and Galen saith that they who are thus affected in youth or middle age live not to be old because the Vitalls are weak in them Alpho 41 de loco aff Sect 2 et 5 Chap. 2. If it come from a Tumor it is incurable if it be peculiar to the heart or pericardium it is incurable If it come by consent from other parts the cure must be sought out of their proper Chapters but seeing not only the cause ought to be removed but also the Symptomes asswaged by refreshing the heart you must administer Cordial medicines which have power to strengthen the heart If a hot distemper vex the heart Take of the Conserve of Violets Water-lillys Borrage or Buglosse flowers of each one ounce Diamargariton frigidum Diarrhodon Abbatis of each two drachms Red Sanders Coral and Camphire of each a drachm with the Sirrups of Coral Balme or Citron peels make an Opiate of which let him take often If cold humors cause the Palpitation Take of the Conserve of Roses and Rosemary flowers of each one ounce Aromaticum Rosarum Dianthus and Diambra of each one drachm Cinamon Cloves and Mace of each half a drachm Confection of Alchermes two scruples Amber Muske and Saffron of each one scruple with Sirrup of Clove-Gilly-flowers make an Opiat and give it as before With these and the like ingredients the Ingenious may form medicines of all sorts whether the disease be hot or cold likewise may Liniments Unguents Epithemas and Sacculibe prepared and applyed to the Region of the heart to strengthen and abate the hot or cold distempers thereof If an humor gathered near the heart cause the Palpitation extenuating medicines must be mixed with your Cordialls and if nothing prohibite open the inner Vein of the arme called Basilica if that appear not open the middle Vein which course Galen commendeth also if you see occasion administer purging and Carminative Clisters CHAP. XXXIII Of Swooning or Syncope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Swooning is a sudden and swift failing of all strength for all parts having a continual necessary influence upon the heart and vital spirits when they fail all the rest must suffer This Disease is distinguished from the Epilepsy which hath a Convulsion and this not from an Apoplexy in which the breath is much stopped and the pulse not much abated till near death but here the pulse faileth and the breath is free In Fits of the Mother the breath is most obstructed the pulse not much altered nor the colour of the face except it be higher the contrary happeneth in a Syncope The immediate cause of this Disease is the defect of the Vital Spirits in which nature is constrained lest the heart should totally fail to fetch the spirits from other parts to the heart by which means they lose their functions This defect happeneth four ways principally First they are naturally few by fault in the faculty making of the Vital Spirits or the matter which fault commeth by diseases proper to the heart or by consent from other parts Proper to the heart are too much constriction dilation and Solutions happening to the Ventricles of the heart or such as destroy the natural temper as Sharp Malignant Fainting Pestilential and Hectick Feavers and the like The faculty may be hurt by diseases in those parts which have a Sympathy with the heart as the Brain Liver Stomach and Womb. The matter is faulty when the Aire or Blood by which the Vital spirits are generated is defective or corrupted The aire is defective when respiration and transpiration is hindered But the hinderance of nutrition causeth a defect of the Blood They are both corrupted when their qualityes are changed Secondly this Disease is caused when the Spirits are dissipated and spent by too great evacuations which may be done sensibly or insensibly Sensibly by inordinate Phlebotomy Bleeding of wounds or at the Mouth Nose Womb Belly or Hemorrhoids or an extraordinary discharging of other excrementitious humours by Vomit Stool Urine or Sweat the breaking of an inward Impostume or by Empyema or by tapping the Nave lin the Dropsy Insensible evacuations are caused by sharp or thin humours which rarifie the skin or the immoderate heat of Bathes or Hot-Houses To these add long Watchings Fastings Lechery Anger Joy long continuing and violent pain or sickness c. may cause a dissipation of the spirits Thirdly this disease is caused by things which alter and corrupt the Spirits as venemous and pestilential aire and stincks or an evill disposition of the Bowels and other parts in a word all things which are averse to the heart may corrupt the spirits Or Lastly the spirits may be suffocated or destroyed which may come to pass by a vehement returning of Blood and Spirits to the Heart as also corrupt
Stomack CHAP. LVIII Of the Obstruction Inflammation and Tumor of the Spleen THe Spleen is subject to Obstruction as well as the Lâ—ver or rather more because it draweth cruder blood when thick humors stick in the substance of the Spleen it maketh an inflammation and Tumor If the humors grow thick and hard it breeds a Scirrhus If the Tumor be phlegmatick it is called Oedma which chanceth to them who live upon cold and moyst food or live in a moyst ayre But if it be soft loose puffed up it is called an inflammation or puffing of the Spleen The causes of the Obstruction Inflammation tumour of the Spleen are the same with them of the Liver Sometimes the affect seizeth on both together They are distinguished by their Signes the Obstruction of the Spleen is distinguished from the Obstruction of the Liver by the scituation of the part If the Spleen be obstructed there is heavinesse and pain in the left Hypochondrion especially after running riding or any more than ordinary exercise if you handle the hypochondrion there is resistance the face is blewish and Signes of melancholly appeare the disease is of long continuance and if it be not speedily cured it turnes to a Scirrhus The cure is performed the same way as the Obstruction of the Liver is only you must add things which particularly respect the Spleen and purge the Melancholly humor The inflammation of the Spleen likewise hath the same conjunct and antecedent cause only it is especially caused by Melancholly Blood The Diagnostick Signes are different viz the Patient hath swelling pain heavinesse and beating on the left side under the ribs thirst blacknesse of the tongue loathing of meat a constant fever troublesome lying on either side especially the right somtimes the Tumor is in the shape of the Spleen Somtimes fills the left Hypochondrion and if the adjacent parts be inflamed also it extendeth below the Navell If only Melancholly blood cause the inflammation the Tumor is harder the colour black and many times the Urine If choler be mixed with melancholly blood the thirst is greater the Fever stronger and worse every third day the mouth bitter and the Urine red great want of sleep and doting If phlegme be mixed the former symptomes are lessened The Prognostick is the same with the inflammation of the Liver only it is lesse dangerous for as much as the Liver is the nobler part If it endeth not in Death it endeth by some criticall Evacuation as by Stoole Urine or Bleeding at the left Nostrill or else it grows hard and turnes to a Schirrhus Which may be known by the causes and signes laid down in the Chapter of the Schirrhus of the Liver only it appeareth on the contrary side The cure of this and the former may be performed by the medicines laid down in the Chapters of the inflammation obstruction and Schirrhus of the Liver only make use of some things that especially respect the Spleen and purge melancholly as I hinted before Somtimes the Spleen is much pained by wind which stretcheth the Spleen and its membranes but is without fever or hardnesse It is easily distinguished from the former griefs but hardly from the Chollick by reason of the neernesse of the Gut Colon but you may distinguish them thus the pain of the Spleen is weighty and in one place but of the Chollick is stretching sharp moveable and runs over the whole Belly The Cure must be wrought by Medicines carminative emollient and discussive given internally or Clisters of the same Nature with Fomentations and Liniments made of the Oyls of Wormwood Lillyes Camomell Capers and such like adding a little of the Oyl of Spike and if the pain cease not some commend the Application of a Cupping-Glasse but be well advised first whether there be no Defluxion or Inflammation CHAP. LX. Of Hypocondriack Melancholy THis Disease hath its Originall from melancholly and adust Humours which are bred by the Distemper of the Spleen or Stomach which by reason of of their Crudity stay long in the Veins Arteries and other Passages which cause great and grievous Fermentations or Workings from whence noisome Vapours ascend to the Brain Heart and Midriff which cause divers Symptoms which I shall mention hereafter The antecedent Causes are all Meats of evill Juyce and of hard Digestion long continued Passions and Sadnesse because they disperse the Spirits and hinder Concoction and cause Credityes which being burnt by Heat turn to Melancholy Much Study Watching and want of Excercise may be the Cause by reason of much Retention of Excrements hence it is that learned men and such who sit much are troubled with this Disease The Stoppage of the Terms or Haemorrhoids may be the Cause The Diagnostick Signs of this Disease are many according to the parts affected Sometimes the Patient spitteth or vomiteth much because the Stomach concocteth ill and turneth the Nourishment into watry sharp sowr or clammy Substance which not being drawn away by the Guts ly in the Stomach and sometimes discharge themselves as aforesaid Sometimes the boiling of these Humours in the Stomach causeth flaruous Vapours which stretch the Stomach and afflict the Heart and cause Swooning These Vapours cause a Noise beneath the Ribs hence it hath been called the windy Disease Sometimes the Wind reacheth to the Kidneys and causeth great Pain there which maketh the Patient think he hath the Stone He is often costive because the clammy Humours bred by evill Concoction stick to the Guts sometimes the Sharpnesse of the Humours causeth the Belly to be soluble There is great Heat in the Hypocondria so that the Face will grow red and hot from those Vapours Sometimes the Urine is thin because thick and tartarous Humours stop the Passages sometimes thick red and troubled and hath a thick tartarous Sediment and sometimes stick to the bottom of the Urin all like Sand which causeth a Suspition of the Stone but this dissolves between the Fingers like Salt and that which is bred in the Reins is hard The Vapours ascending produce many Symptomes as Palpitation of the Heart a distempered Pulse if they ascend to the Tongue and Pallat it causeth great Thirst if to the Lungs difficulty of the Breathing if to the Membranes of the Brain Head ach if to the Brain it self Dimnesse of sight Noise in the Ears Giddinesse Fear and melancholy Phantasies if they be very sharp they sometimes cause the Falling-Sicknesse and if they settle in the Nervs Convulsion if they be stupifying they cause Numbnesse the Palsy Apoplexy c If the Vapours be hot and dry they dry the Brain and cause Watchings troublesom Sleep and frightfull Dreams Note that all these Symptoms are not to be expected in one and the same Patient but more or fewer according to the variety of the peccant Humours Prognosticks are A continual Pain and Giddinesse of the Head in a Hypocondry doth threaten an Epilepsy Apoplexy or Blindnesse and the like Thick Urine
thin plate of Lead about the Reins pricked full of holes Let the Patient's ordinary drink be Beer in which is tunned Mastick-wood sliced and cut small Plantane and the Herbs before named If the Liver be distempered with Heat conferr with the 53 Chapter If the Stone or Gravell be the Cause use no strong Diureticks because they provoke the Flux but that which I have known very effectuall in this case I shal here commend and put an end to the Chapter Take of the four greater and lesser cold Seeds of each one Drachm Quince Seeds half a Drachm the Seeds of Marsh-Mallows white Poppy and Winter Cherryes of each one Scruple make an Emulsion with the Decoction of Marsh-Mallows and give two three or four spoonsuls in the Morning and if you add a little Oyl of Vitrioll it will be the better Venice Turpetine made into Pills with the Powder of Rubarb half a Drachm taken in the Morning doth gently cleanse the Reins CHAP. LXXI Of the Green-sicknesse THis Disease is called by some the Virgins Disease the white Feaver the white Jaundice but vulgarly the Green-sicknesse It is an evill habit of the Body proceeding from the Obstruction of the Veins about the Womb Liver Spleen and Mesentery causing a heavinesse unweildinesse of the whole Body difficulty of Breathing panting of the Heart and Head-Ach a desire after Food that is evil and a loathing of good The Veins about the Womb being obstructed that Blood which Nature hath ordained to go thither having not free passage runs upwards and oppresseth the Heart Liver Spleen Diaphragma stops the Vessels and destroys the naturall Heat hence it cometh to passe that the Stomach and Bowels cannot concoct well as they ought to do so Crudityes are dispersed throughout the body and make an evill Habit. Sometimes by this means the Hypocondria is swelled which depressing the Diaphragma causeth Shortnesse of Breath This grosse Blood being carried in the great Artery to the Heart which least it should be suffocated by it labours for its deliverance often moving of its Arteryes causeth a Palpitation and Beating of the Temples The Stomach by this means being filled with Crudityes and excrementitious Humours causeth a Loathing of Food and a desire after such things which ought not to be eaten as Salt Chalk Coals Ashes Oat-meal Wheat Tobacco-Pipes c. which Disease is called Pica Malacia and we have spoken of it in the 35 Chapter of this Book This Obstruction is caused many wayes as drinking cold Drink to Bedward eating raw or unripe Fruits Some go to Feasts and upon a full Stomach dancing and sporting all Night disturb the naturall Frame of the Body and want Rest others sleep too much and sit long at their work as Seamsters Bonelace-makers and the like By these and the like means Concoction is hurt the naturall Heat is extinguished and the Body filled with crude Excrements and thick slimy Humours which cause Obstructions This Disease is easily known and you may know the diseased if you do but veiw their Faces which are pale and white sometimes of a Lead colour blew or green the Face and Eye-lids the Legs and Feet swelled The whole Body is unweildy and lazy When the body is stirred by Exercise or Walking especially going up a hill or steep place there followeth Palpitation of the Heart and Shortnesse of Breath Beating in the Temples and great Head-Ach behind if the Womb be obstructed before if the Hypocondria be afflicted there is great loathing of wholesome Meat and desiring the contrary the Pulfe is swift and quick as in a Feaver and when the Disease comes to the hight the Terms are stopped This Disease continueth a long time yet is seldom dangerous sometimes by long continuance it breeds Corruption in the naturall parts Dropsyes Feavers Consumptions which end in Death If the Veins of the Womb onely are obstructed a Husband will cure her Women that have a long time been in this condition bring forth weak and sickly Children and sometimes they are barren This Disease is cured by opening the Obstructions evacuating the filthy Humours and strengthning of the parts The Obstructions are opened by such Medicines as are mentioned in the cure of the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen you may add to them such things which respect the Womb as Mugwort Fetherfew Pennyroyall c. If the Spleen be obstructed add such things which are proper for that as Caper-bark Ceterack Spleenwort c. Open the Saphaena or Ancle-Vein but first if the Maid be full of Blood open a Vein in the Arm. Then purge often with such Medicines as are prescribed in the Cure aforenamed and make use of such Medicines as powerfully open Obstructions there prescribed Zacutus Lusitanus doth much commend the Conserve of Mugwort given thirty dayes together drinking after it a little of the distilled Water of Savin in which Rubarb hath been infused The Salt of Mugwort is very good and Faecula Brioniae mixed with the Conserve hath an effectuall and powerfull operation If the Obstructions are stubborn and not easily opened make a Bath thus Take of the Roots of Marsh-Mallows Briony Elder and Lillyes of each two pound Balm Fethersew Mallows Mercury Maddir Mugmort Nep Pennyrorall and Violets of each three Handfulls the Seed of Flax and Fenugreek of each two Ounces boil them in a sufficient Quantity of Water and let the Patient bathe her self in the Morning and Evening two dayes let the Decoction be renewed the second day The next day open the Vein under the Ancle if the Terms be stopped as for the most part they are in this Disease then give Medicines that powerfully open Obstructions when you find that the Obstructions are opened which you may easily perceive by the decay of the aforenamed Symptoms then you must discusse the peccant Humours that remain in the Veins and other parts of the Body by Sweats for which you must use the Decoction of Guajacum in cold constitutions or of China and Sarfa in those that are hot In the mean while every fourth or fifth day give a purge to cleanse the Body of the crude Humours which cannot be sent forth by Sweat CHAP. LXXII Of the Stoppage of the Terms MEnsium Suppressio or the Terms stopped is when a Woman of ripe Age hath little or no Evacuation of Blood by the Womb once in a Month yet gives not suck nor is with Child Divers Diseases of the Womb may cause this Suppression viz. A cold and dry Distemper which thickneth and bindeth the Womb. A hot and dry Distemper dryeth the part Inflammation Tumor Ulcer or Erosion of the mouths of the Vessels in Abortion or Tumor in the adjacent parts by compression may cause this Stoppage The Vessels of the Womb may be obstructed by thick and phlegmatick Humours or they may be compressed by a Tumor in the parts adjacent The cause may be in the Blood when it offends in Quantity Quality or Motion in Quantity when there is
Consumptions and Hectick Foavers The Dose is from one ounce to two Syrupus è corralliis simplex compositus The Syrup of Corral simple and compound It refrigerateth dryeth and astringeth it stayeth the immoderate Monethly Flux and the Whites the Dysentery all Fluxes of Bloud it is good in the Falling Sickness it strengtheneth Nature profitable for such who have Hectick Feavers or Consumptions The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Cydoniorum Syrup of Quinces It is the best to strengthen the Stomach and to help the cold distemper of the Liver it helps Concoction and provokes an appetite it helps Vomiting and is good against a Flux if it be without a Feaver The Dose is from one ounce to two take it in the morning For a Looseness take an ounce before Mâ—at for Vomiting an ounce after Meat Syrupus de Erysimo Syrup of Hedge-Mustard It prevaileth against cold afflictions of the Breast and Lungs as Coughs Astmachs Hoarsness and the like Use it with a Liquoris Stick or take an ounce with two or three ounces of some Pectoral Decoction in the Morning Syrpus de Fumaria Syrup of Fumitory It concocteth Melancholy and freeth the Bloud of such Humours as cause Scabs Itch Leprosie Tetters Ring-Worms Cancers Corns Warts c. It openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and is soveraign in the Hypochrondriack Melancholy it cooleth the Liver and cleanseth the bloud The Dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus Glycyrrhiza Syrup of Liquoris It helps Coughs and is good against Plurifies for it cleanseth the Breast and Lungs Take it as Syrup of Hedge-Mustard Oxy-Saccharum Simplex Syrup of Pomegranates with Vinegar It is many times used in the small Pox and Measuls by reason of the Vinegar it cutteth and attenuateth 〈◊〉 Humours it restraineth Choller and mitigates its heat The Dose is from two ounces to four Syrupus de Hysopo Syrup of Hysop It hath a notable Faculty of cutting and expectorating tough Humours out of the Breast and Lungs and to strongthen the parts It prepareth and expelleth Salt and Phlegmatick Humours in the Urine which causeth heat and pain in those parts For the first take it with a Liquoris stick For the last the Dose is from half an ounce to two ounces Syrupus Jvae arthriticae sive Chamaepityos Syrup of Chamepitys or Ground-Pine It is good against the Fits of the Mother procureth Womens Courses expelleth the dead Child let Women with Child forbear it It is good against the Strangury or stoppage of Urine openeth obstructions of the Liver and Spseen The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Jujubinus Syrup of Jujubes It halpeth Diseases of the Trachaea Arteria occasioned by sharp and dry Humours for it is cooling and moistening it helps Hoarsness Coughs Plurisies It is good against Ulcers of the Lungs or Bladder or any inflammation Take it with a Liquoris Stick or take half an ounce or an ounce as oft as you please Syrupus de Meconio vel Diacodium de Meconio compositus Syrup of Meconium or Diacodium and of Meconium compound It prevails against dry Coughs Ptisick hot and sharp gnawing Rheums and provokes sleep but beware of giving it to provoke sleep in the beginning of a Feaver or the body being costive The Dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Melissophylli Syrup of Bawm It is cordial strengtheneth the Heart Breast and Stomach chears the Spirits and resisteth Melancholy it helps them that languish strengtheneth Memory and is good in Feavers The Dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus de Mentha Syrup of Mint This Syrup strengtheneth the Stomach helpeth Digsstion stayes Vomiting and sowr Belechings The Dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus de Mucilaginibus Syrup of Musilages It is a fine Remedy against the Ptisick Bloudy Flux Stone in the Reins or Bladder or Ulcers there or sharp corroding Humours there or in any part of of the body and is of great virtue for those who have taken Physick too strong and corroding Yake one ounce or two sometimes it is lawful to give four or five Syrupus Myrtinus Syrup of Myrtles It is of a comforting and astringent Nature it helpeth all Fluxes and spitting of bloud and strengtheneth the retentive Faculty of the Stomach An Ounce or two is the Dose Syrupus Florum Nymphae simplex compositus Syrup of Water Lilly-flowers simple and compound It allayeth the heat of Choller cooleth the Head Heart Liver Reins Matrix and allayeth all hot Diseases and provokes sleep Syrupus de Papavere Erratico Syrup of Erratick Poppies This Syrup cools the bloud and may be safely given with moderation in Surfeits Feavers Frenzies and hot Agues The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus de Pilosella Syrup of Mouse-Ear It is an astringent and hearing Syrup good for the cure of a Rupture and necessary to be used by wounded people The Dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Florum Paeoniae vel de Paeonia compositus Syrup of Peony Flowers or the compound Syrup of Peony It is good against the Falling-Sickness Convulsion and such like infirmities The usual Dose is an Ounce Syrupus de Pomis Alterans Syrup of Apples It cools the Heart and Stomach helps palpitation breeds good bloud profitable in Hectick and other Feavers quencheth Thirst You may take an Ounce in the Morning Syrupus de Prasio Syrup of Hore-hound It cleanseth the Lungs from thick and putrified Flegm it is good against the Ptisick and Cough in antient people or such as are of cold Natures Take it with Liquoris stick Syrupus de quinque Radicibus Syrups of the five opening Roots It openeth the Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and more especially of the Reins it is good against the Stone if you mix it with Syrup of Maiden-hair it is of great vertue in preparing Phlegmatick and tough Humours and is profitable in the beginning of Feavers The Dose is from one Ounce to four Syrupus Raphani or Syrup of Rhadishes It breaks the stone of the Kidneys and cleanseth the part it provokes Urine and Womens Purgations and is profitable against the stone in the Bladder The Dose is from one Ounce to three Syrupas Regius vel Julepium Alexandrinum Julep of Alexandrina It is profitable in Summer time for such bodies which abound with Choller 's for it allayeth the heat and evacuateth it and is convenient to prepare it against Purging The Dose is from two Ounces to five Syrupus de Rosis siccis Or Syrup of Dryed Roses It strengtheneth and comforteth the Heart and Vital Spirits helps Fluxes and Corrosions and gnawing in the Guts strengtheneth the Stomach and stayes Vomiting Take it as Syrup of Quinces Syrupus Scabiosae Syrup of Scabius It freeth the Breast and Lungs of Phlegm and Crudities it easeth Stirches in the sides and is good against inward Imposthumes The Dose is from one Ounce to three Syrupus de Scolopendria
Sanders It helps hot infirmities of the Liver Stomach and other parts FINIS A Table explaining the Terms of Art and other Words which are not in the reach of Vulgar Capacities A. ABdomen the Belly or Paunch Absurdity Unreasonableness Abstergent Cleansing Actual heat Is a heat that can be felt with the hand as in the fire or things heated by it or in the body of one in a Feaver Actual cold Understand it as the former Accidentally By hap or chance Acrimony Sharpness Accident Is a symptome or something happening in a Disease Access Addition joyning to Acute Sharp violent a Disease that soon ends Adventitious Not natural springing from external causes Adstriction Binding together shutting up Adust Burned Adjacent Lying near Adverse Contrary to Adjunct causes of a Disease Are such qualities are joyned with it Adjuvant causes are such as assist the principal cause Aduata The outmost panicle of the Eye Affected Diseased troubled disordered Afflux Flowing to Agglutinative Joyning glewing souldering together Aliment All kind of Nourishment Alexipharmacal Medicines are such as resist the Plague and all venemous Diseases Albugo The White of the Eye Alteratives Are such Medicines as alter the quality of the Body and the Humours by heating or cooling moistning or drying Animal Faculties Are Imagination Judgment Memory the Senses Hearing Seeing Smelling Tasting Feeling Going Standing and all voluntary Motion Antecedent cause Is the cause afore-going of any Discase The antecedent cause of an Erysipelas or Cholerick Tumour is Choler abounding in the Body The conjunct cause is Choler gathered in the part Anodines Medicines which asswage pain Aneurism Is when the internal coat of an Artery is broken and the external coat swelled Aâ—tepileptical Medicines Are such as are good against the Falling-Sickness Anus The Fundament Analogically Proportionably conveniently equally Apophlegmatisms Medicines which draw Flegm from the Head Apozeme A Medicine made of the decoction of divers Hearbs altering and purging sometimes Syrups mixed therewith to prepare and gently to purge the Humours Apoplectick Medicines Are such as are to be administred in the Apoplexy Apply Lay on Aquae Acidulae The Spaw Waters they are of the nature of Tunbridge Epsome and Barnet Aranea Tunica The sixth Tunicle of the Eye which is like a Cobweb Articulate Voice Is Human Voice or Speech Aromatized Spiced perfumed sented Artery Is a Sinew or Vein wherein passeth the Spirit of Life with the Blood or Vital Blood Arteria Venosa Is an Artery or rather a Vein which from the right and left Region of the Lungs carries Blood and Air to the left Ventricle of the Heart Arteriosa is a Vein from the right Ventricle of the Heart administers blood to the right and left part of the Lungs Aspera Arteria The rough Artery or Wind-pipe Ascent Going up Astringents Medicines that bind together and straiten the pores and passages of the body Astriction Straitening or binding together Asthmatical Trouble for want of Breath Atracting Drawing together Attest Witness declare Atrophya When the body pines away for want of nonrishment Attenuating Making thin Augment Is when a Disease encreaseth and is not at the height Autumn Harvest or Fall of the Leaf Axiome An undoubted Truth B. BAlneum Mariae Is when a Still standeth in warm water Bolus Signifieth a Morsel it is a Medicine to be taken upon the point of a knife Bellilucanae Thermae Hot Bathes in France Bituminous Bathes come from a fat Clay of the nature of Brimstone Bronchia The Branches of the Wezand and Wind-pipe which spread themselves through the Lungs C. CAruncle is a piece of flesh growing upon any part Catarrh is a defluxion or distillation of Humours upon the Lungs or other parts from the Brain Cataphora Dead sleep Catalepsis Congelation or stiffness of the body Causticks are Medicines which burn the Skin and Flesh to make Issues Cautery actual is burning with a red hot iron Cataplasm A Pultiss Cavity Hollowness Carus Foulness Corruption Rottenness Caleine To burn to ashes in a Crucible Cacochymical Abounding with evil humours Cardialgia Pain at Heart Heart-griefs Cardiogmos Heart-burning Carminative are such medicines as break-Wind Catheter A hollow Instrument to open the passage of the Urine to draw Urine from the Bladder or to remove the Stone Cartilages are Gristles Cataract is a Disease of the Eye See the 11th Chap. Book 2. Callous The skin or flesh grown hard or unsensible Cerates are Medicines made of Wax softer then a Plaister and stiffer then an Ointment Cephalick Capital of or belonging to the Head Chalybeated Water Milk or Wine as when red hot Steel is quenched therein also when a tincture of Steel is drawn by Wine c. Chylus a certain white substance wrought by the digestive faculty of the Stomach and is carryed to the Liver Chirurgeon Surgeon Cicatrize To bring to a scar to skin a Wound or Ulcer Circumvolution Turned round Condense To make thick Congelation Freezing or joyning with cold Chorion The skin that covers the child in the Womb. Constipation Stopping up Collyries Eye-salves Contraction Drawing together Cornea a coat of the Eye like a horn Compression Thrusting together Contusion Bruising bruise Cold Seeds The greater are the Seeds of Citrul Cucumber Gourd Molone The other are the Seeds of Endive Succory Lettice Purslane Confirmed is when a Disease is perfect Couched is when any film is pressed down or taken out of the Eye with a Needle Continuity Joyning together Compact Firmly united Concoct is when the blood is separated and made pure or when Flegm or other Humours are separated from the blood or other mixtures Connatural infirmity is that which is born with a Man as to be born with one hand is a connatural Disease Convex Bunching out Conjunct cause See antecedent cause Constriction a drawing together Congestion a gathering together Conjoyned matter See conjunct cause Corroding Eating knawing biting Consolidation closing of a wound Commissura The Mold of the Head where the Skull is united Consistence a Body or Substance Complication of Diseases is a mixture of divers Diseases in the body Coalition Healing up of a wound Coincide That happeneth together Co-indicants are divers considerations in a sick body which call for one and the same Remedy Contra-indicants are such as disswade a Remedy Coction of Humours See concoct Commemorative Remembring what is past Contumacy Rebellious stubborn Corroborate To strengthen Gostiveness Is when the body is hard bound and seldom goeth to stool Columella is a loose spungie piece of flesh it sticks to the roof of the mouth just at the swallow Coagulate is to thicken any thing by heat Coronal Suture is the Seam where the two sides of the Skull close running through the Crown Crude Humours are such as are not well digested in the Stomach Critical Evacuation is when by bleeding at the Nose Mouth by Vomit c. the humours offending are sent forth by the strength of Nature Crystalline Humour is that part of the Eye which is like Crystal Chronical
swallow it by which it may be known as also by looking into the mouth You must make use of such Evacuations Revulsions Derivers Repellers as are prescribed in the ninth Chapter of a Catarrh And you must make use of Gargarisms which restrain and dry Take of Plantane Purslane and Shepheards purse of each one handful Cyprus nuts Pomegranate flowers and Red roses of each one ounce Galls and Allum of each one drachm boile them in a quart of Spring water to the consumption of half strain it out and add to it Bolearmenick a drachm Sirrup of Mulberys and Hony of Roses of each one ounce gargarise the mouth therewith Powders are better which have an astringent and drying property Take the Roots of Bistort flowerdeluce and Tormentil the Flowers of Pomegranates and Red Roses of each half an ounce Burnt Allum and long Pepper of each one scruple make them into fine powder and depressing the tongue blow it upon the Uvula If this doth not perfect the cure the superfluity must be cut off this operation must be performed very warily for if you cut too much it will be prejudicial to the speech if there be an inflammation in the Columella you must extenuate such accidents before you cut it lest a greater inflamation follow or a flux of blood if the Uvula be greater at the bottome then it is at the top then it is fitter and safer to cut If the Uvula be onely inflammed you must make use of such medicines as are prescribed for the cure of the inflammation of the tongue There are other distempers of the throat viz. the inflammation and Ulcers of the Tonsills or Almonds of the throat occasioned by a defluxion of crude Phlegmatick and Viscid humors mixed with blood or by excessive drinking of wine or strong liquors or by a greedy devouring of meat they who are thus afflicted swallow with much difficulty and pain and many times have a Feaver For the cure administer a cooling Clister open the Vein under the tongue and if blood abound open the Cephalick-Vein in the arme use all other convenient revulsions Then make a Cataplasme of Barly meal the Seed of Flax and Fenugreek and the Leaves of Mallows bruised with new Milke sufficient and apply it to the throat Then use astringent Gangarisms you have examples enough in the foregoing Chapters If the inflammation increaseth and the pain be sharp and vehement in the Evening then expect suppuration then you must surther it by gargarising with a decoction made of Hysop Figs and the Seeds of Marsh mallows or with aquamulla When it is perfectly rotten squeez it gently that the matter may run forth or else open it with a sharp instrument and let the Patient hold his head down that the matter may the better run out then wash it again with aquamulsa till it be healed For the cure of the Ulcers of the Tonsils you must observe the same rules prescribed for the cure of the Ulcers of the mouth CHAP. XXV Of the Quinzie ANgina or the Quinzie is a disease of the Jaws and Throat by which breathing and Swallowing are hindred withour defect of the breast and Lungs there are two sorts of Quinzyes Legitimate and Bastard Legitimate Quinzy is accompanied with a feaver and inflammation of the part which Galen and the antient Greekes have divided into four sorts the first they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the inflammation is in the inward proper Muscles of the Larynx the second they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the outward Muscles of the Larynx are in flammed the third they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the interiour muscles of the pharynx are inflamed the last they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the exerior muscels of the Jaws are inflamed a Bastard Angina or Quinzy cometh without a feaver The cause of the first is blood either pure or mixed with Choler flegm or melancholly flowing from the head to the jugular veins the cause of the Bastard Angina is caused by much flegme falling into the jugular veins and by its glewinesse obstructing the passage of the spirits or by a Tumor in the Vertebrae of the neck caused by a deflux of cold flegm removing the Vertebrae from its proper seat or causing a luxation thereof by loosening their Nerves and making them slippery between the joynts or lastly this may happen by some fall or stroak or some external cause The Legitimate Quinzy may be known by the difficult swallowing and breathing without fault of the breast or Lungs pain about the Jaws and threat red nesse heat and a feaver their sorts may be distinguished by their proper signes In the first there is great hinderance of respiration the patient is almost strangled cannot breathe except he open his mouth and hold his neck streight In the second there is lesse difficulty of breathing but greater of swallowing especially of drink which flyeth out at the nose In the third there is some red tumor about the Jaws less difiulty of brething then in the first but more then in the second The last doth hinder the breath but little or not at all the outward parts of the neck are red and painfull The bastard Angina may be known by the abundance of flegm and humors flowing to the mouth If it comes by Luxation the motion of the head and neck is hurt and a preternatural cavity appeareth in the neck I shall not need to spend time to shew the signes of every distinct humor predominating reason or other parts of this book will informe you A Legitimate Quinzy is an acute disease and very dangerous for want of freedome in respiration therefore the first is worst and the patient in most danger of strangling the other are more or lesse dangerous as they more or lesse hinder respiration If the matter fall upon the Lungs or the swelling vanish away without critical or artificial Evacuation it is very dangerous and for the most part deadly If the patient foame at the mouth it is a signe of death saith Hippocrates in his 43 Aphorism because it is a signe of streightnesse and violent heat about the heart which squeezeth the moisture out of the Lungs and sendeth it to the mouth in a foame Every Quinzy requireth a hasty and speedy cure for it sometimes killeth in one day read Fernelius Lib 5 pag. 284. Let the physitian open the Cephalick Vein and if the body be naturally plethorick and blood the cause of the disease draw as much as the Patients strength will bear and reiterate Phlebotomy according as necessity requireth give a Glister first or after or both or as often as need requireth you must speedily make use of other revulsions as cupping glasses with scarification to the shoulders vesicatories frictions and ligatures to the lower parts purges must be administred and if you find the case desperate you need not Question the time of the day Trallianus reporteth that he was forced to open a
too drying lest they thicken the humors and encrease the disease Then you must endeavor to unstuffe and cleanse the Lungs and wind pipe with the before named Lohock or of the like nature I could insert many which I omit for brevitie sake Quercetanus his Sirrup of Tobacco is very good the Tincture of dryed Tobacco as much as a pease held in the mouth and swallowed by degrees draweth abundance of flegm out of the stomack and Lungs or if you take Tobacco in a pipe it is good The juice of red Coleworts made up into a Sirrup and a little Spirit of Sulphur added to it may be taken an ounce in the Morning Or you may make Tablets of great virtue thus Take of the Roots of Elecampane and Licorish of each one ounce the Leaves of Colts foot Maiden haire Scabius and Woodbetony of each a drachm Lac Sulphuris two drams Saffron two scruples make them all into fine Powder and with the Mucilage of Gum Traganth made with Coltsfoot water make Tablets which let the Patient hold in his mouth often Platerus highly commendeth the preparation of a Cock thus Take an old Cock kill pull and draw him stuff him with these things following Fox Lungs fresh or prepared one ounce Raisons stoned and figs of each two ounces Elecampane one dram Hysop Savory Horchound Thyme Calaminth Peneroyal dryed of each one drachm The Seeds of Fenel and Annise of each one drachm Carthamas Seeds bruised and the Roots of Polypody of each half an ounce White Tartar one drachm Salt half an ounce the Yolks of two Eggs Fresh Butter half an ounce Cut and bruise them according to the precepts of Pharmacy and few them up into the Belly of the Cock boile him in a large Vessel and soe much water as will cover him and no more till his flesh come off from his bones strain it and add to every ten Pints one Pound of Hony that it may not quickly corrupt let the Asthmatick person take a Porrenger full every morning in which dissâ—lve of Manna and Cassia newly drawn of each half an ounce It will be the better if presently after he take a dram of Venus Turpetine with penids in form of a Bolus or otherwise The Patient may continue taking this Cock-broath a Moneth or longer CHAP. XXVII Of the Pleurisie and inflammation of the Lungs A Pleurisie is an inflammation of the Membrane Pleura and the internal intercostal muscles girding the sides within the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latines also Pleuritis The matter causing this disease for the most part is Cholerick blood which doth easily penetrate the Membrane but seeing other humors may cause it it is either Sanguineous Cholerick Phlegmatick or Melancholick but what ever the humor offending be Choler it hath for its Vehicle The signes of a Pleurisie according to Galen are five first a pricking pain of the side caused by a Cholerick humor in the Membrane extending it self either towards the throat or the Hypochondria Secondly a continual sharp Feaver which is either Symptomatical comming from some Sangnineous Tumor about the part or essential that is when a Feaver first invadeth the Patient and the boiling blood is expelled to those parts Thirdly difficulty of breathing because thâ— heart being inflamed as well as the rest greedily desireth refreshment and he parts inflamed cannot sufficiently distend themselves to draw in the cold aire Fourthly a hard Pulse like a Saw which is caused by the stretching out of the Membrane by which defect the Arteries are distended Fifthly and lastly an often and troublesome Cough because nature doth strive to expel those troublesome humors from the part affected also some of the matter sweateth from thence into the Lungs which causeth a Cough I might here add another signe viz. spitting of blood or bloody matter but because it happeneth not in all Pleurisies nor at all times I omit it You may partly judge of the humor peceant by the constitution of the Patient and season of the Year The particular signes are first of blood bloody spittle stretching and pricking pains full Veins especially about the Temples red Urine and the like Signes of Choler are yellow spittle a burning Feaver a hard and quick pulse the pain more acute and pricking restlesnesse bitternesse of the mouth and yellow Urine The signes that shew Phlegm are much sweet and frothy Spittle the Feaver remiss little thirst the pain heavy but not violent the pulse not so hard the Urine white and thick the Spittle black and tough the pain and Feaver moderate a dry Cough the tongue black and rough the belly bound the Urine red and darke are signes of Melancholly As to the prognostick I say This disease afflicting old men women with child Asthmatical persons or such as have had it often is dangerous If the Feaver be violent the breath fetched with dissiculty the Cough raiseth up no matter or the Spittle very bloody or very white and glutinating green tustick black much Spitting and yet the pain abates not the spitting cease and the pain continue all these are dangerous signes On the contrary plentiful vomitting Choler in the beginning of the disease blood or Choler mixed with the spittle c. are good signes The Cure of a Pleurisie consists in the revelling Deriving discussing digesting maturating and expectorating the peccant humors if the Feaver be essential seek its cure in its proper place Bleeding is a very natural remedy for a Pleurisie which you must moderate according to the constitution and strength of your Patient and the violent or remiss symptoms If your Patient spitt freely forbeare blood-letting lest his spitting be stayed and his life endangered Twice or thrice in a day or oftener as you see occasion administer cooling Juleps to restrain the heat of the boiling humors make a Iulep of Poppy water and Sirrup of Violets After bleeding prepare a fomentation Take of Mallows Violet leaves Chamomel Pellitory of the wall of each one handful the roots of Marsh mallows and Lillies of each four ounces the seeds of Flax Commin and Fenugreek of each one drachm boile them well and put them with the liquor into a hogs bladder and foment the side afterwards anoint it with this following Liniment Take of Fresh butter and Hens grease of each two ounces the Oyles of Chamomel Lillys Dill and sweet Almonds of each half an ounce The Chimical oyle of wax a scruple mix them and make a Liniment some slit a live-Hen and apply it some the Lungs or the paunch of a sheep hot others apply hot bread out of the Oven dipped in Butter Then you may make an Emulsion of blanched Almonds and the great cold seeds thus Take of Almonds blanched and steeped in Coltsfoot water one ounce the four great cold seeds of each half an ounce the seeds of Lettice and white Poppy of each one drachm beat them in a Marble morter pouring on by degrees the decoction of Barly Liquorish and Plantane a
by which heat flegme and other humors good and bad are drawn from the brain which the brain fetcheth from all the body hence comes its decay and extenuation The Patient spetteth thick rotten Flegm and doth sweat at night as soon as he sleepeth A Consumption confirmed is known by these signes the Patient spitteth matter it self the Feaver stronger the Cough more violent with more provocation and lesse Evacuation the Cough is attended with a hollow sounding he ineth and wanteth appetite for the mouth of the stomach is weakened by the Defluxion The belly is loose for the Flegm falling from the head weakeneth the stomach and Bowells and the retentive Faculty is destroyed The Patient breatheth difficult ly for the faculty is weak and the Bronchia stopped with Putrid Matter the haire falleth off the cheeks waxe Blue and his feet swell the nailes of the fingers are crooked because the flesh on the tops of the singers which held them up is decayed Let the Patient spit in a Bason of Faire Water if he spit Matter it sinketh if Flegm it swimmeth Thus have I briefly touched upon the causes and signes of a Consumption a word or two of the Prognostick If the Consumption hath not long continued and the Ulcer but newly begun it may be cured otherwise not for those things which dry the Ulcer doe hinder spitting and encrease the Feaver and maketh the body leaner Those things which are moist good against leannesse and Feavers doe make the Ulcer fouler Those that have narrow and streight breasts and their shoulder blades stick our like wings are inclinable to Consumptions to whom it is natural for want of natural heat If the Consumption came with an acute Disease or the sick fall into an acute Disease it killeth speedily If the Patient spitteth stinking matter or cannot spit at all his belly loose he is very near Death It would take up a great deal more room then I have to spare to set down the cure of a Consumption I mean when it is only begun and the Patient strong I shall only Epitomise it Let the sick drink Milke warm either Asses Goars or Red Cows but above all the Milke of a sound woman is the best Let him use a coole and moist diet and make use of such things which may correct the Blood make a decoction of China Sanders and Guajacum You must purge the humors offending but be sure you make use of such purges as work very gently as Manna Rhubarb Cassia Sirrup of Roses and the like To allay the Feaver it is lawful to let Blood if your Patient be not too lean You must divert the Defluxion have recourse to the ninth Chapter Then you must give such things which have a healing quality to cure the Ulcer of which the Milk spoken of before is very good and if Sugar of Roses be given with it it will be much more available Conserve of Roses is good if it astringe too much and the breath fail and the sick cannot spit make use of Expectorating medicines as the Sirrup of Hysop Coltsfoot or Lohocks the last Chapter will enforme you If hear be procured by the same means give coolers as the Sirrups of Violets and Jujubes the Musilage of Flealand Quinces and the cold seeds The Sirrup of the juice of Ground Ivy is much commended by Quercetan see the fourth Book of Sirrups This Sirrup hath admirable virtues Take of the juice of Grounding Veronica and Carduus Benedictus clarifyed of each eight ounces in which boile of all the sorts of Maidenhaire Scabious and Lettice of each half a handful very gently then dissolve in the Liquor streined a pound an half of White Sugar and boile it to the heighth of a Sirrup adde in the end of the extract of Juniper three drams of the juyce of Liquorish and the Extract of Carduus of each four scruples Let the Patient take a spoonful before every meal and as much when he goeth to bed Forrestus commendeth this powder following Take of White Poppy Seed ten drachms Starch Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each three drachms Purslane and Mallows Seed of each five drachms the four great Cold Seeds of each six drachms Quince Seeds the like quantity Spodium and juyce of Liquorish of each three drachms the Penids the weight of all the rest make it into fine powder and give two drachms in a morning with the Sirrups of Poppyes or Jujubes or you may give it in Barly Creame Almond Milk or in any other convenient liquor Or this Lohock is very good Take of Lohocke pulmone Vulpis and Sanum et Expertum of each one ounce Conserve of Roses Dimargariton Frigidum and Diapenidion of each half an ounce Manus Christi and Lac Sulphuris of each three drams with the Sirrup of Comfry make a Lohock of which let the Patient take the quantity of a Hazel-nut often and twice as much night and morning The oyle of Vitriol is good to dry the Ulcer if two or three drops be given in a morning with the juyce of Plantane or Rose Water and Sugar saith Claudinas The Balsom of Peru is not without its virtues for the healing of the Ulcers of the Lungs if a drop or two be made into a Pill with Sugar or the Powde of Liquorish and taken every morning so you may take the Balsome of Sulphur Fumigations may be made of Frakincense Mirrh Mastich Benjamin Yellow Sanders Amber Storax and the like and taken in the mouth or nose the roome sented therewith Or you may make a moist Fumigation of such hearbs which are freindly to the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot Hyssop Horehound Alehoofe of each two handfulls bruise them and put them in a Pipkin with a cover close Luted on with water sufficient put it into the Oven when the Bread is half Baked the Bread being Baked draw out the Pipkin and put a funnel into a hole which it must have at the top and draw the fumes into the mouth and put it out at the nose Many other medicines and precepts I might here prescribe which I must omitt for brevityes sake only remember that all the medicines against spitting of Blood are profitable for the Ulcer of the Lungs CHAP. XXXII Of the Palpitation of the heart The Palpitation of the heart is an immoderate and preternatural shaking of the part with a great diastole or vehement Systole which sometimes hath bin so great that the adjoyning ribs have bin displaced sometimes broken and sometimes an Artery hath bin much dilated so saith Fernelius lib. 5. Chap. 12 Pag 292. The Greeks call this Disease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latines Palpitato Cordis The causes of it may be referred to three heads the first is a molestation of the heart sometimes a troublesome vapor arising from cold and thick humors lodged near the heart especially the Pericardium and conveighed to the Ventricles of the heart or sent from the stomach Spleen womb or the like or caused by the
vapours cold and thick blood and other humours gathered about the Heart or the adjacent parts These signes shew a Syncope viz. a sudden failing of strength a slow pulse sometimes stopping a pale and blewish Face the body externally cold a cold Sweat especially on the Temples Neck and Breast The signes of the Causes for the most part are manifest as the sorts of Feavers and the external Causes but now named may be easily known A sharp Nose hollow Eyes the Temples fallen are signes of thin Humours gnawing of the Stomach pricking heat and great pain do shew that the Body is troubled with Choler Abundance of crude Humours is known by the enlarging of the Body swelling of the Breast the colour pale and the pulse smal unequal and obscure If swoonding come by consent from other parts the Signes of those parts affected will discover it They who often and violently faint without manifest Cause dy suddenly saith Hippocrates A Syncope which cometh from some evident Cause as Fear Sorrow or immoderate Evacuations is lesse dangerous then that which cometh from an internal Cause In respect of various Causes you must vary the Cure If it come from immoderate Evacuations you must endeavour to stop it with their proper Medicines prescribed in their several Chapters If from too violent purging give three graines of Laudanum or two of Opium If by too much sweating you must use Medicines which restrain Sweat If from suffocation of the Spirits call them back by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping If it come from Poyson taken give somthing to expell it after Vomiting with Oyl give Treacle if it burn in the guts give Milk fat Broth or cooling Cordials If thinness of the Humours cause it give things that are sweet and thickning If want of Food cause a Syncope make use of a restoring Diet and nourishing Broths To conclude From what Cause soever it come in the Fit lay your Patient upon his back throw cold water into his Face make him sneez put Aqua-vitae Caelestis or Imperiales into his Mouth call him loud stop his Nostrils wring his Fingers pull his Haire rub bind and Cup if need be CHAP. XXXIIII Of want of Appetite As there are divers actions of the Stomach so there are divers diseases hindring those actions See the fifth Chap. of the first Book And seeing that the attractive faculty is the first in order I shall begin with the want of Attraction or Appetite It is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Latine Inappetentia In English Want of Appetite or Loathing of Meat That we may rightly judge of the Causes of this Disease let us consider the Natural Causes of Appetite and Hunger by which we may the better discover the fault or hinderance The first cause of Hunger is emptinesse of the Stomach if there be no emptinesse there is no Attraction nor Appetite Want of emptinesse is when the parts are filled with plenty of crude Humours caused by Gluttony or Drunkenness want of Excercise or usual Evacuations Weakness of the Natural Heat or a Feaver when the Heat is busied to concoct the matter of the Disease or the like The Second cause of Appetite is the attraction of Nourishment to the Stomach sometimes this is depraved though the parts are empty when the Veins have left their strength by Sickness or immoderate Evacuations The third cause of Appetite is the Attraction of the Chilus from the Stomach to the Liver by the Meseraick Veins which cannot be performed if those Veins are obstructed the Chilus sent out by Siege and the parts dâ—…prived of their necessary Nourishment Fourthly the faculty of attracting an Appetite requireth a good disposition of the stomach brain and Nerves consequently what ever altereth their dispositions destroyeth apperite great heat and drieth dispersing the moist substance of the stomach doth cause a want of appetite The like doth cold which causeth a Stupefaction of the parts and extinguisheth the natural heat Flegmy and Slimy-humors gathered in the stomach by evil concoction or by a defluxion from the head the suppression of the Termes or Hemorrhoids smoothereth the natural heat and causeth want of attraction Distempers of the Brain and Nerves maketh a man insensible of the attracting in the stomach The signe of the first cause is known by high feeding repletion want of evacuation the body is full and the Veins Swoln and the like The second cause is evident by sicknesse or immoderate evacuations The third is known by obstruction of the Liver Spleen or Mesentery The fourth cause is thus known If there be a great heat in the stomach drynesse bitternesse of the congue and Jaws and a Feaver with heart-burning and the like All which signifie a hot distemper of the stomach if it flow from some other parts the signes of Inflammation of the Liver and other parts will demonstrate it A cold distemper and much flegm is known by coldnesse of the stomach great heavinesse and sharp belchings Prog want of appetite is dangerous for it is a digression from the natural estate Loathing of meat for want of natural heat is farr more dangerous then when it is caused by abundance of evil humors In children want of appetite is worse then in men because their natures require more nourishment In all diseases want of Appetite is an evill Symptome If a man recovering wanteth Appetite there is fear of a Relapse If want of Appetite come from a Disease of some other part I referr you thither for the Cure but if it be onely in the Stomach you must consider it as either Hot or Cold. If a hot Humour be the cause purge Choler gently and often if your Patient be easy to vomit give an easy Vomit Alter the Humours with cooling Sirrups and Juleps mixing therewith the Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur for all sharp things allay Choler and provoke an Appetite After Purging Marmalade of Quinces is good or take this following Opiate Take of Conserve of Wormwood and Sorrel of each one Ounce Conserve of Roses Succory and Buglosse of each halfe an Ounce Diamargariton frigidum and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one Drachm Troches of Spodium one Scruple with Sirrup of Lemmons make an Opiate of which let the Patient take the quantity of a Chesnut Morning Night and Noon To the Stomach apply a Rose Cake steeped in Vinegar Or anoint the Stomach outwardly with this Liniment Take of Oyle of Roses Martles and Quinces washed with Vinegar of Roses of eath two Ounces all the Sanders red Corall Coriander seed prepared and red Roses of each one Drachm the graines of Kermes and Spodium of each half a Drachm White Wax as much as is sufficient to make a Liniment and anoint the Stomach often therewith If a cold Distemper of the Stomach draw crude flegmatick and inelancholy Humours thither from other parts you must amend the Distempers of those parts with Medicines laid down in their proper Chapters Then you must evacuate the
Citrons These Powders are pood of Corall Pearls Ivory Harts-horn Diamargaritum frigidum Diatriasantalon Diarrhodon Abbatis Confectio Alchermes and de Hyacintho with these may the Ingenious make Electuaryes or other Compositions according to Art CHAP. LXXXVI Of the Hectick Feaver AN hectick Feaver occupies the solid parts of the Body as well as the Spirits it is an unnaturall Heat of which the Patient is scarce sensible This Feaver is either primary and begins of it self or secundary and followeth some other Feaver Some begin at the Heart and some at other parts as the Lungs Liver Spleen Kidneys Womb or other parts inflamed The causes of this Feaver are externall or internall Externall causes are all that may occasion any of the other Feavers The Internall Causes are burning and pestilentiall Feavers which do speedily consume the Moisture of the Heart or some lingring Feaver An Inflammation Ulcer Putrefaction of any of the inward parts may cause an hectick Heaver An hectick Feaver is known easily because it is continuall without encreasing or decreasing saving a little after Meat the Pulse is little frequent and quick the Arteryes are hotter then the other parts the Urine appeareth as of a healthy man but after long continuance there is an Oyl swims on the top and a Sediment like to Meal which signifieth the Wasting of the Body An hectick Feaver may be cured unlesse it be neglected till it come to the height that is when the Eyes are hollow dry with dry Excrements the Bones stick out and the Colour of the Face is gone the Skin is dry and the Midriff so contracted as if the Patient had no Guts then it is incurable If the hectick Feaver depend upon the Disease of any other part the Cure must be directed to that Discase and if it be joyned with any other Disease respect must be had to that Disease The Cure of the hectick consisteth more in a due observance of Diet then in Medicines His Diet must be cool moisten and soon nourish as Chicken Broths or Broth made of Hens Capons Veal Kid Mutton in which boil French Barly Lettice Endive Succory Sorrell Burrage Purslane and such like The Flesh of young Hares Pheasants and young Partridges are good Panados Water Gruell Barly cream Rice pottage with Almonds or the cold Seeds Boiled Meat is better then rosted and if the Patient eateth rosted Meat let Oranges and Lemmons be his Sauce For his Diet likewise may be prepared Gellyes made of Capons Knuckles of Veal and Mutton Calves Feet Sheeps Feet and such like adding Herbs or other Ingredients that are cooling moistning and cordiall New laid Egs boiled rear are good and of Fruit Apples are much commended especially Pippins because they breed cold Blood For his drink let him use Barly Water with cooling Sirrups Galen approveth of cold Water with which he saith he hath saved many from the Marasmos which is the Consumption of the radicall Moisture of the Body which commonly followeth this Disease Great care is to be used in the giving of cold Water to decayed people lest the heat of the Patient should be wholly extinguished Motion and much Stirring and Labour is not good yet a little Exercise before Meat may be allowed of But above all Excrcises let him beware of the Under-sheet Let his Sleep be moderated if he be costive provoke a Stool by a Suppository or gentle Clisters Purges are not to be allowed of because the Body hath more need of repairing then weakning yet if the Body be full of Excrements you may venture to give gentle Purgers as Cassia Manna c. Cooling and altering Juleps such as are prescribed in the Chapter before going the Patient make use of but let him beware of the too frequent use of them lest they diminish his Heat too much Such Epithems Unguents or Oyles mentioned in the aforegoing Chapter are good to temper the Heat of the Lover Lastly such Medicines mentioned in the former Chapter as strengthen Nature and revive the Spirits may be used and there is need enough thereof The worst Symptome that can attend this Disease is a Loosenesse if it so happen give Goats or Cows Milk wherein Steel hath been quenched or Rice boild in it or Sirrup of Quinces given with the Decoction of French Barly parched or such like CHAP. LXXXVII Of the Tertian Ague THis Disease is divided into an Exquisite and Bastard Tertian the exquisite is terminated in 12 hours but a bastard lasteth lenger if it exceed twenty four hours it is called Tertiana extensa a Tertian extended The Tertian Ague is Simple Double or Triple the Simple is that which cometh every other day the Double Tertian cometh every day and shall be distinguished from the Quotidian in its proper place and sometimes the Patient hath two Fits in one day The Triple Tertian is when the Patient hath three Fits in two dayes Choller and such things as engender it are the cause of this Disease viz. a hot and dry Distemper of the Spleen youthfull Age hot Air Watchings Cares Anger Fastings use of hot Meats and overmuch Exercise Those that have hot Livers that eat and drink liberally and such things as breed Crudityes Phlegm and melancholy Humours are subject to bastard Tertians by reason of the Mixture of Choller with the Crudityes The exquisite Tertian doth alwayes begin with shaking the Quotidian begins with a light Shivering or Coldnesse After the cold Fit followeth great Heat sharp biting and intolerable Thirst and sometimes all the Symptomes of a putrid Tertian Feaver In the bastard Tertian all the foregoing Signes appear but more remisse and more vehement then a Quotidian according as more or lesse Phlegm is mingled with the Choller this Disease cometh nearer to a Quotidian or exquisite Tertian A Legitimate Tertian seldom lasteth above seven dayes and is not dangerous unlesse some Malignity be joyned with it and the Patient be of a healthy constitution and temperate in eating and drinking judg the contrary if the Patient is otherwise qualifyed If the Patient's Lips break out with Scabs or if he fall into a Loosenesse these are good Signes for Nature is turning out the Enemy To work the Cure a cooling Diet must be appointed and withall moistning such as hath been prescribed in the Cure of continuall Feavers the same you must observe in the double Tertian But in the bastard and Single Tertian a fuller Diet is to be observed What ever the Patient â—ateth let him eat nothing before the Fit two or three hours that there may be a digesture but it is good if he go to Stool before the Fit to help the same give a Clister Clisters in an exquisite Tertian must be made of emollient and cooling Decoctions adding Cassia Catholicon Diaprunum lenitive and solutive c. In a bastard Tertian let the Decoction be emollient and cutting and dissolve in it Diaphaenicon Hony of Roses c. Purgatives ought to be the same for the exquisite Tertian as for the continuall
condition escape If black or blew Spots come forth among the Pox it shews great Malignity and the Patient in great danger If the Excrements and Urine be black or livid they signify abundance of Melancholy and great danger For the Cure keep the Patient in a warm room and if you tender his life keep out the cold Air lest the Humours be driven inward Keep the Cloaths close about him but let them not ly too heavy Let his drink be Barly-Water and boil therein Sorrell Roots and Harts-horn and Figs if the Feaver be not violent let his Sleep be moderate Physitians for the most part advise the Cure to begin with blood-letting that is if the Patient be full of Blood and nothing forbid it but it must be done before or just as they be coming forth Purges are absolutely forbidden but if the body be very costive move it with a Suppository but do not provoke it Then endeavour the expulsion of the Matter thus Take of the Roots of grass Asparagus and Fennell of each four Ounces Liquorish half an Ounce Wood Sorrell two Handfulls twenty Figs the cordiall Flowers one Pugill make a Decoction to a Pint towards the latter end put in a little Saffron take four Ounces Night and Morning Bezar and Gascoins powder is good to send out the Pox and for Children Diascordium is a familiar Medicine We must endeavour to preserve the internall parts if you fear that the Liver Spleen or Guts should suffer to the former Decoction add husked Lentils two drams Gum Lac and Traganth of each one Drachm You must defend the Eyes with the Water of Roses and Plantane and infuse Camphir Saffron and if the Inflammation be great infuse Tutty You must defend the Lungs with the Conserve of Roses and Violets the Sirrup of Violets Jujubees Myrtles dried Roses Poppyes and such like You must defend the Throat with a Gargle of Oxycrate or you may make it with Plantane Water and Sirrup of Mulberryes or Pomegranates To defend the Nose put up a Nodulus made of Vinegar Rose-Water and the Powder of Sanders and Camphir When the Pox are out full ripe and begin to break anoint them often with the Oyl of Almonds it will be a means to prevent their pitting and where there are likely to be holes anoint with the Oyl of the yolks of Egs. The End of the Second Book The Third Book HAving in the former Book been more voluminous then I expected I shall be briefer in this and treat more theorically then practically And leaving the Description and Cures of Wounds Tumors and Ulcers in particular to the ingenious and expert Chirurgion I shall run over their Causes Signes and Cures generally and as briefly as may be CHAP. I. Of a Green Wound A Wound is a breach of Continuity fresh and bloody without Putrefaction or Matter It is caused by a Sword Bullet Arrow or such like which the Chirurgion may easily perceive Wounds in the flesh are easily cured in the Nervs Veins and Arteryes they are not without danger In the instrumentall principall parts as the Heart Liver Lungs Brain Spleen Midriff Wezand Stomach Guts or Bladder are deadly A Feaver Perturbation Swooning Convulsion and such like Symptomes are dangerous The Cure must be directed first to the cause secondly to the Wound itself thirdly to the part affected lastly to the Symptomes attending The Cause or outward things viz. a Bullet Arrow or such like sticking in the Body must be drawn out by Instruments or by Medicine what concerns the first I shall not meddle with the medicinall part I shall breifly handle The Simples availeable and of force for the purpose aforesaid are The Roots of Reeds and Birthwort the Leavs of Dittany Crow-foot Missletoe Thapsia Sagapenum Ammoniacum Opopanax Quick Lime burnt Frogs Galbanum Bears grease the Load-stone Mustard-Seed and such like Of these and such like you may prepare compound Medicines This Unguent of Vesalus is much approved of Take of Rozin of the Pine tree two Ounces Galbanum three Ounces of the Stone called Calamites one Ounce the Gall of an Ox one Ounce and an half of Turpetine three Ounces New Wax two Ounces first strain out the Wax Rozin and Turpetine after mix the Golbanum Gall and the Powder of the Stone and make an Unguent This Plaister is likewise good for the same purpose Take of Leaven one pound Oyl half a pound the juyce of Knot-grasse and Dittany or for want of it the Powder of the dried Herbs of each three Ounces Turpetine one pound The Bird Lime made of Missletoe Berryes Ammoniacum Galbanum and dissolved in wine of each one Ounce of Wax four Ounces mix them upon the Fire and make a Plaister Having thus far proceded and removed all things unnaturall from the Wound then must the Chirurgion if the Solution be great artificially join the gaping sides of the Wound by Seam Taches or stiching cloths and such like which I omit and shall lay down a few Rules to prevent pain Inflammation or other untoward Accidents which may happen to the wounded part or whole Body Inflammation is restrained by taking away the Cause of the Fluxion Now the Humours flowing to the part are either drawn or sent They are drawn by reason of the Pain and Heat of the Member which doth attract the Humours to it self They are sent thus when the whole Body is full of evill Humours and every part disburtheneth it self upon the weaker The Inflammation of the Part must be allayed with such Medicines that quench Heat and the Body must be purged and such a Course of Diet used as may somewhat free the Body from such Humours which are offensive and burthensome to Nature But before I come to treat of the removeall of such Accidents and evill Symptoms I shall briefly shew you the manner of Cure which ought thus to be performed After closing of the Wound dresse it with some agglutinative Medicine made of such Simples viz. Frankincense Mastich Aloes Rolearmenick Sanguis Draconis Sarcocolla Terra Sigillata Balaustines Pomegranate Rinds Cypresse Nuts Galls Horse-tail Tobacco and such like You may make a Balm thus Take of Turpetine a pound of Galbanum Gum Elemy Gum of Ivy Frankincense Mastich Myrrh of each two Ounces Aloes Lignum Aloes Galanga Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon Cubebs of each one Ounce Aqua Vitae three Ounces infuse and distill them to a Balm After the Application of this or the like Balsome lay on this Plaister Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar two Ounces Gum Elemy three Ounces Rozin of the Pine tree five Ounces Turpentine of the Fir-tree three ounces Oyl of Roses two Ounces make a Plaister Open it once in twenty four hours till it be whole thus may you cure a simple Wound in the Flesh If the Wound be hollow you must put in Tents twist them not too hard but so that the Sanies may come forth If the Wound be deep without losse of Substance you must consider whether the
is from half an Ounce to an Ounce Aqua Gentianae Composita Gentian Water Compound It is a good Preservative against the Pestilence caseth pains in the Stomach and helpeth Digestion and drives out old Colds openeth Obstructions of the Liver easeth the pricking pains in the sides and is good against the yellow Jaundies it provokes the Terms and expelleth a dead Child or After-Birth The Dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Aqua Gilberti Gilberts Water This Water is a very great Cordial it strengtheneth the Heart and reviveth languishing Nature it may be taken from half a drachm to a drachm it is so costly that it is almost out of the reach of ordinary people Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae It is a very cooling Water and profitable in Feavers and to allay the heat of bloud it giveth rest by sleep You may take from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Theriacalis Or Treacle Water This Water is of excellent vertue against the Pestilence and other Feavers it is a very good counter-poyson and good for those that have been bit by any venemous Creature or such as have the French Pox for it driveth forth all vitulent Humours from the Heart and is a great Cordial The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Brioniae Composita Or Briony Water Compound This Water is Hysterical easeth the Fits of the Mother it expelleth the After-Birth and provoketh Womens Courses Let Women with Child forbear it Let those that have occasion take from half an ounce to an ounce in the Morning fasting Aqua Caponis Or Capon-Water It is good for such whose strength is decayed by Feavers or other Sicknesses it is an excellent Medicine for those that are in Consumptions or wasted by a Feaver Hectick or Marasmus Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Limacum Magistralis Or the Magistral Water of Snails It openeth Obstructions of the Lungs and purgeth them of Flegm and is very good for the Consumption of the Lungs Take half an ounce or an ounce Aqua Scordii composita Or Compound Water of Scordium This is a good Preservative against the Pestilence gives rest in Feavers and is friendly to the Stomach and Womb. Take it from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Imperialis and Aqua Mariae It strengtheneth and corroborateth the Heart and is therefore good for such as are subject to Faintings Swoonings and Palpitations of the Heart and is a Preservative against Apoplexies The Dose is from one drachm to three Aqua Mirabilis This is of admirable force and virtue to preserve the Body from the Apoplexy and all Diseases of the Nerves It is very good against the Palsie Convulsion and Cramp and is good for cold Stomachs From two drachms to half an ounce is the Dose Aqua Papaveris composita Or Poppy Water compound It is good against Surfets and Feavers thereâ—from arising it provoketh sleep cooleth the bloud and concocteth the Humours Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Cinnamomi Cinnamon Water It strengtheneth the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves It cleareth the sight is an Antidote against Poyson and biting by venemous creatures and is good against a stinking Breath and nauseousness of the Stomach It is very friendly to the Womb and is of an attenuating opening digesting and strengthning virtue From two drachms to six is the usual Dose in cold Diseases you may take more Aqua Caelestis This also prevaileth against Malignant and Pestilential Feavers restoreth such as are in Consumptions comforteth the Heart and reviveth drooping Spirits It is very hot in operation You must scarcely exceed half a drachm for the outmost Dose without the advise of a Physitian In Feavers mix it with cooling Juleps Aqua Melissae Bawm Water It restoreth Memory lost it maketh all the Senses acute it strengtheneth the Heart Brain and Stomach and for those who are troubled with cold Stomachs and Brain it is a Jewel It maketh the Heart glad the Tongue nimble in those who are subject to the Palsie in that Member the Teeth white and the Breath sweet The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Menthae Mint Water It cools and strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and Spleen helps Concoction breaketh Wind and stays Vomiting The Dose is from one drachm to three Ordinary Aqua Vitae Annise-seed water Usquebath and such like are commonly used and most people know they comfort a cold Stomach and is good against hurt of Digestion coming from a cold cause It breaks Wind and the like Tinctures are made of any Hearb or other Simple by first bruising them and putting to them as much Spirit of Wine as will cover them three or four fingers cork it up or seal it and let it digest in a Bath as long as you see good If you know the virtue of the Simples you cannot be ignorant of the Tincture To make Physical Wines is easie Take this one for an Example Take a handful of dryed Wormwood for every Gallon of Wine stop it in a Vessel close and let it remain in steep So you may prepare a Physical Wine of any Hearb Flower or Seed whatsoever either simple or compound Physical Vinegars are prepared thus Take of Red-Rose Buds gathered in a dry time the Whites being cut off and dryed in the shadow three or four days one pound Vinegar eight Sextaries set them in the Sun fourty days then strain out the Roses and repeat the infusion as often as you please Thus may you prepare Physical-Vinegars of any Flower As the Hot Waters and Spirits are best for cold Bodies and hot Diseases so on the contrary are Vinegars best in hot Diseases and may be externally used These I thought good to add the Treatise of Distilled Waters For the preparation of Distilled Waters of this nature read Quercetanus his Dispensatory one of which I shall here insert having prescribed it in the afore going Books which is his Distilled Water against spitting of bloud Take of the Roots of Bistort Comphry and Tormentil of each one ounce the Leaves of Knotgross Yarrow Speedwel Winter Green Sanicle Shepherds Purse with its Root of each one handful of the tops of the Blackberry Bush and Mastick Tree of each half a handful the Seeds of Sumach Myrrles Plantane Barberies and white Poppy of each 6 drachms the Flowers of Water-Lillies Gourds Quinces and Red Roses of each two Pugils let them be mixed and beaten then macerated in Balneo for the space of four days in the Juyces following viz. Plantane Purslane Sorrel and Agrimony of each two pound Let them be afterwards strongly pressed out then add of the Juyce of Acatia Hypocistis of each two Ounces Terra Sigillata and Bolearmenick of each half an ounce Electuarium Diatraganthum frigidum of each two drachms Macerate them for four dayes and distil it in Ashes till it be dry Let them who are troubled with spitting of bloud or any inward Wound or Bruise take
two or three Choclearies either by it self or mixed with Syrup of Myrtles dryed Roses or Syrup of Comphry and if the Flux of Bloud be very violent give a scruple of the Tincture of Corral with it CHAP. II. Of Syrups OF syrups there are three sorts syrrups made by infusion juyce and decoction syrrups made by infusion are made of flowers and such flowers as soon loose both colour and strength by boyling as Violets Roses Clove-gilly-flowers Peach-flowers c. and they are thus made Having picked your flowers to every pound add three pints of water made boyling hot put them into a Pewter-pot with a close cover and keep it hot twelve hours If you would make your syrrup very strong put in more fresh flowers as often as you please having strained it out put the liquor into a Pewter-Bason and to every pint add two pound of fine Sugar put it upon a Chaffin-dish of Coales and melt it stirring and scumming it till the Sugar be perfectly melted without boyling Secondly to make a syrrup of the juyce of an hearb you must make choice of such hearbs as are full of juyce then beat it in a stone Morter presse out the juyce put it over the fire and clarifie it that is scum it as long as any scum arise then boyle it till a quarter of it be consumed to a pint of this add a pound of Sugar boyling it to a syrrup and scumming of it You may know when it is enough if you coole a little in a spoon After this manner you may make syrrup of Wormwood simple of Betony Buglosse Borrage Chamomell Carduus Endive Succory Strawberryes Funtitory ground Jvy St. Johns-wort Mercury Mous-care Plantane Purslane Apples Raspberies Sage Scabius Scordium Housleek Colts-foot and such-like and when you have done so and would know what they are good for see the virtue of the Simples Thirdly Syrrups made by decoction for the most part are compounds though you may make Syrrups of Simples by decoction the operation is thus Take of what hearb root flower or seed you please and bruise it a little if you make a Syrrup of roots or wherein there are many roots let the roots macerate in the water twenty four houres then add the hearbs and the rest and boyle it till half the water he consumed then let it stand and when it is almost cold strain it through an hypoeras-bag without pressing to every pint of the decoction add one pound of Sugar and boyle it till it comes to the thicknesse of a Syrrup or new hony After this manner the most part of the Syrrups following are made except they be made of flowers or juyces Take this for an example Take of common Worm-wood meanly dry half a pound red Roses two ounces Indian spicknard three drachms old White-wine and juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half steep them a whole day in an Earthen Vessell then boyle them gently strain it and adding two pound of Sugar boyle it into a Syrrup according to art This Syrup is very good for cold and Flegmatick Stomachs it helpeth concoction strengtheneth the Stomach and Liver provokes an Appetite breaks wind and is good against the Jaundise the dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus Acetousus simplex vel compositus Syrup of Vinegar simple or compound These Syrups cut Flegme and tough Humors they coole the body quench thirst and ease any stuffing in the Stomach and are good to prepare the body for a Vomit especially the first if you use it so take from one ounce to two or three in other cases take it with a Liquorish stick Syrupus de Agno Casto Or Syrup of Agnus Castus I conceive by its composition it was intended to prevent immoderate Letchery and nocturnall pollutions for without doubt it dryeth and cooleth the naturall seed thereby restraining venereall thoughts for my part I can say nothing of it by experience Syrupus de althaea Syrup of Marsh mallows This is a fine cooling opening slippery syrup good against the paines of the Stone Gravell or Chollick You may give an ounce or two it is so safe and harmlesse you cannot err in the giving of it Syrupus de Ammoniaco Syrup of Ammoniacum It opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and cooles the parts and helps all diseases arising from their Obstructions and heat as Scabs Itch Leprosie and such like You may take an ounce or more if you see occasion Syrupus de Artemisia Syrup of Mugwort It helps the coldnesse wind paines and all other diseases of the Womb it strengthens the Nerves corrects the blood opens the pores and provokes the Termes You may take an ounce at a time or from half an ounce to two Syrupus de Betonica compositus The compound Syrup of Betony It is good against diseases in the Head and Stomach proceeding of Cold and Wind Vertigoes and Madnesse it concocteth Melancholly and provokes the Termes The dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Bizantius Simple and compound It strengtheneth and freeth the Liver from Obstructions and diseases thence proceeding cures the Yellow-Jaundise cuts tough Flegm and is good against the Rickets Take it with a Liquorish stick or from half an ounce to two Syrupus Botryos Syrup of Oake of Jerusalem This Syrup is commended in the Asthma and cold diseases of the breast Coughs and shortnesse of breath Take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus Capillorum Veneris Syrup of Maidenhaire This strengthens the Stomach and Lungs and helps their infirmities it also cleanseth the Reins of Gravel for the first take it with a Liquoris stick for the last give an ounce or two Syrupus Cardiacus a Cordial Syrup It comforts the Heart and revives drooping Spirits it is good for people in Consumptions it is of an opening quality and expels those Vapours which offend the Brain Take it from one ounce to three Syrupus infusionis Caryophillorum Syrup of Clove Gilly-flowers This Syrup is good in any Feaver Pestilential or not it strengtheneth the Heart Liver and Stomach and refresheth the Vital Parts The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce and an half It is so harmless you cannot err in the taking of it Syrupus de Cinnamomo Syrup of Cinamon It strengtheneth the whole Body and helpeth Digestion and comforteth the Stomach and Womb and cheareth the Spirits Take one ounce in a Cordial Syrupus aceto sitatis Citriorum Syrup of the Juyce of Citrons This Syrup hath a refrigerating cutting attenuating penetrating faculty it allays Choller and tempers the heat of the Heart cools the bloud and is therefore good against Feavers Pestilential or not small Pox or Measils it resisteth Poyson The Dose is from one ounce to four Syrupus corticum citriorum Syrup of Citron Pills It is of a most grateful savour and most pleasant odour it strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and Heart amends the heat of them and resisteth Palpitations Faintings Swoonings it strengtheneth the Vitals is profitable in
Dialacca It strengthneth the Stomach and Liver and opens Obstructions mollifieth schirrhous Tumors and is of great virtue to remove the effects thereof viz. Cachexia and the Dropsie It provokes Urine and breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder The dose is from half a drachm to four scruples Pulvis Cardiacus Magistralis This Powder hath not its name for nothing it is a very great Cordial and strengthneth the Heart and Vitals The dose is from one grain to ten the Gentry may use it often Diamargariton Frigidum It is a great Cordial good against Syncopes Asthmahs Coughs and Distillations of sharp Humors Consumptions and Hectick Feavers Half a drachm is an indifferent dose if it be not too dear Diambra It effectually strengthneth all the bowels and inward â—arts weakned by cold it cheareth the Spirits and gives the Patient a good colour it profiteth the Womb and is friendly to antient men and women The dose from half a drachm to two drachms Diamoshu dulce Amarum It is good against cold afflictions of the Brain and all Diseases thence arising against Melancholly and all Melancholly Diseases The last besides the former hath a purging Faculty and cleanseth the Stomacle The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Species Dianthus It maketh a light heart a chearful mind a good Stomach and a sound body The dose is the same with the former Diapenidion It prevaileth against all Diseases of the Breast Cough Hoarseness loss of Voice Take half a drachm or mix it with some Pectoral Syrup Diarrhodon Abbatis It strengthneth the Liver Heart Stomach c. and quencheth unnatural heat in any of those parts The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Diaspoliticum It is good to discuss wind in the Stomach and removes the Diseases of the part and helps digesture The dose is from one drachm to two Diatraganthum Frigidum It cures all Diseases of the Breast and Lungs which proceed from a hot and dry cause or from putrefaction in the parts for the most part it is mixed with other Medicines Or it may be made into an Electuary with the Syrup of Violets and you may take a drachm Diatrion Piperion This Pouder discusseth Wind from the Stomach and Bowels it heats the Stomach helps Digestion and frees it of Flegm The dose is from a scruple to half a drachm Diatrion Santelion It is a very good Medicine to correct the hot Distemper of the Liver and is good against a Diarrhaea caused by Cholerick Humours it helps Obstructions of the Liver also The dose is from four scruples to two drachms Pulvis Haly. It is a good Medicine against Peripneumonia or Inflammation of the Lungs Phrisicks and Pleurisies Take half a drachm of the Powder Pulvis Laetificans It revives the Heart and chears the Spirits helps digestion and preserves a good Colour The dose is from one scruple to four Or of it you may make a Sacculus to be applyed to the Region of the Heart Stomach and Head against Palpitation and cold Diseases of the Head and Stomach Pulvis Bezoardicus Magistralis A Bezoartick Powder Magisterial It is a great Cordial and very good in Feavers and in all Diseases where the Vitals suffer The dose is from a grain to twelve If you take too much your purse will soon complain Species confectionis Liberantis It is a good preservative in Pestilential Times and a good Medicine in Pestilential Feavers The dose is from half a drachm to two drachms It is a good Cordial for the Gentry Pulvis Saxonicus It is a great preservative against Poyson and the Pestilence and powerfully expels all poyson and malignant humours out of the body Take half a drachm or a drachm Pulvis Antilyssus This Powder is good against the biting of a Mad-Dog or any other venemous Creature for it fortifyeth the heart against poyson The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Rosatae Novellae It helpeth hot and dry Stomachs and is good against distempers of the Heart Liver c. or of any other part caused by heat and dryeth it strengthneth the Vital Spirits and provokes Sweat The dose is the same with the former Pulvis Thuraloes It is good to stanch bloud in any Wound If you mix it with the White of an Egg and with the Wool of an Hare dipped in it apply it to the bleeding part Species Electuarii de gemmis frigidi It strengtheneth the Heart and Vital Spirits and relieveth languishing Nature Half a drachm is the utmost dose and that too much for a poor man Pulvis contra casum A Powder for those that are bruised by a Fall It is good to strengthen the internal parts of one bruised by Fall or otherwise The dose is from two drachms to three sweat after it Diacymini It is good to discuss Wind warms the Stomach and easeth the pains of the Chollick and helps digestion The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Diagalanga It discusseth Wind and cold Humours in the Stomach it corrects the cold and moist distemper of the Liver and Brain and doth somewhat provoke Urine The dose is from half a drachm to two Species Electuarii Diamargariton calidi It is a great Cordial heats the Stomach and the Womb and removeth cold Distempers thereof The dose is half a drachm Lithontribon It heats the Stomach and helpeth want of Digestion it is good against the Hiack Passion and Cholick breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder Strangury and Dysury The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Pleres Arconicon It is good in Syncopes and Palpitations and cherisheth those who have been weekned by Sicknesses it strengthneth Memory and quickneth the Senses good against the Falling-Sickness and cold afflictions of the Lungs and is exceeding good for sad and melancholly people The dose is the same Pulvis contra Pestem A Powder against the Pestilence The little tells you the virtue of it besides it chears the Heart and Vital Spirits The dose is the same Pulvis contra Vermes A Powder against the Worms And is a good one for the purpose The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Purging Powders Pulvis Hermodactylorum compositus Powder of Hermodactyls compound It purgeth Choller Flegm and Melancholy but with such violence that it is the safest course not to meddle with it Or let it be first corrected by an able Brain Pulvis Senae compositus major The Powder of Sene the greater composition some call it Holland Powder or Ralph Holland's Powder it discusseth Wind and helps the Chollick opens the Obstructions of the Reins and Bowels The Dose is from one drachm to two Pulvis Senae compositus minor Or the Powder of Sene the lesser composition It purgeth Melancholy from the head and other parts The dose is a drachm Diasenae Or Pulvis Sanctus The Holy Powder It purgeth the same humour but is very violent The dose is the same for strong bodies Diaturbith cum sine
Rhabarbaro Diaturbith with or without Rhubarb The first purgeth Flegm and Choler the other Flegm onely but ought neither of them to be taken unless corrected by an able Brain and administred by a skilful and careful hand CHAP. IX Of Electuaries ELectuaries are easily made of any of the aforegoing Powders or having your Ingredients ready beat them and sift them into fine Powder and with three times the weight of Honey or Syrup suitable to your Ingreads make an Electuary As for Example Antidotus Analeptica Take of Red-Roses and Liquoris of each two drachms and five grains Gum-Arabick and Traga-Canth of each two drachms and two scruples Sanders White and Red of each four scruples the Juyce of Liquoris White Starch the Seeds of White Poppies Purslane Lettice and Endive of each three drachms the four greater cold Seeds husked the Seeds of Quinces Mallows Cotton Violets Pine-Nuts Sistick Nuts sweet Almonds Pulp of Sebestens of each two drachms Cloves Spodium Cinamon of each one drachm Saffron five grains Penies half an ounce Make them into fine Powder and with three times their weight of Syrup of Violets make an Electuary It is good in Consumptions and Hectick Feavers it quencheth Thirst and restoreth radical Moisture You may take a drachm as often as you please Confectio Alkermes This is used in Palpitations Syncopes and Diseases of the Heart it resisteth the Pestilence and Poyson and relieveth languishing Nature The dose is from one drachm to two Electuarium è Sassaphras Or Electuary of Sassaphras It opens obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Kidneys and is good against cold Rheums and Defluxions from the Head to the Lungs Teeth Eyes and helps Diseases in those parts occasioned by such Defluxions it provoketh the Terms dryes up the superfluous moisture of the Womb and all raw thin Humours and breaks Wind. The dose is half a drachm in the morning Electuarium de baccis Lauri Electuary of Bay-Berries It is good against the Chollick and all Diseases caused by Wind or Cold and it cuts and attenuates glassie Flegm The dose is from one drachm to three Diacapparis Or a Consection of Capers It is good against Diseases of the Spleen The dose is the same with the former Diacinnamomum A Composition of Cinamon It strengthneth the inward parts and heats the Scomach helps Concoction provokes the Terms and strengthneth the Womb and is good for people that are subject to Flegm and Wind. The dose is from one ounce to two Diacoralliou A Composition of Coral It is cordial and binding and cooling it strengthneth such as are in Consumptions cools in Feavers and stops Fluxes and is good for those that are in a Consumption with a Looseness it stops the Terms and white Flux The dose is a drachm in the morning If you have a Looseness the dose is from one to three and it may be taken often Diacorum This Electuary heats the Brain strengthneth the Nerves and quickneth the Senses is good against the Head-ache Convulsions Falling-Sickness Catarrhs and provokes Lust The dose is half a drachm Diacydonium Simplex compositum A Confection of Quinces Simple or Compound They comfort the Stomach and are good for those that are subject to Vomiting for it strengthneth the Stomach and moderates Womens Fluxes The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm before and after meat Confectio de Hyacintho It is a great Cordial and cooling and is of great virtue in all Feavers putrid malignant and pestilential The dose is from two scruples to half a drachm Antidotum Haemagogum It provokes Urine the Terms and After-Birth helps the Strangury and breaks the Stone opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen The dose is from one drachm to two Diasatyrion This was composed to provoke Lusts and to whet on those who are impotent in the acts of Venus and is good against weakness of the Reins and Bladder The dose is from two drachms to three Electuarium Diaspermaton It provokes Urine and breaks the Stone The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Micleta It is profitable in long lasting Diarrhaeas and Bloudy Fluxes The dose is from one scruple to four Electuarium Pectorale It strengthneth the Stomach and Lungs and removes the Vices thereof Take it with a Liquoris stick Theriata Diatessarion It frees the Stomach of pain Wind and want of digesture resisteth the Pestilence and Poyson it helps stopping of the Liver Dropsie Jaundise c. and cold infirmities of the Brain as Convulsions Falling-sickness Palsies c. The dose is from half a drachm to two Diascordium It strengthneth the Heart provoketh Sweat procures sleep expels the malignity of the Pestilence hasteneth Womens Labour provoketh the Terms is good for Women lying in and stops Fluxes The dose is from one drachm to three To Children give less Methridatum Or Methridate It is good against Poyson and cold humours in the Body and Diseases thence coming loss of Senses by cold helps the Chollick and expels Wind provokes an Appetite It helps Ulcers in the Bladder saith Galen provokes Urine expels the dead Child and helps such Women as cannot conceive by reason of the coldness and slipperyness of their Wombs The dose is from half a drachm to two Phylonium persicum Magistrale Romanum The first stops any Flux Diarrhaea Dysentery or Womens Monethly Terms when other means fail which the second doth likewise easeth pain and procures rest in Feavers Romanum easeth the vehemency of the pain of the Cholick Stone Strangury and such like and provokes sleep The dose is from a scruple to four Take it not without advice from an able Brain Electuarium de Ovo An Electuary of Eggs. It is a good Remedy in Pestilential Feavers and a good preservative The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Theriaca Andromachi Venice Treacle It resisteth poyson and preserveth the heart from venome of such as have been bitten by any venemous Creatures It is good against inveterate Head-aches Vertigoes c. Deafness dulness of sight loss of voice Asthmas old Coughs spitting of Bloud difficulty of Breathing coldness of the Stomach and Wind Chollick and sliack Passion hardness of the Spleen Jaundise Stone in the Reins and Bladder provokes Urine the Terms Birth and After-Birth It is good against Ulcers in the Bladder Dropsies Leprosies Feavers of all sorts pains in the Joynts it helps both Body and Mind and is good against Melancholy Thoughts and vain Fears The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm sweat upon it Theriaca Londinensis London Treacle It strengthneth the Heart is good against the Pestilence and resisteth poyson and infection strengthens cold Stomachs and helps digestion You may take two drachms in the morning Diacrocuma It is excellent against cold distempers of the Liver Stomach Reins Spleen Bladder and Matrix and the Symptomes arising from those distempers viz. The Dropsie and Chachexia The dose is from half a drachm to four scruples Athanasia Methridatis It prevails against poyson
and biting of venemous Creatures helps cold Stomachs and such whose meat putrifies therein stays vomiting of Bloud and old Cough and is good against all cold Diseases of the Liver Spleen Bladder Reins and Matrix The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Electuarium è Scoria serri It strengthneth openeth and gently purgeth the Stomach and Spleen and caseth the body of Melancholy and Splenetick Diseases The dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Confectio Humain It strengthneth the Heart and Brain quickneth the Senses and is a good preservative against the Pestilence The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Diaircos Salominis It helps all cold infirmities of the Lungs Take it with a Liquoris Stick Magnum Antidotum Mathioli c. Mathiolus his great Antidote against Poyson and the Pestilence It is very good for that purpose See his Bezoar Water for particular virtues The dose is from a scruple to four Requies Mitigates the heat in Feavers and gives rest Give not above half a scruple at first it is scarcely safe inwardly to be given apply it ontwardly to the Temples and Wrists Electuarium Reginae Coloniens It is good against the Stone and Wind-Chollick The dose is a drachm Triphera the Greater Stops the immoderate Flux of the Terms and Hemorrhoids frees the body of crude humours strengthneth the Bladder rectifies distempers of the Spleen expels Melancholy and makes a good colour The dose is from a drachm to half an ounce Purging Electuaries Benedicta Laxativa It powerfully purgeth Flegmatick Humours from the Joynts it purgeth the Reins and Bladder The dose is from one drachm to a drachm and an half Caryo costinum It is a good Purge for wounded persons whose Wounds are inflamed it also purgeth hot Rheums Correct it or let it alone Three drachms or four may be given in a Clister Cassia extracta pro Clysteribus Cassia extracted for Clysters The dose is an ounce two or three given in Clysters it purgeth the Reins and cools them it easeth the pains caused by the Stone and is good to prevent the growing thereof Electuarium amarum majus minus the Greater and Lesser bitter Electuary They both purge Choller the first Flegm and the second Melancholy The dose of the first is from half an ounce to an ounce Of the other from one ounce to two Diacassia with Manna This is a gallant Purge for hot bodies for it gently looseneth and cooleth much and therefore is good in Feavers and in all Diseases wherein Choler doth abound The dose is an ounce or more as you find occasion Casia extracta sine cumfoliis Senae Cassia extracted without and with the Leaves of Sena They are both gentle Purges they cleanse and cool the Reins they cleanse the Bowels of Choller and Melancholy and is good in Feavers The dose of the first is an ounce and an half Of the other one ounce Diacarthamum It purgeth Flegm and yellow Choller effectually The dose is from one drachm to six Diaphaenicon It purgeth both Flegm and Choller it is good in Feavers and easeth the Chollick and pains of the Stone and freeth the Bowels of raw humours The dose is from two drachms to five Diaprunum Lenitive It cools and looseneth the body gently it is good in all kind of Feavers and hot Agues and is much commended in the Feaver Hectick The dose is an ounce to bedward Diaprunum Solutive Is the best purger of Choller and amendeth the hot distemper of the Liver The dose is from three drachms to six Catholicon It purgeth every humour abounding especially Choller It profiteth in Feavers it mollifieth and altereth the Humours and strengthneth the body it helps infirmities of the Liver and Spleen Gouts of all sorts Head-aches Tertian Quartan and Quotidian Agues The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Take it going to bed or in Clysters Electuarium de Citro Solutivum the Solutive Electuary of Citrons It purgeth Choller Flegm and Melancholy and carryeth away the rotten humours in the declination of a Feaver The dose is half an ounce Electuarium Elescoph It purgeth Choller Flegm and Wind from all parts of the body helps pains of the joynts and sides the Chollick it cleanseth the Reins and Bladder Confectio Hamech It purgeth Melancholy and yellow Choller it is good against Melancholy and Madness Scabs Itch c. The dose is from three drachms to an ounce Electuarium Lenitivum the Lenitive Electuary It is a fine purge fit for Feaverish persons and such as have Pleurisies it gently openeth and mollifieth the Bowels and purgeth without trouble or hurt Melancholy Flegm and Choler The dose is from an ounce to two Electuarium passulatum It cleanseth the Reins and Bladder and is a good purge for those that are troubled with Gravel or the Stone it purgeth Choler and Melancholy The dose is the same with the former Electuarium è succo Rosarum An Electuary of the Juyce of Roses It purgeth Choller and the dose is from two drachms to an ounce and an half Hierapicra Simplex It is the most excellent Medicine to purge vitious Humours which stick to the Tunicles of the Stomach The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce In Clysters from six drachms to an ounce and an half Hiera cum Agarico Hiera with Agarick The Virtues are the same with the former purgeth Flegm more effectually The dose is the same For the further knowledge of the Virtues see the Pill of Hiera with Agarick Hiera Logadii It purgeth effectually those Humours which cause the Palsie Apoplexy and such like Diseases The dose is the same give it onely to strong bodies Hiera Diacolocynthidos It easeth inveterate Head-aches Falling-sicknesses and such like Evils for it purgeth gross Humours from the farthest parts of the body The dose is from three drachms to six Triphera Solutive It purgeth Choller and Flegm Some account it profitable in the declination of Feavers and in hot distempers of the Stomach and Liver The dose is from two drachms to half an ounce CHAP. X. Of Oyles AS there are of other Medicines so there are of Oyls both simple and compound Simple Oyls are either by expression or infusion and decoction Oyls by Expression are drawn out of Fruits or Seeds as out of sweet and bitter Almonds the Seed of Rope and Flax by first beating them in a Stone-Morter and pressing out the Oyl in a Press Simple Oyls by infusion and decoction are thus made Take the Hearbs or Flowers of which you would make your Oyl beat them to two or three handfuls pour on a pint of oyl put them in an Earthen pot and cover it with a paper tyed about the top and set it in the Sun a fortnight then heat it by the fire and press out the hearbs then put in as many hearbs as you did at first do as before as often as you see good to make your Oyl strong enough then boyl it gently till the