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A93373	A compleat practice of physick. Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.	Smith, John, doctor in Physic.	1656 (1656)	Wing S4113; Thomason E1630_1; ESTC R208974	132,097	385

from the dry hearb Gall of Patridge with equal part of oyl of Amber Water of an Ash with its salt is specifical Querc Crato Ep. 59. Carduus benedictus four handfuls infuse them twice in two pound of Carduus water distil it after 24 hours infusion he puts a clout into the Ear dipped in that water Water of bread It is seldom cured after six Moneths An old woman put one or two grains of musk into the Ear succesfully with cotten Another used the oyl of young mice steeped newly littred miraculously Juyce of I●y clarified dropt in with wine Juyce of Onions with some convenient liquor Oyls of bitter Almonds Marjoram of yolks of Eggs of Hempseed of Turpentine Wax Juniper Mustard-seed Guaicum juyce of Tobacco Let all be warm put in no new till the former be well purged to which end serveth coughing sneezing three or four drops of the medicament is enough to drop in at once let the sick ly on the sound Ear. Stop the Ears with cotton Avoid unctuous things as much as is possible ECSTASIS is either true as when the mind is drawn away to contemplate heavenly things or Demoniacal as the dancing of witches to which belongeth the Ecstasis of Cardan and those of Lapland Or Natural whereby men think their dreams were so indeed and that they saw quires of Angels ELIPHANTIASIS of the Greeks or a Leprosy of the Arabians is a Cancer of the whole Body or a disease in augmented magnitude from a hot dry distemper and solution of continuity The cause is black malignant Choler the remote is Conception whilst the Terms flow a hot and dry distemper of the Liver and the Spleen Signs Diagnostick A Nose wan red Cheeks cleaving of the Nails a shrill voice stupidnesse in the Legs and the whole Body that they can scarse feel the prick of a needle If some grains of salt be cast on the blood of a Leprous person the salt dissolveth if the blood swim on clear water he is infected If the Ashes of burnt Lead swim on his water he is Leprous Lemn Prognostick It is not cured but at first The Cure Diet is prescribed opening of a Vein purging Cordials Baths after bathing give the Ashes of a Kites Head Feet and Bowels burnt in a pot but the flesh must be eaten for three days together which some hold for a secret That the use of Vipers will not suffice Palmarius observed Fernelius Erastus That it is sufficient and whereby Gisb. Horst said He cured himself and many others See Vidius Schenkius Palmarius his greatest hopes lieth in Quicksilver ELEPHANTIASIS of the Arabians is a swelling of the Foot wan and looks like an Elephants Foot It is cured at the beginning but old cannot be cured Senn. often observed that the Hands also will swell so that pressed by ones Fingers they leave pits like Oedema It is cured as before EMPYEMA is a collection of Matter in the hollow of the Brest The Cause It followeth chiefly the inflammation of the Tonsils or the Pleura of the Lungs c. Signs diagnostick If such an Inflammation went before which could not be cured there is a weight about the Diaphragma fluctuation when men change the side they lye on At last a Feaver cometh softly which is partly putrid partly hectick about the evening and morning it is fiercest A continual Cough bloody spittle if they lie hid in the right side there is felt heat and weight Hippocrates bids to lay a wet cloth to both sides where it is soonest dried there lyeth the matter Prognostick Thirst lost-Appetite loose Belly stinking spittle are deadly Oft times it degenerates to a Consumption then the Temples are mightily extenuated the Feet swell the Nails are crooked If the matter lye on the left side it is the more danger Aph. 44. s 7. 27. s 6. The Cure The matter must be let forth where Nature carryeth it For. gave a Clyster of a decoction of Barley and honey of Roses anointed the Brest with oyls of Camomil Lillies Cats grease Whelps grease using an emollient fomentation then he gave Cassia and when the urine grew thick Diureticals then a Purgative with these the Patient was cured If there be a Cough expectorating things must do it as juyce of Ivy four ounces thrice or four times in a day If all be in vain Incision must be made whilst the Forces last If the Lungs be not ulcerated cut between the four and five or five and six Rib of that side where the greatest pain is EPILEPSIE either is essential to the Brain or by Sympathy from the Stomach Marrix Worms outward parts in children and those that are of age Differences There are three degrees 1. The fall is felt before hand they fome not it lasteth not long and the sick after the paroxysm remembers all in a great Epilepsie it is worse in a mean it is betwixt both The Cure Let the sick be freed from the paroxysm which is done if so soon as the fit cometh you give one Pill of laudanum opiatum with a fourth part of oyl of Camphir or the Antepileptick Pill of the roots of Piony mans scull or oyl of Amber The Head must be laid higher a wedge must be put into the Mouth the sick must not be moved violently but not at all for the fit is prolonged by it Let him be raysed After the fit he is cured as Head-ach from fleam or melancholy by preparatives evacuatives for some time even continued for a whole moneth by Sweatings and other general means by Topicals that are proper A Partridge Liver powdered at the fire in a por and distilled with water of Yarrow in a glasse vessel Crato Ep. 104. Syrup of juyce of Carduus with the extract of sweet Cane Ep. 140. Mans blood is allowed by Zac. l. 1. hist. 23. because milk is good alwaies hang on an Amulet as Take Piony root half an ounce seeds of Male-piony one dram and half also roots of Briony Diet. Goats blood Heart of a Goat of a she Goat of an Eel are the worst eating of Turrles the best Quails are naught the Feet must be kept hot drunken people beget such as are troubled with Epilepsies If the disease be proper to the Brain the fit is more violent it comes about the new and full Moon there are signs of the Brain affected the other are well Setaces are principle good applyed to the Neck If an infant be affected it may be prevented if as soon almost as it is born you give it the Epileptick powder with milk if after milk you procure vomit which is done by pressing down the childs Tongue and put a feather anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds or some other in the Throat The Nurse must be cured as though she were sick of the Falling sickness The infant must be purged with honey or Raysins Holl. In the paroxysm they must be cured as elder people If it be from worms they must be killed and driven forth

the Vessel in sunder being brought to light that the heat of the parts may compress the end of it Some when the Spring comes that Frogs first cast forth their spawn take a coorse linnen cloth so much as may serve and wash it often in this spawn and lay it in the Sun to dry and this they repeat three or four times and so the cloth being dryed at the time they need it they cut a piece off twice greater then the wound and lay it on the wound BARRENNES For. prescribed this that followeth Take Saffron long Pepper Cardamnum Pellatoty of Spain of each half a dram tails of Scincus with the Reins 2 scruples Galanga 4 Scruples Rape seed Parsnip seed Rocket seed Nettle seed ash-keys of each one dram Leeks white Ginger choise Cinamon of each 2 drams Electuary diasatyrion of Mesues description 6 drams with syrup of preserved Ginger make an Electuary keep it in a Vessel of glasse Take one hour before supper the quantity of a Nut and drink a cup of wine upon it Let the Patient take about bed time one dram of this following powder with wine Take white Ginger 1 dram Gallinga 2 drams Bulls pisle 3 drams make a powder Root of Egyptian Bean raw or boyled eaten Oyl of Marjoram with Hares runnet and a little Musch The secret of Lobelius Schrekevos commends this following as revealed by God Take yolks of Eggs fresh butter Bulls pisle Chiches Galanga Satyrian Zedoary Ginger preserved Mints Cocks and Wolfs testicles of each 1 dram Rocket seed Cloves Ginger Pepper long white and black Anniseed Ash keys Cinamon of each half a dram brains of Pigeons and Sparrows well boyled and roasted of each half a pound the heart of the Indian Nut Pine kernels cleansed Fistich nuts sweet Almonds cleansed Mallow seed Mercury Hasle-nuts shaled Dates of each 2 drams boyl all in sheeps milk and water bruise them strongly and add Tailes of Scinci half a dram make a Confection with Honey of Roses or Sugar what may suffice boyl all at a soft fire for an Electuary Helidaus holds this for a secret Take Pennyroyal Origanum of each two handfuls boyl them in Malligo wine adding musk three grains let both be perfumed Also the fume of Sage boyled received The same Author giveth one or at most three grains of Amber in a rear Egg in the morning shavings of Ivory and powder of Sage of each alike the decoction of Eringo roots in wine CACHEXIA is a cold and moist distemper of the body with a symptome of the colour changed and a disease of magnitude by the swelling of the Feet The Cause is a watery Flegmatick raw blood the fault is of the Liver the Spleen of the stomach of the Brain an nicer of the Reins because the wheyish humour running back hath infected the blood stopping of the Courses too much glutting and craming themselves Signs Diagnostick A pale leady colour a soft tumour about the Eyes Cheeks Feet Hands Prognostick It often afflicts children by too much greediness old men and women It may be cured unlesse it come from an incurable disease The Cure The vicious matter must be evacuated The cause must be removed The distemper must be taken away by general remedies and topicals The Powder called Cachectical is profitable as some other powder of filings of Steel steeled wine Senn. l. 3. p. 6. s 2. c. 2. Fer. l. 9. A CANCER is a hard Tumor sharp unequal round unmoveable wan sticking deep in the Veins that swell with a black humour and are spread in the body like to a Crab. The Cause is black choler Heurnius in Aph. 38. s 6. saith there is a double poyson one putrifying which is enraged by suppurating remedies another corroding that is enraged by Cleansers Signs Diagnostick The Tumor is hot and painful and is ulcerated The Ulcer is foul and stinking the lips of it are swolne thick wan Prognostick Aph. 38. s 6. by hidden Cancers are understood such as are not ulcerated Senn. Fabr. cent 3. obs 87. No Cancers though they be of the Breasts are cured by cutting off but they will grow again Cancers of the Lips How they must be extirpated Pareus teacheth l. 6. c. 29. The Cure It is performed by exact cutting away The increasing of an ulcerated Cancer must be hindered and of one that is not ulcerated that it come not to ulceration Palliative is made 1. By Diet. 2. By evacuatives and alteratives 3. By revulsion and derivation by Issues 4. By Topicals The juyce and decoction of Nightshade Endive the flesh of Snails boyld River Crabs green Frogs Oyl of Frogs See Senn. l. p. 1. c. 20. ashes of Crabs Senn. Scabious heath Robert Chervil Dill Honey-suckles Mans dung in powder For. l. 17. ashes of Mullens of the lesser Celandine of Robert Oyl of Eggs and wan mixed in a leaden Mortar with water of Night-shade with a leaden pestle Asses milk is good and Treacle Wild Cresses bruised or in fomentation also blood-suckers laying on of Cats and young Whelps divided Powder of Galls of burnt Crabs mingled with Oyl of Roses and laid on with Lint Pareus his Plate of Lead anointed with Quick-silver is excellent and an Antidote for all malignant Ulcers but because it keepeth in vapours Forestus liketh it not Par. l. 8 bids that it be made full of holes Crato Ep. 59. Crabs eys ground small on a Marble taken in broth or wine can do much in the greatest pains of a Cancer Aegyptiac is mortal for cancerous Ulcers Fabr. l. 3. obs 86. An old woman cured a Cancer laying on Sage chewed with her Teeth For. l. c. The Cure of that is ulcerated is done by Minerals with Unguent of Tutty Diapampholigos or juyce of Nightshade clarified and stirred in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestle 8 ounces of common Tutty ten times washed in Night-shade water 2 drams of burnt lead washed likewise 1 dram Oyl of Roses half an ounce juyce of Nightshade what may suffice make a Liniment in a leaden Mortar with a leaden Pestle Some lay on daily a Hen which the Cancer eats For. l. c. Emplaister of Ceruss it is truly cured either by Section or burning or burning means If there be good blood and matter that runs from it the cure is perfect See Senn. l. c. No Atractives or Digestives profit nor Oyls or fat things except Juyces white wax and Goats suet For. l. 28. A small Cancerous push growing slowly about the Chin Mouth Nose is called Nolime tangere A Cancer in the Legs and Shanks is called a a Wolf Senn. l. c. Blood is sometimes commodiously drawn by distance of time The hearb Carduns benedictus and also the Eys of Crabs Magistral is given succesfully in water Arsemart Senn. l. 4. p. 3. s 1. c. 7. See there the manner of Section See what must be looked to concerning the Muscle of the Brest in the Anatomists A Hen cut through the middle is excellent to lay on being every day renewed Famous

effect is called Die Breun it cometh with shaking As led by the Hand they shew the pain of the stomach and cannot endure to be touched there for it is hard There is an unquenchable thirst and a delirium They almost all fall into deasnesse and swelling behind the Ears The Cure If it come by contagion giving a gentle remedy to bring forth the dung give presently an Antidote but if there be pain of the stomach anguish heat nauseating those humours must first be taken away by purging or vomiting with Agarick Senna leaves Diaphaenicon Rosarum Mesves c. Vomits here are often the most profitable The humours being voided or if there were no such the first or second day open a Vein though the first day the spots should appear so there be strength Almost all who neglected bleeding at the first died If there be Vomiting or Scowring it is more safely let alone Open the Liver or Medias of a Vein in the Foot which is most commodious of all chiefly in women Also it may be done on the third day After the third day Vomits Purges for opening a Vein is mortal Cupping glasses instead of opening a Vein may be set to the lower parts then we must fight with Antidotes yet with such as do not increase the Feaver One dram of Species liberantis Bezar stone Harts horne flowers of Brimstone Amber Zedoans all things of a Pome-citron The roots a part and Bezar a part are all most effectual Afterwards Diureticks may be given The drink must be neither wine nor beer let it be the decoction of Harts-horn with spirit of Vitriol or Barly water with juyce of Lemmons Symptoms of Feavers Pain of the Head is cured by general means by Topicals Many commend a Radish root cut in slices and laid to the feet first washed with Salt and Vinegar Juyce of Housleek and Alces of America For Housleek on houses is full of juyce in the greatest heat but flags in a cloudy aire because it draweth the dryer vapours for its nourishment The root of Rhodia is commended one ounce with Rose water half a pound boyl them apply the decoction with a linnen cloth to the Head The unguent of Alabaster with Populeum must be anoynted on the Coronal suture Driness of the Tongue is cured with scraping of cuttle bone and moystners that are of the strongest as with the water or juyce of Housleek Sal prunella spirit of Vitriol Barley water Thirst if it be from heat of the Lungs the Mouth is dry they can hardly speak which cannot be quenched with drink but it will presently come again Here it is better to take in the coldest Aire than to drink It is good to hold cold water in the Mouth preserved Cherries Lettice leaves Purslane preserved or sprinkled with cold water Oxycratum pieces of Pome-citrons conserves of Sorrel pieces of Cucumbers Gourds first sprinkled with Sugar Crystal Tamarinds Strawberries garden Currence to hold in the Mouth The decoction of the Roots of Sorrel which will look like red Wine Give drink in the vigour If the cause be in the stomach the humour must be voided namely that is hot and sharp The white Feaver is a disease or a symptome with a pale colour of the Face languishing of the Forces heavinesse of the limbs loathing of meat panting of the heart difficulty of breathing sadnesse a flegmatick swelling of the Face Hands and Feet from depraved nourishment and plenty of crude humours proceeding from an ill disposition of the Bowels Liver Spleen Stomach and so from obstruction of the Vessels about the Womb and the Bowels that are neer and from thence the Courses being stopped The cure is the same as for Leuc●phlegmatia yet so that the Womb must be regarded as in the stopping of the Courses yet so that the Bowels must be looked too A lenitive opening a Vein unlesse the disease be inveterate the Blood and Forces being corrupted Purgatives Aperients Diaphoreticks Marriage unlesse the Cacochymia be too great are good cheifly Steel after general Remedies The root of Scorsonera taken any way Bezar stone A FICUS cancerated Fab. obs 1. c. 1. A cancerated Ficus in the right Ey A fit Dyet being prescribed a Clyster given water of Borrage Sorrel Betony being drunk with syrup of the juyce of Lemmons and Pomegranates a Vein being opened and Leeches set behind the Ears on the same side and cupping glasses applyed to the Shoulders an infusion of Rheubarb and Senna being given made of waters of Betony Eybright Agrimony with syrup of Roses and the Feet being washed in the decoction of hot things he washed the Ey with distilled water against the Cancer and applyed an Intercipient to the fore-head Yet the Tumor increasing when out of it at once there flew 73. ounces of blood and a half by Chirurgery he took out the Eye The fear of the Patient stopped the Flux of blood and a painful Ligature about his Limbs wherefore a Lenitive drink is ordered and a Cordial or water of Buglors Roses Violets balm of each one ounce syrup of Citron pills and Sorrel of each one dram confectio Alkermes one dram Powder of Diamber half a dram and to the Heart was ●aid an Epitoeme sowed between of flowers leaves seeds cordial powders made up with Cotton on red Sarsnet The stomach was annointed with a stomach ointment The Chirurgical part being done a powder of the Author to stay blood with the white of an Egg was plentifully cast on A defensative was laid to the Fore-head and a Digestive to the wound And lest nature should again send the humours thither he set a Settace between the first and third Spondi● A FISSURA on the Nipples or Chaps It proceeds from violent sucking and a cholerick humour It is not credible that it comes from drinesse here as it doth in other parts It is prevented if in the three last Moneths or the last Moneth only two cups of wax like to Acorn cups or Fox gloves be made and filled with Rosin of the Firr tree and laid to the Nipples and held there with linnen cloths when the Rosin is spent we must put in more Topicals must be emolient also the juyce of Crab-fish with Cream If they cause pain when the Child sucketh lay on the Nipples a cup of pewter or silver peirced through and covered with the Dug of a Cow new killed for so the Child will suck and yet not touch the Nipple with his Lips General remedies are Coolers and such as purge choler The same way all other Chaps are cured A FISTULA is a winding Ulcer white straight callous from dried fleam and oft times is without pain Signs Prognosticks Fistulaes with notable rottennesse of the bones as of the Huckle and the Hip-bone which pierce to the Bowels which are in a part that hath principal Nerves the Body being weak are to be left by Prognosticks Signs Diagnostick Prove them by a leaden Probe a wax Candle If there be

precede signs of the Aire affected for Beasts have died Fishes they have left their dens the waters being half dead c. If it come from corruption of humours that is known by the signs there are Spots Botches Pushes The Urine is naught a vehement Feaver afflicts also a Tertian a Quartan intermitting witnesse Pareus l. 21. Those that are scabbed are lesse troubled with the Plague A Botch to go before the Feaver is good to follow naught The Moon decreasing is deadly for the Terms come forth weaker Arist l. 7. de H. Anim. c. 2. Preservatives Chambers must be clean so much as we can A sign of this is If Eggs shaked be not corrupted and stink in 24. hours in a place infected or new Bread from the Oven So if shaked Eggs be put between him that is infected and one that is sound the Eggs but not the sound party will be infected So to those that are about to dy they put hot bread to their Mouths that the Chamber may not be infected 2. Let the Body be cleansed with moderate Purgatives and such as expel poyson as Agarick c. By convenient Diet. 3. We must preserve by taking Antidotes as Pills of Ruffus half a dram yet in old men childing-women and such as have the Emroids cauttiously Elixar vitae of Paracelsus For. commends this following even for Infants every day so much as a nut Take Nuts Figs Rue of each alike beat them severally in wooden Vessels Mingle them with syrup of juyce of Citrons it is very good Also this that followeth is to be taken to the quantity of a small Nut. Take confection of Nuts one ounce and half old Treacle Mithridate of each two drams right Bole-armenick Terra sigillata of each one dram and half with syrup of Lemmons or in Winter with syrup of Citron Pills mingle it He gave it in the Winter with Wine in the Spring with Carduus water or Scabious in Summer with Sorrel water Sometimes he added half a dram of Confectio Liberans Every morning he washeth the Face with water and Vinegar of Roses with a sweet Nodulus An unguent for the Nostrils as oyl of Scorpions to anoint the Wrists Temples Heart Nostrils Troches to be held under the Tongue A little bag for the garments Epithems Fab. obs 34. c. 2. Monavius ep 248. approves the powder of Arsnick Toads Crato is against it Ep. 167. In the Pestilence at Lausanna none died that had an Issue Fab. had two c. 4. obs 23. We must anoint under the Nails the Arm-pits and Groins Bags must be kept in the Wardrobe of cloths The Cure To open a Vein is not good if the Plague arise from contagion or fault of the air If twelve hours be past if there be spots a Flux or Botches otherwise before the eighth hour giving first a Lenitive Clyster you may do it When there is a Botch or Carbuncle draw blood on the same side setting a Cupping glasse to the Botch lest the venom be drawn inward Fern. opens the Head Vein in the Arm if the Carbuncle be under the Arm-pits the Liver Vein of the same side if it be in the Groin Thigh Hip Leg Ankle with scarifying and cupping yet he alwaies did it before eight hours After two hours he gave an Antidote if it were vomited up he gave it again He purged not before the third oft times the fourth day with Lenitives as Rheubarb Agarick Epithym c. Cassia is not convenient by reason of its moisture nor Rose water for its Astringency To drink cold water in the Plague and malignant Feavers is deadly Let them eat lustily though they have no stomach The first day he will not let them sleep on the second and third he willingly provokes it with unguent Populeum Senn. Once he moveth sweat after he opens a Vein if need be All before eight hours past Par. commends salt of Mugwort If spots comes forth Paraeus anoints the sick with Quick-silver as if they had the Pox. PTHYSICK It either followeth the Pleurisy or it proceeds from a sharp Distillation or the breaking of a Vein See Aph. 16. s 7. Rondeletins holds it commeth most from the third cause by ignorance of the Physitian who neglecting Revulsives will cure spitting of blood with Astringents There is a lingring putrid Feaver joyned with it or a Hectick from an Ulcer of the Lungs which lasts sometimes twenty years Signs of the beginning of it are a long during Cough then something bloody then mattery is cast forth the Body wasts there is a lingring Feaver hard breathing matter coming forth by Coughing the Hairs fall c. How matter is distinguished from fleam See Aph. 81. s 4. 11. s 5. The Cure The cause must be purged by Rheubarb c and Lenitives not strong Clysters It must be revulsed intercepted The disease or the Ulcer requireth detergents and Mundificatives or Expectorating means for the spittle must be bound up no way afterwards we must glutinate Fracastorius comendeth a Lohock of Turpentine with Myrrh and Bole to be miraculous Laur the juyce of ground Ivy half a pound Sugar six ounces make a syrup let him take often with a spoon Water of Alehove with Sugar of Roses To use old conserve of Roses or Species Haly against the Prhysick Erast ep 272. saith that all who had an Ulcer in their Lungs though it were not discerned yet they died by the use of Vitriol waters Conserve of Roses must be often given in great Doses Vulnerary Potions as also the decoction of Guaicum China are much commended unless there be a Hectick Feaver Fumes are good taken at the Nostrils See Cough Also the smoke of Tobacco Topicals let him often take Conserve of Roses or a little preserved roots of great Comfrey For. giveth by turns things to expectorate and glutinate and at last remains upon them that consolidate PRIAPISM is a stretching of the Yard without lust and it is not asswaged by Venery It is cured as the Fury of the Womb with Mints Especially with the root of water Lillies by hunger Vomit Chafing of the upper parts A PUSH A Fellon differs from Phlegmone by the smallness blood thickness it suppurateth of it self it paineth is an acute little swelling It is cured by suppurating medicaments after that by Sarcoticals Psydracia are red Pushes of the Forehead and the Head They are cured with Driers as with white Chalk with juyce of Housleek and with Vinegar and Lytharge Ceruss and oyl Phlyctenae called wild-fire they are little blisters from a yellowish matter and sharp they last to the fourth day Besides Generals Topicals must be Coolers and Moystners They are opened with a Needle the Ulcers must be dryed Pushes of the Cornea are cured as Ophthalmia All these comming again are most dangerous because they set upon the Forces cast down by the former matter because those that grow well require much nourishing and diseases returning require slender Diet we must deal warily here and