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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

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Vehement motion hath cured many Out of Guaicum oyl is not distilled a Spirit with difficulty An extract is made with a convenient Menstruum PIMPLS Red. They proceed from a vapour of burnt blood The best Remedy is water of Pilewort distilled from the whole plant Costus Colewort seed and Paints PISSING Involuntary proceeds from the resolving of the Bladder and the sphincter Muscle stopping of Urine is only from resolving of the Bladder Solenand commends as a secret the powder of a Cocks Throat broiled raken with red wine or soaked in Posca about night also the Testicles of a Hare burnt are commended PALPITATION of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart from vapour humours water collected in the Pericardium the Stone c. 2. From some small defect of Vital spirits 3. From preternatural heat increased which oft times hath broken the Ribs See Fern. For. saith the cause is hot or cold Galen saith in his time they all dyed before sixty years Signs If it be from wind the fit is sudden short If a humor be the cause it is longer and slower in coming It comes often from Hypochondriacal Passion and stopping of the Courses If it be from water the sick say they swim in water The Cure In young Men or in declining age opening a Vein is good and evacuating the cause The cause is discussed with oyl of Citrons or true Rhapontick two scruples that which followeth is a secret of Forestus Green Balm bruised laid on fire-hot Tyles sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar laid to the Heart Conserve of Balm Treacle water of Harts heart or an Ox is Rondeletius way The PAPS If they ly hid they are called forth according to Amatus with a glasse Vial that hath a straight Mouth which being filled full with scalding water the water poured forth again it is laid hot to the Paps The PALSEY is made when the Nerves are either cooled or moistned by fleam choler for all Choler is not sharp as appeareth in those that have the Jaundies for either their Forces are laid asleep or pressed by weight by a melancholy humour or their continuity is dissolved Prognosticks If a Member with the Palsy be made less it is not or is hardly curable But if it should proceed from cold or a humour the disease cannot be so violent nor would it resist the most vehement Remedies and those that are Cacochymical should be Paralitique Nor yet from dryth for so hectical people should be Paralitique If the feeling cease the motion remaining sound then the Nerve which is fastned into the Membrane of the part is affected that being safe which goeth into the fl●sh The differences Weakness differs from the Colick and from the Palsey because in this the Head and marrow of the Back in that the Limbs only are affected as the cure sheweth for medicaments are laid to the part affected and the Intestins 2. In that there is oft times great pain and it goeth oft into a Convulsion 3. That is cured at first in a short time the same is the condition of a Palsey Scorputick only that in those that are sick of it there remaineth some motion and soon goeth away and returns The cause of weakness is often Cholerick and raw it cometh not from the Head because that is seldom affected in the Colick nor would the Colick cease But the very same matter is carried through the Veins into the Limbs as a Pleuresy comes from a dysentery stopt But Erastus saith Wherefore should not nature provoked by Clysters rather cast forth the matter by the Belly Answer The Passage is not free Spiegelius will have it done by the Arteries and by them the purgative force of Clysters is carried to the Heart The Cure If it be from fleam that must be evacuated by Generals taken away by Topicals The same cure is for stupidity Topical Resolvers If it come from a sharp humour as from the Colick in the Scurvey in that we must not dry so much nor respect the Brain Generals and Topicals are all useful Monav. ep 242. saith that this that followeth is good in weakness Take the fat of a Gray a Fox a Hen a Duck a Goose a Stork of each one ounce juyce of Sage and Wormwood thickned of each half an ounce oyl of Bays one ounce anoint after Bathing Specificals are Marigolds Lavender Berries and shavings of Juniper Meadsweet Primroses wine of the infusion of Marigolds Lavender for one Month one or two spoonfuls It must be set in the Sun at an open window If it come by way of Crisis the Flux must not be stopped In the Palsey of the Tongue after Generals For. opened a Vein under the Tongue Cupping glasses without scarification must be set under the Chin. Vomit is not good Gargarisms must be first attenuating then add such things as draw fleam Cauteries to the Neck The juyce of Sage alone rubbed on the Tongue recovereth the speech In a Palsey of the Weasand soft things can hardly but gross things may easily be swallowed In a Palsey of the Bladder add torrefied Turpentine Trochis Alkekengi without Opium An astringent fomentation to the neither part A Potion of the roots of Cyperus Galanga of each two drams Lignum Aloes sweet Calamus Cypress nuts Balaustia Pomegranate Pills Myrtils Acorn cups roots of our Ladies Thistle great Comfrey of each one dram Galls Frankincense seeds of Agnus Castus Rue of each one scruple c. If all fail use this that followeth approved Take Acorns I ounce half Galanga half an ounce boyl them in 2 pound of red Wine and Smiths water Frankincense 2 drams boyl strain drink them Topicals If the Yard it is cured with a Fomentation of a Ly of the ashes of a Hart and Buls pisles Foment the Spondils Prescribe such things as take away barrenness If the Fundament use drying Clysters astringent apply Cupping glasses to the Buttocks Make Fumes of the bark of the Pine-tree one ounce bark of Frankincense half an ounce Pix Colophonia Frankincense Mastrick of each three drams Castoreum one dram shavings of Harts-horn half a dram If it be from a fall apply to the part Coolers Astringents for fear of Inflammation and hot Resolvers If it be with wasting Topicals and Internals must be moderate The PESTILENCE The Cause is divine Hipp. Which Erastus ep 275. affirms to be a hidden quality of the Air. And Ep. 269. he saith purrefaction is the cause not in making but already made which cannot be corrected by altering but must be taken away by evacuating Signs It infects many is contagious it suddenly casts the Forces down the Pulse is deadly a Feaver Small-Pox Prognosticks To be well in mind and the appetite to remain is good If Vomit be absent other signs are deceitful Differences If it proceed from infection of the aire it is very contagious it quickly killeth few have Botches or Pushes breaking forth The Urine is like to sound mens there did
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 LONDON Printed by J. Streater for Simon Miller at the Star in S. Pauls Church-yard 1656. The Epistle to the Reader Courteous Reader WHen I consider that men in this our scribling age care not what foolish and nonsensical stuff they obtrude upon the world so that thereby there may but a little profit accrue unto themselves I am almost deterred from presenting to thy view this Treatise lest thou shouldst at first sight conceive it to be of the same Genius yet I hope nay am confident to find thee more ingenious then inconsiderately to passe censure without perusal of the Book it self which I presume is such as cannot but give the most judicious Reader satisfaction containing in it self not only most select Remedies for every Disease but also laying open to the meanest capacity the Causes Symptoms or Signs of them so that any one that is not either wilfully or maliciously blind cannot but plainly see this Treatise most wonderfully conducing to the publick good and such as may by Gods blessing which is in all things the Primum mobile be a means to help many at their need who either by reason of their own vvants or distance of place cannot conveniently repair to a Physitian Of those remedies the Author here makes use of I hope no one will have cause to doubt They are such as contain in them all the marrow of Sennertus Riverius and all other Authors any way Famous or Excellent a Catalogue whereof you will find hereunto adjoyned The method of the Book is new and never before attempted but such as thou wilt plainly perceive is best for the ease satisfaction of the Reader One thing more I have to say which also is one main reas of my publishing this Treatise that is The earnest desires of many learned friends of the Author that this work of his might not any longer ly in private hands or the publick be hindred of so great a benefit and that also my learned friend Doctor John Smith might be had in perpetual remembrance for his good will to his Countrey and Common-wealth April 6. 1656. Which also is the earnest desire of your real friend J. Ridgley Authors made use of in this Treatise A Arantius Arculanus B Bauhimus C Crato Celsus D Doringus F Fabritius Faber Forestus Fernelius Fuchsius Florentinus G Galen H Hippocrates Heurnius Hollerius Hen. de Bra● Helideus Horstius Dr. Harvey I J. Lipsius L Laurentius Lobelius M Dr. Maynard Massarias Mnesitius of Athens Mercatus P Paraeus Platerus Paracelsus R Rulandus Rondeletius Riverius S Schenkius Sennertus Spiegelius Scaliger Sanenarola Schrekeros Smetius T Trallianus V Valesius W Wierus A Compleat Practice OF PHYSICK ABORTION is a symptom of things thrust out The Cause is the expulsive faculty provoked or the retentive hurt which is done by the air too much voiding of excrements motion Venery diseases natural debility of the womb or the child of the retentive faculty by the first birth the stinck of a candle put out Castoreum Galbanum from the child diseased by naughty seed from want of superfluity of nourishment from the disease of the mother distempers sharp fevers loosness of the Ligaments the womb gaping shortness of the Intestins dissolved unity of the parts adjoyning from swooning convulsion pain sneesing slipperiness of the matrix from a flegmatic humour Aph. 45. s 5. Diagnostick Signs Aph. 37 38 52. 53. Prognosticks In Abortion women are in worse condition then in natural birth for unripe apples fall not unless they be pulled oft times especially the first Abortion causeth barrenness Abortion is most dangerous in the sixth seventh and eighth moneths Preservation The cause must be resisted it oft times proceeds from a stegmatick humour Internal and Topical remedy must be astringent Specialties are Corals cochineal shaving of Ivory Take Red coral prepared I dram Pearl prepared half a dram shavings of Ivory I dram Mastick half a dram Manus Christi with Pearls 2 drams make a powder The Cure If you cannot prevent it you must by all means procure Abortion Question Whether straightnesse of the Matrix can cause Abortion It is affirmed as straightness of the stomach may case vomiting Affection Hypochondriacal is a sink of humours melancholick and oft times of slegmatick and cholerick collected in the branches of vena porta the Caeliaque artery and the Meseraiques especially in the left hypochondre by reason of the concoction of the spleen hurt without putrefaction from whence vapours that have the nature of these things and part of the humour do stir up various symptoms as loathing vomiting belching sowre corruption and burnt like sut whence it is that Senn. will have the case of Fabr. Cent. 4. obs 32. not to proceed from the seed but to be hypochondriacal many winds which Senn. will have to be contained in that cavity of Spiegelius on the left side sadnesse after meat costiveness by the drines of the vessels heat of the hypochondres urine sometime thick sometime thin troubled panting of the heart swooning thirst difficulty of breathing Vertigo falling-sicknesse palsie Wearinesse troublesomesse it differs from hypochondriacal melancholy because in the affection hypochondriacal many are not melancholy The Cause is a sink of humours collected by reason of the cold of the stomach weaknesse of the spleen hear of the liver driness of the intestines the Pancreas obstruction of the vessels especially of the Pancreas and fault of the milky veins chiefly in virgins and in women by the fault of the womb and stopping of their Courses Diagnostick signs If it come from the Spleen it is stretched out and hard the face is ill coloured If from the Liver that is stretched forth If in the Mesentery vessels c there are winds noyses and hard nesse If in the stomach concoction is hurt If from the womb there is a noise of the womb and the Courses are stopped Prognosticks The disease is obstinate by reason of a contrary temper of the bowels and grosnesse of the humour The Emrods Melancholick veins the Courses do often cure it also bleeding of the left nostril black urine Women are seldom troubled with it but never cured Thick urine is best The Cure The first Indication is that the humours must be evacuated by gentle moistures and coolers by opening the Emrods by vomit by diureticks If this be fruitlesse we must respect two things 1. Steel which is the best for all obstructions and melancholick diseases by reason of the brimstone it abounds with wherefore we must see to it that it be not over calcined for so it will rather bind the brimstony part being taken away the filings of steel or prepared steel is given which is done if the filings be steeped in vinegar dried and powdered or else the crocus or
all night wash your Eys with the water Water of bread kneaded with powder of Rue Fennel Ey-bright Use of Spectacles weakneth the sight unlesse you wear them for need Dud. Ep. 27. Fab. cent 1. obs 27. by often washing the Eys with cold water the sight is darkened from too much sneezing voluntarily groweth blindness Oft times things actually cold may be applyed to the Eys but not to the Ears Zach. l. 1. hist 56. For. prescribeth three medicaments for the Eys The first is of Crystal which he would use to read with The second of green glasse which he would use sometimes The third like a Pyramid not bored through of thick green glasse whose Basis should be broad enough to cover both the Eys For. used this following secret in many There is a muddy Fish greater then an Eel it is called Aelpuick the Liver whereof bound to a tyle must be set against the Sun and the liquor dropping from it must be received by a Vessel underneath With this anoint not your eys but your Ey-brows and upper Ey-lids Concave glasses profit by the circumference for those thick glasses represent all objects greater as Convex glasses make them lesse and plain glasses equal They that have Owl eys desire but little light They that have plenty of humours in their Eys have black Eys because the plenty of the humours cannot be transparent enough Cat-eyed that have but little humours cannot bear much light See the Vlcer of the Eye Epihora it is a thin watery humour like to tears in the Eys It is cured by Generals Driers Revulsives astringent Topicals c. EY-LIDS Roughnesse It is the ruggednesse of the inside of the Ey-lids with itching and rednesse and oft times with pushes like Millet seed from a sharp humour A callous roughnesse Besides Generals Revulsives Intercipients Topicals must be emollients afterwards Coolers as Rose-water or water of Dandelion lastly detergents Par. saith this that followeth is best of all If you dissolve a little Vitriol in much water of Roses Aloes Myrrh Saffron The Ey-lid inverted may be rubbed with Fig-leaves Hordeolum is a little swelling on the top of the Ey-lids neer the Brows which suppurating is like a Barly corn It is contained in a Vessel Foment it with white wax or hens grese or fasting spittle or rub it with the body of a Fly the head being cast away For. premising Generals foments it with white wax or Hens grease washed with Rose-water hot then with the decoction of Barley and Camomil Then with the blood of a Tuttle Pigeon Patridge He used on himself Rose-water two ounces Vitriol one dram he dropped one or two drops in a day into his Eye Or Rose-water two ounces Aloes half a dram If this help not it must be cut If the matter be stony as hail it is called Chalazion Ectropium is when the inward part of the lower Ey-lid appeareth inverted from a Palsey or Convulsion or wound ill cured For. cureth this with Astringents as Rose-water where in burning iron hath been quenched that which followeth he oft times proved Take new butter nine times washed in water sufficient then wash it nine times in juyce of Plantain then three in Rose-water two ounces and half Tutty prepared once washed in Rose-water and Aloes washed in Plantain water white Sieff with Opium of each one dram and half Camphir washed one scruple make an unguent anoint with it in the Evening and wash with hot water Hares Eys is when the upper Ey-lid is shorter then it should be it is either natural or from a scar or Convulsion or when Infants in their Cradles look alwaies backward or upward It is cured by Emollients If it be from a scar Incision is made above it in form of a hooked Moon An unguent must be put into the wound Aquap contrarily with rains fastned with glew to the Ey-lids joyns both Ey-lids together Hydatis is a fat substance as a piece of fat lying under the skin of the upper Ey-lid whence the whole Ey-lid in Infants becometh Oedematous The cure is made by cutting that part The whole Eye must be covered with the white of an Egg and Rose-water Lay on salt chewed with Cummin seed and Sage to dry it unlesse pain hinder Hydatica are bladders full of water in the Lungs and the Liver c. Essere are little swellings something hard with exceeding itching they suddenly seize on the whole Body like stingings of Bees they vanish of themselves They are made from watery humours They foreshew a Tertian and must be cured as a Tertian FASCINATION Is a bewitching whereby by the sight praysing or touching Men Beasts Corne do dye Fascinations of the first and second kind prevail not by force of words but by the Devil Signs If the learnedst Physitians doubt of the cause of the disease if it be forthwith in the state if preternatural things as stones are voided It is cured by prayers by purging the melancholick humours by vomit A FEVER of one day is a Feaver risen from the heat of the vital spirits to this belongeth Synoche of many days rising from the overheating of the Spirits and the thinner part of the Blood Signs Diagnostick 1. It beginneth from a precedent cause is a sign inseperable 2. The Urine is like to those that are sound 3. The pulse is next to natural 4. The heat is mild easy 5. It seizeth us without cold or shaking The causes of the heat are 1. Motion 2. Corruption 3. Nearnesse to heat 4. Constipation of the Body 5. mingling of hot things The Cure is made by Bathings frictions unguents A Putrid FEAVER Cause of putrefaction is concoction hurt by natural things and things not natural and preternatural 2. Stopping of the Pores either by Astringents or drinesse or heat of the Sun or stopping of the Vessels by plenty of clamminess or the humours 3. The calling forth of natural heat by a one dayes Feaver anger c. 4. Nearnesse to a putrid thing Signs diagnostick 1. The heat is sharp biting 2. They begin without a procatarctick cause which is a proper sign 3. The Urine Pulse differ much from natural 4. They begin with cold a proper sign 5. It returneth by fits a proper sign Question May we purge in putrid Feavers I deny Because Purgatives are hot and inflame the Feaver 2. Because before and in the dog-days Purgations are difficult by reason of the hot ambient ayre how much more by reason of a Feaverish 3. Because Purgatives are contrary to nature 4. Because neither in the beginning nor in the augmentation for all things are crude nor in the state for nature is troubled from digestion and rest is better Aph. 29. s 2. nor in the declination for in that no man dieth c. It remains that it is best to purge in the end Zach. l. 1. hist 6. 3. Whether a Feaver may rise from putrefaction It is denyed 1. Because putrefaction is no heat 2. Because all putrid things are cooled at
length 3 Because those vapours are not so hot as the heart Zach. refut hist 84. l. 1. A FEAVER putrid continual is distinguished from an intermittent because an intermittent alwaies comes with cold and shaking but that seldom with the least An Intermittent seldom lasts above 24. hours a burning Feaver hath alwaies a black Tongue joyned to it whence it is that Chirurgeons foolishly cure only the Tongue For. l. 2. A Tertian intermitting Feaver It intermits because every fit the matter is discussed which is proved by the departing of the Feaver 2. Because it can easily be discussed 3. Because the Symptoms as quaking nauseating do shew that in one day intermitting new matter is recollected Differences An Exquisite differs from a bastard Tertian 1. Because an Exquisite never exceeds twelve hours seldom seven 2. Because the cold is vehement and short 3. Because straight way signs of concoction do appear Signs diagnostick It is known from a Quotidian by the cold for in this there is only shivering by the lasting of the fit Aorimony of the heat by the Urine and pulse The Cure Fern●l 2. m. m. c. 3. approves of long opening a Vein in cholerick Feavers 1. Because both Choler and Blood are evacuated 2. Because sometimes cholerick Feavers end by bleeding at the Nose 3. Because it cooleth 4. Because Plethory is often the cause of it Zach. denyeth it because the boyling of the Choler is to be feared whence in too great bleeding at the Nose Hippoc. saith Convulsions may be made in Aph. In the end Purgers of black Choler must be added Cold water may be allowed to those are used to it in the state and the matter being convicted A double Tertian Feaver It is often mistaken for a Quocidian but the fits of a Double Tertian which fall out upon unequal days are unequal to themselves in their manner and time but the fits falling upon equal dayes are equal to themselves and differ from them It is cured as a single Tertian Specificals are given flowers of Camomil lesser Centory Scabious Devils-bit and Plantain A Semi-tertian Feaver or a Hemitriteus is either lesse which riseth from an intermitting Tertian and a continual Quotidian or betwixt both which riseth from a continual Tertian and an intermitting Quotidian or greater which riseth from a continual Quartan and an intermitting Tertian S●nn saith there is an Intermitting Feaver of all kinds which afterwards either by malignity or some other cause makes inflammation of the stomach Liver Spleen Mesentery Lungs whence groweth a continual Feaver or a continual Feaver symptomatical from the inflammation of the part and intermitting for Spiegelius found it out in bodies alwaies inflamed They follow con tagious Dysenteries they end in Fluxes of the Belly and Colicks The cure That must chiefly be respected that causeth a continual not neglecting that which causeth the intermitting Wherefore some for both mingle hot and cold things to serve for both Fevers but this way neither Fever shall be cared for Let them therefore be given by turns let the Purgatives be gentle not-strong A Quotidian Feaver A continual is not ended before fourry days often not before sixty If the fit be long the stomach cast down sleep long this threatneth death Oft times it changeth to Cachexia a Hectick a Dropsy A Double Intermitting whereof For. hath but one example that lyeth hid is slow wherewith For. was sick together with a Hectick 1. Let Diet be opposed to that which urgeth most 2. Let digesters respect the Hectick and the Quotidian 3. Let vacuations and vomit be moved let meat be given at the time of the least accesse 4. Use Restoratives A Quartan Feaver continual is allmost alwaies mortal For. saw one who so grew melancholick when he would admit no Physitian and for 12. weeks and three days never went to stool at last he went by himself and died Intermitting is distinguished from others because at the first and second fit it is hardly perceived there is no pricking cold but as it were breaking of the bones with a wonderful slowness and scantness in the Pulse Opening of a Vein for trial is here good The use of Peach kernels and decoction of Rape roots are good Crato Ep. 103. anoints the back bone with oyl of Camomil and he gave the juyce of Carduus in a syrup then a little boyld with butter He purged with syrup of Violets of Aples of Hellebour one scruple Ep. 112. Also he laid a linnen cloth dipped in Aqua vitae upon the stomach when the fit was coming Monavius Ep 229. sets down such a secret for a Quartan Take the Heart of a Hare and prepare it as ye do a Fox lungs then powder it and divide it into three equal parts give it at three several times one hour before the fit with white wine or some other liquors if manifest signs of concoction appear Specificals are roots of Gentian Plantain as also one dram of root of Masterwort juyce of Verven Wormwood Steel A Quintan Feaver For. saw two that followed a Quotidian Hence Authors will have this to proceed from adust fleam it is cured as a Quartan with a Dropsy A wandring Feaver is made 1. By transmutation of the humour as when yellow colour degenerates into black 2. By errour of Diet. 3. By confusion of the mixt matter A Hectick Feaver it either followeth other diseases as a one days Feaver or a putrid Feaver or it beginneth of it self from a Procatarctick cause as from anger heat it never happens unlesse one days Feaver go before It is either single or hath a putrid Feaver or some other disease joyned with it and then it is deadly except with Anasarca Differences There are three degrees 1. When the dew or dewish moisture which is spread through all the small spaces of the similary parts is consumed and it is called a Hectick without a consumption and may be cured 2. When the fleshly and fatty parts are consumed it is called a Consumption Hectical but not Exquisite and may be cured 3. When the fibrous parts are dried wherein the heart is burnt and made dry it is called a Marasmus hectical or an exquisite Consumption and is incurable for a Marasmus or a burning Hectick or a dry and cold as in a Hectick of old age or called old from the disease Another is Syncoptical which is hot in respect of the Feaver and cold in respect of the Syncope Signs diagnostick The heat is equal so that the sick perceive not that they are sick One or two hours after meat they grow hot though they eat five times or more in a day as it is with Lime or if upon burning stones in a Bath water be poured The Pulse is small swift Fat Urine is an inseparable sign of a Hectick of the second degree c. Fern. cured one whose water was so thick that the fat might be taken off with ones fingers The cure In a single Hectick to open a Vein or Purge