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A94421	The hidden treasures of the art of physick; fully discovered: in four books. 1 Containing a physical description of man. 2 The causes, signes, and cures of all diseases, incident to the body. 3 The general cure of wounds, tumours, and ulcers. 4 A general rule, for making all kind of medicines; with the use and nature of distilled waters, juyces, decoctions, conserves, powders, elestuaries, plaisters, &c. To which is added three necessary tables, 1 sheweth the contents of the four books. 2 Explaineth all the terms of art which are used in physick and chirurgery. 3 Explaining the nature and use of simples, what they are, and where they grow. A work whereby the diligent reader may, without the help of other authors, attain to the knowledge of the art above-named. / By John Tanner, student in physick, and astrology.	Tanner, John, ca. 1636-1715.	1659 (1659)	Wing T136; Thomason E1847_1; ESTC R203798	295,583	577

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 ●s to keep the blood for his nourishing and ●…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

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 A●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

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

to the Treasury for as that groweth rich the common people grow poore So as the Spleen encreaseth the other parts decay CHAP. VIII Of the Reines and Kidneys NOw I come to a few words of the Reines and Kidneys which are placed within the region of the Nutrites backward and they are ordained to cleanse the blood from the watry superfluities They have two passages by the one is drawn the water from Venakelis by two Veines which are called Venae emulgentes the Emulgent Veines and by the other is sent the same water to the Bladder and this is called Poros Urithedes The Kidneys are made of a hard substance and full of hard concavities and therefore the sores of them are hard to cure they are harder in substance then any other fleshy member and that for two causes the first is that they be not much hurt by the sharpnesse of the Urine The other is that the Urine that passeth from them might be the better cleansed by them The Heart sendeth an Artery to convey to them blood heat Spirit and Life And from the Liver there commeth a Veine which bringeth nutriment to all blood Their fatness is as of the other members made of thin blood congealed and cradded by cold there is ordained the greater quantity in this place because it should temper the heat of the Kidneys which they have of the biting sharpnesse of the Urine The next thing that offereth it selfe to our consideraon is the Bladder which is compounded of two nerveous panicles in complexion it is cold and dry whose neck is carnous and hath two Muscles to withhold and to let go in man it is long and is contained with the yard passing through peritoneum but in women it is shorter and is contained with the Vulva the place of the Bladder is between the share bone and Longaon commonly called the Arse Gut In women it is between the aforesaid bone and the Matrix In the Bladder is implanted the Ureters which bring the Urine or water from the Kidneys thither and privily entereth into the holes and pannicles thereof which is don by a naturall motion between Tunicle and Tunicle till the Urine findeth the hole of the nether Tunicle where it entereth privily into the concavity And the more the Bladder is filled with Urine the streighter be the pannicles compressed together The holes be not set one against the other so that if the bladder be never so full none can go back againe This is the Micocrosmicall Ocean into which all the Rivers of the body discharge themselves There must needs be more then a watry substance in it for many times in dileases it is plentifully made though the patient drinketh little or nothing And it is observed that Creatures that drink nothing will make water Physitians oftentimes foretell many things by their colour thinnesse and thicknesse Salt you know is hid in meats and that plants have very much Salt in them you may find by distilling them And it is very well known that by the Chymicall art many kinds of Salt may be fetched out of Urines The artificiall Chrysocolla is made of Urine Nitre is made of earth moistned with the Urine and Dung of living Creatures The Urine hath a sympatheticall relation to the constitution of the body The Arabians say among the rest Abenzoar that a man that is bitt with a mad dogge in his Urine the picture of Doggs may be seen but this is attributed to the force of the Venome which changeth a mans constitution and maketh it like to a dogs Sennert us himselfe saith that it doth so much corrupt the humours that little Creatures like Puppies are bred in the body If we credit the writings of wise honest and learned men which not to do were uncharitable we shall find that wormes and many kinds of living Creatures have been bred in the Bladder We read of a Woman that voided one that way a span long and a Maid many as big as Woodlice One voided one like a Magpye another who had the Stone in the Bladder voided two with Horns sharp head back and belly crusty black and like a Tortoise only their belleys were red Another voided a living Scorpion and another shell-fish The passage of the Urine from the Bladder all know yet sometimes men are known to void their Urine another way The Son of one Boninus urined a little beneath the Glans A maid at the Hague of a noble family made water at her Navell One by an Ulcer on his Buttock and another by the Belly For my own part I have known two young men who urined between the Testicles and the Fundament read Fernelius l. 6. c. 13. who affirme the same thing I need not tell you that stones are bred in the Urine of a faeculent matter mingled with Salt and stony juice somtimes small and sometimes great of severall shapes and forms sometimes like the Sea sand somtimes like peebles somtimes like Salt and somtimes they are found ragged and branching lively and excellently resembling the stock and branches of Corall few or none are ignorant of this Thus have I with as much brevity as may be described this Microcosmicall Ocean CHAP. IX Of the Generative parts I Shall herein use as much brevity as may be and shall write nothing but with a mind that is modest and with such a mind I desire it may be read The instruments of generation are of two sorts Male and Female their use is the procreation of mankind the operation is by action and passion the Agent is the seed the patient the blood Although this cometh to be spoken of in the last place yet it might have deservedly been put in the first for nature regards not only the conservation of its selfe but to beget its like and conceive its species Venus hath the principall government of the members of generation In which members there are many parts considerable but I shall only epitomize them First of the genitalls of men The first thing to the considered is that which Anatomists call vasa preparantia or preparing vessells which bring blood and vitall Spirits to the Stones they are fout in number before they come to the stones they make a curious implication intertexture or twisting the one with the other the Arteries into the Veins and the Veines into the Arteries which Physitians call Corpus Varicosum some call it Pampiniformis This interweaving reacheth down even into the substance of the stones their use is to mix the blood and vitall spirit together that so the Stones may have a fit matter to work on The Testicles or Stones are of a white soft and spungy substance full of small Veines and Arteries or else when humours flow to them they could not swell to such a bignesse their form is Ovall of their bigness few are ignorant Each stones hath a Muscle which the learned call Cremaster which serveth to pull up the stones in the act of Generation

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

Pint and an half strain it out and dissolve Sirrup of Jujubes two ounces Sirrup of Violets one ounce make an Emulsion for three doses give it Morning and Evening If his Cough be violent let him alwayes have in his mouth Sugar of Roses Sugar Candy or penids or the Tablets of Diatraganthum Frigidum or with Sirrup of Violets and Jujubes you may make it into the form of an Celegma or Lohock If his spittle be thick and tough adde Oxymel Simplex or the Sirrups of Liquoris or Coltsfoot Let his constant drink be Barly water boile it in Currans Borrage and Bugloss Flowers Hartshorne Maidenhaire Coltsfoot Liquoris and such like give it warm You must not purge in this disease till the declination thereof and then use a gentle potion Many medicines there are proper and special for a Pleurisie as Stone-horse dung or White-hens dung soaked in Carduus water and strained give a quarter of a pint this hath a peircing and discussing quality by reason of the volatile salt in it and doth wonderfully disperse the humors in the Pleurisie An Apple made hollow and a dram of Frankincense put therein and rosted given to the sick drinking three ounces of Carduus Water after it and laid to sweat is good saith Quercetan Goats Blood also is good If the Sick fall into a loosness in the height of this Disease it is very dangerous in the declination it is good but if it so happen give him the Sirrup of Myrtles and do as you are taught in the Cure of Diarrhaea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or The inflammation of the Lungs is a disease not much different in the causes or signes from a Pleurisie but only in the part affected Sometimes this Peripneumonia commeth alone and sometimes followeth another Disease as the Quinzy or Pleurisit which is a dangerous Symptome on the contrary if a Pleurisie follow the inflammation of the Lungs it is a hopeful Symptome This Disease is more dangerous then a Pleurisie and for the most part deadly by reason of want of respiration and the nearness of the heart The cure is the same with the Pleurisie therefore I shall say no more of it CHAP. XXVIII Of Empyema EMpyema 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a Collection of matter in the Cavity of the Thorax is a Disease which for the most part followeth a Pleurisie and Peripneumonia and sometimes a Quinzy when they are not carefully cured and the inflammation commeth to Suppuration and when the Imposthume breaketh the matter falleth into the cavity of the breast Sometimes blood falling into the Thorax by the breaking or wounding of a Vein may come to Suppuration or rather Corruption Sometimes flegm falleth from the head and other parts into the breast and there putrifying begetteth matter like quitter The signes of Suppuration beginning according to Hippocrates are these First the Pleurisie being not purged the Feaver increaseth while the matter is turning into Pus Secondly the sharpness of the matter touching the Membranes causeth quaking the Third is weight and sense of heaviness in the part To these we may adde the difficulty of breathing for although when the Imposthume is broken the Diaphragma and the Muscles of the Thorax move more freely yet the Lungs are oppressed by the matter lying about them But an old and confirmed Empyema is known by a lingring putrid and partly Hectick Feaver more violent towards night and much sweating a constant troublesome Cough the Cheeks grow Red the Eyes hollow the legs swell Pustles break out on the breast If the Suppuration break and the Feaver continueth are thirsty want appetite the pus green livid or frothy brought up with much difficulty and a loose belly all these are signes of Death or of long sickness the contrary are the signes of recovery They who in this condition doe lift up the whole breast when they breathe by reason of the matter contained are quickly choaked If the matter be not spit forth in forty dayes it turneth to a Consumption and death followeth The Supuration on both sides is more dangerous then that of one that on the left side the worst by reason of the left Ventricle of the heart If the matter flow plentifully by Stoole and Urine and the Patient strong and hearty it is a signe of recovery For the Cure you must endeavour to help nature in Suppurating the humors if Suppuration cannot be hindred by this or the like Cataplasme Take of Chamomel Melilot and Mallows of each one handful the Roors of Althaea one handful Figs and Raisons stoned of each four ounces after due boiling beat and strain them adding to the Liquor the Oyles of sweet Almonds Lilies and Fresh Butter of each one ounce with the Meal of Wheat Fenugreek and Flax Seed sufficient make a Cataplasm and apply it In the mean time let the Patient take of this Lohock Take of the Conserve of the Flower of Bugless Violets and Roses of each one ounce Maidenhaire Liquorish and Coltsfoot of each one ounce Oyle of Sweet Almonds newly drawn one ounce Sugar Candy one ounce Powder what is to be Powdered and with Sirrup of Liquorish or Colts foot sufficient make a Lohock and let the Patient take thereof often Venice Turpentine washed and with Liquorish powder made up into Pills are good to maturate discuss and cleanse give three drachms in the Morning But if the matter will not be spit up you must open it between the fourth and fifth Rib and apply a Plaister to draw out the matter giving the Patient a Wound-drink in the mean time If you desire particular direction herein read Hieronymus Fabricius ab aqua pendente in Libro de operationibus Chirurgicis CHAP. XXIX Of spitting of Bloud Sputum Sanguinis or spitting of Blood called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an unnatural Flux of Blood from the vital parts viz. the breast Lungs and Aspera Arteria The Immediate cause is Organical or common the Organical twofold either the opening of the Vessels called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Rarefaction called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The common Disease is twofold also as the breaking of the Vessels called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Erosion of them called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blood offending in quantity or quality may be the cause of opening rarifying breaking or Corroding of the Vessels To be further satisfyed therein Ipray you have recourse to the nineteenth Chapter of Bleeding at the nose Some external cause as Fall Wound or the like may be the cause of Haemoptysis Immoderate Cold may be the cause by hardening the Tunicles that they cannot be extended It is very difficult to judge of the part from whence it commeth If it comes from the head it is cast forth by Coughing hawking and there is a tickling in the Palat as in a Catarrh That which comes from the breast and Lungs causeth Coughing that which comes from the Lungs is Frothy that which comes from the breast is Blackish

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

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

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