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A25287	The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.	A. B.	1674 (1674)	Wing A2B; ESTC R222542	90,076	270

doth in like manner advise us when to drink and that for the most part either in health or sickness is the best Rule so that where a person is apt to be thirsty he may drink more to supply the want of moisture and may serve to the wetting or moistening of the Stomach Of Sleep SLeep ought to be pleasant and in the mean between deep and wakefulness for as that sleep is not best which is troubled so neither is that which is too light and from which a person is very quickly awakened but the immoderate deep sleep is worst Persons are not to sleep till the perfect concoction of the Aliment is over which is about two or three hours afte● the Food received profitable sleep is answerable to the constitution of the body For longer sleep is more fit and needfull How long Sleep for Cholerick Bodies and Melancholick than for Sanguine and Phlegmatick When you lie down in you● Bed first lie upon your right side tha● the meat taken last may descend to th● bottom of the Stomach and after tha● upon the left that the concoction ma● be helped by the Liver lying upon th● Stomach which being perfected li● again to the Right side that the Chyl● may be more easily distributed to th● Liver but lying upon the face is judged by all to be the cause of mos● grievous diseases The most convenient time for Slee● The Time of sleep is the Night two or three hours afte● Supper because of its peaceable quie● and humidity Of Exercise EXercise ought to be moderate neither too gentle nor too vehement neither too quick nor too slow Lawfull Exercise is untill the body wax warm and appear somewhat more full and there arise the florid or rosie colour of the face and sweat and hot vapours are perceived to break forth and the respiration is great and easie and as long as the Exercise is continued it be quick and equal And the Body beginning to grow weary longer Exercise will cause stifness and weariness to assail the Body and the Body flowing with sweat will suffer loss of the Spirits and humid substance Exercises are to be according to the habit and Constitution of the Body those bodies that are full and gross and Bodies repleated with humours must use such Exercise as may correct the distemper of the body which may be more vehement and laborious yet so that they be not begun till the first and second concoction be over which may be known by the yellowness of their Urine and alwayes this is to be observed the Exercise is to be suitable to the Food received so that if the Feeding be larger the Exercise is to be the more if the Food be more sparing the Exercise is to be the less The Exercise is to be first gentle then more vehement and afterward more gentle again There is another sort of Exercise which is performed by Friction and is usefull for those who by reason of Infirmities are not able to take the benefit of Motion and is to be performed according to Reason so that the Sweat breaks forth the filth of the Body and such Excrements as lie under the skin may be allured and drawn out But as there are many and great advantages accrue to the Bodies of men by well managed Exercise so great harm proceeds to the Body from idleness and sloch for gross vicious humours heaped up in the body are the Authors of Crudities and Obstructions Gouts Apoplexies and a multitude of other diseases Of Passions of the Mind PAssions of the Mind have a great Influence upon the health of our bodies so that as our Passions are so very much are the state of our bodies altered Because by these the expulsion of the native heat with the Blood and Spirits are carried inward or outward and these Passions are in Number Four Joy Anger Sorrow and Fear Joy proceeds from the Heart for the thing causing Joy or Fear being conceived the Faculties move the heart which shaken and moved by the Faculty which hath dominion over it is dilated and opened as ready to embrace the exhilerating Object but in the mean time by the force of that dilatation it sends forth much heat and Spirits together with the Blood into all the Body a great part of which coming to the Face dilates it the Forehead is smooth and plain the Eyes look bright the Cheeks become red as died with Vermilion the Lips and Mouth are drawn together and made plain and smooth Some have their Cheekdented with two little pits which fro● the effects are call'd laughing Cheek● because of the contraction or curbin● which the Muscles suffer by reason ● their fulness of Blood and Spirits a● which is nothing but to laugh Jo● recreates and quickens all the Facu●ties stirres up the Spirits helps co●coction makes the Body to be bett● in liking and fattens it the heat blo● and Spirits flowing thither and t● nourishing dew or moisture water i● and refreshing all the Members fro● whence it is that of all the passions ● the Mind this onely is profitable ● that it exceeds not measure for i● moderate and unaccustomed Joy caries so violently the Blood and Spir● from the Heart into the habit of th● Body that sudden and unlooked f● death ensues by a speedy decay ● strength and the lasting Fountain ● the Vital Humour being exhausted which thing happens to them whic● are less hearty as Women and ol● men Anger causeth the same effusion o● heat in us but far speedier than Joy therefore the Spirits and Humours are so inflamed by it that it often causes putrid Fevers especially if the body abound with any ill humour Sorrow and Grief dryes the Body in a way contrary to that of Anger because by this the heart is so straitened the heat being almost extinct that the accustomed Generation of Spirits cannot be performed and if any be generated they cannot freely pass into the members with the Blood wherefore the Vital Faculty is weakened the lively colour of the face withers and decayes and the Body wastes a-away with a lingering Consumption Fear in the same manner drawes in the Spirits and calls them back not by little and little as in sorrow but suddenly and violently hereupon the Face growes suddenly pale the extream parts cold all the Body trembles or shakes the Belly in some is loosed the Voice as it were stayes in the Jawes the Heart beats as it were with a violent pulsation because it is almost opprest with the heat strangled by the plenty of Blood and Spirits abundantly rushing thither the hair also stands upright because the heat and blood are retired to the inner parts and the outmost parts are more col● and dry than stones by reason where of the outmost skin and pores in which the roots of the hair are fastened ar● drawn together Shame is a certain affection as it wer● mixed of Anger and Fear therefor● in that Conflict of as it were

shortness of Bre●th and Consumption where this doth not good none will which we have Experienced for many Years as a sure Remedy easie to take for all Ages or Sexes a Balsom which we believe will never corrupt or decay The Sixth is our Vegetable Cordial Tincture whose Vertue will commend it self be-being a high Cordial and of Volatile parts friendly to our Microcosm next of Kin to our Animal and Vital Spirits and therefore quickly and easily assimilated and drawn into Vnity with us and Corroborates the Heart revives the Spirit opens the Pores and all Obstructions is singular against Lipothymia and Syncope all Swounding and Faintings whatsoever flowing from a debility of the Spirits or Obstruction of the Nobler parts or defis●entsie of supply to the Lamp of Life good in all Fevers whether malignant or pestilent of what sort soever The Seventh is our Cordial or Cachexical Pill so called because it is our infallible Remedy against all Female Obstructions Green-sickness Feebleness shortness of Breath pain in tha Head sides proved so by many infallible Experiments and is highly Cordial and without any manifest Operation it wonderfully strengthens the Heart revives the Spirits corroborates and strengthens the Heart by bringing in fresh supplies of Fuel to the Vital Fire it takes away the pain of the Head after a wonderful manner In sum its Dose is whatsoever any Physitian can in that Cose desire The Eighth is our Remedy against Consumption and all Distempers of the Lungs which is a precious Balsom next of Kin to our Humidum Radicale it comforts all the Natural powers of the whole Body it purifies the Blood from all Impurities from whence various and cruel Diseases are wont to arise it preserves from the Apoplexie Convulsion of the Nerves Leprosie Leues Venerea it is the only Specificum of the Lungs It preserves from and Cures the Asthma it takes away both old and new Coughs it consumeth and drys up defluction flowing from the Head it comforts the Brain it hinders the ventasitie of the Stomack and Chollick it is an admirable remedy for the Hectick comforting and strengthning of Nature it is a secret help for Consumptions increasing the radical moisture it wonderfully conduceth in the Gout whether in the Joynts or Feet as also in the Sciatica Like an occult Fire it consumeth Diseases as Fire consumeth Wood. The next is our Pill Hydragogum which opens Obstructions of the Viscera Liver Missentery Spleen and all other parts cleansing the Stomack of all Clammy and Flegmatick Matter sticking to the Tunicle thereof Curing the Dropsie and all waterish Distempers cleansing and strengthning the Liver and the Tone of all the parts destinated to Concoction washing and shaving off all slimy Matter adhering to the Viscera the refuse of imperfect Concoction The Tenth is our Remedium Melangogum which we have Experienced in all Melancholly Affects and in which we have failed none and that these may appear to be more than words we will give you Instances of Persons by Name and Place of abode that we have Cured and such as have been despicably afflicted with this Black and sad Disease even to despair of Cure and dispair in Mind and some that have come to a Mania the highest Degree of Madness And this Remedy does by a very gentle opening of Obstructions by inciding cutting and dissolving of the Tarterous Clammy Filths that obstruct the Viscera Missentery Liver Spleen and Stomack wonderfully altering the temper of the Humours and Parts and by consequence takes away all Instamation and Dyscrasia Sanguinis in the Parts where these Filths are used to stick so that the Tarterous Clammy Matters are washed away the Stomack gently cleansed the Flatus Hypochoudraicus repeled and strangely allayed the Hypochondriack pains vanish and the Mind quieted and Health restored the Mind and so the Body Capacitated to put forth all its wonted Offices for the wellfare of its own Being The Eleventh is our Febrisiga which Cures Fevers and all Quartan Agues by a gentle Operation in opening Obstructions of the Spleen and all the harberers of Melancholly Filths taking away the ferment of Fevers and Agues and that in a short time Our Specisicum for the Rickets which Cures in a short time by opening Obstructions of the Vessels destinated to Concoction and takes away the occasion of that sad Symptom the Atrophia the wasting and consuming of one Part by an Erronious distribution of the Aliment which ought to be sent to it and assimilated by it and the monstrous growth of some one Part by altering the Aliment due unto it These and all other grievous Symptoms attending this Disease are taken away in a wonderful manner in a short time And there is yet another viz. our Remedy most peculiar to all Women against all Vapours whether Histerick viz. from the Womb or from the Hypochondriack which marvellously suppresses all Melancholly Fumes from the Womb Spleen Stomack or any other parts by which means it Cures Fits of the Mother Palpitation of the Heart Pains in the Stomack with those Pains that so much afflict Women at the upper part of the Oesophagus or in the Throat which makes them fear they shall be suddainly Choaked Fits Heart-qualmnes all manner of Effects rising from Fumes below the Head Pains of the Head Swoundings Faintings rising from any cause of which we have had many Hundred Experiments And lastly our Remedium Faetisicum which is a singular Medicine against barrenness it cleanses the Womb from all things that hinder Conception it worms strengthens and disposes it to bear Fruit it takes away the Impediments proceeding from what Cause soever it is easie to take being very pleasant and without any manifest Operation and that of which we have had Experience FINIS ERRATA PAg 35 Line 13 for gingi pepicnm r gingipedium p 40 l 16 dele in p 51 l 14 r Exanthemata p. 61 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 59 l 15 r Hypochondries p. 61 l 3 r Hypochodrais p 105 l 4 r verulentsy p 113 l 15 for thousand r hundreds p 120 l 9 dele second is p 121 l 3 r thin l 5 r being l. 17 r Siccus p 128 l 18 dele not p 140 l 10 r perceptable p 148 l 1 for tales r tabes p 154 l 2 r called p 160 l 8 r very p 162 l 11 for by r without p 18 l 1 r sadden p 177 l 1 r peppered l 7 r foregoing 178 l 24 r Oleaginous ● ●70 r indeed if

Spirit in a large quantity and the Oyl is endowed with more and greater Virtues than I believe most Imagine yet the soot of these do greatly differ We may therefore observe that the fire impresses a greater heat upon Tobacco than did appear to be in it before wherefore this may be better for hydropical persons and phlegmatick Constitutions than for others and they whose Livers are not over-heated and that which is chewed is better for others of a hotter temperament But we preferre chewing of Tobacco before that taken in a Pipe being not so hot and having the same Physical Virtues in all respects Taking it by Snuffing is good for those whose Brains are annoyed with Rheumatismes and are dull and heavy to help the Brain to expell superfluous moysture and to draw it to the Nostrils which is the best way to evacuate the Brain But let such who have pains in their head be carefull of Snuffe lest by it they are made blind by forcing the morbifick matter to the Optick Nerves and by that means obstruct the passage of the Visive Spirits to the Eye and still remembring that which way soever it be taken Moderation must still be observed Of the Nature Vsefulness and Profit of WINE THat most excellent Liquor which we call Wine it is the Juice of the Vine exalted by Fermentation which ferment it hath in it self It hath received many and various Names according to the singular and excellent Vertues it puts forth in the Bodyes of men it is call'd by Paracelsus Sanguis Terrae the Blood of the Earth in resemblance to the Composition of a Humane Body for as that part of a humane Body which we call Blood does far excell the rest so this excellent Nectar the Juice of the Vine does far excell all other Vegetable Juices Quercetanus calls it Omnium Vegetabilium Princeps The Prince of all the Vegetables In holy Writ it hath received the highest Epithets of all inanimate created things It is called the Wine which chears the heart of God and Man and Solomon counsels To give Wine to him that is of a heavy heart that he drink and remember his misery no more In summe it is the most excellent Liquor of all other created and appointed for the exhilarating and reviving the heart of man it cheers the heart enlivens and quickens the vital Spirits it helps Concoction Distribution and Nutrition it wonderfully resists Melancholly and sadness i● quickens all the Vital and Animal Functions i● stirres up and restores in a wonderfull manne● all the Actions of the Body it strengthens the natural heat and opens Obstructions it quickens the Circulation of the Blood dissolvet● Coagulations refresheth and warms all the part● of the Body it quickens the Wit and procuret● a bold and pleasant behaviour it greatly increaseth the Vital spirit and because it is of thin an● sprightly parts it is of all other the soones● snatched into Union with our spirit and of thi● is made the best and noblest Menstruums usefull in Chymical Preparations though there may be some more powerfull they not being so fit to be received and entertained into our first Shop viz. our Stomacks as this and also it is not so easie to attain them as these And more over it is not easie to believe how powerful Menstruums may be prepared out of this E●cellent Subject both from it self alone and b● other adjuncts friendly and homogeneous to ou● Nature But to speak of it as it is of commo● Use it wonderfully amendeth the coldness o● Old Age it maketh a man Courageous in Bod● and Mind These are the excellent Commodities of Wine but these are to be understood with respect to the due and lawfull use of them not in Drunkenness and Intemperance for being so used or rather abused nothing can be more hurtful● to Body or Mind for it destroyeth the Life it weakneth the Body dulleth the Understanding it consoundeth the Memory enfeebleth and destroyeth the Reason in summe it overturneth all the Facultyes of Body and Mind of a wise Man it makes a Fool the sharp and pregnant dull and sottish it turns a good Nature into a churlish and brutish good Education into froth and flash an honest and naturally vertuous Mind into a careless loose and Extravagant taking neither care for himself nor others it hastens old Age over-dryes and consumes the Radical Moysture it maketh a Civil Man a Bedlam knowing no difference between himself and others it weakens the Sinews induceth the Lethargy Palsie Trembling of the Hands And therefore Wine though a Liquor neerest of kin to our Natures if spirituous and good yet the Excess is to be avoyded as hurtfull to all the Functions of Body and Mind and that it be moderately used that distillations exsiccations drunkenness or Inflammations do not follow For being taken out of due measure in stead of a help it will prove a ruine and in stead of a remedy an overthrow But there being divers sorts of Wine and these sorts varying much and some being more suitable to one constitution than another and some to one Age than another it is very requisite that every man understand the differences of them and their several qualities and chiefly of such Wines as are most common with us And as to the Temperatures of Wine it is generally agreed to that all Wines are of a hot temperature but though they agree about the first qualities yet they agree not about the second for some will have them of a hot and dry but others of a hot and moyst but it is not to be questioned but these Wines differ among themselves according to the Nature of the Grape and also according to the Nature of the Soil and Climate where they grow White and Rhenish Wine is most neer eac● other in nature and property they are of thi● and penetrating substance they heat and nourish the body less than other Wines they are quickly concocted and speedily distributed t● all the parts they therefore do not annoy the head so much as other Wines they attenuat● and cut gross thick and clammy humours provoke Urine and cleanse the Ureters of Slyme Gravel and Sand they cleanse the Blood and carry off tartarous Filths open Obstructions of the Spleen Mesentery and Mesaraicks they mitigate pains of the head proceeding from hea● of the Stomach they procure sleep comfort the Stomach help concoction and moisten the Body but this is much to be understood with respect to the Constitution Age Sex and State o● Body and Measure of using for these Wines are most accommodated for young hot Constitutions and corpulent Bodies hot Seasons of the Year and such as affect to be Lean and slender and therefore it may conduce much to ho● and corpulent Bodyes to drink White and especially Rhenish Wine in the Morning fasting and for cooling and pleasantness to add a little sliced Limon and to mitigate the acidity with a little fine Sugar and this may be repeated with

assaulted with a manifest Phlegmon this is cruel equal and above the Symptoms but yet there there is less danger in that which shews it self in a manifest Tumor The third doth occupy the interiour Jaws together with the Neck in which the Tumor is without and the redness conspicuous with the heat and pain the Symptoms which are in the former is nothing to this and yet here is better hope of health the Inflamation getting outward it may be digested The Fourth is the lightest of all and is judged the safest which doth not take the interiour Jaws only but also the Pole and the Muscles and yet by a Tumor of these the interiour Muscles of the Laring is prest together and all the entrance is stopped The Causes of all is Chollerick or Sanguine defluction which flows down into these seats and bringeth either an Erysipelus or a Phlegmon Or Angina is wont otherwise to be divided when the internal Muscles of the Throat are inflamed with a great straitness of Respiration but also when the external are inflamed Again when the internal Muscles of the Face are taken with a Phlegmon and doth very much hinder the swallowing and at length the external parts of the Jaws and Chin are besieged with an Inflamation Nota The Bastard is without a Fever this is produced when there is a petuitous distillation falling into the Jaws and Muscles of the Neck and then perchance there is a Tumor but without redness heat or a Fever Hitherto belongs that Species of an Angina which is produced by no proper Affect but when the Vertebraes of the Neck loosened within the Jaws and entrance of the swallow or Throat do swel and is made more strait it is known by this that the Neck is hollowed within the Sick grievously afflicted with Pain also a fall or a stroke went before or the Humour hath loosened the bands of the Vertibraes CHAP. XXXVII The Description of a Phrensie APhrensie is a perpetual or continual Delirium taking its original from an Inflamation of the Membranes of the Brain The Causes of a Phrensie is Chollerick Blood fallen out of the Vessels transpiration being intercepted it putrifies in the Membranes of the Brain external Causes increasing the Distempers are hot Air the rise of the Sun Strong Drinks over heating and inflaming the Brain Anger a Contusion or a Wound The Signs of a Phrensie are a perpetual Delirium or pratling and talking Idle Watchings a continual Fever the Respiration is low and frequent if it comes from an Inflamation of the transverse partition of the Brain but great and rare in a true Phrensie some are true which we have here described others are Bastard Phrensies which are called Paraphrenities and that is when hot Intemtemperatures are communicated to the Brains either from the whole Body or in burning Fevers or from an Inflamation from some one part viz. of the Stomack Liver Lungs and very often from the Diaphragma or Mid●iff from the Inflamation of which there is usually stirred up a Phrensie resembling a true Phrenitis A Phrensie is a most accute Affect which oftentimes kills in seven days CHAP. XXXVIII Of Melancholly Madness THe Melancholly is a Delirium joyned with fear sadness or sorrow without a manifest Cause and without a Fever and it is either a deprivation of the Imagination and Ratiocination arising from from a Melanchollick Phantasm by which he is detained in his thought by one Cogitation without a furious anger and a Fever with sadness and fear the original of this Disease dependeth upon a certain disposition of the Animal Spirits produced from the mixtion of a Melancholly Humour to which there follows the sad dark Phantasms which afterwards rouling the Objects to the Intellect do stir up this doting and anguish of Mind They who have this evil Disease are sad and solitary very fearful and stubborn which from certain Phantasms to themselves which neither are nor can be they imagine many false things they fear things not be feared they sudden and disquiet the Mind without a cause they are silent Morose and suspicious they have hunger above what is usual they sigh often the Respiration is slow and seldom and so is also the Pulse they speak absurdly Some are primarily affected from the Brain Some by consent of the whole Body Others again are called Hypocondriack and do return by Circuits or Intervals And lastly others are thus by a Symhathy of the Womb. CHAP. XXXIX The Mania A Mania ab insaniendo by the Latines furor or insania it is a Delirium without intermission and without a Fever but joyned with a certain fearce rage it ariseth from a hot and fiery disposition of the Spirit and perchance accompanyed with a venomous and malignant quality Authors will have this Disposition arise from Atra-bilis They which labour under this Disease are searce and unruly unless they be stopt with Chains they tear their Cloaths and like unto great and fearce Beasts they do violence with Teeth Nails and Fists neither do they spare themselves moreover they sleep very little they have a stupendious strength of Body a noise or sounding in the Ears dullness of the head a shining splendor in the Eyes sadness and long cares having preceded anger upon a light occasion the Eyes set and flxed upon the Objects they behold much inclining to filthy and foolish laughter a suppression of the Months and Hemorhods These do shew the approach of this Disease Sometimes a Mania is produced from External Causes such as these Witchcrafts Nightshade the bite of Mad-digs or Wolves and sometimes it comes by consent of the Womb and then it is called furor uterinus CHAP. XL. The Palpitation of the Heart PAlpitatio Cordis it is an immoderate and violent Concussion of the Heart which being troublesome to it it endeavours to shake off facultas motrix doth occasion this some troublesome matter stirring of it up which do stir or vex the Heart such as vapours and flatuousness in malignant Fevers suppressio mensium Hypochondriack Melancholly approaching the Heart also putrid and sharp Humours and too copious and so Gravel and Worms for such as these be many times generated in the Heart and then it doth necessarily induce a Palpitation of the Heart and also Tumors arising in the Praecordium Blood effused from Wounds to the Heart and also a nefect of vital Spirits and preternatural heat in the Heart as they stir up by a more vehement motion so also a Palpitat●on which is a depraved motion ensues The External Causes are a vehement Motion and Exercises of Body too much heat and anger over much craming Poisons being taken too hot Bathings and Passions of the Mind do oftentimes precipitate the Sick by swounding to death viz. the Motion of the heart being interrupted CHAP. XLI Worms LVmbrici or Worms are wont to be in all the parts of the Body but chiefly in the Intestines from a gross and clammy Flegm which is corrupted and seated in ●he common

and preserved by the use of their like and co●traries are destroyed by their contr●ries and weary his body by viole● Exercises and continual labour An● if there be a suppression of choleri● Excrements which before did freel● flow either by Nature Will or Art b● whosoever seeds upon meats gener●ting gross blood as Beef Veniso● Hare old Cheese and all salt meats without all doubt sliding from his N●ture will fall into a melancholy te●per especially if to that manner Diet he shall have avocation full cares turmoils miseries strong a● much study carefull thoughts and fea● and also if he sit much wanting Ex●cise for so the inward heat as it w● defrauded of its nourishments fai● and growes dull whereupon gross a● drossie humours abound is gone out of the belly shall stuffe his panch with more Who presently after meat runs into violent Exercises who inhabit cold and moist places who lead their life at ease in all idleness and lastly who suffer a suppression of the phlegmatick humour accustomely evacuated by Vomit Cough or blowing the Nose or any other way either by Nature or Art Certainly it is very convenient to know these things that we may discern if we at the present be phlegmatick melancholick or of any other temper whether he be such by Nature or Necessity Of Spirits IN order of Nature that that offers it self to the next hand is concerning Spirits A Spirit consider as a part of a man and that which enters our Constitution is defined to be an aiery thin and clear substance the seat of the native heat the Vehiculum of the Faculties and Instrument of the out-going Functions and of these there be two sorts one is the In-nate and the other is the In-flowing Spirit The In-nate Spirit is that which is put into every Similar part by the Principles of Generation and that which of the Greeks is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is the Foundation of the Humidum radicale The In-flowing Spirit is that which breaks forth from elsewhere and nourisheth and preserveth the Faculty and innate heat carrying it every where to the acting the Functions Of this In-flowing Spirit there be three kinds Animal Vital and Natural The first is the Animal Spirit an● that which is begotten from the Vital Spirit and the inspired Aire int● the Ventricle of the Brain and distributed by the motive and sensitiv● Nerves giving sence and motion to th● whole Body The Vital Spirit is that which is begotten in the left bosome of the heart and the prepared Aire in the Lungs whence it is distributed to all the part● by the Arteries The Natural Spirit which goes forth from the Liver by the Veins with the Blood is poured forth into the Extream parts of the Body the Author of Generation Nutrition and Increase Of the Faculties A Faculty it is the Innate power of the Soul used to the performance of Actions and it is defined by Galen to be the Effecting Cause of Actions and therefore is call'd a Faculty Quod quae facit facere possit So that is understood by the Name of a Faculty which hath a power to doe and these Faculties are stated to be Animal Vital and Natural And that is the Animal Faculty which is onely proper to the Animal and for that cause it is so called That is Vital which the Vital begets in the heart and is sent forth from thence by the Arteries for the preservation of Life whence also it receives the Name of Vital The Natural Faculty is that which is in the Liver and sends Aliment to all the parts of the Body by the Veins Of Actions AN Action proceeds from a Faculty call'd in Latine a Function and therefore also they call it an Operation And as an Action so also a Function is three-fold Animal Vital and Natural But Action is defined by Galen to be of two sorts Animal and Natural From the Animal they are call'd Anamae Actiones but from the Animale Actiones Animi CHAP. V. Of Things not Natural THese Res non Naturales are s● call'd because they are not o● the number of those which enter into the Constitution or Composu● of mans Body as the Elements Humors and the rest which have been briefly mentioned already There are six thing which are Res non Naturales The ambient Aire Meat and Drink Sleep and Watching Motion and Quiet Excretion and Retention and Perturbation of the Mind in the right use of which doth consist the pr●●ervation of Health And to this purpose that Aire is to be Aire chosen which is neither thick nor rimy nor cloudy neither neer to standing Pools or Rivers but thin and serene neither too hot nor too cold neither too dry nor too moist neither infected with the ill Gales of Lakes common Sewers Sinks nor the filthy breath that is exhaled from dead Carkases nor corrupted by putrifying Dungs or any thing that sends forth filthy fumes neither that which is sent forth by windes out of the Mountains into the Vales and Caves and shut up in other hollow places but pure and thin Of Meats THat Food is to be chosen which is Of Meat of good Juice easie of Concoction that hath not much Excrementitious matter but Food of an ill Juice is to be rejected the particulars of which you will hear more hereafter upon treating of the Scurvy Those are call'd Foods of good Juice which are neither too hot nor too cold dry or moist but ●emperate neither too glutinous nor too thin but of a Medium because they beget good Blood that is neither too thick nor too thin The Quantity of Food must be measured Quantity by the Ability of the Concoctive Faculty and of whole Natures Ability to distribute that which is requisite to the nourishment to every part and therefore the quantity must not abound the power of the native heat and to this end it must be well chewed and ground by the teeth that being swallowed into the stomach the first shop of Nature it may be the easier concocted The Time of taking Food must not Time be before the fore-received Food be cast out by the power of the Expulsive Faculty into the Guts out of the Stomach The Drink must be Beer well boy'ld The drink made of Barley-malt or mixed with Oats it must not be red nor white neither sharp or soure but well boyl'd if Beer and clear and pure of good odour The Quantity of Drink must answer Quantity of drink the Quality of the received Food for if the Food be more solid and dry the Drink may be more liberal where the meats are more moist the Drink must be the less Much swashing of the stomach with The Time drink at Meals is disapproved as unwholsom and yet it must not be too sparing because that will not quench the thirst which is to be regarded As to the Time of Drink as Hunger doth admonish us when to eat so Thirst

Disease And therefore that Salt and the grosser parts of the Chyle when all cannot be attracted from the Spleen and elaborated and attracted by the Liver without Impediment even that which is the subtiler part of the Chyle as that which is familiar to it and naturally more apt to the generating good blood and cannot expell all things from Nature because of the abundance and unaptness they stick in the first wayes and abide in the branches o● 〈◊〉 Porta and Mesaraick 〈…〉 the Mesen●ary it self Pa●●r●● ●nd 〈◊〉 and by reason that it is wo●● to administer matter of Cause to such humours they are continually encreased every day And to these salt gross fixed humours there are joyned and mixed other crude and vitious humours and are detained in these places and so ●he Cymists do call the foulness of these humours heaped up in the first wayes Tartarous Having premised these things let us return to the Analogy that seems to be between the Fermentation of Wine and the Blood o● Humo●rs and concerning ing the first note in the Fermentation of Wine CHAP VIII 〈…〉 when the Faeces are separa●●● and 〈◊〉 to the bottom if they ●●● again elevared to motion or if any Heterogeneous Exotick Sulphur be cast into the 〈◊〉 from thence there will arise a notabl●● 〈…〉 which unless it be 〈…〉 to the ruin● of 〈◊〉 whol● 〈…〉 lik● 〈…〉 there b● ma●y thing ●hich 〈…〉 mixible with ●●● blood which ●eing mixed wi●● 〈◊〉 ●oe ●i●der ●he mo●ion and Circulation of it ●nd trouble th● Oeconomi● Indeed these are not so well performed the nourishing Liquo●●eing reduced to a muddiness ●● inordi●●●ely ferments the blood and also ●ha● Liquor is made to degenerate from its statu quo prius into a base and flat Liquor and being such stirres up the Fitts of intermitting Fevers but the vapo●ou● Excrem●nts of the Blood the Rasa or Iraseibiles cholerick and atrabilious retained in its bosome it brings forth Catarrhes Dropsies Jaundies Melancholy 〈◊〉 ●any other Effects And Secondly The Sulph●●●us part 〈…〉 Blood being too much ●●al●ed from thence is produced an ino●dinate heat and so is apt to be k●●dled i●●he heart and from thence follow● a Feverish heat and thence have many Fevers the Cause of their Existence Thirdly There frequently happens a close Union or Constriction of the Sulphur with the wearied or tired spirit the saline parts being brought to a fluidness it excells the rest in power and force and so the Liquor passeth into an Acetum or Vinegar and from the Acidity of the Blood are produced Melancholy Distempers Fourthly There is yet another intemperature of Wines viz. when the spirit being depressed the saline and sulphurous particles combining together are exalted and this may be done in Wines in a two-fold manner And this is very observable Wines may degenerate into Vappa or Vineger and that sometimes from the spirit being depressed and also the sulphur with the salt exalted together doth become musty clammy or slimy which we call Wine over-fretted or become Ropy in either mutation the spirit being brought under the Yoak the sulphur and saline being associated together they grow too powerfull fo● the other Elements and so they may be changed into the gross disposition of its own Liquor notwithstanding this thing is not done in the same manner in both For in the first Dyscrasia or Intemperature of the Wine the Sulphur somewhat abides with the Salt but in the latter the Salt rather existeth with the Sulphur but whether it be one or the other that is made more powerfull the dominion of the spirit being driven away the other consents with it and taketh away its due state the manner of both is explicable When Generous Wines have long waxed hot and by little and little being wounded the Spirit partly evaporates and being rolled about with the other grosser Elements it is supprest in the mean time the Sulphur the abundance of which is advanced by the great Agitation and the Spirit is brought under the Yoak adhering to the Salt and taking it up it alters the mixture of the Liquor and then by reason of the excellency of the Sulphur combined with the Salt thence comes the mustiness even as with thin Wines long kept the Salt excited and made victorious it depresseth the Spirit and from thence it induceth a sharpness to the subjected Latex and then the exalted Salt which is in it in a lesser quantity getting the Sulphur to it self and joyning it intimately with it self turns the substance of the Liquor from thin into thick and as i● were Oleaginous and from a soure savour into a very ungratefull and as i● were a Mustiness It is very probable that the Bloo● may be thus altered in the Scorbutio● Affection as Wines as often as the● wax hot they degenerate into Rop● and stinking For this Disease is not ● much from the Faeculency mixed wi● the Blood although such have bee● and the Supplement of them may ● known before but it dependeth upo● the habitual Intemperature of the Bloo● and the Argument is this Because a rad●cated Scurvy is so difficultly cured a● sometimes not at all we may state t● Dyserasia sanguinis is the Parent of t● Scurvy even as we constitute a Dup●city of the Wine to wit a Sulphuro-●linan and a Salino-Sulphurean F● where there is the greatest variety ● Distempers which are attributed to t● Scurvy all these may chiefly and ve● aptly be referred to two heads or Fo●tains of Evil Viz. CHAP. IX THE first is that in which the Blood is touched with the Scorbutick Mia●ines or the prae-existing heat in which to wit the Sulphur having got the prae-domination gets the salt to it self wherefore that being made more rancid or Rammish waxeth inordinately hot in the Vessels and the Excrements being ●urnt to wit the Concretions of the Sulphur and Salt the Sulphur wholly forsakes it self and is dispersed here and ●here the which truely being drove ●utward do produce spots Pustuls Ex●nth●mata and Ulcers but being dispo●ed inwardly they occasion Vomitings ●nrdialgia or heart-akings Diarrhaeas ●r Dysenteries and also most cruel pains ●n the scorbutick Rancidity of this kind ●f Blood temperate Remedies onely ●nd frequent Phlebotomies as Scurvy-●rass Horse-radish and other things en●owed with a sharp and biting taste are ●onvenient and for the like reason musty ●r rancid Wines are cured by taking from them their Faeces Moreover by th● pouring in of Milk Starch Ising-glass and of other things asswaging or mitigating them In the second place in the Blood no●rishing the Scurvy the Salt having g● the Dominion it joyns the Sulphur to i● wherefore that is not so hot but it b●comes thick as ropy Wine and as it we Mucilaginous it is slowly circulated ● the Vessels and whiles it passes the Bo●els it is apt to stuffe them and to fast● the muddiness to them such Effects oft● times are made without cutaneous Eru●tions there are produced short breatedness and weariness they labour wi●

Veins that passes down by the back but chiefly the spots do bud and put forth themselves in the feet and leggs 4. When the Fountain and Fuel of this Disease is circumscribed in the Bowels that neither much of it is powred forth into the veins then either the Veins it self or both do begin to swell in the Panch-belly and so they are rendered bigger but chiefly the Spleen which swelling or being puffed up with Afflatus and glutted with the muddy part of the blood it spreads to a greater magnitude 5. The fifth symptome of this disease is that from hence is produced an extenuation of the Body by reason of a defect of the more benign Aliment and nutritive Juice or from impure Food the blood being not sufficiently cleansed 6. The Appetite the Faculty of the stomack the desire of Food needfull and necessary to Life is dejected conflicting almost continually with a nauseating loathing and aversion to all food with some it is dulled but with others the natural habit of the stomack is well-nigh lost and truely all these things are wont to happen by reason of the disparity of the humour flowing as from the Liver so also from the Spleen into the Center of the stomack 7. The Seventh symptom is this that sometimes one sometimes another of the Hypocondra● are afflicted with pain and as it were with an obscure deadness wherefore they are vehemently distended by winds or Flatus that hides and are shut up in these places from whence the power of Rising up and going doth arise 8. Eightly The pain of this place is not perpetually circumscribed and abiding here but every where now here now there according to its wandring disposition now in the sides and anon in the lower parts of the Body and by and by through the whole Body and thus it very imperiously maintains its own bounds 9. In the first which is extended to the Loyns the Loyns seem as though they were broke and in these there is perceived too much blood abounding in the great Veins of the Loyns before the arising of marks Buboes the Haemorrhoids being stopt in men and the monthly Courses in Women and other pains running over the whole Body but chiefly the Joynts sometimes with and sometimes without a tumour sometimes with a certain quivering and discovering its self of its own accord and often times it resembles the Gout 10. The tenth symptome is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or swounding which doth assault many the heat and spirit being wearied even as it is wont in the Hypochondraick affection in which often times there is certain Respits or Intervals as it were the Spirits leading themselves to the Castle of the heart as to its strong hold 11. If the humour pass downward because Nature with its own Gravity maketh it to travel into the Veins there is pain with a Flatus and vexes their extream parts abundantly 12. Some are Costive or more sparingly go to stool by reason of the driness of their bodies but others are attended with fluxes 13. The Urin appears muddy and yet it neither resideth to the bottom nor hath any troubled Sediment at the bottome 14. There is such pulsation of the quivering Arteries as there is in them that are afflicted with a Quartan Ague which is weak hard and frequent 15. And if the Praecordia's by reason of ill Living have been inflamed by heat because of the straitness of the place the matter having been shut in as in a hot Oven a Fever will arise gentle to the touch of the hand neither having any period or time of Endings 16. The Scurvy hath frequently its own periods with which by little and little it is dissolved and returns as it were again per Circulatum vel circuitum 17. When the flesh of the Gums by its nature being softer because of its Texture and being moistened with vapours from the impure Bowels scorching by the power of the heat from below truly they then are most apt to be fill'd and then it ariseth into a less and fluid humour 18. The Gummes do begin to itch at their roots because of a scorched putrid salt humor moistened by its Ichor with which by its nature is acrid and sharp propagated either by contagion being stopt no longer and by taking another course and afterward it hath by staying in the place acquired an Acrimonia 19. The Scurvy is alwayes accompapanyed with the stinking foetor in the mouth 20. Another Infirmity that attends the Scurvy is a weakness and feebleness in the knees for which cause the sick can walk but slowly though he endeavour much by reason that the Muscles and nervous parts are over-charged with gross and melancholy humours as also a Contraction of the Nervous parts that many cannot set their feet plain upon the Ground 21. To some there happens an obstinate stifness of the Jawes that they cannot well gape or yawn by reason of the stubborn stifness of the Joynt of the Cheek 22. In some there happens a convulsive motion of the Muscles and Nerves in others a paralytick distemper in some a swelling in their legges in some the Scurvy and Dropsie are complicated together in others there is an Atrophy viz. a Consumption of some one part whiles the rest are in good plight by reason of undue attraction of Aliment 23. There often happens a trembling and palpitation and great Assaults of the Heart and these Passions are meerly convulsive from the Cardiacous Nerves to wit of the Praecardium and Heart it self by reason of the spasmodical matter that besieges it 24. Some annoyed with wandring Fevers and also sudden suffusions of heat and also Cold in several parts of the Body now hot and anon cold flushing heats in their faces especially after meals untill the Concoction be over 25. Also Scorbuticks are wont to be molested with copious sweats and specially in the night because the nutritive Juice every day brought into the Mass of blood by reason of the intemperature impurity and foulness of it is very little assimilated being rejected of the blood breaks forth under the form of sweat but because that Nutritive Liquor whiles it is assimulating is made worse being sick it produceth not a Fever in its own manner the saltish intemperature of the blood which being less apt therefore abideth in the burning Fits these immoderate kinds of Sweats continual Fevers with other Chronical Diseases doe often happen to scorbutick persons where the Nutritive Liquor by fault of the assimulating Blood is perverted more than the concocting Bowels 26. In Scorbuticks the Urine appears red like a Lie made of Wood-ashes and this we pronounce as an undoubte● sign of this Disease for whiles the serou● Latex dissolved with the saltish and sulphurous uncocted particles some do● impart and communicate to it the highly saturated and as it were the Lixivial tincture and also such a Urin abounde● much with Contents which when it ● cold doth praecipitate to the bottom 27. To this

Bowel they are stirred up and receive life from the abundance of inbred heat by the Example of other Animals which have their Life from a putrid Matter by the help a of Coelestial Heat according to the various Figure of the putrifying Matter So here are various Species of Worms some long and r●und which are wont to be begotten in the superiour and thinner Bowels and these be the most frequent of all and sometimes they creep up into the Stomack and and thence by the Gula they ascend into the Mouth it self from whence being open they spring forth Others again be shorter and broad which oftentimes do stick one unto another in a wonderful manner and these are called Cucurbites and sometimes this broad Worm with the mutual adhesion of them which for the similitude is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which are as long and broad as Womens Swaiths and Fill its so that they extend themselves as long as the thicker Intestines And lastly others are exceeding small and thin and are called Ascarides which for the most part are seated in the intestina recta Crudity and Gluttany and the use of such things as do easily putrify do administer matter to all Children a little grown are often afflicted with these Signs of Worms be these a stinking of the Mouth and such as is urging towards a soureness the Stools resemble Cow-dung sometimes a Fever which returns often in the same day with trouble and fainting nauseousness vomiting and unquenchable thirst the Cheeks are red by turns and pale again an Itching of the Nose a Gnashing of the Teeth a dull heaviness and pain of the Head talking idle and Epileptical Convulsions a dry Cough and many times afflicted with pain in the Belly and it puffed up and distended awaking from sleep with fear and horror as also a Dog-like Hunger the Belly sometimes decreased the Pulse is unequal Ascarides are known by the troublesome Itch of the Fundament and the Excrements oftentimes appears besprinkled with them and after they bring most cruel Symptoms but the Ascarides are less hurtful CHAP. XLII A continual Fever A Fever is described by some to be an inordinate Motion of the Blood and it s over much rage with heat and thirst and with many other Symptoms wherewith the Aeconomia of it is troubled some are continual and some are intermitting the accession of a continual Fever extends to many days unless it hath its own times of remission and of Exarcerbation but never of intermission the inraged Blood induces a continual Fever in a Three fold manner The First is when the subtil and spiritual portion of the Blood waxeth too hot and is affected with a certain kindling heat which therefore doth agitate the rest of the Cruor and doth incite it into an Orgasmum And so the kindling fury and heat is stirred up more than before in the whole Body But because the Spirits are in the only fault the b●●ning and inordinan●sie is wont to dep●●t in a short time of its own accord Hence it is that this Fever is terminated within a day and it is extended beyond Three days and therefore it is called Febris Ephemera The second manner of waxing hot is when the Sulphurous or Oylie part of the Blood being over heated begins to be hot for then it waxes immoderately hot in the Vessels and oftentimes kindles in the Heart by its own Flame produceth a very intense heat in the whole Body and so that kind of Fever is produced which is vulgarly called a putrid Symochus which is Symtomatical or Essential that is called Symtomatical which draweth its original from some other certain Disease first stirred up in the Body and that is a Fever of that sort which hath its dependance upon an an Angina Quinsie Pleurifie Perihneumonia a Wound-Ulcer or Imposthume either in any principal ot neighbouring part The Essential is wont to be divided into a Causus Quotidian Terti●n and a Quartan according to the divers Discrusia Sanguinis or intemperatur of the Blood the supply and kind of nourishing Juice so sooner or later arising to a plenitude of swelling bulkiness But the Third Degree and that which doth constitute the distinct Species of a continual Fever is stirred up from a certain malignant and venomous ferment with which the Mass of Blood is defiled and the Spirit and Sulphurous parts takes fire together and their kindling heat not first alaid which may be either the malignant matter taken is cast out of doors or from the corrupt venom of it doth induce a Coagulation or as it were a certain putrifaction of the Blood and by which the circulation is hindred and the vital Spirit extinguish'd and after this manner are made malignant Fevers small Pox Measl●s and also the Pestilens But the ●ot continual Fever differs from that which constitutes an intermitting in this that in that the disorders of the Spirit and Sulphur or both and freely by their own accord without the mixture o● any other thing do take Flame and wonderfully Boyl but it is not so in an intermitting Fever That most Excellent Man Francis Sylvius thinks the Cause of all continual F●v●rs to be the Bill or Water under which he comprehends the Pancreatical Juice and so that ●●●vil is brought with it to the Heart 〈◊〉 that exciting such a viscious Effervesc●●●ia in the right Ventricle of the Heart an● thence is produced continually a more frequent pulse Too great Exercises of Body perturbation of Mind the Ambient Air the heart of the Sun or Summer drinking of Wine the use of prepared meats Watch over much Labour a Bubo a Wound do all induce to the every days Fever the plenty of Milk to Women in Child-bed hot seasons of the Year unaccustomed Exercise strong habit of Body do all dispose to it The forging Causes of a putrid Fever a●e hot seasons a strong and moist habit of Body a youthful age a high and rich Diet the continual drinking of rich Wine a tempestuous Spring and Summer a Cacochymial Body Meats of evil Juice but above all this is worth your observation that the frequent letting of Blood renders Men more apt to a Fever for this reason tha● the larger quantity of Sulphur which is ●●●●ied in the Blood is subdued but the Salt ought to be stoped from its fearsenes● Those things 〈◊〉 brings the lurking disposition of this Fever into act are chiefly Transpiration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Transpiratio being hindred and much gusling these do not only induce an exceeding fermitation of the Blood but doth also administer a Nitrosulphurous Matter apt to burning and kindling as Food to the flaming Blood but because that Massie heap of the Blood being increased it swells and as i● were inspired with a certain ferment de novo it exceedingly boyls In this Feaver there are Four Seasons to be observed and by which staches as it were the whole course of it is performed and they be these the beginning the increase

doth wont to continue longest and the which begins in Autumn and for the most part continues the whole Winter and departs not until the Spring unless by accident and so some do continue from one Year to many Years we have known some hath been extended to Seven Years and more but in Summer they be shorter Those things which dispose to this Fever are Autumn the Sea-Coast the end of Summer a Melancholly Temper and such who by an evil manner of Diet obnoxious to a Hypochondriack affection But the cause of these constituted Periods seem to be ascribed to the divers constitutions of the Blood Viz. by which from a due temper it is perverted one while into sharp and anon into an acid or austere disposition for which cause the divers intemperatures of it the nourishable Juice newly brought doth more or less depart from a maturation and degenerates sooner or later into a matter apt to ferment CHAP. XLIV A Hectick Fever FEbris Hectica that is a Habitual Fever or a Fever conversant in the Habit it is a preternatural Hcat in the substance of the Heart sticking and burning in the solid parts drying and consuming and brings the whole Body to extream leanness There are Three Degrees of this Fever The first is when the dewy moisture is dryed and consumed The second is when the fleshy and fatty Substance is depopulated and perisheth and in this the Extenuation of the Body is evident The Third is when the Febra's and Membranous Substance is wasted and the whole Body waxeth lean then follows Facies Hypocratica the gastly Countenance and the Bones only appear covered with the Skin This is the true wasting and Hectick which of the Greeks is called Marasmodes and which is incurable The internal Causes of the Hectick are burning and continual Fevers Ulcers and continual inflamations of the Liver Stomack Lungs Reins and other Bowels Those things which refer to outward Causes are such things as can generate other Fevers such things as do very much either consume the humid Substance in the solid Members or very much stirs up a continual heat or are apt to perform both to which the promptitute and disposition of the subject and the continual disposition of heating do make to the receiving of this preternatural heat Such are the heat of the Sun or fire vehement Exercise heating Meats and Drinks immoderate Excretions as a Diarrhea Dysenteria Animi Pathemata or more vehement passion of the Mind And lastly Hunger a more hot and dry Habit of Body is more apt to take this Fever The beginning Hectick is not easily known the other kind is difficultly Cured The Signs of all Hecticks are common the heat of the whole Body is equal and of which they do not complain nor do they understand themselves to be Feverish it first appears weak by reason of the fewness of the Vapours but if thou wilt apply thy hand longer there appears a sharpness and gnawing heat by reason of the dryness and solidity of the subject and greater in the Arteries than in other parts by reason of the communion of the Heart and this Heat increaseth one Hour or two after Meat is received no other ways waxing hot than Calx Vive if Water or any such thing be poured upon it the Pulse small frequent and swift the Urine oleaginous with a branny sedement CAAP. XLV The Rickets RAchites the Rickets a Disease unknown to the Ancients which yet at this day no Disease is more frequent in this Kingdom it is a cold and moist intemperature of the whole Spinal Marrow entring the Skul the arise of all the Nerves and of all the Membranous and Febrous parts of the whole Body with the defect and feebleness of the Spirits and tone of the parts visciated the cause and parts primarily affected do fetch their definition from this whose Signs and Symptoms are looseness and softness of the parts primarily affected debility and pining or enervation of the parts serving to Motion weakness and feebleness of the Joynts the Head bigger than is meet the Face fuller and more florid the Musculous parts wax lean certain Protuberations and Nodes about certain of the Joynts mostly in the Rist and in the Extremity of the Ribs a bowing or incurvating of some of the Bones which more frequently happens to the Bones of the Cubit Shins Thighs and Shoulders sharpness and straitness of the Breast Bunches and Tumors of the Abdomen Repletion and Tention of the Hypochondries a frequent Cough difficult Respiration and many other evils of the Lungs as the stuffing of them hard Tumors Imposthumes Inflamations growing or sticking to the Pleura a weak and a feeble Pulse the common Cause of which seems to be an unequal and unprofitable Nutrition the Antecedent Causes are beside the falt in the Seed of the Parents defiled with the like disposition redundant viscious Humours in the Body Flegm Choller and chiefly Melancholly but the Procatarctical Errors committed in the use of res non naturales Infants are taken with this Disease till they are Two Years and a half old and sometimes after CHAP. XLVI Of a Convulsion A Convulsion in Greek called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Celsus is a distention of the Nerves Or thus a Convulsion is a continual and involuntary contraction of the Nerves and Muscles towards their original upon which there follows a stiffness a deprivation of the Figure and Form of the Part with a most cruel Pain the Part affected is the Muscle which is the proper Instrument of voluntary Motion The nearest Cause of this Convulsion is an Irritation of the Nervous Parts from any thing molesting and troubling the Muscle the Animal Faculty performing the Motion being drawn into consent The Material Causes are any Humours Flegm only excepted so that they have acquired also a certain occult enemical disposition in the Nerve as also the Vapours and Humours in the N●rves and Chollerick Disease which can pull the Nervous Parts and become a true cause of Convulsion A Convulsion is either of the whole Body or it is of more or fewer parts that which is of the whole Body doth constitute Three Species or Sorts the first is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Head Neck and upper parts of the Back is pulled together The second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when those parts or the lower parts of the Spine are vexed The third is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that wherein the Neck and whole Body appears stiff and bowed into neither part but these last Species of the Cramp are very rare Moreover there are other Species of the Convulsion which are wont to be called Flatulent which by the Italians is called Crampa and vulgarly with us Cramp this happeneth oftentimes to the Muscles of the Shoulders Shins Fingers Hands and Feet and this done with great Pain that which is stirred up from Flatulentsy is not so dangerous for that is easily taken away by frixion only CHAP.

to the phlegmatick and aged persons Greek Wine is of a blackish red colour and is of a temperate nature sweeter and hotter than Claret yet accompanyed with a pleasing sharpness it breedeth good blood reviveth the Spirits strengtheneth the Liver and comfor●eth the Stomach cheereth the heart it is most profitable for those that be weak and aged Red Wine is of an astringent faculty of a sharp austere taste and it is chiefly good for Physical uses to stop fluxes of the Belly and Cholerick Vomitings There are also other French Wines for pleasantness of Taste and Mediocrity of strength substance colour and taste do for most bodies at meat excell most other wines which are in use familiar to the Kings and Peers of France they notably comfort the Stomach further Concoction and the Distribution of Meats and hurt not the head with vaporous fumes they are very convenient for every Age Constitution and Season and indeed as they are so they deserv● the name of Regal Wines Also there is a great difference in Wines by reason of their Age for wines that are New are unwholsom and the more new the more unwholsom for they being new and unfermented by which the Sulphur of the wine is set at liberty they are as yet of gross and Excremental substance have in themselves little heat fo● that cause they do not help but much hinder th● Concoction and Distribution they cause Cholick Torments and breed Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Reins but in process of tim● these superfluities and rawness are by Fermentation overcome and the thick is become thin the dull quick and lively and that that was heterogeneous to our nature is become most agr●eable to our Constitution Though you are to observe that all VVine● have not the same time of continuance for thos● wines that are less rich with sulphurous spirits will not la●t so long as those that are as VVhite wine Rhenish and Claret for these in six o● seven months according to the smallness of the● attain to the height of their goodness and d● begin to decline after a year and lose much ● their goodness and this is proportionable to th● smallness of them but those stronger sorts o● wine which abound with a sat Sulphur as Sack Muskadel Malmsey decay not till they be tw● or three years old for these by reason of their strong heat do reserve their prefect Vigour for a long time and as these wines are unwholsome whilest they are new so are they also if they be too old for when they have passed four or five years they are unwholsome because they over-heat much for they acquire the more heat the older they are and in summe such wines are to be shunned except onely for Medicine because they alter the bodies over-much that drink them and therefore not fit for Aliments such wines hurt the sinews hinder procreation because they dry too much they disturb the understanding and because they abound with tart and vehement fumes they affect the membranes of the Brain with cruel pains Take heed therefore of wines over-old or over-new and the Newness of wine is to be considered according to the Nature of the wines for white and Rhenish wine may be used sooner than those other more fat and sulphur●ous wines and therefore Galen saith that Muste or New wine hath no other use but to move the belly which if it want that faculty it is to the body extreamly ill and hurtfull You are to observe five things in exhibiting of wine The first is That you give it not to Children for it will not agree to their hot and moist Constitution they would thereby be over-hot and their heads fill'd with vapours whence would follow many Evils The Second is That it be not given to Youths from fourteen years to twenty five for wine is very repugnant to them because it doth out of measure heat their hot and fiery Natures i● would stir them up to enormous and Evil Action The third is That it be very moderately given to young men as for instance from Twenty five to Thirty five for otherwise it will dispose them to wrath and unlawfull desires du● the Wit and destroy the Memory The Fourth is That it may be given more liberally to men in their Manhood as fro● Thirty five to Fifty years of Age But whe● they are past Forty years they may begin t● drink and refresh themselves with wine with th● proceding Caution of Moderation and especially if they be not of a hot Constitution but if so let them abstain from the hotter sort of Wines and above all from the often use of them fo● the head and sinews will be much offended by them The fifth is that it be given with more liberality to old men and these may drink the stronger sort of Wines and this chiefly whe● they are in the latter part of old Age as fro● Sixty to the end of Life There accrue four excellent Commodities by using moderately pure Wine The first is because it greatly correcteth the Coldness of Old Age and produceth a bette● temperament of heat and increase of heat The second is because it expelleth Fatness an● resisteth Melancholy The third is it makes them in old Age slee● well which is many times wanting by reaso● of the drieness of the Brain and fewness of Vapours The fourth is because it removeth Obstructions and cheereth their Old Age and preserveth their humidum radicale These VVines specially the Canary Rhenish and VVhite are of excellent use when they are made Medicinales by the admixtion of such things as are appropriate to any distemper as Wormwood-wine for the Stomach Betony or Rosemary-wine for the Head or other Cephalick things according as the Distemper of the sick shall indicate as Viper-wine for malignant Diseases or opening Obstructions And in like manner wine may be made Medicinable for all the parts of the body and here I shall give you an excellent Medicinal VVine Take the Roots of Angelica one ounce Sassafras half an ounce Mace one dram the flowers of Rosemary Bettony Cowslip Borrage Bugloss of each two drammes Saffron a penny-weight tops of Tamarisk one handfull Roman Wormwood two drammes Put these into two quarts of White or Rhenish Wine the Roots being first bruised and all tyed up in a fine Rag and after they have stood two dayes five or six Spoon-fulls may be taken for pains in the Head Stomach or Back pains or stitches in the Sides pains of the Liver or Obstructions of the Spleen And this may be taken Morning and Evening it is also good against the Scurvy and al● foeminine Obstructions Of the STONE IT often-times happens that our Bodies ar● even a Quarry of Stones but not such a● might make to the building of the Aedifice● or structure of the Fabrick of our Body b● rather to the ruine of the whole for there is n● part of our Body wherein Stones may not b● generated for they are generated in the

Head Tongue Lungs Heart Stomach Liver Bladde of Gall Spleen Intestines M●sentery an● Womb but when they are called Stones pe● Autonomasiam Catexochen they are the● to be understood to be begotten in the Reins ● Bladder because they are more frequently generated in these parts If the Stone besieges th● Bladder that is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but i● the Reins do labour with the Stone it is calle● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 N●phritis The Stone is defined thus It is a solid an● hard body grown together into the form of ● Stone for the most part in the Reins and Bladder affecting them with a Nummeness fro● an Earthy and salt humour bringing Obstructions and Distention The material Cause of th● Stone r●jecting the Opinion of the Ancient● concerning the heat exsiccating indurating an● converting the gross and viscid matter into ● Stone is supposed to be a Stonifying Juice viz. An Earthy matter mixed with a Saltish in an equal proportion but the Efficient Cause to be a Stonifying Spirit placed in that Juice we draw in this Stonifying Juice with the Aliment which is found every where in all the Earth And so if by reason of the debility of the Concoctive and Expulsive Faculty or because of the abundance of that Juice all cannot be separated in the Stomach and expelled from thence but it then passes by the Ductum Thoracicum together with the Chyle to the heart and thence with the blood is carryed into the Aorta and at length is drove by the emulgent Artery into the Reins where it sticks to those extream small branches of the Artery or in the fleshy parts joyned to them and being hurried continually by the arrival of the blood in that place by little and little puts on the form of Gravel which if the sense of the Reins be stirred up with the roughness of them it expelleth the Sands leisurely with a serous humour but if the Gravel be generated in the Reins that be weak and there be perceived a dull sense in them and they are retained till they are united together they then grow into Stones which at length by a more forceable stirring of Nature it stirres up the Excretion of them and in the same manner is to be understood the generation of the Stone in the Bladder for if the temperature of the Bladder be not as it ought the Urine which should come out clear exactly mixed with all its parts passeth forth muddy and troubled and the Earthy and Tartarous parts being not exactly mixed with the watery settleth to the bottom of the Bladder and there by an innate power tend● to Coagulation and so passes together into ● Stone The antecedent Causes of the Stone are beside the dull and stupid sense of the affecte● parts much Cramming and Crudity unseasonable motion of the body after meat all Meat● which are gross and afford but a small Juice unripe and austere wines black thick and swee● wines but most of all musty new thick an● muddy Beer also continual Riding Leaping and all motion which is made by the Back th● immoderate use of Venus To this place belong Hereditary disposition to the Stone but th● reason of that Stonifying augmentation in th● Reins of some but of others in the Bladder i● the strength or weakness of those parts by whic● the more weak Reins do fall more easily int● this Distemper of the Stone for which caus● those parts that are more strong are most afflicted with the Stone of the Bladder and is mor● frequent to Boyes but Old men do mostly labour with the Stone of the Reins These be the Signs of the Stone in the Reins First A fixed pain about the Loyns Secondly For the most part the Urine is crude thin an● waterish by reason of Obstruction sometime● bloody when the Stone begins to move it self and dilates the passages and Pipes of the Processes breaking the flesh Thirdly A dulness straight down the Legges Fourthly A pain in the Testicles on that side in which the Stone is and the drawing or Retraction of it upward Fifthly Nauseousness to such a Subversion that they loath all meat and being received in they presently belch it out These be the proper signs of the Stone in the Bladder First A frequent pissing so that at length he come almost to piss continually that he can scarcely forbear pissing Secondly A suppression of Urine the Stone beating of it back Thirdly A Tenesmus which comes by the consent th●t the Anus hath with the Neck of the Bladder Fourthly A pain afflicting in some the whole Ductum Pudendi and in some only the Glans and that most cruel toward the end of pissing when the Stone is stirred by the course of the Urine and as it were presses the Sphincter Muscle with greater violence Fifthly There is a frequent erection and itching of the privy part Sixthly A sandy substance in the Urine and by that word Sandy understand a gross thick Gravel to which there is mixed a fat Earth this is that Clay-like Earth that sticks so stiffely to the botom of the Chamber-pot like snot For to preserve from the Stone and Gout the use of Rhubarb through the whole year is judged convenient at least to be taken thrice in a month from two scruples to a dramme at a time either by swallowing without the mixing any other thing with it or by mixing it with Sugar of Rosis The continual use of Sugar of Rosis some do approve above all others in preserving from the Stone there is scarcely any thing that may conduce more to the preservation from the Stone and without any hurt or trouble helping all the parts of the body but chiefly the Kidneys this wholsom help is temperate and that if the Reins be made larger t● a convenient state of Nature it self that it ma● draw or cast forth those stones but if they b● full and obstructed then it abstergeth if the● be hot it cools it cleanseth the Stomach fro● all Excrements above all others and strengtheneth it it driveth away all distillations therefore it is greatly approved if it be taken eve● day in the Morning one hour before Dinner als● if it be taken twice or thrice in a month fro● one Scruple to half a Dram. Of the Disease of the SPLEEN THE Spleen which is a certain Cook-roo● made for the receiving of the earthy an● muddy part of the blood that at length bein● there fermented and exalted it may pass in● a Ferment as in favour of heat to the blood again to be dispersed abroad This Spleen is infested with many diseases such as these Obstruction a Tumor distendin● the part a Scirrhus Pain Inflammation ● Wound an Ulcer c. It frequently laboure● with an Obstruction and that from the sam● Causes which we have proposed in the obstruction of the Liver it is known by a weight an● resistance in the left Hypochondria with a certain pain and chiefly after long walking in