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A43020	Morbus anglicus: or, The anatomy of consumptions Containing the nature, causes, subject, progress, change, signes, prognosticks, preservatives; and several methods of curing all consumptions, coughs, and spitting of blood. With remarkable observations touching the same diseases. To which are added, some brief discourses of melancholy, madness, and distraction occasioned by love. Together with certain new remarques touching the scurvy and ulcers of the lungs. The like never before published. By Gideon Harvey, M.D.	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1666 (1666)	Wing H1070; ESTC R221901	86,504	264

blood evacuated at the mouth with the spittle may either distill from the brain or palat or be expressed out of the Throat or Gullet or forced out of the Stomach Breast Mediastinum Diaphragma Lungs or Wind-pipe Among these blood forced out of the Lungs gives the worst appearance and doth seldom vanish without leaving an Ulcer behind it Moreover there is a very considerable difference in respect of danger in blood that issues out of the Lung veins which are apt to shed their humours upon these four occasions 1. Upon a rupture or bursting among the Greeks called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Upon the corrosion of a vein that is when it 's eaten through by sharp gnawing blood in Greek termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. A vein gaping or its lips being forced open by a Plethory is apt to effuse a quantity of blood in Greek called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. When the Tunicks of the veins are grown thin and the blood is likewise rendred subtil and piercing it 's apt to sweat through which is nominated a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This latter is oft cured and therefore of a more hopeful aspect but the two former for the most part contemn all remedies The bursting or corrosion of a Vein in the Pleura succeeds these former in a malicious Omen Any of these bloody sputations being too suddenly cured oft changes into a tragick Scene The like happens upon external applications of restringent medicines to the breast or in case internal restrictives be exhibited without dissolvents to dissolve the crumbs of blood that usually concrease out of the extravasated humours which otherwise would occasion a suffocation A bloody sputation whether proceeding from the Lungs or Stomach intimates less danger in Women whose obstructed courses were the cause of it because these being carried down do seldom miss a cure of the former as Hippocrates doth likewise aphoristically tell us A Woman vomiting blood her courses breaking forth puts a stop to her vomiting but this is to be understood in case a Vein gapes or is forced open by a Plethory not if a Vein be bursted or corroded The same reason holds good in men surprized with a sanguin sputation upon a sudden cohibition of their Haemorrhoids which being recalled do frequently stent the other Symptom but if their Haemorrhoids have disappeared for a considerable time than such a sputation survening upon it proves more perilous than otherwise Spitting of blood is more curable in Plethoricks and young folks than in others of a thinner habit of body and old people because as Hippocrates implyes in 2. Aph. 34. They are less endangered in Diseases whose Disease suits with their nature age and habit of body and time than those whose Disease is in no part agreeable In summa any kind of spitting of blood imports a very discriminous state unless it happens as I said before upon the gaping of a Vein or being opened but not bursted or corroded by a Plethory in which case it 's a great help to nature being over burden'd with blood and it usually stops of it self Thus I have known several women vomit up great quantities of blood possibly a pint or two without any prejudice Some I have heard of that have coughed up a quantity not much less no kind of detriment following upon it A Vein bursted or corroded in the Lungs is look'd upon to be for the most part incurable though some do escape because of the continual motion and Coughing of the Lungs taring the gap wider and hindering the conglutination and cicatrization of the vein besides their remote distance from the Stomach the vertues of Medicines being quite spent before they can arrive thither Spitting of blood being complicated with other chronical Diseases as great obstructions of the Bowels Asthma c. is rendred less capable of cure than otherwise A varix or a sweld vein in the Lungs doth oft a good while after burst out into a sudden spitting of blood the patient not dreaming of the least Disease his body should be subjected to for the Lungs being insensible within cannot advert him of any tumour or swelling This accident usually happens when a man hath had a fall or bruise upon his breast whereby the grosser part of the blood was suddenly impelled into a Vein of the Lungs where it causes that swelling which possibly may burst a month or six weeks after for want of taking something at the beginning to dissolve the impulsed blood A broken Vein conglutinated or a corroded one cicatrized is very apt upon a small irritation as a cough vomit fall c. to burst again or return to an Ulcer because the cicatrize or agglutination is performed by a dissolvable or sometime friable kind of humour that 's easily colliquated or rent asunder by the continual motion of the Lungs and especially if render'd violent by a Cough or other accident Wherefore persons that have been so indisposed ought to refrain from taking Vomits or moving their bodies violently timely to remedy any kind of Cough or other Pulmonique Diseases We have given you a large comment of the Prognosticks of spitting blood the remainder of this Chapter wee 'l imploy in the Diagnosticks Blood that 's evacuated from the Lungs is forced up with a Cough without any pain and if a Lung-vein be bursted generally at the first gush a great quantity is cough'd up which afterwards comes up in smaller proportions The blood that 's evacuated at first appears thin pure and florid with a little yellowish froth upon it that which is afterwards evacuated shews paler and watered with a few bubles on it at last it 's expectorated mixt with fleam That which sweats through the veins comes up diluted pale and watered in small quantities mixt with fleam spittle or some of the serum of the blood If a Lung Vein be corroded the blood at first comes up in a smaller quantity afterwards in fuller streams Physicians do vary much in the colour of Pulmonique blood that 's evacuated some will have it a purple others a florid yellow or natural red As to that Lung-blood generally appears somewhat lighter than a natural red because it s conceived to be rendred more aereous by the Lungs Nevertheless it varies according to the constitution of bodies for in some it may be purple in others yellow or red Another dispute that 's moved among Authors is whether Lung-blood is alwayes evacuated with a Scum or froth upon it according to Hippoc. 5. Aph. 13. Those that spit out frothy blood with coughing it comes from the Lungs For to decide this controversie you must note there is a fourfold substance concurring to the constitution of the Lungs 1. The Grisly substance of the Lung-pipes 2. The tough substance of the Ligaments that tye the great Vessels to the Lungs and joyn the pipes together 3. The Parenchyma or flesh of the Lungs 4. That which the small veins and arteries consist of This considered observe

in a day and so continued for some weeks 10. Fonseca consult 58. tom 1. sets a great value upon the Decoction of yellow Sanders 11. Arcaeus lib. de Febr. Erastus lib. 3. Cons. 8. Fracast lib. 3. de morb contag cap 8. Ingrassias in consult pro fist pect Stabelius in Disput and several others recite a great number of Phthisical cures and those desperate ones performed by a Decoction of Guaiacum wood 12. Trallianus lib 7. c. 1. speaks wonders of the use of Bloodstone Cardan writeth no less of the Decoction of Crabs Legs and Tails Fern. of the Syrup of Cumphry others of the Syrup of St. Iohnswort flowers and Syrup of Tobacco 12. For Compositions this following powder of Haly Abbas is by Valescus Forestus Rondeletius and all others received for a singular Medicine whereby the three former cured some Consumptives beyond their own expectation R. Sem. pap alb ʒ x. gum arab amyl āʒiij sem portul malv. al●h āʒ v. sem cucurb cucum citrul cydon āʒ vij Spod glycyr gum tragac āʒ iij. m. f. Pulv. 13. This of Trallianus I esteem equal with the best composition that ever was prescribed by any R. Suc. s●mpervivi passi cretici mel attic ā cyath 2. sem urtic. cucum sativ cup●es ā ℥ j. ●oq ad Consump med part Colat. adde pic liq cyath coq ad consist mellis huic admisce nard syriac ʒ j. thurisʒ iij. Croci pip alb āʒ ij m. f. Elect. Here I have registred to you the most efficacious Medicines of this and the former ages which unless applyed by a dexterous hand may sooner kill than cure Moreover note these detersives may be mixt with the restringents consolidatives incrassatives of the preceding Chapter according as the Patients condition shall require For external means drying suffumiges or smoaks are oft prescribed with good success They are usually composed out of Frankincense Myrrh Pitch Olibanum Benzoin Styrax Gum. hederae Amber Rose leaves Coltsfoot dryed Sanders lign Aloes c. but the fume of Sandaracha is particularly commended Emollient temperate Oyls Liniments seem to facilitate respiration which the Physician must alwayes have an eye to and therefore it 's necessary he should ever mix some lenient pectorals with his other Medicines Issues in the lower parts do also divert Hermetical Physicians go another way to work they begin with a galliard vomit and so proceed to detersives and agglutinatives viz. Flowers of Brimstone Balsam and milk of Sulphur Elixir proprietat is crystal mart Extract Aristol rot spir salis dulc Ol. vitriol ol mercur dulce spir sulphuris per camp ol succin magist ocul cancror magist perlar tinct sal magist coral rub sacchar saturn Mynsighti antimon diaphor To Dogmatists this Chymical practice seems suspicious in regard that vomits do violently conquassate the Lungs and tare the Ulcer wider Moreover Hip. 4. Aph. 8. doth very much condemn vomits in such as are onely disposed to a Phthisis much more in those that are already tabefyed Hereunto may be replyed that vomits though they infer some small detriment to the Lungs yet they import a far greater benefit by working immediately upon the parts mandant and Hip. himself lib. 2. de Morb. did frequently exhibit Hellebor to Consumptives which is experienced to be a very churlish Medicine On the other hand Chymists quarrel with Dogmatists for letting blood in Consumptions where nature is already so much defrauded of its Genius and consequently rather hungers for a greater supply of nutriture this objection they easily answer in asserting that in many Consumptives there is a Plethora ad vires though in no wise ad vasa a great acrimony in their blood and an impetuous afflux of humours to their Lungs which do very urgently indicate Phlebotomy whereby Hipp. 5. Epid. 6. recovered a Consumptive whose disease contemned all other remedies and Galen 6. Epid. cured a Woman of a Phthisis by the same means Several other Authours likewise observe many rescued from imminent Consumptions by detracting small proportions of blood No doubt but Phlebotomy and Vomits have their use in this malady but the Temperament Age Sex and Idiosyncrasia of the Patient degree of the Disease and other urgent or contraindicating symptoms must be exquisitely observed It 's time I should take leave of my Reader which the urgency of my affairs doth now prompt me to However for his last farewel we 'l entertain him with some few observations of mixt cures namely partly spagyrical and partly dogmatical Obs. 1. One G. T. a Merchant's Apprentice upon a continuated debauch was surprized with a tedious Cough oft expectorating small quantities of blood whereupon he soon dropt into a proper Consumption but was in a short time recovered by these means I advised him to the Country where by my appointment a proportion of blood was extracted twice out of the Haemorrhoids by Leeches Before and afterwards was several times purged with this bol● R. extract rec cass ℥ ss pulp tamarind man calabr āʒij crystal tart ℈ j. Rhab e● pulv agar rec troch ā ℈ ss spic nard gr 4. cum sacchar M. F. Bol. for sixteen dayes he took this Elect. mornings and evenings drinking upon it a draught of Decoct of red Sanders sweetened with Sugar of Roses and acuated with a drop or two of Spir. Sulphur per camp R. Magist. stypt Specif Hect. croc angl ā gr 4. Conserv ros vet ʒ j. M. F. Bol. His ordinary drink was white Whey his dyet broaths alter'd with herbs and oftimes Buttermilk Obs. 2. A young woman aged 24 spitting blood and matter upon the stoppage of her courses was let blood out of the foot and oft purged with Diaprunum lenit ℥ ss Merc. dulc gr 15. crem tart ℈ j. She drank a decoct of Sarsa with Veron agrimon heder ter Dates Corrents and Liquorish for 21 dayes at the expiration of which term she was cured of her Cough and there appeared a shew of her flowers I advised her also to Looch Papap and è Pulm. vulp ana and to make an Issue in her left Leg. Obs. 3. A Child aged 3. deform'd with the Rickets consumed to skin and bones was cured in a month by the Tincture of tartar taking two drops twice or thrice a day in Whey Obs. 4. I have seen many thousands of Diseased in the Hospitals of France Germany Italy Holland Flanders and other parts but never observed so many great Diseases complicated in one body as not long since in one of my Patients the party had been seised of a latent venereal malady two or three years together and newly again surprized with a Green virulent Conorrhe a constant excretion of purulent matter an immitigable Cough a confirm'd Dropsie a most forbid Ulcer in the Kidneys evacuatting constantly a great quantity of blood and Pus matter with his Urin a perfect Consumption great obstructions of his Bowels and many other most urgent Symptoms Whence I could observe the strange force of nature though in a body naturally weak to support such a number of great Diseases and that which to me appeared more strange was an intermission of at least two pulsations in nine or ten continuing that type for several hours I am confident if not dayes Obs. 5. A Smith that had expectorated putrid thick ugly matter for at least two months I cured out of charity I gave him two doses of Antimon resuscit the preparation whereof I have divulged to you in Venus Unmask'd and advised him to drink twice a day a small draught of Spring water being render'd bitter with soot burn'd out of wood and sweetned again with brown Sugar which in a month perfectly cured him I thought to have presented you with several other remarques but that the Bulk of this Treatise being already swell'd beyond my purpose obliges me to come to an END The Table of Contents CHAP. I. OF the Original Contagion and frequency of Consumptions p. 2. CHAP. II. Of the various acceptions of Consumptions p. 6. CHAP. III. Of the Fundamental Principles or Balsamick mixture p. 14. CHAP. IV. Of the nature of a Consumption in general p. 21. CHAP. V. Of the nature of a Proper and True Consumption p. 24. CHAP. VI. Of the nature and kinds of Bastard Consumptions p. 30. CHAP. VII Of an Hypochondriack Consumption p. 32. CHAP. VIII Of a Scorbutick Consumption p. 37. CHAP. IX Of an Amorous Consumption p. 39. Of a Consumption of Grief p. 56. CHAP. X. Of a Studious Consumption p. 61. CHAP. XI Of an Apostematick Consumption p. 63. Of a Scirrous Consumption p. 67. CHAP. XII Of a Cancerous Consumption p. 68. CHAP. XIII Of an Ulcerous Consumption p. 69. CHAP. XIV Of a Dolorous Consumption p. 71. CHAP. XV. Of an Aguish Consumption p. 72. CHAP. XVI Of a Febril Consumption p. 74. CHAP. XVII Of a Uerminous Consumption p. 75. CHAP. XVIII Of a Pockie Consumption p. 80. CHAP. XIX Of a Bewitched Consumption p. 81. CHAP. XX. Of a Consumption of the Back p. 91. CHAP. XXI Of a Consumption of the Kidneys p. 103. CHAP. XXII Of a Consumption of the Lungs p. 106. CHAP. XXIII Of the kinds of Pulmonique Consumptions p. 109. CHAP. XXIV Of an Ulcerous Pulmonique Consumption p. 111. CHAP. XXV Containing a disquisition upon the causes praecited p. 115. CHAP. XXVI Of a more apparent cause of a Pulmonique Consumption p. 121. CHAP. XXVII Of some less frequent and rarer causes of a Pulmonique and other sorts of Consumptions p. 147. CHAP. XXVIII Of the Procatarctick or external causes of Pulmonique Consumptions p. 155. CHAP. XXIX Of the Signs of a beginning or growing Consumption p. 170. CHAP. XXX Of Signs Diagnostick and Pragnostick of the several kinds of spitting of Blood p. 173. CHAP. XXXI Of the Diagnostick signs of a confirm'd Consumption of the Lungs p. 184. CHAP. XXXII Of the Prognosticks of a Pulmonique Consumption p. 195. CHAP. XXXIII The Therapentick for Consumptions p. 206. CHAP. XXXIV The Preservative for Consumptives p. 216. CHAP. XXXV The curative part for spitting of blood out of the Lungs p. 223. CHAP. XXXVI The Cure of a Pulmonique Consumption p. 233. FINIS

account Avicen countermands letting blood in cholerick bodies because he esteems the blood which he chiefly here intends pure blood and Phlegm a fraenum bilis or a bridle of the Gall obtunding dulling its acrimony and fierceness Thesis 6. Choler being set in fire and acting upon Melancholy or rather calcining it into small acuated sharp pointed minimal bodies is by their incorporation with it self rendred acrimonious and bitter whence I conclude Choler accidentaly bitter and acrimonious but not in it self This bitterness and acrimony varies in intenseness and remisness according to the degree of calcination of Melancholy and proportion of Choler it is admixt to Thesis 7. Choler by the premisses is evidenced of being capable only of flaming and kindling a Feaver in the body and consequently Melancholy calcined by the flames of Choler must remain the sole cause of acrimony and corrosion and inclusively of occasioning Ulcers both within and without the body Thesis 8. The heart beating vigorously and strong doth together with its Sulphurous flames expell the foresaid calcined melancholy to the circumference especially if the said humour be but diluted water'd with the serosity waterish liquor of the blood Neither is this sole vital faculty sufficient to exterminate turn out noxious humours to the periphery or outward parts unless the animal faculty be concurrent with it to supply the Fibres with Animal Spirits which do not only render them strong to expel but sensible of feeling the least sting of any offensive humour whence they are immediately prick'd or spurred to contract themselves and by means of that contraction to expell If on the contrary the heart beats weak and the animal faculty be found faintish the foresaid acrimonious humour remains within and causes internal erosions Moreover notwithstanding the strength of both faculties the humours expelled to the circumference are apt now and then to regurgitate flow back by reason of obstructions in the capillar very small like hairs veins terminating in the extremeties Hitherto we have discoursed of the same causes how they happen to engender several Diseases though in the same bodies but at different times That which falls next in consideration is an answer to the fourth Query of the Chapter preceding viz. Why the same corrosive humour should sometimes prove Anarrhopous flowing upwards and generate Diseases in the upper parts and otherwhiles Catarrhopous flowing downwards impressing maladies upon the lower The occasion of the various diversion of the foresaid humour is situate partly in the disposition of the part Mandant the strength and weakness of the vital and animal faculty the parts transmitting or giving passage the disposition of the part recipient receiving and the qualification of the humour transmitted The part Mandant sending or expelling is here chiefly intended for the place where this acrimonous humour is generated and harth or spring whence it sourceth and crupts The place is where the acrimonious nourishing humours are primarly first concocted or receive the form of humours and where they are afterwards further wrought purifyed and clarifyed This assertion probably will accuse many parts more than what ordinarily Physicians have their eye upon The Stomach is a part that primarly digests and converts Victuals transmitted thither into a whitish or cineritious like ashes humour called the Chyle which if it be not exactly dissolved into an even thorough melted juice must necessarily abound with thick and gross admixtures Now it 's a current saying among us that the fault of the first concoction or digesture is not amended in the second vitium primae coctionis non corrigitur in secunda wherefore the chyle being transmitted crude and gross into the Vessels and arriving in the Spleen and Liver sticks in the capillar veins and keeps in the heat or hot steems that should arise out of their Parenchymae or fleshy substance to ferment attenuate and defaecate clarify the blood The heat of those entrails being thus inclosed and pend up redoubles and gradually after it hath extremely dryed and scorched burns and calcines them into a kind of fixt Salt which according to the nature of the Victuals whence they received their constitution and the intension of heat proves a Nitrous Vitriolat or Armoniack Salt The Spleen in this case is found to contain a Mine more frequently producing an Armoniack and Vitriolat Salt with a small admixture of a coagulated Sulphur The Liver is the more fertil parturient of Nitrous and sometimes of a Vitriolat and Armoniack tartar but with so copious a commixture of coagulated thickned choler or Sulphur that it ought rather to be named a Cinnabrin or Aeruginous Sulphur from the greater proportion of Sulphur to a far smaller of Salt The heart we conceive to be the sole mine of Arsenical Sulphur whose pernicious steems insulting upon the Vital Spirits produce malign and spotted Feavers The Stomach is likewise oft stuff'd between its tunicks coats and in the smaller branches of Vessels that are inserted into its body with the dregs of obstructive crude chyle whereout such Salts and Sulphurs are calcined and extracted as in acrimony and corrosion prove no wise inferiour to those engendred in the Spleen or Liver since produced with so intense a heat as is required for the first solution of the hardest food and probably a stronger heat being raised to a higher pitch by obstructions and the ebullition of some of those acrimonious bodies already engendred That the Stomach is so common a spring of Consumptive sublimations and distillations needs no other proof than the sense of the Patient attesting a great clog and oppression at his Stomach oft crying out if that were removed he should be well besides his nauseousness vomiting and difficulty of digesture he finds his gullet all along very sore rough and stuffed with humours subliming upwards which sometimes may not reach so high as his brain but are imbibed by the tonsils and other Glanduls about the Throat where in like manner aforesaid they are dissolved into an oyl and so distill between the Membranes of the Aspera arteria into the Lungs To this the remedies argumentum à juvantibus add an unquestionable verdit Vomitives being twice or thrice exhibited in the beginning or augment do oft eradicate the mineral cause of a Consumption Likewise Lohocks and Syrups that are so usually prescribed do immediately seem to abate and demulce the hoarseness and violence of a Cough by mollifying the ruggedness of the intern tunick of the Gullet and thickning or rendring the matter of the Cough that ascends upwards between the tunicks of the foresaid Oesophogus more glib or slippery So that we must not imagine that Syrups or other expectoratives do ad-advantage in Coughs by slipping down between the Epiglottis for as I instanced before that must necessarily occasion a greater Cough and difficulty of respiration Neither is' t probable they circulate about to the heart and Vena arteriosa to arrive to the Lungs for before that time their sweetness whereby they are

length wast the Lungs and weaken them in the function 2. Those fuliginous smoaks partly consisting of salin corrosive steems seem to partake of the nature of Salt armoniack whereby they gnaw and in time Ulcerate the tender substance and small veins of the Lungs That coal smoak is of so corrosive a quality is easily experienced by those that are beset with smoak in a room whose eyes it bites and gnaws that it forceth 'em to water and by pricking their Throat and Lungs puts them into a dry Cough These salin corrosive steems are very much intended by the addition of those that exhale from Houses of Office Pissing places and other nasty stinks and fumes great Cities are ever pester'd with Another great cause of the frequency of Consumptions among us and especially about the City is a continuated descent of weak Pulmonique Children from Consumptive Parents who propagate and transfuse their Pulmonique Seminaries to their whole subsequent generation which occasions so many hundreds to drop hence every year to the Countrey for fresh air Hitherto we have insisted upon those causes that effect Consumptions Endemick to this Island there remains a citation of such others as indifferently may produce that malady in any other Countrey Immoderate feeding upon Powder'd Beef Bacon Salt Fish Pickled Meats Anchiovi and debauching with Brandy Sack and other strong Wines and Spirits do inflame and acuate the blood whereby it 's capacitated to corrode the tender veins of the Lungs whereupon follows spitting and coughing up of blood A fall and according to Hippocrates lib. 2. de Morb. vehement exercise or labour violent vomiting a blow upon the breast calling a lowd do oftimes occasion a vein to burst in the Lungs Catching cold on the breast by going cool in the morning or evening as many do by leaving their Doublets unbuttoned or women by running up and down in their Smock sleeves or lying naked with their breast in the night doth impell the blood suddenly into the Lung-veins whereby being overfilled burst into an effusion of blood Those that are naturally destitute or have lost their Uvula palat are likewise very incident into a rupture of a Lung vein in admitting the cold air without that previous alteration the Columella palat contributed by hindering the cold air to irrupt suddenly into the Lungs The eating of a Sea hare is thought to corrode the Lungs by a Specifick property Pliny lib. 7. 2. writes that there is a certain people in Aethiopia whose sweat precipitates any into a Consumption whom it touches Consumptions do frequently arrive upon a sudden suppression of the Haemorrhoids piles witness Hippocrates 6. Aph. 12. If upon curing of Haemorrhoids that have ran long you do'nt leave one there is danger of a Dropsie or Consumption because nature was wont to evacuate its burden of vitious Melancholique and Cholerick blood out at those veins which passage being stopt it 's forced to regurgitate upwards to the Lungs the like happens upon the stoppage of Womens courses which if not suddenly look'd to sets them undoubtedly into a Consumption Dropsie or some other dangerous Disease as Hippocrates lib. 2 de Morb. also observes viz. Si virgo ex suppressione mensium in tabem deveniat c. What constitution of the year is most like to engender Consumptions Hip. tells us First for moist Consumptions that survene distillations of sharp putrid fleam a moist and southerly Autum upon a dry and Northern Summer is apt to produce them 3. Aphor. 13. Secondly dry Consumptions generally appear upon a long continuation of hot and dry weather 2. Aphor. 16. per squalores vero tabes c. The season or time of year for Consumptions is the Autum 3. Aphor. Autumno invadunt Febres Hydropes tabes c. CHAP. XXIX Of the Signs of a beginning or growing Consumption THe surest cure for a Pulmonique Consumption is to prevent it in those that are naturally inclined to that evil or have but lately conceived the Seeds of it and are just a budding But because the preventive part is frequently neglected upon hopes of waring it out or by changing the air or for want of knowing the state they are in which to discern in the commencement is difficult even to Physicians themselves who are not seldom mistaken in that point the impending danger where of requires a mature caution I shall delineate such natural and adventitious dispositions as appear suspicious 1. To descend from Phthisical Parents or such as were Pulmonique that is affected with any kind of trouble in their Lungs be it a Cough difficulty of breathing Asthma or a Pulmonique Consumption is a great argument since it 's observed that Consumptions prove so hereditary and that sometimes in a strange manner viz. some deriving their extenuating Diseases from their Grandfather though their immediate Parents did not seem troubled with the least kind of distemper in their Lungs The reason is because those hereditary seeds remained dormant in their Parents and never were reduced in actum which never the less were transfused into their Children in whom they might be raised to growth 2. Brothers or Sisters taking their passage through that Disease to their Graves leave an ill omen to the remainder of their kin 3. Whom nature hath shaped with a great head long neck narrow breast and shoulders sticking out like wings and a lean habit of body seem very much inclined to a Consumption 4. Such as are subject to thin sharp Coughs itching of the Eyes a tickling in their Throat pains of their Sides and do not thrive upon a good dyet are prepared for a Consumption 5. To omit letting blood at certain seasons that the body is accustomed to or to escape bleeding at the Nose or avoiding blood by the Haemorrhoids if usual or for women to be obstructed in their courses argues danger 6. Especially at the fall and in persons aged from Eighteen to Thirty five years 7. To be apt to spit blood oft though it distills from the head or is expressed out of the terminations of veins in the Throat signifies a Phthisical inclination is dangerous because it 's a sign the blood is sharp and thin and may upon a small provocation vent its fury upon the Lung veins 8. And lastly any of the Procatarcktick causes mentioned in the Chapter preceding or the beginning of this Treatise or any other Disease producing a durable leanness and dryness of body with a short dry or moist Cough portends an ill consequence as you may observe out of Hipp. 2. Aph. 3. in all Diseases it's better for the belly to be thick on the contrary when the belly is very thin and very much consumed it 's dangerous CHAP. XXX Of Signs Diagnostick and Prognostick of the several kinds of spitting of Blood SInce spitting of blood haimoptysis doth so frequently forerun Ulcers in the Lungs it 's requisite I should tell you what kind of spitting of blood forespeaks danger of a Consumption Wherefore know that