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A39844	The preternatural state of animal humours described by their sensible qualities, which depend on the different degrees of their fermentation and the cure of each particular cacochymia is performed by medicines of a peculiar specific taste, described : to this treatise are added two appendixes I. About the nature of fevers and their ferments and cure by particular tastes, II. Concerning the effervescence and ebullition of the several cacochymia's ... / by the author of Pharmacho bazagth.	Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734.	1696 (1696)	Wing F1389; ESTC R35680	104,326	290

some of our Humours rarefied into Spirits or Vapours Melancholy Distempers are deduced from Spirits drawn from that Cacochymia The Phrenitis from Choleric Spirits and the Epilepsie from Fumes As to the use of the Brain Galen observes That the Skins and outward Part of the Brain may be cut away without loss of Sense or Motion but when the Medullary Part of the Brain or Nerves is wounded both perish He asserts That the Nerves bring the Faculty of Motion to the Muscles by this Experiment If a Nerve be cut or the Spinal Marrow all the Parts below the Incision lose their Sense and Motion but those above preserve it He was as much perplexed about the Porosity of the Nerves as the Moderns but neither can otherways explain the Diseases of the Nerves than by supposing some Aerial and innate Animal Particles like Vapours passing through the Nerves to give them a Tension And as no Age could ever doubt of the Passage of the Chyle into the Blood before the Discovery of the Lacteals so we are forced to confess the Contents of the Nerves though we can no way discern them for upon the Death of an Animal the Spirits may readily sink into the Muscles or Veins or Lymphatics and Glandules or else be so Aerial as many Liquors be which evaporate upon the least approach of Air or else their Minute Canals suspend their Liquors as small Glass-Pipes do But it seems most probable That proper Experiments have not yet been made by Ligature or Incisions in Living Animals which might demonstrate the Nervine Lympha and it is impossible at present for us otherwise to explain the Nature of the Spirits than by comparing them to Air or Fire till we can by some lucky Experiment discover the Contents of the Nerves and their particular Qualities I have added Two Appendixes to this Treatise of Animal Humours The First describes the Nature of Fevers and their Ferments and the Second deduces many Diseases from the simple Ebullition Effervescence or Orgasmus of the Blood on which most Inflammations Tumours Pains and Fluxes of Humours depend and without a due respect to that Effervescence none of the mentioned Diseases can be rationally cured In the ensuing Treatise I have endeavoured to explain the Opinion of the Ancients in all their Discourse of Fevers but we are obliged to the Ingenious Car. Piso for giving the first hint of Diseases depending on an Effervescence of the Serum but that wanted a farther Explication because he knew not the Circulation of Humours nor the Use of the Glands nor the true Nature of the Serum of the Blood and that the Effervescence is in the Mass of Blood and the Serum has only a violent Motion given by the Ebullition which forces it to pass those Glands through which the Fluxion is made and that Pains cause Fluxions only by stopping the Circulation of Humours by contracting the Vessels by help of the Convulsed Nerves and that all Tumours happen by the Obstruction or Stagnation of Humours in the Circulating Vessels Books Printed for and Sold by R. Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-Yard THE Church History clear'd from the Roman Forgeries and Corruptions found in the Councils and Baronius In Four Parts From the Beginning of Christianity to the end of the Fifth General Council 553. By Thomas Comber D. D. Dean of Durham Aristophanis Comoediae Duae Plutus Nubes cum Scholiis Graecis Antiquis Quibus adjiciuntur Notae quaedam simul cum Gemino Indice In usum Studiosae Juventutis The Reasons of Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem In a Sermon Preached before the Queen at White-Hall on the Fast-Day being Wednesday August 29. 1694. By Thomas Comber D. D. Dean of Durham and Chaplain in Ordinary to Their Majesties Printed by Their Majesties Special Command A Daily Office for the Sick Compil'd out of the Holy Scriptures and the Liturgy of our Church with occasional Prayers Meditations and Directions The Catechisms of the Church with Proofs from the New Testament and some additional Questions and Answers divided into Twelve Sections by Z. J. D. D. Author of the Book lately Published Entituled A Daily Office for the Sick with Directions c. A Church Catechism with a brief and easie Explanation thereof for the help of the meanest Capacities and Weakest Memories in Order to the Establishing them in the Religion of the Church of England by T. C. Dean of D. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or The Touch-stone of Medicines Discovering the Vertues of Vegetables Minerals and Animals by their Tastes and Smells In Two Volumes By Sir John Floyer of the City of Lichfield K t. M. D. of Queens-College Oxford The Pantheon Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and most Illustrious Heroes in a short plain and familiar Method by way of Dialogue for the Use of Schools Written by Fra. Pomey of the Society of Jesus Author of the French and Latin Dictionary for the Use of the Dauphin What Mistakes have happened I desire may be corrected by the Errata's here annexed PAg. 11. l. 2. it ought to run thus The Fat is produced from the Buttery part of Chyle p. 26. after and that depends on is omitted in the last Line secretitii 33. l. 18. the stop after sometime 43. l. 6. so they are r. which are l. 11. cold not old 44. l. 21. dele as in Rhue 45. l. 2. r. Cure instead of are l. 11. one drachm not one Ounce l. 19. Catchup divide it from Mango l. 48. omit the Comma betwixt Milk and Water 49. l. ●3 for which Flames r. with Flannel 53. l. 10. dele so 66. ●●● 8. r. pungent 83. l. 25. r. compare 95. l. 21. r. Hog Fenil 96. l. 20. r. acid not acrid 102. l. 16. r. for not fat 107. l. 25. r. rapid 112. l. 22. r. fat Cows not Faulcon 114. l. 14. r. Flowers not Flames 117. l. 10. no breach 127. l. 15. r. soon not some 129. l. 1. r. the. 155. l. 24. r. are 157. l. 17. r. preter not pretty 171. l. 8. r. Stomach not Sumach 181. l. 2. r. Onions not Crocus 188. l. 24. r. from not above 199. l. the last r. Aq. Panatae 191. l. 1. r. mild not wild 202. l. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 206. l. 22. dele as 208. l. 28. r. of not or 209. l. 21. add less 211. l. 11. r. for not so 224. l. 2. r. Bursa pastoris dele and. 260. stop after Italy the not they add of after use 261. l. 6. r. Oxymels THE Preternatural State OF ANIMAL HVMOVRS described c. CHAP. I. Of Diseases in General and particularly of those of the Solid Parts THE Ancient Doctrine of Hippocrates divided the Parts of an Animal into the Containing and Contained The Containing are the Vessels and the Parts Contained are the Humours amongst which we reckon the Spirits which are also of a Fluid Nature The Anatomy of an Embryo evidently confirms this Doctrine for at its first formation

All sweet Fruits have their Mucilage as Grapes Gooseberries c. and therefore these yield much phlegmatic Matter in Digestion and all thick Wines made of them are accounted Phlegmatic All the Legumens as Peas and Beans have an evident Sliminess and so have all Cakes and crusty baked Pyes or such like and all Meats prepared of Flower All the Olera as Cabbage Turnips Lettuce Spinage Cucumbers Melons c. have an evident Sliminess which they always produce in Animals who eat them This Mucilage in Plants is their crude Juyce and is of an Oyly Nature as appears evidently in Linseed this is of a cooling quality as Phlegm is accounted from their crude Slime many Plants prepare their sweet bitter acrid or aromatic Tastes and Phlegm is a nutritious Juyce which may be farther digested into Blood The Nervous Parts of Animals yield the greatest Slime as the Calves Feet and Head the Guts are Membranes of Animals the shavings of Horns and the decoctions of Bones The Liver Spleen and Brains have much Slime Fish and Water-Fowl who feed of turbid and muddy slimy Water are accounted to be the Causes of Phlegm especially Eels All Flesh full of Nourishment as Beef Pork Gellies Gravies and Eggs increase the matter of Phlegm Young Creatures as Pig Lamb c. yield a very great Slime if eaten too young Goats-Flesh cats very slimy All fat Meats are slimy and of hard Digestion and fat Bodies are usually phlegmatic Oyl has a Slimeness and so has Fat always joyned with it Milk breeds much Phlegm from the Caseous parts in it and Butter is accounted phlegmatic from its oyly fat parts Too great a quantity of Meat and often Drinking great quantities breed a Sliminess in the Chyle by hindring the Fermentation of the Meat and its perfect Dissolution 2. Sleep and Idleness hinder the circulation of Humours and produce a stagnation of them by which their viscid oyly or sibrous parts cohere and unite into a Slime 3. A Mucilage is increased in the Humours by a fenny wet Countrey or moist Air which clogs the Spirits fermenting and a cold Air coagulates the Humours so the lymphatic Liquor exposed to the Air immediately grows thick or gellies and all our strong Broths grow thick and viscid by cooling 4. Cares and Sadness stop the Motion of Humours and thicken them and hence it is that melancholy Persons are phlegmatic and spit much viscid Phlegm 5. The Suppression of Evacuations as the Menses in Girls and stoppage of a Cough or Spitting encreases Phlegm in the Stomach 6. Haemorrhages long Fevers Fluxes of the Belly or other Chronical Diseases produce much Slime 8. Those who have been born of phlegmatic Parents or live in a moist cold Countrey near standing Waters or the Sea-side those who are of a great Age for want of a perfect Digestion and those who are very Young as Children through their much and disorderly eating Women by reason of the lesser degree of Fermentation in that Sex abound most with Phlegm The Cold and the Moisture of the Air stopping the Pores in the Winter-time makes that Season to be accounted most phlegmatic 9. The Mucilaginous Temper of the Blood Chyle and Ferment of the Stomach is natural to some Constitutions who dissolve their Meat only into a Mucilaginous Juyce which is the greatest Crudity of our Digestion and therefore from this arises all our Phlegm for that was accounted by the Ancient Physicians the coldest Humour which being a nutritious Juyce it by only fasting was turned into Blood This crude Chyle swims in the Blood and appears as Milk in the Blood let out of some Persons who are greatly Cachectic and by putting Spirit of Harts-Horn to such milky Blood I have turn'd it reddish or of a rosy Colour Such was the Blood of a Gentleman who had drank hard and bled much this milky Blood in him was never turn'd into Serum but in others of a less Crudity the milky Chyle is imperfectly turned into Serum but that is very much in quantity and watery or insipid rather than very salt The Sanguification is hindred for want of an acrid Bile and the Saltness thence proceeding The Circulation is hindred by the viscidity of the Slime and the Secretion of most of the glandulous Humours The Chyle is never digested further than to a nutritious Sweetness and from hence the habit of the Body is very fleshy and fat but the Pulse slow soft and weak the Spirits are dull and torpid the Bile ropy and sweet rather than bitter or acrid the Juyce of the Spleen very mucilaginous for want of Digestion and the Blood has more of a gelatinous Consistence than fibrous and Tumours happen in the Viscera or Glands In the Brain sleepy Distempers and Dulness of the Senses or Stolidity from the thick Sliminess of the nervous Juyce the Vrin is pale and waterish with thick and white farinaceous Contents or without any if there be Obstructions and an Appetite is wanting The Sweats are cold and viscid for Phlegm offends by both those qualities The Succus Nutritius abounds with Slime and causes a leucophlegmatia or pale Tumour of the habit of the Body The Seminal Lympha's are cold and slimy in Sterilities and the fluor albus or Gonorthoea simplex and so becomes unsit for the use of a Ferment in Generation The Lympha lactea is most abundant in the phlegmatic for that is immediately produced from the mucilaginous Chyle and separated by the Glands of the Mouth whence the slimy Phlegm is hawked up and this is plentifully emptied into the Stomach where it causes a loss of Appetite a saburra pituitosa and windiness and in the Lungs it causes Coughs and ●●oppage of Phlegm or dyspnoea with Lassitude in the Limbs a slow Fever and Palenes of Vrin and of the Countenance and Palpitation of the Heart which are the signs of a pituitous Cachexia evident in the Green-Sickness All outward oedematous Tumours arise from the succus nutritius of a pituitous Temper This Chyle and the Lympha lactea is the natural and alimentary Pituita which the Ancients described as insipid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Galen's description of it this is the humid cool and sweetish part which is so agreeable to the Taste of the Blood and they esteemed that Blood pituitous naturally which abounded with an exceeding quantity of sweetish Chyle which remained something undigested in the Blood and was not wholly sanguified but capable of it this of all the Humours to the touch was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or coldest and they called it most viscid or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when it is made so by the great Ebullition of Blood in Inflammations for they thicken it into that tough Skin which covers the Blood when cooled in the Dish But when this chylaceous part of the Blood or the Lympha's thence arising become preternatural Galen describes the Phlegm thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The lacteal Lympha's have their Acidities from Stagnation in

schirrous or inflamed obliges the vitriolic Humour to pass through the Arteries into the Stomach and there it corrupts its Ferment and changes all the Mass of Meat towards an Acidity like too much sowre Leaven in our Bread so that Hysterical Persons vomit a great deal of acid Humours and so do the Hypochondriacal and both eat too much and have their Bodies too much bound Or else the vitriolic Acidity passes through the hepatic Artery into the Bile Vessels and there by fermenting with it it produces those Fluxes of Choler which happen in the Cholera or Cholics or Diarrhaea's and the various Colours of them The Cure of the Muriatic Acidity of the Chyle and the Vitriolic and Armoniacal of the Blood require 1. The Evacuation of Acidities from the Stomach by Vomits in hysteric and hypochondriac Cases and the frequent gentle Evacuation by Stools and keeping the Body open by Lenitives of Sena 2. All the evident Causes mentioned must be avoided especially a tartareous or muriatic Diet. Moderate warm things agree well with them but no very hot ones nor no strong Purgers The Diet must moisten or be thin and nourishing as well as a little warm All Passions Studies must be avoided 3. The muriatic and vitriolic Acidities are naturally evacuated by Vrin and Sweat and therefore we use Diuretics and Sudorifics 4. The Secretion of the vitriolic Humour through the Spleen must be promoted by Steel Medicines which resemble its vitriol Taste and the abundant Acidity in the Chyle and Blood precipitated as in the Cure of the Tartar Acerbity 5. All extraneous Ferments are to be avoided and Humours suppressed evacuated 6. This vitriolic Acidity at last fixes the Blood and makes it congeal and then the Digestives mentioned in the Cure of a low Fermentation are necessary which by exagitating the Oyly Parts of the Chyle and Blood give them a Predominancy over the Acidity 7. The high Fermentation of Humours must be checked by the Diet and Medicines prescribed in the Cure of too high a Fermentation of Humours When the vitriolic Acidity chiefly troubles and infects the Blood it may be esteemed the cold Scurvy but when the Nerves are also affected by the vitriolic Acidity it produces the Hypochondriac Affections and the Spleen is obstructed also It coagulates in the Kidnies with some terrene Matter like Lime-Stone and there produces all the Calculous Concretions The Corrosiveness of Humours depends much on too high a state of the vitriolic Acidity and the splenetic Flatuosities on a violent Agitation or Expansion of Spirits First Of the vitriolic oleous Scurvy In this Scurvy the vitriolic Acidity prevails over the oyly Spirits and for that reason it produces many of the Symptoms attending a low Fermentation of Blood for the Blood becomes ropy mucilaginous and sharply Acid by too high a Fermentation of a depauperated chylous Blood naturally more Acid than Oyly the Vrin is pale and a salt Cremor swims on it there are no Spots in the Skin but the Spirits are weak unfit for Motion whence the Lassitude proceeds or Fainting Palpitation of the Heart and dull Pains and Windiness and the Asthma a Streightness of the Breast a wandering Fever with sudden Changes of Heat and Cold these are the ordinary Symptoms attending the cold Scurvy which in respect of the hot oyly vitriolic State of Blood in the hot Scurvy mentioned above it may be called the cold Scurvy because the Blood is more poor and less spirituous but this is also produced by an over-fermentation of such kind of Blood and the cold Symptoms depend on the Greatness of the vitriolic Acidity which coagulates the Blood and fixes all the volatile Salts and Oyls and that is the reason it must be cured as in the tartareous Acidity I. The Acid must be evacuated by Aloetic Purgers Pil. ex Ammoniac Ruffi Sumach or by Sennates or those of black Hellebore II. The Fervour of Humours may be diluted by the watery Liquors as Whey stilled Milks Asses Milk Steel Waters Wine and Water See the Cure of too high a Fermentation III. All Acid Liquors must be avoided as Wines Cyder Beer that is stale and all the evident Causes producing Acidities IV. The Scorbutic Acidity must be evacuated by Vrin and the Digestion of Humours raised 1. By Acrid Plants as Scurvy-Grass Horse-Radish Water-Cresses Rocket Lady-Smock Mustard-Seed 2. By volatile and fixed Salts 3. By Turpentine Plants as Pine Tops and Juniper-Berries in Drink Gilead Balsam 4. By bitters Acrid of the Wormwood Class as Wormwood Wine 5. By the acrid Aromatics as Angelica Roots Galanga Zedoary Contrayerva Cardamoms Orange Peels Winter-bark 6. By the Laurel bitter Acrids as the Bark and Seeds of Ash Decoction of Guajacum and the Use of the Cortex 7. By the foetid lamium Bitters as Chamaedrys Marrubium Wood-Sage ground Ivy and ground Pine 8. By the leguminous Bitters as Broom 9. By nauseous Bitters as Gentian Centaury Buck-Bean 10. By the corrosive Acrids as Aaron lesser Celandine Arsesmart Piperitis 11. Chalybeates which are of least heat as Vitriol Martis made into Pills with Gum Tragacanth or else dissolved in distilled Milks Secondly Of the Hypochondriac Affection This seems to differ from the cold Scurvy by being a higher degree of it When the vitriolic Acidity has so far coagulated the Blood as to produce many Obstructions in the Viscera especially in the Spleen whence the abundant vitriolic Humour is thrown upon the Stomach where it produces Corrugations and Pains and Inflations a great Appetite and continual Windiness and Vomiting after the Meat the Face is red and the Hands burn the Countenance is black and the Habit of the Body lean When the Vitriolic Humour affects the Brain it produces Vertigo's various Fancies Head-Aches Convulsions Palsies Alterations of the Pulse Oppressions Trembling and Palpitation of the Heart Constriction of the Breast a Sense of Formication and Stupor in the extream Parts The Vrin is various commonly turbid and thick or blackish with sandy red Sediment The Belly is bound and the Stools frequently black A thin Vrin preceeds some Fits I am not singular in my Opinion that the Acid of melancholic Blood is Vitriolic but can quote a remarkable part of Sennertus where he says Atram Bilem ipsamque melancholiam vitriolatae naturae participem aut certe ei cognatam esse ferrugenei quid sapere nemo facile negaverit This Affection happens about the Thirtieth Year of our Ages and then the Blood seems to be at its highest Digestion but by Accidents acquiring a great Ebullition it loses its Spirits Those Constitutions in whom much soure Ructus and phlegmatic Vomits are observed bear the hotter Medicines and those who have choleric Vomits burning in the Hypochondria and Thirst and Fury in the Spirits require the coolest Medicines Sweet things ferment and are offensive to the Hypochondriac and Hysteric which was anciently observed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cure requires I The avoiding of a Tartareous Diet and that which is Muriatic