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A34010	A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants illustrated with many schemes, consisting of variety of elegant figures, drawn from the life, and engraven in seventy four folio copper-plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited. The first volume containing the parts of the lowest apartiments of the body of man and other animals, etc. / by Samuel Collins ...	Collins, Samuel, 1619-1670.	1685 (1685)	Wing C5387; ESTC R32546	1,820,939	1,622

the nitro-sulphureous Particles of the Blood enraging the Animal Liquor and Spirits The Third Indication is Vital The Third is Vital as it supporteth Strength and Life and denoteth restorative and corroborating Medicines and wholsome Diet easy of digestion as not being of too high a nourishment which ever feedeth the Disease rather then the Patient The Curatory Indication The means advised in the Curatory Indication is much assisted by the prudent conduct of Friends and Servants giving good Council sometimes and othertimes threats blows and bonds which often awe the servile refractory temper of Mad Men who else will not be governed in the taking of Aliment and Medicines and will not submit themselves unless they be over-powred by force to which they are as passive as Brutes with whom they hold some Analogy as destitute of Reason And nothing more reduceth this kind of Patients to a perfect understanding Severity is very powerful in the cure of Madness and perfect enjoyment of themselves then by the severe Treatment of their Bodies whereupon a high restraint rendreth them humble and submissive whereby the arrogance and fierceness of Mad People being subdued they return to themselves in the regular exercise of their rational and sensitive Faculties As to a course in Physick Free Bleeding is very proper in Madness nothing is more beneficial then free Bleeding which giveth an allay to the fierceness of it by taking away its quantity and height and abateth the tumultuary motion of the Blood and Animal Spirits through the fibrous Compage of the Brain to this end an apertion of Veins may be frequently celebrated if it be consistent with strength in the Arm The opening of the Temporal Artery is very good in this Disease Neck Veins of the Forehead and above all I conceive the opening of the temporal Artery may speak an advantage to the Patient in this Malady as it letteth out some of the enraged mass of Blood whose motion and fury is most eminent in the Artery and by this operation I have seen very good success in this Malady as it evacuates some part of the hot furious Blood that the rest may be the more easily contemperated by the application of cooling Medicines Vomitories are very beneficial in this Disease Vomitortes are very advantageous in Madness as it dependeth upon Blood tainted with nitro-sulphureous Particles often proceeding from the obstruction of the Liver Pancreas and other Viscera which are opened in reference to their excretory Ducts by the violent motion of the Stomach drawing the Guts into consent whereupon they violently contracting themselves upward in an inverted peristaltick motion do throw up Bile and acide Recrements out of the Intestines into the Stomach whereby the Blood being depurated giveth less annoyance to the Head Take of an infusion of Crocus or Sulphure of Antimony prepared with some grains of Tartar or some grains of White Hellibore or Mercurius vitae given in some proper vehicle Mercurial Medicines Mercurial Medicines often prove successful in Madness given with Purgatives or without as of Calamelanos of it self or quickned with some few grains of Turpeth Minerale move a salivation and often discharge an habitual Madness by reason sometimes a great evacuation of salival Liquor coming of it self without the help of Art doth cure a Maniack disposition Strong Purgatives do also speak a great advantage in order to the cure of this stubborn Malady as they depress the height of the fierce Humors Strong Purgatives are good in this Disease and lessen the quantity of the saline serous and sulphureous parts of the Blood and nervous Liquor conjunct causes of this Disease as the infusion of Black Hellebore in White-wine and Water prepared with Tartar and Seeds of Caraway or Coriander as the Decoctum Sen. Gereonis prepared with Epithymum Mechoacan Turpeth c. As also a Bolus of Extract of Helebore with Calamelanos c. As also Pilulae Coch. Min. Faetid Major hightened with some grains of the Trochichs of Ashandal or Resin of Scammony or Jalap The preservatory Indication hath relation to the cause of this Disease The preservatory Indication consisteth much in sweetning the mass of Blood and doth much take off the nitrous and sulphureous parts of the Blood and correct the Acrimony of the nervous Liquor and irregular motion of the Animal Spirits A Mineral of Cristal or Nitre well prepared as also Spirit of Sulphure The Blood may be allayed by Minerals or Vitriol incrassating the thin and hot mass of Blood and attemperating the raging quality are very beneficial in appeasing the violent motion of the Blood and the nervous Liquor and Spirits Chalybeat Syrupes Tinctures Electuaries mixed with cooling Medicines Chalybeat● are very proper in a Maniack disposition Diet-drink do speak a great allay to the furious Blood and extravagant motion of the Animal Liquor and its more refined Particles by drinking now and then a draught of Diet-drink made with Sarza or China in which the Flowers of Water-Lilies Cowslips or Lily of the Valley may be boiled and it being strained may be sweetned with Syrupe of Water-Lilies or Lime-Flowers or Lily of the Valley Whey Clarified prepared with the Flowers of Water-Lilies Betony Clarified Whey prepared with Water-Lilies Cowslips c. may be given for an ordinary drink in this case As also Emulsions prepared with the cooling Seeds White Poppy blanched Almonds c. may be of great use Decoctions of the tops of Borage Bugloss fragrant Apples Decoctions of Borage c. the shavings of Ivory the Flowers of Borage Violets Cowslips Water-Lilies c. are very profitable As also Apozemes of Pimpernel having a Blew Flower St. Johns-wort c. Electuaries also prepared with Conserves of Flowers of Water-Lilies Electuaries Lily of the Valley Cowslips cooling Seeds powdered as Powder of Haley c. made up with Syrupe of Water-Lillies drinking immediately after it a draught of cooling or specifique Apozeme The vital Indication hath a regard to the preservation of Strength Cordia●● as the said Electuary As also an Electuary made with Sage Flowers Rosemary Paeony Cowslips Water-Lilies which contemperate the hot disposition of the Brain and corroborate it After which a draught may be taken immediately prepared with Flowers of Betony Rorismary Sage or Tey and the like sweetned with Syrupe of Cowslips or Water-Lilies In point of Diet all strong and full nourishment is to be avoided as keeping the Blood high and enraged wherefore it is more reasonable to advise a thin Diet of Water-gruel Barley-Cream thin broth of a Chicken Mutton Veal c. Hypnoticks may be proper in this Disease And by reason Sleep is very requisite to compose the unquiet Animal Spirits gentle Hypnoticks may be advised of Cowslips or Red Poppy-water or that of Lime-Flowers or Lily of the Valley with some Cinnamon-water distilled with Barley and Syrupe of Poppy In reference to Madness proceeding from the biting of

into the outward surface of the inward skin whereupon the Cuticula was more elevated into greater Swellings then at first and her Face was denuded of all Features by this envious Disease treating most severely the best Faces and greatest Beauties to teach us Humility and Self-denial to make us out of love with our selves and Admire and Adore him in kissing with reverence the gentle correcting Hand of our Great Maker and Redeemer whose Dispensations though they seem severe to the outward Man yet they prove most advantagious to the inward and work for the best to all that Love Fear and Obey him Pray pardon the Digression which I have added to divert the good Reader and if any Person be so unkind to me and himself to receive it as impertinent with scorn I pity and pray for him But to return and visit our sick Patient whose Body was preserved though her Face ruined which was chieflly accomplished by Nature her self under God producing a great Ptyalisme which I advanced by all means possible in advising most powerful opening and cleansing Gargarisms highly assisting Nature in discharging the impurities of the Blood by the Excretory Glands belonging to the Mouth In the Flux Pox complicated with a Spotted Fever we ought always to consult the Honour of our Art when we cannot be happy Ministers of a Cure to fore-arm the Friends and Relations of the Patient Pronosticks give an Honor to Art where Diseases are dangerous or deplorable with a Prognostick of the eminent danger of the Disease which in this Case is deplorable else we shall gain the repute of Unskilful Artists though we satisfie the indications of the Disease with the most proper Remedies and use our utmost Endeavours and Art to recover the Patient yet ill Success shall render us liable to the censure of the Vulgar who are governed more by Sense then Reason unless we give account before-hand what can be said in Humane Probability relating to the event of the Disease which in this case is very dangerous if not fatal to the Patient where the Person is not relieved in the Flux Pox with the large Eruption of the matter of the Disease by the Cutaneous Glands nor by free ejection of the faeculent and serous parts of the Blood and Succus Nutricius by salival Liquor spued out of the O●al Glands and yet notwithstanding these hopeful Evacuations the Disease prevaileth and the blew spots appeared the symptoms of a Pestilential Fever the mournful Heralds proclaiming the approaches of Death Person of great Honour and Virtue being of a timorous disposition was frequently daunted at the apprehension of the Small Pox denying her self the ease and happiness of her Life as being always in pain with the phancy of a Disease which at last surprised her though she often quitted beloved London the Dalilah of Women to preserve her self from this noisome and afflictive Distemper which seised her by the imprudence of her Landlady who lodged her in a bed infected with a Body lately dead of the Sall Pox complicated with a Spotted Fever which made the same impressions in her as receiving the pestilential Steams into her Body as reposed in the infected Bed in which when she found her self discomposed she took free draughts of Strong Waters thinking thereby to calm her Distemper which in truth had a contrary effect and raised the Storm much higher by producing a much greater ●bullition of Blood which taking its progress from the inward to the Ambient parts in which the serous parts of the Vital Liquor and Succus Nutricius discover themselves in most minute Swellings and pustles and Nature in this person of Honour did not make a discharge only of the offenssive matter by the Skin but also by streams of Salival Liquor flowing out of the Excretory Channels relating to the numerous Oral Glands which I promoted by proper Gargarisms In reference to her Pestilential Fever which highly afflicted her Medicines appliable to the Small Pox in case of Malignant Fevers I ordered pearl Cordials and many kinds of moderately cooling Julaps and temperate Diaphoreticks consisting of mild testaceous Powders which brought out the Small Pox very fair and to a laudable Suppuration appearing in the white heads of fruitful Tumours big with a well digested purulent Matter which at last began to dry into Scabs interspersed with large blew spots the sad Emblems of Death which happened in the seventeenth day of her Sickness which highly discomposed me to part with a Friend as well as a Patient a person of so great Honour Kindness and good Humour whose Memory I shall account sacred and for ever revere being now ready upon this sad History which happened many Years since to dapple my Paper with Tears as a due resentment of my great trouble and loss A Salemans Wife fell sick of a dangerous Small Pox as cofaederated with a Spotted Fever which had so unkindly an Eruption that the Livid Spots far exceeded the Pimples in number but upon due applications of gentle Diaphoreticks and Cordial Julaps the Fermentation of the Blood was reduced to a good allay as being not too much exalted nor depressed so that the offensive Matter was brought out and thickned whereupon the Fever disappeared and the Small Pox growing first plump and then the Ulcerous Matter was dried into Scabs whereby the Patient being recovered liveth a Momument of Gods wonderful Mercy I humbly beg the favour of all Mens Lives are not to be trusted in the hands of Empericks which are very unsafe and destructive in reference to the Cure of the Small Pox and all other Diseases that shall so far Honour me as to read this rude Treatise as they have a value for their own Health rather then my Interest not to trust themselves in the hands of Quacks and Empericks in any Distemper and especially in this dangerous Disease in which out of Arrogance to speak themselves an attribute they contradict the safe and wholesome advice of Physitians and contrary to all Reason Art and Experience they confound the Aeconomy of Nature and destroy their Patients with strong Vomits and Purges and hot Faetide Drops and Spirits as knowing no better which too much raise the Fermentation of the Blood and weaken the course of Nature and divert its regular Current of offensive Humours in the Measles and Small Pox from the outward confines of the Body to the inward and tender Recesses of the Bowels where their violent Medicines produce Loosnesses Bloody Fluxes Lypothymies Syncopies and Death speaking a sad Catastrophe of all Worldly Joy and Happiness hastned by impudent new Experiments which they make upon their overcredulous Patients CHAP. VIII Of Freckles Spots Morphew and the like THere are other disaffections which are more superficial and of less importance as lessening the Lustre Freckles Spots and Morphew are Cured by Cosmeticks and Beauty of the outward Skin as Freckles Spots Morphew and the like which are Cured often by Cosmeticks as the

with the Blood which often have recourse by the External Carotides into the minute Conglomerated Glands appertaining to the Mouth and its adjacent parts they are then rendred rough and dry which often happens in Dropsies Scorbutick Distempers and the like wherein the Membranes of the Mouth are put out of Tune and dry and must be reduced to their proper Harmony by Liquors agreeing with the Palate and Membranes the seat of Thirst which are sometimes disaffected with bitter Recrements transmitted from the Stomach through the Gulet into the Cavity of the Mouth in intermittent Fevers and other Distempers and are also mixed with the Blood and impelled into the substance of the Salival Glands spuing out Bilious Humours mixed with Salival Juice into the Mouth CHAP. XXIII The pathologie of the Appetitive Faculty relating to the Stomach THe great Design of Nature in contriving the curious frame of the Stomach and all its Dispositions and Faculties is in order to be Efficients or instruments in the production of Chyle the end and perfection of all the Powers and Operations of the Stomach which are either principal as the Concoctive or instrumental as the Appetitive Retentive and Expulsive which are all Ministerial to the Concoctive Faculty The one to sollicite us to Eat and Drink and the other to retain the Aliment and the third to discharge the Excrements as troublesome Guests after the Concoction is Celebrated These Faculties are receptive of many Violations First As the Ministerial the Appetitive Retentive and Expulsive are not able to pay their duty to their Superior the Concoctive Power The first Minister in order is the Appetite which is its Monitrix and Remembrancer to court Nature to its advantage of Eating and Drinking And this Handmaid of the Concoctive Faculty is often defective in its Office either when the Appetite is wholly lost or when it is only remiss in paying its obligation to Nature and when it is over-active and diligent in giving a great trouble to the Concoctive Power The first is called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latines The lost Appetite proceedeth from the ill temper of the Stomach Appetitus Dejectus when the Stomach is despoiled of its appetite of Hunger either when the natural temper of the Ventricle is highly disordered as sometimes by immoderate heat by violent Exercises Fevers or excessive Good Fellowship or when the Tone of the Stomach is spoiled by reason its Fibres have lost their acute Sense either when the Animal Spirits and Succus Nutricius are wholly defective the Brain being obstructed in Apoplexies or exhausted in Diarrhaea's Dysenteries and in Chronick Diseases when little or no Nourishment is received And other times The Appetite is lessened when the Fibres of the Stomach are weakned in cold and moist Distempers and sometimes from the heat of the Air and from viscid Aliment which dulleth the quickoess of the Fibres relating to the Coat of the Stomach the Appetite groweth faint in performance of its Obligation to the Concoctive Power when the Fibres of the Stomach are weak as loosing their vigour in cold and moist Distempers when the Blood transmitted into the substance of the Stomach is oppressed with too large a quantity of potulent watry Particles and the Appetite is rendred faint by a hot and moist indisposition of the Stomach derived from hot and Rainy Weather or else by overmuch indulging our selves in Fat and clammy Meats abounding with Oily and Emplastick Dispofitions wherein the Fibres of the Stomach grow dull in performing their duty of Sensation or when we Caress our selves in overmuch Sleep or Ease which make an overslow motion of the Animal Liquor and Spirits into the Fibres of the Stomach or when the Nervous Liquor withdraweth it self from the Fibrous parts of the Ventricle The Appetite groweth faint in too great intensions of the mind in too great intentions of the Mind employing the Animal Spirits in the Brain by reason of great and frequent meditations of the Mind and sometimes sollicitous Thoughts flowing from deep Study and Anxious Cares the Mystresses of disturbed and sometimes distracted Phancies The worst of Distempers that relate to the Stomach The depraved Appetite dependeth upon unnatural Objects as the most unnatural and troublesome are the Appetitus Depravatus Auctus The first is when we long for unkindly Objects incident to Women in the time of Breeding which can give no Aliment but rather a Hurt and disturbance to the Stomach as Chalk Coals Ashes and the like Sennertus in his Third Book and Fifth Chapter De Pica saith He received a Letter from a Renowned Physitian Doctor Nester relating a pleasant History of a great Case in Physick of one Claudius of the Province of Lorrain a Patient of his who pleased himself in unnatural treats of Faetide and nasty Objects of gross Excrements of Animals and Urine mixed with Wine and Ale Bones Hares Feet clothed with Skin and Flix and chewed with his Teeth Pewter Platters Leaden Bullets and other Metals and afterward swallowed them down his Gulet and Eat a whole Calf raw with the Skin and Hair in the space of few Days and two Tallow Candles burning and devoured Fish alive leaping up and down a little before the Eating of them and swallowed down whole two live Mice which frisked up and down his Stomach often biting it for a quarter of an Hour This History is not worthy to be received with Credence but Laughter seeming only to be a great Romance had not its Confirmation been authorized by worthy Doctor Nester and many other Credible Witnesses who were Spectators of his most unnatural entertainments of himself in strange and uncouth kinds of Meat which hold no proportion with most Mens Appetites It is difficult to find out the Cause of this greedy and unkindly Appetite in the Dissection of Dead Bodies Columbus seemeth to give an account of it That ravenous Men have no Gustatory Nerves inserted into their Tongues and Palate which if Granted could only render the cause of a lost Taste and no way give a satisfactory Reason why the Stomach cold admit and Concoct such prodigious sorts of Meat which we might reject as Incredible had not the History been hallowed by the authority of a Learned and honest Doctor The cause of a greedy Appetite may come from a peculiar temper of the Stomach putting its Fibres upon over frequent Contractions and many other authentick Witnesses And the cause of this Voracious Temper proceedeth from a peculiar Constitution of the Stomach giving it a power to Contract its Fibres in order to the assumption of most odd Aliment And sometimes this ravenous Appetite may take its rise from depraved Humours detained in the Body in the suppression of the Menstrua in Women and from ill Habits of Body in Men which having recourse by the Caeliack Artery into the inward Tunicle do wonderfully indispose the Stomach Or this prodigious Appetite may be derived from a