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A90749	Platerus golden practice of physick fully and plainly discovering, I. All the kinds. II. The several causes of every disease. III. Their most proper cures, in respect to the kinds, and several causes, from whence they come. After a new, easie, and plain method; of knowing, foretelling, preventing, and curing, all diseases incident to the body of man. Full of proper observations and remedies: both of ancient and modern physitians. In three books, and five tomes, or parts. Being the fruits of one and thirty years travel: and fifty years practice of physick. By Felix Plater, chief physitian and professor in ordinary at Basil. Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick, and the liberal arts. Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick, and astrology.	Platter, Felix, 1536-1614.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670. aut; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. aut	1664 (1664)	Wing P2395A; ESTC R230756	1,412,918	573

and active and they who have less are weak and sooner die And when that flourishing humor is consumed like Oyl by the heat of the spirit by degrees in age men grow more weak and dry Among internal and external causes Diseases that dissipate the influent and fixed spirits are the cause of weakness all great Diseases dissipate the vital spirits if they continue long and at length consume the innate spirits with the radical moisture wherewith it is joyned from whence the weakness is more or less Great and often Evacuations either by chance or willingly Evacuations that dissipate the natural fixed and also the influent heat cause weakness or in Diseases exhaust and dissipate the spirits and abate strength especially if good humors be voidded as Seed in the running of the Reins or by Venery Also great bleeding purging by reason the stirring of the spirits abate strength as in Diarrhaea's and great and often sweating and much pissing Also the sudden effusion of things besides nature as of Water in the Dropsie matter in an Empiema doth weaken These violent excretions being painful as in a Dysentery weaken more Great pain which violently stirreth the spirits Pain moving the spirits causeth weakness to bring them to the part afflicted with the blood for help causeth weakness and if it be very great fainting Especialy if the part suffering Pain of the Mouth of the Stomack cause of Cardiaca or fainting have great affinity with the Heart Hence it is that they who have the Cardialgia or Heart pain are very weak by reason of the consent of the Stomach with the Heart and do easily faint this fainting is called Cardiaca And so it is in other painful and long Diseases Great and sudden Passions of the Mind Trembling of the Spirit is the cause of weakness fainting because then the spirits are carried in and out with force cause debility and somtimes fainting and death Thus we have seen some swoon with joy that hath thrown the spirits outward and have read that others have died so In anger the spirits are so inraged that they look red in the Face And when the spirits presently return as the paleness following sheweth they are in little danger of life but they are weakned thereby as appears by their trembling and there remains a weariness though anger be over Nor is the cause of men not dying with anger as with joy because angry men are stronger as is supposed in regard old men and sick men that are peevish are easily moved to anger But it often hapens that by great fear the spirits being violently moved some die and many are weakned And shame and bashfulness may cause the same by which they say Homer died Also if the passions be of long continuance and strong as sadness and fear and the like they stir the spirits with continual Cogitation and at length consum them and as they say dry the bones and this is a Consumption of the Spirits A strong and constant heat doth not only dissipate the spirits but consumes them Heat dissipating the spirits and consuming their nourishment is the cause of weakness and their nourishment as when the body is weakned by heat fire labor there is fainting somtimes And in Feavers it is so especially in a Causon or burning Feaver And in a Hectick the accidental heat of the heart though not great yet continuing devours the radical moisture of the heart and solid parts and the spirits and causeth weakness and Consumption A cold distemper quencheth the native heat Cold restraining the native heat is the cause of weakness or makes it less so some have been frozen to death And others have been killed with staying long in cold water Also some parts are benumed and blasted with cold or so weakned that they come not again to themselves And this may come to the Stomach by drinking cold water And hither may be referred those that for want of excercise bring not the native heat into action and grow stupid Also the parrs grow weak by using things inwardly and outwardly that are Potentially cold a long time they grow weak but the native heat is not wholly extinct as by actual cold Although hitherto it hath been believed to come from Narcoticks that are very cold which as we shewed do not kil by cooling but by stupefying the brain Nor do we grant that the Pores being obstructed that the heat is Suffocated for want of fanning or Eventilation for as we shewed the Skin hath Pores not to let in Air but to let out other things A Maligne quality affecting the Heart or mixed with its spirits A Maligne quality in the Heart is the Cause of weakness causeth an extinction of native heat thereof and by consequence of all the Body or diminisheth it and begets a Syncope or weakness or Death according toits divers qualities So when the Air is infected men in the Plague suddenly faint are weak and die or in swouning Feavers which alwaies begin with fainting And when Poyson is taken or bred in the Body it gets to the Heart and endangers life and causeth weakness And this may happen to other parts when Poyson is more contrary to them then to the Heat If a Wound peirce the left Ventricle of the Heart A Wound in the Heart is the cause of weakness and Death the spirits suddenly vanish and there is sudden Death And if the right or it peirce the Superficies or cuts the Coronal Veins they die suddenly from great bleeding I suppose non can scape if the substance only be hurt and divided because a principal part cannot endure it Fernelius writes that he saw one that consumed before he died of an Ulcer in the Heart that came from an inward cause The like may be from a Tumor which is rare and not known but by dissection because the Heart feels not I faw in 1644. in a Woman that I opened of a Dropsie in the Breast such a swolen Heart loose and greater then it should be with the Vessels especially the Arteria Aorta three times bigger then usual and both the Ventricles especially the left and the Langs and Cavity of the breast silled with waterish blood Also a great corruption in other parts extinguisheth the native heat The Cure We shall shew how it is to be done in diverse weaknesses The Cure of weakness and swouning and chiefly in general Imbecility and great fainting which also may be for particular weakned parts although in their Symptoms we shall also speak thereof We must act and prognostick acctording to the diversity of the cause of weakness If it come from want of Air and breathing we shewed the Cure in the defect of Breathing If it be from the birth or old age we labor in Vain because natural causes cannot be changed nor radical moisture renewed If it be from Evacuation it is worst from Venery or bleeding which is in a Dropsie If

happen in a Catalepsis for the like reason since that it is a certain species of Convulsion If the cause of that doting sleep proceed from the Devil with which he deludes Witches 't is not our task to search out those hidden causes The Devil the cause of Daemonical sleep which the Witches attribute to the oyntments with which they anoint things by the Devils command or to Decoctions with which they dream they can cause Hail and draw Clouds from Heaven such as Eotis in Apuleins and Homers Circe did prepare by bruising together Garlick Wild Time and stinking Plants which we renounce By reason of a defect of animal spirits in the brain it must needs be also that a stupidity follow the functions of the brain being taken away which may happen upon a double account they being either wasted or at leastwise poured forth and extravagant The Animal spirits being wasted in the brain The Consumption of the animal spirit is cause of an Apoplexy if they were only impaired or too few whence follows a weakness of the brain its functions also must be weakned as hath been said in the Weakness of the mind but if they be altogether or so far consumed as that not only a weakness of the functions do follow but a total Oblition of them there wil be a grievous Apoplexy and suddenly killing the Patient of which we have oftentimes seen old men die of and the common People still hath believed it caused from a Flegmatick Humor as we see the vital Spirit being impared there follows a want of strength but being wholly consumed Death The Animal Spirits being shed or poured forth from the Brain into the Nerves continuous with the Brain for they can be extravagant no where else Too great a pouring forth of the Animal Spirit from the Brain into the Nerves is the cause of a Stupidity of divers kinds of a Catalepsis and Epilepsie whenas they can consist no where but in the Brain and Nerves then it happens that the Internal sense either all or some do cease according as a greater or less quantity of them leaves the Brain but the motive power is no waies abolisht since as those Spirits do yet persist in the Nerves neither are the Nerves left destitute of them as it comes to pass in a resolution their passage from the Brain to the Nerves being then hinderd furthermore since that the Animal spirit is contained also in the Nerves as well as in the Brain of which they are portions though the the Functions of the Brain may cease for a while yet they nevertheless may still for a time exercise the power of moving which they contain in themselves the which also we may very well guess doth proceed rather from the Nerves then the Brain in some creatures who excel more in motion then in the senses because they have none or a very little Brain but a marrow of the Back large and plentiful part of which also cut off from the rest yet nevertheless moves for a while and this is the true and Legitimate cause why the senses being abolisht yet motion nevertheless may persist for a time in sinding out of which both the ancient and moderne Physitians have so much tormented themselves and delivered their far different opinions viz. This effusion of the Spirits into the Nerves which proceeding chiefly from two causes produceth accidents somwhat diverse as shall presently be explained The first of which is the too much Vehement and Persevering operation of the internal Senses by which as in great passions of the Heart we see the vital Spirits so carried forth that thence follows a Fainting away and so if there be a dissipation of the Animal Spirits into the Organs of the external senses by a more vehement Cogitation and intention upon some thing it may come to pass that as men astonisht they may be lightly stupid and either by and by they returning again they may come to themselves or if they continue longer those diverse Species of a Catalepsis may proceed which we have demonstrated in the explication of the former kinds to have somtimes happen'd from too much Study or Love or some other great affects of the Minde especially Melancholly whence it came to pass that many have put a Melancholly juyce as the Cause of a Catalepsis In which if the Spirits being not wholly poured forth some portions of them remain in the Brain some Sences also wil remain the other ceasing and as they are poured forth into the Nerves Motion may also either at least remain or exercise it self with a rigidness without concussion if there be no contraction of the nerves as shal be said in an Epilepsie and this seems very likely to be the cause of the diversity of Species of a Catalepsis as we have shewed formerly in diverse Histories of it yet as also if the spirits be so carried forth by a violent affect of the Minde that for awhile they cannot recollect themselves we have seen them fal down like to the Epileptical their pulse remaining by which they were distinguisht from those that faint away and some when they made a speech or despute at great meetings by reason of the too great contention of the Minde and Senses fear somtimes or shame coming upon them the Spirits being troubled have sufferd the like from whence perhaps because the same was wont to happen for this reason at some meetings an Epilepsie was called the Comitial Disease In which vehement motions of the Minde as it may come to pass so it is commonly believed also that from Anger Convulsions may easily proceed which opinion happily had its rise because in those disposed the fit is by this means promoted unless perhaps this may happen by the stirring of Choller through Anger as we shal declare by and by But the other and more frequent Cause of pouring out the Spirit into the Nerves from whence follow the more grievous Symptoms of an Epilepsie and Catalepsis is an irritation of the Brain such a one by which its expulsive faculty stirred up rising to cast of that which is troublesome to it doth together drive forth the Spirits as Nature every where feeling pain and trouble is wont to thrust Spirits thither and together with them blood also oftentimes so powerfully that there follows an inflamation of that part which receives them Which trouble or irritation of the Brain indeed they demonstrate to happen rather by consent and compassion with some part then from its proper effect because we see Convulsions happen rather from an affect and Disease of another part Somtimes also far distant from the Brain then of the Brain it self as from a Nerve Prickt or some violent Medicine taken where as if it did happen from some grievous Disease of the Brain as indeed it must needs be a grievous Disease which must induce so vehement a Symptone the accidents of Convulsions which it causeth would not so soon

only an impaired one manifesting it self depravedly and with trembling and that because whiles the Muscle doth endeavor to lift up the Member and it cannot keep it so long by reason of its weakness that sliding back indeed by a natural Motion by reason of gravity but the Muscle drawing it back again upwards by a voluntary Motion by this intercourse and as it were contention of Motion amongst themselves the Member stirred upward and downwards ariseth that called a trembling which will be so much the greater if the Member which it ought to move be heavy or do not follow and the Muscle also be in some sort involuntarily stirred up to move where we observe in some although their Member rest yet they tremble But this their weakness happens somtimes by reason of the defect of the Animal spirit The defect of the Animal spirit is the cause of trembling not absolute as in a Palsie but only such a one by which the sense of Feeling is yet indeed communicated but there is not sufficient force ministred to the Muscles to move because a greater portion of it is required to Motion then to the sense of Feeling which somtimes happens when they are spent whence ariseth a lasting trembling and that either by reason of Age whence old Folks become Tremulous or by reason of a grievous and long continued Disease after which they oftentimes tremble a long while or of immoderate Evacuation especially by Venery shedding of blood purging and great labors but otherwise the spirits being only dissipated they tremble til they return as by a vehement affect of the Mind or suddain in Fear Anger Joy they tremble for a while and in strong or swift Motion as when they carry heavy burthens or do somwhat else which is above strength they tremble and when having sufferd grievous labors they rest the Members being too much wearied do tremble for a time also the Spirits being hinderd yet not wholly intercepted as in a Palsie whence a perfect resolution of the Muscle follows but only in part the weakness which ariseth in the Muscle causing a trembling which even then is as it were a certain Diminute Palsie sprung from the same causes affecting the Nerve as in a Palsie yet not so powerfully and especially proceeding from Excrementitious humors possessing the Nerves but other affects of the Nerves also do induce a trembling A hurt of the Nerve is the cause of trembling not by intercepting the spirits but by weakning or hurting the Nerves another way as if from Excrementitious humors as hath been said this weakness in the Muscle doth cause a trembling not only by intercepting the Spirits but also by irritating the Nerve doth somtimes force it to the motion which is made in trembling whence also the cause being increased or lasting the trembling ofttimes ends in a convulsion And if the Nerves also by Narcoticks too much or often taken do at length contract that weakness from that Stupidity that also the Muscles by reason of them be weakend a trembling also is bred from this affect of them as it hath befallen some not only by the use of Opium or of other strong ones but from a Suffumigation of Henbane and we observe that by the Narcotick vertue of Wine they who are given to drunkenness do at length become Tremulous the which notwithstanding they perswade themselves doth proceed from the drinking of cold Water which drunkards drink in the morning to quench their thirst caused by Wine that they may not be compelled to abstain from Wine Which suspition of theirs is augmented also by this that whiles they are yet fasting and sober they tremble and after they are heated again with Wine the trembling ceaseth or at least waies shews it self less the which yet doth not happen as if Wine were not the cause of this trembling but because whiles the Wine increasing the heat of the Body renders its actions lively that as long as it is hot with Wine and as it were refresht it doth less feel the weakness which otherwise alwaies remains for that reason as those refresht with meat and Wine being made stronger is the cause that they tremble less After the same manner trembling is somtimes bread from other Poysonous things being taken and applied chiefly besetting the Nerves as it is somtimes wont to happen from the Suffumigation of quick-silver not from the touch as some would have it to Gold-smiths in gilding their Vessels if they have not a care of themselves but draw it in for which cause also in the French Pox those suffumigated with Cinnabar especially if then also they drink Wine by which the Nerves being already made feeble are easily hurt do oftentimes fall into a trembling the which also ofttimes befals them who in the same Disease being anointed with quick-silver do thence get a trembling which hurts of the Nerves proceeding from quick-silver either proceed frrom its Antipathy with the Nerves or from some other propriety of it almost proper to it by which it moving the Humors driving them to the Jawes it moves plentiful spitting and driving them to the superficies and extremities of the Body it also affects the Nerves and so much the worse if the Humors which are moved be evil and be not decently purged by sweats by which also if the Nerves suffer more vehemently after tremblings they suffer Convulsions which often follow these cures made by the use of quick-silver There may be some fault in the Nerves from the Birth whence some are born trembling as hath been formerly shewed by the example of one but what trembling that was can hardly be explained because though trembling he nevertheless performed his Duties for a long course of life and married a Wife The Cure We will divide the Cure according to the diversity of the Kinds and we will explain in every one what is to be done What must be done both in a general and particular Convulsion The Cure of a Convulsion hath been taught in Convulsions in that also called a Convulsive Palpitation in as much as this threatens true Convulsions we must study to prevent it by Application of the same Remedies but by reason of its motion seeing it is not very urgent nothing peculiar is applied to the members In Restlessness The Cure of restlessness from trouble of mind if that spring from a perturbation of the mind what then must be done in respect of the Disease and also of this Symptom by reason of which how it ought to be quieted with Dormitives and be restrained by using of force hath been explained in an Alienation of the Mind If they be restless by reason of Pain The Cure of restlessness by reason of Pain then smoothing the pain with Anodines and things enducing sleep and if it urge more vehemently causing a Stupidity together with the Pain we correct the Restlessness But if the Restlessnes arise by reason of the Heat not only of the Heart

no other in the Heart for it is sufficient by touching the Arteries to know the vital strength especially in regard the motion of the pulse is answerable to that of the Heart Also the Defect of the Heart is known by the breathing In the pangs of Death there is extream weakness Extream weakness in the hour of death which is more or less longer or shorter In which although the conflict between life and death or Convulsions the Members are moved yet the strength is gone And the pulse intermitteth and ceaseth like the flame of a Candles end that somtimes blazeth with a little refreshment from the grease but goeth out again when that is wanting And the motion of the Heart and Breathing are much stirred up in the Agony before they cease so that the whol breast is shaken and the Nostrils moved the body sweats and farteth which caused the Poets to say the Soul went out And death being at hand the heat leaves the external remote parts as Hands Feet Nose by degrees and the rest while the breast is warm a while til all the breath ceaseth the mouth and Eyes remaining open and the body turned like a clay colour we are certain the Soul hath left the body Sometimes while the man liveth the strength is taken away for a time Syncope or Swooning and all the Functions of the whol body suddenly Pulse and Motion ceasing so that it cannot be felt at least In the Disease called Deliquium Lipothymy or Lipopsychy in Greek if it be great 't is called Syncope And then all breath is gone so that you cannot perceive it by a Feather applied to the Nose or the like which may be stopped in this case only during the Fit while the motion of the heart is staied and hath no need of Breathing without Death But while the the Heart moveth it cannot want Breath because it procureth vital spirits In this Syncope they fall suddenly only with a noise in the Ears or hissing the strength being lost as in an Apoplexy if the Syncope be great but they differ in this that in the Apoplexy the Heart and Arteries beat and they breath though with difficulty and obscurity There is also a cold sweat called Snycoptical or Diaphoretick not from the digested substance of solid things but from the conflict of nature and the dissipation of the Spirits which is so great that not only thin humors but also the Dung and Urin break forth And because then heat vanisheth from the outward parts there is a cold sweat remaining and a paleness all over in those places that should be red by nature shewing it self first in the Lipps Somtimes there is a particular weakness when the internal or external Organs are deprived Particular weakness and it is called the weakness of that part not every weakness that comes from a Disease but as shal be shewed in the causes that which comes from the loss of the flourishing vertue Such as is sometimes in the Stomach Liver Brain Eyes Joynts or Members which shal be spoken of in those accidents which are produced thereby The Causes The Cause of all failing of strength The cause of all want of strength is in the vital spirit in man when it is not nourished with another spirit or moisture or consumed fainting and weakness of particular parts dependeth upon the inbred and inhaerent spirit of the similary parts which makes the spiritual substance of parts as they call it and giveth living vertue or life and strength and heat which is natural This natural spirit or heat being inbred in every substance of parts as in the Heart which though it abound with other yet hath this in it as necessary for life hath need to be continually nourished and renewed by the vital spirit made in the left ventricle of the Heart and communicated to all the parts by the Arteries as to the substance of the Heart by the coronary Arteries called the influent spirit that it might be the matter that sustains the innate spirit and because it easily disperseth it ought to be in great plenty through the body And hence is it that the heart being the shop where that spirit is made alwaies stands in need of Air and Blood whereof it is made Wherefore if they be wanting or but little there is one cause why strength faileth As when for want of breath the heart wants Air then Death follows except its motion were hindered by other causes as shal be shewed in the causes of swooning Because the Heart being dilated by motion often not filled with matter for vital sptrits dieth And this cannot befall it while it moveth not because it may subsist a while with its own spirits as other parts So we shewed in a Syncope wherein they revive after a long stopping of the breath But seeing Blood mixed with Air in the Lungs affordeth fit matter for animal spirits if it be consumed by great want of nourishment or Arrophy or stopped in the Vessels so that it cometh not to the parts there must be weakness But no man living can be so without blood that the Lungs should be so empty which usualhave so much or the Vessels that are so large by which the Blood is carried with Air from the Heart should be so obstructed Only strength fails in this respect that spirits are not made or being made they are suddenly dissipated which causeth the innate spirits to subsist no longer And that either when they altogether vanish and leave the body as in the Agony of Death or they depart for a time from the Heart and return again as in swooning Or when they are fewer then are necessary as in Weakness Also strength must needs fail when there is want of substance making moisture in regard the innate spirit is nourished not only with the infinent spirit but by radical moisture which consumeth dayly And so it is the occasion of Death or Weeknes● as it is wanting in the Heart where it is the proper nourishment of the spirit or in any other parts But if the innate spirit ca●●ed the spiritual substance of the parts or called the natural heat be extinguished or weakened or any part cold Then if it be in the Heart which hath as I shewed its proper native heat or innate spirit besides the vital which it aboundeth with otherwise there had been no coronal Arteries and be spent Death follows but if it be diminished there is a general faintness of the whol body as a particular weakness of some other member if it be in them But now I shal shew what causeth the dissipation of both the innate spirit called native heat and of the Influent spirit by which it is susteined And how the humor that feeds it is consumed by natural and adventitious courses They who have more innate spirit or natural heat The constipation of radical moisture through age is the cause of weakness and radical moisture are more strong

the natural by which name they also cal red Lead Thus prepared it is used for curing the Pox not by anoynting as when it is Crude but by the Smoak of it when it is burnt to Fume the Body For this Artificial Cinnaber keeps still the force of Quick-silver and when it is burnt by reason of the Brimstone it hath a greater and more peircing sume or smoak and works as strong as Quick-silver when it toucheth the Body and causeth Salivation or spetting and a sore mouth and Cures the Pox. And therefore ours hyrurgions use it more then the Unction or if there be any relicks after another course hath been taken this will clear remove them They mix things to correct the stink of Cinnabar when they raise these Fumes which they powder and lay upon the Coales or they mix Cinnabar with Rosin or the Infusion of Gum Traganth and make Troches thereof which they lay upon the Coales to smoak Observing this quantity that 's one dram of Cinnabar be used at a time This Fume is made for eight times As Take Cinnabar one ounce Frankincense alone or half Mastick three ounces make a Pouder use half an ounce at a time or mix it with Turpentine which makes a great Fume or with Gum Traganth make Troches for eight times To make them sweeter Take Cinnabar one ounce Frankincense or Mastick one ounce and an half Benzoin six drams Storax half an ounce Labdanum two drams Wood Aloes or white Sanders half a dram make a Pouder let him use half an ounce at a time You may add other sweet Gums and Spices as Cloves Cinnamon Nutmeg and the like In Ulcers you may add to the second pouder prescribed half an ounce of Myrrh and Amber and when the Ulcers are very malignant you must use very strong dryers as half an ounce of Antimony two drams of Brass or Venice Glass one dram And somtimes strong if the Party be strong as Orpiment one dram Quick silver prepared otherwise a sublimate or prae cipate one dram with this Caution that they take none of the Fume into their Nose Some suppose that they can resist this Venom in the Oyntments and Fumes by mixing of Treacle but in regard the strength is lost by burning as it will do little in Oyntments so we suppose it is good for nothing in Fumes These Fumes are thus administred the Patient is put naked into some warm close place which is kept from the Air as a hot House or a Tub for the purpose which beneath of wood and above covered with a Mat o● the like arched a Tent. Thus sitting let him take the Fume which comes from the Troches thrown upon the coals there with his Face out that he may endure it longer but his Head so covered that the Air come not at it but towards the Conclusion let the Head be a little fumed also let him sit while he can endure it without fainting and sweat Then cover him with warm sheets and carry him to another place where there is no smoak not too far off least he catch cold there put him into a warm Bed as we said in Unctions to sweat while he is able There is another way of smoaking for the Pox for gentle Folks with less trouble if you do it against a Chimney covered with Tapsstry and so the Smoak will get up the Chimney and the Patient breath the better And the best way is to lay the Patient straight in his Bed and conveigh the Fume by a spout from a Funnel or fuming pot under the cloaths unto his naked Body and there they keep it with his Head out of the Bed till a little at the last as we said before These Fumes are to be used once every day and if the Patient be weak every other day or if he grow faint let him rest some day till his Spirits be recruted and to it again till by his fluxing or spitting or foreness of Mouth you are admonished to give over which usually will be after ten times somtimes sooner and somtimes later The Diet is the same with that of Unction but they must eate oftner because Fumigation weakneth more then Unction and Abstinence cannot do so much good here as weakness will do hurt you must also purge somtimes as in the Unction Quick-silver made into Sublimate with Vitriol and vinegar which flyeth up and sticketh to the Head or covering by the force of the fire is used outwardly also for the Cure of the Pox mixed with some Liquor to wash the ulcers for Quick-silver is in the Sublimate and sticks to the Body and doth the same that it did in the Oyntment and Fumigation and cures the Pox by spitting which also maketh a sore Mouth as the other And moreover by the sharpness of the Vitriol it burns the skin and blistereth it and draws out the venom from the fore and knotty places Thus they cure the Pox by it alone and take away the Pains and Nodes and root them out when no other way will For making this Mercury water of Sublimate a middle quantity is one ounce of Mercury to two pints of Liquor and you may increase or decrease the quantity according to the Operation By Decoction you may make it thus Take of Sublimate Mercury one ounce common Water or Rose-water Scabious Fumitory Marjoram or Sage-water c. two piuts white wine four ounces or Aqua vitae two ounces boyl them a little and keep them for use An Infusion for a Water to wash with Take Sublimate one ounce Allum one ounce and an half Lytharge and Ceruss each one ounce Aqua vitae two pints steep them in a close stopp'd Glass A Decoction Take Sublimate one dram Arsenick four drams Euphorbium half a dram Rose-water or the like with Aqua vitae each twelve ounces boyl them a little in a Glass Thus we use these Waters let the Legs be washed with a clout dip'd in this Water from the Knee downwards and the Arms from the Elbow foreward sometimes morning and evening by the fire continuing it ten daies till the Mouth be sore and they spit Let the Patient be governed as in the Unction in a hot place sweating and taking proper Meat and Drink and let him be purged before and in the time of using it Also Experience hath taught that Quick-silver taken inwardly cures the Pox either crude or calcined When it is taken crude it doth it by the same way as when outwardly applied causing no other manifest Evacuations but spitting neither will it cure without it make the Mouth sore And in regard it doth the same externally it is thought prejudicial inwardly give it not rashly therefore but in an old Pox or when others fail or to save Labour and Charge And it is safer when it staies not long in the Body for being crude it commonly gets out soon by its weight and slipperiness or usually some other things are muxed to carry it away and so it hurts not