and preserved by the use of their like and coâ—traries are destroyed by their contrâ—ries and weary his body by violeâ— Exercises and continual labour Anâ— if there be a suppression of choleriâ— Excrements which before did freelâ— flow either by Nature Will or Art bâ— whosoever seeds upon meats generâ—ting gross blood as Beef Venisoâ— Hare old Cheese and all salt meats without all doubt sliding from his Nâ—ture will fall into a melancholy teâ—per especially if to that manner Diet he shall have avocation full cares turmoils miseries strong aâ— much study carefull thoughts and feaâ— and also if he sit much wanting Exâ—cise for so the inward heat as it wâ— defrauded of its nourishments faiâ— and growes dull whereupon gross aâ— drossie humours abound is gone out of the belly shall stuffe his panch with more Who presently after meat runs into violent Exercises who inhabit cold and moist places who lead their life at ease in all idleness and lastly who suffer a suppression of the phlegmatick humour accustomely evacuated by Vomit Cough or blowing the Nose or any other way either by Nature or Art Certainly it is very convenient to know these things that we may discern if we at the present be phlegmatick melancholick or of any other temper whether he be such by Nature or Necessity Of Spirits IN order of Nature that that offers it self to the next hand is concerning Spirits A Spirit consider as a part of a man and that which enters our Constitution is defined to be an aiery thin and clear substance the seat of the native heat the Vehiculum of the Faculties and Instrument of the out-going Functions and of these there be two sorts one is the In-nate and the other is the In-flowing Spirit The In-nate Spirit is that which is put into every Similar part by the Principles of Generation and that which of the Greeks is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is the Foundation of the Humidum radicale The In-flowing Spirit is that which breaks forth from elsewhere and nourisheth and preserveth the Faculty and innate heat carrying it every where to the acting the Functions Of this In-flowing Spirit there be three kinds Animal Vital and Natural The first is the Animal Spirit anâ— that which is begotten from the Vital Spirit and the inspired Aire intâ— the Ventricle of the Brain and distributed by the motive and sensitivâ— Nerves giving sence and motion to thâ— whole Body The Vital Spirit is that which is begotten in the left bosome of the heart and the prepared Aire in the Lungs whence it is distributed to all the partâ— by the Arteries The Natural Spirit which goes forth from the Liver by the Veins with the Blood is poured forth into the Extream parts of the Body the Author of Generation Nutrition and Increase Of the Faculties A Faculty it is the Innate power of the Soul used to the performance of Actions and it is defined by Galen to be the Effecting Cause of Actions and therefore is call'd a Faculty Quod quae facit facere possit So that is understood by the Name of a Faculty which hath a power to doe and these Faculties are stated to be Animal Vital and Natural And that is the Animal Faculty which is onely proper to the Animal and for that cause it is so called That is Vital which the Vital begets in the heart and is sent forth from thence by the Arteries for the preservation of Life whence also it receives the Name of Vital The Natural Faculty is that which is in the Liver and sends Aliment to all the parts of the Body by the Veins Of Actions AN Action proceeds from a Faculty call'd in Latine a Function and therefore also they call it an Operation And as an Action so also a Function is three-fold Animal Vital and Natural But Action is defined by Galen to be of two sorts Animal and Natural From the Animal they are call'd Anamae Actiones but from the Animale Actiones Animi CHAP. V. Of Things not Natural THese Res non Naturales are sâ— call'd because they are not oâ— the number of those which enter into the Constitution or Composuâ— of mans Body as the Elements Humors and the rest which have been briefly mentioned already There are six thing which are Res non Naturales The ambient Aire Meat and Drink Sleep and Watching Motion and Quiet Excretion and Retention and Perturbation of the Mind in the right use of which doth consist the prâ—â—ervation of Health And to this purpose that Aire is to be Aire chosen which is neither thick nor rimy nor cloudy neither neer to standing Pools or Rivers but thin and serene neither too hot nor too cold neither too dry nor too moist neither infected with the ill Gales of Lakes common Sewers Sinks nor the filthy breath that is exhaled from dead Carkases nor corrupted by putrifying Dungs or any thing that sends forth filthy fumes neither that which is sent forth by windes out of the Mountains into the Vales and Caves and shut up in other hollow places but pure and thin Of Meats THat Food is to be chosen which is Of Meat of good Juice easie of Concoction that hath not much Excrementitious matter but Food of an ill Juice is to be rejected the particulars of which you will hear more hereafter upon treating of the Scurvy Those are call'd Foods of good Juice which are neither too hot nor too cold dry or moist but â—emperate neither too glutinous nor too thin but of a Medium because they beget good Blood that is neither too thick nor too thin The Quantity of Food must be measured Quantity by the Ability of the Concoctive Faculty and of whole Natures Ability to distribute that which is requisite to the nourishment to every part and therefore the quantity must not abound the power of the native heat and to this end it must be well chewed and ground by the teeth that being swallowed into the stomach the first shop of Nature it may be the easier concocted The Time of taking Food must not Time be before the fore-received Food be cast out by the power of the Expulsive Faculty into the Guts out of the Stomach The Drink must be Beer well boy'ld The drink made of Barley-malt or mixed with Oats it must not be red nor white neither sharp or soure but well boyl'd if Beer and clear and pure of good odour The Quantity of Drink must answer Quantity of drink the Quality of the received Food for if the Food be more solid and dry the Drink may be more liberal where the meats are more moist the Drink must be the less Much swashing of the stomach with The Time drink at Meals is disapproved as unwholsom and yet it must not be too sparing because that will not quench the thirst which is to be regarded As to the Time of Drink as Hunger doth admonish us when to eat so Thirst
with such Weapons as shall encounter the strongest Adversaries of this kind and that these things reported commended be no Hyperboles It will appear because these things are grounded upon Reason Experience the two greatest Foundations of Indication in the whole Art of Physick And then as to distracted people you may see and Examine the Cures we have done for which purpose we have a very good Conveniency in good Air with Garden-room and good attendance and all other convenient accommodâ—tion for Persons of any Quality and at reasonable Rates and over whom we our selves have a watchful and careful Inspection and discharge the Cure with Conscience and satisfactory Diligence And for such of any Diseases mentioned for the greater satisfaction and certainty of Cure who are willing to have our own oversight and personal Care for such we have convoniency of room and other necessaries You have also our Scorbutick Drops famous for the Scurvy and all Fevers wonderful useful for all Seamen and Persons at Sea or Land being the best Antiscorbutick opening Obstructions of the Viscera strengthens the Parts kills Worms takes away the cause of Fevers quickens the Appetite and does as much as any one Medicine can do unalterable in any Climate small Dose without observing any difficult Diet and Convenient and profitable for any Age or Sex hurtful in no Diseases being friendly to Nature and next of Kin to our Vital and Animal Spirit All this is propounded for the puâ—lick good and that it may so prove read it over observingly consider diligently censure not till you do better and however accept it as a fruit of his affection who means well THE INDEX Chap. 1. MEdicine defined Pag. 1. Chap. 2. Temprraments 4. Chap. 3. Of Parts 7. Chap. 4. Of Humours 9. Signs of a Sanguine Person 12. Signs of â— Chollericâ— Person 13. Signs of a Flegmatick Person 14. Signs of a Melancholly Person 15. Of Spirits 19. Of the Faculties 21. Of Actions 22. Chap. 5. Of tbings Natural 22. Of Meats 23. Of Sleep 25. Exercise how to be performed 27. Passion of the Mind 29. Chap. 6. A Tract concerning the Scurvy 33. Chap. 7. The manner of its Generation 38 Chap. 8. A continuation of the Scurvy 46. Chap. 9. The Cause in the Blood 51. Chap. 10. The Extrinsick Cause 55 Chap. 11. The Signs abbreviated 58. Chap. 12. Tbe Symptoms by which Persons may discern that they have the Scurvy 59. Chap. 10. The Cure of the Scurvy 68. Vegitables appropriate to the Scurvy 71. Rules to be observed in Bread and Beer for Scorbuticks and all others 72. Properties of the best Beer Ale 81 The Nature usefulness and profit of Wine 97. Of the Stone in the Bladder and Reins 104. The Diseases of the Spleen 108. The Tenesmus 110. Of the Dysury 110. Of the Strangury 112. Chap. 13. The Leues Venerea 97. Chap. 15. the Diagnostick Signs 103. Chap. 16. Signs of the increasing Pox. 106. Chap. 17. Signs of an Inveterate Leues Venerea 110. Chap. 18 Of a Gonorrhea 116. Chap. 19. Description of the Dropsie 119. Chap. 20. The Hypochondriack Melancholly 124. Chap. 21. The Histerick Passion 129. Chap. 22. The Jaundise 113. Chap. 23. The Chollick 135. Chap. 24. Diseases of the Liver 138. Chap. 25. Cachexia 142. Chap. 26. Inflamation of the Lungs 144. Chap. 27. A Pleurisie 145. Chap. 28. An Impyemate 147. Chap. 29. De Phthisis 148. Chap. 30. A Catarrh 150. Chap. 31. A Dysentery 153. Chap. 32. A Diarrhea 156. Chap. 33. Caeliack and Lienterial Passion 117. Chap. 34. The Asthma 159. Chap. 35. Of the Gout 161. Chap. 36. Of the Angina or the Quinsie 162. Chap. 37. Descriptioni of a Phrensie 165. Chap. 38. Melancholly Madness 167. Chap. 39. Of a Mania 168. Chap. 40. The Palpitation of the Heart 170. Chap. 41. Of Worms 171. Chap. 42. A continual Fever 173. Chap. 43. An Intermitting Fever 181. Chap. 44. A Hectick Fever 186. Chap. 45. The Ricket 189. Chap. 46. A Convulsion 191. Chap. 47. Of a Rheumatism 193. Medicines for every Disease 194. The great Arcana's 209. Instances of great Cures 219. CHAP. I. Medicine Defined MEdicine is defined with respect A Galen de constitutione artis to its End in this manner It is an Art which teaches the preservation of present health and the restoring of that which is lost or a Science by which we protect the present health and expell Diseases In Physick be these five parts First 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Physiology Secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Pathology Thirdly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Semeiotical part Fourthly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Dietetical part Fifthly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Therapeutical part The first of these treats of those things which are call'd Natural as Elements Temperaments Humours Parts Faculties Actions and Spirits An Element is defined to be the least or most simple part of the thing which it composeth Or thus the four first or simple Bodies are called Elements Fire Air Water and Earth or an Element is that most simple part which cannot be divided into any species diverse from it self and that which is not perceptible to our Eye but is imbarqued in the shell or clothed upon with those more 〈◊〉 Bodies â—hich we call Elements And therefore those pure virgin or unmixed Elements are rather to be conceived in our Minds than otherwise to be apprehended because they present not themselves to any mortal view And they are called Elements because they are those first Principles that enter into the composition of all Natural and created Beings and by reason oâ— their Effects they are described or express'd by Hypocrates by the names of Qualities as Hot Moist Cold and Dry. Of these Elements there are in number Four Fire Air Water and Earth and every one of these have a doublâ— Quality The Fire is hot and dry thâ— Air is hot and moist the Water is colâ— and moist and the Earth is cold anâ— dry These Elements you see have eacâ— of them two Qualities viz. The Fire is hot and dry the Air is hot and moist c. that so their first Qualities might be tempered by other qualities viz. the Moistness of the Air might temper the Heat of the Fire And these Elements are by Philosophers divided again into Male and Female the Male are the Fire and Aire and the Female are the Water and the Earth the first of these forms and concocts the seed and by the Aire as it were the sheath oâ—â—â—e conceived seed sends iâ— iâ—â—o the Water and Earth there as in its proper Matrix to be formed according as the Archeus or Spiritus Mundi shall dispose and the Nature of the place or Womb shall be adapt for those seeds in order to the production of such and such an Off-spring These Four Elements in the composition of mixed Bodies retain the qualities and are so mixed on with the other that no simple part may be found Of these Elements two
appeased tends to the ruin of the whole Secondly the Sulphurous parts of the Wine being exalted above the rest it induceth an immoderate heat or ebullition which in the Idiome of our Language is call'd the Fretting of Wines Thirdly it is not seldom that there happens a close union or Constriction of the Sulphur with the wearied or tired Spirit the Saline parts being brought to a fluidness it excells the rest in Power and Force and so the Liquor passeth into an Acetum or Vinegar There is yet another Intemperature of Wines viz. when the spirits being deprest the saline and sulphurous particles combin'd together are exalted And this may be done in Wines in a twofold manner And this is observable that Wines may degenerate into Vappa or Vinegar and that sometime from the Spirit being depressed and also the Sulphur with the Salt doth become musty clammy or slimy which we call Wine over-fretted or become ropy in eitheâ— Mutation the Spirit being brought under the Yoak the sulphurous and salinâ— being associated together they excelâ— the other Elements and so they may change into the gross disposition of itâ— own Liquor notwithstanding these things are not done altogether in thâ— same manner in both Wherefore in thâ— first Dyscrasia or Intemperature oâ— the Wine the Sulphur somewhat abidetâ— with the Salt but in the latter the Salâ— rather existeth with the Sulphur buâ— whether it be one or the other that iâ— made most powerfull the dominion oâ— the Spirit being driven away the otheâ— adheres to it and taketh away its duâ— state the manner of both seem explicable Note When Generous Wines have long waxed hot the particles being much agitated and by little and little being wounded the spirit partly evaporates being rapt up with the grosser Elements it is supprest In the mean time the Sulphur the abundance of which is advanced by a greater agitation and then the Spirit is brought under the yoke adhering to the salt and lifting it up it alters the mixture of the Liquor then by reason of the Excellency of the sulphur combinated with the Salt thence cometh the mustiness even as with thin Wines longer kept The Salt exalted and made victorious it depresseth the spirit and from thence it induceth a sharpness to the subjected Latex and then afterward the exalted Salt which is in a lesser quantity getting the Sulphur to it self and joyning of it intimately to it doth turn the substance of the Liquor from thin into thick and as it were Oleaginous and from a sour savour into a very ungratefull and as it were a Mustiness These being the Productions by reason of the Fermentation in Wines you shall see how amply the Analogy will hold between this Fermentation and the manner of producing the Scurvy It is to be understood that the Aliments received into our Bodies are first concocted and as it were gently boyled in our Stomachs by which means there is made a separation of the grosâ— and the excrementitious parts which are unfit to nourish and are cast forth into their proper Receptacle viz. the Guts In the mean time as it were by a certain Fermentation by which those things that were before thick and gross are rarified and those that were fixed are spiritualized and they are made volatile and this is done by separating their Excrements that there might be an assimilation of that which is profitable to our Bodies and to administer a pure Aliment that so they might afford matter to our spirits in manner as hath been above demonstrated in the Fermentation of Wine As Planerus brings that sentence of his That Meat and Drink in our Stomachs is resolved into an Aire which is drawn and passes into the Mesaraicks and is changed by a certain Concretion into the species of Blood and not only those parts of Aliments and Drinks are rarified and made volatile as it were in our Bodies but even that salt it self which is in these Aliments and is assumed in with them though fixed yet are rendered volatile spiritual and as it were Animal And this is not difficult to believe if any one will take notice how these volatile Salts and Spirits may be drawn out of Horns and Bones and Urines of Animals And so while all things are well performed in our Bodies the Aliments are resolved in our stomachs and the parts unfit to nourish are separated but those things which are proper to nourish are by the proper and peculiar Faculty of the Stomach and Bowels elaborated and by that means rendered consentaneous to humane Nature But when in our Stomachs and Intestines they cannot attain to that similitude and form which they ought to have to nourish our bodies They are sent to the Liver which is as it were the work-house of the blood to be more fully elaborated but as the purer blood is elaborated in the Liver the grosser part of the Chyle is by the large quantity of the Serum with which it is moistened and reduced to a greater aptness to â—â—uxibility and motion and is attracted by the Spleen and that part of the Chyle which yet remains thick by reason of Pontick and Acid Qualities is there elaborated and changed into blood fit for the nourishing the neighbouring parts And these things being rightly done and fitly ordered in our Bodies the man continues sound and in health but if by reason of an ill manner of Living and if they shall eat crude gross and naughty Diet and shall gorge themselves with many sorts of Food so that it is not able to separate from the Body though otherwise in health and strong by the power of concoction those vitious Excrements with which the concoctive power labours but so the Chyle abounding with many gross and tartarous parts and comeing to the secondary Bowels destinated to concoction it happeneth that these gross salt and fixed parts cannot all be attracted by the Spleen neither be all sufficiently elaborated there and so that concoction which ought to ferment and as it were to spiritualize all the Aliments is hindered and the grosser parts of the Food with the fixed and tartarous carried in abundance with the Meats is sent away gross in its fixed nature being not able to render them volatile rarified and Animal as they ought and the impure unprofitable and tartarous parts cannot be separated from the usefull and profitable whence the Bowels appointed to the second concoction at length waxe too weak to discharge the abundance of gross humours and by little and little are debilitated from thenceforth are rendered more unapt so that they cannot correct the Coction and Elaboration of the Aliment and the overmuch thickness of the humours and that which is deficient in the Rarification and Attenuation how to express it in one word is not easie and from hence appears the Reason of the controversie about the Name Gr. Hortius calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Crudity and that he accounts the nearest and properest Name for this
a spontaneous Lassitude a straitness â— the breast and often times they are oâ—noxious to Fainting of the spirits Vertigâ— and Convulsions but in these scorbâ—tick Dispositions they are wont to uâ— Remedies more hot and those endowâ— with a volatile Salt and also Chalybiaâ— which doth thin and stir the blood Aâ— truely in the same manner do they hand Ropy Wines viz. They ought to â— much shaken and stirred Thus far concerning the Radicate Principles of the Scurvy in the Blood Mass and here it is to be explained from what Causes the Blood the Parent of the Scurvy degenerating from its proper goodness doth take that diseasie disposition Notwithstanding it ought first to be shewn in what manner the seeds of this Disease with the other Humour in general is cast into the nervous Juice From the Blood driven forth the Borders of the Brain doth still forth a most subtil matter as for Animal spirits so for a Vehicle and doth scatter them there continually by the whole nervous kind that Latex as long as the Spirit and Salt is well combinated or volatilised with it remains very powerfull there is also a little water with which these are diluted there seems little need of Sulphur and Earth and yet that Concretion of the Spirit and volatile Salt which can pass through all things doth penetrate actuate and irradiate that most excellent humour Concerning the beginnings of the Scurvy untill the Blood being thick and Tone of the Brain are vitiated that Dewy Liquor of the Brain and Nerves as yet spirituous and sweet abides not very unfit to every Office to which it iâ— appointed but afterward being impoverished by the bloody Mass and mucâ— enfeebled it is dropped out inclininâ— towards a soureness Moreover from the faeculent and as it were the rancidous or muddy blood heterogeneoâ— particle are administred much infesteâ— with an Animal Regimen And the Brain being made more weaâ— within are admitted without repulsâ— and thence is powered out into the maâ—rowy Appendix as also the nervouâ— with the moistning Juice hence noâ— there follows the failings and the Eclipses of the scattering Animal Spirit inâ— every Region distractions and doloroâ— complaints and Cramps wherefore Paâ—sies Convulsions Vertigoes Pains Treâ—bling and other preternatural Afflictâ—ons of the Brain and Nervous kind anâ— the more forceable Roots producing thâ— Scurvy are wont to follow And hence it is to be noted in generaâ— that in these three doth consist the scoâ—butick spot affixed to the nervous Juice viz. That the dewy Liquor of the Braiâ— and Nerves is become much more thiâ— or impoverished which doth degeneratâ— Ã Crasi Spirituo-salina toward a soureness which is replenished by the heterogeneous and morbifick particles Hitherto we have shewn how the first seeds of the Scorbutick Affection are sown in the Blood and therein to the Nervous Juice CHAP. X. THe more remote and Extrinsick Cause comes from the six things non Naturales First Aire that is corrupt naughty moist thick putrid and cold cloudy sultery and marine the unpleasant and cloudy season of the Year moist places near the Sea-coasts Laky wet dwelling and Habitations under ground obnoxious to unclean and filthy Exhalations arising from foul Inundations of the Sea and Rivers from whence Hepatick and Splenatick Afflictions are stirred up Secondly Foods not onely in Quality but in Quantity and in Variety hurt much Multa fercula multos morbos ferunt In Qualiity if they be of an evil Juice corrupt too hot too much burnt these easily admitting of putridity and are contrary to the nature of the Bowels which First are the Flesh of Bulls Rams Sows Goats Deer Water-fowls Musty dyet or too Old things salted dryed in the Aire dryed with smoak or kept too long with Salt Red Herring Pickled Herring Bisket Pease Beans Old Cheese Cabbage Chesnuts Among Drinks those are forbidden thaâ— are made of a foul and stinking Water drinks made of Wheat thick and faeculent Wines black slimy impure thick not only taken to satiation but also taken against thirst and Drinks too copiously taken into the stomach hurt the Mesaraick Veins and Liver so that they cannot perform their other Offices There are other Causes of this Disease in some it may draw its rise froâ— an hereditary Cause when the Parentâ— have been much infected with the Invasions of the Scurvy as when the Parenâ— Father or Mother are scorbutick and so it becomes Hereditary also by sucking the Milk of a Scorbutick Nurse and some think it may be taken by Contact and intimate Conversation as drinking in the same Cup by Kissing and by the drawing in of the Breath of those infected And this by some is thought the Cause why in the Lower Saxony the Scurvy is so frequent they suppose that by drinking in the same Cups that scorbutick that having their Gums lax and inflamed with crude Blood their mouth stinking give or communicate the same to others and so also their Companions Si scilicet vir cum faemina scorbutica fluxu albo laborante concumbat may take it want of motion an idle sedentary Life does contribute much to this disease Fastings over much immoderate watchings great and unseasonable Labour and Exercises of Body suppressions of yearly Evacuations immoderate Sleep frequent perturbations of Mind anxious Cares and Solicitudes and things of that kind which doth lessen the Native heat and increase Crudities CHAP. XI Signs shewing the Scurvy hath already iâ—vâ—ded the Body FIâ—st A Heaviness of the whole Body Secondly A spontaneous weariness which notwithstanding Bodies that aâ—â— more gross and big may not so soon peâ—ceive without a continâ—â—l Exercise Thirdly A certain straitness of the Praecordiâ—m â—ourthly A debility of the Leggâ— Fifthly An iâ—ching redness and paiâ— of the 〈◊〉 Sixthly The colour of the Face inclâ—â—ing from a paleness to a dusky Where-ever these are found joyntly you may with certainty pronounce they 〈◊〉 the Scurvy Not that these be alâ—â—he Signs of this disease but that this â—â—uculent disease may be the more unmasked and every ordinary Capacity may understand whether he or she have the Scurvy you shall here have a more particular List of well-nigh all the symptomes of this Disease CHAP. XII THe Scurvy first invading there is presently a sense of heaviness and weariness without a manifest Cause over the whole Body mostly about the Vessel dedicated to Concoction and that from Cacochymia press'd out of all the Veins by the whole frame for by the heap of humours in this Evil there is need that the powers be stirred up 2ly They are troubled with a difficult and slow breathing especially between Labour when the sick is moved or stirred by Reason of a flatulent humour lying under and distending the Hypocondries together with the neighbouring parts the Diaphragma and Organs of Respiration 3. Often-times they are driven over the whole Body but chiefly through the external parts as the Arms Belly sides Hips between the Entrance of the back having a notable passage by the
Nature and Operation of the Sun for as the Sun is among the Stars so is this Pill to other Medicines the Son hath Light in it self and being the Fountain of Light communicates Light to others and radiates the whole Vniverse with its Beams attenuates and rarifies the thick dissipates the thin it Worms the Earth the Womb of Vegitables and Minerals it excites the whole Vniverse to perform its Office to which it is destinated So to be short these Pills of ours in like manner sheds forth their power in our Bodies they open stubborn Obstructions of the Liver Spleen Pancra's Missentery Midriff purges the Head cleanses the whole Body of Flegm and Melancholly takes away Obstructions of the Viscera and Vriters excites Nature into act by which means these Pills Cure the Scurvy Dropsie Jaundies Agues Fevers Kings-Evil Rickâ—ts Melancholly Frensie Madness Stinking-Breath Vomiting stopping of the Stomack Green-sickness want of Appetite kills Worms it Cures shortness of Breath barrenness in Women Fits of the Mother stoppages of their Months they dispose all filthy stinking Sores Vlcers and Fistula's to healing by mundifying and cleansing the Blood above all other remedies by altering and taking away thc acidity thereof and seperating its Hetrogeneous parts they resist corruption and putrefaction of Humours and these Pills are easie to take being few in number small in Dose gentle in operation certain in success being a certain remedy in most Diseases And such as have been famous for doing good and in some as it was said of the Sun they Eradiate the whole Microcosm with their solar Raies shaving off the occasional Causes of Disease and enlivening the Archeus or innate Spirit and inabling it to put forth all its power into Acts by which means the Functions are set at liberty to perform their respective Offices Besides these Pills Cure the Scurvy and Pox above all other Remedies causing the filthy Scabs to vanish and in short time to fall off like Leaves in Autumn restoring the Body in statu quo prius clearing the Skin of all morphewous filths and reducing it to its former floridity They that have this Remedy will want few others and for all mens use because cheap in price and excellent in their Effects The next Remedy is our Cordial Wine which Cures the Scurâ—y Leues Venerea Dropsie and Gonorrhea this Cordial Wine purges the Blood and frees it from all watrishness it opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen purifies the Blood promotes its Circulation comforts the Heart revives the Spirits opens the Pores causes gentle breathings and by gentle transpiration frees the Body from burdensome offending Humours and Filths cast to the Habit by which means the Body becomes quick nimble and sprightly fit for the performance of its Offices with agility and pleasure and as this Wine is of great Vertue so it is of small price and therefore a Remedy for the Poor The third Remedy is our Anodyn which puts forth superlative Effects in the Gout Stone and almost in all Diseases and especially in the most deplorable it is a most Rich high Cordial comforting and reviving the Spirit in the most languishing Disease seewtens the Blood thickens Rheums stops and totally takes away Catarrhs strengthens the Brain opens the Pores causes gentle transpiration an Effectual Remedy in all Rheumatisms giving sweet delightful and safe ease in all manner of pain even in the Stone and Gout in Excoriation of the Lungs and Aspira Arteria it is a good Remedy by which Consumption and Vlceration of the Lungs are prevented and consequently many delivered to our Knowledge from inevitable death In Vapours and Fits of the Mother where all Remedies have failed this hath never This Remedy dulls and takes away the Orgasmus Sanguinis which puts the Womb into such a fury that no other Remedy will so certainly safely and speedily appease it This being a Disease so general almost to all the Female Sex of what Condition or Degree soever and that which so miserably afflicts so many making their Lives so uncomfortable and by which means have cause to believe many are dispatched to the Grave alive under a bare suspicion that they are dead when they are only in a Fit through the ignorance of relation and tender these things considered what a value would this put upon such Remedies as that hath been found to be in truth time would fail us if we should tell the Times Cases and Persons wherein we have put a stop to the most Impetuous Carrear of the most truculent Disease Acute Peracute and Chronical we could instance in Fevers Consumption and sometimes where according to the Indicium of Diseases we have had good reason to believe a beginning Consumption of the Lungs by means of this Remedy the Rheums have been thickened the Brain comforted the Blood sweetened the tast whether Salt or Acid of the Catarrh or Snivil altered and sweetened the Hectick appeased the Feverish Morbifick Matter cast through the Pores they being gently opened the Archeus quieted the Lungs eased and a respit being procured to them from violents occasioned from perpetual Coughing and Labour to pump up the offending Matter and this not by stopping the proper passages of Expectoration and weakning of Nature stupifying the senses but by altering the dsposition of this forrein Guest strengthning of Nature comâ—orting and reviving of the Spirits fortifying of the parts and especially them most concerned the Brain and Lungs cooling the Fever This and much more is done if the Testimony of the Sick may be believed by this means as is said we have Cured Beginning Consumption and never could perceive the least Vestigium or Footstep of any inconveniensie arising thence and therefore this may be called Divine Anodynum for its apparent and superlative Effects that it puts forth in the most dolorous and afflicting Distempers and as in these so in many others Our next Remedy is our Laudanum without Opium which appeases the Archeus Eradiates the whole Microcosm with its solar Raies the Remedy is a true restorer and preserver of Health being given four times in a Month a preservative and commonly three times in a week for a Curative for this Medicine Eradiates its Vertue through the whole Body and Expels from it all Impurites either sensibly by Sweat or Vrine or insensibly by gentle or amicable transpiration The Fourth is our famous Antidote or Remedy against Convulsions and Falling-sickness with two or three Spoonfulls of of which according to age and strength we have snatcht many from the Jaws of Death where the Distemper hath baffled the mosr powerful and prevailing Remedies against those Diseases Instances of which we shall give you herafter at the latter end of this Book and though we have used them for may years yet to our Knowledge have not failed where instructions have been observed this Remedy hath no apparent Operation by either Vomit or Stool and suitable to any Age or Condition Fifthly our sure Balsom for the Asthma
shortness of Breâ—th and Consumption where this doth not good none will which we have Experienced for many Years as a sure Remedy easie to take for all Ages or Sexes a Balsom which we believe will never corrupt or decay The Sixth is our Vegetable Cordial Tincture whose Vertue will commend it self be-being a high Cordial and of Volatile parts friendly to our Microcosm next of Kin to our Animal and Vital Spirits and therefore quickly and easily assimilated and drawn into Vnity with us and Corroborates the Heart revives the Spirit opens the Pores and all Obstructions is singular against Lipothymia and Syncope all Swounding and Faintings whatsoever flowing from a debility of the Spirits or Obstruction of the Nobler parts or defisâ—entsie of supply to the Lamp of Life good in all Fevers whether malignant or pestilent of what sort soever The Seventh is our Cordial or Cachexical Pill so called because it is our infallible Remedy against all Female Obstructions Green-sickness Feebleness shortness of Breath pain in tha Head sides proved so by many infallible Experiments and is highly Cordial and without any manifest Operation it wonderfully strengthens the Heart revives the Spirits corroborates and strengthens the Heart by bringing in fresh supplies of Fuel to the Vital Fire it takes away the pain of the Head after a wonderful manner In sum its Dose is whatsoever any Physitian can in that Cose desire The Eighth is our Remedy against Consumption and all Distempers of the Lungs which is a precious Balsom next of Kin to our Humidum Radicale it comforts all the Natural powers of the whole Body it purifies the Blood from all Impurities from whence various and cruel Diseases are wont to arise it preserves from the Apoplexie Convulsion of the Nerves Leprosie Leues Venerea it is the only Specificum of the Lungs It preserves from and Cures the Asthma it takes away both old and new Coughs it consumeth and drys up defluction flowing from the Head it comforts the Brain it hinders the ventasitie of the Stomack and Chollick it is an admirable remedy for the Hectick comforting and strengthning of Nature it is a secret help for Consumptions increasing the radical moisture it wonderfully conduceth in the Gout whether in the Joynts or Feet as also in the Sciatica Like an occult Fire it consumeth Diseases as Fire consumeth Wood. The next is our Pill Hydragogum which opens Obstructions of the Viscera Liver Missentery Spleen and all other parts cleansing the Stomack of all Clammy and Flegmatick Matter sticking to the Tunicle thereof Curing the Dropsie and all waterish Distempers cleansing and strengthning the Liver and the Tone of all the parts destinated to Concoction washing and shaving off all slimy Matter adhering to the Viscera the refuse of imperfect Concoction The Tenth is our Remedium Melangogum which we have Experienced in all Melancholly Affects and in which we have failed none and that these may appear to be more than words we will give you Instances of Persons by Name and Place of abode that we have Cured and such as have been despicably afflicted with this Black and sad Disease even to despair of Cure and dispair in Mind and some that have come to a Mania the highest Degree of Madness And this Remedy does by a very gentle opening of Obstructions by inciding cutting and dissolving of the Tarterous Clammy Filths that obstruct the Viscera Missentery Liver Spleen and Stomack wonderfully altering the temper of the Humours and Parts and by consequence takes away all Instamation and Dyscrasia Sanguinis in the Parts where these Filths are used to stick so that the Tarterous Clammy Matters are washed away the Stomack gently cleansed the Flatus Hypochoudraicus repeled and strangely allayed the Hypochondriack pains vanish and the Mind quieted and Health restored the Mind and so the Body Capacitated to put forth all its wonted Offices for the wellfare of its own Being The Eleventh is our Febrisiga which Cures Fevers and all Quartan Agues by a gentle Operation in opening Obstructions of the Spleen and all the harberers of Melancholly Filths taking away the ferment of Fevers and Agues and that in a short time Our Specisicum for the Rickets which Cures in a short time by opening Obstructions of the Vessels destinated to Concoction and takes away the occasion of that sad Symptom the Atrophia the wasting and consuming of one Part by an Erronious distribution of the Aliment which ought to be sent to it and assimilated by it and the monstrous growth of some one Part by altering the Aliment due unto it These and all other grievous Symptoms attending this Disease are taken away in a wonderful manner in a short time And there is yet another viz. our Remedy most peculiar to all Women against all Vapours whether Histerick viz. from the Womb or from the Hypochondriack which marvellously suppresses all Melancholly Fumes from the Womb Spleen Stomack or any other parts by which means it Cures Fits of the Mother Palpitation of the Heart Pains in the Stomack with those Pains that so much afflict Women at the upper part of the Oesophagus or in the Throat which makes them fear they shall be suddainly Choaked Fits Heart-qualmnes all manner of Effects rising from Fumes below the Head Pains of the Head Swoundings Faintings rising from any cause of which we have had many Hundred Experiments And lastly our Remedium Faetisicum which is a singular Medicine against barrenness it cleanses the Womb from all things that hinder Conception it worms strengthens and disposes it to bear Fruit it takes away the Impediments proceeding from what Cause soever it is easie to take being very pleasant and without any manifest Operation and that of which we have had Experience FINIS ERRATA PAg 35 Line 13 for gingi pepicnm r gingipedium p 40 l 16 dele in p 51 l 14 r Exanthemata p. 61 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 59 l 15 r Hypochondries p. 61 l 3 r Hypochodrais p 105 l 4 r verulentsy p 113 l 15 for thousand r hundreds p 120 l 9 dele second is p 121 l 3 r thin l 5 r being l. 17 r Siccus p 128 l 18 dele not p 140 l 10 r perceptable p 148 l 1 for tales r tabes p 154 l 2 r called p 160 l 8 r very p 162 l 11 for by r without p 18 l 1 r sadden p 177 l 1 r peppered l 7 r foregoing 178 l 24 r Oleaginous â— â—70 r indeed if
be Light as Fire and Aire because these delight to move upward the other two are heavy viz. the Earth and Water because they incline downward The two first as Fire and Aire are called Active the two latter are accounted passive Because the first by reason of their innate and active heat doe act upon and as it were incubat upon the other as that Divine Philosopher in his Genes gives us an Account The Spirit of God moved upon the face and superficies of the Water in which the Earth the Womb of all things lay obscure From the Composition of these come all mixed Bodies and from the variety of mixtion comes the variety of Temperament CHAP. II. Of Temperaments A Temperament which of the Greeks is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is defined to be a due Proportion of the four first Qualities of the Elements Avieenna defineth a Temperament to be a Quality brought forth and arising from a proportion of mixed Elements it is a proportionable mixture of hot cold moist and dry And thâ—â— Agreement springs from the four fiâ—â— Bodies of the World and according to this proportion Temperaments in Bodies receive their Denomâ—nations There is a double Temperament one absolute and to temperated 〈…〉 the other ad Justitiam in singulis generibus the first is that wherein there is an even and equal proportion of mixed Elements neither more of hot than cold neither of moist than dry The Temperament ad Justitiam is that which hath not an exact Evenness oâ— parity of Contraries but that due â—ediocrity which it ought to have acâ—â—rding â—o its own Nature or is convenient to its kind or species So that the Aequality of Mixtion is not received according to an Arithmetical but Geometrical proportion and from hence arise the temperaments in Bodies and their Denominations Hence it is that one man is said to be sanguine because the Element of Aire doth most abound in that man and another is Melancholly because he abounds in Temperament with the Earthy Faeces which we call Melancholy and so of the rest Flegmatick or Cholerick Hence also arise the temper of the parts which constitute mans Body For Example a Membrane is dryer than a Vein a Tendon than a Membrane and a Bone than both From hence arise that variety of temperaments with respect to the several Ages of men and therefore Pythagoras divided Mans Life into four Ages and compared the whole course thereoâ— to the four Seasons of the year Childhood to the Spring in which time alâ— things grow and sprout out by reasoâ— of the abundance of plenty of Moysture and Youth to the Summer because of the Vigour and Strength thaâ— men enjoy at that Age and Man'â— state or constant Age to Autumn foâ— that then after all the dangers of foreâ— past Life the Gift of Discretion anâ— Wit acquire a Ripeness like as thâ— Fruits of the Earth enjoy at that Season As also the temperament of the seasoâ— of the Year the Spring according tâ— Hypocrates is hot and moist but it iâ— the Opinion of all men that the Sprinâ— is temperate the Summer hot and dry the Autumn cold and moist and the Winter cold and dry And from hence also arise the temperature of the Blood The Blood as Temperature of the Blood Galen affirms is most temperate in that it is neither hot nor moist but temperate as it is in its first composure None of the four first qualities exceeds The temperature of Flegm other by any manifest excess Flegm as that which is of a waterish nature is cold and moist Even as Choler being The temperature of Choler of a fiery temper is hot and dry but Melancholly assimilated to each is Temperature of Melancholly cold and dry And so much may serve to be spoken to Temperaments CHAP. III. Of Parts THe next thing to be handled in the part of Physiologia is a Part what it is A Part is defined to be being largely taken whatsoever maketh to the Constitution of a Humane Body There are many Division of parts but the chiefest of all is into containing and contained The Parts containing are the solid parts which are sustained by themselves and they are divided into Similar and Dissimilar And the Similar are again divided into Spermatick and Sanguine The Dissimilar parts are those which are not compounded from part of that same Nature but from other differing species or otherwise they are call'd Instrumental because they are the Instrument of the Faculties and Functions Organical parts are divided into Animal Vital and Natural and these are divided into Principal and Ministring Those parts are called principal which have the Gubernation of the rest and they ministring which are subservient and ministers to the rest CHAP. IV. Of Humours THere are fluid parts which are sustained by the help of the other parts such as are the Humours and Spirits The Humours are either Alimentary or Excrementitious the Alimentary humour is that that is dedicated for the nourishing of the solid parts which do draw their Original from a Commixtion of the four Elements But the Excrementitious are the superfluous Liquors unusefull and unfit to Nutrition and these are distinguished into Primary and Secondary The Primary are those which pass with the Chyle into the Liver being put on by the power of the Native heat in every part of the Body are distributed by the Veins to Nutrition And of these primary huâ—ors there be four Blood Choleâ— Melancholy and Flegm which be mixed â—ll together in the Veins This foâ—â—-fold mixture of humours is call'd the Mass of Blood by reason that the blood doth abound in that Mass The name of Blood is sometimes taken largely for the whole mass of Blood but properly it signifies the more benign and purer part of it generally the Blood is accepted for the whole bloody mass well tempered which from an equal mixtion of the four contrary humours and so there ariseth a harmony from a just and decent proportion of humours but if it be coâ—sidered by it self as pure and since 〈…〉 is hot and moist in temperature 〈…〉 Nature it resembleth Aire and not as by Reason of this tempeature but also in consistence colour savour and use it is discerned from other humours Blood is of such a mediocrous consistence that while it is retain'd within the bounds of Nature it appear not thicker nor thinner it is of a red colour a sweet taste it mightily nourisheth the musculous parts as often aâ— it exceedeth above the rest it maketh men fleshy flourishing fair pleasanâ— and merry But Alimentary bile is the thinneâ— part of the bloody mass partaking oâ— a fiery Nature by temperament hot and dry of a yellow or a pale yellow to taste bitter men in whom it abounds are cholerick lean hardy quick soon angry But the Excrementitious is drawn forth to the bladder of Gall and that it might stir up the Ejection of the Excrements and that it might
doth in like manner advise us when to drink and that for the most part either in health or sickness is the best Rule so that where a person is apt to be thirsty he may drink more to supply the want of moisture and may serve to the wetting or moistening of the Stomach Of Sleep SLeep ought to be pleasant and in the mean between deep and wakefulness for as that sleep is not best which is troubled so neither is that which is too light and from which a person is very quickly awakened but the immoderate deep sleep is worst Persons are not to sleep till the perfect concoction of the Aliment is over which is about two or three hours afteâ— the Food received profitable sleep is answerable to the constitution of the body For longer sleep is more fit and needfull How long Sleep for Cholerick Bodies and Melancholick than for Sanguine and Phlegmatick When you lie down in youâ— Bed first lie upon your right side thaâ— the meat taken last may descend to thâ— bottom of the Stomach and after thaâ— upon the left that the concoction maâ— be helped by the Liver lying upon thâ— Stomach which being perfected liâ— again to the Right side that the Chylâ— may be more easily distributed to thâ— Liver but lying upon the face is judged by all to be the cause of mosâ— grievous diseases The most convenient time for Sleeâ— The Time of sleep is the Night two or three hours afteâ— Supper because of its peaceable quieâ— and humidity Of Exercise EXercise ought to be moderate neither too gentle nor too vehement neither too quick nor too slow Lawfull Exercise is untill the body wax warm and appear somewhat more full and there arise the florid or rosie colour of the face and sweat and hot vapours are perceived to break forth and the respiration is great and easie and as long as the Exercise is continued it be quick and equal And the Body beginning to grow weary longer Exercise will cause stifness and weariness to assail the Body and the Body flowing with sweat will suffer loss of the Spirits and humid substance Exercises are to be according to the habit and Constitution of the Body those bodies that are full and gross and Bodies repleated with humours must use such Exercise as may correct the distemper of the body which may be more vehement and laborious yet so that they be not begun till the first and second concoction be over which may be known by the yellowness of their Urine and alwayes this is to be observed the Exercise is to be suitable to the Food received so that if the Feeding be larger the Exercise is to be the more if the Food be more sparing the Exercise is to be the less The Exercise is to be first gentle then more vehement and afterward more gentle again There is another sort of Exercise which is performed by Friction and is usefull for those who by reason of Infirmities are not able to take the benefit of Motion and is to be performed according to Reason so that the Sweat breaks forth the filth of the Body and such Excrements as lie under the skin may be allured and drawn out But as there are many and great advantages accrue to the Bodies of men by well managed Exercise so great harm proceeds to the Body from idleness and sloch for gross vicious humours heaped up in the body are the Authors of Crudities and Obstructions Gouts Apoplexies and a multitude of other diseases Of Passions of the Mind PAssions of the Mind have a great Influence upon the health of our bodies so that as our Passions are so very much are the state of our bodies altered Because by these the expulsion of the native heat with the Blood and Spirits are carried inward or outward and these Passions are in Number Four Joy Anger Sorrow and Fear Joy proceeds from the Heart for the thing causing Joy or Fear being conceived the Faculties move the heart which shaken and moved by the Faculty which hath dominion over it is dilated and opened as ready to embrace the exhilerating Object but in the mean time by the force of that dilatation it sends forth much heat and Spirits together with the Blood into all the Body a great part of which coming to the Face dilates it the Forehead is smooth and plain the Eyes look bright the Cheeks become red as died with Vermilion the Lips and Mouth are drawn together and made plain and smooth Some have their Cheekdented with two little pits which froâ— the effects are call'd laughing Cheekâ— because of the contraction or curbinâ— which the Muscles suffer by reason â— their fulness of Blood and Spirits aâ— which is nothing but to laugh Joâ— recreates and quickens all the Facuâ—ties stirres up the Spirits helps coâ—coction makes the Body to be bettâ— in liking and fattens it the heat bloâ— and Spirits flowing thither and tâ— nourishing dew or moisture water iâ— and refreshing all the Members froâ— whence it is that of all the passions â— the Mind this onely is profitable â— that it exceeds not measure for iâ— moderate and unaccustomed Joy caries so violently the Blood and Spirâ— from the Heart into the habit of thâ— Body that sudden and unlooked fâ— death ensues by a speedy decay â— strength and the lasting Fountain â— the Vital Humour being exhausted which thing happens to them whicâ— are less hearty as Women and olâ— men Anger causeth the same effusion oâ— heat in us but far speedier than Joy therefore the Spirits and Humours are so inflamed by it that it often causes putrid Fevers especially if the body abound with any ill humour Sorrow and Grief dryes the Body in a way contrary to that of Anger because by this the heart is so straitened the heat being almost extinct that the accustomed Generation of Spirits cannot be performed and if any be generated they cannot freely pass into the members with the Blood wherefore the Vital Faculty is weakened the lively colour of the face withers and decayes and the Body wastes a-away with a lingering Consumption Fear in the same manner drawes in the Spirits and calls them back not by little and little as in sorrow but suddenly and violently hereupon the Face growes suddenly pale the extream parts cold all the Body trembles or shakes the Belly in some is loosed the Voice as it were stayes in the Jawes the Heart beats as it were with a violent pulsation because it is almost opprest with the heat strangled by the plenty of Blood and Spirits abundantly rushing thither the hair also stands upright because the heat and blood are retired to the inner parts and the outmost parts are more colâ— and dry than stones by reason where of the outmost skin and pores in which the roots of the hair are fastened arâ— drawn together Shame is a certain affection as it werâ— mixed of Anger and Fear thereforâ— in that Conflict of as it were
Disease And therefore that Salt and the grosser parts of the Chyle when all cannot be attracted from the Spleen and elaborated and attracted by the Liver without Impediment even that which is the subtiler part of the Chyle as that which is familiar to it and naturally more apt to the generating good blood and cannot expell all things from Nature because of the abundance and unaptness they stick in the first wayes and abide in the branches o◠〈◊〉 Porta and Mesaraick 〈…〉 the Mesenâ—ary it self Paâ—â—râ—â— â—nd 〈◊〉 and by reason that it is woâ—â— to administer matter of Cause to such humours they are continually encreased every day And to these salt gross fixed humours there are joyned and mixed other crude and vitious humours and are detained in these places and so â—he Cymists do call the foulness of these humours heaped up in the first wayes Tartarous Having premised these things let us return to the Analogy that seems to be between the Fermentation of Wine and the Blood oâ— Humoâ—rs and concerning ing the first note in the Fermentation of Wine CHAP VIII 〈…〉 when the Faeces are separaâ—â—â— and 〈◊〉 to the bottom if they â—â—â— again elevared to motion or if any Heterogeneous Exotick Sulphur be cast into the 〈◊〉 from thence there will arise a notablâ—◠〈…〉 which unless it be 〈…〉 to the ruinâ— of 〈◊〉 whol◠〈…〉 lik◠〈…〉 there bâ— maâ—y thing â—hich 〈…〉 mixible with â—â—â— blood which â—eing mixed wiâ—◠〈◊〉 â—oe â—iâ—der â—he moâ—ion and Circulation of it â—nd trouble thâ— Oeconomiâ— Indeed these are not so well performed the nourishing Liquoâ—â—eing reduced to a muddiness â—â— inordiâ—â—â—ely ferments the blood and also â—haâ— Liquor is made to degenerate from its statu quo prius into a base and flat Liquor and being such stirres up the Fitts of intermitting Fevers but the vapoâ—ouâ— Excremâ—nts of the Blood the Rasa or Iraseibiles cholerick and atrabilious retained in its bosome it brings forth Catarrhes Dropsies Jaundies Melancholy 〈◊〉 â—any other Effects And Secondly The Sulphâ—â—â—us part 〈…〉 Blood being too much â—â—alâ—ed from thence is produced an inoâ—dinate heat and so is apt to be kâ—â—dled iâ—â—he heart and from thence followâ— a Feverish heat and thence have many Fevers the Cause of their Existence Thirdly There frequently happens a close Union or Constriction of the Sulphur with the wearied or tired spirit the saline parts being brought to a fluidness it excells the rest in power and force and so the Liquor passeth into an Acetum or Vinegar and from the Acidity of the Blood are produced Melancholy Distempers Fourthly There is yet another intemperature of Wines viz. when the spirit being depressed the saline and sulphurous particles combining together are exalted and this may be done in Wines in a two-fold manner And this is very observable Wines may degenerate into Vappa or Vineger and that sometimes from the spirit being depressed and also the sulphur with the salt exalted together doth become musty clammy or slimy which we call Wine over-fretted or become Ropy in either mutation the spirit being brought under the Yoak the sulphur and saline being associated together they grow too powerfull foâ— the other Elements and so they may be changed into the gross disposition of its own Liquor notwithstanding this thing is not done in the same manner in both For in the first Dyscrasia or Intemperature of the Wine the Sulphur somewhat abides with the Salt but in the latter the Salt rather existeth with the Sulphur but whether it be one or the other that is made more powerfull the dominion of the spirit being driven away the other consents with it and taketh away its due state the manner of both is explicable When Generous Wines have long waxed hot and by little and little being wounded the Spirit partly evaporates and being rolled about with the other grosser Elements it is supprest in the mean time the Sulphur the abundance of which is advanced by the great Agitation and the Spirit is brought under the Yoak adhering to the Salt and taking it up it alters the mixture of the Liquor and then by reason of the excellency of the Sulphur combined with the Salt thence comes the mustiness even as with thin Wines long kept the Salt excited and made victorious it depresseth the Spirit and from thence it induceth a sharpness to the subjected Latex and then the exalted Salt which is in it in a lesser quantity getting the Sulphur to it self and joyning it intimately with it self turns the substance of the Liquor from thin into thick and as iâ— were Oleaginous and from a soure savour into a very ungratefull and as iâ— were a Mustiness It is very probable that the Blooâ— may be thus altered in the Scorbutioâ— Affection as Wines as often as theâ— wax hot they degenerate into Ropâ— and stinking For this Disease is not â— much from the Faeculency mixed wiâ— the Blood although such have beeâ— and the Supplement of them may â— known before but it dependeth upoâ— the habitual Intemperature of the Blooâ— and the Argument is this Because a radâ—cated Scurvy is so difficultly cured aâ— sometimes not at all we may state tâ— Dyserasia sanguinis is the Parent of tâ— Scurvy even as we constitute a Dupâ—city of the Wine to wit a Sulphuro-â—linan and a Salino-Sulphurean Fâ— where there is the greatest variety â— Distempers which are attributed to tâ— Scurvy all these may chiefly and veâ— aptly be referred to two heads or Foâ—tains of Evil Viz. CHAP. IX THE first is that in which the Blood is touched with the Scorbutick Miaâ—ines or the prae-existing heat in which to wit the Sulphur having got the prae-domination gets the salt to it self wherefore that being made more rancid or Rammish waxeth inordinately hot in the Vessels and the Excrements being â—urnt to wit the Concretions of the Sulphur and Salt the Sulphur wholly forsakes it self and is dispersed here and â—here the which truely being drove â—utward do produce spots Pustuls Exâ—nthâ—mata and Ulcers but being dispoâ—ed inwardly they occasion Vomitings â—nrdialgia or heart-akings Diarrhaeas â—r Dysenteries and also most cruel pains â—n the scorbutick Rancidity of this kind â—f Blood temperate Remedies onely â—nd frequent Phlebotomies as Scurvy-â—rass Horse-radish and other things enâ—owed with a sharp and biting taste are â—onvenient and for the like reason musty â—r rancid Wines are cured by taking from them their Faeces Moreover by thâ— pouring in of Milk Starch Ising-glass and of other things asswaging or mitigating them In the second place in the Blood noâ—rishing the Scurvy the Salt having gâ— the Dominion it joyns the Sulphur to iâ— wherefore that is not so hot but it bâ—comes thick as ropy Wine and as it we Mucilaginous it is slowly circulated â— the Vessels and whiles it passes the Boâ—els it is apt to stuffe them and to fastâ— the muddiness to them such Effects oftâ— times are made without cutaneous Eruâ—tions there are produced short breatedness and weariness they labour wiâ—
Veins that passes down by the back but chiefly the spots do bud and put forth themselves in the feet and leggs 4. When the Fountain and Fuel of this Disease is circumscribed in the Bowels that neither much of it is powred forth into the veins then either the Veins it self or both do begin to swell in the Panch-belly and so they are rendered bigger but chiefly the Spleen which swelling or being puffed up with Afflatus and glutted with the muddy part of the blood it spreads to a greater magnitude 5. The fifth symptome of this disease is that from hence is produced an extenuation of the Body by reason of a defect of the more benign Aliment and nutritive Juice or from impure Food the blood being not sufficiently cleansed 6. The Appetite the Faculty of the stomack the desire of Food needfull and necessary to Life is dejected conflicting almost continually with a nauseating loathing and aversion to all food with some it is dulled but with others the natural habit of the stomack is well-nigh lost and truely all these things are wont to happen by reason of the disparity of the humour flowing as from the Liver so also from the Spleen into the Center of the stomack 7. The Seventh symptom is this that sometimes one sometimes another of the Hypocondra◠are afflicted with pain and as it were with an obscure deadness wherefore they are vehemently distended by winds or Flatus that hides and are shut up in these places from whence the power of Rising up and going doth arise 8. Eightly The pain of this place is not perpetually circumscribed and abiding here but every where now here now there according to its wandring disposition now in the sides and anon in the lower parts of the Body and by and by through the whole Body and thus it very imperiously maintains its own bounds 9. In the first which is extended to the Loyns the Loyns seem as though they were broke and in these there is perceived too much blood abounding in the great Veins of the Loyns before the arising of marks Buboes the Haemorrhoids being stopt in men and the monthly Courses in Women and other pains running over the whole Body but chiefly the Joynts sometimes with and sometimes without a tumour sometimes with a certain quivering and discovering its self of its own accord and often times it resembles the Gout 10. The tenth symptome is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or swounding which doth assault many the heat and spirit being wearied even as it is wont in the Hypochondraick affection in which often times there is certain Respits or Intervals as it were the Spirits leading themselves to the Castle of the heart as to its strong hold 11. If the humour pass downward because Nature with its own Gravity maketh it to travel into the Veins there is pain with a Flatus and vexes their extream parts abundantly 12. Some are Costive or more sparingly go to stool by reason of the driness of their bodies but others are attended with fluxes 13. The Urin appears muddy and yet it neither resideth to the bottom nor hath any troubled Sediment at the bottome 14. There is such pulsation of the quivering Arteries as there is in them that are afflicted with a Quartan Ague which is weak hard and frequent 15. And if the Praecordia's by reason of ill Living have been inflamed by heat because of the straitness of the place the matter having been shut in as in a hot Oven a Fever will arise gentle to the touch of the hand neither having any period or time of Endings 16. The Scurvy hath frequently its own periods with which by little and little it is dissolved and returns as it were again per Circulatum vel circuitum 17. When the flesh of the Gums by its nature being softer because of its Texture and being moistened with vapours from the impure Bowels scorching by the power of the heat from below truly they then are most apt to be fill'd and then it ariseth into a less and fluid humour 18. The Gummes do begin to itch at their roots because of a scorched putrid salt humor moistened by its Ichor with which by its nature is acrid and sharp propagated either by contagion being stopt no longer and by taking another course and afterward it hath by staying in the place acquired an Acrimonia 19. The Scurvy is alwayes accompapanyed with the stinking foetor in the mouth 20. Another Infirmity that attends the Scurvy is a weakness and feebleness in the knees for which cause the sick can walk but slowly though he endeavour much by reason that the Muscles and nervous parts are over-charged with gross and melancholy humours as also a Contraction of the Nervous parts that many cannot set their feet plain upon the Ground 21. To some there happens an obstinate stifness of the Jawes that they cannot well gape or yawn by reason of the stubborn stifness of the Joynt of the Cheek 22. In some there happens a convulsive motion of the Muscles and Nerves in others a paralytick distemper in some a swelling in their legges in some the Scurvy and Dropsie are complicated together in others there is an Atrophy viz. a Consumption of some one part whiles the rest are in good plight by reason of undue attraction of Aliment 23. There often happens a trembling and palpitation and great Assaults of the Heart and these Passions are meerly convulsive from the Cardiacous Nerves to wit of the Praecardium and Heart it self by reason of the spasmodical matter that besieges it 24. Some annoyed with wandring Fevers and also sudden suffusions of heat and also Cold in several parts of the Body now hot and anon cold flushing heats in their faces especially after meals untill the Concoction be over 25. Also Scorbuticks are wont to be molested with copious sweats and specially in the night because the nutritive Juice every day brought into the Mass of blood by reason of the intemperature impurity and foulness of it is very little assimilated being rejected of the blood breaks forth under the form of sweat but because that Nutritive Liquor whiles it is assimulating is made worse being sick it produceth not a Fever in its own manner the saltish intemperature of the blood which being less apt therefore abideth in the burning Fits these immoderate kinds of Sweats continual Fevers with other Chronical Diseases doe often happen to scorbutick persons where the Nutritive Liquor by fault of the assimulating Blood is perverted more than the concocting Bowels 26. In Scorbuticks the Urine appears red like a Lie made of Wood-ashes and this we pronounce as an undoubte◠sign of this Disease for whiles the serou◠Latex dissolved with the saltish and sulphurous uncocted particles some do◠impart and communicate to it the highly saturated and as it were the Lixivial tincture and also such a Urin abounde◠much with Contents which when it ◠cold doth praecipitate to the bottom 27. To this
abound with Wind and affords too little good Aliment In some Shireâ— in England and also in Wales they make bread of Oats in manner of Cakes but this Bread though it be of light digestion yet it is windy and affordeth but â— weak nourishment to the body it is pleasant while new but dry and unsavourâ— if kept a little space But God having generally bless'd thiâ— Nation with plenty of Wheat Barly anâ— Rye we shall chiefly speak of them anâ— of these three Wheat may claym thâ— preheminence as being of the best temperature for it is soonest digested anâ— affords the best and most laudable anâ— strongest nourishment and is accommodated to all Constitutions Ages Sexâ— and Climates if it may be had wherefore it is in want of this if any make shift with any other but this bread iâ— purer or more impure according to thâ— sineness or coaâ—seness of the flower oâ— which it is made The Meal is divided into three sortâ— Simila Secundarium and Furfures buâ— some being more curious will have fouâ— parts Pollen Simila Secundarium anâ— Furfures Pollen is the very finest and purest paâ— of the flower and of this is made the finest and purest bread and most profitable for weak loose thin and extenuated bodies but not so good for those that be strong and healthy The second is that which is called Simila and this is the mean between the finest part of the flower and the coarsest Secundarium with the finest part of the flower is made the best nourishing and wholsomest bread and most used of Families of greatest worth But that bread which by some is called Second Bread or Secundarium is that which is most used in the houses of Farmers and Yeomen this Bread doth not give so great nor so good nourishment as the former because it hath in it the finer part of the bran but it quickly forsaketh the stomack and maketh the body soluble especially if tender and weak but it is therefore profitable for such as be costive And to this some adde a little Rye and that makes a Bread very good for strong and healthy bodies But bread made of the more branny part of the Meal gives a very bad and Excremental Nourishment to the body and by some is called Panis Cancarius but if the Wheat and Rie being mixed and the courser part of the bran separated by a sierce there will be made a brown houshold Loaf very agreeable to Labourers But that bread that is in most use and best for Families in common is when the coursest part of the branne is sifted out of Wheat-meal and this is wholsome and easie enough digested and make the body soluble and fittest for healthy bodies for there iâ— an abstersive faculty in the bran by Reason of an acid and penetrating spirit which he that is but meanly skilfull iâ— the first may discover as also the branâ— when but in a mean quantity makes theâ— bread of a due porosity that so the Ferment of the stomach may as an universal menstruum enter the parts of the bread and sooner dissolve it and this is also profitable fâ—r gross and corpulent bodies But Bread made of Corn as it comeâ— from the Mill is not so wholsom for the former Reasons because it is of hard digestion and filleth the belly with Excrements Bread made of Rye is in nothing comparable to that of Wheat being cold heavy hard to digest and by reason of the massiveness thereof â—â— very troublesome and burdensome â—â— the stomach it breeds clammy â—ough â—nd melanchollick Juice The bread made with the mixture of Rye and Wheat which is called Miscelane Bread is far wholesomer than that that is made of Rye onely but the bread made of Rye and Barly is not so good as the former The Properties requisite â—n good and wholsome Bread THerâ— are seven things required in the Bread that is good and wholsome to the stomach The first is that it be made of the best Wheat for as the Wheat is in goodness so is the bread in goodness or badness Of Wheat there are several sorts but that which is reputed the best is Lammas Wheat because that is commonly ripe about the beginning of August whose Ears are bare and naked and there are two sorts the White and the Yellow but the Yellow is best vielding most Flower and of th◠〈…〉 the finest Manchet-bread and 〈…〉 â—â—rk That Wheat which grows in high and dâ— Ground is much preferred before thaâ— which growes in low and moist Thâ— best Wheat hath a yellow colour a closâ— and compacted substance clean weightâ— and hard not easily breakable betweeâ— the teeth but that which is of a looâ— and an open substance and growes iâ— low and moist places is not so good â— And though some of the Qualificatioâ— may be wanting yet it ought to be of â— hard and close substance and weighty A second Property is that it be fitâ— leavened by which the body be weâ— opened and for which cause it is madâ— to be more easily digested and yields â— better and a more plentifull Nourisâ—ment Unleavened bread hath beeâ— judged to be unwholsom by all the anâ—â—ent Physicians because it is of hard dâ—gestion and breedeth humours obstrucâ—ing the passages of the Chyle Noâ—withstanding we find that no bread is â— lighter digestion than our fine Mancheâ— But by that Rule of the Ancients aâ— Cakes Simnels Wafers Fritters Paâ— cakes and the like are to be rejected except they be well corrected with somâ— other good Ingredients The third Property is that it be temperately seasoned with salt for Bread unseasoned is hard of digestion and breedeth obstructive humours and being over salt breeds adust and melancholick humours The fourth property is that it be light and duely open and such as may be Honey-comb like for hollowness not too hollow and porous but rather like a very fine Sponge all over full of small holes not over-slapt with water to save pains no black and dun Listes towards the bottom The fifth property is that it be well wrought and laboured with the hand or Break that the Dough by that means may become even and equal through all its parts without either knaps here and there or pappie patches as it will be for want of pains The sixt property is that it be well baked for bread that is too much or too little baked is of hard digestion and ill distribution and very troublesom to the Stomach The last property is that it be not eaten over new whilest it is hot nor when it is stale or grown dry because it will fluctuate in the stomach slowly descend fill the Bowels with wind by reason oâ— its vaporous humidity it dulls the senses confoundeth the Memory and greatlâ— hurteth the Brain wherefore hot Breaâ— is hurtfull and unprofitable and alsâ— Bread that is stale and become dry iâ— not so profitable for it is hardly digested and yieldeth little nourishment Breaâ— made into greater Loaves is
Spirit in a large quantity and the Oyl is endowed with more and greater Virtues than I believe most Imagine yet the soot of these do greatly differ We may therefore observe that the fire impresses a greater heat upon Tobacco than did appear to be in it before wherefore this may be better for hydropical persons and phlegmatick Constitutions than for others and they whose Livers are not over-heated and that which is chewed is better for others of a hotter temperament But we preferre chewing of Tobacco before that taken in a Pipe being not so hot and having the same Physical Virtues in all respects Taking it by Snuffing is good for those whose Brains are annoyed with Rheumatismes and are dull and heavy to help the Brain to expell superfluous moysture and to draw it to the Nostrils which is the best way to evacuate the Brain But let such who have pains in their head be carefull of Snuffe lest by it they are made blind by forcing the morbifick matter to the Optick Nerves and by that means obstruct the passage of the Visive Spirits to the Eye and still remembring that which way soever it be taken Moderation must still be observed Of the Nature Vsefulness and Profit of WINE THat most excellent Liquor which we call Wine it is the Juice of the Vine exalted by Fermentation which ferment it hath in it self It hath received many and various Names according to the singular and excellent Vertues it puts forth in the Bodyes of men it is call'd by Paracelsus Sanguis Terrae the Blood of the Earth in resemblance to the Composition of a Humane Body for as that part of a humane Body which we call Blood does far excell the rest so this excellent Nectar the Juice of the Vine does far excell all other Vegetable Juices Quercetanus calls it Omnium Vegetabilium Princeps The Prince of all the Vegetables In holy Writ it hath received the highest Epithets of all inanimate created things It is called the Wine which chears the heart of God and Man and Solomon counsels To give Wine to him that is of a heavy heart that he drink and remember his misery no more In summe it is the most excellent Liquor of all other created and appointed for the exhilarating and reviving the heart of man it cheers the heart enlivens and quickens the vital Spirits it helps Concoction Distribution and Nutrition it wonderfully resists Melancholly and sadness iâ— quickens all the Vital and Animal Functions iâ— stirres up and restores in a wonderfull manneâ— all the Actions of the Body it strengthens the natural heat and opens Obstructions it quickens the Circulation of the Blood dissolvetâ— Coagulations refresheth and warms all the partâ— of the Body it quickens the Wit and procuretâ— a bold and pleasant behaviour it greatly increaseth the Vital spirit and because it is of thin anâ— sprightly parts it is of all other the soonesâ— snatched into Union with our spirit and of thiâ— is made the best and noblest Menstruums usefull in Chymical Preparations though there may be some more powerfull they not being so fit to be received and entertained into our first Shop viz. our Stomacks as this and also it is not so easie to attain them as these And more over it is not easie to believe how powerful Menstruums may be prepared out of this Eâ—cellent Subject both from it self alone and bâ— other adjuncts friendly and homogeneous to ouâ— Nature But to speak of it as it is of commoâ— Use it wonderfully amendeth the coldness oâ— Old Age it maketh a man Courageous in Bodâ— and Mind These are the excellent Commodities of Wine but these are to be understood with respect to the due and lawfull use of them not in Drunkenness and Intemperance for being so used or rather abused nothing can be more hurtfulâ— to Body or Mind for it destroyeth the Life it weakneth the Body dulleth the Understanding it consoundeth the Memory enfeebleth and destroyeth the Reason in summe it overturneth all the Facultyes of Body and Mind of a wise Man it makes a Fool the sharp and pregnant dull and sottish it turns a good Nature into a churlish and brutish good Education into froth and flash an honest and naturally vertuous Mind into a careless loose and Extravagant taking neither care for himself nor others it hastens old Age over-dryes and consumes the Radical Moysture it maketh a Civil Man a Bedlam knowing no difference between himself and others it weakens the Sinews induceth the Lethargy Palsie Trembling of the Hands And therefore Wine though a Liquor neerest of kin to our Natures if spirituous and good yet the Excess is to be avoyded as hurtfull to all the Functions of Body and Mind and that it be moderately used that distillations exsiccations drunkenness or Inflammations do not follow For being taken out of due measure in stead of a help it will prove a ruine and in stead of a remedy an overthrow But there being divers sorts of Wine and these sorts varying much and some being more suitable to one constitution than another and some to one Age than another it is very requisite that every man understand the differences of them and their several qualities and chiefly of such Wines as are most common with us And as to the Temperatures of Wine it is generally agreed to that all Wines are of a hot temperature but though they agree about the first qualities yet they agree not about the second for some will have them of a hot and dry but others of a hot and moyst but it is not to be questioned but these Wines differ among themselves according to the Nature of the Grape and also according to the Nature of the Soil and Climate where they grow White and Rhenish Wine is most neer eacâ— other in nature and property they are of thiâ— and penetrating substance they heat and nourish the body less than other Wines they are quickly concocted and speedily distributed tâ— all the parts they therefore do not annoy the head so much as other Wines they attenuatâ— and cut gross thick and clammy humours provoke Urine and cleanse the Ureters of Slyme Gravel and Sand they cleanse the Blood and carry off tartarous Filths open Obstructions of the Spleen Mesentery and Mesaraicks they mitigate pains of the head proceeding from heaâ— of the Stomach they procure sleep comfort the Stomach help concoction and moisten the Body but this is much to be understood with respect to the Constitution Age Sex and State oâ— Body and Measure of using for these Wines are most accommodated for young hot Constitutions and corpulent Bodies hot Seasons of the Year and such as affect to be Lean and slender and therefore it may conduce much to hoâ— and corpulent Bodyes to drink White and especially Rhenish Wine in the Morning fasting and for cooling and pleasantness to add a little sliced Limon and to mitigate the acidity with a little fine Sugar and this may be repeated with
a little before Meals and chiefly for them that have hot dry Stomachs or are subject to Obstructions of the Stomach or Mesaraick Veins and of the Liver and Reins for it wonderfully refreshes a hot and dry Stomach but it is no way good to drink White-wine or Rhenish at Meals or soon after meals onely it may be allowed to them that are afflicted with much astrictness of the Stomach for being drunk too soon after Meats they disturb the Meats and too much hasten their passage from the Stomach before they be concocted and by that means they pass into the Bowels undigested whence it cometh to pass that the body doth greatly abound with flatuous Crudity White and Rhenish Wine are very pernicious for such as be Rheumatick and subject to fluxion and distillation of humours to the Lungs Breast Joynts or any other parts of the Body and for lean Constitutions and therefore let this serve for a Caution to such as be subject to the Gout or any Rheumatismes that in stead hereof they drink Milk or Water Claret-wine is in Temperature and Nature very neer to these but of an astringent faculty which is clearly discovered by the astringent savour thereof it greatly strengtheneth the Stomach breedeth good humours stirreth and quickeneth the Appetite quencheth Thirst it greatly helpeth Concoction exhilarateth the Heart it is very profitable for them of a hot Constitution that have hot stomachs and are young but it greatly offendeth a moist and cold Constitution that aboundeth with raw and crude humours and is subject to distillations from the head and this chiefly if it be taken immoderately This Wine is chiefly to be taken with meat for then it puts forth and proves profitable in the fore-recited properties and above all this Wine is most hurtfull in regard of the rheumatick Nature of it the most pernicious to Gouty and rheumatick persons But being with moderation taken at Meals it is for temperate bodyes being pure and quick Wine not much inferior to the Regal Wines of France for it rectifieth the Stomach and comforteth it it is acceptable to the heart and breedeth good blood it is deemed the best of all Wines for Cholerick Bodyes and for Phlegmatick the worst It is not good to drink this Wine between Meals but in the middle of the Meal take a draught or two and if you please you may dulcifie it with a little Sugar and this will make it the more acceptable to the Stomach and comfortable to the Heart and by observation of these you may expect a quickening of the spirits a pleasant Cheerfulness of mind there being a good Concoction of Meats consequently a healthfull state of Body That high and rich Nectar called by the Name of Sack which so richly abounds with that most excellent Vegetable Sulphur for which cause it is in high estimation with all those Northern parts of the World is deemed to be hot in the third degree and of thin parts and therefore it doth more vehemently and quickly heat the Body The over and unseasonable use of this Wine doth over-heat the Liver exsicccate the radical moysture inflame the blood and is hurtfull to bodyes of a hot and dry temperature but the moderate use to them to whom it is agreeable it helpeth the Stomach to digest furthereth the distribution of the Meats to all the parts of the body concocteth the crude and consumeth the Excremental humours and in summe it mightily strengtheneth all the powers and faculties of Body and Mind It is most sit for Old Age weak Stomachs cold Constitutions abounding with crude humours cold Countreys and cold and moyst seasons of the year it is chiefly to be drunken after meats of a gross substance and such as consist of an Excrementitious moisture as Pork-Flesh Fish c. And though there is a difference even among Sacks yet what is spoken of one may indifferently be applyed to all though some commend Sherry-sack as most profitable to the Stomach to further and help the Concoctions and confirm the Habit of the whole body and of all Wines they esteem this the best at meals for the Aged persons of a cold and phlegmatick Constitution but yet such as are of a hot lean and cholerick temper and Constitution must forbear it Canary Sack so called because it comes from the Canary Islands differeth from Sherry in Sweetness as also in Colour and Consistence it is less Penetrative and more Nutritive Canary is an excellent Wine to be taken at Meals for its pleasant taste refreshing odour and comforting the Stomach it is best for cold Constitutions old bodies and weakened by labour it must be â—autiously used for it is a Wine which if liberally taken it will quickly inflame and therefore warily to be used by hot and cholerick Bodies Malmsey is a Wine in Operation very hot and being sweet it nourisheth very much and therefore it is commended for old cold and weak and decayed Bodies but is very hurtfull fâ—r such as be hot because it is very easily converted into Choler it is judged by some to kilâ— Worms by a certain hidden Property however it is a very convenient thing to give any Medicine for the killing of Worms as that by whose sweetness the Worms will be induced tâ— prey upon the Remedy Muâ—kadel is very much like Malmsey wherefore in defect of that this may be used it is alsâ— an excellent Wine for all old cold bodyes bâ— such as are of a hot temperature must forbeaâ— this Wine Bastard is in vertue not much unlike Muskadel and may be used instead of that thougâ— there is the same Inferiority in this to Muskadel as in Muskadel to Malmsey and the â—sâ— of this is likewise hurtfull to hot and younâ— bodies Alicant Raspy or Tent it is made of the Juicâ— of Mulberries c. it is of a gross Nature notwithstanding it is quickly concocted into blood and is therefore fit for lean and thin bodies whose humours are too fluxible For personâ— that are weak and wasted and consumed by sicknesses and that need much nourishment and that is easie of Concoction but for grosâ— bodies and such as are subject to Obstruction it will quickly prove nauseous and hurtfull Wine of Orleance is stronger than any other French Wine and in taste very pleasant it is in goodness scarcely inferiour to Muskadel it is hurtfull to such as have weak Brains hot Livers and such as are of a cholerick Constitution for it doth speedily over-heat the Liver and annoy the head but there is not a better Wine for cold and flegmatick Constitutions and those that have weak Stomachs for it comforts the Stomach helps the Concoction vivifies the Spirit because it contains a generous heat in it self and it also furthereth the distribution of the Meats and through the mediocrity of its substance procureth a good Nutrition to them that be of a hot and cholerick temperature and also to them that be young it is very hurtfull but very proprofitable
it renders the Cure difficult This Disease is known to be very afflicting the Symptoms very dismal and sad to the persons afflicted with it the Cure difficult having been attempted by many learned Physitians in vain nay often and for the most part these persons seem to be worse while they are under the means of Cure than they were before by reason of the stirring of the Humour that the Patients themselves dispair of Cure which it is easie for them to do because they are always of a doubting fearing and dispairing disposition mistrusting and suspecting the worst of all things For this cause it is called Flagellum Medicorum the scourge of Physitians because of their great endeavours and parts laid out in this Disease and many times a fruitless Issue we have seen many persons in this afflicting and dismal distemper attended with variety of Symptoms some have not all the Symptoms God forbid they should some have not the same but this besure that all feels the influence upon their Minds making them pensive aggravating all outward Affliction when this Disease arises to the highest pitch their mind◠are always rouling and tumbling sometimes to this thing sometimes to that sometimes to this place sometimes to that restless in every place and Condition and for the most part their Minds troubled and rowling about matters of Religion though to little purpose being never satisfyed in their Scruples but renewing to themselves new occasions of Trouble and many times they ascend to that degree that being drove to despair they attempt their own ruine and sometimes this ends in their own destruction We have our selves been very conversant with this Disease having had many Patients under our Cure and have seen and heard what we here speak of and through the Blessing of God can give a very good Account of our selves in this Cure having Cured many even persons that have been under the Skilful and able Men and that for a long course in Physick I say we have recovered them that have been as desperate as any many pregnant Instances we can give of persons in this City who do acknowledge themselves obliged to us and will own it and this done upon persons afflicted with the highest Symptoms of this Affect and this we have done Cito tuto jucunde considering 〈◊〉 the stcbborn Nature of this Disease by chance or good fortune but ut Ars docet and therefore by the Blessing of Him who is the Fountain of Blessing and without whom nothing is Blest and whom we do Implore for every good and every perfect Gift comes down from the Father of Light Neither do we speak these vaunting or boastingly or with Reflections upon any others that 's not our manner being not after the Pattern of our great Master and who himself said No Man lighteth a Candle and putteth it under a Bushel but on a Candlestick that it may give light to all that are in the House but for the publick good not doubting but others that have need may receive the same And this is to be noted That to our Knowledge we have met with none for many years in our hands but what have received good CHAP. XXI Of the Histerick Passion A Disease which is familiar to and very much afflicting Women it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suffocatio uterina or in the English the Suffocation or Strangling of the Womb because Women in this Disease seem to be strangled or choaked the Symptoms are so many that it cannot be defined by one thing only for now there is a difficulty of Breathing anon a Swounding by and by the Animal and other Actions are hurt with a refrigeration of the whole Body having its Rise from a Malignant Vapour elevated from the Womb to the superiour parts the Blood and Seed does not only afford the original to this Vapour but other viscious and corrupt Humours in the Womb whilst they put on a malignant and venomous Nature this evil doth invade by Fits which do now return more ftequently and anon more seldom They indure sometimes a longer sometimes a shorter time according to the quantity of the matter which is either more slowly or more quickly Collected so it is sooner or later discursed it is familiar to Virgins to Widows Women in Child-bed Those things which shew the approach of this Affect is Nausiousness Yaunings Stretching of the Body Rumblings of the Belly with Belching Weariness a sad Countenance Paleness of the Face with the increasing Affect it begins to urge a sense of strangling the Respiration is intercepted and the Suffocation and at length all the Vital and Animal Actions are depraved lessoned or abolished Hence there is perceived Deliriums Convulsions in the Face and Ligaments and also in the whole Body a Vertigo an inversion or rouling of the Eyes Speechless an obscure or no Pulse and other grievous Symptoms in which the Womb is sensibly stirred and as it were rowl'd together but the Affect or Histerick Fit declining the Intestines roareth the Eyes are lifted up the Cheeks are over-spread with a Redness the Animal Actions are restorred the Body waxeth Warm deep Breathings are sent forth and so the Sick by little and little is restored This is distinguished from a Syncope that here is often perceived some Pulse there is no breaking forth of a Cold Sweat there is no Paleness but rather a tumidness or swelling and sometimes a Redness and it is stirred up by Sweet smelling things and they difference it from an Apoplexy in that if these be pricked there is no Snorting and after the Fit they remember all that was said or done And lastly it is distinguished from the Epilepsie or Falling-sickness in this the Convulsive Motions are not perpetually joyned in the first time of the Invasion here is no Spittle found about the Mouth and many of the Actions are remembred after the Fit Some will not grant that the part primarily Affected is the Womb but the Hypochondres and they state the nearest Cause to be a Flatus an Air and Vapours hurting chiefly by their Acidity and Austerity by reason of the visciousness and the more Acid pancreatical Juice waxing hot the sharper Choller and more viscious Snivil in the Bowels others again do attribute it to the serous Filths born towards the original of the Nerves whence the animal Spirit affected with the Bloot is stirred up at length unto an Explosion and they think this Effect chiefly and primarily to be Convulsive and to depend very much from the Brain and Nervous kind being affected But lastly others do ascribe the Rise of the Histerical Passion to the Flatulent and thinner Blood with a certain increasing Heat impetuously rushing into the Vessels of the Lungs and Heart and thence doth produce all the fore-recited Symptoms CHAP. XXII The Jaundise THe Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so called a Viverra a Ferret because his Eyes are tincted with a Yellow Colour vel ab Ictero ave God
before they are cast forth they perform a long Journey When the thicker Bowells are affected the pain is not so great and the Torments are not only felt in the lower Bowels but also presently after the Torments the Excrements are cast forth upon which also there swimeth a Cruor which is in the other intimately united CHAP XXXII A Diarrhea A Diarrhea which as it is commonly taken doth note every flowing of the Belly but properly so called it is an immoderate frequent or continual dejection of the Belly in which there flows not Crude Aliments as in a Lienteria neither bloody filths as in a Dissenteria but Excrementious and more unmixed Humours more sincere in quantity and quality without Inflamation Exulccration or a vehement sence of Pain the abundance and pravity of the Humours procureth this Disease by stirring up the Expulsive faculty of the Stomack and Intestines things furthering this Disease are Errors committed in Diet and Meats of evil Juice venomous and easily corrupted and gorging themselves with excess of Food new Beer or Ale intemperate Air the omission of bodily Exercise the constriction of the Pores of the whole Body In a Diarrhea there be many Differences by reason of the Matter which is Billious Flegmatick Melancholick and serous by reason of the place from whence the Matter floweth for in some it is from the whole Body but in others from some peculiar part as from the Brain the Stomack Intestines Missentery Liver Spleen and Womb and lastly with respect to the manner and efficient Causes for some are Critical the appearing Signs of concoction in Fevers being rightly done by Nature this way others are Symptomatical breeding of Teeth in Children doth produce a Flux of the Belly CHAP. XXXIII The Caeliack and Lienterial Passions THese Affects are known more or less according to the difference agreeing or disagreeing which in both is an Excretion by the Belly of uncocted Foods but they are distinguished by this that a Lienteria laevitas Intestinorum is an over quick and sudden Excretion of unconcocted Food being not changed or altered neither in substance nor in the due Colour but in the Caeliacal is the Food received or alterâ—d passing from the Stomack into the Bowels is in some meaner manner concocted The cause of both is the retentive faculty of the Stomack and Bowels being hurt in a Lienteria it is almost abolish'd but in a Caeliaca it is but diminish'd the retentive faculty of the Stomack is abolish'd or diminish'd from the same Causes as they are more grievous or more gentle there is most frequently a cold and moist intemperature joyned with a Flegmatick Humour relaxing the Ventricle and smiring the wrinkled Superficies thereof that it cannot retain the Aliment falls into the Bowels unconcocted This is done by reason the Expulsive faculty of the Stomack and Bowels is irritated from gnowing Humours which by pulling stirs up an untimely Excretion an Inflamation in like manner stirs up this faculty and also an Ulcer of the Stomack or poison taken or things of a Malignant quality besieging the Stomack In the Caeliacal Passion this is taken for a Cause viz. the straining through of the Chyl being hurt by the spungeous scurf of the Intestines in passing into the Milky Veins moreover the Lienteria does often succeed most grievous and deadly Diseases as it is seen in a Dyssentery and malignant Fever because of the great imbecility of the retentive faculty These Evils are not to be slighted for that they draw the nutriment from the whole Body CHAP. XXXIV The Asthma THe Asthma or short Breath it is called in Latin Suspirium it is defined thus it is a frequent hard and and short breathing or difficult Respiration and oftentimes without a Fever joyned with a great contention of the Lungs the cause consists in the straightness of the Lungs which being stopped with a gross viscid Humour very stiffly sticking to the Pipes and Caverns of the Lungs and being stopped it draws its original from thence thin and serous Humour and also copious is frequently the Efficient of this evil A Tubercules or Push as also Gravel sticking in the Lungs do act their parts vere often in producing this Affect All these are wont to produce the Asthma by obstructing either by stopping the aspera Arteria the smoother Arteries or subsisting in the substance of the Lungs the Morbick Matter by pressing the Lungs or obstructing or pressing somewhat into the Lungs by reason of the debility of the Viscera it is gathered together by little and little and sometimes it flows from another place from the Head in the manner of a Catarrh which is rare or from the Pulmonal Artery CHAP. XXXV The Gout ARthritis or the Joynt-disease Morbus articularis which is also called Gutta articulorum plurium it is a pain running from thence which is a defluction of a serous and sharp Humour falling into the Joynts hath stirred up the parts affected the Membranes Tendones and Ligaments taking their original from the Periostium and from thence indued with sense for the Joynt is made firm from these the conjunct cause of the Gout is solution of unity but the Antecedent is a serous Humour Salt and Tarterous from Aliments impregnated with a Tarter from the imbecility of the parts appoinâ—ed to concoction taking its original from thence those Foods being not well digested by this means this salt and subtil Humour comes to the Joynts the sensible parts being partly distended and partly tearing by its Acrimony bringeth most cruel and sharp Torments which can scarcely be laid asleep again although helps be administred by the very hand of Apollo and hence it is called medicorum opprobrium CHAP. XXXVI Angina or the Quinsie ANgina is called so ab strangulo to choak or be strangled the Symptoms are properly of the Face and Larinx and it is terrible and deadly as well for the sharpness of Pain as for the interception of the Office necessary to maintain Life and the oppression of the part by whose Office life cannot be for it hindereth the swallowing necessary to Life it taketh away the Respiration without which the Animals cannot live to the point of Life It is defined to be a Flegmonous Affect of the Jaws all the parts of the Gula or Throat by which as the Meats and Drinks and also the Spirits do enter so in this Affect it thrusts them forth But some are Legittimate and True some be Bastard there be four Species of the True one which Hypocrates doth account the most dangerous of all wherein there is nothing appears neither in the Jaws nor Neck but this kind of all most obstruce Inflamation doth inflict most and grievous Symptoms not without fear of present strangling by this Fernelius saw a sick person die in the space of Eighteen Hours being sound in his Mind and intire in his senses this kind is called Angina latens The other is that interiour Laâ—ings of the Jaws and Muscles are
assaulted with a manifest Phlegmon this is cruel equal and above the Symptoms but yet there there is less danger in that which shews it self in a manifest Tumor The third doth occupy the interiour Jaws together with the Neck in which the Tumor is without and the redness conspicuous with the heat and pain the Symptoms which are in the former is nothing to this and yet here is better hope of health the Inflamation getting outward it may be digested The Fourth is the lightest of all and is judged the safest which doth not take the interiour Jaws only but also the Pole and the Muscles and yet by a Tumor of these the interiour Muscles of the Laring is prest together and all the entrance is stopped The Causes of all is Chollerick or Sanguine defluction which flows down into these seats and bringeth either an Erysipelus or a Phlegmon Or Angina is wont otherwise to be divided when the internal Muscles of the Throat are inflamed with a great straitness of Respiration but also when the external are inflamed Again when the internal Muscles of the Face are taken with a Phlegmon and doth very much hinder the swallowing and at length the external parts of the Jaws and Chin are besieged with an Inflamation Nota The Bastard is without a Fever this is produced when there is a petuitous distillation falling into the Jaws and Muscles of the Neck and then perchance there is a Tumor but without redness heat or a Fever Hitherto belongs that Species of an Angina which is produced by no proper Affect but when the Vertebraes of the Neck loosened within the Jaws and entrance of the swallow or Throat do swel and is made more strait it is known by this that the Neck is hollowed within the Sick grievously afflicted with Pain also a fall or a stroke went before or the Humour hath loosened the bands of the Vertibraes CHAP. XXXVII The Description of a Phrensie APhrensie is a perpetual or continual Delirium taking its original from an Inflamation of the Membranes of the Brain The Causes of a Phrensie is Chollerick Blood fallen out of the Vessels transpiration being intercepted it putrifies in the Membranes of the Brain external Causes increasing the Distempers are hot Air the rise of the Sun Strong Drinks over heating and inflaming the Brain Anger a Contusion or a Wound The Signs of a Phrensie are a perpetual Delirium or pratling and talking Idle Watchings a continual Fever the Respiration is low and frequent if it comes from an Inflamation of the transverse partition of the Brain but great and rare in a true Phrensie some are true which we have here described others are Bastard Phrensies which are called Paraphrenities and that is when hot Intemtemperatures are communicated to the Brains either from the whole Body or in burning Fevers or from an Inflamation from some one part viz. of the Stomack Liver Lungs and very often from the Diaphragma or Midâ—iff from the Inflamation of which there is usually stirred up a Phrensie resembling a true Phrenitis A Phrensie is a most accute Affect which oftentimes kills in seven days CHAP. XXXVIII Of Melancholly Madness THe Melancholly is a Delirium joyned with fear sadness or sorrow without a manifest Cause and without a Fever and it is either a deprivation of the Imagination and Ratiocination arising from from a Melanchollick Phantasm by which he is detained in his thought by one Cogitation without a furious anger and a Fever with sadness and fear the original of this Disease dependeth upon a certain disposition of the Animal Spirits produced from the mixtion of a Melancholly Humour to which there follows the sad dark Phantasms which afterwards rouling the Objects to the Intellect do stir up this doting and anguish of Mind They who have this evil Disease are sad and solitary very fearful and stubborn which from certain Phantasms to themselves which neither are nor can be they imagine many false things they fear things not be feared they sudden and disquiet the Mind without a cause they are silent Morose and suspicious they have hunger above what is usual they sigh often the Respiration is slow and seldom and so is also the Pulse they speak absurdly Some are primarily affected from the Brain Some by consent of the whole Body Others again are called Hypocondriack and do return by Circuits or Intervals And lastly others are thus by a Symhathy of the Womb. CHAP. XXXIX The Mania A Mania ab insaniendo by the Latines furor or insania it is a Delirium without intermission and without a Fever but joyned with a certain fearce rage it ariseth from a hot and fiery disposition of the Spirit and perchance accompanyed with a venomous and malignant quality Authors will have this Disposition arise from Atra-bilis They which labour under this Disease are searce and unruly unless they be stopt with Chains they tear their Cloaths and like unto great and fearce Beasts they do violence with Teeth Nails and Fists neither do they spare themselves moreover they sleep very little they have a stupendious strength of Body a noise or sounding in the Ears dullness of the head a shining splendor in the Eyes sadness and long cares having preceded anger upon a light occasion the Eyes set and flxed upon the Objects they behold much inclining to filthy and foolish laughter a suppression of the Months and Hemorhods These do shew the approach of this Disease Sometimes a Mania is produced from External Causes such as these Witchcrafts Nightshade the bite of Mad-digs or Wolves and sometimes it comes by consent of the Womb and then it is called furor uterinus CHAP. XL. The Palpitation of the Heart PAlpitatio Cordis it is an immoderate and violent Concussion of the Heart which being troublesome to it it endeavours to shake off facultas motrix doth occasion this some troublesome matter stirring of it up which do stir or vex the Heart such as vapours and flatuousness in malignant Fevers suppressio mensium Hypochondriack Melancholly approaching the Heart also putrid and sharp Humours and too copious and so Gravel and Worms for such as these be many times generated in the Heart and then it doth necessarily induce a Palpitation of the Heart and also Tumors arising in the Praecordium Blood effused from Wounds to the Heart and also a nefect of vital Spirits and preternatural heat in the Heart as they stir up by a more vehement motion so also a Palpitatâ—on which is a depraved motion ensues The External Causes are a vehement Motion and Exercises of Body too much heat and anger over much craming Poisons being taken too hot Bathings and Passions of the Mind do oftentimes precipitate the Sick by swounding to death viz. the Motion of the heart being interrupted CHAP. XLI Worms LVmbrici or Worms are wont to be in all the parts of the Body but chiefly in the Intestines from a gross and clammy Flegm which is corrupted and seated in â—he common
Bowel they are stirred up and receive life from the abundance of inbred heat by the Example of other Animals which have their Life from a putrid Matter by the help a of Coelestial Heat according to the various Figure of the putrifying Matter So here are various Species of Worms some long and râ—und which are wont to be begotten in the superiour and thinner Bowels and these be the most frequent of all and sometimes they creep up into the Stomack and and thence by the Gula they ascend into the Mouth it self from whence being open they spring forth Others again be shorter and broad which oftentimes do stick one unto another in a wonderful manner and these are called Cucurbites and sometimes this broad Worm with the mutual adhesion of them which for the similitude is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which are as long and broad as Womens Swaiths and Fill its so that they extend themselves as long as the thicker Intestines And lastly others are exceeding small and thin and are called Ascarides which for the most part are seated in the intestina recta Crudity and Gluttany and the use of such things as do easily putrify do administer matter to all Children a little grown are often afflicted with these Signs of Worms be these a stinking of the Mouth and such as is urging towards a soureness the Stools resemble Cow-dung sometimes a Fever which returns often in the same day with trouble and fainting nauseousness vomiting and unquenchable thirst the Cheeks are red by turns and pale again an Itching of the Nose a Gnashing of the Teeth a dull heaviness and pain of the Head talking idle and Epileptical Convulsions a dry Cough and many times afflicted with pain in the Belly and it puffed up and distended awaking from sleep with fear and horror as also a Dog-like Hunger the Belly sometimes decreased the Pulse is unequal Ascarides are known by the troublesome Itch of the Fundament and the Excrements oftentimes appears besprinkled with them and after they bring most cruel Symptoms but the Ascarides are less hurtful CHAP. XLII A continual Fever A Fever is described by some to be an inordinate Motion of the Blood and it s over much rage with heat and thirst and with many other Symptoms wherewith the Aeconomia of it is troubled some are continual and some are intermitting the accession of a continual Fever extends to many days unless it hath its own times of remission and of Exarcerbation but never of intermission the inraged Blood induces a continual Fever in a Three fold manner The First is when the subtil and spiritual portion of the Blood waxeth too hot and is affected with a certain kindling heat which therefore doth agitate the rest of the Cruor and doth incite it into an Orgasmum And so the kindling fury and heat is stirred up more than before in the whole Body But because the Spirits are in the only fault the bâ—â—ning and inordinanâ—sie is wont to depâ—â—t in a short time of its own accord Hence it is that this Fever is terminated within a day and it is extended beyond Three days and therefore it is called Febris Ephemera The second manner of waxing hot is when the Sulphurous or Oylie part of the Blood being over heated begins to be hot for then it waxes immoderately hot in the Vessels and oftentimes kindles in the Heart by its own Flame produceth a very intense heat in the whole Body and so that kind of Fever is produced which is vulgarly called a putrid Symochus which is Symtomatical or Essential that is called Symtomatical which draweth its original from some other certain Disease first stirred up in the Body and that is a Fever of that sort which hath its dependance upon an an Angina Quinsie Pleurifie Perihneumonia a Wound-Ulcer or Imposthume either in any principal ot neighbouring part The Essential is wont to be divided into a Causus Quotidian Tertiâ—n and a Quartan according to the divers Discrusia Sanguinis or intemperatur of the Blood the supply and kind of nourishing Juice so sooner or later arising to a plenitude of swelling bulkiness But the Third Degree and that which doth constitute the distinct Species of a continual Fever is stirred up from a certain malignant and venomous ferment with which the Mass of Blood is defiled and the Spirit and Sulphurous parts takes fire together and their kindling heat not first alaid which may be either the malignant matter taken is cast out of doors or from the corrupt venom of it doth induce a Coagulation or as it were a certain putrifaction of the Blood and by which the circulation is hindred and the vital Spirit extinguish'd and after this manner are made malignant Fevers small Pox Measlâ—s and also the Pestilens But the â—ot continual Fever differs from that which constitutes an intermitting in this that in that the disorders of the Spirit and Sulphur or both and freely by their own accord without the mixture oâ— any other thing do take Flame and wonderfully Boyl but it is not so in an intermitting Fever That most Excellent Man Francis Sylvius thinks the Cause of all continual Fâ—vâ—rs to be the Bill or Water under which he comprehends the Pancreatical Juice and so that â—â—â—vil is brought with it to the Heart 〈◊〉 that exciting such a viscious Effervescâ—â—â—ia in the right Ventricle of the Heart anâ— thence is produced continually a more frequent pulse Too great Exercises of Body perturbation of Mind the Ambient Air the heart of the Sun or Summer drinking of Wine the use of prepared meats Watch over much Labour a Bubo a Wound do all induce to the every days Fever the plenty of Milk to Women in Child-bed hot seasons of the Year unaccustomed Exercise strong habit of Body do all dispose to it The forging Causes of a putrid Fever aâ—e hot seasons a strong and moist habit of Body a youthful age a high and rich Diet the continual drinking of rich Wine a tempestuous Spring and Summer a Cacochymial Body Meats of evil Juice but above all this is worth your observation that the frequent letting of Blood renders Men more apt to a Fever for this reason thaâ— the larger quantity of Sulphur which is â—â—â—â—ied in the Blood is subdued but the Salt ought to be stoped from its fearsenesâ— Those things 〈◊〉 brings the lurking disposition of this Fever into act are chiefly Transpiration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Transpiratio being hindred and much gusling these do not only induce an exceeding fermitation of the Blood but doth also administer a Nitrosulphurous Matter apt to burning and kindling as Food to the flaming Blood but because that Massie heap of the Blood being increased it swells and as iâ— were inspired with a certain ferment de novo it exceedingly boyls In this Feaver there are Four Seasons to be observed and by which staches as it were the whole course of it is performed and they be these the beginning the increase
the state and declination in which some sooner some slower and in a longer time are wont to be dissolved the beginning ought to be computed from the time the Blood begins to wax hot and the Sulphurous part begins to take heat until the hotness and fury of the Blood hath over-spread the whole Mass of the Cruor and thence it is that oftentimes the Heat and Cold doth assault viz. by reason of the admixtion of the Crude Juice with the Blood The augmentation shall be when the kindling of the Feaver doth occupy the whole Mass of the Blood Viz. The Sulphur or â—leaginous part of the Blood being made hot and waxing hot by parts at length being like moist Hay laid up in a Rick after a long heating breaks out altogether into a Flame and the Mass with the Excrements or adust particles which increases the fermentation is aggravated at this time the Sick complains of intollerable thirst moreover they are afflicted with pain of the Head continual Watchings and oftentimes Delirium a Frensie and a Convulsive Motion there 's a loathing of all Aliments or they are cast forth by Vomit there 's a bitterness of the Mouth an ungrateful Savour a roughness of the Tongue a vehement swift Pulse the Urine exceeding Red and oftenâ—imes Muddy and replenished with contents The State is another time of the Disease by which Nature endeavours a Crises or Expulsion of the â—dust Matter remaining of the burning of the Blood for after the deflagration of the Blood and nourishing Juice this adust Matter is born in so great a quantity it growing turgent that it irritates Nature to an Expulsion which is called a Crises the Cause of this is rather to be fetched from thence than from the â—fluence of the Moon The Declination follows the Crises in which in the kindling of the Blood languishing it is not so hot and being very powerful with the Vital Spirit that now it subdueth the residue of this adust Matter and by little and little casteth it out until it be restored to the former Vigour or with the same too much depressed Spirit more infected with the adust Excrements and so it passeth away foul and impoverishâ—d so that it doth not assimilate the Nutritive Juice nor is it fit to circulation nor to come to the Heart nor to sustain the Lamp of Life CHAP. XLIII An intermitting Fever AN intermitting Fever is not less violent and intense during the time of the Fit there is in this a furious heat of Blood as in a continual yet this is not peculiar to an intermitting it hath a certain time of intermission and for the most part every Fit from the time of the cold or shaking and the Fits return with certain States and Periods of time so that it can hardly be measured more exactly by a Clock or Dial but this furious heat of the Blood constituting this Fever doth depend upon the assimilation of the nutritive Juice the vice of the Blood it self being fettered for whilst the nutritive Juice is not assimilated with the Blood for although the Particles do persist in the Mass of Blood as a Heterogeneus and not of the same Stock or Linage yet now it â—â— Circulated with it without tumult or trouble and saturated with it to a swelling up of the Mass of Cruor and so that presently boyleth and catcheth a feverish heat with which it is subdued or thrust out of doors as a Hetrogeneous thing from the society of which when the Blood is freed the intermission of the feverish heat follows at length afterward from a fresh supply of this Juice a new Fit is induced for the cause of this cold and shivering in the Fit of this Fever is stirred up seems to be the fluor and sweling or puffing up Viz. of the nutritive Juice degenerated into a nitrous and acetous Matter wherewith the flowing Spirits and Heat are dulled and blunted from thence there is perceived in the whole body a sense of cold and the nervous Bodies irritated are stirred up into tremblings but afterwards with these nitrous Particles being thrust forth from every part into the Superficies of the Body the Blood being now freed from the weight and oppression of them do gather it self together and getting up again do begin to shine forth and so that most intense heat succedeth which persisteth till that Fermitive Matter be well nigh burnt brought under and subtillated and Evaporateth by sweat and insensible transpiration but why the Fits do return often in the appointed intervals of times such a reason as this may be given for it because an equal portion of the nutritious Juice is continually administred to the Blood by flowing into the Vessels Franciscus Sylvius thinks the cause of all intermitting Fevers to be the pancreatical Juice stagnant in some part of it or more The leading Vessels of the Pancreas being obstructed and by its delay in that place is made sharper and that acid Acrimonia and by the Flegm more or less viscid is the cause of the said obstruction the way being prepared penetrating by force and being poured out into the thin Intestine and their stirring up with the Choller and Flegm the fury of the intermitting Fevers are divided into Tertian Quartan and Quotidian the Tertian repeats its Fit every Third day and if it be Exquisite it begins with a vehement shivering to which a sharp and a biting heat succeeds which is turned into a sweat and the Fit is finished within Twelve Hours The Causes disposing to this Fever are a Hot and Chollerick Temper a youthful Age a heating Diet the more hot constitution of the Air Watchings Cares Anger Fasting over much Exercise sometimes the Jaundise comes upon a Tertian and then the Fever is discharged What Haley hath written is taught for a very vulgar Experiment in persons labouring with a Tertian that if Ulcers and Pustles breaks out in the Lips and Nose it presages the termination of the Fevers for indeed it is as it were a Crises also a Flux of the Belly coming upon a Tertian the Matter Concocted there dissolves it Again a Quotidian is that wherein the Fit is wont to return every day and oftentimes it returns in the Hours within night and without shivering but with Cold only or with a light or easie shivering from hence the Heat transacted in the time of the Cold is gentle and very little burning the Fit is protracted longer and oftentimes it is wont to indure Eighteen or Twenty Hours Lastly that is a Quartan returning every Fourth day it begins with yauning and gaping and a Pain of the whole Body then there follows a Cold after that a quivering and shivering with which the Bones seem as if they were broke where there is perceived a â—â—in which from Quartan is named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the pain of the Bones the heat succeeding is very troublesome but more remiss than in a Tertian and Sweat doth oftentimes conclude the Fit This Fever
doth wont to continue longest and the which begins in Autumn and for the most part continues the whole Winter and departs not until the Spring unless by accident and so some do continue from one Year to many Years we have known some hath been extended to Seven Years and more but in Summer they be shorter Those things which dispose to this Fever are Autumn the Sea-Coast the end of Summer a Melancholly Temper and such who by an evil manner of Diet obnoxious to a Hypochondriack affection But the cause of these constituted Periods seem to be ascribed to the divers constitutions of the Blood Viz. by which from a due temper it is perverted one while into sharp and anon into an acid or austere disposition for which cause the divers intemperatures of it the nourishable Juice newly brought doth more or less depart from a maturation and degenerates sooner or later into a matter apt to ferment CHAP. XLIV A Hectick Fever FEbris Hectica that is a Habitual Fever or a Fever conversant in the Habit it is a preternatural Hcat in the substance of the Heart sticking and burning in the solid parts drying and consuming and brings the whole Body to extream leanness There are Three Degrees of this Fever The first is when the dewy moisture is dryed and consumed The second is when the fleshy and fatty Substance is depopulated and perisheth and in this the Extenuation of the Body is evident The Third is when the Febra's and Membranous Substance is wasted and the whole Body waxeth lean then follows Facies Hypocratica the gastly Countenance and the Bones only appear covered with the Skin This is the true wasting and Hectick which of the Greeks is called Marasmodes and which is incurable The internal Causes of the Hectick are burning and continual Fevers Ulcers and continual inflamations of the Liver Stomack Lungs Reins and other Bowels Those things which refer to outward Causes are such things as can generate other Fevers such things as do very much either consume the humid Substance in the solid Members or very much stirs up a continual heat or are apt to perform both to which the promptitute and disposition of the subject and the continual disposition of heating do make to the receiving of this preternatural heat Such are the heat of the Sun or fire vehement Exercise heating Meats and Drinks immoderate Excretions as a Diarrhea Dysenteria Animi Pathemata or more vehement passion of the Mind And lastly Hunger a more hot and dry Habit of Body is more apt to take this Fever The beginning Hectick is not easily known the other kind is difficultly Cured The Signs of all Hecticks are common the heat of the whole Body is equal and of which they do not complain nor do they understand themselves to be Feverish it first appears weak by reason of the fewness of the Vapours but if thou wilt apply thy hand longer there appears a sharpness and gnawing heat by reason of the dryness and solidity of the subject and greater in the Arteries than in other parts by reason of the communion of the Heart and this Heat increaseth one Hour or two after Meat is received no other ways waxing hot than Calx Vive if Water or any such thing be poured upon it the Pulse small frequent and swift the Urine oleaginous with a branny sedement CAAP. XLV The Rickets RAchites the Rickets a Disease unknown to the Ancients which yet at this day no Disease is more frequent in this Kingdom it is a cold and moist intemperature of the whole Spinal Marrow entring the Skul the arise of all the Nerves and of all the Membranous and Febrous parts of the whole Body with the defect and feebleness of the Spirits and tone of the parts visciated the cause and parts primarily affected do fetch their definition from this whose Signs and Symptoms are looseness and softness of the parts primarily affected debility and pining or enervation of the parts serving to Motion weakness and feebleness of the Joynts the Head bigger than is meet the Face fuller and more florid the Musculous parts wax lean certain Protuberations and Nodes about certain of the Joynts mostly in the Rist and in the Extremity of the Ribs a bowing or incurvating of some of the Bones which more frequently happens to the Bones of the Cubit Shins Thighs and Shoulders sharpness and straitness of the Breast Bunches and Tumors of the Abdomen Repletion and Tention of the Hypochondries a frequent Cough difficult Respiration and many other evils of the Lungs as the stuffing of them hard Tumors Imposthumes Inflamations growing or sticking to the Pleura a weak and a feeble Pulse the common Cause of which seems to be an unequal and unprofitable Nutrition the Antecedent Causes are beside the falt in the Seed of the Parents defiled with the like disposition redundant viscious Humours in the Body Flegm Choller and chiefly Melancholly but the Procatarctical Errors committed in the use of res non naturales Infants are taken with this Disease till they are Two Years and a half old and sometimes after CHAP. XLVI Of a Convulsion A Convulsion in Greek called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Celsus is a distention of the Nerves Or thus a Convulsion is a continual and involuntary contraction of the Nerves and Muscles towards their original upon which there follows a stiffness a deprivation of the Figure and Form of the Part with a most cruel Pain the Part affected is the Muscle which is the proper Instrument of voluntary Motion The nearest Cause of this Convulsion is an Irritation of the Nervous Parts from any thing molesting and troubling the Muscle the Animal Faculty performing the Motion being drawn into consent The Material Causes are any Humours Flegm only excepted so that they have acquired also a certain occult enemical disposition in the Nerve as also the Vapours and Humours in the Nâ—rves and Chollerick Disease which can pull the Nervous Parts and become a true cause of Convulsion A Convulsion is either of the whole Body or it is of more or fewer parts that which is of the whole Body doth constitute Three Species or Sorts the first is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Head Neck and upper parts of the Back is pulled together The second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when those parts or the lower parts of the Spine are vexed The third is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that wherein the Neck and whole Body appears stiff and bowed into neither part but these last Species of the Cramp are very rare Moreover there are other Species of the Convulsion which are wont to be called Flatulent which by the Italians is called Crampa and vulgarly with us Cramp this happeneth oftentimes to the Muscles of the Shoulders Shins Fingers Hands and Feet and this done with great Pain that which is stirred up from Flatulentsy is not so dangerous for that is easily taken away by frixion only CHAP.
Red Coral one Scruple Let these be subtilly powdered and divided into three parts and one part given with Red Wine and the other with a Decoction of the Seeds of Plantain twice in a day For a Dyarrhea TAke Mastick two Ounces dissolve it in Oyl of Roses and Wax half an Ounce Let them be well mixed into the form of a Liniment let this be spread upon a Linnen Cloth and applyed to the Belly Take Rhubarb one Dram Citrin Mirabalans half a Dram Yellow Sanders half a Scruple Let them be put into Plantain Water and when it hath stood one night let it be strained put to it of Rhubarb Elect half a Dram Syrup of Roses one Ounce mix it and let the Sick take it twice a day For the Celiack and Lienteria or Flux from the Spleen TAke two Spoonfulls of the Syrup of Quinces thrice in a day For the Asthma â—â—ke the Spirit of Aniseeds two parts Mel Scilliticum one part Cinamon Water half a part mix it and of this take half a Spoonful at a time Or take Roots of Liquorish four Ounces the Roots of Flower-de-luce two Ounces Enulacompain one Ounce of Angelica half an Ounce a prepared Squil one Ounce the Seeds of Fennel Anis of each one Ounce Nettle Sâ—â—ds Angelica Seeds of each one Dram Seeds of Water-Cresses one Dram Spirits of Aniseed half an Ounce Hony half a Pounâ—â— Sugâ—r one Pound Cinamon six Drâ—ms good generous White-wine a Gallon Let 〈◊〉 â—e put into a convenient Vessel or Runlet to be preserved for use the Asthmatick may drink a draught of it every day twice For the Joynt-Gout TAke Cariocostinum two Drams Syrup of purging Thorn two Drams Elder Water two Ounces mix these and take it in the Morning and keep your Chamber and drink some Posset between your Stools Take the Oyl of Whelps Oyl of Lint-seeds Oyl of Bays the Marrow of a Hart of each half an Ounce mix it together and it will become a Liniment with which anoint the pained side every Morning and Evening For the Quinsie TAke the Leaves of Plantain Daises of each one handful Red Roses let these be boyled in three pound of common Water to which add one pound of Plantain Water three Ounces of Scabious Water Lint-seeds Fenegreek-seeds and the Seeds of Mallows of each one Dram boyl these altogether to the consumption of the third part and then being strained add to it the Syrup of Mulberries and Hony of Roses of each two Ounces and with this let the Sick Gargle often Take Oyl of sweet Almonds one Ounce Capon-grease new Butter washed in Violet Water of each half an Ounce the Musalig of Lint-seed and Fenegreek-seed Seeds of Mallows Marsh-mallows Extracted with Camomil Water of each two Drams a a little Yellow Wax let a piece of Lauud moistened in it be applyed to the pained place For the Palpitation or beating of the Heart TAke the Heart of a Hart or a Goat the Heart of a tame or wild Hog wash them in Malligo Wine then cut them into little pieces then add the Leaves of Balm and Marjoram of each one handfull Bugloss Burrage Bugloss Violet Red Roses Eazil-seeds one Dram Citrin-seeds half a Dram Cloves two Drams Cinamon six Drams Mace Yellow Sanders and Wood of Alloes of each one Dram the things to be cut let them be Cut and the things to be beaten let them be beaten add to this two Pound of Malligo Wine the Juice of Lemon one Ounce and let these be distilled in Balneo until the Water sends forth no more odour and of this let the Sick take three or four Spoonfulls when they please For the Worms Tâ—ke Worm-seed Corallina Hartshorn of eacb equal parts 〈◊〉 being finely powdered let the Child take as much as will lie upon a Groat For the Rickets TAke the Leaves of Osmond Royal Harts-tongue Liver-wort Ceterach the Flowers of Tamarise of each one handful Raisons two Ounces White Sanders and Red Sassafras of each two Drams Coriander Seeds one Dram Mace one Scruple the tops of Sage half a handful boyl it in a sufficient quantity of Water to three pounds and let it be sweetened with honey for its common drink THe Medicines which follow are those with which we have performed great and stupendious Cures upon Diseases of long standing occasioned from great and intricate Obstructions in plethorick Bodies weakened and infeebled in Body and Mind and out of all hope in themselves and after they have passed long and various courses in Physick and these not one or two as by chance but upon very â—any and failing none where Gods decree did not prohibit and indeed such Enâ—â—miums were due to one only Mediciâ—e of Paracelsus and that which no doubt was far short of other of his Arcana's as indeed we are able to affirm the like having Experience of the very same and this Encomium given by a person who set himself to throw as much dirt as he could upon his Master yet his desert extorted this Commendation from him that his little Pills he administred as a Divine Medicine he scrupled not to affirm that by that Medicine he could put life into those that were as good as dead and that while this Servant was with him he made good in some Experiments What then if this be so may be said not only of the same but many far more excellent than that and which have not only a power to revive but also to enter into the inmost parts of Mans Body and there in a friendly â—anner appease the inraged Archeus or innate Spirit of a tenuate incide Cut dissolves all tarterous and Coagulated Filths opens stubborn and long Obstructions cleanses and purifies the Blood the Chariot of Life and Vital Spirits seperates between good and bad summons them from all quarters to appear at the general Randisvous and when fitted by preparing these alienated Humours or Torterous Filths call them what you please to cast them out by the appointed passage as forreign Guests not Homogenies to our Nature and consequently not fit to inmate themselves there by which means Obstructions are opened Nature unburned the Faculties set at liberty to perforn their respective Offices the Blood Circulated Nature revived strength restored the whole Body returned to its pristine vigour and in some Disease Cured so the Man repreved from the approaching Execution for a time from that more certain Sentence it is appointed for all men once to die and after death the Judgmenr and though you have before Medicines proper to these Diseases yet for the publick good we propound what we before promised Of those Medicines which performs the things mentioned mowing down the most stubborn and truculent Disease rooting out their Seeds that by good Diet and the due use of res non naturales before mentioned for that end that new and better fruit may grow in the room The first is our Pillulae Solares or our Solar Pills which are so called because they are of the