lyeth heavyer for that certainly a heap as it were weightily pressing into the Stomach and Praecordia The Inflamation of the Liver which the Greks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a hot Tumor of the Liver with a continual Fever stirred up from an impetuous affluxion of Matter accompanied with a sad Pain afflicting with the sense of weight the Signs of this grief is a weight in the right side of the Praecordiums stretched out from the Jugulum to the Bastard Ribs a small Cough and that dry difficulty of Breathing an accute Fever a Queasiness of Stomach a great thirst the Colour of the whole Body inclining to a Yellow this Tumor easily passeth into an Abscesses which if that happens it pronounces certain death and when it becomes an Imposthume Pain Fever and other Symptoms wax strong the Fits invade many times without order which being over an Exacerbation of heat follows the Puss being made all these things are remitted but the strength remaining is much weaker the Pulse frequent small and languid a frequent fainting of the Spirit the Abscessus being broke there breaks forth much filth from the Puss the Sick is detained with sometimes a hot sometimes a cold Intemperature there is a great loathing of Flesh nevertheless hunger does much hurt the thirst is vehiment the whole Body and specially the Palms of the Hands and the Souls of the Feet are hot the Face white soft habit of Body and raw and crude dejections CHAP. XXV A Cachexia A Cachexia is an evil habit of Body and as it were a Dropsie it is a more soft and loose Constitution of the fleshy and skinny parts of the whole Body and as it were a puffing up with an ill favour'd Colour of the whole Skin either Pale Livid or Leadish this evil is wont to come from impure naughty and corrupt Aliments but if these be not the cause it is charged upon the Imbecility or Impurity of the Stomach and Viscera for Imbecility produces a weak and crude Concoction for the parts of the more pure Aliments being carryed into the habit of the Body notwithstanding it is sent to and as it were agglutinated to the parts yet it is not perfectly assimilated and from hence is made not true and legitimate nutrition but a viscious and unprofitable the Impurity of the Viscera maketh an evil and corrupt Blood which at length is brought into all the parts and being unuseful to be dissipated into the Substance of the Body thence follow an unmeet nourishment the external Causes are Meats of evil Juice frequent gorging of the Belly studying too late at night over much watching suppressae evacuationes mensium suppression of the Hemorrhoides frequent bleeding at the Nose or stopping of other Matter which were wont to flow as a Diarraea and Dysenteria longa Long being in Prison and Subterranian places Venom being drunk or the Bite of venomous Beasts that also which makes much to this Disease is continual Fevers stubborn obstructions of the Liver or Spleen hard and Scirrhous Tumors old people are also corrupted with this Disease by reason of the Imbecility of the Native Heat and Women ob retensionem mensium and Children by Gluttany or excessive eating And also a Cachexia sometimes hath its original from an Ulcer of the Reins where there is Gravel when the perulent Matter by reason of the Obstruction of the Ureters flows back into the Reins and so infecting the Blood the whole habit is defiled CHAP. XXVII Of an Inflamation of the Lungs PEribneumonia is an Inflamation of the of the Lungs with an accute Fever difficulty of Breathing and a Cough the part affected is the Lungs either the whole Lungs or part either the right or the left side the Cause is Blood breaking copioufly into the Lungs and kindling an Inflamation the External Causes are vehiment Exercises especially after long quiet and repletion of the Body overcrying and Extention of the Voice anger the Cold Northern Air especially following the Southern the use of Stagnent Waters as Lakes c. Venomous Diets and sometimes mrlignant Humours as when the Peribneumonia or Inflamation of the Lungs are Epidemical The Signs are straightness of the Breast with a heavy and grievous pain reaching to the Spine of the Back difficulty of Breathing and truly a greater than in the Pleurifie an accute Fever troublesome Cough a Redness of the Cheeks in the beginning no Spittle but in process of time there follow Crude Chollerick or Frothy Spittle The Cure is to be begun with opening a Vein a Glyster if need be being first administred CHAP. XXVII The Pleurisie A Pleurisie is a Disease of the Thorax or Breast the most molesting and accutest of all and there is none that assaulteth the life of a Man more it is an Inflamation which extendeth it self under the Ribs and the Membranes thereto adjoyning and taking its Rise from a thin Chollerick Blood with a continual Fever and pricking pain of the side vehiment Cough difficulty of Breathing it is caused either from pure Blood or hot and Chollerick Humours being mixed flowing into the Membranes the remote Causes are Cacohimia Plethora wonted Evacuations of Blood being supprest Flux of the Belly unseasonably stirred a Contusion of of the Breast from a fall or a violent stroke vehiment Exercise and after that Exercise a large draught of cold Water or the like a large drinking of more pure Wine too much hot or over much cold The Pathognomical Signs of a Pluresie are accute pains of the side difficulty of Respiration as also frequent and little a continual Fever and often observing the Fit of a Tertian in the beginning a dry Cough afterward moist with foul and colour'd Spittle there is an Inflamation of the Intercostal External Muscles this arises sometimes from Blood poured out into those External Muscles and sometimes from Winds and sometimes from a Distillation the true Pluresie is known from a Bastard that the sick cannot lie on that part opposite to the pained side because of the Membrane pained by the newly conceived weight But in the Bastard Plurisie it is difficult to lie down upon the side affected CHAP. XXVIII De Impyemate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Puss and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Putrefaction Suppuration it is a Collection of Puss in the Capacity of the Thorax or Breast coming from the foulness and filth of the whole Lungs but it floweth thither either from an Angina or Peribnenmonia or it happeneth more frequently from a Pleurisie for these Coughs not being well cleansed there happeneth an Abscessus from which at length being broke there floweth a Puss into the whole Capacity of the Breast CAAP. XXIX De Pthisis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tabes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Corrumpo in Latin Tales and in general it is taken for the Extenuation of the whole Body and it is accepted for any thing that flows from the same Cause and in that sense it is taken among Physitians and so it is
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
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
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
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
have been under almost any restraint Venery only excepted and their Relations being infected we have Cured them though to this day they know not what they ail'd the Arcana's we use are such viz. of that Power and Energy that they Cure Cito tuto Jucunde which is as much as any Person can desire small in Dose and very easy to be taken and may be conveyed by reason they are small in bulk to any place and the Rules so plain and easy that they may be observed without the least difficulty the Cure so certain that one in a Thousand almost need not dispair of Cure if they will be observant for it is to be understood that though many may be Cured wlth rhat facility as is hinted yet all may not without being a little more observant in Rules somewhat more strict and were it so we have conveniency for any that will commit themselves to a more strict observation for privicy and certainty of Cure in Cases more than ordinary and this is worth your observation which though as you have heard the Symptoms of this Disease are numerous and appear with a dreadful Aspect in foul Ulcers sordid and stinking Sores filthy and noysom Scabs a gastly Countenance lamentable complaints of dolorous pain as you have abundantly heard in so much that they might almost have this Motto written upon them Mortuus est yet by the Blessing of God we have conquer'd these sworms of Adversaries heal'd and dryed up the Ulcers caused the Scabs to fall off like Leaves in Autumn renewed the native heat restored the Countenance to its former Floridity Cured the Hectick dismissed the Consumption and in some made him a new Man as to his body or so repaired the old that there hath in many to this very day not appeared the least sign of the approaching ruine to their great satisfaction happens of themselves and Families and though they have had Issue yet these Off-springs are sound strong and enjoy perfect health without the least Token of an hereditary communication of the paternal spot and in all the marks or concomitants of perfect freedom from such things there appears to be no difference from them and others of whom there was never no cause of Jelousy nay and less than of some who are born of Scorbutick Parents or others annoy'd with milder and gentler Diseases The reason of this Allegation is because some doubt whether there be any certain Cure for Persons once infected with the POX because some who either because they would not be Regular and have fallen into the hands of some bad and inexpert persons have fail'd of their Cure or have been made worse or have paliated their disease have taken on them the Phisiognomy of other Diseases and Masked themselves under the Vizard of the Scurvy and Gout to whom they are much obliged for this disguise for the certainty of our Cure in this as well as in many others we could give you many Instances of persons by Name Place of Habitation with Sex and Age of all sorts and these performed in Fourteen days upon infants who cannot observe Rule and who went any whither and did any thing but our own conveniensy trust by many committed to us and love to our Neighbour must prohibit our Pen. And so much may suffice for the description of this Disease as to what concerns the Cure it cannot be expected that we shall say any thing of that for that would not answer the end proposed and it would be useless because they may have the Medicines that will certainly Cure of the Author and at the place specified in the Title Page with plain Directions so that they may be used in any Country and distance from us whatsoever CHAP. XVIII Of the Gonorrhea THe Gonorrhea a Brat of this Brood for the most part and though it be enumerated among the Symptoms of the Leues yet as â—o its distinct Knowledge and some other necessary Circumstances belonging it will be convenient to let you know that though a Gonorrhea may arise from another Cause yet it is rare to meet with a Gonorrhea that is not a Symptom of the Leues Venerea or contracted by a foul Copulation we speak now as we have found in our Practice a Gonorrhea is a running or rather a dropping out of the urinary passage of a Yellowish Livid Bloody Filthy Sanies like to puss or matter not well Concocted oftentimes fretting and exulcerating the passage with the Acrimony and causing a painful erection of the Yard and distention of all the Genital parts for in this Erection there is caused as it were a convulsive Contraction of these parts and hence it is that the Patients complain that they feel as it were a String stretch'd stiff in that part which draws the Yard as it were downwards the cause thereof is a gross and flatulent Spirit filling and distending by its plenty the whole Channel or hollow Nerve yea the whole porous substance of the Yard if to these Symptoms this be added that the urinary passage is exulcerated a grievous pain afflicts the Patient while he makes Water for that the Ulcers are irritated by the sharp Urine passing that way for it is a viscious and acrid filth which hath acquired a venenant malignity by the corruption of the whole Substance This discription is sufficient for any person to come to a Judgment of himself upon suspicion of himself he may come to a conclusion in the affirmative that if some of these Symptoms be present though they are not all nor to the utmost Degree and especially if he hath been dabbling he may conclude in the affirmative that he hath a virulent Gonorrhea and by this be admonished to look out for Cure which we have with our remedies performed in Six or Eight days to their great satisfaction we have something to be consider'd as to the Female Sex and some distinguishing Signs by which they might be able to judge of themselves whether they have a Gonorrhea for as much as they are attended sometimes with weakness proper to their Sex only called Fluor albus We have met with many that have had a foul corrupt Gonorrhea and have thought it only the weakness now named and so have born it to the hazard of their Lives and by which many others have been ruined But by reason this Book may happen into the hands of some less modest and our modest Veneration of that Sex forbids any more than this hint but if any be surprized as too many are in these days and they desire our advice they shall receive a modest Information of particulars according to the Nature of the thing and Cure if Curable as it is not to be doubted and so much we thought convenient to add concerning a distinct description of a Gonorrhea CHAP. XIX The description of the Dropfie THe Dropsie in the Greek is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin aqua-intercus as to its species is described to be
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