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A25287	The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.	A. B.	1674 (1674)	Wing A2B; ESTC R222542	90,076	270

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 Mid●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 Palpitat●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 ●he common

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 Rick●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 Scur●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 com●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

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 afte● 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 you● Bed first lie upon your right side tha● the meat taken last may descend to th● bottom of the Stomach and after tha● upon the left that the concoction ma● be helped by the Liver lying upon th● Stomach which being perfected li● again to the Right side that the Chyl● may be more easily distributed to th● Liver but lying upon the face is judged by all to be the cause of mos● grievous diseases The most convenient time for Slee● The Time of sleep is the Night two or three hours afte● Supper because of its peaceable quie● 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 fro● the effects are call'd laughing Cheek● because of the contraction or curbin● which the Muscles suffer by reason ● their fulness of Blood and Spirits a● which is nothing but to laugh Jo● recreates and quickens all the Facu●ties stirres up the Spirits helps co●coction makes the Body to be bett● in liking and fattens it the heat blo● and Spirits flowing thither and t● nourishing dew or moisture water i● and refreshing all the Members fro● whence it is that of all the passions ● the Mind this onely is profitable ● that it exceeds not measure for i● moderate and unaccustomed Joy caries so violently the Blood and Spir● from the Heart into the habit of th● Body that sudden and unlooked f● death ensues by a speedy decay ● strength and the lasting Fountain ● the Vital Humour being exhausted which thing happens to them whic● are less hearty as Women and ol● men Anger causeth the same effusion o● 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 col● and dry than stones by reason where of the outmost skin and pores in which the roots of the hair are fastened ar● drawn together Shame is a certain affection as it wer● mixed of Anger and Fear therefor● in that Conflict of as it were

contending passions fear prevaileth over Anger the Face waxeth pale the Blood flowing back to the heart and these symptomes arise according to the vehemency of the abated or contracte● heat But if on the contrary Ange● get the dominion over Fear the Bloo● runs violently into the Face the Eye● look red and sometimes they even fome at the mouth There is another kind of Shame which the Latines call Verecundia and we Shamefastness in which there is a certain Flux and Reflux of heat and blood first recoiling to the heart then presently rebounding from them again but that motion is so gentle that the heart thereby suffers no oppression nor defect of Spirits Wherefore no accidents worthy to be spoken of arise from thence this effect is familiar to young Maids and Boys who if they blush for a Fault committed unawares or through carelesness it is thought an Argument of a vertuous and good disposition CHAP. VI. Tractatus de Scorbuto OR A Tract concerning the Scurvy The Description of the Scurvy with the internal and next Cause which is radicated mostly in the Blood and Nervous Liquor IN the ancient Medicine there is so little mention made of this Disease which we in our dayes c●ll the Scurvy and there is so sparing a description made of it that some have doubted whether there have been any such Di●ease as is now almost Epidemical in man● places where in former times it was n● known and with which almost all d● labour or think that they are afflicte● This Disease it is apparent did put for ● it self in former times but it s own O● springs as in the Lues Venerea and Ri●kets were discovered long after Y● this Disease although known by oth● Names and observed by the Ancien● and also the Cure of it hath been d●vered to the succeeding Ages by ● more dull wits as appears sufficiently the Testimonies of Hypocrates Areti● Pliny and others There is little to ● said as to the various Appellations this Disease yet I shall give you a tou● We shall therefore proceed to the op●ing and right Explication of it wh● yet hath been so diffused and doth ●tend it self to such Variety and Multi●city of Symptomes that not one d●nition or scarce any single descript● can comprehend it Howsoever not wholly to pass it o● we have little among Authors tha● certain yet among the ancient Mast● of Medicine there are various Na● appropriate to this disease of which some are taken from the Disease some from the symptomes as it appears from Celsus and others where it is taken from the various symptomes of this Disease Which shall be handled when we come to discover the symptomes signs or evil ●nd pernicious Concomitants of this formidable Disease As to the Name Scorbutus it takes its Original from Scorbuck a Danish word ●ut used by the Saxons and borderers ●pon the German Sea and in Latine by some Gingipedi●um because that in this Disease the Gums and Feet are infected ●ith a corrupt Blood and thence one in●ication of a right manner of Cure is ta●en to be well atchieved by a well mun●ifying and cleansing of the Blood Pli●y in his Natural History calls it Stoma●ace and Sceletyrbe and of his Opinion ●s Strabo in his Book of Geographa but ●thers suppose this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be a spe●es of the Palsie However or in what ●anner this Disease was found to shew ●orth its symptomes in those dayes when ●s it was but in its Infancy in process of ●me we find it hath arrived to the pitch ●f one of the most formidable Dseases inc●d●nt to these Northern Climates o● mor●●pidemical than most other distempers To stand much upon the ●●me and from thence to suppose to dedu● any thin● of the Nature and Essence ● this Dis●a●● does seem difficult if not i●possible b●c●use as was binted befor● these App●●●●●ions seem to take the● rise chiefly 〈◊〉 the symptomes whic● appear to be ●o numerous that as w● said no one single Definition can co●prehend it Notwithstanding some have thus d●fined it that it is a corruption of cru● humours and mostly of Atrabilis refu●ing from the Compass of the ●elly a● contained Bowels bu● most of all fro● the stuffing and intemperature of t● Spleen which is proper and peculiar that part And it also acquires ● diff●ing degree of putridness from the ma●cious form and species of other humou● and it weakens and 〈◊〉 by litt● and little by a 〈◊〉 Fertility ● symptomes all the 〈◊〉 of the Bod● the Bowels serving and dedicated Nu●●●tion ●nd placed 〈…〉 Reg●on ●● th● B●●y are ●●●●●pted ●he Su●ject and do administ●r the Original ● this Disease But above the rest it is chiefly attributed to the Spleen in truth the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it the Liver being sound the attraction is hindered by the intemperature and obstruction of the atrabilous humour which for that cause being mixed with the blood doth infect the whole Body with a consuming or pining corruption This definition carryes in it a great proportion with the Disease viz. In respect of the chief Seat the Spleen and the other incompassed Bowels Secondly in respect of the humour which is Atrabilious or burnt Choler Thirdly with respect to the Cause the obstruction of the parts destinated to Nutrition Fourthly to the Numerousness of the Symptomes which are very many Fifthly as to the End which is very afflicting And lastly the corrupting the Blood which as such is accompted the Parent of this Disease all which shall be further demonstrated and illustrated by that which follows CHAP. VII The Manner of the Generation of the Scurvy PHysicians have laboured much to d●monstrate the Manner of the production of this Disease and the mo● evident is taken from an Analogy th● the Fermentations of Wines bare ● the Fermentations and Concoctions ● our Food received into our Body an● the various alterations that it suffers b● our innate heat and other Concomitan● of producing Chyle and the fitting it i● the various work-houses of our Body ● the great end to which it is designe● viz. the Nourishing of our body an● to this Analogy it is observable that t● Juice expressed from the Grapes begi● in short time to put forth it self into m●tion and by this there is by a certai● Fermentation an Alteration and a Rari●cation the gross and dull is made spirit●ous and lively the thick is made thi● the tart is made sweet and pleasant An● that that was unfit to be taken into ou● Bodyes by reason of its heterogeneit is by this Fermentation made most homogeneous or Friendly to our Nature but in this there are several things or accidents observable First that when the Faeces are separated and cast to the bottom if they are again elevated to motion or if any heterogeneous thing not agreeable to it as Fat or any Exotick Sulphur be cast into the Vessel from thence there will arise a notable perturbation which unless it be

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 eithe● Mutation the Spirit being brought under the Yoak the sulphurous and salin● being associated together they excel● the other Elements and so they may change into the gross disposition of it● own Liquor notwithstanding these things are not done altogether in th● same manner in both Wherefore in th● first Dyscrasia or Intemperature o● the Wine the Sulphur somewhat abidet● with the Salt but in the latter the Sal● rather existeth with the Sulphur bu● whether it be one or the other that i● made most powerfull the dominion o● the Spirit being driven away the othe● adheres to it and taketh away its du● 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 gros● 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 ●●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

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 Mesen●ary it self Pa●●r●● ●nd 〈◊〉 and by reason that it is wo●● 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 ●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 o● Humo●rs and concerning ing the first note in the Fermentation of Wine CHAP VIII 〈…〉 when the Faeces are separa●●● and 〈◊〉 to the bottom if they ●●● again elevared to motion or if any Heterogeneous Exotick Sulphur be cast into the 〈◊〉 from thence there will arise a notabl●● 〈…〉 which unless it be 〈…〉 to the ruin● of 〈◊〉 whol● 〈…〉 lik● 〈…〉 there b● ma●y thing ●hich 〈…〉 mixible with ●●● blood which ●eing mixed wi●● 〈◊〉 ●oe ●i●der ●he mo●ion and Circulation of it ●nd trouble th● Oeconomi● Indeed these are not so well performed the nourishing Liquo●●eing reduced to a muddiness ●● inordi●●●ely ferments the blood and also ●ha● 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 vapo●ou● Excrem●nts of the Blood the Rasa or Iraseibiles cholerick and atrabilious retained in its bosome it brings forth Catarrhes Dropsies Jaundies Melancholy 〈◊〉 ●any other Effects And Secondly The Sulph●●●us part 〈…〉 Blood being too much ●●al●ed from thence is produced an ino●dinate heat and so is apt to be k●●dled i●●he heart and from thence follow● 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 fo● 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 i● were Oleaginous and from a soure savour into a very ungratefull and as i● were a Mustiness It is very probable that the Bloo● may be thus altered in the Scorbutio● Affection as Wines as often as the● wax hot they degenerate into Rop● and stinking For this Disease is not ● much from the Faeculency mixed wi● the Blood although such have bee● and the Supplement of them may ● known before but it dependeth upo● the habitual Intemperature of the Bloo● and the Argument is this Because a rad●cated Scurvy is so difficultly cured a● sometimes not at all we may state t● Dyserasia sanguinis is the Parent of t● Scurvy even as we constitute a Dup●city of the Wine to wit a Sulphuro-●linan and a Salino-Sulphurean F● where there is the greatest variety ● Distempers which are attributed to t● Scurvy all these may chiefly and ve● aptly be referred to two heads or Fo●tains of Evil Viz. CHAP. IX THE first is that in which the Blood is touched with the Scorbutick Mia●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 ●urnt to wit the Concretions of the Sulphur and Salt the Sulphur wholly forsakes it self and is dispersed here and ●here the which truely being drove ●utward do produce spots Pustuls Ex●nth●mata and Ulcers but being dispo●ed inwardly they occasion Vomitings ●nrdialgia or heart-akings Diarrhaeas ●r Dysenteries and also most cruel pains ●n the scorbutick Rancidity of this kind ●f Blood temperate Remedies onely ●nd frequent Phlebotomies as Scurvy-●rass Horse-radish and other things en●owed with a sharp and biting taste are ●onvenient and for the like reason musty ●r rancid Wines are cured by taking from them their Faeces Moreover by th● pouring in of Milk Starch Ising-glass and of other things asswaging or mitigating them In the second place in the Blood no●rishing the Scurvy the Salt having g● the Dominion it joyns the Sulphur to i● wherefore that is not so hot but it b●comes thick as ropy Wine and as it we Mucilaginous it is slowly circulated ● the Vessels and whiles it passes the Bo●els it is apt to stuffe them and to fast● the muddiness to them such Effects oft● times are made without cutaneous Eru●tions there are produced short breatedness and weariness they labour wi●

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

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 i● quickens all the Vital and Animal Functions i● stirres up and restores in a wonderfull manne● all the Actions of the Body it strengthens the natural heat and opens Obstructions it quickens the Circulation of the Blood dissolvet● Coagulations refresheth and warms all the part● of the Body it quickens the Wit and procuret● a bold and pleasant behaviour it greatly increaseth the Vital spirit and because it is of thin an● sprightly parts it is of all other the soones● snatched into Union with our spirit and of thi● 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 E●cellent Subject both from it self alone and b● other adjuncts friendly and homogeneous to ou● Nature But to speak of it as it is of commo● Use it wonderfully amendeth the coldness o● Old Age it maketh a man Courageous in Bod● 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 hurtful● 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 eac● other in nature and property they are of thi● and penetrating substance they heat and nourish the body less than other Wines they are quickly concocted and speedily distributed t● all the parts they therefore do not annoy the head so much as other Wines they attenuat● 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 hea● 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 o● 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 ho● 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

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

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 r●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 b●●ning and inordinan●sie is wont to dep●●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 Terti●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 Measl●s and also the Pestilens But the ●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 o● 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 F●v●rs to be the Bill or Water under which he comprehends the Pancreatical Juice and so that ●●●vil is brought with it to the Heart 〈◊〉 that exciting such a viscious Effervesc●●●ia in the right Ventricle of the Heart an● 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 a●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 tha● the larger quantity of Sulphur which is ●●●●ied in the Blood is subdued but the Salt ought to be stoped from its fearsenes● 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 i● 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