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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53921	The store-house of physical practice being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies : together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them, by method, medicine and diet : to which is added, for the benefit of young practicers, several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians / by John Pechey ...	Pechey, John, 1655-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1030; ESTC R17969	344,757	525

Eyes for those that have such Eyes are subject to Suffusions for prominent Eyes are wont to be large and so fitter to receive Humours and Vapours Some external Causes also occasion weakness as a Blow Contusion Bathing a Southerly and Rainy Season long continuing in the Sun Smoak hard Reading especially by a Candle which occasions a Fluxion of Humours upon the Eyes The differences of Suffusions arise from the thickness quantity or place where the Humour resides that occasions them By reason of the greater or lesser thickness the Obstruction of the Sight is more or less for if the Humour be thin and serous the Sight is but little obstructed if very thick blindness is occasion'd By reason of the quantity and place the Humour possesses either all the Pupil and then the Sight is equally obstructed which way soever it is directed to the Objects or it covers one part of the Pupil more than another and the Objects are not seen whole by looking directly nor many at one time But if the Humour be very small and is seated in the middle of the Pupil the Objects appear as if there were holes in them But if the Matter be torn into various Corpuscles seated in various Parts of the Pupil the appearance of Gnats is always before the Eyes Also Hair Cobwebs Circles about a Candle and many other things The Diagnostick of this Disease is first to be directed to a legitimate Suffusion to distinguish it from a spurious afterwards the various Sorts of a legitimate Suffusion are to be enquired into A true Suffusion seizes only one of the Eyes most commonly or if both not at the same time nor alike which happens in a Bastard Suffusion Secondly in a legitimate Suffusion something dark appears in the Pupil which is not in a Spurious but this Sign is not constant for if the Suffusion be generated from a thin and serous Humour there is no change in the Eye that Humour being scarce thicker than the watery Humour upon which account Physicians mistake it for a Gutta Serena But this Suffusion is easily distinguished from a Gutta Serena for in a Gutta Serena the Sight is wholly taken away or much diminished no fault appearing in the Eye But in a Suffusion which does not appear to the Sight the Sick can see tolerably well because the serous Humour from whence it is produced is thin and clear so that the species of the Objects can pass through it like Glass and then in a Suffulsion the Sight is not for the most part obstructed in althe Parts of the Pupil but the Objects are sometimes seen best when they are placed directly opposite to the Eye and sometimes when they are placed towards the Corner because most commonly there is a greater thickness or thinness in one part of the Pupil than in another Thirdly In a true Suffusion the Symptoms are continual but in a Bastard Suffusion they are encreased or lessened by intervals as the Vapours rise more or less to the Head and so when the Stomach is empty they are much less than when it is full for then a greater quantity of Vapours arise from the Head and then the Gnats Cobwebs and the like appear only by intervals Besides in a true Suffusion the Sight seems to pass always through a Cloud or thick Glass which is the proper and Pathognomonick Symptom of it But in a Bastard Suffusion the Sight is sometimes very good CVRE The Cure is easier performed in Summer than in Winter If a Suffusion come upon an acute Fever after a Peripneumonia Frensie or violent Pains of the Head it is very hard to cure A confirm'd Suffusion can be cured only by Couching In a confirm'd Suffusion if having shut the other Eye the Pupil is dilated there is hope of a Cure by Couching otherwise there is none for then the Optick Nerve is obstructed and so the Spirits cannot come to the Pupil A black Suffusion can never be cured and but very rarely a green or yellow A Suffusion which represents the Objects by holes is not to be Couched Couching succeeds best when the Eye is full and at its natural bigness for if it be withered and small it will not succeed This Operation must not be attempted in old Age or in Child-hood nor when the Eye being pressed with the Finger the Suffusion appears broader and then returns to its wonted bigness and shape for then it is not ripe But if being pressed with the Finger it does not alter its shape it may be Couched When it is ripe it is like a thin Skin and may be wrapped round the Needle and thrust to the lower Part of the Eye The Cure of a Suffusion is not to be directed only to the conjunct Cause but also to the antecedent and therefore the whole Body especially the Brain must be first well Purged afterwards the Humour obstructing the Pupil must be difcussed or removed some other way Which Indications being the same in a manner as were proposed for the Cure of a Gutta Serena may be sought for there Therefore all that Cure being premised which was instituted for a Gutta Serena we must proceed to those Remedies which respect peculiarly the taking off the Matter that is seated near the Pupil and though Topical Remedies may seem not to do much good yet a due use of them is not to be rejected for experience teaches that incipient Suffusions have been cured by Topical Remedies when they have been used after general Evacuations First therefore you must begin with gentle Resolvents which must not dry too much lest the Matter of the Suffusions should be hardned and so rendred unfit for Resolution and Emollients are therefore to be mixed with the Resolvents to prevent the hardening of the Matter and to render the resolving of it more easie to which end the following Fomentation may be used at the beginning Take of the Leaves of Rue Fennel Eyebright and the greater Celandine each one handful of the Seeds of Foenugreek one ounce of the Flowers of Camomil and Melilot each one pugil boil them in three parts of Fountain Water and one of Wine added at the end Strain it and foment the Eyes with it with a soft Spunge Morning and Evening and the Head being covered the Steam of the Decoction may be received into the Eyes At the very beginning of the Disease when the Fluxion is beginning and when Medicines are used for Revulsion it will be proper to foment the Eyes with Red Wine to hinder the Fluxion In the Progress of the Disease a Fomentation of White Wine wherein Crocus Metallorum has been infused is very beneficial and the Breath of a Child having first chewed Fennel-seeds received into the Eyes and a Child or a Whelp licking the Eyes in the Morning is also good and Bread hot out of the Oven mixed with Fennel-seeds held to the Eyes till they are moist with the Vapour of it The foresaid Remedies must be used in the

day if his Strength will bear it which by casting forth the serous Humour through the Pores of the Body will perform the Cure Take of the decoction of Senna Gerionis four Ounces of Syrup of Buckthorn six Drams of Spirit of Sulphur five Drops of Aqua Mirabilis one Dram mingle them and make a Potion to be taken in the Morning At Bed-time after Purging give the following Pills Take of Pill Storax eight Grains of the Juice of Liquorish half a Scruple make three Pills Repeat the Purging Potion every third day for thrice Of the days the Sick does not Purge let him take of the following Electuary Take of the Conserve of Red Roses vitriolated of the Electuary of Sassafras one Ounce of Frankincense powder'd one Dram of Diacodium a sufficient quantity make an Electuary let him take the quantity of a Nutmeg Morning and Evening drinking upon it three Ounces of the following Decoction Take of the pectoral Decoction one Pint add to it in boiling of Balsam of Tolu three Drams of the Leaves of Ground-Ivy half an handful To the strained Liquor add two Ounces of Diacodium and one Ounce of Spirit of Carraways mingle them Diureticks and Diaphoreticks must be also used Lastly He that would wholly prevent this Disease must be well Cloathed and must remove into a hot and dry Country CHAP. XIII Of the Head-ach HEad-ach in Latin Cephalalgia This word is used for all Pains of the Head in general but properly it only signifies a new Pain of the Head Cephalaea is an inveterate Pain of the Head Hemierania the Pain of one side of the Head It is also divided into external and internal Idiopathick and Sympathick and of these some are pricking others heavy and some beating an inward pain of the Head is seated upon the Meninges which lies deep and reaches to the Roots of the Eyes but the outward pain is seated upon the Pericranium and is exasperated when the Head is prest or the Roots of the Hair turned back An Idiopathick Pain is continual This does not proceed from the disorder of other parts but a Sympatick Pain does What that part is which communicates the pain to the Head may be easily known by the proper Signs of the affected part The pain of the Head proceeds from a cold Cause and from a hot Cause For the Cure of the former the Flegmatick Matter is to be evacuated by the following Pills Take of the Pills of Ambar one Scruple and an half of Cochiae Minor two Scruples and an half of Tartar vitriolated ten Grains of Peruvium Balsam a sufficient quantity mingle them make twelve Pills give six of them once a Week in the Morning The Bath is very effectual in this case the party being bathed and his Head washed with it Sneezing Powder is also very proper Sudorifick Decoctions are also very beneficial in iinveterate pains Take of Sarsa parilla and Gujacum each two Ounces infuse them twenty four hours in two Quarts of Fountain Water upon hot Ashes and boil them over a gentle Fire till half is consumed add to it Coriander Seeds and Liquorish or of Sugar and Cinnamon as much as is sufficient to give an agreeable taste Strain it and keep it in a Glass let him take half a Pint hot in a Morning for fifteen twenty or thirty days and let him have more Cloaths on than ordinary But this is to be noted in the use of Sudorifick decoctions that some Purging Medicine must be given once a Week from the very beginning of the Cure Specifick Remedies should be used and such an one is the following Epithem Take of the Powder of Zedoary one Draw of the Waters of Bettony Vervain and Elder each one Ounce mingle them apply it hot to the pained part with Scarlet Cloth Among the Specificks for the pain of the Head from whatever Cause it arises Vervain is the chief whereof the distilled Water is applied to the Head and taken inwardly to four Ounces with four Drops of Spirit of Salt and Forestus says that he knew two sick People that were Cured by only hanging green Vervain about their Necks when other Medicines were used to no purpose If the pain of the Head proceed from a hot Cause give first a Glyster and then Bleed But a greater quantity of Blood is to be taken away when the Pain proceeds from Blood than when Choler abounds Afterwards some Medicines that Purge Choler must be given not only when Choler is the chief Cause but also when Blood is Luxuriant for the thinner part soon turns to Choler If by one Evacuation the peccant matter is not sufficiently purged the Purging Medicine must be repeated at due distances of time in the whole course of the Disease if the Belly be not fluid Glysters that are emollient cooling and gently Purging are to be injected every day For pains of the Head which come upon continual Feavers Sheeps Lungs taken out hot and applied to the Head do powerfully asswage the Pain Or Take of the Seeds of white Poppies two Drams of Saffron half a Scruple of Camphor one Scruple with a sufficient quantity of Populeon Oyntment spread them upon Leather and apply them to the Forehead And after general Evacuations derivation may be successfully used by Bleeding in the Forehead with a Lancet or with Leeches and by applying Blisters to the Neck In the mean while the Humours must be attemperated by Juleps and Emulsions Lastly If the Pain be very violent we must use Narcoticks outwardly and inwardly In every Pain of the Head from whatever Cause it arises and will not yield to other Remedies the Head must be shaved and a large Blister applied all over it Diseases of the EYES CHAP. XIV Of a Gutta Serena WHen the Sight is lost and there is no apparent fault in the Eye it is occasioned by the hindrance of the influx of the Animal Spirits into the Eyes An Obstruction is the most ordinary cause of a Gutta Serena which is generated by a Flegmatick Humour falling from the Brain into the Optick Nerves But it is also certain that this Disease is occasioned by the compression of the Optick Nerves by Flegm coleated about them or with Blood or some other Matter heap'd up in that place whereby Tumors are made in those places and Experience shews that an inflamation of the Brain or Phrensie in malignant Feavers occasion Blindness Lastly Wounds in the Head whereby the Optick Nerves are cut hinder the influx of the Animal Spirits to the Eyes This Disease is known by the Eyes seeming to continue in their Natural State only the Pupil appears blacker and larger But there is great difficulty in distinguishing the Causes of it for though when it proceeds from Blood or Pus an Inflamation Abscess or Wound go before yet no sure Sign can be given to distinguish a compression by a Flegmatick Humour from an Obstruction Yet we may in some sort guess because in an Obstruction only of the