Glass closely stopped be put into a Balneum Mariae exceeding hot so that it boyl twenty four hours together until the Spleen shall be boyled and consumed into little crums and there remains a great quantity of Broth excellently well boyled and of a very fragrant smel of which let the Patient take in the marning four ounces continuing the same for four or five daies when her Courses ought to flow Distilled Waters ought to be preferred before other Liquors as being more pleasant to the taste and because of their subtil thinness of parts they pierce more easily to the obstructed Vessels of the Womb. The Preheminence above all the rest is by Mercatus Rodericus a Castro and Sennertus given to this following Take a Loaf almost as sowr as Leaven indifferently baked and hot take away the Crust and add thereto of Honey twelve ounces Pounder of Nettle seeds Carrot seeds Amy Annis and Fennel seeds of each one dram Troches of Gallia Moschata red Mirrh of each one scruple Cotula foetida or stinking Fennel half a dram Infuse all in three pints of the Decoction below described which is made of red French Beans and red Vetches of each half a pugil Juniper berries one ounce Roots of Madder Butchers Broom wild Rhadish Asparagus Smallage and Parsley of each two ounces Green Germander one handful Seeds of Amy Annis and Fennel of each two ounces Boil all according to Art Then stil the liquor out in Balneo Mariae of which give to the Patient two ounces early in the morning Also there may be added Syrup of Maiden-hair of Opening roots of Mugwort Also the Dose may be augmented the following daies if the Stomach be not offended A Decoction of Guajacum or Sassafras is good in flegmatick bodies also Dictamnus Creticus may be added taking the same twelve or fifteen daies without sweating Jacchinus relates an Experiment thereof writing upon the ninth of Rhasis Chap. 66. I boiled saies he the Indian wood and added Dictamnus thereto By which I procured both her Courses and Child-bearing to a Woman which had wanted her Courses five years and had been Barren The Chymists commend Tartarum Vitriolatum Spirit of Tartar Mâ—xtura Spiritalâ—s Salts of Mugwort Bawm Celondine roots and Valerian This Treacle-Water following is mervailously effectual to this intent Take old Venice-Treacle five ounces Red Alexandrian Mirrh two ounces and an half Elect Cinnamon Oriental Saffron of each half a dram Camphire two drachms Pour upon them of the best Spirit of Wine till it stand three singers breadth above the Ingredients and draw out the Tincture with a gentle heat whereunto being poured off without straining add a sixt part of the Spirit of Tartar The Dose is one spoonful with some appropriate Water or Wine Whilst the aforesaid Remedies are in Use Clysters frequently injected are exceeding good because the Womb does rest upon the straight Gut or Intestinum Rectum and they may thus be compounded Take roots of Lillies one ounces of Orice and Valerian half an ounce of each of Mercury leaves two handfuls Mugwort and Savine of each one handful Chamomel flowers and Lavender of each one pugil Seeds of Caraway and Nigella of each one dram boil al to one pint In the strained Liquor dissolve of Hiera simplex and Benedicta Laxativa of each half an ounce Oleum Cheâ—rinum two ounces Electuarium de Baccis Lauri half an ounce Mix al into a Clyster Yea And the truth is Purgations repeated at certain convenient seasons will be very good which may be in divers manners prepared And in the first place Galen exceedingly commends the Pils of Hiera simple and compound because over and above their purging of superfluous humors they have a faculty of opening the narrow passages and of clensing the Womb. Or Take Aloes three drachms Mass of Cochie pills one drachm with juice of Savine forme twenty pills of which give the Patient three before dinner every third day Or Take Aloes one drachm Choice Rhubarb one drachm and an half Diagrydium one scruple Mirrh and Asarum roots of each half a drachm Spicknard one scruple With Syrup of Mugwort make a Mass of Pil-Paste The dose is from two scruples to a drachm made into pils Or Take of the Mass of Chochie-pil-paste half a drachm Mercurius dulcis twenty grains with Syrup of Roses solutive forme eight pills or six Let her swallow them early in the morning Also outwardly the Courses supprest are wont to be holpen with these Topick Medicaments following which must be outwardly applied to widen the passages make thin the humors and to rouse and awake the Expulsive faculty Take roots of Briony Lillies Cyperus Valerian Angelica Asarum Orice and of Parsly of each an ounce Leaves of Mugwort Baies Rue Savine Time Rosemary Penyroyal Nep Mallows Mercury of each one handful Flowers of Elder Cheiri Chamomel of each two pugils Juniper berries two ounces Boil all in Water and white Wine with the strainings let the Patients belly and the parts about the Privities be fomented with a sponge With the same Decoction the Quantity of Ingredients being augmented may be made a Bath to â—it in wherein the Patient may sit up to her Navil and the boiled Herbs being put into a bag must be applied to her belly But let her take heed of sweating which doth stop the Courses Take Oyl of Lillies Dill and Rue of each one ounce and an half Generous Wine three ounces Squinanth roots of Bindweed Angelica the two Birthworts and Savin leaves of each half an ounce Let them boil till the Wine be consumed Let them be strained and the Oyl pressed out wherewith warmed let the share and parts about the Privities be anointed after fomentation or sitting in the Bath Moist suffumigations are made of the Vapour of the Decoction for the Fomentation and for the sitting-Bath which being moderatly heated must be covered with a cover that hath a hole in it whereunto must be fastened a long pipe which must reach into the neck of the Womb through which let her receive the smoake morning and evening being covered with cloaths A drie Suffâ—â—migation may be thus made Take Cloves Cinnamon Mace of each two drachms Juniper berries half an ounce Nigella seeds one drachm Storax two drachms Make all into a gross pouder which being laid on Coles let her receive the smoake into the Womb after her manner aforesaid Or Take Storax two drachms Frankinsence one drachm Benjamin Alipta Moschata of each half an ounce Cloves Lignum Aloes Cinnamon of each two scruples With the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth extracted with Cinnamon Water make little Cakes for to burn as aforesaid Pessaries may be made after this manner Take of leaves of Mercury bruised one handful Pouder of Hiera picra and Benedicta Laxativa of each two drachms Pouder of long Birthwort one drachm Honey and juyce of Mercury as much as shall suffice make all into a Pessary Or Take of Agarick Mirrh of each two drachms Galbanum half
grains Let him take them once every week But because the humor must be prepared before every purge therefore for two or three daies before he takes the Pills let him take three or four ounces of this following Water every morning two hours before meat Take of the chips of Guajacum four ounces of the bark of the same one ounce of Sarsaparilla one ounce and an half of China Root one ounce of Sassaphras six drams of Lignum Aloes Galangal of each one dram and an half of the Roots of Angelica Peony and Fennel of each three drams and an half of Peony seeds two drams Infuse them for twenty four hours in six pints of Water and four pints of white Wine After ad the Leaves of Bettony and Ivy and Sage of each one handful of the Flowers of Tile Tree Primroses Stoechas or French Lavender and Rosemary of each two pugils of Lavender one pugil of old Treacle half an ounce of Citron seeds and bark of each two drams and an half of Polipody half an ounce of Cinnamon six drams Distil them in Balneo Mariae according to art and to every two pints and an half of the Liquor put of Manus Christi Prepared with the Oyl of Cinnamon four ounces Or instead of this Water you may use the Opiate prescribed in the Chapter of the cold distemper of the Brain for the strengthening of the Head but you had better use the Opiate of Montagnanus described in the Cure of the Epilepsis When other Purges do little good it wil not be amiss to come to the use of Chymical Vomits if the Patient be strong and they are mentioned in the Chapter of sleepy Diseases For they draw the stubborn Humors from the Root and cure Diseases which cannot be rooted out with ordinary Medicines In the daies wherein he takes no other Medicine let him take the Cephalick Opiate mentioned in Chap. 1. or the Apoplectick Water or Tabellets or Lozenges for sleepy Diseases formerly mentioned After Universal Medicines we must proceed to Topical or particular Medicines for the part for the stirring up of heat and recalling the Spirits and for drying and discussing in the Spinal Marrow where for the most part the Cause of the Disease lyeth Therefore let the part affected be dayly rubbed with warm cloaths but gently lest that the Natural heat and spirits drawn thither should be again dispersed Also let Cupping glasses be applied to the heads of the Muscles of the part affected and let them be narrow mouthed and applied very hot but let them not stand on very long lest they disperse too much After apply a Plaister of Pitch and the Rozin of the Pine tree that what is drawn thither may be preserved Or rub gently the part benummed with green Nettles or lay on Sinapisms or Medicines of Mustard while the part begins to grow red but you must not let them lie while they make Blisters for so the Spirits and Blood would be dispersed but only til the part made red will not grow white by the impression of the finger but remain red still Afterward anoint the part and the Spinal Marrow with Oyls Oyntments and Balsoms of which there are many forms in Authors The Balsom of Guido which is prepared by the Apothecaries is excellent for this purpose This we use alone or mixed with other Medicines It is made after this manner Take of Oyl of Foxes Earth-worms and Castor of each one ounce of Guido ' s Balsom three ounces of Aqua vitae half an ounce of Oyl of Rosemary distilled one dram and an half Mix them for a Liniment With which anoint all the Spinal Marrow very hot and the parts also resolved covering them with warm cloaths This following Oyntment of Valeriola in his Observations is much commended Take of Sage Marjoram Bettony Bayes Rosemary and Primrose leaves of each one handful of the Roots of Time Acorus or great Galangal and Flower deluce newly gathered of each three ounces of the Oyl of Foxes of Indian Nuts and Rue of each one pound of Oyl of Terepintine half a pound of the strongest Wine one pound of Aqua vitae half a pound Boyl them till the Wine be consumed then strain them and ad of Serapinum or Sagapenum Opopanax and Bdellium of each two drams Castor half an ounce Mace Nutmegs Sâ—yrax Calamita Benjamin of each three â—rams long Pepper and Pellitory of each one dram the grease of an old Cat of a Serpent and a Goose of each one ounce the Marrow of an Ox Bone two ounces the Juyce of Dwarf-Elder Sage and Balm of each four ounces of the best Wax or Bee-glew which the Bees make at their entring into the Hive to keep out the cold two ounces Mix them and with a sufficient quantity of Wax melted into the foresaid Oyls make them into the consistence of a thin Oyntment with which anoint all the back bone warm laying soft wool or linnen cloth warm thereon But an Oyntment of greater effect and less trouble is made in this manner Take of the Juyce of Squils or Sea Onions four ounces the Juyce of Cowcumber and Rue of each one ounce Euphorbium Castor Sagapenum Ammoniacum and Bdellium dissolved in Vinegar of each one dram and an half Mirrh Frankinsence Pellitory and Niter of each one dram the Oyls of Elder Turpentine and Euphorbium of each half an ounce Wax as much as is sufficient Make an Oyntment You must chiefly use the Oyntments in the time of his Diet after the sweating is wiped off and after the time of bathing for then the pores and passages of the Skin being open do more easily receive the Oyntment Let the Linnen cloaths that are used after anointing be warmed with this Fumigation Take of Amber Mastich and Mirrh of each one dram Frankinsence two scruples Cloves Nutmegs Cinnamon and Mace of each half a dram Wood of Aloes half a scruple Pouder them and sprinkle them with the spirit of Wine dry them and do so five times and then make a pouder to be thrown upon Embers If the Disease do not yeild to these Cerats and Emplasters must be laid to the Back Take of the Emplaster of Bettony Melilot and Bay-berries of each one ounce Frankinsence half an ounce Castor and Euphorbium of each one dram the seeds of Nigella or Gith the seeds of Water-cresses and Mustard the Roots of Pellitory and of Sal Niter of each half an ounce with the Oyl of Bricks make them into the form of an Emplaster which apply upon Leather But this following is better Take of Pitch Galbanum Sagapenum and Ammoniacum of each one ounce Pellitory and Mustard seed of each half an ounce Euphorbium two drams yellow Wax three drams With as much Oyl of Turpentine as is sufficient make a Plaister You may also provoke sweat in the part by the fume of the Decoction of Herbs and Roots proper for the Head boyled in white Wine which you must do by putting it into such a Vessel as
of the Syrup of Hysop Take of the Oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn without fire six ounces Sugar Candy two ounces Mix them for a Lambitive Or Take of candied Elicampane three drams Sugar-candy half an ounce Syrup of Hysop and Horehound of each one ounce ammoniacum dissolved in Aqua vitae half a dram Mix them for a Lohoch Or Take of Conserve of Violets and Elicampane of each six drams the pouder of the Electuary Diatragacanth frigid Diaireos Solomonis of each one dram Syrup of Violets and Maidenhair of each as much as will make a Lohoch Take of Althaea Roots one pound Elicampane four ounces Quinces or Marmalet thereof sixteen ounces boyl them in Water till they are dry Beat them and strain them adding two pints of Honey boyl them again gently Take them from the fire and ad of Cinnamon one dram flower of Brimstone half an ounce Liquor is perfumed with Musk and Rose water two drams Make a soft Electuary of which let him hold now and then as much as a Hazel nut in his mouth 't is also very good to take half an ounce thereof morning and evening when the fit is off Also you must anoint the Breast with Mollifying and discussing Oyntments and Liniments thus made Take of the of Oyl of Chamomel Flowerdeluce and sweet Almonds of each half an ounce fresh Hens grease one dram the Pouder of Marsh-mallow roots and Flowerdeluce of each one dram the meal of Linseed and Foenugreek of each two drams Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine one dram and an half Wax as much as is sufficient Make a Liniment Or Take of the Mucilage of the seeds of Quinces Line and Foenugreek drawn with Scabious and Coltsfoot Water of each six drams the Pouder of Flower deluce root and Hysop of each half an ounce Saffron one scruple Oyl of Lillies and sweet Almonds of each two ounces Wax as much as will make a Liniment If the fit be long clap a Vesicatory to the hinder part of the head Out of the fit you must stop the Defluxion and also cut clense and expectorate that which hath fallen into the Lungs For staying the defluxion all those Remedies are good which were mentioned in the cure of the cold Catarrh But you must take a Caution concerning some of them First In Apozems Syrups or the like you must not make them two hot and dry which by consuming of the thin parts may make the remainder thicker and so the Disease will be worse But you must rather mix moisteners as Raisons Figs Liquoris Jujubes Secondly Instead of Head Medicines you must use things fit for the Breast above mentioned Thirdly For the Derivation of the Humors that abounds in the Head use Errhines Sternutatories Gargarisrus ar Apophlegmatisms Which last are not so proper by reason of the neerness of the part by which the humor runs to the Luâ—gs But Errhines and Sternutatories may be used safely Fourthly To strengthen the Head and dry it Fumigations are there commended which are not so proper in this especially if taken in at the mouth and nostrils because they make the breath shorter and bring the fit But with them you may air the Patients Caps without from the Chamber For to clense and expectorate the thick Humors that stick to the Bronchia of the Lungs the Medicines already mentioned or these following may be used Take of Elicampane root and Polypody of the Oak of each half an ounce the Leaves of Origan Calamints Hysop Savory Maidenbair Scabious and Coltsfoot of each one handful the seeds of Marsh-mallows and Cotton and Carthamus of each three drams Liquoris and Raisons stoned of each six drams Jujubes Sebestens and fat Figs of each five make a Decoction to a pint and a quarter of Hydromel dissolve in the straining a pound and a quarter of white Sugar make a Syrup well boyled for a Lambitive You may make a better and cheaper Syrup thus Take of Elicampane Roots three drams Spanish Tobacco one dram infuse them a whol nighâ— in six ounces of Aqua Vitae in the morning strain them and ad of the best Sugar four ounces stir it well upon the fire and ad of the syrup of Erysimum or Coltsfoot two ounces Oyl of Sulphuâ— as much as will make it sharp make a Lohoch These following are proper for to unstuffe and cleer the Lungs Take of Ammoniacum and Bdellium dissolved in Vinegar of Squills of each half an ounce Flower of Brimstone three drams the leaves of Coltsfoot and dryed Savory poudered Diaireos simple of each half a dram with syrup of Hysop and Oximel of Squills make a mass of Pills of a dram whereof make six Pills and let him take three of them two hours before supper twice in a week Or Take of Aloes Succatrine half an ounce Myrrh and Ammoniacum of each half a dram Saffron half a scruple Flower of Brimstone half a dram with the syrup of Coltsfoot make a mass of Pills of which let him take a dram two hours afore dinner for some dayes Let the Water which is taken out of a hollow Briony Root be distilled in Balneo Mariae to eight ounces whereof mix half an ounce of Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur let him take every day a spoonful fasting Take of Tobacco Leaves Hysop white Horehound and Maiden-hair of each two handfuls the Roots of Flower-de-luce and Liquoris of each half an ounce boyl them to a pint and an half dissolve in the straining of white Sugar one pound of the best Honey half a pound make a syrup well boyled clarified and perfumed with a little Saffron and Cinnamon let him take a spoonful or two every morning The Oximel and Syrup of Tobacco invented by Quercetan prescribed in his Dispensatory is of the same vertue The Tincture of dry Tobacco is drawn with Aqua Vitae a little thereof mixed with Honey and that held in the Mouth as big as a Pease or Bean swallowing it by degrees this draws Flegm in abundance from the Stomach and Lungs Hogs Lice called Millepedes or Aselli in number twelve put into a linnen Cloth are to be steepâ— in white Wine and then strained and so given to be drunk and do in a short time clense the Lungs Oleum Sacchari doth powerfully disâ—olve thick glutinous Humors in the Lungs and causeth expectoration But the Compound Oyl following is best Take of the Roots of Flower-de-luce and Elicampane poudered of each half an ounce the Pulp of Dates and Raisons of each three drams Citron and Orange peels of each one dram and an half Benjamin two drams Saffron one dram infuse them two dayes in the spirit of Wine well rectified then take of the liquor by inclination dissolve as much Sugar Candy poudered as you can therein then fire the spirit of Wine stirring them continually till it comes to a liquor as thick Oyl then mix as much Oyl of Sulphur as will sharpen iâ— A Decoction of Red Coleworts taken many dayes with a little
at some distance apply often those Cupping-glasses to the Hypochondria or under the Ribs And let him take the following Julep thrice every day Take of Plantane and Poppy Water of each two ounces Syrup of dried Roses one ounce Lapis Prunellae one dram Mix them for a Julep Lastly You must often purge the serous and Chollerick humors which make the blood more thin and fluid with Medicines that have an astringent Vertue As Take of Rhubarb one dram yellow Myrobolans half a dram Tamarinds half an ounce Infuse them in Plantane Water strain it and dissolve in it Pouder of Rhubarb half a dram Syrup of dried Roses one ounce Make a Potion Then give Medicines that close the Orifices of the Vessels by an astringent quality but such as will not retain the blood in the Breast by too much astriction therefore mix somtimes with them such as dissolve and expectorate the congealed blood which is out of the Vessels Of all which these following are the best Take of Bole-Armenick Terra Sigillata both sorts of Coral Blood-stone of each half a dram Sugar of Roses half an ounce With one white of an Egg well beaten with Rose Water make a Lohoch Or you may make one more speedily and more pleasant thus Take of the Water of the white of an Egg well beaten two drams Sugar of Roses one ounce white Starch three drams Mix them for a Lohoch Or Take of Conserve of Roses and the greater Comfry of each one ounce Bole-Armenick and Terra Sigillata of each one dram With the Syrup of dried Roses make an Opiate to be often held in the mouth and swallowed by degrees Take of Conserve of dried Roses Troches of Amber and of sealed Earth of each half a dram prepared Pearls one scruple Sugar of Roses as much as of all the rest Mix them and let him take a spoonful thereof one hour before meat Take of the Juyce of Purslain twelve ounces Sugar eight ounces Boyl them to a Syrup of which let him often lick This is the best for spitting of blood And if you want Purslain you may take Plantane The Syrup of Comfry according to Fernelius prescribed by Bauderon is good for the same Take of Yarrow with the white Flower and yellow Flower of each two handfuls Green Roots of Tormentil with the Leaves if they may be had otherwise of the dry one ounce the greater Burnet one handful Conserve of red Roses half a pound spring Water sixteen pints put them in a glassed pot covered and luted that the vapors may not come forth then boyl them in Balneo Mariae sixteen hours keep the straining in a glass and take six ounces thereof every morning noon and night Take of the Troches of Amber one dram Plantane and Rose Water of each one ounce and an half Syrup of Mirtles and dried Roses of each half an ounce Mix them for a Julep Take of Spirit of Vitriol half a scruple Plantane Water four ounces Mix them for a Potion This presently stops blood coming either by Cough or Vomiting Two spoonfuls of Syrup of Coral taken every day is good against all manner of bleeding But the Tincture of Coral drawn with Juyce of Lemmons is more powerful Quercetan in his Dispensatory prescribeth this following Water against spitting of blood which is very excellent Take of the Roots of Snakeweed Comfry and Tormentil of each one ounce Knotgrass Yarrow Veronica Winter-Green Sanicle Shepheards-purse with the Roots of each one handful Bramble tops and Mastich wood of each half a handful Sumach and Myrtle berries the seeds of Plantane Barberries and white Poppies of each six drams the flowers of Water Lillies Guords Quinces and red Roses of each two pugils Bruise them and mix them then steep them four daies at the fire in the Juyces of Plantane Purslain Sorrel and Agrimony of each two pints then strain them well and put to them Acacia and Hypocistis or Conserve of sloes of each two ounces sealed Earth Bole-Armenick of each half an ounce the Electuary of Diatragacanth frigid two drams then macerate them again four daies and distill them Take two or three spoonfuls of this Water alone or with some proper Syrup The Chymical Oyl of Amber doth pierce astringe and dry powerfully if you give two drops thereof in Plantane Water As Cesalpinus teacheth in his Speculum Artis Medicae Mercurialis in his consultations doth highly commâ—nd the seeds of white Poppies or white Heâ—ane to be tak en every morning in the quantity of a dram with Sugar of Roses and Syrup of Purâ—â—ane So you may also use the white Diacodium or Syrup of Poppies prescribed in the Cure of the Phrenzy Amatus Lucitanus doth highly commend the Juyce of Nettles in these words They which have vomited blood after they have been given over by Physitians have been cured only by the juyce of Nettles drunk five or six daies fasting in the quantity of four ounces and by Nettle Broth. Sanguis Draconis doth wonderfully conglutinate all inward Veins if you give half a dram thereof with Plantane Water or other proper Liquor or Medicine The usual Pills to hold under the Tongue may be made thus Take of the Mucilage of Gum Arabick and Tragacanth drawn with Plantane Water of each two drams Mummy and Mastich of each one dram Sugar of Roses as much as will make Pills of which let him hold one continually in his mouth And take this following Pouder in his Broths Take of red Coral and prepared Pearl of each half a dram Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each two drams Make a Pouder Or boyl white Poppy seeds and Sumach tied in a clout in his Broth. Narcoticks are good in this case and you must use them thus Take of Syrup of Poppies Jujubes and dried Roses of each one ounce Mix them and take a spoonful every night Or Take of Syrup of Poppies and Purslain of each three drams Terra Sigillata half a dram Purslain and Plantane Water of each one ounce and an half Make a Potion to be taken at night Or Take of Syrup of Myrtles and Poppies of each one ounce Bole-Armenick half a dram mix them to be taken at night Somtimes you may give Treacle of four months old as Galen teacheth 5. Method cap. 13. or Philonium Romanum or Laudanum Platerus reports that he cured one only with the Troches of Winter Cherries with Opium dissolved in Goats milk taken some daies and also that he cured a Woman with one ounce and an half of Manna given in Broth and with blood and the use of the Tablets following morning and evening for many daies Take of the Seeds of white Henbane poudered finely two scruples red Coral half a dram Gum Arabick one scruple new Violets ten the Juyce of Barberries two drams Sugar dissolved in Rose and Plantane Water two ounces Make Tablets Trallianus lib. 7. cap. 1. doth highly commend the Blood-stone by which he saith that he cured many giving it to four scruples with
pure and strong Wine drunken plentifully To these you may ad the Heat of the Part adjacent as in strong Feavers the Liver waxeth Hot from the heat of the Heart The Signs of a Hot Distemper of the Liver are Loathing of Meat especially Flesh Thirst binding of the Belly vehement heat in the whol body especially in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet leanness of the whol body the Patient is worse for hot things and better for cold and if there be plenty of hot Humors there wil somtimes be Vomiting and purging of Choller there is a bitterness in the mouth and for the most part a Feaver As to the Prognostick A Hot Distemper of the Liver is not very dangerous because it is not much contrary to the Constitution of the Liver but it useth to be the Cause of many Diseases not only of the Liver but also of other parts It is hard of Cure especially when the Stomach is cold as often it is for those things which are given to Cool the Liver hurt the Stomach and enlarge its Distemper The Cure consists altogether in the correction of the Distemper by cooling Medicines and by the Evacuation of the Chollerick humors which comes from the Liver encreasing the Distemper and that Distemper it and is the Cause of other Diseases And first Opening of a Vein doth much cool the Liver takes away some of the Choller and opens the Obstructions which comes from Choller therefore you must open the Liver Vein of the Right Arm and let such a quantity of blood as is agreeable to the fulness and strength of the Patient either at once or divers times according to the greatness of the Disease and the continuance of it and that after a Clyster or Laxative Medicine hath been administred Then you must give a Medicine which doth gently Purge Choller and Repeat it often at distance or an Apozem for divers Doses or the Magistral Syrup or Syrup of Succory Compound with a four-fold proportion of Rhubarb which is most convenient because it doth innocently purge the Chollerick Humors cooleth the Liver strengthneth it and opens Obstructions The Forms of these Medicines are these that follow Take of clensed Senna and Tamarinds of each half an ounce Annis seeds one dram Succory and Sorrel of each one handful scraped Liquoris three drams the three Cordial Flowers of each half a pugil boyl them to three ounces and dissolve in the straining of Rhubarb infused with a little Lavender Spike in Succory Water one dram and an half double Catholicon three drams syrup of Roses one ounce make a Potion give it in the morning with due custody For the finer sort of People you may make Clarified Potions which are lately invented which are in form of a Julep but somwhat unpleasant to the taste and in them there is prescribed a double quantity of Purging Medicines because the much strength of them is lost in the Clarifying so that they do seldom work upon strong bodies especially in a dry Country where the Humors are less flowing and not so obedient to purges but in moist Countries these kind of Medicines work succesfully This following is an Example of Clarified Potions Take of clean Senna one ounce Annis seeds one dram Succory Leaves and Maiden-Hair of each one handful scraped Liquoris half an ounce boyl them to ten ounces and infuse in the straining two drams of Rhubarb Cassia new drawn and double Catholicon of each one ounce bruised Tamarinds half an ounce Coriander seeds prepared one dram syrup of Roses one ounce strain them and clarifie them according to art make a Potion An Apozeme to Purge Choller is thus made Take of Sorrel Dogs-tooth Succory and Dock Roots of each one ounce Endive Succory Dandelion and Maiden-hair of each one handful of the Four great seeds of each three drams scraped Liquoris one ounce Succory Bugloss and Violet flowers of each one pugil clean Senna two drams Tamarinds one ounce Mace and Cloves of each one dram boyl them to a Pint and a Quarter in the straining dissolve half an ounce of Rhubarb infused in the aforesaid Decoction with a little Cinnamon of compound syrup of Succory and Roses solutive of each two ounces make an Apozeme clarifie it and aromatize it with two drams of yellow Saunders for four mornings draughts A Magistral Syrup may be made of the ingredients of the former Apozeme with a treble quantity of Purgers and adding an equal proportion of Sugar to the Decoction A Syrup made of Juyces is most used amongst us it is of great power in Chronical Diseases which come from a Hot Distemper of the Liver and from yellow and burnt Choller And it is made thus Take of the new made Juyces from their Faeces of Endive Succory Sorrel Fumatory Burrage and Bugloss of each three Pints the Juyce of sweet Apples newly drawn and purified two Pints fresh Polypody of the Oak half a pound clean Senna eight ounces Dodder of Thyme three ounces Agarick newly Trochiscated half an ounce Mace and Cloves of each half a dram infuse them and boyl them according to art while there remains one Pint and an half of the straining in which dissolve of Rhubarb infused with a little Lavender in the aforesaid Juyces and strained one ounce white Sugar one pound and an half make a Syrup well boyled clarified and aromatized with two drams of Triasantalon keep this syrup in a Glass give two ounces at a time or three twice or thrice every month with Chicken Broth wherein Endivs Succory and Sorrel have been boyled or in Whey These things following are excellent to cool the Liver And first for ordinary Drink use the common Ptisan made of Barley Water and Liquoris or with Dog-tooth and Sorrel Roots Or mix such a Decoction with Syrup of Lemmons or Maiden-hair Or they who are more dainty may take only the simple Spring Water mixed with the aforesaid Syrups And if you desire to cool more you may put as much Spirit of Sulphur or of Vitriol as will make it a little sharp And when the heat is very vehement you may give a dram of Lapis Prunellae therewith There is also made a most pleasant Drink of Conserve of Roses mixed with Spring Water and strained to which you may ad some drops of Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol to make it sharp and red like VVine You may also make a Tincture of Roses thus Take of red Roses dried one ounce warm Water three pints Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol one dram and an half Infuse them three or four hours add to it being strained three quarters of a pound of white Sugar Keep it for your use The Alexandrine Julep for this purpose is made thus Take of Spring Water one pint Rose Water Juyce of Lemmons and white Sugar of each four ounces Boyl them with a gentle fire till they are skinned These two last Remedies are used two waies either for ordinary Drink or as a Julep twice
us by Hippocrates 6. Epid. Part. I. Aph. 6. and by Aetius lib. 11. cap. 5. And if the Disease last long you may open the Hemorroids according to Hipp. Aph. 11. Sect. 6. who saith That it is good for Melanchollick men and such as have the stone to have their Hemorrhoids bleed From the same branch of the Spleen there are Veins which go to the Reins bladder and Hemorrhoids If the pain be not asswaged by Fomentations Liniments and Cataplasms aforesaid put him into a Bath made of the Emollent Decoction with white Wine added for it asswageth pain at least while the Patient sits therein but you must not use it much least it take away strength And lastly When the pain is very great with watching and weakness you must give Narcoticks and put two drams of Philonium Romanum or five or six grains of Laudanum in a Clyster or three or four grains at the mouth or one ounce of Syrup of Poppies in a convenient Julep After these Topicks have been used in a long pain it is good to apply a Plaister of Melilot malaxed with Oyl of Chamomel and Dill. This pain useth to be bred with some of these Medicines and with repeating Purges if they be needful or giving Cassia often But if after the use of them it continue it is most certain that they are great stones which stop the Ureters which must be sent out by Diureticks which wil break them But you must first begin with the mildest lest by strong and sharp you inflame the Blood and the Reins And you must consider the habit of the Body For a full Body will endure things that do more pierce and make thin but a slender less There are abundance of this kind in Authors that diminish break and expel the stone but we wil give you only the most choyce Take of Smallage Parsley Butchers Broom Couch-grass and Sparagus Roots of each one ounce Mallow and Marsh-mallow Roots of each half an ounce Pellitory of the wall two bandfuls Annis Fennel Dill Caraway Carrot Amye Carthamus Cummin Rue seeds and Bay-berries of each two drams Chamomel Melilot Dill and French Lavender of each one pugil boyl them in white Wine to the consumption of half Dissolve in the straining being one pint fresh Butter four ounces Honey of Roses two ounces red Sugar one ounce Benedicta Laxativa half an ounce one Yolk of an Egg Oyl of Nuts Lin-seed and Dill of each three ounces mix them for a Clyster which let him keep two hours if he can Take of Strawberry Water and Saxifrage Water of each two ounces the best white Wine six ounces Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces Spirit of Vitriol one dram mix them for three doses Give the first as hot as may be endured after six hours give the second as the former and if this will not do as it seldom misseth let him take the third You may sooner make a Julep of Saxifrage Water and Syrup of Violets with fifteen or twenty drops of Spirit of Vitriol Take of the Juyce of Pellitory drawn without fire three ounces Juyce of Lemmons and Oyl of sweet Almonds drawn without fire of each one ounce and an half Mix them for a Julep to be given three or four times morning and evening Or Take of the Juyce of Lemmons and white Wine of each two ounces Sugar candy half a dram Take it instead of the Julep Concerning Juyce of Lemmons you must note That it must be used warily for being given often and much it maketh Exulcerations in the Stomach from whence cometh the Flux called Lienteria These Pills following are excellent Take of Sal prunella Crystal of Tartar Salt of Ivy Berries and of Water-cresses of each equal parts with some proper Syrup or Turpentine make a Mass of Pills of which give one dram every morning This following pouder of Quercetan is much commended Take of the inward skin of Hens Gizzards and their white Dung of each half an ounce the inward skins of Egg-shels poudered two ounces and an half Rupture and Cinnamon of each four scruples Medlar stones two drams Annis and Fennel seeds of each one ounce make them into very fine pouder and give half a dram or a dram thereof in white Wine The Ashes of burnt Egg-shels from half a dram to an ounce given in white Wine doth powerfully expel the Stone that sticks in the passages of the Ureters Goats blood prepared is commended of all Authors old and modern as the best Medicine to dissolve the stone The Dose is from half a dram to a dram The Water of Goats Blood distilled in a Glass in Balneo Mariae doth wonders But you must feed the Goat one month with Saxifrage burnt Juniper berries Parsley and other Diureticks without Drink Hartman commends the Urine of a Goat in these words as a wonderful Remedy In the stoppage of the Reins by a greatstone or when the Vreters and Bladder are stopped by stones sent thither so that one drop cannot be voided it is excellent if you take the Vrine of a Goat taken out with his Bladder while he is yet alive and drink and apply his Paunch and Guts to the Belly and Privities for so the stone will be presently consumed without hurt to the Vessels and the Patient cured The Pouder of Millepedum or Sows is excellent to dissolve the stone and we will teach the use thereof in the stone of the Bladder Also the infusion of the same in white Wine and continued There is a Wine of Winter Cherries commended of Arnoldus Villanovanus and they say it doth so bring forth the matter of the stone that you may take it up in your hand And this is done by beating the Winter Cherries in white Wine and giving the strained Liquor These also following are good Take of Lapis Judaicus or Jews stone Pulvis Lithontribi Justini of each one dram Peach Kernels Gum Tragacanth and Cherry-stone Kernels of each half a dram bring them to Pouder and with Turpentine make a Bolus which give in three Doses morning and evening Take of Hors-Rhadish scraped two ounces white Wine four ounces steep them a few hours then strain them strongly Let the Patient take the straining twice or thrice at convenient hours Savin Water given to an ounce or two doth purge stones and gravel Take of Mallow Roots clensed in white Wine six ounces Burdock and Couch-grass Roots of each four ounces Asarum Paâ—sley Valerian and Fennel Roots bruised of each two ounces Maiden-hair Saxifrage Burnet Golden rod and Betony of each four handfuls Bazil Burdock Carduus Mountain Osier seeds Medlar stones and Peach stones of each one ounce Gromwel seeds two ounces Lapidis Lyncis and Judaici of each one ounce and an half Turpentine three ounces Goats Blood prepared two ounces and an half Saffron two drams white Wine four pints bruise them that must and mix them all distil them in Balneo Mariae Take two ounces of this Water three hours before Supper drinking after
may bind the Yard on both sides of it and take it out by Incision The Obstruction of the neck of the bladder which comes from Inflamation wil be cured with the proper Medicines against Inflamation But in the mean while if the Urine be there long detained you may gently conveigh in a searing Candle dipt in a little Oyl of sweet Almonds avoiding the Catheter left it cause pain and so encrease the Inflamation If the stoppage of Urine comes from a Caruncle you must take that away This is done by proper Medicines conveighed thither with a Wax Candle which must be done by a skilful hand And if the Caruncle swel and stop the Passage necessity wil constrain you to use the Catheter to draw away the Urine although there be danger lest the part disturbed should swel more But you must first make use of Revulsions by bleeding vomiting and Repellers to the Privities to take away the Inflamation of the Caruncle that way may be made for the Urine If suppression of the Urine come from thick flegm first it is good to purge with a Bolus made of Diaphoenicon and Rhubarb and then to give Turpentine often with Pouder of Liquoris afterwards a Decoction of opening Roots with Oxymel or Syrupus Bizantinus not omitting in the mean while Clysters Fomentations and Baths that mollifie and open And all those things will be proper which were propounded for the dissolving and expelling of the Stone And among the râ—st Experience hath taught us that these following are excellent Take of Benedict a Laxativa half an ounce the Troches of Myrrh two scruples the Decoction of Savin three ounces Mix them for a Potion By this a woman was presently cured of the stoppage of Vrine If there be abundance of Flegm in the whol Body or in the Head after blood-letting from the beginning of the Cure you must purge with an Apozeme three or four daies together Also the Julep mentioned in the Cure of the Stone of the Kidneys made of the juyce of Pellitory of the wall Sea-fennel and Lemmons with Oyl of sweet Almonds The Syrup of Rhadishes of Fernelius his Prescription given two ounces at a time is very excellent Dodonaeus in Observat Cap. 48. reports of one of fourscore yeers of age that was cured of a stoppage of Urine with dropping by a Lixivium or Lye made with ashes of Egg-shels and Rhenish Wine once taken Arnaldus Villanovanus commends the Wine of Winter Cherries in this following History mentioned in his Book of Wines There was in my time a Cardinal who had not pissed for four daies who was desperately swoln and cured by the advice of a weak Physitian with Winter-Cherry Wine and he voided as much Vrine as would fill a Bason By that only Experiment that Physitian being poor and of smal parts became a great rich man Many God bestows his Blessings upon his waies are unsearchable This kind of Wine as Arnaldus shews is made by taking five or seven or more Winter Cherries and beating them with good white Wine and then straining them and giving them to be drunk Hog-lice also beaten with white Wine and given to be drunk are good for the same The Oyl of Scorpions as Mathiolus prescribed it given five or six drops in Broth or other Liquor doth powerfully provoke Urine The often use of the Crystal Mineral doth provoke Urâ—â—â— especially when you fear inflamation which is often caused in the inward Skin of the Bladder by â—â—â— stoppage of Urine The Spirit of Salt doth it better The Vulgar Medicine of the Juyce of Pellitory of the wal â—efined four ounces with half an ounce of Sugar doth very much good You may mix therewith Sal Prunellae or Spirit of Salt If these stoppings from Flegm do often return there is nothing better than Brimstone and Niter Bath-Waters which both by drinking and bathing do easily dissolve clense and consume that slimy matter A certain Noble man having his Urine suppressed many daies after other Medicines taken in vain by this following Clyster kept two hours in his Body was cured Take of the Roots of Smallage Parsley Butchers Broom Dogs-tooth Sparagus Mallows and Marsh-mallows of each two drams Pellitory of the wall two handfuls Annis Fennel Dill Caraway Carrot Ameos Carthamus Rue and Cummin seeds with Bay-berries of each half an ounce Chamomel Melilot Dill and French Lavender flowers of each two pugils boyl them in white Wine to halfs In a pint of the straining dissolve of fresh Butter four ounces Honey of Roses two ounces red Sugar one dram Benedicta Laxariva half an ounce one Egg the Oyl of Nuts Dill Lin-seed of each two ounces Make a Clyster The Chymists brag of their Medicines against this Disease namely Spirit of Salt Vitriol Sulphur and Turpentine which they give to half a scruple in convenient Liquors or Chicken Broth. They Commend also the Salt of Tartar and of Bean Stalks given from half a dram to a dram And for Revulsion of the Humor from the part affected they give Vomits and they boast that very many have been cured thereby You must all the time of the Cure use Liniments Fomentations Cataplasms and Baths and other external things which must be the same that were before mentioned for the pain in the Kidneyes Among the rest a Cataplasm made of Pellitory of the wall fryed in Butter or Oyl of Scorpions is excellent Also a Bladder half full of Oyl which will be of more force if you boyl Spanish Flies called Cantharides therein Commonly they apply a Cataplasm of fiyed Onions with Hogs Grease to the Loyns and Privities with some Eggs. But raw white Onions beaten with Oyl into the form of a Cataplasin do far better if they be applied to the Kidneys Ureters and Privities A Cataplasm made of beaten Rhadishes is good for the same When the Ischuria comes of clotted blood you must dissolve it For this purpose use Troches of Amber the Rennet of a Kid or Hair Mummy simple Oxymel and Oxymel of Squils Syrup of Vinegar and the like Outwardly a Cow-turd doth wonders according to the Judgment of Learned Aetius Tetr 3. Serm. 2. Cap. 27. Lastly When the Urine is stopt by Matter or comes only dropping you must use Clensers and Cutters such as were set down in the Cure of the Ulcer of the Reins and Bladder Chap. 9. Of Dysuria or Scalding of the Vrine BY the word Dysuria we understand all painful pissing which the Modern Writers call Scalding of the Urine Many Authors make it all one with the Strangury because there is painful pissing but they will have it differ from Dysuria in this only but because in Dysuria there is a greater quantity of Urine made than in Strangury which is therefore called pissing by drops But we had rather for Instruction sake call that Strangury which is pissing little without pain and put them in one Chapter because they must be cured both the same way and to treat here of all painful pisling
the Patients belly above the Navel be strongly girt with a swath-band that the womb may be thereby reduced and the vapors hindred from ascending Concerning letting blood it is a great question Whether it be convenient in the sit or no For seeing there is at that time a great weakness in the Patient and somtimes despair of life and the body is cooled all over by malignant vapors which infest the Brain and Heart which can no waies be expelled by blood-letting no question the use thereof is very dangerous during the fits And of this Opinion are Varandaeus and Sennertus But Mercatus and Rodericus a Castro do determine contrarily That a Vein ought to be opened in the Patients Ankle or Instep when the Disease springs from an abundance of Menstrual blood retained and that the Patients strength oppressed with the burden the passages obstructed with too much blood and the danger of suffocation hence arising can be remedied by no other means but bleeding seeing in this case neither stinking smels nor sweet smels nor Cupping-Glasses can bring the Patient out of her fit Philippus Hoechstetterus in the second part of his Observations makes it appear by certain Histories that bleeding in the Foot hath done much good Insomuch as a certain Nun which had been speechless and in Convulsion fits for two daies together two hours after she had bled began to speak and to eat and drink Iam of Opinion a Vein may be opened if the Pulse be strong and there be evident tokens that blood doth super-abound But if the Pulse be weak we must forbear and stay till the fit is over for a more convenient season in which blood may be safely taken away Plaisters are profitably applied under the Navel of the Mass of Emplastrum Ceroneum which mollifies and discusseth and so is better than the vulgar Womb-Plaister which doth somwhat bind and therefore may retain the vapors and malignant humors Plaisters are likewise made of Galbanum and Assafoetida or of Caranna and Tacamahaca either alone or with some Spices mingled with them As for Example Take Gum Caranna half an ounce Pouder of Nutmegs and Cloves of each half a dram Oyl of Amber four drops Turpentine two drams Make all into a Plaister Such Plaisters are to be in fashion of a Shield or Scutcheon and in the pointed part of the Plaister which must be laid towards the Water-gate some of Musk or Civet are to be put that they may send forth a sweet smell and thereby allure the Womb back again Three grains of Musk may be put in a little Cotton moistened with Oyl and thrust into the hole of the Navel then lay on a sinal Plaister of dissolved Galbanum This some Women for a Secret Or four grains of Camphire may be dissolved in Oyl of sweet Almonds and put into the Navel and a Diapalma Plaister laid over it If the Disease seem to be fostered by plenty of wind and vapors Fomentations and Baths will be good of the Decoction of Rue Mugwort Time and Calaminth Fennel seed Annis seed Cummin seed Bay-berries Chamomel Flowers Dill flowers c. Also little bags may be prepared with Cummin seed Annis seed Carrot seed Salt Rue Bran in them and applied very hot and often renewed Or Take Oyl of Rue four ounces Spirit of Turpentine half an ounce Mingle them and dip therein a piece of Bread hot out of the Oven and lay it upon the Navel Also it will be good to anoint the lower part of the belly the Region of the womb Share and Loyns because such anointings do dilate the Passages attenuate the Vapors and discuss them They may be made of Nard Oyl Spike Oyl Oyl of Dill Sesamine Saffron Lillies and Sweet Almonds Authors do very much commend a fume of the warts which grow upon Horses Legs which being dried in an Oven and beaten to Pouder they are burnt under the Noses of women in these fits as a present Remedy whereby women are wont to be in an instant delivered of their fits to the admiration of the by-standers If the Disease spring from Retention of Seed nothing is better than carnal Conjunction as soon as the Patient is out of her fit if she be married Instead of carnal Conjunction where that cannot he had many advise that the Patient be rubbed and tickled by a Midwife in the Neck of her womb into which the Midwife must put her fingers anointed with Oyls of Spices that so the offensive Sperm may be voided But seeing that cannot be done without wickedness understand by a silly superstitious Papist that counts it a meritorious good work to burn Mother and Child in her womb alive as at Jersey and a wickedness to free a sick body of a little offensive humor a Christian Physitian must never prescribe the same To Discuss those malignant Vapors which cause the womb-fit many Medicines are wont to be given down the Throat among which is a dram of old Venice Treacle with water of Mugwort Penyroyal and Balme Troches of myrrh to the quantity of two scruples or Oyl of Amber to five or six drops with the said Liquors Pills are frequently used the best are made after this manner Take Castorium Myrrh Assa-foetida of each one scruple faecula Brioniae half a scruple seeds of Rue and Saffron of each seven grains with Syrup of Mugwoâ—t make twelve pills Let her take three or four if she cannot swallow them let them be dissolved in Water of Mugwort These following Pills are good in a violent fit which they are wont to remedy without fail Take Assafaetida one scruple Castoreum six grains Laudanum three grains make all into three or four Pills Let her take them presently Pilulae Faetidae majores although they be purging yet are they given to good purpose in the Fit to half a dram For they gently evacuate and are not wont to work till the fit be over so that there is no danger in their working Also many waters are wont to be given in the fit viz. Aqua vitae Cinnamon water or Treacle water Or a specifical water may be made after this manner Take Zedoary roots Carrot seeds Lovage roots of each two ounces red Myrrh Castoreum of each half an ounce Piony roots four ounces Misleto of the Oak gathered at the wain of the Moon three ounces powr upon all these being prepared four pints and an half of Feaver-fewwater Spirit of Wine half a pint let them digest three daies and afterward still them The dose is a spoonful by it self or with some other convenient liquor A more easie water to make more pleasant to taste and no less effectual is this following Take of the juyces of Bawm and Borrage clarified of each two pints the best Saffron one dram Let them be infused and distilled in Balneo The Dose is a spoonful with Broth. This following potion is vulgarly used Take of Cinnamon Water half an ounce Turnep Water four ounces Castoreum four grains Make all into
Green Tobacco Leaves beaten and laid on do ease the Gout and are said to be of a stupefactive Nature As for the Efficient Cause of the pain to the Humor flowing into the Part repelling Medicaments must be opposed and to that which is allready in deriving and resolving Medicaments must be applied Howbeit repelling Medicines are disallowed in this Case especially alone and without the commixture of other things For if they shal wholly stop the influx of the matter into the Parts affected it is to be Feared least they retiring to the inward Parts should cause dangerous diseases unless they happen to be translated to some other Joynt Again the Humor which hath already flowed into the Part is the more driven inward by which means the Pains become more violent But yet if in the beginning of the Gout there be a great afflux of Humors especially hot ones which threatens sharp Pains to follow it will be convenient in some measure to repress the same by applying repellers not alone but mixed with such things as mitigate Pain after universal and sufficient Evacuations For then such things as do overmuch relax do help forward the afflux of Humors And therefore we may ad unto the foresaid cataplasmes and other remedies Plantane Lettice Purslane Housleek and such like as also a little Vineger As for example Take Barley Meal three ounces Boyl it in Water and Vineger add two Yolks of Eggs Saffron twenty grains Make all into a Pultis Or Take Red Roses an Handful Barley and Fenugreek Meal of each one ounce Red Sanders one dram and an half Chamomel Flowers one pugil when they are Boyled and beaten add two Yolks of Eggs Vineger four ounces Oyl of Roses as much as shall suffice make all into a Pultis Among remedies which derive the Humor from the Part affected are Horse-Leeches after sufficient Evacuation applied thereunto for then they do much good especially when the Veins in the Part affected do seem distended and swelling with Blood Now resolving Medicaments are wont to be used in divers forms as of Waters Oyls Unguents Balsoms Fomentations Fumigations Cataplasmes Plaisters and the like compounded after this manner Take Vitriol white and green of each one ounce camphire two drams aqua vitae and white Wine of each one pint Mix them and apply them with cloathes dipped in them Or Slake Lime in Urine purifie the Liquor and foment the Pained place therewith It is likewise good if it be done with Vineger and Lime Martinus Rulandus in the Centuries of his Cures doth mightily cry up his Gout-quelling Water but never describes the same But Libavius Petreus and others suppose it was thus made Take Fountain Water a Pint Aqua fortis half an ounce Sublimate one dram Boyl them a quarter of an hour Wet linnen cloaths in this Liquor and apply them luke-warm to the Part affected Quercetanus in his Pharmacopoeia propounds these following Take Pickle of salt and the Vrin of a Boy of each Equal Parts Still them and Wet Linnen Cloathes in the Water and apply to the place affected often changing the cloathes for fresh ones Take Green Elder Leaves and flowers of each one pound beat them and steep them in Aqua vitae for two or three daies still them in a Glass or Copper vessel till they be dry Take Spirit of Wine rectified two pounds of the finest honey one pound Distill them in Balneo Vaporoso So you shall still two Liquors The first is watrish The second much stronger and Sulphureous which you shall keep by it self To the remaining materialls add an ounce and an half of whol Oriental saffron Venice turpentine two ounces Castoreum six drams Tartar calcined till it be white half a pound dissolved salt an ounce Phlegm of vitriol not separate from its spirit four ounces Lie made of Vinetree-Ashes two pound steep them together twenty four hours Then still them til they become dry keep the Liquor which comes likewise by it self To the Dreggs remaining pour on the former Water which you kept Steep them and still them Lastly put all the distilled Waters together and distill them in Balneo Vaporoso Quercetanus saies That this Water is of wondrous efficacy and that it was communicated unto him by a certain most famous German as a special guift affirming that this was the very Water of Rulandus And he averred that he had seen the rare effects thereof in easing the Pains of the Gout if Linnen cloathes being moderately warmed and dipped therein be applied to the Part affected The same Quercetanus in his Councel touching the Gout doth brag that he reserves to himself his Gout-quelling Water as a Master-peice for such an old soldier as himself to boast of which he saies is made of plain Fountaine Water wherein he doth divers times quench certain Metallick substances which are wont to be taken inwardly when rightly prepared whose spirits being impressed into the foresaid Water do contribute thereunto the power of penetrating unto the Roots of the Disease and of truly resolving the Tartarous stony matters with the salts which are combined in the Joynts from whence such intollerable Pains do arise Peradventure this that follows it not unlike it nor a whit inferior in Virtue Take Vnslaked Lime four pound Slak it in River-water as much as you please and let it stand in a Wine Cellar three daies that the Salt may be better extracted out of the Chalk or Lime Afterward let them Boyl a little and strain the Liquor through an Hippocras Bag. In twenty pints of the strained Liquor quench seven or nine times first Plates of steel red hot then Plates of Copper red hot and thirdly to the quantity of ten ounces of Vitriol calcined till it be white fourthly Antimony melted in a Crucible to half a pound fifthly Litharge or Ceruse heated in a Crucible half a pound white Precipitate once washed and no more one ounce and an half Brassburnt and finely Poudered half an ounce After the quenching of these mineralls let the water stand still in a Wine Cellar the space of ten daies Afterward Boyl it a little and strain it through an Hippocras Bag. In this Water being hot doubled cloathes must de dipt and frequently applied to the Gouty Part. Among Fomentations easie to make that is commended which is made of Salt Ammoniack seven times sublimed and fitly dissolved in Wine or Water or of the Urin of a young man in good health Boyled till half be consumed and laid on with Raggs Solenander Writes in his 24. Counsel Section the 4. That a certain Gouty old man was wont to make himself this Medicine When the swelling and Pain was great and the place red he took Salt the Urin of a Boy and Vinegar In these being mingled together he Wet a Linnen cloath and squeesed it and laid it on this he did divers times and so the Pain was much abated As we said before that Anodine or Pain-quelling Oyls did little good in the Gout
thick and clammy humors abound the Syrup of Vineger will be very profitable in stead of those last named Also somtimes Conserve of Roses Violets or Borrage is wont to be mingled with cleer Water boyled with Barley Water and to be strained through an Hippocras bag for ordinary drink unto which some drops of spirit of Vitriol may profitably be added Or a Tincture of Roses is made after this manner most delightful in colour and in tast Take Red Roses one ounce Bloodwarm Water three pints spirit of sulphur or Vitriol one dram and an half Let them stand infusing cold for three or four hours To the strainings add white Sugar four ounces Rose-Water half a pint Make thereof a clear Julep for ordinary drink Also Julepus Alexandrinus is very good and extream pleasant It is thus made Take Fountain Water one pint Rosewater Juyce of Lemmons and white Sugar of each four ounces Boyl them over a light fire till you have taken away the Scum As for other things pertaining to Diet Sleep is extream good and watchings bad Yet over much Sleep doth overwhelm the natural heat and hinder the Evacuation of excrements Rest is necessary in acute Feavers but in long Feavers light and gentle exercise is good Also we must endeavor that nothing be retained which ought naturally to be expelled howbeit al immoderate Evacuations which exhaust the strength are to be stopped and al vehement Perturbations of mind must be turned out of Doors Among manual Operations Blood-letting holds the cheifest place for it doth not only diminish plenitude whether it be a simple fulness so as to stretch the Vessels or only a fulness with reference to the strength of the Patient whether it be in the whol body or in some Part but also revels the influx of Humors Causing obstructions cools the whol body and makes it perspicable keeps back putrefaction and furthers the concoction of putrefying Humors Presently therefore and at the beginning of the Disease blood must be drawn unless weakness hinder as in the Swooning Feaver and other like Cases and that after the Belly hath been loosened with a Clyster or a Suppository How much blood should be taken it gathered from the Patients strength from the greatness of the Pleâ—hora Custom of the Patient to bleed or not to bleed and other circumstances The Antients in the Synochus Putrida and the burning Feaver did let blood til the Patient fainted away But it is much more safe as we have said in the Cure of a simple Synochus to take away at several times so much as shall be sufficient then suddenly to put the Patient in danger of death Avicenna in a burning Feaver and in a continual Tertian doth forbid letting blood unless the Urine be thick and red For he fears lest Choller should be the more inflamed which he saith is bridled by Blood But the wiser Physitians do explode this Opinion of his seeing these kind of Feavers are often terminated even by Nature her self by bleeding at the Nose and they do somtimes cause Frenzies and other Inflamations and finally because Blood-letting doth potently refrigerate doth rather stop than further the Ebulition or boyling and working of the Blood and Choller comes away as wel as Blood when a Vein is opened so that in that Mass of Blood which is in the greater Veins remaining there is the same proportion of blood to Choller which there was before Nay verily when a Vein is opened if the sick party be any thing lusty and the blood flow amain only the putrid Blood which is offensive to Nature is voided the purer remaining in the Veins which few Authors have taken notice of although it be in the course of Practice every where observable For if the Blood flow out of the Vein drop by drop it is the purest Blood because it comes out of the Vein by its own proper motion But if it spring out with a forceable stream it appears foul and corrupted Nature expelling the worser part of the Mass of Blood Howbeit Blood is more sparingly to be taken from such as are of a very Chollerick Constitution in the middle of Summers Heat and the Dog-Daies than in other Natures and times But in Flegmatick and Melanchollick Feavers Blood must be taken away in lesser quantity and evermore great regard is to be had to Coindicants and Contraindicants forasmuch as Quotidian Feavers do for the most part happen unto Children or old Persons in cold Countries and cold Seasons of the yeer which considerations do lessen the Quantity of Blood which otherwise the Disease or its Cause require should be taken away When the Feaver is caused by over much labor blood must be taken away more sparingly If a Feaver happen by over great use of Carnal Embracements Blood-letting is pernicious Concerning the time of Blood-letting it is to be noted That a Vein must not be opened presently after the Patient hath eaten but after Digestion is past and after the Patient hath been at stool Again Blood is to be let when the Feaver is most remiss and not in the vigor thereof for then Nature is not able to bear both the violence of the Disease and the loss of Blood As for the repletion of Blood-letting if the same be necessary to cause Evacuation it must be repeated the same day if for Revulsions sake on another day For where Evacuation is necessary especially in acute Diseases the Body must be suddenly changed into another condition also it often happens that a Disease is quickly past its first time or beginning so that afterward we cannot so conveniently open a Vein But in Revulsion we have respect to the motion of the Humors which is then best ordered when it is done at divers times some space being interposed whereby Nature becomes accustomed to a contrary motion For in the space between Bleedings the Blood which was shed into the parts regurgitates into the Veins and by another Blood-letting is profitably drawn forth We understand that Blood-letting must be iterated if that blood which was first drawn forth were very much corrupted and there is reason to think that there is yet a great quantity thereof abiding in the Veins Yea verily Although the Blood at first seem pure and uncorrupted yet must we not desist from taking the same away but continue so doing until it appear more impure and corrupted And truly that Precept delivered by Hippocrates in his 4. de Victus Rat. in Morbis acutis in the Cure of a Pleutisie may very profitably be observed in acute Feavers viz. That Blood-lettings be so long continued til the blood change color so that if at first corrupt blood come away we must let it run till it appear more pure and on the other side if at the first the blood appear laudable we must suffer to flow til that which is impure and corrupted be come away Yet is there some diversity to be observed in both Cases For if at first good
yet so that such as respect the most predominant Humor be put in the greatest Quantity For the more nice and dainty soft of Patients Medicinal broaths are prescribed instead of Juleps and also that the sick may not grow weary of the same kind of Medicine too long used and these broths are made of such of the Roots and Herbs aforesaid as are most pleasant to the tast with a chick or part of an Hen of Capon unto which somtimes may be added one dram of Sal Prunella or some drops of spirit of Vitriol when we would have it more cooling than ordinary Howbeit in slow and long lasting Feavers caused by rebellious obstructions hard to be cleared Germander though bitter and Cichory Endive and Dandelyon though bitter may be boyled in Broaths and Montanus in his Counsels doth cry up Cichory and Germander boyled in Broaths as an admirable Remedy for such as have a long Feaver with obstructions In Feavers from flegm a Decoction of Chamomel is excellent Zacutus Lusitanus Observat 26. in the third Book of his Praxis admiranda Also emulsions or Almond-Milks are very good in putrid Feavers and are commonly more pleasing than Juleps They are most in use when the Feaver is Joyned with a dry distemper of the Bowels or a thin Catarrh or an Inflamation of the Lungs and Parts serving to breath withal or for variety least the Patient should be over tired with continual use of Juleps Now the Composition of these emulsions hath been described in the foregoing cures Cold Water given in great Quantity in continual putrid Feavers was wont to be in use among the antients and is commended by very many latter Physitians But as we said the use here of was dangerous in the simple Synochus so in this Case we think the discreet Physitian shal do best to for bear the same for the reasons we delivered in our Chapter of the simple Synochus Yet will it be somtimes good in extream heat of a Feaver to give a good draught of cold Water to ten or twelve ounces with a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol For hereby somtimes the same effects are wrought which Galen attributes to cold Water being drunk the quantity of three or four pints at a time When as notwithstanding there are none of those dangers to be feared which Galen himself confesseth did somtimes happen upon the preposterous drinking down of so great a quantity of cold Water as he adviseth For the Spirit of Vitriol causeth that the Water breeds no Obstructions but rather opens the same quickly piercing and passing through the Bowels not biding in the Hypochondria's as plain and single cold Water is wont to do but is very like the acid Mineral Fountains and Wells which though they are drunk in great quantity do not lie heavy in the parts about the short Ribs but are quickly pissed forth and very good against Obstructions To strengthen Nature which in every violent Feaver is much dejected Electuaries are good and strengthening Conserves and Preserves compounded of Conserve of Roots of Bugloss Leaves of Sorrel Wood-sorrel Stalks of Lettice Flowers of Bugloss Borrage Violet Cichory and Roses Pulp of Citrons Whereunto are added the Pouders of Coral Pearls Ivory Harts-horn Diamargaritum frigidum Diatriasantalon Diarrhodon Abbatis Confectio Alkermes de Hyacintho which are commonly after this manner compounded Take Conserve of Flowers of Borrage Bugloss Roses of each an ounce Confectio Alkermes one dram and an half Pouder of Diamargaritum frigidum Ivory Coral prepared and Pearls prepared of each ten grains Sugar of Roses the weight of all the rest three Leaves of beaten Gold Make of all an Electuary covered over with Gold of which let the Patients take often by it self out of a spoon drinking a little of their ordinary Drink after it or mingle sâ—me of it with their ordinary Drink and with their Broths Take Conserve of Cichory Sorrel Lettice and of the sharp Pulp of a Citron of each half an ounce Pouder of yellow Sanders and of Pearls prepared of each one scruple Spirit of Vitriol half a scruple With Syrup of Violets make all into an Electuary Take Conserve of the Flowers of Bugloss Roses and Violets of each one ounce Waters of Endive Sorrel and Borrage of each three ounces Mix them together let them stand over the warm Embers and heat then strain the Liquor through a searse then add Confectio Alkermes two drams Pouder of the Electuary Diamargaritum frigidum half a dram Coral prepared Pearls prepared and Shavings of Ivory of each one scruple Syrup of Lemmons and Pomegranates of each three ounces Mix all give one spoonful at a time For the more dainty and nice sort of People in great debility of Natural strength this following Julep very pleasant to the tast may be compounded Take Waters of Sorrel Orange flower and Roses of each one ounce and an half Syrup of Lemmons and Pomegranates of each one ounce Confectio Alkermes one dram mix them Let the Patient take hereof frequently in a spoon Altering Medicines having been used for some daies together and such as prepare bad Humors when the Feaver begins to decline we must set our selves to purge out the said Humors when the signs of Concoction do appear avoiding the Critical daies And this must be done with Medicines a little stronger than those which were given at the beginning of which sort are Senna Rhubarb Agarick Catholicum duplex and such like whose Matter and Dose must by the skilful Physitian be accommodated to the Humors offending and the Nature of the Patient And some Physitians are so bold as to proceed to Scammoniate Medicaments as Diaprunum solutivum Diaphoenicon Electuarium de succo Rosarum Diacarthamum Which notwithstanding are very seldom to be used in continual Feavers because Scammony is wont very much to inflame the Humors and to cause vehement thirst and that especially in burning Feavers in which Scammoniate Medicaments are very hurtful Yea verily and Rhubarb it self although a gentle and most excellent Medicament is by some suspected as not safe in very Chollerick Feavers because of its notable heating and drying faculty Howbeit the hurtful faculty thereof may in great part be corrected by infusing the same in Cooling Waters and by mingling therewith a Decoction of Tamarinds and cooling Herbs and by adding thereto Cassia Syrup of Roses Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb and such like If the Feaver do stil continue Purgation must be ever and anon repeated using between whiles preparatives digestives til the whol seminary of evil humors be taken away For otherwise if we cease Purging before the Feaver be perferctly abated and gone the Patient wil be in danger of a Relapse Yet this Rule needs some restriction For if after many Purgations a lingring feaver continues which doth by little and little pine the Patients and seem to cast them into a Consumption it will be the best course to leave Purging and seek to conquer the Feaver only
larger Housleek and Camphire or Vnguentum Populeon or Oyl of Roses Lillies and Poppies or with an Epithem made of Plantane Water Rose Water Vinegar of Roses and Camphire or with a Mixture of Rose Water Oyl of Roses and Vinegar all which are to be applied actually cold in the Summer and a little less than blood-warm at other Seasons of the Yeer Disquietness and tumblings and tossings which are wont to happen in the Feaver Assodes and in the Fits of a Tertian Ague are best cured by purging away the Chollerick Humor which vexes and frets upon the Stomach and other sensible parts and that by Vomit or Stool according as Nature seems more or less to affect the one or other way also it may be drawn downwards by Clysters and presently all Art is to be used to make the Patient rest and cold Drink is given as also cooling Juleps whereunto somtimes Syrup of Poppies or a little Laudanum may profitably be added Swooning Fits are wont to happen in those kind of Feavers which are commonly called Febres Syncopales or Swooning Feavers of which there are two kinds as was said before and the one is called Minuta the other Humorosa The Cure of which Feavers much differing from the Cure of other Putrid Feavers we have reserved unto this place in regard of the said Symptome of Swooning The Minuta Syncopalis which is bred of Chollerick Humors sharp and venemous must be cured after this manner Let the Air be cold and moist and a little astringent that dissipation of the substance of the Body may be thereby prevented Let the Patients Diet be thin cooling and restorative of the Broth of Chickens boyled with Sorrel Purslain c. To which may be added Rose-water Juyce of Pomegranates and a little Sugar Bread steeped in the Juyce of Pomegranates or of Oranges may be given if a more liberal Diet is to be granted as also Cream of Barley or Panada's with Juyce of Lemmons or Pomegranates Also Restorative Broths of pressed Flesh with the foresaid Juyces To the stronger sort are given the Yolks of Eggs with Juyce of sowr Grapes the Stones of Cocks the Flesh of Pullets Hens Partridges qualified with the aforesaid Juyces Let the Patients drink with their Meat if they have no Inflamation of any bowel thin Wine not very old nor yet new and windy or Beer that is indifferent strong not new or very stale When they eat not or otherwise if there be Inflamation let their Drink be Barley Water or Water in which a piece of a Loaf hath been boyled with Syrup of Pomegranates Lemmons Citrons Julep of Roses c. Sleep is good out of the Paroxysm but in the same it hurts And finally special Care must be taken that nothing provoke the Patient to Anger Sadness and the like Passions In the Paroxysm Resolution of the Spirits must be prevented by blowing cool Air with Fans upon the Patients and by sprinkling them with sweet smelling Waters Their Face must be sprinkled with cold Water or Water of Roses and Vinegar minled With which the Stones of Men and the Dugs of Women must be bathed cold If Heat and Spirits will not be revoked from the Heart to the outward Parts of the Body it is to be revelled and forced back by binding of the extream Parts and by nipping and pinching them also pluck the Patients often by the Nose pluck them by their Hair and call upon them often by their Christen Name Give of the Crum of White-bread steeped in the Juyce of Pomegranates of thin fragrant Wine tempered with Rose-Water and when necessity urges some Cinnamon Water mingled with Rose Water In the mean space Restorative Broths are not to be omitted wherewith Confectio Alkermes and such like may be mingled Also Cordial Potions are often to be given out of a Spoon made after this manner Take Water of Roses two ounces Orange flower Water one ounce Cinnamon Water half an ounce Confectio Alkermes one dram Pearls prepared and Coral prepared of each half a scruple Sugar Cakes made with Pearl six drams Mix all and make thereof a Julep or Cordial Potion To these may be added the Electuaries and Conserves and Preserves described in the foregoing Chapter Also the inner side of a Loaf hot out of the Oven sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar may be applied to the Patients Nostrils and Mouth To the Heart Cooling and strengthening Epithems may be applied To straiten the Pores and prevent the Evaporation of the Patients strength and Spirits wrap them in Linnen sprinkled with Pouder of Roses Balaustians and Sanders or let their shifts be sprinkled with Rose water and a little Vinegar Let their whol Body especially the Back be anointed with this following Liniment Take Oyl made of unripe Olives one ounce and an half Mirtles Quinces and Mucilage of Seeds of Flea-bane of each six drams Gum Arabick dissolved in Rose-Water two drams white Wax as much as shal suffice make all into a Liniment A special regard is to be had of the stomach because the Humor offending is cheifly there collected Now the region there of must be anointed with Oyl of Roses and Quinces and then also may be laid on a Toast of Bread wet in Juyce of Quinces and unripe Pomegranats Or if it be afflicted with great heat soment the stomach blood-warm with a Decoction of Purslain and Roses oâ— with Juyce of Night-shade Purslain Sowr-Grapes adding thereto Oyl of Roses and Quinces The Swooning Fits being removed and the Patient strengthened we must bend our minds to remove the Feaver and its Cause Which may be done by Alteratives and Evacuators proper for turning Feavers which we have described in their proper place viz. Where the Cure of burning Feavers is set down The Cure of the second sort of Swooning Feavers which is called Febris Syncopolis Humorosa which is caused by abundance of Flegmatick and crude Humors is in a manner contrary to the Cure of the Minuta newly described For the Air ought to be temperate inclining to heat light pure and dry Meats of good Juyce easily digested prepard with Hyssop Fennel and such like Herbs Let their drink be thin and not very strong Let their sleep and Watchings be Moderate But Frictions or artificial Rubbings of the Body and by Galen much extolled in this Case In the 12. Method Cap. 3. They must be used from the beginning of the Disease with Course Cloaths beginning above and so Rubbing downwards first on the Thighs and Legs afterwards on the Arms shoulders and Back Let the Cloaths with which the Frictions are performed be first Smoaked with Storax Lignum Aloes Frank-Incense Cloves c. When after friction the Limbs are lustily warm anoint them with Oyl of Dil of Chamomel of Orice of Castus and others of a resolving Faculty Such Frictions as these are highly commended because they call the natural Heat and spirits together with the Humor offending which did Choak the natural strength into the outward
on the Well-day but without sweating Somtimes also the Length of Tertian Agues arises from the evil disposition of some of the Bowels especially of the Liver and Melentery which cannot be Cured by purgations though never so oft repeated because that evil Quality remaining stil in the Liver causes new Morbifick Matter daily to breed which produces new Fits Which evil Disposition or Quality of the Bowels is taken away by Diureticks Sudorosicks and other resolving Medicaments With which faculties these following simples are endued viz. Wormwood Centory Carduuâ— Roots of Dictamnus of pimpernel Tormentil c. Of which are made Decoctions Pouders and such like which must be given for divers daies together before the Fit A dram of Uenice Treacle is ordinarily given with white Wine before the Fit three times one after another Some give a walnut preserved in Sugar or Honey after the same manner When the Heat of Uenice Treacle is feared it is at first given by it self and a draught of Plantain-Water is given after it My Master Varandaeus did often use this as a Specifick Medicine A Cup of Hippocras given before the Fit wil work the same effect with which pleasant Medicine many have been Cured Yet must it carefully be observed that these remedies must not be given till the Patient hath been diligently Purged Zechius Frequently used these following Pils which are most effectual for opening Obstructions strengâ—hening the Liver and taking away the distempers of the Bowels Take Treches of Rhubarb of Eupatorium and of Wormwood of each half a dram Pouder of Diarrhodon Abbatis one scruple with Syrup of Wormwood make a Mass of Pils Of which let the Patient take one dram in the morning three daies together drinking after them a draught of Broath made with Cichory and Maiden-Hair Montanus was wont to give many daies together a scruple of Troches of Rubarb or of Wormwood with Broath in which Barley Parseley Roots Cichory and Borrage have Boyled Let the Region of the Liver be anointed morning and evening before Meals with a Liniment made of two ounces of Ceratum Santalinum Juyce of Cichory half an ounce Juyce of Wormwood two drams and a little Vinegar of Roses In lâ—ke manner let the Region of the stomach be anointed with this Liniment Take Nard Oyl Oyl of Wormwood and of Quinces of each half an ounce Gallia Moschata one scruple white Wax as much as shall be requisite Make al into a Liniment Besides the Medicaments hitherto propounded which respect a regular and Methodical Cure there are many other specifick and Empirick Medicaments both internal and external both commended by Practitioners and frequently used by the common People out of the almost infinite number whereof I shal here set down such as are the choicest And among these Medicines may be reckoned such things as were before propounded to amend the evil Quality of the Liver and Mesentery which is wont to make long Agues whereunto these things following may profitably be added And in the first place Spirit of Sulphur in a Legitimate Tertian or one very neer Legitimate after bleeding and Purging being given with Purslain Water in the vigor of the Fit doth powerfully extinguish the heat of the Feaver and if the Humor be thin drives the same out by sweat that there remaines no matter for a new Fit and so is the Disease Somtimes pluckt up by the Roots It is given from half a scruple to a scruple with four ounces of Purslain Water And somtime the said spirit is mingled with Salt of Wormwood which is also of great Efficacy in the Cure of Agues the Composition is thus Take Salt of Wormwood half a dram Spirit of Sulphur a scruple Carduus Water four ounces Mix them Let the Patient take it when the Fit Approaches and he covered with many Cloathes Some Affirm that the Juyce of Plantain Clarified and drunk to the Quantity of four ounces an hour before the Fit doth Cure a Tertian Ague Some give it with Vineger and Saffron after this manner Take of the Juyce of Plantain four ounces Vinegar of Roses half an ounce Saffron three grains Mix them and give the Patient to drink two hours before the Fit Manardus prefers a Decoction of Chamomel or the distilled Water thereof to the Quantity of four ounces two hours before the Fit A Medicine commonly used and often successful is a little Potion made of Rose-Water Plantain Water and Aqua Vita of each a spoonful given before the Fit These following are outwardly applied Take Leaves of Hyssop and Tansie cut smal of each a pugil Mirrh two drams Mace Nutmegs Cloves and Cinnamon of each half a dram Venice Turpentine and Juyce of Tansey of each one ounce Mix all and spread them upon a Rose-Cake fried in a frying Pan with Canary Wine which being covered with a Linnen Cloath must be applied hot to the Region of the stomach an hour before the Fit Or Take Wormwood and Green Mint of each a pound Crust of Bread toasted and steeped in Vinegar half a pound pulp of Quinces or Conserve of Quinces made with Honey two ounces Mastich half an ounce Mace and Nutmeg of each two drams Let al be beaten and lustily wrought together with Oyl of Quinces Make hereof a Cataplasm to be applied before the Fit It provokes sweat and takes away the Pains of the stomach Or Take Nutmeg Cloves Cinnamon of each three drams Mirrh and Ginger of each two drams Make al into a Pouder mix it with Liquid Pitch and make thereof a Plaister for the stomach Also this following Cataplasm may profitably be applied to the Liver Take white Sanders and Red of each one dram Barley Meal two drams Aloes half an ounce Flowers of Violets and Roses dried of each one dram With Juyce of Wormwood and Vinegar make a Cataplasm to be applied to the Region of the Liver one hour before the Fit Neither are those Medicines wholly to be rejected which the common people are wont to apply unto the Wrists of such as have Agues For not only the Opinion of People is hereby satisfied who conceive that many are cured with these Remedies but somwhat they may effect by communicating their vertues unto the Heart by those notable Arteries which are scituate in the Wrists The chief of which kind of Medicines are these that follow Take Leaves of Plantane Celondine the great of each one handful Cobwebs Nettle Seeds Soot from the Chimney and common Salt of each one dram the strongest Vinegar as much as shall suffice Make of all a Cataplasm to be applied to the Wrists a little before the fit and to be repeated fresh three or four times Mous-Ear beaten with Salt and Vinegar is by some accounted of great efficacy being applied to the Wrists before the fit Of some the smallest sort of Housleek or Mous-teat is commended being used after the same manner Others commend the Leaves of Shepheards-purse beaten with Salt and Vinegar Platerus applies unto the Wrists
juyce of Scordium juyce of sorrel of Goates Rue of scabious and Carduus of each one pint Shavings of Harts-Horn four Ounces Old Venice Treacle six ounces Let the rinds of the Lemmons be cutt into thin chips let the seeds be beaten and such herbs as have little juyce let them in the beating be moistened with the juice of Lemmons and let al be distilled in balneo Mariae Of the water give one ounce by it self or mixed with other Liquors The hotter sort of Treacle waters are made with white Wine or with spirit of wine which must be warilly given and in lesser quantity yet they pierc more than the other and move sweat and are cheifly used in the true Pestilence Howbeit in some Cases they may by the prudent Physitian be used Among the many Descriptions of such Treacle waters I wil propound in this place two of the most excellent Take roots of Angelica White-Thistle Gentian Tormentil Zedoary Harts-Horn of each one ounce of the three sanders of each half an ounce Treacle three ounces Camphire a scruple beat al and steep them three daies together in two Pints of strong white-wine in a warm place Then distil Them in Balneo Mariae and keep the water for use the dose is from two drams to half an ounce in refrigerating Juleps adding spirit of vitriol to correct the Inflamation thereof Take Spirit of Wine very wel rectified one pint and an half old Treacle eight ounces Elect Mirrh four ounces Oriental Saffron one ounce Camphire half an ounce Infuse al for twenty four hours in Balneo Mariae afterward stil them in the same Bath and you shal have a very effectual water The Chymists do exceedingly cry up their Bezoardica Mineralia because they are Sudorofick or Diaphoretick at least and yet do not at al heat which they endeavor to prove by their having no taste in which regard they are easily taken even by the most nice Patients that loath unpleasant medicaments They also commend their Medicine which is called by them Mixtura Simplex or Mixtura Spiritalis made of Treacle Water Camphorated spirit of Vitriol and of Tartar and they mingle a dram hereof in Juleps and antidotary Potions A Physitian that undertakes the Cure of malignant Feavers ought to have divers Antidotes in a readynes and to change them ever and anon least nature be too much accustomed to one and the same and slight the virtue thereof Also the nature of the venemous quality is not alwayes one and the same but very divers according to the diversity of the patients bodies So that what hath helpt one wil do another no good so that when he hath for some time used one antidote he must try another and another While the foresaid diaphoreticks are using if we have a Mind at any time to help their Operation that they may more powerfully bring out the poison into the surface of the Body some external helpes may be used viz. Cupping-glasses both dry and with scarification many and often set on and Vesicatories of which we spok before which are most convenient in the state of the disease and at what time Sudorofick Medicines are given as also Oyl of Scorpions of Matthiolus which is much commended by al Practitioners for it calls forth the poyson residing in the profound parts of the body unto the external parts And therefore the Emunctories of the body as the Groines and Arm-pits with the Pulses of the Templs Hands and Feet ought frequently to be anointed with this oyl warm viz. thrice or four times in a day or else every third hour Where this Oyl is not to be had a Liniment may be made of Treacle dissolved in Juyce of Lemmons adding a little saffron and Camphire If at any time Nature being oppressed with the malignity of the Poyson and overcome and seem not to act but as it were to submit her self with hands bound to the mercy of the humor The strongest diaphoreticks are then to be given in a large dose that the daunted mettle of the heart may be as it were spurred up And then the strongest sorts of Treacle waters and Bezoardicks which have greatest force to penetrate must be used and the addition of Camphire wil much help their penetration and outwardly at such a time this following fomentation wil wonderfully assist the operation of such things as are taken in and wil help to drive out the malignant vapors For by this Method many have bin reduced from the Gates of Death Take roots of Angelica and Gentian of each two ounces Leaves of Bawm Origanum Scordium of each two handfuls Seeds of Carduus benedictus one ounce Flowers of Chamomel Mullien Melilot St. Johns wort Centaurie the less Staechados Rosemary Marygold of each two pugills Make a decoction of all in water adding towards the end a little white-wine wherewith foment the feet Groins Armepits and sides warm with sponges If drynes of the tongue thirst and other signes do shew that the Feaver doth prevail as much as the malignant quality we must abstain from the fomentation and instead thereof let a Hen cut down through the Back or the Lungs or Caul of a Wether new killed be applied to the patients Belly In the whole Course of the Care the greatest Cure of al must be to preserve the patients strength which is much dejected by the Venemous quality It is best kept up first by Convenient broths made with a Capon unto which when necessity urges may be added the distilled broaths of flesh and especially the Aqua Caponis which is made in Balneo Mariae per Descensum as the common manner is now to make it Consection of Hyacinths given in broaths doth repaire the strength and doth oppugn the malignant quality In the same broaths Gelly of harts-horn doth satisfie both Endications If the strength of the Patient be very much decaied we may make bold with Confectio Alkermes provided the Heat of the Feaver be not very violent And finally wine is the most cordial thing in the world of the use whereof in this disease I spake before treating of the Patients Diet. The only smel of wine doth much refresh the Patients strength and much more a toast dipped in Canary and Rosewater and so held to the Nose And in this Case also Confectio Alkermes and de Hyacintho are wont to be put into alexipharmical Potions Or in extream dejection of strength Potions merely cordial may be thus made Take Orenge-flower water and Rosewater of each one ounce and an half Confectio Alkermes one dram Syrup of Apples one ounce Juyce of Lemmons three drams Make all into a potion If the Feaver be not intense Cinnamon water may be given to the quantity of one dram or three drams and sometimes Amber Griese may be added to the quantity of five Granes or Seven Neither in extream Weaknes of the Patients must we so much fear those hot cordials that we should resuse to save the patient from present death
of Wax Nutmeg and Sage of each two drams After you have anointed you must cover the part affected with a hot Sheeps skin and when it is cold iâ— you have not a fresh one make it warm again with the Oyl of Dill or the like hot Oyl We apply successfully to the part affected the hot Lungs of a Sheep as also yong Pidgeons Whelps and â—hickens slit in the middle Put the pâ—rt aâ—fected into an Ox or Sheeps Belly or other great Creatures newly killed and let it remain there â—hile it is warm Baths of Head herbs are good putting to them a third part of Oyl or anointing afterwards Some commend this Emplaster Take of Colopâ—ony two ounces Rozin and Pitch of each one ounce Frankinsence Mastich Ceruss of each haâ—f an ounce Sanguis Draconis common Salt Ammoniacum and Terepintine of each two drams new Wax two ounces white Vitriol two drams Mother of Pearl two ounces Load-stone half an ounce yellow Amber one dram and an half Oyl of Egs and Roses of each two drams Make a Plaister upon Leather Baths coming of Brimâ—tone are excellent especially in constant Convulsions Also dry Baths of the fume of the Decoction of Sage Rosemary Stoecnas Chamepitys or Ground-pine Origan and the like in white Wine sprâ—nkled upon stones fire hot or Iron It is very good to foment the hinder part of the Head and the Neck with hot Aqua vitae Penotus doth wonderfully extol the following Medicine for quite Curing of a Convulsion Take Oyl of Turpentine half an ounce Oyl of Cloves six drops of the Mucilage or slime of Briony so much as is sufficient to make a Limment Anoint the part affected and the root of the Nerve which comes unto it Others say they quickly cure a Member with the Oyl of Turpentine of Wax Chamomel and the like mingled with Spirit of Salt The following Liniment is very powerful Take old Butter and Bacon of each a quarter of a pound Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each one ounce Mirrh and Castor of each two drams Stoechas and Rosemary flowers of each one pugil Nutmeg and Cloves of each one dram a Kitten or yong Cat flead bowelled and cut in pieces Stuff a Goose with these and roast her cast away the first dripping which is watery the next which is fatty receive in a Vessel half full of Vinegar Anoint the parts affected and the backbone therewith Sometimes the pain is so intollerable that it must first be cured For which this is good Take of Oyl of Violets Lillies and Chamomel of each an ounce and an half Oyl of sweet Almonds Mastich and Roses of each one ounce If you wil have stronger make this Bath Take of Marsh-mallow Roots and Lillies of each one pound and an half of the Leaves of Origan Violets Mallows Sage and Wormwood of each two handfuls Linseeds and Fenugreek of each one pound Boyl them for a Bath in which let the party fit not long but come ouâ— as soon as he finds ease It is sufficient if the parts affected be only bathed therewith Others make Baths only of Oyl and if the Patient be rich they boyl a Fox or two in it While these are doing purge the Head with neesing and chewing described in the first Chapter As also you must strengthen with the Cephalick or Capital Opiate Apoplectick Water Treacle and the like Rondoletius speaks thus of his Water of Swallows A Water made of Swallows and Castor presently cureth a Convulsion coming of Repletion You may find the description of it in his Chapter of the Epilepsie CHAP. VII Of the Epilepsie or Falling-sickness THe Epilepsie is a Convulsion of the whol Body not continually but by fits with a hinderance both of the Mind and Sences The Word Convulsion is not here taken properly and strictly for a true Convulsion but improperly for a Convulsive Motion For an Epilepsy is a Convulsive Motion not a true Convulsion But we keep the name of Convulsion in imitation of Galen who calls an Epilepsy alwaies a Convulsion This Definition is taken out of Galen 3. de loc aff cap. 7. and lib. de diff sympt cap. 3. and defines a perfect Epilepsie in which all the Body is contracted and all the Sences both internal and external are abolished Yet there are imperfect Epilepsies in which only the Head or Arm Leg and Thigh or half the Body is only contracted There is also an Epilepsy in which the mind remains sound and the external sences and also the voluntary motion of some parts I saw a Nun which in her Epileptick fits had divers contractions somtimes of the Arms then of the Legs somtimes of the Head afterwards of the whol Body yet she saw those that stood by and spake nay she also endeavored a voluntary motion against the Convulsive so as she did in a manner diminish the involuntary motion somtimes she was in a smal fit only and walked about her Chamber but with a disorderly motion leaping and using strange antick postures by which she caused the rest of the Nuns to be very merry and she at that time laughed with them and spake when she pleased Every convulsive motion as I said in the former chapter cometh of provocation which proceedeth from the quantity or quality of the matter The quantity of matter which causeth the disease burdening Nature stirs her up to expel that which is troublesom to her Whence the Opinion of Galen is confirmed which is so disputed by late Physitians That an Epilepsy comes of an imperfect obstruction of the Ventricles of the Brain for if the humor obstructing or stopping is burdensom to Nature the Brain will labor to expel it In the quality there is no difference for all agree in this That the expulsive faculty is stirred up by sharpness and acrimony and by any quality which is offensive to Nature The Causes stirring up or provoking are either contained in the Brain and make a proper Epilepsy or come from other parts and so make an Epilepsy by consent or sympathy And that provoking or irritation makes an Epilepsy when the Brain laboring to expel that which is offensive shakes its self and by consequence all the Nerves which are adjoyned to it There is in Galen and almost all Authors a threefold Epilepsy The first is that which hurts the Brain in which the Disease is The second is that which hurts the Brain by consent from the Stomach The third is when the disease is sent from other parts of the Body to the head And these have their proper names The first as being chief is called Epilepsia the second Analepsia the third Catalepsia But by Galens leave that division is superfluous and in vain is that Epilepsy which comes from the Stomach separated from those which comes by sympathy from other parts when all ought to be called Sympathicae or Epilepsies by consent Neither is it sufficient to say that an Epilepsy from the Stomach is distinct from others because it is most frequent
a miracle presently If the Child suck look that the Nurses Milk be good let her have meat of good juyce and light of digestion Let her drink no Wine but Water or Water and Honey and a smal drink made of Sarsaparilla Some Children are so subject to this Disease that it will return again after it is once cured Nay in some Families al the Children use to die of this Disease Therefore you must use preventing Medicines not only to those which are newly born but to those also which have recovered First therefore give to Children newly born before they suck give one scruple of the Pouder de gutteta mentioned before in a little milk and give the same quantity thrice in two daies It is good both for them which have been cured and children when they are a few daies old to apply a Caustick to their Necks But an actual Cautery is much better which our Physitians wil not use because they abhor violent and terrible Medicines Rondeletius affirms that the Actual Cautery is so used in Florence that the women do use to apply it themselves And this doth Aquapendens witness in his Chyrurgery Operations and teacheth the way of applying them in his proper Chapter of the burning of the hinder part of the head in children Let the Child be purged twice in a month with Manna Syrup of Roses or of Cichory with Rhubarb Every new Moon give it a dose of the Epileptick Pouder de gurteta above mentioned Make a Bag to strengthen the head and a Fume for the Head-cloaths as in the cure of cold Diseases of the head and also pouder its hair with the pouder before mentioned For the Cure of this Disease this is a good Preservative Take of Spirit of Wine four ounces Spirit of Castor one ounce Peony Roots three ounces Let them be infused and strained Wash the whol body of the child with it warmed CHAP. IX Of Giddiness called Vertigo Avertigo is a false Imagination in which all objects and the head it self seem to turn round so as the Patient often falls to the ground unless he lay hold on some stay at hand It may be objected That in a Vertigo the Imagination is not hurt for if it were so the Patients would think the objects truly turned round as men in Madness and Phrenzy do think what they imagine to be truly so We answer That in a Vertigo the Reason is not hurt which perceiveth the error of the Imagination but in a Phrenzy or Melancholly the Reason is hurt as wel as the Imagination There are two sorts of Vertigoes the one simple called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which the Sight remains unhurt the other is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a dark Vertigo in which the Eyes are both darkned as it were with smoak or a cloud In both kinds the Sight is somwhat hurt because the Spirits which use to go directly to the Eyes are moved out of order by the visive Nerve by reason whereof the Eye doth not so sitly enjoy them But in a dark Vertigo there is a more violent Motion of the Spirits so that they come less to the Eyes from whence the sight is darkned or hindred The immediate Cause of a Vertigo is the circumvolution of the Spirits coming of a vaporous matter or wind which coming into the Ventricles of the Brain and Plexus Choroides disturbs the Spirits and makes them run round whence the species of the Objects brought by those spirits are moved in like manner and so the objects themselves seem to be moved also the same way But here we may doubt since a Vertigo is a symptom of a hurt action and every action hurt depends immediatly upon a Disease how the Circumvolution of the Spirits can be the immediate cause of a Vertigo when it can be referred to no kind of Disease To which we thus answer A Circumvolution of the Spirits is a Disease in respect of Scituation for at that time the Spirits do not keep that place or position which they Naturally ought but move preternaturally and amiss And this Answer hath a weighty instance For a Disease is an affection of a true part but spirits are not true parts We answer That Axiome is not alwaies but sometimes true according to Galen that which is principal and hinders the action of its self is the true Disease We say that the word Part ought to be taken in a larger sense comprehending all those things which go to the making up of the Body and whatsoever hinders the action of any part is called a Disease So a yellow color in the Eye hurts the sight immediately and therefore it is called a Disease in number so a better savor in the tongue and noise in the Ears are Diseases in number in regard there is something in those parts besides which offendeth the actions After the same manner is the Circumvolution of the Spirits a Disease in Scituation or Position for the Reason above mentioned But those Vapors are sent up from evil humors not continually without intermission but by compass and going about and at a distance namely as often as they are raised up by an external cause and the humors are such as use to produce vapors namely Blood Choller Flegm and Melancholly and the watery Humor because both a cold as well as a hot vapor may cause a Vertigo as Galen 3. de loc affect chap. 8. and Comment Aphor. 23. Sect. 3. These evil humors are either contained in the Brain or in the inferior parts Hence a two-fold Vertigo ariseth one Proper the other by Consent Waterish and flegmy humors heaped up in the Brain send wind and vapors to its ventricles which stirring about there do cause a Vertigo And so a proper Vertigo comes to be a forerunner of an Epilepsy or Apoplexy But Humors contained in the inferior parts especially the stomach and the spleen do easily send up Vapors to the head which if they touch the Ventricles and the Arteries cause a Vertigo The external Causes are all such things as will quickly dissolve the Humors and turn them to Vapors or make an inordinate motion in those Vapors Among which are reckoned by Hippocrates Aphor. 17. Sect. 3. a South wind and sudden change of Air. To these ad the heat of the Sun windy Meats Garlick Mustard Radish Pease and Beans Drunkenness Gluttony immoderare Exercise and unseasonable the suppression of a wonted evacuation Anger Baths Hunger especially in those which are ful of bitter Choller often turning of the Body round long looking upon Wheels and things that run round and of Waters that run swift looking down from a high place a Fall a stroak upon the Head a Fracture or depression of the Skull compressing and lying upon the Brain We shall lay down no Diagnosis or general signs to know this Disease by because it is of it self manifest Yet in particular we shal declare those signs which
Arteries the blood is stanched by good Ligature and bondage only nor is the Plaister mentioned by Galen in the same place necessary which is made of Bole Frankinsence Mastick and the Hair of an Hare with the white of an Egg yet for the better security they who are afraid of the opening of an Artery may make use of it you may see what we have said concerning the opening of Arteries in the Cure of the Head-ach Vesicatories also are very profitable in this Disease both applied to the Neck and behind the Ears When you have bled sufficiently you must purge that the Chollerick Humors especially such as make the blood hot may be evacuated And Hippocrates saith it is very requisite Aphor. 17. Sect. 6. For it is good for him that hath an Ophthalmy to fall into a flux And Galen 13. Meth. Cap. 11. saith That he hath seen some who began to have sore Eyes to be cured in one day only by a Purge But it must be made of gentle ingredients and such as do allay the heat of the blood taking heed of al Medicines that have Scammony in them and they be made thus Take of Tamarinds half an ounce clean Senna three drams Annisseeds half a dram Endive Succory and Fumatory of each half a handful boyl them to four ounces and when it is strained infuse in the liquor of the best Rhubarb and yellow Myrobalans rubbed with the Oyl of sweet Almonds of each one dram yellow Saunders half a scruple after strain it again and dissolve of Manna and syrup of Roses of each one ounce Make a Potion Or in Form of Bolus thus Take of Cassia newly drawn six drams Diacatholicon three drams Pouder of Rhubarb one dram make a Bolus with Sugar So many times we prescribe Pills in an Ophthalmy which comes of Flegm namely Lucis majoris of Agarick and the like which though they are very good in the state of the Disease yet it is better to abstain from in the beginning lest the Humors moved with too violent a Medicine should fal more upon the part Nor is one Purge sufficient but you must repel it a distance if the Disease be old first giving good preparatives by Apozemes or Juleps proper for the Humor offending therefore in the beginning allay the heat of the Humors with cooling Juleps and such as thicken or with Emulsions made of the greater Cold Seeds Lettice and white Poppy seeds in some cooling Decoction with a little Rose water After universal Revulsions and Evacuations come to Topical Medicines with that part which from the beginning must be repelling yet the soundest Practicioners do warn us not to use repelling Medicines to the Eyes at first because for the most part they stop the Humor and retain it in the Eye and so increase the grief and inflamation For Galen Comment Aphor. 31. Sect. 6. reproves a certain Oculist which used these kind of Medicines in the beginning of the inflamation for they may be suspected in the beginning not to stay violent defluxions but rather to keep them from coming forth Hence it cometh to pass that when the humors are sharp the Cornea is somtimes ulcerated but when they are many it is streaked and somtimes broken But Avicenna fen 3. lib. 3. tract 1. cap. 9. saith That it is fit that if possible we abstain from Collyriums the first three dayes And a little after he saith That we ought not in the beginning to apply strong Astringents and thickners because they thicken the Tunicles or coats and hinder resolution and increase pain Yet we need be so exact in the time and number of dayes because the Disease is in some older and in some yonger But we may with profit apply Astringents at the beginning to the Forehead and Temples for by those the veins by whith the humors flow to the Eyes are stopt and they driven back The Form of this is as followeth Take of Bole-Armonick sanguis Draconis Frankinsence Mastich of each one dram red Roses Balasts or Pomegranat flowers the pouder of Lentils of each two scruples mix them with the white of an Egg and Vinegar of Roses and make a Cataplasm for the Forehead and Temples Moreover A Cataplasm made of the Juyce of Nettles and Wheat flower applied to the Forehead and Temples is excellent to stay a defluxion by reason the Juyce of Nettles hath a special Vertue for the stopping of al sorts of Bleedings as it doth the bleeding at the Nose or Mouth But if the pain be very great which useth to encrease the defluxion upon the Eyes you must apply Anodines or Medicines asswaging pains upon them Among which new milk especially if it be that which a sound woman giveth is best if it be often milked fresh into the Eyes from the breast and not be used stale for then it wil grow sowr and be offensive to them instead thereof you may use fresh Cheese made of Sheeps milk which you must often change lest it turn like Butter and so inflame the Eye The white of an Egg wel beaten til it turn to water is commended of Galen for it asswageth pain and gently stayes the Flux Also an Apple roasted in the Embers doth much asswage the pain of the Eyes The Mucilages or slime of the seeds of Fleabane Quinces Foenugreek drawn with Rose-water do take away pain but they must be renewed every day or they wil grow sowr Of these things you may make divers kinds of Medicines As for Example Take of the pap of a sweet Apple roasted in the embers an ounce the Mucilage of the seeds of Fleabane and Quinces drawn with Rose Water of each six drams the white of a new laid Eg beaten into water and womans Milk of each one dram Make a Cataplasm and apply it to the Eyes Or Take of the pap of a roasted Apple one ounce Crums of white Bread half an ounce one Egg mixed with Breast milk Make of these a Cataplasm Thin slices of Goats Flesh Veal or Mutton often applied to the Eyes do very much asswage pain A Cataplasm may be made more easily with crums of white Bread and Womans Milk mixed with Rose Water If the pain be intollerable you must fly to Narcotick or stupifying Medicines which you must use sparingly and with good advice because they do thicken the visive Spirits and make the Humors and Tunicles gross by which the Sight will become dim Among Narcoticks for the Eyes the white Troches of Rhasis are principal made with Opium thus Take of Rose water two ounces the Water of an Eg well beaten one ounce the white Troches of Rhasis with Opium one dram Make a Collyrium or Water for the Eyes When the pain is aslwaged you must come to repelling Medicines which must be gentle and mixed with Anodines continually for this end make this Collyrium following Take of Plantane and Rose water of each one ounce and an half the Water of the white of an Egg beaten one ounce the
one ounce Oyl of Sulphur twelve drops mix them to be taken now and then a spoonful Clarret Water is usual and it is made thus Take of Cinnamon grosly poudered two ounces steep them in one pint of Aqua Vitae in a glass in another glass put six ounces of sugar with half a pint of Rose water let these Glasses stand two or three dayes every day shaking them often then mix them both together and strain them by filtration keep the Liquor in a Glass close stopt and let the Patient take a spoonful or two Fasting In Paris the Syrup of Wormwood made by Pena is highly esteemed made thus Take half a pound of candied Citron barks sliced boyl them in equal parts of the Waters of Succory and Agrimony make a strong expression and put to it the juyce of Quinces and Wormwood water of each half a pint in which infuse for four dayes four ounces of Schoenanth in a close vessel well glassed and set upon the Embers dissolve in the straining as much sugar as is needful then boyl them to a syrup in which when it is hot dissolve one dram of ash-coloured Amber keep it in a close Glass Cinnamon Water alone is excellent good in a Cold Stomach or with other Medicines as Syrup of Wormwood Mints or Coral to which you may also put Amber-greece The Syrup of Cinnamon made with Aqua Vitae according to Quercitanus Dispensatory is no less powerful And Cinnamon Water distilled with Juyce of Quinces And also the Spirit of Mastich made thus Take three ounces of Mastich one ounce of Galangal half a pint of spirit of Wine digest them and distil them The Elixir Proprietatis described by Crollius is good if you give twelve or fifteen drops in Wine they wonderfully strengthen the Stomach You may make Tablets for the same purpose thus Take of the pulp of Rinds of fresh Oranges and Aromaticum Rosatum of each two drams white Sugar dissolved in Orange flower water four ounces Make Lozenges Tablets of Aromaticum Rosatum Opiata Solomonis and old Treacle are good for the same A Decoction of Guajacum or Sassaphras taken many dayes togâ—ther with a little sweating or without in weak people is very good in this Disease being oâ— long continuance Also Sulphurous and Nitrous Baths as our Bellilucanae being taken in great quantity many dayes do powerfully clense the Stomach and Gutts from al slimy filth Take of Agrimony Centaury the less and common Wormwood of each half an handful boyl them to half a pint and ad one ounce of sugar drink it either in a cold or hot Cause Hartman exceedingly commends the use of Zeadoary in these words The often use of Zedoary doth so strengthen the stomach as nothing more therefore we may commend it having tryed it often and never missed you must eate it often Costaeus Commends hot Wine thus Hot Wine drunk ordinarily doth amâ—nd the imbecillity of the stomach It is usually observed that they who have been continually vexed with Wind and Pain from an evil Concoction when they have begun to drink warm drink have been cured and lived after a long time more comfortably You must give him Wine in Water wherein Coriander hath been boyled for his ordinary Drink But observe That if a hot distemper of the Liver meet with that of a cold stomach as often it doth you must give hot Medicines warily and rather those that are temperate Zechius Commends this Bolus following in these words That the stomach may be warmed gently and not dryed you can use no Medicine inwardly more powerfull Take of washed Turpentine two drams Pouder of Mastich half a dram Aromaticum rosatum haâ—f a scruple make a Bolus to be taken two hours before meat This digestive Pouder is usual to help Concoction Take of Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce sweet Fennel seed and Annis seed of each two drams Cinnamon and Cloves of each half a dram Sugar twice as much as the rest make a Pouder of which let him take one spoonful after every meal The Ballom of Peru is good if you give a few drops in Wine one hour before meat Or in form of a Pill one or two drops in sugar for many dayes There are some ordinary Medicines for this Hippocras Wine a Decoction of Annis Coriander and Cinnamon mixed with sugar for ordinary drink The Dukes Pouder commonly so called made of two parts of Sugar and one of Cinnamon to sprinkle upon al meats A Salt to be eaten with meat made of Coriander Annis seeds long Pepper Galangal and Nutmegg mixed with an equal proportion of Common salt Some Grains of Pepper whol or beaten taken fasting Acrons stuck with Cloves and Cinnamon and candied with Sugar Citron and Orange peels candied together Annis seeds Fennel Coriander and Cinnamon infrosted with Sugar al these men may use as they please Citron Peels are more pleasant than the rest but because it wil grow so dry that it wil hardly be chewed we are often constrained to make it up in a Mortar with Rose Water in the form of an Opiate Candied Myrobalans and Nutmegs may be used for the same and be made up as the former though they are not so apt to grow hard The Essences of Annis Cinnamon Citron peels Nutmegs and Olives are excellent to strengthen the stomach and they must be used as above in the Diseases of the Heart Of Meats They which are Salt do most provoke Appetite and Sharp things in a smal quantity and mixed with other things lest they cool the Stomach Outwardly apply Liniments Fomentations and Emplaisters thus made Take of Cypress Roots Galangal Flower-de-luce and dried Citron peels of each two ounces Mints Hysop Sage Rosemary and Marjoram of each one handful Annis seeds Bay-berries Nutmegs Cloves and Cinnamon of each three drams the flowers of Stoechas Schoenanth and Rosemary of each one pugil slice those that must be sliced and bruise those that must â—e bruised according to art and put them into two Bags with holes pricked through and steep them in strong Wine and lay them warm to the stomach one after another Take of the Oyl of Wormwood Mints and Spike of each half an ounce Oyl of Nutmegs two drams Wood of Aloes Mace and Cinnamon of each one scruple with a little Wax make a Liniment which will be better if you ad six drops of Oyl of Cloves and of Musk and Ambergreece of each eight grains Also there is a Liniment of Oyl of Nutmegs Balsom of Peru or of Oyl of Wormwood Mastich and Balsom of Peru. Take of the Emplaister of Mastich one ounce Aromaticum Rosatum one dram Oyl of Nutmegs as much as is fit to make a Plaister like a Buckler for the Stomach Crato doth wonderfully commend this following Plaister Take of Labdanum two ounces Wax four ounces Oyl of Nutmegs three drams Make an Emplaister Galen adviseth 7. meth not to keep these Plaisters long upon the part for at length they will dissolve the heat
each one ounce boyl them to a pint Dissolve in the straining of white Sugar one ounce Yolks of Eggs two Make a Clyster After the Body is sufficiently emptyed you must give astringents and strengtheners both at the Mouth and by Clysters as also to the Belly the Forms whereof you may take out of the Cure of Dysentery Besides You may conveniently use these that follow Take of Chalybeat Vinegar one part Chalybeat Water two parts the Leaves and Fruit of Myrtles Quinces Medlars Cervices of each two handfuls Cypress Nuts six pair boyl to halfs Foment the Belly warm with the strained Liquor often Take of Oyl of Mastich Quinces and Myrtles of each one ounce Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence and Gum Traganth of each one dram Wax as much as will make an Vnguent to anoint after the Fomentation Or Take Crums of toasted Bread infused in Chalybeat Water and Quinces roasted in the Embers or Marmalade of each three ounces Frankinsence Mastich Sanguis Draconis of each two drams With Syrup of Quinces and Wormwood make a Cataplasm Take of Mastich two drams Boyl it in three pints of Water for ordinary drink Iron Water is also good but in a hot Disease it is good to use the Tincture of Roses or Conserve of Roses mixed with Spring Water or Water wherein Gold hath been quenched mixed with Syrup of Quinces Amatus Lusitanus reports of one that was cured of a Chollerick Diarrhoea by taking much cold Water in the Summer time We also once prescribed to a Sanguine man who was troubled with a Chollerick Diarrhoea in the midst of Summer with great thirst Sal Prunella in his ordinary drink and Juleps made of Lettice and Purslain Water to be taken thrice in a day and he was cured in twenty four hours If the Humor be very sharp and adust or burnt the Patient must be purged sparingly with mild Medicines otherwise the Disease will encrease and he is to be cooled and moistened as also to be blooded a little In the same case a warm Bath is very good the Example whereof is in our Observations Plantane boyled in Broth is excellent And least a Diarrhoea turn into a Dysentery you must give Clysters of Chalybeate Milk and Emulsions of the cold Seeds and of white Poppy Seeds to asswage the sharpness of the Humor As also this Syrup following Take of the Juyce of Quinces six ounces the Juyce of Endive and Sorrel of each three ounces Sorrel and Plantane Seeds of each two drams red Coral one dram Plantane Water four ounces Boyl them to the Consumption of half strain and press them well put to it as much Sugar to make a Syrup to be taken two drams first and last In al Diarrhoea's after universal Medicines this following Bolus is good Take of Conserve of old Roses half an ounce Candied Quinces one dram the pouder of Tormentil one scruple With Sugar make a Bolus to be often repeated Or if the Disease be old you may make an Opiate of the same or the like in a greater quantity to be taken at many times Or to astringe more powerfully give this Pouder Take of Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence Mastich Mummy Terra Sigillata Lapis Haematitis or Blood-stone Troches of Amber of each one dram true Bole three drams make a Pouder of which give two drams inconvenient Liquor Rhubarb twice infused and then twice or thrice washed in Rose Water and dried is good The Lozenges of the three Sanders with four times the quantity of Rhubarb given twice in a day the weight of two drams do take away the Matter and strengthen the Bowels The Leaves of Fleabane laid upon fire so that the smoak may be taken through a hollow Chair do stop the flux of the Belly by a specifical quality As also if the same Herb be beaten with Vinegar and applied to the Stomach Also the smoak of Mullin taken through a hollow Chair is excellent the example of which is in our Observations Syrup of Coral is excellent and much more the Tincture or Magistery of the same The Conserve of the wild Rose or sweet Bryar Rose is good against a Chollerick flux especially if it be mixed in astringent Opiates But when there is danger of weakness through a long and often flux you may give Laudanum with Mastich and Terra Sigillata When it is very violent a Clyster of Broth and new Treacle is excellent Pils of Bdellium taken twice or thrice in a week or every other day are good against al old fluxes For the same is the often use of Medlars as Forestus confirms by experience obs 1. lib. 22. in these words One that had a constant Flux and spent all he had upon Physitians came to me for counsel whom I advised to eat Medlars though green as many as he could by which he was speedily cured As it was with a Zeland Merchant that came to John Spirinchius a Physitian of Lovan who having been long sick and of a Dysentery at last and could not be cured by any was at length by his advice cured only with Medlars and gave the Physitian three hundred Crowns for his advice Thus Forestus But we must observe that the Body before the use of Medlars be clensed from Excrements In an old Diarrhoea the following Medicines are excellent Take of the shavings of Ivory three drams Confection Alkermes one dram Sugar dissolved in Rose Water four ounces Make Lozenges Take of Crocus Martis six grains Bezoard Mineral half a scruple Conserve of Roses two drams Spirit of Vitriol three drops Mix them in a Bolus to be given twice a day long after and before Meat Take of the Juyce of Persicaria Maculata and of the great Housleek of each three ounces boyl them till the third part be consumed and give them in the morning they do certainly cure any flux though very old Mercurius Diaphoreticus given some daies together twelve grains at a time taketh away all the impurities of the Body which use to beget fluxes The Decoction of Juniper Berries in Wine given three daies together is good and also one dram of the Pouder of Grashoppers given in white Wine These two by deriving the Matter of the flux to the Ureters The Decoction of Juniper is thus made Take of Juniper Berries one handful red Wine one pint and an half boyl them to the consumption of two thirds Let him take the straining three daies together The Water of Brimstone Mines cure an old Diarrhoea by purging the whol Body and by strengthening the Stomach Of which ther is an example in our observations If a Diarrhoea come from a Catarrh you must look to the Brain as the part that sends it with the Medicines prescribed in the Cure of a Catarrh But if it depend upon the Obstruction or weakness of the Liver or Spleen you must cure them as shal be shewed in their proper places and then there is little or no use of astringents Platerus in the Cure of the Hemorrhoids
the Liver which also destroyeth the Natural heat This evil disposition and occult distemper may come by burning and swooning Feavers by a hot distemper of the Bowels which melteth the Oyly substance by occult corruption and corruption of Humors by a great coldness from flegm and Melancholly abounding which doth oppress and corrupt the Natural heat and it may come by outward Causes as great draughts of cold Water Snow or Ice extraordinary eating of raw Sallets Poyson and Medicines that purge too vehemently By drinking of too much new Wine salt sharp and peppered Meats and strong things which parch the substance of the Liver To these you may add al other Causes which by too much cooling or heating do dissolve the strength and tone or order of the Liver Hitherto is declared a true and proper flux of the Liver which hath this sign there are Liquid and ferous stools like washings of flesh from the weakness of the Liver which cannot sanguifie or make blood well or from a malignant distemper which spoileth the Natural heat and moisture There is also a bastard flux of the Liver which comes of a simple distemper without any fault of the radical moisture by which distemper the faculty is not hurt but the work hindered so that instead of pure blood there comes impure and corrupt or the good turns into evil when in a true of the Liver there is never any good blood in the Liver The Blood is corrupted either by the mixture of Choller or Melancholly or some other impure Matter or from its too long staying in the Liver and the parts adjacent by which it is made thicker or burnt or rotteth or from the fault of the Spleen which doth not suck away the drossie blood and in this bastard flux somtimes thick somtimes black and somtimes blood is voided mixed with Humors of divers colors The signs of this Disease may be gathered from what hath been said For in a true flux there appear moist stools like washings of flesh which is not in other bloody fluxes if in a Dysentery at any time it is seldom and then there is choller flegm and excrements of divers colors voided and in a Dysentery there is pain and torment of the belly but in this none The Signs of the Causes are known by their proper Characters For if the weakness of the Liver come from a hot distemper there went a burning and consuming Feaver before or there is green vomits or stools thirst and a Feaver foulness of Body and want of appetite and stinking Evacuations but if it come from a cold cause the stools are less stinking neither is there thirst or consumption the whol Body is colder and blewish Somtimes there comes a Feaver from the putrefaction of Humors which changeth the said symptomes but you must examine the Causes afore going which will declare both distempers Also in this cold distemper the Patients desire much strong Wine A moist and dry distemper are known by the contrary effects A moist causeth more and oftener stools very thin but a dry little and thicker stools but there is also great thirst Lastly The external Causes are known by the relation of the Patient and those that are with him A bastard flux of the Liver hath almost all signs of a Dysentery only there is no pain of the belly nor pieces of flesh in the stools as in a Dysentery The Prognostick of this Disease useth to be evil and deadly for when a principal part is very ill by consumption of the radical moisture whose reparation is scarce to be hoped for we can expect for the most part nothing but destruction especially when the Disease comes of heat When this disease comes in Feavers there presently follows a melting of the Body and great putrefaction which presently kils the party For in malignant and pestilent Feavers the danger is encreased according to the evil condition of the Cause But when this Disease comes of a cold distemper it useth to last longer and turn into an incurable Dropsie Lastly A bastard flux of the Liver although it be dangerous yet is it less than a true because it comes only from a simple distemper and evil disposition of the Humors the tone and strength of the Liver remaining sound and may be cured by taking away the Causes that defile the Blood The Cure of this Disease is wrought by Medicines that strengthen the Liver correct its distemper and stay the flux And because it comes oftenest of a hot distemper therefore we wil first speak of the Cure of that distemper because it comes seldom of a cold Cause and is to be cured as a Dropsie First therefore although Evacuations seem to be needless by reason of the greatnâ—ss of the flux you may give Rhubarb either alone or with Myrobalans as in the Cure of Dysentery because it doth strengthen the Liver and the rather if you sind any filth in the stools for many Patients have been cured by only one scruple of Rhubarb given many daies together in Conserve of Roses Clysters are here of little worth because the Liver is affected yet somtimes you may give one of chaly beat or steeled Milk or of a gentle astringent Decoction lest the Guts should be too much relaxed But you may make Juleps to strengthen the Liver and correct its distemper thus Take of Succory Graminis or Dogs Teeth and Sorrel Roots of each one ounce Endive Succory Plantane and Dodder of each one handful Sea-wormwood half a handful red Sanders one dram and an half the shavings of Ivory and Spodium of each two scruples Corâ—ander seeds prepared one dram red Roses one pugil boyl them to â—â—e pint and an half dissolve in the straining Syrup of Quinces and simple Syrup of Vinegar of each two ounces Make a Julep for four Doses to be taken morning and evening Or Take of Plantane Water four ounces Syrup of dried Roses one ounce Spirit of Vitriol aâ— much as will make it moderately sharp make a Julep to be repeated often He may also take of these Syrups following often in a spoon Take of Syrup of Myrtles Quinces and dried Roses of each one ounce the Syrup of Succâ—â—â— simple or compound with Rhubarb one ounce and an half mix them There is an excellent Syrup made of the Tincture of Roses made in Rose Water and with Sugar of Roses brought into a Syrup Also this following Pouder given to the quantity of half a dram or a dram once or twice in a day in a rear Egg Broth or other fit Liquor may be used with profit Take of Plantane and Soâ—rel seeds of each one dram Endive Purslane Dodder and Coriander seeds of each one scruple red Roses and Troches of Spodium Gum Tragacanth torrefied of each half a dram the inward skins of Hens Gizzards dried half a scruple make a very fine Pouder Or the Lozenges made of the three Sanders with a double quantity of Rhubarb given to two drams at a time are good
or thrice in a day Also divers Juleps to cool the Liver use to be prescribed of which the Forms following may be Examples Take of Sorrel Succory Dog-tooth and Dock Roots of each one ounce Endive Succory Sorrel and Maiden-hair of each one handful Succory Bugloss and Borrage Flowers of each one pugil boyl them to a pint In the straining dissolve Syrup of Lemmons three ounces â—â—ake a cleer Julep for three Doses to be taken twice in a day If you will make it cooler add a little Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol to every Dose to make it sharp And to make it colder yet add a dram of Sal prunellae VVhen Herbs are wanting you may make a Julep of stilled VVaters thus Take of Endive Succory and Sorrel Water of each three ounces Syrup of Lemmons and Pomegrantes of each one ounce and an half Make a Julep for three Doses You may also make Juleps that are good and pleasant of Juyces an Example of all which may be this that followeth Take of the Juyce of sweet Apples newly drawn and taken from the faeces four ounces the juyce of Lemmons three ounces Rose Water two ounces the Juyce of Pomegranates one ounce white Sugar half a pound Make a Julep for three Doses Instead of Juleps Physick Broth may be made for the dainty folk of the Herbs aforesaid boyled with a Chicken To which you may add one dram of Lapis Prunellae that it may cool the better or make it sharp with some drops of Spirit of Vitriol Blood of Succory and Germander brought into a Syrup as followeth are good to clense the blood open obstructions and cool the Liver Take of Succory Water made in Balneo Mariae as much as you please the Leaves of Succory two parts Germander one part Steep them together and digest them in Balneo Mariae three daies then strain them and add to the Liquor fresh Succory and Germander then digest them again three daies then strain them and let this way of Infusion be repeated eight or ten times The Liquor will turn red like blood to which you must put as much Sugar and make it into a Syrup Besides You may make Opiates and Tablets to cool the Liver and strengthen it thus Take of Conserve of the Flowers of Succory Violets Water-lillies and Bugloss of each one ounce the pouder of the three Sanders one dram and an half With Syrup of Lemmons make an Opiate to be taken often Take of the Lozenges of the three Sanders with a double quantity of Rhubarb four ounces Let him take every morning two hours before meat one of the weight of two drams Conserve of Hips of the Canker Rose well clensed and boyled with Sugar into the Form of a Marmalade doth powerfully cool the Liver if the Patient taketh it instead of the former Opiate The Tincture of Coral made with Juyce of Lemmons doth cool and strenthen the Liver if you give two spoonfuls thereof every day or twice in a week at the least A Bath of warm VVater used often doth more powerfully and profitably cool and moisten the Body than any other Remedy especially in lean folk VVhey is good for the same if it be used fifteen daies or more together It is made best by boyling the Milk and powring in a little Vinegar or Juyce of Lemmons and afterwards straining it Amatus Lusitanus prepareth it thus Take of Whey one pint very sharp Syrup of Vinegar three ounces Mix them and after a little boyling let it be taken as Mineral Waters twice or thrice and then walk upon it The Ancients took it five pints at a time Quercetan prepareth it thus Take of Whey two pints Juyce of Lemmons two ounces the new made Juyce of sweet Apples three ounces Clarifie them all together at the fire with the white of an Egg and put to them a little Sugar When it is strained take six or eight ounces every morning for fifteen or twenty daies together And if the Body be lean and consumed you may give Milk alone especially if it be of an Ass for many daies The Decoction of China prepared with the Juyce of Lemmons is also good for this purpose especially if there be Obstructions It is made thus Take of China Roots sliced one ounce Spring Water six pints the Juyce of Lemmons three ounces Steep them twenty four hours then boyl them till the third part be consumed then strain them through a Hippocras Bag and let him take six ounces thereof morning and evening and mix it with Wine when he pleaseth Lastly Mineral Waters that have Vitriol are good because they open and cool If the Disease continue after all this open the Hemorrhoids with Hors-leeches once or twice in a month And also use outwardly Epithems and cooling Oyntments to the Region of the Liver Make Epithems of Sorrel Succory Rose or Plantane Water or of Vinegar and Camphire to which for the strengthening of the part add a little Pouder of the three Sanders The Oyntments are Galens cooling Oyntment and the Cerat of Sanders Chap. 2. Of the Inflamation Imposthume and Vlcer of the Liver THe Inflamation of the Liver is a hot Tumor arising from Blood which is out of its Vessels and sent into the substance thereof And as the Blood is either pure or mixed with other Humors so doth it produce divers kinds of Tumors For if it be pure it makes a true Phlegmon but if it be mixed with Choller Flegm or Melancholly it produceth an Erysipelous Oedematous or Schirrous Phlegmon And if the said Humors predominate over the Blood there is a Phlegmonous Erysipelas oedema and schirrus There is another difference in respect of the place in which the Inflamation is it is either in the gibbous part or Cavity of the Liver Which is thus to be understood according to Galen 5. de locis aff cap. 7. An Inflamation cannot be in either part of the Liver distinct so that the other shal be free because the flesh in the part is contained in all parts and therefore when one part suffereth the other also suffereth in some measure Moreover That which Galen taught 13. Meth. Cap. 14. is worth observation When the hollow part of the Liver is offended it is necessary that the Inflamation reach to the Veins of the Mesentery which come from the Gate Vein And Experience teacheth that they who have died of this Inflamation have had not only an Imposthume in the Liver but also in the Mesentery VVe must also observe from Hippocrates Aph. 45. Sect. 7. That an Imposthume somtimes is only in the Membrane which covereth the Liver and somtimes in the substance or Parenchyma of it For saith he they who have a hot Liver suppurated if pure white quittor or matter flow from thence do escape for it is contained in the Tunicle But if it be like Lees of Oyl they die Galen in his Comment saith thus They who have matter in the Tunicle of their Liver and the substance not
majus thus Take of Gromwel seeds husked two ounces spring Water half a pint boyl them till three or four ounces of water only remain which being strained mix it with as much Sack and give it warm it will sweat him plentifully if he be covered warm But those Medicines are best which purge by Urine and the Cure is commonly better this way One of the chief is two ounces of the Juyce of Chervil given every morning in Wine for many daies Opening Wines that purge by Urine are good in this case as this Take of Elicampane Smallage Fennel and Flowerdeluce Roots dried of each one ounce and an half Roots of Valerian Gentian Asarabacca and Squils or Sea Onions of each one dram the middle Bark of an Elder and Sassaphras of each six drams dried Wormwood Agrimony Germander and Maiden-hair of each two drams the tops of Centaury the less and Broom flowers of each one dram Parsley Annis and Dill seeds of each one dram and an half Cinnamon two drams Spicknard half a dram bruise them together and infuse them in white Wine some few daies and let him drink thereof every morning The steeled compound Wine prescribed in the Obstruction of the Liver is good for the same The Decoction of Juniper mentioned is to be reckoned among the Diureticks And if you fear it is too hot you may make it in Water and put a little Spirit of Vitriol to it Fonseca commends the use of Turpentine washed with Barley Water and he gives half an ounce thereof twice in a week And lastly The Spirit of Salt Tartar and Vitriol given in a true quantity with an Apozeme or other opening Decoction for some daies do wonders because they being very thin do run into all the parts of the Body and open them The Salts of Wormwood Juniper Bean Stalks and the like given in white Wine do the same Or in want of Salts you may make a Lee of the Ashes of the same which will be sufficient Mathiolus upon the 87. Chap. Lib. 1. of Dioscorides saith That a Lee made of Juniper Ashes with white Wine and four or five ounces thereof taken doth powerfully provoke Vrine so that I have seen some men cured of a Dropsie with it alone Moreover In the whol time of the Cure you must use strengtheners to the Liver for it is in vain to purge water if you do not hinder the encrease of it which you cannot do except you refresh the Liver and bring it to its former temper Among the chief Strengtheners is Cinnamon Water of which you may give one Spoonful every morning and before Supper But Galen in his Eight Book Kata Topous commends the Electuary called Cyphoides by the Arabians from the Wine whereof it is made of which you may give half an ounce in the morning according to Hollerius it is thus made Take of Curans clensed half a pound boyl them in old Sack to the consistence of a Pultis strain them after they are pounded and then ad of the conserve of Rosemary flowers Citron barkcandied and Cinnamon of each one dram the Pouder of Aromaticum Rosatum Diamargariton calidum and Diacinamom of each two scruples Lignum Aloes half a dram Saffron half a scruple mix them for a soft Electuary The Opiates prescribed for the Obstruction of the Liver are here very profitable The Conserve of Sea Wormwood is very good made of one part of the Leaves and three of Sugar with which Matthiolus in his Chapter of Wormwood saith some have been Cured Poterius makes an Opiate of Conserve of Roses Specificum Somachium and Crocus Martis and Oyl of Vitriol by which only Medicine he saith he hath Cured Dropsies The Specificum Stomachium is Antimony fixed The Cure of men in Dropsies lieth much in their drink therefore there must be care of that that he drink sparingly and endure thirst as much as may be for it is known that many have been Cured only with abstaining from drink and eating of dry meats without other means For Drink let him take Elicampane or Wormwood Juniper or Steeled Wine or let him use the aforesaid Steel Medicines Avicen forbids men in a Dropsie to see Waters But if you fear too much Heat or Driness or if the Patient be Abstemious he may use the Decoction of Juniper of Guajacum or Sassaphras or of Madder which provokes urin very much either alone or with white Wine But because he must abstain from Drink as we said and yet there is great Thirst it must be asswaged by Fits with washing the mouth with steeled Water and Vinegar or with often chewing Mastich or the like for it wil draw water to the mouth not only as some think out of the head alone but from the Stomach and Cavity of the Abdomen and therefore it will do much good Of Meats we say thus That he must chuse the Dryest and avoid Sweet meats as the Plague While you use Internals forget not Externals for they are of great force to discuss the Humor of the Belly as Fomentations â—ags Oyntments Pultisses and Plaisters The Chief are made thus Take of Marsh-mallow and Lilly Roots Cypress barks Capar barks middle barks of Ash Tamarisk dwarf-Elder the greater Snakeweed of each three ounces Wormwood Agrimony Marjoram Organ Calamints Peny-Royal Râ—e Ground-pine Southernwood and Elder of each one handful Parsley Dill and Cummin seeds of each one ounce Chamomel Melilot and Broom flowers of each three pugils Spickenard Schoenanth Nutmegs Cloves and Cinnamon of each half an ounce Salt and Allum of each half a pound boyl them all in a Lee made of Oak Ashes or branches with this Foment the whol Belly with Spunges dipt therein and strained Or Take the Vrine of a sound Boy four Pints Lapis Prunellae three ounces boyl them to the consuming of the third part for a Fomentation Aqua-pendens Commends Lime Water in which he dips a new Spunge which wil compass the whol Abdomen this he strains and binds on by which he affirmeth That the Waters that Cause the Dropsie are consumed the cold and moist distemper of the Bowels are taken away and the hardness of the Spleen dissolved Claudinus quencheth the Lime in a Salt Bath Water that is either of Brimstone or Salt-peter and bindeth close the Spunges dipped therein and strained with Rowlers to the Belly and keeps them there long and then changeth them You may make Bags of the ingredients of the former Fomentation boyled in white Wine and applied warm to the belly After the Fomentation let the belly be anointed with Oyl of Dill Rue or Flower-de-luce mixed with Pouder of ammoniacum Galangal Dill Bay-berries and the like It is also good to anoint with the Oyl of Scorpions according to Matthiolus and with a little Oyl of Rosemary Many do make Oyntments and Liniments of strong Purgers which draw VVater violently from the Dropsie and asswage the Swelling of the belly but they are dangerous for the Purging Quality getting between the Muscles
affected with the pain of the Reins were cured by them Which Amatus Lusitanus Curat 78. Cent. 7. wisely confirmeth where he thus saith A man that had the pain of his back and pissed often red hairs complained of his Loyns and Guts for which he had took many things in vain but contrary to all hope he was cured with eating of Filberts For one counselled him that if he would be cured he should eat Filberts with their inward Husks before Dinner and Supper But he considering the Innocency of the Medicine eat them at meat and after also by which he was cured perâ—ectly and his pain never returned Amatus Lusitanus in his Notes adds this That not only that man but many others have been cured thereby These are those vulgar Nuts that Avicen reckons among the Medicines that consume the Stone But the question is by what faculty they work whether by the dryness of the inward skin But some say that they work by their Oyly quality The Chymists commend the Spirit of Salt and give some drops thereof in a morning with Broth or other Liquor Zechius commends boyled Water given warm the quantity of six or seven ounces once or twice in a day before meat For it clenseth the Reins and extinguisheth the heat so that they cannot after breed stones Let his Drink be thin Wine with the Decoction of Sea-holly This Crato commends And we have seen excellent effects thereby Sowr Wine called in French Vnies drunk often doth so much good that some have Vinyards of those Grapes on purpose To correct the hot distemper of the Reins is the best Preservative by such things as are mentioned in the hot distemper of the Liver For they help the Reins and the Liver from whence many times they are distempered Among the rest Whey drunken in Summer a whol month together is the best And sharp Mineral and Vitriol Waters to cool al the Bowels You may apply this following Epithem often to the Reins Take of Lettice Water-lilly and Rose Water of each three ounces Rose Vinegar two ounces Apply them very warm morning and evening This following Liniment is good especially in Winter Take of the Oyl of Roses Water Lillies and Violets washed in Vinegar and Rose Water of each one ounce the Mucilage of Marsh-mallows drawn in Pellitory Water six drams Wax a little Make a Liniment for the Reins morning and evening The extraordinary heat of the Reins is allayed with a plate of Lead alwaies warm And lastly Because the Crudities of the Stomach do breed the Stone you must have an eye to that and strengthen it with such things as are prescribed in the Chapter of the Weakness thereof Chap. 2. Of the Stone in the Bladder ALthough we should speak of these Diseases of the Reins in order yet because the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder aâ—e of the same Nature and what hath been said of the one may agree with the other we shal speak next of the Stone in the Bladder The Material and Efficient Cause is the same of both only this Difference there is That Children are most subject to the Stone in the Bladder and Men to that in the Kidneys The Reason of which is given by Galen 6. Epid. Sect. 3. because thickness of Urine which Children often have by Reason of their gluttony is dissolved by their gentle heat neither doth it stay in the Reins by the help of the Expulsive Faculty of the Reins which is stronger in that age but being fallen into the Bladder there it staies longer because children given to play and sleep piss more seldom Moreover their Urine is not so sharp neither doth it provoke the expulsive faculty of the Bladder while the quantity is burdensom and so the dregs remain because the Passage is very narrow besides the bladder being stretched by the plenty of Urine cannot so exactly contract it self to empty out all the Urine but some remains in the bottom which is thick and fit to breed the Stone On the contrary old men do often piss forth that Matter which is in the bladder and their passage is larger but the thick humor remains in the Reins because it is clammy and cannot be dissolved by their weak heat or strain through by reason of its dryness Hence Hippocrates in Coacis saith that the Stone in the bladder is not bred after fourteen yeers of age to three score except it was there before Fernelius mentioned a new Opinion of the Stone breeding in the Bladder saying That every stone in the bladder had its beginning from the Kidneys and grows afterwards in the bladder For when in a fit of the stone it fals from the Reins if it be great it staies in the Bladder and by getting new Matter it encreaseth by degrees For he affirmeth that in grinding of some stones taken out of the Bladder he found as it were a Kernel which fel from the Reins of another color and substance and that he never knew any that had a stone in the bladder who was not formerly vexed with pains in the Reins But this Opinion is cast off by divers very good Authors who by their Experience have found the contrary and have taken many stones from the bladders of children which have been wholly of the same color and substance within And common Experience teacheth us that Children have the Stone in the Bladder who never had pain in the Reins which would be otherwise if the stone came first from the Reins It is true that in men many times stones fall from the Kidneys into the Bladder and encrease by the addition of new Matter but we deny that it is alwaies so and we constantly affirm that many stones have taken their beginning in the bladder The knowledg of the stone in the bladder is difficult especially in the beginning when it is little but when it is great it is evident But we shall discover it as much as we can by Art The First Sign is pain in the neck of the bladder which is worse towards the end of pissing and reacheth to the end of the Yard like that which is in difficulty of Urine from Inflamation called Dysuria and it is scarcely at first distinguished from it but when other signs appear The Second Sign is Itching in the Yard which makes the Patient scratch it often The Third Sign is Weight in the Peritonaeum or inward covering of the Guts and all about the Pecten where the Hair groweth with a heavy pain when the stone is great The Fourth Sign is When there is a great stone there is great stoppage of Urine with pain like women in travel and dropping of water and often endeavoring to pils The Fifth Sign is Stoppage suddenly in time of pissing by reason of the stone falling to the Orifice of the Bladder The Sixth Sign is Easier making Water lying upon the back because it puts the stone from the Orifice to the bottom of the bladder The Seventh Sign
Julep of Violets to cool him thus Take of the pouder of Sows prepared one scruple Aqua vitae two scruples red Pease Broth eight ounces Mix them and give it six hours before meat Thus Augenius Sennertus in his Chapter of the Stone in the Bladder tels a famous story of William Lauremberg Professor of Rostoch who being old and troubled with the stone was unwilling to be cut and therfore sought for other Remedies First he tried the famous Water against the Stone which is so much prized by Princes which is thus made Take of Salt of white Tartar one ounce Parsley Water one pint Mix them and strain them with a brown Paper and with Orange peels make it yellow He used also the Indian Jewel called in Spanish Igiada which is most famous for breaking the Stone but both to no purpose Therfore be desired to make tryal of the Medicine of Sows which Horatius Augenius saith cured two yong men In imitation of whom after general Physick and good Diet he took of Sows one scruple the Spirit of Juniper two scruples red Pease Broth ten ounces which he took in the morning but the first and second time he found a straightness in his Breast and a fainting so that he was constrained to take one dram of Treacle with the Potion and so used it fifteen daies but all this while he voided no gravel And then he added other things and made it thus Take of prepared Sows two ounces a Hares and Goats Blood prepared wild Rose Flowers and purple Violet seeds of each one ounce Species Lithontribi two scruples mix them for an Antidote of which take two scruples the Diuretick Decoction ten ounces the Spirit of Juniper two scruples Which Medicine after he had taken it the second time at five a clock in the morning four hours after he felt a great pain under the Os Publis about the Neck of the Bladder A little after he made a little Water and therewith some thin red things like scales of fishes which though they seemed to be slimy yet when they were touched turned to sand So that it plainly appeared that they were the outside of the Stone By the continuance of this Medicine every fourth or fifth day he voided the like scales and somtimes bigger pieces especially when he used a sweet bath But when the neck of the bladder was wounded by the fragments and the stone he used Medicines to asswage pain and by the use of these Medicines was in seventeen months cured The Decoction was Take of Liquoris four scruples Roots of Marsh-mallows Couch-grass Rest-harrow of each half an ounce Winter Cherries twenty red Pease six ounces Raisons one ounce the four great cold Seeds of each one scruple Barley two handfuls Boyl them in Winter Cherry Water Rest-harrow Strawberry and Bean Flower Water of each one pint and an half to the straining add of the Syrup of Marsh-mallows four ounces The Sows are thus prepared Take of live Sows two pound wash them in Rest-harrow Water then drown them in Spanish Wine then powr the Wine out and put them in Glasses the more Glasses the better because then they will dry better Put these Glasses well stopt into the Oven when the Bread is drawn that they may dry gently till they will pouder then put some Spanish Wine upon this Pouder as much as it will take in and dry it again do so thrice and fourthly wash it with this Liquor Take of Straw-berry Water three ounces Spirit of Vitriol half a dram mix them Then dry it and make it fine and keep it in a Glass for your use Besides the aforesaid the use of the distilled Water of Goats blood or of the Urin of a Goat newly slain which was formerly mentioned in the Stone of the Kidneys If the Stone cannot be broken with Medicines necessity requireth the manual operation though it be dangerous lest the Patient die with lingering pain This requires a skilful and wel exercised Artist and that it may have good success as we have observed It is the Duty of the Physitian before the operation to prepare the body by bleeding purging and diet as the state of the business requireth And observe that the taking away of a stone from a Woman hath no danger because it is done only by enlarging the Passage of the Urine which in them is very short If the Patient fear cutting or want a good Chyrurgion he may use asswaging Medicines least the Stone should cut and ulcerate the neck of the bladder such as are prescribed for heat of Urine But if a stone fastened in the neck of the bladder stop the Urine it must be shaken back with lying upon the back with the leg up and the body shaked and then by a good somentation or bath and with a Catheter let the stone be sent back into the bladder Chap. 3. Of the Inflamation of the Reins and Bladder BEcause the Inflamation of the Reins and Bladder are cured with the same Medicines therefore we will put them in the same Chapter although the Signs are different as shall be shewed This Inflamation is a Tumor of those Parts from the flowing of Blood or Choller unto them This is not very ordinary because the substance of those parts is solid and thick but somtimes it happeneth because the Kidneys are fleshy and apt to receive blood but the Bladder though it be without blood and spermatick because it receives blood for its Nourishment through the smal Veins is without question subject to Inflamation by too much blood as other Membranes of the Brain or Meninges the Pleura Mediastinum and the like We said that these Inflamations come from Blood or Choller as when Flegm or Melancholly in the Blood make the parts thicker because they cannot pierce into their thick substance The Causes of this Disease are either from things Natural not Natural or Pretematural From Natural things when there is a Natural Infirmity of those parts from the Parents or a great loosness of them a great heat originally in them by which they draw plenty of Humors In Youth these conduce much to an Inflamation From things not Natural as much Venery which weakeneth those parts and draws much blood or other Humors to them Gluttony Drunkenness and eating of Salt and Spiced Meats great Passions of the Mind lying upon the back in a soft bed great Exercise stoppage of some great Eâ—acuations as of the Months and Hemorrhoids or usual bleeding at the Nose those things which cause repletion and evil concoction and drive the humors to the inward bowels From Preternatural things as a stroak or wound upon the Reins or about the Bladder a pressing or bruise of those parts constant Feavers foulness of the Vessels or other parts that purge themselves by Urine as in a Pleurisie Empyema or imposthume in the side Obstruction of the Spleen breaking of the Mesentery and the like And lastly Disease of those parts do cause Inflamation as the stone
Toe lay on this following Take two whites of Eggs a little Salt beaten to Pouder a few drops of Vinegar of Roses Mix all and apply it upon Tow or course Flax to the part affected Other Cataplasms are likewise made of greatest efficacy compounded on this manner Take Water of white Mullein and of Fern Root and Branch of each half a pint calcined Vitriol exquisitely poudered one ounce and an half Meal four ounces Saffron two drams Make all into a Pultiss Take Mallows leaves and Roots as much as you please Boyl them in a new Earthen Vessel with equal parts of Wine and Vinegar till a third part be consumed then ad as much course Rye Bran as will make it into a Pultiss which being well wrought together and spread upon a Linnen Cloth let it be applied to the parts pained as hot as the Patient can endure it Solenander doth exceedingly commend this Pultiss Forestus relates that a Cataplasm made of Duck-weed and Chamomel Flowers boyled in Milk adding a little Barley Meal wil do miracles Montagnana affirms this following to be most excellent in extream pains Take the Yolks of ten Eggs beat them in a Frying Pan with half a pound of Oyl of Roses Let them boyl gently till they grow thick adding two drams of Saffron and lay it on hot In the beginning of the Flux many lay on a Cataplasm of Salt and Soot wrought into a Body with whites of Eggs. Or of two ounces of Chamomel Flowers red Rose Leaves one ounce and an half Mullein flowers half an ounce Pouder them and boyl them in sweet Milk to the stiffness of a Pultiss adding three or four Yolks of Egs. Or of Barley Meal and Bean Meal of each one handful Flowers of Chamomel and Roses of each half a handful Mullein Water and Willow Water or Plantane Water and Wine of each as much as shal suffice Incorporate all together in form of a Pultiss Also divers Fomentations may be made to be applied to the place affected after this manner Take of the Leaves of Mullein six pounds red Wine a Quart Beat the Leaves and stâ—ep them in the Wine for three daies Distil them and bathe and foment the parts affected therewitâ— warm with Linnen Cloaths dipped therein Or Take Flowers of Mullein as much as you please fill a glass Bottle therewith and stop the mouth and set it in the Sun for so they will turn to Liquor which being applied to the part affected with Linnen mitigates the pain Salsaturni that is Salt of Lead dissolved in subtil Spirit of Wine easeth pains wonderfully Frog-spawn-Water stilled in May applied to the parts pained doth wonderfully asswage the pains and tempers the Inflamation and redness of the part These following Simples may profitably be mingled therewith Take Frog-spawn-Water Water of Tapsus Barbatus or of Mullein and of Fern of each one pound and an half Infuse therein Lapis tutiae and Litharge of Gold of each two ounces Vitriol calcined and Allum of each one ounce Foment the pained Parts herewith warm An Infusion of Litharge made in Vinegar the Vinegar being a little evaporated till it grow sweetish doth much good to an hot Gout Oyl of Calves Feet is excellent to allay the pains of the Gout and it is thus prepared Let the Calves Feet be beaten and the Bones broken then boyl them all to a Pap. Take the Oyl which swims on the top of the Water mingle it with Aqua vitae and Salt and therewith bath or anoint the parts pained Also Oyls and Fat 's are by many used But seeing the Inflamation which befals those Members which are troubled with the Gout doth draw very neer the Nature of an Erysipelas or red fiery swelling oftentimes those fat things may do more hurt than good for by stopping the pores they may keep in the Humor and so encrease the pain According as Sennertus makes relation of a man troubled with the Gout who found great good by very new Sheeps-milk Cheese laid upon the pained part for as soon as the Cheese being heated by the pained part began to melt and shed its Butter the pains were encreased Yet in some Bodies Oyl of Roses and such like may do good especially mixed with other Medicaments because according to the different Natures of Mens Bodies several things do good to several persons And therefore we must be furnished with a mighty company of Medicaments that upon al occasions we may have change because there is scarce any one so effectual as to do good to al that are troubled Take these following for an Example or Pattern Take Crum of the whitest Manchet half a pound Boyl it in new Milk to the consistence of a Pultiss then ad of the Mucilage of Marsh-mallow seeds two ounces Meal of Line seed and Fenugreek seed of each two drams Flowers of Chamomel and of Melilot poudered of each one ounce Saffron one dram Oyl of Roses one ounce Mix all into a Cataplasm Or to the Cataplasm of white Bread Crum before described Oyl of Roses may be added Also Liniments and Oyntments are wont to be made to mitigate pain Take Yolks of Eggs two or three dissolve them with Oyl of Roses or Violets or Wine and apply them luke-warm Balsamum Saturni prepared with Oyl of Roses or Violets allaies pain most effectually Take Ceruss two ounces dissolve it in Endive Water and a little Vinegar make thereof a Liquid Oyntment Of the said Ceruss is made a Plaister of great efficacy which may be laid on in the beginning of the Disease even whiles the Tumor and Inflamation is present It s composition is thus Take Common Oyl one pound Wine a pint and an half Boyl them till half the Wine be consumed Then ad a pound of Ceruss finely Poudered and two drams of Camphire Boyl them to the Consistence of an Emplaister When there is great Inflamation Vinegar must be used instead of Wine Spread this plaister upon Linnen Cloathes that it may the more commodiously be wrapped about the Parts affected A Living whelp laid to the pained Part doth very much asswage the pain When the pain rages extreamly we may have recourse to Narcoticks howbeit they must not lie long upon the Part because they are adverse unto the naturall heat and to the nerves Take Henbane Leaves two Handfuls Nightshade and Housleek of each one Handful Garden Poppy-Head one pugil Mandrak Roots one ounce Chamomel Flowers and violet Flowers of each one pugil make a Decoction in Water or Milk with which let the Part be bathed Beat the residue after the Liquor is strained out and add of the Flower of Lin-Seed one ounce and an half Wheat meal two ounces Oyl of chamomel three ounces and make a Pultis Or Take Spirit of Wine somwhat Yellow by infusion of Saffron four ounces camphire one scruple Boyl them a little then dissolve therein one dram of Opium With that Liquor let the pained Part be bathed It is a safe and most effectual Medicine
the fore-cited place That he cured the most of such as had this Feaver suddenly by letting them bleed til they fainted away which bleeding was attended by a loosness vomiting of Choller and plentiful Sweat Yet in these daies of ours that same large blood-letting is out of date which is not without danger seeing Galen himself relates in his Book of Curing by Phlebotomy Chap. 12. That it besel three Physitians while they were practising this large Blood-letting that instead of fainting away their Patients died out-right It is better therefore at several times to take away so much blood as the Nature of the Disease doth necessarily require Before Blood-letting if the Patient be Costive or the Guts abound with Crudities an Emollient and Laxative Clyster must be given As for the point of cold Water Galen orders it to be given in so great quantity that the Patient grow pale tremble and be cold all over and so he saies it extinguisheth the fiery heat it strengthens the solid parts and drives out unprofitable Humors by stool by urine and by sweat But he saies there must be many Cautions in the use thereof viz. That it be given in the Vigor of the Feaver the signs of Concoction appearing that the Patient have been used to drink cold Water in time of health have strong bowels and full of juyce a fleshy and wel-set Body have a constant and vigorous strength be not full of thick and clammy Humors have no tumor in any bowel nor stomach throat or sinews weak Otherwise if these conditions be wanting it is to be feared lest the Patient fall into shortness of breath Dropsie Trembling Convulsion Lethargy or some other grievous Disease This kind of Medicine is likewise grown out of date in our times seeing it is hard to observe all those conditions and so many dangers attend the undue use thereof For it is better to use other more safe Medicines which cool the whol Body and the Blood as Juleps and opening Emulsions Epithems Liniments and a Diet altogether cooling Juleps are made of the Decoction of Barley or Sorrel or Cichory or with Water of Cichory Endive Sorrel Lettice adding Syrup of Juyce of Cichory Lemmons Pomegranates Vinegar c. Whereunto also for the greater cooling and opening may be added some drops of Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur If the distilled Waters seem too crude or raw let them boyl with a little Species Triasantalon or Diamargaritum frigidum Emulsions may be made after this manner Take sweet Almonds blanched and steeped in Rose Water one ounce the four greater cool Seeds and Seeds of white Poppy of each two drams Beat them in a Marble Mortar powring on by little and little a pint and an half of Barley Water In the strained Liquor dissolve Sugar of Roses three ounces Make an Emulsion of Almond Milk for three Doses Which will be convement and is to be preferred before Juleps if there be want of Rest Epithems to be laid upon the Region of the Heart and Liver may be thus made Take Water of Roses Bugloss and Lettice of each three ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce Pouder of the Electuary Diamargaritum frigidum one dram and an half Camphire six grains Make an Epithem lay it upon the Region of the Heart Take Water of Endive Cichory Sorrel of each four ounces Vinegar of Roses an ounce and an half the three Sanders two drams and an half Make an Epithem for the Region of the Liver A cooling Oyntment may be anointed upon the Liver and Loyns of Vinegar of Roses Vnguentum Rosatum Vnguentum Refrigerans Galeni or Ceratum Santalinum washed in Vinegar tempered with Water If the Disease seem to lengthen after bleeding we must purge lest the wheyish and Chollerick Excrements putrefie and thereby a putrid Feaver arise But we must use such Medicines as purge without heating and agitation of Humors as Cassia Manna Syrup of Roses Tamarinds Catholicon and such like Ad hereunto a convenient Diet viz. Cooling moistening and thin of Broths made with cooling Herbs Prunes and sharp Apples boyled and Panadaes Let the Patients Drink be a Decoction of Barley Water boyled and Water with Bread boyled in it or mixed with Syrups of Maiden-hair or of Pomegranates Chap. 3. Of an Hectick Feaver AN Hectick Feaver occupies the solid Parts of the Body which constitute the Habit thereof and are commonly called Spermatical or fleshy in regard of which parts it is more fixed and rooted than other Feavers which are in the Spirits or Humors For which cause it is also termed Habitual because it is become Habitual and can hardly be removed from its subject There are many Divisions of this Feaver For first of all there is a Primary Hectick which begins of it self and another Secondary which follows other Feavers Secondly an Hectick Feaver is simple and solitary or joyned with a putrid Feaver Thirdly some Hecticks begin at the Heart others from other Parts as the Lungs Liver Spleen Kidneys Womb and other Parts inflamed ulcerated corrupted or possessed with some other grievous Disease And this Feaver though it have its habitual seat in the Heart and the whol Body yet is it commonly termed Symptomatical because of its first Original which it hath from other parts Galen makes three Degrees of an Hectick Feaver The first is the very beginning of an Hectick in which the Body is hardly extenuated yet the moist Humidity of the Body is inflamed consumes and dries The second comprehends the Augment and therein is an evident extenuation of the Body the fleshy and fat substance of the Body perishing The third contains the state of the Disease and its last age for it never comes to a declination because therein viz. in that degree it is incurable for then the fibrous and membranous substance of the Body is consumed and the whol Body is so extenuated that the Face of the Patient is like that described by Hippocrates nothing but skin and bone This last Degree is called Marasmus or rather Hectica Marasmodes because in a true Marasmus cold is joyned with dryness The Causes of an Hectick Feaver are divided into an Internal and External To the External are referred what ever Causes may occasion any of the other Feavers if the Action of Heating be continual and vehement or the Patients Body be apt to entertain this kind of Feaver Such are the heat of the Sun or of the Fire vehement Exercise Meats and Drinks that are heating immoderate Evacuations as in a Loosness and bloody-flux vehement passions of Mind and finally fasting in a Chollerick Body that is hot and dry of Constitution seeing Galen affirms that those Physitians that were wont to enjoyn their Patients to fast three daies together did bring Chollerick Constitutions by that means into burning and hectick Feavers The Internal Causes are burning and pestilential Feavers which do speedily consume the moisture of the Heart also a long slack Feaver Also some peculiar Disease of any of the bowels
Body Howbeit the sick must be covered only with light and soft Coverings and not loaded with over many blankers or Rugs also the Feather-bed must be taken away and a flock-bed put in place upon which also in the extremity of Summer a covering of Leather wil conveniently be laid on Let the bed be wide that the sick may change place therein Let the Patients Linnen Shifts be often changed contrary to the vulgar opinion provided they be not newly washed nor smel of Soap and that the Time of the Crisis be not at hand in which nothing is to be stirred least the motion of Nature be hindred and disturbed The Sun-beams are to be kept out of the Patients Chamber and store of Company is to be avoided Water is often to be powred out of one Vessel into another in the sick Persons chamber The Pavement of the Chamber is to be sprinkled with Water Vinegar and Rose-Water mingled or with cooling Herbs and flowers as Vine Leaves Willow Leaves Leaves of Water Lillies Flags Roses and flowers of Violets and of Water Lilly which must be kept at hand in good Quantities in a cool place and be often fresh sprinkled and strowed about the Patients Chamber for when these Herbs and flowers are dried they heat the Chamber If the Chamber be cold as in winter it must be a little tempered with a fire avoiding Smoak Howbeit in flegmatick Feavers the Air must be Moderately hot and dry As for Point of Nourishment the Diet ought to be thin and spare in acute Feavers And therein the Antients were so severely diligent as to place the greatest Part of the Cure in ordering the Diet enjoyning such as were sick of a most acute Feaver to keep a most thin and slender Diet and giving them nothing but a ptisan drink of Barley Water as most convenient for persons in a Feaver seeing it cooles and Moistens withal extenuating and opening and hindering no Evacuation And they had two kinds of Ptisans One simply so called or whol Ptisan not strained the other was strained which we cal Barley Cream Barley clensed of the Husks boyled in sair Water to a Consistency or Pottage is the whol Ptisan this being strained with pressing is called Cream or Juyce of Barley But in our Times at least in our Country by the refractoryness of Women who fear nothing but that the sick person shal be starved as al their care in a manner is to cram their Children with meat like Pudding Bags how empty their Brains be of wit or their Hearts of Grace and wisdome matters not and the Indulgence of Physitians who the best of them smel too strong of the Mountebank it is grown into a fashion in al Feavers yea the most acute and violent to allow the sick at al times broaths of the flesh and Hens Chicken Capons mutton and that for the most Part they give every third or at most every fourth hour And in the Summer the flesh of a pullet kid or Lamb is added to the former Diet. And somtimes again broaths are made of nothing but a chick with cooling Herbs as Lettice Endive Sorrel and Purslan Or to ordinary broaths is added Juyce of Oranges Lemmons or Pome-Granats when the heat of the Feaver is very great or the putrefaction very intense Moreover in Feavers not so very acute Panadaes are given twice or thrice in a day made of washed bread and broath Also Barley broaths are somtimes used of the Ptisan of the Antients being strained with the broath of the flesh aforesaid and Sugar or without broath adding sweet Almonds But these for the most Part do oppress the stomach and therefore the use of simple broaths and Panadaes seems more convenient Howbeit very profitable it it to boyl a little Barley with flesh and thereof to make broaths In long Feavers a fuller Diet is fitting of the flesh of Chickens Veal Hens and Pullets Capons Partridges Mutton or of the Juyce pressed out of them Gellies made with them and such like Concerning the time of giving the Patients meat this is principally to be observed that they never eat in the time of the Exacerbation or fit but in the time of the Feaver But if the Exacerbation be very long let the Patient eat in the declination thereof For drink the Ptisan of the later Physitians made of the Decoction of Barley with Liquoris is usually given in all Feavers To which if the Feavers be very burning may be added a little Lettice Sorrel Tamarinds But more ordinarily are added the Roots of Grass or Sorrel which makes the Water look of an Elegant Colour like Wine But in long Feavers may be added sweet fennel Roots Parsley Roots Annis Seed Coriander Seed or Cinnamon as oft as the stomach through weakness is offended with drinking Take of the ordinary Ptisan-drink of Barley and Liquoris two pints spirit of sulphur as much as shall suffice for to make it pleasantly tart Harts-Horn burnt till it be white one ounce Let the Patient use it for ordinary drink shaking the Vessel before it be powred forth Also Water that hath had a peice of bread boyled in it either by it self or sweetned with Sugar is good or mingled with a little Vinegar or Water alone boyled to take away the Cruditie wherewith somtimes a little Suger is mixed and somtimes a little of the Juyce of Lemmons Pomgranats Barberries Cherries or of their Syrups or as much spirit of sulphur or Vitriol as may serve for a great full Acidity or a little Sal Prunellae if need be of potent refrigeration Water is commended wherein are steeped Tamarinds Berberies or Prunes A Decoction of french Prunes is very pleasing to the tast Or Barley is boyled with Tamarinds and towards the End the broath is Aromatized with yellow Sanders and Cinnamon Which drink doth not only Quench thirst but loosens the belly and cools and strengthens the Liver Take Sugar eight ounces Sal Prunellae one ounce Make it into a Pouder to be taken with the Patients ordinary drink Whereunto if thirst be extream the spirit of vitriol may be added Touching spirit of Vitroil and of Sulphur this is diligently to be observed that in putrid Feavers the use thereof is great because they have a mighty cooling opening and putrefaction quelling faculty prohibit the Inflamation of the Humors and quench thirst Howbeit in the Pleurisy Inflamation of the Lungs Spitting of blood Consumption of the Lungs and other Diseases thereof unles they spring from thick flegm stopping the Vessels thereof Inflamation of the stomach Dysentery or bloody flux Pissing of blood Ulcers of the Kidneys and Bladder they do very much hurt and therefore we must abstain form them In Feavers arising from very thin and hot Choller or Joyned with a sharp thin distillation sharp things are not convenient but rather such as gently thicken as Syrup of Violets of dried red Roses with Barly Water or Bread boyld-Water or simple Water boyled or smal beer mixed therewith Where
palate with Skinns of fragrant apples with the pulp and juyce of Citrons and a chick and to them sal prunella may somtimes be added for to cool more effectually Also Emulâ—ions may be made of sweet Almonds and the greater cool Seeds with the Decoctions of the Juleps And for the greater quelling of the venemous Quality to the aforesaid Seeds may be added Seeds of Citrons of Navew or Turnep and of Carduus Benedictus And to commend the tast the aforesaid Syrups may be mingled therewith Now in the whol Course of the Disease Antidotes must be used not only mingled in Juleps Broths and Emulsions as was said before and shal be further declared But also contrived into other forms And because al are not to be used indifferently nor at all times of the Disease that their right Use may be wel distinguished they must be sorted into four Tribes The first conteins those which besides the Specifical Quality by which they resist poyson are cold and dry and moderatly astringent and consequently they hinder putrefaction strengthen the Heart bridle the Venom that it cannot be so easily spred into the whol Body and hinder the dissolution of the parts thereof by a kind of compression as Bole-Armoniack Terra Sigillata Coral Cinkfoyl Roots and the Roots of Tormentil The second Tribe contains such as by their coldness and the tenuity of their substance do resist putrefaction and restrain the venemous Quality as Juyce of Lemmons Spirit of Sulphur and of Vitriol as al acid things and Vinegar it self The third comprehends hot Diaphoretick medicaments which expel venemous Humors and Vapors from the Heart and bring them from the Centre to the Circumference as Angellica Zedoary Dictamnus Meddow-sweet Scordium Carduus Scabious Treacle Mithridate Treacle water The fourth contains such as by a Specifical vertue without any excess of the first Qualities do oppugn the venemous Quality as Bezoar stone Harts-horn Unicorns-Horn Troches of Vipers and such like The Medicines of the First Second and Fourth Tribe do best agree in the beginning and the Augment and those of the Third Tribe in the state and Declination Now these medicaments must be exceedingly varied and diversly mixed according to the different degree of malignity or putrefaction according to the various Intention or Remission of the Feaver and according to the divers temperaments Sex and Age of the Patient and according to other Circumstances the determination whereof depends wholly upon the Judgment and Prudence of the Physitian and cannot be determined by any certain Rules Only one thing I shall advice you of which is very well known viz. That when there is a vehement burning of the Feaver we must chiefly use Refrigerating cooling things but the hot and Diaphoretick must not be medled with which notwithstanding wil be very proper when the Feaver is more remiss and the malignant Qualâ—ty is that which most offends Of these Tribes therefore divers medicaments mâ—y be Compounded according to the judgment of the Physitian But least yong Practitioners should be wholly destitute of some forms I shal ad a few in imitation whereof they may deviâ—e a thousand others as the occasion of practise shal require Take Roots of Sorrel Bugloss and Tormentil of each one ounce Leaves of Endive Cichory Sorrel Pimpernel of each one hand uâ— Tamarinds one ounce Boil al to a pint In the strained Liquor disolve syrups of Pomegranats and Lemmons of each an ounce and half Makes of al a Julep to be taken at thrice adding to every dose a drant of Confection of Hyacinths bezoarstone six graines This form of a Julep may do wel in the beginning of the Feaver But if the Feaver be very high and the Patient of a Chollerick constitution a dram of Sal Prunella may be added to every dose or as much spirit of vitriol or sulphur as may suffice to make it moderatly tart or both of them together â—uâ— in a Feaver not very high may be added to the decoction Rootes of the white-Thistle and of Cinkfovl Leaves of Scordium and Scabious Take sweet Almonds blanched one ounce Seeds of Melones Gourds Navew Citrons and Carduus of each two drams Beat them together in a Marblemorter pouring on by little and little a pint and half of the aâ—oresaid Decoction Syrup of Lemmon three ounces Sal prunellae three drams Make an Emulsion for three Doses to be taken twice or thrice in a day In the whol courâ—e of the Disease let the Patients use in their Broaths the Confection of Hyacinths or the following pouder which is not unpleasant Take of prepared 〈◊〉 Pearls prepared shavings of Ivory Harts-horn and Bezoar of each one scruple Mix them Make of all a pouder of which give half a scruple in every mess of Broath The Innovators of this Age who endeavor to banish Gemms Pearls Coral and al Cordial things from the use of Physick and cure all Feavers even those that are malignant with Blood-letting and meer refrigerating Apozemes may be convinced wiâ—h this one Experiment at least touching Coral and Pearls which being poudred if they be infuâ—ed in Vinegar Juyce of Lemmons Spirit of Vitriol or Aquafortis they take away all the Acrimony of those Liquors Whence we may gather that the same Medicaments taken into our bodies do sweeten and molifie the acrimony and malignant quality of humors and reduce them to a moderation They which have tasted the solutions of Pearles and Corals made in juyce of Lemmons or diâ—â—illed Vineger do know the truth hereof very wel Where the malignant and venemous quality is very rise Alexipharmaca or Poâ—on-quellers are to be given in Juleps broths the ordinary drink of the Patients and 〈◊〉 they take in that by a perpetual and incessant Conflict the troublsom Enemy may be oppoâ—ed Bezoar stone is given alone to the quantity of five or six graines with water of Mead-sweet Scorzonera Carduus or such like not only to oppose the malignant quality but also to help the Diaphoretick motion for this stone is reputed for a sweating Medicament which notwithstanding many approved Authors doubt of because they could never see any sensible effect by the giving thereof And truly to speak out my mind there can no great Confidence be put in this stone because although we may allow to the true and genuine bezoar stone those faculties which are hereunto ascribed yet because the great price thereof Causes that many Traders take a world of paines to sophisticate the same we can now a dayes hardly get any but counterfeit A clear testimony whereof is that the writers of the Indian Histories do aver that Bezoar stone is very scarce and of great price among the Indians themselves when we have plenty of them and cheap enough More credit should of right be given to that same Root which the Spaniards have in this Age of ours brought out of Italy which they cal Contra yerva which signifies the Poison-pelting or Antidotary Herb because the pouder thereof is a
what is received into the brain or what is nigh unto it For the most part once bleeding wil not be sufficient in this Disease but twice or thrice or oftener in the beginning or encrease of the Disease you may adventure upon it according to the condition or plenty of the Humor the age temper and strength of the patient If a Phrenzy taketh one that hath a constant Feaver as it is often in the encrease of Feavers or in the state of them when nature is out of order and disturbed by the malignity of that matter which causeth the Disease sendeth Chollerick humors to the head you must again let blood though you have done it before in respect of the Feaver but you must do it sparingly because the strength is abated by the Feaver and former bleeding Therefore at that time open the Head vein or if strength wil not bear that open the Saphena in one foot or both which is approved in such Diseases neither is it less beneficial to open the Hemorrhoid veins by Leeches But in all Bleedings which are made in time of a Delirium you must observe this that the Orifice be not large for then it wil quickly heal and you must bind it up carefully lest the Patient being unruly cause it to bleed again as also 't is very good for the sudden Cure of it to lay a plaister of Aloes white of an Eg and the hair of a Hare After Bleeding provoke sleep For if after bleeding there comes watchfulness the Humors wiâ— be again inflamed and the patient grow worse Sleep is caused by repelling Medicines laid to the forehead which are cooling and narcotick or causing sleep which we shal mention hereafter When you cannot conveniently let blood apply Cupping Glasâ—es with deep Scarrifications first to the lower than to the upper parts and also to the Thighs and other parts without Scarrification Use Frictions in the same parts and use Ligatures to the Legs for reuulsion Apply Vesicatories to the Shoulders and Arms. Give every day a Clyster made of cold and moist things For by these the Acrimony of the Humors is qualified and they are put downwards And they are thus made Take of Marsh-mallow Roots one ounce the Leaves of Mallows Violets Lettice Pellitory Beets of each one handful the flowers of Water-lillies and tops of Dill of each one pugil Prunes six boyl them in Barly water to one pint of the straining ad of Cassia newly drawn and Diaprunes simple of each six drams red Sugar one ounce make a Clyster Use no Oyls in these kind of Clysters because they wil then inflame You must not Purge in a primary Phrenzy such a one as comes not from another Disease but it is good somtimes to Purge when the Phrenzy comes upon a continual Feaver For if there be an evil digestion or ill juyce in the Body and the Phrenzy begin then the matter is wandering and is taken for that which is called Turgent or abounding And therefore by the Counsel of Hippocrates Aphor. 22. Sect. 1. is to be presently evacuated But the Purge must be made of cold things with gentle as Senna Rhubarb Cassia Tamarinds Catholicon and Syrup of Roses Presently after blood letting you must use repelling Medicines which hinder the assent of humors and cool the head as Vinegar of Roses made of Oyl of Roses and Vinegar in time past but now we use distilled Waters and Juyces of Herbs with it and we repel and cool more or less as there is a greater or less flux of humors and inflamation which we must diligently observe Therefore we wil lay down many forms that in particular cases we may chuse those which are most fit Take of Oyl of Roses three ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce Rose and Plantane Water of each two ounces lay them on the forehead shaven and with four-folded cloaths Or Take of Rose water four ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Vinegar of Roses half an ounce two whites of Egs mix them together Or Take of Oyl of Violets and Water-lillies of each half an ounce Rose Lettice and Housleeâ— Water of each two ounces Vinegar half an ounce Or Take of the Juyce of Lettice Purslain Night-shade Penny-grass or Venus-navil of each two ounces Oyl of Roses three ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce Or Take of Oyl Olive in which Roses are infused one ounce and an half new Poplar Oyntment for the old inflameth one ounce Vinegar of Roses half an ounce one white of an Eg Beat them together and apply them with Flax. The Milk of a Woman which hath brought forth a Girl with the Juyce of Lettice and Oyl of Roses is very excellent Concerning these cooling Medicines you must observe that they be administred warily and with judgment because the Brain is of its own Nature cold and a principal Member therefore it is to be feared left the Patient by too much use thereof should fall into a contrary Disease as a Coma or the like especially if he be weak or old and although they are used somtimes more sometimes less yet the extent of the time of their usage ought not to be above three daies Moreover Those Medicines do stick to the face and eyes therefore you must lay about them a cloth or a little wool in the fore part of the head you must apply them to the middle of the forehead in the sides of the head above the ears in the hinder part about the nape of the neck and towards the crown of the head and these are in Winter to be applied hot in Summer cold as Galen saith 2. de comp med cap. 2. But it is best in old and weak people never to apply them actually cold If the Inflamation cometh to the Skin as it somtimes doth then we must avoid repelling Medicines especially those that are strong lest the matter driven to the Brain should augment the Disease You must apply cloths wet in Rose-water and Vinegar to the neck to hinder the humors from flying into the head Causticks applied to the Legs do very well for revulsion or drawing down of the humor to the inferior parts While these things are doing you must use al those things which do cool the whol Body especially the principal parts both internally and externally Inwardly you must use Juleps Emulsions and Electuaries Take of the distilled Waters of Lettice Purslain Roses and wild Poppies of each three ounces Syrup of Violets and Pomegranates of each one ounce and an half Sal Prunellae three drams Make a Julep for three Doses to be taken twice or thrice in a day Or Take of Lettice Purslain and Plantane of each two handfuls Water Lillies and Violet flowers of each a pugil Boyl them in Barley Water to one pint and being strained dissolve in it Syrup of Violets three ounces Sal Prunellae three drams Make a Julep for three doses or draughts It is very good to put to your Juleps besides the Sal prunellae the spirit of
Sulphur or Vitriol for those do much allay the heat of Choller Take of the four great cold Seeds six drams white Poppy seeds two drams Barley Water half a pint Lettice and Water-lilly Water of each two ounces Rose water one ounce Make an Emulsion according to art to two Doses putting thereto Syrup of Violets two ounces Take of Conserve of Violets and Roses of each one ounce Conserve of Water-lillies and candied Lettice stalks of each half an ounce the pouder of Diamargariton frigid half a dram With the Syrup of Violets make an Electuary You may also make an Electuary of white Poppy Seed beaten in a stone Mortar and mixt with Sugar this may be called Diacodium album this temperates sharp and hot humors and brings rest it is made of one ounce of Poppy seeds beaten with so much Rose water after put two ounces of Sugar to it Or make it of equal parts of each Outwardly you must apply cold Epithems to the Heart and Liver Take of Rose water three ounces Borrage Bugloss and Sorrel Water of each two ounces white Wine Vinegar half an ounce the pouder of three Sanders one dram and an half of burnt Ivory half a dram Wood of Aloes one scruple Saffron eight grains Camphire six grains Make an Epitheme for the Heart Take of Lettice and Rose Water of each three ounces Endive and Purslain Water of each two ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce white and red Sanders and burnt Ivory of each one scruple Camphire and Spicknard of each six grains the pouder of Diarrhodon one dram Make an Epitheme for the Liver Let the Liver and the Loyns be anointed with this Oyntment Take of the Vnguent of Roses one ounce and an half the cerate of Sanders one ounce the Juyce of Lettice and Oyl of Roses of each half an ounce Make a Liniment Let the Breast be anointed with supling Oyls as Oyl of Violets and the like Apply cloaths wet in Water and Vinegar to the Stones or Cods or which is better let them be wet with Rose water and Vinegar It is good to wash the feet with an actually hot decoction made of cold things for it will soften those parts by its hot moisture and make the humors descend and its potential coldness will be communicated to al the Body and to the Brain especially by the Nerves whereby sleep will be provoked It is made thus Take of Violets Mallows Willow Leaves Vine Leaves Water-lillies of each two handfuls the flowers of Roses and Water-lillies of each one handful Poppy heads ten Make a Decoction for the use aforesaid Fair Water may suffice to wash the Feet and if the feet of the sick man be put therein when it is a little warmed for three or four hours it frees him from his Delirium and makes him sleep The same effect is wrought by Housleek beaten into a Cataplasm and laid to the soals of the feet and also by Pompions or Guords beaten and so applied Sweet Scents often applied to the Nose cool the Brain they are prepared after this manner following Take of Violet flowers and Water-lillies of each one pugil of Roses two pugils yellow Sanders one scruple Tie them in a clout and dip it into Rose water and let the Patient smel to it often Or Take of yellow Sanders Roses and Water-lillies of each one dram Camphire half a scruple put them with Rose water into a narrow mouth'd Vessel Let them boyl over the fire and after let the Patient receive the vapor at his Nose But because watchings do chiefly trouble in this Disease you must use all your skill from the beginning of the Disease to provoke sleep For which the repelling Medicines before mentioned are very good especially if you anoint the head with Oyl of Violets cold before you apply Rose Vinegar which is good against watchings and Convulsions which come in this disease But the Medicines following will do it more powerfully Take of the heads of white Poppies with their seeds in number six the flowers of Water-lillies two pugils beat them together and with Rose and Lettice water make them like a pultiss which apply to the forehead between two cloaths Note that in Medicines to provoke sleep you must use but little Vinegar because it causeth watching Take of Lettice flowers one handful and an half Roses half a handful white poppy seeds half an ounce boyl them in water till they grow soft stamp them in Barley Meal and womans Milk of each haâ—f an ounce and a little Oyl of Violets Make a Frontal thereof Take of Oyl of Violets water-lillies and new Oyntment of Poplar of each three drams Opium and Oyl of Nutmegs of each three grains Mix them into a Liniment to anoint the Forehead and Temples Great Housleek bruised with Womans Milk and laid to the Forehead appeaseth a Phrenzy and provokes sleep But as soon as the Patient begins to sleep you must take it away lest he fall into a Coma or sleeping Disease Guords of Pompions do the same thing with less danger Penotus doth extol this Epitheme Take of Musk twelve grains Camphire twenty grains red Rose water in which Sanders hath been infused twenty ounces mix them Shave the head and wet double cloaths therein and apply them warm to all the Sutures of the head When they are dry wet them again and continue the application twenty four hours and so doing you shall provoke sleep strengthen the brain and wonderfully recover the Patient except the very substance of the brain be corrupted Inwardly you may give one ounce of Syrup of Poppies somtimes in his Juleps and Emulsions Or you may give four or five grains of Laudanum which also given in a Clyster doth provoke sufficiently to sleep and with more safety The Physitian must be wary in the use of Narcoticks or Medicines that provoke sleep for they must not be given if the Patient be very weak lest the Spirits and Natural heat be thereby extinguished Having sufficiently used Evacuations Revulsions Derivations and Interceptions we must come to the bringing forth of the matter And first we must open the forehead vein if it appear and may be taken not tying a Ligature about the Neck as usually they do for so the blood will be forced upwards But you may with most profit open the veins in the nostrils and if the Disease be any waies curable it will be cured thus You must bleed plentifully and betimes in the beginning of the Disease after you have made general Evacuations And they are opened with Bristles put up into the Nose and pricking often therewith Or you may draw blood from behind the Ears from the Nostrils Forehead Hemorrhoids with Hors-letches Apply to the Head things that resolve with things that repel in that proportion that first you use a little of the resolvers and as the disease declineth encrease the quantity so that at length you use only resolvers to discuss the reliques of the Disease For this end we use Oyl