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A77021 A guide to the practical physician shewing, from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and safest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet. Published in Latin by the learn'd Theoph. Bonet, physician at Geneva. And now rendred into English, with an addition of many considerable cases, and excellent medicines for every disease. Collected from Dr. Waltherus his Sylva medica. by one of the Colledge of Physicians, London. To which is added. The office of a physician, and perfect tables of every distemper, and of any thing else considerable. Licensed, November 13h. 1685. Robert Midgley.; Mercurius compitalitius. English Bonet, Théophile, 1620-1689. 1686 (1686) Wing B3591A; ESTC R226619 2,048,083 803

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at several intervals 2. Caesalpinus A large Cupping-glass with much flame set on for an hour cures forthwith like an enchantment 3. I have known this Electuary doe much good Crato l. 1. cons 6. Take of Conserve of Roses 6 drachms Spec. Aromat rosat 2 scruples White-frankincense 1 scruple Mix them make an Electuary Take the quantity of a Chesnut when you go to bed ¶ Take of Sea-wormwood tops Chamaemil each 1 Pugil White-frankincense one drachm Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water Strain it Id. lib. 2. cons 10. To 4 ounces of the Colature add of Syrup of the juice of Chamaemil Feaver-few each half an ounce for 2 doses With this I have eased most violent Pains in the Stomach and Intestines ¶ This is a most present Remedy for the Heart-burn Idem l. 2. p. 314. Take of new Conserve of Roses 2 ounces Spec. Aromat rosat 2 scruples White-pepper 1 scruple Mix them 4. This Liquour appeases the Pain in the Stomach wonderfully if half a drachm of it be given Deodatus pan●h hyg Take of Mastick 4 ounces the best rectified Spirit of Wine half a pound Galangale 1 ounce Infuse them digest them and distill them by an Alembick 5. Oil of Sweet-almonds taken in some Broth Lael à Fonte cons 35. that hath had Citron-seeds boil'd in it is of great efficacy and so is Emulsion of Citron-seeds 6. The Sapphirine Oil of Chamaemil Hartmannus given to 4 or 5 drops in Mint-water is excellent for the Heart-burn 7. In Heart-burning from acid Phlegm and crude Juices sticking to the Stomach Oil of Aniseeds rubbed on the region of the Stomach is of great efficacy 8. This is highly commended in Pain of the Stomach Take of Nutmeg 2 drachms Spirit of Wine 2 ounces Platerus Honey of Roses till it be sweet boil them a little take 2 or 3 spoonfulls 9. I can reckon up several who have been cured of most bitter Pains in their Stomach Peterius onely by applying a Plaster of Gum Tacamahaca Eust Rhudius art med l. 2 c. 8. 10. Take of Spec. Hierae 2 drachms Diarrhodon Abba●● half a drachm and with Marmalade of Quinces not aromatized I have made Bolus's and given them to several who commonly the same day were all of them freed from their Symptoms 11. In this Disease I use this I take 3 Eggs and break them Herc. Saxonia and with Oil of Roses and Mastick I make Fritters of them and apply them to the mouth of the stomach It is an excellent Remedy 12. I have often found 1 drachm of Powder of Calamus Aromaticus given in 2 ounces of clarified Juice of Worm-wood hot Solenander very effectual in the Heart-burn 13. About 3 ounces of the Juice of Dill boiled in Water and drunk doth wonderfully relieve the Pain of the stomach Varignana that is with reaching and hick-cough Catalepsis or A waking Senslesness or Stupidity wherein a man retains the form and figure of one awake when nevertheless all the functions of his mind and senses are asleep The Contents Cured by voiding Worms I. Whether Wine may be allowed II. I. A Girl not full eight years old in a Burning-fever was first taken with a deep sleep and then with a Catalepsis her Eyes being quite open She took nothing down for seven days but a little Chicken-broth with Purslane boiled in it she lay pale B●nedictus l. 1. c. 26 ●●●●ur mori speechless and without motion onely she breathed with difficulty The Mother in utter despair of her Daughter gave her a Suppository of Honey with which she voided a knot of forty two Worms without any excrement and presently came to her self Some caliginous Vapours from these Animals in her Belly seized all the Senses of her Brain F●rtis cons 34. c●n 1. II. Galen 3. simpl allows Malmsey-wine to Cataleptick persons after whose example Amatus permits Cretian Wine is best with some Sage or Rosemary in it Catarrhus or A Catarrh or Defluxion The Contents The Head is often in no fault and therefore not to be tormented with Remedies I. Many Diseases ascribed to it amiss II. Not cured by one way alone III. Concoction must be more attended than Evacuation IV. The Intemperature or the Brain not always to be blamed V. One caused by Cold needs not Medicines VI. Whether Bloud letting in a Cold one be proper VII When it may be stopt VIII When a Purge may be given IX If a salt one falls upon the Breast we must purge X. If we fear a Consumption we must give a strong Purge XI A Vomit is sometimes proper XII When it may be given in a suffocative one XIII The Cure of a suffocative one XIV We must not insist long upon Vacuations and Revulsions XV. A salt one cured with Issues between the Shoulders XVI With a Seton in the Neck XVII When it falls upon the Breast a Vesicatory proper XVIII Becchicks hurtfull in time of Defluxion XIX By the abuse of sweet things it runs the more into the mouth XX. Whether Bath waters and Spaws be good XXI Whether Whey be good XXII Decoctions of Guaiacum not always wholesome XXIII Whether a Fever be the care of it XXIV Decoctions hurtful XXV The use of Bathing XXVI Washing of the Head sometimes good XXVII Fumes when proper XXVIII Plasters to stop it dangerous XXIX Rubbing the Head bad XXX All Anointing hurtfull XXXI Whether a drying Diet be always proper XXXII What posture one should lye and keep ones Head in XXXIII Exercise of the lower parts wholesome XXXIV Venus whether proper XXXV The Cure of a Catarrh falling upon the Breast XXXVI Of a violent one falling upon the external parts XXXVII Medicines I. IT is clear from Galen's Testimony 2. de differ Febr. cap. ult that sometimes a Catarrh is caused by some fault in the bloud when the head is no way out of order Therefore one cannot say absolutely that a Catarrh is the cause of a Fever It is confirmed because the subject bowels or often the whole body may afford fewel to the Catarrh the head continuing altogether unhurt for the Catarrh sometimes arises from fulness of body sometimes from the heat of the subject bowels and sometimes from the weakness of the head as is gathered from Galen ad Glauconem cap. 15. While therefore the subject bowels abound with excrements they conspire in production of the Catarrh Sanctorius m●th vit err l. 1. c. 26. either because in a long tract of time they are indisposed or because some errour is committed in the first concoction as when the belly is stufft with excrements in which case the head may be sound They err therefore that apply Remedies as Embrocations Washings c. to the head which is onely hurt by sympathy when the subject bowels should be cured ¶ Oftentimes excrementitious humours that are sent up from the lower parts to the brain cause a Catarrh and acquire a
into its natural posture he remained dull as it were stonied yea sometimes he staggered And although he had an Issue made for it in his neck and right arm yet he found no good by them He tried the Leaden waters to no purpose Praevotius advised him with good success to medicinal wines Turpentine with Castor a decoction of box China root Misletoe of the Oak Mastick Tree Sage and Groundpine Velschius Obs 14. Besides Treacle with Sugar of Roses And among external things Goose grease with Spirit of Rosemary applied with Scarlet to the nape of his neck after embrocation Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians Accorombonus de Catarrho 1. I affirm I have seen several cured by the continual use of Diacodium who have been in manifest danger of a Consumption from a thin and salt Catarrh ¶ Take of Cloves Cinnamon Mastick Mace Benzoin each 1 drachm Cipresnut red Coral Pomegranate flowers each 2 scruples mix them make a powder and apply it to the Coronal suture both I and others have often tried the virtue of this powder and we have found it stop destillations in so short a time Idem that it has appeared wonderfull both to our Patients and us 2. The tincture of Luna is very good for destillations Agricola Take of Spirit of Vitriol 4 drops Tincture of Luna 8 drops Water of Mother of Time half an ounce Oil of Amber 5 drops Mix them give it every day ¶ This is a secret for Catarrhs never enough to be commended Take of white Sugar 3 pounds Root of Liquorish Elecampane Flower de Luce each 2 ounces Spring-water 24 pounds Boil them filtre them well To 8 pounds of the Colature add of the herb Speedwell Maiden-hair Lung-wort Scabious Horehound the cordial flowers Colts-foot red Poppy each 5 Pugils Roman Nettle seeds and of seeds of Carduus benedictus Anise Fennel each half an ounce infuse them 2 days and boil them again to a third add of Gum Guaiacum China root each 2 ounces Cinnamon lesser Cardamome Cloves each 3 drachms boil them over a gentle fire for an hour Idem filtre them and strain them Drink of it four or five times a day 3. In a suffocative Catarrh I use with great success water of Violets or Colts-foot Bartolettus with white Spirit of Sulphur dropt in drop by drop in danger of suffocation and I have delivered several from imminent danger 4. Take of Aloes Penniroyal Calamint Mint Citron rind Petr. Bayrus each a like quantity make a powder incorporate it with Ladanum and a little Acacia and apply it to the Coronal suture having first shaved off the hair 5. Terra Lemnia or Bole Armenick with wine is a most excellent Remedy in a cold Catarrh Alex. Benedictus for they effectually hinder suffocations 6. A decoction of Turnips with butter and Sugar is very good or if there be any wind in the Turnips Crato it may be corrected with a drop of Oil of Aniseeds ¶ In a salt Catarrh I have found this a most wholesome remedy A Decoction of Honey with Roses which is made thus Take of pure water 6 measures Honey half the quantity boil it and scum it put a bag full of dry Roses in it and boil them for a convenient time Drink of it every morning Also red Bole Armenick laid upon the Tongue and Palate at night especially stops and dries a Catarrh and wonderfully strengthens the head Idem so as it seems an Inchantment it is as good as any Treacle 7. A Lohoch of Oak of Jerusalem in diseases of the Breast is excellent for the Destillation falling on the Breast it is made thus Take of the juice of Oak of Jerusalem Scabious Speedwell Colts foot each half a pound Barley Cream 3 ounces Sugar half a pound Gul. Fabricius Boil them to the consistency of a Syrup add of Species Diaïrews simp half an ounce powder of Anniseeds 2 drachms Flower of Brimstone 1 drachm Mix them 8. This is very good Take of Rosemary Marjoram Nigella red Roses Cloves Nutmeg Goclenius Indian Spike each half a drachm Make a Powder take it in a Pipe fasting like Tobacco 9. In a thin suffocative Catarrh destilling violently upon the Asperia Arteria and raising a continual cough Graba in Elap●ograplica a little burnt Hartshorn held onely in the Mouth or put upon the Tongue is accounted an excellent Remedy for the Catarrh is presently thickned and the cough comes but seldom ¶ Oil of Amber hath an admirable efficacy to stop a Catarrh if some powdered Amber be put in a bag and heat in Spirit of Wine and sprinkled with some drops of Oil of Amber and applied to the Crown of the head Idem the nostrils and Temples being both anointed with it at the same time 10. This is an exceeding good sternutatory to dry and stop the Catarrh and strengthen the Brain Petr. Michael de Heredia Take of Darnel Seed of Nigella Castor each 1 scruple Marjoram Rosemary Sage each half a scruple Musk 4 grains Mix them make a powder and snuff it up Linseed infused in strong white Wine Vinegar then dried and strowed upon some coals its fume received by the nostrils doth wonderfully stop a defluxion ¶ The destillated water of flowers of white Dittany is also a celebrated Remedy snuffed up into the Nostrells ¶ This promotes expectoration of the thick matter Take of the powder of Elecamparte seed half an ounce Savine seed 2 scruples Honey 2 ounces fresh Butter 3 ounces Mix them 11. Frid. Hofmannus Sassafras wood is of excellent use in this disease so that it is reckoned the true and proper Alexipharmack of Catarrhs especially if it be infused with Spirit of wild Time which is done thus Take of field Mother of Time destill it from strong wine let it stand a few days and destill it from fresh Mother of Time and then infuse Sassafras wood in it ¶ Nothing stops immoderate Catarrhs better than the following Cataplasm Take of sowre leaven 2 ounces Amber powdered 2 drachms make a Cataplasm and apply it to the Crown when it is shaven ¶ Also in a suffocative Catarrh Tacamahaca dissolved with some Oil of Mastick spread upon lether and applied to the Crown of the head when it is shaven is very good 12. For a Catarrh with hoarseness I have had good success in this Medicine of Forestus Gt. Hor●tiu● Take of Liquorish juice white Sugar each 2 drachms seeds of Purslain Cucumber Melon Citrul each half a drachm Aniseed Gum Tragacanth each 1 drachm Penidy of Sugar 2 drachms and an half Make them into sublingual Pills ¶ I have had experience to my honour of this Electuary in several in difficult expectoration which threatned a Consumption Take of Elecampane Root Quinces boil them with Honey and add some flower of Brimstone ¶ In thin destillations I successively use Pilulae de Styrace Cratonis 13. Pope Adrian's Wine is highly
and the Excrements are hardened it is another thing that causes the Pain for it is often observed that a man has not gone to stool for several days and that the Excrements have been retained without the Colick but upon the arising of wind afterwards the Colick hath risen If therefore the Colick be caused by some hard Excrements hindring the passage of the rest of them and of the wind emollients must be used Sennertus and afterwards sharp things to irritate the faculty LIX When a man had recovered of a Catarrh he fell sick of a very troublesome Colick which encreased towards night before it came upon him just as he had done eating he vomited up some pounds of clear water without mixture of any thick Chyle The cause of the Colick seemed to me to be the thickness of the Chyle which for want of liquid Serum when it could not pass the Intestines freely raised the Gripes I knew a Minister tormented with the Colick Bartholinus cent 5. obs 58. who by vomiting great store of water was cured Wherefore Hydragogues must frequently be used in the Colick by help whereof I have often cured Patients by purging LX. A Girl about two years old was tormented with periodical pains about her groin so that neither lying sitting standing nor carried in Armes she could find any ease from her pains This pain returned at set times she was well from ten at night till twelve the next day the third fit being ended and no manifest crisis appearing she lived free from it afterwards There was no sign of worms therefore I do not question but it was a flatulent Colick residing rather in the muscles of the Belly than in the Colon for she was loose enough I cured her by anointing her Belly with distilled Oil of Wormwood and Cumminseed Idem ●ist 59. and giving her some Treacle in Hartshorn water LXI Mr. Puri of Newenburgh in Switzerland four score years old but a lusty man of his age being taken with a violent pain in his left side called a neighbouring Chirurgeon who taking him to be sick of a Pleurisie let him bloud whereupon his pain grew worse His Son a worthy Pastor in the City brought his Urine and asked my advice I enquired of him whether his Father had drunk any new wine lately it was in November which in that year 1659. had got no ripeness He told me yes and added that his pain was below his Ribs and not fixt in one place I foretold him that letting-bloud would prove fatal to him and indeed he died in three days past all remedy LXII No Disease almost requires a more speedy aid from Physick than the Colick and Gripes that happen in the Scurvey Against these evils Clysters of divers sorts Fomentations c. are used The use of Opiates is found here very necessary Certainly Riverius his Rule That purging Pills should have Laudanum in them is very proper here for when sleep is caused and the Patient a little purged the Paroxysm is frequently at an end And testaceous powders by which the sowre salts are either imbibed or fixed conduce very much to the driving away of the morbifick cause For example Take of Powder of Crabs eyes Egg shells each I drachm and an half Pearl 1 drachm Make a powder for 4 doses Willis to be given in a decoction of the root and seed of Burdock every sixth hour LXIII In a long Colick when all other remedies did little or no good I have often known this medicine given once or twice to raise a Salivation and give the Patient ease For if at any time the morbifick matter be plentifully gathered and deeply rooted in the nervous folds cannot be removed by other Medicines the Mercurial Particles spreading themselves every way easily dissolve and divide it into minute parts dispell them this way and that and at length wholly dissipate them Wherefore in a long and pertinacious Colick Idem they may sometimes be given with success to raise a Salivation LXIV A horn Cupping instrument is highly esteemed among the Indians dwelling under the torrid Zone who as they were curing a young man sick of the Colick first gave him a Clyster with their mouth and presently applied horn Cupping instruments to his Belly And sucking the Air out at the little hole they stopt it presently with their finger both to make the instrument to stick fast to the skin and to get the wind out of the Bowels which by these means the Barbarians did most successfully from the young man N. Tulpius l. 3. cap. 49. LXV Galen says that the wind Colick is cured as by charm and Crato approves it if a large cupping-glass with much flame be applied to the Belly near the Navel Observe near not upon the Navel lest swooning follow by reason of the commerce between the umbilical vessels and the heart For a man certainly dies if the skin be flayn off the Navel although he may live if he be flayn all over besides a punishment very common among the Egyptians LXVI This mixture is one of the highest specificks which I have often used successfully Take of Spirit of Wine 1 drachm Spirit of Nitre between half a scruple and half a drachm Spring water 3 ounces Let him take it and being well covered let him compose himself to sweat and keep himself quiet For it is the best way to lie still how difficult soever it be Hartman p●ax chym This is good especially when the wind is enclosed between the membranes Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. In the Colick especially if it pain a man about his stomach they say the broth of the juice of sweet Almonds is good with some grains of long Pepper in Hippocras Wine I have seen the pain laid with a caustick Plaster that would almost make an Eschar Gallel Ballu●ius and draw outwards being applied near the Navel 2. They say it is a most effectual remedy which is made of white Pigeons dung boiled in water till half be boiled away adding a little Dill seed to 2 ounces of the liquor strained and so drunk ¶ One man commends 2 ounces of Nitre with an equal quantity of water and oil given by Clyster for it wonderfully draws out thick matter and dry compact Excrements ¶ The Osprey that digests all it devours has one wonderfull Intestine It is evident that the extreme part of it tied to one causes the Colick Alex. Benedictus ¶ The Guts of a Wolf dried and given in drink are a good Remedy Blolkwitzius 3. I know a man who with the Spirit of Elder-Berries as with shewing a Gorgon's Head presently discusses the Colick pain very familiar to him It is of great virtue in this Disease 4. Mercury water given inwardly takes away the Colick radically and it is thus made The Mercury is first reduced to a Water into half of this water put crude Mercury purified which is also
and apply it to the aking tooth ¶ To preserve the teeth the inner rind of Barbery steeped in Water and to wash the mouth therein is very good in the morning ¶ Also Spirit of Vitriol mixt with Water is very much commended because it preserves the teeth from putrefaction and whitens them For a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol mixt with Sugar or Honey of Roses cleanseth the teeth wonderfully Joh. Crato and helps putrid teeth and gums and Ulcers of the mouth 10. Take Oil of Cloves half an ounce dissolve in it of Camphire half a drachm then add some Spirit of Turpentine four times rectified mix them A drop or two with a little Cotton put in the hollow tooth presently stops the Pain Osw Cro●●●us Bas●chym 11. The Salt of the fruit of the Fir-tree which is called the fixt Stone of the Jovial-tree is good for the Tooth-ach if it be dissolved in a little Vinegar and held a while in the mouth ¶ Take of Wild-poppy Hen-bane Sweet-williams Baum each a like quantity make of them a Crystal Salt put a few grains of it in a hollow tooth It is a certain Remedy Mich. Crugner 12. Take dried Hops rub them a little put them in strong Vinegar boil them a little and strain them Wash the mouth and gums with the Liquour for it is wonderfull Tob. Dor●crellius 13. The Quintessence of Coloquintida is a great Secret in curing and easing the Tooth-ach The Dose is half a drachm or a drachm in some Broth or Syrup Pet. Joh. Faber ¶ The chymical Salt of Lizards cures the Tooth-ach admirably 14. A Turnip rosted in the ashes and applied hot behind the Ears is held for a Secret Certainly it repells violently and cures the Tooth-ach effectually as I have had experience and can testifie also of others Fienus 15. Take the leg or thigh a Toad cleanse it from the flesh Leon Fioravantus Rub the aking teeth with the bone and the Pain ceases in a moment 16. The Tooth-ach vanishes when the Archaeus is mortified which is done by sharp Remedies as the root of Pellitory of Spain and of the Nettle with the red flower Franc. Oswald Grembs the white substance whereof being scraped and applied to the tooth wonderfully mortifies its raging 17. The Secret of the King of Poland In a clear day powder a Load-stone and calcine it in a glazed Pot till it wax green Of this with Meal Wine and Gum Tragacanth make Lozenges to put into the teeth which in a moment stop their aking ¶ Take a clove of Garlick Philip. Grulingius a little Treacle a clean Cobweb Mix them make a Plaster apply it for some hours to the median Vein on that side the teeth ake on the most violent Pain ceaseth and returns not in some years 18. If some Oil of Box in Cotton-wooll be put with a Probe into a hollow tooth J. Caldere de Heredia it presently takes away Pain 19. Fill a Womans Thimble full of Salt of Ashe and apply it to the temporal Arteries where you find them beat in a short time it makes a knot in the Artery Riolanus whereby the flux is intercepted IV. For Loosness of teeth 1. I have had frequent experience of this Take Pomegranate flowers unripe Galls dried Roses and Spurge with a little Alume boil them in Vinegar and harsh Wine till a third onely remain Hold the Decoction hot a long time in the mouth Alex. Benedictus 2. Take of Acorns 1 drachm Galls half a drachm burnt Alume Acacia each 2 scruples Red-rose flowers 1 handfull Berph Gordonius Boil them in a quart of Red-wine Let the teeth be often washed with this Decoction Arn. Villanovanus 3. Pimpernel-root chewed fastens the teeth wonderfully V. For Black Foul and Bleeding Teeth 1. There is not a better remedy than a Pumice-stone red hot and quenched in White-wine twice and the third time left till it be cold and then without any farther quenching beaten and washed If the teeth be rubbed therewith it makes them exceeding white Pet. Bayrus 2. Take of dried Rosemary powdered Whitebread powdered each 2 drachms red Coral prepared 1 drachm Alabaster half a drachm mix them make a Powder with which rub the teeth every day and wash the mouth with Rosemary-water In a short time you will find the admirable efficacy And. Lib●vius VI. For Drawing of teeth 1. Dock-root heat in ashes and continually applied to the tooth draws it out in a short time ¶ Also burn Earth-worms and powder them and having scraped the tooth round about strew it on plentifully and in a day and a night it falls out of it self Therefore use it confidently for it is celebrated often as a Mystery Aetius 2. Clear the tooth a little from its place with a Pen-knife and then strew on it Powder of Euphorbium For this if any thing will draws out bones Or Juice of Spurge mixt with Meal may be put in the tooth and the rest fenced with Wax For Spurge-juice makes the teeth to swell After 2 or 3 days the tooth will be so loose that you may take it out with your fingers Jo● Heurn●us or with an Instrument easily 3. To make the teeth fall onely gut a Lizard and drie it Octav. Horatianus and touch the tooth or the hollow of it with the Powder and it will presently drop out 4. Take a grain of Mastick or Frankincense fit for the hole stop it well carry it day and night but take it out in the morning and wash the mouth with Water something salted a Decoction of Sage or of burnt Harts-horn Put in another grain and continue it so long till the tooth fall out piece-meal A●dr Lib●vius and this is done without any hurt 5. Bastard Hellebore has a virtue beyond all other things to make teeth fall if you rub them with a bruised leaf Riverius but you must have a care what teeth you touch for they will all fall out 6. Gum of Ivy that grows on an Oak draws out any tooth ¶ Some affirm upon certain experience that if you take a Whelp 3 or 4 days old and cut off his left Ear and with the bloud anoint the teeth Joh. Sten● S●robel●●●g●●s all that are anointed will fall out in the night Diabetes or The Piss-pot Dropsie The Contents Bloud-letting is not proper I. When a Vomit is proper II. Purging is proper III. What Purgers are proper IV. Whether Diureticks be proper V. Sudorificks are suspected VI. Narcoticks are good VII Astringents are not always proper VIII Too much are hurtfull IX Sylvius his Cure X. It must be cured by restoring the tone to the bloud XI Sometimes it proceeds from a cold Liver XII The Cure of it in a young person XIII In a spurious one we must not cool XIV Quinces breed the Diabetes XV. Whether a Bath be proper XVI One quickly cured XVII We
as we see it falls out in bloud vessels for the proper aliment of every part is indued with a conglutinating faculty because more or less tenacious and viscous Aches arising in the Limbs and especially in the upper part of the Arm that are most troublesome at night after the redundance of the serous humour if there be any is diminished by Hydragogues and Sudorificks also may be taken away by anointing the part affected with the following liniment Take of Vnguentum Martiatum Oil of Worms each half an ounce Oil of Amber 1 scruple Mix them But if the pain be increased either by this liniment or onely with clothing we must use this following Take of Vnguentum Popul Nervinum each 2 drachms Oil of white Lilies 3 drachms Mix them But if the same pains affect the Hip and have so seized the lower part of the Spine especially that the Body can scarce be ●eared upright and moved Balsamus Sulphuris Terebinthinatus is most excellent if the part affected be anointed with a few drops of it with which in one night I have cured several miserable persons Fr. Sylvius VII A Woman lay ill of a violent pain about her Hip caused by a fall anointing with Oils gave her no ease By chance I had some Melilot Plaster ready I ordered it to be spread on a cloth and to be applied about night in the morning she could rise and sit at the Table whereas before she was not in the least able to stir her self I have several times applied the same to people that have got aches by a fall Thonerus Observ and with success VIII When the same woman was troubled with a great pain about her shoulders shooting through her whole right arm caused by a deep scarification the Knife being thrust deeper in than it ought when other things would doe her no good she used this Take of Oil of Earth-worms half an ounce Badger's grease Fox-grease each 2 drachms Mix them Anoint the scarified places And rub the arm with water distilled of Swallows and Castor hot When the same woman was tormented night and day with a violent pain in her right arm beginning at her shoulder and extending it self all over the arm with a swelling and she could not lift it up in a few days the pain and swelling were dissolved by the following means Take of Emplast Diacalcit 1 ounce Melilot half an ounce Mix them Spread then on a cloth A Maid being tormented with a pain in her right arm was cured in one day with a Plaster of Gum Tacamahaca as several others where the cause was not hot M. N. was tormented with an intense pain in her Loins caused by a Defluxion Take the crum of a white loaf steept in Cow's milk then passed through a brass sieve adding Yelks of Eggs and fresh butter and the following Oil Take of Oil of Chamaemil Dill white Lilies each 2 ounces oil of Earth-worms 1 ounce and an half Of which take what is sufficient for once and apply it hot with a cloth She presently sound ease A Widow 70 years of age had a violent pain in her loins Take of Ointment of Marshmallows Anodyn each 2 scruples fat of a Rabbet 1 drachm and an half Oil of Scorpions 2 drachms Mix them The pain presently ceased In Aches of the armes and feet I have often found fresh Cows dung with Oil of Roses doe good A Woman with Child was tormented with a kind of convulsive pain in her thighs Take Oil of Swallows with Castor 1 ounce Treacle water Cephalick water Spirit of Lily Convall each 2 drachms Mix them Chafe it warm She was quickly well A Woman was troubled with a rackinig pain in her right Arm from her Shoulder to her Fingers ends so that she cried out Take Oil of Earth-worms half an ounce Fat of a Man's Skull of a Badger each 2 drachms mix them She was quickly restored A Noble-man was cured of a chronical pain in his right arm by applying Oxycroceum Plaster having used other things to no purpose Two great men who had been long afflicted with a violent pain in their Shoulders were at last cured with this remedy Take Soap dissolve it in Aqua vitae and apply it This cured a Woman of a violent pain in her feet Take of Vnguent Alabastr Anod each half ●n ounce Oil of Worms 2 drachms Camphire 2 grains Idem mix them IX In mitigating and driving away all pains of the nervous parts coming from a cold cause and from Contusions Balsam of Peru seems to have the preheminence because of its amicable and peculiar faculty in strengthening the Nerves and dissolving any inherent matter A woman after a Palsie in her left side was tormented with a very bitter pa●● all over her Chine and in the Knee and Toes of her left Leg and had a kind of convulsive motion in them but she was quite rid of her trouble in three or four times anointing A Merchant was troubled with a very grievous Sciatica and when other Ointments were in vain he anointed the place affected with this Balsam hot to his great comfort A Maid had pricked her right hand with a spindle after the Chirurgeon had cured the wound she was much pained and when other Ointments did no good she was cured by anointing with this Balsam When I felt some trouble from a Contusion of my right Hand which lasted above a month I●em it went away at thrice anointing Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Fat and Marrow Pet. Joh. Faber if they be converted chymically into Oil are accounted a present Remedy to ease pains 2. An excellent Oil to allay all pains in children Take Oil of Dill Chamaemil each 6 drachms Rue liquid Styrax each 3 drachms powder of Cummin-seed 1 drachm and an half Let them boil up once Leon. Favellinus Strain it and keep it for use wherewith the pained place may be anointed 3. Sulphur vitrioli Anodynum is an excellent Anodyne Take of Hungarian Vitriol what is sufficient boil it in distilled water for an hour throw in pieces of plated Steel boil it for an hour so an excellent Sulphur will be extracted from the plates brush it off with a brush into hot water it may be repeated to a total extraction Edulcorate this Sulphur with Rose-water and keep it Joh. Pharamun● Rheumelius The dose is three or four grains with Syrup of Popies it assuages all pain and causes sleep 4. Take of the second rind of green Elder boughs scraped off with a Knife 1 handfull boil it in sweet Oil with water to the consumption of the water when it is strained add a little Wax to it Observ Riverio communic Make an Ointment It assuages all pain caused by Blisters and is an excellent remedy 5. Lapis Prunellae dissolved in some liquor as in Night-shade water is of great efficacy in assuaging any pains Rolfinck whose true cause is inward or outward
of the disease being removed or the root cut away all the fruits may wither The Medicines requisite to this intention may be reduced to these two heads chiefly 1. That the fewel of the Disease supplied immediately from bad bloud or the nervous juice and more mediately from the bowels and first ways Then 2. That the evil disposition of the brain and of its inhabitants the Spirits which is peculiar to the Epilepsie may be removed As to the first thing indicated in this case Vomits Purges Alteratives Bleeding Issues c. are proper in as much as the impurities are withdrawn from the bowels and humours and their dyscrasies amended And although they cure not the Epilepsie yet they remove impediments they raise nature and excite her to encounter the enemy also they prepare the ways so that Specificks may more certainly exert their Virtues As for Specifick Medicines onely which indeed though not always are reckoned to reach the cause of the Epilepsie it is wonderfull by what power of acting they use to doe good in this disease seeing they are taken without any sensible evacuation or even perturbation in the bowels or humours following thereupon If we may guess since we hold that the procatarctick cause of the Epilepsie consists in a heterogeneous conjunction arising in the Spirits those inhabitants of the brain and inciting them to preternatural explosions it will follow that what things resist or remove such a cause must be of such a nature as that by strengthening the Brain and contracting its pores they exclude that conjunction and so fix the Spirits which are up and down the middle of the brain by dissolving their conjunction that they will not any more be apt and inclined to those irregular explosions Not unlike it may be to Aurum fulminans which if it be ground with Sulphur or be sprinkled with Spirit of Vitriol it loses its fulminant virtue And indeed we may discover such properties either one or both in most Antepilepticks for Poeony Misletoe of the Oak Rue Lily Conval with many others have a manifest astriction in them so that it is very likely their particles taken inwards and so carried in the vehicle of the bloud or nervous juice to the Brain do so contract and shut up its pores which are too lax and open that for the future they do not at all lie open for any passage of the morbifick matter Moreover because these concretes do breathe out as it were an Armoniack or dissipative scent therefore they are said to depurate the animal Spirits and to fix and strengthen them when they are deprived of their heterogeneous conjunction This virtue depurative of the Spirits proceeding from the Sal Ammoniack is apparent in remedies which are fetcht from the animal and mineral families such as are preparations of Man's Skull Bloud Amber and Coral as the other astringent virtue is more powerfull in the parts and preparations of Vegetables Willi● Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. If you cut the great Toe of the sick party any where and anoint the lips of him that is in the fit with the bloud that drops from it Aetius he will be raised immediately according to Didymus 2. Salt of Corals preserves Children egregiously from Gripes and fits ¶ Pills of Salt of Vitriol are highly commended in the Falling sickness ¶ This is famous for the Epilepsie Take of Cinnabar of Antimony 4 ounces pour on it Spirit of Vitriol first let it stand in digestion 14 days till it become like Gold distill it in a strong fire by a Retort and an elegant Spirit will come out which keep Then take Roots of Angelico Pellitory of Spain Poeony each 1 ounce Flowers of Rosemary Cassidony Lavender Lily Conval each 1 ounce leaves of Marjoram Scordium each 1 handfull Shavings of Elk's Horn Man's Skull Castor each 1 drachm and an half Diamoschu dulcis half an ounce mix them pour to them the best Spirit of Wine till it stand 4 inches above let them be digested in a close vessel in Balneo vaporoso till the Spirit of Wine grow as red as bloud pour it off by inclination draw it off per Balneum till it grow as thick as honey if there be 6 ounces of it add 2 ounces of the Spirit of Vitriol abovesaid Jo. Agricola Digest them in Balneo vaporoso for a month keep it The dose is one or two scruples in a little Lavender or Poeony water ¶ Oil of Wine mixt with tincture of Corals and a few drops of it given to Children presently take away the fit 3. This is a singular and experienced Plaster Take of white Amber Frankincense each 1 drachm and an half Galbanum Opoponax each 1 drachm and an half Misletoe of the Oak 2 drachms Ambergreise 6 grains Musk 3 grains Seed of Male Poeony half a drachm Labdanum 1 drachm and an half a little Oil of Nutmegs Caspar Amthar Bestrew it with powder of Cubebs when you have spread it and apply it to the coronal future 4. I can certainly affirm that I saw an Epileptick person above twenty five years old cured onely by the use of 2 ounces of Weezle's bloud with 1 drachm of Vinegar ¶ Take the Stones of a wild Boar or of a tame one that uses Venus and also the Stones of a Cock dry them in an Oven and powder them let there be 2 ounces of the Boar's stones and 1 ounce of the Cock's then add twice as much Sugar Horat. Augenius Let the Patient take some of this Powder with all his Meat you will find it a most absolute remedy 5. It has been found by frequent observation that children have been preserved from fits by giving them 3 drachms of Syrup of Cichory with Rheubarb as soon as they were born before ever they had sucked Milk J. Caes Baricellus ¶ I gave my own children 2 Scruples of Juice of Rue with a little Gold and by God's blessing they are free from Fits 6. Many of our Country Folks have the bloud of the Epileptick Person himself among their secrets as a singular remedy for an Epilepsie For in the very fit they take away a little bloud from a vein in his Arm and they give it him to sup with a rear Egg. Which experiment has freed not a few from the Fit immediately and has rendred them free from it ever after But after this Liquor they give him Cordials and Bezoardicks to lay him to sweat for so the matter of the Convulsion being stirred and disturbed by his own bloud is discussed and evacuated by sweat ¶ A most noble and sure Antepileptick Powder Take of Man's Skull burnt Man's Bones burnt each half an ounce Powder of the Bones of great green-Lizards 2 drachms Misletoe of the Oak Root and Seed of the Male-Poeony gathered in the decrease of the Moon each 1 drachm prepared Antimony Hoof of an Elk an Ass each half a drachm White Sugar 4 ounces Mix them
till both of them be extinguished with proper Remedies And there is another sort of this Disease though more rarely occurring This invades a Man at any time of the year and that usually for this reason to wit because the Patient has given himself to drink subtile and attenuating Wines a little too freely or some such spirituous liquour The Fever which leads the Van is attended by the breaking out of Pustules almost all the body over which resemble the stinging of Nettles and sometimes rise in Blisters and then striking in again hide themselves like little knots under the Skin with a most biting and intolerable Itch. Here I judge the peccant matter mixt with the bloud should by right be evacuated and the ebullition of the same bloud should be stopt with Remedies that temper it and lastly that the matter which is now setled in the parts should be got out and discussed That these things may be done as soon as I come I order a large quantity of bloud to be taken from the Arm which indeed almost ever resembles the bloud of pleuritick persons The day following I give the gentle Purging Potion familiar to me in my practice and at the hour of sleep if perhaps the Patient have Purged too much some Paregorick Draught as Syrupus de Meconio in Cowslip-flower-water or some such thing When the Purge has done working I order the part grieved to be fomented with the following Decoction Take of the Roots of Marshmallow and Lily each 2 ounces Leaves of Mallows Elder Mullein each 2 handfulls Flowers of Melilot Tops of St. John's-wort and Lesser Centaury each 1 handfull Linseed and Faenugreek-seed each half an ounce Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to 3 pounds Let the Liquour be strained and at the time of use add to every pound of the Decoction Spirit of Wine 2 ounces Let some folds of thin Flannel be dipt in this decoction and strained out and then applied warm to the part twice a day which after fomentation may daily be anointed with this following Mixture Take of Spirit of Wine half a pound Venice-Treacle 2 ounces Powder of Long Pepper Cloves each 2 drachms Mix them Let a brown Paper wet in this Mixture be wrapt about the part Moreover I advise the Patient to feed onely on Barley and Oatmeal-Grewel and rosted Apples and also to drink very small Beer and to keep up for some hours every day from his Bed By this Method both the Fever and other Symptoms are for the most part quickly put to flight But if not I again breathe a Vein which now and then must be done a third time a day always passing between to wit if there be a bad disposition in the bloud and a violent Fever The days he does not bleed I prescribe a Clyster of Milk and Syrup of Violets and cooling Juleps of Water of Water-Lily c. already mentioned in the cure of the Rheumatism to be used any hour of the day But for the most part once Bleeding and a Purge following if they be used in time doe the business That sort which resembles the stinging of Nettles with an Itch must be got away by the like means but that this stands in less need of outward applications II. Certainly in my judgment we may see no obscure resemblance of the Plague with that Inflammation which the Latins call Ignis sacer and we in our own Language St. Anthony's Fire For this Disease is with sound Physicians a continual Fever deriving its original from the thinner part of the bloud being corrupted and inflamed from which that Nature may free her self she expells it to some external part of the body in which a Tumour or rather seeing oftentimes no such remarkable Tumour appears a red broad spreading spot which they call the Rose appears And this Fever after it has afflicted the Patient a day or two ends critically in this Swelling and farthermore there is sometimes a pain in the Glands under the Arm-pits or in the Groin And this Disease commonly seises a Man as the Pestilence with a chillness and a Feverish Heat following so that they who have never had it before think they are taken with the Plague till at last the Disease shew it self in the Leg or in some other part Besides some Authours suspect that there is something of Malignity in this Disease and therefore they determine the cure to be in the use of Sudorificks and Alexipharmacks This flame indeed when it has stirred up an Ebullition by means whereof the particles of the bloud being slightly singed and as it were blasted are in a short time cast out is extinguished of its own accord without attempting any farther mischief Febris Haemorrhagica Haemoptoïca or The Bleeding and Bloud-spitting Fever It s Description and Cure SOme Fevers may deservedly be reckoned among the Intercurrent which because some way or other they immediately make way for themselves and end in this or that Symptome are vulgarly not accounted Fevers although originally they were truely such and that affection from which the Disease borrowed its name is onely a Symptome of the Fever which is at last terminated therein At present I shall onely take notice of two Bleeding at the Nose and Spitting of Bloud Bleeding at the Nose annoys a Man at every season of the year especially them that have a hot bloud and are of a weakly Constitution and that more in Age than Youth Usually at its first approach it makes some shew of a Fever in that while it makes its way where it confined it pain and heat in the Forehead do yet torment Men the Bloud runs for some hours then it stops a while by and by it bursts out again and so by turns till at length being stopt either by the use of Medicines or of its own accord because of the abatement and loss of a great quantity it wholly ceases yet so as that the Patient may fear a Relapse every year if he should happen to heat himself either with Spirituous Liquours or on any other occasion whatever This is the end I propose to my self that the too great heat and ebullition of the bloud whence the said extravasation arises contrary to the usage of Nature may be by all means restrained and its violence turned another way Therefore I frequently open a Vein in the Arm and take bloud liberally away in colour ever answering the bloud of pleuritick persons I injoyn a cooling and thickning course of Diet as of Spring-water 8 parts and one of Milk boiled together to be drunk cold baked Apples Barley-Grewel and the like things abstaining from Flesh I order them to sit up from Bed a little while every day and to take a lenient cooling Clyster every day and not to omit it for one day Moreover the fury of the bloud is restrained as if it were bound with a Chain by a paregorick draught of Diacodium at the hour of sleep But when a sharp Lympha
those of his own Tribe Medicines especially made use of by Eminent Physicians in various Fevers and Agues In Fevers properly so called 1. OIL of Antimony is good almost for all Fevers Agricola ¶ And Spirit of Sal Ammoniack 2. This is a most excellent food in a Colliquative Fever Take the finest flower of Spelt put it in an earthen Vessel with which and Sugar make a stratum super stratum till the Vessel be full The proportion must be 4 ounces of Sugar to a pound of Flower Bake this in an Oven till it be dry Take 3 ounces of this meal mix it with broth of flesh and a fourth part Rose-water and white Saunders half a drachm Augenius Make a Ptisan Of which let the Patient take as often as he pleases 3. Take a piece of Cyprian Vitriol infuse it in 5 pounds of water drink 6 ounces of this blew water every morning for 6 days Borellus if the Patient vomit he will be cured within ten days 4. The Sengreen called Vermicularis bruised with Vinegar and Barley-flower and applied to the right hypochondrium in a Fever that is not excessive burning does much good Believe the experienced ¶ If the Fever be not very burning make two bags of Barley flower as big as ones back and apply one to the whole back Crato when it grows hot expose it to the Air and apply the other 5. Oil Salt or Magistery of Mother of Pearl first made with distilled Vinegar or precipitated with Spirit of Vitriol is an excellent Sudorifick and Antifebrile if it be mixt with Essence of Antimony Crugner made of Antimonium Diaphoreticum I call it Mixtura Antifebrilis Diaphoretica 6. Butter of Pearl is a stupendous and very effectual remedy for the cure of a Hectick Faber 7. Take clear Aloes the best Myrrh and the best Saffron each 1 ounce and an half Let the two former be powdered fine Put them in a capacious and strong Glass seal it by melting the neck of the Glass distill it in a moderate heat lest the Glass break till you see the whole mass concrete at the bottom and the clear Oil to circulate with the water on the sides of the Glass then open the neck of the Glass and pour in some Cinamon Water and distill them in wet Sand Van Helmont upon which scalding water must gradually be poured till nothing more will come over the Alimbeck and with this Medicine I have cured both Quartans and Continual Fevers 8. It is found by experience that Burnet infused in warm Water presently cures a continual Fever ¶ Water distilled off Water Melon is a great Medicine with some for it presently quenches the heat of the bloud ¶ The water of Gourd is excellent in burning Fevers A fresh Gourd is coated with fresh Paste it is baked in a hot Oven with bread and the water which is found within it is kept or a whole Gourd is cut in pieces put in a new earthen Pot is baked and strained out Heurnius and a little Sugar is added 9. In burning Fevers Bezoardicum Solare Martiale Lunare Joviale or Antihecticum Poterii are very good to stop the ebullition of the bloud Hofmannus and they are good in periodical continual Fevers 10. This is a certain experiment in burning Fevers Take Speedwell Mousear each half an ounce Make a Powder infuse it in Wine Kornthaverus let it stand a Month. Let him drink often of it it expells heat and cures any Fever 11. Nitrum Vitriolatum that is the coagulated Spirit of Vitriol is good in all Fevers Mynsi●ht 12. Take of Spirit of Vitriol Urine each one pound Mix them distill them by retort and a Crystalline Butter will ascend Of which give one scruple mixt with 3 ounces of water or phlegm of Vitriol to the sick party It is so excellent a Medicine that it has saved many mens lives Poppius for it extinguishes the internal preternatural heat 13. Sal Prunellae from half a scruple to half a drachm is an excellent alterative and much exceeds others if it be dissolved in Carduus Benedictus water and drunk it cools powerfully and quenches thirst ¶ Acidum Tartari Aluminatum has a secret virtue in opening obstructions Rolsinccius and especially in curing Tertian agues 14. Take of choice Manna as much as you please distill it by a Cucurbit with a gentle fire you will have an insipid Spirit Schroderus an excellent Sudorifick in all Fevers 15. The Water or Phlegm of Alume is much esteemed by some in all sorts of Fevers where if it were mixt with its Spirit it is like Angelus Sala it would be more effectual 16. Take of Mucilage of Quince seeds Fleawort seeds Oil of Violets fresh butter washt each 1 ounce white Wax what is sufficient anoint the Spina dorsi Ben. Vict. Faventinus It is admirable good in Fevers of such persons as cannot take Medicines In a Malignant Spotted Pestilential Fever and the Plague 1. In the Plague and after taking of Poison the Essence of Antimony is very good ¶ Mercurius vitae fixatus is very good in Pestilential Fevers ¶ Also the flowers of Antimonium diaphoreticum are an excellent remedy in Pestilential Fevers ¶ An excellent Bezoardick Vinegar Take of the root of the greater Fern Butter-bur Angelica Tormentil Elecampane each 1 ounce Powder of Serpents red Myrrh shavings of Harts-horn each 1 ounce flowers of Marigold Tunica each 2 pugils seeds of Sorrel Citron Carduus Benedictus each 1 drachm and an half Saffron 1 drachm Terra Sigillata Venice Treacle each 1 ounce and an half The best Vinegar 4 pounds Mix them set them in the Sun You will make a Vinegar than which nothing is more effectual 1 spoonfull whereof taken in the morning will preserve you safe from the Plague that day ¶ Vinegar of Antimony The dose 1 scruple that day you take it it preserves you from the Plague ¶ Spirit of Nitre is of great use in Malignant Fevers ¶ This diaphoretick mixture is of great efficacy in Malignant Fevers Take of Spirit of Terra Sigillata 1 drachm Tartar half a drachm Treacle 1 drachm Magistery of Coral J. Agricola Pearl each half a scruple Water of Carduus Benedictus Citron each half an ounce Mix them Make a draught for 2 doses 2. Our Country people in the Plague time defended themselves onely with Vinegar of Marigolds and they escaped without danger Bartholinus 3. A certain Man cured several of the Plague onely by applying a piece of the Monocerot's horn and with an infusion of it in common water for their ordinary drink and he gave this for prevention for they that used such water Bo elius were not infected with the Plague 4. Some say who have tried it that if in the beginning of a Pestilential fever one drink 2 or three ounces of Juice of Marigold Champegius and cover himself with Clothes he will
scruple leaves of Gold and Silver each N o 3. Make a Powder The Dose in preservation 1 drachm Forestus in the cure 4 Scruples 13. This is an excellent preservative against the Plague Take of Sugar-Candy powdered 4 ounces imbibe it with dulcified Spirit of Salt which is thus made Take Spirit of Salt and Spirit of Wine each equal parts sublime them three or four times by a retort and they will unite inseparably and grow sweet to the form of an Electuary of which take one drachm in the morning fasting Gockelius it will keep off all Putrefaction 14. In a Malignant Fever this is a great secret Nitre steeped in Vinegar of Roses and Juice of Prick-madame applied to the Pulses asswages heat and pain Hayne 15. Heinisius his Pestilential Oil which is made of rectified Oil of Amber Frid. Hof mannus Citron and Camphire the dose from five drops to half a scruple does wonders in Pestilential Fevers 16. I have observed that Bezoard●cum minerale is not onely of use in Malignant and Spotted Fevers and the Pleurisie Horstius but is also a present remedy in the Plague Neukrantz 17. Contrayerva-Root is a most excellent Sudorifick in Spotted Fevers 18. Take the Rinds and Seeds of Twelve Lemons Juice of Scordium three pounds Juice of Sorrel Galangal Scabious Carduus benedictus each 1 pound shavings of Hartshorn four ounces old Treacle 6 ounces being cut and bruised mix them together distill them in Balneo The dose 1 ounce by it self or mixt with other Liquours Riverius 19. The Volatile Salt of Hartshorn has an excellent diaphoretick virtue in burning Malignant and Pestilential Fevers Rolfinccius 20. A Liquour against the Plague Take of the burning Spirit of Juniper-berries 8 ounces rectified Spirit of Tartar Spirit of Stag's bloud each four ounces Spirit of Vitriol 20 drops Cinamon Angelica Myrrhe each half an ounce Laudanum opiatum 2 drachms infuse them in Balneo for twenty hours then let the thin be poured off the thick by inclination and keep it This liquour wonderfully resists the Plague and other sorts of Poisons The dose from 15 drops to 20. 21. This Powder is highly commended for cleansing infected houses yea and for preserving them from the Plague if it be used for a fume morning and evening Se●nertus Take of Juniper-berries four handfulls Rue Elecampane-root outer rind of Birch Savine Goats-horn rasped each two handfulls leaves of Oak Myrrhe each 1 ounce Mix them Make a powder ¶ I have formerly given this powder in the Plague with good success Take of Bezoar-stone twelve grains Bone of a Stag's heart 1 scruple prepared Emerald prepared Jacinth each 7 grains Make a Powder for two doses in some convenient water Idem 22. They say that Scabious with Nitre and fresh Hog's lard Virdo is a divine remedy to discuss a pestilential Carbuncle 23. The Air must be corrected with a fume of Ram's or Goat's-horn for there is a great and a peculiar safeguard in this and it defends ones clothes ¶ The Place where people sick of the Plague have lain and are taken out is cleansed from the contagion by nothing better than crude Sulphur if it be burnt in the room close shut and the fume be kept in some time and then the Windows set open Weikardus to let it out In Tertian Agues and Quotidians 1. This hath been experienced in Tertian Agues Take of Juice of Gentian condensated 1 drachm or of the liquid 1 drachm and an half Chicken broth 3 ounces Spec. Diarrhodon Abbatis and Aromat Rosat each 1 Scruple Augenius Drink it 2. For Tertians Take a draught of the best White-wine boil it half away and then drink it it will cause one to Vomit much Water I have cured many so Borellus 3. This is experienced for a Bastard-Tertian Take Spiders Webs cleansed mix them with Vnguentum Populeon and make them into six Pills two of which must be applied to the Pulses of the Temples two to the Pulses of the Arms Claudinus and two to the Pulses of the Feet laying Vine-leaves upon them and binding them on three hours before the Fit 4. One may very well purge on the Fit-day I have often tried it and in most the event always answered In Tertians I doe this after the third or fourth Fit in Quotidians later Crato 5. Chamaemil-water drawn off the Juice is an excellent remedy for long and pertinacious Agues if one ounce be given in the morning fasting for two or three days I have often experienced it Rod. à Fonseca 6. I have not found a better remedy as well for preservation as cure of Tertian Agues than Oxysaccharum simplex which resists putrefaction because of the Vinegar and Juice of Pomegranate or Syrup of Lemons For by taking some of it every day I preserved my self from an Ague and others have cured themselves of Agues by it ¶ I have found by long experience that Carduus benedictus is good in a Quotidian Ague Forestus though most use it amiss in all Fevers 7. Juice of Water-Cresses Vinegar Kornthaveru● each what is sufficient with a little Salt Give two or three Spoonfulls before the Fit in all Agues 8. The fixt Salt of Wormwood becomes a more generous Medicine if when it is dissolved in Cichory Water as much Sal Prunellae be added and then they be coagulated together according to Art Half a drachm or a drachm-weight given them that are sick of a Tertian in warm Beer sweetned with a little Sugar to make them sweat stoutly is a Medicine much to be preferred before the Antifebrile Crollii made of Shells In Quartane Agues 1. Spirit of Sal Ammoniack is an excellent Secret in a Quartane Ague The dose is from 5 drops to 10 in Cichory-water 2. Agricola The powder of a Man's Skull given in drink to one when he knows not of it has been experienced to cure Quartane Agues 3. Sal Ammoniack seven times sublimed Benedictu● and made quite spiritual taken in a draught of Wine or Beer warm let him Sweat 8 days in the morning This is excellent good for Quartans De Bry. 4. This is an experiment against a Quartane Take of Seed of St. John's-wort 2 drachms Ashes of Man's Skull 1 drachm Mix them for 3 doses 3 hours before dinner Crato 5. Some reckon this for a great secret They take 2 drachms of Leaves of Betony powdered in an Egg four hours before the Fit and they repeat it three or four times on other days And certainly it is admirable good in an inveterate Quartane 6. After Universals Rod. à Fonseca I anoint the Chine with Oil of Chamaemil and Dill each alike mixt and hot beginning at the Neck down to the Buttocks and after anointing I wrap him in warm Linen and when I have done this thrice not onely the cold Fit but the Ague ceased Forestus 7. A scruple
Paracelsus Apply them they cure any fracture Simon Pauli 2. I do solemnly protest that Meadow-sweet mixt in Plasters has wrought admirable effects in a fracture of the Arm which was almost incurable 3. For breeding a Callus many do commend the Stone Osteocolla in powder a drachm whereof is often given in Comfrey water Sennertus But it is better in grown than in young people because in these it increases Callus too much Fulmen or Thunder The Contents The Cure of one that is Thunder-struck I. If there be a fracture of the bones What must be done II. How the Eschar may be removed III. I. IN June Anno 1671. A Maid 15 years old was struck down with Thunder in the house as it were stonied they in the house treated her as if she had been dead She was laid upon a bed and stript and first of all all one Breast was red intermixt with some blackness as if she had been burnt with Gunpowder Under her breast there were brownish streaks pointing transverse her Belly to the Pubes which was deprived of hair and excoriated and there were some streaks on her left thigh There was at hand some Apoplectick water two spoonfulls whereof I poured into her upon which she presently came to her self and answered well to what was asked her She complained of a great heat in her Throat and of a pain in the part that was hurt Half a drachm of Pulvis Bezoarticus Anglicus was presently given her in Chervil-water after which she sweat well and the heat in her Throat abated Then an Ointment of Cream and White-lead was applied to the hurt place whereby she found much ease But because she continued something feverish eight ounces of an Emulsion was given her made of Seeds of White-popy Columbine Millet Ab Hermannus mis cur an 72. obs 182. and Carduus Benedictus with 2 drachms of Pulvis Bezoarticus Anglicus after which she was well and the Fever ceased The Cuticle was restored to the excoriated Breast by my Emplastrum Dia-saturni II. If any bones be broke the vulgar astringent Cataplasms must not be used lest the evaporation of the venome be hindred but another of Bean-flower Lupines Root of Angelica Swallow-wort Leaves of Rue Scordium Treacle and it must be renewed every day till the strength of the venome be conquered and dissipated But a defensative must be applied above the place Sennertu● lest the venomous vapours ascend by the Vessels to the Heart III. If an Eschar be made it must be timely taken off with a Pen-knife and such an Unguent applied Take of powder of the Root of Swallow-wort Angelica each half an ounce Leaves of Rue Scordium each 1 drachm Treacle 2 drachms Spirit of Treacle 3 drachms Honey of Roses 2 drachms Mix them When the Ulcer is cleansed this Sarcotick powder must be strowed on it Take of Root of Angelica Swallow-wort each 1 ounce Myrrhe Mastich Frankincense Leaves of Scordium each half an ounce Aloe Socotrina 2 drachms make a Powder which must be wet with juice of true Tabacco and Sanicle Make Trochius Idem A GUIDE TO The Practical Physician BOOK VII Of Diseases beginning with the Letter G. Gangraena Sphacelus or Gangrene Mortification The Contents Defensatives are not proper in every one I. The prevention of one imminent according to Hippocrates II. Narcoticks must be cautiously applied to parts where it is imminent III. Oily and fat things suspected IV. Arsenick is not proper V. An Actual Cautery though safer than a Potential one cannot always be used VI. When it arises from an internal cause it scarce admits of a Cure VII The Cure of one imminent from a Puncture VIII Of one bred of a malignant Inflammation IX There is no curing of a Gangrene after a Fever X. The taking away of a Gangrene by Causticks XI Mortified places require not onely the taking away of the skin but of the flesh also XII If the strength will not bear Amputation what must be done XIII The Leg must be cut off near the Knee XIV We must not be too hasty in Amputation XV. Sometimes it is useless XVI Whether it may be made in a Joint XVII B● a Knife and Botallus his way not to be allowed of XVIII Whether it must be made in the dead or live part XIX The Body must be first prepared XX. Whether Narcoticks may be given XXI After the operation the Patient must be carefully looked after XXII How a Haemorrhagy following may be stopt XXIII The B●ndage on the upper part when Amputation is made must be removed XXIV The part must not be wrapt up too warm XXV How abscission of the middle and ring finger may be performed XXVI Cautions about cutting off a hand affected with a Cancer not ulcerous XXVII Medicines I. IN a Gangrene from afflux of bloud and humours as long as the fluxion continues Defensatives are good When it ceases they may be omitted that the innate heat may reach to the part affected But if any beginning of corruption shew it self we must proceed in the use of them that the way may be stopt to Vapours that are raised from putrefaction and which go to the noble parts In a Gangrene bred of a cold and moist intemperature where no fluxion is they are not proper unless a mortification be at hand to stop the Vapours A Gangrene that is the product of a dry intemperature and want of aliment plainly excludes Defensatives for they by their astriction straiten and stop the ways of the Spirits and of Nutrition But if a mortification be at hand they should not be rejected that the coming of Vapours to the principal parts may be prevented However if it owe its original to a malignant matter bred in the body and driven outwards there is no room for them II. Whatever parts are taken with a Sphacelus we must intercept the Vein exulcerate and heal Hipp. sect 5. l. 2. Epid. That is It can no otherwise be cured than by intercepting a Vein and exulcerating a part And he says a Vein is intercepted when that or those Veins which carry bloud to the gangrened part are cut off in their way by cutting burning or tying By exulcerating he means deep scarification of the part Therefore when signs of a Gangrene begin to appear in a part we must quickly make provision for the whole and if any Vein seem swelled and black it must be intercepted with a Cautery and we must ulcerate the parts that are then dying with deep scarifications or burn them or partly exulcerate them and apply eating Medicines to them and partly burn them But any thing less than these is useless in this Disease Vallesius C●●●m in locum III. Narcoticks must not be applied except in a little quantity and something corrected with hot things to parts that are indisposed swelled and that are of an ill habit or ready to gangrene because of Incision made in them or for any other
the Knife or Razor must be thrice repeated The first Cut separates the finger in the last joint from the metacarpus the second and third takes off the Septum Digitorum on either side of the finger In this operation thrice repeated something carnous or membranous may remain untouched by the Knife and may render the operation more difficult and tedious Now I considering these things contrived an Instrument whereby the finger may be cut off in the last joint together with the Septum on either side at one blow and it is a very sharp and winged Knife whose hind part is semicircular and of a bigness proportionable to the finger to be cut off And though before I disapproved of this way of chopping off Limbs yet in this case because it cannot otherwise be well done Idem of two evils we must chuse the less XXVII A Hand affected with a Cancer not exulcerated is cut off in a sound place that is at the heads of the radius and ulna towards the Wrist But we must take notice to the end the bloud yet infected which the adjoining Vessels contain may run out for being retained it might affect the Arm that neither the Arm must be tied with a rowler above the place of Incision nor must the softer parts be cut with a red hot Knife Scultetus which Barbarians call Cauterium cultellare Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. I have often seen this Cataplasm used with desired success in stopping of a Gangrene Take of Meal of Beans Lupines each 4 ounces Juice of Rue 2 ounces or Powder of Rue 3 ounces Oxymel simplex 6 ounces Lie what is sufficient Sometimes he adds powder of Scordium Mix them Crato Make a Cataplasm 2. Spirit of Salt rightly prepared applied to outward Gangrenes and Ulcers is a high Narcotick Remedy without any pain ¶ All the care consists in the efficacy and virtue of Spirit of Salt for the Salt being saturated with this Liquour and dried is reduced to its natural temper which every one may see by experience for every sharp and biting Salt if it be dissolved in Spirit of Salt Faber is reduced to a wonderfull sweetness 3. Vnguentum Aegyptiacum is a most excellent and principal Remedy for a Gangrene Gul. Fabricius it separates the dead flesh from the live and breeds a laudable Eschar 4. In the cure of a Gangrene after the Eschar is removed if not onely Medicines but the very Air cause intolerable pain this following is very familiar with me I take Ointment of Betony made of the juice to which I either add Oil of Sweet Almonds if there be no inflammation or if there be one as there often is I mix Oil of Roses or Yelks of Eggs and I have never yet found any thing better ¶ Scordium bruised or the juice of it is excellent For experience shews Hieron Fabricius that dead bodies are preserved from putrefaction if they either be stuffed with it or wrapt in it 5. Take of Colts-foot 1 handfull and an half Melilot Mullein Dwarf-Elder each half an handfull Frankincense Litharge each 2 drachms and an half Mastick Myrrh each 1 drachm and an half crude Alume 2 drachms Mix them for a Decoction Grombs When a Gangrene is feared in a Dropsie 6. Let the part affected be washed with Spirit of Wine Camphorate than which I think nothing is more proper for hindring the mortification of any part Hartman 7. I remember one was perfectly cured of a Gangrene in his thigh after rotten Apples bruised had been applied in form of a Cataplasm without the liquour S. Pauli once or twice 8. To bring a place to its natural colour again Vnguentum Aegyptiacum dissolved in Aqua vitae is most excellent Ranchinus 9. I order the scarified places to be moistned with Spirit of Sulphur where the flesh was mortified then I order all the Arm to be fomented with Spirit of Wine hot wherein Powder of Aloes and Myrrh were infused then Powder of Aloes and Myrrh were strewed on the Arm in great quantity and upon the Powder linen cloths wet in Spirit of Wine were applied which Remedy being used a few hours the Arm returned to its colour to a miracle the swelling abated and the Gangrene was stopt Riverius 10. Take of Cow's dung 1 pound Oil of Roses 4 ounces Vinegar 3 ounces Saffron half a scruple Mix them Make a Plaster which must be applied hot every three hours J Dav. Rulandu● I know by experience it certainly cleanses and cures a Gangrene 11. To prevent a Gangrene Sir Theodore de Mayerne of England used this following successfully applied warm with cloths dipt in it Take of the strongest Vinegar red Wine Spring-water each a like quantity Litharge of Gold well beaten 8 ounces Roche Alume Sea Salt each 2 ounces Gum Arabick Myrrh each 1 ounce Olibanum Mastick each two ounces When the Liquours are mixt put in the Litharge let them boil stirring them continually then add the Salt and Alume then the Gum Arabick Phil. Jac. Sachsius and last of all the Powders boil them to a consumption of a fourth part 12. If it will not give way to gentle Medicines we must use strong ones Take of Mercury what you please dissolve it in Aqua fortis when it is dissolved add to it of Sal Saturni and Vnguentum Rosatum Camphoratum what is sufficient Make an Unguent ¶ This Liquour is very good if cloths be dipt in it and applied It was successfully used in a Gangrene of the Scrotum Take of Vitriol 1 ounce tops of Oak 1 handfull Frankincense 1 ounce Camphire two drachms Sennertus Wine 2 pounds and an half Boil about a third away 13. The Juice of the Herb Alexanders in Unguents stops Gangrenes wonderfully Turnheusetus It is a Secret 14. Salt of Soot is made thus Let Soot be powdered as fine as flower dissolve it in Vinegar let it settle to the bottom of the Vessel separate the Vinegar and dissolve it in other Vinegar continuing it so five times and you will find a Salt which if it be put in a moist place will melt and make a most excellent Oil for Gangrenes and malignant Ulcers Joh. Vigierius Ganglion or A glandulous Swelling The Contents We must have a care how we cut a Ganglion or Lupia I. It must not be brought to Suppuration II. The old and new way of Cure III. I. IF a Ganglion will not yield to Medicines it must be cut out with a Knife unless it be in the hands or in the feet or there be danger of Nerves Veins or Arteries wherewith sometimes it is implicated A Lupia also must be cut out as a Gland like as we did a few days agone near the Jugulars Chalmetaeus with good success II. A Ganglion sometimes when it is deeply radicated hinders the motion of some joint therefore some course must be taken with it betimes
Diagnostick of this is very difficult so I think the Cure of it is no less rare When there is suspicion of it Saline Medicines especially seem to be of use and such of them must be given as are endued with a Volatil or Acid Salt And the same things must not be given together but these for some space of time and when they will do no good others may be tried 1. Spirit of Sal Ammoniack compound with Millepedes or distilled with other Antasthmaticks 3 Ounces The Dose from 15 Drops to 20 thrice a day in some Julep or appropriate Water 2. Spirit of Sea-Salt or Vitriol impregnated distilled and often cohobated with Spirit of Wine and Pneumonick Herbs 3 Drachms The Dose from 15 Drops to 20 in the same manner 3. The Palpitation of the Heart is often a Convulsive Affection and is usually produced by the like cause and way of efficiency whereby other Hypochondriack and Asthmatick Diseases are usually produced The Cure whereof must in like manner be attempted by Antispasmodick Remedies c. Willis Saxonia mentions this last sort Praelect Pract. parte 2. cap. 1. It must be observed says he that it is caused by some fault in the Nerves alone nothing appearing amiss in the Brain Breast or Muscles Which I observed in my Brother whom I perfectly restored by the use of Treacle only applied to the beginning of the Spinal Marrow XVI The Trembling of the Heart which they commonly call the Passion of the Heart is a Disease distinct yea quite another from the Palpitation of it For in the Trembling the Carnous or Motive Fibres seem to be affected by themselves and the Morbifick cause does not in this as in the other Disease consist in the Blood or in the Arteries of the Heart The trembling of the Heart may be described to be a Spasmodick Convulsion or rather a Trepidation of it wherein the Motive Fibres do very quickly make only semicontracted and very speedy Systoles and Diastoles but abrupt and as it were half strokes so that the Blood can be brought into the Ventricles of the Heart and carried out only by small portions The formal reason seems to consist in this that the Animal Spirits belonging to some certain Muscles do start restless out of the Tendons continually into the Flesh and return and so in a perpetual vicissitude they repeat their Excursions and Recursions in the mean time when they are only exalted with small Forces so that they do not fill up the Carnous Fibres and they stay in these Fibres only a short time and although they make sometimes frequent efforts yet they are weak insomuch that the Members and Limbs are not moved out of their places by the Muscles so perpetually agitated and the Heart during its trembling how quickly soever shaken yet it is scarce able to drive the Blood about as is plainly manifest from the little and as it were tremulous pulse and a decay of all strength As to the Conjunct and Procartarctick Causes whereby namely the Muscular Spirits are made so instable or acquire this Desultory Faculty it seems that some Heterogeneous and Elastick Matter having past the Brain and Nervous Ducts then is carried into the Muscles and the Tendinous ends of them where mixing now and then with the Spirits it irritates them so that they can be quiet no where but run hither and thither continually and in the mean time they either omit or do not strenuously perform their proper Offices The cause of the trembling of the Heart is commonly laid upon the Spleen for it is vulgarly supposed that foul Vapours are by this parts being obstructed or otherwise amiss sent to the Heart which seising of it make it so shake and tremble yea as if it were in a cold fit This Opinion has gained some credit because Hypochondriacks or Spleneticks are found to be very subject to the Cardiack Passion But the reason why they that are reckoned Splenetick and Hysterick are so commonly troubled with the Passion of the Heart is the great affinity and intimate communication between the Splenetick and Cardiack Nerves so that not only the affection of one Part does draw another easily into consent but if at any time Spasmodick Matter falls upon the Branches of the Nerves belonging to the Spleen or Bowels in the lower Belly it seldom misses but the same in like manner scises those that belong to the Heart As for the method of Cure to be followed in the Cure of the Passion of the Heart because it is a Disease meerly Spasmodick therefore not Cardick but rather Cephalick and Nervous Medicines are indicated which yet according to the Temperament and Complexion of the Patient must be hot or moderate and sometimes of this sometimes of the other nature That I may comprehend the business in short three sorts of Medicines use to do the most good in this Disease Testaceous Chalybeates and things endued with a volatil salt Therefore first of all provision being made by evacuating the whole Medicines may be prescribed Idem which shall seem to be most useful Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Let a Man take this Potion inwardly which I have seen do good to a miracle Take of Water of Boragè 5 ounces Syrup of Borage 1 ounce Julep of Roses Cinnamon Water each half an ounce dissolved Pearl 2 drachm● dissolved Gold 1 drachm Crato Mix them 2. Spirit of Balm alone cures the Palpitation of the Heart when the Body is purged Take of Regulus of Antimony 2 ounces the best Gold 2 drachms Melt them in a Crucible then reduce them to Powder add of red Coral Pearl each 2 drachms Mix them through a Sive Add the like weight of the best Nitre Burn them in a hot Fire for three hours Powder them very fine Wash it in sweet Water Put it into a Glass retort with the best Spirit of Wine and distil the Spirit cohobating it three or four times upon the Powder So it is prepared for an excellent Bezoardick Powder which in virtue excels the Bezoar-Stone The Dose half a drachm with Water of Carduus Benedictus Fabe● Meadow-sweet or Balm It is given to drive out in Palpitation of the Heart Malignant Fevers and the Small Pox. 3. For the Palpitation of the Heart I ordered the following Bag to be applied to the Heart Take of dry Balm 4 handfuls the Cordial Flowers 1 pugil shred them grossly Make a Bag. When it was applied to the Heart the Palpitation ceased to a miracle There is an admirable virtue in Balm both taken inwardly and applied outwardly I took green Balm and Borage bruised them a little laid them upon a hot Tile sprinkled them with a little Rose Water and Vinegar and applied them to the Heart Forestus and the Palpitation of it ceased to the admiration of all Men. 4. The Juice extracted out of Weather's Hearts strengthens the Heart wonderfully Take the Heart of a Weather or a
Head which was followed by a Catarrh upon the left side and a weakness of the same It is certain this Disease came through the abuse of Mercury Hildanus Cent. 5. Obs 93. which carried the Humours from the lower parts of the Body to the Head ¶ But Petraeus in Nosolog Harmonic tom 1. p. 395. sayes that Mercurial Unguents may be safely and successfully used in a contumacious Itch if Universals be premised and the unprofitable and hurtful juice be exterminated the Body yet such Topicks must not be made up of a mass of infinite Medicines for so they will work with better success and quicker effect These Mercurial Medicines rightly prepared and outwardly applied are so far from hindring Nature's motion that they rather precipitate the verminous putrid salt and briny humours which is the reason why of Mercury Sublimate and live Mercury there comes Mercurius dulcis because it has a virtue of changing the temper of precipitating and also edulcorating corrosive Salts And if any Symptomes arise at any time they do not so much proceed from the Mercury as from the mass of ill Humours and Remedies applied amiss Therefore Th. Bartholinus his Countrey Fellow cured all them with his Girdle that had got their Bodies clear by the frequent use of Medicines but he could not save the Cacochymick from death This Rustick tempered Mercury with distilled Oyl of Juniper and made it into a Mass he spread it on a Girdle and commended it for all Malignant affections Cancers malignant Ulcers and Pains in the Limbs In some places it is a Custome to mix Arcanum Corallinum with Oyntment of Roses in the Pox and they account the same an Arcanum in a contumacious Itch. XII A filthy Itch troubled a young Man with felons frequently breaking out of which Ails he could not be cured by Bleeding and several Purges for Six Months time At length I gave him 1 scruple of Mercurius dulcis with half a scruple of Diagridium Riverius Cent. 1. Obs 62. which purged him very well and within a few dayes he was clear XIII A Reverend Father had contracted a filthy Itch all over his Body for 5 or 6 years for which he had tried infinite Medicines to no purpose I in so contumacious a Disease used only the Flesh of Vipers sometimes he eat them boyled in water with a little Salt and drank the Broth after them sometimes he had them baked and turned to a Powder which Powder he used with his Meat together with Sugar Cinnamon or other things In the whole Summer he eat above 160 Vipers Whereby his Skin was renewed and he became wholly as it were another Man And he that once appeared a very old Man became as it were young again that is stronger then usual and fitter to do any business P. Poterius Cent. 3. Obs 81. The use of Vipers is scarce ever beneficial under a long time XIV There is a sort of Itch which Fallopius calls Volatick because it seems to fly all over the Skin It has been certainly observed that one has over-run the whole Body in one Night It is usually accounted by Physicians for an Efflorescence of the Blood How truly the Cure does show which they are so far from Curing that on the contrary the Evil has grown stronger and stronger to death refusing all Medicines In this case necessary purges and sweats being premised there is a desired Secret in the Blood which comes just after delivery from the Womb together with the after-burthen where all or only some part of it if namely the place affected be washed therewith This Remedy is of so great efficacy that it is seldom necessary to repeat it and presently the volatick Itch falls off dead I have with this cured infinite People J. Hartmannus who have been infected with a dangerous Itch. Unctions are here not at all convenient Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. This is very proper which I experienced in a young man Aetius who had a great inveterate Itch and very rough about his Legs which reached from his Knees to the tip of his Toes Take Linseed beat it with water lay it on thick and use it constantly 2. An excellent Oyntment of Salt of Saturn against the Itch J. Agricola Take of Sal Saturni 1 ounce Mastich half an ounce Allum 1 drachm Oyl Olive what is sufficient Mix them make an Unguent It quickly heals and dries up the Itch. 3. The Itch is easily and pleasantly cured with this Take of Oyl of Ben 3 drachms Spirit of Salt half a drachm Petr. Borellus Musk 2 grains Wax what is sufficient Make an Unguent 4. A wonderful Oyntment for the Itch Take of Turpentine washed in Rose water 3 ounces Oyl of Roses 6 drachms the juice of 3 Oranges the Yolks of 3 Eggs. Make an Unguent Tobias Dorncrelliu● it has been experienced in an old and dry Itch It may also be allowed to be admirable because it expells the Itch by Urine and makes a Man piss black Urine every Morning 5. Take of live Sulphur 2 ounces Gum Juniper which Booksellers use root of white Hellebore powdered each 2 drachms juice of Spurge Oyl of Linseed each 1 ounce Beat what should be beaten very fine boyl them over the fire into the form of an Unguent and strain them out cast away the dregs and keep the rest for use After Bathing anoint the Hams the inside of the bending of the Arm Rodera Fonseca the Palms of the Hands and Wrists under the Arm-pits and Soles of the Feet rubbing those places with store of Oyntment and then go into a warm Bed for an hour or two and let him be anoynted 3 times every other day I have experienced this Itch in the worst old Itch that could be 6. This is an excellent Remedy for the Itch Take Salt of Tartar purified with Spirit of wine and dissolved in a Cellar Franc. O●● wald Grembs joyn it with Sal Ammoniac and it cures the Itch. If it be mixt with the Tartar till it grow red it will become more effectual to cure the Itch. 7. Take of green Elecampane half a pound Hogs-lard 5 ounces Beat them together Boyl them on a gentle fire Make an Unguent Amat Lusiaan with which the Pustules may be anointed This Unguent is of admirable vertue so that it operates like an Inchantment 8. When a certain Matron laboured of a contumacious Itch which she had contracted by Contagion I ordered her to take the small twiggs of Birch in defect of the leaves and cut them into short pieces but to hew the greater boughs into chips and to boyl Bark and all in such a quantity of water as that she might sit in a Tub full of it up to her Neck wherein I mixt 2 parts of crude Tartar and one part of Nitre Simon P●● with which by God's blessing after her Body had been first well prepared she was wholly delivered from
of a spoonful or a spoonful and an half Take of Salt of Tartar 1 ounce small spirit of Wine 1 pound and an half Let them be digested till it grow yellow Then when it is poured off the dreggs infuse therein of leaves of black Hellebore steeped in Vinegar 1 ounce yellow Sanders 1 drachm the yellow rind of Oranges 1 drachm and an half Make a hot and close digestion for 3 dayes Let the clear colature be distilled in Balneo to half and let the remaining Liquor be kept for use Or Take of the root of sharp pointed Dock Polypody of the Oak Nettle Chervil each 6 drachms leaves of Eupatory Speedwell each 1 handful Sanders white and yellow each 1 drachm and an half Carthamus 1 ounce Tartar of white Wine half an ounce boyl them in 2 pounds and an half of Spring-water to half Add of Rhenish wine 1 pound and let it be presently strained To which put of the best Senna half an ounce Rheubarb 6 drachms leaves of black Hellebore half an ounce the yellow of Oranges two drachms Make a close and warm infusion for 12 hours Let the Colature be kept in a Glass stopt The Dose from 5 drachms to 6. Within 4 or 5 dayes they may be repeated as occasion shall require Too often and violent purging destroys the strength spoils the Bowels and in the mean time removes not the Disease After once or twice purging if bleeding be indicated let it be done in the Arm or in the Haemorrhoid Veins by Leeches It is not much matter which Vein is opened for the opening of the Salvatella is not of such moment as is commonly believed All the tedious controversies among Authors about bleeding the Jecorary or Cephalick or any other which should be best are at an end since the Circulation of the Blood is known Phlebotomy is indicated by the plenty and badness of Blood which it is better to take away in small quantities at several times than to take a great deal at once For when the Sanguineous Liquor becomes very impure it is more certainly amended by no sort of Remedy than by letting of it often and in a small quantity because as often as the old corrupt Blood is taken away new which is better and more pure succeeds In the interim care must be had that it be not taken away in too great a quantity at once for when its store is hastily diminished sanguification fails so that a Dropsie or Cachexy follows Therefore since the greatest pains in Physick should be bestowed upon eradicating the cause of the Scurvy especially and upon its own account for this end moreover Digestives and Specifick Remedies or Antiscorbuticks as we intimated but now must be used at all times except the purging dayes to which if there be need Diaphoreticks or Diureticks may be added There are in Authors many sorts of Receipts of Medicines that perform these Intentions I have a mind here to recite some of the choicest which I have thought good to distinguish into two Classes according to the twofold nature of the Scorbutick cause namely the Sulphureo-Saline and the Salino Sulphureous Dyscrasie and first of all I shall treat of those that are proper for the latter sort of Distemper that is where need is of Medicines endued with a certain incitation and very full of volatil Salt Digestive Remedies which restore the ferment of the Stomach and help the functions of it and other parts serving for chylification and Antiscorbuticks or Specificks which remove the Dyscrasie of the Blood are either joyned in the same composition or at least are taken successively on the same day Among Digestive Medicines there are justly reckoned Cream of Tartar salt and tincture of Crystal Tartarus Vitriolatus Chalybeatus Elixir proprietatis Mixtura simplex The use of any of these twice aday does much good Moreover you may easily mix magisterial Tinctures and Elixirs of divers sorts both digestive and appropriate to the Scurvy with the two following Menstrua Take of rectified Spirit of Vitriol 6 ounces alkalisate Spirit of Wine 16 ounces Mix them and distill them in a Glass retort with 3 Cohobations Keep it for use in a Glass well stopped Elixir proprietatis is better made and more easily with the said Menstruum than the common way Take of Winter Bark Lignum Aloes lesser Galangal root each 2 drachms Cinnamon Cloves Cubebs each 1 drachm Seed of Bishopsweed Cresses each half a drachm When they are bruised pour on them the foresaid Menstruum till it stand 3 Inches above Digest them in a body in a sand Furnace 6 dayes Keep the Colature in a Glass well stopt The Dose is 20 drops in Canary or some proper Liquor twice a day Take of the whitest Amber Gum Ivie Carannae Tacamahacae each 1 drachm Saffron half a drachm Cloves Nutmeg each 2 scruples When they are bruised pour on them the foresaid Menstruum and draw the Tincture according to art The Dose is 20 drops as before Take of blew Salt of Tartar 4 ounces digest it in a body with 1 pound of Alkalisate Spirit of Wine to the extraction of the Tincture This may be another Menstruum with which you may make Elixirs out of Gums Spices c. in the same manner as you did with the former Menstruum While these sort of Medicines are given Evening and Morning another sort of Medicines that are Antiscorbutick must be given at medical hours that is at eight before noon and four after which for the most part we give in a solid and liquid form together taking the solid first and drinking the liquid upon it There are several forms and compositions of both sorts ELECTVARIES Take of conserve of Scurvy-grass Roman Wormwood Fumitory each 2 ounces powder of Winter's Bark root of Angelica Wake Robin each 2 drachms Species diatriωn Santalωn 1 drachm and an half powder of Crabs Eyes 1 drachm salt of Wormwood 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Citron rind make an Electuary Take of the Conserve of Scurvy-grass leaves Brooklime made with an equal quantity of Sugar each 3 ounces Troches of Capers of Rhubarb each 2 drachms salt of Wormwood Scurvy-grass each 1 drachm With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Juice of Scurvy grass make an Electuary I usually prescribe Conserves of the outer Peels of Lemons and Oranges of the purple flowers of the Ash-Tree of the flowers and leaves of Lady-smock of the root of sharp pointed Dock and English Rhubarb made with an equal quantity of Sugar which being mixt either among themselves or with other Conserves and Powders may go to the making up of such Electuaries as these Take of the Conserve of the yellow of Oranges of Lemons of flowers of Ash each 2 ounces root of Contrayerva 1 drachm and an half lesser Galangal half a drachm root of Aron 2 drachms Species Aromat Rosat 1 drachm salt of Wormwood 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Nutmegs make an Electuary The Dose of these
Medicines is about the quantity of a Nutmeg drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it For Country people and the poorer sort who desire Medicines easie to be had and cheap I prescribe in this manner Take of leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime each 4 ounces the whitest Sugar 8 ounces Pound them together in a Mortar adding of powder of Winter's bark half an ounce Tartar calcined with Nitre three drachms With a sufficient quantity of Canary make an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Walnut every day twice drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it Take of Leaves of Scurvy-grass 1 pound stoned Raisins the whitest Sugar each half a pound faecula of Horse-rhadish root 2 drachms Pound them together in a Mortar and reduce them into the form of an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Walnut twice or thrice a day CONFECTIONS Take of Pulvis Ari Compositus 1 ounce powder of Winter's bark half an ounce Species diatriωn santalωn trochiscs of Capers each 2 drachms salt of Wormwood Scurvy-grass each 1 drachm and an half candied Orange Peel 3 ounces Pound them together in a Mortar Then add of the whitest Sugar dissolved in a sufficient quantity of aqua lumbricorum 3 ounces Make a Confection according to Art Take of candied Eringo and Scorzonera root each 2 drachms preserved Walnuts Myrobalans each No. 2. Electuary of Sassaphras 6 drachms powder of Cubebs Cardamum each 2 drachms powder of root of Zedoary Angelica each 1 drachm and an half Salt of Wormwood 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Walnuts make a Confection Take of the powder of root of China wood of Sassaphras each half an ounce yellow and white Sanders each 2 drachms seed of Rocket Cubebs Cresses Granes of Paradise each 1 drachm and an half Species Dialaccae powder of Cinnamon Orrice lesser Galangale each 1 drachm salt of Wormwood 2 drachms Conserve of the yellow of Orange and Saccharum anthosatum dissolved in a sufficient quantity of Snail-water 3 drachms Make a Confection according to Art The Dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it In some cases of the Scurvy where the use of steel is indicated either 3 drachms of Steel prepared with Sulphur or 2 drachms of Vitriol of Mars may be added to any of these prescriptions either Confection or Electuary and after taking the Medicine once or twice a day the Body may be exercised according to its strength POWDERS Take of Pulvis Ari Compositus 1 ounce and an half Winter's Bark half an ounce Cubebs Granes of Paradise Cardamome each 2 drachms Salt of Wormwood 3 drachms Lozenges of Oranges 3 ounces Make a powder according to Art The Dose 1 drachm in an appropriate Liquor To the foresaid powder add of the Kernel of the Indian Nut Cacao half a pound Reduce it into a Mass or Paste in a hot Mortar The Dose is about two drachms as you take Chocolate that is boyled in Spring water wherein Rosemary leaves or Scorzonera root or shavings of Ivory or Hartshorn have been boyled PILLS They that like Medicines in a small Dose and in the form of a Pill Take of root of Virginian Snakeweed Contrayerva each 2 drachms Winter's Bark Cubebs Rocket seed each 3 drachms salt of Wormwood Scurvy-grass each 1 drachm and an half extract or Rob of Juniper half an ounce With as much Syrup of Nutmeg as is sufficient make it into Pills The Dose is 4 Pills twice a day with some appropriate Liquor LOZENGES For the more delicate Lozenges or Sweet meats may be prescribed in this manner Take of powder of Winter's Bark Crabs Eyes each 1 drachm and an half powder of Pearl half a drachm whitest Sugar dissolved in a sufficient quantity of aqua lumbricorum and boyled up for Lozenges 6 ounces Spirit of Scurvy-grass 2 drachms Make Lozenges according to Art each of which must weigh half a drachm Let him take about 1 drachm drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it Ora●ge Lozenges sold by the Apothecaries in OXFORD Take of Peel of Oranges Lemons Citrons candied each 1 ounce Eringo root candied half an ounce Pine and Pistachio Nuts each No. 20. Sweet Almonds blanched No. 10. Powder of Anniseed half an ounce candied Ginger 2 ounces Species Aromat Rosat Nutmeg each 1 drachm and an half Root of Galangale 1 drachm Cloves No. 10. Ambergrease 4 grains Musk Civet each 2 grains the whitest Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boyled up for Lozenges 1 pound and an half Make Lozenges according to Art Thus much for Medicines that use to be given to Scorbutick Persons in a solid form or a thick substance And that they may do the more good and be carried more easily into the Mass of Blood liquid Medicines for the most part are prescribed to be drunk upon them the most usual forms whereof follow 1. Decoctions Although Decoctions be the most familiar sort of Medicine yet they are rarely used in the Scurvy because Simples which are especially proper for this Disease as Scurvy-grass Brooklime c. lose their virtue which they receive from their volatil Salt by boyling Nevertheless because Medicines are easily and quickly prepared this way they may sometime be admitted And besides experience testifies that some of them have been effectual This easie Medicine is commended by several Authors for Country People and the poor Take of leaves of Water Cresses 3 handfuls the lesser Sorrel 2 handfuls Let them be shred and steeped in 6 pounds of Milk and boyled to the consumption of a third Part. Let 6 or 8 ounces be taken twice a day The Decoction of Wormwood is commended by Eugalenus and others I have often tried the following Remedy with good success Take of tops of Broom 3 handfuls let them be cut small and boyled in three pounds of strong Beer to half Let 2 or 3 ounces be given twice a day 2. Infusions An Infusion added to the Decoction makes a most excellent Medicine Take of root of Scorzonera Chervil each 1 ounce leaves of Agrimony Ground-pine each half an handful burnt Harts-horn 2 drachms Raisins half an handful boyl them in 3 pounds of Spring-water to the consumption of a third part Add of Rhenish Wine half a pound and presently strain it into a Glass Vessel to which put leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime bruised each half a handful Orange peel candied and cut small half an ounce Make a close and warm Infusion for 6 hours Let the Colature be kept in Bottles stopt The Dose is 6 ounces twice a day after a solid Medicine Take of Whey made with white Wine or Sider 1 pound and an half let there be boyled in it of Burdock root Eringo root candied each 6 drachms preserved Juniper berries half an ounce Let the Liquor be boyled to the consumption of a third part and strained into a Flagon in which put leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime each 1 handful Make a hot and close Infusion for 6 hours The Dose is half a pound twice
Nettle each 2 ounces Brooklime 2 ounces bruise them in a Mortar with 10 ounces of the whitest Sugar then add of Scales of Iron very finely powdered 1 ounce powder of white and red Sanders each 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of juice of Nettle make an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day Take of the destilled water or Decoction of some temperate Anti-scorbutick two pounds of our preparation of Steel 2 drachms Mix them in a glass The Dose is 3 or 4 ounces Take of Nettle tops Leaves of Brooklime each 4 handfuls When they are bruised strain out the juice keep it in a Glass The Dose is 2 or 3 ounces twice a day with some distilled Antiscorbutick water Of faults in the Mouth arising from the Scurvy Whenever the Scorbutick Infection has seized the Mouth so as the Gums swell and the flesh of them become fungous immediately Remedies which drive away putrefaction from them must be diligently used Among these Washes for the Mouth and Liniments are of especial use both when the Disease begins about these Parts and when it grows worse which nevertheless as they respect divers intentions so they use to be diversly prepared to wit the flesh of the Gums when it first swells must be freed from the Incursions of a Salt and corrupt Blood and Serum afterwards the Flesh grown flaccid and shrunk from the Teeth must be defended from putrefaction and that it may stick closer to the Teeth there must be astriction for these and other intentions Gargarisms or Mouth-washes of divers sorts may be used Of all which the chief ingredients are Vegetables boyled and Minerals infused The Herbs and Roots that are boyled in some proper Liquor either Water or Wine are for the most part either sharp or bitter or styptick and then such Decoctions are impregnated either with a Volatil Lixivial Vitriolate Chalybeate or Aluminous Salt 1. When therefore the Flesh of the Gums by reason of a defluxion of Salt and corrupt Blood and Serum first begins to swell and grow fungous Take of the middle rind of Elder Elm each half an handful Leaves of Savory Sage Rocket Cresses each 1 handful Roots of Pellitory of Spain 2 drachms being shred and bruised boyl them in 3 pounds of Lime-water to the consumption of a third part If edulcoration be required add of Honey of Roses 2 ounces Make a Gargarism Or take of tried Vitriol 1 ounce our Country People call it Captain Green's powder Spring-water 2 pounds mix them in a Glass shake it and when the Liquor is settled and clear use it Or Make a Ly of ashes of Broom or Rosemary or of calcined Tartar or Nitre in 3 pounds of this boyl of the Leaves of Savory Time Rosemary Sage each 1 handful Let the colature be poured upon 2 handfuls of Scurvy-grass Leaves Make a hot and close Infusion for 3 hours strain it again and keep it to wash the Mouth often in a day For the same intention also Liniments at times and especially at Night may be applied that their virtue may be communicated to the Patients even while they sleep There is exstant a Famous prescription frequent among Authors and approved by long experience Take of Leaves of Columbine crisp Mint Sage Nutmeg Myrrh which yet sometimes is omitted each 2 drachms burnt Allum half an ounce Virgin Honey 4 ounces or what is sufficient make a Liniment according to Art 2. If at any time the flaccid Flesh of the Gums part from the roots of the Teeth a gentle scarification is often used moreover let the Mouth be washed with this Decoction Take of tops of Bramble Cypress Leaves of Sanicle Ladies smock each 1 handful boyl them in water wherein Iron has been quenched 3 pounds to the consumption of a third add to the colature of Honey of Roses 2 ounces Mix them Such a Liniment as this may be applied Take of the powder of Florentine Orrice Leaves of Sage St. John's-wort each 2 drachms bole Armonick Sal prunellae each 1 drachms Virgin Honey hot what is sufficient incorporate them well by stirring 3. When the Gums are putrid and corrupt and the Teeth are rotten and loose and send out a nasty stink stronger Medicines and such as exceedingly resist putrefaction may be used an Infusion of Camphorate vitriol or lapis Medicamentosus are especially proper in this Case Or Take of root of Gentian round Birthwort cut each half an ounce Leaves of lesser Centaury Sea Wormwood Savory Columbine each 1 handful boyl them in some lime or lixivial water and sometimes wherein Iron has been quenched or Allum dissolved 3 pounds to the consumption of a third part To the Colature add 2 or 3 ounces of crude Honey Mix them 4. If the falling of the Teeth be chiefly feared Take of the bark of the root of the wild Sloe-Tree 1 ounce Tormentil and of Bistort whole each an handful Pomegranate rind and flowers each half an ounce boyl them in 3 pounds of Spring water the best Honey 2 ounces Mix them Take of Camphorate Vitriol burnt Harts-horn each 1 drachm Nutmeg half a drachm the best Honey what is sufficient Make a Liniment Or Take of the Powder of root of Bistort Pomegranate rind Bole-Armonick burnt Allum each 1 drachm Honey of Roses what is sufficient add of Spirit of Vitriol 1 scruple Make an oyntment 5. If at any time as is sometimes usual putrid and deep Ulcers seize the Gums or other Parts of the Mouth the foresaid stronger Medicines must be often used Moreover a rag dipt in Vnguentum Aegyptiacum dissolved in Spirit of Wine or in an Infusion of lapis medicamentosus or Sublimate may sometimes be applied In these cases the Cure must be left to a skilful Surgeon Of Pains that usually infest the Legs and other Limbs sometimes at Night especially Against these Pains because sometimes they are very bitter beside the general method of curing the Scurvy specifick Remedies and such as oppose this Symptom are indicated therefore in such a case when a man has been well purged and bled if need be it is convenient to set upon the Disease both by Medicines inwardly and applications outwardly As to the former things that move Sweat and Urine often give relief inasmuch as they carry another way the lixivial and acid recrements of the Blood and Nervous juice which used to meet in the part affected especially if such things be used as vindicate both these Humors from that bad disposition as well saline as acid Testaceous powders of Crabs Eyes mandible of a Pike also Spirit and Flowers of Sal Ammoniack Spirit of Blood Tincture of Antimony Coral Decoctions of root and seed of Burdock Groundpine Germander are very good Which sort of Remedies may be taken with distilled Antiscorbutick waters twice or thrice a day Distilled water of Horse-dung adding Scurvy-grass Brooklime Iva arthritica and the like does sometimes a great deal of good In the mean time Fomentations Liniments Cataplasms or
Corals make an Electuary Take of Species diamargarit frigid diarrhodon Abbatis each 1 drachm and an half powder of Pearl 1 drachm whitest Sugar dissolved in Treacle water and boyled to the consistency of Lozenges 4 ounces oyl of Cinnamon 6 drops Make Lozenges according to Art As for Opiates and Anodyne Medicines in some ails of Scorbutick Persons I had rather be deprived of any sort of Medicine beside than of the use of them for I have not found a more excellent Remedy not only for pain and pertinacious watching but in Asthmatick Paroxysms Vomitings Looseness and also in the Vertigo and Convulsive passions whenever nature is beyond measure irritated than to procure Sleep by giving a safe narcotick In the mean time great care must be taken not to give them if any thing in the constitution of the Patient or in the condition of the Disease or time forbid the giving of such a Medicine Beside the usual Hypnoticks in Dispensatories to wit Laudanum opiatum Nepenthe Philonium Diacodium and Syrup of red Poppy I know moreover two preparations of Opium which I use to give in form of a Tincture or liquid Extract from 10 to 20 drops in some appropriate Liquor The diet or course of Life to be observed by Scorbutick Persons is of very great moment in the method of Cure which if neglected or managed amiss other prescriptions of Physick conduce little or nothing to health A diaetetick regiment extends to divers things but it is especially concerned about Air and the site of ones Habitation meat and drink and motion and rest of the Body As to the first such Mansions and Places of Habitation as in respect of the Air or Soil breed the Scurvy must be avoided they that desire either to cure or prevent this Disease must make it their business to chuse an Air moderately hot and dry which also must be thin and pure and sufficiently eventilated Meats of good juice and of easie Concoction are proper the gross and viscid mouldy and rusty also unfermented food or much compounded pulse Milk meats unripe fruits must be avoided I am so far against all things preserved in Sugar and that have much Sugar in them that I think the invention of it and its immoderate use has contributed very much to the vast increase of the Scurvy in this last age For this Concrete consists of a very sharp and corrosive Salt yet allayed with Sulphur as appears plainly from the spagyrical Analysis of it For Sugar distilled by it self yields a Liquor scarce Inferior to Aqua stygia And if you distil it in a Copper Still mixt with a great quantity of fair water although the fixt Salt ascend not so much yet a very hot and pungent Liquor will come over like the strongest Aqua vitae Since therefore we eat such a quantity of Sugar mixt with almost all our Victuals it is very likely that by the daily use of it the Blood and Humours are made Salt and sharp and therefore Scorbutick A certain Famous Author has ascribed the cause of the Consumption in England to the immodarate use of Sugar among us I know not but that the cause of the frequent Scurvy may rather be derived from hence Let the drink be midling Beer mild and well clarified and besides altered with Antiscorbutick Ingredients without an ingrateful tast it must not be thick and sweet nor over stale and sower This may be drunk in a moderate quantity and almost only at set times of Dinner and Supper The custome which has prevailed among many that when they get out of their Bed they immediately take a large Mornings draught as they commonly call it which is very pernicious For by this means seeing the Sanguiferous Vessels are over filled with a stock of fresh Chyle poured in almost at once and Crudities and Morbifick faeculencies are bred in the Blood and the Sanguifick faculty is much weakned truly it were better for most Men unless they whose Stomach while it is empty uses to be troublesomely Contracted and Corrugated to fast till Dinner Nor is the common custome of Mens swilling their full Cups immediately after meals less pernicious Wine and Syder so they be mild sincere and not adulterated taken in a moderate quantity do no harm but if they be adulterated roapy harsh or eagre nothing is more hurtful and injurious to our health Exercise and Labor are of such excellent benefit as well for the cure as prevention of the Scurvy that many either preserve or recover their health by this Remedy alone For the Blood and Nervous juice of such as are idle and lead a sedentary life like standing waters contract slime and filth But by the constant and much exercise of the Body the Humours and Spirits grow clear and vigorous the excrementitious and heterogeneous particles evaporate the obstructions of the inwards are opened and their tone is strengthened Willis Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. When I could get no constant ease at last I took some Cream Chamomil flowers Water Cresses and Juniper Berries boyled in Milk and applied the Cataplasm hot and by Gods blessing I think I have found a Panacaeon for all Scorbutick pains ¶ Take of Elder flowers 2 handfuls boyl them in Wine add 2 drachms of Soap and make a sufficient quantity of Ly Balth. Brunnerus a cloth dipt in which and applied mitigated the pain powerfully 2. For a painful Scurvy All things premised that should be premised let a Decoction of Worms be taken to cause a Sweat afterwards let the joynts be rubbed with this Spirit Take of Flowers of Lilly Conval 2 handfuls Rosemary 1 handful Castor Seeds of Scurvy-grass each 6 drachms Rocket half an ou●ce infuse them in the best rectified Spirit of Wine 8 ounces set them in the Sun for 3 dayes strain them out well add of Spirit of Worms 2 ounces and an half Joh. Drawitzius Camphire 1 drachm and an half Mix them with these things I have successfully Cured Scorbutick Gouts 3. Our Syrup for the Scurvy is made of juice of Brooklime and Scurvy-grass with Sugar I have not found a better Medicine for the Scurvy ¶ For the pain of Scorbutick joynts I applied a bag full of rosted Salt rosted Millet Bran and Chamomil Flowers Forestus and when the Bag was applied the pain ceased as if it had been charmed 4. The Essence of wild Pine Take of the tender Branches of wild Pine or Fir a sufficient quantity boyl them in a sufficient quantity of common water for an hour or two Digest and thicken the Colature to the consistence of an Extract pour to it Spirit of Scurvy-grass or of some other Antiscorbutick Herb afterwards digest and filtre it and you will have an Essence The Dose whereof is from 20 to 30 grains in a due Vehicle Grulingius It is highly commended in the Scurvy and Contracture 5. Wall Rue has an excellent efficacy in Curing the Scurvy with which
which must be separated from its Faeces 3 grains a day may be given for a Dose in Speedwell Water Kircheru● 10. This is proved by certain Experience if any one have swallowed Leeches or eaten Mushromes or any poysonous thing let him immediately drink warm Vinegar with a little Salt Kunrad and he will presently be cured by Vomiting 11. Against Opium Let Mustard and Castor be taken in equal quantities and put into the Nose Mercurialis to cause Sneezing 12. Treacle with ●xymel Simpl. or Scylliticum satisfies all Indications for none that ever took this after eating Mushromes died of them Panarolus but all through GOD's Blessing recovered 13. A Decoction of Linseed corrects all Erosions of the Stomach caused by taking Cantharides Platerus and it is reckoned their Antipharmack 14. Against Quicklime the Gall of a Roebuck from 1 scruple to 1 drachm taken in warm Water is an Antidote as also a scruple of Deer's Gall given the same way ¶ Against Gypsum 1 drachm of Mice dung in Wine ¶ Against Aqua fortis Mucilage of Quince seed Marsh-mallow and Gum Tragacanth drawn with Rose water and mixt with Honey of Roses and of Violets ¶ Against Antimony besides Treacle bole Armenick and Oyl of Cloves ¶ Against Arsenick Fossile Crystall powdered 1 scruple taken in Oyl of sweet Almonds also Oyl of Pine-nuts 3 drachms given in drink also juice of Mint 2 drachms ¶ Against Minium burnt Ivory 2 drachms in Wine also Treacle and Mithridate ¶ Against crude Mercury filings or leaves of Gold also juice of Burnet and Wine ¶ Against its Fume a draught of Wine wherein Rosemary Staechas Arabica and lesser Centaury have been boyled as also a draught of Sage and Zeodary water ¶ Against sublimate and precipitate fine powder of Crystal 1 drachm with Oyl of sweet Almonds also 2 drachms of Oyl of Tartar or salt of Wormwood ¶ Against Cinnabar burnt Ivory 2 drachms given in Wine ¶ Against Mushromes Hen's dung or ashes of Vine-branches with a little Nitre drunk with Honey and Water warm Sowre Pears are commended whether green or dry and if they be eaten before Mushromes or boyled with them they render the Mushromes harmless Treacle also is good But let a Man especially use Honey in his Meat which is a peculiar and proper Antidote against Mushromes ¶ Against Napellus Take of the Flies of Napellus they are blew Flies which sit and live upon no other Plant of the like Nature with this N o. 20 Birthwort Bole Armenick each 1 drachm Make a Powder ¶ Against Wolf's bane Opchalsamum 1 drachm ¶ Against Henbane Pistachio-nuts eaten and drunk ¶ Against green Coriander roots of Swallow-wort in Wine ¶ Against Euphorbium Citron seed in Wine wherein Elecampane root has been boyled also terra sigillata Emerauld prepared Crystall c. ¶ Against white Hellebore powder of the Flowers or roots of white Water Lily or Parsnep seed 2 drachms taken in Wine also Treacle ¶ Against the bite of a Viper Bezoar from half a scruple to 1 drachm boyled in Wormwood Wine and given Also Garlick Leeks Onyons Rue Treacle Mithridate Antidotus Matthioli which some highly commend the Dose is 3 drachms in some Cordial water ¶ Against a Scorpion besides the live Scorpion taken and bruised and applied to the Wound and Oyl of Scorpions the Milk of a Fig-tree dropt into the Wound is good ¶ Against the biting of a Leech Agrimony bruised and applied ¶ Against a Spider the Catkins of the Walnut-tree dried in an Oven from 1 drachm to 2 given in Hydromel or white Wine also Treacle and Bole Armenick taken in Vinegar also the dry Re●● of the Fir-tree Against Cantharides Penny-royal taken either in Substance or in Decoction also Terra Lemnia 2 drachms or Winter Cherries N o. 10 with Wine ¶ Against the Venome of Flies Bees and Wasps the Animals themselves bruised and applied to the Part also live Sulphur mixt with Man's spittle Rue or the Milk of the Fig-tree applied to the Place And if there be need Coriander may be given inwardly with Sugar ¶ Against the Brain and Blood of a Cat half a scruple of Musk taken frequently ¶ Against Milk curdled on the Stomach Vinegar simple or of Squills also the juice of Mint new drawn also Milk of the Fig-tree given with Wine and Vinegar also the Runnet of any Animal ¶ Against the poysonous Sweat of any creature Take Bole Armenick Terra Sigillata Bay-berries each 1 drachm the Runnet of a Roe-buck or instead of it of an Hare half a drachm Myrrh leaves of Rue each half a drachm with clarified Honey make an Electuary Sen●ertus Take 2 drachms every day 15. All things premised that ought it is the best way to drive out the Poyson to the Skin to which purpose this is a most excellent Water Take of Aqua theriacalis camphorata 1 drachm and an half Liquor of Tartar corrected Spirit of Vitriol each half a drachm the oyly Liquor of red Corall 1 drachm Oyl of Turpentine 5 drops of Juniper 4 drops Essence of Celandine half a drachm Water of the root of Colts foot Eryngo each 1 ounce of Elder flowers Wall Gilliflowers each half an ounce red sweet Wine 2 ounces and an half Vid. Vidius Mix them Destill them in Balneo Keep it for use Ventriculi affectus or Diseases of the Stomach See Stomachicks Book XIX The Contents Whether Topicks must be applied for the strengthning of it I. What such the things that are applied to the Back should be II. Plaisters should not be long kept on III. What dry Things are applied must not be cold or astringent IV. An Instrument to scour a foul Stomach V. It admits of an Incision VI. When the Stomach is ill the Diet must be thin VII The Cure of an unaequall Intemperature VIII In a hot Intemperature we must take care of the Liver IX A Vomit is most convenient for an Intemperature with an Humor X. The Efficacy of Hiera in cold Diseases with Phlegm XI Strong Purges are hurtful XII We must use Heaters with caution XIII When Wormwood Wine may be given XIV How far we may heat the Stomach XV. Things with Vinegar in them are not proper in every Crudity XVI A Caution about digesting Powders XVII Strengthning Powders do harm upon account of the Sugar XVIII The use of Pepper is strengthning the Stomach XIX When the drinking of hot or cold Water is good XX. Spirit of Vitriol is hurtful XXI Whether Spirit of Vitriol of Venus be proper XXII All strong destilled Things are hurtfull XXIII Destilled Aquae vitae help not Concoction XXIV Strong smelling Things must not be added to digestive Powders XXV Things that heat the Stomach if the Liver be hot must be taken after Meat XXVI Wormwood worn under the Soles of the feet cures a cold Stomach XXVII Over hot things applied do hurt XXVIII Wine rather hinders Concoction than helps it XIX An austere Wine in a dry Intemperature
Mace and a crust of bread or in distilled water or Tincture of Pontick Wormwood Take of powder of Ivory Crabs-Eyes red Coral each 2 drachms Coral calcined 1 drachm red Sanders Cinnamon each half a drachm Make a powder The Dose half a drachm in the same manner Take of the Tincture of Salt of Tartar 1 ounce The Dose 1 scruple to half a drachm twice a day in some appropriate distilled water Idem XXVI In Vomiting from a sharp and hot matter Medicines endued with a sowre and vitriolick Salt are more convenient That famous one of Riverius is proper in this place Take of Salt of Wormwood 1 scruple give it in a spoonful of juice of Lemons Take of Coral prepared two drachms Salt of Wormwood one drachm and an half juice of Lemons four ounces Let them stand in a capacious Glass Add of strong Cinnamon water 2 ounces The Dose a spoonful or two twice a day first shaking the Glass Take of powder of Ivory Coral each 2 drachms Vitriol of Mars 1 drachm Sugar Candy 1 drachm Mix them Divide it into 6 or 8 parts let 1 be taken twice a day in some convenient Vehicle In this case mineral purging waters which have much Nitre in them Idem and Iron Waters use to do abundance of good XXVII If when the Stomach perverts most it takes into a bitter and bilious putrilage as it often does it be therefore incli●ed to frequent vomitings Medicines both Acid and Bitter are proper Take of Elixir proprietatis 1 ounce take 1 scruple twice a day in some convenient Vehicle Take of Rheubarb in powder xxv grains Salt of Wormwood 1 scruple Cinnamon water half an ounce juice of Lemons 1 ounce Mix them Take this either by it self or in some convenient Liquor Take of powder of Crabs-Eyes half an ounce Tartar Chalyb●●te 2 drachms Sugar Candy 1 drachm Make a powder Idem The Dose half a drachm with some convenient Liquor twice a day XXVIII The cause of a frequent and habitual Vomiting is oftentimes not so much any matter irritating the Stomach as a weakness of its Nervous fibres and it s too great propensity to irritation inasmuch namely as they being very tender and infirm can neither concoct what is taken nor bear the burthen or load of it but are presently irritated by any thing that lies upon them and therefore put the carnous Fibres into emetick Spasms that they may throw off what is troublesome In this Affection there are 2 cases to wit Either a weakness of the Stomach implanted in the very Fibres is contracted from some inordinate courses as Surfeiting dayly and immoderate drinking frequent drinking of Wine or hot Waters and other Errors in Diet inasmuch as these Fibres being distended beyond measure or too much heated or as it were rosted cannot admit or contain animal Spirits in a quantity sufficient Or Secondly these Fibres although of themselves they be well enough yet because of Nerves somewhere obstructed they are deprived of a due afflux of Spirits and thereupon being languid and flaccid they cannot bear what is taken but being oppressed they force it back by Vomit Thus I have known several who without any impurity of Stomach or languor contracted from disorder have been taken as it were with a Palsy in that part and lost their appetite and have been subject to frequent Vomiting In the first case such Remedies are indicated as may by their Stypticity make the too much distended and thin Fibres to corrugate and contract into a narrower room and such as may by their pleasantness draw spirits more plentifully thither and refresh what are languid Take of Conserve of red Roses vitriolate 4 ounces preserved Myrobalanes 6 drachms Ginger preserved in India half an ounce Species de Hyacintho 2 drachms the reddest Crocus Martis 1 drachm Syrup of Corals what is sufficient Make an Electuary The Dose 1 drachm twice a day drinking a draught of distilled water upon it In a weakness of the Stomach or resolution caused by some Nerves being somewhere obstructed Antiparalytick Remedies joyned with Stomachicks will be of great use Take of Elixir proprietatis Paracelsi 1 drachm The Dose 1 scruple twice a day in the following water Take of Cypress tops 6 handfuls leaves of Clary 4 handfuls the outer rind of 12 Oranges Cinnamon Mace each 1 ounce roots of Cyperus lesser Galangale each half an ounce When they are cut and bruised pour to them of Brunswick Mum 8 pounds distill them in common Vessels Tincture of Coral Tartar or Antimony may be used in the same manner In this case Spiritus Salis dulcis also Spirit of Sal Ammoniac or its flowers Willis ibid. give great help Moreover Vomits and Purges and Sweats are often given with benefit I have known this Disease several times happily cured by Bathing in the Bath at Bathe XXIX In Vomiting and the Disease Cholera Laud●num may be given with Syrup or Tincture of Roses or with sapa of Quinces and let a Cupping-Glass be immediately applied to the region of the Stomach M●yerne tra●t de Laudan● M. S. and make a Cataplasm of Leaven powder of Mint and Orange Peal with some juice of Mint Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Let this Plaster be applied for it does wonders Take of Mastich Cinnamon Lignum Aloes Z●doary Galangale Cloves Anniseeds Marathrum each 3 drachms Mix them Make a powder Mix the powder with Oyl of Mastich and Balm And then with leaves of Wormwood and Mint and baked Bread boyled in Wine make a Plaster ●ordon●● and apply it warm 2. This following applied is found to stop Vomiting presently Take of sower leven 2 drachms dried Mint powdered Mastich powdered each 2 drachms and an half powder of Cloves 1 drachm a little Vinegar Mix them and spread them on a Cloth and apply it warm Grulingius it does excellently well 3. Water cooled in Snow stops a pertinacious bilious Vomiting above all things De Heredia As I have found by experience 4. This is a most excellent Remedy for all Vomiting Take of Cloves grossly beaten half a drachm Roses 1 Pugil red Wine half a Pound Boyl half away Joel The Dose 2 Spoonfuls after meat 5. If enormous Vomiting follow the taking of Antimonial Medicines take 4 drops of Oyl of Cinnamon in Cinnamon-water Kunrad and the Vomiting will presently stop 6. This is admirable good Take Yolks of Eggs fry them in a Frying pan with Oyl of Mastich adding powder of Mastich and Coral till they become a soft cake Rhudius Apply them hot to the Mouth of the Stomach 7. I have learned by experience that Water and Vinegar of Roses with the Yolk of an Egg and a little Salt without any Butter Rosenbergius presently stops Vomiting 8. A crust of Bread dipt in Malmsey Wine or Mint water and sprinkled with powder of Mint Mace Cloves Cinnamon or Spec. Aromat rosat and applied to the Stomach is
Willis c. de Apoplex●● and turned sometime on one side sometime on the other XXVI They that are stricken immediately with a deprivation of Pulse and Respiration and a little after when they are cold seem to have breathed their last must not presently be laid out and left destitute of the help of Physick Moreover were there no hope of life at all they should not be buried for three or four days Because such sometime either of themselves or by the use of Remedies come to life again Which certainly comes to pass not because the Vital Heat is kindled afresh in the Heart for it was never quite out but inasmuch as the morbifick matter being discussed or evaporated from the Cerebellum the motion of the Heart as that of a Clock Idem when the Weights are hung on is set on foot again Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. The Salt of Elder is highly commended for preservation from the Apoplexy if it be mixt with a third part of the Volatile Salt of Amber and every new and full Moon be given from one scruple to half a drachm in some convenient Liquor Martinus Blockwitius anat Sambuci Sect. 3. cap. 5. de Apoplexia Joh. Theodorus de Bry introduct in vital Philosoph tract 2. de causis curatione morborum c. 8. de gutta Also the distilled Spirit of Elder Berries will doe much good if a spoonfull of it be taken once a week at each quarter of the Moon with a little white bread and Sugar 2. The Solution or Oil of Pearl is a Secret in the Apoplexy if one have lost his Speech drop five or six drops on his tongue and he will recover his Speech 3. Decoction of Sarsaparilla is a divine Remedy in preservation from the Apoplexy for its detersive cutting and opening and strengthens the inner parts of the head especially It may be thus prepared take of Sarsaparilla cut two ounces of Primrose and Lilly Conval Flowers of each an handfull Fennil Seeds six drachms Crato lib. 6. Epist Med. 4. Steep them four and twenty hours in two quarts of Water and boil half away when it is almost boiled put in of Agallochum three scruples and an half Strain it and keep it for use The dose is five or six ounces in a morning with a drachm and an half of Cinnamon Water let the Patient sweat but not so as to weaken him much 4. Having had singular Experience of these Pills in preserving from the Apoplexy I advise the use of them whereof I give a scruple at night every time the Moon is at change and full even in Summer Take of Cubebs Calamint Mastich Nutmeg Cloves each a drachm Amber-grise half a drachm Musk six grains Idem Ibid. p. m. 15. with juice of Marjoram let them be made into Pills Idem singular consil Medic. 34 35 3● 37. 5. Let him that is subject to the Apoplexy hold a piece of rosted Nutmeg frequently in his Mouth For this corrects the cold temperament of the Brain 6. The use of Caroway-seeds not onely eaten but smelled to is highly commended Also the following Powder is very good for Preservation Take of the Roots of Siseli Creticum one drachm of the Seeds of Rocket Cardamome White Pepper each two scruples mix them and make a Powder Let him take to the quantity of a Bean or mix it with syrrup of Betony It is good to snuff into the Nostrils Idem Ibid. Marjoram Water which hath had beaten Rocket-seed and a little Ginger steeped in it 7. You may preserve your self from the Apoplexy if once a Month you take of Hiera Hermetis three drachms and an half and thrice a week a drachm of Mithridate except in Dog-days The Hiera must be taken in the morning fasting Idem Cons 109. and the Mithridate at Bed-time 8. This Powder is good to preserve from the Apoplexy Take of White Amber prepared three drachms of Peony Root Species Diarrhodon Abbatis each half a drachm Mix them and make a Powder The Dose is a drachm every month next day after the change of the Moon in a little Aqua Vitae The use of it must be continued Idem Cons 113. and so at length the Body will be freed from the Apoplexy and from several other Symptomes 9. A Powder made of a like quantity of White Amber and Species Diarrhodon Abbatis given to a Scruple in Betony or Black-Cherry water is deservedly esteemed as a peculiar Remedy in the Apoplexy and Stone Idem Cons 149. 10. This Balsame bears the bell from all the rest Take of Oil of Nutmeg by expression one ounce David Crus Theatr. morb He●metico H●ppocrat lib. 20. 13. p. m. 19● Species Diambrae one drachm of Hare's Pasterns half a drachm infuse them in a sufficient quantity of Oil of Castor for two days when you have strained it add Oil of Cloves Cinnamon Lavender Marjoram Cummin Amber each one Scruple of Musk and Amber-grise each half a scruple mix them and make a Balsame shave the head and apply it 11. This Ointment of Villanovanus is of admirable use Take of Galbanum half a pound of Gum Ivy half an ounce mix them and distill them by an Alembick take the Oil and Water and mix them with an ounce of Oil of Brick Idem Ibid. and a pound of Turpentine distill them again separate the Oil from the Water and keep the Oil for an Ointment 12. Claudius Deodate panthei hygiast lib. 3. cap. 21. de specifica particul morb cùratione p. m. 127. Apoplexia sive gutta highly commends the Semilunar Stone found above the eyes of a Carp And Johannes Vincentius Finckius enchirid Dogmatico Hermet cap. 6. de Apoplexia tells us This Stone was a Noble Womans Serret whereby she cured several of the Apoplexy of that especially which seised the Patient with the motion and contraction of the Muscles above the Eyes by giving some of them in Aqua florum Tiliae 13. A most secret and certain remedy against the Apoplexy Take of Lion's Dung powdered two pounds pour Spirit of Wine till it be covered three fingers breadth let them stand in a Viol stopt three days Strain it and keep it for use Franciscus Hildisheim Spic●legio 6. p. 536. Then take a Crow not quite penfeathered and a young Turtle burn them apart in an Oven powder them pour on the above-said Spirit of Wine let them stand in Infusion three days Then take of the Berries of the Linden-tree an ounce and an half of Peony seeds powdered one ounce and half Let them be steeped in the foresaid Spirit then add as much of the best Wine and six ounces of Sugar-Candy boil them in a Pot till the Sugar be melted Put it up Let the Patient take a spoonfull of it in Wine often in a day for a whole Month. In the Paroxysm give a spoonfull with Aqua Tiliae and with the same Water rub the Forehead Neck
Temples and Nostrils The Arch-Dutchess of Austria had frequent experience of the Virtue of this Medicine 14. Take Oil of Cinnamon Cloves and Lavender Jo. Bap. Van Helm Tract de Febribus c. 15. p. m. 778. if you know how to change them into Volatile Salt you have got as effectual a Remedy as can be expected from these Simples in an inveterate Vertigo Palpitation Apoplexy and such cases 15. The following Aqua Vitae or Quintessence preserves a Man from yea cures him of the Apoplexy if a spoonfull of it be taken every morning Take of Conserve of Rosemary Flowers Lavender each two ounces of Balm Sage each one ounce of Species Diamoschi dulcis Diambrae each two drachms of the Root of Peony the Seed of the same of Cinnamon each half an ounce of Saffron a drachm of Castor Rocket Seed each two drachms Franc. Joel Oper. Med. Tom. 1. l. 1. Sect. 3. p. m. 91. Apoplexiae curatio of Sugar Candy half an ounce of Juniper Water distilled four pounds bruise them and mix them let them stand Infused in the Sun or some warm place for a Month distill it in Ashes let the dry Matter be taken out of the Glass and pounded and let the distilled Water be poured on it again let them stand in a warm Infusion fourteen days and then distill them in Balneo Mariae 16. I gave a Noble Apoplectick Woman who could not speak for three days Spirit of Black Cherries and she presently recovered her Voice Mr. Thomas Kesler tractatu German 200 process chim processu 53. 17. Essence of Amber with Apoplectick Water Conrad Kunrad Medull distill part 1. p.m. 202. 248. is a most excellent Remedy for an Apoplexy 18. Tincture or Essence of the Amaethist is both an excellent Preservative and Cure The Dose is to fifteen drops 19. Take of Flowers of the Linden-tree and Lilly of the Valley as much as you please Bay-berries two ounces beat them all well together till they be in a kind of Mass Then take some juice of Violets mixt with Sugar pour it on the Mass mix them well and strain the juice hard out Take this and half as much Salt of Wormwood dissolved into Liquor Distill it by a Retort rectifie the liquor that comes over drive it through a Retort again and then bring it over an Alembick that there may be no Phlegm and you will have a most excellent Spirit of which you may give half a spoonfull Idem p. 2. p. m. 137. ad Apoplex with a little Cinnamon or Linden-Flower Water to an Apoplectick person It gives present help and preserves a Man his whole Life from the Apoplexy 20. For the Apoplexy Phil. Muller mirac chim lib. 5. p. m. 83. Take of the best Aqua Vitae one Pint of Juniper Berries two handfulls bruise them and Infuse them in the Aqua Vitae for three days strain it out and put into it of Sage Pennyrial Cresses Saffron each one drachm give a little to the Patient and he will presently recover his Speech 20. Felix Platerus tract de function laes cap. 2. saith That Chymists give the Extract of Sage in Apoplexies as a great Secret Joh. Popp. Tract de Febribus malignis c. 3. de Apoplex 21. A sure secret for the Apoplexy and loss of Speech Take of Oil of White Amber seven grains of Ambergrise and Musk each eight grains of the Water of Lavender Betony each half an ounce of the Water of Marjoram one ounce mix them and make a Liquor which when taken the Speech will be restored 22. The following Water is of admirable Virtue in comforting the Brain and Nerves It powerfully helps the Memory sharpens the Wit strengthens the Judgment Wh●ther it be taken inwardly or the Part affected be chafed with it it doeth much good Guernerus Rolfinkins Ord. Meth. Med. special consultatoriae l. 2. Cons 25. 17. Every Dose may be exalted with some grains of Magistery of Pearl or Specifick of Antimony Take of the Leaves of Sage with the Tops and Flowers of Marjoram Lily Conval Balm Hysop Lavender each two handfulls of Rosemary Vervain each half an handfull of the Root of Leopards-bane one ounce of Nutmeg Galangale Cinnamon each one ounce of Bayberries Juniper-berries each three ounces of Herb Paris one ounce of Caroway-Seeds Cubebs Cardamome each half an ounce of Whitewine as much as is sufficient Let them be well bruised and Infused for some days or let them stand fourteen days in Horsedung Then distill it in Balneo Mariae Dan. Sennert l. 1. par 2. c. 33. p. m. 665. de Apoplexia 23. Confectio Anacardina as it is proper in all cold diseases of the Brain so in this especially given either alone if the Patient come to himself and can take solid Medicines or dissolved in Aqua Vitae Also distilled Oil of Nutmegs if dropt into the Nostrils and Ears and the Palate be rubbed with it is highly commended 24. A Mineral Antapoplectical Water Take of Creme of Tartar one pound of the Mineral of Antimony a pound and an half Let the Acid Spirit be distilled by a Retort with a moderate fire which let be rectified Take of this six ounces add thereto of Spirit of Venus made of Verdigriece three ounces of the burning spirit of Saturn distilled from his Sugar an ounce and half of the volatile sulphureous Vitriol rectified by the acid spirit four ounces Mix them for use It is an excellent tart Water much to be desired in all Apoplectick Epileptick and Soporous cases It may safely be given to Children in Fits from one drachm to two in some gratefull Vehicle Appetentia nimia depravata Or The Appetite too great and depraved The Contents We must not use too much fat things in allaying it I. Narcoticks must be used cautiously II. A depraved Appetite cured by Sweat III. By Volatile Salts IV. By running of the Haemorrhoids V. Medicines I. FAt and clammy things stay too great hunger yet they are more proper in the beginning when we would provoke Vomit but when the Vomit becomes violent they must be omitted We must also have a care lest we use them over much and the Patient be brought into a contrary condition therefore when the Patient begins to mend Sennertus Fat things and which hinder concoction must be omitted II. But Narcoticks are to be used with caution and strong ones avoided as the Infusion of Mad Nightshade made in Wine which immediately destroys all appetite of Food in the most voracious person Yet strong Wine and Brandy may be used which according to Platerus take away hunger not so much by heating as stupifying As Treacle and Mithridate by the same narcotick quality he thinks do take away the dog-like Appetite Idem III. It is good in the depraved Appetite sometimes to cause a gentle Sweat But we must have a care that the Patient be not stifled with Clothes for it were better not to sweat at all
Cataplasm to the Part grieved doeth much good in ease of the Stone or any Tophus in the Reins or Bladder ¶ If the Stone in the Kidneys be hard and not to be broken Idem c. 37. and by reason of obstruction Urine be stopt the herb Paeony drunk with Wine and Honey is very good 24. Sennertus commends Lignum Nephriticum and Lapis Nephriticus taken either inwardly or onely worn about one Calculus Vesicae or the Stone in the Bladder The Contents Whether it can be broken by Medicines I. By what virtue such do operate II. Diureticks are sometimes proper III. Whether Liquours injected by a Catheter be able to break it IV. Signs are doubtfull and we must not hastily fall on cutting V. It sometimes lies hid by reason of a bad conformation of the Bladder VI. Flesh in the neck of the Bladder resembling the Stone VII When a Catheter is put in the Membrane at the Mouth of the Neck of the Bladder must not be hurt VIII When it is inclosed in a Membrane whether it must be pulled away IX The taking of it out is not impossible X. A correction of Errours that precede the Operation XI Of those that follow XII By what place and means it may best be taken out XIII The Operation may not be performed when the Moon is in Scorpio XIV In the Dog-days fatal XV. Whether the Minor Apparatus be allowable XVI A large Incision should be preferred before a small one XVII A caution in Women XVIII A Stone taken out of a Woman by a Hook XIX The way of taking it out when it sticks in the Urethra XX. XXI Whether Incision of the Hypogastrium may be admitted to get it out XXII A mitigation of the Dysury a Concomitant of the Stone in old men XXIII A Caution in cutting cut Stones that stick in the Urethra XXIV Medicines I. WHether can the Stone in the Bladder be broken with Medicines Many utterly deny it many affirm it but coldly I with Galen Hippocrates Dioscorides Rhasis Avicenna and infinite Classick Authours who prescribe many Simples and Compounds acting by their tenuity acidity asperity and by their Diuretick virtue do hold that there are things in Nature which break the Stone What hinders it I do not see since there is a dissolving Salt as well as a coagulating one and that the virtues of things must not be denied in Plants Herbs and Stones We see also how soft Water by continuance doth hollow the Stone that Iron is eroded by virtue of Simples and that there are Simples which soften Stones and why not break them We read in Aetius l. 2. how Philagrius cured the Stone in the Bladder with Goats-bloud and a Hedge-Sparrow mixt together How a Jesuite at Rome cured a Printer's Son with Millepedes rightly prepared Joh. Fre●tagius apud Gr. Horsti●m l. 4. ●bs 4● How Rhasis lib. 9. cured an old Stone in the Bladder with his Pills with which Horatius Augenius and his Father and other Physicians cured several of the Stone If the fore-cited Authours commended their Medicines and they had no such Virtue What did they in so weighty an affair but put a cheat on Mankind which to say of Hippocrates is Blasphemy who according to Macrobius never deceived others nor himself ¶ Bartholomaeus Turrianus in latrob lib. 4. f. 269. broke a Stone that was then designed to be cut by giving a little powder of Crystal to drink or rather the dissoluble substance thereof which same Liquour Th. Muffetus mentions de jur praestant Chymicorum Now Crystal is made soluble if it be calcined in a Potter's Furnace at least nine times then it becomes of a brittle substance and put in a Cellar it melts like Oil of Tartar Or let the Crystal Stone be heated in the fire and quenched seven times in the water or Spirit of the Lesser Nettle According to Johannes Praevotius the Stone in the Bladder is broken by a Plaster of White Onions boiled and applyed to the bottom of the Belly If therefore Histories be extant of persons troubled with the Stone that have been cured by Medicines the chief Remedies must be tried before the Patient commit himself to the greatest hazard Gul. Laurembergius his History of a person cured of a great Stone by the use of Sows and Horatius Augenius his History of another Patient are well known But such examples establish no rule they onely convince men of the possibility which we do not deny Several circumstances also cannot be known as whether these were onely gravelly coagmentations and not flinty In this therefore or the like case I can approve of no sort of true Diureticks if the Stone be great hard and like a flint for neither thus can we hinder its increase The distance of the place is far and the ways by which the Medicines pass many if they be weak they lose their virtue before they come at the Urinary passages if strong they carry matter from the whole Body to the Bladder nay these doe more hurt for by their acrimony and tenuity they take away and wash off that Lentor and phlegmy matter that like Mucus usually sticks to the Stone and serves it for a bed this gone the Stone is made sharper raises more intense pains and hurts the Bladder more A Patient of mine experienced this who having used Diureticks for two years found no benefit whether he took Chymical or Galenical things nay he rather daily found more pain Crato Rolfin●●iu● l●b 9. Co. s 9. Physician to three Emperours experienced the same who seriously disswades men in the pain of the Kidneys from those Diureticks that force the Stone His Eminence Cardinal Cornarius when he had a fit of the Stone and was afflicted with difficulty of Urine being unwilling to observe the Disswasion of his Physicians went contrary to Mercurialis his advice to the Bathes that work by Urine when he took the Waters his pain increased and he died ¶ Guarinonius saith Cons 300. That scarce ever any one saw the Stone broken by Medicines Yet I broke the Stone in the Bladder of a Boy twelve years old and brought it away piece meal by this one Medicine G●t C●ist Winclerus in Misc ●r●ri●s in ●● chs 102. Take of purple Violet Seeds half an ounce of Water of Strawberry Rest-harrow Alkekengi each what is sufficient make an emulsion according to A●t Add of prepared Sows 1 drachm Goats Bloud 2 pounds Species Lithontriptic 1 Scruple Spirit of Turpentine half a scruple mix them let 2 spoonfulls be given frequently He voided pretty large pieces and inclining to blackness so that one shell seemed to have grown over another II. Mercatus makes four Classes of Medicines that break the Stone and he reckons those in the third that he thinks do improperly break the Stone and he saith they doe good onely by absterging and rubbing the surface of the Stone And he teacheth that all are such which by their asperity absterge and as it were rub
be free from that infection 5. This powder was used with great success in the Plague and is given by many but erroneously as a common cure for Fevers Take Sugar-Candy 3 drachms Ginger 2 drachms Camphire 1 drachm Mix them The dose 1 drachm in Water and Vinegar in which Tansie has been boiled especially when the season is not hot ¶ I could also prove the efficacy of this Electuary by good witnesses it is made also of Camphire Take of Scordium 3 drachms Tormentil White Dittany Zedoary Gentian Angelica Cloves each 1 drachm Saffron Camphire each 2 scruples Mix them Make a powder sprinkle it with Water of Carduus in which are dissolved of Treacle 2 drachms and with Syrup of Juice of Carduus and of Scordium make an Electuary The dose 1 drachm or more in Carduus-water ¶ Nothing is better to preserve children from the Plague than Bole-Armenick with a little Tormentil and Citron-pill powdered which may be strewed on their Meat ¶ In a Pestilential fever the following Water is a truely royal Medicine and is highly commended Take Spirit of Malmsey-wine eight times distilled 8 Measures put to it of root of Tormentil Serpentaria each 1 ounce Angelica Zedoary each half an ounce Citron-peel Cinamon each 1 drachm let them stand 3 days in a glass stopt and in a warm place then these things being cast away and strained out first pour this Elixir again into a glass and let these things tied up in Linen be put into it Take of fresh Sperma Ceti Ambergrise best Rheubarb each 2 drachms Musk half a drachm let the Vessel be well stopt keep it One drop of it in Summer time is taken with Sugar of Roses for preservation to those that are infected one ounce may be given with Water of Carduus Benedictus Scabious or Scordium adding 1 drachm of this Powder Take of Hartshorn Unicorns-horn each 1 scruple Terra sigillata half a drachm Pearl Emerald each half a scruple Camphire 7 grains 5 grains of Bezoar-stone may be added and every 3 hours 1 scruple of this powder may be given with Water of Water-lily Sorel c. and when the Patient has taken it let him Sweat ¶ I have learned by certain experience that to pour some Spirit of Malmsey-wine upon Amber and keep the Glass close stopt and every morning to take a few drops with Bread Crato is an excellent preservative from the Plague 5. Elixir Alliatum is reckoned a great Preservative from the Plague it is made thus Take twenty heads of Garlick cleansed bruise them put them in an Alembick pour to them rectified Spirit of Wine till it stand four inches above distill it in Balneo by cohobations always putting in new Garlick in the last distillation add of Camphire tied in a rag and hung in the nose of the Alembick 1 drachm distill it as before ¶ There is a most secret virtue against the Plague in the herb Milfoil whole with its Flowers Deodatus with which onely the Buriers use to guard themselves in the greatest Plagues 6. A compound Oil is made of Scorpions and is much celebrated amongst Chymists it is commonly called Oleum Clementis it shews wonderfull effects in Poison and in all Pestilential Diseases reviving them that are half dead which Oil I highly commend in this case if the Arteries Pet. Salius Diversus and the region of the heart be anointed onely with it 7. A Salt is made of the ashes of a burnt Toad with Water of Carduus Benedictus or Meadow-sweet The dose half a drachm in Carduus Benedictus Water for a Sweat in the Plague which it powerfully promotes Faber and it is very good to cast the Plague out thereby 8. I take Earth-Toads and hang them up and dry them in the Air then I lay them on a hot Tile to make them dry I powder them but first I anoint the Pestil and Mortar with Oil of Scorpions that the Powder may not get into my Nose and hurt my brain with its poisonous quality I take of this Powder 1 ounce sowre Leven 4 ounces the best Treacle 1 ounce leaves of green Rue 1 handfull I mix all these things well with Honey and apply it to the Bubo twice or thrice a day This Plaster draws the Poison out of the body wonderfully to it self a whole Toad dried Guilh. Frabricius and applied to a Bubo does the same 9. This is a most noble Bezoardick Tincture Take of Mistura simplex 3 ounces Berries of the herb One berry 3 drachms Scorzonera-Root 4 scruples Make an Infusion and digest them J. Mich. Febr. The Dose 1 scruple to 2 scruples 10. Hier. Fabricius I especially commend Flammula Jovis to be applied to a Bubo because it draws much and raises blisters by which the Poison is purged out 11. This Plaster is commended above all others for Swellings and Pestilential Buboes Take a Frog and a Toad dried powder them add thereto of Gum Opoponax Frankincense each 2 ounces Galbanum 1 ounce Serapinum 4 ounces Bdellium 3 drachms pour to them Rose-vinegar what is sufficient boil and dissolve the Gums add of Camphire Oil of Sulphur each 1 ounce Fry them in a Frying-pan into the form of a Pultess and apply it hot to the Swelling repeating it every six hours ¶ This is very good to anoint Carbuncles Take of Vnguentum Basilicon 1 ounce fat of Vipers 1 ounce extract of Scordium 3 drachms Treacle 2 drachms Juice of Lemons Oil of Scorpions each half an ounce Mix them Make an Unguent Anoint the Carbuncles ¶ Above all other things which by experience are found good to preserve from the Plague Vitriol is the thing To the stronger sort it may be given to 1 drachm dissolved with Honey and Water for the weak it is prepared with Rose-water and ground very fine at least four times and so half a drachm of it may be given with Wine or Honey ¶ In a Malignant Spotted Fever this Cordial-water of mine is most excellent Take of Juice of Goat's Rue Sorrel Scordium Citron each 1 pound Mix them Add 1 ounce of Treacle Infuse them in warm Water then distill them in Balneo The dose half an ounce morning and evening ¶ This is a most excellent Powder which preserves from and cures the Plague Take of White Vitriol it is first powdered and infused in water then it is dried and this is done three or four times adding a little Camphire of White Dittany Tormentil-root each 2 drachms Make a Powder Rod. à Fonseca The Dose is 1 drachm in Water of Plantain or Roses or Sorrel 12. This Powder of mine was very good Take of Root of Dittany Tormentil Bole Armenick prepared Terra sigillata each 3 drachms Roots of Gentian Butter-bur Tunica each 2 drachms red Sanders 1 drachm shavings of Ivory Citron-Pill red Coral Bone of a Stag's heart Root of Zedoary each half a drachm prepared Pearl both the Behens each 2 drachms Amber Unicorn each half a
original to the disease besides for the most part it is impossible to raise a Sweat in Hydropick persons Riveriu● XXI Diaphoreticks though they be of special use in an Anasarca yet in an Ascites they are either of none or but very rare because used unseasonably they often doe the Patient a great deal of harm without any benefit inasmuch namely as by heating the bloud they cause the waters fluctuating in the cavity of the Belly to rage and as it were to boil so that the spirits and humours are very much disturbed by vapours raised from thence and so a disorder of all the functions does follow and the Inwards themselves are very much hurt as if they were perboiled Moreover by Sweating thus amiss the bloud being forced into fusion and precipitation of the Serum Willis discharges more of it into the nest of the Ascites XXII Sweat must not be raised by Decoctions which by their actual humidity doe harm but by Extracts of Guaiacum Claudinus Sassafras Carduus Benedictus c. XXIII They greatly mistake who try to expell an absolute and full Cacochymie as in a Dropsie by Sudorificks Indeed this is sometimes good in the Venereal Disease but it is onely in this case and that onely sometimes It happens sometimes that in Hydropicks little blisters appear on their Belly by opening of these oftentimes more water comes out in two or three hours time than the best Sweat would get out in a whole night Hofmannus XXIV Let any one be ill of an inveterate Dropsie in the end he is troubled with continual want of Sleep and he that goes to cure this with Narcoticks kills the Patient Hydropicks dye upon taking one grain of Opium If the Patient desire help for his want of Sleep let the Physician prescribe some well-known Medicine lest when the Patient must of necessity dye hastning of his Death be ascribed to Medicines Walaeus XXV Whoever gives an Hydropick person half a drachm of Treacle he highly endangers his Patient's life and his own credit even by giving of one grain For such Opiates do not onely lay the Spirits asleep but they make the shortness of breath worse Hofmannus to which Symptoms almost all Hydropicks are obnoxious XXVI Perforation of the Abdomen is the greatest Remedy which must be used when there are indicant and permittent Intentions The Indicant are watry Matter It is lawfull to perforate in an Ascites onely Avicenna does not tap the Abdomen unless the body be very strong when therefore you come to Patients do not tarry till they grow weak because it will be in vain afterwards to use this remedy Concerning the time Avicenna says You must not dare to tap the Belly as long as any other cure is possible The Moderns explain it thus All things must be tried before the Knife but this is a great errour for Avicenna used other Remedies after Tapping But he would shew us that we must not proceed to Tapping unless we foresee the Disease will not be cured with less remedies When therefore we find the Belly swell fast and other accidents we must presently have recourse to this remedy But if we should try all things first without doubt the Patient would be enfeebled and his weakness would not allow it Capivaccius Hippocrates ¶ We must tap Hydropicks quickly ¶ Aurelianus says there is no other reason why most dye whatever some may object but because this cure is always tried too late and when the disease by diuturnity is become incurable Vallesius XXVII It ought to be considered that Nature her self who being taught by no Man yet does those things that are proper has as it were pointed out to us this operation while she has saved the Patient oftentimes from present death by swelling and opening the Navel in a Dropsie And though it be very difficult to tap the Navel yet when it is swelled we must seek no other place But if the Navel chance not to rise in a blister some other convenient place must be sought And that is on the left-side of the Navel three inches below the Navel and so many on one side of it Yet first as the Patient stands upright if there be not an excessive quantity of Serum or as he sits or lies when his belly is very much swelled the place must be carefully marked with Ink. Formerly Section was made with a Penknife through the skin muscles and Peritonaeum not without fear of hurting the Guts then after Section they put a smooth-shouldred Silver pipe into the wound exactly fitting the hole Which because it was very difficult the Moderns have found out a far more convenient way and that is by a Pipe having a very sharp edge at the end which Barbette Chirurg p. 1. c. 15. describes for by this the Abdomen is perforated by degrees But as soon as it has penetrated into the hollow part presently the water uses to run out at the holes that are on each side of the edge the excessive flux whereof if we would stop we stop the hole of the pipe with a Silver pen exactly fitting it and when we have a mind to let it run again we draw it out When we have a mind often to repeat this operation either a new hole is made or that is opened again which was made before Van Horne Mi●ro●ec●n A little Lint with an agglutinant plaster applied over it shuts the hole securely XXVIII We must hasten to tapping not the vulgar way which is full of danger but a new and safe way by a Silver pin hollow which is gently thrust into the Abdomen about four inches below the Navel and as many on one side of it and after a sufficient quantity of water is let out it is drawn out again and in like manner at some other time or day it is thrust into the same hole unless it seem good to make a new hole some other where There is no danger in this operation because when the pin is drawn out no more liquour will run out but by applying a Diapalma plaster the opened place is not onely defended from the injuries of the ambient Air but its consolidation is promoted Sylvius XXIX Although Erasistratus Avicenna and Gordonius think it destructive yet if there be all the conditions for the safe performance of it I should willingly order it immediately And these conditions are six 1. That not deplorable persons but such as have strength be tapped 2. That they be not very feverish 3. That there be no Schirrhus in the bowels 4. That the disease be new and the bowels not corrupted by the water 5. All the water must not be evacuated 6. It must neither be in Summer nor in Winter time if it be possible But in a Dropsie of many months the decay of the Inwards may be suspected which alone may dehort from so great a Remedy the unhappy success whereof may easily be
with Purslain Pachequus obs 56. Riv. com Sorrel and Lettuce Also the Heat must be drawn outwards by applying Animals split in the Back LXIV If a lingring Fever arise from Obstructions there is nothing better according to Montanus cons 10. than an Infusion of Rheubarb in Endive-water He says he never met with a Fever from obstructions which was not cured with this Remedy if the use of it were constantly kept to The Infusion of Rheubarb now in common use is made of half a drachm or a drachm of it grosly bruised and tied in a bag and infused in two or three pounds of Spring-water cold for a day The use of it may be continued a month or more according to the contumacy of the Disease LXV We must not give Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur and the like to sucking children in Fevers or any other Distempers as we find them commended by Practitioners in their Books seeing by taking them Milk is curdled in the Stomach Hofmannus Hydrocephalus or The Dropsie in the Head LXVI In an Hydrocephalus if abundance of water be gathered without the Cranium the use of Medicines both internal and external is usually vain for as strong internal Medicines are not proper for this age so moderate or weak ones doe no good the case is the same in externals Wherefore we can have no hopes in any thing but in a sensible evacuation of the humour Now this evacuation must be made by Chirurgery i. e. by Section in performing of which we must observe what Aetius and Paulus write that if the Swelling have an high top it must be cut at once but if it be broad it must be cut at two or three times and places Mercurialis LXVII Some make running Ulcers with Caustick Medicines which Cure childrens heads cannot well bear though they be good in other cases Others advise Burning round the head in divers parts which sort of Remedy they are far less able to bear because the substance of the Brain is very tender Besides the water will neither be discharged quickly nor as it should And it is certain that the Skull if the water abide there long will be prejudiced which makes it more dangerous And Mercatus disapproves of Mercurialis his opening the Head in two or three places because the water is too suddenly discharged which is prohibited in these Diseases LXVIII It must be observed also that Section must always be made in the nethermost part because evacuation may much more easily and readily be made when the water has declivous places to run out at Idem LXIX You must moreover have a care you do not cut near the temporal Muscle till the water fall to one side of it and then you must open carefully in some remote part and apply upon the apertion Lint with the White of an Egg and Oil of unripe Roses Mercatus LXX When Section is made the humour must not be evacuated at once but by little and little And if this must be done in a Dropsie of the Belly it ought much more to be done in a Dropsie of the Head Mercurialis which is the seat of animal Spirits LXXI Aetius his advice must be followed if children be strong that Medicines must be strait tied down but if they be tender and weak it will be enough to cover the wounded place with soft Wooll or a very soft light Cap. Idem LXXII If the tumour proceeds from the Ichors of other humours which tumour Avicenna calls Atas he advises that the Nurse be fed with cooling things as Ptisan and Barley-water to apply Oil of Violets to the Head and to abstain from Bathing because bathing with warm water heats the Head more Idem LXXIII A child newly born was ill of an Hydrocephalus all over his Head with a great dilatation of the Sutures I cured this Disease perfectly onely with Guido's Swathe made in form of a Cap wherewith the whole Head was rolled the two ends being tied in a knot The said Swathe was renewed every day and within fifteen or twenty days the Swelling vanished Formius obs 6. LXXIV And you must have a care in this case how you make an Issue behind in the Head for by communication of Veins the water may easily fall on the Tendons and Muscles of the Neck upon which it may be feared that mortal Convulsions and other Diseases may grow It is better in a strong child to make an Issue in the Arm when other Remedies will doe no good Mercatus LXXV Sometimes a Contusion happens in the child's head by reason whereof a great Swelling full of Bloud arises to which the name of Hydrocephalus suits but improperly And it is caused either by the Midwife's fault who bruises the child's head in the Delivery or by reason of some vessels being open by the forcing of the child to get out some of the Serum and thinner part of the bloud going out by it And it may be the Nurses fault in letting the child fall and dashing it against a thing or in binding the head-bands too strait whereby the veins and arteries that are then tender are compressed This serum and bloud is diffused between the Skull and the Skin sometimes upon the crassa meninx and sometimes upon the Brain it self If the Contusion be flight it may be discussed by the help of Fomentations and Liniments of a Decoction of Roses Flowers of Melilot and Chamaemil adding a Liniment of Oil of Roses and St. John's-wort mixt together Guillemeau de educatione infantium cap. 17. or applying a Plaster of Diachalcit and Diachylum Ireatum But if the Contusion be great it will be in vain to try to dissipate it by Discutients according to Experience ¶ I have a Daughter called Elizabeth thirteen years old born before her time that is fifteen days before the feventh month By reason in the Birth she could not force because of her Weakness the whole affair depended upon the Mother and the Midwife But the Midwife drawing out the Girl by main force so bruised her head that for two months after she was born she voided clotted black bloud at her mouth nostrils and ears In the mean time whatever Food she took it was not given her by the breast but in a spoon She was swathed double round her body while her Nails were wanting But when the time was over that she ought to have remained in the Womb she began to take the breast and to thrive In the eighth month she began to pronounce some words And this present year 1681. she is brisk and well and almost fit to marry Imperforati or They that are Imperforate LXXVI It was Albucasis his Judgment that Midwives ought very carefully to search children when they are new born and if the hole be stopt to open it gently with their Finger or with an Instrument and then to lay on Wooll wet with Wine and Oil then to cure it with Unguents to
with good success amongst which Diacuminum was very familiar with him Rhod. cent 2. obs 13. ¶ If Spitting cannot succeed the Matter is to be evacuated either by Sweat or by Urine or by Externals or a suppuration is to be endeavoured For provoking Urine Turpentine is commended in this case either alone or mixt with the Pouder of Lykyrrhize Give a drachm of it and let it be wash'd in the Water of Maidenhair to which add half a drachm of the Pouder of Lykyrrhize Yet these Diureticks ought not to be administred in every case but only when you see the Spitting does not proceed and that the Patient pisses plentifully For Hippocrates said 4. acut 28. that those Pleuritical and Peripneumonical Persons are treated amiss who spit nothing up unless they void much Urine Therefore when you see the propension of Nature you may come safely to Diureticks to Maiden-hair Saxon. Parsley Fennil to the cold Seeds where the Fever is urgent ¶ Hippocrates 2. de morb makes three differences of a Pleurisy according to the diversity whereof the Cure is to be varied Concerning the first kind he writes thus lib. 1. v. 233. But often if it be turned to the inferior parts it distributes a pain through the Veins to the Bladder and the Patient makes a great deal of Bloody Vrine In this place he sets forth in what Pleurisy the Morbifick Matter is not expelled by Spitting as is usual but by Urine a sign whereof is a pain extending it self by the Groins to the Bladder and the Patients making a Bloody Urine understanding that which is tinctured with a deep red which looks of a Bloody colour Seeing therefore this sort of Pleurisy has its Crisis by Urine not by Spitting he therefore advises the Cure to be performed by those things which provoke Urine for which purpose he gives Oxymel diluted with a good deal of Water Prosp Martian comm in v. 206. l. 2. de morb sect 2. namely Oxymel is Diuretick and by the coldness of the Water whereby it is diluted 't is very sit to temper Choler XXVIII In the Pleurisy and Peripneumony Nature which is the Curer of Diseases does sometimes purge out by Urine the Morbous purulent Matter contained in the Cavity of the Breast as Galen witnesseth 6. de loc 4. Therefore her Motion is diligently to be observed lest it be inverted by her Servant the Physician So that if it happen that Nature endeavours an Excretion by Urine we must make use of Diureticks as Heurnius persuades us cap. 3. de morb p●ctoral XXIX Hippocrates 4. acut gave to a P●euritical Person in the beginning Oxymel with Panax or All-heal boil'd in it and strained as also to the Hepatick and such as were pained about the Midriff viz. to such as had Phlegmons or other collections of Humours in the Liver or Midriff namely to digest powerfully and to move Sweat or Urine or both This way of curing Pleuritical Persons by violently discussing Potions is not very much in use with our Physicians who after Bleeding Anointings and Pectorals pass to no other Remedy Yet I know one to whom some ordinary Fellow gave something of this kind in Drink who by having a plentiful Sweat raised was presently relieved his Breast loosened and he spit easily when it was now the seventh day of the Disease and he had begun to Expectorate nothing and was in danger to be strangled almost through difficulty of breathing Ignorant Fellows also who empirically undertake the Cure of some Diseases Valles 4. de ac p. 250. cure Pleurisies often by Sweating Medicins with good success ¶ A Boy of twelve years of Age was ill of a Pleurisy of his right Side he was bled five times and other things were prescribed On the seventh there was given him half a drachm of Chimney Soot in Carduus Water Within two hours after taking this Medicin all the symptoms which were grievous remitted very much and the Patient was much better Lazar. Riv. cent 2. obs 79. and afterwards recovered by degrees ¶ I have seen many and especially Women who for want of fitting Remedies were brought to extremity almost by a Pleurisy cured by taking once or twice of Quercetan's Apple in twenty four hours whereupon beyond expectation there follow'd either a plentiful Sweating or liberal Expectoration Indeed I could name several to whom being almost desperate I have prescribed this Medicin Idem cent 4. obs 88. and I never saw any event of it but good ¶ An obstruction of the Vessels by viscid Phlegm or Blood coagulated in them shall be cured by using inwardly and outwardly such Medicins as dissolve the offending Humour and make it fluxile again Amongst Internals Aromatick salts are the most profitable which are prepared of divers parts of Animals as all and every of them being endued with a notable vertue to dissolve all coagulated and congealed things and to reduce them to their former fluidity and likewise to provoke Sweat which being gently promoted withal a resolution of the coagulated Humours is more easily quickly and happily obtained Hence it is that often upon the seasonable giving of one Sudorifick prepared of the foresaid volatil salts or the like the Pleurisy which is an inflammation of the Side hath been happily cured without the opening of a Vein And hence it is that mixtures made of such things and taken seasonably a spoonful at a time by short intervals have soon safely and pleasantly cured both the Pleurisy and Peripneumony and also the Inflammations of other parts As for instance Take of the Waters of Parsley Hyssop and Fennil of each an ounce of Treacle Water half an ounce of the Spirit of Sal Armoniack half a drachm of Laudanum Opiate four grains of the Syrup of red Poppy an ounce mix them The Spirit of Sal Armoniack the volatil salt of Hartshorn or any other may be used and according to the greater or less acrimony thereof more or less of it may be added to the mixture and a greater or less quantity of the mixture may be taken at each time and the Body may be kept in a warm place to promote the Medicin on every hand and sometimes to facilitate Sweating though it is not needful to provoke Swear seeing that does no good but as the volatil and saline vertue of the Medicin penetrates then the easilier and quicklier to the part affected and obstructed To a Volatil salt may and ought to be referred Crabs Eyes the Jaws of a Pike Hartshorn c. seeing they abound therewith In this case also a l Metallick and Mineral Sulphurs but such as are fixt are profitable wherefore hither is referred also Antimonium Diaphoreticum brought to some fixtness though these things are good in this case on many accounts Nor are only the Volatil salts of Animals profitable here but all which are derived from the various parts of Plants called Scorbutical and Acrimonious and emulate the vertues of the same such as the Juices
all the Soldiers having the Scurvy who were besieged in a certain Castle were cured ¶ An Infusion of Brooklime and Scurvy-grass in Whey of Goat's Milk is a vulgar Medicine but does truly a great deal of good in the Scurvy ¶ Goose dung is also commended in this case Hofmannus from the juice of which Soldiers troubled with the Scurvy in a Siege found great relief 6. This is a Secret Take of the middle yellow rind of the root of Sloe-Tree 4 handfuls Pepper powdered 2 spoonfuls boyl them with Beer and Water with this Decoction hot wash the Mouth repeating it several times then Take of the juice of Water-Cresses pour to it some Wine mix them and keep them Jobus Kornthaverus wash and rub the Mouth and Gums often with this ¶ Take the juice of Squills rub the Teeth and Gums so the Scurvy is cured 7. Among Diureticks which are used for the Scurvy Penotus his opening Spirit bears the Bell from all others I make it thus Take the Spirit of Goslarian Vitriol 3 pounds and an half Salt of Tartar 2 pounds and an half calcined Flints 6 pounds put them in an Earthen Retort and destil them increasing the Fire by degrees let the caput mortuum be boyled and the Spirit be impregnated with the Salt when it is boyled out of which and Potters clay make balls which being put again into a Retort let them be destilled and the destilled Spirit be rectified and kept for use ¶ Cnoffelius thus prepared his Narcotick Arcanum Take of Vitriol finely pulverized and dried in a certain heat to whiteness half a pound pour to it 30 ounces of rectified Spirit of Wine set it in Horse-dung for a Month when it is poured from the Dregs distil it in Balneo Mariae till the residence of a yellow Liquor like the distilled Oyl keep this when it is cast forth This is far better and safer as the Author affirms then Laudanum Opiatum The Dose is 12 grains in some convenient Liquor 8. The common People in Holland commend a well known and easie Medicine made of the Leaves of Marsh Trefoil for most Scorbutick Persons especially such as are inclined to the Dropsie with very good success I gave to a certain Scorbutick Person who had a Palsie Consumption and Spots Simon Pauli an infusion of marsh Trefoil by the use of which alone he was perfectly well in 14 days I have done the same in others See before § XII XIII XIV Willis his Cure of the Scurvy Scroti Gangraena or a Gangraene of the Cod. A Man about 40 years old being drunk with Wine fell suddenly into a swelling of his Cod with an acute Fever and a sudden failure of Strength he got a Surgeon to cure it who when he observed the blackness of that Part and the exulceration of the whole Penis yea and danger because there was a manifest Gangraene being doubtful of the Cure desired the advice of a Physician When I was called having first given him a Clyster because he had not been at Stool for 2 dayes I prescribed him a Cataplasm of Scordium Rue Meal of Lupines and of Bitter Vetch with Oxymel Wine c. I gave him Diasenna Fracastorii and now and then Treacle-Water because I observed some Malignity communicated to the Heart for without it he could scarce breathe The next day when we took off the Cataplasm we found the outer Cuticle separated and the third day the Scrotum open of it self and about night ten pounds of Water run out The fourth day his Stones were all bare for the Scrotum was fallen away from the pecten to the perinaeum Here we advised what should be done and by drying and incarnating Remedies we prevailed so far in 14 dayes time that we had not only guarded the Stones Petrus Holtzemius with a Scrotum but Nature also had clothed the Scrotum with new hair the whole glans came again to the penis all the Ulcers of the penis were healed and he was able afterwards to act the part of a Man One forty years old a strong Man and of very good habit of Body when in Summer-time he had heated himself excessively and had drunk a great draught of cold Water was within a few dayes taken with a continual Feaver of which he was rather cured by the benefit of Nature than by Art in the mean time the intemperature and fault of his Liver remained wherefore a little after he fell into a Cachexy for he was first taken with a Jaundice then with a Dropsy Dr. Cronenburgius used all things necessary at last a serous Humor falling into the Scrotum they called Dr. Slotanus to consult Both of them use their utmost Industry in the mean time the swelling of the Cod ceases not but by degrees the Native heat being extinct it turns to a Gangraene in the Part. They scarify the Scrotum all over with a Lancet and wash it with Salt and Treacle dissolved in Vinegar not neglecting Vnguentum Aegyptiacum and a Cataplasm of meal of Lupines of Darnel Aloes Myrrhe Scordium and other things that resist putrefaction They prescribe a very good course of Diet Strengthners and Openers of obstructions inwardly and outwardly In the mean time when the Water ran plentifully out of the Scrotum the Patient grew better At length the gangrened Scrotum part of it fell away by the benefit of Nature and Medicines part also which was gangrened was cut off with a Razor so that the Stones might be seen bare the Ulcer remained open for some Months Fabritius Hildanus Cent. 5. Obs 77. In the mean time Nature by this way evacuated whatever excrementitious Humors were in the Bowels so that the Noble Parts were perfectly restored and the Patient fully cured of his Disease Singultus or the Hickup The Contents The Cure must be varied according to the variety of Causes I. A Periodical one which would only give way to Bleeding II. A Tedious one stopt III. The Efficacy of Opiates IV. To what Place outward Applications must be made V. Antimonial Vomits are best in this Case VI. Vomits repeated do good VII Medicines I. B. Sylvaticus gave to one that had had the Hickup grievously for seven dayes Hiera with Oxymel Rhodius when he had voided above 12 ounces of Phlegm he was perfectly well ¶ Several who have been almost killed with the Hickup after purging for 5 dayes with hiera piera Daretus have put an end to the Hickup ¶ One who had had the Hickup 20 dayes and was in great danger of Death was at length saved by an infusion of Mechoacan Epiph. Ferdinandus ¶ A Boy ten years old Hickuped day and night for 8 dayes I gave him water of Green-Nuts destilled with Radish first steeped in Vinegar Although he did not Vomit yet his Hickup ceased after the second Draught about night he was wholly freed of it Platerus ¶ A Surgeon falling Sick was in a little time so troubled with
Hickuping at turns day and night that he could neither Eat Speak nor Sleep as he ought When he had taken a strong Chymical Vomit he at several times voided a vast quantity of aeruginous and black Choler and his Hickup wholly ceased ¶ A Colonel Idem when he was exceeding Hot quenched his Thirst with cold water mixt with Nitre a good quantity at once upon which he fell into a violent Hickup The Water was thrown off by a Vomit Stomach-Water was given him a Cataplasm of Stomachicks was applied to his Stomach at length when some c onfectio anacardina and lignum Aloes was given him he left Hickuping the third day Timaeus ¶ A Girl thirteen years of Age had been afflicted a whole year with a very troublesome Hickup the Symptome had troubled her the whole foregoing Winter she was free of it in the Summer Riverius about Autumn it came again with its former Cruelty I gave her of Calomolanos 16 grains of Diagridium 8 grains that day her Disease was taken away ¶ A Man of 40 years old was taken with an Hickup which was attended with strange Symptomes In the Dog-dayes he had so swilled himself with cold water that through the immoderate Cold he fell into the Convulsion of the Stomach After I had tried all manner of Remedies I thought a hot Bath might correct this intemperature From which being made of Bay Wild-Time c. he received such benefit that within 5 dayes he was well Idem In the mean time a Bag was applied to the region of his Stomach in which the foresaid Herbs were put ¶ N. being sick of a Malignant Feaver was tormented with a grievous Hickup having tried several things I prescribe 2 grains of Laudanum with an Emulsion of the 4 Seeds Idem wherein a drachm of Sal prunellae was dissolved Within an hour the Hickup ceased and returned no more ¶ I cured one that was ill of a grievous Hickup with one Draught of Seed of Dill Carroway Purslain Forestus and white Poppy boyled in Small Beer ¶ Erysimachus the Physician cured Aristophanes of the Hickup by Sneezing Plato when he could not be cured by holding his Breath ¶ Rainutius Farnesius being almost killed with a deadly Hickup was cured by applying a Weather new opened to his Stomach Severinus ¶ A young Man having wrenched the eleventh vertebra of his back which is over against the upper Orifice of the Stomach was grievously afflicted with a perpetual Vomiting and there was no place for Remedies Rhodius ¶ The Sympathick Hickup which arises from Sympathy with a Rupture incarcerated and is often attended with black Vomiting follows the Patients till Death and is not curable but by restoring the Rupture Rolfincius The same judgment may be given of an Hickup coming upon an Inflammation of the Liver ¶ One that had been vext 3 whole Months with the Hickup could not be cured with any Remedies till the extremity of his Rib which was found turned in and run into the Stomach without any sense or pain Fernelius was gently raised ¶ One that had the Hickup from Windiness recovered by this following Remedy Take of Philonium 1 scruple diagalanga 2 scruples give it in Wine This did another good Take of the best Treacle 1 drachm powder of Dittany half a drachm Forestus give it with a little Wine ¶ A Hickup in Feavers sometimes follows the intemperate use of cooling Juleps as I have observed several so held through the unadvised Rashness of their Physitians Jodocus Lommius and I removed this Symptome contrary to the Opinion of them all by drinking Wine II. A Maid healthy in all other respects was commonly once a year for the most part at one set time afflicted with a Pertinacious Hickup that despised all Medicines At length a Remedy was found bleeding freely in the Arm. It may be because some Flatulent thing joyned with something sharp which disturbed the Blood-vessels of the Diaphragm and by consent the Nerves also might find a Passage by opening a Vein so near Bartholinus III. I have several times cured even the most Contumacious Hickup with this Mixture Take of Quince Wine Simon Schult in M. C. an 1676. Obs 149. Tincture of Roses each 1 ounce Syrup of Quinces half an ounce Extract of Zeodary 15 grains distilled Oyl of Orange-Peel 4 grains Landanum Opiatum 4 grains Mix them The potion must be taken by spoonfuls IV. Opiates above all things conduce to the cure of any Hickup not only as they qualifie all sharp Humors but more over as they obtund the sense of the Stomach and it may be also make the Animal Spirits more torpid to Motion if so be they be used by turns in a small quantity and so long till the Hickup either cease or be notably diminished for example Take of Mint Water 2 ounces simple Treacle-water half an ounce Confectio Alkermes 1 drachm Laudanum Opiatum 2 grains Syrup of Mint 1 drachm Sylvius de le Boe. Prax. l. c. ●9 §. 10. Mix them Give a spoonful V. Galen 5. de loc affect c. 4. sayes that Patients sometimes perceive a weakness of the Gullet when what they take is a long time and with great difficulty in getting down the Gullet to the Stomach which sometimes at the first essay get down easily then again they are forced down as if they stuck like as when one has eaten sowre Pears which by their stypticity straiten the Gullet lying on the Back and hinder the going down Then if they be clapped on the vertebraes of the Back with ones Hand or between the Shoulders upon which the Gullet rests whatever sticks is forced down into the Stomach whereby at length the larynx is dilated and can take in the Air freely Therefore the Ancient Physitians were not amiss who when they were to cure the Hickup or any diseases of the Mouth of the Stomach or Gullet made not their outward Applications to the Epigastrium but applied them to the Back and vertebrae of the Neck which Aetius lib. 15. c. 147. very learnedly teaches If saith he the Hickup be continued we must use Sneezing and Cupping-glasses also over all the Spine and especially about the greater vertebrae of the Diaphragm that is the 12th and 13th vertebra of the Back and draw it to the Spine For the continnual application of Cupping-glasses often rectifies and opens the Mouth of the Stomach contracted and as it were obliquely twisted by the Hickup It is also very good to bind the extreme Parts and dip them in Water This Doctrine of Aetius Galen maintains by an agreeing suffrage 11. Meth. I call the Gullet in this place the Stomach saith he which the Greeks properly call the Stomach sometimes also they so call the Mouth of the Stomach as when they say A Man swoons stomachichally But we apply a Cataplasm for the Gullet which is properly called the Stomach to the Spine and
a Miracle XI Blisters applied to the Hips are of use to prevent Fits But I have often observed that Sinapisms applied to the Hips 2 or 3 hours before the Fit have diverted it Fortis which is a Remedy of less trouble XII Like as where the said Suffocation is urgent Castor is deservedly preferred before many other things and its Tincture with rectified Spirit of Wine and Spirit of Sal Ammoniack so where Cold is very urgent as well outwardly as inwardly as in a Syncope and Diseases of that nature above all things that I have hitherto yet known I commend the destilled oyl of Cloves which is not ingrateful nor do I disapprove of the oyl of Turpentine which is less grateful seeing mixt with Spirit of Vitriol it raises an effervescency accompanied with great heat Let this mixture serve for an example Take of Water of Penny-royal 2 ounces Theriacalis simplex 6 drachms Tincture of Castor 2 drachms destilled oyl of Mace of Amber each 3 drops Syrup of Fennil half an ounce Give it by spoonfuls it is good also in Hypochondriack Diseases One scruple of Spirit of Sal Ammoniac may be added to this mixture which will make it much stronger or a narrow mouthed Glass containing the said Spirit Sylvius de le Boe. prax l. 1. c. 19. may be held to the Nose for by its sharp smell People are got both out of Fits and the falling sickness XIII I observed in a Matron a most grievous Aphony often returning with Convulsions She had been Barren many years and upon the approach of her Menses was taken with a most grievous Fit of the Mother then with a small Epilepsie at length with partial Convulsions of Hands Feet Back and horrible ones all the Body over She upon using of proper foetid uterine Medicines fell into more grievous Symptomes for which cause we fell to Perfumes Musk to wit and Amber and we gave them in a small quantity with other Cephalick strengthening things with good success Which should also be observed in other Hysterick Women that is in such whose Head and Nervous kind has been weakned in their youth by Epileptick Fits Horstius ● 1. Obs 26. or some other cause XIV A Woman was afflicted with most cruel Symptomes Head-ach Belching contraction of the Body pain in her Groin gnashing of her Teeth sometimes falling to the ground speechless her Mouth shut so that she could not open it and all these things from the fault of her Womb. She having tried many Medicines to no purpose an old Woman coming in gave her 13 grains of Musk and as many of common Dragon's blood in 4 drachms of Orange flower water she was cured and never after had any Fits Solenander Sect. 5. cons 5. §. 10. I have given the same Medicine in the like case and it alwayes did good I have given it several times XV. In the cure of a pregnant Hysterick Woman we must take great care that Remedies be prudently administred and that violent and very foetid things be not given lest abortion be caused And the business must be done more by external than internal things Riverius XVI Aetius well advises that a Woman when she has recovered her health should not wholly be neglected but for preservation sake she should use Medicines at certain intervals especially at suspected times so that the use of them should not wholly be left off but the quantity abated XVII I and Dr. Dobritius had a Woman under Cure of Fits of the Mother who had a very foul Body She was taken about Night especially with a straitness about her Stomach her Heart was oppressed and almost all her Limbs had a tingling in them her Head also aking Various things were tried by us the Humours were prepared evacuated strengthning things were given yet we did no good At length through my perswasion we gave her Antimonium diaphoreticum upon taking of which she began by degrees to amend We continued it for a Fortnight in which time she was so much relieved that because she was better and grew weary of Medicines she had rather commit the rest to Nature than longer insist on Medicines I ascribe her recovery chiefly to the Antimony She indeed is well now but not without complaints of a weariness in her Limbs Doringius XVIII We often meet with Women who think they are ill of the Spleen when they are Hysterick By Hysterick Affections I mean these Symptomes that happen not in the Womb it self but in other Parts which have a Sympathy with the Womb for the Womb has some Sympathy with all the Parts especially with such as are contained in the Abdomen to which it is joyned by its Veins Arteries Nerves Membranes and by its Ligaments from whence because of some vitious Blood Seed or other Humours foul vapours expire into other Parts And there is a very great Sympathy between the Spleen and Womb by the Arteries whence come Hypochondriack Ails rumblings and pains of the Belly And this Sympathy is so frequent and familiar that many say they are only Sick of the Spleen Trimirosius when the Disease is in their Womb. ¶ A Maid of a Melancholick nature had for several years been troubled with violent Fits that returned often Most Physicians thought this mischief came from Malignant Vapors bred in the Spleen and rising to the Diaphragm It so happened that the Patient was held almost a whole Night with so violent a Fit that they thought she would dye every moment I suspecting it to be a Fit of the Mother gave her compound Balm water which is much in use among us I poured 2 or 3 spoonfuls of it into her Mouth she came to her self to a Miracle Thonorus Obs 2. l. 3. p. 185. and all her difficulty of Breathing ceased Whence we knew it was an Hysterick Fit XIX I was called to a Matron who was dangerously ill of Fits I found her lying with her Eyes shut and speechless I immediately prescribed her Aqua matricalis de Melissa Composita instead whereof through the Apothecaries mistake Aqua matricalis camphorata was sent a spoonful of which when I had poured into her Mouth she began to complain as well as she could What do ye do Then all her Head burnt as hot as Fire But when the other de Melissa Composita was brought and given the Sick Woman she immediately recollected her self began to open her Eyes and to speak and was recovered to her former health Now though Camphire in some Hysterick cases be no ignoble Medicine yet you may find many Women to whom it is an Enemy especially such as have a hot Head for by reason of its volatil Spirits it presently flies to the Head Idem Obs 3. This Patient was of a Sanguine Complexion and ruddy Countenance XX. Laudanum is admirable in Vapors that Sympathically annoy the Brain especially in Fits of the Mother mixt with Hystericks Madamoiselle de la Font after
Aristolochia rotunda ¶ This is a sure Remedy for Ulcers with worms in them Take of Savin 2 handfuls Camphire half a drachm the middle rind of an Hazle 1 pugil Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Wine pour it into a Vessel put the Ulcerous Foot into it and immediately little Worms will come out Swimming upon the Liquor Repeat this several times Joh. Agricola and the Ulcers will be cured 2. Black earth Snails which are found creeping among the leaves and grass without Houses in Spring time Enzelius mashed together and applied to Ulcers soften all Ulcers wonderfully 3. To inflamed Ulcers apply the narcotick Spirit of Vitriol which is made of calcined Vitriol and Spirit of Wine mixt together and putrefied in a close Glass for a Month. This Spirit separated is good not only to allay all Inflammation Faber and pains of Ulcers but of the Gout it self 4. I take water Frogs and hang them in a Cucurbit so as they may not touch the bottom and burn and so the water which is drawn off get a strong Smell I put fire under it and draw it off gently in Sand and keep it for use For it is most precious in malignant and cancrous Ulcers also in a Polypus Ozaena and in Ulcers of the pudenda and sedes it extinguishes Inflammation and corrects malignity I put not out the fire till they be perfectly dry and no more water will come over but I keep that which comes last by it self for it smells something strong and is not so grateful in Ulcers of the Mouth and Nose The Frogs thus dried I put into a melting crucible and burn them to white ashes They are good not only to stop Blood Guil. Fabricius but in all malignant and sordid Ulcers for if they be strewed thereon they cleanse and correct malignity 5. This is a most excellent Oyntment Take of Oyl of unripe Roses 6 drachms Myrtle unguentum populeon each 3 ounces leaves of Plantain Nightshade each 1 handful shred them and mix all together let them stand 8 dayes shaking them every day then strain them add to the colature of wax 4 drachms Mix them upon the fire till they melt stirring them with a stick when it is warm add of Litharge of Gold 6 drachms Ceruss 2 drachms prepared tutty 2 drachms Camphire 1 drachm and an half Mix them in a Mortar for 2 hours Eust Rhudius 6. The root of Dragons is excellent for Cacoethick Ulcers 7. The juice of Pimpernel with the purple flower Poterius with the Herb bruised and applied to malignant Ulcers perfectly cures them Rhumelius 8. Mercury precipitate corrected is a singular Remedy against all Ulcers 9. Many in a deplorable condition have been happily freed from their Ulcers by a decoction of Mint wherewith the Ulcers are washed Morning and Evening and afterward some powder of Rue strewed on Mart. Rulandus ¶ Oyl of Sulphur and Emplastram Diasulphuris anoynted and applied does the same 10. Some cure the most desperate Ulcers with this mixture They take of Mercury sublimate 1 drachm they powder it very fine they pour to it the best rectified Spirit of Wine 1 pound They set it in a Glass Body in Sand till the Sand grow hot and the Spirit of Wine burn They boyl also a drachm of Lignum Guaiacum in 3 pints of water half away when the water is cooled and filtred they add the said Spirit of Wine Sac●● which mixture is applied with lint and tents to the Ulcers 11. Take of Salt of Litharge it is prepared as Sal Saturni with destilled Vinegar 1 drachm Spirit of Turpentine 2 drachms macerate them in hot Ashes till the Liquor grow red It is of admirable vertue in inveterate Ulcers Tumours Schroderat and Wounds 12. I have often experienced the following Plaster to be good Take of Vnguentum diapomph diapalma griseum each 1 drachm gum Elemi 2 drachms Saccharum Saturni 1 scruple a little Wax Mix them and make a Plaster ¶ Spirit of Wine especially is excellent in deterging and cleaning putrid Ulcers Sennertus and therefore should be mixt with other Medicines 13. The following unguent is effectual in absterging Ichors and foulness of Ulcers Take of juice of Parsly half a pound Myrrh 2 drachms Turpentine 1 drachm and an half Boyl them all together make an unguent wherewith rags and tents may be smeared and put into the hollow of the Ulcers Valleriola this cleanses well without any harm Vomitus or Vomiting The Contents Bleeding is good for some I. The efficacy of a Cupping-Glass II. It must sometimes be cured by Vomiting III. The efficacy of Clysters in stopping one IV. When nourishing ones must be given V. Cured by Elixir Proprietatis VI. Stopped with Medical Waters VII With a draught of cold Water VIII The way to stop it when caused by corrosive Poysons IX How when caused by a Malignant quality X. In Scorbutick Persons it is better stopt with Milk than with astringents XI How it may be stopt when the meat is cast up because of the depression of the Cartilago Xiphoides XII The stopping of it when a Vomit works too violently XIII A periodical vomiting of black Choler stopt by the use of Lenitives XIV One caused by a great laxity of the Stomach cured by eating of biscoct bread XV. The cure of one caused by the obstruction of the Arteries of the Spleen XVI A pertinacious Vomiting of Meat from the palsie of the Mouth of the Stomach XVII Some is stopt by a Narcotick mixt with a Purge XVIII Cautions about anoynting the Stomach XIX Plasters are better than Oyntments XX. When the Stomach refuses necessary Medicines how they may be kept XXI The cure of one coming from a Malignant Fever XXII When Meat may be given XXIII Some Vomiting is Idiopathick some Sympathick XXIV The cure of it when something is bred in the Stomach XXV When it comes from a sharp and hot matter XXVI From the fault of the Stomach that corrupts what it takes XXVII From the resolution of the Stomach and the nerves being affected XXVIII How Laudanum must be given XXIX Medicines Barbette I. BLeeding must of necessity be celebrated in an Inflammation of the parts otherwise it does harm ¶ A young Man of a good habit upon the breaking in of a hot matter out of the right Hypochondrium fell suddenly into vomiting and could be cured by no means but by Bleeding though the Physicians were very doubtful about it for after it the intemperature of the Liver ceased A Seaman who had a vomiting and an appetite could not stop it by setting a Cupping-glass to the bottom of his Stomach but only by taking away some Blood for when the hot evaporation of the Liver was abated Rhodius which did pierce the upper orifice of the Stomach the Patient recovered II. A Countryman 34 years old fell into frequent vomiting after his Meat which lasted for some dayes so that he
his Bowels being hurt I think the wound should not be enlarged for it will do no good but rather harm Because the greater the orifice is the more will the Bowels be burnt by the external Air. But if any of the parts aforesaid be wounded the dilating the orifice of the wound in the Epigastrium will do no good Idem seeing there is no hope of a Cure XLIV But if the Bullet remain within and you have no certain sign that any of the said parts are hurt you must endeavour to get it out the Patient lying upon his wound and turning himself this way and that yet so as that the orifice of the wound may look directly to the ground Then the experienced Artist must search for it and bring it out with a bended Probe But if it cannot be found and if the wound be in a part which may suffer dilatation without much danger it must be opened length-way of the muscles till it will admit a man's fore-finger And the Instrument for dilatation must not be sharp-pointed lest the Guts should be pricked when you perceive the Bullet you must endeavour to get it out by Art but if you cannot well do it let it alone Certainly I have seen some shot in the Belly who have lived after with the Bullet which it may be had fallen out otherwise if we had been forced to seek it and take it out Among which there is an Armour-Smith now alive who was shot a little above the right Groin and the Bullet lodged but could not be got out or so much as be found yet I would not suffer the wound to be enlarged Therefore it must rather be left within than make a Section Idem that is either dangerous or but with little hopes of obtaining one's desir'd end Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. A noble Bezoardick Plaster Take of Wax 1 pound Turpentine half a pound dried Toad half an ounce Bdellium 2 ounces and an half white frankincense half an ounce white Amber one ounce and an half Serpent's Skin dried No. 1. Figs No. 8. incorporate and mix them all according to Art In the end add prepared Magnet 1 drachm liquor Arsenicalis 2 ounces Spirit of Salt half an ounce Boyl them all keeping them continually stirring then pour to them Oyl of Scorpions 1 ounce and an half Mix them Make a Plaster Joh. Agricola It is very good in gun-shot Wounds 2. This is an approved Medicine in a deep wound made by a Shot Take of Bay-berries root of Aristolochia rotunda each one drachm Crabs dried in an oven 1 drachm and an half dried Burnet half an ounce Make a powder which must be boyled in 3 pounds of Wine to a third Let the Patient drink 1 ounce every day Platerus and foment the wound with it or inject it into the wound 3. This drives out all poyson from a poysoned burnt wound by a shot as I have often tried and though it be an ordinary Medicine yet it may be reckoned a great secret Take of Swallow-wort 1 ounce Valerian Tormentil each half an ounce Polypody 2 ounces Garden Angelica 4 ounces wild Angelica Marsh-mallow each two ounces nettle 1 ounce and an half root of Thymelaea 1 ounce and an half root of Scabious Valerian each half an ounce Let them be all gathered between the fifteenth of August and the eighth of September which must then be cut and put in a glazed pot well stopt with a sufficient quantity of vinegar and so let them stand 12 hours Then let them boyl an hour and an half Then pour off the Vinegar and when they are dried and beaten to powder add Quercetanus 12 berries of the herb Paris and 36 leaves Make a Powder the dose is 1 drachm in white wine A GUIDE TO The Practical Physician BOOK XIX Concerning Remedies borrow'd from Diet Surgery and Pharmacy Acidulae or Mineral Waters The Contents They cure contrary Distempers I. Not to be drunk rashly II. Whether the necessary quantity should be drunk together at one draught III. In what quantity they are to be drunk IV. The greatest dose is not to be taken it the beginning V. Whether when one is come to the highest Dose he must keep to it VI. The necessary quantity to be drunk in as little time as may be VII How many dayes they are to be drunk VIII Whether to be drunk cold or hot IX How to be emptied when they will not pass of themselves X. Whether the smoaking Tabaco help their passage XI Lying in Bed furthers their passage XII Riding is better than Foot-exercise XIII We must Purge once in eight or ten dayes XIV How one may know when to Dine XV. Sleep at Noon is to be avoided XVI The Waters are not to be drunk in the Evening XVII Whether Women should desist upon their Terms flowing XVIII Whether leanness alwayes prohibit their use XIX Divers cautions in their use XX. Whether artificial Acidulae can be prepared XXI Whether Victuals may be boyled in them XXII Of what parts Acidulae consist what Waters are understood by that name and of their vertue in general XXIII I. SPaw-Waters being endowed with the faculties of both hot and cold Minerals must needs cure both hot and cold Distempers in the same and in divers Bodies And seeing it is the property of heat to rarifie incide and attenuate and of cold to condense astringe and incrassate 't is no wonder that these waters produce contrary effects namely for instance both procure the Terms in Women and also stop their immoderate flowing For these Waters are an Empirical Medicine and the same thing happens to them as to Treacle which seeing it is compounded without reason and receives into it many things that are superfluous and repugnant to one another Heer cap. 9. 13. comes to cure various and those contrary Distempers II. A poor Country-Fellow being a long time troubled with Bleeding at the Nose and with the fluxus hepaticus drank the Mineral waters disorderly observing neither hour nor season yea in the very drinking of them whilst others use AnniseedS or Lozenges to warm their Stomachs he eat raw Apples laughing at those that advis'd him better But before a Month went about one of his Legs gangren'd so that he was glad to have it cut off and within a Month more the like Gangrene seis'd upon the Arm of the other side Heer Obs 23. about which whilst consultation was had whether it should be cut off also the poor Man died miserably III. Whether should the necessary quantity be drunk all together or be divided into several Doses This latter way is the safer for 1. being drunk at one draught the Stomach is so loaden with it that it vomits it up or 2. if it should be kept its weight would make it pass through so quickly that its vertue could not be put into act nor it self be distributed into the Body and 3. seeing they
the Conserve of Rosemary Flowers Balm and the like to drive away troublesome watchings from them Now the reason of this is the same with what Hosman gave of flower-de-luce namely because Mosch and Ambre are fumous or vaporous ¶ Opium appeases watchings and procures sweet sleep if so be the watchings proceed not from over great driness in which case they do no good given alone but they do very well with moisteners so that by this means the Brain is both demulced and made drousie especially in old men and otherwise where the watchings arise from over great driness defect Acrimony or other indisposition of the Lympha Whence washings of the Head and Feet c. belong hither as also other vehicles of Opiats and promoters of their vertue Wedel de s m. fac p. 205. ¶ We may safely use the somniferous sponge of Heurnius 2 met c. 7. seeing those that are made to sleep by it presently awake upon its being taken off or if they continue to sleep too long they may be easily awaked with another sponge steept in the decoction of wild thyme boiled in Vinegar together with Majoran Smallage and sweet Fennel Seed applied to the Nostrils Sim. Pauli quadrip Botan cl 2. tit Iris. XXII As cold soporificks hurt in Diseases of the Breast by thickning the Humours and making them unfit for expectoration so Flower-de-luce does excellent well in these Diseases XXIII Seeing 't is easie to offend in using too great a quantity of Opium it will be the part of a prudent Physician to behave himself warily in the giving of Opium and Opiats and rather to give them at several times a little at a time than to give much at one and the same time with danger to the Patients Sylv. de le Boë Prax. l. 2. c. 22. §. 113. especially seeing the same yea better effect may be obtained from the same Opiat given at several times than all at once XXIV Although the Narcotick stupefying vertue of Opium differ widely from the pacative vertue of the Anodyne prepared of Vitriol which induces only a natural sleep and no stupefaction which I would have well noted of all that desire at any time to practise Physick with commendation yet I will explain the nature of each The Narcotick vertue of Opium seems indeed to be extended to the Animal Spirits but the pacative vertue of Vitriol to the effervescent bile which I think Helmont then calls the fury of the Archeus Let all therefore seek that Anodyne of Vitriol and esteem it for a great secret when they find it for it performs wonderful things in curing divers most difficult Distempers Idem §. 31. XXV As to the Heads and Seeds of white Poppy of which Diacodium as also decoctions Emulsions and other Hypnotick preparations are made it is very plain that these are far less endued with a Narcotick Sulphur than the concrete juice of Opium and what thereof is in these is far more pure and harmless wherefore we do oftner and more securely give Remedies made up of these For it is not good to ascend to Laudanum unless when through the vehemence of Symptoms Diacodiats will not do Moreover seeing these contain less of virulence in them they need not much preparation but may be used in Medicine being only boil'd or infus'd or sqeezed But Opium is very rarely prescribed simply and by it self Willis phar Rat. p. m. 317. but is wont to be divers ways corrected and compounded that it may become an Anodyne safe enough XXVI When other things have been used in vain to procure sleep then comes Opium The vulgar are afraid of it as present poison whereas being rightly prepared and given in a convenient dose it is an innocent and wholsom Medicine The Ancients indeed have writ that it is a poison but that is only when it is taken in too great a quantity but thus there is nothing so wholsom which by abuse may not become hurtful Now there are divers sorts of poisons some are such in their whole substance which kill however or in what dose soever they are taken others only in quantity otherwise they may profit as Purgers and such things are given in that quantity as to overcome Nature thus milk curdled in the Stomach or juice of Lettuce are said to be poisons But among those things which are called Somniferous Opium is the most innocent 1. Because our Opium is generally the Meconium of Dioscorides which is made of the juice of the leaves and heads of Poppy but Opium is a tear Now Meconium is far less effectual than Opium whence it must be given in a larger dose than Opium to hurt 2. We must note from Galen 5. simpl 18. that of Narcoticks some moisten as Hemlock Mandrake and these are hurtful others dry and these are taken inwardly without harm And 1. de Symptom caus he writes Those things which cool and moisten cause not sleep but a Coma stupefaction and Carus but those which dry as Opium are less hurtful Therefore according to the opinion of Dioscorides and Galen we need not to be so afraid of Opium taken moderately Primiros de vulg error 4. c. 44. XXVII The Ancients who thought that Opium hurt by its excessive coldness used altogether hot Medicines to correct it such as Pepper Pyrethrum or bastard Pellitory Saffron Castor Euphorbium and the like but they were induced to correct Opium in that manner by a false Hypothesis and they made no good preparation of their Medicines To speak only of Philonium Romanum heretofore a sufficiently frequent Medicine experience hath taught that through the admixture of so many hot Medicines it can hardly be swallow'd but it will burn the Throat and cause an heat therein and being mixt in Clysters but even to half a drachm it has in some caused a great heat in the lower Belly and streight Gut To day it is very usual to make an extract of Opium with Spirit of Wine impregnated with spec diambr. aromat ros or the like or let such Spirit of Wine be added to the extract of Opium as also distilled Oyls and Cordial waters as we may see in the various preparations of Laudanum * See Schrod pharm l. 4. cl 2. c. 394. Some find fault with this preparation of Opium because it does equally deposit into the Spirit of Wine the stinking and poysonous Sulphur which remains in Opium even after its having past the fire yea being more attenuated by the Spirit it sooner exerts its Malignity and insinuates more intimately into the Parts Whereto they add this also that there is a certain Narcotick vertue in Wine These therefore find out another way to prepare and correct Opium They cut Opium into small pieces and dry it so long in dishes set over hot ashes or other gentle heat as till the stinking Sulphur exhale and the Opium breath out a sweet and grateful smell and may be powdered betwixt ones Fingers which
Heer 's obs 1. de May. ●●e Tr. de A●thr with the addition of a spoonful of white Tartar cleansed by washing only and dried XXVIII The Salt of Tartar has a great opening vertue and may profitably be put in opening Apozems Opiats and Pills but its principal use is in a loosening Ptisan which is made of two drachms of Senna infused in eight ounces of cold water with a scruple or half a drachm of Salt of Tartar whereby the Tincture of the Senna is powerfully extracted so that this ptisan purgeth far more strongly than the common and being continued for many days looses all obstructions from which effect I have known stubborn Quartans often thoroughly cured by the use of this ptisan continued for fifteen days If you fear the Acrimony of the Salt of Tartar it may be corrected with the Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur as for half a drachm of the Salt let there be fifteen drops of the Spirit River Pract. XXIX Of the Spirit of Vitriol with the Salt or Spirit of Tartar is made Tartar Vitriolate which incides and attenuates cold and viscous Humours concocts crudities opens obstructions and cleanseth away the sticking matter and does all these things very effectually For if the Tartar of Wine have of it self no small vertue to open and absterge if Vitriol alone do this as natural acid and vitriolate Waters demonstrate which are very profitable in all Diseases that spring from obstructions much more is this to be granted to Tartar vitriolate where prepared and very well purified oyl of Tartar by pouring oyl of Vitriol drop by drop upon it is fixt not without excandescence But it is to be observed that if it be exactly prepared according to Crollius it will creat● a nausea G. Horst Dec. 9. probl 5. where is another preparation and in the more delicate often cause a vomiting through the over great quantity of the oyl of Tartar in respect to the Spirit of vitriol Therefore it will have the better operation when equ●l parts are taken XXX The cream and crystalls of Tartar and Tartar vitriolate are so common at this day that many hardly prescribe any Medicines without putting some of these in them Yea Crollius calls Tartar Vitriolat an universal Digestive And I confess indeed that Medicines made of Tartar have a very great vertue in inciding and attenuating Melancholick and thick Humours and therefore in opening obstructions But whereas it often happens that in Hypochondriack Melancholy there are often found black choler and Salt and sowr Humours and such as are altogether Acrimonious and have the Seeds of fire as it were in them surely Tartar Vitriolate and such Acrimonious Medicines are not proper for such Humours seeing they do not blunt their Acrimony but those are rather to be used which temper the bad qualities of such Humours Sennert pract l. 3. p. 3. c. 3. and contrary qualities are to be opposed to contrary ¶ When sometimes there arise dreadful Symptoms from the use of Tartar vitriolate as Vomiting a pain at the Stomach Frid. Hofm clavis Schrod p. 610. c. it is not to be imputed to the Salt of Tartar but often to the impure Spirit of Vitriol XXXI Seeing volatil Salts may be drawn from all the parts of man with small trouble whereof therefore I conclude they consist none ought to wonder that amongst Alteratives and correctors of the depraved Humours of Men I often praise and commend Volatil Salts but such as are mild whereunto here also I deservedly give the preference in correcting and amending the hurts accrewing from the air any way infected Fr. Sylv. de le Boe p. m. 407. or from bad aliments that stay in the Body c. XXXII Viscid Phlegm is incided both by all Aromaticks and things that abound with a volatil Salt and also by Acids and most effectually by Aromatick Gumms Idem append Tr. 5. §. 571. as Galbanum Sagapenum Ammoniacum Bdellium Opopanax Mastich and the like ¶ Volatil Salts being taken for continuance even together with meat are good to prepare tough Phlem as not only inciding and correcting of it but driving part thereof to the ways of the urine and expelling of it in the form of sediment which yet fails by degrees in the urine and on that account yields an undoubted sign that the phlegm is corrected and overcome for the greatest part Idem pract l. 1. c. 30. ¶ Nothing does so incide and correct a too glutinous tough and clammy Blood as any volatil Salt used for a continuance at any time at dinner and supper with Wine c. Seeing every Chronical and tedious distemper draws its original from a phlegmatick Humour at least has the same joined with its cause which yields to no Remedy more easily or sooner than to volatil Salt used according to art Idem c. 43. §. 17 2● ¶ Phlegm as it is a concrete Serum so it requires attenuaters heaters resolvers or things that make it fluid with moisteners But note that we must not dry too much for so it becomes more concrete whence besides Aromaticks and bitterish Acids as Spirit of Vitriol Wedel ●●id Phlegmaticks are very good yet not omitting heaters and moisteners XXXIII I have learned by some years experience that the consistence and from hence the glutinousness of the Choler as also of other Humours in the Body are increased by the frequent use of austere or sowr things and on the contrary that the same are lessened by a continued use of volatil Salts Acrimonious Aromaticks Idem c. 44. XXXIV The Salt or Vitriol of Steel gains the preference of all other Remedies because it opens obstructions strengthens the Viscera and corrects an hot intemperies the dose is from twelve grains to twenty with a Syrup or conserve c. The ungratefulness of its taste is amended by making it up into pills with the mucilage of Gum tragacan●h Let it be of constant use and therefore prepare a great quanti●y We give you here an easie prepara●ion that cannot be compared by Beguin and others take of oyl of vitriol or Sulphur half a pound of the Spirit of Wine a pound pour them into a new and clean frying pan or Iron dish and cover it wi●h a Board within fifteen days there will be a saline concretion which set in the sun that it may be throughly dryed moving it now and ●hen with an Iron spatula in the winter it may be dryed over a very weak fire or in a stove when the Salt is very well dryed put it up in a glass phial well stopt for if it be expos'd to the air it is apt to grow moist The pills made of it with the mucilage of Gum tragacanth will be made harder by adding a little of the Powder of the Gum it self and when they are made up keep them in a glass that they wax not moist River pr. l. 12. c. 5. This Remedy may be continued for
Suppuration The Part affected is very often the Neck because of the Carotid Arteries Yet I have observed it in the Arms and Legs The Cause is a sharp serous and bilious Humour eating either one or both the Coats of the Artery and sometime the neighbouring Bones Surgeons ignorant in their own Art take it for an Abscess and having opened it with an Instrument the Patient dies immediately in their very presence The Tumour must in the Beginning be comprest presently and the sharp Humour repelled Both these things may commodiously be done by a thin Plate of Lead I cured a poor man palliatively by this means so that he lived fifteen years after it The Swelling was above his right Knee as big as a Hen's Egg. Some advise to intercept the flux of Bloud by tying the Artery above and below the Aneurism and when you have cut it to heal it But this is a painfull kind of Remedy nor is it safe I had rather to save ones Life cut off an Arm or a Leg. We dissected the Body of a poor Man who died of an Aneurism we found plenty of Bloud P. Barbette Practic lib. 2. c. 3. both Serous and Grumous and both Coats of the Arteries and the greatest part of the Collar Bone on the Left side eroded II. One was let Bloud in the Basilick Vein for an Itch caused by a Melancholick Humour and the Artery was also prickt whereupon by little and little an Aneurism arose to which when for above a Months time they had applyed several things to no purpose and they were past hopes of saving his Arm he came to me I found the Swelling as big as a Goose Egg pale and also hard in which you might not onely feel a Pulsation with your Finger but you might perceive it by your Eye I with much entreaty undertook the Cure thus When I had in the first place ordered his Diet and applied my Plaster of Hemlock to the hard Swelling he took a Clyster and a Julep to digest Melancholick Humours I then gave him a Purge which when it had discharged the Noxious Humours both upwards and downwards with great Violence it so recalled the Spirits and Bloud which were in the Aneurism to the inner parts that the next day we could perceive no Pulsation The Swelling also was much fallen then I applied the following Plaster Take of Emplastrum Diachalciteos Two Ounces Powder of Mastick Red Roses Myrtle Comfrey Roots each One Ounce Oil of Roses what is sufficient Afterwards I made a Bolster or rather a Knot of Linen often doubled and laid it on the Tumour and bound it fast with a Roller Fabricius Hildanus Cent. 3. Obs 44. to repress the Tumour and hinder the influx of the Bloud out of the Artery into the outer Membrane dilated And by these Remedies the Arm was perfectly restored III. One prickt with the point of a very sharp knife an Artery in his Left Hand between the Thumb and Fore-finger the Bloud run out by leaps with an Astringent Plaster applied in time the outer Coat of the Artery closed presently but the inner remained open and they were parted one from the other Therefore the outer Membrane was so elevated by the vital Bloud that it degenerated into a true Aneurism with a continual Pulsation and Pain in the adjacent Nerves You could no sooner press this Pulsatile Tumour with your Fingers but the Bloud presently gushed back to the Veins and the Aneurism seemed to be gone But it immediately came in View again if you removed your fingers never so little Surgeons were not wanting who would gladly have seared the Artery across with a hot Iron but the Remedy would have been more cruel than the nature of the Disease required and therefore we made tryal rather of an Astringent Plaster and bound it so strait with a Plate of Lead that when the Bloud was forced out of the Tumour and the gaping of the wound conveniently shut the inner Coat of the torn Artery might close and grow together And it did close within five Months Tulpius c. 16. lib. 4. O●s●r there remained onely a little Knot about the Scar which at length also vanished before the Aneurism was perfectly cured IV. A Woman beat her Son about Seven years old on the left side of the Head with a Stick upon the place where the Carotid Arteries pass whereupon a Pulsatile Tumour like a Walnut at first black and yielding to the fingers presently arose and within eight days grew so big that it spread over half the head from the S●g●ttal Suture over the Temples and Forehead to the very Eyes The Physicians upon Consultation judging a doubtfull Remedy should be preferred before most certain hazard of Life open the Swelling with an Instrument and taking away some part of the Bloud which gusht violently out and stopping what remain'd with strait Ligature and Astringents and doing thus frequently they perfectly cured the Boy in a few days Either because in young Persons all things are tender and easily grow together or because the hurt Artery had a bone under it and so might be bound the harder to make it close Hence Riolanus affirms Riolan fil E●chir p. 3●● Jo● Mi●hael Feti● Th●t the Arteries of the Temples and Forehead may be safely opened ¶ Few find an Aneurism doe well because the Arteries will not endure opening Yet sometimes the strength of Nature conquers the Disease a strait Ligature do●h now and then miraculously close a gaping Artery But we experience the Effect of this Operation onely in the lesser Arteries for in the greater the Coats because they are thick are not easily broken unless of a violent Cause and the Ruptures are healed up with more difficulty and the Aneurism because of the continual afflux of Spirituous Bloud daily increases The hoped Cure succeeds better where the Coat of the Artery is dilated than where it is quite broken And upon the Bloud 's being hot and so inclined to Violent Motion or its being cold and thick and so slow in Motion the Cure or Death of the Patient doth in a great Measure depend We saw a Mortal Aneurism in a young Man who had hurt his Thigh nor did we wonder at it for in opening it we found the great Crural Artery broken whereupon the Thigh swelled so much that it seem'd quite Scirrhous and after he was dead and his Thigh opened there run out not onely as much Bloud as would fill three of our Measures but we took out of the Sinus's which were made between these vast Muscles Grumous Bloud resembling in shape and bigness Bartholinus Cent. 3. Epist 54. the Parenchyma of the greatest Liver While he was alive neither Section was safe or possible because of the huge breach of the great Artery and of its Lying among the Muscles nor was Ligature sufficient I advise the young Surgeon not to open Ancurisms unadvisedly unless they be small and in an Ignoble Part and have no
Physician a Drying and Sweating Diet he endeavoured to dry his Head with Bags Plasters c. he used Apophlegmatisms Sneezing yea and made an Issue behind in his Head all in vain At that time I was following my Studies at Paris he sent me a Description of his Disease to shew it to some famous Physicians I consulted severally with Monsieur Carolus Buvardus Chief Physician to Lewis XIII with Monsieur Curaeus de la Chambre Physician to the High Chancellour and with Monsieur Hurduynus de S. Jaques Physician to the Hospital of Charity They well considering the Constitution of the Patient declared The Disease was Sympathick arising from Fumes ascending from the Hypochondria affecting the Top of the Chimney i. e. the Gullet and that the tempering and exclusion of Melancholick Humours must be lookt after they prescribed him Spaw Waters the use of Chalybeates an Issue in each Leg and stopt up that in his head they order'd Leeches to the Haemorrhoids and other things to conquer the Melancholick Humours The Patient consented who a little after was rid both of his Melancholy and his Quinsey XXIII In this Controversie I think we must take great notice whether the Body abound with Bloud either naturally or because of the manner of living or of some accustomed Evacuation stopt for then I think we should bleed in the Ham or the Ancle and the same day if the Disease be urgent or the next to Breathe the Jecorary or Cephalick Vein and if the Disease abate not we must proceed to Bleed under the Tongue But if there be no such great plenty of Bloud Septalius Animad vers lib. 6. Sect. 113. I think it better not to meddle with the Veins of the lower parts but presently to open a Vein in the Arm and afterwards to bleed in the upper Veins XXIV But Bloud-letting in the Arm must be repeated not onely because it makes better Revulsion and causeth less weakness but because it is often observed that there is new afflux to the Part affected either from some other Part transfusing Matter Idem Ibid. Sect. 114. that it may ease it self of the burthen wherewith it is oppressed or by the Part affected drawing by reason of its pain and heat XXV And seeing some either in the Working of their Physick or that they naturally abhor it are apt to vomit it up again it is better always to give Potions than Pills or Bolus's for if they should happen to Vomit either a Bolus or Pills when they are suddenly and with great Violence forced to the Passage straitned with the Inflammation Idem Ibid. Sect. 115. there is no small danger of Strangling XXVI Bags that are made up with drying Powders to discuss in Inflammations of other parts must never be made use of in the Quinsey because by thickning the outer Skin Idem Ibid. Sect. 116. they rather hinder the Cure Therefore we must rather work with Moistners Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Aetius Tetrab 2. Sect. 4. c. 47. I have used in an Inward Quinsey a Gargarism of Mustard and have often delivered my Patients from danger 2. If the Swelling in the Neck will not soften J. Agric. Chirur. parv p. 802. burn an Owl in an open Pot to Powder a little of which you may blow into the Throat The Swelling will soften to admiration and break This is a Singular Secret 3. Bartoletus l. 5. part 2. c. 16. Duke Ferdinand's Powder is a great Secret in the Quinsey It is made of Mineral Crystal Cream of Tartar and Sugar For every half ounce of Crystal 1 ounce of Cream of Tartar and 2 ounces of Sugar are taken Tho. Bartholinus cent 4. hist 73. Blockwitius anat Samb Sect. 3. c. 12. 4. A Purple Thread wherewith a Viper hath been strangled is highly commended for the Quinsey 5. Let the Water or Decoction of Elder Flowers wherein is mixt a little Elder Honey and a few Leaves with one or two Jews Ears be Gargled This is recommended by experience Claud. Deodatus 6. Spirit of Nitre with Water of the Anodyne Salt Gargled hot is most excellent to allay the Inflammation Hartman prax chim 7. Take of Houseleek a sufficient quantity bruise it and strain it Take of this Juice 1 pint Sal Ammoniack half an ounce leave it in a moist place till the Salt be dissolved Distill it by an Alembick Wash your Tongue often with this Water 8. Galen Aetius Orobasius and all the Ancients commend Dogs-Turd White poudered and dried mixed with Honey and laid to the Throat Platerus 9. The Juice of Tree-Ivy swallowed gently from 3 drachms to half an ounce doth much good by repelling and digesting Eust Rud. Art Med. l. 1. c. 42. 10. This is an Excellent Remedy Take of Swallow's Nest 3 ounces Sapa 1 ounce Pulp of Cassia newly drawn 1 ounce and an half Mix them and apply it outwardly For it digests and asswages 11. This also is admirable which is made of the crum of a Loaf Milk Flowers of Roses and Chamaemil mixt together and applied after Bloud-letting Idem ibid. by virtue of which Medicine they use to spit plentifully and be much relieved Scultetus Armamen Chir. Obs 32. 12. This Gargarism is highly commended in all dangerous Quinseys especially in the beginning if the enflamed Jaws be often washed therewith Take of Saffron powdered 1 scruple and an half of the sharpest Vinegar 1 ounce Plantain Water 3 ounces white Sugar 2 drachms Mix them and make a Gargarism M. Joh. Wittichius Cons Med. 23. 13. Sennertus commends the Decoction of Berberry wood or of the inner Rind of the Hazle 14. Oil of sweet Almonds new drawn given with Sugar and a little of the Powder of a Boar's Tusk is the most present Remedy for the Quinsey and Pleurisie Anorexia or Want of Appetite The Contents It s Cure must be various according to the variety of Causes I. Food must be actually cold II. Fasting must sometime be injoyned III. It s Cure in Women with Child IV. It s Cure when caused by Choler V. When by Phlegm VI. In Consumptive Persons VII When Cured of its own accord VIII Medicines I. WOmen about sick persons desire nothing more than to remove this fault but they reckon that which is onely a sign of Health to be the Cause For this reason oftentimes the Physician is forced to provoke an Appetite It is lost 1. Because the Powers are weakned and the Bloud is not well concocted 2. Because for the former reason the acid Humour cannot be separated because of the thin Humours that are admitted We see this in them through whose Arteries noxious Humours together with the acid Humour are poured into the Stomach which often deceives Physicians while they ascribe the cause to the Intemperature of the Stomach or because it is corrupted and too thin That the loss of Appetite is to be ascribed to the fault of the
1672. cos 167. XXIV If Stones must be cut out of the Vrethra and can be got out no way else they are to be held fast with the fingers both above and below nor after the Wound is made must they be let go till the Stones start out or be taken out with a pair of Pliers For if they be let go the Wound of the Vrethra is so hid by the Skin that covers it that it cannot be found again by reason of the convex superficies of the Vrethra and the lax Skin over it Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians Don. ab Altomari 10. 1. Alexander approved of Kid's or Goat's bloud applied hot outwardly as an effectual Remedy invented and proved by long time and experience but far more if you smear it in a hot Bath often and at certain Intervals H●rat Augenius 2. A most excellent Remedy to break the Stone Take of Millepedes prepared 1 drachm Aqua vitae half an ounce Broth of red Chich-pease 9 or 10 ounces Drink it warm an hour before Dinner Joh. Baverius cons 4. 3. Petroleum wherein Lapis Lyncis hath been boiled strained and injected by a Syringe wonderfully breaks the Stone in the Bladder the yard being about that instant embrocated with a decoction of Mallows 4. I made use of this Medicine in my self for the Stone in the Bladder Take of prepared Sows Sponge of Wild-rose-tree Seeds of Purple-violets each 1 ounce Spec. Lithontript 2. drachms Make an Antidote Two drachms of this were taken in 10 ounces of diuretick decoction and 2 drachms of Spirit of Juniper I took this at five by the clock every morning for some time and a little after great store of reddish Urine came away with Flakes in it like Fishes scales which was the coat or crust loosened from a larger Stone by the continual use of this I was freed from the Stone ¶ This is a noble and royal Nephritick liquour communicated to me by an Illustrious Prince of which Paracelsus in his Book de Tartaro makes mention though but obscurely Take of White-tartar powdered dissolve it into liquour in a Glass in a Cellar which hardened again at the fire must be calcined and powdered Take of this Powder 1 ounce Guilhelmus Laurembergius de calc p. 17. pour to it Parsly-water 2 pounds mix them and let them stand till the Powder be dissolved which done let it be filtred twice or thrice through a Paper that it may become a clear and pellucid liquour which with Chips of Orange-pill cast into it is tinged into a Citrine colour and kept for use The Dose is 1 spoonfull in 5 or 6 ounces of White-wine with which I use to give some Strawbery-water 5. This is a Secret in the Stone Take of Whites of Eggs boiled in Water mix them with Oil of Nard and Mastick add of the Powder of Lapis Judaicus half a drachm ground fine upon a Flint with a Decoction of Millet and a little Cummin Maroldus Pract. Med. p. 249. Take a little of it strained morning and evening Several have been cured by this when they could find no benefit by other Medicines 6. A certain Physician told me he had cured several after this manner He took a Hare with young he cast away all the Inwards then he filled the belly with the Dam's bloud and burnt it to Powder in a new Pot of which with as much Sugar he gave a little in a Spoon in a short time the Patient voided the Stone in little pieces by his yard ¶ A certain experienced Man took a Hare and casting away the Inwards he filled the Belly with the Skin Saxifrage Millet Lapis Lyncis Lapis Judaicus Lapis Spongiae Cinque-foil and Goldenrod and burnt it to Powder in a new Pot Arn. Villanovan Bre● l. ● c. 32. The Dose was 1 spoonfull with a little Wine or the like every day it broke and forced away the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder Cancer or A Canker The Contents How it may be distinguished from a Scirrhus I. It must not be vexed with Medicines II. Vpon what the difficulty of it depends III. It s Cure must be attempted IV. Frequent Purging hurtfull V. How to be administred VI. Bloudletting is necessary VII Cordials to be preferred before vulnerary Potions VIII Whether Repellers may be used IX The Pain is to be mitigated sometimes by Narcoticks X. Asswaged by applying the Flesh of a Pullet XI We must not foolishly make use of Arsenick and Sublimate XII The efficacy of a Plate of Lead applied XIII It must be lightly smeared with Quick-silver XIV The Cure by Medicine and the Knife XV. A good Diet can doe much without topical Medicines XVI A Canker in the Lip must not be cut out with Instruments dipt in Aqua-fortis XVII It must not be touched with a pair of Scissers XVIII One taken away by cutting reviving in another place XIX What Canker in the Breast may be taken away XX. The crossing it with the Needle is not always necessary XXI When a Canker in the Breast is stopt how the Bloud may be stopt XXII Whether we may repell in a Canker in the Breast XXIII A Phlegmone resembling a Canker XXIV Medicines I. A Canker can difficultly be discerned from a Scirrhus except thus that is If you lay some lenient and emollient Medicine upon the Tumour and after two or three hours if you see it either diminished or quite gone Walaeus Meth. med p. 11. there is no suspicion of a Canker But if the Swelling abate not but grow into a Spongy substance it is for certain a Canker II. It is observed that there is a double poison in a Canker one Putrefactive another Corrosive If you apply hot and moist Medicines which use to promote pus in Imposthumes and Ulcers that are capable of ripening then it will degenerate into deep Putrefaction Heurnius com ad aph 38. Sect. 6. and will corrupt all near it with Rottenness But if you would correct this foulness by Causticks the other Poison that in Cankers is Corrosive will rise and burn all things near it ¶ A Matron that had passed her 50th year her Menses leaving her was taken with a Swelling in her right Pap at the first hard and without pain Some years after when it increased and caused pain she made use of a Surgeon who when he had applied Emollients and Suppuraters for almost a Month as the pain increased by degrees the Swelling broke which presently turned into a malignant painfull and foetid Ulcer which at length proved mortal ¶ An occult Canker often lies hid a long time without any harm Hildanus cent 3. obs 89. but when provoked it eats the skin And when that is open either of it self or by the unskilfulness of him that hath it in hand ever after it will be kept within no bounds but like a ravenous wild Beast devours whatever comes in its way And by how much the more
his upper parts or have his Head inflamed or if his Head ake or he be phrenitick or if he have a great Ulcer which cannot safely be irritated I avoid Physick as much as I can knowing for certain that it affects the Head Sleep shews this which presently seizes them that have taken a Purge If I can I content my self with sharp Clysters and a low Diet. Vallesius 2. Epid. 6. p. 225. VIII In an Intemperature of the Head with Melancholy always some Moistner must be mixt with Purgatives Nor may a Purge be prescribed till the body be first moistned IX The Ancients said that Sneezers and Apophlegmatisms were indicated by excrementitious humours gathered in the Ventricles and substance of the Brain This latter Age thinks not that these parts do empty the humours gathered there by the Nose and Palate nor that what is evacuated is excrements of nutrition gathered in the Meanders of the Nostrils and Membranes of the Palate and Jaws but in some mens opinion they are bilous phlegmatick melancholick and serous humours derived thither partly by the Arteries from the whole body and partly from the Salival ducts Rolfinccius meth med specialis p. 605. For this reason they are indicated by the cacochymick impurity of the bloud diluted with much Serum that its flowing into the Brain it s farther mixture with the circulated bloud and its approach to the more noble parts may be prevented X. If you make use of Sneezers to unload the Brain in its Intemperature with Phlegm you must abstain from violent ones as Powder of white Hellebore Root of Lily Conval and the like because of the great agitation they cause in the Brain convenient onely for such as are in a Lethargy or Apoplexy it is sufficient if you onely put a Fibre of the Root into the Nostril and then pull it out again XI Some think that the use of Ptarmicks does rather encrease than hinder a defluxion of humours from the head to the breast and that this should not be used but in case of extreme necessity and universals premised But in my opinion they are grievously out seeing in great and sudden suffocating defluxions they are very properly and succesfully used Quercetan Phr●m degm res●●t c. 18. For Nature hath ordained these Chanels for the emptying of the Brain whom Art imitating doth so promote that in an open and free passage through this same way the course of the serous humours is expedited and turned back Avicenna uses a certain vaporous Sternutatory made of very strong Vinegar in which he dissolves a little Castor the steam whereof causes violent sneezing XII As much Extract of Tobacco made with Aqua vitae as a Pease laid on the Tongue brings off a great deal of Phlegm Riverius Exceed not this quantity for if it get into the Stomach it will cause grievous vomiting XIII As often as the Head is indisposed by outward Cold of the Air Water or Snow or the Nose doth run or they be troubled with a defect of animal Spirits so often I have observed my Patients succesfully and quickly cured if as quickly as may be that be driven out of the Head again which was got into it or any other part of the body and was hurtfull to them And this either by one Sweat or which I prefer by several but they must be spirituous and volatile because they must be such as not onely alter and correct the cause of the Cold and of other evils attending it but amend whatever amiss is introduced into the body contained or containing For this purpose I commend the following Receipt Take of Water of Fumitory Fenil each 2 ounces simple Treacle or any other Aromatick water 1 ounce Spirit of Sal Ammoniack 20 drops Oil of Cloves 3 drops Bezoarticum minerale half a drachm Laudanum Opiatum 2 grains Syrup of red Poppies 1 ounce mix them Let the Patient take two spoonfuls of this Medicine and when he is moderately covered expect a Sweat which he will facilitate and obtain his desire if every half hour he take as much of it till the Sweat burst out for then he must use it more seldom and sparingly he must use now and then some plain broth with a little Wine in it to repair his strength and make him the more able to sweat the longer for nothing does them so much good as a gentle Sweat sometime As often as the natural and competent Secretion of the animal Spirits is hindred by an inward or aguish chilness or by any other that without an Ague fit doth now and then seize a man so often by the like Sudorifick rightly used the Sweat arising sometimes sooner sometimes later the desired Secretion of the animal Spirits so necessary to humane felicity is sooner or later restored for by help of this or the like spirituous Syl●ius ●●ax med l 2. cap. 1. s●ct 21. ad 36. volatile and aromatick Medicine the hurtfull and cold Vapour is discussed and dissipated in Sweat or insensible Transpiration which caused that dulness in the sense and liftlesness in motion And whoever in such an internal or external Cold do think to cure by Bleeding Vomiting or Purging they cast their Patients into greater hazards even of Life it self as I have observed more than once c. XIV The natural temperament of the Brain seeing it is very moderate we should therefore use both inward and outward Medicines for the Head with great caution lest while we change its native temper we bring some great mischief on this most noble part Wherefore their boldness is not to be approved of who attribute so much to those Waters called Aqua vitae being made of violent hot things that they affirm all Diseases of the Head may be both prevented and cured by the use of these same Waters not considering that most Diseases of the Head do come rather from hot causes than cold especially in those persons that are either in their youth or manhood Besides in our Germany the way of most mens living is such that there is scarce one in a hundred who gathers not a particular Plethora in his Head Whence it happens if the use of Aqua vitae be prescribed to one of these men that it seeing it is altogether vaporous immediately gets into the Head and disturbs it being full of various humours and disposes it either to the Epilepsie Apoplexie or to dangerous Catarrhs But that this opinion does not want experiment you may understand from this that those Apoplectick persons to whom these Aquae vitae are given Oethaeus apud Schenckium do almost all of them dye or grow worse as I have often observed and do find it observed by others XV. Some prescribe an Issue in the Coronal Suture to be made with a Cautery and do commend it for drawing out and evacuating the humours from the Brain and its Cover Although this is very familiar in some mens practice yet I have
taken with an Opisthotonos and then with a most grievous Tetanus so that he could neither open his mouth nor swallow any thing D. Brambachius orders Palmarius his Cordial Water to be forced down but his throat denies it passage He also prescribes Clysters he orders fumes of Sulphur thinking it an Alexipharmack for Quicksilver and Inunctions for the neck of proper things but all in vain for he died in twenty hours ¶ So a certain Goldsmith as he was gilding silver Corslets Ph. Salmut● cent 3. obs 39. and did not take care as he ought to have done of the fume was taken with a shaking in all his Limbs and was perfectly restored onely by the use of Stapedian Treacle-Water having tried other things in vain Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. In a Convulsion caused by a wound in the head this is a most excellent Remedy Take Oil of Snails Worms Sesamum each 1 ounce and an half Fat of a Wether a Fox each 1 ounce Spirit of Juniper Wine 4 ounces Mix them and stir them upon the coals Joh. Agricola till the Spirit be wasted then add Oil of Chamaemil Linseed each 2 drachms Oil of Amber 1 drachm Mix them make an Unguent wherewith anoint the neck ¶ It is very good to hold the bone of a Pheasant's-wing a while in the hand on that side where the Convulsion is 2. Castor is the most secure ready and effectual Remedy of all ¶ Goat's-piss also drunk with water fasting is very good Donat. ab Altomari ¶ Also if you take equal parts of Castor White-Pepper and Parsly and beat them together and take them in a Spoonfull of Honey and two or three spoonfulls of Water fasting It is an excellent remedy for them that have the Convulsion backwards and has been tried by often experience 3. In a Convulsion from repletion a drachm or two of Consectio Anacardina is commended above all other things Jul. Caes Claudinus if a Fever be to be raised ¶ Take a fat live Goose draw her let a Cat cut small some add an Eel also old Bacon Myrrhe Time Elder and Capital herbs be sowed in her belly then let her be rosted and let the second fat that drops be kept for an Ointment 4. This Unguent is good for the Cramp Take of fresh Goose-grease 4 ounces Oil of Cloves half a scruple Crato of Cinnamon 5 grains Mix them 5. Oil or Spirit of Turpentine applied both inward and outward takes away all Cramps and Convulsions with which the Spine the Navel and the other parts affected must be anointed ¶ Water-Lily with red and white flowers dried in the shade and hung on the bed C●aud Deodatus or the wall in a moment of time cures all Convulsions as Carichterus testifies 6. Take old Treacle Conserve of Rue each 2 drachms Oil of Box 10 grains Make an Electuary The dose is a small Pill twice a day It is a very profitable Medicine which has a Specifick quality R●deric a Fonseca and Oil of Box has a great prerogative in this disease yea and you may anoint the beginning of the Spine the Temples and the Wrist with the same Oil. 7. I learned of an excellent Swimmer that Beetles were admirable good for Cramps and Convulsions K●rcherus who always anointed his nervous parts with Oil of Beetles 8. Take of Oil of Amber half an ounce Mucilage of Briony what is sufficient Oil of Cloves 6 grains Mix them anoint the place with the root of its Nerve Ber h. Penotus and it will presently be dissolved repeat it and presently wrap the part in a Wether's Skin new flain 9. Among Topical Medicines Oil or Balsam of Galbanum is an excellent one ¶ A Weezle rosted in the belly of a Goose as the Cat was is good ¶ Sulphureous Bathes are good ¶ This Electuary is highly commended Take of Castor Sagapenum Opoponax each 1 drachm Succus Cyreniacus 1 drachm and an half Acorus Scordium each 2 drachms three Peppers Schaenanth Caroway each 2 drachms Asarum a rosted Squill each 1 drachm Juice of Stoechas Arabica 1 ounce Honey what is sufficient let what ought be beaten and mixt with Honey of Rosemary Sennertus Make an Electuary The dose is half a drachm in Mede 10. The following Powder leaves a wonderfull effect Take of the Root of Swallow-wort Devils-bit Elecampane Poeony Mace Cloves each 1 drachm and an half Bay-berries half a drachm Rosemary-flowers Sage Mother of Time each 15 grains Spec. Pleres archon Diamoschi dulcis Diambr each half a Scruple Make a Powder The dose 1 drachm August Thonerus with Water of Poeony Black Cherries each 1 ounce and an half 11. For a Convulsion arising from the Head-ach I applyed this wonderfull efficacious and most usefull Ointment often tried by me in such cases which I have ever found sure in a Tetanus and in contractions of the Nerves Take of old Oil 4 pounds Betony Elder Sage each 1 handfull Roots of Marshmallow Acorus Aristolochia rotunda each 1 ounce Earth-worms washed in Wine 3 ounces Opoponax Castor each 3 drachms Flowers of Rosemary Stoechas each 1 Pugil Red-Wine half a pound Juice of Sage Betony each 2 ounces Let all boil to the consumption of the Wine and Juices Strain and press it hard Add of Fat of a Bull a Duck each 2 ounces the Marrow of a Calf's-Leg 4 ounces Mucilage of Faenugreek 3 ounces of both the Stoechas's Nutmeg Cloves each 2 drachms Franc. Valleriola Wax what is sufficient Mix them make an Unguent which I ordered to be applied hot over the Neck 12. This is an incomparable Cataplasm Take of Root of Marshmallow Bryony fresh each 2 ounces Mandrake 1 ounce Leaves of Green Henbane Mallows each 1 handfull Boil them in Milk To them mashed add of Linseed Psyllium and Quince-seed each half an ounce the Fat of a Dog a Goose each 1 ounce Oil of sweet Almonds fresh-Butter each half an ounce Bay-berries 2 drachms Arnold Weikardus Saffron half a drachm Make a Cataplasm Cordis Affectus or Diseases of the Heart See Palpitation Book 14. Swooning Book 17. and Book 19. Cordials The Contents In the Cure of a hot disease hot Medicines are convenient I. The Cure of Worms in the Heart II. A Medicine 1. ALthough in cold Diseases of the Heart Hot things are absolutely convenient yet in hot Diseases simply Cold things are no way expedient but things remissly hot The reason is because when we would change the hot complexion we are not content with coolers by reason the substance of the Heart consists of innate heat which must not be extinguished but coroborated And therefore for the present the conservation of strength is principally respected Because the Heart is the Workhouse of life and heat Therefore Conciliator Enucleatus Sect. 196. although in respect of a cold disease hot things be indicated nevertheless in respect of the part affected moderate and not excessive
in it Febris Algida or The Cold Ague It s Nature and Cure COld Agues are observed some times to be troublesome not onely in cold especially but in Cold alone so that sometimes and more frequently a little Heat does follow sometimes but more seldom none at all We have such in our University Hospital so manifest that not onely in the beginning and encrease but at the very height and declination of the fit yea and when it is over the Patients are always sensible of Cold never so much as warm much less hot at any time They owe their Original to a more acid Pancreatick juice joined with great store of viscid Phlegm Bile in the mean time being very dull This Mixture will be proper for the Cold and other Symptoms that use to accompany it Take of water of Parsley 2 ounces Fenil 1 ounce Theriacal simpl or vitae Matthiol 1 ounce and an half volatile salt of Amber 1 scruple Syrup of Carduus benedictus 1 ounce Which will be more effectual if you add to the same of Laudanum Opiatum 4 grains Oil of Cloves 2 drops I have not hitherto observed any thing temper the cold equally to this Sylvius de le Boë Prax. l. 1. c. 30. And as long as the Ague lasts the Patient may take one spoonfull of this or some such liquour 3 or 4 times in an hour Febris Anginosa or A' Fever and a Quinsie It s Description and Cure IT invades men at any time of the year but most between Spring and Summer time and young men and them that are of a Sanguine complexion above others but red haired men as I have observed more than once above all the rest At the very first invasion of the Disease they are cold and shake a Fever follows and a little after comes a pain and inflammation of the Jaws which if it be not speedily helped immediately the Patient cannot swallow any more nor draw his breath through his Nostrils but his Throat is stopt with a certain sense of strangling by the inflammation of the Vvula and swelling of the Tonsills and Larynx In the first place I take a great quantity of Bloud from the Arm then from each Ranula then I touch the inflamed parts with Honey of Roses and Spirit of Sulphur By and by I prescribe the following Gargarism to be held in the mouth till it be warm without stirring it Take of Water of Plantain red Roses and Frog-spawn each 4 ounces Whites of Eggs reduced to a water by beating No. ij white Sugar-Candy 3 drachms I order an Emulsion as in a Pleurisie The next morning if the Fever and Pain do not abate I open a Vein again in the Arm and let Purging alone till the next day If both be abated I presently give a gentle Purge which after bleeding is necessary above all things as experience testifies If perchance even after purging the Fever and Symptoms should proclaim War this must be subdued by repeated Blood-letting Let the Patient every day keep up some hours from his bed because the warmth of it adds strength both to the Fever and the Symptoms But we must take notice that these Quinsies which are onely a Symptome of this Stationary Fever Sydenham Obs in Acut. Sect. 4. c. 6. as I call it love to be cured by the self same method which the Fever challenges for it self and therefore must be thrown off by Sweat and the Pores of the Skin or by any other method that is due to the primary Fever whereto they are inherent Febris Anhelosa or The Short-breathed Fever It s Nature and Cure ANhelous or Short breathed Fevers have their name from difficult and anhelous respiration and they put the Patients to strange and miserable Anguish either with or without palpitation of the heart I have observed them more than once begin with a distension of the Abdomen and anxiety of the Praecordia the Pulse being immediately weak small and frequent chilness and pain troubling them in the Region of the Loins at the same time But if then they broke wind either upwards or downwards the fit was less if not it was more grievous for after this distension and anxiety had lasted one or more hours both of them sensibly abated and then an exceeding difficulty and shortness of Breath was raised so great indeed that the Body could not indure to be stirred or moved in the least the Pulse by degrees growing rather weaker than stronger and continually more frequent together with the Veins every where very turgid which out of the fit were small and scarce conspicuous This shortness of Breath was sometimes more grievous sometimes more slight and grieved them sometimes a longer sometimes a shorter time Wherefore Medicines that are good for Hypochondriack prefocation were often here likewise used with good success And at length the fit ended rather in a Damp than a Sweat till a new one returned seldom every day often every other day I think these Fevers as also suffocating Fevers of which hereafter should be ascribed to Vapours but not very austere ones and in like manner from a less austere Pancreatick juice but arising from this mixt with viscid Phlegm meeting it in the small Guts and therefore the more flatulent from which the symptoms enumerated may easily be derived and well enough explicated Sylvius de le Boë Prax. l. 1. c. 30. The anhelous anxiety since it owns the same but a slighter cause will be cured and abated with the like Medicines as well in the fit as at the beginning of it being often used in a less quantity Febris Arthritica or The Gout-fever It s Nature and Cure SOme Practitioners reduce Arthritick fevers to Catarrhal fevers because they think the Gout owes its rise to Catarrhs But because I am of opinion that another humour is carried together with the Bloud by the Arteries to the joints which breeds the Gout I cannot but think that Gout-fevers should be distinguished from Catarrhal ones But because I could accurately enough observe the rise and progress of the Gout from the faithfull relation of the sick I as often took notice that it came with a Continual fever or an Ague Wherefore when a new Ague fit came the Gout was not a little increased till it either turned to a Continual fever or ceased of it self or the Ague was removed by art the Gout-pains nevertheless continuing I reckon to find Gout-fevers in the Pancreatick juice so corrupt that it is troublesome onely to the joints whether it being also endued with a considerable Acrimony which is most frequent carries the Bile thither along with it wherewith it had vitiously fermented and causes a most bitter pain Or being not so sharp and hurting the viscid Phlegm not the sharp Bile which is much dulled with mixing with it it rather hinders the motion of the part affected with an oedematous tumour than a sharp pain Where we must observe that the Ague fits which come every or
of Cure by the edge of a Syringotomus and a thread which joins the opinions of Celsus and of the later Chirurgeons XVI Yet Fistulae in ano in old Men deriving their original from some old Fluxion as from the Haemorrhoids of long continuance cannot safely be cured unless before the Wound be healed an Issue be made in the Thigh three or four inches above the Knee for evacuation of the matter daily gathered which used to be evacuated by the old Fistula S●ultetus XVII Penetrating Fistulae are very easily and safely cured without an actual Cautery which some commend to consume the Callus in Fistulae if when the Syringotomus is passed through the Bloud be stopt and Haemorrhagie prevented and the Callus wasted with this Medicine Take of Mercury precipitate half a drachm Honey of Roses half an ounce For the sphincter according to Hippocrates lib. de Haemorrh may safely be cut any way without prejudicing its office if but an eighth part of it be left untouched otherwise an involuntary excretion of the faeces would follow and then most certain Death Idem Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. I have seen Fistulae of the Feet often cured with this Remedy First wash them with a Lye of Vine-ashes then use an Unguent made of Sugar Oil-olive Mercury and Wine each equal parts Borel●us 2. This wonderfully cures Fistulae if they be often washed and the hollow of them filled with an Arcanum mixt with Tincture of Aristolochia rotunda drawn with Spirit of Wine Faber 3. The Bulb of Cornflag mixt with Starch Vinegar and Foxes grease cures Fistulae and running Sores most effectually Laurembergius 4. This is highly commended by many Authours especially for drying up and healing a Fistula Take of Water of the Vine 2 ounces Malmsey wine 1 ounce Honey of Roses 10 drachms Myrrh root of Peucedanum each 2 drachms Sarcocolla Aloe Epatica each 1 ounce and an half Mix them Let them boil up onely once moderately and let it be injected by a Syringe into the Fistula P●c●ettius 5. A wonderfull Water for Fistulae Take of green Shells of Wall-nuts let them stand in the shade distill them Take of the distilled Water 7 pounds distill it again add of Honey 2 pounds distill it again and keep it for use Praevotius 6. After Universals are used some commend this Potion Take of Sanicle Mugwort Speedwell Saracene's Consound Winter-green each 1 ounce Savine 1 ounce and an half Horse-tail half a drachm Boil them in White-wine Make a Potion which if you would have more effectual in every Dose mix of prepared Crabs-eyes half a scruple For Savine and Crabs-eyes are very good to expell Bones Pus broken Veins and the like Senner 7. This is a most secret Medicine Take of Tops of lesser Centaury 3 handfulls Roots of greater Plantain fresh 1 pugil Leaves of Germander Scabious each 1 handfull New-wine 3 pounds and an half Boil them to half Let the Herbs and Roots be well pounded and strained out hard then boil them on a gentle Fire to the consistency of Honey and keep it Stokkerus 8. This is an approved Medicine for a Fistula Take of Leaves of red Cabbage and the Seeds of the same Roots of Madder each equal parts Bruise them in some Wine and boil them to a third strain out the Liquour and boil them to the consistency of Honey Give two spoonfulls morning and evening every day ¶ Filipendula and the Grains found at the end of its Root are good for the same Tulpius Fluor Muliebris or Womens Whites The Contents How it may be known from a Gonorrhoea I. The blame must not always be laid upon the Womb. II. Bleeding is sometimes good III. Cured within a month by taking a loosning Ptisan IV. Whether Diureticks be proper V. Whether they be always good VI. Every one must not be cured by a Sudorifick Diet. VII Astringents and Strengthners must be seasonably used VIII Issues in the Legs are good IX Sometimes it is caused by the use of Catharticks and Baths X. Those Women that have a dry Nose are usually subject to it XI The Womb must be strengthned XII A Malignant one imposes upon the Physician XIII Medicines I. SOme Women that are ill of a virulent Gonorrhoea hiding their fault under an innocent name pretend they are ill of the Whites because in both cases abundance of filth is voided But the Chirurgeon may easily distinguish the Whites from a Gonorrhoea and he may satisfie himself a Gonorrhoea will never be cured without Salivation Paraeus II. The cause which continually breeds the corrupt humour is sometimes in the Womb sometimes in other principal parts They are therefore grievously mistaken who ascribe the cause of all that comes from the Womb and of the suppression of the Menses to the Womb alone For in what Women cold Bowels or obstructed or scirrhous have caused Crudities an ill Habit or Dropsie the corrupted humour being poured into several parts of the body often falls upon the Womb and tending that way purges the Body which is done in some others by urine or stool Fernelius III. Seeing the Whites depend upon a Cacochymie and it being drawn to the Veins by Phlebotomy may infect the mass of Bloud there seems no room for Phlebotomy Besides since in this chronical Disease strength decays much and the Body is often brought to a consumption it appears it ought not to be farther wasted by Bleeding and be deprived of its Aliment Yet it is thus determined that if this Flux be not solitary and pure but be mixt with a little bloud and look red then bloud may be let As also if there be any great heat in the Liver or acrimony of the bilious juice joined with this Flux But in other cases especially when the case is grown inveterate it is better to abstain from Bleeding Riv●rius IV. A Woman of forty had been long troubled with the Whites after many Medicines tried in vain she was perfectly cured with taking a laxative Ptisan every day for a month The Composition was this Take of cleansed Senna 1 drachm Coriander-seed prepared and scraped Liquorice each 1 drachm and an half Spring-water wherein three drachms of Tamarinds and 1 drachm of Mastich-wood have been boiled one glass Infuse them cold for one night and let her take the colature two hours in the morning before she eat Idem V. There is no small difficulty to tell whether Diureticks be proper for they do not onely provoke urine but the menstrua by heating and attenuating the humours contained in the Veins Yet they are approved by all Authours and by Galen himself who used them in Boëthius his Wife The reason is because Diureticks provoke urine primarily and the menses secondarily and as it were by accident then the Kidneys draw the serous matter continually the Womb onely receives it Wherefore it is likely that
lower part it may safely be cut off yet so as that onely what is preternaturally eminent may be cut off Not long since I saw a Chirurgeon press the Columella with an Instrument called a Crow's Bill the Patient's Mouth being opened very wide then with the other hand he clipt off that part of the Columella which was below the Instrument and no pain Enchir. Med. Pract. no Inflammation or Haemorrhagie followed upon it V. A Priest had an Imposthume in his Vvula another Priest clipt off his whole Vvula with a pair of Scissers which being cut off and the Patient's Body being very plethorick the bloud and humours fell in such a quantity on the Breast and so great a straitness of Breast and Lungs followed that the Patient could scarce breathe and finally he could neither spit Valeseus c. 5. l. 3. nor raise from his Breast and the third day he was choaked and died VI. Although Gargarisms ought to be the same in the relaxation of the Vvula as in Ulcers of the Gums and Jaws in the beginning astringent and repellent afterwards resolvent and exsiccant yet where no inflammation is the use of Powders is more effectual for so the astriction and drying is more powerfull Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians I. For falling down of the Uvula 1. Take green Nuts and Date-stones and when you have a mind burn them sufficiently and take equal parts of them and powder them dry You may use them so Aetius They are very discussive 2. This is an excellent Plaster if Bayberries Penniroyal wild Marjoram Alex. Benedictus Horse-mint and Savine be bruised and boiled in Honey and applied to the Head shaven 3. I have often tried this Powder does excell most Medicines Take of Pepper Cinnamon each half a scruple Bark of Frankincense-Tree Galls each 1 scruple red Roses 2 drachms Codronchius Make a Powder wherewith the Vvula must be touched 4. Let the Kernels of Wallnuts be beaten with Spirit of Wine Crato and applied to the Coronal Suture 5. For Children a clean Paper four times double wet in equal parts of the Mother's Milk and Rue water applied to the Crown of the Head Johnstonus is good 6. For a loose Vvula to dry up the humidity this is a certain experiment if a little Saffron be put in Man's Urine Kunrad and one gargle with it 7. If the matter be small and the Head not very full of Excrements it is cured onely by touching it with long Pepper It is beaten very fine and the end of the Vvula is touched with it which being touched twice or thrice they spit Phlegm Rondeletius and it is quickly contracted and made shorter 8. For the falling of the Vvula Take long Pepper Ginger each half a drachm Granes of Paradise 1 drachm Pellitory of Spain Alume each half a drachm Album Graecum 2 drachms Mix them Rulandus Make a Powder which raises the Vvula 9. Hemp-seed boiled a little in Posca Stokkerus strained and used for a Gargarism scarce ever fails 10. Water of Spleenwort is admirable in a sore Throat 11. An excellent Powder is made of Album Graecum dried mixt with other things Welkardu● if it be applied to a lax Columella II. For Exulceration and Inflammation 1. This is an excellent Medicine for an Inflammation of the Vvula both in the beginning and in the height Take of Rhus Culinarium 1 ounce Flowers of Roses half an ounce Saffron half a drachm bruise them and powder them Take half a Spoonfull of this and dissolve it in three ounces of Water and Honey Aetius and make a Gargarism 2. Some reckon this as a secret and believe me in Ulcers of the Tongue Mouth and Vvula it does wonders Take of common water two ounces and an half Powder of Sublimate half a drachm Let them boil till the Sublimate be melted Cortilio and strain it wherewith touch the ulcerated places Morning and Evening 3. This is a most generous Decoction to stop the Defluxion Take Galls Rhus Culinarium and coriarium Fruits of both the Tamarisks Flowers and Rind of Pomegranate All or any one of these boiled in Water Nicol. Piso may be given to gargle withall 4. I have tried this Take of Pepper half a drachm Powder of Venetian Orrice 2 drachms Juice of Liquorice 1 drachm and an half Sugar-candy 2 drachms Honey 1 ounce Mix them Rondele●ius Make a Lohoch and lick it A GUIDE TO The Practical Physician BOOK VIII Of Diseases beginning with the Letter H. Habitus Corporis vitia Cutanei Affectus or Diseases of the Habit of the Body Diseases of the Skin See Scabies BOOK XVI and Cosmetica BOOK XIX The Contents The habit of the body may be vitiated when the Bowels are not hurt I. Bloud must be let sparingly II. A grievous Itch requires a cure like that of the Pox. III. Striking of it in must be avoided IV. When we must use Repellents V. Cured by setting Leeches to the part VI. A Palsie arising upon striking in of Pimples in the face VII A pertinacious redness in the face cured by opening a vein in the Forehead VIII Whether Spaw-waters be good for a Pimpled Face IX Whether a Sweat be good for a Ring-worm X. Whether Bleeding or Purging be good for Exanthemata XI Blackness of the fingers cured by a Fume XII We must have a care how we stop Sweating of the feet XIII In external Pains ascribed to a Catarrh bloud letting is convenient though the cause be cold XIV I. A Peculiar Republick and Regiment is constituted for the habit of the Body it has also its Diseases not depending upon the interiour regiment Hippocrates and Galen call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or The bulk of the whole body The Arteries and Veins that reach to the Muscles and Skin belong to it A cutaneous Itch often arises when the Bowels offend not at all which also is cured onely with externals It happens also Rolfincciu● Diss●rt Ana● p. 1283. that a Scabies ferina infests the Skin while the Arteries run dreadfull putrefaction and administer matter to it as they carry impure faeculencies with the bloud and they not being received nor carried back by the Veins are left in the Pores II. Hippocrates lib. de Humor although he order Revulsion in an opposite part does yet except the Humours poured out into the Skin which he forbids to be drawn inwards because the inner parts are more noble than the outer Besides because humours once poured out to the Skin get a bad quality so that if they once go inwards they ever prove pernicious Let Physicians have this rule before their eyes while they are upon the cure of Diseases that infest the outer Skin that they let not bloud in such a quantity as to make revulsion to the inner parts lest perhaps it happen as it did to reverend N. who labouring of the Itch would have 4 pounds of
insensible transpiration by Urine or Stool But these are seldom seen in Children for in them the dissipating heat or consuming drought usually waste the humidity that should nourish The external cause is either the aestuating dissipating heat or the violent cold extinguishing the heat or the use of Salt meats XXIX If the heat appear as it were extinct by a cold disease or humour then indeed Children are usually very hungry although sometimes their stomachs are squeamish that is when Phlegm putrefies or becomes mucilaginous and the more they cram the leaner they grow Moreover they are of a white colour and though their body be extenuated their eyes face and feet swell being forerunners of another mischief You cannot heal this disease by change or increase of diet but by such things as waste and concoct the Phlegm and make the heat more brisk In which case it is good for Children when they are wea●●ed to take a very little Wine with Biscoct-bread or in drink so it be much diluted for it concocts phlegm and crude juices corrects the cold intemperature and excites the heat Aromaticks are also good which if they cannot be given a sucking Child you mix them in all the Nurses victuals for they thin the Milk and make it pass easily XXX There is a Disease very frequent in these Countries in which Children that suck and those that are weaned are consumed with an Atrophy to a Skeleton onely the Belly as if there were a soft Parenchyma lying underneath being swelled and so far like the Rickets but that there is not such a tension of the joints and for the rest it comes without any concourse of Worms or of any other cause but onely through some fault in the lacteal ducts and glands For the method and cure of the common Consumption turning to an Ascites of a Tympany and the like Diseases sometimes used in this case has not been sufficient Nor yet afterwards have the remedies usually prescribed in a more accurate method for Schirrhi and abscesses of the mesentery w●ich indeed are rather the products of the inveterate Disease Laxatives Purgatives Aperients and Strengthners and external Anointings Bathings c. been found to satisfie expectation or to hinder those that are so held from being carried off at last by an Hectick with a supervening Epilepsie colliquative Flux Lientery and other Symptoms Within these few years a little Daughter of N. was brought to me than whom in all my practice I have not seen one more Consumptive she had taken an infinite number of Medicines Being much intreated and the case being desperate after I had given the Prognostick I happened I know not how upon Tinctura Martis aperitiva Vitriolata and upon Arcanum duplicatum which it may be might go nearer to the root of the Disease than any usual things for all their known energy Therefore we gave for the first week every day and for the next every other day in the mornin● 2 drops of the Tincture for every year of her age and at 4 a clock in the afternoon likewise for every year of her age 1 grain of the Arcanum And so in a few days she began to be better in plight and in a short time after Nature recollecting her self of her own accord she was perfectly restored and is at this day brisk and corpulent enough After which Observation being farther confirmed by reason I have after that to this very day cured several in the same manner without the help almost of any other Remedies And this Martial Tincture is made of Vitriol of Mars made with Spirit of Wine and of the Acid of Tartar each 4 ounces boiled sufficiently in 3 pounds of Steel water and insensibly exhaled in stirring to the thickness of Honey which by pouring on 3 pounds of Spirit of Wine is dissolved by digesting little sediment if all things have been done as they ought being left And so the liquour is saturated and after little or no abstraction or exhalation is set by for use and it may be farther tinctured if you please with essence of red Popy Dan Ludov●●i E●●em●r C●●●m a● 3. obs 251. You may have Arcanum duplicatum in Schroder Pharmac l. 3. p. 474. and Hofman in Clavi p. 344. XXXI A Boy two years old was brought to me Anno 1567. the Son of Mr. David Merveilleux Counsellour to the most Serene Prince of Longeville my intimate Friend consumed with a great Atrophy together with a Loosness His Breast was diaphanous if it were held to a Candle He was given over by all especially by a City Pastor who practised Physick I believed he was not desperate because he had a liveliness in his eyes And he was recovered by taking Milk in which red-hot Flints had been quenched adding Sugar of Roses and a little terra sigillata Within a month he throve upon it now he is a lusty Man and follows the Wars XXXII Sometimes Childrens Atrophy comes from Worms which are bred under the Skin in fleshy parts of corrupt nutriment This is an approved cure Take 1 ounce or 2 of Bryony-root boil it in Lye of Oakashes till it grow like pap Anoint the Body of the Child with this either in a stove or in some warm place then the Worms put out their heads at the pores and then presently t●e Skin must be shaven with a Razour for so the heads are cut off the Worms and the cause of deficie●t nutrition is removed And this operation must be performed once and again namely till it be evident that all the worms are gone Then the Children must be bathed often in Bathes of a decoction of a Sheep's-head and Feet Mallow Marsh-mallow Pellitory and Linseed c. XXXIII And there are not wanting some who affirm that Women witches suck children lean In which matter which I leave for others to discuss it is enough to know that they are emaciated because we find children are bewitched because perhaps they are infected with the Touch Sight and Breath of some infected maleficious Body For their tender bodies are easily made worse by any thing But how comes it to pass that a beautifull and healthy child presently grows worse discoloured and lean You must know that such a sudden change may happen in children either because the child by its innate principles is at the very perfection of health according to the indigence of its Age beyond which it cannot go one degree nor continue in the same then it must needs go into a worse state At which time I think we should use no Remedy but it may be hoped that by a good moderation of life and diet he may be brought to the utmost extent of Age which he is able to live while Nature grows stronger and the body arrives at a more solid state by the same action of Nature For so it happens to us all while we commit no errour in our life otherwise that alteration is a fore-runner of some Disease at hand Or again
Syrups As often as a Syrup is required to be added to any other Composition we use Syrup of juice of Wood-sorrel or Fumitory or Coral or a magisterial Syrup of juice of Brooklime may be made the same way as is prescribed above for juice of Scurvy-grass Destilled Waters More temperate distilled waters are made by changing either the ingredients or the Menstruum or both As to the former we may proceed in this manner Take of Leaves of Brooklime Water Cresses Fumitory Harts-tongue Liver-wort Balm tops of Tamarisk Cypress each 3 handfuls of all the Sanders bruised each half an ounce root of sharp-pointed Dock Polypody of the Oak each 2 ounces the outer rind of 4 Oranges of cleansed Snails 2 pounds When they are cut and bruised pour to them 6 pounds of Whey made with Syder Destil them in a common Distillatory 2. Let the Menstruum be weaker and the ingredients moderately hot Take of Leaves of Scurvy-grass Lady-smock Water Cresses each 3 handfuls Peels of 4 Oranges Snails 1 pound when they are chopt very small pour to them of Whey or new Milk 6 pounds destil them the common way 3. In a Scorbutick Atrophy and Consumptive disposition where nothing hot ought to be admitted which may exagitate the Blood humors and spirits both the Ingredients and the Menstruum must be temperate and sweetners of the Blood Take of Leaves of Brooklime Lady-smock Harts-tongue Maiden-hair Liverwort Speedwell Agrimony each 2 handfuls cleansed Snails 1 pound and an half or the pulp of a Capon or a Sheeps Heart shred parboyled and shred When they are all bruised together pour to them of new Milk or Fumitory water 6 pounds and destill them the common way Physick Wines and Beer Although the use of Wine in a Scurvy caused by a hot or Sulphureo-Saline Dyscrasie of the Blood may not seem so convenient yet if at any time either a weak Stomach or long custome require the drinking of small Wine at least such a Liquor may be made more temperate and in some measure medicated For first of all small Wines may be given diluted with water impregnated with an Infusion of Balm Borage Burnet or other such things Moreover Wines may be made of juice of Currans Cherries or other horary Fruits which when they are ripened by fermentation are very grateful to the Stomach and cleanse the Blood then Syder the familiar and almost natural Wine of our Country defaecated this way when it is mild and sweet without any acidity does much good in the Scurvy Furthermore when the Lees are taken from this Liquor and it is put up in small Vessels several sorts of Ingredients may be infused in it such as tops of Pine or Firr flowers of Tamarisk also shavings of Harts-horn or Ivory which sweeten the Liquor and keep it from sowring in as much to wit as the particles of the fluid Salt up and down the Syder which are apt to cause sowerness are by infusing the said Ingredients suspended More temperate Physick Ales may be prescribed in this manner Let a 5 or 6 gallon Vessel be got ready for small Ale in which instead of Hops let tops of Pine Firr Tamarisk or shavings of any of the Woods be boyled then after working let some roots of sharp-pointed Dock than which certainly there is no better Remedy for the Scurvy be put in the Vessel To these sometimes there may be added Leaves of Brooklime Water-Cresses Winter Cresses c. also pome-Citrons or Oranges cut into slices Leaves of Harts-tongue put into a Barrel of middling Beer after it has done working Idem give it both a grateful tast and smell XIII The method already laid down timely begun and rightly insisted on often does the business in as much as the cause or root of the Disease being taken away the Ails depending thereon vanish of themselves Yet we cannot always hold a direct course but must sometimes turn aside to accidents and symptoms to the most urgent whereof we shall have respect Of the Cure of difficulty of breathing and Asthmatick Paroxysms Difficulty of breathing with straitness of Breast and Asthmatick Paroxysms must be immediately removed with proper Remedies prescribed out of the general method for otherwise the Patient's life would quickly be endangered And since such evils usually arise either from the Bloods stagnating in the Heart or from the pneumonick Nerves being hindered in their function therefore they are cured either by Cordial or Antispasmodick Medicines Spirit of Harts horn Soot Blood Mans Skull also tinctures of Castor Antimony or Sulphur flowers of Sal Ammoniack of Benzoin and Elixir proprietatis are of excellent use in these cases which Medicines may be given frequently in a Dose of some Antiscorbutick Liquor good against such Diseases For the quieting a mere spasmodick difficulty if at any time it come suddenly I have not experienced a more present Remedy than 10 or 12 drops of our tincture of Laudanum opiatum given in some convenient Liquor for when sleep comes on the Spirits abate their disorders and in the mean time being refreshed they afterward resume their pristine tasks in due order Sharp Clysters which give many stools as also Sudorifick Decoctions and Diureticks do often give relief Take of root of Burdock Butter-bur Chervil each 1 ounce Leaves of Maiden-hair Germander each 1 handful Seeds of Burdock Carthamum each 3 ounces Raisins 2 ounces When they are stoned and bruised boyl them in Spring water to the consumption of a third part Add of White Wine 4 ounces strain them into a Flagon to which put of Leaves of Scurvy-grass shred 1 handful Elecampane root Candied and cut very small half a drachm Make a close and hot Infusion for 3 hours The Dose is 6 ounces twice or thrice a day Of ails of the Stomach that usually come upon the Scurvy Scorbutick Persons are sometimes troubled with a great fulness and pain of the Stomach and loathing and belching and sometimes frequent vomiting Which Diseases arise sometimes from chyle degenerating there into putrefaction oftentimes from Morbifick matter either carried from the Blood or Nervous juice and left within the cavity of the Stomach or fixt in its Nervous folds and Membranes In such cases if a viscid nidorus matter or any other way troublesome be cast up by vomiting and there be suspicion that the cause is within the Cavity of the Stomach it will be convenient to give a gentle vomit of Wine of Squills or Salt of Vitriol or to purge off the peccant Humour with extract or infusion of Rhubarb adding a little Salt or Cream of Tartar but if the matter stick close among the Membranes or Nervous folds Diaphoreticks or things that stop the effervescency of the Salts are rather convenient Elixir proprietatis or flowers of Sal Ammoniac or Spirit of Soot may be often taken with aqua raphani composita lumbricorum or any other Antiscorbutick Liquor In the mean time once or twice a day a fomentation of Wormwood Centaury Chamomil flowers
intention consisting in a due constitution of the Pores is commonly performed only by outward administration Willis VI. An old Man 72 years of Age was in the year 1657 very ill of a Diaphoretick Sweat so that he was all over in it almost Night and Day and what ever he eat or drank he immediately perceived it pass out at the Pores of the Skin The Cause of this Disease was abundance of serous Humors complicated with the Scurvy which were gathered in the Mass of Blood by a depraved and vitious fermentation in the Organs designed for Sanguification which did not transmute the acid Salts of the Meat into volatil Salts The Disease had lasted 3 Months before my Advice was taken but it was quickly cured by me only with Ivory without Fire and an Emulsion made of the four greater cold Seeds and Cichory and Bugloss-water giving now and then Jalap and Crystall of Tartar Forbearing Wine Sowr Meats and other things that breed Scorbutick Blood He lived until he was fourscore and three years old Hofmannus Suffocatio or Suffocation or Strangling The Contents Bleeding is often convenient I. Fear of Suffocation from the Lungs distended with Wind. II. How they that are strangled with an Halter may be recovered III. By what means they that have been Suffocated in the Water have been brought to Life again IV. The Cure of those that are Choaked with Smoak V. With the Steam of Must VI. With the Veins too full of Blood VII With Worms coming into ones Throat VIII With the swelling of the Thymus IX With poysonous Mushromes X. Men may be taken with Fits like Hysterick ones XI An easy Remedy in fear of Strangling XII 1. FOr them that are Strangled or Choaked the suffocating Humor having recourse to the Throat either because the Blood is forcibly carried to the Heart or Brain whether it come from the Womb or from some other Place Bleeding is never amiss in this Symtome that is if you find the Pulse strong and the Veins full Bleeding is also good when it comes from drinking cold Water as Diascorides advises for Bleeding is not convenient because the Water is alwayes hot or because Infectious but because there is much in the Veins Bocallus II. Sometimes Wind distends the Lungs so violently that it causes Suffocation unless help be given by opening the Breast by Paracentesis which is often done at Paris to the great advantage of the Patient and the ease of the Breast though no Water run out but Wind break out violently Hippocrates calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose Breast is distended with Wind. Riolanus III. Anne Green a lusty young Woman about 22 years of Age was tried for killing her Child and hung on the Gallows for half an hour Her kindred who stood by that she might be dispatched of her punishment by a speedy Death some of them beat the poor Wretch on the Breast others hung on her Feet and others lift up her Body that as it fell down again it might draw the Halter closer She was reckoned by all People to be Dead and was taken from the Gallows The Physicians waited for the Body to dissect it but Dr. Petty and Dr. Willis who were to dissect it observing her to breathe altered their Minds and consulted how they might save her Life They directed all there Care to procure the free and accustomed Motion of the Blood Therefore forcing open her Mouth they poured in Spirits and Waters which in a small quantity do very efficaciously strengthen the Heart They diminished the quantity of Blood which would otherwise have been burthensome to the oppressed Heart and took at several times repeated in all to the quantity of 20 ounces that the Heart might when eased of the abundance of Blood more easily and readily distribute the rest into the whole Body and might the more eagerly draw to it self that which stagnated in the Veins or moved too dull They laid Cataplasms round her Neck and anointed her all over with Oyls and hot Spirits that the Bruises might be discussed and that the Blood might pass more freely to the Head by the Carotides and repass by the Jugulars They ordered Clysters full of Spices to be given her both that they might get out the Excrements which perhaps might be troublesome to the Guts and might prove more prejudicial to other Parts and that they might quicken the Motion of the dull Blood in the mesenterick Vessels Upon this she first scratched her Hands by and by she could open her Eyes and move several Parts and was able to Cough Afterwards being further helped by the dexterity of the Physicians she could understand the by standers talk observe and laugh She found a Pain and numbness in the bruised Parts and in a few dayes time she was well and was able to go about her Affairs Wepferus IV. A Girl not three years old fell into a Vessel full of Soap-water and being full of it she seemed to Breathe her last she slept profoundly rattled and scarce drawing any Breath was quite Choaked such a murmuring Noise coming upon her as is usual in People that are dying I was called and I ordered that a Decoction of Barly unhusked Liquorish and Figs should continually be poured in a little warm and when she had Vomited gently and had cast up all the Soap-water and freed her in a few hours from Suffocation her Mother if I had not hindred her had given her Rhenish Wine which indeed is amicable to Nature but it might not only have easily carried the poysonous Matter in the Soap to the Heart but it might easily have raised an inflammation and a Fever In the year 1577. when a great many Boyes and Girles had got upon an old rotten Bridge to see a Soldier that was fallen into the Water The Bridge broke and a great number fell into the Water and were in danger of their Lives to whom when I was called they all escaped by taking a Decoction of Chamaemil Flowers in Beer by which we made them sweat in Bed which I did to several others and they all recovered Forestus My Son Frederick Bonet 20 Months old she that tended him having left him was walking over a Pit full of new quenched Lime and being thrust by one about his own Age he fell into it She who had the care of him coming immediately jumped into the Pit threw him upon the edge of it and she her self could scarce get out by reason of the deepness of the Pit and softness of the Lime She immediately poured some Wine that happened to be in the way into his Mouth when he breathed not at all but seemed as one dead by means whereof he vomited the Water and some signs of life appeared By and by lest the Acrimony of the Lime wherewith his whole Body was smeared should hurt him she cut the Girdle wherewith his Clothes were tied and put him naked into a Pale of Water and
her Labor was tormented almost to death with violent pains in her Belly an irregular motion of her Womb and with foul Vapors that annoyed and got up into her Brain when she had taken many Medicines to no purpose as soon as she came to me she took Laudanum she slept and all things were well Afterwards every Morning she used this Mass Take of faecula Bryoniae half an ounce Castor 2 drachms Myrrhe 1 drachm Assa foetida and Saffron each half a drachm Laudanum 4 scruples and an half Make a Mass of which let her take 25 grains She used an Hysterick Fomentation twice a day When her Fits were quieted she recovered very well ¶ Madame de la Varenne was troubled with Malignant Vapors and a great pain in her Womb with a great Swelling and very painful about her Guts and Mesentery and she was almost in a Consumption At first for every other day afterwards a little longer space between she took Laudanum for the Symptome and Mercury for the cure of her Disease She recovered Theod. de Mayerne tract m. s de Laudans when she had taken the Laudanum She vomitted viscid matter every day It is good in a flatulent Hypochondriack illness Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. This is an experiment which never fails Take every Night before Supper Pilulae de Artemisia 2 scruples ¶ Take of Siler Madder Penniroyal Calamus Aromaticus the kernel of Peony Seeds each 6 drachms the best Musk 3 scruples Spikenard 1 drachm Make Pills with juice of Mugwort The Dose from 2 scruples to 4. abstaining nevertheless in Summer and hot Seasons and in Cholerick Constitutions It helps in Inveterate Suffocations especially from the stoppage of the Menses and retention of Seed J. Arculanus after the Pills a Decoction of Motherwort and Mint in Wine must be taken 2. This composition does wonderfully help as I have often tried Fits of the Mother and them whose Limbs are contracted from that cause It has in it of Triphera magna dried Chamomil each half a drachm Al. Benedictus It is given fasting in Wine or with Sugar 3. The fume of Wens that grow on Horses Legs is good against Fits of the Mother Theod. de Bry. ¶ Spirit of Vitriolum Veneris is a present Remedy if 3 drops of it be taken in some proper Liquor 4. Give a drachm of Treacle which also may be dissolved in Oyl of Rue and applied to the Part by which you perceive the Vapours ascend by which means only a noble Matron when no other Remedies did her good Rod. à Castro was cured of a dangerous rising of the Mother 5. Some say this is a never failing experiment They take a head of Garlick cut it in two lay it upon the Coals and lay on it a little Aloe hepatica they take the juice and anoint the Navil Corbaeus Wrists Temples and Nostrils of the Hysterick party 6. In Fits of the Mother this is a singular Remedy Take the Catkins of the Walnut-tree dry them and powder them Give 2 scruples thereof with a drop or two of Oyl of Amber dropt on them Joh. Crato I know nothing better 7. Sal Jovis is a precious Remedy and Secret against Fits of the Mother anointed on the Navil Three grains of it also may be given inwardly with Hysterick water 3 or 4 dayes in the Morning 8. Salt of Vitriol which causes Vomiting and promotes the Menstrua Pet. Joh. Faber is an excellent Remedy in Fits 9. A Galbanum Plaster is Montagnana's Secret We dissolve Galbanum with a little Vinegar spread it on Leather and apply it to the Woman's Navil by which Remedy I have cured several and raised them out of Fits ¶ A certain Woman when she perceived the Fit coming held only a piece of root of Masterwort in her Mouth and chewed it a little and she was freed from the Fit but she drank a little good Wine Vinegar upon it which made her belch and she escaped it alwayes ¶ We received this for an admirable Secret to bring away the after-burthen for the stopt Menses to bring away a Mole or dead Child and it is said to have been tried in them that have kept the afterburthen 14 dayes Take green Leaves of Lovage pound them put Rhenish Wine to them strain out the juice and give a Glass of it to drink In the Winter time bruise the Seed of Lovage and let it boyl a little in Wine then strain it or which is better give it in Beer Forestus 10. This is a great Secret Let a Clyster be made of a Decoction of Ground-Ivy of which take 1 pound add 1 ounce of Mithridate and give it It is proper in coldness of the Womb P. Mich. de Heredia and when the Seed is corrupt 11. Hens dung dissolved in White Wine and mixt with some Cordial has helped many Fr. Hofmannus 12. Only the Seed of Garden Parsnep dried and powdered and half a drachm of it given in Wine or in some Hysterick water is a peculiar Specifick for Fits of the Mother Quercetanus 13. Equal parts of Cows and Deers dung given in warm Wine to a Woman when she goes to sleep presently takes away the pain and Fits ¶ Linnen clothes dipt in Cows piss or in a Dunghil and applied warm to the Navil and Womb J. Dan. Ruland quiets it 14. If the hair of the Patient be burnt and the fume of it received it does wonders on a sudden I have often tried it Varignana Surditas or Deafness See Diseases of the Ears Book I. The Contents Whether we must Purge violently I. Cured by Bleeding II. Whether the Head must always be Purged III. Whether it may be Cured by Fluxing IV. In Childbed Women and such as are recovering from Sickness it requires a peculiar way of Cure V. Whether Deafness and noise should be Cured with dry or moist things VI. The Cure by Sweating and Bathing VII We must be cautious in the use of Oyl of bitter Almonds VIII The efficacy of natural Bathes IX Nothing must be dropt in but topical Medicines must be applied by Tents X. Medicines I. WE must give a Purge of some Medicine that purges the peccant Humour violently for seeing the Humours are gross and impacted they are rather disturbed than carried off by a gentle Medicine wherefore I think for this reason Hippocrates said a disturbed Belly that is one very loose cures Deafness But we may not use such things frequently without danger according to Hippocrates his advice Mercatus we must purge such with that which in a small quantity purges a great deal II. I have observed that Deafness in many arises from abundance of Blood passing by the roots of the Ears Therefore the Remedy of a certain Bathe-keeper of Bavaria seems to me not altogether absurd whereby as I have been told by several he has cured many of thickness of Hearing And it is
proper XIII Medicines I. WHether may Blood be let when People are in a swoon In a spurious Syncope which the stopping of the Blood in the Veins breeds which according to Hippocrates and Galen l. 4. acut must be esteemed twofold one from store of Blood in the greater Vessels another only from the Carotides and jugulars Blood must immediately be taken away ere it being deprived of its Spirits become concrete and the Disease be incurable as much as convenient considering the strength and fulness of the Body Which when done and a spare course of diet is followed we must divert what is contained in the Body to the lower parts and afterwards what concrete Blood there is we must make it fluid with drinking hot things and by gently rubbing the whole Body But in this case it is very rare that one can make the Blood fluid unless the Spirits be much stronger than before for if not or if the Pulse be bad it is a sign that the Blood is then concrete in which case we must wholly abstain from Blood-letting and make use of such Remedies as may make the concrete Blood fluid as Hares-rennet in water and Honey or water and Honey with Marjoram boyled in it with the addition of a little Oxymel or half a drachm of Treacle or Mithridate dissolved in the said water But if you be certain that the Blood is not concrete you can no way sooner bring the Patient to life again than by letting him Blood Which when you have done once if the Patient bear it well and if the Blood run high you may try the Remedy again till you find the Patient relieved but if no Blood will come you may reckon it is concrete and you need try no more II. A Woman as she saw her Husband fighting with his Neighbour fell into a Swoon I was called and by my order she was cured by Bleeding In this sick Woman the Blood had for fear and grief retired to the Heart as to a tower by which when the Heart is suffocated I have observed several have died both because the vital faculty is extinguished by too great abundance and because the Spirits cannot pass through the Vessels for want of which the extream parts grow dead In so great decay of Spirits let the Physician never omit Bleeding But ●f by reason of extream loss of strength and the abolition of the pulse in a manner the Physician be doubtful let Cupping-glasses be set to his Hips and Thighs with scarifications instead of Bleeding Fontanus III. It often counterfeits an Apoplexy but without ratling nor does it leave a Palsie behind it If it return often violently at length it oppresses and suffocates the Heart not only because the excursion of the Blood is intercepted by the plenitude of the Vessels but because some thick substance of the Blood being forced within the Ventricles of the Heart oppresses it which causes an Asphyxy in the motion of the Heart and Arteries This Disease is as frequent among the Germans as the Apoplexy from their athletick habit of Body which is contracted from their continual good fellow-ship and drinking Yet they take no care to take down that plethorick habit by Bleeding liberally And so no wonder if through such abundance of Blood Riolanus they fall into an Apoplexy or a Cardiack Syncope IV. Vinegar of Roses is not good for every Syncope for seeing contrary causes must needs be removed by contrary Remedies therefore it is manifest that the dissolution of the Spirits must be cured one way and their suffocation or infection another Wherefore we conclude with Capivaccius 2. pract cap. 9. that a Syncope coming from a dissolution of the Spirits may be very well taken off by the use of cooling things applied especially to the Forehead Face region of the Heart and Wrists in which case Vinegar of Roses is proper for Vinegar penetrates and Roses cool and concentre the Spirits But if suffocation be the cause attenuation and dissolution of the Morbifick matter is of necessity required which cannot at all be done by cooling things wherefore here we must have recourse to Cresses Nigella Mithridate Cinnamon water rubbing the extream parts c. If there be Malignity we must provide for the Heart by Bezoarticks No wonder then if in the absence of Physicians Patients often dye in a Swoon For it may so happen that the Spirits which are otherwise suffocated may by applying some common cooling Remedy be further conglobated about their principle and by this means the vital faculty may be utterly suppressed Horstius V. When a Patient is liker to one dead than alive so that he can neither open nor shut his Mouth much less swallow any thing as he should then it will be the best way to take some Aromatick Oyls either simple or compound mingled only and stirred together a little with rectified Spirit of Wine or more nearly joyned together by a greater artifice and long circulation and pour 3 or 4 drops into the Patient's Mouth and sometimes more and especially by a Silver or Golden pipe into the Throat to the end they may penetrate both into the Stomach and Guts from whence the cause of so grievous an evil is often dispersed to all parts and into the Pipes of the Lungs to the very Blood that sticks in the Pulmonary Vessels Sylvius de le ●oë and so correct and amend this urgent harm VI. A Noble-man complained to me that he immediately fell into a Swoon as he turned himself on his left Side and his Spirits were so far gone that he was got out of it with much difficulty When I inquired into the cause I reckoned some Melancholick Humour having some ill quality in it sent a poysonous Vapor from the Spleen to the Heart which must be the cause of this Malignant Symptome nor was I deceived in my conjecture For when he was put in a right course of Diet after his Body had universally been purged of Melancholy and particularly his Spleen by giving Medicines to open the Obstructions thereof and his Heart strengthened Riverius he was cured of it VII In a Swooning Fit sometimes such things must be given as powerfully concentrate the Spirits and acid Vapors and sometimes such as discuss glutinous ones Subtil things to the end they may penetrate to all parts may be mixt with them such are Spirituous things and volatil and Oyly Salts especially such as are prepared by art of divers parts of Animals or of certain Plants These are good Aromatick Tinctures drawn by means of rectified spirit of Wine from divers Spices or from any Aromatick parts of Plants or Animals either by infusion alone or also by destillation for example Take of water of Mint Fenel each 1 ounce Scurvy-grass Aqua vitae Matthioli each half an ounce Laudanum opiatum 2 grains Syrup of Mint 1 ounce oyl of Cloves Nutmeg destilled each 2 drops Mix them Give it by spoonfuls Let no
some wonted evacuation of it although its too great Heat may be stopt with things a little acid but especially with things a little austere Let the following Apozeme serve for an example Take of leaves of Plantain 2 handfuls House-leek Sorrel each 1 handful Boyl them in Barley water to 20 ounces adding of Syrup of Jujubes 3 ounces Salt peter purified 1 drachm or Sal prunellae half a drachm or Spirit of Nitre 20 drops Mix them Make an Apozeme Let the Patient take a middling draught of this now and then to stop any other violent motion of the Blood Sylvius de le Boë The same Blood must be stopt in its efflux by conglutination of the open Vessels by proper Remedies XVIII The corruption of the Blood into pus or matter must be prevented by all means and especially by Balsamus Sulphuris anisatus or any other that is not ingrateful seeing that by the help of this not only the turning into pus or corruption and further hurt of the Ulcerated part is prevented but moreover the total cure of it is promoted Idem The Dose is a drop or two in some convenient pectoral mixture XIX And lest the same Blood whence soever it come into the Aspera Arteria should be coagulated there and then corrupted it must immediately be kept dissolved with convenient Medicines or must be dissolved again and voided To which end Crabs Eyes dissolved partly at least in a little destilled Vinegar together with diaphoretick Antimony taken with some grateful things must be preferred to many other things for example let the following prescription be taken a spoonful at once Take of water of Hyssop Fenil each one ounce Aqua vitae Matthioli 2 drachms destilled Vinegar half an ounce Crabs Eyes half a drachm Idem diaphoretick Antimony 1 scruple Syrup of Maiden-hair 1 ounce Mix them XX. But we must have a care in such mixtures as have Crabs Eyes dissolved in Vinegar in them that Syrups made of Mucilaginous things be not added to them such as de Althaea Fernelii of Jujubes Violets and the like because they grow presently thick and unfit for use which would not easily be if Syrups made of Aromatick things be used Idem and especially new enough since several in tract of time grow viscid XXI A dry Cough arising either from cold Air or drink will be cured by often holding the Breath some while that when the heat is encreased in the Throat and Lungs the fault may be amended which arises from external Cold. And I must say that in this case holding ones Breath as long as one can does not a little conduce to restrain and stop any Cough and a dry one especially by which means I have observed often in my self and others that a Cough otherwise troublesome enough has either been wholly removed or abated Idem and I have also seen a Hickup thus cured XXII The Spasmodick Cough in Children is difficultly cured because not only the Blood must be altered as in an ordinary Cough and its recrements should be discharged and derived from the Lungs to the habit of the Body by transpiration but moreover an amendment of the Nervous juice must be procured The method of cure usual in other sort of Coughs seldome does good here wherefore neglecting the rational method most use onely empirical Medicines Among many the two following are usually preferred that is Muscus pyxidatus and its various preparations which as far as we can gather from the Tast is of an astringent virtue and contains in it self something sharp particles savoring of store of volatil Salt whence we may conjecture that its use is to fix the Blood and stop fluxions of the Serum and moreover by volatilizing the Nervous juice to remove the Spasmodick disposition The other Remedy uses to be to put the Children into some sudden fright the reason whereof consists in this because the animal Spirits being put to flight and forced into new distractions do leave their former disorders And moreover the Spasmodick matter is either dispersed by this perturbation or else it is driven into other Nerves where it is not very troublesome Such as are of an hot constitution and while they Cough have an intense red or rather a black Countenance I prescribe them Phlebotomy or Bleeding with Leeches to the loss of 2 or 3 ounces and sometimes with good success Take of live Millepedes cleansed 1 ounce powder of Anniseed 1 drachm Nutmeg half a drachm white Sugar 5 ounces when they are bruised pour to them water of Hysop 6 ounces Limacum magistralis 2 ounces Mix them a little in a Mortar make a strong expression The dose 2 or 3 spoonfuls twice a day In the Winter when Snails cannot be had Sheep's or Calve's Lungs Willis parboyled and minced must be put in their stead c. XXIII There was an universal Cough at Rome and many died A certain Physician cured himself and several others with this Medicine Take of Iujubes N o 25. Figs N o 10. Large plump Raisins 1 ounce and a half scraped Liquorish 3 drachms roots of Coltsfoot 1 handful Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water till half be consumed away Take a Glass of it every Morning and at the hour of Sleep They abstained from Wine and Flesh they used Bread boyled with Raisins and Butter Solenander or Butter Bread and Sugar or Bread boyled in Milk and Sugar XXIV Celsus l. 4. c. 3. advises to use reading aloud Some question whether this be a proper Remedy since loud reading dries But it may be answered that it certainly does good because it dries up Phlegm from whence an old Cough is reckoned to derive its original Besides Antyllus in Oribasius advises to use it if drought and heat seem to abound beyond measure in our Bodies Much Air entring by respiration into the passages will very much moisten what is dry and because it is of more tenuious parts and more liquid than any water it will soften hardness caused by dryness But we must take notice that the actions of the voice must not be used rashly and unadvisedly and especially by them that are not used to the exercise and are but beginning Rubaeus comm in loc Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. This conduces greatly to mitigate inveterate Coughs arising from cold and gross Humours Take of Pine nuts roasted Starch Liquorish Nettle seed Linseed each 2 ounces Orris Pepper Hyssop Cresses Seed bitter Almonds each half a drachm Mix them with well clarified Honey Donatus ab Altomari and give a small spoonful of it 2. This is an excellent Remedy for great destillations Take of Storax Castor Pepper Cardamome each half a drachm Opium Jujubes Henbane Seed each half a drachm Let the quantity of a Vetch be given to them when they go to Bed ¶ The Medicine of the ancients for an old and dry Cough The common People in a desperate Cough take
they must be destilled in an open fire Sixteen times always pouring back what is destilled upon the faces Last of all the essence of the Wine is drawn 6 times from the Oyl in Balneo Mariae by cohobation then you have an Arcanum 1 Scruple whereof with a Drachm of Treacle Boëtius de Boot and a few Ounces of Fumitory water given Morning and Evening performs what is said and more 3. Oyl of Cloves makes Wounds that if it be put in presently their pain immediately ceases without Inflammation and it brings sordid Ulcers to a Cicatrice Crato and cleanses them it stops Blood nothing more 4. For healing of Wounds use this Balsame Take of the Decoction of Aristolochia rotunda in White Wine 1 Pound common Oyl red Oyl of St. John's wort 1 Pound Venice Turpentine half a Pound juice of Comfrey root 6 Pounds Mix them and boyl them to a consumption of the Decoction and Juice till they be of a consistence of a Balsame wherewith if you anoint Wounds you will bring them to a Cicatrice in a short time ¶ Crocus Martis is very effectual to stop Blood especially that which is made of red hot Steel quenched in Vinegar till it turn into rust or a red Powder which Powder digested in Vinegar till the Vinegar be coloured and then the Vinegar evaporated it leaves a soft substance in the bottom of the Alembick this Liquor mixt with Bean-flower or Bole-Armenick makes an effectual Plaster to stop Blood J. Pet. Faber ¶ The Terra mortua or Caput mortuum of Vitriol quickly stops all Haemorrhagies internal and external externally it is mixt with the whites of Eggs internally half a Drachm of it is given with Juice of Sowre Pomegranate or of Lemons 5. I make a most excellent Balsame only of Turpentine and Gum Elemi the Preparation whereof is of small trouble but is of most excellent use in Wounds after their Suppuration and Digestion in Ulcers and Fistulaes after their Mundification Namely I ●ake Oyl of Turpentine which comes over a glass ●etort in a strong fire of a red colour I take of this 3 Ounces pure Gum Elemi half an Ounce G●ith Fabricius I mix them in a Frying-pan upon a gentle fire till the Gum be dissolved then I strain it and keep it for use 5. This is a most excellent Medicine to heal the Wounds of Nervous Parts a description whereof I had from a Spanish Priest who well deserved Credit Take old Oyl 4 Ounces Turpentine 6 Ounces whole Wheat 1 Ounce and an half St. John's wort 2 Ounces Roots of Carduus Benedictus Valerian each 1 Ounce Frankincense powdered 2 Ounces let the Roots and Herbs be bruised grosly and infused in White wine for 3 days when the Infusion is made add the Oyl and Wheat and boyl them to the consumption of the Wine Then having made a strong Expression add the Turpentine and Frankincense and let them boyl a little It is kept in a Glass It cures Wounds as they say Hier. Fabricius in 24 hours time if the Wound be first washt with Whitewine and then anointed with this warm 7. This Emplastrum glutinans Galeni is a most precious and admirable Plaster which I use with exceeding good success if not the first day at least on the second Take dry Pitch half a pound yellow Wax 6 pounds and 8 ounces Pine resin 5 pounds and 4 ounces Asphaltum or Bitumen Judaicum 4 pounds and let this be chosen of the best ¶ There grow some follicles in Elms near the leaves full of a Liquor like Honey I never saw any thing better for healing of Wounds certainly I have seen wonders from this Liquor it may be kept and is of use in Gouty Defluxions especially when it is rancid This Oyl is gathered in the Month of May and a glass bottle being filled with it and stopt with Wax and a Cloth we make a hole in the Ground about a foot deep and put in the bottom of the hole a little common Salt and set the bottle upon it which we cover all over with Earth Fallopius after 20 days it is taken out and this Juice is kept for the Gout and healing of Wounds 8. This cures all Wounds to a Miracle Take of Aqua Vitae thrice destilled and well rectified 2 pounds St. John's-wort Hyssop Millefoil each 2 handfuls Frankincense Myrrhe powdered each 3 ounces Infuse them for 4 days and destill them in Balneo or in Sand. Keep it When you have closed the Wound wet it with this Water by pouring it upon the Wound and laying on Pledgits wet in it with Powder of Myrrhe Mastiche Frankincense Sarcocolla Bole-Armenick Dragon's Blood each equal parts Make a Powder and strew it upon the future wet with water and apply upon that a Pledgit wet in oyl of Turpentine and bind it do not unbind it till the fourth day and once every day foment the Wound as it is bound and wet it with the same Aqua Vitae On the fourth day loose the Ligature and you will find the Wound healed but if you should not find the Wound healed do the same again and open it not for 3 days wet the Wound every day as before then loose it and cure it as before for 2 days 9. An Astringent Balsam is made of Tartar if upon Tartar calcined to whiteness Spirit of Wine be poured which must be distilled with a strong fire and poured back again till the Spirit be sweet This Spirit is a Specifick Medicine Grembi which heals Wounds 10. This is admirable for Suppuration Take of Marrow of a Stag fat of a Calf Arsenick fresh Butter made of Cows Milk the best Honey Oyl of Roses Myrrhe each 1 ounce the Myrrhe must be mixt with the Honey and boyled gently on the Coals after which the rest must be added Hafenraffe● and carefully mixt 11. The Bleeding of an Artery could not be stopt in a certain man by any common Medicines a little Magisterium Opii was applied to the wounded Artery and the violent bleeding stopt to a Miracle Horstius the Wound was closed with Emplastrum Stipticum Crollii afterwards and healed 12. Take of Venice Turpentine half a pound Gum Elemi 4 ounces oyl of St. John's-wort 3 ounces bole Armenick and Dragon's Blood each 1 ounce Aqua Vitae 2 ounces Melt them on a gentle fire Mix them Add of Powder of Florentine Orrice Aloes Mastich Myrrhe each 1 drachm Mix them Make a Balsame This is of excellent virtue in agglutination of simple Wounds therefore when it is poured in some Emplastrum diachalcit Paraeus dissolved in oyl of Roses and Vinegar must be applied over it 13. This is a most excellent vulnerary Potion Take of Periwinkle red Mother-wort each one handful boyl them in stale Beer half away Strain it and keep it in a glass well stopt Let the wounded Man take of this in the Morning fasting at Noon and when he goes to Bed 3
are commonly distilled by Chymistry out of the fruits or juices of Vegetables matured by fermentation or resolved by putrefaction as the Spirits of Wine of the berries of Juniper and Elder of black Cherries c. Such vinous Liquors as these being taken inwardly both inasmuch as they erect the Animal Spirits and excite them into a greater expansion and also in that they exagitate the Blood and as by the addition of oyl to a flame cause it to be more accended do procure a diaphoresis 2. For procuring a diaphoresis Saline preparations of divers kinds and different states are prescribed with success which yet do not like the Particles of an intire mixt or like the merely spirituous either by their heterogeneity exagitate the Blood or by their inflammability accend it but only by acting upon its Saline Particles which whilst they snatch into their embraces they pull them from their too strict combination with others whereby the compages of the Blood being loosened and the Pulse increased the superfluous serosities and other recrements may the easilier part therefrom and be sent off by Sweat To this rank ought Salts of almost every condition but especially the volatil fluid fixt and nitrous to be referred of which either alone or compounded with one another are the Diaphoreticks of the chiefest note made which being taken inwardly and meeting with other Salts that are as well in the viscera as in the mass of Blood and calling them out of the embraces of other Particles do unlock and rarefie the Blood and thereby dispose to a Diaphoresis 1. The Diaphoreticks whose bases are the integral Parts of a mixt wherein likewise an acrimonious or volatil Salt is predominant do often on this account contribute to the procuring of Sweat inasmuch as their Particles being received into the Blood seeing they can neither be mixt therewith nor tamed do exagitate greatly divide and part as it were into small Particles the mass thereof so that at length the compages of the Blood being very much loosened and wrought into an effervescence the superfluous serosities and the recrements and corrupted particles of the Blood are cast forth together with the particles of the Medicine that are to be thrown off because of their heterogeneity 2. Sudorifick Medicines prepared of the elementary parts of a Mixt have for their basis either a Spirit or Salt sometimes simple sometimes combined with another Salt or with Sulphur To Diaphoreticks whose bases are Spirits with other elementary particles combined as for example a drachm of mixtura simplex in a convenient vehicle are referred those which consist of a Spirit a fixt Salt or Sulphur combined of which sort are the tincture of the salt of Tartar and Antimony the dose whereof is from one scruple to two in some liquor Moreover distilled waters wherein the spirituous particles are diluted with the watry use to be often given with success for provoking sweat The doses of the aforesaid waters may be actuated by the addition of Chymical liquors or Salts Medicines of this sort being endued with a vinous Spirit are chiefly and almost solely profitable for old men and for such as are endued with a cold temperament or are subject to the Palsie or Dropsie But in an hot constitution and where there is an heat of the viscera or a febrile effervescence of the Blood they use to do more harm than good inasmuch as they rarefie the former and accend this latter too much The Diaphoreticks which have a saline basis as they are of a various nature viz. accordingly as it is a volatil fixt acetous or nitrous Salt so they are of a different use and operation whence in some cases one sort is better and in others another or another A fixt and volatil Salt are best for those whose Blood is very full of a serous Humour Besides if the liquor that waters the viscera and genus nervosum do at any time wax eager as it uses to do in the Dropsical and Cacochymical and those who are subject to spasmodick Diseases these Medicines are more profitably administred for procuring sweat for meeting with the acido-saline particles of the Humours and closing with them they unlock the compages of the Blood and also through the heterogeneous mixture do exagitate its mass so that its serosities are more easily separated and driven outwards through the pores of the Skin 3. Diaphoreticks which have a nitrous salt for their basis seem to help in the same cases almost as the former consisting of a fixt and volatil Salt namely inasmuch as they destroy the predominancies of an acid Salt and so dispose the mixture of the Blood that while it effervesces its serum and recrements may be the more easily separated and sent off 4. Diaphoreticks whose basis is an acid Salt are chiefly profitable against the predominancies of a fixt Salt or Sulphur Namely if at any time through the saline fixt particles combined with the Sulphureous or earthy the mass of Blood become too much locked up and constringed so that it cannot easily let go its serosities to be sent off by sweat as sometimes is usual in continual Fevers and the Scurvy an acid Salt in the Medicine that is given meeting with a fixed Salt in our Body and snatching it into its embraces takes away the undue combinations thereof and so unlocks the effervescent Blood and disposes it to sweat 5. Some Medicines that are wholly or for the greatest part Sulphureous are commonly reckoned in the number of Diaphoreticks as namely some natural Balsams and some factitious ones also chymical oyls especially those of Guaiacum Box Camphor Harts-horn and Soot likewise the resinous extracts of heavy woods with many others which though of themselves they make little towards the provoking of sweat yet being joined with other saline things I think them to be not altogether unprofitable inasmuch as in a colder and too Phlegmatick a constitution Willis Pharm rat p. m. 196. seq Sulphureo saline Remedies do rarefie the over watry Blood and dispose it to a freer evaporation no less than spirituous things III. The bases of a Sudorifick Diet-drink are the decoctions of liquors for the cure of the Pox and some other chronical Diseases deeply rooted in the Blood and Humours For a very intense and frequent sweating namely daily for a long time is requisite for the cure of some Diseases namely not only that the impurities and corruptions of the viscera and Humours may be carried off but also that the morbifick tinctures that are deeply imprinted thereupon may be wholly destroyed and rooted out as it were For this purpose it will not be enough to give some sudorifick powder or bolus now and then but an intire Diet ought to be ordered f●r this intention wherefore let all the Drink be a sudorifick decoction after one dose whereof taken also in the morning let plentiful sweating be provoked making use besides of the heat of a bath or hot-House Moreover