and Tormentill Bolearmenick Sanguis Draconis Pomgranate Rinds Balaustians red Roses the Whites of Egs Vinegar Oyl of Roses of unripe Olives and the like If the Patient be strong and easy to vomit give a gentle Vomit to carry away the Humours in and about the Stomach soon after vomiting purge strongly Sweating Medicines are very good to discusse the wheyish Matter if a Feaver be present give Harts-horn with Carduus water In a Gout without a Feaver the Decoction of Sassafras Salsa and China may be given it is not amisse if the Heat thereof be allayed by boiling with it Endive Succory Sorrell Burrage Buglosse and the like The Waters of Bath do provoke Sweat and do readily and profitably discusse the Matter contained in the Joynts Forrestus commendeth the Decoction of the Root of the great Burdock for this purpose Likewise a Decoction of Elder Bay Leavs Sage Rosemary and such like receiving the Vapour in a sweating Tub. Afterwards come to locall Medicines Amatus Lusitanus doth commend the Milk of a Goat milked warm upon the part affected or you may make a Cataplasm with it and white bread and the Musilage of the Roots of Marsh-Mallows the Leavs of Henbane Violets and the like and if the pulp of Cassia and Venice-Treacle be added it will be much more effectuall The distilled Water of Frogs Spawn is very good against the pains of the hot Gout if the part be bathed therewith with it you may mingle the Oyl of Calves Feet or with the Flowers of Camomill Melilot Roses Mullein Mallows beaten you may bring it into the form of a Poultis Green Tobacco leavs are much commended and so is a living Whelp laid to the gouty part When the Pain rageth violently use Narcoticks as Plantane Lettice Henbane Housleek Night-shade Mandrakes Purslane and Poppy Heads but be sure you let them not ly on too long for they are inimicall to the naturall Heat and to the Nervs Some do commend this Fomentation Take Spirit of Wine well tinctured with Saffron four Ounces Camphire one Scruple boil them a little and dissolve one Drachm of Opium and bathe the pained part The Oyl of Wax is good to ease the Gout and the Oyl of Mans Bones is preferred before all other and it is thus made Take the Bones of a man fresh and unburied break them small and let them ly in Oyl till they have drunk up as much as they can then distill them in a Retort The Root of Briony and Cuckow-pintle bruised mingled with Cow dung is an excellent Cataplasm I might here fill a Volume with Receipts against the Gouts but passing by all I shall onely insert one or two out of Quercetanus his Dispensatory Take Brine Salt and the Urine of a Boy of each equall parts distill them and dip linnen Cloaths in the Water and apply them to the place affected changing them often Take green Elder Leavs and Flowers of each one pound beat them in a Morter and macerate them in Aqua-Vitae three dayes then distill them till all be dry use it as before Take of rectifyed Spirit of Wine two pound of the best Hony one pound distill them in Balneo Roris from which will come two Liquors the first waterish the second strong and sulphurous keep them by themselvs To the Foeces add of orientall Saffron whole one Ounce and an half Venice Turpetine two Ounces Castor six Drachms Tartar calcined white half a pound Salt dissolved one Ounce Phlegm of Vitriol not seperated from the Spirit four Ounces Lye made of the Ashes of Vine Branches two pound macerate them twenty four hours then distill them till all be dry keep this also by it self To the Dregs remaining pour on the former Water which you kept macerate and distill as before Lastly put all these Waters together and distill them in Balneo Roris wet linnen Cloths therein and apply it to the gowty place Riverius Lib. 10. Ch. 1. p. 378. prescibeth another which he accounts inferiour to none which penetrates into the Roots of the Disease and resolveth and attenuateth the salt tartarous and stony Matter in the Joynts and he supposeth it to be that which the aforesaid Quercetanus reservs to himself as his Master-peice to brag of it is thus made Take of â—…slaked Lime four pound slake it in River water as much as is convenient and let it stand in a Wine Cellar the space of three dayes that the Salt may be extracted the better afterwards boil it a little and strain it through Hippocrates Sleev In twenty Pints of this Liquor quench first Plates of Steel then of Copper made red hot seven or nine times thirdly ten Ounces of Vitriol calcined till it be white fourthly half a pound of Antimony melted in a Crucible fifthly half a pound of Litharge or Ceruse heated in a Crucible sixthly white Precipitate once washed one Ounce and an half lastly Erasse burnt and finely powdered half an Ounce after all this let the Water stand in a Cellar the space of 10 dayes afterwards boil it and strain it and apply it with linnen Rags To raise Blisters upon the part hath been found by experience to be very effectuall In the use of all Medicines take speciall notice which do harm or hurt for the Nature and Complexions of Men are divers and the Excrements bred in severall men are of divers kinds Hence it is that the same Disease doth much differ in severall persons and what cures one doth prejudice another Therefore the Physitian ought to have severall Medicines in readinesse and use thâ—se that Reason and his Experience doth approve of To prevent its return let the Patient bleed twice in a year viz. at Spring and Fall and purge 4 times in a year and make use of sweating Drinks and frequent sulphurous and nitrous Baths The Sciatica differeth nor from the other Gout onely in its Scituation which is in the Hip extending the pain to the top of the Buttock the Loins and Ossacrunt and reacheth down the Hip and Leg even to the Foot This peculiar Prediction belongeth to this Disease that if it continueth long it putteth the Hip out of Joynt The Cure is performed allmost in the same manner with the other Gout First open the Vein in the Arm on the same side afterwards open the lower Veins on the same side viz. Vena Poplitea about the knee or the Vein neer the outward Ancle called the Sciatica Vein if you open the Vein on the contrary side it will not do amisse bleeding the Haemorrhoid Veins by Leeches doth wonderfully help those that are Hipgouty for there is a great consent between those Veins But be not too forward to let Blood unlesse you find Blood to abound Then let the Humours be purged strongly by Pillulae Faetidae or Hermodactylls or the Powder of Hermodactylls compound but beware how you give the latter except to strong Bodyes Mercurius Dulois with Scammony is much commended and the Chymists do much esteem of
mollifieth the crustiness and caseth pain If it be corrupt and putrified you must make use of incision cautery or hot Iron Gangrena is a mortification of any part occasioned by exceeding inflammation but not fully accomplished but some sense remaineth Sphacelus is when the part is utterly deprived of senle is mortified so that if it be stricken burnt or lanced it feeleth no hurt The fleshy parts are not onely subject to this but even the Nerves and Bones The cause is adust bloud flowing to or lodged in the part Outward causes are cold Air or Medicines unmeasurable Heat or Venome Ligatures Compressions Contusions Gangrena is known by the loss of sense though not wholly black or swartish colour there is pain heat and beating of the Atteries In Sphacelus there is a total loss of sense black colour putrified stinking rotten being pressed yieldeth to the bottom and returneth not The first is difficult to cure the other more and not without cutting when the Bones and Sinews are affected it is incurable unless it be cured in the beginning the part affected dyeth and it creepeth to the near parts to the destruction of the whole Body In the Cure first temper the bloud by a cooling Diet as before and give preparing Juleps such as are afore prescribed Diminish the same by bloud-letting if nothing forbid it and by gentle Purges as Cassia Fistula Tamarinds Fumitory Catholicon Diaprunum Lenitive and the like Lay repressing Medicines to the parts round about Take of the Oyl of Roses and Myrrh of each three ounces and an half the Juyce of Plantane and Nightshade of each two Ounces boyl them to the consumption of the Juyces add to it white Wax one Ounce and an half the Meal of Beans Lentils and Barley of each half an Ounce of all the Sanders two drachms and an half Bolearmenick one Ounce the Powder of Myrtles one drachm mixe them for a defensive Give the Patient such things inwardly as chear the Heart and revive the Spirits This done draw up your forces against the conjoyned cause and first if nothing prohibit bleed your Patient and scarifie the place and wash it with Water and Salt cut the member or burn it with a hot Iron and leave nothing that is putrified to preserve the rest of the Body then apply Medicines whose property is to dry and resolve Quercetanus preseribes two Unguants of great force for the purpose Take of Honey two Ounces Crocus Martis and Crocus Veneris of each half an Ounce Myrrh and Round-Dirthwort of each one Drachm Camphire one Drachm and an half the Phlegme of Vitriol six Ounces Boil them to the consistence of an Unguent then add of Mercury Precipitate half an Ounce and make an Unguent Or this Take of Butter of Arsenick two Ounces Mercury precipitate half an Onnce Oyl of Myrrh two Drachms Mixe them with Honey being first washed with the juyce of Celandine When the putrifaction cealeth to go any farther remove the Escar as you were taught before then mundifie and heal it CHAP. VIII Of Cholerick Tumors FIrst Erysipelas or ignis Sacer is a Cholerick Fluxion chiefly consisting betwixt or about the skins The antecedent cause is Choller abounding and flowing to the part The conjoyned cause is the same Humour there setled The first is known by a Cholerick Constitution and Diet. The second is known by great heat small Tumour reddish or yellow colour soon vanishing in touching and quickly returning The pain is not with pulsation and beating but biting and pricking and the Patient is sensible of the motion of a Tertian Feaver Erysipelas about the head is a hard thing to cure and it easily gets into the Face and there spreadeth for the flesh there is thin and the humour light and active If it happen to the Womb of a woman with child it is deadly if it lye near the bone it is dangerous if it return from the outward parts to the inward it is very evil the like judge if it come to suppuration which it seldom doth but is sent forth by transpiration First order the Air to be cool and moist where your Patient lodgeth and his Diet of the same nature Bleed not unless bloud be mixed with Choller which is called Erysipelas Phlegmonosum Then prepare the Humours with Tuleps convenient made of the Syrups of Vinegar Simple Bugloss Maiden-hair Violets Water-Lillies Endive and Succory and their distilled Waters or others of the like nature When you have prepared the humour purge it either by Clister or Potion This Potion is much commended Take of the best Rubarb four seruples the Flowers of Violets and Borrage of each one drachm the decoction of Tamarinds sufficient insuse the Flowers and Rbubarb ten hours strain them and dissolve therein Diacatholicon three drachms Syrrup of Roses two ounces and make a Potion Vesalius You may alter or make variety of Potions as you see occasion Or empty your body with this Clister Take Marsh and common Mallows Violet leaves Camomel and Lettice of each one handful the seeds of Anise Fennel and the four great cold seeds of each one drachm the flowers of Borage Bugless Violets and Water-Lillies of each one Pugil Polypodium and Senna of each one ounce make a Decoction to a pint of which add of Cassia one ounce Diacatholicon half an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces make a Clister Add strength and aid to the part by cooling and repelling Medicines viz. Epithems and Liniments made of the juyce or distilled Water of Night-shade Housleek Stonecrop Fleabane and Henbane Purflane Lettice Endive Succory and such like the Oyl of Roses and Water-Lillies Vinegar Sanders the White of Eggs the Musilage of Quince seeds c. Compounds are the Unguent of Roses or Refrigerans Galeni and such like The conjoyned cause must be removed by Medicines which have power to evacuate and discuss Take of the Litharge of Gold one ounce washed Ceruse six drachms the juyce of Plantane and Womans milk of each one ounce and an half Oyl of Roses three ounces white wax as much as sufficieth to make an Unguent There are other Yumonis which do commonly associate with Erysipelas viz. Herpes Exedens or Miliaris which are called Chollerick Pushes and the Shingles The first is caused of a thick and sharp 〈◊〉 of yellow Choller slowing into the part which doth feed upon and eat the skin Herpes Miliaris are small Pastules rising upon the â—kin like the seeds of Millet from whence it hath its name It is caused of yellow Choller mixed with thin Phlegm These Humours abounding in the body will declare The cure of these differ little from the former appoint the same Dier and Medicines externally and internally making this difference In the first let the Medicines preparing be more cutting and the purging Medicines stronger because of the thickness of the Humour and let the outward Medicines be more powerfully discutient In the cure of Herpes Miliaris observe the same Diet to your Preparatives and such
covered four or five days then distil them as aforesaid To make it stronger do thus When you have distilled any Hearb as aforesaid in a common Still by putting a Paper under them to prevent burning and drying the Cake overmuch Put the Water and the Cake together into a hot Still or Alembick and let them stand warm 24 hours then distil them and if you would have the Water yet stronger pour this Water upon more Cakes and do as before and if there be any Oyl upon the top of the Water separate it thus you shall have a very strong and excellent Water Or if you perform this distillation in a glasse Gourd in a gentle Balneo that is in warm-water your water will be very good and far excelling the water distilled the common way To know the virtue and use of these waters you must find the virtue of the hearb by some Herball or History of Plants and Hearbs If you would have a distilled water out of flowers which shall retaine the smell of the flower do thus Take Roses Violets Honey-suckles or what other flower you would distill pick them being first gathered in a fair and Sunshine day infuse a handfull or two of them into two quarts of the best White-wine the space of half an hour not much longer lest with the subtill spirit the carthy part also come forth then take them forth and infuse in the same Wine the same quantity of flowers do so eight or ten times Then put the Wine into a glasse body or Gourd and close the joynts well with Lutement and distill it in a gentle Balneo or place your Glasse over the Vapour of hot water that so the subrill spirit only may assend By this meanes you shall have a water of a most fragrant odour You may distill a water strong of the vegetable out of dried hearbs thus Take of any hearb dried or seed or root if you please a pound put it into twelve pints of clear spring water let it stand warm as aforesaid then distill it in a hot Still or Alembick to this distilled water add more dried hearbs and distill againe as often as you please till your water become like a Spirit Or if you add White-Wine to the hearb it will be the stronger which leads me to the distylled waters prescribed by the Colledge of Phisitians of one of which I shall set down the manner of distilling and content my self in describing the virtues and quantity to be used of the rest Spiritus aqua Absynthii minus composita The Spirit and Water of Wormwood the lesser Composition Take of the Leaves of dried Wormwood two pound Annis seed half a pound sleep them in six Gallons of small Wines twenty four hours then distill them in an Alembeck adding to every pound of the distilled water two ounces of the best Sugar Let the two first pound you draw off be called the Spirit of Wormwood the rest wormwood-Water the lesse composition In the same manner omitting the Anniseeds you may distill the Spirit and Water of any hearb root flower or seed whatsoever Spiritus aqua Absynthii magis composita The Spirit and Water of Wormwood the greater Composition Take of common and Roman Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Salme of each two handfull the roots of Galanga Ginger Calamus Aromations and Elitampane of each three drachms Liquoris one ounce and Raisons of the Sun stoned three ounces the seeds of Annis and sweet Fennell of each three drachms Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms and Cubebs of each one drachm let the things that are to be cut be cut and bruised that are to be bruised and all of them infused in twenty four pints of Spanish Wine for twenty four houres then distilled in an Alembeck add two ounces of white Sugar to every pint of distilled water Call the first pint the Spirit of Wormwood the greater Composition The vertues are these it heats and strengthens the Stomach and Lungs helps Concoction and stays Vomiting it kills Wormes in the Stomach and Belly expells wind mitigates the paines of the Teeth The dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Spiritus aqua Angelicae magis Composita The Spirit and Water of Angelica the greater Composition It comforteth the heart and vitall Spirits it rarefieth and discusseth flatuous humors it is good against Poyson taken against the Pestilence it is prevalent and a good preservative in pestilentiall times and against ill Aires It is good against Crudities of the Stomach and diseases of the Matrix proceeding from a cold cause The dose is from two drachms to six Spiritus Lavendalae Compositus The Compound Spirit of Lavender This is a very chargeable Spirit and is of great efficacy against passions of the Heart Convulsions Cramps Palsies Apoplexies and all sleepy diseases vertigo and comforts a cold brain The dose is the same with the former Spiritus Castorei Spirit of Castor It resisteth Poyson and is good for such as are bitten by Venemous Creatures gives speedy delivery to Women in Travail and easeth the Fits of the Mother It helpeth Deasness proceeding from stoppage mixed with White Wine and dropped into the Ears It is good against the Diseases mentioned in the former The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Give it in something that is cooler Aqua Petasitidis Composita The Water of Butter bur Compound It is good against the Pestilence and a good preservative in Pestilential Times it gives ease to those who are short-winded easeth the Fits of the Mother it dryes up moist Humours in those that have Sores hard to be cured The Dose is two three or four drachms in some cooling Cordial Aqua Raphani Composita Radish Water compound This Water is good against obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Womb prevaileth against the Scurvey and cleanseth Women after their lying in The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Peoniae Composita The Compound Water of Peony This is very prevalent against the Falling Sickness and Convulsions If the Fits come daily take it Morning and Evening If it come Weekly take it at the New or Full Moon the first or last Quarter If the Disease decline give it onely at New and Full Moon In the Fit it is good to rub the Jaws Nostrils and Temples with it The Dose is from two drachms to six Aqua Bezoartica Or Bezoar Water It withstands Melancholy and is good for such as are in Consumptions It strengtheneth the Heart and Vital Spirits It is Diaphoretick and is good in Pestilential Feavers The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Give it with other cooling Cordials Aqua Spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis The Magistral Water and Spirit of Earth-Worms I conceive this was composed for a Restorative for such people that have lingring Diseases occasioned by obstruction of the Liver Spleen and Kidneys as the Evil Habit Hypochondriack Melancholy Scurvey c. The Dose
is from half an Ounce to an Ounce Aqua Gentianae Composita Gentian Water Compound It is a good Preservative against the Pestilence caseth pains in the Stomach and helpeth Digestion and drives out old Colds openeth Obstructions of the Liver easeth the pricking pains in the sides and is good against the yellow Jaundies it provokes the Terms and expelleth a dead Child or After-Birth The Dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Aqua Gilberti Gilberts Water This Water is a very great Cordial it strengtheneth the Heart and reviveth languishing Nature it may be taken from half a drachm to a drachm it is so costly that it is almost out of the reach of ordinary people Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae It is a very cooling Water and profitable in Feavers and to allay the heat of bloud it giveth rest by sleep You may take from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Theriacalis Or Treacle Water This Water is of excellent vertue against the Pestilence and other Feavers it is a very good counter-poyson and good for those that have been bit by any venemous Creature or such as have the French Pox for it driveth forth all vitulent Humours from the Heart and is a great Cordial The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Brioniae Composita Or Briony Water Compound This Water is Hysterical easeth the Fits of the Mother it expelleth the After-Birth and provoketh Womens Courses Let Women with Child forbear it Let those that have occasion take from half an ounce to an ounce in the Morning fasting Aqua Caponis Or Capon-Water It is good for such whose strength is decayed by Feavers or other Sicknesses it is an excellent Medicine for those that are in Consumptions or wasted by a Feaver Hectick or Marasmus Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Limacum Magistralis Or the Magistral Water of Snails It openeth Obstructions of the Lungs and purgeth them of Flegm and is very good for the Consumption of the Lungs Take half an ounce or an ounce Aqua Scordii composita Or Compound Water of Scordium This is a good Preservative against the Pestilence gives rest in Feavers and is friendly to the Stomach and Womb. Take it from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Imperialis and Aqua Mariae It strengtheneth and corroborateth the Heart and is therefore good for such as are subject to Faintings Swoonings and Palpitations of the Heart and is a Preservative against Apoplexies The Dose is from one drachm to three Aqua Mirabilis This is of admirable force and virtue to preserve the Body from the Apoplexy and all Diseases of the Nerves It is very good against the Palsie Convulsion and Cramp and is good for cold Stomachs From two drachms to half an ounce is the Dose Aqua Papaveris composita Or Poppy Water compound It is good against Surfets and Feavers thereâ—from arising it provoketh sleep cooleth the bloud and concocteth the Humours Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Cinnamomi Cinnamon Water It strengtheneth the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves It cleareth the sight is an Antidote against Poyson and biting by venemous creatures and is good against a stinking Breath and nauseousness of the Stomach It is very friendly to the Womb and is of an attenuating opening digesting and strengthning virtue From two drachms to six is the usual Dose in cold Diseases you may take more Aqua Caelestis This also prevaileth against Malignant and Pestilential Feavers restoreth such as are in Consumptions comforteth the Heart and reviveth drooping Spirits It is very hot in operation You must scarcely exceed half a drachm for the outmost Dose without the advise of a Physitian In Feavers mix it with cooling Juleps Aqua Melissae Bawm Water It restoreth Memory lost it maketh all the Senses acute it strengtheneth the Heart Brain and Stomach and for those who are troubled with cold Stomachs and Brain it is a Jewel It maketh the Heart glad the Tongue nimble in those who are subject to the Palsie in that Member the Teeth white and the Breath sweet The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Menthae Mint Water It cools and strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and Spleen helps Concoction breaketh Wind and stays Vomiting The Dose is from one drachm to three Ordinary Aqua Vitae Annise-seed water Usquebath and such like are commonly used and most people know they comfort a cold Stomach and is good against hurt of Digestion coming from a cold cause It breaks Wind and the like Tinctures are made of any Hearb or other Simple by first bruising them and putting to them as much Spirit of Wine as will cover them three or four fingers cork it up or seal it and let it digest in a Bath as long as you see good If you know the virtue of the Simples you cannot be ignorant of the Tincture To make Physical Wines is easie Take this one for an Example Take a handful of dryed Wormwood for every Gallon of Wine stop it in a Vessel close and let it remain in steep So you may prepare a Physical Wine of any Hearb Flower or Seed whatsoever either simple or compound Physical Vinegars are prepared thus Take of Red-Rose Buds gathered in a dry time the Whites being cut off and dryed in the shadow three or four days one pound Vinegar eight Sextaries set them in the Sun fourty days then strain out the Roses and repeat the infusion as often as you please Thus may you prepare Physical-Vinegars of any Flower As the Hot Waters and Spirits are best for cold Bodies and hot Diseases so on the contrary are Vinegars best in hot Diseases and may be externally used These I thought good to add the Treatise of Distilled Waters For the preparation of Distilled Waters of this nature read Quercetanus his Dispensatory one of which I shall here insert having prescribed it in the afore going Books which is his Distilled Water against spitting of bloud Take of the Roots of Bistort Comphry and Tormentil of each one ounce the Leaves of Knotgross Yarrow Speedwel Winter Green Sanicle Shepherds Purse with its Root of each one handful of the tops of the Blackberry Bush and Mastick Tree of each half a handful the Seeds of Sumach Myrrles Plantane Barberies and white Poppy of each 6 drachms the Flowers of Water-Lillies Gourds Quinces and Red Roses of each two Pugils let them be mixed and beaten then macerated in Balneo for the space of four days in the Juyces following viz. Plantane Purslane Sorrel and Agrimony of each two pound Let them be afterwards strongly pressed out then add of the Juyce of Acatia Hypocistis of each two Ounces Terra Sigillata and Bolearmenick of each half an ounce Electuarium Diatraganthum frigidum of each two drachms Macerate them for four dayes and distil it in Ashes till it be dry Let them who are troubled with spitting of bloud or any inward Wound or Bruise take
Feavers In the Bastard add Agarick Catholicum Diaphaenicon Sena and such as the judicious Physitian shall judg suitable in respect of the Patient's Constitution and the Humors offending But to every Medicine cream of Tartar may be added for it openeth cleanseth and cools If the Patient be subject to vomit go that way to work as I said in the last Chapter Open a Vein draw Blood as often or as much as you see occasion Prepare the Humours with Juleps as you are taught in the last Chapter then purge If the Humours be stubborn and the Fit continue make a Decoction of Wormwood and Century with cool Herbs to qualify the Heat it is much commended after the use of that purge again If there be a Distension under the short Ribs apply an emollient attenuating and strengthning Fomentation What ever part of the Body is ill disposed have a regard to that in all your Medicines The Spirit of Sulphur is much magnified for extinguishing the Heat of Feavers and if the Humours be thin it sends them forth by Sweat give from half a Scruple to a Scruple in four Ounces of Purslane Water Or you may give it thus Take of Salt of Wormwood half a Drathm Spirit of Sulphur a Scruple Carduus Water four Ounces mix them and give the Patient to drink when the Fit approcheth and lay him to sweat Those things which are usually laid to the Wrists by the common people are not to be despised I shall not insert them nor more Receipts for the cure of this Ague First it being my cheifest end to describe the Causes and Signes of Diseases Secondly almost every womans Head is full of Medicines against an Ague CHAP. LXXXVIII Of the Quotidian or every day-Ague THis Ague is caused by Phlegm putrefying in the first Region of the Body therefore all things that breed Phlegm in the Body may be the Cause thereof The Diagnostick signes are such as testify Phlegm to abound in the Body as white colour pale dull Sense Softnesse and Fatnesse Profoundnesse of Sleep and Droaming of Water It comes with a cold shlvering little or noe shaking and for the most part it comes in the Night After the cold Fit the Patient feels Heat but mildly not scorching little Thirst the Pulse is small seldom and slow there is a Distension about the short Ribs the Fits appear more intense or remisse last longer or shotter as the Phlegm is simple or mingled with other Humours the Fit commonly lasteth twelv hours and then leaveth a feavourish Fit behind it Sometimes it lasteth twenty four hours and is almost like a continuall Feaver There is a difference found in respect of the Nature of the Phlegm for salt Phlegm makes the Patient thirsty sharp Phlegm hungry sweet Phlegm sleepy If the Phlegm hath no Tast it maketh him without Appetite Acid or glassy Phlegm by reason of its Coldnesse causeth shaking This Disease for the most part continueth long and is not without danger because it sometimes degenerates into a Cachexia Dropsy or Lethargy The Diet and Medicines must be such as have an extenuating cutting and dividing Quality The Cure must be performed almost in the same Manner as the bastardly Tertian Zacutus Lusitanus doth much commend the Decoction of Roman Wotmwood and Camomill Flowers if five or six Ounces be adminisred And the Decoction of China and Guajacum for many dayes but beware it dry not too much CHAP. LXXXIX Of the Quartane Ague AN intermitting Quartane is caused of Melancholy putrifying in the Body There are two sorts of Quartan Agues viz. a Legitimate and a Bastard Quartane a Legitimate is bred of naturall Melancholy which is the carthly part of our Nourishment in quality cold and dry The bastard Quartane is bred of preternaturall Melancholy which is bred of adust Choller and is hot and dry or by Melancholy mixed with adust Choller A Quartane Ague is either single double or triple the single is that which comes every fourth day The double is when two Fits happen upon two dayes one after another and the third day none The Triple Quartane is when Fits come every as in a Quotidian and double Tertian Diagnostick Signes of a Quartane are the Ague coming every fourth day and Melancholy abounding in the Body it begins with gaping and stretching heavinesse of the Body shivering and shaking follows as if it would break the Patient's Bones The Pulse is seldom and slow the Urine watry thin and white after a while it is higher coloured and thicker The bastard Quartane for the most part follows other Feavers or Agues by which Adustion of Humours is made and in it the Feaver Heat and Thirst is more violent and all the Symptomes are greater because the Humours are thinner A double Quartane is known by the course of the Fits A triple Quartane is distinguished from a double Tertian or Quotidian by Melancholy abounding and by the course of the Fits and chiefly in this that at first it was a simple or double Quartane Prognosticks are thus made This of all Agues is the longest of Continuance some continue half a year some a year and some longer It is good in this Ague for the Patient to void black Urine The bastard Quartane is not of so long continuance as the Legitimate because it proceeds from thinner Humours then the other The Legitimate is not so dangerous as the other which hath many times dangerous Symptomes especially if the Liver Spleen or any of the interior parts be damnified because it is sometimes degenerated into a Dropsy If any aged above sixty fall into the Quartane Ague it proveth mortall If the intermitting Quartane degenerate into a continuall it is for the most part deadly To bleed at the Nose in a Quartane Ague is but a bad Sign because the morbifick Humours are too thick for such an Evacuation If a bloody Flux come upon a Quartane Ague and continue but a while it is good A bastard Quartane is cured almost with the same Medicines which have been prescribed for the Cure of a Tertian to them adding such Medicines as regard Melancholy and free the Spleen from Disaffection Seeing the Legitimate Quartane is caused of Humours that are cold and dry thick and earthly we must use Medicines that do heat moisten and attenuate Let the Patient's Diet be heating and moistning of good Juyce easy of digesture and of thin substance as rear Egs yong Animals and Birds of Mountains Fishes of stony Rivers among Herbs Borrage Buglosse Spinach Fennell Parsly and Turneps Crato doth much commend the Broth of Turneps of Fruits Almonds Apples stewed Prunes Figs Raisons Dates and Pine-kernells Let him abstain from all Meats which are of a thick and clammy Substance and of hard digesture let him drink small Ale or Beer let him eat moderately and on the Fit day six hours before the Fit cometh let him be very moderate in drinking for much drink fills the Spleen and makes the Disease rebellious Having thus
Consumptions and Hectick Foavers The Dose is from one ounce to two Syrupus è corralliis simplex compositus The Syrup of Corral simple and compound It refrigerateth dryeth and astringeth it stayeth the immoderate Monethly Flux and the Whites the Dysentery all Fluxes of Bloud it is good in the Falling Sickness it strengtheneth Nature profitable for such who have Hectick Feavers or Consumptions The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Cydoniorum Syrup of Quinces It is the best to strengthen the Stomach and to help the cold distemper of the Liver it helps Concoction and provokes an appetite it helps Vomiting and is good against a Flux if it be without a Feaver The Dose is from one ounce to two take it in the morning For a Looseness take an ounce before Mâ—at for Vomiting an ounce after Meat Syrupus de Erysimo Syrup of Hedge-Mustard It prevaileth against cold afflictions of the Breast and Lungs as Coughs Astmachs Hoarsness and the like Use it with a Liquoris Stick or take an ounce with two or three ounces of some Pectoral Decoction in the Morning Syrpus de Fumaria Syrup of Fumitory It concocteth Melancholy and freeth the Bloud of such Humours as cause Scabs Itch Leprosie Tetters Ring-Worms Cancers Corns Warts c. It openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and is soveraign in the Hypochrondriack Melancholy it cooleth the Liver and cleanseth the bloud The Dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus Glycyrrhiza Syrup of Liquoris It helps Coughs and is good against Plurifies for it cleanseth the Breast and Lungs Take it as Syrup of Hedge-Mustard Oxy-Saccharum Simplex Syrup of Pomegranates with Vinegar It is many times used in the small Pox and Measuls by reason of the Vinegar it cutteth and attenuateth 〈◊〉 Humours it restraineth Choller and mitigates its heat The Dose is from two ounces to four Syrupus de Hysopo Syrup of Hysop It hath a notable Faculty of cutting and expectorating tough Humours out of the Breast and Lungs and to strongthen the parts It prepareth and expelleth Salt and Phlegmatick Humours in the Urine which causeth heat and pain in those parts For the first take it with a Liquoris stick For the last the Dose is from half an ounce to two ounces Syrupus Jvae arthriticae sive Chamaepityos Syrup of Chamepitys or Ground-Pine It is good against the Fits of the Mother procureth Womens Courses expelleth the dead Child let Women with Child forbear it It is good against the Strangury or stoppage of Urine openeth obstructions of the Liver and Spseen The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus Jujubinus Syrup of Jujubes It halpeth Diseases of the Trachaea Arteria occasioned by sharp and dry Humours for it is cooling and moistening it helps Hoarsness Coughs Plurisies It is good against Ulcers of the Lungs or Bladder or any inflammation Take it with a Liquoris Stick or take half an ounce or an ounce as oft as you please Syrupus de Meconio vel Diacodium de Meconio compositus Syrup of Meconium or Diacodium and of Meconium compound It prevails against dry Coughs Ptisick hot and sharp gnawing Rheums and provokes sleep but beware of giving it to provoke sleep in the beginning of a Feaver or the body being costive The Dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Melissophylli Syrup of Bawm It is cordial strengtheneth the Heart Breast and Stomach chears the Spirits and resisteth Melancholy it helps them that languish strengtheneth Memory and is good in Feavers The Dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus de Mentha Syrup of Mint This Syrup strengtheneth the Stomach helpeth Digsstion stayes Vomiting and sowr Belechings The Dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus de Mucilaginibus Syrup of Musilages It is a fine Remedy against the Ptisick Bloudy Flux Stone in the Reins or Bladder or Ulcers there or sharp corroding Humours there or in any part of of the body and is of great virtue for those who have taken Physick too strong and corroding Yake one ounce or two sometimes it is lawful to give four or five Syrupus Myrtinus Syrup of Myrtles It is of a comforting and astringent Nature it helpeth all Fluxes and spitting of bloud and strengtheneth the retentive Faculty of the Stomach An Ounce or two is the Dose Syrupus Florum Nymphae simplex compositus Syrup of Water Lilly-flowers simple and compound It allayeth the heat of Choller cooleth the Head Heart Liver Reins Matrix and allayeth all hot Diseases and provokes sleep Syrupus de Papavere Erratico Syrup of Erratick Poppies This Syrup cools the bloud and may be safely given with moderation in Surfeits Feavers Frenzies and hot Agues The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Syrupus de Pilosella Syrup of Mouse-Ear It is an astringent and hearing Syrup good for the cure of a Rupture and necessary to be used by wounded people The Dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Florum Paeoniae vel de Paeonia compositus Syrup of Peony Flowers or the compound Syrup of Peony It is good against the Falling-Sickness Convulsion and such like infirmities The usual Dose is an Ounce Syrupus de Pomis Alterans Syrup of Apples It cools the Heart and Stomach helps palpitation breeds good bloud profitable in Hectick and other Feavers quencheth Thirst You may take an Ounce in the Morning Syrupus de Prasio Syrup of Hore-hound It cleanseth the Lungs from thick and putrified Flegm it is good against the Ptisick and Cough in antient people or such as are of cold Natures Take it with Liquoris stick Syrupus de quinque Radicibus Syrups of the five opening Roots It openeth the Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and more especially of the Reins it is good against the Stone if you mix it with Syrup of Maiden-hair it is of great vertue in preparing Phlegmatick and tough Humours and is profitable in the beginning of Feavers The Dose is from one Ounce to four Syrupus Raphani or Syrup of Rhadishes It breaks the stone of the Kidneys and cleanseth the part it provokes Urine and Womens Purgations and is profitable against the stone in the Bladder The Dose is from one Ounce to three Syrupas Regius vel Julepium Alexandrinum Julep of Alexandrina It is profitable in Summer time for such bodies which abound with Choller 's for it allayeth the heat and evacuateth it and is convenient to prepare it against Purging The Dose is from two Ounces to five Syrupus de Rosis siccis Or Syrup of Dryed Roses It strengtheneth and comforteth the Heart and Vital Spirits helps Fluxes and Corrosions and gnawing in the Guts strengtheneth the Stomach and stayes Vomiting Take it as Syrup of Quinces Syrupus Scabiosae Syrup of Scabius It freeth the Breast and Lungs of Phlegm and Crudities it easeth Stirches in the sides and is good against inward Imposthumes The Dose is from one Ounce to three Syrupus de Scolopendria
white Poppy heads meanly ripe and newly gathered in number twenty steep them in three pints of warm Spring-water the next day boyle them till the virtue is our then strain out the Liquor and with a sufficient quantity of good Sugar boyle it according to art that you may make it into Lozenges They are good against thin humors distilling from the head upon the Lungs Stomach and Throat they provoke sleep and coole the body in Feavers Saccharum Tabulatum simplex periatum Lozenges of Sugar simple and pearled commonly called manus Christi It is cooling and very Cordiall and therefore is good in Feavers and for weak people who are subject to Hectick Feavets and Consumptions Saccharum Tabulatum Compositum Lozenges of Sugar compound Is is very good for cold Stomachs and it frees the Stomach of Choller and Flegm and is good against Wormes Saccharum Penidium Sugar Penies For the most part they are used in other Compositions of themselves they are good against Coughs Saccharum Rosatum Sugar of Roses They strengthen weak Stomachs easeth pains in the Head restoreth loft strength they cherish a weak Brain and comfort drooping Spirits stay vomiting and pissing of bloud they are convenient for people in Consumptions to carry them in their pockets and now and then cat a bit of them In like manner are all the rest to be taken CHAP. VI. Of Troches THey are also called Placentule or little Cakes they were invented principally to keep Pouders from losing their virtue by the intromission of the air which this Form doth resist and keep it pure the longer Besides they are convenient for a man to carry about him when he travelleth their form for the most part is little round and flat The general way of making them is thus Take what quantity of Gum Tragacanth you please the like quantity of Rose-water or any other fuitable to the Distemper you aim at put it in a Galley pot and cover it in six or seven hours the Gum will be turned into Musilage with which you may make any fine Powder into Paste with the Paste you may make Troches or little Cakes and print what you please upon them Then dry them in the shaddow and keep them for your use Trochisci de absynthio Troches of Wormwood are thus made Take of the Leaves of Red-Roses Wormwood and Annis-seeds of each two drachms Juyce of Maudlin made thick the Roots of Asarabacca Rhubarb Spicknard Smallage seeds Bitter Almonds Mastich Mace of each one drachm Juyce of Succory as much as is sufficient to make Troches They strengthen the Stomach and provoketh an appetite open Obstructions of the Liver and Bowels and carry away Watry and Chollerick Humours The frequent use of these Troches will be beneficial to such as are inclinable to the Jaundise or Dropsie The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm and an half Agaricus Trochiscatus Agarick Trochiscated They purge Phlegm and Choller mixed and free the Head and Brain thereof purge gross and viscous Humours from the Stomach They are seldome or never used alone therefore I forbear the Dose Trochisci Albi the white Troches They are cooling and drying and of great virtue if a drachm of them be finely poudered and mixed with an Injection for the Yard ulcerated Trochisci Alexiterii Troches against Poyson They are good against all Pestilential and Epidemical Diseases and a good Preservative in Pestilential Times and they strengthen the Heart Take a little now and then Trochisci Alhandal It powerfully purgeth gross Humours from the exterior parts it is good in the Palsie sleepy Disease Apoplexie and Convulsion coming from a cold cause The Dose is from two grains to four It is violent and best mixed with other milder Medicines or given in a Clister Trochisci Aliptae Moschatae They are commended for Children that cannot swallow their Milk well The Dose is from two grains to six given in Breast-milk Others say it is very good for Barren Women taken inwardly and outwardly mixed with a Plaister for the Womb. It is very dear and good for Ladies Trochisci Alchelengi Troches of Winter Cherries They are a good Medicine to allay the heat of Urine and give ease in Ulcers of the Reins Bladder and passage of the Urine and is good against the Stone The Dose is from half a drachm to two drachms Trochisci Bechici Albi Nigri Pectoral Rouls white and black They are very good for a Cough and Hoarsness The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Berberis Troches of Barberies They are very good in any Flux cooling in Feavers and allay unnatural heat in any part The Dose is from half a drachm to two Trochisci de Camphora Troches of Camphire They are good in Burning Feavers against the heat of Bloud and Choller and against the hot distemper of the Stomach and Liver or any other part against the Jaundice Hectick Feavers c. The best way is to take a little often Trochisci de Capparibus Troches of Capers They are very profitable against schirrhous Tumors in the Spleen and openeth Obstructions of the Liver and are good against the Hypochondriack Melancholy The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Carabe Or Troches of Amber They are good to stop fluxes of bloud in any part of body The Dose is from one scruple to four Trochisci Cypheos It is used in Treacle and Methridate It is good against Ulcers in the Lungs and other parts of the body Trochisci de Eupaterio Troches of Maudlin These Troches are good against the Jaundice and the Dropsie and is good in any Tumor in the Liver or Splean Trochisci Galliae Moschatae They strengthen the Womb the Brain Heart Animal and Vital Spirit Trochisci Gordonii They are good against any inward Ulcers or Ulcers of the Yard and to cool the body in Feavers Take half a drachm with Syrup of Marshmallows Trochisci Hedichroi They strengthen the Heart and Brain they are of a heating quality therefore good for such as have cold Stomachs they are seldome used alone Trochisci Hysterici Troches against the Mother They serve principally against Fits of the Mother expels the Birth and After-Birth cleanseth a Woman after her Labour The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Ligni Aloes Troches of Wood of Aloes It chears the Heart and Vital Spirits it is good against Heart-qualms and Faintings and against the Dropsie and is a pretty Medicine for a Stinking-breath The Dose is half a drachm Trochisci è Myrrha Troches of Myrrh They powerfully provoke the dead Child after Birth and Womens Monethly Purgations The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Plumbo Troches of Lead It is good to cure Ulcers in the Eyes Trochisci Polyidae It is good in green Wounds and Ulcers Trochiscide Rhabarbare Troches of Rhubarb They have a cutting attenuating strengthening and Choller-purging quality by Urine and otherwise they are
Dialacca It strengthneth the Stomach and Liver and opens Obstructions mollifieth schirrhous Tumors and is of great virtue to remove the effects thereof viz. Cachexia and the Dropsie It provokes Urine and breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder The dose is from half a drachm to four scruples Pulvis Cardiacus Magistralis This Powder hath not its name for nothing it is a very great Cordial and strengthneth the Heart and Vitals The dose is from one grain to ten the Gentry may use it often Diamargariton Frigidum It is a great Cordial good against Syncopes Asthmahs Coughs and Distillations of sharp Humors Consumptions and Hectick Feavers Half a drachm is an indifferent dose if it be not too dear Diambra It effectually strengthneth all the bowels and inward â—arts weakned by cold it cheareth the Spirits and gives the Patient a good colour it profiteth the Womb and is friendly to antient men and women The dose from half a drachm to two drachms Diamoshu dulce Amarum It is good against cold afflictions of the Brain and all Diseases thence arising against Melancholly and all Melancholly Diseases The last besides the former hath a purging Faculty and cleanseth the Stomacle The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Species Dianthus It maketh a light heart a chearful mind a good Stomach and a sound body The dose is the same with the former Diapenidion It prevaileth against all Diseases of the Breast Cough Hoarseness loss of Voice Take half a drachm or mix it with some Pectoral Syrup Diarrhodon Abbatis It strengthneth the Liver Heart Stomach c. and quencheth unnatural heat in any of those parts The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Diaspoliticum It is good to discuss wind in the Stomach and removes the Diseases of the part and helps digesture The dose is from one drachm to two Diatraganthum Frigidum It cures all Diseases of the Breast and Lungs which proceed from a hot and dry cause or from putrefaction in the parts for the most part it is mixed with other Medicines Or it may be made into an Electuary with the Syrup of Violets and you may take a drachm Diatrion Piperion This Pouder discusseth Wind from the Stomach and Bowels it heats the Stomach helps Digestion and frees it of Flegm The dose is from a scruple to half a drachm Diatrion Santelion It is a very good Medicine to correct the hot Distemper of the Liver and is good against a Diarrhaea caused by Cholerick Humours it helps Obstructions of the Liver also The dose is from four scruples to two drachms Pulvis Haly. It is a good Medicine against Peripneumonia or Inflammation of the Lungs Phrisicks and Pleurisies Take half a drachm of the Powder Pulvis Laetificans It revives the Heart and chears the Spirits helps digestion and preserves a good Colour The dose is from one scruple to four Or of it you may make a Sacculus to be applyed to the Region of the Heart Stomach and Head against Palpitation and cold Diseases of the Head and Stomach Pulvis Bezoardicus Magistralis A Bezoartick Powder Magisterial It is a great Cordial and very good in Feavers and in all Diseases where the Vitals suffer The dose is from a grain to twelve If you take too much your purse will soon complain Species confectionis Liberantis It is a good preservative in Pestilential Times and a good Medicine in Pestilential Feavers The dose is from half a drachm to two drachms It is a good Cordial for the Gentry Pulvis Saxonicus It is a great preservative against Poyson and the Pestilence and powerfully expels all poyson and malignant humours out of the body Take half a drachm or a drachm Pulvis Antilyssus This Powder is good against the biting of a Mad-Dog or any other venemous Creature for it fortifyeth the heart against poyson The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Rosatae Novellae It helpeth hot and dry Stomachs and is good against distempers of the Heart Liver c. or of any other part caused by heat and dryeth it strengthneth the Vital Spirits and provokes Sweat The dose is the same with the former Pulvis Thuraloes It is good to stanch bloud in any Wound If you mix it with the White of an Egg and with the Wool of an Hare dipped in it apply it to the bleeding part Species Electuarii de gemmis frigidi It strengtheneth the Heart and Vital Spirits and relieveth languishing Nature Half a drachm is the utmost dose and that too much for a poor man Pulvis contra casum A Powder for those that are bruised by a Fall It is good to strengthen the internal parts of one bruised by Fall or otherwise The dose is from two drachms to three sweat after it Diacymini It is good to discuss Wind warms the Stomach and easeth the pains of the Chollick and helps digestion The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Diagalanga It discusseth Wind and cold Humours in the Stomach it corrects the cold and moist distemper of the Liver and Brain and doth somewhat provoke Urine The dose is from half a drachm to two Species Electuarii Diamargariton calidi It is a great Cordial heats the Stomach and the Womb and removeth cold Distempers thereof The dose is half a drachm Lithontribon It heats the Stomach and helpeth want of Digestion it is good against the Hiack Passion and Cholick breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder Strangury and Dysury The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Pleres Arconicon It is good in Syncopes and Palpitations and cherisheth those who have been weekned by Sicknesses it strengthneth Memory and quickneth the Senses good against the Falling-Sickness and cold afflictions of the Lungs and is exceeding good for sad and melancholly people The dose is the same Pulvis contra Pestem A Powder against the Pestilence The little tells you the virtue of it besides it chears the Heart and Vital Spirits The dose is the same Pulvis contra Vermes A Powder against the Worms And is a good one for the purpose The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Purging Powders Pulvis Hermodactylorum compositus Powder of Hermodactyls compound It purgeth Choller Flegm and Melancholy but with such violence that it is the safest course not to meddle with it Or let it be first corrected by an able Brain Pulvis Senae compositus major The Powder of Sene the greater composition some call it Holland Powder or Ralph Holland's Powder it discusseth Wind and helps the Chollick opens the Obstructions of the Reins and Bowels The Dose is from one drachm to two Pulvis Senae compositus minor Or the Powder of Sene the lesser composition It purgeth Melancholy from the head and other parts The dose is a drachm Diasenae Or Pulvis Sanctus The Holy Powder It purgeth the same humour but is very violent The dose is the same for strong bodies Diaturbith cum sine
of water untill half be consumed to a pint of the decoction adde the oyls of Lillies and Rue of each half an ounce Hiera Picra Benedicta Laxativa and Diaphaenicon of each half an ounce Honey of Roses an ounce Salt a drachm mix them and make a Clyster If your Patient be young strong and full of hot humors and blood you must soon after the operation of the Clyster open a vein in one Arm let him not bleed too much at once lest his strength fail in a few hours space open a vein in the other Arm for by that means the disease will be the more abated and the strength the more preserved After the first vein opened if you perceive his countenance more lively his pulse beat more orderly and his breath fetcht with more ease it is a good sign and a good encouragement to open another vein Make the Orifice wide or else the grosseft blood will lye behind Where you see the body abound with blood draw blood liberally if not draw blood sparingly After letting blood if you see hopes of your Patients recovery within a few hours you must administer some purgation the time of the day matters not one ounce of Elect. Diacarthamum half a scruple of Castor dissolved in Betony water you may in this case make use of Pillulae Cochiae the greater or the lesse or Pillulae de Agarico pills of Agarick But in the Lethargy by reason it is accompanied with a Feaver you ought to administer more gentle purgations as Pillulae Hiera cum Agarico I shall lay down some generall Rules for purging in the next Book which serve to divert the humours flowing to the Head But the humours there fixed must be purged with Scammony one Scruple Castor two scruples administred in Oximel which hath been proved with good successe If hitherto your Medicines prove unsuccessful you must venter to administer stronger not fearing the danger or strength of your Medicine seeing without it nothing can be expected You may use such Medicines as are extracted out of Antimony or those lesse violent as is the infusion of Crocus Mettallorum or two drachms of the Tincture of Tobacco extracted with the Spirit of Wine doth powerfully evacuate upwards and downwards both cholerick and flegmatick humours and cleanseth not only the Stomach and Bowels but the Brain also Also Frictions and Ligatures on the extream parts are necessary that the vapours do not ascend to the Head You may fasten Cupping glasses to the Shoulders Arms and Thighs with scarification if you have not let your Patient blood otherwise without forget not the often administration of Clisters or instead thereof you may use Suppositories made thus Take two ounces of Honey boiled to a due thicknesse of Hiera Piera two drachms Coloquintida Agarick and Scammony of each two seruples Salt gemme one drachm make them into fine powder and mix them with the Honey and make Suppositories as long as you think good You may apply things to their Noses which have a property to awaken them as Vinegar Castoreum Galbanum Sulphur Goats-horn or Harts-horn burnt and holden to the Nose A fume made with white Amber is of excellent vertue in the Apoplexy You must pull them by the hair and prick their Legs or rub them with Salt and Vinegar You must annoint the Palare of the Mouth with strong and sharp Medicines as Mithridate Mustard powder of Masterwort and rub the bottoms of the Feet with Salt and Vinegar and the Palms of the Hands with the Oyls of Rue and Castor If the disease be of long continuance provoke sneezing with those Powders prescribed in the second Chapter to which you may adde Rue and Castor You may apply resolving Medicines but first you must make them thus Take the leaves of Betony Sage and Rosemary of each one handful the tops of Lavender and Marjerom Rue and Savoury of each half a handful the roots of Angelica Masterwort and Setwall of each one ounce Bayberries and Juniper berries of each half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Vinegar and with a Spunge or cloth dipped in the decoction bathe the Head of the sick If the Disease yield not to these Medicines you may fasten Cupping gâ—asses to the upper part of the Neck about the first or second joynt Some use to draw Blisters there and with good successe Many precious Medicines against this distemper have been left to posterity I shall omitting many insert this one viz. Take of the root of Peony and Misleto of the Oake of each two ounces Calamus Aromaticus Galanga Cyperus of each one ounce of Betony Sage Marjerom of each one handful the seeds of Peony Annis Fennel and Carraway of each three drachms the flowers of Lavender Stechas and Rosemary of each half a handful of Nutmegs Mace Cubebs Cloves Grains of Paradice of each half an ounce Cinamon two ounces Saffron half a drachm of Species Diambrae and Diamoshi of each two drams Let all these ingredients be shredd and bruised and put into a glasse Limbeck powre on them of the best rectified Spirit of Wine enough to cover them the breadth of three fingers digest them in a Bathe eight daies afterward distill it and upon occasion administer a drachm or half a drachm in some other convenient liquor In like manner may the Spirit of Castor be administred in Oximel and 't is a good Medicine against these Diseases Moreover be very careful that you wel understand the nature of the humor offending as if blood offend use not too many refrigerating Medicines and bleed the more I need say no more Verbum sapientibus c. If after so many Evacuations the Brain become too cold and much weakened you may strengthen it with Lozenges made thus or after this manner Take of the distilled oyls of Annis Cinamon and Nutmegs of each three drops oyl of Cloves one drop Amber-grease half a scruple with four ounces of Sugar dissolved in Betony water make Lozenges take a drachm in a morning Likewise you may make Pills to strengthen the Head in this manner Take of the Species Cordiales temperatae and Aromaticum Rosatum of each two drachms Mastick Nutmegs and Cloves of each one scruple Ambergrease half a scruple and Musk three grains make it into a Masse for Pills with the juyce of Marjerom and take a scruple to bedward once or twice a week or you may take half a drachm of the powder called Diarrhadon Abatis night or morning If any fear the return of this Disease again after cure or any by the aforegoing Symptoms fear its growth upon them let them carefully consider the humour offending if blood abound lessen it by opening a vein if Choler flegm or melancholy by purgation How you may know which humour offendeth or by what it may be purged this Treatise if you have any ingenuity will inform you CHAP. VI Of the Vertigo and Falling-sickness THe Vertigo is a Disease which maketh a man think every
thing turneth round and suddainly his sight faileth him all things appear misty and dark This disease is caused through inordinate moving of windy vapours and Spirits contained in the Brain or in the Mouth of the Stomach offending the Brain The Sign Those that are thus troubled a darknesse and mist appears before their eys upon every light occasion especially if they turn about It astonisheth him to see a man a wheele or any thing turn round When it is accompanied with sound and noise in the ears and vehement pain in the Head with much heavinesse the deprivation or debility of any of the senses these are infallible testimonies that the cause of the distemper lyeth in the Brain then is the fit worst when the head is heat by the Sâ—n or any other means If gnawing of the stomach or a disposition to vomit precede the fit then the disease proceedeth from the mouth of the Stomach This Disease is oftentimes a Prodormus or forerunner of the Epilepsie or Falling-sicknesse and sometimes of the Apoplexie The Epilepsy is a Writhing Cramp and Convulsion of all the parts of the Body it attacheth and much hurteth the sense and mind Sometimes it is caused through grosse and clammy flegm or choler stopping the passage of the Ventricles of the Brain and sometimes from the mouth of the Stomack as in the Vertigo There goeth before this Disease an evil state of the body and mind sadnesse forgetfulnesse troublesome dreams ach of the Head and continual fullnesse of the same palenesse of the Face and inordinate moving of the Tongue The Sign They who are afflicted with this Disease fall down are plucked up together they tremble and turn about snort cry out beat themselves and foam at the Mouth The Cure It is good for those that are thus afflicted to eschue all meats of a hard digesture and such as afford a crude nourishment or breed fumosities observe the same in all Diseases of the Head In the beginning of the cure make the body soluble by Clysters if need be If plentitude appear and the sick be of a sanguine complexion begin the cure with blood letting otherwise observe the same order before prescribed in the Cephalaea or Headach proceeding of grosse and phlegmatick humours this remembring to adde to the Medicines there described the roots and seeds of Peony and Misleto of the Oake which have a notable faculty in the cure of the Falling-sicknesse as experience teacheth Make use of the sudorifick drink there described thirty or fourty days adding to every dose three or four drops of Vitriol You must purge the sick with Pillulae Cochiae Pillulae cum Agarico or such as purge flegm but remember to regulate your purges according to the strength of the sick and to prepare the body with Medicines which do attenuate and cut grosse and thick humours as be the syrups of Wormwood Hysop Stechas or Oximel scilliticum or with the decoction of Hysop the roots of Peony or such like Stibium is of great force and doth mightily purge the superfluous humours of the Head you must use it thus take 12 grains and make it into fine powder put it into four ounces of Wine and there let it remain 24 hours shaking it every three or four hours then powre off the Wine leaving the powder and drink it with a little Sugar let none use this Medicine but such as have strong Bodies and be first well advised by a skilful Physitian The syrup of Tobacco mentioned by Quercetanus in his Pharmacopaeia is of great force and virtue against this disease but before you make use thereof be well advised as I said before After the Body hath been diligently and carefully purged it is meet you make use of this or such like Medicines viz. Take of the flowers of Betony Rosemary Peony and Buglosse of each one ounce the root of Eringo and the rind of Citrons preserved of each two drachms powder of Sassafras one ounce of the seed of Peony and Misleto of the Oake gathered the Moon decreasing Elks claws of each half a drachm of the Scull of a man not buryed calcined half a drachm of Coral Pearls and Harts-horn prepared of each four scruples of Bezoar one scruple Diamosh dulcis four scruples Theriaca Andromachi and Confectio de Hyacintho of each one drachm Oyl of Vitriol 20 drops with as much Syrup Citron Pills and Oximel as is sufficient to make a liquid Electuary or Opiar of which take three or four times in a day the quantity of a Filberd Emplastrum Epispaslicum and such as have power to draw blisters and Causticks may with good successe be applyed to the hinder part of the Head and Neck Fabius Columnus extolleth the root of Valerian to the Skies for the cure of this Disease a drachm in powder administred in Wine or other convenient liquor is a sufficient Dose Of no lesse esteem is this Chimicall Medicine following Spirit of Vitriol one scruple Spirit of Tartar one drachm Treacle water camphorated one drachm and a half mix them and in a glasse well sealed digest them a Month the Dose is one drachm taken with some convenient liquour If a Child have this Disease you must make use of Medicines sutable to the age and strength of the Child If it suck let the Nurse use a moderate diet and eat such meats as afford good nourishment By Clyster or Suppository make the Child soluble Take one ounce of fine Sugar of Poony root and Misleto of the Oake of each half a drachm with as much oyl of sweet Almonds as is sufficient to make a Lohock and let the Child lick often thereof Riverius commendeth this Epileptick powder by him called Pulvis de gutteta Take the root and seed of Peony the root of white Dittany Misleto of the Oake of each half an ounce the seed of Arach two drachms of mans Scull three drachms red Corall prepared of Hyacinthus or Jacinth of each half a drachm of Elks claws prepared half an ounce Musk one scruple leaf-gold one drachm mix them and make them into very fine powder of which administer from half a scruple to a scruple in milk broth or some Antepileptical water as the compound water of Peony c. Annoint the Head of the Child with oyls of Dill and Marjerom apply Medicines to the Head that have power to discusse the peccant humours and to corroborate the Brain Annoint the Back-bone and those members which are contracted and drawn together with this following Liniment Take of the Oyls of Rue and Earth-worms of each two ounces the oyl of Castor a drachm with a little Aqua vitae make a Liniment Or take of Venice Treacle one drachm Confectio Alchermes and de Hyacintho of each a scruple the waters of Betony Sage Marjerom and Cinamon of each half an ounce mix them all and bathe the Nose Temples and Eares and you may give the Child half an ounce to take inwardly You may purge the Child twice in the
month with Manna Syrups of Roses and Rubarb and every change of the Moon take a dose of the powder before mentioned and oftener if need require To conclude if the Disease be caused by some evill effects in the mouth of the Stomach you must labour to free the Stomach from the humours that offend For the Cure of the Vertigo I shall say nothing but refer you to those Medicines propounded for the Cure of the Falling-sicknesse and to the 2. Chapter viz. Of the cure of Cephalaea proceeding from cold crude and phlegmatick humours it being my present task only to epitomize not to write largely of the cure of Diseases CHAP. VII Of the Palsie PAralysis or the Palsie is a disease wherein the whole Body or part thereof as Atm Hand Leg or Tongue doth lose sense or motion or both Sometimes it followeth the Apoplexy Here note that the Faculty of sense and motion floweth from the Brain as from its proper fountain and is conveyed to all parts of the Body by the Sinews the proper Organs of sense and motion Hence it commeth to passe that if that faculty of the Brain be obstructed that it cannot descend to all parts that all or some of the 〈◊〉 of the Body lose either motion or sense or bâ—… according to the part obstructed The Causes The Palsie is caused by abundance of grosse and clammy humours which stop the sinews and hinder the animal faculty that it cannot come from the Brain or fountain to the members It may be caused by vehement cold or by some inflammation or swelling near the Back-bone or the sinews may be crushed by some binding or hurt by some wound or Ulcer or the like The Signs and Cure There need no more Signs to know this disease by than what hath been declared in the explanation of it This disease for the most part happeneth to old folk and surprizeth them in the Winter time therefore Phlebotomy for the most part is unnecessary and dangerous If plenitude of humours or blood appear open a vein on the sound side draw blood sparingly lest you cool the Body too much Let what part soever of the Body be affected yet you must not forget the Brain but you must purge corroborate and strengthen it If you find the originall of the distemper in the Brain you must apply Medicines which have power to extenuate dissolve and discusse such as are described in the second Chapter for the cure of cold and phlegmatick distempers of the Head To the purging Medicines you may add these Pillulae Fatidae de opopanace Arabicae and Trochisci Alhandall taken in a convenient quantity as you shall be instructed in the next Book and sutable to the season of the year and aâ—…â—f your Patient Let him abstain from drinking â—f strong beer and Wine and let most of his drink be the decoction of Guiacum and the bark of the same and if you add Cephalick hearbs to these it will be the better This Decoction is commendable viz. Take of Guiacum ground two ounces of the bark of the same half an ounce the root of China and Salsaparilla of each two drachms Sasafras three drachms Lignum Aloes and Galanga of each two scruples the root of Angelica Peony and Fennel of each two drachms the seeds of Peony and sweet Fennel of each one drachm Betony ground Pine Sage of each one handfull the flowers of Lavender Rosemary Stechas and Cowslips of each one pugil Cinamons and Polipodium of the Oake of each half an ounce Infuse them in six quarts of water twenty four hours then boil it gently to the consumption of two quarts strein it and add to the decoction of brown Sugar candy and syrup of Stechas of each four ounces Let the diseased take half a pint in a morning three or four mornings as a preparative to purging you must purge once in a week with one of the aforenamed Medicines having respect to the age and strength of your Patient season of the year Or you may prepare the aforesaid water by distillation thus Take of the simples aforenamed and infuse them 24 hours in four quarts of water and two of White-wine then distill them in Balneo Mariae as you shall be taught in the fourth part of this Treatise to a pound of this distilled water add one ounce of the syrup of Staethas and a drachm of Theriaca diatessaron divide it into three parts for three mornings It is convenient to set Cupping glasses to the part affected without scarifying of it but easily drawing the humours and spirits to the place afterwards you must rub and chafe the parts it is convenient to bathe the paralytick part and cause it to sweat with the decoction of Bur root and Elder leaves hot-houses often profit much but much better it is if they can come to natural baths which proceed either from Nitrous hituminous or sulphureous Mines as the Bath of Bath You may safely Bathe two or three times in a week and afterwards annoint the Member with some convenient Liniment viz. Take of the Oyls of Foxes Castor Earth-worms and Rue of each one ounce Unguentum Nervinum and Martiatum of each half an ounce the distilled oyl of Rosemary one drachm Oyl of Spike six drops mix all these and make a soft ointment with which annoint the Back-bone and the other parts that are diseased afterwards wrap them up warm with the skin of a Fox or Hare If the Palsey be caused by an inflammation or hard swelling in any part the cure of the inflammation or swelling cures the Palsie also If bruising of the sinews by pinching or binding be the cause remove the bruised blood and the cure will ensue If the Spondills of the Back be out or broke and that cause the Palsie or Resolution the cure of the cause taketh away the effect If the Palsey ensue a wound or Ulcer in the Head Back or any particular Sinew if the Sinew be curable the Palsie ceaseth CHAP. VIII Of the Covulsion SPasmus Cramp or Convulsion is a disease when the Sinews are drawn or plucked up against a mans will Of this there are two sorts viz. a true Convulsion when there is a constant retraction of the Muscles and the Limb remains unmoveable or a convulsive motion when the retraction is every time new and the Members moved divers ways They differ likewise in their Causes for a true Convulsion proceedeth either from repletion or inanition a convulsive-motion from irritation or provocation Again they are thus divided a true Convulsion is either total by which most part of the Body is contracted or partiall by which one particular member suffereth contraction The Universal Convulsion is caused from the Brain when the Face is plucked together as well as the whole Body or from the marrow of the Back when the Muscles that move the Head and Back are drawn together A particular Convulsion is made from the contraction of the Muscle of some part comming from the
not here trouble my selfe or the reader to insert examples of the aforegoing medicines the Chapters beforegoing together with every Artists ingenuity will sufficiently insorme Take this for a generall rule that when a Catarrh or Deflaxion is caused by excrementitious humours flowing from any of the inferior parts by reason of the naturall passage being stopped you must open the obstruction by often purging or by medicines regarding the nature of the obstruction and by that meanes turn the humours offending into their naturall channell after convenient Evacuations with internall and externall medicines labour to corroborate the head and dry up the humours Internall medicines may be prepared thus or after this manner Take of Coriander seed prepared and Coltsfoot dryed Nutmegs and Frankinsence of each halfe an ounce Liquoris Mastick and Cubebs of each two drachms flos Sulphuris three drachms Conserve of red Roses one ounce with a pound of white Sugar dissolved in Popy-water make rolls weighing three drachms or half an ounce Take one morning and Evening Or you may make Troches in this manner Take of the best Frankincense and juice of Liquoris of each one drachm Lac Sulphuris half a drachm Opium Saffron and Mirrh of each one scruple the oyles of Annise-seed and Nutmegs of each three drops with Diacedium as much as sufficeth to make Troches or if you please you may make them into pills and take halfe a drachm morning and evening It is good to apply bags of hearbs to the fore part of the head which have a drying quality shave the fore part of the head and apply the gum Sacamahaca spread upon a cloath in the forme of a plaister and add thereto a little Mirrh or if you make a fume thereof and shut the Chamber close it profiteth If the defluxion proceed from a hot cause you must administer medicines which have power to thicken the humours to repel and evacuate it you must likewise correct the distempers and fortifie the parts both sending and receiving and that you may so do you must revel or pull bâ—ck the humours by Phlebotomy if nothing hinder it You must thicken the humours by administring Juleps made of the Waters of Plantane Purslane Lettice the Sirrups of Poppies Violets Water-Lillies of dryed Roses and Meconium and such like Having thus thickned and prepared the humours you must evacuate them by gentle Purgatives Take of the Bestrhabarb a drachm infuse lit in any of the afore-named waters as much as is sufficient for a potion six hours in warm Embers strain it out and add to the liquour one ounce of Manna and as much Sirrup of dryed Roses and administer it To make the potion stronger you may dissolve therein Catholicon Diapranam Solative or Lenitive Confectio Hamech c. or such like having respect to the age and strength of your Patient and humour offending You must endeavour to restrain the Flux thus take of Conserve of Roses one ounce Diatraganthum Frigidum and Palyis Haly of each a drachm Bolearmenick prepared with Rose-water a drachm with the Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds and Sirrup of dryed Roses make an Opiate and give the quantity of a Nutmeg to bedward These Troches are much commended take Gum-Dragant and Arabick of each two drams Bolearmenick and Terra Sigillata washed in Rosewater of each one drachm White Poppy seeds and Juyce of Liquorish of each half a drachm Sugar-penid one ounce with the Musilage of Quince-seeds extracted with Rosewater make Troches to be held in in the mouth day and night The Spirit of Sulphur and Vitriol given three or four drops in a convenient Julep morning and evening worketh no small effects against a defluxion especially if it proceed from an inflammation of the bowels If you find the Disease too stubborn to yield to these medicines you must make use of Narcoticks of which Laudanum is none of the worst four or five grains given at bed-time Faventius extolleth these Pills in a Salt Catarrh or defluxion of salt humours Take of the juyce of Liquoris two drachms washed Aloes one drachm Pillulae de Cynoglosso half a drachm with Sirrup of Violets make a Mass and take a scruple thereof at bed-time It is convenient to make pouders to apply to the head which have power to strengthen to stop the defluxion and consume the humours Take of white Amber Benjamin Mastich Nutmegs of each half an ounce Betony Sage Rosemary Lavender Marjarome of each half a handful Frankinsense graits of Kermes Red-roses Peony seeds and Poppy heads of each two drachms Sanders Myrtles Cyprus nuts and Pomegranate flowers of each one drachm make a powder for the lining of a Cap or Quilt or if you had rather you may make a plaister with the same Simples with Wax and Oyl of Rofes according to art and apply it to the head being first shaved CHAP. X. Of Diseases of the Eyes and first of the Diseases proceeding from Obstruction in the Optick Nerves IN the former book having given you a brief account of this worthy member and what varicty of wonderful operations God and Nature hath placed in so little a subject yet of the parts and faculties thereof it is too hard a task for the most exquisite Philosopher to conceive aright or for the most eloquent Orator to express such wonderful notions But seeing God hath indued every man with this member by whose curious inspection he is inabled to pry into all things it is the duty of every Naturalist to exercise this member in finding out its own constitution and curing the distemper and maladies to which it is subject For the benefit of those who want better helps I shall as briefly as may be discover the diseases and cures of the eye as they are in which work I adhere to the opinions of the wise and learned Physitians verified by Reason and my own Experience Sometimes it happeneth that the sight of the eye is totally extinguished and no fault appears in the eye And this cometh to pass either by obstruction or adstriction of the Optick Nerves and is called by the Latines Gutta Serena and Amauresis Obstruction for the most part is the cause of this Disease which happeneth by the flowing down of a watry humour upon the Nerves which causeth blindness or dimness of sight the like obstruction happening to the other Nervs causeth the Palsie Adstriction or compression sometimes happeneth by some moist humour gathered about the Optick Nerves as blood or filthy matter gathered In the brain sometimes bp humours sometimes by inflammation in malignant Feavers and may be the cause of this Disease For the Nerves being thus obstructed or compressed the animal Spirits cannos pass from the brain to the eyes To this I may add that in case by a wound in the head the Optick Nerves be cut without controversie it causeth blindness The sign of this Disease is the loss of sight and the eye appearing in its natural condition onely the Pupilla or sight
too drying lest they thicken the humors and encrease the disease Then you must endeavor to unstuffe and cleanse the Lungs and wind pipe with the before named Lohock or of the like nature I could insert many which I omit for brevitie sake Quercetanus his Sirrup of Tobacco is very good the Tincture of dryed Tobacco as much as a pease held in the mouth and swallowed by degrees draweth abundance of flegm out of the stomack and Lungs or if you take Tobacco in a pipe it is good The juice of red Coleworts made up into a Sirrup and a little Spirit of Sulphur added to it may be taken an ounce in the Morning Or you may make Tablets of great virtue thus Take of the Roots of Elecampane and Licorish of each one ounce the Leaves of Colts foot Maiden haire Scabius and Woodbetony of each a drachm Lac Sulphuris two drams Saffron two scruples make them all into fine Powder and with the Mucilage of Gum Traganth made with Coltsfoot water make Tablets which let the Patient hold in his mouth often Platerus highly commendeth the preparation of a Cock thus Take an old Cock kill pull and draw him stuff him with these things following Fox Lungs fresh or prepared one ounce Raisons stoned and figs of each two ounces Elecampane one dram Hysop Savory Horchound Thyme Calaminth Peneroyal dryed of each one drachm The Seeds of Fenel and Annise of each one drachm Carthamas Seeds bruised and the Roots of Polypody of each half an ounce White Tartar one drachm Salt half an ounce the Yolks of two Eggs Fresh Butter half an ounce Cut and bruise them according to the precepts of Pharmacy and few them up into the Belly of the Cock boile him in a large Vessel and soe much water as will cover him and no more till his flesh come off from his bones strain it and add to every ten Pints one Pound of Hony that it may not quickly corrupt let the Asthmatick person take a Porrenger full every morning in which dissâ—lve of Manna and Cassia newly drawn of each half an ounce It will be the better if presently after he take a dram of Venus Turpetine with penids in form of a Bolus or otherwise The Patient may continue taking this Cock-broath a Moneth or longer CHAP. XXVII Of the Pleurisie and inflammation of the Lungs A Pleurisie is an inflammation of the Membrane Pleura and the internal intercostal muscles girding the sides within the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latines also Pleuritis The matter causing this disease for the most part is Cholerick blood which doth easily penetrate the Membrane but seeing other humors may cause it it is either Sanguineous Cholerick Phlegmatick or Melancholick but what ever the humor offending be Choler it hath for its Vehicle The signes of a Pleurisie according to Galen are five first a pricking pain of the side caused by a Cholerick humor in the Membrane extending it self either towards the throat or the Hypochondria Secondly a continual sharp Feaver which is either Symptomatical comming from some Sangnineous Tumor about the part or essential that is when a Feaver first invadeth the Patient and the boiling blood is expelled to those parts Thirdly difficulty of breathing because thâ— heart being inflamed as well as the rest greedily desireth refreshment and he parts inflamed cannot sufficiently distend themselves to draw in the cold aire Fourthly a hard Pulse like a Saw which is caused by the stretching out of the Membrane by which defect the Arteries are distended Fifthly and lastly an often and troublesome Cough because nature doth strive to expel those troublesome humors from the part affected also some of the matter sweateth from thence into the Lungs which causeth a Cough I might here add another signe viz. spitting of blood or bloody matter but because it happeneth not in all Pleurisies nor at all times I omit it You may partly judge of the humor peceant by the constitution of the Patient and season of the Year The particular signes are first of blood bloody spittle stretching and pricking pains full Veins especially about the Temples red Urine and the like Signes of Choler are yellow spittle a burning Feaver a hard and quick pulse the pain more acute and pricking restlesnesse bitternesse of the mouth and yellow Urine The signes that shew Phlegm are much sweet and frothy Spittle the Feaver remiss little thirst the pain heavy but not violent the pulse not so hard the Urine white and thick the Spittle black and tough the pain and Feaver moderate a dry Cough the tongue black and rough the belly bound the Urine red and darke are signes of Melancholly As to the prognostick I say This disease afflicting old men women with child Asthmatical persons or such as have had it often is dangerous If the Feaver be violent the breath fetched with dissiculty the Cough raiseth up no matter or the Spittle very bloody or very white and glutinating green tustick black much Spitting and yet the pain abates not the spitting cease and the pain continue all these are dangerous signes On the contrary plentiful vomitting Choler in the beginning of the disease blood or Choler mixed with the spittle c. are good signes The Cure of a Pleurisie consists in the revelling Deriving discussing digesting maturating and expectorating the peccant humors if the Feaver be essential seek its cure in its proper place Bleeding is a very natural remedy for a Pleurisie which you must moderate according to the constitution and strength of your Patient and the violent or remiss symptoms If your Patient spitt freely forbeare blood-letting lest his spitting be stayed and his life endangered Twice or thrice in a day or oftener as you see occasion administer cooling Juleps to restrain the heat of the boiling humors make a Iulep of Poppy water and Sirrup of Violets After bleeding prepare a fomentation Take of Mallows Violet leaves Chamomel Pellitory of the wall of each one handful the roots of Marsh mallows and Lillies of each four ounces the seeds of Flax Commin and Fenugreek of each one drachm boile them well and put them with the liquor into a hogs bladder and foment the side afterwards anoint it with this following Liniment Take of Fresh butter and Hens grease of each two ounces the Oyles of Chamomel Lillys Dill and sweet Almonds of each half an ounce The Chimical oyle of wax a scruple mix them and make a Liniment some slit a live-Hen and apply it some the Lungs or the paunch of a sheep hot others apply hot bread out of the Oven dipped in Butter Then you may make an Emulsion of blanched Almonds and the great cold seeds thus Take of Almonds blanched and steeped in Coltsfoot water one ounce the four great cold seeds of each half an ounce the seeds of Lettice and white Poppy of each one drachm beat them in a Marble morter pouring on by degrees the decoction of Barly Liquorish and Plantane a
vapours cold and thick blood and other humours gathered about the Heart or the adjacent parts These signes shew a Syncope viz. a sudden failing of strength a slow pulse sometimes stopping a pale and blewish Face the body externally cold a cold Sweat especially on the Temples Neck and Breast The signes of the Causes for the most part are manifest as the sorts of Feavers and the external Causes but now named may be easily known A sharp Nose hollow Eyes the Temples fallen are signes of thin Humours gnawing of the Stomach pricking heat and great pain do shew that the Body is troubled with Choler Abundance of crude Humours is known by the enlarging of the Body swelling of the Breast the colour pale and the pulse smal unequal and obscure If swoonding come by consent from other parts the Signes of those parts affected will discover it They who often and violently faint without manifest Cause dy suddenly saith Hippocrates A Syncope which cometh from some evident Cause as Fear Sorrow or immoderate Evacuations is lesse dangerous then that which cometh from an internal Cause In respect of various Causes you must vary the Cure If it come from immoderate Evacuations you must endeavour to stop it with their proper Medicines prescribed in their several Chapters If from too violent purging give three graines of Laudanum or two of Opium If by too much sweating you must use Medicines which restrain Sweat If from suffocation of the Spirits call them back by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping If it come from Poyson taken give somthing to expell it after Vomiting with Oyl give Treacle if it burn in the guts give Milk fat Broth or cooling Cordials If thinness of the Humours cause it give things that are sweet and thickning If want of Food cause a Syncope make use of a restoring Diet and nourishing Broths To conclude From what Cause soever it come in the Fit lay your Patient upon his back throw cold water into his Face make him sneez put Aqua-vitae Caelestis or Imperiales into his Mouth call him loud stop his Nostrils wring his Fingers pull his Haire rub bind and Cup if need be CHAP. XXXIIII Of want of Appetite As there are divers actions of the Stomach so there are divers diseases hindring those actions See the fifth Chap. of the first Book And seeing that the attractive faculty is the first in order I shall begin with the want of Attraction or Appetite It is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Latine Inappetentia In English Want of Appetite or Loathing of Meat That we may rightly judge of the Causes of this Disease let us consider the Natural Causes of Appetite and Hunger by which we may the better discover the fault or hinderance The first cause of Hunger is emptinesse of the Stomach if there be no emptinesse there is no Attraction nor Appetite Want of emptinesse is when the parts are filled with plenty of crude Humours caused by Gluttony or Drunkenness want of Excercise or usual Evacuations Weakness of the Natural Heat or a Feaver when the Heat is busied to concoct the matter of the Disease or the like The Second cause of Appetite is the attraction of Nourishment to the Stomach sometimes this is depraved though the parts are empty when the Veins have left their strength by Sickness or immoderate Evacuations The third cause of Appetite is the Attraction of the Chilus from the Stomach to the Liver by the Meseraick Veins which cannot be performed if those Veins are obstructed the Chilus sent out by Siege and the parts dâ—…prived of their necessary Nourishment Fourthly the faculty of attracting an Appetite requireth a good disposition of the stomach brain and Nerves consequently what ever altereth their dispositions destroyeth apperite great heat and drieth dispersing the moist substance of the stomach doth cause a want of appetite The like doth cold which causeth a Stupefaction of the parts and extinguisheth the natural heat Flegmy and Slimy-humors gathered in the stomach by evil concoction or by a defluxion from the head the suppression of the Termes or Hemorrhoids smoothereth the natural heat and causeth want of attraction Distempers of the Brain and Nerves maketh a man insensible of the attracting in the stomach The signe of the first cause is known by high feeding repletion want of evacuation the body is full and the Veins Swoln and the like The second cause is evident by sicknesse or immoderate evacuations The third is known by obstruction of the Liver Spleen or Mesentery The fourth cause is thus known If there be a great heat in the stomach drynesse bitternesse of the congue and Jaws and a Feaver with heart-burning and the like All which signifie a hot distemper of the stomach if it flow from some other parts the signes of Inflammation of the Liver and other parts will demonstrate it A cold distemper and much flegm is known by coldnesse of the stomach great heavinesse and sharp belchings Prog want of appetite is dangerous for it is a digression from the natural estate Loathing of meat for want of natural heat is farr more dangerous then when it is caused by abundance of evil humors In children want of appetite is worse then in men because their natures require more nourishment In all diseases want of Appetite is an evill Symptome If a man recovering wanteth Appetite there is fear of a Relapse If want of Appetite come from a Disease of some other part I referr you thither for the Cure but if it be onely in the Stomach you must consider it as either Hot or Cold. If a hot Humour be the cause purge Choler gently and often if your Patient be easy to vomit give an easy Vomit Alter the Humours with cooling Sirrups and Juleps mixing therewith the Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur for all sharp things allay Choler and provoke an Appetite After Purging Marmalade of Quinces is good or take this following Opiate Take of Conserve of Wormwood and Sorrel of each one Ounce Conserve of Roses Succory and Buglosse of each halfe an Ounce Diamargariton frigidum and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one Drachm Troches of Spodium one Scruple with Sirrup of Lemmons make an Opiate of which let the Patient take the quantity of a Chesnut Morning Night and Noon To the Stomach apply a Rose Cake steeped in Vinegar Or anoint the Stomach outwardly with this Liniment Take of Oyle of Roses Martles and Quinces washed with Vinegar of Roses of eath two Ounces all the Sanders red Corall Coriander seed prepared and red Roses of each one Drachm the graines of Kermes and Spodium of each half a Drachm White Wax as much as is sufficient to make a Liniment and anoint the Stomach often therewith If a cold Distemper of the Stomach draw crude flegmatick and inelancholy Humours thither from other parts you must amend the Distempers of those parts with Medicines laid down in their proper Chapters Then you must evacuate the
c. A depraved Concoction is the cause of many Evills likewise as Obstructions Scabs Feavers c. To cure the Disease you must remove the Antecedent Conjunct and External cause The Stomach must be cleansed of the offending Humours and then strengthened seek Medicines in the Chap. of Want of Appetite If it come by consent you must amend the Parts sending the Humours their proper Chapters will furnish you with means CHAP. XXXVIII Of the Hiccough 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek and Singultus in Latine in English Hiccough is a depraved motion of the Stomach by which it desireth to expell somthing which is hurtfull It is caused according to Hippocrates of Fulnesse or Emptinesse sometimes saith Galen by Provocation The matter causing the Hiccough is either gathered in the Stomach or is sent from other Parts Sharp Humours Nourishment or Medicines or gnawing Worms in the Stomach may cause a Hiccough by propriety It is caused by consent when the Liver Spleen Guts or other Parts being inflamed send offensive Vapours or Water to the Stomach A Tumor in the Liver being inflamed doth compresse the Stomach and so provoke the expulsive Faculty finally sharp Humours sent from all parts of the Body in malignant Feavers may be the cause of the Hiccough Diagnostick signes are if the Disease come by Propriety it is more lasting and is eased by Vomit the signes of the Humours in the Stomach appear by the Tast in the Mouth Belchings c. If it come from any other part of the Body their proper Signes will declare it Prognosticks are If the Hiccough be caused by Meat Drink of Cold it is not dangerous But if it come in a malignant or great Feaver and continue it is deadly The same you may judge if the Hiccough accompanied with redness of the Eyes in an acute Disease invade the Patient after Vomiting Singultus from the inflammation of the Liver is also hurtfull For the cure you must if the disease come from a cold cause First administer medicine which do cut and prepare the Humours as Vinegar and Oxymel of Squils and Oxymel Simplex then evacuate the Humours by Purge or Vomit and then strengthen the Stomach use the Medicines prescribed in the Chapter of Want of Appetite comming of a cold Cause if the Disease be violent add these following Take of Castor and Mirrh of each three Drachms Sal Gem half an Ounce Diagridium and Mastich of each one Drachm Agarick newly trochiscated three Drachms Aloes the weight of all the rest with the juice of Mints make them up into a Mass and of one Drachm make six gilded Pills Let your Patient take two or three in the Morning Riverius If Wind in the Stomach be the Cause Take of Dill-Seed Sweet Fennell and Annis-Seed of each one Ounce Juniper Berries half an Ounce Cloves a Drachm Macerate them in good Wine or Spirit of Wine and distill it in Baineo If sharp and chollerick Humours be the cause of the Hiccough you must give Oyl of Sweet Almonds Prisan Broth Sirrup of Apples and Quinces the Emulsion of the Cold Seeds foment the Stomach with a Spung dipt in Rose Water or apply a cooling Oyntment to the Stomach Sneezing hath been attended with admirable successe Vomiting with little lesse but have a care how you administer Vomits to weak People Drinking of Milk fom the Cow is much commended and somtimes proves succesful Narcoticks somtimes effect the Cure by stupifying the too too Exquisite sense of the Stomach CHAP. XXXIX Of Vomiting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nausea and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vomiting differ onely in Degrees the first is a Desire to vomit up what soever troubles the Stomach either in Quantity or Quality but cannot either by reason of the weaknesse or the Stomach strength of the upper Orifice or thicknesse or sliminesse of the Matter But Vomiting is a depraved motion of the Stomach which shaketh it by which the expulsive Faculty is stirred up by contracting the Fibres of the Lower part and loosening the Superior and with a violent motion casteth forth the Matter contained therein which was trouble some to it The Causes of Vomiting are external or internal and is divided into Natural or Artificial the Natural is either without or in a Disease and is thus divided it is either Periodical Critical or Symptomatical Periodical vomiting is without a Disease and is used by many twice in a year or oftener to cleanse the Stomach of cholerick or phlegmatick Humours and to prevent Disease Critical vomiting is when Nature in a disease casts forth her Enemy Symptomatical vomiting is when Nature is provoked and weakned and is not eased by it because she is not strong enough utterly to expel it the Matter vomited is either Excrements as Phlegm Choler Melancholy Water Matter Wormes and the like or Nourishment as Meat Chylus or Blood Artificial Vomiting is from an external Cause as Compression of the lower Belly Stroaks Falls violent Excorcise Riding Sayling on the Sea Poysonous Aire or Breath stinking Smels or beholding some Filthy thing External Causes may provoke Nature as Vomits taken Some Nourishment is distastful to some Stomachs and causeth vomiting Hippoceates reporteth that one eating Mushtooms died vomiting Meats which are Fat Oyly are praeposterous to some Stomachs Omitting Gluttony which is many times the Cause The whole Body in a Plethory evil Habit Feavers and other Diseases of the Body may be the Cause Inflammations or Obstructions of other Parts as the Liver Spleen Mesentery or Bowels the Terms or Hemorrhoids stopped a Catarrh or the like may cause Vomiting If Vomiting be caused by Humours offending the Stomach or by an Organical disease therein you may find the signes thereof in the praeceding Chapters of diseases of the Stomach If it come by Sympathy from other Parts their proper signes will informe Make the Prognostick thus Choler and Phlegme exquisitely mingled and vomited up is good If the Sick vomit Critically and cast forth Choler in a cholerick Distemper and Phlegm in a phlegmatick it is hopeful Violent vomiting and little brought up in a Feaver is evil for it shews abundance of Matter or that Nature is weak Vomiting after a Flux of the Belly is good for there is a revulsion of the Matter and Nature is refreshed Vomiting of divers Colours is dangerous because Nature hath to do with divers Enemies Green blew black and stinking Matter vomited is deadly In Feavers acute if the Patient vomit without mixture of Humours it is an evil signe because that a pure Humour is not capable of Concoction For the Cure If the Disease come by consent from other parts remove the Cause by working their Cures If phlegmatick cholerick or melancholy Humours provoke the Stomach cast them forth by vomiting prepare and cut them if they be tough and clammy Give gentle Vomits as warm Oyl or white Vitriol prepared or Salt of Vitriol made red by Calcination for they cleanse and dissolve the glutinous Matter If your
that you make a distinction between the Haemorrhoids and the clefts of the Fundament which are like those chops which are in the lips caused by sharp Northerly winds and the Tumor called Condiloma which is in colour black as the Haemorrhoids are in form long and not in the Veins whereas the Haemorrhoids are in the Veins and round There is also in the Fundament sometimes to be found a carnuons swelling called Thymi and sometimes in the privities of Men and Women and they are like the flowers of Thyme they are little white or reddish without pain the Haemorrhoids are for the most part black greater and painfull The piles are greater then the former they are called Fici they are blew and painfull are like the Haemorrhoids onely they are a carnuous swelling and the Haemorrhoids is a swelling of the Veins The Piles are of a Maligne quality and do sometimes ulcerate The swelling of the Haemorrhoids is not dangerous unlesse it be inflamed and Gangrene Or if it suppurate and come to an Ulcer and chance to turn to a Fistula which may prove incurable To cure you must bleed and make such revulsions prescribed in the former Chapter likewise open the Saphaena You must not use strong purges lest you draw more humours to the place yet you must keep the body soluble least the voiding of hard dung greatly encrease pain keep the body soluble by this or the like Medicine Take of the leaves of Lettice Burrage Buglosse and Mallows of each one handfull Polypody of the Oak three ounces Liquorish Raisons stoned and Currant of each half an ounce Buglosse Burrage and Violet-flowers of each one Pugill Boil it in running water to a pint and an half Strain it and infuse therein an Ounce of Senna the liquor being kept hot six hours then put in of Cassia newly drawn one ounce and let it stand an hour strain it and Clarify it and sweeten it with two ounces of syrrup of Violits make four potions thereof and give it twice in a day first and last Then you must apply such things to them which hath power to case pain viz. the Oil of Peach-kernells Sweet Almonds Nuts Egs Box or oils of the seeds of Poppy or Henbane Of these may divers Lineaments be made good to appease pain discuss the Tumor and to dry the Ulcers Take of the oyl of Eggs made in a Leaden Morter the oyl of Violets and Roses of each one ounce Populeon half an Ounce the Oyl of Box two scruples with Hens Grease and Goats Suet sufficient to make a Liniment and apply it or take of the juice of Purslane and honey of each two ounces white Diachylon mollified with the Oyl of Chamomell two Ounces Opium six grains make an Unguent Horstius commendeth wild Flax made into an Oyntment with Hogs grease To discusse the Tumor the Balsome of Sulphur is much commended or this Cataplasme is good Take of Plantane Pilewort and Mallows of each a like quantity make a decoction in Milk till the liquor be half wasted strain out the hearbs and make a Cataplasm with the crums of white bread adding to it the Oyl of Violets Roses Myrtles and the like Or a Cataplasm made of the heads of Leeks is much commended Green Elder leaves boyled to slime and applyed and often renewed are very good The Lungs of a Sheep or Goat taken hot and some slices thereof applyed or if the sick sit upon them it oftentimes proveth effectuall If you see good you may make a fomentation with Mullein Mallows Marshmallows Pellitory of the Wall Flax and Fenugreek seed in Milk water or Oyl or all of them or with a great quantity make a Bath Or a fume made of the powder of Darnell Mullein Pilewort dried and thrown upon hot coals and the Sumen received The decoction of yarrow Mullein and Pilewort is a good Medicine to take inwardly or a Syrrup made of their Juyces against both Haemothoids and Piles If they will not open bleed them with Leeches or rub them till they bleed If the Piles be ulcerated the Balsom of Sulphur the Oyl of Egs stirred in a Leaden Morter is good to cleanse them To conclude those that are subject to these distempers ought to have an Issue in the Leg. CHAP. LIII Of a hot distemper of the Liver A Hot distemper of the Liver is either with or without matter but for the most part a hot distemper of the Liver doth produce hot and cholerick humours It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is caused either by hot weather violent exercise anger or such like passions of the mind hot or spiced nourishment drinking much Wine or any thing that is naturally hot This distemper is known by loathing of meat the body Costive and hot especially the palms of the hands and soles of the feet the whole body groweth lean a bitternesse of the mouth and for the most part a Feaver if there be plenty of humours the patient vomiteth or evacuateth downwards Choller he is the worse for hot and the better for cold things This distemper though not very dangerous in it solf yet may be the cause of many diseases It is hard to cure it if the stomach be cold because what you give to cool the Liver increaseth the distemper of the stomach To cure it you must cool the Liver and evacuate Choller First give a Laxative and cooling Clister then open the Liver-Vein in the right arm and draw as much bloud as the patients strength will well bear either at once or at severall times Then make an Apozeme to purge Choller thus Take the roots of yellow Docks or Muncks Ruharb Sorrel Succory and Licoris of each one Ounce the Leaves of Endive Succory Fumitory Dandelion and Burrage of each one handfull of the great cold seeds of each three Drachres Of the Cordiall flowers of each one Pugill Tamarinds one Ounce boil them to a Pint and an half then adde to infuse of Rubarb and Senna of each half an Ounce Syrrup of Succory with Rubarb and of Roses Solutive add at the last and clarify it aromatize it with two drachms of yellow Sanders Let the Patient take it four mornings Let his ordinary drink be Barly-water and put therein the Syrrup of Lemmons or Maiden-hair or if he delight in things that are sharper make it sharp with the spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol Whey likewise is very good it is best if it be made by turning the milk with Vinegar or the juice of Lemmons and add such things as I advised for the Barly water Likewise you may prepare Juleps to cool the Liver Take the waters of Endive Succory Sorrel and Buglosse of each one ounce the Syrrups of Lemmons Sweet Apples and Pomegranats of each one ounce of the Syrrup of Corall compound half an ounce the Oyl of Vitriol ten drops mix them and make a Julep for four doses Or Take of the Conserve of the flowers of Buglosse Violets and Succory of each one
Hydropicall person eate his meat and digest it well and be not sick after have no cough nor pain his tongue not rough nor thirsty if he be in a naturall order without physick and medicines work easily with him if he be not faint and his Urine change according to his Diet he may easily be cured For the cure you must consider if the disease hath its originall from obstructions Tumors c And seek the beginning of your cure out of their proper Chapters Afterwards you must labour to evacuate the matter whether it be in the Abdomen or whole body first make an Apozem thus Take of the roots of Parsly Smallage Fennell Elicampane Bruscus Danewort and Madder of each one ounce The Leaves of Agrimony Wormwood Maidenhaire the tops of St. Johns wort and Century of each one handfull the inward bark of the roots of Capers Ash and Tamarisk of each four drachms Liquorish one ounce the seeds of Fennell Parsly and Juniper berryes of each half an ounce the flowers of Broom Beans and Elder of each one pugill Julep roots two drachms boile them in a sufficient quantity of water wherein steel hath been quenched to a pint and an half strain it and add to the Liquor one ounce of Senna cover it and let it infuse six houres strain it and dissolve therein of the syrup of Harts-tongue one ounce and the syrup of Succory with Rubarb three ounces Clarifie it with the whites of Eggs and aromatize it with two drachms of Cinnamon or yellow Sanders give it four mornings Afterwards once a week give this pouder Take of Senna Jallap Mechoacah Turbith Gum and Hermodacts of each one drachm Cream of Tartar and Salt of Wormwood of each two drachms Cambugia half a drachm Diamher Diarrhodon abbatis and Fennell seeds of each two scruples make a fine ponder and infuse one drachm in a quarter of a point of White-wine all night and let the Patient take it in the morning Of these and such like may be prepared medicines of all formes Some commend the juyce of flowerdeluce roots taken with hony or manna the dose is three ounces and Platerus in his Observations doth highly extoll it Chimists do much commend the extract of black Hellebore Mercurius vitae and Diaphoreticus Mercurius dulcis antimonium Diaphoreticum and such like but let the physitian beware how he gives medicines of this nature except his Patient be strong the like caution let him observe in giving of purging medicines especially such as purge with violence But rather let him if his Patient be weake give discussive and Diuretick Clisters thus Take of Mallows Marsh-Mallows Chamomell pellitory of the wall and Mercury of each one handfull the seeds of Annis Sweet Fennell Caraway Dill and Bay-berryes of each two drachms the flowers of Broom and Melilot of each one pugil boyle them in Posset drink or Mutton broath to a pint dissolve in the strained liquor of Oyle of Camomell Dill and Rue of each one ounce Diacatholicon or Diaphaenicon of each one ounce and if you see good add half an ounce of Benedicta Laxativa and make a Clister you must principally give such medicines which purge by Urine the steeled-wine prescribed in the 55. chap. is very good in the preparing of it you may add if you see occasion any of the aforementioned ingredients which provoke Urine The Spirit of Vitrioll Tartar and Salt is much commended if it be administred in some Diuretick decoction The salt of Wormword and Juniper profiteth much Or you may make a Lee of the Ashes of Juniper and White-Wine giving five or six ounces thereof which Lee alone hath cured some Dropsies saith Mathiolus the same I have known my self Bleeding is prohibited and upon good grounds too unlesse the disease come from stoppage of the Termes or Hemorrhoids bleed not then unlesse it be in the beginning of the disease and the Liver in its naturall condition Issues Blisters and Scarifications are likewise forbidden because they gangren for the most part yet in the beginning of a Dropsie the lower parts being exceedingly swelled I made an Issue in the Leg out of which an incredible quantity of water issued and the Patient perfectly cured Among Evacuations Sweatings are not the least profitable especially in Anasarca but in Ascites and Tympanites the Liver being dry besides the difficulty of procuring it it rather hurteth then profiteth All the time of the cure forget not to strengthen the Liver that you may hinder the encrease of water as well as purge it have recourse to the 55 Chapter of the Obstruction of the Liver Hollerius commendeth this opiate Take of Currance cleansed half a pound boyle them in Sack till they be as thick as a pultis heat and strain them then add of the Conserve of Rosemary flowers Citron peels Candied and Cinnamon of each one drachm the pouder Aromaticum Rosatum Diamargariton Calidum and Diacinamon of each two scruples Lignum Aloes half a drachm Saffron half a scruple mix them and make a soft Electuary Then make a fomentation for the belly with these or hearbs of the like nature Agrimony Danewort Chamomell Calamint Elder Mallows Marsh-Mallowes Marjerom Melilot Broom Penny-royall Rue Snakweed Southern wood Tamarisk Wormwood and the like the seeds of Parsly Dill Cummin Fennell Bay and Juniper berryes foment the belly with spunges dipt in the decoction of these or lay the hearbs themselves in a bag hot to the belly Afterwards anoynt the belly with the oyle of Dill Chamomell Rue Flowerdeluce and the like Or you may make Unguents Cataplasms or Emplasters This harmlesse Cataplasm I have found profit much Take of Wormwood Chamomell Mayweed and Danewort of each two handfulls bruise them in a stone morter then boyle them in Vinegar and Hony then with Bean and Barly meale and Cow-dung dryed of each a like quantity make a Cataplasm Galen commendeth a Cataplasm of Snailes bruised with their shells and layd upon the Navell and there keep it till it falls off of its own accord Radishes bruised and laid to the Belly and Reynes worketh by stoole and Urine To conclude If the body be strong you may use strong purgers in your Cataplasms but if the body be weak forbeare In Anasarca you may often and strongly purge watry and flegmatick humors In Ascites and Tympanites more seldome and gentle In Ascites order your internall and externall medicines principally to purge water in Tympanites let them be Carminative and discussive In every of them have a speciall respect to the Liver and if it be too hot as it somtimes happeneth give cold things mixed with warm openers Let their meat be of the dryest and let them shun sweet-meats as a Plague For drink let them abstaine from it as much as can be and drink none but what is made with Wormwood Tamarisk Elecampane Juniper c or let them only hold it in the mouth to coole and asswage their thirst let them chew Mastick for it draweth water from the
Vlcer You must parge the Humours which flow to the part affected with gentle Medicines such as are prescribed in the Chapter aforegoing If there be Repletion or Inflammation in the part let Phlebotomy be used Evacuate the Humours by gentle purgers mentioned in the Chapter aforegoing Mercuvius Dulcis doth cleanse and heal the Vlcer Turpentine is a good cleanser It is good for the Patient to vomit often After due Evacuations you must use cleansers as the Milk of Cows Goats or Asses which are very good and cleanse with their wheyie part and heal with their cheezie but give it not in a Feaver Let the Patient drink Water and Sugar thin Hydromell or Barly Water In Hydromell if there be a Feaver boil the cold Seeds Mallows Liquorish c. Waters that spring from Allum and Iron Mines are good for they correct the Heat and cleanse the Ulcer The Decoction of China Guajacum Sarsaparilla and the like is good to dry up the Humours to purge the crude Matter in them that have the French Pox and have no Feaver nor Flux of Blood But lest the Bowels should be inflamed give cooling Broths at Night After the use of cleansers you may see by the Vrine when the Vlcer is cleansed viz. when it appeareth white and clean without any dreggy or filthy Matter then you must give astringing glutinating and healing Medicines Take of Conserve of Roses four Ounces Bolearmenick Terra Sigillata red Coral and Sanguis Draconis of each two Drachms the Seeds of Lettice Purslane and Plantane of each one Drachm red Roses and Shavings of Ivory of each two Scruples with Sirrup of Comphry make an Opiate Or you may make of it a Masse for Pills with Venice Turpentine or if that cause pain with the Juyce of Liquorish Chymists do much commend Antimonium Diaphoreticum Mercurius Dulcis Diaphoreticus To allay the vehemency of the pain you must sometimes mix Anodines with your Medicines as Laudanum the Sirrup of Poppyes and the Emulsion of the cold Seeds Outwardly foment the Region of the Kidneys thus Take of Camomil Mallows Melilot Pellitory of the Wall and Violets of each one Handfull the Roots of Marsh-Mallows and water-Lillyes of each two Ounces the Seeds of Flax Fenugreek and Winter-Cherryes of each three Drachms make a Decoction and foment the part Then apply this Liniment Take of the Oyl of Violets and Sweet Almonds of each one Ounce and an half Oyl of Roses one Ounce of the Musilage made of the Seeds of Marsh-Mallows and Fenugreck of each two Ounces Saffron one Scruple make a Liniment If the Ulcer be in the Bladder you must make an Injection twice in a day with new Milk Whey Hydromel or Barly Water with Hony of Roses to cleanse afterwards add Astringers and Driers as the white Trochts of Rhasis or of Gordonius or boil in Whey or Barly-water the Roots of Comphry Allum Mirth Tragacanth and the like CHAP. LXVI Of extraordinary Pissing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diabetes is a quick and plentifull making of Water after which followeth violent Thirst and a wasting of the whole Body The Cause of this Disease is a hot Distemper of the Reins which draweth Water violently from the Veins which causeth a great Thirst after drink which as soon as it is taken is carried to the Reins where burthening the retentive Faculty and provoking the expulsive it is soon sent to the Bladder Some attribute it to choletick sharp and salt Humours in the Kidneys which draw Water thither as such Humours which stick to the Tunicles of the Stomach in Feavers cause Thirst Others will not admit of this opinion because the Kidneys onely suffer in this Disease and that Choller and other burnt Humours are first bred in the Liver They say there is a venemous Quality bred in the Kidneys Galen himself is of this opinion that divers kinds of Poisons may breed in the Body of Man In Lybia there is a Serpent called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dipsacos which name the Greeks give this Disease from the unquenchable Thirst with which it is accompanied which Serpent if he biteth any man infecteth him with such a Poyson as begets an unquenchable Thirst The Signes of this Disease are clear from what hath been said viz. An unquenchable Thirst an extraordinary Pissing and voiding the Drink as soon almost as it is drunk and a Decay of the whole Body This Disease is deadly if it be not taken in the beginning and the Patient yong for it brings a Consumption If you judge the Patient curable you must labour to allay the hot Distemper of the Kidneys to correct their poysonous Quality to thicken the Humours which flow to them and to strengthen them First give mollifying and asswaging Clisters and purge if you see occasion as you are taught in the Chapter Of the Inflammation of the Kidneys Gentle Vomits do evacuate and draw the Humours from the Ureters If nothing forbid open a Vein in the Arm. To correct the Distemper and thicken the Humours make a Julep thus Take of the distilled Water or the Decoction of Plantane four Ounces of Lettice Poppy and Purslane of each two Ounces the Sirrup of Myrtles Comphry and Quinces of each one Ounce the Sirrup of Poppyes half an Ounce the Spirit of Vitriol twenty Drops mix them and make a Julep If you will have a Medicine more astringent or binding thus Take of the Seeds of Plantane Purslane and Coriander prepared of each one Ounce the Flowers of red Roses Pomegranats and yellow Mirabolans of each half an Ounce Nutmegs half a Drachm Corall and Pearl prepared burnt Harts Horn Bolearmenick and the Roots of Tormentill of each one Scruple make them into Powder Or if you please make them into a soft Electuary with the Sirrup of Myrtles Comphry or Quinces The Milk of Asses Cows Goats or Sheep is good especially if Flints be often quenched therein Sweating is a good Remedy if it be provoked by outward means or with China Sarsa and such mild Medicines for it drives the watry Humour outward but beware of strong Medicines least they purge by Urine and encrease the Distemper Outwardly foment the Loyns with things which cool and bind as the roots of Sorrel Plantane Pomegranate-peels Sumath Seeds c. boiled in Vinegar afterwards anoint with the Vnguent of Roses Sanders and Comitissa CHAP. LXVII Of involuntary Pissing THis Disease consisteth in the hurting of the retentive Action of the Bladder Some are subject to this Distemper while they are awake which is the worst Others are subject to it sleeping onely which is not so bad because then the animall Functions are lesse excercised There are two Causes of this Distemper First the Weaknesse and Loosenesse of the Sphincter Muscle of the Bladder Or Secondly the exquisite Sense of the Bladder and the Sharpnesse of the Urine which stirreth up the expulsive Faculty with consent of the Will The first Cause is apparent in sucking Children weak people and such whose
Mercuriall and antimoniall Purges and many preferr Vomits before all Then apply resolving Decoctions made of the Roots of Briony Danewort the Leavs of Ground-Pine Mint Marjarom Sage Savin Rue Rosemary Pennyroyall c. the Flowers of Camomill Melilor and Mallows the Seeds of Flax Fenugreek Bay Juniper Berryes and such like and foment the part therewith Also Juniper Berryes fryed in a pan being first beaten with Salt and Bran and moistned with Canary Wine and put in a Bag and applyed warm With the aforenamed Ingredients Cataplasms may be made and with the Oyls following let the part be anointed viz. Oyl of Camomill Dill Nord Orice Rue Scorpions Tiles Turpentine of Foxes and the like the Ointment of Marsh-Mallows and Spanish Soap dissolved in Spirit of Wine This is much commended Take a good Quantity of Snails bruise them well in a Morter then make Paste with them and Rye Flower adding a little Spirit of Wine and fasten it to a Spit and roast it a Liquor will drop from it with which anoint the part for it is of excellent Virtue Then lay on this Plaister Take of Shio-Pitch Rozin of each two Ounces Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and Emplastrmm Diachylon cum Gummis of each one Ounce Brimstone and Hermodactylls powdered of each three Drachms Turpentine three Drachms and Wax sufficient make a Plaister If the Disease do still continue proceed to a Vesicatory add to the former Mass for a Plaister Cantharides their Wings taken off Staves-acre and Mustard Seed of each one Drachm In the whole course of the Cure let not frequent Clisters be neglected And if the Disease be old make an Issue in the Leg on the same side on the outside of the Leg. If you find Symptoms of a Catarrh which may occasion the Sciatica by a Defluxion of Humours make an Issue in the hinder part of the Head and use other means to correct the Distempers of the Brain See Chap. 9. by this means hath the Sciatica been cured when all other means failed Sometimes the Matter causing the Sciatica doth imposthumate and after it is opened there remains a filthy Ulcer which for the most part pineth the Patient away brings him into a Consumption The Cure whereof belongeth to an expert Chirurgion CHAP. LXXXIII Of one day-Feaver THis Disease is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephemera in Latine Diaria Febris in English One day-Feaver because for the most part it finisheth in one day of its own Nature It is caused by some internal cause as some hot fiery Swelling on some part of the Body or when some hot Excrements shut up in some part do offend the Heart by Retention of Excrements and Obstruction of the Vessels by which the Pores of the Skin are shut and Transpiration is hindered Or secondly it is caused by externall causes as vehement Motions of the Body or Mind by which the Spirits are inflamed by being heated with the Sun or Fire by Surfetting Drunkennesse especially with Meats and Drinks of a hot Nature By what hath gone before you may know this Feaver the Pulse is swift and great and so he fetcheth his Breath he is very hot and his Head aketh He hath no Shivering Cold nor Wearinesse unlesse it came by the Heat of the Sun or by cold You must give the Sick such things as are cooling moistning as cooling Broths Barly Cream Ptisan Drink small Beer and Sugar Water and Sugar or mix Sirrup of Violets Lemmons or Maiden-hair with his Drink If the Disease was caused by the Heat of the Sun give him cooling things and lay him in a cooling Lodging and anoint his Temples with Vinegar of Roses If he took his Feaver being in the cold provoke Sweat the like observe if the Pores be obstructed If it come by over eating and drinking let him take a Clister If evill Humours abound in the Blood and Body open a Vein and purge if putrified Humours lodge in the Stomach vomit If it continue above three dayes it degenerates into a simple Synochus putrid or Hectick Feaver CHAP. LXXXIV Of the Feaver Synochus non-putrida IF the Feaver aforesaid light upon a plethorick Body or one who is grosse and thick skinned it turns to a simple Synochus It is known by the corpulent and swelling Habit of the Body high Colour of the Face He breathes with difficulty he is much pained in his Head and his Temples beat strongly The Pulse is orderly but quick and full The Urine little differeth from its naturall colour yet a little thick and red and the Heat is not very violent It lasteth to the fourth and sometimes to the seuenth day if it ends not then it degenerates into a putrid Feaver The Cure is to be performed by blood-letting by cooling and by opening the Pores of the Body Before blood-letting if the Patient be costive and his Body foul give an emollient and laxative Clister Then give cooling Juleps made of the Decoction of Barly and cool Herbs or with their distilled Waters as of Endive Succory Sorrell Buglosse Borrage and the like with the Sirrups of Succory Lemmons Vinegar Violets Pomgranates and the like adding some drops of Oyl of Vitriol or boil in the distilled Waters Triasantalon or Diamargariton frigidum lest the Waters encrease Crudityes by their Rawness Or you may make an Emulsion of Almonds the great cold Seeds and white Poppy Seeds with Barly water or the distilled Water of the aforegoing cooling Herbs Galen adviseth to give the Patient cold water in great abundance till his colour fade but beware this Cure unlesse the Patient be strong corpulent and not full of ill Humours and that he take it in the height of the Fit I confesse I have seen many so cured and have experimented it upon my own Body but durst not advise it Anoint the Liver and Loyns with Unguentum Rosatum Refrigerans Galeni or Ceratum Santalinum Or make an Epithem of the distilled Waters of Endive Succory Sorrell c. the three Sanders and Powder of Diamargariton frigidum If the Disease end not quickly after bleeding purge with gentle things that do not heat nor much stirr the Humours as Rubarb Cassia Manna Tamarinds Sirrup of Roses Catholicon and such like CHAP. LXXXV Of continuall putrid Feavers I Shall describe the causes and Cures of all putrid Feavers in one Chapter for though there are divers sorts yet the Cure is almost the same in all therefore laying aside particular precepts let the Judgment and Dexterity of every Physitian put a difference between them I shall likewise wave many nice descriptions and definitions of Feavers first as not beneficiall to the young Student in Physick secondly as not befitting this Volume Synochus putrida is engendred of the same causes as the simple Synochus as the shutting up of the Pores of the skin and Obstruction of the Vessels by much Blood or clammy Humours by which means the Transspiration of fuliginous Vapours is hindered and Putrefaction is bred
two or three Choclearies either by it self or mixed with Syrup of Myrtles dryed Roses or Syrup of Comphry and if the Flux of Bloud be very violent give a scruple of the Tincture of Corral with it CHAP. II. Of Syrups OF syrups there are three sorts syrrups made by infusion juyce and decoction syrrups made by infusion are made of flowers and such flowers as soon loose both colour and strength by boyling as Violets Roses Clove-gilly-flowers Peach-flowers c. and they are thus made Having picked your flowers to every pound add three pints of water made boyling hot put them into a Pewter-pot with a close cover and keep it hot twelve hours If you would make your syrrup very strong put in more fresh flowers as often as you please having strained it out put the liquor into a Pewter-Bason and to every pint add two pound of fine Sugar put it upon a Chaffin-dish of Coales and melt it stirring and scumming it till the Sugar be perfectly melted without boyling Secondly to make a syrrup of the juyce of an hearb you must make choice of such hearbs as are full of juyce then beat it in a stone Morter presse out the juyce put it over the fire and clarifie it that is scum it as long as any scum arise then boyle it till a quarter of it be consumed to a pint of this add a pound of Sugar boyling it to a syrrup and scumming of it You may know when it is enough if you coole a little in a spoon After this manner you may make syrrup of Wormwood simple of Betony Buglosse Borrage Chamomell Carduus Endive Succory Strawberryes Funtitory ground Jvy St. Johns-wort Mercury Mous-care Plantane Purslane Apples Raspberies Sage Scabius Scordium Housleek Colts-foot and such-like and when you have done so and would know what they are good for see the virtue of the Simples Thirdly Syrrups made by decoction for the most part are compounds though you may make Syrrups of Simples by decoction the operation is thus Take of what hearb root flower or seed you please and bruise it a little if you make a Syrrup of roots or wherein there are many roots let the roots macerate in the water twenty four houres then add the hearbs and the rest and boyle it till half the water he consumed then let it stand and when it is almost cold strain it through an hypoeras-bag without pressing to every pint of the decoction add one pound of Sugar and boyle it till it comes to the thicknesse of a Syrrup or new hony After this manner the most part of the Syrrups following are made except they be made of flowers or juyces Take this for an example Take of common Worm-wood meanly dry half a pound red Roses two ounces Indian spicknard three drachms old White-wine and juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half steep them a whole day in an Earthen Vessell then boyle them gently strain it and adding two pound of Sugar boyle it into a Syrrup according to art This Syrup is very good for cold and Flegmatick Stomachs it helpeth concoction strengtheneth the Stomach and Liver provokes an Appetite breaks wind and is good against the Jaundise the dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus Acetousus simplex vel compositus Syrup of Vinegar simple or compound These Syrups cut Flegme and tough Humors they coole the body quench thirst and ease any stuffing in the Stomach and are good to prepare the body for a Vomit especially the first if you use it so take from one ounce to two or three in other cases take it with a Liquorish stick Syrupus de Agno Casto Or Syrup of Agnus Castus I conceive by its composition it was intended to prevent immoderate Letchery and nocturnall pollutions for without doubt it dryeth and cooleth the naturall seed thereby restraining venereall thoughts for my part I can say nothing of it by experience Syrupus de althaea Syrup of Marsh mallows This is a fine cooling opening slippery syrup good against the paines of the Stone Gravell or Chollick You may give an ounce or two it is so safe and harmlesse you cannot err in the giving of it Syrupus de Ammoniaco Syrup of Ammoniacum It opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and cooles the parts and helps all diseases arising from their Obstructions and heat as Scabs Itch Leprosie and such like You may take an ounce or more if you see occasion Syrupus de Artemisia Syrup of Mugwort It helps the coldnesse wind paines and all other diseases of the Womb it strengthens the Nerves corrects the blood opens the pores and provokes the Termes You may take an ounce at a time or from half an ounce to two Syrupus de Betonica compositus The compound Syrup of Betony It is good against diseases in the Head and Stomach proceeding of Cold and Wind Vertigoes and Madnesse it concocteth Melancholly and provokes the Termes The dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Bizantius Simple and compound It strengtheneth and freeth the Liver from Obstructions and diseases thence proceeding cures the Yellow-Jaundise cuts tough Flegm and is good against the Rickets Take it with a Liquorish stick or from half an ounce to two Syrupus Botryos Syrup of Oake of Jerusalem This Syrup is commended in the Asthma and cold diseases of the breast Coughs and shortnesse of breath Take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus Capillorum Veneris Syrup of Maidenhaire This strengthens the Stomach and Lungs and helps their infirmities it also cleanseth the Reins of Gravel for the first take it with a Liquoris stick for the last give an ounce or two Syrupus Cardiacus a Cordial Syrup It comforts the Heart and revives drooping Spirits it is good for people in Consumptions it is of an opening quality and expels those Vapours which offend the Brain Take it from one ounce to three Syrupus infusionis Caryophillorum Syrup of Clove Gilly-flowers This Syrup is good in any Feaver Pestilential or not it strengtheneth the Heart Liver and Stomach and refresheth the Vital Parts The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce and an half It is so harmless you cannot err in the taking of it Syrupus de Cinnamomo Syrup of Cinamon It strengtheneth the whole Body and helpeth Digestion and comforteth the Stomach and Womb and cheareth the Spirits Take one ounce in a Cordial Syrupus aceto sitatis Citriorum Syrup of the Juyce of Citrons This Syrup hath a refrigerating cutting attenuating penetrating faculty it allays Choller and tempers the heat of the Heart cools the bloud and is therefore good against Feavers Pestilential or not small Pox or Measils it resisteth Poyson The Dose is from one ounce to four Syrupus corticum citriorum Syrup of Citron Pills It is of a most grateful savour and most pleasant odour it strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and Heart amends the heat of them and resisteth Palpitations Faintings Swoonings it strengtheneth the Vitals is profitable in
It is good against the Falling sickness Megrim Vertigo swimming and pain in the head and cleanseth the Stomach Lungs and Women after their lying in The Dose is from half an Ounce to an Ounce To these I add these following Syrups of Quercetanus which I have sometimes quoted in the former Book whose manner of preparation if rightly understood and virtues excelleth most extant Syrupus de Peto simplex compositus Syrup of Tobacco simple and compound Take of the Juyce of Tobacco four pound Simple Hydromel one pound Simple Oxymel four Ounces put them into a Glass Vessel of a fit bigness that one 4th part be full Let them digest in Balneo Mariae for the spaco of 2 or 3 days till the thickest fall to the bottome then pour of the clearest and purest of the Juyce and digest it again as before till no impurity remain therein then put to it of white Sugar two pound and boyl it to a Syrup The compound Syrup is thus made Take of the Juyce so digested as before two pound and an half Simple Hydromel one pound In which macerate for the space of 2 or 3 days these Simples following Hysop Maidenhair and Wall-Rue of each half a handful the flowers of Colts foot Staechas Violets and Bugloss of each two Pugils the seeds of Cudweed Nettles Carduus Benedictus of each one Ounce the Leaves of Sena three Ounces Agarick trochiscated one Ounce Cinamon Mace and Cloves of each one drachm then press it out strongly and let it be digestod to separate the pure from the impure add its equal weight in Sugar and boyl it to a Syrup This Syrup rightly made is of excellent use and its violent acrimonious and venemous quality is taken away yet it powerfully provokes Vomiting and is excellent against Asthma's and all Diseases of the Lungs proceeding from cold and gross Humours as old Coughs and difficulty of breathing The Dose is from one Ounce to two His Syrup of Cinamon prepared with the Spirit of Wine is thus made Take of Cinamon 2 or three Ounces or more if you please grosly bruise it and put it into a Glass Vessel pouring upon it the Spirit of Wine as much as may cover it 3 or 4 fingers cover it close and let it stand in a cool place till the Spirit of Wine hath drawn the Virtue and Tincture of the Cinamon then pour it off clear To every 8 Ounces of the Liquor add 3 or 4 Ounces of white Sugar finely poudered then put it over a fire and dissolve the Sugar then set the Spirit of Wine on fire with a lighted paper stirring it with a large Spatula and all the Spirits of Wine will fly away and the Syrup remain Or if you please a little before the spirit is consumed put it out by covering it close with a silver Bason that the Air come not at it by this means the Syrup will be the better This Syrup is of a grateful relish and a Medicine inferiour to none in Diseases of the Heart as Palpitations Swoonings c. against Weaknesse Crudities Windinesse of the Stomach The Dose is half a Cochleary His Syrup of Ground-Ivie is thus made Take of the Juyce of Ground-Ivie or Alle-hoof two pound and an half digest and purifie it in Balneo Mariae as you are taught before the Juyce being perfectly cleansed add to it of Sugar one pound of Penids 4 Ounces and boyl it into a Syrup It is a very soveraign Medicine for the Prisick Ulcer in the Lungs and for a Consumption caused by any defect in that part CHAP. III. Of Decoctions and Juyces DEcoctions are made of Roots Leaves Flowers Seeds Fruits or Barks conducing to the Cure of any Disease Decoctions principally aim at such Diseases as lye in the passages as the Stomach Bowels Kidneys Ureters and Bladder If they be made of White Wine they will last the longer and are more penetrating then if they be made of Water If you make your Decoction with Roots Leaves Flowers c. Boil the Roots first as I told you in boyling of Compound Liquors Such things as make the decoction slimy you may tye up in a Rag. You may sweeten it with Sugar Honey Sugar-Candy or Syrups sutable to the Distemper aimed at and to make it keep the longer stop it up close in a Glass or Stone-Bottle and keep it in a cool place Decoctum Epithymi Or a Decoction of Epithymum Take of common Myrabolans Chebula and Indica of each half an Ounce Staechas Raisins of the Sun stoned Epithimum and Sena of each one Ounce Fumitory half an Ounce Maudlin five drachms Polypodium fixe drachms Turbith half an Ounce Whey made of the milk of a Geat or Heifer four pound Let them all boyl the Epithymum excepted to two pound the Epithymum must boyle but a walm or two then take it from the fire and add black Hellebore one drachm and an half Agarick half a drachm Salgemone a drachin and an half steep them ten hours and straine it out It purgeth Melancholly and adust choller and is a soveraign remedy against all diseases caused by Melancholly The dose is four ounces Decoctum Sennae The Detoction of Senna This also purgeth melancholly and is good for weak people and the dose is the same with the former for the most part other purging medicines are mixed with it and in so doing you may purge any humor Decoctum pectorale A pectorall Decoction This is good against a Cough Asthma Hoarsenesse it cleareth the voice and is good against all diseases of the Lungs The dose is the same Decoctum commune pro Clystere A common decoction for a Clyster and a carminative Decoction These both serve for Clysters to them you may add Oyles Syrups purging Electuaries as necessity requireth Lac virgineum It was invented for proud Ladyes and Wenches to cleare their faces of Sun-burning Freckles Pimples and such like deformityes To preserve the juyce of any hearb or fruit take these few rules First gather the hearb when it is very dry then beat it and presse out the juyce Secondly you must clarifie It over the fire till no more scum will arise Thirdly boyle it to the thicknesse of hony and when it is cold put it up into a pot or glasse for your use This is called Rob or Sapa when you find the word Rob or Sapa simply without any relation of what it should be made know it is the juyce of the white grape I shall insert none of them nor their virtues but refer them to the virtue of the simple out of which Rob Sapa or juyce is extracted CHAP. IV. Of Lohochs LOhoch is an Arabick word the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eclegma the Latines Linctas viz a thing to be licked It is thicker then a syrup and not so thick as an Electuary It s used generally against diseases in the breast and Lungs and the manner of taking of it is with a Liquoris stick The manner of
drachm to a drachm Take them at night and continue taking them a week together Pilulae Mastichinae Mastick Pills They strengthen and purge the Stomach Brain Belly and Reins Take them as the former Pilulae Mechoacanae Pills of Mechacan They purge Flegm with violence The dose is from a scruple to half a drachm Pilulae de Opopanace Pills of Opopanax It purgeth cold Humours from the Joynts and Nerves is good against the Gout and Palsie Take a scruple or half a drachm in the morning Pilulae Rudii It purgeth Choller Flegm and Melancholly from the head and other parts of the body it is quick in operation safe and the best of Purges The dose is from one scruple to half a drachm Pilulae Russi They are preservative in Pestilential Times and evacuate malignant humours and such as are gotten by Surfeits and strengthneth the Vitals The Dose is from a scruple to a drachm take them to Bedward Pilulae sine quibus Pills without Which It purgeth Choller and Flegm from the Brain it is good for Ophthalmia caused by Choler and is good â—n the Bastard Tertian The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Pilulae Stomachicae Stomach Pills It strengthneth the retentive and digestive Faculties of the Stomach and cleanseth it of offensive humours The dose is from one drachm to two Pilulae Stomachicae cum Gummi Stomach-Pills with Gums They are of the same nature with the former they are stronger in operation The dose is a drachm take them in the morning early and sleep after them Pilulae de Succino Pills of Amber It is friendly to the Womb and takes away the causes of Sterility and helps Conception purging Choller and Flegm and leaves a binding and strengthning quality behind it The dose is from a scruple to a drachm take them at night Pilulae ex Tribus Pills of three things Strengthen the Stomach and Liver open Obstructions helpeth the Yellow Jaundise and frees the body of Cholerick Humours which cause the Itch and Scabs The dose is from one scruple to a drachm take them at night Pilulae Turpeti aureae They purge Choller and Flegm strengthen the Stomach and Liver Take them as the former Pilulae Azaiereth It strengthneth the body evacuateth Choller from the Veins and Chollerick Flegmatick and putrid humours from the Stomach and is a good preservation in Pestilential Times The dose and manner of taking them is the fame Pilulae ex Bdellio Pills of Bdellium They are good in the immoderate Flux of the Terms and Hemorrhoids The dose is half a drathm Pilulae de Rhabarbaro Pills of Rubarb They evacuate Chollerick Humours help the Jaund se open Obstructions of the Liver and strengtheneth the Stomach Take them at night from a scruple to a drachm Pilulae Arabicae It removeth the Diseases of the Head as the Vertigo and Megrim it makes a man merry it preserves his Mind in vigour clears the Sight repairs Hearing lost and frees the Stomach of vitious humours Take in the morning from one scruple to four Pilulae Arthriticae It helps the Gout and other Joynt-Griefs or whatever Disease hath its original from Flegm Take from one drachm to four scruples in the morning Pilulae Fumariae Pills of Fumitory This Pill is good for such as are troubled with Scabs Itch and such like for it purgeth Chollerick and adust Humours and falt Flegm The dose is from two scruples to a drachm take it in the morning Pilulae Indae It generally purgeth Melancholly therefore necessary in all Melancholy Diseases as Cancers Leprosies Quartan Agues Pains and Tumors of the Spleen Sadness Fear c. The dose is from half a drachm to four scruples take them in the morning Pilulae Luis Majores They are given with happy success in Diseases of the Eyes it purgeth Flegmatick and mixed Humours from the head and strengthneth the visive virtue Take them as the former Pilulae de Euphorbio Pills of Euphorbium They are good against pains in the Loins Dropsies and Gouts coming of a moist cause half a drachm is a sufficient dose Pilulae Scribonii They are good against spitting of Bloud Ptisicks and the like Take a scruple going to bed Pilulae de Cynoglosso de Styrace Pills of Hounds-Tongue and Styrax They are both good against a Defluxion of hot Rheums upon the Lungs or other parts against Cold caused by Defluxion and provokes sleep Take one scruple or two if you find your body strong Laudanum Nepenthes Opiatum It mittigateth violent pains allayeth the Fumes that trouble the Brain in Feavers and provoke sleep Beware how you give such Medicines in the beginning of Feavers The dose is from one grain to four CHAP. VIII Of Powders POuders may be made of any Hearb Flower Root Mineral Stone c. and they are varlously compounded as followeth Aromaticum Caryophyllatum Take of Cloves 7 drachms Mace Zedoary Galanga the less Yellow Sanders Troches Diarrhadon Cinamon Wood of Aloes Indian Spicknard Long Pepper Cardamoms the Less of each one drachm Red-Roses four drachms Gallia Moschata and Liquoris of each two drachms Indian Leaf and Cubebs of each two scruples beat them all into Powder It strengtheneth the Stomach and clears the Vital parts stays Vomiting breaks Wind and helps Digestion Take a drachm or two Aromaticum Rosatum It strengtheneth the Stomach Heart and Brain and is good against Swooning Palpitation Convulsion Epilepsie and such like it discusseth Wind and strengtheneth the Natural Parts and is profitably given in Consumptions The dose is from half a drachm to two drachms Puluis ex Chelis Cancrorum composiuts Or the Pouder of Crabs Claws compound Otherwise called Gascoins Pouder It is very good in Feavers either intermitting putrid or malignant it is of known virtue in the Small Pox and Measels it is very cordial chears the Heart and Vital Spirits The usual dose is from one grain to twelve Species Cordiales Temperatae It is a great Cordial strengtheneth both Vital and Animal Parts and is often prescribed among other Cordials The dose commonly is from a scruple to half a drachm Diacalaminth Simple and Compound It heats the body and cuts gross humours it expels Wind and opens Obstructions provokes Urine and the Terms and cleanseth Women in Child-bed The dose is half a drachm Dianisum It powerfully discusseth Wind from the Stomach and raw Humours and removes Flegmatick Humours which causeth a Cough Take half a drachm or a draclim being made into an Electuary Pulvis Radicum Ari compositus Powder of Aaron Roots compound It provokes Urine and the Terms expels the dead Child and After-Birth and cleanseth the Womb and easeth Fits of the Mother cleanseth the Stomach of tough humours and is a good Antidote say some against poyson Give a scruple or half a drachm Diaires Simplex Or Pouder of the Root of Flowerdeluce It is good against Coughs make it into an Electuary with Honey or some Pectoral Syrup and take it with a Liquoris Stick