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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41254	A new and needful treatise of spirits and wind offending mans body wherein are discovered their nature, causes and effects / by the learned Dr. Fienns ; and Englished by William Rowland ...; Flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus. English	Feyens, Jean, d. 1585.; Rowland, William.	1668 (1668)	Wing F841; ESTC R40884	57,605	138

boil them and to a pint add Electuary Ind. maj Hiera Logodii each four drams Honey of Roses two ounces Oyl of Bayes three ounces Electuary of Bayes two drams make a Clyster If they will not take Clysters give Pills of washed Aloes of Hiera aureae Cochic after preparation and abatement of pain But if pain be great and the matter small omit preparation and evacuation and fall upon that which most disturbeth therefore asswage pain speedily apply a small Cupping-glass without much flame twice or thrice to the shoulder then take Gith Cummin seed Pellitory and Parsley roots each half an ounce boil them in Wine to the consumption of half wash the teeth with it hot it will discuss and attenuate and amend the cold distemper and draw out much slimy matter which breeds wind Or boil Pellitory roots half an ounce white Pepper a dram in Vinegar and wash the mouth therewith or you may make a Bag and apply it to the Tooth thus Take Calamints Hysop Chamomil each a handful Milium parched Bran Salt each a pugil Cummin half an ounce make a Bag. Then put a red hot Iron into an earthen Jug and pour into it three or four spoonfuls of Vinegar and let the Bag take the Fume at the mouth of the Jug The Women hold it for a great Secret to apply a roasted Turnep behind the Ears for it revels strongly and abates pain to my knowledge I never allowed Narcoticks in this Disease for they thicken the wind too much and make it fix like a cloud upon the Nerves and roots of the Teeth and congealing makes a little ease but increaseth the Disease But if the pain be intolerable to refresh Nature you must use Narcoticks with hot things to abate their force and look both at the Symptom and cause Thus Take Pellitory Pepper each a scruple Opium half a scruple bind them in a Clout and infuse them two or three hours in Vinegar and apply it to the Tooth Or Take Henbane seed Stavesacre and Pellitory each a scruple and with Vinegar make a Pill hold it at the Tooth for an hour it abates pain wonderfully and doth no hurt yet I could wish that only Discussers might remove pain CHAP. XVII Of the Cure of a windy Pleurisie THe pain is great which is from wind in the side when it gets into the cavity of the Breast or between the Membranes that are under the Ribs for then as in a true Pleurisie there is a Cough restlesness and sometimes a Fever thirst and stretching pain which may be distinguished from a true Pleurisie by many signs yet Hippocrates for better security bids us soment with hot things and if the pain increase it is certainly from a defluxion and chiefly of hot matter if it abate it is from wind or a small defluxion which easily breaks forth when the skin is made thinner by the Fomentation It is not good to use Fomentations only but to give Clysters to make passage for the wind for in this disease the excrements are hard by idleness or driness when the moisture is gone to the veins or from much flegm that is gross which stops the passages therefore give a common Clyster first then a stronger to purget see the precedent Chapter If he will not take a Clyster give this Medicine Take Diacatholicon four drams Electuary of Dates two drams species Hierae s half a dram with Sugar make a Bole. Or give this Powder in Cock-broth or Wine Take Senna four scruples Rhubarb half a scruple Diagredium two grains Aromaticum rosatum eight grains Sugar a sufficient quantity After Evacuation open the Liver-vein on the side affected if there be much blood or great pain otherwise not then use Fomentations and the like to the part Take Calamints Pennyroyal Rosemary each one handful Rae Bayes each half a handful Juniper berries and Chamomil flowers each a pugil seeds of Foenugreek Line and Bran each three ounces Boil them to half then put the Liquour and Herbs in a Bladder and apply them or use a Cloth or a Sponge dipt in it do this often This concocts the thick and crude spirit extenuates and discusseth after this anoint with Oyl of Chamomil or bitter Almonds and apply a hot cloth Or make a Bag of Rue Thyme Wormwood Lavender Rosemary Chamomil Gith seed Cummin Carrot Bay-berries as in Chap. 16. When the wind is thus discussed it is good to apply a great Cupping-glass six fingers breadth below the part without Scarification but with a great flame twice or thrice this will discuss the wind easier it would not at first be discussed by a Cupping-glass If this will not do but the wind is bred still from clammy flegm prepare it thus by Inciders and Extenuaters Take roots of Orris Parsley Elicampane each an ounce bark of Dwarf-elder roots and of Tamarisk each four drams Sage Rosemary Hysop Roman Wormwood each half a handful Dodder a handful of the four great hot Seeds each two drams Raisons stoned a pugil Liquorish four drams boil them to half to a pint strained add Syrup of the five Roots two ounces of French Lavender Oxymel of Squills each an ounce and Sugar and a dram and half of Cinnamon make an Apozem for four draughts to be taken twice a day Then purge flegm thus Take Agarick four scruples Ginger half a dram infuse them in Fennel-water and white Wine twelve hours strain and add Benedicta laxativa three drams Electuary of the juyce of Roses half a dram Syrup of Calamints an ounce Or Take Turbith a dram Ginger half a dram Sugar two drams give it in powder with white Wine or Broth. Afterwards repeat the Fomentations Oyntments and Cupping-glasses and use Diacyminum or Electuary of Bay-berries or this Confection Take Conserve of Borage flowers candied Elicampane each half an ounce species of Diacyminum Dianisi Bay-berries each a scruple Cinnamon half a scruple with Syrup of Citron peels make an Electuary give a dram fasting in a decoction of Chamomil flowers and Aniseeds in white Wine It is good also to foment with Spirit of Wine and Oyl of bitter Almonds and apply a hot clout You must do the like in inflations of the Lungs CHAP. XVIII Of the Cure of a windy Palpitation A Palpitation is a Symptom of the Heart namely an elevation and depression of it preternaturally caused by wind and it is more dangerous then another palpitation because the part is most noble For if it be strong or last long it so weakens the vital faculty that it turns to fainting or sudden death Therefore presently strengthen the Heart with good Diet and Physick discuss wind and remove the cause Let the air be clear hot and dry not stinking or cloudy make it so by art if it be not naturally clear and sweet by sweet cordial things Let him abstain from strong passions of mind chiefly from sudden fear and shamefulness and from much Wine but moderate doth well and Venery and sleep in the day cold