wise the letting of Blood and Purgation to a third or fourth time and allowing always a convenient respite between the Evacuations that the Patient be not expos'd to any danger In the days that are free from Purgation prescribe as follows Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and of the yellow part of an Orenge of each one ounce Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an ounce old Treacle of Andromachus and preserv'd Nutmeg of each three drams preserv'd Ginger one dram with as much as sufficeth of syrup of the juice of Citron make an Electuary Dose as much as a Nutmeg in the morning and at five a clock in the afternoon drinking after every Dose five spoonfuls of the following Wine Take of the Roots of Peony Elicampane Masterwort and Angelica of each one ounce Leafs of Rue Sage Betony Germainder white Horehound and the tops of lesser Centory of each a handful Juniper Berries six drams the Pills of two Orenges Let all be slic'd and infus'd cold in three quarts of Canary Wine When you use it strain out so much as you intend to drink Take of Rue water four ounces Laugius his Epileptic water and compound Bryony water of each one ounce Syrup of Peony six drams mix and make a Julep Dose four spoonfuls every night at the time of going to Bed with eight drops of the spirit of Hartshorn Let a Plaister of Caranna be apply'd to the soles of the Feet The next year about the same time of the year that the Disease first appear'd let a Vein be again open'd and a purging Medicine exhibited some days for prevention of a Relapse It seemeth probable to me that the Falling Sickness in adult persons might be cur'd by this method which nevertheless I have not yet experienc'd But since it is accommodated to the tender Ages of those that are wont to be infested by Saint Vitus his Dance if it be apply'd to the Cure of Epilepsies in persons grown up both the quantity of the Blood that is to be taken away and the Doses of the purging Medicines ought to be augmented Of the Apoplexy It consists in a most profound Sleep and total privation of Sense and Motion excepting only Respiration which is still perform'd but with difficulty and snoring Let a Vein be instantly opened in the Arm and twelve ounces of Blood taken away and afterwards eight ounces more out of the Jugulars Immediately after exhibit a Vomit or an ounce and an half or two ounces of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum Let a large and sharp blistering Plaster be applied to the hinder part of the Neck While these things are doing let the sick person sit upright in his Bed not oppressed with too great a burthen of Cloaths Let Spirit of Sal Armoniac excellently rectified be held to his Nose After the operation of the Vomit is finished let three or four spoonfuls of the following Julep be from time to time exhibited Take Rue water four ounces compound Bryony water and Langius his Anti-epileptic water of each one ounce Spirit of Hartshorn twenty drops Sugar-candy as much as sufficeth make a Julep Or a spoonful of compound Spirit of Lavender may be given twice or thrice by it self during the Fit interposing the space of an hour or half an hour betwixt the Doses Observe heedfully that Cordials ought not to be exhibited too frequently and such as are too hot not at all as it is the custom to do For after all whatever specific vertue they may seem to be endued withal they do more mischief than good by melting the humors and consequently augmenting the Disease which inconvenience also is no less occasion'd by too great a burthen of Cloaths After the Paroxysm is over to prevent a Relapse let these things be prescribed Take of the pill Cochiae the greater two scruples for a Dose to be repeated six times every third day at Four of the clock in the morning sleeping after them Take Conserve of Sage Flowers and of Rosemary Flowers of each one ounce Conserve of the yellow part of an Orenge six drams pre served Nutmeg and preserved Ginger of each half an ounce old Treacle of Andromachus two drams the powders of the Electuaries Diambrae and Diamoschu Dulcis of each one dram with a sufficient quantity of the syrup of Citron pickle make an Electuary Dose as much as a Chesnut every morning and evening drinking after it two spoonfuls of Langius his Epileptic water Take of Ambergris half a dram the distill'd Oils of Anise-seed Cinnamon and Nutmeg of each two drops Oil of Cloves one drop Sugar dissolv'd in Orenge-flower water as much as sufficeth to make Tablets according to Art Let the Patient eat one at his pleasure Let him abstain from all manner of strong Drink and eat Broths made of Barley Oats or of Chickens and sometimes even the flesh of Chickens and Lambs and such like Meats of easie digestion especially while purging Medicines are exhibited Of the Inflamation of the Eyes It is manifest of it self Let ten ounces of Blood be taken out of a Vein in the Arm and the common purging Potion exhibited the next day and repeated two days after and once more reiterated after a like interval of time The same Nights let the Patient take a quieting draught of an ounce of the Syrup of Meconium Also let him drink four ounces of an emulsion of the greater cold Seeds and white poppy Seed three or four times every day that is free from purgation Take of Plantain water Red-Rose water and Frogs sperm water of each one ounce Powder of prepar'd Tutty one dram Make a mixture Pour a few drops of it into the Eye twice every day beginning after the first purgation If the Disease do not yield to these Remedies the Letting of Blood especially if it appear pleuritic and Purging must be repeated yet twice more Let the Patient abstain from the use of Wine and all sorts of strong Liquors from Meats also that are salt and hard of digestion and drink milk and water boil'd all the days that are free from purgation Note that it often happens that the setting of Blood and purging how often soever repeated are still found to be ineffectual In this case a composing draught of an ounce of Syrup of Meconium exhibited every night perfects the Cure without the help of any other Remedy Of the Falling down of the Womb. Take of the Bark of an Oak two ounces boil it in four quarts of Spring water till one half be consum'd adding towards the end the Rind of a Pomgranate beaten one ounce Red Roses and Pomgranate Flowers of each two handfuls then add half a pint of Red Wine Let the part affected be fomented with woollen Cloth dipt in the Liquor that is strain'd out two hours before the Patient rise every morning and at night when she is in her Bed till the Symptom disappear Of the Paroxysms of the Stone in the Kidneys The Signs are these A fix'd pain in the
of Angelica there described If she be not very weak purge her once or twice before she enter into this Course Of the Suppression of the Terms They loath Meat the Face is discoloured the whole Body is heavy the Forepart of the Head Loins Legs and Lower Belly are pain'd and the Feet are swoln Prescribe the same Remedies that are commended in the Chapter Of the Hysterical Passion but if these will not prevail proceed thus Every morning and at four a clock in the afternoon give five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep without Castoreum with twelve drops of Spirit of Hatts-horn and every night at her entrance into Bed let her take one scruple of the Troches of Myrrh made into a Bolus or Pills with Syrup of Mugwort Of Vomiting or Spitting of Blood Spitting of Blood is accompany'd with a Pain and Heat in the Breast and a certain Feebleness Let ten ounces of Blood be taken out of the Right Arm. The next morning let the Patient take the common purging Potion and the same night a composing Draught of three ounces of Black-cherry Water and one ounce of Syrup of Meconium Then let him use the following Remedies Take of Bole-Armeniac one ounce Powder of Comfry Roots two drams seal'd Earth Blood-stone and Dragons Blood of each one dram fine white Sugar the weight of all the rest mix them and make a fine Powder of which let him take one dram in the morning at five a clock in the afternoon and at night drinking four ounces of the following Apozeme after it Take of the Leafs of Plantane wild Bramble Bush and Yarrow of each one handful Boil them in a convenient quantity of Water to a Pint and an half in the straining dissolve two ounces of syrup of Comfry mix and make an Apozeme or let him take six spoonfuls of the following Tincture Take of Red Rose Flowers six drams the inner Bark of the Oak half an ounce Plantane Seeds somewhat bruss'd three drams Spring Water one quart Spirit of Vitriol as much as sufficeth to give the whole a pleasant sharpness Infuse them four hours in a close Vessel with a gentle Heat To the straining add three ounces of Barley Cinnamon Water and as much fine white Sugar as is sufficient to make it pleasant to taste If the Patient have an aversion against Powders let him use the Electuary prescribed in the Chapter Of the Immoderate Flux of the Terms Prescribe a Clyster to be injected every day and Diacodium to be taken at night Moreover the Patient must be let Blood again once twice or thrice according to the necessity of his condition some days being interposed Also if need be let him once again repeat the purging Potion And observe a cooling and thickning Diet. Of the Pricking of a Tendon A watery Humour or thin Gleet doth perpetually drop out of the Orifice of the Vein that is cut Take of White Lilly Roots boil'd in Cows Milk till they grow tender and beaten four ounces Lin-seed flower and Oat-flower of each three drams Boil them to the consistence of a Cataplasm in the same Milk in which the Roots were boiled Apply it to the part affected every morning and evening Of Burning Foment the part affected with Clouts dipt in Spirit of Wine till the pain be asswaged then dip the Clout again and apply it three or four times in a day to the part affected Of Common Madness This Disease proceedeth from a too vivid and exalted Constitution of the Blood There is also another sort of Madness that comes after long intermitting Fevers and at length degenerates into Folly which is caused by the Weakness and Flatness of the Blood proceeding from a long Fermentation thereof You must therefore prescribe high Cordials such as Treacle of Andromachus the Electuary de Ovo the Countesses Powder Sir Walttr Rawleigh's Powder in Plague water Treacle water or some other convenient Vehicle And injoin a Restorative Diet. In young Persons let a Vein be opened in the Arm and eight or nine ounces of Blood taken away twice or thrice every fourth day Then let the Jugular Veins be once opened After which the whole Cure depends upon the use of the following purging Medicine which must be given every third or fourth day while the Disease lasts But in the mean time it is to be observed that after the Patient hath been purged eight or ten times the exhibition of the Evacuating Medicine must be omitted for a Week or two Take of the Domestic Medicine that is White Briony Roots in powder one dram Cows Milk four ounces Or Take of the same Roots half an ounce or six drams White Wine four ounces Infuse them a whole night In the strained Liquor dissolve one ounce of Syrup of Violets Mix them for a Potion Or Take of Gambugia fourteen grains Black-Cherry water three ounces Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers half an ounce Make a Potion Of Contusions or Bruises Let a Vein in the Arm of the side that is most affected be opened and ten ounces of Blood taken away The next morning exhibit the common purging Potion and thenceforward in like manner repeat Blood-letting and Purgation by turns till the Patient recover In the mean while if the inward parts are hurt let him use the following Remedies during the whole course of the Cure Take of the Pectoral Decoction a pint and an half Syrup of Violets and of Maiden-hair of each two ounces Mix them for an Apozem of which let him take half a pint thrice a day Exhibit also frequently a Spoonful of Oil of Sweet Almonds newly drawn Take of Oil of Sweet Almonds the Ointment Dialthaeae and Pomate of each one ounce Mix them for a Liniment with which anoint the part affected morning and evening laying over it a Cabbage Leaf Of Scurf or Scales in the Head Let the Common Purging Potion be twice exhibited Then Take of Oil of bitter Almonds Oil of Laurel the Ashes of Sothernwood leaves of each one ounce Mix them thoroughly for a Liniment with which anoint the whole Head every night rubbing it in diligently and then cover it with a Sow's Bladder But first let all the Hair be cut off and afterwards rub off the Scales by degrees every morning according as they are ready to fall away Of the Biting of a Mad Dog After 40 Days or more the Signs of Melancholy appear a Fever Thirst Hydrophobia or the Fear of Water and at length Convulsions of the extreme Parts Take of Spirit of Wine highly rectified four ounces Treacle of Andromachus one ounce make a mixture with which anoint the part that is hurt thrice every day laying over it a Clout dipt in the same mixture Of the Ulcer of the Bladder Stinking matter is voided or Blood and sometimes Scales or membranous Skins and as it were scurfy Crusts like Bran whereas when the Ulcer is in the Reins pieces of Flesh which sometimes are very big are voided with the Urine There is also a perpetual difficulty of
the animal Spirits run into disorderly motions the Urine appears sometimes limpid and in great quantity the sick persons cast off all hope of recovery and portend the most dismal things to themselves Whatsoever part of the body the Disease doth affect and it affecteth many immediately the symptoms that are proper to that part appear in the Head the Apoplexy which ends in a Palsy of one half of the body comes presently after Child-bearing sometimes they are seized with Convulsions that very much resemble the Epilepsy and are commonly called the Suffocation of the womb in which the Belly and Entrails rise upwards towards the Throat At other times they are miserably tormented with the Hysterical Clavus in which there is a most vehement pain in the head which you may cover with your thumb the sick person in the mean time vomiting up green Matter like to that sort of Choler that has its name from Leeks The Paroxysm doth also counterfeit the Palpitation of the Heart the Cough the Colic and Iliac Passions the Stone and Suppression of Urine it is attended with prodigious vomitings and sometimes with a Diarrhaea outwardly in the musculous Flesh it causes sometimes Pains and sometimes swellings In the Legs it is like a Dropsie nor which is wonderful doth it leave the Teeth untouch'd The Back is often cruelly pain'd and almost always the external parts are so cold that a dead body is not more The sick persons break out ridiculously into excessive Laughter and Tears without any cause and are some times troubled with spitting to such a degree as were enough to make one believe that they had been anointed with Mercury Hysterical Pains whatsoever part they affect leave a Tenderness behind them that cannot endure to be touch'd as if the Flesh had been beaten Let Blood be taken away to the quantity of eight ounces Apply the Plaister of Galbanum to the Navel And next morning let the sick person begin to use the following Pills Take of the Pills call'd Cochiae the greateâ— two drams Castoreum powder'd two grains Balsam of Peru three drops Make twelve Pills of which take four every morning of every second day according to your strength about four or five of the clock sleeping after them Take Rue water four ounces compound Briony water two ounces Castoreum tyed in a knot and hung in the Glass half a dram Sugar-candy a sufficient quantity Of this take four or five spoonfuls in every Fit After the Pills take what follows Take Filings of Steel eight grains and with a sufficient quantity of Extract of Wormwood make three Pills which must be taken early in the morning and repeated at five in the afternoon for thirty days drinking after them a draught of Wormwood Wine If the form of a Bolus be more grateful Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and Conserve of the yellow part of Orenges of each one ounce preserv'd Angelica Nutmeg preserv'd Treacle of Andromochas of each half an ounce compound Powder of Aron three drams preserv'd Ginger two drams with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the juice of Citrons or in want of that Syrup of Orenges make an Electuary Take of this Electuary two drams Filings of Steel eight grains and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Orenges make a Bolus which is to be taken morning and evening drinking after it a draught of Wormwood Wine or six spoonfuls of the following Infusion Take Roots of Angelica Elicampane and Masterwort of each one ounce Leaves of common Wormwood lesser Centory white Horehound and Germainder of each one handful the Barks of two Orenges slic'd pour upon them so much Spanish Wine as will rise two inches above them and strain it at the time of using it Or To delicate persons the Steel may be given in the form of a Powder as follows Take Filings of Steel finely powder'd one ounce compound Powder of Aron six drams Coriander seed prepar'd seeds of Anise and sweet Fennel of each half an ounce the best Cinnamon red Coral prepar'd of each three drams Nutmeg two drams Beat them all into a very fine Powder to which add of the best white Sugar to the weight of all the rest Take half a dram of this Powder in a Spoon twice a day four days together and afterwards a whole dram twice every day for forty days drinking after it six spoonfuls of the following Julep or of Wormwood and Wine Take Milk water twelve ounces compound Gentian water four ounces Wormwood water of the greater composition two ounces White Sugar a sufficient quantity Make a Julep Or Take half a pint of Rhenish Wine prepar'd with Wormwood compound Gentian water two ounces Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers one ounce Make a Julep Take choice Myrrh Galbanum and Assa foetida of each one dram Castoreum half a dram with a sufficient quantity of the Balsam of Peru make them up into Pills twelve out of each dram of which take three every night drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of compound Bryony water during the whole process of the Cure If these Pils move the Belly use these that follow Take Castoreum one dram volatil salt of Amber half a dram with a sufficient quantity of extract of Rue make four and twenty Pills of which take three every night drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep Spirit of Harts-horn exhibited frequently to sixteen or eighteen drops is of excellent use But if the Disease doth not yield to these remedies then take the following Pills Take Troches of Myrrh powder'd one scruple Balsom of Sulphur terebinthinated four drops with a sufficient quantity of Gum Ammoniac disolv'd make four Pills which must be taken morning and evening drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep with twelve drops of Spirit of Harts-horn The Antiscorbutic Electuary with the Water there described is good also in this Disease and likewise the corroborating Electuary with the addition of Conserve of Garden Scurvy-Grass one ounce compound powder of Aron six drams drinking after it the forementioned Water But if all these Remedies prove ineffectual you must have recourse to the waters that partake of Iron and if these also do no good to those that are sulphureous such as are the Bath waters Concerning the use of the Mineral waters these things are to be observed If any bad symptom appear which may be ascribed to the drinking of the water in such a case you must abstain from them till the symptom disappear Continue the use of them for six weeks at least rather two months Eat now and then preserv'd Ginger or Caraway seeds confected to warm the stomach You may also take three of the Hysterical Pills the first ten nights drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep As for the Bath waters you must dsink them two days and bath in them the third proceeding thus alternately six weeks or two months If the Steel heat the body too much
Take Treacle of Andromachus half a dram the Electuary de Ovo one scruple the Root of Virginian Snakeweek in fine powder fifteen grains Oriential Bezoar five grains with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron pickle make a Bolus to be taken at the time of going to bed one and twenty days together drinking after it six spoonfuls of this Julep Take of Carduus Benedictus water six ounces distill'd Treacle water Plague water of each two ounces Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers one ounce mix and make a Julep Let the Patient drink every morning half a pint of warm Posset and sweat an hour after it This course being ended if the Pimples still remain let the parts affected be anointed with the following Liniment Take of the Ointment of sharp-pointed dock two ounces Pomate one ounce Flowers of Brimstone three drams Oleum Rhodij half a scruple make a Liniment But these Remedies ought not to be used till the Patients Body hath been first duely prepar'd by letting of Blood and Purging Of the Quinsy The Quinsy doth most frequently occur betwixt the Spring and Summer The first assault of the Fever is seconded by a pain and inflamation of the Jaws which together with the swelling of the Uvula Tonsils and Laryux renders the sick person unable either to swallow or breath Let a Vein be opened in the Arm and a great quantity of Blood taken away Let the inflam'd parts be touch'd with Honey of Roses impregnated to a very high degree of acidity with Spirit of Vitriol or of Sulphur or with Spirit of Vitriol alone Presently after let the following Gargarism be prescribed to be used not after the usual manner but held in the mouth without any agitation till it grow hot and then spit out and ever and anon repeated Take Plantain water Rose water and Frogs Sperm water of each four ounces the Whites of three Eggs by shaking reduc'd into water Sugar-candy three drams Mix and make a Gargarism Let the cooling Emulsion prescribed for the Pleurisy be daily used Next morning unless the Fever and Difficulty of Swallowing be abated the Letting of Blood must be repeated and the Purgation delay'd till the day after which otherwise ought to have been attempted with some lenitive Medicine If after all the Disease doth continue which happens very rarely both the Letting of Blood and Purging must be reiterated Let a large and sharp Blistering Plaister be applied to the hinder part of the Neck after the first Letting of Blood Every day that is free from Purging let a cooling and softning Clyster be injected in the morning Let the Patient use a thin Diet and abstain from his Bed every day for some hours In all these Fevers which I call intercurrent as also in that of the present constitution it is diligently to be observed that the sick person must abstain from his Bed a great part of the day and that he must feed upon Barley or Oat-meal Broths and such like things and use small Beer hopp'd and Milk and Water for his ordinary Drink Of the Measles They chiefly invade Children The first day they are taken with a chilness and shivering and grow hot and cold by turns The second day the Fever is perfected and the following Symptoms appear Vehement Sickness Thirst want of Appetite the Tongue is white but not dry a little Cough heaviness of the Head and Eyes and an inclination to sleep a humour perpetually dropping from the Nose and Eyes which tears are a most certain sign of the Measles As also sneezing swelling of the Eye-lids a little before the Eruption Vomiting a Diarrhaea or Loosness Greenness of the Excrements especially in Children that are breeding Teeth The Symptoms increase till the fourth day in which and sometimes in the fifth the Forehead and Face begin to be marked with little red specks not unlike to Flea-bitings which being afterwards augmented both in bigness and number run together in clusters and stain the face with great red spots that are made up of small pushes raised so little above the Skin that you can hardly perceive the protuberancy of them with your Eye though you may feel it by slightly touching them with your Fingers From the Face where at the first they only appear they spread themselves over the Breast Belly and last of all the Legs in which parts they are broad and red and rise not above the surface of the skin After the Eruption of the Measles the symptoms are not mitigated as in the Small-pox The Vomiting indeed ceases but the Fever Cough and Difficulty of Breathing are increased and the defluction upon the Eyes the drowsiness and dejection of Appetite still continue On the sixth day or thereabout the Forehead and Face grow rough the wheals dying away and the upmost skin being broken in the rest of the Body the spots appear very broad and red About the eighth day these in the Face vanish and scarcely are there any to be seen in the rest of the Body The day following they disappear entirely leaving behind them certain mealy scales in the Face and Limbs and sometimes over all the Body and at this time the Fever Cough and difficulty of Breathing increase In adult persons that are kept hot the spots grow first livid and then black Take of the Pectoral Decoction a pound and a half Syrup of Violets and of Maiden-hair of each an ounce and a half mix and make an Apozem Dose three or four ounces three or four times in the day Take of Oil of sweet Almonds two ounces Syrup of Violets and of Maiden-hair of each an ounce White Sugar-candy as much as sufficeth mix and make an Eclegma to be taken often licking especially when the Cough is troublesome Take of Black Cherry water three ounces Syrup of Meconium one ounce mix them for a Draught which is to be taken every night from the beginning to the end of the Disease augmenting or lessening the Dose according to the Age of the Patient Let the sick persons keep their Beds two days after the first Eruption of the spots If after the disappearing of the Measles they be succeeded by a Fever difficulty of Breathing and other Symptoms counterfeiting a Peripneumonia in such a case a Vein in the Arm is to be opened and a great quantity of Blood taken away once twice or thrice as the occasion shall require interposing always a convenient space of time betwixt Let the Patient also continue the use of the Pectoral Decoction above described as also of the Lohoth or Oil of Sweet Almonds by it self And about the twelfth day from the first beginning of the Disease let him be purg'd with a Lenitive Medicine The Diarrhaea or Looseness that comes after the Measles is cured by letting of Blood Of the Small Pox. They are of two kinds the Distinct and Running Pox. The first at the beginning are attended with Chilness and Shivering intense Heat vehement pain of the Head and Back disposition to
of Amber half a dram mix them and tie them in a Bag. Or Take two drams of Spirit of Sal Armoniac and put it frequently to her Nose Of Suppression of the Loches The Signs are these A Swelling of the Belly a heavy Pain in the lower parts of the Belly the Loins and Groin redness of Face difficulty of breathing perturbation of the Eyes Shiverings acute Fevers Swoonings Cold Sweats a Sense of Beating and Burning heat in the Womb a Palsy of the lower parts and sometimes an Epilepsy Let her be instantly confin'd to her Bed and the Hysterical Plaister apply'd to her Navel then prescribe this Electuary Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and of Rue of each one ounce Troches of Myrrh two drams Castoreum English Saffron Volatil Salt of Amber Sal Armoniac and Asa Foetida of each half a dram Syrup of the five Roots as much as sufficeth to make an Electuary of which let her take the quantity of a Nutmeg every four hours drinking four or five spoonfuls of the following Julep after it Take of Rue water four ounces compound Bryony water two ounces Sugar-candy as much as is convenient Make a Julep Or let her take a scruple of Troches of Myrrh every four hours If after the prescrib'd quantity of these Remedies is consumed the Loches continue still to be supprest exhibit only one dose of Laudanum namely 14 drops of Laudanum Liquidum in compound Bryony water or one grain and an half of solid Laudanum made up into two Pills with half a scruple of Asa foetida If these suffice not let a Clyster of Sugar'd Milk be only once injected Of the Dropsie This Disease is first known by the Pits or Impression remaining in the lower parts of the Legs after you have thrust your Finger upon them which appear conspicuously at night but vanish in the morning especially if this sign be accompanied with a difficulty of Breathing though women with Child and such as are troubled with a suppression of their Courses and Men that are suddenly freed from an inveterate Asthma are also not unfrequently molested with swellings of a like nature The Feet and Legs being extremely swoln the Waters rush into the Abdomen and by degrees filling up its capacity stretch it forth to the uttermost till at last falling upon some of the more noble Entrals the sick person is drowned As the bulk of the parts affected increaseth the rest do proportionably grow more and more slender In the mean time there is a difficulty of Breathing and little Urine is voided This Disease doth commonly assault Men when they grow old and Women when they leave off Child-bearing The principal Scopes of the Cure are first the evacuations of the Waters and then by the restauration and strengthning of the Blood to prevent the new increase of the Waters Take of White-wine four ounces Jalap in fine powder one dram powder of Ginger half a Scruple Syrup of Buckthorn one ounce mix them for a Potion to be taken early in the morning and repeated every day or every second day according to the strength of the Patient till the Swelling be abated Or Take of Tamarinds half an ounce Senna Leafs two drams Rheubarb a dram and an half Boil them in a convenient quantity of water to three ounces dissolve in the straining of Manna and loosning Syrup of Roses of each one ounce Syrup of Buckthorn half an ounce the Electuary of the juice of Roses three drams mix them for a Potion to be taken as above Or Take of the Pills ex duobus one Scruple Elaterium three grains Chymical Oil of Cloves two drops Make three Pills to be taken early in the morning and repeated as the occasion shall require Or Take of Gambugia fifteen grains White-wine and Cichory-water of each one ounce and an half Syrup of Buckthorn half an ounce mix them for a Potion to be taken as above Or Take three handfuls of the inward Bark of the Elder boil them in a quart of milk and water equally mixt to a pint Let the Patient take one half of the strain'd liquor in the morning and the other in the evening every day till he be restored to his health But this Remedy is of no efficacy but only in those Bodies that are very easily moved by purging Medicines Concerning the use of Purges in this Disease three things are to be observed In the first place consider whether the Body of your Patient is wont to yield easily or difficultly to purging Medicines For one ounce of Syrup of Buckthorn being exhibited by it self to such as are easily wrought upon will evacuate the Waters very copiously whereas in others the strongest Purges above prescribed will hardly produce the desired effect Secondly Such Purges as are of slow operation do more mischief than good and therefore such as work strongly and even too strongly are always to be preferred before these that are too weak Thirdly The Waters ought to be evacuated with as much haste as the strength of the Patient can possibly bear lest by interposing too long Intervals between the several purgations we give occasion to the Waters to gather again There are some Cases in which all purging Medicines of whatsoever kind they be may and ought to be wholly omitted For when the sick person is of a weak constitution or a Woman subject to Vapours the Evacuation of the Waters is to be attempted only by Diuretics or Medicines that provoke Urine among which the most efficacious are those that are composed of lixivious Salts For Example Take a pound of Brome-ashes infuse them cold in four pints of Rhenish Wine strain the liquor through a piece of brown paper of which let the Patient drink three ounces in the morning at five in the afternoon and at night till the Humours be wholly evacuated Which being performed let such Medicines as heat and strengthen be exhibited as for Example Take the Roots of Horse-Radish Leaf of Garden-Scurvy-grass common Wormwood and Sage the Tops of lesser Centory and Brome infuse them in strong Ale for ordinary Drink which alone doth sometimes cure a beginning Dropsie without the help of purginâ— Medicines Or prescribe that which follows Take of the Conserve of Garden-Scurvy-grass and of Roman Wormwood of each one ounce extract of Gentian of common Wormwood and of lesser Centory of each three drams with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron Pill make an Electuary Dose as much as a large Nutmeg in the morning at five a clock in the afternoon and at night drinking four ounces of the following Infusion after it Take of Gentian Roots one ounce Brome tops and tops of lesser Centory and common Wormwood of each one handful Seeds of Fennel and Parsley of each two drams Chop them small and pour upon them four pints of Rhenish Wine let them stand together in a cold Infusion and strain out the Liquor when you use it Note That during the use of these corroborating Medicines you
of each one Scruple with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary of which let her take the quantity of a large Nutmeg in the morning and at five a clock in the afternoon drinking after it six Spoonfuls of the following Julep Take of the Water of Oak-buds and Plantane of each three ounces Barley Cinnamon Water and Syrup of dried Roses of each one ounce Spirit of Vitriol as much as sufficeth to give it a grateful sharpness Take of the Leafs of Plantane and Nettles of each a convenient quantity Beat them together and press out the Juice of which being clarified let her take four or five Spoonfuls now and then at her pleasure After the first Purgation let the following Plaister be apply'd to the Region of the Loins Take of Vermilion plaister and the plaister for a Rupture of each an equal quantity Spread them on a piece of Leather for a plaister to be applied to the Region of the Loins Of the Hysterical Colic It is a certain kind or rather a very notable and usual Symptom of the Hysterical Disease which is accompany'd with a most sharp pain about the pit of the Breast and vomiting of green Humours First that the glut of the corrupt Humours lodged in the Stomach may not obstruct the efficacy of the quieting Medicine let a large quantity of posset as for example a Gallon and an half be swallowed down and cast forth again by vomiting After which exhibit 25 drops of liquid Laudanum in an ounce of strong Cinnamon Water plague Water or any other convenient Vehicle Concerning the use of the composing Medicine it is to be observed that they ought to be constantly repeated till the Symptoms wholly disappear interposing a convenient space between the Doses that so we may be able to judge of the effect of one before another be exhibited If the patient be of a sanguine Constitution nor hath been formerly subject to this Symptom or weakned by it then let a Vein be first opened before the use of the prescribed Vomit The Disease called The Hysterical Clavus is also cured by the same method But if the Hysterical Colic continue a great while and come by Fits then let the following things be given in the Intervals between the paroxysms Take a Dram of Zedoary reduced to fine powder and make a Bolus with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron pickle to be taken every morning and evening for 30 days together drinking the following Infusion after it Take half an ounce of Zedoary cut into small pieces Infuse it cold in four ounces of Canary Wine and after it hath stood twelve hours strain it for your use Or take Balsam of Peru as it is prescribed in the Chapter of the Colic of the people of Poictiers What is here said of the Hysterical Colic ought to be applied to the Hypochondriacal Colick And this also is to be heedfully observed The nature of both these Distempers seems in a peculiar manner to require that we should essay several Medicines till that at last be found out to which the Disease naturally yields tho for the most part Steel is in this case most effectual This kind of Colic both in Hypochondriacal and Hysterical persons doth often degenerate into the Jaundice which by degrees vanisheth of it self But if it continue long let the following Apozem be exhibited Take of the Roots of Madder such as Dyers use Turmerick of each one ounce greater Celandine the whole plant Tops of lesser Centory of each one handful Boil them in equal parts of Rhenish Wine and Spring Water to a Quart In the strained Liquor dissolve two ounces of the Syrup of the five Roots Make an Apozeme Dose half a pint warm every morning and evening till the patient recover Of the Jaundice when it doth not come after the Colick It is known by the following Signs a yellow colour of the whole Body with which also all Objects appear ting'd to the sick persons and it is chiefly conspicuous in the White of the Eyes an Itching Laziness and Weariness Bitterness of the Tongue sometimes cholerick Vomitings Hiccoughs White Excrements the Urine is of a Saffron colour and dyeth Cloths that are dipt therein of the same colour Exhibit the common purging potion and then prescribe the things that are here subjoin'd during the use of which let the purging potion be repeated every fourth day Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood Conserve of the yellow part of an Orenge of each one ounce preserved Angelica preserved Nutmeg compound powder of Aron and Steel prepared with Vinegar of each half an ounce extract of lesser Centory extract of Gentian and Cream of Tartar of each two drams English Saffron powdered half a dram with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the five Roots make an Electuary of which let the patient take the bigness of a Nutmeg every morning and at five in the afternoon or instead of the Electuary you may give Chalybeat or Steel Pills drinking after the morning Dose four pints of mineral purging Waters and half a pint of the Apozeme prescribed in the Chapter of the Hysterical Colic after the Dose that is taken in the afternoon But if any Signs of a Dropsy appear let the patient use the Apozem both in the morning and evening But if the obstinacy of the Disease will not be overcome by the long continued use of these Remedies let the sick person have recourse to the Iron or Spaw Waters which ought to be drunk at the Fountain head Of the Preservation from Abortion Use the same things that are prescribed in the Chapter of the Immoderate Flux of the Courses omitting only Purgation and the Juices Of the immoderate Flux of the Loches or Child-bed Purgations There are three things required to constitute a natural flowing of the Loches First pure Blood flowing copiously for the first three days then watery Blood like Water wherein Flesh hath been washed continuing about four days after and last of all tough and clammy matter coming forth during the five or six days next following and so onward to the end of the month Now the immoderate Flux of the Loches is to be estimated from the decay of strength Swooning the coming forth of clotted Blood Loathing of Meat Pain in the Hypochondria or under the Ribs Distension of the Belly a weak and frequent Pulse Dimness of Sight Noise in the Ears and Convulsions Let a thickning Diet be prescribed and the following Potion added Take of Plantane Water and Red Wine of each one pint boil them together till a third part be consumed then sweeten the liquor with a convenient quantity of fine white Sugar and let the Patient drink half a pint of it cold twice or thrice a day In the mean time let some mild Hysterical Julep be now and then exhibited and the following Bag applied to her Nose Take of Galbanum and Asa Faetida of each two drams Castoreum a dram and an half Volatil Salt