the orgâns of sense and motion with the liver spleen stomach belly mesentery bladder strait âut back hips arms and legs and causeth symâtoms As Galen âaith the mother or hysterical ââââion is one name but hath under it innumeââble Symptoms Chap. 4. Of Suffocation of the Womb. IN this they seem to be strangled And there are so many Symptoms at once that it is impossible to define it by one Sometimes there is only short breath sometimes the animal actions are hurt the whole body is cold from a malignant vapor sent up from the womb The immediate Cause is a vapor malignant and venemous sent up by the arteries veins and nerves that hurt the actions of the parts it goes to This vapor is like air or wind thin and little but very strong to get presently through the whole body it chieâly ascends to the gullet and causeth choaking as eating of Mushrooms Hellebore and other poysons There is often short difficult breathing with heart-ach vomiting and loathing If the vapor go first to the heart the motion of it ceaseth and there is swounding and she falls down If it go to the brain the animal actions are hurt When âeed and terms corrupt in the womb with other bad humors they breed this evil vapor because they are the best substance and the beginning of generation they are worst when corrupted especially seed to hurt the whole body Somtimes it is in women with child when they have not their after puâging but evil humors aâe leât and corrupt in the womb The chief cause of this humor is in the trumpet of the womb and stones the body of which is hollow and loose the stones being in bladders and have hollowness full of water which in hystârical women is yellow and thicker then ordinary This trumpet and the stones are often taken for the womb it selfâ when they are swollen with corrupt seed and humors and wind and reach to the navel of which in the Chapter of ascent of the Womb. This disease is breeding sooner or longer as the matter is more or less somtimes corrupt humoâs lie still and if they be stirred they send a venom or vapor to the whole body now in women subject to this disease sweet sâents to the nose or taken in or anger will move these huhumors and vapors They are according to the variety of the symptoms and efficient cause or venemous humors for corrupt blood especially seed puts on another Nature That Suffocation is at hand it appears by laziness weakness of the legs paleness sad countenance and the motion of somthing like a ball in the belly with noise like Froggs Snakes or Crows so that some think it devillish There is also belching yawning yexing short wind heart-beating loathing dulness laughture at the coming of the fit ârom the vapor gâtting into the membrâne of the breast that tickle them some cry some both laugh and cry These Symptoms increase when the fit comes and the jaws are closed that she seems to be choaked and sense and motion is gone or depraved Some have Convulsions some hâar what is done about them but cannot speak the âulâe iâ less the whole body is cold and the eyes ãâã as if they were dead When the âit declines humors sâow from the ârivââiâs the guâs rumble the eyes open the cheeks grow red and the body warm the animal actions return and the patient sighs and comes to her self It is known to be from corrupt seed if the terms are in order and short breath and low voice Suffocation and Convulsions and all Symptomes are then more vehement and at the end of the fit there flows a humor like seed out of the privities It is from the terms if they be stopt or flow not orderly and if there be a disâase in the womb it is neither from the seed noâ the terms 1. If there come swounding or a great Convulsion or quenching of natural heat it is deadly 2. Suffocation from corrupt seed is more dangerous then that which is from the terms mixt with melancholick humors 3. The longer it lasts and the worse the symptoms the more is the danger It ceaseth in yong women when they begin to bear children 4. The oftner the fit comes the more you may âear the quenching of the natural heat by weakning of the heart often and if she foam at the mouth she dies The Cure of the Fit In the fit you must discuss the malignant vapors that riseth from the womb and turn it fâom the principal parts and you must evacuate the matter that breeds it and prevent its return Cal upon her loud pluck the hairs of her privities and ears make strong Ligatures and Frictions cup the legs and thighs and gâoyns hold stinks to the nose as Partridg-feathers burnt hairs Leather Horn Castor Assa foetida Galbanum oyl of Amber Rue the warts on Horses legs dried and the pouder upon coals burnt makes a âume which if taken in the nose suddenly raised them Apply sweet Scenâs to the priviâies as Civeâ Musk Gallia and Alâpta mosâhata or pouder of Cloves Or Take Storax calamita Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a sâruple make Troâhes with Gum Trâganth and let the Fume be taken into the womb by a Funnel A Liniment Take Storax Benzoin each a dram Gallia moschata half a scruple Civet four grains liquid Storax half a scruple with Cotton put it into the womb Clysters to discuss wind draw down the matter Take the Carminative Dâcoction a pint Electuary of Hiera six drams Benedicta laxativa an âââce Oyl of Rue and Bayberriâs each a dram Use Womb-clysters and Pessaries to women that have known man Take Electuary of Hiera and Diaphaenicon each two drams Turpentine half an ounce Honey of Mercury an âunce Castor halâ a dram ââth Wool make a Pessary Oyl of Tin applied to the navel doth remove the sit Or Rue Castor and sneesing Pouders As Take white Hellebore halâ a scruple long Pepper ând Ginger each half a dram or put Oyl of Amâââ into the Nose and Eârs Apply to the Womb this Take Oyl of Rue âaâs each two ounââs Cummin seed Câstâr dissolâââ in Vinâgar eâch two drams with Wax make a ãâã Or use a âlââsââr of ââlbânum Caâor and Aââa foetida A compound distilled Water Take Zedoary ââsmp sââds Lovage âââts each two ounââs Mirrh Castor each half an oânce Piony roots four ounâââ Misteto of the Oak gathered in the wain of the Moân three ounces ad water of Motherwort four pinâs anâ half Spirit of Wine a pint and half steep them eigââ daies distil and give a spoonful with Tile-flower or Mugwort water or Oyl of Amber some drops Or Take Castor Mirrh Assa faetida each a sâruplââ Pepper half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort mâlâ Pills give three The Cure out of the Fit First prevent the âeed from corrupting in the womb and if it be corrupt evacuate it presenâây
the stomach and in a dry use moist things as Oyl of Lillies Dialthaea Hens grease Butter Let the Nurse avoid astringent meâts as Qâinâes Medlars Beans and use Emollients If the chiâd be big give juyce or Decoction of red Colwoâts worts with a little Salt and Honey If it be from slimy flegm give Honey or Syrup of Roses Correct the hot distemper of the Liver and Reins with Syrup of Violets and Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds If choler come not from the Gall to the Guts give the Decoction of Grass-roots Fennel Sparagus Maidenhair Give Clysters to cut and clense tough flegm As Take Alâhaea roots Mallows Pellitory each half a handful Faenugreek and Lineseed each a dram Chamomil flowers a pugil boyl and to three or six ounces ad three drams of Cassia Oyl an ounce and the yolk of an Eg. To the Navel apply Hens grease and Ox gal Or Take Aloes two drams Ox gall a dram Scamony a scruple with Buttâr make an Oyntment Fill a Walnut shell with it and apply it to the Navel Anoint the belly with Emoillients Take fresh Butter Goose and Hens grease each half an ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds and Lineseed each two drams Veal marrow Dialthaea each two drams with Wax make an Oyntment Bran and juyce of Danewort make a loosning Cataplasm for the belly Only keep it from the stomach as you must do other Cataplasms Chap. 23. Of the Worms IT is observed that children have had worms in their mothers belly and voided them after they were born But they are chiefly bred by mixing milk with other meats in a hot and moist constitution and from sweet meats which woâms love and Summer-fruits they are round and long or broad and little Besides what is said in Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 5. Worms are known to be in a body when there is much spittle and a stinking breath troublesom sleep gnashing of teeth crying and bawling a dry cough loathing vomiting hickets want of appetite or too much thirst a belly swelled or bound or too loose thick white urin with pain when the belly is empty and the worms want food There is a cold sweat over the face and a high colour with sudden paleness sometimes a feaver and convulsion which ceaseth presently These are the signs of round worms rather then of the flat Infants are often long troubled with worms without any great inconvenience sometimes there are great Symptomes The long round worms are worst and have eaten sometimes the guts and belly through with a feaver they are more dangerous few are better then many and small then great white are better then those of other colours The other Prognosticks are mentioned in other places Preservation It is better to prevent the breeding of worms then to expel them by eating of meats of good juyce with Oranges and Pomegranates and avoiding sweet fat and slimy meats fish milk and Summer-fruits and figs. Drink thin Wine and Grass and Sorrel water with it and with pouder of Harts horn Let the belly be kept loose with Clysters foâ children or give the Decoction of Sebestens before meat or of Wormwood and Scordium but children will not take bitter things therefore give Grass water and juyce of Lemons or Citâons or a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol When you know by the signs that there are worms kill and expel them with pouder of Coralline Wormseed Harts horn or eight grains of Mercurius dulcis Infuse them a night in gâass water and cast away the substance oâ the Mercury and give the Water Or Take Woâmseed two drams Coralline Harts horn prepared each a dram roots of Piony Dittany Magistery of Coral each a scruple make a Pouder or give the Essence of Peach flowers or the Decoction of fern-Fern-water half an ounce or an ounce If there be a feaver use colder as juyce of Lemons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts horn Bezoar Confection of Hyacinth or this Potion Take Grass water four ounces Syrup of juyce of Citrons an ounce of Violets half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol two drops give two spoonfuls Give bitter things at the mouth and sweet at the fundament as a Clyster of Milk Or Take Raisons ten Figs seven boyl them in water take of it four ounces add Sugar an ounce and half make a Clyster Use varieties that the worms may not be too familiar with one Apply Peach leaves to the Navel bruised or a Cataplasm of Ox gall Wormwood and St. Johns-wort Or Take pouder of Wormwood Gith Centaury Wormseed Lupines each half an ounce with Oyl of Wormwood and Wax half an ounce make an Oyntment Or Take Treacle half an ounce with juyce of Wormwood apply it to the navel or make a Bath of Peach leaves and Wormwood put the child into it up to the navel If there be a Feaver use colder things mentioned Chap. 24. Of the Rupture IT is from the Peritonaeum loose or broken when the sâall guts fall into the cods from crying cough straininâ at stoolâ and from vehement motion or a fall Sometimes the Peritonaeum is well and a water falls from the belly into the cods The tumor is visible if it be from a gut it is in one part only as the right or left and it may be felt and the hole also âhrough which it fel. If from water it is even all over and there was no cause of other Rupture It is easier cured in infants then in elder persons for it is safer but worse then that of water which goes away of it self when the water is consumed Let the belly be kept open let not the child cry Avoid vehement motion lay him upon his back and thrust it up gently and apply this Plaister Take Lambs tongue Sanicle each half an ounce Lentils and Lupines and red Roses in pouder each two drams Frankincense a dram Allum half a dram with the white of an Eg. Or Take Frankincense Cypress nuts Aloâs Acacia each two drams Mirrh a dram with Izinglass make a Plaster Or apply Gum Elemni steept in Vinegar till there be a Cream at the top and with oyl of Eggs make a Cerot Inwardly Take Sanicle Lambs tongue each half a handful Agrimony a handful Comfrey the greater half an ounce boyl them to a pint strained ad Sugar give it often Or give pouder of Mousear or Moonwort with Wine If it be from water anoint with Oyl of Elder Bayes Rue or apply a Cataplasm of pouder of Beans âoenugreek Lineseed Chanââmil flowers Cummin seeds with these Oyls Chap. 25. Of sticking out of the Navel IT is without inflammation 1. When it was not well tied and too much left that sticks out 2. When the Peritonaeum is loose and hath water or wind in it from crying or coughing 3. When the navel is ulcerated and the guts fall into it this is called properly Exomphalon The navel yeilds to the touch but in an inflamation it is hard there is
their shape the malignant are known by their hardness and heat and blewness filâh and pain They are often hard to be cured because the pox is with them and they are in a place to which Medicines are hard to be applied and to continue The Myrmeciae are not cut off but they leave a great ulcer the Thymi and Clavi grow again Acrochordones once cut leave no root After Universals and order of diet either use Medicines or cut or burn them to discuss then use Sage dried with Figs Organ Rue burnt dry Savin Frankincense with Wine and Vinegar or Snakes skins with Figs these also dry These corrode eat and burn as juyce of wild Cowcumbers with Salt Milk of Figgs Sheeps dung Goats gall with Niter Aqua fortis Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur Butter of Antimony Take heed that you hurt not the parts adjacent but defend them with Bole sealed Earth Rosewater and Vinegar if you put the Corrosives into Nut-shells change them twice or thrice in a day and wash the part with a clensing Decoction and then cut or burn Chap. 7. Of the Haemorrhoids of the Womb. THe veins that end in the neck of the womb often swel like the Haemorrhoids it is from gross blood that comes to these veins out of the time of the terms Inordinate flux of terms may occasion it when tâây slow out of the usual time they grow thick and cannot get out of the veins but swel them They are to be touched and with a Speculum matricis to be seen There is pain and bleeding without order she is pale and lazy Correct the blood purge and bleed in the arm to derive and revel of which in the diseases of the womb If pain be abate it by sitting in a Decoction of Mallows Althaea Chamomil Mâlilot flowers Moulin Lineseed Foenugreek of which also make Fomentations and Oyntments with Butter Populeon and Opium if there be pain Take Populeon Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds fresh Butter each half an ounce Saffron a sâââple with the yolk of an Egg make an Oyntment Or Take Muâilage of Quinces Althaea eaâh half an ounce Oyl of Roses and Hens greâse each a dram the yolk of an Eg and Saffron half a dram mix them in a leaden Mortar If pain be gone or abated and they bleed not use Dryers of Bole Earth of Lemnos Acacia Ceruss froath of Silver Lead burnt and washed long Birthwort Allum Verdigreece If they swell with blood evaporate it or âoment with the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Pellitory Chamomil flowers Moulin Melilot seeds of Line and Foenugreâk If they do not good open them by Fig leaves rub'd upon them or by Horsleeches of which Chap. 2. If there be proud flesh take it oât as is shewed If they bleed gently lât Nature alone to the work for it is good and ârees from other diseases If the flux be gâeat and abate the strength open a vein in the arm divers times and do as in over slowing of the terms Question How do the Haemorrhoids differ from the Terms flowing or stopt Mercurialis saith That though a flux of terms be immodârate yet it hath its periods and is without pain and makes not the body lean but it is contrary in the Haemorrhoids But this is not true for the body is not made lean alwaies by the Haemorrhoids nor do the courses keep their periods alwaiâs Besides the pain which is almost alwaies in the Haemorrhoids they differ in that the terms flow from the veins of the womb and its neck but the Haemorrhoids are when the blood flows too much to the veins that nourish the privities and there either sticks or is evacuated Chap. 8. Of Ulcers in the Neck of the Womb. THey are seldome cured in the body of the womb and they are simple and clean or âordid and malignant Are a flux of sharp humors that lasts long in the Pox and Gonorrhaea Corrupt afterbirths and courses after childâearing detained inflammations turned to imposthuiâesâ these are the internal The external are sharp Medicines hard travail a reat child taken out by âorce violent leâhery wounds falls strokes Are pain and constant biting that increaseth ââââcially in coâulation or when Wine or Hydrâmel is injected You may also see it with a Speculum also there is matter gentle or âilthy if the ulcer go towards the bladder they piss hot and often there is pain in the roots of the eyes to the hands and fingers fainting and a little âever somtimes The external Causes are to be related by the patient If it be from the pox or Gonorrhaea the signs of them will appear of which Hippocrates They are hard to be cured because they are in a part fit to receive humors soft and moist and that hath consent with many parts Hence are divers Symptoms the great old and foul are worst when they corrode and are hollow they are seldome cured they that may easily have Medicines applied to them are easieât cured First stop the flux of humors to the part if it be either from the whole body or any part And amend the distemper of the womb that it may neither breed nor receive bad humors If the French pox be with it resist that first If there be pain first abate that with Milk steeled or with three whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane or an Emulsion of Poppy seeds Or Take Althaea roots an ounce Dill seed two drams Barley a pugil Faenugreek and Lineseed each an ounce Fleabane and Poppy seed each half an ounce boyl them in Milk Of which in pain of the womb In a foul ulcer first use Clensers as Whey Barley water Honey Wormwood Smallage Orobus Orris Birthwort Mirrh Turpentine Allum As Take new Milk boyled a pint Honey half a pint Orris pouder half an ounce Use it hot often every day When that which was injected is voided wash with the decoction of Mallows and put up this Pessary Take Eruum and Lentils in pouder and Orris each two drams with Honey Or Take Diapompholigos with Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Aloes as the ulcer requires Or use Fumes As Take Frankincense Mastich Mirrh Storax Calamite Gum of Juniper Labdanum each an ounce make a Pouder or Troches with Turpentine If there be suspicion of the French pox add a little Cinnabar In a very foul ulcer and Aegyptiacum or Apostolorum or a little Spirit of Wine In a creeping corroding ulcer with clenâers mix cold drying and astringent Medicines Allum water Plantane and Rose-water with Pomegranate flowers boyled and Pomegranate peels and Cypress-nuts is also good and with Aloes After clensing fill it with flesh and heal it up As Take Tutty washed half an ounce Litharge Ceruss Sarcocol each two drams with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment Or smoak the privities with Mirrh Frankincense Gum or Juniper Labdanum two drams in pouder with Turpentine make Troches Or use Sulphur or Allum Baths and Plaisters
of many diseases First endeavor to evaeuate the blood from the womb by Frictions Ligatures and Cupping iâ they will not do open a vein in the foot Then open the passâges with external and internal meansâ anoint the Belly with loosning Oyls or soment thus Take Lilly roots Birthworts Briony Angelâca each half an ounce Mercury Mugwort Pennyroyal Savin Calamints each a handful Tansey Chamomil and Elder flâwers each half a handful Faenugreek and Linseed each two drams bruise them grosly and put them in a bag and boyl them in Water and Wine lay it to the privities and bottom of the belly Give emollient Clysters and if some daies are paââ purge with Agarick Rhubarb Senna Or Take Lilly roots Alâhaea each half an ounce Birthworts two drams Pellitory Mercuryâ Althiea each a handful Calamints Chamomil Elder floâers each two pugils Faenugreek and Lineseed each two drams boyl them to ten ounces strained âdd Oâl of Dill Lillies each an ounce Hiera simple half an ounce Oyntment of Sowbread three drams make a Clyster Or give Pessaries that provoke the Terms Give things to melt and attenuate the blood As Take opening Roots three drams Bettony Maidenhair Endive Schaenanth each two pugils Anise Fennel seed each a scruple red Pease a spoonful boyl them to a pint and half add Cinnaâon water two drams Syrup of the five Roots three âânces give four ounces Chap. 4. Of too great a flux of blood after Childbearing THat is too much which makes weak It is blood abounding which haââ been gâthered nine months in the womb It is thick or spends the Spirits and weakens There is loathing of meat pain the Hypochondria belly-ach weak and often pulse dark sight noise in the ears fainting and Convulsion It is dangerous when long and with fainting and Convulsion Therefore observe the pulse least she die suddenly See what strength she hath and stopt it not ââddenly Iâ it be not very gââat order a diet of âoasâed Hens basted with red Wine or Pomegraââe of Staâch Almonds Rice Quinces Conâââve of Roses steeled Water and make Revulââns use gentle things and strengthen the loose ââââges Anoint the belly with oyl of Roses Mirtles cup under âhe breasts and sides without scariâication Apply a Cataplasm of red Roses Bole and Rosâ-water to the Liver Then use stronger and give a higher diet oâten in small quantity and give Syrups to stop blood As Take old Conserve of Roses two ounces of Tormentil an ounce of Quinces without speciââ half an ounce Bole red Coral each half a dram with syrup of Currans and Coral make an Electuaây Anoint the belly with the Oyntment of the Countess and other Astringents or use astringent Fomentations or let her take into the womb a Fume of Mastich Frankincense red Roses c. Then open a vein in the arm and let blood by degrees See Sect. 2. Chap. 6. of overflowing of the Terms Chap. 5. Of the Pains after Travel and torments in the Belly THese are not in the body and bottome of the womb but in the vessels and membranes by which the womb hangs and that goes to the sides and belly They are from a constant labor in travel when the bottom of the womb is pricked to send forth from cold air let into it or clotted blood detained or sharp blood sticking to the womb and pricking it They are in the womb it self you mây know iâ they came from cold by what hath been done clotted blood will manifest it self They weâken much and are very troublâsom therefore they must be abated First take away the cause or abate the pain and make that which hurts the womb fit to be evacuated by these Pills Take Cinnamon a dram Saffron a scruple Diaâymini Diagalangal Zedoary each half a dram make a Pouder give a dram in Pennyroyal or Cinnamon water Or Take of Cummin seed steept in Spirit of wine and dried again a dram Ameos sâeds and Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon a scruple Castor half a scruple make a Pouder If she faint ad Cordial Waters As Take Diacyminum a dram Diamargariton frigid Citron peâls Zedoary each half â dram make a Pouder If she be cholerick or the humor thin and sharp cure it as a Colick from Choler As Take Syrup of Violets Borage each an ounce Mucilage of Quince seeds made with Violet water half an ounce water of Borage Scorzonera each two ounces give it at twice Extenuate the humors and loosen the passages outwardly Take Bean flour Faenugreek and Linseed each an ounce Chamomil flowers and Cummin seeds each half an ounce boyl them in Oyl of Lillies for a Cataplasm You may sume the womb with Decoctions of Herbs Chap. 6. Of the tearing of the Vulva to the Arse and coming forth of the Womb Inflammation Ulcer Suffocation and falling out of the Fundament THe tearing iâ in hard travel when the motheâ is tendeâ and the child great of which ââforââ The womb comes forth from the violent extraction of the child or afterbirth when the ligaments are streâched The Cure is mentioned but you must not hinder the after flux by astringents let her therefore rest and lie one her back with her âeet drawn up with Sweets to her nose and stinks to the womb so the womb will be retained and the flux continued after this is past you may use Astringents If there be inflammation from hard travel hinder not the afâer-flux of blood by Coolers If it turn to an ulcer let the after-flux flow and then cure it Suffocation after childbearing is from the ââinking after-blood which sends up stinking vapors which kill many It is cured by Friction of the leggs Ligatures and Cupping with Scarification applying stinks to the nose as Castor Partridgâeathers burnt Rue And applying Sweets to the privities You must cure the âalling out of the Fundament from straining in Delivery as formerly shewed Chap. 7. Of Watching Doting and Epilepsie of Women in Child-bed THese are from the motion of the blood aâd huâorsâ when the after-blood flows nât kindlyâ and there is a âeaver of which in ââe ãâã Book And from vapors sent from the ãâã there is an Epilepsie which is cured by Râvââsion oâ vapors and humors downwaâdâ and âââfect Evacuation of the aâter-blood which done all these Symptoms cease Chap. 8. Of the Swelling of the Womb Belly and Feet after Childbearing IT is commonly from cold gottân into the womb and the belly sometimes swells as if there were another child It is cured by hysterical or mother Fomentations or with the skin of a new âlain sheep and hard wine if in travel they keep a bad diet or drink too much the humors go into wind and if they fall into the legs they swel then take heed of much drink and after the flux is past make Evacuation with things that expel wind As Take Câleworts and Chamomil each as you please boyl them in Wine and âomeât the parts Or Take
Oyl of Roses Mastich each half an ounce red Sanderâ Coral each a scruple with Wax mix it If the feaver come from breeding of it abate the pain and give the Alterers of which Chap. 14. of Bleeding of Teeth Of Meazles and small Pox. There are Epidemical feavers at certain times that cast out Meazles and small Pox of whicâ before The cause is not only from the impurity of the terms but from the malignity of the air for they are more or less as the air is purer or impurer Somtimes it is infectious and the humors are so coârupt that worms breed under the scabs and corrode the bones and internal parts as hath been seen in bodies opened dead of this disease If the disease be very infectious before there is a âeaver it is good to preserve by change of air and Antidotes when many die of it but when few die it is not amiss to let them alone leaââ they have it in a more dangerous time for most will have it only give a gentle Purge and âortifie Nature that she may better expel them If there be a âeaver use no more Preservatives âut labour to get them forth by Medicines mentioned and defend the eyes and throat and ââevent deformity of which before Chap. 3. Of the Milkey Scab Achores and Favi THe milkey Scab is at the first sucking the Achoâes are after The Achores are scabs not white and the white scab is not only in the face but all over the body The Achores are only in the head but they are cured alike They are all ulcers chiefly in the head with holâs that run with matter constantly They come from excrementitious humors waterish and sharp mixed of thick and thin very âalt Therefore they are sometimes yellow or white or red or black but alwaies salt and biâing and itching that makes them scratch They are gâthered in the womb and from corruption of the milk The Vulgar think they are healthful when they run because Nature sends them forth and if they strike in they cause diseases and Epilepâies They cure in time âf themselves but if the matter be very bad it pierceth the skull Dry these not rashly so they disfigure not the ââcâ nor hurt the eyes But drive them forth with ââabious Cârduus water and Cordials Use no Coolers nor Astringents least the matter be stroke in Let the Nurse forbear salt and sharp ând spiced things and strong Wine Pepare the humors with Borage Sâââory Bugloâs Fumitâây Hops Polypody and Dock roots Then purge with Senna Polypody Epithymum Rhuâââb and strengthen thâ Bowels As Take Conserve of Borage Bugloss Violets Fumitâry Succory each an ounce Succory roots and Citrons candied each half an ounce Diarrhodon Diamargartion ârigid Harts-horn each a sâruple with ãâã oââ Gâââi-ââoâârs makâ an Electuary Let the Nurse take every day two drams Or Take Harts-horn prepared two drams Magâstery of Coral a dram Diamargariton frigid half a dram give half a dram or a dram of this Pouder Let the child be purged with Manna or Raisons laxative If you fear great putrefaction under the scabs and that wil turn to a scald head or eat the skul wash the head with Decoction of Mallows Barley Celandine Wormwood or with Althaea-roots boyled in Boyes urine and Barley water And then anoint with Oyl of Roses bitter Almonds and a little Litharge Or Take ashes of Mirtles and Nut shells each a dram Tutty a dram and half Butter washed with Rose-water an ounce Or Take juyce of Beets Celandine each an ounce Hogs grease two ounces Sulphur a dram Or Take Cerâss Litharge each two drams Pomegranate flowers and Agarick eâch a dram with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar make an Oyntment or wash with Soap and then with the Decoction When the skull is bare use Honey of Roses and Spirit of Wine and after round Birthwort and Balsom of Peru and Turpentine with Tobacco water Chap. 4. Of a scald Head IF Achores or Favi last long or are ill cured They turn to a Scald which is a scabby ulcer that corrodes the skin and stinks it is called Tinâa or Moth which eats garmentsâ as this doth the flesh Achores are moist ulcers in the head and body Tinea is a dry ulcer in the head only The immediate cause is a salt and sharp humor melancholick from the mothers blood or bad milk it infecteth others by the clouts or caps Some are like a bran or scurfe with scales some are slimy and when the scab is off there appears red quick nobs of flesh like the insides of sigs some are malignant some not some new some old There are dry scabs in the head yellow or ash coloured that run little and that which is voided stinketh It is hard to be cured If it be new or the matter yellow or the like it is easier An old Scald ash-coloured and black is stubborn aâtâr cure the hair will scarce grow there again because the skin is so hard if it will not grow red after rubbing there is no hopes of hair coming again First take off the Scab with âlensers a little sharp and because the humors make the skin dry and thick moisten with Hogs grease upon Beet or Colewort leaves Or Take juyce of Fumitory Coleworts Docks Elicampâne each an âunce and half Litharge half an ounce with Hogs grease oyl of Rue and Wax make a sofâ Oymment When the Child is of age and strong make first universal evââuation with Senna Rhubarb Agarick then take off the Scab with Sulphur two drams Mustard half a drain Stavisacre Briony roots each a dram Vinegar an ounce Turpentine half an ounce and Bears grease Or beat Watercresses with Hogs gâease and apply it the scab wil fall off in twenty four hours continue it After the scab is off pull the hair out by the roots with instruments or medicines commonly they use a pitched cap and pull it off violently which brings away the hair Or Take Starch or Wheat flour two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl it in water for a Pultis lay it upon the several Sâaldâ and let it stick some daies then pluck it off suddenly Then use Emollients that correct the dry distemper Also use things to take the excrements out that lie deep in the skin As Take roots of Althaea Docks Lillies each an ounce Mallows Fumitory Sage each two handful boyl them in Liâ add Vinegar wash the head with it every day Thenâ Take Ostratium Sulphur each half an ounce oyl of Eggs an ounce with Hogs grease After that Take Briony and Dock roots and Elicampanâ roots each an ounce Fumitory Celandine Scabious each two handful Chamomil and Balm each a handful boyl them in Lie and wash the head twice a day therewithâ or foment it then rub the head with a course cloth or with oyl of Staphesacre or of Raddish till it grow red to draw out the bad humors that lie deep