plentiful and clammy If it be corrupt and that from too weak a Medicament there is a stink and the Ulcer appeareth whitish If it corrode there is pricking pain alwayes increasing It is cured by Generals Topicals detergent as with spirit of Wine Fleshy excrescence in Ulcers cometh either from too much blood or because Sarcoticks are laid-on that dry not sufficiently If the first the flesh is good if the latter loose spongy If the first it is cured by fasting c. The latter with greater Dryers Epuloticks and Corrosives without pain The green water is good which Senn. oftimes commends as Take raw Alum Verdigrease of each two drams boyl them in eighteen ounces of Wine till a fourth part be consumed strain it then add Camphir one dram dissolve it in spirit of Wine one ounce and add it to the former If the Ulcer be with a hard Circumference and the hardners will not yield to Emolients the hard and wan flesh is most fitly cut out to the quick flesh that scarifying may be made and strong Detergents used If the Ulcer be with a Tumor eating not only the Cucula but also the flesh it is called an eating-Ulcer It comes from a sharp humour not so thin as in Wild-fire nor so thick as in a Cancer It is cured as an Ulcer with tumor and distemper That Ulcer is very ill bound up three or four times a day unless it be by reason of extream pain Let there be an Ulcer within the Leg alittle above the Ankle afflicting with great pain that is hollow corrupt joyned with corruption of the Bone circular with brawny swollen Lips compassed with inflammation and swollen melancholly Veins Suppose this be propounded to be cured Generals first premised first of all you shall ease the pain taking away the cause of it by Softners Coolers Narcoticks so the pain with the Inflammation being asswaged wash away the rottenness In the mean time by the way you shall make the Ulcer corner-ways you shall cut off the brawny substance of it you shall correct the putrefaction you shall make the Bones scale the Ulcer being cleansed must be filled with flesh brought to cicatrise Par. Querc commendeth the Sugar of Saturn to be miraculous Vulnerary drinks An ULCER of the Eye is known by sight and if it be in the Cornea there preceedeth a white Push a little Ulcer the Cicatrix is made white if it be in the Adnata it will be red It is cured by Generals Revulsives Intercipients laid to the Temples Anodyns Detergents as with Sugar Honey Myrrh Saffron Frankincense water of Strawberries three parts Sugar one part distilled when they have been eight days in digestion in Balneo Rue Horehound Ey-bright water Infusion of Sarcocolla Aloes c. bound in a linnen clout and pressed forth Take Frankincense Mastick of each one scruple Myrrh Aloes Succotrine of each half a dram Tutty prepared one dram Sarcocolla infused half a dram powder them mingle them with the white of an Egg and juyce of Quinces make Troches to be dissolved in Fennel water Give internal means to restore the sight as Take Conserve of Ey-bright one ounce and half Betony Rosemary of each one ounce roots of Elecampane candied two drams Fennel candied half an ounce extract of Rue seed half a scruple the essence extract or spirit of Valerian roots half a scruple Siler mountain one dram Sage Rue Vervain of each half a scruple with syrup of Betony or Staechados make an Electuary let it be taken at Bed-time Strew salt of the powder of Ey-bright on their meats Montan. ep 75. relates that he saw one use it by the Nostrils because the Ulcer was not well cured Vitriol in small quantity dissolved in much Rose water serveth instead of all Detergents For. premising a Lenitive purgeth with Fennel Ey-bright Senna leaves Pillulae Lucis to one dram Opening a Vein Cupping Scarifying fomentation of Mallows two handfuls flowers of red Roses one dram and half Quince seeds one dram and half cleansed Barley one pugil boyl all in ten ounces of fountain water add water of Mallows Roses of each half an ounce soment it twice in a day he dropped in the Collyrium following Take Troches that are white of Rhasis for the Eys without opium two scruples Rose water two ounces mingle them and drop it in lay upon it a double linnen cloth wet in the former fomentation after that in the fomentation was infused Fenugrec seed exactly washed two drams and half of Quinces two drams in a Nodulus after that Ey-bright water half an ounce was added to the Ey water after that in the same Collirium was put a little Sarcacolla soaked in Brest milk then a little Frankincense Saffron with the Mucilage of Fenugree seed At first let the sick sleep on the opposite side until the matter break forth in the side affected Venatius for an Ulcer of the Eye ill cured was commanded to forsake Padua An ULCER of the weeping flesh namely an Aegylops For. because of the danger doth not willingly undertake the cure of it If it were not yet ulcerated after Generals there is need of repelling means after that add Discussives as rank nuts If it be suppurated open it in time cleanse it Verdigrease of it self is a secret If it be with rottennesse of the Bone there is need of a Canstick Fab. cured them with Setons An ULCER of the Ear. Signs are pain burning great pricking in the Ear matter This sometimes is sent forth from the Brain inflamed which is easily known Sometimes as in children from the impurity of the Brain without an Impostume in the Veins of the Brain and Passages of the Ears matter is bred and there is no pain and the matter once spent is heaped up again The cure By Generals Topicals Detergents as juyce of Betes Horehound oyl of bitter Almonds juyce of Onions with Honey of Roses or Mel Rosarum the side is anointed with unguent of Alabaster juyce of wake Robin Briony the matter that comes forth must be put-by with wooll with Honey-water afterwards with Wine then with Oxymel The Probe must be wrapped with Wool The pain is taken away with a piece of Frankincense infused in Milk till it be dissolved and drop'd in by drops If there be Plethory and the matter runneth not yet out of the Ulcer pain urging a Vein is fit to be opened Galen for old Ulcers ufeth scales of Iron powdred beaten with Vinegar and seven times dryed then with Vinegar it is boyled to the thickness of Honey The matter must be drawn forth by a great Syringe unless it come forth it self An ULCER of the Nostrils If it be new and stink not it is easily cured if old and stinking hardly it is called Ozaena which oft times gives suspition of a Cancer It is most difficult to cure it hath crusts The Cure Generals premised also the decoction of Guaicum and a vulnerary drink Let the Topicals be Astringents and Discussives mingled
or black choler Signs Diagnostick It begins from a smal push or from many pricking going before in a short time by way of fluxion it alwaies increaseth with extream heat and pain especially toward the evening then followeth a Feaver and a Troup of most naughty symptoms Prognostick That is most pernicious pestelential black wan which vanisheth away which is fastened near a principal part which had a Feaver going before it That which is red small not pestilent is the safest The Cure The first Indicant is a cooling of the blood by general means as Diet opening of a vein alteratives but not purgatives 2. The heart must be freed from the malignity by internals and topicals chiefly by the urine or water or decoction of Scabious 3. The cause that is joyned with it must be voided with scarification deep enough with cupping glasses Leeches yet if the humour flow thither too much lay plantain boyld with bran upon the Carbuncle to repel especially if it be neer a noble part and then wash the wound with salt water Lay not on the scarified place emollients but dryers and such as resist putrefaction as Egyptiac or meal of Orobus with oxymel or scabious or divels bit green brayed with old hogs grease the yolk of an egg and salt Pareus l. 21. hath proved often this following Take Sâ—ot 4 ounces Common salt 2 ounces 2 yolks of eggs mingle them Radish roots cut in pieces draw the poyson mightily Paracelsus If all be fruitlesse lay on a caustick for the sense is lost The Eschar must not be taken away by emollients or when the Carbuncle it self makes a crust Senn. had rather use roots of Scabious and Comfrey Radish Treacle Soot Mithridate Leaven Figs Rue wallnuts that are old vitriol c. and with these remove the crust if it impostumate round about and there appear a red circle it is a sign of future safety for the crust being taken away the ulcer will be cleansed with honey of Roses and juyce of Smallage c. The Cure of a pestilent Anthrax differs For a vein must not be opened unlesse perhaps under the Carbuncle for evacuation alwaies attractions must be applyed as Pigeons dung Sope Doves-foot Onions roasted under the embers and the uppermost of them Some say if a circle be made about a Carbuncle with a Saphire that will stop it from spreading any farther and quench the poyson Senn. l. 5. p. 1. ch 11. APOPLEXIE is a symptome whereby all the animal actions perish The cause is not obstruction of the ventricles of the brain for they breed no animal spirits experience is against it in those that are opened nor do those fall into this disease that are sick of water in their head in whom only the ventricles of the forepart are obstructed but first fleam or a melancholick humour stopping the beginning of the marrow of the back as it is demonstrated in the Varolian Section 2. Blood either running forth by a stroke or some other way and stopping that part 3. A flegmatick disposition where in the vessels of the brain extended by plethory presse upon that part 4. If a contusion of the skull presse on that part of the brain 5. From a narcotick vapour whence ariseth stupidnesse in those that are cured 6. A wound of the brain from thence an effusion or troubling of the spirits Aph. 58. s 7. Differences The strongest iâ— wherein breathing ceaseth and there is neither froth nor snorting the weaker is where there is froth with snorting The weakest where breathing is violent unequal with intermission Weakest of all when breathing is ordinate Signs Diagnostick It differs from a Lethargie because such as are in a Lethargie may be wakened and fall asleep again there is a Feaver with it Those that have an Apoplexie cannot be awakened but when they are wakened they fall into a Palsie without a Feaver This differs from Carus for in Carus breathing is entire it creepeth on by degrees being pricked they feel but it is otherwise in an Apoplexie It differs from the suffocation of the mother because in this the colour of the face is changed and made more wan but not in an Apoplexy in this the power of feeling often remaineth nor is the breathing hurt and if breathing should be hurt the pulse would be hurt also but not in an Apoplexy It differs from swooning because in swooning the colour of the face is changed the teeth the mouth the hands are fastned but they are loose in an Apoplexy in swooning there is no breathing and no pulse it differs from a strangling distillation because this strangleth a man that is sound in his sense and motion Prognostick An Apoplexy of the first and second degree is mortal Aph. 43. s 2. An Apoplexy is from the first cause which Hippocrates meaneth Aph. 42. s 2. An Apoplexy which comes from the third and fourth cause is easily cured Apoplecticks must not be buried before 72 hours be past because all the humours are moved within that time The Cure The first indicant is freeing from obstruction which is done if they can be awakened The second is the fortifying of the brain head powders described by Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 2. If it come from the first cause means to awaken them being premised if the forces will bear it and there be plenty of blood in summer spring and the party be young a vein must be opened by turns in the arm with a large orifice Or if we may not do this cupping glasses with scarification must be applyed to the Legs Arms Loyns Shoulders but not to the back part of the Thorax After this by general and by topical means the matter must be derived and voided from the head yet vomits must not be given because they would put the party in danger to be choked Strong purgations must be administred as Pills dissolved if he can swallow them 2. The brain must be fortified but if it come from the second cause there is need to open a vein or to apply cupping glasses with scarification and to use diversion evacuation and strengthening Question Whether repulsives may be used Galen useth them Forest us denyeth because this disease hastneth most quickly to its state because there is no defluxion Sen. distinguisheth and saith that it belongs to an Apoplex from the third cause ARTHRITIS is a pain or swelling with a pain of the joynts from a sharp watery humour which partly by extending partly by sharpness doth rend the membranous parts and causeth them to endure pain The Cause is a watery sharp salt lactaceous humour as is collected by the pain the hard swellings and the indisposition of them to come to suppuration heat and driness of the Liver and Spleen the diet an Arthritical disposition for though there be the same temperatenesse in diet yet one man will be Arthritical another not A suppression of urine and of sweat which alwaies almost gooth before the paroxisime Pareus l. 17. saith
It is a malignant matter because the pains are sharper then in an ulcerated Cancer because when remedies are applyed it is often more violent Galen prescribeth Theriac Signs Prognostical Arthritis preserveth from many diseases Aph. 49. s 6. Swelling or melancholy veins appearing are good If it return not again it is mortal They that are costive can never be cured of it It is taken away either being dissolved or else it is changed into bloody watery matter or to hard knots or is carried to the principal parts Laur. saith it is sometimes brought to suppuration if the humour by ligature be pressed forth into the fleshy parts The Cure 1. Revulsions must be applied as if there be plethory feavers and strength a vein must be opened of the same side or if the hand be ill in the opposite hand by cupping glasses with scarification blood-suckers by chasings ligatures 2. Means to evacuate After that give one purgative at the beginning before meat whilst the forces stand of such things that are indifferent strong Whilst the purge worketh the foot or part affected must be laid higher or must be guarded with defensatives Vomits are excellent Then diaphoreticks at first and colder diureticks as Harts-horn and the root of the Clot burr 3. Topicals that are Anodyns Forestus praiseth Duck-weed and flowers of Camomill with Barley meal boyld in milk that they are wonderful good Spiegelius commends the distilled water of the roots and flowers of Meedsweet Fat things are hurtful we must often proceed to Narcoticks See Aph. 25. s 5. First use resolvers and moderately repecussives of Plaintain Frog-spawn water Housleeke Purslane Roses with moderate resolvers in any form but the repellers must be cold and moyst Resolvers are the water of the flowers and leaves of Mullens Earth-worms decoction of Mugwort roots in sea or salt water Spiegetius commends the Urine of men salt of Urine and the spirit of salt tempered with water of Meede-sweet anointed on the part with a feather The liquor of Snails resolved with salt in a copper vessel or boyld in vinegar and oyl of Roses Resolving suffumes are profitable Pigeons dung boyld in vinegar is good and nettles boyld in wine Hard humours are cured with softning cataplasmes of old cheese juyce of Tobacco and by Fumes Rotten cheese with the broth of a gammon of bacon Scal. addeth the powder of a fire-stone burnt See Senn. concerning Arthritis Storks-dung boyled in Hogs-grease Schrekevos The Sciatica requireth only resolvers and attractives If the pain be stretching forth if the part will not retain the print of the finger pressing it wind with fleam doth seem to be a true Arthritis Some unexperienced Chirurgians supposing matter to be under have opened it with great hurt to the patient Fabr Cent. 1. obs 79. Cent. 4. obs 84. saw the Gowt cured by torture The Physitian is oft times deceived thinking the cause to be hor. 1. If he say He is helped with hot means therefore it is cold whereas by opening the pores hot things may be cooled 2. The pain is asswaged by cold things therefore it is hot because cold things take away the sense but not the cause 3. The pain is intense therefore it is hot since cold things by a malignant poyson can do the same 4 The colour is yellow therefore it comes of choler because much fleam is died with a very little choler 5. There is a Fever and fiery coloured Urine therefore but by reason of watchings and pain a Feaver may arise Pareus l. 17. Rulandus cured it by purging sweating with the roots of Afarum 2 ounces Centory the lesse two handfuls a lath of Juniper wood 1 pound Juniper berry half a pound Preservation is made by diet dunghil cocks and capons must be avoided for they are gouty by eating sand Senn. Fat things must be eschewed and things that are fried all must be seasoned with Mugwort as it is wont to be done and Parsley To ride and walk overmuch is very hurtful The feet must be put into new hot liquor of grapes prest out Some every moneth open a vein in the great toes or the feet others every month before the ful moon set cupping glasses to the soles of the feet without scarification one may purge Medicaments against the Gowt are profitable which see in Senn. The joynts must be strengthened many wayes Question What is the cause Fernelius saith that the antecedent cause is without the Scull 1. Because many Veins end there and there is heavinesse of the head 2. Because the excrement gathered in the brain is purged forth by the nostrils the palate Laur. and Senn. argue against this But should it be collected within the scull and should run from thence by the palate alwaies nauseating vomiting a cough should go before Arthritis If it come from the Heart or Liver bubo's in the groins and arm-holes should go before it for there are properly the emunctories Fernelius will have the matter descend not by the vessels but under the skin Laur. denieth it 1. Because Feavers end in Arthritis whose causes are in the veins 2. It is often cured by opening a vein 3. Because before the paroxysme the veins swell and are red 4. It should cause shivering Fernelius will have fleam to be the cause it is not blood for that without the vessels would corrupt and putrefie not melancholly for that would go to a scirrhus nor would it suddenly affect us not choler for that would turn to matter not salt fleam for that would exulcerate 2. Whether every pain of the joynts be Arthritis I deny it for so disjonting and pains of the pox and pains of the hips in maids and women in child-birth also a humour bred by degrees in the joynts should be Arthritis which is false for as oedematous humours is rather caused by it then Arthritis so by the drying up of humours in the joynts there groweth pain in the joynts Aph. 16. s 3. yet not Arthritis 3. Whether may we purge when the pain is Crato denyeth it Ep. 167. also he denyeth that causticks are convenient in the feet because we may not evacuate the part affected whence Erastus saith that the Leprosie is ill cured by diaphoreticks and Crato saith the same of a dysenterie by Clysters but Pareus calls it an opinion full of errour l. 17. Hollerius Arthritis that is vagrant is Scorbutical and a pain of divers parts The Cause It is a thin watery matter of all the humours swelling and malignant The parts affected are the Nerves because it is very luxuriant in the back and the loins by reason of the marrow of the back that lyeth under because the action of the nutritive faculty is hurt because it is cured with remedies good for the Nerves The kinds 1. It hath Tumors about the joynts which if they last long they bring forth spots as in the Scurvey which sometimes coming to suppuration are turned unto a malignant ulcer chiefly about the feet
by Platerus observation and Smetius Winds are made of grosse matter especially of black choler and heat strong enough of it self but weaker in respect of the matter In Tympanites the heat is almost burning but the matter is melancholick Signs Diagnostick The Belly gives a sound like a Drum The cure The matter must be cause of the wind must be taken away the wind must be discussed Alwaies let Carminatives exceed Purgatives Arculanus thinks it were a singular Remedy if in a Clyster you dissolve three drams of the Electuary oâ— Bay berries you must discusse by Internals Topicals by the Plaister of Bay berries If heaters help not we must pass to Coolers the beer of the decoction of Camomil flowers is miraculous In Leucophlegmatia or Anasarca it is good to open a Vein if it come from stopping it is cured as Cachexia A DROPSY of the Womb is either in the cavity of the Matrix or in the Coats of the Marix or in the Vessels of the Matrix or it is shut in a Vessel or not It is either with Child or without Oft times it killeth the Child most frequently it makes belief of being with Child The cause is either sent from some other place or is bred in the Womb stopping of Courses Signs It is distinguished from Conception because a Dropsy of the womb is equally extended according to the largness of the womb If it last above ten months it continually waxeth greater in the following moneths In great with child it is contrary the Symproms that afflict in the first moneths grow milder in the latter The Brests that are hard are made soft In a Dropsy of the womb some blood runneth forth It is distinguished from Mola by the weight from Inflation of the womb by weight and sound from a Dropsy of the Belly because that riseth from the superiour parts and goeth down to the lower parts In a Dropsy of the Matrix it is contrary When it remaineth in the cavity the Mouth of the Matrix is shut when in a Bladder it seems to be shut If the whole Body be well and child-bearing were very tedious it cometh from the fault of womb Prognosticks If the water be not corrupted nor sharp which is collected from the Symptoms it is cured by length of time The cure If it proceed from stopping the Courses they must be voided also by opening a Vein but in other cases it is not profitable The water must be voided by injections Diureticks Purging Pessaries Externals Vomit Sneezing Clysters Fontanels are not good A DROPSY of the Brest is seldom knownz and yet it is frequent It is not likely that so much water should fall from the Head but it is either bred in the Brest or sent thither Signs A pain of the Brest that is weighty and a sound when the Body is moved A dry Cough There is danger of being choaked chiefly about the first sleep thirst lost appetite pale visage the Feet often swell Prognosticks It is seldom cured Once cured it easily returns into a Dropsy The Cure The water must at several times be evacuated by Purgatives Hippocrates orders the Incision of the Brest if the Bowels be sound By Diureticks wherewith Maximilian the 11. Emperor cured himself for twenty years and when that motion was hindered he was strangled Crato Ep. 137. Senn. commendeth Incision at the beginning DROPSY of the Head Is either within or without the Scull It runneth out by Anastomosis and diapedisis of the Veins It happeneth to children from the violence of Mid-wives in delivery Signs If it be without the Scull it is proved by the touch If within the Eys weep and are hardly shut and it is mortal The Cure Generals premised that evacuate if the age will suffer it the part must first be softned then wee must use Resolvers Spirit of Wine with a fourth part of Scabious water Also Aquapendens commends for children water of quick Lime the Lime being thrown away If these fail lay a Caustick to the hinder part of the Head The manner of cutting see in Senn. Lastly lay on remedies that dry the Brain Fab. obs 10. c. 1. found in the fore Ventricles of the Brain 18. pound of clear water DISTEMPER of the Spleen hot hath with it thirst a dry Tongue yellow colour red Face dejected Appetite a cold distemper contrarily They that have a weak Spleen are properly called spleenetick The Cure The Spleen cannot endure Attenuatives nor Relaxatives but things that bind moderately as Wormwood yet moderately lest they make a Scirrhus sweet things taken any way are hurtful and so is Vinegar Wherefore the rinds of the five opening roots must be steeped not in Vinegar but in Wine It can endure stronger Remedies then the Liver Stoppers must be chiefly avoided It is evacuated by the Piles Vomit Purging Urine bitter medicaments are the most profitable The milt of an Ox burnt in an earthen Vessel the milt of a Kid to one dram All outward remedies must be made with Posca that they may penetrate DISTEMPER of the Stomach If it be cold it is cured by Generals Topicals Topicals must be laid to the pointed grissle toward the Navel and to the back to the twelvth and thirteenth Spondils Corals are most profitable Myrobolans Chebulae and the extract of Galanga Other cold distempers of the Shoulders Matrix Intestins are cured by Generals Topicals as in the Dropsy Anasarca chiefly with the decoction of Guaiacum China c. DEAD BODY If it ly in the house or field and it be a question how it died either by Thunder or some other mischief If it be from thunder the Body smelleth of Brimstone so as Dogs c. will not touch it Under the part whole or wounded the bones are broken the wound is black If he fall on the side that was stricken Beasts fall on the contrary side If he were smitten waking his Eys are shut if sleeping contrarily The Body is not corrupted If the Question be Whether he that was wounded received the wounds dead or alive If alive the Lips of the wound are red bloody swoln wan round about He that was drowned if he were thrown in living the whole Belly swelleth with water snotty matter comes forth of his Nostrils frothy matter from his Mouth the ends of his Fingers are supposed to be excoriated DEAFNES The Cause is either the fault of the Spirits and Brain and so the other sences suffer also or the outward ears are wanting or the passage of hearing is stopped or the Tinpanum or Nerve is hurt Platerus saw an Abbot who by the Pox was blind deaf dumb Signs If it follow other diseases and the other senses be well the Nerve is affected If the Tympanum the Cause was either internal or external It is ill in Feavers unlesse it shew a Crisis The Cure The cause being removed it ceaseth If it be from fleam that must be dried and removed The water of Origanum is commended distilled with wine
effect is called Die Breun it cometh with shaking As led by the Hand they shew the pain of the stomach and cannot endure to be touched there for it is hard There is an unquenchable thirst and a delirium They almost all fall into deasnesse and swelling behind the Ears The Cure If it come by contagion giving a gentle remedy to bring forth the dung give presently an Antidote but if there be pain of the stomach anguish heat nauseating those humours must first be taken away by purging or vomiting with Agarick Senna leaves Diaphaenicon Rosarum Mesves c. Vomits here are often the most profitable The humours being voided or if there were no such the first or second day open a Vein though the first day the spots should appear so there be strength Almost all who neglected bleeding at the first died If there be Vomiting or Scowring it is more safely let alone Open the Liver or Medias of a Vein in the Foot which is most commodious of all chiefly in women Also it may be done on the third day After the third day Vomits Purges for opening a Vein is mortal Cupping glasses instead of opening a Vein may be set to the lower parts then we must fight with Antidotes yet with such as do not increase the Feaver One dram of Species liberantis Bezar stone Harts horne flowers of Brimstone Amber Zedoans all things of a Pome-citron The roots a part and Bezar a part are all most effectual Afterwards Diureticks may be given The drink must be neither wine nor beer let it be the decoction of Harts-horn with spirit of Vitriol or Barly water with juyce of Lemmons Symptoms of Feavers Pain of the Head is cured by general means by Topicals Many commend a Radish root cut in slices and laid to the feet first washed with Salt and Vinegar Juyce of Housleek and Alces of America For Housleek on houses is full of juyce in the greatest heat but flags in a cloudy aire because it draweth the dryer vapours for its nourishment The root of Rhodia is commended one ounce with Rose water half a pound boyl them apply the decoction with a linnen cloth to the Head The unguent of Alabaster with Populeum must be anoynted on the Coronal suture Driness of the Tongue is cured with scraping of cuttle bone and moystners that are of the strongest as with the water or juyce of Housleek Sal prunella spirit of Vitriol Barley water Thirst if it be from heat of the Lungs the Mouth is dry they can hardly speak which cannot be quenched with drink but it will presently come again Here it is better to take in the coldest Aire than to drink It is good to hold cold water in the Mouth preserved Cherries Lettice leaves Purslane preserved or sprinkled with cold water Oxycratum pieces of Pome-citrons conserves of Sorrel pieces of Cucumbers Gourds first sprinkled with Sugar Crystal Tamarinds Strawberries garden Currence to hold in the Mouth The decoction of the Roots of Sorrel which will look like red Wine Give drink in the vigour If the cause be in the stomach the humour must be voided namely that is hot and sharp The white Feaver is a disease or a symptome with a pale colour of the Face languishing of the Forces heavinesse of the limbs loathing of meat panting of the heart difficulty of breathing sadnesse a flegmatick swelling of the Face Hands and Feet from depraved nourishment and plenty of crude humours proceeding from an ill disposition of the Bowels Liver Spleen Stomach and so from obstruction of the Vessels about the Womb and the Bowels that are neer and from thence the Courses being stopped The cure is the same as for Leucâ—phlegmatia yet so that the Womb must be regarded as in the stopping of the Courses yet so that the Bowels must be looked too A lenitive opening a Vein unlesse the disease be inveterate the Blood and Forces being corrupted Purgatives Aperients Diaphoreticks Marriage unlesse the Cacochymia be too great are good cheifly Steel after general Remedies The root of Scorsonera taken any way Bezar stone A FICUS cancerated Fab. obs 1. c. 1. A cancerated Ficus in the right Ey A fit Dyet being prescribed a Clyster given water of Borrage Sorrel Betony being drunk with syrup of the juyce of Lemmons and Pomegranates a Vein being opened and Leeches set behind the Ears on the same side and cupping glasses applyed to the Shoulders an infusion of Rheubarb and Senna being given made of waters of Betony Eybright Agrimony with syrup of Roses and the Feet being washed in the decoction of hot things he washed the Ey with distilled water against the Cancer and applyed an Intercipient to the fore-head Yet the Tumor increasing when out of it at once there flew 73. ounces of blood and a half by Chirurgery he took out the Eye The fear of the Patient stopped the Flux of blood and a painful Ligature about his Limbs wherefore a Lenitive drink is ordered and a Cordial or water of Buglors Roses Violets balm of each one ounce syrup of Citron pills and Sorrel of each one dram confectio Alkermes one dram Powder of Diamber half a dram and to the Heart was â—aid an Epitoeme sowed between of flowers leaves seeds cordial powders made up with Cotton on red Sarsnet The stomach was annointed with a stomach ointment The Chirurgical part being done a powder of the Author to stay blood with the white of an Egg was plentifully cast on A defensative was laid to the Fore-head and a Digestive to the wound And lest nature should again send the humours thither he set a Settace between the first and third Spondiâ— A FISSURA on the Nipples or Chaps It proceeds from violent sucking and a cholerick humour It is not credible that it comes from drinesse here as it doth in other parts It is prevented if in the three last Moneths or the last Moneth only two cups of wax like to Acorn cups or Fox gloves be made and filled with Rosin of the Firr tree and laid to the Nipples and held there with linnen cloths when the Rosin is spent we must put in more Topicals must be emolient also the juyce of Crab-fish with Cream If they cause pain when the Child sucketh lay on the Nipples a cup of pewter or silver peirced through and covered with the Dug of a Cow new killed for so the Child will suck and yet not touch the Nipple with his Lips General remedies are Coolers and such as purge choler The same way all other Chaps are cured A FISTULA is a winding Ulcer white straight callous from dried fleam and oft times is without pain Signs Prognosticks Fistulaes with notable rottennesse of the bones as of the Huckle and the Hip-bone which pierce to the Bowels which are in a part that hath principal Nerves the Body being weak are to be left by Prognosticks Signs Diagnostick Prove them by a leaden Probe a wax Candle If there be
warm Milk oyls of Roses Violets Saffron To wipe away Honey of Roses is good and water of Honey put in by a Tunnel Also Orris root Myrrh Saffron All um melted in wine Inflammation of the Tonsils is cured by Repulsives as by syrup of dry Roses The Ligature of the Tongue is often loosned by Mid-wives with their nails or the edge of money but they do this oft times where there is no need be it as safe as it wil it hath been sometimes mortal Oft times there is no need of Incision Nothing of flesh is cut but only what is Nerves If it grow again together it must be cut again Faâ—r cured his own brother that was dumb to 〈◊〉 years old by cutting the string so that he ever spake plain Cent. 3. obs 28. The Catarrh is cured if Diet be observed give the Nurse a Pectoral decoction to the Child a Clyster or Suppository or a Vomit with oyl of sweet Almonds give expectorating means Anoint the Stomach cause sneezing c. Gripings of the Belly Heurnius in the first spoonful of pap gave one scruple of Anniseed very profitably Clysters Solutives Topicals are good The decoction of water of the hearb Cardiaca is given by Mid-wives for gripings of wind and that very well for that hearb mightily helps the pain of the Heart whence it hath the name Scowring when they breed Teeth proceeds from a Feaver watchings pain The heat of the Feaver troubleth the humours It is cured as Diarrhea Maw-Worms Signs The Mouth is full of spittle sleep is troubled they scratch their Noses they chew often there is a dry Cough Preservation is by Diet. Before meat give the decoction of Sebestens or roles of Diaturbith with Rheubarb decoction of grasse roots Mous-ear juyce of Lemmons Citrons two drops of spirit of Vitriol Infants cannot away with bitter things They are cured with Corallina Worm-seed Roots of white Dittany Harts-horn the water and decoction of grasse roots Remedies against the Epilepsy are fitly mingled with them If there be a Feaver we must give cold things as juyce of Lemmons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts-horn Bezar a Clyster of Milk Apply bitter things outwardly Heurnius commendeth this that followeth for Children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb from two drams to half an ounce water of grass one ounce it is given for one Dose every other day See Worms Little Dragon Because they are like little dragons the Indians are troubled with on Midsummer day Senn. saith they are true Worms with heads like black hairs Their back is pricked as with a Needle they toss themselves up and down and wax lean Heurnius saith you must rub their Back-bone and Shoulders till they wax red next only with skin pulled from fat Bacon and the hairs will appear Paraeus cured them with a fomentation of warm water afterwards with anointing with Honey and Barley meal The heads that peep forth must be pulled out with Pullers Dudith Ep. 27. cured his Children from them with a Bath into which he cast crums of Bread rubbed out one handful and a little ashes The Children being washed with the strained water the Bread shewed forth innumerable hairs the second day fewer then he anointed the shoulders with meal mingled with Vinegar which being washed away there appeared little swellings which being scraped away with a knife they were called little dragons but unless they were presently scraped off they hid themselves within they are thought by old women in Poland to be little worms INFLAMMATION is Phlegmone a swelling with heat rednesse stretching out from abundance with resistance and pulsation which are the marks to discern it from Erisipelas It is either Resolved or comes to suppuration or grows to a Scirrhus or a Gangrene The Cure The antecedent cause namely blood must be altered evacuated revulsed intercepted It must be altered by cold and moist things by reason of a Feaver It must be evacuated by hunger opening a Vein purging if there be Cacochymia it must be revulsed by opening a Vein Cupping Ligature it must be intercepted by Astringents laid on the part and a thickning Diet. If it flow from heat and pain this must be asswaged that discussed Topicals at first must be Repellers in the increase add Resolvers yet so that the other may bear the sway In the state let the Forces of Repellers and Resolvers be equal in the declination use only Resolvers Also consider the temper of the part affected for it must be cured in the flesh one way in the Nerve another the dignity so the heart must not be tryed by vehement remedies Situation so things lying deep require stronger means The shortest way must alwaies be chosen Morning sleep is allowed for then the blood moveth which by sleep is called inward If the blood neither change to matter nor be resolved Scarifications are very necessary if it come to suppuration cure it as suppuration INFLAMMATION of the Brain or Frensy comes from Inflammation of the Brain or of the Membranes or both it proceeds from cholerick blood sometimes the memory is hurt sometimes the Phantasie alone Signs A continual Feaver delirium virulent vomiting insensibilitly sharpness of the Tongue breathing great and rare urine sometimes fiery sometimes white In a bastard Frensy the breathing is sometime little there is a stretching forth of the Diaphragma there were no signs that foreshewed a Frensy If the Brain only be affected all the Animal actions are abolished except most violent motion Prognostick It often degenerates into a Lethargy also into Convulsion and Dysentery Clear urine and white dung are deadly If they were mad before and suddenly grow quiet as if they slept they dy We must not sit neer to Frantick or mad people or to those that are sick of the Plague nor let them put their Fingers to our mouths For. saith that Lud. was so hurt by mad people Fab. cent 1. obs 84. telleth how he was bitten by a Frantick woman The Cure The cause must be pulled back by opening the Liver Vein then the median-Vein it must be derived by opening the Veins of the Fore-head Nostrils under the Tongue The Orifice must be made straight Also after the third day if there be strength to endure it For. used Cuppings with Scarifications Ligatures c. Iutercipients must be applyed to the Temples We must evacuate by true Purgatives when the disease is sharpest and the matter swelleth If there be Cacochymia it must be altered by such means as prepare Choler Topicals at first must be Repellers sor strong people in Summer they must be cold otherwise warm in the augmentation we must add Resolvers c. Lay cold Epithems to the Liver and Heart Let sleep be carefully provoked by sleeping remedies The Chymists commend the Spirits of Terra sigillata distilled without any addition being yellow and sowre it is given to one scruple They must be admonished to make water The Secrets must be fomented with the decoction of Pellitory c. If the sick
things that are hot The most useful are Wormwood Southern-wood bitter Almonds also Columbine seed The opening syrup of Sennertns of Scholtzius of Dodder From what cause soever it came Tartar Vitriolate is good which Crollius calleth a general digestive Crystals of Tartar Steel Extream mischief may come from too much use of openers When the sick hath taken an Opener let him ly on his right side Let the Topicals be aperient also For. writeth that this following helps miraculously Take of a Wolfs Liver prepared one dram and half species of Diarrhodon Abbatis Diatraganthon frigid of each half a dram Rheubarb Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar of each four grains dissolve it in the decoction of Dodder Maiden-hair with water of Fennel Bugloss Scabious hops with Sugar what may serve make rouls of three drams The Ancients gave one dram of a Wolfs Liver with Wine when there was no Feaver with a Feaver the juce of Endive Cremor Tartar Troches of Capers of Harts-tongue Topicals are unguent Fomentations c. The same way is to cure obstruction of the Spleen OBSTRUCTION of the Passage of hearing If it be from a worm slipt in that must be if it can be drawn forth alive with sweet things as with a sweet Apple roasted or laying on leaven Honey If this do not we must kill it with juyce of Wormwood Peach-kernels Centory the lesse oyl of Hazle-nut-tree Philosophers oyl Spirit of Wine juyce of the Leaves of Elder Hemp dropped in or with Oyl and Vinegar When it is killed it is brought forth by pouring in water Oyl Wine or putting in Tents dipt in Turpentine for it will stick to that or the like If they be hard things to make the Passages slippery drop in warm Oyl but if the thing swell from the humour moist things must not be applyed Sneezing must be procured the Nostrils and Mouth being shut If in vain you must take it out cautiously with Pullers Pareus moreover with the Ancients appoints cutting of the Ears which Aquapendens condemns utterly as hurtful If it be any watery thing the Antients poured in Oyl the Ear lying downward the sick must hop on the Foot on that side the Ear is affected inclining the Head upon that Ear. If in vain sneezing must be provoked or a dry Sponge must be put into the Ear. There is also another manner in Senn. Also it may be sucked forth with the Mouth a Pipe being put into the Ear but the Ear must be stopped with Wax OBSTRUCTION of the Throat by a hard thing it must be taken out with Pullers if the thing can beseen If it cannot be seen strike the Patients Neck with your fist More Vomit with oyls as of sweet Almonds or fat broth Some bid to swallow down great gobbets A Wax-candle or a leaden rule bended anointed with Honey or Oyl is thrust in and the thing is driven forth Cough must be moved by injecting sowre things Fab. obs 36. cent 1. hath described a fitter Instrument See Senn. If in vain you must commit the matter to Nature and Time and by Topicals emollient Plaisters cause it to ripen for the Inflammation being ended the thing is cast forth If any thing slip into the sharp Artery when you eat sneezing is good strike the Patients back with your fist If sand fall into the Eye Clary seed Crabs-Eys Pearls must be put into the Eye let the Eye be shut under the Ey-lid and the thing sticking to Crabs-Eys will fall out together If in vain take it out with Pullers Fab. wife took out Iron with a Loadstone OEDEMA is either Phlegmonodes Scirrhodes or Erysipelatodes The Signs are a whitish colour a soft thin Tumor the Finger pressing it leaves a print If it be otherwise it is from wind Besides Generals and the nature of the part Topicals must not be applyed until the part be first heated by Chafing It is cured either by Resolvers or Suppuratives or by Section as also Atheroma in the Vessel whereof there is matter like Pap. It is more loose and returns slower it is not so hard as a Wen nor so unequal And that out of which stones horns and nails are taken is harder and resisteth the touch Meliceris yeilds quickly and returns The matter is like to Honey Testudo and Meliceris are on the Head and Skull That which is called Talpa differs from Testudo only by hardness and belongs to Atheroma-Natta ost times is bred in the Back the Shoulders and belongs to Steatoma Lupia Pareus cut a Lupia from the neck that weighed eight pound OSSACRUM excoriated is cured Take Sheeps suet Cream of one night of each one dram white chalk half an ounce mingle them or add oyl of Roses or Quinces what may suffice It is prevented by rising with a cord hanging over the Bed let the parts be born up with a hollow pillow lay on linnen osten anointed with unguent of Roses PAIN is the action hurt or the sensitive Faculty a sad sensation The Cause It is no distemper as appears in Section extention nor dissolved unity but when as of one thing there is but one next cause solution of continuity is made from heat cold drieth with and without matter but not from moisture alone from extension and a Malignant humour The Cure All things that gently affect the sense of the part take away the pain as Arodyns the pain is not felt but the cause or they take away the distemper of it so cold things take away heat or they evacuate the matter as Cuppings purging Topicals or they tame the malignity as Aegyptiac or take away the feeling as Narcoticks Question Whether heat of the Aire can cause pain in a Nervous part as in the Ear I deny it because the ambient air is alwaies colder then the heat of the Brain Whether Pain attract Laur. denieth it because Nature should more hurt then profit but the humours more easily fall down on the part weakned and the part weakned cannot discusse the humours PAIN of the Loins In Feavers it proceeds from a diseased cause sent into the large Veins of the Loyns The Cure opening a Vein Cupping Unguent of Roses c. PILES of the Fundament are of two sorts that are outwardly and but one internal from the Vena porta Differences They are either open or blind in the Fundament or Intestin or the sphincter The blind are either bladders from fleam or warts from melancholick blood or Grapes or like Mulberries called Mariscae The Pain is not in the Veins that want feeling but in the adjacent parts from distention The Cause is the opening of the Mouths of the Veins provoked by gross burnt blood hot Purgatives as Aloes they that deny this are worthy to be whipt The internal Piles cannot be searched but by Speculum ani Prognosticks Aph. 11. s 6. In the pain of the Piles if there be not present help there groweth Inflammation or an Ulcer The blind swelling Piles unless they swell mightily and cause vehement
Vehement motion hath cured many Out of Guaicum oyl is not distilled a Spirit with difficulty An extract is made with a convenient Menstruum PIMPLS Red. They proceed from a vapour of burnt blood The best Remedy is water of Pilewort distilled from the whole plant Costus Colewort seed and Paints PISSING Involuntary proceeds from the resolving of the Bladder and the sphincter Muscle stopping of Urine is only from resolving of the Bladder Solenand commends as a secret the powder of a Cocks Throat broiled raken with red wine or soaked in Posca about night also the Testicles of a Hare burnt are commended PALPITATION of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart from vapour humours water collected in the Pericardium the Stone c. 2. From some small defect of Vital spirits 3. From preternatural heat increased which oft times hath broken the Ribs See Fern. For. saith the cause is hot or cold Galen saith in his time they all dyed before sixty years Signs If it be from wind the fit is sudden short If a humor be the cause it is longer and slower in coming It comes often from Hypochondriacal Passion and stopping of the Courses If it be from water the sick say they swim in water The Cure In young Men or in declining age opening a Vein is good and evacuating the cause The cause is discussed with oyl of Citrons or true Rhapontick two scruples that which followeth is a secret of Forestus Green Balm bruised laid on fire-hot Tyles sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar laid to the Heart Conserve of Balm Treacle water of Harts heart or an Ox is Rondeletius way The PAPS If they ly hid they are called forth according to Amatus with a glasse Vial that hath a straight Mouth which being filled full with scalding water the water poured forth again it is laid hot to the Paps The PALSEY is made when the Nerves are either cooled or moistned by fleam choler for all Choler is not sharp as appeareth in those that have the Jaundies for either their Forces are laid asleep or pressed by weight by a melancholy humour or their continuity is dissolved Prognosticks If a Member with the Palsy be made less it is not or is hardly curable But if it should proceed from cold or a humour the disease cannot be so violent nor would it resist the most vehement Remedies and those that are Cacochymical should be Paralitique Nor yet from dryth for so hectical people should be Paralitique If the feeling cease the motion remaining sound then the Nerve which is fastned into the Membrane of the part is affected that being safe which goeth into the flâ—sh The differences Weakness differs from the Colick and from the Palsey because in this the Head and marrow of the Back in that the Limbs only are affected as the cure sheweth for medicaments are laid to the part affected and the Intestins 2. In that there is oft times great pain and it goeth oft into a Convulsion 3. That is cured at first in a short time the same is the condition of a Palsey Scorputick only that in those that are sick of it there remaineth some motion and soon goeth away and returns The cause of weakness is often Cholerick and raw it cometh not from the Head because that is seldom affected in the Colick nor would the Colick cease But the very same matter is carried through the Veins into the Limbs as a Pleuresy comes from a dysentery stopt But Erastus saith Wherefore should not nature provoked by Clysters rather cast forth the matter by the Belly Answer The Passage is not free Spiegelius will have it done by the Arteries and by them the purgative force of Clysters is carried to the Heart The Cure If it be from fleam that must be evacuated by Generals taken away by Topicals The same cure is for stupidity Topical Resolvers If it come from a sharp humour as from the Colick in the Scurvey in that we must not dry so much nor respect the Brain Generals and Topicals are all useful Monav. ep 242. saith that this that followeth is good in weakness Take the fat of a Gray a Fox a Hen a Duck a Goose a Stork of each one ounce juyce of Sage and Wormwood thickned of each half an ounce oyl of Bays one ounce anoint after Bathing Specificals are Marigolds Lavender Berries and shavings of Juniper Meadsweet Primroses wine of the infusion of Marigolds Lavender for one Month one or two spoonfuls It must be set in the Sun at an open window If it come by way of Crisis the Flux must not be stopped In the Palsey of the Tongue after Generals For. opened a Vein under the Tongue Cupping glasses without scarification must be set under the Chin. Vomit is not good Gargarisms must be first attenuating then add such things as draw fleam Cauteries to the Neck The juyce of Sage alone rubbed on the Tongue recovereth the speech In a Palsey of the Weasand soft things can hardly but gross things may easily be swallowed In a Palsey of the Bladder add torrefied Turpentine Trochis Alkekengi without Opium An astringent fomentation to the neither part A Potion of the roots of Cyperus Galanga of each two drams Lignum Aloes sweet Calamus Cypress nuts Balaustia Pomegranate Pills Myrtils Acorn cups roots of our Ladies Thistle great Comfrey of each one dram Galls Frankincense seeds of Agnus Castus Rue of each one scruple c. If all fail use this that followeth approved Take Acorns I ounce half Galanga half an ounce boyl them in 2 pound of red Wine and Smiths water Frankincense 2 drams boyl strain drink them Topicals If the Yard it is cured with a Fomentation of a Ly of the ashes of a Hart and Buls pisles Foment the Spondils Prescribe such things as take away barrenness If the Fundament use drying Clysters astringent apply Cupping glasses to the Buttocks Make Fumes of the bark of the Pine-tree one ounce bark of Frankincense half an ounce Pix Colophonia Frankincense Mastrick of each three drams Castoreum one dram shavings of Harts-horn half a dram If it be from a fall apply to the part Coolers Astringents for fear of Inflammation and hot Resolvers If it be with wasting Topicals and Internals must be moderate The PESTILENCE The Cause is divine Hipp. Which Erastus ep 275. affirms to be a hidden quality of the Air. And Ep. 269. he saith purrefaction is the cause not in making but already made which cannot be corrected by altering but must be taken away by evacuating Signs It infects many is contagious it suddenly casts the Forces down the Pulse is deadly a Feaver Small-Pox Prognosticks To be well in mind and the appetite to remain is good If Vomit be absent other signs are deceitful Differences If it proceed from infection of the aire it is very contagious it quickly killeth few have Botches or Pushes breaking forth The Urine is like to sound mens there did
Belly is lifted up These pains oft times last beyond fourty days they make hollow the Belly they pull the right Intestine upwards so that Clysters cannot be injected but byforce the matter oft times sticks between the two Coats of the Intestins pain of the Loyns pain of the Kidnies the Joynt Gout with a Small Palsey and a wandring pain A Palsey growing suddenly quickly moveable wandring sudden Tumors trembling Convulsion sudden blindness suffocation at the first morsel of meat from a styptick vapour affecting the sharp Artery and Weason Vomiting spitting heat sudden redness of the Face and suddenly down All scorbutical people have a stinking breath wandring Feavers wherein the cold fit oft times dureth six ot seven hours The Pulse besides the reason of Feavers is slow the urines various Tertians are frequent oft times without cold Erysipelas Ulcers almost incurable Prognosticks A most slow Pulse must not affright us for it is not mortal by it self in the Scurvey At first it cured by only changing the Aire It bath been often mistaken for the Pox. Want of speech oft comes with a kind of Epileptical Convulsion from the Muscles of the Larynx contracted In the beginning of Feavers oft times Carus groweth that ceaseth of it self Swelling of the Knees are hardly cured It is an ill sign for the spots to vanish without being better The Cure â— Premising a Clyster if there be Plethora and nothing hinder also in progress of the disease a Vein must be opened directly in the Arm with a broad Lancet For. openeth the salvatella of the left hand we must oft times open in divers parts sparingly The spots indicate contrarily the matter must be altered and after that at several times we must Purge gently It is exasperated with stronger means Many have been cured without Purging If with a good urine the disease increase it is a sign that the Remedies are weaker then they should be We must open by turns adding Specificals For. Syrup against the Scurvey is made of the juyce of Scurvey grass and Brooklime with Sugar Senn. Powder of Sennâ— is this Take choice Senna leaves one ounce and half Cremor Tartar six drams Cinamon three drams Cloves Galinga of each half a dram Dâ—agridium one dram infuse for one night two or three drams of this powder in Whey strain it drink the infusion Sweet Milk the decoction of Brook-lime Cresces Mustard seed evacuations and alteratives repeated we must give Specificals as Scurvey grasse all kinds of Cresses Brook-lime which is less hot is moist is good in Feavers Mingle Scurvey grass with Brooklime it is excellent Horse Radish lesser Celandine The third kind of Howsleek which is not safe some only commend Mustard Cuckoe pint Succory Endive Sorrel juyce of Citrons Lemmons spirit of Salt Vitriol Brimstone are given most fitly in Whey by reason of their heat The decoction of Wormwood Birkmans powder with salt of Scurvey-grass Cresses Rocket seed or spirit of Scurvey grasse c. which will take flame as well as spirit of wine sowre waters then Diureticals and Diaphoreticks as Rob of Elder to three drams then Coroboratives Symptomatical diseases as the Jaundies Dropsy Feavers are never rightly cured and are often cured to no purpose by Physicians unless the Scurvey be cured the fault of the Gums is cured by abstergents as Columbines spirit of Vitriol and specificals in Gargarisms also by Scurvey grasse water Brook-lime Tobacco Masticatories powder of burnt Salt ashes of the tendrils of Veins Sage leaves Allom. The Spots are taken away with resolving Topicals eating Oranges with their Rinds is very good Milk SPHACELUS of the bones is made either from the contagion of the Aire or matter or moist medicaments It is known by sight when they grow wan partly by the Prbe when no slippery thing but many sharp things meet with it and when it easily entreth their spongie substance yet often times rotten bones are most hard If flesh brought over the bone be too soft and fluid having almost no sense if out of a wound the matter run more then it is wont or should run if the brims of the Ulcer be turned inward we must first strew in the powder of Orris root Gentian Birthwort Centory Pine bark burnt Wax Myrrh Ceruss If it be very great scrape it off with Raspers yet Fab. cent 8. counteth this dangerous not to be used but in great rottenness of the bones He rather obs 92. cent 2. strewed even in children also with great success the powder of Gum Thistle very safely upon Ulcers with rottenness of the bones the lips of the Ulcers not having any defensative Whence he collects that Diosc was deceived or else we know not the Gum Thistle of the Ancients Or if scraping Instruments be in vain the scales must be removed or taken away by a Trepane except in the Hip bones Thigh Head Spondils c. If it be to no purpose give a vulnerary Potion to expect the scaling of the corrupt Bone and not to force it off or the scales being ready to fall hasten motion but not the falling SNEESING overmuch is taken away by Lenitives Preparatives Evacuating c. by smell of cold things as Violets Roses snuff up the decoction of Poppies Roses water of Violets avoid all spices The Nostrils must be stopped the breath held smell of Bread smell of opium of Mandragora root also sneezing coming upon a mortal disease presageth safety put your Hands into cold water snuff up Milk See Aph. 13. s 6. STRANGURY is wherein the water is made by drops with pain Dysuria is otherwise taken for only diminishing of urine either with or without pain as before otherwise when the urine is not made by drops and in a due quantity without interruption but it is with pain The Cause A sharp humor sticking fast to the Sphincter of the Bladder as in Tenasmus also a stone inflammation an Ulcer sharp urine either of it self namely when by reason of crudity contracted in the Liver either the coldness of the Bladder is corrupted and becomes sharp or by the mixture of sharp humours if it be from thinness of drink exercise the raw drink is drawn to the Reins and driven forth Aph. 44. s 6. The Cure varieth as the cause is If the urine be sharp we must soften cool by Internals Topicals Emulsions For. cured himself and others when all failed with a decoction of Mallows and syrup of Violets Whey of Goats-Milk injections candle tallow anointed Nutmegs The cause of Dysuria is the fault of the urinary passages not of the Sphincter also of the Bladder STRANGLING of the Womb. The cause is a malignant vapour sent from the Seed menstrual blood and other humours sticking in the Testicles and the Pipe Fallop his Pipe and the Testicles when these hang down that being light and stretched by wind they often ascend upwards and are taken for the rising of the Mother which is alwaies fast bound This is proved by the observation of
Riol Also oft times the Body ascending is known by the touch and is mistaken for the Womb. Three Symptoms urge swooning suffocation and Convulsion and sometimes this sometimes that sometimes lightly sometimes grievously torment them Signs Weariness precedeth a sad look they are easily taken with horror It is cured by putting stinking things to the Nostrils and sweet things to the secrets It differs from swooning because swooning is more sudden the Pulse is small in strangling as in swooning there is a cold sweat they are often joyned Swooning lasteth not long suffocation sometimes for three days They must not be buried before seventy two hours past for in that time all the humours absolve their motions put a feather to their Mouth a dish of water to their Heart or a glasse to their Mouth Sneezing Remedies are more certain Prognosticks It afflicts most in Winter sneezing is good cut them not up before seventy two hours Vesalius learned this by his own example witness Par. l. 23. 46. yet in his Ep. 30 and 31. he saith Vesalius dyed not of grief but when he had ended a sacred Voiage he died in the way of a burning Feaver The Cure Loosing all Ligatures raise the sick put stinking things to the Nostrils as fumes of feathers of Partridge Hairs Lether Horns Castoreum underneath sweet things chiefly a smoke of Horses warts dried Clysters for the Womb Pessaries outwardly oyl of Rue Treacle c. an unguent for the Nostrils and Ears oyl of Amber Sage c. pour in Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar and spread upon a round piece of leather apply to the Navel Make a nodulus of Asa foetida two scruples Castoreum one scruple Some are cured by only chewing Lovage seed and swallowing it down See Child-birth wine is hurtful Powder for the Muther is this Take Dittany root seeds of Carrots one dram choise Cinamon Cassia lignea Balm of each two scruples Saffron oriental half a scruple fat Castoreum one scruple Dosis half or one dram with Beer or water of Camomil Treacle with Mugwort water root of Angelica juyce of Garlick rub upon the Navel with Aloes it is a secret put the leaves of Bur-dock under the Feet Fecula of Briony made in Pills to ten or twelve grains with a little Castoreum extract of Elder-berries dried made with Aqua vitae and spirit of Vitriol by distillation to one scruple Preservation is wrought by Generals and Specials of Balm Penny-royal Angelica roots c. SUPPURATION is not to be opened before it be ripe for it will turn to a Fistula in a part that wants blood as the Pleura and if the matter be malignant and sharp If it be from a cold matter it must not be opened before the concoction of the whole matter The Signs are if the pain heat tumour a Feaver be increased when the heat pain Feaver are remitted and the tumor is lifted up into a point the matter is concocted Suppurative medicaments are necessary when the humour is so impacted that it cannot be repelled either by reason of the nearnesse of some principal part or so thick that it cannot be resolved It must be opened on that part it riseth to a point according to the straightness of the Fibraes â—hat the matter may not run forth by heaps Suppuratives shut the Pores that the heat cannot breath forth and so they differ from Emollients It must be opened either with an Instrument oâ— a Medicament either with a hot iron seldom or cutting iron as in a Ring Medicaments are either potential Cauteries or more gentle as leaven Onions roasted in the Embers Garlick Pigeons dung black Sope Mustard-seed Salt Figs Diaquilon Dogs dung Nitre coughing crying sneezing vomiting Scabious Horehound Carduus benedictus Add some of these to ripening plaisters Give syrup of Hore-hound with water of Scabious STITCHING 1. A little Pipe with a little hole is put to receive the point of the Needle to hold the lips of the wound immoveable then make a knot yet the lips must not be wholly drawâ— together that the matter may come forth First give a stitch through the middle of the wound In great wounds take in much flesh 2. A dry stitch with a sticking plaister 3. That which belongeth to Hare-lips 4. Stitching of the Peltmongers which belongeth to the Intestins 5. Stitching of the Belly for wounds of the Peritonaeum SWOONING Is a sudden failing of the Forces by reason of the vitall spirits affluence denied or because they are not bred for want of matter or great heat or are consumed by heat malignity vacuatives grief or strangling by some crude humor as in a Feaver with Swooning or by frights c. Diagnosticks There preceeds a languishing Pulse and small the Face is pale the outward parts are cold they sweat in fainting there is no sweat and the Pulse remains It is distinguished by the Pulse from strangling of the Womb. Prognosticks Aph. 4â— s 2. The Cure The spirits must be preserved sprinkle the Face with Cinamon water Rose water Wine Vinegar For women alwaies use stinking things Apply Epithems to the Liver Heart little Bags Ointments Balm sprinkled with Wine that is pleasant heated on a hot tile give bread dipt in Wine chiefly chafings of the ends of the Fingers is most profitable and other Revulsives lying down Tormentil and other Cordials Take two Pome-Citrons pouring on Rose water and Sugar sprinkled on them boyl them to an Electuary If it be from wasting of the spirits Chafings c. are not fit but Rest So Take the best powdered Sugar what you please moisten it with the best Cinamon water that it may be a little fluid to which add some drops of spirit of Vitriol oyl of Cinamon four drops of Cloves two drops Mace Nutmegs Anniseeed of each three drops Give it in a spoon at pleasure TEETH rotten and black are made so by over-hot cold sweet sowre things or paintings of Mercury Preservation If after meat the Mouth be washed with wine and Cyprus or Mastick be put into the Teeth The cure If one every Morning hold a grain of Salt under his Tongue and when it is melted rub his Teeth with it The spirit and oyl of Vitriol mixt with water makes the Teeth very white A Pumex stone fired and quenched twice in white wine and the third time fired and so left until it be cold then powdered and washed makes the Teeth exceeding white also not fired For. l. 14. Some use only tosted bread Paraeus L. 16. Cuttle-bone Harts-horn Cinamon Coral Crabs-eys Egg-shells Snails shells the Jaw-bone of a Pike Mastick roots of Birthwort Orris Rosemary flowers Lavender Roses white sand most fine Some use only oyl of Vitriol with Honey of Roses The ashes of Rosemary branches Tobacco ashes TEETH are pulled out with Iron either by reason of extream pain or because they are rotten and make the breath to stink or if a tooth stand out of order great dexterity of the Hand must be used lest the Cheek-bone
To the Temples but set it neer by them In the Winter and full Moon Trepaning is more dangerous for the Brain swelleth It must be done in three days yet Paraeus in Winter and Summer used it after ten days When it cometh to the second Table the blood runneth forth but not alwaies for in some places the Skull is thin TREMBLING The cause is a preternatural moving Faculty burdened by the fault of the animal spirits or Nerves or nervous fibras in the Muscle If the spirit by reason of disorderly motion hath not its influence from the Brain as in anger joy fears frights for from hence the vital spirit is variously moved and so the generation of animal spirits is wanting a distemper cold and moist of the Nerves or from malignity as trembling from Quicksilver Vermilion in Gold-smiths which For. cured with only Goats milk nervous remedies from Obstruction wine The Cure If it be from a want of the spirits it is cured by Restoratives if from a humour with distemper it is cured by Generals Topicals Chymists coÌ„mend the essence of Balm in cordial water A Bath wash the trembling parts in water of Cinque-foil or decoction of Juniper berries with Wine let them dry of themselves or with water of infusion of Mugwort A Lotion with their own water Sage beer meat seasoned with Sage flesh of Storks wood Pigeons a Hares brain fried Infuse Juniper berries all night in water then let them infuse in Aqua vitae eight days swallow ten berries every day the decoction of Guaicum Monav. ep 240. after Generals giveth the extract of Calamus he foments the hands with a decoction of Wine with Sage and Aqua vitae VEINS swollen with melancnolick blood are cured by Chirurgery for above and beneath the Vein it is bound and when it is made naked of the skin the Vein is cut and the blood being let out it is cured But since this cure is difficult and oft times leaves malignant Ulcers Hier. Fabric cuts the vein bound not with great Incision but by prickings that are small Then he layeth on Medicaments of Bole armenick Dragons blood Mastick with Gum Traganth steeped in Wine of Pomegranates or Verjuyce made like a Candle and he layeth this long waies on the Vein and upon the Medicament a reed made hollow to hold on the Medicament for so the Vein consumes If there be an Ulcer joyned with it the Vein must be cut out VERTIGO is when all things seem to turn round Scotoma is when over and above the sight is darkned Why they than look down from on high should be taken with a Vertigo the cause is natural for that by looking on a thing that breedeth fear the spirits are dissipated from terrour the spirits are drawn in again whence follows a contrary Motion the common sense and imagination are primarily hurt The Cause of Vertigo is the circulation of the spirits animal by a thin vapour Scotoma is from a thick The antecedent cause sticketh either in the Brain and there be signs of the Brain affected or in the Liver Spleen Hypochondres and there be signs of them affected or from some outward cause Prognosticks They that in a Vertigo see a green or purple colour encline to the Epilepsy they that see black to the Apoplexie they that see red are thought to be more subject to madness The Cure Let the Patient alone in the fit and if the cause ascend from the lower part Revulsion must be made by frictions the Face must be sprinkled with Wine give Suppositories Clysters put sweet smells to the Nostrils hot or cold rub the Nostrils with oyl of Amber c. rub the Temples with Rosemary water the Forehead with wild Marjoram annoint the Palate with Theriac Senn. alloweth also opening a Vein but with caution If an Apoplex be feared for preservation is Carway seed soaked in Wine and then dried if daily half a spoonful be long chewed about bedtime and lastly be swallowed When the fit is over open a Vein as the Head Vein It is cured as the Head-ach by Generals Topicals Bears-ear is commended the water or extract of Scorzonera a dryed silk-worm is strewed on the Crown Take dung of a male Peacock for a Man or a female for a woman one dram infuse it all night in white-wine strain it through a linnen cloth give it for a Vertigo from a new Moon till a full Moon If it come from some other part by consent the humour prepared must be evacuated the Vapour intercepted revulsed discussed we must strengthen VOMITING too much is cured by Revulsives Clysters Oyls Frictions and principally by heating the extream parts Give Astringents before meat put Cupping glasses to the bottome of the stomach Topicals A crust of bread infused in Mint water and Vinegar of Roses sprinkled with Mastick powder baked opium An ULCER is the solution of continuity from something that corrodeth with the taking away of some parts they differ in form one is circular c. in subject in cause Diagnosticks The cause is known by the signs when raw thin quitter runs forth plentifully with pain pricking it is then beginning In the increase the matter is better and more sparingly c. If the Rest diminish it is the declination Prognosticks White matter or rather ash colour light and equal is good See Aph. 45. 4. s 6. Aph. 65. 67. 2. 21. s 7. The Cure The humour must be evacuated by Generals we must apply Digestives yet it is safest even at the beginning to mingle Detergents with Digestives unequally as Turpentine with juyce of Smallage yolks of Eggs oyl of Roses Saffron The part affected must be observed as in Phlegmone If the Ulcer be scowred too much it becommeth dry the flesh is consumed the Lips grow red there is a sense of biting If it become more dry and there be a good colour and neither quitter nor matter run forth of the Ulcer we must use Sarcoticals The purer the Ulcer groweth so much the more mild must Detergents be A scar is made with Powders or Emplaisters that heal but not in a moist form If there be for example a dry distemper the Ulcer being so long let alone the dryness must be cured most fitly with a fomentation of water and oyl warm and by Emollients If the distemper be with matter which is known by the swelling pain and plenty of Excrements before all the matter must be evacuated the parts strengthned the humour reâ—ulsed intercepted repulsed the best Repellers are Issues made in the opposite part And without these oft times Ulcers cannot be cured and old Ulcers cannot be closed unless an Issue be made in the opposite part Lay Sarcoticks on the Mouth of the Ulcer yet without biting stronger then otherwise The circumference must be washed with Repellers or some resolving Cataplasm laid on The Medicaments must be oft times changed Guido brought on the skin with a Plate of Lead If it be foul the filth shews