a hot Catarrh If from a cold Cause you must take that course which is prescribed in the Cure of the cold distemper of the Brain but you must strengthen the Teeth with the Medicines in the Chapter following Chap. 2. Of the blackness and rottenness of the Teeth MAny times the Teeth do contract a black livid or yellow color from the evil Humors cleaving unto them which by long continuance do also corrode them and make them rotten and these Diseases come from filthy vapors that fly upwards and are engendered of evil nourishment or from the distemper of the stomach which corrupteth good nourishment Quick-silver doth black the Teeth whether it be used to the whol Body as in the Pox or only to the Face Hence it is that women which use Mercury to make them fair have black and ill color'd Teeth For the Cure you must first remove the antecedent Cause and if it comes from evil humors in the stomach they must be discharged and the distemper of the parts which produce them must be corrected and a good diet prescribed and those things forbidden which do corrupt the teeth especially sweet things Infinite Medicines are prescribed by Authors for making teeth white which may be experienced We are contented with one which presently makes them white clenseth them and keeps them from rotting namely the spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol in which you must dip a little stick and rub the teeth with the end thereof and then wipe them with a clout In a great foulness you may use the Oyls by themselves otherwise you must mix them with Honey of Roses or fair Water lest by the often use of them the Gums should be corroded Montanus consil 113. reports that he learned that at Rome of a Woman called Greek Mary to whom when he came when he was yong and she twenty yeers old and after when she was fifty he found her almost in the same condition and she confessed that her Beauty and strength was preserved by the Spirit of Vitriol and that her Teeth which were very bad in her youth were by that made very fair and firm and also her Gums and also that she perceived her self by the use thereof to seem more youthful and she used every day one drop or two to rub gently her Teeth and Gums The Ashes of Tobacco is very good also to clense and make white the Teeth For prevention and to preserve the Teeth first clense them with a Tooth-picker made of Mastich Wood or the like then wash the mouth with Wine and rub the Teeth with this Pouder Take of the Roots of Snakeweed Allum and white Coral of each one ounce Make a Pouder to rub the Teeth Or wash them with this Water Take of the fine Pouder of burnt Allum two drams whol Cinnamon half a dram Spring and Rose Water of each four ounces boyl them in a Glass upon hot Embers to the consuming of the third part Wash the Teeth therewith every morning with a cloth dipped therein Chap. 3. Of the Erosion or eating away and of the Exulceration of the Gums THe Gums are eaten away and exulcerated by sharp corroding humors which come unto them The parts from whence they come are the Brain Stomach Spleen and others Men that have Diseases in the Spleen are most subject to Ulcers in the Gums as in the Scurvy somtimes the erosion of the Gums comes from worms or the corrupt humors which cause worms so that it is a plain sign of worms when it continueth long So saith Fabricius Hildanus Obs 59. Centur. 1. the Son of a Citizen of Dusseldorp was long troubled with erosion of the Gums and died after the use of many internal Medicines and Topicks when he was opened we found abundance of worms which had eaten through his Guts and many in his Stomach The Cure is first to be directed to the antecedent cause and the vicious humors are to be evacuated by blood-letting and purging the sharp and hot humors are to be tempered with Apozemes Juleps and Physical Broths and the like The flux of the same is to be diverted by Cupping-glasses and Cauteries fitly applied And lastly the faults of the parts affected are to be corrected Afterwards you must use Topicks which are to be altered according to the greatness of the disease so that to a simple Erosion you must apply only those which astringe and dry as this Water following Take of unripe Galls Acorn Cups and Flowers of Pomegranates of each one ounce red Roses one pugil Allum three drams boyl them in two parts of Forge-water and one part of old red Wine and wash the Gums often therewith If the Erosion be not taken away with that use this Opiate Take of Dragons blood three drams Lignum Aloes red Roses Spodium and burnt Harts-horn and Cypress nuts of each one dram Mirrh and Tobacco Ashes of each three scruples Allum one dram Make them into Pouder and mix them with Honey and a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur Make an Opiate which must be spread upon linnen cloth and laid to the Gums at night The Spirit of Vitriol and Sulphur as they clense and whiten the Teeth so they take away the rottenness of the Gums either alone or mixed with Honey of Roses or Water as in the former Chapter If the Ulcer be deep and foul anoint with this Take of choyce Mirrh and Sugar-candy of each equal parts pouder them and fill the white of an hard Egg cut in the midst therewith then tie it with a thrid and hang it in a Wine-Celler with a glass under it and there will come forth a Liquor or Balsom with which anoint often But if by the use of the aforesaid the disease be not cured if the Tooth neer the Ulcer be rotten you must pull it out and then it will be presently cured otherwise never Chap. 4. Of bleeding at the Gums SOmtimes abundance of blood flows from the Gums either Critically or Symptomatically although the former be very seldom yet it is somtimes so we may see by Experience and by reading So saith Dodonaeus Obs 14. A certain Quarrier having the smal Pox had a flux of blood from his Gums and being stopt it made the Urine bloody which being stopt it returned again to the Gums and there continued till he recovered of the smal Pox. Amatus Lucitanus Curat 5. Centur. 5. saies that some have had benefit by bleeding at the Gums and have been worse when it was stopped Also Zacutus Lucitanus obs 86. lib. 1. Praxis admir speaks of a Goldsmith who when he fell into a Feaver by laboring at the Furnace being of a strong constitution lost much blood by opening a Vein and amended so that the seventh day having had an itching of his Gums and a pain in the lower Lip the blood gushed from the Veins of his lower Gums for three daies in such a quantity that he lost above five pints more and the more he bled the more
of the Spirit of Vitriol which is thought very proper for the Epileply You must often use the common purges namely the Pills or Magistral Syrup once or twice a week if the Patients strength will suffer them and continue purging for divers Months and somtimes use stronger purgâ—s as Massaria ordains who saith it comes from hence that Epilepsies are not or seldom cured because the Physitians alwaies give weak Medicines For this cause the Chymicks use Minerals which draw the Humors from remotest parts but not without much danger especially if they be not well prepared But if good success may be expected from these Chymical Medicines it is to be found in Mercury or Quick-silver either by its self or with Gold calcined in a Furnace of Sand with a long continuance of fire watching narrowly lest any crude portion of him remain which would make the Medicine very violent otherwise it will work gently if given in the quantity of four or five grains in Cochie Pills or any Extract that purgeth flegm or all humors A new Epilepsy is somtimes cured with Salt of Vitriol as Angelus Sala saith that he hath cured at thrice taking of it an Epilepsy giving it every fourth day And after in his 77. Gurat Gent. 2. he boasts that he cured a Girl of eleven yeers of age of an haereditary Epilepsy with Stibium calcined given only thrice Quercitan's Syrup of Tobacco is very good for the Cure of the Epilepsy But it is not to be used but by a wise Physitian it is so vehement Instead of the Opiate before mentioned this may be used which is more Specifical Take of the conserve of Rosemary flowers Peony and Bugloss of each half an ounce Citron barks candied two drams of the pouder of Misleto of the Oak Peony seeds and Elks Claw of each half a dram Mans skull that was not buried calcined white one dram and an half Coral Pearl and Harts-horn prepared of each four scruples right Bezoar stone one scruple Diamoscu dulce Diatrion santalon of each two scruples old Treacle and Confectio de hyacintho of each one dram Spirit of Vitriol fifteen drops With the Syrup of candied Citron barks make an Opiate of which take the quantity of an Acorn or Filbert drinking a little Cinnamon water after it But this following is most powerful for the rooting out of the Disease after the Body is well purged Take of Conserve of Bettony Flowers and Rosemary Flowers of each two ounces and an half Eringus Roots candied and Mithridate of each one ounce the pouder of Sassaphras six drams Castoreum three drams Mans Skull not buried and Elks hoof of each two drams of the roots and seeds of Peony and Gith seeds wild Rue and Pellitory of each one dram Oxymel as much as is sufficient make an Opiate of which take two or three drams The Opiate of Montagnus goes beyond all by which many have been cured It is made thus Take of the Roots of male Peony Stoechas and Pepper-wort of each ten drams Agarick five drams Pellitory Carua seeds Dill Assafoetida and Aristolochia or round Birthwort two drams and an half of the juyce of Squils and Honey of each one pound and two ounces Boyl the Squils and Honey gently to a good consistence then ad the Pouders and make an Electuary of which take two three or four drams as age requires continuing it twenty or thirty daies After the use of the Epispastick Plaister you must apply a Vesicatory to the fore part of the head and a Cautery to the neck But a Seton or Skein of Silk drawn through the neck draws the Humors more strongly out of the Brain And Fabricius Hildanus reports that he cured a Youth that had the Falling-sickness every day and had used all means he could get in vain and a Girl of eighteen yeers of age born so only by the continuance of a Seton If you conjecture that the vapors rising from the parts below and flying into the Brain produce this disease and nourish it it is good to apply a Caustick to the fore part of the head avoiding the Sutures for Carolus Piso reports that he cured two by so doing Also if the Disease come from the inferior parts the Waters of Germany called Aquae Acidulae do work wonders and somtimes root out the Disease if first evacuations have been sufficiently made and the veins inferior have been opened But an Epilepsy coming from the Matrix requires a special Cure The Pouder of Elder Berries described by Quercetanus given three daies together the quantity of a dram with some Hysterical Water is good If al means fail the last remedy is to open the fore part of the Skul with a Trepan at distance from the Sutures that the evil air may breath out By this means many times desperate Epilepsies have been cured and it may be safely done if the Chyrurgeon be skilful Let the Patient drink ordinarily Hydromel or a smal Decoction of Guajacum with Peony Roots Let him carry a Bag about his Neck made thus Take of Peony Roots and Misleto of the Oak of each one ounce Elks hoof two drams Nutmegs Cloves and Mace of each two drams Rue and Hysop of each one dram and an half Pouder them and put them in red Sarsnet to be bung about his neck that he may often smel to it After Universal Evacuations among other Medicines you must use Specifical Medicines which you may find in many Authors We shal set down some of the best besides those Opiates prescribed which are of no smal Consideration in the Cure of this Disease Rondeletius commendeth much the Water of Swallows which Quercetanus borrowed of him in his Dispensatory Treacle Water is of no less value and Aqua Cephalica and Syrupus Antepilepticus mentioned by Quercetanus The Root of wild Valerian is much commended by Fabius Columna that once or twice taken it cures the Epilepsy And he reports he gave it to many of his friends who affirmed that under God they were cured by it The Dose is half a spoonful in Wine Water Milk or any other proper Liquor but it is given to Children in a less quantity in Milk The Chymists commend the Spirital mixture than which no better Medicine can be required as they say The Composition whereof is as followeth Take of the spirit of Vitriol one part spirit of Tartar three parts Treacle Water with Camphire four parts Mix them and let them stand in a glass well stopped three or four weeks The Dose is one dram in any proper Liquor or Vehiculum to swallow it down with Rulandus used much the Oleum ligni Heraclei which the Chymists affirm to be of Coryline or the Oyl of the Hazel-nut or Filbert tree And in his Centuries he relates some passages of them which by the use of the Medicine were cured The Dose is three or four drops in any proper Liquor for five daies together The Oyl of white Amber is inferior to none if not the
able to exercise a voluntary Motion perfectly The Spirits are made weak either by a fault in themselves or by a defect in the Nerves which are the Conduit Pipes by which they are carried and do act The fault is in the Spirits either when they are but few at the first or when they are afterwards dissipated They are few at the first either by reason of the cold distemper of the Brain as in old men or through the want of vital Spirits which are the matter of which the animal are made The Spirits are dissipated from many external Causes as immoderate Evacuations much use of Venery and unseasonable great pain and constant fasting sorrow and long violent Diseases The Spirits are hurt by defect in the Nerves and are weakned either when the Nerves are too cold or are infected with a malignant quality or obstructed or compressed They grow too cold either from a cold Air from use of cold meats or much drinking of Water swimming often in cold water and the like They are infected by the use of Opium Henbane Poppy and the vapor of Quick-silver as it is seen in Gold-smiths and them which have the French Pox and have been cured with the fume of Cinnaber So in malignant Feavers tremblings come also which are rather to be accounted Convulsive Motions and also they come from the provocation or irritation of the Nervous parts They are stopped not wholly as in a Palsey but much less but by the same cause namely a watery humor gently sprinkled upon the Nerves which is produced of gluttony drunkenness and other Causes Lastly Trembling may come from compression of the Nerves when excrementitious humors abounding in the whol Body do compress the Nerves and hinder the free passage of the Animal Spirits Hercules Saxonia besides the causes mentioned borrowed from Galen acknowledgeth another Tremor coming of wind and Cardanus another from pain in nervous parts But they are deceived because the Motion produced from those Causes are to be referred to Palpitation or Convulsive Motion There is no need of signs in this disease because trembling appears of it self But the Causes that produce it are to be known by their proper signs as also we must search for those external Causes which went before As for the Prognostick Trembling of it self is not dangerous but if it be in old people it continueth with them til they die But it may be deadly by accident in as much as it usually goes before a Palsey or an Apoplexy You must Cure Trembling as you cure the Palsey and therefore we shall not make vain repetitions of Medicines CHAP. XI Of Phrenitis or Phrenzie A Phrenzy is an Inflamation of the Brain and its Membranes with a continual dotage and a a sharp constant Feaver By the word Inflamation we understand a true Tumor which is commonly called a contracted Inflamation coming of Blood out of the Vessels falling upon the substance of the part for the Blood being hot and Chollerick and in the Membranes or substance of the Brain causeth a true Erysipelas or an Erysipelas Phlegmonodes or Phlegmon Erysipelatodes By Delirium or Doting we understand the erring of Reason for we suppose that fault cannot be in the Imagination alone without a fault be in the Reason in a Phrenzy whatsoever others think we are led by the Authority of Galen who in his Book of the Difference of Symptomes chap. 3. gives an Example of one Theophilus a Physitian who thought Fidlers sate continually in a corner of his house playing and beleeved that he saw them somtimes standing somtimes sitting and cried continually that they should be cast out of doors And Galen saith that in him the Imagination was hurt without the Reason First therefore we may say that Theophilus had not a Phenzy for Galen doth not say that he had but speaking of a Delirium which Theophilus had therefore it was rather Melancholly because they somtimes err in one object and discourse wel concerning other so saith Galen of Theophilus that he had wisdom in other things both to discourse and to know his friends But we say further of Theophilus that not only his Imagination but also his Reason was hurt because he really thought the Fidlers were there and desired they should be put forth For when the Imagination alone is hurt the Reason being not hurt acknowledgeth the error of Imagination as in a Vertigo in which the Patient thinks al things run round but Reason knoweth that it is not so indeed but that Imagination doth err Nor is the Opinion of Eustachius Rudius to be received in this case who saith That it never comes to pass that the Imagination should be hurt the Reason being sound because Reason worketh upon Phantasms received from the Imagination and therefore if foolish Phantasms are offered to the Reason he thinks it necessary that the Understanding beholding those foolish fansies should also be foolish And hence Eustachius gathers that the Imagination is not depraved but there is a meer and simple deceit of the sight We say that the understanding doth run from one thing to another and is busied about those Species which are retained in the Memory and though the Fansie presents absurdities to the Mind yet the Species before received are still retained in the Memory and are presented to the Reason it can know and correct that mistake of the Fansie namely if it judg that those absurd fansies which are brought to it by a depraved Imagination do neither agree with time place or other circumstances which still remain in the Memory and are known to be true So in a Vertigo Reason being in order judgeth that it is impossible that Roofs Walls and Pavements should turn round and therefore they are falsly represented to the Imagination So the Phylosopher that was bit with a mad dog and his Imagination began to decay going into a Bath perceived the false Image of a Dog therein but Reason being sound reproved the error of his Imagination and made him speak thus What hath a Dog to do in a Bath and presently he cast himself into the Bath by which means he was delivered from the danger of a Disease called Hydrophobia or fear of Water There are two kinds of Phrenzie namely a true Phrenzy which is laid down in the Definition above mentioned Another which is called Paraphrenitis or Bastard Phrenzy A true Phrenzy is somtimes in the Disposition which is most usual somtimes in the Habit which is called Hectical Phrenzy in which the Chollerick Humors are strongly fixed in the Brain and possess many parts thereof sticking thereto like a tincture or dye A Paraphrenitis or bastard Phrenzy is when a hot distemper is communicated to the Brain either from the whol Body as in burning Feavers or from some part inflamed as the Stomach Liver Lungs and especially the Diaphragma or Midriff which by inflamation doth produce a Disease very like a Phrenzy namely a contâ—nual Dotage called Delirium which cometh to
make use of this following Collyrium oâ— Water for the Eyes Take of red Roses dried two scruples Saffron Spicknard the Bark of the Frankinsence Tree of each half a scruple Tutty prepared burnt lvory and Acacia of each one scruple Bring them into a Pouder and put them in a thin linnen cloth and tie it then hang it in three ounces of Rose Water and wash the Eyes often with the Water dropping into them squeezing the cloth as often as you use the Water If it comes from wind after universal Evacuations those Medicines are to be used which discuss wind in the whol Body and especially in the Eyes and so they may be fomented with the Decoction of Fennel Rue Dill red Roses Myrtles made in Rose Water with the fourth part of white Wine Finally If it come with a stroak you must alter the manner of Cure according to the greatness of the Contusion and if there be an Inflamation you must cure it as an Opfithalmy But if there be no Inflamation you shall at the first apply a Cataplasm of Bean flower Plantane Leaves and red Roses made up with Rose Water After that you shall often drop therein the blood of a Pidgeon which is a most excellent Remedy in all Wounds and Contusions of the Eyes CHAP. VI. Of the straitness or Contraction of the Pupilla THe Pupilla being too straight hindereth the sight as the being of it too large as was shewed in the former Chapter because a moderate largeness of the Pupilla is necessary for receiving perfectly the visible Species So when the Eye is in its Natural condition and is in a light place the Pupilla is contracted lest it should take in too much light if suddenly it be in a dark room the things therein contained are little or scarcely seen at the first entrance by reason of the aforesaid contraction Afterwards when the Pupil is dilated al things are seen rightly therefore in a place moderately light the breadth of the Pupilla ought to be moderate that it may receive moderate light not too much nor too little for making a perfect sight But if the Pupilla be too narrow it receiveth not light enough therefore they who are so affected the sight is diminished yet they see well in a very light place because at that time light sufficient will pass through a narrow hole if no other Disease of the Eyes be joyned with it Now the narrowness of the Pupilla cometh either from the original or first constitution and then it little hindereth for if they who are so affected see less in a dark or dusky place than they who have a Pupilla of its moderate natural breath yet in a clear light place they see better Hence Galen said in 1. de symp caus cap. 2. that they who are born with smal Pupilla's see best Or the straightness of the Pupilla comes from preternatural causes namely overmuch moisture driness or defect of the Watery Humor and want of Spirits The Pupil is contracted by humidity when the Uvea is relaxed and so makes the hole less or narrower For although the dilatation of the Pupilla come of the same humidity yet contrary effects come not of the same cause because if the cause may be called the same it ought to have the same reâ—ation to its effects but humidity is not in the same manner when it makes a Dilatation for it makes â—hat by filling and distending the Membrane but it makes the angustia or narrowness by relaxing it 〈◊〉 relaxeth when it is united to its substance Concerning dryness there is the same difficulty since it is mentioned among the causes of dilating â—he Pupilla But this is the difference When the Uvea is dryed and the humors of the Eye remain in their due quantity then it makes a dilatation of the Pupilla because it looseth not the extention which it formerly had as was said in the precedent Chapter concerning Skins extended when dryed make their holes larger but if the Tunicle Uvea when it is dryed wrinckled falls together and loose its former extension from the defect or diminishing of the humors of the eye then is the hole of the Pupilla made straighter And so the constriction of the Pupilla by driness wil be almost the same with that which happeneth from a defect of the watery humor in the eye although it may come without driness when by the powring forth of the watery humor the Uvea falls down Lastly she narrowness of the Pupilla comes from the defect of Spirits or from the fewness of them when by reason of the obstruction of the optick Nerve or some other cause the visive spirit cannot come to the eyes which when it is filled with spirit keeps its Tunicles extended but when it wanteth spirits they grow lax and fal together Hence the constriction of the Pupilla usually cometh This appeareth in very Old men in whom the Pupilla is made narrow by reason of the want of spirits This Disease is known easily being open to the sense for if one eye alone suffer by comparing it with the other you may perceive the straightness of the Pupilla but if both suffer by looking upon the eyes of another man who is sound sighted you find it out As to the Prognostick a straightness in the Pupilla which cometh from the loss of the watery humor in the eye is incurable because when that is once lost it cannot be recruited especially in old folk in yong people somtimes the watery humor of the eye hath been let forth by a wound and hath been repaired again A Constriction of the Pupilla from driness can scarse and very hardly be cured But that which comes from moisture in the beginning and being yong may be easily Cured but an old one very hardly The Cure of this Disease differeth not from the former for they come both from the same Causes namely Driness or Moisture which distempers although they produce contrary effects after the manner before Explained yet are they to be Cured by the same Remedies CHAP. VII Of Albugo or the white Spot called Pin and Web and of other Colours of the Cornea changed THe Natural Constitution of the Cornea Tunicle is destroyed when it looseth its brightness and transparentness or when it s infected with another colour It looseth brightness when it is grown thicker now the Cornea doth grow thick by driness as in old men which is incurable or by gross humors fastened upon it which happeneth often in an Ophthalmy when either by too much use of Resolving Medicines the thinner parts of the humor are dissolved and the thick remain Or when by an extraordinary use of cold Medicines the humors are thickned and the Cornea doth not only become thicker in that part unto which the humor is fastened but it also contracteth a white Colour which is called Leucoma or Albugo somtimes this also comes from a scar after an Ulcer whereby the Cornea is made thicker in
by Schenkius by which it appears that he never see it till â—heir bodies who died of it were opened by him Therefore we will describe it exactly that a Phy-â—â—tian may not be deceived This serous humor either may be bred in the Lungs by the proper fault of them as when it doth â—ot concoct its own nourishment but turneth it into Water which by degrees is sent to the Cavity â—f the Breast or by bladders breaking upon the Lungs which are mentioned by Hippocrates in his â—ook of Internal Diseases and also by others Or it is sent into the Breast from other parts as from â—he Hypochondria especially when the Liver or the Spleen are distempered with a Schirrus or other â—isease by which much water is produced This watery humor is either sent by the Veins to the â—ungs which are weak or else from the Cavity of the Abdomen it is carried to the Breast by Insensiâ—le Transpiration Now Experience teacheth that this serous humor may be sent from one Belly to â—nother because the dropsie of the Breast turns into a dropsie of the Belly and a dropsie of the belâ—y into the Breast from whence they are suddenly choaked The Diagnosis of this Disease as hath been said is very hard for almost all the signs are the â—ame with the signs of other Diseases of the Breast But a noise of Water in the breast is only peâ—uliar to this Disease and to Empyema which may be heard within if the body be moved to and fro â—r be taken upon a strong mans shoulders and shaken But all the Signs which we mentioned from Hippocrates taken together may make a certain Diagâ—osis To which you may ad this one as being most evident to shew the Disease and by which â—he Dropsie in the breast is only distinguished from other difficulties of breathing namely When â—t every first beginning to sleep this difficulty of breathing cometh and hindereth it and by night enâ—reaseth and towards morning by degrees abateth To these you may ad somtimes a pain of one Arm or Shoulder which comes either from the humor falling from the Head into the Breast part whereof falls into the Arm being neer or from the water contained in the breast and sent to the Arms by the Axillary Veins of the Arm-holes or from â—he Refrigeration of the Intercostal Muscles from which the Nerves are derived to the Arms or from â—ome other sympathy by way of vicinity For Hippocrates in Coacis observed this Sympathy of the â—reast and arms If those parts or lobes of the Lungs which hang towards the right and left side of â—he Chest be vehemently inflamed so that they sway or rest upon one side of the Chest or Ribs the â—atery matter breaks out on the same side of the Body where the Lungs lean or rest This is a great Disease and hard to be cured for they who have it have their Natural heat very â—eak and their natural strength also from some great disease in the bowels from whence it comes that when the humor collected in the breast is evacuated by Medicines which is very difficult there â—omes more in the place of it from whence the disease is not only nourished but encreased so that â—t length by abundance of water they fall into the Dropsie called Ascites yet in the beginning beâ—ore the bowels are much hurt it somtimes may be cured For the Cure of this disease you must observe two Indications namely That the matter contaiâ—ed in the breast be evacuated and that the breeding thereof again be hindered It is a hard thing to empty the water contained in the breast because the waies are not open by which it should be brought forth Therefore Hippocrates doth advise to open the side which because â—e never see practised and never read in any Author that it was done with good success we cannot absolutely approve and we may speak of it as we have of the Opening or Tapping for the Dropsie in its proper Chapter Therefore it is better to attempt this Evacuation with Medicines that expel Water for which purpose al those Medicines prescribed by us in the Cure of the Dropsie are good Where we must observe diligently That if when the Disease is confirmed and much serous humor is gathered in the Breast you give a violent Purge those humors wil be much moved from whence there wil come a great Suffocation which wil kil the Patient therefore be wary and give your Medicine in a less Dose though oftener and mix them with strong Openers that purge Urin that both the passages may be unstopt and the Matter carried to the Uritories Among Water Purges the Minerals are best as Mercurius Dulcis and Mercurius Vitae so corrected that it may work only downward Also Diureticks alone or Medicines to provoke Urin often used are good because they turn away the matter coming to the breast to the bladder and by way of Consequence they bring it also from the breast Also Sudorificks are profitable to the carrying away of this serous matter and we saw a man of sixty years old who by the use of a Sweating drink made of Guaiacum and Sarsa taken fifteen days together and by provoking sweat with the vapor of the Spirit of Wine was Cured Cauteries applied to make Issues in the Thighes and Legs are also good to take Water from the breast You may hinder the breeding of this Water by amending the faults of those parts which send this Matter So if the Lungs be in fault you must apply proper Medicines unto them if the Liver or Spleen be troubled with Distemper Obstruction Schirrus or the like you must cure them by Medicines taken out of their several Chapters But those things which do strengthen the Vital and the Natural parts wil alwayes agree such as are prescribed in the Cure of Weakness Dropsie and Flux of the Liver Chap. 6. Of Haemoptysis or Spetting of Blood ALthough usually the word Haemoptysis doth signifie al manner of Spetting of blood from what part soever it doth proceed whether from the Breast Lungs Rough Artery or from the Jaws Gums Pallat Uvula Brain Stomach Liver and Spleen Yet Galen lib. 1. decris cap. 5. saith That Haemoptysis properly is taken for that spetting of blood which comes from the Vital parts as the Breast Lungs and rough Artery It is a Symptome in the excretion of those things which are wholly besides Nature But since every Symptome depends upon a Disease as its next and immediate Cause the Cause of this wil be either an Organical or a Common Disease The Organical is Two-fold the opening of the Vessels called in Greek Anastoriosis and Rarifaction called Diapedesis Also the Common Disease is Two-fold namely the breaking of the same Vessels called Rexis and the Corrosion of them called Diabrosis The Internal Cause immediately producing the Diseases is a great quantity of blood Blood exceeding in quantity wil either break the Veins or open their Orifices and so make either
disease about the fourth month because then the Child is grown greater and so consumeth more of the humors and the mother hath sent it forth by often vomitings but if it last longer 't is dangerous for it signifies that the evil disposition of the Stomach hath taken deep root which will hardly be pluckt up It is better for people in this disease to desire sharp and sowr things it is worse if they desire things contrary to Nature as Avicen teacheth fen 13. lib. 2. tract 2. cap. 20. for it signifies a greater distance from the Natural state which is harder to be cured The Cure of this disease is divers according to the variety of the Bodies affected In Women with Child few Medicines are to be used by reason of the unfitness of the subject and danger of Misearriage but you may give them gentle things and such as were prescribed in the Cure of want of Appetite to clense and strengthen the Stomach Nor must you omit blood-letting which done sparingly and often is of great consequence But in Virgins of the Clorosis or green sickness this disease is cured with the same Remedies which shall be prescribed for the Cure of Clorosis in its proper place But the Pica which is in men is very seldom because it comes from obstructions of the Liver and Spleen you may use those things which shall be prescribed for the Cure of them Chap. 4. Of the Thirsty Disease called Sitis Morbosa THe Appetite of Drink or Thirst may be three waies hurt as that of Meat by diminishing abolishing and depraving it is diminished many times by a sweet insipid humor which moisteneth the Tunicle of the Stomach or from too much moisture in the whol Body from whence it is that the parts do not draw the drink from the Stomach It is abolished by acute Diseases through interception of the sence when the mind is sick or because the Natural Faculty is decayed by the extinction of the Natural heat from whence Hipp. saith It is evil not to thirst when a cause of thirst is taken and since thirst diminished doth depend upon the same cause from which want of Appetite is produced and thirst abolished is only in acute Diseases we shall not speak here of them particularly But we will only speak of thirst depraved as being most usual and this is to be divided two waies and Hunger The one requiring divers kinds of Drinks the other great quantities and often That which desireth filthy drink is to be referred to Pica as when they desire Vinegar Lemmons and salt Water It remains that we speak of thirst encreased which is an usual Symptome when the Appetite offends in the quantity of Liquor and much drink is desired The immediate Cause is a want of moist nourishment and driness of the Stomach and of other parts which make the Stomach sensible of their wants This driness and want of moisture useth to come from all such things which can consume the dewy moisture of the Stomach and the whol Body and dry it up and they are hot and dry The dry do principally suck up the Humor and the hot things secondarily Also this disease is either by Propriety or by Sympathy It is by Propriety when the innate moisture of the Stomach is altered and drawn forth by an unequal distemper dry or hot or both somtimes by a simple distemper but often by that distemper which is joyned with matter as a salt sharp or filthy humor fixed in the mouth of the Stomach or contained in its Cavity But that which is by Sympathy comes by consent from the whol Body or some part whose Veins having lost their moisture do suck from the Stomach as it is in Feavers Inflamations of the Liver Lungs and other parts as also in hot and dry distempers especially of the Reins as you may see in a Diabetes or invoiuntary pissing which is called by the name of Dipsacus by reason of the great thirst which accompanieth it The outward Causes are all such as extraordinarily heat or dry as very hot and dry Air long continuance in the Sun or at the fire use of Salt meats sharp and spiced much use of old rich Wine great watchings too much evacuation especially by purging The Hermetical Physitians say that immoderate preternatural thirst comes from some thirsty spirits which are bred of Sulphureous excrements which will not be satisfied with simple cooling and moistening but with other Spirits like unto themselves as we see in Feavers that a strong thirst is little allayed with much Water which with sharp Spirits of Vitriol Sulphur Salt and the like wil be satisfied with a less quantity of Water The knowledg is easie for the Patients will complain But the Causes are known by their proper signs as a hot and dry distemper cleaving to the Stomach and other parts as also sharp salt and bitter humors some whereof are somtimes cast forth or they have their tasts in their mouths if the humors are in the Stomach but if thirst come by consent from other parts the signs of those Diseases will be manifest As to the Prognostick That thirst which comes from Primary Causes is safest for that is quenched presently with drink But that which comes from internal Causes is more or less dangerous according to their differences That thirst which comes with Feavers and other easie cures endeth with them But if it come from great and dangerous Diseases it is very dangerous as in a Dropsie in which thirst is not slacked but rather encreased with drink The Cure of this Disease is often in Feavers and Inflamations of some parts which is described sufficiently in our Method of the Cure of Feavers Sect. 2. Cap. 2. But if Thirst be contracted by immoderate Evacuations causing a dry distemper of the Stomach and other Causes the Cure is by suppressing those Evacuations and by restoring the empty parts with moist Medicines Therefore first having ordered a restoring Diet as in a Hectick Feaver Consumption and Marasmus Two Remedies prescribed by Galen are the best 7. meth namely Milk and Baths Although Hippocrates Aph. 64. Sect. 5. forbids milk to thirsty people that is to be understood of those who thirst from abundance of Choller and putrid Humors in whom Milk is easily putrified not of those who thirst from driness and Consumption We shewed the use of Milk in the Cure of a Consumption Let the Bath be made of the Decoction of Althaea Roots and Lilly Roots with Mallows and Violet Leaves and of a Decoction of the Heads Feet and Guts of Sheep or melt fresh Butter or Oyl in warm Water to be changed often Going out of the Bath let the Loyns Back and Stomach be anointed with Oyl of Violets the Marrow of a Veal Bone and the like with which let as much Breast or Goats Milk be mingled as they will receive Let the Patient in the mean while use restoring Syrups and Lozenges and other Remedies which shall
each one ounce boyl them to a pint Dissolve in the straining of white Sugar one ounce Yolks of Eggs two Make a Clyster After the Body is sufficiently emptyed you must give astringents and strengtheners both at the Mouth and by Clysters as also to the Belly the Forms whereof you may take out of the Cure of Dysentery Besides You may conveniently use these that follow Take of Chalybeat Vinegar one part Chalybeat Water two parts the Leaves and Fruit of Myrtles Quinces Medlars Cervices of each two handfuls Cypress Nuts six pair boyl to halfs Foment the Belly warm with the strained Liquor often Take of Oyl of Mastich Quinces and Myrtles of each one ounce Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence and Gum Traganth of each one dram Wax as much as will make an Vnguent to anoint after the Fomentation Or Take Crums of toasted Bread infused in Chalybeat Water and Quinces roasted in the Embers or Marmalade of each three ounces Frankinsence Mastich Sanguis Draconis of each two drams With Syrup of Quinces and Wormwood make a Cataplasm Take of Mastich two drams Boyl it in three pints of Water for ordinary drink Iron Water is also good but in a hot Disease it is good to use the Tincture of Roses or Conserve of Roses mixed with Spring Water or Water wherein Gold hath been quenched mixed with Syrup of Quinces Amatus Lusitanus reports of one that was cured of a Chollerick Diarrhoea by taking much cold Water in the Summer time We also once prescribed to a Sanguine man who was troubled with a Chollerick Diarrhoea in the midst of Summer with great thirst Sal Prunella in his ordinary drink and Juleps made of Lettice and Purslain Water to be taken thrice in a day and he was cured in twenty four hours If the Humor be very sharp and adust or burnt the Patient must be purged sparingly with mild Medicines otherwise the Disease will encrease and he is to be cooled and moistened as also to be blooded a little In the same case a warm Bath is very good the Example whereof is in our Observations Plantane boyled in Broth is excellent And least a Diarrhoea turn into a Dysentery you must give Clysters of Chalybeate Milk and Emulsions of the cold Seeds and of white Poppy Seeds to asswage the sharpness of the Humor As also this Syrup following Take of the Juyce of Quinces six ounces the Juyce of Endive and Sorrel of each three ounces Sorrel and Plantane Seeds of each two drams red Coral one dram Plantane Water four ounces Boyl them to the Consumption of half strain and press them well put to it as much Sugar to make a Syrup to be taken two drams first and last In al Diarrhoea's after universal Medicines this following Bolus is good Take of Conserve of old Roses half an ounce Candied Quinces one dram the pouder of Tormentil one scruple With Sugar make a Bolus to be often repeated Or if the Disease be old you may make an Opiate of the same or the like in a greater quantity to be taken at many times Or to astringe more powerfully give this Pouder Take of Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence Mastich Mummy Terra Sigillata Lapis Haematitis or Blood-stone Troches of Amber of each one dram true Bole three drams make a Pouder of which give two drams inconvenient Liquor Rhubarb twice infused and then twice or thrice washed in Rose Water and dried is good The Lozenges of the three Sanders with four times the quantity of Rhubarb given twice in a day the weight of two drams do take away the Matter and strengthen the Bowels The Leaves of Fleabane laid upon fire so that the smoak may be taken through a hollow Chair do stop the flux of the Belly by a specifical quality As also if the same Herb be beaten with Vinegar and applied to the Stomach Also the smoak of Mullin taken through a hollow Chair is excellent the example of which is in our Observations Syrup of Coral is excellent and much more the Tincture or Magistery of the same The Conserve of the wild Rose or sweet Bryar Rose is good against a Chollerick flux especially if it be mixed in astringent Opiates But when there is danger of weakness through a long and often flux you may give Laudanum with Mastich and Terra Sigillata When it is very violent a Clyster of Broth and new Treacle is excellent Pils of Bdellium taken twice or thrice in a week or every other day are good against al old fluxes For the same is the often use of Medlars as Forestus confirms by experience obs 1. lib. 22. in these words One that had a constant Flux and spent all he had upon Physitians came to me for counsel whom I advised to eat Medlars though green as many as he could by which he was speedily cured As it was with a Zeland Merchant that came to John Spirinchius a Physitian of Lovan who having been long sick and of a Dysentery at last and could not be cured by any was at length by his advice cured only with Medlars and gave the Physitian three hundred Crowns for his advice Thus Forestus But we must observe that the Body before the use of Medlars be clensed from Excrements In an old Diarrhoea the following Medicines are excellent Take of the shavings of Ivory three drams Confection Alkermes one dram Sugar dissolved in Rose Water four ounces Make Lozenges Take of Crocus Martis six grains Bezoard Mineral half a scruple Conserve of Roses two drams Spirit of Vitriol three drops Mix them in a Bolus to be given twice a day long after and before Meat Take of the Juyce of Persicaria Maculata and of the great Housleek of each three ounces boyl them till the third part be consumed and give them in the morning they do certainly cure any flux though very old Mercurius Diaphoreticus given some daies together twelve grains at a time taketh away all the impurities of the Body which use to beget fluxes The Decoction of Juniper Berries in Wine given three daies together is good and also one dram of the Pouder of Grashoppers given in white Wine These two by deriving the Matter of the flux to the Ureters The Decoction of Juniper is thus made Take of Juniper Berries one handful red Wine one pint and an half boyl them to the consumption of two thirds Let him take the straining three daies together The Water of Brimstone Mines cure an old Diarrhoea by purging the whol Body and by strengthening the Stomach Of which ther is an example in our observations If a Diarrhoea come from a Catarrh you must look to the Brain as the part that sends it with the Medicines prescribed in the Cure of a Catarrh But if it depend upon the Obstruction or weakness of the Liver or Spleen you must cure them as shal be shewed in their proper places and then there is little or no use of astringents Platerus in the Cure of the Hemorrhoids
to strengthen the Liver as also this following Opiate Take of Conserve of Succory Roots one ounce Conserve of old Roses half an ounce the pulp of Currans six drams Crocus Martis one dram prepared Coral shavings of Ivory and Harts-horn of each one scruple with the Syrup of dried Roses make an Opiate adding half a scruple of Spirit of Vitriol of which let him take the bigness of a Chesnut three hours before meat You may also add the Liver of a Wolf prepared which is a specifical proper Medicine according to divers Authors Raisons of the Sun because they are good for the Liver are commended in this disease therefore you may eat them in great plenty with their stones which that they may be better taken may be beaten first in a Marble Mortar Or make a Rob or Syrup of Raisons boyling them in red Wine if it be not too hot and then straining out the Juyce and boyling it again til it is thick which you may use alone or in some of an Opiate with these following Take of Currans half a pound boyl them to the thickness of a Pultis in old Wine pass them through a sieve and mix with the straining candied Citron peels half an ounce the pouder of the three Sanders and Diamargariton frigid of each one dram Coral prepared and red Roses of each four scruples the Liver of a Wolf prepared three drams make an Opiate The Syrup of Coral is very excellent to strengthen the Liver and stay the flux thereof but the Tincture thereof is far better As also the Extract or Magistery given in Plantane Water The Juyce of yong Nettle tops given either by it self to two ounces or with Water and Vinegar every morning for three daies together stops the flux and purifieth the corrupt blood But because in this Disease the Body is much consumed a restoring distilled Water that wil also stay a flux either must be given often by it self or with all other Drinks Take a fat Capon and a Partridg and pulling of the Feathers and the Guts ouâ— â—ill their Bellies with Succory Agrimony and Snails of each one handful Conserve of Roâ—es three ounces Plantane and Coriander seeds prepared of each two drams Citron Myrobalans one dram Blood-wort half a handful the Troches of Amber and of Spodium of each four scruples the pouder of the Electuary de Gemmis or precious Stones the three Sanders and Dâ—amargariton frigid of each one dram Sprinkle them all with astringent Wine and putting them into the bellies of the Fowls boyl them in a close vessel in four pints of Water til half be consumed then put them al into a glass Limbeck with three ounces of good Wine distil them in Balneo Mariae for the use aforesaid For Drink let the Patient take the Tincture of Roses or the Decoction of Succory and Dogs-tooth with Syrup of Quinces and some few drops of Spirit of Vitriol Things made of Barley Almonds and Rice are best in his Meats Outwardly to his Belly apply those things which were prescribed in the Cure of Dysentery with some things for the Liver as Wormwood Roses all the Sanders Spodium or burnt Ivory c. Which anointings of the Belly must reach to the region of the Liver You may al o apply the following Epitheme to the Liver Take of Endive and Succory of each one handful Dodder and both sorts of Wormwood of each half a handful red Roses one pugil red Sanders one dram and an half Spodium two scruples boyl them to one pint and an half and dissolve in the straining two ounces of Rose Vinegar boyl them again gently and make an Epitheme Let the same part be anointed with the following Oyntment Take of Cerat of Sanders two ounces Oyl of Quinces and of Wormwood of each three drams Mix them for a Liniment Lastly If the Patient be troubled for want of sleep as is usual because this kind of flux is most in the night you must use Narcoticks such as were propounded for the former fluxes Chap. 9. Of the Worms ALthough Worms breed in divers parts of the Body yet because they are more usual in the Gut than in other parts therefore we wil speak only of those By some it is questioned to what kind of Disease that is preternatural the Worms are to be referred But we can take away al occasion of doubting by saying that after a divers consideration they may refer to all kinds of Diseases for as they prick and pull the Guts or obstruct them and produce other diseases they may be said to be causes of diseases But as they are substances added to those which ought naturally to be contained in the Guts they are reckoned by Galen in the number of those Diseases which are in the number encreased wholly against Nature as the stone also And lastly as they are sent out preternaturally by the belly or the mouth they are to be referred to the fault in Excretion or sending forth Galen in his Comment upon the Aphorisms Aph. 26. Sect. 3. propounds three kinds of Worms The round Worms which are often bred in the Guts and get often up into the Stomach the Ascarides or little Worms like smal thrids which use to lie in the inferior part of the thick Intestines and over against the Sphincter Muscle and the broad Worms called Fascia because they are long and broad like Childrens Swathing bands This kind is more rare to be seen than the rest and a Physitian shall scarce see them in his practice twice or thrice in a yeer yet there are great Controversies among Authors about them some say it is one Worm only some that it is made of many united which they call Cucurbitinos or Gourd Worms and say that they are parts of the broad Worm others make a fourth kind containing the Gourd Worms but we do not intend here to shew their Reasons and several Experiences they have so much boasted of the curious Reader may search for his better satisfaction Rondoletius Platerus Sennertus and many others Moreover There is a great Controversie of the Causes of Worms some say they come of putrid heat others from the Natural others say that both concur for the production of them The first say That all Infects or Vermine come from corruption according to Aristotle The second say That putriu heat is strong â—iery and destructive and therefore is not fit to produce a live body The third â—ort to reconcile the former say that the Matter is disposed by the putrid heat to generate Worms and the Natural heat doth turn it so prepared into worms by way of Concoction But this Reconciliation wil not hold because according to the axiome in Physicks it is the property of the same thing to dispose the matter and bring in the form and therefore the preparation of the matter and the introduction of the form ought to be from the same agent besides Worms breed in Carkasses where there is no native heat we may
Senna Polypody of the Oak and the Kernels of Carthamus seeds of each two ounces Epythimum or Dodder of thyme one ounce Ginger and Cloves of each one dram the flowers of Tamarisk Marigolds and Red Fitches of each one pugil make a Decoction to a Pint and a quarter dissolve in the straining of the Syrup of the Five Roots and of Roses Solutive of each two ounces make an Apozeme clarified and aromatized with two drams of Cinnamon for four mornings draughts adding to every Dose one dram of Cream of Tartar salt of Wormwood and Tamarsk of each half a scruple In the last Dose if the first hath not sufficiently purged dissolve of the Electuary of Citrons Solutive and Diacarthamum of each one dram and an half Somtimes we put white Wine in the Decoction before mentioned Somtimes a little Vinegar according to the nature of the Patient If the Patient be dainty and will not take an Apozeme instead thereof you shal give these Broths Take of Smallage Parsley and Sparagus Roots of each half an ounce Agrimony Hysop Maidenhair of each one handful Cristal of Tartar one dram boyl them with a Chicken or a neck of Mutton make Broth for nine dayes together every morning The Cristal of Tartat dissolved in new made Broth and strained is better for when the Decoction is cold for the most part it congealeth again and is separated from it and when you give it in the Broth you must stir it about well with a Silver Spoon afore it be taken or you will leave the greater part in the bottom of the Dish Every other day infuse in his Broth half an ounce of Senna and one dram of Annis seeds As long as he taketh these Medicines and after as often as need requires let the Region of the Liver be somented every morning one hour before he taketh his Broth and every evening one hour before Supper with this following Fomentation Take of Marsh-mallow and Briony Roots of each one ounce and an half the Roots of Danewort Cypress Eryngus the Barks of the Roots of Capars and the middle rind of Tamarisk of each one ounce the Leaves of Mallows Marsh-mallows Violets Agrimony Germander Mints and Wormwood of each one handful Lin-seed Foenugreek and Juniper Berries of each half an ounce Coriander seeds and yellow Sanders of each three drams Broom Elder Chamomel and Melilot flowers of each one pugil boyl them all in two parts of Chalybeate Water and one of white Wine added in the end and when it is strained add half a pint of Vinegar Foment the part as aforesaid After the Fomentation let the part be anointed with the following Oyntment Take of Oyl of Lillies and Capars of each two ounces the Juyce of the Roots of Briony and Smallage of each three ounces Boyl them till the Juyces are consumed adding the Oyntment of Marsh-mallows and Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar and strained of each one ounce Carrot seeds and Spicknard of each one dram and an half yellow Wax as much as will make an Vnguent Vse it as aforesaid adding in the time of anointing a little Vinegar of Roses After the use of these Remedies this Opiate following is good to wear away the reliques of the Obstructions and recover strength to the part Take of Conserve of Wormwood Maiden-hair and the Flowers of Tamarisk of each one ounce the Conserve of Elicampane Roots and Citron peels candied of each half an ounce one candied Myrobalan candied Nutmegs three drams Confection Alkermes two drams the Pouder of Diarrhodon Abbatis one dram Salt of Wormwood and Tamarisk of each two scruples Saffron one scruple Amber-greece half a scruple with the Syrup of Citrons make an Opiate of which let him take the bigness of a Chesnut every morning two hours before meat and drinking after it a little Hippocras Warm Baths are also very good in which softening and opening things have boyled If the Obstructions are very stubborn these following Pills are very good Take of the best Aloes infused in the Joyce of Wormwood very well half an ounce Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar and strained three drams Myrrh dissolved in warm Wine and strained two drams the pouder of the three Sanders and Crystal of Tartar of each one scruple Agaricknewly made into Troches and of the best Rhubarb of each two drams the Salt of Wormwood and Tamarisk of each half a dram Saffron half a scruple With the Syrup of Roses solutive make a Moss of Pills of which let him take half a dram two hours before dinner twice in a week Instead of the Apozeme aforesaid you may make an old Cock Broth when the Obstructions are old and stubborn Take of Polypody of the Oak and Carthamus seeds of each one ounce and an half the tops of Time and Epithimum of each one pugil Annis Fennel and Caraway seeds of each two drams clean Senna two ounces Crystal of Tartar half an ounce beat them and fill the Belly of an old Cock therewith boyl them in three parts of Water and one of white Wine till the flesh of the Cock fall from the Bones Make Broth and let the Patient take it four mornings Or which is better make a Decoction for one draught every day of the fourth part of the Ingredients To this Broth you may ad Herbs and opening Roots in a smal quantity Quercetan commends exceedingly in his Dispensatory the Compound Pouder of the Root of Cuckoo-pintle to open Obstructions of which you may give two drams for divers daies together in a convenient Decoction But of all Remedies to take away old Obstructions Medicines made of Tartar Vitriol and Steel are the best Of Tartar there is made Crystal Salt and Spirit which are to be given in divers forms The use of Crystal of Tartar is formerly mentioned in the Apozeme and Physick Broths made either of a Chicken or old Cock Concerning this Medicien yong Physitians are to be admonished that it is of more-force than it is commonly supposed to be although we seldom observe it in Practice by reason of the negligence of Apothecaries the deceit of false Chymists and vulgar Distillars which still Chymical Medicines to the Apothecaries of which few are good but most adulterate The negligence of Apothecaries for the most part is That they had rather buy Crystal of Tartar of such fellows than make it themselves though it be the easiest of all because they sell it cheaper than they themselves can make it for those Impostors wil sell a pound for seven pence or eight pence from which alone the Apothecaries might argue deceit perceiving that they would be loosers in so selling if it were rightly made The deceit lieth here Those Impostors put a little Tartar and a great deal of Allum into their Decoctions not because Tartar is sold dearer but because it yields but a little Crystal but Allum will run all into Crystal Hence it is that the Physitians are deceived of their intentions because Allum is astringent which is
There is a heat in the Hypochondria and a certain Inflamation inward somtimes in one side somtimes in another from hot Humors contained therein especially when they are moved by inward or outward means so that the Face will grow hot and red from those vapors and somtimes there is an Ephemeral or Feaver for a day by those vapors sent through the whol Body The Urine is somtimes thick somtimes thin Thin when thick Humors stop the passages through which it is as it were strained thick red and troubled by reason of the mixture of the thick Matter which is very salt and therefore is called Materia Tartaria and it lies at the bottom of the Urinal like a thick Sediment Or some part of it sticks like red Sand to the sides which makes many fear the Stone without cause because this same is not bred in the Reins but in the Liver from a burnt and salt Humor and you may know this because it dissolves between the Fingers like Salt which will not when it comes from the Reins Somtimes there is a Palpitation or beating of the Heart by reason of the vapors ascending which while it labors to expel make it move violently and then the Patient thinks himself in great danger Somtimes there is a beating in the left Hypochondrion when hot Humors are there from whence vapors arise and make the Pulse or Systole and Diastole of the Arteries greater so that both the Patient and the standers by may feel it which is chiefly after heat with Anger motion or drinking of much Wine This beating is chiefly in the Coeliack Artery which is the chiefest in that part In an old Disease it is somtimes constant and this signifies an Habitual and incurable Disease An Aneurism somtimes followeth this great breathing from the enlarging of the Coeliack or some other Artery and from the hot blood in them which being very thin and full of many hot Spirits continually dilateth and stretcheth the Arteries while there is an Aneurism such as Fallopius observed Lib. de tum preter naturam cap. 14. in an old woman who being opened had an Aneurism in her Belly into which he put his fist From which mark by the way the great providence of Nature which fearing the breaking of an Artery through too much enlarging hath made the coat of it as hard as a bone as Fallopius observed in the same place Also Paraeus in his sixth Book Cap. 28. tels the like story of an Aneurism found not in the Belly but the Breast in the Venal Artery which was so stretched that it could contain his sist and also the inward Tunicle thereof was like a bone And we have seen the like about two yeers agone namely an Aneurism in the Breast by the dilatation of an Artery which would hold the fist of a Boy of fifteen yeers old and the Tunicle thereof was grown like a Gristle The evil vapors that ascend from the Hypochondria produce many Symptomes for being sent to the Pallat and Tongue they dry those parts and cause a thirst when they go to the Lungs and Midriff they cause shortness of breathing when to the Membranes of the Brain Head-ach when to the Brain noise in the Ears dimness of Sight Giddiness Fear and Sorrow and divers Melancholly Phansies And if they be malignant and very sharp they cause an Epilepsie or Falling-sickness if they come to the Nerves Convulsions and if they be stupifying they cause a Numbness and bastard Palsey Coma and Apoplexy if they get into the Brain But if these vapors be hot and dry they dry the Brain and cause watchings troublesom sleep and frightful Dreams and at first though they sleep well after Supper til midnight afterward they wake some three or four hours and some sleep again about three or four a clock others not at all The reason whereof is this Because while the Chyle is carried to the parts that serve for the second Concoction then the evil Humors lying in the Vessels are stirred and send up vapors which being sent by the Veins and Arteries to the Head cause watching and if they be quickly discussed they sleep again but if they continue long they watch the other part of the night We have formerly spoken of all these Symptomes and we say again That all are not in all men but more or sewer according to the variety of the Humors and parts affected This also is to be marked It is not Essential to Hypochondriack Melancholly that stretching hardness pain and swelling should be in the Hypochondria because the cause is for the most part in the Branches of the Gate Vein and Arteries adjoyning and sends from thence vapors to the Heart and Brain Oftentimes there is stretching in the Liver and Spleen which signifieth That the Humors stick in those parts but if there be no stretchings it is a sign that the evil Humors lie in the Veins of the Mesentery Caul Sweetbread and Stomach These proper Symptomes shew that the Stomach is affected with sowr belchings and stinking or loathing vomiting want of concoction and somtimes flux of the belly As for the Prognostick This Disease is not deadly for the most part but of long continuance many times the whol life therefore it is commonly called the disgrace of Physitians because they do seldom cure it and if the Patient seem to be cured it returns again in a few months it is also called the Scourge of Physitians because they who have it are continually asking new Medâ—câ—nes and presently satisfied therewith and dayly complain to the Physitian for others The Flux of the Hemorrhoids doth good in this Disease if it be moderate but if it continue long it is dangerous A thick Urine is better in this Disease than a thin and watery which shews that the thick Humors are detained in the Body Black Urine without a Feaver doth often Cure this Disease It s good in this Disease to have a loose Belly and bad to be bound Also Vomiting if the Patient be refreshed thereby is profitable but if it continue long it is dangerous A Giddiness and continual pain in the Head in this Disease ends in an Epilepsie Blindness or Apoplexy The Cure of this Disease is in three things chiefly first in opening Obstructions secondly in amending the distempers of the Bowels and in discharging of the peccant humor not omitting strengtheners For which a wise Physitian may use these following First give a Clyster then this Potion Take 〈◊〉 Senna half an ounce Annis seeds and Cream of Tartar of each one dram Borrage flowers Fumitory and Sorrel of each half a handful Liquoris three drams boyl them to three ounces Dissolve in the straining Rhubarb infused in Lavender Water one dram and an half double Catholicon three drams Compound Syrup of Succory one ounce Make a Potion to which you may well add in a strong Melancholly one dram of Confectio Alkermes The day following let Blood from the left side chiefly or
Glass closely stopped be put into a Balneum Mariae exceeding hot so that it boyl twenty four hours together until the Spleen shall be boyled and consumed into little crums and there remains a great quantity of Broth excellently well boyled and of a very fragrant smel of which let the Patient take in the marning four ounces continuing the same for four or five daies when her Courses ought to flow Distilled Waters ought to be preferred before other Liquors as being more pleasant to the taste and because of their subtil thinness of parts they pierce more easily to the obstructed Vessels of the Womb. The Preheminence above all the rest is by Mercatus Rodericus a Castro and Sennertus given to this following Take a Loaf almost as sowr as Leaven indifferently baked and hot take away the Crust and add thereto of Honey twelve ounces Pounder of Nettle seeds Carrot seeds Amy Annis and Fennel seeds of each one dram Troches of Gallia Moschata red Mirrh of each one scruple Cotula foetida or stinking Fennel half a dram Infuse all in three pints of the Decoction below described which is made of red French Beans and red Vetches of each half a pugil Juniper berries one ounce Roots of Madder Butchers Broom wild Rhadish Asparagus Smallage and Parsley of each two ounces Green Germander one handful Seeds of Amy Annis and Fennel of each two ounces Boil all according to Art Then stil the liquor out in Balneo Mariae of which give to the Patient two ounces early in the morning Also there may be added Syrup of Maiden-hair of Opening roots of Mugwort Also the Dose may be augmented the following daies if the Stomach be not offended A Decoction of Guajacum or Sassafras is good in flegmatick bodies also Dictamnus Creticus may be added taking the same twelve or fifteen daies without sweating Jacchinus relates an Experiment thereof writing upon the ninth of Rhasis Chap. 66. I boiled saies he the Indian wood and added Dictamnus thereto By which I procured both her Courses and Child-bearing to a Woman which had wanted her Courses five years and had been Barren The Chymists commend Tartarum Vitriolatum Spirit of Tartar Mâ—xtura Spiritalâ—s Salts of Mugwort Bawm Celondine roots and Valerian This Treacle-Water following is mervailously effectual to this intent Take old Venice-Treacle five ounces Red Alexandrian Mirrh two ounces and an half Elect Cinnamon Oriental Saffron of each half a dram Camphire two drachms Pour upon them of the best Spirit of Wine till it stand three singers breadth above the Ingredients and draw out the Tincture with a gentle heat whereunto being poured off without straining add a sixt part of the Spirit of Tartar The Dose is one spoonful with some appropriate Water or Wine Whilst the aforesaid Remedies are in Use Clysters frequently injected are exceeding good because the Womb does rest upon the straight Gut or Intestinum Rectum and they may thus be compounded Take roots of Lillies one ounces of Orice and Valerian half an ounce of each of Mercury leaves two handfuls Mugwort and Savine of each one handful Chamomel flowers and Lavender of each one pugil Seeds of Caraway and Nigella of each one dram boil al to one pint In the strained Liquor dissolve of Hiera simplex and Benedicta Laxativa of each half an ounce Oleum Cheâ—rinum two ounces Electuarium de Baccis Lauri half an ounce Mix al into a Clyster Yea And the truth is Purgations repeated at certain convenient seasons will be very good which may be in divers manners prepared And in the first place Galen exceedingly commends the Pils of Hiera simple and compound because over and above their purging of superfluous humors they have a faculty of opening the narrow passages and of clensing the Womb. Or Take Aloes three drachms Mass of Cochie pills one drachm with juice of Savine forme twenty pills of which give the Patient three before dinner every third day Or Take Aloes one drachm Choice Rhubarb one drachm and an half Diagrydium one scruple Mirrh and Asarum roots of each half a drachm Spicknard one scruple With Syrup of Mugwort make a Mass of Pil-Paste The dose is from two scruples to a drachm made into pils Or Take of the Mass of Chochie-pil-paste half a drachm Mercurius dulcis twenty grains with Syrup of Roses solutive forme eight pills or six Let her swallow them early in the morning Also outwardly the Courses supprest are wont to be holpen with these Topick Medicaments following which must be outwardly applied to widen the passages make thin the humors and to rouse and awake the Expulsive faculty Take roots of Briony Lillies Cyperus Valerian Angelica Asarum Orice and of Parsly of each an ounce Leaves of Mugwort Baies Rue Savine Time Rosemary Penyroyal Nep Mallows Mercury of each one handful Flowers of Elder Cheiri Chamomel of each two pugils Juniper berries two ounces Boil all in Water and white Wine with the strainings let the Patients belly and the parts about the Privities be fomented with a sponge With the same Decoction the Quantity of Ingredients being augmented may be made a Bath to â—it in wherein the Patient may sit up to her Navil and the boiled Herbs being put into a bag must be applied to her belly But let her take heed of sweating which doth stop the Courses Take Oyl of Lillies Dill and Rue of each one ounce and an half Generous Wine three ounces Squinanth roots of Bindweed Angelica the two Birthworts and Savin leaves of each half an ounce Let them boil till the Wine be consumed Let them be strained and the Oyl pressed out wherewith warmed let the share and parts about the Privities be anointed after fomentation or sitting in the Bath Moist suffumigations are made of the Vapour of the Decoction for the Fomentation and for the sitting-Bath which being moderatly heated must be covered with a cover that hath a hole in it whereunto must be fastened a long pipe which must reach into the neck of the Womb through which let her receive the smoake morning and evening being covered with cloaths A drie Suffâ—â—migation may be thus made Take Cloves Cinnamon Mace of each two drachms Juniper berries half an ounce Nigella seeds one drachm Storax two drachms Make all into a gross pouder which being laid on Coles let her receive the smoake into the Womb after her manner aforesaid Or Take Storax two drachms Frankinsence one drachm Benjamin Alipta Moschata of each half an ounce Cloves Lignum Aloes Cinnamon of each two scruples With the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth extracted with Cinnamon Water make little Cakes for to burn as aforesaid Pessaries may be made after this manner Take of leaves of Mercury bruised one handful Pouder of Hiera picra and Benedicta Laxativa of each two drachms Pouder of long Birthwort one drachm Honey and juyce of Mercury as much as shall suffice make all into a Pessary Or Take of Agarick Mirrh of each two drachms Galbanum half
Green Tobacco Leaves beaten and laid on do ease the Gout and are said to be of a stupefactive Nature As for the Efficient Cause of the pain to the Humor flowing into the Part repelling Medicaments must be opposed and to that which is allready in deriving and resolving Medicaments must be applied Howbeit repelling Medicines are disallowed in this Case especially alone and without the commixture of other things For if they shal wholly stop the influx of the matter into the Parts affected it is to be Feared least they retiring to the inward Parts should cause dangerous diseases unless they happen to be translated to some other Joynt Again the Humor which hath already flowed into the Part is the more driven inward by which means the Pains become more violent But yet if in the beginning of the Gout there be a great afflux of Humors especially hot ones which threatens sharp Pains to follow it will be convenient in some measure to repress the same by applying repellers not alone but mixed with such things as mitigate Pain after universal and sufficient Evacuations For then such things as do overmuch relax do help forward the afflux of Humors And therefore we may ad unto the foresaid cataplasmes and other remedies Plantane Lettice Purslane Housleek and such like as also a little Vineger As for example Take Barley Meal three ounces Boyl it in Water and Vineger add two Yolks of Eggs Saffron twenty grains Make all into a Pultis Or Take Red Roses an Handful Barley and Fenugreek Meal of each one ounce Red Sanders one dram and an half Chamomel Flowers one pugil when they are Boyled and beaten add two Yolks of Eggs Vineger four ounces Oyl of Roses as much as shall suffice make all into a Pultis Among remedies which derive the Humor from the Part affected are Horse-Leeches after sufficient Evacuation applied thereunto for then they do much good especially when the Veins in the Part affected do seem distended and swelling with Blood Now resolving Medicaments are wont to be used in divers forms as of Waters Oyls Unguents Balsoms Fomentations Fumigations Cataplasmes Plaisters and the like compounded after this manner Take Vitriol white and green of each one ounce camphire two drams aqua vitae and white Wine of each one pint Mix them and apply them with cloathes dipped in them Or Slake Lime in Urine purifie the Liquor and foment the Pained place therewith It is likewise good if it be done with Vineger and Lime Martinus Rulandus in the Centuries of his Cures doth mightily cry up his Gout-quelling Water but never describes the same But Libavius Petreus and others suppose it was thus made Take Fountain Water a Pint Aqua fortis half an ounce Sublimate one dram Boyl them a quarter of an hour Wet linnen cloaths in this Liquor and apply them luke-warm to the Part affected Quercetanus in his Pharmacopoeia propounds these following Take Pickle of salt and the Vrin of a Boy of each Equal Parts Still them and Wet Linnen Cloathes in the Water and apply to the place affected often changing the cloathes for fresh ones Take Green Elder Leaves and flowers of each one pound beat them and steep them in Aqua vitae for two or three daies still them in a Glass or Copper vessel till they be dry Take Spirit of Wine rectified two pounds of the finest honey one pound Distill them in Balneo Vaporoso So you shall still two Liquors The first is watrish The second much stronger and Sulphureous which you shall keep by it self To the remaining materialls add an ounce and an half of whol Oriental saffron Venice turpentine two ounces Castoreum six drams Tartar calcined till it be white half a pound dissolved salt an ounce Phlegm of vitriol not separate from its spirit four ounces Lie made of Vinetree-Ashes two pound steep them together twenty four hours Then still them til they become dry keep the Liquor which comes likewise by it self To the Dreggs remaining pour on the former Water which you kept Steep them and still them Lastly put all the distilled Waters together and distill them in Balneo Vaporoso Quercetanus saies That this Water is of wondrous efficacy and that it was communicated unto him by a certain most famous German as a special guift affirming that this was the very Water of Rulandus And he averred that he had seen the rare effects thereof in easing the Pains of the Gout if Linnen cloathes being moderately warmed and dipped therein be applied to the Part affected The same Quercetanus in his Councel touching the Gout doth brag that he reserves to himself his Gout-quelling Water as a Master-peice for such an old soldier as himself to boast of which he saies is made of plain Fountaine Water wherein he doth divers times quench certain Metallick substances which are wont to be taken inwardly when rightly prepared whose spirits being impressed into the foresaid Water do contribute thereunto the power of penetrating unto the Roots of the Disease and of truly resolving the Tartarous stony matters with the salts which are combined in the Joynts from whence such intollerable Pains do arise Peradventure this that follows it not unlike it nor a whit inferior in Virtue Take Vnslaked Lime four pound Slak it in River-water as much as you please and let it stand in a Wine Cellar three daies that the Salt may be better extracted out of the Chalk or Lime Afterward let them Boyl a little and strain the Liquor through an Hippocras Bag. In twenty pints of the strained Liquor quench seven or nine times first Plates of steel red hot then Plates of Copper red hot and thirdly to the quantity of ten ounces of Vitriol calcined till it be white fourthly Antimony melted in a Crucible to half a pound fifthly Litharge or Ceruse heated in a Crucible half a pound white Precipitate once washed and no more one ounce and an half Brassburnt and finely Poudered half an ounce After the quenching of these mineralls let the water stand still in a Wine Cellar the space of ten daies Afterward Boyl it a little and strain it through an Hippocras Bag. In this Water being hot doubled cloathes must de dipt and frequently applied to the Gouty Part. Among Fomentations easie to make that is commended which is made of Salt Ammoniack seven times sublimed and fitly dissolved in Wine or Water or of the Urin of a young man in good health Boyled till half be consumed and laid on with Raggs Solenander Writes in his 24. Counsel Section the 4. That a certain Gouty old man was wont to make himself this Medicine When the swelling and Pain was great and the place red he took Salt the Urin of a Boy and Vinegar In these being mingled together he Wet a Linnen cloath and squeesed it and laid it on this he did divers times and so the Pain was much abated As we said before that Anodine or Pain-quelling Oyls did little good in the Gout