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A46235	The idea of practical physick in twelve books ... / written in Latin by John Johnston ... ; and Englished by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ... and W.R.; Idea universal medicinae practicae libris XII absoluta. English	Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; W. R.	1657 (1657)	Wing J1018; ESTC R8913	546,688	377

Quick-silver precipitate Sublimate Oyl of vitriol sulphur c. VI. Putrifiers do melt hard flesh Such are Arsenick Orpment Chrysocolla dryopteris Pityocampe aconitum Sandarach VII Hair-grubbers are such medicines as pluck up by the Roots the Haires of the Body so as to make the part where they are applied bald and smooth such as are strong lie quick-lime ants-egs sandarach arsenick orpment c. VIII Milke-wasters do either incrassate and thicken the blood by overcooleing it or they dry up and digest the same or finally they do by their whole substance destroy the Milke Such are Mints Sage Calamint Coriander Henbane Oyl of unripe Olives Vinigar Camphire IX Seed confounders do either coole thicken or discuss the same or consume it by an hidden property Such are Mint Rue Agnus Castus Dil Seeds of Hempe Fleawort Lettuce Purslaine Champhire c. Article V. Of Medicaments which take somewhat away Point 1. Of Purgeing Medicaments Medicaments which take something from the Body are 1. Purgers 2. Vomiters 3. Diureticks 4. Sweaters 5. Transpirers 6. Braine-purgers 7. Expectorators Purgers are such Medicaments as drive out by stool such humors as preternaturally nestle themselves in mans body And they are 1. Choler-purgers 2. Phlegm-purgers 3. Melancholly-purgers 4. Water-purgers 5. Purgers of all humors together 1. Choller-purgers are medicaments which drive out preternatural choler And they are 1. Mild as among simples Cassia fistularis which because it is hurtful to a moist slippery belly and to the stomach and is windy it is corrected with a graine or two of peper aniseed or Cinamon and is given in a bole commonly from sixe drams to two ounces to children two drams may be given Tamarins or Indian dates convenient for hot Constitutions which because of their coldness are corrected with Cinnamon and Mace and by reason of their lazyness they are quickned with whey of Goates-milk They are given in Pulpe from an ounce to two ounces or three and in the Infusion to five ounces Manna Calabrina which is safe in al cases excepting burning fevers t is quickned with syrup of Roses solutive It is taken in Prune-broath or the Broath of a Cock or Hen to the Quantity of three or four ounces Aloe Soccotrina which taken in too greate a Quantity inflames the Liver because it opens the orifices of the Veines t is not safe for women with child Nor is it good for hot and dry natures 'T is nourished or impredgnated with juice of damaske Roses 'T is corrected with mastich because of its Acrimonie It is given from halfe a dram to a dram more see thereof Solenander sect 3. Counsel 29. Rhubarb the soule of the Liver which must not be given alone because it is apt to fume and easily exhales but with endive water or syrup of Roses solutive it must not be given to such as are troubled with the strangury nor those that are subject to the Hemorrhoides 'T is corrected with Cinnamon Spicknard Schenanth 'T is given from one dram to two drams Damaskroses musked fragrant bitter and detergent Their Virtue is encreased if two ounces of whey be mixed with an ounce of their juyce a little spike and Cinnamon being added Violets which are of like vertue with roses exceeding good in diseases of the Brest and Head-ache Terpentine especially pistick which with pouder of Lycoris and Sugar is made into Boles and given to clense the kidnies Lemnius commends it in a potion Among compounds are Syrup of roses solutive hurtful for women with child because it opens the veines of the wombe from two ounces to four Rose-leaves must be gathered while the morning dew is upon them Their strength lasts hardly beyond six monthes Syrup of the flowers of Acacia de Manna Laxativus Horstius his syrupe of tamarinds with senna Pilulae Angelicae Benedicta Bejeri Hiera mellita from a dram to four drams II. The stronger are amonge simples Asarum which being long boiled loses its strength very wel beaten it moves vomit It is given with whey wine and honey sod together Scammonie which must never be given to such as are inclined to vomit feverish weak persons in the summer in broaths alone because its acrimonie disturbes the body inflames the spirits hurts the principal parts 'T is corrected with juice of Quinces mucilage of Gum Tragant spirit of sulphur or vitriol Being corrected t is called Diagrydium 'T is given from five graines to fifteen Of compounds are Pilulae Rhudji to a scruple Aureae which are most in use Extract of Scamonie The Magisterie thereof which see in Mynsichtus and Grulingius II. Phlegme-purging Medicaments are such as draw excrementitious flegm out of the Body And they are 1. More gentle among simples Myrobalans Chebulan and Emblican which are to be avoided in obstructions of the Gutts or Bowels they are steeped in Chick-broath to an ounce or boiled therein with muscadine Cnicus or Carthamus seeds which purge water and crude flegme and raise wind because they provoke vomit they are corrected with Anise Ginger and Mastich Mechoacan which is of subtile parts mingled with Earthy Of exquisite tertian Agues it makes double ones It works most happily in the forme of a pouder or if it be steeped a night in wine or broath and drunke in the Morning Amonge compounds are spices of Hiera picra simple Lozenges of Mechoacan described by Horstius II. Vehement Flegme-purgers are among simples Agarick which by a peculiar Faculty frees the Lungs from clammy thick and putrid humors 'T is ●afer in the Infusion than in the substance Jalop which is most proper where choler is mixt with flegme The Dose is from a scruple to two scruples with cream of Tartar ... It has in it somwhat of Acrimony Turpetum gummie and white which because it hurts the Stomach provokes Vomit is corrected with Ginger Pepper and Cinnamon By its dryness it brings the bodies of those that over use it into a Consumption It works best in a decoction Coliquintida which purges thick and clammy Humors from the remote parts and because it sticks to the fibres of the stomach it provokes vomiting It must not be corrected by astringents for they detain it being a violent medicine too long in the Body Hermodactyls which purge thick humors from the Joynts and are corrected by atenuaters Euphorbium which is hot and dry in the fourth degree because it inflames the Jaws and Throat vexes the Stomach and Liver raises cold sweat 't is corrected with cordials and Stomach strengtheners but best of al with Oyl of Roses It must not be used inwardy before it be a year old Sagapenum which brings out clammy and thick Humors Of compounds are Pils of Sagapena of Horstius and Camillus Syrup of Coloquintida and Lozenges of Jalap c. III. Melancholy purgers are such as drive excrementitious melancholy out of the Body And they are 1. Gentle Among simples Indian Myrobalans which are principally given in quartan Agues and purge adust choler Epithymum which by a

sufficiently known from the relation both of the Patient and the by-standers Another from Causes internal of which more in the second difference II. Another is from adust or burnt blood which is known by the signs and tokens of Plethory rednes of the eyes by playing or toying singing and excessve dancing c. It ariseth sometimes from a hot distemper of the liver and sometimes from the suppression of the courses and of the hemorrohides The Cure is to be accomplished by venesection or opening of a vein in the mean time not neglecting those distempers and diseases by which it is caused Another is from black choler accompanyed and attended with a certain accuce and secret property which is known by this in that it is perpetual if it be once lodged and hath taken up its residence in al the veins or else at least in those that are next unto the principal members if the dorage be accompanied with raging if the strength of the sick be extreamly impayred and weakened and in a manner dissolved by long continued watchings if there be withal present a raging and mad desire and endeavour to bite and tear c. It ariseth sometimes from an ex●ream hot spleen yeilding and pouring forth abundance of black choller It is to be cured 1. by letting blood as wel by the opening of the left arme vein and likewise thesalvatella vein this letting out of the blood must be in the greater quanity if the blood be blacker than ordinary but then it ought to be more sparing if it be of somewhat a reddish hiew as by the opening of the hemorrhoid and those obtorted and wreathed veins called Varices if at least they apear but the forehead vein if the mallady be refractory and obstinate 2. By preparing the peccant humor by coolling and moistening cephalicks For this end and purpose there is much commended the oyl of champhire one ounce the oyl of musk in weight one dram and mingled wel together and so administred the quantity of halfe a dram at once for a dose the decoction of that pimpernel that hath a purple flower 3. by the eduction or drawing forth of the said humor by melanagogues we are to understand hereby medicaments having in them a vertue and property to draw forth blak choler or melancholly more especially the stone called Lapis lazuli and honey helleborat of which last Petraeus hath written at large in his Nosology or treatise of diseales 4 By strengthening the heart and brain with the confection Alkermes and de hyacintho 5. By the use of topical remedies in the classi● and number of which Cauteries applied unto the coronal suture have their due and proper place opening of the cranium on skul with the trepan a Lee made with Laurel berries and roots of the true black Hellebor with which while it is yet a little warme the head ought to be washed c. Those remedies that are specifical are Liquor of mans blood with the extract of Lapis Lazuli Saturaine Crystal administred with the greatest caution that may be the blood of an asse taken out of the veins behind the Ears of which Hartman hath written sufficiently c. see Likewise hereof Rulandus in his medicinal Cures III. Another is that which is such Essentially unto the which al those things before mentioned may be atributed IIII. Another is by Consent especially of the womb from whence that kind of fury that we cal utrine hath its original and denomination of which more in its proper place Article VI. Of Rabies or raging Madness Raging madness is a deliry or doting produced from some certain peculiar poyson bread in any living creature and communicated unto a man with a strong and vehement abhorring of al things that are liquid but more especially water The Animals or living Creatuers aforesaid that communicate this poyson unto man are the wolfe the cat and the dog and cheifly this last The SIGNES are in the begining thereof anger soon moved and a continual inclynation thereunto a complaning of the Air as if it were Southerly and moist little or no desire to drink a great desire to have candles lighted up in the day time and lastly a vertigo lightness giddiness or swimming of the head The signs of this distemper confirmed are these a distension of the members but this is not continual foaming or froathing at the mouth frowning fierce looks spitting and spawling upon those that are nigh a barking like as of dogs an abhorring of and flying from water by reason of a singular and peculiar antipathy and dislike from whence this affect is termed and that not improperly the Hydrophoby The CAUSE is poyson that is generated in a living creature from som peculiar inclination it hath and then comunicated unto man by breathing upon him kissing spitland biting In some it is generated if we may beleive Donatus from an extream terror and in others from touching the dog-tree which they cal Cornus or by the touch of bloodwort or else the Sorb or service tree But now this deliry is produced in some persons sooner within twenty dayes at the utmost but in others more slowly yea even the twelfhth year after And this commeth to pass either by reason of the variety of the part that is bitten for some of them are more noble others againe are less noble or else by means of the diet that is used which possibly may much weaken and abate the strength of the poyson or by reason of the diversity of patients or else last of al from the difference and Dissimilitude of Countries times and seasons There may be some good hope of a CURE if the wound or hurt reacheth not unto any nerve vein or Arterie and if it be not very deep But there is smal or no hope if there be present a fear of water and if sighing or sobbing happen thereupon But if there be any cure it then consisteth I. in preservation lest that the poyson penetrate into the body and there occure and take place 1. A Ligature upon the part afflicted but if the part wil not wel endure it then a laying upon it those things that have in them either an intercepting or astringent quallity 2. Cupping-glasses with good store of flame and with scarification if the wound be little but without if the hurt be great and the wound large 3. Enlarging and widening the part if the wound be over narrow that so the poyson may the better flow from the part affected 4. Attraction by Medicaments that are vehemently attractive and drawing or else by actual Cauteries II. The Cure consisteth in that way and Method of Curing that is properly so called where those Remedies that have their place are 1. Purgation by Hellebor 2. Appropriate Sudorificks but cheifly the simple or single Mixture 3. The strongest sort of Vesicatories we mean here by al such Remedies as raise and cause Blysters 4. Antidotes and these are to be administred and given in a