the effects of a hot Regimen In the beginning Symptomatical Sweats appear which if provok'd by art break forth clammy in the Head and translate the morbific matter to the Head or Limbs Let the sick person be let blood in the Arm and ten ounces of Blood taken from him which must be repeated if difficulty of Breathing a rending Pain in the Head with a Cough and other signs of a bastard Peripneumonia appear For in this case both the letting of Blood and Purging must be constantly repeated till the sick person recover At night let a Blistering Plaister be apply'd and the next morning a Lenitive Potion prescrib'd which must be thrice repeated every second day and always after Purging a composing Draught is to be taken at night Take Cowslip water three ounces Syrup of Meconium one ounce juice of Limons newly prest out two spoonfuls Mix them for a Draught Blisters in the Mouth and Throat as also the Hickup do sometimes come of themselves after the Fever is cur'd and usually go away of themselves quickly after But if they stay long they may be easily driven away by one ounce of the Peruvian Bark reduc'd into an Electuary or Pills with the Syrup of Red Poppies drinking after every dose a draught of Whey This Remedy will most certainly prove effectual if its vertue be not eluded by constant lying in a Bed In those days that are free from Purgation the following things are to be prescrib'd Take Conserve of Wood-Sorrel of Sweet-briar of each one ounce Conserve of Barberies half an ounce Cream of Tartar one dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Limons make an Electuary of which take about the bigness of a Nutmeg thrice in the day drinking after it six spoonfuls of the following Julep Take Water of Purslain of Lettuce and of Cowsâ—ips of each three ounces Syrup of Limons one ounce and a half Syrup of Violets one ounce Mix them and make a Julep If the Stomach be so disorder'd by the Fever that it cannot retain a Potion prescribe the Pills Cochiae the greater two scruples for a dose and also a Medicine to procure Sleep for example one grain and a half of London Laudanum with the like quantity of Mastick or eighteen drops of liquid Laudanum in one ounce of Barley Cinnamon water Let the sick person drink the white Decoction and Small Beer also at his pleasure Of the Fever of the present Constitution in Children Let two Leeches be applied one behind each Ear and a Blistering Plaister to the hinder part of the Neck Let them be purg'd with the Infusion of Rheubarb in Beer If after Purgation the Fever seem to intermit give them the Julep with the Peruvian Bark describ'd in the Chapter of Intermitting Fevers in Children Of the Scarlet Fever Children are chiefly infested with it about the latter end of Summer At the first they are seiz'd with a coldness and shivering yet are not they very sick The whole Skin is spotted with little red specks that are thicker broader and of a redder colour than in the Measles They continue two or three days and then disappear and the upmost Skin falling off that which is under it appears stain'd with Measly Scales Take burnt Harts-horn and compound Powder of Crabs claws of each half a dram Cochinel two grains Sugar-candy one dram mix them and beat them to a very fine Powder to be divided into twelve Papers of which one is to be taken every sixth hour drinking after them two or three spoonfuls of the following Julep Take Black Cherry water Milk-water of each three ounces Syrup of the juice of Citrons one ounce Mix them and make a Julep Let a blistering Plaster be also apply'd to the hinder part of the Neck and every night exhibit a composing Draught of Syrup of Meconium and the Symptoms ceasing prescribe a Purging Medicine Of the Pleurisie It reigns between the Spring and Summer It begins with Coldness and Shivering which are quickly accompanied with Heat Thirst Unquietness and the other symptoms of a Fever After a few hours a pricking pain is felt in one of the Sides about the Ribs which sometimes stretches it self towards the Shoulder-blades sometimes to the Back and sometimes towards the Breast The matter that is ejected with the Spittle in the beginning of the Disease appears thin and in little quantity and is often mixt with particles of blood but afterwards it is rais'd more copiously is better concocted and still appears mixt with blood The Fever holds pace with the Cough spitting of blood and pain and according as the expectoration is more or less free abates by degrees The Belly is sometimes constipated and sometimes too loose The Blood of Pleuritie Persons resembles melted Tallow when it is cooled Let a Vein be opened in the Arm of the affected Side and ten ounces of Blood extracted Take Red Poppy water four ounces Sal Prunellae one dram Syrup of Violets one ounce Mix them for a Draught to be taken immediately after the first Blood-letting Take five Almonds peel'd Seeds of Melons and Pompions of each half an ounce White Poppy Seeds three drams Barley water one pound pint and an half Rose water two drams with a sufficient quantity of Sugar-candy make an Emulsion according to art Dose four ounces every four hours Take of the Pectoral Decoction two pounds Syrup of Violets and of Maiden-hair of each one ounce and a half mix them and make an Apozem Dose half a pound thrice in the day Take Oil of Sweet Almonds two ounces Syrup of Violets and of Maiden-hair of each one ounce Sugar-candy as much as is sufficient Mix them and make an Eclegma or licking Medicine to be frequently used Oil of Sweet Almonds by it self or Linseed Oil may also be exhibited Take Oil of Sweet Almonds of Lillies and the Ointment Dialtheae of each one ounce mix and make a Linement wherewith the affected Side may be anointed morning and evening laying over it a Cabbage Leaf The Letting of Blood must be repeated yet three times more extracting still the same quantity of Blood for four days together if the pain and difficulty of breathing seem to require it Of the Bastard Peripneumonia It begins to appear upon the approach of Winter and oftentimes towards the end thereof At the first the sick person is hot and cold by turns he cannot stir without being troubled with dizziness or swimming of the head his Cheeks or Eyes are red and inflam'd he coughs and in coughing is tormented with a rending pain in the Head he vomits up liquid things his Urine is thick and very red his Blood resembles that of a Pleuritic Person he breathes thick and short with a pain in his Breast This Disease is plainly distinguished from a dry Aschma in which no signs of a Fever appear but in this are manifestly discover'd though they are much more obscure and less violent than in a true Peripneumonia Let the sick person be let blood in the
must in no wise purge the Patient Which ought also to be observed when Lixivious Salts are exhibited during the use of which it is also convenient to give corroborating or strengthning Medicines Take of Horse-Radish roots three ounces Leaves of Garden Scurvy-grass common Wormwood and Sage Brome tops and tops of lesser Centory of each three handfuls three Orenges slic'd Infuse them in six Gallons of Strong Ale not hopp'd while it is fermenting Make use of it for ordinary drink Of the CLAP or virulent RUNNING of the REINS It begins with an unusual pain of the Genitals and a rolling of the Testicles If the Head or Nut of the Yard be still covered with the Fore-skin a spot like a Measle appears on the top of it immediately after liquid matter resembling Sperm begins to drops out which daily receding from the colour and consistence of Seed at length grows yellow and of a more dilute colour than the Yolk of an Egg. In the Venereal Pox that are risen to a higher degree of virulency the same is green and mixt with a watry humour tinged with Blood The forementioned Wheal at length degenerates into an Ulcer not unlike the Exulcerations in Children's Mouths which daily eateth deeper and wider the Orifice being beset with a Callus Those that are circumcised or have the Nut of the Yard stript bare are not troubled with an Ulcer therein but only with the Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins Presently a violent pain is felt in the Yard as often as it is erected especially in the night when the sick person is hot in is Bed as if it were wrung hard with ones hand The Yard is bowed by the contraction of the part called the Bridle To these Signs may be added Scalding of the Urine which is scarce perceptible while the Urine is coming forth but after it is voided there is a sense of burning through the whole Urethra chiefly where it ends in the Glans or Nut of the Yard Sometimes little Excrescences of Flesh hinder the passage of the Urine and now and then there happens a pain and inflamation of the Scrotum or Cod. Take of the Mass of the Pills Cochiae the greater three drams Extract of Rudius one dram Rosin of Jalap and Diagridium or prepared Scammony of each half a dram Opobalsamum as much as sufficeth Make Pills six out of every dram of which let the Patient take four every morning till the Scalding of the Urine and the yellow colour of the Seed-like matter be much abated Afterwards let him take them every other day for two weeks together and at the last twice a week till the humour wholly cease to drop out If the sick Person cannot easily be mov'd by evacuating Medicines you may now and then interpose the common purging Potion between the Doses of Pills adding thereto of Syrup of Buckthorn and the Electuary of the juice of Roses of each two drams and if after all the Cure do not succeed according to your desire you may exhibit Turbith Mineral to eight grains for a Dose twice or thrice at the distance of four days or instead of the Turbith Take of the Pills ex duobus half a dram Mercurius dulcis one scruple with a sufficient quantity of Opobalsamum make four Pills to be taken early in the morning If the Patient utterly dislike this method of Purging after he hath taken the Pills that are first prescribed for three days together let the following Clyster be injected twice every day namely in the morning and at five a clock in the afternoon but once or twice in a week the Clyster must be omitted and a purging Medicine prescribed Take of the Electuary of the juice of Roses six drams Venice Turpentine dissolv'd with the yolk of an Egg half an ounce dissolve them in a pint of Barley water and add to the straining two ounces of the Syrup of Violets mix them for a Clyster Every night let him take 25 drops of Opobalsamum or Balsam of Mecha in a piece of Sugar in default of this you may substitute Turpentine of Cyprus to the quantity of a Filberd Nut. Let him use Milk and Water for ordinary Drink and Small Beer at Meals Or you may follow this method Take of the Pills ex duobus half a dram Opobalsamum three drops make three Pills which are to be taken at four in the morning sleeping after them and repeated every second or third day In the intermediate days let the Clyster before described be injected in the morning and at five in the afternoon What method soever you follow the Patient must be let Blood once or twice about the middle of the Cure Prescribe also a cooling and thickning Diet and Medicines that are endu'd with the same Vertues as Milk and Water Emulsions of the cold Seeds c. If the Yard be swoln Take of the Roots of Marshmallows and Lillies of each one ounce and an half Leafs of Mallows Petty Mullein Elder Henbane Chamomil Flowers Melilote Flowers of each one handful Linseed and Fenngreek Seed of each half an ounce Boil them in Spring-water for a Fomentation which must be apply'd to the part affected one whole hour twice or thrice a day After Fomentation anoint the part affected with Linseed Oil freshly drawn then spread a little of the Plaister of Mucilages upon Lambs Skin and wrap about the swoln Lips of the Prepuce But if there be an Ulcer in the Lips of the Fore-skin or in the Glans that lieth under them prescribe the following Liniment Take of the Ointment Basilicon six drams Ointment of Tobacco two drams Praecipitate wash'd in Rose-water and well laevigated half a dram Mix and make a Liniment Let it be apply'd to the Sore upon scrapings of linnen Cloth always after Fomentation If the Scrotum or God be swoln let a Vein be immediately open'd in the Arm and the prescrib'd Fomentation apply'd to the part affected twice every day adding to each Fomentation a Spoonful or two of Spirit of French Wine or instead of it apply a Cataplasm of Oxycrate and Bean Flower In the mean time the purging and cooling Medicines already describ'd must be given inwardly Of the FRENCH POX When by the long continuance of a Gâ—â—norrhaea or the undue use of astringent or binding Medicines the Blood is corrupted the Disease call'd the French Pox doth arise Bubo's or malignant Botches appear in the Groin The sick person is afflicted with a pain in the Head and in the spaces between the Joints chiefly when he grows hot in his Bed and divers parts of the Body are cover'd with a Scurf which is of a yellow colour like a Honey-comb and the more the Scab is diffus'd so much the less he is tormented with pain In the Skull Legs and Arms there are bony Excrescences Inflamations and Rottenness of the Bones and in divers parts eating Ulcers which for the most part appear first in the Jaws from whence creeping by degrees through the Palat to the
long and copious Flux of Blood foul colour of the Body tending to a Citron colour as in the Jaundice It brings an evil Habit of Body and afterwards the Dropsie The same things are profitable in this Case that are prescribed in the Chapter Of the immoderate Flux of the Courses omitting only Purgation Of the Epilepsy in Children Children are usually troubled with the Faling Sickness either during the first Month afâ—er a Loosness in which case Diacodium to â—he quantity of a Pepper Corn dissolved in Saxifrage Water or Mothers Milk and exhibited is a most excellent Remedy or about the time of their Breeding of Teeth from the seventh to the tenth Month it is accompany'd with a Cough or which is far worse with Vomiting and Loosness the Infant voiding green Excrements after the manner of Hysterical Women Sometimes the Fit cometh suddenly and unawares distorting the Mouth and Eyes overspreading the Face with Blackness and causing convulsive Motions in divers Limbs And otherwhile the coming of it is signify'd before-hand by the Contraction of the Fingers into the Fist and a setled and unusual unmoveableness of the Eyes The Fits are sometimes long and sometimes short sometimes they return at set-times and otherwhiles observe no certain period but when Death is at hand they come so thick that they seem to tread upon one anothers heels If at any time they grant a Truce the Child remains drowsie and prone to sleep till he be rous'd by a new Paroxysm Apply a Blistering Plaister as soon as may be to the hinder part of the Neck Take of Langius his Epileptic Water three drams Liquid Laudanum one two or more drops according to the Age of the Child Syrup of Peony one dram mix them for a Draught which must be instantly exhibited Take of Rue Water three ounces Langius his Epileptic Water and compound Bryony Water of each one ounce Syrup of Gilli-flowers half an ounce mix and make a Julep of which give a spoonful every hour if the Draught already prescribed hath not discust the Paroxysm Of the Rickets truly so called It is known by the Looseness Softness Feebleness Languishment Laziness Dulness and unequal nourishment of the parts viz. the Head is bigger than is meet the Face fuller and more florid the fleshy parts beneath the Head pine away the Joints are possest with Knotty Protuberances chiefly the Wrists but the Ankles not so much the Bones are bowed especially those of the Legs and next to them those of the Cubit between the Elbow and Wrist sometimes also the Shoulder and Thigh-bones the Teeth come forth slowly and with pain they are loose black and fall out the Breast is narrow toward the sides and high and sharp before Other signs are a stuffing of the Abdomen or Paunch distension of the Hypochondria or places under the short Ribs Coughing faultiness of the Lungs and an averseness from lying on one side which happens to be sometimes the Right side and otherwhiles the Left Take of the Leaves of common Wormwood lesser Centory White Hore-hound Germainder Scordium common Calamint Feverfew Meadow Saxifrage St. Johns wort Golden rod wild Time Mint Sage Rue Carduus Benedictus Penny-royal Southern-wood Camomil Tansy and Lilly of the Valley all freshly gather'd and chopt of each one handful Hogs Lard four pounds Sheeps Tallow two pounds Claret wine a quart Let them stand twelve hours soaking on hot ashes in an earthen Vessel then boil away the Moisture and afterwards strain them for a Liniment with which anoint the Belly and the parts under the short Ribs and also the Limbs every morning and evening for thirty or forty days or till the Child recover Take of each of the prescribed Ingredients two handfuls infuse them cold in four Gallons of Beer not hopp'd for ordinary drink When Tumors possess the Bellies of Children caused by excessive Evacuations Let the Blood and Bowels be strengthned with corroborating Herbs as in the Rickets properly so called Only let the Armpits be also anointed on both sides but not the Limbs Of Fevers proceeding from the Breeding of Teeth Let two three or four Drops of Spir it o Hartshorn according to the Age of the Child be exhibited every four hours in a spoonful or two of Black Cherry water or some other convenient Julep repeating it four or six times Of the Hectic Fever in Children They languish with a notable Heat and Dejection of Appetite the Trunk of the Body and the Limbs are extenuated Put two drams of Rheubarb sliced into a Glass Bottle capable of containing a Quart of Small Beer for ordinary Drink and after it is drunk up pour upon the same Rheubarb another Quart of Beer and so a third time But if the Drink be too strongly impregnated with a Purgative Vertue after one Pint is drunk up let another be immediately added to that which remains Of Bleeding at the Nose It is attended with Pain and Heat in the Forepart of the Head Let a Vein be frequently opened in the Arm and a cooling and thickening Diet injoined Prescribe also cooling and thickening Juleps and cooling Emulsions Let a cooling Clyster be injected every day and a composing Draught of Syrup of Meconium exhibited every night and prescribe the common purging Potion to be be taken once or twice Dip a piece of Linnen cloth four times doubled in cold water in which Sal Prunellae hath been dissolved and squeezing it a little apply it to the Neck behind and on both sides oftentimes in a day After the Evacuations apply the following Liquor Take of Hungarian Vitriol and Allum of each one ounce Flegm of Vitriol half a pound Boil them tâ—il the whole be dissolved then suffer the Liquor to grow cold and strain it through Brown Paper and separating it from the Crystals that now and then arise add to the remaining Liquor a twelfth part of Oil of Vitriol Or rather Take of Plantane Water four ounces Bole Armeniac in fine Powder half an ounce mix them thoroughly Dip a Tent made of the scrapings of Linnen in this Liquor and put it into the Nostril out of which the Blood flows where let it remain two days If these things do not prevail dissolve Roman Vitriol in common Water and dipping a Tent therein put it into the Nose Clouts dipt in this Liquor and apply'd do also stay Bleeding in any of the external Parts Of the Green-Sickness The Signs of this Disease are these Ill colour of Face and of the whole Body Swellings in the Face Eye-lids and Ankles Heaviness of the whole Body a stretching Weariness of the Legs and Feet difficult Breathing Feverish Pulse Sleepiness Pica or longing for things that ought not to be eaten and stoppage of the Courses Let the Patient take the Chalybeat Pills or Powder prescribed in the Chapter Of the Hysterical Passion more or less according to her Age drinking after them a Draught of any sort of Wine that pleaseth her or of the corroborating Infusion of the Roots