whence worms like Cantharides are brought forth Sometimes the whole matter lyeth upon one part whence the whole body is freed from pain an Impostume groweth which endeth in a Fistula 2. Without swelling this often causeth learnesse with weaknesse of the joynts Diagnostick signs There are wandring fierce pains all the body over especially in the back and the Loyns First It seaseth on one part only then suddenly it fasteneth on the next the most are bound in their bellies their Urine is like to those that are well but that sometimes little worms like those thar breed in rotten cheese swim in the bottom of the urinal and are mingled with the excrements of the belly Some have a good stomach others not Prognostick The cure often extends to some weeks The Cure Empiricalls are Earth-worms provided divers wayes Some give the ashes of a quick Mole burnt with wine at the decrease of the Moon Dogmaticalls Take Serna powder 2. drams infuse this 12 hours in Betanywater 6 ounces strain it hard adde Diacarthamum half an ounce mingle it Take roots of Devils-bit 1 ounce round Birthwort 3. drams Sage Betany of each one handful Southernwood Rue Perwinkle Savin of each 1 pugil boyl all in fair water with 4 ounces of this decoction for a dose passe through a colender 5 Earth-worms thrice washed in wine powdered then mingle Treacle half a dram cinamon in powder 1 scruple Sugar what may suffice drink it and sweat upon it repeat this for some dayes together The Impostume is broke with Plantane and salt beaten in a mortar and applyed the Impostume being broken some lay on a Cataplasm of Salomons seal with Ale with the roots of the Oke-fern Others do strew on the powder of a Mole H. de Bra. ASTHMA is the hurt of Breathing without a Feaver with a noise and frequency of breathing from the straightness of the wind-pipe if it be taken properly the disease is stubborne and long The Cause use increased by the straightnesse of the wind-pipe obstructions from the plenty of the humours the thicknesse stone hard swelling that matter is seldom sent from the head it is often collected by degrees it is most commonly sent by the vein-artery or the arterious vein for should it flow often from the head there would be a cough because those that are asthmatical are commonly Cachecticall and their feet swell because it often ceaseth without expectorating because by suppression of the Emrods ariseth constipation from some swelling humour compression by sinking down and growing together constriction by grosse vapours rising from the womb Whatsoever is troublesome to the instruments of breathing if it cannot easily be removed it causeth one to Cough if hardly it causeth Asthma for there is not strength enough to cough it out but if more hardly it causeth Orthopnoea and if it cannot be cast out it is a strangling Catarrh Diagnostick signs If it come from a thick cause bred by leisure an Asthma comes by degrees and it is continual If it floweth thither it increaseth at sometimes an in Autumn winter in the night If it come from the Brain there be signs of a Catarrh If it come from the Liver there is a swelling of the Feet and an ill habit If a thick humour stop the Wine-pipe there is a Cough with a noise it is bred by degrees there is Catarrh the Patient is sound If the fleam stick in the stomach there is a Cough with a sound and seldom any thing is expectorated and the disease being obstinate and lasting long killeth a man If it proceed from the drinesse of the Lungs so Heurnius saw a mans Lungs so dry that they were like a dry Apple there is no spittle the whole body is lean Prognostick It strangleth children old folk cannot be cured Aph. 40. s 2. young people hardly It is dangerous in a sharp Feaver It is sometimes changed into Peripneumonia a Dropfy and an ill habit of the body The cure In the Paroxism the cause must be pulled back by chafings Ligatures Cupping-glasses Clysters and opening a vein if the forces will admit if the humour be thin they must purge Topicals must be emollient and resolving When the Paroxysm is extended beyond the fourth day Vesicatories must be laid ro the Back against the region of the Lungs Out of the Paroxysm the matter prepared must be evacuated then expectoratir â—eans must be given The Breast muâ—â— be annointed If it come from a Catarrh the Brain must be purged The Catarrh must be hindered Use of old Treacle is excellent as of Diacalaminth as of Aqua vitae with Elecampane then dry the matter with a decoction of Guaiacum let the diet be attenuating the drink thin wine water and honey motion before meat must not be sudden or vehement for so many have been choked APHTHAE The cause is sometime a fault in the Mouth when humours are collected in it or of the whole Body as in malignant acute Feavers or of some part as of the Head Lungs Liver Spleen Belly Matrix in children sharp milk corroding the Tongue also milk corrupting which sendeth forth sharp vapours The difference Some are new some old some malignant some not some are on the Tongue some come on the Palate some from Blood some from choler Signs diagnostick Little swellings are seen sometimes red sometimes black sometimes white sometimes black and stinking Prognosticks Stinking black ulcerated crusty inveterated in children are mortal because you cannot apply means to them by reason the parts are soft moyst whence they easily corrupt corruption of the bone in those that are of years is dangerous If they happen in acute pestilent Feavers they are deadly The cure For children take away the sharpnesse of Milk from the Nurse by general and Topical means Give the child a draught of Honey of Roses Diamoron with Oxymel First give astringent Syrups then add discussers if the Milk concoct ill suckle it not so often If that be in vain bring them to suppuration laying Figs on them or boyl Bran in water til it grow clammy strain it and add Honey to the liquor or with Milk or Mucilage or syrup of Juleps or Gargarisms or Pills to hold under the Tongue and Lohocks for Infants Where the Patient is of years the humours must first be temperd 2. The conineut cause first requires astringents and then Resolvers If they be malignant Actius prescribes the Green water or Aegyptiac or to dip the Probe in scalding Oyl or in Aqua fort is which is not strong enough to work on mettals this following repelleth Take water of Honey suckle Plantaine Nuts of each 3 ounces Flowers of dry red Roses 1. pugil strain it and dissolve in it syrup of Pomegranats and Diamâ—ron of each 1. ounce mingle them The Spirit of Vitriol 2 drops and of Honey 1 ounce is good Crato Ep. 183. For inveterate Aphthae the ashes of Fennel-root burnt either alone or mixed with Honey are most profitable Least they should proceed
plentiful and clammy If it be corrupt and that from too weak a Medicament there is a stink and the Ulcer appeareth whitish If it corrode there is pricking pain alwayes increasing It is cured by Generals Topicals detergent as with spirit of Wine Fleshy excrescence in Ulcers cometh either from too much blood or because Sarcoticks are laid-on that dry not sufficiently If the first the flesh is good if the latter loose spongy If the first it is cured by fasting c. The latter with greater Dryers Epuloticks and Corrosives without pain The green water is good which Senn. oftimes commends as Take raw Alum Verdigrease of each two drams boyl them in eighteen ounces of Wine till a fourth part be consumed strain it then add Camphir one dram dissolve it in spirit of Wine one ounce and add it to the former If the Ulcer be with a hard Circumference and the hardners will not yield to Emolients the hard and wan flesh is most fitly cut out to the quick flesh that scarifying may be made and strong Detergents used If the Ulcer be with a Tumor eating not only the Cucula but also the flesh it is called an eating-Ulcer It comes from a sharp humour not so thin as in Wild-fire nor so thick as in a Cancer It is cured as an Ulcer with tumor and distemper That Ulcer is very ill bound up three or four times a day unless it be by reason of extream pain Let there be an Ulcer within the Leg alittle above the Ankle afflicting with great pain that is hollow corrupt joyned with corruption of the Bone circular with brawny swollen Lips compassed with inflammation and swollen melancholly Veins Suppose this be propounded to be cured Generals first premised first of all you shall ease the pain taking away the cause of it by Softners Coolers Narcoticks so the pain with the Inflammation being asswaged wash away the rottenness In the mean time by the way you shall make the Ulcer corner-ways you shall cut off the brawny substance of it you shall correct the putrefaction you shall make the Bones scale the Ulcer being cleansed must be filled with flesh brought to cicatrise Par. Querc commendeth the Sugar of Saturn to be miraculous Vulnerary drinks An ULCER of the Eye is known by sight and if it be in the Cornea there preceedeth a white Push a little Ulcer the Cicatrix is made white if it be in the Adnata it will be red It is cured by Generals Revulsives Intercipients laid to the Temples Anodyns Detergents as with Sugar Honey Myrrh Saffron Frankincense water of Strawberries three parts Sugar one part distilled when they have been eight days in digestion in Balneo Rue Horehound Ey-bright water Infusion of Sarcocolla Aloes c. bound in a linnen clout and pressed forth Take Frankincense Mastick of each one scruple Myrrh Aloes Succotrine of each half a dram Tutty prepared one dram Sarcocolla infused half a dram powder them mingle them with the white of an Egg and juyce of Quinces make Troches to be dissolved in Fennel water Give internal means to restore the sight as Take Conserve of Ey-bright one ounce and half Betony Rosemary of each one ounce roots of Elecampane candied two drams Fennel candied half an ounce extract of Rue seed half a scruple the essence extract or spirit of Valerian roots half a scruple Siler mountain one dram Sage Rue Vervain of each half a scruple with syrup of Betony or Staechados make an Electuary let it be taken at Bed-time Strew salt of the powder of Ey-bright on their meats Montan. ep 75. relates that he saw one use it by the Nostrils because the Ulcer was not well cured Vitriol in small quantity dissolved in much Rose water serveth instead of all Detergents For. premising a Lenitive purgeth with Fennel Ey-bright Senna leaves Pillulae Lucis to one dram Opening a Vein Cupping Scarifying fomentation of Mallows two handfuls flowers of red Roses one dram and half Quince seeds one dram and half cleansed Barley one pugil boyl all in ten ounces of fountain water add water of Mallows Roses of each half an ounce soment it twice in a day he dropped in the Collyrium following Take Troches that are white of Rhasis for the Eys without opium two scruples Rose water two ounces mingle them and drop it in lay upon it a double linnen cloth wet in the former fomentation after that in the fomentation was infused Fenugrec seed exactly washed two drams and half of Quinces two drams in a Nodulus after that Ey-bright water half an ounce was added to the Ey water after that in the same Collirium was put a little Sarcacolla soaked in Brest milk then a little Frankincense Saffron with the Mucilage of Fenugree seed At first let the sick sleep on the opposite side until the matter break forth in the side affected Venatius for an Ulcer of the Eye ill cured was commanded to forsake Padua An ULCER of the weeping flesh namely an Aegylops For. because of the danger doth not willingly undertake the cure of it If it were not yet ulcerated after Generals there is need of repelling means after that add Discussives as rank nuts If it be suppurated open it in time cleanse it Verdigrease of it self is a secret If it be with rottennesse of the Bone there is need of a Canstick Fab. cured them with Setons An ULCER of the Ear. Signs are pain burning great pricking in the Ear matter This sometimes is sent forth from the Brain inflamed which is easily known Sometimes as in children from the impurity of the Brain without an Impostume in the Veins of the Brain and Passages of the Ears matter is bred and there is no pain and the matter once spent is heaped up again The cure By Generals Topicals Detergents as juyce of Betes Horehound oyl of bitter Almonds juyce of Onions with Honey of Roses or Mel Rosarum the side is anointed with unguent of Alabaster juyce of wake Robin Briony the matter that comes forth must be put-by with wooll with Honey-water afterwards with Wine then with Oxymel The Probe must be wrapped with Wool The pain is taken away with a piece of Frankincense infused in Milk till it be dissolved and drop'd in by drops If there be Plethory and the matter runneth not yet out of the Ulcer pain urging a Vein is fit to be opened Galen for old Ulcers ufeth scales of Iron powdred beaten with Vinegar and seven times dryed then with Vinegar it is boyled to the thickness of Honey The matter must be drawn forth by a great Syringe unless it come forth it self An ULCER of the Nostrils If it be new and stink not it is easily cured if old and stinking hardly it is called Ozaena which oft times gives suspition of a Cancer It is most difficult to cure it hath crusts The Cure Generals premised also the decoction of Guaicum and a vulnerary drink Let the Topicals be Astringents and Discussives mingled
dissolved in oyl and Vinegar of Roses with an expulsive swath-band Take oyl of Turpentine one ounce Aquae vitae one dram a little Euphorbium may be added or Take Venice Turpentine one ounce oyl that is old one ounce Aqua vitae a little After that they cured the Tumor the pain with a Cataplasm Take Barley-meal and of Orobus of each two ounces flowers of Camomil and Melilot of each two pugils new Butter without salt one ounce and half Barbers Ly what may suffice If the pain ceased not with these either he cut off the whole Nerve or poured on it scalding oyl and dipping a linnen cloth in it bound to the end of a Spatula he would touch the bottom three or four times A WOUND of the Ligaments the Joynts The Cure is the same as for the Nerves only the Joynts require more drying and the Ligaments more then they Par. Balsom is profitable if the Dose of the powder be augmented we must diligently take heed of the cold the Ayre lay on things actually hot If the wound be on the forepart of the shoulder we must put a thick or double linnen clorh under the Arm-pit and the Arm must be carried in a scarff If the Wrist or the hollow of the Finger be half bent it must be sustained with props diligently brought about it for so they may always be drawn in If it be the Hip or Thigh-bone we must not let it stir a Nails breadth from the hollow of the Thigh which is performed by Swathes and lying down on the Back-bone when the Scar is made move it for fear of being crooked In a wound of the Joyne the Leg must be placed out right Signs of a Bone parting are 1. When more matter commeth forth 2. When the Bone is exposed to the Aire for that parteth 3. If it will not unite again and soster flesh is bred A WOUND made by bullets is not venemous nor alwaies bruised It is ill scorched with oyl of Elders It is hardly cured by reason of the contusion and circular Figure A sign is a small eruption of blood from the wound for the Lips swell presently First if it be necessary and possible the wound must be enlarged The ball must suddenly be taken out of the wound with an Instrument Fab. cent 1. obs 88. then we must suppurate besides Generals as with oyl of Whelps but if the part be dry we must take more Turpentine and lesse oyl If there be putrefaction add Mercury praecipitat or Aegyptiac oyl of Linseed Hemp-seed of Hypericon of Eggs. Those Setons whereby the wound is cleansed by drawing them here and there are not profitable since the same thing may be done by Pensils At the beginning let it be bound but once a day when the matter beginneth to run twice a day also thrice a day and afterwards but twice then again but once The matter in these wounds come forth slowly Vulnerary drinks To take forth the Splinters this that follows hath been long approved Take roots of Orris of Florence opopanac Cappars of each two drams round Birthwort Manna Frankinsence of each one dram with Honey of Roses and Turpentine of each two ounces make it up A certain Man cured these desperate wounds with a suppurative made of melted Lard the yolk of an Egg Turpentine and a little Saffron After suppuration use detergents A WOUND of the Eye First lay on a Repulsive all things warm to the Temples Narcoticks are Lungs of a Weather and the Caule boyld in Milk and laid on hot Womans Milk the suckling being a daughter Turtles blood or of Pigeons or Hens a Vein being opened under their wings If these profit not we must come to stronger Remedies Detergents for the Eys are Galls of a Thorn-back Hare Partridge in waters of Ey-bright Fennel Sugar-Candy Saffron This that follows is sarcotical Take the Mucilage of the Gums of Olibanum Arabicum Tragacanthum and Sarcocolla drawn with Barly water of each two drams Aloes thrice washed in Rose water one dram Ceruss burnt washt Tutty prepar'd of each half a dram make a Collirium A scar is made with Ey-bright water Sugar and Tutty prepared If the Flux cannot be stopped use the Seton To open a Vein is most profitable at the beginning A WOUND of the Tongue endureth no stitching but make Lohocks and give syrup of dry Roses Honey of Roses strained c. or a Gargarism For. Take a raw yolk of an Egg boyle it a little that it may harden a little add one ounce of syrup of dry Roses make an ointment afterwards Take waters of Plantain Honey-Suckles of each four ounces syrup of dry Roses infusion of Roses of each one ounce and half make a Lotion for the Mouth let him hold in his mouth sugar of Roses syrup of Quinces Paraeus addeth a Suture whilst the Assistant holdeth the Tongue in a soft cloth of linnen A WOUND of the Ear will not endure heavy oyly Cataplasms but dry glutinatives If suture must be made let not the Needle touch the grisle for it will Gangrene A WOUND of the Thorax If it hath penetrated into the Cavity the breath will come forth at the wound if you stop the Mouth and Nostrils the sick can scarce take his breath it is tried by a Probe Let the sick be set in the same posture he was when he received the wound That blood is fallen into the Cavity of the Thorax it is known if there be a Feaver if the weight of the Diaphragma difficulty of breathing be troublesome If blood be sent forth If nothing have run into the hollow of the Chest we must make all haste to consolidate for fear of a Fistula If blood stick in the Thorax keep the wound long open by Tents Therefore when you undertake to cure such a wound you shall not shut it up the first dressing but must hold it open two or three dayes when then you observe that the sick hath no pain weight Feaver nor to spit blood take out the Tent and heal it up so fast as you can If there be a Feaver weight c. besides Generals stop the blood by inward and outward means also by opening a Vein The Tents and all Topicalls must not be too long lest they offend the Lungs Also let them be fastned to the double cloths with a Thread lest they fall into the Chest Let them have a pretty thick head let the sickly on the part affected Blood is cleansed out of the Chest by an Jnjection of Paraus made of the decocoction of Barley six ounces Honey of Roses two ounces which the sick his body reclining his wind comming forth at the wound will return back in greater quantity then it was injected let this be done so long till the clots of blood be voided Cast in nothing that is bitter Senn. draweth it out by a great Syringe If a wound being received the blood stay in the Chest and commeth not forth of the wound let the sick hold I grain of Musk under his Tongue for so it will run forth A pipe of Gold Silver or Lead may be put into it that hath many holes through it fenced with covering or bound back with thongs fitted with a great Spunge wet in Wine and Aquavitae wrung out set to the Orifice that the filth may run first through that To dissolve the clotted blood A mixture of Honey may be injected which shall consist of one part Honey two parts water boiled to thirds dissolved in Egrimony water c. Let internall expectorating means be given warme A WOUND of the Lungs Signs besides those before is a casting forth of frothy blood at the mouth with a Cough red frothing blood runing forth of the brest without pain The Veins of the neck swell but when the flesh of the Lungs is wounded there is no Cough for the blood falls on the Diaphragma and presseth it but sometimes there is cold somtimes heat and frequent change of the countenance A vein must be opened for fear of inflammation unlesse blood hath run out very much If the wound be narrow it must be enlarged that the matter may come forth Apply a repelling Astringent some things may be injected that are liquid Senn. strews in a Powder the Lungs being puffed up by drawing in of breaths Vulnerary drinks Let the sick use Emplastick meats Let him avoid all Motion It may be cured if the wound be not too great if there be no Inflammation nor Cough It is scoured by Lohocks of Milk with a little Honey cheifly with Sugar of Roses c. L. D. 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the corrption is poured into the Chest The worst of all is ulceration Rupture is a lesse evil an opening is easily cured An ulcer of the Brest is curable but not of the Lungs The Cure If it come by rupture or opening the only Indication is to stop the blood and to heal it Therefore if a Vein be broken by coughing let the Catarrhs be stopt by all means See for the Catarrhs After that the blood must be stopt by all kinds of revulsion the quality of the blood that exceeds must be tempered the Choler must be purged by mild remedies Aloes and Scammony must be for born let Honey be mixed with all medicaments because it openeth the Passages Then we must consolidate with Syrup of Comfrey Fennel which see in Senn. Take for six days every morning 4 ounces of juyce of Nettles 1 dram of blood-stone with the water or juyce of Knotgrasse Trallianus giveth 4 Scruples It is given in Roles Electuaries infusion until the liquor be red See bleeding at the nose If all be in vain you must give Laudanum opiatum or some other Narcotick The continual use of Germander is most profitable Crato ep 184. Rul Nettle-seed Manard commendeth the Roots of the sharp Dock If matter run out by corroding of a Vein in the Brest or else spittle with blood it is cured as a Consumption which commeth from the Lungs being corroded BLEEDING at the Nose The cause is either the mouths of the Veins opened or plenty of blood and there are signs of plethory of some urging of the expulsive faculty by some sharp humour and then there are signs of Cacochimia or the weaknesse of the Retentive faculty and then often at times and for very small causes the Nose bleeds or from outward causes as provocation tickling anointing with hot things or from diairesis or diapedesis if the blood be watery if flegmatick Cacochymia do trouble the Patient Differences It either comes from the Veins of the Nose or of the thick membranes of the third sinus and then for revulsion Banhinus admonisheth that Topicals must be applyed to the hinder part of the Head oft times it cometh forth of the Artery If it be critical it must not be stopped Prognostical Melancholick and flegmatick People endure it the worst The Cure If it come by the mouth of the Veins opened by Plethory that must be taken away and the blood must be pulled back from the Nostrils by opening a Vein on the same side and make a narrow Orifice draw away at times one ounce or two or sometimes four by cuppings ventoses must be applyed to the Liver They stop it better if they be applyed to the Foot on the same side and to both Feet if blood run out at both Nostrils Yet this caution must be used that they must not stay long on the same place but before they cause fainting they must be taken off Forest will have them with scarification to the Legs and Shoulders painful Ligatures must be made to the Limbs Use chafings with Salt and Vineger You must not stop the blood by internals and topicals until revulsion be made Internals are good in any form For. gave Hogs dung mixt with Bole Armenick that it might not be discerned for this oft times stops an uncurable bleeding at the Nose Take seeds of Purflane Plantain Sorril Endive white Poppey of each one dram Roots of great comfrey ounce boyl these in sufficient water to nine ounces to the strained liquor add the syrup of Myâ—â—ils Pomegranates Poppey water Lillies of each half an ounce mingle them the juyce of Nettles and the seed blood stone The last help Narcoticks These that follow Heurnius holds for secrets Take white Poppey seed half a dram of white Henbane one scruple blood Stone one scruple red Coral one dram mingle them make a powder and with Conserve of Roses six drams for one Dose Also water of Nettles one ounce powder of Mans Skull one scruple mingle them the juyce of Nettles Purslane Plantain Yarrow By Topicals Hogs dung applyed to the Nose cold water poured upon the Wrists if there be a Feaver Let the Mouth be kept full of cold water if any thing be drawn up into the Nose this serveth at all times Juyce of Nettles and Plantain must be put into the Nose Also glutinous medicaments and Epithems and Fomentations the ashes of white paper burnt must be put into the Nose A piece of chalk held in the ring finger on the same side The Testicles must be fomented with cold water a spunge wet in Oxicratum must be put under the Arm-pits a Prony root must be held under the Tongue the Stone of a Carp held in the Mouth the root of Nigella chewed held to the Nose a Bank doller must be bound close between the Eye-brows with bands the flowers of the lesser Dasie must be held in the Hand The same taken inwardly do suddenly dissolve clotted blood Moss water of Frogs spawn If it come from Acrimony of the matter the Choler must be purged out and temperd If it proceed from diapedesis the watery humours must be purged use the decoction of Guaiacum the meats must be thickning c. Heurnius useth first Cupping glasses and Ventoses to the Feet and Liver afterwards to the second spondil of the Neck then he useth chafings Ligatures after that blood-letting then Internals and Topicals that Moss which is called Crepituslupi BLEEDING of Wounds This proceeds from solution of continuity of the Veins and Arteries It is more hardly cured if the Artery be cut long or overthwart-waies then if it be cut crosse in two for oft times Physicians perswade that if the blood cannot be stopt the Artery shall be cut crosse asunder The cure Those things being used we said before first the Orifice of the Wound or rather of the Vessel must be stopt either by pressing of the Fingers till it clots or when this in Arteries hath no place in which the blood congealeth not and but seldome in Veins the Vessel must be stopt with the Fingers or with medicaments The most convenient is that Toad-stool which is called a Fuss or that Matter beaten Intercipients must be laid upon the part affected If in vain Par. bids to take and bind the mouth of the Vessel toward the root with a needle or a thread with as much of the flesh as the part will suffer for which end we are sometimes constrained to divide the skin that covereth that part and to be long before we unbind it But if the condition of the part will not admit of this we must apply Causticks that may make a crust which Sen. alloweth not cooÌ„mends rather in the place of them Vitriol which is not escharotick but when it is burnt but when it is Crude it binds vehemently and burns but little Some strew on it powder of Crude Vitriol Others conveniently dissolve it in liquor and apply it unlesse Nerves be undet Sometimes we are forced to cut
pains it is best to commit them to Nature rather then to open them Great effusions of blood are from the outward Vein The Cure The blind Piles if they swell we must take care to void out the blood Chafing with sharp things with leaves of Mercury Pellitary Borrage cold with juyce of Beets Sowbread Centory the lesse yet lest the pain should increase we must add Anodyns Oyl of Elder and the liquor that is made of the flowers of Mullens in a glasse set in the Sun is great help if you anoint them with it Pilewort the lesser Celandine inwardly outwardly worketh marvelously But if the pain be great and there be fear of Inflammation open a vein in the Arm after that in the Ankle if the pain cease not After the opening of a Vein set on Leeches when they are fallen off let the blood run till it stop of it self or let the sick sit over a Bath of hot water by the vapour whereof the blood is moved let a vessel swim in the water to receive the blood or let it be drawn with a Cornicula The pain is appeased with cooling Axodyns both injected applyed Also with Moistners chiefly oyl of Violets injected to one ounce A certain woman applyed the ashes of burnt Cork with the yolk of an Egg oyl of Roses mingled and it was miraculous Section is not safe because it will easily ulcerate Purging by Hiera will provoke heat and Tumors in the Fundament and the Piles Solen Also Chafing of the neather part Fume of Mother-wort boyld in Wine the same But if they were never wont to run nor there be hoeps that they will run we must use means premising Generals Purgatives of the second sort For. that they may dry up by digestives and driers as with Bole-armenick Mulleus Pilewort Plantain Yarrow Hypericon Scabious Dogs-tongue root of the lesser Celandine in Fomentations Insessions Vapours the smoke of Brimstone Onions boyled with Butter Amatus when all other remedies failed took an Orange made hollow filled with oyl of Roses and Lavender-seed upon hot embers and laid it on hot and oft times renewed it If they run but little the ways must be softned and Aloes must be given If they run too much the cure must be with Revulsives Alteratives Astringents Prevention is by Purgatives c. Rulandus stopt them on himself with little red bags applyed by turns filled with Acorns beaten or Oke leaves boyld a long time in Wine Senn. observed so did Plat. and Fern. that oft times without blood or pain snotty and whitish filth which some falsly take for putrefaction was sent forth for a long time after long melancholick diseases riding The matter is made of corrupt blood as the Whites in women are like to whites of Eggs. See Topicalls PILES of the Matrix As in the Fundament so in the neck of the Womb Piles are found if the Veins in those parts are extended they are found out by Speculum The Cure Generals premised the pain must be abated every way by Insession c. If the pain be not or abated if they bleed not but swell the Ancients did only Scarify them but rather let them be dryed by Generals and by Driers If they swell much we must use means to evacuate them by Softners in form of vapour and by Chafing setting on of Leeches The last means is Incision which yet is dangerous They are painful and by their pain alone are they known from the Courses FRENCH-POX is an occult disease of the Liver and the other parts whether it be cold or hot with plenty of naughty humours it is bred from unclean copulation Fiorav saith it was bred from eating mans flesh Leoninus from the Stars and moisture in the year 1493. Others say from a Leprous man lying with a whore Hurtenus l. 6. de Guai thinks it was brought from Spaniola It is cured 1. By Guaicum China roots which want smell and cast and are not hot Sarsoparilla leaves of Saponariad as Take bark of the wood one ounce pour on water six pound Zwinger op 234. or Take shavings of the wood one pound the bark one ounce infuse them in ten pound of pure water boyl them till three parts be wasted Laur. With the froth kept anoint the Fore-head the Temples c. Drink every morning eight ounces To the reliques add of the wood two ounces water twelve pound boyl all to five pound for drink Boyl the dregs again to wash the Hands c Fore-head 2. By Quick-silver which Senn. thinks to be hot See Fern Laur. Par. who acknowledgeth two parts to be in Quicksilver which thing Senn. rejecteth It is poyson though quick it doth lesse harm because it soon runs through It is pressed through a Rams skin then it is given to a Dog who shits it forth it is cooked in Vinegar with hearbs for the Nerves Senn. thinks this profits little with Hogs grease c. Let them stay on the skin and not peirce so deep to the bottom Take Hogs grease six ounces fresh Butter three ounces oyl of Worms and of a Fox of each one ounce and half boyl in these Sage Rosemary c. Quicksilver prepared six ounces Wax what may suffice anoint the insides of the Feet Hands and the Joynts and back lest spitting should cause Ulcers in the Mouth For. prevents that with a Gargarism of oyl of sweet Almonds When you are anointed hold a gold Ring in your Mouth give Pills of gold dust so the reliques of the Quick-silver will stick to the gold Mercury doth not cure the disease but taketh away the cause by a Purgative quality 3. By Plaisters 4. By Fumes which way is the most dangerous as Take Vermilion one ounce Mastick Mace Tutty of each two drams Benioni Myrrh Storax Frankinsence of each half an ounce make them up with Turpentine and take a fume of it If an Infant be affected the Nurse for five days must preserve her self with Treacle water let her alwaies wash her Nipple The pushes of the child must be anointed with Unguent of Elecampane and a little Mercury Paercus for the Plague and spotted Feavers used an ointment with Mercury If they refuse the decoction of the wood Take Sarsaparilla three ounces Bark of Guaicum one ounce Cinamon one dram and half Senna leaves half an ounce Sugar six ounces make a powder the Dose is half a dram The quantity of Senna is variable Let him sweat in the morning upon it own hour and beware the North wind Monav. cp 242. and Zac. l. 1. bist 72. holds the Spanish disease to be well known and to proceed from too much Venery Unguent of Mercury must be new made for by fermenting it looseth its Porces Par. l. 20. c. 5. holds that the Pox is poyson by it moisture only Let not the diet be thin to lessen the Forces because the disease is chronical only in acute diseases which are short a thin diet is profitable Small Wine is allowed
tincture or wine or oxymel or syrup or electuary or roles of steel The dosein substance for middle age is 1 scruple or not under 2 scruples nor above 1 dram and half be administred It is given best in the Spring and Fall for in Summer the hear in the Winter the cold hinders Let it be taken fasting and after that let the Patient walk one hour or two if the party be weak walking may be omitted Let him dine four hours after At first let it be given every third day and afterward every day Some the first days cast it off again but sometimes it is conveniently given to 30 days We must see that the steel passe thorough the Belly which is known by the black Excrements and if it come not so every 4. day we must purge with pills or Clysters After the tenth day purge gently and abstain two days from the use of it That it may descend the sooner you may add purgations to it correctors give it in pills 2. The Patient may go to the sharp waters and hot baths they that drink of them purge forth black excrements by reason of the vitrials The sowre waters called Swalbacenses Griesbachienses Egranae the hot Baths of Baden Carolius Also medicaments made of Tartar 2. The weak parts must be corrected and strengthned by internal and topical means so a cold stomack by inward heats a hot liver by topicals or by cooling Clysters or give the pulp of the citron with the shell for so it will longer stay in the stomack or whole grains of pepper Or to a man that is long fasting give some Cooler which will presently go to the Liver especially if he do not exercise moderately or give such heats that are below the heat of the Liver and which for that do not increase its distemper as Egrimony Fumitory Succory So the stomach being strengthned you may safely give cool things that concern the Liver or give such things to drink the mixture whereof is not discovered by a new and first concoction but by the second and third as Spirit of Vitriol If it come from the Courses stopt a vein must be opened ANEURISMA Is not a humour from the running forth of the arterial blood as Galen and Platerus c. will have it for so the bloud should as well spread it self broad waies because it would colour the skin because it would easily putrisie but it is a humour by the opening of the inward coat of the Arteries and by dilatation of the outward coat it is opened either by unskilful opening of a vein when as the outward coat which is the softer groweth together again and the inward coat remaineth open or from some external cause Sen. l. 5. p. 1. c. 42. Fabr. obs 44. cent 3. Diagnostick signs It is a soft humour yielding to the touch sometimes with sometimes without pulsation it differs not in colour from the other skin it yieldeth to the touch and sometime not Prognostick New Aneurisms may be cured but old not Section is most dangerous it proceeds oft times from hard child-birth also in the throat The Cure Lay on an astringent some repelling remedy A plate of lead any way The manner of cutting see in Sen. l. cit but it must not be attempted See Pareus l. 6. APPETITE Wanting the Cause Because there is either no sucking or it is not perceived 1. When nourishment aboundeth in the whole body 2. When raw humours grosse stick in the stomack 3. When there is obstruction of the veins 4. From the use â—f far sweet and clammy things Sucking is not perceived 1. When the brain is hurt 2 By reason of some disease in the mouth or the stomach as from distempers which whether it be hot or cold exceedingly causeth want of appetite Oft times it cometh from drinking of wine from worms from the matrix Some will have the Devil to be the cause of long abstinence who conveyeth meat into the body and yet there are no signs of it and the same things doth naturally happen to Beasts Some say it comes from some hidden quality some they are fed by the aire but what shall be changed into the nature of the body wasted Some say they are fed by vapours that are inherent in the aire but why then are not all men nourished the same way Some live by drinking water but many drink no water Some say that fleame sticketh in the body that cannot be wasted but many of these were not flegmatick but rather dry and costive and so old men would live long without meat Some will have it that they live by their grease melted and turned into blood but it is false that their grease is melted and floweth to the stomach and is changed into blood and by hunger it is not changed into nourishment but is discussed Fort. Liceous saith that there is no necessity of nutrition because neither the soul nor the body stand in need of it so old men are lesse nourished also generation and augmentation ceaseth Senn. saith that the cause is by reason that nothing or else not but in a long time is consumed because of a certain proportion of the humour to heat So Scal. Ex. 328. writes that coals of Juniper will keep fire a whole year unwasted but that disposition is brought upon the humor when by diffusion of a melancholy humour it is fixed that it cannot receive the activity of heat Now a peculiar quality is communicated to a melancholick humour from the Matrix for they were almost all maids at those years that the Courses are wont to break forth Signs Diagnostick If there be no sucking the forces cannot fail and there are signs of repletion but if it come from obstruction the Belly is loose If sucking be not perceived the forces are cast down Progn Aph. 33. s 2. Respiration Appetite in the sick is is excellenr Aph. 6. s 6. Want of appetite in children is dangerous but if want of appetite fall upon the beginning or vigour of the disease it is not so dangerous for they want little nourishment and if they eat well they are the worse If it fall upon the declination that is ill If in a disease the appetite be cast down and it suddenly come again that is deadly for the Brain is hurt unlesse a Crisis went before it The Cure The cause must be taken away sharp and sowre things cause hunger as also scowring things as figs sauce If it proceed from the matrix there are signs of the matrix affected Symptoms somtimes abate and there are many symptoms present How aid shall be given to the matrix See concerning Suffocation and distemper of the matrix Senn. l. 3. p. 1. s 2. c. 2. ANTHRAX or a Carbuncle is a Tumour that riseth from adust blood that is extream hot making an eschar on the part affected of a diverse colour like a rainbow with a little wheal on the head The Cause is grosse adust blood
resolves the humour into winds or else windy meat Signs Prognostick This is not so dangerous as the moist is The Cure 1. The winds must be brought out discussed tempered with Clysters of sweet oyl or of linseed or sweet Almonds with a decoction emollient and Carminative also by Topicals Oyle and wine must be given if nothing hinder 2. The matter must be evacuated by syrup of Roses solutive and tempered by broths If it be from poyson it is cured by Antidotes The COLICK in general is a pain of the Guts violent and wandring The cause 1. Is wind either from feeblenesse of heat or from strong heat and tough fleam or from a windy melancholick humour or from windy meats 2. The dung hardned the Stone worms a Hernia all which by dissolving continuity cause pain 3. A wind or humour collected between two coats Signs diagnostick It differs from pain of the stomach for that is alwaies above the Navel and often comes to the Back bone between the Shoulders because the stomach is bound to the Back bone of the ninth spondil It is eased by parbreaking It differs from pain of the Mother because the pain of the Mother is communicated to the Groins and Hips and goeth no higher then they Child-bearing went before the Courses are stopped Prognosticks The Cholick often followeth the Jaundies coming by obstruction of the Passages that choler passeth in so the Jaundies often follow the Collick for the same reason If it lasteth long it causeth a Dropsie a Hernia and Rupture of the Navel The cure 1. The cause must be taken away 2. The pain The pain is removed by Internals and emollient Topicals Baths also by Narcoticks if the cause be hot But if it be cold they make the cause of the disease worse and shortly after greater pains arise Seldom must things be given by the Mouth It is safer to give them by Clysters as one scruple of Philanium Romanum For. gives laudanum opiatum to three grains Specificals are the whitest dung of a Wolf to one dram or hanged outwardly The guts of a Wolf to one dram in liquor A roasted Lark in powder Harts-horn one dram in drink Guts of a Hen dried to one dram or half a dram of the powder of the stones of an horse washed in water and dried in an Oven Whilst the pain lasteth they must eat nothing A COLICK from Excrements from wind Signs diagnostick There went before it a stopping of the Belly with weight of the Belly pain head-ach and palpable hardnesse The Cure 1. Cast in emollient Clysters and lenitine and by degrees strong Purgatives are to be mixed until the excrements be voided if they awake not a lenitive may be given by the Mouth as Manna one ounce and half Oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce with Hen-broth Oyl of Galbanum is good with the plaister of Bay-berries applyed outwardly The last remedy is Hippocrates Bellows whereby the Intestins are so blown that they are separated from the internal Excrements in their Superficies After that a Clyster is given If it come from worms it is cured as Worms If from Hernia as a Hernia Cupping glasses applyed to the Navel have cured it miraculously The Belly must be bound with broad swath-bands This following Clyster hath helped wonderfully Take Maligo wine Oyl of Nuts which also For. commends of each three ounces Aqua vitae one ounce Oyl of Juniper and Rue of each three drams give it hot The COLICK from a cause between the Coats Signs diagnostick A most sharp pain it is fast as a stake The Cure Clysters emollient and carminatives must be given take heed of vomit by all means after let the Clysters be made sharper Carminative dissolvers as Garlick may be exhibited by the Mouth Outward Remedies help If it proceed from a sharp humour as in the Scurvey sticking in the Veins and Coats of the Intestines it is cured by Coolers moystners Internals and by Topicals that void choler c. as in the dysentery If it come from inflammation of the Intestines it is cured as an Inflammation Question Whether purging Clysters are convenient I deny it because they draw to the affected nor are they evacuated for the Belly is stopped Senn. For. Pareus A COMA that is slepy is an action diminished the influence of the spirits being hindred The cause is a Narcotick force obstruction of the Brain worms the Matrix compression of the Scull Signs diagnostick The sick sleeps long and profoundly with his Mouth open It differs from Carus because in Coma if you ask them they answer from syncope by the pulse and the face in Coma is not like to one that is dead Prognostick Aph. 1. s 2. 3. s 2. in continual Feavers it is mortal That is less dangerous that comes by consent The Cure He must be raysed purged Revulsion made the cause must be derived the Brain must be dried and strengthned If it come by consent the parts that first offend must be cured COMA that is waking is when the sick with his Eys shut striveth to sleep and cannot with a delirium or without so one sick of a Coma cut off a Monks head that was his Keeper when he slept as Heurnius saith The cause is a Narcotick vapour but it is turbulent also or joynd with a hot vapour that hinders sleep Signs Frognostick It usually changeth into Lethargie or Phrensie The cure Since it alwaies enters allmost with a malignant Feaver besides the cure of it we must oppose the malignity and venome of it make revulsion and strengthen c. COMBUSTION The differences either heat is only felt in the part or only bladders arise or an Eschar is made Prog nostick From Thunder commonly it is mortal In the Abdomen it is hardly cured the deeper the Eschars are the lesse do they pain The cure 1. The Empyreuma or Atoms of the fire must be called forth which is done by heat If the burning be small presently put the part to the fire or stove it with hot water then beat Onions in a Mortar with salt and lay them on Or take raw Onions one ounce and half salt Venice soap of each half an ounce mingle them in a Mortar pour on Oyl of Roses and of sweet Almonds what may serve Fab. obs 93. cent 4. Fresh horse dung Sage Dwarf elder Elder leaves beaten with Salt and Oyl of Nuts Quick lime washed nine times with Mallow water and Butter Oyl of Linseed juyce of Onions May butter juyce of Elder Hogs grease Camphir Oyl of Olives Lime to washed is mingled with oyl of St Johns-wort or juyce or some Cream Take Lard cut one pound melt it in Rose water strain it through a fine cloth wash it four times in water of Henbane or Plantain three new laid Egs mingle them Unguents for scaldings must be so made that they stick not too fast but may easily be wiped off If bladders be raysed they must not be opened before the third day nor after but
decoction of Mallows Fennel Rue Ey-bright Fumitory Rheubarb Senna made like Claret After softning detergents as juyce of Mallows Fennel Rue clarified with the Gall of an Eel and Sugar-candy afterwards also a little white Vitriol was added After that juyce of Rue and Celandine double of Fennel lesse of Vitriol one dram and half Verdigrease five grains and the party was cured A certain Matron cured the poor with this following water Take the Entrals of a Pike and together with the Gall Liver Bowels cut them small in pieces add one handfull of Fennel and distill them The juyce crushed forth of Pismires The green of brasse corrodeth lesse when it is burned then unburned That which Covers the whole Pupil the Chirurgion must not meddle with Par. A Cloud wherein the sick seem to look through smoak is from a humor compacted in the Cornea A white spot is made either from a scar and it is incurable or from fleam collected between the Cornea They are cured by Generalls Topicals emollient and detergent with the juyce of Pimpernel with a blew flower and first with Rosemary flower water water of Honey if it cannot be cured the white colour is taken away with the juyce of sweet Pomegranates If a yellow colour in the Jaundies seize on the Cornea receive the vapour of Vinegar cast on a burning tile by the Eys the decoction of Rheubarb if Choler of Agarick if fleam drop into the Eye snuff up into your Nostrils Blood-shot is an effusion of blood in the Adnata and Cornea from a stroke a fall It is cured if it be greater with topicals revulsives repelling then with discutients alone With the decoction of Fenygrec exactly cleansed or in the form of a fomentation Pigeons blood Colewort leaves boyld and applyed new Cheese If it be old it requireth stronger means tops of Hysop beaten tied in a sinnen cloth let down into boyling water laid warm to the Eye takes out the blood that it will stick to the cloth Root of Devils-bit Root of Solomons seal Vine water Hypopion is when Matter is gathered under the Cornea there went Blood-shot before running of the Eyes inflammation Fern. cureth that as the Haw Galen Paraeus by opening the Cornea to the Iris Or they affect Vvea as The falling down of the Vvea by reason of the unity of the Cornea disolved If a small part of the Vvea fall down it is called Myocephalus if a greater part Staphyloma the greatest is called Clavus when it is grown a Callous No man hath cured Staphyloma but a little pipe artificially drawn may derive them by Channels If it be from an Ulcer of the Cornea it is curable if it come from a Rupture or wound it is also cured Dilatation of the Pupil called Mydriasis when the Apple is greater then it should be It is either natural or cometh from extension from dryness or flowing thither of humours from a stroke a fall too much holding their breath in women with child All things seem lesse to these men but the humour doth not affect the whole Vvea otherwise the Apple would be made lesse for the weight of the Vvea would contract it but the Pupil The same is to be said of drinesse If it come from drinesse it must be softned if from a humour it must be evacuated revulsed resolved by Topicals it must be restrained Fern. useth this following Take dry Roses dry Mints Spicknard of each two drams Bark of Frankincense Mirrh of each half a dram Saffron one scruple Pompholyx Acacia Spodius all of them washed one dram washed Aloes half a dram powder them sift them make Trochis with Gum Traganth dissolve one of them in Rose water A Cataract Suffusion is the obstruction of the Pupil by a humour Paraeus saith by a skin It groweth between that space that is between the Cornea and the Crystaline humour It is counted counterfeit by the Ancients The black is incurable Copulation makes for this about the break of day they see clearest because a few spirits are dispersed by a great light by a lesse they are collected It is made also from the subtilty of the spirits from the finenesse of the Body from Dilatation of the Pupil Generals premised Revulsives Topicals resolving the hot breath of one that eateth Fennel must be often received the Eys being gently rubbed with the Fingers If it be old see first if it be ripe the sign where of is if he can see nothing but light can distinguish nothing Those are incurable that are not dilated by rubbing the Ey-lids so That which is with a consumption of the Eys that which followeth great diseases those that are green black yellow wan plaister-colour Contrarily those that are chest-nut colour sky colour sea green are curable 2. Let the Moon decrease let it be two or three days after the full let her not be in Aries let there be no pain of the Head nauseating Cough Let the Needle be of iron let the sick look with his Eys toward his Nostrils then the needle must be thrust in the middle space between the lesser Cornea and the Iris avoiding the Veins and the Cataract must be thrust down from above downwards laying on the white of an Egg with Rose water Let the Eys stay bound up to the eighth day Or they affect the weeping piece of flesh as Excathis which is a Tumour of that flesh from blood It is cured by Topicals corroding by Generals with the Iron Rhyas is a diminishing of it which followeth other diseases It is cured by Sarcotick remedies Squinting comes from a Convulsion of the Muscles It is either natural or from a faulty situation of the Crystalline Or without any manifest cause they hurt the sight as Amblyopia which is called Gutta serena wherein the Eye and the Apple remaining clear the sight is depraved Myopia is when they see only what is before their Eys Nyctalopia is when men see nothing in the night sometimes well These are cured by Generals rather then Topicals If the cause be in the Brain the other senses suffer with it If it began suddenly it is obstruction If by degrees it is either distemper or restraint It begets too great light in the Eye by the heat reflected and so hurts A white colour is by dilating of the Pupil Topicals are the secret of Maximilian the Emperor namely distilled water of fresh Goose dung a Goats Liver eaten roasted the vapour of it boyled the liquor droping from it in roasting it must be anointed Rondelet found this to be more effectual if the leaves of Fennel Celandine Rue be stuck into it The powder is strued into the Eye The meats must be seasoned with salt of Eybright Saphyr water called so from the colour See Sennertus the species of Occonis c. also the Collirium or Sieff that follows is useful Take water of Fennel and Ey-bright of each four ounces Tutty prepared one ounce and half the best Aloes one scruple infuse them
length 3 Because those vapours are not so hot as the heart Zach. refut hist 84. l. 1. A FEAVER putrid continual is distinguished from an intermittent because an intermittent alwaies comes with cold and shaking but that seldom with the least An Intermittent seldom lasts above 24. hours a burning Feaver hath alwaies a black Tongue joyned to it whence it is that Chirurgeons foolishly cure only the Tongue For. l. 2. A Tertian intermitting Feaver It intermits because every fit the matter is discussed which is proved by the departing of the Feaver 2. Because it can easily be discussed 3. Because the Symptoms as quaking nauseating do shew that in one day intermitting new matter is recollected Differences An Exquisite differs from a bastard Tertian 1. Because an Exquisite never exceeds twelve hours seldom seven 2. Because the cold is vehement and short 3. Because straight way signs of concoction do appear Signs diagnostick It is known from a Quotidian by the cold for in this there is only shivering by the lasting of the fit Aorimony of the heat by the Urine and pulse The Cure Fernâ—l 2. m. m. c. 3. approves of long opening a Vein in cholerick Feavers 1. Because both Choler and Blood are evacuated 2. Because sometimes cholerick Feavers end by bleeding at the Nose 3. Because it cooleth 4. Because Plethory is often the cause of it Zach. denyeth it because the boyling of the Choler is to be feared whence in too great bleeding at the Nose Hippoc. saith Convulsions may be made in Aph. In the end Purgers of black Choler must be added Cold water may be allowed to those are used to it in the state and the matter being convicted A double Tertian Feaver It is often mistaken for a Quocidian but the fits of a Double Tertian which fall out upon unequal days are unequal to themselves in their manner and time but the fits falling upon equal dayes are equal to themselves and differ from them It is cured as a single Tertian Specificals are given flowers of Camomil lesser Centory Scabious Devils-bit and Plantain A Semi-tertian Feaver or a Hemitriteus is either lesse which riseth from an intermitting Tertian and a continual Quotidian or betwixt both which riseth from a continual Tertian and an intermitting Quotidian or greater which riseth from a continual Quartan and an intermitting Tertian Sâ—nn saith there is an Intermitting Feaver of all kinds which afterwards either by malignity or some other cause makes inflammation of the stomach Liver Spleen Mesentery Lungs whence groweth a continual Feaver or a continual Feaver symptomatical from the inflammation of the part and intermitting for Spiegelius found it out in bodies alwaies inflamed They follow con tagious Dysenteries they end in Fluxes of the Belly and Colicks The cure That must chiefly be respected that causeth a continual not neglecting that which causeth the intermitting Wherefore some for both mingle hot and cold things to serve for both Fevers but this way neither Fever shall be cared for Let them therefore be given by turns let the Purgatives be gentle not-strong A Quotidian Feaver A continual is not ended before fourry days often not before sixty If the fit be long the stomach cast down sleep long this threatneth death Oft times it changeth to Cachexia a Hectick a Dropsy A Double Intermitting whereof For. hath but one example that lyeth hid is slow wherewith For. was sick together with a Hectick 1. Let Diet be opposed to that which urgeth most 2. Let digesters respect the Hectick and the Quotidian 3. Let vacuations and vomit be moved let meat be given at the time of the least accesse 4. Use Restoratives A Quartan Feaver continual is allmost alwaies mortal For. saw one who so grew melancholick when he would admit no Physitian and for 12. weeks and three days never went to stool at last he went by himself and died Intermitting is distinguished from others because at the first and second fit it is hardly perceived there is no pricking cold but as it were breaking of the bones with a wonderful slowness and scantness in the Pulse Opening of a Vein for trial is here good The use of Peach kernels and decoction of Rape roots are good Crato Ep. 103. anoints the back bone with oyl of Camomil and he gave the juyce of Carduus in a syrup then a little boyld with butter He purged with syrup of Violets of Aples of Hellebour one scruple Ep. 112. Also he laid a linnen cloth dipped in Aqua vitae upon the stomach when the fit was coming Monavius Ep 229. sets down such a secret for a Quartan Take the Heart of a Hare and prepare it as ye do a Fox lungs then powder it and divide it into three equal parts give it at three several times one hour before the fit with white wine or some other liquors if manifest signs of concoction appear Specificals are roots of Gentian Plantain as also one dram of root of Masterwort juyce of Verven Wormwood Steel A Quintan Feaver For. saw two that followed a Quotidian Hence Authors will have this to proceed from adust fleam it is cured as a Quartan with a Dropsy A wandring Feaver is made 1. By transmutation of the humour as when yellow colour degenerates into black 2. By errour of Diet. 3. By confusion of the mixt matter A Hectick Feaver it either followeth other diseases as a one days Feaver or a putrid Feaver or it beginneth of it self from a Procatarctick cause as from anger heat it never happens unlesse one days Feaver go before It is either single or hath a putrid Feaver or some other disease joyned with it and then it is deadly except with Anasarca Differences There are three degrees 1. When the dew or dewish moisture which is spread through all the small spaces of the similary parts is consumed and it is called a Hectick without a consumption and may be cured 2. When the fleshly and fatty parts are consumed it is called a Consumption Hectical but not Exquisite and may be cured 3. When the fibrous parts are dried wherein the heart is burnt and made dry it is called a Marasmus hectical or an exquisite Consumption and is incurable for a Marasmus or a burning Hectick or a dry and cold as in a Hectick of old age or called old from the disease Another is Syncoptical which is hot in respect of the Feaver and cold in respect of the Syncope Signs diagnostick The heat is equal so that the sick perceive not that they are sick One or two hours after meat they grow hot though they eat five times or more in a day as it is with Lime or if upon burning stones in a Bath water be poured The Pulse is small swift Fat Urine is an inseparable sign of a Hectick of the second degree c. Fern. cured one whose water was so thick that the fat might be taken off with ones fingers The cure In a single Hectick to open a Vein or Purge
of Eggs another with the liquor of Snails strewed with salt the place being first rubbed with a sharp cloth he cured with oyl of Nuts decoction of Southern wood Mugwort oyl of Juniper Conies-fat Goats dung ashes of Walnut shells Mouse ashes with Honey Fat of green Frogs dried first using the Ly of the ashes of Frogs produceth hairs every where even in those that are Lepers ashes of Nigella with goldsmiths water cured one that was bald by Quick-silver For. used Goats milk and nervous things hot urine The fat of a Pike the froth of lean flesh Monav. Ep. 284. commends Ladanum chiefly HAIRS are made black by the decoction of astringent things by Internals purging fleam By Topicals the green shells of Wal-nuts Cypress-nuts Galls boyld oyl of Nuts Cadmia a Ly wherein Coliquintida is boyled Myrobolans as well inwardly as applyed outwardly Cloves Bean-stalks They are made yellow if they be washed with Ly of the Ashes of the old Cole-worts adding Barley straw Some to that Ly add green wheat Liccoris shavings of Box or put Saffron in the Ly the decoction of Broom flowers Mullens with yellow flower Citron Pills water and oyl of Honey They are made to curle if you wash them in the decoction of the root of dwarf Elder or anoint them with Harts-horn and oyl of Olives The ends of the Hairs cleave from a burnt humour It is cured by a cooling Diet by purging black choler by an emollient fomentation Worms which shorten the Hair are described by few they can scarce be seen by the Eyes they eat the ends They are killed by Vinegar of the infusion of Nettle-seed also by Scabious Southern-wood Centory c. Platting of the Hair Die Mahrflechten it troubles Men and Horses It began in Poland It is hereditary springing from the water and aire If the platting be cut off the poyson slips in again and makes dangerous affects Opening a Vein and purging are useless here HICKOP The Cause is the rending of the upper orifice which proceedeth from humours vapours rising from the Womb Hypochondres driness inflammation of the Liver a Wound of the Membranes of the Brain The cure The Ancients held their breath held cold water in their Mouth they sneezed If it be vehement Hickop cure the symptom neglecting the cause by Narcoticks as by syrup of Violets Poppeys or this following of For Take seeds of Dill or Carways one dram white Poppey seed two scruples Manus Christi with Pearls one ounce make a Nodulus infuse it in small Beer If it be by consent take away the cause if from cold by heaters if from wind likewise If it be from too much evacuation it is cured by sharp moistners If it be from plenty of meat evacuate it If it be from poyson first give a Detergent then Specifical to drink If from worms drive them out Castoreum Cumin bound to the left Wrist For. anointed the Back-bone against the Region of the Stomach with oyl of Violets he gave syrup of Violets to moisten and syrup of Mints to strengthen Astringents of syrup of Mints Wormwood are not good till the matter be evacuated YELLOW JAUNDIES is a spreading of the Gall. If it come from the straightness of the Passages or from the Vessel of the Gall the Excrements of the Belly are white there is no Feaver but heavinesse it cometh suddenly without losse of strength If effectual remedies do not profit the straightnesse proceeds from the stone If there be signs of the Liver affected that is affected If it lasteth long it threatneth a Dropsy The cure First we must open and chiefly by Dodder than which there is nothing better Saffron Agrimony Hore-hound Centory the lesse Germander Wormwood The yellow stone found in the Gall of a Bull is profitable One dram of Earth-worms with juyce of Succory roots of greater Celandine Elecampane Tartar Vitriolated Cremor Tartar dissolved in steeled Wine spirit of Salt A decoction of Straw-berries 3 handfuls Raysins four ounces Hore-hound half a handful For Children seeds of Columbines Openers and Purgatives may be mingled After that we must evacuate Galâ—l de vi purg denieth here to open a Vein For. useth it in Plethorick Bodies The Purgatives may be strong For. gave a woman with child that had the Jaundies half an ounce of Electrary of the juyce of Roses Rheubarb one scruple Diagridium one grain Spicknard three grains with water of Balm Hops Fennel of each one ounce at once It is a sign the obstruction is opened when the excrements of the Belly are again yellow coloured and the urine is not so yellow as it was If it proceed from the Colick when the Passage for Choler is stopped by stâ—am and winds it is cured as the Colick From the Colick come the Jaundies from the Jaundies the Colick If it come from heat of the Liver without a Fever here is too great quantity of choler from thence groweth a Feaver the Urine and dung are yellow the hands and Feet are hot The Cure Opening a Vein is convenient if there be Plethory the distemper must be corrected and the cause evacuated If it be critical the urine and dung hold their natural colour it must not be cured If it be symptomatical on a day that is not critical the matter not concocted invadeth It is taken away the Feaver being cured If it come from inflammation of the Liver it is cured as an inflammation of blood If it be from poyson it is cured by Antidotes Rondeletius promiseth health to women with child if these things following be laid to their Wrists and Feet Take the leaves of Missleto of the Oke two handfuls Celandine Hore-hound of each half a handful beat them in a mortar with a little wine Par. useth this that followeth Take goose dung two drams white wine three ounces drink it two hours before meat Querc gives Goose dung one dram or half a dram or dung of a white Hen half a dram for four days BLACK JAUNDIES It is commonly thought to come from the Spleen when the melancholick humor is not attracted Platerus saith preternatural Choler is the cause of it which is collected in the Vessel of the Gall and is corrupted in the meseraique Veins and gets a green and black colour from corruption Because in the Spleen there is no cavity no hollownesse nor can it be carried to the hollow Vein because it invadeth suddenly It is cured as the Yellow Jaundies by steel c. If the colour cease not it must be discussed by sweaters also by a dry Bath and after the Bath rub the Body with emulsion of Hempseed A Tench cut through the back layd to the Abdomen or Soles of the Feet draws forth the yellow and black humour The ILIACK Passion is the motion of the Guts turned wherein the Chylus is not rightly distributed and the dung is retained and at last are cast forth at the Mouth The cause is said commonly to be the inflammation of the Intestins from the hardnesse
warm Milk oyls of Roses Violets Saffron To wipe away Honey of Roses is good and water of Honey put in by a Tunnel Also Orris root Myrrh Saffron All um melted in wine Inflammation of the Tonsils is cured by Repulsives as by syrup of dry Roses The Ligature of the Tongue is often loosned by Mid-wives with their nails or the edge of money but they do this oft times where there is no need be it as safe as it wil it hath been sometimes mortal Oft times there is no need of Incision Nothing of flesh is cut but only what is Nerves If it grow again together it must be cut again Faâ—r cured his own brother that was dumb to 〈◊〉 years old by cutting the string so that he ever spake plain Cent. 3. obs 28. The Catarrh is cured if Diet be observed give the Nurse a Pectoral decoction to the Child a Clyster or Suppository or a Vomit with oyl of sweet Almonds give expectorating means Anoint the Stomach cause sneezing c. Gripings of the Belly Heurnius in the first spoonful of pap gave one scruple of Anniseed very profitably Clysters Solutives Topicals are good The decoction of water of the hearb Cardiaca is given by Mid-wives for gripings of wind and that very well for that hearb mightily helps the pain of the Heart whence it hath the name Scowring when they breed Teeth proceeds from a Feaver watchings pain The heat of the Feaver troubleth the humours It is cured as Diarrhea Maw-Worms Signs The Mouth is full of spittle sleep is troubled they scratch their Noses they chew often there is a dry Cough Preservation is by Diet. Before meat give the decoction of Sebestens or roles of Diaturbith with Rheubarb decoction of grasse roots Mous-ear juyce of Lemmons Citrons two drops of spirit of Vitriol Infants cannot away with bitter things They are cured with Corallina Worm-seed Roots of white Dittany Harts-horn the water and decoction of grasse roots Remedies against the Epilepsy are fitly mingled with them If there be a Feaver we must give cold things as juyce of Lemmons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts-horn Bezar a Clyster of Milk Apply bitter things outwardly Heurnius commendeth this that followeth for Children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb from two drams to half an ounce water of grass one ounce it is given for one Dose every other day See Worms Little Dragon Because they are like little dragons the Indians are troubled with on Midsummer day Senn. saith they are true Worms with heads like black hairs Their back is pricked as with a Needle they toss themselves up and down and wax lean Heurnius saith you must rub their Back-bone and Shoulders till they wax red next only with skin pulled from fat Bacon and the hairs will appear Paraeus cured them with a fomentation of warm water afterwards with anointing with Honey and Barley meal The heads that peep forth must be pulled out with Pullers Dudith Ep. 27. cured his Children from them with a Bath into which he cast crums of Bread rubbed out one handful and a little ashes The Children being washed with the strained water the Bread shewed forth innumerable hairs the second day fewer then he anointed the shoulders with meal mingled with Vinegar which being washed away there appeared little swellings which being scraped away with a knife they were called little dragons but unless they were presently scraped off they hid themselves within they are thought by old women in Poland to be little worms INFLAMMATION is Phlegmone a swelling with heat rednesse stretching out from abundance with resistance and pulsation which are the marks to discern it from Erisipelas It is either Resolved or comes to suppuration or grows to a Scirrhus or a Gangrene The Cure The antecedent cause namely blood must be altered evacuated revulsed intercepted It must be altered by cold and moist things by reason of a Feaver It must be evacuated by hunger opening a Vein purging if there be Cacochymia it must be revulsed by opening a Vein Cupping Ligature it must be intercepted by Astringents laid on the part and a thickning Diet. If it flow from heat and pain this must be asswaged that discussed Topicals at first must be Repellers in the increase add Resolvers yet so that the other may bear the sway In the state let the Forces of Repellers and Resolvers be equal in the declination use only Resolvers Also consider the temper of the part affected for it must be cured in the flesh one way in the Nerve another the dignity so the heart must not be tryed by vehement remedies Situation so things lying deep require stronger means The shortest way must alwaies be chosen Morning sleep is allowed for then the blood moveth which by sleep is called inward If the blood neither change to matter nor be resolved Scarifications are very necessary if it come to suppuration cure it as suppuration INFLAMMATION of the Brain or Frensy comes from Inflammation of the Brain or of the Membranes or both it proceeds from cholerick blood sometimes the memory is hurt sometimes the Phantasie alone Signs A continual Feaver delirium virulent vomiting insensibilitly sharpness of the Tongue breathing great and rare urine sometimes fiery sometimes white In a bastard Frensy the breathing is sometime little there is a stretching forth of the Diaphragma there were no signs that foreshewed a Frensy If the Brain only be affected all the Animal actions are abolished except most violent motion Prognostick It often degenerates into a Lethargy also into Convulsion and Dysentery Clear urine and white dung are deadly If they were mad before and suddenly grow quiet as if they slept they dy We must not sit neer to Frantick or mad people or to those that are sick of the Plague nor let them put their Fingers to our mouths For. saith that Lud. was so hurt by mad people Fab. cent 1. obs 84. telleth how he was bitten by a Frantick woman The Cure The cause must be pulled back by opening the Liver Vein then the median-Vein it must be derived by opening the Veins of the Fore-head Nostrils under the Tongue The Orifice must be made straight Also after the third day if there be strength to endure it For. used Cuppings with Scarifications Ligatures c. Iutercipients must be applyed to the Temples We must evacuate by true Purgatives when the disease is sharpest and the matter swelleth If there be Cacochymia it must be altered by such means as prepare Choler Topicals at first must be Repellers sor strong people in Summer they must be cold otherwise warm in the augmentation we must add Resolvers c. Lay cold Epithems to the Liver and Heart Let sleep be carefully provoked by sleeping remedies The Chymists commend the Spirits of Terra sigillata distilled without any addition being yellow and sowre it is given to one scruple They must be admonished to make water The Secrets must be fomented with the decoction of Pellitory c. If the sick
Differences 1. When the Brain is primarily affected 2. By consent of the Heart and the whole Body 3. Hypochondriacal 4. From the Matrix That which comes from the Emroids the Spleen c. belongeth to the Hypochondriacal The first proceeds not from a bare distemper for else the actions should not be diminished and if it came from cold it would affect old men It comes from a humour in the Head that is too earthy Hitherto belongeth mad love or doting from too much care of the Mind hunger watchings anger The second is made from a melancholick humour either sticking in the branches of the hollow Vein and of the great Artery and from impure vital spirits whence it is almost continual there is present cold of the Heart with drynesse there went before it frights watchings c. The third is made of a Melancholick humour sticking in the Vena porta whence it afflicts by turns about the Liver the Caule the Spleen If the vapour be not communicated to the Brain it is a bare Hypochondriacal affection Hitherto conduceth rest and the Belly bound The fourth is made in Widdows that are lusty for men from stopt Courses and a melancholick humour Diagnosticks If it be the first there is a continual doting vehement the Hypochondres are well there is tinkling a Vertigo heaviness of the Head c. they trifle If it be from mad love they are merry If it be the second the whole Body is melancholick the delirium is not continual c. they easily fall into Madnesse Epilepsie c. The Cure The cause must be altered evacuated the distemper must be taken away at times the Head and Heart must be strengthned If it be mad love things that extinguish seed must be given they must change the Aire c. Vervin carried about exstinguish lust Also Mints whence grew the Proverb In time of war neither sowe nor eat Mints Opening a Vein is good Mingle with all medicaments moistners and strengthners Confectio Hamech is not so convenient Vomiting Whey in abundance for a little profiteth not Decoction of Wormwood Steel sowre waters mineral Baths baths wherewith Galen cured many Topicals laid to the Spleen and Heart the Diet must be moist Some use the Trepanum taught by chance For. cured many with a Lenitive after a decoction of Penny-royal and the lesser Centory Sometimes with syrup Byzantine some times with Mints sometimes Wormwood sometimes with Borrage Apples Bugloss easy Vomits easy Purgatives decoction of Wormwood and with Diureticks Aph 11. s 6. Scholtzius Ep. 241. where Monavius speaks of a certain noble Bohemian who died of a love potion If it be the fourth the pain is various chiefly on the left side on the Region of the Heart which sometimes seizeth on the whole Brest there is a manifest pulsation in the Back about the Diaphragma the Courses flow sparingly Let a Vein be opened in the Arm if there be Plethory If the time for the Courses be at hand in the Ankle Purge wandring melancholy which the Arabians call Kutubuth It chiefly troubleth men in February The sick cannot stay an hour in one place but wander alwaies not knowing whither they go It comes from the proper passion of the Brain they must be cured the ordinary way MEMORY It is weakned by a cold moist distemper It is cured as flegmatick Head-ach by alteratives Purgatives Strengthners Confectio Anacardina is good which is called a Confection of wise men whereby many have gained an admirable Memory the Dose is half a dram and less It drieth vehmently wherefore if any principal part be hot they get Memory indeed but they cannot live long It may be made without Castoreum that it may be more pleasant Every morning rub hard the hinder part of the Head and Nape with Ivy water distilled from the Tree three or four times in a glass Stil A secret oyl of Frankinsence Myrrh c. MEASLES They have alwaies a putrid Feaver with them sometimes Continual sometimes Intermitting The Cause is the menstrual blood the Aire the Diet. If the blood be thicker they are the Small-pox if thinner they are the Measles they break forth critically the fourth day Scowring straightness of the Breast bloody urine hoarsness are mortal For they either dy of a Quinsey or Swooning or scowring The Cure Before the Pox break forth in those that are not exceeding young if there be a continuall Feaver it is good to open a Vein otherwise not Give Lenitives or Clysters In the augmentation and the state Cordials and such things as expel Mitigaters are useful either temperate or cold as the nature of the Feaver requireth For. prescribed such a one Take Barley cleansed one pugil Liccoris scraped half an ounce red Chiches two drams all the great cold seeds of each half a dram Cordial flowers of each one pugil three fat Figs boyl them in the strained liquor dissolve syrup of Pomegranats half an ounce for two Doses Infants should according to For. be wrapt in red cloth yet so that it touch not their skin The decoction of Lintels is good but not in substance Turnep-seed Citron-seed Columbine Carduus Benedictus in form of emulsion Epithems have proved mortal Or never or cautiously must they be ripened Butter hath often done hurt They must not be opened unless they be very Malignant The ripe wheals must be anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds so they leave not filthy holes The eys are preserved with Rose-water and a little Saffron Afterwards you may add juyce of Fennel Rue Vervain Straw-berries A Saphir stone put to childrens Eys preserveth them Crat. Ep. 160. The Nostrils are preserved with Rose water with juyce of sowre Grapes Posca c. Into the Ears drop oyl of Roses Myrtils The Throat is wonderfully preserved by a Gargarism of Goats milk and Plantain water The Lungs with this following Take syrup of sweet Pomegranates two ounces Sugar Penidiate three ounces Syrup of the infusion of Roses Diamoron of each half an ounce Diatraganth frigid three drams Purest white Starch two scruples make an Electuary It is a secret Give children Figs with syrup of Pomegranates OBSTRUCTION of the Liver is made when the Veins and Arteries are stopped in the substance of the Liver Diagnosticks The sick feels heaviness and by and by after exercise or meat he feels pain in the Liver When he ascends a steep place he is pressed with an unusual difficulty of breathing the Excrements of the Belly are moist and plentiful If it be the hollow part there is thirst nauseating if the round part the Diaphragma is more pressed It commeth from a vapour and there is weight or from wind if the hollow part be affected it is more easily cured The Cure If there be Plethory opening a Vein is good that the use of aperients may be the safer all which are hot Purge the Body give aperient means be the cause hot or cold give openers as Succories Lettice the four great cold seeds with other
Vehement motion hath cured many Out of Guaicum oyl is not distilled a Spirit with difficulty An extract is made with a convenient Menstruum PIMPLS Red. They proceed from a vapour of burnt blood The best Remedy is water of Pilewort distilled from the whole plant Costus Colewort seed and Paints PISSING Involuntary proceeds from the resolving of the Bladder and the sphincter Muscle stopping of Urine is only from resolving of the Bladder Solenand commends as a secret the powder of a Cocks Throat broiled raken with red wine or soaked in Posca about night also the Testicles of a Hare burnt are commended PALPITATION of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart from vapour humours water collected in the Pericardium the Stone c. 2. From some small defect of Vital spirits 3. From preternatural heat increased which oft times hath broken the Ribs See Fern. For. saith the cause is hot or cold Galen saith in his time they all dyed before sixty years Signs If it be from wind the fit is sudden short If a humor be the cause it is longer and slower in coming It comes often from Hypochondriacal Passion and stopping of the Courses If it be from water the sick say they swim in water The Cure In young Men or in declining age opening a Vein is good and evacuating the cause The cause is discussed with oyl of Citrons or true Rhapontick two scruples that which followeth is a secret of Forestus Green Balm bruised laid on fire-hot Tyles sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar laid to the Heart Conserve of Balm Treacle water of Harts heart or an Ox is Rondeletius way The PAPS If they ly hid they are called forth according to Amatus with a glasse Vial that hath a straight Mouth which being filled full with scalding water the water poured forth again it is laid hot to the Paps The PALSEY is made when the Nerves are either cooled or moistned by fleam choler for all Choler is not sharp as appeareth in those that have the Jaundies for either their Forces are laid asleep or pressed by weight by a melancholy humour or their continuity is dissolved Prognosticks If a Member with the Palsy be made less it is not or is hardly curable But if it should proceed from cold or a humour the disease cannot be so violent nor would it resist the most vehement Remedies and those that are Cacochymical should be Paralitique Nor yet from dryth for so hectical people should be Paralitique If the feeling cease the motion remaining sound then the Nerve which is fastned into the Membrane of the part is affected that being safe which goeth into the flâ—sh The differences Weakness differs from the Colick and from the Palsey because in this the Head and marrow of the Back in that the Limbs only are affected as the cure sheweth for medicaments are laid to the part affected and the Intestins 2. In that there is oft times great pain and it goeth oft into a Convulsion 3. That is cured at first in a short time the same is the condition of a Palsey Scorputick only that in those that are sick of it there remaineth some motion and soon goeth away and returns The cause of weakness is often Cholerick and raw it cometh not from the Head because that is seldom affected in the Colick nor would the Colick cease But the very same matter is carried through the Veins into the Limbs as a Pleuresy comes from a dysentery stopt But Erastus saith Wherefore should not nature provoked by Clysters rather cast forth the matter by the Belly Answer The Passage is not free Spiegelius will have it done by the Arteries and by them the purgative force of Clysters is carried to the Heart The Cure If it be from fleam that must be evacuated by Generals taken away by Topicals The same cure is for stupidity Topical Resolvers If it come from a sharp humour as from the Colick in the Scurvey in that we must not dry so much nor respect the Brain Generals and Topicals are all useful Monav. ep 242. saith that this that followeth is good in weakness Take the fat of a Gray a Fox a Hen a Duck a Goose a Stork of each one ounce juyce of Sage and Wormwood thickned of each half an ounce oyl of Bays one ounce anoint after Bathing Specificals are Marigolds Lavender Berries and shavings of Juniper Meadsweet Primroses wine of the infusion of Marigolds Lavender for one Month one or two spoonfuls It must be set in the Sun at an open window If it come by way of Crisis the Flux must not be stopped In the Palsey of the Tongue after Generals For. opened a Vein under the Tongue Cupping glasses without scarification must be set under the Chin. Vomit is not good Gargarisms must be first attenuating then add such things as draw fleam Cauteries to the Neck The juyce of Sage alone rubbed on the Tongue recovereth the speech In a Palsey of the Weasand soft things can hardly but gross things may easily be swallowed In a Palsey of the Bladder add torrefied Turpentine Trochis Alkekengi without Opium An astringent fomentation to the neither part A Potion of the roots of Cyperus Galanga of each two drams Lignum Aloes sweet Calamus Cypress nuts Balaustia Pomegranate Pills Myrtils Acorn cups roots of our Ladies Thistle great Comfrey of each one dram Galls Frankincense seeds of Agnus Castus Rue of each one scruple c. If all fail use this that followeth approved Take Acorns I ounce half Galanga half an ounce boyl them in 2 pound of red Wine and Smiths water Frankincense 2 drams boyl strain drink them Topicals If the Yard it is cured with a Fomentation of a Ly of the ashes of a Hart and Buls pisles Foment the Spondils Prescribe such things as take away barrenness If the Fundament use drying Clysters astringent apply Cupping glasses to the Buttocks Make Fumes of the bark of the Pine-tree one ounce bark of Frankincense half an ounce Pix Colophonia Frankincense Mastrick of each three drams Castoreum one dram shavings of Harts-horn half a dram If it be from a fall apply to the part Coolers Astringents for fear of Inflammation and hot Resolvers If it be with wasting Topicals and Internals must be moderate The PESTILENCE The Cause is divine Hipp. Which Erastus ep 275. affirms to be a hidden quality of the Air. And Ep. 269. he saith purrefaction is the cause not in making but already made which cannot be corrected by altering but must be taken away by evacuating Signs It infects many is contagious it suddenly casts the Forces down the Pulse is deadly a Feaver Small-Pox Prognosticks To be well in mind and the appetite to remain is good If Vomit be absent other signs are deceitful Differences If it proceed from infection of the aire it is very contagious it quickly killeth few have Botches or Pushes breaking forth The Urine is like to sound mens there did
precede signs of the Aire affected for Beasts have died Fishes they have left their dens the waters being half dead c. If it come from corruption of humours that is known by the signs there are Spots Botches Pushes The Urine is naught a vehement Feaver afflicts also a Tertian a Quartan intermitting witnesse Pareus l. 21. Those that are scabbed are lesse troubled with the Plague A Botch to go before the Feaver is good to follow naught The Moon decreasing is deadly for the Terms come forth weaker Arist l. 7. de H. Anim. c. 2. Preservatives Chambers must be clean so much as we can A sign of this is If Eggs shaked be not corrupted and stink in 24. hours in a place infected or new Bread from the Oven So if shaked Eggs be put between him that is infected and one that is sound the Eggs but not the sound party will be infected So to those that are about to dy they put hot bread to their Mouths that the Chamber may not be infected 2. Let the Body be cleansed with moderate Purgatives and such as expel poyson as Agarick c. By convenient Diet. 3. We must preserve by taking Antidotes as Pills of Ruffus half a dram yet in old men childing-women and such as have the Emroids cauttiously Elixar vitae of Paracelsus For. commends this following even for Infants every day so much as a nut Take Nuts Figs Rue of each alike beat them severally in wooden Vessels Mingle them with syrup of juyce of Citrons it is very good Also this that followeth is to be taken to the quantity of a small Nut. Take confection of Nuts one ounce and half old Treacle Mithridate of each two drams right Bole-armenick Terra sigillata of each one dram and half with syrup of Lemmons or in Winter with syrup of Citron Pills mingle it He gave it in the Winter with Wine in the Spring with Carduus water or Scabious in Summer with Sorrel water Sometimes he added half a dram of Confectio Liberans Every morning he washeth the Face with water and Vinegar of Roses with a sweet Nodulus An unguent for the Nostrils as oyl of Scorpions to anoint the Wrists Temples Heart Nostrils Troches to be held under the Tongue A little bag for the garments Epithems Fab. obs 34. c. 2. Monavius ep 248. approves the powder of Arsnick Toads Crato is against it Ep. 167. In the Pestilence at Lausanna none died that had an Issue Fab. had two c. 4. obs 23. We must anoint under the Nails the Arm-pits and Groins Bags must be kept in the Wardrobe of cloths The Cure To open a Vein is not good if the Plague arise from contagion or fault of the air If twelve hours be past if there be spots a Flux or Botches otherwise before the eighth hour giving first a Lenitive Clyster you may do it When there is a Botch or Carbuncle draw blood on the same side setting a Cupping glasse to the Botch lest the venom be drawn inward Fern. opens the Head Vein in the Arm if the Carbuncle be under the Arm-pits the Liver Vein of the same side if it be in the Groin Thigh Hip Leg Ankle with scarifying and cupping yet he alwaies did it before eight hours After two hours he gave an Antidote if it were vomited up he gave it again He purged not before the third oft times the fourth day with Lenitives as Rheubarb Agarick Epithym c. Cassia is not convenient by reason of its moisture nor Rose water for its Astringency To drink cold water in the Plague and malignant Feavers is deadly Let them eat lustily though they have no stomach The first day he will not let them sleep on the second and third he willingly provokes it with unguent Populeum Senn. Once he moveth sweat after he opens a Vein if need be All before eight hours past Par. commends salt of Mugwort If spots comes forth Paraeus anoints the sick with Quick-silver as if they had the Pox. PTHYSICK It either followeth the Pleurisy or it proceeds from a sharp Distillation or the breaking of a Vein See Aph. 16. s 7. Rondeletins holds it commeth most from the third cause by ignorance of the Physitian who neglecting Revulsives will cure spitting of blood with Astringents There is a lingring putrid Feaver joyned with it or a Hectick from an Ulcer of the Lungs which lasts sometimes twenty years Signs of the beginning of it are a long during Cough then something bloody then mattery is cast forth the Body wasts there is a lingring Feaver hard breathing matter coming forth by Coughing the Hairs fall c. How matter is distinguished from fleam See Aph. 81. s 4. 11. s 5. The Cure The cause must be purged by Rheubarb c and Lenitives not strong Clysters It must be revulsed intercepted The disease or the Ulcer requireth detergents and Mundificatives or Expectorating means for the spittle must be bound up no way afterwards we must glutinate Fracastorius comendeth a Lohock of Turpentine with Myrrh and Bole to be miraculous Laur the juyce of ground Ivy half a pound Sugar six ounces make a syrup let him take often with a spoon Water of Alehove with Sugar of Roses To use old conserve of Roses or Species Haly against the Prhysick Erast ep 272. saith that all who had an Ulcer in their Lungs though it were not discerned yet they died by the use of Vitriol waters Conserve of Roses must be often given in great Doses Vulnerary Potions as also the decoction of Guaicum China are much commended unless there be a Hectick Feaver Fumes are good taken at the Nostrils See Cough Also the smoke of Tobacco Topicals let him often take Conserve of Roses or a little preserved roots of great Comfrey For. giveth by turns things to expectorate and glutinate and at last remains upon them that consolidate PRIAPISM is a stretching of the Yard without lust and it is not asswaged by Venery It is cured as the Fury of the Womb with Mints Especially with the root of water Lillies by hunger Vomit Chafing of the upper parts A PUSH A Fellon differs from Phlegmone by the smallness blood thickness it suppurateth of it self it paineth is an acute little swelling It is cured by suppurating medicaments after that by Sarcoticals Psydracia are red Pushes of the Forehead and the Head They are cured with Driers as with white Chalk with juyce of Housleek and with Vinegar and Lytharge Ceruss and oyl Phlyctenae called wild-fire they are little blisters from a yellowish matter and sharp they last to the fourth day Besides Generals Topicals must be Coolers and Moystners They are opened with a Needle the Ulcers must be dryed Pushes of the Cornea are cured as Ophthalmia All these comming again are most dangerous because they set upon the Forces cast down by the former matter because those that grow well require much nourishing and diseases returning require slender Diet we must deal warily here and
Riol Also oft times the Body ascending is known by the touch and is mistaken for the Womb. Three Symptoms urge swooning suffocation and Convulsion and sometimes this sometimes that sometimes lightly sometimes grievously torment them Signs Weariness precedeth a sad look they are easily taken with horror It is cured by putting stinking things to the Nostrils and sweet things to the secrets It differs from swooning because swooning is more sudden the Pulse is small in strangling as in swooning there is a cold sweat they are often joyned Swooning lasteth not long suffocation sometimes for three days They must not be buried before seventy two hours past for in that time all the humours absolve their motions put a feather to their Mouth a dish of water to their Heart or a glasse to their Mouth Sneezing Remedies are more certain Prognosticks It afflicts most in Winter sneezing is good cut them not up before seventy two hours Vesalius learned this by his own example witness Par. l. 23. 46. yet in his Ep. 30 and 31. he saith Vesalius dyed not of grief but when he had ended a sacred Voiage he died in the way of a burning Feaver The Cure Loosing all Ligatures raise the sick put stinking things to the Nostrils as fumes of feathers of Partridge Hairs Lether Horns Castoreum underneath sweet things chiefly a smoke of Horses warts dried Clysters for the Womb Pessaries outwardly oyl of Rue Treacle c. an unguent for the Nostrils and Ears oyl of Amber Sage c. pour in Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar and spread upon a round piece of leather apply to the Navel Make a nodulus of Asa foetida two scruples Castoreum one scruple Some are cured by only chewing Lovage seed and swallowing it down See Child-birth wine is hurtful Powder for the Muther is this Take Dittany root seeds of Carrots one dram choise Cinamon Cassia lignea Balm of each two scruples Saffron oriental half a scruple fat Castoreum one scruple Dosis half or one dram with Beer or water of Camomil Treacle with Mugwort water root of Angelica juyce of Garlick rub upon the Navel with Aloes it is a secret put the leaves of Bur-dock under the Feet Fecula of Briony made in Pills to ten or twelve grains with a little Castoreum extract of Elder-berries dried made with Aqua vitae and spirit of Vitriol by distillation to one scruple Preservation is wrought by Generals and Specials of Balm Penny-royal Angelica roots c. SUPPURATION is not to be opened before it be ripe for it will turn to a Fistula in a part that wants blood as the Pleura and if the matter be malignant and sharp If it be from a cold matter it must not be opened before the concoction of the whole matter The Signs are if the pain heat tumour a Feaver be increased when the heat pain Feaver are remitted and the tumor is lifted up into a point the matter is concocted Suppurative medicaments are necessary when the humour is so impacted that it cannot be repelled either by reason of the nearnesse of some principal part or so thick that it cannot be resolved It must be opened on that part it riseth to a point according to the straightness of the Fibraes â—hat the matter may not run forth by heaps Suppuratives shut the Pores that the heat cannot breath forth and so they differ from Emollients It must be opened either with an Instrument oâ— a Medicament either with a hot iron seldom or cutting iron as in a Ring Medicaments are either potential Cauteries or more gentle as leaven Onions roasted in the Embers Garlick Pigeons dung black Sope Mustard-seed Salt Figs Diaquilon Dogs dung Nitre coughing crying sneezing vomiting Scabious Horehound Carduus benedictus Add some of these to ripening plaisters Give syrup of Hore-hound with water of Scabious STITCHING 1. A little Pipe with a little hole is put to receive the point of the Needle to hold the lips of the wound immoveable then make a knot yet the lips must not be wholly drawâ— together that the matter may come forth First give a stitch through the middle of the wound In great wounds take in much flesh 2. A dry stitch with a sticking plaister 3. That which belongeth to Hare-lips 4. Stitching of the Peltmongers which belongeth to the Intestins 5. Stitching of the Belly for wounds of the Peritonaeum SWOONING Is a sudden failing of the Forces by reason of the vitall spirits affluence denied or because they are not bred for want of matter or great heat or are consumed by heat malignity vacuatives grief or strangling by some crude humor as in a Feaver with Swooning or by frights c. Diagnosticks There preceeds a languishing Pulse and small the Face is pale the outward parts are cold they sweat in fainting there is no sweat and the Pulse remains It is distinguished by the Pulse from strangling of the Womb. Prognosticks Aph. 4â— s 2. The Cure The spirits must be preserved sprinkle the Face with Cinamon water Rose water Wine Vinegar For women alwaies use stinking things Apply Epithems to the Liver Heart little Bags Ointments Balm sprinkled with Wine that is pleasant heated on a hot tile give bread dipt in Wine chiefly chafings of the ends of the Fingers is most profitable and other Revulsives lying down Tormentil and other Cordials Take two Pome-Citrons pouring on Rose water and Sugar sprinkled on them boyl them to an Electuary If it be from wasting of the spirits Chafings c. are not fit but Rest So Take the best powdered Sugar what you please moisten it with the best Cinamon water that it may be a little fluid to which add some drops of spirit of Vitriol oyl of Cinamon four drops of Cloves two drops Mace Nutmegs Anniseeed of each three drops Give it in a spoon at pleasure TEETH rotten and black are made so by over-hot cold sweet sowre things or paintings of Mercury Preservation If after meat the Mouth be washed with wine and Cyprus or Mastick be put into the Teeth The cure If one every Morning hold a grain of Salt under his Tongue and when it is melted rub his Teeth with it The spirit and oyl of Vitriol mixt with water makes the Teeth very white A Pumex stone fired and quenched twice in white wine and the third time fired and so left until it be cold then powdered and washed makes the Teeth exceeding white also not fired For. l. 14. Some use only tosted bread Paraeus L. 16. Cuttle-bone Harts-horn Cinamon Coral Crabs-eys Egg-shells Snails shells the Jaw-bone of a Pike Mastick roots of Birthwort Orris Rosemary flowers Lavender Roses white sand most fine Some use only oyl of Vitriol with Honey of Roses The ashes of Rosemary branches Tobacco ashes TEETH are pulled out with Iron either by reason of extream pain or because they are rotten and make the breath to stink or if a tooth stand out of order great dexterity of the Hand must be used lest the Cheek-bone
To the Temples but set it neer by them In the Winter and full Moon Trepaning is more dangerous for the Brain swelleth It must be done in three days yet Paraeus in Winter and Summer used it after ten days When it cometh to the second Table the blood runneth forth but not alwaies for in some places the Skull is thin TREMBLING The cause is a preternatural moving Faculty burdened by the fault of the animal spirits or Nerves or nervous fibras in the Muscle If the spirit by reason of disorderly motion hath not its influence from the Brain as in anger joy fears frights for from hence the vital spirit is variously moved and so the generation of animal spirits is wanting a distemper cold and moist of the Nerves or from malignity as trembling from Quicksilver Vermilion in Gold-smiths which For. cured with only Goats milk nervous remedies from Obstruction wine The Cure If it be from a want of the spirits it is cured by Restoratives if from a humour with distemper it is cured by Generals Topicals Chymists coÌ„mend the essence of Balm in cordial water A Bath wash the trembling parts in water of Cinque-foil or decoction of Juniper berries with Wine let them dry of themselves or with water of infusion of Mugwort A Lotion with their own water Sage beer meat seasoned with Sage flesh of Storks wood Pigeons a Hares brain fried Infuse Juniper berries all night in water then let them infuse in Aqua vitae eight days swallow ten berries every day the decoction of Guaicum Monav. ep 240. after Generals giveth the extract of Calamus he foments the hands with a decoction of Wine with Sage and Aqua vitae VEINS swollen with melancnolick blood are cured by Chirurgery for above and beneath the Vein it is bound and when it is made naked of the skin the Vein is cut and the blood being let out it is cured But since this cure is difficult and oft times leaves malignant Ulcers Hier. Fabric cuts the vein bound not with great Incision but by prickings that are small Then he layeth on Medicaments of Bole armenick Dragons blood Mastick with Gum Traganth steeped in Wine of Pomegranates or Verjuyce made like a Candle and he layeth this long waies on the Vein and upon the Medicament a reed made hollow to hold on the Medicament for so the Vein consumes If there be an Ulcer joyned with it the Vein must be cut out VERTIGO is when all things seem to turn round Scotoma is when over and above the sight is darkned Why they than look down from on high should be taken with a Vertigo the cause is natural for that by looking on a thing that breedeth fear the spirits are dissipated from terrour the spirits are drawn in again whence follows a contrary Motion the common sense and imagination are primarily hurt The Cause of Vertigo is the circulation of the spirits animal by a thin vapour Scotoma is from a thick The antecedent cause sticketh either in the Brain and there be signs of the Brain affected or in the Liver Spleen Hypochondres and there be signs of them affected or from some outward cause Prognosticks They that in a Vertigo see a green or purple colour encline to the Epilepsy they that see black to the Apoplexie they that see red are thought to be more subject to madness The Cure Let the Patient alone in the fit and if the cause ascend from the lower part Revulsion must be made by frictions the Face must be sprinkled with Wine give Suppositories Clysters put sweet smells to the Nostrils hot or cold rub the Nostrils with oyl of Amber c. rub the Temples with Rosemary water the Forehead with wild Marjoram annoint the Palate with Theriac Senn. alloweth also opening a Vein but with caution If an Apoplex be feared for preservation is Carway seed soaked in Wine and then dried if daily half a spoonful be long chewed about bedtime and lastly be swallowed When the fit is over open a Vein as the Head Vein It is cured as the Head-ach by Generals Topicals Bears-ear is commended the water or extract of Scorzonera a dryed silk-worm is strewed on the Crown Take dung of a male Peacock for a Man or a female for a woman one dram infuse it all night in white-wine strain it through a linnen cloth give it for a Vertigo from a new Moon till a full Moon If it come from some other part by consent the humour prepared must be evacuated the Vapour intercepted revulsed discussed we must strengthen VOMITING too much is cured by Revulsives Clysters Oyls Frictions and principally by heating the extream parts Give Astringents before meat put Cupping glasses to the bottome of the stomach Topicals A crust of bread infused in Mint water and Vinegar of Roses sprinkled with Mastick powder baked opium An ULCER is the solution of continuity from something that corrodeth with the taking away of some parts they differ in form one is circular c. in subject in cause Diagnosticks The cause is known by the signs when raw thin quitter runs forth plentifully with pain pricking it is then beginning In the increase the matter is better and more sparingly c. If the Rest diminish it is the declination Prognosticks White matter or rather ash colour light and equal is good See Aph. 45. 4. s 6. Aph. 65. 67. 2. 21. s 7. The Cure The humour must be evacuated by Generals we must apply Digestives yet it is safest even at the beginning to mingle Detergents with Digestives unequally as Turpentine with juyce of Smallage yolks of Eggs oyl of Roses Saffron The part affected must be observed as in Phlegmone If the Ulcer be scowred too much it becommeth dry the flesh is consumed the Lips grow red there is a sense of biting If it become more dry and there be a good colour and neither quitter nor matter run forth of the Ulcer we must use Sarcoticals The purer the Ulcer groweth so much the more mild must Detergents be A scar is made with Powders or Emplaisters that heal but not in a moist form If there be for example a dry distemper the Ulcer being so long let alone the dryness must be cured most fitly with a fomentation of water and oyl warm and by Emollients If the distemper be with matter which is known by the swelling pain and plenty of Excrements before all the matter must be evacuated the parts strengthned the humour reâ—ulsed intercepted repulsed the best Repellers are Issues made in the opposite part And without these oft times Ulcers cannot be cured and old Ulcers cannot be closed unless an Issue be made in the opposite part Lay Sarcoticks on the Mouth of the Ulcer yet without biting stronger then otherwise The circumference must be washed with Repellers or some resolving Cataplasm laid on The Medicaments must be oft times changed Guido brought on the skin with a Plate of Lead If it be foul the filth shews