It is a malignant matter because the pains are sharper then in an ulcerated Cancer because when remedies are applyed it is often more violent Galen prescribeth Theriac Signs Prognostical Arthritis preserveth from many diseases Aph. 49. s 6. Swelling or melancholy veins appearing are good If it return not again it is mortal They that are costive can never be cured of it It is taken away either being dissolved or else it is changed into bloody watery matter or to hard knots or is carried to the principal parts Laur. saith it is sometimes brought to suppuration if the humour by ligature be pressed forth into the fleshy parts The Cure 1. Revulsions must be applied as if there be plethory feavers and strength a vein must be opened of the same side or if the hand be ill in the opposite hand by cupping glasses with scarification blood-suckers by chasings ligatures 2. Means to evacuate After that give one purgative at the beginning before meat whilst the forces stand of such things that are indifferent strong Whilst the purge worketh the foot or part affected must be laid higher or must be guarded with defensatives Vomits are excellent Then diaphoreticks at first and colder diureticks as Harts-horn and the root of the Clot burr 3. Topicals that are Anodyns Forestus praiseth Duck-weed and flowers of Camomill with Barley meal boyld in milk that they are wonderful good Spiegelius commends the distilled water of the roots and flowers of Meedsweet Fat things are hurtful we must often proceed to Narcoticks See Aph. 25. s 5. First use resolvers and moderately repecussives of Plaintain Frog-spawn water Housleeke Purslane Roses with moderate resolvers in any form but the repellers must be cold and moyst Resolvers are the water of the flowers and leaves of Mullens Earth-worms decoction of Mugwort roots in sea or salt water Spiegetius commends the Urine of men salt of Urine and the spirit of salt tempered with water of Meede-sweet anointed on the part with a feather The liquor of Snails resolved with salt in a copper vessel or boyld in vinegar and oyl of Roses Resolving suffumes are profitable Pigeons dung boyld in vinegar is good and nettles boyld in wine Hard humours are cured with softning cataplasmes of old cheese juyce of Tobacco and by Fumes Rotten cheese with the broth of a gammon of bacon Scal. addeth the powder of a fire-stone burnt See Senn. concerning Arthritis Storks-dung boyled in Hogs-grease Schrekevos The Sciatica requireth only resolvers and attractives If the pain be stretching forth if the part will not retain the print of the finger pressing it wind with fleam doth seem to be a true Arthritis Some unexperienced Chirurgians supposing matter to be under have opened it with great hurt to the patient Fabr Cent. 1. obs 79. Cent. 4. obs 84. saw the Gowt cured by torture The Physitian is oft times deceived thinking the cause to be hor. 1. If he say He is helped with hot means therefore it is cold whereas by opening the pores hot things may be cooled 2. The pain is asswaged by cold things therefore it is hot because cold things take away the sense but not the cause 3. The pain is intense therefore it is hot since cold things by a malignant poyson can do the same 4 The colour is yellow therefore it comes of choler because much fleam is died with a very little choler 5. There is a Fever and fiery coloured Urine therefore but by reason of watchings and pain a Feaver may arise Pareus l. 17. Rulandus cured it by purging sweating with the roots of Afarum 2 ounces Centory the lesse two handfuls a lath of Juniper wood 1 pound Juniper berry half a pound Preservation is made by diet dunghil cocks and capons must be avoided for they are gouty by eating sand Senn. Fat things must be eschewed and things that are fried all must be seasoned with Mugwort as it is wont to be done and Parsley To ride and walk overmuch is very hurtful The feet must be put into new hot liquor of grapes prest out Some every moneth open a vein in the great toes or the feet others every month before the ful moon set cupping glasses to the soles of the feet without scarification one may purge Medicaments against the Gowt are profitable which see in Senn. The joynts must be strengthened many wayes Question What is the cause Fernelius saith that the antecedent cause is without the Scull 1. Because many Veins end there and there is heavinesse of the head 2. Because the excrement gathered in the brain is purged forth by the nostrils the palate Laur. and Senn. argue against this But should it be collected within the scull and should run from thence by the palate alwaies nauseating vomiting a cough should go before Arthritis If it come from the Heart or Liver bubo's in the groins and arm-holes should go before it for there are properly the emunctories Fernelius will have the matter descend not by the vessels but under the skin Laur. denieth it 1. Because Feavers end in Arthritis whose causes are in the veins 2. It is often cured by opening a vein 3. Because before the paroxysme the veins swell and are red 4. It should cause shivering Fernelius will have fleam to be the cause it is not blood for that without the vessels would corrupt and putrefie not melancholly for that would go to a scirrhus nor would it suddenly affect us not choler for that would turn to matter not salt fleam for that would exulcerate 2. Whether every pain of the joynts be Arthritis I deny it for so disjonting and pains of the pox and pains of the hips in maids and women in child-birth also a humour bred by degrees in the joynts should be Arthritis which is false for as oedematous humours is rather caused by it then Arthritis so by the drying up of humours in the joynts there groweth pain in the joynts Aph. 16. s 3. yet not Arthritis 3. Whether may we purge when the pain is Crato denyeth it Ep. 167. also he denyeth that causticks are convenient in the feet because we may not evacuate the part affected whence Erastus saith that the Leprosie is ill cured by diaphoreticks and Crato saith the same of a dysenterie by Clysters but Pareus calls it an opinion full of errour l. 17. Hollerius Arthritis that is vagrant is Scorbutical and a pain of divers parts The Cause It is a thin watery matter of all the humours swelling and malignant The parts affected are the Nerves because it is very luxuriant in the back and the loins by reason of the marrow of the back that lyeth under because the action of the nutritive faculty is hurt because it is cured with remedies good for the Nerves The kinds 1. It hath Tumors about the joynts which if they last long they bring forth spots as in the Scurvey which sometimes coming to suppuration are turned unto a malignant ulcer chiefly about the feet
the sharpness of the matter when parts are contracted beyond their extension they are dislocated distorted that they cannot again be extended Prognosticks In Hippocrates Aphorism a Convulsion growing suddenly if a loosnesse of the Belly or a Feaver come upon it it is ended If they escape four days they are well The cure If it be by consent the part that principally offends must be cured If it be by essence opening a Vein is good or cupping-glasses with scarifying If the Legs be drawn set them to the Hips if the Hands set them to the first Vertebra of the Thorax If the Tongue the Eye-lids set them to the first Spondils of the Neck Purging chasing sharp Clysters anointing of the Back bone are good Topicals must be resolvent beginning from the milder oyis of Camomil Dil c. Goole-grease c. Internals must be as in the Palfey The Mouth drawn awry must by no means be opened with Instruments If it be from a wound the soul matter must be wiped away and Inflamation must be cured If from eating Mushroms Galen gave Hens dung with Oxymel for a great secret The Nerves hardned by too great dryers cannot be cured CRISES Though they be imperfect the matter being not yet concocted yet are they good For. saw when a Crisis was often repeated yet the sick escaped so from an Apoplex a Palsey from a Lethargy swellings under the Ears is good Fern. l. 2. c. 1. saith that profitable Crises are not made by bleeding 1. Because alwaies red blood runs fresh 2. Because it pulls not away the root of the disease without an irregular flux See Aph. 25. s 4. Zach. answererh l. 1. histor 64. that that blood appeareth red because it droppeth out by drops so that the heat of it is taken away by the ambient aire wherefore the cold will not suffer the Heterogeneous parts to be separated from the good So the blood remaineth red In the Arm it floweth out by heaps so that the heat remaining the grosse parts are separated from the good CHILD-BIRTH In hard labour some have the bones of the privities stretched out Paraeus will have it that the bones without names are separated from the Os sacrum Also they may be distended with the Perinaeum and the bone of the Crouper Wherefore those that are in labour must not bear upon the Perinaeum And Topicals must be applyed to the Perinaeum and to the Crouper bone and of the Privities Signs A most greivous pain which if it cease suddenly the Child being not delivered the Mother dyeth The Cause Hard labour is either the fault of the Mother when the expulsive faculty is weak or of the Child when it is greater and not well postured or of the Passage namely when the membranes are too strong the Neck streight from ayre too hot or cold In women of the first Child from plenty of Excrements driness If the Child be dead or the Physitians hand put in not the Mother seeleth any motion the water runs forth If the Secondine be thrust forth before the Child If the pain be greater the breath stink the Perinaeum be cold If the Mouth of the Womb be soft and hot it is the Birth The cure The places must be softned by all means The Child-bed Woman must be placed in a Bed as in cutting of the Stone or in a stool that she may lean on the side of the Bed Let her hold her breath and not cry Cause her to sneeze give her Clysters sharp suppositories Put stinking things to her Nostrils Let her drink Beer with Butter and oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce Let her Belly be empty feed her sparingly anoint her with oyl of Amber Give her one drop of it with Vervain water Also let her take first of all Cinamon water or take white Dittany Amber of each one dram and half give half with hot wine Oyl of Cinamon oyl of Hasle-nut tree the powder of the Secondine torrified five or six berries of Juniper taken with Figs five times wonderfully helps forward delivery Dittany Cassia lignâ—a Myrrh Many have been delivered by taking half a dram or one dram of pills of Asa foetida Powder of Ladies Bind to the thigh an Eagles Stone which also draweth the Matrix to it wherefore use it not long Also Coral Roots of knot-grasse green Coriander bound to the soles of the Feet or to the Hips Use none of these till the Moon of the ninth moneth be past They that have broad shoulders bring forth great children with the Child let the Secondine be taken out gently or presently after lest the Matrix follow If there be many children so many Secondines there are If it stay behind it must be taken forth with medicaments or by the hand The Navel being tyed the Womb must be swathed with a swath-band The Secondine being drawn forth put in the Matrix It is a wonderful secret to drive out the Secondine for the Terms stopped strangling of the Matrix the dead child a Mola bruise the green leaves of Lovage and drink the juyce pressed out with wine or Mugwort water In the Winter give Lovage seed boyled with Mugwort water Also one scruple of the Trochis of Mirrh with two ounces of wine If it help not it must be taken forth with the hand see Paraeus or by incision The oyl of Hazle-nuts Bitter things kill the child If the after burden come sparingly away by chafings c. they must be drawn in the lower parts to the womb A vein must be opened in the Ankle Topicals Clysters must be emollients If some days after child-birth be past a Purge of Rheubarb Agarick are good Give things to attenuate the blood and the five opening Roots c. If they flow too much cure them as Diarrhaea Pains after child-birth are either in the belly or in the womb which are like to a Tenesmus when the force of expelling is prolonged They proceed either from the cold Ayr or clots of blood or blood too sharp Senn. cureth it by removing the cause he prescribes not purgatives but internal heaters and Topicals For. holds for a secret beer boyld with Camomil flowers or without purging the Ladies powder or the infusion of Camels meat Cinamon c. If the privy member be broken when it is cured again at every child bearing it must be opened with a rasour Feavers of one day continuing sometimes many days called Feavers of milk do commonly go away of themselves if they be really continual putrid Feavers they proceed from the suppression of the Terms or the vitious provision of the humours CHILD-BLANES are an inflamation of the Feet by the Winter cold Preservatives are socks wet in Aqua vita and keep them warm They are cured as Aples and Egs congealed if they be put into cold water or rubbed with snow So the cold being drawn forth which is known by the pricking pain abated the part must be fomented with milk boyld in Rosemary c. The
ERYSIPELAS The Rose or Holy fire it is made not of pure Choler for that exulcerates and it would become the Shingles but from the Cholerick or more hot part of the blood Signs A Feaver with quaking shivering great pain and heat a Rose colour It is distinguished from Phlegmone 1. Because if you lay your Finger on the Rose the part groweth white the blood flying away it is not so in Phlegmone unlesse the part be pressed 2. The heat pain and Feaver are greater so that the part is often lifted up into a little bladder 3. The colour of Phlegmone seemeth blackish but of Erysipelas yellowish Prognostick Aph. 26. s 6 7 2. The Cure If there be Plethora the antecedent cause must be evacuated by opening a Vein and purging aster that the endeavour of nature must be furthered by sweating Antidotes with water of flowers and Rob. of Elders Theriac c. Some roast a Nutmeg wrapped in Flax or Hemp in the Embers and with Colambine seed so roasted they give it with Scabious water for an excellent Antidote Commonly they lay on a linnen or woollen red cloth or Barly meal The common people abhor moyst things yet a linnen cloth wet in Elder water and strongly wrung forth is fitly laid warm to it Topicals as for Scaldings if they be cold they easily cause a Gangreen better therefore is the oyl of Elders which they call golden milk then the water of Elder flowers also the water of all flowers lean bran Wierus writes for a secret That the Gall of a Carp anointed warm with a Feather upon the part affected and then a dry linnen cloth laid over it will do it If you will use cold things use them so long till the heat be something abated which the Patient will declare The Diet must be cold and moyst which also serveth for Preservatives The EYES Affected either the Coats Adnata and Cornea are affected as EYES inflamed which if it be but light from smoke heat of the Sun drinking of Wine it is called Taraxis if it be very great so that the white swell above the black it is called Châ—mosis if it proceed from Plethory or Choler only that is known by the signs it is cured by Generals by those that pull back the precedent cause first being removed The temporal Veins must be tyed Letting blood is good in the Arm of the same side though it come from Choler the Choler altered must be purged Open the Vein of the Forehead A Setace is most effectual for a long disease These first done you must come to Topicals Most often it is taken away by Generals alone Mercurial Galen Mercatus warn us that we do not apply Topicals in the begining to an Inflammation of the Eys for many have been blinded with multitude of remedies Apply them very sparingly yet to the Fore-head and Temples Repellers are safely applyed at the first Milk dropped into the Eys corrupteth and groweth sharp unlesse it be changed every hour Alwaies add to Repellers Scowrers as to Milk Saffron Sarcocolla Opiats thicken the optick Spirits let them be seldom used Alwaies mingle such things that are proper for the Eys Cold things are good for a sound Eye for preservation warm things inclining to cold if you would repel to heat if you would discusse You must not at the same time apply a Repeller to the Eye and to the Temples For. dropped into the Eys the white collyrium of Rhasis without opium half an ounce dissolved sometimes in Milk sometimes in Rose-water also with opium in extream pain In the declination Sarcocolla alone soaked in Milk to one dram or dissolved in water of Fennel Ey-bright oyl made of the flowers of Succory or Blew bottles made by setting them in the Sun An Emulsion of Poppy seed Saffron Opium of each three grains with a Cataplasm Fon. commendeth Crocus metallorum Ruland with Ey-bright water Hipp. commends Wine But Zwinger in his Theater reports that P. Ramus at Paris by too much watching fell into an Ophthalmy who when as J. Sylvius bad him to drink wine according to the Aphorism the disease increased mightily that he grew almost blind Gallen commends a Bath after Universals Sarcocolla is soaked in milk often and sparingly powred on lest it grow sowre If Chemosis be made beat the yolk of an Egg with the flesh of a Fly and with a clout lay it on Gal. EYES inflamed being dry if it be without pricking it is with hardnesse of the Ey-lids it is called Sclerophthalmia If the Eys itch with pain and swell not but are red it is called Xeropthalmia If they itch with a little flux it is called Psorophthalmia It is cured with Generals softning Topicals One gave counsel to his Patient to lay the white of an Egg with Rose-water to the Eye Roots of Celandine bruised laid on with leaven and the leaves roots bruised to be laid to the Soles of the Feet In all Inflamations of the Eys that are very great that which followeth is profitable before other Remedies Take white lead washed one ounce white Starch six drams Gum Traganth Sarcocolla Tutty prepared of each half an ounce Camphir Opium of Thebes of each one dram Rose-water what may suffice make a Mass Dissolve a little of it in Rose-water and drop it into the Eye with a Feather Infinite have been cured with it A HAW in the EYE is a little nail it is a nervous membrane commonly rising from the inward corner sticking close to the Coat adnata sometimes stretched forth to the Apple of the Eye rising from Ophthalmia the small Pox or some continual Flux The Skin is not membranous but something made up of the swelling Veins It is often Cancerous it is discerned from the weeping flesh because the roots of the Nail ever inclineth most to whitenesse Prognostick If there be a beginning of suffusion the nail may not be cured that which toucheth the pupil of the Eye should it be taken away by Chirurgery yet the scar will hinder the sight Those that are white and with narrow bottoms are more easily cured The cure Besides Generals and Astringents Topicals applyed to the Temples must be first emollient then detergent The powder of Egg-shells soaked in Vinegar and dryed are effectual if you strew the powder into the Eys For. saith there is a red nail that is moveable He prescribed first of all this that followeth Take Mallow leaves four handfuls Night shade two handfuls by reason of the Inflammation if there be any Violets water Lillies flowers of red Roses of each one handful make two little baggs boyl them in the water wring them out and moderately hot lay them to the Eye four times After this Take Camomil flowers Melilot of each one handful Fenygrec seed three ounces make two little bags five times in a day foment the Eys with them After fomentation a Collyrium was still dropped in of the juyce of Mallowes Fennel Rue very well clarified Purging was continual with
effect is called Die Breun it cometh with shaking As led by the Hand they shew the pain of the stomach and cannot endure to be touched there for it is hard There is an unquenchable thirst and a delirium They almost all fall into deasnesse and swelling behind the Ears The Cure If it come by contagion giving a gentle remedy to bring forth the dung give presently an Antidote but if there be pain of the stomach anguish heat nauseating those humours must first be taken away by purging or vomiting with Agarick Senna leaves Diaphaenicon Rosarum Mesves c. Vomits here are often the most profitable The humours being voided or if there were no such the first or second day open a Vein though the first day the spots should appear so there be strength Almost all who neglected bleeding at the first died If there be Vomiting or Scowring it is more safely let alone Open the Liver or Medias of a Vein in the Foot which is most commodious of all chiefly in women Also it may be done on the third day After the third day Vomits Purges for opening a Vein is mortal Cupping glasses instead of opening a Vein may be set to the lower parts then we must fight with Antidotes yet with such as do not increase the Feaver One dram of Species liberantis Bezar stone Harts horne flowers of Brimstone Amber Zedoans all things of a Pome-citron The roots a part and Bezar a part are all most effectual Afterwards Diureticks may be given The drink must be neither wine nor beer let it be the decoction of Harts-horn with spirit of Vitriol or Barly water with juyce of Lemmons Symptoms of Feavers Pain of the Head is cured by general means by Topicals Many commend a Radish root cut in slices and laid to the feet first washed with Salt and Vinegar Juyce of Housleek and Alces of America For Housleek on houses is full of juyce in the greatest heat but flags in a cloudy aire because it draweth the dryer vapours for its nourishment The root of Rhodia is commended one ounce with Rose water half a pound boyl them apply the decoction with a linnen cloth to the Head The unguent of Alabaster with Populeum must be anoynted on the Coronal suture Driness of the Tongue is cured with scraping of cuttle bone and moystners that are of the strongest as with the water or juyce of Housleek Sal prunella spirit of Vitriol Barley water Thirst if it be from heat of the Lungs the Mouth is dry they can hardly speak which cannot be quenched with drink but it will presently come again Here it is better to take in the coldest Aire than to drink It is good to hold cold water in the Mouth preserved Cherries Lettice leaves Purslane preserved or sprinkled with cold water Oxycratum pieces of Pome-citrons conserves of Sorrel pieces of Cucumbers Gourds first sprinkled with Sugar Crystal Tamarinds Strawberries garden Currence to hold in the Mouth The decoction of the Roots of Sorrel which will look like red Wine Give drink in the vigour If the cause be in the stomach the humour must be voided namely that is hot and sharp The white Feaver is a disease or a symptome with a pale colour of the Face languishing of the Forces heavinesse of the limbs loathing of meat panting of the heart difficulty of breathing sadnesse a flegmatick swelling of the Face Hands and Feet from depraved nourishment and plenty of crude humours proceeding from an ill disposition of the Bowels Liver Spleen Stomach and so from obstruction of the Vessels about the Womb and the Bowels that are neer and from thence the Courses being stopped The cure is the same as for Leucâ—phlegmatia yet so that the Womb must be regarded as in the stopping of the Courses yet so that the Bowels must be looked too A lenitive opening a Vein unlesse the disease be inveterate the Blood and Forces being corrupted Purgatives Aperients Diaphoreticks Marriage unlesse the Cacochymia be too great are good cheifly Steel after general Remedies The root of Scorsonera taken any way Bezar stone A FICUS cancerated Fab. obs 1. c. 1. A cancerated Ficus in the right Ey A fit Dyet being prescribed a Clyster given water of Borrage Sorrel Betony being drunk with syrup of the juyce of Lemmons and Pomegranates a Vein being opened and Leeches set behind the Ears on the same side and cupping glasses applyed to the Shoulders an infusion of Rheubarb and Senna being given made of waters of Betony Eybright Agrimony with syrup of Roses and the Feet being washed in the decoction of hot things he washed the Ey with distilled water against the Cancer and applyed an Intercipient to the fore-head Yet the Tumor increasing when out of it at once there flew 73. ounces of blood and a half by Chirurgery he took out the Eye The fear of the Patient stopped the Flux of blood and a painful Ligature about his Limbs wherefore a Lenitive drink is ordered and a Cordial or water of Buglors Roses Violets balm of each one ounce syrup of Citron pills and Sorrel of each one dram confectio Alkermes one dram Powder of Diamber half a dram and to the Heart was â—aid an Epitoeme sowed between of flowers leaves seeds cordial powders made up with Cotton on red Sarsnet The stomach was annointed with a stomach ointment The Chirurgical part being done a powder of the Author to stay blood with the white of an Egg was plentifully cast on A defensative was laid to the Fore-head and a Digestive to the wound And lest nature should again send the humours thither he set a Settace between the first and third Spondiâ— A FISSURA on the Nipples or Chaps It proceeds from violent sucking and a cholerick humour It is not credible that it comes from drinesse here as it doth in other parts It is prevented if in the three last Moneths or the last Moneth only two cups of wax like to Acorn cups or Fox gloves be made and filled with Rosin of the Firr tree and laid to the Nipples and held there with linnen cloths when the Rosin is spent we must put in more Topicals must be emolient also the juyce of Crab-fish with Cream If they cause pain when the Child sucketh lay on the Nipples a cup of pewter or silver peirced through and covered with the Dug of a Cow new killed for so the Child will suck and yet not touch the Nipple with his Lips General remedies are Coolers and such as purge choler The same way all other Chaps are cured A FISTULA is a winding Ulcer white straight callous from dried fleam and oft times is without pain Signs Prognosticks Fistulaes with notable rottennesse of the bones as of the Huckle and the Hip-bone which pierce to the Bowels which are in a part that hath principal Nerves the Body being weak are to be left by Prognosticks Signs Diagnostick Prove them by a leaden Probe a wax Candle If there be
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
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
things that are hot The most useful are Wormwood Southern-wood bitter Almonds also Columbine seed The opening syrup of Sennertns of Scholtzius of Dodder From what cause soever it came Tartar Vitriolate is good which Crollius calleth a general digestive Crystals of Tartar Steel Extream mischief may come from too much use of openers When the sick hath taken an Opener let him ly on his right side Let the Topicals be aperient also For. writeth that this following helps miraculously Take of a Wolfs Liver prepared one dram and half species of Diarrhodon Abbatis Diatraganthon frigid of each half a dram Rheubarb Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar of each four grains dissolve it in the decoction of Dodder Maiden-hair with water of Fennel Bugloss Scabious hops with Sugar what may serve make rouls of three drams The Ancients gave one dram of a Wolfs Liver with Wine when there was no Feaver with a Feaver the juce of Endive Cremor Tartar Troches of Capers of Harts-tongue Topicals are unguent Fomentations c. The same way is to cure obstruction of the Spleen OBSTRUCTION of the Passage of hearing If it be from a worm slipt in that must be if it can be drawn forth alive with sweet things as with a sweet Apple roasted or laying on leaven Honey If this do not we must kill it with juyce of Wormwood Peach-kernels Centory the lesse oyl of Hazle-nut-tree Philosophers oyl Spirit of Wine juyce of the Leaves of Elder Hemp dropped in or with Oyl and Vinegar When it is killed it is brought forth by pouring in water Oyl Wine or putting in Tents dipt in Turpentine for it will stick to that or the like If they be hard things to make the Passages slippery drop in warm Oyl but if the thing swell from the humour moist things must not be applyed Sneezing must be procured the Nostrils and Mouth being shut If in vain you must take it out cautiously with Pullers Pareus moreover with the Ancients appoints cutting of the Ears which Aquapendens condemns utterly as hurtful If it be any watery thing the Antients poured in Oyl the Ear lying downward the sick must hop on the Foot on that side the Ear is affected inclining the Head upon that Ear. If in vain sneezing must be provoked or a dry Sponge must be put into the Ear. There is also another manner in Senn. Also it may be sucked forth with the Mouth a Pipe being put into the Ear but the Ear must be stopped with Wax OBSTRUCTION of the Throat by a hard thing it must be taken out with Pullers if the thing can beseen If it cannot be seen strike the Patients Neck with your fist More Vomit with oyls as of sweet Almonds or fat broth Some bid to swallow down great gobbets A Wax-candle or a leaden rule bended anointed with Honey or Oyl is thrust in and the thing is driven forth Cough must be moved by injecting sowre things Fab. obs 36. cent 1. hath described a fitter Instrument See Senn. If in vain you must commit the matter to Nature and Time and by Topicals emollient Plaisters cause it to ripen for the Inflammation being ended the thing is cast forth If any thing slip into the sharp Artery when you eat sneezing is good strike the Patients back with your fist If sand fall into the Eye Clary seed Crabs-Eys Pearls must be put into the Eye let the Eye be shut under the Ey-lid and the thing sticking to Crabs-Eys will fall out together If in vain take it out with Pullers Fab. wife took out Iron with a Loadstone OEDEMA is either Phlegmonodes Scirrhodes or Erysipelatodes The Signs are a whitish colour a soft thin Tumor the Finger pressing it leaves a print If it be otherwise it is from wind Besides Generals and the nature of the part Topicals must not be applyed until the part be first heated by Chafing It is cured either by Resolvers or Suppuratives or by Section as also Atheroma in the Vessel whereof there is matter like Pap. It is more loose and returns slower it is not so hard as a Wen nor so unequal And that out of which stones horns and nails are taken is harder and resisteth the touch Meliceris yeilds quickly and returns The matter is like to Honey Testudo and Meliceris are on the Head and Skull That which is called Talpa differs from Testudo only by hardness and belongs to Atheroma-Natta ost times is bred in the Back the Shoulders and belongs to Steatoma Lupia Pareus cut a Lupia from the neck that weighed eight pound OSSACRUM excoriated is cured Take Sheeps suet Cream of one night of each one dram white chalk half an ounce mingle them or add oyl of Roses or Quinces what may suffice It is prevented by rising with a cord hanging over the Bed let the parts be born up with a hollow pillow lay on linnen osten anointed with unguent of Roses PAIN is the action hurt or the sensitive Faculty a sad sensation The Cause It is no distemper as appears in Section extention nor dissolved unity but when as of one thing there is but one next cause solution of continuity is made from heat cold drieth with and without matter but not from moisture alone from extension and a Malignant humour The Cure All things that gently affect the sense of the part take away the pain as Arodyns the pain is not felt but the cause or they take away the distemper of it so cold things take away heat or they evacuate the matter as Cuppings purging Topicals or they tame the malignity as Aegyptiac or take away the feeling as Narcoticks Question Whether heat of the Aire can cause pain in a Nervous part as in the Ear I deny it because the ambient air is alwaies colder then the heat of the Brain Whether Pain attract Laur. denieth it because Nature should more hurt then profit but the humours more easily fall down on the part weakned and the part weakned cannot discusse the humours PAIN of the Loins In Feavers it proceeds from a diseased cause sent into the large Veins of the Loyns The Cure opening a Vein Cupping Unguent of Roses c. PILES of the Fundament are of two sorts that are outwardly and but one internal from the Vena porta Differences They are either open or blind in the Fundament or Intestin or the sphincter The blind are either bladders from fleam or warts from melancholick blood or Grapes or like Mulberries called Mariscae The Pain is not in the Veins that want feeling but in the adjacent parts from distention The Cause is the opening of the Mouths of the Veins provoked by gross burnt blood hot Purgatives as Aloes they that deny this are worthy to be whipt The internal Piles cannot be searched but by Speculum ani Prognosticks Aph. 11. s 6. In the pain of the Piles if there be not present help there groweth Inflammation or an Ulcer The blind swelling Piles unless they swell mightily and cause vehement
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
rather fight with medicamentary aliments then with Medicaments POYSON must alwaies be brought out the same way it went into the Body Opening a Vein purging have no place before the third day All unctuous things as Oyl Butter c. are good So Causticks will not ulcerate the part anointed with Oyl If it were taken by the Mouth the first care is to cast it forth by Vomit with fat things adding Antidotes against Poyson If it be got to the Intestins then cast in fat Clysters or give Purgatives with Antidotes as Scorzonera Citrons Sorrel Agarick Aloes Lastly give Specificals Outwardly on the Arteries beating anoint the oyl of Caravita often proved the Basis is Hypericon and Scorpions hide it in a hot carcase Sweaters Milk for meat If it were communicated outwardly let it be cured as these that follow so if one have taken Cantharides sublimate or the like use injections drinks decoctions Baths Topicals and all Internals must be Coolers Moystners If it be the biting of a mad dog close not the wound before fourty days but as often as it would cicatrice keep it open with ashes of a Vine or Fig-tree First of all make hard Ligature above the wound that the poyson spread no further Secondly Call it forth wherefore let the blood run out largely scarify the wound and enlarge it by cutting set Cupping glasses to it also other Artractives to which always add Theriac juyce of Hypericon c. as Doves-dung Urine Pickle Ducks-grease Aqua vitae Wine Vinegat Salt old Treacle Mustard Wash it with most forcible Chafing Garlick Onions Leeks Rue Germander hot Fowls dissected laid on hot but nothing doth so much good as an actual Cautery so the Poyson be not sunk too deep into the Body The Eschar scarified deep must not be removed by oyly means because they hinder transpiration Fab. obs 87. cent 1. old Treacle dissolved in Aqua vitae surpasseth all Remedies Par. with this wash the part strongly and let linnen cloths wet therein be laid to it on which lay attractives Sorrel sharp Docks beaten and laid on the juyce the decoction is good Use these till the pain and various colour cease and laudable quitter be made 3. Specificals also Coolers must be given as cause shall be With Galen above all is the ashes of burnt river Crabs two spoonfuls with one spoonful of the powder of Gentian root and strong Wine Cauteries after the third or the seventh day will not do good An Issue is profitably made on the place affected If it pierce to the inward parts we must purge forcibly by Hellebour also by Antimony saith Paraeus Wash all the Pulses every six hours with oyl of Caravita which they of old called the oyl of the great Duke of Hetruria or with the oyl of Scorpions of Mathiolus Pliny above all commends the root of the Eglantine Eat Garlick Diaphoreticks are most profitable Bird-lime of the Oke the wood is most effectual taken or applyed If madness be at hand lay Sinapisms to the Arms and Thigns Give Antidots in a double Dose whether they will or not Sleep must be avoided till the force of the poyson be broke Let them eat their fill They that come to fear the water are past cure unless they know themselves in a glass A mad Dog seeing the water is afraid of it other dogs fly away If they be taken they fawn on him If a house-Dog refuse to eat or smell to a piece of Bread sineared with the filth of the wound the Dog that bit was mad RENUNCIATIO is called a great wound 1. For the greatness of dissolved unity 2. For the principallity of the part 3. For the ill custome of the Body hurt Let the Chirurgion suspend his judgment until the ninth day lest he be deceived RINGING in the Ears The cause is some matter sticking in the Ear that moveth the Faculty Oft times it is wind lifted up from divers parts The Cure varieth Generals premised some bid take the Fume of Hemlock-seed boyled in Vinegar Fumes of Vinegar and the vapour of it with one Gall. Some apply hot bread sprinkled with Spirit of Wine to the Far resolâ—ing oyls sneezing before supper and in the morning apply Topicals for when they are fed the head is filled STONE of the Reins The cause is Tartar a andy and stony constitution of the Reins Fernelius faith a driness of the Reins Platerus heat Also Venery exercise presently after meat Meat Ayre Drink Concoction hurt Signs diagnostick A burning and painful making of water snotty Urine Belly stopt Fab. obs 63. c. 1 Sense of pain in the Glans obs 66. c. 1. Astonishment of the Leg on the side affected because the Muscle Psoas is pressed or the Nerve of it there is Nauseating and Vomiting from the Nerve of the sixth conjugation It is distinguished from the Colick pain 1. Because in the Colick the pain is most acute because the pain is extended above the Reins 2. Pain of the Colick is moveable of the stone fast 3. In the Colick rather the Belly in the Stone the water is stopt 4. The Nephritick pain by reason of the Ureters descends oft times to the Testicles but in the Colick not so 5. The Colick is most commonly sharpest on the left side by the straightness of the Colon there The cure In the Paroxysm cast in an emollient Clyster evacuant or give such a Potion of Bolus c. 2. If the Body be Plethorick open a Vein in the Arm but if it flow to the part affected in the Ankle 3. We must use all emollient internal means and external as a Cataplasm of the leaves of Pellitary Mallows beaten and boyled with the Mucilage of Linseed Fenugrec a Bath of Marshmallows and a Semicupium of softning things Internals are syrup De Althaea Fernel Also that of Eorestus so much approved Take seeds of mallows Marsh-mallows of each 3 drams red Chiches 3 drams the four great cold seeds of each 2 drams hulled Barley 2 ounces far Figs 12 Sebestens 7 scraped Licoris 1 dram boyl all in four pound of water to two pound Crato applyed Crab-fish boyled in Milk Milk with crumbs of Bread or Take juyce of Purslane thickned one dram Gum Arabick half a dram make Pills The Passages thus loosned give Diureticks to the Patient sitting in a Bath that the Stone may be moved Crato used this that followeth Take Marsh-mallows 2 drams great Raysins stoned 3 drams Veronica and ground Ivy of each one Pugil boyl them and give a draught thereof Or another of Turpentine c. If this be in vain give such things will break the Stone as blood of a Goat or of a Kid hot applyed outwardly also oyl of Scorpions The Patient must ride two miles upon a trotting horse or must go up many stairs till he be weary having taken a Diuretick or chafe him from above nether-wards with oyl of sweet Almonds set on a dry Cupping glasse to his Reins then a little lower then one
the infusion whereof we give to purge the substance to bind Mechoacan Senna leaves Diacatholicon Diapheaenicon Clysters in great quantity if you would scowre the guts but small to glutinate Antidotes against poyson as Bole armenick c. 2. If the pain be vehement sometimes we must cast in such things as ease pain Give broth of oyl of sweet Almonds apply internals topicals narcoticks 3. We must bind yet not before seven dayes unlesse it be with gentle means A powder of Elder berries of Turtles and Hares burnt is commended Also the juyce of ground Ivy taken The use of Wax in a roasted Apple The Apple is made hollow and filled with white and yellow Wax it is roasted it must be eat before meat by external topicals also whatsoever many would have by revulsives 4. The Ulcer must be cleansed and filled with flesh The Diet. Much drink is naught for a Dysentery and if they grow well too much exercise That snotty white matter is not the fat of the guts nor fleam nor crust but the humours coming out of the Veins changed by the part hurt as in the whites of women Question Whether Purgatives may be given Valesius denieth it com 4. in 4. Epid. Fuchsius Massarias because Galen useth them not because they bring the humour to the part affected Senn. affirmeth it Galen knew not Rheubarb Mirobalans yet he used Honey Milk and Crato for the second reason denieth that Cauteries can be good in the Gout Ep. 167. Whether milk be good It is not good if there be a Feaver and where the Body is impure It must be given warily if whey be much it clenseth if whey evaporate with long boyling it bindeth Whether drinking water milk steeled wine be good Crato denieth it Ep. 261. Doringus obs 42. cent 3. saith That water of fresh steel that was never yet quenched will trouble the Belly but if it be drank from steel often quenched it binds the Belly Wherefore if you will bind cast away the first water Senn. will not allow this because it is of an Homogeneal nature but thinks that steeled water must be drank sparingly for the more iron is communicated to the water the more it troubles the Belly and moveth vomit neither let it stay long but quench it suddenly for if it stay long in the liquor it is turned as it were into rust and troubles more Wherefore the first water must not be poured forth Crocus Martis made by reverberation alone is good but not by dissolving by water DYSURIA is diminishing of Urine it differs from Ischuria in degree only sometimes it is with but often without pain it comes not forth by drops but sometimes in due quantity by heaps The Cause is the sensitive faculty or expulsive of the Bladder hurt or some other diseases of the Bladder Signs Diagnostick If it proceed from fault of the Ureters or Reins there is no pain no heavinesse about the share It is called hot piss which is not a diminishing of urine but when the urine comes forth as it should only with heat See the Strangury The Cure When the cause is taken away For. applyed to the Secrets of a woman in a Feaver great with child Take green Pelletary 2 handfuls Chetvil one handful and half Oyl of Scorpions one ounce and half Butter two ounces it seldom faileth You may first give a Suppository or Clyster He cured another with oyl of Camomil and of Scorpions first anointing with oyl a decoction of Rue and Dill. Fernelius saith That one Ureter being stopped the Urine cometh forth by the other For. observeth the contrary DRUNKENNES Preservatives Bitter Almonds are commended five six or ten before meat as also Peach kernels which seem to help by their diuretick force Arculamus writes That if any man eat tops of Wormwood or Rue in the morning fasting he shall be defended from drunkennesse Coleseed eaten before meat is good Platerus avoids drunkenness by drinking very sparingly at first Mnesitheus Athen. saith three things must be observed 1. To drink wine mingled 2. Not to fill your self with Junkets at the second Course 3. Sleep not before you vomit The cure Vingegar drank recovers drunken men and other sowre things For. gave small beer to drunkards and bad them sleep if they sleep not they recover not but by abstinence the next day and by taking syrup of the decoction of garden Currance Leaves of Coleworts wet in Rose water cure a drunken man if after drink you lay them to his Head Those that are dumb after drunkenness will dye saith Hippocrates unlesse a Feaver come upon it DANDRAFF It proceeds from a salt watery blood and also cholerick Some hold it for a sign of a sound brain It portends no danger It is cured by Generals Topicals softesse afterward with Detergents as with urine pickle with the decoction of Lupius with Soot with the juyce of Squills Scarification and Leeches are good The DROPSIE called Ascites Is a tumor of the Abdomen Scrotum Thighs Feet from a watery humour which sometimes presseth the Diaphragma oft times it sweateth through into the Chest whence groweth a little Cough and in time it corrupteth whence cometh a Feaver and thirst from salt vapours The water is ingendred by the parts between the stomach and the Reins the Liver in Anasarca but not in Ascites for the whole body should be hurt unlesse we shall say that it is affected in the end The water is collected in the cavity of the Abdomen not by fault of the Liver nor by reason of the straight passages to the Reins but because of little urine They make water sparingly because the water stayeth in those places It holdeth up by reason of the attraction of the Spleen hurt and obstruction of the Vessels of it or Scirrhus For the smallest part of the wheyish humour is carried by the Veins to the Reins The greatest part is drawn by the Spleen from the stomach by the short Vessel and from thence by the Arteries it is derived to the Reins It cannot be made from the faculty of making blood only hurt for though the Chylus may changed into raw blood as in Anasarca yet it cannot all be changed into water and if it were changed yet the Reins can vent it forth It floweth down into the cavity of the Abdomen and the caule by the veins by way of anastomosis and diapedesis and dissolved unity the water is often times yellow Signs There is alwaies swelling of the Feet especially toward the evening and after exercise The feet often swell when men recover from sharp diseases and long from plenty of meat or some outward cause This tumor is not dangerous if you timely help it Prognosticks Anasarca is the safest because the natural faculty is lesse hurt and the blood comes nearer to natural blood then water Ascites if it proceed from a Scirrrhus is more dangerous then a Tympanum for the rest Tympanum is worse then Ascites If it proceed from a
faulty Liver a Cough is easily moved and the Belly is hard If the Belly be loose and moist without ease the parts as the veins about the small guts are affected with a hectick heat and are the cause of ît In which case purgatives are often mortal If it follow melancholick diseases it cometh from fault of the Spleen They that are in an agony hope well which is wonderful it is sooner cured in servants then Masters young men then old men Those that have their bowels sound they in the beginning are freed of the disease by vomit scowring sweat urine The Cure 1. The remedies must be varied 2. They must abstain for some daies between from Physick 3. We must not proceed to stronger remedies unless the milder be in vain 4. Let the form be rather dry The continent cause is evacuated by purging feldom by vomit If it wander in the Abdomen and the Mesentery by sweat and urine if it be on this side the Liver Purgatives are besides the common the juyce of the root or middle shell of the dwarf Elder pressed forth not boyled with Barley water or Raysins for should it be boyled it vanisheth The Dose is one ounce Oyl is pressed forth of the berries of Elders as out of Linseed it is given to one dram The extract of the berries of dwarf Elder The grain or seed of Ricinus one or two hulled they are called grana Tilli gutta gummi which some think to be the juyce of Ricinus The juyce of our Orris with Honey Raysins Gum traganth for given by itself it burneth the Throat The juyce of wild Cucumber is not so vehement as they commonly report Mucilages are added to it The golden Spirit of life of Rul which many say is nothing else then the essence of Trochis Alhandal For. commendeth or prescribeth these that follow Take the species of the lesser Indi one dram and half root of Mechoacan four scruples roots of Elecampane Burnet of each half a scruple make a powder give a third part with wine Or Take roots of Orris dwarf Elder Parsley Smallage Kneeholme Elecampane fern of each one darm Hysop Centory Wormwood leaves of Elder which are the best Savory Finger-ferne dodder of each one handful the middle barks of Elder Gratiola Betony of each half a handful Madder roots sweet Cane sliced of each two drams Anniseed and wild Carrot seed of each one dram and half seeds of wild Saffron bruised half an ounce leaves of Senna one ounce and half Polypod of the oak half an ounce Broom flowers half a handful Juniper berries one dram Sea cole half a handful Raysins one ounce Liccoris scraped half an ounce Cinger Cinamon of each one dram boil all in sufficient water to one pound and half to the straind liquor add syrup Bizantine or Eupatory and Calamine of each one ounce make a decoction Or Take Senna leaves half an ounce Anniseed one dram leaves of Mountain Pepper half a dram Roots of green Orris a little bruised three drams and half Sea cole half a dram infuse them in nine ounces of whey boyl them and presse them out add honey of Roses two ounces for to take at twice being first strained If there be a Feaver For. puts for Mountain Pepper 4 drams and half of Rheubarb Spicknard one scruple Or Take juyce of Orris half an ounce whey two ounces and half raw Honey one ounce and half boyl them and strain them add Spicknard half a scruple Cinamon one scruple Diagridium three grains Apply purgative Topicals Liverwort and juyce of Scurvey-grasse taken daily to one ounce strengthen well Crato Ep. 123. gives with great successe the extract of the root of Orris He puts Henbane under the feet in the same Epistle For. with the only use of Garlick cured many Topicalls are Take unguent of Agrippa two ounces juyce of dwarf Elder or Elder 1 ounce boyl them to consumption of the juyce make an ointment for the Belly and the Feet If there be a Scirrhus apply emollients A certain old woman cast Frogs called land-roads alive into a pot and boyled them with oyl of Olives she annointed the Belly Feet with that miraculously This following is a secret of For. Take of the roots of dwarf Elder green six handfuls roots of Briany one pound outward bark of Elder four handfuls leaves of wild Cucumbers two handfuls Red cole six handfuls Mallow leaves two handfuls Marsh mallow leaves three handfuls grosse Bran five handfuls Camomil flowers three handfuls Mellilot flowers two handfuls dry Wormwood three handfuls boyl them sufficiently in sufficient quantity of water beat together add unguent Agri three ounces Barly meal half a pound make a Cataplasm for the Legs unto the Knees Or take juyce of Orris juyce of the roots of dwarf Elder and of Elder juyce of Briony of each one ounce unguent of Agrippa three ounces boyl them for a soft ointment A woman died by a Vesicatory applyed to her Feet Fab. obs 49. c. r. Gradus saith that it wonderfully draweth watery humours to it if living Frogs be put into an artificial Bath Paracentesis hath only place when the forces are strong and the Bowells safe otherwise the Belly quickly swelleth and other remedies are but vain when the Navel is lifted up into a large and light bladder Sanctorius saith That the Vessels of the Navel may be so dilated with an Instrument that they may void out the water If it swell not below the Navel on the right side if the Liver be ill on the left if the Spleen let it be cut three or four fingers from the White line and put in a Pipe closed with linnen that nothing may come forth but by little and little when the Physitian pleases as in Empyema The Scrotum is conveniently 〈◊〉 as is taught of Feb. cent 1. obs 48. In an that are Hydropical Rondelet saw the Pancreas hardened Sweat unlesse Nature brings it to that of its own accord will hardly profit Internals are and insensibly take away water Theriacal salts for to sweat Let Steel topical Resolvers and Fomentations alone A spunge steeped in Wine wherein Salt Bran and Mugwort are boyled Thirst is not taken away by water but by Oxycratum If there be a Feaver mingle cold things with hot burnt braffe made up in Pills from one dram to one dram and half Above the Ankle four days skin is profitably opened with a penknife a little deeper then when a Vein is opened and it must be rubbed with salt least the blood grow together and so the water is happily let forth Put Henbane leaves under the Feet A Dropsy from melting comes in a hot burning Feaver from burning heat it is cured by things that cool heat and by such as void water The Dropsy Tympanites it scarce differs from Ascites for you shall seldom find wind without water so contrarily It is also called a dry Dropsy The Cause is wind shut up in the Abdomen and also in the Intestins
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