to them that be not with childe nor brought to bed the other chanceth only to such For the cure Curatio Venae-sectio it is good first to open a vein in the arme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the inner or internal vein unlesse the Menstruis be stopped for then it is better to cut the vein on the ham or ankle afterward if the body be costive losen it with a cooling clyster and if you see cause you may give this gentle Apozem that cools and quencheth the Inflammation and openeth obstructions in the brest as followeth ℞ Apozema Syrrup Rosarum pal ℥ j. Syrrupus de Rhabarbaro ℥ ss Decoctio senae quantum sufficit fiat Apozema Let it be given the one half over night warm and all the rest in the morning warm eat nothing untill noon but take three or four spoonfulls of broath between stooles also apply outwardly this Emplaster following Emplaster Barley-meal lin-seed bolus armeniae saunders Oleum Nimpheae oleum Rosarum oleum Camomeli misce fiat Emplasterum But first anoynt it with oyle of Roses Ol. Rosar vinegar and juyce of nightshade also crummes of bread and faire water applied like a poultis with vinegar is good let them beware that they drink no strong beer wine hot waters nor spices but altogether soopings of a cooling quality no fish nor flesh that is hard of digestion if the milk be curded turn back unto the foregoing Chapter and that will direct you what to do If there be much pain ℞ Epithema Weckerus Florum camomilae mellioti althoae saenigraeci seminis lini anethi ana M.j. coquantur in aqua cui adde olei rosacei anethini ana ℥ ij aceti ℥ j. Spongia in eo madefacta mammis apponatur Weckerus de curatione inflammationis mammislarum lib. 2. pag. 465. Lastly if the inflammation be great you may foment with Aquaspermatis ranarum and oyle of Roses CHAP. XXII IMBECILITAS STOMACHI is caused through distemper of the working qualities without any flowing of humours Causa sometimes it is caused of an humour contained in the bosome and large space of the stomach which hath power either to heat cool movsten or drie or two of these qualities mixed together and sometimes it is caused of an humour stuffed and drowned in the filmes or coats of the stomack For the signe Signa in a cold cause there is dull and difficult concoction the taste of the nourishment is felt long after there is sharp belchings and little or no thirst but contrary in a hot cause there is exceeding thirstinesse abhorring of meat and bitter belchings and this is certain that if the cause be heat the patient is cased by administring of cold things if it be a cold cause then he is eased by hot things if that choller cause it there is such bitter belchings that there is cast forth bitter choller with bitternesse of the mouth For the cure if it come of a cold caule Curatio Pilulae as of phlegme purge gently with stomachal pills if they have gone a day and have not had a stool then take one pill an hour before supper Then take this cordiall Electuary following which is said to be good ℞ Electuarium Conserv Caryophilorum ℥ i. ss pul Aromatici Ros. ʒ i. ss pul Cinnamomi Nucis Muscatae anaʒ ss Syr. absynthii de Hysopo q. s f. Elect. Molle If necessity do require Methriditum adde two dragms of Methridate and take of it every morning the quantity of a Walnut curnel then eat a piece of Lozing aromat Rosat and drink after it a draught of Wormwood wine for that will prepare the stomack to the next concoction and also bathe outwardly with oyle of wormwood Oleum nutmegs cinnamon or mastick or the best is to spread honey on bread tosted and cast thereon the powder of nutmegs cloves and cinnamon and for the richer sort take this ♃ made as followeth ℞ Pulvis Rosarum Rubrum Absinthii menthae maioran siccae an ʒ ij ligni aloes spicae nardi calami aromatici ana ℈ ij fiat pul qui accip iatur cotone involvatur duplici linteo And this must also be remembred that oyntments emplasters and cataplasms must not only be applied before but behind also about the thirteenth Vertebra In a hot cause purge with Cassia Apozema and Rhubarb or else an Apozem and open a vein if you see cause Venae sectio and then this Electuary is said to be very good ℞ Electuarium Cons Rosarum ℥ j. Diarrhodon alb ʒ i. ss Syr. assato lymonum q. s f. Elect. Also direct Lozenges of Diarrhodon alb Triasandali and make him broath with cooling herbs currents and damask pruins also bread dipped in Posca is wondrous proper to be eaten Posca as for outward applications use oyle of Roses Oleum Quinses or the like but take heed of things that cool too much yet give him no strong beer no wine hot waters spices nor milk c. If chollar do abound with costivenesse of body purge with an Apozem made with Cassia Rhubarb Apozema Vomitus or the like If temperate provoke vomits with Stybium the infusion thereof CHAP. XXIII CANINA APPETENTIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an immoderate or dog-like appetite or desire of meat and when they cannot refrain their appetite they devoure in meat without measure then being heavy with the multitude of meats and the stomack being not able to bear the same they turn to vomiting then afterwards they fill themselves and turn again to vomiting like dogs the part affected is the mouth of the stomack The cause is a perpetual gnawing or biting of the mouth of the stomack Causa like unto a sucking sometimes it happeneth through a cold distemper of the mouth of the stomack sometimes through cold sharp and vitious humours sometimes it proceedeth through certain kinds of worms which do devour the meat that is taken into the stomack as fast as it is received sometimes through dissipation of whole body For the sign Signa if it be a cold distemper it is known by windinesse and rumbling sharp humours are known by four belchings dissipation is known by the excrements for they be scorched and lesse in quantity than before For the cure Curatio Pilulae in a cold cause it is good first to take stomacal pills also Hierapicra Galeniʒ 6. with wine infused with water or given in oximel fasting is good and to drink muscadell is good he must abstain from all soure and restrictive meats but let his meat◠be meats of good juyce if a child laboureth in this disease the body being bound Syr. de Rhubarb and a doubt of worms give it one ounce of Syrrup of Rhubarb or more according to the age and strength of the childe the one half over night and the other half in the morning warm either in
Electuarium one ounce and an halfe of conserve of Roses or of Bugloss and three dragmes of Bolearmenick prepared Mithridates Mithridates highly commendeth Walnuts take two in number those that be very dry two figges Mixturae twenty leaves of Rue and three graines of salt beat and incorporate them together and take the quantity of a Hasel nut at a time fasting and drink a little wormwood-wormwood-wine after it Also pomanders are good and it will be very convenient to apply to the region of the heart a bagge filled with yellow sanders Saculus mace cloves cinnamon saffron and treakle shaken together and incorporated and sprinkled over with strong vinegar and rose-rosewater in summer and with strong wine in winter Thus much for prevention 1. Now so soon as one is blasted with the pestiferous ayre after he hath taken some preservative against the malignity thereof he must withdraw himself into some wholesome Ayre And it were good to hang the chamber and also the bed with thick or course brown linnen cloaths moystened in vinegar and water of roses And sweet fires may be made of Juniper Ash Benzoin c. 2. Victus ratio Their diet must be cooling and drying And first of all begin the cure with an Antidote because by its specifick property it defends the heart from poyson and drives and expels it out of all the body by sweat vomiting scouring and other kinds of evacuation The Antidote I would have you make choyce of Theriaca Mithridatum is Treakle or Mithridate that is three or four years old which excell all other Antidotes for by strengthening the noblest part and the mansion of life they repaire and recreate the wasted spirits and overcome the poyson not only being taken inwardly but also applyed outwardly to the Region of the heart botches and carbuncles for by an hidden property they draw the poysons unto them If there be great heat Mixtura mix with Treakle or Mithridate the juyce of limmons in sorrel water The Patient ought to walk presently after he hath taken his Antidote but yet as moderate as he can After that he must be put warm to bed and covered with many cloaths and apply swines bladders filled full of Carduus water to the groines and arm-holes to procure sweat for sweating in this disease is a most excellent remedy When he hath sweat sufficiently according to the strength of his body let the sweat be wiped with warm cloathes and dried Let him be kept from sleep if possible untill the third or fourth day yet if necessity require he may sleep but not above three or four houres on a day and a night but not at all on the first day After sweating let him take the rind of a preserved citron conserve of roses bread tosted and steeped in wine the meat of preserved myrabolane or the like then let him eat of some cordial confection And you may make Epithemes after the following formes ℞ Aquar rosar melissae ana ℥ iv Epithemae aceti ros ℥ iij. sant rub ʒ j. caryophil ʒ ss croci ℈ ij caphurae ℈ j. boli arm terra sigill zedoar an ʒ.j fiat Epithema Vel. ℞ Aceti ros aquae ros ana lb. ss Epithema caphuraeʒ ss theriac mithrid anaʒ j. fiat epithema When you intend to use them take some portion of them in a vessel by its selfe wherewith let the affected bowel be fomented warm many will not allow either of purging or bleeding in this disease I confesse in weak bodies it ought to be neglected but in strong bodies that abound with corrupt humours both are necessary to be done Hippocrat Sec. 2. Aphor. 22. for Hippocrates saith Morbos ex repletione ut curat evacuatio sic eos qui ex evacuatione fiunt repletio c. The best way if purging be fit is to take six or ten graines of scammonie Purgatio Pilulae beaten into powder with one dragme of Mithridate or Treakle Ruffus his pills may be profitably given half a dragm at a time every morning two or three houres before meat they ate to be had at the Apothecaries Agaricus The ancient Physicians have greatly commended Agarick for this disease because it doth draw the noysome humours out of all the members let it be elected and prepared truly into Trochisces Also Antimonium is highly praised by the experience of many Antimoniū So is mugwort and the pickle of Anchovis Vide Rond elet lib. 7. de pis c 3. for some have taken eight ounces at a draught and have been freed from this disease so that it hath been counted a most certain and approved remedy against the pestilence 1. Cucurbitulae So soon as the Bubo appears if nothing forbid apply a cupping-glasse with a great flame unto it and let it stick to the part for the space of a quarter of an hour and be renewed again every three quarters of an hour Then apply this liniment Linimet◠take Vnguentum dialthaea one ounce and an halfe oyle of scorpions half an ounce of mithridate dissolved in aqua vitae halfe a dragm After it is fomented Cataplas fill a great onion being hollowed with Treakle and the leaves of Rew then rost it under the hot embers beat it with a little leven and a little swines grease and so apply it warm unto the Abscess or sore let it be changed every six houres until it be growne unto its full ripenesse and bignesse If the inflammation be great Cataplas make a Cataplasme with the roots of marsh mallowes and lillies of each half a pound Of line sorrel and fenugreek of each half an ounce of Treakle one dragme ten Figs and as much hogs-grease as shall suffice make a Cataplasme according to art When the Bubo is come to perfect suppuration it must be opened with an incision-knife or with a potential cauterie the rest of the cure is easily performed 2. So soon as the carbuncle appears Fomentatio Let it be fomented with water and oyle mixed together wherein a little treakle hath been dissolved The day following Cataplas take the leaves of sorrel and henbane rost them under the hot ashes afterwards beat them with four yelks of egs two dragmes of treakle oyle of lillies three ounces barly meale as much as may suffice make thereof a Cataplasme and apply it And round about the carbuncle Medicaementune lay the salve of fine Bolus made with vinegar and rose-rose-water for to defend the parts adjacent from heat Also Scabions brayed between two stones Aliud and mixed with hogs-grease the yelks of egs and a little salt is much commended by the Ancicients Rapbanus rustican And a radish root cut in slices and so the slices laid one after one unto a carbuncle or pestilent tumor doth mightilie draw out the poyson In the beginning the point or head of the carbuncle must be burned if
blood Venae sectio a vein may be opened alwayes providing that you keep accustomed evacuations And to use moderate exercise after the taking of this loch in mornings or before meales is good â„ž Conserv Rosa Rub. â„¥ .j. pul Ireos Lohoch sulphur liquiritiae anaÊ’ j. Anisi Ê’ j. Tussilag q s fi lohoch Which must be taken the quantity of a Walnut curnel last at night and first in the morning and in the day time between meales Wormwood here is also very profitable and to eat three figs every morning Matthiolus Ficuum EmplastruÌ„ madufied in Aqua vitae Matthiolus doth much commend it lastly to apply to the brest a plaster of figs barly meal having rosin honey and wax commixed with it and to anoint the brest with oyles of Ireos Dill and Rew. Oleum For the cure of that which is like a botch hath need of medicines to atenuate and drie It must be cured with aromatick things Theriaca Methridatum Theriaca c. Diamber Aromaticum Rosarum Diamargariton callidum and many such other like remembring you keep accustomed evacuations and moderate exercise For the cure of the green sicknesse Curatio Victus ratio Febris virginea the first intention is to prescribe a fit and convenient diet such as is Rabbets Chickens Veale rost reare-egges or the like and if you will take a right course some kind of women must be stented of their meat and drink or else they cannot be cured that beer they do drink should be of the best beer and they must beware of meats that are scorched and must leave at meales with an appetite they must eat no trash as milk roots fish green fruit and no salt things and drinking after supper to bedward or fasting a mornings is not good the second intention is to take a vomit with Alsaron Vomitus Venae-sectio the third to bleed of the foot and to take of this drink following a quarter of a pint at a time ExercitiuÌ„ every morning fasting and to use exercise after it either to work or play is very profitable Take new beere three pintes when it is in the fat wrought ready to tunne boyle in it herb-grace Decoctio and unset hysop of either a handfull red Currants a quarter of a pound untill half be wasted then strain it and adde a little saffron The fourth intention is to take this Electuary following â„ž Electâ—ariuÌ„ Cons Rosarum Rub. â„¥ i. ss confect Gariophil Ê’.ij Ireos-Chalybs ana Ê’.iij spec Arom Rosat pul cinemomi anaÊ’ ss syr de Hyssopo q. s.f Elect. Molle Take of this every morning fasting Lozenge Vinum absynthium the quantity of a Walnut curnel and eat a piece of Lozenge after it and drink three or four spoonfulls of Worm-wood wine and exercise by degrees Some have been helped by this ♃ Take two penniworth of nutmegs Pulvis as much mace and as much saffron powder them fine and adde a quarter of a pound of sugar and three penniworth of prepared steel mix them probatum est CHAP. XXVI SYNCOPE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a sudden and swift fayling of the strength and it is a terrible symptom because it is the image of death for both natural animal and vital chiefly do fail from hence it happeneth that there is no pulse nor respiration sence and motion is abolished The face is wan and pale the extream parts are chill and moyst with a faint sweat For the cause Causa it may come by immoderate watchings anger sorrow great cares suddain fears intollerable pain acute fevers immoderate emptinesse famine sweats labours vomitings exceeding fluxes losse of blood a soddain emptying of water as in the dropsie oftentimes it proceedeth from abundance of grosse cruid rotten sharp and biting humours which do daily check and as it were fill the mouth of the stomack in such sort that the passages of the spirits are obstructed that their motion is intercepted even as it is when respiration is let and hindred as it is when abundance of humours are concluded in the passages of the lungs that the sick cannot draw in ayre to serve for the cooling of the heart For the cure Curatio Vinum Galenus it is according to the diversity of causes Galen in every swounding doth commend wine which otherwise in burning fevers is dangerous nevertheless it may be used sparingly in time of intermissions so it be diluted with Buglosse Borage and such like Odors and sweet smells do comfort very much except choaking of the mother be the cause then sweet odors must be received underneath and to the nostrils apply things that be foetid and stinking as Castoreum Assafoetida and burnt haire besides we cause sternutation Sternutamentum which if the patient cannot do it is a most manifest sign of death If it proceeds from poyson if we know the venim we administer the proper antidote if not we give treakle or methridate If Cardialgia Cardial stomachica Medicamentum and Stomachica do follow the syncope then we take a toste of bread moystened in wine and scatter on it the powder of Nutmegs and Cloves and so apply it to the stomach but not upon the heart and this is to be observed that nothing repaires the spirits so soon as wine because it is vaporous and hath a great affinity with the the spirits but some will say why do they sprinkle cold water on the face I answer because that the heat and the spirits flying outwards may be driven and turned back from their circumference unto their Center yet cold water must not be used in the syncope of a flux Theriaâ—a Galenus for thereby the flux will be increased but rather use new Treakle for Galen affirmeth it stayeth all super-purgations and fluxes if it hapneth through immoderate sweats then we sprinkle the face with rose-Rose-water campherated Olâ—râ—sâ—â—um and rub the body with cold linnen and anoint it with oyle of Roses If it cometh through inanition or emptiness as immoderate watching much venery famin and two much exercise or violent motion then sprinkle the face with wine and let them smell to mint-mint-water and administer some cordial Electuary Electuarium cord as you shall think proper remembring you put in new Treakle or Methridate If it be caused through vomiting use frictions below if through a flux use frictions above and wine is most proper in the syncope coming of emptinesse Ranzovius Ranzovius doth much commend this water following affirming that by the continual use of it one lived to the age of 129. yeares â„ž Cinnamomi electi cubebarum galangae Aqua vitae caryophyllorum nucis moschatae zingiberis ana â„¥ .iij. Salviae lb.j. â„¥ .ij Haec omnia macera in duabus lb. â„¥ .4 aquae vitae cpt circulatae distilla I have oftentimes given a quarter of a spoonfull of this cordial following to such as
adhibitum Weckerus lib. 2. pag. 471. CHAP. XXXI ANOREXIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa or losse of appetite is for the most part caused through aboundance of cruid and raw humours lurking in the stomach or oppressed through nourishment corrupted sometimes it is caused by consent as from a defluxion of the brain from whence a thin wheyish matter is sent unto the stomach or else from the liver being strongly affected for it happeneth oftentimes upon the recovery of some sharp and acute disease that there is left behind a weaknesse of the stomach Also a chollerick humour pressing the mouth of the stomach may cause this evil and also it happeneth in fevers and especially in Synochus not putrified because through the aboundance of blood there is no attraction For the sign Signa in a hot cause there is felt gnawing in the stomach a desire to vomit and thirst sometimes a fever with rotten humours but contrary in a cold cause the part affected is the mouth of the stomach In a hot cause or chollerick humor Curatio Victus Ratio a cold diet must be prescribed moderate sleep quietnes must be used or provoked his body must be kept soluble if you see cause give a vomit Vomitus if otherwise purge with this Apozem following ℞ Syr. de Rhabarb ℥ j. Rosarum ℥ ss Decoct Apozema sennae q. s.f Apozema In time of year sallets are good with lettice succory vinegar and sugar and such like in a cold cause first vomit or else purge which you shall find to be most proper by the water with his meat let there be given mustard or else cloves cinnamon pepper and vinegar with sugar or tarragant is good with mutton or capers and to drink on mornings wormwood-wormwood-wine is wondrous proper also Electuaries Lozenges Vinum absynth and the like but for the poorer sort first vomit or purge and drink wormwood beer Lastly refrain all kind of trash and take of this Electuary following ℞ Rosarum Ligni Aloës anaʒ vj macis Electuarium latificans Rhasis nucis moschatae galliae moschatae cardamomi utriusque cinnamomi croci ana ʒ ij cyperiʒ v caryophyllorum mastiches spicae nardi Asari anaʒ iij. melle emblicarum excipe moschi gr xv aromatiza Datur à . ʒ adʒ iij Rhasis If you see cause Ceratum you may apply outwardly Ceratum stomachale and use some of the oyles prescribed in the former Chapter CHAP. XXXII SITIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath a twofold cause natural and animal The natural is by natural inclination to require a cold and moist substance for to supply the place of the substance that was dissipated wasted and spent but the animal appetite is when the stomach feeling it self to be empty of moysture doth desire drink as happeneth in burning fevers Sometimes falt humours are the cause Causa and drinking of old wine the part affected is the mouth of the stomach either by it self or by consent with the heart or liver and chiefly by the inferiour parts thereof or with the lungs or by the veines of the Mesenterium or the Jejunum inflamed for those parts are accompanied with a hot and drie distemperature and indeed hapueth for the most part in hot and putrified fevers in hydropsies and such like As for the sign it is needlesse Signa for it may be known by the patients words if the stomach be heavie and dull it signifies repletion if falt humours that 's known by the patients eating of salt things if the cause be windinesse there is felt extension if chollar bitter belchings and extream thirst if sharp humours biting gnawing and such like If the cause be an hot inflammation Curatio he must abstain from hot things salt things and immoderate exercise and if a plethorick body Venae sectio open a vein and administer an Apozem made as you shall see fit and a Julep made as followeth Julepus Take French barley ℥ i. ss French pruins ℥ .iv. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water untill half be wasted strain it and adde plantin wator ℥ .ij. conserve of barberries ℥ j. mixe them and drink thereof often and hold the conserve of aforesaid in your mouth letting it dissolve by degrees adde to the julep loafe-sugar and if it proceed of drunkenness drink Aqua hordei if it cometh of salt humours Julepus as in the scurvie then drink Aqua fumariae syrrupus fumariae make a julep and drink thereof Also purging is good and refrain salt things But when it chance to those that have burning fevers then give them Posca that is Posca vinegar and water sodden together if you will Aqua spermatis ranarum you may adde conserve of barberries and Aqua spermatis Ranarum is very effectual mixed either with some cooling syrrup or conserve or given by it self a spoonfull at a time Sperma ant semen ranarum colligitur mense Martio Destillatur autem per alembicum vitreum Quercetanus CHAP. XXXIII NAVSEA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a naughty and wicked motion of the expulsive faculty of the stomach It is caused of a vitious humour contained in Causa the stomach being either hot or cold which humour either swimmeth in the concavity or hollownesse of the stomach or it is stuffed in the filmes thereof cleaving like bird-lime sometimes great exercise after meales sayling on the seas and over fat meats or stopping of the Menstruis may be the cause In a hot cause Signa you shall find the sign in the Chapter of weakness of the stomach if vitious humours do swim in the stomach then for the most part vomiting followeth If a tough humour like bird-lime be drowned in the cotes of the stomach it causeth a disposition to vomit but bringeth forth nothing also a dulnesse throughout the whole body As touching the cure of vomiting Curatio you must note in the beginning it ought not to be stopped if the sick be the better for it especially if such things be purged as ought to be it is also good and may be suffered if not it is evill for the cure Clyster the readiest way is sleep if it may be procured as in a hot cause if the body be costive administer a cooling clyster adding thereto oyle of violets ℥ .iij. or give gr iij. of laudanum Paracel which is good providing the body be first made soluble also infuse a piece of bread in white-wine vinegar or rose-vinegar and bruise it in a morter Ceratum and adde thereunto powder of cinnamon cloves red-roses or the like this may be applyed to their stomachs warm if children be troubled with vomiting give syrrup of Rhubarb Cataplasma such a quantity as fitteth the age and strength of the child and you may take cammomel wormwood mint and porret of either half a handfull boyle them in halfe a pinte of wine-vinegar and thicken it
Goose-grease Clyster Hens-grease and oyle of Roses compound a clyster or take violet leaves Endive Althaea cammomel ana M. i.ss seeds of fenegreek and flax of either Ê’ ss make a decoction adde Cassia â„¥ .j. hierapicraÊ’ 6. Oyle of Roses â„¥ ij of dill â„¥ j. Goose-grease and Hens-grease ana Ê’ iij. two yelks of egges make a clyster Clyster let his diet be cold and moyst If the pain be inveterate use Laudanum c. Laudan Paracel CHAP. XLIV ILIACA PASSIO 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a most painfull disease proceeding from obstructions of the small guts which suffereth nothing to passe downwards but their excrements many times issue out at their mouths it differeth from the chollick in the scituation in that it hath its place and being in the small guts and the chollick in the great guts this disease taketh its name from a gut called Ilion It is caused sometimes of crudity of meates Causae especially fat which commonly ingenders obstructions in the small guts or Ilion sometimes of stripes in places where the small guts lye or through vehement cold restraining the excrements or through abundant eating but especially drinking of cold things in a sweat sometimes the bowels with the dung fall into the cods and being violently thrust back is inflamed or through drinking of deadly medicines or through hard dung impact about the thin bowell yet for the most part Iliaca passio is ingendred either of inflammation or obstruction this disease is common to children but through the help of natural humidity they easily escape but in ancient people it is dangerous They that have Iliaca passio Signa have vehement pain the thin and small guts are swelled and stretched out with over-much moystness of the stomach empty belchings rumbling and noyse of the bowels and both wind and dung â—ants evacuation If the disease waxe greater 〈◊〉 avoydeth all upward voyding sometimes â—â—gme and choller and a coldness of the whole body to some difficulty and hardnesse of breathing To them that shall die there chanceth cold sweats difficulty of making urin and the fundament is so close that it will suffer no small instrument to enter and sometime dung is cast up by vomit also there happeneth the hicket Delirum and convulsions their wind and excrements are much stinking these be deadly signes For the cure it must be performed in children Curatio with foments and clysters as in the chollick but in the aged otherwise 1. Vomitus If it be caused of crudity and fulnesse provoke vomit If the stomach be free from crudity Clyster administer clysters as this that followeth Take Mercury Rew leaves of Althaeae Centory ana M.j. Hysope calamint wormwood ana M. i.ss Root of Althaeae â„¥ .j. Root of wild cowcumber Ê’ i.ss seeds of flax and fenegreek ana Ê’ iij seeds of cummin Ê’ ij make a decoction strain it and adde Benedict lax â„¥ .j. fresh butter and honey of Roses ana â„¥ ss oyles of Rew and Difl ana â„¥ i. ss common salt Ê’ j. make a clyster you may foment with oyles of Rew and Dill after a clyster if need be purge Oleum a vomit is much commended 2. If it happen through some venemous or poysonous medicine give them warm water to drink after that hot oyle to drink or fat broath that they may vomit after that Theriaca give him Theriaca dissolved in wine if it be a corroding medicine milk is commended 3. If through inflammation begin with phlebotomy cast in cooling clysters made with mallows linseed fenegreek with oyle and butter 4. If through falling of the bowels into the cods labour presently the patient lying upright to thrust back the bowels and keep them up without violence and make a trusse Note that Stircus Lupinum is a remedy in Iliaca passio Stircus Lupinum as Album Graecum is in Augna Lastly if the pain be violent use fomentations and labour to procure rest CHAP. XLV VERMES There be three kindes of them The first round and long named Teretes The second be broad Teretes called therefore Lati Lati. Ascarides the third is called Ascarides The first kind be round and a hand breadth in length and sometimes longer they be comoner than the other and they are often in the slender and small guts and they go into the stomach and therefore often voyded by the mouth and often some out at their nostrils and this kind is peculiar to infants children boyes and girles 2. Plinius The second be broad long and of incredible bignesse as Pliny witnesseth lib. 2. cap. 33. sometimes they are seen three hundred foot long Paulus Aetius Paulus and Aetius witnesseth they are nothing else but a permutation of the thin films going about the small guts within into a certain living body that will move and stirre 3. The third kind be thin short and small and found most commonly in the right gut and in the end of the fundament All these be ingendred of cruid Causae raw gross and flegmatick matter and through a kind of rottennesse in children especially in great eaters 1. Signa They that have Teretes do feel incredible gnawing of the bowels and stomach with thin and small coughs provoking to vomit often times with driness in some yelking with movings of the stomach and do arise up unreasonably many do walk and leap up with noyse and crying out and fall asleep again some put forth their tongue and shut their mouth and be quiet keep a silence but do fret fume with them that raise them because they cannot watch they are so weak some have their eyes sprinkled with blood and their pulse unequall obscure fayling and running back to many there chanceth losse of appetite children while they sleep chew their tongue and also do fast joyn their mouth as though they sucked meat to some gnashing of teeth others refuse meat for if compelled to eat they can scarce swallow it or else vomit it up again In many the belly throweth out corrupt meats being puffed up as it were a tympany The rest of the body consume without fasting or purging going before sometimes the face is red about the Halles of the cheeks but it turneth again into a swarthy colour some speak foolish things in their sleep like frantick persons some change the place they lye down on tumbling from one place to another And a fever is increased without order with vehement coldnesse of the extream parts having fits the third or fourth day without order but all these signes must not be looked for in every body but the chiefest of them 2. Broad wormes bring continual gnawing of the stomach and an impotent and incorrigible appetite to meat for being in the guts they devoure the meat so that they have need of more straightway or else the bowels are gnawne there followes slendernesse and weaknesse of body with inequality The infallible
some with Hectica febris others their throats eaten with putrefied and cancrous ulcers some are troubled with a filthy flux of blood and the falling sicknesse Sometimes there followeth a disease called Plica being most loathsome and horrible Plica Glissonins and bred by modern luxury and excesse seizing specially on women It is a viscous venemous humour that glues together as it were the haire of the head with a prodigious entanglement sometimes taking the form of a great snake or else of little serpents full of nastinesse vermine and noysome smell so that being pricked with a needle they yeeld bloody drops It began in Germany I mean at the first in Poland Those that cut off their hair either lost their eyes or the humour falling down tortured them very much in their lower parts The cure of this most grievous disease you may pick out of this Chapter yet if you would see farther concerning it Herculsaxonia look into Hercul Saxonia his tenth book De Plica and in it you shall find 67 Chapters of this disease which with the rest aforementioned are oftentimes the offspring of the Lues venerea whose proper Antidote is Argentum vivum Also many become impotent to Venery venereous ulcers on the yard are hard to cure But if being healed they remain hard and callous they are signes of the disease lying hid in the body Mentagra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A disease called Mentagra that vexed the Romans in the time of Claudius was very like this which oftentimes is transferred from the parents to the children Lastly many perish with a fever that have Lues venerea having continual sorrow and grief This disease being newly taken Curatio Venae sectio admits of an easie cure 1. The first intention must be to open a vein 2. The second is the grosse humours must be attenuated for which purpose The decoction of Radicum foeniculi eringii enulae campanae Oximel lentium uvarum passarum ficum c. also oximel scillitici is good for the same purpose 3. Potio purgans Next purge him with confectio hamech in the decoction of Guiacum which you may make after this manner ℞ Decoctio guaiaci Ligni guaiac ℥ .viij. cortic ejusd ℥ .iv. Sarsaeparill rad chinae lign sassafras ana ℥ ij coq in aq li. 12. sub finem add vini alb li. 4. fiat decoctio But first let the 12 pound of water boyle to 4 pound before you adde the wine Some adde Carduus benedictus sweet fennel-seed Staecadas germander anniseed parsley rew diptane flowres of marygold broom balme and rosemary also zedoary sage betony juniper-berries the three sanders Agrimony and Centory 4. He must drink a quarter of a pinte of the decoction above said at a time evening and morning and between meales make another drink of the same ingredients that he may drink of it at meales Also ℞ Decoct guaiacicum card benedict ℥ v. Haustus Theriac mithridat ana ℈ ij vel ℈ i.ss olei guaiac Gut 8. vel 10. olei vitrioli gr iij. misce fiat Haustus 5. Let the Patient sweat often with this draught an hour at a time his sweat must be wiped off with fine dry cloaths taking heed of cold you may adde centory and liqueris to the aforesaid decoction and it will be the stronger to procure sweat If the Patient be much feverous leave out the Guaiacum and its bark And put in Borrage Bugloss Cichory Violets Polypody Currants c. 6. Also let Sarsaeparilla China and Eringo roots be boyled in his broath made with the knuckles of veale 7. Let his body be often purged and a vein often opened Also this electuary following is good ℞ Conserv cichor rosarum ana ℥ .iij. Electuarium ligni guaiac subtiliss pulverisati sarsaeparill ana ℥ ss spec diarrhod Abdiatrion santal ʒ j. cum syr de cichor fiat Electuarium Let him eat thereof often it will comfort and corroborate 9. If the disease be stubborn you must come to unction ℞ Axung porci li. j. olei cammomeli anethi Linimentū terebinth laurini ana ℥ j. argenti vivi ℥ vj. theriac ven mithridat ana ℥ ss fiat linimentum secund artem First boyle your hogges-grease with sage rosemary thyme marjoram and lavender then kill your Quick-silver and mixe them altogether and beat them for the space of a whole day with this anoynt his joynts wrists the spine of his back his elbowes knees ankles and shoulders in a close room and beware of cold which is most hurtfull in Lues venerea Let your frictions be gentle and you must so long use them with unctions untill the virulent humours be evacuated by spitting and salivation by stoole urine sweat or insensible transpiration which you shall know by the falling away and drying up of the pustules And the ceasing of the paines and other symptomes proper to this disease unction must be used twice aday on strong bodies upon rare and delicate bodies but once upon weak bodies every two or three dayes and then binde up their limbes with gray paper Observe if nature be stirred up and bent to any kind of evacuation either by the mouth pores stool or the like then use frictions every 2 3 4 or 5 dayes Dysenteries caused by unction may be helped by clysters wherein much hogs-grease is dissolved If you should anoynt some to death you cannot bring them to fluxe at the mouth yet through some other evacuation they recover this Emplaster following is much commended for hard tophies ℞ Massae emplast de melil Emplastrū oxycrocei ana li. ss argenti vivi extin ℥ .vj. ol laurini de spicâ reducantur ad formam emplastri 10. Spread of it on leather and apply it as you shall see cause or ℞ Emplastri de meliloto pro splene li. ss argent Ceratum viv ℥ ij olei laurini petrolei terebinthinae ana Q.S. fiat cerotum For the ulcers of the mouth make a decoction of barley marsh mallowes and lettice Also to wash the mouth with cowes milk warme is good 11. If the mouth and jawes become so swelled as a gangreen is to be feared then use restrictive and repelling gargarismes Gargarismus made of barley water plantin night-shade knot-grass sheppards purse quinces lettice water-lillies and wood-binde also Balaustia red roses and myrtills syrrups of dried roses quinces and barberies honey of roses and diamoron His diet in this condition must be reer-egges Victus raetio barley creames cullesses made of the decoction of knuckles of veale and gellies 12. For the ulcers on the prepuce and glans every night anoynt them with ung Argenti vivi so far as they are scorched with inflammation or ulcerated and in the morning wash it with the coction of guaicaum or china or sarsaeparilla so do untill the ulcer be dryed and healed and the inflammation quenched this is a sure help it s called
with crums of white bread like a poultis spread it on a double cloth and apply it warm If the body be temperate and a doubt of worms instead of the syrrup aforesaid use worm-seed according to the directions in the Chapter of Canina appetentia if blood cause vomiting you shall have directions in the Chapter of sputum sanguinis Vomitus In a cold cause procure vomiting with Asaron if nothing prohibit Pilulae and after use stomachal pills mint-water and the syrrups of wormwood if you want more look in Sitis and Imbecillitas stomachi I have oftentimes stopped vomiting with Aquamenthae syrrup cidoniorum Mixtura of either one ounce mixed together CHAP. XXXIV CHOLERICA PASSIO is an immoderate perturbation of the stomach caused by vomits upwards and downwards the Latins call it Cholerici It is caused through much crudity and rawnesse of the stomach choller Causa and sharp humours with an ill and corrupt digestion For the signe Signa there is pricking and biting about the stomach and withall vomiting and a flux of the belly it is called the chollerick passion in English there do oftentimes accomcompany this disease cold sweats a swift pulse frequent little and short with Syncope If children be taken with this disease Curatio sleep profiteth much in old men for the most part deadly the juyce and syrrup of Quinces with syrrup of Roses and Myrtills is excellent in a hot cause as this Recipe following ℞ Mixtura Miva Citoniorum ℥ 4. syr Citoniorum Mirtilorum ana ℥ .j. cons Oxiacanthae ℥ ss Give of it to the patient often in the best red Rose-water Vomitus providing that if you see a plethorick body and abounding with choller give a vomit with stybium if nothing prohibit or else this Apozem following ℞ Apozema Syr. de Rhabarb Rosarum sol ana ℥ .j. The decoction of Seene as much as sufficeth to make an Apozem give the one half over night and the other half in the morning warm they must abstain from all hot things as strong beer wine hot waters spices c. and take soopings of a cooling quality as broath made with cooling herbs Victus ratio as sorrel borage and burnit Endive succory sorrel possets and lemmond possets barley water and cooling juleps are very good Julepus made with the waters of Endive purslaine sorrel and syrrups of the same In a cold cause Vinum the best wine thin and odorifferous is sometimes sufficient in a full body purge with this or the like purgation ℞ Potio purgans Diaphenicon ʒ.ij Benedict lax pul Sanctus an ʒ.ss White wine Pilulae as much as sufficieth to make a potion or you may give stomachal pills if their body be not able to bear a strong purge but these vomitings many times in a hot cause syrrups or juyces of quinces and syrrup of Myrtils in a cold cause the syrrup of mints and cordial mint water is sometimes sufficient Lastly this emplaster following is excellent to be applyed either to the stomach or belly ℞ Olei cotoneorum myrthini ana ℥ .ij. Emplastrct Weckerus Hypocistidis acaciae Rhu ana.ʒ.ij. Corall rub ʒ.j cum cera resina fiat Emplastrum CHAP. XXXV IMBECILLITAS JECINORIS is caused of a distemper either hot cold moyst Causa or dry 1. Signa A hot distemper doth burn up as well the humours which were before in the liver as also those humours which are carried to the liver by the veines Mesenterii and there is stinking grosse choller avoyded by the belly and is abundantly coloured also a fever vexeth him he abhorreth meat and many times casteth up choller with a sore thirstinesse the vrine high and a swift pulse 2. In a cold distemper it doth make the flegmatick and raw humour which is already contained in the liver tough and hard to be moved and the humours that be carried to the liver it leaves them half digested this indureth long and the belly floweth certain dayes abundantly but lesse stinking and not so much in quantity and is like putrefact blood curded but indeed for the most part you shall find it as it were a certain slime and dregs of grossblood coming nigh to melancholy many times there appeareth a faint fever the face doth not fall and there is a greater appetite of meats 3. A dry distemper doth make the humours drier and thicker and less in quantity than the former but thirsty 4. A moyst distemper make the humours more thin and watery and they are less troubled with thirst therefore they which have a weak faculty of the liver are called Hepatici 1. Curatio Venae-sectio In a hot cause if there be not great aridity and driness with exceeding heat open the liver vein of the right arm otherwise not for blood is a bridle Ceratum Victus ratio and temperator of choller in all heat of the liver Ceratum santalinum is good Use broath wherein is boyled Lettice Endive and Succory no flesh except it be chickens partridg birds of mountaines or a little veal no wine except the stomach be weak then let it be very thin and anoynt the stomach but especially the region of the heart Oleum with Oleum Rosarum aut violarum If he be in a pining condition make him gellies and put in red saunders and let him take of this julep following ℞ Julepus Syrrupus Endiviae Acetosae Portulacae Rosarum Rub. violarum ana ℥ .j. Barley water as much as sufficeth to make a julep if the stomack be weak adde a little syrrup of wormwood also this Electuary following is wondrous proper ℞ Electuariū Cons Rosat Rub. ℥ j. Spec. Diarrho Abb. ʒ.j Spec. Aromat ros ℈ .j. Syr. lujulae q. s f. Elect. Mosle Or as you shall see cause you may adde Rosarum Rub. Trochis Diarhod Coral Rub. Diatrion santalon For the poorer sort direct chirnmilk boyled with sorrel and so let them drink the Ale thereof 2. In a cold cause or distemper take savory Hysop sage and parsley in his broth let his meat be dressed with aromatick things as Cinamon Cloves c. Also wine is good Vinum Decoctio especially clarret providing they avoyd idleness also the decoction that is set down in Paralysis is good adding wormwood calamint anise fennel and let the one half be wine sometimes drink it with syrrup of wormwod and agrimony use hot oyles as nard wormwood cammomel cinamon cloves and spicknard Oleum also for the poorer sort use wormwood beer and wormwood wine 3. In a moyst distemper use a drying diet Diacurcue ma. and provoke sweat Diacurcuma is good so is syrrup of wormwood 4. In a drie distemper use a moystning diet also mixe strengthening things with your moist things one dragme of wolves liver in powder and ministred in sweet wine allayed with water is very excellent
exercise of the former life let passe for a time 2. The second is when watery blood like the water wherein new killed flesh have been washed or soaked which chanceth through weakness of the liver is sent forth 3. The third is when there is sent forth an humour more shining and blacker than that which is natural being commixt of blood and Melancholy 4. The fourth kind in which by little and little and between whiles is cast out pure blood yet sometimes clodded and shavings of the bowels cometh out with pure blood and many times thick dung sprinkled with drops of blood of this fourth kind I shall treat at this time and let passe the other three The cause of this last kind is through exulceration of the bowels Causa caused many times through outward cold heat and moystnesse sometimes through pernicious medicines as scammomy eating of fruit or sharp and soure meates crudity and rawness or through sharp and gnawing humours flowing from the whole body to the belly or ingendred in the belly it selfe and this doth sometimes begin after Tenasmus the excrements are cholerick diverse and fatty because the fat that cleaveth within the bowels is melted so that when the Superficies of the bowels are bare and the exulceration abiding about it then the excrements be dreggy and bloody but when the ulcer is pierced deeper then there is sent forth filthinesse having as it were little pieces of parchment commixed with it so that if it be not stopped it eateth the places nigh unto it and sendeth forth such excrements as are wont to runne from dead bodies 1. Signa When the small guts are exulcerate there is pain about the Navill the excrements are chollerick the patient feeleth grief and frettings and gnawings so that the patient is not farre from fainting they are not thirsty and feverous the excrements are cruid and raw and the bowel Jejunium is exulcerate sometimes though seldom and sometimes they vomit and abhorre meats 2. But if the exulceration be ingendred in the great bowels there the ordour is pure and much heaped together coming out with windinesse and frothinesse mixed with fatnesse blood swimming aloft the knowledge of this greatly helpeth to the cure 1. Curatio If the exulceration be in the upper or small bowels you must cure it by medicines given at the mouth If in the great or lower bowels it must be done by clysters be the cause what it will endeavour to procure rest and give them little meat milk is good and Rice with milk if there be no fever marmalad of Quinces Plantin boyled in the juyce of French pruins with balaustia no flesh except Birds or Rabbits c. Chalybs steel quenched in running-running-water is good If the stomach be weak give restringent wine not very old amongst syrrups take plantin knotgrasse purslain sharp mulberries Balaustia Frankincense Terra lemnia and grape curnels all these restrain the tallow of goats swine geese and hens these asswage the acrimony which should be first looked to that thereby the patient may be eased Hares creem Harts-horn burnt the shells of Crabs running water and sage these drie up This clyster following is good for Dysenteria though the cause resteth in the great bowels as well as in the small and better â„ž Fol. Ros Rub. Plantag Centinodium Clyster Consol Maior prim veris ana M. ss BalaustiaÊ’j Rad. Consol Maior â„¥ ss Rice burnt one ounce seethe them all in running water wherein hath been quenched steel strain it and adde the juice of plantin Ê’ ij Bolus arm Ê’j goats tallow â„¥ .j. oyles of Roses Myrtills Quinces of either â„¥ .j. make a Clyster now though this Clyster be set down at large yet you may direct one for a poor body not so costly with some of the Engredients This clyster is most proper for the Dysenteria in the great bowels 2. If the exulceration be in the small bowels then give unto them such things as you shall find proper in Diarrhaea use syrrup of dried Roses Myrtils and Quinces apply this Cerate outwardly â„ž Ceratum Ol. Mastic Rosarum Myrti Cidoniorum an â„¥ .j. fol. Ros Rub. Plantag anaÊ’ j BalaustiaÊ’ j Bolus arm Ê’.j Mastic Ê’ ij Barley meal Ê’ ij wax and Rosin as much as suffiâ—eth to make a Cerate some medicines you may find in the Chap. of Colerica passio The infusion of Rhubarb is of some praised Infusio Oleum vitrtoli and of others suspected but oyle of vitrial is much commended in plantin water the distilled water of the spawn of frogs is an excellent Remedy Aqsperm ranarum if it be well made if the patient be weak make him broath with chickins with a little cinamon 1. Clyster If there be deep excoriation make a clyster with the decoction of brann and â„¥ ij of deer suet clysters of milk is good for either of them 2. Purgatio If it happens through contagion of Ayre at the first give a strong potion of Rhubarb infused in plant in water with a little cinamon and then a little treakle or methridate in cinamon or treakle water is excellent But after purging endeavour next to procure rest either with Laudanum or something else and then give a scruple of treakle or methridate in c. Theriaca mithridat as aforesaid forbare bleeding or purging except with Rhubarb many have been cured with Harts-horn burnt others take hard bones of Beef or Pork calcined or burned untill they be white made into powder and so drunk in ordinary drinks continually with some few drops of cinamon water and cinamon and nutmegs in powder are good This unguent following is wondrous proper to procure rest â„ž Olei nymphaeae VnguentuÌ„ violarum unguenti populeonis an â„¥ ss Opii gr iij. Croci gr iv fiat unguentum quo nares tempora inungantur Rauzonius Rauzonius Lastly let this chyster be administred for it is effectual in Dysenteria â„ž Succi plantaginis arnoglossae portulacae an Clyster Gorraeus â„¥ iij. boli armeni sanguinis draconis amili an Ê’ i. ss seni hircini vel capriniÊ’ j velÊ’ i. ss vel â„¥ ij fiat Clyster Gorraeus pag. 153. CHAP. XLII TENASMVS is a continual desire to go to stoole 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with extension and straining out of the right gut called Intestivum rectum being stopped avoyding nothing except it be a little blood or filthy matter like snivel or snot 1. Causa The cause is sometimes through outward cold 2. Sometimes through sharp chollerick humours 3. Sometimes through salt flegme 4. Sometime through impostumation 5. Sometimes through inflammation ingendred in the streight gut 6. Sometimes the blind gut is stopped with hard dung 1. Signa The sign is as various if it be caused of cold it is known by the tale of the sick whether he hath set on any cold stone c. 2. If chollerick it is known by the colour
arb Lupines Pistatium bitter Almonds Spicknard Stoecades Gentian root of Plantin the seed and leaves dried juyce of Anagallis the female succorie Alkekendgi Endive and Bruscus especially the decoction of these Curcum also Curcuma is good If the disease be inveterate use purging with Rhubarb pills and bleeding Venae sectio is good when the hollow part of the liver is vexed purge by the belly If the embossed part of the liver be vexed purge by urine but this Electuary following is good â„ž Electuariâ—â—on Rad. Ireos Camoepiteos sem anisi Apium anaÊ’ ij AsaronÊ’ ij.ss Cinnamomi zingiberis cammomeli Carawayseeds of either one dram Stoecades gentian and horehound of either two drams with oximel Scilliticium make an Electuary it purgeth vehemently by urine or â„ž Conservae fol. absinthii capill ven flor Opiata Riverius tamarisci an â„¥ j conser rad enulae camp cortic citri conditi an â„¥ ss myrabolan condit n. j. nucis moschat condit Ê’.iij confect alkerm. Ê’.ij pulver elect diarrhod abbatisÊ’ j salis absinthii Et tamarisci ana ℈ .ij. croci ℈ .j. ambrae griseae ℈ ss cum syrrupo conditurae citri fiat opiata River lib. 6. cap. 3. Lastly steel is an excellent opener CHAP. XLVIII HEPATIS INFLAMMATIO there is Causa as well as in other members and through the same causes that they be ingengred of If the liver be vexed with inflammation Sâ—gna there is felt pain and heavinesse all over the right side with swelling in the place he hath a sharp fever a small and drie cough insatiable thirst abhorring of meats difficulty of breathing the tongue is first red and after that black vomiting pure choller the body is costive the colour of the body is changed like Icterus they have the hicket In their fit they rave voyding forth sharp urine The inflammation that chanceth through causes in the crooked and hollow parts of the liver have the foregoing symptoms but if ingendred in the outward and round part of the liver it causeth greater pain in drawing breath and a greater cough than the other And sometime the Muscles leaning upon the liver be inflamed causing the skin round about to be stretched with swelling sometimes a swelling fashioned like the liver which is a true signe In the beginning open the liver vein Curatio Venae sectio which hath society with vena causa draw out a large quantity Clyster if nothing forbid the next intention must be to administer a cooling clyster foment with oyle of Quinces and Roses putting to it odoriferous wine Ceratum Ceratum Santalinum is good remember that restrictive things do exceed those that mollifle and loosen when the heat is vehement on the contrary when it decreases let those that mollify exceed the other beware you do not apply things cold but warm them a little Fomentatio foment with the decoction of wormwood mellilot red roses cammomel dill plantin endive and in vehement pain juyce of liqueris in hot water or juyce of endive with honey Vietus ratio for their diet Ptisan and chicken broath in the first boyle Apium in the second parsley also barley broath is good If the inflammation change to suppuration the aforesaid signes will increase as paines fever Decoctio Cataplasma ravings c. for this boyle figges in water and give him of it to drink Also take the root of AlthaeaÊ’ i. ss fenegreek and linseed ana Ê’ ij leaves of Althaea and mallows ana M. ij dry figges No. vj. boyle them in water untill they wax soft bruise them and make a cataplasme you may adde root of white lillies flowers of cammomel and mellilot to help break it so we use doves dung and mustard seed c. that draw to the superficies some with the decoction of polya sumitory roots of Camedrios c. when it s broken minister water of honey or decoction of Cicers If the matter avoyd by the veines provoke urine If by the belly purge gently with Goats whey and Cassia fistularis and clysters after that glutinate and joyn up Outwardly apply this Cataplasme â„ž Farinae hordei â„¥ .iv. rosa rubr santal Cataplasma Fontanus omnium seminis endiviae scariolae absynth mino an Ê’.ij succi endiviae q. s fiat cataplasma Vt artis est applicandum regioni jecoris Vel â„ž Oleirosati myrthill an â„¥ .ij. olei anethi â„¥ j. Fomentatio Fontanus aceti parum foveatur pars tepide Vel â„ž Succi endiviae aut cichorii Linimentum vel utriusque â„¥ i.ss nenupharini â„¥ .iij. cerae albae aceti parum fiat linimentum Fonta lib. 3. cap. 15. CHAP. XLIX LIENIS INFLAMMATIO Causa the spleen is nexed with inflammation as oft as hot blood flowes thither unnaturally It is known by heavinesse Signa and swelling of the left side which will not give place to the feeling also it 's known by pain stretching out of the place by burning heat and fevers and if abundance of humours rush in thither it is known by the greatnesse and swiftnesse of the ingendring the inflammation For the diet look Curatio into the foregoing Chapter First open the Salvatella vein Venae-sectio between the little and ring-singer wash the belly often with Clysters if he may not bleed this fomentation is good Fomentatio â„ž ol rosarum Cydoniorum an â„¥ ij ol cammomeli â„¥ .j. Aceti op â„¥ ss misce beware of applying any thing that is not first warmed the liver and spleen require one kind of medicine but the spleen the strongest Alwayes commix vinegar with something that is acceptable to the spleen If the spleen tendeth to suppuration and rotting you shall find plenty of remedies in the foregoing Chapter Lastly â„ž Linimentum Platerus Ol. Rosacei â„¥ .ij. ol de absynthio vel nardini â„¥ j. ol Chamom vel de meliloto â„¥ ss Satal omniumÊ’ j Spicae â„¥ ss cerae q. s fiat linimentum CHAP. L. LIENIS SCIRRHVS Inflammation of the spleen not rightly cured draweth together a hard swelling of the spleen Causa The cause is a certain humour cleaving stubbornly to the spleen but it is when hardnesse ingendreth without inflammation in over-much swelling It is easily known by touching Signa of what cause soever it be His diet must be easie of digestion Curatio Victus ratio Exercitium he may drink pure wine being without all restriction exercise before meat is excellent strong potions are good root of capers are good Harts-tongue the root and herb of Tamariscus sodden in vinegar or oximel juyce of centory drunk the decoction of bitter lupines rew and pepper Iron often quenched in wine is a convenient remedy if a fever quench it in Posca steele is commended also wormwood Cassia Chalybs Aniseeds c. you may make a fomentation with the symples above mentioned oyle of capers lillies and ireos are good Vng
the next Chapter Fernelius This Electuary following is commended by Fernelius ℞ Electuarium Rasurae eboris cornu cervi an ℈ ij cinamomi electi margaritarum electarum Pulveris electuarii Aromatici rosati majoris electuarii triasantali an ℈ .j. cum unciis iv sacchari albi fiat electuarium Vel ℞ Linimentū Mucilaginis seminis faenugraeci extractae in aqua endiviae ℥ j. olei absynthii rosarum menthae de capparibus an ℥ ss macis caryophyllorum Rosarum rubearum pulverizatorum an ℈ .j. cerae parum fiat litus Fernelius consil 37. de cachexiae curatione Vel ℞ Vnguentū Rondeletius Ol. de absynth nard an ℥ .ij. ol cyton ℥ j spicae utriusque an ʒ.j cyperi sandali rub albi an ʒ.ss coralli rub ustiʒ i.ss cerae q. s fiat unguentum ungantur hypochondria Rond lib. 3. cap. 38. CHAP. LIV. ANASARCA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a dropsie causing all the body and flesh to be loose and wet like a spunge spitting when it is pressed It is called also Lupophlegmatia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. This kind of dropsie is caused through great coldness of the liver Causa or other parts that be cooled which bringeth the liver into the same affect as the coldness of the spleen stomach Bowels Lungs Reines and Midriffe sometimes through unmeasurable voyding of Hemroyds or Menstruis or through their retention for in all these the liver hath no unnatural swelling and yet the dropsie followes onely through refrigeration of the liver sometimes it waxeth hard as is seen in those that drink cold water and so cool the liver on heaps and so the dropsie follows before it be lifted up into a knotty swelling sometimes it followeth the Gout loathing of meat evil state of body Jaundies Caeliacus morbus and dysenteria The whole body swelleth Signa and is like a dead body and there is difficulty of breathing heavinesse naughty colour and thirst women are lesse troubled with the dropsie then men but children for the most part are taken with Anasarca this is least dangerous First if age and strength will suffer Curatio and that there be retention of Hemroyds or Menstruis draw blood Secondly purge with Jalap Jalapum Cambogiae Vinum absinth or Rhubarb or Gambogiae gr 12. with syrrup of wormwood also wormwood-wine and beer is good purge often and not too much at once Elder roots sodden in wine are good you shall find remedies enough in obstruction of the liver you must provoke urine with broom-flowers Vinum genistae M. ij in white-wine quar 1. also eringa roots boyled in broath are good Take wormwood flowers of broom hysop tops of red nettles ana M.j. chop them small seeds of annise fennel carraway ana ℥ .j. bruise them mixe them and knead them into a loaf of wheat bread lb. iv bake it drie then break it into small pieces and put it into a ferkin of strong drink when it is well wrought let it stand a week and then let the patient drink of it often or take a dry broom faggot half a peck of bean hulls three handfulls of dry wormwood Lixivium diuret and with dry ash burn them to ashes make lye of it you may make a small quantity for it will not keep for the liver Pulvis take powder of Diacurcuma ℈ .j. powder of Diatrion santalon Diarrhodon Abbatis anaʒ ss nutmegs spicknard an ℈ j.ss Aromat rosat ℈ .j. Rhubarb ʒ ss seeds of Endive fennel ana ℈ .ij. wormwood ℈ .j. sugar ℥ .j. commix them you may adde carraway-seed cummin aniseed parseley lovage liqueris c. biscake-bread with good stood store of aniseeds Also a poultis with beane-meale Cataplasma fenegreek laurel-berries wormwood and origan sodden in wine lay it all over the body If it swell you may adde melilote sage mints savory rew cammomel flowers myrrh castoreum peniroyal cardamume sothernwood bathe the swelled legs with bot oyles or if there be the gout with the dropsie this poultis following is good Cataplasma Take leven lb. ss Turpintine ℥ .iv. make them like a poultis or pulpe with white-wine vinegar spread it on a thick cloth strew one ounce of Cantherides in powder apply it one night to the swelled legges smalledge broath is good Victus ratio Exercitium with parsely rosemary c. A drie diet must be and exercise is excellent this drink is much commended Take a pint of the ashes of bean hulls put it into a quart of water and a quart of white-white-wine set it on the fire Potius diuretica and stirre it all the while untill it begin to boyle then set it by one hour or two then powre it from the ashes through a cloth and adde twelve ounces of syrrup of Dialthaea brue it together and drink a quarter of a pint at a time last at night and first in the morning mid forenoon and mid afternoon If bound administer a clyster twice or thrice a week candid Eringa roots are very good to eat at meals Hercul Saxon. Elaterium Hercules Saxonia in lib. 3. cap. 32. saith Fortissimum medicamentum est succus cucumaris agrestis qui dicitur Elaterium si dentur ejus gr iij. extracti per punctionem si enim per expressionem extrahatur dantur ejus grana octo vel decem And he did usually make pills therewith after this manner ℞ Pilularnm alephang ℈ .j. elaterii grana iij. Pilulae cum elaterio Hercul Saxon. vel iv misce f. pilulae In this disease the liver must be strengthened for which purpose ℞ Radic Apii ℥ i.ss radic Asari ℥ ss Epithema Platerus absinthii M.j. florum Bugloss Borrag Sambuci ana p. j. seminum cuscuteʒ ij endiviae ascetosae anaʒ j. santal omnium anaʒ i.ss Spicaenar vel casiae lign sqaenanthi anaʒ ss decoquantur in vino aqua pro fotu regionis hepatis Plater Tract 3. cap. 3. pag. 293. Rhasis in 7. contin Rhafis notat in cura hyposarcae singulariter rhabarbarum nam est medicina solennis curans eam à quacunque causa provenientem CHAP. LV. ASCITES 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this kind of dropsie swells the whole body except the upper parts thereof which are not puffed and if you strike it there is heard a sound like as a bottle that is not full of water being shugged The upper parts drie away It is caused through much waterish humours Causa heaped up between the skin or filme called Seritoneum and the bowels also weaknesse of the liver c. For the sign Signa the body doth not pit when pressed the pulse is feeble swift and small shortnesse of breath heavinesse thirst c. as in the former Chapter their legs swell Let his diet be easie of digestion Curatio Victus Ratio Soldanella as birds of mountains chickens partridge black-birds c. first purge
also coleworts of the sea called soldana and soldanella taken in drink excelleth all the rest you may give it in wine or whey stamped it bringeth forth hydropick water this clyster following is good Clyster flowers of laurel Ê’ ij root of polypody Agarick ana Ê’ i.ss Dodder or cucutha Ê’ iij seethe them in wine or water untill the third part be consumed strain it lb. j. and adde Benedict lax â„¥ ss Elect. nidumÊ’ ij ss mel rosarum â„¥ .j. oyles of Rew cammomel and Ireos ana â„¥ j. salt gemme Ê’ i.ss fiat clyster you may adde Aniseed caraway-seeds and rew For poultises provokers of urine and the like I have spoken of in the former Chapter This kind of dropsie is more dangerous than the former moderate sweating is good in all dropsies Haustus Take the green rind of helder Carduus benedictus and Rosemary boyle them in possit ale strain it and adde treakle or methridate Ê’ j or Ê’ i. ss â„ž corticis rad cucumeris agrestis ℈ .j. infriatum insperge mulsae sine molestia pituitam ducit Aetius Actuarius nec stomachum laedit Ex Aëtio Actuario Also this water following is good for a strong body if he abound with flegme â„ž Florum Persicorum scammonii Rubeus Aqua purgans Turpeti ana part aequales Distillentur in balneo Mariae servetur in vase vitreo ad usum Modâ—ce admodum solvit Dentur species diacurcumae vel dialaccae si non adest febris CHAP. LVI TYMPANITES 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa is also properly called Hydrops as well as Anasarca It is caused of wind and water swelling the belly so that it is stretched out The signe is Signa the belly is puffed up higher than that of Ascites the navil is thrust forth if one clap upon it it gives a noyse or sound and all the other parts of the body wax leane this kind is most dangerous There diet is like the other Curatio ExercitiuÌ„ but more especially windy things are to be avoyded exercise is good and thirst doth succour the patient First purge as aforesaid also clysters Clyster as in Ascites onely you may adde in the boyling roots of Apium fennel parsely rew melilote in the streining Hierapicra Electuarium è baccis lauri and oyle of Dill you must provoke urine and dissolve windines of this look into the Chapter of the chollick it will help much for poultises look into Anasarca EmplastruÌ„ Emplastrum è baccis lauri is good also these lozenges powder of Dianisum Lozeng and Diacuminum ana ℈ .j. powder of the Antidote of laurel berries Ê’ j powder of Diagalanga Ê’ ss seeds of Anise carrawayes Dancus and fennel ana ℈ ss rew seeds of Apium and lovage ana ℈ .j. sugar â„¥ .vj. with the distilled waters of fennel and Apium make lozenges If they complain of pain in their body apply this emplaster â„ž EmplastruÌ„ Mesue Thuris masticis myrrhae ana â„¥ .j. Baccarum lauri â„¥ .ij. Cyperi costiana â„¥ ss mellis despumati quantum sufficit Fiat emplastrum Mesue de ung emp. pag. 153. These pills following are very good â„ž Pilulae Sennertus Mass pilul de hiera cum agarico turbith electi rhabarb an ℈ .ij. fol. soldanellaeÊ’ ss rad asari ℈ .j. trochisc alhandal elaterii nucis moscat galangae cinamom piperis cubebar an ℈ ss Pulveri sanda pulverisentur excipiantur omnia succo iridis fiat massa cujus dosis scrup ij vel Drach j. cum oximel scillit ff Pilulae mediocres Sennertus Tom. 2. lib. 3. cap. 4. pag. 1070. â„ž Clyster Fol. rutae flor chamaem sambuci summit anethi an M..j sem anisi faenic cumin carui an â„¥ ss coqu in aqua simpl Colaturae ♄ lb.j. vini maluatici â„¥ .iij. bened lax â„¥ .j. bac lauri â„¥ ss ol rutacei laurini an â„¥ .j. fiat clyst CHAP. LVII MIGTVS SANGVINIS is a disease of the reines through the which thin wheyish blood is pissed It is caused through weaknesse of the reines Causa being not able to divide the urine or through amplitude of the reines breaking of a vein in the reines caused through lifting or leaping sometimes sharp humours gnaw the reines flowing from above also stones in the reines may be the cause If this disease be caused through weaknesse Signa the blood is wheyish If through amplitude and largenesse of the veines they feel no pain If through breaking of a vein then the blood cometh forth abundantly If through gnawing humours the blood is sent forth by little and little with pain vexing the reines If through a stone look into its proper Chapter If through weaknesse of the reines Curatio rest profiteth black wine and restrictive meats Se sputum sanguinis abstain from carnal copulation Venus and diuritick things harts-horn with wine or juice of Marygolds is good Decoctio and Lapis Hematitis also the decoction of knot-grasse Syr. de rosis succis myrtils sheeps milk â„¥ .iv. mixed with a dram of Bolearmoniack is onely praised Bolusarus and loafe-sugar with it is not amisse look into the Chapter of Dysenteria also myrtill berries pomegranet rinds and Balaustia give meats of good juyce sometimes blood is curded in the bladder then cleanse but first dissolve and then use astringent things Venae sectio as aforesaid If through breaking of a vein or gnawing of sharp humours open a vein in the same side draw blood by little little If there be inflammation give cooling things inwardly and outwardly and avoyd sharp and salt things If an exulceration be left look into the same Chapter If it be caused by certain circuits the cure is the same Aq. sperm ranarum Aq. sperm ranarum is most excellent especially if there be inflammation or exulceration CHAP. LVIII INFLAMMATIO RENVM is an inflammation of the reines Causa caused through corrupt humours and medicines which ingendreth inflammation of the reines and especially continual and vehement ridings also stripes may be the cause There is a beating pain behind about the joynt of the back Signa a little above the bastard ribs the pain stretching inwards towards the liver the right side reine most commonly is vexed and also the bladder privie members loynes hips share and thighs weaknesse of limbs their extream parts are cold as the calves of the legs and feet there is difficulty of making urine in the beginning it 's thin and watery but afterwards more rubicund gross and filthy a vehement fever a disposition to vomit gnawing of the stomack and vomiting of choller this is when it comes to a Nephritick passion some are vexed with sweats and faintings costivenesse of body puffings up with wind and abhorring of meat First his diet must be of a cooling quality Curatio Victus ratio Phlebotomia and thin Secondly bleed the Basilica vein on the same side and after
the Saphena beware of hot diureticks and acrid medicines as scammony use outwardly oyle of roses and quinces cooling clysters with Cassia is very good Olcum or Cassia inwardly with syrrup of violets also to drink Aq. sperm ranarum is excellent Aq. sperm ranarum fasting is hurtful use diureticks when the Absessus is broken as parsley and fennel in clysters put in oyls of roses violets and cammomel If you want more look into the Chapters of other inflammations and the Chapter of ulcers in the reines for the which honey and milk is good This clyster following is proper in the inflammation of the kidneys ℞ Rad. althaeae ℥ .j. fol. malvae violar Clyster lactucae ana M.j. prun dulc paria iv hord mundat flor violar ana P. j. fiat decoctio ad ℥ .viij. vel x. In colat dissolve cassiae vel diapruni simplicis ℥ .j. ol violac ℥ .4 Riverius vitellos ovorum num ij Fiat clyster Riverius lib. 8. cap. 3. CHAP. LIX CALCVLVs RENVM 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa happeneth oftner to men then to children The cause is continual crudity and rawnesse of the stomach whereby much grosse and earthly humours are heaped up together which being parched with a burning fiery heat about the reines hardneth into a stone The stones do sometimes differ in greatnes and figure colour and sharpness they are black whitish and pale They feel grievous pain in the reines Signa even as it were a bodkin thrust through and yet no swelling without he have much adoe to turn his back bone the leg against the diseased rein is astonied with abhorring of meat and vomiting the urine is sometime pissed forth little in quantity and watery afterward followeth perfect suppression of urine the womb avoyddeth nothing yet maketh many proffers to go to the stool sometimes blood is avoyded through the violence of the stones especially if they be sharp the urine hath gravelly residence when the stone is removed If the stones be light and round they are easily sent forth but very hard if they be long and sharp For the cure Curatio if thou wouldst first prevent it in any person prohibit fulnesse of diet and all such things as ingender gross and obstructive juyce unleasened and light bread gross and new ale and beer with new and unsetled wines and their exercises must be mean also let them avoyd cheese and milk and plenty of flesh all things that do heat and inflame the liver and kidneys are to be avoyded let him not stand with his back against the fire sallets are good Victus ratio and let his meat be such as yeeld nourishment as veal pullets chickens partridges doves larks and hedge-sparrowes which is said to be best Cassia Cassia is much commended to be given in a good quantity with syrrup of violets Althaeae maiden-haire or lymonds the broath of Althaeae is very good with the roots of parsely fennel cicers and the root and seed of saxifrage with a little new butter ℞ Bolus Terebinth venet ℥ .j. aut ℥ i.ss let it be washed in saxifrage water take it in wafers also some of the aforesaid syrrups taken in Aq. sperm ranarum cannot but be excellent wine of Alkekengie Vinum and also the milk of an asse is much commended by Aetius also syrrup of marrich mallows Aetius Potius diuret taken in parietary saxifrage or onion water is good Secondly if the stone be ingendred if there be a plethorick body and strong some will advise the vein in the ham of that leg that is astonied to be cut and also purging Phlebotomia if nothing forbid it otherwise take this clyster following ℞ Malvae Althaeae merculialis capil ven Clyster parietariae ana M.j. nastur M.i. ss Sem. Apii feniculi anaʒ iij Boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water strein it and adde ℥ .i. of Cassia Hierapicra ℥ ss oyls of dill and cammomel ana ℥ .j. Salicom ʒ.ij f. Enema anoynt the region of the reines and loynes with oyles of dill sweet Almonds cammomel and Althea Cataplas A cataplasme made with wheat meale linseed fenegreek lupines cammomel fennel roots beaten well and leaves of Althea If the stone stick fast or rest quietly in the kidneys beware of diureticks you must first loosen the reines with foments and cataplasmes as aforesaid and if the stone shall happen to fall into the bladder or yard and so stop the urine then make use of a silver Cathetur and diureticks the blood of the goat in saxifrage water is good Elect. Dulcis the ancients use Justinum or Elect. Dulcis In the fit you may use clysters bathes unction Cassia turpentine to disturb the stone use the clyster abovesaid to which may be added in the boyling cammomel roots of parietary and aniseed in the streining hony of of violets ℥ .j. venus turpentine ℥ ss oyles of scorpions ʒ ij aut ℥ ss give syrrup Dialthaea Syr. alth to make the passages slippery in some diuretick water but this is to be noted that if the stone be old or hard it is in vain to use diureticks but if it be sand and small stones then use those things aforesaid If you want more look into the Chapter of obstructions and the three kinds of dropsies and also into the Chapter of inflammation of the reines Hercul saxonia lib. 3. cap. 41. p. 346. Hercules Saxonia did frequently use Turpentine and indeed it is of great force not only to cleanse the reins and bladder from slime and gravel but also to break the stone ℞ Bolus Riverius Terebinthinae in aqua saxifragiae vel parietariae decies lotae ℥ ss cum saceharo fiat bolus Vel. ℞ Aliud Riverius Cassiae recentur extractaeʒ vj. terebinthinae ℥ ss pulv liquirit ʒ.ij misce fiat bolus Vel ℞ Aliud Terebinthinae ℥ ss Pulv. lithontrypticiʒ ij Misce fiat bolus Riverius lib. 8. cap. 1. pag. 235. If the inflammation and pain be great apply this cataplasme ℞ Cataplas Fontan Mucilaginis seminis lini faenugraeci an ℥ .vj. pinguedinis gallinae ℥ .iv. farinae hordei q. s.fiat cataplasma Fontan lib. 3. cap. 31. pga. 413. Vel ℞ Vnguenti populeon ℥ j. dialth ℥ ss misce Vnguentū Mar quardus Or if that will not be sufficient you may adde one dragme and a halfe of Opium CHAP. LX. DIABETES is a disease about the reines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 causing much thirst and what is drunk is pissed out again even as it is taken It is ingendred of weaknesse of the retentive vertue of the reins Causa but the attractive vertue is so strong that it sucketh the whole body through immoderate heat causing a stubborn thirst For the sign they drink continually Signa because the drink they take passeth swiftly out again their bowels seem to burn the loynes swell up and the stones and
rotteth and putrifieth within the veines Causa it agreeth with an exquisite intermitting Tertian because it is ingendred of the same humour that the other is But yet differs in that in an intermitting Tertian the choller is carried all over the body but in this causos it is contained in the vessels with the blood so that when the choller is stirred vehemently and driven about by nature there is wont to follow vehement cold and rigour Hippocrat Hippocrates saith 4. Aphoris 58. That if it happeneth in a burning fever the Patient is delivered from the disease It is known by these signes Signa their tongue is drie grosse rough and black also gnawing of the stomach thirst watchings and many times ravings their egestions of the wombe be liquid and pale For his cure use lettice and sorrel Curatio Victus ratio in his broath strew his room with the leaves of the vine flowers of roses violets and water-lillies also sprinkle cold water in the roome But the first intention is to open a vein Venae-sectio from whence a large quantity of blood must be drawn This Epithema is good â„ž Aqua rosarum rub lactucae ana â„¥ iij.ss Epithema aqua endiviae cichorii an â„¥ i.ss aceti â„¥ .j. triasantali ana â„¥ ss Sem. portulacae gr iv fiat Epith. moysten rotten wool in it and apply it to the liver If you will make one for the heart take the waters of Bugloss Burrage Pul. elect diamarg frigid corall saffron c. Lastly cause the chollerick humour to be voyded either by sweats vomits or egestions downwards and labour to quench the heat with Aq. sperm ranarum or the like or if you please you may make a julep of barley water Julepus wherein is boyled the strings of the vine a handful bruised with a few pruines to the streining adde sugar syrrup of violets poppies or any other syrrup that is of a cooling quality The manner of preparing barley water Guibertus Aq. hord according to Guibertus is thus Accipe hordei communis manipulum unum Bulliat in libris duabus aquae ad quadrantis consumptionem Extracta ab igne refrigerata coletur per linteum mundum ad usum CHAP. VI. EXQVISITA TERTIANA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cassa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 febris intermittens It is caused of choller carried by the sencible parts of the body yet it remaineth pure sincere and unmixed and therefore it is called exquisite In every fit they feel a vehement cold Signa rigour and stiffenesse and as it were pricked In the increasing of the fits the pulse are vehement great and frequent with thirst he breathes out as it were a flame of fire coveting cold water sometimes they vomit choller the belly being loose Their urine is chollerick the fit lasts commonly 12. houres sometimes lesse according to the quantity of choller or the quality of it or the strength of the patient Duplex tertiana If it invade the Patient daily with the signes aforesaid it is called Duplex tertiana a double tertian Galen in the most hottest fevers giveth counsell to draw blood even ad lypothimiam Galenus Curatio Vena sectio after the third fit it is most proper to be done At the first opening of the vein we may draw blood more in quantity then at the second because the first is for evacuation the second but for refrigeration let this be done the day before the fit The next day at the houre of the coming of the fit give a vomit of the infusion of Stibium Vomitus 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 or 15. drams according to the strength of the Patient The next fit procure a sweat with Diascordium mithridate Mithridatum Victus ratio gunpowder or the like Let him use that which cools and moystens as the flowers of violets burrage roses water-lillies endive succory lettice damascene pruins purslaine sorrel roots of grasse of these may be made decoctions Amongst compounds there is Elect de prunis damascenis without diagridium Diarrhodon Abbatis Diatria santalon in powder EmplastruÌ„ and the conserves of the former simples Also tosted bread infused in rose-vinegar beaten in a morter and adding coral Ê’ i red roses and cinnamon of either half a dram and applied like a plaister is good also Ceratum santalinum Ceratum and clysters doe well and if the Patient be not able to take a vomit give him strong Apozems For the extremity of heat Aq. sperm ranarum remember Aqua sperm ranarum If rest be wanting â„ž Haustus Syrrupi papaveris et nenufaris ana â„¥ .j. aq lactucae â„¥ .ij. misce bibat Or if you please VnguentuÌ„ you may use unguentum populeum mixed with a little opium and then to drop in 3 or 4 drops of oyle of nutmegs and bathe the temples of their head with it is good the manner of making with the quantities are set down in the Chapter of Melancholia Cataplasâ—ma towards the latter end Also take briony root slice it the inward bark of Helder rew fether-few walnut-tree bark or leaves and cellindine of ether a like quantity stamp them with a little salt spread them on a cloath grate a little nutmeg on it and apply it to the wrists If you want more look back into the Chapter of Causos If you think good you may minister this potion â„ž Potio purgans Elect. de succo ros diaprun sol anaÊ’ v. syr ros alex. ex 9. infus â„¥ ij decocti communis q. s misce fiaetpotio Carolus Amatus This is for a strong body But for a weak body this that followeth may serve â„ž Potio Syrrup de cichor compos cum rhab. â„¥ i.ss Elect. de succo ros Ê’.iij decocti gram acetos end q. s.fiat potio Varandaeus pag. 7. Vel â„ž Massae pilul aggr de Rhab. an ℈ .ij. diagr gr iv cum aqua foeniculi fiant pilulae numero xi deaurentur Carolus Amatus CHAP. VII TERTIANA NOTHA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa or bastardly Tertian it is caused when choller is mixed for the most part with flegme In this fever Signa the time of the fits exceed twelve hours and there is not such great heat in the state and rigour of this fever as in the exquisite Tertian besides it doth not end in abundance of sweat as the exquisite Tertian doth Give them ptisan and mulsa Curatio Victus ratio Venae sectio wherein hath been sodden Hyssop and Origan fasting If the Patient be strong bleeding helpeth much then take this clyster following â„ž Malvae mercurialis violarum origani Clyster Hyssopi ana M.j. sem nasturtiiÊ’ iij coquantur in s.q aquae usque ad consumptionem medietatis cujus colaturae accipiatur lib. 1. adde Benedict laxat Hierapicra anaÊ’ iij mel rosarumÊ’ iv oleum violarum cammomeli ana
â„¥ i.ss Salis communisÊ’ ij fiat enema Boyle parslay fennel origan hyssope and lettice in his broath Also Oximel simplex and scilliticum is good Vomitus And I am perswaded that to give a vomit made with Asaron and the infusion of stibium mixed together would prove a sure help if strength permits it to be administred Lastly this purge following is good for a strong body â„ž Diaphaenicon Ê’.ij elect è succo rosar Ê’.ij Purgatio benedict lax Ê’ ss Syr. rosarum de rhabarbare ana â„¥ ss Decoct q. s fiat potio If he cannot sit up make an Apoz Apozema of the infusion of Rhubarb and Agarick adding thereto the aforesaid syrrups of each half an ounce Ronde letius hanc ptisanam commendat Rondeletius Ptisana â„ž Hordei mundati quar 1. jujub. passular mundat cicerum rub ana â„¥ .j. glycyrrhizae mund â„¥ ss fiat decoctio in aqua ad lib. 2. Colatura transfundatur per manicam Hippoc. cum â„¥ .iv. sacchari Ê’ ij Cinamomi Chalmet Enchirid. pag. 357. Lastly â„ž Haustus Hydromelitis â„¥ .ij. decocti hyssopi â„¥ .ij. ss detur tepidum à coena Hollerius lib. 2. fol. 8. CHAP. VIII QVARTANA FEBRIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa intermittens It is a fever proceeding from melancholy putrifying and rotting without the vessels and moveth every fourth day as choller in a tertian every third and flegme in a quotidian daily Valescus reporteth Valescus that he saw a man that had a fever every thirtieth day for the space of thirty years that quartan is safest which proceedeth not from other diseases for there be some fevers that degenerate into a quartan The signe is knowne by things antecedent Signa as if the sick were melancholy c. It beginnes with trembling and shaking but not vehement at first but afterward with rigour and extreme cold His bones seem to be bruised and feeleth pain in his lower parts because the humour is cold drie and grosse A small and low pulse little hear except there be burnt choller they have little sweat the urinc thin and waterish and the stooles drie If blood seem to abound Curatio Venae sectio open the vena licnaris or spleen vein being the innermost of the left arm with this caution that if the blood be black gross and corrupted draw boldly if thin yellow or the like close up the vein In women move the Menstruis in men the Hemorrhoyds Vena salvatella also it is not amisse to open the Salvatella his diet must be easie of digestion wine is good that is thin and pure also exercises moderate do well keep accustomed evacuations with this clyster â„ž Fol. malvae M.j. polypod quer â„¥ i.ss epith Clyster â„¥ ss cammomeli mercurialis ana M.j. scolopendr M. ss sen alex. â„¥ .j. sem anisi feniculi ana p. ss Bulliant in s q aquae cujus colaturae accipiatur lib. 1. adde cassiae re extractae â„¥ .j. Diasena laxativa â„¥ ss mel rosarum â„¥ .j. olei violarum â„¥ .ij. saâ—gem Ê’.j fiat enema Also pul sanctus is a good purger of melancholy Pulvis EmplastruÌ„ Gleum A plaister of mellilot for the spleen would do well and oyle of rew and capers to bathe the bowels and sides is commended Also to provoke urine and open obstructions search the diseases of the spseen If it be possible Vomitus procure vomiting with Hellebor or take the juyce of Radich â„¥ .iij. mixed with two ounces of oximel If he be a weak body then give him this Apozem following â„ž Radic capparis Tamaricis anaÊ’ iij Apozema polypodii melissae Buglossae borraginis scolopend an M.j. sem anisi foeniculi anaÊ’ ii flor genist p. 1. Epith. â„¥ .j. Sennae â„¥ ss fiat decoct Put not in the epithimum and Sene untill the latter end of the boyling then adde to the straining syrrup of fumitory and epithimum as much as sufficeth to make an Apozem for poor and strong bodies may be given confectio Hamech in some decoction Confectio hamech Be sure you look to the spleen for it will grow hard and the Hypocondre on the right side will be stretched out Some highly commend oyle of juniper and castorum to anoynt the spine of the back a little before the fit Oleum because from thence beginneth this fit Rondeletius Vinus salvTrallianus Valescus Rondeletius commends sage-wine Trallianus affirmes that a live Bittle hung about the neck tincted with saffron to be a sure help Valesc commendeth the heart of a Hare prepared as the lungs of a Fox given in wine 4 or 5 times Of a simple Quartan may soon be made a double or triple one if hot things be given before it cometh to its state Lastly this infusion following is excellent for most diseases of the spleene and once I gave of it to one that had a Quartan a year together Historia and God cured him â„ž If sio Chalybs praep â„¥ .j. vinum album p. 1. Put them into a glasse and shugge them up together Then let it be stopt with a cork and bladder let it stand in a kettle of water up to the neck scalding hot but not boyle for 48 or 80 houres untill the steel be dissolved and the wine look as black as ink give the Patient a spoonful or 2 or 3 at a time evening and morning untill he be recovered For his sawce let him use olives and capers for they be very good For strong bodies some commend Pilulae de elaterio which according to Nicolaus Myrepsus are thus made â„ž Aloes â„¥ ij masticis â„¥ j. elaterii â„¥ iij. Pilulae cum succo cucumeris asinini conficitur Da iij. vel v. Nicolaus Myrepsus Dispensat CHAP. IX QVOTIDIANA FEBRIS intermittens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa It is ingendred of putrified and rottenflegm it is called of the Greeks Amphimerina because it causeth a fit every day yet the learned may be sometimes deceived for Duplex tertiana Triplex quartana and Triplex quartana doth return daily But the Tertian with rigour and exceeding cold The Quartan with shaking and shivering The Quotidian with cold of the extream parts more properly an exteam chilling The two latter doe not end in sweat as the Tertian doth It is known by the slownesse of the pulse Signa being little and weak they feel no thirst the urine is white and thin or thick and troubled no sweat in the first dayes They oftentimes vomit flegme flegmatick persons are alwayes vexed with it but never cholerick If the flegm be sharp it causeth hunger If salt thirst If it be sweet then it causeth drowsinesse But if some flegme that is glasen which is the coldest do putrifie by it selfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then it ingendreth a fever called Epialos febris in which the Patient is feaverous and vehemently cold both together feeling both
fulness is known by vehement paine about the loynes and privie members with swollen veines 1. For a cold distemper turn back to lib. 1. Curatio Sabina chap. 25. pag. 52. for a poor body let the leaves of savine be boyled in wine and drunk or receive the fume of savine it will force them It doth also expell the dead child 2. In a hot cause bleed on the feet Venae sectio coole and moysten and give syrrup of steel And when the distemper is over then observe the former directions for fulness make a purgation with Diaphaenicon Hierapicra and benedicta laxativa Purgatio Amongst simples that provoke the terms are roots of parslay sperage seeds of smallege and fennel Anniseed nettles Also calamint Catalogus simplicium wormwood origan sothernwood mugwort peniroyal hyssop hore-hound rew motherwort Ireos laurel berries madder sage cummin-seed Enula campana root of Aristolochia and Savine of these may be made decoctions into which may be put a little sugar to drink 4. Also Castoreum Storax Galbanum frankincense Fumigatio Bdelium and Benzoine of these may be made suffumigations Also if you turn back to the eighth Chapter of this book Vin. Chaâ— lyb and the ninth page you shall find an excellent thing for this purpose even the steel wine to give the Patient of it evening and morning with the syrrup of the same and exercise This potion following is commended by Montanus in his Treatise Deaffectionibus uteri Montanus Consilium 308. pag. 749. â„ž Potio purgans Agarici praeparatiÊ’ ij RhabarbariÊ’ j infundantur in aqua betonicae per horas 24 fiat expressio fortis â„ž DiacatholiconisÊ’ ij ss Misce fiat potio brevis The same author praiseth Confect diacimini vel Diatrion pipereon vel aromat rosa and lastly Mithridate in white-wine CHAP. XIX MENLIV M fluxus immodici The Menstruis do chance to flow out of measure Causa through great or small vessels opened wide or broken also immoderate purgations and grievous travel in child-birth may be the cause If the greater vessels be broken Signa or open'd the bloodfloweth out gushing on heaps If the lesser it floweth out by little little If through eating or gnawing it floweth with great pain moreover there followeth a filthy colour the feet are puffed up with a light swelling having a weak body wlth their digestion and appetite corrupted First they must give themselves rest Curatio Venae-sectio Catalogus simplicium secondly if nothing forbid open a vein in the arm Amongst restrictives are Balaustia Aypocischis Acatia knot-grass both the consolidaes plantin barberries roses myrtills harts-tongue burnt quinces of these may be made decoctions for juleps in a hot cause they may be boyled in the waters of some of the simples adding thereto in the streining Syrrupus myrthinus and de rosis siccis In a cold cause boyle them in pure red wine The juyce of plantin or knot-grasse injected Injectio Galenus is much commended by Galen This electuary following is good â„ž Conservae ros antiquae â„¥ ss symphiti â„¥ j. Electuarium boli armeniÊ’ ij sanguinis draconis ambrae citrinae corallorum rubrorum ana ℈ j. cum syrrupo myrthino fiat elect Also the powder following is excellent â„ž Cornu cervini usti boli armeni terra sigillata Pulvis diamarfrigidi pul margaritarum lapidis hematitis ana ℈ i. ss misce fiat pulvis detur cum aqua plantaginis If you want more look into the Chapter of Dysenteria and other fluxes of blood as Sputum sanguinis c. Lastly these pills following are to be taken before meat to strengthen the stomach â„ž Aloes optimaeÊ’ x. mastiches chiae Ros Pilulae Fontanus Rubrarum anaÊ’ ij cum syrrupo Absynthites cogantur in Massam Nic. Fontanus lib. institut Phar. Sect. 9. cap. 11. CHAP. XX. FLVXVS MVLIEBRIS aut uteri fluor Causa This flux of the matrice is a continual distillation and flowing out for a long time the body purging its self The humour is red like putrefied blood Signa yet sometimes pure which noteth erosion or gnawing mattery white and sometimes watery the secret part is continually moyst with the humours being of divers colours She is ill coloured abhorreth meat her eyes are swollen and she breatheth difficultâ—y 1. Curatio Venae sectio For the red fluxe open a vein in the arm often drawing a little blood at a time and let her diet be restrictive 2. For the white flux if it have taken her but newly do not stop it If it have continued long let her give her self rest usinga drie diet what else is wanting may be supplyed out of the Chapter of Gonorrhaea 3. If sharp humours have ulcerated those parts look uteri exulceratio and Gonorrhaea virulenta in the Chapter of Lues venerea 4. For a pale and chollerick flux purge with the infusion of Rhubarb If melancholy abound Infusio purgans Potio purgans take Decoctio com â„¥ .vj. Syr. de fumaria epithimo ana â„¥ .j. Cassiae re extracta â„¥ ss fiat potio and let him use restrictive medicines as aforesaid in Chapter 19. c. Lastly â„ž Forestus Cons ros antiq â„¥ .i. ss diacydon sine spec â„¥ ss cons flor cichor â„¥ .j. pul triumsan corall Mixtura rub usti loti an Ê’.i.ss cum syr cotoneor fiat mixtura CHAP. XXI VTERI STRANGVLATIO seu suffocatio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 otherwise called Hysterica passio It is a drawing of the womb to the upper parts as it were by a convulsive motion It is caused through the defluction either of seed being sometimes corrupted Causae or the flowers which causeth the womb to be swelled and the vessels and ligaments to be distended with fulnesse and pressing the Diaphragma causeth shortnesse of breathing Also the whites or some other humour or a tumour or a rotten impostume or some ill juyce putrefying and resolving into gross vapours may be the cause The womb removeth out of his seat and doth one while fall towards the liver another while towards the milt another while towards the midriffe stomach and downwards towards the bladder sometimes the child is very great that it press the midriff and so cause the fits When the fit is nigh Signa there is heavinesse of mind slowness paleness and sorrowfulness Being present there is a drowsiness also doting and a withholding of the instruments of breathing they wax dumb and draw up their legges and a moyst humour floweth out of the womb 1. If it assaile the guts the bowels make a noyse 2. If it trouble the stomach there is vomiting 3. If it assaile the brest and throat there is choaking 4. If the brain there is madnesse 5. If the heart there is swouning some sleep sound others talk foolishly others they breath so little that they seem dead 1. If you would know whether
delivered give her 2 or 3 spoonfulls of oyle of sweet almonds Ol amigdal dulcium extracted without fire or cullises or gellies 2. Let the secundine be presently drawne away before the neck of the womb be closed according to the former directions 3. Then must the navel-string be tyed with a double thred an inch from the belly let not the knot be two hard lest that part of the navel-string without the knot should fall away sooner then it ought neither too slack or loose lest that an exceeding and mortal flux of blood should follow after it is cut off when the knot is made the navel-string must be cut in sunder the breadth of two fingers beneath it with a sharp knife upon the section you must apply a double linnen cloth dipped in oyle of roses or sweet almonds to mitigate the pain for so within a few dayes after that which is beneath the knot will fall away being destitute of life and nourishment By reason the umbilical vein and artery are tyed so close that no life nor nourishment can come into it commonly midwifes do let it lye unto the bare belly of the infant whereof cometh grievous pain and griping by reason of its coldnesse being destitute of heat but it were better to roule it in soft cotton or lint untill it be mortified and so fall away 4. Then the child must be wiped and cleansed from all filth with oyle of roses or myrtills being first washed with warm water and wine wherein is boyled the leaves of roses red and myrtils adding thereto a little salt is excellent some use this lotion 5 or 6 dayes together with very good success for it washeth away all the filthy matter 5. If there be any passages stopped or covered with a membrane as often happeneth to the eares nostrils mouth yard womb and fundament It must be cut and tents put in to keep it open 6. And if the ligamental membrane under the tongue be short and stiffer then it ought it must be amended by an expert Chyrurgion 7. If there be a chalky substance both in colour and consistence that sticketh on the inner side of the mouth which the French-men call the white Cancer cleanse it with a linnen cloath bound to a little stick and dipped in a medicine made with oyle of sweet Almonds Medicamentum honey and sugar This cancer will not permit the child to suck 8. Also give the child a spoonful of oyle of sweet Almonds extracted without fire and rub the inner side of the mouth therewith 9. If the child be troubled with fretting in the guts apply moyst or sweaty wool macerated in oyle of cammomel 10. Children ought not to be weaned before their teeth appear 11. Those that are scabby all over the heads face or body voyding many excrements are like to be strong and sound of body 12. Those that are faire of body gather the matter of many diseases in their bodies which in time will appear Certainly by the sudden falling of such matter into the back bone many become crook-backt 1. The belly of the woman must be bound about with a ligature made of indifferent breadth and length to keep out cold which bringeth hysterical suffocations painful frettings in the guts and a fever with other mortal diseases and to presse out the blood 2. Then give her some capon broath or caudle with saffron and to keep the belly from wrinkling 3. VnguentuÌ„ â„ž Spermatis ceti â„¥ .ij. olei amygdal dulcium hypericon ana â„¥ i. ss sevi hircini â„¥ j. olei myrtillorum ana â„¥ i. ss cerae novae quantum sufficit f. unguentum anoynt her body therewith 4. For fretting in her guts â„ž Pulvis Anisi conditiÊ’ ij nucis moschatae cornu cervi usti anaÊ’ i.ss ligni aloes rad consolidae major anaÊ’ i. ss ambrae graec gr iv f. pulvis Give her a dram at a time in white wine if she have a fever in capon broath 5. If the woman cannot nurse then to repel the milk that it may be expelled through the womb â„ž LinimentuÌ„ Olei ros myrtini ana â„¥ .iij. aceti rosat â„¥ .j. Incorporate them and therewith anoynt and besprinkle them with the powder of myrtyls and then this emplaster following is good â„ž Emplastâ—uÌ„ Pul. mastichini nucis moschatae anÊ’ ij nucis cupressiÊ’ iij. balaust myrtil an Ê’.i ss Ireos florent â„¥ ss olei myrtini â„¥ iij. terebinth venetae â„¥ ij cerae novae q. s f. emplast Or take the leaves of sage smallage rue and Thervil Cataplas cut them very small and incorporate them in vinegar and oyle of roses and so apply them to her brest and renew it thrice every day CHAP. XXX IS CHIAS in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The barbarous sort call it Sciatica It is a grievous pain which chanceth about the joynt which the Greeks call Ischion the Latins Coxa in English the Hucklebone 1. A plentiful phlegmatick humour Causa that is cold gross and viscid flowes down into this joynt 2. The pain not only troubles the leg but entring very deep is extended to the muscles of the buttocks the groines knees and very ends of the toes yea oftentimes it vexeth the Patient with a sense of pain in the very Vertebra of the loynes 3. The cause of such wandring pain is to be referred to the manifold distribution of the nerves which come to the joynt from the loyns and holy-bone 4. Continual rawness and unmeasurable using of venereous acts do not a little help Also neglect of exercises and a slux suddenly stopped may be the cause sometimes there is a flatulency mixed with the humour that runneth into the cavity of this joynt There is a bitter and violent pain in the Hucklebone Signa some have pain about the privie members and the bladder being vexed they have difficulty of pissing The whole leg from the haunch to the heel suffereth pain yet oftentimes no swelling rednesse nor distemper manifest to the eye Lastly the ligamentous bodies moystned with this excrementious humor become loose whence succeeds lamenesse and at last a hectick fever First Curatio Venae sectio if there be an inflammation and the Patient full of blood open the Basilica on the grieved side for revulsion and then for evacuation of conjunct matter the Vena Ischiadica on the one side of the Ankle If the pain be most in the inside take the Sapheia on the inside of the Ankle Also acrid clysters are good If there be no ulcers in the guts or Hemorrhoids â„ž Clyster Rad. acor â„¥ .ij. centaur rutae salviae rorism calam origan pulegii an M. ss stoechad arabic flor cham melil aneth an p. 1. scm anisi foenic. ana â„¥ ss agaric Ê’.ij rad polypod â„¥ ss fiat decoctio ad li. j. in colaturâ dissolve Hieraepicrae diaphen an â„¥ ss benedict lax Ê’ ij mellis anthos sacc rub ana â„¥ j.
a curling or intangling of the haire Secondly 2. Decoloratio a deformity of the colour Thirdly 3. Quassatio a splitting or cleaving asunder of the haire Fourthly 4. Fractio which is a short breaking away of the haire for it snappeth asunder Fifthly 5. Atrophia a drying away or consuming of the haire for lack of food Sixthly 6. Canities is when the haire before its due time becomes gray or white Seventhly 7. Defluxio which is a falling away of the haire like as in them who lost their naturall heat or recovered after a long continued sicknesse Eighthly 8. Phiasis is when the haire is coloured like a snake The ninth and last is this 9. Alopecia I now treat of The causes of Alopecia Causa are inflamed moystures whereby the haire before was fed which through inflammation thereof is taken away If blood abound open a vein Curatio Venae sectio Fomentatio and take myrtill seeds and leaves boyle them in plantin water and red wine and wash the head therewith Or â„ž Mellis purioris vini cretici Fallopius urinae puerorum Lactis ana lb. Aqua Fallopius j. Destillet aqua qua abluantur loca unde pili decidunt Fallopius CHAP. III. TORTVRA ORIS called of Almansor Contractio it is untruly named the palsie for it is more nearer a cramp yet if it proceed from moysture it is a kind of palsie if through drowth then it is a kind of cramp and is commonly a sign of death The chief cause springeth Causa as of that of the palsie or cramp called Spasmos or else of cold or some angry passion The mouth and lips are contracted to the right or left side Signa so that one eye is sometimes clear shut up and the breath issueth out at one corner of the mouth For the cure Curatie if you look into the Chapters of Spasmus and Paralysis you shall find plenty of remedies yet this bag following is much commended â„ž Sacculus Pulicar herb paralys orig calamenti folior lauri rutae anthos an m. ss florum stoecados salviae sambuci ana p. j. radic pyretri â„¥ .j. fiat sacculus And apply it Oleum castorei but first let the diseased part be anoynted with oyle of Castoreum Lastly â„ž Aqua opt Quercetanus Aquarum Lillii convallii Aquarum juniperi ana â„¥ j. olei succini ℈ ss misce Quercetanus CHAP. IV. PEDICVLARIS MORBVS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa the lowsie evill is a miserable sickness It happeneth that these vermin do breed of moysture of a mans flesh and begin commonly in the eye-browes and in some scabs or scruf by little and little they creep out of the whole body with such danger that very skilful Physicians have enough to do therewith First purge Curatio and then anoynt with this liniment following â„ž Ol. amigd amar â„¥ ij ol antiquiss LinimentuÌ„ Rondelet vel rutac â„¥ j. staphi agriae â„¥ j. centaur minor Ê’ ij myrrhaeÊ’ iij. arg viv â„¥ ij axung ranc dae salitae â„¥ iij. incorporentur simul fiat linâ—mentum Lastly let him drink the juyce of wormwood and scurvigrass in his beer for a week together And â„ž Malv bismal ciclae ana m. ij hord integ Rondeletius Lotio leviter torrefacti p. iij. fo â„¥ j. flor chamo mellil ana p. j. fiat decoctio qua abluatur Rondelet lib. 1. cap. 3. Or the oyntment made with Tobacco ashes see the first Chapter and second page of this book or make this liniment â„ž Aloes staphydis agriae an â„¥ ss olei fraxini LinimentuÌ„ succi genistoe q. s Fiat linimentum Weckerus CHAP. V. OPHTHALMIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an inflammation of the coat Adnata and consequently of the whole eye with beating and great pain It may be caused either by a fall Causa a stroak dust or small sand flying into the eyes or by a defluxion of a thin hot humour upon the eyes or an inflammation of the Dura mater or pericranium may be the cause The signes are great heat Signa rednesse and pain which sometimes is so vehement that it forceth the eyes out of their orbe and breaketh them asunder they are sometimes taken with vomiting which is a sign that the matter of the disease proceeds from the stomack Their diet must be moderate Curatio Victus ratio Venae-sectio Galenus and of a cooling quality and if nothing forbid give him a gentle purgation and open a vein in the arm But Galen commends the opening of a vein in the forehead to be a most speedy help Then use repercussives as â„ž Collyrium Paraeus Aq. ros rub plantag an â„¥ ss mucagin gum tragacanth Ê’.ij album ovi quod sufficit f. collyrium Let certain drops be dropped into the eye and presently after apply this cataplasme to the eye â„ž Cataplas Karaeus Medul pomor sub ciner coctorum â„¥ .iij. lactis muliebris â„¥ ss fiat cataplasma CHAP. VI. SVFFVSIO vel cataracta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a disease in which the Patient imagines that he seeth black things It is the concretion of an humour into a thin skin under the horny coat just against the apple or pupil or it is a corrupt water congealed like a curd betwixt the Tunicles and set before the sight of the eye and the cristalline humour so that the sight is quite lost weak or somehat depraved Leucoma or the web of the eye Leucoma Glaucoma is not much unlike the cataract and also Glaucoma which is when the cristalline humour is dry and thick and the colour of it is green so that the eyes seem green The causes of a cataract may be a fall Causa stroak heat cold or pain by whose meanes the humour is drawne and gathered together or else vapours and humours ascending to the brain and from thence descending to the eyes which in processe of time and by reason of cold are changed into water and in the end becomes thick and congealed When the cataract is formed and ripe Signa it resembleth a thin membrane spread over the Apple or pupil and appeareth in colour sometimes black green livid citrine and a quick-silver-like colour which are all held uncurable because it is very like that the optick nerve is obstructed But a chesnut or a sky or sea-water colour with some little whitenesse yeeld great hope of a happy and successeful cure At the first when it beginneth to breed they seem to see many things as flies hares nets and black things sometimes every thing appeareth two and sometimes lesse than they are and their sight is best in the morning now if this filme cover half the pupil then all things shew but by halfes But if the middest thereof be covered and as it were the centre of the cristalline humour then they seem as if they had holes or windowes but if
it cover all then can they see nothing at all but shadowes of visible bodies and that but confusedly and by conjecture He must abstaine from wine Curatio pease beanes turneps and especially from venery Let his bread be seasoned with some sweet fennel-seeds Venae sectio phlebotomy and purging if they be requisite shall be appointed Also masticatories to be used in the morning and frictions upon the eye-lids are commended Bright shining things as the Starres the Moon when it is at the full Looking-glasses Diamonds c. for the Patient to look earnestly upon them are said to dissipate a beginning cataract also for this purpose Collyrium take two ounces of Damask rose-water warme it on the fire and half a dram of Aloes succotrine pulveris'd mix them with the juice of Cellendine as much as sufficeth drop three drops into the eye every night eight nights together I was taught this by a very good friend of mine that held it for a great secret or take Vigo's collyrium made â„ž Collyrium Hepatis hircini sani recentis lb. ij calami aromatici mellis an â„¥ ss succi rutaeÊ’ iij. aq chelidoniae faeniculi verbeniae euphasiae an â„¥ .iij. piperis longi nucis moschatae caryophylloruÌ„ anaÊ’ ij croci ℈ .j. storis rorismarini aliquantum contriti m. ss sarcocollae aloe hepaticae anaÊ’ iij fellis ratae leporis perdicis an â„¥ .j. terantur omnia tritisque adde sacchari albi â„¥ .ij. mellis rosatiÊ’ vj conjiciantur in alembicum vitreum distillentur in balneo mariae If you prevaile nothing by these â—edicines and that the humour do every day thicken more then other when it comes to be grown somewhat hard then let the expert Chyrurgion touch it with a needle according to art The powder of a mowshell put into the eye upon a web wasteth it CHAP. VII LIPPITVDO blear eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or blood-shot eyes is nothing else but a certain white filth flowing from the eyes which oftentimes agglutinates or joynes together the eye-lids Sometimes it is hereditary Causa Rhasis and then not to be cured Rhasis saith that when the white of the eye is turned to rednesse it is caused of some salt humour or super-abundance of Rhume with corruption of blood Also excrementious flegme may be the cause Some commend Emplast contra rupturam Curatio Cucurbitulae to be applyed to the shaven crown frictions and cupping-glasses applyed to the hinder part of the head are good and a collyrium made with rose-rose-water Collyrium and a little vitrial dissolved therein Lastly â„ž Decoctio Salviae betonicae hyssopi serpilli an m. j. flor stoechados m. v. rad faeniculi peoniae ana â„¥ .j. sem anisi faeniculi ammi an Ê’ j. nucis muschatae cinnam an Ê’ j. misceantur coquantur usque ad consumptionem tertiae partis deinde coletur saccharoque dulcis reddatur potio cui denique addantur syrupi de betâ—nica â„¥ .iv. Let him drink thereof often Venae-sectio but first purge him and bleed him and an issue made in his neck cannot but be very effectual to turn the course of the humour unguentum tutiae cannot but be very good CHAP. VIII AEGILOPS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fistula lacrymosa or weeping fistula of the eye it is in the corner thereof near unto the nose where there is a glandule made for the receiving and retaining moysture for the humecting the eye lest it should drie by continual motion This glandule sometimes swells impostumates and ulcerates by reason of a sanguine Causa or pituitous defluxion falling violently from the brain and in time it rotteth the bone that lyeth under it There is for the most part a tumour of the bignesse of a pease Signa the which being pressed floweth with a sanious serous red or white and viscid matter In time they cause an Atrophia of the eye in some blindnesse Prognostic and a stinking breath Some chirurgions cut up the uppermost skin Curatio and wring or presse out the impostume which lieth lockt in a little bladder and cut it off as near as may be the rest they take away with an actual cautery The same swelling doth settle it self otherwhiles in the length of the eye-lids yet both are to be holpen with oat-meal wine and Tutiae tempered together in manner of a salve Anchylops Anchylops somewhat differs from Aegilops for that is a superfluous flesh in the corners of the eye whereto humours gather â„ž Thuris sarcocollae aloes sang dracon Collyrium balaust antimonii aluminis an ℈ .j. floris gr v. fiat pulvis cum aqua rutae f. collyrium Forestus CHAP. IX LAGOPHTHALMVS or the hare-eye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In this affect the Patient sleepeth with his eyes open because his eye-lids are so short that it will not cover them The cause is either internal or external Causa internal as by a carbuncle impostume or ulcer external as by a wound made by a sword fall burning or the like That which happens by burning and a carbuncle c. is held uncurable Curatio because much of the substance is lost you must use relaxing and mollient fomentations Ectropion is the turning up Ectropion or out of the eye-lid both their cures are properly performed by chyrurgery In this last purge twice or thrice with these pills following â„ž Pilulae Forestus Pilul sine quibus lucis major anaÊ’ ss diagridii gr ij fiant pilulae vij deinde ut oculum lavaret praecepi vino albo cui alumen de rocha in exigua quantitate semel bullitum erat Deinde palpebram linimento subsequenti inungeret jussi â„ž LinimentuÌ„ Tutiae praeparatae â„¥ ss axungiae porcinae colatae â„¥ .i. ss camphorae ℈ j. boni ponderis lavetur novies in aqua ros somni tempore inungatur Forestus Forest Tom. 1. lib. 11. obs 41. CHAP. X. CHALAZION 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Hailstone of the eye-lid is a round and clear pimple which growes upon the upper eye-lid and is moveable The Latines call it grando There is another pimple called Hordeolum HordeoluÌ„ growing upon the verges of the eye-lids above the place of the hairs it resembles a barley corn At the first beginning it may be dissolved and discussed Curatio but if once it comes to be hard it 's scarce curable and is hardly brought to suppuration The best way is to open them and then to press forth the matter If the pimple be small thrust it through with a needle and thred and leave the thred therein of such length that you may fasten the ends thereof with a little Emplastrum gratia Dei to the forehead if it be on the upper eye-lid or to the cheeks if on the lower you must draw forth a fresh one every second day as is usually done in chyrurgical Setons Thus at
be raised sharp upward First cut the Cephalica vein on the same side Curatio Venae sectio Fomentatio and make a fomentation with Fenugreek Althaea cammomel and meal of Linseed to ease pain EmplastruÌ„ Emplast Oxycroceum and melilot plaister is good some have performed a perfect cure with Argent Vng enul vivum The oyntment thereof being rubbed upon a plaister of melilot and applyed two or three times Lastly this cataplasme following is very good â„ž Cataplas Paraeus Rad. liliorum ceparum sub cineribus coct an â„¥ iij. vitell ovor num ij axung suillae unguent basilicon an â„¥ .i. fari sem lini â„¥ i.ss fiat Cataplasma But if the matter so require let the tumor be opened If you see cause you may put Vng Enulat in the Cataplasme CHAP XVII OZAENA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an ulcer in the inside of the nose deep stinking and rotten out of which are sent forth a loathsome and stinking savour with many crusty and stinking excrements The cause is sharp and rotten humours Causa which flow to the nostrils Let the head be dried and strengthened Curatio Pilulae cochiae but first purge him with one dragm of head pills and â„ž Omphacii â„¥ ss cortic mali granati VnguentuÌ„ vel conficiantur sic an Ê’.iij myrrhae aluminis ladani anaÊ’ ij calchit aloes cort thur an Ê’.j ol rosat myrrh an Ê’ ij cerae rub q. s fiat unguentum Also the nostrils may be anoynted with the juyce of pomegranate boyled in a brazen vessel unto the halfe Monardus Monardus commends the urine of an asse The juyce of Cresses with Allam are good and â„ž Mel. rosarum â„¥ .j. cerus ℈ ij misce Mixtura And anoynt the scabs therewith Lastly let him drink of this julep often â„ž Aqua fumariae p.j. Syr. fumar â„¥ iv misce Julepus Weckerus And to mitigate pain Weckerus in lib. 2. par 2. pag. 423. doth commend axungia gallinae cum ol viol pauca cera CHAP. XVIII PROFLVVIO SANGVINIS ex naribus flux of blood at the nose Causa is caused by a twofold meanes as internal and external external as some fall a stripe vehement exercise and tarrying in the sun of inward causes as plenty of blood and thinnesse of the same and sometimes great drinking of wine You may know if it come through plenty of blood Signa by a heavie pain in the head much blood in the face and by the rednesse of the eyes First open a vein on the arm Curatio Venae-sectio if nothing forbid Then take a little bolearmeny and Aqua sperm ranarum mix them together and spread them on a double cloath and apply it to the temples and let the Patient snuffe up a little of the water aforesaid often cold If the Patient be ancient and have lost much blood comfort him with claret wiâ—e burnt Historia and sweetned with loaf-sugar This course I did once take with an ancient woman of fourscore years of age that had lost so much blood that I feared greatly she would die under my hands and God cured her There are many excellent remedies to be found in the Chapters of other fluxes Yet this medicament following is of great use â„ž Medicamentum Aquae plantag â„¥ .viij. aceti ros â„¥ .j. aqua ros â„¥ ss duo ovi album boli arm veriÊ’ i. ss concussa cum panno lineo fronti apponantur Forest Forestus To. 1. lib. 13. ob 13. CHAP. XIX POLYPVS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a fleshly matter growing in the nostrils like unto a kind of carbuncle Hippocrat Hippocrates doth affirm that it is uncurable Sometimes it is caused through grosse humours descending to the nostrils Causa and sometimes it ariseth through a melancholy humour Signa It is one while white another while reddish and adheres to the bone of the noseâ— and sometimes fils the nostril hanging towards the lips and resembling the foot of a sea Polypus There is also found sometimes a softmembrane long and thin and is filled with a flegmatick and viscid humour which in expiration hangs out of the nose but is drawn in and hid by inspiration It makes one snuffle in their speech and snort in their sleep Some kinds of Polypi are painful hard Curatio and resisting having a livid or leading colour such must not be touched with the hand But apply this Anodine â„ž Olei vitell ovorum â„¥ .ij. lytharg auri Anodyna tutiae praep an â„¥ .j. succi plat solani an â„¥ j. lapid haematit camphorae an â„¥ ss Let them be wrought in a leaden morter and so make a medicine to put into the nostril Those that are soft loose and without pain are curable some pluck them away with an instrument but the best way is to waste them away with Aqua fortis or oyle of vitriol and then to ease pain take ung de bolo nutritum for a fleshly Polypus some commend a Polypody root to be put through it to waste it CHAP. XX. FOETOR ORIS stinking of the mouth it is caused for the most part through putrefaction of the gummes Causa or teeth or through meat sticking still in the teeth many times it cometh through a hot distemper of the skin of the mouth sometimes through corrupt and rotten humours sticking in the mouth of the stomach sometimes ulceration of the mouth or lungs is the occasion of the stinking breath If it chance through putrefaction of the gums Signa or teeth or meat sticking in the teeth it is easily known If through heat in the mouth there is felt thirst If through vice in the stomach the breath is more stinking before meat than after Exulcerations of the lungs are known by extenuation of the body and by coughing c. Let his meat be easie of digestion Curatio Victus ratio if stinch of the mouth come through corruption of the gums look into the Chapter of the scurvie If through ulceration of the lungs look into the Chapter of Ptisis Vomitus If it proceeds from the stomach administer a vomit and then strengthen the stomach with Aromat Aromat rosat c. rosat Diambre c. If through ulceration of the mouth look into the following Chapter CHAP. XXI APHTHAE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are certain ulcers bred in the uppermost part of the mouth and are by the Barbarians called Acola they have a certain burning heat some be whitish some be reddish and some be blackish and those be most perilous of all other They ingender for the most part in children Causa Causa when either the nurses milk is naught or the child cannot well digest it These ulcers sometimes chance to them that be of perfect age caused by a flux of vitious and sharp humours The tokens are easie they which be red
ij ss absynth pontic Vnguent â„¥ ss â—letros â„¥ iv ceraeÊ’ vj. succi solani quantum sufficit ad ung uenti crassitudineÌ„ Also â„ž VngueutuÌ„ Theriac veter â„¥ j. succi cancrorum â„¥ ss succi lactucae olei rosarum â„¥ i. ss vitel ovorum sub cinerib coct ij camphor Ê’ ss pistentur in mortario plumb fiat unguentum Some applie leeches Sanguisugae others whelps and chickins cut long wayes and applied warm If the cancer affect the womb the Patient feels pricking pain in the groines and kidnies and is often troubled with difficulty of making water and when it is ulcerated it powres forth filth or matter exceeding stinking and carion like and that in great plenty The filthy vapour of which is carried up to the heart and brain and causes often swounding In this cause fomentations must be used to ease pain and cordial Epithemes must be applyed to the heart Epithema and let the Patient drink Aq. Aqua opt sperm ranarum often five or six spoonfuls at a time also let it be injected with a syring A plate of lead besmeared with quick-silver Argentum vivum and applyed to a not ulcerated cancer is much commended by divers yea it is a good medicine for malign and inveterate ulcers which contemn the force of other medicines and is as it were an antidote to waste and overcome their malignity and evill nature CHAP. XXXIX ANEVRISMA is a soft tumour yeelding to the touch made by the blood and spirit poured forth under the flesh and muscles by the dilatation or relaxation of an artery They are made by the Anastomasis Causa springing breaking erosion and wounding of the arteries They happen frequently in the throat especially in women after a painful travel by holding their breath too strongly for the expulsion of the birth the artery is dilated and broken whence followes an effusion of blood and spirit under the skin Also an artery wounded and closing too slowly may be the cause Aneurisma is a swelling one while great Signa another small soft with a pulsation and a colour not varying from the other fleshy parts If you presse it with your finger the arterious blood and spirits flieth back into the body of the artery so that the tumor seems vanished but the fingers being taken away they return again with like celerity making a noyse like hissing Aneurismaes under the arm-pits Curatio in the groines or any other part where there are large vessels admit no cure They ought not to be opened unlesse they be small in an ignoble part But the manner of cure shall be this cut the skin which lies over it untill the arterie appear then thrust a blunt and crooked needle with a thred in it under it and bind it then cut it off and so expect the falling off of the thred of it self whilst nature covers the orifices of the cut artery with new flesh The Aneurismaes which happen in the internal parts are incurable This matter many times by little and little is so dried and hardened that it degenerates into a grisly or else a bony substance Victus Their diet must be of a cooling quality Cataplas Clysler Some commend cataplasmes of curds and new cheese to be applyed And clysters wherein Cassia is dissolved and administred is good Lastly take this caution along with you in the knowing Aneurismaes sometimes you can perceive no pulsation neither can you presse the blood into the artery because many times it is condensate and concrete into clods this happens mostly in those that are large The blood putrifies Prognostic they have great paines a Gangreen usually followes and mortification of the part and lastly death If you would be further satisfied concerning Aneurisma Paulus read Paulus lib. 6. cap. 37. Aetius lib. Aetius Forestus Sennertus Fernelius Platerus 15. cap. 10. Forestus lib. 1. De tumoribus praeter naturam observatio 15. Sennertus Tom. 1. lib. 5. de vasorum sectione pag. 659. Fernelius de externis corporis affectibus lib. 7. pag. 422. faelix Platerus Tractatus tertius ultimus pag. 408. CHAP. XL. PROCIDENTIA ANI the falling down of the fundament is very frequent to children It is caused through the relaxation of the muscle Sphincter which ingirts the fundament Causa which happeneth by reason of the too much humiditie of the belly A bloody flux or a strong endeavour to expell the excrements or sitting upon a cold stone a stroak or fall upon the holy bone or a palsie of the nerves c. may be the cause The Patient must forbear much drink Curatio or broath and â„ž Pulegii marrubii myrthi betonicae Fomentatio verbasci an m. j. flor Cypressi primulae veris ana m. ss florum anthos stoechados salviae an p. ij fiat decoctio in aquae vino in hac sedeat vel spongiis novis foveatur pars Alterum â„ž Stercoris lacertiÊ’ iij. columbarum Medicamentum hirundinum an â„¥ j. stercoris caprae â„¥ ij excipiantur terebinthina applicentur supra os sacrum coccyngem Hippocrates bids Hippocrat that the Patient hanging by the heels should be shaken but first anoynt the fundament with oyle of roses or myrtils If you want more look into the Chapter of Procidentia uteri CHAP. XLI CONDYLOMATA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are certain wrinkled and hard bunches and as it were excrescences of the flesh rising especially in the wrinkled edges of the fundament and the neck of the womb Cooling and relaxing medicines ought to be used against this disease Curatio for which purpose â„ž VnguentuÌ„ Ol. ovor sem lini an â„¥ ij Beat them together a long time in a leaden morter and therewith anoynt the grieved part If there be an inflammation put thereto a little camphir Chaps Fissurae aui or Fissures are cleft and very long little ulcers with pain very sharp and burning by reason of the biting of an acrid salt and drying humour making so great a contraction and oftentimes narrownesse in the fundament and the neck of the womb that scarcely the top of ones finger may be put into the orifice thereof like unto pieces of leather or parchment which are wrinkled and parched by holding of them to the fire They arise sometimes in the mouth that the Patient can neither eat speak nor open his mouth so that the chyrurgion is constrained to cut it In the cure thereof all sharp things are to be avoided and those which mollifie are to be used look Vteri Phymosis CHAP. XLII CACOETHE is a species of the canker 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so venemous that it continueth with a body all his life-time being held by many incurable It sendeth forth a virulent sanies which is properly called virus this virus or virulency gnaws and feeds upon the parts which lie under and
are adjoyning to the ulcer Galenus and maketh an eating ulcer Galen calleth it Dysepulotica that is difficulty to be cicatrized This following medicine is much commended by Galen Guratio Galenus being of certain and approved use for desperate ulcers which many have taken in hand and left as uncurable â„ž Soreas â„¥ .iij. aluminis scissilis calcis vivae an EmplastruÌ„ â„¥ .ij. thuris gallarum an â„¥ iv cerae lb. j. â„¥ iij. sevi vitulini lb. j. â„¥ .vij. olei veteris quantum sufficit fiat Emplastrum To be layed upon the ulcer and apply a defensative above the ulcer Mixturae for fear of inflammation Also take Soldanella half a dragm powdered rhubarb two scruples give the same to drink often with white-wine or syrup of wormwood with wormwood-wine is very good for the same purpose Radices solani cortex herba succus Cacoethe juvant Tagautius lib. 6. Tagautius p. 523. CHA. XLIII PARONYCHIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a tumor in the ends of the fingers under the nailes with great inflammation It is caused through a malign Causa and venemous humour which from the bones by the Periosteum is communicated to the tendons and nerves of that part which it affecteth There follow pulsifique pain Signa a seaver and restlesnesse You must begin with purging Curatio Venae-sectio and blood-letting Then make incision in the inner part of the finger even to the bone along the first joynt thereof This must be done before it come to maturation suffer it to bleed well then let him dip his finger in strong and warm vinegar in which some treakle hath been dissolved and then appease the pain with Vnguentum populneum or the like And take this oyntment following â„ž VnguentuÌ„ Sacchari rosati â„¥ ss axungiae gallinae Ê’ iij vitellorum ovorum n.j. butyri recentis parum fiat unguentum in mortario absque igne If a Gangrene and Sphacel happen the Chyrurgeon must make use of his cutting mullets to save the rest of the body If you please you may read Forestus lib. Forestus 5. de tumoribus praeternaturam Observatio 16. pag. 162. CHAP. XLIV EXOMPHALVS or swelling of the navel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is caused by the Peritonaeum either relaxed or broken by which occasion oft-times the Guts or Kall fall into the seat of the navel and sometimes superfluous flesh is there generated sometimes this tumour is an Aneurisma Sometimes it is caused by a flatulent and sometimes by a waterish humour If the fall be the cause Signa the colour is like the skin soft and almost without pain But if the tumor proceed from superfluous flesh it is hard and immoveable If from wind it sounds when you press it If by a waterish humour it is easily known If from the effusion of blood it is of a livid colour but if the effused blood be arterial then there are signes of a Aneurisma If it be caused by the falling down of the guts there is heard a noyse when you press it If the tumor ptoceed from the Kall and Guts you must force them into their due place Curatio Then may the skin be taken up and thrust through with a needle and double twined strong thred next let the sides be scarified then thrust it through with a needle three or four times and twich it strongly with a thred that the skin with the ligature may fall off But you may cut off the skin so distended even to the ligatures and then cicatrize it In a watery tumor a small incision must be made and the wound kept open untill the water be emptied CHAP. XLV GANGRAENA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Gangrene is a certain disposition and way to the mortification of the part which it seizeth upon dying by little and little When there is a perfect mortification 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is called by the Greeks Sphacelos and by the Latines Syderatio which according to Fallopius Fallopius Fabricius and Fabricius is an affect of a part already utterly mortified and therefore not to be cured but by amputation that the whole body come not to corruption thereby Or it is a perfect and total privation of sense being a mortification not only of the fleshy parts but also of the nervous parts even unto the bone and sometimes of the bone it self The cause of a Gangrene may be an exceeding effusion of blood and spirits Causa or a distemper of the four humours Also extream erosion or corrosion of caustick medicines or corrosive humours A venemous and poysoned blood great burnings and scaldings or overmuch hunger and thirst may be the cause Also a Gangrene may happen by the pricking of a nerve by a feaver precedent by a frost and also by extream cold by the biting of venemous beasts or mad dogs or through great incised wounds but especially confuted wounds and by unreasonable stripes Finally from all intercepons intersections or interruptions of spirits what or wheresoever mayproduce a Gangrene The signes of a Gangrene are these Signa an extinction of the lively colour which was in the precedent phlegmon Grievous pain and continual pulsation in the diseased part apparent by the arteries being at first very sensible but afterwards declining their due force The part agrieved seeming for the most part in colour to be blackish blewish or of a duskie or livid colour yea sometimes putrid and being opened a filthy Ichor of an unsavory smell proceeds from it If there be sence there is life and hope Curatio 1. First empty out abundantly the corrupt blood which is stuffed in the affected member Venae-sectio For this purpose some apply horse-leeches others cut the fullest vein about the affected member also deep scarifications are good 2. When you have drawn out blood abundantly by deep slashes or cuts the place must be splashed with salt-salt-water then lay on a medicine appointed for corrupted sores or wash it with hot vinegar or Mulsum twice a day 3. Vnguent Aegyptiacum When the fury of the evill is somewhat slaked minister Vnguentum Aegyptiacum whose wonderful affects have been often tried It is made after this manner â„ž Floris aeris aluminis roch mellis com an â„¥ .iij. VnguentuÌ„ aceti acerrimi â„¥ v. salis com â„¥ .j. vitriâ—li rom â„¥ ss sublimati pul Ê’.ij bulliant omnia simul ad ignem fiat unguentum When you have put in the Aegyptiacum apply this cataplasme â„ž Farin fabar hordei orobi lent lupin an Cataplas l. ss Seal com mellis rosat an â„¥ .iv. succi absynth marrub an â„¥ .ij. ss aloes mastiches myrrhae aquae vit an â„¥ .ij. oximelitis simpl quantum sufficit fiat Cataplasma molle secundum artem Somewhat higher then the part affected apply this following astringent defensitive â„ž Medicamentum Olei rosati myrtill an â„¥ iv succi plantag